December 6, 2024 • 25 mins
Today On With Mario Lopez – Clay Aiken zooms in to talk new Holiday Music, Celeb Family Feud, & more! Plus, Mario vs Courtney in a #Christmas Trivia Pop Quiz, a Santa inspired Fake Debate, & RHONY Brynn Whitfield joins us to talk Housewives, charity work, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is On with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Happy Friday and happy holidays. Mario Lopez here along with
my wife Courtney. A lot of fun to get to
a couple of great guests as well.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Kleay Aikin's going to join us in a bit talk
about his new holiday album.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Plus we'll catch up with Brn Whitfield from The Hossewives
of New York a little later some buzz, we're going
to get to fake debate and more. This is the
Friday edition of On with Mario and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Sobyl Mario Lopez joining me now on Zoom. Singer actor
activist Clay Aiken. Welcome to the show man. Hey, thanks
for having me a nice to see you too. The
holiday season, of course, is upon us. You're releasing the
album Christmas Bells Are Ringing, first album in a decade.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
What inspired you to make this?
Speaker 6 (00:45):
Well, you know, I stepped away from recording and performing
and all that stuff, and maybe twenty twelve or so,
so yeah, a little over a decade. My son was
getting to an age where I wanted to be around
and available for him more, and I just kind of,
you know, I had a great run for those first
Power many years after Idol and kind of wanted to
(01:06):
branch into a few other things, but uh, I did
I think we spoke you and I spoke not too
long ago about them. We had Ruben together with Ruben
and I did a tour together last year and we
did Mass Singer this year also, and just kind of
getting back into performing a little bit with him kind
of got I tasted the bug?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
What's that? You know what I mean? Think you chased
the book, catch it, do whatever.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
I caught the bug, Thank you, caught my dinner and
tasted the book. And uh and you know we just
made me kind of want to get back into it.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
And my son is now sixteen, so you know, want
me around anyway.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Uh, it works out kind of perfectly. And Christmas has
always been, you know, the tours that I've done that
I've always enjoyed the most, So it kind of made
sense to come back into a Christmas Allagan.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
More details and on with doud On, Happy Holidays from
the entire on with Mario fam more fest and fun
coming up.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Mario Lopez here hanging out with Clay Aiken. His new
album is Christmas Bells Are Ring. The first single is
do you hear what I hear? What is it about
that track that made you want to showcase it?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well?
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I mean, I love the song in general, and I
think there's a lot you can.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Do with it musically.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
People kind of look expect me to get big, you know,
the idle big singing, and that song allows you to
do it, but you know lyrically it It was written
in the sixties as a kind of a response to
the Cuban missile crisis.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
The two folks who wrote.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
It were you worried about war in that in that
time and you know we're we're not, We're not headed
to war right now, but but you know our world could.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Use a little more peace.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I would, I would argue, and that song sort of
felt like the right one to put out now. But
that song, even though people think of it as a
Christmas song, it has a timeless message of peace, and
I think I'm that was why we wanted to put
it out early.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, good time and for that where you can listen
to Do you Hear what I Hear? On iHeart Radio?
All right, hang on, Clay got to take a break.
We're gonna play more music. We can get into the
Holiday Spirit with Clay Ache and You're all. Mario Lofez.
His new album is Christmas Bells Are Ringing and you
also recorded a song I love, Pure Imagination from Willy
Wonka made that movie to what an awesome song, not
(03:24):
necessarily a Christmas song, but I'm glad you did.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
You just a big fan as well.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
It is well, it's not a Christmas song, but if
you listen to it, it's about kids, and I mean
it's everything.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Everything about that song.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
The spirit of it is sort of the same as
the Spirit Spirit. So Ron Fair, who produced the album,
was just really incredible at taking this idea always I
want to do a pure imagination because I love the
song and I thought it had the spirit of Christmas,
and he just did this incredible job of making it
musically Christmas also, so it's a kind of a neat treat,
you know, Favorite Things from Salm and Music is also
(03:58):
not a Christmas song, but people put it on Christmas
albums all the time.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
So I put this one online.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Good for you. I like, I like that song. I'm
looking forward to hearing your version. Hang on, Clay, we
got to get.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
Back to the music.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Jar Al Mario Lopez My guest today is Clay Aiken,
and I saw you on Celebrity Family Feud with your son.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
What's what's he into right now?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Well, he's still you know, he is. He is a
pilot already. He if he could, if he could drop
out of high school, would be a pilot right now.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
That's what he'd want to do. He's that's that's his
passion in life, that's his path.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
So, h family Feud was his first time in sixteen
years that we've let him do anything publicly. We've we've
got to, you know, we've been pretty careful about keeping him.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Away from the public eye for the last sixteen years.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Let him have a real normal childhood, and then we
completely ruined it by letting him go on family Feud.
And now he's got this huge head around his high school.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's great, he thinks all that all right, Oh that's fun.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Has he has he seen any of your idol performances
from back in the day.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I don't know if he's seen idle ones or not.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
He's seen me perform when I was when he was younger,
I had I was still touring a little bit, so
he came to some of those he came to ruben
and Ized tour.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Obviously he came to Rubenized Broadway show. But I don't
know if he's seen the idle things or not.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
He might have seen Bridge Upper Trouble Water because it
kind of makes its way around every once in a while.
But he has very little interest in anything I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, hey, my kids as well, they could care less.
I think, well, why don't we take another break. We're
gonna wrap it up in a moment, Hangti.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Clay, Well, you're the full interview now at On with
Mario dot Com. Aby Holidays from the entire On with
Mario fam More festive fun coming up.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Mario Lopez here wrapping things up with today's guest, Clay Aiken.
