The Joe Rogan Experience - Joe Rogan Experience #1166 - Diamond Dallas Page

00:00:02.000 Four, three, two, one.

00:00:08.000 Mr. Page, how are you?

00:00:11.000 I never had a bad day in my life.

00:00:13.000 Ever?

00:00:13.000 Well, I've had plenty of bad moments.

00:00:15.000 Bad moments, but you recovered.

00:00:17.000 Yeah, you know, to me, it's all your state of mind, period.

00:00:21.000 And I don't stay there.

00:00:22.000 If I go down, I get back up. 0.99

00:00:25.000 If you're gonna chew that, people are gonna go fucking crazy. 0.99

00:00:28.000 I put one of those in my mouth the other day, and I got like 150 comments because I had a sore throat. 0.99

00:00:34.000 Well, I got the throat coat.

00:00:37.000 Yeah.

00:00:39.000 Listen, man, first of all, I love what you're doing.

00:00:42.000 I really do.

00:00:43.000 I think it's fantastic, and I'm a big fan of yoga, and what you've done for not just...

00:00:49.000 What you've done is made yoga available to people that thought that yoga was for chicks.

00:00:55.000 Right.

00:00:57.000 Now, it's funny you say that because how it started, it was yoga for regular.

00:01:02.000 It was regular people, regular guys.

00:01:04.000 It made it for guys.

00:01:05.000 People think of yoga as being something that you have to be into.

00:01:09.000 You've got to be all namaste. 0.99

00:01:11.000 And you hear, Dallas Diamond Page, what the fuck? 0.99

00:01:13.000 Or Diamond Dallas Patriots. 1.00

00:01:15.000 Either one.

00:01:15.000 But you.

00:01:17.000 You're this giant pro wrestler guy.

00:01:19.000 You're into yoga, and you're really, really into it.

00:01:23.000 I mean, you've got your own system of yoga.

00:01:25.000 I mean, this is for something that I think is very important for body maintenance and for keeping your spine healthy and mobility, which is one of the things that a lot of us ignore, especially big guys who like to lift weights.

00:01:40.000 Sure. 0.99

00:01:41.000 Do a lot of crazy shit. 1.00

00:01:42.000 I was a meathead. 1.00

00:01:43.000 I'm the guy who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga the first 42 years of my life.

00:01:49.000 But I didn't start wrestling until I was 35. Really?

00:01:52.000 Really.

00:01:52.000 And my career didn't take off until I was 40. How old are you now?

00:01:55.000 62. Dude, if you folks saw what he just did with no warm-up, no warm-up, bent over, grabbed your ankles, fully flattened your body out, pressed your body up against your thighs with no warm-up, then he picks his ankle up and fully extends his leg over his head.

00:02:14.000 I mean, that is incredibly impressive for a 20-year-old person.

00:02:17.000 Well, it's all about staying ahead of it.

00:02:19.000 You know, it's all about owning it.

00:02:22.000 Going back to, you know, just my career, I mean, my career took off in 96, which was, I was 40 years old.

00:02:29.000 97 and 98, man, I was on top of the world.

00:02:33.000 Wrestling 270 days a year, every year.

00:02:39.000 And then I did The Tonight Show, Hollywood Squares, a movie called First Daughter was my first movie I did.

00:02:45.000 So, I mean, I was probably working 300 and...

00:02:48.000 20 days a year and the wear and tear on your body after a while like boom I took a power slam from or a powerbomb from Kevin Nash Kevin's legit 610 long way down and it wasn't that bump that blew my back out it was all of it and being almost 43 years old and when I ruptured my L4 and L5 and we have this amazing vertebrae that is what allows us to do all this crazy shit that we do but What really allows us is those shock absorbers,

00:03:18.000 those discs in between the vertebrae.

00:03:21.000 Well, think of a jelly donut and slap that jelly donut and now there's nothing there.

00:03:27.000 So I have no discs in between my L4 or L5. I was told by three different spine specialists, you're never going to wrestle again.

00:03:36.000 I just signed a multi-million dollar three-year deal.

00:03:38.000 So the guy who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga would do anything to get back in the ring.

00:03:43.000 And I was married at the time and she kind of bullied me into it. 0.97

00:03:48.000 And once I started doing it, Joe, just like you know, I started to feel different, and I started thinking, wow.

00:03:56.000 Now, did you talk to any doctors that wanted to replace your discs or fuse your discs?

00:04:00.000 Two wanted to fuse them, one didn't.

00:04:03.000 What year was this?

00:04:06.000 1999. So there wasn't any of those spacers that they have now?

00:04:09.000 No, they didn't have any of that.

00:04:10.000 Titanium discs?

00:04:11.000 Didn't have any of that.

00:04:12.000 And his whole thing was, if we do fuse you and you go back, you will be crippled because you won't recover from that.

00:04:20.000 So again, going to do yoga, and I started doing Brian Kest.

00:04:25.000 Have you ever taken one of my Brian Kest classes here in LA? No.

00:04:28.000 He's amazing.

00:04:29.000 What kind of yoga is that?

00:04:30.000 Power yoga.

00:04:31.000 He's the guy who kind of put power yoga on the map.

00:04:34.000 And he made me feel like, okay, that dude's cool.

00:04:37.000 And today, he's a buddy of mine.

00:04:40.000 But at the time, I was just doing his VHS tapes.

00:04:43.000 But for what I wanted, it wasn't giving me everything.

00:04:47.000 So what I did, I've rehabbed both shoulder surgeries, both knee surgeries, And I'm kind of like God-given gifts of figuring out how to heal myself.

00:04:59.000 I'm the first guy in professional wrestling to ever ice his body by almost a decade, eight years before they would start doing that.

00:05:08.000 You mean like ice baths?

00:05:09.000 Like ice your shoulders, ice your knees, ice your back.

00:05:13.000 Inflammation, take it down. 0.99

00:05:14.000 I just got that.

00:05:16.000 How'd you figure that out?

00:05:17.000 You know, just different reading on different people and how they healed themselves and what people were saying.

00:05:23.000 And what I've found that a lot of people don't want to put the extra work in.

00:05:27.000 They could be the hardest workers ever, but they won't go that extra mile just to go get a bag of ice, fill it up, put it on your knees, put an A-span around it, you can go wherever you want.

00:05:37.000 Well, that's also like part of the culture of tough guys, right? 0.99

00:05:40.000 Like they don't give a fuck. 0.99

00:05:41.000 Let's just go get a beer and have some food, you know, right? 0.99

00:05:44.000 Steve Austin.

00:05:45.000 There's a little bit of that, right? 0.96

00:05:46.000 There's something about the same type of guy that's so tough they could work 300 days a year is also the same type of guy that's gonna go, ah, I'll fucking just deal with it.

00:05:56.000 And Steve, me and Austin, when I broke in, I was like 35 and a half.

00:06:00.000 He's 26. And Austin was always way ahead of the curve as far as talent.

00:06:06.000 But he was like, what are you doing, kid?

00:06:09.000 I've got those ice bags.

00:06:10.000 So back then we were drinking beers.

00:06:12.000 Not that it's right to do, but back then we were.

00:06:15.000 And he would put the beers on my ice bags in between my ice bag and just keep his beers cold.

00:06:24.000 True story.

00:06:26.000 So, you know, the bottom line is I started to mix the rehabilitation techniques with the yoga positions.

00:06:32.000 Then I threw in old-school calisthenics, like push-ups, squats, crunches, and I did them with a slow burn movement because I had to.

00:06:40.000 And in the beginning, I had to do them on my knees.

00:06:43.000 When you say slow burn movement, this is what you were just showing me before we started the podcast.

00:06:47.000 You're into a lot of dynamic tension exercises.

00:06:50.000 Exactly.

00:06:51.000 Which is a lot of what Bruce Lee was into.

00:06:53.000 Exactly.

00:06:53.000 Into a lot of that stuff.

00:06:54.000 Go look at Bruce Lee.

00:06:55.000 Did he ever have an ounce of fat on him?

00:06:58.000 I don't know what he ate, but...

00:06:59.000 You know what I mean?

00:07:00.000 You know what I mean?

00:07:01.000 The guy was shredded, but that whole time under tension thing, something I call dynamic resistance, I hated that.

00:07:08.000 And like for the push-ups, you know, I would lower for three, hold three inches off the ground for three, come up for three, Lower for three, hold for three.

00:07:19.000 Then I'd go into Cobra and a down dog.

00:07:21.000 And in the beginning, I had to do them on my knees.

00:07:24.000 But then I built that strength to get off my knees.

00:07:27.000 And then three-second push-ups became five.

00:07:29.000 Five became ten.

00:07:30.000 Ten became sets of ten.

00:07:32.000 If you go to my DDP Yoga Facebook, you'll see a video up there of me doing on my 62nd birthday.

00:07:39.000 Well, actually two days after.

00:07:41.000 Ten ten-second push-ups. 0.80

00:07:44.000 At 62. So my core strength is at a different level.

00:07:48.000 I don't lift weights anymore.

00:07:50.000 I haven't really for 10 years because I really don't need it and I don't need a size.

00:07:53.000 I like being like 230. The bottom line is what today is called, I'm branding it DDPY. Why?

00:08:01.000 Because I want people to stop calling it just yoga because it's so different.

00:08:05.000 Now, you've done a lot of yoga.

00:08:06.000 Yeah.

00:08:07.000 I just took you through that minute and a half.

00:08:10.000 Is that like anything you've ever done in a yoga studio?

00:08:13.000 No, it's very different.

00:08:15.000 What you were saying, your dynamic tension thing definitely adds another element to it.

00:08:19.000 And then I have fun with it, man. 0.99

00:08:20.000 I do shit like when you take into a lunge and you throw your arms up, I go, superstar! 0.99

00:08:27.000 You know, when we're in like a lunge that we're folding forward and we're to explode into touchdown, I'd say throw a little Ric Flair on the end of that. 1.00

00:08:38.000 And as everybody explodes, woo!

00:08:40.000 You know, just having people having fun.

00:08:43.000 I did a big event.

00:08:45.000 It was this weekend.

00:08:46.000 It was called All In.

00:08:47.000 And it's Cody Rhodes, who's the American Dream Dusty Rhodes' son.

00:08:53.000 He's been in independent wrestling.

00:08:55.000 He was at the show, WWE, for 10 years.

00:08:58.000 And bottom line is he went away, left there, left guaranteed money.

00:09:02.000 Got to be like a half a million bucks.

00:09:04.000 Left it and went to follow the dream because he knew he was a main event guy.

00:09:08.000 And him and these kids, the Young Bucks, they sold out this arena that was 10,426 people.

00:09:16.000 In 29 minutes and 36 seconds.

00:09:19.000 They counted?

00:09:20.000 They counted the seconds?

00:09:21.000 Well, they did.

00:09:22.000 Because it's a really big deal when you're an independent group.

00:09:25.000 You're not the WWE. No, that's insane.

00:09:28.000 It's insane.

00:09:28.000 How many different groups are there now?

00:09:30.000 There's NWA. There's WWE. Right.

00:09:33.000 There's ROH. There's The Row, as my buddy Booker T calls it down there in Houston.

00:09:39.000 And NWA is what Billy Corgan owns, right?

00:09:42.000 Right, and I'll tell you what.

00:09:45.000 Cody was going for the NWA championship against Nick, who was just one of the studs of our business.

00:09:55.000 They had a hell of a match.

00:10:00.000 Billy owns that title.

00:10:02.000 Now think about this.

00:10:03.000 Vince McMahon just, I want to say he was paid $1.2 billion by Fox for the programming for a live show on Friday nights.

00:10:13.000 I'm not sure what the deal is at six years or eight years, but $1.2 billion.

00:10:17.000 And then I heard there's another multi-billion dollar contract being out there, Comcast or something.

00:10:23.000 So that's like NFL stuff.

00:10:26.000 So when that kind of attention comes to wrestling, more people are going to be like, oh, I want to get involved in that.

00:10:34.000 And plus, Vince really has taken it mainstream at a different level.

00:10:38.000 Like back when we were killing it in the 90s, I mean, we had the highest rated show on cable television, whether it was WCW or WWF. Every week, we were one, two, and three, sometimes one, two, three, and four, top four shows.

00:10:50.000 But our dollars that we could get for the advertising...

00:10:54.000 Was nothing like they're getting today because they made it kids friendly.

00:10:58.000 They changed that and it was brilliant by Vince.

00:11:00.000 You know, it really changed format, but today it's about to go through another boom and this whole independent thing that Cody and these young bucks who are great kids did.

00:11:12.000 It really lit up that world.

00:11:15.000 And it's the same thing all over the country.

00:11:16.000 I mean, I should say world.

00:11:17.000 Japan's really big right now, and so is UK and Mexico.

00:11:23.000 They're really, really big.

00:11:24.000 One of the guys from the UFC, Matthew Riddle, just got signed to the WWE. I heard that.

00:11:29.000 Yeah, his story is kind of fucked up. 0.99

00:11:32.000 He got fired from the UFC for failing a pot test. 0.99

00:11:36.000 And the crazy thing, it's so crazy.

00:11:39.000 Let the guy smoke pot.

00:11:40.000 Jesus Christ.

00:11:42.000 But it's even more crazy that, you know, now it's legal.

00:11:46.000 Right.

00:11:46.000 Now pot's legal, and now the level that you can get tested for is so much lower than anything that he got.

00:11:52.000 But I think he enjoys it.

00:11:53.000 I don't think he's missing fighting.

00:11:56.000 You know, fighting is...

00:11:57.000 I know that pro wrestling is probably harder on your body doing those 300 days a year.

00:12:04.000 I don't think there's anything like it in all of entertainment.

00:12:06.000 I really don't. 0.90

00:12:07.000 I mean, it's crazy to think that you're getting body slammed and thrown into the ropes and forearms slammed and all that shit's going on 300 days a year. 0.86

00:12:18.000 It's really, it's not fair.

00:12:20.000 There really should be a way where you could take some time off.

00:12:23.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:12:24.000 When I was on Hollywood Squares one time, someone said, so when's your season?

00:12:28.000 When are you off?

00:12:28.000 They knew nothing about wrestling.

00:12:29.000 I said, when I'm hurt.

00:12:32.000 You know, but the bottom line is...

00:12:34.000 And not hurt.

00:12:36.000 Injured.

00:12:37.000 Like blown ligaments.

00:12:40.000 Exactly.

00:12:40.000 You guys compete, you know, you perform hurt on a regular basis.

00:12:45.000 All the time.

00:12:45.000 I mean, and so do the guys in the NFL. Well, so do the guys in the UFC as well.

00:12:48.000 Absolutely.

00:12:49.000 I think with Matt Riddle, it's like he's got a great personality.

00:12:53.000 And, you know, he doesn't have to cut any weight anymore, and now he's gigantic, and he's a fun guy.

00:12:57.000 I think WWE is perfect for someone like him.

00:13:00.000 I was down there.

00:13:01.000 I train a lot of the guys down there.

00:13:03.000 It's called NXT. Next.

00:13:05.000 And these kids are unbelievable.

00:13:07.000 They're so talented.

00:13:08.000 But I bring my DDPY program down to them, and they're all on my hat.

00:13:12.000 So you're starting that early with these guys.

00:13:15.000 Plus, I'm like, you know, again, I'm 62. They're 24, 22, 28. You know, so they grew up watching me.

00:13:22.000 So it's much easier for me to get them to pay attention.

00:13:27.000 All you have to do is look at Chris Jericho, who's one of the top stars in the world, and he is not with WWE right now.

00:13:32.000 You know, he comes and goes.

00:13:34.000 And he was at that show all in.

00:13:36.000 He did a run-in, a surprise thing, and blew the roof off.

00:13:40.000 He's going to be 48 in November.

00:13:41.000 He wrestles like he's 28. He's been doing my program since he did the same thing I did when he blew his back out and three doctors said he was not going to wrestle anymore.

00:13:51.000 Five weeks later, 85% pain-free.

00:13:54.000 Three months later, he headlined WrestleMania against Punk.

00:13:57.000 He talks about it all the time.

00:14:00.000 Now, how is your back today, those same discs?

00:14:03.000 If I don't do it, it's kind of like brushing your teeth.

00:14:06.000 You've got to brush your teeth.

00:14:07.000 And I don't have to do it every single day, but...

00:14:09.000 Pretty close.

00:14:10.000 Pretty much.

00:14:11.000 And when I wake up, my first 10 minutes, I call it wake up.

00:14:15.000 Man, I call it oil for the tin man and woman. 0.95

00:14:19.000 And the real proof of this for me, because I'm the first transformation, The bottom line is, they said my career was over when I was 42. I started doing what now is called DDPY. Three months, less than three months later,

00:14:35.000 Joey, I was back in the ring.

00:14:36.000 At 42, they said my career was over.

00:14:38.000 At 43, I'm the world champ.

00:14:39.000 And that's like getting our, that's our Oscar.

00:14:42.000 You know what I mean?

00:14:43.000 It's like, you're the guy.

00:14:44.000 You deserve this.

00:14:45.000 When I... You have the most eyes on you.

00:14:47.000 You know, I was in a match with Hogan, Flair, and Sting.

00:14:52.000 Three arguably, maybe, you know, in the top five biggest names ever.

00:14:56.000 And I walk out that world champion.

00:14:58.000 Ric Flair took the diamond cutter in the middle.

00:15:00.000 It was...

00:15:01.000 Hogan took...

00:15:02.000 Hogan gave me such a hug afterwards.

00:15:04.000 Like, this is what this business is supposed to be.

00:15:07.000 That someone like you, who no one would believe would ever be anyone...

00:15:12.000 Could work so hard that they would become the world champ.

00:15:16.000 When I got my Hall of Fame ring in 2017, inside I had inscribed in here, work ethic equals dreams, explanation point, DDP. And that's what it is.

00:15:27.000 You know, I don't tell you anything.

00:15:28.000 You understand putting the work in.

00:15:30.000 Yeah, putting the work in is everything.

00:15:32.000 Now, you're back today.

00:15:33.000 Did you ever get an MRI on it?

00:15:34.000 Oh yeah, I did all that.

00:15:36.000 But now?

00:15:36.000 Now, you know, I don't have any, I don't, if I don't do it, if I'm on too many planes, trains, and automobiles, you know, then I'm going to get released.

00:15:45.000 But I know what to do.

00:15:47.000 Like, I'd say to my wife, and I swear to God, because every morning I do, I roll out of bed some nights and you feel like you get hit by a truck.

00:15:53.000 You know what I mean?

00:15:54.000 Sleeping's the worst thing for me because I get in those positions that I don't know I'm in.

00:15:58.000 And when I wake up, I'm like, oh, Yeah, you'll nod it up.

00:16:01.000 But as soon as I do, within eight minutes, I feel like a completely different person because I know what to do.

00:16:07.000 So your disc, though, was completely gone?

00:16:09.000 No, they're gone.

00:16:10.000 It was literally bone on bone.

00:16:12.000 And is it still like that?

00:16:13.000 Yeah, but this is something I'm trying to tell you, Joe, which makes what I'm doing different than regular yoga.

00:16:19.000 Not just the...

00:16:19.000 I always say most yogis are very namaste.

00:16:22.000 DDPY way more T&A. And I met T&A in the beginning.

00:16:27.000 But what I mean today is tone and attitude.

00:16:29.000 Because it's an attitude, it's a tone.

00:16:31.000 You switched it up.

00:16:32.000 You kept the same letters.

00:16:33.000 Yes, it worked.

00:16:34.000 It worked like that.

00:16:36.000 But, you know, it's just, for me, it's, as you know this, repetition is the mother of learning.

00:16:43.000 The more you do something, the more you own it.

00:16:45.000 And on that clip, I want to show you something I brought with me because I've been waiting for For your show to release this, I've got a new book coming out.

00:16:53.000 And no one's seen this cover yet.

00:16:55.000 And it is called...

00:16:57.000 Yeah, it's premiere.

00:16:58.000 And I'm doing something...

00:16:59.000 I don't think anybody has ever really done this.

00:17:02.000 Now, this isn't the book itself.

00:17:03.000 This is just the cover.

00:17:05.000 It's in the plastic and everything.

00:17:07.000 It's in the plastic.

00:17:07.000 It's called Positively Unstoppable, The Art of Owning It.

00:17:14.000 Ooh, I like it.

00:17:15.000 What is it? 0.99

00:17:16.000 It's whatever the fuck you want it to be. 0.99

00:17:18.000 Check that out. 1.00

00:17:21.000 Diamond Dallas Page, bitches. 1.00

00:17:23.000 Look at that. 1.00

00:17:24.000 That's beautiful.

00:17:25.000 Mick Foley wrote, the funniest, most entertaining forward you could ever...

00:17:29.000 I want to get that guy on.

00:17:30.000 That guy's hilarious.

00:17:31.000 I get that happening in a heartbeat.

00:17:32.000 He's friends with my friend Tony Hinchcliffe, who's a giant pro wrestling fan.

00:17:35.000 And it's given me so much grief, because Tony's such a fan.

00:17:39.000 I've made fun of wrestling, because Tony's a fan. 0.99

00:17:42.000 Tony is such a dork for it. 0.91

00:17:44.000 They do this podcast at the Comedy Store. 0.99

00:17:47.000 What do they call it?

00:17:48.000 The Four...

00:17:50.000 No.

00:17:51.000 What is it?

00:17:53.000 Not the Four Horsemen.

00:17:54.000 No.

00:17:55.000 No, no, no.

00:17:56.000 They have a wrestling podcast that I was just on two weeks ago.

00:18:02.000 Store Horseman.

00:18:03.000 The Store Horseman.

00:18:04.000 So these comics from the Comedy Store are gigantic pro wrestling fans.

00:18:09.000 I want to do that show.

00:18:11.000 I'll set it up.

00:18:12.000 And they do simulcasts.

00:18:15.000 So while Wrestlemania is going on, we do a thing for the UFC sometimes called the Fight Companion. 0.99

00:18:23.000 While the fights are going on, we'll get a bunch of guys in here to drink beers and talk shit. 0.99

00:18:28.000 I love that show. 0.98

00:18:29.000 They do that while WrestleMania is going on. 0.87

00:18:31.000 Right, right.

00:18:32.000 On that note, Jake the Snake Roberts is working a deal right now with Hooters in Vegas, and they're talking about giving him a room, and he will do Monday Night Raw.

00:18:46.000 Somebody contacted me about him as well.

00:18:48.000 Someone from his organization contacted me.

00:18:50.000 And you helped him.

00:18:51.000 Yes.

00:18:52.000 And I saw some sort of a program on television where it was detailing you helping him get clean and you getting him involved in yoga.

00:19:00.000 What you're doing is really fucking awesome because you're exposing something that I think should be It just should be something that everybody does.

00:19:09.000 I just really think that all athletes, all people, I think yoga is a life staple.

00:19:16.000 I really do.

00:19:17.000 When I got through this, when I got through wrestling, I could have easily stepped into that yoga community and went the whole Namaste route. 0.99

00:19:26.000 But that's not who I am.

