Howie Mandel

The hilarious Howie Mandel zooms in to talk 'The Masked Singer', 'America's Got Talent' and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're on with Mario Lopez Zabal Mario Lopez joining me
now on Zoom the rock Lobster from the Mass Singer,
My man, how we vandel? Welcome to the show, buddy.
See you're not the only one that can dance. Maria, Hey,
let me tell first of all, first question, how did
NBC allow you to go participate on a show on Fox?
They they must love you. Oh. I didn't even think

(00:23):
of asking, you know what. I got so excited. Somebody
called me and said, hey, my manager called me. We
have the same management. They called me and they said,
do you want to sing and dance on National TV?
And I go, Hello, Finally someone recognizing what I'm known
for and what I'm good at. I said yes, and
then they told me it was the Mass singer. I

(00:43):
had no idea it already said yes, and then they
told me I'm going to wear a rock lobster suit,
which was amazing. I love showing up. The two favorite
things to do is be with people like this on
Zoom because I'm a germaphoe. And if I have to
be there in person, why don't you wrap me up
in something so I don't have to touch anybody? I
can't see anybody. It was like perfect. It was my

(01:05):
comfort zone. Taylor made for you perfect. You sang sos
from Abba. If you had to perform again, what would
you have chosen? What was the next song going to be? Oh?
I want to keep singing. I would only sing sos.
Help is the key to what if you hear me
and you watch me, help is the best is the
best message I can. I'm surprised that I got cut.

(01:26):
I was devastated that I got caught. I thought, and
when you watch it back, they don't understand originality. They
don't the way I move. I'm a trailblazer. I don't
follow a path, and I think that you don't know
how good something is until it's gone. And I think
they're realizing today. I'm just sitting here waiting for the
phone to ring. I mean, I know nobody has been
booked for the halftime show next year, and maybe a

(01:49):
residency in Vegas as the Rock Lobster, or maybe just
a live dancing and singing tour. Though I don't know
that after the whole Taylor Swift debacle, I don't know
that Ticketmaster has the bandwidth for me. I'm sure Rich
your manager's phone will be blowing up any minute, so
he should hang on tight. Did your family and friends,

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because I know everybody says they're smarting to see where
nobody knew? Right, nobody knew. Nobody knew. My wife asked me,
why are you having me slather you with hot butter?
I go, I'm just getting into somebody. You'll see, you'll see,
and now it makes sense, makes all this is. That's awesome.
Man's good for you, son of a little AGT. You
happy with how the All Star season? In his playtot,
I was so happy. I mean, that's the super Bowl

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of talent. You know, these are not only winners from
AGT and all over the world, but there are people
you know. Ultimately on any of these Got Talent shows,
only one person could win. I always think more than
one act is deserving. And this is the best of
the best. I don't know, you know, and the people
that are coming that came back, like Cody Lee and
Terry Fader. It just speaks volumes too, how important and

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how good a platform this is for people. I'm so
excited too and thrilled to just be given a seat
at the table to watch this. How soon until taping
starts again for the next season because it's it's like
you guys have a few cycles now, which is awesome.
A few weeks. I'm gonna be sitting down in the
next probably four weeks for AGT eighteen. Is it eighteen? Wow? Yeah?

(03:21):
Um so yeah, it doesn't stop. And I'm also at
the same time doing CGT, which is Canada's got talent
really yeah, So I've been flying back and forth doing
that and Canada, I'll tell you, and I'm not saying
this because I'm Canadian. They've got talent, talent that's ow. Well, yeah,
there's a Who's Who's a major list of all the

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talent that comes from Canada. That's awesome right to day. Howee,
U must be so rich man rich is killing it
for And I'm at rich and not the manager SAIDs either.
Oh no, no, I make a fortune and it's so
tough for me because I check every box I have.

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I'm very rich, handsome. You know what, God, God has
his favorites. Your your perfect example of that. Oh and
you also have a podcast. How does stuff? Hence the
shirt right there? So what do you what do you
talk about on the podcast? Whatever? And like you know

(04:25):
that we talk about stuff with a lot of different people.
I'd love you to come on. It's me and my daughter,
Jacqueline Schultz, and we have everything from UH celebrity guests
to UH. One of the most uncomfortable ones is we
had a sex therapist on, which is probably interesting to
talk to a sex therapist, but not when your daughter

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is the co host. It's just it was a little ikey.
But we get awkward and ikey and uncomfortable and everything
in between. So it's fun and it's the highlight of
my life to be spending you know, an hour a week,
well actually two hours a week with my daughter and
working together. I've seen you work with your kids. Oh. Absolutely,

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the show. It's the best. It is absolutely the best.
Everyone's got to pull their weight over here at Casa Lopez. Yours,
I believe are a month older than how old are
the kids now? Thirty eight, thirty three and thirty Wow?
No way, you have thirty eight year old? Wow you
look great man, Good for you. Well, that doesn't see
when you say that after I tell you I have

(05:29):
a thirty eight year old, it doesn't hold a lot
of water. That means for your age and so I'm
always a qualifier. You have a thirty eight year old
you look great. That's like you look thin for a
fat person. You're really smart for an idiot, I begged.
It's good for an old person. That means you got
action young. So that's good. That's good. You started. I'm
an old guy. I'm an old guy. I'm sixty seven.

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Well are you sixty seven? Day? How are we quitting? That?
Would I lie about my age? No, you can't lie.
I'm tall for my age. There's Google. You can't lie anymore.
I can't lie either. I'm about to at the fifth level.
I'm gonna be fifty in a couple of months, and
I can't can't lie about that either. Driving before you
were born, that's awesome. That's awesome. That's so cool. Though,
at sixty seven, being as busy as you are a man,

(06:13):
that's inspiring and just there's no needs to ever have
to slow down. And your energy levels the same as
when I used to see you performed way back in
the day, and you had the hand. That's that's awesome.
See you getting me all wired up. We both had mullets,
curly mullets, and we were both wrestlers. Which I love
and I find incredibly ironic, considering you like to touch people,
and you touch more people in wrestling than Is that

(06:35):
what caused the germophobe thing. The wrestling, well, it didn't help.
I started wrestling because it was the only team that
I can get on for under ninety pounds. And I thought,
if I get a uniform, girls are gonna like me.
I got a uniform, I looked like a girl because
it was a Onesie and singlet a meeting girls. I

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was rolling around on a mat with strange men sweating together.
It's it's not it's not a good memory of my life. Okay,
fair enough funny. I like that I can call you
a former wrestler. We'll listen. I look forward to doing
the podcast. And uh, meanwhile, you can listen to Howie
Mandel does STUF at iHeartRadio or wherever you get your pods.
Thanks for hanging out, my man. Good to see you.

(07:18):
Thank you, buddy. Stay healthy. Okay, you do get on
with Mario Lopez