Rod Blagojevich
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701 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Mar
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Right, right.
Would you run at all? Do any road work or pushups?
No doubt.
Of course. But would you do like ab work and stuff, work your core, get that strong?
Yeah. So what do you do now to stay in shape? You're addicted to it because it's your lifestyle.
Me too. I know what you mean.
Listen, what you're saying is so true. Again, back to my prison experience, among the things that helped me get through it was that emotional pain and the heartache that you're feeling. I found by throwing myself into hard physical exercise really helped me soften that, lessen that emotional pain, that heartache, and it just made me feel better. Less hurting.
I hurt less by forcing physical pain on myself by running 10 miles, for example, on my first Christmas day because it was so brutal emotionally that I had to be at this shithole place for Christmas. You know what I mean? Yeah. So what you're saying makes perfect sense to me. Yeah.
You'll have more love in your heart, less hate. Yes. Yeah.
So because of my limited, very limited boxing experience, I got to know boxers. And recently I helped Tommy Hearns, helped Trump get Tommy Hearns' endorsement. And Hearns spent some time with me in Chicago. The nicest guy. This guy was such a fucking badass fighter, as you know.
Yeah, but on a personal level, gentle, God-fearing, soft-hearted, what you're describing with the guys that you know. And a lot of the guys I knew from the boxing world in Chicago, a lot like that. The guys who had a lot more success than me because I was just the best. I was a middling guy who did it for one year. But I know exactly what you're saying.
Can I say something about tough guys and Trump real quick?
To go back to Trump, because the point you made I thought was really interesting, that you've got to have that kind of self-love to endure all of the shit they threw at him, and you've got to.
Joe, can I just say one more thing about Trump on this subject? Self-love, personal toughness, for sure. But can I say something else? This man, I honestly believe this, truly loves America. He isn't just doing this because he wants to be the president. He's already been that. And he's got all this great success. How do you live the life he's lived? Give that up.
go into that shithole business I was in that I know all too well to have to deal with all these phony fucking politicians and suffer these assholes, these duplicitous hypocrites in your party and the other party, which is what most of them are. There's a lot of good ones, but more of them than not are full of shit.
They're weak, they're cowardly, and they go along with the kind of trends that you were just talking about. When you go through something what Trump went through and you keep doing it, It's more than just his own self-love. I truly believe he has a genuine, abiding love in his country.
I think in his mind, I'm guessing, I'm putting this in his mind, kind of thinking about my own kind of experience. He's saying to himself, if I have to go down fighting for my country, I'm going to do it.
And I think that helps motivate him to get stronger and tougher when he is convinced that it isn't just about his ego or himself, but it's something higher and bigger, like what America is supposed to be.
Why?
Why?
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