My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 330 - CODY'S BACK IN (FROM THE TOP ROPE WITH JARED CARRABIS)

Episode Date: February 9, 2024

Jared Carrabis is BACK in the Basement to record another From The Top Rope edition of the show, recapping the WrestleMania press conference where Cody chose Roman Reigns and got slapped by The Rock! ****************************************   My Mom's Basement is a weekly podcast hosted by Robbie Fox, started in March 2019, to discuss movies, music, comic books, wrestling, mixed martial arts, and more with his friends and idols alike!   Subscribe on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/MyMomsBasementWithRobbieFox Subscribe on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-moms-basement/id1457255205 Follow Robbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatrobbiefox Follow Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobbieBarstool My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basementYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Alright, welcome back to My Mom's Basement, but another emergency from the top rope edition of My Mom's Basement with Jared Karabas, The Rocket. We are here post-WrestleMania press conference, and we've got some answers. Not all the answers, but we've got some answers as to where WrestleMania 40 is going now. Obviously the, we want Cody, Cody cry babies, Cody Bobos. If you want to call them that it seems to have worked. We're getting Cody versus rains at mania. Will the rock be involved? I think so.

How he's going to be involved. I don't know. Jared, what did you think of the WrestleMania press conference last night? I'm surprised that you came out and said that we have answers. I feel like we have less answers now than ever. I feel like we have a little bit of answers, though. We know it's official. Cody chooses Reigns.

They're fighting at WrestleMania. Okay, but like fucking a week ago, he said The Rock has Roman. It changes by the week. So just because Cody chose Roman last night, I mean, literally seven days ago, as we record this, Cody chose the rock for Roman. So, I mean,

I don't know. I, I, I, I, you could sit here and say, okay, yeah.

As of right now, Roman and Cody is set for WrestleMania 40, but Dwayne, the rock Johnson seems pretty pissed off. And, and there there's a lot of different angles. I don't want to like jump all over the place, but when we do get to the point about talking about Seth Rollins, I am, I am very intrigued to talk about that. Yeah. Seth is definitely, he was kind of like trotted out there just to be put down last night in a weird way. Obviously they might've might've set something up.

Tag team was, we'll get to that. We'll get to that. As far as Cody and the rock, I think they made a great pivot last night. And I say, it's a pivot. A lot of people are saying this was the plan all along.

We got worked all along. You breaking down how convoluted is with Cody saying he wants the rock to take his shot. And then Cody's taking his shot. No real explanation other than like, we had a conversation, but I changed my mind. I don't think people should be given WWE the credit for this being a work all along. I think it's very clear that they pivoted instantly, which was a great move. And I love it because we're getting a little bit of heel rock hollywood rock and hollywood rock is the best rock in my opinion so i'm happy about where they took this especially like the post

interview with triple h where the rock comes in he's like i'll fucking slap the teeth out of his mouth like that was incredible that might have been the best part of the whole thing yeah like they're back to like a little bit of like sprinkling in some reality here i thought like the funniest line of the night though was punk being like all the people that were booing the rock for taking cody spot he was like where the fuck were you guys 10 years ago which is totally fair um yeah so i think there's some negatives there's some positives i I think for, for you, Bob,

a negative, maybe you can blame it on the fact that they didn't play his music, but virtually no pop at all for Cody being like, I'm challenging. Like the crowd was like, okay. Like, like it was a very underwhelming.

Yeah. I expected it to be like when Daniel Bryan said, like, I'm going to be in the main event and meet the fucking Yes Movement taking over all that stuff. It definitely wasn't that. They should have played his music, though. I feel like if they played his music when he came out instead of just like he's hitting on the mic and he's like, is this on? This is bullshit.

Yeah. Another thing that like I love Cody, but the way it was written, the way that everything went down over the last week, he's like, this is bullshit. It's like you could have prevented this by just being like i choose you on smack yeah like what's bullshit about it you said you didn't want the shot so they made a match without you right yeah i don't know yeah it's it's very weird some of it is great storytelling but like you can poke holes in it very easily but you can't come out here and be like this match that I chose myself is bullshit. It's like,

well, this is only happening because you said to like, what are you talking about? But like, it's a little bit of Hollywood rock, but it's also not like when he went on McAfee show, that was a little bit of Hollywood rock, but this is like a different rock this is

like a scary like angry like his own interpretation of the tribal chief character rock yeah it's bloodline rock like we've never seen this before like they're like heel rock is still cool like heel rock is funny

it's arguably his most entertaining version of himself this rock is like I'm gonna heel rock is funny. It's arguably his most entertaining version of himself. This rock is like, I'm going to fucking kill you. Rock for my family. Like talking to Cody, he was very like, it was almost like he was out of breath.

