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Speaker 1: Today on the show, we have Mario Lopez. He is

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Speaker 1: an American actor and TV host. He has appeared on

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Speaker 1: several TV series, in films, and on Broadway. Mario is

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Speaker 1: the host of Access Hollywood and the nationally syndicated radio

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Speaker 1: show On with Mario on I Heart Radio, as well

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Speaker 1: as a husband and a father. I have known him

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Speaker 1: for years, more than thirty years to be exact. He

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Speaker 1: started his career in commercials, but got his big break

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Speaker 1: playing a c slater on the hit show Saved by

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Speaker 1: the Bell. That's actually where we met today. Mario and

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Speaker 1: I talked about our days on set together, including the

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Speaker 1: things we didn't know we didn't know. We talked about

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Speaker 1: the changes in his career and mine over the years

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Speaker 1: and how we learned to adapt to them. He shares

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Speaker 1: his recipe to maintaining a balance between work and a

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Speaker 1: successful relationship at home and what he believes is the

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Speaker 1: secret to that successful relationship. Hi Mario, Hi, how are you, Bethany?

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Speaker 1: I am good. So I just want to tell this

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Speaker 1: audience that I met Mario Lopez, who, to me, in

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Speaker 1: my mind, wasn't Mario Lopez. He was this just like cute,

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Speaker 1: uh Latin guy on the set of the Saved by

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Speaker 1: the Bell Beach episodes. I was there that summer. I

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Speaker 1: had met a guy named Todd Levitt, a senior vice

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Speaker 1: president of NBC Productions, on a plane because I almost

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Speaker 1: missed the plane. I was the last one on and

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Speaker 1: they had no more coach seats, so they gave me

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Speaker 1: So I was sitting next to a guy called Todd Lovitt.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if you did, you know him? Okay,

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Speaker 1: So this like sort of you know, made a mustache,

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Speaker 1: like a corporal type of half cool guy. And we

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Speaker 1: spoke and I never speak to anyone on planes, and

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Speaker 1: he said he never did either. And we spoke the

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Speaker 1: entire fight, and I kept up with him. I custled him.

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Speaker 1: I was going out there with no plan, and he

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Speaker 1: the next tuesday, I went in to meet him at

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Speaker 1: NBC in Burbank, and I think I had a Ford probe,

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Speaker 1: and he gave me a job for the summer to

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Speaker 1: be a p A on Saved by the Bell. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know what Saved by the Bell was, so I

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Speaker 1: didn't know what Saved by the Bell was, and it

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Speaker 1: was he said, be at the Surf and Sand Club,

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Speaker 1: which was this beach club near my dad's house. Uh

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Speaker 1: and actually no, I was driving my dad's car, my

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Speaker 1: father's car, and it was six weeks. I think of

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Speaker 1: beach and craft services and these young, popular, cool kids

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Speaker 1: that were actors on this show. So that's my perspective

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Speaker 1: And how old were you and how far into Saved

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Speaker 1: by the Bell was that? Um? I was well, I

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Speaker 1: because we were actual teenagers playing teenagers. That's what it

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Speaker 1: to that there was a lot of like thirty five

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Speaker 1: year olds play teenagers, like in Greece and when any So, um,

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Speaker 1: that was the most fun I had too, by the way,

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Speaker 1: at the beach because we were outside of the classroom

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Speaker 1: was fun. And I specifically remember you because you were

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Speaker 1: she's cute and um, but you were all about your

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Speaker 1: business and you were working hard, and I remember, but

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Speaker 1: you're real cool with You're real nice, and I remember

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Speaker 1: and I just remember that the tan and the short shorts,

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Speaker 1: and we were in Malibu and it was a really

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Speaker 1: good time. Denise Richards, I remember was in the episode

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Speaker 1: and laugh and they'll play that clip. But it's funny

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Speaker 1: remember the songs that were around during that time. Bb

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Speaker 1: Like I was thought to flirt like you and I

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Speaker 1: I just felt so you just all were like you were.

