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Joe Rogan Experience #2423 - John Cena

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unidentified		The Joe Rogan experience.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Train by day, Joe Rogan.
		Podcast by night, all day.
		What's up?
		John Cena in the fucking house.
		Yeah, let's put these on.
		Pretend we're professional.
		What's up?
		Good to see you.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Thanks so much for having me.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		My pleasure.
		And there's no way I'm having a pro wrestler on without Tony Hinchcliffe.
		Of course, possible.
		He's the expert.
		He knows more about pro wrestling than I know about UFC.
unidentified		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Sometimes I translate little things here and there.
unidentified		That's cool.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's all right.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, he has to.
		He has to.
		And he's a giant fan of yours too.
		You know what else is a giant fan of yours?
		Is Brian Simpson?
		Brian Simpson was going on last night about how intelligent you are.
		It was really interesting.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Sure, it was me.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, man.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, you do speak fucking Mandarin, which is kind of crazy.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		How long did it take you to learn that?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Man, I was doing that for quite a long time.
		I've since kind of declined on the studies.
		A wonderful takeaway from the study of Mandarin.
		Just because you know a language doesn't mean you know the culture.
		So that was a fantastic experience with, but I studied Mandarin for like a decade.
		And I would say like not even conversationally fluent.
		It was a really tough hill to climb for me.
unidentified		Well, it seems like a really big hill.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's just different.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know, you get used to language and the structure.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You can read it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You know, the meaning is different.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		No, I didn't even bother to read.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And like reading all the characters, understanding everything.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		How long did it take you to learn?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Around 10 years.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Whoa.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		And then like, I mean, I would dream in Mandarin and like have conversations and kick down and that.
		So it became like a like a second language.
		But, you know, I lived in China for a little bit.
		I filmed a movie with Jackie Chan, so I was there for like six or seven months.
		I lived there in, man, we were Inner Mongolia, Yinchuan province.
		So like in China.
		Wow.
		And it was fun.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You were in Mongolia.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Inner Mongolia.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		What's the difference?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I don't know because I've never been in Mongolia, but Inner Mongolia was, man, I was the only person that looked like me there.
		And everyone would say, look, it's big white guy, Hyundai Bairn.
		Hyundai Bairen.
		They would call me.
unidentified		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Wow.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		So what motivated you to learn that?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It seems like such a task.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Honestly, man, everything in my life seems to be wrestling related.
		It was wrestling related.
		Like WWE's reach spread everywhere.
		I mean, I've been able to lucky enough to perform everywhere from like Moscow, Philippines, South Africa, Bangor, Maine, every place in between, except China.
		China was like the one place that didn't understand what we did.
		So it's literally like it's a universal language because you can turn, it's like UFC.
		Like you turn the volume down, but you can see like, oh, this is two guys, best guy wins.
		I get it.
		The Chinese just didn't get it.
		So I figured if like one of our superstars spoke the language, maybe that would help break down the barrier.
		And we got into.
		Is that your idea?
		It was my idea, but the WWE offers, and I think they still offer it.
		They offer a free second language program.
		So like when they rolled out the initiative of like financial advice and, you know, they'll pay for portions of your secondary education and free second language.
		This is like 2011, 2012, big talent meeting and like an auditorium.
		I'm one of the old guys of the time sitting in the front being like, these kids don't know how good they have it.
		I should stand up and tell them to be like, no, fuck that.
		I'm actually going to lead by example and take a language.
		So I signed up right then, then and there for Chinese because I wanted to get us into China.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And like I said, it worked, but it kind of only worked.
		And they I think, I think actually right now, China is experiencing what wrestling is to them.
		Because I've read articles that there's promotions over there that are thriving.
		So now they get it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, so they have their own promotions.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And this is a fairly recent thing?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I think so.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I just read recent articles that pro wrestling is thriving in China and they have their own, like their own way of doing it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Wow.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's wild.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's wild how like expansive the pro wrestling business is that they would be that open-minded to say like let's let's give second language programs to the athletes.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Well, you know, I just it's it's weird.
		The origins of the business are carnival related.
		It is like a carnival attraction and then it was like ruthlessly territorial.
		And then when it became national, it was still trying to find its way.
		It's almost like you see pro sports doing it.
		You know, the more a sport succeeds, the more benefits they offer to their competitors and athletes.
		So, you know, WWE kind of hit that stride.
		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's just such a smart thing to do.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, you give your channel, give your talent the opportunities to gain knowledge and wisdom.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And the sad thing is I don't know how many people did it or do it still.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Was there anybody other than you that you know of that?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Two other people.
		Who?
		Claudio Castignoli, who speaks, I think, four or five languages already, and he just wanted to take like a brush-up course.
		And Natty Nighthart.
unidentified		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's it.
		Everybody else is like, not going to do it.
		Too much work.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		What was the not knowing the culture aspect?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So, man, I got put in a bit of a hot spot with I made a pact to myself when I was like, okay, I feel fluent.
		We would do these global press tours, and I just happened to be on a global press tour.
		I'm like, you know what?
		I'm going to do 70% of my media in Mandarin, like in dialogue.
		And I got to say, I did it.
		Like, I went over there, spoke.
		People were taking off the translator headphones.
		Like, life was good.
		Everything was great.
		And at the very end of the day, as with all these press tours, you do like a bunch of prompter reads.
		So I'm doing prompter reads for everywhere.
		And it's like, hey, go this place and see this movie.
		Go this place and see this movie.
		And no, my bad.
		I didn't check the reads because it's like an end of a 10-hour day.
		You do a million of these things.
		And one of them said, like, hey, Taiwan, see this, this, and, and, uh, the, the, it was all in Mandarin.
		And the opinion described Taiwan as a country.
		So be the first country to see this.
		Now, over there, they, they look through a different lens.
		Like, geopolitics are murky waters, man.
		And that's what, when I learned of like, I just said it, left.
		Everybody was cool.
		I did my thing.
		Like, I read the prompt.
		It was like a Ron Burgundy moment.
		Like, go fuck yourself, San Diego.
		It's like the most offensive thing you can say.
		So I'm like, man, you know, good job, John.
		You said you did 70% and people understood what you were talking about.
		And then they put that out and everybody was like, what the fuck did you just say?
		We don't, that's not how we do it over here.
		And again, just because like my takeaway, and it was a pretty tense moment for me.
		Like I had to apologize to China and apologizing to China.
		I pissed off my home country.
		I'm a patriot.
		I love the United States of America and everything it stands for.
		But like no one, it was never enough.
		Nobody was happy.
		Everybody was fucked up.
		And it was like murky waters for me personally.
		And it was weird.
		I think I might have been the only guy almost to get canceled for doing his homework.
		You know, we're trying to like learn, like learn and try to do something.
		But the cool takeaway, you know, we can learn from every mistake.
		My mistake was just because you know the language doesn't mean you know the culture.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Did they even refer to it as Taiwan?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I think they referred to it as Chinese Taipei, right?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Man, what was in the, I know what I read in the thing.
		That's again, I don't know enough depth to know that.
		And now, like, people are like, oh, man, can you speak Mandarin for this?
		I just won't do it.
		It's a skill that I have, but it's a skill that's going to remain with me because I don't have the depth of field to know what to call that place in that region of the world.
		And I haven't done enough research and I don't have the wisdom and I don't have like the cultural fluency, you know?
		So it was a cool lesson.
		It sucked because I thought I was just trying to do something good, but it was a cool lesson.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Was it really that big of a deal?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Man, I thought, like, I was filming Peacemaker season one, and when they came out with all of this stuff, I went directly to James Gunn and was like, hey, man, if you have to fire me, I understand.
		Wow.
		It was that serious.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		But it wasn't even words that you wrote.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Someone else, the WWE wrote it?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That doesn't.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		No, no, it was for the movie I was promoting.
unidentified		Right.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		So the movie, the people that made the movie wrote it.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So I don't know.
		Like when you do these press tours, let's say if I'm doing a movie for Warner Brothers, let's say, let's use Peacemaker as an example.
		I'm doing a global Peacemaker tour and we go into China or we go into South America.
		You meet like the PR person there and they have all the stuff you're supposed to do and they curate your experience and they hold your hand and you're like, okay, now we're going to go to this station.
		And by the way, they just want you to do some shout outs.
		So anytime I go anywhere globally now, as much as I want to thank fans for their attention and investing in the product, I really shy away from speaking the language because I don't understand the cultural nuance.
		I just want to be like, yo, man, thanks for watching what we do.
		And I love the fact that you're entertained, but I want to speak to you at a level that I understand that I'm fluent because your boots on the ground here every day.
		And I might say something that's a nice gesture, but completely fucking offend you.
		And that's not good.
		That's not good for anybody.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		So was the teleprompter in English and you translate to it?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It was in, no, everything was in Mandarin.
		And in Chinese, they have the characters, which are virtually impossible for me to learn.
		There's like an infinite number.
		But they also have what's called pinyin, which is, it's kind of spelled out in English with phonetics.
		So it has the four tones.
unidentified		Okay.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So if you were to put something in front of me in pinyin right now, I could definitely read it.
		And I got good at reading pinyin.
		So I was like, man, I could send all these messages in Mandarin and more people will know about this movie and more people will know about me and more people will know about wrestling and more people will be excited.
		Looks good on paper.
		My follow-through was a bit weak.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It doesn't even seem like that was your fault.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		It's probably a PR's assistant assistant that's typed that's probably in charge of doing the grunt work of typing in all the different languages and the different countries.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's tedious.
		From what I know, I know I'm going to learn a lot about you guys in this episode, but from what I know about you, you're into looking at things through different lenses and different perspectives.
		It also could have been somebody being like, I'm going to get this kid.
		Ooh.
		But here's the thing.
		I do appreciate you saying, like, it's not your fault.
		That's not true.
		It was my fault.
		And I think that's when I can start to work on like, well, what did I learn from this?
		And I could easily blame a PR, an assistant.
		I could say somebody had a target on my back, all that stuff.
		I fucked up.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Did you suspect that somebody might have set you up?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		No.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, you're saying it like it's a possibility.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Well, man, when it happened, every theory came.
		Like, here's the thing.
		The world doesn't revolve around me, but my little world.
		Everybody was like, they fucked up.
		They did this on purpose.
		I was like, well, first of all, who's they?
		So I was able to kind of eliminate all that.
		And once I realized I could still go on working, I really made a lot of people angry.
		And for that, that I'm sorry.
		Like, again, I was just trying to.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's crazy just by saying that Taiwan's a country.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		In Chinese, though.
unidentified		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know, like, those are murky waters to begin with.
		You know, like, I'm not even thoroughly fluent on the U.S. policy.
		I think it's like territorial ambiguity or some shit like that.
		It's so weird and it's so fragile.
		And I got into some water I shouldn't have been swimming in.
		But that's on me.
		It was my fault.
		And I think that's important for me to bear the burden of that and be like, yo, how can I course correct?
		What did I learn?
		Who do I really genuinely have to apologize for offending?
		The biggest thing that was a kick to the nuts is when people stateside got pissed off.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Because you apologized.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yes, in Chinese.
		And I understand it.
		I mean, completely bowing down to the demand of this.
		Gosh, what a shitty move by me.
		Like, I just, I should have taken a breath.
		Again, what did I learn?
		Don't be reactive.
		Take a breath.
		Find out what's going on.
		Find out the best path of action.
		Maybe give it a few days.
		Maybe give it a hot second and then move forward.
		But immediately I was like, oh, they're mad.
		You want us to do this?
		Fine, no problem.
		I'll fix it right now.
		Man, not only did I not try to fix the hole in the boat, I sunk the Titanic.
		But again, it was a learning experience.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, it speaks to your character that you don't blame anybody else because I blame everybody else.
unidentified		I'd be like, who fucking wrote that?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Don't you know what you're saying or what you're making me say?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		The release you guys have for the show.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I read it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You might be the only person.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So that was, that was whoever handed it to me, that was what they said.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like, I think you might be the only person that's ever read it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Man, if you're going to take liberties with me, at least I want to be able to read that you are.
unidentified		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know what I'm saying?
		And I can't say I'm perfect with doing that, but like, I was handed a release.
		I'm like, oh, man, can I just glance this over for a hot?
		Oh, this says what I think it says.
		Okay, let's go.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Trump didn't even read it.
unidentified		Just to each their own.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, no, it's very smart of you to read it.
		You know, who knows?
		You know?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Who knows?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		So this is, Tony, is this the full trifecta now?
unidentified		It's like, if you've gotten all of your heroes on this podcast now, there's a couple more we can knock off out of the pro wrestling world.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		There's a couple more.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Let's, if you don't mind, if I can indulge, talk pro wrestling heroes.
		Who do we need to knock off?
		Who do we need to watch?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Well, I mean, in all reality, and it's a diabolical, diabolical.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Because, man, he can kind of invite.
		You can invite anyone you want here.
		You just kind of got to give him the wish list.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I mean, you got to start with the number one, without a doubt, Vince McMahon, who started this gangster shit and spread it around.
unidentified		I would definitely have him as a little man.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		He would be great.
		Yes.
		Whatever magic you have out there and you have a lot of gravity.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Do you think he'd be interested in doing it?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Are you kidding me?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I think he would love it.
unidentified		Really?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I think he would love it.
		I don't know when the right time is, but man, don't miss out on that option.
		At least send it out to the universe.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, I would definitely.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Vince, if you're listening.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Vince, if you're listening.
		Let's go.
		I think this experience would be a great one for you.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Is he still involved?
		Is he out?
		Is he in?
		He's out.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		He's out.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		He's out totally.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It seems like he's a guy that'll be out for a little while and then something will happen.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		They'll bring him back in.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		No.
		Well, I don't know.
		Again, that's way.
		We were talking about like, why is your last event in this place?
		I'm like, man, because I don't choose the events.
		Like, I don't, all that stuff is so far above me.
		But I know now he's out.
		In my eyes, I'd like to think that time heals everything.
		And I believe in forgiveness.
		And I also believe in like looking at the body of work.
		But I also know there's a lot of fragile stuff going on there.
		I don't know, man.
		I don't know.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's a hot subject.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It could get us into another Chinese Taipei incident.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Well, no, no.
		Man, Again, I learned to become a little bit more accountable for what I say.
