Man: 80, the interview with the financial times
to walk through your small business incentives is set.
Great. And there's a fantastic piece
in the Washington post
about your proposed infrastructure plan.
Randall: Mmm. It's so good.
I read it this morning, when I was in line for bagels.
Ah, thank you, buddy. You're always so thoughtful.
I love that about you. Oh... (Chuckles)
Yes. It's always great having you filming.
No one's eating carbs right now
but thank you for the bagels. You're welcome.
All right, Sandy. Great job.
Oh, one last thing... yeah.
A local news station in Saint Paul, Minnesota
interviewed a man last night who said
he went to school with you. Mmm-hmm.
It's probably nothing
but I'm putting it on your radar
because he said that you tried to kill him.
Yeah. (Chuckles) What?
Yeah. That's what he said.
I know.
All right, well, look, there's a lot of people out there
with very rich imaginations,
all right, so... (Chuckles)
Yes. Uh, let's go feed the horses some bagel.
Just me and you, Randall.
Oh, awesome. (Chuckles) All right.
Thank you, Sandy. Greatjob.
Randall: No Sandy.
Gonna give cinnamon a cinnamon.
Is there a horse named everything? That would be...
For this one.
You know, I have to say
the way you dealt with that odd bit of news was very presidential.
You didn't seem thrown by it at all.
No, I mean, what kind of leader would I be
if I panicked anytime something
unexpected happened.
Yeah, you do seem very comfortable
rolling with the punches.
Well, that's 'cause I've been punched a lot in life. (Both chuckle)
But you know, whatever happens,
you just deal with it, and then you move on.
Like I did, when I didn't get cast as Batman and quit acting.
Sure.
Or like me, when I didn't get drafted by the NFL
and I had to go up to calgary and play in the Canadian football league.
That's right. You got a call from the stampeders.
Right. The stampeders. My goal was to go up to calgary and ball out.
And then sign with an NFL team from there.
By the way, meet Jeff goldblum. (Chuckles)
Named after my dear friend, Emily blunt.
Uh... hey, Jeff.
Here you go. Jeff loves cinnamon.
And you know, back then,
just like now, my priority was always
to provide a better life for my family.
Adult Dwayne: At this point, my dad's wrestling career
had ended and he was working as a driver for circuit city.
He was supposed to transport damaged electronics
from the stores to the repair warehouse.
But sometimes, he would take a little detour.
(Door closes)
You're Josh?
I got three camcorders with cracked screens.
Got a laser disc player, but the remote needs to be fixed.
And two tvs with broken volumes.
Adult Dwayne: My dad being my dad,
he had a side hustle going
where he would sell the slightly broken electronics to people.
Then pay a guy to have it disappear
from the inventory.
Meanwhile, my mom was still working
selling vacation packages,
but spent all of her time thinking about me.
Ata: A carton of guava juice,
a can of lysol, a whole pineapple,
corona bottle filled with sand,
wrestling magazines, socks, a bottle of ranch dressing,
natural cheese doritos, a tupperware of my keke pua'a
and sixteen individually wrapped loose werther's originals
sprinkled across the top.
Sounds good.
You're gonna need more tape than that.
This is going international.
My son's playing in the Canadian NFL league.
Adult Dwayne: Cfl is the term she was looking for.
And I wasn't really playing.
More tape than that, please.
Oh, here, I'll do it. (Chuckles)
Adult Dwayne: Ldidn't make it on the stampeders' roster,
I was on their practice squad which paid next to nothing.
In loonies.
It was basically my job to get
the starters ready for game day
and man, I was struggling.
Coach: Johnson!
What the hell are you doing?
He's a starter, you can't go full out.
What do you mean?
You're practice squad, you're not supposed to knock them down.
Everyone's gotta do their part.
Even my son.
Who sucks.
Heads up, Eugene.
(Groans)
(Rap song playing)
Let's go again. (Blows whistle)
(Song continues)
Hey.
(Speaking)
Only 65 percent?
(Chuckles) Sixty-five percent of me
as an actor is Chris (bleep).
Well, 65 percent of me as an actor is Chris (bleep).
(Chuckles)
So many 65% chrises.
Anyway, I knew if I didn't figure things out quick,
I was going to get finger pinched.
Finger pinched? Yeah, that's how they cut you from the team.
It's very Canadian.
(Song playing indistinctly)
Hey, Carl.
Get your playbook please.
Ah, shoot, Jim.
We'll miss you Carl. And good luck.
Adult Dwayne: I was completely off my game.
And didn't wanna go down like Carl.
Luckily, I could call my girlfriend, dany back in Miami
and we could talk it out.
They pinch you?
Yeah. And it's not like a regular pinch either,
it's like a two-knuckle finger scissor.
That is weird.
You really described it perfectly.
