“Ricky Stanicky” Star John Cena

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John Cena on Meeting His Wife & Knowing She Was The One

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Drew: How did you meet your wife?

John: We were both in a place where we shouldn't, we weren't supposed to be. I went out to see a friend watch the Super Bowl and I told him I wanted to watch it in my apartment because I didn't want to jinx the Patriots and my fandom of me not leaving my apartment would make sure that they won. But he forced my hand and I went out to, to see him and she was in a part of town where she never frequents, but she had some random people come in to see her internationally and they're like, hey, let's go to one more place. So it was a truly like a happy accident and we immediately had an attractive spark.

Drew: Did your pupils dilate?

John: Full dilation, full dilation.

Drew: At what point did you say, ‘I really wanna be with this person?’

John: When we had long honest discussions about who we are, what we enjoy, what we believe, what we want out of life, what we hope to accomplish in this life. What things make us mad, what things make us happy. How we live our habits, honest long conversations about everything. And that led us to be like, we are both extremely attracted to each other. But we, we, you know, I met her, we've been together for five years now. So she had, she had lived her life, I lived mine. It's not like this is, the, the first instance of man, my body's changing and things are getting weird. The attraction was very strong. So after those conversations, I'm like, man, I just met my best friend. I love my best friend and boy, she rocks my world.

John & Drew on “Ricky Stanicky” Being A Great Message About Importance of Honesty & How It Affected Her Parenting

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John: ‘Ricky Stanicky’ is a movie about an imaginary friend coming to life. So it's basically a movie about a lie you're telling, becoming real. But it is a ton of jokes and a ton of R rated jokes.

Drew: And a good message that I actually go over with my own daughter all the time about honesty.

John: What was your takeaway?

Drew: Well, it's like I tell my daughter, I want it to be whatever it is. As long as it's the truth, I can handle any truth as long as it's the truth.

John: Damn, that's well said.

Drew: And so I feel like that's the message of the film and if you, if you get to a great place with a lie, you're not in a great place.

John: You are hitting home runs today.

Drew: Really?

John: Yeah.

Drew: I love how about my parenting and ‘Ricky Stanicky’ like, come together.

John: One of my core values is honesty and it's amazing you say that, this is a phrase you hear a lot. I'm just one of those people with no filter. That's something that's kind of touchy. I believe in honesty, but I also believe in knowing the room and I also try to practice empathy. So I do enjoy honesty and I agree with everything you said. But honesty at cost of not being aware of the people around you and not being empathetic sometimes that can be counterproductive. So the truth is always the best way. But you, you also got to know the room you're working with.

John Cena on If He Would Ever Go Into Politics

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Drew: Would you ever want to go into politics?

John: No.

Drew: It's becoming a really thankless job, so I understand why. But I just wish that I saw more people in position of leadership talking about accountability and, and humanity and behavior and all of these things that are so much a part of the human experience and for me and my money, I think you are a perfect ambassador to that because there's also the wrestling and the cool and the fun and you're in comedies and you're all the things and you care about self reflection and accountability too. I'm like, yes, yes, yes.

John: Well, thank you very much for saying that here's, here's my perspective on that. If you are so influenced by this and other people, one by one are influenced by that, you don't need a political figure to be a catalyst for change. We live in such a great society that people can orchestrate change and we are in the current state of where we are because this is essentially our attitude. So, what can I control if I'm upset with that. I can control how I behave. And if, how I behave is influential on other people, maybe it affects you, maybe it affects you and maybe it affects you. And then one by 11 person at a time, we have the ability to, to voice ourselves as people.

Drew: Do you go to therapy?

John: I don't, I talk to myself a lot.

Drew: Well, you are very good. You should pay yourself a lot of money.