- 5 months ago
CM Punk goes online to answer the internet’s questions. The American wrestler responds to questions on Quora, Reddit and X, as well as fact-checking Wikipedia and replying to YouTube and Instagram comments.
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00:00Hey, can I swear on this thing?
00:01Yes.
00:02Fantastic.
00:03What's up GQ?
00:04I'm CM Punk and today we're going undercover
00:08on the internet.
00:12It's actually me.
00:15X Twitter.
00:19You've just woken up as CM Punk.
00:20What's the first thing you're doing?
00:22Singing a song to Larry.
00:25Larry is my dog, if you don't know.
00:27Larry likes me, and it's really about it.
00:29I'm his human, I surmise.
00:30No, I just wake him up,
00:33sing him a little song every morning.
00:34And no, I will not sing it for you.
00:38At now and a Ben.
00:40I saw someone on Reddit say CM Punk looks like Jon Hamm
00:43and I can't unsee it.
00:45Not a bad guy to look like, I suppose.
00:47Do I look like Jon Hamm or does Jon Hamm look like CM Punk?
00:51Or does Jon Hamm and CM Punk look like Jeffrey Dean Morgan?
00:55I don't know.
00:566007 Chicago, great name, asks,
01:01what's the best lesson Paul has ever taught you?
01:04Paul who?
01:05I suppose there's a picture of Paul's kids here,
01:07so I'm going to go out on a limb and say,
01:09it must be Paul Hammond.
01:10Paul, I don't know if he taught me,
01:12but he more reinforced, don't take any shit from anybody.
01:18YouTube.
01:18You got to wonder what was going through CM's head during this moment.
01:25Worked his whole life for this.
01:26I'm more or less just kind of in the moment, laughing, enjoying myself.
01:29Me and a friend of mine doing something that we should have been doing a decade prior.
01:35And him actually kissing me on the forehead,
01:37which is something that he did during rehearsal.
01:39I thought he did it as a goof and then he did it live.
01:41And that's just tremendous.
01:47Coffee Fanatic 621 asks,
01:50is CM Punk still picking his own gear these days or someone dressing him?
01:54Now, unfortunately, I dress myself.
01:56I don't know if this is meant to be insulting,
01:59like you don't like my gear, but I also don't give a shit.
02:01I wear what I want.
02:02I do what I want.
02:04I say what I want.
02:04I'm CM Punk.
02:08At Twizzlers and Movies asks,
02:11who taught CM Punk to cut a promo?
02:13He's so good.
02:15I think a lot of it I was born with.
02:17A lot of it I learned from watching the great wordsmiths of our business.
02:21Roddy Piper, Paul Heyman, Jim Cornette,
02:25people who had a way with words.
02:27And I've always just had that chip on my shoulder and a mouth.
02:30So a lot of it I was indeed born with.
02:33When it comes to promos,
02:34each situation is drastically different from the next.
02:37I come, I try not to plan too much
02:39because I feel like it needs to be in the moment.
02:41I need to be less of an actor and more of a reactor.
02:44So a lot of moving parts constantly changing.
02:50I wonder if bro FW, which I'm assuming means fucks with,
02:55Chief Keef, since they're both shy town natives.
02:58I try not to fuck with anybody.
03:00I try to leave everybody alone
03:01because I in turn want to be left alone.
03:04Chicago legends, in my mind,
03:06I could sing you the Superbowl shuffle
03:07and name you every single member of the 1985 Bears.
03:10Dan Hampton comes to mind.
03:11He's not from Chicago.
03:13Walter Payton, Sweetness, Mike Ditka, Michael Jordan,
03:16Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Mark Grace,
03:19list goes on and on and on.
03:20If anybody considers me on those guys levels,
03:23then I've made it in life.
03:25At 8popcornrabbit asks,
03:29I wonder who CM Punk's dream tag partner would be?
03:33Living, dead, a little bit of both.
03:35For wrestling related things,
03:38my dream tag partner will go living, but not active.