The way he was like, really just breathing deep, angry about the whole thing. I loved his promo on McAfee. I loved his promo at the press conference, the way he was drawn out the booze, taking long pauses before he hits the finally. And I was surprised by the level of booze that he got,

especially because it's like a Vegas crowd, maybe some out of towners there for the super bowl, just going to the free press conference. But the crowd hated the rock. Like he got some slight Rocky chance, maybe 20% of the crowd has given it to him, but he was playing into it when he's like, well,

here's the family tree of the one true Royal family in wrestling, a direct shot at Cody, his entrance and everything. That was fucking awesome. Like, I hope that maybe somewhere along the way that they were going to lean into this, but do you think originally when the rock came back,

he was just going to be grateful rock and like before cody fans turned on it yes i mean like think about it he hasn't been in the ring for 10 years in his mind he's probably like oh these people are gonna love this shit like i haven't i haven't been around for 10 years and like now i'm gonna i'm gonna take a break from hollywood and come back and give him a dream match. And like, it is a dream match. It's not like, like when we got Brock versus Goldberg at WrestleMania 20, that was a quote unquote dream match. But everyone was like, we know that you're leaving. Like, we don't really care. There's no payoff to this.

You guys are just having a match for the paycheck and you can throw Austin in there as a special guest referee, but who gives a fuck? Like, this is more just like all right if this were at summer slam and this this is a dream match that people have wanted for a long time but maybe you pulled the trigger too soon or too late or whatever that the timing just wasn't right but i because a lot of this what i thought was cool about last night is you had to pay attention to all of it you had to watch the press conference but then you also had to pay attention to social media because there was a really cool shot that wasn't part of the press conference of the rock

and roman walking out of the arena together like it was totally like the first time that undertaker and kane got together after you thought that they were just gonna like fight forever and then like that shot of them like walking side by side you're like holy fuck like these guys are world beaters individually but together oh my god like that like the first time you saw undertaker and kane together kind of gave me similar vibes when i saw roman and rock walking out together i was like this is something i never thought i would see but you think about the storyline, like the story that they're telling us. Yeah. Like, all right.

Like they could fight over the head of the table, but they sit at the same table. Like they should be on the same team. Like it's the same table right now. Yeah. Yeah. Like Cody, the way they went about that was great too. When Roman first takes a shot at Dusty and he basically says like you're gonna have an irrelevant career like your dad says like your dad and Cody's reaction is so good it seems

so like genuine out of him where he was like about to say something he's just like oh all right all right you want to go there we're going there and then do we have the clip of him actually given his promo and then The Rock response, because everything about this was, uh, it was a perfect piece of business as they say in the, in the wrestling industry. It was juicy, Bob.

I got, I'll pull it up for you right now. Uh, this is, uh, if you, if you know what it's, it's a minute and a half,

but it's worth the minute and a half. It is. It's worth the minute and a half. Um, hold on. My thing is fucked up. This worked fine 20 seconds ago. When we tested it, yeah.

Here we go. If the high chief, his grandfather, was here, they'd be ashamed of you. And then the dramatics zoom in on Roman's face. So good. and then the dramatics zoom in on Roman's face so good and then in this moment you don't see it obviously but The Rock steps up to Cody and that shot where he just comes into frame oh it's so good

yeah he's like what the fuck did you say yep The Rock I'll save my take for after but Like, what the fuck did you say? Yep. The Rock, I'll save my take for after, but. He made Roman look tiny, by the way, standing next to him. Not a lot of people can do that. Let me make something perfectly clear to you. when you talk about his family, you're talking about my family.

What? When you're talking about his ancestors, you're talking about my ancestors. Great delivery. And when you're talking about his blood, you're talking about his blood, you're talking about my blood. So now, we have a problem.

No! No! So good. Eamon's reaction is so good. They all start cursing up his storms and they get real. They're like, what the fuck did you do? I'll fucking slap the shit out of you. Like, I loved all the bleeping. And they weren't great with the bleeping.

You could hear almost every shit you could hear. But so fucking good. The way they pulled it apart and then also got Seth involved was great. Because Seth didn't really have much to do other than be told you're wearing your wife's shoes and nobody cares about your championship out there right starting to be like why the fuck did you i get that he's the champ so you want to have him involved but it was almost detrimental to him to have him involved until the end where i was like all right he's sticking up for cody it feels like they're building to a tag team match i I don't know if it could happen at the Elimination Chamber

because of Seth's injury. Some people, Brian Alvarez is speculating that that's going to be the night one main event. It's going to be the tag team match, and then night two will be Cody and Reigns. I don't think they'll do that for Mania, to be honest, but I don't know. Anything's on the table now.

