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January 19, 2026 • 17 mins

Today On With Mario Lopez – Why 2026 is the year of 'Geek Chic', Courtney's phone photo finding hack, we dig into our mentions to see what's on your mind, the latest buzz and you won't believe how much it costs to reserve your spots at the future Moon Hotel!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on with Mario Lopez.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here we go f every day of the week, so
much radio fun to get into. What up Mario? Courtney
Lopez Here back behind the mike, Excited to get to
spend the next few hours with you. Gonna go head
to head into mini pop culture pop quiz. A little later,
Loss a fresh life Hacker two in Cordo's Corner, Gonna
dig into the buzz to see what's trending, and just
a few songs away from a quick musical trip into
the past with our throwback soundtrack. So turn it up.

(00:23):
You're on with Mario and Courtney Lopez. All Mario Lopez,
got a lot more music and fun headed your way
right after Fraser breaks down. A few of the new
things hitting TV and streaming.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Netflix has season one of Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, a
three part series about Lady Eileen Bundle Brent, who investigates
a murder at a nineteen twenties country house party after
a print goes wrong on covering secrets of a dangerous
group called the Seven Dials.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Ooh okay, I got this, Christy.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Nice Ponies on Peacock series premiere of That a Peacock
Spy thriller set in nineteen seventy seven Moscow, following two
unassuming American Embassy secretaries played by Amelia Clark and Haley Richardson,
who become unlikely CIA operatives after their husband's mysterious deaths,
forcing them to uncover vast Cold War conspiracy that.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Made them widows. Yeah, I saw the trailer to this.
It looked really cool, really really cool. And that's Kalisi
from Game of Throne.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
So I'm in and Star Trek Starfleet Academy. It's on
Paramount Plus series premiere of that a new diverse class
of young cadets in the thirty second century as they
train at the reopened Starfleet Academy after the burn, learning
about friendship, rivalry and blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Their in space Star Trek.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Almost seventy years later, and they're still around. At On
with Mario on Facebook and x at On with Mario
Lopez on Instagram. Love hearing from you, so please hit
us up questions, comments, whatever you got a few more songs.
Are going to dig into our mentions to see what's
on your mind that's coming up with You're on Mario
Lopez quickly gettingto one or two of the notes you

(01:52):
sent our way again at on with Mario on Facebook
and x at on Mario Lopez on IG. All right, Fraser,
who's this from? This is from at Carolyn Rooks.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
What an incredible thing for you to do by hooking
up your friend with the Property Brothers to renovate his house.
Although got to say you seem to enjoy smashing up
his house quite a lot. Yeah, this was a big
smile on your face.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
My boy Toddy, I got to hook him up on
the show Celebrity IOU. He got a complete new kitchen,
which was really cool. But it's funny because a lot
of the feedback I've gotten they said, Mario, I didn't
know you were so handy, which is I'm gonna be honest,
I am not, but I came across handy, I guess,
so I'll take it kind of that.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Mario Lopez coming up?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
You're all Mario Lopez. iHeartRadio's got your hook up to
check out music from Madison Beer before it drops tomorrow.
iHeart Radio album preview with Madison Beer going down tonight.
She's playing ever before heard tracks from her new album
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(02:53):
Nation station on your free iHeartRadio app olmri dot com
to find out more. Already, Lopez about to shout out
some January fifteenth birthdays. In the meantime, Corto's got some
obscure holiday for us today. What is it?

Speaker 4 (03:07):
It is National hat Day?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
So you know, I love me a ball cap when
you don't have to comb the wig, throw a ball
cap on either backwards forwards. I love me a ball cap.
But I feel like I want to start incorporating more hats,
Like I have a good cowboy hat. Interesting, right, but
I just can't bust it out because I look crazy
if I do that. So we either got to go
to a country western bar or you could just do it.
I mean no, that'd be weird. Or you know what

(03:30):
I'd like to bust out Al Fedora, do you have one?

