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you know Dane I rarely say this but hear me now and believe me
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later why didn't we say that to Arnold that's one of the funniest ones I know well he loves it that was fun we get to
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really talk about Hans and frons with Arnold and it is funny and fun to do a
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Austrian accent to Arnold mhm yeah I could flick you with your little finger and you fly across the room and land in
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your own baby poop He made me laugh he was such a warm fun guy likes comedy he
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he knew a lot of our stuff he also did recited a lot of his catchphrases wasn't
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that fun to hear him do it yes we talked about gly man and how people said when
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he was governor of California he would call people gurly man and we talk all about that and uh he loved the sketch
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he's such a great sport he's a great Storyteller he really he really I heard a lot of stories I'd never heard before
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about how he got his start in Hollywood and he got a book out with a lot of great very interesting stories yeah be
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useful and uh positive thinking positive thinker hard worker um and it the way he
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articulates it's not his accent or anything anymore it's just he makes things very clean and very simple you
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have to get up every morning and you know be the heo of your life you know
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you do things that are uncomfortable you go toward the pain go toward the pain and that's where all the good stuff is
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you know with pain you get stronger you know and he's hypnotic really to listen to M the person who makes his bed is
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78% successful in life I'm like true he's like I just made that up it sounds good though first you get up you put
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water on the face to wake up the brain and then splash yeah then you put
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toothpaste on the toothbrush and start you start rub it
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against the teeth to get the freshness and then you do a 100 situps I go
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circular on my teeth that's just me but yeah he was so fun and then he did the
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catchphrases are funny and also he liked that we were both not out of shape remember that he asked us and we're not
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making how do you f stay so lean so he's asking us I go what we're actually kind
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of tiny but then at that point I thought well I'm goingon to do 10 push-ups for
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Arnold and have him comment on so we'll you'll have to stay tuned see what happen you got to hang in
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there wait for it wait for it don't yeah pull off and uh finish it cuz you're
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even though when in a normal Instagram when it says wait for it I say go die I'm not waiting for anything don't tell
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me what to do right cuz it's like eight seconds or 4 seconds wait for I'm here
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wait what am I waiting for I'm watching it all right well here's before I go on that tangent here's Arnold we had a
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blast with and go bu his book it was it's a good book and we did it live at his uh incredible office building
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complex Arnold has just walked into the building he goes you know
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me I see what already not only Lions get out
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of the C long time ago don't say anything if you don't have anything
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so it'll be kind of quiet what is this he's got wires all over let me do your
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trick it's a little how long you guys been doing this this 18 months 18 months
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is that right yeah and how did you end up together we I met him before SNL
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believe it or not in the 80s at the clubs and stuff ' 80s Jesus well whatever and then I moved back down to
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LA and we started hanging out out and then I had a little podcast I was doing he came on then our manager said you got
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to do this so yeah yeah that was it yeah but I think it's a great idea because I think it creates more energy if you have
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two people kind of back and forth type of thing makes it a lot it's a lot yeah
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it makes it go quicker and he's pretty smart and we both know a lot of the same people this guy is and uh he happens
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sorry arold you're smart too oh man me tell you I mean it's it's it's
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really I think this is the first one that we are doing with comedians that's
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a fun one am I right yeah first podcast yeah because I mean you guys made me
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laugh let me tell you more often than anything I mean
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when Conan is a comedian you know not as funny as we are yeah I mean sort of but
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I don't see Conan as much as a a comedian well he's not a standup but
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he's but in general because I know him more as a host right of a of a very
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popular kind of a talk show right they have done his show several times not as but not as a standup comedy and all but
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I mean we have all known each other on a personal level yeah and have had a lot
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of fun together on a personal and then you of course you guys came to the White
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House you know we doing the Hanson France stre because we had this great American
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workout which was kind of like a copy of what Kennedy used to do in the white house because all the other presidents
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really never really capitalized on this idea of president's Council and physical fitness and sports right created on
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Eisenhower but then Kennedy made it kind of become reality I did that in school
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it was when I was in sixth grade it was like 50 push-ups you know pull-ups you did all that you got a medal when you
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could do certain things and so what happened is is that we had now the the the the event the great American white
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workout at the South lawn of the White House yes but you don't just want to make it a fitness event right and make
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it boring so we wanted to make it hip so we asked them Hans and France had to come to the White House and and and
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entertain the people and the kids and everybody and they made everyone laugh and how and it was just huge and it got
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got us also because of them great ratings yeah good all the Press was there and uh you know they were like the
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big shots from Saturday night life and H in France still looking for you know
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Uncle Arnold and all and we walk around and just B around exactly don't undo
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your belt you might C flow L yeah and then flip everyone through the air to landed their own baby poop that was the
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that was one of the best that that in your BS are like marshmallows you're luy I don't have a campfire here so they're
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threatening to burn someone H and fr was so funny it was so great
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when you did it you you didn't help right you just came I was an I was guest
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he he invited me to come to the show and to be a guest there and with Danny Deo
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one time I was there with Danny De Danny was twins yeah and he was like trying to
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attack the a you were holding him back but we didn't know how you were going to react we started doing it and we hear
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Arnold's coming Arnold's coming and then they said Arnold's waiting down the hall this is an 8h and New York so Kevin and
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I are a little nervous we went in and you're in some chair and you lean back and you go how do I do the accent again
