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00:02:12.720 He is the winner of the Royal Rumble

00:02:14.820 on his way to headline WrestleMania, Cody Rhodes.

00:02:18.380 He eliminated me.

00:02:19.500 Yo, you did the internet's work last night, brother.

00:02:21.960 Well, something had to be done.

00:02:24.140 Dad, Dusty Rhodes.

00:02:25.440 Sister, Lana Rhodes. 1.00

00:02:26.660 The p***s are? 1.00

00:02:27.280 I don't think we're related. 1.00

00:02:28.400 That's his ex-girlfriend. 0.98

00:02:29.800 Great.

00:02:31.200 In Japan, you know, you can't go in the gyms with tattoos.

00:02:33.720 Well, he can't even go to Japan.

00:02:35.180 I'm so sorry.

00:02:37.040 All this merchandise that's going to come out with this pec injury.

00:02:39.860 I saw a Funko.

00:02:40.800 They made a Funko out of it?

00:02:42.080 I don't think I'm supposed to say it.

00:02:43.360 We can take care of it.

00:02:44.320 No, let it roll.

00:02:46.140 He's wild.

00:02:54.660 I'm gassed up.

00:02:57.240 Not like flatulence.

00:02:58.480 I'm fired up

00:02:59.600 I'm not going to start with a poop joke

00:03:02.080 I'm fired up because

00:03:05.820 I'm proud to announce

00:03:07.320 Prime is the official sports drink of the UFC

00:03:09.260 Let's go

00:03:10.840 Wait what?

00:03:13.380 Who had that sound ready?

00:03:14.340 I downloaded the app

00:03:15.140 DJ Horn app

00:03:16.200 Let me tell you something

00:03:17.580 This is the coolest thing of my life

00:03:19.560 I'm not kidding

00:03:20.180 Probably top three accomplishments I've ever done

00:03:22.660 Prime

00:03:23.180 A drink that KSI and I created

00:03:25.640 Is now the official sports drink

00:03:27.380 of one of the biggest global fight organizations

00:03:29.440 in the world, an organization

00:03:31.280 I have been watching since I was a child

00:03:33.340 and the fact that we are now fueling

00:03:34.980 and partner with them is mind-blowing

00:03:37.300 to me. It's a simulation.

00:03:40.120 This is not real life, but somehow

00:03:41.320 it's happened.

00:03:43.020 We're going to be in the corners. We're going to be on the ring.

00:03:45.300 We're going to be at the weigh-ins

00:03:47.020 and you're going to see our commercials during the events.

00:03:49.560 It's insane and keep an

00:03:51.400 eye out for Prime X UFC.

00:03:53.780 Nice. Congrats. Thank you, dude.

00:03:55.080 Also, so quick, bro.

00:03:56.380 Yeah, it's a year and one month

00:04:00.060 It's because the product's really good

00:04:01.540 I think even people that

00:04:02.880 Don't want to see it succeed will taste it 0.99

00:04:05.780 And be like, fuck, this is such a good product 0.99

00:04:07.420 There's a guy on TikTok who would disagree with you 0.99

00:04:09.600 Kevin sent me this today

00:04:11.420 Actually, you know what? I don't know what he thinks of the product

00:04:13.100 But Kevin sent me this dude

00:04:15.860 Day four of destroying Prime

00:04:17.940 Until Logan Paul comments stop

00:04:20.100 He's just destroying it

00:04:26.360 Well, tell them to stop

00:04:29.460 No

00:04:30.260 Oh, you wanted to keep promoting the product

00:04:32.500 Great exposure

00:04:33.020 But also

00:04:34.280 Gatorade commented

00:04:36.440 They said, don't stop

00:04:40.900 And then we commented

00:04:44.620 That's what your mom said last night

00:04:47.380 The fact that you're even on their radar

00:04:54.260 For them to be upset with your product

00:04:56.120 That's hot

00:04:58.020 They shivering

00:04:59.740 They quivering

00:05:00.640 And we have a Super Bowl commercial too

00:05:03.040 Right before kickoff

00:05:03.740 Look up on that

00:05:04.300 Anyways

00:05:05.680 That's crazy

00:05:07.160 You know what else is crazy?

00:05:08.620 What?

00:05:09.060 What are you doing here?

00:05:09.960 Oh yeah

00:05:10.420 Why are you here bro? 0.98

00:05:11.820 I thought we fired you dummy

00:05:12.920 They fired me

00:05:14.620 But then they read the comments

00:05:15.780 And they're like

00:05:16.160 We gotta bring this guy back

00:05:17.220 Like right now 1.00

00:05:18.100 You suck dude 1.00

00:05:20.300 You're the worst person ever 1.00

00:05:22.020 No dude 1.00

00:05:22.560 What are you talking about?

00:05:23.520 You clickbaited us

00:05:24.120 You guys all came to me

00:05:25.000 You put an X through our faces.

00:05:26.640 You X'd our faces out.

00:05:28.360 This is your show.

00:05:29.560 You own equity in this show. 1.00

00:05:31.480 And you canceled us, motherfucker. 1.00

00:05:35.360 Yo, I can't hear myself. 0.99

00:05:37.620 But I'm excited to be here, guys.

00:05:39.660 I thank you guys for everybody who brought my job back.

00:05:41.860 It was really hard paying the bills.

00:05:43.080 Stop, stop.

00:05:43.700 Dude, this guy, first off.

00:05:45.160 I'm going to scoot over there real quick.

00:05:46.380 Okay.

00:05:47.040 George started his own podcast, which, oh my.

00:05:49.960 Oh my God.

00:05:50.640 Thank God you did because you're fired again. 1.00

00:05:52.380 Motherfucker, get out of here. 1.00

00:05:53.560 get the fuck out of here dude 1.00

00:05:55.360 Georgie started his own podcast 0.95

00:05:57.800 and I think it's a great idea

00:05:59.960 I always love when my co-hosts

00:06:01.780 venture out and do their own things

00:06:03.400 and you'll come to learn that podcasting

00:06:05.660 is such a cathartic

00:06:07.540 therapeutic and forum

00:06:09.500 for personal growth

00:06:10.900 being able to talk at length and just express yourself

00:06:13.620 and articulate your ideas

00:06:14.940 is an incredible gift and podcasting is an

00:06:17.160 amazing tool for making that happen

00:06:19.580 I actually recommend, this is odd

00:06:21.380 because not everyone can do this, but that everyone

00:06:23.200 start a podcast if you have the means

00:06:25.440 to do so but

00:06:26.820 I love that you did that but his first

00:06:29.180 his first podcast was called

00:06:31.420 like what was it like

00:06:32.680 why impulsive mistreated me

00:06:34.460 why I wasn't on impulsive

00:06:36.340 why George Django isn't on impulsive

00:06:38.480 because I wasn't

00:06:39.680 that worked it was the thumbnail 1.00

00:06:43.220 motherfucker 1.00

00:06:43.800 black and white impulsive 1.00

00:06:47.400 a little cancelled through the logo

00:06:49.700 it's not my fault you guys fired me

00:06:51.580 No, because that's what you said on your show, too.

00:06:53.680 You said you walked in a room and we were doing a seance.

00:06:56.780 With Mike's books as the final.

00:07:00.080 Yo, you know what?

00:07:01.320 People don't get your sarcasm, dude.

00:07:02.880 It wasn't sarcasm, bro.

00:07:04.320 It was real, bro.

00:07:05.680 No, you have to stop.

00:07:06.780 Okay, I'll stop.

00:07:07.540 Yo, they literally.

00:07:08.780 Bro, you have to stop.

00:07:10.020 I don't think people understand that you're joking.

00:07:12.360 I'm going to get fired again.

00:07:13.220 I got to stop.

00:07:13.600 Oh, my God.

00:07:14.080 No, but the clipping on the internet.

00:07:16.900 Look at his shirt, bro.

00:07:18.000 I want 10% of that. 1.00

00:07:19.120 Look at this shit, bro. 1.00

00:07:19.980 How gas is this, bro? 1.00

00:07:21.620 It is actually dope.

00:07:22.380 We're not ever selling this.

00:07:23.800 I think I'm going to give this one of one to, like, Caleb or something like that.

00:07:26.240 Unless you guys want – I can't imagine you want this.

00:07:28.840 Not to mention one of these people will probably be off the show again in the next, like, two months.

00:07:32.360 Stop.

00:07:32.960 Stop.

00:07:33.480 I can't have this.

00:07:34.680 No, stop, stop.

00:07:35.240 Sorry.

00:07:35.580 No, we're blue.

00:07:36.620 I'm kidding.

00:07:37.160 I know.

00:07:37.640 But let me say this one thing.

00:07:39.560 The disinformation on the internet is absolutely crazy because once that started going viral,

00:07:44.060 they went and dug up the clip of the time when you were like, read the sign.

00:07:47.820 and I walked off the show and I was like,

00:07:49.960 all right, bro, do the show by yourself.

00:07:51.700 Have a good show.

00:07:52.760 Dude, it got like a million likes on TikTok

00:07:54.380 and it got even as high up, crazy to say this,

00:07:59.740 as Patrick Bet David.

00:08:01.380 Patrick Bet David saw the clips.

00:08:03.760 He said he's having trouble with George.

00:08:05.920 He's having trouble with Mike

00:08:07.060 and he needs to take a 90-day break.

00:08:11.140 And so I think-

00:08:11.980 He did check in on you.

00:08:12.660 He's a nice guy.

00:08:13.300 No, he's great.

00:08:14.980 He's very well-spoken.

00:08:16.400 He's very insightful.

00:08:17.820 but i think even for him the misinformation that goes around the internet kind of got to him a

00:08:22.680 little bit and he's he's not in this bubble obviously so he doesn't know exactly what's

00:08:25.400 going on but it's not are you going to talk about the break yeah i'm going to take i well i started

00:08:30.360 my 90-day break yesterday and then i did royal rumble now i'm doing this show we're going back

00:08:36.360 launching prime headed to australia but so the 90-day break has started but it can't happen

00:08:41.320 unfortunately it would be nice no i i i appreciate him weighing in and i i i um am thankful that

00:08:48.360 people care about my mental health that that does mean a lot to me because uh you know not the not

00:08:54.220 the smoothest start to the year um and you sleep in the bed you make i'm sleeping in this bed i'm

00:09:01.140 just gonna try to take the learnings i can from it but i'm i'm happy i i i um have some i'm not

00:09:08.040 going to say them just yet because i'm still internalizing and processing everything that's

00:09:12.020 happening and i think i think um growth and and and change as grand as the stuff that has happened

00:09:23.460 in the beginning of the year takes a takes a while it's going to be easier six months

00:09:28.220 from now a year from now to look back and really be able to have some really good takeaways that i

00:09:33.000 and learn from and then express but i'm very happy we're all in the same room guys i i love

00:09:38.180 you guys so much seriously and like i think part of any friendship is tribulation and um sure we

00:09:45.860 had some bumps but like i'll just be honest using it for clickbait isn't cool i'm just kidding

00:09:50.780 no i love that you started your show guys george started a podcast he doesn't know the name of it

00:09:55.680 i do i think i have a name oh don't do that i want to say it could you say it could you no see

00:10:01.880 You won't even say it.

