Arnold Schwarzenegger's Favorite Job Was Governor Of California | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

you talk in the book that you say that. your favorite and you've had so many. great jobs I mean you uh in your life. you achieved all these great dreams you. said your favorite job ever was being. governor of California yeah alltime. favorite job it was the toughest job the. toughest job without any doubt because. to bring 120 legislators together and. make them agree on anything it's kind of. like impossible but we made it possible. we figured it out and um.

I think that to. serve 40 million people and to be the. governor of the greatest state in the. Union greatest state in the country out. of 50 States California is we by far the. greatest state with the most revenues. and the most power the most diversity in. all unbelievable and not only that but. we are actually now the fourth largest. economy in the world so to be governed. of that it's just unbelievable the.

responsibility and uh you learn a lot I. mean it was the most extraordinary. learning experience to sit in that. capital and to have meetings think about. that uh if have a meeting from 9 to 10: with the nurses Union and they want to. have a better ratio between the patients. and nurses if you know for for every uh. four patients one nurse rather than for.

every six patients one nurse mhm. and I never even heard of that before. the racial so you learn about all of. that and what is it that nurses go. through and why is it important because. when they lift a patient from the. operating table you know under their bed. the two women cannot sometimes do it if. it's a heavier patient so they need a. male patient there so they were fighting. also they have male patients that they. little stronger to do lift the all of.

this so all of this stuff I've never. even heard of those debates then then. the prison guards come in and say we. working so many over so much overtime. that we need to have more prison guards. we need to hire more and we have to have. more salaries and more wages and more. benefits and all so they talk about that. issue then the the teachers come in the. teachers union they talk about the you. know teaching and the challenges. teachers go through then the people they. represent the kids comeing so this is. how it goes on and on and on from. morning to night and it's always issues. that you have not really been aware of.

so in the beginning it was kind of like. a university where you study new. subjects and new issues all the time and. you become so smart with all of this. stuff and I had one advantage and that. was I was not a real ideologue you know. yes I was conservative yes I'm a. republican but I'm not stuck in this. ideological corner and I didn't look at. the Democrats as the enemy I always felt. kind of like in order to make this work. you have to have Democrats and.

Republicans work together so we work. together and we figured out what is it. that we can do together and then let's. fight over the other issues people are. so hungry for that and so that is really. what we did and that's why we were able. to do build all this infrastructure and. why we were able to do the the. redistricting reform and get rid of. cherry mentoring and why we were able to. go and pick so many minority judges and. women and and all this so we were able. to do things and the environmental. issues that we tackled I mean this the. only state that really reduced its.

greenhouse gases its pollution by 25%. within 10 years so there was a lot of. great stuff that was going on but. together Democrats and Republicans. together did this work not me not the. Republicans but Democrats and. Republicans here's what really I took. away from your book and and what you're. saying right now is early in your career. it's you and you H are in a situation. where you can control your body you can. control what you do to your body and how. you build build your body you can be in.

full control as a bodybuilder then. control was very important to you when. you got into movies how can I prepare. myself what roles are right for me what. roles are wrong for me if I'm going to. do a comedy what should that comedy be. and what would the best way for me to. how could I best you show my humor what. would work who's the best this who's the. best that when you become governor you. put yourself in a situation where a. governor can do so much it's almost like. you willfully put yourself in a. situation where you don't have a lot of.

control there's a lot you can't control. when a job is that big do you think. there was some part of you that was. pushing you into a situation where you. can't control everything all you can do. is try but you there's a lot you can't. control yeah you're absolutely right but. you don't want to yeah you know because. you don't want the dictatorship you. don't want to have one person make all. of the decisions because we're not. perfect right you know and sometimes. that goes overboard and you start going. power crazy and stuff like that so you. need always to have a check in balance I.

think that's really terrific but what. you can do in where you have total. control over is motivating people to. move forward and to do great things so. it doesn't matter what your philosophy. is but to say we must sit down guys and. we guys got to build more highways and. freeways more tunnels and bridges more. on ramps and off ramps more school. buildings my University buildings. affordable housing let's do it we can do. it you know so now they go and they go. you know oh this is great and they sit. down and you can motivate so you become.

kind of the motivator and the force. behind bringing people together and. creating a vision like I said in the. book you know visualizing is the most. important thing I had very clear visions. of course crazy visions of what. California can be I visualized I told. them I visualize you know every city. having a thousand. cranes and we're building and building. and building new dams new highways new. this new that no and it was crazy Vision. but you have to have a vision but it.

motivated them to sit down and that we. were able to do $60 billion of. infrastructure half of what I wanted but. we did it and so this is really the. great thing so I think that one thing we. have control over motivating and that's. one of the things I feel like is missing. today there is no one in. Washington that is really ring up the. troops and is motivating them and. becoming kind of like their the the. motivational kind of behind it to bring.

people together because there's a way of. doing it there's a way of doing it. there's people people are not saying I. don't want to get together with the. other side I think you just need someone. that motivates them and really make it. attractive and kind of like talk to them. and communicate the right way and so. this is I there's certain powers that we. do have that was that I was able to use. and I was always a positive person you. know me I mean it was never kind of like. I always see the world kind of like uh.

