July 2, 2026 • 15 mins
Today On With Mario Lopez – Former American Idol winner Taylor Hicks talks 20th anniversary of his big win, new music, BBQ restaurant and more! Plus, Time's list of the 100 best podcasts, we dig into our mentions, get to the latest buzz and science reveals the perfect male form!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're on with Mario Lopez, Lights of Red, Mike's Alive.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What Amoro?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Courtney Lopez here back behind the mic fired them to
get to hang with you for the next few hours.
Great guests joining us later as well former American idol
Taylor Hicks.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Plus we're gonna share a Fresh Life Hacker too in
Cordo's Corner. We'll dig into the buzz to see what
is trending. Play all of your favorite music and more so,
turn it up. You're on with Mario and Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A Mario Lopez, Courtney's albat Fraser's and studio with me.
What are we doing here?
Speaker 5 (00:28):
We're gonna try a new game.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (00:30):
This game is called first Impressions. I'm gonna give you
the name of a celebrity and I'm gonna give you
a scenario, and you've got to make a first impression.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Rodney Dangerfield, Hey, I.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Get no respect. No, I know what tigers eat.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
The young and you're convincing me to buy a bucket
of chum.
Speaker 7 (00:47):
It's summertime. The sharks out there. You need to buy
chum to tract sharks. To tract the sharks, I mean sharks.
Give you no respect to let you go unless you
got the chump. So get in there, people, get the
come on sold more.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Mario Lopez on the way, Mario Corney Lopez, Your music
rolls on as we remind you that iHeart TikTok Radio
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Speaker 3 (01:29):
I'm Mario Courtney Lopez, keeping the music coming your way,
as Cordo offers up a little pigmy up with a
fresh mom choke.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What you got.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Why couldn't the Halapenio practice archery? Why because it didn't
have a natta?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's good, that might be your best one.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
It didn't have anetta.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Why couldn't the Hallopenio practice archery because it didn't have
an arrow?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know what, I'm a stealer. I'm Mario Code keep
me the music coming your way.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
As Quardo offers up a little pigmy up with a
fresh mom choke what you got.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Why couldn't the Halapenio practice archery? Why because it didn't
have a natta?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That's good, that might be your best one.
Speaker 8 (02:17):
It didn't have anada.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Why couldn't the Hallopenio practice archery because it didn't have
an arrow?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You know what, I'm a steal it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Y Maar Lopez digging into the bus to break down
this questionable new Time one hundred lists on.
Speaker 8 (02:33):
With Mario the Hollywood Bus.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
So Time drop a new list, the one hundred best
podcast of all time, but people immediately calling it controversial
because who did not make the list?
Speaker 9 (02:45):
All right?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Who made the list version?
Speaker 8 (02:47):
All right?
Speaker 6 (02:47):
So there's like one hundred people and it's not in
any certain order. But to dope queens call her daddy,
armchair expert with Dax Shepherd. Conan O'Brien needs a friend,
Dirty John Good hang with Amy Poehler, honestly.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Call her add He's like a big These are.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Big, These are all big, and these are popular podcasts.
But the problem is who they left out.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, they left out Joe Rogan in the Joe Rogan Experience, Adam.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Corolla, those two, those two in particular, were like two
of the.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
First, yeah, two of the pioneers to really make it mainstream.
They were doing it way before anyone else, and it
seems like they might have been a little biased because that, yeah,
that hasn't made a lot of sense.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
More Mario Lopez coming.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Up, Mario Courtney Lopez here, and I have been looking for
a new podcasts to add to the mix. Subscribe to
this show. We take out the music and condense it
down to a smaller daily dose. It's really fun and funny.
You can listen to our extended interviews as well.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Just open up the iHeartRadio app or whatever you use
to get your podcasts and search for On with Mario.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You're Mario Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Few more songs and then going to make a stop
into Courtney's Corner.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Can you give us a little hint about today's life hack?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Honey, huh Yeah, we're gonna talk about a simple way
to build trust in your relationship.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Ooh, important stuff. All right, back with Quarto's Corner and
tend don't move.
