Would you do what Debra does? Which is? Puppies? As my father put, that I heard I'm not quite as built as Debra is. They're just smaller puppies, that's all. But thank you, you don't have to elaborate. They're cute. Examples include, did he just, did Shane just say Stephanie's puppies were cute? Y'all let me know if I heard that correct. 10 wrestlers who got legitimately pissed in an interview by wrestling flashback, this should be a very great one.  Don't be disrespectful.   You may get jacked up. Simple as that. So we're going to check out some of these moments, man. Appreciate all love, support. Let's get right into this one. This should be a good one. Is this song? Say it again. I dare you to say it again. Thank you. Call me Fragile. I will headbutt your team through your... I believe this was actually like, like a work shoot, like this was planned. So, but still, nevertheless, definitely look intense, though. Historically, it was rare to see wrestlers being interviewed on widespread media unless it was tied to controversy. No one would believe me if I came through with this seven years ago. We had consulted with Mr. McMahon about the advance immediately. He just been denying everything. I didn't wait one minute. Search controversy usually led to some eye-opening interviews, a number of which will be highlighting today.  That's it. We're done. I have never failed a f***ing drug test.  As we cover ten of the wildest mainstream wrestling interviews. And now, we'll be right back after this word from you know who. My man was... I thought I'm happy to... My man was sleep. He was sleep. Today's list is appropriately spawned out by search. Shout out to my... Shout out to the homie, man. Get your... Get your... Get your money, man. You deserve it. Let's check this one out. This one way to upset wrestlers in an interview is by questioning if the sport they do is real. This question and one similar to it have been asked in a few different mainstream interviews. I broke so many people's thumbs because I would explain to them, you know, listen, you can't see pain. You can only feel it. I think it's just fake. It's not funny to get insulted by all our team. This is one of the most infamous clips. You think it's fake?  Oh my God. They say this wrestling is not for real. You act or...  Does that feel fake? For this entry, we're going back to 1999 when the stars of WCW appeared on Bill Meyers politically in correction. Oh no. Meyers start needing a bad tone as they are clearly raised suspicions of a wrestling's legitimacy. People know that you're not really beating each other up. Okay, let's just... We got a lot of stuff right there. The rest is shot Bill down straight out. The only thing that's fake is...  When a metal chair cracks your back, that's not fake. With Roddy Piper in particular putting Meyers firmly in his place. This never a bruise on any of you. Metal Hill. See that wrist? Seven years has been broken.  My adventure scares saying how the violence... Respect, man. Oh my God, man. Now, don't do that, y'all. Don't do that, y'all. Tell them it's fake while they're in the hospital. Dealing with an injury. Because if it's fake, then no one should get injured, right? That's all I'm saying. Maya concludes the segment with a new appreciation for wrestling he clearly didn't have before. That's how you do it. Which is? Puppies. As my father put it. I'm not quite as built as Debra is. You just do with the puppies. But thank you. You don't have to elaborate. They're cute. Examples include when Hulk Hogan and Mick Foley threw shots at you.     Hold on. Which is? Puppies. Which is? Puppies. Which is? Puppies. Which is? Puppies. As my father put it. That I heard I'm not quite as built as Debra is. You just do with the puppies. But thank you. You don't have to elaborate. They're cute. Examples include. Did he just? Did Shane just say Stephanie's puppies were cute? Y'all let me know if I heard that correct. I just want to make sure I heard that correct. Because that's. That's very weird to be saying that about your sister. Alrighty then. I'm just going to. When Hulk Hogan and Mick Foley threw shots at each other in separate interviews. I would probably say I've trained more in the last week than Mick Foley's trained in 30 years. I went ahead while Mick Foley was sleeping and eating cheeseburgers and M&Ms. I was in the gym working out. I think if Hulk Hogan were to have wrestled me, he would sound more or less like a whiny girl in a porno film saying it's not so fast and not so hard. Because he didn't like the contact. One of Landsberg's best interviews. Wow.   Was with CM Punk after Punk had agreed to fight in the UFC. I hope you don't find this disrespectful. But have you actually taken a real punch? You're going to ask me if I've ever taken a real punch in the face. Yeah. You obviously hadn't seen some of the guys I was wrestling in the WWE. Landsberg poked Fun Up Punk to try and get the Chicago native to fire back. Given the second city saints as spoken reputation.  