Speaker 1: Again, we have to do something better than this purp.
Speaker 1: It's just it's not working for me.
Speaker 2: Well we've concluded Vegas Week.
Speaker 3: Wow. Okay and and with a bang, Yeah, yeah what
Speaker 3: did you?
Speaker 4: What did you think?
Speaker 2: I feel like you enjoyed this year's interviews maybe more
Speaker 2: than last year's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I mean, again, everyone last year
Speaker 1: is super cool, great, but yeah we're there. There was
Speaker 1: a vulnerability to this year's guests that was really cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: excuse me, John h mister Johnson, mister JOHNSONA which was Yeah,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed there's there was a lot of talk of
Speaker 1: kind of the mental health aspect of being a professional wrestler.
Speaker 1: And then to end with Kit Wilson was really cool.
Speaker 1: But to actually interview CM punk two, who's like kind
Speaker 1: of the face of all of w W, now right,
Speaker 1: I mean he's kind of the guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he is the he is the cham
Speaker 2: and he's the Yeah. I mean when whenever you say
Speaker 2: the face most people think of still Cody Rhods because
Speaker 2: that's kind of like one of his nicknames. Okay, but yes,
Speaker 2: when you if you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Road sounds like a country singer.
Speaker 2: That's not You're not wrong, Okay, So yeah, to have
Speaker 2: him to have been able to interview CM Punk, Yeah,
Speaker 2: WrestleMania weekend is like the kind of the biggest get
Speaker 2: you could have.
Speaker 1: And I know he's kind of known for his honesty,
Speaker 1: but to sit two feet from it when he's kind
Speaker 1: of like also introspective about himself and where he is
Speaker 1: in his life now and in wrestling compared to where
Speaker 1: he was, it was just it was really cool. It
Speaker 1: was it Obviously it was centered around wrestling, but it
Speaker 1: felt like just interviewing people, yeah, which was which I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed. So yeah, and then you know, it was
Speaker 1: a quick trip, which I like because I don't need
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time in Vegas.
Speaker 4: Right, So yeah, did you gamble at all while you
Speaker 4: were here?
Speaker 1: Not a just with my health because it's so it
Speaker 1: is the air is so dry out here that I
Speaker 1: get stuffy all the time. I know.
Speaker 4: I also have not gambled, which is insane.
Speaker 3: I don't not.
Speaker 4: Even I haven't even been tempted.
Speaker 3: That's weird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, it's very weird. I'm just so tired.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's also because we're staying in a
Speaker 1: place that is really not gambling, like you don't have
Speaker 1: to walk through a casino, you don't have to do anything.
Speaker 4: That's exactly part of it.
Speaker 2: I have not been tempted by bright lights and cool sounds.
Speaker 2: No hoopla. You know I love a hoopla. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: love hoopla, and so no hoopla to dredge you.
Speaker 3: I love Vegas hoopla. You're not a big hoopla person.
Speaker 2: And oh no, I want silence in every and every
Speaker 2: other aspect of my life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you miss the gambling at all? Do you
Speaker 3: wish you had gambled?
Speaker 4: No, I don't. I haven't missed it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be here though, in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: and I know I'll gamble then, so that's probably all
Speaker 2: part of it. So you know, but I'm very excited
Speaker 2: to come back in a couple of weeks because I'm
Speaker 2: going to be here for the Steve Irwin Gala. Robert
Speaker 2: and Bindi and and Terry do their big gala every
Speaker 2: year where they raise money for the zoo, and so
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
Speaker 3: About They serve exotic meats.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to go out on a limb
Speaker 2: and say probably not. Yeah, since they are so.
Speaker 1: Like that. That makes sense. That makes more sense with
Speaker 1: what they do. I get it.
Speaker 4: Can we talk about we've never mentioned the buddies.
Speaker 1: I don't think we have to.
Speaker 3: I don't think we need to.
Speaker 2: These are my personal and but by my personal buddies,
Speaker 2: I mean my children Adler and Keaton love these wrestling buddies.
Speaker 2: It's one of our go to birthday or Christmas gift
Speaker 2: ideas for others to give them. And we of course
Speaker 2: made it over to the superstore and bought them each
Speaker 2: new stuffies, new buddies, new buddies, and we also got
Speaker 2: them a Dan dan Housen hats nice.
Speaker 4: They say, cursed.
Speaker 3: I'm still cursed.
Speaker 4: There was so many dan Housen shirts.
Speaker 1: He's like the man right now.