Speaker 10 (04:05):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Music rolls on after a.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Quick stop and a Courtney's Corner. Mario Courtney Lopez here,
what are we talking about today, Quarto.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
We are talking about key phrases that can help you
build trust. So studies have shown that couples who really
trust each other tend to say key phrases that support
their relationship.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Every day.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Experts say phrases like I want what's best for both
of us, or I appreciate that I can be myself
with you, or I trust you is another one, as
is we will get through this.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Those are solid, Those are empowering, and I like that.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Additionally, sometimes it's good to say and I say this,
go out and have fun with your friends, because research
shows that partners who trust each other don't feel threatened
by time apart. They understand that independence is important and
makes their bond stronger. I do say that to you,
don't you'd say it, but you say a passive aggressive.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
You do.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, you do, you know, Oh my gosh. And then
when I'm away, and then when I'm away, you.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Start at cordos, start attacking weirdo and then but you
but you're not gonna do that anymore because you realize
that I'm ad a chance twenty five percent higher chance
of having heart attacks.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You're not gonna eavens. That's a different segment. That's a
different segment.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
We'll come back to that.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
But no, but sometimes when you're like, do you want
to go to the Dodger game on Saturday? And I go,
don't you want to take one of your friends and
have like a guy afternoon?
Speaker 8 (05:25):
Don't? I K that?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
But I actually want you to go on?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
No, I know, but I do not say that passive aggressively.
I like you to go out with your friends.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
And she lets you. She let your friends come sleep over.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
They sleep in bed with you in a row.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
More Mario Lopez on the way wyld Courtney Lopez here,
let's put a spotlight on my wife.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's time for Courtney's random thought. What you got?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Honey?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So I saw fifty cent making a sweater the other
day and I thought, gee, unit, wow, you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Know what you delivered? That pretty good? But I thought
you g you knit that was good.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I was always a compliment with a criticism.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
All right, a few more songs.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
They want to fire up zoom to chat with former
America Natl Taylor Hicks.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's Mario Lopez.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
He's celebrating twenty years since his win and he's got
some new music and find out all about it?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Coming up next, It's up all.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Mario Lopezz joining me right now. You know him as
the winner of season five of America NOL. Musician Taylor Hicks.
How you doing, Taylor?
Speaker 10 (06:40):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Mario?
Speaker 10 (06:41):
My man?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Good to see you, man, good to see you.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I can't believe this past May was the twentieth anniversary
of your idle win and you return to the station
perform at the end of the season. How do it
feel to be back out there?
Speaker 10 (06:55):
You know, it was kind of all came rushing back,
you know, being able to you know, it was in
a different studio, but all the nuts and bolts of
the show were the same.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (07:10):
There was a couple of people that are still on
the show. I mean that's a testament to a show, right.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
When you've got people that you saw when you were
on the show twenty years later still on the.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Show, right, that's crazy.
Speaker 10 (07:23):
So there you know the Katie, the girl that actually
let me in during my cattle Call edition. Literally the
first producer Pa you know, that actually heard my voice
for the first time on IDOL. She's still at American Idol.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
So like she was the true gatekeeper, you know, and
she was she was still on the show. So those
kind of moments are really special, man, you know, to
be able to go back on and and see those
kinds of folks because they really, you know, you know
how it goes, man, You see people that really help
your career.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Absolutely change your life right there. All right, Taylor hanging time,
We're gonna have more with Taylor Hicks.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Coming up more Mario Lopez coming up, catching.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Up with Taylor Hicks this hour. What's up you're all
Mario Lopez? And I know you just released a new
single as well, called The Mirror, and I like the
description Southern soul shaker.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Tell me about the song. The song. I did it
with the Memphis Horns.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
I wrote it with a with a guy from Alabama,
Adam Hood, who's written some stuff with Miranda, and I
just decided, you know, I wanted to have a song
that kind of sounded like if Black Crows and Zach
Brown had a baby, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That's a good merge, right.
Speaker 10 (08:42):
So that kind of Southern soul kind of romping, you know,
kind of a Black Black Crows kind of feel. I
put the Memphis Horns on there, and it turned out
really well man.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
People like it nice man. And you also got another
one on the way called nineteen. When can we hear
that one?
