Uncle Rico
Cinephile with Adnan Virk
Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | this is adnavork as you know my podcast is all about movies but now i want you to check out marty |
| 0:04.4 | smith's america podcast as he interviews uncle reco actor john grise from napolean dynamite |
| 0:10.7 | so interesting tidbits of it how that movie came to be and how he got the role so vote for Pedro |
| 0:15.9 | and be sure to subscribe rate and review marty smith's america podcast as well as cinephile |
| 0:20.6 | the adnavork movie podcast hey y'all welcome to marty smith's america the podcast we've |
| 0:30.4 | had some tremendous guests so far and today we have one of the funniest ones yet this quite |
| 0:35.6 | probably is the funniest edition of the marty smith's america podcast to date we have uncle reco |
| 0:43.3 | john grise the the actor excuse me who played uncle reco was kind enough to join us producer travis |
| 0:50.5 | ran him down and the interview is funny we learn about what it was like to become uncle reco |
| 0:59.2 | how the character was born how well it was written how unique it was to play such an iconic |
| 1:05.9 | character and not only that we get into the movie napolean dynamite itself a cult classic if |
| 1:11.8 | there ever was one and the there's so many amazing moments and lines in that movie and so many |
| 1:20.1 | resonant characters whether it be napolean himself kip lafonda uh rex kwondo starla grandma on and on |
| 1:31.1 | and on Pedro there are these hilarious memorable characters throughout that movie and probably the |
| 1:40.2 | most famous and most memorable is uncle reco and we'll get into that in depth with john and not |
| 1:46.9 | just the character but also the man we learn about the man who played uncle reco but who he is |
| 1:54.7 | personally and it i'm gonna tell you it's gonna surprise you guys what john says and the depth |
| 2:01.2 | and vulnerability he shows in the interview about himself as a person uh so that's wonderful and |
| 2:07.6 | we also get into the marty party my boy ryan magee espn senior writer anybody who knows about uh |
| 2:14.6 | what we're doing in our body of work the marty magee program every Saturday morning seven and |
| 2:18.8 | nine magees my co-host and he's a complete idiot just like i am and nobody has more fun in their job |
| 2:25.4 | than we do and then there is the hotline and all i really have to say about the hotline coming up |
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