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Speaker 1: seventy one is with the incredible Jake Steinfeld. Body bye, Jake.
Speaker 1: He's got his own radio show now on streaming. Erro.
Speaker 2: What are you doing, man, I'm telling you what.
Speaker 1: I'm all excited and fired up about you because you
Speaker 1: are taking this to the next level where people really
Speaker 1: are and it's just fun to watch how you are
Speaker 1: growing with this because you are leading the way.
Speaker 3: Oh Man, I really appreciate you saying that. Thank you, brother,
Speaker 3: thanks you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: I mean, because the thing about it is that we're
Speaker 1: reading on LinkedIn, we're reading on radio inc, we're reading
Speaker 1: everywhere that we should be creating our own stations, we
Speaker 1: should be creating our own networks. And here comes Jake
Speaker 1: and I sat there and I wait, I'm not shocked.
Speaker 1: I'm not shocked because you have always been ahead of
Speaker 1: the times.
Speaker 3: Let me take it back a couple of minutes. Man,
Speaker 3: you know, I was an overweight kid. I had a
Speaker 3: bad started growing up. I was born in Brooklyn, New
Speaker 3: York and raised in Baldwin, Long Island, and I had
Speaker 3: this dream. You know, my dad bought me a set
Speaker 3: of weights at thirteen years old, and it changed my life.
Speaker 3: And not only did the waits build my body, but
Speaker 3: it built my confidence and my self esteem. And it's
Speaker 3: amazing what happens when you have confidence and self esteem.
Speaker 2: You believe in you.
Speaker 3: And I immediately said, I want to become mister America.
Speaker 3: I want to go to California to become mister America.
Speaker 3: I was the first person in my family. No one
Speaker 3: had ever gone to college in my family Arrow, and
Speaker 3: I went to college. I lasted ninety days and then
Speaker 3: I retired because I just got it all in ninety days.
Speaker 2: I said, you know what, this is not for me.
Speaker 3: I'm going to LA and I'm going to become mister America.
Speaker 3: And my parents weren't happy. I had a girlfriend and
Speaker 3: friends all said, you're never going to make it. And
Speaker 3: I got to La summer nineteen seventy seven. I tell people,
Speaker 3: when the dinosaurs still roam the earth, meaning the big
Speaker 3: bodybuill is, like Schwarzenegger and Lufrigno and Franco Colombo and
Speaker 3: all these guys from the muscle magazines all came.
Speaker 2: To life, and I'm in the gym with them. Man.
Speaker 3: And I entered Mister Southern California Contest, and I read
Speaker 3: all the magazines, and every magazine said he eighteen eggs
Speaker 3: and twenty four chickens a day, and you too could
Speaker 3: become mister America. I clucked a lot, Arrow, but I
Speaker 3: never became mister America. I entered the Mister Southern California
Speaker 3: Contest in nineteen seventy eight, and I came in second place.
Speaker 3: That beat me was in the steroids, and I'll never
Speaker 3: forget the moment. You know, life is about moments, and
Speaker 3: you have to make decisions. And the reason why I
Speaker 3: never took steroids is because I was afraid to put
Speaker 3: a needle in my own bud, Tsimo. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: if you remember back in the day, in like fourth
Speaker 3: and fifth grade, the nurse would give you those TB tests,
Speaker 3: you know, and if you remember those, but you put
Speaker 3: it on your forearm and it was like I'd faint
Speaker 3: and have to lay down for forty five minutes. So
Speaker 3: forget me putting a needle in my own but Tissimo,
Speaker 3: you know, and and and you know, I knew that
Speaker 3: my bodybuilding career was over.
Speaker 2: I didn't, it didn't begin.
Speaker 3: But I love working out and I love how I
Speaker 3: felt when I trained, and I knew I didn't want
Speaker 3: to go back to a New York a loser because
Speaker 3: all my friends and a girlfriend and everyone said you're
Speaker 3: never going to make it. I said, I'm staying. I
Speaker 3: don't know what I'm going to do. And fortunately for me,
Speaker 3: right place, right time. Man. I was living in this
Speaker 3: Pulman complex with a lot of out of work actors
Speaker 3: and actresses, and this actress came over who was getting
Speaker 3: ready to do a club med commercial asked me to
Speaker 3: help her for with an exercise program. Could you come
Speaker 3: to my boyfriend's house and do the workout there? Okay,
Speaker 3: you know, how much.
