It's John Cena! | Whiskey Ginger w/ Andrew Santino 231

what up whiskey Ginger fans welcome back to the show it's your first time joining the show welcome to the show we got a good one for you today like my man Steve Harvey done say it's John Cena oh baby it's John Cena I'm so excited to have him on the Pod uh became a good buddy work together and I'm so happy to have him on the show and share a little piece of him with you guys it was wonderful and uh hey me and Bob are on tour I'm not touring for a little while on my own but me and Bobby Lee are doing the bad Friends tour we're doing stand-up podcast bits from the show and all sorts of stuff go to badfriendspod.com badfriendspod.com we've added shows added cities and we're going for a couple of months we're on a bus coming to a city near you so go to badfriendspod.com come see us live baby enough rambling from me let's go to the episode in here we pour whiskey oh that creature in the ginger beard it's dirty gingers are beautiful [Music] Ginger I like gingers ladies and gentlemen welcome back to Whiskey Ginger my guest today is one of my favorite people on earth I say that for all my guests but I mean it once again today this time you can see him it's John Cena ladies and gentlemen John Cena cheers to you you beautiful prince thank you so much for doing it thank you for dressing up too man committed to this and we're getting it done we're doing it have a little sniff hmm oh so what do you make of this we're not going to say what it is how do I make it no what do you make of this oh like what am I what are the notes that I taste so I'm uh I'm a novice when it comes to the bourbon yeah I do like a scotch but I tend to like like the stronger smelling Peter scotches just because I can smell my drink coming from 20 yards away you like that um what do you make of this honestly it just reminds me of childhood yeah okay all right I can smell dad coming from the hallway I was gonna whatever whatever that nothing better be untucked you better tuck it in um I I love I what I love about uh what I love about Kentucky bourbon is uh slow warmth stays in the back of your throat dude it gets you I like it back here and then slowly but surely kind of takes over your body yeah and just gives you this like nice little hum at the end of this thing no no you'll be good and we could have as much as we can have as much as you want as little as you want what's going on man first of all I want to thank you for doing the show for people that want to know we're down in Melbourne where uh which I have to say they make us say that that way Melbourne you can't say Melbourne you can yeah they don't like it they scoff they don't like it but you can you can say that to my driver I was like oh I'm in uh my first time in Melbourne and he's like it's Melbourne night yeah no it's not because it's spelled Melbourne so I'm gonna say it my way well I grew up in New England right where I would be from like Worcester Worcester which is word Chester we're Chester none of it makes sense I like Worchester like they have a Chelten them but it's chelting ham change the words dude you're not owned by the queen anymore John and I know each other because we're shooting a movie in Australia hopefully people will love it it's called Ricky stinickey that that much you can know everyone else at home you'll have to watch the movie when it comes out yeah um you and I connected over the course of this film and I got to tell you quick friends best friends some would say well uh best friends can I say it someone say that are you my best friend some uh my job my wife's the tip of that spear so I can't what can she do that I can't do John what can your wife do that Andrew Santino can't do for you well um I I think that list is long and distinguished oh okay well email me dude no we got very close very fast on the film that's absolutely true we shared a lot of things in common so many things I want to chat with you about one of them being the way that I clicked with you the first time we had a couple of drinks uh was there was old school hip-hop playing yes and I said man I love this song and then like a loser I said remember that lyric about a rapper hooking up with his fans and I'm not going to say it because this is a family-friendly show and immediately I said is it yeah it is okay cool yeah this one this show is for the kids I'll be on my best behavior um but immediately I said uh I said 20 or 21. yeah I said who is I said I think that's the game and you corrected me you said no no no my friend that is good who was it against Lloyd Banks I was like is that Lloyd Banks and you were like that's Lloyd Banks but you threw it out so fast yeah but it also wasn't like uh condescending I was throwing my guess into them no you were correct no you wasn't a guest that was you knew you pulled it out like I didn't you literally were you were you were hand on the Guinness and you just went slowed Banks you threw it so beautifully and I go is that Lloyd Banks and it was it was and then I thought do you love hip-hop and I know you have an album a platinum album not like you your knowledge runs so no my knowledge of hip-hop isn't isn't as extensive as some of the Nerds that get at me on the internet but what I loved there's always somebody smarter there's always somebody more informed yeah you you're well versed in what I know what I'd like it's good and we connected so hard because age-wise we're close in age yeah and we grew up with the same kind of hip-hop and we were going back and forth about our favorite stuff and then guiltily I listened to your album again that night and I never told you and I thought when am I going to tell him and I thought well if he comes on the show I'll tell him so I fell asleep to John Cena that night drunk off of six Genesis which by the way and people like oh you drunk over 16. yeah we drank them in 36 minutes yeah we were getting kicked out that's how you do it I know because we were learning to get the the the Irish will tell you you have to drink the Guinness until it gets right below the n and above the harp and I came close you drank too much because your gullet is bigger yeah you do you love it but we I realized when what better time to talk to you about the uh your album than than on the show and you know what it's not awkward it's I'm I'm it's awesome what do you mean thank you thank you very much also you made a platinum album I don't think anybody's ever made I think we we had one of my guys look it up no one's ever made a platinum album as their first album and then never made another album ever again it's never happened this guy dude it's never happened yeah but I mean what no no don't do that John don't throw it away that's incredible nobody's ever done that so uh first of all thank you but I mean it was I think it's going to be like the 20th anniversary very soon of that album so I said that is a a wonderful chapter in my life but I mean we're in the now before the before the 20th anniversary because you're a hip-hop head will you do a live performance of the album man for me um I'm sick John I'm not gonna make it maybe just for you in 20 in 2026 I will I'll leave this Earth so will you do it for me maybe just for you for a private party yeah yeah just a party of one I'll fly in the trademark you're a given guy and him and I can just can knock it out yeah you are a giving man and I want to give you some credit uh I don't know if we can talk about it for the movie but let's talk okay let's I can do well no in the movie there was a scene that is relative to your real life I want to talk so many other things but I want to get credit man this is what it's for we you have gone to 8 billion children's hospitals and we did it in the film you went for the film and you've done like what's truly 700 or 800 how many have you done how many times have you gone to Children's Hospital as many I've had well um it's a little bit different than that I've I've uh been fortunate enough to tour many hospitals but a hospital tour is a lot different than what I do for Make-A-Wish yeah make a wish that's what it is make a wish um is a wonderful charity which gives Children and Families facing some difficult set of circumstances the chance to do whatever they wish for yeah and a lot of those wishes I can't believe this we're like I want to hang out with John Cena for the day so I've had a this is a Make-a-Wish by the way a wonderful opportunity to be a part A lot of that um I don't believe you this feels like a Make-a-Wish a little bit to me it does but these kids but these kids say I want to hang out with you for the day yeah what's the wildest Make-a-Wish story that you did like if a kid was like I want to sometimes just hang with John Cena is there everyone that's like I want to go fishing with John Cena uh well I had tea with a with a young lady I had a tea with uh imaginary friend no it was just a like an imaginary tea oh no tea was that a small table um she was very well dressed she brought her uh stuffed animal friends we set the whole table and we had tea and we spoke wow it was great and the tea was good it's great yeah the conversation is great conversation was great imaginary crumpets fantastic that's one thing I don't like about Australia I'm going to say it again I keep dogging them every time we do a show here afternoon tea it's food it's not tea it's a snack yeah but I think there's a whole culture around it I don't like it I don't like it the queen doesn't like you guys they got rid of you guys we're kind of a cool yin and yang forming here yeah curious forever the nihilist 100 man but you know it's not that bad and you're like no [ __ ] that this is half empty I don't know