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00:05:40.300is um uh inside and outside of the wwe skip a beat right there traversing i'm i'm gonna do this i do
00:05:46.300podcasts you are still somehow so genuine and so kind and so thank you for all the time you've
00:05:52.420given me and the energy you've given me and joining us on this show i appreciate the invite
00:05:56.440it's good to be here in puerto rico yeah man this is this is paradise here so uh thank you for
00:06:01.680welcoming in into your your home and i really appreciate it of course man we could we could
00:06:05.780take this so many directions but i think i think the most appropriate way to start honestly is um
00:06:09.880your instagram john you are one of the most famous people on the planet and your instagram
00:06:14.680is one of the most perplexing places that i've ever seen what do you mean when i go to at john
00:06:20.420cena on instagram i'm just gonna i gotta pull some up because i need answers you know i need
00:06:27.200answers so i wasn't sure if i was on the right account look at today but it had 20 million no
00:06:32.380look at today oh my god now that one makes sense okay john but what were you feeling on this
00:06:39.500prince day on this on this dave chapelle rendition of prince day what does the bio say i'll read it
00:06:45.640welcome to my instagram these images will be posted without explanation for your interpretation
00:06:51.800enjoy so enjoy no no no no no we want you to interpret what this photo of benjamin franklin
00:06:58.240that you posted meant what did you mean when you posted that john so uh i don't want to i never
00:07:04.640want to take away anyone's interpretation of the image why did i post that because i just read
00:07:11.500poor charlie's almanac which is a charlie munger piece who admires and read a reference to biography
00:07:18.500by ben franklin and it references a lot to do with ben franklin and ben franklin found
00:07:24.700compounding interests to be extremely interesting so much so that he took an experiment and put a
00:07:31.500certain amount in a fund and had it mature for a certain amount of time and was able to fund a
00:07:37.700bunch of philanthropic projects just on compound interest alone. I don't think that enough people
00:07:43.960learn how to use money right. I don't know why we don't teach it in schools. And I got guidance
00:07:50.300on how to use money from Ben Franklin via Charlie Munger. So I posted Ben Franklin.
00:07:56.460can i ask you about this traffic jam yeah sure i was stuck in traffic
00:08:03.600these are all making so much sense that one i love that one made sense but i hate i hate doing
00:08:11.760this because i want uh people to be able to take away what they want just like any other artist
00:08:18.420they want the audience so I originally I am not from the age of attach yourself to every platform
00:08:26.940uh it was very tough for me to come up to to speed I contribute to Facebook I contribute to
00:08:33.160Twitter and then the the WWE at the time when Instagram launched was like you have to have an
00:08:38.380Instagram it's like all right if I have to have it I'm doing it my way and the very first post
00:08:43.380is a post of a writer who was working with me at the time, Ryan Ward. It's a close-up of his
00:08:48.600mustache. And I didn't put anything, no tags, no nothing. And I said, I'd never post a picture of
00:08:54.340my face. And I would never add any text. And I would just see if this could work. And it has
00:09:01.740become like art. And I think there's not enough vehicle for interpretation nowadays. Everything
00:09:10.120is presented and thoroughly explained i want people to think for themselves and i've dropped
00:09:15.940some serious clues and spoilers on there and like real inside baseball stuff but if you're not
00:09:21.480looking for it you don't know and i don't care if you know because that's not the point the point is
00:09:26.080if you're if you come to there as a forum you can check out the images you can get a look into my
00:09:31.160life or maybe you can get a look in your own life maybe you see something in a traffic jam that i
00:09:35.920don't maybe you see something that ben franklin pitcher i don't stone cold stroganoff and then
00:09:40.100their stone cold friday it is a beautiful rendition of a way to use social media it's
00:09:45.420actually amazing coming from you that that you like i said three sizes man i appreciate that
00:09:49.760it's cool and i'm not gonna do this all day just please just one more what did you mean when you
00:09:54.280posted this bear with 687 000 likes what is this chubby little bear i had just uh visited my family
00:10:01.240in vancouver and i spent uh 10 days being fed persian food and that's how i felt
00:10:09.160you're the best john is and that because it's in the snow and that's kind of how i felt can we make
00:10:17.120this so good can we get serious for a second the social media thing for just one last we weren't
00:10:20.780serious we just didn't do that i thought it was very serious i mean i was genuinely giving you
00:10:25.940my thoughts which is very rare i don't explain anything okay leaving the interpret the artistic
00:10:31.760interpretation out of it do you do you see any other uh innate downsides to social media that
00:10:37.500you don't like is there any anything you steer clear of any platforms you don't like is there
00:10:41.320anything you just don't like about social media listen uh man there's things about life i don't
