Speaker 1: Today on the show, we have Mario Lopez. He is
Speaker 1: an American actor and TV host. He has appeared on
Speaker 1: several TV series, in films, and on Broadway. Mario is
Speaker 1: the host of Access Hollywood and the nationally syndicated radio
Speaker 1: show On with Mario on I Heart Radio, as well
Speaker 1: as a husband and a father. I have known him
Speaker 1: for years, more than thirty years to be exact. He
Speaker 1: started his career in commercials, but got his big break
Speaker 1: playing a c slater on the hit show Saved by
Speaker 1: the Bell. That's actually where we met today. Mario and
Speaker 1: I talked about our days on set together, including the
Speaker 1: things we didn't know we didn't know. We talked about
Speaker 1: the changes in his career and mine over the years
Speaker 1: and how we learned to adapt to them. He shares
Speaker 1: his recipe to maintaining a balance between work and a
Speaker 1: successful relationship at home and what he believes is the
Speaker 1: secret to that successful relationship. Hi Mario, Hi, how are you, Bethany?
Speaker 1: I am good. So I just want to tell this
Speaker 1: audience that I met Mario Lopez, who, to me, in
Speaker 1: my mind, wasn't Mario Lopez. He was this just like cute,
Speaker 1: uh Latin guy on the set of the Saved by
Speaker 1: the Bell Beach episodes. I was there that summer. I
Speaker 1: had met a guy named Todd Levitt, a senior vice
Speaker 1: president of NBC Productions, on a plane because I almost
Speaker 1: missed the plane. I was the last one on and
Speaker 1: they had no more coach seats, so they gave me
Speaker 1: the upgraded me and gave me a first class seat.
Speaker 1: So I was sitting next to a guy called Todd Lovitt.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if you did, you know him? Okay,
Speaker 1: So this like sort of you know, made a mustache,
Speaker 1: like a corporal type of half cool guy. And we
Speaker 1: spoke and I never speak to anyone on planes, and
Speaker 1: he said he never did either. And we spoke the
Speaker 1: entire fight, and I kept up with him. I custled him.
Speaker 1: I was going out there with no plan, and he
Speaker 1: the next tuesday, I went in to meet him at
Speaker 1: NBC in Burbank, and I think I had a Ford probe,
Speaker 1: and he gave me a job for the summer to
Speaker 1: be a p A on Saved by the Bell. I
Speaker 1: didn't know what Saved by the Bell was, so I
Speaker 1: didn't know what Saved by the Bell was, and it
Speaker 1: was he said, be at the Surf and Sand Club,
Speaker 1: which was this beach club near my dad's house. Uh
Speaker 1: and actually no, I was driving my dad's car, my
Speaker 1: father's car, and it was six weeks. I think of
Speaker 1: beach and craft services and these young, popular, cool kids
Speaker 1: that were actors on this show. So that's my perspective
Speaker 1: as a person as a p A a production assistant.
Speaker 1: And how old were you and how far into Saved
Speaker 1: by the Bell was that? Um? I was well, I
Speaker 1: started when I was fifteen and not find second or
Speaker 1: because we were actual teenagers playing teenagers. That's what it
Speaker 1: may be resonated with kids at the time, because prior
Speaker 1: to that there was a lot of like thirty five
Speaker 1: year olds play teenagers, like in Greece and when any So, um,
Speaker 1: that was the most fun I had too, by the way,
Speaker 1: at the beach because we were outside of the classroom
Speaker 1: was fun. And I specifically remember you because you were
Speaker 1: rocking this like really cool dark tan, like straight from
Speaker 1: the Jersey shore dark tan, and I was like, oh, who,
Speaker 1: she's cute and um, but you were all about your
Speaker 1: business and you were working hard, and I remember, but
Speaker 1: you're real cool with You're real nice, and I remember
Speaker 1: and I just remember that the tan and the short shorts,
Speaker 1: and we were in Malibu and it was a really
Speaker 1: good time. Denise Richards, I remember was in the episode
Speaker 1: where I rescued her from the beach and when I
Speaker 1: interviewed and stuff. Once in a while we look back
Speaker 1: and laugh and they'll play that clip. But it's funny
Speaker 1: when you when you think of a certain time. I
Speaker 1: remember the songs that were around during that time. Bb
Speaker 1: D was really big, Belt the Duvaut and and it
Speaker 1: was it was a lot of fun because the majority
Speaker 1: of it was in the summer and because we were miners,
Speaker 1: they wanted to shoot um without having to worry about
Speaker 1: school and social workers and what have you. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was fun. I was like, when we got to
Speaker 1: get out of the classroom, Well, it's funny because, yeah,
Speaker 1: your mom was with you every day, and I remember, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: so it must have been like sixteen fifteen, sixteen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: your mom was with you and I was only how
Speaker 1: old is I? I think, well, no, it's different, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well how old you know? So I'm wow, okay, so
Speaker 1: I'm three years older. But then it seems really older.