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fellas then we knew you loved it well no but to me it was Heaven because you have to understand that when I first wanted
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to get into uh acting one of the first things they said was you that it won't work no one in America has ever made it
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that had an accent no one could be a leading man or anything like this say it's really tough to do people want they
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he someone talk like John Wayne like C Eastwood and or alino this with the guys
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you know so anyway so then I realized that I had to kind of make the accent
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actually something not to hide it but to actually make something off it but then out of nowhere without me controlling it
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they came along and they legitimized it because now there was someone that actually took that subject of accent and
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and had a good time with it not to make fun of it but to actually entertain people with it and to do it overboard
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and so all a sudden from that point on it became much more accepted the whole thing and really became much easier for
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me I didn't even know that it's also comedy and you know you doing a lot of action it's good now you're involved in
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comedy it's just one more thing in the comedy field right that people think of you then it's funny and it's also you were in on the joke you were inside the
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ABS I love having fun I always had a good sense of humor and he always was the first one to be able to make fun of
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myself and of my situation the body you know coming from Germany and all this
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kind of stuff the German accent the flavy little pun arm and the little girly man which girly man was to me was
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just like you know gym talk like you your little puny arms you look like a
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girly man and then when you became Governor sometimes you would use that to describe the legislates right yeah you
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would use some of it that the bunch of G exactly so we we go on you know that we should sign this bill but you know this
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the legisl up they're such girly man they're afraid to do the the hard work and all this stuff
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and they were really offended by the whole thing so I actually stopped it you know because I said you know I want to
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work with those guys I didn't I didn't mean it in a negative negative way I just wanted to actually I didn't want to
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insult them I actually wanted to just entertain the crowd right I was out in the shopping mall and I was like telling
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to the people I said be with me you know like vote for those initiatives that are coming up in November I said you know I
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have to take it directly do you the initiatives because this girly man in Sacramento wouldn't go for it and they
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were laughing you know but they when I went back to Sacramento how could you call us girly man this is not feir you
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know for you to I said I'm sorry I I didn't want to offend you yeah to me it was just silly the New York Times called
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me and tried to get me to explain what it meant and to me it was just two guys
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lifting weights in a gym teasing each other there was no homophobic under not at all but the day you have to be so
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careful when you say all this stuff baby man you're little baby and then they're like why is that against babies and yeah
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this a baby man what I like is we were saying you as a politician are one of
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the few that does you were putting humor in and it does make people listen because you did itoring you had
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nicknames for foes and stuff that's right exactly yeah you you came out of the box as a breath of fresh air in
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California like the anti- politician telling it like it is I remember your first debate I think was the taxes when
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we go to the bathroom in the morning they tax us when we're driving our cars they T you know it was such a when you
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have a cup of coffee they tax us when gas station tax tax morning noon and
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night taxing but that made you stand out but um anyway so your book I read it it's
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called you don't know this but it's called be useful seven tools for Life yes your ghost I'm going to read you one
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chapter this by the way this is true chapter one oh you have the book
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[ __ ] yeah I do I got questions I got books my brother and I I've got three older
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brothers we have this thing that we used to say for years glyman we would always say what would Arnold do when we're up
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against any kind of challenge or something negative I'm not kidding what would Arnold do because I noticed a long
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long now I'm just because I'm with you I'm talking with a slight a accent the whole time but I'm always thinking what
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would Arnold do in this situation which would always be positive always so I'm
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not surprised at all you wrote this book book is a lot about positivity pretty
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much overall yeah it's it's it's about how to how can
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anybody no matter who you are and where you are in the world be more successful
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MH and because there's just certain things that hold us back and it's simple things sometimes like the fear of
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failure uh or picking little goals rather than big goals and whatever it is
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or listening to the Sayers whatever it may be as I'm trying to go through this in this book and to just tell people
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here there's seven rules I could put 15 rules in there but since the publisher said that they should have no more than
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260 pages so we we made it we kept it in that kind of a framework but in any case
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it's basically just simple rules and tools that will help people to become
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more successful and more free and more able to kind of like go and expand and
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uh and you know follow their dreams and how do you create a dream for yourself how do you create a vision for yourself
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and all that so that's what I get into in the book I think lately there's there's sort of a victim card being played too much and uh it's nice to have
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refreshing old school there's a chapter work your ass off it's just very basic but it's not what people say out there
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as much anymore you know yeah yeah but I talk about exactly what I did you know
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when I came over to this country I was into working mhm I was not shying away
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from working I was always say I'm willing to work even though I was a Mr Universe several times over and miss the
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world seven and Miss Olympia Miss Olympia seven times Jesus not at that point then the early 70s I was like five
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times Mr the universe Mr the world Miss International and two times Mr
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Olympia so now there was nowhere already thep it
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was it was it was kind of like uh in bodybuilding there was no money we didn't make any money it's like Miss
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America right so it was like one of those crazy things I still we had to make a living so you know I started a
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mail order business to kind of like sell booklets on how to train your biceps and
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your chest and all those kind of things with 20 steps doing to do that that's right so but the the thing is still we
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need to go and go let's go out and work so my friend Franco Columbo the bodybuilding Champion remember very well
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and loved you and him together that's right yeah yeah so he was a he was a prick layer professional masonry worker
