
Conspiracy Corner
The wildest conspiracy theories and tinfoil hat moments from the PMT universe — from flat earth flirtations to deep state sports takes.
59 takes
Spencer HawesThe NBA isn't rigged, but the league got the 7-game series they wanted
Is the NBA rigged? No. But? Did I insinuate a but? That was not my intention. No, I think in this series, they got what they wanted. Absolutely. You know, they got, they got the seven games, but I don't, I'm not buying into that conspiracy theory.
Big CatPokemon Go is a CIA government conspiracy to track data and map building interiors
Seriously, though, Pokemon Go is a government conspiracy, and I don't know why anyone... my last one was basically Pokemon Go has somewhere sitting with the CIA and they're saying, huh, how do we get inside people's buildings?... Let's just throw a squirtle right by someone's refrigerator. Picture.
HankThe NFL conspiracy to take down Tom Brady is a proven fact
Do you think that they unfairly accused [Brady] of something and it's a conspiracy just to sit down the face of the NFL? ... Yes, that's actually a proven fact. ... Yeah, they just don't like the Patriots. Too much winning.
Big CatWarren Sapp staged his shark attack to get back into the national media spotlight
Connect the dots. Warren Sapp doesn't have a job right now... Best way to get yourself back in the national media spotlight without saying, 'Hey, I want a job,' get attacked by a shark. ... I'm just saying, do we know what that shark looked like? No... That's for sure a fake shark. Truther Warren Sapp did not get bit by a shark. He rigged this whole thing.
PFT CommenterThe Hall of Fame game cancellation was a conspiracy to force viewers to watch the Olympics.
The Olympics, tonight was supposed to be their big night. They needed the ratings... NBC, their president is a guy named Steve Burke. Steve Burke just happens to be a former Disney executive. Maybe he called in a favor... [the painter] is probably the easiest person in the world to pay off.
Big CatJosh Gordon is being paid by the NFL to pretend weed is ruining his life
Is there a conspiracy that Josh Gordon is being paid by the NFL to pretend weed is ruining his life so they can keep it illegal? ... who else do we know anyone else who's been addicted to weed?
Big CatThe 2016 Big Ten Championship game is rigged for Wisconsin to win
The Big Ten titles game is going to be rigged in favor of Wisconsin this time. Because last time, the 59-0 Ohio State. That was rigged. Wisconsin. Gary Anderson was fired recently. Left right away. It all makes sense.
PFT CommenterJeff Bezos is using Alexa to listen to every conversation in your house
Stay woke on this. Jeff Bezos just told everybody that he's listening to every conversation that you have in your house and keeping track of it.
Cordarrelle PattersonThe NFL is in cahoots with the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys
Because everybody loves Green Bay. Everybody wants to see Green Bay on top. ... Oh, so conspiracy. The league. The league has a conspiracy. ... Headline grab. ... Green Bay is in cahoots with the league. Yeah. They like the... Done. It was Dallas, you know.
PFT CommenterThe NFL is stirring up political protests via back channels to boost the Falcons' Rise Up hashtag
A little stay woke on this. NFL stirring up controversy through back channels to get people to tweet the Rise Up hashtag. I actually completely agree with you because what's one of the storylines of this Super Bowl? Atlanta, bad sports town. Not a lot of Falcons fans. Guess what? Now we are all Falcons fans.
Big CatJames Dolan planted security to get Charles Oakley banned from MSG
I think it's James Dolan continues to disrespect the Garden by putting out awful teams and not caring. And I think, stay woke, that was all a plant to get him [Oakley] banned from the Garden forever because if you noticed, it was security guards all around him. He got mad because I think that's just Charles Oakley's resting heartbeat.
PFT CommenterPhil Mickelson intentionally reported Lexi Thompson's rules violation to ensure the PGA Tour was on notice
I think Phil Mickelson called in this rules violation ahead of the Masters to make sure everybody was on their game. ... Also stay woke. Maybe he was just making this quote to get the headlines that he paid $2 million to his bookie last year, pushed down a little bit on the Google search results.
PFT CommenterTiger Woods is actually getting hair transplant surgery or steroids, not back surgery
Tiger had a fourth back surgery. I have a stay woke on that... I think he's actually getting hair transplant surgery and he's calling it back surgery... Or steroids. He's getting a steroid implanted in his body.
PFT CommenterJohn Calipari intentionally finishes in the Final Four instead of winning titles to avoid NCAA sanctions
Calipari, yeah, he's crooked. He's rigged. But guess what? He's not drawing all that attention to himself by flaunting his rings. He's staying right behind. He's got his rabbit pace car that he's chasing. And he's fine. That's how he gets away with it. That's why he's slick Cal.