They're very wrestling centric. And you know, I'm here to talk about UFC. You have an agenda. It's okay. Well, I don't have an agenda, but what am I going to ask you about UFC? You're not a UFC fighter. You don't have a fight schedule. It seemed to work as Punk ultimately called out Landsberg for how the host was behaving. But you try to be friendly. You try to act like you're my friend. And then when you get me on camera, you try to act like the cool kid in school. So you want to play innocent and defensive when you're not on camera.  Landsberg in turn through Shade Up Punk for drinking coffee outside the interview as a segment came to a close. And it is disrespectful somewhat to be drinking coffee or tea while you're in the middle of an interview. I don't know if you do that all the time. But I got to stay awake on TSN. I need my caffeine.  Simple kind of that way better than that. Probably without like burger. This is over.  You weren't talking like that. I have the text messages. I remember the phone calls. It definitely wasn't like this. You definitely weren't asking questions like this. You definitely didn't say you were going to talk about this in the way you're talking about it.  I hope the ratings bump.  I'm done with this. I would have went off like kick rocks bro. Look at a case where a wrestler felt he was asked to appear on a show under false pre-fences. As Diamond Dallas Page was interviewed on Nancy Grace in 2014 to talk about the sudden death of the ultimate warrior. Instead of celebrating the warrior's life which DDP believed he was going on the show for, Nancy tried to connect the warrior and other wrestlers' premature deaths to steroid usage. He's an every used steroid. Yeah back in the day. We all used him back in the day. Whoa, whoa, whoa, no we didn't. I've never used a steroid. I've never seen any die at such a young age. I mean, you've got to take into account the steroids and drugs. For starters, I think you have to look at where it is today. On Sam Roberts' Sirius XM show, Page later noted how upset he was after being set up by Grace. Because I was so pissed. How far into the interview did you realize? Pretty quickly, she started talking about the steroid scandal and blah blah blah. Wait a minute, that was 25 years ago. What do you do after the show? What do you do once the segment's over? And she goes, well, thank you Dallas for joining us.  Sam Roberts, you were just the first game made by Nancy during his interview with her. Steroids weren't involved in the ultimate warrior's death. No, they were not. A lot of wrestlers see your report and come back at you with venom saying, you're not representing us, you're not telling our story, and what you're portraying isn't what's happening. And I'm sorry they feel that way. I really don't know what else you want me to say. Something Grace didn't take behind me too. You haven't asked one decent question since I walked in here. Everything you both and you have asked has been an attack. I think our time is up. Bye bye. Take care. You can leave if you want. We're not going to kill ourselves after the interview. Thank God. The Benoit family. So you do the same thing to an actual former wrestler, but then when they're grilling you about how you was asking people, a former wrestler, not to celebrate his life, but you're bringing up old steroid usage in relation to his death. What do you mean what you want me to say? No, you could have talked about his life. That's what you brought him on to talk about his life, to celebrate his life. Why did people do that? I want you to understand that people do that.  Instead of celebrating your life, there were a group of individuals out there.  Just to slander your name.  Chris Benoit asked for time off last year. Four months, he was given four months off. But what anybody wants to say, if he had any problems, he could have taken care of them in those times. He could have asked for help. If he chooses not to ask, there's nobody else can help him. As you sit here and deny that you've ever seen any sort of kind of roid rage, which also seems to kind of stretch credibility, but what if in fact it does come back? Have you ever taken steroids? That it was because of steroids. Have you ever taken steroids? No, I have not taken steroids. I'm just saying, you're doubting my credibility. I've taken them and I haven't seen it. I know that's not what you want to hear. It was a topic that caused much debate, and it's various wrestlers getting big heat with WWE due to their comments. If he was using steroids, he had passed the drug tests. So maybe he injected steroids the day before he died. I don't think the Toxicology reports are actually going to prove anything. Vince McMahon is happy to put his trademark on you and own you. I think he hasn't taken enough