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Speaker 1: I started getting cast as inmate number one, but they

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Speaker 1: one line like Mattalos, that was one of my favorite lines.

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Speaker 2: Mattalos from Futuro Media. It's Latino usay. I'm Maria nor Rosa.

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Speaker 2: Today a portrait of Danny Trejo. If you don't recognize

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Speaker 2: his name immediately, you'll definitely recognize his face. So listen

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Speaker 3: With I have one question for you, Milo, where is

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Speaker 2: Did you get it? Danny Trejo's signature look is long haired,

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Speaker 2: a scarred face, and he's usually carrying some very powerful weapon.

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Speaker 2: My favorite movie that he's in is Spy Kids, where

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Speaker 2: he plays Uncle Machette.

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Speaker 3: Close your eyes and hold out your wrist.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the one gadget you should

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Speaker 2: A rubber band.

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Speaker 3: No, it's a Machette elastic wonder.

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Speaker 1: It's a rubber band.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's also the world's greatest gadget today.

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Speaker 2: J has started over three hundred films since he began

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Speaker 2: acting in nineteen eighty five. Just to name a few,

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Speaker 2: he was in Desperado, Heat from Dust till Dawn, con Air,

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Speaker 2: once upon a time in Mexico, Grindhouse, Machette, and that's

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Speaker 3: I was born a center. I'll probably die a center.

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Speaker 2: He often plays the role of a villain or a

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Speaker 2: tough guy. He says the persona came naturally after eleven

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Speaker 2: years in prison and a pretty tough upbringing, which included

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Speaker 2: being introduced to drugs as a kid. In real life,

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Speaker 2: Danny is anything but a bad guy. Since leaving prison

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Speaker 2: he's the entrepreneur behind Trejos Tacos and Trejos Donuts in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles. I sat down with him to discuss how

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Speaker 2: stars in Hollywood. Welcome Danny Trejo to Latino, USA.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I want to know about memories of Danny Trejo before

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Speaker 2: you were smoking pot at eight or heroin when you

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Speaker 1: When I was like seven, I lived with my grandmother,

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Speaker 1: five aunts and six girl cousins, so I had a

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Speaker 1: Life really changed right there. I found myself always kind

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Speaker 3: Maa was the sweetest.

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Speaker 1: Thing in the world. And like all my aunts, I

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Speaker 2: But obviously, as a kid, maybe teenager, doing drugs made

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Speaker 3: I don't even think that understood it.

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Speaker 1: I just know that anytime you do drugs with people,

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Speaker 3: Do I did? Beepe sitting down? I was like a

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Speaker 1: And when I moved in with my uncles, you know,

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Speaker 3: I was afraid.

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Speaker 2: You do end up in prison. You spend a lot

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was in all of them.

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Speaker 1: Well, see, I grew up in that system. I started

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Speaker 1: going to juvenile hall very early. It's college is simple

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Speaker 1: if you were straight a's in high school. Prison is

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Speaker 1: I mean, right, And when Juvenile Hall Camp Youth Authority

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Speaker 1: God had short changed me. Until it's like I gave

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Speaker 2: When you say, the first thing that you did was

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Speaker 2: you gave yourself over to God. So where did that

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Speaker 1: That actually happened in in Salidad State Prison, Sinko Emaiyo,

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight in Solia, me Rape Pachecko and Henrik

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Speaker 3: We were drunk, we were loaded.

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Speaker 1: We what they call insided a riot and some people

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Speaker 2: And wait, what do you mean by with gas chamber offenses.

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Speaker 1: Well, Ray Pacheco sacked a free person, henriki Hala.

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Speaker 3: They they kicked the coach. That's an attack on an officer.

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Speaker 1: It was alleged that I threw a rock and hit

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Speaker 1: and I'll say your name every day and I will

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Speaker 3: Fool me and gave me the rest of my life.

