The Joe Rogan Experience - #1166 - Diamond Dallas Page

Episode Date: September 4, 2018

Diamond Dallas Page is a semi-retired professional wrestler, fitness instructor, motivational speaker and actor. Check out https://ddpyoga.com/ for link to his app DDPYoga.

Four, three, two, one. Mr. Page, how are you? I never had a bad day in my life. Ever? Oh, I've had plenty of bad moments. Bad moments, but you recovered. Yeah, you know, to me, it's all your state of mind, period. And I don't stay there.

If I go down, I get back up. If you're going to chew that, that people are gonna go fucking crazy i put one of those in my mouth the other day and i got like 150 comments because i had a sore throat well i got i got the throat coat yeah um listen man first of all i love what you're doing i really do i it's fantastic. And I'm a big fan of yoga. And what you've done for not just what you've done is made yoga available to people that thought that yoga was for chicks. Right. And now it's funny you say that because how it started, it was yoga for regular. It was regular people, regular guys.

And I made it for guys people think of yoga as being something that like you have to be into you know you got to be all namaste and you hear dallas diamond page what the fuck or diamond dallas page either one but you how you know you're this giant pro wrestler guy like you're into yoga and you're really really into it i mean you've got your own system of yoga. I mean, this is for something that I think is like very important for body maintenance and for keeping your spine healthy and mobility, which is one of the things that a lot of us ignore, especially big guys who like to lift weights and do a lot of crazy shit.

I was a meathead. I understand you. I'm the guy who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga the first 42 years of my life. But I didn't start wrestling until I was 35. Really? Really. And my career didn't take off until I was 40. How old are you now?

62. Dude, if you folks saw what he just did with no warmup, no warmup, bend over, grab your ankles, fully flattened your body out, pressed your body up against your thighs with no warm-up bent over grab your ankles fully fully flattened your body out pressed your body up against your thighs with no warm-up then he picks his knee his ankle up and fully extends his leg over his head i mean that that is incredibly impressive for a 20 year old person well it's all about staying ahead of it you know it's all about owning it. Going back to just my career, I mean, my career took off in 96, which was I was 40 years old. 97 and 98, man, I was on top of the world. Wrestling 270 days a year every year.

And then I did The Tonight Show, Hollywood Squares, a, uh, first daughter was my first movie I did. So, I mean, I was probably working 320 days a year and the wear and tear on your body after a while, like boom, I took a power slam from or a power bomb from Kevin Nash. Kevin's legit six, 10 long way down. And it wasn't that bump that blew my back out it was all of it and being almost 43 years old and when I ruptured my l4 and l5 and we have this amazing vertebrae that is what allows us to do all this crazy shit that we do but really allows us is those shock absorbers those discs in between the vertebrae well think of a jelly donut and slap that jelly donut, and now there's nothing there.

So I have no discs in between my L4 or L5. I was told by three different spine specialists, you're never going to wrestle again. I just signed a multi-million dollar three-year deal. So the guy who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga would do anything to get back in a ring. And I was married at the time, and she kind of bullied me into it. And once I started doing it, Joe, just like, you know, I started to feel a difference.

And I started thinking, wow. Now, did you talk to any doctors that wanted to replace your discs or fuse your discs? Two wanted to fuse them. One didn't. And his thing was this What year was this? 1999. So there wasn't any of those spacers that they have now? No, they didn't have any of that.

Titanium discs? Didn't have any of that. And his whole thing was, if we do fuse you and you go back, you will be crippled because you won't recover from that. So again, going to do yoga. And I started doing Brian Kess. Have you ever taken one of our Brian Kess classes here in L.A.? No.

He's amazing. What kind of yoga is that? Power yoga. He's the guy who's kind of put power yoga on the map, and he made me feel like, okay, that dude's cool. And today he's a buddy of mine, you know? But at the time I was just doing his VHS tapes. But for what I wanted, it wasn't giving me everything. So what I did, I rehabbed both shoulder surgeries, both knee surgeries,

and I'm kind of like God-given gift of figuring out how to heal myself. I'm the first guy in professional wrestling to ever ice his body by almost a decade, eight years before they would start doing that. You mean like ice baths? Like ice your shoulders, ice your knees, ice your back. Inflammation, take it down. I just got that. How did you figure that out?

Just different reading on different people and how they healed themselves and what people were saying. And what I've found that a lot of people don't want to put the extra work in. They could be the hardest workers ever, but they won't go that extra mile just to go get a bag of ice, fill it up, put it on your knees, put an Ace Band around it. You can go wherever you want. Well, that's also part of the culture of tough guys, right? Right. They don't give a fuck. Let's just go get a beer and have some food.

Steve Austin. There's a little bit of that, right? Like they don't give a fuck. Let's just go get a beer and have some food, you know, right? Steve Austin. There's a little bit of that, right? There's something about the same type of guy that's so tough they could work 300 days a year is also the same type of guy that's going to go out, fucking just deal with it. And Steve means Austin. When I broke in, I was like 35 and a half. He's 26. And Austin was always way ahead of the curve as far as talent. But he wouldn't, you know, he wouldn't, he was like, what are you doing, kid? Why you got those ice bags? So back then we were drinking in beers.

Not that it's right to do, but back then we were. And he would put the beers on my ice bags in between my, my ice bandages to keep his beers cold. True story, True story. True story. So, you know, the bottom line is I started to mix the rehabilitation techniques with the yoga positions. Then I threw in old school calisthenics, like push-ups, squats, crunches. And I did them with a slow burn movement because I had to.

And in the beginning, I had to do them on my knees. When you say slow burn movement, this is what you were just showing me before we started the podcast. Yeah, time under tension. You were into a lot of dynamic tension exercises. Exactly. Which is a lot of what Bruce Lee was into.

Exactly. He was into a lot of that stuff. Go look at Bruce Lee. Did he ever have an ounce of fat on him? I don't know what he ate. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? The guy was shredded.

But that whole time under tension thing, something I call dynamic resistance, I added that. And like for the pushups, you know, I would lower for three, hold three inches off the ground for three, come up for three, lower for three, hold for three. Then I'd go into cobra, into down dog. And in the beginning, I had to do them on my knees. But then I built that strength to get off my knees. And then three-second push-ups became five. Five became 10. 10 became sets of 10.

If you go to my DDP Yoga Facebook, you'll see a video up there of me doing on my 62nd birthday, well, actually two days after, 10, 10-second push-ups at 62. So my core strength is at a different level. I don't lift weights anymore. I haven't really for 10 years because I really don't need it. And I don't need to size. I like being like two 30. The bottom line is what today is called. I'm branding it DDP. Why? Why? Because I want people to stop calling it just yoga because it's so different. Now, you've done a lot of yoga.

Yeah. What do you do? I just took you through in that minute and a half. Is that like anything you've ever done in a yoga studio? No, it's very different. You're what you were saying, your dynamic tension thing definitely adds another element to it. And then I have fun with it, man. I do shit like when you take your into a lunge and you throw your arms

up, I go, superstar! You know? When we're in a lunge that we're folding forward and we're to explode into touchdown, I'd say throw a little Ric Flair on the end of that and everybody explodes. Woo!

Just having people having fun. I did a big event. It was this weekend. It was called All In. And it's Cody Rhodes, who's the American Dream Dusty Rhodes' son. He's been in independent wrestling. He was at the show, WWE, for 10 years. And bottom line is he went away.

He left there. Left guaranteed money. Got to be like a half a million bucks. Left it and went to follow the dream because he knew he was a main event guy. And him and these kids, the Young Bucks, they sold out this arena that was 10,426 people in 29 minutes and 36 seconds. They counted? They counted the seconds? Well, they did because it's a really big deal when you're an independent group.

You're not the WWE. No, that's insane. It's insane. How many different groups are there now? There's NWA, there's WWE. Right. There's ROH. There's The Row, as my buddy Booker T calls it down there in Houston. And NWA is what Billy Corgan owns, right?

Right. And I'll tell you what. Cody was going for the NWA is what Billy Corgan owns, right? Right. And I'll tell you what. Cody was going for the NWA championship against Nick, who was just one of the studs of our business. And they had a hell of a match. And Billy owns that title. Now, think about this. Vince McMahon just, I want to say he was paid $1.2 billion by Fox for the programming for a live show on Friday nights. I'm not sure what the deal is. It's six years or eight years, but $1.2 billion. And then I heard there's another multi-billion dollar contract being out there, Comcast or something.

So that's like NFL stuff. So when that kind of attention comes to wrestling, more people are going to be like, oh, I want to get involved in that. And plus Vince really has taken it mainstream at a different level. Like back when we were killing it in the 90s, I mean we had the highest rated show on cable television, whether it was WCW or WWF. Every week, we were one, two, and three,

sometimes one, two, three, and four, top four shows. But our dollars that we could get for the advertising was nothing like they're getting today because they made it kids friendly. They changed that. And it was brilliant by Vince. You know, it really, it changed format. But today,

it's about to go through another boom. This whole independent thing that Cody and these young bucks who are great kids did, it really lit up that world. It's the same thing all over the country. I mean, I should say world. Japan's really big right now, and so is

UK and Mexico. They're really, really big. One of the guys from the UFC, Matthew Riddle, just got signed to the WWE. I heard that. Yeah, his story is kind of fucked up. He got fired from the UFC for failing a pot test. And the crazy thing. It's so crazy.

Let the guy smoke pot. Jesus Christ. Uncle. But it's even more crazy that, you know, now it's legal. Right. Now pot's legal, and now the level that you can get tested for is so much lower than anything that he got. But I think he enjoys it. I don't think he's missing fighting.

You know, fighting is a—I know that pro wrestling is probably harder on your body doing those 300 days a year. I mean, I don't think there's anything like it in all of entertainment. I really don't. I mean, it's crazy to think that you're getting body slammed and thrown into the ropes and forearms slammed and all that shit's going on 300 days a year. It's really, it's not fair. There really should be a way where you could take some time off. It doesn't make any sense. When I was on Hollywood Squares one time, someone said, so when's your season?

When are you off? I knew nothing about wrestling. I said, when I'm hurt. But the bottom line is- Not hurt. Injured. No, injured. Injured.

Like out. Like blown ligaments. Like, yeah. Exactly. You guys compete. Well, you perform hurt on a regular basis. All the time. I mean, and so do the guys in the NFL.

Well, so do the guys in the UFC as well. Absolutely. I think with Matt Riddle, it's like, he's got a great personality. And, you know, he doesn't have to cut weight anymore. And now he's gigantic. And he's a fun guy. I think WWE is perfect for someone like him. I was down there.

I train a lot of the guys down to, it's called NXT, Next, and that's, these kids are unbelievable, they're so talented, but I bring my DDPY program down to them, and they're all on my app. So you're starting that early with these guys. So they, and plus I'm like, you know, again, I'm 62, they're 24, 22, 28, you know, so they grew up watching me.

So it's much easier for me to get them to pay attention. All they have to do is look at Chris Jericho, who's one of the top stars in the world, and he is not with WWE right now. He comes and goes. And he was at that show all in. He did a run in, a surprise thing that blew the roof off. He's going to be 48 in November. He wrestles like he's 28. off. He's going to be 48 in November. He wrestles like he's 28. He's been doing my program since he did the same thing I did when he blew his back out and three doctors said he was not going to

wrestle anymore. Five weeks later, 85% pain-free. Three months later, he headlined WrestleMania against Punk. He talks about it all the time. Now, how is your back today? Those same discs? If I don't do it, it's kind of like brushing your teeth. You know, like you got to brush your teeth. And I don't have to do it every single day, but. Pretty close. Pretty much. You know, and when I wake up, my first 10 minutes, I call it wake up.

Man, I call it oil for the tin man and woman. And the real proof of this for me, because I'm the first transformation. The bottom line is they said my career was over when I was 42. I started doing what now is called DDPY. Three months, less than three months later, Joey, I was back in the ring at 42. They said my career is over 43. I'm the world champ. And that's like getting our, that's our Oscar. You know what I mean? It's like, you're the guy, you I mean? It's like you're the guy. You deserve this. You have the most eyes on you.

I was in a match with Hogan, Flair, and Sting. Three arguably maybe in the top five biggest names ever. And I walk out the world champion. Ric Flair took the diamond cutter in the middle. Hogan gave me such a hug afterwards. Like this is what this business is supposed to be. That someone like you, who no one would believe would ever be anyone,

could work so hard that they would become the world champ. When I got my Hall of Fame ring in 2017, inside I had inscribed in here, work ethic equals dreams, explanation point, DDP. And that's what it is. You know.

I don't tell you anything. You understand putting the work in. Yeah. Putting the work in is everything. Now, you're back today. Did you ever get an MRI on it? Oh, yeah. I did all that.

But now? Now, you know, I don't have any. I don't. If I don't do it, if I'm on too many planes, trains, and automobiles, then I'm going to get released. But I know what to do. Like I'd say to my wife, and I swear to God, because every morning I do roll out of bed some nights and you feel like you're hit by a truck. You know what I mean? Sleeping is the worst thing for me because I get in those positions that I don't know I'm in.

And when I wake up, I'm like, oh, God. Yeah, you're knotted up. But as soon as I do, within eight minutes, I feel like a completely different person because I know what to do. So your disc, though, was completely gone. No, they're gone. It was literally bone on bone. And is it still like that? Yeah, but this is something I'm trying to tell you, Joe, which makes what I'm doing different than regular yoga. I always say most yogis are very namaste.

DDP, why way more? T and A. And I meant T and A in the beginning. But what I mean today is tone and attitude. Because it's an attitude. You switched it up. You kept the same letters. Yes, it worked.

It worked like that. But, you know, it's just, for me, it's, as you know this, repetition is the mother of learning. The more you do something, the more you own it. And on that, I want to show you something I brought with me because I've been waiting for your show to release this. I've got a new book coming out. And no one's seen this cover yet. And it is called. Yeah, it's premiere.

And I'm doing something. I don't think anybody has ever really done this. Now, this is in the book itself. This is just the cover. It's in the plastic and everything. It's called Positively Unstoppable, The Art of Owning It. Ooh, I like it. What is it?

It's whatever the fuck you want it to be. Check that out. Diamond Dallas Page, bitches. That's beautiful. Mick Foley wrote the funniest, most entertaining forward you could ever... I want to get that guy on. That guy's hilarious. I get that happening in a heartbeat.

He's friends with my friend Tony Hinchcliffe, who's a giant pro wrestling fan. And it's given me so much grief because Tony's such a fan. I've made fun of wrestling because Tony's a fan. People get mad at me. Right, right. Tony is such a dork for it. They do this podcast at the Comedy Store. Right.

What do they call it? The Four... No. What is it? Not the Four Horsemen. No. No, no, no. They have a wrestling podcast that I was just on two weeks ago.

Store Horsemen? The Store Horseman. So these comics from the comedy store are gigantic pro wrestling fans. Right, right. I want to do that show. All right, I'll set it up. I'll set it up.