Speaker 2: I am thrilled at how early we were on knowing
Speaker 2: especially I mean, yes, I and everyone knows. Everyone knows
Speaker 2: I am Danielle Housen. Yes, so I am a part
Speaker 2: of the Housing universe, which makes me feel like I'm
Speaker 2: so cool that well you should.
Speaker 3: That's another reason to feel really cool. As if you
Speaker 3: needed more.
Speaker 4: I did. I like your glasses.
Speaker 2: Speaking of cool, I haven't seen them in person.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, I have several black glasses and then
Speaker 1: the brown ones when I need to wear brown ones?
Speaker 4: Okay, when did you get the brown ones?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Not that long couple couple months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't seen you. I don't think I see
Speaker 2: you wear them in person.
Speaker 1: There's one size of glasses that fits me at all
Speaker 1: of Warby Parker, So I bought it in every color
Speaker 1: they had.
Speaker 4: So smart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so smart, which is also your go to
Speaker 2: find a sh sir.
Speaker 4: You like, how many colors does it come in?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 4: Let me get it. Oh, these genes fit me well?
Speaker 3: Go animals again, I walk around.
Speaker 4: You want go animals for for Wilford out? I like that.
Speaker 3: Are you upset that we're not going to WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: I'm not upset that we're not going to WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: I wish it's It's hard to say. There's nothing like
Speaker 4: being there.
Speaker 2: It's such an experience, but it is also an overwhelming experience.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of people there, a lot of
Speaker 2: you know, sensations, sites sounds.
Speaker 4: It's loud.
Speaker 2: Uh and this year I am too tired to imagine
Speaker 2: being in that situation.
Speaker 3: Like, I get it.
Speaker 2: You have to really be prepped for that, and I
Speaker 2: am very much. Looking forward to going home and watching
Speaker 2: it with my kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're bringing the buddies back. And I still.
Speaker 3: Can't name everybody.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's bron Breaker, it says breaker across this mister. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: bron Breaker. That's John Cena. This is Pentagatron. Yes, this
Speaker 2: is jay Uso.
Speaker 1: We saw him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the guy who gets everybody. Ye saw me,
Speaker 2: saw him. And then this is Cmpunk after a vacation.
Speaker 2: And this is Roman Reigns original tribal chief. They are
Speaker 2: squaring off in the main event. No, not tonight, Sunday Night. Yeah,
Speaker 2: which is one of the questions I talked to Punk
Speaker 2: about because he, you know, headlining WrestleMania has been something
Speaker 2: that's literally been a part of his story since like
Speaker 2: he started.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was amazing to hear him talk about that.
Speaker 2: And then he did it last year. But last year
Speaker 2: he was Saturday Night.
Speaker 4: And is there.
Speaker 2: You know it's two nights, it's a two night event,
Speaker 2: so it is a headliner. It's still a headlining event.
Speaker 2: But you want the real, the real like, wow, I
Speaker 2: get to headline? Is the feeling of Sunday Night.
Speaker 1: I know who you want to win? Yeah, who do
Speaker 1: you think is going to win.
Speaker 2: Man, it really is very difficult because you know, it
Speaker 2: is a business.
Speaker 3: Sure, and everyone loves a comeback.
Speaker 4: And everyone loves a comeback. But also.
Speaker 2: Part of the blurring of the lines of wrestling is
Speaker 2: is it just.
Speaker 4: Storyline or is it also real?
Speaker 2: And one of the blurred storylines is the bloodline of
Speaker 2: Roman Reigns coming from, you know, being The Rock's cousin.
Speaker 2: The Rock is an executive in the company. He's also
Speaker 2: still occasionally front facing talent on camera talent. How much
Speaker 2: of what's going to happen is being decided by different levels, Yes,
Speaker 2: at different levels, And that's something Punk's not shying away
Speaker 2: from talking about. He's Roman Reigns and Nepo Baby, and
Speaker 2: you know they're they have they have really gotten into it.
Speaker 2: And Roman Reigns has accused Punk of only being there
Speaker 2: because you know, he sells merch Wow.
Speaker 3: So they don't like each other in real life.
Speaker 4: They don't like each other.
Speaker 2: And and Punk is the type of person who will
Speaker 2: just I don't I have no reason to not say it.
Speaker 2: I think it's I don't think your family should be
Speaker 2: making decisions while for you and your career. I don't
Speaker 2: so I really don't know. I feel like what's best
Speaker 2: for storyline, right is that punk should be victorious.
Speaker 4: Okay, and I think is one.