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learned it in Italy and Sardinia then continued working in in Germany that's where I met him and so when he came over
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here and this we kind of always trained together I said to Franco said Franco you're a masonry worker you're brick
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layer why don't we start a brick laying business M I said in America they love
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this European [ __ ] I said you know so we call it as Italian masonry expert
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yeah and we put a little ad in the ear times but the next day after we put this
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ad in beyond our knowledge I mean a earthquake happened expectation the
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earthquake happened it's 1971 expl so a the chimneys fall down
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the patios the walls so now we started getting a it's
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funny nothing to do with it but any the next thing I know is is we
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get all these phone calls you can you come out and give me an estimate how to build rebuild my chimney and how to
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rebuild my fireplace how to do my patio I have a huge crack going through the whole patio and we cannot continue like
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that blah blah blah so Frank and I started going out and doing estimates and of course we we were not really
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experienced in all this stuff so we just started you know measuring the stuff and then we had always arguments uh about
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you know I was always kind of like the good guy he was the bad Italian who always charges too much and then they I
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would say this is outrageous frankly you cannot judge in a$ 7,600 for this stuff we can do it
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cheaper than that no no no no and it would be then we started in German and in Italian we started arguing no one
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understood what we were saying and you just imagine I said to the I wouldn't say to the customer said well I got him
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down now finally see we can do it for $5,000 and they say thank you so much and they hugged me and then we did the
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job and teach Street smarts like that one is the Italian name in the paper and then the collapsing but then this whole
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song and dance I mean that's just like Street smarts or what would you call that I well but remember that I when I
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uh uh was in in school uh I was an apprentice in selling
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oh so so so so when I was 15 years old instead of going to uh go on to a
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university career or anything this I learned to be a sales person and uh so I
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was kind of an apprentice for 3 years and I learned how to sell so sell sell
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sell this is in I have one of the chapters in the book that is in there because I realized of how important
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selling is so the art of selling was in this case was when I go to a customer
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and he says can you show can you tell me how much it costs to redo this chimney
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uh it sounds better if you go like you do in the store 50% off yes no matter
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what but first they add the 50% and then they give you 50% off so I mean so so my idea was I said I measured it out and I
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said to Frank I said I think it would cost us by the time we buy the material which would be $2,000 our workmanship it
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would take us a week to do this $1,500 each is $3,000 so that's $5,000 so then
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Frank said yeah 5,000 we can do it so then I will go to the guy says he want $7,800 and the guy with free God oh my
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God I don't know if I can afford what this this is like outrageous let me work on it and so I will go to Frank then all
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of a sudden we will have this screaming match in the corner
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this and all the stuff and then the next thing is they go back to the guy and says I brought him down to $5,000 the
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guy say oh thank God thank God and they will hug me and we get the job you know so this is it's about so we we gave them
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a good deal but I mean we also kind of sold the idea that they got a special special deal did you do you do physical
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work or just sort of yeah no I was the I was the guy that was mixing the cement
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and and the sand the water so I had I I picked up the the the mixer at the
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construction uh place where you rent construction equipment and I picked it up with my car they put it on in the
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back and I just took it to the construction you just use blenders to save money and I just
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exactly didn't they notice how how pumped up you guys were did they comment on it song on theed and what did you say
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we said bodybuilders bodybuilders and they said but why do you we really
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didn't want to say that we have to work for a living we just said said look we have two choices one of the things is I
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lost one of the Mr Universe cus because they didn't have enough of a tan so that's why you're out there I
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said so I said which was in Florida which is really true one of the reasons was I didn't have a 10 the other one was
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it was a little bit too chubby I didn't wasn't cut enough exactly so so anyway so I said you know
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I lost my bodybuilding competition because I didn't have enough of a tan I said that will never ever happen again I
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said so now not only am I training every day on Muscle Beach down there in Venice
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Beach you on the weightlifting platform I said but I want to work out here we rip off the shirt and we work outside
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because then you get the natural tan all over the place get brown I said and that this way how we can win so this is
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why we work a few hours every day in the sun right you this was one of the this was one of the rap I said he happens to
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be a brick layer an outstanding brick layer from Italy he did all the special masonry work he work in the
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Vatican basically built the
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Vatican so I don't want to jump ahead here but then is the biggest selling point you did and how did you apply this
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to selling yourself to Hollywood not wanting to play the second or third lead
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but starting at movie star yeah did he not did you not do any uh what most
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people do small part small part or you no I I did but my goal was to be a
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leading man yeah so uh I remember for instance Lucio ball will call me Shez
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and uh I was at G gym working out and she saw me on a murf Griffin show Arnold
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and she said she she called me Arnold oh is is Lucy a little bit of smoking yeah
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that's right and and so she says I saw you on the M Griffin show I want you to
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come in and read for this part uh Joe sandal uh which is uh a mass from Italy
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there's an Italian accent but most people don't know the difference between a German accent Italian accent blah blah blah come on in and read and so I would
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go in and I was say oh my God there's a TV show with art Cony Lucio ball art con
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just won the Academy Awards and and all that stuff this was like really big so I went in there and um she opened up the
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script and said they read this part but I had no idea what that means so I so
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she says she says well I need I need to come in and you know my back hurts and say U how do you know how to massage and
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I said my name is Joe sandal and I am from
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Italy I'm a truck driver from Italy and in Italy every truck driver also does
