THE BIG INTERVIEW - George Lopez on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, TV Show, and Secret Service Coming to His House

THE BIG INTERVIEW - George Lopez on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, TV Show, and Secret Service Coming to His House

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to another episode of The BigThe Big Interview Podcast. Do you think
that they had your phones tapped ineverything? Because the intelligence that they have,
I think so, man. Iwould say I kind of knew they
were gonna they were gonna show up. And then you know, I'm laying
in bed by myself and I'm like, come in here and do a Marilyn

(00:23):
Monroe. Put something in my overover. Yeah, find me face down
with a phone in my hand.They done. If they can do,
they can do. George Lopez,Yeah, he done. The way I
treat those dogs, They're not gonnabark. He's upstairs, right, big
boy. Neighborhood. A beautiful dayin the neighborhood, Ladies and gentlemen.

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Pleasure to have this man back inthe neighborhood. Man, George Lopez,
Welcome back to the neighborhood. Brother. Uh, yeah, I hate it's
been a long time. I know, man, But you know what,
man, it's been a long time. But you never get far away from
me, you know what I'm saying. Even when we're not sitting down,
we're always kind of like checking inwith each other. Though. You know,

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that's exciting to hear because I'm sixtytwo. I live at home by
myself with those rescue dogs. Soif I when I do fall out,
I think they might smell the dogsbefore they smell me decomposing upstairs. Hey,
George, so you live alone alone? Yeah? Man? And my
house is my house is hunted.Oh yeah, yeah, you're still at

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the same place. I'm oh yeah, yeah, man, why is it?
I guess it's been there forever andthere's just spirits come down. They're
like, it's kind of nice andwhy would they leave? But you know,
we've heard voices in there. There'sbeen banging. I'm gonna tell you
that. There's a entities that yousee walking by or walking in the middle

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of the night, and you're comfortablewith that. Yeah, they're not kicking
in no mortgage. Listen, whenyou grow up, you know the kukoui
or the true sae. Every ladywatering in the grass. Now you're kind
of belted, but you built forthis. There'll be some lady but not
bathe every time it gets dark.Hey man, So but you in there

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and you've you've heard it because Iremember the one time. You got a
lot of history in the house aswell. Man. But yeah, I
don't know now, because growing upwe had everything, Bro. We had
rats, we had roaches, wehad spirits, And now that I'm a
little bit older, I don't thinkI could just sit and know that something
else is in the house spiritually,man. You know, maybe a couple

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months ago, I had a folderon top of my bed, leather folder
with a scarf up there, andit'd been there for maybe three months.
And I get up in the middleof the night sometimes because I go to
bed early, and I start workingin the middle of the night, and
one and one time about three thirtyalways happens between three and four, that
scarf came off of the top ofthe bed and landed on my arm.

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And I was like that, Uh, didn't just happen And I'm like,
yeah, it did. It justkind of came down and just landed on
my arm. Somebody picked it upand tossed like someone was just kind of
like, just let me put itnext to you, Like maybe somebody came
next to me. There there's athere's somebody that I don't show me nothing
in your phone, bro, andI want to leave. I knew that

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past and their their face. Uhcame to Mike because I kind of felt
that there was somebody in the otherroom, and then I ran the camera,
but I looked the other way,as if you're trying to psychot you
know, I can't see it.You can see me, like how people

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will pick you up in the airport, Like is that Bradley Cooper, I'm
out. So that's what you didwith the ghost this period in the house?
Like yeah, if I if Iif they don't see me doing this,
watch this, he moves out ofthe way. See that? Wait,
hold on, man, what amI looking at here? That's a

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face. I lit it up.So this was sitting next to me on
the bed, and then it movesout of the way. See it moved
out of the way. Hey man, I want to tell you. I'm
gonna tell you right now. Bro, watch this, George, I didn't
see nothing. Okay, no,I saw it, but I didn't invite
nothing in. I ain't invite nothingin. And at no point do you

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get up and try to find anotherhouse or at least go stay at a
hotel for the night, or youjust good? You know that's a good
question, man, because there usedto be a lot of knocking and pining,
and you could hear talking, andI said, if it ever,
if it ever like touches me,I'm out because what about the scar falling

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on your arm that's not touching up? You know that that might been.
But you know, it's an olderhouse. So you know, when you
walk into an older house, youhear creaking. So in the middle of
the night, you hear creaking,you know. So I guess maybe the
ghost gets up to go to thebathroom as many times as I do,

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right, right, but we goat different times, you know, but
but you hear like steps, andthen it stops here for me. Hell
yeah, man, so yeah,I'm Almo tell you. And then and

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then you know, I did dooruh door Dash commercial for like letting the
when the pandemic was on, likeletting letting the actors that aren't working have
the money from the tips from fromdoor Dash, and the lady was in
there setting up the camera and shekind of went like this, and she
goes, could you tell whoever's talkingto stop talking? And I said,
there's somebody else here, just doesdamn. And then I when I was

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done, I went upstairs and thenshe was getting the stuff ready and then
she said to moment I don't knowhow he lives here, like I can.
I can hear a woman and uhtalking like really low. Yeah,
that's when I'm gone. And thenpeople come in there and I and I
leave the there's a there's a closetthere, you know, used to go
with people's houses. You would say, O, let me take your jacket,
you know, and put it inthis kind of small closet. And

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the first person that was like aspiritual person or a person that you know,
either cleans houses or whatever, Theysaid to me, Uh, what,
what what's going on with this closetright here? I said, I
don't know what what do you think? She goes now I think did the
person have kids that lived here?I said probably probably, And it said,
uh, I wouldn't close the doorto this closet. I would always

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leave it open. Don't close thatdoor, like there's bad there's bad energy
in that closet, like don't likemaybe they put the kids in there to
to punish them. And she goesdon't. And then upstairs there's an attic,
but a low attic, and Iwould hear things rattling in there,
and what I mean just loud loud, like like just now you know it's

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not just and yeah, so Ihad to walk over there and there's a
switch. I turned the switch onit and I had to open it up.
And man, you just hardest jumping. I have my gun like you're
gonna murder the day. But theghost you it's like, goes like this