00:19:30.000 I know that the yoga people, like, they get it!

00:19:33.000 They don't need me.

00:19:35.000 The people who need me is all those people that, literally, that have nobody.

00:19:41.000 And they don't have any direction.

00:19:42.000 Did you see the disabled veteran that I helped?

00:19:44.000 No, I did not.

00:19:45.000 I'm just amazed that you could do what you do with no discs.

00:19:50.000 Me too.

00:19:51.000 I don't understand that, because everybody that I know that has had no discs has had, like, serious muscle atrophy and...

00:19:57.000 Well, because they didn't stay, didn't figure it out.

00:19:59.000 Like, I had to figure it out.

00:20:00.000 What did you figure out, though?

00:20:02.000 What did you do differently?

00:20:03.000 I love that shirt, by the way.

00:20:04.000 Ego kills talent.

00:20:05.000 Yeah, right? 1.00

00:20:06.000 What a fucking great shirt. 0.99

00:20:07.000 Where'd you get that? 0.99

00:20:08.000 That's my buddy, Josh, who brought me in.

00:20:10.000 He's got a line called Beverly Kills.

00:20:14.000 That's a great shirt.

00:20:16.000 That's such a good point.

00:20:18.000 Does it really, like, make the point?

00:20:19.000 I mean, that's why I wore it, because I knew you would love it, and I love this shirt.

00:20:23.000 I wear it all the time.

00:20:25.000 He's got a couple of them that are really cool.

00:20:27.000 Where can someone get that if they wanted to buy that?

00:20:29.000 I think it's beverlykills.com.

00:20:30.000 I'm pretty sure.

00:20:32.000 So this is Arthur Borman.

00:20:34.000 This is disabled veteran.

00:20:35.000 This is what DDP Yoga is or DDPY. Is there a link for this where Jamie could get a hold of it?

00:20:43.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:20:43.000 He could put it on the YouTube?

00:20:44.000 Absolutely.

00:20:45.000 If you go to DDPYoga.com, At the bottom of ddpyoga.com is the video of Arthur.

00:20:52.000 So let me show you this now.

00:20:54.000 Show Jamie the image of him so he could look for it on your website.

00:20:57.000 Yeah, if you want to go all the way to the bottom of ddpyoga.com, it'll be sitting at the bottom.

00:21:01.000 And what was wrong with Arthur?

00:21:03.000 Okay, let me just tell you the back story.

00:21:05.000 This is crazy.

00:21:06.000 Anyone who got my program 11 years ago...

00:21:10.000 It was just workouts, period.

00:21:11.000 It was three different levels.

00:21:13.000 And this first one was called 50 Plus.

00:21:15.000 It's kind of like what I'm doing today where I'm helping people who are really disabled.

00:21:21.000 Okay, there he is right there.

00:21:22.000 You want to watch it?

00:21:23.000 Sure.

00:21:23.000 Hey, let's watch it.

00:21:24.000 Okay, can we play this on YouTube?

00:21:26.000 Yeah, start from the beginning.

00:21:28.000 This is awesome.

00:21:29.000 Doctor told me, never walk unassisted again, it says.

00:21:37.000 So for the people just listening, it says for 15 years, doctors told me I would never walk unassisted again.

00:21:43.000 And we're seeing this gentleman with those crutches, those cane things on his forearms.

00:21:50.000 I accepted this as fact.

00:21:52.000 I was a 47-year-old disabled veteran, and I had basically given up.

00:22:02.000 I was injured as a paratrooper in the Gulf War.

00:22:06.000 Too many jumps.

00:22:08.000 Took its toll on his back.

00:22:11.000 Oh, man.

00:22:12.000 Watch it on his land.

00:22:13.000 And my knees, it says.

00:22:15.000 I gained weight.

00:22:17.000 We'll just watch an image of it.

00:22:18.000 All this stuff is available online at ddpyoga.com, right?

00:22:22.000 Is that what it is?

00:22:23.000 This video, yes.

00:22:24.000 This has got mazillions and mazillions of views.

00:22:26.000 That's a good number.

00:22:29.000 It says he couldn't walk or run.

00:22:32.000 Exercise seemed impossible.

00:22:36.000 Most yoga instructors turn me away.

00:22:39.000 This music's killing me.

00:22:40.000 All but one. 1.00

00:22:42.000 All but one, motherfucker. 1.00

00:22:52.000 It says he didn't know me, but he believed in me when no one else did. 1.00

00:23:02.000 How long is this video?

00:23:03.000 Four minutes.

00:23:04.000 The payoff is worth it, brother.

00:23:06.000 Look at him doing it here.

00:23:08.000 See, I was using a chair.

00:23:10.000 Yeah.

00:23:10.000 To hold on to.

00:23:12.000 For balance.

00:23:14.000 Well, to get up, get down.

00:23:17.000 Says, I fell many times.

00:23:19.000 Yeah.

00:23:21.000 But I got back up.

00:23:23.000 It's all about getting back up, right?

00:23:25.000 Yeah, this is very impressive.

00:23:26.000 Just watching him do what he's doing here.

00:23:28.000 This guy's got heart.

00:23:33.000 You know, the attitude to do something, even though it's difficult and in pain, is so damn important.

00:23:41.000 It is so important.

00:23:43.000 People have to force themselves to do something.

00:23:45.000 And this guy is one of the best examples of that you're ever going to see.

00:23:48.000 I mean, who had a better excuse to give up than this guy?

00:23:53.000 Wow!

00:23:54.000 Look at all this weight he's lost.

00:23:55.000 This is crazy.

00:23:58.000 He's a teacher in Baltimore.

00:24:02.000 He's lost a shitload of weight. 0.72

00:24:04.000 It looks like he's lost like eight inches off of his belly.

00:24:08.000 At least.

00:24:09.000 Says, I started to believe that it could happen.

00:24:14.000 So in this progress thing, you're seeing him trying to walk without his canes and falling down.

00:24:20.000 Flat on his face.

00:24:21.000 Yeah.

00:24:25.000 Starting to build his core strength.

00:24:29.000 This is crazy.

00:24:30.000 He's getting ready to do handstands now.

00:24:32.000 Oh my god. 1.00

00:24:34.000 This guy crashes into a fucking china cabinet. 1.00

00:24:37.000 I love it. 1.00

00:24:38.000 He's gonna kill the cat.

00:24:39.000 Get out of there, cat. 0.99

00:24:40.000 He just said, just because I can't do it today doesn't mean I won't be able to do it someday.

00:24:45.000 Yeah, look at him here, man.

00:24:46.000 Full push-ups. 0.95

00:24:47.000 Wow, walking with one cane now.

00:24:50.000 That's incredible.

00:24:52.000 What a difference in his posture and everything.

00:24:55.000 Look how much weight he's lost.

00:24:57.000 And how often was he doing it?

00:24:59.000 Every day?

00:24:59.000 Every day.

00:25:00.000 Sometimes twice a day.

00:25:02.000 So remember the pictures I showed you, right?

00:25:04.000 Check this out.

00:25:05.000 Couldn't stand on two legs?

00:25:06.000 Now he's standing on one and holding his foot up in the air.

00:25:09.000 That is insane.

00:25:10.000 Look how slim he got. 1.00

00:25:12.000 Holy shit! 1.00

00:25:12.000 He lost a hundred pounds in six months. 1.00

00:25:16.000 And he's holding that cat.

00:25:17.000 That cat's gonna die. 1.00

00:25:17.000 I told that cat, get out of there. 1.00

00:25:20.000 Watch this brother. 1.00

00:25:21.000 Holy shit! 1.00

00:25:23.000 He's running. 1.00

00:25:24.000 That is insane.

00:25:26.000 He's not just walking, he's running.

00:25:28.000 Sprinting. 1.00

00:25:29.000 Holy shit! 1.00

00:25:31.000 That is incredible! 1.00

00:25:34.000 That really is incredible.

00:25:39.000 Wow! 0.99

00:25:41.000 Look how fucking slim he is! 0.99

00:25:45.000 That is really amazing. 0.99

00:25:47.000 What is the name of...

00:25:48.000 It says Never Give Up.

00:25:49.000 What is the name of this video so people can find it?

00:25:51.000 Never Give Up.

00:25:52.000 If you go to ddpyoga.com, it's right at the bottom.

00:25:55.000 Whoa, look at him!

00:25:57.000 Look at the difference in him.

00:25:58.000 He looks like he's 10 years younger.

00:26:00.000 Lost 140 pounds in 10 months. 1.00

00:26:03.000 Holy shit. 1.00

00:26:04.000 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 1.00

00:26:08.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:26:09.000 That is crazy.

00:26:10.000 Standing on his head.

00:26:11.000 That is crazy.

00:26:13.000 That is crazy.

00:26:16.000 That's so amazing, man.

00:26:18.000 I'm going to show you a picture that no one's seen this.

00:26:19.000 I'm saving this for a TED talk that I'm going to do.

00:26:22.000 And they've been asking me a couple times to do it, and I just wasn't ready, but now I am.

00:26:26.000 I'm just waiting.

00:26:27.000 Eventually, they're going to get a hold of me again, and I'm going to do it.

00:26:29.000 And I'm going to base it around anything that's possible.

00:26:31.000 I'm crying, man.

00:26:32.000 It did choke you up, right?

00:26:33.000 It did.

00:26:34.000 I told you it was a payoff.

00:26:35.000 I mean, like, strong.

00:26:36.000 And my business partner, Steve Yu, Put that together.

00:26:40.000 And I literally did it with his son originally, and it was pretty good.

00:26:45.000 But Steve just took it.

00:26:46.000 He's the same guy who directed The Resurrection and Jake the Snake.

00:26:49.000 So let me finish with him.

00:26:51.000 In 10 months, he lost The 140 pounds. 1.00

00:26:57.000 But fuck the weight. 1.00

00:26:58.000 Because this is not about weight loss. 1.00

00:26:59.000 It's just an awesome side effect.

00:27:01.000 And think about that. 1.00

00:27:02.000 With my shit, you can lose weight. 1.00

00:27:04.000 But you know you can't out-train a bad diet. 1.00

00:27:07.000 So you've got to do everything.

00:27:09.000 You've got to, more than anything, change your mindset, which is what Positively Unstoppable is all about.

00:27:14.000 Changing your mindset and owning that inner voice, the story you tell yourself.

00:27:19.000 So, Arthur lost 140 pounds.

00:27:22.000 More importantly, he lost some knee braces, back braces, and canes.

00:27:24.000 No more knee braces.

00:27:25.000 No more knee braces.

00:27:26.000 How did he do that?

00:27:27.000 Let me finish.

00:27:30.000 Knee braces and canes, not just to walk, but run.

00:27:33.000 But this is what the program is really about.

00:27:35.000 At one year, he's 5'6", took a picture of his 6'2 son.

00:27:41.000 That's insane.

00:27:42.000 Standing on his back while he's doing a push-up in one year.

00:27:45.000 One year.

00:27:45.000 Imagine if you didn't see him for a year.

00:27:47.000 Hey man, let's go have lunch.

00:27:48.000 I haven't seen you in a long time. 0.99

00:27:50.000 Like, who the fuck are you? 0.95

00:27:52.000 Where's Arthur? 0.99

00:27:54.000 And that's really, like, it was crazy because, again, anybody who got my program 11 years ago, I, personally, there was no one else but me, I would send them an email saying, hey, man, I'm not trying to sell you anything.

00:28:07.000 You already bought the program, and I want to say thank you, and I got a couple questions.

00:28:11.000 If you would answer them, I'd appreciate it.

00:28:13.000 His answers were...

00:28:15.000 So good that I wrote him back and I'd never written anybody like directly that I didn't know at this time.

00:28:21.000 And I wrote him back and I said, sounds like you need some help, bro.

00:28:24.000 I said, what's your story? 0.77

00:28:26.000 Cliff notes, disabled veteran, morbidly obese, relegated to thinking of himself as a piece of furniture. 1.00

00:28:33.000 So I say, send me some pictures so I can see what I was working with.

00:28:36.000 And those are the pictures, those first two with the canes. 0.99

00:28:40.000 And I was like, fuck, man. 0.99

00:28:42.000 I don't know how I can help him because not so much the knee braces. 1.00

00:28:45.000 Hell, I wore knee braces my whole career.

00:28:47.000 I didn't realize it was strapped to a back brace and his wife, 20 minutes every morning, got to put her on the sleeve, put on the brace because he can't even bend over enough to do it.

00:28:56.000 And so she puts them all together.

00:28:58.000 20 minutes later, he's going to the bathroom with his canes.

00:29:01.000 So I sent him this food plan, which is like my phase three eating plan, which is for health, but I got it from a guy named Dr. Fred Bishy.

00:29:09.000 And at the time, Fred was 78, could still run 20 miles on the beach in the deep sand with my brother.

00:29:17.000 Like, that's his mentor. 0.99

00:29:18.000 He helped people with cancer and all sorts of shit. 0.94

00:29:20.000 This guy's like, he's just a different level of walking the talk. 0.96

00:29:25.000 So you have a food plan as well as an exercise plan.

00:29:28.000 Everything.

00:29:29.000 And what kind of food do you have to meet in?

00:29:31.000 Well, this is what I like to do.

00:29:33.000 Let's go back to what God created. 1.00

00:29:36.000 Shit that's not genetically modified. 1.00

00:29:38.000 All right? 1.00

00:29:39.000 Shit that's not sprayed with chemicals. 1.00

00:29:42.000 So let's call it organic. 1.00

00:29:45.000 Or like your great-grandparents used to call it, fucking food. 1.00

00:29:50.000 Like, it's everything. 1.00

00:29:51.000 Go to Italy.

00:29:52.000 Go to France.

00:29:53.000 They don't have to say, can I have the organic vegetables?

00:29:55.000 What? 0.98

00:29:56.000 Like, everything's fucking organic here, bozo. 0.98

00:29:58.000 You know, like, that's the way it's supposed to be. 0.94

00:30:00.000 I mean, when you look at just the...

00:30:04.000 The obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autism.

00:30:09.000 Like, how is it through the roof?

00:30:12.000 How are there 400-pound guys everywhere?

00:30:15.000 25 years ago, that didn't happen.

00:30:17.000 Right.

00:30:18.000 You know?

00:30:18.000 And then they changed everything.

00:30:19.000 And as far as I'm concerned, there's three reasons why it could have happened.

00:30:22.000 Because I don't know.

00:30:23.000 I'm not a scientist. 1.00

00:30:24.000 I'm a fucking wrestler. 0.98

00:30:25.000 But I know when I get people to eat what God created and stuff that's not genetically modified, I found that they get out of pain, and that's what I did with Jake and Scott. 0.99

00:30:36.000 You know, Razor Ramon also moved into my house, and when you get a chance to watch, before you have Jake come on, definitely watch The Resurrection of Jake the Snake, because I can set you up with that too.

00:30:45.000 But Jake, I got him eating real food, and Scott Hall, aka Razor Ramon, eating real food.

00:30:53.000 And within two weeks, they're already going to start getting out of pain.

00:30:58.000 That's why I eat the way I eat.

00:31:00.000 Because I don't want to feel like I'm 82. I want to feel like I'm 42 at 62. Now when you talk about your food plan, are you giving them specific portions and what to eat?

00:31:11.000 How do you set it up?

00:31:12.000 On the app, which right now...

00:31:14.000 Oh, you have an app?

00:31:15.000 Oh, dude, I've got...

00:31:16.000 I think I have the most extensive app on the planet.

00:31:20.000 And it...

00:31:21.000 Like, let's just go to the workouts and I'll come back to the food.

00:31:23.000 Android and iPhone?

00:31:25.000 Everything, yes.

00:31:26.000 And right now you can get it...

00:31:27.000 What about a Windows phone?

00:31:28.000 I think it works on everything. 1.00

00:31:30.000 Nobody has one of those fucking things. 0.97

00:31:31.000 Whatever it is, we've set it up for everything that you can use. 0.99

00:31:35.000 And for your iPad, your computer.

00:31:37.000 And I didn't realize at the time that I set it up for the iPhone, the Droid, the iPad, the tablet, and the computer.

00:31:44.000 Like going back in time, I just would have done the phone.

00:31:46.000 Because, and the computer, because you can have your phone go right to the TV. You know, if you got Apple TV, you go whoosh.

00:31:53.000 But it cost me a lot more money to do it with all five units.

00:31:56.000 The bottom line is, I created this thing, like from Arthur's stuff.

00:32:00.000 I call it DDPY Rebuild.

00:32:03.000 You can't get out of bed?

00:32:05.000 You can't do the workout? 1.00

00:32:06.000 Bullshit. 1.00

00:32:07.000 I got three workouts in bed that have nothing to do with fucking. 1.00

00:32:11.000 It's just freaking working out for 10 minutes, 12 minutes will get you up and I call those bed flex. 0.99

00:32:16.000 Then I put you in chair force where you're sitting in a chair. 0.98

00:32:19.000 I got eight workouts in a fucking chair which gets you strong enough to hold the chair. 0.95

00:32:24.000 So I call those stand strong like Arthur was doing, help you get up, help you get down, help you balance, help to keep you from falling. 0.98

00:32:32.000 Then you're ready for beginner.

00:32:34.000 And once you get to all the modifications that I teach you with Stand Strong, I got a guy who's 84 years old.

00:32:41.000 His name is Ted Evans.

00:32:42.000 He's been working with me since he was 68. The motherfucker can do every workout I do. 1.00

00:32:48.000 Every workout. 1.00

00:32:48.000 Now, is he modified at times? 1.00

00:32:50.000 Yes. 0.99

00:32:50.000 But he can do every fucking workout I do. 0.99

00:32:54.000 And it goes all the way to extreme psycho shit. 1.00

00:32:56.000 Like, I did a workout today where I took my foot and held it out in front of me and held it for 30 seconds. 0.99

00:33:01.000 Then pulled it out.

00:33:02.000 Held it for 30 seconds.

00:33:04.000 This is all core stuff.

00:33:05.000 It's got to be the stuff...

00:33:07.000 God, it skips my mind right now.

00:33:10.000 The fighter, the UFC fighter, the French kid who was amazing.

00:33:15.000 Georges St-Pierre?

00:33:16.000 Yes.

00:33:16.000 I mean, nobody can ever take him down.

00:33:18.000 You know, they hook his leg and boom.

00:33:20.000 You're not taking him down.

00:33:22.000 He's going to hop around because of his core strength.

00:33:24.000 He had to be doing some of this type of stuff.

00:33:26.000 He does a lot of gymnastics.

00:33:27.000 Well, again, those guys are super freaks.

00:33:29.000 And as wrestlers or UFC guys, that's a whole different level.

00:33:34.000 And George Superior, I remember, nobody's taking him down.

00:33:37.000 I don't care how they hook his legs.

00:33:39.000 So he really gets all of that inner strength.

00:33:42.000 And that's really what I'm doing.

00:33:44.000 At a level that you can start in bed.

00:33:47.000 Right. 0.99

00:33:47.000 So there's no more fucking excuses. 0.99

00:33:49.000 No more fucking excuses. 1.00

00:33:50.000 And that's so damn important. 1.00

00:33:52.000 It is.

00:33:52.000 Because people can feel sorry for themselves.

00:33:54.000 They can say they can't do it.

00:33:55.000 They don't have the energy.

00:33:56.000 They're too beat up. 1.00

00:33:58.000 That's bullshit. 1.00

00:33:59.000 There's always something you can do. 1.00

00:34:00.000 Absolutely. 0.99

00:34:01.000 But if you give yourself that fucking excuse, that's the problem. 1.00

00:34:05.000 What I love about that video is if anybody had an excuse, it's that guy. 1.00

00:34:09.000 Absolutely. 0.98

00:34:10.000 That guy, I mean, two canes, giant belly, blown out knees, blown out back, veteran paratrooper, guy, I mean, jumping out of fucking airplanes over and over again, blows his body apart, and you fixed it. 0.98

00:34:23.000 And he fixed it. 0.99

00:34:24.000 He fixed it.

00:34:25.000 I just literally, like, here's so funny.

00:34:28.000 That's incredible.

00:34:29.000 So, would I send him the food plan, right, from Fred Bishy?

00:34:33.000 Explain the food plan, because it's just regular food, but like, what do you have the meaning?

00:34:38.000 Like chicken, steak, fish, vegetables?

00:34:42.000 You'll hear me say in my program over and over and over and over and over again, make the DDPY your own.

00:34:48.000 And I explained to Arthur when I called him.

00:34:50.000 Well, here's what happened.

00:34:51.000 So I sent him the food plan.

00:34:55.000 Let me say it.

00:34:56.000 And if he writes me back, I think I can do it.

00:34:58.000 I'll give it a try. 0.98

00:35:00.000 You go crazy.

00:35:01.000 No, I go, hey, awesome.

00:35:03.000 Get me posted.

00:35:04.000 But he said four words.

00:35:05.000 Or he wrote four words.

00:35:06.000 I can do this.

00:35:08.000 I said, give me your number right now. 0.99

00:35:10.000 And I call the motherfucker up. 0.99

00:35:11.000 If you say you can and you say you can't, you're right. 0.99

00:35:14.000 You know that.

00:35:14.000 If you say you can or you say you can't.

00:35:16.000 You're right.

00:35:17.000 Do you know who said that originally?

00:35:18.000 Who?

00:35:18.000 Henry Ford.

00:35:20.000 He was right. 0.99

00:35:20.000 Yeah, and I always say, but what the fuck did he ever do? 0.99

00:35:24.000 You know, what the fuck did he ever do? 0.99

00:35:26.000 But when he said, I can do it, I said, give me your number. 0.99

00:35:29.000 So I called him.

00:35:31.000 And I said, you know, we talked for about an hour.

00:35:33.000 Two weeks later, he calls me back.

00:35:36.000 The main thing I talked to him in that conversation, which is, again, what Positively Unstoppable is all about, As important as the workout is, as important as the eating plan is, that 10% of the equation, the 90% is right between your ears.

00:35:52.000 Right here, that six inch piece of real estate, the story you tell yourself.

00:35:56.000 And I said, if you can really just get past that story and start re- Telling yourself a different story.

00:36:04.000 An example would be when I went for my whole theme, induction speech, in front of 20,000 people and millions of people on USA and on the WWE Network, which is only $9.99, by the way.

00:36:16.000 It's like a rib.

00:36:21.000 I wasn't in the back going, oh God, I hope I don't fuck this up.

00:36:24.000 Oh God, what if I forget what I was going to say? 0.99

00:36:26.000 Oh God, this sucks. 1.00

00:36:28.000 What if I fuck up? 1.00

00:36:29.000 I wasn't saying that. 0.97

00:36:30.000 I was saying this is going to be the best thing I've ever done.

00:36:31.000 I'm going to blow people away.

00:36:32.000 I'm going to make them laugh.

00:36:33.000 I'm going to make them cry.

00:36:33.000 I'm going to inspire them.

00:36:35.000 And that was my inner voice.

00:36:36.000 I went out there and did the best thing I've ever done.