And of course with Christmas around the corner, do do
you decorate early because we're like on the heels of
Halloween boom, everything's going up.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Well, that's the way the world is.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
I know.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
We usually do decorating around right after Thanksgiving, so you know,
we let we get through the holidays and then we
do it. We bring Christmas in full as soon as
Santa comes fur on the Macy's Parade.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
That's when Christmas starts.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Okay, I appreciate the honesty.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, meanwhile, listen pick up Christmas bells are ringing and
Clay always nice to see you man.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Thanks for Julie, Thanks a lot. Weyll Courney Lopez. Here
was some quick buzz for you.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Teddy Mellankin from the Real House Size of Beverly Hills,
who we just talked to not too long ago, is
calling it quits.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
On her marriage. She filed for divorce from her husband
in thirteen years.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They have three kids together, a twelve year old, a
ten year old, and a four year old.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Oh that's sad to hear.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, I didn't see this coming. Teddy wants custody and
spousal support. The marriage has had its share of ups
and downs over the year. I mean, that's marriage. And
they nearly divorced during her first season on Housewives back
in twenty seventeen. I don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So they've they've had some issues. Well, let's hope it's amicable.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
All right, Let's get back.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
To the music.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
John Marrol, Courtney Lopez, Martha Stewart throwing Ryan Reynold, none
of the.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Bus in the Hollywood buzz Morio, Hollywood bus.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
So it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Martha Stewart gives zeros when it comes to her opinion
on Ryan Reynolds. She was asked which celebrities are the
most fun to hang out with, and when she spilled the.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Ta, she says, Ryan not so funny in real life.
He's actually pretty serious all the time. She says, he's
good at acting funny, but not in real life.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Oh, Martha, keep it real.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I like, when you start getting older, you don't care
and you just are brutally honest.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
She also says her fun list includes Snoop, Taylor Swift,
and George Clooney.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Oh that's cool, you know, not to mention any names,
but we have some friends that are comedians, and when
we're around them, they're not funny.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
No, they're They're on the quiet side and a little
more reserved. And it's ironic because there's some people that
are very, very funny, just as people hello, oh my god.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Well obviously there's people like us. I think he's somehow
people don't realize they're funny. Yes, exactly, they're funny to
everyone around them, but they don't understand.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Yes, happy holidays to you and yours. This is on
with Mario Lopez, We'll be right back.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
What up, Mario Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Here, Ariana Grande is reclaiming her full birth name, starting
with a movie Wicked. She'll be credited as Ariana Grande
but Terra Grande but Terra.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Kind of a cool name, I gotta be honest.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Chance comes after she reconnected with her father, who hadn't
been a part of her life for the past ten years.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Apparently her parents flit when she was only eight years old.
So that's tough. But I love a happy ending.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, I'm glad she's back with her dad.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Good for keeping the festive fun coming your way as
we power through this Friday.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Mario Courtney Lopez, he're reminding you check out our.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
New holiday movie, Once Upon a Christmas Wish. I'm getting
so excited that it's finally coming out. It is a
family affair, myself, Missus Lopez, our son Dominic Lopez. They're singing,
there's dancing, and it's really really cute. Honey, you look
great too.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Oh thank you. I'm saying thank you because I'm trying
to be positive about it because you're not my worst critic.
But no, it's awesome. I'm so proud of our son,
and I'm so happy to share the screen with you.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
All right, time for another many Christmas pop quiz Mario
Courtney Lopez. Here Fraser is testing our knowledge with some
Christmas trivia. So let's get our hands on the buzzers
we've established on the King of Christmas.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
But we're tied.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You won one.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
I ow, okay, yeah, everyone relaxed. We'll see what wins today.
Here we go. Who wrote the classic story A Christmas Carol?
Mario Dickens. Dickens is correct, it's a zerous wow.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I didn't realize I was married to such an intelligent
Christmas connois soul just intelligence.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Stopped there, all right, went to zero. Next question, hands
on buzzers in total?
Speaker 9 (09:51):
How many gifts were given in the twelve days of
Christmas closest without going over twelve.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Recording?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
No, come on for forty eight? Incorrect?
Speaker 9 (10:03):
Three hundred and sixty four because some days starts like twelve.
Some days there's.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Eleven twelve day Christmas twelve.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
I thought it was a true question.
Speaker 9 (10:12):
She was trying to do the math working, so so okay.
I thought it was three hundred and sixty four gifts
that person. A lot of them are birds though you
did even put those? Yeah, who could afford that?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I mean right, you got to feed them that.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Today we do I get a prop for understanding.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
You do, I'll give you a prop for understanding. So
it's one to a prop. It's one to wait, did
we not go over? What's that?
Speaker 8 (10:35):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You should we should get a point because what did
she say?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (10:38):
I was actually yeah, she should get it. I mean
she gets a point because without going over. Yeah, so
you do get the point. True, So one to one, I.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Should still get a prop on top of that point?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Right, calm down, payz.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Here we go.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Two more questions under which president did Christmas December twenty
fifth officially become a national holiday? That is Courtney.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Carter incorrect, John Adams incorrect. Ulysses S.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
Grant eighteen seventy became granted it?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh god, wait a minute, Christmas it wasn't a holiday.
It was a holiday, but not a national holiday for
whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
That's wild. Till eighteen seventy.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Don't you think that's wild?
Speaker 9 (11:24):
I mean it's a little crazy. Eighteen seventy it's a
fair of the country. It was only like one hundred
years old at that point. They just hadn't gotten around.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
To it yet.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I think true, you forget, we're like, we're a baby.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
We're a baby compared to the rest.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
They're about to be two fifty, which is super young
in country years, super young.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I was at a church in Mexico recently that was
eight hundred years old.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
Dude, a friend of mine in England, his parents live
in a house that is two hundred years old, almost
like almost as old as this country.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, I forget. That's wild though there wasn't a national
that's wild. All right.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
It is one to one. There is one question left.
This one's worth twenty twenty four points. Which country is
credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition in the sixteenth century.
Mario England incorrect, Courtney Scotland in correct.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Germany.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Wow, Germany brought the trees inside. Wow, they brought the
trees in secause it's too cold.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
All right, Happy holidays to you and yours. This is
on with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
We'll be right.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Back Mario Courtney Lopez. Here just a few songs away
from today's guest zooming in.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
It's brit Whitfield from the Real Housewives of New York.
She's been feuding with Uba and Si and facetiming with
her ex. She's not a true housewife because she's not married.
But we'll find out what's really going down next.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
It's up by Mario Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Joining us now on Zoom from the Real Housewives of
New York City.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Brin Whitfield. Welcome to the show, Bren.