Speaker 10 (08:59):
Nineteen's coming out? You know, I did a nineteen on
my lap on two records ago. It's a song about
a fallen soldier. It's gonna come out around around the
fourth for the two fifty for America. It's a song
that I do with the Opry a lot that's gotten
(09:21):
a lot of you know, a lot of praise and
believe it or not, Billy Ray Cyrus, I was talking
to him not too long ago at the Opry and
he actually released it. So the song's been around forever,
it just hasn't gotten the legs. You know, every song
has a story right and a pathway, So I'm excited
to release that thing.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Good for you, Sam, you're on Mario Lopez Kirk.
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Speaker 2 (10:00):
As we get back to the music.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Wrapping up with Taylor Hicks here Ala Mario Lopez and
this is a trip.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You also opened a restaurant called Saws.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Juke Joint in Birmingham, Alabama, and it was ranked a
top twenty five.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Barbecue spot in America. Very cool. I love me some barbecue.
How'd you get how'd you get involved?
Speaker 10 (10:18):
I'm gonna send you a big Alabama Sauce Barbecue gift pack.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Hey, I love it all right.
Speaker 10 (10:24):
You know you got my word on that.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, Yes, Sauce barbecue is great.
Speaker 10 (10:29):
Man. We uh you know, I've been in you know,
every entertainer needs a side hustle man, And I decided
to hawk some ports.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You know when I was when I was twenty eight.
Speaker 10 (10:39):
So I've got a great brand that I'm associated with.
Sauce Barbecue. Our wings are great. We got a sweet tea,
fried chicken sandwich.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Oh that sounds good.
Speaker 10 (10:50):
Pork and greens, Alabama white sauce. You know that's that's been,
you know, been just gotten pretty famous. But uh yeah,
the barbecue games alive and kicking. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah. Oh, I'm a big fan.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And I like that there's live music at this place.
And you even get up there and play sometimes, right, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Well you know we've got you know, when you when
you call it a juke joint. Uh, there's some juke
and the job and going on, right, all right, So
there's some you know, there's some music. Absolutely, music's involved
with that. But but first and foremost, the food's excellent. Man.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Well that's my kind of spot.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
If I find myself in Birmingham, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It was the last time you were in Bama.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You know, my son was there just uh this just
this not too long ago, and my yeah, my wife
was with him and stuff. Unfortunately, I was busy that
I couldn't go down there. So if he ends up
there again.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I'll have to. I'll have to join them.
Speaker 10 (11:40):
I'm gonna send you a little taste of that saus barbecue.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I'm'll hold you to that. You're on record. Now, you're
on the record.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Well, congratulations on everything, Taylor. Was nice catching up with
you and listen to everyone. Please be sure to check
out Taylor's new single, The Mirror, which is out now
on all streaming platforms.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Taylor, thanks checking in.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I look forward to getting my barbecue.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Mario. Great to see you, baby.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I'll talk to you, Sue, I Love you Harmonic all
right on, Thanks buddy, Take.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
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a few more songs.
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We're going to dive into our mentions to see what's
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So don't move.
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and Courtney Lopez Kordo digging through our mentions, would you find.
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Honey, you do not type kordo. You typed Cordo. Ay,
that's not type it in the script.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I'm sorry. At this point, it's been said so many times.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
People want it. People of the making of the people.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
This is from at Mandy Manda. She said, not sure
if you picked up on this during your trip last week,
but man, the beach is so amazing. You just lay
around and underwear with strangers eating chips.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
What a world, Mandy Manda. You're just discovering that now.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
See that's sort of been the move for Oh, I
don't know the laste hundred and fifty years, two hundred
years more.
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So close to the end.
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Of the nine for us, Mario Lopez, you got to
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You're all Mario Corney Lopez. Time for one last thing.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
According to science, the perfect male form has been discovered
and it's the dad bod. Chinese Research Institute did the
study and overwhelmingly women chose bodies with the BMI between
twenty three and twenty seven. Therefore, the most attracted bodies
weren't lean or skinny. Would rather those are the few
extra lbs. Researchers say a little extra body fat helps
to circulate testosterone. Basically, a mid range BMI is optimal
(14:36):
for survival and reproductive fitness.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Okay, so ladies in China wilding out, God bless them,
God bless them more.
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Mario Lopez coming up.
