Welcome to the Busted Open podcast, along with Justin LaBarre. I'm Jonathan Hood. And on today's show, we discuss the Rock's appearance on Smackdown and his confrontation with Cody Rhodes.

This is the Busted Open podcast. Let's jump right into it. I heard Dave LaGreca talk about this on his emergency podcast, which you could find.

It's available right now, wherever you get your podcast,

look for a bust open podcast.

Dave talked about it.

We've all talked about it.

The Rock, the final boss, Dwayne Johnson,

appeared at Smackdown in New Orleans

and had a great conversation with Cody Rhodes.

You know, I knew, Justin, that the Rock would return. You thought that that first

day for Netflix on Raw was all that you're going to see for Rock during WrestleMania season.

I knew that he would return. I just didn't know if he'd wrestle. I didn't know if he had something

to say. I just know that he was going to be involved.

And there he was again.

It was on social media first, and then he pops up.

You just know if it's WrestleMania season, the Rock is going to be there.

Yeah, look, I mean, in the past, you know, 15 years since the Rock has been, you know, even less than part-time.

He's been a Hollywood movie story.

He's been less than part-time at WB.

We've seen him resurface for many of seasons.

And that was then.

And now he's part of the board of the parent company that owns WWE.

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