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and closes like but I mean,it's been, it's been, it's been.
It's been a trip. Man,Hey, George, can we do
like a neighborhood sleepover at the house. We could do that, yeah,
man, and we bring our productionguys with the mics turned up crazy.
Yeah, and we do like aneighborhood sleepover. Yeah, we do,
like, yeah, neighborhood ghost hunters. All right, somebody sleeps in the

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closet, you know what. Andthen we'll do it in the living room.
But we'll do it in the livingroom. Blankets in the living room,
and there's you know, I gotvinyl and there was some music.
There's a little bar. Even ifthey're not around, Hey, what's going
on? And check out what's happening? Hey, man, George low pans

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in the neighborhood. Man and George, we've been in the neighborhood and We've
had a chance to hit down quiteoften, George, but I did not
George before comedy. Were you tryingto Were you trying to be a boxer?
No, okay, no, Iwas about to say, what the
hell? I had never heard enough? I hit it and by who you
know what? You know? Mymomhme with a belt buckle like in the

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eye. Oh wow, And I'mlike, hey, you know you've been
a mom long enough, don't youknow you're supposed to hold the buckle part
and hit him with the other side. You know how long you've been a
mom? Eight years? That's howI'm mistaken. You know. They make
well I'm in diapers, nang andjust swung around hit me in my eye,
man like with the buckle, andit's like, so, you know,
there was a lot of that.But you know, I don't know,

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man, you know, I thinkyou know, it's hard to say,
man like, you know, peopleare into the spiritual stuff and manifestations
and things like that, but youknow, I didn't know my father.
I didn't on my mom. Idon't have any pictures of me as a
baby. I don't really show upuntil first grade. Yeah, man,
that's crazy though, Hey, dude, have you and like with me,
I don't have baby pictures. Idon't have any of that stuff. And

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I'll look George and I'll see sometimeswhere it's like a TV show or you'll
see something and it's like, oh, everybody had their baby pictures, and
I'm like, I couldn't be apart of that because I don't have anything.
Mine don't show up to now.What I have is like sixth grade,
you know, because we lost everything. There was some evictions of fire,
but yeah, I don't have anyof that. You know. One
time I did a show and theysaid that they used baby pictures of the

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celebrities before, and I was like, man, I don't really have any
picture. I use a picture ofMaya, right, yeah, yeah,
yeah, what they gonna do?Yeah, young enough to you can't tell
what gender it is, right,swapped up in a little white blacket.
I used that it was Mayan becauseI didn't want to tell them I don't
have any pictures of me as ababy. Oh yeah, hey, George,
So what did you do before comedyreally start? And we've had this

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conversation, But before comedy start,so called paying the bills? Because now
you look at comedy and you canhave follow you can grab jump on Instagram.
It's not like you. You know, there's still some people out there
that's really sharpening the skill. Butyou had to do open mic nights,
you know, yeah, you hadto leave the house the house. What
did you do beforehand? Before comedylike took off? When I first graduate

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from high school in seventy nine,I worked at a book book publishing place
off of Sherman Way and Ryl Canyon, Powers book Publishing. And then when
I did my first show, Inamed the place Powers Aviation, and I
used to work for Powers Wow becausethe guy and I used, I named
the guy Meil Powers. In myshow, the guy's name was Melvin Powers,
and he fired me because he cameover with some clients. Back there,

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it would ship books, you know, like how to be how to
play Black Jacket, how to bea Gardener's, oh, how to books.
And the guy came over and hesays, George, so, how's
everything going. I said pretty good? Melvin, and I looked over and
his face was like, oh,like oh man, man, get fired
man. And then he fired mefor calling him Melonlvin instead of calling mister

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Powers. Damn. When the showcame, they said, well, we're
gonna name the place. I said, let's name it Powers Aviation. And
then we'll name the dude mel malPowers. Amen is Melbourne Powers. Was
he still alive when your show's probablydid? Damn? He was all in
his tennis gear. But you know, you know it didn't look healthy back
then, okay. And then youknow I used I used all real names

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of places in the show, allmy teachers names and stuff like that.
But then I worked there, andthen I went worked in UH in Northridge
at Tandeon Magnetics and UH. Andthen I worked with my grandmother on Balboa
at Sperry Aviation. She'd been therefor like thirty years. And then that's
where we used to drive together towork. And Richard Pryor lived down Partena

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and my grandmother d I don't know, just writer on Earth at least get
oranges because there's orange tree. ButI would drive by his house every night,
but my grandmother in the car,My granda was like, where we
going back to that place again?I would just drive by just to have
that or with Richard hey Man,did you always know you wanted to be
a comedian because a lot a lotof comedy could come from dark places too,

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like how do you make this funny? I mean, I think maybe
from the time I was eleven,you know, I was writing jokes and
I would get like a little youknow, right on the backs of the
envelope side gas company all the bills, right, and then I started to
buy those little things that the detectivestake out at the scene. So what
was his name, little Flip?A bunch of those still have them,
you know that from back then.And then in nineteen seventy nine, I

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wrote myself a note like August sixthor fourth in nineteen seventy nine, saying
that one day America would know me, that I would be great, and
that I would hit him like ahammer and all this, and I signed
it in nineteen seventy nine, andthen so can anybody believe that besides you?
Nobody believe me, you know.And you know Latinos, you know,
like in Spanish, they would say, hey, George, well see

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guys called lest They're like, yeah, you know, you're still doing that
stupid and I'm like, yeah,you know, nobody ever really gave you
any credit for it, you know. And then they used to have boxing
at the country Club in Reseda,and and when I was working at in
Northridge, my friend Manny used tobe a boxer. Manual Leaving seen live
in Kunoka Park And then we wentone time and Michael J. Fox was

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there at the fights when Back tothe Future was number one, and then
he had his show on NBC.And my friend Ernie was with me,
the guy grew up with And Isaid to him when we were leaving,
I said, Man, what's itlike to have a TV show on the
air and you have the number onemovie? And right now I have a
number one movie and I have theTV show on the air? Man,