They definitely made it seem like they're building towards a tag though because that's also i guess seth's character right like he's someone that is the protector of the shield uh no pun intended um you know when when uh cody first came back it's like this motherfucker tried to take this company down like he left created our competition uh he did the whole triple h sledgehammer thing on the on the throne like he fucking hated us and now he's back to cheers fuck him like it's it's weird because like seth was like the same thing yeah it's like he was he was he had heel tendencies but he was right all along

like it's like no like i've been in wwe i stayed here like i didn't like leave for hollywood i didn't get a fat contract with aw like i stayed here i love this place and then everyone's like yay cody the destroyer of wwe he's back like and and then when when punk came back it's like no dude fuck you like you left and you trashed this place and it's like no like i i'm and then they're like, boo, Seth, yay punk. None of it made sense. At least from like a fan reaction perspective. And now you have this where like,

I get the Cody originally was someone that he opposed, but it's like, no rock. Like you came back from Hollywood and now you like took this guy's spot. Fuck you. Like he's been here working the last two years. So it makes sense for Seth to want to back Cody and all this. So that's why like when when people were saying, oh, it was a tough look for Seth, like he was just kind of standing off to the side. I'm like, no, no, no. Like it's kind of like character development where he is like the junkyard dog of the WWE.

Like he's the protector he's the defender of wwe uh and who has needed defense more than anyone recently than fucking cody road so it just it's more just kind of speaks to that part of his character but and cody stood up for him on raw as well when mcintyre went after him cody was the one to chase McIntyre out of the ring. So they are building a little Apollo-Rocky connection there where former enemies, maybe current friends. I like that as well. I like, like you said, for a while, it was Seth standing out there to do nothing.

But then at the end, they at least redeemed him a little bit there. And he was hot too. They put him in a segment with The Rock, you know, like just being in a segment with The Rock elevates you to that level. Cody looked like a fucking megastar getting cheered over the rock at that presser last night.

Like just that presser elevated Cody and probably set up a Cody verse rock one-on-one match. If they want it to go in that direction later. Right. I mean, rock's got to cash those stock options. TKO checks. Yeah.

But I think when you, when you kind of like look at how everything shakes out last night i i think everyone ends up coming out looking good like yeah i i think like they were part what were the part that made me laugh um i think like the rock said something oh when he was like calling the the cody cry babies and like roman just started laughing i was like roman is not reacting to the rock like it's someone that's coming for his title at WrestleMania. It's like, they kind of see him buddy,

buddy, even before the rock had his moment to kind of like turn heel and focus on Cody. So I'm excited for that. And what I hate to admit, Bob, and you kind of alluded to this is like the rock kind of did look like the head of the table there like he kind of did look like if the if there was a higher level to the bloodline it looked like yeah like the the rock

is definitely not going to be a subordinate to roman reigns no roman fell in line basically he was just like all right i guess you're the leader now like and that's an interesting power struggle too that i think is probably going to explode before mania like i don't know if they'll rush it necessarily that quick we do have a couple months till mania i view this as a triple threat match i still think that's the direction where they're going now where eventually the rock is going to say all right i'm the head of the table i should have the fucking title and they're going to butt heads over that or they're going to do the tag team match and they're gonna have a disagreement and lose because of that i think we're building towards a triple threat still and i think that's the move i think

that's the smart move i think it feels like the biggest match in the world right now yeah i i agree with you um i know melzer has said that he thinks that roman could be working both nights um the rock and i don't think he'll do it either because i don't think that that like i think if that Roman could be working both nights. The Rock and Cody. I don't think he'll do it either because I don't think that that like, I think if you tell this story right, you can get to a triple threat where it's not just viewed as, oh, we wanted the Rock for the star power

and he's not like conditioned well enough to go one on one for 30 minutes. So we gave him the triple threat to give him a breather. Like you can make it as like, like no like this is the story that because like when we just our last episode having the discussion about well cody's story has to be against roman because the way that that roman uh beat him at wrestlemania 39 well now you can interject the rock into this after you just got bitch slapped in front of the world by the rock.

Finishing your story could be taking down both of them like that family. Like now it becomes family versus family, which is certainly part of his story. It's him versus the rock, which is part of the story now. And it's him versus Roman, which is part of the story. Like the story, like Cody's story isn't beating Roman Reigns. Like there's so many different elements to it so yeah triple threat is it seems to be the way to go

but I swear to fucking god if Roman loses his title without getting pinned I will I don't think they'll do that but I don't think they'll do that but like if the rock gets pinned that's certainly a reason for Roman to turn on him and hate him.

