Poopy Powerslams w/ Cody Rhodes | Your Mom's House Ep. 855

Summary

Podcast Summary: “Poopy Powerslams w/ Cody Rhodes”

Your Mom’s House Ep. 855 — April 15, 2026

Hosts: Tom Segura & Christina P.
Guest: WWE Champion Cody Rhodes

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Main Theme

This episode delivers the signature blend of irreverent comedy, offbeat commentary on daily life, and a deep-dive into the world of professional wrestling with WWE superstar Cody Rhodes. The conversation moves from “tax day” anxiety and bizarre bodily habits to the physical and psychological realities of wrestling, illustrated by wild stories and dark humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Tax Day & Comedy Announcements

• The show kicks off with jokes about the pain of tax day.
• Tom discusses the launch of Ari Shaffir’s “This Is Not Happening” storytelling show, available via YMH Studios, emphasizing a comedian-friendly model (“If you do support this, it just leads to more things like this getting produced.” Tom Segura, 03:31).
• Christina plugs her upcoming standup dates, her makeup line, and Mother’s Day reminders.
  • [04:09] Christina: “Why don’t you buy your mommy some makeup...and come see me do standup comedy live…”

2. Flavor Ideas, Bodily Humor & Food

• Tom and Christina riff on the oddity of Tom’s “beefy mint” breath from beef jerky and a nicotine pouch.
  • [05:22] Tom: “Children and chicks dig that. That’s...they’re like, ‘That smells good. Is that beef and mint?’”
• They contemplate man-aimed beef-flavored nicotine pouches.
• Tom praises his chef neighbor’s casual culinary skills but hesitates to “out” him by name.

3. Kim Jong Un, Exile & Dictatorship Dilemmas

• Spiraling from a Trump audio parody, Tom and Christina debate the crazy duality of Kim Jong Un studying incognito in Switzerland before becoming a dictator.
  • Delves into questions like: Would you rather be a regular rich kid abroad or rule an “oppressive, insane” country?
  • [14:14] Tom: “Not just oppress them, but like, you throw people in labor camps...”

4. Luxury & Double Lives

• Stories about wealthy Middle Eastern women who indulge in Western shopping “Rumspringa”, only to leave all evidence behind before returning home.
  • [12:16] Christina: “They’ll get executed or whatever...now they’re just a broodmare for some gross Saudi guy...”

5. Conspiracies & Moon Landing Doubts

• Christina half-jokingly expresses skepticism about the moon landing’s authenticity.
• She flags the irony of NASA as “Satan” (by letter rearrangement), to Tom’s amusement.
  • [16:16] Tom: “If you take the letters in NASA, throw a T in there. It’s Satan.”
• They laugh off updating the moon’s flag and envision “Trump Towers on the moon”.

6. Hygiene & Hair

• Mike the Tax Guy’s “monthly head wash” method triggers a tangent on hair health, stripping oils, and beard grooming.

7. Social Media, Influencers & Cool Guy Critique

• Tom and Christina roast the phenomenon of posting workout updates, flexing, and counting cash on camera, questioning the authenticity of influencer life.
• They mock awkward social handles and profiles, poking fun at oversharing and odd pet photos (iguana and bugs “drinking for two days”).
  • [33:13] Christina: “Bug and the iguana have been drinking for the past two and a half days. Okay.”

8. Bathroom Insights: Pajitzki & Segura Effects

• Listener shares a “Pajitzki effect”: realizing after 13 years to put a hook by the shower for easier towel access.
  • [36:09] Listener Email: “Every day, I would pull back the curtain and stretch perilously far...I could just put a hook on the wall right next to the shower.”
• Discussion of towel logistics, drying aversions, and the sun visor/visor debate.
  • [39:50] Christina: “But you know what [a full hat] does...makes your head sweat.”

9. Water Parks & Theme Park Disasters

• New guest Cody Rhodes joins.
• The crew reminisces about the hazards of water parks, Action Park’s wild rides, and park disasters, joking about maintenance and “engineering choices.”
  • [42:56] Cody: “They had a slide that did a full 360 that obviously didn’t work in a water park.”
• Tom details Instagram “reel assignment” to friends based on theme: deaths to Rogan/Conner, “gay” content to DiStefano, and “theme park disasters” to Ryan Sickler.

10. WrestleMania, Cheers, Boos & Wrestling Psychology

• Cody plugs upcoming WrestleMania 42 event: April 18–19, Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas.
  • [47:54] Tom: “Against Randy Orton. WrestleMania 42, April 18, ESPN app...get ready. Gonna be a wild show.”
• Cody discusses the dual thrill/pressure of being booed and the art of riding crowd energy.
  • [49:18] Cody: “I think it got me...Whereas today, it’s the most fun thing ever to get booed.”
• Comparison between wrestling and comedy performances (discussing Steve Martin’s “don’t look at the audience” advice).
  • [51:27] Tom: “I should be thinking about what feels good about this.”

11. Behind the Curtain: Wrestling as Performance Art

• Cody shares how “Leap of Faith” (Steve Martin film) is required viewing for aspiring wrestlers—“it is pro wrestling.”
  • [53:35] Cody: “Your feeling is real...we were selling a feeling.”
• Christina recounts her introduction to wrestling’s good/evil energy, fandom, and drinking at matches.
• Insights on the genuine mentorship of locker-room legends like Undertaker.
  • [56:08] Cody: “He was a really good coach...never overly negative reinforcement.”

12. Wrestling Hazards: Gross-Outs, Bodily Fails, and Hygiene

• Real talk on disgusting in-ring incidents: puking under the ring, food poisoning, and legendary farts.
  • [62:31] Cody: “The bigger the guys, the worse...Big Show was a legendary [farter]...Three or four rows could smell.”
• The infamous “pooping in the ring” stories.
  • [63:09] Cody: “I one time slammed a guy and he shit himself.”

13. Aging, Injuries & Athletic Longevity

• Cody feels better as a wrestler at 40, except for loss of jumping ability (leapfrogs getting harder).
• Exchange about the physics and risks of wrestling, including detailed breakdowns of tough moves like the tombstone and pile driver, and the trust required to perform them.
  • [66:06] Cody: “You gotta really trust somebody.”

14. Locker Room Culture: Nudity, Confidence & Power Moves

• Nuances of locker room nudity: older generations were “far more naked,” using it as a confidence display or to disarm.
  • [68:11] Cody: “I haven't...been in the locker room in a while...I got my own little locker room.”
• Comedy and wrestling overlap: boldness, confidence, and the psychology of being “out there” regardless of “equipment size.”
  • [72:10] Tom: “The average size or smaller guy who decides that, you're like, this guy doesn't give a fuck.”
• Discussion of strategic references to penis size (or lack thereof) as wrestling promo zingers.

15. Wrestling Fails: Horrible or Hilarious?

• The cast watches a succession of wild, cringe-inducing wrestling fail videos: botched table spots, backyard wrestling injuries, “tampon incident,” missed jumps.
  • Cody offers technical play-by-play, weighing risks vs. crowd reaction.
  • [79:15] Cody: “Is this worth it? Sometimes it is a risk...and if it's worth it, design it so you both walk away.”
• Christina delights in women wrestlers’ “punk, rebellious, gnarly” moves.

16. When Fans Attack: Dealing With Stage Intruders

• Conversation on how wrestlers handle fans who try to jump into the ring—historical vs. modern approaches.
  • [92:44] Cody: “Macho Man was notorious for it...he was ready for that.”
• Stories of catfished/crazy fans, physical confrontations, and evolving safety protocols.

17. Friendly Fire: Parting Shots at Pat McAfee

• Tom hints at possible friction between Cody and Pat McAfee.
  • [94:06] Cody: “That’s kind of where I stand on the Pat McAfee thing. I don’t know him...It’s usually them pitching to come to the party.”
  • Throws shade: “I just wish someone in his orbit and his circle would say no every now and then.”
• The episode closes with good-luck wishes for WrestleMania and one final exchange of irreverent wrestling trash talk.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On taxes:

  • Tom: “It is tax day. So make sure you...pay your taxes or if not, file an extension or flee the country.” [00:41]

• On locker room nudity:

  • Cody: “I think to wrestling is...I don’t know if comedy is the same, but wrestlers are always working. There’s always a bit of wrestling going on. I think that nakedness, believe it or not, was a disarming tactic.” [68:03]

• On wrestling’s biggest gross-out:

  • Cody: “The grossest thing that can happen to you in the match is if you shit yourself...I rolled under the ring...puked every bit out and got back into it.” [61:43–61:54]

• On embracing boos:

  • Cody: “It’s the most fun thing ever to get booed.” [49:18]

• On risk in wrestling:

  • Cody: “Is it worth it? Sometimes it is a risk...and if it’s worth it, design it so you both walk away.” [79:41]

• On wild women wrestlers:

  • Christina: “I didn’t know that chicks could do cool stuff like this.” [84:05]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Tax Day & Ari Shaffir’s new show: 00:41–03:53
• Odd flavor combos/Tom’s mouth: 05:17–05:36
• Kim Jong Un & Dictatorship Dilemmas: 09:15–15:26
• Luxury double lives (Saudi “Rumspringa”): 11:53–12:34
• Moon landing skepticism: 16:16–17:13
• Mike the Tax Guy, monthly hair wash: 17:47–18:33
• Pajitzki Effect (Shower Hook): 36:09–37:37
• Sun visor debate: 39:49–41:32
• Water park disasters with Cody Rhodes: 42:56–45:03
• WrestleMania Promotion: 47:54–48:59
• The psychology of boos/the art of pro wrestling: 49:18–56:08
• Legendary wrestling bodily fails: 61:43–63:09
• Locker room nudity & psychological power: 68:03–72:01
• Horrible or hilarious? Wrestling fail videos: 77:30–88:10
• Fans jumping in ring—stories & clips: 90:13–93:13
• Cody throws shade at Pat McAfee: 94:06–95:36

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Tone and Style

• Language: Candid, raunchy, and packed with in-jokes and dark humor.
• Atmosphere: Fun, aggressive, teasing, sometimes self-deprecating, always boundary-pushing.
• Guest Dynamics: Cody blends wrestling introspection with a willingness to roll with the hosts' off-color humor.

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For First-Time Listeners

This episode offers a seamless mix of behind-the-scenes wrestling insights; wild tales about farts, showers, and injuries; and relentless, irreverent YMH banter. You’ll come away knowing way too much about the hazards of ring life, with plenty of laughs along the way.

Transcript

[Tom Segura]

Well, welcome. Welcome to your mom's house.

[Cody Rhodes]

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[Tom Segura]

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[Cody Rhodes]

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[Tom Segura]

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[Cody Rhodes]

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[Tom Segura]

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[Cody Rhodes]

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[Christina P]

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[Cody Rhodes]

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[Tom Segura]

And welcome to another episode of your mom's house. I'm Todd, she's Christy, and we're excited about today. It's very exciting day. First of all, it's everybody's favorite fucking thing in the entire world. It is tax day. So make sure you. You pay your taxes or if not, file an extension or flee the country. Had a fun chat about that with our boys. I didn't tell you that on the way back from that training thing.

[Christina P]

Oh, tell me.

[Tom Segura]

They're like, so, like, technically, what happens if you don't pay your taxes? I'm like, well, it's a real problem. You know, you can get extension. You could be in penalties. They could come. You know, it could be a real thing. He's like, but what if, like, you just. You take your money and you go somewhere, like, out of the country? Like, that's a really cool way of thinking happens, first of all. And then they're like, wouldn't that happen? I go, yeah, you'd have to go somewhere that has, like, not only maybe no extradition with the United States, but also has a banking system that doesn't operate within the normal system that the US Deals with, you know, so your money would. Would be somewhere that is not accessible to them. I go, you could do that. I go, it's a real long way to go to not pay your taxes. And he was like, all right, all right. Just, you know, just thinking ahead. I'm like, yeah, I would go. Just pay him anyway. It is tax day. Huge thing is that tomorrow, April 16, the end, the Ari Shafir storytelling show that we produced is coming out. It has an incredible lineup. It has an incredible lineup. Is the. This is, you know, the show was called this is not Happening. It went away. He ended up getting just a crazy list of people. Nate Bargazi to Stefano, Shane Gillis, Jordan Jensen, Mark Norman, Jay Okerson, Ms. Pat, yours truly, Ali Siddiq, Dan Soder, Sam Tallent, and on and on Duncan Trust. There's so many. And it's the storytelling show. We're super proud of it. It looks amazing. We produced it. We're hosting this site for him, but it's already show. And for people who don't know, every comedian on this participates in the back end of this show. So that's a very, you know, Ari Shafir led way of doing. We all, we're all in this together, bro. So everybody gets a piece. If you like any of those comedians, you can support them. If you go to ymhstudios.com it's, it's, it's debuting April 16th. So very excited. I'm on chapter one. You see that? There's chapter two. You can see and so on and so forth. Great stories and we're very proud of it.

[Christina P]

Jordan Jensen, all the hits.

[Tom Segura]

And if, you know, it's the kind of thing too. I just always try to reiterate this whenever we do something like ticketed. If you do support this, it just leads to more things like this getting produced. Like if you're into this and you, you spend the money to get an episode or the season, you know, if it works out, then we just go like, how can we make something else?

[Christina P]

Yeah. And it's good programming. It's not the dog that you'll see on the television.

[Tom Segura]

That's very true.

[Christina P]

That's the best part.

[Tom Segura]

That's the best part. Oh, you look at this.

[Christina P]

Oh, Tyler's here. When he's back into short season again,

[Tom Segura]

whenever he shows the legs. I know. It's springtime.

