Joe Rogan Experience #2384 - Mark Kerr

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Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) Good. Mark, what's happening?

Joe.

Dude, the movie's fantastic. And I, and I know I told you outside, but I wanted to save it. Uh, when I kind of have a, had a little bit of a prejudice when I went to see the movie. I was like, "Okay, it's gonna be an MMA movie."

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it's not. It's a movie that happens to be about MMA, but it's a great movie.

Oh, I appreciate that.

It's, it's really good, man. It's, it's like, you know, it's v- very gripping, and the performances are fantastic, and the way The Rock did you was nuts.

I, like, I can't explain it. Uh, it, I, I keep using the word surreal, but it doesn't describe it. Um, like I was saying that, uh, my son, when he watched it, and just flipping out, like, talking to me, like on the side, like I was saying, like literally just going, "Dad, Dad, he's got your mannerisms."

(laughs)

"He's got your speech manner." But if you imagine, like I'm, I'm picturing my son, he's in New York when he watched it. Like-

Right.

Uh, and so I'm picturing him in the corner of the lobby of the theater, talking with his back to everybody going, "Oh my God, Dad, like, it's like a doppelganger."

(laughs)

"He's got all of it." You know, like full-blown, like, it was like the, the, the, 'cause a lot of my saying for myself is I'm, uh, I can't see the forest through the trees. I'm in the middle of it. Am I looking at it objectively? Am I really looking at it, or am I seeing something? And to hear my son say, "Oh my gosh, Dad, he nailed it."

Right. No, he-

Unbelievable.

He really did nail it. I, like we were saying in the lobby, like, I didn't know The Rock could act that well.

You know-

But it's really good acting. It's not like blockbuster movie acting, which is, he's great at that, but-

Yep.

... it's, it's a different thing.

It, it, it's compl- it, so with DJ, I kept trying to say to him, "You don't have to do this, dude. Like, you don't have to do this." And he would, he would stop me and he would go, "Yeah, I do. I do."

What do you mean by you don't have to do this? You don't have to, like-

So meaning that, like, he's at a, he's at-

... totally beat me?

He's at a place in his life where he can just keep doing blockbusters and be perfectly fine with it.

Mm-hmm.

There's, there is, uh, uh, I mean, he says it himself, there's always a place for that. There's always gonna be a place for blockbuster movies, and, and for that. But he needed to do something different.