yeah John that has been our relationship on the movie which also has made the film very good that you are I've never seen somebody compliment coming in I've never seen somebody work so hard and still have such a positive attitude regardless of the length of the day because you know old red bones over here when it's a long day I get all grumpy bumpy we we all do yeah but you're good at hiding it wherever it goes I just think at those at those times when I'm about to lose it I tell first of all I tell myself I signed up for it yeah you did it's my choice you did and uh something that helps me a lot is what is my biggest problem right now so in the totality of that the movie that they've asked me to star in is asking me to work longer yeah so what it happens and that's not saying that those the long days aren't hard that's not saying it's not work um we go back and forth on text about like what a life it is incredible and it's genuine that is not um cannon fodder that is not a hashtag it's genuine this this is unimaginable but it doesn't mean it doesn't come with effort it doesn't mean it doesn't come with hardship and everyone can compare stories and compare hardships there's always someone smarter there's always someone who has it worse there's always someone who has it better but it doesn't mean you're we are all human we all have the same emotions we have the same situations where you have to climb a hill and we we feel anger we feel sadness we feel depression we feel Joy we feel happiness all that stuff so the days where you where I'm not feeling so good I just I try to to write the Train by being like hey man this is not too bad I know you're right I should get a Cena tattoo so I can look down at your face like on my wrist every time I'm starting to blow up every time I'm starting to go oh man I don't like the day I'll just look at you see your face and you'll be going like this to me come on I think with you and from what I've seen my perspective is you're a million places at once you've you're you're a very hard worker and you're trying to do a whole lot of things you have two podcasts yeah you're a touring comic yeah you're always planning for your next special you are a full-time actor and you're trying to extend your reach you have brand Ambitions yeah so so literally you're you're operating like five six startups essentially at a time that's a lot of [ __ ] work it's a lot of work yeah I on the other hand have really scaled back and to try to focus on like well this is Monday this is Monday that's it that's a really good perspective and and I think a lot of times when I get frustrated when I used to get frustrated about that is because man we are waiting here and I could use these 16 [ __ ] minutes to do something else yeah and it is when you're splitting atoms and you're trying to you know have a relationship or have some sense of normalcy and on top of that well I'm trying to get this brand off the ground and I'm trying to do this podcast I need the other one I'm trying to learn my lines and I'm trying to do this and I'm in a foreign country and I don't know what's going on like that stuff can snowball because you know how valuable the minutes are yeah big time you know what I'm saying yeah big time well and I do get moments to kick me back into reality I try to stay grounded a little bit in the idea of hey man it sucks only because I want it so if I didn't want it it wouldn't suck I want it so I invited I like it but then there's the moments that check me down like you know standing in the rain talking about cars with you because we had to wait till the rain to stop how cool was that oh yeah it was phenomenal I did there's a moment where you sit and you go oh yeah this is great we get to talk about cars in the rain and and yeah those things yeah that no that is that is the best part about all of it you know and when you said I want to back you up real quick when you said you were starring in the movie I Am the star of the film you are it's me you are I know I know they're telling friends well they're telling you the scenario hey John you're the number one this is your movie it's my movie no perception is reality I'm I'm always number two that's right always that don't don't forget it I've got to tell you because when I saw your trailer I go double that so that's why I have a double decker trailer people might if you see a double decker trailer somewhere around town that's old yeah shipped over a bus and gutted it yeah for me and turned it into a living quarter I guess what I needs baby it was interesting that you that was a weird place it's a power move yeah it's all the money I made on the film is going to my boss but you know what I don't really care it looks great I don't really care in fact if I ever did get to a place where because you and I both love cars and we talk cars if I ever did get to a place uh where I was successful enough I think I would be one of those people that has my own bus that travels with me in the States you know people that bring their own trailers with them yeah man I uh the last like the last 10 years of my career in WWE I was on a tour bus but it was your specific or was did you you did had different ones no I I would lease it but I would long lease it I went through two in ten years we had one for five years and another one for five years yeah did you do something and it's special on the inside to it or no you didn't deck it out make it look like home God Rest his soul my uh my driver and ships Captain Ronnie Bullington I always would have him like Hey man do whatever you want I want you comfortable in there that means I'm gonna get there safe and uh he designed both of them he did yeah R.I.P Ronnie rip Ronnie oh man cheers to the rondog great cheers you know he's up there a true a true ship's Captain cruise ships Captain did he ever crash never hell no um I hear those horror stories about bus tours where they like you know they get drowsed they fall asleep they hit stuff they get in a ditch was the best a Flawless man was like a mentor to all the drivers I remember we had a um one of my favorite quick stories about him is we had a absolute whitewash in New York City we were doing Madison Square Garden um it was a Sunday in late December with Monday Night Raw in Albany New York it's a bit of a drive yeah I've done it a whitewash to where when the doors opened at MSG it was six o'clock and they were kind of bordering state of emergency yeah by the first match full state of emergency so we had sold out the place but only like 5 000 people showed up so by the time we got done at midnight it was the streets of New York City were Barren the snow was like waist high and he's like man I'm I'm going for it we got to get to Albany and we got to do it so many of the performers didn't make the show I remember Ronnie pitching the bus sideways like Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift like pitching the bus I mean like hold on and he would pitch the pitch a 48-foot tour bus sideways across the streets of New York we literally were just all we had to do was keep moving forward because if we stopped yeah we saw buses on the side New York city buses that couldn't make it everything was but he got us to Albany in 10 and a half hours what Ron dog he got us to Albany in 10 and a half hours and pulled in slid the bus out dropped the anchor and was like I'm going to sleep see you guys I made it we're good how many other performers made it with you though did anybody how many other guys like made it up to Albany I on that bus ride I had one of the writers and two other performers that's it because every everybody was like we're not gonna we're just gonna hang and and the snowfall was so great that it was really treacherous to get there the next day it was we ran like a skeleton crew the next day because it was so bad yeah it was tough before we get too far away from it because I wanna I just give me one one quick story that you and I spoke about because when we talked hip-hop the reason that I brought it up was you told me on set about how you even came how it came to fruition that you made the album well not only made the album like how why I'm here why it started yeah yeah why the whole thing started um you know originally very long story condensed originally I started to wrestle by mistake I was going to join the Marine Corps and a friend of mine was like hey man we're training down in Orange County you should give it a weekend before you go down there I was like yeah whatever I'll do it saw a ring and I was hooked yeah uh no aspirations of doing anything but it happened to me in the the height of the market and competition and they were signing people defensively I got a really low money contract to just sit at home and not go to the other guys nice and then finally ended up just hanging around to get an opportunity debuted on TV in Chicago 2002. yeah um at the United Center where was it we always we always win Rosemont Rosemont Horizon baby one of one of my favorite buildings oh so great my favorite favorite that's great that place gets very very loud yeah a lot of uh there's a lot of tradition in that building for me big time yeah so debuted in Chicago debuted in Chicago and totally [ __ ] to bed like wow what do you mean well did all the stuff right yeah um but had no had nothing had nothing here and I was just trying to people didn't know who I was they couldn't connect to John Cena coming out in different tights and Boots every time and you know I'm here like I had no things were good but no one could attach to who I am all right and when we were as entertainers you got to kind of want to attach like when we film a movie you try to work on your