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-This feels great. Doesn't it feel great?
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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I love this guy so much.
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Joining me right now is a 16-time WWE world champion,
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a talented actor,
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and a "New York Times" best-selling author,
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who has a brand-new children's book out today called
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"Elbow Grease: Fast Friends."
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Please welcome our pal, the one, the only John Cena.
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[ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪
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-♪ I love your elbows ♪
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♪ I love your elbows ♪
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♪ I love your elbows ♪
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♪ I love your elbows ♪
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-That's what I'm talking about. -Thank you, guys.
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-That is John Cena, our first in-studio guest, right there.
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Yeah, as far back as you want, yeah.
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-No, this is 6 feet. I was just doing the --
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-Oh, the perfect -- -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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-You look fantastic.
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-I mean, this is the first time
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I have seen you in like eight months, man.
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-It really is, yeah.
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-It's very special. -You got all dressed up.
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-And you didn't. [ Laughter ]
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You repeatedly like, "I really value our friendship,"
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and repeatedly on this show, you hurt my feelings.
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-Yeah, I know, I do.
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Yeah, but, no, the thing is, most of my guests
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for the past six months have been in pajamas, so this is --
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-These are my pajamas. -Oh, wow!
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You really sleep in some fancy stuff, man.
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Congrats on everything that's going with you.
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I can't even tell you what it means to us, to me
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that you would come on the show.
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We've known each other for a long time.
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We've done a lot of crazy things, a lot of firsts.
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-We have.
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And here's the problem for everybody watching at home.
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This is just going to end up in, like, a bro hang.
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You know, we're supposed to do the interview.
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and, like, talk about the book and stuff,
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but it's just gonna be a bro -- I miss you, man.
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I love you. I miss you. You're the best.
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It's an absolute honor to be here with you,
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with you guys, with the 12 in the audience,
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the most energetic "Tonight Show" audience
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I've ever seen.
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-Six to 12. I'd say probably seven.
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-Estimated 7. Yeah. Seven sounding like 12.
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-It just means a lot.
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For everyone even watching at home,
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you know, you're making a lot of people happy right now.
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So thank you so much for doing it.
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-And, man, I appreciate you having me here.
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but also doing it the right way.
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I mean, tested when we got in.
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Everybody is social-distancing, covered in protective gear.
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I've never felt more safe.
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And even -- Man, as much as I want to give you a big old hug,
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we're 6 feet and we're doing it the right way.
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So it's a start.
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-Yeah, I agree. Thanks.
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The last time we hung, really, like, and bro'ed out --
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-We crushed beers. -Yeah, we crushed beers.
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-We crushed beers. -We crushed beers together.
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We were in a Michelob ULTRA ad.
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-Like I said, it's just gonna be a bro hang.
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-Yeah. -Yeah. You guys were there.
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-That's right. -Brooks Koepka was there.
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-Yeah, it was insane. -What a weird dream.
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-It was bizarre. -Yeah.
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-Well, I had so much fun with you, though.
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I got to spend three days with you.
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And let me tell you what it's like to spend
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three days with John Cena,
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because it is just mayhem once we leave the hotel room.
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It is -- Everyone recognize -- They don't care about me at all.
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They just, like, push me out of the way, like,
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"John Cena, John Cena, John Cena!"
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But then you're so nice to everybody.
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I will never forget this.
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A kid came up to you -- A little boy came up to you,
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and he just flipped out, like, couldn't control
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his emotions and started, like, shaking and crying.
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And you were so cool to him and nice to him.
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It's, like, this -- It was just amazing to see,
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and then he was like, "Hi, grandpa."
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He pointed at me, and I go, "Yeah, I'm not that old.
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I'm not that old. Please." Yeah.
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>> Well, to be honest, dude, I'm that kid to you,
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because you don't know, like, that commercial
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meant a lot to me, because that commercial was for you.
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And Michelob came to ask you to be like,
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"Yeah, we need kind of like a mentor, coach,
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get-you-in-shape, toughen-you-up type of guy,"
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and you're like, "Yo, I want to hang with John Cena."