[Christina P]

I know. It's so happy. Guys, listen, your mother's day is coming up May 10th. So soon. Why don't you buy your mommy some makeup? Buy your sister some makeup. Buy your mom my lipstick. Christina P. Liquid lipstick and blushes and glosses and come see me do standup comedy live. I will be April 24th and 25th in Irving, Texas, at the Punchline. May 14th through 16th, Denver, Colorado, at the Comedy Works. Yes, it does.

[Tom Segura]

And comedy and prayer. Yeah.

[Christina P]

And then two nights in Chicago, Illinois at the Den Theater. [e-mail] get it now. Denver's almost gone. I think Dallas too. So get on that, homies.

[Tom Segura]

Hell yeah, dog.

[Christina P]

Hell yeah, dog.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

Wow, that was really spicy. Why are you burping so much? What do you.

[Tom Segura]

Well, I was just really hungry.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

And so I scarfed down some beef jerky and then I had water and then I had this Coke Zero right here.

[Christina P]

You know what's interesting about you is you'll eat Jerky a lot. And then you'll have your nicotine patch in your mouth. And so it's an interesting combo patch.

[Tom Segura]

It's a pouch.

[Christina P]

It's a patch. And you, your mouth smells like beefy mint.

[Tom Segura]

Isn't that cool? Isn't that cool? And what I found is that children and chicks dig that. That's usually comes up to me. They're like, that smells good. Is that beef and mint? I'm like, yeah, beef mint. Beef mint.

[Christina P]

It's a whole new flavor.

[Tom Segura]

New flavor.

[Christina P]

Can you get your nicotine pouch to be beefy beef? Why don't they do that?

[Tom Segura]

I could reach out. I have connections. I'd be like, hey, you know me. I know you. I'm the. I speak for the client, the consumer.

[Christina P]

Do guys like steak?

[Tom Segura]

Do you have a beef flavored nicotine pouch?

[Christina P]

Yeah. I'm being serious. You guys love meats.

[Tom Segura]

We do ribs. You're. You're not wrong.

[Christina P]

It's not a bad idea. Plus, you, you'd be losing weight because

[Tom Segura]

you're not really eating. I didn't tell you this. I went to, I went to our old neighbor's house the other night.

[Christina P]

Y.

[Tom Segura]

And every time I he. You forget that he's. His training, his origin is being a chef. Yeah, he like, I just made a little cup something here for y'. All. And I'm like, dude, it's so good what he can just do casually, you know, he's like, I just, just. I've fried some mucus and made this homemade guaca. I made some ceviche, you know, just to get like, kind of. If you want something just to hold you over. I'm like, God damn, it's so good. He's so good.

[Christina P]

Why don't you say who it is?

[Tom Segura]

I don't want to say who it is.

[Christina P]

Well, you know, shout out, you know, all right.

[Tom Segura]

I respect people's privacy, you know. I don't know. I don't know if he wants people to know.

[Christina P]

Oh, okay.

[Tom Segura]

Well, I would ask. I would ask him if he wants his name said. That's all I'm saying. Well, look, here's whose name I do want said. Ready for the opening?

[Christina P]

Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.

[Cody Rhodes]

We have 45, 000 soldiers in South Korea to protect us from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well, as you know. You notice he said very nice things about me. He used to call.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Joe Biden a mentally.

[Tom Segura]

Don't tell me about your stuff.

[Cody Rhodes]

Joe Biden. He said he's a mentally person. He Was so nasty to Joe,

[Tom Segura]

who was Randy. Don't bring anyone mother into this. Welcome. Welcome to your mom's house. So cool with Tom Segura

[Christina P]

and Christina.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. Welcome to your mom's house.

[Christina P]

Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. Feel it, feel it, feel it go. Let it rip into your soul. Feel the music go wing. Feel it in your mist patches in your mouth. Make them be flavored so you can suck out the rib juice in your mouth. Amount.

[Cody Rhodes]

Mentally person.

[Tom Segura]

Yes, mentally.

[Christina P]

I think you can say the R word if you put mentally in front of it.

[Tom Segura]

That's the. That is the workaround.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

That's where you're like, I didn't say.

[Christina P]

Yeah, fart N word. You can't.

[Tom Segura]

You still can't say right. He.

[Christina P]

He kind of did it cleverly that way. You just have to say mentally, and you can say right.

[Tom Segura]

But then it doesn't hit the same.

[Christina P]

It doesn't hit the same.

[Tom Segura]

You're saying. You're like, if. If he would have been, like, he called Joe Biden, it would have been. It's different.

[Christina P]

Then people get on him for saying that.

[Tom Segura]

For saying that. Right. But if you go, me? Yeah. That's the way to.

[Christina P]

And he's so smart. And then he'll go, you know, God, I can't believe. Could you believe they said that about him? Very sad.

[Tom Segura]

Very sad.

[Christina P]

It's so clever.

[Tom Segura]

He also had the. The duality of. We have all these troops there to protect us from this guy Kim Jong, who I get along with very well.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

He likes me and I like him. Like, he's a cool guy. Yeah.

[Christina P]

Turns out he's a pretty cool guy. Hang out with.

[Tom Segura]

Okay.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Kim Jong un is pretty cool.

[Christina P]

No, I've heard nothing but good things.

[Tom Segura]

He is cool. It's crazy when you look back on Kim Jong Un, that he rare. I think sometimes that you see somebody who has his position now and his reputation, who did study abroad. He left.

[Christina P]

What? Oh, yeah.

[Tom Segura]

He left Korea and did a boarding school, I think, in Switzerland under an assumed name. No one knew who it was. Yeah. In Switzerland.

[Christina P]

It's so nice that for seven years. Yeah. And it's nice that you know this much about him and his story.

[Tom Segura]

I know everything about cool guys. Yeah.

[Christina P]

So he attended boarding school. Oh, my God.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

For seven years.

[Tom Segura]

So I'm saying he has exposure.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

He knows to life outside. Yeah.

[Christina P]

What a dick. And then he's coming back and he's all.

[Tom Segura]

So let's look at this.

[Christina P]

Hey, guys.

[Tom Segura]

Cuz I didn't. I know all this. He attended under the name Puck, Un or Unak. He attended the International School in Gul G and L. And then he was generally regarded as shy, reserved, and often accompanied by older students or bodyguards. Yet he developed a passionate interest in basketball due to particularly Michael Jordan. He loves Jean Claude Van Damme movies. Reports indicate he was not strong academically and often struggled with the German language. Yeah. Requiring assistance from friends. Though he became proficient enough to navigate daily life. Following his time in Switzerland, he returned to North Korea, attended the Kim Il Sung University, Grandpa University from 2002 to 2007, and his time in Switzerland was kept a secret. He was known as a quiet student who wore basketball jerseys, often picked up in a chauffeur driven car. He is considered to be highly westernized during his upbringing, having been exposed to Western. That's the thing is like he knows that stuff so well and he's still just doing, you know, become like the most reclusive country on earth. And to be the, the person in charge of that, it's. It's a wild thing to, to embrace.

[Christina P]

I know. He's such a liar.

[Tom Segura]

I mean, really crazy.

[Christina P]

The west is evil.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

And they have TV and McDonald's. You don't want any of that.

[Tom Segura]

Meanwhile, he's, he's watching basketball games and he's like, fondue's pretty cool. You ever tried? No. He's just like.

[Christina P]

Well, they all do this. Especially those rich like Saudi girls. Have you ever seen them in Beverly Hills?

[Cody Rhodes]

Yes.

[Christina P]

They come over and then they get to take off the. Their stuff sheets and then they get to go shopping on Rodeo Drive. And then. But then they gotta chuck all the stuff.

[Tom Segura]

That was the thing. I learned that in a hotel. I didn't know that I was staying at a hotel. And I think it was like the Beverly Wilshire or something.

[Christina P]

Yes.

[Tom Segura]

And this came up and they told me they're like, the craziest thing is these girls will come, these wealthy like Middle Eastern girls, and they'll, you know, they'll shop, they'll wear all this stuff for like a week. And then they just leave it here

[Christina P]

because they can't take it back to Saudi. They'll get executed or whatever. And they do it before they get married because now their life will be on lockdown. Now they're just a broodmare for some gross Saudi guy and he's got 10 of 10 wives.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Christina P]

It's not wild.

[Tom Segura]

It's wild.

[Christina P]

So they get to, they get to go on these Roomspringers to the west and see how great it is. And then they go back to their sad, oppressive places.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

And have to live that double life.

[Tom Segura]

Well, also some of them probably, you know, there's a few that go like, oh, I don't want to go back. I'm sure that happens.

[Christina P]

Hell yeah. I'm surprised. King Kim Jong Un. Jongun.

[Tom Segura]

Because you know the thing that he probably this is because his older brother, who he ended up having murdered, I remember that was living a life outside of. Of North Korea, you know, he was. What's it called? Denounced from the family, excommunicated.

[Christina P]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, yeah. Because he got arrested one time around, I think, going to Japan and so his brother was like, just kill him. So he killed him. But he was. But I think one of the things that happens if you're like Kim Jong Un is you go, well, yes, this is good. But like, I would have to earn it. Like I would have to be a regular person. Or I can go to this oppressive, insane place and be the king.

[Christina P]

That's such a good. Would you rather.

[Tom Segura]

No, but really think this through.

[Christina P]

Like, would you rather be just a rich, spoiled, quote nobody in Switzerland, in Western Europe where you have just money, private car?

[Tom Segura]

No, but that's the thing. That's not the. Would you rather. Because if you are staying, you're not. Oh, you're excommunicated.

[Christina P]

Oh, I see. I see.

[Tom Segura]

You're a regular person now. These reason he was chauffeured and all that is because you're still, you're still under the protection.

[Christina P]

Okay. Or do you go back to your shitty country and oppress millions of people and be a piece of shit dictator?

[Tom Segura]

Not just oppress them, but like you, you throw people in labor camps and then you throw their relatives in there and you have them, they die and you're like, fuck them.

[Christina P]

I don't know.

[Tom Segura]

To your fellow countrymen.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

It's an easy choice when you put it like that.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Christina P]

You would definitely choose South Korean. I mean, North Korean dictator. No, dude, you wouldn't choose being a dictator.

[Tom Segura]

No. No way.

[Christina P]

You'd rather be a poor.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yes.

[Christina P]

Geeky Asian kid in Switzerland.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Or anywhere else.

[Christina P]

Same.

[Tom Segura]

Yes. Because you know, I know what the world is like.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

I don't want to be anywhere near that shit, man.

[Christina P]

Well, what's really messed up. But here's the thing you're not even thinking about is that within the confines of your palace, you're still living your best life. You just have to put your head on the pillow at night, knowing that you're responsible for starving and killing.

[Tom Segura]

All right? You just.

[Christina P]

Population. Yeah. So you get to meet Dennis Rodman.

[Tom Segura]

That's right.

[Christina P]

You get to have a basketball court in your palace. You're eating McDonald's, you're fine.

[Tom Segura]

Right? You have. You still have the chef and all the.

[Christina P]

Yeah. Your life is cool, but you just. Everyone else suffers.

[Tom Segura]

I mean, it's cool in here. Yeah. Never mind. Right? I have ac. I got a pool.

[Christina P]

That's what I'm saying.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

You kind of. I didn't really.

[Christina P]

Just don't go outside.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

Don't look out the window.

[Tom Segura]

Too hot outside anyway.

[Christina P]

It's so hot in Korea in the summertime, dude. Holy, that's hot. Yeah, it's worse than Texas.

[Tom Segura]

You ever seen that aerial shot from. From space? You know, you could see at night. You could see, like, regions get lit up.

[Christina P]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Tom Segura]

So Seoul is this obviously very thriving, technologically advanced city, you see. And then you can see Pyongyang and North Korea, and it's just all dark

[Christina P]

because they have, like, rolling blackouts because he can't.

[Tom Segura]

So it's dark. And then the rest. Then South Korea's.

[Christina P]

And you realize it's just because he wants it that way.

[Tom Segura]

If the shots from space are real,

[Christina P]

let me point out, if we can

[Tom Segura]

even get there, supposedly fucking Artemis is going around the moon right now. But that's from NASA.

[Christina P]

Who?

[Tom Segura]

I don't fucking believe. Shit. But if you take the letters in NASA, you just throw a T in there. It's Satan.

[Cody Rhodes]

You know?

[Tom Segura]

I mean.

[Christina P]

That's right.

[Tom Segura]

I'm sure those guys are up fucking flying around the moon right now. Yeah, real believable. Love that one.

[Christina P]

Well, I will tell you one thing, Tom.

[Tom Segura]

What?

[Christina P]

Playing Satan's advocate.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

They haven't. They haven't landed on the moon since 1960.

[Tom Segura]

No. And guess what? We didn't land there in 62 either.

[Christina P]

Stanley Kubrick, 69, I think.

[Tom Segura]

Right. Yeah.

[Christina P]

No, but I'm being serious, like, why we haven't. Right? Like, I'm. I. I'm not one.

[Tom Segura]

What do we need. What do we need there, though? Just to just.

[Christina P]

Just be like, hey, guys.

[Tom Segura]

Just to pacify the people that say we haven't. Like what?

[Christina P]

Because you have to keep the flag of flying up there.

[Tom Segura]

That's why. They're just like, I get that flag.

[Christina P]

You gotta straighten it out, dummy.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, it's a good idea. Hey, let's. Let's spend four and a half billion dollars getting that flag could we get a bigger flag?

[Christina P]

The flag needs to wave.

[Tom Segura]

I'm surprised he didn't go. That flag is so small. Let's go up there with a fucking huge flag.

[Christina P]

We need to build Trump towers on the moon.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Christina P]

We could live on the moon.

