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Mario Lopez.

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It's up, Mario Lopez joining me now on Zoom

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stand up comic Steve Trevino. Welcome

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to show Man. How are you?

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I'm good man. I'm just surprised to find out that you're

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a Mexican.

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What when

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I was trending on X

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everything that's so wild with with uh

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with such an Anglo name like Mario Lopez

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too right, you know it was.

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Got Mario Lopez. I can't believe he's Mexican.

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I'll bear he's so wild, funny

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as saying my dad was like wait, what craziest

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see first generation too.

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By the way, Mario, I got

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to tell you, man, you know, we we live very parallel

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lives, and you are such an inspiration

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and a hard worker and a dad and a husband

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and and you know I do jiu jitsu. You do jiu

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jitsu. You know I

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obviously do not have the body you have, but

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I don't work. I don't I do I work at night.

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Hey man, good for you, that's very cool,

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very cool. Well, I know you got a

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new special congratulations on that.

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It's called Simple Man. It's

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got to feel good seeing that on Netflix

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top ten.

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Oh now, yeah, I mean I woke up. You know, it released

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on Tuesday. I woke up. My wife's

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kicking me. Well, first of all, my wife ended

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up in People magazine? Who is Steve Charinho's

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wife? And then we woke up to the fact

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that it was number five, and you

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know, we celebrated as a

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family because it's just such a cool thing. And you

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know, it really is. I mean, it dropped

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down to six today, but it'll

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we'll creep it back up.

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Dude, that's incredibly impressive considering all the content

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that's out there. That's that's awesome.

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Man. Good for you. What in is part

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of the title?

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Well, you know, I do live a simple life,

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and I am a simple man. And you

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know, I always say that I'm gonna I'm a

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below average man married to an above

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average woman, and I just work hard

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to keep her happy, you know. And I

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am a simple man, and the little things mean

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the most to me. You know. I started jiu jitsu

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because I wanted to coach my son.

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Oh wow, my sons. My

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son's in jiu jitsu. And I went to

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the dojo and I said, well, how can I coach

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him? They go, you got to be a blue belt,

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And I said, Okay, I'll do that. Well, Mario

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four years.

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Later, good for you. Well, that's

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funny because that's exactly the same reason. How

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why I got into it. He

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was too small to take him to the boxing gyms,

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and I grew up wrestling and stuff, and I thought I was a little

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too old to kind of get into it. But I figured, Okay, I'll take him.

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He could start doing jiu jitsu. And then I'm like, well,

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I want to learn with him, be able to coach him and stuff.

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And then I got into it. And once I got into

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it, I fell in love with it. So good for

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you. That's that's ironic. What is Are you a blue

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belt right now?

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I'm a blue belt right now and you know doing

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two three times a week right on train?

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I trained extreme in your Bromfles, Texas.

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It is a Troy Dorsey Jim.

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Yeah, and it is. It is mind blowing?

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How it? You know? You like me? I'm always

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busy, I'm always working. I'm always thinking

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about my wife, my family. But that

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hour that you get to spin on the mat.

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Is you're exactly exactly you got

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to focus. I love that and you're exactly what you're doing.

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Gee or no, gate both all.

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Gee, you know, I'm not trying

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to win any fights on the streets. I

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want to I want to truly learn the art. And

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I think they Gie's the way to the way to

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go. I saw a video of you the other day doing a dars

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on somebody and I was like, dude, I don't

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know if I can handle that. Mario.

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Man, it's fun.

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Man, I love it.

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Thank you. Wait for Originally, I grew

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up in South Texas, like the Corpus Christie area.

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Oh yeah, Portland

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and and again I grew up very simple and

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very uh normal, and and

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I want my kids to grow up the same way. Even though

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you know my son he walks through

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the airport and goes, when do we go to the lounge?

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Dad? Who

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is this kid? Right?

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Exactly? And what did what did your

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parents do down in Corpus.

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My dad pipe fitter, welder, hardworking

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dude, blue collar guy. We actually dedicate

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this special to the hardworking people of America.