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massages and she says oh wait yeah you went to my acting she say let's go and take the script away yeah no SC she says
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the idea of it is this blah so she explained to me the idea and then she ask me some questions and then I would
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just say yeah for me to I'm a truck driver and my name is Joe Sando and of course in Italy everyone do do massages
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and then she was like laughing and everyone else was laughing and then she says you see guys I told you I told you
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he will be good I mean you know he's not used to the script idea and the reading idea but I mean he can by the time we
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shoot this next Friday he will be perfect I promise you guys that and you are you here ready to be here every day
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for rehearsal and I I didn't even know what rehearsal meant but in any case but
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the B said yeah yeah whatever you want me to do I do and so I came every day I worked with her every day she was very
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patient patient and uh we shot in on Friday and she kept saying he says and
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you need to project more you need to project more because we're shooting life so I had no idea with life life meant I
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had no idea that meant so anyway we rehearsed and rehearsed and then we shot
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this scene that I'm ringing the doorbell the green light lights up but
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the door and I open not the door she opens up the door and she says you are
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the mass I say yeah I'm the M uh you know she just come on in and as I go in
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then all of a sudden huge Applause oh my God you don't know that there's people
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so now I'm standing with my massage table and I'm looking out like this staring out I'm in shock I'm frozen
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first time you frozen so this is not what the scene supposed to be to be frozen to come in there and to be like
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this Italian Flo guy that opens up the massage table professionally Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck boom flips it open and say
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it lie down you know I'm not standing there like this you know totally frozen
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and then she says well on the massaging me get the table set up so she immediately saw oh yeah totally and then
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so I said oh yeah yeah yeah exactly and the Applause continue on so I flipped the table over and now of course I only
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had the tank top on so I had like the big guns hanging out and the whole thing you app it was it was fantastic the
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whole thing art Connie came in in the middle of the scene the whole thing was like a seven minute scene and it played
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like a jewel I remembered all my lines she said it was fantastic and then I tell you something from that moment on
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Lucio ball as long as she lived she always wrote me a letter every
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movie that I did after that she saw me in Streets of San Francisco to play a guest starring role which I got after
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that two years later she saw stay hungry when they came out with he directed me
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Jeff Bridges and Sally Fields she wrote me a letter I'm so proud of you arold you're fantastic I knew you had this
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potential you're going to be a big star I mean what a sweetthe of a woman a tough as she was everyone knows she was
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one of the tough toughest women in town uh you know and a Connie could tell you
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that because she kind of directed the show even though she was not the director and then Gary Morton who was
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her husband could also tell you how tough she was Studio I did a pilot with
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Desi Ares Jr called whacked out and we're doing the pilot audience is there and we're really bombing I mean it's
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silent and all of a sudden I hear a voice from the bleachers going what's wrong with you people so Lucille Ball
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had grabbed the microphone and was yelling at the audience this is funny then the whole audience flipped out made
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a big line and it took an hour and a half for everyone to get her autograph
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that's fantastic you know for her to take time to do that with you is pretty nice because she could have just said
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tough reading get out you know next but AB to work with you and to be that big
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of a star and and get you going and that was really probably one of the biggest things even just confidence-wise yeah no
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but I I as much as people were negative about the idea of a muscle guy getting
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into movies because they what they felt kind of the 60s the era of the Hercules
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movies Reeves and the rid Park and Mar forest and ly and you know Gordon mellin
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all those guys kind bad movies or be movies they were little they were not significant movies but I mean for me big
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because when I was 15 years old and I saw Steve Reeves and R park on the screen said oh my God can you believe
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bodybuilders then become leading man in movies so that was my motivation get
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into bodybuilding I said myself oh then I can be an actor so then then I go to Hollywood there's Muscle Beach and
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there's Hollywood so you have your own fantasies as a kid with 15 so that was my fantasy and that made my fantasy
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become a reality and I talk about that in the book how important it is that we have a vision and that we have a goal
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and that we have something to chase no matter how stupid it may sound to other people but just don't listen to the
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naysayers chase your dreams and that's exactly what I did and that part of the book don't listen that seems like a lot
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of people like I would get my feelings hurt a lot in the early days before I got on site live if someone if someone
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said I wasn't good or whatever what are the Mind Tricks you played to get around that like they're saying you're terrible
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you're nothing this isn't going to make it that's not good and you twisted in your mind you know I didn't have to
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really twist much because I just saw my vision very clearly in front of me of me
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becoming eventually a Mr Universe for me eventually coming to America and eventually getting in the movies I saw
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that and it was so believable that I had such faith in my Vision that uh there
00:28:00
was no one that could talk me out of it they just didn't get it in your head you're like well I understood that when
00:28:06
someone has never done something like like you know Nelson Nelson monel always said you know everything is always
00:28:12
impossible until someone does it and this is exactly there was no Austrian ever that became Mr Universe so when I
00:28:19
say I want to be Mr Universe of course they laughed you know because they thought well if he says he wants to be a ski Champion that makes sense but not to
00:28:26
be a Mr Universe be a weightlift or something like this weightlifting was kind of dominated by the Russians
00:28:32
bodybuilding was dominated by the Americans or by the British so I mean what is he talking about so you beat the odds once in a big way and now you're
00:28:39
going to do it in an even bigger way to come all over to America and know the language did you know the language at
00:28:44
all when you got here it took you a while no I mean there was a lot of subtle things like I said when Lucy Ball said we we going to go and read come
00:28:51
over to for read I did not know what that meant I did not know when she said we're going to shoot this life that this
00:28:57
means there will be a live audience and we will be live to filming and not taping and stuff like that so all of
00:29:04
this stuff I did not know but I learned the language quickly went to college I remember I went to Santa Monica City
00:29:09
College and took English classes and then eventually took business classes and all the stuff that they learned as
00:29:15
