February 27, 2025 • 19 mins
Today On With Mario Lopez – Singer and songwriter Jojo zooms in to talk new EP 'NGL', memoir and more! Plus, Mario and Courtney make another round of Oscars predictions, Courtney's latest life hacks and the secret to a long life revealed!?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
What on Mario Courtney Lopez back in studio, Fired up
that we get to hang with you for the next
few hours. Lots to get to, including today's guest singer,
songwriter Jojo, who's got a new EP and single to
tell us all about.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Plus we're gonna share another life hack, dig into our
mentions and see what's on your mind. And we're just
a few songs away from our throwback soundtrack. So turn
it up. You're on with Mario and Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Happy Throwback Thursday.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Mario Courtney Lopez, you're dusting off the time machine for
our throwback soundtrack, going back forty three of the years
to this week in nineteen eighty two. That's when the
greatest duel of all time couldn't go for that?
Speaker 5 (01:00):
That yeah, that's the jam right there.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Hall and Oates, of course, And we saw them not
too long ago, Daryl Hall seventy five years old, and
they still got.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It, they still have it, and Journey was a little
more welcoming.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
So what.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
I love this song, Open Arms, such a beautiful song
and difficult song to sing. I tried, I have not
right out, I've tried it in my car that I've
seen like contestants on American Idol and stuff, and it's
just like, oh, it makes you realize how people that
song is.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
By the way, Steve Perry, lead singer on My Mount
Rushmore of greatest voices of all time?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Is he the George Washington. He very well could be. Okay,
very well could be.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
And the cards were shaking it up.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
Up, shake it up, Shake it up, ric Oquasic, Yes,
get it, Mario Lopez will be right back.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You're on, Mario Courtney Lopez Music rolls on after a
quick look at what's new on TV and streaming, History.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Has the season three premiere of Swamp Mysteries with Troy Landry.
Troy and his crew returned to the Louisiana Swamps off
from there as well to extract the valuable treasure trove
of old growth cypress logs they discover last season.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I'll tell you what the swamps are, no joke.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Not only do you have a ton of alligator, you
have a thing called a nutria rat, which.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Is a rat. Those are like giant right.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It looks like a mutant random feet because I know
a lot of things about it and you know, it's
a lot about swamps. Yeah, and they're huge rats right, Yeah,
but they have their teeth or orange. It's crazy why,
I don't know, but they're the most crazy looking things. So, yes,
swamps are wild.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Amazon has a serious premiere A House of David, which
tells the story of the ascent of the biblical figure David,
who eventually becomes the most renowned and celebrated King of Israel.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I Like biblical stories, I love these. I'm sure Amazon's
gonna do great job.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Max has a series premiere of Coyote, Hero and Beast,
a young man with supernatural abilities uses his power to
protect his loved ones and his hometown from warring drug cartels.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Ooh, kind of like the Beast Master.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I'm assuming we don't know. Getting closer to.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Our twenty twenty five I Heart Podcast Origin.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
On Mario Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Get ready to celebrate the best in podcasting as it
all goes down live Monday, March tenth at south By Southwest.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Biggest night of the year for the podcast fans. Think
you know who will win Podcast of the Year. We'll
all find out on March tenth. iHeart Podcast Awards dot
Com for a full list of nominees and tune in infall.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Hey Eron Marril Courtney, lopezz time to get some fresh
live acts in Courtney's Corner, which you got for us today.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Honey, making chips last longer?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Hold on?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Well, you know, once you open the bag, the chips
start their journey to becoming stale. They're like, where comings?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's not really a journey? Can I interrupt for a second.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
You know why that's the case, because obviously the bag
doesn't seal up properly. But I don't know why the
serial people and the chip people don't get together with
the ziplock people.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You brought this up before, and it's a very good point.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
They need to get together with them and induce some
sort of mashup because it will solve all this problems.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
The collaboration that we've needed for a long time.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Right yeah, Well until then, if you store chips in
the freezer, once opened, they will last for months. They
won't ever freeze either, They'll just get cold.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Never tried that. That's a good that's a good little hack. Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I know this because my grandmother was the freezer queen.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
She put everything in an official title or.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
That's what we called her.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Okay, got me.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Poor Mario Lopez gave it the music and fun coming
your way. You'll Mariow Courtney Lopez letting things get a
little weird for a second with Courtney's random thought.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
What you got, honey?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
So weird? You know, ever since I could remember, I've
just I've always wanted to go back to bed. I
literally my alarm goes off and I think about the
nighttime when I get to get back into bed.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You know that expression, You've made your bed, now lie
in it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Okay, that sounds awesome. Yeah, that sounds great. That's not
a punishment. I'm down for that. I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Okay, a little more music and they're gonna fire up
the Zoom and get to today's guest singer songwriter Jojo
Mario and Courty Lopez.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Here we're gonna get the scoop on the new music.
She just dropped, her recent memoir and lots to talk
about when Jojo joins us.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Next top be a.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Mario Lopez joining me right now on Zoom. Multi platinum
recording artist Jojo, How you beening, Jojo?
Speaker 9 (06:15):
I've been good, Mario? How you been?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I'm doing well?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You look great. You look great.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Congrats.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You dropped your brand new EP ANDNGL a couple of
weeks ago, and a lot of people are digging the music.
How's it feel to be back in the studio again?