Speaker 2: Is it going to be? And I go for what?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just the work, you know, And I said, well,
Speaker 3: how about giving me gas money for my nineteen seventy
Speaker 3: seven white Camaro with Jake seventy seven on the license plate.
Speaker 3: Kept a very low profile, hour always kept a very
Speaker 3: low profile. And I came up with a thirty minute workout.
Speaker 3: So this was about nineteen eighty. Jane Fonda had just
Speaker 3: come on the scene with the high impact aerobics. Women
Speaker 3: at the time were very intimidated by using weights, so
Speaker 3: I improvised with a broomstick, a towel, resistance training with
Speaker 3: a towel, right, and you know, a chair for push
Speaker 3: ups and dips, and two cans of Moms Tomato based yep,
Speaker 3: you know. And and I made a thirty minute workout
Speaker 3: out of it. I love training, but I never hung
Speaker 3: around a gym, you know. I got in the gym
Speaker 3: train and left. And I thought that this person was
Speaker 3: an A type personality. Look, exercise is boring. I wanted
Speaker 3: to make it fun. And she said, you know, come
Speaker 3: to my boyfriend's house and Beverly Hills. And if you
Speaker 3: weren't on the cover a muscle, heead digest. I didn't
Speaker 3: know who you were. I knock on the door. Guy
Speaker 3: answers the door. Arrow turns out to be Francis Ford Coppola. No,
Speaker 3: I just looked at the guy. I just looked at
Speaker 3: the guy, and I thought this guy could use a
Speaker 3: workout to That's it, you know, all right. And they
Speaker 3: were great. They started going to parties. People started saying,
Speaker 3: you look great. What are you doing? This guy, Jake,
Speaker 3: he comes to the house. He's got a broomstick, a
Speaker 3: towel and a chair. You know, he's funny. He eats
Speaker 3: too much because I had no money and they had
Speaker 3: a great fridge. So at the end of the workout,
Speaker 3: I'd say, you mind, you got any chicken or anything
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: That I could just grab a where I leave you,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: And it was interesting because back in the day, you know, obviously,
Speaker 3: you know, there's no cell phones, there's no internet, there
Speaker 3: is no computers really right to speak of. And when
Speaker 3: you moved from city to city or state to state,
Speaker 3: you had to list your phone number. And when I
Speaker 3: got to La I never listed my phone number.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 3: And when in Hollywood, if you're good and people want
Speaker 3: to get a hold of you and they can't, they
Speaker 3: seem to want you more. And it became this mystique
Speaker 3: of who is this guy? Yep, you got to get them.
Speaker 3: And in my little apartment in Studio City, California, I'm
Speaker 3: getting phone calls from Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Priscilla Presley,
Speaker 3: that middle of Baron Baty, Barbara Strei's in, you know,
Speaker 3: the biggest dollars in the world. And here's what happened.
Speaker 3: Not only am I going to their homes and traveling
Speaker 3: with them, and I'm nineteen years old, I learned the
Speaker 3: greatest lesson of my life. They're no different than us.
Speaker 1: See, thank you for seeing that thing. Thank you for
Speaker 1: saying that you're so right about that right.
Speaker 3: The only difference is they had a dream and they
Speaker 3: never quit a dream, and they never took no for
Speaker 3: an answer. And I was with them, and I'm telling
Speaker 3: you this firsthand. You want to talk about the most
Speaker 3: regular people in the world, who have the same amount
Speaker 3: of challenges we all do, sometimes even more low confidence
Speaker 3: no self esteem. I know it's hard to fathom, but
Speaker 3: you be very intrigued and interested. And what it did
Speaker 3: to me and for me it was like, wait a second,
Speaker 3: I might never direct Et two, but I'm going to
Speaker 3: have my own success in life.
Speaker 2: And I was able to parlay that.
