Danny Trejo – “A Book of Miracles” – TWP071

The Well

Anson Mount & Branan Edgens

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

One day in 1968, Danny Trejo had hit rock bottom: solitary confinement at the Correction Training Facility, otherwise known as Soledad Prison. From that moment, he decided to change his life completely. During a live interview at DragonCon 2024, Danny tells Anson about the redemptive power in helping others.

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0:00.0	I think prison was like the best place in the world to learn how to act. Really? You have to stand
0:06.9	where there's a thousand sticks of dynamite and to have enough in your eyes to say, I'm going to kill you.
0:14.3	And for him to feel it, that's, you know, and if he doesn't, that means you're going to feel it.
0:20.0	You know, you have to laugh at yourself, you know and if he doesn't that means you're gonna feed it you know you have to laugh at yourself
0:23.6	you know or you'll go crazy so you have to like entertain yourself at all time when i want to the
0:31.0	holman volsum i used to act out the wizard of oz the guard would come by and I, did you kill my sister?
0:39.8	The guy's on the yard.
0:41.5	The guy got a petition, get him out of here, man, he was going up.

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