Do Go On - 227 - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Episode Date: February 26, 2020

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnackie and I'm here with Matt Jess. You never know which one I said first. You said Matt. You said Matt first. Yeah, Matt Jess. Matt Jess. Nah, all right. If you go back to the tape, it's sexualist, Jess Matt Jess.

Oh. And I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello. Hello. Sick of playing favourites, you know. But, I mean, Well, you've got to start with one of us. I know, you've got to start with one.

Dave, go to your head, who's your favourite? Or, uh... Ship before the shovel? Alphabetical. Numerologically? Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave. Go on to your head, pick a favourite, go. Kill you both and live.

Oh. Okay, the gun was to your head, but somehow we're dead. Yeah, yeah. I've disarmed the person of the gun. You've lost us already. I've shot them. I've shot both of you with one bullet because there's only three. and now I have walked a free man.

You didn't have to kill us. In this scenario, you weren't even saying we had the gun. I'm a free man. I didn't say I didn't make a mistake. And then another mistake straight after. I really regret asking that question. Yeah, that's a bit grim actually. That really bummed me out.

Yeah, all right. Never put a gun to Dave's head and make him answer that. Yeah, because I'll kill everyone but me. Okay, well. Hey, Dave, do you have any more? Exciting news than that? Then your deep dark death wish. Yeah, pretty excited for the new James Bond movie.

Not long now. Okay. We'll have to update the James Bond episode from a couple of years ago. Yeah, that's right. Who did that? Was it, Dave? I did it. You did it.

And then we went downstairs for the Superdoll Studios' Christmas Party. That's why I remember that one pretty well. Huh. All right. Do not recall. All right, gun to my head. I'll tell you what I'm really. been going on behind the scenes here. What's going on?

So this show, some people may know, is supported by people through Patreon where people can chip in a few bucks a month in exchange for rewards and also the knowledge that they're keeping us going, which is very, very nice. And every now and then we set a goal, an overall goal. Sort of like a crowdfunding type of thing.

You hit that goal, we do something new. Previous goals. We said we do a web series. That was a few months ago we hit that. And guess what? Announcement, we filmed it. We filmed it, yeah. We've When did we film it? Was it late last year?

November. Literally three days before we went to the UK. It was the craziest time of our entire life. Yeah, it was so stressful. We had to work on that, but also have nine reports ready to go for the life tour. Yes. So there's at least nine episodes of that in the editing suite. Yeah, hopefully coming out in the next couple of months.

And knowing that there's nine, but I didn't want to do any more work. Nine, but we might do a promo video, so it would be 10 all up. Yes. Thank you. We thought about this. And the goal before that was that day. It was an American tour. Yeah, North American tour, which we have been, I know we've been working on for a long time, to be honest,

because visa stuff, especially with the United States of America, is very, very difficult. But we are closer now than we've ever been before. Don't want to give away too much just in case it falls through, but we are confident that we're going to get to North America this year. Yes. We both don't want to get our hopes or your hopes. Yeah, that's right. Because we want it probably more than anyone else in the world. It would be my dream come true.

Comedy in America. of comedy. That were the first people to do something funny. Then what would you do? What would you do once you've achieved your life goal? I've got other goals. I've never met Frankie Peckett, for instance. Uh-huh.

Really? Yeah, there's plenty of things to tick off the list. Imagine meeting Mossy one day. Yeah, wow. I've seen him live twice the last few months. That's kind of like meeting. Yeah. But anyway, point is...

The point is we've got a new goal. Yes. Because we all... I'd forgotten about this. So I was like, oh yeah, we're just updating it about America. You get a goal. You get a new goal. Okay.

Is this some sort of sporting talent? Is that what you're going for? Well, for a long time, especially you two, have been asked. Every time we do a live show, people say, when's it coming? When's the next podcast coming? You've got bookcheet. You've got book, mate. You've got listen now.

But when are we going to hear phrasing the bar, the podcast that you guys talked about on a lot of Mets primates shows? Yeah, maybe episode six. Very early on. Many, many moons ago. a podcast exclusively devoted to the films of Brendan Fraser. Also, can I point out, too, that I remember on that episode being like, God, what would we even call it? And you just straight off the bat, Matt, went phrasing the bar.

And I thought, of course, I feel like an idiot. You nailed it in one go. It was the fastest I've ever seen your brain work. But it's been locked in now. Jeez, if I had another crack at it, I'd probably come up with something else like branding over or um that's good uh fraser uh every pencil has a a fraser that's why pencils have a phrases you know there's i'm just saying there's plenty of option hell fraser hell fraser is good Fraser island it's just an island yes yeah anyway the point

is that we've got a new patreon goal and i think it was saying we're about 80% of the way to it and if we hit it, we're going to start doing a third Patreon bonus episode a month. And that episode is going to be a bit of a coincidence, actually, because we're just talking about it. But it's going to be an episode of phrasing the bar. That's right. So that'll be an exclusive Patreon series. Yeah. So once a month, we're going to go through all of his films in order. And what have we worked out? There's about 50 of them so far. Yeah. So we'll get there over many years. Yes. And that goes along with the monthly bonus. mini report that we do

which usually goes for about close to an hour as well it's not super many so it's kind of win-win if you're already a Patreon who gets the bonus episodes you're going to be getting another one which is great if you're not a Patreon you can sign up and you'll be getting three

which is huge yes and you get heaps of other fun stuff too so you should definitely head on over there if you can if you want to watch that's right patreon.com slash do go on pod is the place you've got to go to and yeah it all helps So it keeps the pod going.

We haven't missed a week in nearly four and a half years now, mainly because of those people. Yes. For sure. So thank you so much to the patrons. Also, while we're talking about exciting stuff, we're doing live shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. We're doing four of them. And they're on Saturday afternoons at the European Beer Cafe. And they're going to be, I don't want to talk it up too much, but the best four days of our lives.

Yep. I think so. And you can get tickets for that via ComedyFestable.com or do go on podcast. There'll be a link on there as well. And Jess and I are both doing stand-up comedy shows right throughout the whole festival. Jess is doing a first-ever show. First and last, baby. So we've got to get behind it.

Please come. Go out with a bang. Come in to the bang. Come in and leave. I'm going in and out, bang, bang. So our podcast is on Saturday is at two something? Two o'clock. Two o'clock.

Two o'clock. Jess is on at six. I'm on at seven. You could do all three in one day if you want to do a Saturday. That's right. Have a beer at the beer. cafe afterwards and then mosey on down to Jess's show. Yeah.

And you can, so you can find out details for all those shows at ComedyFestel.com.com. Or at Jess Perkins.com. com. Or Matt Stewart,com. Anyway, Dave, we should do this. Mother flipping show.

That's right. Because we're not at phrasing the bar just yet. But we are here at Do Go On. And on this show, we take it in turns to report on a topic suggested by a listener most of the time. And it is, Jess has turned to report on a topic. And usually two out of three of us will have a question. Jess is the exception of the rule.

I just wrote it 10 minutes ago, remember? Well, I was just going to ask us the question to get us onto the topic. I'm excited. Good for you. My question is... This is going to be good. This is so dumb. We'll be the judge of that. My question is,

who is your daddy and what does he do? Martin Moneckee teacher, retired. Paul Stewart, teacher retired. Are you doing a report on Arnie? Yes! Yes! My hero! I say with trepidation in case of he's done some bad stuff as well.

But also, what a cool guy. Cool guy. Do you know much about his early life? Yes. Okay. Some stuff. Matt, do you know much? I think he's Austrian.

Very good. Great start. He left with stars in his eyes and a dream in his heart. and a pair of socks in his backpack. A couple of big, big biceps. Yeah, I don't know much about it. I know that he was very driven, but I don't know anything about the specifics.

Yeah, I can't say, I mean, obviously I'm familiar with his work. Of course. If he's familiar with his autobiography? No, I haven't read it. You know what it's called? Hang on. One was called, he's written a couple. Is it called Total recall?

Yeah. Incredible title. Because it was the name of one of his films. That's good as that. With the woman with him. Three boobs. And then, that's true. I mean, that's all that I remember about that film.

And I've never seen it. Oh, really? I have. I think I have either. What about the malfunctioning lady that goes, oh, that rings a bell. She's a robot. That's a fun.

That sounds like the name of a painting, the malfunctioning lady. And that noise was fun. No, no. Is it going to be featured in the episode? It is now. Great. Because, yeah, I didn't know.

I mean, yeah, I'm familiar with his work, of course, but I didn't know a lot about him. And I've also just realized I did not write down who has suggested him. So let's find out now. Okay, it's a few people. Is it me? I would have suggested it because I think he's great. Yeah. I did one time at, there was, what was his famous documentary from the olden days?

Pumping iron. I was pumping on. I watched a chunk of that at the Meredith Music Festival. They have like an outdoor cinema. around the back somewhere in the forest area and I watched that one night I was pretty cool watching that out under the stars I think that's the only film of his I've ever seen

that and twins so there are a few people that have suggested this topic Gregory Gritman is one of them Ben Ward has also suggested it Matthew Bealing Robert Riddell Andrew Cox Thriller Thomas Doppler

Thomas Doppler Wow's. Double writer. I may, I probably said that wrong Thomas. I'm sorry. It's also been suggested by Allie. And finally, it has been suggested by John Collins. So a bunch of people...

John Collins. He sounds like he was an historical figure. Hello, I'm John Collins. It's a great group. So how you were imagining his name, his accent or so? Yeah, I'm John Collins. Yeah, I imagine Charmed, I'm sure. Charmed, I'm sure.

I think I'm right. I've got a horse out the front. And one out the back. want to meet them? It'll cost you. So he's crazy. Yeah. Part of a circus.

He's charging you to meet his horse. How much? $300. Wow. It's got to be, I mean... To meet the horse. You'd hear that and go, I mean, it's got to be so good.

Yeah. It's probably worth it. But then you'd see that he wasn't wearing pants and you'd go, okay. All right. Dodgered a bullet here. John is crazy. No, I'm giving him my money. 300 to meet the horse.

600 to eat the horse. Only 600. I mean, it's a lot of meat. The last year, anyway. Yeah, I don't want to do that. Anyway, so thank you to those people who have suggested this as a topic. Let's explore. Don't explore.

I was going to say, please, indulge. Oh, thank you so much. There were some great names in there, Jess. I just want to stress that. Yeah. Who was that Robert Riddell? Yeah, it's a good one. Dopple writer.

Dopper writer. Gregory Gritman. What about Arnold? I love the illiteratory ones. What about Arnold Alois Swaztenegger? Oh, ding, ding, ding. We have a new winner. That's his middle name is Alois.