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Speaker 1: You were on a television show, like you were so lucky,

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Speaker 1: and I was just in such a different world and

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Speaker 1: I was just trying to get I was getting this

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Speaker 1: Thesson was getting like the cuter outfits and that was

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Speaker 1: But from my perspective, I've seen Leah Remedy came through

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Speaker 1: how I met you, I know, and I and then

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Speaker 1: I vividly remember and I remember meeting you when you

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Speaker 1: you when you um, were on Housewives and all that,

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Speaker 1: that's cool, that's cool that he's always been super cool. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting the abb and flow, right, So you guys

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Speaker 1: on the way down, like you have you maintained relationships

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Speaker 1: the whole way really good? Yeah, I mean, I'm I've

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Speaker 1: I've always kind of wanted to have a an iron

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Speaker 1: it's a very tough transition to go from a child

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Speaker 1: thing that I don't think people really really realize that

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Speaker 1: like we were making like friends type scientials, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're doing better than your average a little

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Speaker 1: not like retirement money. I don't have to worry about anything.

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Speaker 1: So it was a lot of fun and different five

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Speaker 1: I think that, But I look back on it fondly.

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Speaker 1: I got along with everybody really well. I was very

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Speaker 1: grateful for for the opportunity and being able to do

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Speaker 1: uh and in a more mature light, just because people

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Speaker 1: when I got into hosting UM and working with Dick

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm busier than than ever. Beth me. You know,

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Speaker 1: and iHeart and over a toy markets and then um,

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Speaker 1: I do Access Daily, which is sort of my version

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Speaker 1: I got Access Hollywood. So I'm on TV an hour

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Speaker 1: into jiu jitsu, people get really into and he's watching

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Speaker 1: guy here who is like, has the full califlower here here,

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Speaker 1: and he was like a marine sniper, like full anyone

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Speaker 1: heard exactly. He's one of those crazy guys done Carrie,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's a cop um. But you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: I noticed that, like, well, a couple of things. One,

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Speaker 1: you seem to really adhere to structure and reliability, and

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Speaker 1: like you've got the trains running on time. You know,

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Speaker 1: you're doing multiple shows, but you're doing the jiu jitsu

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Speaker 1: and you're doing the coaching and you're keeping it all together.

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Speaker 1: And it sounds like that sort of structure and reliability

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Speaker 1: like it's like the glue that is binding all of

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Speaker 1: to just take away from the kids and to be

428
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Speaker 1: alone and fun. So I have fun there and then yeah,

429
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Speaker 1: she doesn't give me a hard time. I want hang

430
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Speaker 1: out with my buddies. But to be honest, because I

431
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,639
Speaker 1: get so tired. Now, um that's like I need. Like,

432
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,600
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna hang out with those guys, I say, hey,

433
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,320
Speaker 1: pit one night, either a Friday or Saturday. I can't

434
00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 1: do both. I'm more like, I'm not the club guy anymore.

435
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,800
Speaker 1: I'm like the marathon dinner guy. So you have a

436
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 1: marathon dinner. We have some drigs, but we're smoking, We're

437
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 1: doing you know what I mean. I'm like that guy.

438
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,080
Speaker 1: I like to go see shows. We go for fights

439
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:27,720
Speaker 1: and a lot of couples of nights this now, but

440
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 1: I mean I hang with my gut, my my boys,

441
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 1: and we'll do like fishing trips every once in a

442
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 1: while and then, but most of the times, a lot

443
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Speaker 1: of couples of nights are I'm with my wife and

444
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Speaker 1: for every year we do a vacation with the family.

445
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Speaker 1: Then we'll do one to serve and now we'll get away. Well,

446
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,200
Speaker 1: this is totally true. Of all the things you've said

447
00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 1: that you do, I think the most impressive, most challenging

448
00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,440
Speaker 1: thing is maintaining a relationship. Not only and I no bullshit,

449
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 1: like full on, that's what I really really think because

450
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:57,359
Speaker 1: I I don't come from successful relationships. It's a discipline

451
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,160
Speaker 1: like you with jiu jitsu that I have to work

452
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Speaker 1: on and really think about because I haven't seen it.

