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"Body By Jake" Joins Cubby and Christine In Studio · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One O six point seven Light FM, Covey and Christine
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  Speaker 1: in the Morning and man across four decades, trailblazing fitness
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  Speaker 1: icon Jake Steinfeld, widely known his Body by Jake, has
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  Speaker 1: inspired millions around the world to move their bodies through
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  Speaker 1: his one of a kind combination of physical training, motivational philosophy,
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  Speaker 1: and infectious personality.
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  Speaker 2: And he now works for iHeartRadio Christine, which we'll talk about.
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  Speaker 1: The legendary Jake is here.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, thank you, Thank you Christine. Great to meet you. Coby,
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  Speaker 2: what are you doing? I'm hanging out with what are
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  Speaker 2: you doing? This is incredible. This studio is very snappy, welcome, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: very snappy, very clean, very and very blue. It is
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  Speaker 2: a little is a nice hue a blue. How is
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  Speaker 2: that he's motivating now? The hue of blue?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: You know you've been motivating people don't quit for decades.
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  Speaker 1: What inspired you to bring your message to radio with
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  Speaker 1: Body by Jake Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me just say this first of all, to
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  Speaker 2: be a part of this iHeart family is I didn't
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  Speaker 2: have any idea. You know, I've been very blessed in
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  Speaker 2: my life. I've been doing what I've been doing for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. I'm actually born in Brooklyn and raised
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  Speaker 2: in Long Island and Baldwin Strong Island. I say, and
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  Speaker 2: I had this dream to become mister America. And when
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  Speaker 2: I was well, I went to college. I was the
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  Speaker 2: first person in my family. My mom and dad never
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  Speaker 2: went to college. I'm the oldest of four kids. And
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  Speaker 2: I went to college upstate New York. You guys know
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  Speaker 2: Cornell University.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we do, y there?
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  Speaker 2: Good school, right, I went to. I went to Courtland
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  Speaker 2: down the street. Yet I see, I see it was
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  Speaker 2: down the road and where it snowed from the first
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  Speaker 2: day you got there, so it wasn't too conducive to
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  Speaker 2: walk around in your gold lamb at posing trunks in
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  Speaker 2: eighteen inches of snow. And I remember, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: know when you have a dream, and it's a dream
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  Speaker 2: that you can you can visualize this dream so learly,
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  Speaker 2: and you know that nobody else is going to see
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  Speaker 2: this dream. And I was always so afraid to tell
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  Speaker 2: my parents about what I wanted to do, because you
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  Speaker 2: assume that I wanted to go to go to California
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  Speaker 2: to become mister America. And here's what happened. So it
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  Speaker 2: was I played the port of lacrosse. Right, I got
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  Speaker 2: into Courtland to play lacrosse. I wasn't that very good.
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  Speaker 2: I was a face off guy. I remember the moment
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  Speaker 2: because I'm a big believer in life is about moments.
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  Speaker 2: And here I am standing on a lacrosse field in
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  Speaker 2: Syracuse in November, and it's sleeping and hailing and whatever
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  Speaker 2: else it's doing. Yes, indeed, it's a great look. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: okay that and uh and uh and and I faced
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  Speaker 2: off and got off the field and I'm standing on
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  Speaker 2: this and I'm saying to myself, what am I doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking like this lacrosse ice sculpture, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: there's no such thing as pro lacrosse. I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 2: to California to become a bodybuilder. And I remember that
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  Speaker 2: moment happening. And my mom used to call every other
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  Speaker 2: day to check in, how's poly sci? How's your classes going.
