Joe sits down with retired mixed martial artist and wrestler Mark Kerr. Kerr is the subject of the A24 feature film "The Smashing Machine," directed by Benny Safdie and starring Dwayne Johnson. Look for it in theaters on October 3, 2025. https://a24films.com/films/the-smashing-machinewww.markkerr.com Buy 1 Get 1 Free Trucker Hat with code ROGAN at happydad.com This video is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/JRE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day Good. Mark, what's happening? Yo. Dude, the movie's fantastic. And I know I told you outside, but I wanted to save it. When I kind of had a little bit of a prejudice when I went to see the movie, I was like, okay, it's going to be an MMA movie. 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 really good, man. It's like, you know, it's very gripping, and the performances are fantastic, and... The way The Rock did you was nuts.
I, like, I can't explain it. I keep using the word surreal, but it doesn't describe it. Like I was saying, 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. He's got your speech mannerisms. But you imagine, like, I'm picturing my son. He's in New York when he watched that.
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. He's got all of it, you know, like full-blown, like, it was like the, because a lot of my saying for myself is 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 hear my son say, oh, my gosh, Dad, he nailed it.
Right.
Unbelievable.
He really did nail it. Like we were saying in the lobby, like, I didn't know the rock could act that well. It's really good acting. It's not like blockbuster movie acting, which is... He's great at that, but it's a different thing.
It's completely... 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 stop me and he would go, yeah, I do.
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