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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Real fun with Mario.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Lopez bril Mario Lopez joining me now on Zoom, the
host of the new Food Network show Battle of the Decades,
My buddy actor Jonathan Benny. Welcome back, man.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hey Monney, good to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good to see you too.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I was just paying you a compliment keeping up with
you on social I really admired the hard work and
hustle uh that you display and diverse in your endeavors,
which brings us to this new show. Congrats on that
Battle of the Decade.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
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
(00:49):
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 (00:59):
So I love it, Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Till you Mario, let's talk about my show on.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yes, sir, right we're here. I like the title Battle
of the Decades. Please explain, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So 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
(01:35):
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.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Remember that I lived on the George Foreman Girl.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I lived. We got the Easy Bake Oven. Yea. We've
got the Snoopy Cups no Cone machine. Remember we put
the ice in Newby machine. So you're using all these
gadgets from different decades as well as food from different decades,
like threw rollups came out, so that's gonna be one
of the ingredients they have to use or they're gonna
have to use spam, or they're gonna have to use
(02:15):
something from that decade and mash it up like on
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 are we're taking these chefs
(02:35):
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
(02:57):
against or team them 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.
(03:19):
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
(03:40):
have to then tackle. So we're really just cross generation
just seeing the generational gap between all the cooking and
all the chef and the pop culture.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Very clever.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I love nostalgia and I love taking a look back
at yesterdyear ninety four was a great year or two.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
By the way, Also, the OJ chase happened.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
There.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, so much stuff you can go to fruit roll ups.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's funny you say that because I just saw im
a I love. I'm a big foodie and I love
following all these food accounts, and I saw someone put
a slice mango with a fruit roll up put it
into keen. I'm like, oh my god, I want to
try that right.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
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 (04:22):
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 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 you
(04:42):
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 protein shakes and
magic bullet man, are you kidming? So that.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I lived at a place called Park Point in Burbank
on Hollywood Way and verdu Go.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It was like Melrose Place.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The cast a lot of the cast of Days of
Our Lives and fresh prints.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Ryan seacrestleft two die.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It was like a bunch of young people just coincidentally
happened to live there. And I survived on the Georgia
Foreman girl. I could make everything from grilled cheese, steak, fish, chicken, everything.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It was the best.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You have the little dish in the bottom and the
grease would go down. I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But there was also something cathartic and nostalgic about, like, well,
at the time it was 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 remember, yeah, yeah exactly, and
you get rid of all the fat, and you're like,
that's not going to my body. Yeah, I've got have
And we thought healthiest people.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
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 (06:01):
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 of the classics, and so it's really
(06:22):
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 be Burgunion, like they're like, no, we
just make beef burging on. You just make it really
well because it's be burgergnion. That's what people want to eat.
So like there's something really cool about like how much
food changes and evolves as the generations happen as time
(06:46):
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 just do what we're sometimes, and so
it's fun to see the things that really haven't changed
over time, plus the new inventive things that have changed.
(07:06):
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, you know. 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 those years. Like we
just had this last episode that was nineteen ninety or
(07:29):
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 lot
of conversations in the living room like, oh my gosh,
you know, me and your mom we used to use
(07:50):
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 TikTok or 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
to see that bickering, it's just hilarious.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's how do you win? Is there are there judges there?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
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 say his age, but he's you know,
he's he's a he's very on the older side. And
(08:36):
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 back to that time and place. We
got Jenny Garth from nine O two and Oho, she's
(08:57):
going to take you back to that year. We got
We've got Greg lugainis the most famous diver in the world.
Greg he is on the episode for nineteen eighty four
because that was the year he went to the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
We have the nineteen eighty four Olympics that year and
he was on the wheaties box. So guess what Wheedie'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. 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
(09:30):
world is actually spinning faster like it feels like it
feels like. And so this is going to take you
back to like a time and place when things were
simpler and it was easier. And I think people are
really gonna like that nostalgia when they work.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Absolutely now I'm like and just listening to it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I love Greg by the way.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I had the honor of playing him in a movie
back in the day. That's right, O, God breaking the
Surface that's are based on his book.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
He's He's a great guy. Switching gears for a second.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I saw on social media that you dropped in on
a high school production of Mean Girls?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Were you? Were you a theater kid growing up?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Was I a theater kid? Oh my gosh, Mario, come on,
you've met me? What do you think of it? Play football?
Where did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
By the way, Jonathan, where'd you grow up?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I grew up in Toledo, Ohio?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
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.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
In the 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
(10:52):
was one, and 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 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 her reconhearsal
and just walk in and they lost it and it
(11:14):
was so much fun. 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 to be 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
(11:36):
it was just fun because I remember being that theater.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You were in theater, right, Oh yeah, I grew up
in the same thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
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 like I
was like introducing myself, but he's like, I play Aaron,
(12:02):
and I just like bowed down to him, 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 3 (12:09):
That's great for them.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Man. And last question, I know you and your husband
sold your house recently and you moved. Did you stay
Did you stay in la or did you leave town?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
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.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
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 (12:37):
All right, good luck with that, man, And I'm sure
I'll be seeing you a to conson.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Or I'll see what a consuon. I think I'll see
you in an hour.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Oh, are you gonna come down? Are you gonna come out?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Okay, Ben, I'll see it in a minute. I'll see
it in a minute. Always good talking to youbody. Listen
watch Battle of the Decades Wednesdays on Food Network.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Jonathan, thanks for hanging out.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Thanks buddy.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
All Right, buddy, I'll see it a little bit, see
it a little bit.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Capt fine, come on with Mario Lopez.
