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We are out here at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art
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and Culture in Riverside,
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California. And we're so excited because I heard Cheech Marin is
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having his very own statue,
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unveiled a bronze statue and he's gonna show us some cool art
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in the museum. So I'm really excited.
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I've loved him since the very beginning.
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So I'm still with the Sabato.
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So we're here with Chee Mar A.
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So how does it feel to have your own statue?
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That's cool. Isn't all,
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all my friends are very impressed that I had the museum,
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but they're really impressed that they have a bronze statue,
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right? What inspired you to start this museum all through the
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years when I was showing the collection in various parts.
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And people say, well,
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you should have your own museum.
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I should have a jet plane too.
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But I don't know they came to me and offered me
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this, this this museum to house the collection.
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I and I didn't know what they meant.
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At first you want me to buy a museum?
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I'm doing ok. I don't know if I'm museum rich here
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no, we want to give you the museum for the collection
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I was torn, you know,
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because I had this collects,
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I had for a long time,
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took a long time to put together.
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So I was looking for a sign that I should do this
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because it's, you know,
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and I was walking through this place when they were revitalizing it
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and I said, I'm just offhanded.
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How big is this place?
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it's a 60,420 square feet.
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That's the sign. All right.
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I've always, I always believed in,
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in inevitability and kismet and fate and all that.
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I, I believe in that totally.
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If I'm supposed to have a museum to house a collection,
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well, then it'll just appear and why Riverside,
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they were gonna turn this building,
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which was the town library and they wanted,
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they were looking to repurpose it somehow.
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And so anyways, the town or city manager,
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John Russo put two and two together,
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he says we'll offer it to cheat for the,
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for the thing, you know,
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and for the, for the collection and it's just a perfect
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place for it and because it was meant to happen and I
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keep telling people that,
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well, it, it was meant to happen and they started
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adopting that, adopting that attitude.
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You know, it was meant to happen and they could say
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well, it must be meant to happen because here it
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is. Oh, that's great.
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I appreciate it. Thank you so much.
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Congratulations. Thank you.
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So there you have it guys.
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That was the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture.
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Honestly, it was such an honor to talk to Cheech,
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I'm gonna rub his head for good luck because he told
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everybody to, to rub the statue.
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His charm comes on to me back to you guys in the