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How crazy is that? Bro?How crazy is it? A full circle?
And you know what's wild about thattoo? Man? Is that like
when you say no one believed it? Nobody? And and then also,
man, it wasn't like a lotof George Lopez is out there, no,
Like now we can look and there'slike people like, oh, I
want to be like George low Pez. I want to be You didn't have

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a strong you know, we hadlike Freddie Prinz junior, you know,
but then you say, like prior, you know, there's a big names
to Carling but you didn't have aGeorge Lopez, like somebody that really looked
like you, that was cut fromthe cloth, came from the same turf
like people have with George Lopez.Now. No, no, no,
nobody, So you didn't even havea I can be like you know,

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now somebody could say, oh,I could be like George Lopez. No.
And then you know, once RichardPrior live in Long Beach came out,
my friend Ernie had on TV andthen you know, they had VHS,
so he ran me a VHS andI had a VHS and I would
I would. I would run thatall day, like in the summer,
every day, just from the morningtill the night, just watching it all

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day. And my grandmother would goto work and she would look at the
TV and look at me, toshake her head and leave and come back
from working. It would still beon. I'd be in a different place.
She would just be like nothing,files like you don't get sick of
looking at that? And I'm like, no, no, no, no,
not at all. Did you alwaysbelieve in you though? No?
And then uh, you know,uh, I would say that Richel probably
was the only black person my grandmalet in the house but by VHS right

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and uh, and she would justmake fun of him every day, like
yeah, it's tired to see that. And then, man, I mean,
this is crazy. So when mygrandmother died, I cremated her,
you know, and and I buriedhalf of her and I kept half because
I couldn't imagine my life without withoutits crazy. And then Richard Pryor passed
away and I spoke at his funeral, like I eulogized him. And then

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one one time, his uh exwife said to me, I have something
to give you that you know,I think, but I want to give
it to you in person. Soshe came to my house and she gave
me this little box and I openedit up and it said Richard Lennox Franklin
prior had the dates, and ithad a bracelet in there. So she
gave me some of his remains ina bracelet of Richard. He's the same

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kid that used to just let medrive, just drive me by the house.
Yeah. And then I went upstairsand I put the Richard bracelet on
top of my grandmother. Damn becauseyou didn't like him then about about him?
After like my back right up themiddle of my back then, how

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did you find George Lowpiz because youknow, like, I'm pretty sure that
it took some time for you totell your story because were you starting off
with like, you know, punchlinesand and things that weren't that's the core
of George. That's a really goodquestion. So in the in the early
nineties, I started doing Our Seniorin eighty nine, and then and then
in the nineties, uh, youknow you do Our senor Our Senio,

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and then and then really like ninetythree is in a terrible place, man,
like just going nowhere. You know. I quit my job in like
eighty seven, and I was headliningat Carolines and there was this guy that
was with me that was just killingme every night. Man. I was
like, damn, Dud's like killingme. And then this guy which is

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that he worked at three Arts.Forgot what his name? I forget his
name? Wow. So anyways amanager at three Arts, and Chris Rock
was was really really like early nightsinMike Rodenberg, you know, ran three
Arts, and this guy I can'tremember his name. So he came to
me and after afterwards he said,do you mind if I give you some
constructive criticism. I said, yeah, go ahead. He goes, hey,

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man, when I watch you,man like, I don't know what
you're into. I don't know ifyou're married, I don't know if your
politics are. I don't know anythingabout your family and your brother and sisters.
And he goes, you know,when you see Chris, you know
where he is, like politically,you know where he is and all that
stuff. And he goes, youknow, I consider like, you know,
putting a little bit more of that. And I was like, yeah,
I think that's I think you're right. So I walked back to the
Mayfair House hotel in New York,and then I started thinking about the morning

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I started to write all this stuffabout my grandmother, and I think that
was it, like that he wasright that that it was a little mundane.
And then when I start talking aboutmy grandmother like that, everything changed.
Yeah, and you can you cannotice the difference right away, right
away, you know, right awaywe started doing listened to him though,
because I thought, because you know, I can't see from the outside,
you know, like people will takeoff lessons that they show you on video,

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and you know they're like, oh, this is your let's video.
You're swinging. All I can seeis I'm fat, right right, And
I think I think when you knowwhat's inside that you you you saw,
I said, I think this guyis I think he's right, you know,
because I'd never really talked about anythinglike that. And then that was
the that was the key, thatthat took everything, because I remember I
saw Tim Allen in Indianapolis right beforeHome Improvement, and you know, everything

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that was in his act was inthe TV show. And I remember sitting
back there, I was like,man, I don't have anything that's in
my act that's in my TV show. And then you know, in the
two thousands, you know, SanderBullock saw me in two thousand and one,
and then we went over here toWarner Brothers and and and pitched the
idea to Bruce Elford who did Roseanneand and and Drew carry and and he
said yeah. And then when Istarted to talk to those guys, you

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know, the show kind of startedcoming out. Remember that dad, that's
writers system. You know. Wewere over there and then she started crying,
you know, and we're like,like, are you all right?
And it's just so sad, youknow, and I said, yeah,
you know, but you know it'sgonna be funny too, you know,
So that that whole thing of theshow being you know, real started there
in some room by somebody. Hey, George, I remember years ago we

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had a conversation and if anybody canlook back at it, you did a
lot of like comedy really with youreyes. And when you got to it,
when you got to television, theytold you, like the first couple
were pretty they were like pretty big, like what you know, and they're
like hey man, and and thenyou know, they put that in the

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review of the show and they werelike, this guy is not this is
gonna work out, this dude,And that's a punchline. Like you know
what's crazy, George is that youcan't even really do it right now.
And I'm talking about if anyone lookat old, early early George Lopez,
like you did a lot of comedywith your eyes, bro, And when
somebody comes and tell you, youknow, slow, yeah, like you're

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doing too much. The couple ofnotes I got was don't pop your eyes
out. And then I wore asweater one time and they said, you
know, your tits are too big. So those are the two things you
know when you do TV. Andadds, wait, all of a sudden,
you're like, let me see andyou look at the bitch full sea
cup and I'm like, a second, I'm gonna go change this thing.
Put the jacket out, man.But you know I was sitting in a

