It's about to get Gabby AF. We bought the gig, Gabby AF, Gabby AF, we bought the gig, Gabby AF, Gabby AF. Hello, welcome to Gabby AF. This is a very special SummerSlam AF edition, and I'm here with... Might not be your favorite champion, but he's my favorite champion of all time. Current. And it's my first sit-down, like, speaker view interview ever. P.L.E.? P.L.E.? Paper view, P.L.E.? This is not your normal setup, right? Not my normal setup. I'm doing it solo, by the way. I don't have a whole team, I don't have a production. Literally, my camera's setting up on boxes. Yeah. Pretty legit. I'd say we have to give you... we had kind of a haphazard setup just from the nature of today. Yeah. And there's media in every room and everything, so for those wondering, she did this all. I did it all by myself. She did it all by one woman show here. Yeah, it took a minute. Cody was... didn't know if it was going to work out, but he's very happy. We're there, we're at the finish line. Someone's calling YouTube, by the way. Oh, I love it. I actually told everyone, I don't put an on-do-not-the-serve on my phone because I think it makes people nervous. I don't even know how to do it. I know people would do it, but I don't know. People would bother you anyway, though, I feel like. Yeah. I don't know how to do it, so... I feel like if you have kids, you can't do that, because God forbid something happens, like your phone can't be silent. Well, too, when you have kids, this is the first time you ever put your ringer on. Yeah. So I never put my ringer on in my life, and now my ringer is on constantly, which means at 3 a.m. when all you want in the world is to be asleep, and champ chat, which is a group chat I have, decides that's when they want to send various pictures of wrestlers that they don't like and get into a burial conversation. 3 a.m. is not the time, and it's like, "keeps paying," and then "keeps paying," and I'm like, you know, so what I do to pay them back is I'm up at 6 a.m. You know, when you have a baby, typically up fairly early. I'm up very early in the morning, so they got a message for me at 6 a.m. So hopefully I woke somebody up. So I was going to interview another stuff, but I think we should just read the group chat of champ chat and make that break. The champ chat is definitely legendary. I don't want to name the individuals in it, because then they'll be, I don't know, deposed, but we cover a lot of ground. Champ chat serves a good purpose for me. Wrestlers need to talk trash about other wrestlers, because then when we see them, we shake hands, we wrestle with each other, it's a lot easier. So you got to get it out of your system a little bit, so I'm all about getting it out of your system, that way everyone can kind of be professional and get their bent out. Wow, I kind of love that. Everybody has a group chat, so you got a big group chat? Yes, but I'm the one in the group chat where if I'm working or if I'm doing a million things, then I have like 47 missed texts, and by the time I catch up, a decision has been made, because it's with my friends. So we're going to do this, and then by that time it's either a yes or no for me, because I don't have a say in anything. Nobody ever knows what I'm doing. My friends don't really know what I do with my life, I think. I feel like the picture I have in my, we changed the picture often. The picture now is of your boy, QT Marshall. My boy. And his posing trunks from the bodybuilding show he just did, where he won his first ever little competition. Congratulations. Yeah. It's probably time to change. Rhett, SummerSlam, picture of me, you know, put it back in, but yeah. And his tan looks great. I'm just going to throw that out there. Yeah, cause that's where we've talked about it before. What happened? You didn't want to be in his movie, right? No, because he was rude. That's all I have to say. Since that, I've seen him a lot and he's been incredibly kind. I don't know if it's because I'm friends with you. No, it's 100% like Mark Henry was just talking about with busted open. Like all of us change so much, particularly in wrestling. Wrestling makes you change. It, it, it hardens you at one point. It can make you bitter. It can make you angry, but then there's another like kind of light at the end of the tunnel once you get through it where that's why wrestlers do so well in Hollywood. Yeah. Cause the politics on a Hollywood level are laughable compared to what you're dealing with in wrestling that all of that's like all this guy shows up on time. This guy, oh, he had a comment about the writing, but it wasn't a major what to do. Yeah. So now we're just, I feel like we adjust quicker because the business can be so mean to you either get out or you adjust. Wow. I mean, I feel like we got to shift in this part because you mentioned buried wrestlers and I want to know if solos in that group chat of people you're burying right now. I feel like he deserves to be a little bit. I don't think he, I don't think I have him in the majority of the guys in this chat are really more targeting independent guys and a good chunk of this chat works at AW. For the most part, I get more questions about what he's how he is as a wrestler in terms of, because I feel like that solo is a little untested. It's a really good way to put it in SummerSlam because it's a perfect time to feel like more than anything. There's so much talk about what could happen in SummerSlam and challenging for the championship and solos, the new tribal chief and all that, but the reality is the bell rings. And when the bell rings, I do think solo, and I don't mean this in a negative way at all, it's still untested. In a sense of what does he look like in the deeper waters? Often we find out guys can't swim. I don't know if solo can swim. I look forward to finding out in front of over 50,000 people here in Cleveland, but certainly if I had to guess, I feel like he probably can swim and swim just fine just because it's in his blood. I know I don't want to make that an excuse for, you know, there's plenty to dislike about the modern, kind of the doppelganger bloodline, plenty to dislike. However, I feel like I still have kind of this underlying respect for many of them, just because our families have been doing this forever for years. It's fun that I've become like the most hated man for every Samoan in existence. Like that's a thing, and so all Samoans have to hate me. But it's really crazy because my brother gets along. He has like what's called the lava lava, or like how he is. He gets along with everybody, but for me, I'm in me number one. It's so funny because you're not any number one to like the entire WWE universe because you're like the most loved. I'm doing all right. Superstar of all time. A lot of is like getting, I feel very lucky and very, especially we just went to Tokyo and every time you go out there, you're thinking, maybe they'll, you know, I wonder how they'll feel like wonderful like this or do that. And just these crowds have been, this morning's been good doing all this media because it's been a nice reminder before we walk into the stadium tomorrow of like, ooh, this is, this is special. I feel like for you, everybody in the room, and then for, for all of these people who are here at the hotel this morning, everyone's been a wrestling person pretty much the whole time. It's really special when you can see the world get in on it. Again, I was in like middle school and the attitude era popped off in the Monday Night Wars. I remember for at first being like, oh, my thing, but then it was just the best, like true real nitro parties and every pay per view or PLE whatever the heck we're calling on these days. Everyone having your opinion and lining up and, you know, fantasy booking what was going to happen. It's great to have that again in the industry and it's great. Now, podcasts like yourself, ESPN just doing get up. Now, you walk into rooms that are ready for it. You don't walk into a room anymore. Well, so I'm the wrestler. This is what it is. And yeah, now you walk into rooms that are ready for it. And that's all the old timers and all the legends up in heaven watching this. They certainly I feel like can be proud of where it's at. Yeah, I mean, it's funny you mention that because even I have friends that don't watch like I do. Obviously, they never did. I just started watching six years ago. So they'll ask me questions about wrestling now. And mentioning big events and stuff. I'm like, that's wild because they asked me questions about it. Please, I