Like you fucking are the reason I lost my title. I do think Cody will pin Reigns. I think The Rock will get taken out of the match by Solo or something. I think the bloodline will turn on him as he's about to win. Like we can't let our leader lose to another person in the bloodline. And then you set up maybe Cody and and rock versus solo and roam in it fucking summer slam and then they'll do their match in saudi probably because they're paying trillions of dollars did you see they they just brought the undertaker out to present a trophy

at a soccer game i did i so i didn't watch the clip i kind of just saw like uh a highlight of it on twitter and i just saw like the the were out and the lightning bolts. I was like, I don't know. It just feels like... Holding up the trophy like it's an urn. And I love they make him throw the singlet on. They're like, we don't care that you're retired for years. Get that fucking singlet and coat on. He puts it on. He posted

such a funny picture from the plane home too. He's like, just got done watching soccer. Now going home to see my queen. He's like, is that a real Undertaker post? I get that. We talked to watching soccer. Now going home to see my queen. My queen. He's like, is that a real Undertaker post? I get that. You know, we talk to him. He's like, I kind of want to live a real life after being a dead man for the last 40 years of my life. But it's like, I don't know.

We kind of just want to see you be a dead man on social media. We don't want to see you talking about your queen. Yeah, we don't want to see Mark. Save Mark for your close friends. Yeah. Yeah. He needs a close friend story is what he needs um let's go through some other stuff happened at the presser i just want to quickly go through it triple h gave the big introduction off the start and i viewed this as almost the start of writing vince out of history because he talked all about wrestlemania one and all of the people that were involved in making WrestleMania one,

the event that it became, you know, we're here today talking about WrestleMania 40, no mention of Vince, obviously. And Michael Cole said, Pat McAfee is undefeated at WrestleMania. So we are striking that impromptu Vince match from the record from last

year's show. Oh, he's going to get the benoit treatment for sure and right now he probably should i think that's probably probably for the best so that means that roman broke the streak yeah i mean brock is getting what he's not in the video game like he's not they took him off the poster yeah he's getting wiped brother so yeah vince brock's next yeah um bianca was next to come out she plugged a reality show crowd seemed to like her um rhea ripley obviously huge pop good

promo it's a tough spot for a lot of these wrestlers to go out there everyone knows that they're waiting for the rock and to find out what's happening in the main event but i thought rhea did a pretty good job with her promo. And then Becky came out to interrupt it. And she had this great line where she's like, mommy is going to find out what it's like to be a bottom when the man comes around. Oh, she's talking sex.

Like, ah, they faced off crowds seem to love it. That seems to be the WrestleMania match. I think it's smart. Feels like a very big match. I think Rhea Ripley should probably headline the elimination chamber as well she might be the most over person in australia when they go down there i mean unless you could get the rock maybe but right now i'm like i don't know let

rhea headline it she's gonna be like bad bunny in puerto rico yeah that's a good point um seth rollins was next he eventually got interrupted by roman they had a good little back and forth i like seeing seth and roman together whenever they're doing a feud when they had that match at the royal rumble years ago and seth came out fucking shield gear and beat him via dq because he made him so mad he couldn't break the five count that was great i hope we see them have like a longer program down the road i i think that is, there's so much more meat left on the bone in Seth Rome, Seth Roman. Yeah, I agree.

I mean, I, I, that's one of my favorite matches. I, I guess the ending was poetic in a way, like it was good storytelling, but I wish that it had a more,

I guess, definitive finish to it. It's like mind games, mankind versus Shawn Michaels. You know, you get a DQ finish after like a five-star match it makes it feel a little weird or yeah nath rollins versus john cena at summerslam put on like a fucking five-star classic only to have john stewart decide the ending of that one that was that was wild yeah people forget that john stewart turning

heel and then he came out on raw and like explained himself the next day and cut a promo about how cena abandoned that was oh i'm gonna try to forget that happened and then what we have been talking about happened with cody rains roman seth even getting involved a little bit hayman oh my god hayman shocked face when the slap happened. He was like, oh! He made this noise from the bowels of his stomach. And then all this stuff afterwards, them playing into the, I think they're playing into the TKO board member thing when Reigns, or when Punk mentioned it.

Punk mentioned it, and then Rock saying to Triple H, you better fix this or we will. That line gave me chills. It was like, okay, now they're just aligned and they're telling triple h like you as the executive fix what just happened which is also very funny as they're the heels so it makes sense that they're forgetting this but like you brought up the family first it was one of those things where pushing the dusty comment under the rug and're like, he fucking talked about our family. This is crazy. You can't be talking about our family.

I love the family tree presentation, too. They knew what they were doing with that, and The Rock built it up like it was going to be this awesome reveal, and they put the family tree up there. Nobody gave a fuck. They were like, what the hell is this? They got Tamina on there. They got The Rock's daughter on there who's running NXT.