00:10:02.740 Is it the one we liked?

00:10:03.520 No, it's the one that I liked.

00:10:04.680 Oh.

00:10:06.040 All True with George Angle, but tell them, like, the real name of it.

00:10:09.260 Like, the full name of it.

00:10:10.140 I want you to explain it.

00:10:11.100 All Trueism?

00:10:11.660 Yeah.

00:10:12.740 I want to see what the audience thinks.

00:10:14.280 I'd rather you explain it.

00:10:15.420 Okay, so it's called All True.

00:10:17.040 It's a play on words like Impulsive because, like, you know, I got inspired by you guys.

00:10:20.140 And by the way, like, I just want to thank you guys because I did start my podcast and you guys have been supporting it.

00:10:25.160 All joking aside, these two guys are my best friends.

00:10:27.380 We do bump heads and the world puts a way on it.

00:10:30.380 But, you know, I consider you guys my brothers.

00:10:33.240 Which brother are you closer with?

00:10:34.640 Logan, he pays me.

00:10:36.140 He does it.

00:10:36.980 That's not true, bro.

00:10:39.280 Mike, Mike, Mike, it's not about you.

00:10:40.820 Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, don't cut me off ever again.

00:10:44.380 I have my own show now.

00:10:45.160 I'll gossip about you. 1.00

00:10:45.960 I will fucking gossip about you, okay? 1.00

00:10:48.140 I will fucking. 0.99

00:10:49.000 Anyways, so it's all true, George Jacobs. 0.98

00:10:50.860 I'm saying true myself, but also it's not about myself.

00:10:54.500 It's about my neighbors, and I get to go into these monologues.

00:10:57.980 And so I wanted to tell the impulsive audience.

00:10:59.780 I won't weigh in on how I feel 0.99

00:11:02.320 But I won't give you the fucking monologues 0.99

00:11:04.620 Anymore okay I know you're sick of my monologues 1.00

00:11:06.580 That's not true

00:11:07.500 Yeah that's not good no they just have to be

00:11:10.080 They just have to be

00:11:11.400 The right monologue like that's not true

00:11:14.300 Some of your monologues are great and then some are just

00:11:16.420 You know when Bobby Lee's

00:11:18.720 Joking about everything and you talk about

00:11:20.480 You just took a turn that no one was

00:11:22.600 Ready for that day bro I was I thought it was great

00:11:24.740 Thank you

00:11:26.020 But regardless congratulations it's awesome

00:11:28.640 guys check out his podcast uh i think it's great and and that reminds me that you put the link in

00:11:33.040 the bio too i did that i put the link in the i will i will i will caleb can you put the link in 0.96

00:11:38.700 george oh my god well fucking throwing the link to the last night shut up shut no no no because 0.94

00:11:43.360 because i i actually want to take this time to tell you mike i think you should take a page out 0.99

00:11:49.600 of georgie's book and start a show of your own it's it i listen here's the thing with me i'm

00:11:55.360 not in a rush i'm i'm in a very slow moving place in my life i don't feel the need to make any like

00:12:01.880 rapid movements respect and i have a couple very good entities i'm working on some ip as you know

00:12:07.120 in the food space blah blah whatever but i will i will do that but it's going to be done through

00:12:11.160 agency it's going to be done with a production agency and probably it's going to take some time

00:12:15.320 i respect i've been working on it for for close to six months now trying to make all the pieces

00:12:20.620 come together as a side side thing taking your time to make sure you get something um as crucial

00:12:26.760 as that right is is important i just think it'd be so cool if we all have our own forum to talk

00:12:31.280 about whatever and then we come together on on this show why are you saying that are you trying

00:12:36.020 to get us all set up side things so you can cancel the show and hire your girlfriend as the co-host 0.98

00:12:39.840 instead of us oh my god no because i don't did you see what he just did right there good fucking 0.95

00:12:44.340 idea did you see what he did bro i don't care he put the link in the description 0.98

00:12:48.200 bro yeah but no one watches his show anymore so no one's gonna click the fucking link george hey 0.96

00:12:53.900 hey stop talking bad about our show you're an owner speaking of not talking bad one thing i've 0.96

00:12:57.980 been learning from our daily prayer sessions me and george have been praying together i just i

00:13:05.000 just noticed that mike has been a little down so i've been i've been taking the time really

00:13:08.280 as a brother and just you're praying with him have you considered taking a 90-day break bro i'm not

00:13:12.580 I'm not down

00:13:13.680 I think you've always said that

00:13:16.040 Well you just look down all the time

00:13:17.480 David loved that one

00:13:23.500 You guys been praying?

00:13:25.340 Yeah

00:13:25.560 I like to

00:13:27.840 And by the way

00:13:28.360 I didn't think we were going to bring that up

00:13:29.660 Was it okay if I did?

00:13:31.640 Oh of course

00:13:32.180 I just didn't want to put you on the spot like that

00:13:33.860 Oh are you rolling back

00:13:35.000 Because you don't want to talk about any religious stuff?

00:13:36.600 Not at all

00:13:37.140 I love that

00:13:37.740 You know also I just want to let you guys know

00:13:40.040 There's a lot of Christians that come after me

00:13:42.400 when I do something, and they're like, 1.00

00:13:44.280 God is not a Christian! This is how you do 1.00

00:13:46.460 a Christian! And it's kind of overwhelming, 1.00

00:13:48.440 bro. That's the only thing that makes

00:13:50.500 me want to stop talking about Jesus. 1.00

00:13:52.300 Actually, Christians. No, that's crazy. 1.00

00:13:54.560 I think faith,

00:13:56.480 religion, belief in general, because

00:13:58.420 not everyone believes the same thing, can be a

00:14:00.420 divisive topic, and it's something

00:14:02.080 I've definitely learned. 0.88

00:14:04.180 What is so goddamn funny? 0.81

00:14:05.920 When I started hearing you talk about it, I just got so scared. 0.92

00:14:08.680 I actually went like this, because I thought it was going to

00:14:10.340 punch me in the face.

00:14:11.060 all right all right no no no yeah yeah we're just kidding it's hard i pray every night i pray like 0.67

00:14:18.100 i said i uh except i i i do i do gratitude prayers uh just because i don't know i just feel thankful

00:14:24.700 that's what i feel the energy i want to like put into the universe how do you guys pray i'm curious

00:14:29.080 what the what the joint prayer looks like uh so basically we just talk about whatever weighs on

00:14:33.380 his heart and then we like instead of just like how i pray for example if i'm going to work i don't

00:14:39.220 go like hey god please uh bless my day of work i figure out what my work process looks like so

00:14:44.480 maybe i need to speak with a sharper tongue maybe i need to be a better listener so i ask god for

00:14:49.800 better qualities so i could be a a stronger individual for my brothers and sisters around me

00:14:54.680 and so he does that for me you know honestly i know uh kind of changing topics but staying in

00:15:00.680 the same space i know that finding your purpose is one of the hardest things to do in life and

00:15:06.640 i'm sure a lot of the people in the audience watching this and like really anybody on earth

00:15:09.840 has so much trouble and it's such a lifelong uh endeavor to find out what you're here for

00:15:15.540 and i know you do so many things and you're good at so many things i've tried everything under the

00:15:21.300 sun but george when you speak with the the fuel that is the the the book and and god it's like

00:15:31.880 watching an art form like when you when you when i watched you describing proverbs to me yesterday

00:15:37.380 and talking to me about how you internalize that and how you digest it and what it spit out and

00:15:42.760 meant to you for your life and for my life there's a um there's a flare and a magic that exists within 0.99

00:15:50.040 you that is so palpable that i wanted to mention this to you yesterday like man fuck those mean 0.99

00:15:56.600 christians bro like you you like honestly bro you got it dude like i could really see you going into 0.99

00:16:01.540 that space and really changing people's lives that's why i'm excited that you started your show

00:16:05.900 i'm finding myself you have an audience dude this podcast is where i found myself i know it got

00:16:11.640 shit views because people aren't too happy with me right now but um my year in review video was

00:16:18.780 a video i was really proud of and and two things i said that you guys just just said is one i found 0.88

00:16:24.780 myself last year and two um life is just a giant quest to find out who you are and what makes you

00:16:30.060 happy and um i'm i'm thankful that i think because of how much i try to do anyways i found little

00:16:38.180 snippets of me here and there and now i have a idea of who i am yeah you like molded it yeah it's

00:16:43.220 it's it's just the thing about it is as people have put together this kind of mainstream broad

00:16:48.980 platform that is impulsive or any of our like channels that play in this massive youtube sphere

00:16:53.340 it's sometimes very uh intimidating and scary to uh have an idea or a concept around something

00:17:01.060 niche and the idea of move but but it is it can be so impactful and important to move towards your

00:17:08.980 direct and defined purpose when i speak about addiction substance abuse and mental health

00:17:13.800 that's the any clip you've ever seen to me that's gone viral has all been about one topic

00:17:19.160 because the viral moments are built out of passion yeah what they what they always say is it's not

00:17:24.460 about what you say it's about how you make people feel and you can't make people feel without that

00:17:30.520 passion coming from you it won't be received the right way and i only have that passion for one or

00:17:37.100 two things in life and that's helping people that are going through shit and food to be honest with

00:17:41.600 you i love i love food and so i and so my message to you and to anybody out there is if you're having

00:17:47.480 trouble finding success through some broad-based platform find your niche and take a chance on it

00:17:52.900 you you delivered me a great word from proverbs yesterday which was along the lines of a small

00:17:59.100 piece basically i'll paraphrase a small piece of something purposeful is much bigger than uh

00:18:04.220 what was the message it's better to be a little righteous than have a lot of riches with like

00:18:10.660 just nothing but pride in your heart and the the overlining story of it is like

00:18:15.080 and this goes for anything even if you're not biblical like if you do work and you're just

00:18:19.200 thinking about the money and like for example our situation right like a lot of people think um and

00:18:24.960 i'm not no disrespect that i'm only here because of the money but i'm here because it's making me

00:18:29.100 a better person and i'm and i'm actually taking pieces from my brothers and and the situation to

00:18:34.520 have a actual spiritual and physical growth and it once you stop caring about that and only focus

00:18:41.600 on financing because you think

00:18:43.740 like, oh, I got to pay my bills. I got to make sure

00:18:45.580 I get to that level. Then you start worshipping

00:18:47.480 money and then you just start

00:18:49.340 realizing you feel so tight in your chest.

00:18:51.660 Yeah, Mike, good point.

00:18:53.840 That was funny.

00:18:58.260 I feel like now we need to adjust it.

00:19:01.460 We're going to adjust it.

00:19:03.360 Our battery went completely dead

00:19:05.320 and Jorge, we got to give him a shout out.

00:19:07.860 He just ran.

00:19:09.520 He ran four blocks to get new batteries.