Alois. Alois. That's good. Aloisi. Do it. Arnold. John Swartzegger. Catchy.

He was born on the 30th of July, 1947 in Thal, in Sterea, to Aurelia and Gustav, Schwarzenegger. Thal is a small village about 3.2Ks or 2,000. miles west from Graz, which is the second largest city in Austria. It's so small that the population in 2014, on the 2014 census was 2,240 people. I thought it was so small, the population was negative 47. Wow, that's a lot. They had to start counting the cemetery.

Ghost town. That's like counting the ghosts. This may be embarrassing. I've never heard Graz said out loud. I think in my head I would have said Graz. Oh, yeah. Look, who knows what it is? Didn't look it up.

Probably Gras. If I'm wrong, sorry about that. If you're wrong. You try saying Woolamalu. It's actually... We all have weirds out of places, all right? Get off my case. Willamaloo is fantastic.

It's so fun. It's fun to read, fun to say. His father was the local chief of police and had held a higher rank while he served in World War II after voluntarily joining the Nazi party in 1938. Ah. Not great.

I mean, it's not the only Austrian to do that. Because Hitler did. Yeah. That was a joke there. I was like, all right. Yeah, I'm sure he wasn't. It would have mentioned it in my research if he was the only one. I'm sure I would have found it.

So yeah, it probably wasn't, Dave. Just the two. Oh, hit, love. Okay. Yep. Yep. So Gustav suffered recurring bouts of malaria while in the war, which led to his discharge in February of 1944.

What color was the discharge? I was thinking about that. It was a posse discharge. It was like a bit green. Oh, nasty. You don't want that. That's a sign of infection. Yeah, get him out.

Get him out. Yeah, well. A bit of calmer there, Nazi boy. He was considered unfit for active duty and he returned to Austria where he was assigned to work as a postal inspector. Arnold had an older brother as well. His name was Meinhard. Oh, wow. Had not said that out loud until right there.

Imagine if the names were different in one of the world's biggest movie stars was Minehart Schwarzenegger. That is awesome. Amazing. Apparently their father favoured Mindhart. Because apparently he... He backed the wrong one, I reckon. No. Well, he suspected that Arnold...

The Nazis? Yeah. I mean, how wrong can one man be? Yeah, he had a history. Really, back of the wrong horse. Well, apparently he... You want to meet a horse? I have one out the front.

He suspected Arnold was not his biological son. But these suspicions were largely unfounded. Is that because Arnold was 7 foot one and he was like five foot? He's like, hmm. Yeah, I'd be claiming those jeans. Yeah. That guy, no. No, no, no.

Not from my scrottum. Sorry about that. Is that how you say it over there? Scrotum. I've never heard it. It's a little town near Vienna. You got grass in your scrotum. You should not.

If you've got gras and your scrotum, Matt, you need to say doctor. Get it out. Get the grass out of there. Out of your scrot. Apparently, Arnie was an average student at school, but known to be cheerful. Good human and good humid And good human And exuberant

And he played a lot of sport He voted like that year's most likely to be exuberant Yeah most exuberant Yeah he played a lot of sport He was particularly good at soccer And was set on pursuing a career as a soccer player In 1960s soccer coach Took Arnold and the rest of the team

To a local gym to do some weights training Arnold was hooked He changed his career goals from soccer Fuck, May, why can't I talk today? He changed his career goals from soccer to bodybuilding. He'd been, oh, this is a quote from him. He says, I'd been participating in sports like soccer for years. So I felt that although I was slim, I was well developed,

at least enough so that I could start going to the gym and start Olympic lifting. I love how he changes his goals so quickly. Then he went to the milk bar. I was like, oh, dairy's for me. I'm going to, I'm going to own a cow. I'm going to buy cow. I've got a cow on the front. His official website biography says at 14 he started an intensive training program with Dan Farmer.

Oh, Farmer. Farmer. Farmer, I'm going to be Farmer. He studied psychology at 15 to learn more about the power of mind over body. And at 17, officially started his competitive career. He's a bit crazy. In 1961, he met former Mr. Austria, Kurt Manul, who invited him to train. at the gym in Gras.

He started regularly visiting the gym, and while he was in town as well, he'd also go to local movie theatres to see bodybuilding idols, such as Reg Park, Steve Reeves, and Johnny Weismuller. Were they in the movies? Was he just seeing them in the crowd?

On the big screen, yes. Just watching them from afar as they watched their favourite film. Apparently, he got so into training and he was so dedicated that he'd break into the gym on weekends when it was closed, just to make sure he got enough training in.

He'd break in. He'd break in. He's a teenager breaking in. to the gym to exercise. Every Monday comes in, oh, the window smashed again. What would happen there? Also, the place has been tidied up. The weights are all in order again.

And he said it would make me sick to miss a workout. I knew I couldn't look at myself in the mirror the next morning if I didn't do it, which really doesn't feel super healthy. But also, anyone who's a lead at any sport has that kind of mentality. Unlike me. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Any excuse not to?

I'm like, well, it's a bit wet. I've never missed a day at the gym. Okay, David Wins last time we went to the day. The gym. I never missed a day, so no further question. Please then ask for a date. What date, Dave? What are you?

I don't understand. What are you saying? You've never, so you go every day. I joined a gym, I haven't been so long. Yeah, that's what everyone does when they join a gym, Dave. I know, they're just taking my money every month. Yes, but it's too hard to... Are you still paying?

It's way too hard to confront them and cancel it, so you just let them take it. They call it the lazy tax. Yeah, Dave. What, okay. Well, if I'm not lazy, do I not have to pay? If you actually go, do you not have to pay? Is that it worked? Oh, that'd be good.

You should send an email. Get the wheels in motion. What should I say in the email? You should fake your death, I reckon. Hey, I want to quit. What's the quickest way I can get out of this? But my dream is that I'll do it. Oh, well, then go do it.

And after hearing this report, I'm already ready to go. Can I be able to look myself in the mirror tomorrow unless I go tonight? Okay, great. Can I start? They won't know what you look like. Could I use it? Because I would love to have a gym membership. Yeah.

I reckon you just buzz the car. I don't never check your idea or anything. I'm actually more insulted that you've waited for this report to be inspired when I haven't inspired you to go to the gym with my weightlifting. How many, how many are you pushing these days? Oh, a lot, I reckon heaps. Really? I mean, my Bruce Lee report also didn't inspire me.

That's true. You were, because you were leg pushing more than me and Dave combined last time we spoke. Yes. I haven't done like press for a long time. But yes, at one point I was doing like 14, 150, 150. You do different things at different times. Right now I'm deadlifting and squatting. You said, I reckon you got up to 170.

Do you reckon? Yeah, that's what you told us like two weeks ago. That's too much. Anyway, in 1965, Arnold served in the Austrian army. 18-year-old Austrian men were at the time required to fulfill one year of service, so Arnie went off to do that. However, during basic training, he went AWOL so that he could take. take part in the junior Mr. Europe bodybuilding contest.

He won, but he spent a week in military prison. He said participating in the competition meant so much to me that I didn't carefully think through the consequences. Just broke out of the army. He broke out of the army so that he could go compete. And he won. And he won. Mr. Junior Europe.

And am I also right that was his first proper bodybuilding competition? Yeah. On debut, he beat the other people. Yeah. Oh, I reckon he's going to have a pretty good career if he can do that well. on his first attempt. He continued to enter competitions and he gained fame in the bodybuilding community

when he was voted, best built man of Europe. Wow. He had the best body of Europe. That is, I mean... The best of Europe. And that wasn't enough for him. Not enough.

I'd wrestle on my laurels there. I reckon, I mean, what does it have to be? The best of the universe? Is that what he wants? Why? Yes, Dave. His eyes were set on the Mr. Universe title.

It makes me laugh so much. Why isn't it just Mr. World? I mean... Mr. Universe. He saw Mr. Universe to be his ticket to America, the land of opportunity. Also, just like a quick side note that like Miss Universe is a beauty pageant and Mr. Universe is bodybuilding. Well, I guess you both kind of like... Yeah.

But I don't think Mr. Universe have to do like a talent section, you know? Yeah, and they don't ask them about their opinions on stuff. No. And they don't make them wear bikinis. Why don't they ask, basically they do make them wear bikinis without the top. Even worse. They don't even ask the men there. opinions on stuff. It's actually a bit sexist. Yeah. Thank you. Why don't they start asking men

our opinions? Yeah. As the feminists of the show, I feel like I can say that. Yeah. Because I'm here to speak truth to power. And we appreciate that because you keep us in check. Yeah. And Dave and I are learning every day from you. Well, I would hope so. About where to see a horse. Yep. And about what we should start asking men about. Yeah. And stuff. Everything. Yeah. You say back off front, is that the house or what side of the horse you get to say? Both. It's $300 per side. If you go to the front, you can see the back of the front horse.

And if you go to the back, you can see the front of the back horse. So it's $600 for a round trip. And the front of the back horse is also a pack horse, so hopefully that doesn't get confusing. Don't worry. I can't see how that would be. So his first Mr Universe competition was in 1966 in London. 966. That's the year that the San Quilda football team won there, one and only premiership in the VFL.

Really? Collingwood by a point. That's true. When Barry Breen kicked that infamous wobbly punt that just... So infamous. But it hit the pole. No, it just snuck in for behind. That was how we won our premiership.

Wow. Well, Arnold wasn't as lucky because he came in second. Oh, you're kidding me. I know. I reckon he's going to be pretty upset with himself over that. There was someone more ripped than Arnie. Who? Name them.

He was a man named Chester Yorton. Oh, okay, yep. It's got chest in his name. How'd he be that? He's got a description. My chest is a yorten right now. He was an American known as the father of natural bodybuilding for his advocacy of steroid-free bodybuilding. He's the father of it.

It's hard to be the father of modern bodybuilding. The daddy. Yeah. The daddy of the big daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Your biceps are bulging.

Thank you, son. Now off to bed. Daddy can't feed himself because my arms are too big. But thank you. Yes, let me tuck you in. No, let your mother do it because I do it too tight. You can't breathe. It's too strong.

That's how I killed three of your siblings. I don't know my own strength, even though I work on my strength every day. And honestly, I can measure it very clearly. There are really easy ways for me to know how strong I am. Do you want to see me lift something? Name something. I'll lift it. That guy, gomater over there.

Is that a thing? A what? A guy named gormeter? Like that gigometer over there. Okay, gygometer. You can lift up that gygometer. Gygometer. I want to see it.

