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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mario Fun with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Debral Mario Lopez joy Me now on Zoom, the host
of the new Food Network show Battle of the Decade.
My buddy actor Jonathan Benny.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome back, man Hey, Manney, Good to see you. Good
to see you too.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I was just paying you a compliment keeping up with
you on social I really admired the hard work and
hustle that you display and diverse in your endeavors, which
brings us to this new show. Congrats on that Battle
of the Decade.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, first of all, no, I have to, you know,
give big claps to you, because, like I was just
saying before we started recording, that like watching your Instagram,
watching all the shows you do, you know, access and
then you're shooting the content for access people don't like.
I feel like there's a very small group of people
in the world that understand what that entails and how
(00:50):
much like energy it is. And like I'm one of
those people that understands it. So I just everyone listening
needs to know Mario deserves a standing ovation because it's
a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So many I love it, Thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Hell you, Mario. Let's talk about my show. Come on.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yes, sir, we're here. I like the title Battle of
the Decades. Please explain, Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So the Battle of the Decades is a new show
on a brand new series on Food Network. And basically
what we're doing is we're going in a time capsule
every episode and going back in time to a different year.
So the upcoming episode we have coming out on Wednesday
of next week is nineteen ninety four. So what was
popular in nineteen ninety four, Well, Seinfeld was. So we've
(01:36):
got guest judge Wayne Knight, who played Newman on Seinfeld,
as our guest judge. And then they're going to have
to use food and gadgets from that decade to create
something new and something inspired. So, for example, we got
gadgets like the George Foreman Girl. Remember that I.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Lived on the George Foreman Girl.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I lived. We've got the easy Bake oven. Yeah, We've
got the snow cone machine. Remember we put the ice
in s Newby machine. So you're using all these gadgets
from different decades as well as food from different decades,
like threw roll ups came out, So that's going to
be one of the ingredients they have to use or
they're going to have to use spam or they're gonna
(02:15):
have to use something from that decade and mash it up,
like the on the episode coming up Wednesday, it's nineteen
ninety four, so we got Wayne Knight. But what was
really popular on Seinfeld that muffin top episode. So they
have to use muffin tops and a George Forman grill
to create something new and inspired in these new dishes.
But the fun part is not only we're taking these
(02:36):
chefs back in time, but we're actually using two different
generations of chefs. Because how many times, Mario, have you
been cooking and your kids will be You'll talk about
something in the kitchen and your kids are like, what's that?
I've never heard of that before? And so that's what
we do on this show. We take an old school
chef who's been around for a really long time and
as very seasoned, and we put them up again up
(02:58):
against our team that with actually a new school chef.
So we have an old this last episode, we have
the old school chef that has been around forever teamed
up with the shirtless TikTok chef from TikTok right. So
it's it's hilarious because he's two. It's a battle of
the decades, not just with the year of the food,
but the two generations that are competing at these challenges.
(03:20):
And then to spin it on its head, we do
something even better. We flash forward to a viral food sensation.
So maybe the accordion potatoes that were viral on TikTok,
or you know, the I can't think a name of
Barada pizza like the Barada, like all the things that
are popular and trending right now, these old school chefs
(03:41):
have to then tackle. So we're really just cross generat
just seeing the generational gap between all the cooking and
all the chef and the pop culture.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Very clever. I love nostalgia and I love taking a
look back at yesterdyear ninety four was a great year
or two. By the way, Also, the OJ chase happened. There,
yes so much stuff you can go to fruit roll up.
It's funny you say that because I just saw I'm
a I love I'm a big FOODI and I love
following all these food accounts. And I saw someone put
a slice mango with a fruit roll up put it
(04:11):
into keen. I'm like, oh my god, I want to
try that right, and it looks so and it looks
so good. But that's so that's so much fun. And
I think the back and forth and generational thing is cool.
Good for you man.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, one of the funny things that happened with the
generational gap on the episode that's coming up, I don't
want to spoil it, but I'll say something that was
really funny. We we gave them the George Foreman grow
and the new school chef was told to plug it
in and get it going and turn it on, and
they literally turn and go, I don't know how to
turn one of these on. And then we're like, have
(04:43):
you ever seen a George Foreman before? And they're like no,
So then and then you have the old school person like,
how have you ever seen a George Foreman grow? Like?