Speaker 3: Famous by association as being the first guy to do
Speaker 3: personal fitness training and made it an occupation into videos
Speaker 3: and books and television shows. And Ted Turner, the late
Speaker 3: great Ted Turner, who was my mentor, really who put
Speaker 3: me on television the first time. I remember it, not
Speaker 3: back in the day. In nineteen eighty one, I did
Speaker 3: the fitness break on Cable News network. Man, it was
Speaker 3: me and two models on a beach in Malibu and
Speaker 3: the fitness break when something like this arrow, Hey gang,
Speaker 3: I'm Jacobody by Jake, and here's your fitness tip of
Speaker 3: the day today. I'm here with Jill and Brenda and
Speaker 3: we're going to do the old but TCMO Squad and
Speaker 3: it's going to be a fun one. We're going to
Speaker 3: go for ten repetitions. Let's jump in. It's going to
Speaker 3: be a beautiful day. It's sunny and cool and breezy.
Speaker 3: Eight nine, ten, stick to the fight when your hardest hit.
Speaker 3: It's when things seem worse that you must not quit.
Speaker 3: I don't quit my day see tomorrow, oh my god.
Speaker 2: And we did.
Speaker 3: We literally did eight hundred of those man and they
Speaker 3: ran from eighty one to eighty three, four times a
Speaker 3: day in the States and ten to twelve times an
Speaker 3: hour around the world. Ted used it as filler and
Speaker 3: that's really what put me on the map and parlayed
Speaker 3: that into a Body by Jake syndicated TV show than
Speaker 3: on ESPN for many years. And had a dream to
Speaker 3: create a television network for fitness, which I did in
Speaker 3: ninety three, once again with Ted's of Headline News Right,
Speaker 3: and I took the headline News concept and launched FITTV
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety three and sold it to Rupert Murnock
Speaker 3: in ninety eight, and then talk about full Circle right
Speaker 3: a year and a half ago. Unfortunately, we lost our
Speaker 3: home in the Pacific Palisades fires and pretty devastating. Thankfully,
Speaker 3: everybody was fine. My wife Tracy and I going on
Speaker 3: married thirty eight years. We have four great kids, our
Speaker 3: daughter Morgan who lives in London, Nick and Zach who
Speaker 3: now live in New York. Here and our youngest guy,
Speaker 3: Luky is with us in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: And after we lost the fire was pretty damn devastating.
Speaker 3: I don't need to tell you arrow. And it took
Speaker 3: me a little bit of time to kind of, you know,
Speaker 3: sort of get out of you know, a fog. And
Speaker 3: it was about getting back into routine. That's it, getting
Speaker 3: back to the repetition. Man, you know I needed. The
Speaker 3: first thing for me was to get back to the gym.
Speaker 3: And once I got back into the gym, which all,
Speaker 3: that's what I'm about. That's my drug, right' that's my
Speaker 3: medicine is because I combine my cardio my muscular together,
Speaker 3: and every rep that I do, I visualize what I
Speaker 3: need to accomplish during the day. It's a forty two
Speaker 3: minute workout, not forty one, not forty three, forty two.
Speaker 2: I've been doing it since.
Speaker 3: I'm thirteen, so you know, I'm a psycho with that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. But we mean, you know, you immediately
Speaker 3: start coming back or I mean, you have two choices.
Speaker 3: In a situation like that, or in any devastating situation,
Speaker 3: you could roll up in a ball and die.
Speaker 2: Oh you persevere, that's it.
Speaker 3: Inside. We persevere like my mom is don't quit. We
Speaker 3: don't quit. And as a family, we all bonded together
Speaker 3: and band together where where rebuilding the house. We laid
Speaker 3: the foundation last week, which is amazing. As I said,
Speaker 3: it's just a great feeling. And I'm in the car
Speaker 3: all day long and I'm thinking about, you know, I
Speaker 3: just want to find something that that is kind of quiet.
Speaker 3: You know, I love late seventies, eighties and nineties music, right,
Speaker 3: and I wanted to find that I don't have to
Speaker 3: think about keep pressing buttons and all this stuff and
Speaker 3: maybe listen to something, you know, within the music that
Speaker 3: was positive and and there's nothing it was nothing like it, right,
Speaker 3: There's nothing like it anywhere, right, And I said, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to
Speaker 3: launch Body by Jake Radio. But how am I going
Speaker 3: to do it? And then I just it hit me.
Speaker 3: And I mean every time I say it, I get
Speaker 3: the chills, and I get the chills again. I said
Speaker 3: the headline news wheel, like I did Fit TV, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do Body by Jake Radio exactly like I did
Speaker 3: FIFTYV nice And it's based on that one hour wheel
Speaker 3: where the top of the hour, right we have our
Speaker 3: mindset minute, and then all these little nuggets around that, right,
Speaker 3: longevity tip, mental health tip, yes, a nutrition and then
Speaker 3: remember member Casey Casem used to do and and this
Speaker 3: song goes out to Brenda from right.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so we all grew up with that.