Speaker 1: Of them the heel in this?
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, Roman Reigns is the heel.
Speaker 3: Right, but can people don't seem to like Roman Reigns
Speaker 3: all the might.
Speaker 1: But then they did.
Speaker 4: Everyone has their turns.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 2: I will say that I think Roman Reigns used to
Speaker 2: have a more likable persona, and in the last couple
Speaker 2: of years he has either taken on for character or
Speaker 2: has just become maybe a little bit more full of themselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and well, the That's one thing I'm realizing is is,
Speaker 1: especially with the dudes, the egos to be a professional wrestler.
Speaker 1: I mean that's part of part of the persona, correct.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not going to find a wilting flower
Speaker 1: who comes in and sits here and is like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm a professional wrestler. You're gonna find somebody comes in
Speaker 1: and like I'm the best. I'm going to be the best.
Speaker 1: I have to kick this guy's ass.
Speaker 3: I don't like him. I mean, it's part of what
Speaker 3: they're looking for.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I get that where it's like you're kind
Speaker 1: of sitting there like, God, these guys have a lot.
Speaker 3: Of ego, and they're like, well, yeah, they're supposed.
Speaker 4: To, right, It's part of the allure.
Speaker 1: These are alpha males that are going to grease themselves
Speaker 1: up and throw themselves at each other.
Speaker 3: You're going to find ego involved in that.
Speaker 2: And like you respected, you heard Rhea talking about how
Speaker 2: you know, sometimes she slaps herself across the face just
Speaker 2: to get herself fired up. Like imagine if you know
Speaker 2: sometimes how we feel when we sit down to podcasts,
Speaker 2: like Okay, what do I have to say today? What
Speaker 2: if they walked down and they were like, I don't
Speaker 2: really feel like punching people or throwing people.
Speaker 4: Now, you can't do that.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna start smacking myself in the face before we podcast.
Speaker 4: Good idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she might have been my favorite.
Speaker 1: I mean obviously punk was amazing, of course, but her story,
Speaker 1: her persona, just her whole vibe and then everything she
Speaker 1: was talking about, she might have been my favorite and
Speaker 1: she was super cool.
Speaker 2: That really says something too, because you and AJ obviously
Speaker 2: so connected over comic books and and so you and
Speaker 2: AJ clearly she's like.
Speaker 1: She's going to become a friend that's yes, because she I,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do that one shot. She's gonna roll with us,
Speaker 1: and she like, that's gonna be like texting comic book
Speaker 1: stuff back and forth with each other. Like she's gonna
Speaker 1: become a buddy. I can already tell that. But the
Speaker 1: story of Ria at the beginning was just was was cool.
Speaker 1: I mean it was really really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I like her so much. I think
Speaker 2: I like everything she stands for, and I you know,
Speaker 2: I loved how she was talking about that. The line
Speaker 2: that you don't cross is when you want to disparage
Speaker 2: who Demi her Demi is as a person.
Speaker 1: That's well talking. You know what's funny is I'm kind
Speaker 1: of amazed at how much you like professional wrestling because
Speaker 1: all of them are the persona of theater kid energy.
Speaker 1: But they are I mean, when you think about it,
Speaker 1: they're constantly talking about themselves and the third person, and
Speaker 1: they're talking about the other character that they do. If this,
Speaker 1: if most of these people were just actors, you would
Speaker 1: hate them.
Speaker 2: No, here's where I disagree all of them. If you
Speaker 2: if you sat there and watched them, they all had
Speaker 2: a normal conversation. They like my energy.
Speaker 1: But they're also like talking about themselves and their characters,
Speaker 1: like I mean, like you'd talk like an actor would
Speaker 1: talk about their characters.
Speaker 3: The craft, which is stuff that.
Speaker 2: You and I are bo it's still not craft because
Speaker 2: the funny thing is every time I say one of
Speaker 2: their real names, I almost we might have to edit
Speaker 2: that out because so much of their their like responsibility
Speaker 2: is k fabe, which is you kareem poppy fabe is
Speaker 2: you don't break character, and.
Speaker 3: You never broke character. You were always a few weeks yeah,
Speaker 3: and you.
Speaker 2: Are a j and you when you and you know
Speaker 2: when when Rio walked in, she introduced herself as Rita
Speaker 2: to you, even though then at some point she's mentioned
Speaker 2: that her name is Demi.
Speaker 4: Like, so at least it's it's consistent.