00:19:11.040 You had promised me this clean transition

00:19:14.140 There's no way you went with the TV version

00:19:16.320 So we're trying to pick it up

00:19:17.660 Yeah Mike, good point

00:19:18.940 Bro you gave me one shot 1.00

00:19:21.960 One shot, fuck it, let's just move on 1.00

00:19:23.940 You're talking about righteousness 1.00

00:19:24.640 No, we're talking about yesterday

00:19:26.000 Yesterday you did something crazy

00:19:28.200 Let's talk about it bro

00:19:29.160 The Royal Rumble

00:19:29.900 My first Royal Rumble

00:19:31.820 What a crazy event

00:19:33.080 So WWE wrestling

00:19:34.360 I managed to recover my grade 3 MCL tear

00:19:39.600 in about three months and i was fit enough to participate in this event yesterday and this is

00:19:47.220 insane this is actually probably one of wwe's most insane events the royal rumble the way this

00:19:50.520 works is they send out a new wrestler every 90 seconds so there can be up to 30 guys in the ring

00:19:58.000 at one time yesterday i think the max was probably seven to ten but it is absolutely insane and as an

00:20:03.740 outsider this is also new to me and i'm trying to obviously do my best to perform at the highest

00:20:09.940 level but also just take it all in run through it because because i just go a little bit of context

00:20:14.800 one thing you have done and i think the traditionalists and we'll talk about this

00:20:19.300 later in the episode are noticing already is you create the moment of the evening you did it in a

00:20:24.760 crown jewel and you did it again last night at royal rumble you and ricochet get on opposing

00:20:29.140 ropes and you spot springboard springboard and you basically find you mark a spot visual because

00:20:38.160 they said great spot everybody online was saying that was a great spot what does that mean exactly

00:20:42.020 is that the whole the whole thing it's a good moment the whole moment got it sorry i'm i

00:20:46.720 apologize just just run run run us through that moment really so yeah the move was we both do

00:20:53.340 what's called a springboard which is where you jump and put your foot on the top rope and use

00:20:57.920 it as a trampoline bounce and then i can't believe this was possible and by the way when when this

00:21:04.980 move was pitched to me i was like is that possible but genuine uh generally when i have that reaction

00:21:11.320 it's a good thing because if it is it's incredible i don't think it's i don't think it's been done

00:21:16.320 before the wrestling purist will perhaps come down to me for this one but i don't think it's

00:21:20.340 been done before which is what i like to do i like to chase those moments that are really fresh

00:21:25.260 and innovative and create that social media buzz so midair trampoline bounce off the top rope

00:21:30.660 and me and ricochet clothesline the shit out of each other at like a thousand miles an hour and

00:21:37.620 then when we landed because we're also falling from gotta be seven eight feet right i know higher

00:21:44.760 then i crawled out of the ring i had some time there uh to to sit on the edge someone gave me

00:21:50.620 prime shout out to that person uh was refueled that got back in the ring and managed to finish

00:21:55.600 but wow this sport is hard and it hurts and it's so much fun and i love it and six yesterday was

00:22:01.140 amazing how many there was what like 60 000 plus people or something like so many san antonio

00:22:06.060 so i didn't tell you this but after that match happened when we went back to the green room i'd

00:22:11.920 walked around the hallway for a second and i see roman reigns oh and he's walking down the hall

00:22:18.280 and bro like dude you're you're you're crushing it bro but at the end of the day like this dude is

00:22:24.080 the he is the guy dude like he's him as they say on tiktok right and he's walking down the hall

00:22:30.200 and we have we have a fun relationship now because what happened in saudi where he kind of helped us

00:22:33.720 like you know whatever right and i'm walking and i go hey man you know good luck tonight he goes

00:22:40.240 thanks mike thanks whatever right and i go did you see logan he goes that boy's gonna learn to

00:22:45.140 tuck his chin one of these days oh my god that's what he said bro and then he just gave the dopest

00:22:49.920 smile and like smirk and just walked off bro he's so cool bro i said it i said nina was

00:22:56.460 worried for me because i hit my head my girlfriend not funny no no that's what she said we were all 0.99

00:23:05.440 making jokes about it we were roasting because i was like stuttering over my words saying shit 0.94

00:23:10.540 twice and and and nina was like that i told her i told her in the room i was like i just have to 0.97

00:23:15.460 tuck my chin and then every wrestler i passed on my way out was like tuck your chin buddy and she's 0.98

00:23:20.800 like this is a thing and you knew it was a thing and you didn't do it you moron and uh look i'm 0.98

00:23:26.020 learning as i go and it's it's it's hard well there's a lot of steps there dude springboard 0.98

00:23:32.360 off collision like the last thing you're probably thinking about is what you're gonna do upon

00:23:36.060 post-collision. Yeah, but I'll be honest,

00:23:38.260 none of it matters because I eliminated Seth Rollins.

00:23:40.520 Nice. Got you, son of a bitch. 1.00

00:23:43.260 He's probably pissed at you. 1.00

00:23:44.440 He's angry. But yeah,

00:23:46.360 that's going to be good. We have a

00:23:48.400 legend on the show today. Unless there's anything else.

00:23:50.280 I mean, there was a fun event. I think maybe

00:23:51.940 we bring the guy on. Let's do it. I'll scoot over there.

00:23:54.260 All right.

00:23:55.900 I have an intro. Oh, wait.

00:23:58.060 Can I have my other shirt, please?

00:24:00.200 I'm going to put a different shirt on.

00:24:01.860 All right.

00:24:03.640 I'll do the intro. Ready?

00:24:06.060 ladies and gentlemen our guest today is the hottest wwe superstar in the game he is the

00:24:12.100 winner of the royal rumble on his way to headline wrestlemania he is the american nightmare ladies

00:24:17.840 and gentlemen cody rhodes oh george george everyone's standing for this oh my god

00:24:25.900 no comments getting me on this one george is so polite he stands for all the guests 1.00

00:24:32.800 Guess what, motherfuckers? 0.99

00:24:34.160 We're all polite now. 1.00

00:24:35.440 Yeah.

00:24:35.800 We're all polite.

00:24:36.800 So, Cody.

00:24:37.480 What a polite bunch.

00:24:38.980 Dude, you look like a stud.

00:24:41.920 The president.

00:24:42.740 Yes.

00:24:43.680 The only dreams I had growing up.

00:24:45.340 I wanted to be WWE champion, and then I wanted to run for president.

00:24:48.960 Was that before or after the tattoo on the neck?

00:24:50.980 So, I don't want to run for president anymore.

00:24:54.040 That seems like a terrible thing.

00:24:56.160 Also, the tattoo on the neck, it's not really a tattoo.

00:25:00.780 It's fake.

00:25:01.340 It's a slap on.

00:25:01.860 So the dude drew it, and I've always liked the design,

00:25:06.300 and then American Nightmare design was what it was.

00:25:08.180 But I powered through.

00:25:09.640 I have, like, one tattoo on my chest from my dad and stuff.

00:25:11.900 I don't have a lot of tattoos.

00:25:13.580 And he was, like, powering through.

00:25:15.140 He was like, do you really want to take a break?

00:25:16.180 You probably want to take a break, right?

00:25:17.240 You want to take a break.

00:25:18.200 And I kept thinking, like, oh, I'm good.

00:25:19.580 I'm good.

00:25:20.420 I wish I had taken a break because I didn't know it was, like,

00:25:23.880 double the size of the drawing I saw.

00:25:25.980 And I thought, oh, my God, I'm wrestling in two days.

00:25:29.020 Because he said either do it months out or just two days before.

00:25:31.860 How do you make that mistake?

00:25:33.660 I mean, I don't know if it was a mistake or if I wasn't paying attention.

00:25:38.180 A lot of people were like, neck, neck, neck.

00:25:41.660 And then, like, my boss at the time, this was when I was at AEW,

00:25:45.020 he just thought, like, no way.

00:25:46.980 This is not going to be your neck.

00:25:48.440 And then I walked into the production meeting the next day.

00:25:50.920 I remember Jim Ross was a legendary wrestling announcer.

00:25:54.380 Jim Ross literally just, oh, my God.

00:25:57.460 What have you done?

00:25:58.480 The whole meeting was just staring at it.

00:26:00.440 The whole not listening to anything at all.

00:26:02.600 No, it's sick.

00:26:03.640 I think it really worked out.

00:26:04.760 Thank you.

00:26:05.020 No, I mean that.

00:26:07.260 I'm new to this world, obviously.

00:26:09.740 Earth?

00:26:10.940 I'm new to Earth.

00:26:12.160 I just got here.

00:26:14.120 The wrestling universe is new to me.

00:26:16.260 And when I first came on to you, your look was the first thing I noticed.

00:26:20.960 Like, you have the look of a WWE superstar.

00:26:24.380 Like, if someone were to draw a WWE superstar, it would be you.

00:26:26.360 And I think the neck tattoo would be included.

00:26:28.200 and and and perhaps that's part of the reason why you're like you're the great right now you you won

00:26:34.420 royal rumble last night oh that's crazy congratulations by the way that's unbelievable

00:26:40.600 i was uh royal rumble was one of my favorite matches and i was here for a decade prior to

00:26:46.260 when i went on my excursion and went away and then i i came back and uh i was in the ring when

00:26:51.300 randy warden i like took the bullet at the end of that rumble i triple h i was there like the goon

00:26:56.480 he got rid of me and then randy dumped him right away he won the rumble and i remember being in

00:27:00.360 the ring and looking at him and he's doing the sign point pyro's going off and i thought that's

00:27:06.420 yeah i i want to be that one day right but i i my one day was like yeah it'll be next year you know

00:27:12.160 it'll be two years later the amount of excursions detours on that road oh my gosh but i kept like

00:27:17.880 i kept thinking about randy last night which is weird but i was i was thinking about him just

00:27:22.000 man i i got to do it and i i feel good because when you're young getting in that i was 19 when

00:27:27.460 i started with w2b they tell you you know you're the future the future they try to groom you they

00:27:31.760 try to teach you and i like when it pays off yeah when after the x amount of time like all right he

00:27:37.780 finally figured it out good on him so finally and it's been a while man and you really deserve it

00:27:43.240 i think uh everyone can recognize that that's what the fandom feels and and and truthfully the

00:27:48.340 reason why i i was stalling to bring him on the podcast guys and i don't know if you remember

00:27:52.160 if you were paying attention to anything that i do anymore uh but he eliminated me

00:27:57.920 yeah you did the internet's work last night good job they're gonna love you top three

00:28:05.760 it was uh well something had to be done something you were you were pointing at the sign you were

00:28:15.600 the match wasn't over you were you were going to hollywood you're already hollywood and then

00:28:19.720 so i i was talking about this but before i came on i yesterday i kept i don't know if you noticed

00:28:26.160 just kept looking at you and kept like through the day staring at you and i this is what i thought 0.68

00:28:31.140 damn this kid's ugly i thought i thought that because you were so calm so calm and you were 0.95

00:28:37.680 just in your casual clothes i've been my i was already in my gear i'm in my gear you're just in 1.00

00:28:42.140 your casual clothes you're just sitting there and some wrestlers i mean the prep work that goes into

00:28:47.160 like getting ready for this presentation or whatever it's something like bodybuilding meets