03:42Bret Hart will go deceased and inactive.
03:44Dominic Mysterio is perished in a plane crash.
03:47RIP.
03:48I love CM Punk is wearing a Fantastic Four shirt.
03:55If he was a superhero, which would he be?
03:58I'm CM fucking punk.
04:00He doesn't get any more super than that.
04:02The thing wants to be CM Punk.
04:04Frank Castle wants to be CM Punk.
04:06No, not really.
04:07I want to be Frank Castle, the Punisher.
04:09Oh, the old TikTok.
04:13The kids are big on this one.
04:15The1990SanBeyond asks,
04:18Curious how wrestling prepared CM Punk for this role.
04:21How did wrestling prepare me to play a sociopathic,
04:25low-level criminal from Wausau, Wisconsin?
04:28Probably in more ways than I would like to admit.
04:30Really tapping into my inner bad guy in this role here,
04:32selling human body parts on the black market
04:35in a very pragmatic way.
04:36It makes a lot of sense.
04:37You gotta watch the show, ladies and gentlemen.
04:39If you tell me that you're not gonna actually delve
04:41into the black market of selling human organs,
04:44you're a liar and a fraud.
04:45I think acting from pro wrestling is a natural progression.
04:48I think that's what we do anyway.
04:50I always say that we're not actors, we're reactors.
04:52And we do live television every week,
04:55some of us for 20 plus years.
04:56Live television is really, really hard
04:58and it makes being on a movie set kind of dramatically easy.
05:02You know, like we're ready for any and all things.
05:04We're used to chaos and movie sets
05:06and television sets seem to be a little bit calmer
05:09than what we're normal to.
05:12Bacon Bits, 363636.
05:16What's his fave place to buy a donut in Chicago though?
05:19Well, I'm glad you asked.
05:21Stan's Donuts is the number one.
05:23Stan's has ruined donuts for me across the board
05:27in every single other zip code on earth.
05:29And then of course there's Mindy's.
05:32NYC Wrestling King asks,
05:34gotta wonder when he'll retire.
05:37I'll fucking retire whenever I want to.
05:39There's work to be done, okay?
05:41And you're gonna miss me when I'm gone.
05:43So shut the fuck up.
05:45Cityscape411.
05:46Punk, are you planning on getting any new tattoos?
05:49Yes, I am.
05:51And I'll tell you why that's a really dumb idea.
05:53It's because tattoos hurt and they're stupid.
05:56And the older you get, the worse they hurt.
05:59And I am now the ripe old age of 32.
06:03The last one I got was very painful
06:06and it felt like it took 16 hours
06:07and it only took four,
06:09which is still a long time to sit there in pain,
06:11in agonizing pain, but it was worth it.
06:13It's a beautiful piece.
06:16Oh, Instagram.
06:19Greg94Blue.
06:21Hey CM Punk, can you bring back your old theme song?
06:24This fire burns.
06:26No, I can't, and I'm gonna tell you why,
06:28even though it's none of your business.
06:30Cult of Personality is iconic.
06:32This fire burns, also iconic,
06:35but come on, we're talking about living color.
06:39Vernon Reed.
06:40This song's been with me since 1989 when it came out
06:44and I was on the little league team, the Indians.
06:46I knew it was time to make Cult of Personality
06:49my official theme song in WWE
06:52when I was renegotiating my contract
06:54and I knew how much Vince McMahon hated to pay
06:56for licensed music.
06:57And I said, guess what, pal?
06:59The only way I'm re-signing is if I get this song.
07:02I thought he was gonna say no
07:03and I was gonna peace out and go on vacation.
07:06And he said yes and now here I am.
07:08Moving on, dogs and cats and frog sand.
07:12What is happening here?
07:14Rick's an old friend, you know?
07:15Rick is a huge wrestling fan
07:17and he has been for a great number of years.
07:20And he normally just comes to the LA shows,
07:23but this is WrestleMania.
07:24Everybody comes to WrestleMania, even Rick Rubin.