Speaker 1: But if an actor walked if you were interviewing an
Speaker 1: actor for a new movie who was playing the Joker,
Speaker 1: and he stayed the Joker the entire time during the interview,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, I hated that guy.
Speaker 4: You're not wrong, You're I think you have.
Speaker 1: A soft spot for wrestling and wrestlers, but it's the same.
Speaker 1: It's I see what you're saying where it's not like
Speaker 1: the oh my god, I can't. Like, I feel like
Speaker 1: we could have sat and talked to Rha or any
Speaker 1: of them actually for hours at a time, and it
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been exhausting correct to sit there and talk
Speaker 1: to them, like it wouldn't have been like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I need a break from this energy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's it's very method.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is, yeah, which which you have to the
Speaker 1: necessary And I totally understand that because if you're not,
Speaker 1: people are going to see through it. They're going to
Speaker 1: be like, well, wait, are you who are you today?
Speaker 1: And are you your regular person?
Speaker 3: Are you not?
Speaker 1: And I under which almost seems to me is the
Speaker 1: kind of not the fuck you used the wrong way
Speaker 1: to put it, but the pointing a spotlight of it,
Speaker 1: of Dan Housen's entire persona yeah, is kind of like
Speaker 1: taking the piss out of that a little bit on purpose.
Speaker 3: And I think that's great.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 2: One of the things I love for Dan Housen is
Speaker 2: that if I were to show you a picture of
Speaker 2: Dan Housen out of makeup, you'd never know what.
Speaker 4: Was I'm sure, and like, that's brilliant. Isn't that so great?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's brilliant. Because he's just walking the streets.
Speaker 4: He can just go out with his wife and his baby.
Speaker 3: And nobody's gonna know.
Speaker 4: No one's going to know.
Speaker 1: Think of the the drummer from from Five Finger Death
Speaker 1: Punch or whatever, where it's just like, no one's gonna
Speaker 1: know who that guy is.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's one of the reasons Slipknot decided to
Speaker 4: wear masks.
Speaker 3: Right, you could kiss at the beginning to hear what
Speaker 3: was going on.
Speaker 4: You know, we really we really.
Speaker 3: Should have done Boy Meets World masks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should just switch characters though for no like
Speaker 1: we stay in the Boy Mets.
Speaker 3: It's like, I'm gonna mister Feenie, You're just like Amy
Speaker 3: for no reason.
Speaker 1: Exactly been interesting, but it is. It's like it's a method.
Speaker 1: It's such a strange. That's why I keep talking about
Speaker 1: the levels of professional wrestling that I'm seeing, because it's
Speaker 1: they're in character the whole time. They're actors, they're entertainers,
Speaker 1: but they're also incredible athletes.
Speaker 3: You have to be able to do everything.
Speaker 1: And it's like it's gonna people are gonna like, come on,
Speaker 1: but the people that.
Speaker 3: Get it will get it.
Speaker 1: It's like what Jackie Chan did forever where I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be the actor, I'm gonna be the producer.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do what I have to do.
Speaker 1: I'm first gonna star in really small movies that nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna see.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna work my way.
Speaker 1: Up, but I'm going to destroy my body to make
Speaker 1: sure that I get the shot that I need to get.
Speaker 2: You also need to be creative. You need to find hooks.
Speaker 2: You need to be able to and as we know
Speaker 2: as actors like, especially in the way the industry is now,
Speaker 2: you can't lie on someone else to come up with
Speaker 2: an idea for you or to go out and find
Speaker 2: you work. So if something's not working or you feel like, hmm,
Speaker 2: I'm getting passed over because these other people have found
Speaker 2: something I don't, you got to You got to be
Speaker 2: in that office, coming up with your own suggestions, throwing
Speaker 2: yourself in there, making sure you stay relevant, changing the character.
Speaker 3: That's got to be the hardest thing.
Speaker 1: They always say that the hardest thing in the world
Speaker 1: is not actually getting to the super Bowl. It's being
Speaker 1: in the locker room halfway in the halftime and having
Speaker 1: to change everything that got you there because you're losing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so it's got to be like, you work your
Speaker 1: butt off, you're a character. It's starting to work. Then
Speaker 1: all A said, it's not anymore, and it's like, oh
Speaker 1: I have to change everything everything now. Yeah, that's got
Speaker 1: to be crazy. It seems like such an insane world
Speaker 1: to be in.
Speaker 2: And then think about all the fan interaction because this
Speaker 2: is something that is so associated with families and kids.
Speaker 2: I think the amount of charity work that they all do,
Speaker 2: and then on top of the charity work that they do,
Speaker 2: the paid meet and green and photo ops that they do.
