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Jonathan Bennett · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: This is On With Mario Lopez. What's up everyone, Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me right now, actor and TV host, my man
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan Finn.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on, Jonathan? Hello, Mario.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations on wrapping Access Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: You were a guest on the show many times and
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  Speaker 2: always been a lot of fun. And we were just
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  Speaker 2: talking before we went on air here. I keep up
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  Speaker 2: with you on social, of course. You had the funniest
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  Speaker 2: post the other day I was like oh nice little
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  Speaker 2: trip to Europe and you were on a cruise line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it was a carnival cruise forenze they have an
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  Speaker 3: Italian style ship so we did a spoof where it's
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  Speaker 3: like what if we took pictures and we took them
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  Speaker 3: close enough right where because it's an Italian ship it
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  Speaker 3: looks like we're in Italy and then you pull back
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  Speaker 3: at the last slide and it's we're on a carnival
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  Speaker 3: cruise not in Italy but you can feel like you're
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  Speaker 3: in Italy if you take a carnival cruise brilliant marketing
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  Speaker 3: I must say.
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  Speaker 2: I must agree too and I bet you a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people do that too um Congratulations, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: you're back to host the 16th season of Halloween Wars
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  Speaker 2: on Food Network.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about this before.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like so much fun for those who may
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  Speaker 2: not be familiar with this competition show.
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  Speaker 1: Break it down. Sure. So Halloween Wars is back.
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  Speaker 3: We're back for season 16 and this season is called
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  Speaker 3: Back from the Dead. It's basically where we take the
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  Speaker 3: best pumpkin carvers, cake artists, and sugar makers in the
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  Speaker 3: world and we put them head to head with two
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  Speaker 3: rounds of nail biting competition. The displays that they make
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  Speaker 3: on this show are absolutely insane. What they can do
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  Speaker 3: with pumpkin, what they can do with cake, what they
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  Speaker 3: can do with sugar. And when you bring it all together,
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  Speaker 3: these displays are just absolutely out of this world. And
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  Speaker 3: what's so exciting about the season 16 is we have
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of all-star like returning all-star pumpkin carvers and
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  Speaker 3: cake artists and sugar artists coming back.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone that's on the season has either won the.
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  Speaker 3: Show before or come close to winning the show before.
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  Speaker 3: And now they're all on teams together. So it's literally
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  Speaker 3: the best of the best of the best against each
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  Speaker 3: other in this field. And then we're throwing in some
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  Speaker 3: new twists where we have this do or die challenge
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  Speaker 3: where like, we might pull out just the pumpkin carvers
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  Speaker 3: of each team and be like, it's a carve off.
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  Speaker 3: You guys have to carve whatever we tell you to
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  Speaker 3: carve and you have 10 minutes to do it. And
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  Speaker 3: the best one is going to get a huge advantage
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  Speaker 3: for their team. for this next round. So we're also
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  Speaker 3: taking the teams and kind of isolating some of the
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  Speaker 3: players to see how well they stack up against each other.
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  Speaker 3: But what I'm most excited about Mario, other than the
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  Speaker 3: fact that Andrew Fuller is our judge now from on
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  Speaker 3: Halloween wars, he's the winner of, is it cake? He's
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  Speaker 3: absolutely bonkers and out of his mind and has, he has.
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  Speaker 1: Every color hair. He has like red, green, blue, yellow,
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  Speaker 1: orange beard.
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  Speaker 3: Like he's the Halloween King and he's competed and won
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  Speaker 3: in shows like this. So what better person to give
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  Speaker 3: advice and judge other contestants is then other is someone
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  Speaker 3: that has actually stood in their shoes before and knows
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  Speaker 3: what they're going through. So that's a really fun addition.
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  Speaker 3: But the biggest thing I'm excited for Mario is I
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  Speaker 3: finally got a new wardrobe.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I know.
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  Speaker 3: I have worn the same stank ass black suit for
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  Speaker 3: the past 16 seasons. And finally, they're letting me look
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  Speaker 3: as cool as Mario Lopez and I get to wear
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  Speaker 3: a leather jacket.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the big news today, Mario.
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  Speaker 2: That is tremendous news. First of all, I've seen some
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  Speaker 2: of the carvings. It's incredibly impressive and very cool. And
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  Speaker 2: I have a whole new level of respect for pumpkin
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  Speaker 2: carving because I had three kids.
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  Speaker 1: I try to carve how people don't chop off fingers.
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  Speaker 1: And it's low-key. No, it's not low-key. It's high-key dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: It's really dangerous because your kids, I mean, I, I know,
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  Speaker 3: I see your kids on social and everything, you know,
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  Speaker 3: your kids are, they have a lot of energy.
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  Speaker 1: Your kids are, they have a lot of energy. I
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  Speaker 1: try to help.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, Oh my God, I'm gonna slice my finger off.
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  Speaker 1: This is like, it's a whole deal.
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  Speaker 3: You want to know a, I want to know a
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  Speaker 3: Halloween Morris pro tip that not many people know when
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  Speaker 3: you're carving your pumpkins this season with the kids.
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  Speaker 1: When you do the canned, when you, when.
