May 9, 2023 • 7 mins
'The Talk' co host Amanda Kloots zooms in to talk new kids book and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On with Mario Lopez's Mario Lopez Jordan on Zoom from
the Talk on CBS. Amanda Kludes, Welcome to the show, Amanda.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
How are you. I'm so good.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hi, nice to see you. We just saw each other
recently at the Monster Truck Show, which was I was
fascinated because it was at Sofi, the stadium here in
La completely sold out. I thought it was sort of
a niche following there might be. That thing was packed
like it was a concert. It was incredibly loud, but
(00:34):
seeing my son have so much fun it was it
was worth.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It was that your first Monster Jim, I'd.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Been to another one before. I had been to another.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That was our fourth.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh, so you're you're a regular. The last one was
at Stable Center, which is Crypto dot com and not
at SOFI.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
That was next level. Yeah. Sofi was awesome and we've
never been to one at night. I don't know who
has more fun at Monster jam me or my son.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I love it much.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It's funny, right, it was fun. It was a good time.
Got to cruise around in the little truck for a
minute too. By the way, thanks again for having my
wife on the talk.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
A couple of weeks as had a.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Great time, and yeah, I hope everyone had fun there.
It's a good group you guys have over there.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, and I'm so it's so crazy that our paths
ever crossed on Broadway and I remember, you know, I
remember she was in the chorus line.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I forget what I was doing at the time.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
But it was so fine, so nice to finally meet
her and see her in person. She was so lovely
to me during the pandemic. She reached out a few.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Times and was so sweet. So I just I appreciate
you both, so thank.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
You, Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That's very sweet. And congratulations on your new children's book.
Tell me your dreams. What was the inspiration for this?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, Mario, you know, from being a dad, you become
a parent and you start doing and saying things that
you've never done or said before because you're constantly entertaining
your children, and there inspiring you. This started to happen
when we were doing our bedtime routine. I just started
telling Elvis that I was going to tell him the
(02:09):
dream that he was going to have that night.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I love dreams. I love dreaming. I love when I
remember my dreams. And you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Also a vehicle to get him into bed, because he doesn't,
you know, ever want to go into his crib, and
now he is a bed So I just started saying,
do you have me to tell you what dream you're
going to have tonight? And he would say yes, and
then I would just say okay, and I would go
into some fantastical adventure that he got to go on
that involved all the things that he loves, you know,
(02:38):
garbage trucks and airplanes, the beach and Chuchu trains. And
we started doing it every night. It just become our
bedtime routine. And then all of a sudden, I was like, wait,
say maybe it's a children's book.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So luckily HarperCollins thought the same, and now we have
the book.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Very clever, and you sort of manifest their dreams for him,
and you can implement whatever creative scenario you can think
of in their mind. That's great, that's great. It's funny
because I was trying to think the last dream I had.
I went through a phase where I was dreaming a lot,
and then I for years I didn't have dreams, and
then I had one the other day. They never make sense.
There's sort of random scenes play, and then sometimes my
(03:16):
wife will have a dream.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
She'll wake up and.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
She's mad at me, and I didn't even do anything.
She has a lot of those, so she's mad. I
like what I do, and then the dream, her dream,
and her dream. Apparently I was wilding out.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's so funny.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Do you have your own bedtime rituals at night?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
For myself?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yes, that usually is just getting myself up to my bed.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I'm usually so tired that I just pass out.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, no, I feel you on that one.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I assure you feel the same way if I even
get there.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I usually pass out on the couch first and then
wake up and somehow get myself into my bed.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
But yeah, no, I think luckily. You know, it's so funny.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I just saw a comedian do a bit on this
about how as adults, you know, don't you wish somebody
would still like Mario, it's bathtime, Like the bath is
ready for you, the water is perfectly temperatured. You get
to sit in there and play. All your toys are there,
and you get you have to it's bathtime.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You have to go. Like I mean, we don't do
this for ourselves as adults. You know what I mean
like we just we just get ourselves to bed, hopefully
is my routine. But I do think that when you're
doing a bedtime routine with your.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Kids, it does kind of help you to calm down
to you know, eli a sudden. I we always starerah prayers,
we sing songs, and then we read books, and I
still tell them his dreams, And I feel like by
the time we're done with all of.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That, it's also become my bedtime routine. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, no, it makes it makes a lot of sense.