character so people will relate to them attached to them or detach to them or root for them or root against them right that's what we're doing I I am willing to bet that it's a similar perspective and trajectory and stand up same thing you want people to like and identify with your style or the adversarial to it and call you out to drum up a little bit more you know um awareness and so I was about to get fired because I wasn't doing well and I was on my final overseas tour in the UK it was a right before Halloween and they were like oh you know I don't think you're gonna make it to Christmas so whatever but we'll bring you on this last tour give you some more money the WWE was was extremely good about that of like Hey we're probably not going to do business so let's get you on as many shows as we can but that's so cool they tell you they give you a heads up versus other Pro Sports where a lot of times it's like you wake up to a phone call that's like you're cut I just knew I was the writing was on the wall and like it wasn't how do you know that I genuinely because when you go out there you use your ears and when the sound is not just silence not just apathetic silence right but shoes going up to the Concourse to get hot dogs you hear a guy in the bathroom yeah you know it's kind of like so by mistake um you know I I kept to myself I didn't want to rock the boat but like okay my time's coming to an end so I'll enjoy this on the tour bus overseas they travel us all together and some of the guys are freestyle in the back so I just went in the back and waited for my turn and joined in and just did the best I could and rip and just tried to unleash the fury and the um the front of the bus was Stephanie McMahon and she was head of the writing man's daughter yep head of the writing team at that time and she was like how did you remember all that and I kind of explained really the concept of freestyle and she's like well make something up about me right now sure enough on the spot I'd you know spit a few bars and she's like do you want to do that on TV please yeah and it just so happened to be the Halloween episode of SmackDown oh wow so the character shift wasn't like why is he doing that it started as a costume and then just kind of went into that wow what did you wear when you did it on Halloween a crazy sequence Vanilla Ice outfit with a huge Vanilla Ice wig they were trying to get me to look cool I'm like no I want to look ridiculous because I want to stand out right and in those early matches uh in the early phase of that I wore the most ridiculous stuff I remember getting I've never seen a Fat Joe video where he's wearing a North Carolina blue sheepskin suit so I went and got one of those like the crazy hats like I try to be as as over the top as possible so you would realize like oh that's the rap guy right and it worked and sure enough that was it worked God that's for a while by the way who was on the bus rapping that was good and who was trash uh who could rip was there anybody that had skills well it was just people having fun yeah but I mean who was good come on give it to me I don't I don't think they did it enough it's a skill like I'm not good now because I used to do it every day in high school I used to do it consistently in college it's like playing golf I ask you what you hit and I almost threw up right because you play all the time yeah I play a lot you play a lot so you've honed your craft yeah those guys are just having 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to get popcorn is other people experience that but it's that shared eating [ __ ] together like it's nice to eat [ __ ] with your buddy and the thing that bonds you then more in our community was always going out having a couple of drinks getting a late night meal like would you guys have nights where the shows were tough and you're like well we're going out and we're wiping that all away we're gonna get shit-faced that was that was every night every single night up until about good or bad oh yeah good shows bad shows you're gonna you're partying no matter what um the great thing about WWE and I think it runs parallel to stand up is when you book a 65-day tour if show four bombs you still gonna make sure five yeah 100 yeah you've got it it's it's a pick six you gotta get back in the field right so those those nights where you stunk out the joint were like the most productive because you could really lean into the guys and lean into the guy you're working with or the people around you who you trust and give you an honest opinion to be like hey this is what I was going for and it didn't work yeah why why and I'm sure you had you know mentors in in stand-up comedy who would maybe bestow a few Secrets after a few of these yeah yeah oh yeah and it used to be a little bit more of a fraternal Society where you you kind of had to go to to out afterwards to get some some wisdom right nowadays the business has evolved and in great ways uh I romanticized about that period a lot because it was just super fun yeah but um guys are paid better guys have treated better uh less of a work schedule so I don't I don't know how much that still exists I know today I just try to pass on wisdom at the show right because I don't know the life anybody lives I don't want to you know back then was there was a lot of camaraderie a lot of Brotherhood and if you if you weren't in you were out right you know like um when when I started I tried to keep to myself and keeping to myself I was out yeah and it was you need to be a part of the community I want to I really want to do this she was like you do want to do this man you you really dedicated just come here kid let's let's have a few and let's talk about why you suck who was the most fun to drink with everybody there's there's not one where you're like man I used to love to drink with um I don't think there's a comparison to Ric Flair I don't he just has so much energy yeah and such a busy woo every time he comes in the room with even when you guys are back like hanging out somewhere it's it's that but it's also he's got he's got such a tremendous Lust For Life yeah and I I am drawn to that like I'm drawn to people who love life that you know there's a Tipping Point where it becomes counterproductive uh you don't want to live like tomorrow today is your last day because it could be it could be it could be but I I I try to find a little bit about it yeah a little bit of balance yeah but man he was he was always great Pat Patterson was always great the late Paterson was always great because these guys not only are there because they want to socialize and share they have all this [ __ ] wisdom and they're not like Rick especially um and Pat they weren't jaded Rick still isn't jaded like he'll you know we all have bad days but he loves it yeah so he's not one of those guys who will drink and be like [ __ ] this you don't understand they [ __ ] me and this is how they [ __ ] me like I just whoever whoever that element was I just never went around I just always gravitated towards people who were having a good time yeah well because that exists in every business in every industry in our business too it's like because the quicker you can get away from the idea of like I'll tell you why they did me wrong that's it I feel like that feeds into the well they're gonna keep doing you wrong then that's all that's what you almost want you project it to be I mean it's not just in entertainment that's in the corporate world that's in any any area where you can you know where you can have a group of people in this in the same thing it's it's you find that element because the competition is so real right it's so competitive and you're competing with not just like you know your peers to a degree but yourself the most that's why I like golf that's why I like stand up I'm My Own competition when I talk to you on set when like the stuff that that I think that I like the most on set is when you talk to me about you working on your own stuff a lot like you're trying really hard you know I saw you reading a book and he said I have to play piano certain times a day I want to keep up with that I want to exercise my foreign language muscles and like you're just working on you're really kind of beating you so to speak because you the lazy you can win every time every time it's the easiest thing in the world not go to the gym fine easy whatever but like picking up the book doing to making the time for the piano that's the kind of personality you have that I'm attracted to is like you're trying to beat you or or beat you know these these little hurdles that we set up for ourselves which I always think is very impressive and not to you know not to kiss your tush but what you make me do Monday mornings anyway before we shoot um we call it the Monday yeah it's just tough for me I'm gonna keep doing it but it really is hard I'm not gonna lie all right one more week one more week one more week I'll take care of you tomorrow but I usually don't like Thursday's my last shower great good no good that's no that's been the you know usually Thursday oh that'll that'll be the last shower I can show up Monday I can taste bud yeah uh but I am gonna kiss your tush and say you're you're very very talented um as an actor and truly um I'm happy to watch you to watch you work not knowing you as a person but knowing you from the outside now getting to know you as a human it's nice to see that you take it serious in the sense of like you I can tell you really give a [ __ ] a lot which is I think it's hard to find sometimes because a lot of times complacency is easy especially when you get as famous as you are you're so [ __ ] famous it's