Mario Lopez is joined by his wife Courtney and radio show Producers Frasier & Nichols as he takes you through his recent, late night tour of the White House. What impressed him most? What one rule did he try to break? How much did the trip inspire Mario's future political ambitions? And, what does Courtney think of those ambitions?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Listen to Mario. What's up with to Mario Lopez? Another
episode of l t M. Listen to Mario and uh,
I've got a very special guest, Mrs Lopez. My wife,
Courtney Lopez is joining me, along with my radio producers
Fraser and some afterthought like well, producer, with all due respect,
(00:23):
you're not on the level of Mrs Lopez, No one is.
Let me just say, I'm a little upset it's taken
this long for me to bed. Podcast is actually you
do our third child, our third child's first podcast does
account even though he's he's Bryan. Well, thank you for
having me. I appreciate it. Well, thank you for joining
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I appreciate it. You know, I recently went to Washington,
D C. And got to tour the White House and
just explore the city a little bit. And I've always
teased you, but you know that later on I actually
had political as rations right on a mayoral level. Seriously,
you might laugh, but people, I get people encouraging me
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all the time. You met to go. You get you're
a mayor of l A. You're charging you're nine million people,
You've got your responsible for more people than most states. Seriously,
you've got a budget that's bigger than most states. So
it's uh, I'm not talking about mayor of going back
to you know what I mean, you Arizona or you
should do a reality show where you go back to
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your hometown of Chula Vista, become mayor mayor Tulavista that
they're in charge of a lot of people in this
is a big deal. Let me ask you something. But
my wife is afraid to be like first any first
lady of anything. Let me ask you something because I
am That's why, that's why I've been reluctant. I am
so supportive of you. I can't be any of Melania.
I can do it. You can do it, honey. Okay,
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but let me ask you, when you're a mayor, what
is the wife's like? What are her duties? Because I
don't feel her being on the same level as the
first lady of the United States. You still take you
still take on. You like to to be involved in
certain charities or things that are important to you. Right now,
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you're gonna have a bigger platform to be able to
do that. I look, I'm talking like it's already have
to be able to do that and to to raise
awareness to it and more funds. Okay, will I still
be able to wear workout clothes on the daily? Oh yeah,
you're not really in the spotlight. Okay, well we'll see. Well,
I think it's I think it's pretty much. We'll highlight
a little bit more. It would be like your life now,
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except you would no longer have to do the radio
show because he wouldn't be able to do the radio show.
Why not, Well, because your mayor, you can also do
the radio show. I'm going to be a multitask take
over the radio shows, not the mayor. No, you could
do that on with Courtney Lopez. I'd listen to that.
People like the show because of me. The hard parties.
You'll be fighting over where whether or not we go
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to actually help him be mayor, or whether we stay
here and help you do the radio show. And you
guys are coming, I'm being serious. And who knows after mayor?
Who knows? Right? What age are we looking at for you?
I'm thinking about another ten years, another ten years TV
or whatever, and just and we'll see where we're at.
Right there. I might run against you for fun, Okay,
(03:11):
I was gonna have I was gonna have you just um,
so but you think I'm joking, but I'm telling I
know you're not joking. That's why I'm petrifying. So I'm
guessing that because this has always been in the back
of your head, that there's this trip to d C
basically like further debt a little bit, Yeah, and talking
with the people. And they actually asked me there if
I had any sort of political aspersts. Actually think I went, Actually,
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I go went, I'm not lying. I have name recognition
going for you, and face recognition going for you, and
hopefully likability and ate a base which is very to
talk to people. You're super intelligent. You can sell, you
know you can, Oh, I can, you can, said she concursive.
I mean you can curse if you want. It's not necessary,
(03:54):
but it's a requirement. You're super smart. You can literally
sell Julio's dog poopoo to people and okay, duck ship
duc shit. That feels so good that I can finally
say and we can eric um, you know you you
are just good at at bullshit and I could raise
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money well. And that's actually a very good point. Is
a lot of politicians they do need to have great
bullshit abilities. Yeah, and if you tell what they want
to hear. One of the things of all I like
to think of it his charming charisma. Well, that's what
things Mario has is a lot of charisma, Like he
can make people feel like they're the most important person
in the room when they're not. And that's what politicians need,
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and he's already got that. So that's a good thing
in his favor. You keep that a phraser might be
a chief of staff. Trust me, what would Nicols do?
Nichols I need listen, you need a whole whole staff everyone,
there's roles for everyone, but you're deputy chief of staff.
He'll still be my number two. Sit there and laugh.
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I'd have to hear what Nichols has has in mind.
Could be a speechwriter, right, we're all listen. Everyone's going
to play a part, including you, Mrs Lopez. So anyway,
you wanted a late night tour. This was a break
This was breaking news for ten year prediction from now.
But yeah, So we went to the White House. We
walked around the West Wing, which is the side of
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the building with the Oval office, and it's got the
Situation Room and the Executive Conference room along with all
the offices in the administration. And it was cool because
we got a tour at nine at night. But you
wouldn't think you'd be able to date so late. We
asked how this happened though, because I got a guy.
I got a guy who's a friend. You always have
a guy, and so it hooked me up. So it
was a private tour and kept to go. I literally
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got to go in the Oval office is exactly how
it looks on the West Wing and and every and
in every movie and show you've ever seen to a
t but this is when Trump had just left to
go to Japan or something. Right, we just missed him.
