Cheech Marin

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week, comedy legend Cheech Marin! He's one-half of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong. But Cheech is more than just a stoner icon. He was in the Lion King. He's starred in more than 100 episodes of Nash Bridges. And if you're a Spy Kids fan, you know him as "Uncle" Felix. Cheech is also well known in the art world. He has a huge collection of Chicano art that he's been steadily building since the '80s. This week on Bullseye, we get into Cheech's long and eventful career as an actor. He throws us back to when he moved to Canada when he first met Tommy Chong. Plus, he talks about his new museum The Cheech in Riverside, California.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:21.4	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:23.2	My guest this week is Cheach Marine.
0:26.0	Cheach was born in South Los Angeles.
0:28.6	His family was tight knit.
0:30.2	What mattered to them was making sure Cheach went to school and got right with God.
0:35.4	By the time he was in eighth grade, his plan was to become a priest.
0:40.1	But that?
0:41.1	Well, that was before he tried smoking weed.
0:46.2	Now he didn't actually try it until he went away to college.
0:50.2	It was a new world for him, living away from home with friends.
0:54.2	One night somebody passed him a joint.
0:57.7	It was the 60s he got turned on.
1:01.2	Not just a smoking pot, but eventually to the peace movement and the movement for Chicano
1:06.5	civil rights.
1:08.3	And at that point, becoming a priest wasn't really on the agenda.
1:12.7	He was an artist.
1:14.7	He met Tommy Chong.
1:16.3	They started a double act and the rest is history.
1:20.4	Stoner history.
1:27.7	Of course, Cheach Marine isn't just half of Cheach and Chong.
1:48.2	He was in the Lion King.
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