[Tom Segura]

Look, enough of this bullshit. I want my fucking. The lovely and just incredible listeners and supporters of this show who have been with us for so long, we wouldn't be anywhere without you. I don't want anything bad to happen to you guys. So just remember that it is tax day. Once a month, I wash my head.

[Cody Rhodes]

And this is one of those times.

[Tom Segura]

And I wash it good. You can see

[Christina P]

he's so good. The hair is so good.

[Tom Segura]

This is. This is Mike, the tax guy. Mike Fidelli from Miami. It's important that you pay your taxes, and that's why I brought him up. Couple other things. The hair is absolutely incredible.

[Christina P]

It's amazing.

[Tom Segura]

It's. It's incredible when it's dry. It's incredible when it's wet. In a ponytail. When it's down, when it's up. Amazing. He washes it once a month. I didn't realize that people. I don't have hair, so I don't even know.

[Christina P]

Some women practice that. It's supposed to be healthier for you. I find it unbearable.

[Tom Segura]

Does that strip it?

[Christina P]

Because it strips out the oils, the natural oils.

[Tom Segura]

Right, Right.

[Christina P]

But you have that with your beard, too. You want to maintain the oils.

[Tom Segura]

Right? Right. And it gets dry. Yeah. I understand. That

[Cody Rhodes]

shit's about to go down.

[Tom Segura]

It's like one of the worst things that could happen to you. Oh, my God. Get your shit together. It's coming.

[Christina P]

No. Are you serious?

[Tom Segura]

What are you doing?

[Christina P]

Help.

[Cody Rhodes]

What?

[Christina P]

I'm about to come. I have got to tell you about my Helix mattress because it's a game changer. I used to wake up in the morning without feeling rested. Whether it was from back pain, being too hot, or feeling Tom make the slightest movement, it was a nightmare. So I took the Helix Sleep quiz and got matched with a mattress that was tailored to my sleep needs. I like to have kind of a soft mattress, but not too soft and one that keeps you cool. And believe it or not, Helix has that for me. It's not some one size fits all garbage from temperature to position. Helix takes all of your sleep preferences and needs into account when mattress matchmaking. You even get 120 nights to test out your new mattress and have some peace of mind knowing they have a limited lifetime warranty. And they'll bring it right to your door with free shipping. Go to helixsleep.com ymh for 20% off site wide. That's helixsleep.com yMh for 20% off sitewide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent

[Tom Segura]

you helixsleep.com ymh also, Mike just. I know this has been covered. Great physique. I know you run long distances. I can tell. Very lean. Kudos to myself.

[Christina P]

He likes to show you too. He could have done just a chest up angle.

[Tom Segura]

He could.

[Christina P]

He could have.

[Tom Segura]

The real move and I'm surprised he didn't do this is to lose the shorts and just tease what's. You know what I mean? So that people can see the V going down and they go, what's up with those cum gutters? And then. You know what I mean? Like, you see him.

[Christina P]

I know.

[Tom Segura]

But you. But you don't show. But you, you allude to it. But he wore shorts, which was an interesting. I didn't think he would be a shorts guy for this same.

[Christina P]

And in the shower, I thought he would go au natural because he is taking a shower.

[Tom Segura]

He's taking a shower and we're like, we have shorts on in the shower. It's crazy.

[Christina P]

I mean, he went to the trouble of angling the camera. You may as well just.

[Tom Segura]

Just angle it up like another inch and a half. But then have everyone go like this. Oh, in the video, you know? Yeah, but again, I'm not doing this. I mean, I'm obviously. Any questions? I'm just doing this to remind people that, you know, Mike's an accountant and you need to pay your taxes. That's all. Okay. What's up?

[Christina P]

Just looking at his life. Dude, age 64. Age 22. Any questions?

[Tom Segura]

Didn't think so. I love that first comment says, been a couple for seven years now. And you're like, hold on. Since she was 15. That's great.

[Christina P]

Whoops.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, that is really great.

[Christina P]

Plus, you can share the same clothes when.

[Tom Segura]

Yep.

[Christina P]

Oh, no.

[Tom Segura]

Oh, boy.

[Christina P]

No.

[Tom Segura]

Oh, I love counting cash. Yeah, bro. It's probably the music, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Christina P]

How did you know?

[Tom Segura]

I just. I mean, that's just a guy move.

[Christina P]

Like, if you're the kind of guy.

[Tom Segura]

Again, it's the kind of guy. If you're sitting in your car making a video of yourself counting cash, you're probably doing it to music.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

That was really cool that you knew that.

[Tom Segura]

I'm guessing too. Not saying this is about Mike, but A lot of guys will put the big bills around the smaller bills. You know, you've told me that, like I got so much cash here and you're like, there's like 90 ones there.

[Christina P]

Okay, well, hold on. He's aggressive, defensible. Yeah. Okay, but then do you see the picture of him with like Somali orphans?

[Tom Segura]

Hold on, hold on. Go back to that picture. Go back to that picture. Can you read the names of the women in the picture?

[Christina P]

Marciel Sopranat. Monsieur Thomas Mallory Van Horn. Lynette Fernandez.

[Tom Segura]

Do you think those are real names? Are those real names?

[Christina P]

Yeah, Tom, they're from different places in the world.

[Tom Segura]

Do those feel like real names?

[Christina P]

No.

[Tom Segura]

Massiel Supranat.

[Christina P]

Supranat.

[Tom Segura]

I mean, the Nysera one sounds real. Mallory Van Horn.

[Christina P]

Van Horn.

[Tom Segura]

I don't know.

[Christina P]

Yeah, it's a little Mallory too. That's kind of.

[Tom Segura]

It doesn't feel real.

[Christina P]

Timing.

[Tom Segura]

That doesn't feel real to me.

[Christina P]

No, her name, she's like 20. Her name should be Skyler. Caitlyn.

[Tom Segura]

I don't buy it.

[Christina P]

No, there's no Mallory's Lynette. That's an old ass name. That's like a. My name, my age is Lynette. That's a very old lady name.

[Tom Segura]

Old name.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

You.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Posted a video and I want to know if. What was your thinking behind this? Why did you post this?

[Christina P]

Did I post this? Yeah, just like fitness. Tom, I don't know about you, but I like to exercise. Also. You know what I really like?

[Tom Segura]

What?

[Christina P]

Are. When people work out and post it online to let me know that they've worked out. And I just want to motivate other people. Like he's just getting it in. Getting, getting.

[Tom Segura]

He's the kind of guy.

[Christina P]

Yeah, I like that.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

What do you think?

[Tom Segura]

I mean, I was. I had seen this guy in your stories.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

And then I saw it here. I was like, oh, this must mean something to you.

[Christina P]

Well, of course. I mean, it's got all the cool guy things. You've got the right angle, the lighting is fantastic. There's TV in the background. What's he watching? Rachel Maddow? Probably not.

[Tom Segura]

No, I don't think he's a mad out guy. I don't think so. I don't think so. This. I. I saw this and I sent this in. Did you see this?

[Christina P]

Oh, oh, have you seen this?

[Tom Segura]

Okay, look at this.

[Christina P]

The kids would love this.

[Tom Segura]

Look at this. How he feeds this lion.

[Christina P]

Idiot, bro. Squish the chicken through the grate.

[Tom Segura]

Also, that's the system with you? The system is you go up to the crate, you. You slide it open. For a lion, you don't have, like, another door, something that you can drop food into. He's like, you slide it open, you throw it in there, you slide it, run away. Oh, that could never go wrong.

[Christina P]

Let's see it again.

[Tom Segura]

The lion's like, do I want the little chicken or the big motherfucking chicken? I don't know.

[Christina P]

You can't dangle raw meat.

[Tom Segura]

This is.

[Christina P]

Wait, let me calm against,

[Tom Segura]

like.

[Christina P]

All right, look, it's sticking, too. It's sticking.

[Tom Segura]

The door is sticking, by the way. You know. You know that if you were visiting and you're like, where should I stand, though? Just come here. Come here. Yeah. No, we do this every. Just stand right here. Like, right here. Stand here while they're like, this is what we do. And you're like, okay. And then when this goes sideways, they're like, yeah, we didn't think that was going to happen.

[Christina P]

Yeah, of course.

[Tom Segura]

So right now, the lion grabs his hand.

[Christina P]

Yeah, of course.

[Tom Segura]

And he's just like, I'll smack that hand off. And then the line's like, how about I open the door?

[Christina P]

Well, not only that, look, there's other crates full of raw, skinless chickens, bro, all around.

[Tom Segura]

I know. This is the craziest system. Let's see, it's.

[Christina P]

But listen, can I tell you a story?

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Christina P]

I was in Australia doing road rules. They took us to a crocodile farm, and they cut up pigs or dead pigs, right? They cut them up, put the pieces in a wheelbarrow, and this crazy guy was like, all right, time to fade the crocs. And we walked in a. Like, a little strip of land in between the two water places where the crocs were. And he would just take a wheelbarrow full of fresh, dead pig and throw it into the water. And they all come up in a frenzy, and you're like, yeah. And they trust. Just trust.

[Tom Segura]

Well, they don't. Actually. They don't. There's an interesting thing about reptiles and crocs and gators. They'll. They're incapable of forming that bond. So all it's about is that person becomes such an expert in their behavior, and they have to 100 of the time be aware of their surroundings and what type of mood and what setting is going on. Because in an instant, gators and crocs can just go like, it's eating time. Yeah. In an instant. There's never a time where they go, this Is my caretaker never.

[Christina P]

Same with the lion, apparently.

[Tom Segura]

No, but lions actually are capable.

[Christina P]

They're mammals and they.

[Tom Segura]

And specifically in. In the big cat world, they can form those bonds, but a gator and a croc will never.

[Christina P]

No, love.

[Tom Segura]

There's not. Not even one moment where they'll be like. This is the. They'll just be like. If. If you have it here and you just turn and it's like, I haven't eaten. It's it. They don't give a fuck. Yeah. Ever. This guy is still feeding his. His lines the same way as from when this happened.

[Christina P]

What?

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, stop. He still does it this way.

[Christina P]

The sticky, rickety gate.

[Tom Segura]

He's just like, behave yourself. Yeah, well, see all these would. These lions would all be dead, by the way, if they weren't in this because they don't know how to hunt anymore. You know, I think they figure it out, right? No, you don't think. They learn intuitively. Not in captivity. Just open the door, bro. We're crazy. That. What do you think of that roar?

[Christina P]

No, it's terrifying. He's standing on his hind legs, wants to kill him.

[Tom Segura]

That. You know, that roar, like, not so much in your. In your ears, but you're. When you're around, actually completely disturbs your nervous system. Like, it totally. It's not even under your control. If you hear it in person, your actual nervous system takes over and goes, you're gonna die.

[Christina P]

Did you just shit your pants?

[Tom Segura]

You just go. You're like. You just feel it. It's so. It's so terrifying.

[Christina P]

See, I'd imagine it would be nice, like when your cat purrs.

[Tom Segura]

That purr, not that shit. No, it's really disruptive. Yeah, it's murderous. No good. No bueno.

[Christina P]

Murder.

[Tom Segura]

Amen, dude.

[Christina P]

These fools. So he'll show.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. This guy. I really don't know why they wouldn't go, let's just build slots, babe. Let's just cut a hole that we drop stuff into.

[Christina P]

No. You know, so how these fools think, man?

[Tom Segura]

How do they think they don't. Hey, would you homosexual men please stop trying to contact me on WhatsApp and Signal, please. I'm not interested. You homosexual men, please stop trying to contact me on WhatsApp and Signal, please. All right? I just want to know. I know that there are gay men that are listening and watching this show.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

How about you leave this guy the fuck alone? How about you stop harassing people, please? I just wanted to stand. I wanted to stand up for him.

[Christina P]

I know. He's so Good looking, this guy again.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

[Christina P]

Yeah. I mean, if you were gay, wouldn't you really be?

[Tom Segura]

You asked me what was my. Would be my gay type.

[Christina P]

Here's.

[Tom Segura]

I didn't think you were going to put it in the folder.

[Christina P]

Here's the thing, though. Here's what's interesting, is that signal and WhatsApp, you have to. Don't you have to give people that information for them to reach out.

[Tom Segura]

It's not like, Christina, you just solved this. This crime. Yeah, yeah. You don't just. You have to people up.

[Christina P]

Yeah. You can't.

[Tom Segura]

Whoa, look, that top one is. Look at that hair. He has like, almost like Mike Fideli hair. That's nice.

[Christina P]

Great. Oh, it's making music.

[Tom Segura]

What's he saying? I got another string. Oh, look at those fingernails looking clean. You like that? Loud Lie to me. Tell me it sounds good, Pat. Sounds good, dude. You. Okay? Okay. That's a cool handle. The handle's cool. P80233721gmail.com/kotnfpr. That's a fucking really rad handle for social media. Hey, follow me. What's your. Where do I. What do I type in?

[Christina P]

Well, it's simple.

[Tom Segura]

Do you have an hour? Jesus Christ, man. Look at his bio. Youth college. Four years for music, under Hollywood for four years, then the rest. Look where. Look where it's got me now. It's like, well, that was fucking stupid.

[Christina P]

And also, I would argue it's been a little longer than eight years since college life.

[Tom Segura]

He looks like he's about 29.

[Christina P]

Yeah, I don't think he just spent four years in LA recently.

[Tom Segura]

There's a lot of stuff in this room.

[Christina P]

What is that? Is that a baby walker thing? No. What is it?

[Tom Segura]

What I did.

[Christina P]

Oh, life. You got an amp.

[Tom Segura]

Voila. What did you do? What I did. Look what I did. I moved my aunt behind the couch. Is that the thing you did today? Voila. Wow. Hell, yeah. Dude. He was probably. He probably made like six videos. He's like, I don't know where to put this. And then someone was like, put it behind the couch. What's the one with text on it? The Bug and the iguana have been drinking.