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way throughout its like my eyes areup here. Yeah, you looking at
my chee chee man, black littlewet and I'm black tainted been. Hey,
George, you come from a partof comedy when everything you can make

(20:44):
a joke out of, everything,you can laugh off of some of the
craziest things. Now, bro,are you gun shy when comedy? Okay?
No, because you know, uh, you know how here's one that
said that, you know, everythingis somebody else's business. You know,
nobody minds you business. So youknow, when I was in New York,
I was eating a hot dog.You know, you're eating a hot
dog and the guy, this guy'slooking at me, and I'm like looking

(21:06):
at it. And then you know, he's like, he says to me,
hey, when you know how theymake those, you don't ever want
to eat another one. I'm like, oh, yeah, well, I
know what does I still eat that? And uh that kind of stuff,
And I know what's in there?So that that kind like how quiet is

(21:26):
like that, I mean that takesa little bit of you know, damn
so you don't get gun shy.Now we're like yeah, man, no,
yeah, I don't. I don'tthink you can. You know,
listen, it's like why why?I mean, I don't know it.
And I don't really talk to anybodyoutside of this stuff. You know.
It's very kick to myself. Andthen we were in uh, San Antonio

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just recently, and a lady hada balloons and it said single and ready
to mingle. And she goes,George, I'm single and ready to mingle,
and I'm like, hey, well, you know, congratulations, I'm
alone and ready to bone. SoI mean, you know, I don't
think I can. You know,I think it's just whether they like it

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or not. I mean, youknow, hey, I mean I said
something about our former leader. TheSecret Service came to my house, I
mean Trump, yeah, oh man, And I had my attorney with me,
and then uh, you know,they said, do you remember retweeting
a picture of l Chopo? Yeah? And I was like, shop right
right, I said, is hea gypsy king? I don't know?

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And then they took. You know, they have everything you ever put on
social media. They have everybody.So he says, maybe maybe this will
help as a briefcase. And there'sthere's a picture of it of a T
shirt and it they took the timeto investigate and come to your house.
But you know what secret service beenon you before? Then? Didn't you

(22:57):
do this speech at the White House? And you took your speech? I
think maybe three is a charmed Soso he says, do you think that
this is funny? You know?My lawyers like, you don't have to
answer that, you know, AndI'm like, right now, I don't.
But you turned into like a littlekid right now. But when I
did, I did by right now, I don't. And then there was

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the eighty alleged eighty million dollar bountythat I ran had had put and and
then come up on a Sunday afternoon, I put, we'll do it for
half yea. They came at youfor that, for that, and then
they said that's a you know,a threat, and I said, well,
you know, I'm a Latino,so I don't think you understand.
That's more of an estimate. Somebodydo it cheaper, get damn me with

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material and everything that's that's me,you know. I know it's a little
high, but you know, justbut but I mean one time when I
moved in, I was trying tobe all, you know, non Chicano,
not Chicano, you know. Isaid, I'm gonna set my alarm.
And then when I get back onSunday, I don't know the code.

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It's all the same code anyways,so I'm trying to run around and
do the code, and then Ifinally get it. And then twenty minutes
later, you're here, open upthe LAPD. They'll say it's a white
cop and then a Latino cop.And the Latino cop goes, hey,
what's up? And I said,I said, oh, man with the
alarm. Yeah sorry, man,Like I don't know, I never set
the alarm, and I set thealarm and you know, it just went
off, man, and then there'ssilence, you know, and then the

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white cop goes, can I seesome I D? I said, oh
yeah, and the Latino cop goes, yeah, that's Georgia. Yeah,
yeah, just just for me,you know. So I said, come
on in, and I can't andI can't find it, you know,
so I can't find my license Ialways I'm always lose my wallet. I
can't find my license. So we'rein the house looking around, and you've

(24:53):
been to the house. It doesn'tthere's really not It doesn't matter a lot
like the house I would, youknow. So I'm looking around that doesn't
even look like I lived in.I'm like, man, So I'm like,
yeah, this is all your stuff? Yeah, and I go,

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oh, So I go to therefrigeral open it up, the chi leader
the cornflower. Yeah, there's something, you know, some corstillas and red
chi let. That guy goes,that's good enough for me. All right,
sorry to bother you, you know, but nobody in that in that
neighborhood has you know, costilla andcorn im flower and tortilla is wrapped in

(25:34):
a tropole. You know, youopen it up there, Hey, George,
what looked like the as far asthe landscape that we're about to get
into politically look like again, youknow, the indictments that's going on with
Trump, Like, do you feellike when you say something as secret service
of PAP up at your house again, are you just say what's on your

(25:55):
mind? Well? I would hopenot, but at some point that's kind
of like you know where the where'sthe line? Somebody, you know,
you push the envelope, where's myline? I don't want any more visits
because I think at the next one, you know, they might you know,
consider a threat, you know,a thing. But you know the
Secret Service, you know, theyyou know, I made coffee and everything.
They want to drink coffee my hub, you know. So so I

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was like, get you guys anything, No, I want to get something
to drink, you know. Yeah, A man, do you think that
if they went through all that,do you think that they had your phones
tapped in everything? Because the intelligencethat they have, I think so,
man, I would say, Andit's not paranoia, it's like really so
little. It's a little paranoia.But uh, you know the week that

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they were going to come, likeit was on Fox News and and and
then you know, I kind ofknew they were gonna they were gonna show
up. And then you know,I'm laying in bed by myself, and
I'm like, They're gonna come inhere and do a Maryland and Roe put
something in myolo over over you Yeah, find me face down with a phone
in my hand. You know,they do if they can do the Jordan

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Lopez the way I treat those dogs. They're not gonna bark. He's upstairs,
right yet, upstairs even waiting whenyou guys get here, don't won
We're not gonna bark. Hey man, what do you feel about all the
indictments with Trump? I think hewould have made a good Chicano man because
he has no he doesn't back away, and he walks out there. They