an apprentice selling marketing publicity and uh accounting mathematics
00:29:21
and all this stuff micro and microeconomics and know and then then eventually got a degree in that which
00:29:28
was also not something that I planned on doing but I was like going part-time to college uh for eight
00:29:34
years I mean think about it from 1969 to 1977 there was like I just wanted to
00:29:42
educate myself and I didn't have a student visa so I couldn't go full-time to college so I had to always just take
00:29:48
two classes so sometimes even to cheat a little bit I took two classes at Santa Monica City College and then at night I
00:29:55
would go with the UCLA and take some extension courses and then sometimes they would take classes at West Los
00:30:01
Angeles College and stuff like that but eventually got enough got like almost 300 units of credits and they give me a
00:30:07
degree you know it's so easy to quit along the way in this Sky there's so many hard obstacles that people just go
00:30:12
I can't do that years colge I forget it I have a question did you when you were thinking of your vision Mr Olympia this
00:30:18
and when you envision yourself as a movie star did you envision Conan the Barbarian did you ever Envision Twins
00:30:25
and Kindergarten Cop it evolved no the barbar I mean physicality John Wayne
00:30:31
what I envisioned was like just like you know re Park and Steve Reeves I said myself maybe I can somehow use the
00:30:37
muscles and get into the movies I did not know that that there are errors yeah
00:30:44
you know that there was the 60s was the muscle era where they made all these muscle movies and stuff like that that
00:30:50
the 70s would be kind of like the opposite and all of a sudden Woody Island and Dustin
00:30:56
h ex be the stars and so everyone said to me arold those guys weigh 100 pound less
00:31:02
than you do we can't put you in a movie with those guys it doesn't work you know so so so forget about it so it was all
00:31:09
that that kind of thing so but eventually I think that after they did stay hungry yeah and they played a
00:31:16
bodybuilding champion and stay hungry in a movie and people and they got the uh the Golden Globe awards for best acting
00:31:25
debut for that movie so that really helped me did you improvise those lines though Su up no no there was the the in
00:31:31
stay hungry was all written mm and uh you really you were natural in that and well thank you and then pumping AR came
00:31:38
out and then then that was a big hit yeah and so then over a sudden people
00:31:43
started saying it was pumping H actually that made Ed prman who just passed away recently famous producer yeah who saw me
00:31:51
in pumping iron and then got the rights of the Conan the con
00:31:58
ining over to like more mainstream and then you're going to get away from only strongman Parts like what I moved here I
00:32:05
got a script the first time I just read it to them they handed me the script and I just read it back to them and they're like what are you doing I'm like I don't
00:32:10
know you know because you know they go come read it was the same thing I don't know sides all the lingo I didn't know
00:32:17
and I it was hard for me to get work and I'm only this strong so I know it's a little bit of a detriment Dave did you
00:32:22
find it tells you something about yourself like me in the early 80s I go to audition walk in a room and I see
00:32:28
babyfaced guys with weak chins and little arms baby man they all look like
00:32:34
me you know I mean you would walk in reading for something would you see a lot of other big guys waiting to read no
00:32:40
I never read again you never read that was it no never no never I I I knew that
00:32:48
this auditioning this is not my bag not my but for some reason the other from
00:32:54
that point on it always came to me like Bob Ron came to me and said I want you
00:33:00
to do stay hungry but you have to take acting classes yeah I get you you know with this guy Eric Morris who is an
00:33:06
acting coach he says he was working with Chuck Nicholson and blah blah blah he says I want you to to take acting
00:33:12
lessons and then you will come in for a reading so I was like working with this
00:33:17
guy for four months you weren't audition before I go about bra this as a joke in a way and he has to someone tape it and
00:33:25
I came in and I did scenes for him and
00:33:30
uh but it was basically already signed for the movie right so it was not really that was in danger but so anyway I did I
00:33:37
did the scenes and he again was very very complimentary but this is the this
00:33:42
is the the the sweetness of people in this town that I noticed kind of how
00:33:47
supportive they can be like Bob R immediately says stop it I said what he
00:33:53
says look at my hair look at my ha here in my forarm okay I see you here in a for he
00:34:02
says it's standing up do you know this here in my form when it stands up it means they totally bought in a scene so
00:34:09
what you just did I totally bought in it was so touching it was so emotional it
00:34:14
was so well delivered out we don't even have to go any further this is it you have the partow this how it would would
00:34:20
be like that and the same was with Jeff Bridges and with s Fields then know I was a beginner on this whole thing but
00:34:27
oh man they were so supportive when we did the scenes Sally Fields was like
00:34:33
extraordinary and was Jeff bridg is so supportive and everything time I had I had really a good good experience and
00:34:41
then I think lansberg when he hired me for you know the Chan Mansfield story with Lonnie Anderson where I played
00:34:47
Mickey hag day you know because Lonnie uh chane Mansfield's husband was a
00:34:53
Hungarian guy right so and and and so he was Mr Universe and so I played that
00:35:00
character basically and so with an accent it was the accent was perfect then eventually I got then the Conan gig
00:35:08
yeah and it was a big International kind of a movie with Universal Studios how much of that gross like 200 million or
00:35:15
something no no in those days there was no 200 million but I mean it grossed on think 70 8
00:35:22
million it was like it was like really it was big and it was number one at the
00:35:27
box office when it opened up so everyone was really happy and they signed me up for a second one and that's when I was
00:35:33
my first the second conter I made the first million dollars and how old were
00:35:39
you when you first made that million on the second conter movie about 30 been like 33 34 years old what did that mean
00:35:47
to you coming from where you came from in Austria to get a million well my my dream was I said I want to be like cint
00:35:53
Eastwood because cleint Eastwood Charles Bronson and malam brond were the only guys that were going over getting over
00:36:00
million dollars a movie in the 70s the early 70s so they were like the Kings so
00:36:05
I said to myself wouldn't it be cool if I get a million dollars the movie you I always shot for the Stars always big the
00:36:12
big dream and then eventually it happened so I I felt fantastic I felt
00:36:17
delighted that they made a million dollars and that I'm a millionaire but I was already a millionaire before then
00:36:24
because I was insisting on making my money in real estate you know like for
00:36:30
instance this building that we're sitting in right now I built it in 1984 so 1984 I
00:36:36
bought I least was no it was not before Conan but it was before it was before we
00:36:44
we went terminated on all those and where did you get the money to buy the real estate well I was I was working on
00:36:49
construction S I was doing exhibitions and all and I started saving money and then there was an apartment building for
00:36:56
sale s in Santa Monica for
00:37:01
$240,000 now that's like the day yeah you know the $10 million I don't know
00:37:07
what but in any case it was $240,000 and I needed
00:37:12
$37,000 down payment I had in my bank account
00:37:18
27 so I went to Joe weeder who was the publisher of the bodybuilding magazine
00:37:24
exactly and I said can you go and loan me $10,000 for one
00:37:29
year and he said absolutely and so you would loan me the the $110,000 I will
00:37:35
put the $37,000 down and I bought this building uh this office building two
00:37:41
years later someone comes to me and offers me know $500,000 for the same building this is
00:37:48
how much real estate went up in the 70s because of the high inflation rate right so I now immediately sold this building
00:37:54
took the profit and traded up to to a 12 unit apartment building then I sold that
00:37:59
2 years later and traded up to a 36 unit apartment build book on how did become a
00:38:05
millionaire so I was like really very quickly in the in the 70s I was already
00:38:11
a millionaire without giving away numbers
00:38:18
but I'm always fascinated how much real estate did you end up buying and it was it all Southern California where you
00:38:24
bought property did you buy it other places I always also in other places in Colorado for instance we bought a whole
00:38:30
Square Block in Colorado and then eventually there was a high build on it yeah how much was a square block Square
00:38:36
block going it was it was it was not that because we bought up pieces at the
00:38:42
time yeah and then eventually was a square block and then we were able to sell this to someone that wanted to
00:38:47
build a highrise and then we were able to get cut in 10% of the highrise and blah blah blah and all that stuff so
00:38:53
anyway so I was always felt very comfortable with the real estate business but at the same time the rule
00:38:59
is don't have all your IRS in the same fire so I was you know investing in stocks and the bars and all kinds of
00:39:06
other kind of like startup businesses and so on and so um my investments
00:39:12
always were very good I never lost money on any investment as far as that goes there was a huge and listen to this it
00:39:18
was really funny because I bought the first money I got I saved I bought land
00:39:24
out in the anope valley mhm why because I read somewhere when I came over to
00:39:31
this country that they're going to build a supersonic airport out there and so oh
00:39:36
