- He had a .750 batting average one year playing Little League Baseball in South Texas.
- He met Lew Perryman (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) driving for the same cab company in Austin, Texas. They talked during long waits at the airport just after September 11th.
- While attending The College of Santa Fe, he met Gene Hackman when Gene went to the movie theatre to watch Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho. After asking the legendary actor for advice, Gene said, "Do theater".
- Estrada has been working on a country album entitled "Easy On The Eyes" after being inspired by Billy Bob Thornton.
- Estrada met his favorite playwright Sam Shepard while they were both shopping for cowboy boots in the East Village.
- Once worked for same company Vin Diesel worked for selling tools.
- Estrada met members of The Smashing Pumpkins, Wilco, The Bob Schneider Band, and R.E.M. while driving a taxi in Austin, Texas in his early twenties.
- Chicano artist Vincent Valdez was Estrada's best friend growing up in San Antonio, Texas.
- Estrada went to high school with TV actor Nick Wechsler, where they shared the stage in Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." He fondly remembers Wechsler's revelatory performance as Nurse Ratched.
- Estrada's first job in New York City was as the house manager for New York's longest running play "A Perfect Crime" starring legendary actress Catherine Russell.
- Estrada is a huge fan of radio talk show host Alex Jones and got hooked listening to his show when working late nights driving a cab in Austin, Texas. In Jones' 2003 seminal documentary "Matrix of Evil" Estrada can be seen holding up a large sign that reads "Take the Homeland Pledge, Promise to Not Question Authority." The footage was taken the night the Austin City Council voted against enforcing The Patriot Act.
- Austin Petersen, who ran for President in 2016, narrowly missing out on being the Libertarian Party candidate (finishing second only to Gary Johnson), once took part in a staged reading of Estrada's comedy script "Forever Jung" in New York City in 2006. The film script has since been completely overhauled, and is soon to be in production under the working title "Goobers".
- In the late 9O's while attending college in Santa Fe, David went to church at Calvary Chapel with Judge Reinhold. He even once got a ride back to campus from Judge who gave him some sage career advice. David was impressed with Judge's genuineness, noting his actual demeanor not being too far off from the character he played in Seinfeld, Elaine's beau "Aaron the close-talker".
- David recently found out that his Spanish roots are of Sephardic Jewish origin.
- Newsman Walter Cronkite lent his Old Forester Whiskey bottles as props for one of the first stage plays David directed in New York. The play was "Second Sunday in May" written by playwright Alfonso Giovanni Affinito.
- David almost cast Howard Stern's daughter, Emily, in the role of "Serf" in the world-premiere of Jen Emma Hertel's post-apocalyptic stage play "Being." He eventually cast the London-trained actress Sheena Bhattessa. The play starred Sheena, Christopher McAllister, actress-musician Talia Segal, and Stephen Linetsky.
- Estrada once directed William Jackson Harper in a scene from the David Mamet film "The Spanish Prisoner" for his Advanced Directing class at The College of Santa Fe. His professor, and Chair of the Film Department, Jonathan Wacks, went on to praise both the directing and acting, saying it was "better than the [Mamet] film, actually".
- David expects his first novel, a 160,000-word Roman a clef, to be published by July 2021.
- In his college years, David once won two Pearl Jam concert tickets from a local Albuquerque radio station by grabbing some jam from his refrigerator and being the fastest driver to the New Mexico State Fairgrounds.
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