Danny Trejo
Appearances
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Motherfucker. Yeah. Well, what? And go through talking. Well, my dad talked to him. Hey, Dad. I said, oh, I'll bust you with this one.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
was your dad born in mexico no he was born in texas and that is correct me i sound silly is that chicano yeah okay so that's chicano and uh and so my dad was like that was tough god and uh now if i went to gilbert and he was on the phone gilbert would go here oh wait hold on hold on yeah All right, let me get the phone open. He always had time, no matter what he was doing.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
He'd be running somewhere. Hey, Gilbert. Yeah, yeah, what's up? Well, here, jump in the car. Let's go. And so that's who I gravitated to, the guy that had time for me. And the guy that had time for me had to be a drug addict and an armed robber.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Good-looking dude.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Taught me how to fight. Taught me how to fight. And everything he gave me. Allowed me to succeed in the path that I took, being a drug addict, an armed robber, penitentiary, lightweight, welterweight champion of every penitentiary I was in. And I was in all. You were in all of them. Yeah. You were actually in all of them. Quentin, Folsom, Soledad, Vacaville, Susanville, Sierra.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Those were the ones that were built when I was... So I was obsessed with Blood In, Blood Out.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
No. Well, yeah. This guy was staying clean, you know, and he called me and said, hey, there's so much blow down here, man. I got 108 days clean, please. So I just went down to hang out with him.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Well, it's funny because when I was doing Blood In and Blood Out, I met a guy, Mario Castillo. And we were talking, and I said, hey, why don't you come in and get your part in this movie? And he said, we can't. They were sureños, right? And Quentin was the northern receptionist. They were all norteños. Right. Mario was so tough that in a Norteño prison, he's wearing a pair of shorts that say L.A.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
County Jail. So he's saying I'm Sureño. You know what I mean? But he's pushing four and some pounds. Nobody messed with him. And it was—he said, you know what, we can't. We got the word from the mafia. No student interest can work on any prison movie because of what James almost did, you know, screwed everything up. Wait, what did James almost do? Well, he— He did a movie called American Me.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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I saw that one, too. And the problem with that is that he made the leader of the Mexican mafia. He said that he had gotten in juvenile hall, which is an outright lie. Oh, my God.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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I remember that scene, yeah.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Yeah. And then some other stuff that wasn't supposed to be told. And he paid some guys that were like skid row bums that had been on inside. He paid them cigarettes and stuff on the street to tell stories about the mafia, you know, so. So he got in trouble, and so they shut it down. So that war was out. So Blood In, Blood Out, we used inmates, you know, but none from Southern California.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And our movie, Blood In, Blood Out, got a lot of acclaim, man. American meme died because everybody knew, you know.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I'm going to. Sure, take it. Hey, in two days, I'm killing you. Two days. So get all your stuff, insurance, all that stuff ready. I'm in a podcast right now. Very important. Two days, okay?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
unbeknownst to me that i was supposed to go down there the next day anyway as an extra so i walked on the set and uh that night and to hang out with this kid and and uh i run into a a friend of mine that i was in prison with a guy named eddie bunker eddie bunker is fascinating eddie bunker hold on remember please tell me stories about eddie bunker oh he's okay keep going i apologize but but but uh
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Love you, man. I love you, too. It's so funny. This guy got out of prison, right? We took him under our wing. Yeah. And he stayed out. And then he got a part in a movie. But he couldn't go because it was out of state. It was the one about hot... Fritos Hot Cheetos.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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It was with Eva Longoria, and I knew her. And she called me, Danny, can we get him in? I don't know, let me see. So we went down to his parole officer. He couldn't go out of state. He's on parole. We took him donuts. Hey, oh, Trey, we took pictures. And then I asked him, hey, look, you know what? We got a movie, man. Can he go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's take this picture.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
So we took a couple pictures and he went to.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
But so, I forgot what I was going to say.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
What he did was he gave me the tools necessary to survive.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
You know, in the path that I took. Well, he did. Yeah, he turned me on to drugs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Yeah, but people go, oh, my God, that's terrible. Yeah. Any weed smoker has gotten a puppy loaded.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And so, you know, I love dogs. Yeah. And so cats. A high cat is fucking scary. I happen to be... Well, I was actually bothering my grandmother inside the house. She told me to go out there with Gilbert because he had two friends, and they were reading the Bible. Because there used to be these guys that came around, and they would sell these huge red Bibles, just big with gold trim.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And they were only like...