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And at the end of the special, I have thousands

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of fans that submitted work pictures and

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we have all their pictures because of my

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dad and my mom. And I also

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wanted to put a positive

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image of us latinos in the world.

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Good for you, Good for you. Yeah, man, no, we

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are very much like my dad worked for the city too. My mom

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the phone company. A very blue collar and I love

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Let you keep it in the family. Because your wife directed the special,

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right.

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Yeah, she she directs me at home and she

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directs me on city.

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You're good to take direction, dude.

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The way it works is like when you meet a

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new couple. If your wife likes

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her and you don't like him,

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right, you're hanging out.

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You're hanging out. It doesn't matter exactly.

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Exactly if you like him

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and she doesn't like her.

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That guy, You're exactly right. You can't kick

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it. No, it's so important. Oh it's the worst.

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You got to get him. You got to get him to meet

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and get along that way, you can understand that

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exactly. Is there a joke that

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she ever vetos or says, hey, you got to knock

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that off.

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Yeah, yeah, it's not happening, right, So you know,

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us guys are sitting there like, oh, man, I

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hope, I hope this playdate we set up is

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going well for these girls because I hang

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out with.

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You again exactly. You

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also have a podcast. Steve Travino

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and Captain Evil. That's a fun

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title. What do you all talk about on there?

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Life? You know, being parents, being

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husband and wife. You know, I talk

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about the wife so much in my act. I

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wanted to give her a voice, and I wanted people

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to be able to get into our lives and

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see from her perspective how

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we live life. And it's man, it's turned out to be,

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to be honest with you, kind of marriage there before us.

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Yeah, we're having real conversations,

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but we also know people are watching, and

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when people are watching, you behave.

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Yourself exactly exactly. It turns out

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to be therapeutic. Yeah,

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I got three kids. How many kids you got? Holiday?

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I got two kids. I got an eight year old he's

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the jiu jitsu baseball player, and

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then my daughter's three. And

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I got to tell you, Mario, I did not know

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that I would love being a girl dad like I do.

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Yeah, it's fun.

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And not only that, my wife

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is exactly like her, and she is exactly like

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my wife. And now my wife is getting

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the dose of her own medicine.

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So now you got two women telling you what to do.

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Yeah, pretty much. And my wife's

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like, why do you give her everything, right, I go, why I

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give you everything? You're not mad?

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Exactly?

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Are watching my wife in the morning, Go, Delilah,

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don't change shoes, Delilah,

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don't change outfits. You're gonna make me late. And I'm

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like, oh, yeah, how does it feel?

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Yeah, exactly exactly what gets worse for her

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later on? Trusty, I know you're

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kicking off a bunch of tour dates. You

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got any favorite places to perform on

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stage?

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Vegas is probably my favorite. You know, I'm a

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huge fight fan. Yeah, I

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love the town. I love being

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on stage in Vegas and having drinks

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with the wife afterwards and hanging

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out. You know, one of my dreams. I

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mean, you know, growing up, me and my dad, all we did was watch

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boxing. Yeah, yeah, Tuesday night.

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You know, I was actually performing

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when Gonelo was fighting, and I

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was able to get my dad ringside, and you

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know that was just such a special moment. Yeah

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for me, dad. You know. So you

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know, as you know you're a boxing fan as well. When

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you grow up and all you hear is from

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the beautiful MGM, you know, And yeah,

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I just love Vegas, smiling my favorite town.

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That's awesome, man. Yeah, Wow, it's it's a

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trip and uncanny how much we got in common

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and all this stuff. Man, well, I look forward to

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meeting you in person. Brother. Congratulations

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on everything you've got going on. Keep up the

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great work and listen. You can stream

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Simple Man right now on

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Netflix. Steve, thanks for hanging out. You

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still kicking in Texas? Huh, that's still home.

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Yeah. When you come visit, man, come home and bring the

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family. We'll go to my compound and we'll

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roll in my jiu jitsu gym in my backyard and

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we'll have a good time.

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Yeah. Oh damn, you got one in your backyard, right, good,

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right on? All right, brother, take care of it. Nice meet

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you. Pleasure Wow with

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Mario Lopez