Arnold Schwarzenegger
Appearances
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Yeah, there's a famous wall down in Venice, not far from here, that Franco and I, that was one of the first walls that we built, that's still standing exactly the way it was. Why don't you reopen that business? More than 50 years ago, this wall was built, and it's still standing there, not moved an inch, nothing changed. It's going to be like the Roman walls. Yeah.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
It's going to be there for thousands of years, except someone tears it down. So our workmanship was good, but I learned everything from Franco. Franco would go in here, the Mustang, and he would pick up a wheelbarrow, and he would pick up a cement mixer, one of those little machines, and he would just tow it to the construction site, and then I would be in charge of mixing the cement.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
The fear factor, that's why I say psychologically, the important thing is to just do it, you know, just for your head, to do it as many times as possible. So you go, we went once or twice a week, we went to the ultimate weight, and then we just stayed on that, whatever that weight is that day, and then just stay on and do the heavy weight, the heavy weight, the heavy weight, just one rep.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
He would show me what the combination is, how much water, how much sand, how much... sand and water and all this concrete that we put in there and then mix it up and then help him with that. And then he taught me how to do the bricklaying and all those things. And so we made money. We made $5,000 together. A week. I mean, imagine, it's a lot of money. $75,000, I mean, it was like a lot of money.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
So we put literally $1,000 or $1,500 aside. And I started saving up money like that. And that's how I eventually, in 1974, had enough money to put down $27,000 for an apartment building. In Santa Monica? In Santa Monica, yeah. A six-unit apartment building on 19th Street in Santa Monica.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
No, I think it was the kind of thing as an immigrant. If you were an immigrant that had its act together and he was willing to work and not live off the state or the country or something like that, we were kind of like... I had a friend who was a Czechoslovakian immigrant, then another guy that was a Polish immigrant.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Every one of them had a little kind of one had a kind of like a twin unit apartment building with just two units. Another one had like eight units. Another one had six units. So they talked me into this. I don't buy a house.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
You got to buy apartment building because that gives you money and you can then pay it off with the rent that the people are paying and the value goes up much more than the house and blah, blah, blah. And so then they got a real estate agent that all of them used, which was a Lebanese woman. Olga was her name. And she was like this little. It was like Danny DeVito height.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And she also was an immigrant. So I think that she knew that we were hardworking and that we wanted to invest our money and we wanted to make our money $1 turn into $2. And so she helped us find those apartment buildings. They were available. So she found me one that cost $240,000. Wow. And so I had $27,000 to put down. Then he did $37,000 down. So Joe Weider gave me $10,000 for the third deed.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
So he put up that $10,000. So I paid him back within a year. So now this was my building and he didn't have anything to do with it anymore. And then a year later sold it for almost $400,000. So, I mean, imagine by putting $27,000 to $37,000 down, altogether I went from $240,000 to $400,000. Wow. $160,000 profit. In a year? In two years, basically. And then they deducted real estate fee.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
It was the best return that you can think. But I didn't take the money because I didn't want to pay the income tax at this point. So I did trading up. Trading up, exactly, to a 12-unit apartment building, then eventually to a 36-unit apartment building, and to a 48-unit apartment. So then it started growing, and then it started getting into...
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
buying office buildings, old office buildings on Main Street here in Santa Monica that were decrepit and that had artists in it. And we then turned them into kind of like offices for banks and for real estate offices and stuff like that. We did the space and started making a lot of money on that. That's incredible.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And when we normally train, you go up to three reps. So you go, let's say, in your case, you did three for 285. So you do then three reps and keep doing three reps and keep doing three reps. Then eventually the next week you go to just for one rep. So that's what you do. It's just kind of the mind game because our mind is really the thing that holds us back.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
No, I think that it was kind of, well, the rivalry was there. But it was, I think the whole thing was my fault. Really? Well, because I remember that I went and was really stupid. And a journalist asked me some questions about Sly.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
off the record and i did not know that she had the tape recorder on the side of her purse running and then uh printed the whole thing and um so it was not meant to be like that right then of course he was very angry and that kind of flared up the competition And so at that point, you know, the trust was gone and okay, let's make this an open kind of a thing and let's go all out.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And so for years we went just kind of like out, trying to outdo each other with movies. But I think, as he said in an interview, and I totally agree with him, that it was actually healthy, even though we went a little bit beyond what we should have done. But it was healthy because it did motivate me, and I felt kind of like, oh, yeah, I mean, the guy is really ripped. You know, in Rambo, too.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I mean, Ferdinand Stallone kind of redefined definition. Because he was so disciplined with his diet. And so that motivated me the minute I did my next movie, Commando, that, okay, I have to go and look like that, too. And so, you know... I mean, I always had like a body fat of around, you know, eight, nine percent. But I went down to seven percent. I'm sure that he was down to five percent.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Really? I mean, I don't really know exactly. You guys were really pushing each other. So it was like I got pushed by him and then I got really cut. And people then said after, wow, you're really cut. And then that pushed him for his next movie when he did Rocky. Oh, look at how much bigger Arnold was than me. I got to get bigger. And so we kind of...
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
motivated each other and it was also like I said, the competition was so stupid that it was like two little children. It was like unbelievable for mature, supposedly grown up guys. Like who has a bigger knife? in that movie. So that was very important that we measured the length of the knife and how many teeth does it have on it, right? And who kills more creatively with that knife?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
That was very important. You just slice someone's neck very quickly or you stab him three times and then slice the neck. So all of this was very, very important. Then it was like analyzing each other's guns. Then we had to do the research. What shells did come out of that? What shells did this gun fire? What is this gun used for? Then someone said, well, slice gun is normally used on a helicopter.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And I said, well, I said, why don't we go, since I was a tank driver in the Army, why don't we get a machine gun from a tank? I said, they are bigger than from a helicopter. I said, that's what I'm going to have in Predator. And so we got a big gun that you normally can't hold. It's stupid stuff like that. And then, you know, I counted. It was like killing 46 people, so I had to kill 64 people.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Yeah. Well, it's fascinating, but I try to work on it all the time because I figured it out on my own. I said, look, this is like really weird because I was doing weightlifting competitions all the time as a kid because I joined a weightlifting club in Graz. So there was no bodybuilding club. So we had to weightlift.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Just turned the number around. And it's just crazy stuff like that. It's just dudes being dudes, basically. Yeah, exactly. That's right. And out came this real great, great action movies. He did fantastic action movies. I was doing fantastic action movies. But I always felt like I was kind of behind. Because he was like... Really? That's crazy. Just think about it. I remember that it was like...
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I was getting a million dollars now for Conan number two. Right, this was 1983. And then I'm reading, I said Sly just made a deal to get five million dollars for a movie. So I said, what the fuck? And then it's like, okay, I'm a fifth. This has to stop. So I worked my way up, and I did everything I could. Eventually, the next movie, I got three million. Then it was always doubling.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Then it was $6 million. And so this is how I got up. And then eventually... I remember I got $10 million, I think it was for Total Recall, and it was in 1989. And Sly signed a deal for in one of his movies at number three for $15 million. I said, Jesus Christ, I can't catch up. What is going on here? There was always some number that was bigger than mine.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And then eventually I think we ended up both at $20 million as kind of like our standard salary. And there we were together now all of a sudden. This was like in the 90s. And then I did Batman and Robin, where I got $30 million. They wanted me so bad for this movie, because I didn't want to really play the villain, Mr. Freeze. And so they said, we'll give you $25 million.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And I said, $25 million is petty cash. What's the matter with you guys?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
So then he called me back like a month later. And he said, we give you $30 million plus we give you points and back end and blah, blah, blah. So I said, okay, I do it. He's like, Ines Lai doesn't have $30 million. So I said, this is kind of my way to pay back for all the tortures over the years that he got more than I did. So this is how the competition went.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I still remember when I had a mail order business. So I started out because everyone always asked me about how do you train, how do you do your biceps, how do you get the peak on your biceps, and how do you do this with the separation on the rear deltoid and the separation on your back and the traps and this and that. So everyone wanted to know kind of the inside scope.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I couldn't sit there for everybody. I did seminars around the world, but I couldn't just answer everyone's questions. So I said to myself, I'm going to come out like Charles Atlas did, you know, like way back when with those Charles Atlas courses, right?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
You know, where you kick sand in someone's face and the next year you come back and you're the he-man and you pay him back for that and you grab the girl and all that stuff. So anyway, so that was the idea. I just started doing this...
