-Arnold Schwarzenegger,
how are you doing?
How are you feeling right now
at this moment?
Here we are, a couple of months
into this quarantine.
How are your spirits?
-I feel great.
You know, because I did a lot
of work always at home anyway.
I always split it up, going two,
three times a week to my office,
and the rest of the time I spend
at home, making phone calls,
FaceTime, and have meetings,
and playing with my animals.
How about you?
-I'm doing the best I can.
I think you'll be very happy
to hear this,
but I've been staying
very physically fit.
I think of you.
I think of --
'Cause I used to do these
physical fitness things
all the time with -- my school
would do them with you.
So I have you to --
I think of you, and I will --
"Oh! I have Arnold coming on."
I go, "I can't disappoint --
I can't let him down."
So I went for a walk today
for 5 miles with my dog.
-That's good.
-Yeah.
-That burns around
500 calories right there.
-Yeah, that's like two beers.
-Two beers, okay.
I know, that's the sad story
about the whole thing about
staying lean, right?
I mean, it's like,
you put so much effort into it,
you do the bicycling, and you do
the training and everything,
and then one ice-cream cone,
and it wipes everything out.
I mean, that's the sad story
about the whole thing.
But you look good.
And I think there is something
to be said about the things
that we have learned, I think,
during this crisis of how many
things that you
really can do without
the normal way of doing it.
You know, like, for instance,
you're doing it from your home,
let's assume now, your show.
I'm doing it from my home.
So I'm not coming into
the studio.
But it works.
I think that we still
have a conversation, we still
can dialogue and everything.
So I think a lot of people
will adjust to this
new way of living, maybe,
or new way of
handling the situations,
and the television studios
don't have to be that big
and that huge
and that extravagant
and costing that much money.
So there's something to be said
about all that.
-Are you super excited now?
I know you're about
to become a grandfather.
-Yeah.
Can you believe that?
I mean,
that is really exciting news
that Katherine now, you know,
be pregnant
and have a baby.
I don't know when, exactly.
Sometime this summer.
And inevitably,
I'm really looking forward
to playing around
with whatever it is, she or he,
and have some fun.
I think this is kind of
a unique experience.
But I was just thinking about
the gene pool.
I mean, think about this
for a second.
It is part Kennedy, and part --
You know,
there's three gene pools here.
You can do Kennedy,
Schwarzenegger, and Pratt,
I mean, we can do anything.
We can go and solve
the Cuban missile crisis,
we can go and kill Predators
with our bare hands,
and we go and train dinosaurs.
I mean, think about this.
-[ Laughing ]
-That is a lot of power here.
Worst thing is if this kid
ends up, you know,
with my accent.
That's what we don't want.
-[ Laughing ]
I'm looking forward it to.
I remember years ago, I was
doing stand-up in Los Angeles,
and I was gonna
give you a compliment, because
you're Arnold Schwarzenegger,
the biggest star in the world.
And I remember going to a mall
or something,
and you were taking your kids
for ice cream or something.
-Yes.
-And I was like,
"What a good dad."
I love that they have --
You know, as much as you got
going on, you got --
"Yeah, I got everything.
I can do whatever."
You actually got --
It just takes it --
I now have two little girls,
but it's like,
doesn't matter if I did
"Saturday Night Live"
or I did a movie
or I did something.
That doesn't even matter.
You're a dad.
And you have to be a dad.
-Well, you know,
it is so much fun being a dad,
and the trick of it is,
it's just as you know,
it's communication.
-You did a virtual
commencement speech yesterday,
that was fantastic, by the way.
-Thank you.
-Did you think about --
I love that you did that.
You must get requests every year
to do every school.
-Yeah, you're right.
I have gotten requests.
I've done many commencement
speeches in the past.
And I was asked again to do
this year commencement speeches,
and they, of course,
were all cancelled.
So I was very, very happy
and honored when Snapchat
said to me, "We would like you
to do our official
commencement speech, because
they have a huge outreach,
over 220 million people,
potential people
watching that whole thing.
So it really got a lot of
exposure, and I'm very happy,
because, as you know, I'm
kind of an international guy.
So it was fun to go
and to speak to students
in the Middle East as much as in
Asia, as much as in Europe,
or in Africa and Australia,
all over the place.
So, to me, the world is
my kind of a place, you know?
I feel very comfortable in each
one of those parts.
So it was great to do a speech
for the whole world,
for all the students.
-You got great reviews.
And I think a lot of kids really
appreciated you taking the time
and giving them some advice
and talking to them.
That was really cool.
-I wanted to pump them up.
Because it's a very odd thing
that you don't have
a graduation.
You work at this for four years.
And my son just has graduated,
Christopher,
at the University of Michigan.
And so we did Zoom
for his graduation,
having a Zoom kind of
graduation.
I felt, in a way,
sorry for the kids.
But I wanted to tell them --
It's actually a good opportunity
to say to them,
you know, this is life.
There will be obstacles
thrown in front of you.
This is not the last obstacle,
and it's all about how do you
deal with those obstacles
and move around it.
Aurelius, the Roman emperor,
said, you know,
"What is in your way
becomes the way,"
and this is exactly what it is.
That was kind of the message
that I wanted to give them.
-There's more
I want to ask you about.
Can you stick around
for like three more minutes?
-Yes! I have nothing else
to do right now.
-[ Laughing ]
-I put aside --
Well, I put aside two hours
of discussion with you.
-[ Laughing ]
Oh, my gosh!
You're our guest
for the whole week.
-Yeah, exactly.
-Fantastic.
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