She had a funny tweet. She was like, please leave me out of this. I'm trying to run NXT down here. Yeah. Trinity was on there they got the rock's daughter on there who's running nxt she had a funny tweet she was like please leave me out of this i'm trying to run nxt down here yeah yeah trinity was on there yep yeah they even have like the other uh the other siblings there um you can't write them out of the family tree even in kayfabe you gotta you gotta include them what the ones that are kind of like in the indies yeah yeah yeah i mean like you have to acknowledge that they exist for sure uh yeah you have to acknowledge them did you want the um the clip of that backstage segment uncensored this was from someone that was got it oh uncensored uncensored yeah this was someone was filming the screen um from the crowd I don't know how the sound quality is going to be, but...

Have him talk shit about our family again. That's what happens. Have him talk shit about it. We'll fix it. Have him talk shit about our family again. Slap his fucking teeth out as well. That's a great line and i love that the rock is playing into it as much as he is in terms of being a heel i didn't think he would ever get to that point ever again i thought dwayne johnson is too big a movie star and he's doing jungle cruise with disney and he's doing fucking moana the voice

i'm like he's he's almost too big to say things like i'll slap the fucking teeth out down his throat but then he says shit like that i'm like all right you know what every ounce of me that was like fucked a rock for forcing himself into that main event has now flipped and i'm like thank god the rock is in this main event. It's crazy. They've made me both rally behind Cody more and rally behind the rock more. Yeah. I think when,

uh, I think it was Meltzer who said like, you know, trust me when I tell you the rock doesn't care if he gets cheered or if he gets booed and I'm sitting there and I'm thinking to myself, there's no fucking way that that's true. Like he definitely cares if he gets booed and I'm sitting there and I'm thinking to myself, there's no fucking way that that's true. Like he definitely cares if he gets booed. And then last night,

I just didn't imagine like the rock didn't imagine. I would come back after 11 years spent away, announce a WrestleMania main event against my cousin who've people have wanted to see me face for his basically whole career. And everyone would chant for Cody Rhodes during that. I don't think The Rock anticipated that, expected it. I don't think he loved it, but now I think he does. Now I think The Rock views a lane to get towards WrestleMania.

And he's like, all right, now I get to have a little fun on the mic. Right. Instead of just being like, oh, the millions and millions. I'm so grateful. Finally home. Now he's like, I'm here with the fucking Cody cry babies that are, you know, typing on their computer with Cheeto dust fingers.

And like, I want that rock. I want it to come out with a fucking guitar and write a song about the Cody cry babies, which I'm embracing. I love the phrase Cody cry babies. My brother did text me a great suggestion. He's like,

if they wanted to make it a cool thing, the roads warriors is kind of sick if the fan base wants to be like we ain't the crybabies we're the fucking roads warriors and we put them in that main event i mean someone get a roads warrior sign on raw next week and i'll send you a free shirt well uh the rock did acknowledge that there are cody fans and cody crybabies like there's two there's two groups so there could that could totally exist the cody fans and cody crybabies like there's two there's two groups so there could that could totally exist the cody crybabies that's a real thing like they absolutely are just crying online about uh the cody bobos but um i think uh this is just a different rock that we've never seen before

and i think i'm just gonna love every second of it like because like the hollywood rock was cool like he was an asshole but he was funny yeah like this heel rock is gonna be scary like he's like you threatened his family so now he wants to slap your fucking teeth down your throat so like it's just a different rock that we haven't seen and just that that image of roman and rock aligned like obviously it's going to be short-lived but if we get to see that in some form or fashion sometime between now and wrestlemania like that's gonna be cool like i'm gonna be very very into that bro the rock with bloodline trunks that would be crazy like that just like the the thinking about that is like oh fuck jared's gonna fucking scotch tape

a poster of that right above his bed tonight yeah i mean if i'm jay uso i'm like damn dude uh you know this whole single thing is great and all but i gotta go back to the bloodline like that's that's all got any spots left in the bloodline he's the dave chappelle meme he's like any more bloodline spots there yeah well he's gonna end up getting gunther at wrestlemania now right no i think they're still gonna do jay versus jimmy oh yeah you're right i think jay versus jimmy is the match this year didn't jay just come out and like challenge gunther for wrestlemania did that not just happen on raw for chamber i think oh i think yeah see like come on jay interference by jimmy in that

match i think it's braun breaker gunther i think that's that's the the match right there that's terrible no braun breaker i like braun breaker men slapping me i like braun breaker but he's literally just like playing brock lesnar like fine euro he's doing all the things that brock was supposed to yes he is yes yeah but he's himself he's a steiner yes he is but he's literally like they literally just gave him brock lesnar's wrestlemania plans and he's literally like they literally just gave him Brock Lesnar's WrestleMania plans. And he's like, yeah, I can do all that.

Yeah. Yeah. He's a fucking big guy like that. He can do that. You know what? You know what? You know what? It's not his fault.

You know what, Bob? To, to, to borrow a line from my friend, Sean Latham, earn it. Oh,

no, he has, he's been an artist for fucking years. He's become like a fan favorite. He just got called up and got the Brock Lesnar spot. What? That's how you enter? Who else are you going to give the Brock spot to?

