Arnold Schwarzenegger
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 22 May
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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?
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.
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.
Well, thank you.
Olympic, yeah.
Wow. So you know when they talk about Olympic lifting. Oh, yeah.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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