good to have you on, paula. ♪ >>> cheech marin is known, best known as one half of the comedy duo, cheechhe is out finally with a new memoir, entitled "cheech is not my real name, but don't call me chong." good to see you, my friend. >> always good to see you. >> i didn't know the back story for how you got this nickname. >> oh, yeah. >> but the story itself is funny. >> when i was a little bit, just came home from the hospital, just two days old, my uncle looked in the carriage and says he looks like a -- [ in spanish ] and that's a pork rind. >> that's not the best comment that you're a -- >> if you're a mexican, there's a certain connotation. >> and that name stuck all those years. >> yeah. to my family. to the rest of the world i was richard. and when we were trying to come up with a duo, richard and tommy? marin and chong? he said do you have a nickname? and i said cheech is my nickname. and he said cheech, cheech, cheech & chong. and that was it. >> isn't it funny how you are coming home from the hospital. you get this nickname, but the nickname works so well with chong and the rest

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