Did you feel writing a children's book was a different
kind of creative thinking or approach as opposed to writing
like a memoir or oh my.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So different, so different?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Here's I think the two things I was trying to
capture with this book is from reading children's books, as
you know, over and over and.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Over again to your children.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
You you love to choose the books that aren't pages
of paragraphs.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
On each page because you know the kid's going to
go again again. Yeah, so I tried to write something
that was adult friendly.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I do believe that children's books are also for adults.
So I wanted a very clear meaning and meaningfull message,
simple but not simplistic. And so that would be easy
to read for an adult and easy for uh, you know,
to understand as a child. So I think it is
hard because when you're writing a children's book, you really
(05:38):
have to master what those short lines are and the
words that you know, choose to go in them.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's different.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, no, it absolutely. Mother's Day is coming up actually
around the corner. How are you planning on spending the day.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, luckily, my little sister's going to be here, and that's.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Going to be the world to me, because she has
a way of making everything special, even just like drinking
a glass of water, it turns into some occasion. So
I don't know if we don't have any plans yet,
but just having her hero will be so nice, especially
because you know, Mother's Day, Father's Day these days are
still kind of really tough, and so it's nice to
(06:20):
have company that makes you feel like, you know, because
Elvis doesn't know how to celebrate me yet, so it'll
be nice to have somebody around that you know, can
help celebrate. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
No, it's the best having family run. How old is
Elvis these days? Almost for almost for is he was
he into anything in particular.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Soccer, karate monster trucks. Yeah, those are his top three.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I think diverse. Okay, that's great, that's great.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You have a fun over them to talk. I love it.
You got to come over and see us.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I know, I'd used to be like a frequent guest
back the day. They just they keep you pretty busy.
Now we're doing like three shows a day.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Uh, it's we're the guest co host. You gotta come
in and you'd be such a great guest co host.
It's there.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Oh well, thank you, Yeah, I know. I like the
whole team over. Everybody's really nice. Congrats on that.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
On the book.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Everything you've got going on, pick up tell me your
dreams wherever you get books. And Amanda, thanks for checking
in today.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Thank you. Nice to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
See person soon.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Take care.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
With Mario Lopez
On with Mario Lopez's Mario Lopez Jordan on Zoom from
the Talk on CBS. Amanda Kludes, Welcome to the show, Amanda.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
How are you. I'm so good.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hi, nice to see you. We just saw each other
recently at the Monster Truck Show, which was I was
fascinated because it was at Sofi, the stadium here in
La completely sold out. I thought it was sort of
a niche following there might be. That thing was packed
like it was a concert. It was incredibly loud, but
(00:34):
seeing my son have so much fun it was it
was worth.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It was that your first Monster Jim, I'd.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Been to another one before. I had been to another.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That was our fourth.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh, so you're you're a regular. The last one was
at Stable Center, which is Crypto dot com and not
at SOFI.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
That was next level. Yeah. Sofi was awesome and we've
never been to one at night. I don't know who
has more fun at Monster jam me or my son.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I love it much.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It's funny, right, it was fun. It was a good time.
Got to cruise around in the little truck for a
minute too. By the way, thanks again for having my
wife on the talk.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
A couple of weeks as had a.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Great time, and yeah, I hope everyone had fun there.
It's a good group you guys have over there.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, and I'm so it's so crazy that our paths
ever crossed on Broadway and I remember, you know, I
remember she was in the chorus line.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I forget what I was doing at the time.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
But it was so fine, so nice to finally meet
her and see her in person. She was so lovely
to me during the pandemic. She reached out a few.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Times and was so sweet. So I just I appreciate
you both, so thank.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
You, Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That's very sweet. And congratulations on your new children's book.