[Christina P]

Oh, no.

[Tom Segura]

Lush in it.

[Christina P]

Kitty bug.

[Tom Segura]

It's a cool photo. It really does. Drunk and let people know what you're seeing.

[Christina P]

Bug and the iguana have been drinking for the past two and a half days. Okay. I'm assuming he has a pet iguana in that house.

[Tom Segura]

Aren't you seeing it? It's in the photo.

[Christina P]

I'm sure the iguana is properly kept in a glass.

[Tom Segura]

There's no way this guy skips on anything. Yeah,

[Christina P]

there's an acronym.

[Tom Segura]

It's all by the book.

[Christina P]

Crawling on his face in the middle of the night.

[Tom Segura]

A lot of Alabama. That thing has made an appearance many times. Is he. Does he say stuff in those?

[Christina P]

Oh, look, he's. His phone number's out.

[Tom Segura]

Oh, don't do that. God damn it. What is. Oh, that looks old, though. Yeah, those are old numbers with no area code. Wait a minute. Scroll up. Scroll up. What is on the bam. Does he say stuff in the bama. Stuff like, is it. Obviously I'm bored. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I haven't run out of ideas.

[Christina P]

No.

[Tom Segura]

I just don't know if any of them are good or not. Yeah, that has. I don't really have any props.

[Christina P]

Oh, geez.

[Tom Segura]

I'm not Gallagher or Carrot Top. My dog's kicking it by the door. Oh, wait a minute. This is what a guitar player's shoes look like. That's not true. No, there's a sock there, too. That looks pretty cool.

[Christina P]

But where's the amp?

[Tom Segura]

There. There's all my props. Obviously, I'm bored. All right, I'm. What's with the phone numbers? Oh, let's just watch it.

[Christina P]

These are. People have died.

[Tom Segura]

Her nickname was Kitty. I told Kitty I had a friend named Kitty before.

[Christina P]

1980. No, 1990.

[Tom Segura]

That's from Randy Smith from the Smith and Wesson Band. Okay.

[Christina P]

Oh, okay. Oh, these are his famous friends.

[Tom Segura]

Pat, her nickname was. That's the whole video.

[Christina P]

Yeah. You know, he. He knows. These are famous guys. Tom, you don't want to show this on the Internet.

[Tom Segura]

He just did. He just did. Well, I'll tell you what. P80233721gmail.com underscore. It was nice to get to know you today. This is kind of. I can't wait to revisit this. This was actually really cool. This was really cool. I'm excited about it. I'm excited about it. Yeah. It's insane, bro.

[Christina P]

God, I love. I love how debased the Internet got. I love it. I can't wait for another thing to come out where people can just get really weird like TikTok. Yeah, I'm kind of over it. Not. No, no, it's not breaking news. I'm not. But I'm just saying there's not enough realness on there. It's getting cleaned up before.

[Tom Segura]

Before we take a break.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

What is the. I see here that there's a fan submitted Pazisky effect.

[Christina P]

Oh.

[Tom Segura]

Oh, what is it?

[Christina P]

How did you say my last name?

[Tom Segura]

Pajicki effect. Sorry, Pajitzki.

[Christina P]

You said Pazytsky.

[Tom Segura]

I mean, because it's written that way.

[Christina P]

Here. You read it.

[Tom Segura]

That's the problem. It was written that way. My brain. No, it was written Pazicki instead of Pajitzki.

[Christina P]

Okay, all right, I'll forgive it.

[Tom Segura]

All right, here we go. Pajicki effect. Dear Tad and Christine, I just had my very first Pajicki effect and couldn't wait to share it with my two favorite Hitlers. That's nice. I've lived in my house for 13 years. I've always hated the fact that in order to reach my towel after a shower, I have to drape it over the sink. Every day, I would pull back the curtain and stretch perilously far across the bathroom while my triple D slut tits dripped all over the floor. Imagine my surprise when one day last week I was sitting in my bidet and I thought, hey, I could just put a hook on the wall right next to the shower. Yeah. Boy, oh, boy. Let me tell you, it has been a game changer. $5.95 and one command hook later, I am rub, rub, rubbing myself dry without risking life and limb every morning. Having a name for this type of epiphany makes it even more special. Thank you. I would also like to add. I would also like to take this opportunity to confirm that farts do, in fact, push this out. As mentioned, I was on my bidet the other day having a real time with it, and all of a sudden, a little fart bubble came from behind and launched that kaka out like a rocket. Isn't science beautiful? Love to you and the crew. Keep them high and tight. That is an amazing.

[Christina P]

I love that this is a woman. It's always my favorite.

[Tom Segura]

It is. Is a lady. There's something that really brings people together. When somebody, like, tells you a Pasiski effect, and inside you're like, I know that feeling. That one really resonates.

[Christina P]

Oh, I still. I just started doing that myself. I just put the hook in next to my shower so I can. Oh, you're going to throw that on the floor?

[Tom Segura]

No, it's a trash can.

[Christina P]

That's. You got to swallow it. Don't waste that.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, that's good fiber. I will say that. Like, there's so many times. It's like, where. There's just nowhere to put this Towel. I've done. I've done this so many times.

[Christina P]

Where do you put it? On the floor or by the sink?

[Tom Segura]

No, by the. On the floor.

[Christina P]

I thought, I've done it the floor.

[Tom Segura]

I'll leave it on the floor. I mean, or on the.

[Christina P]

On the rug. You know, I'll be like.

[Tom Segura]

The most common one, I think, is if there's a shower door, you hang it over there.

[Christina P]

I would never. That's the stupidest one, because then it gets wet.

[Tom Segura]

Why would it get wet?

[Christina P]

Why? Because you're in the shower.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. It doesn't have to get wet, though. If you position the.

[Christina P]

I. I would. For some reason, I'm done. And there's.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, but you don't really have a chance to comment. You were the one who was like, you know, I don't really dry off after showers. I don't even know how this affects you.

[Christina P]

And you know what? I did for a while, and now I'm back to not fully drying.

[Tom Segura]

Why?

[Christina P]

Because I was. Now I like to stand there and I fan myself to get the last remnants of the wetness. I don't like it. I don't like drying myself.

[Tom Segura]

I don't understand what's happening.

[Christina P]

I don't either, but I still don't dry myself fully. I don't enjoy it. Okay. Can I tell you my pack effect?

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, of course.

[Christina P]

Okay. You know, for the longest time, you and I have wondered what the allure is to wearing a sun visor. Why would anybody.

[Tom Segura]

A visor. Yes.

[Christina P]

A sun visor. Is it. It is sun visor. That's what I was taught is sun visor. Is it a visor or sun visor?

[Cody Rhodes]

I mean, I think both are correct.

[Christina P]

Thank you.

[Tom Segura]

Well, yours is technically correct. Nobody's like, do you guys sell sun visors here?

[Christina P]

I say sun visor. You don't say that. Okay, well, anyway, do you guys say

[Tom Segura]

sun visor or visor? Probably visor. Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Visor.

[Tom Segura]

I feel like I've never said the word. Right. You're black. Black people are like, who's got the visors? Yeah.

[Christina P]

Visors are gay. So visors, generally, sun visors are worn by mostly ladies walking. Right. So anyways, I like to wear a straw hat in sunny climates. But you know what it does when you wear a full sunny hat? What makes your head sweat? Now your head's all sweaty. And I thought to myself, I thought to myself, I said, self, you know what I could really use right now?

[Tom Segura]

A sun visor.

[Christina P]

Thank you.

[Tom Segura]

Did you get one?

[Christina P]

No, never. It's the Stupidest thing in the world. Cuz then your head gets burned up. No, it's stupid, but I understand the allure.

[Tom Segura]

Do you remember Carlin's bit about that?

[Christina P]

No.

[Tom Segura]

He's like, people who wear visors. Like, he's like, it's not even a. Like it's not a full hat. He's like, what you should do is you get a visor. Then you get one of them Jewish hats. Now you got a full hat. He called it Jewish hats.

[Christina P]

There you go. Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

But it prevents the sweatiness from what I can.

[Tom Segura]

That's what you gather from it.

[Christina P]

That's what I think. I mean, write in and tell us. Why would you wear a visor?

[Tom Segura]

It's funny now that you pull it, because I'm thinking about. You know who I see wearing visors?

[Christina P]

White ladies.

[Tom Segura]

The other. Some college football coaches. Head coaches. Some of them will wear. I swear to you. There are head coaches that wear visors regularly. Really? Kirby Smart comes to mind.

[Christina P]

Let's see some sun visors on these guys.

[Tom Segura]

Some put in college football coaches wearing visors. I'm telling you, I've seen it a number of times.

[Christina P]

I know why. Because it has the school logo on it and it's free. Yeah, you're right. White guys, old white guys love sun visor.

[Tom Segura]

Look at these guys.

[Christina P]

They love it.

[Tom Segura]

Yep.

[Christina P]

Did your dad wear. Look at these.

[Tom Segura]

No. No.

[Christina P]

Why would you wear this?

[Tom Segura]

A lot of these guys wearing visors, dude.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Doesn't Kirby wear one every time, though? Kirby Smart. Let's see if he wears. He always has a visor on. Yeah.

[Christina P]

Loves the visor.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. And he never is not wearing a visor, dude. It's weird. It's a weird choice. I just realized that, like, why are these guys always wearing visors, dude?

[Christina P]

I mean, I wore them when I was a little kid and I didn't know any better, but I remember being like, dude, my head's on fire.

[Tom Segura]

It'd be really funny to hear him or one of them quote Carlin and be like, I got me this. I'm getting me one of them Jew hats. Now I got myself a full hat. All right, I'll see y'. All. Go dogs. You can run out of there.

[Christina P]

Canceled.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Actually, down there, they'd be like, yeah, man. Get you Jew hat, Kirby. All right, let's take a quick break.

[Cody Rhodes]

Okay.

[Tom Segura]

We'll be right back.

[Cody Rhodes]

I'm a water park kid, so, like, I want that.

[Tom Segura]

You know, you have good water parks near you.

[Cody Rhodes]

Back in the day. I felt they were.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

But I feel like if I went today, I. I'd go, oh, this is not what it used to be.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. I went to a water park for the first time in, like, in a long time, like last year. And I was. It was. It reminded me. I was like, oh, I forgot how disgusting and unsanitary. Yeah. It's so foul.

[Christina P]

Which one did you. Which was this with your other family?

[Tom Segura]

With the. The family that I have in Utah. And. No, this is what we were all. The indoor place.

[Christina P]

Oh, that.

[Tom Segura]

I didn't want to say that. I didn't want to shit. I didn't want to shit on the business.

[Christina P]

No, no, no. Schlitter Bond's, the outdoor one, which is massive.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

But it also looks like everybody's out on parole, if you know what I mean.

[Tom Segura]

Clientele's rust, you know, throat tattoos.

[Cody Rhodes]

Have you ever seen the documentary on Action Park? That's a water park where you. All those things, all those ingredients were in that pot, including engineering choices. They had a slide that did a full360 that obviously didn't work in a water park.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Action park. There it is.

[Christina P]

That's rad.

[Tom Segura]

There's a. It's a very delicate way of saying that, by the way. Engineering choices.

[Cody Rhodes]

But, yeah, Action park didn't make it. It had, like, a resurgence. My water park growing up was white water, and E. Coli hit it, and that's. That's where White waters. We stopped going.

[Tom Segura]

You know how you. I don't know if you have waters, but I have. There's people who you are automatically assigned to when. When you look at reels on Instagram of who you send. So, like, if there's a death, something like a murder or something, I send it to Rogan or Connor.

[Christina P]

Yes.

[Tom Segura]

If it's gay, I send it to Chris DiStefano. If it's a severely mentally disabled person, I send it to Christina. And then if it's. If it's a theme park disaster, I sent it to Ryan Sickler. Yeah, yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Just.

[Tom Segura]

You just have, like, these autumn, like,

[Cody Rhodes]

you know, that's their flavor.

[Tom Segura]

I'm like, this is our thing.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

And the thing, like, as soon as you talk about theme park and I immediately think about when you see. You see these types of, like, roller coasters or theme park things in a third world country, right away I'm like, this is going to be bad. And as soon as you open it, you see engineering choices that were made. You're like, this doesn't seem. And then you just see a thing collapse. Like, 100 people on it.

[Cody Rhodes]

And you're like, holy, I'm a big park guy. I don't think any of it's safe, really.

[Christina P]

No.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. I. Even the most locked up what we know and trust our whole lives.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

I.

[Tom Segura]

It's a risk, right?

[Cody Rhodes]

It's a. It's a risk. Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Do you still go, though? Oh, yeah. Oh. So you.

[Cody Rhodes]

There. There's one, for example, at just. At Universal Islands of Adventure Velocicoaster, which I just told everyone, that's unsafe.

[Christina P]

Let me see it.

[Cody Rhodes]

There's a part where in my lifetime, or in our lifetime, I feel like it's going to go over the shoulder event. Cause it's just over the lap, but it literally turns you. Yeah, that one to me.

[Christina P]

And that's only a lap bar.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. And it's only lap. And I thought I told everyone and they were not loving my response. I'm like, I think that's unsafe. Let's ride again. But I think I'm gonna say, I think it's unsafe, guys.

[Tom Segura]

And, you know, like, every year a couple things happen on these rides.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. Look, just laugh.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Like, that's so dangerous.

[Cody Rhodes]

I get it. That. Oh, it moves so fast or whatever the engineering choices are. But, yeah, just, you know, looks unsafe.