And had I gone earlier, I wasn't. I couldn't go
earlier because other commitments. But Ivanka was waiting to give
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us a tour and to hang out, but she, um,
she wasn't available at nine at night available. The White
House is much smaller than what you would think it
is too. I've been to Trump's actual office and Trump Tower, um,
and believe it or not, that office isn't as grand
as he would think his his his apartment in there too.
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I've been to that which looks like something out of
like a sultan's it's all gold, all gold and very
gaudy and out there. But his office itself, he's he
he loves a pile stuff on his desks, on his
desk and it's it's not organized. No, he's just got
it looks like it's organized. He's his system, right, Yeah,
he's got. Yeah, it's just a lot of stuff all
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over her desk. I always like more of a clean
looking desk. He's just got. But there's people that just
like a lot of stuff on it. And then he's
got a lot of chochicky stuff on the side of
his office. Does he have his own bubble heads in there? No,
he doesn't have his own bubble heads. Maybe a Trump tower.
But what he did do, it's funny because he does
like his office was cluttered in his Trump Tower in
the Oval Office. He's the first president to take the
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flags of every battle that we've won. The US has
one throughout the years, and there's a lot of them,
and he wanted them in the Oval Office. So now
they really loves us. Where were they before? They were
in a big conference room right across from the Oval Office,
which is a big room. And in the Oval Office,
what do they do in that one that's his personal
life's personal office. Now there's only one way to get into.
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Before they used to be like six seven ways. But
that was my question, of course, the one thing I
thought of. Did you see the room that she wore
the blue dress in Monica Lewinson? That's all I care
ever since then, Yeah, I did see that, and ever
since then they closed off the other entrances and now
you have to go through his where his assistant is
to get into it, which I'm sure Trump was really
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upset about it because you can't really escape. But the
way my understanding is because I watched this whole documentary
on the Clinton affair, my understanding is the way it
works as there's the oval office and then there's like
this little side room which goes to like another little
pride in office, and there was another way to get
in there, but they closed. Like you said, everything is
much smaller than what you would think because it's an
it's old, so it's a house. It's it is a
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house in George. Washington chose that site, I believe in
seventeen ninety one actually, and they held a contest for
different um architects to design the house itself. Back in
the day. He actually never lived there. The first president
to live there because it was finished in eight and
the first president lived there was was John Adams um,
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our second president, and then every president's lived there ever since.
And something else I learned when I was there is
that the area itself, no one wanted that that particular
area UM where the White House is located. Uh, it's
all swamp. It's it's really all swamps. Trump said, drained
the swamp. It was a literal was a literal swamp there. Uh,
(08:53):
And nobody wanted there, so they said, let's just give
it to the government. And so that's war the capital.
But it's not it is. It was already muggy, humid, nasty,
and it's just not aesthetically pleasing. Now when you see
all the monuments lined up, it makes it cool, but
if you were just kind of breaking down, it's not
the prettiest. It's not the prettiest area. And Milania can redecorate. Yeah,
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so every that's a good question, every first lady. That
UM is now in its new administration, they can redecorate
however they want. However they want the whole house, the
whole I mean, that's a lot of if they choose,
they don't have to write. They can do by little.
They just pick stuff out. Other people do it, right,
But it's uh so the oval office, Um, Trump kept
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the the curtains from the Clinton administration. That's the only thing, right, Yes,
of course you wanted to fill at home. I didn't
like the ruggy chose the rug underneath. It was kind
of weird. I kind of like the one that President
Obama had. It was a solid blue one to look cool,
and he changed it for another gold. Some presidents will
have new ones completely designed. I don't know they're all
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completely designed. If you can keep the one. But but um,
like Obama's was, it was a cool blue one, but
he Trump got rid of that one and both Obama
kept that. The curtains too, from he brought them back
or whatever. Right, yeah, right, so and uh has anyone
taken a black light to those? I'm not sure? Yeah,
(10:20):
and so and so that. Yeah, they can decorate however
they want. In the pictures in the White House, they
have like canid portraits of his of the current president's time.
They're they're changed out every two weeks. There's curtain stuff,
certain stuff that he's doing. Some that he really likes.
He's kept up there the whole time. Like there's some
that he's where he's standing in front of UM when
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he went to visit uh, North Korea and he's standing
in front of all and the way he had the
summit or whatever. Yeah, but but yeah, exactly when he
had the summit, any Any visited Kim Jong ut and
then he and Uh it was there was a couple
of cool shots and he's kept that one there since
the whole time. So there's certain ones he likes the
president he'll keep them. But otherwise there and there's a
lot of picks. They're changed every two weeks. Yeah. I
remember seeing there was this some documentary that I watched
(11:03):
when Obama was president and it was like an inside
look at stuff, and they were doing the same thing.
Then they changed out all those photos all the time,
because every president has an official White House photographer that
they and that person falls around just takes photos constantly.
So they just constantly switched them out, which is cool.