Speaker 10 (12:56):
How are you hello, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Thanks for taking the time. This is your second season
on the show. How are you feeling about having the
cameras in your face constantly? And are you approaching it
different this season?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
She's a natural.
Speaker 11 (13:11):
Well, I just got a new dog at her name Sugar,
and she's and she's wild.
Speaker 10 (13:17):
Having the cameras in your face. It's like you get
more used to it. It's funny.
Speaker 11 (13:21):
The first last year, or like the very first time
that ever started filming, you literally think the first twenty minutes,
I mean, you know this, You're.
Speaker 10 (13:29):
A pro at this.
Speaker 11 (13:31):
For me, it was like this is never gonna work right.
Like you notice them, you're very aware of them, You're
very self conscious. You're like adjusting yourself about twenty thirty
minutes in the problem actually is is that you don't
notice them anymore and you forget that they're there, you know.
So it's yeah, it's a it's a wild ride, but
it's it's very It's been fun. Can I just say, also,
(13:52):
wait time out. I'm like been dying all day. I
texted like thirteen of my middle school friends. I take
a picture really quick.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
You got it?
Speaker 11 (14:01):
I know this really drives you nuts. I've only been
like kind of people know me for like two days.
Speaker 10 (14:06):
I've ben that, but.
Speaker 11 (14:10):
There's a million like my high school like group chat
right now is like when I say freaking out, freaking out,
I'm like the biggest fan. Well, am I now a legend.
I'm like gonna go to my high school reunions.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
It's so and be like I made it and I'm least.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We got a lot to talk about, but right now,
it's play some more music. Yamar Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I guess today is Brent Whitfield from the Real Housewives
of New York.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
So this is the second season for you, and I
love the new cast. You guys are awesome, very very happy.
The last episode, you were seen facetiming with your ex fiance. Yeah,
is he still in the picture. What's going on with that?
Speaker 11 (14:52):
You know what, There's there's one question I get all
the time, like, I mean maybe you know, look, I'm
trying to do my part of bringing.
Speaker 10 (14:59):
There's all you know in our group.
Speaker 11 (15:01):
I love our group, but you know a lot of
you know, the in the friend group, they don't necessarily
want to share their partners, you know, and I try
to always. I remember Bravo con fans saying like, just
please share everything, the good and the bad, share everything
and show everything.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
So it was like, Okay, I will bring ex boyfriends
out of the woodwork for you guys. I'm flying my brother.
Speaker 11 (15:20):
In Brisil and I'm calling ex boyfriends ex fiancees.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
No.
Speaker 11 (15:24):
But Gideon is great. He's absolutely lovely, and he's not
in a relationship. So I feel like, after look, when
you're with someone for seven years old, I'm older, he's older.
I feel like at this point in our lives, so
I guess maybe in a way, you don't even have
the luxury anymore, being like I can just stack up
xes like X, Y and Z, like after you spend
(15:44):
so much time in families, know each other and whatnot,
it's like if we can both have a healthy friendship
or whatnot. I think I think it's a good thing.
So I A, he's a very very amazing ex. I
have a few exes that aren't married that are just
really really incredible men. And I think after dating in
New York for as long as I have, I will
(16:04):
hold on to any of the good ones if they're
willing to stick around.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Wise philosophy.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
All right, hold on, britn got to take a break.
We're gonna come back, get into the housewives drama.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Happy holidays to you and yours. This is on with
Mario Lopez.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Won't be right.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Back Mario Courtney Lopez. Here we got a real housewif
Brin Whitfield on zoom with us.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
So, Brian, what is the dating life like in New York?
You said at one time it was sad and pathetic?
Speaker 10 (16:28):
How long do you have?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
It's interesting to hear that.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
They go back and forth, like somebody.
Speaker 11 (16:34):
Did you see the study that came out without dating
in New York?
Speaker 10 (16:38):
It was ranked to the worst place to date.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
That's surprising.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Here, I was just going to say, first of all,
it's good that you're friends with your ex'es.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That says a lot about you.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
If you're still friendly with them. But we met in
New York, and I found New York as opposed to
LA to be the best place to be single because
you're constantly in contact with people, and there's so many
people obviously, but you're you're here and Eli, you're kind
of stuck in your car and you just got to
go to your little build bubble in your eyes.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
But there are always meeting people.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
There's something going on literally every day, So that's surprising
to hear.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
Yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
So I've dated in both LA and New York, and
I do prefer New York for exactly what you're explaining. Like,
dating in New York, it's almost it's impossible. You literally
run into people constantly. You run into people you know,
you run into people you don't know, you bump into them,
and it's like there's it feels like there's much more
of a pool just because you're constantly strong with people LA.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
Dating in LA is definitely that was tough.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Well, good luck to you out there. Hang in there, Brent.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Let's play some more music right now, Mario Courtney Lopez,
You're hanging out.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Britn Whitfield from The Roal Housewives of New York.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
So the feud with Uba and Si, is there a
chance of a reconciliation or has that ship sailed?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (17:47):
I feel like, look I I it's it's like anything else, right, friends, family,
There's always that hope there. I think that any one
that would say no, absolutely not a doors close to
something forever is not doing them or themselves justice or
doesn't really have hope in like the human condition and
people and growth. I think, you know, in this process,
(18:07):
things happen. You you watch it back and you were like,
that's that was missing or they didn't that you know.
Speaker 10 (18:15):
Did that conversation.
Speaker 11 (18:17):
There was more to that conversation, and there's a whole
lot of context of that. And that person's recollection is
far different brand that two am conversation from mine, you know,
and so you're we remember things differently and things happened differently.
Speaker 10 (18:30):
So it's been hard watching it back.
Speaker 11 (18:31):
I really struggled the first few weeks of filming, and
now watching it back is even harder seeing that it's
just very very much different from recollection. Last week I
posted a few things on Instagram because there are some
things like saying, oh, I just I didn't respond to someone.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
I for everything.
Speaker 11 (18:50):
I have receipts, you know, and I just posted, yes
I did I after being screamed at in public.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
I didn't do disrespectful thing.
