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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is on with Mario Lopez.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Tobo.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Mario Lopez joining me right now, probably our most frequented guest,
- 0:08Speaker 1: my man, Josh Dumel.
- 0:09Speaker 2: How you doing, Josh, I'm doing great, Mario. Thanks for
- 0:12Speaker 2: having me.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Always great to have you.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Brother.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Congrats. I saw you and your wife just announced you're
- 0:17Speaker 1: expecting another baby. We're the same age you, sir, are
- 0:20Speaker 1: brave to go right back in there again. I got
- 0:22Speaker 1: a six year old and I thought, I was like,
- 0:24Speaker 1: we're about to get on that horse.
- 0:25Speaker 2: A good get in there.
- 0:27Speaker 3: I got friends who are sending the kids off the
- 0:30Speaker 3: college I know right and better.
- 0:31Speaker 2: I am still changing dirty diapers. I love it. I'm
- 0:34Speaker 2: so excited to meet her. I can't even tell.
- 0:35Speaker 1: You, dude, that's gonna be awesome. That's gonna be awesome.
- 0:38Speaker 2: That's great. What's baby do? June ninth, Oh, okay, around
- 0:42Speaker 2: the corner? Nice.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Speaking of kids, your new comedy Preschool is out now
- 0:46Speaker 1: on Paramount Plus about two dads battling it out to
- 0:49Speaker 1: get their kid into the last spot at a high
- 0:51Speaker 1: end pre school. This is a very real thing. I
- 0:53Speaker 1: mean it sounds funny, but this sort of stuff happens.
- 0:57Speaker 1: They had to be fun making this one.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Oh yeah, ain't and you're right, it was. It was.
- 1:01Speaker 3: I read this script and I was like, oh my gosh,
- 1:03Speaker 3: I can't believe this movie hasn't been made a right
- 1:07Speaker 3: because as you probably have been through, we've definitely been that.
- 1:10Speaker 3: We just actually went through it with our two year
- 1:12Speaker 3: old pre priest, not even preschool, it's like before that, right.
- 1:15Speaker 3: The amount of pressure and competition that these parents go
- 1:20Speaker 3: through or put themselves through to get their kids into
- 1:22Speaker 3: these preschools is unbelievable. I think that anybody with kids,
- 1:27Speaker 3: or or people who know people with kids, are.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Gonna find this will be pretty funny and relatable.
- 1:33Speaker 1: And you shouldn't charge that much, especially when you're only
- 1:37Speaker 1: coloring and you can't even read that itself is a client.
- 1:39Speaker 2: It's a hustle. Don't even get me started.
- 1:41Speaker 1: Oh god, I saw you've There was like a little
- 1:45Speaker 1: MMA type fight scene right there, wrote the rival Dad. Right,
- 1:48Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that must have been fun.
- 1:52Speaker 2: Man. You know, we set up to make the least
- 1:56Speaker 2: john Wick. It is not.
- 1:59Speaker 3: This is not like, this is not a slick Hollywood
- 2:01Speaker 3: fancy and we wanted this thing to be messy and ugly.
- 2:04Speaker 3: And two dudes who never fought before.
- 2:05Speaker 2: That's great, that's great. Yeah, Clash of the Titans. Yeah,
- 2:09Speaker 2: maybe not so much, but yeah, it was.
- 2:11Speaker 3: You know, Michael Soka, the guy that plays the other dad,
- 2:15Speaker 3: is such a great actor and he's hilarious in this movie.
- 2:18Speaker 2: And the mothers, the wives, I should say, Charity.
- 2:22Speaker 3: Wakefield and Antonio Thomas and the famous James Cosmo plays
- 2:26Speaker 3: his dad. So you know, I got a We moved
- 2:29Speaker 3: this from London from Malibu to London because you know,
- 2:33Speaker 3: we can't.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Nobody wants to shoot anything in California anymore. It's too expensive,
- 2:37Speaker 2: it is, fortunately so, but London became the spot for
- 2:41Speaker 2: the movie.
- 2:42Speaker 3: And uh it was a huge blessing because you know
- 2:46Speaker 3: it's the talent pool is unbelievable over there.
- 2:48Speaker 2: Oh yeah, even our day players are just incredible. So
- 2:52Speaker 2: you know, it was it was. It was a blessing
- 2:54Speaker 2: in disguise. I suppose good.
- 2:55Speaker 1: For you, man, Good for you. And I know you've
- 2:58Speaker 1: and film in season two of A Ransom And how's
- 3:00Speaker 1: that coming along?
- 3:01Speaker 2: Good? We're done. We finished in January, another project that
- 3:07Speaker 2: I just love. It's such a fun set. You know,
- 3:09Speaker 2: appreciate that in that cast is just so much fun.