[Tom Segura]

Every year, this happens usually a couple times, which is somebody is too small.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

And a disaster happens. Or someone is too big. And on both times the theme park goes. Yeah, I know. Like, sorry, that happens.

[Cody Rhodes]

Well, they didn't follow the rules. Right.

[Tom Segura]

We didn't know he was that small. And we thought he wasn't too big. And anyway, we're going to close for tomorrow, but on Saturday, we're back with discounts. If you want to come and get the new corn dog that's wrapped in whipped cream. Come on down. Yeah, they don't give a shit.

[Cody Rhodes]

Worst part is no one says, I'm not going. No, it's more a matter of, oh, it wasn't open. They had a massive accident yesterday. It'll be open tomorrow.

[Tom Segura]

Definitely tomorrow.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. That's a risk.

[Tom Segura]

And you know what? The fun will continue. The fun will.

[Christina P]

We need to start cultivating more amusement park ride malfunction videos. I think this is gonna be a whole new lane for us.

[Tom Segura]

That's a good lane.

[Christina P]

Yeah, that and sun visor merch. Really? A whole new area.

[Tom Segura]

How do you feel about a visor? Do you ever wear a visor?

[Christina P]

Husnem visor.

[Cody Rhodes]

Sun visor. As in. Yeah, this.

[Christina P]

A what? Like a what?

[Cody Rhodes]

Sun visor. Right. Is that what they're called.

[Tom Segura]

See how. Yeah, see how you said. Is that because most people call it just.

[Christina P]

Was nem.

[Tom Segura]

What did most people call it?

[Cody Rhodes]

You're talking about like the hat.

[Tom Segura]

Yes, correct.

[Cody Rhodes]

That is called a sun visor, actually.

[Tom Segura]

But do you. Do you normally refer to as that or a visor?

[Cody Rhodes]

I'm not. I'm not lying. I do. Normally that would be referred to as a sun visor.

[Tom Segura]

Get the fuck out of here.

[Christina P]

True American hero are.

[Cody Rhodes]

The closest thing is like, what the guy has at the casino. Like the casino.

[Tom Segura]

Yes, you're right.

[Cody Rhodes]

That's a Teller. That's a.

[Christina P]

But that's a visor.

[Cody Rhodes]

I've never worn a visor. I think either, actually. No. There's some pictures of me in high school. Were anyone in that. That boy band era where you've got puk shell necklace, you don't even know what you have on anymore? There's definitely. I got a visor on somewhere and I bet you it's not on right?

[Tom Segura]

Visor on somewhere.

[Cody Rhodes]

I bet you it's on sideways. Sideways or some.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, well, you were like, I don't know. Black people are cool. I get it. Like there's a whole thing.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, the coolest. Ye. Okay.

[Christina P]

But that's the fact.

[Tom Segura]

We get too far, though. We should plug the big thing. I mean, WrestleMania 42 is coming up.

[Cody Rhodes]

I love how this all went. I didn't even know we were still. We were on.

[Tom Segura]

Oh, we've been rolling.

[Cody Rhodes]

I love that.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, dude.

[Cody Rhodes]

What a great. That's great. Yeah, dude, thanks for having me.

[Tom Segura]

So you thought, like, all right, you ready to go? Would start now?

[Cody Rhodes]

No, I. I think I got it a few moments ago. We're in it.

[Tom Segura]

We're in now.

[Cody Rhodes]

Once you start talking about sun visors.

[Christina P]

Well, look, I fucking knew it.

[Tom Segura]

We're here with the champ. Champ. We should point that out. Cody Rhodes gonna defend his title. You're gonna defend your title.

[Cody Rhodes]

What?

[Tom Segura]

Against Randy Orton. WrestleMania 42, Saturday, April 18, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Both nights of WrestleMania 42 stream on the ESPN app exclusively for fans with the ESPN Unlimited plan on April 18 and April 19. So make your plans and get ready. It's gonna be a wild show.

[Cody Rhodes]

Oh, my gosh. Allegiant Stadium is amazing, by the way.

[Tom Segura]

That's where the great Raiders play, right?

[Cody Rhodes]

Raiders are there. And we did WrestleMania there last year. I wrestled John Cena last year in Allegiance Stadium. The only. I did see him. I saw he was right. He's right in my face. The only thing when I I think about going this year and such an amazing event for WWE last year is he beat me for the WWE title. And also I was a bit of a. What we call on an away game, because here he is. He's going for the record. He's. He's a legend. There's a lot of nostalgia and respect. So I was happy, I was understanding. I'll probably be heavily booed, even though I am technically a good guy. That's fine. I think we're going into it again. Again, which I love because I'm back. Title with me again. Yeah, it's kind of a little under the breath.

[Tom Segura]

Like, is it kind of. Is it kind of, though, fun once you accept. Accept booze. You know what I mean? Like, no one. Like, if you ask people, what would you rather have in life, cheers or booze? They're like, cheers. Cheers feel good. But in the sport, when you're like, you know what? Boo me then. Like, does that, like, you know, I mean, do you lean it? Like. Yeah, just boo then.

[Cody Rhodes]

I'm about the leaning in kind of the Prince halftime show when it starts raining and he's saying, can it rain more? You know, I. Tully Blanchard, famous wrestler from Austin, Texas. Actually, his whole thing was as long as they're the loudest, the longest, just you guys do your thing. But I'll say this. When it first started for me in my career, I wasn't even in WWE at the time when the first inklings of that started coming in, and there was a bit of an adversarial reaction. Even though you thought, oh, well, I'm. I was a good guy. Okay. What it got me then I. I felt like I was lying when I said, no, no, it doesn't bother me. I think it got me. It got under. Whereas today, it's the most fun thing

[Tom Segura]

ever to get food.

[Cody Rhodes]

I love the. I love to go the other way on nights that you're a conquering hero. Texas, for example. Florida. There are some spaces that just won't do it. They're about, hey, that's our guy. That's. That's. But certain spots and certain people you're up against. And Randy's. He's also kind of at the. I don't know. I wouldn't say the end of his career, because he could go for five more years if he wanted to. But his legacy, his run, that's somebody you want to see. And this is his first WrestleMania main event. Quite some time.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

So I'm. I'm expecting it. I say that and Then sometimes it's a little in the middle, which I love, too. Split. That's fun.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Because then you. You got to either win them over or goes the other way.

[Cody Rhodes]

The thing if they do, like, for Cena, for years, it was, let's go, Cena. Cena sucks. And I got a little bit of that coming out of our international tour. The first time. First time I heard like, let's go, Cody. Cody sucks. And I thought, oh, wow. I'm not mad at that.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, I'm not.

[Cody Rhodes]

I'm not. And it's less about earning the ones over on the. That side and more about. I'm just gonna. The ones on my side.

[Tom Segura]

Yes.

[Cody Rhodes]

I got you guys.

[Tom Segura]

You know, it's not the same thing. It just reminded me this thing that I had believed for years. Yeah. And then I just saw a clip of Steve Martin talking about it, so I was like, oh. I think my instinct was right. Yeah. He was in this clip talking about stand up. And he says to people who are basically. I think he's giving, like, a master class. He goes, don't look at the audience. He goes, don't look at the audience because you can be on stage in front of 15,000 people.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

And just hear roars of laughter. And when you start looking, you'll look at the person who's going like, yeah. And then you're like, why am I thinking about this?

[Cody Rhodes]

This one guy?

[Tom Segura]

I should be thinking about what feels good about this.

[Cody Rhodes]

I. I'd spin it in terms of I will. I can see the.

[Tom Segura]

The faces.

[Cody Rhodes]

I can see the one who may not be buying it.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

But then, typically, it's the kiddo who is all, like, on the edge of their seat. And that's a fun moment, especially as a baby face in wrestling, where you can look at them and kind of let them know I'm get up, you know, without saying it.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

I'm gonna be okay. Where they can, you know, where you

[Tom Segura]

see that they're worried.

[Cody Rhodes]

They're worried if they start, you know, hitting their feet or clapping or whatever. That is a big part of the pro wrestling generally. Our show is 100. We need them. They are part of the band. So anyone, anytime you're in there and you're, oh, we did this, and it was awesome. And I landed on my feed, and he flipped me over, but then we didn't interact with them at all. We miss the job.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

So I try a lot to catch the ones who are just really enamored in it and. And go that way. My brother on the other hand, will try and get the one guy who is not interested, and he will go, short of killing himself, do everything in his pos. In his, like, abilities to get that one guy to be like, all right, I'm into this now. That, to me, I'm like, ah, you

[Tom Segura]

just described me and Bert. Yeah, that's pretty wild.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

You mentioned Steve Martin, by the way.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

So are you a big Steve Martin guy?

[Tom Segura]

I mean, I just think he's an incredible legend talent. Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

My dad used to have a wrestling school in Georgia, and he. This was such a crazy thing for prospective wrestlers who would come in. They'd come in, I want to be wrestler. I'm going to be this character. And my dad would ask him, have they ever seen the movie Leap of Faith? Have you seen Leap of Faith? Steve Martin movie?

[Tom Segura]

Maybe I have. So it's been a long time.

[Cody Rhodes]

I think most Steve Martin people wouldn't. It's not really his speed. It's not a comedy. It's. It's.

[Christina P]

Oh, yeah, I remember this.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Years ago.

[Cody Rhodes]

But yes, the reason he has him watch it, it is pro wrestling.

[Tom Segura]

Oh, the performance.

[Cody Rhodes]

Sheriff comes to town. You know, this isn't real. But that's not what we were selling. We were. Your feeling is real.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, your.

[Cody Rhodes]

That. That moment. Because it's Leap of Faith is they find someone at the door, they put them in a wheelchair. He brings them on stage. It's like they can walk. And it's a whole. It's a performance whole bit. But everyone there benefited from the Liam Neeson's in it. It's just an incredible. I don't know if most prospective wrestlers would get why he would ask them to watch this movie, but I always used to laugh. He'd tell him, literally, leave. Watch that movie. Come back tomorrow.

[Christina P]

Well, I dated a gentleman before. I met my lovely husband who was really into wrestling. And I got to go to a. Yeah, an event. And I was like, why are you into this stupid shit, man? And he's like, well, don't you get it? It's just good versus evil over and over again. It's the good guy versus the bad guy. And the fans are so dedicated to their guy, and they come dressed up like their guy and this and that. And then you see it. Yeah, it's just energy. It's an expelling of energy, a transference. You're the good guy, you're the bad guy. I don't know. I mean, it's fun. I think it's fun.

[Cody Rhodes]

Did you find anyone you liked?

[Christina P]

Yeah, I like the Undertaker because he's goth as. And I was like, that's kind of tight. And again, I drank a lot of beer and I had a good time.

[Tom Segura]

She still talks.

[Cody Rhodes]

You had the perfect experience.

[Tom Segura]

She still talks about the Undertaker.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

I love the Undertaker.

[Cody Rhodes]

Has he been on? Yeah, yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Mark came on.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. Have you had Undertaker on here?

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, he came on Two Bears.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, he came on two Bears. Now that he's able to talk.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

It's like he was embargoed for years where he couldn't tell all these stories about.

[Tom Segura]

It was amazing, dude.

[Cody Rhodes]

He's so special.

[Tom Segura]

He's amazing.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, I tell people and I, I mentioned it a lot, but at WrestleMania 40, he came, he came in the ring to help me. He evens the score. It's like the old sheriff comes to town. But it's all magic to me already. I grew up in it. I have this con. It feels very real. No matter how silly the gig can get, sometimes he rolls in, choke, slams the rock. He looks over at me. It's right here. And right before we did a blackout for him to leave because the Undertaker just never, he doesn't just walk to the ring, you know, he's magic. Like, he looked at me and he winked, and then the lights went out. And I thought, is magic like everything else, that the Undertaker's as real as it gets? It was just a really special moment. I was so happy that he wanted to do it because this was also,

[Tom Segura]

like, everybody a, like, gentleman. Yeah, it's really just like an incredible guy. Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

He was really in during my time coming up in the wrestling and this. I started on the roster 2008, and he was the locker room leader more than anything. I, I, we all knew he was Undertaker. He was awesome. His matches, his storylines, his angles were great. But more for us, he sat at the monitor. If you weren't watching the matches that were happening on the live events, he'd ask you why you weren't. He'd talk to you. But he wasn't. He was a really good coach. It was never, it wasn't friendly friendly, but it wasn't overly negative reinforcement. Like you said, just a gentleman.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Clearly had been brought up well, had played enough team sports to know how this functions, and he'd also wrestled enough terrible wrestlers to go, hey, this is how we can make this work, you know?

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

What makes a terrible wrestler?

[Tom Segura]

Gosh, who are you thinking of right now?

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, terrible wrestler. Who am. I think, I think what makes for A terrible wrestler is their. Their difference between us talking right now and when we go out there, that's actually so. So there have been many wrestlers who I've met have been like, yeah, you know, because that's what we want. And they're using all the vernacular. I'll get the gimmick, and there's going to be great heat off this, and this crowd's going to swell. You make your comeback, and then we'll do a shotgun finish and we'll head home. Like, they're using all the.

[Tom Segura]

Yes, yes.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, you're in. And then you go out there and it's full like deer and headlights. They're not able to put the two together. They actually knew what they were talking about.

[Tom Segura]

They did, but they can't execute.

[Cody Rhodes]

But they couldn't execute it. They couldn't perform in front of a live crowd, and they couldn't pivot. And today you have to pivot. The crowd never does what we anticipate they're going to do anymore. They're all over the place.

[Tom Segura]

Do you mean pivot as in during the match, break from the plan. Like, break from whatever we're going to do?

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, if we're really. If we're dancing and they are not buying this element of it, we have to make a change, otherwise this is a massive disservice to them.

