WWE's Cody Rhodes on WrestleMania, Pat McAfee, Politics & More
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Episode 604 of “SI Media With Jimmy Traina” features a conversation with WWE Undisputed Champion, Cody Rhodes.
Rhodes talks about his upcoming WrestleMania 42 match against Randy Orton and all of the controversy surrounding it thanks to the insertion of Pat McAfee by TKO into the storyline. Rhodes expresses his shock that McAfee made the WrestleMania billboard while also discussing whether the negative reaction to the storyline could end up being good for business.
Rhodes also talks about his love-hate relationship with hosting a podcast, possibly getting into politics once he retires from wrestling, what it’s like to scroll through Instagram Reels and see videos of himself and his father, Dusty Rhodes, what old-school wrestling thing he’d like to see come back today, how he goes into shutdown mode during WrestleMania week, his daily coffee intake (which is shocking), how much his suits cost, warming up to a heel turn and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to S-I Media with Jimmy Traynor. |
| 0:05.3 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:06.7 | Bonus episode. |
| 0:07.8 | It is a phenomenal one. |
| 0:09.6 | We've got WWE undisputed champion Cody Rhodes on the program. |
| 0:14.3 | He was nice enough, very generous with his time. |
| 0:17.8 | He came in and he did the podcast in person. |
| 0:20.7 | He always makes for a better conversation. |
| 0:22.8 | And we touched on a million things with Cody who has Russellmania this weekend, |
| 0:27.4 | Saturday night in the men event against Randy Orton. |
| 0:31.0 | And Pat McAfee is going to be part of that. |
| 0:33.8 | There's been a lot of backlash from the WWB fans about that. |
| 0:37.3 | Cody addresses it all, |
| 0:38.5 | gets into Pat being put in there by TKO and what that does to him and he didn't hold back. So |
| 0:46.7 | we get into that with Cody and then a lot of other stuff, him hosting a podcast, what that's like for |
| 0:53.0 | him, his crazy schedule, maybe going into |
| 0:56.6 | politics post-retirement, his insane daily coffee intake, seeing himself and his dad dusty sometimes |
| 1:04.2 | in videos when he scrolls through and how weird that is, a million topics with Cody Rhodes, |
| 1:09.7 | possibly turning heel. He's warming up to that he said |
| 1:12.6 | so all of that with cody roads uh on this episode and just in case this is your first time |
| 1:18.9 | listening make sure you hit that subscribe follow button and make sure you subscribe to s i |
| 1:23.6 | media with jimmy trainer all right like i said bonus episode here right now with the WWUUUUUUUUndisputed champion. |
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