00:36:38.000 Like, it's the best thing I've ever done.

00:36:41.000 But it's about that story that you tell yourself. 1.00

00:36:44.000 And you get all this shit. 1.00

00:36:45.000 And that's why people listen to you. 1.00

00:36:48.000 Because they need to be reminded it over and over and over again, you know?

00:36:52.000 The way you think about things is so important.

00:36:55.000 It's so important.

00:36:56.000 It's almost more important than the facts.

00:36:58.000 You're right.

00:36:59.000 Right.

00:36:59.000 And the way this guy decided that he was going to change his life.

00:37:03.000 That video is so important to people.

00:37:06.000 I mean, if there's ever...

00:37:06.000 That's the best testimonial video you're ever going to see.

00:37:09.000 Ever.

00:37:09.000 I mean, that guy is as broken as they get.

00:37:12.000 I mean, he's basically...

00:37:13.000 I mean, he easily could have been in a wheelchair.

00:37:15.000 Easily.

00:37:15.000 Well, he was.

00:37:16.000 And not any time he was going around.

00:37:18.000 You know, like any kind of...

00:37:19.000 You know, you go to the airport.

00:37:20.000 What do they put you in?

00:37:21.000 Put you in a wheelchair. 0.99

00:37:22.000 Because, I mean, it's too hard for people.

00:37:23.000 It's too hard for them to walk around.

00:37:24.000 And again, going back to eating...

00:37:27.000 So back to the food.

00:37:27.000 So what do you get them eating?

00:37:29.000 Well, again, I use, I get a mess.

00:37:31.000 Make the GDP while you're on.

00:37:32.000 You can do paleo if you want to do paleo.

00:37:34.000 You can do this keto diet, whatever you're doing with that.

00:37:37.000 I try to say, if you're early on and you're young, you know, I encourage them to do calorie counting.

00:37:43.000 Calories in, calories out.

00:37:45.000 But a lot of people, that doesn't work for anymore.

00:37:48.000 So what I get them to do is go gluten and dairy-free.

00:37:51.000 And really, I started with gluten-free.

00:37:53.000 If you can go and people go, oh, gluten-free.

00:37:55.000 All I know is the people I work with get out of pain.

00:38:00.000 I'm one of them. 0.99

00:38:01.000 So I don't give a fuck if you eat gluten or not. 0.99

00:38:03.000 I don't care. 1.00

00:38:04.000 I'm not the gluten fucking Nazis. 1.00

00:38:05.000 I'm fucking like, hey, do what the fuck you want to do. 0.99

00:38:09.000 But this is what I do. 1.00

00:38:10.000 This is what him and her and him and her do.

00:38:14.000 And look at them.

00:38:15.000 And it just helps drop weight.

00:38:18.000 It's about inflammation in your body.

00:38:20.000 Go back to icing your body.

00:38:24.000 Sugar, which we're all at explored.

00:38:26.000 I try to get them to cut down as much as they can.

00:38:29.000 Some people quit completely, which blows my mind, which tells me they really have that substance.

00:38:34.000 My friend Stacy Morris, who lost 180 pounds in 18 months, she's actually on the cover of Women's Day right now, that big magazine for Women's Day of her transformation.

00:38:44.000 She wrote a book on it, like something comfort, eating comfort or family comfort.

00:38:49.000 You can catch it up on my site.

00:38:51.000 It's up there.

00:38:52.000 She wrote this book about eating without sugar.

00:38:56.000 And that's like, I'm not telling anybody to do that because I can't do that.

00:39:00.000 You're right because I don't want to.

00:39:02.000 I want to still eat the sugar.

00:39:04.000 Occasionally, but you're just not being a glutton about it.

00:39:06.000 And I'm eating good sugars.

00:39:08.000 You know, like the honey that I'm putting in this gimmick is organic honey.

00:39:13.000 So the food part for the inflammation would be the sugar.

00:39:22.000 Dairy and wheat and gluten.

00:39:25.000 Get those out of your body.

00:39:27.000 I challenge you.

00:39:28.000 Have you ever gone gluten-free?

00:39:29.000 Yeah.

00:39:30.000 No, I have.

00:39:30.000 And how much better did you feel?

00:39:31.000 I feel really good.

00:39:32.000 Look, I'm basically gluten-free all the time, except for I take cheat days.

00:39:37.000 Oh, sure.

00:39:37.000 I'll take a cheat day and I'll have a bowl of pasta.

00:39:39.000 But for the most part, I rarely eat bread and I rarely eat anything, pasta or anything with wheat.

00:39:45.000 Well, let me give you this.

00:39:47.000 Two and a half weeks.

00:39:48.000 Let me give you an alternative.

00:39:50.000 I love pasta.

00:39:51.000 I mean, I'm an Irish-German-Dutch kid, but all my best friends were Genta, Cafaro, Rossi.

00:40:01.000 I mean, all my buddies were Gumbas, you know?

00:40:03.000 And so I love Italian food. 0.97

00:40:04.000 I fucking love it. 0.88

00:40:06.000 So there's a company called Tinchiata that has the best pasta I've ever had. 0.98

00:40:12.000 It's a brown rice pasta.

00:40:13.000 So there's always a substitute.

00:40:15.000 When you get that out of your body, In two and a half, three weeks, it's a different level.

00:40:21.000 You already feel better, you feel better, but it's got to get out of your body. 0.99

00:40:25.000 And then if you put it back in, here and there, you're going to feel it, but it's going to go way quicker because it doesn't have all that shit stored in your body. 0.99

00:40:32.000 Well, it also reminds me how shitty I feel after I eat it. 0.98

00:40:35.000 When I do eat a pizza, I'm just like, oh, laying on the couch like a lead weight to my stomach.

00:40:41.000 But what I substituted with is spaghetti squash.

00:40:44.000 I love spaghetti squash.

00:40:46.000 That is an awesome choice.

00:40:46.000 Spaghetti squash with some garlic and marinara sauce.

00:40:49.000 It's fantastic.

00:40:50.000 And it's guilt-free.

00:40:51.000 That's one of our recipes. 0.99

00:40:52.000 The way our app is set up, our DDP Yoga Now app, and like I said, anybody who wants to try it, fuck it, it costs you nothing. 0.99

00:40:58.000 Go try it for seven days. 0.99

00:40:59.000 You like it?

00:41:00.000 Like it.

00:41:00.000 Get out of it.

00:41:01.000 I don't give a fuck. 1.00

00:41:03.000 I mean, I don't. 0.98

00:41:04.000 I mean, I only want people who want to put the work in.

00:41:05.000 Some people will say to me, well, how much do I have to do it?

00:41:09.000 I say you don't.

00:41:10.000 You don't have to do anything. 1.00

00:41:12.000 Don't fucking do it. 0.99

00:41:12.000 I don't want you to do it. 0.99

00:41:14.000 I want you to own it and really do it or not.

00:41:18.000 And I'll try to inspire you because every Monday I've got Motivational Mondays on the app.

00:41:23.000 Every Monday I'm doing another story about something I saw and I'm bringing it to you.

00:41:28.000 Three minutes, it could be eight minutes.

00:41:30.000 Is it a video on the app?

00:41:32.000 Is that what it is?

00:41:32.000 Yes.

00:41:34.000 There's 150 of them up there, because I've been doing it for two and a half years.

00:41:37.000 And then every week we have a new recipe come out.

00:41:40.000 And I'm not just going to tell you what's in it and how to make it. 0.97

00:41:44.000 I'm going to fucking show you how to make it. 0.95

00:41:46.000 Because we've got it in our DDP Yoga Performance Center, which is in Smyrna, Georgia. 0.98

00:41:50.000 Which, by the way, every first time you come in there, it's free. 0.98

00:41:54.000 Name me another fucking gym or something like that that does that. 0.99

00:41:58.000 How far is that from Dallas? 1.00

00:42:00.000 Atlanta?

00:42:01.000 Atlanta, rather.

00:42:01.000 Well, it's literally 20 minutes from the heart of Atlanta.

00:42:05.000 I mean, it's one of the suburbs.

00:42:06.000 Next time I'm in Atlanta, when I'm doing a gig, I'm going to stop in.

00:42:09.000 Dude, no, you're going to stay.

00:42:10.000 You're going to stay.

00:42:11.000 I just bought a crib that, literally, one of my buddies, Titus, who's from the WWE, is coming in on Tuesday to train with me.

00:42:20.000 I got a hyperbaric chamber now.

00:42:22.000 Whoa.

00:42:22.000 Yes, 12 PSI. I got a cryo system.

00:42:27.000 In my house.

00:42:29.000 What about float tanks?

00:42:30.000 I don't have that yet. 0.99

00:42:32.000 You ever fuck with one? 0.99

00:42:33.000 You know, I haven't because I'm kind of scared of that. 1.00

00:42:38.000 I'm just being honest!

00:42:42.000 You can't be scared.

00:42:43.000 How are you scared?

00:42:44.000 You sounded like the people you're screaming against.

00:42:47.000 No, I do, but I'm being honest, bro.

00:42:49.000 When I first got in the chamber...

00:42:50.000 Can I get you in one?

00:42:50.000 Can I get you in one today?

00:42:52.000 You know what?

00:42:53.000 Oh, I need an hour.

00:42:55.000 Success!

00:42:56.000 You're going to want to have one in your house, I guarantee you.

00:42:58.000 It's the most relaxing thing ever.

00:43:00.000 Okay, I can easily get out of it.

00:43:02.000 Oh yeah, just push the door open.

00:43:03.000 Okay, cool.

00:43:03.000 Yeah, it's easy.

00:43:04.000 Super easy.

00:43:05.000 Only because you inspired me. 0.73

00:43:07.000 You inspired the fuck out of me.

00:43:09.000 Thank you. 0.54

00:43:10.000 This was so crazy.

00:43:11.000 Feelings mutual.

00:43:12.000 Thank you.

00:43:13.000 I appreciate that.

00:43:13.000 You know, I knew we were going to get along like incredibly.

00:43:16.000 But here's what happened.

00:43:18.000 I've been reaching out to different people like Eddie Bravo.

00:43:21.000 He's a buddy of mine.

00:43:22.000 He just got his disc replaced.

00:43:24.000 Did he really?

00:43:25.000 Yeah, he had a lower back.

00:43:25.000 His disc was so bad, he could barely get out of bed.

00:43:28.000 And he had a titanium articulating disc put in his back.

00:43:31.000 He feels way better now.

00:43:33.000 And he gained an inch.

00:43:34.000 He's 5'9 now.

00:43:35.000 Which is pretty sweet because of all the technology that they have today.

00:43:38.000 Yeah, it's pretty incredible.

00:43:39.000 That can help that.

00:43:39.000 His discs were all smashed from jiu-jitsu.

00:43:42.000 Of course.

00:43:42.000 Especially his lower back.

00:43:43.000 You know, I've always said, like, Eddie Bravo.

00:43:46.000 Like, he did what...

00:43:48.000 To the jiu-jitsu community, what I've done in the yoga community.

00:43:55.000 Just take a totally different path.

00:43:56.000 Right.

00:43:57.000 I don't want to be in the yoga world. 0.96

00:43:59.000 I want to be way the fuck over there. 0.66

00:44:01.000 I want to be the different guy then. 0.84

00:44:03.000 But we were just talking about what we were talking about right before.

00:44:06.000 No, but after that, I'd reached out to a bunch of different guys.

00:44:10.000 I've heard you talk about DDPY and what we're doing, and you've talked about a lot of cool stuff, and you've segued me into a couple.

00:44:18.000 I'm like, I've got to get on this show, and I think we'll get along amazingly.

00:44:22.000 And then I saw on YouTube, it was somebody that put together a bunch of your clips from the show.

00:44:29.000 And I'm listening to it. 0.99

00:44:30.000 I'm like, man, this motherfucker sounds just like me. 0.99

00:44:33.000 I mean, I got to get on this show. 0.99

00:44:34.000 And I literally, when I finished watching it, I literally looked up.

00:44:37.000 I went, God, I'm throwing this out in the universe.

00:44:39.000 I want to get on Rogan's show within the next year.

00:44:42.000 Two days later, you DM me.

00:44:44.000 Whoa.

00:44:46.000 Two days later, you DM me.

00:44:49.000 I've been meaning to DM you forever.

00:44:51.000 I mean, it's one of those things where it's just, unfortunately or fortunately, there's just so many different requests for people to come on the podcast.

00:44:59.000 I can't keep up.

00:45:00.000 No, I get it.

00:45:01.000 It's just I can't.

00:45:01.000 It's impossible.

00:45:02.000 But you've been in the back of my head for a long time.

00:45:04.000 And I think that yoga, like I said, is so important.

00:45:08.000 And I think what you've done is make it accessible to people that wouldn't have considered it before.

00:45:13.000 Alright, you gotta do me a favor.

00:45:14.000 Okay, what do I gotta do? 0.99

00:45:15.000 When you're talking about what the fuck I do, DDPY. DDPY. Say that and not yoga? 0.99

00:45:22.000 Yes.

00:45:23.000 Okay.

00:45:23.000 Because it's different, you know?

00:45:24.000 Mainly because people put it in a box, you know?

00:45:26.000 Right, I know what you're saying.

00:45:27.000 And you get it.

00:45:28.000 Like, will you do a workout with me?

00:45:30.000 Yes, I would love to.

00:45:31.000 Aubrey did it, my partner in Onnit.

00:45:33.000 Yes!

00:45:34.000 I love Aubrey!

00:45:35.000 Yes!

00:45:36.000 He loved it.

00:45:36.000 He said, dude, it's badass.

00:45:38.000 He said he's definitely doing something different.

00:45:39.000 His take was, he's like, he's doing yoga, but he's got a whole other edge to it.

00:45:45.000 Yeah, and I keep, again, making it my own, and I encourage everybody.

00:45:49.000 What's really cool about, I've got some workouts that have me and like two people or four people behind me, and they're like the introductory.

00:45:56.000 There's always someone modifying. 0.95

00:45:59.000 Like when I first started doing yoga, No one modified shit. 0.98

00:46:03.000 They never told you so. 1.00

00:46:04.000 I had to figure this shit out. 0.97

00:46:06.000 So anything I did, I gave you a mod. 0.95

00:46:09.000 How do you make this easier?

00:46:10.000 Step in.

00:46:11.000 Lower to a knee.

00:46:12.000 Don't blow yourself out.

00:46:13.000 Now, the thing that you don't know, and I gave you one of Mark DDP Yoga mats with a bag, inside it is a Bluetooth heart monitor.

00:46:23.000 And what that's going to do is connect right to the app.

00:46:27.000 So are you an iPhone guy or a droid?

00:46:29.000 I have iPhone, but I'm going to switch over. 1.00

00:46:31.000 I'm tired of their bullshit. 0.99

00:46:32.000 Oh, I get that too. 1.00

00:46:33.000 But I'm sort of like an addict of not wanting to learn again.

00:46:36.000 But you know, they got that mirroring thing, so it pops right up on your TV. Up there will come where your heart rate's at.

00:46:42.000 Oh, wow.

00:46:43.000 And then it tracks you.

00:46:44.000 At the end of it, how long have you not been in your zone?

00:46:47.000 How long have you been in your zone?

00:46:49.000 And how long have you been over your zone?

00:46:51.000 Think about this.

00:46:51.000 Who did this app for you?

00:46:53.000 Myself, Steve Yu, who's the president of my company, and we hired these guys out of Turkey because they all went to Georgia Tech.

00:47:04.000 And it's way cheaper, but it's been a long time.

00:47:08.000 I've got probably coming up on $3 million in it.

00:47:11.000 Jesus Christ.

00:47:11.000 It sounds fantastic.

00:47:13.000 It's extensive.

00:47:15.000 And again, there's a lot of interaction with it.

00:47:20.000 We make it like a video game at the end.

00:47:23.000 So when it gets to the end, it'll go...

00:47:25.000 You get to the end of Mario Brothers?

00:47:29.000 Right!

00:47:30.000 That's exactly what I wanted.

00:47:31.000 Beautiful.

00:47:32.000 You hit the next level.

00:47:33.000 So when you're putting all this stuff together, this has got to be a long process of refining and getting it just right.

00:47:39.000 I mean, this must have taken over your life.

00:47:41.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:47:43.000 Absolutely, but I go on the road all the time.

00:47:45.000 I do Comic Cons.

00:47:46.000 Do you ever do Comic Cons?

00:47:47.000 No, no, I've never done.

00:47:48.000 I want to.

00:47:49.000 Dude, you have to. 0.99

00:47:50.000 You will fucking have a line forever. 1.00

00:47:53.000 I used to be a comic book dork, man. 0.99

00:47:55.000 I had to sell them all when I was poor.

00:47:57.000 I had all these comic books that I collected from the time I was a little kid, and then when I became a stand-up comedian and I was starving in the early days, I sold all my comic books and just...

00:48:07.000 It's just a bummer, man.

00:48:08.000 I'm scared to go look at comic books again.

00:48:10.000 No, don't do that because it'll just piss you off.

00:48:14.000 Do you know who Adi Shankar is?

00:48:16.000 No.

00:48:17.000 Did you see...

00:48:18.000 There was a Power Ranger bootleg video that came out like...

00:48:24.000 Maybe four years ago, five years ago, I think it was five years ago. 0.81

00:48:27.000 And it blew up on YouTube, got like five million views, which, you know, back then, that was fucking huge. 0.83

00:48:33.000 Yeah, that's pretty crazy.

00:48:34.000 So the guy who owns the Power Rangers put a lawsuit on Adi and YouTube, and they had to pull it off. 1.00

00:48:41.000 Next thing you know, Adi's on CNN, and they're asking him about it, and he's like, fuck him. 0.98

00:48:47.000 He goes, he doesn't I mean, we're not trying to make money. 0.99

00:48:49.000 We're not monetizing this.

00:48:50.000 And next thing you know, he pulled the thing off, the lawsuit off, and now it's got like 22 million. 0.97

00:48:54.000 And this is something that he did because he's produced a bunch of movies, but they kept changing his shit. 0.93

00:49:00.000 Like, wouldn't let him do what he wanted to do. 0.97

00:49:03.000 And this last one was Judge Dredd. 0.99

00:49:05.000 And five years ago, or a little before that, he's telling me how he's going to do this shit on YouTube. 0.98

00:49:09.000 And I'm like, what the fuck do you mean you're going to put shorts on YouTube? 0.99

00:49:13.000 Well, he did that one. 0.97

00:49:14.000 He's got 22 million views right now.

00:49:17.000 And that really became like this underground, you know, Yoda-type person of the internet.

00:49:24.000 And he sent me a script about three years ago when we started it, and it's called Gods.

00:49:31.000 And it's kind of like, you know, all superheroes, as you know, they're all slightly different but the same.

00:49:39.000 And it's a very dark script.

00:50:04.000 I love the Watchmen.

00:50:07.000 It's kind of a little bit like that, but not.

00:50:09.000 I was hoping they were going to do a sequel, and I'd heard that they...

00:50:12.000 Weren't they planning on that, Jamie?

00:50:14.000 Is that something they're working on?

00:50:16.000 It was so good.

00:50:17.000 I was like, how did they not follow up on this?

00:50:19.000 I don't know, you know, but we're going to...

00:50:21.000 We have, like I say, it's in the process right now, putting together audience brains behind it, but it's something I'm...

00:50:27.000 You're into comics and stuff.

00:50:29.000 You'll love it, I think.

00:50:30.000 It's going to be on HBO. Oh, shit. 1.00

00:50:33.000 Oh, that's right. 1.00

00:50:34.000 Is that the series?

00:50:35.000 I heard that, yeah.

00:50:37.000 Oh, but different people, huh?

00:50:39.000 Yeah.

00:50:39.000 Oh, interesting.

00:50:41.000 All right.

00:50:42.000 Well, I'm down for that.

00:50:43.000 Yeah, I'll check it out, man.

00:50:44.000 HBO, man.

00:50:45.000 I love HBO. They gotta pick up the slack.

00:50:47.000 Netflix is coming in strong.

00:50:48.000 They are, boy. 1.00

00:50:49.000 HBO's like, fuck, man. 1.00

00:50:51.000 Gather up the troops. 1.00

00:50:52.000 There's a war going on. 1.00

00:50:53.000 Fucking Ozark's back, baby. 0.99

00:50:55.000 I love that show. 1.00

00:50:57.000 Woo! 0.99

00:50:57.000 I'm two episodes in. 0.99

00:50:58.000 Damn, it's a good show. 0.98

00:51:01.000 Did you see the first Sinner? 0.99

00:51:03.000 Sinner?

00:51:03.000 Oh, no, I haven't seen that show.

00:51:05.000 I heard that's very good.

00:51:05.000 That's Jessica Biel.

00:51:06.000 Oh, dude.

00:51:07.000 How hot is she? 1.00

00:51:09.000 Smoking, but they made her look...

00:51:11.000 She's one of them confusing people. 0.97

00:51:12.000 Like, you're around her, you're like, I don't know what my opinions are.

00:51:16.000 I'm gonna change them.

00:51:17.000 You tell me what your opinions are.

00:51:18.000 I'll take those.

00:51:19.000 She comes off as really like girl next door.

00:51:23.000 Yeah. 0.83

00:51:23.000 But that friggin show right there, my wife and Brenda and my daughter Lexi, she was there. 0.83

00:51:31.000 We watched all eight episodes. 1.00

00:51:33.000 Damn. 1.00

00:51:33.000 One after another on a Sunday afternoon. 1.00

00:51:35.000 We were like pulled in.

00:51:37.000 My wife had seen, Brenda had seen, they were playing it on the plane.

00:51:40.000 And when she came back, she's like, I couldn't finish watching it.

00:51:44.000 You've got to get this.

00:51:45.000 I'll watch it from the beginning again.

00:51:46.000 It's not good.

00:51:47.000 It's badass.

00:51:47.000 There's so many good shows now.

00:51:49.000 It's a really interesting time to be a A consumer.

00:51:52.000 Oh, absolutely, man.

00:51:54.000 Yeah, I'm big on the Netflix and Sneaky Pete.

00:51:57.000 Did you ever see any of that?

00:51:58.000 No, I heard that's great, too.

00:51:59.000 That's on Amazon, right?

00:52:00.000 Yeah, it's on Amazon, yeah.

00:52:01.000 Yeah, everyone's just...

00:52:02.000 That Goliath is supposed to be fantastic on Amazon, too.

00:52:05.000 That's that Billy Bob Thornton show.

00:52:07.000 Oh, I love the first season.

00:52:08.000 I haven't got to the second one yet, but...

00:52:10.000 Yeah, it's a crazy time.

00:52:11.000 Have you thought about doing something like that?

00:52:12.000 Like, maybe on Netflix or something along those lines?

00:52:15.000 Like, having...

00:52:18.000 Sort of like inspirational clips mixed in with your workouts with these people, showing transformations?

00:52:25.000 You know, a good friend of mine...

00:52:27.000 That would be a great idea.

00:52:28.000 Do you know who Tim Sabian is?

