Robert Rodriguez
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1,180 appearances
3 recordings
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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It's weird. It's weird, but it's kind of nice to know that you can do that. But you have to just have that conviction and just say, start with a label. Yeah, the R. The double R or the label you just gave yourself. Like I changed my label. My label was, I hate working out. I'm an athlete. I'm an athlete. I'm not a non-athlete anymore. I'm changing my label.
And you get so inspired because now you know what to do. Because you can't help but conform to your identity. You're always going to conform to your identity. So just change your identity and you'll change your life. And it's not that hard. I didn't have to go get hypnotized or anything. It was literally, I just told myself.
If I could do that, go from a guy who doesn't want to work out, hates it, hates it. I had the desire. I was already hiring the guy. I lacked the identity. As soon as I changed my identity, boom.
But I heard you rip on fucking guitar. And I've heard you play kind of amazing in all different kinds of contexts. Oh, but I should be like freaking Santana by now because I've had a guitar in my hands since I was a kid. But since I'm not a full-time musician, I don't get to play it that often. So I'm not as good as I should be.
But when you apply yourself to just rehearse for a couple of shows, you book some shows. Look at this. This is me just playing our first arena show opening for George Lopez. That was crazy to be on the stages. Where your heroes, that you saw them, now you're seeing what their point of view was. It blows your mind. You need to just get on stage.
You get on stage once and you'll see that it's not as bad as you think.
But you don't want to focus on that. You just go like, okay, I got it through. Because when you're up there... It's not that you're screaming nervous, but your hands just won't work anymore. Something will happen. But that happens to everybody. If you really watch even the best in their live performances, watch really close, and you see they screw up a couple things, but you just want to notice.
They just go right through it. It's about the live performance, and that's how you know it's real. So I think if you can really just lean into it more, really work on the identity part, because you've got the desire. You want to play guitar. But as soon as you say... Yeah, but I can't play live. You just chopped off your leg at the start of the race. You say, I don't know.
You just chopped off your other leg. You're doing this to yourself. You're literally doing this to yourself. I mean, just you. I mean, anybody who pauses, who hesitates. You don't have to have doubts. Why would you have a doubt? Because you know the process now. It's like, if I don't know how to do something, I know how to figure it out.
Like, I didn't know how I was going to do that scene with him jumping and flipping. I didn't know that. But do I have doubt that I'm going to go in there and be able to do it? If you say that you do, now you're a doubtful person. That's how powerful that is. But if you say, no, I don't have any doubt because I know I'm going to figure it out when I get there, somehow it'll fall in my lap.
I trust the process. You don't have to, you don't have to know. So if you trust the process that you'll figure it out.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. And then what happens? Right. Don't blink. Don't blink. And then you go sift through the failure. Yeah, exactly. You go, wait a minute. What did I get out of that? Yeah. I've done that a bunch. It was great. What's the worst that can happen? You go on a stage and you bomb. It's not going to be the first stage.
And it's one of those you can talk about so that when you do the next one and it all, sometimes they all go right. I've had a couple of shows. We did a couple of shows. We had video cameras set up for the second day. I said, let's not film the first day because we're going to be just finding our feet. Let's film the second day. First day, it was fucking flawless. Flawless because no cameras.
It's like you just go. Second day, we weren't as into it as we had just done it. It felt like the second take. It just didn't have the magic. And that's the one that's recorded. And we're like, oh, kicking ourselves. We didn't film both nights. We should have filmed both nights.
I came up with that because it's like, wow, I see so many people who get after you for filming a concert and they go, live in the moment. I'm like, dude, it's counterintuitive. The moment goes by like this. We're not going to remember any of this. The fact that we taped it, thank God. Because later on, it's going to be a file photo of me remembering you. Three pound me computer.
All I'm going to have is a file photo of you maybe in a suit. And you picturing me in maybe a black t-shirt and the metadata narrative is going to say, had a great talk about if we remember creativity. You know, like your brain doesn't remember. But when I pull up old home movies, like show my kids that I just found and they're like, they don't remember it. I don't remember filming it.
And it's like new adventures of creativity. it becomes iconic and it sticks in her head. And all our jokes are based on old things that we used to do and say. So living is reliving. So keeping a journal is very important because I found that anything in the past 15 years, it's like I'm reading someone else's journal. I'm like, I didn't even know that's where I got that guitar.
I thought I bought that guitar. It was given to me. It's like a $10,000 Santana. It was given to me my birthday by the studio that I made that movie. How can I not remember that? It's like crazy what you don't remember. And it's the brain is very, it's not a, it's not a very reliable computer. It's, it's made out of fucking butter.
It makes it iconic. It makes it iconic in your life and part of your life. Otherwise, it just went by. It went by. Like, I'll ask people, like, we just had a really, what did we do last week? What did we do last Wednesday? And they're like, blah, blah, blah, blah. I can tell you because I wrote it down, but I'm going to remember.
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