I want to measure how strong you are. Lift that gygometer. One of the judges at the 66th mystery universe competition, a man named Charles Bennett, was impressed by Arnie and offered to coach him. Arnie didn't have much money, so Charles let him stay in the family home in London, which Arnie also now credits with him getting the, I wrote change, but I meant chance. which Arnie now credits with him giving the chance to improve his English. So Arnie starts working on his leg definition because that was the main area

that Yorden had beaten him in. Leg definition. It's the lower limb. Next. Great. They do ask, it is there was a spelling and vocabulary competition for Mr. Universe.

Leg. Can I have any in a sentence? We all thought of it. We base The lower limb used for walking Ah yes Ah I have a thin leg This man's leg is much thicker

Leg Thank you May I have a clue Letter L And you have the opportunity For three letters But not what order

Next letter is E. It's not necessarily the wrong order there. May I have the final letter. Is it gel? It's gel. Oh God. G-E-L.

Leg. English is really weird. Anyway, so he spends that year training and living with Bennett, and it paid off because in 1967, Arnie took out the title of Mr. Universe for the first time, becoming the youngest ever Mr Universe at the age of 20. No, 20 years old. And he came second at 19.

Yeah. It's funny that he really peaked early. And I guess we won't hear much more of him from here. Yeah. This was the first of his four Mr. Universe titles that he would win over the following years. The next year, oh, in, was that, that was 67. Also in 67, he won the Munich Stonelifting Contest. in which a stone...

Just as prestigious. This is weird too. It says the stone weighing 508 German pounds. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Or 200 and... Oh, it's 560 pounds or 254 kilos. German pounds are different?

Dave, you're the German of the pod. That's interesting. I don't remember. Oh, that could be old. Who knows? So, yeah, so he's not only doing bodybuilding competition, he's also competing in weightlifting and power lifting competitions at the same time. So he's doing bodybuilding, which is just about like flixing and getting your muscles as big as you can.

He's doing weightlifting. Right? Is that what that is? Yep. I have no idea. I've never. Well, I regret bringing it up. I thought you would know.

Why would I know? Because you're a gym junkie. Oh, but not bodybuilding. I love. Your strength trainer. Oh, strengths, man. All power lifting. He's bodybuilding.

So he looks good, but he's also. weightlifting and powerlifting and they're different. Because I once heard a wrestler in the WWF. Say to another wrestler. I think it was Triple H to Scott Steiner. Is that his name? No. No.

What's that guy's name? We got to put it in a disclaimer as the end. Big pop a pump. Big pop a pump. And Triple Eight said to this guy, you're built for show, but I'm built to go. I'm going to get to active.

But Arnie is built for show and built to go, which I appreciate. Yeah, he can do it all. So he won two weightlifting contests in 1964 and 65 as well as two power lifting contests in 66 and 68. The difference between the two is that weightlifting uses the clean and jerk, so those over the head movements. And power lifting. Then you have a little wank. Then you have a little wank. Power lifting first.

Yeah. Yeah, no, it's all backwards. A terrible decision. Clean and jerk. And then clean again. Other way around. Jet clean. You're cleaning off the person before you.

I mean, it'd be much nice if you cleaned up after you, but it's the system. Sorry. That's what they do at the Olympics. That's what it is. And the other word. Powerlifting is like squats, bench, press and dead lifts. And you're mostly lifting giant stones? Yeah.

No, that was just another thing he did as well. He was basically, he did some work laboring and he just turned into a competition. Well, actually, after winning his first title, he went to Munich and went to business school and worked in a health club and then came back. in 68 and won Mr. Universe again, all while also competing in powerlifting and weightlifting competitions. It's insane. They don't pay the bills the weightlifting and powerlifting. No, I mean, yeah, I don't know.

I never read anything about like prize money or whatever. You think Mr. Universe wouldn't have to get a day job. Surely. Imagine being Mr. Universe, winning that and then going to your 9 to 5 the next day. And you'd be like, as someone's like, Arnie, congratulations for winning Mr. Universe. And if you could just clean that toilet, that would be fantastic. Thanks so much. Remember meeting at 11?

All this time, Arnie dreamt of being a famous actor in America. As if. As if. A place he had wanted to move to since he was 10 years old. And he always wanted to be an actor. Yeah. So did he see the weightlifting as a stepping stone? That's literally my next sentence.

No kidding. Naturally, bodybuilding is the first stepping stone to a career in the movies. Yeah, he sort of saw it as an inn. Right. lift up that stone, you'll be in. Because it also, I feel like I remember someone saying that it was sort of, people laughed at him for even attempting to move into Hollywood acting. Yeah.

And I mean, you don't, it doesn't happen all that often really does it, that transition. No. There was a bit of a time of like big musly guys. Yeah. It's like the 80s. He probably, maybe he started it, like Jean-Claude Van Damme and people like that. Yeah. I don't know what his backstory was.

Chuck Norris. Maybe we could do a report. Chuck Knows, but he's not as muscular as other. No, he's more of a... He's a sort of memories in that Bruce Lee film that we talked about a few. So Arnie did eventually move to the US in 1968. He was 21, spoke very limited English,

but he had a pocket full of dreams. Yep, and he knew what gel meant. He did. Backwards and forwards. He trained at Gold's Gym in Venice, Los Angeles, and he worked his butt off. and he was chosen to play the role of Hercules at 1969's Hercules in New York. He was credited under the stage name Arnold Strong,

and his accent in the film was so thick that his lines were dubbed after production. Wow. But that was his first role. Hercules in New York sounds cool. And Arnold Strong. They're like Schwarzenegger, don't like it. Let's come up with something like a normal surname, like Strong. Although they couldn't have just shortened it to Schwartz.

Yeah, that's fine. Or Smith, if you really want to... Strong. Strong. Arnold Strong. In 1970, at the age of 23, he captured his first Mr. Olympia title. Somehow even bigger than Mr. Universe. That's funny.

The competition was in New York, and again, it made him the youngest person to win. A title he still holds today. He was 23 years old, the youngest ever Mr. Olympia. Right. So that was in 1970. In 1971, tragedy struck. His brother, Mindhard, died in a car crash on May 20 of 71. He was driving drunk and died instantly.

Shit. But he was engaged to a woman called Erica Knapp, and they had a three-year-old son named Patrick. For reasons that aren't clear, Arnold didn't attend his brother's funeral. He did, however, apparently pay for his nephew Patrick's education. and later helped him move to the US, but it's not clear why he didn't go home for his brother's funeral. Their father, Gustav, died from a stroke the following year on December 3, 1972,

and once again, Arnie didn't go home to attend the funeral. The real rough trot, though. Yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. In Pumping Iron, which you mentioned before, Dave, it was a documentary, a docudrama, which was filmed in 77. Schwarzenegger claimed that he did not attend his father's funeral because he was training for a bodybuilding contest.

But later he and the film's producer said this story was taken from another bodybuilder to show the extremes some would go to for their sport and to make Schwarzenegger's image colder to create controversy for the film. So they just sort of made that up. Right. But one of Arnie's earliest girlfriend, his first girlfriend, recalled that when he told her of his father's death, he did it with no emotion and he never spoke of his brother.

And over time he's given at least three different versions of why he was absent from his father's funeral. Just, yeah. Strange. Yeah, no, a terrible relationship with his dad, but didn't go back for his father's or brother's funerals. So, 1971, he wins Mr. Olympia. And then he goes on to win the title,

a total of seven times, all while also working on his acting career. His second film appearance was as a deaf-mute mob hitman in The Long Goodbye in 1973. So he's gone from the title, role to a deaf mute mob hitman it's hard to say deaf mute mob hitman but that maybe that was a title role as well maybe he was the one giving the slow goodbye or the long goodbye that's true either or well the reason it went for so long is because he did it slowly yes yep no you got me

there and a couple of years later a few months before the 1975 mr olympia contest filmmakers George Butler and Robert Fiore persuaded Arnie to compete again in the Mr. Olympia contest in order to film his training in the bodybuilding documentary called Pumping Iron. He had only had three months to prepare for the competition after losing significant weight to appear in a film called Stay Hungry which came out the following year in 1976

and he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year actor. Wow. He won a Golden Globe. Didn't realize that. That award doesn't exist anymore, I don't think, does it? I don't think so, no. Well, not, yeah. New star of the year or...

There's so many. It's still that I don't have it. There must have been millions back then. So, yeah, so he'd sort of stopped training, lost a bunch of weight to star in this film, and then they're like, no, no, no, but we want you to compete so that you can be in our documentary. So he had three months to prepare for the competition,

and he was up against the taller and bigger Lou Farigno. Oh, see the Hulk? Yeah. Yes, he is. Despite that, the lighter than usual Schwarzenegger convincingly won the 1975 Mr. Olympia. And after that competition, he announced his retirement from professional bodybuilding.

How subjective are these things? Because it's like, who looks the biggest? Like they're like, people score out of 10 or something? Yeah, I don't know how they... Yeah, it's also like symmetry and things like that. Yeah, and the muscle definition, Because that's what he kind of lost on with that earlier competition because the other guy's legs were more defined and muscular.

Like who lifts the most weight. That's an easy one to figure out who won. Yeah, true, yeah, yeah. But with bodybuilding, it's just sort of based on the... It's like sickest rig, who is it? Yeah. Me, obviously. But what did you mean in that competition?

In that competition? Not in this row. Because you didn't compete that day. No, I was busy. Yeah, where were you? Luckily for them. You were late. I was busy.

That's my business, Dave. I was busy. Okay. This isn't Miss Universe now, okay? You can't just ask questions. Spell leg! Gee! So he's retired.

He's retiring from professional bodybuilding. And film work was picking up for him and he decided to put down the weights for now. Oh, okay. Okay, he's going to pick him up later. That's what I inferred from that. So the documentary pumping iron helped boost his profile, but it still wasn't that easy for him to break into the industry or be He's one of the golden globe for God's sake.

Yeah, but he says it was very difficult for me in the beginning. I was told by agents and casting people that my body was too weird, that I had a funny accent and that my name was too long. You name it and they told me I had to change it. Basically, everywhere I turned, I was told I had no chance. He auditioned for the title role of The Incredible Hulk, but did not win the role because of his height. I think he was too short.

Yeah. This role famously went to his former opponent, Lou Farigno. Farigno! Damn you. Imagine if Arnie had been the Hulk. Anyway, his breakthrough film was the epic Conan the Barbarian. And while he was training for the role, he got into such good shape because of the running,

horseback riding and sword training, horseback riding. Want to see a horse? Want to ride a horse? Only the back. The horse would see his legs coming and be like, Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, don't get on me.

Please. Please, no. Those things are so heavy. Just crunch him in half. Oh, yeah. It must have to be a Clydesdale or something. Like a big horse. The biggest horse in the world.

