Sep 20, 2026 · 41 min · 12 segments
Join the podcast crew as we head to East L.A. for Hispanic Heritage Month! We talk culture, identity, border-crossing chaos, and how a bad case of mistaken identity can turn into one hell of an…
budget of 5.1 million grossed worldwide 17.3 million which is pretty damn good because this was directed written and starred all by Cheech Marin who played Rudy I'll go into this real quick that there was something with Cheech Marin in this movie that I have never noticed that any movie and I don't know why His mustache is off centered.
And the reason why is because when he was a child, he had a cleft lip repair surgery.
And when he grew his mustache out, the part on his mustache was off centered.
I did not know that.
It's just weird.
Do you feel like it's because in most of his movies that we've seen, it's Cheech and Chong and you don't get close up of him.
It's both of them.
Yeah, it's probably a little distracting because this movie, it zooms into his face a lot.
To get his mannerisms and his emotion.
I'll give you a synopsis real quick.
Rudy Robles, a hardworking Mexican-American factory worker living in East Los Angeles, has rounded up during an immigration sweep while picking up his cousin because he left his wallet in his, it says car, but he left it at home.
Yeah, he left at home, yeah.
He cannot prove his citizenship and mistakenly is deported to Tijuana, Mexico, setting off a hilarious and desperate series of misadventures as he tries to sneak back home.
He's not really sneaking back home.
He just wants to go
home.
Well, here's the rest of the cast, too, is that you got Daniel Stern as Jimmy, who's the greatest coyote west of the Mississippi.
What do people know? daniel stern from all from the first two home alone movies and city slickers but people like us know him from a certain movie called chud cannibalistic humanoid
underground
dweller
you gotta be fucking kidding
You got Paul Rodriguez, which I completely forgot he was in this.
He's the cousin, Javier.
And most of what he's famous for is stand-up comedy, but he's did a lot of movies.
He did even one recently called Cholo Zombies from 2024.
budget of 5.1 million grossed worldwide 17.3 million which is pretty damn good because this was directed written and starred all by Cheech Marin who played Rudy I'll go into this real quick that there was something with Cheech Marin in this movie that I have never noticed that any movie and I don't know why His mustache is off centered.
And the reason why is because when he was a child, he had a cleft lip repair surgery.
And when he grew his mustache out, the part on his mustache was off centered.
I did not know that.
It's just weird.
Do you feel like it's because in most of his movies that we've seen, it's Cheech and Chong and you don't get close up of him.
It's both of them.
Yeah, it's probably a little distracting because this movie, it zooms into his face a lot.
To get his mannerisms and his emotion.
I'll give you a synopsis real quick.
Rudy Robles, a hardworking Mexican-American factory worker living in East Los Angeles, has rounded up during an immigration sweep while picking up his cousin because he left his wallet in his, it says car, but he left it at home.
Yeah, he left at home, yeah.
He cannot prove his citizenship and mistakenly is deported to Tijuana, Mexico, setting off a hilarious and desperate series of misadventures as he tries to sneak back home.
He's not really sneaking back home.
He just wants to go
home.
Well, here's the rest of the cast, too, is that you got Daniel Stern as Jimmy, who's the greatest coyote west of the Mississippi.
What do people know? daniel stern from all from the first two home alone movies and city slickers but people like us know him from a certain movie called chud cannibalistic humanoid
underground
dweller
you gotta be fucking kidding
You got Paul Rodriguez, which I completely forgot he was in this.
He's the cousin, Javier.
And most of what he's famous for is stand-up comedy, but he's did a lot of movies.
He did even one recently called Cholo Zombies from 2024.
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