00:52:30.000 I know the name, yeah.

00:52:31.000 He was Howard Stern's main guy for years.

00:52:33.000 Yeah, that's why I know him.

00:52:34.000 That's why I know the name.

00:52:35.000 And he just came up to me.

00:52:36.000 He was at that show I was telling you about, All In, this weekend.

00:52:40.000 And he was like, dude...

00:52:41.000 Twitch is the future.

00:52:43.000 We've got to do something with this.

00:52:45.000 And I've heard of Twitch, but it was like video game.

00:52:48.000 You know, people watching video game stuff?

00:52:49.000 He said, yeah, but it's going to go to a whole new level.

00:52:52.000 And Sabian's a really smart guy.

00:52:55.000 And I'm actually helping him get back on track with his health.

00:52:58.000 So he's going to come to Atlanta and see me.

00:53:00.000 He's going to talk to me and Steve and figure out what we do.

00:53:02.000 I'm all over.

00:53:03.000 This company would never be successful.

00:53:06.000 Without the internet.

00:53:08.000 Without people sharing that Arthur video everywhere.

00:53:11.000 You know, and there's so many other videos that we've had go viral.

00:53:14.000 One of my favorites, and I'll get this to you, my buddy named Mark Merrow.

00:53:19.000 He's a former wrestler, Marvelous Mark Merrow.

00:53:21.000 Back when we wrestled together, he was Johnny B. Badd.

00:53:24.000 He changed his name from Johnny to Mark?

00:53:27.000 Well, his real name was Mark.

00:53:31.000 He actually was.

00:53:33.000 Actually, Mark Murrow is a four-time New York Empire State Games boxing champion.

00:53:40.000 Yeah, from back in the day when he was a kid.

00:53:42.000 But he's become this inspirational speaker to kids.

00:53:45.000 I've never seen anybody move kids the way he does.

00:53:48.000 So he was in Atlanta one day and I sent my crew down there because I got a whole production studio.

00:53:52.000 Like, Resurrection, we filmed it, we edited it, we did everything.

00:53:55.000 And I sent my crew down there to just go down and film them.

00:53:59.000 And Steve took this one part where he talks about his mom. 0.98

00:54:02.000 Now, no bullshit, Joe.

00:54:04.000 I can show you how this one four-minute clip that Steve produced has over a half a billion views on Facebook. 0.97

00:54:14.000 Like half a billion.

00:54:16.000 And now, Mark went from having trouble getting booked at high schools to being in such demand that he had 3,000 requests the month that that video went crazy.

00:54:26.000 And people keep taking it and putting it out there.

00:54:28.000 But he connects with kids.

00:54:30.000 It starts out with, I want to be rich.

00:54:32.000 I want to be famous. 0.96

00:54:33.000 And then he shows you, as you know, what can come with that if you're not frigging mentally prepared to handle that. 0.99

00:54:39.000 And I don't know how any fucking kid can be 18, 19, 20 years old I don't think they can. 0.99

00:54:44.000 I've never seen anybody succeed. 0.99

00:54:46.000 LeBron.

00:54:47.000 You know what?

00:54:50.000 I think one of the reasons why a guy like him has succeeded because his success comes along with athletic performance.

00:54:57.000 It's not just like being Justin Bieber or being some sort of a musical superstar.

00:55:03.000 I think the struggle of the athletic pursuit is one of the things that keeps you humble because there's no way to get around the work.

00:55:11.000 And the work keeps you humble.

00:55:13.000 I mean, the kind of work that you have to put in to be a LeBron James, I don't care how genetically gifted he is. 0.99

00:55:18.000 I mean, clearly, he's a fucking freak athlete. 1.00

00:55:21.000 Ridiculous. 1.00

00:55:21.000 But he's also got a powerful mind. 1.00

00:55:25.000 When you hear that guy talk, there was some sort of a roundtable thing he was doing.

00:55:28.000 I don't know if you saw this with Jon Stewart and a few other people.

00:55:31.000 Yeah, it's on HBO also.

00:55:31.000 Is that his show?

00:55:32.000 Yeah.

00:55:33.000 When that guy talks, you go- What is it called?

00:55:35.000 What is it?

00:55:35.000 The Barbershop.

00:55:36.000 Okay, I gotta watch that.

00:55:37.000 I love LeBron. 1.00

00:55:38.000 When he talks, you go, okay, there's a fucking nuclear furnace burning inside that guy. 0.99

00:55:43.000 That's why he's so successful. 0.99

00:55:44.000 It's not just him being a freak athlete.

00:55:47.000 It's the mind.

00:55:48.000 His mind.

00:55:49.000 But that hard work and that dedication in his mind is the reason why he's still so good and keeps it together.

00:55:56.000 At, you know, what is he, 35 now?

00:55:58.000 33?

00:55:59.000 33?

00:56:00.000 He's been around forever. 0.90

00:56:01.000 Been around for a long time, but been super fucking successful for a long time. 1.00

00:56:05.000 Ridiculous. 1.00

00:56:05.000 And never fucked up. 1.00

00:56:06.000 Never drove his car into a tree. 0.97

00:56:08.000 Never punched a cop.

00:56:09.000 Never got crazy.

00:56:10.000 Right.

00:56:10.000 I mean, he's kept it together in a rare way that very few superstars do.

00:56:15.000 Because you know it.

00:56:17.000 I'm sure you went from when you first started into pro wrestling to becoming super famous.

00:56:22.000 It's a...

00:56:23.000 It's an intoxicating drug.

00:56:24.000 Absolutely.

00:56:25.000 And it's a confusing drug. 0.96

00:56:27.000 It confuses the shit out of a lot of people. 0.99

00:56:29.000 Fortunately for you, you were already a man. 0.98

00:56:30.000 Right, and that was the big difference.

00:56:32.000 I have to say, starting at 35 was the worst thing physically, because one of my matches, or any of these kids, it's like four or five car accidents.

00:56:40.000 Right.

00:56:40.000 One match.

00:56:41.000 Yeah, legitimately.

00:56:43.000 Every night.

00:56:43.000 Yeah.

00:56:44.000 And I said, as hard as it was starting at 35, the really positive side was, I was 35. Right.

00:56:50.000 So I was much smarter.

00:56:51.000 More disciplined, more mature.

00:56:53.000 Way more.

00:56:54.000 And I was telling you about when you come to Atlanta, you're going to stay at my place, man.

00:56:58.000 My wife is amazing. 1.00

00:56:59.000 We have the best bed and breakfast.

00:57:01.000 And there's like five rooms that are all king-size beds.

00:57:04.000 Because again, I'm getting ready to work with top athletes.

00:57:08.000 You look at LeBron, you look at Brady.

00:57:11.000 How do they perform in such a liver? 0.84

00:57:13.000 Especially Brady, being 40 years old now.

00:57:15.000 Pretty crazy.

00:57:16.000 But it's the way he eats, which is pretty much the way I eat.

00:57:20.000 Isn't he a vegan, though?

00:57:22.000 He doesn't eat lagoons.

00:57:24.000 It's very strict.

00:57:25.000 Again, the way I eat, I still want the beef.

00:57:28.000 But I don't eat it all the time now. 1.00

00:57:30.000 I used to eat that shit all the time. 0.99

00:57:31.000 I used to eat 12 eggs in the morning, now I eat 8. You know, five yolks and three whites. 1.00

00:57:36.000 But again, it's keeping the protein in.

00:57:38.000 But he's eating for health.

00:57:40.000 Let's just call it that.

00:57:42.000 And he's not beating up his body outside, you know, of what he's doing.

00:57:47.000 When he gets hit, he beats up his body.

00:57:49.000 But before that, all he's doing is strengthening his body.

00:57:52.000 And that's what DDP-wise is, strengthening you.

00:57:55.000 Like, I just was reading something.

00:57:57.000 I love that...

00:57:59.000 Gurley, Todd didn't play in any preseason stuff this year.

00:58:02.000 He don't need that.

00:58:03.000 He's going to be out there.

00:58:04.000 He's going to be in the best shape.

00:58:05.000 He's not going to put his body already through abuse.

00:58:08.000 You know, so it's just like wherever you can, everything that you do with jiu-jitsu, MMA, UFC, NFL, getting to the show is the thing.

00:58:20.000 And when you get to the show, you have two jobs.

00:58:22.000 One, be the best player you can be, the best performer.

00:58:27.000 Two, don't get hurt.

00:58:29.000 You know what's crazy about Tom Brady?

00:58:30.000 He looks like someone's dad.

00:58:32.000 Like, you see him on the beach. 0.99

00:58:34.000 He don't look like, you know, you see Herschel Walker without his shirt off, you go, Jesus fucking Christ, what lab was that guy creating in? 0.98

00:58:41.000 You know what I mean? 0.94

00:58:42.000 But you see Tom Brady, like, oh, there's Mike's dad.

00:58:46.000 You know what I mean?

00:58:47.000 He's totally normal looking.

00:58:49.000 I mean, he doesn't look bad.

00:58:50.000 He looks like he's in good shape.

00:58:52.000 There he is.

00:58:52.000 Look at that.

00:58:53.000 What? 1.00

00:58:55.000 What the fuck? 1.00

00:58:57.000 How's that possible? 1.00

00:58:58.000 How is that the greatest quarterback of all time?

00:59:01.000 That's Mike's dad.

00:59:02.000 Work ethic.

00:59:04.000 But it's obviously his mind, too. 1.00

00:59:06.000 I mean, that's fucking insane. 1.00

00:59:08.000 And that guy ain't sucking in his gut for anybody. 1.00

00:59:09.000 You could suck his dick. 1.00

00:59:11.000 How about that? 1.00

00:59:12.000 He's not sucking in his gut. 0.89

00:59:13.000 He lets that thing hang out. 0.92

00:59:15.000 Look at it. 1.00

00:59:15.000 I mean, it's a couple of inches over his fucking shorts. 1.00

00:59:19.000 He doesn't give a shit. 1.00

00:59:21.000 Let him relax. 1.00

00:59:22.000 He doesn't give a shit. 1.00

00:59:23.000 He's got that gorgeous wife with him. 1.00

00:59:25.000 He's covered.

00:59:26.000 He's got perfect life.

00:59:27.000 Her and Jessica Biel together created some sort of a nuclear explosion. 1.00

00:59:31.000 Too hot.

00:59:33.000 Yeah, it's crazy.

00:59:34.000 It's crazy.

00:59:35.000 It's about healing your body, especially when you're in that spot.

00:59:38.000 And that's what I can do for these guys.

00:59:40.000 And you'll see, as we work out, you'll get it.

00:59:43.000 And, you know, it is everything.

00:59:45.000 I want to go back to your back.

00:59:47.000 See, this is what I don't understand.

00:59:49.000 The conventional wisdom is when it's bone on bone. 1.00

00:59:52.000 Like, you're fucked. 0.99

00:59:53.000 There's too much inflammation there. 1.00

00:59:54.000 There's too much grinding.

00:59:56.000 And you're just, it's just going to be too painful to do anything and you're going to have to do some sort of a surgery.

01:00:01.000 How does the yoga, is it because all the muscles strengthen the DDPY? There we go.

01:00:07.000 Sorry.

01:00:08.000 How does the DDPY do that to you?

01:00:11.000 Is it just the strengthening all the core muscles around your spine stabilizes everything and keeps it from moving? 0.99

01:00:17.000 The only thing I can give a memory joke, I'm a fucking wrestler. 0.98

01:00:20.000 I'm not a nightclub owner. 0.99

01:00:23.000 I've been working in the bar business my whole life.

01:00:25.000 That's what I did before this. 0.98

01:00:28.000 But for some reason, I'm just gifted with figuring shit out. 0.91

01:00:33.000 Like on my app, there's a guy named Jerry Cameron, disabled vet, in a wheelchair for two and a half years. 0.97

01:00:39.000 There's no weight to lose.

01:00:40.000 He's 6'5", 240, looks great, but he's got the walker that he got after two and a half years of being in the chair, got himself out.

01:00:49.000 Now all this is on my app, on my, in my, we can rebuild you.

01:00:53.000 I'm doing my own little show.

01:00:55.000 We can rebuild you.

01:00:56.000 I trademarked that name, and you remember what that's from.

01:00:59.000 $6 million.

01:01:01.000 We can rebuild you.

01:01:01.000 So that's our thing, right?

01:01:07.000 So Jerry, we have him over a seven-week period.

01:01:11.000 Now he's got a long way to go still, but you will be so amazed every show that comes up how he gains just a little bit more.

01:01:19.000 Just a little incremental steps.

01:01:21.000 Exactly.

01:01:21.000 But the confidence.

01:01:23.000 We reached out to our community in Smyrna, Georgia.

01:01:27.000 And we said, we're looking for people that want our help.

01:01:30.000 Cost them nothing.

01:01:31.000 If you'll be part of our group, and we can track you, you can come, go, do our stuff.

01:01:37.000 And we gave them the app, we set them up.

01:01:41.000 And out of the 12 or 13 that started, we still have like seven.

01:01:44.000 And this is like eight weeks later.

01:01:46.000 And to see their stories, like we follow them.

01:01:48.000 Every couple of weeks we'll pop up and show where they're at and what they're doing.

01:01:52.000 But Jerry, I got a special spot in mind just like you do for military guys.

01:01:56.000 You know, I've been to Iraq three times, Afghanistan once.

01:01:59.000 You've done those tours for 13 days.

01:02:01.000 I haven't.

01:02:01.000 Oh, you haven't done it yet?

01:02:02.000 No. 0.59

01:02:02.000 Oh, you should because they would freak the fuck out over you. 0.59

01:02:06.000 They would love you. 1.00

01:02:07.000 But I started in 2004 with that shit. 0.99

01:02:10.000 And over that period- Were you with Brian Williams when he was getting shot down? 1.00

01:02:14.000 No, no, no, no, no.

01:02:18.000 I just, you know, I hate...

01:02:19.000 No, I did not.

01:02:21.000 I'm sorry to interrupt you.

01:02:23.000 The bottom line is I have a fun spot for those guys.

01:02:27.000 And I have something...

01:02:28.000 As I do as well.

01:02:28.000 Yeah, I know.

01:02:29.000 And there's something I'm about to do off of my app that's going to be...

01:02:33.000 Life-changing for a lot of those guys.

01:02:35.000 I just don't have it all put together yet, but it's one of the things that I'm working on right now because I want to be able to give back to help them.

01:02:43.000 I do stuff with their organizations.

01:02:45.000 People start them.

01:02:46.000 I just did one with Ma Deuce Deuce in New Jersey, where I'm from.

01:02:52.000 I live in Point Pleasant, Bricktown's the next town over.

01:02:54.000 I went over there and I did one for the guys there.

01:02:58.000 I had like 75 guys there and guys in their families.

01:03:03.000 Every one of those to say well that's I've given the app you know because I just want you to do it because if you do it You're gonna feel better.

01:03:11.000 I don't know how much better How much work are you gonna put in you know, it all comes down to the work ethic like where you are how much work you put in where can you get right and where it I my program Meet you where you are.

01:03:25.000 And that's the whole thing with Jerry.

01:03:27.000 To watch where he is. 1.00

01:03:29.000 The last episode, I don't want to tell you what happened because I know eventually you'll get around to it and you're going to be like, wow, this fucking shit's crazy. 0.97

01:03:35.000 And to answer your question on the back, all I can think of I'm constantly lengthening and strengthening. 0.98

01:03:43.000 I stretched my whole wrestling, my whole athletic career, right up until I was 42 and three quarters when I blew my back out.

01:03:50.000 I stretched.

01:03:52.000 So stretching is great, but it's not the end-all be-all.

01:03:56.000 I'm stretching and strengthening the muscles, ligaments, and tendons.

01:04:00.000 When you use the resistance and the dynamic, time under tension, When you do that, it elevates your heart rate.

01:04:07.000 Think about this.

01:04:09.000 Laying down, your heart rate's the lowest ever, right?

01:04:11.000 Sit up.

01:04:12.000 What happens?

01:04:12.000 Your heart rate goes up.

01:04:13.000 Stand.

01:04:15.000 Walk.

01:04:15.000 Jog.

01:04:16.000 Sprint.

01:04:17.000 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

01:04:19.000 That's what I'm doing when I had you flex your quads, flex your glutes, grab the ball, open those fingers wide, move with resistance.

01:04:25.000 I guarantee you your heart rate, if you started at 80, 80. It went to 105, 115, 120. I can take my heart rate from 90 to 140, well, 135, like that.

01:04:37.000 And I mean two minutes, standing still.

01:04:41.000 And that's not yoga.

01:04:44.000 That's DDPY. And I've been wearing a heart monitor doing this for over 18 years.

01:04:50.000 So it's more physically intensive?

01:04:52.000 It can be.

01:04:53.000 It can be.

01:04:54.000 Like I said, I did 10 10-second push-ups on my 6-second birthday.

01:04:58.000 But you still haven't gotten an MRI done since the injury?

01:05:02.000 Not since I've done it. 1.00

01:05:03.000 Figure, fuck it. 1.00

01:05:03.000 Feels great. 1.00

01:05:04.000 Why am I going to pay for that?

01:05:05.000 I just would like to see what it is.

01:05:06.000 Because I know that it is possible to gain some space.

01:05:11.000 Oh, I believe it.

01:05:12.000 It has to be there.

01:05:12.000 Well, they've done it with decompression.

01:05:15.000 They've done it with various exercises and things that people do that do lengthen the spine and stretch you out.

01:05:22.000 I have a bunch of things out back.

01:05:23.000 I'll show you some of the things that people have created to decompress the spine.

01:05:28.000 Do you ever use one of those teeter things where you hang on your ankles?

01:05:31.000 I have one, yes.

01:05:32.000 Those help a lot.

01:05:33.000 I literally get out of my hyperbaric chamber.

01:05:35.000 Let's talk about that for a minute.

01:05:37.000 What do you know about this?

01:05:38.000 I've never done it, but I've heard amazing things from UFC guys that have fought and had pretty significant injuries, hand breaks, muscle damage, and had some pretty rapid recovery because of it.

01:05:52.000 My doctor, who she's my endocrinologist, when I told her I was doing it, she goes, I can tell you, I know it can only help you.

01:06:01.000 She goes, the only story I have about it, because I don't know enough about it, she said, I had a woman who had radiation therapy, so she had an open wound from her breast cancer, and it wouldn't close for over two years.

01:06:14.000 Send her down to Emory finally, put her in a hyperbaric chamber. 1.00

01:06:17.000 Three months later, 100% healed.

01:06:19.000 Same things happens with people with diabetes.

01:06:22.000 So I had heard like LeBron had it, you know, because I never saw an article on it, but I just heard some people talking about it, you know, in different areas, that he had one, Kobe had one.

01:06:31.000 They have them in their house?

01:06:32.000 That's what I heard.

01:06:32.000 I don't know if they do or they don't.

01:06:34.000 I just heard it.

01:06:35.000 So it got me thinking, and my house that I was just, I just left, it's called the accountability crib.

01:06:42.000 And I'm about to put this out there everywhere.

01:06:44.000 It's when I moved Jake into my home in Atlanta.

01:06:47.000 I just bought it.

01:06:48.000 And it was all about being accountability.

01:06:50.000 One of my friends, Christina Ann, sent me a list of names.

01:06:53.000 I want to call this something.

01:06:55.000 I put it out on the internet and she sent me like 22 names.

01:06:57.000 And one of them was the accountability crib.

01:06:59.000 So that's what I call it.

01:07:00.000 DDP's accountability crib.

01:07:02.000 And you got to be accountable for everything.

01:07:05.000 And the thing, I loved that home, but it was 22 steps, you know, to get to my bedroom, and my knees are bone on bone. 0.77

01:07:13.000 So going down was a drag, so I figured, fuck it, I'm going to buy a new home, master on Main, and I'm going to build this, you know, I have this place that I can bring in top-end athletes that want to be healed.

01:07:25.000 You know, so going back to the crib, I'm making that like an Airbnb now, and I'll have like the Jake the Snake Roberts suite, the Rachel Ramone suite, the DDP suite. 0.97

01:07:37.000 You know, so that'll be pretty cool.

01:07:39.000 That's going to happen next week.

01:07:40.000 This is LeBron getting into his hyperbaric chamber.

01:07:43.000 Oh, okay, great.

01:07:44.000 Why doesn't LeBron shave his head?

01:07:45.000 What's going on with that?

01:07:46.000 Someone explain that. 0.99

01:07:47.000 There's so much fuckery going on with his hair. 0.99

01:07:50.000 Wow. 0.99

01:07:50.000 Okay, that looks a lot... 0.99

01:07:52.000 But mine, I would venture to say that he is not at 12 psi on that thing.

01:07:59.000 And what that means is pounds per square inch.

01:08:02.000 If you're like 10 to say 10 feet below sea level, that's about 4 pounds per square inch.

01:08:08.000 You know, it just goes up.

01:08:09.000 20 would be like 8 pounds per square inch. 0.97

01:08:12.000 At 12 pounds per square inch, The pressure is there and it takes like 10 minutes to get up there, like you're blowing your nose, like just get in the air, fix your ears and all that shit.

01:08:26.000 But what happens when you get to 12 psi, now it breaks the brain barrier and the oxygen will go to your brain. 0.97

01:08:34.000 So this is, I didn't know any of this shit till I sit next to a guy named Brad Campbell, who's like an angel, this cat. 0.97

01:08:42.000 And we just start talking on a plane. 0.97

01:08:44.000 And at some point I said, man, how old are you anyway? 1.00

01:08:47.000 It sounds like you do a lot of shit. 0.99

01:08:49.000 And he says, I'm thinking he looks at the max 45, maybe 40. He goes, I'm 57. I go, you're 57. I said, how the fuck do you look like that? 1.00

01:08:58.000 He said, I've been living in a hyperbaric chamber for the last 14 years. 1.00

01:09:01.000 Oh, he's a weirdo.

01:09:02.000 Keep that guy away from me. 0.96

01:09:04.000 Wait a minute.

01:09:04.000 All right.

01:09:05.000 I said, how did that happen?

01:09:07.000 He said, I was diagnosed with MS 22 years ago.

01:09:10.000 Oh, wow!

01:09:11.000 So he's using that to keep the MS in check?

01:09:14.000 He told me that when he gets a 12 PSI and it goes to your brain, and this would be layman's terms, okay?

01:09:23.000 Right.

01:09:24.000 Like when you get MS, it kind of like crystallizes on your brain, right?

01:09:28.000 And when the crystals fill up, where do they go next?

01:09:32.000 Down your spine.

01:09:34.000 Hence the cane, the walker, the chair.

01:09:40.000 So, what somebody, I don't know who the person was, who figured out 20 days in a chamber, and it's all about consistency.

01:09:49.000 You do it once or twice, you're going to feel better a little bit.

01:09:53.000 But when you do it like consistent, like 20 days, like they do there, take off five days, you do that four times.