make my roommate watch with me on Mondays and she's got her favorites and the people that she pops for. She'll run out of the room and like ask me questions. Oh, I love it. Yeah, even for me to be like, Oh, I have Cody this week and they're like, Oh, Cody mode. Do you gatekeep do you like so wrestling fandom also the Star Wars fandom? It's really wild because you can walk into a room and be like, man, I really like the acolyte. Yeah. Next, you know, somebody's throwing like a tomato at your head. You've said something way, wait, I thought we were all fans. Yeah. So I feel like sometimes this happens a lot when a celebrity will chime in on pro wrestling. You'll see all the mentions and comments and you guys keep it together. You know, like just let them enjoy. Everyone starts freaking out because they're like, they're just like us. Like they love pro wrestling. Yeah. So no, I try not to, I can't watch wrestling with anyone though. Yeah. So I because so many questions and I don't, I don't know. Yeah, right. I'm just watching this to watch it. Right. Well, because you actually love it. Like there are wrestlers that do it. I'm sure and it's a job and they're good at it. And they kind of name one who's just a job. Are you think it's just a job? I mean, I'm sure there has to be one. No, I'm not. I'm thinking who's somebody who's just a job. Like who's like, get the check and get out and good at it. Do we know? I don't know. Should I name drop someone? Is that like rude? No, no. I'm actually trying to think like who's somebody who's just a job. I don't know. But I feel like there has to be. Or I'll, can I give you an example of something? Hit me. I interviewed Moose like a month ago and he was in the NFL and he told me he didn't love football. He loves pro wrestling and he was so good at football and he was just good at it. And it was just kind of like a routine. And he'd make up every day and do it. But he was like, I didn't love it like I love pro wrestling. So now I'm happy working every day. But I'm sure there might be some people in any aspect of it. This is still a sport. In any sport where maybe you're just naturally gifted at it and you're not, you know, some people aren't born naturally gifted but could they love it so much? They train that much harder. It has to be something like that. I don't know from the top of my head. And the process of me thinking about who it's just a job for. All I thought about was people who it's like so insanely passionate about it. That it would be funny to be like, oh, it's just a job for this person. But in reality, it's their life and their death. And for me, you really like, it's not fake at all when I tell you, I had no natural skills for the wrestling. Dusting got all the natural skills. Dusting got to be six, six. And I thought, because we have the same size shoe, like, oh, I'll be six, six. Didn't happen. And the thing that I got was my mom, it's just a really diligent kind of mean, hard working. I remember she, I can't use the word, but she first job I ever got fired at. She, I thought she was going to legit murder me. Really? She just, Einstein's bagel is, by the way, I did go back to work for Einstein's eventually. But yeah, that work ethic is really what she put on me that I feel like helped me. It took, took a long time too. You know, I'm in my 30s winning this first WWE Championship, this thing. I won it all along. Didn't come easy for me, but that's, I still loved it. Yeah. I still, I, I, and I, I went from being jealous at guys who do get it easily. Like, Braun Breaker seems like somebody today that I look at and like, oh, he gets it. Yeah. It's already in his bones. Like, he gets it. Yeah. I used to be jealous of types like that, but now it's more of, no, this is a battle of attrition. This is a battle of consistency and like, who can really outlast the other to get to the finish line more than it is about a matter of talent. So many guys who are super challenged in the ring, but then don't want to do the other stuff. And then they'll make excuses. Like, that stuff doesn't matter. No. You have to be a total multifaceted Swiss Army knife. Wrestling is not just the wrestling. And if you're one of those who, oh, his gimmick is he's the wrestler. That's not going to go as far as you think. Right. You have to, Kurt Angle was a legit folk style, freestyle Greco Roman master wrestler. But then he comes to WWE and he's one of the funniest, most entertaining. Like, I still laugh at Kurt Angle and the little cowboy hat. I'm like, trying to team with like, if you ever watch some of these old things with him and Undertaker, he just was next level entertaining in addition to being, you know, a very bad dude. Yeah. It's interesting because that's why I say pro wrestling is harder than any other sport because there's so many other elements besides just being good at the athleticism part of it. Yeah. And you mentioned Braunbreaker who obviously comes from, you know, a family of pro wrestlers with his father. You came from that as well. Someone else that just signed who were very close friends with Mark Henry's son. Crazy. Just announced that he signed WWE. And like, I always asked this question, but like, is there more pressure when you do come from like a legendary father or person in the business when you are the next generation or because people just expect things of you, Charlotte Flair as well, like she gets a lot of stuff for it or, you know, is it easier because you have better resources with that? Like, yeah, well, it's certainly easier because you have all the resources. Right. You have access to the door that some people will spend years with their career trying just to find where the door is. This is going to sound strange and it's not knocking any other second or third generations whose father or mother wasn't. But what's really tricky though is when your father or your mother, whoever proceeds you, what's really tricky is when they were very popular. When they were very, that's, you know, like if your dad was an enhancement talent and a good one at that, but didn't make it to the next level, then the pressure is less. Yeah. But when your dad or mom is somebody who has a complete like photo book of memories and people's minds. More country. Right. And so Jacob will mark something in one interview and he goes, "He has no idea how much he's going to get." I said, "I do. I know exactly how much he's going to get." And second and third generation I love talking to, even if we're not friends or even if we have nothing to click over, this is because I really want you to make this is going to be brutal today, man. Welcome to the club. You get a locker with your name on it already. You're known. You're in the news. And you haven't had a single match yet. It's going to get, it's going to get really, really difficult. And for me, not everyone survives it. Charlotte Flair is a great example of somebody who showed right up, hit homerun after homerun, and delivered on a level where you'll find kids today. That's who they know. They don't know the nature boy. Right. It's crazy. It's crazy. That's the biggest compliment. Yeah. If you can find someone, a fan today that doesn't refer to you as such and such as just you're doing it right. And it's also a little scary. It's also a little because for me, I have experienced that a little as in the last three years or so. And it's also a little sad in a way like, oh, they're every day and new fans are showing up and they're not looking bad. Yeah. They're just looking forward with us. But yeah, when your mom or dad was on top and on fire or any type of major champion, the road is a lot more difficult. Oh, I'm sure. And you mentioned Charlotte Flair. Hopefully, she's going to shock everyone. And I'm back for some of my activities. They think they, well, people are picking up on like a picture she posted. Yeah. She's at like an airport and they're like, is it the picture of punk outside the Chicago at the famous one? That's my, that's like the best. I don't think it's even a real picture. It's just the one rumble or something that he sees him being in. He's, he's so fun. I love when he's like, troll people. That's like one of my favorite things that he does. I have, you can't, by the way, you can't fly in any airport anymore. Yeah, that's true. That is a disaster with like the wrestling fans and the collectors. Yeah. Because that's something that people don't always understand. It's, they'll be like, you'll meet all the collectors at the baggage claim. And a lot of people will say, oh, I've