Kevin Bacon

The iconic Kevin Bacon calls in to talk new podcast and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're on with Mario Lopez. What's up? You're all?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Mario Lopez joining me right now. Legendary award winning actor,
my man Kevin Bacon. How are you, sir?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
How do you doing? Mario? Good to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Nice to talk to you. Thank you so much for
taking the time. This is very cool. You're getting into
the podcast game with a show called and six Degrees
with Kevin Bacon. Incredibly clever.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Love it.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
What are fans going to be getting when they listen in, Well,
you know.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
We're going to start the podcast talking to you know,
famous people from all kinds of different fame, actors and musicians.
We're hoping to get sports, you know, reality television personalities
and just shoot the breeze with them for a little while,
figure out if we have any kind of connections, and

(00:51):
then talk about the causes that they are deeply involved with,
the things that they really care about that have to
do with making a better the world a better place,
and then introduce to people who are on the ground
a lot of times running those foundations and organizations so
that we give them a microphone that they may not

(01:12):
normally get.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Absolutely, Kevin, I know you've been in this business for
decades now, and so have I to be honest, and
I've interviewed a lot of people over the years and
got into the hosting thing like a while back, and
I've always been sort of genuinely inquisitive. I've spoken with
many actors who don't feel comfortable either getting interviewed or
doing them. So do you feel it's something that is

(01:35):
either I don't know your skill set is the right word,
so it's in your personality or not, obviously it's in
yours right.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, I can tell you that when you've become an actor,
they don't. You don't go to ACNE school and get
some lessons in how to do an interview or be interviewed.
It's a very very, you know, weird sort of situation.
When I first started get an interviewed, I was like,
I don't know what I'm making a complete idiot out

(02:03):
of myself. And you know, like anything else, it's ten
thousand hours, right, You put in the work and you
realize you get better and better at doing it. Now
when it comes to being on the other side of it,
like you do so well, I am in awe of
what you guys do. And now having started this thing.

(02:24):
I'm like, Wow, this is not easy to stay engaged,
to stay one step ahead of what's happening in terms
of the dialogue between these people. To try to get
something from somebody that maybe they may not give to
someone else is a real skill set and I'm enjoying

(02:44):
it because I always enjoy challenges. But it ain't easy.
So it props to you.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh well, thank you, sir. I appreciate that. Your first
guess is actor Mark Rufflow. What'd you guys get into
in the episode?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
It was really fun, you know. In the case of Mark,
we got to talk before the actors strike so we
could talk about you know, actual you know, projects that
he's worked on. We discussed theater versus films. We discussed
you know, working in special effects driven things as opposed
to more kind of serious stuff. It was it was great.

(03:22):
I've known Mark for a long time. We we've never
actually played a scene together, which is which is I
think he's an incredible actor, but he's also a very
very devoted activist in terms of a lot of things,
including the environment, and has this amazing foundation and a

(03:47):
woman that that runs it with him came on and
her story is also just really really great. You know,
it's it's it's partly talking about the causes, but also
talking to these people about why they would devote their
their life to doing something for the world as opposed
to doing something for themselves. You know, I like to

(04:07):
think about myself. I became an actor, and me an
actor was a very self involved gig. You know. I
never chose a life where I was going to, you know,
devote myself and stay out of the spotlight just try
to you know, make the world a better place, you know,
And so I'm fascinated by people who have chosen that path.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
No, absolutely, I'm sure that's a that's a fascinating interview.
There anyone else you can tease us with who you
have coming up?

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh, well, we have Matthew McConaughey, which I'm sure you're
talking to Matthew before. He's very amusing person, great turn
and phrase and also very very big, big hearted man.
Jewel was really fun, you know, as a as an artist,
you know, I'm a I'm a musician. I got another
you know, side career playing music, and so to talk

(04:59):
to or talk to Thomas Brett, a huge, huge country
star about the process of making music and writing songs.
Bear Grills is on. I mean that that was a
hilarious interview. It's you know, you don't actually see it,
but he was pretty much seemed like he was actually

(05:20):
in the wild while we were doing the inter I'm
sure it was. So it's it's, it's, it's it's a
lot of fun. And I think that you'll also learn
a lot about a lot of really great causes and
see aside to these celebrities that they're not normally showing,
and those are the things that they care about deeply

(05:44):
and oftentimes have very very personal connections to. Well.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I'm sure they feel incredibly comfortable with you. And I
love the title, which is of course based on the
legend of six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, which is a
game where people believe in can connect virtually anyone to
you through six degrees of separation. How did that come about? Originally?
About what I was trying to think about? What year
would you say that started?

Speaker 1 (06:07):
I would say it was, yeah, like mid nineties. I
think it's when I first heard about it.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's what I first heard.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Like that, Yeah, and you know I heard about it.
People would come up to me and say, oh, yeah,
you know, my cousin invented a game about you or
I'm so hungover. I was playing your game last night
and I had no idea what they were talking about.
It's like, I think you got the wrong guy. And
then it was really started by these college kids at

(06:34):
a college in Pennsylvania called Allbright and they they just
they just one of my movies was on and they
just kind of came up with this concept. And you know,
it's hard to imagine, but we didn't have the same
if something when in this case viral. We didn't even
really use that word because you know, it was a viral.
Was was a virus, you know, it wasn't it wasn't

(06:56):
you know, an idea. But it spread and read and spread,
and I honestly thought it was going to go away
and just didn't go away.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's the ultimate compliment, the ultimate compliment of you being
such a successful It's the cool.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
I always think to myself, it's only because I've been
in a whole lot of movies that a whole lot
of people have been in a lot of big a
lot of very big casts, you know, So you know.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I think it's awesome. Yeah, you know, I was horrified
because because I thought it was really a joke at
my expense, and I just thought, oh, come on, I mean,
they're just making fun of me.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
No, I took it as a compliment. Wow, Kevin Bacons's
been working for steadily for decades. That's it's super cool.
I wish it was a six degree to Mario Lopez.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Well, I think there probably is, if you really want
to play it.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Thank you so much for your time, sir. We've had yourself,
your lovely wife. You both are awesome. Hopefully we'll get
to see you in person soon.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Thank you so much, Mario, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Okay, take care with Mario Lopez