And they do simulcasts. So while WrestleMania's going on, they'll do a view. We do a thing for the UFC sometimes called a fight companion. Sure. While the fights are going on We'll get a bunch of guys in here drink beers and right

They do that while WrestleMania is going on right right, so it's uh, you know Don't that know Jake the Snake Roberts is gonna he just he's working a deal right now with Hooters and in in Vegas and they're talking about giving him a room and shooters and in Vegas and they're talking about giving him a room and he will do like might be Monday Night Raw. Somebody contacted me about him as well. Someone from his organization contacted me and you helped him. Yes. And I saw some sort of a program on television was detailing you helping him get clean and

you getting him involved in yoga. What you're doing is really fucking awesome because you're you're exposing something that i think should be it just just should be something that everybody does i just really think that all athletes all people i think yoga is a life staple i really do no i don't do when i got through this i got through wrestling i could have easily stepped into that yoga community and went the whole namaste route. But that's not who I am. Right. And I know that the yoga people, like, they get it.

They don't need me. The people who need me is all those people that literally that have nobody. Right. And they don't have any direction. Did you see the disabled veteran that I helped? No, I did not. I'm just amazed that you could do what you do with no discs.

I don't understand that because everybody that I know that has had no discs has had serious muscle atrophy. Well, because they didn't figure it out. I had to figure it out. What did you figure out, though? What did you do differently? I love that shirt, by the way. E go kills talent yeah right what a fucking great shirt

where'd you get that that's my buddy josh who brought me in he's got a line called beverly kills that's a great shirt that's such a that's such a good point does it really like make the point i mean that's why i wore it because i knew you would love it. And I love the shirt. I wear it all the time. He's got a couple of them that are really cool. Where can someone get that if they wanted to buy that? I think it's beverlykills.com. I'm pretty sure.

So this is Arthur Borman. This is Disabled Veteran. This is what DDP Yoga is or DDPY. Oh, Jesus. Is there a link for this where Jamie could get a hold of it? Oh, absolutely. He could put it on the YouTube? Absolutely.

If you go to ddpyoga.com, at the bottom of ddpyoga.com is the video of Arthur. So let me show you this now. Show Jamie the image of him so he could look for it on your website. Yeah, if you go all the way to the bottom of ddpyoga.com, it'll be sitting at the bottom. And what was wrong with Arthur? Okay, let me just tell you the back story.dpyoga.com. It'll be sitting at the bottom. And what was wrong with Arthur? Okay. Let me just tell you the backstory. This is crazy. Anyone who got my program 11 years ago, it was just workouts, period. It was three different levels. And this first one was called 50 plus. It's kind of like what I'm doing today where I'm helping people who are really disabled. And okay, there he is right there. You want to watch it? Sure. Hey, let's watch it.

Okay, can we play this on YouTube? Yeah, start from the beginning. Start from the beginning. This is awesome. Doctor told me, never walk unassisted again, it says. What are you doing? So for the people just listening,

it says for 15 years, doctors told me I would never walk unassisted again. And we're seeing this gentleman with those crutches, For 15 years, doctors told me I would never walk unassisted again. And we're seeing this gentleman with those crutches, those cane things on his forearms. I accepted this as fact. I was a 47-year-old disabled veteran, and I had basically given up. I was injured as a paratrooper in the Gulf War. Too many jumps.

Took its toll on his back. Oh, man. Watch on his land. And my knees, it says. Gained weight. We'll just watch an image of it. All this stuff is available online at ddpyoga.com, right? Is that what it is?

Yeah, this video, yes. This has got mazillions and mazillions of views. That's a good number. It says he couldn't walk or run. Exercise seemed impossible. Most yoga instructors turned me away. This music's killing me. All but one.

All but one, motherfucker. With the knee braces, the back brace, the canes, 297 pounds, and his belly was out to here. I was thinking, God, how am I going to help that guy? When you get what you want and not what you need. He says he didn't know me, but he believed in me when no one else did. How long is this video? I feel like we might have to...

Four minutes. The payoff is worth it, brother feel like we might have to... Four minutes. The payoff is worth it, brother. Look at this. Look at him doing it here. See, I was using a chair. Yeah. To hold on to. For balance.

Well, to get up, get down. It says I fell many times. Yeah. But I got back up. It's all about getting back up, right? Yeah, this is very impressive Just watching him do what he's doing here This guy's got heart

You know, it's The attitude to do something Even though it's difficult And in pain Is so damn important It is so important People have to force themselves to do something.

And this guy is one of the best examples of that you're ever going to see. I mean, who had a better excuse to give up than this guy? Wow, look at all this weight he's lost. This is crazy. He's a teacher in Baltimore. He's lost a shitload of weight. It looks like he's

lost like eight inches off of his belly. At least. Says, I started to believe that it could happen. So in this progress thing, you're seeing him trying to walk without his canes and falling down. Flat on his face. Yeah.

Starting to build his core strength. and falling down. Flat on his face. Yeah. Here's where I'm at now. Starting to build his core strength. This is crazy. He's getting ready to do handstands now. Oh, my God. This guy crashes into a fucking china cabinet. I love it. He's going to kill the cat.

Get out of there, cat. He just said, just because I can't do it today doesn't mean I won't be able to do it someday. Yeah, look at him here, man. Full push-ups. Wow, walking with one cane now. That's incredible. What a difference in his posture and everything. Look how much weight he's lost. And how often was he doing it? Every day? Every day. Sometimes twice a day. So remember the pictures I showed you right check this out couldn't stand on two legs now he's standing on one and holding his foot up in

the air that is insane look how Slim he got holy he lost a hundred pounds in six months and he's holding that cat that cat's gonna die I told that cat get out of there. Holy shit! He's running. That is insane. He's not just walking, he's running. Sprinting. Holy shit! That is incredible! That really is incredible.

Wow! Wow! Look how fucking slim he is. That is really amazing. Never. What is the name of, it says never give up. What is the name of this video so people can find it? Never give up.

If you go to ddpyoga.com, it's right at the bottom. Whoa, look at him. Look at the difference in him. He looks like he's 10 years younger. Lost 140 pounds in 10 months. Holy shit. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Whoa.

That is crazy. Standing on his head. That is crazy. That is crazy. That's so amazing, man. I'm going to show you a picture that no one's seen this. I'm saving this for a TED Talk that I'm going to do. And they've been asking me a couple times to do it it and I just wasn't ready, but now I am.

I'm just waiting. I'm waiting. Eventually they're going to get ahold of me again and I'm going to do it and I'm going to base it around it. I'm crying, man. Duh, choke you up, right? It did. I told you it was a payoff. I mean like strong. And my, my, my business partner, Steve, you put that together and I literally, um, did it with his son originally, and it was pretty good. But Steve just took it. He's the same guy who directed The Resurrection and Jake the Snake. So let me finish with him.

In 10 months, he lost 140 pounds. But fuck the weight, because this is not about weight loss. It's just an awesome side effect. And think about that. With my shit, you can lose weight, but you know you can't out-train a bad diet. So you got to do everything. You got to, more than anything, change your mindset, which is what Positively Unstoppable is all about. Changing your mindset and owning that inner voice, the story you tell yourself. So Arthur lost 140 pounds. More importantly, he lost some

knee braces, back brace, and canes. He lost the knee brace. No more knee braces. No more knee braces. How did he do that? Let me finish. Knee braces and canes, not just to walk, but run. But this is what the program is really about. At one year, he's 5'6".

Took a picture of his 6'2 son. That's insane. Standing on his back while he's doing a pushup in one year. One year. That's crazy. Imagine if you didn't see him for a year. Hey man, let's go have lunch. I haven't seen you in a long time.

Like, who the fuck are you? Where's Arthur? And that's really like, it was crazy because again, anybody who got my program 11 years ago, I personally, there was no one else but me. I would send them an email saying, hey man, I'm not trying to sell you anything. You already bought the program and I want to say thank you. And I got a couple of questions. If you would answer them, I'd appreciate it. His answers were so good that I wrote them back and I'd never written anybody like directly that

I didn't know at this time. And I wrote him back and I said, sounds like you need some help, bro. I said, what's your story? Cliff notes, disabled veteran, morbidly obese, relegated to thinking of himself as a piece of furniture. So I say, send me some pictures so I can see what I was working with. And those are the pictures, those first two with the canes. And I was like, fuck man, I don't know how I can help him because not so much the knee braces. Hell, I wore knee braces my whole career. I didn't realize it was strapped to a back brace. And his wife, 20 minutes every morning, got to put on the sleeve, put on the brace because he can't even bend over enough to do it. And so she puts them all together.

20 minutes later, he's going to the bathroom with his canes. So I sent him this food plan, which is like my phase three eating plan just for health. But I got it from a guy named Dr. Fred Bishy. And at the time, Fred was 78, could still run 20 miles on the beach in the deep sand with my brother. Like that's his mentor. He helped people with cancer and all sorts of shit. This guy's like, he's just a different level of walking the talk. So you have a food plan as well as an exercise plan.

Everything. What kind of food do you got a meeting? Well, this is what I like to do. Let's go back to what God created. Shit that's not genetically modified. All right? Shit that's not sprayed with chemicals. So let's call it organic um or like your great

grandparents used to call it fucking food like is everything go to italy go to france they don't just say can i have the organic vegetables they go no what like everything's fucking organic here bozo yeah you know like that's the way it's supposed to be i mean when you look at just the the obesity heart disease cancer diabetes autism like how is it through the roof how are there 400 pound guys everywhere 25 years ago that didn't happen right you know and then they change everything and as far as i'm concerned there's three reasons why it could have happened. Because I don't know. I'm not a scientist. I'm a fucking wrestler.

But I know when I get people to eat what God created and stuff that's not genetically modified, I found that they get out of pain. And that's what I did with Jake and Scott. You know, Razor Ramon also moved into my house. And when you get a chance to watch, before you have Jake come on, definitely watch The Resurrection and Jake the Snake, because I can set you up with that too. But Jake, I got him eating real food and Scott Hall, aka Razor Ramon, eating real food. And within two weeks, they're already going to start getting out of pain. That's why I eat the way I eat, because I don't want to feel like I'm 82.

I want to feel like I'm 42 at 62. Now, when you talk about your food plan, are you giving them specific portions and what to eat? How do you set it up? On the app, which right now— Oh, you have an app. Oh, dude, I think I have the most extensive app on the planet. Let's just go to the workouts, and I'll come back to the food Android and iPhone Everything yes, and right now you can get it about Windows phone. I think it works on everything Whatever does we've set it up for everything that you can use and for your iPad your computer

And I didn't realize at the time that I set it up for the iPhone, the Droid, the iPad, the tablet, and the computer. Like going back in time, I just would have done the phone and the computer because you can have your phone go right to the TV. You know, if you got Apple TV, you go whoosh. But it cost me a lot more money to do it with all five units. The bottom line is I created this thing like from Arthur's stuff. I call it DDPY Rebuild.

You can't get out of bed. You can't do the workout. Bullshit. I got three workouts in bed. Right. That have nothing to do with fucking. It's just freaking working out for 10 minutes, 12 minutes will get you up.

And I call those bed flex. Then I put you in chair force where you're sitting in a chair. I got eight workouts in a fucking chair, which gets you strong enough to hold the chair. So I call those stand strong, like Arthur was doing, help you get up, help you get down,

help you balance, help to keep you from falling. Then you're ready for beginner. And once you get to all the modifications that I teach you with stand strong, I got a guy who's 84 years old. His name is Ted Evans. He's been working with me since he was 68.

The motherfucker can do every workout I do. Wow. Every workout. Now, is he modified at times? Yes. But he can do every fucking workout I do. And it goes all the way to extreme psycho shit. Like, I did a workout today where I took my foot and held it out in front of me and held it for 30 seconds.

Then pulled it out. Held it for 30 seconds then pulled it out held it for 30 seconds this is all core stuff it's got to be the stuff um god i was never could skips my mind right now the fighter the um ufc fighter um the french kid it was amazing george st pierre yes i mean nobody can ever take him down you know they hook his leg and boom and you're not taking him down he's gonna hop around because his core strength he had to be doing some of this type of stuff there's a lot of gymnastics well again those guys are super freaks and you know as wrestlers or ufc guys i mean they're

that's a whole different level and george sapir i remember why come then nobody's taking him down i don't care how they hook his leg so he he really gets all of that inner strength. And that's really what I'm doing at a level that you can start in bed. Right. So there's no more fucking excuses. No more fucking excuses. And that's so damn important. It is. Because people can feel sorry for themselves.

They can say they can't do it. They don't have the energy. They're too beat up. That's bullshit. There's always something you can do. Absolutely. But if you give yourself that fucking excuse, that's bullshit. There's always something you can do. Absolutely. But if you give yourself that fucking excuse, that's the problem. What I

love about that video is if anybody had an excuse, it's that guy. Absolutely. That guy, I mean, two canes, giant belly, blown out knees, blown out back, veteran, paratrooper, guy, I mean, jumping out of fucking airplanes over and over again, blows his body

apart, and you fixed it. And he fixed it he fixed i just literally like that's incredible so when i sent him the food plan right from from from fred bishy his explain the food plan because it's just regular food but like what do you have the meeting like chicken steak let's let's let's go there's so i like people you'll hear me say in my program over and over and over and over and over again, make the DDPY your own. And I explained to Arthur when I called him. Well, here's what happened. So I sent him the food plan.

Let me say it. And if he writes me back, I think I can do it. I'll give it a try. You go crazy. No, I go, hey, awesome. Get me posted. But he said four words or he wrote four words. I can do this.

I said, give me your number right now. And I called the motherfucker up. If you say you can and you say you can't, you're right. You know that. If you say you can or you say you can't. You're right. Do you know who said that originally? Who?

Henry Ford. He was right. Yeah. And I always say, but what the fuck did he ever do? What the fuck did he ever do? But for when he said, I can do it. I said, give me your number. So I called them and I said, you know, we talked for about an hour, two weeks later, he calls me back. The main thing I talked to him in, in, in that conversation, which is again, what positively unstoppable is all about, as important as the workout is, as important as the eating plan is, that 10% of the equation,

the 90% is right between your ears, right here, that six-inch piece of real estate, the story you tell yourself. And I said, if you can really just get past that story and start retelling yourself a different story, an example would be when I had, when I went up for my whole theme induction speech in front of 20,000 people and millions of people on USA and on the WWE network, which is only nine 99,

by the way, it's like a rib. Bottom line is, is that I wasn't in the back going, Oh God, I hope I don't fuck this up. Oh God, what if I forget what I was going to say? Oh God, this sucks. Man, what if I, what if I fuck up?

I wasn't saying that. I was saying this is going to be the best thing I've ever done. I'm going to blow people away. I'm going to make them laugh. I'm going to make them cry. I'm going to inspire them. And that was my inner voice. And I went out there and did the best thing I've ever done.

