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The Joe Rogan Experience

#2384 - Mark Kerr

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 184 minutes

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Joe sits down with retired mixed martial artist and wrestler Mark Kerr. Kerr is the subject of the A24 feature film "The Smashing Machine," directed by Benny Safdie and starring Dwayne Johnson. Look for it in theaters on October 3, 2025. https://a24films.com/films/the-smashing-machinewww.markkerr.com Buy 1 Get 1 Free Trucker Hat with code ROGAN at happydad.com This video is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/JRE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

0:04.0

The Joe Rogan Experience.

0:06.1

Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night all day.

0:12.2

Good.

0:12.9

What's happening?

0:15.2

Do the movie's fantastic.

0:17.0

And I know I told you outside, but I wanted to save it.

0:19.7

When I kind of had a little bit of a prejudice when I went to see the movie, I was like, okay, it's going to be an MMA movie. Yeah. But it's not. It's a movie that happens to be about MMA, but it's a great movie. Oh, I appreciate that. It's really good, man. It's like, you know, it's very gripping and the performances are fantastic and

0:39.8

the way the rock did you was nuts i like i can't explain it it i keep using the words surreal

0:48.3

but it doesn't describe it um like i was saying that my son when he watched it and just flipping out like talking to me

0:57.8

like on the side like I was saying like literally just going dad dad he's got your mannerisms

1:04.1

he's got your speech manner but do you imagine like I'm picturing my son he's in New York when he

1:09.1

watched that they right and so I'm picturing him son he's in New York when he watched that they right and so I'm

1:11.6

picturing him in the corner of the lobby of the theater talking with his back to everybody going

1:17.0

oh my god dad like it's like a doppel ganger he's got all of it you know like full-blown like

1:23.4

it was like the the the because a lot of my saying for myself is I'm I can can't see the force through the trees. I'm in the middle of it. Am I looking at it objectively? Am I really looking at? Or am I seeing something and hear my son say, oh my gosh, Dad, he nailed it. Right. Unbelievable. He really did nail it. Like we were saying in the lobby, like I didn't know the the Rock could act that well. You know, it's really good acting. It's not like blockbuster movie acting, which is, he's great at that, but it's a different thing. It's complete. So with DJ, I kept trying to say to him, you don't have to do this, dude. Like, you don't have to do this dude like you don't have to do this and he would

2:01.3

he would stop me and he would go yeah I do what do you mean by you don't have to do this so meaning

2:06.9

that like he's at a he's at a place in his life where he can just keep doing blockbusters and be

2:12.8

perfectly fine with it there's there I mean he it himself, there's always a place for that.

2:18.2

There's always going to be a place for blockbuster movies and, and for that.

2:21.7

But he needed to do something different.

2:24.4

Mm-hmm.

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