come through the territory and blah, blah. And I, yeah, it does, it does. But, but they're not actual, most of them aren't actual fans. Most of them are legit sports collectors. It's just volume. Yeah. You know, I'm, as you guys know, I signed anything. Just put it in front of me. Just keep going until someone yanks me away. But yeah, it's become really crazy. So like surprises. That's why I thought of this. Surprises are nuts because you have to fly like to an airport to, you know, states over. And then bus and gosh knows. Have you seen Mrs. Bus by the way? No, I have not. So my bus was the original WWE wrapped bus and everyone, there were some complaints about that. We don't want them to know where we're at. It's fair complaint. Understood. You see Mrs. It's next level. That's the most Mizz thing I've ever seen. I mean, it's just his face. Giant face. And like, it's, I woke up, I went out this morning and we're right out to the stadium. And I went to walk Pharaoh and he just walked right by it. I couldn't, couldn't believe what I was seeing. So yeah. Can't miss this there either. You can't miss the Mizz. I guess. I got that point. You just interviewed him for your YouTube show. For the weekly show. Yes. Which I'm obsessed with, by the way. Thank you. I don't, so I don't know if you're like, when you're doing an interview, if you feel like, oh, this is going good. It's going bad. When I'm doing them, I'm usually plagued with anxiety because it's the day of a SmackDown. The day. There's a bazillion things happening. Yeah. So I do want to have that moment and keep it like intimate and have the questions be real. Poor dude who produces a, who does a great job, particularly in the edit. He'll give me a sheet of questions. None of the questions get asked. Yeah. That's what happens. I just get into a different space. But I think maybe that's what's actually been one of the things on the show that's a little appealing, is we just, we're just genuinely talking about our experiences. But that show, we've got two more guests coming up on it. That's the initial run of the weekly show. I don't know if we'll do more of the man off camera. We'll let you know if we're doing more. But coming up on it, I'm sure someone's going to be like, oh, you shouldn't have told everybody, but it's my show. Well, everybody, Bianca Belair is coming up on it. Oh, nice. And then Randy Orton's on it. And that, that one, they both, one is incredibly educational for me. And one was just off the charts. Yeah. Just, just Jay, Cody, press conference level, madness. And we got to get Jay on there eventually, but I think, I think Wheatley's afraid of it. Or maybe I'm afraid of it. Wheatley's probably game for it, but yeah. You can't get too good at that because you're going to take all the jobs of us. I don't want that job. I don't want it. You shouldn't. But I know what you're saying when you talk about like anxiety. You know, I'm nervous. I was the first time I interviewed you and even it was over zoom. You were like the third week of me starting my podcast. I made a whole list of things you were going to talk about. And we ended up not talking about like really any of that. They were really talking about tanning, right? We thought it was tanning for maybe 30 minutes. Versus pause. Yeah. Your tan looks great, by the way. Thank you very much. I could be better if I would give you some hints on it, but I can't really. Have you ever seen a bad day of the barrier cream? Well, you know the trick with the barrier cream, right? No, I don't know the trick. Okay. So this is the trick with the barrier cream. This is for all wrestlers should be listening to this. When you put the barrier cream on, put it on before and put it on after. So you put it on after, literally wipe it off. Your hands and your hands will not be orange after. So every, the nightmare factory at the end of the wrestling camp that we do is a student showcase. For the most part, it's all their first magic. About three weeks before the showcase, I say to them. And I'm always like, Hey guys, any questions? Hey, does anybody want to ask me anything about gear, boots, tanning, aesthetic stuff? I know that might sound silly, but just since it's your first time out there. Yeah. Nobody ever takes me up on, Hey, where do we go? Or, Hey, is this a good idea? Nobody ever takes me up. And then they go out there and they like, like, milked, like. So bad. But in, but one of the cute things is, is you can see in their faces like, I look good. I look good. And I'm like, Yeah. But you're going to look back at this when you're 10 years in the business and think like, what was I doing? What was I doing? Yeah. Nobody ever takes me up. I try to do the tanning advice, everything. I might bring someone in to spray, spray the kids. Tanning is not that important. It's not, but it also is. Like, I know what you're saying, but like. For my generation of wrestlers, it is. Yes. Like the Hogan Sarasota 1995 WCW. Just complete. There, some of those tans, you know, we, in civilian life, you cannot exist. Civilian life. You cannot exist. But in wrestling, it's a normal, the bodybuilding aspect is still in it. And like, as a, someone who's into fitness and stuff, I feel like the bodybuilding aspect of the business is coming back. Yeah. It was just scary, just because, already, this is a fridge full of cod, asparagus, you know. I don't, I can't. I can't. I don't know how you do it. My brother's a bodybuilder and like the things he would shove in his mouth because like you have to eat a lot too. That's a trick. He would do his open with the eggs and mix it together and like, he would throw up all of you to eat it and then eat it. Yep. It's a trick. You just have, it's not an enjoyable thing. No. You remember watching Jay Cutler say like, oh, I didn't even know what this tasted like. Just burnt toast, whatever. You're just eating. Yeah. You're just consuming, which sounds terrible. It's bad. It makes me sad because I'm Italian. I love food so much. Like to not enjoy food is such a travesty to me. Speaking of Italy. Yes. I really hope that Italy gets a WWE. We did a show in Italy, a live event. They were, if people saw Scotland, Scotland was outrageous. People saw France, France was outrageous. I wish people had got to see what Italy was like. Italy, I didn't know what we were walking into. I didn't even know if we were on TV in Italy and it was day, they would be a great place for a PLE. I'd make no decisions and can't get anything done. But gosh, that was a really cool experience for sure. That's actually interesting you say that because I was just in Sicily for the first time ever. I went with my dad. My dad's from Sicily. And literally every time they asked me what I did, if they tried to talk to you and I said, like, oh, I do progress and they all know WWE. Like all the people there knew, oh, WWE, like WWE. Yeah. Yeah. Was it like a Italian? No. I speak like broken Italian. Sure, sure, sure. Like I could understand it. Enough to get through. Enough to get through. Thank God my father was there. Well, my father's from Sicily, so it's mostly dialect. So like I took Italian in high school and I was like, oh, it's going to be easy. And he didn't know proper like Italian. Like he didn't learn it there because he came here and he was like seven years old. So I feel like my friends who are Italian and people I worked with are Italian. And in pop culture, I just started watching the Sopranos for example. I'd never seen, I just started watching the Sopranos catching up on it. There's this whole effort about like, there's a different love and trust about people who are actually from Italy, you know, gone to Italy and how everybody needs to go. And it's a thing. Yes. I don't know. It's just, that's really, you don't see that in every culture. No. Or like have to return to Italy. Yeah. Experience it. That's really cool. Especially Sicily because it's like, like you say you're Sicilian, you're not Italian because it's like a whole different world. And like, I have family there and stuff and they want you to come back. Yeah. It's not super touristy. Like that. It's cool. You got to go to Sicily if you would. Have you been to Sicily? I don't think I've been to Sicily. Yeah, you got to go there. And I feel like I've been everywhere. Yeah, you got to go. I would like to at some point, I've been told a bazillion times don't go, don't go. I would like to take my mom to Cuba. Okay. Because you know, her dad was from Cuba, we've never been. Wow. I'd like to take her to just see it. Yeah. That