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
So I go out there to be with Gilbert, you know, where she sent me, and they were smoking weed. And all I remember hearing is, let's get him loaded. I can still hear that. And that was it. You know, I got loaded. It was funny because people that get loaded, They were going to get loaded. People that weren't going to get loaded. I don't know what to say. I gave Timmy Sanchez weed.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Like our next door neighbor. Yeah. And I'm smoking weed. He got sick. He started throwing up and got sick and went home, right? Never got loaded again. There was no drugs. I stood there and giggled, you know?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And so I went from weed, heroin. I caught my uncle shooting heroin and threatened to tell if he didn't give me some. I didn't know what it was. I just knew he was doing it. So I did that, and that was it. I found it, you know. Really? And I became like a full-blown alcoholic because now that bug opened up, you know, and heroin can't be 13, 12, 13, run around scoring heroin.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
He's looking at me and says, hey, you're Danny Trejo. Yeah. He says, what are you doing here? I said, they're going to give me 50 bucks for acting like a convict. And we laugh because we've been doing that for free for all our lives. So he says, hey, you know what? We need somebody to train one of the actors on a box. I'm like, what's it pay? And he said, $3.20 a day.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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I used to just go up to one of the Connections doors, and like my uncle would wait in the car, and I'd go, Hey, give me some heroin. Shut up. You bet. Wait, wait. I'll kill you. Go on, take that.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Huh?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Exactly. I mean, it's just so that some people are born with the bug or whatever it is and other people aren't.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
It's an allergy of the body coupled with an obsession of the mind. Your body's allergic to it, but your mind's obsessed with it. You know what I mean? It's like beer. My dad, I had gotten sober. And I would sit. Me and my dad would watch. These would be Saturday fights. Every Saturday they'd have fights. And we'd watch them on TV. And he'd sit down at 6 o'clock.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And we'd sit there and open one beer. And we'd be watching the fight. And there's a six-pack in the. And 10-round fight. One beer. And then I'd. Dad, you want another beer? Yeah. I go, well, then why'd you buy six? I couldn't stand to see him. It's like stupid. Beer isn't supposed to be in the icebox.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Yeah, I... You know, so I've never understood. I know people that order a mixed drink and are... Aren't done. The ice melted. It's like, what this? And so I don't drink like normal people. And I don't shoot heroin like normal people don't shoot heroin. But you know what I mean? It's an obsession, an obsession of the mind.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Well, you know what? It's like one of the things that – like I started going to AA by accident, all right? Everything happened by accident. But there was a big party in our neighborhood. I was in Pacoimo, and that was the murder capital of Los Angeles in 19 – when I was – 1959.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Yeah. Pecorma. And, I mean, we were killing everybody. And there's all these cars parked out in front of this house. And hold it. This is our neighborhood. They're having a party in the murder capital of Los Angeles. They're not inviting the murderers. What the hell is going on? So we stopped, went to the— Went to the trunk of the car to get the tools necessary, you know, to crash parties.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And so we got entire iron bumper jacks. I had a .38 snub nose, a case of beer, three bottles of wine, half pint of whiskey. I was already loaded on Red Devil's pills. And so we crashed. You can't knock. You just kind of bust. And the first thing we saw was a big sign that said, we care. I care about what?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And all these people, they were coming up with coffee cups, you know, like, hey, you want some coffee? And I always told my troops, don't split up. Stay together. There's 20 of us. We got them. But what the people did was like dividing. You had everybody in little groups of four telling them about the perils of drinking. Everybody's drunk.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And this guy comes up to me and starts talking about drugs. He was an alcoholic, and now he don't drink, and why don't I put that stuff outside and join him? I said, hell no. I got penitentiaries to go to, fool. You know what I mean? I didn't know what to say, but I left, and we all left. I mean, this guy whispered a curse to me.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And I said, how bad do you want this guy beat up? I thought... That's a hit. I wasn't making that a week, homie. A day, I wouldn't take two minutes to beat him up. And he said, no, no, no. You got to be real careful. This kid's high strung, man. He might sock you. I said, Eddie, for $320, give him a stick. Are you crazy? I'd be beat up for free, homie.