On this episode of Off the Clock, I’m joined by my least favorite (kayfabe) professional wrestler, former Champion of Lucha Libre & Laughs, and your friendly neighborhood REALTOR Cody Devine. He’s on the card at the 13th Anniversary of Luch Libre & Laughs this Friday and Saturday at the Oriental Theater, which is SOLD OUT. Here’s some of what we talk about:

First Question: When I tell you you’re my least favorite professional wrestler, how does that land?

• we dig into why Cody got inspiration from Jinder Mahal’s WWE Championship run, of all places
• how an off-the-cuff character beat led to him having a crippling nicotine addiction
• how Cody is trying to rid his life of microplastics
• we talk about Cody’s obsession with The Whitest Kids U’Know and the time he got to meet Timmy Williams
• we talk parenting from a lot of different angles
• we share our wrestling fandom origin stories and how it evolved and grew, and why wrestling fans are the worst, and how Cody sucks at wrestling trivia
• we take a detour talking about Chris Jericho and how I accidentally ended up a Christian heavy metal show
• Cody talks about the tension between being a total d-bag in character and a real sweetheart in real life
• one of my favorite stories in the history of this show features Cody Devine antagonizing a child and that child’s mother taking a swing at him – this dovetails into a conversation about wrestling being a work
• which moves actually hurt? and which ones are a total picnic to take?
• and then just wait for the last few minutes of this chat to understand the depths of what a sweetheart Cody Devine actually is, notably through his work with Project I See You

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Theme song by Sorry Sweetheart.

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Recorded at The Farm House at Breckenridge Brewing.