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October 23, 2025 16 mins

Today On With Mario Lopez – Actor and comedian Lil Rel Howery joins us to talk new movies 'Unexpected Christmas', 'Haunted Heist' and new stand up special! Plus, a #Halloween themed round of Name That Tune, most haunted states in America and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're on with Mario Lopez.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here we go?

Speaker 1 (00:04):
What O Mario?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Courtney Lopez back behind the mic? Fired up? Did we
get to hang with you for the next few hours?
Left to get to as well? Actor in comic Lobro.
How are you set to zoom in later with a
scoop on his new movie Unexpected Christmas and his new
t B stand up special.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Plus, we'll dig into the bus to see what's trending,
see what we can find in Courtney's corner, and go
ahead to head into pop culture pop quiz. So turn
it up and let's get the fun started. You guys
are on with Mario and Courtney Lopez.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
You're on Mario Courtney Lopez digging into the bus to talk.
Hocus Pocus three.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
On with Mario Hollywood buzz.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
So Disney announced the third film in the iconic Halloween
series back in twenty twenty three, and Betmentler revealed this
past week that she's seen the script and called it brilliant,
adding the logistics to the movie are being worked on
and they may start filming in the next year or so.
Hocus Pocus two came out in twenty twenty two, and
it's the most watched Disney Plus original film, Yet hocus

(00:58):
Pocus the original is a staple Lopez come Halloween time.
I even really like it.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Super cute, and you know what, I was not disappointed
in the in the sequel. It was really really cute.
And I feel like Ben Midler would not settle for
a terrible script. You know, because when they bring out
right the second movie or the third movie, you're saying,
she's not doing it for the morning exactly, I can
it come correct?

Speaker 4 (01:19):
You have to no.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
Gambling debts or Mario Lopez coming up.

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Speaker 2 (01:49):
Just a few songs away from today's celebrate, they shout
out to I'm more on Courtney Lopez here in the meantime,
what obscure holiday we celebrating today?

Speaker 6 (01:56):
Honey, it's back to the future day.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh, back to back.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
So we're going back to the future.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
Technically, use technically now we are going back to the
back to the future day. Because in Back to the
Future too, they went to twenty fifteen.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh right on this state.

Speaker 6 (02:11):
Oh my gosh, So we're going back to the past.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
We're going back to the future past.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
This is wild that now we're in the future for
these movies that came out in.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
The eighties, we're past where they went, past where they went?

Speaker 7 (02:25):
Can you believe that?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Hopefully this wasn't confusing, but you should watch the movies
and you'll be all caught up. Alvar Courney Lopez quickly
squeezing in today's select birthdays. As always, Fraser's going to
shout them out. We're gonna try to guess the ages.
Doja cats, doja cat, well, doja is coming in. I

(02:46):
believe at thirty.

Speaker 6 (02:49):
Two those you wish you were correct, but you're not.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
She she is purring her way into her thirty thirty.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
She's thirty, she's thirty, she's thirty two. In cat years,
that's what I meant.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Okay, I don't know if that applies, But Sir Kane Brown, Country.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
Singer Caine Brown is.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Forty Caane Brown's forty five, thirty two. Oh, he lives rough.
He lives rough, and the guy's been through it. Yeah,
that's why you can't really listen to his songs.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Listen to lyrics of the songs.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
He's done around for a.

Speaker 6 (03:27):
While thinking of somebody else. I think it was Danity Kane, not.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
To be confused with Kane Brown.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
A lot of people make up Danity Kane with came
Brown all the time.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Amber Rose, amber Rose, amber Rose. I believe she looks amazing,
even with the tattooed forehead. She's pulling it off, but
she's coming in. I'm gonna say that is a qualifier.
But okay, she's got to be forty two.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
She is forty two.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Hey, look at that nailed downe.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
All right, Kim Kardashian, she is famous for being famous.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's true.