would be really cool. Kind of a return to your roots. Yeah. Well, I mean, you got to you're going to have to have a weekend off or something to do that. It's not happening. Where are you going to find the time? It's not happening anytime soon. I don't think. It's funny. You mentioned Jay Cutler, which made me think of this because you were trending with the Joe burrow lookalike. Joe. Yeah. Joe looking good. Listen, he'll never be top the original. Let's be for him. Joe is looking good. But I mean, if everyone's like, you see going through midlife prices, because we just are like, what is he doing? I didn't realize how much you guys actually did look alike until that popped up. Is that going to be your team now? Because we've talked about football before. So most people know I'm quick to. He switches. So tons of respect for Joe because, you know, growing up on SEC football, like Joe burrow and LSU and every like, just so, so good. And then like to have him in the NFL in a starting position, have Trevor Lawrence to have these other quarterbacks that I watched on the college level succeed. I love what Joe burrow is doing and what he hopes to do. I don't know if I can make the jump just yet. Here's why I don't know. Because I think I might be a 49ers guy. This go around. I don't why not. I think I might be a 49ers. Yeah. There's a lot of love for wrestling on the 49ers side of it all. Once Brady was out, once Brady was out of the game, I really lost what I was supposed to be doing. He was my guy. And he was like, nobody else in my family. Brady was my guy. I went to that Tampa Super Bowl. He was my guy. Which, by the way, at Fnatic's best. I think Brady's there. Is Brady there? If he is, you sold out faster than him. Because you were like the fastest selling person at. My ticket might have been cheaper. But I did. Yeah, she's not wrong. She's not wrong. No, that was really ripply. See him punk as well. I think the Fnatic's people, the top brass aerofinatics. That was probably a really, if they didn't know, a really eye opening thing. Like, oh, man. People are. People care about wrestling. Yeah. So that was really cool. Congrats to Rhea and punk. Because they'll be there all day. I actually have to. It's quite ambitious. Uh oh. If people saw my calendar, they're like, wait. I'm at a live event that night in Florida. I actually noticed that. And I was like, Oh, it must be in your or something. And I was talking to my friends about it. And I was like, Oh, maybe we'll look back down and see, whatever. And I was like, he's before. I don't know how they're doing that. That's crazy. Our friends at Fnatic's are doing everything they can. Shout out to them. Shout out to Nikon to make it so that I get from New York to the live event and have no problem. That's insane. It's ambitious. But we're going to, it's like doing a double shot. It's just, you know, up and down the Eastern, you know, keyboard. So we'll get it. We'll get it done. I do double shots of tequila, but I don't do double shots of like travel. Tequila is rough. We talked about this before. You don't like it. We just had tequila in. So every tour, there's like a post show shot. And I dread the thought of tequila. I dread it. You don't really drink, though, either a lot. You told me. No, I don't drink a lot. And the potential sponsorship I have sometimes indicates to me that maybe I drink more than I do. I don't drink really at all. Okay. And yeah, so it's tequila is not, tequila is not my, uh, my go to Wheatley, Genuinely. 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Bud Light's going to be calling you like tomorrow. I'm going to have to say Bud Light's going to be like Cody? You see guys in caterer and this like Bud Light, Bud Light, Bud Light. Man, it's just like, how do you do it? I want to like, I got to try it. But everything for me is like a porter or like these really artsy like beers that nobody's into and you can't drink 30 of them. Yeah. So yeah, I should try a Bud Light. I feel like you would hate it. Yeah. I'd be a good if I beat Solo Secoa a Bud Light and you make that happen. A Bud Light? Is that hard to get a Bud Light? Probably not. You got to chug it though. Do like a... Like the sideways shock on it, yeah. Shock on it. I'm sorry. I feel like I'm in college. No, I had no college experience. So for me, like I watched some of my buddies do this, you know. For example, I drove one of the, another wrestler around who will remain nameless. The reason I drove is because they were a beer drinker. Yeah. And they'd get a case and they'd get a backup, a backup sixer and I thought this is... No, it didn't say that. Yeah, but I always got us to the town, no problem. But that was the, and they were in impeccable shape. Yeah. They were in great shape and delivered when it came to the work. So we'll try a Bud Light. If I beat Solo Secoa, we'll do a Bud Light. If you're going to be Solo Secoa, let's be, let's be for real. I feel confident that I can. I beat Roman Reigns. He was the tribal chief. Right. Now Solo Secoa says he's the tribal chief. You should have, you should have took in a shot of Hila of not Teremona when you beat the rock. I'm saying. Teremona's very good though. Yeah, sure. Teremona's very good. Yeah, it's good. It's the people's tequila. It's like annoying. I wanted to hate it because I'm a tequila drinker because I was like, you know, screw him. A lot of his stuff. What's the other thing that I got? I got a little of it, the papa tui. Papa tui. And then there's a rule, the nightmare factory that you can't wear the rock under a merge. Problem with that is the majority of sports, like athletic wear this day, has the bromable on it. So we've lifted the, we've lifted the rule. It's because too many kids just wear your, your, your, your rock stuff, you know. You know that during mania. This is how much my family is disconnected for me as what I do with my life. My brother was working out at the gym where the rock was because he lives in like North Jersey and it was in Philly. My brother was texting me like, oh my God, the rocks here. It's so cool. It's ball. I was like, is anyone bothering me? He's like, no, but he's saying hi to be like, he's being nice. I go, did you go up to him? And he was like, no. I was like, you didn't go up to him and say, you know, my sister does these things. Works in the business. Works in the business. Works in the business. He's like, yeah, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what you do. I didn't want to like, you know, do anything. Wow. You really dropped the ball for you. Yeah, I mean, you could have been talking to the rock right now. It's fine. I have Cody. You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, I heard he's a really nice guy. Really? Yep. I don't know. I've heard he's really nice. I heard you're the nicest and then like, he's number two. But a lot of people accuse me of it's a fake knife. It's like, it's cool at all. It's not. I say this all the time. I don't know. I'm starting to believe my own, my own lore. Don't believe your own stuff. Maybe. Because if you, if you believe your own stuff, there's a lot going around. Well, Mark Henry accused me of snapping at somebody asking for a drink earlier. And now I'm starting to think, am I? Did you really? Am I that guy? Have I ever? I, I got my own. It was tea I had earlier. I got it myself. You know, but he made me, he put it in my mind like, dude, are you becoming this monster? He's so bad. Yeah. I already know that I'm difficult. So like the hair and makeup team at WWE is incredibly amazing and super talented. I'm very difficult. So I like to give them a gift from now on. Like I got them a big edible arrangement the other day, which nobody ate. Yeah. And had some of it. But I do know I'm difficult, but I don't want to be rude. I don't want to be rude or any of those things. Like you meet those people and you just kill them for you. So yeah. I've met some not nice people, but I feel like everyone. And the wrestling business? Yeah. Can you shade any of them? No, I can't. I'm not anybody yet to do that. Like maybe when I'm at the platform where I can. It doesn't. It's all I need to be blacklisted by some people now. I don't, I can't afford that right now. So I don't think you can get blacklisted anymore. Really? Okay. So I'm sitting here the WWE champion and I, whatever many years ago, took someone's iconography and smashed it publicly on TV. Also on a YouTube series pretended to be possessed by WWE and was being stalked through the halls. If I'm not blacklisted, I mean like you'd have to, you'd have to be the worst of the worst to be blacklisted. I don't know anyone truly blacklisted in the business. That's something I tell people all the time. When they leave a company or come to a company, whatever, they make you friends. I always tell them like, just so you know, you're going to see those people again. Yeah. You're going to see the ones that you thought, I will never see her or him. I'll never see them again. Yes, you will. You might even be in a segment. Yeah. So just be ready. You've got to be as nice to the janitor as you are to the CEO that I always live my life. Because listen, people maybe weren't nice to me when I was a producer and I wasn't the person talking to them. So I've never talked to you about when you were a producer. Okay. You're a beast of a producer. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. To the point where this was in the beginning days of AW, we were deciding media lists and all this. This is something that I should have never been looking at. But at the time it was like, no, this is your job. You don't know this. I remember you were quite aggressive and quite fierce in getting your people. Yeah. That's good. You have to be. Yeah. I mean, you have to also kind of stand out from, there's a million shows. There's a million producers, a million very talented people. If my aggression comes from Jersey kind of makes me stand out from the crowd. Especially in this business, everyone's kind of. I don't like most of the producers that I engage with. Really? Yeah. Because they always talk to you before the interview starts. And I feel like sometimes they'll say something. Yeah. I just want to talk to the guy. Yeah. I just want to talk to the guy. Because I love all the people usually interview. Yeah. You always talk to me though. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. We'll decide if I'm really friendly or if it's just fake. I don't know. What is even with other people? It's fairly accurate, right? I'm nice. Yeah. People are giving you something. What are they going to say? No. They're going to be like, "No, Cody. He's soft in a live interview. Well, we're not live." I asked this reminded me of a, this is completely different. But I asked Shinsuke Nakamura, who is one of the best ever. And him walking down a Russell Kingdom, the King of Strong Style, was one of the most, "Gosh, I want to be in that spot." That moment's me watching it. I asked him a few months ago if I was a good wrestler. And it was, we don't talk a lot 'cause we, you know, had rivalry that we did. But I said, "Hey, Shen, me, good wrestler." And instead of him saying, "Yes or no," he just went, "Hmm." And hung on to it for like 10 seconds. And then he goes, "Yeah, good." Yeah. To the point where I was like, "I feel terrible." Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. And he goes, "People like you." Oh, well. So probably not. Everyone's got some fan. That's actually hilarious. Yeah. I hope he was being sarcastic. I don't know if he was being sarcastic or serious, but it made me want to step up. Like, all right, he's watching. I'm going to show on it. Some people are too on it. You know the people where you're like, "Hi, how are you?" And like, you're just saying it to be friendly. Yeah. And then they like give you 10 minutes of them, like, their whole life story. And you're like, "I was just, we're not even that close." I'll give you the most empty gesture situation that ever happened to me. This is the perfect platform to talk about it, and he needs to hear it, since he never heard it from me. I was on my bus the day of WrestleMania Night 2, and I'm in what's called my under trunks. So I'm basically wearing no pants, knee pads, knee pads are pulled up and double pair. I always wear two pairs of socks and socks are pulled up. I don't have my tights or my boots on yet. And DDP walks on my bus. Okay. DDP is family to me. Yeah. So he can walk on my bus. But usually the bus is like, the fire wall is like, "Hey, is he on there? He is. But he's getting dressed, whatever." Yeah. Usually there's a fire wall. Not for him. He walks on my bus. He throws his coat on one of the bunks, sits down, I'm just talking again, he's family to me. He's somebody who's been a huge part of my life, but this popped me. I said to him, "Can I get you something?" And he legit, I thought like he would be like, "Oh, no, no, just come by to say hi," or whatever. He goes, "Yeah, you got coffee?" Okay. Yeah, I do. So it's just like, you know, an espresso machine or whatever. Yeah. I put the pot in. I do the deal. He goes, "What kind of creamer you got?" I don't know. I don't drink it with any. But so I'm looking in there. Yeah. Maybe a little that. But let me see. So now it's becoming this whole thing, the whole thing, to the point where I handed it to him. And it just, it actually, I feel like, kind of lifted me out of my nerves a little bit, thinking like, "Man, he just did not care that I was going through it." He became very similar real quick. Right. Yeah. I look forward to, I'm hoping he shows up this weekend and I'm hoping he asks me. He's going to walk in right now with the coffee kind of thing. I'll know his order. I'll know his order. Yeah. That's amazing. But I do that all the time. All the time while I make a mistake. Like, "How are you doing?" And then it's, "Oh. We're in this now." Okay. I'll do that next time I see you. I'll tell you about all my boy problems. I'm going to tell you about all my issues. Has anyone told you the "Hell yeah" thing? No. Hell yeah is how you know I'm uninterested in that conversation. Oh my goodness. That's like you're out. And now it's become kind of a people know it. So somebody would be like, "Hey man, how's that?" You know, I saw this the other day and I'm like, "Hell yeah dude, hell yeah, hell yeah." It means, "Oh." I'm going to pop every time you say it. I'm going to know that. I'm mentally in another space. So if you hear me say, "Hell yeah." Ooh. Trouble. Well now everyone's going to hear it in the podcast. So people are going to be like offended. No, no, no, no. I don't think I'm upset at anybody ever on it because usually I'm very engaged in the interview, you know. But yeah, if you hear, "Hell yeah," no, I'm someone else. Well, speaking of "Hell yeah," by the way, because this is what it reminded me of is St. Colton Austin, who teased a little bit about possibly WrestleMania because it's in Vegas next year. He's been talking about it. Steve? Yes. Don't go, man. I mean. Every WrestleMania ever is his... It's crazy. To be on and be part of that. Steve Austin is from a dollar since Sanpoint, the most profitable wrestler ever. And I think from guys who like the business and study the business of it, that's the benchmark. That's where you want to get. Also, in addition to being all that, the most profitable, more memories than anyone could possibly provide. He really did WWE at the time, he needed, you know, WWE doesn't need things that often. At that time, they needed St. Colton and he pulled it out of the spot it was in and just made everybody rich and brought a whole new flavor to the industry. Just thinking about like Jerry Springer and Limp Fisk and St. Colton and everything that was happening in this like 90s block, oh man, he is just really special, unbelievable wrestler. I didn't see his tease, but... The people take it that way. Because WrestleMania is going to be Vegas, I'm not leaving anytime soon or something. I'd love to see him in any capacity. He over-delivered with Kevin Owens and if that was the end, that's a great end and Kevin Owens did an incredible job there too, but anything with Steve. Also, I feel like he hasn't punched his Legends card enough where he could just come in and tag with somebody. You know what I'm saying? It doesn't happen. Yeah. I know he probably would want it to be at the highest levels, but man, you're a legend. You can do whatever you want. Yeah, chill. A little bit. Just enjoy it. People are just going to be excited to hear the glass break and like they'll start crying. Yeah, I'll be crying because if I hear the glass break, it means I'm going to look at a merch sheet the next day. That's just like Vegas 3/16 sold more than the Farrow plushie. Wait, we got to talk about Farrow because first of all, I almost started crying. You know how I feel about Farrow. When I ask you, I'm like, how's Farrow doing, you're like dogs, I'm obsessed with dogs. I love dogs. I think Farrow is the biggest star of all time. I'm actually sad you didn't bring him. I was going