Speaker 1: Like I was thought to flirt like you and I
Speaker 1: flirted a little, but when you're eighteen and it's fifteen
Speaker 1: that you're not flirting with like the guys on the trip,
Speaker 1: and might as well have been thirty exactly. It felt
Speaker 1: different and back then wasn't the same like what older
Speaker 1: women and younger man wasn't as common as now. And
Speaker 1: I just felt so you just all were like you were.
Speaker 1: You were on a television show, like you were so lucky,
Speaker 1: and I was just in such a different world and
Speaker 1: I was just trying to get I was getting this
Speaker 1: view into your experience and your fame. And I remember
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Berkeley's mom. She was out there from Chicago for
Speaker 1: the summer, and she was always upset because because Tiffany
Speaker 1: Thesson was getting like the cuter outfits and that was
Speaker 1: a drama, and some of you had worked up with
Speaker 1: each other, and like I was just getting bits and pieces.
Speaker 1: But from my perspective, I've seen Leah Remedy came through
Speaker 1: there and she was so anyway. Yeah, so um, that's
Speaker 1: how I met you, I know, and I and then
Speaker 1: I vividly remember and I remember meeting you when you
Speaker 1: were sitting down. It was so funny so to see
Speaker 1: you when you um, were on Housewives and all that,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, Hey, I know her, and
Speaker 1: it was cool to see you do your thing and
Speaker 1: progress and uh have all your success. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's cool, that's cool that he's always been super cool. Well,
Speaker 1: it's interesting the abb and flow, right, So you guys
Speaker 1: were already famous, and many people in that situation don't
Speaker 1: ride it the whole way like you have. Like then,
Speaker 1: to me, you guys were all superstars, but obviously most
Speaker 1: people who are teaing stars aren't going to go the
Speaker 1: whole distance. And I was and nobody making no money
Speaker 1: and I ended up having this career, So you really
Speaker 1: do How much does it matter who you meet the
Speaker 1: whole way up, like you meet them on the way up,
Speaker 1: on the way down, like you have you maintained relationships
Speaker 1: the whole way really good? Yeah, I mean, I'm I've
Speaker 1: always been trying to be cool with everyone. I'm just
Speaker 1: this kid from Tchula Vista, first generation here, and my
Speaker 1: parents and my dad worked for the city, my mom
Speaker 1: worked for the phone company, real blue color folks that
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the entertainment industry, and I
Speaker 1: just sort of fell into it, to be quite honest,
Speaker 1: but once I've fell into it, I fell in love
Speaker 1: with it and and like my dad said, be getting
Speaker 1: a regular job. So I've always had like a strong
Speaker 1: work ethic and and sort of a hustler mentality. So
Speaker 1: whether it's acting or seeing or dancing or hosting something,
Speaker 1: I've always kind of wanted to have a an iron
Speaker 1: and the fire to to try to have something to
Speaker 1: um fall back on, also do extra opportunity to sort
Speaker 1: of create, and and once I became a father and
Speaker 1: a husband, right then the hustle even went next level. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it's a very tough transition to go from a child
Speaker 1: actor to being taken serious as an adult. And the
Speaker 1: thing that I don't think people really really realize that
Speaker 1: the show is a Saturday morning show. So we were
Speaker 1: we were making cartoon money. I got like, it wasn't
Speaker 1: like we were making like friends type scientials, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're doing better than your average a little
Speaker 1: fifteen year old. But at the same time, it was
Speaker 1: not like retirement money. I don't have to worry about anything.