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  Speaker 2: I was so excited that I was in college. And
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  Speaker 2: I finally got up enough courage. I took a big,
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  Speaker 2: deep breath and I said, ma, I'm gonna go to
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  Speaker 2: la and I'm gonna become a bodybuilder. Silence on the phone,
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, I hear Herbie, my father,
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  Speaker 2: pick up the phone and talk to your kid. I'm
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  Speaker 2: putting my head in the oven. And literally the bus
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  Speaker 2: ride from upstate New York to Baldwin was very long, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and I remember my parents look, they basically said, get
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  Speaker 2: it out of your system. We'll keep you enrolled in college.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember telling my girlfriend my friends, this is
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  Speaker 2: what I want to do, and everyone said, are you
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  Speaker 2: out of your mind? You're never going to do this.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be back, and you know, it's amazing what happened. Sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes it's not in a mean way. When someone
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  Speaker 2: it's not about discouraging. Maybe they just don't want to
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  Speaker 2: get you to get hurt. There are some people that
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  Speaker 2: don't want you to succeed, and we could talk about
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  Speaker 2: that at another time, you know, but there's always plenty
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  Speaker 2: of room for everybody to succeed. So I made this decision,
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  Speaker 2: and at eighteen years old, I left to go to California,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll never forget. I mean, I had some incredible experiences.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I posed on stage with the Village People,
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  Speaker 2: one of the first jobs that I had. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how long we have on the show today. I'll
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  Speaker 2: come on for a second Visitor, and then I did
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  Speaker 2: the stunts for Luf Forarigno for the first season of
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  Speaker 2: the TV show The holl for the Hulk. Yeah that's cool,
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  Speaker 2: and some incredible moments. And I entered the Mister Southern
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  Speaker 2: California Contest in nineteen seventy eight because I came to
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  Speaker 2: la As I tell people, when the dinosaurs still roam
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  Speaker 2: the earth, I mean, Arnold schwarzerneg Regno, Franco Klombo, all
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  Speaker 2: the big bodybuilders that I had from the muscle magazines
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  Speaker 2: came to life and there they were, and every magazine said,
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  Speaker 2: eat eighteen eggs and twenty four chickens a day, and
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  Speaker 2: YouTube could become Mister America. I clucked a lot, but
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  Speaker 2: no one ever talked about steroids. And I remember that
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  Speaker 2: moment once again, another moment. I'm just turning nineteen, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm there's a decision you have to make. Because I
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  Speaker 2: entered the Southern California Contest, I come in second place.
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  Speaker 2: The guy that beat me was on steroids, and I
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  Speaker 2: was afraid. The bottom line was, I was afraid. I
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  Speaker 2: remember were in fourth and fifth grade. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you guys remember those days, but when the nurse
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  Speaker 2: would give you do the TB test on you. It
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  Speaker 2: was a little four problem thing that would be there,
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  Speaker 2: would hit you in the you know, the wrist right quick.
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  Speaker 2: I have to lay down, okay, so forget about me,
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  Speaker 2: forget about me. I'm going to put a needle on
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  Speaker 2: my own butts right exactly, Christine. So there was no
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  Speaker 2: way I was doing this. But then I said, there's
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  Speaker 2: no way on going back to New York a loser,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because all the voices in my head of
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  Speaker 2: my friends, a girlfriend, uh and and not so my parents.
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  Speaker 2: My grandma was my biggest fan, and and she always
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  Speaker 2: believed and it's it's it's amazing when you have somebody
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  Speaker 2: who's in your corner all the time who believes in you.
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  Speaker 2: And she always did and and and it was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, I'm gonna stay. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna do. I love working out, I love what exercise,
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  Speaker 2: how I feel when I trained, because look, I was
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  Speaker 2: an overweight kid. I had a bad stutter growing up.
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  Speaker 2: And my dad bought me a set of weights at
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  Speaker 2: thirteen years old, and it changed my life. And that's
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  Speaker 2: how it all happened for me. And here I was
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  Speaker 2: living in Studio City, California, in this apartment complex where
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  Speaker 2: a lot of mostly out of work actors and actresses
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  Speaker 2: are living. And this one day I'm sitting out catch
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  Speaker 2: and raise as every good bodybuilder does, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: this actress came over and said, Hey, I see you
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  Speaker 2: out here all the time. I have a club med
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  Speaker 2: commercial that I have to do in six weeks. Could
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  Speaker 2: you help me? I said okay? And she says, would
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  Speaker 2: you mind coming to my boyfriend's house to do the
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  Speaker 2: work out there? And I thought, okay, great, and she goes,
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  Speaker 2: look I like you, but I don't want to look
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  Speaker 2: like you, right. And this was nineteen seventy nine, the
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  Speaker 2: top of nineteen eighty, so Jane Fonda had just come
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  Speaker 2: on the scene with high impact aerobics and Christine. Women
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  Speaker 2: were very intimidated by using weights because they thought they
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  Speaker 2: were gonna get big muscles. Yes. Right. So what I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking in my mind as as this girl is talking
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  Speaker 2: to me, what could I put together? Right? And she said,
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  Speaker 2: could you come to my boyfriend's house and do the
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  Speaker 2: workout there? And I thought, okay. She goes how much
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  Speaker 2: I go? How much what she goes? How much is it?
