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Ravi V. Patel · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I won with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: Mario Lopez joining me right now. From the hit Fox
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  Speaker 2: sitcom Animal Control, actor Robbie Patel.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing, Robbie, Hey man, it's pronounced Robbie. Nice
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  Speaker 3: to meet you, my dude.
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  Speaker 2: Rubbie is it Rubbie?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, pronounced Robbie Patel.
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  Speaker 2: Rubbie pttel Okay, very cool name. Where Wan's Betty? To
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  Speaker 2: you from Rubbie.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in Vancouver.
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  Speaker 1: I'm we just started filming season four of Animal Control.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm sitting here in my apartment.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great city, uh to do the show?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Have you worked up here?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot? And then it's it's blown up a
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  Speaker 2: lot of sense. Yeah yeah, no, no, no, it's like the
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  Speaker 2: the northern Hollywood north of the border.
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  Speaker 3: There's so much There's so much stuff here now, dude,
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  Speaker 3: I mean more than ever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I bet it's a good time a year to
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  Speaker 2: be out there right now. And this is kind of cool.
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  Speaker 2: You're an advisor on the new season of Lego Masters
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  Speaker 2: Junior on Fox. My kid's huge, huge Lego fans. Were
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  Speaker 2: you big Lego fan.
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  Speaker 3: As a kid?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, except I didn't have as many as these
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  Speaker 1: kids now, like they have millions of Lego.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you should see the set for this show.
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  Speaker 3: It's bananas.
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  Speaker 1: I had one small box that I think I played
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  Speaker 1: with for like ten years.
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  Speaker 3: And loved it. I was obsessed. Were you.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't that into it, to be honest, but my
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  Speaker 2: boys are. They're really really into it. So what are
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  Speaker 2: you allowed to give advice or do you help these
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  Speaker 2: kids or what's your role exactly?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean basically, you know, it's Lego Master Junior.
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  Speaker 1: So there's they find these Lego prodigies who are just
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  Speaker 1: incredible of building Lego, and then each team has a
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  Speaker 1: celebrity on it that is there to you know, be.
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  Speaker 3: On their team to help advise. But we're building, we're
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  Speaker 3: doing everything with them.
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  Speaker 2: Nice nice, No, definitely be checking that out. And you
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  Speaker 2: also joined the cast of season four's Special Forces on Fox.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting interesting cast too, And I know the show is
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  Speaker 2: pretty intense. I've been speaking to a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: right there. Have you started filming that yet?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? We did it.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming out on September twenty fifth. It was one
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  Speaker 1: of the best experiences of my life. I'm surprised you
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  Speaker 1: haven't done it. Slater's the original swol boy. I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: This is a challenge that you need to take on.
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  Speaker 1: Dude.
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  Speaker 3: It was so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: I bet, I bet it was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I'm and wild.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you shoot? Wire? Where'd you shoot?
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  Speaker 1: This year? We went into we were in the Moroccan desert,
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  Speaker 1: fun kind of at the the foothills of the Atlas Mountains.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. It was, Yeah, it was. It's the most insane
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  Speaker 3: thing I've ever done. And not the reality show that
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  Speaker 3: like I thought it was going to be. I expected
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  Speaker 3: more snacks, like breaks, hotel there was.
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  Speaker 1: It was just as hard off camera as it was
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  Speaker 1: on camera. Building in barracks, it was like real. It
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  Speaker 1: was like real special Forces.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm you know, I'm an actor. I didn't. I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know it was gonna be all that, but
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  Speaker 3: it was. We were staying intense.
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  Speaker 1: There's like, you know, dirt floors, you you have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the same two outfits. You have to wash yourself. They
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  Speaker 1: have these like hoses outside and you know, you get
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  Speaker 1: your drinking water there and you're like, you know, going
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  Speaker 1: to the bathroom and buckets and eating horrible military food.
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  Speaker 3: I probably shed like six pounds while I was there.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like fun and.
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  Speaker 3: They wake you up at any time to do these
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  Speaker 3: crazy workouts.
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  Speaker 2: You're really making it a good pitch there on it Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: really selling. Hell Mario can't wait to sign up now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got me.
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  Speaker 3: All fired up, blood everywhere. Yeah, it's it's it's it's intense.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I didn't get to do these kind
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  Speaker 1: of outdoor adventure things when I was younger, and I
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  Speaker 1: was always jealous, and yeah, it was just it was
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  Speaker 1: really fun.
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  Speaker 3: It was an insane challenge.
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  Speaker 1: And I also made like people who are some of
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  Speaker 1: my best friends now, Like I live in Nashville. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: of the people on this show. Out of twenty the
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  Speaker 1: people on the show, seven of them live in Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, most of them, most of them.
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  Speaker 1: Former NFL players, which are frankly the only friends I've
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  Speaker 1: ever really wanted in life.
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  Speaker 3: So I finally have them.
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  Speaker 2: Funny Yeah, good, good, it was. It sounds life changing
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  Speaker 2: before you're right there? Uh yeah, getting back to Vancouver
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  Speaker 2: in Animal Control. It was renewed for a fourth season.
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  Speaker 2: And I know you do the show, my buddy, Joe McHale.
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  Speaker 2: That's got to be a fun, fun set.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's a great set, Like We're all super tight.
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  Speaker 1: Joel was obviously a pro and hilarious. I'll tell them
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  Speaker 1: that we talked, uh, and then you know, Grace Valla, Michael.
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  Speaker 1: They're all super funny but also the best group of
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  Speaker 1: people that I've ever worked on. And I'm also just
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  Speaker 1: happy to be on a show that hasn't been canceled yet.
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  Speaker 3: That's not my norm.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's tough. That's just a tough thing. You're exactly
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  Speaker 2: right about that. And this next month marks the ten
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  Speaker 2: year anniversary of your film Meet the Betel's, which really
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  Speaker 2: kind of took your career to the next level. Are
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  Speaker 2: you doing anything to celebrate that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I haven't only figured out yet exactly
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  Speaker 3: what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm writing something for it, so maybe we'll get that out.
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  Speaker 1: But and then I also just started making another documentary
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of going to be a sequel to it,
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  Speaker 1: So there's okay, yeah, yeah, good for you man. I'm excited. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that thing changed my life. That movie was
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  Speaker 1: the most insane ride. I spent seven years making it
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  Speaker 1: with my sister. We co directed it together. That's great,
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  Speaker 1: and no, no festival wanted it. And then next thing
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  Speaker 1: you know, we finally got into a small festal and
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  Speaker 1: then bigger fessels and we were winning one after another,
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  Speaker 1: and then it became this massive hit on Netflix and
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  Speaker 1: it changed my life and it changed my family's life.
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  Speaker 2: Do you happen to know a Rocky Battel.
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  Speaker 3: The cigar guy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I've met him. But you know, Patel
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  Speaker 3: is like Smith, We actually talked about this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, I'm aware of that. He happens to be
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  Speaker 2: a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 3: I'm yeah, he's in Atlanta, right, No, he's in.
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  Speaker 2: Florida, but he's uh, he's got some great cigars, so yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't discriminate. I like all those A man,
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  Speaker 2: congrats on everything, and listen, everyone be sure to catch
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  Speaker 2: Robbie in Lego Masters Junior and then is he's in
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  Speaker 2: a Special Forces on Fox and streaming on Hulu. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for checking in, nice chatting with you, all right, brother,
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  Speaker 2: take care With Mario Lopez