Speaker 6 (04:02):
Kim and Amber share the same birthday.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh, look at the best.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
That's interesting.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
That is interesting, very good.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
Kim is forty five, forty five is correct?

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Wow, you guys are the same age.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
And I'm not forty five.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
No, but someone else who's a judge like you, except
TV not radio Judge Judy.

Speaker 6 (04:24):
Judge Judy and I are the same age.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
That's your buddies. I love her, Judge Judy. I'm gonna
tell you right now, she's coming in. Wealthiest person on television.
Fun fact, she's coming in at eighty two.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Eighty four, eighty three.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Flanked more Mario Lopez coming.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Up, Al Mario Courtney Lopez reminding you that you're going
to get to hear new music from blond Jovi before
anyone else. We're talking the iHeart Radio album preview with
bon Jovie featuring Forever Legendary Edition going to be playing
never before her tracks from the Room album before its
official release on Friday. Wow. I remember when Slippery when

(05:04):
Wet first came out way back in the day. Now
we still get an album from Bonjo I think we
were toddlers.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
I don't even remember.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, right.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Plus we also get an in depth interview as John
bon Jovi shares the vision behind their new album. You
can listen live this Thursday at seven pm on your
free iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
All Right, a few more songs hanging a fire up
zoom so we can chat with actor and comic low
rel Howary Mario Lopez here a new holiday flick on
the way, new stand up special over on two B,
Lots to talk about when he joins us next, What's up?
You're a Mario Lopez joining me right now on zoom
act during comic little Roll?

Speaker 6 (05:39):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (05:39):
How you doing?

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Man? What up? Mario?

Speaker 2 (05:42):
I'm hanging in there, brother, I'm hanging in there. Congrats.
You're in a new Christmas movie called Unexpected Christmas, a comedy.
What's the premise.

Speaker 7 (05:49):
Yeah, it's a it's a it's a drama. We should
call it. Really okay, it's really funny.

Speaker 8 (05:56):
It's a great family feel comedy where we could watch
with your whole family.

Speaker 7 (06:01):
It's a unique twist to it, you know what I
mean Because most of the time.

Speaker 8 (06:04):
When people hear about Christmas movies and we feel like
we've seen all the plots, this one is very unique
and it's gonna be a conversation piece, which it has
been even in my own family.

Speaker 7 (06:14):
Oh, you know, it's kind of.

Speaker 8 (06:16):
It's gonna split the house up a little bit, Okay,
but it's all good because.

Speaker 7 (06:20):
You know, for me, I especially the character I play.

Speaker 8 (06:23):
I don't think he's wrong for what everybody else said
he wronged for. But hey, you got to see the
movie to understand what I'm talking about. So it's a
unique twist. But it's really funny.

Speaker 7 (06:33):
It's a lot of hard in it, and it's such
a great cast.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
That's awesome to hear.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Man.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Is this your first Holty film?

Speaker 1 (06:39):
No.

Speaker 8 (06:39):
I did a movie called Dashing through the Snow a
couple of years ago while I play Santa Claus for
Disney Plus. So that was that was that was big,
you know. So this is my second one, but this
is one of the first one I've done with a
family setting.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
So nice.

Speaker 7 (06:54):
I got like three more in my head type of
Christmas movies I can do.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Okay, all right, Well again, the movie is Unexpected Christmas.
Hang tight, We're gonna have more with Lil Rel coming out.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
More fun on the way on with Mario.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Lopez getting back to comic and actor Lil Rel Howry.
Who's hanging on, Mario Lopez? You're a new holiday movie
on the way called Unexpected Christmas, and you also got
a scary one coming out that you directed and started
right called Haunted Heist.

Speaker 7 (07:18):
What's that about that.

Speaker 8 (07:19):
Heist Man is a great It's a silly, creepy movie.
It's my directory of your debut, and I also starring
it with my friend Tiffany Hattish, my boy King Batch,
and my homeboy Carlos Miller and a gang of comedians.
It just felt good to like, really finally just like
put my voice on display or my eye on display too.