00:28:50.500 the the sporting the athletics of it you're just chilling and i wanted to say to you like do you

00:28:55.520 not know it's uh we're on central time i thought you were missing like oh we're gonna be out at

00:29:01.500 eight and like i i wanted to but i was like no that's maybe he's just like present he's just

00:29:05.860 zen you know and i was about to do it and then i watched you changing your stuff in a matter of

00:29:12.900 just moments this is not being from this world i've seen some wrestlers all the way up to it

00:29:18.500 they're gluing their crystals on they're in a panic state just put your stuff on did like a

00:29:23.280 little oil up started pumping up just a little bit all your your posse all filming you and

00:29:27.900 everything and this just went and executed and from so this is this is the novelty right of this

00:29:36.300 outsider enters our world i mean i don't know how much longer you're gonna you're an outsider but

00:29:42.800 like that's the most wrestler thing i've seen like come in and you're in the royal rumble the amount

00:29:48.420 of responsibility that's on that match and then i'm sure i can't say i'm sorry for eliminating

00:29:55.000 you know i get it it's an honor it was by the way it was the you know it was the time and it was the

00:30:00.860 moment but uh i think huge news coming out of for for you eliminating seth rollins is i mean you

00:30:09.200 could feel the air come out of the building i like that i got to do that i my gosh you're the only

00:30:13.740 person in the whole building he was so disappointed the party was sitting there with his head in his

00:30:19.180 i mean this is this is seth who is he's won every title yeah known to man he's he's in my book i i

00:30:28.220 have my three top wrestlers and i try not to be in just our wwe bubble i try to be look everywhere

00:30:33.700 and i've wrestled everybody yeah i think he's i always say he's top three like for sure he's

00:30:38.840 incredible unreal you want to hit the other two while you're while you're here so i i like to say

00:30:43.500 In the wrestling space, Roman Reigns is number one, undoubtedly,

00:30:48.480 and 800-something days as champion.

00:30:50.820 And that's a hard argument against.

00:30:53.020 I like to think I'm number two because I've never beat Roman,

00:30:57.680 and that's hopefully what I'd like to do.

00:31:00.680 And I'd put Seth at three.

00:31:02.540 And then I'd throw, I think that four spot is somewhere between a Jon Moxley

00:31:08.700 or a Kenny Omega.

00:31:09.780 I don't know.

00:31:11.180 There are other companies.

00:31:13.500 but those are all currents right yeah what about what about looking back all the goats yeah because

00:31:18.160 i want to because i want to at some point bounce a little bit but since we're here like who who

00:31:22.160 are your who are your big dogs inspirations like top three top four so my so my big inspiration

00:31:26.620 is because you know when he's coming up and my dad was in this but my dad was older he had me

00:31:30.320 when he's like 39 i uh i don't think i was planned um but uh i don't know a great accident

00:31:37.000 so hey yeah you're what the baby from a 39 year old looks like yeah all right

00:31:42.920 so let's go that's i'm almost there so yeah so he had me and then later in his career he was

00:31:47.640 pretty much retired when so i didn't see him in his prime i couldn't be like rah rah go dad i was

00:31:52.260 more of like a case study for him i'd order the pay-per-views i'd sit on the floor with my figures

00:31:57.000 and watch everything and he'd just kind of sit behind me and see what i was into whatever because

00:32:01.620 that was how he tested how he was going to continue you know in the industry but i grew up

00:32:06.700 with there were sean michaels and sting because there's wcw guy coming from the south and my dad

00:32:13.340 having been the the boss there for the brief amount of time he was so those were my guys and

00:32:17.740 then i i you say this and people will be like oh he's that's a lie because he works here now or

00:32:23.680 you know because when i was at aw i broke his throne and i made a scene out of it but but triple

00:32:28.100 h did become one of my favorites and it's very easy to see because i model a lot of the presentation

00:32:32.920 after after him but uh sting and sean were my first two big favorites a lot of crying

00:32:38.420 because my you know my dad just let me watch it and didn't really explain anything to me and how

00:32:44.140 it would work like one time sting broke his ribs vader broke his ribs and uh i didn't figure like

00:32:50.720 i couldn't believe it we're driving home from the show and i'm tearing up in the front seat and like

00:32:55.260 he's not helping me he's not he's not letting me into the world a little bit at all i asked him

00:32:59.180 what he's gonna do he told me oh yeah i think he'll be on the show in two weeks he's just gonna

00:33:03.620 drink some milk and he's gonna be okay so i broke my leg in fifth grade and thought i just do the

00:33:09.020 milk this boy needs some milk give me two weeks i'll be good i was in the cast for seven months

00:33:14.180 so you know but your family's royalty dad dusty roads half brother dustin roads gold dust which

00:33:21.760 wasn't sister lana rhodes um the porn star oh i'm i don't think we're i don't think we're related

00:33:29.540 no that's not are we not really i thought they were i thought i think we were on the 23 days

00:33:35.340 oh okay well okay we'll go back to dustin and dusty then uh yeah gold dust i mean you're in a

00:33:42.420 i mean everybody in the family's good at physical stuff that's his ex-girlfriend

00:33:46.640 Great

00:33:48.720 Sorry

00:33:51.300 That was on the PDF

00:33:53.320 Dustin Rhodes

00:33:59.520 Gold Dust

00:34:00.220 And you

00:34:01.060 When you were in

00:34:02.080 What was it called?

00:34:03.520 Elite

00:34:03.740 Oh Elite Wrestling

00:34:04.760 Oh Elite

00:34:05.580 You actually had

00:34:07.140 You took up a name

00:34:08.500 Was it Stardust?

00:34:09.520 No Stardust was here

00:34:10.440 Stardust is the reason

00:34:11.620 Explain this to me

00:34:12.420 Stardust is the reason

00:34:13.200 I left

00:34:13.940 Okay

00:34:14.380 So real

00:34:16.020 real like the story was i was with ww since 2019 and i was i was kind of a very much a legacy hire

00:34:22.980 they didn't they they knew he was dust dusty's son and that opened that door for me and then the

00:34:28.980 tricky thing being a second or third generation once the doors open which you got that special

00:34:32.460 treatment here now your expectations are through the roof yeah and i wasn't ready for those

00:34:37.220 expectations slow learner all that but i was really chipping away and uh you know the brass rings or

00:34:42.720 these things you get when you're lower to the middle of the card.

00:34:46.180 Everything I was, you know, good live segments, I was nailing them.

00:34:49.520 I won the Intercontinental Championship.

00:34:51.100 I was making the most of it.

00:34:52.360 I felt like I'm right there.

00:34:53.880 I'm right there.

00:34:54.680 I was going to win money in the bank a couple times,

00:34:56.460 and it changed, like, as we got closer.

00:34:59.060 I mean, these are – that's the thing about people don't understand

00:35:01.860 how real wrestling can be.

00:35:03.420 Some of these moments, like winning the frigging Royal Rumble,

00:35:06.080 I haven't slept.

00:35:07.260 That's a life change.

00:35:08.460 Wait, what did you do?

00:35:10.300 I wanted to ask that.

00:35:11.480 What did you do?

00:35:12.060 a lot to do in san antonio there's a dave and busters across the street i i literally just

00:35:16.400 sat on my bus and i i just sat there and looked at my phone and my like all these messages from

00:35:22.660 just just reflect trying to really reflect taking it all taking it in and and um and wanting to be

00:35:28.220 there uh in the moment because you know you're wrestling's highs and lows you can't this is

00:35:33.020 going to be a high but we're gonna we're gonna hit there's gonna be a low too so uh but anyways

00:35:37.240 I was chipping away I was doing so well and my brother and I we had a great tag team run and my

00:35:43.860 dad got to do this one kind of last stand before he passed away it was just off and running and then

00:35:48.980 I don't blame anyone I don't I really at this point blame myself back then I blamed Hunter I

00:35:54.460 blamed everybody I was so angry I was angry but then they wanted me to do a gimmick a character

00:35:59.080 like Dustin's which Goldust is enigmatic very depending on if you saw him in 1997 you have a

00:36:05.560 different opinion on how we talk about him today like the envelope pushing right it that didn't

00:36:11.640 fit for me and uh i got some hope along the way where they thought like okay it'll be its own

00:36:16.120 thing it'll be more superhero like and i can make that fun i love comics and that might be the way

00:36:20.520 to go and i tried to make the most of it and kids liked it and it was fun and it was very um like

00:36:26.960 it was very like a kid's character and it was like because it was you know my face was painted

00:36:31.620 it was like wearing a mask too so i i felt like i was at least behind something but very very dead

00:36:37.020 inside very like the sad clown and i believe so much in the concept especially because it was

00:36:43.420 true when i was here in 19 and you did something good you got rewarded you did something good you

00:36:47.720 got rewarded these little rewards this was one where i was doing it right i'm making the most 0.98

00:36:51.680 out of this is stupid this is where i'm wearing a trash bag body suit dustin's got he's just a 0.91

00:36:57.680 master painter i can barely do it i'm just trying to hang on here and we were we were checking those 0.98

00:37:03.000 boxes and they just didn't seem like they were gonna get me out of it and that was where uh i

00:37:07.980 i just my dad had just passed away so you have those real problems at home you don't need any

00:37:11.660 problems at work and i that's where i they don't let anyone do this anymore because of how i did

00:37:17.200 it i handled it poorly but it was what needed to be done i just quit i didn't didn't even sign my

00:37:23.220 release papers they could probably still sue me today but i work i work i just i just posted on

00:37:28.560 social and i'm very irresponsible i should have done it differently i did give them that best

00:37:32.920 heads up i didn't put in two weeks i i had one meeting two weeks before and then i had one

00:37:37.660 meeting in the last week saying hey i'm not coming back unless i'm telling the story of getting this

00:37:41.100 off getting this and it didn't happen and um and i needed to get out there and i guess the thing i

00:37:48.820 had been missing as a professional wrestler you know you want like your body to be tight your

00:37:53.320 gear to be good your entrance your presentation the most important thing is the people you connect

00:37:57.700 to the people so that's such a fun time 2015 i go start doing indies i wrestled in the bowling alley

00:38:03.300 here in san antonio that i found this fascinating yeah and incredibly like like noble you you love

00:38:09.440 this sport you love what you do so much so that you're willing to perform in front of what 50

00:38:14.180 people so i i mean on an indie they always double it so there's 300 people out there i can count dog

00:38:22.020 i've been counting seeds too since i was a little kid because my dad ran some really

00:38:24.980 small shows too and he had his independent promotion but i it was very i wanted to

00:38:30.420 not be uh pretentious in how i did it i said wherever map it out wherever i will go anywhere

00:38:36.420 i will go i went to there was a company i worked for called mr chainsaw pro wrestling i i've never

00:38:41.700 just the most some of the most bizarre things i went everywhere because there are indie pockets

00:38:46.560 everywhere and that's where it was so good because outside the bubble there's some great wrestling

00:38:52.300 and i needed to learn that i needed to learn that i needed to test myself because when you're coming

