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This is Later with Lee Matthews the
Lee Matthews Podcast More what You Hear Weekday

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Afternoon's on the Drive. Oscar Noniez
is known best for playing Oscar on NBC's

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The Office, but he's also won
Emmys and two SAG Awards and Alma Awards

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as well. Exciting new feature film
coming out that he has a part in.

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It's called The Long Game and it's
out this weekend everywhere in theaters.

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Oscar. This is a different kind
of golf movie, is it? It?

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Though? It's an amazing story.
I was not aware of it till

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I read the script and I'm like, what, that's a great story and

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takes it then as quid it got
up on the silver screen as they say,

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yeah, I was happy to be
a part of it. The story

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is about a man named j.
B. Penya who moves to Del Rio,

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Texas. Take the story from there
that that is true and and guess

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what. There's a high school in
that town, of public high school.

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And there's kids, uh at that
high school, boys who love the game

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of golf. As a matter of
fact, they caddy at the private club

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where they're not allowed to. They
don't play at the club. But they

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caddy there and they love them,
and they're always swinging clubs around, and

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they're out in the desert hitting balls
around, and they make a little RinkyDink

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course out there, and and he
decides to coach them, and guess what

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they end up Their team ends up
going to the state championship up against the

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private school with the with the organized
team and all that stuff. And then,

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uh, you know, they they
play and that's the that's what happened

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in real life. They went from
nothing to organizing their high school golf team

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and uh and making history. That's
what I was about to ask. Because

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this is such a fantastic tale.
I don't want to say no body could

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come up with it. Julio o'cintana
is one of the writers and the director,

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so I'm not saying he couldn't have
come up with it. But it's

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one of those fantastic tales that's even
better because it is true. Yeah,

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it's amazing. It's a great sport, it's a great human story. Uh,

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you know, great for Dennis for
you know, putting it up on

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the screen. He's from Texas,
he loves Texas, he loves golf.

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Perfect All Star cast. It's The
Long Game, and it also not only

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stars Oscar Nunez of the Office,
but Jay Hernandez, Dennis Quaid, cheech

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Marin, Julian Works, Jenna lie
Ortiz, Brett Cullen, Richard Robischow.

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Hey that's not a Hispanic name,
but okay, and Paulinaez. Your role

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is principal Guerra does is he an
antagonist or a protagonist? He's a protagonist.

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He's he's a good guys. He's
hagging it out there doing his best,

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and he facilitates, he helps him. But you know, he's in

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the administrator. He's a principal at
the school out of high school and does

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a little bit of comic relief there. But he definitely tries to help this

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thing happen, but you know,
in an administrative way, he has to

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be careful. The Long Game is
the film. Oscar Nunez is with us

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to talk about it. Chiech Marin
kind of plays the grounds keeper guru.

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That's right, that's right. I
got to meet him. We shot.

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I saw him in Texas and actually
got to meet him, and that was

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a treat. I was with my
daughter and I said, Hey, this

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this is chief manor he's a comic
legend, and he was a little bit

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touched by that. It was kind
of sweet. Yeah, I mean you,

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you and I both grew up watching
him do all kinds of things.

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Sure, yeah, yeah. The
long game this refers to in golf,

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you have two games. You've got
the short game when you're hovering about the

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putting green. The long game is
different, and it's also kind of a

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double enten for these this group of
teenagers. That's right, that's right,

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yes, and thank you for the
French. It is a double ud and

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it's a great Like I said,
I you know, I was not aware

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of this story at all, and
then once I read the script, I'm

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like, of course, of course
this is something like this happened. It

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must have happened at some point.
Everyone always thinks, you know, football,

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baseball, hockey, But golf had
its moments to its wonderful you know,

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moments that were pivotal. Well,
and you don't normally see you know,

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you don't know, when you think
of Del Rio, Texas, you

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don't think of golf and country club. No. No, but even even

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small towns, I guess, I
guess that's what separates a small time from

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a really, like really really small
towns don't have country clubs. But once

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you have a country club, I
guess that town has everything going forward.

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It's got all the stratuses of economic
you know, it's got everything from high

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end of folk to working class folk
and below. This also takes place in

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nineteen fifty six, which is a
time of American history where things weren't very

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united. Shall we say no,
Things were starting to change, but you

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know, they weren't united, but
you had the wiggle room to do something

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about it. Those kids didn't just
stand around. They're like, we like

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golf. Let's find a way to
get golf clubs and hit the ball around.

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And they turned on their own.
They were pretty good. Never mind

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when the coach shows up and says, hey, let's do this for real.

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That was pretty cool. Oscar Nunez
is with us. You know him

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from the office and many other things. He plays Principal Guerra in The Long

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Game in theaters this weekend. Are
you a golfer or enthusiast at all enthusiasts

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golfer? Now, we started taking
lessons a little bit over a decade ago.

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My wife got pregnant and we stopped
taking lessons, but I do love

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watching it. I love golf courses. What a better place to be,

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There's no better place to be.
Maybe I'll take it up again. Lovely

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wife and I tried. We lived
adjacent to a golf course for about eight

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years, and we thought, well, we've got this golf course, it's

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right here, we may as well
try. And I had played a little

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in high school. I knew the
game and the rules, and we took

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some professional lessons as well. And
don't you know about that time we got

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transferred and moved away from the golf
course. If it's not accessible, you're

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not going to play, that's right. Oh boy, they're beauty. There's

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some beauties out here. I live
in LA and there's one right here in

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the valley, a small one.
It's a hole, and that's where I

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was learning. But there's some really
nice ones nearby. Yeah, I might

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start hitting the ball, oh am, I kidding. I'll do other be

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time consuming. It is. Every
time I think about it, Oscar,

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I say to myself, I have
enough hobbies already, and I don't want

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to go out there to embarrass myself. If I was going out there and

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hitting the ball, at least straight, you know, but you want to

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hit it hard and straight, It's
very difficult. Oscar Nunez. You know,

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I'm from NBC's The Office. He's
also in the all new production of

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the Long Game. It's in theaters
now. Principal Gulleta is the character that

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he plays, but it's also an
all star cast of Jay hen Nandez dnis

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Quaid, Cheech Marin and many others. An excellent story for weekend viewing,

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and we thank you for joining us, Oscar right on. Thank you,

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thanks for listening to Later with Lee
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