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  Speaker 3: You carve, normally you carve the top of the pumpkin out,
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  Speaker 3: pull it out, dip the stuff, put the candle in, right?
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  Speaker 1: No Mario.
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  Speaker 3: We're not doing that in 2026. We're flipping the pumpkin over.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to carve out the bottom of it. So
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  Speaker 3: that way, when you pull out the bottom or the
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  Speaker 3: root is, and all the guts are attached to it,
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  Speaker 3: the bottom comes right out.
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  Speaker 1: You just take a knife, slice.
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  Speaker 3: That all off, cut a little hole, like, like, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, make a little divot for the candle so
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  Speaker 3: now when you go to light your candles you're not
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  Speaker 3: burning your fingers trying to get that match down in
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  Speaker 3: there you can never light.
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  Speaker 1: A candle yeah yeah yeah so then what you do
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  Speaker 1: is you.
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  Speaker 3: Put your can't you put the base down put the
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  Speaker 3: candle on the base and then you just take the
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  Speaker 3: fully carved pumpkin and put on top.
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  Speaker 2: Of it yeah like a lampshade just boom yes i
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  Speaker 2: like that so.
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  Speaker 4: Then you don't have to do it i'm gonna use
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  Speaker 4: uh i'm gonna use that yeah it's a good one
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  Speaker 4: it saves fingers okay that's awesome man thank you for
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  Speaker 4: that tip um this is cool too i love it
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  Speaker 4: because you're a hustler you're returning to soap operas one
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  Speaker 4: of your first roles of course was on all my
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  Speaker 4: children back in the day and now you're going to
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  Speaker 4: gh okay.
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  Speaker 3: I'm i'm i'm now fighting crime in port charles mario.
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  Speaker 1: Are you playing a cop Yeah, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: A playing detective because, you know, Mario, with the first
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  Speaker 3: thing you think of when you think of law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: is Jonathan Bennett.
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  Speaker 1: Who is going to keep our city safe? It's Jonathan Bennett.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: And so I am so excited to be on General Hospital.
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  Speaker 3: I've been on it for like five months now. And
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  Speaker 3: it has been it is so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just you know what it's like. You
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  Speaker 1: walk into this like.
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  Speaker 3: This iconic landmark of television i mean general luke and
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  Speaker 3: laura's wedding like everyone knows general.
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  Speaker 2: Hospital hard work too gotta memorize a lot of lines
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  Speaker 2: little short that's a lot of hard work.
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  Speaker 3: I i mean today i was looking at my pages
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  Speaker 3: for next week and i have 105 pages over three
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  Speaker 3: days but here's the scary part once you start doing
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  Speaker 3: it that doesn't seem bad you're like oh it's only
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  Speaker 3: 105 i can do that wow like that's the crazy
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  Speaker 3: part that you're now just like that's that's fine yeah
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  Speaker 3: no at first i was like freaked out but getting
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  Speaker 3: to step into the institution that is general hospital every
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  Speaker 3: like mario it is crazy how many people watch general hospital.
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  Speaker 2: That you don't expect every night in my house my
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  Speaker 2: mother-in-law who stays with us she's obsessed.
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  Speaker 3: Every i mean you you know i've done a ton
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  Speaker 3: of stuff hallmark mean girls all that stuff but now
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  Speaker 3: that i've done general hospital when i go to an
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  Speaker 3: airport yeah it is a different experience they're like general
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  Speaker 3: hospital general hospital it's crazy how many fans are that.
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  Speaker 2: Love it fan fit fan base yeah good yeah man
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  Speaker 2: that's crazy and this is cool you also have a
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  Speaker 2: christmas movie uh called yeah i got a christmas movie.
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  Speaker 3: Single at the wedding yeah single at the wedding i
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  Speaker 3: think they're gonna change the title to single at the
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  Speaker 3: christmas wedding because you gotta have the word christmas in
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  Speaker 3: there somewhere but yeah it's it's uh it's a movie
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  Speaker 3: coming out on hallmark this season uh it's me and
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  Speaker 3: my friend italia ricci uh she's from designated survivor and uh.
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  Speaker 1: And a ton of other things.
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  Speaker 3: And what's so fun is that I was actually her
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  Speaker 3: best man in her real life wedding. She married Robbie Amell.
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  Speaker 3: And so I, I was Robbie's best man and in
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  Speaker 3: her wedding. And now we're doing a movie together. Cause
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  Speaker 3: we've been best friends for like 14 years. We're actually
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  Speaker 3: doing a movie where we play best friends about a wedding.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a kind of fun full circle moment. And
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  Speaker 3: the movie's really funny and really good. And it's, uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's not your average Hallmark movie. I think it's going
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  Speaker 3: to surprise people a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: OK, well, hey, brother, happy you're killing it and firing
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  Speaker 2: on all cylinders here. Listen, everyone, be sure to check
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  Speaker 2: out the new season of Halloween Wars Sunday nights at
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  Speaker 2: nine on Food Network. Jonathan, good to see you, man.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations on your rap, Mario.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what you do next. Thanks, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: With Mario Lopez.