00:38:57.600 from wwe you're giving them this wwe rub but you're also getting their rub the street that

00:39:03.540 underground rub and if you don't understand that symbiosis and how that goes you're just a guy

00:39:07.860 taking a check and going on and not bumping in the main like i went for it um and it was the best

00:39:13.640 since i've only seen a sliver of the wwe universe and that style of wrestling uh what are some

00:39:20.160 things that you learned on that indie circuit i learned so there's some uh you're gonna find this

00:39:25.840 out and and i'm so glad you're gonna i get to watch you find this all out there's some guys

00:39:31.400 in the industry legends who are so judgmental on how we do wrestling because they were they did

00:39:37.480 they made money they did it they were right they drew interest they got they got heat they people

00:39:42.980 want they did it all right they're committed to the idea that there's only one way to do it

00:39:48.080 what i found out is that however you do it if the people are up if they're reacting if they're

00:39:55.920 popping or if they're on their feet don't judge this this is done right if they're entertained

00:40:01.800 plus the wrestling fan has evolved so much most of them are longtime fans they've been sitting

00:40:06.260 watching the same stuff we've got to change yeah nfl has changed sports have all changed the game

00:40:11.440 is fast and then you hear these dudes you'll hear people oh i'm old school man i'm eating potatoes

00:40:16.360 nine times out of ten that means you're lazy buddy like can you do something like i'm all about the

00:40:22.280 moments too i believe it but the moments and the moves it's both yeah like this is last night i

00:40:28.220 gotta watch you fly across the ring right in front of me you know and and with and to do that and

00:40:33.300 with ricochet just that's the guy i met he was the type of guy where i wrestled him on the

00:40:37.840 independence no way yeah a bunch of times he was on the indie circuit oh man big time he's so

00:40:42.300 talented yeah and like that it goes to show even just like my team and and uh my friends they send

00:40:48.220 me indie circuit clips from people wrestling and the moves these people are doing are incredible

00:40:53.360 there's a there's a clip i want you to watch that's um ricochet versus will osprey from new

00:40:59.240 japan you might have seen it already it's the most complex wild standoff it's just like ducks

00:41:05.660 pass-bys underneath flip over the top so the most athletic stuff you've ever seen done in a live

00:41:10.880 setting one time the rope broke and they still did it they've done it twice and it was the most

00:41:16.260 polarizing thing in wrestling for this is not right this is not how you do it really like the

00:41:22.340 people are happy like let them be happy and if you're one of these these these i don't want to

00:41:26.920 old-timers but we're one of these luminary veteran figures poking at what we do you're the one who's

00:41:31.480 busting kayfabe here if you're the one saying like this is how you do it well yeah like yeah

00:41:37.480 i like it all i find it funny because when they probably started it was so new and weird

00:41:41.960 that it's kind of hypocritical that they would even come down on you for trying to do new

00:41:45.800 artistic things harley race was the first dude st louis he's took he was one of the first guys

00:41:50.280 to do these big backdrops and everyone then was like you can't do that every night man

00:41:54.280 You can't do that.

00:41:55.060 You're going to waste it.

00:41:55.920 You know, less is more.

00:41:56.700 Less is more.

00:41:58.600 Harley Race ended up being a seven-time world champion.

00:42:00.740 Like, the game changed.

00:42:01.940 It's like, I don't know if you ever saw the movie Semi-Pro with Will Ferrell,

00:42:05.960 when they do the first alley-oop, and the whole game stops,

00:42:09.700 and everybody's like, you can't do that.

00:42:12.040 The ref has to allow it.

00:42:13.580 Yeah, exactly.

00:42:13.780 That's a great, yeah.

00:42:15.200 It's funny because this is an industry where, like,

00:42:19.620 I liken the talent to artistry.

00:42:23.700 like you like the performers are artists and um that's where i think sometimes the creative

00:42:29.700 differences can um can come into play because you have a person who wants to express themselves a

00:42:36.660 certain way and connect with their audience a certain way but sometimes the industry and the

00:42:40.020 organization that you work for doesn't have the same vision and it sounds like that's what happened

00:42:43.920 to you but um like i said like the amount of talent and inspiration you can get from so many

00:42:49.160 pieces of this industry and and and being that boots on the ground wrestler that you were on

00:42:55.580 that indie circuit it obviously paid off and i'm sure when you were doing it you didn't have a

00:43:00.720 plan or an idea that you'd be winning rumble three four years later it would seem like i did have a

00:43:06.760 plan but you're 100 right i'm just doing it i was just doing it it seems now like what a destiny

00:43:12.400 story i don't believe in destiny or fate it just it's insane it just we i did it and loved it and

00:43:18.520 believed it and and was able to we ended up making a whole alternative wrestling promotion that exists

00:43:24.220 i want to commend you for two things one is pick a bone with me i'm gonna i'm gonna the bone was

00:43:30.960 for throwing for throwing me over that's it that's it but but um and i i want to commend you for three

00:43:35.240 things actually you just added more because it reminded me one um sticking to your vision and

00:43:44.200 what you love, and your passion.

00:43:46.240 That's hard, even when not a lot of people are watching,

00:43:48.540 especially when you're used to a lot of people watching.

00:43:50.660 That step down, per se, yielded now such amazing results.

00:43:57.940 I forget what the second thing was.

00:43:59.860 See, you got too many things.

00:44:01.980 Back to two.

00:44:02.860 I did hit my head on that.

00:44:05.200 Tell me about it.

00:44:06.240 You got a little, because I wanted to see you after,

00:44:09.160 just because you did a wonderful job, but you got, what happened?

00:44:13.480 What was it? 0.99

00:44:13.920 to tuck my fucking chin dude and yeah i was told so many times tuck your chin tuck your chin but i 0.99

00:44:18.940 was coming off of the injury and doing this insane move and as you know there's so much to think 0.99

00:44:25.860 about uh you're used to it but it is extremely stressful it is not a normal environment for a

00:44:31.060 human to to be in with that many people watching and having to hit these really difficult high

00:44:36.300 flying complicated moves entertain at the same time and protect your body it's hard and and that

00:44:41.820 was the second thing i wanted to commend you for is when i got injured at crown jewel my wwe rep

00:44:47.480 reached out to me and she was like cody wants cody rhodes wants your number can i connect you and

00:44:52.500 and you reached out because you were just getting over your pec injury and uh and and you were like

00:44:57.660 yeah dude you know uh it'll get better and hang in there these things happen and you'll drink milk

00:45:02.700 back in no time drink milk i drank milk but somehow miraculously healed for rumble and so

00:45:09.660 you're just a good dude that's what i want to commend you for i want to say thank you for

00:45:13.800 reaching out because you didn't have to do that you're a vet in this sport and you put in the

00:45:16.740 hours and i still haven't yet i would i i thank you my thought though is i i do have to reach out

00:45:24.120 and uh it's the same reason why i have a gym in mcdonough uh georgia that's nightmare fitness

00:45:29.160 and we have a smoothie shop next door gun smoothies billy gun another wrestler he owns a smoothie shop

00:45:34.020 him and his wife paula we put prime in the fridge no way yeah because it's the same reason rock

00:45:39.640 gonna do a movie i'm gonna come out of pocket and go see that movie john's gonna do uh his show on 0.81

00:45:44.220 hbo max i'm gonna stream the whole damn thing you don't even know me yet but you're and you can't

00:45:48.040 even see him but you're family but you're you're in on what we do and there used to be this thing 0.87

00:45:52.540 where you'd go to these shows pandemic kind of changed that but we're wrestlers constantly

00:45:57.040 shaking hands constantly shaking hands and if they were an extra backstage or like a rookie

00:46:01.200 coming up everybody you could possibly get to the point where you're getting them multiple times

00:46:05.240 the reason we do that they'll chalk it up at wrestling school and say respect the reason we

00:46:09.500 do it is because we need one another like the marquee doesn't just say kevin owens it's kevin

00:46:17.020 owens versus roman reigns you don't work without the that that's that's one of the the old rules

00:46:22.360 that actually does make sense and uh i of course i i was happy i wanted to reach out and uh but uh

00:46:29.400 i i know what it feels like because you had just had it yeah i saw a picture of you in that one

00:46:34.860 match your whole chest your whole chest was just like a deep dark purple yeah i didn't even know

00:46:40.380 you could like tear your pack how does that even work look at it and and still still complete a 0.83

00:46:45.700 whole match on it the stupid thing was i've been wrestling from since i was 15 is when i started 0.97

00:46:50.700 like pro training no injuries felt bulletproof walked in the gym flip flops on flip flops in 0.97

00:46:56.700 the gym bad sign open cup of coffee a little bit of this real old timer warm up got on the bench

00:47:02.760 put on 295 didn't even warm up that's a lot it's no reason for me to ever be doing was going for

00:47:10.400 four so the dude at the other side of the gym you know testosterone filled just me and this other

00:47:15.200 dude i have no idea who this man is i don't know why he's like grimacing at me i'm like grimacing

00:47:20.320 at him now i'm gonna give a spotter no now i'm gonna show him oh my god i'm gonna show him like 0.96

00:47:24.460 i'm gonna i'm gonna he like randomly ate taco bell last night and had to shit it had nothing 0.91

00:47:29.160 to do with you and you thought he was like trying to show you that he's like the plot thickens he's 0.84

00:47:33.440 doing his full crossfit routine like taking up the whole jungle gym it's just me and him in there

00:47:37.120 and i'm gonna show you dude i i just unrack it just unrack it and it went right away it just

00:47:44.140 went so you hadn't even gone down hadn't even gone down it went like velcro they're like did

00:47:48.020 it pop doesn't pop it went and i felt it full tear full tear full tear i didn't need to kick

00:47:53.240 the weights off they flew off then this dude who i've been having this moment with runs over hey

00:47:59.860 man are you okay your biggest enemy i didn't have my contacts and i wanted to see if you needed a

00:48:05.780 spotter i was i was and i knew right away they tell you hey go get an mri buddy like

00:48:12.920 this piece right here it's gone yeah you don't need an mri so like i did the one doctor i'm

00:48:18.920 doing a zoom with him he's like get into a plank position and it just falls

00:48:21.280 I'm doing a zoom because I'm so concerned

00:48:25.420 What do I do?

00:48:26.720 And it just falls

00:48:27.380 I'm like, yeah, I don't think I need the MRI

00:48:28.840 I think it's gone

00:48:30.020 You need a bra 1.00

00:48:30.720 And then the next day 1.00

00:48:34.920 There's this big black spot that formed

00:48:36.880 And then it just became

00:48:38.140 Dumbledore's hand

00:48:40.100 It just was so disgusting

00:48:41.800 My body was dying

00:48:42.980 It was just so wild

00:48:46.400 My poor wife's just seen 0.86

00:48:48.220 I like the violence of what we do 1.00

00:48:50.640 but i think there's a limit to what she can handle and just i i had to watch her watch me and

00:48:55.440 our daughter's one years old at the time like can't really pick her up anymore like oh it was

00:49:00.640 great that it happened because i had gone that long thinking i was just going to be invincible

00:49:05.280 and no way everything has to change now i'm not lifting 295. um we need to get aminos in the body

00:49:11.600 we need real trainers we need everything and that was nice to correct and get ready and uh

00:49:17.440 and kind of reassess as an athlete but surgery surgery right you had arthroscopic surgery right

00:49:22.240 they go in they they yeah refuse the muscle basically or so the muscle tie it over here

00:49:28.080 yeah they tie the muscle off that's right dr dugas he's an amazing surgeon great name shout

00:49:33.440 out doc dugas dugas dude and anyway so he uh he uh i saw the video because they filmed my surgery

00:49:40.320 for my documentary like super awkward i mean like the gown it's on backwards you know like

00:49:44.960 Like, no one, you don't want to be filmed in these moments.

