May 23, 2025 • 17 mins
Today On With Mario Lopez – The World's fastest talker David Fuhrer in studio talking Laugh Factory, toy inventions and more! Plus, a fresh case in Courtney's Court, a new round of Name That Tune 1999 themed, latest buzz and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here we go, Mario, Courtney Lopez back by on the mind,
ready to hang with you for the next few hours.
Going to introduce you to one of the most fascinating
people I know, my buddy David Fierer, who not only
invented the NERF Vortex football but also holds the world
record for backwards talking. Plus, we're gonna be serving up
some fresh justice in Courtney's court. Catch up on the buzz,
handout our weekly good deed Lopez. So turn it up.
(00:24):
You're on with Mario and Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You're on Mario Lopez and joining me in studio right now.
Guinness World record holder, inventor and president of the Laugh Factory,
My friend David fier what's going on man?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hello or backwards?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh, we're going to get into that. As a matter
of fact, it's funny. I was telling my producer the
other day how you're the world record holder for fastest
backwards talker. And we went to a Dodgers game recently
with my son, and my son has not stopped talking
about it because he was fascinated and he's got all
kinds of sentences he wants to run by you thinking
he's going to stump you. He's only eleven, he's so cute.
(01:03):
And it really is a fascinating gift. It's got to
be a gift, right, because it's not something you can study.
How did you discover this talent of yours?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, I guess it's a gift. I like to call
it a useless ability. You know, it's just something. When
I was a kid, I would call all my friends
by their names backwards, and I would reach street signs,
and eventually I developed it into a little bit of
an act, and it landed me on a bunch of
television shows. But when I was a kid, you know,
it was kind of this annoying ability. My parents would
(01:34):
tell me to shut up. And then suddenly I went
to summer camp, I got on the stage at the
Talent Show, and from that day forward, I was famous
for talking backwards.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And is it a picture you see in your mind?
How does it? How do you process the center?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'll give you an example. So I kind of picture
it as if it was written on an imaginary blackboard. Okay,
but it's instant. It's a combination of hearing it and
visualizing it. So pick any word or sentence you can.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Think, sure, because I don't want you to think. Give
a sentence to mister Fuor right now.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Mario Lopez has an incredible film career, orams Paul si
Albu Durkney, malyf rerack, All right, that would be.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Hold. I couldn't even say that again that fast normally,
and he did just yet, Quickie just corrected that out.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It's crazy for you that I actually did it. I'm
not reversing sounds, but I'm reversing the spelling. So I
said Mario was oi ram oh i r a m
Lopez was pal has was sawna incredible was elba Durkney
film career was malyf rereck career is being rereck?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Is that, Snadie? That's wild? It is wild?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I got to take a break and I'm gonna have
some more backwards talking and I want to find out
how you got into inventing toys as well. So hain't
tight or with David Fuurer coming.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Up for Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh, Mario Lopez, my friend David Fuor in studio holds
against world record for fastest backwards talker.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
And as I'm reading right now and I try to
talk backwards recklet swarp. You can't you, I can't even
do it. No, But what's so impressive is I can't
even do it reading the sentence. To hear it and
do it is coret. And he's doing it seeing it
in his head.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yes, I gotta have you say one more things backwards. Okay,
just one more sentence, just because I'm I love it. Sure,
al Mario Lopez is the best radio show in the country.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I can start with no to Mario Lopez. So I
was on on a too oirem zippolicy at seb oyadar
woe's knee at your.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Nuwakas country you're joys is country. It sounds sort of
like uh islamdic or something.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Right, it sounds like a foreign language. Does sound like
a very lonely foreign languge sounds like no one else
can speak it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes, it does sound like the go aheads back and
said that the speed in which you do it is amazing.
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
So going back to it, you said you sort of
see a picture and you hear it at the same time.
So do you have a photographic memory.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't have a photographic memory because I don't retain
the information, but I can just visualize it very very quickly.