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  Speaker 2: Going to cost I go give me gas money from
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  Speaker 2: my nineteen seventy seven white Camaro with Jake seventy seven
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  Speaker 2: on the license plate. I always kept a very low profile. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure then was fifty. I don't want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about that, right, And so I put together a workout,
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  Speaker 2: a thirty minute workout. Now, I love training, and I've
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  Speaker 2: been training since I'm thirteen years old, but I'm not
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  Speaker 2: a guy who goes to the gym to hang out
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  Speaker 2: in the gym. I have always done a forty two,
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  Speaker 2: not a forty one, not a forty three, A forty
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  Speaker 2: two minute workout. Don't ask me why since as long
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  Speaker 2: as I can remember. And so I put together a
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  Speaker 2: thirty minute workout and I improvised using a broomstick, a
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  Speaker 2: towel right resistance training this is back in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 2: and a chair you know, push ups, dips and things
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  Speaker 2: like that, and two kNs of moms tomato pastes right
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  Speaker 2: right for bicycle curls, you know, side laterals, all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of fun things. I wanted to make it fun. And
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  Speaker 2: I went to Beverly Hills, which is the address I
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  Speaker 2: had to go to, knocked on the door. If you
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  Speaker 2: weren't on the cover of Musclehead Digest. I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: who you were. Guy answers the door turns out to
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  Speaker 2: be Francis Ford Coppola, and I just looked at the
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  Speaker 2: guy and I thought, this guy could use a workout too.
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  Speaker 2: And these guys start going to parties and they start
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  Speaker 2: telling people, you know, and then people start telling that
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  Speaker 2: you look great. What are you doing? This guy, Jake,
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  Speaker 2: he comes to the house. It's a thirty minute workout.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a broomstick of tow it's she's pretty funny.
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  Speaker 2: He eats too much because I had no dough and
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  Speaker 2: they had a great fridge. So after the workout, I said,
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  Speaker 2: you guys, mind if I grab a chicken, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whatever protein was in the fridge. And people were saying,
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  Speaker 2: what's his phone number? And now I'm going to date myself.
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  Speaker 2: At least back in the day, when you move from
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  Speaker 2: town to town or state to state, you had to
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  Speaker 2: list your phone number right. You had to call the
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  Speaker 2: White pages of the Yellow Pages. And I'm eighteen. I
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  Speaker 2: never did that, and it was the best thing I
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  Speaker 2: never did, because when people want to get a hold
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  Speaker 2: of you and they can't, they seem to want you more.
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  Speaker 2: And it became this mystique of who is this guy?
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  Speaker 2: Get them? And all of a sudden, in my little
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  Speaker 2: apartment in Studio City, I'm getting phone calls from people
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  Speaker 2: like Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford and Priscilla Presley, Warren Batty,
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  Speaker 2: Barbara Streisan and all these amazing people. And I say
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  Speaker 2: the names to basically make this point. Here, I was
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  Speaker 2: at twenty and I'm hanging with you, going to these
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  Speaker 2: people's homes, I learned the most amazing lesson, and that
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  Speaker 2: lesson is they're no different than us. The only difference
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  Speaker 2: is they had a dream and they never quit on
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  Speaker 2: their dream, and they never took note for an answer.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, they have the same concerns and
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  Speaker 2: worries and low self esteem and low confidence, no confidence.
