WEBVTT - Interview Only: Stephen A interviews Arnold Schwarzenegger about hit Netflix series and California's immigration issue. 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:05.920 My next guest knows a thing or two about the 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.520 state of California. He served as the thirty eighth governor 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.160 of the state, and he happens to be an Emmy 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.680 and Golden Globe Award winning actor. He now stars and 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:21.280 executive producers the Netflix hit series Foo Baar. Please welcome 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.919 the one and only Arnold Schwartzernegat to the show. Sir. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:26.720 It is an honor and a privilege. How are you. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:29.240 I'm doing terrific, Thank you. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.960 It came back from Austria just a few days ago 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:35.440 and with the little cough. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:38.400 So if I have a cough attack in the middle 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.400 of this, just you know, be patient. 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.920 VI Meal, OK, listen, and I'll do you one better. Dammit, 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.880 I run this show. I'll pause, cut out the cough, 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.200 and it get right back to you so nobody will 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:50.960 notice the cough. So you don't have to worry about 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:55.600 it today. You have to worry think about it. Listen up, honor, 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.760 before we get into fool Ball, because I can't wait 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.720 to talk to you about that Netflix series. I really 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.120 joyed watching it and I can't wait to talk to 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.240 you about it. But news obviously takes president first. Before 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.200 we get into that series. I wanted to get your 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.560 thoughts on the current unrest taking place in Los Angeles 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:14.280 after ICE agents rated several businesses and protests that led 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.520 President Donald Trump to order the deployment of two thousand 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.480 National Guard troops to the city. What's your reaction to 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:21.000 all of this. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.320 My reaction is I hope that the solvedest problem as 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.120 quickly as possible, as you know that Los Angeles has 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:35.959 gone through some really bad fires recently, and I think 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.040 this is the last thing that we need right now, 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.039 and I just hope that they will solved as quickly 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.280 as possible because it's going to hurt the people of 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:48.240 Los Angeles. It's going to hurt, you know, tourism, it's 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.559 going to hurt business, the revenues which they're always short 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.160 off Los Angeles and the state of California. So I 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.840 just really hope that all of them can coordinate that 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.080 and work together in solveest problems as quickly as possible. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.520 As mentioned, you served as California's governor from two thousand 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.600 and three to twenty eleven, as a Republican in a 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.640 traditionally democratic state. Homeland securities are Tom Holman appeared to 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.200 threaten to arrest Governor Gavin Newsom before he walked back 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.519 that comment. On Fox News this morning, Newsom says he's 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.240 now suing the Trump administration for involving the National Guard 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.480 to begin with, what are your thoughts on how Governor 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.280 Newsom is responding to the ice raids and the National 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:27.760 Guard being on the ground in La. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.919 Well, you know, I the last thing I ever do 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:36.120 is criticize a sitting governor. I think that you know, 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.760 when you have been in this job, you know how 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:43.000 challenging it is. And on top of it, you know, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.320 we have a different point of view and a lot 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.120 of things. I'm a Republican and he's a Democrat, so 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.280 he thinks differently about those kind of issues and about 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.400 a lot of issues as far as that goes. But 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.320 I never will criticize him because he is to do 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.880 it his way. People elected him as a Democrat, and 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.080 people elected me as a Republican, so I did it 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.760 my way. I was always when I was governor, very inclusive. 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.480 I worked with the Democrats and the Republicans and the 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.600 client of State and the independents. I've worked with everyone 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.240 together to solve this problem. But weld immigration problems then 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.359 and we have immigration problems now. It's just really a 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:22.959 shortfall and the shortcoming of the politicians because they never 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.600 solved the problems. And this is a creation better politicians 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.000 in a way, because they don't solve the problem. The 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:33.160 immigration issue can be resolved very quickly by giving more 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.680 in working permits in student visas to people and then 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.240 they don't have to come in here legally. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.520 So to me, that is a way to solve it. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.440 Democrats and Republicans can come together under this issue and 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:45.600 solve this issue. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.440 Arnold, do you find this to be a nationwide issue 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.560 or is it a special circumstance in a case In 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.480 the case of California. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.360 Now, the immigration is year has been going on since 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.200 Ronald Reagan, and I think that the idea was always 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:00.880 that this solve this issue. 