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SK: For me, I think that message is truly inspirational as well. I have one final question, so we're going to go from inspiring to conspiring.
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I have one controversial question for you, Stevie - what is the best conspiracy theory you've ever heard?
SR: What's funny is, when you go into this and you examine it every week, and you talk, you have two guys like Papadon and myself who are Christian, Sal and Bin are atheists.
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You think, in this day and age, how can you guys do two years of podcasting? Because we respect each other's opinions, we can be wrong, we can say the other person's right, we can agree to disagree... We would never say, "That's too crazy," because, at one time, we were people that were saying, "That's crazy, of course it was Lee Harvey Oswald who killed JFK." Then, "That's crazy, 9/11 was exactly what they told us it was."
Being professional wrestlers, having promoters lie to us, having people lie to us about how much money we've made, about this, about that, being deceived all the time, we have a natural inclination to look out for what we called "the work".
Here's what I put to a lot of people. This puts it into perspective. Politicians exist everywhere. Unfortunately. Here's what I say. "Do you trust the government?" "Of course not." Who's going to say they trust the government?
"Do you trust the government with your tax dollars?" "Oh, God, no." "Do you think politicians lie?" "All the time." "Do you think they are doing stuff that they are keeping secret from us?" "Absolutely." "Well, you're a conspiracy theorist." "No, I'm not."
That's the basis for everything - we do not believe anything we are told. "Do you believe everything you see on TV?" "No, news lies. I watch Fox News, they have one spin, I watch CNN, they have the exact opposite of everything else." "Okay, well, the mainstream media lies to you." "No, they don't."
It's a strange disconnect. They call it "cognitive dissonance", which is also like a trigger word, like "conspiracy theorist". We talk like we are in the locker room so it is kind of fun and it's goofing off anyway, and your ribbing each other, doing whatever, but all people here are like Alex Jones or probably on your side of the pond, David Icke. David Icke is a little bit more reserved. You think of Alex Jones - crazy, screaming, shirtless, running around.
Besides telling people to listening to the stuff I put out, I put out the Stevie Richards Broadcast with my own interviews of people. I would listen to the old [Joe] Rogan shows, they're interesting.
My most fun conspiracy theory to go into a rabbit hole about is the moon landing. Let me make it a little bit more fun for anybody who just rolls their eyes. The moon landing slash secret space programme. Either you debunk the moon landing are you call it a moon landing hoax or whatever, or you sit there and you're like, "Man."
There's a guy, Deep Thoughts Radio on YouTube. I don't know the guy but he does interesting longform black and white video-slash-podcasts on YouTube and he's really, really cool to listen to. Very Coast to Coast AM style.
That's what I'm trying to bring. I'm actually looking for a radio station to do that kind of stuff.
Dude, it's interesting no matter what. When people say, "Oh, how can you talk to this person? How can you do this? Just listen to somebody. It doesn't mean, at the end of the hour, they're going to have you brainwashed into thinking that Earth is flat or any of the stuff. Listen to somebody and say, "That's cool, but I don't believe in that." If they're a real rational person who likes to talk to somebody with different opinions, "That's cool, well, if you change your mind and talk again, we can come back and talk." That's the problem.
As a parody, I thought of coming out with "flat earth, flat abs" for a workout.
Don't so much think, "That's conspiracy," just listen to somebody. Especially with wrestling. AEW versus WWE, we can finish on a wrestling note on that, "Who cares?" If it's good, it's good. If it's bad, it's bad. It's bad, don't watch it.
If it's bad, subscribe to the WWE Network. I'm not saying this because I get a royalty, God knows I need one and I deserve one because I'm all over it.
If you want to relive that era of wrestling that you enjoyed, 10 bucks a month. I only go to things that I enjoy.
I watched your stuff with the kid [Chris Van Vliet] who did all the interviews with Dolph Ziggler and all those guys, he seemed like a really good kid.
I saw that and I was like, "I'd like to be in a show with these guys." There are some who I've seen and I've been like... They are kind of just grilling me about questions like the Howard Stern style questions - you're talking to the wrong dude. I went to bed at 10 o'clock at night. I wanted to play video games.
A huge thank you to Stevie Richards for chatting with me. You can check out Stevie Richards Fitness here, Stevie's YouTube channel here and Stevie's Twitter here.
And you can catch our interview with Chris Van Vliet that impressed Stevie Richards below.
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