Rhodes acknowledged he has taken his share of bad booking during his WWE career and beyond, even as he has also benefited from strong angles that helped build him into one of pro wrestling's top babyfaces. The current WWE champion, who has headlined WrestleMania for years as one of the industry's biggest stars, said questionable calls along the way could have sunk lesser wrestlers, but he has kept moving forward since his WWE return.

On the podcast, Rhodes said he often hears concern about whether certain creative is good for him, and he pushes back with a line he has repeated to Michael Hayes and Paul Heyman:

I always tell people because people will say I don't know if that's good for you or you know, and I don't know if I mean it arrogantly. I think I just mean it from my own experience. But what I tell them is I can survive it. That's what I tell everyone. Michael Hayes has heard me say it a lot. Mr. Heyman's heard me say it a lot is I can survive it. I don't know if that's good or bad, but I felt like as a babyface, it's becoming a powerful trait.

Rhodes tied that outlook directly to his run since returning to WWE, where he has continued to work through whatever creative has come his way.