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And then after we went through the weightlifting routine and the weightlifting training, then we could go and do chin-ups or do some incline presses or do some lateral raises or biceps curls and stuff like that. But first we had to do the weightlifting. So we were competing pretty much every second weekend, going from one town to another, kind of competing against the town weightlifting club.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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courses and how to get the peak that the bicep and how to get the in a chest like a fortress and all this kind of titles right that Joe Weider helped me with that he was very generous and so we started advertising those booklets and I made I remember now still the day that one weekend I was like counting all the checks and everything like that and we made that month sixteen hundred dollars and
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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I mean, we're talking about in the 70s, early 70s, huge money, $1,600. So now, of course, it would take $400 out of $1,600 to fill the orders because you have to print the booklets and you have to send it out and all that stuff. But the rest of it was profit. So this is the way I saved money. I mean, every dollar was important to me.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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and to do the work and I was doing it myself, stuffing the envelopes, bringing it to the post office and mailing it out and all of this kind of stuff. It was really good learning experience, how to get a business license, how to pay the taxes and how to make a deal with the IRS. And they say, what is your estimated income? And you tell them, this is what I think we make.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Okay, this is what you pay on taxes and all this stuff. So it was fantastic. And I was always saying to Frank, I said, can you imagine how easy it is in America You just go to the IRS and you say, this is the amount of money to make. And first of all, they believe you. It's not that we wanted to cheat because we had no idea.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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So we just said, I think with construction set, we maybe make $2,000 a week or so. I said, but if you make more, then we'll let you know. And so they said, okay, the estimated taxes is this. And it was like the business license we got immediately. No one asked us if we have a master's degree in masonry work or something like this, like they would do in Europe. So the whole thing is just different.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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So we were just always so happy that America helped us. give us the opportunities to be able to work and give us the opportunities to be useful. Because this is the key thing. Everyone always was positive here in America. No matter what we said, we would say, I would say, I'm going to win Mr. Olympian 10 times. They say, oh, that's fantastic. I mean, you really have a great goal.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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In Europe, they would say, you're fucking crazy. I mean, which means that you're kind of like crazy, you think you can do anything. But I mean, here, it's always the positive attitude. And so we adopted that. And since then, I have become, maybe I was once negative, I don't know, but I became positive.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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I said, that's such a great way, because in my family, everything was my father says, we want to go build those muscles. This is the new Vernon, only showing off. What are you going to do with that? Be useful, come on, do something. I mean, go in there and shovel some coal or some snow in the winter for some poor people or something like that. It was always negative.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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You're never going to make it and all this stuff. And here, everything is positive. People build you up, they go to the football games with their children and they go and say, oh, you're going to make it, you're going to score today, you're going to do this and that. That was fantastic.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And even me, when I went with my kids to the soccer games, I said, hey, don't worry about it, you didn't kick a goal, but you were really good. Next time you're going to kick that goal, just don't trip over your own balls. It's just, you gotta be great. So I mean, it's just a much more positive kind of country, the way we look at things and the way people build each other up.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And so you kind of... Eventually figured out, you know, that why is it that you get to the weight and you say, oh, I'm going to do that. This is going to be great. And you pound it out. You clean it up. And you have it in your chest. And then, boom, you pound it out. And it's a winner. And then you put on five more pounds on it. And all of a sudden it doesn't work. That's what happened.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Yeah, but you don't want to hang out with too many entertainers anyway. That's true. That's true. I think let's just hang out with normal people. I mean, I love coming to the coach gym. These are normal people. A guy comes to me and he says, oh, yesterday I... I was like, unbelievable. I put this new roof on this guy and blah, blah, blah. I said, are you a roofer? Yeah, yeah.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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I've been a roofer for seven years now. I have now these two guys, 20-year-old guys, they make $200,000 a year just because they're also now into roofing and they're helping me with the roofing. So you get ordinary people talking about ordinary things and ordinary struggles. I love that. A woman coming over, oh, I just was laid off. I was in the movie business, and now they made this deal.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Now they're making less movies. And you hear the problems that people have and how they can still fit into workouts every morning. Sometimes I'm here at 6 in the morning. Sometimes I come at 10 in the morning. I come at different times. But it's really interesting to listen to people, ordinary people. I don't like hanging out with show business people.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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because sometimes they're lost, I think, with their mind and where they think they're gonna go with their careers and the hangups that they have and all of that stuff.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Well, I tell you, it doesn't surprise me that you like it because you and I, as you know, we worked out here. Yeah. And we had a great workout together. And, yes, we tried to have fun. And, I mean, you're a comedian. Yeah. So, of course, you have to do the schmooze and the funny lines and all of that stuff.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
But, I mean, it was so great to see you actually working out and to have the strength and to have the energy and to do the reps and to be interested in doing the reps the full way. You know, because we all know, we talked about that, how every rep... in bodybuilding and in weight training has a flexing motion and a stretching motion.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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So if you do a chin up, so coming all the way down is the stretch of the lats, but then going all the way up is the flex of the back. So there's always, the bicep is the same. When you curl up, that's the flex. When you let the weight down, that's the stretch of the bicep. And so you were fascinated with that whole principle and all this stuff and got right away into it.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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So I could tell that you would be interested in it
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Well, it helped me in learning about life because, like you just said, there's so many kind of similarities when it comes to the actual body and to the muscles versus your brain. I mean, you know, if you learn quickly
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Then you realize, wait a minute. Okay. I went down to the bar. And I... That second as I grabbed the bar, I was wondering, can I do it or not? And that's what fucked me. So I realized that the mind was the thing, not the body. The mind just says, maybe not. And I said, what the hell is that? Okay, how do I now get the mind ready for that? So this is how you then work on it and yourself.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And hopefully one learns quickly that the more you struggle with resistance, the more weights you use, the more you go through the pain period after you do like eight reps and you can't do anymore, then you just do the forced reps, which are the most painful ones. And that really differentiates you from the guy that is going to make it to the guy that's going to lose. And so...
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Then you cut to the mind and they say, well, wait a minute. Isn't it weird that the mind is exactly the same way? That the mind also needs suffering. The mind needs also struggle, setbacks, and that you have to climb back up again. That's what makes you strong. It's like Nietzsche said, that what does not kill you will make you stronger. And this is exactly what it is.
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It's all about, you know, that people should look forward to the struggle because the struggle makes you tougher. And so don't shy away from that. It's part of life and it will make you grow. It's that simple. It makes the muscle grow, the more you have resistance and it will make your mind grow and the psychologically will become stronger the more you struggle.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Well, thank you.
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But I cannot even take credit for it. Because people always say, you're so disciplined. I have no discipline. It's just who you are. I'm addicted. Oh, you're addicted. It's an addiction. It's kind of like I cannot even imagine myself. the mornings without riding down to the gym with the bike and then working out.
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If I don't have it, like sometimes it doesn't work out because there's a morning schedule right away or something like that, then I miss it all day and I'm kind of lost in the way. So it's an addiction. So I think that for my entire life, The 60 years that I've been working out now, it's all because it's an addiction. It's kind of like, I have to. I have to go to the gym in order to feel good.
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Because I always tell people, the difference is when I come down with my bike, it's like going through a black and white movie. Then as soon as I work out and I ride back my bike to the hotel and I have some breakfast, it becomes a colorful movie. It becomes colored. Everything is more beautiful. Everything is brighter. I look at life differently. Everything is positive and everything like this.
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So it's just... That the workout and having done something for yourself and having pumped up and having struggled a little bit, it makes you feel good for the rest of the day.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Well, first of all, let me tell you, I was so fortunate that I worked out and began my workouts in a weightlifting club. Why? Because I learned quickly that the basic exercises are extremely important. You know, like deadlift, the curl, the barbell curl, bench press, incline press, dumbbell press, deadlift.