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All right, that's it. Thanks to you as always for
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Mario Lopez saying good night.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
On with Mario Lopez
You're on with Mario Lopez, Lights of Red, Mike's Alive.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What Amoro?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Courtney Lopez here back behind the mic fired them to
get to hang with you for the next few hours.
Great guests joining us later as well former American idol
Taylor Hicks.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Plus we're gonna share a Fresh Life Hacker too in
Cordo's Corner. We'll dig into the buzz to see what
is trending. Play all of your favorite music and more so,
turn it up. You're on with Mario and Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A Mario Lopez, Courtney's albat Fraser's and studio with me.
What are we doing here?
Speaker 5 (00:28):
We're gonna try a new game.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (00:30):
This game is called first Impressions. I'm gonna give you
the name of a celebrity and I'm gonna give you
a scenario, and you've got to make a first impression.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Rodney Dangerfield, Hey, I.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Get no respect. No, I know what tigers eat.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
The young and you're convincing me to buy a bucket
of chum.
Speaker 7 (00:47):
It's summertime. The sharks out there. You need to buy
chum to tract sharks. To tract the sharks, I mean sharks.
Give you no respect to let you go unless you
got the chump. So get in there, people, get the
come on sold more.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Mario Lopez on the way, Mario Corney Lopez, Your music
rolls on as we remind you that iHeart TikTok Radio
is bringing your for you page to the radio.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Making your life a little easier with hacks on the twenties,
getting spicy with hot takes and playing the trendy songs
across TikTok and iHeartRadio. So check out iHeart TikTok Radio
streaming now, search for TikTok Radio on your free iHeartRadio
app and stay connected all day.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I'm Mario Courtney Lopez, keeping the music coming your way,
as Cordo offers up a little pigmy up with a
fresh mom choke.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What you got.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Why couldn't the Halapenio practice archery? Why because it didn't
have a natta?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's good, that might be your best one.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
It didn't have anetta.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Why couldn't the Hallopenio practice archery because it didn't have
an arrow?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know what, I'm a stealer. I'm Mario Code keep
me the music coming your way.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
As Quardo offers up a little pigmy up with a
fresh mom choke what you got.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Why couldn't the Halapenio practice archery? Why because it didn't
have a natta?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That's good, that might be your best one.
Speaker 8 (02:17):
It didn't have anada.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Why couldn't the Hallopenio practice archery because it didn't have
an arrow?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You know what, I'm a steal it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Y Maar Lopez digging into the bus to break down
this questionable new Time one hundred lists on.
Speaker 8 (02:33):
With Mario the Hollywood Bus.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
So Time drop a new list, the one hundred best
podcast of all time, but people immediately calling it controversial
because who did not make the list?
Speaker 9 (02:45):
All right?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Who made the list version?
Speaker 8 (02:47):
All right?
Speaker 6 (02:47):
So there's like one hundred people and it's not in
any certain order. But to dope queens call her daddy,
armchair expert with Dax Shepherd. Conan O'Brien needs a friend,
Dirty John Good hang with Amy Poehler, honestly.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Call her add He's like a big These are.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Big, These are all big, and these are popular podcasts.
But the problem is who they left out.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, they left out Joe Rogan in the Joe Rogan Experience, Adam.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Corolla, those two, those two in particular, were like two
of the.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
First, yeah, two of the pioneers to really make it mainstream.
They were doing it way before anyone else, and it
seems like they might have been a little biased because that, yeah,
that hasn't made a lot of sense.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
More Mario Lopez coming.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Up, Mario Courtney Lopez here, and I have been looking for
a new podcasts to add to the mix. Subscribe to
this show. We take out the music and condense it
down to a smaller daily dose. It's really fun and funny.
You can listen to our extended interviews as well.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Just open up the iHeartRadio app or whatever you use
to get your podcasts and search for On with Mario.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You're Mario Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Few more songs and then going to make a stop
into Courtney's Corner.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Can you give us a little hint about today's life hack?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Honey, huh Yeah, we're gonna talk about a simple way
to build trust in your relationship.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Ooh, important stuff. All right, back with Quarto's Corner and
tend don't move.