		And just how just because I feel a certain way about a person doesn't exonerate them from being accountable for their actions.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And just because he did start, quote unquote, all this gangster shit, that doesn't mean he doesn't need to be accountable for his actions.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So let's figure out what that means and then figure out if we can move forward and bring that back in the fold or if it stays the way it is.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		What do you think, Tony?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You think he's coming back?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I think he would come here.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I think he would come here too.
		And I think he, you know, that's one of the more entertaining people of all time.
		He created the entire universe.
		You got to remember, Hogan's Hogan because of him.
		Seeing a scene.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I'm because of him.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Every single Stone Cold.
		He's like, that sounds good.
		Yeah, keep it going.
		We'll do the Glass Breaks thing and they'll throw you beers.
		I like it.
		Let's do it again next week.
		So everything that we think.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		When he sits here, you got to do that impression.
unidentified		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Stone Cold's another one that hasn't been on.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Steve would be great.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I think you would dig Steve.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
unidentified		I'm sure.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		He lives out here too, doesn't he?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Does he?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Well, actually, no.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Doesn't he have a ranch out here?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I think he does something.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I think he does.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but I think he's based out of somewhere else now, New Mexico or Arizona.
		He's on the, he like, he's like kind of cool and reclusive.
		He like doesn't really do a lot.
		It's amazing.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		He'd be a good get.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And I'm pretty sure I guarantee he would do it.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Steve, if you're listening, I know you're watching.
		Come on.
		Come on.
		Come on in.
		Let's talk some wrestling.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		The man.
		I mean, everyone has him on the, you know, the Mount Rushmore.
		Triple H, who runs it now, the son-in-law of Vince McMahon.
		Yeah.
		I mean, he runs the entire thing.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I mean, you want answers to those high-level questions.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		There's your guy.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That's the guy you need to get into.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		A lot of the stuff you probably ask today, I'll be like, that's way above my pay grade.
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		Well, you know, if you don't know the history, Tony at one point in time was offered a job with the WWE before he really made it.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		No way.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, yeah, yeah.
		He was offered a job to write for the WWE because, you know, Tony was a giant pro wrestling fan.
		And, you know, he already had a Netflix special.
		So he was known as a comic.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		It was just before that.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Was it before the Netflix special?
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		The first one?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		The one that you released yourself?
unidentified		Yeah.
		Really?
		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		It was only a couple of years into me doing stand-up like seven nights a week at the comedy store all the time.
		And somehow I ended up, someone's like, hey, I have a friend in WWE if you want to have a meeting with them and just talk.
		And I went in with straight-up ideas.
		This, that, the undertaker's brother comes back again, this, that, the next, like everything back and forth.
		I can't even remember any of them.
		It's been so long, but I went in with the whole thing.
		This guy's like, where the hell did you like?
		This is crazy.
		You just like did this?
		I'm like, yeah, I found out a couple days ago we were going to talk.
		So, but yeah, they offered it, but I would have had to move to Connecticut and take a train to New York every night to go do stand-up.
		And that would have just been exhausting.
		And everything I heard, because Patrice O'Neill, the late, great Patrice O'Neill, wrote for WWE for a while.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Did he really?
unidentified		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, for like a couple of years, I think.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		What did he just wrote lines for them?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Like, what did he do?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		The whole shebang.
		When you're a WWE writer, they make you write.
		It's not like a cute job at all.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		No, there's a lot of television or there's a lot of content every week.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Right now, I think they have three weekly shows.
		So that's 20.
		I think one of them's going back to three hours.
		It's like 50 segments of TV.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Every week.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but I remember when you were talking about it.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		When you're talking about potentially doing it, I was like, yeah, it was tricky.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And I was like, dude, you do not want to live in Connecticut.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		No, that's the main thing.
		If it was anywhere else other than Connecticut, it kind of would have made more sense.
		If it was in New York City, it would have been a no-brainer.
		If it was in LA, definitely.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		But like, fast forward, now you're more and more involved.
unidentified		Yes.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, this is the crazy thing.
		Like, we had talked during the old days.
		Like, we would talk in the green room.
		I'd be like, that would be your ultimate dream job.
		Like, to make it as a comedian and somehow be involved in the UFC the way I, or excuse me, in WWE, the way I'm involved in the UFC, like very similarly.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's crazy.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		It's insane.
		I'm going tomorrow night.
		I'm going to be in the front row at the arena in my hometown.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Are they here tomorrow?
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Oh, man.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Are you messing with me?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Are you going to, is your music going to hit yourself?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		No, I'm not that.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I got one more left.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		This is what they do, by the way.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		And I didn't even know they were going to be in town.
unidentified		He's correct.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		There's a lot of, you mess with people.
		You're right.
		But then somebody like me will actually shoot you straight and be like, I'm not going to be there and I won't be there.
		And you'll be like, ah, now I'm just, I'm building the equity for people to mess with people.
		I'm giving 20 mulligans out there.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Tomorrow.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		The music plays.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		I heard a great story.
		You'll probably love this.
		You might even know the story.
		But The Undertaker, his wife, and his podcast co-host went to WrestleMania.
		They're up in a fancy suite.
		This was, which one was it?
		The rock made her appearance.
		Did you?
		Yes, you were there, right?
		That huge finish at WrestleMania like three years ago where it was just boom, boom, boom, boom.
		And all these legends were coming out.
		This huge finish, just like they, they can't even like follow it.
		The ultimate climax of a WrestleMania.
		And one wrestler comes out, interrupts this huge main event, and then another one, then another one.
		Anyway, The Undertaker, his wife, and his podcast co-host were up in the suite.
		Undertaker goes, I'm going to go use the restroom.
		They're like, he's been gone a while.
		The lights go out, the bell tolls.
		They're watching from the suite.
		He's been gone for like 10 minutes, 20 minutes.
		He went and changed real quick.
		And then now he's.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Came out as the Undertaker.
unidentified		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Came out as the Undertaker.
		They're in the suite, like, oh my God, it's the Undertaker.
		They don't tell anybody.
		It's so old school and awesome that they keep secrets so locked up that their own loved ones, his wife, didn't even know.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's hilarious.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That is so crazy.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's fun to be able to surprise a live audience.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
		Oh, yeah.
		I mean, it's got to be a big part of it.
		How did you get involved in pro wrestling?
		Were you a fan as a kid?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I sure was.
		I think we have the same gravity of like, man, I was a super fan as a kid.
		But then I fell out of it, admittedly, kind of when Hogan went to WCW.
		So like, I was into wrestling and then I wasn't.
		And then I got into sports or whatever.
		And then I got back into wrestling when everyone else did.
		When like Stone Cold Steve Austin became big, The Rock became big.
		The Attitude Era hit.
		And I was just working a dead end job over at Gold's Gym Venice and like didn't know what I wanted to do with my life.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		How old are you?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		21.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		21.
		I'd moved out to California, not to be famous or anything.
		My degree was in Kinese.
		And I wanted to, like, that was the center of the fitness universe in 99, 2000.
		So like all equipment manufacturers were there.
		I'm like, man, I'll go get a job with Hammer Strength or a Cybex or like maybe Golds or like put that piece of paper on the wall to like get a good paying job.
		It did not work.
		So I ended up like front desk, cleaning toilets, selling protein bars in that order.
		So don't ever buy a protein bar.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I'm just kidding.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		But no, I was kind of like the jack of all trades over there.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And a friend of mine, Chris Bell and Mark Bell.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I know those guys.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, yeah.
		They literally were like, dude, you talk about WWF all the time.
		You know, we train down in Orange County.
		And at that time, Chris Bell was kind of like writing for this promotion.
		And you're like, would you want to do it?
		And I, man, that doesn't happen without them accidentally saying like, yo, we train to do this.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		His documentaries are fucking incredible.
		Bigger, stronger, faster.
		And then the other one, the pill one, what was that one called?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Magic Pill?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		No, what was the one?
		The addiction one that Chris released.
		But Bigger, Stronger, Faster.
		It's such a fucking great documentary.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		The Bell family, I've been friends with them for a long time.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Great guys.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That documentary blew the lid off of the reality of steroids.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Prescription thugs.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Prescription.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's another great one.
		Yeah.
		Crazy thing is he got addicted to pills while he was doing that because he had surgery while he was doing that and got addicted to pills while he's making a fucking documentary on people being addicted to pills.
		That's how potent pills are.
		A guy making a documentary about addiction.
		He just thinks, well, I'm just taking these because I got hip surgery and I'm in fucking agony.
		And then gets hooked.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Like, that's how crazy it is.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they're strong.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I would imagine.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Did you ever have an issue?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		No.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		No.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		As a matter of fact, I've had fusion in my neck, right pec completely detached, reattached, both triceps reattached, both triceps scoped.
		Nose relocated.
		Like I got, I probably am in like 10 physical surgeries where they got to go and correct something.
		Never taken one pain pill.
unidentified		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I have all the prescriptions in the bottom drawer of my house filled.
		And it's weird because at every facility, the first thing they, the first hill they climb is pain management.
		You wake up from anesthesia.
		You're like gray and murky.
		And I've been in a bunch of surgeries at a bunch of different facilities.
		The protocol is always the same.
		Do you want something for the pain?
		Here, we got to make sure you take this with you because you're not in any pain.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like, I understand because if you leave, if you're feeling okay, maybe you're high off adrenaline.
		I don't know.
		And then the operation sets in of like, holy fuck, this is a 10 out of 10.
		I can't, I need something.
		I get that.
		But I guess from falling down and hurting my body a lot, like I know my pain threshold.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And when I, the, the worst one was probably the, putting the whole peck back on and then attaching it.
		But when I woke up, I was able to like mess around with a stress ball.
		I never took one pill.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's amazing.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And I still have the full bottles.
		Like some are labeled 2008 is when I had my first surgery.
		And they're just all there.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		There's a lot of people listening right now.
unidentified		Count them all.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		They're still good.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		But the guy.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Find out what John Cena stores them.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It was weird because the medical staff couldn't believe it.
		Like they're like, you don't want anything.
		No, because, man, I know how I am with this.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's, yeah, it's a fucking slippery room.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And I would just, I'd be high on opiates, opioids all the time.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I got my first knee surgery, I think in 93 or 94, and they gave me, I got an ACL reconstruction, and they gave me Vicodin, I think.
		Pretty sure it was Vicodin.
		I took one one day, and I felt so stupid.
		I was lying on my couch watching TV, and I felt so dumb.
		And my knee still hurt.
		You know, it was just like it was distracting me from the fact that my knee hurt.
		But I'm like, I can't be this dumb.
		I'm dumb enough as it is.
		I can't add to my dumbness with pills.
		Like, I just saw it coming.
		You know, and also I knew a bunch of guys who had pill problems.
		I wound up selling my pills to a friend of mine that would sell pills.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Gosh, I should have taken your idea.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Could have made some cash.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I only made like a couple hundred bucks or something.
		I don't even remember.
		It was like in the 90s.
		But I remember just that one pill.
		And so then every surgery I've had ever since then, they always offered me stuff and I never took anything.
		I got my other ACL reconstructed in 2003, never took anything.
		I got my nose fixed.
		And it's like 2008, I got my nose reconstructed, deviated septum.
		The guy was insisting that he gave me two prescriptions for pain medicine.
		And I was like, I don't want anything.
		I was like, is it going to get worse than this?
		He's like, it could get.
		I go, right now it feels like nothing.
		It's like, but if you've been, again, like you, you've been beaten up so many times.
		Your body, you're so used to just being in pain.
		And I think for some people, it's just the daunting anxiety of pain itself.
		It's like they just want a pill before they even realize, like, I could kind of just, yeah, it sucks, but it's not going to suck forever.
		It's going to heal.
		So let's just deal with the suck and just lay here.
		Put some ice on it or whatever and just relax.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And along with that, it's kind of like your body's natural way of saying like, okay, maybe push a little bit more.
		Try to get a few more degrees of range of motion in physical therapy.
		Like if those senses are numbed and like shut off.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		First of all, you do feel just like, I don't want to do anything.
		So you won't work.
		In many cases, you won't work to do the work to get better.
		Right.
		Or you don't know the messaging.
		You can't listen to your body.
		Like if it's really, really in pain, maybe it's maybe your body's trying to tell you something.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I always assume that people feel pain differently.
		I mean, I just would imagine.
		Like people feel hot sauce differently.
		Like some people, they can't have any spice.
		Some people fucking can have like, you know, death peppers and they're fine.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So, all right, I'll throw that out to the group.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Is pain a personal experience?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I mean, there's no way I'm as tough as you guys.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		So yeah, it has to be.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		But I think in other dimensions, you might be way tougher.
		I don't know.
		I don't know.
		Maybe I think there's some people.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		You don't know, Tony.
		I can't imagine the dimension.
		I went and visited a firehouse the other day and I was going down the pole going, we like you guys wouldn't do that.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I would do that.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So in that aspect, you're tougher than me.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you can take ridicule.
		And we can take ridicule really easily.
		But I don't know what it feels like for other people.
		You know what I'm saying?
		I mean, I would assume that everybody feels the same.
		But you know, one of the reasons why I think maybe it is like it's different because my mom, my mom has a crazy tolerance to pain.
		Like my guy who, my stem cell guy in LA, my mom had a real knee issue, and he was treating her as well.
		And he goes, it's hilarious.
		Your mother's just like you.
		She just takes it.
		Like, she doesn't even flinch.
		She's sticking it.
		Like, he's like, that doesn't happen with like 75-year-old ladies.
		Like, take a needle and shove it into their knee and push it.
		And she just doesn't move.
		And, you know, she's like, oh, it wasn't painful.
		It was no big deal.
		It's like, you know, a lot of 75-year-old ladies would be fucking sweating and freaking out and seeing the needle.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Pretty sure I would be.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		But I don't know.
		I don't know what it feels like to other people.
		But like when I got my ACL, my right ACL reconstructed, it was a lot easier because it was a cadaver and I recommend it to anybody.
		The difference between a patella tendon graft recovery and a cadaver recovery is literally like six months.
		The difference is the cadaver was so much quicker.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh my God.
		Because the cadaver, they take it.
		I mean, it's all swollen and everything afterwards, but it's somebody else's tendon.
		They take an Achilles tendon off of a cadaver.
		So it's 150% stronger than an ACL.
		They fucking screw that sucker in place.