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All of this stuff is basic stuff that has nothing with machines, but it should be basic weight that if you build that and if you really use that, that you really can build a body, everything from ground up. Those are the basic exercises, or cleaning the weight and then pressing it, snatching the weight up in one motion. All of this stuff is just so good.
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You know, so that to me was always the key thing. I always tell people, you know, you always, you learn how to do everything the perfect way for the rest of your life with the other machines, because you know the basic exercises. So to me, the basics are the most important thing.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And everyone operates differently, but I mean, that's what I did. I realized that the mind is so important to really lift the ultimate weight and also important to motivate you to get to the gym and also important to stay in there for more than two hours like we were competing in bodybuilding and then weightlifting and then powerlifting. So we had to train more than two hours.
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Then the other thing is, when you talk about what I found out was, I said to myself, I was looking with my bicep, and I said to myself, well, if I go like that, it flexes. I turn the wrist and the bicep flexes. I said, so therefore the motion is not just up and down, but it's also to turn the wrist. So now I put an inside of the dumbbell, an extra two to five pounds.
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So now when I curl up like that, I struggle turning the wrist. And therefore, I get more of a cut and more of a height in my bicep. So this was something that no one could see because no one counts the plates and says, why is Arnold using on the left side only four plates and then on the right side there's five plates or something? They don't do that, right?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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So you can do that in a very, very subtle way. And then eventually I started explaining it. I said, look, I figured this out a long time ago. And I looked at the anatomy book. and even talked about it, that one of the jobs that the bicep says is to turn the wrist. And so I said, well, here we are. I mean, we got to go into load up on the inside and do the turning of the dumbbell.
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So there's certain things that you can't do with just having a barbell because you don't turn. So people that are using a barbell and using a bridge or bench can only get a certain size bicep, but never can really get the height. So the height and the peak you only can get if you turn the wrist. With dumbbells. If you use dumbbells, exactly. Wow. That's right.
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Those are the little things that you learn. And the key thing is also when eventually when you get into competition that you really figure out your own body because there is no routine that is exactly the same for everybody. You know, this is like buying gloves or buying shoes. There's different sizes, you know, and the different colors and all that stuff.
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And the same is with the working out that, you know, you're brought, like, for instance, Franco, he had shorter thighs, right? So therefore he never had to do as much squats as I had to do. I had long legs, so I had to do twice as much leg work than Franco did. So we, even though we trained together, we sometimes split and Franco was working more on calves,
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Or working on his kind of like biceps problems that he had that I didn't have. And I had leg problems that he didn't have and stuff like that. So you have to kind of realize that everybody is built differently and everyone has different needs. And this is exactly the same again with everything. You cannot go and have one way of teaching someone a language.
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There are some people that are doing much better when you give them pictures and show them what the words are. Sometimes when you have them watch TV. Sometimes when you have conversations. Everyone operates differently. And so this is what you have to realize, that everyone is somewhat different. There are some common rules, but don't get stuck on those.
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So I mean, how do you make yourself do that? And that's when you then come up with all the various different principles that you need in order to carry you through.
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Just figure out yourself what works for you.
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Well, there was this problem at the day of the competition. And the reason was because you're trying to get rid of the fluid in your body. So doing exactly that what you shouldn't do. I mean, you should do it in order to win, but you shouldn't do it because of health reasons. It's not really good.
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So there's guys that actually have... Huge cramps on stage. They do. I've seen that. And this is also the time when you tell people to kind of lay off water so that they do cramp up and you win. And you win. How would you not have them? Like, what's the way that you... Well, I just never went that extreme with the whole thing.
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So I said to myself, you know, if I lose because I have too much fluid, I'd rather keep a little bit of fluid because I know I have to do... The pre-charging sometimes takes three hours. So that means that you're posing for three hours. Yeah. You know, legs and calves, and show me your back. And then these idiots ask you the same thing again.
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So you have to go because you have to let the mind know not to go and have fear of the 315. So what I usually did was when I was training for powerlifting was I was, let's say, my max was at a competition 515. And so I tried to do as many times as I can, 500. So I did 500 in the gym, then I waited a little bit, and then I did again one rep at 500. Same day?
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Oh, number seven and number nine, number two, number one. You come together, stand together closely, and now do a back pose. Okay, didn't we just do a back pose? You know, it's like for the 15th time. And he says, okay, turn around. Now we want to see a side chest pose. And okay, now let's see the vacuum. And they suck in your stomach, you know.
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So you do this over and over and over because they want to compare with the different guys, right? And not just always the same. And so you stand out there for hours. And now you go back at night when it's the final round. and you get judged by your posing and by your total performance. So now you have to do it again. So you can get cramped up.
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So the key though is don't be so dramatic with... Don't be so dramatic. I, for instance, I remember in 1980, At the Mr. Olympia, I came third in the pre-judging because I still had too much fluid. And the judges came to me and said, I'm sorry to tell you, but you're not going to win tonight. And I said, no shit. I said, what's wrong?
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He says, you're not as sharp as you were the last time we saw you. And I said, of course, now five years later, I know that we understand that, but I just want you to know it's not going to happen. So I went literally into a sauna when I went back after the pre-charging. I went into a sauna at the hotel and I posed for an hour to sweat out more fluid.
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And then I went back at night and I was sharper. And then I did my best job with the posing routine and I ended up winning. Wow. So you have to really find the right level so you don't kind of cramp up and you can't pose anymore and lose, but still be sharp enough.
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Well, I mean, I think that the first one was Reg Park. Reg Park. And Steve Reeves. These were guys that did Hercules movies. And that inspired me to get a body like that, but also inspired me to have a vision beyond my career, which was to get into movies. So to me that's- Oh, that's fucking fascinating.
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Yeah, to me that was very, very important that I said to myself, when I started reading about the Reg Park and about Steve Reeves in the magazines, it was very clear that this guy's won Mr. Universe, not only once, but I mean like Reg Park won it three times, Mr. Universe. And then in Rome, which was the town where they did the movies, they discovered him and they brought him down to Rome
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Well, again, I think that when you compete, there is a competition, a psychological kind of a little warfare going on. Sure. You know, and we have seen that very well, I think, in the 60s with Muhammad Ali in boxing. Right. You know, that boxing was not just boxing. You know, I think that Ali taught us all...
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And they had him do Hercules movies. And he made several Hercules movies. And I said to myself, that's what I have to do. I have to get that good. I have to win Mr. Universe so many times so that they would notice me also. And blah, blah, blah. So it gave me a vision. So Reg Park and Steve Reeves was the number one, the guys that were very important. Muhammad Ali was very important.
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Because when I came to the United States, I hung out with him. And he was a very generous guy. And And he loved, he was fascinated with bodybuilding, even though he didn't want to work out with weights. But he was fascinated by that whole thing. He always had me push him around. He loved, and he'd say to his guys, he says, watch this, watch what Aaron does. He says, push me against the wall.
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And then I would grab him and then push him against the wall. And then he would say, you guys, you see what I'm saying, how strong he is? Can you believe that? I mean, he just loved it. And he also, you know, just loved calling me Schwarzenegger.
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He always, I mean, he was like, we just saw a playback on one of the interview shows where the interviewer said, next coming out is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And he says, yeah, Schwarzenegger. And he said, I didn't say that, the interviewer said. I didn't say that. I didn't say that. And he says, no, we're coming out Schwarzenegger. And he mumbles, Schwarzenegger. And he did it with me also.
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He would say, one of us guys he said just look at his name you know and he said it's one of us you know and he just and he just loved me and he was so i watched him all the time and i went one time i mean i people always talk about you know he gives away money but i saw him one time an airport giving a hundred dollars to some guy that was begging for money
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He didn't even look how much money he had in the hand. He just gave it to him. And he says, this doesn't mean anything. He says, I'm not into money. He was never into that. So he was like a very, very kind of generous person. And I realized how generous he was. But he started his foundations then. He started giving money away. And he was always thinking about a bigger cost than boxing was. Yeah.
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And... Then they also learned from him how he sells boxing through his personality. And so I wanted to do the same thing. So the purse went up from $2 million for a fight to $5 million for a fight, $10 million for a fight. It was all because of personalities and who draw the most. And so I wanted to do the same thing in bodybuilding.
