The Daily Show: Ears Edition - ICYMI - John Cena on "Elbow Grease" and Bringing the WWE to China

Episode Date: July 29, 2019

Pro wrestler and actor John Cena talks about learning Mandarin to help bring the WWE to China and teaching kids about being true to themselves with his book "Elbow Grease." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Shout up to the Midas-Mighter! Please welcome, John Sina! Thank you. Thank you. Last guy to get up. Last guy to get up. Last guy to get up. Last guy to get up. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

So everybody immediately shot to their feet. Yeah, it's got to be great. Because I either want to fight that guy or I kind of like that guy. And those two folks were just a... Looking around, kind of feeling the room out, you know, see what's going of like that guy. And those two folks were just a looking around, kind of feeling the room out, you know, see what's going on, then finally. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you for being on the show. This is great. So good to see you again. Congratulations on everything that you've been doing. I honestly, when I saw that you were getting into movies,

I thought maybe that was the end of John Sina, the WWE superstar, but you show no signs of stopping. Well, I mean, they just, they keep calling. I'm very grateful, man. Right. Yeah, no. And I don't think it's the end th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. th. that you that you that you that you that you that you that you that you that you're that you're that you're that you're that you that you that you that you that you that you that you that you that you that you that you that you that you that you that you that you that you th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the end of John Sina in WWE either. I kind of have to do a little bit of a juggling act because the movie folks are really leery about the insurance, but whenever I can come back, whenever I can come back to WWE, I certainly do. So hopefully there's no time stopping. I love what I do and I love going to work every day and I always loved you on WWE and I remember when I met John in person when I met you for the first time, was that the MTV Awards and I'll sit in next you at the table and you know you're sitting around people, there's people you meet all the time in this business but I turned and I was like, oh, John Siddhter.

And then I was like, I don't know what I don't know, I don. I don't know why. You just assume that everybody's going to like slam you through a table or something. But no, honestly, you're not just one of the nicest person I've ever met, which is almost easy for people to do, but you were a man of many talents and many ideas. Like, you're teaching yourself also spent the last five years of your life teaching yourself how to speak Mandarin. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So there's a crazy story behind that. W.WE is a global company. We're everywhere. We're everywhere. We're in 140 countries. We're close to 200 countries. We're not in China. We were privileged enough to go to there in 2010 to perform in Shanghai. And I took a look around in Shanghai, which looks like 20 New York cities.

I was like, whoa, we need to be here. And I wondered why? And it's just because the culture doesn't understand what we do. And every other culture across the world understands W. W.W.E. Good guy versus bad guy, storytelling, boo. they just don't get it. And they they they they they they they they they don't their their their, their, their, their, the, the, the, the, the, th. the, th. th. to, to, the, to, to, to, to, to, to, their, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, their, their, their, their, their, their, the, the, the, we the, we their. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. to, to. We. We. to, to, to, to. to, to. to, to. to. to, to. to. to. to. to, to. to, to. to. too, too, too, too, too, too. too. too. too. too. too. too, too, too, to. We to don't get it because they can't relate. They have no cultural attachment. So after I left Shanghai, a couple years later, we went back and uneventful, we had an event, but it wasn't anything special. I'm like, you know what, I'm going to be proactive about this. I'm going to start to learn to speak Mandarin because maybe if one of their

top superstars can actually speak the language, hopefully we can bridge the cultural gap and WW can truly be the global company that it says it is. You see like that, that for me is. So, this has kind of been an experiment five and a half years in the making and I've still been failing. We still go over there only frequently every time it gets a little bit better and a little bit better, but this is not happening overnight. I know it's not going to happen tomorrow and it's not going to happen next year, but I continue to work at it just like elbow grease. I never give up and I continue to keep learning and learning not only about Mandarin but about Chinese culture, currently filming a movie over in China with the legendary Jackie

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We don't speak about that time, true. But that's what this book is about. John Steena has written a book. If John Sina wrote a book in my head, it was always going trucks and this little dude gets laughed at because he's a small monster truck and he's electric and you you grew up in a family of brothers were you the little one? Believe it or not we were all pretty even. Wow yes. There's like a family of yous? I have I have four brothers and there is a family of me's and very close in age and there was a time period to... the, I... I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, th. I, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thrown, thrown, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th, th. th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, the, thr. thr. thrown, thrown, thrown, thrown, thrown, thrown, thrown, the thrown, thrown, the thrown, the thr in age and there was a time period before I really started getting into physical fitness that any fight was a coin flip and there were tons of fights

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stuff like this for young readers, right. And you meet a lot of young people and man being a young person and being an adolescent is extremely difficult because I remember when I was in junior high, I wore the wrong shirt to school, like the school laughed at you and like as a kid I don't know how you handle it because 41 year old and I'm like, ha ha that's funny. You know that's true that happens to people online is you read through the stuff and it starts digging in but you would think you would go through that as well. All the time I'm like the most hated personality on W W W W W W. tele. It's it's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's the th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's funny. It's funny. th. that's that's funny. that's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's funny. It's. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's th. It's funny. It's th. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's th. It's th. It's. It's.. W. Television. It's been the most love though, don't you think? Yes, so that's what's weird. And that's also why I continue, like that support system, and for everybody who's ever supported me out there, I really want to say thank you because

it's got me through a lot of tough ti. A lot of touky situations of being bullied and facing negativity. But it's stories like, hey, hey, thie, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. that's that's that's that's that's that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's that's that's that's that. Or I met a young reader today that says, you're the reason, you're the reason I tell my opponents good game after every match because I want to show respect because I mean hustle loyalty respect. So to hear little things like that, it makes it all worth it. So I get bullied all the time, which is great because when young readers are like, no, you're John Seen and nothing's wrong, I literally can tell them that. And it's awesome because it plays out in WWE. So I can say, hey, remember the match I had with so-and-so. Right. Remember listening to the crowd where half of them likes me and half of them and you can see the them on that level and kind of I can bestow upon them like hey man Just be true to yourself and as long as you're comfortable in your own skin Those people are suffering from problems that they have and don't pay any attention to it

So it's really cool to be able to be able to send a message like this This has been one of the most uplifting conversations and interviews. Thank you so much the thanks. Thank you, man th. Thank you so th.. I hope I didn't go any... Ruin it? You made it the best and love it. Elbow Greece is available now. You want to read it and then you can give it to your kids. John Sene everybody. The Daily Show with Trevor No. Ears Edition. Watch the Daily Show at weeknights at 11, 10 Central on ComedyC, the the the Comedy, the Comedy, the Comedy, the Comedy, the Comedy, the Comedy, the Comedy, the Comedy, and Comedy, and Comedy, and Comedy, and Comedy, and Comedy, and Comedy, and Comedy, and Comedy, and Comedy, and Comedy Central, Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and subscribe to the Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and more.

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