And people ask me all crazy words. I mean, the
one I get the most is super califragilistic spiel adocious,
so of course is say said ALIPs, said sela Jarphilacripas.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Wow, dude, that is great. Wow as wow wow as
wow Wow? What is wow? Upside down? Mom? That's right,
that is awesome. I'm just such a fun, cool talent, right,
they are, right, David, hang on, I'm gonna play a
few songs. I'm gonna have more with Backwards Talker David
fuer Getting back to today's guest, my friend, backwards talking
world record holder David Fuerer. Mario Lopez here, and you
(04:32):
have such a fascinating life, David. You're also the president
of the legendary Laugh Factory Comedy Club, of course, and
we recently launched Way Out Loud there which we had
just a great time and so much fun. But so
many people have played that venue throughout the years, essentially
every huge comedian. Yeah that pretty much on stage, in TV,
(04:55):
in film, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah? Well, the club is forty five years old and
the first person to ever grace the stage was Richard
Pryor wow uh, and it was Jamie Masada was the founder.
He's still at the helm of the club. And we've
had everybody from Rodney Dangerfield, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Jerry
Seinfeld and every top comedian. Today we have, you know,
(05:18):
probably the highest level of comedy at our club.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
David Hank tight little more music. We're going to come
back with David Fuer. You're all Mario Lopez got my
friend David Feurer in studio, world record holder for fastest
backward talking President of the Laugh Factory. But this is
the wildest thing to me. Aside from all that, you've
also created some legendary kids toys like the Nerve Vortex football,
which were so kind of bring me one today, I'm
(05:42):
to handed to my boys a little later. How did
you get into the invention game in what was your
first invention?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It's a great question. I never thought that I'd be
able to make a living as a toy inventor. This is,
you know, prior to my new career in comedy. But
it was all a result of the backwards talking I had.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Really that came first.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So I had this strange ability to speak backwards, and
that ability landed me on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,
later David Letterman, and then many other TV shows demonstrating
this ability. And so along the way I met a
game inventor, a guy named Mark Setaducati who was a
magician game inventor, and my brother who was working in
the toy industry, and they suggested to me that we
(06:24):
use backwards talking as a hook for a board game,
and we created this game called Backwards, which was themed
around you know, hearing words backwards with a clue and
Random House at the time was in the game business.
They licensed or bought this product from me, and they
sent me on a promotional tour to promote the product,
and I left my job. I had a job in
(06:46):
the mailroom, and then I was an assistant one of
the big talent agencies. I thought I was going to
have a career in Hollywood, and I got sidetracked by
this game and then started to create toys and games
full time.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I was always in adding things as a kid, but
I never knew I could actually make a living at it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That is pretty incredible, all right, David. One more thing
I want to ask quick break, We're going to come
back and wrap it up.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You're the full interview now at on with Mario Dounc
More Mario Lopez on the way.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Wrapping up with David Furor. You're all Mario Lopez and
David before you go, man, we were just talking about
the process of inventing the nerve vortex football. But what
was the inspiration to create that.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You know, at the time, I had a general idea
where I was trying to do solve problems what kids
aspire to do things in sports that they can't ordinarily do,
like dunk of basketball, hit a home run, and one
of them was to throw a football a long way
because I, as a kid, I to this day I
can't throw football. So I had a javelin in my
(07:44):
office that I'd played with, a big foam javelin, and
I noticed how far it went, and I one day
drilled a hole in a football. I had a couple
of partners that I worked on this with, and we
all together, we you know, we created a prototype where
we put this javelin side of giant football and it
became aerodynamic the moment you threw it. It's straightened out
(08:04):
in the air and it went farther than a regular football.
So we then just tweaked it until we got it
to the right size and weight and the rest is history,
and it's now, it's part of Americana.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It's yeah, it's you know.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
They're all over the world. There's copies of them all
over the world. And you mentioned patents. We had a
design pattern. There's different kinds of patents, and a design
patent is the one that protects you the least, which is,
you know, it protects the size and the weight and
so on. But a utility pattern is another kind of pattern,
and that would have protected us the most. So people
(08:39):
were able to get around our design by making a
little bit bigger, a little bit wider. But what ultimately
protected us was the brand having NERF on our product.