You don't have to give it to anyone. JD McDonough? Yes. No. No. I wouldn't give it to JD McDonough, but you can definitely, like if Braun Breaker, you went from a dream match of Brock Lesnar and Gunther at WrestleMania to an NXT rookie call up like that's honestly like Carmelo anymore.

What? He's not a rookie anymore. I mean, to the main roster. No, but the main roster rookie for years. He's fucking great. What I would wrap. This is a hot take, but not really. I would rather see Carmelo Hayes and trick Williams on the WrestleMania card than Gunther and Braun Breaker like that.

That feud is fucking awesome right now. It is. They're awesome. I got nothing bad to say about either of those guys. But WrestleMania is two nights. You could fucking do that. You could call him up and put that match on wrestlemania put that match on wrestlemania bro half the roster's injured you can do that i know and he like it's fresh like the payoff

you have the like he just turned heel the it's the perfect amount of time to build up to wrestlemania like i would i would love if that match was on the card. I'm down for that. I'm not down for the Braun Breaker slander before he even gets a shot on the main roster. I'm not slandering him. I think this guy is going to be a big star. I'm not saying I don't like him. I'm not saying I don't enjoy his work. You're laying a little layer of slander on him.

It's like putting butter on toast. You're putting a little slander on him. It would be different if I said it feels like he just took Brock's spot. Like he literally took Brock's spot. Like all the shit somebody had is going to do between the rumble and mania is just Bron Breaker instead of Brock Lesnar. Like it doesn't make sense. And if you say it fast like that, like Braun Breaker, Brock Lesnar, like,

it's like, you could even confuse their names like that. No, no one's confused. What if they just call him like Brock Breaker? What if they, they quit name change and they're like, and by the way,

you're coming out to Brock Steiner. It would be cool. Brock Stein. That does sound good. I'm, I can't believe that they won't let him just be Braun Steiner or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, it's strange.

It's strange. But honestly, after everything we went through post-Rumble, I was pretty down on Mania. I said, like, this definitely lowers my enthusiasm for the card. We are now in the complete opposite direction. So credit to the WWE. I don't think it was your plan all along, but you did an amazing pivot and you have me back excited for WrestleMania. Maybe more excited than I ever was.

Not ever, but for this year's WrestleMania, I think right now is my peak excitement for it. I saw some people shitting on the press conference too. Some people didn't like it. I cannot believe that. I left the press conference with chills, running into the office in my room to be like telling my girlfriend the whole thing that went down.

It was the meme of the guy being like, and then he fucking said something. My girlfriend was like, all right, I get it. Nice. Good for Cody. I'm fired up now. I'm fired up for the elimination chamber. I'm like, what's going to happen there? What's going to happen on Raw? What's going to happen on SmackDown on Friday?

Everything about it excites me. I'm in foley we want cody cody's winning the title this year finishing the story and then you could go have fucking the legacy feud with orton or the gunther feud after he loses his title there's so many options for cody out there that are fascinating to me with him as the title him as the quarterback him as the guy i just i i'm gonna be a debbie downer for one second oh i don't know no no i i agree with everything you just said i agree with everything you just said i just have a feeling that elimination chamber is gonna feel like it's just dropped in the middle of a WrestleMania build. Like,

I don't think that that does. Yeah. Like, I don't think that that pay-per-view is going to do a time here though. It's different. It's an Australian crowd and 70,000 dude. Yeah. Like it's going to be cool.

It's just going to be like, Hey, and then there's elimination chamber. Like, it's going to be like a It's just going to be like, hey, and then there is Elimination Chamber. Like it's going to be like a big event plopped in the middle of a WrestleMania build. Because like The Rock's not going to be there. Unless The Rock gets involved. Is The Rock willing to fly down to Australia for a day? I don't know.

Dude loves flying places. He loves it. He does. But Australia is like a 24-hour travel thing. If he can get involved, that could definitely – that could feel like a chapter in the story, and that would be the spot to do a big breakup like Roman and Reigns or something like that – or Roman and Reigns.