(07:40):
And I had so much fun making this movie. But
it's about a group of friends.

Speaker 7 (07:44):
Who who basically was looking to help out a friend.
But it's a whole another movie with another crazy twitch
to it.

Speaker 8 (07:50):
You like that man where they think they're just hanging
out and it turned out to be a whole other
situation and some ghost star involved. It gets kind of
funny and weird, but it's hysterical and I'm so proud
of what we did with the movie.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Mario Lopez here catching up with actor in comic low
roll Howardy this hour, we've been talking about a couple
of the new movies he's dropping on us, And you've
yet got another one coming out next here with Ryan
Reynolds and Jason Momoa called Animal Friends. That's a road
trip comedy, right, what's your rolling that one.

Speaker 8 (08:21):
Oh yeah, but I played this crazy bird like this
is this one from the girl Folk for real?

Speaker 7 (08:27):
For real?

Speaker 8 (08:27):
So like this, ain't you know even though it's live
action like kind of animation, I can't. It's not necessarily
you know, the animation that's like not animation kind of.
So yeah, it's but it's when I tell you, look,
I guess I'm bragging about everything being funny. This movie
is one of them, good raunchy. It's so insane but

(08:48):
so hysterical. Me and I laughed so much doing this.
I laughed so much doing this. It is absurdly funny.
So I can't wait for people to see this. This
is I think, you know, Ryan sometimes probably put on
his bucket list, give me the dirtiest comedy I could do,
and you you're surprised that this is the one you
thought dead Pool was crazy.

Speaker 7 (09:10):
It's nothing like Animal Friends is hysterically insane.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Okay, man, you got me rent there. That's a good tease.
All right, one more thing. I want to ask a
few more songs, and we're gonna come back to wrap
it up with Little Real Howard. Wrapping up a Little
Real Howard. He's been hanging out on zoom or a
Lopez here. And last question, you just released a new
stand up special over on two week called rail Talk,
which everyone can watch for free of course, what kind
of topics you you hitting up?

Speaker 8 (09:35):
I mean, this is to me, this is my best special.
I also co directed it too and produced it alone
my partners. So I did this on my own and
shot it at my comedy festival, which was even crazier. Man,
this is like what makes this special unique. It's hysterical,
but it's like it's catching me, like in the happiest

(09:58):
I've ever been. And so this is the happiest I've
ever been in my life now assuming a comedy special,
and so a lot of this stuff is really reminiscence
on you know, stuff with my mom and my family
and you know where I'm in life now. I mean
even my look, I just will vest on there. You know,
I've been on my journey, so just to have a
little chest out in my alarms, you know, I wanted

(10:18):
to show off a little bit. So this is this
is my coming out party. This is this is I
call it my sexy special.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Okay, get in there sexy all right? Well, Congraut's on
all the success man, everyone, please be sure to check
out Li Rel's new Christmas film, Unexpected Christmas when it
hits theaters, and No Remember seven to be sure to
check out his comedy special right now on to be
Thanks for checking in, man.

Speaker 7 (10:39):
Maeah, Mario, I appreciate you, Thank you so much for
having me.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
You're a full interview now at on with Mario dot com.
More Mario Lopez on the Way I'm.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
With Mario Courtney Lopez music rolls on right after a
quick digital pit stop over at on Mario dot com,
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Oh God, don't give any advice for pickup lines.

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Courtney Lopez just a few songs away from stopping by
Courtney's Corner for a new live hack.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
In the meantime, would love to play a song for you,
so tweet your requests Our way at On with Mario.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Mario Courtney Lopez Cordo back from her trip to Buffalo
with our son Nico. A lot of O's going on
there on the side of his latest movie. She has
got a brand new live hack for us. What do
you got, honey?

Speaker 6 (12:30):
I love decluttering, so do I so do?

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Why why do you do anything like that? Decluttering is
the best and we do it to our closet and
somehow it just keeps coming out.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
No kids work you talk about doing it to your
closet for thirteen years, but you never know.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
We do, know, we do, and then it hangs out
like you do.