[Tom Segura]

And is that with an experienced wrestler, is that just a look and you just kind of do it, or is like, do you have to exchange words as you're wrapped up of, like, we're switching this up?

[Cody Rhodes]

Well, every wrestler who's, I guess, good in terms of they can communicate in there.

[Tom Segura]

Well.

[Cody Rhodes]

And one of the people. Things people forget all the time. I don't have to tell you, hey, please stop kicking me, or whatever it is. I could tell the ref. The third man in there is a huge part of that. I can tell the ref. Also, we've got great producers backstage who can help. Hey, this. Take him out of that switch. Do whatever it may be. Can give directive, but when it's really good, you don't even have to say, wow. Yeah. When it's, oh, wait.

[Tom Segura]

But I'm sure. How often does a pivot, like. Like a real pivot have to happen for a match?

[Cody Rhodes]

Well, it's pivoting. Sr. If this is so, like, nuanced. No, it's pivoting in. I don't ever want to change fundamentally who I am as a character. So I. I like to make the right decisions as a character. That's typically what I'm offered is the right decisions. I'll give you an example. Stephanie McMahon. She's getting ready to go in the WWE hall of Fame. Wonderful person, has taught me a lot. We had a promo in the ring the other night where I turned her around. I told her I got two words for you, which is her husband's famous saying. But instead of saying suck it, I said thank you from the speech she had given me. That crowd wanted to hear suck it. And they wanted to hear. They wanted violence. She was basically egging me on. You've got to be more, otherwise Randy's going to beat you. And it was really, really great education in real time. So those are choices I can't pivot on because I'm okay with them not liking that. Because I am loyal to me as a character. I'm not going to flip flop to where I'm consistent for them as an audience. They know he's going to make the right decision. In the ring, though, we're fighting each other, Right?

[Tom Segura]

Right.

[Cody Rhodes]

If they're into the idea of you beating me up, keep beating me up. If they're not in the idea of me on Topple. And that's an area where we can switch, where we don't have to fundamentally change characters.

[Tom Segura]

Okay.

[Cody Rhodes]

If that makes sense.

[Tom Segura]

That's a good.

[Cody Rhodes]

Right. That in the ring it's supposed to be. We're based in sport, even though it's sports entertainment, but two guys, their underwear beating each other up.

[Tom Segura]

Let me ask you something that's also, I think, specific to this audience. How bad do some people smell?

[Christina P]

Oh, my God. What a great question.

[Cody Rhodes]

That's a great question. I don't know if we have any current smellers where it's. Where it's. But back in the day when there were Friday, Saturday, Sunday show, and then Monday tv, you could tell the ones who didn't take their gear out of their bag.

[Tom Segura]

Wow.

[Cody Rhodes]

Because you got to do the thing when you get into the hotel room, you take your gear out, you hang it on the lampshade, you lay your knee pads out, you lay like you lay. Breathe. Let it breathe.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Bring the Febreze even. Or bring multiple sets of gear.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

What are crazy concepts? Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Billion Dollar Company. You know, you don't have to have the same set of tights. So you could tell the ones who didn't and that you'd be surprised. Here's. Here's what might surprise you. Most wrestlers smell. Amazing.

[Christina P]

No, really?

[Cody Rhodes]

Because think of it. We're gonna go out there, we're Half naked and we're in each other's face. I'd say this is probably men and women. I douse myself in cologne. You'll see a lot of the old timey wrestlers. They'd be in their trunks and their T shirts. They'll go. And they'll brush their teeth right before the match. It's. Yeah. I hope I'm not giving too much away. Yeah, I think it's more of a respect for the respect thing. Like we're gonna go out there, we're probably gonna punch each other in the face. A couple. A couple are gonna slip.

[Tom Segura]

Does anything gross ever happen in. In a match?

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

What's the grossest thing

[Cody Rhodes]

the. I mean, the grossest thing that can happen to you in the match is if you yourself. Yeah, that's. And that's.

[Tom Segura]

That happens.

[Christina P]

Have you.

[Cody Rhodes]

I have never. But I was once told I had food poison.

[Christina P]

No.

[Cody Rhodes]

And I was once told by Rey Mysterio so kindly, he's like, oh, when you get out there, the adrenaline will take over. It's. You'll be fine. Nope. He goes up, flips me over immediately. It's coming up. I rolled under the ring, which is a common roll under the ring and puking there. Puked every bit out of me. Rolled back out, got back into it. Yeah. Every. The blood gone from my skin, just gray. And. Yeah, under the ring's a safe place to be sick. There have a few. There have been a few defecated in the ring moments.

[Tom Segura]

I imagine that farts happen.

[Christina P]

Oh, all the time.

[Cody Rhodes]

Right? Yeah. And the. And it's funny, the bigger the guys, the. The worse, you know, like they're the legendary Big show. The Giant, man, he was a legendary stink. That ring up and hilarious. Like not even hyperbole. Three or four rows.

[Tom Segura]

Wow.

[Cody Rhodes]

Could smell. Could smell.

[Tom Segura]

Could smell a big show. Big fart.

[Cody Rhodes]

You know, that's a great picture. Like, he's such a great guy that

[Tom Segura]

looks like you think you can fart.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

But he was. I think he has a legendary. Andre the Giant also has a legendary fart. Yeah, that's. That's. That's a thing.

[Christina P]

Come on now.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. I one time slammed a guy and he. He himself.

[Tom Segura]

Damn.

[Cody Rhodes]

And I heard it. Which was. Even made it even weirder. Like smelling it kind of like. Like what's that? He. He. That happened. But I heard like that, like the noise.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

And then it started to smell. And this was at a place in England called Minehead, which is Butlands, which is a kids camp. So we're In a big Cirque type tent. So this wasn't the. This was a lot of Gaga fun matches. Not the high stakes, but the funny part was like a cartoon. He got right up and the finish was him kneeing me in the head. I think, like, he got right up and he put the knee in, like, gave it to me, covered me real quick, and then grabbed his butt and ran to the back. Like a cartoon. Like, what's gonna happen? Next to the point where I thought, once you've seen somebody like that.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, yeah, we're.

[Cody Rhodes]

We've know everything about it, of course.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. We're bonded.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. So it happens. Hasn't happened to me yet. It'll. It'll happen.

[Tom Segura]

You think so?

[Cody Rhodes]

Oh, yeah, it'll happen.

[Tom Segura]

How old are you?

[Cody Rhodes]

40.

[Tom Segura]

You're 40?

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. 40, bro.

[Tom Segura]

You look good, man.

[Cody Rhodes]

I was made up before this, that's all.

[Tom Segura]

Jesus.

[Cody Rhodes]

Little men's grooming is all. I look okay, though.

[Tom Segura]

Do you? You must, I'm assuming, feel this, because when you talk to, like, you know, an NBA player.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

They're like, I just saw this clip of Giannis, and he was watching himself at 25, and he was like, oh, I was a beast then. And they were like, you still. He's like, nah. But, like, I could feel, yeah. I watched this clip. I remember, like, how explosive. I like. Do you feel the. The, you know, the taxing nature of what you do now where you're like, damn, like, this is wearing on my body?

[Cody Rhodes]

I actually would say reverse, except for one example. I feel better than I've ever been.

[Tom Segura]

Wow.

[Cody Rhodes]

Wrestling bell to bell, maybe just because it took me a real long time. I was not a ped guy. I just naturally tried to get better and bigger and kind of make myself a heavyweight the old school way. And I feel better. Except one area. Jumping.

[Tom Segura]

Jumping.

[Cody Rhodes]

My. There's a thing called a leapfrog where guy runs underneath you and you leapfrog over him. I still think that it's like when I was 22. Oh, yeah. You don't. You know, I. You don't have to duck too much. I got you. It's.

[Tom Segura]

You feel it?

[Cody Rhodes]

It's not there like it used to be. To the point where if I'm doing a leapfrog, I tell them, please, please, duck, duck. Otherwise, this. This match is over right away, you know? So, like, Logan Paul, who's really, really good, is an incredible athlete. His leapfrog was what mine used to be. So it's kind of at that point in your career where you say, Take it out. No more.

[Tom Segura]

No, you don't have to do that.

[Christina P]

You don't have to do that.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

How do you survive a pile driver?

[Cody Rhodes]

Which one? Tombstone or Tombstone?

[Christina P]

I actually know that one. That was one of the guys that I would watch.

[Cody Rhodes]

Undertaker was Tombstone. Yeah. Tombstone is the easier one. Okay. Tombstone, because you're up and you. You drop and that. The. The motion of it looks incredibly damaging. And maybe a little tap on the head that you don't want too much because that's your. Your neck. And.

[Christina P]

Yes, that's why I'm asking, how do you survive that?

[Cody Rhodes]

Look at that. The other one, which is an old school Memphis Jerry Lawler PAL driver. You're really reliant on the thighs. You're reliant on the butt and thighs, believe it or not. See that one?

[Christina P]

He's falling on his legs. And your head just kind of.

[Cody Rhodes]

Your head wants to be in that. And you know, there's always a little tap.

[Christina P]

Tap.

[Cody Rhodes]

If there's not a little tap, we probably. Especially with hdtv, but very hard to execute, which is why PAL drivers were banned in wwe, minus the tombstone for years. And then Kevin Owens did the package pile driver to me, the first Saturday night's main event we had. And that one's pretty. Pretty damning because he grabs your legs too. You're like. You're in a little ball. Yeah, there I am. Look at me. Look at that face. Yeah, dude. Yeah. And he brings you down. No control. Hands, aren't there? So what are you Gotta really trust somebody.

[Christina P]

Yeah. So it was like.

[Tom Segura]

It could be like. Like sex camp, too. Like, it looks like it could be, you know, I mean, if you were lovers, this would be like a very erotic thing to do.

[Cody Rhodes]

I think it's safe to say a lot of positions are in the wrestling space. You would. You could even say if you couldn't. If there was a language barrier, you could. I mean, a tombstone, you're in a 69 position. You know, if you needed to explain it.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

But, yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Beautiful.

[Cody Rhodes]

Some sexuality there.

[Tom Segura]

To the.

[Cody Rhodes]

To the game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that package Pile Driver was the first one we'd done in. In a long time.

[Christina P]

It looks so scary.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, but that's the. You know, it's. Hey, it's like the roller coasters. I know there's a risk. Yeah, there's a. There's a. There's a huge risk. But wwe, you get. You know, hopefully you're in there with the best of the best. And we're all. We're all very crazy. And I think a little bit. What's the term? But we like the pain.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

You know, you gotta. Yeah. So do you.

[Christina P]

Do you guys see each other naked in the locker room? Is it like football?

[Cody Rhodes]

I. I want to say it's a pretty. I haven't. This sounds pretentious, but I haven't been in the locker room in a while because I have a bus. I got my own little locker room, you know. I know, I know, I know.

[Tom Segura]

I'm the champ.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. I've had that for a while. But I don't know if the modern locker room is as naked as the old.

[Tom Segura]

The old locker room, old school locker room was definitely. Everybody's probably roaming around together. Right, Right.

[Cody Rhodes]

Well, so my dad is. There's all these stories about. Because he was also the creative director, the booker of the show. So you'd come to him and ask, what's the finish? What are we doing? He's famous for always being in his cowboy boots and naked while telling them, like, oh, you'll be over on Stinger, or whatever it may be. And everyone has a story that. That they were, I think, a far more naked bunch. But what I'm. I'm. I'm thinking to wrestling is. I don't know if comedy is the same, but wrestlers are always working. There's always a bit of wrestling going on. And I think that nakedness, believe it or not, was a disarming tactic, a way of I'm so confident. Something.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

I don't know. But I don't think, because he wasn't like that around the house.

[Tom Segura]

They're never, like, totally dropping at all. Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

A guy asked me on a podcast once, and it scared me to death. He said, when are you out of character? Like, when are you not in character? And I thought, I don't. I don't know, because I play me, It'd be easier if I played Spartacus. I had a helmet on, but I play me. That's a tough question.

[Tom Segura]

That is a good question. Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

And then you say, you know, are you. Are you living a lie? You know, like, you get caught up in these, like, deep thoughts about it. I've kind of determined when I'm out and when I'm not. Yeah. But, yeah, a lot of the. The nakedness, I think that was part of it.

[Christina P]

That's cool.

[Tom Segura]

I don't know.

[Cody Rhodes]

I think the locker room's got to be naked. I'll go ahead and say that.

[Christina P]

Well, there's a story about Rodney Dangerfield where he would answer his front Door just in a bathrobe.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

Open too. Like, I think there's something obviously disarming about seeing males genitalia. It immediately takes away any.

[Tom Segura]

Right.

[Christina P]

Kind of like, oh, well, I guess I'd better.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

Obey.

[Cody Rhodes]

Better get to it.

[Tom Segura]

Right.

[Cody Rhodes]

Whatever we're here to talk about, let's just, let's get to it. Yeah. Yeah. I, I don't know. I think, I think if it's a locker room, to me it's weird if guys would be like hiding. Right.

[Tom Segura]

Well, here's the thing. There's a way, there's a way about you because there's the natural way of like you're in a locker room and you're changing. You're changing.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yes.

[Tom Segura]

Right. There's. So if you're changing, you can't. You're like, that's normal to do. It's like, is your thing to stand and talk to people like that? Because that's kind of a choice, right?

[Cody Rhodes]

That is a choice.

[Tom Segura]

That's a choice. And there's a, there is like a message with that is like, I'm gonna stand and talk to you like this. And then like, are you, are you approaching people as you talk? Are you staying. Are you staying in your space? Like, there's all these little elements to it that inform the psychology behind it.