Speaker 3: And the cons they're on a concircuit.
Speaker 2: They're on a con circuit. Yeah, they're traveling every week.
Speaker 2: I mean this weekend, WrestleMania weekend, the biggest weekend of
Speaker 2: their year physically, mentally, career wise. Every day, all day
Speaker 2: they're in interviews, they're doing photo ops.
Speaker 3: Said he started at like six am, woke up at six.
Speaker 2: Am yesterday, was with us until after eight pm, so
Speaker 2: he had had like a fourteen hour work day.
Speaker 3: That's crazy. And then he's got a wrestle two.
Speaker 4: Days, two days.
Speaker 2: He's got to you know, and he's not a twenty
Speaker 2: five year old man.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean I saw the body styles were similar,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't Yeah, I couldn't tell about the ages.
Speaker 3: Yea very similar. Yeah, sorry, I just got tired turning
Speaker 3: to look at you. Sorry broke broke my necklark.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, it's truly. The whole world I mean, is just crazy.
Speaker 1: And then to hear most of them talk about how
Speaker 1: then you're dealing with the fact that we all see
Speaker 1: the hate on social media.
Speaker 3: I'm not even on social media, and I see they hand.
Speaker 1: On social media. They must get at times a thousand.
Speaker 1: Because it's also there's some of them are playing villains.
Speaker 1: They're playing and it's like, okay, you have to dissect
Speaker 1: the fact that, like you're talking about a real person
Speaker 1: and you're spending time every day to go on and
Speaker 1: bash a real human being. It's yeah, it's a world
Speaker 1: that I I you'd have to love it. You'd have
Speaker 1: to love it to do it, because it's these are people.
Speaker 1: We've all talked to them. Every single one of the
Speaker 1: through lines to every person we've seen to interview from
Speaker 1: this year and last year is I saw this as
Speaker 1: a kid, and I knew it's all I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like, you know, I found wrestling when I
Speaker 1: was twenty eight exactly that never It's like I was fourteen.
Speaker 1: I was watching it. I started throwing myself around the backyard.
Speaker 1: It's like, you'd have you have to want this lifestyle,
Speaker 1: to live this lifestyle.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I thought it was really interesting too, the way Charlotte,
Speaker 2: because she mentioned when we talked about her player's Tribune piece,
Speaker 2: the way she talked about, Uh, why why is there
Speaker 2: a difference in the amount of love versus hate that
Speaker 2: gets sent on the internet for the bad guys versus
Speaker 2: the good guys? If you guys recognize that we're playing characters,
Speaker 2: why are you not saying, man, Charlotte Flair is the
Speaker 2: greatest because I hate her so much.
Speaker 1: She's so good at what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And instead it's just like I hate you and
Speaker 2: it's you.
Speaker 4: It's not even.
Speaker 1: I have found myself guilty of this same thing on
Speaker 1: Podmet's World, because we'll watch Survivor or something, I'm like, God,
Speaker 1: I hate coach. I'm so glad they kicked this guy off.
Speaker 1: I can't stand this guy. And then I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is a real dude. It's like I get what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and I get he's putting himself out there to do
Speaker 1: that the way we are as well.
Speaker 3: But we're shielded because we're playing a character.
Speaker 1: He's coming out as hisself, and I'm trying to remind
Speaker 1: myself that it's like, yes, they're reality TV contestants, but
Speaker 1: they're real people, and I shouldn't just be ripping this
Speaker 1: dude who I've never met a part because I don't
Speaker 1: like his survivor persona.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: You do have to think though, that if if they're
Speaker 2: unless he went into it thinking what's my strategy, and
Speaker 2: my strategy is to play this character, in which case
Speaker 2: you won't know it until after the season ends.
Speaker 1: And he's a he calls himself the Dragon Slayer. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: he nicknames himself. Any time you nickname yourself, there's something
Speaker 1: going on, right, But it's uh, what was yours was?
Speaker 3: Don't you remember?
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago we all taught we had
Speaker 1: this conversation and you're like, my nickname from now, you
Speaker 1: like gave yourself a nickname. I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 4: Sure that was me?
Speaker 1: It was you were involved in the conversation because I
Speaker 1: told you that Susan liked to be called big Dog.
Speaker 1: So there was a bunch of people that I think
Speaker 1: at some point you were then like you came up.
Speaker 2: With it, I came up with something. No, no, I
Speaker 2: don't remember that. Unfortunately, I will come up with a
Speaker 2: nickname for myself.
