FOLKS, MY FIRST GUESTS AROUND I HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN IN THE SAME
PLACE AT THE SAME TIME.
HERE TO END THE SPECULATION THAT WE ARE INDEED THE SAME PERSON,
PLEASE WELCOME DWAYNE JOHNSON.
(APPLAUSE) >> THANK YOU.
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE).
>> Stephen: THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME, I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
THANK YOU GUYS.
>> Stephen: I HAVE WANTED TO TALK TO YOU FOR A LONG TIME.
>> YES, IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME IN THE MAKING, YOU AND I IN THE
SAME ROOM.
WE'RE MAKING HISTORY.
>> Stephen: RIGHT, RIGHT.
>> THIS IS IT, THIS IT.
>> Stephen: IT'S EERIE.
>> IT IS.
>> Stephen: IT'S LIKE STAIRING IN A MIRROR.
>> IT'S JUST LIKE TWINSIES, STARRING IN THE MIRROR.
>> Stephen: OKAY SO I WAS TALKING WITH JOHN EARLIER,
OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY GO OH, IT'S THE ROCK, OKAY, BUT
IT'S DWAYNE JOHNSON, AS AN ACTOR T IS DWAYNE JOHNSON, NOT THE
ROCK.
>> IT IS REALLY WHATEVER COMES OUT, YES.
IT'S ALL THE SAME.
>> Stephen: OKAY, GOOD.
YOU HAVE HAD A LOT OF NAMES, THE ROCK, DWAYNE.
DJ.
>> YES.
>> Stephen: WHO IS ROCKY MIVIA.
>> ST THE FIRST NAME I HAD WHEN I FIRST STARTED WRESTLING FOR
THE W-WE.
I HAD MY VERY FIRST MATCH IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.
>> Stephen: YOUR FIRST MATCH WAS IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.
>> BROTHER, MY VERY FIRST MATCH EVER IN THE COMPANY WAS MADISON
SQUARE GARDEN AND IT WAS-- I WAS SCARED [BLEEP], BECAUSE ST
INCOMER AND IF YOU MAKE IT HERE, COULD YOU MAKE IT ANYWHERE OR IT
COULD TERLY SIDEWAYS.
>> Stephen: THEY EXPECT A GOOD SHOW.
>> THEY EXPECT A GOOD SHOW.
AND FORTUNATELY BY THE END OF THE MATCH THE WHOLE CROWNED WAS
CHANTING ROCKY, ROCKY, IT WAS SO COOL.
EMBRACE IMMEDIATE LIKE A SON AND THAT STARTED MY CAREER.
>> Stephen: AND WHO IS DEWY.
>> THANK YOU.
(APPLAUSE).
>> Stephen: YOUR CAREER, THIS REAPPLAUDING YOUR WHOLE CAREER.
>> THANK YOU, GUYS.
>> Stephen: WHO IS DEWY BECAUSE THERE IS ANOTHER ONE
HERE WHAT IS DEWY.
>> OH MY GOD.
MY MOM EMBARRASSED ME ON NATIONAL TV A COUPLE OF DAYS
AGO.
AND SHE REVEALED LIVE, BY THE WAY, SHE REVEALED THAT ONE OF MY
NICKNAMES WHEN I WAS A KID WAS DEWY WHEN I WAS A BABY.
AND HOW THAT HAPPENED WAS, I WAS-- SHE ASKED PIE GODMOTHER S
HIS DIEPER WET, AND SHE WENT OH STRKS A LITTLE DEWY.
(LAUGHTER) THAT WAS IT.
>> Stephen: MOM, MOM.
>> DEWY AND I HEARD WOULD YOU LIKE TO CALL ME "THE JOHNSON."
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE).
>> Stephen: YEAH, SURE, I LIKE THE THE.
I LIKE THE "THE."
>> YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT WHEN YOU SAY THE "THE."
I LIKE THE THE.
(LAUGHTER).
>> Stephen: EXACTLY.
>> SO GREAT.
(LAUGHTER).
>> Stephen: IT DIDN'T OCCUR TO ME AT THE TIME.
OKAY, SO I KNOW, OBVIOUSLY I KNOW YOU AS A WRESTLER.
I WATCH YOU.
YOUR WRESTLING HEYDAY WAS IN THE '90S, AND EARLY 2,000.