		Little tiny orthoscopic holes, not nearly as invasive.
		And then five days later, you know, Matt Lichtenberg, I went to his party for his birthday party five days later, just walking around.
		And he was like, did you just have surgery?
		I go, yeah.
		It's like, it's not that big a deal.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Man.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Like, it feels fine.
		You know, it was so much easier.
		The left one was brutal because they take a slice out of your patella tendon and then they could take a chunk out of your shin bone and a chunk out of your kneecap.
		And then they use those to screw this new tendon that they created into the shin bone and into your thigh bone.
		That was rough.
		That one was painful as fuck.
		And it took a long time before it felt normal.
		It took a long time before I could go down on one knee again.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		When was that?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That was painful.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You said that?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That was in the 90s.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And then the other one was early 2000s, 2002-ish, somewhere around, 20-3.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I mean, 10 more years of performance surgeries, 10 more years of medical.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I just think it's the difference because they still do that patella tendon graph.
		And I think George St. Pierre had it done that.
		I know a bunch of people that I'm friends with had it done that way.
		And I was like, oh, don't do that one.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Do the cadaver.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		But people are worried, like, what if you got AIDS?
unidentified		Like, you know, Jesus Christ, you're not going to get AIDS from it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Stop.
		And it's also, it's like you feel better before you are better, unfortunately, because the way the tendon works, so when they replace a tendon with a cadaver, it's not like you have this guy's tendon in your body.
		What it is like is that tendon is a scaffolding.
		And then your body reproliferates that with your own cells.
		So over the course of six months, my body had filled in all of what used to be a cadaver with my own cells.
		So you'll feel like it's better before it's better.
		So a lot of MMA fighters, they start training too quickly and they blow it out again because it's still soft.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That's always the concern.
		It's always the concern.
		You feel good.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Man, I can do this.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Especially animals, you know, guys who are just used to pain and used to pushing, you know, and they just pop it out again.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I know multiple MMA fighters that have had knee surgery and then blew it out while they were recovering.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And just a few months more.
		They could just be all right.
		But it's impatience.
		You want to get back in there.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And then it's even worse because you've got to drill into the same holes and pull it out and open you up.
		But it's more invasive surgery.
		They've got to remove the screws.
		Fuck.
		Yeah.
		But I just, I don't think everybody feels pain the same.
		I think it's a genetic thing.
		It's just an assumption, obviously, because I don't feel what other people feel.
		But I think some people just, any kind of pain, it's just, they can't function.
		They're just in agony.
		And I think those people are way more vulnerable to the pills.
		That's just my assumption.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That's a decent perspective.
		I would agree with pain is a personal experience.
		Like, there are people who, I mean, I've seen people like, I can't believe you go through that.
		And then people would be like, but you get the shit kicked out of you.
		I can't believe you do that.
		It's all relative.
		I would be shitting cufflinks if you get that stem cell needle out.
		I would be sweating right until the fucking final moment.
		Like some stuff I can't take.
		I guess it is.
		It could be combined with what we fear in life or maybe fear of hard work or fear of effort.
		Who knows?
		I don't know.
		I don't know.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I think it's also being accustomed to pain.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You know, so if you, did you wrestle when you were younger?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		No, I played football.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You played football?
		Well, that's just like that, in that you're always in pain.
		I mean, if you're playing football, you're always colliding with people.
		You're always, you got to shoulders fuck with you.
		Your backs fuck with you.
		It's like, it's never ending.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I've always said that there's something, there's some value into losing a fight.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like, I grew up with four brothers and we kicked the shit out of each other.
		And I was not always on the winning side.
		So very early on in my life as a young person, you know what it's like to lose a fight.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, it's very valuable.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And I think that there's a lot maybe to do with the pain conversation there, of like just flat out getting your ass kicked and then being able to dust yourself off and be like, I'll get you next time.
		You know, like, it's not over.
		You know what I'm saying?
		We're brothers.
		We're going to fight again.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You know, like, it's also knowing, like, why did he beat me?
		What can I do to beat him next time?
		You know, like, if you don't have that in your life, also, if you don't know what it feels like to get your ass kicked, you get a little mouthy.
		I mean, how many mouthy people do we know that have never been fucked up?
		And I think that's why.
		Like, there's real consequences if it actually comes down.
		You start yelling and you get mouthy.
		If it actually comes down to it, and we've all seen many of these videos on the internet where someone just don't, they don't know what the fuck they're asking for or what they're getting into.
		And then all of a sudden they're getting hit.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And man, I'm not perfect.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And there are days where I'm short of patience, but when it gets to that weird spot of like, yo, someone's going to get hit in the face, I always try to like lean on diplomacy.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Always.
		Always.
		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Please, let's not do that because that fucking sucks.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And I've heard a lot of people say to you, man, if I was you, I'd be fucking everybody up.
		That's the dumb people always say that.
		Like, it doesn't end with that.
		Then this guy gets his brother or he shoots you or they run you over with a car.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Or you think you're going to fuck somebody up and you get fucking handled.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like, you never know, man.
		You never know anybody else's story.
		You know, you never know.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		There's so many people out there that train today.
		It's so much different than when I was younger.
		Like, you would assume that, like, I assume that a good, solid 10% of all men you meet have martial arts skills now.
		Because of the UFC.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Popularity of it.
		Yeah.
		Certainly in Western society.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know, the gym, there's a gym every plaza.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Also, there's so many kids that like watch UFC and then play practice with themselves.
		And you could learn a lot just doing that.
		Guys learn a lot just watching it on TV and then emulating it at home with their friends.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You can tell those who watch WWE because when those moments happen, they try to do something crazy.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Oh, it doesn't work.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		How many guys have fucking thrown their buddy onto a conference table because they thought it was the way to do it?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's crazy.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You know, I mean, the fucking sheer amount of punishment you guys put yourself through is staggering.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I mean, it really is staggering.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much.
		It is all for the good.
		Like, it's like a pro football player, pro hockey player, UFC.
		I think the beautiful advantage that we have is that it's we can we can make choices on what we do.
		So when you're in UFC and they close the door, it's kind of fucking best person wins.
		You know, you got it.
		It's it's survival.
		When we're in WWE and we both step in the ring and they ring the bell, we're working together.
		We're working together to put on the best show for the audience.
		And in that process, you can calculate the risks you want to take.
		And I think that's what allows somebody to be able to perform for 23 years.
		You know, I don't know.
		I know that age-old stat that everybody says about like the average NFL career is what, two and a half years or three and a half years.
		I don't know what the stat is on average UFC career.
		Like how long, what's your window to be functionally profitable in UFC?
		But I know because our risks are calculated and we're working together rather than against each other, the math is way higher for you to have like a 10, 15, 20 year career in WWE.
		But that also is 10 more years of falling down, 15 more years of falling down.
		So it's weird.
		Like you can choreograph the risk, but you have to do it time and time again.
		And the schedule in WWE just changed.
		Like to do 70 matches a year now in WWE is like, man, you're a workhorse.
		We used to do 220, 230.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Which is so crazy.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's it too.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		220 days of trauma in a year.
		Because you're getting, no matter what, you're getting some trauma.
		No matter what.
		If God body slams you, something happens, you're colliding, you go off the ropes, you're smashing into each other.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I get such a warm feeling when first timers go into the ring for the first time.
		It's like, oh, it's like a bouncy floor.
		And they fall down once and like the wind's knocked out of them.
		They're like, my brain moved.
unidentified		Yeah, yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Now you got to do that again and again.
		But it's weird.
		I've gotten to work with a lot of stand-ups and WWE is kind of changing.
		I would say it's on the progression of a stand-up making it to just like a stadium tour.
		But man, when I performed, my sweet spot, we ran very parallel lives.
		Like you, I've worked every city, Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom to Madison Square Garden, like to the Saitama Super Arena to AT ⁇ T Stadium to Bangor, Maine, or to Valparaiso, Indiana.
		Like you, you go to all of these places and it's like Friday you're in one place, Saturday you're in another place, Sunday you're in another place, Monday you're in another place, Tuesday you're in another place, one day to drop your shit, one day to catch your flight out, do it again.
		Like it's, it's, it's kind of, we, we're kind of like touring stand-ups in that regard.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Very similar.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And you're responsible for your own trans, like, and I'm speaking from my day.
		I don't know how it is now because I got one left and then I'm done.
		But you were responsible for your own transportation, booking your own hotels.
		Like you, you were, they were just like, hey, we're starting here.
		We're in here.
		Good luck.
		Which is awesome because you create, people are really independent when they, when they go through that fire and you weed out the people who don't want to be there.
unidentified		Yeah, because it's just the sheer work, the sheer workload.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Taking those clubs and like making, doing a tour.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Also the adrenaline.
		Like it's like, what do you do after a night?
		Like most jobs, people can't wait to be done and then go home and relax and fall asleep.
		Where if you're doing stand-up or obviously wrestling, you were just.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You're done late at night and you're like, man, let the water rush.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Fuck.
		What can I do better?
		Or this fucking killed.
		And then it's four in the morning.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you're buzzing.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You're buzzing.
		And it's also, it's really hard to have any kind of a normal relationship because you're just constantly not home.
		You're constantly gone.
		Like even your friends, like you, you really, as a touring comic, the best thing that I ever did is start taking friends with me on the road instead of just working with like random guys that I didn't know in different towns.
		Those are fun sometimes.
		Sometimes.
		Like, you know, two out of 10 times you meet a new friend.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Eight out of 10 times, you're with some annoying alcoholic who fucking sucks and they're annoying and then they want to take you someplace and you get in trouble.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		I mean, that's certainly the normal life aspect of it.
		It's also like at full tilt, it's a very absorbing thing.
		It's a very selfish thing.
		So I think not only you don't work regular office hours and you're a nomad, a gypsy.
		But especially from a WWE perspective, you have to, like you're a startup founder.
		You have to wake up thinking about it.
		You have to think about it all day.
		You have to go to sleep thinking about it.
		Wake up in the two hours of sleep that you get being like, I remember this line or maybe we can do this stunt or whatever.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And it's people who are in your sphere, at least through my perspective and my journey.
		Man, if you were in my gravity from like 2002 to like 2019, I wasn't a part of a team.
		You did it my way.
		Like bus leaves at 10.
		If you're there at 1001, you are fucking left.
		Like we're doing this and we're training here and then we're doing this.
		But so the end product is good.
		So like the dream job of like, man, I never, the six-year-old kid holding the paper belt can be an adult holding the real belt and get shekels for doing that.
		And I don't ever want to, I don't want to put that in jeopardy.
		So you fuckers are going to have to get in line and we're just going to have to go.
		Like, you know, I was absent a lot in relationships because if it wasn't on my terms, it didn't exist.
		You know, because here you got, you catch lightning out of a jar.
		I'm a kid from West Newberry who's, you know, come from a family of five and there's always more broke, but man, we were a good level of broke.
		And then now, like, hey, if you just work hard at this thing, you can kind of not ever be that again.
		All right, fuck this.
		I'm doing this thing all the time.
		But that comes with, hey, I'm getting married or like my grandfather died or I got a birthday coming up or like, hey, man, you missed another Thanksgiving.
		You're damn right I did because I'm doing the thing.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know, so it's all for me at least, it was, it was that as well of like laser focus, all things WWE.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's that in everything that you do where you want to really be successful.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It takes saying yes to the thing means no to everything else.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I had Jensen Hwang on the podcast the other day, who's the CEO of NVIDIA, like one of the biggest companies on planet Earth, huge company.
		Fucking dude still to this day works seven days a week.
		And he was talking about when he goes on vacation, I go, do you go on vacation and just put it all down?
		He goes, no, I work.
		He goes, even when I'm with my family, I have to work.
		I'm working.
		I work seven days a week.
		I don't take a day off.
		I love it.
		And he goes, and I'm terrified of failure.
		He goes, that's my motivation.
		My motivation is not I want to succeed.
		My motivation is fear of failure.
		Every day I show up saying, if I don't do this, we could fail.
		And I'm going to work seven days a week.
		Everybody who thinks they want to be a CEO, you think you want to be a billionaire, like, you want to do that?
		You want to do that when you're 60 years old?
		Do you want to be working seven days a week all day long from the moment you wake up?
		He wakes up at 4.30 in the morning.
		He says he answers thousands of emails a day.
		I'm like, what?
		How is that even fucking possible?
		Gets up at 4.30 in the morning, answers all these emails, works all day long, constantly problem solving, making AI chips.
		It's fucking crazy, right?
		But that's with everything.
		You want to be at the top of the heap?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		There's only one way.
		Yeah.
		When you see something difficult look easy, there's a bunch of 4.30 in the morning wake-ups that made that happen.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I think with everything in life.
		Anything in life where you really want to excel at it, there's no shortcuts.
		It doesn't exist.
		That weeds a lot of people out.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It does.
		It does.
		And there's a lot of, man, armchair quarterback is the easiest and best position on the field.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I could do that.
		All I needed to do is do this.
		Sure, go right ahead.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Take your best shot.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, good luck.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's interesting because it must weed out so many talented people.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		There's probably a lot of talented people that you've seen over the years that just didn't have that drive to constantly improve and succeed and really be thinking about what they're doing all the time.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I like that statement because I think the talent is doing it all.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You could have a...
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		No, you can have one.
		You can smoke if you want.
		I don't care.
		We have fans in here.
		Yeah, we have fans that suck out all the smoke.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I think the statement of man, so many talented people didn't make it.
		They may be an acrobat.
		They may be a fast talker.
		But that's not the only attribute that makes one special.
		You may be a great joke writer, but man, if you don't master stage presence, I mean, you may be a great joke writer with stage presence, but if you can't lug the tour, you're not talented for it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's really the grind.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It is.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's everything.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		The all-encompassing thing.
		So when someone with great athletic ability decides that it's not for them, because eventually that is one thing about WWE, for all the arguments of like backstage politico, everybody understands the sound of money and no one refuses it.
		Like, I fucking hate this guy, but I got to give him another match.
		It may not be, but I now have to give him a 10-year contract.
		But when they go out there, if the noise is there, even if the they's fucking hate you, you get another match.
		I'm proof positive of that meritocracy at work.