Like it's the best thing I've ever done. But it's about that story That you tell yourself and you get all this shit And that's why people listen to you because they want they need to be reminded it over and over and over again You know the way you think about things is so important. It's so important. It's almost more important than the facts, right? The way and the way this guy decided that he was going to change his life that that video is so important to people i mean if there's ever that's the best testimonial video you're ever going to see ever i mean that guy is as broken as they get i mean he's basically i mean easily could have been in a wheelchair easily well he was in and out any time he was

going around you know like any kind of you know go to the hot you go to the airport what do they put you in a wheelchair because i mean it's too hard for too hard for him to walk around and again going back to eating so back to the food what do you get them eating well again i use i get a mess make the gdp why you're on you can do paleo if you want to do paleo you can do this keto diet whatever you're doing with that i try to say if you're early on and you're young you know i encourage them to do calorie counting. Calories in, calories out. But a lot of people, that doesn't work for anymore.

So what I get them to do is go gluten and dairy free. And really I start them with gluten free. If you can go and people go, oh, gluten free. All I know is the people I work with get out of pain. I'm one of them. So I don't give a fuck if you eat gluten or not. I don't care. I'm not the gluten fucking Nazis.

I'm fucking like, hey, do what the fuck you want to do. But this is what I do. This is what him and her and him and her do. And look at them. And it just, it helps drop weight. It's about inflammation in your body. Go back to icing your body. Sugar, which we're all at, explored.

I try to get them to cut down as much as they can. Some people quit completely, which blows my mind, which tells me they really have that substance. My friend Stacey Morris, who lost 180 pounds in 18 months, she's actually on the cover of Women's Day right now, that big magazine for women's day of her transformation she wrote a book on it like something comfort feel it eating comfort or family comfort you can catch it up on my site it's up there but she wrote this book about

eating without sugar and that's like i'm not telling anybody to do that because i can't do that you're right because i don't want to i want to still eat the sugar i just don't use much but you're not you're just not being a glutton about and i'm eating good sugars right you know like the honey that i'm putting in this gimmick is organic honey so um the um the the food part for um for the inflammation would be the sugar, dairy, and wheat, and gluten. Get those out of your body. I challenge you. Have you ever gone gluten-free?

Yeah. No, I have. And how much better did you feel? I feel really good. Look, I'm basically gluten-free all the time except for I take cheat days. Oh, sure. I'll take a cheat day and I'll have a bowl of pasta. But for the most part, I rarely eat bread and I rarely eat anything, pasta or anything with wheat.

Well, let me give you this. Two and a half weeks, let me give you an alternative. I love pasta. Me too. I'm an Irish-German-Dutch kid, but all my best friends were Genta, Cafaro, Rossi. I mean, all my buddies were Gumb know, and so I love Italian food. I fucking love it. So there's a company called Tinchiata

that has the best pasta I've ever had. It's a brown rice pasta. So there's always a substitute. When you get that out of your body in two and a half, three weeks, it's a different level. Like you've already feel better, you feel better, but it's got to get out of your body.

And then if you put it back in, you know, here and there, you're going to feel it, but it's going to go away quicker because it doesn't have all that shit stored in your body. Well, it also reminds me how shitty I feel after I eat it. When I do eat a pizza, I'm just like, oh, I'm laying on the couch like a lead weights in my stomach. But what I substituted it with is spaghetti squash. I love spaghetti squash.

That is an awesome choice. Spaghetti squash with some garlic and marinara sauce. It's fantastic. And it's guilt free. That's one of our recipes. The way our app is set up, our DDP Yoga Now app, and like I said, anybody wants to try it, fuck it. It costs you nothing.

Go try it for seven days. You like it? Like it. Not get out of it. I don't give a fuck. I mean, I don't. I mean, I only want people want to put the work in. Some people will say to me, well, how much do I have to do it?

I say, you don't. You don't have to fucking do it. I don't want you to do it. I want you to own it and really do it or not. And I'll try to inspire you because every Monday I've got Motivational Mondays on the app. Every Monday I'm doing another story about something I saw

and I'm bringing it to you. It could be three minutes, it could be eight minutes. But it's going to get you- Is it a video on the app? Is that what it is? It's one, there's 150 of them up there

because I've been doing it for two and a half years. Wow. And then there's every week we have a new recipe come out. And I'm not just going to tell you what's in it and how to make it. I'm going to fucking show you how to make it.

Because we got it in our DDP Yoga Performance Center, which is in Smyrna, Georgia. Which, by the way, every first time you come in there, it's free. Name me another fucking gym or something like that that does that. How far is that from Dallas? Or from Atlanta, rather? Well, it's literally 20 minutes from the heart of Atlanta. I mean, it's one of the suburbs. Next time I'm in Atlanta

when I'm doing a gig, I'm going to stop in. Dude, no, you're going to stay. You're going to stay. I just bought a crib that literally one of my buddies, Titus, who's from the WWE, is coming in on Tuesday to train with me. I got a hyperbaric chamber now. Whoa. Yes. 12 PS me. I got a hyperbaric chamber now. Whoa.

Yes, 12 PSI. I got a cryo system in my house. What about float tanks? I don't have that yet. You ever fuck with one? You know, I haven't because I'm kind of going to be...

I got one right here, buddy. I'm kind of scared of that because it's... Don't you fucking diamond dollars, Paige. What are you talking about? I'm just being honest. You can't be scared. I'm just being honest. You can't be scared.

I'm just being honest. How are you scared? You sounded like the people you're screaming against. No, I do, but I'm being honest, bro. When I first got in the chamber. Can I get you in one? Can I get you in one today? You know what?

All I need is an hour. Ah! Yes. Yes! But you gotta get. You're gonna wanna have one in your house. I guarantee you. It's the most relaxing thing ever.

Okay. I can easily get out of it. Oh, yeah. Just push the door open. Okay yeah it's easy super you know only because it's you because you inspired me you inspired the fuck out of me like thank you like i was this was so crazy mutual thank you thank you i appreciate that you know i uh i knew we were gonna get along like incredibly but but here's what happened i i've been reaching out to different people like eddie bravo he's like he's a buddy of mine. He just got his disc replaced.

Did he really? Yeah, he had a lower back. His disc was so bad he could barely get out of bed. And he had a titanium articulating disc put in his back. He feels way better now. And he gained an inch. He's 5'9 now. Which is pretty sweet because of all the technology that they have today that can help that.

His discs were all smashed from jiu-jitsu. Of course. Especially his lower back. You you know i've always said like eddie bravo like he did what you know to the jujitsu community what i've done in the uh in the yoga community you know just take a totally different path right like i don't want to be in the yoga world i'm going to be way the fuck over there i want to be the different guy then. But we were just talking about, what were we talking about right before that? Oh, yeah.

Oh, slow tanks. No, but after that, I'd reached out to a bunch of different guys. I'm like, I've heard you talk about DDPY and what we're doing, and you've talked about a lot of cool stuff, and you've segued me into a couple. I'm like, I've got to get on this show.

I think we'll get along amazingly. And then I saw on YouTube it was a um somebody put together like a bunch of your clips from the show and i'm listening to it i'm like man this motherfucker sounds just like me i mean i gotta get on his show and i literally when i finished watching it i literally looked up i went god i'm throwing this out in the universe i want to get on rogan's show within the next year two days later you dm me whoa two days later you dm me it's a name bro i've been meaning to dm you forever i mean it's one of those things where it's just unfortunately or fortunately there's just so many different requests for people to come on the podcast i can't keep up no i get it it's. It's just I can't. It's impossible.

But you've been in the back of my head for a long time. And I think that yoga, like I said, is so important. And I think what you've done is make it accessible to people that wouldn't have considered it before. All right. You got to do me a favor. Okay. What do I got to do? When you're talking about what the fuck I do, DDPY.

DDPY. Say that and not yoga? Yes. Okay. Because it's different. Mainly because people put it in a box. Right. I know? DDPY. DDPY. Say that and not yoga? Yes. Okay. Because it's different. Mainly because people put it in a box. Right. I know what you're saying.

And you get it. Will you do a workout with me? Yes. I would love to. Aubrey did it. My partner in Onnit. Yes. Yes.

I love Aubrey. He fucking loved it. He loved it. He said, dude, it's badass. He said he's definitely doing something different. His take was, he's doing yoga, but he's got a whole nother edge to it. Yeah. And I keep again, making it my own and I encourage everybody. What's really cool about, I've got some workouts that have me in like two people or four people behind me. And they're like the introductory. There's

always someone modifying. Like when I first started doing yoga, no one modified shit. They never told you. So I had to like figure this shit out. So anything I did, I gave you a mark. How do you make this easier? Step in, lower to a knee. Don't blow yourself out. Now, the thing that you don't know, and I gave you one of them, our DDP yoga mats with a bag.

Inside it is a Bluetooth heart monitor. And what that's going to do is connect right to the app. So are you an iPhone guy or droid? I have iPhone, but I'm going to switch over. I'm tired of their bullshit. Oh, I get that too. But I'm sort of like an addict of not wanting to learn again. But you know, they got that mirror and things. So it pops right up on your TV up there. We'll come where your heart rate's at. Oh, wow. And then it tracks you at the end of it.

How long have you not been in your zone? How long have you been in your zone? And how long have you been over your zone? Think about this. Who did this app for you? Myself, Steve Yu, who's the president of my company. And we hired these guys out of Turkey because they were all, they all went to Georgia Tech. And it's way cheaper, but it's, you know,

it's been a long, I got probably coming up on $3 million in it. Jesus Christ. No, it's, dude, it's extensive. It sounds fantastic. It's extensive, you know? And again, there's a lot of interaction with it, you know? Right, right.

So the actual, we make it like a video game at the end. So when it gets to the end, it'll go, blblblblbl, bing bing bing bing bing. You get to the end of Mario Brothers?

Right, that's exactly what I wanted. Beautiful, you hit the next level. Right. So when you're putting all this stuff together, like this has got to be

a long process of refining and getting it just right. I mean, this must have taken over your life. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. But I go on the road all the right. I mean this is must have taken over your life. Oh, absolutely Absolutely, but I go on the road all the time. I do comic cons. Do you ever do comic on? No? No, I'm never done I want to do do you have to you will fucking have a line?

Forever I used to be a comic book dork man. I had to sell them all when I was poor I used to I had all these comic books that I collected from the time I was a little kid and then when I became a stand-up comedian and I was starving in the early days, I sold all my comic books. And it's just a bummer, man. I'm scared to go look at comic books again. No, don't do that because it'll just piss you off. Do you know who Adi Shankar is? No.

Did you see there was a Power Ranger bootleg video that came out like maybe four years ago, five years. I think it was five years ago. And it blew up on YouTube, got like five million views, which, you know, back then that was fucking huge. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. So the guy who owns the Power Rangers put a lawsuit on Adi and YouTube and they had to pull it off. Next thing you know, Adi's on CNN, and they're asking him about it, and he's like, fuck him. He goes, we're not trying to make money.

We're not monetizing this. Next thing you know, he pulled the lawsuit off, and now it's got like $22 million. This is something that he did because he's produced a bunch of movies, but they kept changing his shit. Wouldn't let him do what he wanted to do. And like this last one was Judge Dredd.

And five years ago or a little before that, he's telling me how he's going to do this shit on YouTube. And I'm like, what the fuck do you mean you're going to put like shorts on YouTube? Well, he did that one. It's got 22 million views right now. And that really became like this underground, you know, Yoda type person of the Internet. And he sent me a script about three years ago when we started and it's called Gods. And it's kind of like, you know, all superheroes, as you know, they're all slightly different, but the same. all slightly different, but the same.

And it's a very dark, dark superhero series that will, when you get to the fighting part of it, it will remind you of like, fight! You know, from the 80s friggin' video game. Mortal Kombat. Right, shit like that. Meets a really dark story that it's gonna be a Netflix original. So something,

something to watch. Well, I think you, I think you'll dig it. I love the Watchmen. It's kind of a little bit like that, but not, I was hoping they were going to do a sequel.

And I'd heard that they weren't, they planning on that. Jamie, is that, that's something they're working on. It was so good. I was like, how are they,

how did they not follow up on this? I don't know, you know, but we're going to, we have, like I say, it's in the process right now, putting together audience brains behind it, but it's something I'm, you know, speaking of you're into comics

and stuff, you'll love it. It's going to be on HBO next year. Oh, shit. Oh, that's right. They're going to do it. Is that the series? I heard that. Oh, but different people, huh? Yeah. Oh, interesting. All right. Well, I'm down for that. Yeah, I'll check it out, Yeah. Oh, interesting. All right. Well, I'm down for that.

Yeah, I'll check it out, man. HBO, man. I love HBO. They got to pick up the slack. Netflix is coming in strong. They are, boy. HBO's like, fuck, man. They gather up the troops.

There's a war going on. Fucking Ozark's back, baby. Woo! I love that show. Woo! I'm two episodes in. Damn, it's a good show. Anyway.

Did you see the first Sinner? Sinner? Oh, no, I haven't seen that show. I heard that's very good. That's Jessica Biel. Oh, dude. How hot is she? A little too hot. Smoking, but they made her look... She's one of them confusing people. Like, you're around her, you're like, I don't know what my opinions are.

I'm gonna change them. You tell me what your opinions are, I'll take those. She comes off as really, like, girl next story. Yeah yeah but that that friggin show right there my wife and brenda and my my daughter alexi uh she was there we watched all eight episodes damn like one after another on a sunday afternoon we were like pulled in she my wife had seen uh brenda had seen they were playing it on the plane and she when she came back, she's like, I couldn't finish watching it. You've got to get this. I'll watch it from the beginning again.

It's not good. It's bad ass. There's so many good shows now. It's a really interesting time to be a consumer. Oh, absolutely, man. Yeah, I'm big on the Netflix and Sneaky Pete. Did you ever see any of that? No, I heard that's great too.

That's on Amazon, right? Yeah, it's on Amazon, yeah. Yeah, everyone's just, that Goli's great too. That's on Amazon, right? Yeah, it's on Amazon. Yeah, everyone's just that Goliath is supposed to be fantastic on Amazon too. That's that Billy Bob Thornton show. I love the first season. I haven't got to the second one yet. It's a crazy time. Have you thought about doing something like that?

Maybe on a Netflix or something along those lines, like having sort of inspirational clips mixed in with your workouts with these people, showing transformations? You know, a good friend of mine. That would be a great idea. Do you know who Tim Sabian is?

I know the name, yeah. He was Howard Stern's main guy for years. Yeah, that's why I know him. That's why I know the name. And he just came up to me. He was at that show I was telling you about, All In, this weekend. And he was like, dude, Twitch is the future. We've got to do something with this. And I've heard of Twitch, but it was like video game. You know, people watching video game stuff.

