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Jack Wagner · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: So bing.
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  Speaker 1: Mario Lopez joining me right now on Zoom.
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  Speaker 3: My old friend legend, really, my man, actor Jack Wagner.
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  Speaker 1: How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'll get to see you. How you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I've been playing golf lately.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I had a tournament about a month ago down in Orlando,
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, I got ready for that.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, not too much. How about you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't play. I have a tournament myself. I literally
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  Speaker 3: have a tournament. I think I've invited you to play.
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  Speaker 3: No I played one, you played one year, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, great, it's a great event you have over late
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  Speaker 2: side with Alanda.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I want our listeners to know Jack's the real deal
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  Speaker 3: playing right there old school road.
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  Speaker 1: And Mario was the mascot for the tournament. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good at entertaining.
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  Speaker 3: I make sure everyone has a cocktail and a cigar
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  Speaker 3: and where yeah to do?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're loose out there, man, that you're making a
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  Speaker 4: fun day for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Well you were just revealed as the egg Plant. I'm
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  Speaker 3: the latest season of the Mass Singer first of all,
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  Speaker 3: I love that if you were the egg plant?
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  Speaker 1: What made you decide to do the show? Are you familiar?
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  Speaker 2: Man? You know I, deep down, Polly, I've always wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do that show.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'm a fit for that show as a
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  Speaker 4: you know, an entertainer singer. So you know, they they
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  Speaker 4: asked me to do it, and then you know, when
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  Speaker 4: you actually become a contestant. There's this big zoom call,
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  Speaker 4: right Mario with about eight executives and costume and music,
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  Speaker 4: and they said, well.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what we're thinking. We'd like you to be the
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  Speaker 2: egg plant. So I'm like, okay, let's roll with it. Right.
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  Speaker 3: That's hilarious, very popular Moji Jack, So you're you're a
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  Speaker 3: do it all right right there? You performed a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of heavier rock songs Lincoln Park, Ozzy.
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  Speaker 1: What made you decide to go that route?
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  Speaker 2: They have a theme every week, right, so this was
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  Speaker 2: oz Fast week.
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  Speaker 4: I came out of the box though with a Rocketman
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  Speaker 4: by Elton John.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, I nailed that one. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: My whole my whole time on this show was made
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  Speaker 5: right there. I'm a huge Elton John fan, and I
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  Speaker 5: think I laid a pretty solid vocal, so that the
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  Speaker 5: costs him itself the eggplant. Have you done, mass singer Mario?
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  Speaker 1: I am not, but I get guessed every year.
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  Speaker 2: Well you do, Okay, I guess all right.
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  Speaker 4: So you know this egg plant costume they had to
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  Speaker 4: pretty much I had.
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  Speaker 2: They had to drop it on me.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I get inside this whole harness strapped in,
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  Speaker 4: put my arms outside.
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  Speaker 2: Thee on the leaves.
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  Speaker 4: You know. It was big and wide and plastic and cumbersome.
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  Speaker 4: So it was an adjustment on what you could do physically,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to match up with a vocal in terms
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  Speaker 4: of a performance, right, just kind of getting used to it.
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  Speaker 1: Did that prove difficult? We just with a singing too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean actually it was because it was a
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  Speaker 4: you know, I didn't have my legs.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't I couldn't really move.
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  Speaker 4: When I first saw the Elton first piece, I thought
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  Speaker 4: I was doing so much inside there, but ultimately I was.
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  Speaker 1: Like, right, you you're I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, this isn't this isn't moving at all.
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  Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 4: It was a little little tough that way, but I
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  Speaker 4: still I still love being the eggplant.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, the judge is pretty much full they were
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  Speaker 3: guessing names like Kenny Loggins, Daryl Hall, Alice Cooper.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I pray, that's right there.
