The Raven Effect

Kliq This: The Kevin Nash Podcast

Podcast Heat

Wrestling, Sports

4.4 • 888 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Nash and Sean Oliver reunite with their old friend Raven this week for a raw, hilarious, and brutally honest conversation about survival. The guys dig into Raven's new documentary Nevermore: The Raven Effect, which explores the darkness, ego, and mental illness that shaped one of wrestling's most complicated minds. Nash and Raven trade stories about painkillers, ECW chaos, and the mental toll of living on the road, revealing how close they all came to not making it out alive The talk gets personal fast. Raven opens up about his addictions, early-onset Parkinson's, and why watching his own life on film felt like ripping off emotional bandages. Nash reflects on the locker-room culture that glamorized self-destruction and the quiet PTSD every veteran carries from that era They balance the heavy with humor—stories of insane road trips, ridiculous bar fights, and the strange brotherhood of wrestlers who can't stop laughing at their own disasters. There's talk of cereal at midnight, broken bodies, the worst-smelling locker rooms, and the moments in the ring when time itself stopped and the crowd was completely theirs Raven also reflects on the psychology of wrestling—why the smartest guys in the business are often the funniest, and how showmanship, not moves, creates immortality. Nash counters with stories from his own training under Jody Hamilton and the price every big man pays for longevity By the end, the mood turns reflective. The boys talk about faith, regret, and what it means to still be standing when so many friends are gone. It's dark, funny, and deeply human—the kind of episode that reminds you why Kliq This is more than a wrestling show.

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00:00 Kliq This #175: The Raven Effect
00:56 Head on video
02:37 RAVEN
06:22 What was hard to watch in the documentary?
08:42 Getting over drugs
11:31 Did you know you were being self-destructive
14:04 The ECW style vs drugs
16:00 steroids
18:05 BREAK The Perfect Jean
20:22 The Red Glasses
20:48 Eating Cereal
22:36 Being pitched on a documentary
25:07 Who did you ride with?
31:55 Trivia
32:19 The Comedy
34:52 Smart Wrestlers
37:48 Tall wrestlers
39:02 The Monster Factory
41:05 Jodie Hamilton training Kevin Nash
45:03 BREAK MANDO
47:36 Worst Smelling Wrestler
48:44 Raven vs Kevin Nash
50:13 Raven's Health
53:23 Heat dissipates with age
54:23 Kidman over Hogan clean
55:01 Carding rats
56:27 Raven OUTRO
59:25 Wrestler's dying young
01:02:34 "If you guys ever break up, this show won't work"
01:14:06 BREAK GET BLITZED
01:15:47 Kev's Mom and Dad
01:18:14 Classic Vinyl
01:20:02 Pearl Jam bootlegs
01:22:24 Why you won't hear about the UPS crash again
01:23:51 Public Enemy
01:24:53 Davey Boy Smith was the 4th man?
01:25:52 Low Ticket Sales in a bad economy
01:26:52 Bubba Ray
01:28:21 OUTRO

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0:21.6	The following podcast contained mature language and adult discussions.
0:28.6	I'm going to be able to do. Okay, oh, see, Jesus, I even scared myself with this angle. I was expecting to see myself
1:01.7	a real out-of-body experience. I was expecting to see myself in my normal setup, not in the
1:07.0	vacation setup, and I was, I was, it was jarring. It was as jarring as all the other wrestling podcasts when it's the head on the platter. I hate this. I'd have to, I'm gonna have to redo this somewhere. Sorry. I need to walk. Sorry. We were doing it for three years. No, but do you remember when we first started and I was down here? I rebuilt the add-on room in the house to look like the other one.
1:32.2	Then I was down, I was in a hotel once.
1:34.4	That's the Sinatra one you call when I had the chairs behind me.
1:38.0	And I, you know, just so that the, I'm thinking about the viewer.
1:40.7	You know, the consistency, the ease of the viewer's eye. It looks the same every week, you know the consistency the ease of the viewer's eye it looks the same every week
1:46.0	you know at the same thing like at k fabe when i used to do the sets it was very important each
1:51.1	show had a similar look now i just like my if my pants are on i'm lucky yeah yeah okay so that was one of them
2:02.8	where was that no that was here
2:06.0	I feel like that wasn't the angle though Steve I think I
2:08.9	recreated the the 45 degree gimmick
2:11.6	Kevin it's a special day today on this show
2:14.6	we don't always do what we're doing here but every once in a while
2:18.6	um someone from our lives uh returns and we're like fuck we haven't eaten neither one of us have
2:28.8	chopped it up with this person for a while so let's no let's do it in front of our friends and just what the hell am I talking about
2:36.6	talking about Raven and our friend Raven who's got a big documentary coming out in a couple of
2:46.3	weeks so we want to make sure if we're going to sit and chop it up with Raven it's going to
2:49.2	happen when his documentary comes up what What's going on, Scotty?
2:52.3	Nothing, man.
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