He said, yeah, but it's going to go to a whole new level. And Sabian's a really smart guy. And I'm actually helping him get back on track with his health. So he's going to come to Atlanta and see me. He's going to talk to me and Steve and figure out what we do. I'm all over. This company would never be successful without the internet,

without people sharing that Arthur video everywhere. And there's so many other videos that we've had go viral. One of my favorites, and I'll get this to you, my buddy named Mark Merrow. He was a former wrestler, Marvelous Mark Merrow.

Back when we wrestled together, he was Johnny B. Bad. He changed his name from Johnny to Mark? Well, his real name was Mark. Johnny B. Bad was bad. He actually was. Actually, Mark Merrow is a four-time New York Empire State

Games boxing champion. From back in the day when he was a kid. But he's become this inspirational speaker to kids. I've never seen anybody move kids the way he does. So he was in Atlanta one day, and I sent my crew down there, because I got a whole production studio. Like Resurrection, we filmed it, we edited it,

we did everything. And I sent my crew down there to just go down and film him. And Steve took this one part where he talks about his mom. Now, no bullshit, Joe. I can show you how this one four-minute clip that Steve produced has over a half a billion views on Facebook. Like half a billion.

And now, Mark went from having trouble getting booked at high schools to being in such demand that he had 3,000 requests the month that that video went crazy. And people keep taking and putting it out there. But he connects with kids. It starts out with, I want to be rich. I want to be famous. And then he shows you, as you know, what can come with that if you're not freaking mentally prepared to handle that. And I don't know how any fucking kid can be 18 19 20 years old I don't think they can yeah, I've never seen anybody succeed LeBron

Yeah, he but you know what I think one of the reasons why a guy like him has succeeded because his success comes along with Athletic performance right like it's not just like being Justin Bieber or, you know, being some sort of a musical superstar. I think the struggle of the athletic pursuit is one of the things that keeps you humble because there's no way to get around the work. No. And the work keeps you humble. I mean, the kind of work that you have to put in to be a LeBron James, I don't care how genetically gifted he is. Sure. I mean, clearly he's a fucking freak athlete.

Ridiculous. But he's also fucking freak athlete. Ridiculous. But he's also got a powerful mind. When you hear that guy talk, there was some sort of a roundtable thing he was doing. I don't know if you saw this with Jon Stewart and a few other people. Yeah, it's on HBO also. Is that his show? Yeah. When that guy talks, you go-

What is it called? What is it? The Barbershop. Okay, I'm going to watch that. I love LeBron. When he talks, you go, okay, there's a fucking nuclear furnace burning inside that guy. That's why he's so successful. It's not just him being a freak athlete.

It's the mind, his mind. But that hard work and that dedication in his mind is the reason why he's still so good and keeps it together. At, you know, what is he, 35 now? 33. 33? He's just been around forever. Been around for a long time, but been super fucking successful for a long time.

Ridiculous. And never fucked up. Never drove his car into a tree. Never punched a cop. Never got crazy. Right. I mean, he's kept it together in a rare way that very few superstars do. Because you know it.

I mean, I'm sure you went from when you first started into pro wrestling to becoming super famous. It's an intoxicating drug. Absolutely. And it's a confusing drug. It confuses the shit out of a lot of people. Fortunately for you, you were already a man. Right. And that was the big difference.

I have to say, starting at 35 was the worst thing physically because one of my matches or any of these kids, it's like four or five car accidents. Right. One match. Yeah. Legitimately. Every night. Yeah. matches or any of these kids that it's like four or five car accidents right one match yeah you know every every night yeah and i said as you know as hard as it was starting at 35 the really positive side was i was 35 right so i was much smarter and disciplined more mature way more and you know but i was telling you about when you come to atlanta you're going to stay at my place man

my wife is amazing we have the best bed and breakfast. And there's like five rooms that are all king-size beds because, again, I'm getting ready to work with top athletes. You look at LeBron, you look at Brady. How do they perform in such a level? Especially Brady at being 40 years old now. Pretty crazy.

But it's the way he eats, which is pretty much the way I eat. Isn't he a vegan, though? He doesn't eat legumes. It's very strict. Again, the way he eats, which is pretty much the way I eat. Isn't he a vegan, though? He doesn't eat legumes. It's very strict. Again, the way I eat, I still want the beef. I still want it, but I don't eat it all the time now. I used to eat that shit all the time.

I used to eat 12 eggs in the morning. Now I eat eight, five yolks and three whites. But again, it's keeping the protein in. But he's eating for health. Let's just call it that. And he's eating for health let's just call it that and he's not beating up his body outside you know of what he's doing when he gets hit he beats up his body but before that all he's doing is strengthening his body and that's what ddpy is it's strengthening you like i just was you know reading something i love that that girly

didn't todd didn't play in any preseason stuff this year. You don't need that. He's going to be out there. He's going to be in the best shape. He's not going to have to put his body already through abuse. So it's just like wherever you can, everything that you do with Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, UFC, NFL, getting to the show is the thing. And when you get to the show, you have two jobs.

One, be the best player you can be, the best performer. Two, don't get hurt. You know what's crazy about Tom Brady? He looks like someone's dad. Like, you see him on the beach. Right. He don't look like, you know, you see Herschel Walker without his shirt off, you go, Jesus fucking Christ, what lab was that guy created in?

Right. You know what I mean? But you see Tom Brady like, oh, there's Mike's dad. You know what I mean? He's totally normal looking. I mean, he doesn't look bad. He looks like he's in good shape. There he is.

Look at that. What the fuck? What the fuck? How's that possible? How is that the greatest quarterback of all time? That's Mike's dad. Work ethic. But it's obviously his mind too. I mean, that's fucking insane. And that

guy ain't sucking in his gut for anybody. You could suck his dick. How about that? He's not sucking in his gut. He lets that thing hang out. Look at it. I mean, it's a couple of inches over his fucking shorts. Let him relax. He doesn't give a shit. Let him relax. He doesn't give a shit.

He's got that gorgeous wife with him. He's covered. They don't get any higher. Her and Jessica Biel together created some sort of a nuclear explosion. Too hot. Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy. It's about healing your body, and especially when you're in that spot.

And that's what I can do for these guys. And you'll see, as we work out, you'll get it and you know it is everything i want to go back to your back see this is what i don't understand when the the conventional wisdom is when it's bone on bone like you're fucked there's too much inflammation there there's too much grinding right and you're just it's just going to be too painful to do anything, and you're going to have to do some sort of a surgery. How does the yoga, is it because all the muscles strengthen? The DDPY. There we go.

Sorry. How does the DDPY do that? Is it just the strengthening all the core muscles around your spine stabilizes everything and keeps it from moving? The only thing I can remember, Joe, I'm a fucking wrestler. I'm a nightclub owner. I've been working in the bar business my whole life. That's what I did before this. But for some reason, I'm just gifted with figuring shit out.

Like on my app, there's a guy named Jerry Cameron, disabled vet, in a wheelchair for two and a half years. There's no weight to lose. He's 6'5", 240, looks great, but he's got the walker that he got after two and a half years of being in a chair. Got himself out. Now, all this is on my app. We can rebuild you.

I'm doing my own little show. We can rebuild you. I trademarked that name. And you remember what that's from. Six million dollars. We can rebuild you. So that's from six million dollars we can rebuild you so that's our thing right so jerry we have him and we over the seven week period now he's got a long way to go still but you will be so amazed every show that comes up how he gains just a

little bit more little incremental little incremental steps. Exactly. And put the confidence. And we reached out to our community in Smyrna, Georgia. And we said, we're looking for people that want our help. Cost them nothing. If you'll be part of our group and we can track you, you can come, go, do our stuff. And we gave them the app.

We set them up. And out of the 12 or 13 that started we still have like seven and this is like eight weeks later and to see their stories like we follow them every couple of weeks we'll pop up and show where they're at and what they're doing but jerry i got a special spot in my just like you do for military guys you know i i've been iraq three times afghanistan once you've done those tours for 13 days i haven't oh you haven't done it yet no oh you should because they would freak the fuck out over you um they would love you uh but i started in 2004 with that shit and over that period with brian williams when he was getting shot down oh no no no no no i shot down no i just you know i hate no i did not.

I'm sorry to interrupt you. The bottom line is I have a fond spot for those guys. And I have something. As I do as well. Yeah, I know. And there's something I'm about to do off of my app that's going to be life changing for a lot of those guys. I just don't have it all put together yet. But it's one of the things that I'm working on right now because I want to be able to give back to help them.

I do stuff with their organizations. People start them. I just did one with Mod Deuce Deuce in New Jersey, where I'm from. I live in Point Pleasant, Bricktown's the next town over. And I went over there and I did one for the guys there. And I had like 75 guys there and guys in their families. And every one of those disabled bedsides gave me up. You know, because I just want you to do it.

Because if you do it, you're going to feel better. I don't know how much better. How much work are you going to put in? And you know it all comes down to the work ethic. Like where you are, how much work you put in, where can you get? Right. My program meets you where you are, how much work you put in, where can you get? Right. And where I, my program

meets you where you are. And that's the whole thing with Jerry. To watch where he is. And the last episode, I don't want to tell you what happened because I know eventually you'll get around to it and you're going to be like,

wow, this fucking shit's crazy. And to answer your question on the back, all I can think of is I'm constantly lengthening and strengthening. Like I stretched my whole wrestling, my whole athletic career right up until I was 42 and three quarters when I blew my back out. I stretch. So stretching is great, but it's not the end all be all. I'm stretching and strengthening the muscles, ligaments, and tendons.

I'm stretching and strengthening the muscles, ligaments, and tendons. When you use the resistance in a dynamic time under tension, when you do that, it elevates your heart rate. Think about this. You're laying down. Your heart rate's the lowest ever, right? Sit up. What happens? Your heart rate goes up.

Stand. Walk. Jog. Sprint. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. That's what I'm doing when I had you flex your quads, flex glutes grab the ball open those fingers wide move with resistance i'll guarantee you your heart rate if you started at 80 it went to 105 115 120 i can take my heart rate from 90 to 140 by 135 like that and i mean two minutes standing still and that's not yoga that's ddpy and i've been wearing a heart monitor doing this for over 18 years so it's more physically intensive it can be

more strained it can be like i said i did 10 10 second push-ups on my six second birthday so you but you still haven't gotten an MRI done since the injury. Not since I've done it. So you just figure, fuck it, feels great. Why am I going to pay for that? I just would like to see what it is. Because I know that it is possible to gain some space. Oh, I believe it has to be there.

Well, they've done it with decompression. They've done it with various exercises and things that people do that do lengthen the spine and stretch you out. I have a bunch of things out back. I'll show you some of the things that people have created to decompress the spine. Do you ever use one of those teeter things where you hang from your ankles? Yes. Those help a lot. I literally get out of my – the hyperbaric chamber.

Let's talk about that for a minute. Yeah, please. What do you know about those? I've never done it, but I've heard amazing things from UFC guys that have fought and had pretty significant injuries, handbrakes, muscle damage, and gotten there and had some pretty rapid recovery because of it. My doctor, who she's my endocrinologist, when I told her I was doing it, she goes, well, Dallas, I can tell you, I know it can only help you. She goes, the only story I have about it, because I don't know enough about it. She said, I had a woman who had radiation therapy. So she had an open wound from her breast cancer and it wouldn't close for over two years. Send her down to Emory finally, put her in a hyperbaric chamber. Three

months later, a hundred percent healed. same things happens with people with diabetes so i had heard like lebron had it you know because i don't i never saw an article on him but i just heard some people talking about it you know in different areas that he had one kobe had one they have them in their house that's what i heard i don't know if they do or they don't um i just heard it so it got me thinking and my house that i I just left, it's called the Accountability Crib, and I'm about to put this out there everywhere. It's when I moved Jake into my home in Atlanta. I just bought it, and it was all about being accountability. One of my friends, Christina Ann, sent me a list of names.

I want to call this something. I put it out there on the internet, and she sent me like 22 names, and one of them is the Accountability Crib. So that's what I call it. DDP's accountability crib. And you got to be accountable for everything. And the thing I, I love that home, but it was 22 steps, you know, to get to my bedroom and my knees are bone on bone. So going down was a drag.

So I figured, fuck it. I'm going to buy a new home, master on main, and I'm going to build this, you know, I have this place that I can bring in top end athletes that want to be healed. You know, so going back to the crib, I'm making that like an Airbnb now and I'll have like the Jake the Snake Roberts suite, the the Razor Ramon suite, the DDP suite. You know, so that'll be pretty cool. That's going to happen next week. We're going to. This is LeBron getting into his hyperbaric chamber.

Why doesn't LeBron shave his head? What's going on with that? Someone explain that. There's so much fuckery going on with his hair. Wow. Okay, that looks a lot. But mine, I would venture to say that he is not at 12 PSI on that thing.

What that means is pounds per square inch if you're like 10 to say 10 feet below sea level that's about four pounds per square inch you get you know it just goes up 20 would be like eight pounds per square inch at 12 pounds per square inch the pressure is there and it takes like 10 minutes to get up there like you're blowing your nose like you know like just getting the air. Like you're blowing your nose, like, you know, like just get in the air, get in your, you know, fix your ears and all that shit. But what happens when you get to 12 PSI, now it breaks the brain barrier and the oxygen will go to your brain.

So this is, I didn't know any of this shit till I sit next to a guy named Brad Campbell, who's like an angel, this cat. And we just start talking on a plane. And at some point I said, man, how old are you anyway? It sounds like you do a lot of shit. And he says, I'm thinking he looks at the max 45, maybe 40. He goes, I'm 57. I go, you're 57.

I said, how the fuck do you look like that? He said, I've been living in a hyperbaric Chamber for the last 14 years Oh he's a weirdo Wait a minute alright I said How did that happen He said I was diagnosed with MS 22 years ago Oh wow So he's using that to keep

The MS in check He told me that When he gets a 12 PSI And it goes to your brain And this would be layman's terms, okay? Like when you get MS, it kind of like crystallizes on your brain, right? And when the crystals fill up, where do they go next?

Down your spine. Hence the cane, the walker, the chair. So what somebody, I don't know who the person was who figured out 20 days in a chamber and it's all about consistency you do it once or twice you're going to feel better a little bit but when you do it like consistent like 20 days like they do there take off five days you do that four times you do your mri on your brain before you start and after there's a kid named Daniel Bryan who is one of the biggest stars in professional wrestling and a couple years ago he had to retire at the height of his career and he was the hottest guy on the planet at the time and he

wasn't a big guy but he was the number one guy in the business and he had to retire because of concussions well he's back and i haven't talked to him directly about this but i did hear that he was using a hyper chamber to help heal his brain now again while he's telling me this story i'm not thinking about ms but i'm thinking i've been hitting the head a lot yeah you know i've been knocked out a shitload of've been knocked out a shitload of times. I knocked out a shitload of guys by accident, but they weren't trying to knock me out either, but it's not checkers out there. So I've been hitting the head with chairs and all that shit.