responsibility from what I know of him as a person. He's not been a very kind gentleman that deserves my respect. I'll tell you that. I think Vince needs to definitely enforce the drug policy more than what he's doing. Vince McMahon has got to show character, step up the plate, and admit there's problems in the world of professional wrestling and do something about it, or we're going to start seeing hearings on Capitol Hill. Including, you know... No, there's... Some of these people make some great points. Obviously, it's to pile on after what happened with, you know, Chris Benoit. You know, Vince was all about at one point and at one point it was more... It's just making sure people looked like superstars. And sometimes that means by any means. Even if it was under the table, even if it wasn't healthy to the said wrestler, it's all about making people look like superstars and bringing in the most money. So... A number of former talent and even one current star that came out of the woodwork to weigh in on the matter. It's easier to say or point out the number of guys that aren't doing steroids than those that are. The drug test is a ruse. It's an artifice designed specifically for these sensationalized high-profile tragedies. It's disingenuous to say that you don't believe that there is suspected steroid use within the wrestling community. What are you saying? Vince McMahon has certainly given some unique interviews over the years, such as his infamous discussion with Playboy Magazine. He alludes to his mother sexually assaulting him. He alludes to being molested when he was six. This also has a history of getting riled up during interviews with the mainstream media. They were also part of your organization. They worked a couple of hundred nights a year for you. They lived this life so... These individuals work for organization at one time. They also work for other organizations. But perhaps Vince's most famous TV interview was conducted by Bob Costas on HBO in 2001, where Costas went in on McMahon over the failure of the XFL. If you could be guaranteed that it would increase ratings, would you fix the game?   The conversation was incredibly heated, with Vince losing his cool over Costas constantly interrupting. Right, things don't happen. You want to let me finish your four-second pound?   When Vince gets mad, they start calling you pal. That's him. That's him, y'all. The character you see on screen, that was him. Seeping out to hear pal. I'm gonna go back now. Right, so finish your four-second pound.  I'll be happy to answer. I can back up and look timid. Or when he comes forward, I can come forward. And you notice there, I didn't really say anything, but I smiled at him. And that made him angrier still. I've seen myself, Vince, if you were only about six-three, you would kill him. A karma Vince was interviewed again by Costas a year later, this time with the XFL Dead and the WWF now called WWE. He says McMahon likes to pretend that his product is sports entertainment, but it's really more of a violence variety show filled with state-of-the-art gay bashing, gang violence, spacial violence, woman-on-woman violence, sometimes in vats of pudding, and violence against animals. McMahon nearly got into it with Costas, but our next example goes one step further. We're talking about when Abdullah the Butcher was being interviewed on Canadian Daytime TV in 2009. Abdullah proceeded to put his hands on presenter Derek Bage with Abhi cutting Derek's forehead till it bled by using a fork and plate. The attack was planned ahead of time where Bester Hannibal would make the save. As Abdullah making the host bleed, legal action was taken against Abhi as a result of the incident. I didn't give him permission to cut me. I didn't have to be hospitalized, but he certainly surprised me on the show. We wanted him to replace my suit and we tried to contact his people and never heard back. Our next interview also uses physicality, but it's much more lighthearted as Chris Jericho appeared on TNT's Inside the NBA to promote AEW Full Gear 2019 with a ring being set up in the studio. Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley were the real stars of the segment however. Shaq tried multiple times to get at Barkley before eventually succeeding, leading to a hilarious exchange. Jericho was simply an onlooker as Kenny Smith and host Ernie Johnson also got in on the action. Former million dollar champion and NWO member Virgil gained a career resurgence in the 2000s by Hossing and Johnson also got in on the action. Former million dollar champion and NWO member Virgil gained a career resurgence in the 2000s by Hossing fans at conventions and autograph signings. Virgil began to embrace his money-loving persona online which included appearing on Sam Roberts' Sirius XM radio show from New York. Virgil had numerous outlandish appearances on the show where he said crazy things and