		Like, everybody fucking hated me.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Why'd they hate you?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I was just real different.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like, I was just really different.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		In what way?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So I didn't ruffle any feathers when I kind of entered the business, kept quiet, did my stuff, but I also didn't connect with the audience.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And I don't know, maybe you guys see this in stand-up or not, but then I got like a personality of like the white rap guy, like the white hip-hop guy.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		You know about that?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		But like, I fucking went, I fucking went all in, you know, urban gear, like, and I'm a hip-hop head.
		So it's like, oh, man, this is my sweet spot.
		This is the avenue.
		This isn't all of my personality, but this is one level that I can show that I think everyone will get.
		So if you go to Madison Square Garden, you get it.
		But if we go to Wheeling, West Virginia, you'll also get it.
		And you may like it in some places and hate it in some places, but everyone will get it.
		I will not be selling apathy.
		But in doing that, I never followed dress code.
		I was saying disrespectful shit about my peers.
		Like, I kind of did it my own way.
		So I was kind of ruffling some feathers backstage or just, I was taking big swings because I was going to fucking get fired anyway.
		The alternative was lose my job.
		So I was like, fuck it, I'm going down swinging.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And then the people behind the curtain were like, ah, the kid's disrespectful to the business.
		He doesn't care about the business.
		All the while, I just want to keep my fucking job.
		You know, so the they's behind the curtain weren't really invested, but they were also humble enough to be like, there's noise out there.
		Got to give him another match.
		And one match at a time times 23 years of compounding interest.
		We're here.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		What did Vince think about your hip-hop person?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		He hated it and then loved it.
		He hated it and then loved it.
		And I think I'm thinking for somebody, but I think from his perspective is like when I hear somebody's idea for a personality, man, I want to be this sports agent guy or whatever.
		Oh, yo, I have the idea of what that is in my head.
		And if their projection of that idea doesn't match my projection of that idea, I'm like, ah, fuck, I hate it.
		But that doesn't mean it can't work.
		So I think what maybe would happen was my perspective of the white hip-hop guy from the mean street of West Newberry and Vince's perspective of John Cena, the rapper, we probably missed.
		Like he had an idea and I had an idea.
		And usually he will craft it to his vision.
		I got to give him respect for allowing me to kind of run with it, you know?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's probably that fear of being fired that like keeps you on the edge.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Dude, that was it.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Of like the NVIDIA guy of like, I don't want to fail.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I got the sit down of like, hey, we're going to cut you because it's not working.
		Like you, you're out there for your matches.
		You hear the same thing.
		It's not working.
		And there's no argument there.
		I'm like, fucking, all right.
		I got to touch the sun.
		I got to make it.
		I got to play for the Yankees.
		I got my one at bat.
		I'm Moonlight Graham.
		And then they heard me rap in the back of the bus and was like, man, Stephanie heard me rap in the back of the bus.
		And was like, yo, you want to do that on TV?
		I'm like, lose my job or fucking rap?
		Yeah, let's go.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Let's do this.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		So it was Stephanie's idea.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And it was a fucking accident, dude.
		It was an accident.
		It was my final overseas tour for the WWE.
		And the boys just spend time.
		Like, that's the one time they get the whole group together is overseas because you don't want to be herding cats like in Amsterdam or something.
		Everybody rides on the bus.
		You go from town to town.
		So like to pass the time, the boys just do whatever.
		And they were freestyling on the back of the bus.
		And I normally just fucking kept to myself because I was raised in the environment of like, keep your ears open, keep your mouth shut, don't do anything unless spoken to.
		So I did that, but I also didn't make any connections with people who were putting their lives on the line for me.
		You know, some of the guys you really beat the shit out of in the rings are like your best friends.
		So I didn't have any of those connections.
		And I heard these guys rapping.
		And I just remember playing roller coaster tycoon on my laptop, full matching up, putting it away.
		I'm like, I'm going to the back of the bus.
		And just waited my turn and then filleted like 12 guys.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And Stephanie was like, how the fuck did you remember all that?
		I'm like, no, no, it's freestyle.
		You just make it up.
		And she's like, well, make up something about me.
		And we were boarding a plane.
		And I literally like utilized the plane, the people getting on the plane, what she was wearing, what she was eating.
		She's like, would you do this on TV?
		And that's where we got a chance.
unidentified		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And it wasn't like off to the moon.
		Like, I got a shitty chance on a small spot.
		And that worked.
		So then I got moved to like the dog shit Saturday night program that nobody watches.
		But the cool thing is no one's watching.
		So like I could do whatever I wanted.
		So I started saying more racy shit and dressing more outlandish and having more personality and like claiming ownership of the show.
		I call myself Mr. Saturday Night.
		And it's the shitty show.
		You don't want to be Mr. Saturday night, but I did.
		And then that got another match and got another match.
		And one by one, it kind of brought me here.
unidentified		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Just a fucking happy accident, man.
		That's crazy.
		All the way to even when the bells were like, hey, the whole thing's a fucking accident.
		You want to start training?
		Fuck yeah, sure.
		All right.
		Great.
		You want to start rapping?
		Yeah, fuck it.
		Sure.
		See what happens.
unidentified		That's amazing.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's a happy accident.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		And for it to go all the way to last year's massive heel turn, he went heel, dude.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That was this year, by the way.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that was this year.
unidentified		Yeah, it's been a crazy year.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that was.
		That was a mania.
		And man, literally, perhaps other than maybe Hogan, right?
		The greatest heel turn in wrestling history.
		When a good, crowd-pleasing guy goes bad, bad, and dark.
		You had moments, the things you were saying, the way you were saying them, epic, iconic, iconic heel turn.
		Cold, dark, working with the rock.
		He was in cahoots.
		That's the good guy, Cody.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And like, see the people's faces.
		That's the fun thing.
		It's like, this stuff is so simple, but it's the if you take out the crowd in that situation and just put those three guys, it is really fucked up what we do.
		But when you add the audience in the back and all of their faces and what's going on, that's what makes bro.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Even your face.
		You got like a mean guy face all of a sudden.
		It's like you look like a different person.
		That's interesting.
unidentified		I was having a bad day.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, this is also when you'd already done a bunch of acting.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		This is this year.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		This is February this year.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		How much of the creative control do you have over the aspects of that heel turn?
		Like, for example, one thing that I thought was the coolest.
		I was in the front row of WrestleMania behind the Spanish announce table.
		So I'm directly across from the entrance, you know, the giant WrestleMania football stadium in Las Vegas.
		And there was no music and it was a black background.
		Normally, he's the most color with the most iconic loud, wild music, no music, black background, and in white letters, it just said Cena.
		And you just walked out with literally the statement was, I'm not here to entertain you people, basically is what it felt like.
		And I loved it.
		I mean, this is the main event of Mania.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You are so entertained.
		I mean, I want to entertain you.
		Fuck, I fucked up.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I have a degree in pro wrestling, but my master's is in healdum.
		Like, it's like the bad, I just love a bad guy.
		And even ever since that bad guy turned, I feel like, and I feel like most bad guy fans do, now newly connected with the Back to the Return of the Good Guy Cena.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, there it is.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I mean, it was literally just.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I used to come out like a Tasmanian devil.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And this just reversed it all.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		And it seems like nothing, but it's iconic.
		Just cold as ice.
		Everyone else for four hours coming out with colorful music and pyro and all this stuff.
		And there's the guy that normally did it the best and the biggest, just really not giving a fuck.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And WrestleMania, if you're going to do it, like you'd give your best entrance for WrestleMania.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And this was, I guess we were going for the shittiest one.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		But it just rang the opposite and simple and true.
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tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		So, like, for example, those things, those details, that's you mostly pitching to the creative team.
		Like, for example, like the even just the white letters, the black entrance.
		How does that kind of come together?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So I think that's, and I've been lucky enough to kind of take this perspective of not knowing everything and realizing that even with 23 years of fluency, I'm not the smartest guy in the room.
		I don't know the technology they have and what they can do.
		Now, granted, a black LED board, I could probably come up with that.
		But what I like to do is lean on my resources.
		Like, hey, let's go to production and see what production is thinking.
		And I don't want to tell them what to do because I want to hear their ideas first.
		And production was like, what if we just went basic?
		I'm like, how basic can you go?
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		What if we just blacked everything out?
		Yeah, but I know from what you guys have said, you also like to light the audience.
		No, no, what if we just black everything out?
		You guys would do that?
		Oh, that sucks.
		Yeah, let's do that.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So it's not me with all of these things.
		I don't have enough depth of field to touch all the bases, but I will go to every department and say, okay, entrance is a big part of what we do.
		What do we do for lighting?
		What do we do for production?
		Go to camera.
		Like, how do you guys want to shoot it?
		And then it trickles down when you talk to the talent you're working with.
		How do we portray this message?
		And then, of course, it starts at the top with creatively, I want to make you a bad guy.
		So we're going to do that.
		Okay, sure, we're going to do that.
		How do you want to do that?
		But it's, I think it's getting, we have a lot of talented people and just allowing them to do their job and let you know, like, oh, I was kind of thinking this.
		And then tell them, like, yeah, that's a good idea.
		Let's do that.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		That's amazing.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Because I don't know what I miss if I'm making all the demands.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		To show you the contrast, his opponent that night came out to, I think it was 40 people on red, white, and blue derby bikes all dressed like American people.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Nitro Circus.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		He comes out elevated from inside of the stage, wearing this super gaudy mask that he has to take off.
		Fireworks, fireworks, fire, sparks, smoke, all of these different things.
		And he just comes out blank face.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I just got my bunk sock on the back.
		Just run on.
		There you go.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's so funny hearing Tony talk about this because for people who don't know, the way Tony runs Kill Tony is basically a version of a WWE event.
		I mean, it really is.
		Like when he does the arena shows, he has everything set up like a WWE event.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I mean, even the thing we did with Shane when Shane was playing, when Shane was playing Trump, when Trump and I were supposedly feuding online, Trump had said something about me online.
		And then Trump's talking shit, like as Shane's talking shit, and then the music plays and I show up behind him.
		It's pure pro wrestling.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's pure pro wrestling.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		And MSG's on their feet, shocked.
		You know, you're surprising this crowd that thinks they're just there for a comedy show.
		And well, there's the panel.
		I guess that's what we're going to have tonight.
		But the surprises, the ups, the downs.
		And then he brings up Joey Dia.
		So it's like, boom, boom.
		Kind of like that big finish at Mania that I was talking about.
unidentified		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Superstar bringing up a superstar, you know, music, music, smoke, fire.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		All these little things.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		The more you make it important, the more important it becomes.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		As when what he's saying is like when Trump was there, this was as Trump was running for president.
		Trump thought that I was endorsing RFK, so he got mad at me.
		So I said, I am here to endorse someone.
		And I brought out Joey Diaz.
unidentified		Which is great because you didn't get a reveal, but you get a different reveal.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And it's like, and everybody went nuts.
		But it's like the audience, they're into it like they're into pro wrestling.
		They want all the heel turns.
		They want all the chaos.
		They want all the pageantry and the fire and the explosions and all the shit.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Man, you get any live audience.
		They're into all that.
		Like watch a college football game.
		Right.
		Watch a soccer game overseas or football, as they would say.
		The fans, it's like a group think of energy that's fucking nuts.
		Like, audiences want it.
		It doesn't matter where you're at.
		Like, what man, when comics just go out and light up a stage and they have that fucking stage presence and they just slay a set, the fucking audience is rolling in the aisles.
		Like, you let them in, and they can help make a joke that might not hit the night before slay.
		Like, it's all about the moment.
		It's all about being there and reading the people.
		And the fun thing about WWE is you can go out there with an idea.
		And I can only imagine this as kind of like stand-up, where if you got your set and you tell the first joke to crickets, you may try another joke.
		And if that's crickets, you got to fucking pivot.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So we go out and do something.
		And oh man, they're into it.
		Great.
		All right.
		We have them.
		We just got to maintain their attention until we get to act three, essentially.
		But if you hear fucking crickets, you're like, all right, we're switching it up.
		Fucking pivot right now.
		And that's the beauty.
		That's one of the things that I love the most: it's not just me and the other person out there.
		Like the audience is the act.
		That moment only means something.
		If you put a blue screen behind the people, it is super fucked up.
		Like, what the fuck are they doing?
		And why does that mean anything?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		But when you let the level of the audience, and everybody's on their feet, they're going, no!
		It's fucking everything.
		It's everything.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's why Tony's so interested in the coordination of it all and the setting and the sabotage and all the chaos that's involved in all of that.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		These are human emotions that are universal.
		Everyone understands betrayal, jealousy, anger, disappointment, failure, excitement.
		Like these are universal things that you don't, if we don't speak the same language, you still have felt these things.
		And you could watch that.
		No one spoke in that clip.
		But you could watch that anywhere in the world and be like, that kid just got fucked over.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Oh, what's going to happen next?
		Like, that's the beautiful appeal of it.
		You know, it's, it's, we don't hit too far above our weight class.
		Like, we, we try to send large-scale, universal messages based on true, real human emotion that we all know.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		And up to that day, that moment, like, even that thing that we were just telling you about, me bringing him coming out, that being a reveal, him bringing up Diaz was coordinated literally, I think, 15 minutes before.
		Literally, me with a big piece of paper going, hey, Joe, what if we did this?
		He confirms it.
		So I go to Hair and Makeup where they're finishing up Shane as Trump, which in itself is just hysterical.
		I pitch it to him.
		He loves it.
		I go to Diaz.
		I say, Rogan's going to bring you up.
		And the thing happens quick.
		Whereas with almost, you know, every form of entertainment that we're used to other than wrestling and like kind of, you know, Kill Tony in this instance, everything's so pre-planned that if we over pre-planned it, we wouldn't have had the topical RFK endorsement because it was like news that day.
unidentified		Yeah, sure.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		And so again, that inspiration, you know, totally comes from there.
		Because what else is doing that at MSG, 10 minutes before the show, reorganizing things.
		So now we just go to production and go, have Rogan's LED ready and then Diaz in that order.
		You know, it literally comes from that.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And when it goes right, there's not a better feeling in the world.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I just get to sit back and watch.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		But it's so funny that that connection with pro wrestling is really why you've made Kill Tony the way it is.
		Like without your love of pro wrestling, it would be such a different show.
		Like if it was just run like a traditional stand-up show, there's so much else going on that makes it the biggest show.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Well, it's long-term storytelling.