Speaker 11 (18:57):
I did a self respecting thing, and I just, you know,
waited till Monday. You know, we did forty eight hours
to take a breather and then sent a very lovely
message back. Like so there's just a lot of that.
We're watching it back and I'm like seeing something playing
on TV and then I look at my phone and
have the exact opposite proved, and I'm like, Okay, I
guess that's what reunions are for.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, you know, so those receipts keep omar.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
We're gonna more Brin Witfield on the way, But right now,
let's get back to music.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
You're a more Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I guess today is Bryn Whitfield from the Real Housewives
of New York. And you're gonna be spending a night
on the streets to raise money for youth homelessness.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Wow, yeah, what's that?
Speaker 10 (19:31):
Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 11 (19:33):
So Covenant has an amazing organization that I worked with
with sometime and it's something that's just near and dear
to me, there's so many youth that they help, So
almost nearly sixty thousand a year they help youth that
face home homelessness and home and security. And Covenant House
is just amazing. There's locations, you know, all across the
world and they're here, you know, open twenty four seven,
(19:54):
so twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.
Teens can come in, youth can come in for for
for any reason, and they can provide you know, in
addition to a warm bed and a meal, but also education,
mental health services, legal services. So for me giving up
my bed for one night, you know, it's not to oh,
let's experience homelessness or something like that.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
It's it's just in solidarity with them.
Speaker 11 (20:14):
And I can do that for one night and you know,
sleep outside and help to raise awareness and funds and whatever.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
It's it's completely worth it. I just I love them.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
I've had the opportunity to volunteer and spend so much
time with the kids at the campus here in New York,
and they're just they're freaking fantastic.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So good for you, really nice.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
All Right, we got to take a break, but we're
gonna wrap it up with brand Whitfield's a hold on Well.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
You're the full interview now at On with Mario dot Com,
Tabby Howidays, from the entire On with Mario fan more
fest and fun coming up?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
What up, Mario, Courtney Lopez, your rabbit exapt with bring
Whitfield from the Real Housewives.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Of New York And you recently moved to a new apartment.
What never are you in?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Now?
Speaker 11 (20:54):
I love it with Sugar with Shugs. Do you guys
know of any really like chic dog trainers? Because we're
on number three or four with Sugar and it's.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Wow, getting a little salty sugar.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Wow. Yeah you always been? Are you from New York?
Have you always been in New York?
Speaker 10 (21:13):
I grew up in Indiana.
Speaker 11 (21:15):
I grew up in Indiana and then work and spent
time in Los Angeles and then also.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
In New York.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Okay, but that's home now.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
Yeah, Yeah, New York's been home.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Well, congratulations on the show and everything, and uh listen,
you can watch Real Housewives of New York Tuesdays on Bravo.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
And it was nice meeting you, Bren. Thanks for having you.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
Thanks for making me the coolest person in my high
school group.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Chat It's cool, all right, take care.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Al Mario Courtney Lopez in the home stretch, final hour for.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
Us tweet of the week on the way last.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
We're just moments away from fake Debate, but first more music.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Al Mario Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Time for our weekly fake debate where the topics are
made upon the bob, but the passion is real.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Who's pro?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Who is con?
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Today?
Speaker 9 (22:03):
You'll be con, Courtney, will be pro. You have fifteen
seconds make your case since second rebuttal afterwards. Your topic
today is Santa's beard.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I'm pro, You're pro.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I think beards are essential. I think they help clean
the floor because it it it it.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Wow, mister Lopez, Santa's beard, You're against it.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
You couldn't even convince yourself about it.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Beard.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Sanna has been struggling with a hygiene problem for years now.
Plus he has sariasis, so it makes it really difficult.
That's why it doesn't shave that beard.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Poor thing.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Pray for Sanna.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
First of all, nobody knew he had psoriasis until you
said it. And you only said that because you cannot
grow a beard, per your dad.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So that's true.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
His mom said, or his dad said, he has too
much Indian blood from his mom.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
That's right. Didn't mean to jump in there as the moderator,
but mister Lopez.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
My dad thought he was Richard Pryor at that time.
I can't grow, but Sanna's beard started a lit a
little scraggly. He should rock the Shadow next Christmas for
his health.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Really quick fun fact, Oh, I can also grow a beard.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
You are Italian ew ew happy howadays?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
From the entire on with Mario fam more fest and
fun coming.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Up, Mario Courtney Lopez, here was some quick buzz. Congrats
to actor Adrian Granier from Rage. He and his wife
Jordan are expecting baby number two. WHOA didn't know he
was married? Did know he already had one child?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Okay, well, they already have a sixteen month old named
well expelled sei Ko, which I'm assuming is Psycho Cicco.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I would love for it to be Psycho, but I'm
probably gonna lean towards Cicco. Psycho would be awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I'm going with Psycho.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Well, Jordan, his wife is doing this spring.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
So congrats, congrats, you're all.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Mario Courtney Lopez about to dig into our inbox and
find us a comment of the Week hang tight for that.
In the meantime, you got a request, please send it
our way over on x add onlald Wine. All right,
time we'll dig into our inbox and see what we
can find. Mario Courtney Lopez here who.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Gets the honor of our comment of the week.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
This is from at Matthew kel Shan. He said, Well,
if you didn't already feel old, I just realized that
two thousands songs are now as old as eighty songs
were in the two thousands.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You're welcome. Wow wow.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I still bump seventies and eighties and they sound amazing
back then. By the way, when that song video killed
the radio start, you had to have that. There's a
little truth to that because you had a real, real talent,
and that's why it sustains, because.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
It's real talent.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I always laugh at those memes where it says like
the year is twenty fifty and we're showing our grandkids
what we dance to and it's like jay Z rapping.