Every kid wanted the NERF for text football and not
the copy products.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, that's that's a big time. I know I did.
What a fascinating story and just life. That's awesome, davidppreciate
you coming by and listen. Everyone be on the lookout
for more dates coming up for Way Out Loud of course,
and the Laugh Factory in general. If you're in the
LA area, and what are the other locations, David.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
So we have Chicago, we have Reno, we have Long Beach,
we have San Diego, and we have Covina. So come
on out to the Laugh Factory. It's the greatest show
in town, live comedy. Seven nights a week, two shows
a night, and it doesn't cost very much.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
There we go and it's I guaranteed good time. And
of course be on the lookout for David's upcoming movie
Toad as well. Thank you, my friend. I appreciate you coming.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Here's a rolls on You're All with Mario Cordy Lopez
with another reason you might want to put down your
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turning to mush after a long social media binge. Oxford
even made brain rot the twenty twenty four word of
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phrase of the year, I would imagine. And while it's
(10:00):
really a medical condition, experts say too much scrolling can
mess with memory, decision making and mental health. So step
away from the screen or make a choice and just
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that you can learn from.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
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Speaker 4 (10:22):
Scrolling only when I'm into.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
A Mario Courtney Lopez more music on the Way Pop
wanted to quickly mention this. I've heard of a lot
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One woman says, it's like being held at gunpoint.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
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Speaker 2 (11:05):
I've never heard of this.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
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Tomar Courtney Lopez. It's time to just have some common sense,
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they say, after doing some genetic testing, I learned that
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(11:33):
heavy today. Oh, this is this is.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
I think you need to talk to someone who has
a degree.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
This isn't a family court. You have a degree, honey
and family omics. Wow. You know.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
I have a couple different opinions. So I don't think
this is your place to tell him. I think it's
your mom's place. Why she doesn't want him to know,
I don't know. However, on the flip side, I do
think he should know for genetic purposes, as far as
illnesses and things that had run in the father's family
(12:15):
and whatnot, just so he's aware when he's older things
that he could be prone to. This is very, very wow.
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I agree. I think you were right your.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
I dodn't tell him what to do.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I didn't tell him what to do. My two opinion,
I think your instincts are right. Initially, you got to
let mom handle this one. You don't want to cause
a rift between your mom and your brother, and then
you just causing problems in due time.
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telling her about option two that I said, because he
needs to know for health purposes and if he has
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Speaker 1 (12:54):
Mario Lopez coming up.
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given a third of their fortune to charity.
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Speaker 6 (13:20):
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Speaker 1 (14:10):
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Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yes you are.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
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and asked my aunt this, and she looked at me
very confused. Why is purse spelled with you? But person
is spelled with an e.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
That's good, that's.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
I don't know what made me think of that.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
There is a brand of clothing called person No called
James Purse p E r s E, so he spells
it the way it's sounded out, p e A r
s E No p E r s E purse. But
that also I thought it was perc is how p
you are?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Correctly. What I'm saying is his last name happens to
be spelled and pronounced the way it should be. Right,
who decided to throw you in?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well?
Speaker 6 (14:58):
That person is correct?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Per says not. Well, oh there you go. It is
per person. Yeah, No, correct, person is correct. Correct p
E r s o n is correct the way phonetically
it sounded out, p U r s e phonetically is not.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Well eleventh grade English seat.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Then per is p u r r.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, person, that's a lot of ours, because when you
say when you say per se, that is also p
e r that is you're all Mario Courtney Lopez digging
into this recent drama over the greatest American film of
all time. This is a tough one. Movie lovers are
going to argue over this forever. But at a recent
American film, it's that you tribute. Steven Spielberg caused a
(15:43):
little controversy after praising Francis Ford Coppola and calling The
Godfather the greatest American film ever. Made no controversy here.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
I'm mad at that.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I agree with Spielberg. AFI efficiently ranks The Godfather second, though,
behind Citizen King. They did it right to their faces. Wow,
Citizen Kane's old school Rison Wells, And yes, it's great,
but you're going back, really, really, really really a long
time ago, and you know, it's hard to be subjected
with art. By the way, if you're wondering Casablanca, Gone
(16:12):
with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz round dot
AFI's top five those are that's pretty list.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
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Speaker 1 (16:19):
Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh, Mario Cordo Lopez, quick look at the buzz. Good
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it is her third pregnancy won't delay a ninth album.