But back to the Oval office, don't they can't they
switch all the portraits and stuff in the oval office. Yes,
and they usually when the Democrat is in the office. Um,
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who it's you, it's usually FDR. And then when it's
um a Republican, it's Roosevelt. Okay, so they they they
switched between those two, between those two out, so it's
it's it's pretty interesting. And then just to walk around
and all the history there in the Rose Garden itself
as small. Were you picturing the history and all the
(11:47):
old presidents that used to walk through those halls? I mean,
were you like yeah, because I walked through and out
like this is crazy. Every president's walked through here. That
place is definitely and does field haunted? He doesn't. Never,
it doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't feel that way. And
then the helicopter, which is a really cool helicopter, not
Air Force one. They're playing marinee. It's a marine one. Yes,
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it lands at the exact same spot and they practice
all the time because they really got to get it
on time. And there's three of them, so you never
know which one the president is. Actually I can see
Trump and I'm trying to sleep, like practicing landing. Yeah,
not at night, speaking of I've always wondered being the president,
do you ever get to sleep in? He doesn't sleep normally,
barely sleeps anyway. I think he said he Trump says
(12:31):
he sleeps like four hours a night or something five hours.
It's crazy. He isn't a tired, which is crazy when
you're when you are president, you can kind of in
a way, you can set your own schedule. But you
have so much stuff going on that you're I mean,
you could be even if you're trying to sleep in,
you'd be woken up because something's happening. They're updating you.
I mean, do you ever have a day off? No,
I think so much is going on. When I was
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there too, and who was it from? Um we we
were with some secret service people, but also with some
people from counter terrorism, and they were telling me about
the situation in Iran right now and the sanctions they
put on and how severe it really is, and the
money that they fund with all the terrorist groups around
the world, and all the attacks that they stopped constantly.
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It's crazy when you think about it. It's so stressful
all the time. So to think what he has to
deal with all the time, it's pretty it's pretty crazy
all all over the world, right. And then another thing
is that I didn't know this. There was there's always
press that's camped out and they actually built them tents
like a little nicer tents that are copped out. Um,
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in case there's some breaking news and it's right by. Well,
there's a press pool that always travels with him too, right,
then there's that, but there's one that there's that's always
and they literally they're there and the reporters are changing
out seven but they're they're constantly there. So Melania is
still going back and forth between New York and d C.
She goes, which is really close, it's a close it's
but she didn't want to. She was the Sun now
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goes to school. Um, No, in d C. He does,
but the first year she stayed up there, so they
didn't pull him out of school rightly. But then they
both moved down and now he lives in d C
and he's got a secret service detail. I always wonder
how she really feels. I mean, you get together with
this man and he's just Donald Trump, and then if
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she could have foreseen the future down the road of
what would have happened like, because I don't think it's
something that she's yeah, I don't think it's something you
can clearly tell, like she's doing what she has to
do because she has to do it. I mean I
saw some interview with him, like a week ago maybe,
and he was they had asked something about her, and
it was like, you know, she's the one who she
(14:44):
was supportive of me running. She wanted me to do
it and all that. But it's like once you're in,
once you win, it's like your life changes completely and
even if you're in, you're in a bubble. Yeah, I'm
only asking for a friend because her husband wants to
run for the mayor. And I just know that it
was you can't be all those late night bar crawls
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you'd like to do when your friend's husband runs for mayor.
And if he wins, I'm pretty sure you could just
chill at the house if you want. You don't have
to go do anything. Here's some fun facts about the
White House that I remember. So it's got six floors
right from the ground floor, state floor, second and third floor,
and it's but it's got a two story basement. They
keep a lot of old artifacts. Basically, isn't there a
(15:28):
bunker that's even deeper they don't tell you about. There's
even another like emergency bunker. There's all kinds of emergency.
There's a hundred and thirty two rooms, okay, in the
whole house, and the house itself is fifty square feet,
so it's pretty big. And it remains the only private
residence UM of ahead of state open free of charge,
so the public can see it. But the public can
only see from the front well, the east wing to
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They can't really go into the west wing. You need
to have special permission. Does anybody else live in the
White House with him? Milania immediate family, But because the
vice president has his own UM, they have another residence.
It's not the White House, the Naval Observatory or something.
There's there's people at night, there's there's a crazy amount
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of staff there all the time, and like all that.
But yeah, but d C is a trip, and the
people there and all the bureaucrats and everybody's it's just
a it's a lot of them leave in the summertime
because it gets so hot. Nobody wants to do. George W.
Bush used to actually he would during the summer. He
would just go and work out of the Western White House,
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which was his ranch in Texas. Because that's the other
thing is like every president, the the opposite party always
gives them crap about being like on vacation and blah
blah blah. You're never really on vacation. You're you're always
working and you're always and listening, whether you're Obama in
Hawaii or Trump in Florida or whatever. Computers and phones
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and the what what what is he going to accomplished
in d C that he couldn't accomplish in Florida or
Texas or of the camp And I saw I was
watching this National geographic special in the Secret Service that
came out a couple of months ago, and they had
they had like crazy access to Trump's actual detail, and
they went with them to I think Singapore for like
that summit with Kim Jong un and all that, and
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they were showing a lot of the things they do.
They show everything, but they were showing a lot of
things they do to protect the president and how it
really is this bubble that you're protecting one person. The
amount of people and and energy and preparation and resources
that go into one person traveling for one or two
days is insane. And they go a couple of days
ahead of time to make sure every week's Yeah, it
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depends depending on on the situation there. I will say
this though, and I've always thought this about a president.