I'm gonna go without telling anyone I'm going to sneak out there I'm G to buy some property with a knife in yourth and
00:39:43
so this is what I did I bought for $5,000 I had only $1,000 so I had to pay
00:39:48
off the $55,000 I bought this property out there and then of course they never built the airport I thought the unit
00:39:55
States Air Force is out there with the a but they mean the supersonic airport they passed a law an international law
00:40:01
that said no supersonic aircrafts can fly over land so that only over the ocean so that killed the idea and so
00:40:09
they kept the LA airport here so my investment went down the tube so everyone was laughing about it you know
00:40:16
but here's what I thing Joe weo said to me he says I don't know don't worry about it
00:40:21
this will be a good investment for your grandchildren yeah keep it forget about
00:40:27
it yeah I did I totally forgot about it and I kept it today it's worth $1.5
00:40:34
million just to show you a $5,000 property so I didn't even lose money on
00:40:40
that investment so this is just to show you that uh you know if you really hold on to talk more about rest of the
00:40:48
podcast how to uh invest Arnold what would you do after what was
00:40:54
after the one you just said oh Conan what was the first sort of mainstream Conan 2 and then well what was that was
00:41:01
kind of mainstream the funny thing was my my dreams and my desires
00:41:07
grew and I'm sure it's the same with you first you want to stand up com but then he said wouldn't you be great if I do a
00:41:14
TV show wouldn't be great if I do a movie what so it grows you know you get
00:41:19
more and more hungry and so the same thing happened to me I said to myself wouldn't it be cool if I could do movies
00:41:25
that doesn't rely on muscles right so what what happened was Jim Cameron comes
00:41:31
along yeah and he says to me m Mike medavoy and they say to me he says do
00:41:36
you want to do this movie called Terminator and I said uh yeah I said
00:41:43
that would be great can you send me the script they said sure So send me the script and they said it would be this character Reese which is the hero
00:41:50
character in the movie and I said uh that would be a really great great role and then this for some reason or the
00:41:56
other when I met with Jim Cameron and we uh had lunch I talked the entire lunch
00:42:02
about Terminator here's a Jim I said I know
00:42:09
you have not directed much but but I say here's what is important when you direct
00:42:14
this guy whoever plays the ter at that he says well the character that we hired
00:42:19
for it is OJ Simpson he says but the studio is kind
00:42:25
of like negative about him because they think that he cannot sell the idea of
00:42:30
being killing machine oh he says o is not enough of a killer he's kind of nice
00:42:36
uh he looks he looks too soft for that so these are direct quotes look s and
00:42:42
this is the truth I mean this is like unbelievable doing HS commer and uh and and and so they said so this is not
00:42:49
really set in stone the whole thing is say but uh after listening to you she
00:42:56
Jim Cameron said after listening to you talking to me about the Terminator that he has to be trained to be like a
00:43:03
machine and he cannot walk like a human being that he cannot talk like a human
00:43:08
being say you're absolutely correct you take on it is perfect why don't you play
00:43:14
the Terminator yeah and I said no no no no no I said look I want to play Reese I
00:43:19
want to be the hero not the villain I'm set up in my mind well the way I shoot
00:43:24
it out it would be like a hero and a villain hero because he does all this unbelievable things and wipes everyone
00:43:31
out villain because he's a machine but you don't have to be responsible perally
00:43:37
personally because you're a machine you're directed by some higher Powers it's not like you going around killing
00:43:43
things so I said oh let me think about it and so for for a few days I thought
00:43:48
about it and then I said myself he's actually right if he shoots this the right way this could be really cool and
00:43:54
then they called him back and they said okay okay I'm in and so there was the first movie where I wear through whole
00:44:01
come no never it was like jacket leather jacket and the whole thing like that and
00:44:06
from then I got the offer to do after Terminator to do commander and after that to do Predator Running Man and it
00:44:14
went on and on and on seen every one of your movies a said I was in I was accepted in Hollywood as the action hero
00:44:22
and it was all came from Conan and from Terminator so this kind of it was my launching pad and you God you just had
00:44:29
such a run at you know Dana I saw a a copy of Terminator when you said you know your catchphrases are very short
00:44:35
which is smart I saw an early copy when you say come with me if you want to live
00:44:40
yeah and it was come with me if you want to live because I know all the shortcuts in town I we can go down the 710 and we
00:44:48
can get in a carpool lane and the and the monster robot only can drive in the regular because he's one person and I
00:44:55
think it was better you tightened it because that seemed like a you want to live yeah you didn't want to get me too
00:45:01
wordy in yeah I was too wordy and so the final script come with me if you want to live they cut all that out and it was Bo
00:45:09
there's a lot of you had a lot of good ones did you know at the time when you do those that these might be sort of cool little things to say no no we don't
00:45:15
know I we never know what will hit and what would what people really like I
00:45:21
mean you wish you can say that and say oh this was written this way or I improvised that it's not that wouldn't
00:45:26
be true the reality of it is we had no no idea that even I'll be back will be a
00:45:32
line that would be the most repeated kind of line you know we just I was
00:45:37
arguing with Jim Cameron endlessly about I will be back he says now I wrote I'll
00:45:43
be back I'm going to say I will be back because I don't like the AL this L thing
00:45:49
sounds little weird I said I will be back and he says who the [ __ ] wrote the
00:45:55
script yeah are you the script writer now or am I the script writer I say you're the script writer and he says
00:46:01
okay so we say I'll be back and if you want we can shoot it 10 different ways if that makes you feel comfortable he
00:46:07
says but so let's just do that I'll be back not I will be back that's [ __ ] and so I was arguing with him about
00:46:15
funny is Lu he was so right and he made he made I will be back sounds almost
00:46:20
more robotic than you were right yeah I know but I mean so he just L I'll be back you know and and so we did it 10
00:46:27
times and uh when the movie came out everyone wanted me to repeat that line
00:46:33
and so you don't know we had no idea this is going to happen we had no idea that you know kind of like all the stuff
00:46:39
you know ASA list the baby in Terminator too uh you know or get to the choer the
00:46:45
stupid lines get to the choer just because the way I say it because I we can I can Germans cannot pronounce the A
00:46:51
on the end everything ah chaper it's not a
00:46:57
Tuma so when I said so when I said it's not a Tuma when be rehearsed for kindergarten
00:47:06
cup mhm and I did a rehearsal with the kids and that's it's not tumor all the
00:47:12
kids started laughing even though it was supposed to be an intense scene then Ian rman looked and said this is funny they
00:47:19
all laughing he says say the same way don't change so anyway so so this lines became
00:47:26
kind of famous because the way I say it with my accent and so if someone else would have said it wouldn't have meant
00:47:32
anything it's musical musicality I will be back has a different Rhythm comedically I'll be back ex so intense
00:47:40
didn't you do some where you would drop guys off thanks for dropping by and you drop off a cliff those kind of L the guy
00:47:46
says you promised to kill me last you know Sally I said Sally remember I
00:47:52
promised to kill you last and he says yeah yeah I said I li
00:47:57
justo Mr free had a couple everyone old kids said running around and the parents were saying you say you promised me that
00:48:04
you're not going to get an F in school I lied I lie great the kids you have more
00:48:10
comedy hits than most comedians to be honest but you know when when we talking about growing your vision like the last
00:48:18
thing I ever thought about doing was was was doing comedies yeah and uh but then
00:48:23
when I was doing a bunch of movies movies I said to myself wouldn't it be cool if I could do a comedy because I
00:48:29
felt I had a sense of humor yes I agree that I didn't understand the American
00:48:36
sense of humor as well so that's why I asked my buddy Milton Pearl to teach me
00:48:42
about comedy yeah Milton Pearl yeah so he would write he Wass with Lucille Ball as well yeah but he would write jokes
00:48:49
for me all the time Milton B and so he always you know called me [ __ ] Nazi
00:48:56
have to write the [ __ ] jokes for this Nazi God damn it you know you know he
00:49:01
loved hanging out with me and smoking cigars with me because of him I really got into the cigar smoking actually but
00:49:07
it was like he was really really funny and he would then go and start writing stuff for me when I was doing speeches
00:49:14
you know and he would say say he can't go out there in a speech and start with a serious note you got to go and say
00:49:19
first make the people like you so say something funny right you know go out there and just say you know what you
00:49:26
probably wonder what what am I doing here at the medical convention in Vegas but you know the the Dr s came up to me
00:49:33
and says I I love you because you're a real good American and you believe in free speech right and I said yeah of
00:49:39
course I believe in free speech good because you're going to give one in Vegas and June 14th you know so so then
00:49:45
the people laugh and they says and then they like you and now whatever you say they will like you I so there was Milton
00:49:50
