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Chapter 1: 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.
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Chapter 2: What was Arnold's experience growing up in Austria?
Nixon, of course, came from California. Question, Arnold. Was it scary to tell your parents that, to leave Austria? Did people do that at the time? I'm just a little bit curious on what it was like to say, I'm leaving here and I'm going to go to America. Was it even a popular path for people to go?
Well, remember, I started saying this when I was 10. Ah, I see. So it had been, your parents knew it was in your head. Yeah, exactly. So I saw a documentary, a black and white documentary in the school. They showed always those films with this eight millimeters, whatever, films on the little screen. And like I said, television was not the common thing at that time in Austria.
So we didn't grow up with that. But they showed the film and I saw a documentary about America. Now I see the Empire State Building. I said, wait a minute. This building is like, you know, a hundred times taller than any of the buildings in Graz, where I grew up, right? In Austria. And then I saw the Golden Gate Bridge. Then I saw the Pacific Coast Highway. I saw all of this kind of, you know,
Great, great things. I saw the six lane highways. I saw the big Cadillacs, you know, with the big fins sticking out, you know. And I said to myself, and then we had all this little kind of cars and Muscle Beach and all of this stuff that the Hollywood, I said, I got to go to America. I got to go to America. Austria is not the place. It was almost kind of like that my gene was over here.
You know, so it kind of, I gravitated towards America. Not that I hated Austria, but I just wanted to leave and go do something different. So my parents always saw me as being different. So it was not a surprise to them that I wanted to go as soon as I was through with high school and trade school, that I want to go into the military.
So I went in the military because after you go and serve in the military, then you can get your passport and you can travel. So you had to go to the military to get your passport in Austria? That's right, yeah. Is it still that way? No, I don't think it's different now. Everything is different because everything has changed.
Yeah, and you had a brother as well, right?
Did he go in the military? He was in the military and- Was he older than you or younger? He was a year older.
Oh, cool. What's his name?
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Chapter 3: How did Arnold transition from bodybuilding to acting?
Proper prior planning prevents pissed poor performance. And the Marines, they have that. And so that's- Proper prior planning prevents pissed poor performance. Exactly. So that's what it's about. It's the same there. You come prepared. You make sure that you work, everyone has weak points.
So you have to make sure that you worked as much on your weak points so that the judges see that you're not blind, that you noticed that last year you maybe had not so defined legs. Yes, maybe you won, but the legs were so-so. And then the next time when you come back, you have to have ripped legs. So then the judge said, that guy got the message. So this is what it's all about.
Because in the end, you really are an artist. You're a sculptor. You're not just the athlete that's competing, but you're the sculptor. You're sculpting on your own body. Instead of a chisel and a hammer that you kind of sculpt a physique, you do it now with machines and with the reps and the different exercises where you say, I need a little bit more of the rear deltoids.
I need a little bit more separation. in the front between the deltoid and the pectoral muscle. I need a little bit more cut in the lower abs. The calves have to be balanced. They're not big enough for the arms because it should be the same size as your arms are. And all of those kind of things. So you become kind of like an artist in your own body.
That's what the idea is. Did you ever have to work out the top of your feet or your hand? Were there things you could do for your face even and stuff like that?
No, no. I mean, there are people that pay attention to that. I didn't. To me, it's always about the bottom line. But what is it that we're doing here? What we're doing here is we're showing the most perfect physique and who is the best in actually displaying that physique. Because it's all about, you know, presentation, presentation, presentation. It's like a piece of art.
You know, you can have a painting that is maybe amongst many other paintings, and you wouldn't even notice there's a Picasso. But then when you put it up there on a white wall, and with a beautiful gold frame with a special lighting. And then you have someone talk about it. Now you can auction something off for a lot of money. So it's all about presentation.
And so this is why I think the same is also in bodybuilding and the way you present your body and the way you present your muscles.
Indeed, at that point, I mean, I can see now how even like lobbying for certain things to be changing in, like in the prize money, right? I can almost see where your direction comes to even end up in politics, right? You can start to see it like, well, this should be more. There should be some adjustments. You weren't just like a competitor.
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Chapter 6: What is the importance of individuality in Arnold's journey?
That's the bottom line. They just had, do you think we'll ever have a Republican governor again in California?
Well, you know, if someone has a good program and if someone is organic, I mean, with me, it was possible because I had a great mentor, number one, which was Pete Wilson, who was a governor of California, two terms. Petey Wilson? Yeah, Pete Wilson, yeah. And he helped me, you know, with the race a lot.
And then I also was organic because people saw that I did not come out of nowhere where I always went from acting to politics. I mean, I was working with Special Olympics for decades, going around the world to help Special Olympics and to get recognition for them and to be able to do...
get jobs and to have, you know, be able to live anywhere they want and to get into sports, Special Olympics, sports programs, nor is powerlifting. So I was fighting for equality, including in South Africa with Nelson Mandela. We were there together fighting for Special Olympics. So the people in California saw all of that.
Right.
and also me starting the afterschool programs and having an initiative that I went to the people a year before in 2002, and the people voted 57% in favor of that initiative to help afterschool programs. So I was already in there and I was working with President Bush being the chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
So I was already giving back and giving back and giving back. So when I said, now, I'm not interested anymore in just doing another movie. I'm more interested in getting the state of California back on its feet because we had blackouts with huge deficits. The illegals were getting driver's license. There was all kinds of crazy stuff that was going on here.
And I said to myself, the Indian gaming, they didn't pay taxes and they didn't order gaming and made billions of dollars. And their workers' compensation costs were high and people were moving out with their businesses in California. I said, I will bring California back. No matter how many people were campaigning for Gray Davis, who was governor then, Clinton came out and campaigned for him.
Gore came out. John Kerry came out. Al Sharpton. All of those guys came out to campaign for him. I said to Bush, I said, no, no, don't come out. I don't need that. It's between me and the voters.
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