Roman and Rock, where you could split them off and have them. I don't know, though. That might be too soon as well. To do it, the tag match would be cool at Elimination Chamber. It would be awesome. Can chamber it'd be awesome can seth do that though seem like when seth got injured it was like he'll be just ready in time for wrestlemania yeah that's a good point i forgot i totally forgot he was even hurt what what was that match where he got injured i forget who did he face oh that was when fucking gender

absolutely derailed the rest of his career as he does the most people that try to get in his way uh don't hit the gender merch is on wwe shop.com right now go check it out dude the weirdest part of that was um like tony khan going at gender and gender was like the fuck are you saying fuck me for he was the 50 cent me he was like what the fuck and he said something like who's hook he was at gender c he's like who's hook i don't know who that is he made they made him delete that tweet though no did they really i believe he had to delete the the hook tweet yeah lame that was a fair shot that was like kind of a friendly shot even that was a mcgregor who the fuck is that guy like right that wasn't so bad i like the rivalry between aew and wwe it's made

wrestling better undoubtedly i think it's made wrestling better and aew their people are sleeping on them right now they just had a match hangman page versus swerve strickland on dynamite that was almost as good as any dynamite match i've ever seen like go out of your way to check out that match if you haven't it's fucking awesome i uh i admittedly have not kept up with aw very much recently because your guy mjf he's not not uh wrestling actively i was gonna say he's not with them but i think he's still with them he's just injured his hip is all fucked yeah he's uh he's hurt but i'm and i'm i'm still following my guy big bill that's right dude he just had a fucking unreal dynamite match as well, where they dropped the tag titles to Darby and Sting.

Darby did a suicide dive. Big Bill caught him and did a fucking big boss man slam on the outside on the mat. It was crazy. Great match. Sting dove off the fucking top of the arena. Sting probably will dive off the Las Vegas sphere if you let him. Sting is a madman

who is having his last match next month. I think it's like a month from, maybe a month from like today, this week. He's having his last match ever. Against who? It's Sting and Darby versus the Young Bucks, hand selected by Sting. He said out of all the people that

I guess he's worked with he had the most fun working with the young bucks they did a six-man tag like maybe two years ago at this point that was awesome and the young bucks there was a great spot where the young bucks double super kicked him and he just no sold it and did this and the fucking crowd got on there he went crazy so i think it's gonna be great i mean sting's aew career is 10 trillion times better than anyone could have predicted because he came into it and everyone was like this guy's neck is gonna like break the second he takes a bump he has been diving off large structures for like four straight years he just gets into matches like what can i dive off today he turned into jeff hardy it's crazy yeah yeah

yeah i saw that i saw that spot that they did in that tag match. And I was like, Jesus Christ, man. I had to like Google his age after that. I was like, there's no way he should be doing this and he should not be doing that. Yeah. But maybe he gave Mick Foley pointers. If Mick Foley wants to come back, just tell him what part of the body you got to land on, not to, you know, make your hips disintegrate into dust, I guess. But like Mick's hips are already dust like i feel like sting kind of came into that having not been that guy for 50 years and then he just decided to become that guy in aw so it's like all right i have less wear and tear on the body than obviously mick foley

it's coming in there his fucking hips are held together by duct tape and paper clips his hips i truly and i feel the same way about hulk hogan i feel like his bones at this point are the same consistency as like a piece of bubble gum from a pack of 80s yeah we're like you take a bite and it cracks and it turns into dust immediately and you're like oh that was a bad idea that's what their bones are made of nowadays and that's no disrespect i just think that's probably what it's like. Pretty much. Yeah. Yeah.

I wouldn't disagree with that one bit. But either way, I'm, I'm very excited for WrestleMania. Now I'm back in. I'm back in. Yeah. I,

there's still what? High fifties, 60 days left, I guess. Right. So two full months basically yeah yeah like it's gonna take some twists and turns i feel like i just hope that they make all the right decisions um i think last night was a great way to get everything rained back in i hate it makes me so uncomfortable when fans hijack shit it's like oh you're not

doing what we want like we want it's like no just like enjoy the ride like enjoy like that's why when we talked about but if they just enjoyed the ride we're not getting this press conference you know the fans hijacking the show turned into my favorite wrestlemania main event of all time at 30 and then the fans hijacking the show 10 years later turned into my favorite wrestlemania main event of all time at 30 and then the fans hijacking the show 10 years later turned into this press conference that we're raving about without that it's just a rock being grateful and the rock saying oh and the people and the millions and black adam and theater soon and like all of that like if they didn't go that way they're hijacking the main event at wrestlemania 40 and we're just getting another main event,

like Brock versus Roman 10, where the crowd is just deciding, Ooh, ah, I want to know. They're doing the Bailey chant the whole time. Like I was there for it in new Orleans. And it was like,

damn, like I'm ready to leave before the main event starting. Now we're in a spot where you can't leave before the main event start. Now you got to see what's going to happen. Imagine that they fucking have like, Pin, Rock, and Roman, and then Damian Priest just comes out and cashes in right away and beats him. I wouldn't put it past him.

I don't think it'll happen, but I wouldn't put it past him. The best thing that could happen at WrestleMania is The Rock sticks Cody with a rock bottom and Roman spears the rock and pins Cody and walks out as champion. What if he did the thing that he did with Edge and Brian? He stacked them on top of each other. Stack them. Pin them both.