It's I mean it it sounds cool in theory that
anyone can run for president, right, but I feel, and
I've always felt, you should at least be governor first
before being a president. I feel like you should have
to do at least one term of governor so we
can see how you govern well. You should have some
(17:58):
sort of executive experience, but I think specifically a governor,
because then you it's like your own little country and
we get to see how you manage that, and then
we're gonna see if we're gonna vote for you. But
if that was the case, then you know, obviously maybe
Trump would have never ran, or maybe would have ran
for governor New York prior um. But just regardless whoever's running,
I've always just thought that you would think that would
be a prerequis. I think it's always I think you
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end up with better presidents. Actually, I think a lot
of our modern presidents have always been governors before they've
been president, like Obama. Governors specifically, Obama is not one
of those. And Bush was a governor. Bush was a governor,
was a governor, was Carter was a governor, right, uh yeah,
Clinton and a lot of them were going, can you
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vote for yourself when you're running? Yeah, you have to. Well,
I mean you could vote for your competition, but that
we don't. I just didn't know if it was like,
you can't vote for yourself. No, no, no, there's you're
gonna be You're gonna all these rules. I'll be voting
for the other asking for a friend. No. I just yeah, yeah.
And it's funny because as as you get um older,
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I've gotten more just politicularly aware of everything. But in
the entertainment industry, unfortunately, you can't really be as vocal
because it can be to your detriment. Exactly. So my
close friends or family you know how I feel, and
I keep it that way. But other than that, I uh,
I don't. I don't really vocalize it. I would say,
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I'm in the people business and I don't want to
alienate any of yours or anything. And no matter which
way you think, you're gonna think somebody right, so you know,
at least for another ten years. I think the truth
is too. Like, if you're actually running for office, the
point of that is to represent the people and do
good things and pass policies or put in place policies
that benefit the most amount of Americans possible. So you're
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still in the people business, you like, it's just a
different kind of thing, right exactly. So you know it's
it's it's one of those things that as you get
closer than you do, have to start being vocal about
certain takes or situations and and stands you make on
certain issues. Right, Um, So you know we're not there yet.
Can I just say though, I was disappointed on your
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behalf because I know you weren't allowed to take photos. Yeah,
that's right, you could take pictures. And I was talking
to the guard that what if you take one? I said,
what have you take one? I won't take it, but
you take it of me. He's like, I can't, man.
I think the only photo you got was in the
press briefing room, right, Yes, I wasn't even supposed to
take it there, but I just went for it. Yeah,
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so I just kind of Yeah, but you know what,
Sean Spicer um, former Press secretary, came doppelganger to Melissa McCarthy,
right right. He's a little guy by the way. Yeah,
really had to move the podium when he was there.
But he was telling me some stories, um too. So
he came and visited us, uh the night before We're
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having dinner and a real nice guy. And he was
saying that the first time he went out there that
Trump told him, I can't believe you. You went out
there like and really just reamed into him. He got
a lot of ship for the way he was dressed,
right the way he was dressed, the way that's not
how I told you, Dada, and he railed into him.
He goes, that's it, I'm gonna get fired. And then
he had he went to a second one, um, and
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he took to note what Trump was saying, and he
delivered just how he wanted to, and he goes, that's
what I'm talking about. That's the guy I hired. He
came back like a football and then he goes, then
I knew I was okay. After that, I forget. He
just he just he went out and he was I
think it was when the whole thing about the crowd
size at the inauguration, But he had like a really
weird tie on, and he looked disheveled and like he
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just didn't look as sharper. He didn't look I know,
but like he didn't look as sharp as probably Trump
wanted him to. It's like, I know, it's like you
want to make a good impression, you know. The first outing,
I guess he said he didn't like the way he
handled it, or he just didn't so he went off
on him and I'm cleaning it up. He was cussing
up a storm. And but then he also but then
he also just he got like how long was he
(21:54):
pressed secretary? For? Like a year? Year and a half
A little bit, yeah, a little bit, because then it
was him and then it was ur Mucci. Remember well
Scaramucci was gonna be communications director and he lasted a day.
Nobody was he was a press secretary for a hot
minute too. Well they hadn't well no, they hadn't named one.
They were about to name Sarah Huckaby Sanders, and Scaramucci
was gonna be over that whole department, right, and then
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he was there for like he came out and did
a whole thing to the press and it was like, wow,
this guy is kind of like on it. And then
he like really messed up but some interview and was
gone in two days. Yeah, No, that was the quickest.
That was like saying, now it uh, Sanders has been
hasn't been there for Well? Is this all Chinese to you?
I mean, I'm just worried about what he wore that day.
It is, it is, It is interesting and that you know,
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the thing is is that everybody's older too, honey, So
I feel like I need to wait. Yeah, well it's
kind of it's a fun'll be too young. You need
to wait and eat. Now he's talking like ten years
for mayor. But if he's going to go beyond that,
then he'll be right. We'll see how that how that
pans out right now, we'll see because thenfully hopefully we
get the Latino votes. Better. Should just be on board.
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Never assume, Never assume. That's the thing is that you
can't just assume that one group of people in a
certain way. With Latinos, for example, You've got a lot
of Latinos who I know are very conservative too, and
some feel just like all people, you have some that
feel certain ways, and some of that feels there. When
you start kind of thinking that one particular groups just
one way, then I think that's when you start to fail. Boom,
(23:23):
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Listen to Mario. What's up with to Mario Lopez? Another
episode of l t M. Listen to Mario and uh,
I've got a very special guest, Mrs Lopez. My wife,
Courtney Lopez is joining me, along with my radio producers
Fraser and some afterthought like well, producer, with all due respect,
(00:23):
you're not on the level of Mrs Lopez, No one is.