453
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,640
Speaker 1: It's like seeing a unicorn a positive relationship. I've seen

454
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 1: every kind of dysfunction in the world. So I ask you, honestly, like,

455
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,240
Speaker 1: how hard is it to have a successful relationship. There's

456
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 1: no question that there probably have been stresses and highs

457
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Speaker 1: and lows. It's already sounds pretty amazing that you check

458
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,840
Speaker 1: in with each other to do these trips, etcetera. But like,

459
00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,600
Speaker 1: what is it. It's got to be hard. Fourteen years

460
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,359
Speaker 1: that's impressive to me. Yeah, thank you. I mean, you know,

461
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 1: just like dynamics of any relationship, you you have your

462
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,639
Speaker 1: ups and downs, and we have our our little TIFFs

463
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,080
Speaker 1: and stuff, but honestly, there are a few and far between.

464
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 1: And I really think it's more about the timing of

465
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Speaker 1: like when I met her in my life at the

466
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Speaker 1: time I met her my life, when when I came

467
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Speaker 1: into hers, because that I had I met her five

468
00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 1: ten years prior out of messed it up or it

469
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: wasn't it wouldn't have been, it wouldn't have worked out.

470
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 1: I honestly think it's not about the right person. Everybody

471
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 1: says on to you, the right person you'll know. I think, no,

472
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Speaker 1: it's the right timing. In really, timing is everything, and

473
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Speaker 1: I was at the right time in my life when

474
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Speaker 1: I met her. She han't bet the right time and hers, Um,

475
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,399
Speaker 1: I'm a little older. So I think it takes guys

476
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 1: a little because my fiance is uh and I'm fifty two,

477
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 1: and we don't He lives in Boston and I live

478
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 1: in Connecticut, and that sounds crazy. And when we first

479
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 1: got together, we wanted to like glue all the pieces

480
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 1: together with the calendar in theory, like oh my god,

481
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this and it's to be perfect. And

482
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: then reality happened with his life and my life and

483
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: my career and my and families, and we had to

484
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: construct it based on what our reality is. You know

485
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like yours is based on what your

486
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 1: career is. It's not fiction. It's not when you're the

487
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 1: twenties and every night it's what are we ordering? Where

488
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: do we go? It's just like light and bright. Now

489
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 1: it's like real life and what does the long road

490
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: look like? And how do we make it like a

491
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Speaker 1: Chinese menu where it's got to have all these different

492
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Speaker 1: items or won't be a good order. That why I

493
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: asked you, because I've had people on here with all

494
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: these different pieces of advice, like real stuff, not the

495
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,639
Speaker 1: BS like oh happy wife, happy, like the real stuff.

496
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 1: Like one person said, I don't fix her and she

497
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: doesn't fix me. I fix myself, meaning I'm not solving her.

498
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: You know. Another person said, every day we check in

499
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 1: with each other like and not a b S. How

500
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 1: are you just being like really like what's going on?

501
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 1: So I just That's why I asked you because I

502
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 1: do find it impressive, and that's longevity. And I wonder

503
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: what like a tool is of yours. Yeah, I really

504
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,919
Speaker 1: go to I think we do complement each other. I

505
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:38,199
Speaker 1: think um um, constant communication. I think is uh is

506
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 1: key to and and uh, you know we I have

507
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: my own thing, she has her own thing. We have

508
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 1: her own thing together. But in the kids, obviously, once

509
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,439
Speaker 1: the kids came into the mix, um um, as you know,

510
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 1: they kind of like consume you and become priority number one, um,

511
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 1: and that brought us even closer. But she she's just

512
00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: she's she's kind of she's very uh secure, and she's funny.