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  Speaker 2: And I watched it and sought up close and personal,
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  Speaker 2: and it said to myself, wait a second, I might
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  Speaker 2: never direct Et two, but I'm going to have my
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  Speaker 2: own success in life. And I was able to parlay
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  Speaker 2: that famous by association. I was the first guy to
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  Speaker 2: do personal fitness training and made it an occupation, and
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  Speaker 2: then parlayed that into books and videos and television shows
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  Speaker 2: and it's been. It's been incredible. I mean, I've been
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  Speaker 2: married to my wife, Tracy for going to we're on
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  Speaker 2: to the top of the thirty eighth year and which
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  Speaker 2: amazing she's been, you know, as an entrepreneur having someone
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  Speaker 2: stand by your side, I mean she is shoulder to
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  Speaker 2: shoulder with me in every crazy I've been. I've won,
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  Speaker 2: I've lost, I've won, I've lost. I've won a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more than i've lost. But every shot that I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to take, Tracy always said, if you believe, I'm
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  Speaker 2: with you. And we've been married since eighty eight, so
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's been. It's been incredible. And and
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  Speaker 2: you know, we have four great kids. Our daughter Morgan
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  Speaker 2: lives in London. We have three boys, Nick and Zacher
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  Speaker 2: here in New York, which is crazy, but I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't wait to leave New York to go to
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  Speaker 2: LA and my guys are here and my youngest son
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  Speaker 2: is in LA. But you know, we've had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of great life and a year and a half ago
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  Speaker 2: we had an amazing loss.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so sad, you know, I mean that
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  Speaker 3: was breaking our hearts, all of us. See you going
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  Speaker 3: through this you lived it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was incredibly surreal because I was
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  Speaker 2: at the house that morning on January seventh, specifica. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So we live in the Palisades, and you know we've
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  Speaker 2: been supposedly evacuated a couple of times before over the years.
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  Speaker 2: We've been living in this house for thirty one years. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: in this house for thirty one years. And all four
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  Speaker 2: kids grew up in this house. And Morgan had flown
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  Speaker 2: in from London because Tracy's birthday is on January tenth.
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  Speaker 2: She came in on the sick on the fifth and
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  Speaker 2: wanted to hang out in surprise Tracy for her birthday. Right,
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  Speaker 2: So the girls were gonna they went out that morning.
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  Speaker 2: They get they could do the shopping, get their head done,
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  Speaker 2: whatever they were going to do, and have some fun.
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  Speaker 2: And I was going to stay at the house. I
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  Speaker 2: was working, I had a couple of meetings. People are
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  Speaker 2: coming to sit with me. And it was no different
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  Speaker 2: than any other day. And then it became very different.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll just say this. You know, at around five
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  Speaker 2: fifteen pm, the winds completely changed, and Tracy and Morgan
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  Speaker 2: were out and I called them and I said get home,
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  Speaker 2: and I started packing the car up. Now I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to pose this to you, guys. You have one hour
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  Speaker 2: to evacuate. What do you take? And this is to
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  Speaker 2: the audience too, right, this is to your great audience too.
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  Speaker 2: You have one hour to evacuate. What do you take?
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  Speaker 1: Well, animals, humans first, if you have time, your valuables,
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  Speaker 1: your your jewelry, your money, your passports, credit cards.
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  Speaker 3: I would want jewelry for sentimentual value, pictures, if you can,
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  Speaker 3: some clothing, But an hour, I don't even know if
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  Speaker 3: I could think straight, yeah, I would get people in
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  Speaker 3: the animals and then after that, I.
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  Speaker 2: Right, well, thankfully we didn't have any We don't have
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  Speaker 2: any animals, And thankfully my boys were two of them
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  Speaker 2: in New York. Actually, my son, my youngest guy, was
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  Speaker 2: in New York visiting his brothers, and Morgan and Tracy
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  Speaker 2: were out. It was just me, right, and it came
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  Speaker 2: incredibly fast. Now you kept mentioning, Cubby, don't quit, right,
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  Speaker 2: I trademarked the words don't quit In nineteen eighty one.
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  Speaker 2: I was given a poem called don't quit when I
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  Speaker 2: was cut from my eighth grade basketball team. True story,
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  Speaker 2: I was just starting to work out. I was feeling
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  Speaker 2: a little more confident, I decided I was going to
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  Speaker 2: go out for the eighth grade basketball team because my
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  Speaker 2: mom said, you know, Darling, you're a great basketball player.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't all that great, and I remember getting cut
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  Speaker 2: and that was a pretty devastatic feeling. Was the first
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  Speaker 2: time I kind of stepped out of my own and
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  Speaker 2: you know, you go to the gym wall and you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for your name and it's not there. And this
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  Speaker 2: kid I knew, said I've got something for you, Jake,
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  Speaker 2: and she gave me a poem called Don't Quit. And
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  Speaker 2: it was on a perma plaque. Remember those perma plaques.