00:10:48.000like so i stay away from that stuff um the reason i curate my instagram the way i do
00:10:54.860is because i want to really be efficient with my time on that screen and the reason i curate my
00:11:02.340Twitter the way I do. The reason we have the experience in TikTok that we do is because I
00:11:09.500want to be able to, first, what's most important to me, getting something out there for the people
00:11:15.480who actually pay attention to what I do. I have no idea why, but understanding that that's important
00:11:20.440and making it important, but also setting boundaries for myself. I believe boundaries
00:11:25.380are very important in life um and this is a way for me to operate in all tentacles where
00:11:32.020my entire day isn't structured around that device and that's something that i am consciously aware
00:11:38.960of so i don't want to say i don't want to do that i want to be a part of all these things
00:11:43.880but i the the person who helps me uh manage all this is sitting right over there that when we sit
00:11:48.860down and explore a new platform. The first piece of discussion is how much time is this going to
00:11:55.640take? Because that is our most valuable asset. The time you gave me today in the car, that's a
00:12:01.960huge ask. Your time is super valuable. I was able to receive so much worth and wealth from that,
00:12:09.840and I'm grateful. I'd much rather be doing that than scanning to see what the world is about.
00:12:16.220i think social media is great if if it doesn't make your life miserable if something makes your
00:12:23.800life miserable and you continue to do it man i don't know what to tell you social media doesn't
00:12:29.860make my life miserable i feel good about the messages i send i feel great that i like kind0.98
00:12:35.460of have an art gallery and instagram i feel great that we can use tiktok for weird shit
00:12:40.660um and we're now using it as a way to like look back on my life but it only takes me about
00:12:46.28010 minutes a week to do so so it 10 minutes a week do you know how many people in their chairs
00:12:52.640watching this just current like lost their minds there are people watching the show that are
00:12:57.760spending 12 hours a day but honestly if it gives you joy i'm okay with it right like do what you
00:13:05.460love love what you do and be around those you love while you're doing it there are people who
00:13:11.380do certain activities for for that amount of time and have a lot of joy in their lives
00:13:16.060if you're on your phone and and you can fall asleep at night and feel fulfilled
00:13:21.600who the fuck am i to say you're doing it wrong amazing you have a very healthy relationship0.97
00:13:27.740with social media and everything in your life the amount of discipline i can just hear that you and0.99
00:13:32.260now that i know you a little bit better from the two-hour conversation we had you're like a
00:13:36.440almost like a disciplinary expert i feel like and especially to achieve the success that you have
00:13:42.300the way you treat time as your most valuable asset and actually mean it when you say it
00:13:46.560is inspiring and sort of refreshing in this day and age well we we talked a little bit about
00:13:54.740in the car uh about purpose and a lot of that is just working hard to try to be who you say you are
00:14:04.360and we all we all project ourselves a certain way but when rubber hits the road and you look
00:14:11.200at yourself in the mirror who are you and are you living the life that you're telling people
00:14:15.180you're living and that's that's i'm i'm just trying to do that now and that takes a lot of
00:14:22.000work you're doing it and and and the fans see it we see it and experience it in person can i see
00:14:29.480what your screen time is i don't have my phone on me oh exhibit a uh i that's okay i i actually
00:14:36.200monitor my screen time uh all in and i work out on an app so the app is always open uh i also do
00:14:45.220a language program and that app stays open but i monitor my screen time and my screen time
00:14:51.800per week or my screen time per day per week for 200 2023 was 150 minutes and that's all in
00:15:00.580everything no matter what yes that's fantastic i'm probably i'm probably double or triple that
00:15:05.680and my resolution this year one of my goals is to try to decrease at 10 sick i don't want to say
00:15:11.820like kick myself off everything yep i i can do that but i have to be accountable for the side
00:15:19.100effects of that i love what i do yep and the entertainment business is business so it's it's
00:15:25.660an it's a necessary tool that i need to be fluent in yeah but i also want to get more time for me
00:15:32.100so i think getting that down to like two hours would be awesome but i'm just going to try to
00:15:36.120shave it shave it a little bit what are those what are those two hours do you ever find yourself
00:15:39.940like scroll lock sure sure uh i'm a car guy so i look at cars got it i i look at the marketplace
00:15:46.900um i'll i think a lot of the time is probably spent there just checking out like okay what
00:15:54.520what is a value in the market uh what is the going rate on stuff are there any crazy auctions coming
00:16:00.460up uh that i should steer away from because that would be detrimental to my financial security
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00:18:31.740Oh my God, Lexi. We have a new podcast. It's called Don't Lie to Me.
