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John Cena: I Ate the Puke Burger

What Now? with Trevor Noah

October 8, 2026

What happens when one of the biggest stars in wrestling history decides to completely start over? John Cena isn't who you think he is—and in this raw, deeply reflective sit-down with Trevor and Eugene, he proves it.

Speakers Trevor Noah, John Cena, Eugene

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Trevor Noah (0:02)

What part of your body has taken the biggest hits in, like when you feel your body in the morning, is it your shoulders, is it your knees, is it your, is there any part of your body where you go like...

John Cena (0:12)

I was thinking the hand.

Eugene (0:12)

I was like...

Trevor Noah (0:13)

Yeah, because his hand is tired.

John Cena (0:14)

Yeah, that's the bread and butter. That's the money maker, dawg.

Trevor Noah (0:18)

Yeah. Is there something that you have kept from your days of not having money that like just still sticks with you?

John Cena (0:25)

Being broke, like I'm never going back.

SPEAKER_4 (0:28)

John Cena teaches us how to use dear words.

John Cena (0:31)

When you look at what we do, tons of crowd shots, crowds chant. They're literally like European football crowds.

Eugene (0:39)

Yeah.

John Cena (0:40)

But we don't want them to shut up. We want them to keep being as rowdy as you can, because if we perform to apathetic silence, it's really just kind of two guys in their underwear doing stunts.

SPEAKER_4 (0:50)

Sounds like a normal Saturday for you.

Eugene (0:52)

Yeah.

John Cena (0:53)

You know about that, right?

Eugene (0:56)

I was too slow.

Trevor Noah (0:59)

You know what I'm talking about?

Eugene (1:00)

I was too slow. They sometimes want to heal the relationship that they never had with their fathers by having kids.

John Cena (1:06)

Oh my goodness. Wow.

Wow, man. That's goosebumps.

Trevor Noah (1:10)

Wow.

John Cena (1:11)

That's, yeah.

Trevor Noah (1:13)

Do you still remember your bully, by the way? Because I remember my bully, so you don't remember where you bullied, first of all. I don't know if you were or weren't.

SPEAKER_4 (1:21)

Maybe you were the bully.

Eugene (1:21)

It's happening now.

SPEAKER_4 (1:22)

Oh, man. Don't be like that.

Trevor Noah (1:24)

That was a two-blitz.

SPEAKER_4 (1:26)

You saw me.

Eugene (1:26)

I was like, brother, let's get out of here.

SPEAKER_4 (1:29)

I just find it fascinating that everyone remembers their bully.

Trevor Noah (1:31)

Show me where he touched you.

Eugene (1:32)

I'm yet to be.

John Cena (1:34)

What's a record you want to break? I said life expectancy. I want as many days as I can get, because it's beautiful. I don't want this to end.

And it will, and that's okay. But I have that appreciation. I think I've always had it. I just couldn't put it into words. My actions define it like, yo, this dude is going for life. He's going at it.

Trevor Noah (1:57)

John Cena, everybody.

John Cena (1:58)

That's it.

SPEAKER_4 (1:58)

Bum, bum, bum, bum.

John Cena (2:00)

It's a catchy tune.

Trevor Noah (2:01)

Da, da, da, da. What?

This is What Now? with Trevor Noah.

Eugene (2:14)

You know what I've never seen before? Yeah.

I saw it at your house. I saw this deodorant that doesn't smell like anything.

John Cena (2:20)

Yeah.

Trevor Noah (2:22)

Just like a neutral.

Eugene (2:24)

Wait, what's the point?

Trevor Noah (2:26)

Because you don't.

John Cena (2:26)

It stops sweat.

Trevor Noah (2:27)

Thank you.

John Cena (2:28)

Yeah.

Eugene (2:28)

Wait, it stops the sweat.

Trevor Noah (2:29)

Yeah.

Eugene (2:30)

And then you smell like what?

John Cena (2:31)

Well, you can have a scent for that. You can have a cologne or a perfume. An Ute Parfum.

Eugene (2:36)

No, guys.

Trevor Noah (2:36)

Doesn't it throw you off that you put on, because you always wear something that smells really nice.

Eugene (2:40)

Yeah.

Trevor Noah (2:40)

Doesn't it throw you off that then you're also putting on an underarm deodorant that smells different to that.

Eugene (2:45)

Yeah, because the combat is different under there.

Trevor Noah (2:47)

Yeah, but you don't need...

Eugene (2:48)

That's guerrilla warfare. That's trench warfare.

Trevor Noah (2:50)

Yeah, but you don't need... You just need to smell prevention. Yeah, that's all you need.

Eugene (2:54)

So that just blocks the sweat.

Trevor Noah (2:55)

Yeah.

Eugene (2:57)

No, man. But it says scentless.

Trevor Noah (2:59)

Yes.

Eugene (3:01)

It didn't say stop sweatness.

Trevor Noah (3:02)

No, that's what it does.

John Cena (3:03)

That's what deodorant is. If it says deodorant, it's generally assumed that it stops the sweat.

Trevor Noah (3:09)

You know what gets me in my life sometimes is I go, I can't believe John Cena has to teach you about deodorant.

Eugene (3:16)

Well, he spent half of his life without a shirt.

John Cena (3:18)

You're right. A lot of armpit sweat. A lot of armpit sweat.

SPEAKER_4 (3:23)

Can I just say thank you, man?

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