to text him to be like, can you bring him for the interview, but I wouldn't have been able to pay attention. Yeah. He would have just gone under one of these and gone to sleep, but he would have liked the vibe here. This is his final work trip that I'm bringing him on just because at 13, he still got plenty of Peppin' and steps, still thrive him, but he really likes to be home. Liberty likes her boys, Yeti and Farrow together. That's his pack. Yeah. I was his person, but the packs at home, so to be, he's always by brandy, he's always by Liberty, but I wanted him to be at one more major show just to get as much love as he could. Then that way, because the bus is all fun and games when it's not moving, but when the bus is moving, you see him just like, yeah. Even with like the softest bed, he's just constant anxiety. So yeah, now this is his final, his final retirement work trip. Hopefully I can squeeze him into SummerSlim somehow, but I also don't want him out. I watch him walking up the stadium. You want me to take care of him? One time I was in the ring at an indie show in McDonough, Georgia, just I think pre-D-A-W days. I brought him in the ring with me, slid under the bottom rope, he was great, and in the middle of me talking, he got under the bottom rope and just ran to the back. And I'm doing a full, I couldn't say like, "It's sorry, guy, I'm doing a full bit." I knew there were plenty of people back there who would get him. So I wasn't super worried, but when I wrapped the promo, I came back and he wasn't right immediately right there. I'm like, "Oh, no." So then I go down and there was a barbecue food truck that had pulled up behind the locker room and he was just waiting in line like a human. He was like four people back, moving his head, he could smell it, he smelled this truck and bailed over the middle of the ring. So he's very food motivated. Yes. Food motivated. But he's beautiful. Like he's one of the best looking televisioners. He's very, we were very lucky. He had two sisters. They had the split eye and he had the two blues and the pink nose. Whenever somebody like animates them or we put them on merch, I always tell people you got to do the pink nose. It's not really him, the black nose, the pink nose. Also, there's probably something really cool coming with him merch and dies. Wow. I'm excited. Yes. I mean, those little plush things are the best. Right. Everyone should go buy them now if he's retiring from on the road. You know what? Let them, you know, we probably need to do like a little swan song type item for him. But yeah. He's doing well. You're going to do a big like goodbye party with like a peanut butter cake. Does he like peanut butter? So it's weird. He's not, he's like a cat in a sense that it's not like treats, normal treats. Yeah. Like he loves the food we have him. We have him in that new farmer's dog thing. Oh yeah. He loves his food. But he's also, if a treat comes out, it's a lot of mistrust. Like he'll nose it, he'll play around with a little bit. They don't make the call. He's not like the pomeranian you have. It's just a psycho. They always say smaller dogs are crazier. Yeah. Yeti's just true like hell on earth. His nickname amongst the group chat is Hook because I think him and Hook were around each other and I barely know Hook but we were, they were around each other when he was like a little puppy. So we started calling Yeti Hook like since to the day, certain people in that chat, I think his name is Hook. No, it's Yeti. I make me think of the movie Hook because Yeti's clearly from Star Wars, right? No, Yeti is from the ride at Animal Kingdom Expedition Everest. Oh, okay. Yeti. There's not a Yeti in Star Wars. There's a Wookie in Star Wars. Oh, okay. That's such a, that's such a bad question. That. It wasn't a real question. It was just, it was like, and the problem is now I can't tell you. Take back everything that he's nicely said about. I can't say to you, hey, watch Star Wars because there's so much to watch now. There's a lot. It's a lot. I mean, you really could just watch Empire Strikes Back and I feel like the Wookie, you get it. Yeah. You'd understand, you'd be fully plugged in. Do you think I would like it though? Yes. I think Star Wars is for everybody. Here's what, here's, here's some of the Star Wars, I mean, especially when people start talking about heel turns and stuff like this, here's something I always explain to them. George Lucas said it best because as George Lucas got older and the prequels came out and all this stuff, it was more critical while the audience had grown up and the fans were older and they wanted a little more edge, whatever it was, but he said, I made these movies for kids. Basically relax. Yeah. I made these movies for kids. And sometimes when we get going on wrestling and sports entertainment, particularly with my brand and character, I'm thinking like, yeah, but I'm not really, I'm not really worried about you. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like this is, this is maybe for a different audience and I often cite that as an example. If you did, you would, you would probably enjoy it. You could, there's two routes to go. This is, if you're entry level coming into Star Wars, this is just my personal two routes. Please don't eat me alive. You watch the original Star Wars, you know, the ones from, you know, the 70s and through on that Star Wars empire return to the Jedi. You could watch those three, the original three Star Wars, probably would love it. Or you could jump on board with Disney Plus and one of their new series. Okay. For example, you could watch the Mandalorian from it and not need to know if it flushes itself as you go. And Mando is essentially an escort mission where he's babysitting, is essentially what Mandalorian is. And you don't realize that until you're deep in like, oh, this is about him and this person. It's a whole thing. So it's very, it's very cute. Mando is a good way to start doing it. Okay. I'll have my previous notes because it was a lot, but I'll rewatch this. Original Star Wars are one of the Disney Plus series I'd recommend Mandalorian. Wait, do you follow like Marvel and all that other stuff too? The fantasy guy. So I saw the video and I don't know really know why it was a big deal, but of- Robert Downey Jr. Yes. Yeah. Were you like, did you freak out? It's a massive deal. I heard the pop, right? It's like a huge heel turn, right? Well, I heard the pop and I didn't know why. See, I didn't think it was a heel turn because in their world they have the multiverse. And I, I assumed right out of the gate like, oh, it's a variant of Tony Stark who is Dr. Doom. I did not think like, no, he's just Dr. Doom. I feel like there's a common tissue between the movies. But my sister looked at it as the heel turn. She referred to it as bash the beach. Okay. She goes, here's, she literally sent me to the club, it's like, bash the beach. Teal? Yes. Yes. Because, because he is the ultimate baby face of that world and especially how they ended in game as Iron Man to show up as this, you know, very famous villain that had yet the shoes hadn't been filled yet in the Marvel world is shocking, but I think it's all connected. I think it's all connected in a very much a multiverse, which people don't love the multiverse stuff. But it's also kind of a course correction, not unlike WrestleMania was a course correction because they had some issues with what they were doing. The Marvel fans know the issues they had. So they moved, they moved to somebody they know. It's like a wrestling situation. This guy's not working on this champion. Give it back to this guy. You know, like it's a classic, classic situation where Robert Downey Jr. was always going to be a hit, Iron Man won. If you follow the story of how much money he made through movies, it's a beautiful story. I see people like, no, no actor deserves that amount of money. Are you crazy? No actor could go out there and pop a cheap Dr. Doom hood off and show them something and get that type of pop. That's why he's getting the money, you know? Love me some Robert Downey. You got to go in a Marvel movie, I think. That'd be really cool. I think. If those opportunities come up and lately there have been some opportunities like that that come up, if they fit with the WWE schedule, which today is so much different as a company with Hunter and Nick, if they fit, we're absolutely looking at it. I love the idea of telling different stories. Yeah. And there have been so many guys who've moved on to, you know, the piece