Speaker 1: So it was a lot of fun and different five
Speaker 1: years and never did I thirty five years later, it's
Speaker 1: still be on TV. We'd be doing reboots. They're talking
Speaker 1: about it, they're like movies. It's like, Wow, never did
Speaker 1: I think that, But I look back on it fondly.
Speaker 1: I got along with everybody really well. I was very
Speaker 1: grateful for for the opportunity and being able to do
Speaker 1: the show. But I'm not gonna lie. It was tough
Speaker 1: sort of transitioning and kind of being taken serious and
Speaker 1: uh and in a more mature light, just because people
Speaker 1: pigeon what you in a certain way and start the
Speaker 1: typecast you because you're constantly in their presence as a
Speaker 1: as a teenager in in that character. So that's why
Speaker 1: when I got into hosting UM and working with Dick
Speaker 1: Clark and sort of change and rewired my whole mind
Speaker 1: and outlook on entertainment in general. And I said to myself,
Speaker 1: you know what, that's what I'm gonna be. I want
Speaker 1: to be the Latino Dick Clark, and I want to
Speaker 1: be on your TV for the next fifty years. So,
Speaker 1: you know, thank God, now that I'm about to be fifty,
Speaker 1: you can't really like about your age and work as
Speaker 1: a Google stuff. Now that I'm about to be fifty,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm busier than than ever. Beth me. You know,
Speaker 1: I got a nationally syndicated radio show on with Mario
Speaker 1: and iHeart and over a toy markets and then um,
Speaker 1: I do Access Daily, which is sort of my version
Speaker 1: of like Regis and Kelly UM, which comes out of
Speaker 1: twelve newon on NBC. And then at night, of course,
Speaker 1: I got Access Hollywood. So I'm on TV an hour
Speaker 1: and a half every day and on the radio for
Speaker 1: another three hours every day Monday through Friday, and then
Speaker 1: I'm on the weekend show. Um. And then I'll still
Speaker 1: act and do stuff like I do have a deal
Speaker 1: with Lifetime that I do a couple of holiday films,
Speaker 1: one that I uh starring, another one that I produced
Speaker 1: every year, and then I'll squeeze ins like this week,
Speaker 1: I'm working on the show Hacks. Yeah and uh. And
Speaker 1: it's cool because I'm a big fan of that show
Speaker 1: and they're so talented, and I love Jean Smart. My
Speaker 1: scenes are with her later today. So I get I'm
Speaker 1: pretty much sequestered here at Universal. UM, so I get
Speaker 1: to to to kind of do all that fun stuff
Speaker 1: and all the while, you know, I'm a dad to
Speaker 1: three kids, and I coached my son's wrestling team, helping
Speaker 1: jiu jitsu him. There are my daughter in gymnastics and dance,
Speaker 1: and you know with a little my little guy just
Speaker 1: turned three, so dealing with all that. So it's it's
Speaker 1: a hundred miles and running and chaotic, but you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want it any other way. My fiance is
Speaker 1: into jiu jitsu, people get really into and he's watching
Speaker 1: all the videos and he likes it a lot. Yeah
Speaker 1: he I don't, I don't. I gotta ask him. I
Speaker 1: don't know. And a guy I just hired, a security
Speaker 1: guy here who is like, has the full califlower here here,
Speaker 1: and he was like a marine sniper, like full anyone
Speaker 1: would call the flower ears. I know, that's what I
Speaker 1: heard exactly. He's one of those crazy guys done Carrie,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a cop um. But you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I noticed that, like, well, a couple of things. One,
Speaker 1: you seem to really adhere to structure and reliability, and
Speaker 1: like you've got the trains running on time. You know,
Speaker 1: you're doing multiple shows, but you're doing the jiu jitsu
Speaker 1: and you're doing the coaching and you're keeping it all together.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like that sort of structure and reliability
Speaker 1: is something that really holds it all together. Like it's
Speaker 1: like it's like the glue that is binding all of
Speaker 1: it because it's a grid. Yeah, it really is. And
Speaker 1: then uh, you know, I squeeze in a lot, but
Speaker 1: I got like a great assistant that helps me. But honestly,
Speaker 1: like the quarterback of the team is my wife. She's
Speaker 1: she's awesome and very understanding and she knows that it's
Speaker 1: a fluid schedule, um and she's she's so supportive and
Speaker 1: great and obviously with the kids, um and and and
Speaker 1: handling their activities because they're getting really busy and doing
Speaker 1: their own thing. Like my daughter just did like a
Speaker 1: movie and she and she didn't want to be in there.
