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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And then when you see, when you go through your journal, like I go back and I find, wow, life-changing stories.
thing happened friday another life-changing thing i didn't know at the time until now i know that that really set me on him happened saturday and another big freaking thing happened on sunday like they come in threes sometime you start being able to predict the future a little bit because you you see the patterns and it's pretty wild to do that and i i've i swear i've talked to people big group of people 500 people how many people hear journal and
Two hands, three hands. I couldn't believe it. It's like, man, you got, if there's anything I'm going to part on you is journal. Your life is way more interesting than you think because it's not going to feel like anything while it's going by. But in retrospect, you look back. Like I can just go through, I keep a journal. One file per year. So I started a new one in 2025.
If I want to look up, like I'm going to do a director's chair episode. I look up Michael Mann, Michael Mann, Michael Mann. All the conversations we had since 94 that I wrote down that I felt, and it's like, oh my God, I can't believe we said that. That's how I knew about that thing with Quentin. I had forgotten about that story with Quentin saying, ah, Pulp Fiction. I had forgotten that because...
From the moment I asked him that question to the success at Cannes was very quick. So it was a lost moment in time where I had it recorded down to the time, down to the hour. When I asked him that question, he thought it wasn't, he didn't think that was the one for him.
But the profanity comes out of it, right? You look back and it's crazy. Yeah, you didn't, and so much I figured out then. I'm talking like a professor by the end of that. Like people come up to me and they're asking me all these questions about stuff I wrote in there. And I'm like, I wrote that in that book? Shit, I was smart back then. What happened?
I don't remember half of that, but I think it's the same thing. When you go to teach someone, your mouth opens and stuff comes out. I'm always taping myself when I go to give a talk. Because that's also the pipe working. Someone else is talking through you sometimes. So the act of sharing, that's why I've always liked to share information because the feedback loop is insane.
Like me, inspiring Daisy DJ to go write. He writes the script in three days, comes back, tells me, now I'm doing that method. And it's like, wow, people come back with their version. And I love telling my kids stuff that I learned that I wish I could tell myself later. but I can't take a time machine. Closest thing is telling your kid because then they can take that information and process it.
So many times they've come back and said, wow, dad, that lesson you taught us about this has really become big in our minds. Yeah, what was that? And they tell me, I'm like, I never told you that. They say, yeah, you told us. Well, I told you maybe 10% of that. All the rest you added. Oh yeah, well, we embellished it. They turned it into something else and it's like, wow, that's so cool.
But yeah, that thing about Reliving, like that was one of my favorite ones. Yeah, my mom turning 75 and not wanting to do anything for her 75th birthday. I said, why not? She goes, the whole family's going to, if you have 10 kids, they're all going to want to do something for your 75th birthday. Nothing can top my 65th. I was like, what are we doing on your 65th? I didn't even remember even.
I'm the one who orchestrated it all. She goes, oh, you flew everyone in from all over the country. You gave me a car. got to have a journal of that. So I'm sure I have video. I go back 10 years. I see what tape I had it on, find the tape, pop the tape in, forgot about all this stuff. So I cut together a 10 minute version of it, showed it at her 75th birthday.
Just watching the old one, everybody was like, oh my God, look how young everybody was. Look how small the nieces and nephew were. She starts bawling as soon as she gets the key, the gift of the key in the video, because she realizes now what it's going to mean that she's going to get this car. And so it's like, wow, let's just play the old tapes. We don't even have to do anything anymore.
We banked so much amazing stuff that we've all forgotten that, you know, my kids just love watching their old home movies today. They hardly remember any of it, but even a VHS to them is virtual reality because compared to our memories, it is virtual reality. They're like leaning into the screen to see what's around the corner and they're remembering the place and the sounds.
And they say, oh, we left the living room. It's like, we're there. It's like, wow. I was always afraid they would see this old footage and go, ah, this is dog shit. What kind of camera was that? This is the limitations of, you know, you put up one of those files on your screen, it's like this big on your laptop now. That's how low res shit was back then. But that didn't matter.
It's like, compared to our memories, that stuff... Living is reliving, like pull up that, shoot as much as you can, take as many pictures, but write the journal because you'll have a picture, swear you're not going to know what it's from. Even 10 years from now, you won't know what that picture's from. You read the diary, you go, oh, that's what that is.
Oh my God, you can piece together all these things that are important to you or that become more important with time actually. And you know what's important later compared to what's happening at the time.
Yeah, sometimes it's just, I just want to mark that. We had this conversation. I had to go do something at five. I did that. Met somebody that, I know last night I met somebody that's going to be life changing. I'm going to write a little bit more on that because I could just, now I know. But I'm going to just record it so later if I look it up.
I would film stuff like that with my kids. I couldn't do it, but I would film my kids saying, hey, turn to the camera now and say, hey, Rebel, it's me, Rebel. Fucking Rebel in the future. So you have shots like that. Yeah, and then they show them like that 10 years later, and they're like, whoa.
Just to see it talking to them and saying, and I would do this thing where I would film them watching it and then pan off. So that 10 years later I could get, Hey rebel, him reacting, pan off to the new rebel watching it. It's just like, keeps going. So I have one like that where it just keeps panning and they're watching themselves within the movie, within the movie, within the movie.
It's like an ongoing project. You know, it's just so fun to just play with memory and make you realize how fast time moves and to go, they go like, I kind of remember that, but I don't remember being that tiny when I had that memory. It's like wild how time moves.
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