So he's getting like, he's training for this role, but he's getting kind of ripped. So he decides he wants to win the Mr. Olympia contest one last time. Everyone else is like. Not compete. Win. Please don't. And you've had this eight, seven or eight times. He's like, you know what?

I retired a few years ago. And I'm training. I'm looking pretty good. All I have to do was ride a horse and I'm still better than everyone. It's ridiculous. But he kept his plan a secret in the event that a trainee accident

would prevent him from competing and, you know, he'd lose face. Everyone's in about it's because he fell off a horse. Yeah. Yeah. He's imagine how buff that horse must have got. So buff. I think there was even something like

they had asked Arnie to be one of the commentators for this event. And then sort of at the last minute he turned around and went, actually, I'm competing. And they're like, okay, well, great, now we need to find a new commentator. He ripped up his suit. You jumped in. You're done up the side so I could rip it off.

How do you suspect he went? Well, just because you're bringing it up. Top five. I reckon, yeah, I'd say top couple. But I think someone, a new kid on the block, named John Stamos, took the title. He's a big guy. Well, with only seven weeks of preparation. Yep.

He won. He beat Stamos. He beat Stamos. And then he officially went back into retirement. Stamos will never be an actor now. He'll back to retirement for like a couple more weeks. Right now. So it's seven weeks training.

Seven weeks of preparation and he wins. That's wild. It's just like it's too easy for him. Yeah. Give me a challenge. Oh, you want to see my bicep. Here you go. Pow!

You know? He's too good at it. So then Cohn and the Barbarian comes out in 1982. and it's a box office hit. It was obviously followed by a sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in 1984, which was less successful because sequels usually are. Oh, not with Arnie. Or with second children.

We are the... That's right. We all second children. Yeah, we are. Yeah. Look at us go. Look at us go. We're all killing it.

All of our parents are very proud, and they all definitely understand what podcasts are. Then, of course, we come to 1984, and The Terminator. A cult classic, many still think of this, as his signature role of Arnie's career, and he made a number of successful action films in the 80s, such as Commando, Raw Deal,

that's a bad name, The Running Man, Predator, and Red Heat. He was so prolific in this time, he also starred in Twins with Santa Divido in 1988 and my personal favourite, kindergarten cop, in 1990. It's a great film. It's so good. All these films are great.

It's not a toy. What episode was it recently that I lost it over that? It's not a poohma. I can't remember. I can't remember. It was late. It was in the Patreon section of one of the... Was it?

Like the Patreon read, I think. Right at the end. I don't know. Yeah, no, that sounds about right. God, that was fun. Anyway, kindergarten cop, fantastic film. His commercial peak was his return as a title character in 1991's Terminator 2, Judgment Day. Huh?

Cop, that's sequels. The highest grossing. film of 1991. And probably my favourite film of all time. Whoa! Will you be mad at me if I tell you I haven't seen any Terminator films? Really? Will you be mad at me if I tell you I haven't seen any Terminator films?

Neither do you've seen Terminator 1 nor 2. I've seen parts of them, I think. Number one, great storyline, but sadly the special effects and filmmaking wasn't quite there yet. Okay. Terminator 2, great storyline, great acting from Arnie, and also the special effects somehow still hold up and look really great it looks awesome i've seen a parody like in wayne's world i think yeah yes yes i've seen that that's it next patreon bonus we're watching

terminator two and we're going to talk about it can i watch terminator one first uh yeah yeah yeah i think it was just because it was early 90s so i was a tiny child oh but what about channel 10 played it every second saturday night seriously it was on all the time i was too scared it is it yeah i don't know why i've just never never seen it yeah She said we all have those gaps. Yeah, I'm not offended, but I just think that, do you have a favour because I love it so much. Have you seen Back to the Future yet, trilogy? I've seen number one, the original.

That's a great move. I hadn't seen Jurassic Park for a very long time. I've seen it now, but I reckon I saw it properly in full for the first time two years ago. Yeah, right. Does that hold up? Yeah. The special effects, because they went with puppets and stuff. Yeah. It held up pretty well.

And it was one of those things where, like, someone had said, you've got to watch it. And I did that for so long that I was like, fine, I give in. Had a movie night, sat down, I'm reluctant. I just wanted to get it over and done with. It seems stupid. I'm like, this is going to be dumb. This is not my type of movie. And I fucking loved it.

And now I'm asking that person, hey, can we watch Jurassic Park again? And they're like, we just watched it. I'm like, but I want to watch Jurassic Park. But number two. Yeah. Oh, no, I've seen them all now. All right. And the Jurassic Worlds.

Yeah, they're pretty fun. They're pretty good. I mean, I do a very good impression of Chris Pratt in Jurassic World. It's not, it doesn't work for a podcast. But basically all he does is look into the middle distance and glare kind of, you know. All right. Well, do it and we'll give the reaction. No, now I've talked it up too much and you're going to mock me.

Oh, we'd never mock. Was that your Pratt? Yeah. Was that good? He ties into this actually. Is he self-conscious? He does tie into Arnie's family, doesn't he? Yeah.

What? Well, I'll tell you. later. Anyway, so in 1993, the National Association of Theatre Owners named him International Star of the Decade. I just thought that was worth mentioning. Star of the decade in 93. You've called it. I mean, that's how big Terminator 2 was. You've called it now. You're not going to give it a few more years? It could be the decade of 82 to 93, I guess. That's dumb. Why are you doing that? I'm not sure. Stop it. Stop it at once. The Theatre Network of America, they're wild cards. They're crazy. They're rebels. They're

Cowboys. And this is for an actor that was told, his name was weird. Yep. His voice was weird. His voice was weird. He can't act. You'll never be in a comedy. You can't park.

That's what I love about, Arnie. So he's like in action movies, right? And he absolutely nails that. Obviously, like Terminator is built for him because he moves and like sounds like a machine, basically. But then he's like, all right, I'll do comedies as well. And he's really good at, he's really funny. He's really funny.

Kindergarten cop is fun. It's so funny. The Eraser, very funny. Great movie. There's guns that can see through walls. Amazing stuff. Very funny. How do they think of it?

This Hollywood execs? Wow. We're coming up to that one. True lies very funny. We're coming up to that one, which is definitely a favour of mine. Well, his next film project was there a 1993 self-aware action comedy, last action hero, which I love. But it was released opposite Jurassic Park and did not do well in the box office. Damn.

But I love it. I haven't seen that either. Is that the one that starts on the football field and the guy pulls his gun out and kills all the gridiron players? That's a different. No. That's a different thing. Yeah.

Well, I haven't seen that either. Okay. Whatever that is. And his next film was comedy drama True Lies in 1994, which was a personal favorite of my brother and I. Yeah. I love that movie. That was a film that was played on Channel 10 every set of time.

So you guys were allowed to watch that. but not Terminator 2. Yeah. They would probably do a double feature. It was so good. It was funny. Tom Arnold's in there. Is his buddy?

That's another James Cameron. Yeah. Another James Cameron. They worked together quite a bit and I didn't write it down. That might be James Cameron. It was a great movie. Yeah. Our favorite line to quote is when they've given him truth serum and his wife says,

have you ever killed anybody? Because she's only just found out that he's a secret agent. She goes, have you ever killed anybody? And he goes, yeah, but they were all bad. Very funny. Can justify murder. Anyway, that same year the comedy junior was released, which earned him his second Golden Globe nomination,

this time for Best Actor in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. This is where he gave birth. We got pregnant? Yeah. Another film with Danny DeVito. Is Danny DeVito in that one? Yes. Have you seen an Arnie movie?

Well, that's on son of the other. Do you know who Arnie is? I've seen True Lies a lot, but not for a long time. I've seen kindergarten cop. I've seen A-Raser. Which is the next one. I actually love Arraiser. I haven't seen it, but that's the next film that follows.

A-Razer in 1996. I've seen the Batman where he was Dr. Freeze. Batman and Robin. He was in 1997. In between those two was the Christmas comedy, jingle all the way. I've seen that. That's a bit of good fun. Is that the one where he was trying to find the toy with his son?

I've seen Christmas with the cranks, which isn't him. Not the same. Have you seen Santa Claus? Yes. Yes. I saw that a long time ago. Right. I recall it being...

Fine. Fine. As a child. Yeah, yeah. But I imagine it probably wouldn't be any more. I'm starting to think of Tim Allen movies. Yeah. No.

No, we're talking about Arnie. Arnie. I'm trying to think, well, I don't know that Annie films were seen. Well, after Batman and Robin, he took a break from films to recover from a back injury and didn't appear in a movie for a couple of years. Nice to meet you.

Yeah, he's back sore after. carrying that entire film. Who was the Batman in that? George Clooney. That's the one that's seen has been the low point for Batman. But at the time, I was eight years old. Yeah. Is that about it?

98? 97. I remember getting toys for my birth that year that were Batman and Robin. And I loved it because it was sort of aimed at the kids. It's a kids movie, really, that one. Yeah, right. But then as an adult, you know, you go back and you're like, oh, that's pretty bad. I saw, I went, I think I might have even seen it.

at the cinemas and I thought it was fun but it was at the time where I thought anything at the cinema was good I think it wasn't until I was an adult maybe that I started not enjoying occasional films at the cinema and be like oh this sucks what the hell but overall I'm still happy to see anything at the cinema because I get popcorn and a comfy chair for a bit

that's good but I like that there's nothing more annoying than having all of that and the movie being shit and all of a sudden you're like I'm fidgety because of Yeah. Now I know I'm trapped in this fucking shit movie for two hours. Yeah. But yeah, back then, that would never cross my mind.

This is great. Look at it. I'm Schwarzenegger. He's silver. Can I tell you about my most recent movie experience? Yes, please. Friend of the studio and us and podcast, Beck portrayed us, and I went to see Frozen 2 because we hadn't seen Frozen 2 yet,

and it'd been out for ages. So we go, and I've got comfy chair. chair, it's a recliner, I got a popcorn, and I got a chocked up. I'm like, I'm in heaven. I don't care if this movie's terrible or not. And in like one of the earliest scenes, there's a bunch of villagers, like, and they're working as a team. So one's got the fish and he's like throwing it to someone else, who throws it to someone else, who throws it to the little snowbag. I forgot we were talking about Frozen 2 for a second. And I started running Terminator 2 again. I don't remember this scene. I don't remember this scene. Sorry, please do go on about

They throw it a fish from person to person And then they throw it to the little snowman And he throws it straight back into the water And just like the beats It just took me my surprise And I laughed for a solid 10 minutes That's like a young family in front of me And I was dying laughing

So you've ruined the movie for that Potentially Oh my God That family hates joy It killed me It was so funny Well spoiler alert Sorry about that

If anyone has a fish Including me. Do you see me at Dave? No, it was on my list. I've not ruined anything for you. Okay. But I can. Is Arnie in it?