And then we have the magic bullet like all these
things that used to like grow up using Remember I
mean Mario, we used to make our poachein chakes and
magic bullet man, are you kidming?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So ninety four I lived at a place called Park
Point in Burbank on Hollywood Way and verdu Goo. It
was like Melrose Place. The cast a lot of the
cast of Days of our Lives and fresh Prints. Ryan
seacrestleft two di It was like a bunch of young
people just coincidentally happened to live there. And I survived
(05:22):
on the Georgia Foreman girl. I could make everything from
grilled cheese, steak, fish, chicken, everything.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It was the best.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You had the little dish in the bottom and the
grease would go down. I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
There was also something cathartic and nostalgic about, like, well,
at the time it was a cathartic. Now it's nostalgic.
You would take that grease tray after it hardened, and
you take it over and you take a wet paper
tollet and you'd like wipe the don't.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Remember, yeah, yeah exactly, and you get.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Rid of all the fat and you're like, that's not
going to my body. Yeah, I've got had. And we
thought about the healthiest people.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
One of the greatest inventions ever. Are you seeing that
older generations having advantage because of their knowledge and experience
or do the younger generations hold their own pretty well?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You know, it's really interesting because we make them use
these old school things, and then what you find in
that challenge is a lot of times you used to
make the new school chefs are going to like we
are going to like go for the classic, but like
the old school chefs actually try to push the envelope
on the episodes more than the New School. The new
school one sick to the classics, and so it's really
(06:23):
interesting to watch them work together because you would think
that the new school chefs would be doing something new
and inventive, and they're like, well, no, Like one of
the episodes, like Beef Burgunion, like they're like, no, we
just make beef burgerion. You just make it really well
because it's be bourgernion. That's what people want to eat. So,
like there's something really cool about like how much food
(06:43):
changes and evolves as the generations happen as time goes on.
But then also the classic things about about dishes and
food that like are timeless. You know, there's there's there's
a way to fry chicken that's just the best way
and it's been the best way for years, So like
you do what works sometimes, and so it's fun to
see the things that really haven't changed over time, plus
(07:05):
the new inventive things that have changed. But what's the
most fun is to watch the two generations bicker in
a fun way of like not remembering movies or TV shows.
And what's so fun in the show is we played
clips from like we have the KitKat commercial, we have
the Blooney commercial. We have all these clips we've had
on the show to kind of take everyone back to
(07:25):
those years. Like we just had this last episode that
was nineteen ninety or two thousand and four, and it
was the first year that a camera phone was invented. Wow,
And so we brought out the camera phones and like people,
you know, it's just it's fun to see the Nostalgia book.
I'm excited for like you to watch it with your
kids because like for them, for you to talk about
things that they might know, you know, it'll spark a
(07:47):
lot of conversations in the living room like, oh my gosh,
you know, me and your mom we used to use
those all the time. We used to use the George Forman.
Your kids have probably never seen a George Forman grill.
And then they're gonna then they're gonna do the viral challenge,
which will be something on Tape Talker Instagram, and then
all of a sudden, they're gonna be like, oh my gosh, dad,
how do you not know what an accordion potato is? Like,
come on, get with it. It's all over TikTok. So
(08:09):
to see that bickering, it's just hilarious.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
That's how do you win?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
There are there a judges there. We have three judges.
And what's really interesting is that we actually use judges
that are families that are generational. So like Chef Kathy
Fang and Cheff Peter Fang, who are these huge restauranteers
in San Francisco. They own all these amazing restaurants. He's
you know, older, I would say, I don't want to
(08:32):
say his age, but he's you know, he's he's a
he's very on the older side. And Chef Kathy is
young and fresh and like hip. But they're their parents,
uh father father daughter duo. And so to watch them
like judge together, you know, he wants the classics, she
wants something new. But then we have amazing guest judges
that we bring in every episode to really take you
(08:55):
back to that time and place. We got Jenny Garth
from nine to two and oho, she's going to take
you back to that year where we got Wayne Knight
We've got Greg luganis the most famous diver in the world.