She's been slow to release new music, but says the
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other reasons.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
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Speaker 2 (16:41):
Mario Lopez here getting close to the end of our
radio fun. Just one last thing to get to, plus
probably enough time to play a request or two before
I get out of here. So if you got a
song you want to hear, hit me up at all
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Last thing. Kevin Bacon has been a household name for
the last forty years, so he wanted to find out
what it was like to just blend in with the crowd.
(17:03):
So he went to a makeup artist who made him
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That's like a big shopping center, outdoor restaurants and stuff. Well,
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(17:26):
you really roughed it out, buddy. By the way, prayers
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Speaker 1 (17:32):
Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
That's it big. Thanks to David Fear for stopping by
on Mario dot com for more of my chat with him,
including details in the new comedy movie he has produced
and more fun Tomorrow, gonna share a Fresh Life pack,
take a musical trip into the past with our throwback
soundtrack and more. Until then, Mario Lopez Saying good night
Speaker 1 (17:52):
With Mario Lopez.
On with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here we go, Mario, Courtney Lopez back by on the mind,
ready to hang with you for the next few hours.
Going to introduce you to one of the most fascinating
people I know, my buddy David Fierer, who not only
invented the NERF Vortex football but also holds the world
record for backwards talking. Plus, we're gonna be serving up
some fresh justice in Courtney's court. Catch up on the buzz,
handout our weekly good deed Lopez. So turn it up.
(00:24):
You're on with Mario and Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You're on Mario Lopez and joining me in studio right now.
Guinness World record holder, inventor and president of the Laugh Factory,
My friend David fier what's going on man?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hello or backwards?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh, we're going to get into that. As a matter
of fact, it's funny. I was telling my producer the
other day how you're the world record holder for fastest
backwards talker. And we went to a Dodgers game recently
with my son, and my son has not stopped talking
about it because he was fascinated and he's got all
kinds of sentences he wants to run by you thinking
he's going to stump you. He's only eleven, he's so cute.
(01:03):
And it really is a fascinating gift. It's got to
be a gift, right, because it's not something you can study.
How did you discover this talent of yours?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, I guess it's a gift. I like to call
it a useless ability. You know, it's just something. When
I was a kid, I would call all my friends
by their names backwards, and I would reach street signs,
and eventually I developed it into a little bit of
an act, and it landed me on a bunch of
television shows. But when I was a kid, you know,
it was kind of this annoying ability. My parents would
(01:34):
tell me to shut up. And then suddenly I went
to summer camp, I got on the stage at the
Talent Show, and from that day forward, I was famous
for talking backwards.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And is it a picture you see in your mind?
How does it? How do you process the center?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'll give you an example. So I kind of picture
it as if it was written on an imaginary blackboard. Okay,
but it's instant. It's a combination of hearing it and
visualizing it. So pick any word or sentence you can.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Think, sure, because I don't want you to think. Give
a sentence to mister Fuor right now.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Mario Lopez has an incredible film career, orams Paul si
Albu Durkney, malyf rerack, All right, that would be.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Hold. I couldn't even say that again that fast normally,
and he did just yet, Quickie just corrected that out.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It's crazy for you that I actually did it. I'm
not reversing sounds, but I'm reversing the spelling. So I
said Mario was oi ram oh i r a m
Lopez was pal has was sawna incredible was elba Durkney
film career was malyf rereck career is being rereck?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Is that, Snadie? That's wild? It is wild?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I got to take a break and I'm gonna have
some more backwards talking and I want to find out
how you got into inventing toys as well. So hain't
tight or with David Fuurer coming.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Up for Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh, Mario Lopez, my friend David Fuor in studio holds
against world record for fastest backwards talker.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
And as I'm reading right now and I try to
talk backwards recklet swarp. You can't you, I can't even
do it. No, But what's so impressive is I can't
even do it reading the sentence. To hear it and
do it is coret. And he's doing it seeing it
in his head.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yes, I gotta have you say one more things backwards. Okay,
just one more sentence, just because I'm I love it. Sure,
al Mario Lopez is the best radio show in the country.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I can start with no to Mario Lopez. So I
was on on a too oirem zippolicy at seb oyadar
woe's knee at your.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Nuwakas country you're joys is country. It sounds sort of
like uh islamdic or something.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Right, it sounds like a foreign language. Does sound like
a very lonely foreign languge sounds like no one else
can speak it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes, it does sound like the go aheads back and
said that the speed in which you do it is amazing.