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  Speaker 2: It was like the hardback right, Yeah, that you could Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you could hang it on a wall. It's not like
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  Speaker 2: a piece of wood. Sometimes it does yea engraved yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The poem was called don't Quit. And I was not
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  Speaker 2: a good student, and under every other circumstance I would have,
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  Speaker 2: as she I said thank you, she turned away, I
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  Speaker 2: would have put it in a garbage and there was
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  Speaker 2: some reason, don't know, I never did, and that poem
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  Speaker 2: ended up becoming like a Bible verse to me. And
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  Speaker 2: since that moment, at fourteen years old, I used to
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  Speaker 2: keep it on my desk whatever, you know, in my
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  Speaker 2: house in Baldwin. Then I moved to La I always
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  Speaker 2: kept it and it was on my desk. And I remember,
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  Speaker 2: remember when I was evacuating, when I was running around
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  Speaker 2: grabbing things, I went down to my office top left
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  Speaker 2: side of my desk. If you can visualize it, right,
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  Speaker 2: I went to grab the poem. Now, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: today that poem don't quit it you can't even see
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  Speaker 2: the words don't quit. It's how many years old? Right,
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  Speaker 2: it's fifty years old? Unfaded? Right, I mean it's very
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  Speaker 2: it's really old. And I was going to put it
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  Speaker 2: in my duffel bag and I stopped and out loud,
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  Speaker 2: I said, I can't do this. If I take this poem.
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  Speaker 2: I quit on the house. I said, I'll be back
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow morning to read it. And obviously it didn't work
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  Speaker 2: out that way, but that poem. Listen, I'm gonna recite
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  Speaker 2: this poem because I think for the audience too, it's
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  Speaker 2: the essence of who I am, and I think it's
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  Speaker 2: the essence for people to understand that to overcome adversity
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  Speaker 2: because when you and listen, thankfully, no one died, right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the end of the day, that's the most
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  Speaker 2: important thing. Like you said, life and pets and things
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  Speaker 2: of that nature. But when you stand in front of
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  Speaker 2: what was your home of thirty one years and it's
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  Speaker 2: not there, I mean, you see this stuff on the news.
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  Speaker 2: I was just in Hawaii the last October. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm chair of the National Foundation for Governor's Fitness Councils.
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  Speaker 2: I put fitness centers in elementary and middle school. Who's
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  Speaker 2: around this great country of Oz. I've done it and
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  Speaker 2: completed the mission of I've done all fifty states. I
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  Speaker 2: stood next to forty eight governors and I was with
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  Speaker 2: the governor who was with the governor Hawaii, and he
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  Speaker 2: took me through Lehina. Remember the devastating fires there. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and my wife's mom, right, Caroline, used to run the
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  Speaker 2: Leahina in because we would go to we'd go to
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  Speaker 2: Hawaii every year, and it's a crazy it was craziest
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  Speaker 2: And I remember saying to the governor, this is like
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  Speaker 2: the apocalypse happened. And now here I get the chills
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  Speaker 2: when I say this story. And here I am standing
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  Speaker 2: in the palisades. It looked like the apocalypse, but it's
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  Speaker 2: my house. And but but something happened, something unbelievable happened
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  Speaker 2: it and it was almost like a as a Jewish kid,
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  Speaker 2: it was. It was a born again feeling. And I
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  Speaker 2: felt this sense of lightness come over me where that
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  Speaker 2: this this massive loss of I mean, we lost everything.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I'm blessed. It's not about money, but all
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  Speaker 2: the things, my kids, all the stuff, all the memorabilia,
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  Speaker 2: all the little hand prints to report cards and all
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  Speaker 2: those things gone right. And I felt this electricity flying
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  Speaker 2: through my body. I'm a pretty pumped up guy, anyway.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: It was a different level of pumped upness, you know,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: and and and and it it became very focused and
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  Speaker 2: very clear, and uh, it just got us. Look, you
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  Speaker 2: have to cho in situations like that. You can roll
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  Speaker 2: up in the ball and die. When you get up
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  Speaker 2: and you persevere. And that's what we did. And the
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  Speaker 2: poem don't quit. We kind of live it. And if
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  Speaker 2: you give me an opportunity, I'd love to recite the
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  Speaker 2: poem for the audience. It's when things go wrong, as
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  Speaker 2: they sometimes will, when the road you're trudguring seems all uphill,
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  Speaker 2: when the funds are low and the debts are high,
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  Speaker 2: and you want to smile, but you have to sigh
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  Speaker 2: when care is pressing you down a lot rest if
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  Speaker 2: you must, but don't you quit. Life is queer with
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: his twist and turns, as every one of us sometimes learn,
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  Speaker 2: and many a failure turn about when you might have
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: won had you stuck it out. Don't give up. Though
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: the pace seems slow. You may succeed with another blow.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Success is failure turned inside out, the silver tint of
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: the clouds of doubt. And you never can tell how