- 3:11Speaker 2: To work with.
- 3:12Speaker 3: As you know, sometimes these things can be a grind
- 3:17Speaker 3: and sometimes it's just kind of a lovely experience.
- 3:20Speaker 2: And that's what this is. Where do you get to
- 3:21Speaker 2: shoot that at New Mexico? Okay? Nice, it was only
- 3:25Speaker 2: an hour away, so it's not so bad. I can
- 3:27Speaker 2: hop on the plan and get back on the weekend.
- 3:28Speaker 2: Not not bad at all.
- 3:30Speaker 1: And you also just joined the cast of this new film,
- 3:32Speaker 1: a Western thriller called The Rescue.
- 3:34Speaker 2: I love me a Western. What can you tell me
- 3:36Speaker 2: about this one? Oh? Boy, I get to play a
- 3:38Speaker 2: bad man and that one. Ah, I play a guy
- 3:41Speaker 2: named knox Worthy.
- 3:42Speaker 3: He's a he's the head of this he's a he's
- 3:45Speaker 3: a hillbilly mob boss.
- 3:46Speaker 2: He's like a faction of the Dixie Mafia.
- 3:50Speaker 3: And it's a it's a it's a great story about
- 3:55Speaker 3: a man will do anything to protect his daughter. So
- 4:02Speaker 3: my character essentially kidnaps his daughter while holding aroundsom he
- 4:06Speaker 3: hops on his he's a former rodeo champion, down and out,
- 4:11Speaker 3: gets on his fort with her dog in tracks all
- 4:13Speaker 3: the way up into the mountains and finds us.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Oh.
- 4:16Speaker 3: So it's a really really fun movie. Potzi is an
- 4:19Speaker 3: amazing director to man.
- 4:22Speaker 1: Oh wow, I love Western so I'm gonna definitely check
- 4:25Speaker 1: that out. That sounds like a very cool we should do. Dude,
- 4:27Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm telling me I'll go to New Mexico, London,
- 4:31Speaker 1: whatever you need, man, let me know, let me know.
- 4:33Speaker 1: I can ride too, by the way. Yeah, yeah, finally
- 4:37Speaker 1: you've got another one. Good for you, Josh so busy
- 4:39Speaker 1: the Good Samaritan alongside Daisy Ridley. This one sounds really cool.
- 4:42Speaker 1: You play mercenary.
- 4:44Speaker 2: There's pirates involved. What's deal here? Yep?
- 4:47Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't start that until after unless like mid
- 4:51Speaker 3: July over in Malaysia.
- 4:53Speaker 2: Oh wow.
- 4:55Speaker 3: Nothing to report on that one yet because I haven't
- 4:57Speaker 3: been there, but I am looking forward to it.
- 5:01Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:01Speaker 1: So when you travel, especially a broad right there, do
- 5:03Speaker 1: you bring the whole family or you keep them settled?
- 5:06Speaker 2: Okay, So at that point we'll have the baby.
- 5:08Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'll probably go off for the first couple
- 5:10Speaker 3: of weeks, let her, you know, get settled a little bit,
- 5:14Speaker 3: and then they'll come out for the last few weeks
- 5:16Speaker 3: of the movie.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Oh, that's gonna be great.
- 5:17Speaker 2: It's too hard, you know what, this business.
- 5:19Speaker 3: It's actually grinding on me a little bit, just even
- 5:22Speaker 3: being away in that line of these last few weeks.
- 5:24Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I don't like being away, man, I mean,
- 5:26Speaker 2: you got little one.
- 5:27Speaker 1: No, it's tough. You're exactly right. And then the locations
- 5:30Speaker 1: are everywhere. I mean, they keep talking about new tax
- 5:32Speaker 1: and centers here in California. I believe it when I
- 5:34Speaker 1: see it, but I.
- 5:35Speaker 2: Wish they would do that. It would be nice to
- 5:36Speaker 2: work here at home. Well, you know what I mean.
- 5:39Speaker 1: This state's got a lot of different issues, but yeah,
- 5:42Speaker 1: tell me about it that being one of them. Well,
- 5:44Speaker 1: I'm happy brother, You're busy and doing all kinds of
- 5:46Speaker 1: great stuff. Everyone, please be sure to check out Josh's
- 5:49Speaker 1: new comedy. It sounds really cool, Preschool. I'm gonna check
- 5:51Speaker 1: it out, and it's out now on Paramount Plus. Thanks
- 5:55Speaker 1: for checking in, Manam Sure we'll talk in a couple
- 5:56Speaker 1: of weeks.
- 5:57Speaker 2: Thanks for always having me.
- 5:58Speaker 1: I appreciate you anytime, anytime you got it, I'll see you.
- 6:02Speaker 1: I'll see you with Mario Lopez