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
So going back to it, you said you sort of
see a picture and you hear it at the same time.
So do you have a photographic memory.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't have a photographic memory because I don't retain
the information, but I can just visualize it very very quickly.
And people ask me all crazy words. I mean, the
one I get the most is super califragilistic spiel adocious,
so of course is say said ALIPs, said sela Jarphilacripas.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Wow, dude, that is great. Wow as wow wow as
wow Wow? What is wow? Upside down? Mom? That's right,
that is awesome. I'm just such a fun, cool talent, right,
they are, right, David, hang on, I'm gonna play a
few songs. I'm gonna have more with Backwards Talker David
fuer Getting back to today's guest, my friend, backwards talking
world record holder David Fuerer. Mario Lopez here, and you
(04:32):
have such a fascinating life, David. You're also the president
of the legendary Laugh Factory Comedy Club, of course, and
we recently launched Way Out Loud there which we had
just a great time and so much fun. But so
many people have played that venue throughout the years, essentially
every huge comedian. Yeah that pretty much on stage, in TV,
(04:55):
in film, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah? Well, the club is forty five years old and
the first person to ever grace the stage was Richard
Pryor wow uh, and it was Jamie Masada was the founder.
He's still at the helm of the club. And we've
had everybody from Rodney Dangerfield, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Jerry
Seinfeld and every top comedian. Today we have, you know,
(05:18):
probably the highest level of comedy at our club.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
David Hank tight little more music. We're going to come
back with David Fuer. You're all Mario Lopez got my
friend David Feurer in studio, world record holder for fastest
backward talking President of the Laugh Factory. But this is
the wildest thing to me. Aside from all that, you've
also created some legendary kids toys like the Nerve Vortex football,
which were so kind of bring me one today, I'm
(05:42):
to handed to my boys a little later. How did
you get into the invention game in what was your
first invention?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It's a great question. I never thought that I'd be
able to make a living as a toy inventor. This is,
you know, prior to my new career in comedy. But
it was all a result of the backwards talking I had.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Really that came first.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So I had this strange ability to speak backwards, and
that ability landed me on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,
later David Letterman, and then many other TV shows demonstrating
this ability. And so along the way I met a
game inventor, a guy named Mark Setaducati who was a
magician game inventor, and my brother who was working in
the toy industry, and they suggested to me that we
(06:24):
use backwards talking as a hook for a board game,
and we created this game called Backwards, which was themed
around you know, hearing words backwards with a clue and
Random House at the time was in the game business.
They licensed or bought this product from me, and they
sent me on a promotional tour to promote the product,
and I left my job. I had a job in
(06:46):
the mailroom, and then I was an assistant one of
the big talent agencies. I thought I was going to
have a career in Hollywood, and I got sidetracked by
this game and then started to create toys and games
full time.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I was always in adding things as a kid, but
I never knew I could actually make a living at it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That is pretty incredible, all right, David. One more thing
I want to ask quick break, We're going to come
back and wrap it up.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You're the full interview now at on with Mario Dounc
More Mario Lopez on the way.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Wrapping up with David Furor. You're all Mario Lopez and
David before you go, man, we were just talking about
the process of inventing the nerve vortex football. But what
was the inspiration to create that.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You know, at the time, I had a general idea
where I was trying to do solve problems what kids
aspire to do things in sports that they can't ordinarily do,
like dunk of basketball, hit a home run, and one
of them was to throw a football a long way
because I, as a kid, I to this day I
can't throw football. So I had a javelin in my
(07:44):
office that I'd played with, a big foam javelin, and
I noticed how far it went, and I one day
drilled a hole in a football. I had a couple
of partners that I worked on this with, and we
all together, we you know, we created a prototype where
we put this javelin side of giant football and it
became aerodynamic the moment you threw it. It's straightened out
(08:04):
in the air and it went farther than a regular football.