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: close you are. It may be near when it seems
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  Speaker 2: so far. So stick to the fight when your hardest hit.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I am ready for a hug right now?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: How about that? Gosh no, but but but it's it's
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's inspirational, it's uplifting. And so my wife
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Tracy and I we're living in Century City now as
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  Speaker 2: we are rebuilding the house and happy, happy to report
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  Speaker 2: that we laid the foundation this last week and it
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: looks like we'll be able to be back in our home,
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  Speaker 2: not this Thanksgiving but next twenty seven, which is super exciting.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm in a car La, you're in a car
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: all day long. But I'm in a car more so
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: now because I'm driving around crazy and and Coby, you
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: and I were talking about this before we kind of
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: walked in here to do the show. And I'm my
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: mind is always spinning and and my life is about hope.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: My life is about you know, we live in a
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: time today, unfortunately with things are a little messy, you know,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: and people people are challenged, people are struggling, and there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people every day and people think they're
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: alone during the struggle, and you're not alone. I mean,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: we're in the midst of Mental Health Month, as you
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: guys know. And I'm in the car and I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: on the dial iHeart channel, serious channels, looking for a
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: place that's quiet, that is something that I could hear,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: that's inspirational, that's motivational, that's got good music, you know,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: my kind of stuff, late seventies, eighties, nineties, you know,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: and that's got some good vibes to it. I can't
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: find it. I can't find it anywhere. And I said
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: to myself, I'm going to do this because you know,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I've had a few moments in my life where I've
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: had some crazy ideas that worked out, and Ted Turner,
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  Speaker 2: who just passed, was one one of my mentors. Gave
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: me my start on television. I did the Fitness Break
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: on Cable News Network back in nineteen eighty one, and
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: that's my.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Earliest memory of you. We just got cable and there
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: wasn't much on. I would flip around and I would
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: see you.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, I'll get we have some time.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I'll give you a couple of great stories. You know.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I had moved to Westwood right from you know, I
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: was over a studio city moved to Westwood now, and
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: on my little answering machine, I get a message from
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: a guy named Ted Turner who introduces himself, and he says,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I just saw an article on you in People magazine.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Now People magazine was it. There was no social media
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: back in the day, you know, no Internet, and People
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: was the Bible. And the article stated when Jake Barks, Spielberg,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Presley and Ford jump wow. And it was a really
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: fun piece and about me training them and going to
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: their homes and all this fun stuff. And Ted Turner
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: read it and he said, I have I'm launching a
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: you know, global news network, and I want to make
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: it more family friendly. I'd like for you to do
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: a fitness show. I thought to myself, well, you know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: but I'm now training. Are these big time celebrities and
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: these directors who are putting me in movies. So I'm
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: acting and I'm thinking to myself, I don't want to
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: become Jake Lalaine, you know. And I remember I also
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: was on my way to Hugh Hefner's at the Playboy
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: mansion right because I trained his girlfriend. And I got
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: in my car and put the aswer machine off, got
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: in my car and at the end of the workout,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I said to heff I said, hey, you know this
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: guy Ted Turner and he said, of course I do.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: By the way, Westwood didn't have cable yet. Just I'm
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: dating myself, but so I didn't know what cable was
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: did to begin with. And we started to talk about
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: the fact that what could I do? So I came
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: up with this idea to do a sixty second little
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: commercial that promoted me. I presented a a like a
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: fitness tip right using the broomstick, a towel on a chair. Oh,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: hef could I use twelve playmates, you know? And he
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: said sure. I remember this is the eighties, guys, right,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: this is everyone did things on handshakes, and it was.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: It was the most amazing decade ever ever. And then
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I went to Spielberg's house and told him what I
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: was thinking about. And I said, he's got this beautiful
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: house on broad Beach in Malibu. I said, could I
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: use the backyard? He goes, sure. You know, Ted gave
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: me thirty thousand dollars to do two hundred one minute vignettes. Okay,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: that's how it began. And it literally went like this, Hey, gang,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I'm Jacobody by Jake, and here's your fitness tip of
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: the day today. I'm here with Kubby and Christine and
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: we got this great exercise to work the old tim
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: you know, we called the body by Jake lunge and