		We had a guy on on Monday that had been doing it 14 years.
		And man, he just is timing was off.
		He struggled.
		Even after the minute, I go, you've been doing it 14 years.
		He goes, yeah, man.
		I go, what do you, how do you make money?
		He goes, I do this.
		I go, you do this for a living.
		He goes, yeah.
		I go, you must have better material.
		I'm going to give you another shot.
		Do another minute.
		Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
		And I introduce him again and he bombs again.
		And literally, I was talking with it about it with Stephanie after the show because she just happened to be at Kiltoni on Monday.
		And she goes, God, a guy like that, you know, what happened?
		You know, what happens next?
		I go, hopefully, hopefully, the guy gets pulled out of the bucket in a month or two, has a great set, puts it together, realizes his timing was off.
		He wasn't taking a breath.
		He wasn't connecting with the crowd.
		He was just memorizing his stuff.
		And the story begins to be told about this guy.
		And sometimes it happens in reverse.
		Sometimes somebody starts off, you know, fire hot, rocket strapped to the back.
		Yep.
		And then, oof.
		And that's kind of the sadder thing, right?
		Is starting hot and then never being able to touch that again.
		Have a moment like your first time.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's like we were talking about people with talent.
		We all know someone who killed during open mic days that we were like, wow, this guy's going to be huge.
		They have like undeniable talent and they just can't manage it.
		They can't figure it out.
		They self-sabotage.
		They get addicted to drugs or alcohol or whatever it is.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		There are so many things.
		It's not just the ability to go out and do the task well.
		There's so many variables that will fuck you up.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Dude, you're right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So many, so many gifted people have just have that roadblock in front of them.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Which is why I think conversations with successful people are so important because you get to hear those stories.
		You get to hear, like with Jensen the other day, he was talking about how NVIDIA was basically bankrupt.
		They were on their way out and someone gave them a chance.
		Like some one guy that was an investor gave them a chance and then they wound up becoming successful.
		And then there was these moments.
		And people need to know that you're going to have those hurdles.
		You're going to have those roadblocks.
		You're going to have to figure out how to adjust.
		It's not easy.
		No one who's been successful at anything will tell you the whole ride was easy.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but a lot of the time, sometimes, man, sometimes we'll be in it.
		So I've been through like three generations of knowledge and learning, 23 years in the business operating at a high level.
		I have seen thousands.
		And like it is the man, if you're a stud in Pewee Football League, then you go to this junior high school and then you're the number one player in college and then you're the number one number one player in high school and number one player in college eke out a spot in the NFL and then a year later you're gone because the funnel just gets so thin like WWE has like 200 personnel in their NXT development program right now Maybe 10 will make it.
		And of those 10, like really, honestly, maybe one will make it.
		And what the hope is, is over a six-year period of those classes of 200 that get matriculated probably every four months.
		So we're talking 6,000 people.
		I'm hoping one makes it.
		Wow.
		In five or six years, I need one.
		Because my top guy right now, my Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes and the Charlotte Flairs and Becky Lynches of the world, like they'll, they'll last half a decade to draw.
		Maybe if we're lucky, maybe we'll get it more.
		They can, you know, maybe parlay it into a decade or two.
		But that's an anomaly.
		You got to play the legit math of like, after five years, I better have somebody in the on-deck circle.
		So out of like five, six thousand, I just need one.
		But it's still, everybody's biting their fingernails of like, we don't have the person yet.
		It's so many folks just don't make it.
		Just don't make it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's, that's the parallel to stand-up.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's man.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		So, you know, there's so many people that we were talking last night in the green room.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Thousands.
		And when I see them like in the ring do stuff, I'm like, I could never do that.
		But they just won't.
		They just don't make it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's just, there's so many things that fuck people up.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		So much self-sabotage, so much inability to stay the course.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Even our own worst enemy.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know, I don't know.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
		Yeah.
		Happy accidents, though.
		Fuck it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, yeah, happy accidents, but not just that.
		It's you being able to stay on course and you being able to recognize that, you know, okay, this didn't work.
		What do I do?
		You want me to rap?
		Okay, I'll fucking rap.
		Like a lot of people would have been like, I'm not fucking rapping.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That's beneath me.
		I'm here to be a wrestler.
		I'm not a gimmick.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I'm not going to be a buffoon.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I'll be a buffoon.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Because it beats work in the real job.
unidentified		But it's not only that.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's part of the entertainment of it all, even the cringe aspect of it.
unidentified		Where people are like, what is going on here?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's great.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		He loves that shit.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Oh, it's the best.
		The best.
		You know who my guy is right now?
		Dominic Mysterio.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Love Dom.
unidentified		my god so he's no you're here I was gonna You weren't at Petco, were you?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		No.
unidentified		Ah, gosh, we had fun over there.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I bet.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I caught a lot of it.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Man, that kid's good, too.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like, good, good human being.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I happen to be in Salt Lake City doing a gig.
		I was doing stand-up in one arena, and the WWE happened to be in the other arena in Salt Lake City just a few weeks ago.
		And I'm like, ah, darn.
		But I look it up and it's a 5 p.m. taping of WWE.
		So I hit up my friends at WWE.
		I go, I'm coming in.
		I'm bringing my openers, right?
		Anyway, Dominic Mysterio's in a triple threat match.
		And his whole thing is he's wrestling royalty.
		He's Rey Mysterio's son, but he claims that he might be Eddie Guerrero's son because his father's one of the ultimate good guys of all time.
		So basically, he takes on the traits of Eddie Guerrero, whose whole thing was cheating and lying and stealing, breaking the rules in original ways all the time.
		And he's doing a triple threat match, which means there's three guys at once, right?
		But if someone beats anybody, you could lose your belt.
		And his intercontinental championship thinks intercontinental, right?
		Is on the line and he gets thrown outside the ring.
		And I'm having fun, right?
		I go, Dominic, cheat, do something, right?
		And he's kind of on the other side of the thing.
		And he lifts up his head and looks at me and goes like that.
		He gives a big wink and then he goes back down again.
		And I'm cracking up.
		I go, did you see that?
		I'm next to Pauli Shore.
		I go, did you just see him wink?
unidentified		He goes, yeah, man, what's he going to do, bro?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		But these two guys in the ring are wrestling and one of them has the other one in a submission hold, a camel clutch.
		I can't remember who it was, but anyway.
		And I'm like, you, I literally, even me watching since I was a kid, and even though he just winked at me, it was just enough time.
		I forgot that Dominic was over there because this action in the ring is really happening.
		Something's about to happen.
		And you hear the bell ring and I look over.
		And there's Dominic with the hammer in his hand ringing the bell.
		And the guy lets go with the submission.
		And the referee goes, what the hell?
		And something I hadn't seen in 35 years of watching this thing, he's innovative enough to find a brand new way to cheat in this.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Just twice.
unidentified		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		A brand new way to cheat.
		And the crowd, everybody's cracking up.
		It's a whole new, right when you think you've seen it all.
		This guy who you would love.
		He's literally like built like me.
		He flexes like Nate Diaz without flexing.
		And he's just braggadocious.
		Oh, yeah.
		He thinks, he thinks he won.
		But the ref's like, no.
unidentified		And I got a cut to Dominic.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		He just loves it.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		There's our guy.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Dirty Dom.
unidentified		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		And the crowd just loves him.
		That's all of us right there.
		That's Maddie Edgar, Joe DeRosa, Pauly Shore, me.
		It was DeRosa's first real wrestling event.
		He had the time of his life.
		Childlike wonder.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I love getting people in there live for the first time.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		There's something funny about a pro wrestler that's not built too.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
		And he's the champ.
		And all these other guys, that guy, Pent.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Man, he just whipped my ass.
		Dirty Dom.
		He just whipped my ass.
		For real.
		I just lost the Intercontinental Championship to that son of a bitch.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Look at him.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Covered in gold.
unidentified		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Probably, what, five, nine, hundred something.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		No, he's a tall drink of water.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		He's taller than me, but he's 170 pounds soaking weight.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's such a uniquely American form of art.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It really is.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's weird because in pockets of the world, like it's Japan has their own style of doing it.
		Latin America has their own style of doing it.
		The UK has their own style of doing it.
		But this.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like the Japanese is very strong style with respect to martial art.
		The English style is very like catch-as-catch-can, a real like technical expose.
		The Latin American style, the Mexican style is high-flying.
		The American offering of like steak, sizzle, apple pie, ice cream, 4th of July, everything like huge.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And that's all Vince, right?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		A lot of it.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So is it all ever one person?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right, it's not.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		A lot of it is.
		A lot of it is.
		But like promotions like World Class Championship Wrestling were some of the first to use music.
		Vince was the first to be like, rock and roll, get over here and get on cable and let's blow this thing out.
		I want to do it.
		It's not just something we have in a local VFW with cigar smoke and guys taking side action on carnival tricks.
		No, this is a fucking thing.
		And we are going to make this a fucking thing.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's also a fucking thing where it's a lot of it is not televised because you're just traveling around the country doing these shows.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		So that the business model has kind of changed where media content is king now.
		So from what I understand from TKO, and I know their executives will correct me, but from my perspective, we have scaled back on the live event only offerings, which helps, you know, lick the wounds.
		It's weird.
		Like you don't bump enough or you don't bump as much, but you kind of need to get in there and bump to get your callus and to get your wind and timing.
		So it's kind of, you get your signals crossed.
		But anyhow, the content that is provided is always available for media or 99%, where it used to be the opposite.
		We used to do like four live shows, one TV taping.
		So you'd have four live shows under your match.
		You know, you'd do like Lafayette, Little Rock, Pensacola, and then TV in Orlando.
		You know, and that would be the end of the run.
		And then you'd do it again of like Bangor, Portsmouth, Providence, TV in Boston.
		You know, like, and then you'd go for another week and go somewhere else.
		But it's different now.
		It's like every piece is televised for the media, which is great because we get a lot out to our fans across the world.
		But like I learned, I learned how to fail in those non-televised events.
		I could take big swings because it's like, man, if I'm on the middle of a card in Valparaiso and I kind of fuck up in a gymnasium with 3,500 people, they might tell me to fuck off, but there's also the last match that's going to send them home happy.
		So let's try this new weird thing.
		And that's where like me being invisible starts.
		You know, it's just like, ah, I'll fucking try it.
		Who cares?
		Because it's an environment where you don't want to fail.
		And now it's, there's way more advantage on getting our content out there, but production is super slick.
		It's like really precise.
		Everyone's really good.
		And I don't know how many people go out there and just like dumb.
		Like that was an example of swinging big.
		I'm going to fake ring the bell.
		Will people even get that?
		Who cares?
		Let's try it.
		Like he's, he's the only one of those guys who will, or very few of those guys will stand on an idea like that.
		Where the other guys are like, no, I want to have a good choreographed performance because I want my stuff to look good because it's on television and going around the world.
		You know, I loved the non-televised events, but there's just, there's not, there's not, it's not a good business model.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		So how does a young person coming up now learn how to fail?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That is, I think, a conundrum that we're facing because you're failing in front of the world.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know, it's, it's weird.
		You can have, you can, it's like you work out your set, but you can't do it on small clubs before you go to an arena.
		It's like you would work out your set at home and then you just play the Intuit Dome or you play Barclays Center.
		Like you don't have a small room to be like, all right, I landed.
		Oh man, I gotta rework that one.
		You don't ever have that.
		You just have this, you put it together in your head, you think it's okay, and then you're out there.
		So I don't know.
		I'm not saying it can't work.
		I think it can because analytics show that it does work and we have a lot of people watching now.
		But from my perspective, I really enjoyed the carefree nature of just going out and being ready for anything and it being okay if I fucked up and I failed, if I told some bad jokes.
		I could come back and be like, that didn't work.
		That didn't work.
		And then you have a partner to be like, oh, and this didn't work, but this slade, why don't you do this again?
		Like literally, that's where this came from.
		Just fucking around at live events.
		And oh my God, there's noise.
		I'll do it tomorrow night.
		We're in a different town.
		Let's see if they can.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		How did you come up with that?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It was a dare.
		My brother did a happy fucking accident.
		My brother dared me to do it.
		Like when we, when I was in the middle of the, the rapping wormhole, I made, I'm a platinum rapper.
		I made my own album.
		So like in making, yes, this is amazing.
		Drink it in, drink it in.
		In making the album, we would bring home all the tracks.
		And like my little brother was our test audience.
		And he would do this dance where he would like shake his head and keep his hand in front of him.
		I'm like, that is, man.
		Look at you.
		He's like, you won't do that on TV.
		And again, I was on the programs that no one was watching.
		So it's like no one's watching anyway.
		Yeah, fuck you.
		I will do it on TV.
		And I did it on some meaningless Saturday show and there was a little bit of noise.
		So I took it with me on the road for the next week and did it on the live events that weren't televised.
		There's a little bit of noise.
		Okay, like this is my thing now.
		This is my thing.
		And I just, you can't see me.
		And like, now it's a thing.
		Yeah.
unidentified		Amazing.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So I did it on a dare.
unidentified		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		But like, I also had, I was in a place to be able to.
		Tell my brother, okay, I can waste two seconds on an inside joke between you and I. That's the dare.
		It's not going to ruin the match.
		But if you're watching, if you're the only one person watching Velocity that night, you'll be like, inside joke, got it.
		All right.
		Let's like shouting out your gaming group.
		Like seven people get the joke, but this is one of those things where it kind of fit and it stuck.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
unidentified		It's just so many of those things in your life.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		So many of those like fortuitous moments.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Well, you know, admittedly, I have an optimism bias.
		I will admit that.
		But life will deal opportunity.
		It's a matter of understanding that it's happening.
		You know, don't get in your own way.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like, say, yeah, come here, sit with you guys.
		This is a new experience for me.
		Like, yeah, let's do it.
		Okay, great.
		Man, first wrestler to ever retire.
		Yes, that's a good idea.
		We're just going to do it.
		Yeah, but you'll never be able to come back.
		Yes, but let's just do this thing.
		Like, life is throwing me an opportunity to create a year's worth of programming narrative that I think will be interesting.
		The alternative is to do what everybody else has done and maybe hang on too long.
		And people are like, man, you should have left a few years ago.
		Now, let's do this.
		Rap.
		Let's do this.
		Do you want to train?
		It involves you working at this shitty job where you're probably going to, I try to be a cop and failed.