Speaker 3: I used to love that, and I took a spin
Speaker 3: on that, and I posted something on our Instagram a
Speaker 3: few months ago, you know, knowing that we're building Body
Speaker 3: by Jake Radio to launch during Mental Health Month and
Speaker 3: which now we're three days old, and I asked people,
Speaker 3: if you're going through something that you know, some adversity
Speaker 3: that that that you're winning, you know, please tell me
Speaker 3: the story and maybe I'll push you on my new
Speaker 3: radio platform, Body by Jake Radio. So we were inundated, Arrow.
Speaker 3: We were inundated with all these stories. You know what
Speaker 3: it is. We're all so desperate for hope. We're living
Speaker 3: in this crazy thank you right and and and everybody
Speaker 3: thinks that they're going through a crummy time all by
Speaker 3: themselves and it's not the case. And I don't want
Speaker 3: you to feel that way because maybe there's this black
Speaker 3: cloud over your head. Well, you're in the deepest, darkest
Speaker 3: ditch you've ever been in and you don't feel like
Speaker 3: there's a way to get out, And change is rough
Speaker 3: and changes tough.
Speaker 2: Butt.
Speaker 3: When you have the right motivation and the right inspiration
Speaker 3: and the right tools, change happens, man, Change happens. And
Speaker 3: that's why I created this platform. Body by Jake Radio Man,
Speaker 3: and our tagline is a really fun and simple one.
Speaker 3: It's where it's seventy two and sunny every day. How
Speaker 3: about that?
Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Jake Steinfeld Body
Speaker 1: by Jake coming up next. The dude's got his own
Speaker 1: radio channel, Body by Jake Radio. We're checking back in
Speaker 1: with Body by Jake. Your perseverance was ringing all the
Speaker 1: way through Ted. And the reason why I bring that
Speaker 1: up is because the final scene of Ted being on
Speaker 1: CBS Sunday Morning this past week was Ham working out.
Speaker 1: And now that I've heard that story from you, I'm going,
Speaker 1: of course he was, because Jake is still with him
Speaker 1: that he took that working out stuff really seriously.
Speaker 3: Dude, he was the great. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 3: You know, I knew him in the beginning, man, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I didn't know him as a young man.
Speaker 3: I knew him I mean I was literally I was
Speaker 3: eighteen years old. I was I was eighteen and he
Speaker 3: was so great to me and so nice to me.
Speaker 3: You know that I hosted I haven't told this story
Speaker 3: a long time. I hosted the first Cable ACE Awards
Speaker 3: before the Emmys. Right, the cable industry had something called
Speaker 3: the ACE Awards, and we hosted it at Oh my god,
Speaker 3: it was downtown LA. It was me and doctor Ruth.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, remember doctor Ruth. Doctor Ruth and I
Speaker 3: hosted when she stood on a she stood on an applebox, right,
Speaker 3: And we hosted the cable and the show that won
Speaker 3: the most awards was a show called Not Necessarily the News.
Speaker 3: If you remember that, Joe and I can't believe I've
Speaker 3: been brought this up, but you know, Ted was he
Speaker 3: was something, and he lived in an incredible life and
Speaker 3: he was such a philanthropic guy. And you know, I
Speaker 3: don't even know if he even knows what an inspiration
Speaker 3: he was to me, but Joe was. And and here
Speaker 3: it is again, another living, breathing platform, you know, of
Speaker 3: something that Look, I've always loved making people laugh, making
Speaker 3: people happy, making people smile, giving people the opportunity to
Speaker 3: have hope that through fitness, right through exercise, you weren't
Speaker 3: able to do a rep or a push up or
Speaker 3: a setup. And now you're doing ten or twelve or twenty.
Speaker 3: And now I say to you, okay, Arrow, now that
Speaker 3: you're doing twenty five sit ups and twenty five push ups,
Speaker 3: what else do you want to accomplish in your life?
Speaker 3: Come on, man, what else do you want to accomplish
Speaker 3: in your life?
Speaker 2: Go there?