Speaker 1 (03:33):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
But I want to start. You gotta get one, okay,
and my last one the newsboy hat. I like the
Newsboy Okay, those three hats.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
I want to run the Newsboy like the Peak Blinders hat.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yes that Killian Murphy does. This is very strange. I
kind of like hats, and I kind of like the hats,
but I love that you don't have to do the
wig and just boom throw the hat on necessary.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
But then it takes on a whole different look and
you just okay, it depends.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
You're not used to me in these lids.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
I think you still art with the cowboy hat and
then we worked.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I have a good one. I have a good one.
That's the one I had. Yeah, Or what about a beret?
I wouldn't do what going to become my mind or something.
I'm not gonna do a brat. I'd stay away from
that newsboy, which is like Peaky blinder.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yes, that's fine Cowboy or a Fedora and Peaky Blinders.
Isn't there a movie coming out or something soon that's
gonna be popular?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yes? Times some January fifteen birthdays you're on. Mario Courtney
Lopez has always Frasers got the list. I'm gonna try
to get the age scrillicks. He makes music that sounds
like like I have no idea what this man looks like,
absolutely zero. He could be one hundred and fifty. It
doesn't matter. So I'm gonna go. But he's been around

(04:41):
the minute. I'm gonna go forty five.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
No, he is relaxing his way into thirty eight thirty five.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Ah, okay, Drew Brees m he used to drew.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
The breeze back in the day when he was on
the field older. It was just the wind in his hair.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
No, that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
He is.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Fifty three. Seems like I'm trying to fifty one forty seven.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
See, it was hard for me to kind of. I
knew it was a little bit old. I was like,
I feel like you were gonna go younger. I was
gonna go a little younger that. No, he's got to
be closer, hut, because he was around for a long time.
I thought he was a little older. Okay.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
From Pretty Little Liars and Rob's brother Chad.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Low Hillary Swanks excess. Oh I didn't know that. Yes,
Actually maybe I did know that. He forgot she forgot
to think him in the act right, which is called
de ice yes, and then cut away to him too. Uh, Chad,
I'm gonna say he is fifty three, Chad. Oh, Chad
got that.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Chad.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Chad is fifty two.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Fifty eight. Oh wow, Lisa Lisa.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
She's so Lisa. They named her twice.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I love me so Lisa, Lisa. I wanted to if
I take you home, woy just do me? Lisa. Lisa's sixty?

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Oh she is? Yes?

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Oh okay. I wasn't even paying attention. I actually thought
she was older, because I mean she was young when
that came up, and because yeah, I was in like
junior high so she must have been just yeah, well
andeen or something. Finally from New jack City.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
Like you could date her if you wanted to, Well, she's.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Sixty, I mean she'd be older. It'd be Robin the Grave.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
More Mario Lopez on the way.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
All right, Corda' gonna try to make us think Mario
Courtney Lopez here at time for Cordo's random thought. What
you got?

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Do you think people buy cars based on their name?
Like Honda? If my name was Ronda, would I buy
it and just put like a magnetic R in the front?
Or we know somebody named Rovner, should they buy a
range Rover and just put an N?

Speaker 2 (06:49):
We also know a Corolla he buy?

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Right?

Speaker 2 (06:54):
I was Maza? Should I buy a Mazda? Baby can
get it? Yeah, but I want.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
That because when I seen it, Like my cousin has
a daughter named Sienna. When she grows up, is she
going to get the Sienna soccer mom?

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Then she has to. I think there's select names where
you can have some fun with that. There's a few
other people that are popping in my head that that
it could work. They're usually the I don't want to
say lower end models, but they're not the I do know,
like economy car. I do know a Mercedes, and I
remember growing up. I know I knew a Porsche. I

(07:27):
knew I knew, I do know. I do know as kids,
as kids, there was a lot of Mercedes. It's actually
a popular name in Spanish. Said this, but I knew
a Porsche when I was almost have been twelve thirteen
in school. Her name was Portia and.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
I know, uh, Lexus not Alexis just but I wonder
that's what triggered it. I go, I wonder if Ronda
ever buys a Honda. That's what I said to myself
myself in the car as.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Those you go loves happy Honda days. I know an
idiot that named his son Ferrari too. You're on Mario
Lopez keep it the music and fun Kevin your way
as we make a quick digital pit stop and on
Mario dot com so Fraser can break down what's trending.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Louis Tomlinson explains why one direction splitting up was quote
really scary.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh he didn't mince words.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Okay, everything we know about the major comeback to our
bts just announced after a year's long hiatus.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Wow, I didn't even know they took a break because
they're so I know a need present. They're literally everywhere
all the time.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
They took a break, we didn't notice and find out
why Megan Trainer is proclaiming her innocence while addressing toxic
mom group drama.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
We need to talk about that a little bit more
and get into it. That is that is a wild,
wild situation. Over there on Mario dot com for all
that and more. Odd time to activate your brain, Mario
Lopez here Long producer Fraser was going to try to
make us think with a random question what you got
would you rather have more time or more energy? More time?
Time's the only thing you can't get, and it's most

