Chris Van Vliet Reveals What WWE Stars Are REALLY Like Behind The Scenes
The Joe Vulpis Podcast
Joe Vulpis
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Chris Van Vliet is the top wrestling journalist, interviewer, and content creator best known for his massively popular show Insight with Chris Van Vliet. Known for in-depth, honest, and entertaining conversations, Chris has interviewed the biggest names in WWE, AEW, UFC, and pop culture — including legends like Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, John Cena, and The Undertaker.
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Episode 416
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| 0:00.0 | Most interesting things I want to talk about with Triple H is he didn't have that final send-off match. |
| 0:06.3 | His last match was some random tag match at a house show overseas. |
| 0:11.5 | I shared a moment with The Undertaker that I could definitely not share on camera. |
| 0:17.9 | I think I'm going to get a Randy Orton interview because of my appearance on your show last time. From that clip? Yeah, he's your buddy Steve who drinks beer. Did you drink a beer with him? I did not drink a beer with him. Did you want to? Just do one of these? What's up guys? My name's Joe, welcome to the podcast. Today's interview is brought to you by Fan Duel. My biggest prediction, Sol Ruka is going to dominate the women's division this year. Wow, and what a standout performance in the Royal Rumble. She's going to get the call up so soon. She's so good. That Soul Snatcher is unbelievable. One of the best moves. Oh, unbelievable. How does she come up with it? Great question. For you to ask her. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh. |
| 0:56.0 | Have you been in talks to talk with her? No, not yet. I'd love to. You should. I would love to have Silruca on the show. I mean, that was a star. That was an insane performance. What did you think of the Royal Rumble? I thought it was good, pretty good. I think there were some questions we have to like sit back and wait to see how they get answered. |
| 1:13.7 | And this is the interesting thing about. good. I think there were some questions we have to like sit back and wait to see how they get |
| 1:12.9 | answered. And this is the interesting thing about pro wrestling, right? Is like stuff will end up |
| 1:17.9 | happening. And instead of going, oh, wow, that's an interesting plot point right now. Where do we go |
| 1:23.8 | from here? People just go, oh, I hate it or I love it instead of like, let's see how this pans out. I feel like we're 37 minutes into a movie and people are going, this thing sucks. Right, they need to let it play out. Let's just see where this plays out. Let's see what the masked man was doing when he took out Braun Breaker. Right? That story is going to turn into something. I saw a theory that it might be Logan Paul. I saw that theory as well. Do you think? This is the thing that I love it. This is the thing I love. There's probably three or four people it could realistically be. It could be Seth Rollins. There's obviously some dissension there. There's obviously a storyline there there what if it's austin theory and he's |
| 2:02.1 | being played by set rawlins and he's just been infiltrating the vision and trying to like take |
| 2:07.5 | things apart from the inside that would make sense logan paul would also make sense what if it's |
| 2:11.7 | cm punk you know cm punk and brawn breaker have some history cm punk needs an opponent for |
| 2:16.7 | russlemania it's a lot of things there but i will say this there's not a single person on Punk and Braun Breaker have some history. CM Punk needs an opponent for WrestleMania. |
| 2:18.7 | It's a lot of things there. |
| 2:19.7 | But I will say this. |
| 2:24.4 | There's not a single person on planet Earth that would have predicted those final four for the men's rumble and the women's rumble. |
| 2:26.5 | Not a single person. |
| 2:27.8 | Like if you could have picked those eight people, you might as well go buy a lottery ticket. |
| 2:32.1 | Was there any entrances that really surprised you? |
| 2:35.8 | So Brie Bella coming back was a shocker for sure. |
| 2:39.7 | Like I thought with her being married to Brian Danielson and obviously he's a big part of |
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