pe's kind of a thing so he would write little jokes and little lines for me for the beginning to get to get going with
00:49:57
with the Spees Lucille Ball Milton bro you got some
00:50:04
good yeah do you remember with the movie we almost went we wrote a script it was called Hans and fron the goodly man
00:50:11
dilemma that we were going to do with you didn't get made but it was a funny script well just just I had that
00:50:18
conversation just recently with Conan no well with Conan yes but I mean we also
00:50:23
internally had it because I said there are several scripts I said that were offered to me
00:50:31
that I didn't do for whatever the reasons were you know they were dismissed or they were never made or or
00:50:38
I couldn't wait they couldn't wait for me so they someone else you know like the Rock the movie The you know the rock
00:50:47
with the there was with the uh with with the Sean Conor Sean Conor exactly and
00:50:53
what's the the actor's name again Nick Cage Nick Cage exactly ni nich's cage and so I was going to do that but I mean
00:51:00
they couldn't wait for me because I was doing another movie first and all that stuff so there were certain but the one
00:51:05
movie that I always loved that I even would do the day is the the the the script that we
00:51:14
had yeah together where Hans and France finally comes to find the uncle and then
00:51:20
I was staying in his house yes and I remember it was so funny yes and I just
00:51:27
remember when you guys you came to me and you said I have to go to the bathroom where where's the bathroom and
00:51:34
they said you go down the hall and where you see the Delta it you go left then you see a calf you go right and then you
00:51:41
see exactly there all these huge sculptures of my body all over the house
00:51:47
and this was the direction that I gave you guys it was just so stupid so [ __ ] funny oh yeah and you had a war
00:51:53
room we went into where you had it was a whole whole puzzle whole like a Monopoly game but Studios paramont 20 and you had
00:52:00
little you're pushing pieces around Stallone is going to do a movie over the 20th Century Fox we counter Pont with a
00:52:07
comedy you know exactly all of it was having fun with the image of Arnold SW
00:52:13
at that time and and what you guys did in satday night life yes it was the idea was that they took the Saturday night
00:52:19
life idea where you were searching for me mhm and uh running in different kind
00:52:25
of situations but here you were actually you found me in this movie and now it
00:52:31
goes on from what what do we do together and so it was hilarious the script so I
00:52:37
mean I think it still could be funny uh we read it we read it on Conan's podcast
00:52:42
and it had a big reaction people really liked it it it's from a different era in the sense that it's really big funny and
00:52:49
silly which I don't think they make enough of those mov you can modernize it oh yeah if you get a ride of the day
00:52:55
yeah if you guys sit down instead reworking it what works today and do it for Netflix let's say you know for that
00:53:01
audience I mean imagine they the smash that would be lot of laughing From Here to Eternity a lot of visual come out at
00:53:09
Christmas time or before Christmas I mean it would be just it would be fantastic I'm around I'm around with in
00:53:15
a second but yeah it was just a funny script and you were uh it was a hilarious part for you but you know life
00:53:22
is what it is exactly you know you just keep moving on to your the chapter at
00:53:27
the end about just giving back you know and you're talking about Milton Burl helping you Lucille Ball and now you
00:53:33
must find chances or do young movie stars look you up or ask you or give
00:53:39
advice or you're you're a mentor of how to I don't know is there anyone more
00:53:44
successful this will sound I'm kissing your ass but is there any been anyone like you in the last 40 50 years that
00:53:52
come to America from another country from extreme poverty and do all these things and then here you are
00:53:58
now um still going and you know I I don't know I think that one of
00:54:04
the people that I always admired a lot that came to America with the age of 15
00:54:11
I think was Henry Kissinger yeah and he's still around and Henry
00:54:16
Kissinger had an unbelievable career yeah academic career and political
00:54:22
career and it was just a genius foreign policy kind of a guy and all that so
00:54:28
there look there's a lot of people Elon Musk and people like that that that have come to this country remember Elon Musk
00:54:35
would be an one of the things no matter who it is no matter how many there are
00:54:41
one thing we know for sure that there's no other country in the world where we
00:54:47
could have done that no other country I mean if I think about and I'm pretty
00:54:53
much aware of the world because I travel a lot and through bodybuilding and movie
00:54:59
promotion and when I was governor to do trade missions all over the world and all of that stuff but there's just no
00:55:05
place and even today a play at a time when we have difficulty in America you know where the
00:55:11
parties don't get along and they can't get much done and all this stuff even during that time when I travel around I
00:55:18
don't see anyone coming up to me and saying oh Arnold can you help me get a
00:55:24
Visa to uh Jordan or ar can you help me to get a
00:55:30
visa to Russia or can you help me to get to South Africa or something like that no I mean it's all about America AR
00:55:37
please help me can you write a later letter for the immigration office you know I want to get to America I want to
00:55:43
be in America so this is the number one country still by far it's the most
00:55:48
desirable place to for people to come it's the only place where someone like myself can come and make it and make it
00:55:55
big and make all his dreams become a reality what are we doing right because we we're pretty self-critical as a
00:56:00
nation right now about America but you have a perspective unique to people who are born here tend to take it for
00:56:08
granted but what are we doing right so that people can come in and and have a life like you've had in America the but
00:56:16
people can and people do today because the economic freedom Bas I think it is
00:56:21
the economic freedom I think it is just that it has its
00:56:27
downfalls and it has its big advantages and the advantages are more than uh our
00:56:34
disadvantages and that's what makes us so great yes we have problems and all that but I mean it's still anyone can
00:56:40
come still today the America and really become kind of very successful I see it
00:56:47
all the time in a smaller way even I see people coming from I see this one guy
00:56:52
was coming from Israel uh to gge gym he was working out for a while then all a sudden he was like a personal trainer
00:56:59
and the next thing I know he's driving around driving up with an Austin Mar and the next day with the jaguar and the
00:57:06
guy's getting a $100 an hour he works 15 hours a day MH 15 hours a day it's
00:57:14
talking about working your ass off right what we talked about earlier this is this guy believes in working so he
00:57:20
drives these fancy cars he has nice girls around he trains people there gym he's doing exactly what he wants to do
00:57:27
he's from Israel just came over here a few years ago yeah and the same is with you know French guy that is the same
00:57:33
thing I know this one girl that is from Sweden she's a personal trainer and she's making a fortune and all this so
00:57:39
you this is unlike any other place you know and so I think this is really the
00:57:44
place to be and um where people can be successful and I think America should be
00:57:49
proud of that and you're right when you're an American yeah you take it for granted when you're American you
00:57:56
sometimes don't appreciate how great this country really is and the thing
00:58:03
that that everyone has to do is and I talk about this in the last chapter is this country was
00:58:09
built by hardworking men and women that have
00:58:14
sacrificed that were not just looking forward to the glory but
00:58:19
sacrificed and I think that today's kids have to started that history because it
00:58:26
will make them wake up and say I cannot be this little girly
00:58:32
man well put because of social can be this guy that is staying in bed I want
00:58:38
to sleep in or I want to feel good oh I want to be treated kind of fearly and
00:58:44
and and nice and stuff no this is a tough World get up at 5:00 in the morning 6 o' in the morning and kick
00:58:51
some serious ass go to work whatever you do the days 24 hours you can do it and
00:58:57
this is how we make this country you know not only great but keep it the greatest country in the world is by not
00:59:04
babing ourselves and not by kind of like taking it easy and trying to sleep in and I want to feel better and all this
00:59:10
kind of stuff but to kind of do the same thing as they did in the old days work your butt off it's like T Ted Turner
00:59:17
always said you know early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise this is where the action is you know and
00:59:23
I I believe in that you know but is important to know that we got to grind it out and we cannot just always look
00:59:29
for the pleasures but there is punishment there is hardship there's failure there is tough times that you go
00:59:37
through but that's all okay we got to go and have a Clear Vision Chast that vision and then there will be struggles
00:59:44
and all that stuff the more struggles we have the tougher we will get MH and uh
00:59:52
the more failures we have the more more we learn and the more successful we can get I mean remember what the Michael
00:59:58
Jordan said I miss 5,000 shots and I I I lost you know 20 some 80
01:00:05
games MH but I became the greatest basketball player because of it you know what I've learned so it's don't be
01:00:11
afraid of failure is one of the chapters that I have in in in the book and so I
01:00:16
think it's it's hard work not being afraid of failure to grind it out to
01:00:21
have a Clear Vision not listen to the naysayers pick big goals so those are the kind of rules that I talk about in a
01:00:28