Norman Rockwell you know Norman Rockwell. he always painted everything that was. fun kind of optimistic ex optimistic and. fun and colorful and stuff so that's the. way I that's the lens that I look. through when I look at America or when I. look at any of the issues or the. problems anything it's always through. that lens I see it bright I since don't. see it dark and black and white or. anything like this I always see it. bright and there's a bright future ahead. and I think that that to me is much more. helpful than always being depressed and.

say oh my God things are terrible things. are going downhill and all that yeah I. was I was very impressed too which I. didn't realize in the book is you had uh. uh surgery that was supposed to be. routine just a couple of years ago and. something went very wrong in the surgery. and it was touch and go oh yeah I mean I. was really pissed off and you I can tell. you that think about it Go pissed off. that I had a life and death experience. but I mean think about it I mean you go. in there and you say they say it's a.

twoh hour procedure yeah and the next. thing you know is you wake up and they. say okay this is 16 hours later yeah and. you're trying to talk and you. go said well no don't don't try to talk. arold you still have this thing put a tu. tube in your throat and so they they not. put the tube out of my. throat you know I'm coughing and they. say all right let us explain to you. things went South we punctured through.

the hard wall with the wire accidentally. this was the wire that's supposed to go. up and remove your old valve a oric. valve and then the other wire was. supposed to replace that and put a new. atic valve in but back backs and we. punched punctured through the wall and. it created internal bleeding that we had. to do an emergency opening of your rib. cage rip everything open very quickly. otherwise you would have died. and now we had to then do this and this.

that then then we by accident also. damaged the uh other valve and this is. how it went on and so now 16 hours later. but we we saved you he said well that is. really. fantastic I had to kind of like what I. call their shifting gears you know I had. to shift gears because now this thing. like going after in the afternoon then. out and and uh you know uh having a good. time was out the window now I'm trying.

to survive and this is to just to. reiterate you thought you were going in. for arthoscopic or. orthoscopic thing and then you go home. that night and have your pizza and pet. your donkey and then you wake up 16. hours later and they took all of your. insides out and put them back in upside. down ex that's right exactly so I mean. so this is what what what happened and. so now you have to shift gears because. now you have to say when they tell you. that uh you're not out of the woods yet.

because what happens a lot of times they. say is you can die because of pneumonia. MH and so this is why it's very. important that within a day you must get. out of bed and you got to go and start. walking to really get lung exercises. because that's what usually drips you up. and so it's very very important that I I. now start setting my mind okay I'm going. to go and I'm going to get out of bed as. soon as they will me from this station. over to my bedroom I'm going to get out.

of the bed you know no matter what and. I'm going to start walking and so this. becomes like the mission you know to. start walking I don't want to die. because of pneumonia I've gotten through. the surgery and blah blah blah and so. you know it was kind of a touch andg go. situation the first few days but then I. got stronger and stronger and three. months later I started with the. Terminator 6 yeah I started filming 3. months later I started filming again. they couldn't believe it on said and I.

was back again working out regularly and. all this stuff so you know I think that. again with the positive way of thinking. and I can do it and nothing is going to. stop me you know with that kind of an. attitude I was able to do that this book. is I recommend it to everyone be useful. seven tools for life I recommend it. because the. the quality that comes through again and. again and again in this book that's. really sweet is humility you have a lot. of humility for someone who is almost. like the cartoon representation of you.

can do it all and achieve everything. you're very very humble and uh you have. a lot of empathy for people who maybe. don't have some of your qualities or. struggle you have an incredible amount. of empathy and I could see that when you. made these videos after January 6th and. Ukraine and that really spoke to me and. I thought God I I'm happy this this. man's out there and he's doing this now. with his platform so much thank you I I.

love being a motivational speaker out. there and writing a motivational book. and having a motivational newsletter. that is out there every day and uh to do. all those kind of things the pump club. and all this you know I I felt kind of. like I was motivated my whole life by. people and I want to motivate other. people now millions of people around the. world that's my mission I feel motivated. so I don't I mean I don't think you're. motivated oh oh you don't um she's not. very motivated but I think I'm motivated. stuck in your hate Ashbury.

days she well I I I see that you're. motivated I don't know why Conan is. after you I mean it's like you're the. only woman in this room and who is he. attacking oh my God unbelievable May. You're motivated to quit you know what. I'm saying I'm going to start a rumor. that he has a hostile work. environment it's not a rumor it's not a. rumor I will back all I need right now. not it's not a rumor it's not a rumor. it's not a rumor it's not a rumor yes.

Arnold Schwarzenegger thank you very. much God. bless.