(08:53):
valuable thing in the world. Really, I've already got a
lot of energy, but.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well, There's also there's also ways to artificially boost energy.
I can't artific boost time.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
No. And here's the thing though, because I've actually thought
about this before. If I have more time, let's say
I get twenty eight hours in a day, am I
gonna look that much older? Like later on? If I
end up having this, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
I mean possibly, because the thing about you too is
You're not just gonna use that time to relax.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
You're gonna fill it with stuff. I'm gonna try to
fill the stuff or get extra sleep. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
More. Mario Lopez coming up.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Award show for fans is back. Mario Lopez Here. I
heard Radio Music Award was going down March twenty sixth
on Fox. Voting is now officially open. Helped choose this
year's winners for Best Lyrics, Favorite K Pop Clab, Favorite
Music Video, and more. Over your favorites now at oh
my dot.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Com slash Awards.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
All right, time to choose your side to Mario Team Quardo.
Because we're just a few songs away from competing in
a mini pop culture pop quiz. Mario Lopez here, Fraser
can give us a hint to the top.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Some trivia questions about a big TV anniversary today.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
All right, back to ballot out. Next, Imar Courtney Lopez
have for a mini pop culture pop quiz. What are
we doing for well?

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Today is the anniversary of the debut of a show
that popped up one year after you were born, And
that is actually not even a year.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
It was a few months. Happy Days?

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Is it? Did any be that Happy Days in nineteen
seventy four? So we're gonna do a little quiz about
happy Days?

Speaker 2 (10:38):
So Sunday, Monday.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
Happy Day?

Speaker 2 (10:40):
I am I even here, you'll get the Happy Days.
Here we go.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
It's multiple choice, so you'll you'll have a shot. Get
your hands on the buzzers. What is the name of
the malt shop where the gang hung outs? All right, owls, Yeah,
I'll give it to you, Arnold's Malt Shop.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Owls they call it out. Yes, one to zero. Here
we go, hands on buzzers.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
What was the Funs' famous phrase when someone annoyed him?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Sit on it?

Speaker 3 (11:08):
That is correct, two to zero. One more question, which
will be worth a seventy four points.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
How was it? No? Not when someone annoyed him?

Speaker 3 (11:17):
This one is worth seventy four points because that's a
year it debuted, and it is the final question. What
did the Fawns often do two machines like jukeboxes or
pinball machines to make them work?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Mario? He hit him with his fist. Boom, give them
a little nudge. Yes, that is correct. I mean why
didn't even give the like I know that's embarrassing.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
You didn't even need I was three months old, exactly,
he was a little baby.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
That's true. That's true. That's true. But I loved Happy
Days back in the day, and the Fawns was one
of my favorite TV characters.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Mario Lopez.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
So what do you do when you're not on your phone?
You're all Mario Lopez. Well, half of Americans are reportedly
spinning less time looking at screens, and that seems to
me making them happier. Yes, that's good to hear. New
survey says that gen Z is actually leading the charge
when it comes to unplugging as far as what they're
doing with their newfound free time. Everything from writing letters,
calling friends, hosting game nights, clicking and baking, get this, drawing,

(12:18):
knitting and crocheng.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
How are you calling your friends if you put your
phone down?

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Old school landline. All right, I like what gen Z's about.
I like that. I heard the liquor industry lost something
like twenty billion dollars this year because they're.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Not just you know, the younger generations, like alcohol is
not a thing for them, really not a thing, not
a thing.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well it is expensive. A mari A Lopez music rolls
on after some quick food buzz. If you still haven't
figured out how to eat fries with Ketchup on the
go without making a mess, well you're not alone. According
to Hines, seventy percent of Ketchup and fry lovers have
spilled ketchup when dipping on the go.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
I spill virtually every sauce on me almost every day.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, I'm a big fan of the bib. I need
a bib, I assume, most of which is while trying
to and eat. I'm guilty of that. Anyway. Hines has
come up with the brilliant new creation to solve that problem.
It's called the Hinds Dipper. It's a fry box with
a built in dipping compartment, so no more juggling fries
in one hand and ketchup in the other. That's clever.
They're starting in six cities, and if it catches on,

(13:16):
they say you can expect it at major fast food chains, stadiums,
even and just all across the country. All right, I'm
anxious to check it out. So twenty twenty six shap
been up to be the year of geek sheic? What
up Mario Lopez here? And of course we all have
certain habits of behaviors that bring out our inner geek.
In fact, new study says half of us think we're

(13:36):
nerdy in certain aspects of adult life. So how geeky
are we?