Yes. Gosh. Does he play that at the time, man? Yes. You do it well. You do it all. He can do it all. He's got such range.

Anyway, so he takes a break from films for a couple of years to recover from a back injury. And he returned to the screen in end of days in 1999, later followed by the action films, the sixth day collateral damage, both of which failed to do well at the boxing. I recently watched the sixth day for the first time. What's it about? Clones. I feel like I might have seen that. You know what one day back then as a teen, you know, when you're in some random house

drinking beers and then the movie comes on? Oh, it comes right. Yeah, I reckon I've got a vague memory of a night like that. Coming in halfway through, you're like, what's going on? Who is this? Who are these clones? And yeah, that would be confusing actually, because, yeah, he gets cloned, basically. And he doesn't know.

Yes, that's actually exactly. Spoiler alert. I reckon that was made with collateral damage. Not drinking beers because it came out in 2002, but I reckon it would have been like a film that my parents had hired from Blockbuster. Good thing about movies is they exist from when they come out onwards. What do you mean? Well, potentially you watched it a few years later and it.

No, but it came out in 2002 and that's the only time you could have seen it. No, I didn't put that together. Yeah, that makes sense now. I was 12. Was I 12 then? Yeah, for the last four months of the year, yeah. Okay, I was 11 or 12, depending on at what time my parents rented this film from Blockbuster. Maybe they rented it the next year.

Oh, I see what you were getting out before now. Okay, okay. You can watch movies later. You can. You don't have to. And it doesn't sound like either of you do when it comes to money. If I miss it, I missed it. There'll be more on this list.

True Lies, probably about 12 times. Yeah, easily. Have you seen, you've seen, kindergarten cup though kindergarten cup I've seen quite a few times I reckon twins

twins are you I've seen any of these for long time twins I've seen a part of twins on TV what's another line from kindergarten cop

who is your daddy what does he do another line is our mom says our dad's a walking sex machine my dad's a guy to college he looks at girls for joinies all day long

it is so funny I don't remember any of that It's funny because Dave is so believable as a child I don't want to be a princess I don't know I don't want to be a police officer I want to be your prince's hand I remember the bad

The bad guy The kid's dad had a long ponytail Spoiler alert Oh you ruined it That was a big reveal Clap into the wind In his ponytail He had it twirled up under a beanie

The whole film And then at one point he takes up And he flicks it out. It's beautiful, man. And then he takes up his glasses. You're like, oh my God, he's the bell of the ball. I talked about this on the pod that when I was in Japan, four years ago, girlfriend and I both got very sick with food poisoning.

And we were trapped in the hotel, couldn't go out, both feeling really sick. And we said, oh, let's rent a movie, watch it on the iPad. And we're like, kindergarten cup. That's really funny. We'll watch that. Oh, no. Forgetting that the whole plot of the film is that he has to step in, pretending to be a kindergarten teacher because his partner gets extremely ill with gastro.

So the first 10 minutes of the film are her vomiting, shit, and all, like, absolutely being really, really sick. So we're watching and going, oh, no. You're finding it triggering? Yeah, it's so triggering. When you feel, see, this, this comedy will distract us. Oh, my God, she's vomiting everywhere. That's not good.

But it is a great film. It is a great film. But he's taking a break from this because if you saw back. Well, he's kind of. back now and then in 2003 he made his third appearance as the title character in Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines. I would say don't worry about it. Well, it went on to earn over 150 million domestically, equivalent to 208 million today.

That's okay. I did all right. That's profit. That's pretty... No, that's not profit. Okay. It's gross. It costs a billion dollars to make it.

So a little bit of a change. of pace here. Schwarzenegger has been a registered Republican for many years. When he was an actor, his political views were always well known because it was a different view to a lot of his peers who tended to be liberal and democratic leaning. At the 2004 Republican National Convention, he gave a speech and explained he was a Republican because of the Democrats of the 1960s. Because the Democrats of the 60s sounded too much like Austrian socialists.

Now, I was joking before, but his speech literally started. started with. I finally arrived here in 1968. What a special day it was. I remember I arrived here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of determination, full of desire. That's how a grown man started his speech. Very cute.

He announced his candidacy in the 2003 California recall election for Governor of California on August 6, 2003. Do you remember how he made the announcement? You know, some people might do like a press conference, or tweeted or whatever. Rocket pack. Rocket pack? Dave?

I don't know. Was he wearing a leather jacket and those sunglasses on Terminator? I can't remember. Not sure what he was wearing, but he was on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Ah.

He was interviewed and he announced his candidacy. You do a good Leno, I reckon, because it wouldn't be that far different from some of your other characters. Oh, what are you talking about? Nout it. I never really watched much, Leno, I must admit.

Yeah, we can tell. I just did all my kids. characters put together and I thought that might. That wasn't miles away. Thank you. And I also was wearing a big chin. You were? You really wore that chin.

Where did you get it? I always carry a big chin. So quickly. It always carry a big chin, really big. Anyway, so he's a really big show. He's announced his candidacy and he had the most name recognition in the field of candidates. Really, named one of the others.

Probably actual politicians we'd never heard of. But he'd never held... Rick Sanders. He never held public office and his political views were unknown to most Californians. So some people were a bit like, this is not going to happen. His candidacy immediately became national and international news, with media outlets dubbing him the governor and the running man and calling the recall election total recall.

That's funny. Obviously at this time, the media are trying to dig up anything they possibly can. And so his fire. Gustav, let's remember that he voluntarily joined the Nazi party 1938. His background received wide press attention during this recall campaign. So, Arnie commissioned someone to research his father's wartime record, which came up with no evidence of Gustav being involved in any atrocities, despite him being a member of the Nazi party.

Oh, no atrocities. That's good. So he was one of like the nicer Nazis, you know. When you do a background check, you know, a police check, atrocity check. Are you able to work with his trustee? children. He's just like a Nazi doing admin, you know? I mean, I think a lot of them said that at the end.

Exactly. That's why I find like, no, no, no, no, no. He was fine, he was fine. It's a lot of pencil pushing. Don't worry about me. Don't worry about it. So on October 7, 2003, the recall election resulted in Governor Gray Davis being removed from office and Schwarzenegger being elected governor of California.

Huge. It's wild because their economy is like equal to like, you know, like, if you Just that state. It's like, you know, top 20 in the world or something. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So much money, yeah. Yeah.

I won't talk heaps about his political career because I don't understand it. Governor. I don't get it. But like if I didn't mention it, I'd get tweets. So I've mentioned it. Okay? Yeah. I'll talk about a couple of things, so.

I mean, you've got three lifetimes that are report-worthy. Totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't possibly, I'm missing so much in this report, honestly. It's insane. It's a wilder people when we talk about them and they go, you know him for this, they were a great actor, which is probably what I first think of was Schwarzenegger.

Yeah, yeah. You forget he had a, I mean, you don't really forget, because it's pretty well known, but this whole career is Mr. Universe, Mr. Olympia, record-breaking bodybuilder. Yeah, and. I didn't know about the strength stuff as well. Did you come across that before he was an actor?

He was also an extremely good businessman. He was a millionaire. Yeah, going to talk about it. Oh, it blows my mind. He was a millionaire before he was 30. Really? He moved to America with nothing. And I'll talk about it later, but he just, like, started businesses and invested well.

That's why I also find him inspiring because of that kind of stuff. He's just, like, he just works really hard. I've looked it up just to fact-check myself here. The economy of California is the largest in the USA. If California were a sovereign nation in 2020, it would rank as the world's sixth-larice. largest economy. Wow. Ahead of the UK and behind India.

Where are we? Oh, is top 50 good? Is it? I don't know. Well, was there population bigger than ours just in California? I would have thought. I would have thought probably by a fair margin. Land-wise, we are massive.

We're about the same size as the USA. Yeah. California is just under 40 million people. Yeah, so they've got something towards double. I think we're a little smaller. We're somewhere. Somewhere. We're either a little bit bigger or a little bit smaller.

Or exactly the same. Or to the millimeter. I don't think we're exactly the same, Dave. Get your head out of your butt. Literally, Dave. Honestly, how are you doing that? Oh, my chin's that big. I looked up the whole Schwarzenegger discography and I really have only seen about four of his films.

And filmography. I've listened to many of his albums on a few tracks. Yeah, right. You've got to do a bit of an Arnie Ben maybe. That's the kind of actor that I would have assumed I would have seen 20 films. You know what when people say who's your favorite actor, I'd probably say Arnie. Really? Really?

I just, every film I just love him in it. And you love his acting in it? Who's your favourite star that? I don't think you're saying he's your favorite actor, Dave. Do you know what I reckon? I think I am. I might even say, I might say Tooch. Ah, the Tooch is great.

I love the Tooch. I don't remember the context of the, A lot of people tweeted me about the toch after the episode that you talked about. Julia Child. Julia Child. He plays her husband. And I'm okay.

You don't remember why. I don't remember why everyone was tweeting at me about the Toch because I like the Toot. Because you thought it would be funny. He was called Stanley Poochie, I believe. He was a dog called. I think that was the train of thought you were trying to. And you laughed out loud a lot like Jess at Frozen 2.

Oh my God. But honestly, you don't understand. Like just the perfect pacing of the moment. throwing this fish to one another and then he just throws it into the law. It's very funny. I'm very sorry to the Julia Child's heads out there who I ruined that experience of. But Stanley Pucci, that's good. That's good stuff.

That's good stuff. And I said that out loud and then laughed. A good bit is a good bit. This is why I have not had the guts to go back and listen to that episode. But yeah, now obviously I was only being facetious there. You love whoever you want as your favorite actor. Thank you so much. He's a great actor.

Like you said, not many can do action and comedy. And politics. That's right. And bodybuilding. And business. He's a couple of things about his political career. Because of his personal wealth from his acting career, he did not accept his governor salary of $175,000 a year.

It's like, keep your money. He's like, I wipe my ass with 175 grand. I wipe my ass. I imagine he's got a big ass. Yeah, he would. He'd have huge. What are those muscles? Glutes.

Glutes. God, you don't even know that. I was going to say quads, but they're lower. No. They're not lower than your glutes? Well, your quads are these ones. If you have... Well, all right.

Is that higher or lower? Okay. Are we going to take it back? No. That scorn in your voice? We're going to take that back. Oh, I hated that tone so much. It would be difficult to move if your quads are as big as those bodybuilders.