Speaker 1: But I get that. I mean, now with reality taking over,
Speaker 1: everyone is like they have their villains and their heroes,
Speaker 1: and it's like they're all still real people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I mean unless somebody's acting like
Speaker 2: a bad person. Yeah, because then I would have no
Speaker 2: problem being like, ew, I don't I don't like your
Speaker 2: I don't like that you are your tactic is to
Speaker 2: lie to everyone in or to whatever.
Speaker 1: But there are some of these wrestlers are acting like
Speaker 1: bad people. That's part of their job, like that character.
Speaker 1: It's such a strange world. It is such a strange world.
Speaker 2: It really is, and there there have been a lot
Speaker 2: of people that have been unhappy with how much of
Speaker 2: the curtain they've allowed to be pulled back, you know,
Speaker 2: especially with Unreal the documentary where they kind.
Speaker 4: Of just show you beyond the mat that was a
Speaker 4: great one.
Speaker 1: We're watching Mick get repeatedly beaten ahead with a chair
Speaker 1: while his kids are watching and freaking out. I mean
Speaker 1: that was difficult to watch for me, that part of
Speaker 1: the film, So yeah, they are. I also, I'm glad
Speaker 1: you very rarely hear wrestling's fake anymore. Like people get
Speaker 1: that it might be staged in choreographed, but it ain't fake. No,
Speaker 1: And there's a big difference between those two things. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you you don't kind of hear that anymore. Oh, I
Speaker 1: know wrestling's fake. It's like, no, no, it's really not.
Speaker 2: The athleticism is on another level. Yeah, I know, in
Speaker 2: their bodies, the things their bodies go through. It couldn't
Speaker 2: the amount of injuries Punk has had.
Speaker 3: I couldn't imagine.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, and you saw aj to She was like,
Speaker 2: she's like, you know, it's like and I loved your
Speaker 2: question to Punk about to see ever get nervous watching.
Speaker 3: You're watching your spouse.
Speaker 1: It would freak me out, like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: couldn't watching Susan even though and he said, he's like,
Speaker 1: she's so good at it. Even if you're amazing at it,
Speaker 1: of course, it's still like you do it too, So
Speaker 1: you know, one twist the wrong and.
Speaker 3: She fell on her head.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: Once she's like, oh I slightly over rotated and then
Speaker 1: I couldn't feel my body.
Speaker 3: I mean that's oh yeah, that would freak me out
Speaker 3: seeing Susan do something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it would freak me out to see Susan do something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't picture, like, why am I in the ring?
Speaker 3: What's happened?
Speaker 4: So I'm saying, why am I? What's going on? Where's
Speaker 4: I just trying to get to Jenny.
Speaker 1: Kine or quin?
Speaker 3: That's fine, what's happening exactly? So uh yeah, no, it's
Speaker 3: but again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're watching your spouse just throw themselves around. And
Speaker 1: I love how he said he'd like he's trying to
Speaker 1: focus on his thing, but then he'll call somebody because
Speaker 1: see her on the screen.
Speaker 3: He's like, okay, is she all right? And they're like, yeah, she's.
Speaker 2: He's calling, by the way, he's calling Triple H like
Speaker 2: the top guy, let me make sure she's okay. And
Speaker 2: you know they one of the behind the scenes things
Speaker 2: is they communicate with the refs when they when they so,
Speaker 2: oh that makes sense, the refs when they're down there,
Speaker 2: there's yeah, they work just to make sure there's Triple H.
Speaker 3: I thought his name is just okay, I get it.
Speaker 3: Now interesting, gotcha. He's married, I know, married to the boss,
Speaker 3: and now he's kind of the boss.
Speaker 1: And that's and I get what Punk was also saying about, like,
Speaker 1: you know, one day we're equals and the next day
Speaker 1: you're my boss and you expect me to do what
Speaker 1: you say. That's going to be a learning curve for
Speaker 1: me totally to just be like, oh, wait a second,
Speaker 1: you can now tell me what to do.
Speaker 3: You're in charge, And I get that.
Speaker 1: That makes total It would be like if one of us,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden rider, was our boss and it
Speaker 1: was just like no, you guys are doing this. We'd
Speaker 1: be like, okay, this is going to take a little
Speaker 1: bit of a just so, I mean, I understand that feeling.
Speaker 1: I totally got what he was saying about that where
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he was like yeah, I'm sure it
Speaker 1: came off his disrespect, but it's give me a break.