		I was going to go down and join the Marines.
		That's lifelong employment.
		I'm really good with structure.
		I dig uniform.
		Like, give me what to do and like a code of conduct to live by.
		I have a feeling I would have fit in there.
		Great.
		I'd love being in shape.
		They feed you over there.
		Like, I think I would have done okay, but life put an opportunity in front of me and I was stupid enough to say yes.
		Going out naked in the Oscars, I was just on Jimmy Kimmel last night.
		He's like, man, you want to do this bit?
		I'm like, dude, I am super tired.
		I'm on a different coast.
		He's like, let me send you the bit.
		And I read it.
		I'm like, yo, fuck.
		All right, I'm going to do it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		What'd you do?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I shuffled out there with an index card over my dick.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that, that thing.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That's the thing.
		But like, man, in a room full of not even peers or contemporaries, like the pantheon of the professional goal that you try to reach.
		I don't know any of these fucking people.
		I don't belong in that room.
unidentified		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And he's like, yeah, man, just kind of walk out there naked.
		It'll be a fun bit.
		And he's right.
		It would be a funny bit.
		But I could have got in my own way of like, now I got to fly.
		I'm exhausted.
		I'm going to make a fool out of myself.
		I don't know any of these people.
		It's my first impression.
		I can sit on the couch.
		Like, that's the easy part.
		The tough part is like life has dealt you this opportunity.
		Fucking say yes.
		15 minutes before the show when you get a good idea.
		The easy thing to do is be like, do the show.
		The hard thing to do is be like, yo, let's fucking swing.
		Let's go for it.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So it's not like I think those moments happen to a lot of us.
		And it doesn't have to be a lottery ticket.
		Granted, holy hell, I've been given a lot of lottery tickets.
		But it could be something as simple as like, yo, you're in a crummy mood.
		Find a way to be kind.
		Like life just gave you an opportunity.
		The person getting your coffee was like, yo, have a nice day.
		You could stay crummy or you could be like, fuck, thank you very much.
		Appreciate that.
		Appreciate your time.
		Like, that's an opportunity.
		You know, life is just a matter of like us reacting to what life throws at.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Pivotal decisions.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And it doesn't need to be a world-changing decision.
		I think now, I don't want to say nowadays.
		I think we always think that like the decision needs to change the world.
		No, it's you just need to fucking commit and do something.
		As a 12-year-old, I want to start working out and I liked it.
		And I just fucking keep working out.
		And now I can't live without it.
		It's part of my life.
		It's a fabric of my life.
		But in working out, I've learned structure and discipline, accountability, essentially budget.
		If you take in too much and you don't spend enough, you're going to have some excess.
		Like these lessons that opportunity can teach you if you allow it.
		Me fucking up.
		The thing I spoke about at the beginning.
		Like the easiest thing to do is your fault.
		But if I take it as an opportunity of like, all right, you missed.
		What did we learn?
		Where's the game?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You can move forward.
		And I can move forward and wholeheartedly apologize to those I've hurt along the way.
		And they don't need to forgive me.
		That's on their terms.
		I can't control that.
		But man, the sleep is a little more sound at night knowing like in learning this lesson or having this opportunity, fuck, dude, I kind of trampled on your shit and I'm so sorry.
		Like I had such a shitty relationship with my dad.
		And just recently we've mended fences and he's 80.
		So I'm glad I've done this because I mean, we don't last forever.
		He's going, we're all going in the dirt soon, you know?
		But I just wanted him to be something else.
		I always wanted that motherfucker to change.
		I wanted him to be something else.
		And finally, I got out of my own way.
		The hard thing is meeting that guy where he's at.
		The hard thing is allowing him to be who he is.
		Take the weight off my backpack and say like, yo, I might have needed you to be this in my life, but because you weren't, man, because of your absence in being the dad that I had in my mind, I got all these fucking cool male mentors who gave me a key to the gym at 15 and said, you better fucking be here in the morning.
		And like, dude, I still can feel a key in my hand from Dave Nock, the dean of students at Cushing Academy, who bet on me.
		He was like, man, if you get your grades from C's to A's and you play two varsity sports, this place costs in 94.
		This place costs 35 grand a year.
		We will give you aid and you will have a place to learn.
		And that allowed me to become an adult.
		It allowed me to the opportunity of being in a diverse group of students who, man, there's like royalty that goes to that school.
		And then there's fucking poor kids.
		My roommate was a basketball player from Compton.
		And then we got kids with generational wealth who they're naming buildings after.
		But when it's just like 450 kids in a social experiment, money goes away and you just, you, you just kick it.
		So I learned to be friends with everybody, but I wouldn't have learned that in West Newbury where it's 99.9% white, 1,200 people in the small town, no stoplights.
		You either leave or you never leave.
		Like just little things like that.
		You know what I'm saying?
		Like little, like, man, I should do this.
		And deciding to meet my dad where he's at and be like, dude, whatever I thought you were, you're not.
		You're just you.
		And I love you for you.
		And man, when we sit, there's some shit that he'll say that's all fucked up.
		You know, he said some shit yesterday that like, I don't think John's last opponent should be there.
		And people listen to him because he's a wrestling fan.
		He's like in the kind of like their weird subculture zeitgeist.
		And I want to call my dad and be like, what the fuck are you doing?
		But then like, no, he's doing what he does.
unidentified		This is him.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		This is the dad I, this is the John Cena I love.
		This is, this is the guy I can sit down with.
		And part of that is being able to process all that, but the opportunity I get from that.
		I've learned about my father's story.
		I've learned about what he wants to do with his life, why he does what he does, maybe what he wanted to do, dreams he didn't have, so I can gain wisdom from there.
		But it's just, that's the hard part is like getting out of your own fucking way to do the thing you really want to do.
		The easy thing to do is to hold a grudge against my dad.
		What I really wanted to do was tell my dad I love him and sit down with him and be like, yo, let's fucking break bread.
		Talk about whatever you want.
		And now we do that.
		And it's great.
		But that's like, that's a small example of the easy thing to do is sit on the couch and say, fuck it.
		Somebody else's fault.
unidentified		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		The tough thing to do is like life is handing me a moment right now.
		And dude, I don't bat a thousand.
		I mean, it's more like Major League Baseball.
		I'm hoping 300 gets me in the Hall of Fame.
		Like, if I can capitalize on 30% of the moments that life gives me and squander the other 70%, I believe I will go into the ground being like, man, I earned life.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		If you can capitalize on 30% of the moments, you are in the 1% of human beings that have ever lived.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I earned life.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So I'm just trying to get that, make it to Cooperstown.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's the reality.
		And also the reality is if someone doesn't give you what you need, it gives you a desire to get what you need.
		Sometimes it's a gift to not have like doting parents.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Oh my goodness.
		Like I said, I would never have gotten those beautiful guidance.
		I got it in life.
		I always had father figures because I was searching for it and they found me.
		And I was also savvy enough to be like, this guy needs to stick in my life for a little bit.
		It sucks and he fucking pushes me, but I got to keep this guy around.
		Like just weird stuff like that.
		I hear a lot of wrestlers a lot of times.
		What do you want to do here?
		I want to be champion.
		Okay.
		The math of that's really slim.
		I never wanted to be a fucking champion.
		I just wanted to wrestle.
		And if you're good, it'll take you places where one day you can hold one of those.
		But if you start with the goal of, I want to hold one of those, man, am I pigeonholing my goal?
		What the fuck do you really want to do?
		I just wanted to wrestle.
		And if I got fired by WWE, I would have tried to go to Japan.
		I would have tried to go to Mexico.
		I'd have tried to go to the UK.
		Fuck it.
		Because I just wanted to do it.
		But that also meant I would put my best foot forward and I wasn't shackled to I need to be champion or I'm not validated.
		I'm not successful.
unidentified		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Just give me a chance to go out there and get the noise and whatever else falls into place, fuck it, cool.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Because what I want to do is just go out there and be in the arena.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's funny because they talk about the noise the way we talk about the laughs.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's the same thing.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know, and I don't need to be the most decorated person, but it's weird because in not even trying, I have a resume that people will now measure up against like, well, that's, you got to win X amount to pass the hurdle.
		So it's weird.
		Like I didn't, I didn't even try to do any of that.
		All I tried to do is like, you'll just get me out there.
		And when you look at what I've done and you've, you've followed a bit, like it was weird.
		I was in the main event of WrestleMania this year.
		And to talk to people, they were like, oh, man, that's crazy.
		The last main event of WrestleMania I was in was 2012.
		So you'd think that like, oh, John Cena, this guy, everything handed to him, he's always at the top.
		That was my first main event WrestleMania appearance as an attraction in like 13 years.
		And in that span, I worked new wrestlers.
		I worked for lower level titles.
		I sat ringside and crushed three beers and then got fucking squashed by The Undertaker as a fan.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like I did all sorts of shit, you know, but because it was never about like, I'm not a success unless I'm in the main event of WrestleMania.
		No, that's just a position with a ton of stress.
		Just fucking get me out in the course.
		Just get me in the arena.
		Have me in section one, shaking hands with people from Australia and I'll make it the best fucking time they ever had.
		It doesn't matter.
		Like just get me out there.
		What I don't want to do is sit on the bench.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		How did you go from that into acting?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Like what was your first?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So originally it was a business choice.
		Vince opened WWE Studios and with the idea of if we make these guys movie stars, more people come to the arena.
		Now, as a young 20-something on the road, people chant your name every night.
		I'm like, more people in the arena?
		That sounds fucking great.
		And his first movie was supposed to be with Steve Austin, and it fell through.
		They were about to shoot in two weeks.
		So movie pre-production is way longer than that.
		But he was like, you're going to Australia to film this movie, The Marine.
		And it was tough.
		It was tough.
		I went from arrive in a town at noon, work out, get a good meal in, crush the show, have some beers on the ride to the next town, fall asleep, do it all again.
		And it's like this whirlwind of electricity to, okay, you're in hair and makeup at six o'clock.
		We're doing an explosion today.
		So the lights are going to be weird.
		And we probably will get to you around 5.30 p.m.
		You just said it's 6 in the morning.
		Yeah.
		So what the fuck do you want me to do from here until 5.30?
		Just hang out.
		And I couldn't, like as a young 20-something, I wanted to be in the electricity.
		I couldn't handle the nature of the business.
		And therefore, my passion wasn't in it.
		I wasn't fully invested in it.
		I am fucking here with you guys right now.
		We are talking about this.
		My mind isn't elsewhere on other shit.
		I want this to be what I want to give you all I got.
		So I'm here with you.
		I was never there in those movies.
		I was always back in, fuck, maybe if I had the feud with this guy or if I could have done this.
		I was never there.
		And you could see it in the performance.
		So I kind of got run out of the movie business.
		I did so many shitty movies in like 2009, 10.
		May my best friend agent, Dan Boehm, at the time, I was like, man, we're never doing movies again, right?
		And, you know, as an agent, he's supposed to be the guy to pick you up.
		He looks at me dead.
		He goes, nope, we will find another way, though.
		He was honest.
		We are run out of town, but we'll find another way.
		So we did.
		We did, hosted some live shows, hosted some game shows, did little appearances here and there.
		And then Judd Appetow and Amy Schumer gave me a chance on, God, Trainwreck.
		And it was a very small part.
		But again, like, just get out in the arena and do your best.
		And I was in a fucking room with comics, like funny people.
		I don't belong there.
		But they created an environment where I wasn't judged.
		They only showed the good jokes.
		They didn't show the fucking 20 takes or I tried to tell jokes that sucked.
		The only ones that made the final cut were the ones that made people laugh.
		So they provided an opportunity for failure.
		And at that point, I've been playing the same character.
		This is 2014, 15.
		I've been playing the same character on TV for 15 fucking years.
		And now I'm like, yo, I get to do something different.
		I can do this for 12 hours.
		You want me to sit?
		I'll go fucking read a book.
		I don't care.
		I'm in.
		So I accepted the patient process of movies.
		And then after that, I got a little bit of noise in Trainwreck.
	And then Judd sent word to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who were filming up the road in Long Island.
	Like, if you got a spot, you should hire the kid.
	And then they made me a drug dealer and their thing.
	And then like things started to roll downhill, but it was very, very small parts at a time.
	And here I am.
	That was 2015.
	Here I am a decade later.
	And I'm still trying to advance to fluency.
	By no means am I like, I'm the 17-time champ of the acting community.
	Those are the motherfuckers I was looking at when I was naked.
	You know?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I'm aspiring to try to be that.
		But it's basically the pivot happened when I was like, yo, if you just invest in this, the hustle and patience you put into wrestling, at least you know you gave it your all.
		You know, be coachable, be professional, be reliable, be interested, and see where the chips fly and fucking say yes.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's also you had the Objectivity, like the introspective objectivity to look at your past performances and say, I wasn't really in there.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I wasn't.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And I got run out of town.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I lost the job.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So, like, here's that mulligan.
unidentified		What?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Fuck.
		I'll never work in this town again.
		I will.
unidentified		All right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Let's go.
		Let's try.
		What else could go wrong?
		They've already fired me.
		You know?
		So, again, an environment, and no one does it alone.
		The people I was around, Tina and Amy are the same way.
		Like, only show the funny shit, but try whatever you want.
		Like, fail.
		It's okay.
		And just because you're around people who do comedy for a living, all we need is three seconds, and we'll be patient enough to give you what you need to give us that three seconds.
		You know?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		It's just such a fun story.
		And there's only a few guys that have managed to make that leap from WWE.
		Obviously, The Rock is the big one.
unidentified		Sure.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You know, I mean, he's the biggest one.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Make that leap and now become a giant movie star.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Well, I think it's a leap a lot of people can make.
		It's not from lack of talent.
		We talk about like obstacles and like we're in our own way.
		WWE is all-consuming.
		And you got to remember, like, I was their biggest act.
		So at 220 shows a year, for me to be like, hey, I need six months off to film this action movie, that really fucks with the bottom line.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Like, oh, yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So the answer is no.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know, and now with less live events, it's still, you want to be on television.
		It's like, okay, I need to somehow leverage my relevance with this to what it's going to do to film that.
		In WWE, if you're not, I'm going to retire on the 13th.
		They will be moved on by the Royal Rumble.
		And that is real facts.
		I will be forgotten.