Quite genuinely. Some of them can't... They can't, like, put a spoon to their mouth because their biceps are so big. I've actually heard Arnie talk about that. Maybe in the pumping iron documentary talks about not being able to brush his teeth. Can't do it because his muscles are too big. That makes it seem a bit silly. It feels like in those competitions there should be an asterisk unless you can do normal things.

You've got to prove that you can brush your teeth, eat cornflakes. How would you wipe your ass? How would you bite? On stage. The practicality test. Yeah. How would you, like, buy clothes? Nothing, because your body would just be in strange portions.

You'd stand there and they'd have to like build it around you. Do you think I'd never have clothes on if I had muscles that big? But what about the proportion, Dave? Because you're going to look small. What do you mean? Well. So what, Dave? With everything else looking very big, there's one muscle you can't really work on.

I've been working that out. Non-stop. You work it. So that's why you haven't been going to go to the gym again. You mean focus on one muscle. Yeah, because I kicked out of the gym for that. So I thought, well, I'll do it at home. The cleaning jerk.

Whatever. Clean a jerk. How much cleaning? Let me tell you that. Some speculated that Arnie might run for Senate in 2010, but that didn't eventuate. Other people said that he would run for president, but he can't run for president. It's not allowed. Because he's not a natural born citizen of the United States.

And he has a dual Austrian United States citizen. He has held Austrian citizenship, obviously, since birth. And then he was, because. came a naturalised US citizen in 83. Apparently, Austria don't usually allow dual citizenship, but he asked for an exception and they granted it. I feel like, yeah, it's a bit of an asset for them. Yeah, don't relinquish, Arnie.

You'd have to give up Arnie. You're an idiot. You do that. Don't do that. Yeah, they'd be called the Arnie. It's fine. The Arnie clause or something. Yeah.

What, yeah, I also think it's not to talk about other countries' politics, but it doesn't seem to make sense that you can't be the leader of the country just because you were born somewhere else. else? There would be a reason for that. I think that's just definitely in that. It would have been written way back in all. No, I know.

I understand that it is a thing. I just don't know if I don't really understand what that makes sense. Yeah, that's true. Why can you be the, why is it okay to be the governor and do anything else but not be the president? Well. Yeah, they're a bit funny about stuff like that in America. But speaking of, there was, in 2003, when he became governor, there was the equal opportunity to govern amendment. which was widely called the amend for Arnold Bill,

which would have added an amendment to the US Constitution allowing him to run for president. Right. Feels like he'd be a good president, even though I don't understand that at all. Just a vibe thing. He did some good things or some popular things as governor, but others not great.

And he began his tenure as governor with a record high approval ratings, as high as 65% in May of 2004. And when he left office, it was a record low at 23%. Oh, wow. Only one percentage higher than Gray Davis, who he had replaced. Oh, Gray Davis. When Gray Davis was called. Oh, no.

It doesn't sound good. That's an inspiring name. They should call him like... Gray Day. He's a Gray Day in his name. Oh, he has Gray Day in his name. Call him Gray Strong or something. I didn't realize that Arnie was...

He was an unpopular. Not that being popular is everything, but yeah. I said it's pretty popular. and I thought he did a lot of green policy and stuff like that. And he describes himself as like fiscally conservative but socially liberal. I love the word fiscally. It's so fun. So fun.

Actually, fiscally responsible, so you don't have to worry about me. So he was definitely like he was pro-choice and pro-gay marriage and stuff like that. But other parts of him were more conservative. Yeah. So. Put the poor in the bin.

Yeah, get the poor. in the bin, but let the gays be wed. Pour the poor in the bin. Pour the poor in the bin. It's got to be catchy with politics. That's how it goes. Just weeks after he left office, he announced that he was reading a bunch of scripts, and he appeared in the Expendables 2, let's not forget, in 2012.

I remember. Expendables 2. I saw it. And he starred in the last stand in 2013. Oh, Johnny Knoxville. I actually haven't not seen that one. I haven't seen that one. Are you sure that's not the cold chisel concert film?

the last stand. This is his first leading role in 10 years. It's a long time between drinks. It's fun that he went back. Yeah. I was the governor for a while. Back in Hollywood now. Then, of course, there was Expendables 3 in 2014.

Who could forget? Well, remember. And then he starred in the fifth Terminator movie, Terminator Genesis, in 2015. Dave, any comment? No, I don't really keep up with those ones. You're over. Really? You love them and you've dropped them. Yeah, like, well, those ones were really?

Christian Bail and things like that. Then there was another one last year. Yeah, dark fate. I actually haven't seen that either. I thought I heard that was pretty good. I didn't even know it existed. Because Linda Hamilton was back for that as well. People are like, why's the age?

But it's someone about organic material or something. Everything ages, man. Frog's age. Yeah. Think about that. Baby Frog's different to a big frog. Yeah, tadpole's different again. I don't know what order it is, but at one point during a frog's life,

there's tap pole. Somewhere in the middle, I think. At one point, they're dinner. Yeah. If you're French. Oh, okay. Well, let's not get anti-on-Fonsei. Oh, I am pro on Francais.

Oh, weird. I'm so excited for us three to have a Terminator movie night. No. Can we please do that? I'm up for it. Let's like at a cinema. Can I have popcorn? Do they still play?

Every now and then the Aster plays them. Love it. Can I have popcorn? Yeah. All right, then I'm in. I like popcorn. Okay, you want some? Yes.

You can have a comfy chair as well. Can I have a chalk top? Yes, I love chalk tops. They're my favourite centre. I alternate between mint and salted caramel. Oh, okay. Sometimes like Bois and Bree. Yeah, like Bois and Bree mint, vanilla.

Vanilla? What a waste. I know, so actually just like chocolate. You got the chocolate? Chocolate. Covered in chocolate. Yeah, that's pretty good. But I would say I would always get mint probably.

Yeah. Okay, so I'd make no apologies for that. So this is the thing we were talking about before. So he's a millionaire by the age of 30, well before his career in Hollywood. It blew my mind when I found that out. So when he first moved to the States, he started a bricklaying business with a friend. The business flourished thanks to their marketing savvy and an increased demand following the 1971 San Fernando earthquake.

They got lucky that there was an earthquake. He and his business partner, Colombo, Colombo, used profits from their bricklaying venture to start a mail-order business selling bodybuilding and fitness-related equipment and instructional tapes. And with that money, he invested in real estate. state buying, it says an apartment building for $10,000. Yeah, I've heard him talk about that. A whole building? Yeah, because he talked about how prices were really, really low and that when he first moved to America, couldn't get work or something like that.

So he had a lot of free times. He would just go to all the open for inspections and he would spend all day walking around the city. So he just became sort of like an expert. Wow. Toward himself. And then just made really wise decisions. And I have heard him talk about now how it's not worth it because stuff doesn't go up.

is not inflating quick enough. But at the time, you'd buy really low, do it up a bit, and then sell really, really high because the prices were increasing like crazy. He also invested... That's how he became a millionaire. It's amazing. He's a really smart guy. Yeah, and he invested in a shopping mall.

How much money you have to have to invest in a shopping mall? In Columbus, Ohio, it doesn't say. But he was also one of the founding celebrity investors in Planet Hollywood, that chain of restaurants. That went super well. Along with Bruce Willis, Demi Moore and Sylvester Stallone. So, yeah, he just like he just ran a... good business and invested his money wisely and he was a millionaire before he was 30 and then

he went into acting. This is still while he's competing. Yeah, right. Wild. Who's got the time? Because also, on top of all that, he has a family. He married journalist Maria. Two families, right? Yes. Oh dear. He married journalist Maria Shriver. She was the niece of President John F. Kennedy. Which I think it's quite funny because he said in the 60s he didn't agree with the Democratic presidents, which is Joe Kato. Well, they got married in 86 and they have four children, Catherine, and that's what we were saying ties in because she is now married to Chris Pratt. Right. So Chris Pratt married a Kennedy slash Schwarzenegger. Wow.

Pretty cool. God, he nailed it. Patrick and Christopher. after 25 years together, the couple separated in 2011 after it was revealed that Arnie had fathered a son more than 14 years earlier with an employee in the household, Mildred, Patricia, Patty, Boehner. And he says, after leaving the governor's office,

I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago, which is what he said in a statement issued to the Times. In the statement, he did not mention that he had confessed to his wife only after she had confronted him with the information, which she had done after confirming with the housekeeper what she had suspected. So she's confirmed it all. And then he's like, oh, yeah.

So the housekeeper had been with the family for 20 years and retired at the time of the separation. So she would have known the wife very well. Very well. They were pregnant at the same time. Oh. So she was pregnant working in the home while Maria was pregnant with the youngest of the couple's four children.

Strong tadpoles. They both give birth a very buscular baby. Well, the chances. So Bainer, the housekeeper's son, Joseph, was born on October 2, 1997, and Maria gave birth to Christopher a few days before on September 27, 1997. So only a few days apart, these two boys. He says Arnold, Arnie Schwarzenegger, says it took seven or eight years before he found out that he had fathered a child with his housekeeper.

And it was not until the boy started looking like him, that he put things together. I remember the time some photos came out and he looks very much like Arnie. It's not great. But like he, I mean, you know what? That tone was wrong from me. It sounds like I was going to justify it. I just mean he's like done the right thing in terms of supporting his families and everyone's okay. Oh, everyone's okay now.

Everyone feels okay about it? Sure. Have you spoken to them? Yeah, I checked with them. Oh, that's great. So, if anyone can afford two families? Great news. Totally.

Like he bought him a house and stuff. They're fine. Actually, no, because her marriage also broke down. Anyway, it was not good. But to lighten things up a bit, I have fun facts for the end. Fun facts. So because he grew up during the Allied occupation of Austria, Arnie commonly saw heavy military vehicles such as tanks as a child.

He kind of loved tanks. So he had one and he had to pay $20,000 in order to bring his... Austrian Army M47 tank to the United States, which he previously operated during his mandatory service in 1965. So he brought his own tank over. That is amazing. $20,000 to bring a tank doesn't even sound like that much, though, doesn't it? That's a good deal.

That's the same prizes of like a Nissan. Yeah, yeah. The import taxes are crazy. Drive away, no more to pay. Then a Nissan. 20 grand. I like our American said Nissan. I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Adidas is fun. Adidas, Hyundai. They say Hyundai. For Hyundai. Aluminum. Oregano. Yeah, that's a good one. It's oregano, you dickheads.