How do you guys do that? How do you hit someone? Are you supposed to go with it? How does that work? Here's the deal. If I walk up to you and we're about to go out there and I'm going to slap the shit out, don't do it anymore, but in the old days, if I'm going to you and we're about to go out there and i'm gonna slap the shit don't do it anymore but in the old days if i'm gonna hit you in the chair you gotta hit it like even right right

i'd say hey dude i'm gonna say i'm sorry right now and you would say back to me and we'll come with it motherfucker don't make it look weak i mean that's what you would say because if we're gonna shoot an angle on it let's go with it But don't you think that back when you were 35, they didn't understand traumatic brain injury? They did not. That's why they let us do it. You don't see that anymore. But do you remember when Dennis Rodman wrestled?

Yes. Well, I got Carl Malone involved, and it was me and Carl Malone against Rodman and Hogan. It was fucking huge. I took mine into a different level. But Rodman was supposed to be at practice that day in Detroit. We were in Detroit that night with Nitro. And him and Hogan, I'm about to do this announcement,

and him and Hogan come from the back and whack me with chairs. Now, this is Dennis Rodman, all right? Now, he's not one of the boys. He doesn't know you've got to lay it flat. There was some big, probably like a mat from a wrestling, a mat that collegiate wrestlers wrestle

on. This big roll of rubber was there. It was probably about three feet off the ground. I said, I know you've never swung a chair before, so let me show you something. And I'd pick my hands up with a chair and then I'd lower them down just right on top of it. Then I'd pick them up and I'd lower them flat. I said, you see how flat it is, right? And I took it up and I hit it as hard as I could. Boom. I said, if you hit me like that, we're good. And then I just

turned with my left hand, moved a little more so now the railing of the chair hit it and it put a big dent in it I said if you hit me like that you break my ribs I said so please let me see you do it hit a fly and he was great you know and they came out and it was on ESPN that night because he was supposed to be in practice and here he is fucking around with us on on shooting the angle on nitro so it was pretty cool but it's all about laying it flat and then you see how it's not checkers

you know it's not fucking checkers one of the most disturbing things I ever saw was Brock Lesnar doing that flip off the top rope and landing on his head oh my god there's not a lot of human beings that would even survive that and then he goes on to complete the pin. How the fuck did he not get knocked unconscious from that?

And how the fuck did he not have permanent spinal injury from that? And he is 300 pounds at the time. I tell everybody, you know, think what you fucking want about professional wrestling. You can't fake gravity. You can't fake that. What's flipping in the air? I mean, he's the Baddest motherfucker alive As far as I'm concerned

He could survive that 300 pounds Flying through the air Landing on the top Of his neck And you watched it Watch this here Watch this shit

Here it is Look at the size Of this motherfucker Look how far he is Oh That is so fucked up That is so fucked up Look at him

Grabbing his head. I mean, he landed on his fucking head. How is he alive? I don't know. He's not. He missed that so bad. He's cyborg. I mean, he's one of the baddest fuckers.

Literally landed on his head. And this was before. And look at this. And the other baddest motherfucker is right there next to him. Yeah. Kurt Angle. Who's also completely fucked up from wrestling. I mean, his arms, both of his arms are completely atrophied because he's had so many spinal

surgeries and spinal injuries. His neck is completely fused up. I begged him to do it with me. An Olympic gold medalist, a legit Olympic gold medalist in wrestling. Broke his neck. Yes. Before. And still won.

And still won. And still won. Again, one of the baddest motherfuckers alive. I mean, but again, this job, which is, you know, I mean, it's obviously, it's work. Everyone's, it's work. It's entertainment. Right. But physically demanding, in terms of physically demanding. Crazy.

It might be more physically demanding than any sport. It's right up there. The only thing I can think that might be as bad, but they don't do it every day, is bull riding. That's the only thing. I don't even know if that's a sport. That's just crazy people. It's pretty nutty. I had a friend of mine who has done it, and he had eight or nine shoulder surgeries.

His shoulder was just shredded. It was just all these cut marks all over his shoulder. It just blown apart, and they stitched it back together, and blew it apart, and stitched it back together again. It's like, how about stop riding fucking 2,000-pound animals, bro? I don't want to fuck with one of those things, man. They're just so crazy coming out of the gate. You can't control that at all.

Yeah, no, you can't control that at all. So the guys who had those runs, they're pretty banged up. And the other guys, I've just started talking to Bart Oates who is the president of the NFL alumni. And we've been talking about doing something for the guys. And again, when I do shit like that,

I just give it to them. Just to help them. And I've talked to a few of the players and I've got a few guys loving it. And so it's just again, helping them. And I've talked to a few of the players. I got a few guys, you know, loving it. And so it's just, again, helping them. Because, you know, those guys are all weightlifting, running. Right. We can't do either now. Right.

Because you're so beat up. So, you know, it's funny. When we watched the, I know I'm sure you watched the Super Bowl when they had the 50th anniversary a couple years back. And all the MVPs that came out there, just, it was brutal to watch how beat up they are. The only guy, of course, Jerry Rice, looks like he could still play, because that's the greatest, he's just a freaking super athlete.

And somehow, I don't know with all the crazy shots he's been hit with that he has survived, but there's certain people, I always say they can eat plastic. Like they can do anything. And you said Herschel Walker before that. Perfect example. Still wants to fight. I always say they can eat plastic like they can do anything and you know you said Herschel Walker before that still wants to fight

you know he was fighting in Strikeforce when he was 48 years old and he was built like a fucking 20 year old freak of nature fully shredded and then you know I mean you really have to stop and think if that guy did fight when he was in his 20s instead of in his 40s late 40s

right he could have been a world champion and i'm not bullshitting he's that kind of a freak athlete yeah he he one of my claim to fame's with him was his last big run for dallas he caught like the ball ran 67 yards into the ends on this is like 1997 and he put the ball between his hands did the diamond cutter side and did the bang but you didn't know because he put the ball between his hands, did the diamond cutter side, and did the bang. But you didn't know because he put the ball in there if it was that or he was doing something else. And one of my friends who had a show, a radio show, Craig, he had it in Arizona. He called me up. He goes, D, I'm having Walker on the show today.

He goes, do you want to sit in the wings? I'll ask him if he did the diamond cutter or not. And I just go, dude, I definitely want to hear that. So he put me on the phone in the wings, and I'm waiting there. And he said, so what happened that day? What was that thing you did with the ball? He goes, well, you know, I'm a big WCW fan, and I really like Diamond Dolls Page, and I felt the bang,

and I just did it and did the bang and everything. And he goes, well, he's on the air right now with you. He's like, get out of here. And we became buddies out of it. I lost touch with him since then, buddy. Great guy. That's hilarious. What I think you're doing and what I think one of the best benefits of yoga, and I'm

sure the same with DDPY, is that you're connecting everything together. Whereas yoga and sprinting, all this explosive exercise, it's building up the muscles. But what you're doing is you're tightening up all the joints. You're tightening up the core and the joints. And this is the thing that people are missing, that a lot of people are missing that are really into fitness and exercise. They're doing all this explosive stuff, but what's connecting everything together is what blows out. The knees, the ankles, the shoulders shoulders the back and this this is something that's missing from a lot of people's work it's because it's not as glamorous right it's not like you do biceps your thighs get all pumped up you do chest you get all pumped up you look great

it's a different thing what you're doing is for overall body maintenance and health and just connecting all these parts together in a way that makes the whole unit stronger and healthier and again that's what I was saying I'm stretching and strengthening just think about going over your head and reaching up what you know when I started class of like I just had 175 people pay to be a part of a workshop that I do called inspiration meets perspiration and I guarantee them two things. I'm going to have them so jacked up. I'm going to have them so inspired. They're going to feel like they could run through the brick wall and two, they're going to sweat their ass off. But

I met, let them meet it where they are on whatever level. So the person who might be 400 pounds and the person who's shredded over there can get a good workout at the same time. Because I'm showing him how to do that modification over there. And he might even have a chair. And this guy, I'm going, go deep. No, no. Go deep. Now, let me show you this.

Now, grab the ball. Open it up. And then pull. But before I start one of those things, because there's people there who come because they heard it's yoga, right? Right. And I walk. I've got my mic on.

And I go, I'm walking. I go, if you came here for the yoga, will you reach your arms to the heavens? So the universe smiles back at you. And I drop my arms. I go, we won't be doing any of that shit today. What kind of yoga did you start with? Power yoga. I was starting with power yoga.

So you never did like Bikrams or? No, I've done everything. I've done Kundalini. Yeah, I've done all of them at least once just power yoga. So you never did like Bikrams or? No, I've done everything. I've done Kundalini. Yeah, I've done all of them at least once just to try. Like I respect yoga at a different level. Like as much as any, like what's really funny is like guys like Brian Kess and Shiva Ray. And there was a, my buddy of mine, Arthur Klein did a movie called Why Yoga? And in it, he gives me a camera.

And it was the second time I went to Iraq. And I filmed all this shit and me with the guys. And then, you know, interviewing. I was interviewing. Someone else was interviewing him for me. And it got this great, great stuff. But in the beginning, I'm talking about how, like, literally was interviewed when I wrote the book yoga for regular guys and I get, and it was smoking hot chicks and regular guys. Cause back then I met TNA when I said it. And I never thought women would love the workout the

way they do. I thought it was this year that you put this together, 2005. So I was interviewed by this guy from the wall street journal. And literally, he quoted me saying, when Kimberly had asked me if I would do the yoga, I was like, fuck that. I wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga. And he put in there, F dash dash dash that. I wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga. So that's in the beginning of the movie, right? So the yogis like hate me. But by the time it gets to the end

where they see like, I'm just putting a different spin on it and I'm not trying to do what you're doing, but similar, getting, as far as I'm concerned, more benefits. Now, when you say power yoga, for people who've never done yoga before,

differentiate. Like, what does that mean when you say power yoga versus like something like Bikram yoga? Bikram is, to me, first of all, I don't want to be that hot. I don't want to be in a hot room. I want to heat my body up in the cold. So I don't want to put myself in a position where it's so hot that I can go farther than I've ever come before. Cause then I'm going to walk out into the real world and then I'm not going to get that. I want to be able to get what I get in the real world. And there's like, I want to say,

I don't know how many positions there are. Let's say there's 46 positions or whatever it is in Bikram. I think it's 28. Whatever it is. I thought it was 27 or 20. I can't remember. I don't remember either. But either way, he trademarked that.

So that like, and it was a big. Yeah, he lost that in court though. Yeah, but I thought he won, but who cares? I think he lost it. And on top of that, I don't think it was a yeah in court though. Yeah, but everybody I thought he won but okay You know I lost and on top of that. I don't think it was his to begin with I think somebody else had had put all those patterns together before him now and then probably so because again, it's friggin yoga It's been around for thousands of years but for me what I do like the one time Chris Jericho and I were he was he came by my house in LA and when I was living here and we went out to the park and he's like,

so what do you do? Do you do stand up one day? Uh, you know, strength builder next. I go, Chris, I do it different.

Every, I do the same open and do the same clothes, but all the middle, I go, it's like a match, man. I'm making it up as I go along at times, you know,

and I'm improv because I'm seeing what you can do. And then I'm going to take a different, if I see you can really go, well, I'm going to push you to a different level that I go to. If you can't, then I'm going to back way the fuck off because I don't want to burn you. I want you to, I did it with Tito. Tito Ortiz, one time he'd written something in Sports Illustrated, interviewed him. and i had met him at a strip joint in vegas and he was the man in ufc at the time and he wanted to they weren't making any money you remember back in the beginning when they weren't making any money and he wanted to go to where we were right and i was like dude here's what I really feel. This shit you're doing

is building crazy momentum. I go, we're at the top of where we're going to go right now. And it's so cyclical at some point, it's going to fall out. I said, it's a whole different thing than what you're doing. I know you appreciate it, which I'm super excited about, but bottom line is man, stay where you are. And he's saying this in the si interview right so i still had his number and i called him up and he answered the phone like hey dito like hey ddp i'm like hey man i uh i saw what you said and uh you told the story exact because i talked him out of it like trying to go and told no stay where you are dude you're about to have a hell of a run and he put that over so i said i man, you remembered exactly where it went.

And he said, yeah. He goes, of course. That's what I'm going to tell him. He's fighting again. I heard that. He's fighting next month. I went down and worked out with him. Two months.

November. I worked out with him after he did his back surgery. He's had a bunch of back surgeries. Well, the first one. The first one, I worked with him. And I'm figuring, this is Tito Ortiz, man. I'm going to freaking push him to show him how this will strengthen him. Then after that, he wouldn't do it.

And I finally pinned him down. I go, Tito, why didn't you do it again? He goes, it was too fucking hard, bro. I'm like, dude, you say that? You're one of the baddest fucks alive. How could you? And he's like, you know, I just thought it was too. I said, I can make it super easy.

And that's where I learned, back the fuck off, meaning me. Bring it where they meet it. And let me show you how we can. Like Cain Velasquez, he was just down in the performance center down in WWE. And I'm training the guys down there. And I go down for like a week at a time. I heard he's thinking about going into pro wrestling after his career's over. Well, I'll tell you what, man. He's another guy who's had

a shitload of back surgeries. Shoulder surgeries, knee surgeries. And he could draw huge money. I mean, he really could. He's such a natural, as you can imagine. And he's a giant Mexican. How many of those are there? Yeah, right. That doesn't

really exist like that. First ever Mexican heavyweight champion in combat sports. I watch it, man. He's one of the greatest of all time, if not the greatest. His body couldn't keep up with his mind. His mind was so physically tough. I mean, his mind was so mentally tough that his physical body would start falling apart. His knees, his back, his shoulders. It's just when you watch that guy train, I mean, he trains like nobody.

Him and Daniel Cormier would just go to a fucking war. I'm so happy for DC. He's awesome. He's on Thursday. He's here Thursday. Oh, he is? Please tell me. We've never met, but I know he loves what we do.

I just love him. He had all the fights in Dallas this weekend. Oh, great. Yeah, there's UFC welterweight championships in Dallas this weekend. Awesome, awesome. I forgot what I was going to say before you said Cormier. Tito Ortiz, it was too difficult for him. That's when you learn to back the fuck off.

And then Cain Velasquez. Okay, Cain. Man, wow, you're good. You should do this. You should have a show. Oh, you do. You can tell me how much pot I smoke. you should do this.

You should have a show. Oh, you do. You can tell me how much pot I smoke. So when I, when I was down there, I did six workouts in five, six workouts,

two double sessions and a single session every day. Kane made four of them. And then, you know, we changed numbers and I sent him my program. I said, and that's heart monitor. And I don't know if he's doing it. I haven't checked back in with him.

It would help him tremendously. T would you know because that guy's whole issue is has been really his back i mean there's other injuries the shoulders and the knees and stuff like that but they can fix those better than they can fix your back right the back is i know if he's doing it lose those discs you know and i told him like i told you i said i you know if you can get out to at, I'll personally work with you. It costs you this. I just want you to have the results because, like Arthur, the results will speak for themselves. Yeah, no, I mean, I'm a believer, 100%.

