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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Rikishi on his sons Jimmy & Jey Uso, the Stinkface, falling off Hell in a Cell, The Rock

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Business, Sports, Mental Health, Wrestling, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship

4.93.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Rikishi is a WWE Hall of Famer from the legendary Anoa'i family. He joins Chris Van Vliet from his home in Los Angeles to talk about his new YouTube channel called "Rikishi Driver Talk Show", getting inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, his sons Jimmy and Jey Uso, his wrestling school Knokx Pro Wrestling Academy, training rapper Bow Wow, being part of Armageddon 2000 when The Undertaker chokeslammed him off Hell in a Cell, getting shot in a drive-by shooting in 1987 and dying for three minutes, how being part of Too Cool changed the course of his career and much more! Support the show by supporting our sponsors! Get your energy back, sleep better, and block out the unhealthy effects of blue light with BLUblox. Get free shipping worldwide and 15% off by going to https://blublox.com/CVV or enter code CVV15 at checkout. If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to https://chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:45.4

Well there it is. Welcome to Insight. Hope everything is going well for you. I'm Chris

0:50.6

Van Vley. If this happens to be your first time here, nice to have you with us. I'm an Emmy

0:54.9

award-winning TV host and I'm fascinated with finding out how people are wired to achieve

1:00.1

greatness. On each episode we have in-depth conversations and reverse engineer the habits and

1:05.4

techniques of the world's top athletes, actors, entrepreneurs. You name it. If they're the best

1:11.2

at what they do, I want to get their insights so we can apply it to our own life. And just think

1:17.9

about the legacy that Rikishi and his family have left behind in wrestling. It's pretty mind-blowing.

1:23.8

If you think about it, Seika, Apha, Peter, my idea, the rock, Jimmy Snuka, Umaga, Yokozuna,

1:30.8

Jimmy and Jeyu, so Naya Jacks, that's just naming a few of them.

1:36.5

I actually got Rikishi to go through how he's related to everybody in his family tree.

1:42.6

You know, you'd think that he'd be destined to be a pro wrestler with all those names I just listed.

1:47.2

But he was actually on the path to being dead. Because he was hanging out with the wrong people

1:52.8

growing up. He was shot in a drive-by shooting. We talk about that in great detail, but it was

1:58.2

actually wrestling that saved his life. And I can't even tell you how much I enjoyed this conversation.

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