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Recap:

"Well I, for one, think this is the best wedding present we got, actually." John smiles. "It is." Punk says, then gets up and gets the DVD out of the player. "What are you doing with it?" Selene asks. "I'm going over Natalie's house. I wanna show her and Peribeau the video." Punk replies. [...] "Do you know if Phil has ever cheated on any of his girlfriends before?" John asks. "Yeah, he has. I think everyone has cheated on someone at least once in their life." Shaleigh explains. [...] "What was wrong with you?" He asks. "He was throwing up a lot." Selene replies, and John cuts his eyes at her. "Why were you throwing up?" Punk asks. "Accelerated stress level." John replies. "What are you stressed about?" Punk asks, chuckling. "It doesn't matter apparently. It must just be me being over-dramatic again. I'm going in the bedroom." John hisses, then quickly leaves the kitchen. [...] "Why's it seem everybody is mad at me? Did I do something to you guys?" He asks. "Did you do something? Bye, Philip." She replies, then leaves. "Do you think I did something wrong, Gage?" Punk asks. "Yah, bad Papa!" Gage yells, then laughs.


Friday; Brooks' Den:

"Has it come on yet?" Shaleigh asks, walking in the front door with Scott. "No, not yet. In a few minutes though." John answers. "We're going to go listen in my room." Shaleigh says. "Okay. Gage and I are going in the bedroom too. He needs a nap." John explains. They nod and leave.

"Come on. Naptime, little guy." John says as he picks up a sleepy Gage off the couch. Gage whines a bit, but as John carries him to the bedroom, he drifts right back off to sleep. He lays Gage in the bed, on Punk's side, under the covers, then heads over to Punk's iPod dock. He moves it over near the bed, then hooks up his iPod, gets the iPod on the correct station, then climbs in the bed. He checks to see if Gage is comfortable, kisses his head, then relaxes and waits.

"Alright, people! It's that time of the hour. Today we've got former WWE Superstar, three time World Heavyweight Champion, five time WWE Champion CM Punk with us." The radio host, Mark, says. "What's up, guys?" He hears Punk's voice.

"So, Punk. I can call you Punk, right?" Mark asks. "Everyone else does. Go ahead." Punk replies. "Alright. So, Punk. You have officially retired from the WWE. How's it feel?" Mark asks. "Don't say it like that. I'm not 'officially' retired. I'm semi-retired. I'm coming back. I definitely will be coming back. I'm just taking time off right now to heal my wounds and take care of my family." Punk replies in his usual snarky, sarcastic asshole voice that he usually has. John chuckles. "Okay, okay. That's true. Okay, so semi-retired. How's that going?" Mark asks. "It's going great, actually. Having time to just relax and do nothing is great. No more getting up early, no more tiring nights. I don't have to be physical everyday anymore. I can just be chill." Punk answers.

"That sounds really nice. Okay, so what all have you been doing?" Mark asks. "Just being with family, man. I've got my little boy with me full time right now. Amy…Lita…had her tour schedule based around when I'd be leaving. He's been living with his Mom since he was born, and I only got to see him when we had shows near her, or when I was home, or when I could find time to catch a flight to see him. She told me about how her band wanted to do a tour, and I told her I was thinking of retiring for a little while. She waited till I was free, and now he's living with me and she's on tour. It's amazing. Being a full-time Dad is great. My kid's great." Punk explains.

"Does he act just like you? Does the world have a little mini-rebel Punk on our hands?" Mark asks. Punk chuckles, "Yeah, I guess he does act like me. John says Gage is exactly like me. Between me and Amy, he's definitely going to be a little rebel. I don't think John's going to be able to save him from it." Punk says. John rolls his eyes and laughs. Yes, he's definitely got his hands full in the coming years. "Oh, that's great," Mark laughs,

"So speaking of John Cena, how are you two?" He asks. "Things seem to be pretty damn perfect to me." Punk answers. John bites his lip and looks away from the radio. Yeah. Perfect. To Punk at least.

"That's great. You said in your parting speech on Raw that one of the reasons you guys were leaving, is because you guys weren't able to see each other as often as you would have liked. Did you not expect that when you initially got married?" Mark asks. "No, see here's the thing. We never were actually trying to take our relationship public. We knew how much crap could come out of that. So when Amy let the cat out of the bag, we were both kind of apprehensive about what Vince was going to do.

Obviously with all the controversy that wrestler's personal lives, like Benoit's death, Jericho's band, Morrison's de-push, ya know, the stars personal lives come into play when people judge Vince's company and determines what Vince does and doesn't do for you. We can't talk about Benoit or show him or anything, not because of how it was such a tragedy, but because it would be 'bad for business'. Jericho publically has a band that affects whether he can be with us or not. Everyone knows about it. Vince doesn't have a choice but to combine that information with Chris's character. That's not something you can pretend isn't there for sake of your product. Morrison wanted his girl in a match with him, Vince didn't. Trish made that public. You saw what happened. Melina got fired. Morrison got a de-push till he eventually left to be with Melina. It's sometimes stuff that you just can't hide. I'm pretty sure news coming out that two of the top stars are dating, that's as big as the Benoit tragedy, ya know? That's not something you can pretend is a lie like Morrison. You can't just interject it in side-notes like Fozzy where no one, except people with a good taste in music, is going to get offended by it being mentioned.