So we then just tweaked it until we got it
to the right size and weight and the rest is history,
and it's now, it's part of Americana.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It's yeah, it's you know.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
They're all over the world. There's copies of them all
over the world. And you mentioned patents. We had a
design pattern. There's different kinds of patents, and a design
patent is the one that protects you the least, which is,
you know, it protects the size and the weight and
so on. But a utility pattern is another kind of pattern,
and that would have protected us the most. So people
(08:39):
were able to get around our design by making a
little bit bigger, a little bit wider. But what ultimately
protected us was the brand having NERF on our product.
Every kid wanted the NERF for text football and not
the copy products.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, that's that's a big time. I know I did.
What a fascinating story and just life. That's awesome, davidppreciate
you coming by and listen. Everyone be on the lookout
for more dates coming up for Way Out Loud of course,
and the Laugh Factory in general. If you're in the
LA area, and what are the other locations, David.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
So we have Chicago, we have Reno, we have Long Beach,
we have San Diego, and we have Covina. So come
on out to the Laugh Factory. It's the greatest show
in town, live comedy. Seven nights a week, two shows
a night, and it doesn't cost very much.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
There we go and it's I guaranteed good time. And
of course be on the lookout for David's upcoming movie
Toad as well. Thank you, my friend. I appreciate you coming.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Here's a rolls on You're All with Mario Cordy Lopez
with another reason you might want to put down your
phone brain rot. Basically, it's the feeling of your brain
turning to mush after a long social media binge. Oxford
even made brain rot the twenty twenty four word of
the Year. That would be more of a two word
phrase of the year, I would imagine. And while it's
(10:00):
really a medical condition, experts say too much scrolling can
mess with memory, decision making and mental health. So step
away from the screen or make a choice and just
engage scrolling. I can see being an issue. It's something
that you can learn from.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Then it could be benefits to trying to find the
positive justifying it. You're like, I'm not putting down.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Scrolling only when I'm into.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
A Mario Courtney Lopez more music on the Way Pop
wanted to quickly mention this. I've heard of a lot
of fears, but this one is pretty out there. More
you sect usephobia. It's an intense fere of ketchup. Oh,
and it's no joke. For some people, literally just a
side of ketchup can send them into full panic mode.
One woman says, it's like being held at gunpoint.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
It's it's funny because I'm actually picking on something right
now with ketchup.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I've never heard of this.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
And I just thought at it and didn't have a react.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
And I'm frozen in fear.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Tomar Courtney Lopez. It's time to just have some common sense,
just as all Rahs Courtney's court is down session. So
that's one comes from at Shanna w ninety nine and
they say, after doing some genetic testing, I learned that
my brother and I are half siblings. My mother doesn't
want him to know, but I feel like it's something
I should tell him. What do you say, Oh, we're
(11:33):
heavy today. Oh, this is this is.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
I think you need to talk to someone who has
a degree.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
This isn't a family court. You have a degree, honey
and family omics. Wow. You know.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
I have a couple different opinions. So I don't think
this is your place to tell him. I think it's
your mom's place. Why she doesn't want him to know,
I don't know. However, on the flip side, I do
think he should know for genetic purposes, as far as
illnesses and things that had run in the father's family
(12:15):
and whatnot, just so he's aware when he's older things
that he could be prone to. This is very, very wow.