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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No, I'm telling you. He said, Danny, if you leave this— You will die, go insane, or go to jail. And I thought, screw you. That's a stupid thing to say to a 15-year-old kid. We left. Two weeks later, come on out, we have a house around here. I was busted, arrested again, and gone too long. And so it was like a pattern, you know? I always, I've never gotten arrested sober.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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I've never gotten, I mean, I've never gotten arrested that I wasn't loaded on heroin. You know what I mean? And so it was like, is that my problem? Using was my problem. I'm the problem solver. Drinking and using is my medicine.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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You know what I mean?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And damn, I had to go to meetings in every institution. Damn, Frank Rousseau, Frank Rousseau, Frank Rousseau. And I say that because he told me never to mention his name. But he actually... I show up at this penitentiary. He's there. He shot a couple of people in front of, uh, Sun Valley receiving hospital. And, and, uh, And he was there, and he came, Danny, we got to go to this AA meeting.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
It's awesome, blah, blah, blah. I got an AA meeting. He said, no, no, no, AA, they got cigarettes. And I said, I'm a German convict. I got cartons of cigarettes. He said, yeah, but I know they, you know, hey, we can get coffee and cake. I said, come on, I got that myself. What the hell's wrong with you? And then he says, there's women coming up. They brought women to AA meetings in prison?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
They don't have women's in my cell. No.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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I signed up for the meeting, but the problem is when you sign up for something, you can't say, I want to go to AA to see the women. You got to say, I want to go to AA to deal with my alcohol problem. Now, once you say that, that goes in your jacket. That means everywhere you go, Oh, you have alcohol problems. They're mandatory. Every institution I went to, I had to go to alcohol.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And so I go to this meeting, and it's actually a pretty good meeting. That's where I met Johnny Harris, my... My sponsor, right. And he told me, the only thing that's going to beat you to Quentin are the headlights on the bus. So, yeah. And I said, yeah. I thought it was a compliment, you know.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And it's funny because when we pulled up to San Quentin, right, 10 years later, I see the headlights hit the wall. And I said, hey, let me walk in front of it. I think everybody on that bus had heard Johnny Ayers because everybody knew what I was talking about. And that was it. And I went to AA all the time because I had to.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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No. Those are all the same. You know, everything else is segregated. Soledad is the worst because when you're walking into Soledad, the guards... are trying to keep things equal. They're trying to put White, black, Mexican, all spread out. And if they send you to like the African-Americans and you're a white guy, you better make a quick turn somewhere. You know what I mean?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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If you're Mexican, same thing. It's like we segregate ourselves. Oh, really? And they usually don't want to make a big hassle out of it. They just leave it alone. And that's what the tables all have for. Oh, really? And four people. Prison is probably the most right now place in the world.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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I started training Eric Roberts how to box for a movie called Runaway Train. And Eric, you know... Well-deserved. It was a movie star. So movie stars have their own way of acting on the set, and sometimes it doesn't agree with the director. I want to rest now and go to Australia. And everything stopped. So Eric respected me. So when they wanted him, they would tell me, go get Eric. Go get Eric.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Right now. It's all happening right now.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
That's where the term, I got your back, came from. Really? When we're talking to each other, I got your back. You got my back. And people don't even know that. They use that all the time. Hey, I got your back. That means, like, I'll watch out for you. But that's for real. I got your back. So if something's happening, I'll, hey, check this, check, you know what I mean?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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I'll let you know, whatever it is, because I don't know what, you know. And that's why I always call the right now, right now place. You know, right now you can die or right now you can almost die or right now you can get away with it.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Yeah, you can't let anything be taken from you.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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When you came out of prison... If you wanted a couple of scores, you would go to him and depending on what they were, how much, he would tell you what he wants. And if you were any good, you know, and knew your game, you know,
