During his podcast, Rob Van Dam was asked if he smoked weed with fellow WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart. Here was RVD\u2019s response\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoy hanging out with him. He\u2019s not the type who\u2019s telling one joke after another, but when he\u2019s telling stories, he\u2019s entertaining. He\u2019s always been super cool.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s actually how I bonded with him at first \u2014 when I learned he liked to smoke. We had a mutual friend, a wrestling promoter in San Jose named Kirk White. Kirk became Bret\u2019s agent and would book him at conventions. So I would see both of them a lot at cons, and whenever we had the chance, we\u2019d smoke.<\/p>\n
I did an episode of RVD TV with Bret in a hotel room on the road somewhere, and I think we smoked during that. Maybe not, though \u2014 I don\u2019t think I was even smoking on camera back then. I thought it looked too \u2018dirty\u2019 for people to handle<\/p>\n
And then there\u2019s Lou Dog, a friend of ours from that area, who would show up with the loudest buds. Lou Dog, bro. He\u2019d come by and you could smell his weed through an entire building. One time we were in a big gymnasium early in the day before anyone was there, and we smelled it so strong that we looked around and saw him all the way at the very top row of the bleachers, sitting alone in the corner. He\u2019s an excellent grower.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s how I first bonded with Bret \u2014 just mutual trust and respect right away. At one point he even offered up his house in Hawaii, on the Big Island in Kona. He said if my ex and I were ever there while he wasn\u2019t, we could stay at his place. And we did.<\/p>\n
It was an awesome experience: just smoking, watching lizards, cats, birds \u2014 all the animals that would pass through his yard every day. That was my TV set for several days. Since the porch was upstairs, I could see over the trees and out into nature.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t really have any funny stories, but that\u2019s definitely one of them. He even told me, \u2018My neighbor downstairs \u2014 if you need anything, let them know.\u2019 And of course, you know what I needed: weed.<\/p>\n
Bret\u2019s a good guy, a good friend, and I\u2019ve definitely got his back. I think he\u2019s being more honest than bitter.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During his podcast, Rob Van Dam was asked if he smoked weed with fellow WWE Hall of Famer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32629,49,48,75,147053],"class_list":{"0":"post-334373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bret-hart","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-rob-van-dam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}