It's just funny. So it's hard to imagine that that
time will come.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Count of the countdown at Christmas continues in moments. This
is on with Mario Lope.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
That's it for the night in the week.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Thanks again to both clayk And and Brent Whitfield for joining
us more fun on Monday, when Missus Lopez will be
taking the reins and hosting the radio shows solo go ahead.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I'll be here too, but yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Oh you have.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
I'm just saying you don't forget Fraser.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You'll be doing it all. But I'll be here.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
A quarterback in this team.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
No, I know, but that's what we you know, we're
a team. We're a team.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Here each other's back.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Nice jail, then good night, you get me.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Next week
Speaker 1 (25:29):
With Mario Lopez
This is On with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Happy Friday and happy holidays. Mario Lopez here along with
my wife Courtney. A lot of fun to get to
a couple of great guests as well.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Kleay Aikin's going to join us in a bit talk
about his new holiday album.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Plus we'll catch up with Brn Whitfield from The Hossewives
of New York a little later some buzz, we're going
to get to fake debate and more. This is the
Friday edition of On with Mario and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Sobyl Mario Lopez joining me now on Zoom. Singer actor
activist Clay Aiken. Welcome to the show man. Hey, thanks
for having me a nice to see you too. The
holiday season, of course, is upon us. You're releasing the
album Christmas Bells Are Ringing, first album in a decade.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
What inspired you to make this?
Speaker 6 (00:45):
Well, you know, I stepped away from recording and performing
and all that stuff, and maybe twenty twelve or so,
so yeah, a little over a decade. My son was
getting to an age where I wanted to be around
and available for him more, and I just kind of,
you know, I had a great run for those first
Power many years after Idol and kind of wanted to
(01:06):
branch into a few other things, but uh, I did
I think we spoke you and I spoke not too
long ago about them. We had Ruben together with Ruben
and I did a tour together last year and we
did Mass Singer this year also, and just kind of
getting back into performing a little bit with him kind
of got I tasted the bug?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
What's that? You know what I mean? Think you chased
the book, catch it, do whatever.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
I caught the bug, Thank you, caught my dinner and
tasted the book. And uh and you know we just
made me kind of want to get back into it.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
And my son is now sixteen, so you know, want
me around anyway.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Uh, it works out kind of perfectly. And Christmas has
always been, you know, the tours that I've done that
I've always enjoyed the most, So it kind of made
sense to come back into a Christmas Allagan.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
More details and on with doud On, Happy Holidays from
the entire on with Mario fam more fest and fun
coming up.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Mario Lopez here hanging out with Clay Aiken. His new
album is Christmas Bells Are Ring. The first single is
do you hear what I hear? What is it about
that track that made you want to showcase it?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well?
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I mean, I love the song in general, and I
think there's a lot you can.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Do with it musically.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
People kind of look expect me to get big, you know,
the idle big singing, and that song allows you to
do it, but you know lyrically it It was written
in the sixties as a kind of a response to
the Cuban missile crisis.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
The two folks who wrote.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
It were you worried about war in that in that
time and you know we're we're not, We're not headed
to war right now, but but you know our world could.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Use a little more peace.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I would, I would argue, and that song sort of
felt like the right one to put out now. But
that song, even though people think of it as a
Christmas song, it has a timeless message of peace, and
I think I'm that was why we wanted to put
it out early.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, good time and for that where you can listen
to Do you Hear what I Hear? On iHeart Radio?
All right, hang on, Clay got to take a break.
We're gonna play more music. We can get into the
Holiday Spirit with Clay Ache and You're all. Mario Lofez.
His new album is Christmas Bells Are Ringing and you
also recorded a song I love, Pure Imagination from Willy
Wonka made that movie to what an awesome song, not
(03:24):
necessarily a Christmas song, but I'm glad you did.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
You just a big fan as well.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
It is well, it's not a Christmas song, but if
you listen to it, it's about kids, and I mean
it's everything.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Everything about that song.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
The spirit of it is sort of the same as
the Spirit Spirit. So Ron Fair, who produced the album,
was just really incredible at taking this idea always I
want to do a pure imagination because I love the
song and I thought it had the spirit of Christmas,
and he just did this incredible job of making it
musically Christmas also, so it's a kind of a neat treat,
you know, Favorite Things from Salm and Music is also
(03:58):
not a Christmas song, but people put it on Christmas
albums all the time.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
So I put this one online.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Good for you. I like, I like that song. I'm
looking forward to hearing your version. Hang on, Clay, we
got to get.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
Back to the music.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Jar Al Mario Lopez My guest today is Clay Aiken,
and I saw you on Celebrity Family Feud with your son.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
What's what's he into right now?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Well, he's still you know, he is. He is a
pilot already. He if he could, if he could drop
out of high school, would be a pilot right now.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
That's what he'd want to do. He's that's that's his
passion in life, that's his path.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
So, h family Feud was his first time in sixteen
years that we've let him do anything publicly. We've we've
got to, you know, we've been pretty careful about keeping him.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Away from the public eye for the last sixteen years.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Let him have a real normal childhood, and then we
completely ruined it by letting him go on family Feud.
And now he's got this huge head around his high school.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's great, he thinks all that all right, Oh that's fun.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Has he has he seen any of your idol performances
from back in the day.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I don't know if he's seen idle ones or not.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
He's seen me perform when I was when he was younger,
I had I was still touring a little bit, so
he came to some of those he came to ruben
and Ized tour.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Obviously he came to Rubenized Broadway show. But I don't
know if he's seen the idle things or not.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
He might have seen Bridge Upper Trouble Water because it
kind of makes its way around every once in a while.
But he has very little interest in anything I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, hey, my kids as well, they could care less.
I think, well, why don't we take another break. We're
gonna wrap it up in a moment, Hangti.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Clay, Well, you're the full interview now at On with
Mario dot Com. Aby Holidays from the entire On with
Mario fam More festive fun coming up.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Mario Lopez here wrapping things up with today's guest, Clay Aiken.