>> EARLY 2,000.
>> Stephen: OKAY, SO I KNEW YOU WERE BUT I DIDN'T KNOW YOU
CAME FROM A DINE STEE OFS WE ARE-- WRESTLERS, YOUR FATHER,
YOUR GRANDFATHER.
>> YEAH, MY FATHER AND GRANDFATHER THERE WAS A LINE YAJ
I CAME FROM, MY GRANDS FATHER DIVED FOR VINCE McMAHON, AND
MY DADS WRESTLED FOR VINCE McMAHON AND MY GRANDMOTHER
WOUND UP BEING THE FIRST FEMALE WRESTLE PROG MOATER IN THE
HISTORY OF WRESTLING T WAS VERY COOL.
AND SHE WAS A BAD ASS TOO.
(APPLAUSE).
>> Stephen: NOW PROMOTERS, PROMOTERS LIKE VINCE McMA HON
WILL GET IN THE RING AND WILL GET THROWN AROUND DID YOUR
GRANDMOTHER EVER ENGAGE?
>> YES.
HERE IS THE CRAZY THING, LIKE MY GRANDMOTHER-- .
>> Stephen: BIG PERSON, SMALL PERSON.
>> SHE WAS ON THE LARGER SIDE, YES, LIKE POLYNESIANS WE RUN
TYPICALLY A LITTLE BIT BIGGER.
THERE IS A JOKE THAT MOST POLYNESIANS ARE 250 POUNDS AND
THE WOMEN ARE EVEN BIGGER.
BUT I'M GOING GET TEXTS AFTER THAT.
SO MY GRANDMOTHER AT A TIME WHEN WRESTLING WASN'T AS GLOBALIZED
AS IT IS TODAY, IN THE '60S AND '70S WHEN MY GRANDFATHER WAS
WRESTLING, THE IDEA THAT WRESTLING WAS A SHOW, WAS ALWAYS
PROTECTED.
SO WHEN MY GRANDFATHER FIRST STARTED LEARNING HOW TO BE A
PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER, HE NEVER TOLD MY GRANDMOTHER, SO HE NEVER
SMARTENED HER UP.
HE HAD HIS FIRST MATCH.
>> Stephen: HE NEVER TOLD HER ABOUT CHOREOGRAPHY OR ANYTHING
LIKE THAT.
>> NOTHING, NO, NOT AT ALL.
SO AS FAR AS SHE KNEW IT WAS REAL AND THERE WAS GOING TO BE A
FIGHT AT THIS LOCAL ARENA IN SAN FRANCISCO WHERE HE FIRST
STARTED.
SO HE BRINGS HER TO THE FIRST MATCH, SHE IS SITTING THERE.
AND HE HAS THE MATCH.
AND THE MATCH STARTS AND HE IS, OF COURSE, STARTS GETTING BEAT
UP AT SOME POINT.
AND SHE FREAKS OUT. SHE JUMPS IN THE RING.
(LAUGHTER) I SWEAR TO GOD.
SHE JUMPS IN THE RING, TAKES HER CLOGS OFF AND STARTS BEATING HIS
ASS IN THE RING.
>> Stephen: THE OPPONENT.
>> THE OPPONENT.
>> Stephen: THE OPPONENT.
>> YES, THE OPPONENT.
AND THEN MY GRANDFATHER HAD TO YELL AT HER IN SAMOAN, NO, IT'S
OKAY, IT'S OKAY, HE IS MY FRIEND.
HE GAB GRABBED HER, TOOK HER OUT AND PUT HER IN THE SEAT.
>> Stephen: I BET THE CROWD LOVED IT THOUGH.
>> THE CROWD WAS LIKE WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT KNOW, WHAT, CAN
YOU JUST GET UP AND GET IN THE RING.
BUT YEAH, THEY HAD A REALLY-- YEAH, THEY HAD A VERY
INTERESTING RELATIONSHIP, VERY LOVING.
>> Stephen: I UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR TEENAGE DAUGHTER IS
INTERESTED IN STARTING AS A WRESTLER NOW TOO.
>> SHE IS.
>> Stephen: HOW OLD IS SHE?
>> SHE'S 16.
>> Stephen: 16, OKAY.
