Jesse Ventura: Ratted out by Hulk Hogan, backstabbed by Chris Kyle and befriending Fidel Castro

outside the network, so I couldn't react. I found out through an email from my son and had to contact him. Alex Jones, my friend in Texas, to defend me. He was out of the country. The moment was perfect. Wasn't it just after I left the country? So I couldn't defend myself. The story is a complete fabricated lie. I did what you're doing. I'm supposed to go to court, put people under oath and prove it, we proved it in court, the jury ruled in my favor, was there any communication between the time Tile initially made the public comments and the time who filed the lawsuit between the two of you?

I did not do it. I didn't even know him. My first memory of Chris Kyle was in June 2012, at the first conciliation hearing, which happened there. He had made a statement that if we met together we could resolve the whole matter, so the courts allowed us to meet in a room. together one by one and I looked at him and said how can you say you hit me, you never hit me and he said yes I did. I turned to the judge. I told him we're done now. I told him if not this guy. I'm going to admit that it never happened, so what's the point?

I offered it to him I said if you would go out with me to the media admit that you made up the story I'll forgive you and we'll go our separate ways you wouldn't do it he didn't have the honor he didn't have this War hero did not have the courage to tell the truth and is he not a hero? Do you know why he is a treacherous liar? He monopolized the Trident for money and fame. He took a veteran like me and threw me under the bus. he was able to get money and the point is that he is not a hero, you know why he is not a hero, but since heroes have to have honor, you have to have honor to be a hero, a liar has no honor, follow me, why What do you think there were several? other labels that supported his story didn't do it if you come to trial there wasn't a single witness that heard me say what they said on the stand there wasn't a witness on the stand that said they saw him hit me all they were doing was passing on rumors of his body remember that if you will die for someone you will lie for him when you two had that meeting um the attempted meeting okay what do you think his goal was with that to be rich and famous? to make the most of, I guess, the most high-profile member of the community and threw him under the bus because his book was, you know what the pre-sale was for that book, four thousand when he kept opening Anthony and O'Reilly and said that lie. jumped a hundred thousand in one day one day even the brook harpercollins company admitted that it was a specialized book suddenly I was the catalyst it was like a jet or a rocket going into space you have to have a booster a booster that I abandoned you to space and then, once you're in space, you can orbit.

I was the rocket booster you said. Going through that, it was the most traumatic thing you've gone through since your parents died. Because? Because everyone in the United States. Now I am a person. that he is loved or hated and everyone believes the LIE they have perpetrated that I sued a widow and the widow of a war hero and their children, which is completely made up and false and the other party's lawyer has pushed for her . I think this attack could very well be bigger than Kyle, what do you mean I'm involved in a court case like this?

I can't run for office, can I? And they have alienated a large number of people towards me because of the lies that have been perpetrated by both the media and the press. book by the famous Navy SEAL, author of Lone Survivor, which was also made into a movie, when all this was happening, he posted a photo of you with the caption Hit me, I won't fight back, I'll just wait for you to die and sue your wife who wrote that the author of Lone Survivor really is the guy I claimed from hell week. I'm in his book, you know, I was the first civilian they allowed to secure hell week.

He wrote that about me, huh, that's despicable of him because I know I sued Chris Kyle for lying, she doesn't mean anything lying and he assumes I got hit. I did not do it. I didn't prove it in court. How much did the reaction affect you? I never can. I no longer care to say that I am a seal. I won't go to a meeting anymore. I'm going. It has been heard a lot because I always used to go to meetings. I used to contribute money, no. Stop completely now because no one from the community has come forward to support me and I am an innocent victim.

It would be the equivalent of throwing a World War II frogman under the bus. This guy from Iraq throws this guy from Vietnam under the bus. That's really it. What the guy who wrote Lone Survivor said about me. He should be ashamed of himself. What do you think the likelihood is that you can repair everything to make peace with the kind of seal that the Brotherhood never likes to seal? To be proud of having done it. They never left a body behind now they have me they left me behind now I'm a power seal that was left behind and they did nothing to get me back this is how I feel about it this is how betrayed I feel I want to change the subject and get into the wrestling, which is what launched your career.