Let me just say, I'm a little upset it's taken
this long for me to bed. Podcast is actually you
do our third child, our third child's first podcast does
account even though he's he's Bryan. Well, thank you for
having me. I appreciate it. Well, thank you for joining
(00:45):
I appreciate it. You know, I recently went to Washington,
D C. And got to tour the White House and
just explore the city a little bit. And I've always
teased you, but you know that later on I actually
had political as rations right on a mayoral level. Seriously,
you might laugh, but people, I get people encouraging me
(01:05):
all the time. You met to go. You get you're
a mayor of l A. You're charging you're nine million people,
You've got your responsible for more people than most states. Seriously,
you've got a budget that's bigger than most states. So
it's uh, I'm not talking about mayor of going back
to you know what I mean, you Arizona or you
should do a reality show where you go back to
(01:26):
your hometown of Chula Vista, become mayor mayor Tulavista that
they're in charge of a lot of people in this
is a big deal. Let me ask you something. But
my wife is afraid to be like first any first
lady of anything. Let me ask you something because I
am That's why, that's why I've been reluctant. I am
so supportive of you. I can't be any of Melania.
I can do it. You can do it, honey. Okay,
(01:47):
but let me ask you, when you're a mayor, what
is the wife's like? What are her duties? Because I
don't feel her being on the same level as the
first lady of the United States. You still take you
still take on. You like to to be involved in
certain charities or things that are important to you. Right now,
(02:08):
you're gonna have a bigger platform to be able to
do that. I look, I'm talking like it's already have
to be able to do that and to to raise
awareness to it and more funds. Okay, will I still
be able to wear workout clothes on the daily? Oh yeah,
you're not really in the spotlight. Okay, well we'll see. Well,
I think it's I think it's pretty much. We'll highlight
a little bit more. It would be like your life now,
(02:28):
except you would no longer have to do the radio
show because he wouldn't be able to do the radio show.
Why not, Well, because your mayor, you can also do
the radio show. I'm going to be a multitask take
over the radio shows, not the mayor. No, you could
do that on with Courtney Lopez. I'd listen to that.
People like the show because of me. The hard parties.
You'll be fighting over where whether or not we go
(02:50):
to actually help him be mayor, or whether we stay
here and help you do the radio show. And you
guys are coming, I'm being serious. And who knows after mayor?
Who knows? Right? What age are we looking at for you?
I'm thinking about another ten years, another ten years TV
or whatever, and just and we'll see where we're at.
Right there. I might run against you for fun, Okay,
(03:11):
I was gonna have I was gonna have you just um,
so but you think I'm joking, but I'm telling I
know you're not joking. That's why I'm petrifying. So I'm
guessing that because this has always been in the back
of your head, that there's this trip to d C
basically like further debt a little bit, Yeah, and talking
with the people. And they actually asked me there if
I had any sort of political aspersts. Actually think I went, Actually,
(03:33):
I go went, I'm not lying. I have name recognition
going for you, and face recognition going for you, and
hopefully likability and ate a base which is very to
talk to people. You're super intelligent. You can sell, you
know you can, Oh, I can, you can, said she concursive.
I mean you can curse if you want. It's not necessary,
(03:54):
but it's a requirement. You're super smart. You can literally
sell Julio's dog poopoo to people and okay, duck ship
duc shit. That feels so good that I can finally
say and we can eric um, you know you you
are just good at at bullshit and I could raise
(04:14):
money well. And that's actually a very good point. Is
a lot of politicians they do need to have great
bullshit abilities. Yeah, and if you tell what they want
to hear. One of the things of all I like
to think of it his charming charisma. Well, that's what
things Mario has is a lot of charisma, Like he
can make people feel like they're the most important person
in the room when they're not. And that's what politicians need,
(04:37):
and he's already got that. So that's a good thing
in his favor. You keep that a phraser might be
a chief of staff. Trust me, what would Nicols do?
Nichols I need listen, you need a whole whole staff everyone,
there's roles for everyone, but you're deputy chief of staff.
He'll still be my number two. Sit there and laugh.
(04:58):
I'd have to hear what Nichols has has in mind.
Could be a speechwriter, right, we're all listen. Everyone's going
to play a part, including you, Mrs Lopez. So anyway,
you wanted a late night tour. This was a break
This was breaking news for ten year prediction from now.
But yeah, So we went to the White House. We
walked around the West Wing, which is the side of
(05:21):
the building with the Oval office, and it's got the
Situation Room and the Executive Conference room along with all
the offices in the administration. And it was cool because
we got a tour at nine at night. But you
wouldn't think you'd be able to date so late. We
asked how this happened though, because I got a guy.
I got a guy who's a friend. You always have
a guy, and so it hooked me up. So it
was a private tour and kept to go. I literally
(05:41):
got to go in the Oval office is exactly how
it looks on the West Wing and and every and
in every movie and show you've ever seen to a
t but this is when Trump had just left to
go to Japan or something. Right, we just missed him.
And had I gone earlier, I wasn't. I couldn't go
earlier because other commitments. But Ivanka was waiting to give
(06:01):
us a tour and to hang out, but she, um,
she wasn't available at nine at night available. The White
House is much smaller than what you would think it
is too. I've been to Trump's actual office and Trump Tower, um,
and believe it or not, that office isn't as grand
as he would think his his his apartment in there too.