Speaker 10 (04:05):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Music rolls on after a.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Quick stop and a Courtney's Corner. Mario Courtney Lopez here,
what are we talking about today, Quarto.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
We are talking about key phrases that can help you
build trust. So studies have shown that couples who really
trust each other tend to say key phrases that support
their relationship.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Every day.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Experts say phrases like I want what's best for both
of us, or I appreciate that I can be myself
with you, or I trust you is another one, as
is we will get through this.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Those are solid, Those are empowering, and I like that.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Additionally, sometimes it's good to say and I say this,
go out and have fun with your friends, because research
shows that partners who trust each other don't feel threatened
by time apart. They understand that independence is important and
makes their bond stronger. I do say that to you,
don't you'd say it, but you say a passive aggressive.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
You do.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, you do, you know, Oh my gosh. And then
when I'm away, and then when I'm away, you.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Start at cordos, start attacking weirdo and then but you
but you're not gonna do that anymore because you realize
that I'm ad a chance twenty five percent higher chance
of having heart attacks.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You're not gonna eavens. That's a different segment. That's a
different segment.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
We'll come back to that.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
But no, but sometimes when you're like, do you want
to go to the Dodger game on Saturday? And I go,
don't you want to take one of your friends and
have like a guy afternoon?
Speaker 8 (05:25):
Don't? I K that?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
But I actually want you to go on?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
No, I know, but I do not say that passive aggressively.
I like you to go out with your friends.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
And she lets you. She let your friends come sleep over.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
They sleep in bed with you in a row.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
More Mario Lopez on the way wyld Courtney Lopez here,
let's put a spotlight on my wife.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's time for Courtney's random thought. What you got?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Honey?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So I saw fifty cent making a sweater the other
day and I thought, gee, unit, wow, you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Know what you delivered? That pretty good? But I thought
you g you knit that was good.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I was always a compliment with a criticism.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
All right, a few more songs.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
They want to fire up zoom to chat with former
America Natl Taylor Hicks.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's Mario Lopez.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
He's celebrating twenty years since his win and he's got
some new music and find out all about it?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Coming up next, It's up all.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Mario Lopezz joining me right now. You know him as
the winner of season five of America NOL. Musician Taylor Hicks.
How you doing, Taylor?
Speaker 10 (06:40):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Mario?
Speaker 10 (06:41):
My man?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Good to see you, man, good to see you.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I can't believe this past May was the twentieth anniversary
of your idle win and you return to the station
perform at the end of the season. How do it
feel to be back out there?
Speaker 10 (06:55):
You know, it was kind of all came rushing back,
you know, being able to you know, it was in
a different studio, but all the nuts and bolts of
the show were the same.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (07:10):
There was a couple of people that are still on
the show. I mean that's a testament to a show, right.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
When you've got people that you saw when you were
on the show twenty years later still on the.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Show, right, that's crazy.
Speaker 10 (07:23):
So there you know the Katie, the girl that actually
let me in during my cattle Call edition. Literally the
first producer Pa you know, that actually heard my voice
for the first time on IDOL. She's still at American Idol.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
So like she was the true gatekeeper, you know, and
she was she was still on the show. So those
kind of moments are really special, man, you know, to
be able to go back on and and see those
kinds of folks because they really, you know, you know
how it goes, man, You see people that really help
your career.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Absolutely change your life right there. All right, Taylor hanging time,
We're gonna have more with Taylor Hicks.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Coming up more Mario Lopez coming up, catching.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Up with Taylor Hicks this hour. What's up you're all
Mario Lopez? And I know you just released a new
single as well, called The Mirror, and I like the
description Southern soul shaker.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Tell me about the song. The song. I did it
with the Memphis Horns.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
I wrote it with a with a guy from Alabama,
Adam Hood, who's written some stuff with Miranda, and I
just decided, you know, I wanted to have a song
that kind of sounded like if Black Crows and Zach
Brown had a baby, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That's a good merge, right.
Speaker 10 (08:42):
So that kind of Southern soul kind of romping, you know,
kind of a Black Black Crows kind of feel. I
put the Memphis Horns on there, and it turned out
really well man.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
People like it nice man. And you also got another
one on the way called nineteen. When can we hear
that one?
