Pod Meets WrestleMania: AJ Lee
Pod Meets World
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Danielle and Will are still in Vegas for WrestleMania 42 and now they’ve come face to face with a championship belt! Women’s Intercontinental Champion, and the Topanga of the WWE, AJ Lee is here!
AJ shares stories from her time in the indies and her humble beginnings as a 13-year-old with nothing but a knife and a dream.
Will meets his nerd match when AJ talks comics, anime and D & D, and maybe, just maybe, she’ll be the final push to get Danielle to throw some dice.
It’s time to break the rules and be a fighter - with AJ Lee on Pod Meets World!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:27.9 | I like to call our next guest the Topanga of Pro Wrestling. |
| 0:28.5 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:40.0 | Not just because she's cute and she's smart and she's down for her man, but also because after her first incredible run with the WWE, she is back after a 10-year absence to do it again. |
| 0:42.4 | But the results have been luckily much better than Girl Meets World. |
| 0:47.3 | She's a multi-time champion, but nowadays, she's the reigning women's intercontinental champ, |
| 0:53.7 | putting it on the line against her arch nemesis, Becky Lynch, this weekend at WrestleMania. |
| 1:00.3 | She's a New York Times bestselling author, a comic book writer, and a screenwriter, an actress, an advocate for mental health, and my fitness goals. |
| 1:10.9 | It is the legendary A.J. Lee. |
| 1:14.1 | Yay. |
| 1:15.3 | Welcome. |
| 1:16.2 | By the way, Danielle has taken all of these interviews. |
| 1:18.4 | I'm doing this one solely, and we're only talking comic books. |
| 1:23.1 | Just so you know. |
| 1:24.4 | Awesome. |
| 1:25.3 | I'm ready for it. |
| 1:26.7 | And also, I think, like, the last words I hear before I die is going to be W.E. Tupanga. Yes. Thank you for that. I was hoping it wouldn't be insulting. No, it is the greatest compliment. It's just like, I hate it to bang. No, your hair is like my goal in life. Oh, thank you. Well, AJ, for the record, I have had Jensen text punk numerous times saying, tell April to drop the workout routine. I am still waiting. I want, and then when I said that to him, he said, well, a lot of it's diet too. I said, whatever she needs to send me. I just need to know. I want to know everything. You don't have to tell me now, but I'm not kidding. I need to know everything you're doing because you are, you are fitness and athletic goals. Thank you. I appreciate that. So you famously took 10 years off of wrestling and yet you were still in this kind of shape. Were you staying ring ready for a decade? |
| 2:18.1 | I probably would have given up and just ordered in and out a bunch of times. |
| 2:21.8 | That's all I ever do. |
| 2:23.8 | That happened. |
| 2:24.8 | There was a solid maybe five years of, we were just talking about this. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