		That is not a plea to sympathy of like, always remember me by the Royal Rumble and the Roads WrestleMania.
		Nobody gives a fuck because they're focusing on what the show is.
		That's like three weeks after I retire.
		Three weeks after I retire, nobody's going to give a fuck.
		And that's not, I'm not saying like what I did was meaningless.
		I've lived the moments.
		They're great.
		People move on.
		So when if I'm a talent who's on TV and finally got one of those spots and edged my way in, do I, is this the right time to leverage taking myself off of TV to do four months on something that isn't going to come out for another 18 months?
		And then I got to go back to TV hoping people still care, that my ring work is still polished, that I still have my finger on the pulse.
		Like it's, it is, we can get in our own way sometimes.
		You know what I'm saying?
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So I was just at the point in 15, 16, 17, where I was like, man, my body's kind of banged up.
		I'm a little older.
		I would like to take some time off.
		And how I talked about like every five years you needed somebody in the on-deck circle.
		So I'm running at the front for like 15.
		They needed someone in the on-deck circle.
		And then they finally got some folks.
		So they're like, yo, we got folks.
		Yeah, go do the thing.
		It's fine.
		Go do it.
		So my passion for it was ignited at the perfect time when the office side of it was like, that won't affect our bottom line too much.
		Go give this thing a try.
		Again, just a happy accident, man.
		And I'm grateful for it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		So now you're in the situation, you're going to retire.
unidentified		Yep.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And then are you just going to go all in on acting now?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So that's, again, beyond my control.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		If I could, if I could.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Is that the goal, though?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Is that what you would like?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		The goal is to live useful.
		That's it.
		The goal is to live useful and not lack like a depth of purpose in my life.
		You know, I can't control if the phone rings and they say, we want the kid in the picture.
		That's way beyond me.
		What I can do is when someone bets on me, do my fucking damnedest for every dollar.
		I want to give them 10 back.
		I want to show them that I want to show you your time was well spent today.
		I want to give you my heart and soul.
		And when I leave here, you may be like, ah, not my cup of tea, but the fucking kid's all right.
		You know, like, that's all I'm trying to do.
		So if I can do that, maybe I get another, maybe I get another match.
		Maybe I get another phone call.
		But I also realize my mortality in the retirement, like it's over.
		But also there'll come a day where y'all out there are like, ah, the kid's not cool anymore.
		I'm done.
		I'm on to the next shiny thing.
		I'm grateful for what I got.
		And I know I don't control how many times the phone rings.
		I just want to, I never want to phone it in.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And when my time is up, it's over with, man.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I'll do the rest of whatever life is.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Do you think about that?
		Like what the rest of life is?
		Do you have other interests?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Sure do.
		Sure do.
		Love messing around with music.
		I never read as a kid, so I'm reading more than I ever have.
		Love cars.
		I'd love to just drive.
		Just being in a car and driving, not track stuff, just like going on long drives.
		Love that.
		I see a bunch of sticks.
		I love an occasional stick with some conversation.
		I love, boy, did I miss out on loving connections in my life.
		So I'm like, I have them now and they're fucking so cool.
		So if a day is just spent with friends or a week or like, man, with WWE, I've been around the world like 12 times.
		I haven't seen shit.
		I've seen the inside of arenas, a hotel bar, and a fucking airport.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I want to know what Tokyo is all about.
		I've been there like 20 times.
		I haven't seen shit.
		You know, my God.
		And I don't know if I'll ever get tired of that.
		Like, I always have a curious nature on to what's next.
		I don't know what that'll be, but I never want to wake up and be like, man, life's taking forever.
		You know what I'm saying?
		I think there's always something to do with the day.
		So I don't know.
		Would I love to continue to tell stories and get paid for it?
		Fuck, that's a great gig.
		But it's also beyond my control.
		So instead of being like, I'm going all in on acting and I want to do this and one day I want to win an Oscar.
		And I'm not saying that approach is bad.
		I'm just saying my approach is like, man, when they do call, be grateful.
		And don't be grateful in the easy times.
		Be grateful when they ask you to work a 16-hour day.
		Or be grateful on that press tour when you have to read off the, or when you get to read off the prompter and you're doing 86 reads.
		And the reads are so you can dress up in the costume and all that other shit.
		Like that's, that's kind of more where I'm at.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's a great approach to life.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		How did you develop this philosophy?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Dude, I'm not supposed to be here.
		Like, I'm from fucking West Newbury, Massachusetts.
		I'm not supposed to be here.
		And that's another thing.
		There's not a day that doesn't go by where I look at someone I love and connect with and be like, man, what a life.
		I understand how lucky I am.
		And I understand I have been awarded more opportunity than one human being should get.
		And it's from what I've tried to boil down to it, the best way to honor that opportunity is to do your best to try to live a good life.
		And a good life isn't, that's almost like pain.
		Everybody's perspective of a good life is different.
		I've come up with core values and I try to live by those.
		Fuck, I'm human.
		I ain't perfect.
		But like, again, if when I go into the dirt, I feel as if I didn't waste it.
		And I don't mean grind.
		Like homeboy from NVIDIA, that's a grind.
		And I think a lot of him, there's fear there, but also a lot of that effort, he loves it.
		And that's what an ideal life to him is about.
		And if he goes in the ground working 70 hours a week, he'll go in with a smile on his face.
		You know, I just want to go in when it's my time.
		I want to know that I honored the luck I was given by not fucking squandering it, by not wasting it.
		And that doesn't mean grind to a monetary number.
		It just means live a fulfilled life where the sleep is sound, the love is real, and every day you're driven with curiosity and purpose.
		And I don't know what the fuck that is.
		And it could change.
		Man, I thought I was born to be a WWE superstar.
		And then the elbows start hurting a little bit.
		And you're like, ah, man, I'm born to be a storyteller.
		And then you realize that, like, I'm not in control of any of that shit.
		That's just luck.
		That's somebody being like, I liked him in this.
		Put him in that.
		Yes, no problem.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I think a key factor you're talking about here is gratitude.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I was born to honor the luck that I've been given.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And just try to do my best to live a full life.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like, that's it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		And that having gratitude about the life that you live and being happy.
		God, it's so hard, but so important.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And it's tough when you use that word because it's such a new age.
		Think outside the box.
		But nah, man.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's a real word, though.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Real thanks.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's hard.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Because you have to be thankful for the suck, for the pain.
		You have to be thankful for the lesson, for the journey.
		And these are, again, these are all slangy, hashtaggy terms.
		I don't know what the fuck else to call it.
		So I'm just calling it what it is.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		They've been co-opted by people that just sort of bullshit and use those words, but the reality of those words is strong.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's very powerful.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's like grind.
		Grind is another hashtag word, you know, but like there is, there is some realism to it.
		But that from what I've figured it out thus far, that's my path.
		And when the facts change, so does my opinion.
		So he could come back here in a few years and I'd be on some other shit.
		But right now, that's kind of where I'm at.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's such a gratitude word has been really co-opted by goofy people, unfortunately.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		But it doesn't mean you shouldn't use it.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's just the real word.
		And if the word makes you feel weird, come up with your homework.
		Right.
unidentified		Thanks.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Whatever.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Having thanks.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Because I'm with you there.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Some words make me feel gross.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Just about how overused they've been.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		But I can't stray away from that one.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		I mean, we talk about gratitude all the time.
		We're always like talking about how we're living the dream.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Like just being close.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Because what are we doing?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Just shooting the shit.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I know.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		People are paying attention.
unidentified		I know.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		What the fuck are you guys doing?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		A lot.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		A lot of people.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		If you're still with us.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I can't believe it.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		This is great.
		Yeah.
		I was thinking, I was talking to my buddy the other day, Peter Shore, the owner of the comedy store.
		And I was telling him about how just a few weeks ago, because now that I have a place that I like and a car that I like and a job and everything, everything's finally, it appears how I have always considered what the dream is.
		That I was saying to my buddy the other day, who I came up with, who I really started with, and I'm talking about like 14, 16-hour days at the comedy store.
		I'd answer the phone at 11 a.m. because back then they didn't even have a website.
		Hello, you want tickets tonight?
		Blah, blah, blah, blah.
		Work all night, put on the t-shirt at 8 p.m., tear tickets and check IDs until 2:30 in the morning.
		So I would hit overtime by like Wednesday or Thursday, but they couldn't pay overtime because the comedy store in 2007 was half to quarter empty.
		Anyway, so they would cut my hours and I was paying $400 a month to sleep on my buddy's couch in his living room.
		And he had a bedroom and my other buddy, Maddie, had a bedroom.
		But Sandy was like, you know, he was like, the apartment was registered in his name.
		And I mean, terrible couch, terrible setup.
		I'd have to go through one of their bedrooms to go to the bathroom.
		So if you have to pee in the middle of the night, you're kind of tiptoeing through.
		You don't want to make noise.
		You don't know what you're going to see, whatever.
		And I was talking to Matt a month or so ago, and I go, I think I still owe Sandy a little bit of rent money because I just simply didn't have it back then.
		Isn't that crazy?
		He goes, you do.
		He mentioned it last time because we were talking about how successful you are.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		There's an accountant right there.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		So I Venmo'd him out of nowhere.
		I haven't even, we haven't even talked since pre-pandemic.
		He's got a family.
		I'm out here, this, that.
		I Venmo'd him a thousand bucks out of nowhere.
		And I go 2007 rent money as the as the memo part of it.
		And he hits me up saying thanks and we're communicating.
		And then I remembered that at one point I couldn't even afford the $400 a month for the couch.
		And there was another comedian that was a door guy at the store that did have the $400 a month because he was getting help from his parents.
		So I got downgraded to a bean bag for like a month or two.
		I was sleeping.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Pain for the spine.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Oh, just horrendous.
unidentified		Exactly.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		A sore back for two months, just in pain all the time, but doing what I loved.
		So much of what you're saying about enjoying the process, enjoy what you're doing.
		Because I really did back then.
		And I think about that now more.
		I've been thinking about that bean bag and that couch and that living room more than ever the last few months.
		You know, it's like that's talking about gratitude.
		It's like those are the things that that's who you are is enjoying that process and making the best out of it.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And in my case of a similar story, and from what I'm hearing from you, it's like you wanted to be there.
		You were not going to give up the bean bag.
		Oh, yeah.
		There's a lot of folks out there who are put behind the eight ball and really have to dig themselves out of a trench.
		When I moved out to Venice and I was working at Gold, I was sleeping in the parking lot in my 91 Continental.
		And everybody's like, oh man, you were homeless.
		I'm like, no, no, choice.
		It was my choice.
		I didn't want to leave.
		My old man had a room for me.
		Nobody ever leaves West Newberry.
		My dad was like, yo, come back.
		You got a roof over your head.
		You get some fucked up job over here.
		You don't have to pay rent.
		So I had choice.
		I stayed in the car because I wanted to.
		Life was great.
		I got to see like the bodybuilders of the 2000s.
		I got to train at the gym and shower at the gym.
		And the rock came through.
		There's like an old picture of me in the rock somewhere where I'm in my Gold Gym Club store shirt and he's fucking doing this one.
		Like I got to see all these people and it was fucking cool.
		And I wouldn't have left if they took the car away and I got to sleep in the parking lot.
		Like I was by choice.
		You know, you slept on the beanbag because you wanted to be there.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		And the fun fact is.
unidentified		Look at that.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That's just me in the background right there.
		No, no, no, keep that.
		Hold on.
		I'm taking the phones off.
		I'm going out.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That's me right there.
		He had just taken a photo with me.
		And that's me.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That's DJ.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's crazy.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And in 1999.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Fucking rock was white hot, selling out every place.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Probably Staple Center, Anaheim, coming in and pressing some weights.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
unidentified		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's crazy.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So that's where the perspective exists.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Because I shouldn't have even been in the fucking club store selling candy bars.
		I should be, you know, in West Newberry doing what everyone else does.
		Like, that's the tale, you know?
		And I'm not.
		So I'm grateful for it.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		There's a lot of people out there on beanbags right now listening to this.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You need to hear them.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Stay on the beanbag.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Stay on that beanbag 24 hours.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Who knows?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		24 more hours, something could happen.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		And the success would be so much sweeter.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, so much sweeter if you do it that way.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I mean, if you were a Trust Fund kid and you had plenty of money and your parents gave you $100,000 a year to go out and pursue your dreams and they paid for your apartment.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Man, you know, I don't want to fuck on anybody's flex.
		You're right.
		But at the same time, if you understand that, right?
		If you understand I was put on the board ahead of everybody else, I was born on third base.
		Again, that shit's beyond your control.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		But I think you need some failure to understand that.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So if you're grateful for what you have, you will swing and miss and be accountable.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Because you can't really control what you have.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You can't control where you start.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		You can't control your start.
		You control where you're going.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So if.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Or how you respond along the way.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		And the kind of person you are to somebody who was born on third base, I think also will dictate your perception from the eyes of others.
		If you feel you are greater than, fuck, we're all human beings, dog.
		Like, nobody greater than nobody.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know, everybody's out there struggling.
		And all of us, especially in this area of the pale blue dot, we all believe in capitalism.
		So the fact that you were born on third base means everybody's doing their job and the whole system's working.
		Like you can't think you're, when you start getting the like, I never use this word.
		I feel bad even saying it, deserve.
		When you start getting the deserve mentality of, I deserve this.
		Fuck it.
		What the fuck do you deserve, man?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's crazy.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You know, have you earned this?
		Have you earned it?
		And if you feel as if you haven't, what steps are you going to take to earn it?
		If you're born on third and you feel bad about it, take some steps to feel good about it.
		I don't know what that is.
		But if you're born on third and you feel you deserve it, to me, that's fucking sprinting through a minefield, dog.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's not a good path.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And I don't ever want to fuck with somebody who turns like $100,000 into $10 million or a million into a billion.
		That's good investing.
		I mean, that's the system.
		You learned how to work the system.
		It's just in the process, if you think, if you think you're better than, yeah, murky waters, man.
		In my perspective.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's just a terrible perspective anyway.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like you're...
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Because it's all...
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's all kind of fugazi.
		Like, sometimes it's paper IOUs or whatever.
		It's just digital ones and zeros.
		Like, if it melts down, are you really better than anybody?
unidentified		You know, a lot of times it's also a defense mechanism.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You know, you pretend that you deserve it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You pretend you're better than other people.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Because maybe you don't feel enough.