00:49:48.180 Like, we could fake this later, right?

00:49:49.620 Like, he's like, I saw the footage that most people haven't seen

00:49:52.700 because it's so much blood.

00:49:53.940 He's literally just blood is squirting out of my chest.

00:49:55.900 And he's got, like, looks like kitchen tongs.

00:49:58.220 And he's just yanking the muscle back to the arm.

00:50:01.720 And he's showing them because he's, like, teaching as he goes.

00:50:04.480 Like, see here?

00:50:05.760 Buddy, that's my body.

00:50:07.440 Why are you showing that?

00:50:08.520 Put me back.

00:50:09.600 And then he was a really, I can't, I had him.

00:50:12.520 i had brian tovin uh at sports rehabilitation in atlanta and that was like my little family

00:50:17.360 because it was a hermit after that i wanted to do what hunter did when he tore his quad just

00:50:21.020 get into nutrition get into fitness get as healthy as i can hide and come back when they need me back

00:50:26.480 you really got to put your head down and and convince yourself that it's going to be good

00:50:30.500 and believe that it's going to be good yeah it can be so like damaging especially if you've never

00:50:35.500 been injured it sounds like this is the first major one yep did that worry you at all i mean

00:50:41.280 it made me feel like so the the pay-per-view we were going to the hell in the cell pay-per-view

00:50:46.400 i as a wrestler i you're always supposed to be like oh i've been to the end zone before

00:50:51.300 i haven't right so i've been close but i'm going in hell and sell the poster is this

00:50:57.360 giant photo of me yeah it's the most uh peacock new subs for this ple this premium live event

00:51:03.620 they all want to see this hell in the cell match with seth and i come out in the arena i'm it's

00:51:07.540 just my face on the chairs and I what I thought was yeah maybe I don't have it like maybe I don't

00:51:14.160 have what John has you know Cena because he was my my role model when I was here maybe I don't

00:51:20.560 maybe there's a reason it didn't happen and that's why I was so adamant about we're not going to do

00:51:25.680 some stupid thing backstage I'm not which no knocking that you should never wrestle injured

00:51:31.740 but I just would I wasn't going to have it any other way I had to I had to have the match at 0.97

00:51:37.060 release how did you pass wwe's medical exam it was it was simple it was completely torn there's

00:51:46.240 nothing else that could happen to it and they were so with it i think it's so many tests for

00:51:51.280 me before i oh unreal i told them last night i i perforated the eardrum i mean this tiny not like

00:51:57.820 where you can hear it tiny they're waiting for me right by the door got the thing like oh my god i

00:52:03.220 don't want to be on your list uh get me off your list you know but thankfully like we no issues

00:52:07.060 there that once i was good and clear that it couldn't get heard anymore the best the best i

00:52:14.820 could say it was like you got to kind of lie you know you guys don't have to go all night yeah no 0.84

00:52:19.160 problem sure bro they were like he's fucked anyway but but they were really cool and i think it was 0.91

00:52:25.680 something that vince and i really had he really he knew i wasn't gonna take no and he could you 0.93

00:52:30.860 You know, I might have had to say, take a no, but I just didn't want to get to it.

00:52:35.000 I was adamant, and he had a great conversation with him,

00:52:38.380 and he was really clear about, hey, man, if you're struggling out there,

00:52:41.600 I can't, we got to call it.

00:52:43.620 I said, all right, well, it's a struggle always when you're wrestling, Seth.

00:52:47.180 It's a struggle when you're in a hell in the cell,

00:52:48.860 but I did understand that, and they let me finish,

00:52:51.660 and the referee in the ring, Spider, that's his nickname,

00:52:54.800 he talked to me the whole time because I was just on Planet Z.

00:52:59.000 Oh, it was that bad?

00:52:59.940 I was just really, I was in shock still.

00:53:01.980 Because, you know, shock puke, where you feel like you're going to vomit,

00:53:04.780 or you break a bone or whatever.

00:53:06.180 I hit something up front and thought, oh, I set right up.

00:53:09.700 And it looked like I set up for the camera shot.

00:53:11.120 I set right up because they go, here it comes.

00:53:12.840 I'm going to throw up.

00:53:13.540 They're going to instantly ring the bell.

00:53:15.480 Oh, buddy, he tried.

00:53:16.700 You tried, man.

00:53:17.400 What, you throw up, you lose?

00:53:18.780 Well, no, I think if I had thrown up, I think they would have been like, okay.

00:53:21.720 Something's wrong.

00:53:22.100 It's because people like watching the car wreck, sure, but there's a limit to it.

00:53:27.620 Totally.

00:53:27.800 know like okay man like you know and also it comes a little bit self-indulgent as a wrestler if you're

00:53:32.780 like look at me and my pain you know you don't want to be that guy either I just I had to wrestle

00:53:37.820 that match at least and I was telling people at the press conference last night for WDB I was like

00:53:41.760 please don't be mad at all this merchandise that's going to come out with this pec injury

00:53:45.720 I'm sorry they'd like marketing stuff you know like I don't care for it but like I saw a Funko

00:53:51.100 oh sorry but yeah with like the spot no way I was like they made a Funko out of it I don't think

00:53:56.980 I'm supposed to say it, but we can cut that out.

00:53:59.440 No, let it roll.

00:54:01.280 He's wild.

00:54:02.500 He's wild.

00:54:03.320 Well, he won Royal Rumble last night.

00:54:05.400 I need someone to bring me down.

00:54:09.360 That's funny.

00:54:10.520 No, no, but that tribulation is what people are in love with now.

00:54:14.640 Like you have gone through so much, including like a really traumatic and difficult injury to overcome.

00:54:22.900 um i wanted to ask about about when you first started wrestling because you you your dad was

00:54:28.000 this this this legend and and and i feel like nepotism in a way maybe works backwards in

00:54:35.280 wrestling because now you have now you have shoes to fill like the door may be opened but you also

00:54:41.260 have a mountain in front of you that that your dad climbed and now you have the pressure to try

00:54:47.940 to climb as well did that affect how you entered the business and perhaps maybe why even it took

00:54:54.640 so long like do you think maybe it was harder for you to climb that mountain because of what

00:54:59.020 happened with your dad so i think you'll hear you'll hear a lot of second generations say the

00:55:02.720 same thing like yeah we got in the door dominic mysterio going through it right now for sure we

00:55:07.260 got in the door but now everyone's looking at me and everyone's on these that is true but also just

00:55:12.040 getting in the door is very hard so you know i've got my school the nightmare factory thing and i

00:55:16.800 get we're getting you know we got like 80 kids there now and that's hard because it's not that

00:55:22.180 you don't think some of them aren't going to make it but it is a difficult industry to make money in

00:55:26.420 and that is the goal here guys like i know you want to have moments and be on top but you need

00:55:30.440 to live you gotta pay the bills you gotta provide i i think it was difficult for me but but i it's

00:55:39.460 a worth it's a worthy trade-in here's the area and i don't don't mean to knock any other second

00:55:43.780 third generation but here's the area where it's a little trickier for me is dusty has his

00:55:49.680 fingerprints even from the dead on everything half these people in this women's royal rumble

00:55:55.940 were part of his tutelage um bray wyatt a character he helped develop like he had this

00:56:01.180 in the winter of his life he had this final chapter he was he was developing all these

00:56:05.320 wrestlers that weren't me and i thought like buddy you're it wasn't my i was on the road already but

00:56:11.120 I would have you know I never got that he was hands off with me he left the writing team when

00:56:15.000 I came up because he didn't want there to be any favoritism he literally left the writing team and

00:56:19.320 just left me to the wilderness there's a wrestler a famous legend wrestler who was with me and my

00:56:23.400 manager at AEW Arn Anderson he left Arn to take care of me uh which Arn took care of me in his

00:56:29.160 own way uh very firm um but yeah I uh I think when it's a dusty type who's on some wrestling's

00:56:36.340 mount rushmore's for all that he did as a executive producer as a as a booker as they were once called

00:56:42.640 all that i think that's the part that's a little bit different and i i know like charlotte flair

00:56:48.120 and then of course like um ava at you know rocks rocks daughter like and dominant like i was to

00:56:56.860 turn around him kick me in the gut last night as much as a stiff stiff kick i thought like good for

00:57:02.160 you yeah good for you good for you buddy he had a lot of trouble getting into the ring last night 0.76

00:57:08.060 dude did he yeah nobody was letting him in bro he was kept looking for an entry entry it looked like

00:57:13.180 between the crowd he he get he really gets it from the crowd from the other other guys like 0.61

00:57:18.100 he's just shitting on his dad dude they can if they everybody's mad at him if they're if so that's 0.66

00:57:23.080 the thing if they're booing you like crazy and they're cheering you like crazy you're doing 0.98

00:57:26.420 something right right and in this era of like the social media which is so responsible for so many

00:57:31.320 positive things one of the negative byproducts of course is that they all bookers and promoters

00:57:37.020 can be too sensitive to it if they're making noise like i said keep going for sure print the money

00:57:42.760 here like keep going like don't get that you'll hear a term in wrestling you've probably heard

00:57:47.420 this go away heat you know where they want you to go away if they're booing you relentlessly if

00:57:52.980 they're wanting to throw stuff at the ring that's not go away heat if they're sitting on their hands

00:57:57.160 looking at their phones okay then then you're not yeah that acquired arena is the worst thing

00:58:02.040 you could ever end up with you either want people going crazy or booing you it's the nightmare yeah

00:58:06.680 i have a question that's uh it's not possible but i just i want to cure you and your peak

00:58:12.620 and your father and your peak had to tag team two other people who would that be the way you worded

00:58:18.820 it was not as if we were in a tag team match and my pops is my partner.

00:58:30.500 I don't want you to go up against him.

00:58:32.520 It's your pops.

00:58:33.360 So that's the secret, though, about when you're the kid.

00:58:36.020 You love them.

00:58:36.860 You think they're the best.

00:58:38.180 You want to be better, though.

00:58:39.520 Do you think your peak was better than his peak?

00:58:43.200 So this is the beautiful thing about this.

00:58:45.420 The one thing Dusty never got in the business is the WWE championship. 1.00

00:58:49.860 So I punched my ticket to WrestleMania.

00:58:52.840 That's what's on the line.