like you could be whatever about it you can kind of be going through the motions you really really could I wouldn't suggest it but you could you really could float you know but so it's cool to watch you not float and take the time out of the day to do these other things so it's influential to other people like it's TR it gets in my head that like God I should be taking more time to work on the thing whatever that thing is no but you do um dude you're you're everywhere look at us we're here you're working on a Sunday I know but I but I but like on set in the dead times I do think managing that time is wise I'm jerking off of my trailer John when you see me leave I'm literally jerking off on my trailer [ __ ] two videos of you [ __ ] I'm not kidding you're a loud talker and you're in the same area yeah you hear me you're booking your tour and you're deciding your merch you're like shut up yes yeah total I gotta call [ __ ] trust me there's there are things that I want to get accomplished in a day but there's also that point just like in any workout or anything you do that challenges yourself When You Reach the the point of diminishing returns I'll look at a keyboard and I can't play and I can't read and then I just okay I've given it the best I can I want to just see this thing now or I want to just do nothing you you do the same thing but it's just but it's different I guess I'm jealous I guess this Grass Is Always Greener I'm quicker to get on my phone look at something stupid and I think you've disconnected in a good way when we talked about it you were like oh Instagram and all that [ __ ] you've disconnected I mean look at the way you treat that kind of stuff is impressive you post it on Instagram you follow nobody and you don't give any context to it yeah because you're like here this is kind of what I like whatever goodbye there's no engagement of it actually one could say that curated one could say that but I think it's a I think it's an exercise in in full engagement because if you really are following an account to try to get to know someone you can you can run down that rabbit hole of what are they thinking why what's the nature behind this post I I really wanted to try to do something and I was just going to continue to do it pass or failed is to see what was going on I I didn't have the extra time uh I I believe that people have to earn the right to hear your story so I I am just not an advocate of turning life around turning the camera around in my own life right I I have a wonderful circle of people I love that that know damn near everything about me and they love me back and we've earned that respect you and I are building a wonderful Foundation yeah not the best trend yet but God damn it you're getting there yeah yeah well I'm gonna stay at your house I did say that yeah absolutely and um I don't know I just I wanted to create each platform I kind of use uniquely differently I use Twitter differently than Facebook I use Instagram differently than Tick Tock and all four sometimes send a certain message in unison just because I wanted to try to try to do something different and just because I'm not using something like everyone else yeah I was I've been labeled the most unorthodox performer that means that I'm not very athletic when I perform but I didn't I also didn't use the craft of sports entertainment like everyone else I see our I see my family I see my home my the 20 years of my career through a different lens and whenever I talk to people who are really in the pro wrestling WWE rabbit hole we never see things in the in the same light like I always see things a little differently so I just wanted to use it differently and make it like a like an art gallery what was this person thinking when they hung this piece if the if the artist isn't there next to you and there's no description you have to think yeah what is it yeah you have to look at a is it is this a is it a big code that we're trying to all figure out is it like is what you make it yeah everyone is there's a meaning behind it every Drinker your oval team John that was what it was funny commercial she knew it I knew I figured out when I saw it I thought God damn it that's what it is this is an advertisement for oval team it's one of those things where like they just announced I would return I don't know when you're gonna air this but uh to Boston on the 6th of March I should be out then I put up uh the Dropkick Murphys album cover I put up the final scene from The Departed where the rat comes across the screen I put up the old Boston Garden and I put Fenway Park say no more but yeah that was all before the announcement just a little so if you're following it you're following I'm telling you that like I'm gonna be there right but if you're if you don't know and there are a few people that knew a few people you know a lot of people didn't like what what is all this but I I'm those are meaningful posts that are easy to describe to you yeah that people like now I get it there's there's meaning behind every single post oh say pay attention kids follow the man if Boston still has a soft place in your heart yeah absolutely so he's got a ton of character just like Chicago just like you're a mass kid yeah but but how long did you live in in New England I lived in New I moved to Venice California in 1999. I lived I lived there for 21 years 22 years yeah and then moved back there for like another three yeah when you told me uh you moved to Venice Beach because you wanted to be close to that was like the Arnold days right the close the the falling of the curtain on like the mecca bodybuilding yeah because the digital age right your phone allowed you to be whoever you want to be wherever you want to be like it's it's it's changed a lot of stuff but back then you had to be in Venice Beach if you wanted to do anything Fitness related and my degree was in you know kinesin movement study so I wanted to try to get on with a major manufacturer Venice was a hub where all the equipment was like it was like the SEMA show for equipment if Hammer came out with a new line they were in Venice they had a space if Cybex came out with a new line they were in Venice Life Fitness all that stuff so their reps would be in and out of there all the time and I wanted to get a job in the equipment industry but it just didn't happen instead you became famous what a [ __ ] nightmare dude don't you wish you worked for Cybex now just designing machines like you always wanted to throw away this acting thing [ __ ] off everything you're doing get back there and work for Hammer Hammer if you're listening anybody at the hammer Life Fitness Company Cybex uh we'll entertain some other [ __ ] I'm your agent maybe Peloton uh who you know alternative companies uh John is looking for a corporate job we're going to step him away from what he's the best at and we're going to put him behind a desk and a computer well send in your resumes this is the link right here there's right on the screen there will because something will come up yeah we'll put a link in there that's for his email no but it but it's incredible to think that you because I remember moving to California and literally the first thing I did was go play basketball at Venice Beach because a White Men Can't Jump literally I mean that what my aspiration had nothing to do with it but I was like it's something you got to do I had to go I like because I know that feeling that you were feeling you're like I have to be near this epicenter of chaos now it's heroin needles and fist fights but it's always been a pretty interesting it's always been a pretty interesting area yeah it's rough now it's tough did you ever lift at the beach by the way yeah you were that guy yeah I love that guy yeah and then I realized like the beach is kind of just a publicly owned like a state-owned funded gym and the real gym is Gold's Venice Gold's Venice and it's a few blocks in right uh 360 Hampton Street I believe I think that's right I mean it's right it's right off of uh uh you know uh uh uh Hampton Drive is that right is it Hampton Drive is it yeah yeah I would go to all Brian's Pub the bar around the corner your destiny was the gym mine was the Irish pub and how close we were we were right next to each other we never really knew it yeah because I was busy getting sauce out of my head rip O'Brien's pub no longer there by the way it's all changed now but no it is funny to think that that that thing [Music] um that attracted you led to the other thing which is what you and I talked about about you have no idea how you stumble into these things but in a way without getting too philosophical that's why we're doing it was meant to be it was meant it was meant because wasn't it though some spirits well wasn't it though so I think you're supposed to be this because of all that stuff I don't know I don't I don't know what I do know is I knew that like I knew that I had to dedicate time towards that and I always even at a young age um like I used to we all you either have a story of I was a bully or I used to be bullied some people have both yeah I'm both um I got both I got bullied for listening to hip-hop music growing up in West Newbury Massachusetts wait what do you mean 1200 people it was it was jeans and rock and roll and like hair band Metal right and in the late 80s early 90s I loved hip-hop and I would dress like kid and play house party style hell yeah rayon polka dots hell yeah like Wings shoes you name it like the uh crisscross pants on backwards come on hard to pee but super easy to [ __ ] yeah yeah way easier to shed I mean I should do that now I don't know why but you can [ __ ] and walk with us great uh and I just I I