Welcome to the Busted Open podcast.

This is Dave LaGreca.

On today's episode, myself and Bully Raid Talk Smackdown and the new Cody Rhodes.

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We discuss right now in the Busted Open podcast, and it's Post-Super Bowl and two of the

biggest Patriot fans I know after a loss,

Deanna Parazo and Tasha Steeleads joins us right here on the Busted Open podcast.

This is the busted open podcast.

You and I discussed a lot leading up to WrestleMania 40 about Cody and, you know, the suit

and looking proper and the

tie and the jacket. And then how he would talk in his promos like he was reading from a dictionary.

We're seeing a completely different Cody Rhodes, T-shirt, jeans, screaming, angry.

This is completely different than the Cody that we're used to seeing.

Completely different.

So let me ask you, leading up to this year's WrestleMania where, as of right now,

Cody does not have a match.

I guess it all depends on what happens at Elimination Chamber.

But how do you feel about this new side of Cody that we're seeing in 2026?

I hate to make this comparison because I don't think it's fair to Cody to mention this other person's name in the same breath as him anymore.

But I always loved Dusty looking like a disheveled mess.

With the jeans on and the rock and roll t-shirt kind of half-tucked in.

Or even when Dusty wore the suit, it looks like he had on the suit from the day before and went to the strip club and slept in the suit and then showed up to the studio

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