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: let's do ten reps. Was one too. It's a beautiful day,
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  Speaker 2: Think great positive thoughts. Remember, stick to the fight when
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: your hardest hit. It's when things seem worse that you
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: must not quit. Don't quit. Have a great day. And
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: those spots ran three or four times a day in
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: the States at about ten times an hour around the world.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Because he had no Ted had no advertisers, so he
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: just used my stuff as filler and it really put
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: me on the map. And from that I parlayed that
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: in the TV shows and had a dream to create
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: a television network which once again based on headline news.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Remember the old headline news. Right. I created a service
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: called fit TV that was very successful and sold that
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: to Rupert Murdoch. And then here I am today, where
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I'm in the car driving around. I have this moment
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: of complete clarity of this is what I'm going to do.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the headline news wheel, that one hour wheel,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna do the same thing I did with fitness.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it in an audio version called Body
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: by Jake Radio, where if you think about it, it's fitness, wellness, nutrition,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: mental health tips, all these nuggets of information. Remember the
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Arsenio Hall show, right, great show. He used to do
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: a thing called the Things that make You go hmm
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: and there was a wrong exactly right, And so it's
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: all these kind of little simple things that and it's
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: all surrounded by great music. So late seventies, eighties and nineties,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: and the idea is I wake you up in the
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: morning and we put you to bed at night. So
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: from six A to six p it's all energized, energetic stuff,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: and then the overnight we we kind of calm you
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: down with calming music, calming thoughts, and calming words, and
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: it's it's all based on that one hour block and
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: a super simple thing, as you guys know here at iHeart,
• 28:06
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• 28:09
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• 28:13
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• 28:16
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• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, right, just launch. So congratulations, that's three.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Like I feel it's like a new born.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like we only have five minutes left. So what
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: do people if they haven't checked it out yet? What
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: can people expect when they tune in to Body by
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Jake Radio? Well, he is, like you mentioned some of
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the decades of music. Are you picking the music? Are
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: you talking?
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I'm talking, you know, but my talk is in thirty
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: second increments. We do a lot of different things, so
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of these nuggets of mental health tips, wellness tips,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: motivational you know, a motivational minute. Every top of every hour,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: we give you a motivational minute. We do a Thing member,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Casey Kasem used to read the letter right from Hey
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: from Darlas there's long distance. So we tested something and
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: put it out to people who body by. You know,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: people know body by Jake, and I said, if you're
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: going through adversity, tell me about it and how do
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: you overcome it? And we've been inundated by these emails,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: by these emails and letters, and so I read one
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: every hour and it's incredibly motivating and inspiring. And listen,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I do this like you guys do. I don't know
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: how you visualize when you talk to your audience, but
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: as I've always done, whether it's television or doing this
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: now on the radio, I visualize I'm talking to you, Christine,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: you know where it's just you and me, and it's
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: that one person at home. And there's first of all,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: millions of zoomies out there who you know, all they
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: do is zoom from home, and they're by themselves and
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: they need some inspiration. I need a little pickup. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people have a hard time falling asleep at night,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: and we want to be there to help you do that.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: And it's a place, it's safe, it's easy, it's nice
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: and the music is always great and the vibe is cool,
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  Speaker 2: and it's free man Body by Jake Radio. Man, and
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  Speaker 2: Just had a new baby, by the way, just married Josh.
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  Speaker 1: Allen of the Buffalo Bills fan.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: How does this work with a New York Giants fan?
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: A giant I understand, that's okay. He's great. You have
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: to have awesome people, and it's great and uh I.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Mean Oscar winner and Oscar winning films.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: In Yeah, it really is. It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: Talented family going on very much.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: You guys are awesome. Well, we love you. What a pleasure.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I'm motivating right now. I'm ready. You're ready to fix
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Come on, Cobby, buddy, this body buddy. You know you
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: look at good man, look at me.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I got the beer gut going on.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got the black outfit on.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: It's all right, you know, get that free iHeartRadio app
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  Speaker 2: Jake.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: You guys are awesome, don't quit