Speaker 1: She just kind of like fell into it. But my
Speaker 1: wife I met on Broadway and she's like wildly talented, sings, dances,
Speaker 1: act all that. So the kids are bound to come
Speaker 1: out with interesting Oh yeah between two of you. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: my daughter has done that. My son's done some stuff
Speaker 1: and he's and it's and again they're not age. It's
Speaker 1: a certain situations sort of presented themselves. But aside from
Speaker 1: that that they all saying dance, play the piano, gymnastics,
Speaker 1: wrestled in jiu jitsu. Except for my three year old.
Speaker 1: He needs to start stepping it up. He's just kind
Speaker 1: of hanging out being three year old outside. Have you
Speaker 1: been approached about a family show? Um? Yeah, I have actually,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know, I don't really have
Speaker 1: time number one but number but other than that, I
Speaker 1: kind of I don't want anytime. I see kind of
Speaker 1: people go there, either as a as a couple or
Speaker 1: as a family doesn't seem to boat well. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to throw a monkey wrenching and everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't needs to open Pandora's box. I agree. I
Speaker 1: was just curious, and you know, from my perspective watching you,
Speaker 1: you're so I love the point that you made about
Speaker 1: what you were making per episode because people just think
Speaker 1: when someone has fame that they automatically have money. And
Speaker 1: I've seen those numbers and they're not you know, that dramatic.
Speaker 1: You certainly weren't going to live off of Saved by
Speaker 1: the Bell money, but it certainly was iconic. I also
Speaker 1: relate to you being pigeonholed into that because obviously I
Speaker 1: was on a show that has a specific reputation, so
Speaker 1: to bust out of. That says a lot about you,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't really matter at ord, Like you had
Speaker 1: a trajector you saw something. You may not have been right,
Speaker 1: but you you had a plan. Like it sounds like
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, that hosting trajectory and not that many
Speaker 1: people have that exact plan the way you were doing it,
Speaker 1: Like you saw the board and they're like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bob and weave and left and right and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: figure it out and go on that road. And you stood,
Speaker 1: you stuck pretty close to it like you've probably you've
Speaker 1: shifted and more has been added, But it sounds like
Speaker 1: you secreted it. You were like you envisioned it and
Speaker 1: kind of have made it happen. And I don't know
Speaker 1: because I wasn't watching your career, I don't know what
Speaker 1: happened between say, by the Ball and Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1: But from my perspective, and that was early on and
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars when it was like very new,
Speaker 1: that blew you, Like that really gave you something that
Speaker 1: you hadn't had or is that not true? Like you
Speaker 1: could have gone either way and that really like took
Speaker 1: you to another level. It didn't. It's funny because, uh,
Speaker 1: well prior to that, I uh the game sort of
Speaker 1: game changer for me in my mind is when I
Speaker 1: got to work with Dick Clark. It kind of the
Speaker 1: the male version of the View was only on for
Speaker 1: a couple of seasons, but it was called The Other Half,
Speaker 1: and it was Dick Clark, Danny Bonaducci, Dr Janets. He
Speaker 1: was the plastic surgeon, the one that had Kanye West
Speaker 1: mom and when all that trauma happened, and then myself,
Speaker 1: I was the single guy in my twenties, right, But
Speaker 1: I realized I love hosting because I'm like a natural host.
Speaker 1: I think I think the thing about hosting because it's
Speaker 1: a whole other skill set, if you will. As for
Speaker 1: us to acting, it's either in you or you're not.
Speaker 1: Like I like people. I like people. I like to talk.