Greg is on the episode for nineteen eighty four because
that was the year he went to the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
We have the nineteen eighty four Olympics that year and
he was on the wheaties box. So guess what Wheedi's
is an ingredients that they have to use and their things.
So it's really nostalgic, and I think it's what it
does is it takes us back to a time and
place when life was simpler.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Right, So like I feel like, I don't know about you,
but I think the world I'm not a scientist at all,
but I think the world is actually spinning faster like
it feels like. It feels like that, and so this
is going to take you back to like a time
and place when things were simpler and it was easier.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And I think people are really gonna like that nostalgia.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
When they were absolutely now I'm like just listening to it.
I love Greg by the way. I had the honor
of playing him in a movie back.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
In the day.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
That's right, good God, breaking the surface that's our based
on his book. He's he's a great guy switching gears
for a second. I saw in social that you dropped
in on a high school production of Mean Girls?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Were you?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Were you a theater kid growing up?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Was I a theater kid? Oh my gosh, Mario, come on,
you've met me? What do you think it is? Place football?
Where did you grow up?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
By the way, Johnathan, where'd you grow up?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I grew up in Toledo, Ohio?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Okay, So I grew up in like as Midwest as
it gets, and I was that that theater kid that
was just in every production of every school play of everything,
and like that was the way because like being a
little gay kid in Ohio in the.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Nineties shocking not the easiest time. So like I was like, well,
if I do theater and I'm really funny and really
good at it, I can get people to not pick
on me because they think I'm funny. So like that
was my like device. So you know, I was a
theater kid. I was in probably twenty productions of high
school theater. And so my heart for those theater kids,
you know, like the drama nerds. I was one, and
(10:54):
I was one theater geek, you know what I mean,
Like there's just something special about that. So they were
putting on the play Mean Girls in Pulm Springs by
our house, and the director reached out and she goes, hey,
they're putting it on blah blah blah, is there any
way you would come and see it? And so I
got to surprise them at the reconhearsal and just walk
in and they lost it and it was so much fun.
(11:16):
I got to give them, you know, some words of
encouragement and just some exciting stuff that they you know,
I actually of course, like they're like micromanaging Gay and me.
It was like, oh, by the way, I have notes,
like here's a couple of things. This line you have
to go up on it and you want to laugh
like hipping them notes. But they were super appreciative and
they loved it, and it was it was just fun
(11:37):
because I remember being that theater.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You were in theater, right, Oh yeah, I grew up
in the same thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, Like you remember like you would have people come
and talk, yeah, being that, like you'd just be so
excited all week, like oh so and so from Broadways
speak to us or whatever. You'd be so excited and
that would leave such a lasting impression on you, and
so I was like, I want to do that for
these kids, and it was just wonderful. It was fun
to meet the guy that played me because it is
like I was like introduced to myself, but he's like,
I play Aaron and I just like bowed down to him,
(12:04):
and then he started bowing down to me, and We're like, no, no,
we're not worthy. So it was it was just like
a really really fun moment.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That's great for them.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Man.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And last question, I know you and your husband soldier
house recently and you moved. Did you stay Did you
stay in la or did you leave town?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
We are right now with our with traveling so much,
we're we're figuring out where we're gonna move, but we're
we're gonna stay in the area probably, But we we
also live in Vegas half the time too, so we're
back and forth a lot. So right now, we're gonna
stay in Vegas for a while and then we'll figure
out figure out where we're gonna where we're gonna go next.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
All right, good luck with that, man, And I'm sure
I'll be seeing you at the conson.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Or I'll see what a consuon. I think I'll see
you in an hour. Oh, are you gonna come down?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Are you gonna come out?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Okay, Ben, I'll see it in a minute.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I'll see it in a minute. Always good talking you, buddy.
Listen watch Battle of the Decades Wednesdays on Food Network. Jonathan,
thanks for hanging out.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Thanks buddy.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
All right, buddy'll see it.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
A little bit, seem a little bit kept. Fine. Get
you on with Mario Lopez
Mario Fun with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Debral Mario Lopez joy Me now on Zoom, the host
of the new Food Network show Battle of the Decade.