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:01.600 For decades. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.120 After decades, the politicians didn't because each one of the 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.760 parties is interested to not solving it because they can 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:13.000 raise money based on that. Republicans through the hardline and 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:17.560 the Democrats to the inclusive kind of a spiel, and 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.080 so they all raise money on that, they all campaign 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.400 on that, so they don't really want to solve it. 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.480 To me, those problems out there as a politician, if 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.280 the responsibility not to be a party servant, but to 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.320 be a public servant. In order to serve the public, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.400 you have to solve this problem and to make it 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.719 the coherent kind of an immigration policy. Right now, we 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:41.560 don't have one. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.640 Last question on this issue. You publicly endorsed Kamala Harris. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.600 The Democratic Party appears to be in flux as facts 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.960 come to light about Joe Biden's fitness to serve a 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.120 certain term a second term. What does the party need 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.839 to do to get back on track? In your estimation, 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.159 even though you were not a member of that party, 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.960 what advice would you give them? 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.120 You know, no advice. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:07.000 I think that they will figure out themselves of the 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.920 mistakes that they've made in the past, as much as 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.800 the Republicans always have to figure it out and the 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.400 mistakes they've made in order to get re elected again. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.440 And so I think they will figure out. They're very 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.240 very smart people in the party, and the Republicans have 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.000 very smart people in the party. The important thing is 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.760 just kind of like to kind of serve the people. 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.200 And if you can prove that you can help the 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.800 people's lives and you can put this so they can 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.000 put food on the table, they can take care of 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.960 the families. If you can do that, then you can 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.000 get the vote. If you run the other way, and 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.800 if you're just kind of a political hack that only 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.599 serves the party, then you have the danger that people 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.760 will abandon you and go any other direction. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.200 Listen, that's all I got to ask you about that 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.520 on this particular subject, because I've got to get into 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.479 your series on Netflix. Mister Arnold Swartzenegger. Season two of 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:02.040 Football begins streaming on June twelfth. Talk to me about 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.320 this series. I love it. I gotta admit it. I 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:10.400 love the father daughter dynamic, both CIA agents. It's been fabulous. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.880 What made you decide to do. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.400 This Well, they came to me with the idea of 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.919 doing True Lies but on TV and to do the 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:26.480 for streaming service for Netflix. And I like the idea 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:30.000 because True Lies was truly one of my favorite movies 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.480 that I've ever done. Yes, and because he has the 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:39.120 right balance of comedy and action and drama and violence 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.960 and fun stuff and love and family and all of 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.039 this kind of combinations that I thought made the movie 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.880 so successful. And so I said to myself, if we 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.160 can do a version of that on TV, I think 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.680 we will have a home run. And that's exactly what 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.160 we hit in the first season with the home run. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.080 I mean the amount of people that watched it. It 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.320 was number one for endless amount of time. And so 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.680 then of course Netflix decided to do number two, and 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.119 not only to make it number two, but to also 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:16.600 make me the chief Action Officer of Netflix. And now 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.080 you know, then that means that you're not only responsible 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.760 for your action show, but for others as well. But 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.040 the bottom line is is, you know, I was delighted 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.640 when they you know, kind of pulled the trigger and 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.000 said we want to have a second season. And you know, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.360 our contract is for two seasons anyway, and so I 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.920 was happy that they did in that direction, and we 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.560 were having a great time shooting it. The writers did 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:44.040 a brilliant, brilliant, store you know kind of job in 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.560 writing it, because I thought, well, there's a lot of 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.560 things I did not know when I got into this 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.840 TV business, like, for instance, you know, the beginning the 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.000 rating of the amount of people that watched the beginning 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.400 of a series versus the amount of people that watched 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.720 the end of a series. You know, the what is 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.720 the completion rate and all of those kind of things. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.800 So I was always wondering, why did this series start slow? 