[Cody Rhodes]

You know, there was a guy who used to call spots wrestling moves while naked. And I think it was all to make the person. So like, if they're sitting back in the locker room, he'd be in front of them fully just swinging like. And then you'll backdrop me where he's like. And I think all of it was to really.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Leave an impression.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, I, I, Yeah, no, that's a lot.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, yeah, that's it.

[Cody Rhodes]

It's a power. But is it so, like, what's more powerful if you're, if you're packing or if you're not and you're.

[Christina P]

Oh, interesting.

[Tom Segura]

Is it just really interesting.

[Cody Rhodes]

Is it just the confidence of, oh, this guy don't care.

[Christina P]

Well, because put it this way. Okay, so, so here's the deal though.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

If you, if you're, if you open the door.

[Tom Segura]

Oh, oh.

[Christina P]

Like, are you really gonna take the time to assess the size of the guy's junk? I would be too. Fraz. Not, I would not even be like,

[Tom Segura]

hey, you're shaken by the, the person's decision to do that.

[Christina P]

Right?

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

You're not. I wouldn't be able to go, well, it was, that was a good sized.

[Tom Segura]

Or. No, no, I agree I think if I. If someone. The first thing you do would be like, what the Is happening?

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Like, if somebody answered the door that way. But if you're like. If it's like a co worker and they're talking to you make a great point.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Which is like, I almost think the average size or smaller guy who decides that you're like, this guy doesn't give up.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

You know?

[Christina P]

Yeah. It's kind of cooler.

[Tom Segura]

He's small.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. He's bold.

[Tom Segura]

He's bold. He's. What's his name matter?

[Christina P]

Respect.

[Tom Segura]

No. What's. The punk guy.

[Christina P]

Gigi Allen had No dick.

[Tom Segura]

No dick. And he's walking around in public at shows like, hey. And everyone's like, yo, sir.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, I. This is gonna sound crazy, but you brought it up in terms of. Because I went to a doctor recently where I had to. To pull my pants down for whatever check that was. And this never have I been fade. Like, made to feel stranger in a place that you're supposed to not.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, this is.

[Cody Rhodes]

But he did what he needed to do, checked me out, and then I had them still down, and he sat back down. He goes, pull your pants up. What are you doing? Like, the way he said it to me, I was like, I don't know you. I don't. I don't know.

[Christina P]

Like, you were enjoying it so much.

[Cody Rhodes]

Made me feel so uncomfortable. I'm like, man, I gotta. You know.

[Tom Segura]

You know what happens to me, by the way? At every doctor's. Every time I met a physician, any type of doctor, whenever it's a medical exam, I have never, like, I've never seen a smaller version of my penis than when I'm at. Like, I could take the penis that I have right now, and if you walk me into the next room and, like, the doctor's there, immediately it'll be like, let's retract 35%. I'm like, why? What is. I think it's fear. It's fear. I guess it's fear. It's fear.

[Cody Rhodes]

Has that ability to do so that's. That's doctor knows that.

[Tom Segura]

I've always said, like, if you think it's small, I promise you it gets smaller. Because if you go to the doctor with me, it is minuscule. Yeah, I guess it is fear.

[Cody Rhodes]

I have. There's a. The group of wrestling fans that are, I would say, not Cody fans. One of the things they get mad at is I often will make a little penis reference to guys I'm wrestling against. Really? Yeah. I. I've Done it more than once to the point where they rightfully so have noticed there's a pattern here. He goes there a lot. Yeah. So I'm not trying to pull it back. Not everyone needs the little dick. We need to go there, you know?

[Christina P]

But it's so effective.

[Cody Rhodes]

That's the other thing. We could end this argument real quick.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

You know what I'm saying?

[Tom Segura]

Just.

[Cody Rhodes]

Just call it out.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Also, it's wrestling. I could be making it up, you know? But also, the energy you're given, it seems. It seems I'm not wrong here in this choice.

[Tom Segura]

Why are you so defensive?

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, man. Yeah. And then the other thing, you're getting real hot about that.

[Tom Segura]

I don't know.

[Cody Rhodes]

So.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

Yeah, that's cool.

[Tom Segura]

There's so much tied to just. Just saying those words to somebody. It's everything.

[Cody Rhodes]

Well, today, wrestling promos, everyone wants a cutting nuclear bomb zinger. And I'm thinking we can't really. That's the closer.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Can't really go anywhere. So that's where my mind goes sometimes, you know?

[Tom Segura]

It would be fun, though.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Christina P]

Good.

[Tom Segura]

Point is, next time you're in one of these situations, be like, I'm gonna fucking, like, crack this big dick motherfucker. Like, just to go the other way.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Like, I'm gonna take him and his big dick and strangle him with it. And everyone's like, wait, what? You'll be like, yeah, dude, I'm gonna choke you out with your own dick. I'll see how big that thing is. And everyone's like, hold on. Just take it the other way.

[Cody Rhodes]

Oh, my.

[Tom Segura]

Right. I just gave you an idea.

[Cody Rhodes]

There you go. It's such a good baby face, baby face idea, you know, because you find yourself in a lot of those respect scenarios, you and every big dick out

[Tom Segura]

there are gonna get it.

[Cody Rhodes]

Oh, I love it. I. I get. Some fans get mad at me because for a long time, as a. As a baby face wrestler, I always. If it was somebody else, usually would lead with a handshake and something complimentary. It wasn't until deep in did we start getting to. All right, I'm gonna bite back here. But there's that clip of that guy on the plane who's like, I want to shake your hand. I don't know if you've ever seen it. It's like, I want to shake your hand. He clearly had done something awful. He's like, I want to shake your. He's all drunk. And it gets played all the time for me on TV because I overly do it. This. Yeah. This dude.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, I've seen this. I have seen this. He's getting, like, tossed from the plane, right?

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, I think he's getting tossed, but still decides to. He needs to shake someone's hand.

[Christina P]

It's amazing.

[Cody Rhodes]

That's all I want. Fully getting to us. Why he needed this, but. Yeah, no, you could. The week before you and I are tv, you could pal. Drive me. I could be bleeding profusely, and then I have a habit the next week to. For some reason, it's. I got to get it. I got to. I got to get it out.

[Tom Segura]

You're a good guy. Well, I think.

[Cody Rhodes]

I think at a certain point, maybe we got to go bad. Bad, right?

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

And then.

[Christina P]

Yeah, you have to turn bad.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. And then. And then if people don't. They think they know what they want with that. They'll get new music and he'll dye his hair dark, and he'll be back. And then I don't think they'd know how far I'd love to go with it. Just. You won't like it, you know, like, which. Which. I don't know if it works for the business of it all.

[Tom Segura]

I would love to see it will. You might have his hands on. Just for a moment. We can show you something.

[Cody Rhodes]

Thanks for making me not wear them the whole time.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, of course. You can put it over the back if you want, so it doesn't ruin. Oh, that's good. All right.

[Christina P]

Still good.

[Tom Segura]

Okay. So the great producing staff here pulled a little bank of videos. This falls into our horrible or hilarious. Like, we show you a video and you decide, is it funny or is it actually quite sad?

[Cody Rhodes]

Oh, great.

[Tom Segura]

But they're all wrestling themed.

[Cody Rhodes]

Okay. My wife and I do this with.

[Tom Segura]

Oh, you do? Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

She loves that. Terrible fall.

[Tom Segura]

Yes.

[Cody Rhodes]

Been terrible.

[Tom Segura]

I love a scream. I like when someone's, you know, really moaning in pain. All right, here we go. Oh, look at Stone Face.

[Cody Rhodes]

His foot.

[Tom Segura]

No, no, no. His left arm broke. Oh, that was really bad. Look at his.

[Cody Rhodes]

I think this is Ray Phoenix here. Hit me with it again.

[Tom Segura]

That. That was really bad.

[Christina P]

It's bent the other way, bro.

[Tom Segura]

It falls on. Yeah, it goes under him.

[Cody Rhodes]

So that's. That's. That's horrible. That's horrible.

[Tom Segura]

That's horrible. Oh,

[Cody Rhodes]

that's horrible.

[Tom Segura]

Also, you could tell the guy. No, he noticed. I think that he did it to him.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, that's Luchasaurus. That you. I think, also, that's horrible. But in wrestling, you almost always want there to be someone to Blame.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

There's not anyone really to blame there.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Oh, it's a table bump.

[Tom Segura]

And it's just the mechanics.

[Cody Rhodes]

These are the things that happen.

[Tom Segura]

That can happen.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

That was really horrible.

[Cody Rhodes]

That is really horrible.

[Tom Segura]

That was terrible. Okay, here's another one,

[Christina P]

dude.

[Cody Rhodes]

You guys okay?

[Tom Segura]

I love you guys. Okay. You guys okay. Might be my favorite part. You guys good? Well, my tailbone is broken.

[Christina P]

Feel that?

[Tom Segura]

So keep recording. Keep recording, sir. He's doing great. I love. He's like, you guys all right?

[Cody Rhodes]

That's amazing.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, that was.

[Cody Rhodes]

I. I love that for a couple reasons.

[Tom Segura]

Okay.

[Cody Rhodes]

What. I get it that what we. What we do is fun and there is. But there's a craft to it.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

What do you mean you think it's a bad idea to stand on the roof of a house?

[Cody Rhodes]

We used to run these videos before shows. These. Don't try this. This is why. So this is completely by your own design. Not only could you start small and say, I'll pile drive them in the living room. Nah, let's go up to the roof. And also, wrestler physics. Even bad wrestlers are the worst. They're always like, we'll fall forward, will hit the table. They never think about propulsion, the direction they're going. Oh, your head hit the floor. That's why these guys don't even make it. They just straight through.

[Tom Segura]

Think.

[Cody Rhodes]

And also the Peter Griffin after.

[Tom Segura]

So, like, I'm trying.

[Cody Rhodes]

He.

[Tom Segura]

He's got him brutal. Like, he has him in a. Setting up to do what? This is a type of pile driver.

[Cody Rhodes]

It kind of looks like a power bomb. More like he was gonna. But the guy's low, which is already a bad sign. He needs to be up there.

[Christina P]

And there's a table. So we want. Wants to crack him on the table.

[Cody Rhodes]

And I think yellow pants slides through table.

[Tom Segura]

And there's also the. The plan. Because you're talking about the plan. The plan was. So what it'll do is we'll jump off here, we'll go through the table, and then we'll just bounce up, right? It's just like jumping out of the ring.

[Cody Rhodes]

Was. Was the idea that this was the finish. This also because this is backyard.

[Tom Segura]

Oh, I see too. I see. He landed directly, like, through the table. Directly on, like, just onto his ass. And so his tailbone just snaps.

[Cody Rhodes]

Not a train.

[Christina P]

Oh, and the other kid's head, what, just hits the floor.

[Cody Rhodes]

So there's this. There's this, like, big argument in wrestling today on big, violent, crazy moves versus storytelling. These are the type of videos that you do find yourself, even at big WrestleMania events, asking yourself, is this worth it?

[Tom Segura]

Right.

[Cody Rhodes]

You gotta. And you always to ask yourself that private privately. Don't ask yourself when you're around the other guys.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Don't. And never do the. What would you do?

[Tom Segura]

Is this worth it?

[Cody Rhodes]

Is this worth it? Sometimes it is a risk. That's a rare risk.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

And if it's worth it, design it to where you can do it effectively. And both of you walk away.

[Tom Segura]

And I told you before we played this, I was so distracted by what we saw. My favorite element, which are the screams are actually. They're in this too. And we've isolated those. Those are good, right? Yeah, that's okay.

[Christina P]

That's.

[Cody Rhodes]

I love this.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

This one's great.

[Tom Segura]

All right. That's a winner.

[Cody Rhodes]

That's a really good one.

[Tom Segura]

All right, here's another one for you. It's like a small town.

[Cody Rhodes]

Oh, no. I know. It's.

[Christina P]

Oh, hell yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Okay. I want it. Yeah.

[Christina P]

My kind of ladies.

[Tom Segura]

Oh, what's in there?

[Christina P]

It's a bloody tampon. That's right.

[Tom Segura]

I went.

[Christina P]

It's a good one. Yeah. Get it now. This is brilliant. This is the kind of I would do.

[Cody Rhodes]

Oh, 100.

[Christina P]

Can women do this?

[Cody Rhodes]

I mean, this is a independent show. They're pretty much probably an Adults only show. 18 up, they can break.

[Christina P]

There's kids in the audience.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. I think this one, they can get a little wilder at this one. I know pretty well because back when I wasn't with wwe, when we would be hiring or considering others, these type of videos could either help you a lot or be the reason that we don't hire you. Discovery or Warner Media at the time could not. This here's. Here's. I'm gonna. I don't know where I fall in on this one, but I love that you loved it.

[Christina P]

I. I would pay whatever the ticket price is for WWE for your event here in Vegas double just to see that shit.

[Tom Segura]

Because this. But see this also.

[Christina P]

But I'm mentally ill. Cody.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. But here's the thing. This also plays into her, like, chicks being like this is like. That's kind of a punk, rebellious, gnarly thing. You're like this gnarly.

[Christina P]

It's entertaining. I loved glow, the gorgeous ladies of wrestling growing up.

[Cody Rhodes]

I think it's in the middle for me because it entertains you. And this is how wrestling's hard. They have seen so much.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

There's so much content out there. The crazy thing is, if you're not looking at the tampon incident itself. And you look at the people around it, they're having a good time.

[Tom Segura]

I like the chant that started you sick.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, that's. And that's a regular chant in wrestling when you do something crazy.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

I, again, is it worth it? Moment. But I tend to always with, like, old timer matches when we teach wrestling, I'll always pause it on when the crowd is going nuts, and I'll tell the students, hey, you might have an opinion on Hulk Hogan or this here that. But I'm just letting you know, as far as a worker in wrestling goes, this is all that matters. They're in like a wrestler worker. Their enjoyment is all that matters. And you, you know, absolutely one out of three here, One out of three liked it, so.