And of course with Christmas around the corner, do do
you decorate early because we're like on the heels of
Halloween boom, everything's going up.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Well, that's the way the world is.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
I know.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
We usually do decorating around right after Thanksgiving, so you know,
we let we get through the holidays and then we
do it. We bring Christmas in full as soon as
Santa comes fur on the Macy's Parade.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
That's when Christmas starts.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Okay, I appreciate the honesty.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, meanwhile, listen pick up Christmas bells are ringing and
Clay always nice to see you man.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Thanks for Julie, Thanks a lot. Weyll Courney Lopez. Here
was some quick buzz for you.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Teddy Mellankin from the Real House Size of Beverly Hills,
who we just talked to not too long ago, is
calling it quits.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
On her marriage. She filed for divorce from her husband
in thirteen years.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They have three kids together, a twelve year old, a
ten year old, and a four year old.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Oh that's sad to hear.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, I didn't see this coming. Teddy wants custody and
spousal support. The marriage has had its share of ups
and downs over the year. I mean, that's marriage. And
they nearly divorced during her first season on Housewives back
in twenty seventeen. I don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So they've they've had some issues. Well, let's hope it's amicable.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
All right, Let's get back.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
To the music.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
John Marrol, Courtney Lopez, Martha Stewart throwing Ryan Reynold, none
of the.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Bus in the Hollywood buzz Morio, Hollywood bus.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
So it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Martha Stewart gives zeros when it comes to her opinion
on Ryan Reynolds. She was asked which celebrities are the
most fun to hang out with, and when she spilled the.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Ta, she says, Ryan not so funny in real life.
He's actually pretty serious all the time. She says, he's
good at acting funny, but not in real life.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Oh, Martha, keep it real.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I like, when you start getting older, you don't care
and you just are brutally honest.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
She also says her fun list includes Snoop, Taylor Swift,
and George Clooney.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Oh that's cool, you know, not to mention any names,
but we have some friends that are comedians, and when
we're around them, they're not funny.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
No, they're They're on the quiet side and a little
more reserved. And it's ironic because there's some people that
are very, very funny, just as people hello, oh my god.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Well obviously there's people like us. I think he's somehow
people don't realize they're funny. Yes, exactly, they're funny to
everyone around them, but they don't understand.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Yes, happy holidays to you and yours. This is on
with Mario Lopez, We'll be right back.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
What up, Mario Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Here, Ariana Grande is reclaiming her full birth name, starting
with a movie Wicked. She'll be credited as Ariana Grande
but Terra Grande but Terra.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Kind of a cool name, I gotta be honest.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Chance comes after she reconnected with her father, who hadn't
been a part of her life for the past ten years.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Apparently her parents flit when she was only eight years old.
So that's tough. But I love a happy ending.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, I'm glad she's back with her dad.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Good for keeping the festive fun coming your way as
we power through this Friday.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Mario Courtney Lopez, he're reminding you check out our.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
New holiday movie, Once Upon a Christmas Wish. I'm getting
so excited that it's finally coming out. It is a
family affair, myself, Missus Lopez, our son Dominic Lopez. They're singing,
there's dancing, and it's really really cute. Honey, you look
great too.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Oh thank you. I'm saying thank you because I'm trying
to be positive about it because you're not my worst critic.
But no, it's awesome. I'm so proud of our son,
and I'm so happy to share the screen with you.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
All right, time for another many Christmas pop quiz Mario
Courtney Lopez. Here Fraser is testing our knowledge with some
Christmas trivia. So let's get our hands on the buzzers
we've established on the King of Christmas.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
But we're tied.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You won one.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
I ow, okay, yeah, everyone relaxed. We'll see what wins today.
Here we go. Who wrote the classic story A Christmas Carol?
Mario Dickens. Dickens is correct, it's a zerous wow.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I didn't realize I was married to such an intelligent
Christmas connois soul just intelligence.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Stopped there, all right, went to zero. Next question, hands
on buzzers in total?
Speaker 9 (09:51):
How many gifts were given in the twelve days of
Christmas closest without going over twelve.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Recording?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
No, come on for forty eight? Incorrect?
Speaker 9 (10:03):
Three hundred and sixty four because some days starts like twelve.
Some days there's.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Eleven twelve day Christmas twelve.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
I thought it was a true question.
Speaker 9 (10:12):
She was trying to do the math working, so so okay.
I thought it was three hundred and sixty four gifts
that person. A lot of them are birds though you
did even put those? Yeah, who could afford that?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I mean right, you got to feed them that.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Today we do I get a prop for understanding.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
You do, I'll give you a prop for understanding. So
it's one to a prop. It's one to wait, did
we not go over? What's that?
Speaker 8 (10:35):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You should we should get a point because what did
she say?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (10:38):
I was actually yeah, she should get it. I mean
she gets a point because without going over. Yeah, so
you do get the point. True, So one to one, I.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Should still get a prop on top of that point?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Right, calm down, payz.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Here we go.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Two more questions under which president did Christmas December twenty
fifth officially become a national holiday? That is Courtney.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Carter incorrect, John Adams incorrect. Ulysses S.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
Grant eighteen seventy became granted it?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh god, wait a minute, Christmas it wasn't a holiday.
It was a holiday, but not a national holiday for
whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
That's wild. Till eighteen seventy.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Don't you think that's wild?
Speaker 9 (11:24):
I mean it's a little crazy. Eighteen seventy it's a
fair of the country. It was only like one hundred
years old at that point. They just hadn't gotten around.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
To it yet.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I think true, you forget, we're like, we're a baby.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
We're a baby compared to the rest.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
They're about to be two fifty, which is super young
in country years, super young.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I was at a church in Mexico recently that was
eight hundred years old.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
Dude, a friend of mine in England, his parents live
in a house that is two hundred years old, almost
like almost as old as this country.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, I forget. That's wild though there wasn't a national
that's wild. All right.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
It is one to one. There is one question left.
This one's worth twenty twenty four points. Which country is
credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition in the sixteenth century.
Mario England incorrect, Courtney Scotland in correct.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Germany.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Wow, Germany brought the trees inside. Wow, they brought the
trees in secause it's too cold.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
All right, Happy holidays to you and yours. This is
on with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
We'll be right.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Back Mario Courtney Lopez. Here just a few songs away
from today's guest zooming in.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
It's brit Whitfield from the Real Housewives of New York.
She's been feuding with Uba and Si and facetiming with
her ex. She's not a true housewife because she's not married.
But we'll find out what's really going down next.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
It's up by Mario Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Joining us now on Zoom from the Real Housewives of
New York City.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Brin Whitfield. Welcome to the show, Bren.
Speaker 10 (12:56):
How are you hello, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Thanks for taking the time. This is your second season
on the show. How are you feeling about having the
cameras in your face constantly? And are you approaching it
different this season?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
She's a natural.