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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he could you could he'd go with you you know but if you were just telling me then you'd have to pay him you know but he was amazing and most of the people that bought robberies from him got away you know and then how did he get involved in movies how did he was he a consultant you know yeah actually him and uh alvin sargent who was outsider he wasn't he was a writer director
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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They wrote a screenplay called, I mean, No Be So Fierce with Dustin Hoffman and Gary Busey, Gary Busey's first movie. And Dustin Hoffman came out of prison and went to buy a robbery. That scene is in, you know, but it's actually my uncle and me. And anyway, so... Dustin Hoffman buys a robbery from him. And that's how he became, he was famous. He went back to prison after that.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And then him and Sargent finished writing that when Eddie was in Terminal Island. I mean, Alvin Sargent would go up to Terminal Island, the visiting room, and they finished writing it.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And so then when it came out, it was a hit, unbelievable movie, right? And Eddie was probably one of the most brilliant people I knew. I mean, he was a captain's clerk. Wait, what's that? He was the captain in San Quentin. has a clerk, because the captain runs the whole institution. That's the top dog. And he basically counts on his
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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clerk so if uh a guard was like messing with my tattoo operation or my booze operation i could pay eddie and say hey can you get this guy transferred and uh yeah okay it costs you 100 200 whatever it's gonna cost you and uh eddie when he had his stack of papers for the captain to sign he's And all of a sudden, two days later, that guard was on the 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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guard out there in the bay somewhere. Wow. And he had that kind of power, and he was that smart.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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That is the most recognizable tattoo in the world. So recognizable. And so funny. That was more recognizable than me. I mean, it was literally people went to Cannes and were talking about doing this movie with me. And who? Who? Who? This guy. Oh, the guy with the tattoo. Yeah. Dude.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Come on, Eric, let's do this, and then we'll train, because he wanted to train him. Please be Eric Roberts. I'm sorry. I thought I shut that off.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And it's funny because Harry, Harry Super Jude Ross, he hated it because it was one of his first tattoos. And so the lines are very thick. Oh, he's the one who drew it? He's the one who drew it and did it. But-
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Now they've gotten so thin. They've gotten so thin. The lines have gotten so thin. The tattoos are like paintings. What are the words above it? We'll cross out one of them. One's Danielle, my daughter.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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You know, the other one was a mistake. That one's gone. Yeah. We misspelled it. That one's gone. And I put my son Gilbert and Dan.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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No, he's out. In fact, we got him out, the governor. I talked to the governor yesterday. And he's, yeah, yeah, that's enough time. So we got him out. And then I talked to Newsom and got Mario's son out. Wow. How much have prisons...
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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They took most of the weights out of... What? Yeah, out of prisons. Okay. Well, the problem was that the police, the guys would, you know, guys would be up there five, six years, lift their weights, and all of a sudden come out on the streets. They're monsters.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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You know, and a lot of the police started to, wait a minute, you guys are breeding monsters. Yeah. So they took the weights out. So now all the guys are coming. They're coming out still ripped. Push-ups.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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It's funny. I used to see guys doing squats with guys on their shoulders. So it was, you know, everything. You adapt to everything. You know what I mean? And so a lot of the weights were probably at the guards' houses.
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80.