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So he was kind of an example for me for generosity and being smart and being beyond just the sport and really just beating up. Like you always say, there's a time where you beat up on guys and put them down, but there's a time where you lift up the whole sport. And this is the most important thing. I want to do the same thing. Okay, I want to pump up.
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and I want to go and win and destroy my competition. But then it was the time to build the whole sport up and to make it actually a bigger sport, offer more cash prizes. So they were very important.
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But then when I got more and more into life and the global thinking, I think people like, for instance, when I met my father-in-law, Sergeant Shriver, he taught me a lot about generosity, about service. and giving back to the community, giving back to your town and to your state and to your country in some way. And he was, of course, the president of Special Olympics.
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And his wife, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, started Special Olympics. So I got involved with Special Olympics. So he taught me about service and all of that stuff. So he became kind of a mentor. Ronald Reagan became a mentor. Jesus. Because to me, I was always a Republican, right?
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And so when Nixon was campaigning in 1968 against Humphrey, and he talked about, you know, get government off your back and less taxes and a strong military, strong law enforcement. I said, this is me. I love this guy. And then Humphrey talked more like a socialist in Austria, right? So I didn't like that. So I said, what party does he belong to? He said, Republican.
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that there's another dimension to that, which was the psychological warfare that goes on or the selling of the sport itself that you can box as well as you can. But if you're not a really good salesman, And if you don't create a certain personality that people fall in love with, then you don't really have much. Then you will have your 10,000 people at the boxing arena and that's it.
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I said, well, then I'm a Republican. And so I followed Reagan, of course, and I was campaigning for Reagan. He became one of my heroes. And then Gorbachev became one of my heroes because he was able to recognize that communism doesn't work. And to have the boss to be president of Russia and to say, communism doesn't work, let's dismantle this whole thing that doesn't work.
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I mean, it's like unheard of. I've never heard of anything like that. And he had the boss to do that. So I said to myself, that's courage. I admire that, you know. And so I became a big fan of his, met him many times, went to Moscow, had meetings with him. I always talked to him about international policies and also movies.
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He just loved, for instance, he wanted me always to do The Crusade, a movie that I wanted to do in the 90s. And when I met him in the 90s, he always said to me, he says, you must do The Crusade. You must do The Crusade. You know, it's very important. It's an important message today. about coming together, religions coming together and all this stuff, and not always fighting against each other.
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And so he was what, Mandela. I mean, when I went down to South Africa and promoted Special Olympics in South Africa, Mandela was there, and he was greeting me at Robben Island, at his prison cell, right? And we went into his prison cell and we lit a torch. We did a little torch.
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that we then took out from his prison cell where he was in prison for 27 years, and then we took it out to the courtyard of the prison where there was 150 Special Olympians standing out there, and I was lighting the torch of hope with the Special Olympians and with Mandela. And Mandela was one of the guys that I admired so much because he taught us about forgiveness.
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I mean, here's a guy that became president and could have kind of turned everything around and had the blacks pay back the whites in South Africa for the misery that they went through for so many years. And no, he didn't do that. He says, that will make me feel better. Yes. He says, but it wouldn't be better for the country. He says, we need to do what's best for the country.
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We got to come together. And I said, oh my God, this guy is like magic. I mean, I've never even heard of anyone talk that much about forgiveness like that and being able to do that. So just to mention some of my heroes, because those are the people, but those are the people that inspired me to be who I am.
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And when people say to me, it says, well, what's the most, what's the thing that would job, the movie business or the bodybuilding or the, or the governorship, I said, what is the thing that you're most proud of? I always tell people, I said, none of them. I said, what I'm most proud of is that I'm me. That I was able to mold myself into a person that I am today.
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a person that is generous, a person that has a vision, a person that is not shying away from working hard and all this stuff. And all of this kind of stuff, that's what I brought because that is what made me win Mr. Olympia seven times and Mr. Universe five times. That's what made me win the governorship.
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That's what made me go and do all of these great movies and be able to reach out and do a kind of... give something back to the community and all of that stuff and have the interest in doing, for instance, the Pump app and to do all this, to give something back and to really inspire people. I said to myself, if I've been inspired by so many people, that's why I always say I'm not a self-made man,
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that I am a creation by all of those people I just mentioned and so many others, I said, then I have the responsibility to inspire other people. And we all have to do that. You know, like you guys, you have your podcast, a fantastic podcast that everyone knows internationally. And so, but you have to, it becomes responsibility, right?
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The bigger your podcast gets, the bigger the responsibility because you got to go always and pump people up. You have to entertain them, obviously, which is, of course, why people tune in because you guys are really fucking funny. You know, and you make me laugh when I hear you and you make everyone else laugh. And so, but you have the responsibility to encourage people, to pump them up.
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But Ali figured out how to get 25,000 people and how to get 50,000, and how to fill a stadium. And it was all a psychological thing that he did. And so I did the same thing in bodybuilding. I just tried to figure out, okay, what are the vulnerabilities that those guys have? And then I would just... you know, use that.
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and to go and give something back and to be useful and all of that stuff at the same time. That's our responsibility. We got turned on by somebody to sit here today, and now we have to do the same thing to pump other people up and say, you can do it too. You got me fired the fuck up right now, man.
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Well, thank you.
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Olympic, yeah.
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Wow. So you know when they talk about Olympic lifting. Oh, yeah.
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Thank you. So let me ask you about your father. Yeah. How old is he now? He died. How old was he? He died at 74 a couple of years ago. So he must have lived during the Bob Hoffman era, right? Bob Hoffman was kind of the... the Joe Weider of weightlifting. So there was Joe Weider in bodybuilding and then there was Bob Hoffman from York, Pennsylvania. So all the original barbell plates said York.
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They had York on it. And so they come from Bob Hoffman. So he was like the guy, because I remember that he was like the king of the weightlifting kind of thing. All the weightlifting stuff all had York on it in the old days.
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Yeah, so he must have known all of those guys, John Grimmick and all those guys that were the editors of Health and Strength and the muscle magazines that they had back then in New York. And for the weightlifters, yeah, it was an interesting period. I studied all of that. Really? Yeah, because there was this war between Hoffman and Joe Weider way back.
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We did bodybuilding and weightlifting, and one was supposed to be legitimate. The weightlifting and bodybuilding was not. And then they tried to get bodybuilding into the Olympics.
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and uh you know it would become an official sport sure which did then in 1970 were able to do that then bodybuilding became an official sport so it was always this competition going on but uh it was interesting the old days yeah yeah he was i mean he he loved weightlifting that's good it was a big part of our growing up will you tell him about milton burl
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Yeah, exactly, yeah. So Milton Berle, by total coincidence, there was an organization called SHARE, and it was Hollywood women that had husbands that were powerful. So the women were powerful because of that. But there were wives of Sammy Davis Jr., wife of Dean Martin, the wife of Johnny Carson, the wife of Milton Berle, the wife of so-and-so, and all this kind of mishmash of different people.
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And so my then-girlfriend, then-future, became a wife, Maria, she was kind of like... hanging out with all these girls because she belonged to Cher. She was part of it. And so Maria, when we had our engagement party, she says, I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to have Ruthie come also. I say, you mean Milton Berle's wife? Yeah.
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Yeah, exactly. And I was trying to, well, there was a two-pronged agenda. There was the one is to win, and the other one was, you know, to kind of be entertaining for pumping on. Yeah. And so I was trying to kind of show people how he can kind of slowly talk an entire family into losing.
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And then so, but we did not know the idea if this meant also Milton Berle. So sure enough, Milton Berle came also. And he did a little stand-up routine. I remember it so well because I was appalled. Because you don't know, if you don't know really humor and comedy, what are the rules and all that stuff, I had no idea. I was sitting there and he says, oh, it's so great to have
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Ruth, look at my beautiful wife here. Last time I saw lips like that, it had a hook through it. I mean, I said, oh my God. Oh my God. Did he just say this about his wife? And she just casually looked over to Maria and she says, oh, I hear this shit every day. I said, Jesus. I mean, it was like the beating, it was like unbelievable. He said, look at Schwarzenegger.
