Joe Rogan

By the way, they just want you to do some shout-outs.

So anytime I go anywhere globally now, as much as I wanna thank fans for their attention and investing in the product,

I really shy away from speaking the language because I don't understand the cultural nuance.

I just want to be like, yo, man, thanks for watching what we do, and I love the fact that you're entertained, but I want to speak to you at a level that I understand that I'm fluent because you're boots on the ground here every day, and I might say something that's a nice gesture but completely fucking offend you.

And that's not good for anybody.

No, everything was in Mandarin.

And in Chinese they have the characters, which are virtually impossible for me to learn.

There's like an infinite number.

But they also have what's called pinyin, which is kind of spelled out in English with phonetics.

So it has the four tones.

So if you were to put something in front of me in pinyin right now, I could definitely read it.

And I got good at reading pinyin, so I was like, man, I could...

I could send all these messages in Mandarin and more people will know about this movie and more people will know about me and more people will know about wrestling and more people will be excited.

Looked good on paper, just my follow-through was a bit weak.

It doesn't even seem like that was your fault.

From what I know, I know I'm going to learn a lot about you guys in this episode, but from what I know about you, you're into looking at things through different lenses and different perspectives.

But here's the thing.

I do appreciate you saying, like, it's not your fault.

That's not true.

It was my fault.