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Chapter 1: Who is Brandi Rhodes and what are her accomplishments?
Hello, I'm the American Nightmare, Cody Rhodes. We are on my home, away from home, my tour bus. This is What Do You Want to Talk About? Brought to you by our good friends at Wheatley American Vodka. And now my guest at this time, a very special guest. I should say the most special guest. An incredible amount of accolades I can lay out for you. But I'll start simply by the mother of my child.
And I'm going to not cry. My... Just make it baby mama.
Chapter 2: What is the story behind the name 'African-American Nightmare'?
My baby mama.
Then you're not going to cry. My baby mama, my favorite person, which is what I told her because I didn't have the courage to say I love you. So I said, you're my favorite. The first woman who was involved in a match at New Japan's Wrestle Kingdom. The first black female to be an announcer full time for WWE. And the first black executive in a North American wrestling company
The owner, proprietor, the best, the queen of naked mind yoga and Pilates, my wonder wall, my muse, my favorite person, and of course, my baby mama. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to What You Want to Talk About, Brandi Rhodes.
You forgot one. African-American nightmare.
That's the word. Ever once have we talked about it. I just thought- Ladies and gentlemen, the African-American nightmare.
Sounds so bad. Don't ever say it again.
It was just... That leads me to the first question, which I didn't think would be the first question. Do you know who Akeem is? Nope.
Hakeem?
Not Hakeem. Not Raheem.
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Chapter 3: What funny moments happened during Cody's Royal Rumble experience?
Akeem, also was formerly known as the One Man Gang.
Is he no relation to Olajuwon?
None. He was a big old white dude that they would poke fun of African culture at with, or I don't even know if that was. If anything, it was meant more to be a direct rib and foil for my dad, because my dad was doing that without promoting it. So then they just started promoting it with Akeem, and it's not a memorable or wonderful character in WWE history.
However, I'll give you a Royal Rumble story. Akeem was pretty good in the ring. You know, him and Big Boss Man, they were a tag team, all this. But anyways, this Royal Rumble happens. I think maybe Dusty's only Royal Rumble. And Dusty's in the ring. It's a who's who of who's in the ring at this point. And Akeem, the African Dream, his music hits.
You said he was white?
Yes.
And his name was Akeem, the African Dream.
That's the bit, hun.
Yeah, wow.
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Chapter 4: How do Cody and Brandi manage family life with a child?
That was the best response.
Yeah, a couple F-bombs were dropped. Question for you. It is my show, so I got to ask the question.
Yeah.
I can't let you take over here.
Okay.
What are you drinking?
I've got a classic American mule.
American mule. How we like it in America. But you've got a classic American mule.
I got a classic American mule.
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Chapter 5: What challenges do they face in their marriage?
You know what? I believe you're the first on the show to have the same drink as I do. But truth does count. And he gave us that donkey.
Oh, R-Truth had a mule?
Yeah, he brought, he not only had a mule. Good for him. He brought two mules. uh, plushies, which I thought, oh, this would be after the bit. I'm like, this would be kind of fun. We'll give these to Libby's. Uh, one of them though, if you want, Brian, you want to grab that?
It's a, it's a dog toy.
That's exactly what it is.
I know that.
Yeah. Let me see that thing here. Oh, Ron Cena decided to leave me with a gift.
Okay.
Yep. And that's how, you know, uh, dog toy. So thanks Ron. And, uh, also like rawhide tail. You think Pharaoh would like it? Yeah.
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Chapter 6: What are the details about Fanatics Fest and its events?
What's happening? You said something wild. I think Brian was there. Somebody was there.
I think you're pretty solid at this point.
Are we done? What's happening?
Pretty solid.
At this point, you mentioned... I'd have to do a lot to get kicked out, I think.
Yeah, I'd say you'd have to do a lot. I was going to say in terms of aging, which you're aging at a rate that's unbelievably... You're ahead of everybody in a sense.
Wow.
No, no, you're not aging. You're glowing. You're radiant. Your skin is still perfect. Everything about you looked like the day I met you. I think you need to know... that that's not going to be the case for me. We're looking at We're looking at three, maybe seven, seven solid years of this. This is it.
You say that all the time.
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Chapter 7: How does Brandi feel about Cody's wrestling career?
What is it?
It's a nightgown. You wear a nightgown that at one point was silk and probably very nice.
I don't have a nightgown.
Because there's several different people who are washing clothes in the house. It looks like now you've run through a barbed wire fence with that nightgown.
I have one nightgown, but I don't wear it all the time. I usually wear my little sets, the little short sets.
The stuff you match with Libby.
Yeah, the matching stuff.
We should talk about Libby, by the way.
Okay, well, now I know you don't like that outfit.
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Chapter 8: What is their take on pop culture and celebrities?
And I just said, I'm just gonna move it.
Move that thing.
Rather than fuss at him, send a text, get it out of the way, I gotta go. I'm just gonna move it. So I hopped in the car and I nearly tore my ACL instantly because I hopped right back out. Because there were eyes looking at me from the back seat and turned straight. Literally, if I turned around, right here, sitting upright, was the head of a deer.
So I jumped out the car because I didn't know what was happening. And then I peeked back in and I was like... that's a damn deer head in the backseat. We're not these people. We're not these people. So I was just confused. I went in the house and I was like, what is that?
So you met Buck. Buck is a deer as hunters do. Do you hunt? I went hunting one time and it was probably one of the worst moments for my manhood. that ever could have existed in a sense. Not only did I miss a deer that was about 20 yards from me with a scope, I dropped the rifle and that's terrifying enough.
The big secret, and you know this because you've been at a lot of family dinners, my dad loved to hunt. He didn't love to hunt. He loved to sit out in the woods.
That's what he loved to do.
He didn't want to be around anybody. He had to figure out what he was going to do next. He had his own deer stand that had a special staircase. There's still a plaque at the bottom of it. It was also right by the highway, so not a spot a lot of the deers are going to migrate to during deer season. He liked to sit there. That was his spot.
But Buck is the long—I have to be careful because my sister has opinions on Buck. Buck is the last deer he got.
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