Speaker 11 (13:11):
Well, I just got a new dog at her name Sugar,
and she's and she's wild.
Speaker 10 (13:17):
Having the cameras in your face. It's like you get
more used to it. It's funny.
Speaker 11 (13:21):
The first last year, or like the very first time
that ever started filming, you literally think the first twenty minutes,
I mean, you know this, You're.
Speaker 10 (13:29):
A pro at this.
Speaker 11 (13:31):
For me, it was like this is never gonna work right.
Like you notice them, you're very aware of them, You're
very self conscious. You're like adjusting yourself about twenty thirty
minutes in the problem actually is is that you don't
notice them anymore and you forget that they're there, you know.
So it's yeah, it's a it's a wild ride, but
it's it's very It's been fun. Can I just say, also,
(13:52):
wait time out. I'm like been dying all day. I
texted like thirteen of my middle school friends. I take
a picture really quick.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
You got it?
Speaker 11 (14:01):
I know this really drives you nuts. I've only been
like kind of people know me for like two days.
Speaker 10 (14:06):
I've ben that, but.
Speaker 11 (14:10):
There's a million like my high school like group chat
right now is like when I say freaking out, freaking out,
I'm like the biggest fan. Well, am I now a legend.
I'm like gonna go to my high school reunions.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
It's so and be like I made it and I'm least.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We got a lot to talk about, but right now,
it's play some more music. Yamar Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I guess today is Brent Whitfield from the Real Housewives
of New York.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
So this is the second season for you, and I
love the new cast. You guys are awesome, very very happy.
The last episode, you were seen facetiming with your ex fiance. Yeah,
is he still in the picture. What's going on with that?
Speaker 11 (14:52):
You know what, There's there's one question I get all
the time, like, I mean maybe you know, look, I'm
trying to do my part of bringing.
Speaker 10 (14:59):
There's all you know in our group.
Speaker 11 (15:01):
I love our group, but you know a lot of
you know, the in the friend group, they don't necessarily
want to share their partners, you know, and I try
to always. I remember Bravo con fans saying like, just
please share everything, the good and the bad, share everything
and show everything.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
So it was like, Okay, I will bring ex boyfriends
out of the woodwork for you guys. I'm flying my brother.
Speaker 11 (15:20):
In Brisil and I'm calling ex boyfriends ex fiancees.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
No.
Speaker 11 (15:24):
But Gideon is great. He's absolutely lovely, and he's not
in a relationship. So I feel like, after look, when
you're with someone for seven years old, I'm older, he's older.
I feel like at this point in our lives, so
I guess maybe in a way, you don't even have
the luxury anymore, being like I can just stack up
xes like X, Y and Z, like after you spend
(15:44):
so much time in families, know each other and whatnot,
it's like if we can both have a healthy friendship
or whatnot. I think I think it's a good thing.
So I A, he's a very very amazing ex. I
have a few exes that aren't married that are just
really really incredible men. And I think after dating in
New York for as long as I have, I will
(16:04):
hold on to any of the good ones if they're
willing to stick around.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Wise philosophy.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
All right, hold on, britn got to take a break.
We're gonna come back, get into the housewives drama.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Happy holidays to you and yours. This is on with
Mario Lopez.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Won't be right.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Back Mario Courtney Lopez. Here we got a real housewif
Brin Whitfield on zoom with us.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
So, Brian, what is the dating life like in New York?
You said at one time it was sad and pathetic?
Speaker 10 (16:28):
How long do you have?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
It's interesting to hear that.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
They go back and forth, like somebody.
Speaker 11 (16:34):
Did you see the study that came out without dating
in New York?
Speaker 10 (16:38):
It was ranked to the worst place to date.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
That's surprising.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Here, I was just going to say, first of all,
it's good that you're friends with your ex'es.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That says a lot about you.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
If you're still friendly with them. But we met in
New York, and I found New York as opposed to
LA to be the best place to be single because
you're constantly in contact with people, and there's so many
people obviously, but you're you're here and Eli, you're kind
of stuck in your car and you just got to
go to your little build bubble in your eyes.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
But there are always meeting people.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
There's something going on literally every day, So that's surprising
to hear.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
Yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
So I've dated in both LA and New York, and
I do prefer New York for exactly what you're explaining. Like,
dating in New York, it's almost it's impossible. You literally
run into people constantly. You run into people you know,
you run into people you don't know, you bump into them,
and it's like there's it feels like there's much more
of a pool just because you're constantly strong with people LA.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
Dating in LA is definitely that was tough.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Well, good luck to you out there. Hang in there, Brent.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Let's play some more music right now, Mario Courtney Lopez,
You're hanging out.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Britn Whitfield from The Roal Housewives of New York.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
So the feud with Uba and Si, is there a
chance of a reconciliation or has that ship sailed?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (17:47):
I feel like, look I I it's it's like anything else, right, friends, family,
There's always that hope there. I think that any one
that would say no, absolutely not a doors close to
something forever is not doing them or themselves justice or
doesn't really have hope in like the human condition and
people and growth. I think, you know, in this process,
(18:07):
things happen. You you watch it back and you were like,
that's that was missing or they didn't that you know.
Speaker 10 (18:15):
Did that conversation.
Speaker 11 (18:17):
There was more to that conversation, and there's a whole
lot of context of that. And that person's recollection is
far different brand that two am conversation from mine, you know,
and so you're we remember things differently and things happened differently.
Speaker 10 (18:30):
So it's been hard watching it back.
Speaker 11 (18:31):
I really struggled the first few weeks of filming, and
now watching it back is even harder seeing that it's
just very very much different from recollection. Last week I
posted a few things on Instagram because there are some
things like saying, oh, I just I didn't respond to someone.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
I for everything.
Speaker 11 (18:50):
I have receipts, you know, and I just posted, yes
I did I after being screamed at in public.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
I didn't do disrespectful thing.
Speaker 11 (18:57):
I did a self respecting thing, and I just, you know,
waited till Monday. You know, we did forty eight hours
to take a breather and then sent a very lovely
message back. Like so there's just a lot of that.