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He has bigger tits than his girlfriend. Yeah. And all this kind of stuff. It was like relentless, this stuff, right? And so anyway, so Milton and I became very good friends. And he says, you know something, let me tell you something. He says, you're a great actor. He says, but I want to teach you about comedy. And because... As you grow in your profession, you will be asked to speak.
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And there's no speech without starting out with a joke. You got to be ready for it no matter what the occasion is. And so he was kind of like teaching me all of this stuff. And I said, I didn't quite... get it yet, what he was talking about.
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But then as time went on, he was telling me, I said, look, he says, you go, he says, you ask me to go and give you something about the speech that you're doing in Vegas, you're getting an award. And he says, so here it is. And he was telling me this thing. He says, well, that was really fantastic. Thank you so much.
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I said, you know, being a bodybuilder and having been around the movie business, you get, of course, a lot of trophies and a lot of medals and awards. But this one is without any doubt the most important. And so then he says, okay, say the joke. And then I will be going and he says, okay, and this is the most recent. He says, fucking stupid Nazi. What the fuck is the matter with you?
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What did I say? Did you see my paws? I say, you have to look at it and you say, you know, I've gotten a lot of medals. But this, without any doubt, is the most recent. You have to kind of get emotional. Yeah. And give that moment. And people go, oh, isn't that nice? And then you say, recent. I said, and then you throw out the recent. I said, you don't go and say recent right away.
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You have to have the timing. I said, don't be stupid now. Listen to me carefully. And so he was always kind of like screaming at everything like this. So this is how I kind of like learned from him. How to do comedy and how important it is to do the timing of that stuff. They may call you down to give a speech at some medical convention. And I said, no, I would never do that.
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He said, I know nothing about that. And he says, no, no, no, no, no, no. He says, what's wrong with just starting out and just saying? He says, hey, what a coincidence it is. I had a physical this morning. I went in there. The doctor says, okay, take off your clothes. And I said, okay, where should I put it? And he says, right there in the corner where mine is.
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And he says, that gets people laughing. He says, now you win them over. Then he goes, you know something, it's really funny. I am getting asked all the time, all these stupid questions about, you know, how is your blood pressure, how is this, how is that? And one of them is, the other day was also, how is your stool? And I said, the doctor said, stool is fine. I have to go every morning at six.
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He says, well, that's great. And I said, it's easy for you to say. I said, I don't wake up until seven. So he says, you see, he said, now we are talking. He said, you get people to laugh and you win them over. He says, you maybe follow up. And he says, the stupid thing is, first thing is, it's always the same thing. He did a blood sample, a urine sample, and a stool sample.
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I just said to him, take my underwear. So he says, you see, I just gave you three jokes for the medical thing, and this is how it goes with everything. If a guy gets divorced or something like that, you just say, well, my problem started already. My wife said to me, she said, I'd like to have sex in the backseat of the car. And then he said... I said, me too.
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He says, no, no, I want you to do the driving. You know, so shit like that. So he showed me basically kind of like for every category. If you go to a plumbers convention, here's a joke. If you go to this convention, here's a joke. If you go to do this for politicians, here's a joke. So this is what he was trying to do. He's trying to teach me
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It started out early already, you know, by telling them about, you know, it's just, you know, I dragged them in by talking about my mother, because they're Italians, and they love family.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
how to have a certain sense of humor and how to use the jokes and how important it is to do the timing and all of that stuff. And he hung out with me all the time. He, of course, was a big cigar smoker. So we smoked cigars at Cafe Roma in Beverly Hills. He always would come by or I would go over to his house and smoke or he comes over to my house and smoke. Then he would come to the set.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I remember when I was doing like... twins or kindergarten car people come to the set as the inspector general kind of to check out if i'm doing okay with the humor otherwise he has to kick my ass you know he will come ivan reitman was directing yeah right and so then he would come to the set and he would say how is the kid doing and then i was anything okay he says okay good he says
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
You know, in those days, he was smoking right there in the classroom in the movie, you know. With all the kids around. He says, okay, good. He says, okay, director said you're doing well. Keep on working. You know, and he would just, he would do this whole routine, like coming to the set to check me out to see if I can do my comedy and a comedic movie, you know. So we had a wonderful routine.
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And even... You know, they wanted me to, or maybe he wrote it in his will, I don't know. But someone, they said, Melody wants you to do a eulogy. So I said, okay. So I went out there and I said to myself, a Milton Berle eulogy. Well, you're gonna assume he's gonna be funny, right? He said, maybe it was a little bit over the top. I have to admit it.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
He said, son of a bitch, he said, I just, we just closed the casket. I said, took us fucking 15 minutes because he still had a big boner. You know, he was always known for his long schwanze, right? And so, you know, he was always saying, people always say I have a long schwanze. But, you know, this is all bullshit. Well, the kitchen help is jerking me off right now.
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And the Ferrigno's, they loved family, and they always loved talking about the family, and the daughter, and the son, and the mother, and the grandmother, and the grandfather, and the father, and all of that stuff. So I said, yesterday I called my mother, And I said, oh, we're really looking forward to seeing her one day and all this. I said, she comes to America regularly. I said, but I told her.
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You know, and so he would always have things like that. So, of course, I did that joke. Oh, we put the casket, the top of the casket. That was really hard, I said, because he still had a boner.
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No, because it depends what the movie is, but that can tell you one thing, that the director's the answer. I don't ever think that you can pull off a movie without a really great director. I've had shitty directors, then the movie came out shitty and they went in the toilet. And then the same actor, me, was doing a movie with a great director, like Jim Cameron,
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or Paul Verhoeven, or Ivan Reitman, all of those movies went through the roof. I mean because, not because of me necessarily, but it was them understanding me and figuring out what I can do well, and they had me do it that way. And so I really thank the world of great directors, and of course what is not on the page is not on the stage. I mean, it's like you've got to have it on a page.
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You've got to have a good script, and with a good script and a good director, you're pretty much home free. God.
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When's your first cigar? I smoke one a day. Just one? Just one a day, yeah, exactly.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
No, I sometimes start after lunch.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
with one just smoke a half one and then finish it off at night um or sometimes just smoke one right after lunch or smoke one just at night i mean it really depends but i would say most of the cases it is kind of like once a day and sometimes none actually you know if i fly or if i travel around or if i'm inside i never smoke when i'm inside so sometimes it just doesn't
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The thing is, when you're used to smoking and having a great time smoking a cigar, you don't want to spoil it with just smoking it anywhere. There's certain moments where you feel like, this is what I need to smoke a great cigar. I love, for instance, when I go into a new town and I light up a cigar in a car and tell the guy to drive me around for half an hour and show me the town.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
You know, just have the window open and just look at the city and just smoke a stogie. And hopefully you have a buddy in there with you that also smokes one, so then you have a good time. But I love smoking over at my house. We have a fireplace outside. Favorite beverage with a cigar?
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
No. No, it could be coffee. It could be water. It could be anything. Do you drink? It could be prune juice. Do you drink much? I don't drink much, no. I think that the first time I have had a glass of wine in a long time was just on Saturday when I had a Christmas party. And it was Glühwein. Do you know what is Glühwein? Glühwein is like hot wine with cinnamon in it.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I said, I won. And she said, but the competition is tonight. I said, I know. I said, but I just told her. I said, but I don't know if I can reach her tonight after the competition. I said, I told her, I won. She says, congratulations. That's great. It was like kind of like make them all look at each other kind of, oh, Jesus. I don't know.
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And so there's an Austrian kind of a thing. Like ski chalets. That's right, yeah. Yeah, I've had it in Austria. And so it fools you because it's hot and because it's cinnamon in it, it doesn't taste like wine, right? It just tastes extra kind of like almost like a dessert drink. And so you drink more. Oh, man, I got a nice buzz from that one. Yeah.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I needed a stogie just for that one to stay awake. And that was wild. So that was really good. But I very rarely, just this much wine, or this much schnapps, or something like that. In the old days, we would start playing pool, and after every pool game, we would have a schnappel schnapps. So after 10 games, we would have 10 schnappel schnapps, right? And they were the loser who always pay.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
But, I mean, eventually I got to the point where I just, after my heart surgery and stuff like that, I couldn't really handle the alcohol anymore that much. So now I do it in moderation. Yeah. Do you think about death at all? About what? Death? I try not to. Because, I mean, it sucks, right?