even performed his own song. While Virgil's flirting was wild it was nothing compared to the stuff John Cena said he got up to with women. The WWE champion was interviewed on Howard Stern in 2006. Cena talked about how he once got brisky with six women and how he had the best night of his life with two strippers but perhaps the most crazy thing John spoke about was the time he got it on with a 280 pound woman. And it was like it was it was the thing where you won't do it but I said not only will I do it I'll enjoy it and I did it was a great night. Cena went into detail after the host continued to probe him for more information because everybody can tell a story about the hot ones take some man's man to tell a true story about what really happened. John was also asked about Chris Canyon who'd recently been on Stern in the weeks prior. Canyon's appearance was infamous after he claimed Vince McMahon was a homophobe who fired Chris because he was gay.  Ric Flair was even more ruthless than Cena when Ric confronted Canyon over the phone a week following Chris's initial appearance on Stern. You are the person as a man for blaming your choices in life on the business. There have been plenty of other notable wrestler interviews on Howard Stern which are infamous due to the situation Stern puts his guests in. I have a lot of questions.  Should you marry me? I don't want to. Two years from now we'll be having the same interview. I can't wait to hear it. You know how things went wrong. You know what I'm talking about. We've been there a few times.    You're doing lingerie wrestling man. Hey now how's it going what's going on? How you doing?  I don't know.  Yeah I think so. Other examples include when Stephanie McMahon.  That's funny. He was asked about the ins and outs of a relationship with Triple H. Triple H tried to give you anal. He liked to but you won't go there. I probably will at some point. When Goulders came on after contracting Tourette's due to being electrocuted.    And really?   The sheik was known to trade verbal jabs with whack pack regular Beetlejuice. Oh my god. Yeah.   Now if you enjoyed this video be sure to check out our similar video on 10 dark moments that WWE want you to forget. Have a great day. Oh my god. This was just wild bro. Very wild. I'm still very confused on that scene in Stephanie clip. That was weird. Very, very weird. Comment down below. Let me know if you guys have seen any other interviews where wrestlers getting interviewed and they getting pretty upset at what the interviewer is asking them and you know what questions they're being asked. I'm sure there's more clips out there. But I appreciate all of the support and 50K and I'm still going to be the YouTube resident champion of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking it with me. See y'all next one. Peace.


You know the feeling you get when you learn something new about a health problem you've been trying to reverse? Maybe high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease? Well, there's nothing I like better than bringing you the information that will help you do just that. Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast, I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. Today we deal with pain. Chronic, tabillitating pain, and we look at how anti-inflammatory diets can be effective in alleviating chronic pain syndrome. Fibromyalgia is a common disorder whose cardinal manifestation is chronic, widespread pain. Well, not so common, affecting 2-4% of the population, though probably more like 2%, and especially women. For decades, some medical professionals dismissed fibromyalgia as all in people's heads, but this outdated view has been refuted by more recent research characterizing it as a disorder of pain regulation and sensitization. Brain imaging studies have shown several perturbations of pain processing and regulation that amplify pain in people with a condition. Twin studies have shown that about half of fibromyalgia is genetic, but the other half we can do something about. There are lots of drugs with lots of side effects to help with some of the symptoms, but what about lifestyle approaches? Engagement in regular physical activity is considered imperative for effective management of fibromyalgia. A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials on the effectiveness of therapeutic exercise in fibromyalgia found that both aerobic and resistance exercises are effective ways of reducing pain and improving global well-being in people with fibromyalgia. Patients may worry and perceive that exercise will worsen their pain of fatigue and so you have to start slow, work your way up as tolerated with the goal of eventually achieving 30 to 60 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic exercise in addition to muscle strengthening exercises, one to three sets of 8 to 11 exercises, 8 to 10 repetitions with a load of