I think you got into wrestling almost through a classified ad and then you have seven months of training, what did you do during? Well, there was a classified ad that said learn how to be a professional. wrestler at the Seventh Street Gym in downtown Minneapolis and I answered the ad and went and met Eddie Sharkey who remembered that when I was a kid he had been a very good wrestler and he trained me for seven months, what did you learn to wrestle? that he was prepared to go anywhere in the country and check how many miles you put on your car during those early years.

Well, I always like to tell the story. The first new car I bought was a 1975 Mercury Cougar and this one. including carpooling in two years, it had 128,000 miles and that included carpooling. It's amazing how painful it was to once go through a period where you were sold 63 days in a row and fought 63 consecutive nights in a row. It wasn't painful because it became a routine, it was just very exhausting, my UDT training probably helped because it was, I mean, think about it for a moment, has any job ever asked you to work 63 nights in a row?

No, wrestling also calmed me down. Media union, they don't have one that way, people don't fight 63 nights in a row, but when I tried to unionize, I found some tough competition, believe me, I almost got fired Vince for that, but then I went to do Predator and when I did Predator I became a member of the Screen Actors Guild, so when I went back to Vince I said, "You don't have to worry about me talking about Union anymore." I have mine. I said if these guys are so stupid that they won't organize, then that's their problem.

I am a member of the Screen Actors Guild and I am still M today and I get my retirement and healthcare. I want to go over some close calls you had while fighting and get you. To remember the story, the first one was the Eugene Oregon fan, oh I was involved in a game in Eugene and he got a little wild and when he came out of the police he was a villain or a tough and the police always escorted. You came back to the dressing room and a fight broke out in the ring, so I made the mistake of dismissing my security thinking okay, go ahead, take care of the fight, I'm fine, I still had a ways to go to get to the locker room. room and meanwhile this guy came around the corner, pulled out a huge hunting knife, pulled it out and basically said, "I'm going to kill you" and he was coming towards me and reading his eyes I knew he was very serious, so I I immediately thought well.

When a guy has a knife, you're probably going to have to sacrifice something for the knife in order to catch him, so I was in that decisive moment when all of a sudden, coming out of the stands, this guy fell behind him, grabbed him, spun him around, and They handcuffed him in an instant, well it turned out he was a tight cop who took his kids to games and he was looking down and saw this happening, he jumped out of the stands and it turned out the kid was a minor they couldn't even charge him here, it was attempted murder, he was going to stab me with this knife but he was under 18 so all they can do is release him into his parents custody at that time, how about the 70 year old? old lady, oh I don't know her age, she was probably older than that, that was Denver Colorado and they have a railing around the ring there and I was being the villain again and I jumped out of the ring, which villains do because that's part of the way to make people mad at you don't stand there and get beat up run because all villains are cowards right they're stereotypical things you have to do like blonde hair and I had backed up to the railing and, suddenly, I felt unbearable pain and I turned around.

I was going to take down whoever did it and here was an old lady probably in her 80s dripping with diamonds, she had taken her long nails and scratched me in the back and drew blood from three of them, so I just turned around, security said that they arrested her, so she went to jail, you know, that's assault, I'm sorry, I mean, she blooded me with three. I didn't knock her out when I saw how old she was. He had been a child there. I probably got punctured into something that turned into a really serious situation.

I know at first you didn't think it would be the pulmonary embolism. Well, at first it was because I didn't know what it was and I fought with it for three nights and I thought it was just winter or I had come from Minnesota and I was fighting Phoenix and I was out of breath. I was running out of energy and at first I thought well, maybe it's Arizona. I'm not used to it. It is hot here. and then the next night I fought in Oakland the same thing and I got to San Diego and I was with John Studman and John was going to the gym and I just said John, I don't feel good, I'm going to take a nap and I took a nap and I woke up and I was in a bench the whole bed was wet and sweaty I couldn't even breathe deeply so I went out to my rental car I drove to the emergency room of the acute Cabrillo Hospital there was an ex Marine there he sat me in a chair and said uh I don't want you to move and I told him what do you think I have, he said, I think he has a pulmonary embolism, blood clots in his lungs, you're too good. athlete we did an arterial blood draw and he only had like 78 72 percent oxygen.

He said an athlete like you should have between 95 and 98 oxygen and then they came and did an angiogram and found out I had huge blood clots in my lungs. and I couldn't fight for six months, how did you handle that period? Recovering by looking in the mirror wondering what you're going to do now that you've been struggling for 10-12 years. It's the only thing you know how to do and that you can do. Not putting that on a resume and going to General Mills and thinking you're going to get a job, so I faced the dilemma that all professional athletes have to face.