I UNDERSTAND THERE IS CHOREOGRAPHY, BUT IT CAN BE
DANGEROUS, YOU CAN GET HURT.
>> IT IS INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS, I GREW UP IN THE BUSINESS OF
WRESTLING.
I WAS HURT A THE LO.
IT IS A TOUGH BUSINESS BECAUSE THERE ARE NO SEASONS TO IT AND
SO SHE IS VERY INTERESTED IN IT SHE HAS GREAT PASSION ABOUT IT.
>> Stephen: DO YOU ENCOURAGE THIS OR ARE YOU LIKE NO, NO, NO,
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.
>> I LOVE T I LOVE THE IDEA OF HER DOING IT THAT SAY GREAT
QUESTION, ONLY BECAUSE THE WRESTLING BUSINESS THESE DAYS
ARE A LOT DIFFERENT THAN WHEN I WAS THERE OR WHEN I WAS THERE
ARE ATTITUDE ERA, STEVE VOS AND GUYS LIKE THAT.
>> Stephen: HAVE YOU TOLD HER WHAT THE OLD DAYS WERE LIKE.
>> YEAH, OH, ABSOLUTELY.
BUT THE WRESTLING BUSINESS IS DIFFERENT THESE DAYS, I FEEL
COMFORTABLE WITH IT THESE DAYS.
>> Stephen: WHEN YOU STARTED OUT, WHAT WAS IT?
>> IT WAS HARD-CORE.
WHEN I FIRST STARTED OUT IT WAS-- WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, I
LIVED LIKE LIKE GYPSIES AND I WOULD WRESTLE, I HAD A GUARANTEE
OF $40 PER MATCH EVERY NIGHT.
YEAH, I KNOW.
>> Stephen: THAT'S LONG GREEN.
>> LONG GREEN T WAS REALLY LONG GREEN, I WAS LIVING AT THE
WAFFLE HOUSE, I ATE THERE THREE TIMES A DAY.
AND SO MONDAY NIGHTS WERE THE FLEE MARKET I WOULD WRESTLE
THERE, THE BIG TOP FLEE MARKET, SATURDAY THE STATE FAIR EVERY
SATURDAY AND THROUGHOUT THE WEEK AT USED CAR DEALERSHIPS.
>> Stephen: USED CAR DEALERSHIPS.
>> YEAH, SO CHECK THIS OUT.
WE USED TO SET UP RINGS IN USED CAR DEALERSHIPS, IN THE PARKING
LOT OF USED CAR DEALERSHIPS.
AND PEOPLE WOULD GO IN, BUY USED CARS AND IF YOU WANT YOU COULD
SEE FREE WRESTLING MATCHES.
AND I WOULD BE THERE WITH MY PINEAPPLE HAIRCUT AND I WOULD BE
PUTTING ON MY BOOTS AND WRESTLING DEER NEXT TO AN OFFICE
WHO WAS TRYING TO SELL CARS.
IT WAS THE ODDEST THING BUT AT THAT TIME IT WAS WHAT DID YOU TO
MAKE MONEY.
>> Stephen: I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT TO EVERY YOUNG PERSON
BECAUSE HONEST TO GOD, BECAUSE I THINK THAT MIGHT BE WHY, ONE OF
THE HALLMARKS OF DWAYNE JOHNSON IS THAT THERE IS NEVER ANY POINT
I SEE YOU DO ANYTHING THAT IS NOT 110 PERCENT.
BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT THE OPTION TO DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING
RIGHT NOW IN ANY MOVIE, ANY PROJECT, ANY TV SHOW IS
WRESTLING IN THE PARKING LOT OF A USED CAR DEALERSHIP.
>> YES.
>> Stephen: LIKE THAT'S THE OPTION.
>> YES.
>> Stephen: 110 PERCENT ALL THE TIME.
>> NO ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
>> Stephen: EARN SHOULD DO THAT, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR
PROFESSION, IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE A DOCTOR YOU SHOULD WRESTLE
AT USED CAR.
>> DEALERSHIP N THE PARKING LOT, YES, ABSOLUTELY.
>> Stephen: WE HAVE TO TAKE A LITTLE BREAK HERE, WE'LL BE
RIGHT BACK WITH MORE DWAYNE JOHNSON
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE).
>> Stephen: WHEN WE COME BACK, HE AND I WILL SETTLE THE SCORE.