I mean, you've given this a lot of thought, huh?
It's all I can think about.
It's like it's coming for me, like death, or the Candyman.
The what?
The Candyman. I didn't hear you.
The...
Nice try.
(Chuckles) Hey, for four seconds
you didn't think about how weird it is there.
Mmm-hmm.
Hey, uh”.
Sorry, I haven't been able to send back any money.
The practice squad pays almost nothing.
Don't worry about me.
I'm doing fine.
You have crushing student loan debt
and make 18 grand a year.
I like to think I make 18 large a year.
Sounds larger.
(Chuckles) You just focus on doing
what you need to do make the team.
Yeah.
I'll give my best 65 percent.
(Chuckles)
Adult Dwayne: While dany helped me off the field,
I was about to get some help on it.
Studying the playbook?
(Speaking)
Yeah, I'm trying to learn the plays from all the angles.
(Chuckles)
Oh, yeah? I'm working on it.
Hey.
Nice furekkusu, by the way.
Yeah, I love it.
My dad taught me when I was a kid.
I actually spent a day fishing with Andre the giant.
Mmm-hmm.
Oh, yeah?
Are you familiar with circuit city?
Well, we got a program going on
that can get you some slightly damaged goods
at a crazy discount.
Made in Japan.
Sold in my Van.
He's in sales.
Yeah? Great.
Adult Dwayne: Little did I know,
that fishing trip would change my life.
'Cause you caught the biggest fish you ever saw
and none of your friends believe you even though you had pictures?
Lia: Oh, rocky, do you know what you're doing?
Rocky: Yes, I know what I'm doing.
Can you hurry up, please? What's going on?
The oj. Trial ends quickly.
Just give me a second. I thought you said
that antenna was top of the line.
I said it was top of the line.
(Lia sighs) Before it fell out a window.
Well, it's on every channel. Just try a different one.
But this is the coverage I like.
I need your help, Peter.
Rocky has broken the signal, high chief.
Hey. Don't tell him that.
(Woman continues talking indistinctly on TV)
Ata: What the hell? Lia: Yes.
But the vehicle remains in police custody.
Thank you, Peter.
Now, please protect o.J.
Why is Dewey's package here?
Mailman returned it.
Well, since when can't you sent liquids?
I mailed liquids to you when you were in Samoa.
Those packages never got returned.
I never got any packages in Samoa.
That's why I asked you out
on the way home from the airport.
(Seagull squawks)
Adult Dwayne: Fishing with Kenny
was exactly what I needed to get out of my head.
Oh, wow!
Hey, uh”.
(Speaking)
This is great.
Yeah. The furekkusu?
Go for it.
(Sighs) I've never worked with anything this nice.
What was it like?
Fishing with Andre the giant. Oh!
Unbelievable.
Every time he caught a fish, he would give it a little kiss
and toss it back in the water and say...
"I release you."
I always imagined how crazy
that must have been for the fish.
(Both chuckle)
Do you ever think about getting into wrestling yourself?
Almost every day of my life growing up as a kid.
But I wanted to provide for my family
I found football...
Oh, it's stuck.
(Splash) (Grunts)
Oh, my god!
I can't believe I did that.
It's okay.
No, it's not okay. I know how much this costs.
This?
Is just a thing.
Look, I don't have enough money to buy you another one
but I promise you, I'm gonna pay you back. I'm so sorry.
It's okay.
There are way more important things in life.
It's just a thing.
It's all right. Don't worry.
Adult Dwayne: It's just a thing.
When I heard Kenny say that,
it was so freeing for me
because I was putting all this pressure on myself to be the guy
who had to send money home to his girlfriend.
Uh, buy his parents their first ever home.
It was all getting in my head... mmm.
When those are all just things, man.
You know, it's so good to hear you say that
because when you went to the bathroom...
I broke your mug. My daughter made me that.
I'll fix it.
Adult Dwayne: Now that Kenny had changed my perspective
I was able to settle in... (Clamoring)
And do my part to help the team.
(Wha t's next playing)
(Grunts)
I was still on the practice squad
but the coaches gave me more opportunities
to ball out with the starters.
Heavens to merkatroid
we've come with another new song
(all screaming indistinctly)
Tica-toc who's that?
(Grunting)
That is sure to hit the spot
ooh hot yes, come in my dragon's lair...
Run the drill! Run the drill.
Open your eyes!
(Grunting, groaning)
(Blows whistle) Nice, Walker.
Atta boy, Johnson. That's what we need.
(Speaking sign language)
Adu it dwayn e: I still completely sucked at sign language,
but it finally felt like I was finding my groove.
And once I relaxed on the field, I was able to get creative off of it.
Liking taking full advantage of the free food
at the first team meetings.
What are you doing here, practice squad?
