Jesse Ventura
speaker
493 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 25 Mar
Jesse Ventura’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
In Running Man? Yeah, you had a whole workout video in that. Complete Freedom. Like my name. Do you want to hear the backstory?
Oh, it's a great one. Running Man. So I'm the retired stalker who now has this physical fitness show on TV, right? Yeah. That's what I do now, as well as color commentate the running man game.
And so I have my workout thing in the day. So what occurred was this. When they needed to do that, she wasn't famous yet for singing. That was due to happen in like a year or two. But they sent me over to this nice little beautiful young woman by the name of Paula Abdul. And they sent me over to her dance studio, because Paula's one of the, at the time, one of the top choreographers in Hollywood.
And I'll never forget, she knew what she had to do. I knew basically what I was there for. And I remember Paula Abdul, she got famous singing a couple years later. But she came up to me that day and it was hilarious. I'm 260 pounds, this hulking big monster. And she's this bitsy little tiny girl, athletic as hell, can do all this, got these skinny girls that can do all this dancing in Hollywood.
And she looks at me and she goes, looks at me and smiles and she says, what can you do? What was the answer? And I looked at her and at the time at home, I had started taking aerobics. And I had done aerobics. I challenged myself. I had gotten up to level three, an hour and a half with David Gray, the Crystal Light National Aerobics Champion.
He was my instructor in Minneapolis, the Crystal Light National Aerobics Champion. So I looked at Paula Abdul. I said, well, I said, for the last few months, I'm getting ready for this. I've been doing aerobics. She looked at me a big smile. She says, great. She goes, you do aerobics. We'll dance around you. I went, okay. And that's what we did.
I went out and went through aerobic routines and Paula choreographed all the girls to dance around my routines and make it work. And there you have Captain Freedom's workout.
Well, okay, that was late 90s. And they also cut their fight scene completely.
I was bigger than him in the 90s, too. Well, that's the thing. I forgot. I don't have to lean in the mic.
Well, the great thing about Arnold is he's not insecure. Yeah. When you've won Mr. Olympia seven times, come on. That's the best built man in the world.
And he won it seven times. Arnold doesn't have insecurities. Arnold doesn't care that I'm two or three inches taller than him. That doesn't bother him.
Oh, I think that really got blown out of proportion. We did more, I don't know. The thing about doing a Schwarzenegger film is you're going to have fun.
That's the fun part about it. Arnold never takes himself too seriously only when he has to. You know, I was also in the trailer with him sitting right there when these guys came up to him. We weren't even finished doing Predator.
And these guys were approaching him about the sequel. Predator 2. Which they did without him. Wait, I won't say the money because it's no one's business.
But I sat right there and they offered Arnold, and this was 1985, 86. They offered him so much money to do Predator 2 and he turned them down flat. When they left, I looked at him and I said, Arnold, it's just him and I. I said, how in the hell do you turn down? And I said the figure. Arnold looked at me and smiled. You know what he said to me? Jesse, the time is not right. And it was right.
The Predator sequel was a bomb. People know. Look at what he did on Terminator. He made them wait seven years. He made the public want the sequel.
If you come out with a sequel immediately after the film, everybody knows it's just a money ripoff.
They're capitalizing on the... Arnold wouldn't fall victim to that. The money he turned down, you would have been astounded. And he turned... I won't say it because it's no one's business. But in fact, I said, hey, Blaine's twin brother, he'll do it for half. I said, you can resurrect me. Blaine has a brother. Oh, my God. There he is. Blaine's twin brother. There he is. He'll do it for half.
Arnold and I never discussed politics once. During my campaign or during his? He lives in California. I live in Minnesota. Why am I going to campaign for him in California? What the hell is he going to say in Minnesota?
He didn't need it and neither did I. We both won, didn't we? So we must have did it right, didn't we?
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