Speaker 1: We were colleagues a week ago, and now you're my boss,
Speaker 1: and that's a big change.
Speaker 2: And even then, let's flip it and think about it
Speaker 2: from the other way. Think of the power trip you
Speaker 2: might have just yesterday I was your colleague and I
Speaker 2: didn't strike you, and now I'm in charge, and so
Speaker 2: even the way I'm going to tell you.
Speaker 1: That's what to do, there's gonna be people you don't
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: Now you're like, hey, I'm the boss.
Speaker 4: I'm the boss. Got to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But the way he talked about it, I thought
Speaker 1: was very healthy, where he's like, yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm being respected, and you know, it is what it is,
Speaker 1: and the older me understands the nature of the business.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want that job. So he's very good at
Speaker 1: what he does. It's like, Okay, you can tell he's
Speaker 1: like he's cool with it. I know.
Speaker 2: I'm so interested to see what his post wrestling career,
Speaker 2: what he does want to do.
Speaker 3: He's so smart, so.
Speaker 1: Smart, and he's obviously fluent in wrestling in every aspect
Speaker 1: of the business that it would probably be amazing.
Speaker 3: If he totally stepped away.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's going to do something in wrestling, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would imagine.
Speaker 2: I mean I could really see him doing commentary. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's already done some commentary stuff, but like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I just I can't wait to see like his post yeah,
Speaker 2: his post wrestling career.
Speaker 5: Anything else we want to wrap up from our Vegas
Speaker 5: experience before we go.
Speaker 3: No, I mean again, Las Vegas has been very good
Speaker 3: to us.
Speaker 1: Really make fun of it, but it's a fun place
Speaker 1: to come. I just read an article about how fewer
Speaker 1: people or a lot fewer people are coming here, because.
Speaker 4: Which hasn't felt like that to me. Everywhere we've been.
Speaker 4: I feel like there's people everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but every for instance, where we're staying. I was
Speaker 1: on the thirty fifth floor. Yeah, and I took the
Speaker 1: elevator fifteen times since I've been here. Never once did
Speaker 1: it stop to pick up anybody else going up or down.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I was in the elevator by myself every single time.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's weird, right, But I guess it's
Speaker 1: because they said the younger generation doesn't really drink, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they don't really gamble, so why would they come
Speaker 1: to Vegas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had great dinner last night.
Speaker 3: Don't get me started. That's where I always make my
Speaker 3: money back.
Speaker 1: Can Yeah, well it's my face. So they opened So
Speaker 1: Susan and I our favorite restaurant in the world is
Speaker 1: a place in London called jim Kna, and they opened
Speaker 1: one here in Vegas. And when I saw it, I
Speaker 1: called producer Tara and I was like, can.
Speaker 4: We can we please get in?
Speaker 3: And I think it took a little finagling, but we did.
Speaker 2: And it's Jim Conna's at the Aria. It was magical Indians,
Speaker 2: such good Indian food, such good Indians.
Speaker 4: Loved it.
Speaker 2: I ordered for the table, did you Yeah, that was
Speaker 2: You're the one who ordered.
Speaker 4: That was my ordering, okay.
Speaker 2: Tara told me when I sat down, because we were late,
Speaker 2: we had to go get more buddies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2: And so we sat down and Tara gave me the
Speaker 2: rundown that the waiter had given you guys about how
Speaker 2: to you know, all the different sections and how many
Speaker 2: to order for each, And I was like, all right,
Speaker 2: we got to get the show on the road. I
Speaker 2: am starving. Can I just place an order? So I
Speaker 2: went through went through. You know, I knew everybody wanted
Speaker 2: buttered chicken. I knew we needed some of the tikas,
Speaker 2: wanted to get some sagpaneers. So yeah, I thought that
Speaker 2: was really good. Everything had a bit of spice. And Freddy,
Speaker 2: who I think was the manager Jim Conna, who walked
Speaker 2: around and kept asking us how we were doing. A
Speaker 2: couple of times he mentioned it's gonna be spicy, embrace it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't I that on a level of one to ten,
Speaker 1: that was like a two on spice for me. That
Speaker 1: was like that was nothing. Really, Yeah, that was not.
Speaker 3: Unless I'm drenched in sweat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not spicy to me like it should if
Speaker 1: a super spicy meal.
Speaker 3: To me, it looks like I just went swimming.
Speaker 4: So funny, I don't sweam.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we need to like mop my brow. That's
Speaker 3: the kind of spice.
Speaker 1: That I Okay, So everyone was like we're here with
Speaker 1: Angel and Tony and everyone's like, this is spicy.
