The Summer of CM Punk or How I Learned to Love Wrestling Again For 3 Weeks
6/29/20261 hr 39 min
Yeah, it's the wrestling episode of the year. The first one. And sure you may go into the comments and complain that there's a ton of wrestling episodes of this show from this year but the fact of the matter is your wrong and we're right to shine a spotlight on the voice of the voiceless, the man who turns a microphone into a pipe bomb and for a short period of time reignited the love of professional wrestling in many a lapsed fan. Every fan of every fandom chases those moments when the thing we love is as good as we always thought it could be and CM Punk and WWE programming provided that until they quickly decided they didn't have to do that anymore.
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First 90 secondsHolden McNeely· Host0:00
Nerd of Mouth.
Mike Lawrence· Host0:01
[upbeat rock music] Wrestling- [laughs] For three weeks in 2011, it was good again.
Jake Young· Host0:27
What?
Holden McNeely· Host0:28
[laughs] Yes.
Jake Young· Host0:29
The impossible.
Holden McNeely· Host0:30
[laughs] Yes, yes. Now, listen, um, you know, I, I, I am the resident wrestling fan of the three of us. I know that, that people that listen don't love when we do wrestling episodes sometimes. I get at least one a year.
Mike Lawrence· Host0:44
[laughs] And this time I wanted to talk about- And- ... modern wrestling, and by modern wrestling, I mean July 2011.
Jake Young· Host0:52
[laughs] Don't worry, Mike, I got you on this one. He makes us do it. [laughs] We wanna do video games. We wanna do anime. He makes us do it.
Holden McNeely· Host1:01
Yeah, I do. [laughs] You don't understand. He, it's, when we say we don't wanna do a wrestling episode, he grabs us very gently by our waistbands and then lifts us up and then puts us down gently on a v- kind of bouncy surface. And then, oh, how we struggle and make funny faces and go, "Ooh, owie, owie."
Jake Young· Host1:19
Mike somehow uncovered my audition tape back in New York City when I tried to join Puppetry of the Penis on Broadway. [laughs] And he uses it against me.
Mike Lawrence· Host1:26
Hey, what would, what would you like to do an episode on? Uh, I, we- It doesn't matter