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Speaker 1: So I've been saying his name every day and doing

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Speaker 1: There's a big tena, a big tub. Put all your garbage,

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget what she said. She said, I didn't

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Speaker 2: You know, one of the things that people know about you,

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Speaker 2: course I know who Danny tre who is. He's the

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Speaker 2: So where does that come from? Your face? Actually? And

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Speaker 1: Eddie Bunker once said that your face is going to

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Speaker 1: So your job is to disarm people immediately, because you

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Speaker 1: So you become a life of intimidation, you know, or manipulation.

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Speaker 1: That's your whole mindset. Intimidate or manipulate, and unless you do,

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Speaker 1: God gave me this voice. He wasn't gonna make a

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Speaker 2: But coming up on Latino usay. My conversation with Danny

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Speaker 1: I've heard look, mommy, the guy from Spy Kids in

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Speaker 2: Stay with us. Hey, we're back, and let's continue now

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Speaker 2: with my conversation with actor and entrepreneur Danny Trejo. So

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Speaker 2: you're making your way. It's like, you know, the seventies,

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Speaker 2: you're working as a drug counselor. You had gone through

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Speaker 2: then you get hired actually to start training other actors

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Speaker 3: Just one I got. What happened was that I was

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Speaker 3: on this movie call a Runaway Train. You're gonna get

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Speaker 2: You gonna get a little job, some job a convic

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Speaker 3: Straight off phrase at the cafeteriy or clean up torlets.

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Speaker 1: With John Voyd and Eric Roberts. And I ran into

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Speaker 1: a guy named Eddie Bunker. Eddie says, are you still boxing?

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Speaker 1: That's I'm training. And he said, we need somebody to

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Speaker 1: train one of the actors how to box. And I said,

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Speaker 1: what's it pay? Because they're given fifty dollars a day

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Speaker 1: for beating an extra and he said three twenty a day.

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Speaker 1: And I said, how bad do you want this guy

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Speaker 1: That's like hit money, you know what I mean. And

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Speaker 1: he goes, no, no, no, you gotta be careful. These

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Speaker 3: Danny.

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Speaker 1: He might suck you, I says, Eddie. For three hundred

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Speaker 1: And the director would immediately tell me take off my

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Speaker 1: We're not cha and the tattoo it doesn't say that

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Speaker 2: I have to say, Danny, one of my favorite movies

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Speaker 3: What are you working on world's smallest camera? I don't

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Speaker 1: Just you a that made me a household name all

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Speaker 2: I love that film because it made us fall in

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Speaker 3: And Robert Rodriguez.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, Robert Loriuez has done more for

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Speaker 3: He's amazing.

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Speaker 1: It was unbelievable, Like I said, it was like all

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Speaker 2: So you've got this really full life, right, and it's

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Speaker 1: Well, I was doing a movie called Badass, and one

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Speaker 1: Because my mom was un believable cook. She, oh god,

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Speaker 1: So in her honor, Ash came with a business plan

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Speaker 1: lorian A Hassan, and I say, read this, look it up.

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Speaker 1: Because I read three lines, I'm gone. My add won't

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Speaker 1: it's a script. And so she said, you know, Dan,

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Speaker 1: it's not a bad deal. And we discussed it, and

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Speaker 2: So it's called Trail Stackos Trehos Tacos. You didn't stop there,

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Speaker 3: Trail Donuts, Tricos Cantino.

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Speaker 1: We just opened up a restaurant in lax on Terminal one,

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Speaker 1: in Fairfax, and uh, you know, we'll keep going.

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Speaker 2: So what's bringing you joy these days? I know that

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Speaker 3: Now? Though?

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Speaker 1: You know you make money and that's good, you know,

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Speaker 1: Might well just enjoy, just enjoy all these people that

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Speaker 1: don't worry about global warming and who cares that's poisoning?

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Speaker 1: It's like, wow, who cares? Being He's like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I woke up this morning. I was clean and sober,

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Speaker 2: Well, Danny, thank you for bringing so much joy and

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Speaker 2: fear to all of our to all of our lives.

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Speaker 2: It's been great speaking with you, thank you so much

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Danny Torejo is an actor and the entrepreneur behind Today

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Speaker 2: host Tacos, Today host Gandina, and Today host Donuts in

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