Speaker 1: I like to entertain. I like hosting parties at my house,
Speaker 1: whether it's like game night or barbecues or just fight
Speaker 1: nights at my house. I just want to make sure
Speaker 1: everyone has a good time. And essentially, I think that's
Speaker 1: what you try to do. Whether you're on the radio
Speaker 1: or whether you're on TV. You're and I love the
Speaker 1: world of entertainment. I get excited to talk to people
Speaker 1: on TV or in the latest films or music because
Speaker 1: I love that world, and so I think they. But
Speaker 1: you have to be able to play by the rules
Speaker 1: to which you're good at. You're good at structure and
Speaker 1: that dynamic, which I'm not. I mean I scare people,
Speaker 1: You don't really scare people. You ride, You get right
Speaker 1: up to the line, and you'll like tiptoe over, but
Speaker 1: you don't really cross that. You are. You could easily
Speaker 1: be in a corporate job and play by the rules. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you are effectively by the way, with
Speaker 1: the people you work for. Your effectively have to work
Speaker 1: in a structure like that. Yeah yeah, No, I mean
Speaker 1: I am a corporate gum An, NBC Universal, you know
Speaker 1: over here, and and uh, I mean that's not really
Speaker 1: my personality. I'm not like a guy that's trying to
Speaker 1: be salacious or get the sound bite. I end up
Speaker 1: just trying to ask questions that I want to know
Speaker 1: that I think people maybe want to know, just have
Speaker 1: a conversation, not necessarily an interview, and then they end
Speaker 1: up feeling very comfortable and let their guard down, and
Speaker 1: ironically they end up divulge you probably more they wanted
Speaker 1: to anyway. Yes, yes, And I think you know, they
Speaker 1: can tell that I've done my homework and I'm prepared,
Speaker 1: or that I'm really a fan, and then they end
Speaker 1: up sort of responding that way because it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of you know, it's hard to think it and these
Speaker 1: guys can tell they've done a lot of them and
Speaker 1: they don't necessarily but um, but I think, yeah, just
Speaker 1: being a person that just kind of likes to host things,
Speaker 1: whether it's events or parties or what to have your shows,
Speaker 1: I think became very natural. Um. And the fact that
Speaker 1: you could pursue it as a career, and having that
Speaker 1: conversation with Dick Clark when he so I'm proud to
Speaker 1: see I became very friendly with him, and he just said, hey, Mary,
Speaker 1: you gotta start looking at yourself as like almost like
Speaker 1: a brand and and someone that can be in people's
Speaker 1: family rooms for the next forty years, um and as
Speaker 1: their friend. And I think where your strengths are and
Speaker 1: you shouldn't maybe lean into that. And so I kind
Speaker 1: of I listened to him and and I kind of did,
Speaker 1: and so it kind of changed the whole world for me.
Speaker 1: Because when you're just an actor, um, you're at the
Speaker 1: beck and call of like a lot of things that
Speaker 1: are out of your control, opportunity, there's timing, there's certain
Speaker 1: things that need to line up, and it doesn't always
Speaker 1: work out right, and a lot of times can go
Speaker 1: by and things don't happen. You have lulls. I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at Brandon Fraser who's just recently dominated for
Speaker 1: Oscar Academy Award, and it's so cool to see because
Speaker 1: him and the young key Cui Quantity that was nominated
Speaker 1: too for everything every all at once, they both have
Speaker 1: big lulls like you're not doing anything, and then you
Speaker 1: can see how grateful they are and so you know,
Speaker 1: which is a beautiful thing. But I like to stay busy,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to wait around for the phone
Speaker 1: to ring, and I wanted to again kind of just
Speaker 1: kind of hustle and do what I had to do
Speaker 1: and not be known just as that kid from say
Speaker 1: by the Belt and wanted to to be known as
Speaker 1: Mario Lopez and and and to do other things. But
Speaker 1: what if that's a great message though about the luves
Speaker 1: when people just there hasn't been a wave there hasn't
Speaker 1: been a set flat, and you know, what are you
Speaker 1: doing during that time? How do you keep motivated? And
Speaker 1: how do you know you're even swimming in the right direction,
Speaker 1: like Brandan Frasier for example, like these people that they're
Speaker 1: still hustling. We just don't know it because it's not clicking,
Speaker 1: it's not hitting, the match is not igniting. So what
Speaker 1: is that about that time in between? You have experienced that, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and that's when before I had this the different outlook
Speaker 1: on on realizing there are no rules. So if I'm
Speaker 1: not acting, that doesn't mean I can't be doing a play,
Speaker 1: or I can't be hosting something else, or I can't
Speaker 1: be whatever the case may be doing something else. If
Speaker 1: if you're full unfocused on being a THESPI and then
Speaker 1: it's then it's tough because so many things are out
Speaker 1: of your control, the factor in the world, but just
Speaker 1: maybe the opportunity is not there, the timing for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: um many factors, um which which is just unfortunate. But
Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. But I didn't want
Speaker 1: to I didn't want to just sit around and wait
Speaker 1: for the phone to ring or just just kind of
Speaker 1: keep preparing. I wanted to. I wanted to work, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to be in this business and there's many
Speaker 1: different facets and capacity that can be and I didn't
Speaker 1: think that, um, just focusing on acting was gonna do it.