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That's how real this show is. And so I had, I had, I go get Eric and Andre comes in because I was just training him. He comes in. I'll never forget. He comes in and goes, Russian, first American movie was Runaway Train. He goes, you be in movie. You fight Eric in movie. And you be my friend. Well, if you have a prison background, you be my friend has like a little, wait a minute, hold on, hold on.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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I still work out. I still walk. And I still do whatever I can. I have to. Yeah. I... You know, like I'll sleep for like four hours, and then I'll wake up, and then I might go lift some weights, come back to bed, sleep some more, then wake up. I don't know. It's weird, but I'm staying in shape. I'm still staying in weight, about 180. Yeah.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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Not really. Not, no, I'm not really, it doesn't really hit me like that. I'll be like working on the yard, working a sweat or something, and you think about, but why sir, la cerveza mas fina. But a beer on a hot day will give you a headache. So you drink another one. You know, okay, so now that's two, and then. When you got two, it's like, all right.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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You got a buzz going on. So I don't, it doesn't, it doesn't, I don't know how to say it. That's not my taste anymore.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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You know, and I hate not being in control. And it's funny, police know, I'll be speeding. They'll stop me. Trey, what the hell were you doing going so fast? I'm in a hurry. God. I was on the freeway on the 170. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm in the Diamond Lane, and I'm jamming to the restaurant, right? And I'm like, 65 Buick Riviera, 85. Wow! I said, what the hell you got in this?
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That's when we started talking. He said, get out of the diamond lane.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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And he says, stay out of the diamond lane, okay?
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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It's funny. I got a 1936 Dodge. And I love that. My grandfather.
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My grandfather had a 1936 Dodge. And it didn't have a clock. And so my uncle Gilbert used to deal weed. And that's the second one, the black one up there on top. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. It's like a Peaky Blinders car. And we would drive. My grandfather would sleep for two hours during the day, so we'd steal the car. And my uncle had a big bowl, and it had Sensei Mia in it, right? Yeah.
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And I'd listen to the radio. I would count the songs. So... because the clock didn't work. So it would be like the time. We got two hours. And Gilbert would pull up to a house, two joints, three joints, and we'd just keep driving. So an hour and a half, and we'd go back home. Oh, wow. And so I got a 36 Dodge, too. That's great.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
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There's a whistle. And that means danger. Yeah. Yeah.
2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
We had a parrot that did that. I didn't know he did it.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
How many cars do you have? I think nine lowriders, nine different lowriders, yeah. I'm building right now the most gorgeous 1949 Chevy stepside pickup truck. Oh, wow. It's absolutely stunningly gorgeous. Oh, my gosh. The black one. The black one. Right there. F5 window. But it's beautiful.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And... like your Southern California States, you know, like Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, you know, they have the best weather. So, you know, the, the cars, the paint jobs and stuff. And, and, uh, God, I love them.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I can remember a song by Bob Dylan. It was Bob Dylan. You used to run around in and out, didn't you? Didn't you?
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
We're not shouting together, punk. You know what I mean? It's like, I mean, and then he leans over and kisses me on both cheeks and walks away. And I'll never forget, I looked at Eddie. I said, Eddie, I'm going to train the kid for 320, but if I'm going to be kissing that old man, I want more money. And he said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's European. Yeah.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And it was funny because it was a long song. And when it first came out, they used to play it back to back two or three times. And you would be like shooting heroin. And you'd be like nodding. And you'd wake up. And the song was still beyond. And you're down. Didn't you? I remember that. And it was like, you know, you go back. There's so many songs. Yeah. Were you the same age as Richie Valens?
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
No, he's a little older than me. I think he was two years older than me.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Junior high.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And I got kicked out of San Fernando High School, and they sent me to Monroe High School, and I had to take a ceramics class. I took a ceramics class, and she was the first one to say hello to me. Really, really sweethearts. Oh, Donna. I knew Richie. We started talking, blah, blah, blah. And I had to do this... what is it, a project ceramics. Yeah. And she said, here, we'll just do this.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And we did a wine glass and rocks and we put it in a kiln and it's a beautiful wine glass. I wish I had it. And... That was it, and I passed the class.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Oh, Ash.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Are you kidding?