PFT CommenterFloyd Mayweather plays up his illiteracy to have an excuse for tax issues
I have kind of a stay woke actually on Mayweather. I think that Mayweather isn't actually illiterate but he likes to play it up because that way he has an excuse when he doesn't fill his taxes out correctly.
PFT CommenterThe Sun is not actually hot because space is cold
There's a big conspiracy theory out there that the sun is not actually hot. ... If the sun is hot, why is space cold? ... The sun is probably the biggest fraud of all time if it's cold. ... If you're on the surface of the sun, you'd be fine. You could have a picnic on the surface of the sun.
Big CatClothing manufacturers and dry cleaners conspire to put 'no dryer' labels on clothes
I think there's a big conspiracy out there. This is probably the big laundromat services of the world. They're basically dry cleaning services. They're basically making clothes that you can't put in the dryer so that you have to go to the dry cleaners.
PFT CommenterThe MLB playoffs are rigged for big markets
The final four cities represented in baseball, New York, L.A., Chicago, Houston. Those are the four biggest cities in America. The four biggest markets... Bud Selig at it again.
PFT CommenterThe WatchESPN app allows the network to spy on you inside your house
Alex Jones thinks that Bill Walton was being 100% serious... It would also be great if Bill Walton accidentally exposed this, and ESPN was trying not to let this out, and he was just off on one of his weird trips, and he unwittingly uncovered the most giant conspiracy in the history of cable television.
Big CatThe NCAA selection committee snubbed Louisville and USC to avoid talking about the FBI investigation
Stay woke. Louisville and USC, both two teams under the FBI watch. They got out. So, interesting. I actually think there is an element where the selection committee said, well, let's maybe keep these two teams out because we don't want everyone talking about the FBI during March Madness.
Big CatMelania Trump's absence is a genius way to control the media narrative
I hope she's just it actually is genius. If I could totally see like President Trump being like, let's just have Melania never be shown in public again. Just so there's always like a conspiracy theory in my back pocket that can take like take control of the media narrative at any point.
PFT CommenterThe Patrick Mahomes ketchup-shaming in the media is a Chicago conspiracy
I think that this is something that's been planted... by you Chicago elitist types who hate ketchup, and you are dead set on finding something wrong with Pat Mahomes so that you can be like, actually, Mitch is better.
PFT CommenterBill Belichick tricked the world into thinking Rob Gronkowski was unhealthy this year
I think that it's a major stay woke that the greatest trick Bill Belichick ever pulled was convincing the world that Rob Gronkowski was unhealthy this year so he's just been playing possum.
PFT CommenterJohn Dorsey leaked the Kareem Hunt video to drive down his price for the Browns
The Stay Woke is John Dorsey is the general manager of the Browns. He was the general manager of the Chiefs. He drafted Kareem Hunt. Kareem Hunt's incident happened in a Cleveland hotel. It didn't come out for a long time. John Dorsey's in Cleveland. It comes out. Then John Dorsey gets Kareem Hunt for a million bucks.
Big CatPete Carroll took a deliberate delay of game to avoid another goal-line mistake with Marshawn Lynch
I actually think conspiracy theory here that Pete Carroll took the delay game on purpose because he didn't want to be stuck in a situation where he screwed up on the one-yard line again with Marshawn Lynch back.
PFT CommenterRoger Goodell will try to engineer a Chiefs vs. Packers Super Bowl for the 100th anniversary
Roger Goodell is absolutely smashing the nut button on the prospect of a Kansas City Chiefs-Packers Super Bowl rematch of Super Bowl I in the 100th year of the NFL. Doing a major stay woke on that one. If Roger Goodell would be the kind of guy to pull any strings behind the scenes... [he] is absolutely going to try to engineer that.
Big CatRoger Goodell is actually on the Barstool payroll to play the ultimate heel
There's actually a conspiracy theory going on now that Roger Goodell works for Barstool because he continually plays into our hands. And I actually am starting to buy it. I'm starting to think that it's not so far off to think that Roger Goodell is on Barstool's payroll deliberately to play the heel.
Big CatThe NBA blatantly rigged the schedule so that Zion Williamson makes the playoffs
The schedule is awesome because we are going to have day games... except for the fact that they rigged it so that Zion gets into the playoffs and that's awesome. Yeah. Absolutely. We're a hundred percent behind that... They basically play the bottom teams.