This meeting's for first team only.
Oh, okay. Sorry.
(Muttering)
Maybe next week, fellas.
Okay, first order of business...
No more Natalie merchant in the locker room. All: Aw!
Adult Dwayne: Players also got free tickets for every game.
Six great seats, family and friends section.
I don't have either of those things.
Adult Dwayne: Hovering around the starters let me enjoy some of the perks.
Man 1: Player of the week, Jeff Garcia.
Jeff: Good for one free pair of custom cowboy boots.
Cowboy boots?
I'll take it if you don't want it.
Cowboy boots and whiskey
remind me of my time in Nashville.
Yeah. Go for it.
I don't have a whiskey but here's a keychain from the zoo.
Oh, thanks, man.
Oh, coupon for an indoor sun salon.
Hank.
This one's yours. Shoot
this is all naturale.
(Whispers) Okay.
Yeah, it's going all right, mom.
I'm getting some good feedback from the coaches.
I'm so glad to hear that, Dewey.
That makes me happy.
Just ask him what you wanna ask him.
(Indistinct chatter on TV)
Look, I didn't hear from you, so I just wanted to make sure
you got the care package that I sent.
No, sorry, mom, I haven't.
I sent it days ago. Where is it?
(Dogs barking)
Woman: I'm telling you, it's great.
Wait, who's Julie newmar?
The actress who signed the photograph.
Then who's wong fu?
That's who the photograph was autographed too.
I don't think I'm gonna see this movie.
I'm getting to the bottom of this.
Mom, it's okay. I have everything I need.
Tell Dewey marcia Clark changed her hair.
Woman: (On TV) They're ready for it.
Uh, gotta go, mom. I love you. I love you, too, honey. Bye.
Hey, where you guys headed?
It's moon freak night at the grande provence.
Lgp. All: (Chanting) Lgp!
Lgp!
You wanna come with?
Sure, I think I got a coupon for that place.
(Eerie music playing)
(Wind howling) Coach buono: Take a seat, son.
Dwayne, getting out has nothing to do with your effort
or how much we like you.
Coach, I feel like I was finally getting the hang of it.
Can't you find some way to keep me on?
Believe me, son. I would if I could.
But we just signed some new guys
and our old line is solid now,
thanks to the reps they got with you.
Heck, it's because you did your job so well,
that we don't need you anymore.
Kinda makes you think there's no god.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Listen to me,
I don't want you getting discouraged,
you got great work ethic and that's gonna pay off for you one day, I promise you that.
In the meantime, if a space opens up
we'll give you a call and get you back up here.
Me and the boys we, uh,
we put together this departing gift bag for you.
You might not be with us...
But we will always be with you.
There's a cooch ball in there. (Clicks tongue)
There it is.
Talk about a punch to the gut.
Well, when I got put on the practice squad,
there was part of me that knew
that things might turn out like this.
So, I was already thinking about what I could do next.
Is that when you knew you were gonna get into wrestling?
What I knew was nobody was gonna pay me to play football anymore.
Mmm. So, I was on a plane, headed to my family,
to go home, to tell them that I failed
at the one thing I dedicated years of my life to.
I was grasping at straws
considering all the possibilities.
And in a way, so was my mom.
Well... You just gotta let it dry.
Sure. You know?
Ah, shoot.
Ata: You can't just confiscate that box,
my son needs his snacks.
He's an American in Canada,
he doesn't know what to eat up there.
You packed a bottle of ranch dressing...
He can buy that at every single supermarket in Canada.
Well, I don't know what you sell.
Okay, just take out the ranch dressing
the rest has to get to him.
Ma'am, as I've said,
you can't send liquids across international...
Do you have a mother? What?
Sorry, what? Do you have a mother?
Uh, yes.
Well, think about how she would feel
if she was thousands of miles away
and couldn't afford to visit.
She would wanna let you know,
she was thinking of you any way she could.
She would wanna feel close to you.
Even though you are very far from home.
And if she couldn't hug you,
the least she could do is send you some sand from your favorite beach.
And a bottle of your favorite beer.
My mother was declared unfit when I was 12
and my brother and I were placed in a guardianship.
But I understand your point.
Let me see what I can do. Thank you.
Sorry about your mother though.
Adult Dwayne: While my mom was dealing the Canadian postal service,
I landed back in Miami,
I went straight to dany's,
and we talked through everything.
I'm so sorry.
I know how hard you worked.
That's just so crazy, like... Is this it?
Am I done playing football?
Not necessarily, all right? Another team could call you at any minute.
Yeah, but I don't wanna just sit by the phone waiting for a call
that might never come.
I'm tired of waiting for other people to decide what happens to me.
So, what do you wanna do?
(Sighs)
Maybe I should give wrestling a try.
See if I'm any good at that.