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
God.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Beautiful. Beautiful. And they got a divorce or they're getting a divorce. Yeah.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
That's what my fourth wife finally said. It's not us. It's you.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Yeah, okay, well, if I'm kissing him, if I would have known that old man did, he got me a SAG card.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Yeah. Shut up. I got a trash can. And you know what? God pays us back. I mean, like I said, Mario Castillo, when I talked to him in Quentin, and eight years later, after I met him, I run into him in a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. I don't know if I told you, but I run into him in a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, and 10 years ago, he saved my son's life, literally.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
My son was dying in a hotel room with friends. My son's... He's got the key to my safe. So I'm in Germany, and he's got money. And you've got money, you've got drugs, you've got friends around you. And so, I mean, he's literally dying. And Mishko, who was a friend of my son's who grew up with me, is like, look at that. And he calls me. He says, man, Gilbert's dying. He's got all that dough in him.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
You know what I mean?
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
So I called Mario. Don't worry, I'll find him. I'll find him. Okay. I'm ready to split. I'm going to leave this production. I don't care about the money. And then about six hours later, he calls me and says, I got him. Don't worry, I got him. Yeah, he's here. Yeah, he don't got no shoes, but I got him. And it was funny because the two guards that were guarding this place, this crack house, right?
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Yeah. I didn't know, but I knew one of them knew me and one of them said, who was that crazy guy? He came up and said, don't move, I'll kill both of you. Wow. And Mario, if you look at A Chicano gangster in the dictionary. It's got his picture, okay? Don't mess. And he's not like that big. He's just a tank. And then I got home three days later.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Yeah.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Let me get that front, too. I mean, it's like the whole life. I started going from movie to movie to movie because they were making a whole bunch of prison movies. I got that big tattoo on my chest, and the directors loved it. So my first 10 movies, I don't have a shirt on. We're in prison. And it was funny. Directors would always say, Danny, say something prison-y. Hey, we'll kill all you punks.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
We took him to a friend of mine's recovery house, Rene, and it was rim of the world up in – Lake Arrowhead. And I remember as we went through the clouds, my son goes, well, all plans of escape are out. And he's got 10 years clean. Oh, wow. He's in the DGA right now. He's a director. He's leaving for Japan tomorrow to direct some big music video. Oh, wow. Don't tell me there ain't no God, homie.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
He'll pay you back. Maybe not in your own time, but he will pay you back.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I would say Spy Kids.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
That movie, I did Heat with Robert De Niro and we became friends. He loved my kid. He loved Gilbert. He thinks Gilbert was a genius. Because we went to dinner with Robert De Niro. Gilbert, my daughter, and me, we went to dinner with Robert De Niro when we were doing Mochete. Robert asked me, Danny, do you remember this?
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Do you know this French director that did something, blah, blah, blah, I'm going to watch it. And I started to say something, and the kid was, oh, you know what? I love him. They spent the rest of the night talking about... The idea of moving. Me and my daughter played with our food. But they became really good friends.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And Robert De Niro gave my son the key to Texas University because he donated all his memorabilia there. And so my son got to go in there and check it all out. My son's got his phone number. What a crazy cast. Unbelievable. Val Kilmer. I did Heat, and me and De Niro kind of made friends. And then when we asked him to do Machete, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
It's such a... You know what? Well, I was so upset that he didn't win an Oscar for Tombstone. God. Tombstone... One of the best Westerns ever.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Absolutely.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
goddamn tombstone that was unbelievable i'm your huckleberry that's like oh what a great i did a i did a film recently just came out it's called uh seven cemeteries about zombies and stuff and then we've got right now we've got uh
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
William Shatner.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Oh, I met with him. I met with him in a podcast and was like, wow, I was like starstruck.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
He's unbelievable. You know what's so funny? It's like my son did a movie, right? He did a movie with me and him. And... It was called From a Son. And in it, he dies, he overdoses, and I'm his father. I go into his hell looking for him. I don't know he's dead, right?
