#2423 - John Cena

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 135 minutes

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0:00.0	Joe Rogan podcast checking out.
0:04.0	The Joe Rogan Experience.
0:06.0	Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night all day.
0:10.0	Where's the rolling?
0:13.0	What's up?
0:14.0	John Cena in the fucking house.
0:16.0	Put these on?
0:17.0	Yeah, let's put these on, pretend we're professional.
0:20.0	What's up? Good to see you, pretend we're professional. Let's up.
0:21.3	Good to see you, man. Thanks so much for having me. My pleasure. And there's no way I'm having a pro wrestler on without Tony Hinchcliffe. Of course. It's impossible. He's the expert. He knows more about pro wrestling than I know about UFC. Yeah. Sometimes I translate little things here and there. That's cool. It's all right. Yeah, he has to. He has to. And he's a giant fan of yours, too. You know, what else is a giant fan of yours is Brian Simpson. Brian Simpson was going on last night about how intelligent you are. It was really interesting. You sure was me? Yeah, man. Well, you do speak fucking Mandarin, which is kind of crazy.
0:55.5	Yeah, yeah.
0:57.0	How long did it take you to learn that?
1:00.5	Man, I was doing that for quite a long time.
1:04.0	I've since kind of declined on the studies.
1:08.0	A wonderful takeaway from the study of Mandarin.
1:29.3	Just because you know a language doesn't mean you know the culture. So that was a fantastic experience with, but I studied Mandarin for like a decade. And I would say like, um, not even conversationally fluent. It was a really tough hill to climb for me. Well, it seems like a really big hill. Just, it's just different. And even if you can speak it and you read it. You know, the reading.
1:30.3	No, no, I didn't bother to read.
1:32.3	And like reading all the characters, understanding everything.
1:34.3	Yeah.
1:35.3	How long did it take you to learn?
1:36.3	Around 10 years.
1:38.3	Whoa.
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