Yeah, I don't know, maybe.
Mmm-hmm. For right now though...
I was thinking of calling my buddy, Clint,
and getting a job with him painting houses.
I might not be able to buy my family a house
or pay your loans, but I wanna contribute.
I appreciate you wanting to help.
But I know there's so much more you wanna accomplish.
You're meant for bigger things, Dwayne.
And if it's wrestling, then let it be wrestling.
Yeah, but that's years again, dany...
Where I'll make no money and no guarantee I ever will.
I wasn't saying it's gonna be easy.
But big dreams aren't easy.
Go after more.
Don't put the more on hold.
Adult Dwayne: Believe it or not, Randall,
that was the first time I told anyone close to me
that I wanted to pursue wrestling.
Mmm. And when you finally said it out loud,
it became a reality. Nope.
As a matter of fact,
it would take me months before I would say it again.
Hmm.
See, as good as new, right?
No, no, no. It's broken. You can tell it's broken.
No, those were there. Those were there.
(Birds chirping)
Man: (On TV) An automobile...
(Chuckles) If I ever go back to court,
I want judge ito on the bench.
I think he would be attracted to me.
Be very lenient.
But I won't return his affections, high chief,
(phone ringing)
Hello? Young Dwayne: Dad?
I need you to come get me.
From Canada? Miami.
I got cut from the team.
What?
Eh? Did you know Dewey got cut?
Ata: What? Rocky: He's in Miami.
What?
I'm outside of publix in Kendall.
I need you to come get me.
I'm leaving right now.
What happened? I don't know.
Is he okay?
Did he get hurt?
Did he say if he got the care package?
(Door closes)
Mmm.
These meat doughnuts are killer.
Yeah. Mmm-hmm.
(Music playing on radio)
Adult Dwayne: My dad drove four hours straight from tampa that night to get me.
No questions asked.
Then turned right around and we headed right back.
Adult Dwayne: I told him a version of what happened.
I kinda worked my own gimmick with him.
Itwas a numbers thing.
They can only have so many Americans on the team,
so, even though they really like what I was doing
they had to let me go.
Everybody looks out for their own.
And Canada's no different.
It's like what Bruno used to say his mom would always say...
Both: "Sometimes, it just be's that way."
(Chuckung)
(Volume increases) I'm a stronger man
than I've ever been
adult Dwayne: We drove for a while like that, just listening to music.
I was thinking about what I had said to dany about wrestling,
but I definitely wasn't ready to say it to anyone else.
I knew if I told my family it would make it real. (Indistinct chatter on radio)
Yeah, you know they call this stretch of the highway alligator alley.
(Chuckles) Yeah, apparently, gators get on the road,
and them suckers don't budge.
(Chuckles)
Oh, your uncle sika,
he used to say they would crawl into the sewer system.
Can you imagine that?
Finding one of them gators down there?
Hey, what's that movie with the gutter clown,
get the kid, snatch him into the sewers?
Scared the crap out of your momma.
(Chuckles)
Oh, looks like we low on fuel.
How much cash you got?
(Sighs) Five, six, seven... (Coins jingling)
(Wind howling) Eight bucks.
I got seven bucks.
(Tires screech)
What are you doing?
It's good money. You said there's alligators out there.
I've fought worse for less.
Dad.
It's just a thing.
Yeah. A thing we use to buy other things.
What the hell did you learn in Canada?
(Car door opens, closes) "It's just a thing."
Oh, my god, so that was your seven bucks drive.
(Chuckles) It was.
'Cause he never found that dollar.
Well, you've talked about that moment before.
Yes. After I dedicated my life to football
the only thing I had to show for it was seven bucks.
It was a low point.
Yeah, but you took that and made it the name of your company
and built it into a global brand.
It makes for a hell of a story now
knowing how everything turned out.
But, man, that was a rough time.
Hmm. So what did you do?
Well, the only thing that I could do.
I had to keep going.
And so dany was in Miami and she was working like 60 hours a week and...
I made my way back to tampa
and I was still trying figure out what my next move was
in terms of wrestling.
But I wasn't ready to tell anyone in my family
what my plans were.
Until one day I get a call from my coach up in Canada...
Sorry, sir, but there's something timely.
Can we get a guard or a set dog or something
to keep these random people
from walking into my interview zone?
Uh, so, that interview we told you about?
The man from Minnesota... Mmm-hmm.
It's been posted on some fringe social media sites
and we think it should be on your radar.
All right. Man: So, you went to elementary school
with presidential candidate Dwayne Johnson?
Yes, I did. Back in Hawaii.
I had just moved there, a new kid from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
I could tell right away that he was full of it.
I mean a lot of things just didn't add up.
So, I questioned him on it. And yeah...
He tried to kill me.
Oh(bleep)
I know who this is.