Speaker 1: So that's why I started getting into the hosting and
Speaker 1: the writing and all the other different things, much like yourself.
Speaker 1: And so now you know I got my hands and
Speaker 1: not only the jobs that I told you, but um god,
Speaker 1: I got my face on step from shoes, the dog
Speaker 1: food to egg beaters, selling kinds of stuff. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of going into tell that other space, uh in
Speaker 1: the commercial worlds has worked out well too. What's your
Speaker 1: favorite thing? Like? What is the thing that you just
Speaker 1: sit down and note like it's like no time has
Speaker 1: gone by and you just are like, and what are
Speaker 1: you the best at? What do you actually the best?
Speaker 1: That much? Your favorite of all these things? I think
Speaker 1: I am the best at hosting just because it comes
Speaker 1: most natural. I've been doing it a long time and
Speaker 1: I think I've kind of found my groove and niche
Speaker 1: and net space. Um, and that's in any whether it's
Speaker 1: live and I'm hosting this Universe or my show here
Speaker 1: or doing the X Factor or By the way, I
Speaker 1: also host fights for HBO Boxing and now I'm just
Speaker 1: doing a thing for UFC, and so that the whole
Speaker 1: other side of me. And so I'm a huge you know,
Speaker 1: So that's a whole other audience just with the guys.
Speaker 1: A lot of females watch the entertainment world. Who with
Speaker 1: the guys. I got a lot of respect because I
Speaker 1: boxed at jiu jitsu and in that UFC world, that's
Speaker 1: sort of Joe Rogan world. I've been doing a lot
Speaker 1: of different stuff too, which is kind of cool, but
Speaker 1: that's like a passion of mine and so I like that.
Speaker 1: But I think being a to um um do the
Speaker 1: radio show has allowed me because of its intimate sort
Speaker 1: of like this, it's very intimate format. You can really
Speaker 1: relax and and be your your most self and talk
Speaker 1: about the most intimate random stuff and do you who
Speaker 1: are your boy? Do you grow out? Like? Are you
Speaker 1: like guys night and vague or no? What's the what
Speaker 1: is what's the dynamic there? Because you've got three kids,
Speaker 1: your wife who's running the program, So what's your social
Speaker 1: life like? She's I mean, she's super cool and not
Speaker 1: to big corner. We've been together like fourteen years and
Speaker 1: it's is better than every We have fun. And you know,
Speaker 1: I I just because we're married. I always make it
Speaker 1: a point to date my wife and we have we
Speaker 1: have quick little uh getaways, whether it's to Vegas which
Speaker 1: is only a forty time to flight from here, or too.
Speaker 1: We like to drink a lot of wines and we'll
Speaker 1: go up to like Santa Barbara Passo and they'll aren't
Speaker 1: have drive and just even for a night or maybe
Speaker 1: to just take away from the kids and to be
Speaker 1: alone and fun. So I have fun there and then yeah,
Speaker 1: she doesn't give me a hard time. I want hang
Speaker 1: out with my buddies. But to be honest, because I
Speaker 1: get so tired. Now, um that's like I need. Like,
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna hang out with those guys, I say, hey,
Speaker 1: pit one night, either a Friday or Saturday. I can't
Speaker 1: do both. I'm more like, I'm not the club guy anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm like the marathon dinner guy. So you have a
Speaker 1: marathon dinner. We have some drigs, but we're smoking, We're
Speaker 1: doing you know what I mean. I'm like that guy.
