Robert Rodriguez
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3 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Nov
Robert Rodriguez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He came out later in the 70s, so this is a great Frazetta story. Several of his paintings, when you see them, they're not very big a lot of times because they were for paperbacks, so they didn't have to be that big. But then there were some, like in the early 70s, that were big. Silver Warrior, Atheist Corps. And I asked Frazetta, I said... What was this era here?
Because a lot of these were in the 60s. What's these four bigger ones you did? What was that for? He goes, oh, they were saying I was washed up, that I was finished. It's because Boris Villarreal was coming out, and they're like, oh, he's the new Frazetta. So I did one, two, three, four beauties, shut them all up. That was so cool.
But you could, you know, I love his art, but you could almost feel the model in it. You could almost see that there was a model he was painting from.
I mean, he's doing the Frazetta style.
I mean, Frazetta was the Jimmy Page of arts. Everybody wanted to be him. Right, exactly. So you couldn't unsee Frazetta's work when you were doing your own work.
Yeah, he's doing Man-Ape again.
Like the one where he's crucified to the cross.
Oh, and the one in the far bottom left is the first issue of Savage Sword. Oh, wow.
Yeah, I thought that was cool. Yeah. But it doesn't come close to, you know.
It was just the way he did them. Yes. There's some magic to them. And I'll show you a couple of things that will blow you away when you see them in person. But the in-person thing will really floor you. Just how much even the best books cannot capture the art as it exists. I'm sure. I saw your gym. Your gym is awesome. I thought I had the best gym ever.
You've got a great gym, but I got one thing you don't got. You got to come see. What? I don't have mirrors up. You don't have mirrors on purpose? It's because I just have the original Drew Struzan painting for First Blood Stallone. Oh, wow. Because it's got glass over it. You can kind of see yourself in it. But I just stand in front and I go, I'm not there yet. I'm not there yet.
That's my inspiration.
To see for form. I can kind of see the form. But that's my mirror when you come. It's the Stallone painting.
But it doesn't capture the painting at all. Even this digital copy of it. Like, look at the original poster of it that has the writing on it. The way they printed it was like ass. Look at that thing. So when you see the original one, you're like, oh, my God, this is like fine art. And that still doesn't capture it. But it's closer than the poster.
And then when you see the physique that he has, you're just like, okay, I'm going to work harder. Yeah. But that's in my gym, so you've got to come check that out.
What's your workout routine? How often do you get to work out?
I do the thing, this might inspire some people, like- So I don't have a trainer, but I like watching other people see what they do in their routine, so I adopt some of that. I saw Josh Brolin all freaking in shape for the Deadpool movie, and I was like, dude, I texted him, what is your workout? Oh, I'll send it to you. He sends me a PDF of his whole workout routine that the trainers had given him.
It's intense. It was like, okay, if I do one-fourth of this, I'll have a quarter of his results. I'm fine with that because I don't have this shit to do anyway. So I would be in and out of there in a half hour. So you don't have to commit all the way.
As long as you're doing something, you're getting up and you're working out and you're doing it very strategically, if you don't have a lot of time, there's no excuse. You can get a lot done in a short amount of time. Reverse pyramid train or something. Yeah.
Yeah. I like when I hear stuff like that. I try it. I just roll it into the routine and give it a try. Yeah. Because you don't know what's going to work for you. There's no one right way to do anything. So I try to just get advice and adopt it. I had this funny Stallone once. Have you ever had Stallone on the show? No. He's a great interviewer.
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