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And I run into his little girlfriend, and I threaten her life, show me where he's at, and he's dead. Show me, you know, and we're walking to his body, and I'm supposed to cry, right? Well, I, you know, I'm a dude like John Wayne. Okay, pilgrim. You know. My son's showing me baby pictures all week. Hey, Dad, look what I found. And this is all my daughter.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And so when the scene, we're out in the middle of the damn desert. It's freezing cold. She's taking me to his body. And my line is, did you kill my son? And she screams, no, I loved him. He was my only friend. And she busts crying. crying. But now wait, this wasn't like a manly cry, okay? No, this was like Muckles, you know, you know how you're trying to... I'm familiar. I'm familiar.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I couldn't stop, man. God, I cried for every time I wanted to cry in my life. And so finally when he said cut, the whole crew was crying. And he comes in and says, nice acting, Dad. I go, you little bitch. I go, I finally figured out what he did. And God, man, it's like, that's going to a con right now.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
No, I just know they're unbelievable. I've seen some of them, and they were amazing. I like history anyway. I fucking love history.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
My teacher, Mrs. Finley, She was like crazy about the Navajo Indians. I forget. But she was also obsessed with, what do you call it? The Amazon River. And that's got such a history. This is before time. And she had these dead piranha fish in a big jar. And I always used to get bread and put it on the top of the jar. Might get hungry. But she always talked about this river and this...
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
1985.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Dang it. All the damn Amazon River. Yeah. You're on the Amazon River. Ice Cube. J-Lo. J-Lo. John Voight, who I know. Eric Stoltz. All these guys are asking questions. That crazy lady gave me the answer. I knew the answers. Hey, how come those are all... Oh, that's due to the rise and fall. Cube. Ice Cube goes... You know all that shit, Danny. I thought you were a gangster. I lied.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
69.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I got out of prison in 1969. I was a drug counselor. I'm still a drug counselor. I work for Western Pacific Med Corp. We have a... Detox all over, 13 detoxes.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I said, you know, I read a lot when I was in prison. Come on. I'm going to tell Ice Cube. Oh, my fourth grade teacher mentioned Finley, dog. Shit.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
God. It was so funny because we were in Texas and they were building this building there and then they found some bones, right? And the contractor was like so mad because... It stops everything. They got dinosaurs and stuff, and I love that. That's the one thing I think I ever got a good grade in was like history, you know, and just knowing stuff. But it's so funny.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
It's like the stuff that's really, really interesting, you just really don't need to know. Math isn't interesting, but you really need to know it.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Better have that one.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Yeah. It's so funny. I love to do that. People say, God, I thought you were taller. Well, I was tall enough to kiss Jessica Alba. Oh, yeah. She's awesome. She was just so unbelievable, professional. It's crazy. And I don't know how to say it. It's like Selma Hayek, same thing. Selma Hayek, beautiful lady, right?
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And when we were doing From Dusk to Dawn, they had hired all these strippers from different clubs. From Dusk to Dawn. to work because they've got to be naked. And Selma was like, So, almost crying. I said, what the hell's wrong with you? These women are so beautiful. Bitch, what the hell? But, no, but see, but it's like, it doesn't matter. You know what I mean? It doesn't matter.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
That's kind of what the director said. I remember when they had picked somebody else and then they wanted me after I showed up. And Andre Kozlowski, the director, was trying to tell people, no, look. This is Eric Roberts. He goes to Eric's face like this. He goes, look, face.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
It's like how we feel, you know, about ourselves, you know. And, God, I said, yeah, two minutes and I'll be brushing your hair. Two minutes and I'll be like, who's helping me?
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Humble. Yeah. Humble. And I bet it. How can you be so beautiful and humble? Shit.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Always. Really? Every time I got arrested, I was hooked. So I would detox in the county jail with like, hey, shut up, bastard. Jesus. You know, that's the way you just kicked, you know. And you've got to remember, this was 1965, 64, 63. You know, when the... I remember, well, God, in 65... 63 when I got arrested. It was like nothing.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I mean, they were sending people to the gas chamber or selling dope. Nobody knew. That was crazy when I think of it.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
That happened. Actually, it was funny because when the first AD on Runaway Train, Handed me that blue shirt. I kind of laughed. You know what I mean? I just can't put it on. He said please this time. And he told me to leave it open to my shirt off, you know, because I got that big taboo, and I left it off. And I just stood there just kind of like just reminiscing.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And I'm watching everybody, and they're all being stupid, because everybody thinks prison is this like a – You're out of the way. I'll kill you. It's not, man. Prison is a very scary place, but nobody can show it. You know, it's like being with your girlfriend in a haunted house, and you know you're scared, but you can't show it, you know, because...