01:10:01.000 You do your MRI on your brain before you start and after there's a kid named Daniel Bryan who is one of the biggest stars in professional wrestling and a couple years ago he had to retire at the height of his career and he was the hottest guy on the planet at the time and he wasn't a big guy but he was the number one guy in the business.

01:10:21.000 And he had to retire because of concussions.

01:10:23.000 Well, he's back.

01:10:24.000 And I haven't talked to him directly about this, but I did hear that he was using a hyperic chamber to help heal his brain.

01:10:31.000 Now, again, while he's telling me this story, I'm not thinking about MS, but I'm thinking, I've been hitting the head a lot.

01:10:38.000 You know, I've been knocked out a shitload of times.

01:10:40.000 I knocked out a shitload of guys by accident, but you know, they weren't trying to knock me out either, but it's not checkers out there. 0.98

01:10:47.000 So I've been hitting the head with chairs and all that shit. 0.78

01:10:50.000 How do you guys do that? 0.99

01:10:52.000 How do you hit someone?

01:10:53.000 Are you supposed to go with it?

01:10:54.000 How does that work?

01:10:55.000 Here's the deal. 1.00

01:10:56.000 If I walk up to you And we're about to go out there, and I'm going to slap the shit out. 1.00

01:11:01.000 Don't do it anymore. 1.00

01:11:02.000 But in the old days, if I'm going to hit you in a chair, you've got to hit it even, right?

01:11:06.000 Right.

01:11:07.000 I'd say, hey, dude, I'm going to say I'm sorry right now. 1.00

01:11:10.000 And you would say back to me, well, come with it, motherfucker. 0.99

01:11:12.000 Don't make it look weak. 1.00

01:11:14.000 I mean, that's what you would say.

01:11:15.000 Because if we're going to shoot an angle on it, let's go with it.

01:11:18.000 But don't you think that back when you were 35, they didn't understand traumatic brain injury?

01:11:22.000 They did not.

01:11:23.000 That's why they let us do it.

01:11:24.000 You don't see that anymore.

01:11:26.000 But do you remember when Dennis Rodman wrestled?

01:11:29.000 Yes.

01:11:29.000 Well, that was when I got Karl Malone involved.

01:11:33.000 And it was me and Karl Malone against Rodman and Hogan. 0.98

01:11:36.000 It was fucking huge. 0.90

01:11:39.000 I took my name to a different level. 0.99

01:11:41.000 But Rodman was supposed to be a practice that day in Detroit.

01:11:45.000 We were in Detroit that night with Nitro.

01:11:49.000 And him and Hogan, I'm about to do this announcement.

01:11:54.000 And him and Hogan come from the back and whack me with chairs. 0.74

01:11:58.000 Now, this is Dennis Rodman.

01:12:00.000 Now, he's not one of the boys.

01:12:01.000 He doesn't know you've got to lay it flat.

01:12:04.000 And there was some big, probably like a mat from a wrestling mat that collegiate wrestlers wrestle on.

01:12:12.000 So this big roll of rubber was there.

01:12:14.000 It was probably about three feet off the ground.

01:12:16.000 And I said, I know you've never swung a chair before, so let me show you something.

01:12:21.000 And I'd pick my hands up with a chair, and then I'd lower them down, just right on top of it.

01:12:26.000 Then I'd pick them up, and I'd lower them flat.

01:12:28.000 I said, you see how flat it is, right?

01:12:31.000 And I took it up, and I hit it as hard as I could.

01:12:33.000 Boom.

01:12:34.000 I said, if you hit me like that, we're good.

01:12:37.000 And then I just turned with my left hand, moved down a little more, so now the railing of the chair hit it, and it put a big dent in it.

01:12:44.000 I said, if you hit me like that, You break my ribs.

01:12:48.000 I said, so please, let me see you do it. 0.98

01:12:51.000 Hit it flat.

01:12:52.000 And he was great.

01:12:52.000 You know, and they came out and it was on ESPN that night because he was supposed to be in practice.

01:12:57.000 And here he is fucking around with us on shooting the angle on Nitro. 0.53

01:13:02.000 So it was pretty cool. 0.97

01:13:04.000 But it's all about laying it flat.

01:13:06.000 And then you see how it's not checkers. 0.99

01:13:09.000 It's not fucking checkers. 0.98

01:13:10.000 One of the most disturbing things I ever saw was Brock Lesnar doing that flip off the top rope and landing on his head. 0.99

01:13:16.000 There's not a lot of human beings that would even survive that.

01:13:19.000 And then he goes on to complete the pin. 0.99

01:13:21.000 How the fuck did he not get knocked unconscious from that? 0.99

01:13:24.000 And how the fuck did he not have permanent spinal injury from that? 0.99

01:13:28.000 And he is 300 pounds at the time. 0.99

01:13:30.000 I tell everybody, you know, think what you fucking want about professional wrestling. 0.98

01:13:34.000 You can't fake gravity. 0.99

01:13:37.000 You can't fake that. 1.00

01:13:38.000 And that motherfucker was flipping in the air. 1.00

01:13:40.000 I mean, he's the baddest motherfucker alive as far as I'm concerned. 1.00

01:13:43.000 You can survive that. 0.99

01:13:44.000 300 pounds flying through the air, landing on the top of his neck.

01:13:49.000 And you watched it.

01:13:50.000 Watch this here. 1.00

01:13:51.000 Watch this shit. 1.00

01:13:52.000 Here it is. 1.00

01:13:52.000 Look at the size of this motherfucker. 1.00

01:13:54.000 Look how far he is. 1.00

01:13:56.000 Oh! 1.00

01:13:56.000 That is so fucked up. 1.00

01:13:58.000 That is so fucked up. 1.00

01:13:59.000 Look at him, grabbing his head. 1.00

01:14:01.000 I mean, he landed on his fucking head. 1.00

01:14:03.000 How is he alive? 1.00

01:14:04.000 I don't know.

01:14:06.000 He missed that so bad.

01:14:08.000 He's a cyborg. 1.00

01:14:09.000 I mean, he's one of the best fuckers. 1.00

01:14:11.000 He literally landed on his head. 1.00

01:14:13.000 And this was before.

01:14:15.000 And look at this. 1.00

01:14:17.000 And the other baddest motherfucker is right there next to him. 1.00

01:14:19.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:14:20.000 Kurt Angle, who's also completely fucked up from wrestling. 0.96

01:14:24.000 I mean, his arms, both of his arms are completely atrophied because he's had so many spinal surgeries and spinal injuries. 0.97

01:14:30.000 His neck has completely fused up.

01:14:32.000 I mean, I begged him to do it with me.

01:14:33.000 An Olympic gold medalist.

01:14:34.000 A legit Olympic gold medalist in wrestling.

01:14:37.000 Broke his neck.

01:14:38.000 Yes.

01:14:38.000 Before.

01:14:39.000 And still won.

01:14:40.000 Again, one of the baddest motherfuckers left. 1.00

01:14:42.000 But again, this job, which is, you know, I mean, it's obviously, it's work. 1.00

01:14:49.000 It's work.

01:14:50.000 It's entertainment.

01:14:51.000 But physically demanding, in terms of physically demanding, it might be more physically demanding than any sport.

01:14:58.000 It's right up there.

01:14:59.000 The only thing I can think that might be as bad, but they don't do it every day, is bull riding.

01:15:06.000 That's the only thing.

01:15:07.000 I don't even know if that's a sport. 0.98

01:15:08.000 That's just crazy people. 0.97

01:15:10.000 It's pretty nutty.

01:15:11.000 I had a friend of mine who has done it and he had eight or nine shoulder surgeries.

01:15:18.000 His shoulder was just shredded.

01:15:20.000 It was just all these cut marks all over his shoulders.

01:15:24.000 It just blown apart and they stitched it back together and blew it apart and stitched it back together again. 0.99

01:15:29.000 How about stop riding fucking 2,000 pound animals, bro? 1.00

01:15:32.000 I don't want to fuck with one of those things, man. 1.00

01:15:34.000 They're just so crazy coming out of the gate. 1.00

01:15:36.000 You can't control that at all.

01:15:38.000 Yeah, no, you can't control that at all.

01:15:39.000 So the guys who had those runs, they're pretty banged up.

01:15:41.000 And the other guys, I've just started, you know, I'm talking to Bart Oates, who is the president of the NFL Alumni.

01:15:48.000 And we've been talking about doing something for the guys. 0.85

01:15:51.000 And again, when I do shit like that, I just give it to them just to help them. 0.95

01:15:56.000 And I've talked to a few of the players. 0.97

01:15:57.000 I got a few guys, you know, loving it.

01:15:59.000 And so it's just, again, helping them with, because there's, you know, those guys are all weightlifting, running.

01:16:06.000 We can't do either now because you're so beat up.

01:16:11.000 So, you know, it was funny when we watched it, I know I'm sure you watched the Super Bowl when they had the 50th anniversary a couple years back, and all the MVPs that came out there, just, it was brutal to watch how beat up they are. 0.74

01:16:23.000 The only guy, of course, Jerry Rice looks like he could still play, you know, because that sort of a bitch is the greatest, he's just a freaking super athlete, and somehow, I don't know with all the crazy shots he's been hit with that he has survived, but there's certain people, I always say they could eat plastic. 1.00

01:16:37.000 Like, they can do anything. 0.96

01:16:39.000 And, you know, you said Herschel Walker before that.

01:16:43.000 Perfect example.

01:16:43.000 Still wants to fight.

01:16:45.000 You know, he was fighting in Strikeforce when he was 48 years old.

01:16:48.000 I watched it, yeah. 0.99

01:16:48.000 And he was built like a fucking 20-year-old freak of nature, fully shredded, and then... 0.99

01:16:53.000 You know, I mean, you really have to stop and think, if that guy did fight when he was in his 20s instead of in his 40s, late 40s, he could have been a world champion, and I'm not bullshitting. 0.99

01:17:03.000 He's that kind of a freak athlete.

01:17:06.000 One of my claims of fame was His last big run for Dallas.

01:17:12.000 He caught like the ball and ran 67 yards into the end zone.

01:17:15.000 This is like 1997. And he put the ball between his hands.

01:17:18.000 Did the diamond cutter side and did the bang.

01:17:21.000 But you didn't know because he put the ball in there.

01:17:24.000 If it was that or he was doing something else.

01:17:26.000 And one of my friends who had a show, a radio show, Craig, he had it in...

01:17:33.000 Arizona, he called me up.

01:17:34.000 He goes, D, I'm having Walker on the show today.

01:17:37.000 He goes, do you want to sit in the wings?

01:17:39.000 I'll ask him if he did the diamond cutter or not.

01:17:41.000 And I just go, dude, I definitely want to hear that.

01:17:44.000 So he put me on the phone in the wings and I'm waiting there.

01:17:46.000 And he said, so what happened that day?

01:17:49.000 What was that thing you did with the ball?

01:17:52.000 He goes, well, you know, I'm a big WCW fan, and I really like Diamond Dallas Page, and I felt the bang, and I just did it and did the bang and everything.

01:17:59.000 And he goes, well, he's on the air right now with you.

01:18:01.000 He's like, get out of here!

01:18:02.000 And we became buddies out of it.

01:18:03.000 I lost touch with him since then, buddy.

01:18:05.000 Great guy.

01:18:06.000 That's hilarious.

01:18:07.000 What I think you're doing, and what I think one of the best benefits of yoga, and I'm sure the same with DDPY, is that you're connecting everything together, whereas yoga and sprinting and all these explosive exercises, it's building up to muscles, but what you're doing is you're tightening up all the joints.

01:18:24.000 You're tightening up the core and the joints.

01:18:26.000 And this is the thing that people are missing, that a lot of people are missing that are really into fitness and exercise.

01:18:31.000 They're doing all this explosive stuff, but what's connecting everything together is what blows out.

01:18:36.000 The knees, the ankles, the shoulders, the back.

01:18:39.000 And this is something that's missing from a lot of people's workouts because it's not as glamorous.

01:18:44.000 It's not like you do biceps, your thighs get all pumped up, you do chest, you get all pumped up, you look great.

01:18:51.000 It's a different thing.

01:18:52.000 What you're doing is for overall body maintenance and health and just connecting all these parts together in a way that makes the whole unit stronger and healthier.

01:19:02.000 Right.

01:19:02.000 And again, that's what I was saying.

01:19:03.000 I'm stretching and strengthening.

01:19:06.000 Just think about going over your head and reaching up.

01:19:09.000 When I started class, I just had 175 people pay to be a part of a workshop that I do called Inspiration Meets Perspiration.

01:19:18.000 And I guarantee them two things.

01:19:20.000 I'm so jacked up.

01:19:22.000 I'm so inspired.

01:19:23.000 They're going to feel like they could run through the brick wall.

01:19:25.000 And two, they're going to sweat their ass off.

01:19:27.000 But I let them meet it where they are on whatever level.

01:19:32.000 So the person who might be 400 pounds and the person who's shredded over there can get a good workout at the same time.

01:19:41.000 Because I'm showing him how to do that modification over there and he might even have a chair.

01:19:45.000 And this guy, I'm going, go deep.

01:19:46.000 No, no.

01:19:47.000 Go deep.

01:19:48.000 Now let me show you this.

01:19:49.000 Now grab the ball, open it up, and then pull.

01:19:52.000 But before I start one of those things, because there's people there who come because they hear it's yoga, right?

01:19:57.000 Right.

01:19:58.000 And I walk, you know, I've got my mic on, and I go, I'm walking.

01:20:00.000 I go, if you came here for the yoga, will you reach your arms to the heavens so the universe smiles back at you?

01:20:07.000 And I drop my arms. 0.99

01:20:08.000 I go, we won't be doing any of that shit today. 0.99

01:20:12.000 What kind of yoga did you start with? 0.99

01:20:14.000 Power yoga.

01:20:15.000 Just power yoga.

01:20:16.000 So you never did like Bikrams or... 1.00

01:20:18.000 No, I've done everything.

01:20:19.000 Kundalini.

01:20:20.000 Yeah, I've done all of them at least once.

01:20:24.000 I respect yoga at a different level.

01:20:30.000 What's really funny is guys like Brian Kess and Shiva Ray.

01:20:34.000 There was a buddy of mine, Arthur Klein, did a movie called Why Yoga?

01:20:39.000 And in it, he gives me a camera.

01:20:41.000 And it was the second time I went to Iraq. 1.00

01:20:44.000 And I filmed all this shit. 0.99

01:20:47.000 And me with the guys. 0.99

01:20:48.000 And then, you know, interviewing.

01:20:49.000 I was interviewing.

01:20:50.000 Someone else was interviewing him for me.

01:20:52.000 And it got this great, you know, great stuff.

01:20:55.000 But in the beginning, I'm talking about how, like, I literally was interviewed when I wrote the book Yoga for Regular Guys.

01:21:02.000 And it was smoking hot chicks and regular guys. 0.99

01:21:05.000 Because back then, I meant T&A when I said it.

01:21:08.000 Right.

01:21:09.000 And I never thought women would love the workout the way they do. 1.00

01:21:11.000 And what was this year that you put this together?

01:21:13.000 2005. So I was interviewed by this guy from the Wall Street Journal and literally he quoted me saying when Kimberly had asked me if I would do the yoga.

01:21:24.000 I was like, fuck that. 0.99

01:21:26.000 I wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga. 1.00

01:21:29.000 And he put in there, F dash dash dash that, I wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga.

01:21:34.000 So that's in the beginning of the movie, right?

01:21:36.000 So the yogis like, hate me!

01:21:38.000 But by the time it gets to the end, where they see like, I'm just putting a different spin on it.

01:21:44.000 And I'm not trying to do what you're doing, but similar, getting, as far as I'm concerned, more benefits.

01:21:51.000 Now when you say power yoga, for people who've never done yoga before, differentiate.

01:21:56.000 What does that mean when you say power yoga versus something like Bikram yoga?

01:22:01.000 Bikram is, to me, first of all, I don't want to be that hot. 0.99

01:22:04.000 I don't want to be in a hot room.

01:22:06.000 I want to heat my body up in the cold.

01:22:09.000 So I don't want to put myself in a position where it's so hot that I can go farther than I've ever come before, because then I'm going to walk out into the real world.

01:22:17.000 And then I'm not going to get that.

01:22:19.000 I want to be able to get what I get in the real world.

01:22:22.000 And there's like, I want to say, I don't know how many positions there are.

01:22:24.000 Let's say there's 46 positions or whatever it is in Pekram.

01:22:28.000 I think it's 28. No, whatever.

01:22:29.000 I thought it was 27 or 28. I can't remember.

01:22:31.000 I don't remember either.

01:22:32.000 But either way, he trademarked that.

01:22:36.000 Yeah, he lost that in court, though.

01:22:39.000 I thought he won.

01:22:40.000 I think he lost, and on top of that, I don't think it was his to begin with.

01:22:44.000 I think somebody else had put all those patterns together before him. 0.55

01:22:49.000 Probably so, because again, it's It's friggin' yoga.

01:22:51.000 It's been around for thousands of years.

01:22:53.000 But for me, what I do, like, one time Chris Jericho and I were, he came by my house in L.A. when I was living here, and we went out to the park, and he's like, so what do you do?

01:23:03.000 Do you stand up one day, you know, strength build it or next?

01:23:06.000 I go, Chris, I do it different every...

01:23:09.000 I do the same open and do the same close.

01:23:12.000 But all the middle, I go, it's like a match, man.

01:23:14.000 I'm making it up as I go along at times.

01:23:16.000 You know, and I'm improv-ing because I'm seeing what you can do.

01:23:19.000 And then I'm going to take it different.

01:23:20.000 If I see you can really go...

01:23:22.000 Well, I'm going to push you to a different level than I go to. 0.99

01:23:25.000 If you can't, then I'm going to back way the fuck off. 0.99

01:23:29.000 Because I don't want to burn you. 0.99

01:23:31.000 I want you to...

01:23:32.000 I did it with Tito.

01:23:33.000 Tito Ortiz, one time, he'd written something in Sports Illustrated, interviewed him.

01:23:40.000 And I had met him at a strip joint in Vegas.

01:23:43.000 And he was the man in UFC at the time.

01:23:47.000 They weren't making any money.

01:23:49.000 You remember back in the beginning when they weren't making any money.

01:23:52.000 And he wanted to go to where we were.

01:23:56.000 And I was like, dude, here's what I really feel. 0.99

01:24:00.000 This shit you're doing is building crazy momentum. 0.99

01:24:03.000 I go, we're at the top of where we're going to go right now, and it's so cyclical, at some point it's going to fall out. 1.00

01:24:10.000 I said, it's a whole different thing than what you're doing.

01:24:12.000 I know you appreciate it, which I'm super excited about, but bottom line is, man, stay where you are.

01:24:18.000 And he's saying this in the SI interview, right?

01:24:21.000 So I still had his number, and I called him up, and he answered the phone, like, hey, Dito.

01:24:25.000 Like, hey, DDP! I'm like, hey, man, I saw what you said, and you told the story exactly, because I talked him out of it, like trying to go, and told him, no, stay where you are, dude.

01:24:36.000 You're about to have a hell of a run.

01:24:38.000 And he put that over.

01:24:39.000 So I said, man, you remembered exactly the way it went.

01:24:43.000 And he said, yeah.

01:24:43.000 He goes, of course, that's what I'm going to tell.

01:24:45.000 He's fighting again.

01:24:45.000 I heard that.

01:24:46.000 He's fighting next month.

01:24:47.000 I went down and worked out with him.

01:24:49.000 Two months, November.

01:24:50.000 I worked out with him after he did his back surgery.

01:24:53.000 He's had a bunch of back surgeries.

01:24:55.000 Well, the first one.

01:24:56.000 Yeah.

01:24:56.000 The first one, I worked with him.

01:24:58.000 And I'm figuring, this is Tito Ortiz, man.

01:25:00.000 I'm going to freaking push him to show him how this will strengthen him.

01:25:04.000 Then after that, he wouldn't do it.

01:25:06.000 And I finally pinned him down.

01:25:07.000 I go, Tito, why didn't you do it again? 0.97

01:25:09.000 He goes, it was too fucking hard, bro.

01:25:12.000 I'm like, dude, you say that? 1.00

01:25:14.000 You're one of the baddest fucks alive. 1.00

01:25:15.000 How could you? 0.99

01:25:16.000 And he's like, you know, I just thought it was too...

01:25:17.000 I said, I can make it super easy.

01:25:20.000 And that's where I learned... 0.99

01:25:21.000 Back the fuck off, meaning me. 0.99

01:25:24.000 Bring it where they need it. 0.99

01:25:26.000 And let me show you how we can help.

01:25:28.000 Like, Cain Velasquez, he was just down in the Performance Center, down in WWE, and I'm training the guys down there.

01:25:35.000 And I go down for like a week at a time.

01:25:37.000 I heard he's thinking about going into pro wrestling after his career's over.

01:25:40.000 Well, I'll tell you what, man.

01:25:41.000 Because he's another guy who's had a shitload of back surgeries.

01:25:44.000 Shoulder surgeries, knee surgeries.

01:25:46.000 And he, you know, could draw huge money.

01:25:49.000 I mean, he really could.

01:25:50.000 He's such a natural, as you can imagine.

01:25:53.000 And he's a giant Mexican. 1.00

01:25:54.000 How many of those are there? 0.88

01:25:57.000 Yeah, right.

01:25:58.000 That doesn't really exist like that.

01:25:59.000 First ever Mexican heavyweight champion in combat sports.

01:26:02.000 I watched it, man.

01:26:03.000 He's one of the greatest of all time, if not the greatest.

01:26:06.000 His body couldn't keep up with his mind.

01:26:08.000 His mind was so physically tough.

01:26:09.000 I mean, his mind was so mentally tough that his physical body would start falling apart.

01:26:14.000 His knees, his back, his shoulders.

01:26:16.000 It's just, when you watch that guy train, I mean, he trains like nobody. 0.99

01:26:20.000 Him and Daniel Cormier would just go to a fucking war. 0.98

01:26:23.000 I'm so happy for DC. He's awesome. 0.99

01:26:27.000 He's on Thursday.

01:26:29.000 Oh, he is?

01:26:30.000 We've never met, but I know he loves what we do.

01:26:33.000 He and I are calling the fights in Dallas this weekend.

01:26:37.000 Oh, great.

01:26:38.000 Yeah, there's UFC welterweight championships in Dallas this weekend.

01:26:41.000 Awesome, awesome.

01:26:43.000 I forgot what I was going to say before you said Cormier.

01:26:45.000 Tito Ortiz, it was too difficult for him. 0.97

01:26:47.000 You know, that's when you learn to back the fuck off. 0.95

01:26:50.000 And that Cain Velasquez... 0.99

01:26:51.000 Okay, Cain.

01:26:52.000 Man, wow, you're good.

01:26:54.000 You should do this.

01:26:56.000 You should have a show.

01:26:57.000 It's crazy to tell you how much pot I smoke.

01:27:00.000 So when I was down there, I did six workouts in five days.

01:27:05.000 Six workouts.

01:27:06.000 Two double sessions and a single session every day.

