EPISODE 443 - CM PUNK & RHEA RIPLEY
My Mom's Basement
Barstool Sports
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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CM Punk and Rhea Ripley discuss the new kayfabe-breaking reality series from Netflix, 'WWE: Unreal' - as well as their #WrestleMania gear, anxieties in wrestling, and more. #WWE #WWEUnreal #CMPunk #RheaRipley **************************************** My Mom's Basement is a weekly podcast hosted by Robbie Fox, started in March 2019, to discuss movies, music, comic books, wrestling, mixed martial arts, and more with his friends and idols alike! Subscribe on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-moms-basement/id1457255205 Follow Robbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatrobbiefox Follow Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobbieBarstool My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basement
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, my mom's basement listeners. You can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, |
| 0:05.7 | and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:09.1 | All right, welcome back to My Mom's Basement, ladies and gentlemen. It is Robbie Fox here with |
| 0:13.0 | CM Punk and Ria Ripley, here to talk about WWE Unreal, the new series on Netflix. I got to watch |
| 0:19.2 | the first episode last night. I actually got a screener. |
| 0:21.5 | I thought it was great. |
| 0:22.7 | I thought it was very exciting. |
| 0:24.5 | But obviously it's weird to navigate how much you want to pull the curtain back on wrestling, |
| 0:29.8 | especially like in 2025 because it feels like everything's out there already. |
| 0:33.6 | This is still a peak behind. |
| 0:36.0 | And we're seeing stuff we haven't seen before. Did you find it weird |
| 0:40.4 | to navigate that? Is your first instinct when the camera comes on not to unveil everything to still |
| 0:45.9 | hold something back? Yeah, for sure. Especially with things that like we've tried so hard to |
| 0:52.6 | protect like friendships and just things |
| 0:55.4 | that we don't want everyone knowing it was weird when you see like the camera crew coming over and |
| 0:59.7 | you're like should i just be me right now like your guard comes up a bit yeah a little bit and it's |
| 1:05.5 | just like you just you think about the business and everything that you've tried so hard to like portray for the, |
| 1:12.6 | the fans that watch it and you just, you don't want to ruin that completely for them. |
| 1:16.9 | But then at the same time, you're like, that's the whole concept of this thing that we're filming. |
| 1:21.7 | So it's like, it was such a torn situation and you find yourself just like kind of giving in, but then like having your guard up and it's this weird like in between um there is a lot of like real moments for sure but um we haven't actually seen it to comment in full you you you have uh you have higher clearance than we do apparently yeah i don't know why um we haven't seen it yet it might |
| 1:51.1 | have helped since we're on this whole press tour yeah to actually see the show yeah i'm i'm incredibly |
| 1:57.3 | nervous in a way like uh taught my entire life to protect the business. |
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