07:28There's a great moment backstage
07:29where Rick Rubin and the band Living Color converge.
07:34And I watch everybody's faces light up, mine included,
07:37because I'm like a fly on a wall, little kid,
07:39happy to see these musical heroes interacting.
07:42And they immediately start talking to each other.
07:45And Vernon Reed and Rick Rubin
07:47start to have this wild conversation about,
07:50oh man, I haven't seen you since the Mick Jagger sessions.
07:54The last time they physically were in a room together
07:57was like 1988.
07:58Just absolutely wild musical geniuses,
08:02like just having a moment
08:03and me being able to experience it is pretty wild.
08:08Tattoos are my life, 1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-9.
08:12At CM Punk, what's the craziest interaction
08:14you've ever had with a fan?
08:15I heard my mail slot jingling
08:17and I was expecting, I don't know,
08:20a check probably in the mail.
08:21I ran downstairs and I looked down my flight of stairs
08:25and I didn't know exactly what I was seeing.
08:28Upon further inspection, I went around,
08:31I opened up my window
08:32and I looked outside on the street
08:34and there was a fan shoving something into my mail slot.
08:38And I was like, this can't be good.
08:41So I grabbed my Louisville Slugger
08:45and I walked downstairs
08:46and I'm thinking I'm just gonna open this door
08:48and confront this person.
08:51Essentially what they did was they jammed
08:53an entire Easter basket into my one inch
08:56by five inch mail slot.
08:59So it's a bunch of green garland,
09:01half melted chocolate peeps.
09:04There's been many, many crazy interactions with fans.
09:06That one sticks out because why?
09:10Why?
09:11Stop it.
09:12Behave yourselves.
09:16Why does CM Punk look like Eminem?
09:18I am not Eminem.
09:20This was definitely, I don't know, 1995 or 1996.
09:26Steve Austin straight up wearing WWF merchandise,
09:30the hat, the shirt.
09:32I don't even know if he was stone cold yet.
09:34He might've still been the ringmaster.
09:35And I did bleach my hair one time
09:38in the middle of a run I was on in the Straight Edge Society
09:42and all hell broke loose.
09:44It turned into a big thing
09:45where Vince McMahon was very upset with me
09:48and demanded I dyed my hair back.
09:49And I refused to do it.
09:51Turned into a thing.
09:53Pizza Man, Batman, Superman asks,
09:56What is your ultimate scary Halloween movie lineup?
10:00John Carpenter's Halloween,
10:01probably number one with a bullet.
10:03Classic, sets the mood.
10:04Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a classic.
10:10It's kind of sci-fi, but it's a classic movie.
10:13John Carpenter's The Thing.
10:15I feel you have to pick at least one
10:18of the Friday the 13th's.
10:20Reddit.
10:22Joe Zock T Games.
10:24Did you know that CM Punk is also a comic book writer?
10:27Yes, I did know that.
10:29I happen to be CM Punk.
10:322011, I'm in a bar in San Diego during Comic-Con
10:36with, at the time, Marvel Editor-in-Chief, Axel Alonso.
10:40I think he was maybe a little bit drunk.
10:43He asks me straight up,
10:45Hey, would you want to write a comic book?
10:46And then I replied,
10:48Yes, actually I have this 12 part Punisher story
10:51in my head right now.
10:52I could write it on this napkin if you wish.
10:54And he was like, Whoa, we don't need to do all that.
10:56How would you like to write the forward
10:58to the graphic novel collection for X-Men versus Avengers?
11:03And I said, sounds great.
11:05Sign me up.
11:06People ask me if I can do stuff.
11:08I say, yes, I do it.
11:09It's the best way to go through life.
11:12Eyepatch underscore PNG says CM Punk's dog,
11:17Larry now has official WWE merch.
11:20I'm a merch machine.
11:21So guess what Larry is?
11:23Larry's a merch machine.
11:24I didn't have to convince everybody.
11:26Larry's beautiful soul.
