#587 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?
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.
So where do you work out of? Where do you work out of?
I live in Nashville, Tennessee now.
Tennessee.
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.
It's known for its country music, right?
Yeah. Did you ever listen to country music growing up?
Yeah. Well, not growing up. Growing up was kind of rock and roll, into the 50s, rock and roll. Did they have any, because you grew up in Austria, right? Or to what age? Austria, yeah. I was in Austria until I was 19. And so we were, there was a program that was called Hit Parade. And the Hit Parade. A television show? No, no. We didn't have television. So we just had the radio at home. But I had then bought, I was like 15 and I just bought my first transistor radio. Yeah. In a little plastic box, right? And I paid off like 50 shillings a month until it was paid off a year later. But then that always took down to the lake where I grew up. Now we were sitting around the boys from a village and we were listening to this hit parade. It was from seven to eight at night on Wednesdays.
And there was like Little Richard and Chuck Berry and all of those guys that were, you know, big in the 50s and 60s. and so i grew up with that and that's why i have that station in my radio 50s at all times oh so you still listen to it it just listened i just love it right then when i came over here I became aware of a little bit of the country western kind of music. Did you go to a concert in Austria? Was there a concert you ever went to before you came here? No, no, I never afforded a concert. Are you kidding me? I had no money. But I mean, when I came over here, I then became aware of the country western songs, especially Johnny Cash. He did a television show, a weekly television show. And it was great, great music. And so I fell in love with that.
And then friends of mine here in America then took me to concerts. You know, it was like a jazz concert or a country Western concert and all of this stuff. And so then that's when I started really getting into it. But I mean, I loved the music, but then when you grow up in Austria, the most of the stuff that you hear is really Austrian music, you know, the and all this kind of thing. Beautiful music, but I mean, That's what you hear on public radio and public television also. That's what you see. And you see operas and you hear concerts. My father himself was a musician. He played six instruments. Six instruments?
Yes.
Wow. All kind of like a flugelhorn, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, all of the stuff like that. A lot of traditional music he would play? Yeah, yeah. Very traditional because he was the conductor of the Chantemarie music, which is the police, the country police, like the sheriffs.
Chantemarie, it's called?
Yeah, Chantemarie is a French word. Chantemarie. And so he was a gendarme. He was a police officer. And so he played in that gendarmerie music. Would he play at home or where would he play at home? He practiced at home. While I was training, I remember I was doing my workouts and he would be standing. The window would be opened up at our house and he would be kind of playing out to the window, out the window. And there was a kid that was my age that lived 150 yards away from us. He was one of my best friends. And he also learned how to play the trumpet at the age of like 13 or 14. So he would play over there, and then my dad would play over here, and they were going back and forth like that. So it was really fun.
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