We're watching it back and I'm like seeing something playing
on TV and then I look at my phone and
have the exact opposite proved, and I'm like, Okay, I
guess that's what reunions are for.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, you know, so those receipts keep omar.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
We're gonna more Brin Witfield on the way, But right now,
let's get back to music.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
You're a more Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I guess today is Bryn Whitfield from the Real Housewives
of New York. And you're gonna be spending a night
on the streets to raise money for youth homelessness.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Wow, yeah, what's that?
Speaker 10 (19:31):
Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 11 (19:33):
So Covenant has an amazing organization that I worked with
with sometime and it's something that's just near and dear
to me, there's so many youth that they help, So
almost nearly sixty thousand a year they help youth that
face home homelessness and home and security. And Covenant House
is just amazing. There's locations, you know, all across the
world and they're here, you know, open twenty four seven,
(19:54):
so twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.
Teens can come in, youth can come in for for
for any reason, and they can provide you know, in
addition to a warm bed and a meal, but also education,
mental health services, legal services. So for me giving up
my bed for one night, you know, it's not to oh,
let's experience homelessness or something like that.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
It's it's just in solidarity with them.
Speaker 11 (20:14):
And I can do that for one night and you know,
sleep outside and help to raise awareness and funds and whatever.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
It's it's completely worth it. I just I love them.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
I've had the opportunity to volunteer and spend so much
time with the kids at the campus here in New York,
and they're just they're freaking fantastic.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So good for you, really nice.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
All Right, we got to take a break, but we're
gonna wrap it up with brand Whitfield's a hold on Well.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
You're the full interview now at On with Mario dot Com,
Tabby Howidays, from the entire On with Mario fan more
fest and fun coming up?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
What up, Mario, Courtney Lopez, your rabbit exapt with bring
Whitfield from the Real Housewives.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Of New York And you recently moved to a new apartment.
What never are you in?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Now?
Speaker 11 (20:54):
I love it with Sugar with Shugs. Do you guys
know of any really like chic dog trainers? Because we're
on number three or four with Sugar and it's.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Wow, getting a little salty sugar.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Wow. Yeah you always been? Are you from New York?
Have you always been in New York?
Speaker 10 (21:13):
I grew up in Indiana.
Speaker 11 (21:15):
I grew up in Indiana and then work and spent
time in Los Angeles and then also.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
In New York.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Okay, but that's home now.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
Yeah, Yeah, New York's been home.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Well, congratulations on the show and everything, and uh listen,
you can watch Real Housewives of New York Tuesdays on Bravo.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
And it was nice meeting you, Bren. Thanks for having you.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
Thanks for making me the coolest person in my high
school group.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Chat It's cool, all right, take care.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Al Mario Courtney Lopez in the home stretch, final hour for.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
Us tweet of the week on the way last.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
We're just moments away from fake Debate, but first more music.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Al Mario Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Time for our weekly fake debate where the topics are
made upon the bob, but the passion is real.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Who's pro?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Who is con?
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Today?
Speaker 9 (22:03):
You'll be con, Courtney, will be pro. You have fifteen
seconds make your case since second rebuttal afterwards. Your topic
today is Santa's beard.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I'm pro, You're pro.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I think beards are essential. I think they help clean
the floor because it it it it.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Wow, mister Lopez, Santa's beard, You're against it.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
You couldn't even convince yourself about it.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Beard.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Sanna has been struggling with a hygiene problem for years now.
Plus he has sariasis, so it makes it really difficult.
That's why it doesn't shave that beard.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Poor thing.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Pray for Sanna.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
First of all, nobody knew he had psoriasis until you
said it. And you only said that because you cannot
grow a beard, per your dad.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So that's true.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
His mom said, or his dad said, he has too
much Indian blood from his mom.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
That's right. Didn't mean to jump in there as the moderator,
but mister Lopez.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
My dad thought he was Richard Pryor at that time.
I can't grow, but Sanna's beard started a lit a
little scraggly. He should rock the Shadow next Christmas for
his health.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Really quick fun fact, Oh, I can also grow a beard.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
You are Italian ew ew happy howadays?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
From the entire on with Mario fam more fest and
fun coming.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Up, Mario Courtney Lopez, here was some quick buzz. Congrats
to actor Adrian Granier from Rage. He and his wife
Jordan are expecting baby number two. WHOA didn't know he
was married? Did know he already had one child?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Okay, well, they already have a sixteen month old named
well expelled sei Ko, which I'm assuming is Psycho Cicco.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I would love for it to be Psycho, but I'm
probably gonna lean towards Cicco. Psycho would be awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I'm going with Psycho.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Well, Jordan, his wife is doing this spring.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
So congrats, congrats, you're all.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Mario Courtney Lopez about to dig into our inbox and
find us a comment of the Week hang tight for that.
In the meantime, you got a request, please send it
our way over on x add onlald Wine. All right,
time we'll dig into our inbox and see what we
can find. Mario Courtney Lopez here who.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Gets the honor of our comment of the week.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
This is from at Matthew kel Shan. He said, Well,
if you didn't already feel old, I just realized that
two thousands songs are now as old as eighty songs
were in the two thousands.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You're welcome. Wow wow.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I still bump seventies and eighties and they sound amazing
back then. By the way, when that song video killed
the radio start, you had to have that. There's a
little truth to that because you had a real, real talent,
and that's why it sustains, because.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
It's real talent.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I always laugh at those memes where it says like
the year is twenty fifty and we're showing our grandkids
what we dance to and it's like jay Z rapping.
It's just funny. So it's hard to imagine that that
time will come.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Count of the countdown at Christmas continues in moments. This
is on with Mario Lope.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
That's it for the night in the week.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Thanks again to both clayk And and Brent Whitfield for joining
us more fun on Monday, when Missus Lopez will be
taking the reins and hosting the radio shows solo go ahead.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I'll be here too, but yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Oh you have.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
I'm just saying you don't forget Fraser.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You'll be doing it all. But I'll be here.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
A quarterback in this team.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
No, I know, but that's what we you know, we're
a team. We're a team.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Here each other's back.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Nice jail, then good night, you get me.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Next week
Speaker 1 (25:29):
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