But when I’m being serious, you’ll know.”

And 20 percent of the time, I’m being serious. “So know that when Shaquille O’Neal says something, 80 percent of the time I’m being humorous, and it is a joke. “Would you like to hear my theory? The first part of the theory is, I’m joking, you idiots. “The Earth is flat,” he told The Washington Post. However, in a later interview, O’Neal seemingly stepped back from his theories. I do not go up and down at a 360-degree angle, and all that stuff about gravity, have you looked outside Atlanta lately and seen all these buildings? You mean to tell me that China is under us? China is under us? It’s not. I drive from Florida to California all the time, and it’s flat to me. He continued, “I drive from coast to coast, and this s–t is flat to me. So, what does that tell you? Columbus didn’t discover America.” O’Neal is regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time. “In school, first thing they teach us is, ‘Oh, Columbus discovered America,’ but when he got there, there were some fair-skinned people with the long hair smoking on the peace pipes. “Listen, there are three ways to manipulate the mind - what you read, what you see and what you hear,” he shared. The former Miami Heat player has spoken up about his flat-earth theories before when he chatted with co-host John Kincade on “The Big Podcast with Shaq,” saying, “It’s true. O’Neal added that he enjoys listening to theories: “It’s not about figuring them out, or he’s wrong or he’s right – it’s just a theory.” “You know they say the world is spinning? I’ve been living on a house on a lake for 30 years, not once did the lake rotate to the left or right,” he explained.

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