01:27:10.000 Kane made four of them.

01:27:11.000 And then, you know, we changed numbers and I sent him my program.

01:27:15.000 I sent him Matt's heart monitor and I don't know if he's doing it.

01:27:17.000 I haven't checked back in with him.

01:27:18.000 It would help him tremendously.

01:27:20.000 Tremendously.

01:27:21.000 Really would.

01:27:22.000 You know, because that guy's whole issue has been really his back.

01:27:26.000 I mean, there's other injuries, the shoulders and the knees and stuff like that, but they can fix those better than they can fix your back.

01:27:31.000 The back is, once they lose those discs, you know.

01:27:35.000 And I told him, like I told you, I said, if you can get out to Atlanta, I'll personally work with you.

01:27:40.000 It costs you this.

01:27:41.000 I just want you to have the results because, like Arthur, the results will speak for themselves.

01:27:48.000 Yeah, no, I mean, I'm a believer, 100%.

01:27:51.000 And I just can't say enough how impressed I am with that video with Arthur.

01:27:57.000 That is one of the most impressive transformation videos I think I've ever seen online.

01:28:01.000 And that's saying a lot.

01:28:03.000 What I found on the internet, there's few things that they really share.

01:28:09.000 Like when Steve first did that video, I looked at it and went, man, you don't have, back then it was still, we were just branding it DDP Yoga.

01:28:17.000 You don't have ddpyoga.com on it though.

01:28:19.000 No, bro.

01:28:20.000 He goes, I read a book.

01:28:22.000 And in the book, remember, this is 2011. And he said, I read a book that talked about if you want something to go viral, it can't be an advertising ad.

01:28:35.000 It has to be, unless it's super funny, then that's different.

01:28:38.000 He said, but if you want to, there's two things we can do here.

01:28:41.000 We can make it an ad.

01:28:43.000 We can inspire people.

01:28:44.000 He goes, what do you want to do?

01:28:46.000 I said, let's inspire people.

01:28:47.000 So then I watched it again, right? 0.99

01:28:49.000 And then I'm watching it, and I go, fuck, I'm a yogi in there. 0.99

01:28:52.000 So I called him up, and I go, bro. 0.99

01:28:54.000 I go, I don't want to be...

01:28:56.000 I mean, I love yoga, but I want to go for the people...

01:28:59.000 You're doing your own thing.

01:29:00.000 Right.

01:29:00.000 And he goes, all right, I just want you to think about this.

01:29:03.000 And this is why Steve... 0.99

01:29:05.000 Steve is like an Ivy Leaguer, graduated from Cornell, like super smart, was literally on his way to being a top guy at IBM and thought, fuck that. 0.96

01:29:15.000 I don't want to do that. 0.92

01:29:17.000 I want to inspire people.

01:29:20.000 So he is the only guy that I know is self-taught 100% how to edit, how to produce, how to do everything.

01:29:27.000 And Resurrection Jake the Snake, when you see it, you'll know.

01:29:30.000 That's his baby.

01:29:31.000 That video is his baby.

01:29:33.000 So he said, just imagine this, all right?

01:29:38.000 Yoga is going to want to take credit for all of this. 0.99

01:29:41.000 Even though it's our shit and it's different, it's still a version of. 0.98

01:29:46.000 He said, that'll end up on every yoga studio wall. 0.99

01:29:50.000 Ever.

01:29:51.000 And that's what helped it go viral.

01:29:53.000 So, remember he said in the video that he'd been turned away?

01:29:58.000 Right.

01:29:58.000 Because he needed the chair.

01:30:00.000 They didn't have any such thing.

01:30:02.000 They don't know how to incorporate that into their flow.

01:30:05.000 Right.

01:30:05.000 I do.

01:30:06.000 So you figured out the chair as a balancing tool.

01:30:09.000 And we have some where people are just sitting down and we have like beginner, beginner, but by the time you come into my class, like when I'll do, I'll go do a class and I'll be back to let everybody know Tuesday of next week I will be doing a class at DDP Yoga Performance Center.

01:30:23.000 It'll be jammed.

01:30:24.000 You won't be able to fit enough people in there.

01:30:26.000 But there'll be people with chairs and there'll be people without them and the energy will be insane because I've got you counting and you'll see like, grab the ball.

01:30:34.000 Now grab a hold and work your back and bys here and pull.

01:30:38.000 Deep breath.

01:30:39.000 Three, two, one.

01:30:41.000 I'm engaging everything.

01:30:43.000 Now, negative rep.

01:30:44.000 So you're engaging again.

01:30:46.000 Again, I want to get your heart rate up there and keep it there. 0.97

01:30:48.000 What did you do before you were pro wrestling, when you were 35?

01:30:51.000 I was running nightclubs.

01:30:52.000 I was running nightclubs.

01:30:53.000 I was in a nightclub business since I was 17. They actually had me bounce.

01:30:57.000 They didn't know how old.

01:30:58.000 They didn't know I wasn't old enough, because I was 6'4 and like 180 pounds.

01:31:03.000 But I was tall, and I started bouncing when I was 18. Once I found out I was 17, I'd get the hell out of here.

01:31:09.000 You're not old enough.

01:31:10.000 But I came back when I was 18, and then I was barbacking and bartending.

01:31:14.000 I was running.

01:31:15.000 I ran a small rock and roll joint at 22 and a half years old.

01:31:20.000 And then I went to Houston.

01:31:22.000 I lived down there for a while, and the honky-tonk scene was insane.

01:31:26.000 Then I came back for a wedding, and there was a place in Asbury Park, New Jersey, which is where I'm from, the Jersey Shore.

01:31:32.000 It's really funny.

01:31:33.000 I always tell people this.

01:31:34.000 From the same Jersey Shore area, me and Bam Bam Bigelow, who's a future Hall of Famer, you know, to me, she'll already be in. 0.92

01:31:43.000 Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, Jon Bon Jovi, and Bruce Brinkstein.

01:31:48.000 All from that, like, Save Jersey Shore area.

01:31:50.000 But I came back for a wedding, and there was this club opening up.

01:31:55.000 And so I went in there, and I talked to the guy, and he goes, well, I need a head bartender.

01:31:58.000 I said, I won't be a head bartender, but I'll be a general manager.

01:32:01.000 And I'll get behind a stick two days a week.

01:32:03.000 But this place was huge.

01:32:06.000 Get behind the stick?

01:32:07.000 The bar.

01:32:08.000 Get behind the bar and bartend. 0.99

01:32:10.000 Going slower nights, you know?

01:32:11.000 Get behind the stick.

01:32:12.000 Get behind the stick.

01:32:14.000 I get it.

01:32:15.000 The beer stick.

01:32:16.000 Right.

01:32:16.000 Well, yeah.

01:32:17.000 Our place was huge.

01:32:19.000 It was a big...

01:32:20.000 We had rock and roll and disco.

01:32:22.000 First time Bruce Springsteen ever sang Dancing in the Dark was caught up with a band called Bystander and sang with them.

01:32:29.000 Because, you know, Bruce is down two blocks, one block away was the Stone Pony, where I watched him probably 18 Sundays in a row play with a band called Cats on a Smooth Surface.

01:32:38.000 You just jump up and start playing, you know?

01:32:41.000 And now how did you go to pro wrestling?

01:32:43.000 So I was running a club.

01:32:44.000 I tried it when I was 22. That was right before I started to actually, you know, get a chance at running a club.

01:32:52.000 I had three matches. 0.98

01:32:53.000 I sucked. 0.99

01:32:55.000 I torqued my knee. 0.98

01:32:56.000 And when I was 12 years old, I mean, I was like, I loved football and hockey.

01:33:01.000 Like, in my mind, I'm going to play defensive end for the New York Giants.

01:33:04.000 I mean, that's my mind at the time.

01:33:05.000 But then I walked back, got hit by a car, my face bounced off the hood, and I flew 42 feet from the point of impact.

01:33:10.000 Jeez.

01:33:11.000 No such thing as rehab in 1968. So they wouldn't let me play football or hockey, but here's the two sports you can play.

01:33:20.000 They just decided you were broken.

01:33:21.000 They're like, you can't get a doctor to sign for you, and they weren't going to sign for me.

01:33:26.000 So they gave me two choices.

01:33:29.000 Baseball and basketball. 0.99

01:33:30.000 I suck at both. 0.62

01:33:32.000 And baseball, you've got to have somebody. 0.90

01:33:36.000 Basketball, you don't. 0.97

01:33:37.000 And I didn't even make the team in seventh grade, and I didn't give a fuck because I didn't really like it. 0.96

01:33:41.000 When you say you've got to have somebody, what do you mean? 0.96

01:33:43.000 You have to have someone to throw the ball back and forth with.

01:33:45.000 Oh, I see.

01:33:45.000 You got to have nine guys, you know, at least seven, you know, they play with another seven or whatever.

01:33:51.000 Nine is what you want, of course, but whatever you can do to make it work.

01:33:54.000 For basketball, you just need one.

01:33:56.000 You need a ball and a hoop.

01:33:58.000 That's it.

01:33:59.000 In eighth grade, I sat on the bench, and I had never sat on the bench ever.

01:34:03.000 So I thought, that's never happened to me again.

01:34:06.000 And it taught me the greatest lesson.

01:34:08.000 It taught me, that summer, I played every day, all day long.

01:34:13.000 Five hours a day minimum.

01:34:15.000 You know, when you're by yourself.

01:34:17.000 Layups, hooks, foul shots, whatever.

01:34:20.000 And then the games pick up.

01:34:22.000 In the beginning, I didn't get picked up until the end, maybe.

01:34:26.000 And then as time went on, over that summer, it kept getting better and better and better and better.

01:34:30.000 My freshman year, I started, and we went undefeated.

01:34:33.000 My sophomore year, I was playing varsity.

01:34:35.000 So I realized that work ethic equals results.

01:34:39.000 So that was the huge lesson I learned from that.

01:34:42.000 So now I'm 23 years old, and I hurt my knee, and I'm going to take some time off away from the dream of being a wrestler, and I get caught in the booze, the prods, and the party.

01:34:54.000 Wow.

01:34:56.000 Booze, broads, and the party. 0.72

01:34:59.000 Destroyer of men.

01:35:03.000 And I was lucky that I had a way of parenting myself, like getting into that whole party scene, which I did, but slowly I kind of backed myself out a little bit each year.

01:35:13.000 And I've got this club in Fort Myers, Florida at the time, and this one I actually own a little piece of it with my buddy Tony Cafaro and a couple other guys.

01:35:23.000 One night I'm in the office and we had a camera at the back door and a camera at the front door.

01:35:27.000 This place would hold, legally, probably about 600 people.

01:35:30.000 We got a thousand in there.

01:35:32.000 And I'm looking at the camera as the person walks and looks just like Jake the Snake Roberts.

01:35:38.000 I'm a huge fan of Jake Roberts.

01:35:41.000 So I friggin' run outside the building, come around, because I don't want to walk through the people.

01:35:46.000 And I go to this girl, Judy, at the front door. 0.50

01:35:47.000 I go, did a guy just walk in here who looks like Jake Roberts?

01:35:50.000 She goes, yeah.

01:35:51.000 She goes, I think it's him.

01:35:53.000 So I practically go right again there, like a huge mark.

01:35:56.000 And when I see him, I slow down.

01:36:00.000 You don't want to overfan, boy.

01:36:01.000 Don't want to overfan, boy.

01:36:03.000 Take a breath.

01:36:04.000 So he's up at the bar and I'm like, hey, you're Dick Snake Roberts.

01:36:09.000 Who wants to know?

01:36:13.000 I said, the guy who runs this place?

01:36:14.000 He goes, yeah.

01:36:16.000 I go, what are we drinking?

01:36:17.000 And that's how we started.

01:36:19.000 So it's really crazy that in Resurrection, I help him not drink again.

01:36:23.000 That is amazing.

01:36:25.000 I mean, that happened.

01:36:26.000 And then, of course, I paid for all his drinks.

01:36:29.000 And next day, you know, Ted DiBiase's there.

01:36:31.000 Bushwhackers are there. 1.00

01:36:32.000 All the guys from the 80s, if you wrestled in Tampa, then you had to go to Miami.

01:36:37.000 Well, Fort Myers was the perfect location.

01:36:41.000 So they had seen all these different people, these boys coming through there, right?

01:36:45.000 So I did all my own radio commercials back then.

01:36:48.000 So back then I might be like, Thursday, Thursday, hot legs.

01:36:51.000 And then I might throw in, oh yeah, dig it, don't miss, hot legs, yeah.

01:36:57.000 Thinking, thinking, thinking.

01:36:58.000 And people didn't know if it was Randy or Hulk or Jesse or whoever.

01:37:03.000 And I never told anybody, right?

01:37:05.000 So they do this interview on The Voice.

01:37:11.000 Because this is Fort Myers.

01:37:12.000 It's called the Party News Network.

01:37:14.000 My buddy Kevin said, we're going to do a spot on you on the news network.

01:37:17.000 I'm like, okay.

01:37:18.000 So they filmed me in my 62 pink Cadillac.

01:37:20.000 They filmed me at the studio.

01:37:22.000 You had a 62 pink Cadillac?

01:37:23.000 Convertible.

01:37:25.000 Ooh, baby.

01:37:27.000 It was the first divorced wife I never had.

01:37:30.000 Oh, what a car.

01:37:32.000 I just saw one go by.

01:37:34.000 I eventually sold it.

01:37:36.000 I drove it all the time.

01:37:39.000 I loved it.

01:37:40.000 That's one you're supposed to keep.

01:37:42.000 I know.

01:37:43.000 I'm getting one.

01:37:44.000 62 pink convertible?

01:37:45.000 It was badass, man.

01:37:46.000 There's another Bruce Springsteen song. 0.99

01:37:48.000 What a fucking great song that was. 1.00

01:37:49.000 Oh, man. 1.00

01:37:50.000 The best.

01:37:51.000 We actually, at that club, gave away, it was like a 68 pink Cadillac convertible.

01:37:57.000 You got a picture of a 62 pink Cadillac convertible on Google.

01:38:02.000 It's probably a picture of his. 1.00

01:38:03.000 There's a picture of me with three hot, smoking hot diamond dolls in my Harley and fucking... 1.00

01:38:09.000 It's got to be somewhere on there. 0.99

01:38:11.000 There it is.

01:38:12.000 There it is. 1.00

01:38:12.000 Look at that fucking car. 1.00

01:38:14.000 Is there any other pictures where you can see the front of it? 1.00

01:38:17.000 There it is.

01:38:18.000 Oh, what a car.

01:38:20.000 No, that's not it, but that's a 61. That's a hard top.

01:38:24.000 It's got to have the wings on the bottom.

01:38:26.000 Go to that last one that you just went to.

01:38:28.000 Oof, look at that one.

01:38:29.000 What is that last convertible one you went to?

01:38:31.000 One before that.

01:38:32.000 Oh, that's like a 56. That's a 61, I think.

01:38:36.000 That's a 59. That's my favorite.

01:38:38.000 Look at that.

01:38:39.000 That's a 70, right?

01:38:40.000 Yeah, 70. That's badass.

01:38:41.000 Look at the fucking... 1.00

01:38:43.000 A car! 1.00

01:38:43.000 God damn, they made some cars! 1.00

01:38:45.000 Go back to that shot of me and whatchamacallit there. 0.99

01:38:48.000 It's so funny because back then, there is...

01:38:52.000 How old are you here?

01:38:56.000 Right there, I am 31 years old.

01:38:59.000 That is, if you guys want to read a really great, super detailed, insanely long, it's called A Letter to My Younger Self.

01:39:07.000 It's The Player's Tribune.

01:39:10.000 So when we're writing this, Joe... 0.96

01:39:13.000 It's so fucking long. 0.93

01:39:14.000 I'm like, well, let me cut back on some of it. 0.96

01:39:16.000 They're like, no, no, we need more detail.

01:39:18.000 And then it goes to 9,000 words.

01:39:20.000 And then they want more detail.

01:39:22.000 Look at you, dude!

01:39:26.000 Look at that hair! 0.97

01:39:28.000 That's a 1980s head of hair if I ever saw one. 1.00

01:39:31.000 Holy shit. 1.00

01:39:33.000 Look at the cops looking at you from behind. 1.00

01:39:35.000 What the fuck is this guy doing? 1.00

01:39:36.000 I'm a manager then. 0.99

01:39:38.000 So, let me give you the backstory into this.

01:39:41.000 So, back up, back up.

01:39:43.000 That's the money picture, right there.

01:39:45.000 Little cutie face.

01:39:46.000 How old were you there, like eight, nine?

01:39:48.000 Oh, I don't know. 0.99

01:39:49.000 Fucking, he was trouble. 1.00

01:39:50.000 That son of a bitch was major trouble. 1.00

01:39:53.000 So, let me go back to where, friggin'. 1.00

01:39:56.000 So, I do this radio spot. 0.80

01:40:01.000 And when they're doing it, this TV, when I do the radio spot, they're filming me in my car, and ready to do a radio spot, I'm wearing a Wrestlemania t-shirt.

01:40:10.000 And I know because I have this footage still.

01:40:12.000 And I put it up on my Motivational Mondays for my very first one.

01:40:15.000 A power of what's possible.

01:40:19.000 And then they film me at my office, right?

01:40:22.000 Now let me just digress.

01:40:24.000 The week before, I'm going around at night and I'm grabbing the drawers, you know, like the money drawers.

01:40:30.000 And I'm watching video that's up on Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

01:40:34.000 Remember that?

01:40:34.000 With Cyndi Lauper?

01:40:36.000 Sure.

01:40:36.000 And it had Captain Lou Albano on it, who's like one of my favorite managers ever.

01:40:40.000 Super character, did a bunch of movies.

01:40:42.000 Lou was just super friggin' fun to watch.

01:40:45.000 He's in that video.

01:40:47.000 And I'm picking up the drawers, and I'm not talking to anybody but myself.

01:40:51.000 And I say, there he is.

01:40:53.000 There he is.

01:40:54.000 Captain Lou with the rubber bands and the beard.

01:40:56.000 I remember that.

01:40:57.000 Oh, God.

01:40:58.000 So I look up at that video and I go, Rockin' Wrestling.

01:41:02.000 I should have been a part of that.

01:41:03.000 And I walk into my office.

01:41:05.000 Now, other bartenders are going to come and count their drawers right now. 1.00

01:41:09.000 And Smokey comes in, my head bartender, and he comes and goes, Paige J. Because my real first name is Paige Joseph Falkenberg.

01:41:16.000 And my dad...

01:41:18.000 Yeah, right.

01:41:20.000 That name's never going to draw any money in professional wrestling.

01:41:23.000 Yeah, that Paige Falkenberg is going to tough sell. 1.00

01:41:25.000 Exactly.

01:41:26.000 Diamond Dallas Page, that makes sense.

01:41:28.000 They work, right?

01:41:29.000 But my dad's page one, and he said, I'm freaking, you know, you're page two.

01:41:34.000 And I'm like, no.

01:41:35.000 As a little kid, he said I didn't like that.

01:41:37.000 So Dallas Cowboys was my team that I loved the most when I was a little kid. 0.98

01:41:41.000 I don't know because of the stars or whatever and Landry and all that shit. 0.87

01:41:46.000 He ends up nicknamed me Dallas. 0.57

01:41:49.000 So I always love that name.

01:41:50.000 So I just put them together.

01:41:51.000 It's kind of created it, right?

01:41:53.000 So I tried that as handsome.

01:41:55.000 So bottom line is Smokey comes in the back and he goes, Paige J. He goes, uh...

01:42:02.000 What do you mean rock and wrestling?

01:42:03.000 You should have been a part of that.

01:42:04.000 I said, well, you know, I tried it when I was a kid.

01:42:06.000 He goes, you did?

01:42:08.000 What was your name?

01:42:09.000 I said, Handsome Dallas Page.

01:42:11.000 He went, oh, you forget about using that gimmick anymore, and everybody laughed, you know?

01:42:16.000 Now we're drinking.

01:42:17.000 It's after hours, right?

01:42:19.000 So I can't get it out of my head, Joe.

01:42:21.000 And I just start scribbling.

01:42:23.000 And I write Diamond Dallas Page.

01:42:25.000 And I said, you know...

01:42:27.000 Where'd you get the diamond?

01:42:27.000 I just figured my birthday.

01:42:29.000 April.

01:42:29.000 And it just kind of flowed.

01:42:31.000 April is a diamond month?

01:42:32.000 April is a diamond month.

01:42:33.000 Yeah, April 5th is a diamond.

01:42:35.000 And I love Classy Freddie Blassie.

01:42:38.000 And I love the way that name flowed.

01:42:40.000 Classy Freddie Blassie.

01:42:41.000 I thought, Diamond Dallas Page.

01:42:42.000 It kind of flows.

01:42:43.000 And I go, what about if my name was...

01:42:45.000 I'm too old to be a wrestler.

01:42:46.000 Now, remember, I was 22 or 23, 22. And now I'm 31. So you're thinking you were going to be a manager or something?

01:42:54.000 I'm going to be a manager.

01:42:55.000 Jimmy Hart's a manager.

01:42:57.000 I could be Diamond Dallas Page.

01:42:59.000 Jimmy Hart, you know, has got the Hart Foundation.

01:43:01.000 I could have the Diamond Exchange.

01:43:03.000 Whoa! 0.71

01:43:03.000 Drink, drink, shot, shot. 0.71

01:43:05.000 So now we're getting pretty fucked up, man. 0.99

01:43:09.000 And at some point, I say, you know... 0.98

01:43:14.000 You know, there's not a lot of really good-looking women in wrestling today. 1.00

01:43:19.000 I go, Miss Elizabeth's beautiful, but she's girl next door beautiful. 1.00

01:43:22.000 What if I had a whole stable of ladies and I called them diamond dolls and they were stripper hot? 1.00

01:43:28.000 Everyone's like, oh, that'll be a stretch.

01:43:30.000 Whoa! 0.71

01:43:30.000 Shot, shot, drink, drink. 0.71

01:43:32.000 So the end of the night comes around.

01:43:35.000 And I'm like, Diamond Dolls Page, the Diamond Exchange, the Diamond Dolls. 0.99

01:43:41.000 I go, man, that's fucking B-A-double-D bad. 0.98

01:43:45.000 And I went, did I just make that up or did I steal that from somebody? 0.99

01:43:48.000 And I just wrote it down.

01:43:50.000 A week later, here I am with the Party News Network, and they're interviewing me.

01:43:56.000 And at some point they say, so where does the voice come from?

01:44:00.000 Now Joe, if there's not a pair of white sunglasses there at the time, I don't know if I'd do it. 0.99

01:44:05.000 But they're sitting right there next to that shit. 0.99

01:44:10.000 So I grab them and I put them on. 0.99

01:44:13.000 Were they your sunglasses?

01:44:13.000 Yeah, they were my sunglasses.

01:44:15.000 If they weren't there, I don't know if I say it.

01:44:18.000 I don't know if I go into character.

