Cody Rhodes on Street Fighter BTS Stories, Crazy 50 Cent Gift, & the Biggest WWE Ego

Andrew Schulz (0:00)

Hey guys, we're here with movie superstar, Cody Rhodes. American Nightmare to American Hero, Guile and the new Street Fighter, Cody Rhodes. Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_2 (0:09)

Holy, what's up, Cody?

Cody Rhodes (0:11)

What's up? How are you?

Andrew Schulz (0:13)

I'm good, dude. It's good to have you here.

Cody Rhodes (0:14)

Congratulations to him. You got a movie, it was announced.

SPEAKER_5 (0:18)

It was Miami Vice. Thank you very much. That's huge.

Andrew Schulz (0:19)

Yeah, yeah, congratulations to you too, man.

Cody Rhodes (0:21)

Okay. All right.

Andrew Schulz (0:25)

Yeah, because you got Street Fighter and then?

Cody Rhodes (0:27)

Street Fighter, we were both in, and we had a great time.

Andrew Schulz (0:29)

We did have a great time, and a lot of buzz about you.

Mark Gagnon (0:32)

But Street Fighter's been, yeah. Street Fighter's been done filming.

Andrew Schulz (0:35)

You started it, right?

SPEAKER_6 (0:37)

Because I wasn't even going to go there.

Cody Rhodes (0:38)

I was genuinely happy for your, it was announced formally out there that you're part of this movie.

Andrew Schulz (0:44)

So you're saying if there's not something formally announced, I should maintain Kayfabe or whatever.

Cody Rhodes (0:51)

How long are we gonna do this?

SPEAKER_6 (0:53)

We're in, baby, we're in.

SPEAKER_5 (0:55)

There's some going on, but yeah.

Andrew Schulz (0:57)

No, no, but obviously we're only talking about formal announcements.

Cody Rhodes (0:59)

Do you know what Kayfabe means?

Andrew Schulz (1:01)

Yeah.

Cody Rhodes (1:01)

I think you have a vague concept, and did we talk about this the last time?

Andrew Schulz (1:04)

I think Kayfabe is when a guy puts his penis in another guy's foreskin.

Mark Gagnon (1:08)

No, that's docking. That's docking.

SPEAKER_5 (1:10)

Docking, that's docking.

Alexx Media (1:12)

It's called docking.

Andrew Schulz (1:13)

Docking.

Cody Rhodes (1:13)

Docking, yeah, yeah.

Alexx Media (1:14)

It's crazy, you know.

Cody Rhodes (1:16)

I joke with people all the time, if you can tell me the definition of Kayfabe, I'll give you $1,000 and I've never ever had to pay up on that bet.

Andrew Schulz (1:23)

Isn't Kayfabe just maintain the business?

Cody Rhodes (1:26)

You're not wrong, but you're not right. The specific singular definition of it is, you know, is you're not gonna get it. But you didn't use it incorrectly either though.

Andrew Schulz (1:36)

So I'm using it as like, you know, popular vernacular, but I'm not actually the definition of it.

Cody Rhodes (1:42)

Yeah, it's root definition. And then people get that confused with its origins, which is origins is carnivals.

SPEAKER_5 (1:49)

Yeah.

Cody Rhodes (1:49)

Calling Collect, Kayfabean, Calling Collect, letting the family know you've made it to the next town. That's its origins, but that's not its definition.

Andrew Schulz (1:57)

Okay, what's its definition?

SPEAKER_8 (1:58)

I'm not, that would ruin my old bet.

SPEAKER_5 (2:00)

It's gonna spend $1,000.

SPEAKER_6 (2:02)

I gotta, until someone walks up to me and says, Google it, and then we'll know the definition.

SPEAKER_9 (2:06)

I know who gets to dictate what the definition is.

Cody Rhodes (2:08)

You're basically a wrestler yourself. You've done the show, you know. You're trying to figure out how to make celebrities work in sports entertainment and pro wrestling.

Andrew Schulz (2:17)

Just because, listen, I'm such a casual with wrestling. I just want to point this out.

SPEAKER_5 (2:22)

You're not. Kayfabe wrong. You already dropped Kayfabe in there. Two minutes in. Okay, okay.

Cody Rhodes (2:26)

You worked with multiple wrestlers on a recent film project.

SPEAKER_5 (2:29)

Yes. So you're not.

Andrew Schulz (2:31)

Shout out Roman. Also shocked to see you guys not have a single conversation together the entire time you've ever been together.

Mark Gagnon (2:41)

Yeah, that's not Kayfabe.

Andrew Schulz (2:43)

Well, this is where I'm like, so I was wondering about this, and like I asked wrestling. Yeah. No, no, cause like. I'm like, at a certain point in time, I'm like, okay, they're going to be like, there's going to be this behind the scenes. Oh, they're all hanging out.

SPEAKER_5 (3:01)

Right.

Cody Rhodes (3:01)

And buddies.

Andrew Schulz (3:03)

Weird, my dad used to do the, produce the news for NBC back in the day.

Cody Rhodes (3:07)

That's really cool.

SPEAKER_5 (3:08)

Yeah.

Andrew Schulz (3:08)

And he did a thing where, with wrestling, where back in the day, there was, everybody kind of was like, this is, you know, this is, was it not scripted? What is the term that you want to use for it?

Cody Rhodes (3:19)

Or, I don't know, I mean, real?

Andrew Schulz (3:22)

But then they'll go, well, it is real.