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Yeah, yeah. No, I can understand it. Because the funny thing about it is that I think that the better off we are and the more fun you have in life, the more pissed off you get that eventually this is going to be taken from you. Yeah. Yeah. And, of course, we don't know that it has been taken from you because it's over. But, I mean, that also pisses me off. Yeah.
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Since everything pisses me off about the whole thing.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I mean, there's just nothing good about it.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I know, I know, it sucks. It's like, who was asking me to catch all about, what did I think about? Howard Stern. Howard Stern. Howard Stern. He asked me, he said, governor. I suppose being governor makes you an expert in death. He says, tell me. What happens to us when we die? I said, the only thing I can come up with is we go six feet out and we rot.
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And he said, oh, my God, what a welcome to Los Angeles. He was doing his show out there in L.A.
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know if I'll be able to reach her later so I just wanted her to know I won and so it was stuff like that it was kind of all a mind fuck kind of a thing you know and just to play with their mind a little bit and Lou got all confused but like I said a lot of it was kind of show was for the pumping iron for the cameras and all that stuff and for some reason though the funny thing about it is that Lou
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Well, I really, you're so right about this because I always, as soon as I saw documentaries about America, I said to myself, man, I belong over there. I mean, the skyscrapers in New York, the Golden Gate Bridge, the highways in California, you know, the beaches and the whole thing, Hollywood. I said, you know, maybe my mother had something going with an American soldier. Yeah.
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I literally checked into it. I said, there's something of why I feel like I belong there and not here. And it's just that somehow I didn't pencil out because the Americans never were down in Graz. It was the British soldiers that were in Graz. But not the Americans. Thank God you didn't go there. We're glad you're here, man.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
But I tell you, it was the most wonderful thing to eventually come over here with the age of 21 And to have someone like Joe Weider that was generous enough to bring me over here and to set me up with an apartment and with a car when I came out here to Los Angeles. and to be able to train on Muscle Beach and to see Hollywood and to be in a mecca of bodybuilding and a mecca of show business.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I mean, it was like unbelievable. It was like, I was so happy. So it was, I tell you, I would not switch my life with anyone's. That's all I can tell you.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
People have to suffer.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
This is impossible.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
That's funny. That's funny.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
No, it's always great. I mean, we should do this on a regular basis, you know. It works great. Get that down.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
All right. Just wanted to show you.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Your father will be proud of you.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
With a bicep like that.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
That was below the belt. I mean, what kind of a partner is that? You're the best, man. Thank you so much. Thank you.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
has never really trusted me ever again since that moment. Really? Imagine 50 years. This has been 50 years ago. I mean, next year, 50 years. And see, always, you know, we are very good friends. And, you know, we play chess together and we hang out together and we... schmooze together and have gossip sessions, go to the gym together.
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But every time I say something, I say, you know, I know it's foggy today, Lou, but the sun is going to come out, I guarantee you, within the next two hours, he will go like... LAUGHTER
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
we kind of look around is he putting me on yeah then he looks up no I don't think so you know kind of like I don't think the sun is coming up I think you're putting me on or something so he just no matter what I say yeah you know he kind of like is always doubting it and it's always kind of questioning it you know but I mean he's a great guy and I really got to appreciate Lou because he was one of the very few bodybuilders
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that was willing to work, to work his ass off. You know, not only in the gym, but I mean, also did various different jobs he had. I mean, he was a sheep metal worker, he was a welder, he was playing football up in Canada, he was trying to join a football team up there, become a football player. He went into professional wrestling and he worked his ass off there, and weightlifting.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I mean, everything that he did, and then, in the movies, you know, he played the Hulk. And he did really a great job there. And then after that gig was over, after years and years and years of the Hulk, he then became a personal trainer and he was training celebrities here in Hollywood. And he was going like from house to house. He never shied away from working.
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Then I waited, yeah, you know, just kind of like... Like waiting around, yeah. Five minutes later, so schmoozing a little bit, and then, okay, then the guys were coming in and said, okay, let's do another one, let's do another one. And then we were just going, doing it again. And so he gets us mentally used to the 500. So in a way, you feel like this is all happening subconsciously.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
You know, not like I'm a star now, I don't have to work. For him, the most important thing was to provide for the family and to go and to do the work. And I really loved it because I would say half of the bodybuilders are lazy bastards. The ones that I hung out with, they wanted to be on the beach. And they want to just hang out and they just want to get a tan.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And then when Franco and I started our construction business, I said, come on, guys, we need some work. I said, we just had the earthquake here in Los Angeles. We need to rebuild some of the patios and the fireplaces and the chimneys. And they would come and they would just work one direction. this direction, and then it will work. They put the bricks on it.
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I said, guys, you got to turn around and do it the other way too. No, no, but the sun is coming from here. We want to get a tan. We want to get tanned today. They were just there to get a tan. Lazy bastards, right? And I said, Franco, you lazy bastards, get out of here. You know, we always did the work.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
But I mean, it was, so it's great when you see a bodybuilder like Franco Colombo or like Lou Ferrigno that really were working hard. I love that. Because it's like I always say in my book, Be useful, I always say. One of the principles is work your ass off. And be useful.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Well, Franco was basically half animal, half human. So he was like no one could figure it out because he was like he had this unusual strength and these unusual abilities. like who would just hang upside down on his toes on the chin up bar? I could never hold myself with my toes. He did. It was like a gorilla.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And then the way he was like going from bar to bar with his hands, he had this unbelievable power. It was like a monkey. And so he was doing things in the kind of lifts, I mean think about, the guy lifted like 750 pounds deadlift and he weighed like 180 pounds. It's ridiculous. And doing like with 100 pound lateral raises and stuff like that that I used for dumbbell presses.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Barely could do that with 100 pounds. And he would do lateral raises. I mean it's just crazy, crazy strength. And Franco came from Sardinia and the way he grew up was kind of like also very primitive out in the farm and he was like on a ranch and he had to go and take the sheep up to the mountains and he had to figure out himself how to go and feed himself. while he's up there for a few days.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
So he had to kill animals and live like a really primitive kind of a thing. And so it was like all kind of very strange, but it made him kind of like a person that had no fear of anything. And so when I brought him to America, I tried to, Joe Weider brought me over to America first because I was like the big bodybuilder. I weighed 250 pounds. I just won Mr. Universe for the second time.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
It's not like consciously. Consciously, too. But I mean, the important thing is that you lie down eventually on the bench and you say, I have that nailed. Yeah. Yeah. Because as soon as you say, let me try. It's not quite cutting it to try. I mean, trying is good, but I mean, you got to do it. Because then you feel the fear if you're not ready for it.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I was 21 years old. I'm this new sensation. You know, this farm boy from Austria. Let's call him the Austrian Oak to create a little bit of drama type of thing. But then Franco was a little guy. but powerful and just thick. And so I had to convince Joe Weider, I said, you got to bring over Franco too. We're a perfect team. It was like the original twins type of thing, right?
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And so Franco, Joe Weider would always say, nah, he's a little guy, come on. Why do you want to bring him over? We have so many little guys around here, you know. This is the way he talked, you know, with his Canadian Jewish accent. And so I said, no, you've got to bring Franco over. He's like, there's no one here in America, I can guarantee you, that's like Franco. I said, he can outlift anybody.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
He can outpose anyone. And he's going to win Mr. Universe, I guarantee you, that he's on his way to win everything. And then Joe Vita eventually brought him over. And so Franco and I, we then continued training together here. And within one year of being here, he won the Mr. Universe contest in the amateur category.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
The year after that, he won the Mr. Universe professional, then Mr. World, eventually Mr. Olympia and all that stuff. And Franco was the kind of a guy that... Because there was no money in bodybuilding. Yeah. So Frank and I, we were just saying, hey, we're from Europe. We're not one of those lazy fucks that just want to hang around and do nothing.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I said, let's get our act together and just let's educate ourselves. Let's go to college, educate ourselves. So Frank loved, of course, chiropractic and medical stuff. So he went to chiropractic college. I went to study business. And on the side, we started working. And Franco, of course, was a bricklayer and a masonry worker and cement worker and stone worker from Italy.