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Well?

Speaker 2 (13:40):
The top twenty signs you're a geek include comparing specs
before buying any gadgets, watching behind the scenes documentaries and
shows with useless trivia questions like Jeopardy fans. Other nerdy
things we do, memorizing lines from our favorite films. Wait,
I'm guilty of that, making spreadsheets for personal projects, and
watching YouTube tatorials just for fun. I don't watch them
for fun, but they are very enough. I look at

(14:02):
them when I need to do something. H exactly the right.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
I mean, it's like you literally have knowledge at your
fingertips all the time.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
You can literally learn anything by on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Co that Mario Lopez coming up.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
We all remember that one teacher who made a difference,
you know, the one who believed in us, challenged us,
and made learning fun. Well, now is your chance to
say thank you in a big way. With that heart
radios thank a teacher powered by donors. Choose Mario Lopez here.
This is your chance to nominate an outstanding public school
teacher who has gone above and beyond for their students.
Winning teachers getting five grand to stock their classroom with

(14:33):
whatever they need. So help us say thank you to
the educator shaping our future and nominate your favorite now
at on Mario dot com slash teachers All Mario Courtney Lopez.
It's a few songs away from stopping by Courtney's Corner
for a new live hack.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
In the meantime, would love to play a song for you,
so tweet your request hour way at on with Mario.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
You're all Mario Courtney Lopez. Every week, my wife likes
to share little hacks to make your life easier in
Cordos Corner and time for today's hack. What you got
for us, honey? Oh this is great.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
This is a quick way to find a photo you're
looking for on your iPhone.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Oh my gosh, I need to pay attention. Yes you do.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
You don't pay attention to my other hacks. Okay, well,
we know we all have thousands and thousands of photos
on our phone and sometimes you want to find one
real quick without having to scroll back for days and
days because you're always asking me, honey, send me.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
This picture correctly.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
So just go to your photos on your phone, okay,
click the maps icon and then you can zoom into
certain areas to find the photo you want. So if
you know the photo was taken at a certain place
like Dodger Stadium for example, this will narrow down the
photos for you. Then you can maybe only have to
scroll through one hundred photos instead of five thousand.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Wow, that is solid. Okay, I am taking this to
the bank.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
For Mario Lopez coming up? What up?

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Mario Courtney Lopez here reminding you that are twenty twenty
six I Heart Radio Walter Ego presented by Capitol One
is bag this Saturday at the KIV Forum.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
In La Incredible lineup is taken the stage, Green Day
twenty one, Pilot's Cage, The Elephant, Sublime, Good, Charlotte, Gigi Perez,
Mountjoy and almost Monday. You can hear it live this
Saturday at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Alternative
Radio on your free iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Am Mario Lopez Almost time to pass the mic. Just
one last thing to squeeze in. A vacation idea that's
out of this world. Literally, I'm gonna tell you about
it next all Mario Lopez getting ready to wrap up
all our radio fun, but not before we squeeze in
one last thing. If you like taking vacations far away
from home, you can't get further than this. New company
is officially taking reservations for a luxury hotel on the Moon.

(16:45):
Come on, they're accepting early bird deposits of one million dollars. Oh,
you're not getting that money back. They plan to launch
its first inflatable hotel for guests by twenty thirty two,
eventually upgrading to a more permanent structure built out of
moon bricks made from lunar soil. So they want to
turn the Moon into a real tourist destination. This feels

(17:07):
like some sort of scheme.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, you want me to pay a million dollars so
that I can, one day in the future stay in
a bouncy house on the moon.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Let's assume it is real. Let's assume it's legitimate. Okay,
I'm not paying a million dollars. I think if I
had it just to go, I guess the only thing
you could say is, hey, I've been in the moon.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
I mean I would like I would like to go.
These conditions are not ideal.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
No, and that's way too expensive.

Speaker 6 (17:30):
On with Mario Lopez. The fun rolls on next. Thanks
to Vix Trust Fix Vapo stick for comforting non medicated
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parents for over one hundred and thirty years.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
All Right, that's it, time for us at home. Thanks
again for hanging out as all ways, have you missed
anything you just want to relive some of our radio
fun hit upon Mario dot Com. We're back to do
it again. Until then, Mario Lopez saying good night.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
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