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  Speaker 4: I think my clues threw them off because they, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not known for my history in theater, although I've
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  Speaker 4: done a lot of theater and Broadway. So my first
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  Speaker 4: clue was Broadway and so they were thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Nathan Laane or Billy Jill.
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  Speaker 2: And then my next week it was We're.
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  Speaker 4: Of the World because I was on Quincy Jones's label,
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  Speaker 4: right and you know, at a number one record at
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  Speaker 4: the time, but we Are the World and he's like,
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  Speaker 4: hey man, yeah, I'm on over to this recording. So
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  Speaker 4: I think that stumped them a bit.
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  Speaker 2: With the other names that they compared me to.
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  Speaker 3: But it was pretty flattering, you know, because I was
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  Speaker 3: going to ask you about that since you bring it out.
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  Speaker 1: You were in the studio the night for We Are
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  Speaker 1: the World that I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 3: The documentary was excellent too, and it was it as
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  Speaker 3: sort of surreal as being there. Did it all just
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  Speaker 3: kind of happen as a blur?
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  Speaker 4: You know, Mary, I actually I'm on that documentary because
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  Speaker 4: I gave Lionel Ritchie an.
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  Speaker 2: An Award that night.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: Center, And you know, in your career, I was in
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  Speaker 4: the throes of the beginning, like it was a storm
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  Speaker 4: of General Hospital and a hit record and putting a
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  Speaker 4: band together and touring, so.
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  Speaker 2: I was I remember the pulse of all of that.
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  Speaker 4: It was overwhelming though, to just see all of these
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  Speaker 4: musical artists, and Michael Jackson did come up to me
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  Speaker 4: and just say I love your record, I love your voice, and.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, wow, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: A bit frozen, you know, and they use that as
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  Speaker 2: part of my clues.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, that was a you know, it's one of
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  Speaker 4: those things where it was an experience that I had
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  Speaker 4: personally that only I will ever ever have, right, it
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  Speaker 4: was mine and it was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's unbelieved. That's so cool. It was such a
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  Speaker 1: fascinating life. I love it. And of course you're an
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  Speaker 1: iconic actor.
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  Speaker 3: On the soaps and you've appeared in some of the
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  Speaker 3: biggest ones and last year, I know you were turned
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  Speaker 3: to Bold and Beautiful. Any any chance fans can can
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  Speaker 3: see you again on the show.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that was kind of a one off thing
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  Speaker 4: and it kind of worked because I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 2: I got married.
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  Speaker 4: Last year and I did my honeymoon in Italy and
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  Speaker 4: we shot Bold and Beautiful in Italy, so it was
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  Speaker 4: kind of a combo platter.
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  Speaker 1: But yea, it's huge, you know, do what. It's huge
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  Speaker 1: there in Italy too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it gets like a sixty share. It's crazy, that's cs.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 6: But for me, you know, for me, it's been the
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  Speaker 6: Hallmark Channel for the last fourteen years, you know, right
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  Speaker 6: now when Calls the Heart is in season thirteen, the
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  Speaker 6: last three episodes of airing Sunday night.
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  Speaker 2: We just got picked up for season fourteen somorrow.
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  Speaker 4: You know it, you know, in this business to get
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  Speaker 4: on a series that's a hit, you know. And for me,
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  Speaker 4: family friendly television has really worked well for me and
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  Speaker 4: my career, in my.
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  Speaker 6: Demographic and I just love being, you know, in the
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  Speaker 6: Hallmark family.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a really great run for me.
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  Speaker 3: Good for you, Yeah, no, I likewise with the Family
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  Speaker 3: programming too. It's congratulations on everything, Jack, always good to
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  Speaker 3: see you and listen everyone, and be sure to catch
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  Speaker 3: the latest season of The Mass Singer Wednesday nights on
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  Speaker 3: Fox Fox. Thanks for checking in, Jack, Thanks Mario, everybody
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  Speaker 3: hope to see a person take care of her
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  Speaker 2: On with Mario Lopez