There's so many ignorant douches out there that still think same-sex relations are a sin, or disgusting and all that. It was like, are we going to get fired? Are we going to lose our fan base? Is Vince going to force us to split and lie about what Amy said? We just didn't know. It somehow turned into another public profit. They had that Breast Cancer Awareness thing, they have the Be A Star stuff, they have all these programs. Not only were LGBT organizations contacting them, other just random companies were calling and commending Vince for having outright and public gay Superstars. We have a bi-sexual Diva who publicly had a girlfriend, but that never seemed to matter to anyone. Especially because her girlfriend wasn't a Diva. But the minute our news came out, everyone jumped on the phone. We've lost a lot of viewers, yeah, but for every viewer we've lost, we've gained 5. There's either people who have started watching again to see how the product has changed, to fangirl over John and I, because they're supporters, or just anything else. So we don't need those ignorant viewers, ya know?

Now because of all that, back to your question, we ended up with even more work. John and I were used to being away from each other a lot when we were first dating. He's the company's poster boy. He doesn't even freaking work there anymore and he's still the poster boy. I was the Champion, or their top face or top heel. We were always one of the first choices to go out and do stuff. Then they added in all these new funds, foundations, and promotion work. It got out of hand. It got so out of hand. It was to the point where Vince couldn't find time, nor wanted to give us time to go get married.

We didn't ask for honeymoon time, we didn't ask for a few days off for the wedding, nothing. We asked for a day. One day. We ended up battling for that, and eventually I won. So we got married, and I swear to God, once we got on the plane that night, I did not see him again till the night we announced we were leaving. Got backstage that night and tried to find him, but he was at a radio show. I had to leave for a signing, and he got to the building right after. I get back and he's in a meeting. Meeting ends and I'm off at a radio show. We saw each other when we both got to the entrance to go out. It was ridiculous.

There are so many, and have been so many couples backstage, and they work. They may not see each other a lot, but they work. For John and I, it was no way to live. Not only as a couple, but as a person in general. I didn't have not one minute to breath. It was ridiculous. On top of that, I have a child. Gage sees John as a Parent as well. We did not have time to see him. Do you know how pissed that made me? I'm a new Father and you're not going to give me a day to go check on my kid? No. So we left. We had to get some personal time. We needed a chance to breath. What got thrown at us is 50x worse than we intended." Punk fully explains. "Wow. That's crazy. I figured you guys were just exaggerating to make a point when you said you guys hadn't seen each other since the wedding." Mark says. "Nope, dead serious." Punk replies.

"Well speaking of the wedding, how was it? Who all was there?" Mark asks. "A lot of people were there actually. People from the WWE, people from TNA, people from ROH, people from other companies. Regular friends, family. We wanted this really small wedding, and it turned into this huge thing. Did you see Gail Kim's wedding special? Yeah, hers might as well had 3 guests compared to John and I's. I wish I had one as 'small' as hers. But the wedding turned out really great, honestly. John and I both thoroughly enjoyed it." Punk answers. "How'd the wedding end up so big? So many people wanting to come?" Mark asks. "No, it's not that. Okay, I obviously don't know the first thing about weddings or wedding planning, other than it happens for people when they get married. John, as much as he thinks he knows everything, has no clue either. We made the mistake of putting my three Sisters, Natalya Neidhart, Layla El, and Eve Torres in charge since they were obviously more educated on this than us. Plus they got on our nerves enough begging. So, oh my God, literally a week into their planning, we've gone from needing a small church or something, to needing the entire Disney theme park or some crap for all the stuff they were trying to do. But all-in-all, if I was to ever recommend someone to be a wedding planner, I'd recommend those six. They may have made it sound completely outrageous, but they delivered. It was great. You'll see on our DVD coming out." Punk explains.

"Well speaking of your DVD, it was a gift from the McMahon & Helmsley family, right?" Mark asks. "Yes, our wedding gift from them." Punk replies. "Have you guys gotten to watch it? Are the fans going to love it?" Mark asks. "We watched it, and I couldn't have made it any better if I were in charge. My two personal DVDs that came out few years back, I was basically in total control of those. This one, though, I probably wouldn't have produced a movie half of half as good." Punk answers.

"So then we are all going to love it. That's great. Is there any content that's going to get the girls screaming?" Mark asks. "Like what?" Punk chuckles. "Any hardcore action or anything?" Mark explains. Punk busts out laughing, "No! No. Not at all. The most action you guys are going to get is a couple pieces of footage and a few still shots of us kissing. That's about it." Punk replies. "No special blu-ray edition with included sex tape?" Mark laughs. "Oh my God, yes. Yes. We're going to have a special blu-ray edition with a sex-tape included. $50 dollars extra. That's available for pre-order tomorrow." Punk says between howls of laughter. "Hey, man, I bet there's a lot of chicks, and dudes, out there that would give their left arm and freaking grandmother to get their hands on a CM Punk/John Cena sex tape!" Mark mentions. "I bet there is. Wow." Punk chuckles.