Speaker 1: I like to go see shows. We go for fights
Speaker 1: and a lot of couples of nights this now, but
Speaker 1: I mean I hang with my gut, my my boys,
Speaker 1: and we'll do like fishing trips every once in a
Speaker 1: while and then, but most of the times, a lot
Speaker 1: of couples of nights are I'm with my wife and
Speaker 1: for every year we do a vacation with the family.
Speaker 1: Then we'll do one to serve and now we'll get away. Well,
Speaker 1: this is totally true. Of all the things you've said
Speaker 1: that you do, I think the most impressive, most challenging
Speaker 1: thing is maintaining a relationship. Not only and I no bullshit,
Speaker 1: like full on, that's what I really really think because
Speaker 1: I I don't come from successful relationships. It's a discipline
Speaker 1: like you with jiu jitsu that I have to work
Speaker 1: on and really think about because I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: It's like seeing a unicorn a positive relationship. I've seen
Speaker 1: every kind of dysfunction in the world. So I ask you, honestly, like,
Speaker 1: how hard is it to have a successful relationship. There's
Speaker 1: no question that there probably have been stresses and highs
Speaker 1: and lows. It's already sounds pretty amazing that you check
Speaker 1: in with each other to do these trips, etcetera. But like,
Speaker 1: what is it. It's got to be hard. Fourteen years
Speaker 1: that's impressive to me. Yeah, thank you. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: just like dynamics of any relationship, you you have your
Speaker 1: ups and downs, and we have our our little TIFFs
Speaker 1: and stuff, but honestly, there are a few and far between.
Speaker 1: And I really think it's more about the timing of
Speaker 1: like when I met her in my life at the
Speaker 1: time I met her my life, when when I came
Speaker 1: into hers, because that I had I met her five
Speaker 1: ten years prior out of messed it up or it
Speaker 1: wasn't it wouldn't have been, it wouldn't have worked out.
Speaker 1: I honestly think it's not about the right person. Everybody
Speaker 1: says on to you, the right person you'll know. I think, no,
Speaker 1: it's the right timing. In really, timing is everything, and
Speaker 1: I was at the right time in my life when
Speaker 1: I met her. She han't bet the right time and hers, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm a little older. So I think it takes guys
Speaker 1: a little because my fiance is uh and I'm fifty two,
Speaker 1: and we don't He lives in Boston and I live
Speaker 1: in Connecticut, and that sounds crazy. And when we first
Speaker 1: got together, we wanted to like glue all the pieces
Speaker 1: together with the calendar in theory, like oh my god,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this and it's to be perfect. And
Speaker 1: then reality happened with his life and my life and
Speaker 1: my career and my and families, and we had to
Speaker 1: construct it based on what our reality is. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like yours is based on what your
Speaker 1: career is. It's not fiction. It's not when you're the
Speaker 1: twenties and every night it's what are we ordering? Where
Speaker 1: do we go? It's just like light and bright. Now
Speaker 1: it's like real life and what does the long road
Speaker 1: look like? And how do we make it like a
Speaker 1: Chinese menu where it's got to have all these different
Speaker 1: items or won't be a good order. That why I
Speaker 1: asked you, because I've had people on here with all
Speaker 1: these different pieces of advice, like real stuff, not the
Speaker 1: BS like oh happy wife, happy, like the real stuff.
Speaker 1: Like one person said, I don't fix her and she
Speaker 1: doesn't fix me. I fix myself, meaning I'm not solving her.
Speaker 1: You know. Another person said, every day we check in
Speaker 1: with each other like and not a b S. How
Speaker 1: are you just being like really like what's going on?
Speaker 1: So I just That's why I asked you because I
Speaker 1: do find it impressive, and that's longevity. And I wonder
Speaker 1: what like a tool is of yours. Yeah, I really
Speaker 1: go to I think we do complement each other. I
Speaker 1: think um um, constant communication. I think is uh is
Speaker 1: key to and and uh, you know we I have
Speaker 1: my own thing, she has her own thing. We have
Speaker 1: her own thing together. But in the kids, obviously, once
Speaker 1: the kids came into the mix, um um, as you know,
Speaker 1: they kind of like consume you and become priority number one, um,
Speaker 1: and that brought us even closer. But she she's just
Speaker 1: she's she's kind of she's very uh secure, and she's funny.
