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Come on, Mario Lopez. You're

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on Mario Lopez joining me now on Zoom

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the lead singer of Third I'd Blind

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Stephen Jenkins, Welcome to the show man.

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How you doing good? Thanks right

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on, brother, I'm doing well. Thank you. That's

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a cool spot where you're hanging

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out, or at least it's a cool looking room where you at. It's

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my dining room.

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Oh nice, that's very cool. It's

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got a very hip bar vibe

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to it. Uh

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yeah, it's like like a

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old eighteen seventy three Victorian

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and it's like these are the original, like

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laugh claster walls and yeah,

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um, I like octopus. You should

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never eat octopus. Let's just start right there.

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Wait, why not I happen to like octopus? Why not?

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Uh eat squid? Squid or assholes?

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And uh brilliant

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there. They turn color,

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they can solve problems, they can use tools.

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Yeah, look at that. I'm learning so much today.

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I enjoy doing these Zoom things because you get

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to know people on a more personal

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level as far as like, you've got this cool dining

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room, you have a love for octopuses.

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I would have never known you know. Well,

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it's an incredibly frustrating time for

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for everyone, um, and especially

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for musicians who make

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a lot of their uh living on

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the road, and stand up comics and people who

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have to travel for for their way

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of life. UM. People are starting to get creative

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and a little innovative. Like you mentioned with the

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the driving concerts, have you done a show

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a driving concert yet or would this be your first? Now

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that's the first one. I've done a bunch of concerts for

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um. Uh just kind of in

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my kitchen, yeah, right, like the zoom

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ones. Yeah, you know. UM, I love listening

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to live music. And I'm actually I think

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my wife was trying to find a uh

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we were trying to find one of these driving concerts

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to to go to. And I know you're in the

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invent Fairgrounds right there. That's a that's

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a cool area. It should be fun.

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Imagine you can hear a lot of honking, you know,

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considering the circumstances, what people

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gonna do, I don't know if it's gonna be weird or

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if they're just gonna like, you

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know, if they're just gonna I

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don't know what it's gonna be like. But

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but it's not the same. The thing is, like I'm

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look I'm that it's sold

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out. I'm flatter and U

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and I am um

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so down to have to go

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and like commune with people in

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in as much as we can. UM.

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But you know, it's not the same thing. It's like as

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being the thing about

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like Mario, like the thing about

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live music is the

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reason why it's something that human

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beings need to do in every culture for

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all of history. I mean,

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you go back, you go back five thousand

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years ago, and what do you have. You have amphitheaters

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that put people next to each other so

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that they can hear music together. And

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what that does is that that being

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next to each other and being in rhythm with each

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other and then having um,

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this collective feeling uh

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that music brings, music evokes feelings,

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and you have that collectively, you have

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this sense that you're not alone, that you are you

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are actually you are actually

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in communion with other people, and

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that that is live

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music. And you've got to actually get next

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to each other too to

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to do it. Now we're gonna get in cars. No,

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I agree with you. It's an awesome experience. It's one

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of my favorites. And I can't wait till we're back

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there in the meanwhile, you know, it's

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better than nothing. With the cars. I hear you

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can sit outside of the cars and bring your chairs

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sort of outside, which is it's kind of weird. They are

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little rules that they have, and I know they're gonna be able to

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uh um hear the music through

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their FM stereo. I believe

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in the car the way they're connected. So so that's kind of cool.

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So for in the interim, congrats on the show and

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at least people get give a disaster.

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That's true too. I'm trying to keep it positive. But I

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thought to think of you that I thought it was really

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cool you had your kid and

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I can't remember who you met. I think it might

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have been uh, I think

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it might have been Jorgey Mask but all but I'm not

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sure. And you had you had

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him like uh, you had

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your kids, like show him like a hook or

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like uh yellow Boxing Combo one

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too or something like that. Right, Yeah,

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we're big fans, so we do. Yeah. Yeah, we

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met Masve Dolly. I think he was doing that with Delahoya

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when he was doing little Yeah.

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Um, I have a good Delahoya

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story. Um, but well now I want to hear

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it. Now you tease me with the Delahoya story. I want

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to hear it. Uh.

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Okay, So I was at a party, um

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and I'm I'm I'm tall,

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I'm like two hundred pounds and uh

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and Delahoya's um, I don't

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know, he's not for at tall um.

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And my girlfriend at the time, we

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were at a party altogether, and my girlfriend

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at the time, guys, she looks at him

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and she goes, she goes, Stephen

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would kick your ass to

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Oscar? Tell about this. That's

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funny, I mean, you know. Yeah,

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I'm like, I'm like, are you actually actually

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trying to instigate a fight with me at

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a party with Oscar Deloya? Like, please

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don't anyway,

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But I but I love what you do

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with your with your kids because I, um,

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I teach my nieces and nephews Moe

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Tak. Yeah, so they're

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in our bubble, so they come over, so

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um, you know, um

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uh, you know, we sort of just we trained

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the game of it. And you've

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been training for a while Moue Ti. Yeah.