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00:20:35.580you get your podcast you said the word fluent i gotta know how the fuck are you fluent in mandarin0.95
00:20:44.240so fluent is a stretch okay uh i'm better than i was yesterday and i've been taking mandarin for0.83
00:20:51.66010 10 to 12 years now and the the how of that is wwe wwe uh did not have to do this and they
00:21:01.940offer all talent you qualify for this as well they will assist in paying for your secondary
00:21:07.260education and they will give you a free language program are you serious you can learn it just
00:21:13.520like i can i am going to learn spanish and when they when they uh debuted all these things i'm
00:21:18.740the old crusty veteran sitting at the front of the talent meeting with everybody and i'm like
00:21:22.340these kids don't know how good they got it they can get a college education to learn a language
00:21:26.520i gotta turn up and say that no i'm not going to turn around and tell them to do anything
00:21:30.240i'm going to do it so on my time off i took advantage of the program had a tutor come to
00:21:35.560the house and just started from there that is unbelievable no it's very believable they offered
00:21:39.520for free i'm gonna take him up on that i thought it was a good opportunity to learn and i you know
00:21:46.400at that point uh i had heard the two toughest things to do as you age were learn language and
00:21:51.800play an instrument and i it was learning remedial mandarin that inspired me to try to learn an
00:21:56.560instrument dude i saw a selfie video of you promoting something speaking fluent or what
00:22:02.580appeared to be conversational it i i describe it as like a foreign athlete trying to speak
00:22:08.660english after the game like it's you can you can get it like that one guy that one baseball player
00:22:14.560talking about the the bananas and cramps monkey eat banana oh yeah monkey no cramp i in the locker
00:22:21.740i know cramp yeah yeah the japanese guy why mandarin uh so is it like some like strange
00:22:28.440reason like do like so um you missed out on a great conversation but i i cannot tell you how
00:22:34.880much i love wwe and and loving it is not just loving my time in the ring it's also loving the
00:22:41.340business and wwe has really never been able to to penetrate china and i um they just don't
00:22:47.780understand it they think it's a kung fu exposition they don't know if it's real um it's it's the one
00:22:53.980place in the world that kind of doesn't understand we're everywhere else but china so i figured if
00:22:59.460one of wwe's top superstars could bridge the language barrier maybe we can get some relevancy
00:23:07.300over there and with relevancy maybe we can get some homegrown talent and with homegrown talent
00:23:11.740maybe as we were talking about how you how you get distribution with prime and how you get
00:23:17.720locations it's you have influence in this area and i was literally just trying to use
00:23:24.360myself as a vehicle to get us over there and the crazy thing is it didn't work
00:23:30.560so we also talked about like manifesting stuff and it failing yeah this was eight years of labor
00:23:39.340failed god i haven't stopped i still learn because i truly admire learning the skill
00:23:45.160and uh it i don't i don't do it anymore as oh this will be useful to me someday i try to keep
00:23:50.480my brain sharp and i don't want to lose what i've learned but uh it was one of those things where
00:23:55.920you just work really hard and it doesn't matriculate i don't think that's i don't think
00:23:59.840that's like a representation of like anyone's you know faults or inabilities to penetrate that
00:24:06.580market that's a tough market john everything they use is is different it's it's not like
00:24:11.160you you post an instagram post and it goes to france and it goes to italy and it goes to germany
00:24:15.920in the united states china has its own entire ecosystem ecosystem of of social media of
00:24:22.420marketplace of industry sure does you literally pick one of the hardest places to try to penetrate
00:24:28.700it was the one place we weren't right right that story in itself is an indicator of your love for
00:24:35.020the company like you were willing to put in so much work to try to extend uh the work that you
00:24:41.360do into another country and i think even one of our interactions and and we talked about keeping
00:24:48.200certain interactions off camera but i'm going to share this for the world good is also an indicator
00:24:52.640of how much you love wwe um i'm in my locker room one day kicking it with kevin laying back i hear a
00:24:58.780knock who could that great sound effect opens the door i'm the only dude who still does the
00:25:06.400shaving a haircut two bits gag i knew of someone it's john cena i go john cena well welcome what's
00:25:14.240up and man you just expressed to me that the love you had for this company and you your gratitude
00:25:20.700for me for showing it that the respect that it honestly deserves but it was
00:25:27.180not not shocking but it was so nice to see off camera in a private space really how much you
00:25:36.420love the wwe you said you said it's your life and the amount of energy and effort that you put into
00:25:46.220it on and off camera can be felt and i think that's why the fans respond to you so much i
00:25:51.180appreciate that thank you you've been doing this for so long from the ovw w days ruthless aggression
00:25:58.080did the other huge failure well that's why i wanted to ask when you entered the wwe you know
00:26:03.620they're like who are you what are you about my name's john cena i'm about ruthless aggression
00:26:06.960what was the storyline going in are y'all just winging it so uh if i had it to do again right
00:26:13.700Uh, the reason it didn't work is because I wasn't there for Vince's ruthless aggression promo and I was neither ruthless nor aggressive. So I looked the same as everybody else. It was basically a debut. We spoke off camera and you express that now you just want to show them what you got. You want to show them what you're capable of and you can do such amazing things, but so can everyone else.
