Arnold Schwarzenegger
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first heard Dec 2024
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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?
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
And I said, $25 million is petty cash. What's the matter with you guys?
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.
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.
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?
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...
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
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.
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