Cody Rhodes isn’t bothered that wrestling media has started turning stories from his podcast into headlines. If anything, he’s encouraging it. After one recent clip spread across the internet, Rhodes had a simple message for everyone watching. It’s only going to get worse.
During an episode of What Do You Wanna Talk About?, Rhodes laughed off the fact that wrestling media has started mining the podcast for headlines. If anything, he sounded amused by it, promising that the stories aren’t going anywhere and that people aggregating them should expect even more.
“Here’s something that’s happened, and everyone should know this and is responsible for this as well. Wrestling media has discovered this podcast. They like to clickbait it and aggregate it. I would say to them, it’s only gonna get worse. It’s our podcast, we’re gonna say what we want, and yeah, if I tell a story about a workplace proximity associate or even a friend, I stand by it. Most people are asked, and if not, screw it. So it’s only gonna get worse. So if you guys need to get your news from this, we will do that.”
The timing wasn’t accidental. Only weeks earlier, Rhodes and Fallon Henley had shared the story of Aaron Solo finally working up the nerve to talk to Henley after spending nearly a month telling everyone else how much he liked her. According to Rhodes, Solo followed her toward the elevator, looked at the Arby’s bag she was carrying and delivered the only line he could come up with: “Arby’s, huh?”
Rhodes: “You were working there. You were doing some extra work and it was COVID bubble kind of.”
Henley: “It’s like the end of the COVID bubble.”
Rhodes: “A lot of us in the hotel and I had a workplace proximity associate, Aaron Solo. He often talked about you very fondly and very sincerely. He’s like, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty and she’s really smart…’ He didn’t talk a lot, if you remember.”
Henley smiled, answered with a simple “Yeah,” the elevator doors closed, and that was the end of it. Rhodes admitted it’s a story he still brings up every time he sees her because he still can’t believe that was Solo’s long-awaited opening line.
Ironically, the awkward exchange between Solo and Henley isn’t the only thing people ended up talking about. The story itself quickly escaped the podcast and became wrestling news, which is exactly why Rhodes decided to address it. Judging by his response, he isn’t interested in stopping that from happening anytime soon.
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