Cody Rhodes says he pitched signing his soul over to Simone Johnson instead of her father. On What Do You Wanna Talk About, Cody brought up the 2024 program where The Rock demanded his soul, and said he had a counter-idea he'd only ever told two people in WWE creative. "When he asked me for my soul, I thought, you know what would have been funny is to relent and give my soul, but not to him. And this is at the time when you were the NXT general manager, to you. And I thought, that's got legs." He added: "I'll never say a word again. She'll speak." Johnson, who was NXT General Manager at the time, hadn't heard it until now. "I think we would have crushed that. I would have loved to have done that." Asked how her father would have taken it: "I think he would have been all for it. Absolutely." She said she didn't know the soul promo was coming. "I don't think I knew he was coming back that day. I had no context of what the promo would be, and then I just saw it and I was like, soul is...