And I just can't say enough how impressed I am with that video with Arthur. That is one of the most impressive transformation videos I think I've ever seen online. And that's saying a lot. Yeah. What I found on the internet, there's few things that they really share. Like when Steve first did that video,

I looked at it and I went, man, you don't have, back then it was still, we were just branding it DDP Yoga. You don't have ddpyoga.com on it, though, bro. He goes, I read a book. And in the book, remember, this is 2011. And he said, I read a book that talked about if you want something to go viral, it can't be an advertising ad.

It has to be. Unless it's super funny, then that's different. He said, but there's two things we can do here. We can make it an ad, or we can inspire people. advertising ad it has to be unless it's super funny then that's different he said but if you want to there's two things we can do here we can make it an ad or we can inspire people he goes what do you want to do i said let's inspire people so then i watched it again right and then i'm watching it and i go fuck he put i'm a yogi in there so i called him up and i go bro i go i don't want to be i mean i love yoga but i't, I want to go for the people. You're doing your own thing.

Right. And he goes, all right, I just want you to think about this. And this is why Steve, Steve is like an Ivy leaguer, graduated from Cornell, like super smart, was literally on his way to being a top guy at IBM and thought, fuck that. I don't want to do that. I want to inspire people. So he is the only guy that I know is self-taught 100% how to edit, how to produce, how to do everything. And Resurrection, Jake the Snake, when you see it, you'll know.

That's his baby. That video is his baby. So he said, just imagine this, all right? Yoga is going to want to take credit for all of this. Even though it's our shit and it's different, it's this, all right? Yoga is gonna wanna take credit for all of this. Even though it's our shit and it's different, it's still a version of. He said, that'll end up on every yoga studio wall ever. And that's what helped it go viral.

So remember he said that in the video that he'd been turned away? Right. Because he needed the chair. They didn't have any such thing. They don't know how to incorporate that into their flow. Right. I do.

So you figured out the chair is a balancing tool. And we have some where people are just sitting down, and we have beginner, beginner. But by the time you come into my class, I'll go do a class, and I'll be back. So let everybody know, Tuesday of next week, I will be doing a class at DDP Yoga Performance Center. It'll be jammed. You won't be able to fit enough people in there, but there'll be people with chairs and there'll be people without them. And the energy will be insane because I've got you counting and you'll see like, grab the ball. Now grab a hold and work your back and thighs here and pull deep breath. Now grab a hold and work your back and byes here and pull deep breath

Three two one. I'm engaging Everything now negative rep. So you're engaging again again. I want to get your heart rate up there and keep it there What did you do before you were pro wrestling when you were 35? I was running nightclubs I was running like I was in a nightclub business since I was 17 They actually had me bounce. They didn't know how old they'd know I was an old enough because I was six, four and like 180 pounds, but I was tall and I started bouncing when I was 18. Once they found I was 17, they got the hell out of here. You're not old enough. But I came back when I was 18 and then I was barbacking and bartending and I was running. I ran a small rock and roll joint at 22 and a half years old. And then I went to

Houston. I lived down there for a while and honky tonk scene was insane. Then I came back for a wedding and I, there was a place in Asbury park, New Jersey, which is where I'm from the Jersey shore. It's really funny. I always tell people this from the same Jersey shore area, me and Bam Bam Bigelow, who's a future Hall of Famer, to me, he should already be in, Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, John Bon Jovi, and Bruce Braystein, all from that same Jersey Shore area. But I came back for a wedding, and there was this club opening up. And so I went in there, and I talked to the guy, and he goes, well, I need a head bartender. I said, I won't be a head bartender, but I'll be a general manager and I'll

get behind a stick two days a week. But this place was huge. Like 12,000. Get behind the stick? Bahar. Get behind the bar and bartend. You know, on slower nights, you know. Get behind the stick. Get behind the stick. I get it. The beer stick. Right. Well, yeah. Our place was huge. It was a big, we had rock and roll and disco. First time Bruce Springsteen ever sang Dancing in the Dark was kind of with a band called Bystander and sang with them. Because Bruce, down two blocks, one block away was the Stone Pony, where I watched him

probably 18 Sundays in a row play with a band called Cats on a Smooth Surface. Wow. You just jump up and start playing. And now how did you go to pro wrestling? So I was running a club. I tried it when I was 22. That was right before I started to actually get a chance at running a club. I had three matches.

I sucked. I torqued my knee. And when I was 12 years old, I loved, I was like, I loved football and hockey. Like, in my mind, I'm going to play defensive end for the New York Giants. I mean, that's my mind at the time. But then I walked back, I hit by a car, my face bounced off the hood, and I flew 42 feet from the point of impact. Jesus Christ. No such thing as rehab in 1968.

So they wouldn't let me play football or hockey. But here's the two sports you can play. They just decided you were broken. They're like, you can't get a doctor to sign for you. And they weren't going to sign for me. So they gave me two choices. Baseball and basketball. I suck at both. And baseball, you got to have somebody.

Basketball, you don't. And I didn't even make the team in seventh grade. And I didn't give a fuck because I didn't really like it. When you say you got to have somebody, what do you mean? You have to have someone to throw the ball back and forth with. Oh, I see. You got to have nine guys. You got to have at least seven. They play with another seven or whatever.

Nine is what you want, of course, but whatever you can do to make it work. For basketball, you just need one. You need a ball and a hoop. That's it. And eighth grade, I sat on the bench and I'd never sat on the bench ever. So I thought that's never happened to me again. And it taught me the greatest lesson. It taught me that summer I played every day, all day long, five hours a day minimum. You know, when you're by yourself, you know, layups, hooks, foul shots, whatever,

you know, and then the games pick up in the beginning. You know, I didn't get picked up, you know, until the end, maybe. And then as time went on over that summer, kept getting better and better and better and better. My freshman year, I started and we went undefeated. My sophomore year, I was playing varsity. So I realized that work ethic equals results. So that was the huge lesson I learned from that. So now I'm 23 years old and I hurt my knee. And I'm going to take some time off away from the dream of being a wrestler. And I get caught in the booze, the broads, and the party.

Because it's a fun. Booze, broads, and the party. Destroyer of men. And I was lucky that I had a way of parenting myself, like getting into that whole party scene, which I did, but slowly I kind of backed myself out a little bit each year. And I've got this club in Fort Myers, Florida at the time, and this one I actually own a little piece of it

with my buddy Tony Cafaro and a couple other guys. And one night, I'm in the office. And we had a camera at the back door and a camera at the front door. And this place would hold, legally, probably about 600 people. We got 1,000 in there. And I'm looking at the camera as the person walks and looks just like Jake the Snake Roberts. I'm a huge fan of Jake Roberts. So I frigging run out the outside of the building, come around, because I don't want to walk through the people.

And I go to this girl, Judy, at the front door. I go, did a guy just walk in here who looks like Jake Roberts? She goes, yeah. She goes, I think it's him. So I practically go right in there like a huge mark. And when I see him, I slow down. You don't want to over-fan boy. Don't want to over-fan boy.

Take a breath. So he's up at the bar, and I'm like, hey, you Dick Snake Roberts. Who wants to know? I said, the guy who runs this place. He goes, yeah. I go, what are we drinking? And that's how we started so it's really crazy that in resurrection i help him not drink again that is amazing i mean they said that

happened and then of course i paid for all his drinks and next thing you know ted dibiase's there bushwhackers are there like all the guys from the 80s if you wrestled in tampa then you had to go to miami well fort my Myers was the perfect location. So they had seen all these different, these boys coming through there, right? So I did all my own radio commercials back then. So back then I might be like, Thursday, Thursday, hot legs. And then I might throw in, oh yeah, dig it, don't miss, hot legs, yeah. Thinking, thinking, thinking.

And people didn't know if it was Randy or Hulk or Jesse or whoever. And I never told anybody. Right. So they do this interview on The Voice. Because this is Fort Myers. It's called the Party News Network. My buddy Kevin said, we're going to do a spot on you on the news network. I'm like, okay.

So they filmed me in my 62 pink Cadillac. They filmed me at the studio. You had a 62 pink Cadillac? Convertible. Ooh, baby. Yeah, it was the first divorced wife I never had. Oh, what a car. I just saw one go by.

I eventually sold it because you're constantly putting, I wore, I drove it all the time. I loved it though. That's one you're constantly putting, I wore, I drove it all the time. I loved it though. That's one you're supposed to keep. I know. I'm getting one. 62 pink convertible. It was badass, man. There's another Bruce Springsteen song.

What a fucking great song that was. Oh man, the best. We actually at that club gave away, it was like a 68 pink Cadillac convertible. I got a picture of a 62 pink Cadillac convertible on Google. It's probably a picture of his. There's a picture of me with three hot, smoking hot diamond dolls and my Harley. It's got to be somewhere on there. There it is.

There it is. Look at that fucking car. Is there any other pictures where you can see the front of it? There it is. There it is. Oh, what a car. No, that's not it. But that's like, that's a 61.

Yeah, that's a hard top. Yep. That's an older one. It's got to have the wings on the bottom. Go to that last one that you just went to. Oof, look at that one. Beautiful. What is that last convertible one you went to?

One before that. Oh, that's like a 56. That's a 61, I think. That's a 59. That's my favorite. Look at that. That's a 70, right? Yeah. Yeah, 59. That's my favorite. Look at that. That's a 70, right? Yeah.

Yeah, 70. That's badass. Look at the fucking car. God damn, they made some cars. Go back to that shot of me in the Whatchamacallit there. It's so funny because back then, there is a... There is... No, Joe.

How old are you here? Right there, I am 31 years old. That is, if you guys want to read a really great, like super detailed, like insanely long, it's called A Letter to My Younger Self. It's the Player's Tribune. And so when we're writing this, Joe, it's so fucking long. I'm like, well, let me cut back on some of it. They're like, no, no, we need more detail. And then it goes to 9,000 words. And then they want more detail.

Look at you, dude. Look at that hair. Now that's a head of hair. That's a 1980s head of hair if I ever saw one. Holy shit. Look at the cops looking at you from behind. What the fuck is this guy doing? I'm a manager then so so let me let me give you the backstory into this so let me back up back up that's the money pitcher right there how old were you like eight nine i don't know fucking he was trouble that that son of a bitch was major trouble so let me go back to where freakingging, so I do this radio spot.

And when they're doing it, not radio, this TV, when I do the radio spot, they're filming me in my car. And ready to do a radio spot, I'm wearing a WrestleMania t-shirt. And I know because I have this footage still. And I put it up on my motivational Mondays for my very first one. A power of what's possible. And then they film me at my office, right? Now, let me just digress. The week before, I'm going around at night and I'm grabbing the drawers, you know, like the money drawers.

And I'm watching video that's up on Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Remember that? With Cyndi Lauper? Sure. And it had Captain Lou Albano on it, who's like one of my favorite managers ever. Super character, did a bunch of movies. Lou was just super frigging fun to watch. He's in that video.

And I'm picking up the drawers, and I'm not talking to anybody but myself. And I say, there he is. There he is. Captain Lou with the rubber bands and the beard. I remember that. Oh, God. So I look up at that video, and I go, rockin' wrestling.

I should have been a part of that. And I walk into my office. Now, other bartenders are going to come in and count their drawers right now. And Smokey comes in, my head bartender. He comes in and he goes, Paige J. Because my real first name is Paige Joseph Falkenberg. And my dad. Yeah, right. That name's never gonna draw any money in professional wrestling page falkenberg is gonna tough sell exactly and i'm in dallas

page that makes sense they work right but my dad's page one and he said i'm freaking you know you're page two and i'm like no as a little kid he said he didn't like that. So Dallas Cowboys was my team that I loved the most when I was a little kid. I don't know, because of the stars or whatever and Landry and all that shit. And he ends up nicknaming me Dallas. So I always loved that name. So I just put them together. It's kind of created it, right? So I tried that.

It's handsome. So bottom line is Smokey comes in the back and he goes, Page J, he goes, what do you mean rock and wrestling? You should have been a part of that. And I said, well, you know, I tried it when I was a kid. He goes, you did? What was your name? I said, Handsome Dallas Page.

He went, oh, you forget about using that gimmick anymore. And everybody laughed, you know. And now we're drinking. It's after hours, right? So I can't get it out of my head, Joe. And I just start scribbling. And I write Diamond Dolls Page. And I said, you know.

Where'd you get the diamond? I just figured my birthday. April. And it just kind of flowed. April's a diamond month? April's a diamond month. Yeah, April 5th is a diamond. And I love Classy Freddy Blassie.

And I love the way that name flowed. Classy Freddy Blassie and I love the way that name flowed. Classy Freddy Blassie. I thought, Diamond Dallas Page. It kind of flows. I go, what about if my name was, I'm too old to be a wrestler. Now, because remember, I tried when I was 22 or 23,

I was 23, 22. And now I'm 31. So you're thinking you were going to be a manager or something? I'm going to be a manager. Jimmy Hart's a manager. I could be diamond dallas page jimmy hart you know he's got the heart foundation i could have the diamond exchange whoa drink drink

shot shot so now we're getting pretty fucked up and at some point i say uh i say you know um you know there's not a lot of really good looking women in wrestling today. I go, miss Elizabeth's beautiful, but she's girl next door. Beautiful. What if I had a whole stable of ladies and I called them diamond dolls and they were stripper hot. It was like, that'll be a stretch. Whoa, shot, shot, drink, drink. And so the end of the night comes around and I'm like, diamond dolls page,, the Diamond Exchange, the Diamond Dolls. I go, man, that's fucking B-A-double-D bad. And I went, did I just make that up or did I steal that from somebody?

And I just wrote it down. A week later, here I am with the Party News Network, and they're interviewing me. And at some point they say, so where does the voice come from now joe if there's not a pair of white sunglasses there at the time i don't know if i do it but they're sitting right there next to that shit so i grab them when i put them on and i say your sunglasses yeah they were my sunglasses they'll wrap around i mean if they weren't there i don't know if i say it i don't know if I go into character. But because I could put a mask on.

Oh. I go, the voice comes from the diamond dollar. Give me some volume. Give me some volume on this. When the Iceman puts you in a deep freeze, it lights out. Now, ladies, I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to the ladies on TV. Now, ladies, you must be getting back to the limo.

Get back to the limo now, ladies. Oh, my God. Get over here, daddy. They're right out of a white snake, are you? Exactly. You can talk in this interview? Can you kind of dictate? Get a little hot in here.

Get with the program here. Like I was saying, when the Iceman puts you in a deep freeze, it's lights out. Pay attention, Mr. Bernstein. Whoa, let's bring out... Oh, my God. This is fucking classic. You got a Motley Crue t-shirt on with no neck? Yes.