In September 2015, the media announced that Swaterniger was going to replace Donald Trump as hosts of the new celebrity apprentice. This show, the 15th season of The Apprentice, aired during 2016-2017 TV season. In the show, me too. In the show, he used the phrases, you're terminated and get to the chopper, which are quotes from his famous roles. In March 2017, Donald Trump had just been repeatedly criticizing Arnie and his role on the show. So Arnie said he was going to return for another season, and he reacted to Trump's remarks via Instagram and said,

Hey, Donald, I have a great idea. Why don't we switch jobs? You take over TV because you're such an expert in ratings and I take over your job and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. Crici. On Instagram. Yeah, grandvim.

That's not where Donald is. Get him on Twitter. Get him on Twitter. He's not looking at the gram. Imagine that combo kicking off. That'd be fun. That'd be amazing to watch. A couple last things.

Obviously, Arnie is considered among the most important figures in the history of bodybuilding and his legacy is commemorated in the Arnold Classic, which is an annual bodybuilding competition. But also finally, I have a few of his records for some of his lifting moves. So, for example, his record for a deadlift is 710 pounds or 320 kilos. Okay.

Is that big? I do 50 at the moment. At my peak, a few years ago, I did about 115. Yeah. Really? Really? Yeah. 320 kilos he's lifting that. That sounds a lot.

That's fucked. His bench press, his record is 520 pounds, 240 kilos. I've got no scale, but that sounds amazing. I mean, think of something that weighs 240 kilos, then lie on your back and lift it up over you. All right, I'm doing it. Oh, you're doing it pretty comfortable. Yeah, wow.

Oh, a little niggling the right elbow, but don't worry. Yeah. Dave, you're the strongest man alive? I didn't know this about you, don't. Wow, I mean, I have broken a sweat. I'll admit that, so. His squat was similar to 47 kilos or 545 pounds. He's clean and jerk, your favourite.

How long did he take? Seven seconds. 298 pounds or 135 kilos. Jeez, that's a whopper. That is insane. Anyway, that, those are the records of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that is my report on Arnie. My favorite actor.

We did it. What a guy. And, you know, he had a lot of things in there. And you even squeezed in a sex scandal. Yeah, you got to squeeze in the sex scandal. It's funny until you started saying, I'm like, oh, I had forgotten about that. You too? I didn't think I knew that at all.

I didn't know about that. No, so how I missed that. It was real big news at the time, but you were probably focusing on other things. Was that 2011? I was at uni. Yeah. So I was just, I was different. You probably weren't paying attention to the news.

I find his achievements very inspiring. Because of his achieved so much, he often speaks at universities and things like that. There's a few videos on YouTube when he talks about everything. They said I couldn't go to America and I did it. I said I couldn't be a bodybuilder and I did it. They said I couldn't be an actor because of my name and my voice. Do the voice. They said I couldn't be a politician and I did it.

And I just find all that stuff, pretty inspiring. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he's obviously a very driven person. He'd probably be a nightmare to be around. People that are that driven, it's like you can't sit still, you know? But it is very, yeah, very impressive. All right. Well, that brings us to the point of the episode that everyone loves.

It's the fact, quote, or question segment, where patrons on the Sydney-Sharmberg deluxe Memorial, rest and peace level, get to give us a fact, a quote, or a question. And there's a little jingle that I think Jess does. No. No, there isn't. Fact quote or question. Ding.

Thank you. And this week, it's wrong, but okay. Just do it. It's James Cox. And he's given himself the title, Master of Matching Outfits. Oh, I love that. And his question, he's asking a question. Great.

His question is, you guys do a lot of reports about amazing people. but I've always been curious as to who you guys would consider your personal heroes and why. Arnold Schwarzenegger. That was appropriate timing for that question. Personal heroes. That's a tough one. I've never really thought about a hero. There's obviously people that I look up to in a bunch of different ways.

Yeah. I'm not sure about that. No, that is a tough one. My dad. Yeah. It's probably the same for all of you. My dad. Yeah, your dad for sure.

I think, yeah, like my parents. grandparents a lot of family that I look up to yeah they're kind of your role models I mean growing up as a kid my brother was definitely my hero I copied everything he did I played every sport he played

I just chased I just thought I adored him yeah now I'm like eh nah he's great but yeah I think I don't know

heroes are a bit different as you get older aren't they like you don't really aspire to be superheroes anymore you just sort of see traits in people that are admirable and you think, yeah, I'd like to be like that.

Yeah. Yeah, as a kid, it would have been like footballers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or superheroes or, you know, fictional characters or something. Captain Planet, for example. Yeah. Ah, he's a hero. Gonna take pollution down to zero.

Wind. All right, water, hot. Go planet. Now the planet is yours. I am Captain Planet. Captain Planet. He's a hero. Gonna take pollution down to zero.

He's gonna help him Put a thunder That guys who like to loot and plunder You'll pay for this Captain Planet All right so collectively our answer is Captain Planet Where the planet is, sorry You can be one too Because saving our planet is the thing to do

Luding and polluting Is not the way He's our Captain Planet has to say The power is yours Let's go planet. Great. I think Captain Planet's our hero. Yeah.

He's my absolute hero. My actual hero is Captain Pollution. I'm Captain Pollution. Whoa. Do you remember that? He came back a couple of times. He did. And he had like the...

Is he just green Captain Planet? Instead of the five positive rings, there were five negative rings. And you had like scabs and stuff on. Yeah. He looked a bit off. Captain Pollution. And you loved like rubbish. Oh.

Tracks. He love trash. He love getting done trash. Yeah. Do you think James is going to be satisfied with that answer? I think so. That hero is Captain Planet. He's pretty wholesome guy.

Who's your comedy hero? Do you have one? I don't know if I have one necessarily. That's a tough one too. You say tripod sometimes. Well, yeah, that's definitely why that would have been my main intro into comedy. Oh, I mean, my intro would have been going to see David O'Dowardy. Yeah, for sure.

I'm still a huge fan. Lano and Woodley, for sure. I reckon Anthony Morgan on TV as a kid. on like a great one of the great debates. I reckon that's the first time I was like, what the hell's going on here? Yeah, cool. You guys,

are my comedy? Obviously, you too. Was that a given? In certain ways, you too, I look up to you in certain ways. Other ways.

In what ways? Could not look any further down. Tell me which way is you look up to me? It would hurt my neck to look that far down. Okay, yeah, but tell me the ways you look up. What do you like about me?

I think you're, I like it, like in recent times, you've had like this wild sort of, like, stillness of mind to look at the big picture and make cool decisions that I'm like, I don't think I would have been able to do that. I've said no to things. Yeah, which I find hard to do. Me too, to be honest. I'm just like, oh, amazing that you go, actually don't think this will make me happier.

and I'm like, fuck, that's a wild idea. But you two should say no to drugs like Jess did. Yeah. Be a nerd like me. How did she say no? Like, I just can't. That guy in the alleyway. He said you want some drugs.

Or you can look at my horse. That was cool. It'll cost you the same. I'd pick the horse. Look at a horse instead of drugs. Yeah, good cool. You could look at a horse for longer than drugs last. Yeah.

What are they last four, five seconds? But it's an amazing 40 seconds. But then the damage lasts forever. I think I'll really look up to Dave's positivity. He's nearly always positive. He occasionally cracks. It's very occasional. And it's pretty fun to see.

No, Dave is of the three of us, and I think you'll agree Matt, the most consistent. Yeah, he is. His mood is always the same. Yeah. And you like... Always seeing the good side and things. Yeah, yeah. Being on tour with you is very easy because in the morning you're like, hey.

And at night you're like, hey. Hey, good night. There's no change. Whereas I'll be like, I'm hungry and I'll drop a lot. And I'll be tired inevitably. Guys, but I think we've figured each other out. Yeah, we're pretty good now. I admire you guys too, by the way.

Yeah, and Matt's all right. I admire Matt your ability to just get it done. Sometimes you'll be like up to like, Four, five in the morning, just getting something done, like writing a report or something. You're like, I went to bed for two hours outside. I'm like, I would have cracked. I would have fallen asleep. But you just, you do it.

Yeah, if I've got something coming up to get at time. Yeah, you just get it done. The second fact, quote or questioner this week is our Simpsons guy, who's giving himself the title. That's Simpsons guy, Jacob Lane. Jacob Lane. Oh, Jacob Blaine. She'd better squeeze in a, I don't think we've had a... I was thinking about Jurassic Park before, and I just made me think of Billy and the Clonosaurus.

You remember that? When Principal Skinner's talking to Apu about how he's going to write a film and the plot is clearly Jurassic Park and he says that I call it, Billy and the Clonosaurus. And Arpoo's like, what are you talking about, you idiot? During your film, the biggest movie. Arnie ever made a cameo? Oh, well, Rainier Wolf Castle is a parody of him.

Of course. So glad you squeezed it in there. Yeah. I'm going to go in that. Mendoza! So Jacob Lane asks a question as well, two questions. His question is, so I've already given a fact and a quote. So I'll ask you guys a question this time.

Great. I'm sure you often get asked what your favorite episode or character from The Simpsons is, but I was wondering what your favorite joke or gag is. My personal favorite is the guy incognito bit from the episode Fear of Flying. Tough question without notice. So hard. Oh, my favorite character if you had asked, would have been Lionel Hutz. Oh, yeah.

Oh, good one. The Phil Hartman characters are so good. Yeah, they're so, so funny. But favorite joke or gag? I mean, the one that I love put it in H that you guys did. Yeah, that was great. I remember that vaguely. I mean, there's so many that I quote a lot.

One of them is, went home. There's my exact double. That dog has a puffy tail. I must study this man. I think one that I quote a lot, you'll have to speak up by wearing a towel. Oh yeah, that's a good one. Because I am often wearing a towel.

Yeah. You get around in tails a lot, like right now. Yeah. I also love Barry, Bert, Bort. Bort? No, come along, Bort. I'm sorry, were you talking to me? My son is also named Bort.

I love that so much. That's a good bit. Oh, and I like the whole episode where it's in the future and Lisa is a president. Oh, that's a good one. What happened to you, China? You used to be cool. That's great.

I love that. It was a line, which I think we had sometimes, which isn't super funny. It was just kind of mean, huge grant. Says to the Lisa, you're like a flower who grew out of a pot of dirt. Describing the Simpsons as a pot of dirt. But also, of course that's where a flower grows. If anything, your parents should be the dirt that nourishes you.

It helps you grow. Yes. You know, that's the dream of any parent, I believe, to be dirt. Yes, that's beautiful. There's nourishment in there. Yeah. The line that I think I've also mentioned recently was the Shelbyville and grandpa who says, And with that, we cast out that evil lemon tree.

