Good Hang with Amy Poehler - John Cena

John Cena is the babyface of this podcast. Amy hangs with the former WWE star and talks about building his mom a house, watching '80s wrestling at Worcester Centrum, and his morning stretching routine.Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: Cody Rhodes and John CenaExecutive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Belle Roman, and Aleya Zenieris; lighting director Caroline Jannace; audio producer Kaya McMullen; social producer Bridget Geerlings; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and bookers Kat Spillane and Paige GarbariniOriginal Music: Amy Miles Check Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds: https://Allstate.com Shop your beauty favorites from Ulta Beauty on Uber Eats! https://www.ubereats.com/brand/ulta-beauty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 1h 9m
Broadcast on: 21 Jul 2026
Audio Format: other

John Cena is the babyface of this podcast. Amy hangs with the former WWE star and talks about building his mom a house, watching '80s wrestling at Worcester Centrum, and his morning stretching routine.
Host: Amy Poehler
Guests: Cody Rhodes and John Cena
Executive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-Berman
For Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel Lovell
For The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Belle Roman, and Aleya Zenieris; lighting director Caroline Jannace; audio producer Kaya McMullen; social producer Bridget Geerlings; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and bookers Kat Spillane and Paige Garbarini
Original Music: Amy Miles

Check Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds: https://Allstate.com

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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Well, particularly wrestling is brutal. I feel like every funnel is one thing, but I feel like wrestling and Star Wars is the most divisive social I've ever seen. You can't just say you like a thing. Like a thing means you dislike something else. Yes. It means war. Speaking about Star Wars is really interesting. I'm sure you've made this parallel before. All this like hero's journey stuff is in the stuff that you all do, the stories that you make in the ring, it is very similar, which is the rise and fall and betrayal and like trying to get, you know, like figure out who you are in real time. There is a lot of Joseph Campbell parallels. Yeah. I always tell people with a hero's journey for me as a baby face and John as a lifelong baby face, a lot of betrayal, a lot of betrayal. It's every week it's new betrayal.

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