Jon Heder Talks Napoleon Dynamite, Chapstick, Disco and Life as a "Weirdo" Icon
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Hi Everyone, hope you're having a wonderful Tuesday! This week's guest is my Pacific Northwest buddy and star of Napoleon Dynamite, Jon Heder! If you haven't seen Napoleon Dynamite (I don't know how that's possible), please go out and watch it RIGHT NOW and then come back for this interview. It was so much fun to chat with Jon and hear the story behind how he created such an iconic character. We talk about where he learned to dance, how he and the director transformed the story from a student film into a massive hit and what it was like managing such an insane level of overnight fame. It's been quite awhile since that movie came out and the truth is, Jon is so much more than that character. He is a dad, he's a big outdoors guy and he's still a phenomenal actor! He is starring in the new film Waltzing With Brando, alongside Billy Zane, and we talk about his experience learning more about Marlon Brando, shooting in Tahiti and his personal policy on nudity on camera. This is exactly the conversation you'd expect from a guy like Jon— it's absurd, goofy and earnest all at the same time. Be sure to stick around for the Hindsight, where my producer Jeph and I talk about the interview over a bowl of tots! Just kidding, I wish… Send me an email thesackhoffshow@gmail.com Produced by Rabbit Grin Productions Mail Sack Song by Nicolas @producer_sniffles Join us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/thesackhoffshow ----------------------------------------------------- Support our Sponsors: New EveryPlate customers can enjoy a special offer of only $1.99 a meal. Go to everyplate.com/podcast and use code katee199 to get started. Applied as discount on first box, limited time only. Right now, listeners of The Sackhoff Show get an additional 15% off any annual membership at MasterClass.com/Katee.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to the Sackoff Show. Thank you so much for joining us on this beautiful Tuesday. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm going to remind you to go ahead and make sure you hit that subscribe button wherever you are |
| 0:12.6 | getting this podcast today. That is the best way to follow the show. I am really excited about |
| 0:19.1 | today's guest. You're going to know him. You're going to love him. |
| 0:24.5 | It's John Heater. If you don't know John Heater, have you seen Napoleon Dynamite? And if you haven't |
| 0:30.6 | seen Napoleon Dynamite, you should go and watch that really quick because it is an amazing classic. |
| 0:35.8 | And we talk so much about it and there's so many |
| 0:37.6 | spoilers in it and it's really amazing. We're also going to talk about his new movie waltzing |
| 0:43.0 | with Brando, which is a very good movie that I had the pleasure to watch. Remember to send |
| 0:48.0 | your questions and comments to the sackoff show at gmail.com. We love to hear from you. I am just |
| 0:52.4 | going to let you get to know my beautiful, |
| 0:55.2 | wonderful Pacific Northwest buddy John Heater a little bit better. all right now. |
| 1:13.6 | All right. |
| 1:20.1 | Now that just puts all the pressure on you, John, to actually perform. |
| 1:25.8 | Well, I'm so used to just doing podcasts from my own. |
| 1:29.3 | Just like sitting down and can't see anything lower than this. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm sorry you had to put pants on today to come to this podcast. |
| 1:38.6 | And sometimes blurring out or like having people ask about the weird stuff behind me. |
| 1:43.7 | The weird thing in the background. |
| 1:45.2 | It's always interesting to find, |
| 1:46.6 | to discover that somebody has decided to blur their background out or they're just |
| 1:50.5 | going to go with it. |
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