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I agree. I think you were right your.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
I dodn't tell him what to do.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I didn't tell him what to do. My two opinion,
I think your instincts are right. Initially, you got to
let mom handle this one. You don't want to cause
a rift between your mom and your brother, and then
you just causing problems in due time.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
So maybe you talk to your mom about doing option
telling her about option two that I said, because he
needs to know for health purposes and if he has
kids and whatnot. But man, good luck More.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You're all mari on Courtney Lopez, and every week we
celebrate someone who's done good deed who we put in
the spotlight today.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
It is Kit Crawford and Gary Ericsson. So they invented
the cliff bar back in nineteen ninety and sold the
company back in twenty twenty two for nearly three billion
with a bee as in boy dollars. Since them, they've
given a third of their fortune to charity.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
They're specifically helping small farmers, food workers, and groups that
are focused on healthy living and outdoor activities. Hence cliff Bar.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
They're really about that life any earlier money where their
mouth is Wow, Kit and Gary, way to go for it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
More. Mario Lopez coming up?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
What out Maro, Courtney Lopez. You're a quick reminder that
if you never want to miss any of our fun
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Speaker 2 (14:05):
All right, time to get a little weird Mario Courtney Lopez. Here,
it's time for Courtney's random thought. What you got?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'm weird?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yes you are.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I randomly thought about this the other day and turned
and asked my aunt this, and she looked at me
very confused. Why is purse spelled with you? But person
is spelled with an e.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
That's good, that's.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
I don't know what made me think of that.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
There is a brand of clothing called person No called
James Purse p E r s E, so he spells
it the way it's sounded out, p e A r
s E No p E r s E purse. But
that also I thought it was perc is how p
you are?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Correctly. What I'm saying is his last name happens to
be spelled and pronounced the way it should be. Right,
who decided to throw you in?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well?
Speaker 6 (14:58):
That person is correct?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Per says not. Well, oh there you go. It is
per person. Yeah, No, correct, person is correct. Correct p
E r s o n is correct the way phonetically
it sounded out, p U r s e phonetically is not.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Well eleventh grade English seat.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Then per is p u r r.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, person, that's a lot of ours, because when you
say when you say per se, that is also p
e r that is you're all Mario Courtney Lopez digging
into this recent drama over the greatest American film of
all time. This is a tough one. Movie lovers are
going to argue over this forever. But at a recent
American film, it's that you tribute. Steven Spielberg caused a
(15:43):
little controversy after praising Francis Ford Coppola and calling The
Godfather the greatest American film ever. Made no controversy here.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
I'm mad at that.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I agree with Spielberg. AFI efficiently ranks The Godfather second, though,
behind Citizen King. They did it right to their faces. Wow,
Citizen Kane's old school Rison Wells, And yes, it's great,
but you're going back, really, really, really really a long
time ago, and you know, it's hard to be subjected
with art. By the way, if you're wondering Casablanca, Gone
(16:12):
with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz round dot
AFI's top five those are that's pretty list.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh, Mario Cordo Lopez, quick look at the buzz. Good
news if you've been waiting on new Rihanna music, where
it is her third pregnancy won't delay a ninth album.
She's been slow to release new music, but says the
baby is not the reason. The delays were for quote
other reasons.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Okay, all right, well that should make for good music.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Mario Lopez here getting close to the end of our
radio fun. Just one last thing to get to, plus
probably enough time to play a request or two before
I get out of here. So if you got a
song you want to hear, hit me up at all
and Mario on X You're Mario Lopez time number one.
Last thing. Kevin Bacon has been a household name for
the last forty years, so he wanted to find out
what it was like to just blend in with the crowd.
(17:03):
So he went to a makeup artist who made him
a prosthetic disguise. Then he went to the Grove, which
is right here in La to see what it was like.
That's like a big shopping center, outdoor restaurants and stuff. Well,
Kevin says it sucked. People were pushing past him. They
were not being nice. He even had to wait in
line to buy coffee. Can you imagine what he says?
He takes some of the perks of being famous for granted, boy, Kevin,
(17:26):
you really roughed it out, buddy. By the way, prayers
up for Kevin Bacon, everyone, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
That's it big. Thanks to David Fear for stopping by
on Mario dot com for more of my chat with him,
including details in the new comedy movie he has produced
and more fun Tomorrow, gonna share a Fresh Life pack,
take a musical trip into the past with our throwback
soundtrack and more. Until then, Mario Lopez Saying good night
Speaker 1 (17:52):
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