And let's have a celebratory drink of turnip juice. There's a lemon behind that yellow lemon sheet rug. That episode's got so much. Oh, Lemon of Troy. He's running, Homer's running from the, the, junkyard dog to get back into the camper van and he throws it some meat to slow it down but it eats some meat in one golf

and it only makes him faster well then they're trying to drive away and Flanders is like someone's using all the juice he's like got a turkey baster he's got the pool I thought you said you could read lips I assumed I could great line

all the bits from the you know the hammock region Oh, yeah. That's on the third. That whole episode. I mean... Two of my all-time favorite episodes, right? Yeah, they're two of my top.

You ever seen a man say goodbye of his own shoes? Yeah, once. Mr. Thompson bids for him, I think he's talking to you. Yeah, that is. Oh, there's so many. Jacob, Leyen, what a question we could do this all night. The problem is I don't read him out beforehand,

so there's no notice. But yeah, oh, thanks for helping us reminisce there, Jacob. That's fun. It's funny that we had more answers for favorite Simpsons joke than who's your hero. Lionel Hutz. Oh, Mac Groney, obviously. Of course.

Well, that brings to everyone else's favorite section of the show. And that is where we thank a few other patrons. Jess, you normally have a little game here. What do you reckon this week? Okay, so what I was just thinking before is that we name their sequel. Ah, so Terminator 2 Judgment Day. Yeah. is he also an expendables two

which is Judgment death Which basically means we're coming up with A film In the first place And then A sequel And is it going to be a twin sequel

They've been talking about that for a long time Did you come across that With possibly Eddie Murphy being involved It's like a triplet A triplet types Yeah And also Did you come across the story

That was this most profitable movie I did not Twins Is him and Danny DeVito They signed on and they said, oh, we'll just take a percentage of the profits. And it ended up being a massive hit. And they both made, you know, like tens of millions of dollars each.

And I wouldn't have been, I guess the studio were like, this isn't going to be. Yeah, it's a bit of a risk. It's a bit of a weird movie, an idea that Danny DeVito and Arnie are twins. And then it was just like, yeah, a massive success and that they were just cashing those checks forever. Whoa. Love it.

All right. So I'll kick it off by thanking, if I can. Please. From Glen's side in. I reckon Pennsylvania, PA. It's Michelle Linaberger. Michelle Linaberger. Wineberger, Linaberger.

One Liberty Bell. Two little. Come on, Liberty Bell. I mean, yes. Three Liberty Bells. Mr. Simpson, I'm really going to need you to move your finger. A cherry. He's so ashamed.

Mr. Simpson. Another good bit. Okay. All right. Lennemberger. I'm going to say Lineberger. Lineberger. Michelle Lienberger.

She'd go around just making people hungry all the time. Film is called the salesman. Two. Salesman two, back in the briefcase. Yes. Salesman two, back in the briefcase. I like it. Michelle Lineberger.

And on the poster, she's like running and she's holding a briefcase and you can see that it's open. and there's a gun in there. Oh. Because the salesman's just a cover. It's a cover. Oh, love it. Michelle is bad-a-th. That's badass.

That's badass. That's badass. I'd also love to thank. Thank you so much, Michelle. I'd also love to thank from Palmyra in Western Australia. Luke Wood. Luke Wood. Who we met when we were over there last year.

Oh, Luke, yeah. He gave me a West Coast Eagle stubby buddy, which I've been using. Thank you so much, Luke. For your fine work. Now, what kind of film is the Woodman in? Woodman cometh was the original. Yeah, this one is. And it was about an ax man who's chopping down trees.

And then he heard a call from down yonder. And it opened up a world of mystery and intrigue. And that was Woodman cometh. Yeah. And this is Woodman cometh two. Woodman taketh away. Oh. Luke Wood.

That's good. I would see both of those in one sitting. Yeah, big time. I'd do a back-to-bag. I'd do a marathon. Much like we were with the Terminator films Cannot wait guys Wow

I've never been so excited about something And that says a lot about my life So we're gonna do back to back one night I reckon If you're up for it Yeah That's so tedious That's too much time to spend

How much popcorn I'll get you like jumbo My gosh The Astor sometimes do The back to backs Yeah yeah true Not that long ago they did And I wish I'd seen it

I wish I'd gone I'll tell you what It was a die hard Slash Terminator 2 Oh They're both sequels. They're just putting them both together. Two of the greatest action movies of all time.

Love it. Two of my favorite all-time films and I wish I'd seen it. May I thank some people as well? Yes, please. I would love to thank from Sutton in Surrey. Sutton. I would love to thank Elizabeth Joyce. Oh, that's nice.

Elizabeth Joyce. Lizzie Joyce. Lizzie J. The film is called Water Dragon 2. That's the original. Dragon you to hell. Whoa. Water dragon, two, dragon you down.

So Water dragon one is just the water dragon. Water dragon. Water dragon. This is water dragon two. Dragon to hell. It's so good. What's about? It's a horror film.

It sounds like that. The water dragon drags you. To hell. Through the bath hole? No. You're in a lake. Oh, through the lake hole. Through the lake hole.

Through the lake hole to hell. That sucks. You gotta get out. Oh, you've got to get out. So that's not the end. You got out of hell. Oh, my goodness. Can I for the third quill?

The thweequel. The squeakwell. That's very cute. I would also love to thank. Thank you, Elizabeth. And I would also love to thank from Newcastle here in New South Wales. Jess Jones. Okay.

Jess Jones. Jay J-J. Potato run. Two. Sweet potato. Ah. Tadot Ron, sweet potato. No offense to Jess Jones, but that...

Sucks. Sounds like a bomb. Oh, what are you talking about? What's Potato Run 2 about? Sweet Potato. Well, in the first movie... Also, I'm going to start calling you Sweet Potato. Thank you so much.

In the first movie, Potato Run... I'm going to call you, Jan. All right. Well, it was people that were kicked off their land. There were potatoes. It's a very dark movie, the first one. Tragic, tragic movie. And they were moved off their land and they were potato growers.

But Potato Run, too, is much not. nicer because they've just discovered that they can grow sweet potatoes and profit to us as much. And that cash is extra sweet. And sweet potato fries are just like suddenly quite popular. Yeah, so it's a real boom. So it's a real turnaround. So the first one was a tragedy comedy. And the second one is a romantic comedy.

Oh. Yeah, you better believe that there's a farmer boy next door that's quite good looking. Is there like a, so it's like, you know, cute and romantic comedy. But then there's like a sex scene that you're like, whoa, that was a big. Graphic for a wrongcom? Extremely graphic. What are they doing with that sweet potato? Yeah, they showed it in detail.

Yes, so Potato Run 2 Sweet Potato. I think it's great. You're the kind of people that have been like Star Wars. That sounds dumb. Pass. Idiots. Yeah, we're the idiots. Star Wars 2 Sweet Potato, the film that never was.

Thank you very, very much there to Jess Jones. Thank you, Jess Jones. Great name, by the way. Yeah, Jones, what a great name. I'd like to thank... Now, from Milton Keynes in the Greatest Britain, I would like to thank Jay Menangie. Manangy, Menangy. Jay Menangy.

Jay Menangy. Oh, okay. Well, the original film Jay was in was called Big Bad Biker Boy from Boston. Yeah, loved that. And then the sequel was... Love that film. What was the sequel? The sequel was...

Uh-huh. Bigger, bikier, boyer. Badder boy. Badder. Back in Boston, two. Ah. So it was confusing because it was like, it got the two at the end, even though it had already sort of sequelized all the other words.

But it was a big hit. At the box office. Wow. Bigger, batter, boy, from Boston back in Boston. And that's start Jay Menangie. Oh, starred him. No, he financed it.

Oh. Producers. He's making all the money when that's obviously a hit. That's what you want. Yeah, he got a big piece of the back end. Thank you, Jay. And I would also finally like to thank from Bakersfield, California. And I imagine that your governor used to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, so how appropriate here.

I would like to thank... I would like to thank Andrew and Flores. Andrew. I don't know I said that like... All right, it's got to be a spooky film. I said that like... Andrew. Andrew.

Okay. It's set in an oven. Okay. So people have died in this oven. Spook oven. Spook oven. Spook oven. And Spook oven.

Spook oven. So there's things going on there. That's the initial. So spook Coven 2. What's the tag on that? Spook oven 2. It's witch and time. Oh, yeah.

Like that. So they're all mini ghosts inside an oven. Yeah. And then they have to, they spook each other and fight each other. But don't think that because. because they're little, they're not spooky. No. Because they're very spooky.

Yeah. They're just very small. Like spiders. It's terrifying. They're small. But, yeah, these are a little bit spooky. Yeah. Oh, God, I got shivers just thinking about it.

Oh, so spooked. Oh, Andrew and Flores, your movie has really affected us emotionally. And then, thank you to all those supporters. Let's have a look, see if there's anyone who's ready to be inducted into the Triptitch Club, which is for people who've been supporting the show for three years plus on the $5 or above section. Let me see. What's the date this week? It comes out on the 26th.

That means we've got a couple of inductees. Three, no two, including from Sydney. He's a buff man. Very similar sort of physique to Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's Dan Barley. Dan Barley. Dan Barley, the yoga man from Sydney by Britain. Thanks, Dan.

You're legend. I can't believe you've been around all these years. Yeah, that's so nice. I think I first met him at the first time we did a live show in Sydney. Yeah, I think so. And also we've met at live shows before from Cashelton in England. It's Robert Farley. Robert Farley.

Thank you, Robert. Thank you. Welcome into the Triptage Club. Make yourself at home. Sounds like a little lodge. Grab yourself a cocktail. Yeah. And some nibbleys.

Yes, we've got an assortment of nibbleys. Enjoy. Pretzels. Dip. Oh, you're making me so hungry. We're not allowed to eat them, unfortunately. Did you have dinner? I did.

I had some Shepherds pie. Good job. Thank you. That brings us to the end of this mother-flipping episode. Wow. What an episode it's been. Let's go back and think about all the good times. But we'll do that off pod.

Yeah. Which we usually do. It's a debrief where we just relive the memories. We just listen back to the whole thing. If you're keen, you can follow us on all the social media is pretty much, all the classic ones that do go on pod. And you can get us on email it to go on pod. Yes, at your email. Yep.

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so you can buy T-shirts, and what else is on there? A pin. Pin. And, yeah, so get on there, get involved. Enjoy yourself. Indulge. We'll be back next week with another huge report.

I've already been looking into it, and it's a banger. People are going to love it. Is it huge? It's big. It's almost too big to fail. Somehow it finds a way. Oh no.

It's impressive. Yeah. So, yeah, until then, as we always say, you suck it, fuck it. Best of luck. Wait, no, that's a different show. Later's. Bye. Bye.

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