Yes. Look at this guy. Rock hard Rick. And then Jack Bernstein has his own show in Jersey as a podcast on country music, but he was a big jock for a long time. Great Pipes. Oh, this is hilarious. I catch the man, he's

peeling down the walls of my mind with his bare hands. He was looking for rough cut diamonds, don't you know? As a matter of fact, one time one of my diamond mines collapsed. Collapsed? Collapsed! We had to bring in cranes. We had to bring in trains. We even brought in planes because we were afraid at the bottom of that mine lay this big, big man.

Big John. Big bad John. That's right, Jack. We are bringing today, we're bringing out- Oh my god, this is fucking classic. What year is all this happening? Now that's the beginning of where we started. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Look at this girl. The Diamond Dallas Satin Exchange here.

Oh, my goodness. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm talking about? This man is loved by women all over the world. They love to cuddle him. He is the Teddy Bear. If you wouldn't mind taking off that jacket there, Teddy Bear, show the fans what you got. Show them what you got here.

Oh, boy. Teddy V is going to be so excited to be here on Joe Rogan's show. He is an unbelievable specimen, an unbelievable man here. This ain't no normal midget wrestler. This is the next king of the world. You know what I'm talking about, Daddy. Oh, my God. That's an awesome wrestler there, Diamond Dallas.

And those ladies, unbelievable. They can't keep their hands off him. Holy shit. Listen, listen, listen. Let's listen to what Teddy does. Teddy Bear, do you have anything to add to this? Just remember that I am some crazy animal. Oh, my God.

So. Oh, my God. So. What year is all this? This is 1987. Oh, my God. I'm fresh out of high school. That's two years out of high school for me.

So what happened was I do this promo. They're doing this show. We just went ahead of it. I'm doing the Bar News Network, and they say, where does the voice come from? I look down, and I always say, just don't think it. Ink it. Write it down. It's right in front of me.

This is your spot. I grab those sunglasses. I put them on and I go, the voice comes from Daman Della's page. I was born to be a professional wrestling manager. It's big. It's bad. It's normal jeans voice. I took them off and I kept talking. I radioed Jack, who was a great fighter. His name is Smitty. And Smitty sees this. So this is like a week later, right? I get a phone call from the girl in the front desk. She says, Paige, there's someone to call for Diamond Dallas, Paige.

I pick up the phone. I go, fuck you, Smokey. And I hang up the phone, right? Because I think it's Smokey ripping me, right? He calls back. She goes, it's not Smokey. His name's Smitty. He's got a radio show. He wants to talk to you i go hello he's like yeah i want to bring you on the

show he goes you know i'm a boxer who has his own show about boxing but i want to start doing wrestling i go he goes i want to have you on the show i go bro i don't really do it i was just making that shit up you know and he's like who cares it's radio and i'm like man i don't really do it. I was just making that shit up. And he's like, who cares? It's radio. And I'm like, man, I don't know. He goes, I'm going to have Captain Lou Albano on. Like, what's the odds of that? I'm going to have Captain Lou Albano on the show.

I want you to be my co-host. I go, do I get to talk to Captain Lou? He's like, absolutely. I go, I'm in. So I do that show, and I do another one with Sergeant Slaughter. And he says to me, he says, you know, you got to do something with this Diamond Dolls Page thing. You're a natural. I go, Smitty, do what?

I don't know what the fuck to do. I mean, it's just something in my head. And he says, I got this friend of mine named Rob Russin, who's a boxing promoter, who now is working for the AWA up in Minnesota. I'll give you his address. send him a tape or something. So I think about it and I write those storylines for those guys. And then I make that tape and I send it to the AWA. No bullshit, Joe. Two weeks later, I get a phone call. Hey, is this Diamond Dallas Page? And I'm like, yeah, this is Rob Russum from the AWA. We've seen your tape. We want to bring you and your boys in for

a tryout. He goes, but we've got one question. You know, we've shown the tape around and everybody kind of likes your stick. You know, it's fresh.'s fresh it's got energy he said but no one's ever heard of you where are you guys working well rob we got one problem um none of those guys can wrestle he's like what he goes why would you send us a tape i go it's like a secret society like no one can figure out how to fucking get in. So, you know, while they're training, I could, you know, manage. And I'm like, ah, don't call us. We'll call you. And two weeks later, God just aligned this for me at some, for some reason, just to be where I am today. But Paul Heyman, who's one of the biggest stars as, you know, a character on WWE television, was called Paulie Dangerously at the time.

was called Paulie Dangerously at the time. He left the AWA, went to the NWA, which was going to get bought by Ted Turner, left a huge spot open for a young guy that could talk. They brought me in. All those clothes you saw me in, I was wearing that shit in Fort Myers, Florida. And I said to my buddy, Kurt Church,

who was my head bouncer at the time, head of the floor, And when this was starting to happen, I go, dude, can you imagine if I ever have a reason to dress like this? And if anything, I got way more tapered down. You know, I wasn't living the gimmick. But, man, it was the beginning of everything. And then Dusty Rhodes had come into Florida for Florida Championship Wrestling. And Dusty took me under his wing man and he gave me every break that ever meant anything to my career early on that's why it was so important for me to be there for Cody because I'm not getting choked up just thinking about it without Dusty Rhodes there is no Diamond Dolls page he gave me every

break I ever had and for me to watch his son do what they did last weekend. Do you remember your first match? My first, yeah. My first match was a tag match. So I'm managing now, okay? Three and a half years. And then I finally get the call because Dusty, who went to WWE, and he did his polka dotted gimmick with him

he came back to run the WCW and you know he's NWA world champion he's like one of the smartest guys ever in our business and I developed a relationship that was super tight with him when we were in Florida but it was his wife Michelle who really kept it going when he wasn't. Because when I'd call up just to check in with Dusty once in a while, she'd say, don't worry, Dallas. Dusty will call you back. And knowing how bad he is at calling someone back, I know that. That's why I thank Michelle on my Hall of Fame speech because I know without her, I don't know if it ever would have kept going the way it did. But Dusty, you know, he brought me in and I managed the Freebirds, Michael P.S. Hage and Jimmy Jam Garvin, which was such an education, such a good time.

Michael's still one of my best friends today. And I helped Scott Hall, who was big Scott Hall, come in, changed his entire look from blonde hair and a big roll of mustache, had him dye his hair jet black and give him this brush cut beard that like nobody had, the five o'clock shadow. And no one knew who the fuck he was. And I brought him in. And what is happening, as you see all the crazy clothes I wore. Well, five months in, Magnum T.A., who's Dusty's right hand man, comes up to me and he's like, Listen, D, we're going to keep you at the color commentators box.

I'm also doing color commentating with Eric Bischoff, who would later run the company. And he said, we can't let you manage anymore. I'm like, what? What did I do wrong? He goes, it's not anything you're doing wrong bro he goes he goes you just with the hair and the rap and the dolls and those crazy clothes he goes you're taking too much attention away from the boys and they're the ones who draw the money and i was like so fuck are you telling me magnum that i'm too over the fucking top for wrestling and he goes as a manager kind of he said but

you know what we should have done is put you in a pair of tights and boots and see if you could do this shit i had seven months left on my contract bro i said fuck this i never got in this business to be a manager i wanted to live the dream well i'm gonna do it and i went down there and they beat the fuck out of me. Now, did they teach you how to do it first? No. What they do is they blow you up. This is what it was. The NXT is different, like down their performance center.

But the original power plant, one of my other mentors, a guy named Jody Hamilton, who was the assassin, he really taught me a lot. And so did this guy Sarge. But in the beginning, they want to run you a lot. And so did this guy, Sarge. But in the beginning, they want to run you off. So they want to see if you'll quit. Oh, absolutely. They try to get you to quit. It's a different level of SEAL training. Like, you're going to do 50 Hindu squats where you're asked to, you know, bucket and up again.

Yeah. And then you're going to do 10 push-ups. And then you're going to do 50.-ups. And then you're going to do 50. And then 10. And 50. And 10. And by the time you get to that third 50, you're like, you're not in shape.

You're screwed. Because we're going to 500. Yeah, Hindu squats are a big thing amongst wrestlers, right? Yeah. It's a great way to get in shape, but it really wears on your knees. Boom, boom, boom, boom. But it's really good for your knees.

No, no, no. Hindu squats aren't? Not if you've got bad, you know, worn your way to bad knees. Oh, if you have bad knees. Boom, boom, boom, boom. But it's really good for your knees. No, no, no. Hindu squats aren't? Not if you've got bad knees. If you've got great knees. It's like anything. There's only so many bumps you're allowed in life. The Miz was on Fear Factor back in the day. Oh, yeah.

To this day, I say he's the fittest guy that was ever on the show. That fucking kid is a stud. He is a stud. He did this stunt in cold water where you had to dive into this cold water hold your breath and and complete this stunt and he was in it for more than two minutes holding his breath in cold water and if you know anything about cold water that is unbelievably impressive plus very grueling physical activity it's not that he was just in cold water holding his breath for two minutes, which is impressive enough as it is.

Right. But he was swimming around and pulling off all the, like he blew everybody out of the water. And he told me he did a shitload of those. He was doing 500 a day. Oh yeah. 500 Hindu squats a day.

Kid though. A kid. And that's why he was in that kind of shape. Let me give you a little behind. Super nice guy too. Tremendous. I love the Miz. I think he's going to be a huge superstar.

He's already a huge superstar in wrestling, but I think he's going to be a huge superstar in the acting world. Yeah, he could easily transcend. So let me tell you the first time I meet him. I'm here in LA. I'm living in Playa Vista before that. All that shit blew up there, right? I'm living there. I want to say it's 2004 because I wrestled until I was 46.

Then I took off two and a half years, came here, did the whole acting thing and put my dues and put the work in. Now I want to go back and I want to show people what I can do with my DDPY program at 49. So I call up a buddy of mine named Rick Bassman and he's got the UPW at the time and he's got the own area, kind of like, like the power power plant was and the kids are training there whenever i said do me a favor send me over one of your boys and let him come by and get me and you know i'll do what i want to do and then i'll help work with him a little bit and so he sends me mike the ms and just the sweetest kid and we we have a great talk on the way over there and you know i get I get done doing all my shit,

and then I say, okay, what do you want to learn? He's like, you're going to work with me? I'm like, hell yeah, I'm going to work with you. You've got great attitude, dude. Of course I'm going to work with you. And we worked, and now he's taking me home, and he tells me about how he was a real world. He's like the original real world guy.

So he's like, I said, man, you've got that piece. People already know you that's that's that's really worth something it'll really come back to help you later as you're going through this so we get all the way back to my place and i'm like you want to come in for a beer he's like oh absolutely so he comes in and who's on the porch but stone cold steve austin who i live with at the time and kevin nash there. So he's like, whoa, what the fuck? And I was just at WrestleMania two years ago when I was inducted into Hall of Fame,

and Miz was back doing one of his things. Now he's got the reality show with his wife, which is super funny. And there's times where I'm like, this is really real. Because reality show, there's no such thing as real life and reality show shit. But there's a lot of this stuff you can tell that they're like shooting on because they want like the real, the real deal. But he told that story. Like he was backstage with one of his suits on and his wife there.

He goes, Holly, come here. DDP, come here. Let's talk about the story where we first met. come here let's talk about the story when we first met and i just knew that that kid like he's hit a couple of roadblocks along the way that could he could have quit he could have walked away from he could have not but he had such a belief in himself i always tell people never underestimate the power you give yourself by believing in you and that's who the ms is and i think he's gonna be a huge you know i love the fact we we get a whole different slant now because of the man the rock the biggest star in the world

is one of us and did you see blockers with cena no oh dude watch it it's one of the funniest movies i've ever seen and i was flying home i'm telling wife, you got to watch this movie. It's hysterical. She's sitting next to me and I'm not even what I can't hear it because I've already seen it. She's laughing so hard, but I'm laughing because I'm watching it and I know what they're saying or an idea of it. But when you got visual comedy, which you know, when you don't hear the words and you're watching like Buster Keaton and you're laughing, that's really good shit. And it's super funny. And Cena killed it. So, you know, he's a super A-list actor now.

He just did a Ferdinand movie. I mean, he's on fire. Last time I saw him at the show, I just pulled him over for a second. Because I don't really know him that well. just pulled them over for a second i just because i don't really know him that well but i wanted to know i wanted him to know that i was so proud of him not for what he's done as an actor even though i'm super proud of him on that level but how he carried the company on his back for over a decade and still did so much work for charity i mean it was mind-boggling like no one has done more along that whole make a wish thing than cena has

but when i saw did you see him when he hosted the espies no dude you're a comedian you know how hard that is he is not a stand-up comedian but he was freaking amazing well he's been acting for so long now he's so loose and you know this is a thing about being behind the mic on the WWE as well Just being able to do that in front of all those people Absolutely, that's its own level of like sometimes 20-minute promos are doing the rock confuses me in like how much energy yes I don't know how the fuck he can do all the things he does Yeah, he's always doing something like I go to his Instagram page all the time. I feel like a lazy fuck i'm not kidding man he flies into china it's four in the morning he's lifting weights like what the fuck man the hardest working cat i have on the planet maybe on the planet yeah he's always

doing something yeah i mean he just sandwiches everything together i don't know how the fuck he does it yeah i'll tell you jer Jericho is... I put guys like who have the most insane work ethic right now. Rock is way past everybody. He's past anyone I've ever seen. Me too. I'll just occasionally put a tweet out just to say, hey, keep up the great

work you're putting in my mind. He's one of those guys where I go, how long can a human body keep going like this? Because you know he's only sleeping four hours a night. I think he's kind of like my buddy Steve Yu. They don't need to sleep. They just keep going. Jericho's the same way.

Jericho, when he's not wrestling, he's singing. When he's not doing that, he's doing his podcast. When he's not doing that, he's doing this, or he's doing that, or he's doing this, or he's doing that. And like he flew in, they frigging private jetted him into the all-in deal and didn't even know i don't like to know i want to be surprised and they shot this angle with kenny omega who's one of the like premier superstars in our business right now and they did him and jericho at 47 sold out the tokyo dome 47 000 people in january his, they wrestled for, the entrance is everything, were 48 minutes.

They wrestled for 37 minutes. He's 47. Well, he jumped on a plane while he's touring. They flew him in. He put a mask on. You thought it was one guy. He pulls the mask off after he drops Omega. And bada boom, it's Jericho.

The place goes batshit crazy. He gets out, grabs his deal, hops on a plane and flies where he's supposed to play at 12 o'clock that night. That's Jericho. And the other guy is Batista. So Batista, you know, between Galaxy. I mean, here's four guys that are like red hot

as actors and they're all the boys. He's fantastic in Guardians of the Galaxy. Oh my God, he's phenomenal. He's so good at being self-deprecating and dorky. I mean, he plays a goof so well. And he's such a cool dude, man. If Tony Hinchcuff was here right now, he would be jizzing in his pants. He really wouldn't be able to hold it together.