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So I said, Franco, we should start a business here. And then, of course, we put an ad in the LA Times, Italian and European masonry work experts and all of this shit. I didn't know anything about masonry work. So we put the ad in. The next day after the ad came out, we had the earthquake in Los Angeles. I mean, can you think about that?
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Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And then, all of a sudden, everyone called us, and they said, oh my God, you gotta come over, you gotta rebuild our chimney, you gotta rebuild our patio, the patio has a big crack here, the wall has a big crack, the wall around the house fell down, and blah, blah, blah. So Franco and I, we were doing bits left and right, and going around.
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Today's guest is a legendary actor, bodybuilder, tastemaker, really, in the world of bodybuilding. He was the governor of California. When you think of the American dream, he is pretty much it. The second season of his Netflix show, FUBAR, is dropping soon. We're going to talk about that and a lot more. I'm honored to sit down with the one and only Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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It was in London, the same stage as Ridge Park. So you still hadn't made it to the US yet? No, no, not yet. And was your brother also lifting weights? Was he a weightlifter?
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Did you guys get along pretty well? Is that him or no? That's him, yeah, that's Meinhardt. Oh, that's a cool, what is Meinhardt? Yeah, Meinhardt, yeah. I just wonder what it would be like, because I have a brother too, so I'm just thinking sometimes like it would be, yeah, I just think about my brother a lot, so I guess I was just curious what it was like, what your brother was like.
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God, they always give it to the person that doesn't want it.
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Always trying to correct you. Exactly. That's right. Yeah.
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And it gives you control. I mean, if you're bodybuilding, it's just you against you. You don't have to depend on anybody else. I mean, I guess you have to depend on the judges when you go to actually compete. But day to day, it is you against your own emotions and mentality and ability.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
And this is when you came to the US? Yeah, so he brought me over in 1968. Okay, before we get there, Arnold, and not to interrupt you or anything, but you did a show, you went to like one of the first interracial shows that was in South Africa?
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Oh, that was later on. So that was 1975. Got it.
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So you're absolutely correct. So you get to the U.S. Very good research. Do you remember your first, thank you. Do you remember your first day in America?
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Why were they giving you all that? Oh, just to make you feel welcome.
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what's it like finding a gym that really fits you? Like, what's that like at that level of bodybuilding where there are a couple of gyms you try it out and you're like, this isn't it. Or did you already know where you wanted to be?
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Was it hard for you to train? I mean, were people at that point just standing around watching you train?
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Well, I remember when I first moved to Los Angeles, we went to Firehouse, I don't know if it's still there or not. Yeah, yeah, Firehouse. Was that the place? It was a big protein place. It was like a, was that, I think it was- Well, Firehouse now is a restaurant down there. It used to be like a place where you could get literally like a bowl of chicken.
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That's crazy. It was like, yeah, I remember I ate, I ordered like a month worth of food right there just at lunch. Yeah, it took me like five hours to get out of there just because I didn't want to like... Yeah, I was never a big eater.
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When, cause I used to buy, I don't know if I used to bodybuild. I used to use steroids when I was like growing up and just lift weights a lot. I loved it for years, you know? And I think whenever I get like, you know, whenever I quit working as much, I'll probably try to get back more weightlifting. Was steroids pretty popular then? Or what was it like?
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Was that part of the, cause I'm sure it was part of the culture.
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So would you hear it? Like, would it be like on the black market or it was just like public? It was just like people would talk about it like as a supplement.
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Did you see friends go down that road or other bodybuilders go down that road where they would get addicted to it?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
After the South African show, yeah. Can you tell me a little bit about that? Because I bet it was really interesting. South Africa is probably my favorite country. I mean, it is beautiful.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Was Desmond Tutu down there at the time? Do you know if he was speaking?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Is that what it's called? Can you bring that up for me, Nick?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
I bet they were so hungry sometimes they would be like, look at this well-fed guy.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
So was that scary to go before a black judge? Did you think that they would judge you fairly?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
They're like the leaders in promoting diversity.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Absolutely, it's great. I've always been a fan of the YMCA. It's just kind of like, they're always a little bit, it's never perfect there, but everything's kind of like a little bit old enough where I like the equipment. It's never too fancy.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Oh, the will was the best. There's nothing better than just having like a little weight bench outside in your backyard or something. And you go out there or in your garage.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
That audience in South Africa, what was... Did it have the feeling during the show of like, this is like a novel thing, this is like a... Like, was there that energy in the event?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
What's like one of the things right before you go on? Because I'm guessing you're backstage, right? You wait to go on and they call your name out and then you go out and do your poses. Is that how it goes?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
What's the scariest way to be turned? Like, was there ever a part where you're like, this is, I got to kind of cheat this angle a little bit?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
And what's the tricks there? Is there any trick of the trade, a last-minute thing you used? You would, like, pinch your tits or just rub some just, like, molasses into your – like, what was, like, a last-minute thing people would do, put ice under your arms or something?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
That's what the idea is. Did you ever have to work out the top of your feet or your hand? Were there things you could do for your face even and stuff like that?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Indeed, at that point, I mean, I can see now how even like lobbying for certain things to be changing in, like in the prize money, right? I can almost see where your direction comes to even end up in politics, right? You can start to see it like, well, this should be more. There should be some adjustments. You weren't just like a competitor.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
You were also somebody who was examining how things were run and how they could be better, especially when you were partnering with guys like Ben Whiter and stuff like that and probably inspired by those guys to probably get this larger vision of things that were going on. When you got into film, so at that point, you know how to act. You know how to impress the front row.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
You know how to use probably every element of your body to impress people. So that kind of just leads kind of perfectly into acting.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
And were there football teams that tried to get you to come and play for them? Did you ever get an offer?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
So after this- How was that, do you think?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Some of those girls are pissed standing up, I'll tell you that for sure.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Does Arnold Classic have a women's division? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Oh, that's great. I didn't know that. Sorry. Oh, wow. Look at these chocolate babies right here, huh? Yeah, everybody kind of gets chocolatier, huh? They're tanned. Now you have this tanning stuff. Was it real tanning back then, or was it? No. What was the key to the best tan, the best tan?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
But at the time, so they would put that tan in a can, basically? They would put it in a bottle. It was in a bottle. And you'd have a friend do your back. Would anybody ever sabotage somebody and not do their back really good?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
And what was it called if somebody went too dark? Would you just call them a little chocolate bunny or something?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
For sure, and a nutmeg fella, yeah. That is just a little molasses, baby. That's so remarkable. In business, they say you can have better, cheaper, or faster, but you only get to pick two. We'll be right back. where you can run any workload in a high availability, consistently high performance environment, and spend less than you would with other clouds. How is it faster?
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was there a lot of like, when you were a child in Austria, was there a lot of like individualism or was it, were things very like regimented? Like in America, you could like, you can be an individual, right? But some countries it's a little bit harder to kind of like, you know, be an individual and have a voice. I'm just wondering, what was it like there when you were young?
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He works for me. Together, we'll destroy the world.
