and then cheech wrote, cheech is not my real name but don't call me chong. all of that is coming up right now. ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> professor dlark armstrong dunbar is an author. her latest book is called never caught. the washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, ona judge. it is the life of the slave in the first family and is a look at the washingtons and slavery. thank you, thank you, thank you. this book gives us a new way of seeing george washington. tell me more. >> it does. it was my goal when i wrote this book to tell a story about the founding of the nation, but through the eyes of the enslaved. not through a typical founding fathers. so ona judge's life gives us the ability to do that. she moves throughout the new nation and gives us a portal into the south, the mid-atlantic, and the north. >> i wasn't whispering to you but saying to you when you came on the set. it was fascinating to me to see the extent to which george washington told on himself with the almanac, the cop

i said cheech is my nickname. then we were always cheech and chong.edy: one thing that worried me about this administration is jeff sessions. he said good people don't smoke pot. cheech: he must not be a good people then. mr. peanut. he's backing off of that position now. kennedy: i are hope so. -- i hope so. cheech: he's smart. he doesn't want to go against 34 states. kennedy: thank you so much. it's so nice to see you and talk to you. i love the book. "cheech is not my real name." cheech: you can't get it until you buy four or five copies. kennedy: then you start to understand the layers. did you make the cover out of rolling papers? >> i hope so. that was my instructions. ed the people in the graphics department said you have to be able to see it across the airport. love that cheech. coming up. has the entire nhl been turned into dogs because of a curse from an evil ancient witch? this is the silverado special edition. this is one gorgeous truck. oh, did i say there's only one special edition? because, actually there's five. ooohh!! aaaahh!! uh! ho

. ♪ ♪ >>> richard cheech marin gained fame and fortune in the '70s as part of cheech and chong.book out called "cheech is not my real name, but don't call me chong." anthony mason has this story. >> reporter: the now 70-year-old comedy icon admits he's enjoyed his share of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. he takes us back to the roots of his pot-smoking persona when he was richard marin. >> i was a straight-a student who was a wise ass. and they would go, shut up! unlikely candidate to become america's most lik so when did you smoke your first joint? >> when i was a freshman in college. because my dad was lapd 30 years, and i got that line growing up. marijuana, don't you ever try marijuana or i will end your short little life. after i smoked my first joint i was like wow, what else have they been lying about? >> reporter: it was the late 1960s, cheech joined anty war protests. dropped out of college. and moved to canada to dodge the draft. that's where he met a chinese canadian, and it changed his life. tommy chong, you met him in a strip club? >> it was vancouver's first topless

down. >> cheech,,,,,,,, always wins. down. >> cheech,,,,,,,, especially in my business.. you're stuck, watching spinning wheels and progress bars until someone else scoops your story. switch to comcast business. with high-speed internet up to 10 gigabits per second. you wouldn't pick a slow race car. then why settle for slow internet? comcast business. built for speed. built for business. ♪ >>> remember this song? cheech and chong is one of comedy's most influential pairs. the two performers made a string of popular albums and movies that define stoner comedy. cheech marin, the one without the beard, is out with a new memoir called "cheech is not my real name, but don't call me chong." and we learn how life changed when the duo's relationship, well, went up in smoke. >> good morning. the comedy icon admits he enjoyed his share of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. he was richard marin growing up in east l.a. >> i was a teacher's worst nightmare. i was a straight "a" student who was a wise ass. and they were like, shut up. >> reporter: richard "cheech" marin seems like an unli

and then cheech wrote, cheech is not my real name but don't call me chong. all of that is coming up right now. ♪

join me next time with erica armstrong dunbar and actor and comedian cheech marin. see you next time. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> good evening from los angeles. i'm tavis smiley. during last year's presidential campaign, donald trump was bashed on the right for not being a true conservative. many hard core old school republicans publicly dingsed themselves from the controversial candidate. donald trump, of course, won the election and now some of those never trumpers are searching for new ways to define and characterize conservatism. one of those persons is glenn beck often a few years ago was considered too far right even for fox news. in recent years, beck has experience ad transformation of sorts and he will tell us tonight how he thinks we can work together in fact to unite the country. we're glad you joined us for a rare conversation with glenn beck in just a moment.

join me next time with erica armstrong dunbar and actor and comedian cheech marin. see you next time. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. steves: salzburg's cathedral, constructed in the early 1600s, was one of the first grand baroque buildings north of the alps. it's sunday morning. the 10:00 mass is famous for its music, and today it's mozart. enter the cathedral, and you're immersed in pure baroque grandeur. ♪ dona nobis ♪ ♪ nobis pacem ♪ since it was built in only about 15 years, the church boasts particularly harmonious art and architecture. in good baroque style, the art is symbolic, cohesive, and theatrical, creating a kind of festival procession that leads to the resurrected christ triumphing high above the altar. ♪ nobis ♪ ♪ dona nobis ♪ ♪ nobis pacem ♪ ♪ pacem ♪ music and the visual art complement each other. the organ loft fills the church with glorious sounds as mozart, 250 years after his birth, is still powering worship with his musical genius. ♪ nobis ♪ ♪ nobis pacem ♪ ♪ nobis ♪ ♪ pacem ♪ - today on america's