Tell me your dreams. What was the inspiration for this?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, Mario, you know, from being a dad, you become
a parent and you start doing and saying things that
you've never done or said before because you're constantly entertaining
your children, and there inspiring you. This started to happen
when we were doing our bedtime routine. I just started
telling Elvis that I was going to tell him the
(02:09):
dream that he was going to have that night.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I love dreams. I love dreaming. I love when I
remember my dreams. And you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Also a vehicle to get him into bed, because he doesn't,
you know, ever want to go into his crib, and
now he is a bed So I just started saying,
do you have me to tell you what dream you're
going to have tonight? And he would say yes, and
then I would just say okay, and I would go
into some fantastical adventure that he got to go on
that involved all the things that he loves, you know,
(02:38):
garbage trucks and airplanes, the beach and Chuchu trains. And
we started doing it every night. It just become our
bedtime routine. And then all of a sudden, I was like, wait,
say maybe it's a children's book.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So luckily HarperCollins thought the same, and now we have
the book.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Very clever, and you sort of manifest their dreams for him,
and you can implement whatever creative scenario you can think
of in their mind. That's great, that's great. It's funny
because I was trying to think the last dream I had.
I went through a phase where I was dreaming a lot,
and then I for years I didn't have dreams, and
then I had one the other day. They never make sense.
There's sort of random scenes play, and then sometimes my
(03:16):
wife will have a dream.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
She'll wake up and.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
She's mad at me, and I didn't even do anything.
She has a lot of those, so she's mad. I
like what I do, and then the dream, her dream,
and her dream. Apparently I was wilding out.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's so funny.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Do you have your own bedtime rituals at night?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
For myself?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yes, that usually is just getting myself up to my bed.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I'm usually so tired that I just pass out.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, no, I feel you on that one.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I assure you feel the same way if I even
get there.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I usually pass out on the couch first and then
wake up and somehow get myself into my bed.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
But yeah, no, I think luckily. You know, it's so funny.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I just saw a comedian do a bit on this
about how as adults, you know, don't you wish somebody
would still like Mario, it's bathtime, Like the bath is
ready for you, the water is perfectly temperatured. You get
to sit in there and play. All your toys are there,
and you get you have to it's bathtime.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You have to go. Like I mean, we don't do
this for ourselves as adults. You know what I mean
like we just we just get ourselves to bed, hopefully
is my routine. But I do think that when you're
doing a bedtime routine with your.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Kids, it does kind of help you to calm down
to you know, eli a sudden. I we always starerah prayers,
we sing songs, and then we read books, and I
still tell them his dreams, And I feel like by
the time we're done with all of.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That, it's also become my bedtime routine. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, no, it makes it makes a lot of sense.
Did you feel writing a children's book was a different
kind of creative thinking or approach as opposed to writing
like a memoir or oh my.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So different, so different?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Here's I think the two things I was trying to
capture with this book is from reading children's books, as
you know, over and over and.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Over again to your children.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
You you love to choose the books that aren't pages
of paragraphs.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
On each page because you know the kid's going to
go again again. Yeah, so I tried to write something
that was adult friendly.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I do believe that children's books are also for adults.
So I wanted a very clear meaning and meaningfull message,
simple but not simplistic. And so that would be easy
to read for an adult and easy for uh, you know,
to understand as a child. So I think it is
hard because when you're writing a children's book, you really
(05:38):
have to master what those short lines are and the
words that you know, choose to go in them.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's different.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, no, it absolutely. Mother's Day is coming up actually
around the corner. How are you planning on spending the day.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, luckily, my little sister's going to be here, and that's.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Going to be the world to me, because she has
a way of making everything special, even just like drinking
a glass of water, it turns into some occasion. So
I don't know if we don't have any plans yet,
but just having her hero will be so nice, especially
because you know, Mother's Day, Father's Day these days are
still kind of really tough, and so it's nice to
(06:20):
have company that makes you feel like, you know, because
Elvis doesn't know how to celebrate me yet, so it'll
be nice to have somebody around that you know, can
help celebrate. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
No, it's the best having family run. How old is
Elvis these days? Almost for almost for is he was
he into anything in particular.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Soccer, karate monster trucks. Yeah, those are his top three.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I think diverse. Okay, that's great, that's great.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You have a fun over them to talk. I love it.
You got to come over and see us.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I know, I'd used to be like a frequent guest
back the day. They just they keep you pretty busy.
Now we're doing like three shows a day.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Uh, it's we're the guest co host. You gotta come
in and you'd be such a great guest co host.
It's there.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Oh well, thank you, Yeah, I know. I like the
whole team over. Everybody's really nice. Congrats on that.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
On the book.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Everything you've got going on, pick up tell me your
dreams wherever you get books. And Amanda, thanks for checking
in today.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Thank you. Nice to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
See person soon.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Take care.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
With Mario Lopez
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