Speaker 6 (12:46):
What the problem is.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's just we take out two things and twenty things
come in.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
Got's so bad. At one point you moved to a
new house and mess up in that closet.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
And then now our daughter and niece come and take
clothes and leave it.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
I don't know what it's I don't know where any
thing is. So this is about decluttering. It's a new hack.
This is an idea from one of the world's top
decluttering experts. She says, go around your house and flip
everyday items upside down, books, shoes, mugs, items on your counter,
et cetera. As you use them, flip them back to

(13:19):
the normal side. Over the next few days, you will
see what items you actually use and need. The items
that are still upside down after a few days get rid,
get read, throw it away.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
You can do this in your closet too.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Flippangers backwards every time you use an item of clothing,
put it back the right way, and after a few
weeks you will see what clothing items you don't use.

Speaker 6 (13:41):
I mean I wear the same five things. Well, so
do I.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
I was going to say I'd have like three items
in my closet.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Although what I did do, and this is probably going
against my own hacks, when we did organize the closet,
I took all of our Halloween stuff and put it
downstairs in a bin. When we went to Horror Nights
the other night, I couldn't remember where I put anything,
and then didn't have time to go down there and
find the bin that I put it in. So it
defeats the purpose of organizing.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
You'll have to store somewhere else.

Speaker 6 (14:10):
I try more.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Mario Lopez coming.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Up, Just about time to pass the mike. Mario Courtney
Lopez here, but not before we squeeze in one last
thing that's coming up. In the meantime, I might be
able to get one more request in. So if you
got a song you want to hear, drop it in
our mentions on Facebook. I don't know you're all, Mario
Courtney Lopez. Almost time to get out of here for
the night, but not before we get to one last thing.

(14:33):
A litt just drop of the most haunted states in
America and the most haunted date in America, New York,
which I was very surprised by it. This list was
generated by which dates have the most reported ghost sightings.
Let's go over the top five. We know number one.
Who are the rest, Well.

Speaker 6 (14:53):
I'll start with number five. It's Utah, Utah.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
I can kind of see that. I'm gonna tell you why,
watching that great show, probably my favorite show this year,
oh on Netflix, American Primeval and all the horrors that
went on there when the Mormons first took.

Speaker 6 (15:10):
Over, taking people out left and right left.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
It was a wild time.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
It was a wild time. So I bet there's some
girls hanging out there.

Speaker 6 (15:16):
Number four California.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Wow, I'm actually a little surprised by that. Why because
I would think it would be more of the older states,
the states in the South, like I would think like
Mississippi and Alabama. No, like good weather too well, No,
because Louisiana, for example, they've got a lot like voodoo
and all that stuff. So I figured the South would
just have all all that horror kind of I'm surprised
by California's always on you in.

Speaker 6 (15:41):
California on number three.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
To prove your point, Louisiana, Oh, there you go, some
of your exes live there.

Speaker 6 (15:45):
So that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Scary scary town Number two is Number two is.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Texas again South?

Speaker 4 (15:55):
All right, Alamo's there.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah, I can't believe in Like we mentioned New York
number one, Wow.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
I believe it. My friend lived in an apartment building
and someone got murdered in there.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Well, that was also like one of the first cities.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Well, evidently New York there are two three hundred and
twenty nine ghost sidings per ten thousand people. That's a lot.
So if you've lived there, you've got a twenty three
percent chance of seeing a ghost.

Speaker 6 (16:16):
That's why I lived there for five years. I didn't
see a ghost, but I'm happy.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Moore Mario Lopez.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Next, that's it, big, thanks again the Little Roll Howrey
for zooming in onmar dot com or my full chat
with him.

Speaker 6 (16:28):
More fun tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Until then, everyone, this is Mario and Courtney Lopez saying
good night braw Wow

Speaker 1 (16:35):
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