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And we crushed beers and made a Super Bowl commercial.
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Like, what a crazy life.
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-We got to hang. We got to joke. We got to sing.
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Thank you for singing "Reunited" with me.
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Thank you, Roots, for playing that.
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-Just add that to the list of crazy [bleep] we've done.
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-But, I mean, what is your go-to music?
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Is that --
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-You know, if I'm going to sing, it's probably, like --
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I've probably had one too many
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and I'm probably singing, like, sad country.
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-Really? -Yeah.
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-Oh, I love good sad country. I think it's 'cause, like --
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Like, "Friends in Low Places" or anything by Johnny Cash
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or Merle or Waylon or Willie.
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-Willie. Oh, The Outlaws. -Hank Sr. Yeah.
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-Oh, yeah, yeah.
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-'Cause that's like you don't really --
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I don't have much skill, so...
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-Oh, please. Yeah. -That's kind of where I live.
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-We have -- For me, it's BTS Week,
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so I have nothing but BTS love.
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That's all we do here. That's all we do.
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-I jam out to them. -How about this?
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So, when we were with BTS last time, we were talking,
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and I was like, "Who -- Is there anyone --
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Just name someone you would like to meet,"
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and they all said, "John Cena."
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-Floored me. -I know you saw that.
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-Like, stopped my heart. -It was so cool.
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But then the BTS Army kind of embraced you
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and, like, "Please be part of our --
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-Well, see, that's what's -- When something becomes a thing,
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it's open for criticism.
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And I love what this band has done,
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because they are this massively popular thing
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and they have been so globally popular for so long.
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Then I was like, "Okay, I should probably know about this."
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And when I started to look at BTS
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and listen to their music, I was originally drawn
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because, like, there are rappers in that crew,
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and they use -- On some of their intro tracks
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and, like, bookend tracks, they use, like,
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sick-ass boom-bap beats and they actually rap.
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So, like, yeah, I kind of like this.
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This is great. -Yeah.
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So, I got interested in the music
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and then I got interested in what the music stood for.
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And they advocate self-love.
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They advocate don't be afraid of failure.
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They advocate that you are enough.
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They kind of are trying to shatter all the
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stereotypical difficulties and uncomfortable situations
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that we go through and they are catering to an audience
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that is living that -- young people.
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So, like, that's why they are so popular around the world.
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One, they're great performers,
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but it's the message they send --
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it resonates with the people.
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And, on top of that, they've developed this a global army,
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this BTS Army, that is not just, like, geeked-out fans.
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Like, BTS donated a million bucks to
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Black Lives Matter, and the army was like,
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"Yo, if they can do it, we can do it."
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And they came -- Like, fans, who are already
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coming out of their pocket to support artists
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came out of pocket more to support charity.
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And this isn't the first time they have done this.
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This BTS Army charity gives a bunch to philanthropic causes.
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So, as an artist, as a performer,
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hell, man, we have fun.
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You know, we're doing good stuff.
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But if we can resonate through the television
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to you at home to come out of your pocket
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to give to a cause, like, that's work.
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Man, that's work and that's purpose and that's, like --
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That's [bleep] changing the world.
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You know, like, that's impressive.
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That is impressive.
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And I don't care how you feel about them.
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I don't care if it's your bag or it's not.
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I get it. It's music.
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You have your opinion to like what you want.
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How they conduct themselves as human beings
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and the message they send to the world --
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man, that's something special.
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-I want to talk to you about everything,
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because you have "Fast 9."
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You have "Suicide Squad 2."
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You have "Elbow Grease: Fast Friends."
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-"Elbow Grease: Fast Friends."
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-We have -- -It's moving so fast.
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-I know!
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I want this to go on for more and more.
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Guys, more with John Cena. You can't leave.
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We'll have more with John Cena when we come back.
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You have to stay. -I'm gonna stay here, though.
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6 feet. -Oh, you're 6 feet.