00:26:43.700What sets people apart is the ability to believe.
00:26:47.760So when I come out and I slap Kurt Angle on the face and say ruthless aggression, everybody's like, great.
00:26:53.580And then 10 minutes into that match, one of the rowdiest buildings in the world, the Rosemont Horizon, everybody's like this.
00:27:02.340And that, it just wasn't going to work.
00:27:06.960They filmed a little bit with The Undertaker afterwards.
00:27:10.940where he shook my hand and I was in awe someone who's aggressive and ruthless would have kicked
00:27:18.400him in the nuts yeah yeah so either I just didn't understand the opportunity I was being given
00:27:23.980I can take those two words and in those two words tell me who you are in two words
00:27:29.040ruthlessly aggressive I know what that means do whatever it takes in an aggressive manner
00:27:36.300to get the objective done or you're a 180 of that you are the biggest pacifist and you are not
00:27:44.180ruthless so i could have said that i was ruthlessly ruthlessly aggressive and been the opposite and i
00:27:50.300would have had a chance i could have said i was ruthlessly aggressive and been that and had a
00:27:54.940chance i said it and wrestled fail fail and i mean they they set me up i was with top tier performers
00:28:05.480uh pay-per-view matches it just didn't work the audience didn't connect and it was because i
00:28:11.000didn't give of myself to them i wanted to show them my skill that's all well and good but man
00:28:18.560when i go back i don't have much skill left i just give them my whole complete heart and always have
00:28:25.460and always will and that's why people show up man they they sit down to stand up and be excited and
00:28:32.760be energized and fucking believe in something and you can like dude you can feel it like i0.60
00:28:40.100love that i love it i'll and and i i just wish i'd known that earlier i mean you're not doing so bad0.96
00:28:50.680i appreciate that but you're flipping it back on me hey you told me about your regret and i'm like
00:28:55.880hey we know how the story ends yeah yeah yeah i mean everyone has their arc um and and you you
00:29:02.380also said like the come up is so interesting because everybody's come up is different yeah
00:29:05.920i mean i said in the car i was like i wish i would have done some things differently as i'm
00:29:09.620sure you would too um and and the whole class of people that came up with you at ovw um
00:29:15.520batista was one of them lesnar we're watching videos last night randy orton like the amount
00:29:22.060of blue chip talent at the time was absolutely unbelievable and you had the best peers in the
00:29:27.160game to well people talk about that but let's look at the class before us uh dx the rock stone cold
00:29:34.840steve austin the undertaker kane the list goes on and let's talk about the class after me of the cm
00:29:41.380punks the seth rollins the roman reigns i mean cody rhodes becky lynn charlotte flair the list
00:29:49.100goes on yeah i mean the wwe has never been at a loss for talent they go through these small
00:29:56.380patches in the timeline where they're like what are they going to do next who's going to be the
00:30:00.740next stone cold who's going to be the next john cena and now it's like who's going to be the next
00:30:04.920roman reigns sitting right there maybe i personally think it's dominic mysterio
00:30:09.400shout out by the way i'll absolutely absolutely shout out he's doing fantastic speaking of him
00:30:16.720jumping in recently what was your initial perception of that hire and that entry into
00:30:23.960the wwe i'll give you two answers me 10 years ago would have been very skeptical but the business
00:30:30.220has changed and because the business has changed and we have better distribution we're in more
00:30:34.780you can we're more finest in more places yeah um the perception of what we can offer has changed
00:30:41.620and now people come to us seeing opportunity not just what can i take from this place
00:30:46.280and right away with what you're willing to sacrifice in terms of your health and well-being
00:30:52.920with the moves that you do i can tell that you give a and that means a lot you're not here
00:30:59.320to just do the thing once you went from like special guest to full-time superstar in five
00:31:04.920minutes and that's that's very refreshing i think it speaks volumes to you understanding
