Name: Ric Flair Flew to Japan and Back on a 24-Hour Bender
Uploaded: 2023-09-27T18:21:39.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ric Flair Flew to Japan and Back on a 24-Hour Bender' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ric Flair Flew to Japan and Back on a 24-Hour Bender' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-27. Transcript available.

man i mean i was running on weeder products you know a lot of guys were
loading up which which is not uncommon i just doing coke yeah the only reason i
didn't my dad
was a doctor and he just said don't do it from day one man he said you're you're
gonna this guy
can see this happening in your business i don't know anything about it but you
know it happens
not not just to you guys but because of the wear and tear and travel oh it's
almost a necessity
yeah but i avoided that but oh man i'll tell you i've i've had 17 nervous
breakdowns no i was so
exhausted and one night i i had wrestled for an hour in orlando or in the old
eddie graham sports
arena which is a 10 building 104 degrees and i wrestled butch reed when my
heart was like racing
like hell so i called my dad on a pay phone and he was in minneapolis i said
dad my heart's racing
he said what was the last time you went to bed and i said i don't know i
thought to myself i didn't
want to answer i said well i went to bed last night at what time says i never i
never went to bed right
and then so i had to go to i had to go to um tokyo the next day and i got in a
plane going god i can't
do this so i drank all the way to an arena drank 14 hours i maybe slept two
hours but i woke up kept
drinking right this isn't like 83 or 84. land in an arena back then we had the
paper ticket and i said
i just can't do this and i could hear bob his wife flair's son you know that i'll
eat that uh i walked
over to the guy i said when's the next flight back in the united states now you
want i need to get to
charlotte he said we got one for seattle leaving in 20 minutes i said that went
back they didn't have
that deal with the bags took the paper ticket put me back i flew up from narita
to seattle seattle to
chicago chicago to charlotte and to make a long story short i sat down next to
the guy
i sat down where sat down next to this guy on the plane going back marita to seattle
and i go do you mind if i talk to you he said no why he said i said i'm having
a nervous breakdown
i need someone to talk to him and he said really i said yep i'm having a
nervous breakdown
and um so i talked all the way to seattle drank all the way to seattle
and then i slept to chicago and i walked i got in a plane i landed in charlotte
and the firm order was there jimmy crockett he said you got to go back
you're advertised and we got back on the plane never even left the airport went
all the way back
to tokyo drinking again i mean i was having a full-fledged nervous breakdown he
got there and
went to the arena wrestled an hour and i broke the sweat and i just started
over again but the guy from
seattle we changed addresses right he he sent me a christmas card for 10 years
he said i didn't know
how famous you were really enjoy talking to you man you're an interesting guy
isn't that crazy i didn't know how famous you were when i made really enjoy
talking i hope you're
feeling better
oh full-fledged breakdown man god what did it feel like when you're having a
nervous breakdown like
what like what do you kind of go to i had one a few years ago oh you just you
lose control of me you
just like you you're looking for somebody to talk to it's strange it's hard to
walk up to someone and
say hey i think i'm having nervous breakdown most people want to run away and
go get to call the cops
he's a wacko yeah call god no i waited until the plane took off before it sent
it to him
i don't want him to call the 911. you're like hey remind me when we take off i
got something to tell
you and nowadays can you imagine walking up to a flight in it will you talk to
me i have another
breakdown okay oh they'll tell you yeah yeah but they'll call you racist and
can we land the plane
please they put you in the suit and take you off the plane oh i've had about
five of them no kidding
yeah it's heavy huh you know agoraphobia is where you have to be close to
something oh yeah yeah
no drama gore of phobia yeah you can't be alone you can't walk outside of your
house oh you had that
you think i know i had it wow yeah i had it for about six months i couldn't i
couldn't get myself to
leave and drive that airport i mean i mean it's horrible what do you think
brought it on when you
feel back in it like would it because i was just living a crazy lifestyle do
you think you felt bad
about anything or do you think you just it was just so much like drinking and
partying no just so much
drinking and partying i just i didn't sleep yeah and the one thing i did do
which is kind of legendary
in our business is regardless of what i did to myself i worked out every day
and sometimes i just
pushed myself too hard and that would cause that and then and having different
promoters try to
you know like when i cut my hair i really lost my mind when i cut my hair jim
heard spartacus put a
earring on i'm rick flair mother you know there's something you know when i cut
my hair and i walked
through the charlotte airport nobody knew who i was i wanted to absolutely walk
in the bathroom and kill
myself i used to have you normally walk down there hey rick yeah combing my
hair and all that now i got
the surfer joe erica just give me a break oh you know i mean native americans
it was a big thing to
them to have their hair yeah they took each other's hair if they captured one
another they would scalp
one another well i started a trend with it yeah and then they have some from
water i mean i still can't
believe i gave in to them yeah man it's funny because i've cut my hair before
yeah and it hurt me
oh i can't remember the girl's name mary riley she said are you sure you want
to do this
i said no i don't want to do it but i almost have to keep my job but man i was
i was in shock that that
alone was it was a nervous breakdown hope you enjoyed that video and you can
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