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indicted me again, right, canyou believe it? I got seventy eight
three indictment. I think at somepoint nobody should be above the law.
Uh. And I think at somepoint, you know, if the laws
are broken, that you have topay for breaking the law. So you
know, they and you know JoeBiden's son, you know, crack headed
losing his computer. You know alot of crack heads his computer. Right

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then you know, the Republicans endup with it and and and all that,
and they're like, oh, youknow he used his job to make
money, you know, for hisson. But then Jared Kushner was like,
uh, he put them in chargeof like, uh businesses and other
countries. He made billions of dollars. I know, you got just looking
for like, you know, elevendollars to buy another rock, right versus

(28:07):
that little guy with the peep Iwas no with no shirt on. You
know, I got a second posted, you know. So so it's just,
you know, there's a double edgething, but you know, you
just really kind of want I mean, there's so much hate, man,
it's like hate, death threat youknow, I got death threats, you
know, man. You know therewas a guy in Florida that that had
a list of one hundred people thathe wanted to blow up, you know,

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to politicians and and people in othercountries. And and and I was
on the list, you know,so and and we definitely did this via
Zone and de Yeah, and DaleHughes is like, was I on the
list? I'm like, I don'tknow. I mean I don't want to
be on the list because yeah,but you know I talked more about him
than you do. I mean Ishould be on the list. Hey doesn't.
Man, you're upset because you're noton the list. Get blown up?

(28:52):
All right? Yeah you cant right. So, so, you know
when when they caught that guy,they caught he lived in his van,
he was in Florida, you know, and they had a list of one
hundred people and they had bombs thatpipes that he had already made. So
you know, I got they calledme and I was doing that movie out
of Time that it's like all theFBI, the sheriffs, Park Department,

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school cops, higher patrol, everybody, every law enforcement got on a call
and they told me that you knowthat I had been on this list and
for me not to open any suspiciouspackages. And then when they hung up,
it's almost like all right or no. So they put it on you.
They take it off of them andput it on you. So once
they tell you don't open any suspiciouspackage, then you do. Their their

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liabilities is over. They just kindof washed their heads like all right,
nex, who's next, you know? And then I said to him,
I said, wait, wait aminute, so suspicious packages and they're like,
yeah, you know, and Isaid, well, you know,
culturally, you know a lot ofour food comes in suspicious packages. It
might be like I can't believe it'snot butter. But then there's you know,
Chile in the it might look likea C four, but sometime I

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list wrapped in foil. You know, somebody, They might look like wires,
but there's a corn husk hanging outand they're like, don't help it,
don't put any of that. That'sthat's when MoMA opening your stuff.
Nervous and sweat. Yeah, Ithink there's I think I think they're chicken.
But man, it's it's crazy thatan opinion and comedy can get you
here though. It is because youknow, I you know, I've said

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some stuff that was I just Ikind of think like innocuous matter and then
people go crazy. But you know, the right wing stuff, and I
mean they send dms to you andthey're pretty graphic, man, really terrible
man. And it's like, youknow, if you're sending them from an
account, you can screenshot and justsend people the account and stuff like that.
So but I mean it's twenty fourhours a day, like death death

(30:47):
threats still so so you know,but all all anonymous, you know,
like that's that's the thing. It'sall anonymous. I mean, you know,
if you look at where we comefrom, like you know, as
soon as you're old enough to putwater in the beans, you start getting
death threats. You know, asyou're old enough to hold the ladder,
you know, keep a secret.They're like, hey, tell your dad

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I'm gonna kill you. You're five. I'm not gonna say anything, you
know. So so you know that'swhy, you know, that's why I
respect my grandma. My grandma toldme she was gonna kill me. She
told me to my face. Youknow. It's almost like like to scream
the movie. You know, thepolice call you. The calls are coming
from inside the house, you know. So I mean it's it's it's if

(31:30):
they want to get you, thereto get you. But you know it's
mostly cowards. Man, George,leave you leave your name and address.
What did you do during the reasonhurricane that we were going to have?
And thank god, man, we'reall good and safe. But were you
scared or prepare? Sat on myporch hoping rooting for my neighbor's trees to
fall, but they didn't. Butyeah, the neighbor. I got a

(31:51):
neighbor that has a barking dog andthese trees that you know, things fall
in my yard and things just like, man, you know, you want
something to uproot it? Yeah,did you prepare for it? Are?
No? I don't think Yeah?No, I was, yeah, man,
But I mean the idea that there'sa hurricane, you know, in
Los Angeles. Yeah, man,the idea of that, but people that

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were affected mind, yes, butyou know, there's no rain, then
there's rain, then there's a hurricanethat. You know, people like georsh
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, theytalking about fighting the billionaire brawl. Are
you familiar with that? No,but I would probably take Mark. You
probably take markets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he really trained you
get older, man, I can'teven open gatoring ching out to get some

(32:37):
vice scripted pipe ranch to open up. I can't even open a gatorade.
Man. Hey, man, doyou find now George being in your sixties
is it a different world? Man? It's a different world, man.
I mean yeah, it's just youknow, you don't think of getting old,
and then it happens, and thenyou realize, man, you're you
know like once I almost almost Iwas walking, you know, and you're

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almost tripping, but you kind oflike are running, you know, like
you kind of look like you're tryingto and then some dude don't try to
be young, almost crushed my finger. I was like, whoa, I
caught myself. I suck. Hey, George is in different now doing the

(33:23):
the George Lopez Squad when you comeout on stage, don't go all the
way down. You know, it'sjust almost like ceremonious kind of just go.
You know, just just see meat eight this morning. That tip
my legs, so I can atleast kind but but it uh it uh

(33:47):
definitely the squat uh is. It'sdefinitely a lot higher. Hey, man,
do you ever you was gonna golike this? I was just amen.
Do you have look at any oflike the old George Lopez episodes or
anything like that? Yeah. Igo to the doctor, you know,
they say you want to watch TV, and then I watched myself and they're

(34:07):
like, I don't know your sonwas an actor. But that's mean.
So you're forty this is what thisis what's messed up. You're forty four
in the morning and sixty two atnight. It's like the temperature the bar
is gonna be cool, it's gonnabe forty four, but that's gonna heat
up to sixty two. I meanI look way different than I did because