(06:22):
I've been to that which looks like something out of
like a sultan's it's all gold, all gold and very
gaudy and out there. But his office itself, he's he
he loves a pile stuff on his desks, on his
desk and it's it's not organized. No, he's just got
it looks like it's organized. He's his system, right, Yeah,
he's got. Yeah, it's just a lot of stuff all
(06:44):
over her desk. I always like more of a clean
looking desk. He's just got. But there's people that just
like a lot of stuff on it. And then he's
got a lot of chochicky stuff on the side of
his office. Does he have his own bubble heads in there? No,
he doesn't have his own bubble heads. Maybe a Trump tower.
But what he did do, it's funny because he does
like his office was cluttered in his Trump Tower in
the Oval Office. He's the first president to take the
(07:06):
flags of every battle that we've won. The US has
one throughout the years, and there's a lot of them,
and he wanted them in the Oval Office. So now
they really loves us. Where were they before? They were
in a big conference room right across from the Oval Office,
which is a big room. And in the Oval Office,
what do they do in that one that's his personal
life's personal office. Now there's only one way to get into.
(07:27):
Before they used to be like six seven ways. But
that was my question, of course, the one thing I
thought of. Did you see the room that she wore
the blue dress in Monica Lewinson? That's all I care
ever since then, Yeah, I did see that, and ever
since then they closed off the other entrances and now
you have to go through his where his assistant is
to get into it, which I'm sure Trump was really
(07:47):
upset about it because you can't really escape. But the
way my understanding is because I watched this whole documentary
on the Clinton affair, my understanding is the way it
works as there's the oval office and then there's like
this little side room which goes to like another little
pride in office, and there was another way to get
in there, but they closed. Like you said, everything is
much smaller than what you would think because it's an
it's old, so it's a house. It's it is a
(08:09):
house in George. Washington chose that site, I believe in
seventeen ninety one actually, and they held a contest for
different um architects to design the house itself. Back in
the day. He actually never lived there. The first president
to live there because it was finished in eight and
the first president lived there was was John Adams um,
(08:31):
our second president, and then every president's lived there ever since.
And something else I learned when I was there is
that the area itself, no one wanted that that particular
area UM where the White House is located. Uh, it's
all swamp. It's it's really all swamps. Trump said, drained
the swamp. It was a literal was a literal swamp there. Uh,
(08:53):
And nobody wanted there, so they said, let's just give
it to the government. And so that's war the capital.
But it's not it is. It was already muggy, humid, nasty,
and it's just not aesthetically pleasing. Now when you see
all the monuments lined up, it makes it cool, but
if you were just kind of breaking down, it's not
the prettiest. It's not the prettiest area. And Milania can redecorate. Yeah,
(09:14):
so every that's a good question, every first lady. That
UM is now in its new administration, they can redecorate
however they want. However they want the whole house, the
whole I mean, that's a lot of if they choose,
they don't have to write. They can do by little.
They just pick stuff out. Other people do it, right,
But it's uh so the oval office, Um, Trump kept
(09:36):
the the curtains from the Clinton administration. That's the only thing, right, Yes,
of course you wanted to fill at home. I didn't
like the ruggy chose the rug underneath. It was kind
of weird. I kind of like the one that President
Obama had. It was a solid blue one to look cool,
and he changed it for another gold. Some presidents will
have new ones completely designed. I don't know they're all
(09:56):
completely designed. If you can keep the one. But but um,
like Obama's was, it was a cool blue one, but
he Trump got rid of that one and both Obama
kept that. The curtains too, from he brought them back
or whatever. Right, yeah, right, so and uh has anyone
taken a black light to those? I'm not sure? Yeah,
(10:20):
and so and so that. Yeah, they can decorate however
they want. In the pictures in the White House, they
have like canid portraits of his of the current president's time.
They're they're changed out every two weeks. There's curtain stuff,
certain stuff that he's doing. Some that he really likes.
He's kept up there the whole time. Like there's some
that he's where he's standing in front of UM when
(10:41):
he went to visit uh, North Korea and he's standing
in front of all and the way he had the
summit or whatever. Yeah, but but yeah, exactly when he
had the summit, any Any visited Kim Jong ut and
then he and Uh it was there was a couple
of cool shots and he's kept that one there since
the whole time. So there's certain ones he likes the
president he'll keep them. But otherwise there and there's a
lot of picks. They're changed every two weeks. Yeah. I
remember seeing there was this some documentary that I watched
(11:03):
when Obama was president and it was like an inside
look at stuff, and they were doing the same thing.
Then they changed out all those photos all the time,
because every president has an official White House photographer that
they and that person falls around just takes photos constantly.
So they just constantly switched them out, which is cool.