got harassed and and beat up every day and it but it would it would be easy to just be like okay I'll dress the way they want no one will pick on me anymore I'd got even more like I never I never really used physical violence to begat violence I just was myself even more right and I think I've always just had a a weird courage to be like man I should try that I should try this and see where it goes in here we pour whisper did you know your personal information is all over the Internet it really is it's terrible it's for anybody to be able to find uh data Brokers uh scrape public tax 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how that works so so in in your in your uh philosophical thought that you're weaving here I'll follow you down that road yeah so if all this stuff is indeed meant to be then I think the real win and the real wisdom and the real takeaway comes from being able to reflect on it and be like this is what this taught me and this is what I'll do going forward right so if indeed it's all meant to be uh what a man I lucked out yeah but I also think that um you're right A lot of people will get to a certain level and Coast you totally this shouldn't happen and this will end 100 it will end there will be a day where nobody gives a [ __ ] that is inevitable yeah why not if you love what you do why not invest all in what you do so you have great clarity and when you're no longer relevant it doesn't matter like the relevance isn't isn't the yield it's the work it's the do it's the win it's like it's the late days it's like man that was a I I look back on the effort of Ricky stanicki I can't give another ounce you guys got it all yeah you got it all yeah yeah I try to do that with everything I invest in totally you know there there's been I've had to set heavy boundaries for this film I want to hang out with you guys but my wife who's an unbelievable person I gotta fill those buckets too I gotta make sure my relationship is is stable and we're on a great plane so instead of like hey the cast is going out I know you are it doesn't mean you know I I feel a different way I invite you every time I'm like John yeah please come on and every time I gotta draw the hard-line boundaries of like yo I need to be with my wife do you think it's because she's prettier than me uh well I mean there's a list you can be honest that the honest is there's a list but tell me this is she prettier than me uh yes she is she never did John Cena ever own a pair of FUBU clothing hair a piece of food wrestled in FUBU clothing but did you wear it outside of the Ring yeah of course so FUBU FUBU was was you everything that wasn't just costume that's really easy everything you would wear that to the store so that's another thing right um when I decided to like okay I have a love for hip-hop music I'm gonna get an opportunity to do this it wasn't like okay when you're in the WWE you're that personality that was 24 7. that was you yeah that's so interesting yeah because it because WWE is one of those last bastions of gray area if you confuse the audience they'll see through it and they don't believe and this was a facet of my personality and it was kind of like my comeuppance to those kids used to kick my ass when I was 13. like Hey see I can do this and people can relate to it so it felt really good but you never saw me from like 03 to 07 or I wasn't like outlandishly dressed trying to you know talk some trash on somebody like it was it was it was who I was but that was you that was you it was a thing it was a facet of me just like a stand-up personality hyperbilize me right right it's difficult in WWE because the more you break away from the story you're trying to tell especially now when when the audience sees everything the different the more difficult it is for them to believe who you are sure but a lot of times you talked about this to me about how sometimes the guys that take it too much from the stage and their personal life it goes so far it goes too far so you have to be intelligent enough to play this game and do this thing and embody who you are but not make it so it's detrimental because that's that's the biggest fear right we all every everyone that likes wrestling knows that and I'll admit we've talked about this I I don't know a ton about wrestling that was I'm not a huge I wasn't a massive wrestling fan as a kid I didn't know enough like friends of mine that know everything but the one thing that we all took away now as adults as we look back we see these documentaries and there are like so many of these guys part of their failure or part of their downfall whatever you want to call it was that they couldn't they couldn't set up a couple of boundaries yeah stop and break and change and go I have to grow and I can't always do this thing but that's also I mean in in life if you put everything towards one thing everything else suffers totally and people talk like work life balance is a popular term people use yeah it's just balance like if you're going to hey I'd I'd really like to be a scratch golfer you're going to have to put a lot of time into that yeah too much and stuff will suffer because of it yeah but if you really genuinely want to be a scratch golfer go for it I think performers that can't find a place to to show the totality of themselves and just get caught up in the character first of all they love it second of all they're all in third I don't know if I think they feel comfortable there and they want to be there for some reason just like a guy out in the course hitting in at Sunset who wants to be a scratch golfer like man you should get to the other stuff but there's a lot of folks who become hyper focused and we you know grind towards a goal and sometimes we don't see what we're leaving behind and life moves fast in the WWE a lot of shows so you do get that familiarity of like I feel more comfortable in this shell than I do as the other guy right uh self-admittedly flares is one of those guys he'd watch the dock on him he's like Richard Fleer died a long time ago I'm Rick Flair right but he feels comfort in that and he feels he's at home himself in that right it is to summarize it's tragic to somehow to the the eyes that count the person in the fight live in the journey that that's their that's what they want to do tell me I'd be remiss for my friend if I didn't ask you about Fallen Angel Fallen Angel that's what he said and you'll know oh uh so the Fallen Angel is uh performing Chris Daniels and Chicago guy yeah and was brought out to Los Angeles and he had the daunting task of taking someone like me who couldn't move and trying to teach them how to move the basics of the business but when you say that you've said this twice and I don't like it because you are wildly athletic but you always have said to me multiple times you're like well I'm not I don't have I'm not athletic but I see the way you are and you are athletic did you just not you just locked up when it came to that stuff no it's not true um we all have things I'll say this for people when you are throwing those ping pong balls into my butt yeah you haven't missed after we work John will toss ping pong balls in my anus and everybody's laughing and it's a bit and look they're not laughing at me it's I think they're laughing with me I'm part of it you've never missed it's a lot of practice [Laughter] no but you are athletic what do you mean I think you're very athletic thank you yeah I'm gonna I'm just gonna take that yeah and I'm trying to be better at that you have to grade in the field you're in yeah you could be the fastest kid in your school you know um run run 112 seconds you get in a bigger crowd yeah so yeah you go to that event that they have every four years you get smoked right the WWE is is the Pinnacle or is supposed to be the Pinnacle of all of sports entertainment with the best sports entertainers in the world are I have to grade myself against that right in comparison to what I've seen done and what I know people out there are capable of physically it's a different world it's a no contest and and I want to take this time real quick just to call out Sami Zayn who I've been tagged in I don't know once a week in photos and I'm going to say this right here you listen up here Zane dog whenever you want to step in the ring with me pal I've been training with Cena out here in Australia and I'm ready and he says I'm ready and he's my coach and I'm gonna take your ass down right John that's [ __ ] that is but I have to I'm trying to work on it I got to give Sammy his comeuppance here's a guy who's been in the business a long time yeah and worked really hard in circuits outside the WWE and made a great name for himself then got in WWE in the NXT program and made a great name for himself and then got into WWE and kind of struggled to connect with the audience and everyone now because he's very popular now yeah thinks it's like all right it clicked his character went through a major reconstruction just about three years ago wild maybe even a little bit more than that because I see him pop up so much now too he's taking him along you know three and a half years and now it's all that hard work and I can see it I see how hard he works and I see how he's invested in connecting with the audience and it's paid off everybody loves him because they know who he is good on the Zane dog we get tagged so much I think we've communicated once on the internet I'm like I can't stop you should have him on the podcast hey man whenever he wants you know I'm just said he'd kick his ass no you're like no I want everyone he knows that can you imagine he'd [ __ ] ripped me in half and you know it's so funny though has they ever have they ever