about 7 pounds or 45% of the max you can lift. But what about dietary interventions in terms of dialing down the pain sensitivity? Well, what causes it in the first place? Inflammation. During the inflammatory response, pain receptors are activated and chronic inflammation can cause chronic activation, which may cause chronic pain due to this prolonged hypersensitization of pain pathways. No wonder then that a pro-inflammatory diet was found to be associated with pain hypersensitivity in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome. Exactly which foods are pro-inflammatory and which foods are anti-inflammatory? Broadly speaking, components of processed foods and animal products such as saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol were found to be pro-inflammatory while constituents of whole plant foods such as fiber and phytonutrients were strongly anti-inflammatory. The intake of dietary fiber found concentrated in only one place, whole plant foods, is fundamental to reducing not only the risk of abdominal pain, but also muscle and joint pain. We think because of these short-chain fatty acids that are good gut bugs produce when we eat fiber. These short-chain fatty acids are important mediators of pain, fundamentally because they modulate inflammation. So having lots of fiber-feeding bugs in your colon is like carrying around your own anti-inflammatory compound factory.  In terms of phytonutrients, plant-derived polyphenols are widely acknowledged to also act as anti-inflammatory substances. Here's some foods packed with anti-pain pathway nutrients, berries, greens, citrus, nuts, spices, like turmeric and ginger, edamame, and green tea. That's why you can do randomized double-blind crossover trials showing that about three cups worth of strawberries that they can significantly improve pain and inflammation. If that's what a single plant can do, what about a diet chalk full of plant foods? Put people on a strictly plant-based diet, rich in fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and various legumes, which are beans, whipbeads, chickpeas, and lentils, as well as nuts and seeds, and you can drop C-reactive protein levels 33% in three weeks, which is a leading blood marker of systemic inflammation. But does that translate into less pain? And the answer is yes when it comes to migraine headaches, yes when it comes to painful periods, a significant reduction in menstrual pain, duration and pain intensity, in addition to premenstrual symptoms. In fact, even just a single plant, cinnamon, about a third of a teaspoon three times a day during your period, can help, though it doesn't work as well as ibuprofen. Ginger powder, on the other hand, ground ginger, has been found to be comparable to ibuprofen in relieving pain in women with painful cramps. Whole food plant-based diets also alleviate the symptoms of osteoarthritis. Several studies have shown improvements in rheumatoid arthritis symptoms with diets, excluding animal products, though it may be just as much a function of increasing the quantity of healthy plant foods. But it's not just because plant-based diets are so effective in causing weight loss, even at the same weight, there's an improvement in rheumatoid arthritis for more plant-based diets. And plant-based diets can also alleviate fibromyalgia symptoms. The latest study, which enrolled anyone with chronic musculoskeletal pain, fibromyalgia or not, yes, diets high in animal proteins and fats have been linked to chronic pain and inflammation while plant-based diets produce anti-inflammatory responses. So did it actually work when put to the test for pain? Yes. Consumption of a plant-based diet produced positive improvements in chronic pain and function. How much? Well, a minimally clinically important difference in chronic musculoskeletal pain is one point on the numeric pain rating scale, which is just a scale of 1 to 10 on how much pain you're feeling. And on the plant-based diet, perceived pain decreased an average of 3 points on a 10-point scale from an average of 5 or 6 out of 10 down to 2. Now, unlike most of the prior studies, there was no control group, but what's the downside of giving healthier eating a try? In fact, those with chronic pain are more likely to be overweight and have nutrition-related maladies, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, all of which can be prevented, arrested, and in some cases, even reversed with a healthy enough plant-based diet. So any pain benefit is just icing on the cake of health. Scratch that. How about the dollop of guacamole on your bean burrito? In our next story, we'll look at how apple peels may help those with chronic joint pain. Regular apple intake is associated with all sorts of good things, like living longer, particularly a lower risk of dying from cancer. Here's the survival curve of elderly women who don't eat an apple a day. 10 years