01:44:19.000 But because I could put a mask on.

01:44:23.000 I go, the voice comes from Diamond Dollar.

01:44:26.000 Give me some volume.

01:44:27.000 Give me some volume on this.

01:44:29.000 When the Iceman puts you in a deep freeze, it's lights out.

01:44:32.000 Now, ladies, I wasn't talking to you. 0.98

01:44:33.000 I was talking to the ladies on TV. Now, ladies, you must be getting back to the limo. 0.98

01:44:36.000 Get back to the limo now, ladies. 1.00

01:44:37.000 Oh, my God.

01:44:38.000 Get over here, daddy. 1.00

01:44:39.000 Get right out of the way. 0.92

01:44:41.000 Exactly!

01:44:43.000 Get a little hot in here.

01:44:45.000 Get with the program here.

01:44:46.000 Like I was saying, when the Iceman puts you in a deep freeze, it's lights out.

01:44:50.000 Pay attention, Mr. Bernstein.

01:44:51.000 Well, let's bring out... 0.99

01:44:53.000 Oh my god, this is fucking classic. 0.99

01:44:55.000 You got a Motley Crue t-shirt on with no neck? 0.99

01:44:58.000 Yes!

01:44:58.000 Look at this guy.

01:45:00.000 Rock Hard Rick.

01:45:08.000 And then Jack Bernstein has his own show in Jersey as a podcast on country music, but he was a big jock for a long time.

01:45:16.000 Great Pipes.

01:45:19.000 Oh, this is hilarious.

01:45:20.000 Oh, this is hilarious.

01:45:28.000 Big John. 0.99

01:45:48.000 Oh my god, this is fucking classic. 0.99

01:45:51.000 What year is all this happening? 0.99

01:45:52.000 That's the beginning of where we started.

01:45:54.000 Oh, wait, [...

01:45:56.000 Look at this girl. 1.00

01:45:58.000 This is an exchange here, you know what I'm saying?

01:46:00.000 You know what I'm talking about?

01:46:01.000 This man is loved by women all over the world.

01:46:03.000 They love to cuddle him.

01:46:05.000 He is the Teddy Bear.

01:46:07.000 If you wouldn't mind, take off that jacket there, Teddy Bear.

01:46:09.000 Show the fans what you got.

01:46:11.000 Show them what you got here.

01:46:13.000 Oh boy, Teddy V is going to be so excited to be here on Joe Rogan's show.

01:46:16.000 He is an unbelievable specimen, an unbelievable man here.

01:46:18.000 This ain't no normal midget wrestler. 0.99

01:46:20.000 This is the next king of the world.

01:46:22.000 You know what I'm talking about, Daddy.

01:46:23.000 Oh my God.

01:46:24.000 That's an awesome wrestler there. 1.00

01:46:25.000 Diamond Dallas.

01:46:27.000 And those ladies, unbelievable! 1.00

01:46:29.000 They can't keep their hands off them. 1.00

01:46:34.000 Holy shit! 1.00

01:46:35.000 Listen, listen, listen to what Teddy does. 0.99

01:46:37.000 Teddy Bear, do you have anything to add to this?

01:46:40.000 Just remember what that is.

01:46:42.000 Easy animals.

01:46:44.000 Oh my god.

01:46:46.000 So...

01:46:46.000 Oh my god.

01:46:48.000 So...

01:46:49.000 What year is all this?

01:46:50.000 This is 1987. Oh my god, I'm fresh out of high school.

01:46:55.000 That's two years out of high school for me.

01:46:56.000 So what happened was, I do this promo.

01:47:00.000 They're doing this show.

01:47:02.000 We just went ahead of it.

01:47:04.000 I'm doing the Bard News Network and they say, where does the voice come from?

01:47:09.000 I look down and I always say, just don't think it.

01:47:12.000 Ink it.

01:47:13.000 Write it down.

01:47:13.000 It's right in front of me.

01:47:15.000 This is your spot.

01:47:16.000 I grab those sunglasses.

01:47:18.000 I put them on.

01:47:19.000 And I go, the voice comes from Damandella's page, daddy.

01:47:22.000 I was born to be a professional wrestling manager.

01:47:24.000 It's big, it's bad, it's na-na-na-na, Norma Jean's voice.

01:47:28.000 I took him off and I kept talking.

01:47:31.000 A radio jock who was a great fighter.

01:47:34.000 His name is Smitty.

01:47:35.000 And Smitty sees this.

01:47:38.000 So this is like a week later, right?

01:47:40.000 I get a phone call from the girl in the front desk.

01:47:43.000 She says, Paige, there's someone to call for Diamond Dallas Paige? 0.96

01:47:49.000 I pick up the phone. 1.00

01:47:50.000 I go, fuck you, Smokey. 1.00

01:47:51.000 And I hang up the phone, right? 1.00

01:47:53.000 Because I think it's Smokey ripping me, right?

01:47:55.000 He calls back.

01:47:56.000 She goes, it's not Smokey.

01:47:57.000 His name's Smitty.

01:47:58.000 He's got a radio show.

01:47:59.000 He wants to talk to you.

01:48:01.000 I go, hello?

01:48:02.000 He's like, yeah, we want to bring you on the show.

01:48:04.000 He goes, you know, I'm a boxer who has his own show about boxing, but I want to start doing wrestling.

01:48:09.000 I go, he goes, I want to have you on the show.

01:48:11.000 I go, bro, I don't really do it. 0.99

01:48:15.000 I was just making that shit up, you know? 0.99

01:48:17.000 And he's like, who cares? 1.00

01:48:18.000 It's radio.

01:48:20.000 And I'm like, man, I don't know.

01:48:22.000 He goes, I'm gonna have Captain Lou Albano on.

01:48:25.000 Like, what's the odds of that?

01:48:27.000 I'm gonna have Captain Lou Albano on the show.

01:48:29.000 I want you to be my co-host.

01:48:31.000 I go, do I get to talk to Captain Lou?

01:48:33.000 He's like, absolutely.

01:48:34.000 I go, I'm in!

01:48:37.000 So I do that show and I do another one with Sergeant Slaughter.

01:48:41.000 And he says to me, he says, you know, you got to do something with this Diamond Dallas Page thing.

01:48:46.000 You're a natural.

01:48:47.000 I go, Smitty, do what? 0.99

01:48:48.000 I don't know what the fuck to do. 0.97

01:48:49.000 I mean, it's just something in my head. 0.98

01:48:51.000 And he says, I got this friend of mine named Rob Russon, who's a boxing promoter who now is working for the AWA up in Minnesota.

01:48:59.000 I'll give you his address.

01:49:00.000 Send him a tape or something.

01:49:02.000 So I think about it and I write those storylines for those guys.

01:49:07.000 And then I make that tape and I send it to the AWA. No bullshit, Joe. 0.98

01:49:13.000 Two weeks later, I get a phone call. 0.98

01:49:16.000 Hey, is this Diamond Dallas Page?

01:49:19.000 And I'm like, yeah, this is Rob Russom from the AWA. We've seen your tape.

01:49:25.000 We want to bring you and your boys in for a tryout.

01:49:31.000 He goes, but we've got one question.

01:49:32.000 You know, we've shown the tape around and everybody kind of likes your stick.

01:49:36.000 You know, it's fresh.

01:49:37.000 It's got energy.

01:49:38.000 He said, but no one's ever heard of you.

01:49:40.000 Where are you guys working?

01:49:43.000 Well, Rob, we got one problem.

01:49:45.000 None of those guys can wrestle.

01:49:48.000 He's like, what?

01:49:49.000 He goes, why would you send us a tape?

01:49:51.000 I go, it's like a secret society. 0.99

01:49:53.000 Like, no one can figure out how to fucking get in. 0.97

01:49:55.000 So, you know, while they're training, I could, you know, manage. 0.98

01:49:58.000 And I'm like, ah, don't call us, we'll call you.

01:50:01.000 And two weeks later, God just aligned this for me for some reason, just to be where I am today.

01:50:08.000 But Paul Heyman, who's one of the biggest stars as, you know, a character on WWE television, was called Paulie Dangerously at the time.

01:50:16.000 He left the AWA, went to the NWA, which was gonna get bought by Ted Turner, left a huge spot open for a young guy that could talk.

01:50:27.000 They brought me in. 0.99

01:50:28.000 All those clothes you saw me in, I was wearing that shit in Fort Myers, Florida. 0.97

01:50:33.000 And I said to my buddy, Kurt Church, who was my head bouncer at the time, my head of the floor, and when this was starting to happen, I go, dude, can you imagine if I ever have a reason to dress like this? 0.96

01:50:43.000 You know, like, And if anything, I got way more tapered down.

01:50:49.000 You know, I wasn't living the gimmick.

01:50:51.000 But, man, it was the beginning of everything.

01:50:53.000 And then Dusty Rhodes had come into Florida for Florida Championship Wrestling.

01:50:57.000 And Dusty took me under his wing, man.

01:50:59.000 And he gave me every break that ever meant anything to my career early on.

01:51:04.000 That's why it was so important for me.

01:51:06.000 To be there for Cody because I'm not getting choked up just thinking about it.

01:51:10.000 Without Dusty Rhodes, there is no Diamond Dolls page.

01:51:13.000 He gave me every break I ever had and for me to watch his son do what they did last weekend.

01:51:22.000 Do you remember your first match?

01:51:24.000 My first match was a tag match.

01:51:27.000 So I'm managing now, okay?

01:51:30.000 Three and a half years.

01:51:32.000 And then I finally get the call because Dusty, who went to WWE... And he did his polka dotted gimmick with him.

01:51:39.000 He came back to run the WCW. He's NWA world champion.

01:51:44.000 He's like one of the smartest guys ever in our business.

01:51:48.000 And I developed a relationship that was super tight with him when we were in Florida.

01:51:53.000 But it was his wife, Michelle.

01:51:55.000 Who really kept it going when he wasn't, because when I'd call up just to check in with Dusty once in a while, she'd say, don't worry, Dallas.

01:52:02.000 Dusty will call you back.

01:52:04.000 And knowing how bad he is at calling someone back, I know that, that's why I thank Michelle in my Hall of Fame speech, because I know without her, I don't know if it ever would have kept going the way it did, but Dusty, you know, he brought me in and I managed the Freebirds,

01:52:21.000 Michael P.S. Hage and Jimmy Jam Garvin, which was such an education, such a good time.

01:52:25.000 Michael's still one of my best friends today. 0.77

01:52:27.000 And I helped Scott Hall, who was Big Scott Hall, come in, changed his entire look from blonde hair and a big roll with mustache I had him dye his hair jet black and give him this brush cut beard that like nobody had the five o'clock shadow and no one knew who the fuck he was and I brought him in and what is happening as you see all the crazy clothes I wore Well,

01:52:52.000 five months in, Magnum TA, who's Dusty's right-hand man, comes up to me and he's like, listen, D, we're going to keep you at the color commentators box.

01:53:02.000 I'm also doing color commentating with Eric Bischoff, who would later run the company.

01:53:06.000 And he said, we can't let you manage anymore.

01:53:11.000 I'm like, what?

01:53:12.000 What'd I do wrong?

01:53:13.000 He goes, it's not anything you're doing wrong, bro.

01:53:16.000 He goes, with the hair and the wrap and the dolls and those crazy clothes, he goes, you're taking too much attention away from the boys and they're the ones who draw the money. 0.99

01:53:27.000 And I was like, so fuck, are you telling me, Magnum, that I'm too over the fucking top for wrestling? 0.98

01:53:34.000 And he goes, as a manager, kinda. 1.00

01:53:36.000 He said, but, you know, what we should have done is put you in a pair of tights and boots and see if you could do this shit. 0.99

01:53:42.000 I had seven months left on my contract, bro. 1.00

01:53:44.000 I said, fuck this. 1.00

01:53:46.000 I never got in this business to be a manager. 1.00

01:53:49.000 I wanted to live the dream.

01:53:51.000 Well, I'm gonna do it. 0.97

01:53:52.000 And I went down there and they beat the fuck out of me. 0.95

01:53:57.000 Now, did they teach you how to do it first? 0.99

01:53:59.000 No, what they do is they blow you up.

01:54:01.000 This is how it was.

01:54:02.000 The NXT is different, like down their performance center.

01:54:07.000 But the original power plant, one of my other mentors was a guy named Jody Hamilton, who was the assassin, and he really taught me a lot.

01:54:17.000 And so did this guy Sarge.

01:54:18.000 But in the beginning, they want to run you off.

01:54:21.000 So they want to see if you'll quit.

01:54:23.000 Oh, absolutely.

01:54:25.000 It's a different level of SEAL training.

01:54:27.000 You're going to do 50 Hindu squats where you're asked to bucket and up again. 0.78

01:54:35.000 And then you're going to do 10 push-ups.

01:54:37.000 And then you're going to do 50. And then 10. And 50. And 10. And by the time you get to that third 50, if you're not in shape, you're screwed.

01:54:46.000 Because we're going to 500. Yeah, Hindu squats are a big thing amongst wrestlers, right? 1.00

01:54:51.000 It's a great way to get in shape, but it really wears on your knees.

01:54:54.000 But it's really good for your knees.

01:54:56.000 No, no, no.

01:54:57.000 Hindu squats aren't?

01:54:58.000 Not if you've got bad knees.

01:55:01.000 If you've got great knees.

01:55:03.000 It's like anything.

01:55:05.000 There's only so many bumps you're allowed in life.

01:55:07.000 The Miz was on Fear Factor back in the day. 1.00

01:55:10.000 Oh, yeah.

01:55:10.000 To this day, I say he's the fittest guy that was ever on the show.

01:55:13.000 That fucking kid is a He is a stud. 0.99

01:55:17.000 He did this stunt in cold water, where you had to dive into this cold water, hold your breath, and complete this stunt. 1.00

01:55:23.000 And he was in it for more than two minutes, holding his breath in cold water.

01:55:27.000 Now, if you know anything about cold water, that is unbelievably impressive.

01:55:31.000 Plus, very grueling physical activity.

01:55:34.000 It's not that he was just in cold water, holding his breath for two minutes, which is impressive enough as it is.

01:55:39.000 He was swimming around and pulling off.

01:55:42.000 He blew everybody out of the water.

01:55:44.000 And he told me he did a shitload of those.

01:55:46.000 He was doing 500 a day.

01:55:47.000 500 Hindu squats a day.

01:55:49.000 A kid, though.

01:55:49.000 A kid.

01:55:50.000 And that's why he was in that kind of shape.

01:55:51.000 Let me give you a line.

01:55:52.000 Super nice guy, too.

01:55:53.000 Tremendous.

01:55:53.000 I love The Miz.

01:55:54.000 I think he's going to be a huge superstar.

01:55:57.000 He's already a huge superstar in wrestling, but I think he's going to be a huge superstar in the acting world, too.

01:56:02.000 Yeah, he could easily transcend.

01:56:03.000 So let me tell you the first time I meet him.

01:56:05.000 I'm here in LA. I'm living in Playa Vista before that.

01:56:08.000 All that shit blew up there, right? 0.98

01:56:10.000 I'm living there. 0.99

01:56:10.000 I want to say it's 2004 because I wrestled until I was 46. Then I took off two and a half years, came here, did the whole acting thing and put my dues and put the work in. 0.99

01:56:23.000 Now I want to go back and I want to show people what I can do with my DDPY program at 49. So I call up a buddy of mine named Rick Bassman, and he's got the UPW at the time, and he's got the own area, kind of like the power plant was, and the kids are training there whenever.

01:56:38.000 I said, do me a favor, send me over one of your boys and let him come by and get me, and I'll do what I want to do, and then I'll help work with him a little bit.

01:56:47.000 And so he sends me Mike the Miz.

01:56:50.000 And just the sweetest kid.

01:56:53.000 And we have a great talk on the way over there. 0.99

01:56:56.000 And I get done doing all my shit. 0.93

01:56:59.000 And then I say, okay, what do you want to learn? 0.96

01:57:01.000 He's like, you're going to work with me?

01:57:02.000 I'm like, hell yeah, I'm going to work with you.

01:57:04.000 You've got a great attitude, dude.

01:57:05.000 Of course I'm going to work with you.

01:57:06.000 And we worked.

01:57:08.000 And now he's taking me home.

01:57:09.000 And he tells me about how he was a real world.

01:57:12.000 He's like the original real world guy.

01:57:14.000 So I said, man, you've got that piece.

01:57:17.000 People already know you.

01:57:19.000 That's really worth something.

01:57:21.000 It'll really come back to help you later as you're going through this.

01:57:24.000 So we get all the way back to my place, and I'm like, you want to come in for a beer?

01:57:28.000 He's like, oh, absolutely.

01:57:29.000 So he comes in, and who's on the porch but Stone Cold Steve Austin, who I lived with at the time, and Kevin Nash are there. 0.99

01:57:35.000 So he's like, whoa, what the fuck? 0.78

01:57:39.000 And I was just at WrestleMania two years ago when I was inducted into Hall of Fame, and Miz was back doing one of his things. 0.99

01:57:48.000 Now he's got the reality show with his wife, which is super funny.

01:57:52.000 And there's times where I'm like, this is really real. 0.99

01:57:55.000 Because, you know, reality show, there's no such thing as real life and reality show shit. 0.98

01:58:00.000 But there's a lot of their stuff you can tell that they're like shooting on because they want like the real deal. 0.99

01:58:06.000 But he told that story.

01:58:09.000 Like he was backstage with one of his suits on and his wife there.

01:58:11.000 He goes, holy, come here, come here.

01:58:14.000 Let's talk about the story when we first met.

01:58:16.000 And I just knew that that kid, like...

01:58:20.000 He's hit a couple of roadblocks along the way that he could have quit.

01:58:23.000 He could have walked away from it.

01:58:24.000 He could have not.

01:58:25.000 But he had such a belief in himself.

01:58:27.000 I always tell people, never underestimate the power you give yourself by believing in you.

01:58:34.000 And that's who The Miz is. 1.00

01:58:36.000 And I think he's going to be a huge...

01:58:38.000 I love the fact, we get a whole different slant now because of the man, The Rock.

01:58:43.000 The biggest star in the world is one of us.

01:58:48.000 And did you see Blockers with Cena?

01:58:49.000 No.

01:58:50.000 Oh, dude, watch it.

01:58:52.000 It's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

01:58:54.000 And I was flying home.

01:58:56.000 I'm telling my wife, you got to watch this movie.

01:58:57.000 It's hysterical.

01:58:58.000 She's sitting next to me.

01:59:00.000 And I'm not even watching.

01:59:01.000 I can't hear it because I've already seen it. 0.99

01:59:03.000 She's laughing so hard, but I'm laughing because I'm watching it and I know what they're saying or an idea of it, but when you got visual comedy, which you know, when you don't hear the words and you're watching like Buster Keaton and you're laughing, that's really good shit. 0.95

01:59:19.000 And it's super funny and seeing it killed it.

01:59:23.000 So, you know, he's a super A-list actor now.

01:59:26.000 He just did a Ferdinand movie and I mean, he's on fire.

01:59:30.000 Last time I saw him at the show, I just pulled him over for a second.

01:59:34.000 I don't really know him that well, but I wanted him to know that I was so proud of him, not for what he's done as an actor, even though I'm super proud of him on that level, but how he carried the company on his back for over a decade and still did so much work for charity.

01:59:52.000 It was mind-boggling.

01:59:53.000 No one has done more along that whole Make-A-Wish thing than Cena has.

01:59:59.000 But when I saw, did you see him when he hosted the ESPYs?

02:00:02.000 No.

02:00:03.000 Dude, you're a comedian. 1.00

02:00:05.000 You know how hard that shit is. 1.00

02:00:07.000 He is not a stand-up comedian, but he was friggin' amazing. 1.00

02:00:12.000 Well, he's been acting for so long now. 0.69

02:00:14.000 He's so loose.

02:00:15.000 And you know, this is the thing about being behind the mic on the WWE as well.

02:00:19.000 Just being able to do that in front of all those people and perform like that.

02:00:22.000 Absolutely.

02:00:23.000 That's its own level of sometimes 20-minute promos they're doing.

02:00:26.000 The Rock confuses me in how much energy he has. 0.98

02:00:29.000 I don't know how the fuck he can do all the things he does. 0.97

02:00:32.000 He's always doing something. 1.00

02:00:34.000 I go to his Instagram page all the time just to feel like a lazy fuck. 1.00

02:00:38.000 I'm not kidding, man. 1.00

02:00:40.000 He flies into China.

02:00:41.000 It's four in the morning.

02:00:42.000 He's lifting weights. 1.00

02:00:43.000 Like, what the fuck, man? 1.00

02:00:44.000 The hardest working cat I have ever seen. 1.00

02:00:47.000 On the planet.

02:00:47.000 Maybe on the planet.

02:00:48.000 He's always doing something.

02:00:50.000 I mean, he just sandwiches everything together. 0.98

02:00:53.000 I don't know how the fuck he does it. 0.96

02:00:54.000 Yeah, I'll tell you, Jericho is... 0.99

02:00:56.000 I put, like, guys like who are the most insane work ethic...

02:01:00.000 Like, right now, Rock is way past everybody.

02:01:03.000 He's passed anyone I've ever seen.

02:01:05.000 Me too.

02:01:06.000 And I'll just occasionally put a tweet out just to say, hey dude, keep up the great work.

02:01:10.000 You're blowing my mind.

02:01:11.000 He's one of those guys where I go, how long can a human, how long can a human body keep going like this?

02:01:17.000 Because you know he's only sleeping four hours a night.

02:01:19.000 I think he's kind of like my buddy Steve Yu.

02:01:21.000 They don't need to sleep.

02:01:21.000 They just keep going.

02:01:22.000 Jericho's the same way.

02:01:23.000 Jericho, when he's not wrestling, he's singing.

02:01:26.000 When he's not doing that, he's doing his podcast.

02:01:27.000 Or he's not doing that, he's doing this, or he's doing that, or he's doing this, or he's doing that.

02:01:31.000 And he flew in They friggin' private-jetted him into the all-in deal and didn't even know.

02:01:38.000 I don't like to know. 0.88

02:01:39.000 I want to be surprised.

02:01:40.000 And they shot this angle with Kenny Omega, who's one of the, like, premier superstars in our business right now.

02:01:47.000 And they did him and Jericho at 47. Sold out the Tokyo Dome, 47,000 people in January.

02:01:55.000 His match, they wrestled for...

02:01:57.000 The entrance to everything were 48 minutes.

02:02:00.000 They wrestled for 37 minutes.

02:02:02.000 He's 47. Well, he jumped on a plane while he's touring.

02:02:06.000 They flew him in.

02:02:07.000 He put a mask on.

02:02:08.000 You thought it was one guy.

02:02:10.000 He pulls the mask off after he drops Omega.

02:02:13.000 And bada-boom, it's Jericho.

02:02:16.000 The place goes batshit crazy.

02:02:19.000 He gets out, grabs his deal, hops on a plane and flies where he's supposed to play at 12 o'clock that night.