Speaker 10 (08:59):
Nineteen's coming out? You know, I did a nineteen on
my lap on two records ago. It's a song about
a fallen soldier. It's gonna come out around around the
fourth for the two fifty for America. It's a song
that I do with the Opry a lot that's gotten
(09:21):
a lot of you know, a lot of praise and
believe it or not, Billy Ray Cyrus, I was talking
to him not too long ago at the Opry and
he actually released it. So the song's been around forever,
it just hasn't gotten the legs. You know, every song
has a story right and a pathway, So I'm excited
to release that thing.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Good for you, Sam, you're on Mario Lopez Kirk.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
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Speaker 2 (10:00):
As we get back to the music.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Wrapping up with Taylor Hicks here Ala Mario Lopez and
this is a trip.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You also opened a restaurant called Saws.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Juke Joint in Birmingham, Alabama, and it was ranked a
top twenty five.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Barbecue spot in America. Very cool. I love me some barbecue.
How'd you get how'd you get involved?
Speaker 10 (10:18):
I'm gonna send you a big Alabama Sauce Barbecue gift pack.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Hey, I love it all right.
Speaker 10 (10:24):
You know you got my word on that.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, Yes, Sauce barbecue is great.
Speaker 10 (10:29):
Man. We uh you know, I've been in you know,
every entertainer needs a side hustle man, And I decided
to hawk some ports.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You know when I was when I was twenty eight.
Speaker 10 (10:39):
So I've got a great brand that I'm associated with.
Sauce Barbecue. Our wings are great. We got a sweet tea,
fried chicken sandwich.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Oh that sounds good.
Speaker 10 (10:50):
Pork and greens, Alabama white sauce. You know that's that's been,
you know, been just gotten pretty famous. But uh yeah,
the barbecue games alive and kicking. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah. Oh, I'm a big fan.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And I like that there's live music at this place.
And you even get up there and play sometimes, right, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Well you know we've got you know, when you when
you call it a juke joint. Uh, there's some juke
and the job and going on, right, all right, So
there's some you know, there's some music. Absolutely, music's involved
with that. But but first and foremost, the food's excellent. Man.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Well that's my kind of spot.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
If I find myself in Birmingham, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It was the last time you were in Bama.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You know, my son was there just uh this just
this not too long ago, and my yeah, my wife
was with him and stuff. Unfortunately, I was busy that
I couldn't go down there. So if he ends up
there again.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I'll have to. I'll have to join them.
Speaker 10 (11:40):
I'm gonna send you a little taste of that saus barbecue.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I'm'll hold you to that. You're on record. Now, you're
on the record.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Well, congratulations on everything, Taylor. Was nice catching up with
you and listen to everyone. Please be sure to check
out Taylor's new single, The Mirror, which is out now
on all streaming platforms.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Taylor, thanks checking in.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I look forward to getting my barbecue.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Mario. Great to see you, baby.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I'll talk to you, Sue, I Love you Harmonic all
right on, Thanks buddy, Take.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
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a few more songs.
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So don't move.
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and Courtney Lopez Kordo digging through our mentions, would you find.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Honey, you do not type kordo. You typed Cordo. Ay,
that's not type it in the script.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I'm sorry. At this point, it's been said so many times.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
People want it. People of the making of the people.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
This is from at Mandy Manda. She said, not sure
if you picked up on this during your trip last week,
but man, the beach is so amazing. You just lay
around and underwear with strangers eating chips.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
What a world, Mandy Manda. You're just discovering that now.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
See that's sort of been the move for Oh, I
don't know the laste hundred and fifty years, two hundred
years more.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
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Speaker 3 (13:55):
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squeeze in one last thing. We'd love to squeeze in
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Speaker 2 (14:09):
You're all Mario Corney Lopez. Time for one last thing.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
According to science, the perfect male form has been discovered
and it's the dad bod. Chinese Research Institute did the
study and overwhelmingly women chose bodies with the BMI between
twenty three and twenty seven. Therefore, the most attracted bodies
weren't lean or skinny. Would rather those are the few
extra lbs. Researchers say a little extra body fat helps
to circulate testosterone. Basically, a mid range BMI is optimal
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for survival and reproductive fitness.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Okay, so ladies in China wilding out, God bless them,
God bless them more.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
All right, that's it. Thanks to you as always for
hanging with us.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
If you missed anything or just want to relive some
of our radio fun, hit Upollmara dot com. We are
back to do it all again for you tomorrow. Till then,
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