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this the 19th century the day was considered a miss cheech yous children's holiday.reative tricks started around the world in the 1900s. today companies use april fools' day to connect with customers using humor and fun adds like the toothpaste tasting like a whopper. >> everything you see here, real deal on goodoingay ea-thligs a spkli in, >>> good friday morning, bay area. the lights are sparkling in san francisco as we get ready to welcome the weekend. there are signs of spring everywhere as soon as the sun comes up. good morning. thank you for joining us. i'm sam brock. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. we've talked to a lot of people in the bay area who say they felt light shaking about an hour ago from an earthquake. >> this was about a 4.0 magnitude quake. >> it hit shortly before 3:55 a.m. it may have startled some people out of bed. we spoke to our sister station

and anthony mason shuts down with cheech marin about his new memoir.s it for the "cbs morning news." thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. i'm kenny choi. >>> thanks for waking up with us. as we take a live look at the bay bridge this morning. the weather has been beautiful. thanks to the weather gods and to you for delivering the message and the forecast. good morning, it is tuesday, march 14. i'm kenny choy. >> i'm michelle griego. >> we say hello to roberta. >> it is really funny. you can rarely say it as a weathercaster. it is beautiful. beautiful for some people means rain and beautiful for some people means rain. and why are you jumping up and down about the sunshine, we need more water in the reservoirs. >> come on. >> you can't satisfy everyone. >> never. >> never. you learn that with weth area long time ago. but -- weather a long time ago. but you must admit. unseasonably warm. record warmth and compared to what is going on out east, i will take this any time. we don't have to shovel the sunshine. clear skies along the b

. >> seth: if comey put a big gray cloud over everything, nunes just cheech & chonged it. [ light laughtern there's the russian investigation. questions are now swirling about trump aides and their ties to russia. like former campaign chairman paul manafort. today the a.p. reported that manafort secretly worked for a russian billionaire to advance the interest of russian president vladimir putin. now, manafort was trump's campaign chariman from may to august last year. and yet on tuesday, white house press secretary sean spicer tried to make it sound like they barely knew the guy. >> obviously there's been discussion of paul manafort, who played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time. >> seth: to be fair, i'm pretty sure everyone involved in the trump campaign played a limited role. you know, kind of like trump is doing now with the presidency. [ laughter ] but he's right. where did people get this idea that manafort was a key player in trump's campaign? it's not like trump aides and trump himself repeatedly went on tv and bragged about manafort's role, right? >> nobody shou

. >> that's a song from "up in smoke," the 1978 hit starring cheech and chong, establishing the duo ase with -- >> you met him in a strip club? >> yeah. it was vancouver as first topless bar. we were doing this improvisational theater, hippie burlesque. a i >> oh, wow. hey, i really like your car, mabb. wow, did you do this yourself? >> why did it work? >> i think because we're exactly opposite of each other. he's a jem anywgemini so there' actually three people involved in the relationship. i'm an academic and he's opposite like, hey, man. he's a very smart chinese guy. those two characters played off each other. it simply was comedy jazz. ♪ save the whales, hey, funky mama save the whales ♪ >> comedically, you found something no one was was doing. >> hey, come on, man. who is it? >> dave's not here! >> i remember listening to when they were listening to your records. >> that was the purp. >> even after your albums took off, you never really felt accepted. >> no. we weren't accepted. we were taking up space, you know? >> you're taking up a lot of space. >> in the record industry ba >>

i was at the hotel, me and my french each of cheech and chong, it is not my real name but don't callded me of, he refused to shake her hand. i have no idea what was going on but it was so awkward. my wife was laughing out loud. >> imagine doing your speed dating thing and geraldo rivera is watching. >> you don't want this guy. >> what happened in paris overnight, echoes of what president trump was talking about when he was meeting with angela merkel, this idea that you open your borders, allowing people who are not being vetted. a change the structure and complexity of germany for the worse. 's argument during the campaign and meeting her face-to-face and in paris yesterday we see a gunman grabbed a security officer, radicalized muslim grabbed the guy's gun, shot and killed, president trump talked about paris, how this is a changed place. >> >> i spent three weeks in paris and the biggest difference in paris. tax and now is now you can get reservations in the great restaurants where before you couldn't. >> i don't know if this guy is french, third-generation french it became radicali