02:02:24.000 That's Jericho.

02:02:25.000 And the other guy is Batista.

02:02:28.000 So Batista, you know, between Galaxy, you know, I mean, here's four guys that are like red hot as actors and they're all the boys.

02:02:38.000 He's fantastic in Guardians of the Galaxy.

02:02:40.000 Oh my God, he's phenomenal.

02:02:41.000 He's so good at being like self-deprecating and dorky. 0.91

02:02:45.000 I mean, he plays like a goof so well. 0.57

02:02:48.000 And he's such a cool dude, man. 0.96

02:02:50.000 If Tony Hinchcliffe was here right now, he would be jizzing in his pants.

02:02:53.000 He really wouldn't be able to hold it together.

02:02:57.000 Now, what's interesting is that this group, I mean, Hulk Hogan was probably one of the first big guys to transcend into movies, right?

02:03:06.000 Yes.

02:03:06.000 But he got turned off by Hollywood.

02:03:08.000 He apparently got a couple of dick grabbers. 1.00

02:03:11.000 I don't know what the real story is, but I'll tell you what, of all the guys that I know, I'm super supportive of Hulk because he was super supportive of me. 0.98

02:03:21.000 It's a great guy.

02:03:22.000 Oh man.

02:03:23.000 Right now, he finally got back and they finally brought him back in to WWE, which I was super excited about because, to me, going into Hall of Fame without Hulk being in there, it was kind of like...

02:03:35.000 Pull out the video of me interviewing Hulk Hogan for Spike TV. I got a chance to interview him for Spike TV back in the day when he was...

02:03:43.000 Spike TV went into the wrestling business for a little bit.

02:03:46.000 Sure, sure, sure.

02:03:47.000 I helped that.

02:03:48.000 I helped them do that because I was one of the names that brought, you know, that's when I was wrestling.

02:03:51.000 So for me as a kid, I mean, I was a giant fan of Jimmy Superfly Snuka and Bob Backlund, all that when I was in high school, early 80s, and Hulk Hogan.

02:03:59.000 So for me, to get a chance to interview Hulk Hogan, it was...

02:04:03.000 Look at this.

02:04:05.000 The greatest professional wrestlers of all time, sports and entertainment, huge personality, the one and only Hulk Hogan.

02:04:12.000 We share a birthday, too.

02:04:13.000 Welcome aboard, sir.

02:04:14.000 How are you?

02:04:14.000 Thank you, my brother.

02:04:15.000 You know, to be here with Joe Mania and Dana White, it doesn't get any better than this, brother.

02:04:20.000 These guys are going to war out here.

02:04:22.000 It's unbelievable.

02:04:23.000 Now, you've been in some MMA fights before.

02:04:25.000 Are you a UFC fan?

02:04:26.000 Oh, I'm a huge fan, my brother.

02:04:28.000 I sure am.

02:04:29.000 Now, I understand that you have recently announced a partnership with TNA Wrestling and its president, Dixie Carter.

02:04:37.000 And you're going to be moving to Spike TV. We're going to see some Hulkamania on Spike TV. Tell us more about that.

02:04:43.000 Well, you know, brother, tonight I got a ton of energy.

02:04:46.000 And I'm partners with Spike.

02:04:47.000 I'm partners with Dixie Carter.

02:04:49.000 I'm partners with TNA. And we just got the green light, brother, on January 4th.

02:04:54.000 TNA Impact.

02:04:56.000 We're going wide open.

02:04:57.000 We're going head-on-head.

02:04:58.000 We're going to battle with the WWE. Monday night, January 4th.

02:05:03.000 Hulk Hogan and TNA. We're coming after everybody.

02:05:06.000 We're coming after everybody.

02:05:07.000 Now, I understand that you recently released a book.

02:05:10.000 You've done a wrestling tour in Australia.

02:05:13.000 When are we going to see Hulk Hogan wrestle in TNA? Well, brother, I'm going January 4th.

02:05:19.000 Like I said, Monday night.

02:05:20.000 We're going to award TNA Impact, but you never know.

02:05:23.000 I'm going over there to take over.

02:05:25.000 The maniacs are coming.

02:05:26.000 All the TNA stars are going to be there.

02:05:28.000 And you never know when the old man with the yellow boots might just step in that ring, brother.

02:05:33.000 Hulk Hogan is coming back, ladies and gentlemen.

02:05:36.000 TNA Wrestling, live on Spike TV. Hulk's here for the fights.

02:05:40.000 You know you want to watch him on TV. What you gonna do, brother, when the UFC runs wild on you?

02:05:46.000 What are you gonna do?

02:05:47.000 That's the good question.

02:05:48.000 Thank you very much, sir.

02:05:50.000 You had a Gene Okerlund spot, brother.

02:05:53.000 I was like a little kid there.

02:05:55.000 I was so happy.

02:05:56.000 You ever met Gene Oakland?

02:05:58.000 No.

02:05:58.000 Oh man, one of the nice guys on the planet.

02:06:00.000 But Hulk, I mean, when I got to do my stuff with him, because we not only did the Malone stuff, you know, with me and Malone against Rodman and Hogan, but the next month, they come in, and because we shot that angle on The Tonight Show,

02:06:15.000 and the next month, they go in, Hogan and Bischoff, and they run Jay off the set. 0.78

02:06:22.000 I come in from the wings, not Hulk on his ass, and it's me and Jay Leno against Hogan and Bischoff. 0.99

02:06:30.000 You fucking Jay Leno holding the Hulk down! 0.99

02:06:34.000 Look at Hulk putting him over! 1.00

02:06:35.000 Look at Hulk putting him over now! 1.00

02:06:37.000 Oh my god, that is hilarious!

02:06:39.000 Oh, that is so funny!

02:06:40.000 Jay Leno is holding the Hulk down, and he grabs his hair!

02:06:43.000 Oh Jesus Christ! 0.98

02:06:46.000 This is so ridiculous. 0.99

02:06:47.000 Oh, God, it was. 0.99

02:06:48.000 But, you know, it was so much fun.

02:06:50.000 I'll tell you, you know Leno.

02:06:52.000 Yeah.

02:06:52.000 Another guy, I mean, he came and worked out with us, and he didn't spend as much time like Malone did, because Malone's like a super athlete.

02:06:59.000 Right.

02:07:00.000 I don't even think Jay works out at all.

02:07:02.000 No.

02:07:02.000 He just turns wrenches.

02:07:03.000 Well, got to learn, you know, got to learn how to move around a little bit.

02:07:06.000 And, you know, we just worked around.

02:07:07.000 And Hulk was never that guy to lay stuff out.

02:07:10.000 Like today, a lot of this stuff is laid out.

02:07:12.000 You know, back then it was like you called as you go.

02:07:14.000 And so I was a guy who actually did that.

02:07:17.000 I could lay everything out.

02:07:18.000 And that's how I like to know where we're going.

02:07:20.000 And I'm still going to talk to you the whole time.

02:07:22.000 You know, but, you know, bottom line is, you know, Jay just working through it.

02:07:27.000 And it was a lot of fun, man.

02:07:28.000 Well, when Hulk Hogan was in Rocky III, I mean...

02:07:31.000 That was huge. 0.98

02:07:31.000 That was fucking fantastic. 0.98

02:07:33.000 That was huge. 0.99

02:07:33.000 And then you also got to see how goddamn big he is. 0.99

02:07:36.000 Right, next to Sly. 0.97

02:07:37.000 When you see him next to Vester Stallone, you just go, whoa!

02:07:40.000 When he picks Sly up by his neck.

02:07:42.000 Right, right. 1.00

02:07:43.000 And you're like, holy shit! 0.99

02:07:44.000 And then, you know, when they go through the whole thing, when after it, you know, Hulk is like smiling and laughing with him. 0.99

02:07:50.000 And Stallone was like, oh, okay.

02:07:51.000 You know, Rocky was like, oh, all right.

02:07:53.000 Like, uh, you're a little rough out there on me.

02:07:55.000 He's like, that's what it is, brother.

02:07:57.000 One of the greatest moments ever.

02:07:58.000 That was a great moment in film.

02:08:00.000 It's awesome.

02:08:01.000 I mean, I love that.

02:08:02.000 That was a big moment in film, too, for a lot of people that thought, like, pro wrestling is fake, right?

02:08:08.000 It's like, well, there ain't nothing fake about that.

02:08:10.000 I mean, it's entertainment. 0.61

02:08:12.000 But if you don't think that's fucking difficult to do, like, look at the size difference. 0.96

02:08:17.000 Jesus Christ. 0.98

02:08:17.000 Look at Hulk. 0.98

02:08:18.000 He looked like a million bucks there.

02:08:19.000 He did.

02:08:20.000 He looked fantastic.

02:08:21.000 Yeah.

02:08:23.000 He was like, it was just super good to me.

02:08:26.000 Yeah, when he picks him up over his head.

02:08:28.000 Is there a video in this?

02:08:29.000 See if you can find video of it.

02:08:31.000 Because when Paulie's going crazy and he's having a heart attack.

02:08:34.000 Oh, I love that.

02:08:34.000 Oh my god.

02:08:35.000 That was a great fucking scene. 0.99

02:08:37.000 You know what I love about Sly? 0.99

02:08:38.000 He's the perfect example of everybody counting him out, and he's fucking stronger than ever again, you know? 0.57

02:08:43.000 He's like, yeah, we're gonna move around a little bit. 0.97

02:08:45.000 Come on, I'll hit you a little bit, a little bit of this.

02:08:52.000 Little Hulkamania music there.

02:08:54.000 That was snug.

02:08:58.000 Well, Stallone was so slim and trim back then.

02:09:01.000 It's kind of hilarious that he was playing a heavyweight champion because he's not a big guy.

02:09:07.000 He really is more like a middleweight.

02:09:09.000 But Hogan was...

02:09:11.000 I mean, he wouldn't even be able to, back in these days, he wouldn't even be able to make the UFC's weight limit.

02:09:16.000 The UFC has a 265-pound cutoff for whatever reason.

02:09:20.000 Really?

02:09:20.000 Yeah, there's no super heavyweight division in MMA. I didn't know that.

02:09:24.000 Yeah, there's a super heavyweight division.

02:09:26.000 It's possible, but the UFC's never implemented it, so it's been sanctioned.

02:09:30.000 There's a 265 and above.

02:09:33.000 The UFC's heavyweight division has a cutoff, and a bunch of guys have had a cut weight.

02:09:38.000 Brock's a big example.

02:09:39.000 Sure he is.

02:09:39.000 Brock had a cut weight to make 265. Francis Ngano, Tim Sylvia, a few guys have had actually cut weight.

02:09:45.000 Mark Hunt, cut weight to make 265. Yeah, Mark's not walking around anymore.

02:09:49.000 He's a fucking tank. 1.00

02:09:50.000 5'10", 290. Just fuck it. 1.00

02:09:53.000 Bad. 1.00

02:09:54.000 Bad. 0.99

02:09:54.000 He's a bad man. 0.99

02:09:56.000 It's a bad man, Mark Hunt.

02:09:57.000 Yeah, absolutely.

02:09:58.000 You know, what I love about Sly, like, you know, you go back to, and a lot of people don't know that story, I'm sure you do, you know, how he wrote that script of Rocky and would not sell it.

02:10:08.000 They wanted, like, Ryan O'Neill to play Rocky or someone?

02:10:11.000 Paul Newman?

02:10:12.000 I forget who it was.

02:10:13.000 I feel like it was Ryan O'Neill.

02:10:15.000 They wanted Ryan O'Neill to play Rocky.

02:10:17.000 And he held out. 0.99

02:10:18.000 He's like, no, I fucking wrote this. 0.99

02:10:19.000 This is me. 0.99

02:10:20.000 Your vehicle.

02:10:21.000 That's the greatest example of being positively unstoppable and owning it.

02:10:27.000 Sylvester Stallone could have written this book or has 100,000 times.

02:10:33.000 He's one of my mentors without me knowing him because I've just watched how he's lived his life.

02:10:39.000 He's recreated himself so many times and that's what I'm constantly trying to do.

02:10:44.000 Craziest of the guys doing the Expendables as a fuckin' action star, he's in his 70s. 0.97

02:10:49.000 Yeah, crazy. 0.99

02:10:50.000 Who the fuck in their 70s is believable in an action role? 1.00

02:10:54.000 Right, right. 0.99

02:10:55.000 Because these guys have beat people up in movies like, ah, suspension of disbelief, I'll let it slide.

02:11:00.000 Right, right.

02:11:00.000 But when you see him doing it, you're like, I kinda believe it.

02:11:04.000 I believe it. 1.00

02:11:04.000 The guy's still jacked at 72, I think, 73 years old, whatever the fuck he is. 1.00

02:11:09.000 How old is he now? 0.99

02:11:10.000 He's 72. 72 years old!

02:11:12.000 Ridiculous. 1.00

02:11:12.000 That's fucking insane! 1.00

02:11:13.000 Let me give you a behind the scenes from Stone Cold Steve Austin. 0.99

02:11:16.000 He's a brother to me.

02:11:18.000 Like a real one.

02:11:19.000 We lived together.

02:11:20.000 We rode together.

02:11:22.000 One of my best friends.

02:11:23.000 And he's doing the first Expendables.

02:11:26.000 And he's doing...

02:11:28.000 We talk about...

02:11:30.000 I guess he's on the set for a couple of weeks by this time.

02:11:34.000 And he says, I'll tell you what, D... And you remember, every top alpha dog is in that first movie, because he grabbed the heavies of the heavies, the guys who had the biggest names.

02:11:45.000 And Austin said, in a world of alpha dogs, there is one number one guy, and his name is Sylvester Stallone.

02:11:55.000 And he said when he were doing the Hollywood fight in the back, Stallone was like, come on!

02:12:01.000 Bring it! 0.98

02:12:02.000 Like, meant it. 1.00

02:12:03.000 He broke his fucking neck in that movie. 1.00

02:12:05.000 Right! 1.00

02:12:05.000 Broke his neck. 1.00

02:12:06.000 Have you seen his neck?

02:12:07.000 No.

02:12:07.000 Like, they did an x-ray of his neck.

02:12:08.000 He's got these fucking screws keeping his spine together in his neck. 0.99

02:12:12.000 He showed it on. 1.00

02:12:13.000 It was either The Night Show or Letterman.

02:12:16.000 But he was on and they showed an x-ray of his neck. 0.99

02:12:19.000 He broke his fucking neck doing that movie. 0.99

02:12:22.000 Because he's 68 at the time, 69, and he's getting thrown into a wall. 1.00

02:12:27.000 Right, and telling Austin, who's a tough son of a bitch, to bring it. 0.98

02:12:33.000 He wants it to be real. 0.98

02:12:35.000 He got knocked out by Antonio Tarver in one of those Rocky movies.

02:12:43.000 Right, right. 0.99

02:12:44.000 I mean, I think he was deep into his 60s, and he got fucking knocked out. 0.97

02:12:48.000 They're doing the boxing scenes where they're going over things, and Tarver cracked him. 0.96

02:12:51.000 I would kill to do a workout with him and show him, because no one works out harder than he does.

02:12:57.000 Yeah, look at his neck. 0.99

02:12:57.000 It's all fucking fused together with plates. 0.99

02:13:00.000 The bionic man. 0.99

02:13:01.000 Look at that. 1.00

02:13:03.000 That's fucking crazy. 0.99

02:13:04.000 So he's got three discs fused together. 0.99

02:13:07.000 He might be the toughest guy, pound for pound, age for age alive.

02:13:11.000 What's that?

02:13:12.000 Four months ago.

02:13:13.000 This is him four months ago.

02:13:15.000 Oh my god.

02:13:16.000 Who's the other guy?

02:13:17.000 I don't know.

02:13:18.000 Take your sunglasses off, bro.

02:13:19.000 Who are you? 0.95

02:13:21.000 Look how jacked he is.

02:13:22.000 72. Crazy, man. 0.96

02:13:25.000 I love the guy, man.

02:13:27.000 I mean, if you want to feel good, just sit down and watch a Rocky movie.

02:13:30.000 No, I interviewed him, too.

02:13:31.000 He was a super nice guy.

02:13:32.000 Like, real, like, self-deprecating, loose laugh.

02:13:35.000 Doesn't take himself seriously at all.

02:13:37.000 No ego, just joking around.

02:13:39.000 I love it.

02:13:39.000 Easy.

02:13:40.000 Like, somebody heckled out.

02:13:41.000 He's like, is that you, Mom?

02:13:43.000 He's really funny.

02:13:44.000 He's a funny guy.

02:13:45.000 That's beautiful.

02:13:46.000 Real, real nice guy, too.

02:13:48.000 Yeah.

02:13:48.000 But listen, man.

02:13:50.000 I don't know what else we could talk about, but I think what you're doing is fucking awesome.

02:13:54.000 I'm super pumped that we finally got together.

02:13:56.000 I would love to do a workout with you for sure.

02:13:58.000 Absolutely.

02:13:59.000 What about tomorrow?

02:14:02.000 What time tomorrow?

02:14:04.000 I'm leaving on Thursday afternoon, so I have...

02:14:09.000 Let's figure this out after the show's over.

02:14:11.000 Let me tell you the one thing I want to do about this.

02:14:13.000 Let me tell you about Positively Unstoppable.

02:14:16.000 When's it come out?

02:14:16.000 The Art of Owning It.

02:14:17.000 It doesn't come out until January, but here's my goal.

02:14:21.000 I had two books before this.

02:14:23.000 I didn't push them to be bestsellers because they weren't really worthy.

02:14:27.000 This is, because I know it's going to really help people.

02:14:30.000 And here's the hook that I want to do.

02:14:32.000 The reason I want people to get it, pre-order it now.

02:14:35.000 And this is what I'm going to give with this.

02:14:38.000 Anyone, and it's up on my site, if you go to ddpyoga.com slash positivelyunstoppable, And you order the book there, there'll be an address right there, the DDP Yoga Performance Center, which is 1239 Concord Road, Smyrna, Georgia,

02:14:53.000 30080. If you send me a self-addressed stamped envelope, we've got these book plates that random house, it's a random house book, and they send me these book plates that I'm going to sign.

02:15:06.000 And if you send me that self-adjust stamped envelope with a proof that you purchased the book, that you pre-ordered the book, I'm gonna send you my autograph.

02:15:16.000 Well, autograph in the book, when I'm doing a Comic-Con, I'm $40 for a picture, $40 for an autograph, $60 combo.

02:15:26.000 The book costs $24.99.

02:15:28.000 So if you're looking to get a DDP signature, Diamond Dallas Page signature, you got it for the book.

02:15:34.000 I will send it to you.

02:15:35.000 My goal is to make Positively Unstoppable a best-selling book.

02:15:41.000 And I think in my easiest, not easiest, the only way I'm really going to do it is by pre-order. 0.95

02:15:47.000 Because I don't have any machine behind me except for my own shit, you know? 0.82

02:15:51.000 And doing this the way, I just want to check one thing. 0.98

02:15:54.000 Let me look at it.

02:15:57.000 And what's the app?

02:15:58.000 How can people find the app?

02:15:59.000 Oh, the app is at ddpyoga.com.

02:16:02.000 Like, it's up on iTunes and Droid.

02:16:04.000 And if they're looking for it on iTunes or on the Google Marketplace?

02:16:07.000 But if it's on iTunes or Droid, well, it's going to cost more because, you know, they charge more.

02:16:13.000 They tack on 30%.

02:16:15.000 So you can download the app from your website?

02:16:19.000 You go to DiamondDallasPage.com and you will be able to get the app right there.

02:16:28.000 And right now I'm doing 20% off on the app.

02:16:30.000 How does that work though?

02:16:31.000 Don't you have to go to the app store to put an app on your phone?

02:16:33.000 I'm not really actually sure how to do that.

02:16:35.000 Do you know that, Jamie?

02:16:37.000 I'm not exactly sure how that works, but I just know if you go to ddpyoga.com, it's going to be cheaper, and you can get it for a month, three months, a year, whatever.

02:16:49.000 The deal is there.

02:16:50.000 They'll figure it out.

02:16:53.000 Maybe we can come back when this gets released and talk about this, but I've got a new documentary coming out.

02:16:59.000 You've already seen Jake's, and I know you're going to love The Resurrection, Jake the Snake.

02:17:02.000 If you want to see that, we just took it off of Netflix.

02:17:05.000 It's only on iTunes.

02:17:06.000 It's like 99 cents.

02:17:08.000 You're looking to inspire.

02:17:11.000 Everyone has some sort of addiction in their life, whether it's their uncle, their father, their sister, their brother.

02:17:17.000 They're somewhere around it.

02:17:19.000 I've had so many people come up to me and so many people have come up to Jake and say, that movie changed my life.

02:17:27.000 People come up and say, I'm three months sober.

02:17:30.000 I'm two years sober.

02:17:32.000 Like, that movie changed my life.

02:17:35.000 And Jake doing the program It gave him a way to get wins, meaning like going from 307 pounds to under 300, then to 270, and so forth.

02:17:46.000 But being able to move more and be able to feel better.

02:17:49.000 So resurrection gives you that inspiration.

02:17:53.000 And you just watched Arthur's video.

02:17:56.000 Well, Jake's movie, The Resurrection of Jake's Snake, you're going to laugh.

02:18:00.000 You're going to cry.

02:18:02.000 Most of all, you're going to be inspired.

02:18:04.000 So the new documentary we got coming out will be out sometime in 2019. I'll talk to you before it comes out.

02:18:12.000 And it's called Relentless.

02:18:14.000 And it goes from the day that Kevin Nash blows my back out.

02:18:18.000 And the other guy said he didn't do it.

02:18:19.000 It was my body just finally blew out.

02:18:21.000 He's always trying to protect me and vice versa. 0.99

02:18:23.000 But when I blew my back out to where we are today, We have actually take out the wrestling shit.

02:18:31.000 We have 16 years of footage of this entire journey up and down and up and down and how We became with the program at eight-year overnight success And this is one of the most inspiring movies. 0.85

02:18:46.000 I know anybody will ever see and that'll be out this year and um That's really it.

02:18:51.000 You know, the app is at ddpyoga.com.

02:18:54.000 If you want to get the book, if you want to pre-sell, go to ddpyoga.com slash positivelyunstoppable.

02:19:02.000 And like I say, I'd love to send you a... 0.98

02:19:04.000 We'll put all this shit up on Twitter, too. 0.99

02:19:05.000 Awesome, man. 0.99

02:19:05.000 We'll put the video for Arthur on Twitter, too, because it's fucking fantastic. 0.99

02:19:08.000 Thank you so much. 0.92

02:19:09.000 Thank you, brother.

02:19:10.000 Thank you very much, man.

02:19:10.000 It was awesome.

02:19:11.000 I'm glad we finally did this.

02:19:12.000 Awesome.

02:19:13.000 Bye, everybody!

02:19:16.000 I had to piss so bad, but it was...

The Joe Rogan Experience - September 04, 2018

Joe Rogan Experience #1166 - Diamond Dallas Page

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