(34:28):
you get older, man, Butyou know, you're you know, I
went one time to to go tothe Hollywood Wax Museum to take a friend,
so I said, hey, theylike go Yeah, going up there
that stood next to my wax figure, which is from when I was fifty
different in the last twelve years,and they're like, hey, man,
we're not going to change it.It's a lot to do. I said,

(34:50):
no, no, I don't leaveit. Or when you're standing there,
somebody else be like, sir,can you move because we want to
get a picture with George stand byElton John. I think it's washed out,
damn. But I mean it doesn't, you know, but you hear
it though, man, but I'mhere. Do you ever trip off of
like your show is on all thetime? Yeah, you know, I

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do. Man. You know,like in two thousand and two, you
know, nobody thought that it wasever going to do anything. And then
in the twenty one years that it'sbeen around, it's never been off for
a day. That's crazy, man. I remember George twenty something years ago
when you was like, man,they ordered four episodes, and I remember
we were on air, man,make sure you guys check it out,

(35:37):
make sure. And then they gotthe eight and then I remember you called
me. You was like, man, they picked up the back end.
We got we got it, youknow, we got it. Then the
season two and I remember your number. At that point, you're like,
man, if we can make itto eighty eight episodes, I'm in syndication
and you hit that eighty eight plus. Man, it has not stopped.
And even when you watch the showthe eighty eighth episode, I'm wearing a
Dale Jared jersey like a NASCAR jersey. He was number eighty eight. Oh

(36:00):
wow, you knew I knew them. So I called him and I said,
hey, man, can you sendme an eighty eight jersey? Because
my TV show is reaching the eightyeighth episode, which is syndication. So
the number eighty eight I'm wearing onthe show that was the number eighty eight.
So you knew that meant something.I knew that it meant something.
Man, hey, George, withmany years that you've been on, can
you still hear the laughter? Wow? That's a pretty good that's a good

(36:24):
question. It's wild, man,because you know, in the beginning,
it's really loud, Like you walkout, it's like really loud, loud,
almost like you know, you're like, damn, it's loud. And
so it's more of almost like intennis, you know, you hear the
ball hit and then they see itcoming back. So I think it's more
of a rhythm than it is actuallya sound, gotcha than a sound?

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Do you still enjoy a comedy?Yeah? I think so. Man,
Yeah, yeah, will be atthe Greek being like no, no,
no, I think so. Butyou know, just people that do it
that don't really like I mean,I mean, it's the one thing that's
never left me, you know,like the things that you know, people
are that are gone and everything likethat. But you know the idea of
writing stuff, you know, it'snever left whatever whatever that was or whatever
that gift that was given to me, like to be able to write,

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and you do it because you wantto, not because you have to.
Yeah, I love yeah, becausebecause I think you know, like people
say, well, why do youstill doing me? The thing is,
it's like almost like you know,if you had if you could fly,
why wouldn't you fly until you didn'twant to fly anymore. That's what it's
like to be able to have peoplecome and see you, be lucky enough
to be around all those years andthen be able to still have people come
and see wherever you go. George, when you do la shows like or

(37:29):
if you do something like you knowin Orange county. Whatever. Do you
come from the house or do youtake the hotel that's in like the writer,
that's a good I come from thehouse, come from the house.
When I was married in uh,when you were married, was I probably
took the hotel. But I've beencaught in traffic. Yeah, I've been.

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I've been. I've been caught intraffic and long beach out there at
the terrace. The You're like,I don't think we're gonna make it.
And in San Antonio, Uh,we got caught in thinking. I got
out and walked like the four blocksto get out there. Yeah. Do
you like, say, for instance, there's a show that's going on,
do you get there early enough?Like if you go on at eight,

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what time do you make sure thatyou're there? And do you have any
like rituals before the show like superstition? Yeah, from the from the eighties.
Uh, by three o'clock. Itake a nap before. So it's
every time there's a show from threeto six, usually two to six as
the venue wherever I'm at, andthen I try to get there at least
two too. And you know,some some dudes man just get in there.

(38:35):
I'm there like hours before, likemaybe thirty I noticed that too,
and you have like a very calmroom. Yeah yeah, and then you
know people come in and say hello, so say hello. And then at
one point everybody leaves the room,right, and then you get George Lopas
time. Yeah yeah, and there'snobody in there and it's just you know,
Charlie Murphy, when Charlie Murphy wasalive, walk in there and he'd

(38:58):
be like, hey, he saidthe smoke smoke a joint and then talking
to me. And then at eightfifteen I throw them out like the show
starting eight thirty eighty fifteen, you'dbe like, I better get out of
here. You need that time?Yeah, what do you what are you
doing that time? Yeah? It'sprobably just really quiet. And then you
know, they tell you how muchtime a person has left. And then

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at fifteen minutes, I start toget dressed, right, so you don't
sit around in the clothes. Doyou still get nervous? No, no,
no, no, look, youknow to tell you it doesn't anticipate.
Don't anticipate a little anxiety right rightright late lately. But I don't
know, I don't know what thatis, but you'll know. But it's
not like nervous. Not nervous.I heard that, bro, Yeah,

(39:39):
when when you finished with a show, and you know that the HBO specials,
I did four of them all live, So I don't know if I
would do anymore live because you know, now you've got people yelling. You
can't get people yell be out there, you know, trying to just disrupt.
But before all this, you know, division happened. I was doing
them live because I thought, howcould you make stand up a little more

(40:00):
harder? I think, make itgo live? Do it live? Yeah,
damn, so more like a boxer. What do you feel now with
the camera everything? Like if youlike? And the one thing also when
it comes to comedians is if there'sany group you're waiting for the hit record,
you're waiting for the hit record.They could, they could, They
can tour on one album forever.Yeah, But comics y'all don't have the

(40:22):
luxury of you know, man,dude, you know there's member and there's
certain thing that we want from you, but you can't do the same jokes.
So you just roll them over,almost like gardening. I just roll
over and the new ones come tothe top, and the old ones go
go under stews rolling it over.Do you do you do you have a
no show, no phone policy atthe show, Like yeah, but you