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Have you been training for a while Moue Ti? Yeah,

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yeah, I mean not in any you know, sure,

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just stay in shape and to learn the art. And it kind

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of challenge me. Um yeah,

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just just yeah, just for fun. But I'm but I'm

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i'm a. I'm a huge mm A fan. I

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really love women's m m A. I think it's it's

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it's like there's a real kind of something like

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I think there's a like profound cultural moment

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in it, uh that is

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noteworthy. I think it's I think

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that women's mm A. Well, first

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of all, there is no such thing as women's mm A. There's

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just m m A. And there's the women's straw

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right route, and there's the men's middle

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weight about and they're all the same thing, and

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whoever as the biggest draws the top of the car.

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But it's the most it's a in

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in such a mauchese most sport. It's the

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most actually post feminist

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evolved uh sport

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that has like skipped so much of

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the bullshit

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you know that that goes along with like say women's

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tatis or you know, like you know,

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O, our women's soccer team are just so much better

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than the men and they can't get paid as well, etcetera.

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Like all that kind of got skipped, which

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is kind of incredible as quickly as it did.

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Um So I love to. I

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love to see that as a cultural from the but

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also what it does to my

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niece that you know, she's a

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nine year old and she likes UM.

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She likes surfing, and she likes dancing,

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and she likes UM, she likes

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math camp and she just loves

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laying into that bag, like you know, turning

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her hip over power

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in there. And she sees that not

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as something where she's like borrowing some

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characteristic boys, but this is

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that power, right and that ownership

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of space. Um, it's something

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that is inherently hers um

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and I and I credit I credit women

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in the UFC a uh

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as being part of that change. So anyway,

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so you know, propers to you like I love

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seeing you with your kid, and thank you

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man, And now I agree. My my daughter, who

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is the same age, recently started doing jiu jitsu

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too, and she really likes it. So that's it. It's very

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cool. Um. I started doing

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jiu jitsu and I can't stand it. You don't like

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it? What? What don't you like about it? Uh?

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It's just really frustrating. And I can never

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remember the combinations

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and I can like, you know, a yeah,

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it's like human chess hundred

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and fifty pounds purple belt can submit me,

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you know, just like you know, easy

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peasy. Um, So there's

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that. Yeah, you

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can't punch and kick unfortunately. Um,

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Stephen. Before I let you go, I want to put you on the

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spot with some quick questions, quick answers. Okay,

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okay, what's the song

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that you wish you wrote? Ever

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long? Okay?

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Show you binge during quarantine?

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What show haven't I been during? What

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about your favorite? What

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was my favorite? Uh?

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I don't know. It's kind of they just kind of runed, like

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like I'm in this terrible habit

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of watching them before bed, um,

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and so they just turned into some blur and

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I just forget, uh,

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you know what's going on. I

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can't remember a single show. Celebrity

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crush growing up, Celebrity

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crush growing up, celebrity

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crush growing up. I

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don't know, I can't, I don't. I know.

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I'm terrible with these questions. You don't have

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a crush on anyone any certain movie star celebrity

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crush? Oh

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yeah? Um yeah Sofia

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Coppola. Um, I

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am really got the other

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three? I know. I just like yeah,

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okay, like you know,

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it's it's amazing because Godfather three

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was really bad. It was a really bad

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movie. It was like Godfather three was

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like Matrix three. But I just

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loved her in that movie and I just over

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her. Okay, okay, very cool. Um.

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Last one, what's something you learned in money

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that we're all in this together? Yes,

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yeah, we will be. We've all learned that the

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hard way. We gotta we gotta

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hold ourselves and each

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other accountable. Um

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in moments like this. Yeah,

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well, Stephen, thank you so much for your time and

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listen catch a third Eyeblind of the

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Ventura County Fairgrounds on Saturday.

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Thank you for checking in. My man. Hey,

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you know I've spent you. You've just like, um,

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you've just been this like ongoing. Um.

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You know, you know one of the things the thing that I miss

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from this is you, Mario, right

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yeah, because you're there and

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you've got like you've got such a good attitude.

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Thanks you kind of cheer me

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up. And it just goes on this loop and

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you know, around and around it goes and love

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a little bracelet and and

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there you are, and uh

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you got great teat and hey,

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ire hit it you're a welcome present.

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Oh thank you. That means a lot. I appreciate it

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well. I hope to see you in a hotel room soon. As

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as weird as that just sounded right

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off, buddy, have a great show. Okay,

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Sun with Mario a little past