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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

John Cena

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.668.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

John Cena (Ricky Stanicky, Peacemaker, WWE Wrestler) is a professional wrestler and actor. John joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why he still owns his first car, what motivated him to get into the gym, and why he doesn’t like authority without reason. John and Dax talk about being around alpha male culture, how he got into wrestling by accident, and the evolution of his wrestling character. John explains how important crowd reactions are in a wrestling match, how his experiences have helped him be a successful actor, and his work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome welcome to arm chair expert. I'm Dan Rather and I'm joined by Monica Monsoon.

0:04.7

Hi there. Today we have I think this is worth saying and I think we said it probably in the fact

0:09.9

check but of the six years we've been recording here, there's been work being done on the house.

0:16.0

And none of the folks that do work on this house have been excited by a single guest ever.

0:21.0

Or at least that we've known about. They've never

0:23.5

cared once to my knowledge even when David Letterman went and talked to them

0:27.3

personally and there was a line for this gentleman in the driveway when we

0:32.4

got out that was just epic.

0:34.6

Yeah, if I wanted to take a picture with him.

0:36.6

It was really cool.

0:38.5

I think he might be the most famous person we've ever had in here in real life.

0:42.2

Like when you see him in the power in real life.

0:44.2

Yes.

0:45.2

And a friend of mine that worked with him also said this about him.

0:46.7

Like you were walking down the street with him and it's like

0:49.7

you're with King Kong or something.

0:51.6

Well he does say it in the interview,

0:53.0

which you'll hear, like he's very protective of his whereabouts.

0:56.7

Yeah.

0:57.7

He wants to protect his wife from that.

1:00.0

And then that made sense, right?

1:01.4

That like he's sort of ambushed.

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