Real fun with Mario.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Lopez bril Mario Lopez joining me now on Zoom, the
host of the new Food Network show Battle of the Decades,
My buddy actor Jonathan Benny. Welcome back, man.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hey Monney, good to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good to see you too.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I was just paying you a compliment keeping up with
you on social I really admired the hard work and
hustle uh that you display and diverse in your endeavors,
which brings us to this new show. Congrats on that
Battle of the Decade.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
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
(00:49):
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 (00:59):
So I love it, Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Till you Mario, let's talk about my show on.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yes, sir, right we're here. I like the title Battle
of the Decades. Please explain, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So 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
(01:35):
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.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Remember that I lived on the George Foreman Girl.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I lived. We got the Easy Bake Oven. Yea. We've
got the Snoopy Cups no Cone machine. Remember we put
the ice in Newby machine. So you're using all these
gadgets from different decades as well as food from different decades,
like threw rollups came out, so that's gonna be one
of the ingredients they have to use or they're gonna
have to use spam, or they're gonna have to use
(02:15):
something from that decade and mash it up like on
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 are we're taking these chefs
(02:35):
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
(02:57):
against or team them 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.
(03:19):
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
(03:40):
have to then tackle. So we're really just cross generation
just seeing the generational gap between all the cooking and
all the chef and the pop culture.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Very clever.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I love nostalgia and I love taking a look back
at yesterdyear ninety four was a great year or two.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
By the way, Also, the OJ chase happened.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
There.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, so much stuff you can go to fruit roll ups.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's funny you say that because I just saw im
a I love. I'm a big foodie and I love
following all these food accounts, and I saw someone put
a slice mango with a fruit roll up put it
into keen. I'm like, oh my god, I want to
try that right.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
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 (04:22):
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 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 you
(04:42):
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 protein shakes and
magic bullet man, are you kidming? So that.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I lived at a place called Park Point in Burbank
on Hollywood Way and verdu Go.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It was like Melrose Place.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The cast a lot of the cast of Days of
Our Lives and fresh prints.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Ryan seacrestleft two die.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It was like a bunch of young people just coincidentally
happened to live there. And I survived on the Georgia
Foreman girl. I could make everything from grilled cheese, steak, fish, chicken, everything.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It was the best.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You have the little dish in the bottom and the
grease would go down. I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But there was also something cathartic and nostalgic about, like, well,
at the time it was 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 remember, yeah, yeah exactly, and
you get rid of all the fat, and you're like,
that's not going to my body. Yeah, I've got have
And we thought healthiest people.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
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 (06:01):
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 of the classics, and so it's really
(06:22):
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 be Burgunion, like they're like, no, we
just make beef burging on. You just make it really
well because it's be burgergnion. That's what people want to eat.
So like there's something really cool about like how much
food changes and evolves as the generations happen as time
(06:46):
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 just do what we're sometimes, and so
it's fun to see the things that really haven't changed
over time, plus the new inventive things that have changed.
(07:06):
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, you know. 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 those years. Like we
just had this last episode that was nineteen ninety or
(07:29):
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 lot
of conversations in the living room like, oh my gosh,
you know, me and your mom we used to use
(07:50):
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 TikTok or 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
to see that bickering, it's just hilarious.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's how do you win? Is there are there judges there?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
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 say his age, but he's you know,
he's he's a he's very on the older side. And
(08:36):
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 back to that time and place. We
got Jenny Garth from nine O two and Oho, she's
(08:57):
going to take you back to that year. We got
We've got Greg lugainis the most famous diver in the world.
Greg he is on the episode for nineteen eighty four
because that was the year he went to the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
We have the nineteen eighty four Olympics that year and
he was on the wheaties box. So guess what Wheedie'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. 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
(09:30):
world is actually spinning faster like it feels like it
feels like. And so this is going to take you
back to like a time and place when things were
simpler and it was easier. And I think people are
really gonna like that nostalgia when they work.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Absolutely now I'm like and just listening to it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I love Greg by the way.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I had the honor of playing him in a movie
back in the day. That's right, O, God breaking the
Surface that's are based on his book.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
He's He's a great guy. Switching gears for a second.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I saw on social media that you dropped in on
a high school production of Mean Girls?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Were you? Were you a theater kid growing up?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Was I a theater kid? Oh my gosh, Mario, come on,
you've met me? What do you think of it? Play football?
Where did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
By the way, Jonathan, where'd you grow up?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I grew up in Toledo, Ohio?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
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.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
In the 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
(10:52):
was one, and 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 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 her reconhearsal
and just walk in and they lost it and it
(11:14):
was so much fun. 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 to be 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
(11:36):
it was just fun because I remember being that theater.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You were in theater, right, Oh yeah, I grew up
in the same thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
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 like I
was like introducing myself, but he's like, I play Aaron,
(12:02):
and I just like bowed down to him, 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 3 (12:09):
That's great for them.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Man. And last question, I know you and your husband
sold your house recently and you moved. Did you stay
Did you stay in la or did you leave town?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
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.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
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 (12:37):
All right, good luck with that, man, And I'm sure
I'll be seeing you a to conson.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Or I'll see what a consuon. I think I'll see
you in an hour.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Oh, are you gonna come down? Are you gonna come out?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Okay, Ben, I'll see it in a minute. I'll see
it in a minute. Always good talking to youbody. Listen
watch Battle of the Decades Wednesdays on Food Network.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Jonathan, thanks for hanging out.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Thanks buddy.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
All Right, buddy, I'll see it a little bit, see
it a little bit.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Capt fine, come on with Mario Lopez.
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