that my gosh. Oh my gosh. He's crushing. He was like on the late show promoting all the stuff the other day, like, I know. What a stud. Ridiculous. All my, like, yeah. I'm a bit kind of a t-set, but he's, I, I got a wrestler kick out of the first guardians, the very first guardians. I was sitting in like a pool theater and he said something and the two people in front of me, like giggled and the guy was like, that's the t-step. And they had this little conversation in my heart. I was like, good for wrestling. Good. Like, that's all I thought like, yeah, I was like, good for wrestling. It was a really sweet moment. I love that. So I'm like, I think you'd be a great cat in America. I mean, you basically, you can't, you can't beat Chris Evans, man. So handsome. Oh, yeah. Such a, such a, just a man. Yeah. But there's a lot of, there's a lot of people who circle the Captain America area that I would love to, to plug in. I like that idea of Captain America, particularly if you really, in the movies, stress this as well. It's a man lost in time. There was this golden age of America where all we did was raw raw USA and then the America that he comes back to, not the same, but the morals and the intent and the love is still there. And he kind of still is that way. So yeah. Nothing to love for Captain America. Um, seeing of America, have you watched the Olympics at all, been watching? Have you had time? Not one bit. Really? Not one bit. And the... Someone vials is like, she's the one with gold. Oh, she's the, she's the goat. She's the one with gold. She's the one with gold. She's the one with gold. I just followed our gold medal winner. Yeah. Anytime there's a new gold medal because I saw her wearing the goat necklace. Yeah. Yeah. And I've seen her story on Netflix. I just watched the trailer for it yesterday and I have to watch it. What an inspiring figure for young people in sports. Yeah. Just an inspiring figure. So that's always, I always like to keep an eye on the medal count if you want USA to dominate the medal count. Of course. You know, so that's a, that's a really, really special somebody. Could you imagine her crossing over the wrestling now or she's like... Well at this point we're hearing about these tryouts they had yesterday. Yeah. I love, I love the athletes that we pick up. Because they are sometimes the ones who are just there to do a job. Right. Yeah. Just give me a shout. But also they have an athlete mindset of I have to do all the work that's doing them. I have to like, they've just got it ingrained in them. So Tiffany Stratton's a great example of this gymnast turned sports entertainer and she, she is. You can clearly see it's in her blood. She wants it. But if that can happen on a regular basis, like Jacob, we just found out Jacob's such a super athlete. If we want to do this, that, that really can be beneficial to the wrestling business because we can all throw a super kick, but not everybody can squat. Right. 600 pounds and pick the big show up over their head like John Cena used to do, things of that. I'm putting that all on Jacob as he goes. Yeah. He'll do it. It's just good to have, to have athletes on that level. I love having artists and art minded people, but I also love a combination of real true and blue athletes as well. Yeah. Something that NXT shines at doing is they pick up these like talents from all different sports. And then you see them and you're like, damn, like they're good. Shawn Michaels and A train, Baldo, anytime I see them together, I can tell that 10 years from now, they'll be, they'll be in the spot, like they'll be leading the business. Wow. I can tell just because they're, they're grooming and training and army. And you have one of the greatest to ever do it in Sean right there as far as to produce and, and help just those two together have made an incredible team. I mean, really, because NXT took a little bit of a toll, they're the ones who dug, got it back to where it's at, and also leveled it out to, hey, here's what it actually is. Right. And the stuff they're putting out there just hats off to both those men because they, I can tell looking at them 10 years from now, they might be the people calling the shots. Wow. Yeah. They're also over going with TNA2, which is kind of exciting. Yeah. Joe Hendry is kind of taking over the whole. Yeah. Cause any good, Joe? Is he any good? I don't know. I just know a song. I talk to him. I talk to him. I feel like he's a, I was asking around just because he's got all the buzz in the world. Yeah. And I love when you have all the buzz in the world, it's even better when you're really good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause when you have all the buzz in the world, it's a dance that people do in the crowd. Yeah. And then it goes away. Yeah. But when you have all the buzz in the world and you're actually going to deliver, because I didn't do an interview on my show, he's been doing it like 11 years or something. Yeah. And this song is what really broke it for him, which is wild. Like, I saw him do a music video for Kurt Angle at what culture pro wrestling and thought like, yep, he'll, he'll be, he'll be just fine. Yeah. Cause even if he can't wrestle, which apparently he can, that's just next level. Happy for him. Yeah. Yeah. Drew loves him by the way. Drew. Cause they're McIntyre. Oh. Cause they're both Scottish. Yes. They always say like nice things. Yeah. I can't understand a word, Drew says. I feel like a few times I talk to Joe, I know exactly what he's saying. But I don't know if that's mean, just Drew seems more Scottish. I, Joe's probably not listening. He's busy writing another song and Drew's definitely not listening cause he's busy hating punk and hating Seth. Hating everybody. Hates everyone. Yeah. And now Seth is special guest refereeing their match, which is going to be interesting. There's a good picture of me and Drew. I think Wade Barrett has a, me and Drew sitting on a bus when we were legit, just kids 22. Yeah. And the reason there wasn't room for us to each have our own seats. So we're sitting together like this, just smiling and all the joy you have in your youth, that thing goes away when you get better and jaded. This is before. Yeah. This is before. So if you see that picture, there was a time when Drew was happy. I mean, he, I met him and he was like one of the nicest people and by the way, the heels they always say are the nicest. So maybe that's why people think you're thinking. I don't think it's true. I don't think it's true. It used to be. Really? Yeah. I don't know. They're nicer, who's a bad guy, bad girl who's really nice? Anyone you can think of out of the gate, to me they're difficult. Well, for you, but I'm talking about me, like when I meet them and when you talk to them, it's different. Drew kinda maybe. Sh*t out of them, you know. Kind of. Lava Ray Dudley is a sweetheart. Yeah. He was always a bad guy. Yeah. Lava's one of the smartest people in the business. Yes. I learned so much from him. I will say working busted open with those guys kind of helped make me in a sense. But the smartest people in the business. Yeah. I mean, every time I see him, I feel like he's about to say something to him. Yeah. Just wisdom, wisdom, wisdom, wisdom. Yeah. I mean, we talked to Olympics, we talked about you trending as Joe Burrough is trying to be you. It's not Halloween yet, but. He's got to finish the story. He's got to finish the story. I mean, I really hope not, but as long as it's not the Chiefs because I'm bored of it already, I'm a hater. Yeah, no, that's okay. It's... And I wanted the Niners to win really bad. The Niners, I think, are going to be my theme to go around. Well, and you love Kittle. Yeah. That's your guy. That's what you're doing. That's the best. Yeah. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what I'm doing. and brand guy too, right? Him and Kittle, exchanged masks before? Yeah, that's real. At the Mexico game. - Everyone's saying yes because they're saying yes. But some other ways that you've been trending kind of lately, and I want to get your things on this, it's obviously like, it's election year, and politics are running wild, and people like to talk, you know, everyone kind of, people are like, it's coding everyone for president back to Mr. USA, we love him so much. What's kind of your take on all of that? - Well so, it's funny that it's been kind of brought up a bunch lately because as shocking as this might seem to people, both, you know, we live in a society where it's really like, you got your democratic party, you got your republican party. - Yeah. - So few people get to fall in the moderate range anymore, even though so many of us have like a moderate mindset. But I actually got approached by, I won't, I won't say the people directly, but I got approached by individuals from both parties about potentially running for an office in Georgia. - Oh shit. - And that's probably as far as I can say, but it's something that was really, genuinely appealing. And here's what's appealing to me, is that politics is policy. Policy is one thing to me, but the idea that you can take your sphere of influence, whatever, this modicum of fame that wrestling sports entertainment gave me to help people seems like the greatest gift. - Right. - And again, I don't know if it's something well, depending on how long I stay in this game. I don't want to outstay my welcome, but that's something that's become very appealing, especially when presented to me, the possibilities that could come. - Oh wow, that would be, I would move to Georgia, I think. I think I would have to. - As we say, me and my brother-in-law, it's God's country. - Wow. - Yeah, we love Georgia. - I don't know how good the suit games would be when you're running for office and it's good now. - Suit games, real important, 'cause you can't just go with the, I'm blue, so I wear the blue tie. I'm red, I wear the red tie. You gotta really shake it up. Basically, you gotta get the old whites real mad, like that you're breaking all the rules, you know? But the rules need to be broken. - Yeah, I mean for sure. - Joe Biden just put out a wonderful statement about younger minds to completely different outlooks and some of the topics that people are still discussing while they are ludicrous considering the planets falling apart. - Right. - There's all these things that we could do universally together, but instead we're talking about something from 1960 that was already decided, you know? - You have to live in like the now of it, I don't know. - Live in the now. - Yeah. - Live in the now. - But I know, speaking of suits, I wore these pants for you and you wore red. - Thank you, but it's still though, it's a sense of occasion. Are you interviewing anybody else? - No. - This is it. - Greg said no. Does anybody else, he said- - Greg said no. - Well, there's like a bazillion people in the hotel, so I didn't know who was being interviewed and who- - Can I say something that happened in the hotel? - Hit me. - So I was like, oh, I don't know what I'm gonna see. If I see some people, I kind of know like I'll go up and say hi to them. I got into the elevator with Gunther and I was like, I never met him before. And I was like, I don't like to bother you guys, especially in the hotel because it's like, you have fans at the door and stuff. When I tell you, I've never been like more scared. Like he's very intimidating looking. I didn't say anything. And like he was getting his food. Like I'm not gonna be that person. But like, you know, you walk in and you're like- - More handsome than he'd go, huh? - I mean, sure, yeah. - So back earlier on the ESPN interview, they gave me the title. They said, you're currently the best wrestler in the world. Do you think you're the best wrestler in the world? And I went on with my answer or whatnot. But had I gone any further, I probably would have said, if it's not me, it's this guy. - Yeah. - Because as far as a wrestling fan, he's everything I ever wanted to be. Just that legit thinking man's wrestler, but also just a bruise. Just physically so impressive for his size and his glow up, particularly some of you, you're into fitness. Like the fact that he went from that and he was great when he was big, big and robust, but now he's even better. - Yeah. - And like he's taking it so seriously and committed to it. He's an outstanding talent. Not the nicest guy in the world. - Oh. - Not the nicest guy in the world, but outstanding talent. WWE is blessed to have him. - Oh, okay. So when I'm happy, I didn't say hi. You probably would have yelled at me. - No, I think maybe, maybe actually, yeah. - People aren't usually mean to me though, because I'm like a girl. I like to find myself. If I'm like, oh my God, hi. They're like, oh, she's nice. They don't know that I'm really crazy. - So you got to get Gunther on here. Greg, make it happen. - And yeah, and punk too. 'Cause I just want to talk to him about trolling. - He's such a great interview. Plus he has a great dog, Larry. Larry made it into some merch. Larry's on some merch now. So in the Faroe or head to head. - Oh, okay. Well, Faroe is ciring so much. - I think they're both super old too though. So this is perfect for them. They're legends. They're in the legends, please. - Well, they're telling me I have to rap even though I want to keep talking to you. - I kind of knew you had to rap about 10 minutes ago because I was watching the clock. - I was watching it too, but it's far away. - But also, I'm a nice guy. So I just stayed. - You didn't do a hell, but he didn't do a hell yeah. So he wasn't bored. If you were bored by the cops, look at him looking at his watch. Don't look at your watch. - Hell yeah. - Okay. Anyway, this has been great. He's never going to talk to me again after this interview. - No. - But I got like an hour at least. - We'll do another one. If I'm able to defeat Solisico and I have this Bud Light that Brian has talked about, then I will have to follow up on it. - Yeah, I would say New York, but you're flying straight to Florida, so. - Oh yeah, yeah. - You're going to be in New York and too excited and realized and it's coming all the year. - You got to do both shows though. - Florida needs their live event. - Yeah, that's true. - And fanatics needs us there. So I'm going to do them both. - Well, everyone, if you are not going to fanatics, I mean, it's sold out. They still can go, they're still people, they're still taking it to available. Go, yeah. - All right, go. - Yeah. - All right, cool. Get your Faroe merch, watch SummerSlam, watch Cody on SmackDown. Just keep living your life. Be nice to everybody. - Love it. - And thank you so much, Cody. As always, I love you. I appreciate you for coming on. - Thank you so much. Thank you. - I just want to keep this going to piss off Greg. - Greg's been great about it. Greg's too. - Greg's amazing. - Greg, the other day, I'm going to say off camera. I probably shouldn't call him by name, but. - Oh, sorry. - Greg. - The gentleman who helps with all the media is outstanding at his job. He left me in the room with CVV for what I thought was the best interview I'd done. - Before this one. - Yeah, I thought like, I was, I'll walk away from this interview and that was a lot of fun. Didn't say anything dumb. I didn't think I said anything dumb in that CVV interview. And then I got butchered to the point where I thought like, okay, well, I wasn't lying. So what, do you defend yourself? - Yeah. - No, you just let it happen. - Let it just, just the fallout. So I can't imagine the fallout on this interview. - I mean, we really didn't talk about anything. - But bites going to come after me. The kilo drinkers are going to come after me. - Dump there, maybe. - I said he was handsome. - You said he wasn't nice. - You said he wasn't nice. - Yeah, he's not. - Most handsome people aren't though. I've learned that in my life. So those handsome guys aren't nice. - If you're handsome, when you're young, you're not nice. If you're not handsome and you got little. - Ugly. - And yeah, if you're like a kid who awkward. - Ugly, ugly. - If you're awkward and then you grow up, then you're, it's a whole different attitude. - The same thing with girls though too, if you're like ugly girl. And then you get hot, you're nicer to guys. - All the, - Guys are like, that's the one you gotta get. - All the like, hotty guys and girls from my middle school are all like stunted and short and fat. And they, they got what was coming to them. - I was, by the way, I look better now than I did in high school, even though high school is cool. - Glowing up. - I'm a cool one. - Goin' through style. - Yeah, me and him should be besties. - Hell yeah. - Do you wanna go? I don't know what we should do. Thank you so much. Listen to Gabby AF. You haven't become a subscriber, become a subscriber because Greg's gonna hook me up with so many WWE guests like all the time. So it's gonna be like amazing. - Doors open. - Doors open. Enjoy and have a good weekend. Be safe. Love you guys. Oh, L-A-M-N-D. Love you most, go back. That's nice thing. [ Silence ]
