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Robin Thicke · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: This is On With Mario Lopez. What's up, y'all? Mario
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  Speaker 1: Lopez joining me right now.
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  Speaker 2: Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter, my man, Robin Thicke.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, Robin?
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  Speaker 3: Woo! What up, Rio? How are you, baby?
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  Speaker 1: Always good to see you, brother. Always good to see you.
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  Speaker 2: And we talked about this because we kick it and
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  Speaker 2: we catch up all the time, but I was excited
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  Speaker 2: to hear that you are joining Celebrity, name that tune on.
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  Speaker 1: Fox as the new band leader for the show.
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  Speaker 2: Essentially playing the tunes live with your band, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's very short. You do
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  Speaker 3: like 15, 30 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Little snippets, little snippets.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, little snippet jams. But it's fun for me because
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  Speaker 3: I get to sing 30 seconds of Ray Charles or
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  Speaker 3: I'll sing 30 seconds of Frank Sinatra or the Beatles. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so for me, these are like my favorite
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  Speaker 3: artists or Stevie Wonder, you know, growing up. So it's
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  Speaker 3: fun to be able to sing a little piece here
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  Speaker 3: and there.
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  Speaker 1: And who are some of the celebrities we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be seeing.
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  Speaker 3: On the show? Well, our first premiere episode, September 21st
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  Speaker 3: on Fox on Monday is Ice-T and Tony Hawk.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's an eclectic pairing.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a pretty fun combo. Yeah, they actually we
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  Speaker 3: had a blast. And that's why it's the first episode,
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  Speaker 3: because they both had a blast. It was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fun.
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  Speaker 1: How would you do on that show as a contestant?
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  Speaker 3: I would do very badly. And the reason is, is because.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's our era. We discussed this.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about this because I know all the songs,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't know the actual name of the song.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know the exact titles. Correct. So I would
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  Speaker 3: get them wrong. A lot of times people from my generation,
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  Speaker 3: they know the song, they sing the chorus, and then
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  Speaker 3: they say the wrong title.
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  Speaker 2: You're exactly right. And I'm of that, we're in the
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  Speaker 2: same generation, and you're exactly right. We play a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Name That Tune here in the show, and my wife,
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  Speaker 2: who's a younger generation, because she's used to seeing the
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  Speaker 2: names on the video.
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  Speaker 1: Significantly younger.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. On your phone, on your phone.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: The album cover shows up, the name of the artist
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  Speaker 3: and the title of the song shows up. Where back
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  Speaker 3: in the day we were AM FM radios. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And you kind of know the chorus, but you don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. It took four songs before the voice came back in.
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  Speaker 3: That was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, damn.
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  Speaker 1: Old school. The good old days right there. Well, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of music, you're, of course, a judge on The Masked
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  Speaker 1: Singer as well. Renewed for a 15th season, man. That's awesome. Bro,
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  Speaker 1: when they pitch you this crazy premise.
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  Speaker 3: Love that singer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But you must have said, oh, that's that's kind of wild.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it'll last, you know, half a season or a
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  Speaker 1: season or so.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Well, you know, it was one of those ideas
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  Speaker 3: where it was so far-fetched, it's like, you know it's
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  Speaker 3: hit or miss. And I remember, but I saw Ryan Reynolds,
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  Speaker 3: right when I got the call a few days earlier,
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  Speaker 3: I had seen Ryan Reynolds promoting Deadpool 2, and he
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  Speaker 3: was on the Korean version of the Masked Singer, and
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  Speaker 3: he was singing, tomorrow, tomorrow, dressed as a unicorn. And
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  Speaker 3: I was like, this is so outrageous. And, you know, America,
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  Speaker 3: we love our celebrities. Yeah. So I was like, celebrities
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  Speaker 3: dressed in crazy costumes, singing with people trying to guess
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  Speaker 3: who they are. This could work. And then when we
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  Speaker 3: did the final episode and T-Pain was unmasked and none
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  Speaker 3: of us guessed him. Yeah. And we had we had
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  Speaker 3: street credibility with T-Pain. We had. the genius of the
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  Speaker 3: show where none of us even got it right and
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  Speaker 3: i was like you know what i went home and
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  Speaker 3: i was like i think this show could be a
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  Speaker 3: big hit you know and that was and uh we
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  Speaker 3: just were all blessed to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's hell of a run congratulations i remember that
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  Speaker 2: um episode two of t-pain because you know he does
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  Speaker 2: all the auto tune but he could sing he.
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  Speaker 3: Can really sing that's why it was such a surprise
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  Speaker 3: and it was it was uh uh kismet.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I like about the show is that
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  Speaker 2: every season I get hit up on social media asking
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  Speaker 2: me if I'm one of the contestants.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And some of y'all have guessed me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's because you're a renaissance man. You're a do-it-all
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  Speaker 3: kind of guy. Thank you, sir. So you can definitely
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  Speaker 3: pull it off.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes. So we're going to have to work on that.
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  Speaker 1: See what's up right there. You're next. Thanks, brother.
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  Speaker 2: And as far as music, I remember last we spoke, too,
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  Speaker 2: that you were working on some new stuff coming out, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm always working on music. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I have a new album I'm sitting on, but I
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  Speaker 3: still think needs a couple more records. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I've actually just hit this kind of groove recently, especially
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  Speaker 3: with the kids going back to school. We're really just
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  Speaker 3: enjoying relaxing days. You know, I'm consulting on some things.
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  Speaker 3: I have a couple other businesses I'm getting off the
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  Speaker 3: ground and I'm just not. clamoring to be in the
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  Speaker 3: studio every day for the first time in my life. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's just, I mean, you've, you've got a
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  Speaker 2: great catalog and, and, uh, I've got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: other stuff, uh, going on.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you, man. Take your time.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just, I'm just, I'm live. I'm, I'm happy right now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm content with life for one of the first times ever.
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  Speaker 3: I should say semi-content.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I get it. I get it. Uh, and
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  Speaker 1: you got your hands full. How many kids you got?
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  Speaker 3: Four? I have four. I have three younger ones that
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  Speaker 3: were eight, seven, and about to turn six. We had
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  Speaker 3: three in three years. And then my son, Julian, who's
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  Speaker 3: an amazing songwriter and guitar player now. And he's really...
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  Speaker 3: become a poet this last year and his songs are
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  Speaker 3: just beautiful. So I'm very excited for him and his
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  Speaker 3: art also. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So he takes after mom.
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  Speaker 3: He takes after mom for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Bro, wait a minute. Three in three years is wild, bro.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's wild. We had babies in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Dang!
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  Speaker 3: Give her a break! Yep. And we had Masked Singer
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  Speaker 3: seasons the same years. Woo! Hey, those are good years.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, well, it is always great to catch up with you.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations on everything. And listen, be sure to catch Robin
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  Speaker 2: as the new band leader for season six of Celebrity
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  Speaker 2: Name That Tune, premiering September 21st on Fox.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we're taking over Mondays. And also, Mario, I got
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  Speaker 3: to say, I love you, brother. Congratulations on 1,300 episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it. That is just incredible. What a milestone,
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  Speaker 3: and God love you. I appreciate you, brother.
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  Speaker 1: Love you too, man. Hope to see you soon.
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  Speaker 3: All right, love to the family, and I'll see you soon.
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  Speaker 1: Take care.
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  Speaker 3: Bye, brother. Okay, real. Bye. On with Mario Lopez.