My buddy actor Jonathan Benny.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome back, man Hey, Manney, Good to see you. Good
to see you too.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I was just paying you a compliment keeping up with
you on social I really admired the hard work and
hustle that you display and diverse in your endeavors, which
brings us to this new show. Congrats on that Battle
of the Decade.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, first of all, no, I have to, you know,
give big claps to you, because, like I was just
saying before we started recording, that like watching your Instagram,
watching all the shows you do, you know, access and
then you're shooting the content for access people don't like.
I feel like there's a very small group of people
in the world that understand what that entails and how
(00:50):
much like energy it is. And like I'm one of
those people that understands it. So I just everyone listening
needs to know Mario deserves a standing ovation because it's
a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So many I love it, Thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Hell you, Mario. Let's talk about my show. Come on.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yes, sir, we're here. I like the title Battle of
the Decades. Please explain, Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So the Battle of the Decades is a new show
on a brand new series on Food Network. And basically
what we're doing is we're going in a time capsule
every episode and going back in time to a different year.
So the upcoming episode we have coming out on Wednesday
of next week is nineteen ninety four. So what was
popular in nineteen ninety four, Well, Seinfeld was. So we've
(01:36):
got guest judge Wayne Knight, who played Newman on Seinfeld,
as our guest judge. And then they're going to have
to use food and gadgets from that decade to create
something new and something inspired. So, for example, we got
gadgets like the George Foreman Girl. Remember that I.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Lived on the George Foreman Girl.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I lived. We've got the easy Bake oven. Yeah, We've
got the snow cone machine. Remember we put the ice
in s Newby machine. So you're using all these gadgets
from different decades as well as food from different decades,
like threw roll ups came out, So that's going to
be one of the ingredients they have to use or
they're going to have to use spam or they're gonna
(02:15):
have to use something from that decade and mash it up,
like the on the episode coming up Wednesday, it's nineteen
ninety four, so we got Wayne Knight. But what was
really popular on Seinfeld that muffin top episode. So they
have to use muffin tops and a George Forman grill
to create something new and inspired in these new dishes.
But the fun part is not only we're taking these
(02:36):
chefs back in time, but we're actually using two different
generations of chefs. Because how many times, Mario, have you
been cooking and your kids will be You'll talk about
something in the kitchen and your kids are like, what's that?
I've never heard of that before? And so that's what
we do on this show. We take an old school
chef who's been around for a really long time and
as very seasoned, and we put them up again up
(02:58):
against our team that with actually a new school chef.
So we have an old this last episode, we have
the old school chef that has been around forever teamed
up with the shirtless TikTok chef from TikTok right. So
it's it's hilarious because he's two. It's a battle of
the decades, not just with the year of the food,
but the two generations that are competing at these challenges.
(03:20):
And then to spin it on its head, we do
something even better. We flash forward to a viral food sensation.
So maybe the accordion potatoes that were viral on TikTok,
or you know, the I can't think a name of
Barada pizza like the Barada, like all the things that
are popular and trending right now, these old school chefs
(03:41):
have to then tackle. So we're really just cross generat
just seeing the generational gap between all the cooking and
all the chef and the pop culture.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Very clever. I love nostalgia and I love taking a
look back at yesterdyear ninety four was a great year
or two. By the way, Also, the OJ chase happened. There,
yes so much stuff you can go to fruit roll up.
It's funny you say that because I just saw I'm
a I love I'm a big FOODI and I love
following all these food accounts. And I saw someone put
a slice mango with a fruit roll up put it
(04:11):
into keen. I'm like, oh my god, I want to
try that right, and it looks so and it looks
so good. But that's so that's so much fun. And
I think the back and forth and generational thing is cool.
Good for you man.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, one of the funny things that happened with the
generational gap on the episode that's coming up, I don't
want to spoil it, but I'll say something that was
really funny. We we gave them the George Foreman grow
and the new school chef was told to plug it
in and get it going and turn it on, and
they literally turn and go, I don't know how to
turn one of these on. And then we're like, have
(04:43):
you ever seen a George Foreman before? And they're like no,
So then and then you have the old school person like,
how have you ever seen a George Foreman grow? Like?