had a Jester uh where they send in like a regular guy just to get [ __ ] around in the ring have they ever sent in a guide like of my size just to get thrown around by you guys so it's a it's a it's a spectacle It's Entertainment and perception is is a lot of the times reality so if um the the matches that aren't supposed to mean a lot it's like it's like when you have a prize fighter and you know he's something special and he goes through a lot of warm-up matches to get to the main guy so they have that all the time uh but sending me an untrained idiot and just [ __ ] me up no man Insurance it is not try this at home no it is we are trained professionals you do not you do not sounds fun um this is that's that is organized suicide that's all that is uh take me that's a poor management Choice that's what that is I'm gonna talk to my agent he's like ask John to get you in a cage match I was like look I'll do what I meant I would never in a million years and for the fact that uh anybody thinks they could do it is so baffling me when anybody talks about wrestling like they're always like whatever man it's coordinated can you [ __ ] it you would it's It's So Physical yeah but it's so funny that people think it's like whatever but it's weird how they talk about everything acting comedy all this like whatever dude I'll do it well I'll do it so I think right there you as a stand-up knows when someone is apathetic or it's ignorance yeah you know exactly like oh you you don't know what we do when people are like oh it's fake yeah the outcome's predetermined it's for the entertainment of the audience yeah if if it was really There's real fights you can watch on TV you you we want the story we want the characters we want to be on the edge of our seat right and we want the main event most all the time to deliver a Super Bowl that's won on the last play yeah to deliver a Hail Mary home run in the 90s yeah 100 and that's the beauty of what we do we can we can let you come in the arena and just Escape for three hours and we want you to yell until your horse your the audience is the biggest part of the show yeah there's no other element like that there's no other element now it showcases the people paying to be there it's like um college game days the only when they Pan the crowd and people are allowed to really emote and do all that stuff but it's just a pan shot and then they really want to be quiet when they're doing stuff at the desk yeah like WWE is like no crowds have taken over the show yeah uh Chicago is a great time to take over the show Montreal where he's had a wonderful uh premium live event where Sami Zayn was competing that took over the show uh there's a lot of these people that are are they get so excited because they're part of the act right so when someone's like oh it's just fake yeah you're surprised I don't get it like so what so what else what else about it don't you like right and immediately you can see that they just don't have any experience and it's it's cool man sometimes stuff isn't for you it's not your [ __ ] I'm a I'm a scotch guy yeah it doesn't doesn't mean bourbon sucks it just seems like right now it's not my jam it's real to me damn it it's real to me yeah I bet we can get in there as far as we want to go that guy man the depth of that man crying you can get in there it's real demand yeah I love that guy I want to kiss him on his [ __ ] forehead two instances in involving um me changing my look one I came back with longer hair and people were like you ruined my childhood and two my hair's thinning I'm 46. yeah so I came back and they're like seeing his hair's thinning what the what the f like yeah because I'm old and that's me but people get so attached to the character they've grown up with for 20 years like I've always Penthouse has always been a little thin but I always used to cut it really short so you really couldn't see that and now when I come back I I like having this sort of style because it's versatile for somebody in the makeup chair yeah and they can create whatever they want and I can walk out as Ricky snicky or as whomever they want me to be so I like doing acting and having a little bit more on top in certain spots gets you a little more versatile a little more versatility yeah but it was crazy to see people like crushed yeah mad about your mad about your hair because I'm getting old there's a Blog that's called mad about Cena's hair I I was surprised I wouldn't be surprised if it's like a DOT org pissed off at seeing his hair I I take that not bad that's um they love you but that's a testament to like hey man you're ruining the thing that I attached myself to that's tough when a band sells out all right you know like it's they were they were my band my band I knew them when they played 30 people at the hotel Cafe here we are wanting them to still play 30 people yeah they don't want to play 30 people they want to grow and they want to expand and they want other people it's okay to do something new so it's okay for that to happen it's true I mean that's why I don't believe in the phrase selling out I think it's a weird [ __ ] phrase it means almost nothing it's such an innocuous idea of like selling what do you mean selling out like because it's it's like saying you gave more of you to other people that didn't know you you're like what isn't that what you wanted you wanted to enjoy me now I want other people to have and it did like it the same way you did I mentioned that hotel Cafe thing that I just said because I had this conversation with somebody to ban the national I went to go see at the hotel Cafe years ago and my wife and I followed I mean we would literally go to see them as they got in bigger venues we saw them at The Wiltern on Western then we saw them open for REM you know they went from a little baby thing to and we saw them open for REM at the Hollywood Bowl and she won't like me saying this but man does she hate REM so much that we paid all this money for these tickets we saw the opening band we saw the national as the sun was setting was hot they had bad sound because you know they don't ever give them the best [ __ ] and the best lighting and the sun dipped behind the bowl and then the headlining band supposed to start here comes REM and she literally goes do you want to go bowling and I was like do you want to want to see one song and she was like no I don't like REM so we [ __ ] up so we [ __ ] off that's how much we like them so shout out to those guys but that was what I meant was yeah I want and then the next year they headlined Hollywood bulb it's like you want them to play the biggest crowds because then the most people get to enjoy it the way you liked it we always have this I it's my thing sheena's my guy I you're me it's like now you're from more than just one person uh it can't be I I hear you but I also get the other perspective and I also get an artist's perspective on I would like to keep my footprint small good luck well good luck if your end goal is you know Commerce and trying to try to make it pay the bills it's gonna it's a tough Hill to climb but keeping your circle small you're gonna have to you're gonna have to make a lot of sacrifices but on the other end um the larger you become that you have to Branch out you have to grow and there are there are growing pains that comes with that yeah a lot of it could be hey the people who got me to the dance have now turned their nose up but that's my thing is the goal of a performer whether you're an artist you make physical art you make music you do stand up you make film you whatever the artist goal is is to get their art to as many people as possible I would disagree you don't think that's what it is I want everyone to see me that's that's you I it's okay for some artists to be like this is only for a select group sure but then when you put yourself in a public sphere then you're saying I want as many people to see this when you start going put this in the gallery put this on TV put this on Netflix well then your goal is I want people to view I don't want just a certain amount of people to see it that's fair I want to see how many people can see it so I know what you mean if you're just making art for you and for something small fine but when you go public with it well then you've already sold out so to speak because the idea is you're trying to grow you want to grow yes so if you make artists your house you know and you just love making macaroni art great I love the choice I love I love the wheels I make macaroni art yeah at the house and I'm not selling everyone's emailed me I'm not [ __ ] selling dude I know you've seen it I'm not selling but the idea is like if you make something small and sweet for you or for your tight little girl it is beautiful though you have a rigatoni T-Rex I love what you did you want do you want the rigatoni if you sell one to me can I give you the facility sorry I [ __ ] stumbled and I almost had the joke can we take it again no not can I give you the facilities to say for silly stegosaurus you hate you lose three stars fusilli stegosaurus I could have gone with like uh Penny pterodactyl but it just didn't have the same hum for some reason to it all right but I know what you I know what you mean but yes I understand I think but when you start making art and you deliver it to the masses you you can't go I only want certain masses to like it's like get out of here that's crazy talk you you want you can kind of do whatever you want you can but don't be surprised when people like it or don't yeah that's fine but I'm saying don't be don't be angry when more people enjoy this but also on on another on another plane um consumers essentially people