I'll have to turn to this. Now, what's interesting is that this group, I mean, Hulk Hogan was probably one of the first big guys to transcend into movies, right? Yes. But he got turned off by Hollywood. He apparently got a couple of dick grabbers. I don't know

what the real story is, but I'll tell you what, of all the guys that I know, I'm super supportive of Hulk because he was super supportive of me. He's a great guy. Oh, man. And he, right now, he's doing, he finally got back and they finally brought him back in WWE, which I was super excited about. Because to me, going into Hall of Fame without Hulk being in there, it was kind of like. Pull up the video of me interviewing Hulk

Hogan for Spike TV. I got a chance to interview him for Spike TV back in the day when he was... Spike TV went into the wrestling business for a little bit. Sure, sure. I helped that. I helped them do that because I was one of the names that brought... That's when I was wrestling. So for me as a kid, I was a giant fan of Jimmy Superfly

Snuka and Bob Backlund. All that when I was in high school, early 80s, and Hulk Hogan. So for me to get a chance to interview Hulk Hogan, it was – look at this. I'm honored to be here with one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, sports and entertainment, huge personality, the one and only Hulk Hogan. We share a birthday, too. Welcome aboard, sir. How are you? Thank you, my brother. You know, to be here with Joe Mania and Dana White, it doesn't get any better than this, brother. These guys are going to war out here.

It's unbelievable. Now, you've been in some MMA fights before. Are you a UFC fan? Oh, I'm a huge fan, my brother. I sure am. Now, I understand that you have recently announced a partnership with TNA Wrestling and its president, Dixie Carter. And you're going to be moving to Spike TV. TV we're gonna see some Hulkamania on Spike TV tell us more about that well you know brother tonight I got a ton of energy

and I'm partners with Spike I'm partners with Dixie Carter I'm partners with TNA and we just got the green light brother on January 4th TNA impact we're going wide open we're going to head on head we're going to battle with the WWD Monday night January 4th Hulk Hogan and TNA we're coming after everybody we're coming after everybody now I understand that you have you recently released a book you've done a wrestling tour in Australia when are we going to see Hulk Hogan wrestle in TNA well brother I'm going January 4th like I said Monday night we're going to see Hulk Hogan wrestle in TNA? Well, brother, I'm going January 4th. Like I said, Monday night. We're going to war TNA Impact, but you never know. I'm going over there

to take over. The maniacs are coming. All the TNA stars are going to be there, and you never know when the old man with the yellow boots might just step in that ring, brother. Hulk Hogan is coming back, ladies and gentlemen. TNA Wrestling live on Spike TV. Hulk's here for the fights. You know you want to watch him on TV. What you going to do, brother, when the UFC runs wild on you? What are you going to do?

That's the good question. Thank you very much, sir. You had the Gene Okerlund spot, brother. I was like a little kid there. I was so happy. You ever met Gene Oklund? No Oh man

One of the nicest guys on the planet But Hulk I mean When I got to do my stuff with him Because we not only did the Malone stuff You know Me and Malone Against Rodman and Hogan

But the next month They come in And because we shot that angle On the Tonight Show And the next month they go in Hogan and Bischoff and they run Jay off the set I come in from the wings not Hulk on his

ass and it's me and Jay Leno against Hogan and Bischoff Look at fucking Jay Leno holding the Hulk down Look at Hulk putting him over Oh my god that is hilarious Oh that is so funny Jay Leno is holding the Hulk down. Oh, God. Look at Hulk putting him over. Look at Hulk putting him over now. Oh, my God. That is hilarious.

Oh, that is so funny. Jay Leno is holding the Hulk down. Yeah. And he grabs his hair. Oh, Jesus Christ. This is so ridiculous. Oh, God, it was. But, you know, it was so much fun because I'll tell you, you know Leno.

Yeah. And another guy, I mean, he came and worked out with us. And he didn't spend as much time like Malone did, because Malone's like a super athlete. I don't even think Jay works out at all. No. He just turns wrenches. Well, got to learn how to move around a little bit. And we just worked around.

And Hulk was never that guy to lay stuff out. Today, a lot of this stuff is laid out. Back then, it was like you called as you go. And so I was a guy who actually did that. I could lay everything out, and that's so I was a guy who actually did that I could Lay everything out and that's how I like to know where we're going and I'm still gonna talk to you the whole time You know, but you know bottom line is, uh, you know, Jay just working him through it and it was a lot of fun Well when Hulk Hogan was in Rocky 3, I mean that was you that was fucking fantastic

And then you you also got to see how goddamn big he is It's fucking fantastic. That was huge. And then you also got to see how goddamn big he is. Right, next to Sly. When you see him next to Sylvester Stallone, you just go, whoa! When he picks Sly up by his neck. Right, right. And you're like, holy shit.

And then, you know, when they go through the whole thing, when after, you know, Hulk is like smiling and laughing with him, and Stallone was like, oh, okay. You know, Rocky was like, oh, all right. Like, you're a little rough out there on me. He's like, that's what it is, brother. One of the greatest moments ever, yo. That was a great moment in film.

It's awesome. I mean, I love that. That was a big moment in film, too, for a lot of people that thought, like, pro wrestling is fake, right? It's like, well, there ain't nothing fake about that. I mean, it's entertainment. But if you don't think that's fucking difficult to do, like, look at the size difference. Jesus Christ. Look at Hulk. He looked like a million look at the size difference. Right, right. Jesus Christ. Look at Hulk.

He looked like a million bucks there. He did. He looked fantastic. Yeah. He was like, it was just super good to me. Yeah, when he picks him up over his head. Is there a video of this? See if you can find video of it.

Because when Paulie's going crazy and he's having a heart attack. Oh, I love that. Oh my God. That was a great fucking scene. You know what I love about Sly? He's the perfect example of everybody counting him out and he's fucking stronger than ever again. He's like, yeah, we're going to move around a little bit. Come on.

I'll hit you a little bit. A little bit of this. A little Hulkamania music there. Look, he just fucking slaps. That was snug. Well, Stallone was so slim and trim back there. Look, he just fucking slid. That was snug. Well, Stallone was so slim and trim back then. Yeah, right? It's kind of hilarious that he was playing a heavyweight champion

because he's not a big guy. No. He really is more like a middleweight. But Hogan was, I mean, he wouldn't even be able to, and back in these days, wouldn't even be able to make the UFC's weight limit. UFC has a 265-pound cutoff for whatever reason.

Really? Yeah, there's no super heavyweight division in MMA. Yeah, there is a super heavyweight division. It's possible, but the UFC's never implemented it, so it's been sanctioned. There's a 265 and above, but the UFC's heavyweight division has a cutoff.

And a bunch of guys have had to cut weight. Brock's a big example. Sure he is. Brock had to cut weight to make 265. Francis Ngannou, Tim Sylvia, a few guys have had to actually cut weight. Mark Hunt, cut weight to make 265. Yeah, Mark's not walking around anywhere near it. He's a fucking tank.

5'10", 290, just fucking jacked. Bad, bad. He's a bad man. He's a bad man, Mark Hunt. Yeah, absolutely. You know, what I love about Sly, like, you know, you go back to it. A lot of people don't know that story. I'm sure you do.

You know, how he wrote that script, a Rocky, and would not sell it. And you get all thrown out. They wanted, like, Ryan O'Neill to play Rocky or someone, or Paul Newman. I forget who it was. I feel like it was Ryan O'Neill. They wanted Ryan O'Neill to play Rocky. And he held out. He's like, no, I fucking wrote this was. I feel like it was Ryan O'Neill. They wanted Ryan O'Neill to play Rocky. And he held out. He's like, no, I fucking wrote this.

This is me. Your vehicle. And that's the greatest example of being positively unstoppable and owning it. Like, Sylvester Stallone could have written this book or has 100,000 times. He's one of my mentors without me knowing him. Because I've just watched how he's lived his life. And he's, you know, recreated himself so many times. And that's what I'm constantly trying to do.

How crazy is it the guy's doing the Expendables as a fucking action star? He's in his 70s. Yeah, crazy. Who the fuck in their 70s is believable in an action role? Because there's guys who have like beat people up in movies like, ah, suspension of disbelief, I'll let it slide. Right, right. But when you see him doing it, you're like, I kind of believe it.

I believe it. The guy's still jacked. It's 72, I think, 73 years old, whatever the fuck he is. How old is he now? 72. 72 years old. That's fucking insane. Let me give you a behind the scenes from Stone Cold Steve Austin.

He's a brother to me, like a behind the scenes from Stone Cold Steve Austin. He's a brother to me, like a real one. We lived together. We wrote together. One of my best friends. And he's doing the first Expendables. And he's doing, you know, we talk about, I guess he's on the set for a couple of weeks by this time. And he says, I'll tell you what, D. And you remember every top alpha dog is in that first movie because he grabbed the, you know,

the heavies of the heavies, the guys who had the biggest names. And Austin said, in a world of alpha dogs, there is one number one guy and his name is Sylvester Stallone. And he said, one guy and his name is Sylvester Stallone and he said when he were doing the Hollywood fight in the back Stallone was like come on bring it like meant it he broke his fucking neck in that movie

broke his neck have you seen his neck they did an x-ray of his neck he's got these fucking screws keeping his spine together in his neck he showed it on it was either Night Show or Letterman but he was on and they showed an x-ray of his neck he broke showed it on, it was either Night Show or Letterman, but he was on and they showed an x-ray of his neck.

He broke his fucking neck doing that movie because he's 68 at the time, 69, and he's getting thrown into a wall. Right,

and telling Austin who's a tough son of a bitch to bring it. He wants it to be real. Right. I mean, he is,

I mean, look, he got knocked out by Antonio Carver, Antonio Tarver in one of those Rocky movies. Right, right. I mean, I think he was deep into his 60s and he got fucking knocked out. They're doing the boxing scenes where they're going over things and Tarver cracked him.

I would kill to do a workout with him and show him because he, no one works out harder than he does. Yeah, look at his neck. It's all fucking fused together with the plates. The bionic man. Look at that. That's fucking crazy. So he's got three discs fused together.

He might be the toughest guy, pound for pound, age for age alive. What's that? Four months ago. This is him four months ago. Oh, my God. Who's the other guy? I don't know. Take your sunglasses off, bro.

Who are you? Look how jacked he is. Crazy. 72. Crazy, man. I love the guy, man. I mean, you want to feel good, just sit down and watch a Rocky movie. No, I interviewed him, too.

He was a super nice guy. Like, real, like, self-deprecating, loose laugh. Doesn't take himself seriously at all no ego just joking around i love it easy to like somebody heckled out he's like is that you mom it's really funny he's a funny guy that's beautiful real real nice guy too yeah but listen man um i don't know what else we could talk about but i think what you're doing is fucking awesome um i'm super pumped that we finally got together. I would love to do a workout with you for sure.

Absolutely. What about tomorrow? What time tomorrow? I'm leaving on Thursday afternoon. So I have... Let's figure this out after the show's over. Okay, well, let me tell you the one thing I want to do about this. Let me tell you about Positively Unstoppable. When's it come out?

The Art of Owning It. It doesn't come out until January, but here's my goal. Okay. I had two books before this. I didn't push them to be bestsellers because they weren't really worthy. This is because I know it's going to really help people. And here's the hook that I want to do. The reason I want people to get it, pre-order it now.

And this is what I'm going to give with this. Anyone, and it's up on my site. If you go to ddpyoga.com slash positively unstoppable and you order the book there, there'll be an address right there. The DDP Yoga Performance Center, which is 1239 Concord Road, Smyrna, Georgia, 30080. If you send me a self-addressed stamped envelope, we've got these book plates that Random House, it's a Random House book. And they send me these book plates that I'm going to sign. And if you send me that self-addressed stamped envelope

with a proof that you purchased the book, that you pre-ordered the book, I'm going to send you my autograph. Well, autograph in the book, when I'm doing a Comic-Con, I'm $40 for a picture, $40 for an autograph, $60 combo. The book costs $24.99. So if you're looking to get a DDP signature, Diamond Dolls page signature, you got it for the book i will send it to you my goal is to make positively unstoppable a best-selling book and i think of my easiest not easiest the only way i'm really going to do it is by pre-order because i don't have any machine behind me except for my own shit you know right and doing this the way i just want to check one thing. I'm just looking for you. And where's the, what's the app? How can people find the app?

Oh, the app is at ddpyoga.com. Like it's up on iTunes and Droid. And if they're looking for it on iTunes or Google Marketplace. But if it's on iTunes or Droid, well, it's going to cost more because, you know, they charge more. They tack on 30%. So you can download the app from your website you go to diamond you go to diamond dallas page.com and you will be able to um get the app right there and right now i'm doing 20 off how does that work though don't you have to go to the app store to

put an app on your phone i'm not really actually sure how the hell that works. You know that, Jamie? I'm not exactly sure how that works, but I just know if you go to ddpyoga.com, it's going to be cheaper, and you can get it for a month, three months, a year, whatever. The deal is there. They'll figure it out. The one thing I do want to mention to you is, and maybe we can come back when this gets released and talk about this, but I've got a new documentary coming out and you've already seen Jake's and I know you're going to love the resurrection, Jake, the snake. If you want to see that, we just took it off of Netflix. It's only on iTunes. It's like 99 cents. It's absolutely, you look up to inspire, you know, everyone has some sort of addiction in their life, whether it's their uncle, their father, their sister, their brother, they're somewhere around it. I've had so many people come up to me and so many

people have come up to Jake and say, that movie changed my life. People come up and say, I'm three months sober. I'm two years sober. Like that movie changed my life and Jake doing the program it gave him a way to get wins meaning like going from 307 pounds to under 300 and the 270 and you know and so forth but being able to move more and be able to feel better so resurrection gives you that inspiration and you you just watched Arthur's video. Well, Jake's movie, The Resurrection of Jake the Snake, you're going to laugh. You're going to cry. Most of all, you're going to be inspired.

So the new documentary we got coming out will be out sometime in 2019. I'll talk to you before it comes out. And it's called Relentless. And it goes from the day that Kevin Nash blows my back out and he didn't do it it was my body he just finally blew out he's always trying to protect me and vice versa but when I blew my back out to where we are today we have

actually take out the wrestling shit we have 16 years of footage of this entire journey up and down and up and down and how we became with the program at eight-year overnight success. And this is one of the most inspiring movies I know anybody will ever see, and that'll be out this year. And that's really it. The app is at ddpyoga.com. If you want to get the book, if you want to pre-sell, go to ddpyoga.com slash positivelyunstoppable.

And like I said, I'd love to send you a- We'll put all this shit up on Twitter, too. Awesome, man. We'll put the video for Arthur on Twitter, too, because it's fucking fantastic. Thank you so much. Thank you, brother. Thank you very much, man. It was awesome.

I'm glad we finally did this. Awesome. Bye, everybody. I had to piss so bad.