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
In prison, you learn to smell any kind of weakness, any kind of fear, any kind of sorrow. You can pick it up. I mean, what's wrong? You ask somebody, what's wrong? I got a letter, you know, something. Yeah.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
See, that's why, like, a lot of people tell their girlfriend, hey, you know what, cut it loose, let it go. I can't deal with this.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Yeah, yeah, you cut your wrist. I mean, I've watched people – cut their wrist because they didn't get a letter you know it's like whoa you can't depend on the outside you are no longer on you're you're on an island and people it's it's uh let me say this a wife has three children her husband's in jail so now for her to go visit Now, he's in San Francisco. She's in Los Angeles.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
She's got to get a babysitter for two days, three days. And she's got to, like, drive up, take a bus, whatever, get a hotel, sleep in the car, and go visit for a couple hours, you know. And so it's not like an easy life either way, you know. And so when I cut everybody loose, I don't write anybody or talk to anybody, you know. And I just...
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Look. And this other guy who was kind of Spanish goes, ah. Look. Hey. I was like, is this guy clowning me or what? How did he say? He says, ah, ah. Adversary. It was adversary or against each other. We looked like enemies. These other guys looked like lovers. So I ended up boxing Eric Roberts.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
you kind of like institutionalize yourself to this is my world. While, you know, this is it. And so you start acquiring everything it takes to make you comfortable, you know, and as comfortable as you can. It's a, It's the only way to keep from going totally insane, you know? I mean, literally. And people think, well, I'd rather be in the hole. No, you wouldn't, because that's where you go crazy.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
You know, there's nobody there, nobody to talk to, nobody. You're just there all by yourself. You learn, you adapt. I used to do the Wizard of Oz. I used to act the whole time. Give me those shoes, Dorothy! You know, the whole... The Wizard of Oz? The whole thing. Really? Yeah. Wait, where did that... Were you a big Wizard of Oz fan? We are the Munchkin kids.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
I used to do the Hunchback of Notre Dame, the old one. She gave me water. Imagine if you're a guard in San Quentin and he's going, what the... Is someone in there with him? Guards... Guards would walk by and I'd scream, did you kill my sister? Because of the Wizard of Oz. It was like I had trails going nuts. But you make yourself kind of go crazy so the environment can't make you crazy.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
You understand? It's like I'm doing this.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Holy shit. And so that's, man, I did that for months. Yeah. And I play a great Henry Lawton. She gave me water. You know? How were you the first time you went to prison? Oh, God. You don't go to prison. It's like in order to acclimate, you start off in juvenile hall. You're in juvenile hall and from juvenile hall, you maybe go to a camp or something.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
And then from there, you end up in youth authority. And then from there, you end up in youth authority. Then you end up in prison. So you've already like, you know, this is your lifestyle. You know people. The people that have trouble is that do something that gets them sent to prison. The first time. So they know absolutely nothing about the lay of the land.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Right.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
Sleep away. Fuck, I like that. I'm so different.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
No, Gilbert, first of all, it's like my grandmother had 11 children, all right? Gilbert was the last one. So basically, they were out of kids. They're done with kids, you know what I mean? Yeah. My uncle Rudy went to college. He was the one before Gilbert. And then Gilbert was kind of left on his own, you know, and my mom and dad, my mom and dad were perfect pictures of the American dream.
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How Prison Changed Danny Trejo's Life | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
If you work hard and own a Cadillac and a pickup truck with a camper, you've made it and a house and you've got a wife and That's basically an indentured servant. I don't think my mom ever left the house. She was like, we have the cleanest house in the world. You know what I mean? And I'll never forget, we had plastic on our couches. And I guess, you know, I don't know, people you won't sit on.
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