Robert Rodriguez
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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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Because he remembers I gave him his shot back. So I was like, okay, he didn't give me any shit. Maybe he gives other people shit.
yeah hopefully hopefully because it's uh it's been helpful to me to then tell people and then the feedback loop they tell me back something i said but they morphed it into something new like they've added their own thing to it yeah and i go that's not what i told you you know oh we've added to it no but now now i'm taking your advice that came from my advice my kids do that all the time they go it all comes back to what you taught us dad i don't
What was that? What did I tell you that one time you said, you know, basically like the glass is half full, half empty. Okay. But I didn't tell you all this other stuff. Where'd that come from? Oh, we added to it since I was like, well, shit, that's the cool part. Yeah. Like my son got on a, was a Japanese knife maker, you know, in his teens. He just wanted to get into Japanese life.
This is a guy from another lifetime, you know, different. You obviously knew this was his path. That's when, you know, it's a soul born in there. Didn't get that from me. Making these Japanese-style knives, selling them for like $1,000 a pop. By the time he was 18, he got on that show Forging the Fire and won.
And I was like, how did you... You didn't even know how to use most of the equipment they gave you. You get $10,000? How did you... What was your mindset? He said... I imagined I had won already. Somehow I had won. And so when I'd come up against a challenge that I wasn't sure how I would get by, I just had to remember what I did to get by it rather than trying to be freaked out about it.
I was like, whoa, that's some freaking samurai shit. What? I read that you've obviously been in another life before to come in armed with that. You didn't learn that from me. And it's like, well, it's kind of like, no, that's nothing like anything I ever told you.
So the feedback loop when you share with people, I love people coming and telling me, hey, I was really inspired by your book and you said this. I'm like. I don't remember saying that in the book. I think you added to it a lot. It triggered something in you, and we all keep compiling our ideas. Yeah, we all do that.
That's why I'm more interested in everybody else's perspective because we all have our own relationship to creativity and the universe and all that.
But come be in a brass knuckle film. That sounds like right up reality. Let's do Conan or Frazetta something.
I can't wait to see your show.
I can already tell you, I got a great part for you where you will knock it out. I will talk. Thank you very much.
Oh, all the time where you're just like, or just you know how long it'll take to reset and you're just, but then you know what, you got to just work with what you got. You got to work with your results. You get nervous or no in that moment? oh yeah, you're, you're nervous going like, just, I hope it goes off.
Cause then to fix it, I'll have to go do a bunch of other steps, which we don't have time for. But a lot of times, you know, I've just learned that if something happens, it's just meant to be that way. And, uh, and I got used to doing things in one take and, and just living with it. It didn't bother me. One movie, it was even a low budget movie. They had, um, rigged a car to implode.
Cause I was going to throw a guy at it. So we needed a car to implode and then we're going to throw them and marry it together. Right. And, um, The car guy goes, yeah, we're going to have three cars rigged. Three cars? Well, in case one doesn't work, and then we have a second, we have a third. We don't have all night to go shoot take after take. We're just getting one car.
And if it doesn't work, we'll figure it out. Because you don't have time to do it again sometimes. It's such a long setup. So I go, no, I'm good with just going. In a Grindhouse movie, they only had one take, so I thought I'd make it more authentic. Yeah.
Two things happened on Dust Till Done. First was... Okay, you know how those explosions when somebody walks away in slow motion from an explosion that's become kind of... You know that started with Desperado? Desperado's the first. If you look at all the montages, Desperado's the first. That's right. That is the meme. Because it was an accident.
It was just supposed to be... It was just two grenades, not a nuclear bomb. He throws them over the side. I just want to like some body parts or, you know, something to fly up. Some shrapnel. It literally says shrapnel. And my effects guy was so ragged, running so ragged. We get to there and I go, do you have any... body parts and stuff we can throw up or something you can shoot up.
Pat, I didn't realize it's so high to get past that second floor. He's like, no, I don't. I can give you a fireball. I can give you a nice, you know, fireball with propane, but it burns away really quick. Like, how fast? Like that, but it'll be big and orange. Okay, we'll shoot it in slow motion so it lasts a little longer because it just goes poof.
So I told the actors, I know how big this fireball is going to be, but just walk really fast and just look real determined and then just keep walking. Don't stop and turn around because you might get your eyebrows singed. So they take off and boom, it goes. And in slow motion, it looks great, right?
I remember showing it to Jim Cameron before it came out and his hand went up like, I've never seen that before, you know. Six months later, Dust Till Dawn came out. So I liked how much it looked so much that in Dust Till Dawn, I did it again and So those movies came out within six months of each other. That's why it turned into a thing because people saw it.
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