Cody Rhodes Credits Paul Heyman For Encouraging Him To Use ‘What Do You Wanna Talk About?’ In Each Town

Whenever Cody Rhodes gets on the mic, he opens his promos with, ‘So, what do you wanna talk about?” Rhodes mentions the city they are in as the set up for the line.

Speaking on his podcast What Do You Wanna Talk About?, Cody revealed who encouraged him to use the line in each town.

“‘What do you wanna talk about?’ The whole, ‘Hey town, what do you wanna talk about?’ An individual backstage, whom I heavily seek advice from. I consider him a super genius and have the utmost respect for him because he was incredibly helpful to my family. He told me that I should always say, ‘Atlana, what do you wanna talk about?’ And that the story, promo, whatever I do, should follow suit and not just appear. He told me, ‘You’d make a great governor.’ The person thought, ‘Don’t be that. We know you can put something good together and we know you can tell us a story. Try your best to present this as happening in the moment. What do we want to talk about?’ Then it just flows and goes. Sometimes it is, ‘I hope I hit this and hit that, and I need to cover this,’ but the way he said it I thought, ‘Yeah, that should always be it.’ It actually unhinges me when I do it. It makes me remember, ‘I have 50 things I’m supposed to cover and I’m supposed to hit this, but now I’m just talking,'” said Cody.

He went on to reveal that Paul Heyman is the man who encouraged him to use the line.

Elsewhere during the interview, Cody discussed the possibility of writing a book. You can find his full comments here.

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