PFT CommenterBill Belichick might opt out of the 2020 season to sabotage Josh McDaniels and tank for Trevor Lawrence
My big-time stay woke on this is that Bill Belichick, he might opt out if coaches can opt out... he's got so many players on defense that are out, right? If Bill Belichick opts out McDaniels probably takes over, right? They go 4-12. All of a sudden no one wants to sign Josh McDaniels to a head coaching contract next year. He keeps the team together maybe gets Trevor Lawrence.
HankThe NBA rigged Game 6 for the Raptors over the Celtics to get a Game 7 for ratings
I'm feeling nervous. I'm not gonna lie. Game 6 was clearly like the NBA and I understand where the NBA is coming from where they need the best ratings we could possibly get. If we could tell the refs, just call everything against the Celtics so we can get a game 7 for ratings. I understand it. It was clearly the post-game report admitted everything that happened on the stretch that was supposed to get called against the Celtics didn't.
Big CatAaron Rodgers intentionally blocked Jordan Love from getting reps in the 49ers game
The Aaron Rodgers did need this would have been the perfect time for Jordan Love to get out there get some reps in my conspiracy theorist tinfoil hat says Aaron Rodgers put the kibosh on that.
Big CatThe 'COVID issues' at Ohio State are just a cover for Justin Fields' bruised ribs
Stay woke: they have COVID issues [at Ohio State]. Does it happen to be somewhere around Justin Fields' ribs? ... An extra week would help those bruised ribs. So I would say in terms of a punctured lung, calling it a rib issue... I feel like it would help.
Big CatThe stock market 'pause button' was hit only to save the fat cats
The game's rigged. They literally rigged it in plain sight... The fat cats in Wall Street are basically going to figure it out, going to blame the small guy, going to make new rules. Like, we've already seen it.
PFT CommenterThe blood on Curt Schilling's sock in the 2004 ALCS was fake paint
My conspiracy is the Curt Schilling sock because there's actually some smoke to that. There's some evidence that the blood on the sock was not actually blood... I do think that it's a shitload of paint that got put back there to make Curt Schilling look like he was pitching his absolute balls off.
Arian FosterMichael Jordan was suspended for gambling in 1993 and the league kept it under wraps
The reason why he retired originally in 93 was because he got suspended for gambling... I heard how this conspiracy goes is that they actually suspended him, but they just kept it under wraps because it would have been bad for the league.
Jersey JerryThe NFL is rigged for ratings and views
How somehow some way, and the fourth quarter... the scores magically are going to line up. If this team gets a touchdown in a two point conversion, it's like, wow, it's, it's rigged. This is rigged for ratings, for views.
PFT CommenterThe NCAA rigged the Duke vs. Michigan State game for Coach K
I think the fix was in. NCAA rigged. I think that Tom Izzo and Coach K... Coach K has three friends, one the sports information director at Duke that keeps all of the bodies buried in the right locations... Jim Boeheim... and Tom Izzo. They're like the Big Three.
PFT CommenterThe NHL is potentially rigged for certain ratings-friendly matchups
The whole debate that we were having last night about the NHL being rigged? Because I think that you're insane for not thinking... the NHL would prefer to have caps first penguins. One last showdown between [Ovechkin and Crosby].
HankThe MLB Home Run Derby was rigged for Albert Pujols
MLB homerun, Derby rigged. Big time. One of Albert Pujols' home runs should not have counted. He also, his pitcher had not even started his wind up when the clock hit zero and then Schwarber may or may not have had dinger taken off the board because they couldn't keep track of all the balls in the air.
PFT CommenterThe NFL rigged the first six games of the Browns' schedule for Deshaun Watson
Also NFL rigged: the first six games that they have are the easiest schedule in the league. We mentioned that on the schedule release, that the people were saying look at this, they're setting it up.
HankThe Choco Taco discontinuing was a genius marketing move and it's coming back
My other who's back is the Choco Taco. They said they're bringing it back. Stay woke. That was a genius movie. Choco Taco's going Morbin time. They just reminded everyone the Choco Taco rules and then everyone like pull it away.
PFT CommenterThe Colts hired Jeff Saturday as bait to eventually lure Peyton Manning to be the GM
My conspiracy theory says that they hired Jeff Saturday because they want to hire Peyton Manning to run the team to do a GM in the future... Now Jeff Saturday is a real life puppet of Peyton Manning as the head coach just to bring the rest of Peyton Manning's body from the wrist all the way back to be the, to be the general manager.
