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Lil Rel Howery · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're going with Mario a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: It's up Mario Lopezz joining me right now on zoom
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  Speaker 2: mat during comic little roll. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: How you doing? Man?
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  Speaker 1: What up? Mario?
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  Speaker 2: I'm hanging in there, brother, I'm hanging in there. Congrats.
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  Speaker 2: You're in a new Christmas movie called Unexpected Christmas, a comedy.
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  Speaker 1: What's the premise.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a it's a dramaty we should
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  Speaker 3: call it.
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  Speaker 1: Really Uh, it's really funny.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. It's a great family feel comedy where you you
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  Speaker 3: could watch with your whole family. It's a unique twist
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  Speaker 3: to it, you know what I mean? Right, because most
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  Speaker 3: of the time when people hear about Christmas movies and
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  Speaker 3: we feel like we've seen all all the plots, this
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  Speaker 3: one is very unique and it's gonna be a conversation piece.
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  Speaker 3: But it has been even in my own family. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's kind of a it's gonna split
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  Speaker 3: the house up a little bit, Okay, but it's all
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  Speaker 3: good because you know, for me, I especially the character
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  Speaker 3: I play, I don't think he's wrong for what everybody
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  Speaker 3: else sayd he wrong for? But hey, you got to
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  Speaker 3: see the movie to understand what I'm talking about. So
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  Speaker 3: it's a unique twist, but it's really funny. It's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of hard in it, and it's such a great cast.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome to hear.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Is this your first Holting film?
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  Speaker 3: No, I did a movie called Dashing through the Snow
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years ago while I played Santa Claus
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  Speaker 3: for Disney Plus. So that was that was that was big,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And so this is my second one, but
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  Speaker 3: this is one of the first one I've done with.
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  Speaker 1: A family setting, so nice. I got like three more.
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  Speaker 3: In my head type of Christmas movies I can do.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, And you also got a scary one coming
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  Speaker 2: out that you directed and started right called Haunted Heist.
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  Speaker 1: What's that about that? Heist?
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  Speaker 3: Man is a great It's a silly, creepy movie. It's
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  Speaker 3: my directory of your debut. And I also starting it
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  Speaker 3: with my friend Tiffy Hattish, my boy King Batch, and
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  Speaker 3: my homeboy Carlos Miller and a gang of comedians. It
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  Speaker 3: just felt good to like really finally just like put
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  Speaker 3: my voice on display or my eye on display too.
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  Speaker 1: And I had so much fun making this movie.
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  Speaker 3: But it's about a group of friends who who basically
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  Speaker 3: was looking to help out a frame, but it's a
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  Speaker 3: whole another movie with another.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy twist to it.
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  Speaker 3: You like that man where they think they're just hanging
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  Speaker 3: out and it turned out to be a whole other situation.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, some ghoststar involved.
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  Speaker 3: It gets kind of creepy, funny and weird, but it's
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  Speaker 3: hysterical and I'm so proud of what we did with
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  Speaker 3: the movie.
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  Speaker 2: And You've got yet another one coming out next here
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  Speaker 2: with Ryan Reynolds and Jason Momoa called Animal Friends. That's
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  Speaker 2: a road trip comedy, right, what's your rolling that one?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I played this crazy bird like this is
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  Speaker 3: this one from the girl Folk for real?
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  Speaker 1: For real?
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  Speaker 3: So like this, ain't you know even though it's live
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  Speaker 3: action like kind of animation, I can't. It's not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: an you know, the animation that's like not animation kinda.
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  Speaker 3: So it's but it's when I tell you, look, I
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  Speaker 3: guess I'm bragging about everything being funny. This movie is
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  Speaker 3: one of them, good raunchy. It's so insane but so hysterical.
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  Speaker 3: Me and I laughed so much doing this. I laughed
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  Speaker 3: so much doing it. It is absurdly funny. So I
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  Speaker 3: can't wait for people to see this. This is I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Ryan sometimes probably put on his bucket list,
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  Speaker 3: give me the dirtiest comedy I could do, and you'd
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  Speaker 3: be surprised that this is the one you thought dead
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  Speaker 3: Pool was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It's nothing like Animal Friends is hysterically insane. Okay, man,
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  Speaker 1: you got me right there.
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  Speaker 2: That's h And last question. You just released the new
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  Speaker 2: stand up special over on two week called rail Talk,
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  Speaker 2: which everyone can watch for free of course. What kind
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  Speaker 2: of topics you you hitting up?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is to me, this is my best special.
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  Speaker 3: I also co directed it too and produced it alone
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  Speaker 3: my partners. So I did this on my own and
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  Speaker 3: shot it at my comedy festival, which was even crazier.
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  Speaker 1: Man, this is like what makes this special unique.
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  Speaker 3: It's hysterical, but it's like it's catching me, like in
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  Speaker 3: the happiest I've ever been. And so this is the
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  Speaker 3: happiest I've ever been in my life, assuming of comedies issue,
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  Speaker 3: and so a lot of this stuff is really reminiscence
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  Speaker 3: on you know, stuff with my mom and my family
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  Speaker 3: and you know where I'm in life now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean even my look, I just will vest on there.
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  Speaker 3: You know you know, I've been on my journey, so
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  Speaker 3: just to have a little chest out in my arms,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I wanted to show off a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: So this is this is my coming out party. This
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  Speaker 3: is this is I call it my Sexy Special.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, get in there sexy all right. Well, congrouts on
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  Speaker 2: all the success man. Everyone, Please be sure to check
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  Speaker 2: out low Rel's new Christmas film, Unexpected Christmas when it
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  Speaker 2: hits theaters, and remember seven to be sure to check
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  Speaker 2: out his comedy special right now on to be Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for checking in man.
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  Speaker 1: Man Mario, I appreciate you. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: having me with Mario Lopez