		Again, everybody's walking through their own mile, but like, I don't feel validated or I want attention or I don't know.
		I don't know, man.
		I don't know.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it was crazy hanging out with Steph McMahon and how human she was and hilarious and human.
		I was telling her, because I was telling her, like, man, you know, I always wanted to be a pro wrestler when I was a kid.
		And then I realized I wasn't going to be tall enough and I wasn't going to be big enough.
		And then lately, I've been meeting these guys and they're not that huge.
		And when I tell them that, they go, look at me.
		You know, Sami Zayn, hilarious guy, literally told me that.
		He's like, you could have done it.
		I'm like, God, I guess I could have actually done it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You could probably still do it.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		And I was telling Steph that.
		She goes, do you think you can do a little something?
		I can hit a super kick on anybody at any time from anything.
unidentified		What's a super kick?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		It's Sean Michaels' gold finishing move.
		You would literally, you would faint from laughter because you actually know how to fucking kick through a wall.
		But it's a kick.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And the goal is not to hit the gun.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		Exactly.
		Come real close.
		And she's so cool.
		She goes, oh, that'd be funny if next time, you know, I'm with Triple H, you just super kick me out of nowhere.
		I'll sell it.
		I'll fall down.
		The whole thing.
		I'm like, Stephanie, this is crazy.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		There we go.
		There it is.
		That's the perfect.
		Man, this is, you're on it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so a guy flies through the air and you kind of catch him.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That's just one example.
		Like, that's a really good example right here.
		But it could be from standing anywhere.
		It's just pretty much that high, that high.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You can do that?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I can do that.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Are you flexible like that?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I'm flexible.
		At least I think I am.
		I don't know.
		We'll see.
		I wasn't throwing, I was throwing a rock at the tree the other day for the first time in forever, and I'm coming up about 15 feet shorter than ever before.
		There's a lot of people.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That's what she looks like.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Whoa.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That looks real.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's almost like it's really hit.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's on there.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Two of the best right there.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's on there.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You really got that kind of flexibility?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
		You slap your leg at the same time, and it makes everybody actually think that you did it.
		Like, if I did it to somebody, you'd be like, dude, you just fucking kicked them.
unidentified		Slap them.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Like, stomp around when you punch.
unidentified		Yeah, yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Slide ahead.
unidentified		Yeah, yeah, yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		There's magic in the business, man.
unidentified		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		There is.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I want to see you out there.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Hey, I wrestled with my pillow for like eight hours a day as a kid.
		I would do the entrances.
		I would record off of the cassette player.
		Remember how you used to have to recreate it?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Dude, we had a whole league in our basement.
		Yeah.
		I didn't need the pillows because I had four brothers.
		We had belts, a league, personas.
		And in one persona, I would get my ass kicked all the time.
		And then there was one persona that could not fucking lose.
		Like, we kept standings and stuff.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		It's.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I don't know, man.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's amazing.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		My brothers and sisters were all much older, but we had a music class teacher in my grade school that didn't give a fuck about his job.
		He would just sit in the corner and play piano the whole time and let the kids do whatever we wanted.
		And again, we had entrance music.
		We were all different people all the time.
		We'd run it back again the entire 45 minutes, jumping off of desks, cabinets, chairs.
		It's crazy how many injuries didn't happen.
		It's amazing how resilient kids can be when we read that.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		The energy of youth, just bulletproof.
unidentified		God.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		It doesn't make sense how arms and legs and heads and necks weren't broken.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		They also don't weigh that much back then.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's true.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Man, he's so full of energy.
		Man, I can tell I'm getting old because I can be like, is that chair okay?
		I'm going to be sitting for a while.
		Am I going to be all right?
		Is everything going to be good?
		I'm like, oh, man, this bed's going to kill me.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Just laying down like this.
		The beanbag?
		Oh, my God.
		I'd spend four hours in that thing.
		You have to cart me off.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I think I'd just sleep on the ground rather than the beanbag.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Back then, it seemed like the better option.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It was the better option.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Probably.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's hilarious, though.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Have you talked to them about possibly doing something?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I mean, no, not exactly.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		At one point, there was a little chatter, but.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Come on, dude.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I think you can come up with it.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Royal Rumble's right around the corner.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I have big shoes to fill over here.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Dirty entrance.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		We need bodies.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I show speed did a good job.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Man, he got drilled out of his boots.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		He took the streamer, famous streaming internet guy.
		took what's called a bump from hell he got speared at the was that the rumble Yeah.
		Yeah, he was.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		He does some wild shit.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		He does.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		He got in the cage with Dan the Hangman Hooker.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		And he's like, he's game for anything.
		He has kinesthetic awareness.
		Like he's obviously an athlete.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And he's brave.
		Like, look at this shit.
		Watch his mother just leave screen.
		Say it.
		Oh, man.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		You can't fake that.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		But, like, you also have to, the reason that looks so good, a lot of that is because of Braun, but also a lot of that is because of eyeshow speed.
		He committed to the fall and really tried to fall with snap and with quickness.
		Like he's good, man.
		He really is good.
		And like you said, like, I've seen a lot of the other stuff he does.
		He does well.
		He'll get in there and mess around.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Well, he really sparred with Dan Hooker and Dan beat the shit out of him, but he hung in there.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's just crazy enough to try, you know?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's also interesting, these YouTube guys, they're just becoming famous, and there was no avenue for them before.
		They would have had to have been cast in a TV show or become something limited spots.
		Yeah, and now they're doing it completely on their own and becoming huge.
		I mean, he's got like 50 million Instagram followers or something crazy.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And a bunch of content and a bunch of revenue to match that.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And always working.
unidentified		Always working.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And always doing something.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Puts himself out there.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Those guys hustle.
		All the content creators out there.
		People don't understand the hours.
		They may end up getting some financial reward, but when you break it down to hourly wage, they're working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
		Like they don't stop because a lot of the content they make will have short shelf life.
		They're not essentially putting Gone with the Wind out in the universe.
		Like it's like you're only as good as your next one, not your last one or the one you did.
		It's like you're only as good as what you're doing five minutes from now.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And if you drop off the map, someone will replace you.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Oh my God.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		There's so many fucking streamers.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		There's so many people that are doing content.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		They work hard.
		They do.
		They work hard.
		And even the ones where it seems like a man to a perspective of like, I don't understand this.
		There's still the effort that goes into that.
		And it's not just what you saw.
		It's like, okay, you got to have a repeat performance.
		And then you got to keep coming and keep coming and keep coming.
		Like, I do a movie, and like I said, it's out in 18 months.
		In 18 months, they've already put out 10,000 videos.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like, it's bananas.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It is interesting that nobody saw that coming, too.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Nobody ever thought that that was going to be a thing.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I just think it's because we get so used to stuff.
		We get so used to consuming in a certain way.
		When something is new for us, it's like, oh, man, I don't know if that's going to take off.
		But there are young people who are experiencing everything at the same time.
		And like, no, this is cooler.
unidentified		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's way easier to do this.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Also, he's really young.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And when you start young, there's not a lot of expectations on you.
unidentified		No.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You can kind of just do whatever you want.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And if it works, great.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Young and courageous.
unidentified		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like, just go for it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		And it's also a great example for other people that are thinking, like, I'm kind of entertaining.
		I just don't have an avenue.
		Let me just start making videos.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You got a phone.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		You got a chance.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Isn't that crazy?
		That's all you have to do is have a phone.
		It's nuts.
		You see the videos where he was sprinting with Ashton Forbes, you know, that super jacked guy that does that morning routine that everybody made fun of?
		Because he has this like morning routine where he dunks his face in water and then someone hands him his gold watch and he puts it on.
		It's like really kind of silly.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		You know, and he had a whole series of races with him because he couldn't believe that this YouTuber guy could beat him.
		Because he's like this fucking super jacked, ripped guy who a lot of his online content is him running and it just looks like a force of nature.
		And I show speed beat him like three times in these races, but he didn't want to believe that he lost.
		So he wanted to do it again.
		Let's do it again.
		Let's do it again.
		And I show speeds talking shit to him.
		He did it again.
		So you can find it.
		It's very funny.
		It's very funny because when you look at the guy, like, oh, this guy looks like he could run like a horse.
		And iShow Speed is actually faster than him.
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		I think he sprinted an actual Olympic sprinter.
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		I mean, he started fucking around a little bit, but he held his own.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's crazy.
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's crazy.
		He was like right there with an Olympic sprinter.
		That's nuts.
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		I think he won the gold, the guy that he raced.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Really?
		That's he's like right next to him.
		That's crazy.
		Like, and he's not even fucking training like that guy is.
		Imagine if he was.
		Like, that fucking guy, if he wanted to, like, fully invest himself into sprinting, he's only what?
		20, 20 years old.
		That's why.
		Wow, really?
		Imagine if that kid fully invested in that and then became an Olympic gold medalist as well.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So that's where my mind goes as well.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It seems like he can.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		But also, why?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Why not?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Because it'll make his streams even bigger.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Will it?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Or will sprinting against a gold medalist, getting in the cage with a fighter, getting in the ring with a champion, going to that guy's house and besting him at his own thing.
unidentified		Like, he should keep doing that.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		He shouldn't go into one thing.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		The lane he's in, I think he's doing pretty well.
unidentified		Right.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's almost better losing to the fastest man alive by that much.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Or, like, so I can tell by watching that, I love potential.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And you see that, and you're like, oh, my God, potential.
unidentified		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		This guy could, he could win it all.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's fine in a video of him sprinting against that Ashton guy.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		It's crazy.
		For what?
		This guy's got the world by the nuts.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		He should do what he's doing.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Exactly what he's doing.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		I definitely know him from that appearance at the Royal Rumble.
		Like, he got booked on the Rumble because he has a big following.
		I'm watching The Rumble.
		I go, who's this iShow speed guy?
		And I go, wow, that kid took a hell of a bump.
		No, I know him.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		This Ashton Forbes guy.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Look at the way this guy's built.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		He's talking shit.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, he's running.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Oh, man.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		He fell.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		He's yelling.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		40 million people.
		Is that right?
		The number of views in the corner?
		40 million?
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Unbelievable.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
		Oh, man.
		Look at that.
unidentified		Wow.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they raced a bunch of times.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And the other guy, didn't that other guy, he played football, right?
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		Not in the NFL, but I think like college football or something.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Look at this fucking size of him, too.
		The other guy's fucking super jacked.
		Like, that's his whole thing.
		His online content is him running, being super jacked.
unidentified		Then he has to deal with iShow speed talking shit to him.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And he's saying, like, play some of this.
unidentified		The first one, I slip.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Second one, you barely beat me.
unidentified		Let's run it again.
unidentified		Do I got to beat you three times?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Come on, let's go.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		See, when I see that, right?
unidentified		Let's go again.
		Excuse me.
		It's not his.
		26.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's hilarious.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		It's talking so much shit.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So I see this and be like, this kid should be a wrestler.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Because he is athletic and he can talk shit and back it up.
		My God, this kid would be a 20-time champion, whatever.
		No, he should do this.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Are they running barefoot on the fucking concrete?
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, really?
unidentified		Yeah.
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		That'd be a bad decision.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That was pretty close.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but he started before him.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		He shot it before me, he's still lost.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		He shot it before me, he's still lost.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Like, he should be doing that.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		But, like, you see the sprinting potential.
		I see the WWE potential.
		He should do neither.
		He should just do that.
unidentified		Right.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And just already just crushed the city.
unidentified		Just crush it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		They'd probably want him to do it again.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
		I think he did a thing.
		He just went to the performance center.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And, like, he's really good.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Really good.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		He's got great instincts.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		He's got great timing.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's amazing.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And he's only 20.
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		I mean, there's now like this is like full multi-camera, really good shooting.
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		And he's speed versus pros, I think, because he's kind of doing that idea.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, like where he goes to people's.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Look at that.
		46.2 million subscribers on YouTube.
		That's wild.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, so I think he should just do that.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Whatever he's doing.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		I mean, he's obviously doing it.
		Does he have a team behind him that's editing this shit now?
		I'm sure.
unidentified		Probably.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, look at that.
		He's learning how to do flips.
		Oh, that's crazy.
		So he's really in it.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And I think it's just like show up for a few days and then go on to the next discipline.
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		So he does everything.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Smart.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Very smart.
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		He spent all summer going to a city every day.
		Everything was live streamed for like 24 hours straight.
		They'd go to a city, show up.
		What's the coolest thing to do in the city?
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And do it.
unidentified		Do it.
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		And then go to the next stage.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Like, what kind of shit was he doing?
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		Go to the fair, ride all the rides, try all the games.
		A bunch of kids follow him around.
		Next day, they were here in Austin going to Terry Black's.
		I think he went and did stand-up with Mark Norman in New York City.
		That's cool, man.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That's wild that he's so young, too.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Only 20.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		That talented.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		And just brave and courageous and going for it.
		Regardless of what you and I think, he's doing exactly what he should be doing.
		You know, he should just keep doing that.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		And obviously not getting in his own way.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		None.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Right.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Not at all.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		All the things you're saying, like capitalizing on every opportunity.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Story yet to be told.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Story yet still got still got a lot of life left.
unidentified		Oh, yeah.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		A lot of life left.
unidentified		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		But we'll see.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		He's doing great so far.
jamie vernon ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Amazing.
		I think we wrap this up.
		It was a fucking awesome podcast.
		I really enjoyed it.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much.
		It is a real, a real big opportunity for you to have me on here because the WWE folks that you have had, I think I'm still, I only got one date left, but I still think I'm the active one.
		I hope this experience has been good for you guys.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Oh, it's been amazing.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		I hope you have more of the guys and gals from us in on your show.
		Absolutely.
		Every one of them's got a great story to tell.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		Absolutely.
		And I think your philosophy is contagious, and I think it's really good for people to hear.
		And I think there's a lot of young people out there that are really going to benefit from a lot of the things you said because I think it's rock solid.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		That means a lot coming from you.
		Thank you so much.
		I appreciate it.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Tony, you're the man.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Awesome.
tony hinchcliffe ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, guys.
joe rogan ▲ ● ▼		Appreciate you.
john cena ▲ ● ▼		Let's call it.
unidentified		Bye, everybody.

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