00:58:55.040 So to be able to take it, if one day there's this, you know,

00:58:58.420 if heaven is a real thing and I got to walk in there,

00:59:01.160 he's sitting around with Ray Stevens and his mentor, Eddie Graham,

00:59:05.360 I can walk up, I can throw that thing down.

00:59:08.180 And he can know.

00:59:10.060 You drank your milk, son.

00:59:11.720 Yeah, I drank that milk.

00:59:12.960 I did it.

00:59:13.460 No, I I you want to be I I would never look at it that way

00:59:18.540 But one thing it Nikon has been so wonderful me about he makes a lot of sports analogies and it's Ken Griffey jr

00:59:24.880 Is one he uses all the time and man you need that because you see a lot of the luminary figures backstage like cool

00:59:30.900 They do the dusty impression. They tell me the story about my dad in my mind. I'm already like

00:59:36.800 I know like I know he was all those things I get it but like when somebody sees you

00:59:41.260 that's the best and we're like seeing me is is the best if we had to tag though to answer your

00:59:45.880 question i would want to i think i'd want to wrestle um of course it'd be the horseman i think

00:59:51.360 i'd want to wrestle uh rick flair and arne anderson um because you know i grew up rick and

00:59:56.780 dusty were at odds for the entire 80s the 80s and uh that as a kid again dusty not really

01:00:03.980 smarting me up to anything i would have tried to fight him knowing i couldn't win but i would

01:00:09.260 tried to fight him as a kid uh because they broke my dad's arm in the parking lot he did all this

01:00:14.140 terrible stuff to him um broke his leg in the omni in atlanta but that i'd love to do that because

01:00:18.860 if you go back and watch these things man every punch the crowds oh oh like these these people

01:00:26.340 are losing their minds because they were so connected to these characters and i would just

01:00:30.800 like to feel that one time just to feel that and we feel it now like when we're off and running

01:00:36.020 But this era has to work

01:00:37.640 No offense to the older 1.00

01:00:39.360 Way harder 1.00

01:00:40.380 To get it

01:00:41.460 Or we have to find

01:00:42.380 Way smarter

01:00:43.140 Whatever it is

01:00:43.820 They just knew

01:00:44.500 They were wrestling

01:00:45.060 Eight days a week

01:00:46.440 Because it was twice on Sunday

01:00:47.620 They just knew

01:00:48.500 So I think I'd do

01:00:49.580 Me and Dusty

01:00:51.100 Versus Rick

01:00:52.340 And Dubs 0.99

01:00:53.240 That's the one to make 1.00

01:00:54.280 God

01:00:54.640 It's gotta happen in heaven

01:00:56.000 Yeah right

01:00:56.980 Yeah

01:00:57.360 I don't

01:00:58.460 You know what

01:00:59.040 He's like ding ding ding

01:00:59.920 He's like first of all

01:01:00.560 What are you guys doing here

01:01:01.520 Wrong place

01:01:03.260 I don't

01:01:05.620 i um man like there's always and whenever we lose a great wrestler and we just we just you know lost

01:01:12.420 one with jay briscoe of uh i mean he was roh whenever we lose a great wrestler my sister

01:01:18.760 always says like man the the matches in heaven are great tonight and if i think about it like

01:01:24.020 what a super card i'm just just it's it sucks to see it to see somebody who puts in so much time

01:01:31.740 But that's a great way to really honor, you know, how what we do here and now honor their legacy.

01:01:36.380 Like, I'm not sure how familiar you are with Jay Briscoe.

01:01:38.380 But as you learn and get more indoctrinated in the business, when I went to ROH again, another part of this excursion, that guy was it.

01:01:45.540 He was the deal.

01:01:46.580 And I'm actually thankful that that yesterday you mentioned, like, you know, we were all just kind of like warming up, doing our thing and we'd pass each other here and there.

01:01:54.180 I got to talk to some some some some wrestlers that I I had it because I'm not incredibly social.

01:02:01.060 like i won't go out of my way which maybe is like a flaw of mine especially because like i'm getting

01:02:06.860 into this but like i got to pay respect to um you guys and and the clan that is building this

01:02:15.400 organization that i get to come in and like capitalize on like i'm i'm well aware of the

01:02:20.580 work that you guys put in um that i don't as frequently and that um again i get to i get to

01:02:27.500 come in and as long as i show up which is is my duty and obligation as long as i show up and and

01:02:33.820 do the things i'm supposed to do and put on the show that i know i can i i can check my box but

01:02:38.900 like i just have so much respect for you guys man and and it's it's funny because i went back to my

01:02:45.360 locker room after and i was like dude everyone's already dressed i'm the only one wearing the

01:02:50.500 clothes i'm wearing now actually i'm like i i feel like i know i'm missing something dude i saw maize 0.91

01:02:55.540 he looked like he had been ready since like last week he was like all bronzed up and shit dude 0.54

01:03:00.180 like walking around everyone one of my best friends in business uh matt cardona he is literally that's 0.94

01:03:04.800 his logo always ready yeah because he was yo-yoed around when he was on raw way back in the day

01:03:09.300 doesn't work here anymore but he uh he literally with anything superstars main event whatever it

01:03:14.540 is tights on tan ready to go wrestlers but here's the thing like i it's great to hear that when

01:03:21.540 anyone comes from the outside you're hoping they dig it because sometimes they come from the outside

01:03:24.740 and they don't dig it and they it's a it's a paycheck or it's a sub vessel just whatever

01:03:30.260 means what what's very special about what you're you're doing is your your brand is so gigantic i

01:03:37.120 mean literally this is a gigantic brand if you look at who's been on your show and like well

01:03:41.000 everything that you've done it it never sometimes hardcore wrestling fans get a little irritated

01:03:47.240 about it but guys it doesn't hurt for some fans of logan paul to say you know what i'm gonna buy

01:03:52.980 ticket i don't know anything about this that's the trade-off that's it and if they come in and

01:03:56.660 they they're there for you but freaking otis walks out and that's my guy yeah yeah yeah that that's

01:04:02.080 it i i did two shows on tbs i did the game show uh go big show and then my wife and i did a reality

01:04:07.040 show and a lot of the hardcore fans um at the time were like really like oh so focused on these other

01:04:12.800 projects guys the other projects are for what i do it's all an engine yeah the other projects are

01:04:19.240 like hey if there's a demographic that watches this reality show i don't give this i don't give

01:04:23.000 a damn if it's six people get them over get it because i know wrestling's one of those things

01:04:27.340 that if you go if you go you're in i tell everyone this i told these guys this when i was getting in 0.98

01:04:32.600 i was like you guys have to come to the show it's unlike anything you've ever seen last night last

01:04:36.540 night was the the best for for me at least i don't know about you like obviously obviously you know

01:04:41.360 saudi was it was very special just because that was his like kind of his proving night and the

01:04:45.340 night when the the wrestling traditionalists were just like yo he's not an outsider like this is this

01:04:50.140 is the real fucking deal but last night dude royal rumble which you know i i i watched wrestling my 0.89

01:04:56.540 whole life growing up i was jumping off the couches you know pretending i was the ultimate 0.97

01:05:00.080 warrior or whoever was on at that at that time right but last night every time that clock ticks

01:05:06.280 down i know that everyone in that crowd is getting a christmas present yeah like like everyone's eyes

01:05:12.480 are like like me and george every time that clock even as a joke because you know i don't watch as

01:05:17.400 much anymore but like every time it's it ticked down i was like yo they're about to announce

01:05:21.940 somebody awesome so fun it was so i had no idea about this i didn't grow up watching the concept

01:05:26.820 of the rumble bro bro i thought it was two people fighting and then like i didn't because logan

01:05:31.880 doesn't i don't know anything he's not allowed to know i'll tell him anything yes so i just see

01:05:36.740 ding and this guy comes out and i was like wow that's pretty cool and then ding another guy i

01:05:40.120 I go, that's dangerous.

01:05:41.360 And then ding, and then ding, and then ding.

01:05:43.040 Ten people in the ring.

01:05:43.920 I go, Mike, how many people are coming?

01:05:45.920 I go, dude, this is it.

01:05:47.140 Everybody's fighting to be the last one.

01:05:49.360 But also, I want to hear that story about Shane.

01:05:51.640 You kind of.

01:05:52.820 This is not really like a Shane McMahon story,

01:05:55.720 but this is, so you mentioned like the excursion I went on

01:05:58.600 and like doing it.

01:05:59.320 But when I plugged back in, like, all right,

01:06:01.800 not even just WWE,

01:06:03.480 when we were starting up the other promotion,

01:06:05.980 the money was large.

01:06:08.080 and i had been away from the large money for a while and i was in tokyo dome uh hotel getting

01:06:14.280 ready to do this big show wrestle kingdom they have for new japan it's a great show but i knew

01:06:18.460 i was i knew in a few weeks it was going to go down like we're going to announce it to the world

01:06:23.900 they're going and we're going to be on an actual real network this is this happening so shane's

01:06:29.340 music is here comes the money it's like a very signature music so every time i get on the elevator

01:06:34.040 with the other guys who were in the group with me,

01:06:36.020 I would play that music.

01:06:37.460 And there was all these other wrestlers who were,

01:06:39.840 we were, I mean, we were the enemy.

01:06:41.820 We were there because we were leaving.

01:06:43.920 They didn't know why.

01:06:45.080 And I just played it to the point where, like,

01:06:46.860 now I can't see Shane.

01:06:48.800 And not be like, man, I just, I ruined your song.

01:06:52.820 I played it everywhere.

01:06:54.600 Yeah, no.

01:06:56.140 I haven't seen Shane since I came back.

01:06:58.020 What's he doing?

01:06:59.640 He's just hanging out.

01:07:00.620 He's got a good idea.

01:07:01.340 I wrestled Shane.

01:07:02.280 I had a singles match with Shane.

01:07:03.460 as a kid um uh we're doing the legacy me randy ted dibiase versus hunter and vent like the whole

01:07:09.340 family wrestled vince one night too um and uh shane shane will bring it boy yeah he he i watched

01:07:16.340 him i have a pretty good jaw uh in wrestling you'll find we'll find it's real quick to find

01:07:21.340 out if you don't just because a lot of slaps right we'll get you i watched him tee up dibiase

01:07:26.360 and thought nope i don't want to be these he's a he's a machine he's a mcmahon yeah what do you

01:07:32.180 expect yeah yeah well so vince um came down to uh we did this thing where he we all faced off and i

01:07:41.180 wanted to fight vince i was like yeah what an opportunity right i'm gonna fight him and vince

01:07:45.660 always was so reality based reality based and just a genius level thinker but when he ran at me

01:07:52.980 it was like he reverted to the the glory days of the 80s because i threw a punch hoping he's

01:07:58.800 gonna block it he blocked it all right halfway there and then he wound up like this and he like

01:08:06.280 hammer fisted me on the top of the head and i thought oh my gosh like that is not reality based

01:08:12.840 sir but i i'm gonna fly all over but it just it just made because that was what he was you know

01:08:18.160 growing up on because the energy when you do something it's they're winding up they're winding

01:08:21.900 up and then the people come with it but yeah well what was what match made you the most nervous

01:08:27.200 hands down last night really yeah but you i i was also going to ask it's got to be nice being

01:08:34.400 number 30 huh so i'd rather so i could i'd rather wrestle one hour with you and i and have not

01:08:40.940 discussed a thing than i would an eight minute something where i've details plus there's people

01:08:47.620 in the rumble you got dinged gunther's been out there for an hour forever he speaks with a deep

01:08:55.040 accent like we're in a territory where like they're counting it was great right I want to

01:09:01.820 I want to play quarterback I want to be in the big game so this was the moment like nothing can

01:09:06.640 miss absolutely nothing missed I was at my school this is how nervous I was I was at my school last

01:09:13.780 week running to the ring and sliding in no way running to the ring and sliding in running around

01:09:19.760 the other ring and sliding in just i can't fall i can't fall uh throwing no you can't you can't 0.80

01:09:25.540 oh you're dead on especially if you're a baby face and you fall oh my god then i would throw 0.58

01:09:30.840 myself over and grab on and i i i literally i security cams my one buddy who owns the gym qt 0.99

01:09:37.300 i said you got to check the security footage i'm in there just throwing myself over there's nobody

01:09:41.460 in there that's what i was practicing just you just like and my my mom who's you know every now

01:09:46.900 and then I forget she's, like, a genius wrestler 0.99

01:09:48.540 even though she was never a wrestler

01:09:49.700 just because she's around it.