"Okay, so then while we're on the topic, is there an actual sex tape in existence?" Mark asks. "Uhmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Is there a sex tape in existence? I don't know. Is there?" Punk chuckles. Is there a sex tape? That question is too bland, too boring. If he wants something really scandalous, he should ask about a sex tape between Punk and one of his 'straight' friends. 'There was almost a fucking Jeff Hardy/CM Punk sex tape,' John thinks to himself. "So we don't get to know?" Mark asks. "I don't know, man. There may be one, there may not be one. All I know is, if there is one in existence, it'd never get out. You see what happened to Joan Laurer. She's not even allowed back for DX reunions. Stephanie issues or not, they'll probably never let her back, and it's unfortunate. But I got a kid to put through college. I don't need to be getting fired over dumb shit." Punk explains. "So you're saying if you were to get fired today, you wouldn't be able to put your kid through college?" Mark asks. "Not necessarily. I could never go back and I could still put my kid through college. That's not the point though. I don't need to get fired for no stupid reasons though." Punk explains.

"That's understandable. So speaking of your son. His name is Gage, correct?" Mark asks. "Yep. Gage Nero Brooks." Punk states. "Nero, like Jeff Hardy?" Mark asks. "Yeah. Jeff Hardy and Colt Cabana are his GodFathers. Trish Stratus is his GodMother, from his Mom." Punk explains. "Damn, that's a lucky kid! He's got CM Punk and John Cena for Dads. He's got Jeff Hardy and Colt Cabana for GodFathers. Then on top of all that awesomeness. He's got a kick-ass Mom, along with the sexiest GodMom in history." Mark has his own slight fangirl moment. "Kid's definitely going to be well taken care of." Punk chuckles.

"So speaking of having CM Punk and John Cena for Dads, how is it for you and John to have a kid. How does that work? What's the relationship between Gage and John?" Mark asks. "There's actually a segment on the DVD where we get real in-depth on this, but I'll go ahead and give a shortened answer on it. John and Gage have a really, really strong relationship. They're definitely close. John's one of Gage's favorite people. John is his Da-Da. I'm his Papa. So John's definitely in a strong parental role in Gage's life. There's no talk of 'oh, this is your step-Dad. He's not your real Dad. You call him John.' None of that bullshit. We're not teaching him that, neither Amy or I. I mean, obviously one day Gage is going to know on his own that John's his step-Dad, but that's not something that we're going to tell him or instill in his life or anything. Until he gets to that point in school where he learns that Amy's my Mom, Phil's my Dad, John married Dad so, oh, he's my step-Dad', he's just going to have 3 actual Parents. And by that point, it's not going to matter to him or anything. I've grown up with friends that have step-Parents, whether it be from a certain age or from birth. I understand what it means to have a step-Parent. John knows what it means to have a step-Parent. You can have that step-Dad since you were less than one and be the only Father you know, but whether you're as close as possible and refer to them as 'Dad', there's still always that clear understanding in your mind that it's a step-Parent. I don't want that for Gage. That's just something personal for me that I don't want. John is just as much Gage's Parent as Amy and I." Punk explains. "I totally and completely respect that, man. Your kid, he's definitely going to be something. Sounds like you, John, and Amy are doing it right." Mark commends him.

"We're trying. Amy is actually working on an autobiography right now, and there's a huge part sectioned off for Gage, so there's some more knowledge people can get on how he's raised." Punk notes. "Awesome. Awesome. I'll have to get her on the show soon so she can talk about her book. But as for you, it sounds like you're doing really great. Seems you and John have everything on the homefront taken care of. Your kid's going to be great. You and Amy seem to be handling things well. Semi-retirement seems to be working well for you. Everything's great. And on top of that, we have a DVD of you guys coming out." Mark re-caps. "Basically." Punk chuckles.

"I'm glad things are going so smoothly. I really am. But now that that's all out of the way. We have some time left in our interview, how about some lighter note topics?" Mark suggests. "Be my guest." Punk replies. "What is there yet in the WWE you haven't accomplished? Is there anything left you feel the need to do? Are you going back to work to accomplish something? Or just as a veteran to just do your job and maybe put a few guys over?"

The men talk for a little while long, just on regular WWE-related topics.


A/N: I'm honestly not one of those fans that ever listens to Superstars' radio interviews and etc, so I don't really know how those work, but hopefully mine was good enough, lol. Yay! So now you know basically everything that's been going on in the years break between WTCM and now. I told you guys, patience, children ;). Please leave reviews with your thoughts/guesses/etc! Next update should come Monday after Raw! Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for reading :)