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.440 And then they kind of ramp it up, and you know, 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.240 I've seen it on second at the second season. I mean, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.840 it's like, it starts out great, and he explains everything 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.160 where we are and the action that the comedy noise, 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.679 but all of a sudden towards the end, it really 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.560 starts ramping up the amount of action days and I said, 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.240 whoa boy, maybe there's a little bit too much, but 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.240 I mean, any case, they did a fantastic job, and 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.520 I was so happy to work with the same actors 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.080 again as they worked in the in the first one, 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.880 except Carrion Moss came to become part of the team 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:43.400 and an odd love from decades ago, and she helped 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.120 me bring down the Berlin Wall and to fight communism 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.520 and all those kind of things. So that whole backed 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.640 up story came back again. And of course now I'm 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.760 having a dilemma with an old love and I'm, you know, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.760 have a wife that don want to gain back, and 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.000 all of that going on in the midst of this huge, 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:07.000 huge skill action in comedy. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.360 In the midst of all of that with you scheduled 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:13.760 to turn seventy eight years of age, if I remember correctly, 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.760 come late July July thirtieth, If I remember correctly, I mean, 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.720 do how shocked are you at the success that you're 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.080 having at this stage and point in your life and 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.440 in your career you're missed the action you're drawing up 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.800 true lives Jamie Lee Curtis. Let. Let's not forget how 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.160 fabulous she was in that movie, and how fabulous of 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.480 a movie it was overall. But I imagine that you 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.920 had some reservations as whether or not you'd be able 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.360 to achieve this level of success at this stage and 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.600 point of your career. Yet and still you're here and 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.640 you're doing it well. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.440 I mean, first of all, you're absolutely right. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:52.040 You know, if you get older, then there is not 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:56.079 as much interest in you as a major star than 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.959 it is with the younger guys. And I benefited from 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.240 Dedvan I was thirty, thirty five, forty fifty years old, 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.000 and others are benefiting from that. So that's that's clear. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:11.080 But my kind of a you know, staying power has 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.760 been because I think I chose wisely the kind of 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.120 projects that I did, and that yes, there was a danger. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.040 And I think that's the point that you're hitting is 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.840 not only the age, but I was governor for seven years, 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.360 and those seven years I did not do a movie 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.720 or a TV show or anything like this. So they 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.400 were just in the replays of other shows that they've 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.120 done in the past. And so it's very hard to 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.880 then come back again after that. And by that time, 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.400 also half of the people, you know, Republicans, half of Democrats. 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.640 They say about who he was a Republican. I don't 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.120 want to watch his show with orders. 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:45.920 So he goes through all of that ords at the 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:46.400 same time. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.040 But that the bottom line is is that I'm very 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.480 fortunate that I was able to kind of come back 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.640 after I was finished with the governorship and that I'm 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.360 at the place where I'm now. But I have to 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:02.760 tell you the main reason for this is that I'm 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:07.920 in America. Because America still is the land of opportunity. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.400 It's the greatest country in the world. And no matter 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.000 how many problems we have and how many kind of 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.520 debates they are about leadership and this and that, and 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.400 the you know, the Congress and the accomplishing everything and 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.720 all of those kind of things, and the riots. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.640 I mean, it is the greatest country in the world. 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:30.079 I just came from overseas and I had an environmental 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.840 conference in Vienna, Okay. And people still that day come 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.200 up to me and say, please, anold can you help 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.600 me to get to America, just like it was fifty 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.640 years ago and they asked me they can they help 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.280 them to come to America. So, I mean the desire 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.960 for people wanting to come here is because it is 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.800 the greatest country with the most opportunities. And I've seen 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.920 it firsthand. Everything that I've ever accomplished, because my movie career, 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.520 which was my family, the money that I made and 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.599 they're becoming governor of the great state of Curtiforia, the 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.520 environmental action, the after school programstead that've created, my work 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.400 with Special Olympics, all of this stuff happened because it 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.960 was in America. And so I loved this country and 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.920 I cannot wait to celebrate this two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.720 The feelings that you have that you just described about 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.280 the United States of America, I imagine you have always 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:27.800 felt that way, but has it elevated since you were governor. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.920 Like being a governor of a state as large as California, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.400 the United stated large state in the United States of America. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.200 Being a governor of that state for those years, did 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:43.319 it make you elevate your level of appreciation for America 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.720 even more so in the aftermath of being a governor 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.520 than you had before you became governor. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.600 Well, I would say that, you know, I don't think 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.080 that anything could elevate. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.880 Okay, my enthusiasm got it. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.440 About being in America since nine in sixty eight, since 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:05.760 it came here, and I was so enthusiastic being here. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.480 Then in nineteen eighty three it became an American citizen, 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.080 and that elevated it. Of course, now I am an American, 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:19.000 so that was fantastic. When you become governor, it makes 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.880 you realize since that didn't work my way up the 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:26.640 political ladder. It makes you realize of how complicated things 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.280 really are and how difficult it is really to work 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:35.920 and to bring everyone together local government, state government, federal government. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.840 How you as a state could be kind of like 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:43.199 an environmentally friendly state, but the federal government has no interest. 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.080 So you have to understand that. 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.720 You have to understand that not everyone can thank the 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.440 way you do, and you have to appreciate that, and 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.200 that's what that did. I worked with everyone together and 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.000 never looked at anyone as the enemy, and I always 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:01.720 was very inclusive. And it made this the capital of 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.800 Sacramento kind of a university for me. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.319 I learned so much. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.240 And one thing I learned definitely is my interest in 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.840 my love for policy, not so much so for politics, 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.520 but for policy solving problems and how do we make 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.120 life for people better. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.360 Now that you're back, you're out of office, you're no 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.760 longer an elected official, You're back in Hollywood. Are you 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.480 enjoying it now more than you did before? 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.120 I love it, you know. But it's it's not just 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:36.360 you know, doing fubar. It's not just being on a 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.400 set of food and working with wonderful actors and actresses 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.720 and all of that. It is that the whole combination 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:50.400 of the movie business, TV business, the environmental work that 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.240 I do, the after school broken work that I do. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.160 I make great, great family, I mean make kids. I'm 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:01.000 so proud of them. And you know, yesterday my daughter 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.880 came over with has three. We had three kids, and 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.920 make grand children. Just love coming over the house and 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.560 feeding the animals and Lulu and whiskey, my donkey. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.760 You know, the. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.640 Dogs, okay, you know, and the pig, and I mean 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.200 they just love coming over and doing all of that 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.400 with me, and so they love their Opah. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:25.920 That's what they call me Opah. 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.880 Right, How do you feel about doing TV? Because this 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:32.640 is your first ever TV role. You've been doing movies 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.960 all of these years, but to my understanding, is your 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:35.920 first TV role. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:40.760 Correct, it is the first TV series, and it is 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.480 quite different because you work much faster, so you don't 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.720 have much time. You know, in the movies, you maybe 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.440 shoot three to four pages a day. When you do 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.800 a TV it's like seven, eight, nine pages a day, 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.800 sometimes even ten to twelve pages a day. So it 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.440 really moves much faster because there's not as big of 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.480 a budget as it is with movies. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.680 But I mean it's okay. You get used to that. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:10.200 You get very disciplined to learn your lines and to. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.400 Hit the mark. That is the most important thing in 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:13.080 this business. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.960 You know, to me is kind of like listen to 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.880 the director, listen to the writers, and hit your marks 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.520 and say your dialogue and then work, work, work. I 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:27.920 feel like when I do like a movie, I feel 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:29.640 like I'm a plumber get up in the morning at 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.680 six o'clock in the morning and they go to work 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.880 and they do exactly what they ask me to do. 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.360 And then they go home at night and you crash 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.720 in bed, or you go and have some time to 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.280 work out a little bit, because fitness is working out 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.800 is very important. But I tell you it is if 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.640 this doesn't matter how old you are. If you have 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:52.240 a clear vision of making something successful and being involved 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.239 in a great project like this Netflix project is fuba. 