Chapter 1: What insights does The Undertaker share about the current state of the WWE locker room?
Hello, it's the American Nightmare, Cody Rhodes. Welcome to What Do You Want to Talk About? A Fanatics and WWE original production. Today, my guest is a Hall of Famer. It's the phenom. It's the dead man. It's the judge. It's one of wrestling's Mount Rushmore. He also has a podcast on this wonderful Fanatics channel.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome everything champion, multi-time everything champion, Cody Rhodes.
Chapter 2: How does The Undertaker reflect on his drinking experiences with WWE legends?
The Undertaker.
I appreciate the introduction. I don't know if I'm going to live up to all that.
Well, we should tell them, too. This is technically, unless we just have nothing. Right. This is technically supposed to be part one. Yeah, right. We're going to do a home and home. Yeah.
Chapter 3: What are The Undertaker's thoughts on the upcoming WrestleMania XL?
Off-site home and home, but yeah. And then I'll be coming to your pod. Mm-hmm. How are you enjoying hosting a podcast? Oh, it sucks.
Could you try again? He said. Oh my gosh, is that you? He said. He said, how do you like doing a podcast?
Chapter 4: How does The Undertaker feel about hosting his own podcast?
That's off. I don't know why that. Oh, big pop for I didn't get that.
Who's Alexa's rocking? Just throw it in a chair. I will say it almost feels mystical in a sense that I ask you a question and then a voice just... Just started randomly speaking from my pocket. Part of the lore and the mythos. As I was asking, do you enjoy doing the podcast?
It has its moments. Yeah?
Chapter 5: What is the origin of the tradition of gargling whiskey in wrestling?
Yeah, it really does. You know, when you enter... discussion or you're in a conversation and you're hitting it off and you know, that's always fun. But man, sometimes when you get that guest that doesn't want to talk or is not a storyteller, right? You want to name names? I don't want to name names, but you know, it can be like pulling a tooth.
And so, yeah, when, you know, when this was, you know, brought to me, like, well, you can do home and home. I was like, yeah, because I always, you're a great storyteller. Thank you. Yeah, no, really. Thank you. I enjoy, like, I don't follow, you know, I don't follow much other podcasts or listening, but I always kind of catch you because you're very detail-oriented in your stories.
And that's such a key part of... bringing somebody into what you do. Sure. So, uh, and you've mastered that and it's, uh, you gotta take them on the ride. You gotta take them on the ride. You gotta put them in the, yeah, you gotta put them in the, in the scenario.
So yeah, there's, I'm sure you saw it. And if I asked anyone else who's coming on this podcast, I actually am doubtful they would, you've seen the man who shot Liberty Valance, right?
Chapter 6: How does The Undertaker describe his experiences with camaraderie on tour?
What is the, is it the Jimmy Stewart quote? Uh, when the fact becomes legend, print the legend. Exactly. So my whole thought, I've been labeled by some of my peers as what comes up as a Cody lie, an exaggeration, a bit of a hyperbole. To me, it's just a legend. Right. I don't need, you know, like, let's give them the sexiest version of the story. Exactly. Which is fun. You mentioned...
hitting it off with people. We, we tend to have something that helps in a sense. This podcast is a Wheatley American vodka. I have the Wheatley American mule. I know you have something special. What do you have? This is the dead man's draft. Wow. Yeah. All right.
Chapter 7: What lessons did The Undertaker learn from his matches with Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels?
Well, cheers for that. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much. Part one in the spirit of that toast. I have a question that I don't think you would think that I would ask you, but I have to know because I've, Gotten an answer from Sina, and I've talked to others about it, but why on earth, why on earth the tradition of gargling whiskey, and where did this come from?
And to set this up, to set this up.
If you got called to the bar, this is when I first came on board, 2008, 2009, 10, whatever it may be, and you got the call, hey, Taker would like to see you, you got up and you went to the bar, and there would be a thing of whiskey and just a shot glass, and you would be, you know, hey, this is part of your kind of indoctrination into the crew and into the team, but you would have to gargle it, which ā
Again, I do it, and it's now, I am expecting it of others, but what are the origins of gargling whiskey?
So you may be a little disappointed in all this. Okay. And I've not won... I'm not one to make someone gargle. That's my deal. I take the shot. I drink the shot. In fairness, you didn't make anything happen. Right. No, you're invited over. It is a welcome, but that's a big misnomer.
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Chapter 8: What advice does The Undertaker give to young wrestlers about developing their characters?
Like, oh, man, Taker told me to come over and drink. I had to drink. No, it's not that. I don't ever make anybody do anything they don't want to do. But it was kind of a, hey, kid. Come on in here. You know, you're proving yourself. And if you want to drink with us, that's fine. If you don't, you know, you don't have to. The gargling happened. So we go back to when business wasn't quite so good.
Okay. All right. And I've been on both ends of the spectrum. And so for me, gargling happened because the guys on top, when you go to the bar, those guys were making a little bit more money than everybody else was, right? And there was a struggle. So a lot of times, you want to be part of it, but you don't want to drink all that whiskey because whiskey is tough, right?
So what would end up happening is a lot of people would... they would quick shot her, they'd throw it, pour it on the floor and then act like they're drinking, right? And you know, that's money, right? That's people's money. You had to choose whether or not like, all right, I'm gonna go to the bar and have drinks tonight knowing that it's gonna affect your everyday life really, right?
So there was a lot of people that were like tossing shots and they got busted for it. So then it kind of became a deal where, all right, you gotta gargle so that you know that you've had this shot. That was the original origins of it. And then I think it just carried on through the years as like, you know, so then it kind of became a machismo thing too where,
You know, so I was never I never gargled and I never made anybody gargle or, you know, it's like here. You want this shot? Have the shot.
When I when I went down because you brought up that you never made anyone drink or anything like that. And I can double down on the fact that it was actually you didn't do anything. You were there sitting next to it. It was everyone else. Oh, yeah. Who's all right. This is how you do it. You go up there. You're going to take the shot. And then maybe have a conversation.
It was almost like you're meeting a foreign dignitary. You're going to go up there. But then also it was like once you did it, you go float around. You hang out. See what's going on. It was always much more fun not to bury this person, but it was always much more fun
When you got the call from you, or you got to have that moment with you, especially during that time in my career, versus when it was over, because when it was over, God bless it, you'd be over with Kyoto, and Kyoto, the same level of energy, like, let's get more to drink, but also... it starts to get a little dangerous. You're not necessarily learning about wrestling anymore.
It's more you're just figuring out how to get out of this.
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