Speaker 1: She's like you always say, she makes me laugh. I
Speaker 1: usually feel like Dave Chapelle in the relationship. I always say,
Speaker 1: you guys have a similar personality, quick witted, because a
Speaker 1: funny girl is I think very sexy. Because they're funny
Speaker 1: and they're quick, that means they're smart. So it keeps
Speaker 1: me on my toes. So she, you know, to breaking
Speaker 1: my balls a lot when we met, and I liked it,
Speaker 1: and so my toes and I like it. So I
Speaker 1: think that's she's not definitely not like a submissive woman.
Speaker 1: That does you know, she's like a fiery Italian girl
Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh. So, oh, hey, guess what they're calling. They're
Speaker 1: calling me I gotta I'm talking to be free. Remember, hey, Bethany,
Speaker 1: she was a stage manager on Stave by the Bell.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, do you remember me? I know you're
Speaker 1: an intern of something? Wow? Very good? Does he have
Speaker 1: to go? Don't know, but I'm gonna come back. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna watch the episode. Please watch it, well, please watch it?
Speaker 1: All right? Bye, Mario? Okay, I love you. Okay, honey.
Speaker 1: We got one message from his wife. Okay, she loves
Speaker 1: your dressings and they're always oh sanator, nice to see
Speaker 1: you too. A great day. So that was really fun. Um.
Speaker 1: I've known Mario Lopez and Saved by the Bell when
Speaker 1: I was a p A and he was an actor
Speaker 1: and we were doing rewives today and he came on
Speaker 1: and I think he just did not realize he was
Speaker 1: supposed to have watched the episode, and instead of just
Speaker 1: scrapping it place of yes and time management, I was like,
Speaker 1: screw it, let's sit on another sign and let me
Speaker 1: just interview him for just b So that was an
Speaker 1: accidental interview which I loved. I loved, and you know,
Speaker 1: I love the show because I get to really reconnect
Speaker 1: with people and it's crazy. It's like I'm like the
Speaker 1: Kevin Bacon and that no one knew about. I know
Speaker 1: every single person, and I have a crazy, easiest stories
Speaker 1: and everyone's always so shocked and who I know, like
Speaker 1: that I know Mario and that I know Leah Remedy
Speaker 1: from that show and Kyle Richards from Lascala, and it
Speaker 1: goes on and on and on, Lauren Michaels from working
Speaker 1: at that job. I'm just one of those people that
Speaker 1: is always just been hustling since I was born. So
Speaker 1: Mario Lopez was somebody on the you know, a stop
Speaker 1: on my train of craziness. And the message really is
Speaker 1: how you treat people the whole time. Like I've always
Speaker 1: been the same. I've always been real, straightforward, abrupt, a
Speaker 1: little abrasive, but straight up one like Mario will tell
Speaker 1: you I was exactly the same on same by the
Speaker 1: bell as I am now. And it's important because if
Speaker 1: you were fronting and stunting then or fronting and stunting now,
Speaker 1: they'd be like, who the hell is she? She thought
Speaker 1: she was? She thinks she's hot shipped. Now, I remember
Speaker 1: her when she was a little loser reading red vines
Speaker 1: on the Save by the Bell set. You know, same
Speaker 1: with him. If he were an asshole back then, I
Speaker 1: would remember it. He was charming, he was love lee,
Speaker 1: he had a good work ethic. His mom was nice, like,
Speaker 1: it's crazy, you gotta watch your ass because everyone else
Speaker 1: is watching your ass. From the time that he was fifteen,
Speaker 1: he's fifty, gonna be fifty years old. I know Mario
Speaker 1: Lopez for thirty five years and he's the same as
Speaker 1: he was then. And now how great to watch his trajectory.
Speaker 1: So anyway, great guy. I love running into him through
Speaker 1: this trajectory through the entertainment industry. And it's always been
Speaker 1: him interviewing me. I rolls, I'm on the Housewives, half
Speaker 1: a loser. Oh the show becomes more successful. Wait, she
Speaker 1: sold her skinny girl brand. Oh, now she has her
Speaker 1: own pockast. Now she's interviewing me. He's the interviewer. It's hysterical.
Speaker 1: So I love it. I'm so happy and he's a
Speaker 1: great guy. So I hope you love it, hope you listen.
Speaker 1: I guess that's a rant within a just be episode,
Speaker 1: have a good day,