Hello ladies and gents. This is Tim Ferris and welcome to a very short in between a

so it of the Tim Ferris show where I deconstruct world class performers to learn how they do what they do.

And the big Arnold Schwarzenegger interview is coming an hour plus at his kitchen table delving

into all of the war stories tips and tricks favorite books. Morning rituals. Oh my god. It's

amazing. You're going to love it. That's coming up right after the Super Bowl. But in the meantime,

many of you have been asking me for an easy to listen to short excerpts. So this is one of

dozens of stories that we get into. I hope you enjoy it. Of course, the full episode will be up

on iTunes as well as on the four hour work week site for our workweek.com. You can just click on

podcast, spell it all out. So without further ado, please enjoy this little taster to what your

appetite with Arnold Schwarzenegger. In those days, there was no money bodybuilding. And so when we

didn't have enough money, we literally had to go to work. And so Frank and I since Frank was talent

was to be a bricklayer and a very skilled bricklayer and learned that in Italy and in Germany.

We were able to go and start thinking about the idea of putting an ad in the LA Times,

creating a company and calling it Europe in bricklayers and masonry experts,

marble experts, building chimneys in fireplaces, the European style. And this was also a time where

everything that was European was huge in America. So we benefited from that Swedish massages and

everything had to be kind of a foreign name or a Japanese this. So Europe and Japan and all these

places were used, the names were used because for some reason the other people just thought

that was better. And so we used that in the ad and we put the ad in the paper and literally a week

later, we had the big earthquake in Los Angeles. And I mean, the chimneys fell off the the apartment

houses and orders of and they cracked walls and orders. And so Frank and I we as I'm ever

one of the friend of ours, wife, who was very smart and she worked in a supermarket.

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