01:09:51.420 But she's, like, I can't believe you risked that,

01:09:53.580 putting your feet that close.

01:09:55.180 Could have blown it.

01:09:56.740 Yeah, yeah, I could have, Mom, but, like, I'm a pro.

01:09:59.620 Yeah, you were really close last night, right?

01:10:01.320 Yeah, that's the one thing about the Rumble, though.

01:10:02.500 Like, anything can go wrong or right for someone else

01:10:06.300 at any moment in time.

01:10:07.640 In a more, like, nebulous, non-significant...

01:10:10.580 I like when a little flub, like, something little happens bad.

01:10:13.800 Just, yeah.

01:10:14.740 He was supposed to land on the chair last night.

01:10:16.200 oh kofi man has kofi been on this show no not yet kofi's he's got some great stories

01:10:22.840 so you guys have been so kind to me and said such nice things kofi knows there was another

01:10:27.420 version of me and he he can let you know i was big i was a little bit of a troublemaker in the

01:10:32.700 first run and now like they see me and they want a little of that i'm like yeah that's the old

01:10:37.020 that's not me and have a child yeah yeah i just want to you know it seems like a good gig you

01:10:42.320 would you ever be in the x-men you look like you could i grew up on the x-men yeah you yeah

01:10:48.640 could be did we all grow up on the animated series for sure yeah but you could you could easily be

01:10:53.040 cast like now like today you could go on the set and just be one of the x-men or like yes you know

01:11:00.240 what i'm saying which x-men cable's such a good x-men that's such a good call because you can do

01:11:06.640 strife too you could do strife like because he had the yeah oh my gosh and the other brother

01:11:12.280 have you ever considered getting a face tat so i mean i said i was never going to get tats

01:11:17.960 and now i have a giant one impeding my presidential election we call those we call those job stoppers

01:11:23.980 that that tattoo right there yeah that's how you get let out of an interview like nah we're not

01:11:28.000 we're sorry we're i've seen a few people in the subway with that you know what's tricky is like

01:11:31.460 in japan you know you can't go in the gyms with tattoos well you can't even go to japan i'm so

01:11:35.620 I'm sorry.

01:11:38.040 I'm sorry.

01:11:40.160 So, I mean, that's a stopper right there.

01:11:42.080 Do you have any one of the Prime Energies?

01:11:43.900 Yeah, absolutely.

01:11:44.340 Oh, here we go.

01:11:45.680 Is the blue one the best?

01:11:47.300 The blue one's the best, I think.

01:11:48.420 Is the blue one the best?

01:11:49.360 Strawberry watermelon's my personal favorite.

01:11:50.640 I haven't tried it.

01:11:51.360 Blue is second.

01:11:51.940 I never tried any of the strawberry watermelons.

01:11:54.420 What?

01:11:55.120 Yeah, I'll try them after.

01:11:56.720 Or before this.

01:11:57.500 I'll try them before this.

01:11:58.620 Cheers.

01:11:59.260 You know what I'm saying?

01:12:01.400 10 calories, zero sugar.

01:12:03.480 200 milligrams of caffeine.

01:12:05.160 Yeah.

01:12:05.620 That's going to do it.

01:12:06.840 I got a signing after this.

01:12:08.260 I'm going to be primed up.

01:12:09.520 Nice.

01:12:10.140 I'm going to be primed up.

01:12:11.080 There you go.

01:12:11.460 Thank you.

01:12:13.080 Are you...

01:12:14.680 Nah.

01:12:15.740 How excited are you for WrestleMania?

01:12:18.320 This is a big one, Cody.

01:12:20.560 I know you know, but I've been hearing rumors about just the gate alone.

01:12:23.940 Yeah.

01:12:24.720 Well, prior to last night, any fights being announced.

01:12:26.960 And it's like gearing up to be one of the biggest WrestleManias ever in Los Angeles on April 1st, which, by the way, is my birthday.

01:12:34.640 I mean, you were pointing at that sign so long.

01:12:36.280 I thought it was going to be me.

01:12:37.700 I knew where you were.

01:12:38.920 The show's clearly in Hollywood.

01:12:40.180 He's really pointing it up up there.

01:12:42.380 It is.

01:12:43.220 So WrestleMania, this is your second WrestleMania, right?

01:12:47.040 Yeah, second.

01:12:47.620 So this is your second WrestleMania.

01:12:48.840 Technically kind of third.

01:12:50.380 Right?

01:12:50.720 Kevin Owens stunned me once.

01:12:52.740 Yeah.

01:12:52.980 And then last year I wrestled in it.

01:12:54.740 Yeah, third.

01:12:55.040 So Mania's goal is, Mania is the biggest wrestling show of the year,

01:13:00.720 sports entertainment show, however the vernacular you want to use on it,

01:13:03.520 but also i don't know if like the whole wrestling community flocks to mania there's about 1100 indie

01:13:10.420 shows that go on from uh literally starting wednesday of that week to like the day before

01:13:17.180 mania in the surrounding area surrounding area wrestle con happens where that's where it's

01:13:21.420 it's like a convention and it's not all the wwe legends it's a little bit of mix you'll see some

01:13:25.740 the wwe legends it's a wonderful a wonderful event everybody comes to celebrate and the

01:13:31.240 international travels everybody comes to celebrate every year wrestlemania gets bigger

01:13:35.320 so it's not like hyperbole or wrestler speak to say this is the biggest wrestlemania ever

01:13:39.360 we know going into this one just from these these preliminary gates this is legitimately

01:13:44.000 the biggest thing that's ever been done in wrestling oh my god it's oh that's insane and

01:13:49.260 the irony of the potential of a Rhodes going on last when my dad spent eight years competing

01:13:58.660 against wwe i spent three and stirred up as much trouble as i could possibly stir up the irony of

01:14:04.820 the potential going on last under the brightest lights on the grandest stage is just why this

01:14:10.340 place is so good they they no judgments like not no judgment i'm sure you know there's some hard

01:14:17.460 feelings over things that happen here but if a guy or girl is the thing if they're ready if it's them

01:14:22.980 then they're moving it forward they're absolutely that's what we're going to push right and i just

01:14:27.860 the idea of it i don't want to end up like i'm tcu in the national title game you know where like

01:14:34.300 maybe i wasn't supposed to be there um i want i don't want to shrivel under the lights but i i

01:14:39.240 am very much uh very very much just now letting it all sink in what we're doing and i really want

01:14:46.500 to let it all sink in now so that i can stop doing this this is amazing it's gonna be great and like

01:14:52.000 i said you want to pretend you've been in the end zone yeah i got to show up and we got to deliver

01:14:56.080 and we got to execute whatever that situation is whether i'm whether i'm wrestling roman reigns

01:15:00.400 which is what it you know looks like or if he ends up at 60 something days the mania

01:15:04.880 whatever it is um i got to finish the story for those who don't know you know 1978 my dad won

01:15:12.080 the wwe title but it was by uh over the top rope or disqualifications how he won the match so he

01:15:18.640 put the belt on big pantomime the crowd's excited but then they took it away so you won the match

01:15:24.160 but the champion got to keep the title so i i that's mentioned it on raw it's a real story

01:15:29.120 i uh i i had that picture and that was my first dream ever like i'm gonna get it i'm gonna get it

01:15:34.000 to him uh i have the belt too the original no way yeah i showed it i showed it to vince when we had

01:15:38.800 our first meeting but as much as that belt special what roman has is it that's that's you want that

01:15:45.360 what i would say for for roman in terms of what he's done it really is amazing in terms of the

01:15:53.120 the irony of the situation where he could potentially be standing across from me.

01:15:57.500 But there are some things that's better than your nutrition,

01:16:01.760 your conditioning, and your ability in the ring.

01:16:03.620 Some things you just can't avoid.

01:16:06.240 And this is one of those things.

01:16:07.880 This is a legitimate team that surrounded me, a team of destiny.

01:16:11.760 And it's someone who I think at the end of the day, I want it more.

01:16:17.380 And I hope that's what it comes down to.

01:16:19.400 But again, the biggest WrestleMania of all time,

01:16:22.320 the biggest wrestling show of all time

01:16:24.460 as much as I'd like to say

01:16:26.460 the most important thing is that I leave with the

01:16:28.260 WWE Championship, the most important

01:16:30.300 thing is that people have the best

01:16:32.260 time of their lives. Let's go. It really is.

01:16:34.500 Let's go, dude.

01:16:36.700 You are running for president.

01:16:38.620 He's running for president.

01:16:40.080 It's not about me. It's about you.

01:16:43.540 Vote Cody Reigns

01:16:44.320 2024. Cody Reigns?

01:16:46.420 Oh, Cody Reigns. I just

01:16:48.200 mixed two people together. It's 9am.

01:16:50.520 Cody so we are

01:16:51.420 I mean that's it dude

01:16:52.560 you're wonderful

01:16:53.760 I was blessed

01:16:55.300 and honored

01:16:55.980 to be thrown out

01:16:56.720 of the ring by you

01:16:57.380 I'm sorry it happened that way

01:16:58.440 it's fine dude

01:16:58.940 it's gotta happen

01:16:59.540 it might even happen again

01:17:00.620 and maybe the opposite

01:17:01.840 it's another rumble

01:17:02.500 next year

01:17:02.940 thank you for coming

01:17:05.500 on our show

01:17:06.180 congratulations again

01:17:07.740 I cannot wait

01:17:08.980 to see you compete

01:17:09.940 at Wrestlemania

01:17:10.660 and for what it's worth

01:17:12.020 I think you're gonna

01:17:13.380 beat Roman

01:17:13.960 yeah 1.00

01:17:15.040 alright

01:17:16.120 thank you very much

01:17:17.020 thank you

01:17:17.600 of course

01:17:18.340 Cody Rhodes

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