But back to the Oval office, don't they can't they
switch all the portraits and stuff in the oval office. Yes,
and they usually when the Democrat is in the office. Um,
(11:27):
who it's you, it's usually FDR. And then when it's
um a Republican, it's Roosevelt. Okay, so they they they
switched between those two, between those two out, so it's
it's it's pretty interesting. And then just to walk around
and all the history there in the Rose Garden itself
as small. Were you picturing the history and all the
(11:47):
old presidents that used to walk through those halls? I mean,
were you like yeah, because I walked through and out
like this is crazy. Every president's walked through here. That
place is definitely and does field haunted? He doesn't. Never,
it doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't feel that way. And
then the helicopter, which is a really cool helicopter, not
Air Force one. They're playing marinee. It's a marine one. Yes,
(12:09):
it lands at the exact same spot and they practice
all the time because they really got to get it
on time. And there's three of them, so you never
know which one the president is. Actually I can see
Trump and I'm trying to sleep, like practicing landing. Yeah,
not at night, speaking of I've always wondered being the president,
do you ever get to sleep in? He doesn't sleep normally,
barely sleeps anyway. I think he said he Trump says
(12:31):
he sleeps like four hours a night or something five hours.
It's crazy. He isn't a tired, which is crazy when
you're when you are president, you can kind of in
a way, you can set your own schedule. But you
have so much stuff going on that you're I mean,
you could be even if you're trying to sleep in,
you'd be woken up because something's happening. They're updating you.
I mean, do you ever have a day off? No,
I think so much is going on. When I was
(12:51):
there too, and who was it from? Um we we
were with some secret service people, but also with some
people from counter terrorism, and they were telling me about
the situation in Iran right now and the sanctions they
put on and how severe it really is, and the
money that they fund with all the terrorist groups around
the world, and all the attacks that they stopped constantly.
(13:12):
It's crazy when you think about it. It's so stressful
all the time. So to think what he has to
deal with all the time, it's pretty it's pretty crazy
all all over the world, right. And then another thing
is that I didn't know this. There was there's always
press that's camped out and they actually built them tents
like a little nicer tents that are copped out. Um,
(13:35):
in case there's some breaking news and it's right by. Well,
there's a press pool that always travels with him too, right,
then there's that, but there's one that there's that's always
and they literally they're there and the reporters are changing
out seven but they're they're constantly there. So Melania is
still going back and forth between New York and d C.
She goes, which is really close, it's a close it's
but she didn't want to. She was the Sun now
(13:59):
goes to school. Um, No, in d C. He does,
but the first year she stayed up there, so they
didn't pull him out of school rightly. But then they
both moved down and now he lives in d C
and he's got a secret service detail. I always wonder
how she really feels. I mean, you get together with
this man and he's just Donald Trump, and then if
(14:22):
she could have foreseen the future down the road of
what would have happened like, because I don't think it's
something that she's yeah, I don't think it's something you
can clearly tell, like she's doing what she has to
do because she has to do it. I mean I
saw some interview with him, like a week ago maybe,
and he was they had asked something about her, and
it was like, you know, she's the one who she
(14:44):
was supportive of me running. She wanted me to do
it and all that. But it's like once you're in,
once you win, it's like your life changes completely and
even if you're in, you're in a bubble. Yeah, I'm
only asking for a friend because her husband wants to
run for the mayor. And I just know that it
was you can't be all those late night bar crawls
(15:06):
you'd like to do when your friend's husband runs for mayor.
And if he wins, I'm pretty sure you could just
chill at the house if you want. You don't have
to go do anything. Here's some fun facts about the
White House that I remember. So it's got six floors
right from the ground floor, state floor, second and third floor,
and it's but it's got a two story basement. They
keep a lot of old artifacts. Basically, isn't there a
(15:28):
bunker that's even deeper they don't tell you about. There's
even another like emergency bunker. There's all kinds of emergency.
There's a hundred and thirty two rooms, okay, in the
whole house, and the house itself is fifty square feet,
so it's pretty big. And it remains the only private
residence UM of ahead of state open free of charge,
so the public can see it. But the public can
only see from the front well, the east wing to
(15:51):
They can't really go into the west wing. You need
to have special permission. Does anybody else live in the
White House with him? Milania immediate family, But because the
vice president has his own UM, they have another residence.
It's not the White House, the Naval Observatory or something.
There's there's people at night, there's there's a crazy amount
(16:12):
of staff there all the time, and like all that.
But yeah, but d C is a trip, and the
people there and all the bureaucrats and everybody's it's just
a it's a lot of them leave in the summertime
because it gets so hot. Nobody wants to do. George W.
Bush used to actually he would during the summer. He
would just go and work out of the Western White House,
(16:33):
which was his ranch in Texas. Because that's the other
thing is like every president, the the opposite party always
gives them crap about being like on vacation and blah
blah blah. You're never really on vacation. You're you're always
working and you're always and listening, whether you're Obama in
Hawaii or Trump in Florida or whatever. Computers and phones
(16:54):
and the what what what is he going to accomplished
in d C that he couldn't accomplish in Florida or
Texas or of the camp And I saw I was
watching this National geographic special in the Secret Service that
came out a couple of months ago, and they had
they had like crazy access to Trump's actual detail, and
they went with them to I think Singapore for like
that summit with Kim Jong un and all that, and
(17:14):
they were showing a lot of the things they do.
They show everything, but they were showing a lot of
things they do to protect the president and how it
really is this bubble that you're protecting one person. The
amount of people and and energy and preparation and resources
that go into one person traveling for one or two
days is insane. And they go a couple of days
ahead of time to make sure every week's Yeah, it
(17:36):
depends depending on on the situation there. I will say
this though, and I've always thought this about a president.