PFT CommenterThe NFL is rigged to screw over owners like Robert Kraft and Dan Snyder
The NFL is rigged. I'm boycotting the NFL. Clear as day, the NFL is a rigged league. That's why they classify it as entertainment and not as a sport, so they can fake all of it. There's a script. The NFL is out to screw over owners that he doesn't like, like the Patriots, like Mr. Kraft, like Mr. Snyder in DC.
PFT CommenterThe NFL is rigged and scripted to get Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl
The NFL is rigged, rigged. It's rigged for ratings or for money. ... This shit is fucking rigged. The NFL is rigged. I don't, it's scripted everything. They get a script at the start of every season and then Hollywood kicks them out because no one would believe the script. ... They want Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl.
MaxThe NBA rigged the 2006 Dunk Contest for Nate Robinson over Andre Iguodala
Nate Robinson was bullshit. He should have lost to Andre Iguodala... well he missed like 32 dunks in a row and then, and then still won. Prince Nate Robinson. That was the biggest NBA rig thing of all time.
Billy FootballJake Paul purposely lost to Tommy Fury to make the rematch more profitable
The conspiracy part of Twitter... they were saying that Jake Paul, in order to sell the next fight purposely knew that it would be bad if he won this fight. I think the storyline's better for a second fight... because no one would want to watch another one if he just beat him.
PFT CommenterThere is a 'wedgie' conspiracy involving the balls or rims in Des Moines
There's a scandal of foot in March Madness this year in Des Moines... There were five six wedgies today, four of which occurred in the Des Moines, Iowa gym. So either the balls are stickier, the rims are harder. Maybe the balls are a little bit smaller... there's something different this year.
MaxThe NBA rigged Game 3 of the Sixers-Nets series to extend it
No, I mean it, it was just blatant at halftime. There was, there was something that happened. There was something that happened at halftime... The Nets had zero fouls in the second half until five minutes to go in the fourth quarter. It was insane. They obviously wanted a series they wanted, but they wanted the game to go more than four games.
PFT CommenterDrake leaked his own explicit video as a flex
Drake international superstar. He was jacking off and the video came out. I actually think my conspiracy theory brain tells me that Drake leaked this himself because it's a good angle... he's got a big dick and he's got a big dick. Yeah. So if anything it like my respect for Drake increased today.
Mitchell SchwartzChiefs officiating conspiracy theories are just a result of the team being on TV more
Data point shows that this isn't a real thing, but people just don't want to hear it... I think it's just a volume thing that Chiefs have been on TV in prime time, the most of any team the last seven years. And people like to root against you when you're having success.
PFT CommenterIf you truly believe the NFL is rigged, you should just bet all your money on the Chiefs.
If it's rigged. If you truly believe it's rigged, then why don't you just make a fuck load of money betting on the Chiefs? That's me personally. That's what I would do.
HankThe NBA needs a Celtics-Lakers Finals for the ratings
The Lakers were scaring me. They've been, you know, they won eight straight. They were playing really well and it, you know the conspiracy of how does Luca end up in la? The NBA needs a Celtics. Lakers NBA finals for ratings. Yep.
HankLeBron James is planning to start a separate basketball league that would rival the NBA
I have not given up on my conspiracy theory that LeBron is starting this separate league. Him basically admitting that he believes the NBA was rigged is further evidence of it.
PFT CommenterThe NBA Draft Lottery is rigged despite the league's attempts to prove otherwise
I think the media is now welcome at the draft lottery because he used to see it behind the scenes... he was laying it on thick. He was doing a lot of unrigable talk... if it was rigged, this is exactly how they would've rigged it. Exactly how they'd rig it. Exactly... you can pick and choose Max... that shit's fucking rigged and I fucking hate it and there should be an investigation.
PFT CommenterCONCACAF is rigged to ensure the United States doesn't win the Gold Cup
I join the chorus of those who were saying CONCACAF rigged. They don't want to see the United States win the Gold Cup. They'd much rather have it be Mexico.
PFT CommenterThe WNBA is likely throwing dildos on their own court for ratings
I have a stay woke. I think the WNBA is throwing dildos onto their own court. Get the ratings up.
HankThe NFL is rigged to favor the Chiefs
The NFL is rigged. There was a study, UTEP did a study. It's statistically proven that the Chiefs... have gotten way more favorable calls in that timeframe. And they did the research that that did not happen with other dynasties in the past.
PFT CommenterThe World Cup draw will be rigged for the United States
If anyone could pull it off, Trump doesn't care about soccer. Oh he does. He he's, he took the ball from FIFA. He's been bragging to everybody about how he got the World Cup. Make that happen buddy. Iceland is the smallest country to qualify for the World cup.
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