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Chapter 1: How is CM Punk preparing for WrestleMania 42?
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Chapter 2: What anxieties does CM Punk face about his return to wrestling?
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Chapter 3: What was the story behind CM Punk's surprise return to WWE?
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Chapter 4: What are CM Punk's thoughts on Triple H and the current wrestling landscape?
He's the main event, the WWE champion. And if God is good, he'll stay that way after this weekend's match with one Roman Reigns. He's the most exciting superstar in sports entertainment and the man putting butts in seats. Tell me when I'm telling lies. Welcome to Pod Meets World, the best in the world, CM Punk. Yeah. Just for me, you can drag it out if you want. Okay. Just keep going?
You can keep going. Yeah, I won't. Your partner's was like 10 minutes long for the record.
I won't mind.
AJ's was live. AJ's was live. It's like three pages long. Yes. Yes. I believe it. I believe it.
Chapter 5: How does CM Punk handle pressure during big matches?
She's incredible, but I don't have to tell you that. This is very exciting for us. It's exciting for me too. Thank you so much for doing this. We know WrestleMania weekend for CM Punk is a real dog and pony show. So we know that how, how hard it was to get you here. So thank you. Let's get right into the big match this weekend. Main eventing WrestleMania has been a big part of your story forever.
And this will now be the first time you're one-on-one to close the whole weekend out. I mean, last year was cool, but let's be honest here. This is the main event now. So no way around it. Are you feeling any pressure? It's always the main event when I'm in it. That's right. I feel like I'm supposed to say that, but no, it's going to be a different new experience.
It's a new adventure I haven't gone on yet. Yeah. So I'm looking very forward to it.
Chapter 6: What advice does CM Punk give to new wrestlers about debuting?
It's going to be fun. And is there any additional pressure? Do you always feel pressure? Do you never feel pressure? No, I feel it, but it's more, it's situational. And it's more based on like who I am and what I am to the business now. You know, I think anytime you're under those bright lights and you're thrust in that kind of a position, there's pressure. And if you don't feel it, I don't know.
Right. Maybe time to pack it in. But there's always going to be what I call anticipatory anxiety. Yeah. You know? But that doesn't mean I don't feel like I don't belong here. Like this is... Pardon my language, it's about fucking time. Yeah. Yeah. I'll say. Love that.
Chapter 7: What does CM Punk believe is the future of professional wrestling?
I'll say. I have to ask you, when you do feel the, I wouldn't even say jitters, just the anticipatory anxiety, do you use it? Is it fuel? 100%. Yeah. Yeah. There's a way to make those butterflies fly in formation and use anything you're feeling, especially the week of a WrestleMania.
Yeah.
Uh, cause we're doing so much, the schedule is so packed and you're being pulled in a million different directions and it's hard to lose your head. So it's important to kind of use all that, what you're feeling and realize that like, you can kind of tap into that as an artist and use that to convey any kind of story you're trying to tell in the ring on the night.
Hmm.
So the lead up to this event has been intense and there has been so much praise for what people are calling pipe bomb two. Let's clear it up here. They didn't know everything you're going to say, right? I can confidently say that they never know everything I'm going to say.
You know, in our weird, wild world, you know, like you have producers and people who are, you know, like people who work with you. Some people are written things. Other people are given bullet points and other people, they kind of cross their fingers and say, please don't get us thrown off the air. You know, I'm in between there somewhere. Yeah.
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Chapter 8: What personal growth has CM Punk experienced in his wrestling career?
They did not know everything. Did you know what you were going to say or did it just come out in the moment? I knew there were some things that I had to address and I had to just tell myself to not swear. Right. Okay. Okay. And I think I said, bitch, and I still didn't even want to do that. But sometimes you're in the pocket. My thing was don't drop F-bombs. Right.
And thankfully I didn't do that. So, yeah. Danielle says that every podcast to herself. I was on the precipice, you know, not trying to get an FCC fine. No, you don't want that. It wasn't just the new pipe bomb blurring the lines between storyline and reality, because I think most of the WWE universe has sensed that there's really no love loss between you and Roman, even outside the ring.
Considering you hadn't really seen him in 10 years, what do you think crawled up his ass and died in that decade? What do you think it is? Like at least eight WrestleMania main events. Died. Died. Yeah. No, I don't know. You know, I wasn't put on this earth to, you know, just get along with people. I'm a nice guy until I don't have to be.
And some people just aren't meant to, you know, be in a room together. I say it all the time and I, I pardon my language. Can I swear on this? This is the shit talk business. Yeah. You know, this is a, this is a super fight between two guys. that we don't like each other. I don't think that's a secret. We're both professionals and we're trying to get to the show in one piece.
And we still got a day where anything can happen. Do you come to address a fight differently when you don't like your opponent than you do if you like and respect your opponent? Or is it all just on the day to work? I think on the day it's work, you know, I talked to a lot of different athletes.
Like even if you, you, you line up, you're on the offensive or defensive line in a football game, you know, you line up and you, you know, this person, you've maybe played college ball with them or your kids, your kids play in the park together or something like that. Like there's no friends when the whistle blows, when the bell rings, you know, friendship goes out the window a lot of the times.
And it's almost more of like a relaxed atmosphere because I don't have to let go of anything. I don't have to, you know, be like, Hey, I don't have to apologize before or after. It's just, it's going to be what it's going to be. Yeah. I know. It seems so much scarier though, when your physical body is So, so in, so in there, you know, we don't, we don't have to deal with that.
We maybe don't get along too well with an actor, you know, a fellow actor. And, or if when you're mentioning football on the offensive line or the defensive line, but you're not usually playing them week after week after week, seeing them day after day. If you had to pick one superstar to replace his voice as the other Zebro, who would you pick? We could make some calls. Will could do it.
Will does voice work, you know? I think the entire situation is hilarious. So it's almost perfect the way it is because who would have drew that up, right? Like who would have thought? But anybody? Anybody else?
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