I faced it a little prematurely, what do you do when it's all over and then many? From the bad comes the good and that was the case in uh that was in my case it was uh during my convalescence Vince called one day and said Jesse, you're good enough to move now you can't go back in the ring, he said Do you think you could do comments in color? Be a speaker. He said I want to try something new and I told him you want me to advertise. He said there has never been a bad guy on the mic, someone who sides with the villains and it was Vince's idea.

You said you think I said I know I could do it, so when I went there to do the first one, he gave me the best marching orders you could ever get before I went out to broadcast, he said this is your way of thinking, if you believe it, It's true, can you? Imagine being told that if you believe it it's true, in other words it's giving me carte blanche to say whatever I want and the best job in the world when I graduated and went to the number one team with Vince and I in the main event on Saturday at night where we still hold the record for biggest points of all time.

We beat Madonna when she was on Saturday Night Live. We kill her. We got 34 shares. Wow, imagine that 34. One in every three TV sets in the US was watching Saturday Night Live. Well, imagine having a job where you can totally ridicule your boss on national television, he pays you to do it, and he loves it. There can't be a better job in the world. Could you imagine if you could do that to your boss, ridicule them on national television and he loves it. and he pays you to do it and the more the better, what do you think of Vince McMahon?

I think I admire him. He is the PT Barnum of the generation. He took wrestling and made it a household word, took it national and became a multi-millionaire. Now Vince is a ruthless billionaire businessman, yes, but you probably have to be. I don't hold a grudge against Vince, but you used to, right? No, just when I didn't agree with him, I did the right thing, you go to court, I took him to federal court and I beat him and I have a withdrawal now he has to pay me for every tape I've been in and as long as he sells them quarterly I get a check from him and I've had it since 1991.

I called my wrestling retirement I'm the only wrestler in the world who has a retirement even though that's not technically the case. Why do you think you won't get me back? He's not going to invite me back and he'll have to pay me.do here. I have gone to a lagoon with some Mexican guides. I have gone out. a lagoon and I physically touched gray whales in the wild and put my hands in their mouths from a boat, I can't do that here and that was something that changed my life, I've done a lot of things, but that's in the top five coming out and physically and when I talk about being with gray whales I don't mean that they pass by and you touch them we had a mother in her calf she spent an hour and 15 minutes with us they love it they scratched their gums the mother went there and we took care of the calf we played hide and seek I had a water fight with them where they sprayed me with the blowhole and I threw water at them and I looked at their eyes and when you see it you see intelligence what are you doing clearly they communicate how would they know it's safe how would they know that in this small lagoon in Mexico you can interact with these humans that they are forced to live with because they need our air remember that they are not fish they are mammals explain why you no longer fly commercially because I am tired of being treated like a criminal I have metal in my body and when I go At an airport they treat me like a criminal and I got tired.

There was a time when I was flying three or four times a week and getting dropped three or four times a week and then I got angry and angry, I couldn't understand why and then I realized for free. country you shouldn't feel comfortable being frisked and it was getting to the point where it was becoming like brushing my teeth it was happening so regularly being frisked and I don't think anyone in a free country should feel comfortable being frisked down there but the citizens of the United States today are getting very comfortable being padded, well they had a Homeland Security team if you don't like it, don't fly, so I stopped flying after I tried to sue them, right?

I sued them under the Fourth Amendment and the judge ruled that she had no Authority, how can a federal judge not have authority over a Fourth Amendment question? It's a scam because they don't want to deal with it because if Jesse Ventura wins, he opens a can of worms. which jury is going to go against me who is going to go against me under the fourth amendment unreasonable search and seizure I have been mayor I have been governor I am an honorably discharged Navy veteran I have been flying for 30 years I pose no threat I I would win they can't have the case they can't let me win because I would open a bag of worms the last one for you, the most satisfying moment of your career to date would be what, um, that's really hard to say because there's probably one thing every decade that could fit into that, uh, graduating from Buds was very basic.

Underwater demolition SEAL training was part of wrestling, it went national with Vince McMahon and being on board was extremely exciting and then of course how could I not say winning mayor and governor mayor first which wasn't that big But win governor and do what no one said? It could be done and defeat the Democrats and Republicans for the second time that's why they fear me thank you very much thank you