paying their money to to comment on what you do have have a right to say whatever totally yeah no oh yeah no that's not I'm I'm just I'm just saying I think if you wanted the public eye that a lot of people if it grows on its own you it's a you know it's Chia Pet dude you can buy you can buy I have a Bob Ross Chia Pet we have never watered it so he's not grown his hair it's more of a John Cena ship come over John Cena yeah you're just you're just talking to a guy who spent most of his uh time in live performance where half of the crowd hates you and half of the crowd likes you but that's the same with us yes so I'm just it's it's um but my point is you want people to see you that you wouldn't be on TV well I got it in a film but I kind of don't want people to see okay well then you're on the wrong Biz dog yeah you're sung enough age I see you right here I had to get it I know you did no you had to but I I hear you I'm just saying it's um it's art it's opinion if it's a lot more complex there's no right or wrong it's all a woozy wazzy and that yeah going back to what we talked about I think that's why if you care about what you do if you can look back at your work and be like couldn't have gave another ounce regardless of what if they think you sold out if they think you didn't sell out it doesn't matter it doesn't matter no it matters if you enjoy it that's that's what that's we're on the same page in that I just think and if you really don't want people to see it then John baldessari and [ __ ] burn it yeah he artists burnt all of his [ __ ] I think that's wild that was cool I don't have the balls to do that to just be like burn it [ __ ] it I mean that's the kind of art where you're like man that was for him that dude that was for him he was like see all my art and his agents are like can we sell it and he's like and lit it all on fire crazy move like your car collection you told me you're going to light it on fire soon I did not say that you did you said to me you said I think I'm gonna torch the whole garage you are um you are drastically raising my insurance rates with this joke yeah you got a call from your agent like John is he are you really talking about I did not say that no I'm looking at all the all the cameras I just want to match what you have now just because I wanted a little bit more that's fair um can we talk cars for a minute we sure can um because I know you're you're a big car guy you're way more than I am I like cars not not true at all no but you're but you're but you you're able to afford them the ones that I want you are too you've got some great toy you have some uh delicious toys the the we had a moment where we connected cars don't need to be about a big spend I sent you a picture of a car today it was 15 grand such a cool car and it was a robin's egg blue 72 Triumph GT6 upgraded Rally wheels took the bumper hinges off the thing looked really slick it looked like um an old Datsun 240Z stunning but it's all British inside seats it's it's just a really really fun drive the car is a little small and when I got in the suspension would just go to the side but what a what a fun drive that was and even in the current economy with inflation the way it is like that car is 15K and it's a wonderful ride you get to rip through the gears it's got a great sounding exhaust so it depends on what you're looking for right if you're looking for status or if you're chasing that hypercar dragon the investment's going to be huge or if you're looking for like fully restored show winning example the investment's going to be big huge yeah that is it's different than than just to collect again you got to know your why I love curb appeal you do and I love like the awkwardness of like wow they actually made this somebody was like go ahead send them off the line I really enjoy that and that doesn't need to come at a bank-breaking spend no but the one that we both talked about in the rain that I said when you said to me uh you know because I I said I have an affinity for I love that horse and I was like you know you're a bull guy and we can we can with the people listening he uh had an experience with a Ferrari 488 yeah and uh I said I've always been you know as a kid of the late 80s and the 90s everybody's poster car was a Lamborghini because the doors went up yeah so I've always been like whoa these were so cool and that's where my heart has kind of been well and I have a joke about it in my special about why guys buy cars about you know girls there's a relative social joke about men who drive big trucks have small dicks and the truth really is it's I don't buy cars that they dude I love that thank you I can buy I can buy a truck and do this this we just when we were kids like because you said to me you said what was the car when you were a kid that you were like whoa and I said Lamborghini Countach the Countach was the car where I was like I can't believe this is a real car people can buy and drive I remember him doing the gimmick and Cannonball Run too where they changed the Colors oh come on I sprayed off the blue and into the red or whatever oh that's cool yeah and it and it makes you go this is a car that a human's allowed to have yeah yeah it just it does a thing to you and that's why guys who do like cars you go when you're a kid you see those in my parents bedroom I had a uh in my we had a um a photography class in in high school and they one of the assignments was to go take pictures of inanimate objects that that you have some sort of connection to and I just started taking pictures of cars because I was like I just really want to take photos and I framed and we talked about the you know we talked about the E3 the the BMW M3 and I said something about that generation of of them was so I I was like Beyond a dream car it was like I will never own something like that when I was a kid I thought that but I thought that has got to be the coolest feeling in the world but then again to say like as a kid I thought any of this would happen is Balderdash yes sir it's absurd it's absurd and I like archaic stuff but it's also really unreliable my daily driver is a Civic Type R shut up it's got Tech it's manual reliable the car is stable enough that's every day that's what I can catch you dude it's a 20 20 and it's got a third pedal my dog and at 145 it's stable like it goes it's got seats in the back I can actually pick people up yeah you know if you have a purse in a Countach you're screwed and that's why I can't have one they're a little bit rough around the edges the clutch is a dog fight and it's really tough to get those things running right like they're always in the shop it's always leaking some sort of fluid somewhere yeah so if I actually need to drive a car on a distance that's more than like 10 miles specific how long did you own a Countach for I I still have it you did you still have it he's son of a [ __ ] well it's one of those things where can I drive it when I come to your house say yes it's just a tough Drive can I can I drive it say yes if you've never had an experience with that clutch it's the only thing I'm asking of you I don't want mine to be the first time all right those those who know what I'm talking about it's a it really is like nothing you've ever driven before in in in a difficult way it's the the maneuver to reverse is when you sit outside in reverse because there's there's no you can't see anything no cameras so it looked awesome yeah completely impractical not a chance you're gonna parallel park the thing like it's not trying to trying to like the Hollywood Hills and that thing would be a disaster forget about it you really have to like I really have to like get in there you know my my wife will be writing what's wrong with you like this is how I have to make the car go right where on the other the Civics like it's it's nothing it's an it's a fun easy drive and what I just heard you say was I have weak legs that's exactly that John it's an upper body business all right uh quickly for fun I have two things sure because I know you got to go no I have things um oh you do yeah this fly by the way hilarious I think that slide's been around the whole time it's like comical it's almost like these guys you know and you know Jam dog big J Dog he put that fly in here that's his fly that's okay and here with us tell me this is this is a lie or not you like anime so I I like certain anime Fist of the North Star uh I I was really drawn to like post-apocalyptic stuff yeah and I found that at the right time and I thought it was like super cool so I used to love growing up I used to watch fist in the North Star a lot okay plead the fifth on this whether you want to or not OverWatch porn do I OverWatch porn OverWatch the anime OverWatch it's a kind it's a it's they make OverWatch porn you've never seen it no boy oh boy do you need to check it out okay all right I'm an adult you know you like anime I'm an adult it stumbled on my feed somehow someway because I think I probably clicked on one of those Peter Griffin [ __ ] Lois things you know where they're like they like make a porn out of a modern cartoon on a porn site and I'm like I'm gonna watch it so this is a classic story of me like finding anime in the mid 80s and then kind of like that's my time fast forwarding to like what anime is now New Age baby being like what what happened your computer's in your hand no so okay yeah okay and then also when we talk on set about your schedule and your regimen and even Zach said this he was like feel like he's got the sneakiest times to train because we're shooting all day when are you finding time uh are you first thing in the morning no no it's no and see that's another thing like