513
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: She's like you always say, she makes me laugh. I

514
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: usually feel like Dave Chapelle in the relationship. I always say,

515
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: you guys have a similar personality, quick witted, because a

516
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: funny girl is I think very sexy. Because they're funny

517
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: and they're quick, that means they're smart. So it keeps

518
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: me on my toes. So she, you know, to breaking

519
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: my balls a lot when we met, and I liked it,

520
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: and so my toes and I like it. So I

521
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: think that's she's not definitely not like a submissive woman.

522
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,400
Speaker 1: That does you know, she's like a fiery Italian girl

523
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh. So, oh, hey, guess what they're calling. They're

524
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 1: calling me I gotta I'm talking to be free. Remember, hey, Bethany,

525
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: she was a stage manager on Stave by the Bell.

526
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:39,680
Speaker 1: Oh my god, do you remember me? I know you're

527
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: an intern of something? Wow? Very good? Does he have

528
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: to go? Don't know, but I'm gonna come back. I'm

529
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 1: gonna watch the episode. Please watch it, well, please watch it?

530
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: All right? Bye, Mario? Okay, I love you. Okay, honey.

531
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: We got one message from his wife. Okay, she loves

532
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:04,120
Speaker 1: your dressings and they're always oh sanator, nice to see

533
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: you too. A great day. So that was really fun. Um.

534
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: I've known Mario Lopez and Saved by the Bell when

535
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 1: I was a p A and he was an actor

536
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,919
Speaker 1: and we were doing rewives today and he came on

537
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 1: and I think he just did not realize he was

538
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 1: supposed to have watched the episode, and instead of just

539
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: scrapping it place of yes and time management, I was like,

540
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: screw it, let's sit on another sign and let me

541
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: just interview him for just b So that was an

542
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,439
Speaker 1: accidental interview which I loved. I loved, and you know,

543
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 1: I love the show because I get to really reconnect

544
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: with people and it's crazy. It's like I'm like the

545
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: Kevin Bacon and that no one knew about. I know

546
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: every single person, and I have a crazy, easiest stories

547
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 1: and everyone's always so shocked and who I know, like

548
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: that I know Mario and that I know Leah Remedy

549
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: from that show and Kyle Richards from Lascala, and it

550
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: goes on and on and on, Lauren Michaels from working

551
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: at that job. I'm just one of those people that

552
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: is always just been hustling since I was born. So

553
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: Mario Lopez was somebody on the you know, a stop

554
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: on my train of craziness. And the message really is

555
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 1: how you treat people the whole time. Like I've always

556
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: been the same. I've always been real, straightforward, abrupt, a

557
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: little abrasive, but straight up one like Mario will tell

558
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: you I was exactly the same on same by the

559
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: bell as I am now. And it's important because if

560
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: you were fronting and stunting then or fronting and stunting now,

561
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: they'd be like, who the hell is she? She thought

562
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: she was? She thinks she's hot shipped. Now, I remember

563
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: her when she was a little loser reading red vines

564
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: on the Save by the Bell set. You know, same

565
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: with him. If he were an asshole back then, I

566
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: would remember it. He was charming, he was love lee,

567
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 1: he had a good work ethic. His mom was nice, like,

568
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: it's crazy, you gotta watch your ass because everyone else

569
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: is watching your ass. From the time that he was fifteen,

570
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: he's fifty, gonna be fifty years old. I know Mario

571
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 1: Lopez for thirty five years and he's the same as

572
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 1: he was then. And now how great to watch his trajectory.

573
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: So anyway, great guy. I love running into him through

574
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:27,439
Speaker 1: this trajectory through the entertainment industry. And it's always been

575
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: him interviewing me. I rolls, I'm on the Housewives, half

576
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: a loser. Oh the show becomes more successful. Wait, she

577
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: sold her skinny girl brand. Oh, now she has her

578
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: own pockast. Now she's interviewing me. He's the interviewer. It's hysterical.

579
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: So I love it. I'm so happy and he's a

580
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: great guy. So I hope you love it, hope you listen.

581
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: I guess that's a rant within a just be episode,

582
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: have a good day,