Rob Van Dam’s brain and his water bottle share some key biological similarities that may help explain why so many wrestlers die young. At least, that was his implication in a September 5, 2007 interview with Joe McDonnell. After pointing out how much time wrestlers spend in airplanes, RVD offered these deep insights into human biology:

How safe is it to spend that much time up in the air? Because I know pilots, they can only be up in the air for what, 24 hours, they gotta have 24 off or whatever the deal is - they can only be in the air for so long, and when I fly, I have a bottle of water, I watch the air pressure leave my bottle of water, I watch that thing just crinkle up and I wonder, I always wonder, is that what my brain’s doing?

Because nobody ever told wrestlers that it’s not safe to fly everyday. They don’t care about us, they fly us every single day for like 12, 13 days in a row, maybe a day off, you know, and then fly again. And sometimes it’s 6 hour flights, sometimes it’s 2, sometimes it’s 17 hours to Australia. I always wondered, you know, how safe that is and what that does to us and it would be interesting to draw a connection between flying and taking that air pressure abuse to the brain while you have a job where getting hit in the head is part of your job. It could be a combination of it.

We often get together and talk about, “Hey, how come wrestlers die so young?” Well, why does it happen? You know, there’s gotta be a reason for it. You draw all the commonalities between pro wrestlers that other athletes don’t have, you’re gonna have to include all the air time.

It goes with out saying that Rob Van Dam also used the interview to come out in support of marijuana (again.) You can listen to the whole thing online.