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And it's season two. It's kind of great because it brings me through all this like nostalgia of watching you over the years. Right. Like, I feel like it's a little bit of all like to me, this is perception and it could be judgment, but a little bit of like all your roles in the one. Did it feel like that a little bit when you're shooting it or?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Did it feel like things were regimented or it was okay to be rebellious? What was it like there?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Yeah, I think there's like a level of also nostalgia just getting to see you still operate in these roles. You know, like you've just, you've continued to keep your, I mean, you're, you know, you've just continued to want to work. Because you don't have to work anymore.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
it's alzheimer's schwarzenegger alzheimer's they're almost seem like they would be neighbor you know what i'm saying like no judgment or anything but it almost seems like that would be the one to look for you because you're let same letters on some of the same letters even i have enough with my heart problems so i mean i don't have to worry about it another problem forever oh you know for the last 25 years at heart open heart surgery
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Did you ever have a stroke and you just kind of, you're like, I've kind of had that before I can get through the rest of the day? No, no, none of that. You know what I'm talking about though? Like, did you ever have like, because sometimes you'll get a pain or something and you're like, I think I'm okay.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Did you ever have like, I'm assuming if you had a lifetime of like having heart issues that you would start to be like, ah, that's going to be okay.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
So it was almost like a gift that she got to be here and you got to go through that with her.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Was it scary when they put you under? Like, were you kind of scared? Did you make sure it was the best guy doing it, Arnold? Because you've got to have the best guy.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Did you look him in the eyes and take him off the side and say, hey, let's make sure we do it good? No, I didn't have to do that, no.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
the top of the top, so there's no doers about it. You've had a very blessed and interesting life, right? And you've had it, so you know. At what point, I think it's fair to say you're probably in the second half of your life, at what point do you like, do kind of like goal, like goals turn into like legacy if, if in your mind at all, if it does.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
And I don't mean that to be a uncomfortable question. I'm just like, does your brain start to adjust where like, these are my goals. And then like, okay, this is a legacy that I want to leave. Does that make any sense or no?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
So you feel like a lot of your legacy has kind of been lived along the way.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Well, you're one of the most jacked immigrants too that we've ever had probably, I think. for sure. I hope so. Yeah, you do. And you're competitive about it. I love that, you know, I can feel how competitive you are. And that's great. You have to be competitive because also America is a platform for if you are competitive and if you choose to apply yourself that you can reach
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some of your dreams and goals and aspirations. Do you think that it's still possible? Like you've had this, you've gotten to live in America for a while now and have a good breadth of understanding here. You've gotten to work in politics. Do you think it's the American dream is still possible? Or do you think there's, there's things happening these days that are where we're not helping that along?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
That's the bottom line. Amen, man. And I think that goes to it, even as you're saying that, Arnold, it's making me think about like even our relationships that I'm in or business situations. I should think of most things as that way. Like, let me give something to this, right? Whatever this is, if this is a relationship with a spouse or a girlfriend or a boyfriend or a
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if it's a team that I'm on or just a commitment I've had, if I'm going to spend an hour with my son or my mom to do something, let me give something to this, right? Let me not just take even this moment for granted, whatever it is. Let me be here and be present and apply myself so that we create something that, just so I'm honoring the fact that I even have this moment in time.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Who do you go to for your inspiration? Do you have a coach or a mentor over the years? Do you go to Tony Robbins? Do you hire some of these guys who are really good at this type of stuff to help you in certain speed bumps in your life?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
That's awesome. That's Bob Hope right there. Yeah, exactly. I just got back. I just did a show in Qatar. Qatar? Qatar? Oh, you did? It was pretty cool, yeah. I happened to just be over there. Trump was over there speaking too at the same day, but we just did a show for the troops.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Oh, man, look at that. Look at that team. A couple of Ku Klux Sands men. That's the joke I made. Pretty good joke. I think it's good.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
I did it for a long time. And then I've taken a break recently.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
I did it for a long time. And then I've taken a break recently. But this really reignited me on it. I was actually texting... a couple of friends of mine and saying, let's go do some, just even close bases that are close to us in America, just whatever we can, let's start to do it a little bit more. And I think we're going to start to do it more. So I'm really excited about that.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
I feel really lucky. I mean, my whole job is freedom of speech, right? So it's like, if people aren't protecting that, you can't even be a comedian in some countries.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Great, great event. I bet they loved that.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Dude, when I work out with them, they don't give a shit, I'll tell you that, dude.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Yeah, but they do not want to see me do anything. I usually stand on the side and just drink. I'll have a little bit of a protein shake, but... When you, what about like, like, was it hard with your whole life? Was it tough to be like, was it ever tough to be a good husband or be a good dad?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Like if so much of your job takes like your work side of you, because I noticed for me, like I'm not married yet. I would like to find a wife, but it's hard for me to even find time, you know? Like, is it like, were there moments where, because your life gets so big, right? And you've had a big life. I mean, There's like you, Arnold, and then the other guy.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Hey, Arnold, he's a fucking drawing, I think, right? So you're like, the name is yours, really. Like, does it ever get hard to be a parent or something?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
I guess, yeah. My gosh. No, but you know what? I just gathered from some of your things, it's just the application of self, right? And that you have to go get it. You have to go do this, right? Yeah, do you know Bobby pretty good? Bobby Kennedy's a friend of mine. Yeah.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
I know him from recovery. We go to recovery meetings together.
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Yeah. I lived here for about 12 years. That's a growing city now, isn't it? Yeah. It's growing fast because it's safe. You can have a weapon if you need to. I think there's that semblance of you can take care of yourself type of energy. Right. And it's a friendly community, and it's very safe. It's like a lot of cities, some of them get kind of dangerous.
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Oh, I see, especially their family because it's a prestigious thing. That's right, yeah.
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I want the good guy to win, no matter what side he's on.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Yeah, he's cool. We had him on the podcast when everybody was thinking he was kind of crazy during the pandemic and stuff. And he was concerned about just people's health and well-being with vaccines and stuff. We had him on. But yeah, I've always known him to be just a neat guy. You know, he's my friend. Yeah, I'm excited for him. I'm curious to see what it's like once you get into office, how...
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can you still keep your beliefs or not, or do things get heavily compromised, do you feel like?
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but it's about compromise. I mean, you've said before that you can't do everything, you can't do it all by yourself, right?
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That's the bottom line. They just had, do you think we'll ever have a Republican governor again in California?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Right, you can't just buy it. I don't think you can just buy it. You had Bloomberg tried to do it a few years ago. It didn't work.
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They have, like, they just had where they found, like, $20-something billion that was, like, it was supposed to be earmarked for homeless help in California that went missing, right? How does money go missing once you're in these places, do you think? Is it just, like, people, what does it say? Newsom confronted at press conference about $24 billion spent on tackling homelessness.
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Like, how does stuff like that happen? And it didn't have to be this specifically, but once you're in office and you see these huge amounts of money, how does stuff like that just go by the wayside where it gets lost or missing, hypothetically, do you think?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
And it feels like that's where we're living these days.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Amen. I have two quick questions for you just about people. Thank you so much for your time today, Arnold. Thanks for the inspiration. I feel like this has been an inspirational conversation for me. You never know what certain conversations are going to be like. Thanks for your contributions to entertainment and to just it's evident that you, you know, you are the American dream.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
And it made me feel like it is still possible, which I don't know if I even felt like that when I started this conversation. Did you ever get to meet Michael Landon before? No. No. You didn't? I love him. He was one of my favorites. And did you ever get to meet Michael Jackson before?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
What was he like? Do you have any good, like a cool story about him?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Would he tell stories and stuff like regular people? Because they always make him seem so quiet.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Oh, yeah. Looks like he eats gumdrops, that guy.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Yeah. Yeah. I'll see his children every now and then. I cross paths with his daughter every once in a while. Yeah. Anything else that you want to share? I think it's been a good conversation. You guys feel like that?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Hey, I promise you this. I will certainly support it, and I'll watch some more of it. I'm going to get some of my friends to watch it. We grew up watching just so many of your movies. The Lady with the Three Breasts, remember that one? She was like, God. Oh, yeah, from Total Recall. Oh. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I recall those a lot, brother, you know? Yeah, Total Recall, yeah.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
And I totaled them up three every time, you know. But thank you for that. That was the first breast I was ever allowed to see a little bit. But thank you so much, man.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Oh, no. I would love to do this again. That was fun. I really enjoyed the conversation. Thank you so much. One more. Just say something nice about each one of your children so one day they'll be able to see this really fast. Well, I'm proud of all my children.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
That's your path, Santa Monica to UCLA. That's right, yeah. Does he remind you of your brother? Oh, yeah, yeah. He reminds me a lot of my brother, yeah. That's awesome. I'll bet your brother's super proud of you, man. And thank you so much, Arnold, for just all your contributions and for your time today. My pleasure. Yep, you guys go watch FUBAR.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
What was it about Humphrey's that made it feel like you were back in Austria?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Yeah, if you rely solely on the government for your life, then you'll be a part of the government, basically.
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Nixon, of course, came from California. Question, Arnold. Was it scary to tell your parents that, to leave Austria? Did people do that at the time? I'm just a little bit curious on what it was like to say, I'm leaving here and I'm going to go to America. Was it even a popular path for people to go?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Yeah. Did you ever listen to country music growing up?
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#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Yeah, and you had a brother as well, right?