00:31:11.880what the wwe can offer and how the wwe has changed man i really appreciate that um and we
00:31:19.240we we talked about this in the car um i love that i love what drives you by the way always
00:31:24.200well we talked for two hours and nicky's telling me it's going to be like a 23 minute cut so might
00:31:28.460as well just have the conversation again stuff they're not going to use um i i was like yo i
00:31:32.660felt like i started late and you mentioned that you started at age 22 i started at 26 but before
00:31:38.640you really got into it and started having your big breaks did you know you wanted to be a wrestler
00:31:42.960because we've had edge here we've had some people here and they're like yo i knew the moment i saw
00:31:47.320wrestling this is what i was gonna do so i knew it from a perspective of this is the hobby i want
00:31:52.760to have i think of it like your softball league or like whatever whatever you work towards the
00:31:58.900week for my little brother hates his job but loves his boat okay he endures the suck to get out on
00:32:05.380the water when i found that ring i was just about ready to take a career leap that would have not
00:32:12.860allowed me to do that uh and if that failed i was just going to go back home what were you going to
00:32:17.980do i was going to join the marines you would have been a sick marine so i just failed at every
00:32:24.320avenue in life i got my college degree i could not apply it i tried to be a cop i failed the exam
00:32:29.340uh i was running out of time money uh and and i just didn't know what to do and i was like man i
00:32:36.700i can follow a schedule i'm in shape i think i can abide by the rules these people have always
00:32:43.100been heroes to me it's right in san diego as in los angeles at the time i'm like man i'm just
00:32:47.600gonna i'm gonna go for it and the weekend i was thinking about it a friend of mine was like dude0.97
00:32:51.880you're always talking about raw you know we trained down in orange county like what the fuck0.92
00:32:57.840no what no he's like would you want to do it yes of course when i saw the ring i was like okay0.99
00:33:03.720i'm gonna do whatever stupid job i can to put on the costume friday and saturday so it wasn't like
00:33:11.140this is my path it was like no this is the new thing i'm into i was a student to play football0.94
00:33:17.580you know i used my job to be a wrestler like it became my escape because i had spent so long on
00:33:28.020the other side of the barricade as a fan growing up so was there a moment then when you realized
00:33:33.740this was working and you may have a shot at true greatness not just to be well i i wouldn't say
00:33:40.960that i would say there was a moment where i knew that it was a possible path and that was when i
00:33:48.020got my first contract and uh i'm i'm very vocal about this because of the times it was the height
00:33:56.760of the wcw wwf wars where everyone was under contract because they didn't want you going the
00:34:02.600other place they it was like the dot-com boom you got a dot-com i'll buy it and like so my first
00:34:09.060contract was for twelve thousand five hundred dollars a year yeah and i quit my job and i still
00:34:15.700lived in los angeles damn so i had to i had to operate pretty lean or i i didn't have to i chose
00:34:23.540to yeah and all the stories i tell about like hey i lived in my car i did that by choice i had a warm
00:34:29.100bed and a roof over my head in massachusetts my dad is the the most giving person to his sons and
00:34:34.540he's like you always got a home here always take care of you no i wanted to do that and i had to
00:34:40.240go through i chose to go through some hardships to be where i'm at i quit because my philosophy was
00:34:48.100this is my job now i am being paid i am a professional this is my job i will find a way
00:34:55.220to make it work because someone has bet on me and if i don't let them down i could inch forward
00:34:59.420and i did that my second contract was for like 25 and then they moved me to kentucky and it became
00:35:04.90050 and they moved me to tv and it became 75 and then i ended up signing a better deal than a0.98
00:35:11.020better deal figure motherfucker yeah you gotta be getting at least like 100 now what's that you0.98
00:35:15.560got to be getting at least like 100 years eating well shouldn't be complicated but somehow it0.99
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