book uh because that's what we need to do in order to be successful as a person and as a country yeah and I think that
01:00:35
you know it's in your book but that you you just have you in the end of the day and sometimes don't look at social media
01:00:41
too much and get tricked out that this person did nothing and is a millionaire but what what I found a few times just
01:00:48
being driven around the country to gigs and I have first generation immigrants driving me from Russia wherever this one
01:00:55
Russian guy goes I try to open business in Russia someone stop I try to to hire
01:01:00
more employees they say stop I come to America I start to do same thing no one
01:01:05
say stop no one told me to stop who are you now almost every time I I own the
01:01:11
business I just like you're C I drive you Mr K but so that's the idea is it's
01:01:16
nothing I think the secret SCE of America if you put the work in consistently and are willing to fail
01:01:22
over and over again there is some great stuff that will happen to you emotionally mentally and hopefully you
01:01:27
will experience success it won't stop you you're absolutely right because no
01:01:33
one has ever said to me you can't they would say I think this is impossible or
01:01:39
this their asay and they say no one has ever done it before but no one said I would not allow you to do that right
01:01:45
there's no such no one you've already done four movies it's your turn now you go back for know it's going to do win
01:01:50
exactly yeah no such thing so you know so I have to always say that none of it that I
01:01:58
accomplished would have been possible if I wouldn't have been in America mhm yeah
01:02:04
wow well see this here yeah see the hair hairs on my arms actually mine's here yeah monstrous forearms of yours look at
01:02:12
this all pumped up how do you do it I do a lot of push-ups I I just push-ups are
01:02:17
my main thing if I can't get to the gym but I try to you know I keep going yeah
01:02:23
you know I'm just my excuse I always tell people you occupy a room but you
01:02:28
live here so work on this this is where you're living you got to occupy this but
01:02:34
that's right you can't get away no matter where you go there you are yeah that's well Arnold Total Recall line Total Recall
01:02:42
remember Total Recall when I check in on the beginning that they say to me to to to to sell this implant they say what is
01:02:48
always the same wherever you go you you there you are say but here we told Reco
01:02:54
oh we're going to help you with that you can become kind of an agent secret agent you can have this wonderful woman you
01:03:00
can do this you can conquer the blah blah so this is the whole thing is the whole line is about that do you have a
01:03:06
favorite movie uh no because it's like you know it's like I I love
01:03:13
twins with anyo but at the same time I love you know Terminator and I love you
01:03:19
know Predator True Lies I mean it's very hard to pick you know one there's some
01:03:24
movies that were fun to make like Kindergarten Cop to work with those 20 kids that was really a lot of fun yeah
01:03:31
um but there's other movies that were really hard to make like True Lies We were shooting like for six months on
01:03:37
this movie for winter scenes and summer scenes in the snow in the cold freezing cold it was just torturous and then 80
01:03:44
Days Night shooting and all that stuff but it was a fun movie to watch what just for the fans that are listening at
01:03:50
the end of Predator you got rigged log to kill or something it's what did you say what are
01:03:57
you or something I think it takes its helmet off you're ugly I can't that when you have the mud all over one ugly
01:04:05
[ __ ] yeah yeah it was a great line you're just almost to be dead just
01:04:11
covered in mud you got this monster you're one ugly [ __ ] come kill me kill me do it do it do it now and
01:04:20
then Ona said get to the chopper
01:04:25
baby I had no idea that I would be walking around I would go to the anold classic to the sports festival people
01:04:31
screaming out oh get to the chopper you know the all my L still screaming it's just hilarious to watch that I was at
01:04:37
the Arnold Classic with you we were backstage and on the TV monitor where all the contestants out there doing
01:04:43
their stuff and so I just looked at the monitor I asked you I said is there anyone exceptional here oh and you just
01:04:50
lean back when well
01:04:56
me yeah [ __ ] uh well David what you been up to oh thank you finally um well kind
01:05:04
of all right we're gonna take a quick break and come back with no don't go to commercial now uh no I was gonna say do
01:05:09
a lot you've got a game show on tomorrow night say hi to everyone there's uh Maria who's always a fun ball buster to
01:05:15
me uh uh there's Patrick who's on the boys spin-off right Patrick's doing great Christopher uh your daughters I
01:05:22
see all these people here and there we did grown-ups too Patrick was in uh and
01:05:27
so and Christopher works on Tyson's uh podcast yeah everyone's doing great um just hi to the family and thanks for
01:05:34
coming down and it's great to talk to you about this book but David is very very busy what's that he's very that
01:05:40
what you were doing he's doing a lot of standup doing stand up I'm doing all the you know all [ __ ] movies and no I'm
01:05:46
crushing it I'll send you a couple links yeah um those are not hand me- Downs no no these are right off the
01:05:53
rack yeah mea he's like my little
01:06:00
brother let me ask you something I mean sure uh I know that you're uh doing this
01:06:06
podcast to interview me but I find it interesting how both of you stay so lean
01:06:13
right what just give me a quick rundown uh what makes you stay so lean are you
01:06:19
disciplined with you eating or you working out you know what I realized down the line uh at certain point it was
01:06:25
my problem was more eating than working out more so when I ate less or more
01:06:30
thought it out more I would lose weight faster than working out too much so it was cut out sugar try to cut out some
01:06:37
white flour and then overall it is like more of a lifestyle than just dieting or whatever you really slowly have to start
01:06:44
cutting stuff out when you get older and you can't eat as badly do as much this and that and I sleep probably eight
01:06:49
hours uh Dana what about you um I I ran track and field in high school you know
01:06:55
distance running in Cross Country then you still do yeah you still run yeah I do run and I and I hike I do all kinds
01:07:01
of things I love the burn you know you say is better than an orgasm you know I
01:07:06
love hard cardio sorry was or something it's V pumping up it's
01:07:13
like V I remember that was funny when you get the burn when you KCK into that I love to work really really hard I go
01:07:19
up griffi Park and I go I Red Line really and then um I started lifting
01:07:25
weights you know in my 30s and then I you and I have something in common I had a bypass that the operation wasn't done
01:07:31
correctly but didn't hurt me when I was 42 so and now I'm a little older than that but that also put me on a
01:07:38
Mediterranean diet basically and so my wife and I just got all the junk out of
01:07:43
the house we keep all the junk out of the house if it's not right there I don't have it and I weigh myself not I'm
01:07:51
not neurotic about it but I just keep track it's like a report card for me and I'm not trying to get too thin I just
01:07:56
try to stay around this weight CU it feels I feel lighter on my feet yeah yeah it's hard I just think that it is
01:08:04
so important that we stay lean even though I'm not lean well you look great
01:08:10
but I mean I I'm just telling you that I always the day I got to this age now
01:08:16
where I admire people much more when they're lean then when they're bulked up yeah because I think lean is where the
01:08:21
action is you know because you know the body just uh no but the body just is is is
01:08:28
lives longer mhm when you're lean I I I look at my dogs you know the dogs that
01:08:35
usually the bigger dogs they wipe out with the age of 12 13 14 I have this little dog uh you know noodle little dog
01:08:43
like this he's like 14 and a half years old runs around jumps up on every bench and just still attacks all the other
01:08:50
dogs when they're nasty just the teeth and all has full full of energy but it's little so he going to live for the next
01:08:57
you know is amazing no I'm Noodle No but I'm just
01:09:04
yes I'm comparing them because because it doesn't matter if an animal or if you
01:09:10
a human being being leaner and being lighter is means a longevity means that
01:09:16
you're around a long time okay can I do 10 push-ups now and have you analyze just my form just a St we both my form I
01:09:23
will do it you know he's taking a mic with him taking the mic out so I
01:09:29
can just doing 10 not David do you want me to hold it shake a little bit do you want me to hold your no I'll go down it
01:09:36
okay so it depends where I want comes Dana he's doing basically so I'm in the pushup position looks a little girly man
01:09:43
right now one shaking two three four
01:09:49
five six seven no pauses eight nailing it 9 10 perfect perfect get the oxygen
01:09:58
it was fantastic it was very very strict and what was good about it was that your
01:10:03
body stayed absolutely flat you didn't you didn't Buckle in with the the
01:10:09
waistline like a lot of people do and stuff like that you got to keep your glutes on you just with like a board
01:10:14
straight totally flat the greatest disciplined yes yeah so that's what I do and I do lat poles I do stuff for the
01:10:21
back yeah yeah and uh Mobility is all the rage now I think it's it's great hip mobility
01:10:28
yeah all right well good job anyway good good to see you guys with the book it's great thank you thank you for your help
01:10:34
with the book and all that stuff I really appreciate that the book is great and uh we will stay in touch course
01:10:40
always fun to see you we work together again that would be great something let's do something absolutely something
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