Speaker 3: And the thing about this is, and I know everybody
Speaker 3: reads all these different kinds of things. If you're not failing, man,
Speaker 3: you're not trying hard enough, right And for me as
Speaker 3: an entrepreneur, you know, I have always loved you know,
Speaker 3: being the lone wolf. You know, you eat what you
Speaker 3: kill out there as an entrepreneur, and you win you
Speaker 3: lose on your terms. And that's the way I've always
Speaker 3: loved it. And to create something when it works, it's
Speaker 3: super exciting. And this just feels Body by Jake Radio
Speaker 3: feels just so right for this time, at this moment
Speaker 3: in the world, that we have something special and to
Speaker 3: be a part of the iHeart family. I know as
Speaker 3: you are, Mana, and knowing that I know all your
Speaker 3: listeners have the iHeart radio app because it's free. You know,
Speaker 3: all you got to do is search body by Jake
Speaker 3: Radio and do a little pre set on it and
Speaker 3: you're all set to rock and roll.
Speaker 1: Well see, and you've always been a master at being
Speaker 1: very portable, because I mean, I'm always on the road.
Speaker 1: I need that workout. People are on the move, they
Speaker 1: need that workout. They need they don't need to run
Speaker 1: to the gym and put on their very extremely tight
Speaker 1: clothes and then and then try to look hip and happy.
Speaker 1: But the thing is is that with you, you know
Speaker 1: where we are in our real life, and if you
Speaker 1: feel like doing it in some baggy drawers, then do it.
Speaker 2: That's it. And I mean, and that's really the name
Speaker 2: of the game. Man.
Speaker 3: You know, you don't have to worry about you know,
Speaker 3: matching your head man with the old socks. You know,
Speaker 3: just just get up and move your body, get up
Speaker 3: and move your body, or just and even in the
Speaker 3: simplest terms, just that one step forward.
Speaker 2: That's it, that one step far.
Speaker 3: Because you know, there are so many people who are
Speaker 3: and and you know who are By the way, a
Speaker 3: lot of people now are on these GLP ones, which
Speaker 3: is a great thing. I say, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: I used to do all my shows saying there's no
Speaker 3: such thing as a magic pill.
Speaker 2: Yep, And now today there is a magic pill.
Speaker 3: And I think, like anything else, when you do it properly,
Speaker 3: you know, people who hadn't had a chance to really
Speaker 3: begin to believe in themselves that they could exercise or
Speaker 3: get their bod He's moving again. This is a great
Speaker 3: opportunity for you, and this is where you want to
Speaker 3: get started. But it really begins in your head.
Speaker 2: Yes it does, right Arrow.
Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, you've got
Speaker 3: to believe in you, you know, and I say this
Speaker 3: a lot the world. Let you be what you make
Speaker 3: them believe you are. If you tell people right, I'm
Speaker 3: a winner, I'm going to succeed. I feel good about
Speaker 3: myself right. Well, when you feel good about you, other
Speaker 3: people feel good about you too.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 3: And that's what this is about. And that's what Body
Speaker 3: by Jake Radio is really all about. It. It's giving
Speaker 3: you that I want to be one on one where
Speaker 3: I'm there. I'm your pal, I'm your buddy, I'm your coach.
Speaker 2: I got the music for you.
Speaker 3: But we also have the tips and the wellness tips
Speaker 3: and the longevity tips that go along with it. Twenty
Speaker 3: four hours, seven days a week.
Speaker 1: I love it, dude. Twenty minutes with you is not enough.
Speaker 1: I can't wait until you come back to this show
Speaker 1: again because I just love where you are and you
Speaker 1: totally believe in the entire mind, body, and spirit walk,
Speaker 1: and without you, I don't know where we would be
Speaker 1: because and I'm glad you've reopened this door because we
Speaker 1: need it. We need it badly.
Speaker 3: Sir, well, Iro, thank you for the kind words. Man,
Speaker 3: you keep doing what you're doing. And once again, just
Speaker 3: everybody who's listening. If you don't have the iHeart Radio app,
Speaker 3: which I'm sure you do, it's free, just download that
Speaker 3: and search body by Jake Radio and preset it and
Speaker 3: hopeful days and big smiles are ahead. I love it.
Speaker 2: Don't quit.
Speaker 1: You'd be brilliant today, Okay, sir.
Speaker 2: All right, brother, don't quit.
Speaker 3: I row