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.920 I mean, then you're enthusiastic about the whole thing. You 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.120 have energy, and you to go out there and promoted. 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.600 Like sitting here right now and talking to you. It's 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.760 another job for me, right, It's fun for me. I 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.040 love talking about you, about that to you, about my 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.800 projects and about food and off those kind of things. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.960 So some people consider this as a job and part 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.920 of the job. I don't even see that the job. 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:20.880 I can see that as a fun thing to do. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.119 I always tell people the difference between the job and 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.040 a career is a job is doing what you have 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.240 to do to sustain or elevate your quality of life. 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.119 A career is doing what you want to do. It 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.480 just so happens to do those things, and you're talking 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.120 about a career. And by the way, football, I mean, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.119 I got to talk to you about the title of 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.560 this show. Now, it's originally you know, the acronym originated 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.280 in the military, which stands for a situation that is 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.640 f up beyond all recognition? Is that what food ball 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.320 stands for with the title of this show or is 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.400 there another? 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:57.760 Yes, fuber stands for fucked up beyond all recognition? 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.840 Yes, exactly, Yes, yeah, it did you. 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.720 I know you cannot say it then because otherwise you 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:06.680 get crucified. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.919 Oh, I say fucked up beyond all recognition? I just 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:16.239 said it, like you. Did you come up with it? 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:17.480 Did you come up with the title? 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:19.280 I suggested? 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.879 And the I think everyone liked the idea because they 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.800 isn't originally a different title, and then they went for 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:27.040 it with this title. 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.960 And it's just such a great thing. I'm fuba. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.320 You know, it's just fun because everywhere you go in 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.760 the world when you promote this thing, people always ask 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:38.120 is what does it mean? 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:39.080 What does mean? 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.840 Then I tell them what it means, and then they 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:43.960 try to translate it in their own language. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.000 Of course, then it doesn't work. The same way. 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.600 But I mean, that's what it means that the other 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.080 thing that makes the show success for reason, I just 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.320 want this add that is which is maybe a term 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.000 you don't know either or that you maybe don't know, 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.040 and that is, uh the seventh piece. 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.679 Okay, you know, but the seven I do not educate me. 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:03.040 Please. 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:09.960 Proper proper prior planning prevents pissed poor performance. Okay, okay, 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.359 So that is very important because this show was really 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.280 well written. This show was very well prepared, and that 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.239 is the most important thing. Is did you go there 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.679 for the arsals, did you work in the stunts, did 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.760 you working all the magic stuff? Did you see on 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:26.639 the screen? And then you go all out with that. 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:32.440 But it's the proper prior planning that prevents pissed poor performance. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.119 You know. Last question. I'm thinking about this now and 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:41.480 I'm asking myself Arnold Schwarzenegger, an elite bodybuilder, world class athlete, 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.840 and action hero, on what have you? You're approaching your 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:48.040 seventy eighth birthday and you seem like you can go 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.280 on and on, like you've got so much time left 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.879 because you got so much energy. What's your advice to 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.239 those out there who are younger who haven't achieved as 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:02.040 much yet walk around far too often acting like they're tired. 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.480 What would you say to those folks about what they 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.240 need to do to get a little spry in this 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:11.240 step to be as energized as Arnold Swarzenegger appears to 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.600 do as he's talking about his Netflix hit series Football 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.159 right here with your boy, stephen A. Smith, what advice 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.439 would you give Ziemen? 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:21.600 I tell you one thing, and I think you talked 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.720 about that many times, and that is the only way 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.800 you can have energy is when you have a vision. 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.960 Because when you have a vision, that means that you 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:34.199 have a specific goal that you want to go and 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:40.920 chase after. And so everything that you do basically is 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:45.440 a step closer to discord and making discord a reality. 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.359 And so to me, when I was working out in 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.080 the gym five hours a day, I didn't say to myself, 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.320 oh my god, I cannot wait until I have my 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:58.160 fifty or five hundred sit ups over. Oh my god, 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.480