there's only so much that can be done yeah and a lot of times if we fragment ourselves none of the work is good none of it I'll have a shitty workout right I'll show up grumpy I'll be shitty in front of camera on the days we shoot I'm they're paying me for the work to be here for this so what I can do while I don't train is make good food choices so I'm not having Betty's Burgers had it today it was really good is it good it is it's a good Smash Burger Place best I've had out here because I was gonna say I haven't found a good burger yet already it's good all right it's good you know what's really good down here Mexican food no I'm kidding they literally don't they have no idea how to do it down you said no spice dude they don't no hot sauce they don't even know what hot sauce is down here these people are insane they don't know hot sauce man and me coming from Southern California all I want is hot sauce yeah and they call it they're just and they kind of get you the detox what do they call ketchup tomato paste tomatoes what do you call it tomato sauce dude no it's not tomato sauce is tomato sauce tomato sauce tomato sauce ketchup but it is kind of tomato sauce yeah but there's more to it than that well what do you call a can of tomato sauce tomato sauce yeah see these guys double down on all sorts of dumb [ __ ] they don't get it they call uh french press coffee plunger coffee plunger no it's not plunger gets poop out of a toilet what gets poop out of the toilet what's that thing it's a plunger cut it out pick a name see what I mean pick a [ __ ] name pick a lane no I'm gonna fight Jan after Jam after this sorry hey son of a [ __ ] yeah you're right you do have a so yeah I only train when I have time I have time this morning you did and uh we had a an early day on one of the days where like I was fading fast and again I speak to the wife like hey psychologically I really could use 40 minutes is that okay he said yeah are you kidding me go but I wanna I wanna try to be a good husband I want to try to be a good partner so I want to also run those choices by her when I'm here it's the work and all other things suffer my training suffers my relationship has to take a back seat and my wife is unbelievably supportive of that but I draw those hard line boundaries to play catch up a little bit to play catch up a little bit and it's the really long shoots where it starts to to get in the hole and you know you got to dig yourself out and I don't sneak away to train I don't have a gym on set you don't have bands in the trailer no not at all I have bands in my trailer and look at me so I need to do what you're doing okay uh how long have how long have you been like physically lifting weights well I have those bands in the trailer and I read the book on how to use them so I tie one around my neck and it goes up on a pole right and I'm naked I think you might have read another book for that that's not what those bands are it might be I don't know which ones you got no I just think it's impressive that you I think it's impressive that you uh I don't know how to say it dude your arms this is you know what it is you know what it is John you're [ __ ] you [ __ ] you know what you are you're um you're Joe from Family Guy and the jacked cop in the wheelchair uh you're in real life when I see your arms when we're in the car together I I'm like [ __ ] is so strong man person I started working out when I was 12. I've never stopped Never Never So 34 years straight Jesus it's what I went to school for I know I have a four-year degree in working out I have good people around me to to kind of curate the experience of like hey make a few more good choices do this don't do this yeah yeah yeah um did someone say the Big Show said you were the had some of the best strength he's ever seen well that a lot of a lot of times WWE what what I didn't offer in smoothness I could make up for an explosive strength right so that I felt that was pretty proficient in that those are things that I'm good at like moving in an explosive Direction so all of my stuff is like really explosive yeah that's where you could have been a linebacker that I was an offensive lineman because I had no awareness for the game of football but you could have been a linebacker yeah yeah no I they tried I'm like man can you can you just hit the guy in the other Jersey when this thing happens well you got to do that yeah I can do that didn't work I yeah I didn't I didn't have the overall awareness of the game will you do me one favor when you come to LA if you when you come back to LA and I'm there and you're not working will you will you come play one round of golf with me come on please just you and me I just yeah I don't want to see it that I don't mind but it's just so much time no no we'll play we play [ __ ] four you want to know how why all these things get done like how you can look and be like what the [ __ ] is he doing that I'm not yeah I know that golf takes five hours and I don't have the five hours four uh I'm talking to my wife four uh but also we can play three and leave we can pay three have against and go home I like this new style of golf say yes to playing golf and letting me drive the Countach one two three no yes he said yes but you heard it what I will do yeah is I will extend an invite to you for a podcast that won't be filmed or recorded okay in in the bat cave Don which is a uh I'll serve Scotch instead of whiskey and we'll talk about you know life and philosophy and cars and and all that I'm making me good blushy and and here's what I want to say about you uh in an industry where better not be a [ __ ] compliment if it is it is so sorry I thought this Joe cut all this stuff it's fine you can code if you no in an industry that's that's very transactional and uh it's very difficult to find people who are willing to let their guard down because because entertainers have a hard shell of like what does this person want to gain from me I admire the fact that we could sit on set in an office and talk about life yeah we did and talk about real things about life it is what I enjoy the most and uh those moments make me like that's our friendship it is not us doing good work together because as professionals that is our job and we can form a bond over that man this time was fun but just like two guys talking about sports If Sports is all they ever talk about they gotta have that and if they don't have it their relationship isn't there and I I really applaud you because I know how difficult it is because I see a lot of performers not able to to climb that Hill it's like letting anybody even remotely in we'll talk about hip-hop we'll talk about sports we'll talk about what you watched and how you felt about it we'll talk about critiques of people's performance all day long right because that doesn't put my heart out there right but life and pain and relationships and yeah all that stuff is yeah and like hey man I had a hard time doing this yeah that's I feel you because I've had a hard time doing this right and it's that that little give and take where you get to know someone for who they are and not like you're you're giving me ammo to to use against you and you're hoping that I'm not going to and I'm doing the same thing with you yes and and for that I thank you and that's why I wanted to make sure we got this done because I knew we would talk about like and thank you for being so grateful to talk about career path and and all this wonderful stuff that's going on I I live a dream every day and I there's not a day that I don't that I'm not aware of that even my grumpiest of moments but I consider your friend uh because I've had a chance to talk to Peter like that because I've had a chance to talk to you like that I had a chance to talk to a mutual friend of ours PJ like that like it goes beyond the work this is a summer camp business you get stuck with eight weeks a couple months you become best friends and never see each other again yeah but if you do have those moments it allows you through long absences catch up and it feels like it's just yesterday or you stay in touch and I think that's super cool man so that thank you thank you thank you I love you please don't block my number never never I don't block anybody's number as soon as I know and I don't change my phone number I've had the same same number since 2000 and we'll put the number up right here this is the number right here you can and everybody text that number right there uh I want to thank you so graciously six eight oh you won I want to thank you graciously I love you so dearly this means a lot to me I wish we could talk for 80 hours but we'll do that in private because that's way more fun we end the episode the same way you look into your camera right there and you say one word or one phrase it used to be a word but some people were like I don't really know what the one word is going to be so I'll say something so one word or one phrase is going to end the episode this will be in the Smithsonian someday I always say that all one word or one phrase is at the end of whiskey ginger in that camera when you're ready no big pressure but one word or one phrase to end the episode sure uh I'll get there thank you Andrew Santino for having me on Whiskey Ginger I don't know what we enjoyed but it was pleasant delicious this is John Cena encouraging everyone out there to earn the day cheers in here we poor whistle whiskey oh that creature in the ginger beard sturdy gingers [Music] gingers oh hell no [Music] Ginger I like gingers

Channel: Andrew Santino

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Length: 83min 27sec (5007 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 24 2023