Speaker 3: I'm like, this is not all not all.
Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't spicy enough for me. That made
Speaker 2: me feel like I couldn't eat it, Like I would
Speaker 2: still put it at a four or five. But but yeah,
Speaker 2: but but Jensen loves spice, and Jensen was like, I
Speaker 2: think this is a six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this that's incorrect.
Speaker 1: So I understand he just has a different scale, a
Speaker 1: different scale. And I'm not chili head by any like,
Speaker 1: I'm not that person who's like give me you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not, but I do put holopenios on everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you just have lost your taste, buds.
Speaker 1: I think that's what it is, is the thirty five years
Speaker 1: of smoking. It just made my mouth teflon.
Speaker 4: I think that is the problem. Did you order a dessert?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did not either, which is so rare for me.
Speaker 1: They got something, uh, Tara got something which was like
Speaker 1: the three ice creams as a sorbet, and I guess
Speaker 1: the best one was lime coconut.
Speaker 4: Oh really, not the sacond guy, So it was fine.
Speaker 3: I don't like coconut.
Speaker 2: Did anybody get the tear massou? There's a tear massou
Speaker 2: and it was a tear masoux. Yeah, not you know
Speaker 2: with u f Yeah, but love me sometime.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That was really good. I'm glad we got to go there. Well,
Speaker 4: I hope you have a safe drive home.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be an with.
Speaker 4: All my buddies.
Speaker 3: Eleven wrestlers with me. I think I'll be fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: My kids were very sad when I asked them if
Speaker 2: I could borrow them.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't have asked.
Speaker 3: Why would you ask?
Speaker 2: I know, but here's so. Here was the conversation I
Speaker 2: had with out there. He was like, please don't take
Speaker 2: my buddies. They're mine, and I said, okay, Well, first
Speaker 2: of all, technically we bought them for you, and so
Speaker 2: even though we bought them for you and they are yours,
Speaker 2: we could borrow them. You get to borrow our stuff
Speaker 2: all the time. And he was like, what what do
Speaker 2: I borrow of yours? And then I was kind of like, crap,
Speaker 2: what does he borrow? I don't know my phone? Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: there you go, thank you. I didn't think of that,
Speaker 2: and so I was like, ahler, please, it's just for
Speaker 2: a couple of nights, I think, you know, I want
Speaker 2: to be able to hang out with the buddies, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna put them on the couch with the wrestlers.
Speaker 2: And then apparently he cried the first he had to
Speaker 2: sleep without his buddies.
Speaker 3: Without John especially right, I heard it about John Cena.
Speaker 4: Yeah, without John Cena.
Speaker 2: By the way, these aren't their lovies, you know, these aren't.
Speaker 4: They don't usually huddle with them.
Speaker 2: They're just on their bed with other stuffies. But he's
Speaker 2: really making a big deal about it.
Speaker 1: So, well, what I'm gonna do is I'm going to drive.
Speaker 1: So you know, I rented a car because again I
Speaker 1: only have a wife and I have one car, so
Speaker 1: she's gonna pick me up at the rental place and
Speaker 1: we'll drive right to your house and drop them off.
Speaker 4: Okay, that'll be our first thing, the first thing you did.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 4: They'll be happy.
Speaker 3: I'm keeping the John Cena though, until I get some
Speaker 3: money from Adler.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just start sending him back piece by piece.
Speaker 4: I did then say.
Speaker 2: To Outler when he was so upset by it, I said, okay,
Speaker 2: you know what, that's all right, that's no problem. From
Speaker 2: now on, you can just buy all your own stuff
Speaker 2: and then we won't borrow it. And he was like
Speaker 2: what And I was like, yeah, no, it's fine, just you.
Speaker 3: You're right, you are never too young to learn concept.
Speaker 2: Whenever you want it, whenever you have money and you
Speaker 2: want something, and then in the meantime, we just won't
Speaker 2: buy you anything else, and then that way we won't
Speaker 2: borrow it. And he was like, no, it didn't make
Speaker 2: any difference.
Speaker 3: Right here, take this here.
Speaker 4: I was hoping he was going to no, Nope, he was.
Speaker 5: Just like, I still don't want you to take him,
Speaker 5: and I want you to buy me everything.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Well, he's six fourteen, six, right, Gotchase.
Speaker 4: Kids are growing up fast, I know, well, drive safe.
Speaker 4: I'll see you back at home. I'll see you home
Speaker 4: for another Podmeets World.
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