(40:43):
see it usually pretty good. Igot guys in there, you know,
with the flashlights and stuff like that. I try to stop it, but
yeah, you know. One time, you know, the crazy thing is
one time I was in the Iwas in Colorado at the Globe Arenas in
an arena, so we're doing thosethings in the round and I was up
there and I was almost done,and thing hit the stage and I thought
somebody threw something. And I lookeddown and I was like telling the audience,

(41:05):
hey, man, guy's throwing something, you know, and they were
kind of like, what's that.Some dude was in the catwalk and he
dropped the flashlight like, oh,if it would hit me on the top
of the head, it would havekilled me. Hell yeah, just the
momentum in the forest. He wasway at the top, walking across the
stage and the catwalk and he droppedthat you know, like that lighter.
Yeah, flashlights of that big andyou turn stuff like that, and he

(41:27):
that fell out of his pocket andalmost hit me on the top of the
head. Oh yeah, that hadbeen lights out right. Yeah, that
would be canceled Christmas. That woulddefinitely I'd be doing comedy with my spirits.
You gotta look familiar here all theone that was back in, all
the one that was creaking with thebladder, that was the reason why you
had to leave the door open.I would, hey, man, and

(41:51):
why you're here? Congratulations man onBlue Beady. We had a chance to
talk about that early on when youwas like, man, big, I
got this movie. It's blue beat, you know. And now when we
fast forward, record breaking, groundbreaking, man, just to be a
part of something like that Blue Beetlelike we've never seen before, what does
that feel like for George Lopez witha man that has accomplished so many things

(42:13):
already. It's it's it's pretty special, man. I mean, you know,
uh, you know, I waswith mine. I took Maya to
see it and told my hand duringthe movie and she's crying and stuff like
that. It's it's it's amazing,man. Like you're just some kid,
you know that nobody ever really paidattention to, and you all of a
sudden you grow up and then youget to be in this thing. I
mean, I as excited as Iam to be in Blue Beetle. I

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know, I would have been thatdisappointed if I wasn't, like like if
I would have seen somebody else doall this stuff. But you know,
that director around him, Miguel Soto'slike just some visionary man. He's like
a comic book nerd music guy.So all the music is great in there,
and all that storyes tracks, andyou know, I talked to him
on the phone and got the gotthe part, and I mean, it's

(42:54):
just a it's a great it's agreat character. Matter. Did they know
they wanted Georgia open? I thinkso, yeah, man, But it's
a great it's a great character becausea lot of the stuff was like ad
libbed, you know, like atthe end when they give me the truck
and I too much, you know, and then and then I said to
my niece, he come and helpme like it. I mean, I

(43:15):
that like chic think, come andhelp me, Like hey, man,
when you see for one, yousaid you would have felt different if you
weren't in it. And then alsothere's a pride in people that don't have
any connection with being in the movie. But if there's a pride in watching
it, you know what I'm saying, because there's sometimes you're like, man,
even if I'm not a part ofit, I want to at least
like this is huge. Yeah,you know what I'm saying. So just

(43:37):
to be in it and see thatthere's there's nothing that's that's compared to it,
bro No, I mean it's prettyspecial. But I mean, you
know, you know Chapeline, youknow the Chapeline stuff. And you know,
some guy, uh sent me amessage from from Las Vegas. They
were watching a bunch of Latinos werein there, you know, they're going
crazy and stuff. And then becauseof the weather, the theater lost power

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and nobody left, you know,and then the audio came back, but
not the picture. Nobody left,and then it all came back and the
theater went and rewound the movie sothat nobody missed any parts of the movie,
which like, nobody does that,right, rewind it. Let's see
that part again, right, SoI mean that kind of it's special,

(44:22):
man. And to have people youknow, come out and you know whatever,
twenty five million or whatever it isis great considering that, you know,
we couldn't promote it as actors,and the studio really didn't promote it,
and so you know, knowing thatwe would all get together and do
stuff and you could do it theTonight show with you know show and do
all that stuff there that you couldn'tdo. Yeah, it's and I think

(44:44):
that it's got legs. I thinkthat this weekend or the weekends that come,
Yeah, I think that it buildsup too. And if I was
a kid and I saw that movieMan when I was twelve or something,
that I probably would have lost mymind. I didn't you realize that anything
is possible, hey man, andyou know Barbie had his run, but
being you know, being the moviethat take Barbie the movie out of his
number one slot and like and yousay, with a sign of the times,

(45:07):
man, like you know, eveneven when we sat down, we
couldn't really talk about the movie.You know, you couldn't do the press
run. There was no real likeyou know, uh, premiere parties and
everything that come with a movie,and especially a movie of this magnitude.
You know what I'm saying, jacketsand you know, things they sent to
your house and all that stuff andall the actors together. We didn't,

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you know, Becky g is theI mean, I mean we all did
one day like two months ago,and there was going to be this whole
big rollout, but then you knowyou're not just able to do it.
So you know, hey, man, you you talked about going to go
see the movie with your daughter Mayaand your relationship. Now, do you
feel like with Lopez versus low Pezthat that strengthen strengthen your relationship with your

(45:50):
daughter? Yeah? You know therewas times that we we didn't speak.
I think maybe for three years.You know, only got one kid,
man, and it was terrible.Man, when you're when your kid doesn't
talk to you, you know,and and you know they're out there and
and uh and you know sometimes youknow some fathers are like, hey,
you know, being Latino guy,just like hey, you know what,
that's that's her problem. It's notmine. But I knew it was my
problem. So you know, wewent to therapy and I took a lot

(46:13):
of took a lot of it.I took more hits than the blue Beetle
took. Is it hard to hearthat? It's hard to hear it.
It's hard to hear it, right? And was it validated like you understood?
Like yeah I hear yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I
mean, yeah, I mean she'sso great. I mean, it's just
it's unimaginable to think that I wouldhave let that go for for three years,