And then we have the magic bullet like all these
things that used to like grow up using Remember I
mean Mario, we used to make our poachein chakes and
magic bullet man, are you kidming?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So ninety four I lived at a place called Park
Point in Burbank on Hollywood Way and verdu Goo. It
was like Melrose Place. The cast a lot of the
cast of Days of our Lives and fresh Prints. Ryan
seacrestleft two di It was like a bunch of young
people just coincidentally happened to live there. And I survived
(05:22):
on the Georgia Foreman girl. I could make everything from
grilled cheese, steak, fish, chicken, everything.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It was the best.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You had the little dish in the bottom and the
grease would go down. I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
There was also something cathartic and nostalgic about, like, well,
at the time it was a cathartic. Now it's nostalgic.
You would take that grease tray after it hardened, and
you take it over and you take a wet paper
tollet and you'd like wipe the don't.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Remember, yeah, yeah exactly, and you get.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Rid of all the fat and you're like, that's not
going to my body. Yeah, I've got had. And we
thought about the healthiest people.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
One of the greatest inventions ever. Are you seeing that
older generations having advantage because of their knowledge and experience
or do the younger generations hold their own pretty well?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You know, it's really interesting because we make them use
these old school things, and then what you find in
that challenge is a lot of times you used to
make the new school chefs are going to like we
are going to like go for the classic, but like
the old school chefs actually try to push the envelope
on the episodes more than the New School. The new
school one sick to the classics, and so it's really
(06:23):
interesting to watch them work together because you would think
that the new school chefs would be doing something new
and inventive, and they're like, well, no, Like one of
the episodes, like Beef Burgunion, like they're like, no, we
just make beef burgerion. You just make it really well
because it's be bourgernion. That's what people want to eat. So,
like there's something really cool about like how much food
(06:43):
changes and evolves as the generations happen as time goes on.
But then also the classic things about about dishes and
food that like are timeless. You know, there's there's there's
a way to fry chicken that's just the best way
and it's been the best way for years, So like
you do what works sometimes, and so it's fun to
see the things that really haven't changed over time, plus
(07:05):
the new inventive things that have changed. But what's the
most fun is to watch the two generations bicker in
a fun way of like not remembering movies or TV shows.
And what's so fun in the show is we played
clips from like we have the KitKat commercial, we have
the Blooney commercial. We have all these clips we've had
on the show to kind of take everyone back to
(07:25):
those years. Like we just had this last episode that
was nineteen ninety or two thousand and four, and it
was the first year that a camera phone was invented. Wow,
And so we brought out the camera phones and like people,
you know, it's just it's fun to see the Nostalgia book.
I'm excited for like you to watch it with your
kids because like for them, for you to talk about
things that they might know, you know, it'll spark a
(07:47):
lot of conversations in the living room like, oh my gosh,
you know, me and your mom we used to use
those all the time. We used to use the George Forman.
Your kids have probably never seen a George Forman grill.
And then they're gonna then they're gonna do the viral challenge,
which will be something on Tape Talker Instagram, and then
all of a sudden, they're gonna be like, oh my gosh, dad,
how do you not know what an accordion potato is? Like,
come on, get with it. It's all over TikTok. So
(08:09):
to see that bickering, it's just hilarious.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
That's how do you win?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
There are there a judges there. We have three judges.
And what's really interesting is that we actually use judges
that are families that are generational. So like Chef Kathy
Fang and Cheff Peter Fang, who are these huge restauranteers
in San Francisco. They own all these amazing restaurants. He's
you know, older, I would say, I don't want to
(08:32):
say his age, but he's you know, he's he's a
he's very on the older side. And Chef Kathy is
young and fresh and like hip. But they're their parents,
uh father father daughter duo. And so to watch them
like judge together, you know, he wants the classics, she
wants something new. But then we have amazing guest judges
that we bring in every episode to really take you
(08:55):
back to that time and place. We got Jenny Garth
from nine to two and oho, she's going to take
you back to that year where we got Wayne Knight
We've got Greg luganis the most famous diver in the world.