Fuck these clowns. This guy came back. And the reign that may never end. Yeah. That's what needs to happen. You got Cody, this dude who tried to destroy WWE. You got The Rock who left for Hollywood. And he's back for the paycheck.

Roman's the real hero here. People forget that. People forget that, Roman. I'm going to be honest. You saying this is making me think that you and I need to go to WrestleMania in person and see it happen in person. You and your current fucking Roman Bobo get up. Bobo get up. In my Cody Rhodes shit.

And we might need to just be at WrestleMania to see who's going to come out on top. Who's going to be the real head of the table? Does the head of the table even matter if they haven't been set in the table for two years? As Cody said. Did I ever tell you this was a real Ula Fala? Yeah. How much did you pay for that? I'm not going to say,

but it is... Over $100? Six fix? Not six, three. I mean, I probably had this for... I don't even remember. I bought this two years ago, maybe. But it is I bought it from a Samoan jeweler. Like this is not from like WWE shop. Like this came from a Samoan jeweler.

It took like 35 days to ship. And it's it's made from dried fruit that they paint. Really? Yeah, that's what it's made out of. Yeah, it's the real thing. Fruit or is it's really hard right does it feel like rocks feels like wood honestly huh yeah it feels like painted wood um but yeah like this is the the exact necklace that roman has yeah like i said roman bobo yeah i mean listen i'm on the right side of history here am i not no no no i am absolutely not no no i would be ashamed didn't you hear cody be ashamed

well cody's an idiot i think cody oh yes no no he's a pandering fool and yes he is he's a pandering fool and no i'm on the right side of history the bloodline runs this shit like you can say that there's only one royal family in wrestling but that's just not true this is not true there's one and it's the bloodline no there's there's more than one and you're gonna see at wrestlemania that the rhodes family is gonna come out on top finally a rhodes will be carrying that title over his head around around his shoulder, around his waist, and it'll be the happy ending that we all dreamed of. When's the last time you interviewed Cody Rhodes?

It was when they announced WrestleMania or they put tickets on sale for Philly. I think it was maybe a couple months ago, six months ago. Okay. I think he would be genuinely upset if I sat in the room wearing this. No, no. I think you would. I think you would. He'd be like, what do you mean? I think he would be genuinely upset if I sat in the room wearing this. No, no,

I think you would. I think you would. What do you mean? Give you some shit. No, he would, he'd be like, what do you mean?

You don't like Cody Rhodes. I'm the best. Everyone likes me. Yeah, he would. Yeah. He would be some shit, but I think,

I think I would like to see you guys in a room together like that. I'd love to. Yeah. Texted me recently and just said, I like Dave's pizza reviews. Just discovered him. So he's a little late on that, but yeah. Just a little late.

Just a little late, yeah. So hopefully in the lead up to WrestleMania, maybe we'll get a Cody Rhodes pizza review. I could coordinate. I could align schedules if Dave is going to be in this. I don't know. Dave is always jet setting, but who knows? I think that that's what he meant by when he said that. Maybe that's definitely what he meant.

It was a while ago though. And he was like, he sent me like a specific pizza reviews. Like I just watched this one. Very funny. So I sent them the dragon pizza one. Of course. I was like,

check out the promo. He cuts on this fat. So it was a good one. All right. I almost don't want to meet him because I think I would end up liking him. Oh, definitely. You no doubt. You would. I know both of you, you right, Jared. I almost don't want to meet him because I think I would end up liking him. Oh, definitely. No doubt you would. I know both of you.

You would get along. I don't. I don't know. Maybe. All right. Thank you for doing another emergency podcast. I hope we keep doing these. These are really fun.

People keep asking for them. I know. I love getting tweets. You know, as soon as something big happens, now someone will tag us in two tweets and be like you got to do a podcast together feels good that the people are like hey we want to hear you guys talk about wrestling by the way one last note uh usually i it's it's cool doing wrestling content because you'll even get yankee fans being like you know what fuck this guy but like i like that he does wrestling stuff then you'll then you'll you'll have like, you know, the Cody Bobo's now are trying to use my baseball affiliation against me. Like,

there'll be like, Oh, of course he's a red Sox fan and a Roman Reigns fan. I like that clown. It's like, no, you like the Cowboys too. Yeah.

I like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have to suspend, suspend reality when I'm doing my, my wrestling stuff. So hopefully we get to do another one again. Yeah. You have to suspend, suspend reality when I'm doing my, my wrestling stuff. So hopefully we get to do another one again.

Yeah, absolutely. Hopefully we get some big news coming soon. WWE, AEW. Like I said, seek out those AEW matches if you didn't see him because AEW people are sleeping on right now.

But that was it for my mom's basement presents emergency from the top row presents WrestleMania post fight press conference and all that. We'll see you next time. Enjoy the Super Bowl this weekend.