out, nearly a quarter died, and 15 years out, nearly half were gone. But those who averaged like a half an apple a day didn't drop off as fast, and those eating an apple a day, more than three and a half ounces, like a cup of apple slices, stayed around even longer. Yeah, but maybe people who eat apples every day just happen to practice other healthy behaviors, like exercising more or not smoking, and that's really why they're living longer. Well, they controlled for most of that obesity, smoking status, poverty, diseases, exercise, so as to compare apples to apples, so to speak. But what they didn't control for was an otherwise healthier diet. Studies show that those who regularly eat apples have higher intakes in not just nutrients like fiber found in the apples, but they're eating less added sugar, less saturated fat. In other words, they're eating overall healthier diets, and so no wonder apple eaters live longer. But is apple eating just a marker for healthy eating, or is there something about the apples themselves that's beneficial? You don't know until you put it to the test. There's all sorts of fun studies where subjects were randomly assigned the morning to nothing, a caffeinated energy drink, black coffee, or an apple, given that athletes use a variety of common strategies to stimulate arousal, cognition, and performance before their morning training. Did the apple hold its weight? Yes, appearing to work just as well as the caffeinated beverages. The problem with these kinds of studies, though, is they're not blinded. Those in the apple group knew they were eating an apple, and so there may have been this expectation bias, placebo effect, that made them unconsciously give that extra bit of effort in the testing and skew the results. You just can't stuff a whole apple into a pill. That's why researchers instead test specific extracted apple components so they can perform a double-blind placebo-controlled study where half get the fruit elements, half get the sugar pill, and you don't know until the end who got which. The problem there, though, is that you're no longer dealing with a whole food, removing the symphony of interactions between the thousands of fiber nutrients in the whole apple. Most of these special nutrients are concentrated in the peel, though. Instead of just dumping millions of pounds of nutrition in the trash, why couldn't researchers just dry and powder the peels into opaque capsules to disguise them and then run blinded studies with that? Even just a small amount could greatly increase phytochemical content and antioxidant activity. The meat industry got the memo. Dried apple peel powder decreases microbial expansion in meat and protects against carcinogen production when you cook it. And one of the carcinogens formed during the grilling of meat is a beta-carboline alkaloid, a neurotoxin, which may be contributing to the development of neurological diseases like Parkinson's. Uncooked meat doesn't have any. The neurotoxin is formed when you cook it, but you can cut the levels in half by first marinating the meat with dried apple peel powder, and also cuts down the amount of fecal contamination bacteria in the meat. Apple peels can also inhibit the formation of genotoxic DNA-damaging heterocyclic A-means, cutting the effects of these cooked meat carcinogens by up to more than half. In view of the risks associated with consuming these cancer-causing compounds in meat, there is a need to reduce exposure by blocking HA formation, such as adding apple powder during the cooking of meats to help prevent their production. I mean, I can't think of any other way to reduce exposure. What about consuming apple peels directly? Dried apple peel powder was found to exhibit powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant action, but this was in mice. Does it have anti-inflammatory properties in people? You don't know until you put it to the test. That doesn't focus with moderate loss of joint range of motion in associated chronic pain. We're given a spoonful of dried apple peels a day for 12 weeks. And pain scores drop month after month, and the range of motion improved in their neck, shoulders, back, and hips. Conclusion. Consumption of dried apple peel powder was associated with improved joint function and pain reduction. Why just associated? Because there was no control group, so they might have all been just getting better on their own, or it could have been a placebo effect. But hey, why not give apple peels a try by eating more apples? We would love it if you could share with us your stories about reinventing your health through evidence-based nutrition. Go to nutritionfacts.org slash testimonials. We may share it on social media to help inspire others. See any graphs, charts, graphics, images, or studies mentioned here. Please go to the Nutrition Facts Podcast landing page. 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