Greg is on the episode for nineteen eighty four because
that was the year he went to the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
We have the nineteen eighty four Olympics that year and
he was on the wheaties box. So guess what Wheedi's
is an ingredients that they have to use and their things.
So it's really nostalgic, and I think it's what it
does is it takes us back to a time and
place when life was simpler.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Right, So like I feel like, I don't know about you,
but I think the world I'm not a scientist at all,
but I think the world is actually spinning faster like
it feels like. It feels like that, and so this
is going to take you back to like a time
and place when things were simpler and it was easier.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And I think people are really gonna like that nostalgia.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
When they were absolutely now I'm like just listening to it.
I love Greg by the way. I had the honor
of playing him in a movie back.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
In the day.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
That's right, good God, breaking the surface that's our based
on his book. He's he's a great guy switching gears
for a second. I saw in social that you dropped
in on a high school production of Mean Girls?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Were you?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Were you a theater kid growing up?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Was I a theater kid? Oh my gosh, Mario, come on,
you've met me? What do you think it is? Place football?
Where did you grow up?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
By the way, Johnathan, where'd you grow up?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I grew up in Toledo, Ohio?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Okay, So I grew up in like as Midwest as
it gets, and I was that that theater kid that
was just in every production of every school play of everything,
and like that was the way because like being a
little gay kid in Ohio in the.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Nineties shocking not the easiest time. So like I was like, well,
if I do theater and I'm really funny and really
good at it, I can get people to not pick
on me because they think I'm funny. So like that
was my like device. So you know, I was a
theater kid. I was in probably twenty productions of high
school theater. And so my heart for those theater kids,
you know, like the drama nerds. I was one, and
(10:54):
I was one theater geek, you know what I mean,
Like there's just something special about that. So they were
putting on the play Mean Girls in Pulm Springs by
our house, and the director reached out and she goes, hey,
they're putting it on blah blah blah, is there any
way you would come and see it? And so I
got to surprise them at the reconhearsal and just walk
in and they lost it and it was so much fun.
(11:16):
I got to give them, you know, some words of
encouragement and just some exciting stuff that they you know,
I actually of course, like they're like micromanaging Gay and me.
It was like, oh, by the way, I have notes,
like here's a couple of things. This line you have
to go up on it and you want to laugh
like hipping them notes. But they were super appreciative and
they loved it, and it was it was just fun
(11:37):
because I remember being that theater.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You were in theater, right, Oh yeah, I grew up
in the same thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, Like you remember like you would have people come
and talk, yeah, being that, like you'd just be so
excited all week, like oh so and so from Broadways
speak to us or whatever. You'd be so excited and
that would leave such a lasting impression on you, and
so I was like, I want to do that for
these kids, and it was just wonderful. It was fun
to meet the guy that played me because it is
like I was like introduced to myself, but he's like,
I play Aaron and I just like bowed down to him,
(12:04):
and then he started bowing down to me, and We're like, no, no,
we're not worthy. So it was it was just like
a really really fun moment.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That's great for them.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Man.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And last question, I know you and your husband soldier
house recently and you moved. Did you stay Did you
stay in la or did you leave town?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
We are right now with our with traveling so much,
we're we're figuring out where we're gonna move, but we're
we're gonna stay in the area probably, But we we
also live in Vegas half the time too, so we're
back and forth a lot. So right now, we're gonna
stay in Vegas for a while and then we'll figure
out figure out where we're gonna where we're gonna go next.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
All right, good luck with that, man, And I'm sure
I'll be seeing you at the conson.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Or I'll see what a consuon. I think I'll see
you in an hour. Oh, are you gonna come down?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Are you gonna come out?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Okay, Ben, I'll see it in a minute.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I'll see it in a minute. Always good talking you, buddy.
Listen watch Battle of the Decades Wednesdays on Food Network. Jonathan,
thanks for hanging out.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Thanks buddy.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
All right, buddy'll see it.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
A little bit, seem a little bit kept. Fine. Get
you on with Mario Lopez
Host
Mario Lopez
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