It's I mean it it sounds cool in theory that
anyone can run for president, right, but I feel, and
I've always felt, you should at least be governor first
before being a president. I feel like you should have
to do at least one term of governor so we
can see how you govern well. You should have some
(17:58):
sort of executive experience, but I think specifically a governor,
because then you it's like your own little country and
we get to see how you manage that, and then
we're gonna see if we're gonna vote for you. But
if that was the case, then you know, obviously maybe
Trump would have never ran, or maybe would have ran
for governor New York prior um. But just regardless whoever's running,
I've always just thought that you would think that would
be a prerequis. I think it's always I think you
(18:20):
end up with better presidents. Actually, I think a lot
of our modern presidents have always been governors before they've
been president, like Obama. Governors specifically, Obama is not one
of those. And Bush was a governor. Bush was a governor,
was a governor, was Carter was a governor, right, uh yeah,
Clinton and a lot of them were going, can you
(18:40):
vote for yourself when you're running? Yeah, you have to. Well,
I mean you could vote for your competition, but that
we don't. I just didn't know if it was like,
you can't vote for yourself. No, no, no, there's you're
gonna be You're gonna all these rules. I'll be voting
for the other asking for a friend. No. I just yeah, yeah.
And it's funny because as as you get um older,
(19:02):
I've gotten more just politicularly aware of everything. But in
the entertainment industry, unfortunately, you can't really be as vocal
because it can be to your detriment. Exactly. So my
close friends or family you know how I feel, and
I keep it that way. But other than that, I uh,
I don't. I don't really vocalize it. I would say,
(19:23):
I'm in the people business and I don't want to
alienate any of yours or anything. And no matter which
way you think, you're gonna think somebody right, so you know,
at least for another ten years. I think the truth
is too. Like, if you're actually running for office, the
point of that is to represent the people and do
good things and pass policies or put in place policies
that benefit the most amount of Americans possible. So you're
(19:44):
still in the people business, you like, it's just a
different kind of thing, right exactly. So you know it's
it's it's one of those things that as you get
closer than you do, have to start being vocal about
certain takes or situations and and stands you make on
certain issues. Right, Um, So you know we're not there yet.
Can I just say though, I was disappointed on your
(20:06):
behalf because I know you weren't allowed to take photos. Yeah,
that's right, you could take pictures. And I was talking
to the guard that what if you take one? I said,
what have you take one? I won't take it, but
you take it of me. He's like, I can't, man.
I think the only photo you got was in the
press briefing room, right, Yes, I wasn't even supposed to
take it there, but I just went for it. Yeah,
(20:29):
so I just kind of Yeah, but you know what,
Sean Spicer um, former Press secretary, came doppelganger to Melissa McCarthy,
right right. He's a little guy by the way. Yeah,
really had to move the podium when he was there.
But he was telling me some stories, um too. So
he came and visited us, uh the night before We're
(20:49):
having dinner and a real nice guy. And he was
saying that the first time he went out there that
Trump told him, I can't believe you. You went out
there like and really just reamed into him. He got
a lot of ship for the way he was dressed,
right the way he was dressed, the way that's not
how I told you, Dada, and he railed into him.
He goes, that's it, I'm gonna get fired. And then
he had he went to a second one, um, and
(21:12):
he took to note what Trump was saying, and he
delivered just how he wanted to, and he goes, that's
what I'm talking about. That's the guy I hired. He
came back like a football and then he goes, then
I knew I was okay. After that, I forget. He
just he just he went out and he was I
think it was when the whole thing about the crowd
size at the inauguration, But he had like a really
weird tie on, and he looked disheveled and like he
(21:34):
just didn't look as sharper. He didn't look I know,
but like he didn't look as sharp as probably Trump
wanted him to. It's like, I know, it's like you
want to make a good impression, you know. The first outing,
I guess he said he didn't like the way he
handled it, or he just didn't so he went off
on him and I'm cleaning it up. He was cussing
up a storm. And but then he also but then
he also just he got like how long was he
(21:54):
pressed secretary? For? Like a year? Year and a half
A little bit, yeah, a little bit, because then it
was him and then it was ur Mucci. Remember well
Scaramucci was gonna be communications director and he lasted a day.
Nobody was he was a press secretary for a hot
minute too. Well they hadn't well no, they hadn't named one.
They were about to name Sarah Huckaby Sanders, and Scaramucci
was gonna be over that whole department, right, and then
(22:16):
he was there for like he came out and did
a whole thing to the press and it was like, wow,
this guy is kind of like on it. And then
he like really messed up but some interview and was
gone in two days. Yeah, No, that was the quickest.
That was like saying, now it uh, Sanders has been
hasn't been there for Well? Is this all Chinese to you?
I mean, I'm just worried about what he wore that day.
It is, it is, It is interesting and that you know,
(22:39):
the thing is is that everybody's older too, honey, So
I feel like I need to wait. Yeah, well it's
kind of it's a fun'll be too young. You need
to wait and eat. Now he's talking like ten years
for mayor. But if he's going to go beyond that,
then he'll be right. We'll see how that how that
pans out right now, we'll see because thenfully hopefully we
get the Latino votes. Better. Should just be on board.
(23:02):
Never assume, Never assume. That's the thing is that you
can't just assume that one group of people in a
certain way. With Latinos, for example, You've got a lot
of Latinos who I know are very conservative too, and
some feel just like all people, you have some that
feel certain ways, and some of that feels there. When
you start kind of thinking that one particular groups just
one way, then I think that's when you start to fail. Boom,
(23:23):
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