[Tom Segura]

All right. Yeah.

[Christina P]

I didn't know that chicks could do cool stuff like this.

[Tom Segura]

I, I didn't know cool is an interesting choice.

[Cody Rhodes]

I love that you're showing me these. WWE is prob. Terrified.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah,

[Cody Rhodes]

I, I, I've seen him, though.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

This is our, this is our locker room.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Look, we're showing you things that are out there. You didn't bring these in. We brought them to you.

[Christina P]

Yeah. This is on us.

[Cody Rhodes]

Oh, yes.

[Tom Segura]

You've seen this one?

[Cody Rhodes]

Oh, yeah. Bro, look at him.

[Christina P]

That's really high.

[Tom Segura]

Right before this.

[Cody Rhodes]

Physics.

[Tom Segura]

As you're going into this as a pro, like, if you're watching this, you're like, man, did you guys really work this out? Right? Like, this is. Yeah. Oh, dude. Can I tell you something that also plays into my head right there?

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

It was part of why he missed was his concern for the guy on the table of, like, I don't want to. Like, I feel like he was thinking of protecting his fellow man a little bit too. Like.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. Also wrestlers, I'd say there's a bit of a rule. This is a. If you think you're far enough.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Go a few more feet back. Everyone's a bit longer than you think. And he's jumping.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

He didn't have a shot at making. He would have barely winged him. And it's still. Instead, he eats the elbow totally on his own. Yeah. So this is what I say with wrestler physics, is you gotta know you're jumping, you're pushing off that wall.

[Christina P]

So push out. You're going out.

[Cody Rhodes]

Bring that table. It's the same as, if you're going to catch me, I'm doing a crossbody off the top. If you're further out and I'm short, you can step in. But if you're too short. Falling back is probably not good. The best option.

[Tom Segura]

This. Why does it feel like I'm talking to the smartest wrestler?

[Christina P]

Yeah, why are you, like, the smartest?

[Tom Segura]

I feel like if I brought in half the wrestlers, they'd be like, that stupid. You'd be like, okay, well, all I

[Cody Rhodes]

can say here is, like, he's a prime example. The tampon spot we saw earlier, the crowd enjoyed the air sucked out of the room, and there's no way they can come back from this.

[Christina P]

No, no, no. He has to go to the ambulance.

[Cody Rhodes]

I bet you they did do stuff after this.

[Christina P]

What do you mean? These guys broken.

[Cody Rhodes]

I mean, I don't know.

[Tom Segura]

He's done, bro.

[Christina P]

He's.

[Cody Rhodes]

Well, what happened right after did.

[Tom Segura]

Did. I don't know.

[Cody Rhodes]

Did wrestler go and check on him? Wrestlers love to pick each other up right after we did something heinous to each other. When you're like, please, yeah, don't touch me. Yeah, but that was the physics. If I'm the guy on the table in that spot happens, you got to stand up and do one of these.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Oh, right, right, right.

[Cody Rhodes]

Look at this.

[Christina P]

Look at this.

[Cody Rhodes]

Look at this, dummy.

[Christina P]

But also, Cody, correct me if I'm wrong, but you're right that this Substantially higher than you guys standing on the ring. Right. I know you guys will stand on, like, the pole. That's a lot higher.

[Cody Rhodes]

To your question, you asked. Did they work it out? No, I don't think he walked out during the day and climbed the pole at that gym. Because an independent show at a gym. I've been there. See? Look outside of there, you've got a crowd that is completely gone the wrong way. You got that guy in the white shirt who's half working, half not aware. This dude is probably sincerely very hurt. Yeah, he's. He doesn't know. Which is always worse, too.

[Tom Segura]

When we're.

[Cody Rhodes]

When we're indicating how much pain we are in, sometimes it's hard to actually let them know. So I'm toast, you know? Table wheeled away. That was strange.

[Tom Segura]

Everyone's still like, the match is still going.

[Cody Rhodes]

Our match is still going.

[Tom Segura]

Our match is going.

[Cody Rhodes]

The match is still going. Wait, white shirt guy, duct tape.

[Tom Segura]

He's like, give me some duct tape.

[Christina P]

I'll fix his arm.

[Tom Segura]

I don't. I mean, he's collapsing, dude. Yeah, he is. Duct tape. He is duct taping it.

[Cody Rhodes]

So they're trying to make this. Yep. They're trying to will this back into existence. In the qu. In the question we had earlier, Is it Worth it. That one was not worth it. Right? That was not worth it. That you didn't need that. And that, that also is what I tell people all the time with independent wrestling. If you're trying to make a viral moment, a cool video, something crazy, you got to make sure you can do it. Because if we get you and you're broken.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Oh, we got the guy who jumped off the high school gym. Also. He's. His left arm isn't real, you know. Yeah. So he's paralyzed. Yeah.

[Christina P]

Dude. I don't like it already. I don't like it. It's backwards.

[Cody Rhodes]

Terrible. This guy ends up walking away. He pinned him.

[Christina P]

Did he have to pin him? Cody? Did he really have to have to pin it? He kind of. He probably just won, right?

[Cody Rhodes]

He wanted that win.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Wins are hard to come by in the pro wrestling space. He needed the dub. I believe. I don't want to make fun of these cats, cuz I believe this guy walked away. This is.

[Tom Segura]

I'll just say this. That guy who landed on his neck.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

No. And is. Is like wondering if he's going to walk in that moment.

[Christina P]

Oh my God.

[Tom Segura]

The other guy goes to pin him. The guy on the ground is. That's the closest he ever came to Sam saying it. Okay. He was really, really on the verge and he was like, you like, you can just let this go for this. Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Wrestle wrestlers have a tendency to run into the fire a little bit.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. So two examples they always Modern day. If someone that happens. Back up.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Back up. Run to the corner. Back up. They're not even if you have to perform.

[Tom Segura]

Out, out, back up.

[Cody Rhodes]

Go in the crowd, throw a pot, something. Back up. The other one is. Back in the day, jumpers used to come in the ring. Fans thinking they could fight the guys.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

And the rule was. Oh well, they think what we do is fake so we gotta really beat them up bad.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

So wrestlers kind of are chomping at the bit for that moment. But modern standard. Nope. Literally don't encourage more of this. If something was one back up.

[Christina P]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

In the last few years, I remember somebody tried to. With one of the top tier guys.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

And he like, he bodied him. Dude.

[Cody Rhodes]

Well, this is. I think you're talking about. There was a guy who sprinted.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Who got catfished online. Some terrible story. Thought it was all who was real. It was Seth Rollins.

[Tom Segura]

Yes.

[Cody Rhodes]

Seth turns around and. And the guy lights his ass up. Yeah. And I think Seth thought it was one of us. Really like, I think he thought it was a piece of business. That's a terrifying moment. Yeah, that was terrifying moment.

[Tom Segura]

So that guy. Wait, that guy got catfished in the.

[Cody Rhodes]

Dude. I don't know the full story, but believe he. He thought, you know, that happens. I'm sure, you know, that's because it

[Tom Segura]

felt like a guy who was like, I'll. I'll with you guys.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, he gets a full. He gets a full. Full run. But he tackled him. And then I forget who. If Seth just kind of got out of it or if they came and got him. But I think everyone was super.

[Tom Segura]

It was either like pre show or po. Like post match or pre match, post match. He's walking back. She's walking back.

[Cody Rhodes]

Like the last thing on earth.

[Tom Segura]

Remember this?

[Cody Rhodes]

You'd think that was going to happen is a fan running full speed at you. Yeah, that's a rough one. Yeah, yeah.

[Tom Segura]

This guy just got out of a match, right? Yeah, probably. Adrenaline's still going.

[Christina P]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

It was just. He. Yeah,

[Tom Segura]

that's a fan.

[Christina P]

Oh, my God.

[Tom Segura]

What the is you doing, boy?

[Cody Rhodes]

Here we go.

[Christina P]

It's terrible.

[Cody Rhodes]

There we go.

[Tom Segura]

I remember I must be thinking of something else.

[Cody Rhodes]

It happens. It happens. It used to happen a lot more,

[Tom Segura]

but I'm thinking of one where I saw. Saw a wrestler, actually see someone, and

[Cody Rhodes]

I feel like, oh, there's a famous one where Triple H is. Yeah. Currently the. The boss. Yeah, he's the man. Yeah, he's wrestling Steve Austin and he's the bad guy fan. Tried to get in and he waist locks him and bodies him, throws him like kind of folk styles, but hard. Hard. That. That was a big, big thing back in the day when. I don't know. So nwo Hulk Hogan turns in. The NWO moment happens where he becomes a bad guy. This is a big moment in wrestling history. There's. Who threw stuff. There was all kinds of craziness like that. And I remember backstage, it was hectic. Me and my sister were talking to a man who was standing next to us just about the show. And I looked and he was handcuffed to the door. And it was one of the guys who had run in. And they. They would hold them. They'd hold those guys before the cops got to him because this. This was really archaic or really old school. Hey, get. Let me have a minute with him. Yeah. Just because they really didn't want to. I don't know if it was the right thing to do or not, but Macho man was notorious for it. You tried to run in on Macho man.

[Christina P]

He would.

[Tom Segura]

Out of.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, he was. Yeah, he was. He was ready for that.

[Tom Segura]

Is this it right here?

[Cody Rhodes]

This might be it.

[Tom Segura]

This might be it. Oh, my God. Wow. Did somebody. A fan invades the.

[Christina P]

No, dude. Why would you mess with these guys?

[Tom Segura]

Oh, and then he just starts wailing on him, huh?

[Christina P]

Hell, yeah.

[Tom Segura]

The ref is kicking him too.

[Christina P]

Yeah, I'm all for this method. Like, let's show these cl.

[Tom Segura]

Oh, he gave him a shot on the way out.

[Cody Rhodes]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Holy, dude.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah, good. I mean, you have to. In any case. I mean, if someone rushes the stage.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

You have to be ready to defend yourself. But I am such a. I'm such a. A corporate me now that you'll see me just. Just backing up.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Cody Rhodes]

Corner. Just. Just. I don't know what's going on.

[Tom Segura]

Well, listen, man, we. We wish you well. Thank you. This is a big deal. It's got to feel amazing to be here, be headlining again. WrestleMania. That's got to be incredible. It's WrestleMania 42. It's going to be April 18th at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Both nights of WrestleMania 42, you can stream on the ESPN app exclusively for fans with the ESPN Unlimited plan. On April 18th, April 19th, the first hour of night one and two will broadcast on live on ESPN2 and ESPN respectively. You want to talk any. To Pat McAfee or anybody that's a. You know, or than. Or anything.

[Cody Rhodes]

You remember when somebody asked Mariah Carey about JLo? You know, the. That's kind of where I stand on the Pat McAfee thing. I don't know him. You know, these people think the WWE reaches out to some of the outside folks and ask them to come to the party. And they don't realize that it's usually them pitching to come to the party.

[Tom Segura]

Damn.

[Cody Rhodes]

And I think it's flattering that you, you know, to be in my match.

[Christina P]

Damn, dude.

[Cody Rhodes]

Cool. But, you know, I don't know him. Wow. Yeah. I do know Randy Orton, my opponent.

[Tom Segura]

Yeah, you do know Randy.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. So it's gonna be great.

[Tom Segura]

I'm sure Pat will have something to say about this.

[Cody Rhodes]

Is Pat coming on here?

[Tom Segura]

I mean, you know, the way he's just asked. I don't know if I should even ask him. I've known him a while. I know he's, you know.

[Cody Rhodes]

Yeah. I just talked to Shane Gillis and he was like, that's my boy. Yeah. And then like 10 minutes later, he just kept pointing at the camera, talking trash to Pat. So I don't know where everyone lands on it.

[Tom Segura]

I know. I know Pat a while. He's a. He's a. He's a fun. A huge fan of the sport. And, you know, I. I'm just an observer. I don't. I'm not trying to start anything. I just thought maybe.

[Cody Rhodes]

I think I respect the hustle from building this show up. And obviously the. The incredible success with College game day.

[Tom Segura]

He's had incredible success.

[Cody Rhodes]

I. I just wish someone in his orbit and his circle would say no every day now and then. Wow. You know what I'm saying? You need. You need those people around you to go. I don't know. The next Sylvester Stone. Pat. I don't know. You know what I mean? Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

Jesus,

[Cody Rhodes]

It got cold in here.

[Christina P]

Yeah, dude.

[Tom Segura]

I think that's a perfect way to go out. Thank you for coming by.

[Cody Rhodes]

Thank you.

[Tom Segura]

Congratulations on all your success and Good luck at WrestleMania.

[Cody Rhodes]

Thank you.

[Tom Segura]

See you next week.

[Christina P]

Bye. Me, one of the greatest forms of

[Cody Rhodes]

entertainment on the planet.

[Tom Segura]

I feel like I could beat anybody in the. In the world in wrestling. I'm dope.

[Christina P]

I'm a mystic.

[Tom Segura]

Rick. I think wrestling is for. It is the stupidest. It's fake and you're a idiot. Grow up. It's pathetic. It's pathetic. I. I think wrestling is for fucking retard. I. I think wrestling is for fucking. I think wrestling is for fucking retard.

[Christina P]

I'll tell you what, though. I tell you what, it was actually pretty fun.

[Tom Segura]

What was the event.

[Christina P]

Going to a live wrestling. Yeah.

[Tom Segura]

So it's the Special Olympics. It's a fun thing to go to, but it's not real. It's not a real competition. You see smackdown last night. And then he tagged in his partner and then they grabbed a chair. Man. Wrestling is for.