11:27His merchandise has sold more t-shirts
11:31than your favorite wrestler.
11:33That's a fucking fact.
11:34Big Asparagus, 57-83.
11:38Curious to know which match CM Punk considers
11:40his favorite of all time.
11:42A number one with a bullet.
11:44Myself versus John Cena
11:45heading into WrestleMania 29, I believe.
11:48The winner got the illustrious spot
11:51of wrestling The Rock at WrestleMania.
11:53Well, I lost.
11:54Big fucking deal.
11:56John Cena is my wrestling soulmate.
11:58I had excellent chemistry with him.
12:00This night, crowd was electric.
12:01It was a real fun time.
12:02You should go watch it.
12:04Wikipedia.
12:05He first started using the ring name CM Punk
12:09when he was put in a tag team named
12:11The Chick Magnets with CM Venom
12:13and another performer skipped out on the card.
12:15The CM originally stood for Chick Magnet
12:17but was later amended to have no meaning.
12:19CM stands for a lot of things.
12:22I can be anything you want me to be.
12:23You want to hate me?
12:25I'm your Huckleberry.
12:26You love me?
12:27Great, I'm your hero.
12:28Chick Magnet?
12:30Maybe.
12:31Crooked Moonsault?
12:32100%.
12:33Definitely.
12:34Let's go Quora.
12:35How can I become a wrestler or a WWE superstar?
12:39Contrary to popular belief
12:40in what other people will tell you,
12:41that's the same thing.
12:42A wrestler is a WWE superstar.
12:45A WWE superstar is a wrestler.
12:47For you to become a wrestler,
12:49man, buy a pair of boots.
12:52Go to school and get trained.
12:53It's like a trade.
12:54Like, how do you become an electrician?
12:56You can't just stick your dick in a light socket
12:58and expect to gain some sort of a knowledge,
13:00although that would be a really cool way
13:02to make a superhero.
13:05How are the WWE matches scripted?
13:08They're not.
13:09Do the superstars practice the moves before the match
13:11or the sequence of moves that they need to?
13:15How real are the injuries that WWE wrestlers suffer?
13:19How real are the injuries?
13:21I mean, they're legit.
13:22It's a legit hard-hitting sport.
13:24The injuries are very, very real
13:27and oftentimes very, very serious.
13:29But to me, I look at it like
13:31it just gives me something to do.
13:32Tore my tricep?
13:34All right, let's rehab that sumbitch.
13:35Come back.
13:37How well would CM Punk have done
13:39as an amateur MMA fighter?
13:42I don't lack confidence.
13:43I would have done all right.
13:44You know, different skillset,
13:46different set of rules, shorter rounds,
13:49you're kind of dipping your toe in.
13:51Nobody was paying me millions of dollars
13:53to fight on the amateur circuit.
13:55Although I gleefully threw my name in the hat
13:58to do that, it was deemed not necessary
14:01and they paid me a stupid amount of money
14:02to just jump into the deep end of the pool.
14:06What are the hardest parts of being a WWE superstar,
14:09both in terms of the wrestling itself
14:11and in terms of the lifestyle outside of the ring?
14:13What are their struggles with injuries, et cetera?
14:17One of the hardest parts of being a WWE superstar
14:20for me, at least, is the relationship I have
14:25with fans in public.
14:27You see me on the street, I am not CM Punk.
14:30I'm just a dude Phil trying to mind his own business
14:33and walk his dog and not be bothered.
14:35When I'm at work, I give all to the fans.
14:38I show up to buildings, I go outside,
14:40and I will sign and take pictures
14:42with the fans who are lined up at the building.
14:45If you are waiting for me at an airport or a hotel,
14:50I will say, no, thank you, sir.
14:51This is an airport and or a hotel.
14:54This is tantamount to stalking.
14:57All right, GQ.
14:58Well, I mean, a lot of that was fun.
15:00Some of it wasn't, and if you're on Reddit,
15:02you could burn in hell.
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