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Fun Mario Lopez.

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Mario Lopez joining me now on Zoom from the new

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movie Land of bed Mo Man, My.

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Little Bit, Tomelia. Welcome back to the show.

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Brother.

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Thanks Mario.

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How you doing, brother, I'm doing well. It's nice

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to see you.

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Before we get into it, I gotta tell I gotta

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tell our listeners what just happened. Milo

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and I at the same time

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did not know took off our readers.

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I've heard about the jump in this interview. You know

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what.

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I'm done struggling. I like fought her for

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the longest time, and now I have them everywhere,

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like in the car and the office, in

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like everywhere I go.

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I got readers, right.

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So that was my That was my biggest question was how

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many pair do you have and where exactly

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are they?

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And then how often does your wife

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move them?

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Oh?

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Well, I have them and my

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wife doesn't move them because I also have them in her

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purse or I should say purses.

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Because when we go to.

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Dinner, the worst is the

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menu. It's dark already, and I'm like, honey,

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and then you'll get to that point. We'll get

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to that point.

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We'll get into the no, no, no.

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I'm already there.

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You're there.

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I love it. I started meeting readers at thirty eight.

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I'm forty seven this year and it's like, oh

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no, no, I'm fully invested.

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Oh you've been there.

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Oh okay, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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All right, it's all right though, it's all good. Congrats

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on the new film Land of

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Bad.

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What's it about?

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So?

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I play an Army Special Forces,

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a guy who's got a team comprised of

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Luke Hemsworth and Liam

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sorry, Luke Hemsworth and Ricky Whittle

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and attached to my team, I have a

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Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controller

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JTACH played by Liam Hemsworth

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who is talking to our eyes

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in the sky drone pilot played by Russell

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Crowe.

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So we have the cool gus, great

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casts.

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You got the five of us all working together for

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a reconnaissance hostage

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recovery somewhere somewhere

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bad in the world. And

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yeah we're just, you know, just kicking some ass

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and high action movie.

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That's my kind of flick.

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Where'd you film it?

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Shut it in Australia, of

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all places, A man was wonderful. I mean,

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you know the hems Weorth boys there from Australia. Russ

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crows from Australia, right, So

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you know the film, it only kind of made sense

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to go down there, you know, and get a couple of Australians

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to play a couple of Americans and.

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There we go make a movie.

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Oh the irony. How how's your

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shooting? What did you get to shoot?

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Pretty good? This one?

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I think I was just had an ark

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h K and then a

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side Army side Army was carrying was

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was a block nineteen.

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But my capabilities are pretty

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good.

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There you go.

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I spent a bunch of time with a lot of guys and

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gals in uniform, and I have a lot

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of friends Army Special Forces and blown

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down blood up doors with them and jumped out

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of planes with them and done

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a lot of like heavy weaponry and and

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stuff like that.

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So you know, but also for

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the movie, you know, it's it's fake, so I

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don't have to like the yeah, yeah pull

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the trigger.

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Yeah, but you look like you know what your father served,

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right?

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Yeah? My dad's a Vietnam VET. He was in Vietnam.

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Yeah, the two tours over there, came home,

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got out of the service, met my mom and just

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started a family.

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That was his road.

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Yeah, good for him. Good for him?

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Is this true?

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Also in the works a biopic about the author

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of Lord of the Rings.

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Oh wow, dude, that seemed deep diving.

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Yeah, so we do so a while, it's

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not it's not.

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Active development, but a while my

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partner Russ and I we were developing something

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about J. R. R.

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Tolkien. Yeah, and you know, his

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time in the in the in the service, in.

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The war, and what he was doing and

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up.

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Against that were it was inspiring his

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uh storytelling from Lord of the Rings.

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Yeah, wow, I haven't heard that one in a while.

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Oh wow, that's uh.

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And he was like a very spiritual man, right,

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like a devout Christian And yeah,

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that's been fascinating.

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Huh.

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Okay, wor World War One?

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So wow, Michel.

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We're coming up on the thirtieth anniversary of your

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first IMDb credit, an

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episode of Fresh Prince of Bell.

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There was thirty years ago.

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Holy dude,

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you wait, hold on, but here's the question.

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Were you filming right next door?

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Yes? I was.

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You knew that.

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Wow, I got a good memory. You

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got a good one, because dude.

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Because I remember, man, when I was a kid.

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It's like, yes, like of course, you know, I was stoked

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to be on Fresh Prince, but I was also the same building

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where they film say but the bell.

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I was stoked. I was super stoked.

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Dude. That's amazing. That's I'm

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gonna bring this up later on Access for sure.

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That is funny.

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That's funny, you know. And I've said this to you

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before. I've always loved you as Rocky Balboa

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Junior. My one of my favorite speeches of all time.

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Did you get this man any time? With Bert Young back

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in the day.

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I did Man quite a bit.

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I was really sad to hear about his passing. You

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know.

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I think that kind of like quietly went

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a little unnoticed in in my world.

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But you know what

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I saw was this, you.

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Know, guy who had come from some

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some tough surroundings, but yeah,

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he had this this big, beautiful heart

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of an artists, and you

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know, we just we'd enjoy ourselves. We'd laugh about

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a lot of different things. Like I think

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I was twenty seven, I was doing that and I

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was talking. I remember being on set

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talking to one of the PA's you know, I

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can't remember her name, but she was just there on set

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all the time, and she was a very very attractive

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woman. And then I finished

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my conversation and I would turn around, bir it's.

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Like talking to my girlfriends.

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That's my that's my crew member talking

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about you know, what's for lunch.

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She's something like that.

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He's like, I don't be talking to my.

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You know, he was just gotta busting my

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chops on set.

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But I mean, what a warm, warm human

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being.

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I love that. Great.

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Yeah, that is that is awesome And

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congratulations on the recent nuptials.

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When did you tell that?

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Man, it's hard to do that these

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days, being in the position you're in without anybody,

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uh, sort of finding out about it.

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That how that was like a covert operation? How'd

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you pull that on?

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It? Pretty much was, man. I mean, you know,

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we we kept it quiet.

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Those that were there was you know, a really

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small.

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Group of of family

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and.

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Close close friends, and

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we just we just did it quietly, and luckily

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nobody bothered us on the day and we

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were able to kind of hang on to it for ourselves

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for about six or seven weeks

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before we we you know,

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had to put something out there saying hey, this happened,

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and then you know, you get followed around by the pop Rocks

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for like a week and then they kind of leave you alone, because

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what are you doing but going to dinner with your wife,

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right, you know, going on a walk with.

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Your wife and your dog. And it's like, okay, these guys are

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really not exciting, but

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yeah, no, we were. We were able to.

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Have a really special day and a really really nice

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time and it was wonderful and beautiful and you

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know, just as a

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as a man happy to have arrived at

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that point where you know, I met

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my match and have.

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A really wonderful partner in my wife. Chair.

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That's awesome.

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That's and how old do you get,

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my little forty seven this

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year?

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See perfect time into I got two, got

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married, a little bit older, and I think

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you're once you're a little older, more mature, you

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got your act together. It's it's

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it's so much better. It's so much better.

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So welcome to the club, Welcome to the cloud.

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Brother Land of Bad.

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Is the movie, and it's in theaters now. Be

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sure to check it out, my little thanks for hanging out

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and I'll see it a little bit.

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Yeah, see a little bit.

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My with

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Mario Lopez