(46:34):
you know, but I can see, you know, like one time
we did Kelly Clarkson together and thenI had to get back, you know,
but I didn't tell her because youknow, Kelly Clarkson like you stay
the whole show, and I left, but I thought she knew that I
wasn't gonna be there. And thenext day we pulled in at the same
time and I saw her through mytinied window and she looked at me.
I was like, oh, no, you knew on that face. Oh,
she was all pissed off because Ileft and she could she couldn't stay

(46:57):
out there without me, so youknow, she didn't get to do the
whole hour with Kelly Clarkson. Iwas like, and I And when I
got there, I saw her face. I was like, oh, man,
I did heah like I know this, yeah, f So so we
talked. Man, We talked aboutthat. Hey man, and little Bryce
is on your show as well,and shout out to you know, Randy,
rest in peace, inky boys.Man, you saw talent in this

(47:20):
little kid, Bryce Man. Andnot only do you see the talent,
but I know, you know theInky boys. You got to see what
that father and son and that that'swhat that family was on social media.
And at that time when when Randypassed, this is during the same time
that Lopez versus Lopez is pretty muchin its run, right, Yeah,
what did that feel like? Manhaving a relationship with Pops and you know,

(47:44):
his son. Aside when the camerasare turned off? When when when
uh, I think somebody sent meyou know some inanky boy early Yankee boy
stuff and and and they go,that's kid's hilarious. Man, And you
know he was doing the cheating chongstuff here man in the car, you
know, like my license And andthen the idea for the show came and
then we're like, everybody's like,I think that kid would be great.

(48:06):
How do we get a hold ofhim? You know, who have an
agent? But I had reached outto Randy about how funny those guys were,
and he called me, so Ihad his number, So I called
him and I said, hey,man, George, you know we have
this thing going on. I thinkthat he was close to getting the deal
at Nickelodeon, and I was like, I've been a Nickelodeon. Uh,
it's all right, right, hatebut it's not NBC. So I said,

(48:27):
you know, whatever you decide.You know that we want we want
Bryce, but you know we're atNBC and we'll take care of him,
you know, the show idea.And then he he did that. He
came over and you know, weworked it out with him, and and
you know, Randy was there,I think a couple of times, but
his mom and his grandma was there, and and I mean this kid,
in the beginning, it was alittle I mean he's like maybe six or

(48:49):
seven, so it's a little bit, you know, because he's like,
he's social he's social media famous andlike in every Denny's you know that that
got a menu with influencers, youknow, and then you know they're like,
he's an influencer. And then youknow, I'm older, I'm like,
is that one of those people thatgets the kids to eat like soap?
Right, try to eat a wholething of cinema? That's like kind

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of so And then in the beginning, it was it was a little bit.
It was a little bit rough becausehe didn't have the discipline of being
at a show all the time.So gradually, you know, he started
to h kind of uh you know, understand what the job entitles. You
know, we knew that Randy psick, you know. And then when Randy

(49:30):
passed, he took a little timeoff and he came back. And the
guy Matt Shively that plays you know, and mine's partner there has been really
great with them, man like almostlike a you know, just a surrogate
person in al and all that stuff. And it had to be good for
the family to have that, youguys as a family to like, you
know, at Christmas, you know, you know, I gave him a

(49:52):
Christmas present and you know we're notstill close, you know. And then
when the when the show ended,you know, I uh, I gave
him some some stuff, you know, and and you came to my room
and I'm like, uh, man, I love you, you know,
I love you, and uh hegoes, I love you too, and
I was like cool hearted, andthey come in they go, no,

(50:16):
he's crying, and the he's cryingoutside the door, like even he didn't
even he didn't want me to seehim emotional. He goes, I love
you, and he walks out him, come, I'm crying. He's like
eight. You know, he's notcrying. They go, all it broke
down in the hallway. All good, I feel better, but I mean

(50:38):
to wear it to make you.He knew how to hide his emotions.
Yes, he's he's great. Ilove him. Man, he's great.
And he did kids. You know, it's got more Jordan's shoes than Michael
Jordan. And then he says toMatt and al, you know I'm sitting
there. Not to me, Isay anything to me, you know,
like that, and he goes,you guys, ever see five hundred dollars

(50:59):
on the floor and they go toknow, he goes, look at these,
He said, he won't say thatto you. Up, like what
do we create? They go,this chain is you know, this chain
is twenty thousand dollars man. Andthen what did I have Johnny Carson's Rolex
or something that I bought? AndI said, you see this, this

(51:22):
is your chain and your shoes,yeah, and your mortgage yea. Lords
So so you know, it's it'sfun. Man, Like I gave him
golf clubs. He got into.He got into golf and he's great.
Man, he's great. Man,George, I'm telling you, bro,
it's always a pleasure they have youin the neighborhood, man, and once
again just congratulates a thank you,Thank you man, And know that you

(51:43):
know, I think, you know, I've been around a long time,
but you know, I still it'sjust almost like, you know, I
really feel it now. You knowthat that you know you're older and you
realize that these things come to youthat you know are our gifts. You
know, from seeing Michael J.Fox, you know that time and just
being you know, and I rememberseeing Richard Pryor at the comedy store and
and and all those things that Ithink people manifest. I mean, if

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you want something, I would justsay say it, put it in the
put it out there, and andyou know, you never know might happen.
And if nobody else believe, man, believing you always believed in it,
right on, brother, Thank youfor being in the neighborhood. Ladies
and gentlemen. George, no kidsin the neighborhood, Big boy in the
neighborhood. I ain't leaving this neighborhood. Adies. Youre playing a big Boy
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with us, What went wrong ata party to the big So my cousins
throwing a party for a sereo son, but uh, you know we do
it the minute, shot shot shotseverybody. I gotta take a shot j
of course, just taking shots.But man hate to stop. He's a
banging another one. This dude's droppinglike he's got a rave. He dropping

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beech. You know. They werelike, yo love you know wow,
she started trying to dad. Theyreally played with one of the thess.
So the husband's like, nah,ain't play with that, you know not.
Big scoff for a little chovy chovywhere they booted the DJ. Their
equipment still there at you how somebodygoes behind and start pushing some buttons.
Music pops up and artists will go. You know that you're fearing for your

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