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4. His Heat With Orange Cassidy

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When talking about how wrestling should be about listening to an audience's reaction, even if that means you yourself have to swallow some humble pie, CM Punk dropped in how he how some "real heat" with Orange Cassidy.

As Punk put it:

"I've used Orange Cassidy, who I think at dinner the other night ate my seabass, so there's real heat."

Of course, the Straight-Edge Superstar is joking here, but he did go on to make an extremely valid point about how Freshly Squeezed is the perfect example of listening to the reaction of the fans:

"That's a thing that I look at and I go, 'Eh, I don't get it'. But I listen to the people and they react to him and they like him, so I'm just like, 'F**k yeah, why would we throw that in the garbage?' It just reminds me of when I showed up there [WWE] and those same people were, like, 'I don't get it', and I'd be like, 'Well, you're 65 and you're racist, so I guess that I'm super stoked that I'm not for you and you don't get it'. It's not for me to get, it's for the audience to get."
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