Speaker 9 (06:30):
It feels great. I was.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
I was on Broadway for the past couple of years,
doing a couple of runs at Mulin Rouge, and fun
to be to be singing my you know, putting out
my new stuff just feels like it feels great.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
It's been a minute.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, how did you like that Broadway run? It's a
lot of hard work.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
I loved it.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I wanted to rise to the level of these performers,
like eight shows a week.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Is no joke, no exactly.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
I loved living in New York so much that I
moved there.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Like I'm a East Coast girl, so being back in
that felt really good and I just I got to
really grow and after being in the game for a
long time, like I'm looking for opportunities to expand and grow,
and it really it gave me.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
That awesome Where are you from?
Speaker 9 (07:12):
Originally Massachusetts?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Okay, so yeah, definitely an East Coast gar.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
All right, Jojo?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Hang tip for me quick break and we're gonna have
more with Jojo, more.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Fun on the way on with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Mario Lopez here agetting back to singer Jojo, who's hanging.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Out with us this hour.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
New EP is n g L And the album is
it a Does it have kind of a musical representation,
a little maybe Broadway feel to it? Or is it
more about like your memoir of last year?
Speaker 9 (07:36):
Or no, Yeah, there's there's no Broadway feel to it.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
It's it's inspired by it's soul full, but there's really
great hooks I think on there. So it's like, you know,
it's a cross note pop, R and B type of record.
Genre matters so much less than when I started out,
which is so nice, you know, And so yeah, NG
(08:00):
well is basically being like, I'm not gonna lie about
all the things that sound like their contradictions within me,
feeling like strong and superbomb and confident and then sometimes
being like, oh you.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Know what am I doing?
Speaker 6 (08:14):
And just like that confusion that I think lives within
a lot of us is something that I write about
on the CP.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Got it all right?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well, Hey, in time, We're gonna have more with Jojo
coming up the first and more music. Catching up with
multi platinum recording artist Jojo.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
This hour you on, Mario Lopez.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Let's talk about your latest single, ready to Love. People
are calling it a throwback to nineties R and B,
which is I love personally?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Is that the vibe you we're going for.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
I mean, I don't know that I.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Was trying to make a nineties R and B record necessarily,
but I love that it might make people feel that
way because there was something very special about that time
where people weren't afraid to be vulnerable to say, you know,
I love you, I miss you, all these different things.
What I love about Ready to Love is that it
(09:02):
talks about me arriving at that place within myself where
I was clear on who I was and what my
boundaries were, and saying, if if someone is not ready
for the things that I'm ready for, then I need
to move on.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
So absolutely, see very very wise now because I got to grow,
you know exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
All right, One more thing, I want to ask a
few songs that we're going to come back and rap
it up.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Sorry, I got to wrap it up with singer Jojo.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Mario Lopez here and I remember you were signed young,
like twelve years old, I believe, like one of the
youngest artists to debut at number one, right, Yeah, we
remember about that time. Was it a bit of a blur?
Speaker 9 (09:44):
Or it was a dream come true?
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Like I know a lot of people who started out
as children had really negative experiences because they didn't want
to be doing it, and that was my case.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
For me.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
I wanted it more than anything, you know. I loved
I love performing, and I loved getting to use this
gift that God gave me and from a very young age.
So yeah, it was a bit of a blur. But
in writing my memoir, which came out last year, over
the Influence, I really just gave myself the space to
even see what I remembered because.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
I hadn't thought about it yea that much, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 6 (10:22):
And it was it was really cool to look back
on my twenty year career and be like, whoa, things
that confused me or didn't make sense, Now that I'm
seeing them all laid out in black and white, I
can have compassion for my younger self, even when I
was a bit of like a bit of a like
a bit of a like you know whatever, like like
a little diva or whatever.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
I can understand.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
The process too, imagine was very therapeutic. So that's very cool.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well, cong congratulations.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I'm glad that he's still doing your thing.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And kicking butt out there.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Everyone.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Please be sure to check out JoJo's new EP ng L,
which is out now, and check her out on tour
all spring long. And please give my love to Randy.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
I will Randy the dog.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
We love him, He's the man, He's an all right, Jojo,
thanks for checking in.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Thanks Maria, Okay, you're the full interview now at on
with Mario dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
More Mario Lopez on the way, what a Mario.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Courtney Lopez here making a quick digital pit stop at
on Mario dot com to see what's trending.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Drake postponing the remainder of his Anita max Win tour.
Find out why and what that means for ticket holders.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I don't believe it's because it's Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Zoe Saldania hilariously shares one of her major dating deal
breakers okay, and Rihanna reveals which of her albums she
listens to with.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
No shame Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Reread on with Mario dot com for all that and more.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
The music and fun coming your ways.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
We get closer and closer to our twenty twenty five
iHeartRadio Music Awards.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
What up?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Mari Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Here letting you know the awards show for fans is
back live on Fox March seventeenth. The biggest stars from
all genres of music.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
We'll go home winners, plus Lady Gaga will be honored
with the Innovator Award. M Mariah Carey will receive the
Icon Award. You want to be there in person? Win
a trip for four and one thousand dollars spending cash
just by opening up your iHeartRadio app, tapping the contest
tab and entering for your chance to win. On with
Mario dot Com Slash Awards to find out more.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
All right, gonna make some more predictions ahead of this
Sunday's Academy Awards later this hour. So I think we're
gonna go ahead and squeeze in today's birthday shout out
to Mario and Courtney Lopez here. Fraser's gonna name them.
We're gonna try to guess the ages.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
What do we got?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Jay Wow from Jersey Shore?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Jaywow is forty three?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Wow? You're so often?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Oh wow?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Come on that was good.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
That was good.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I believe she is forty two. And I saw funny
meme the other day that said, bro, if she didn't
watch Jersey Show when it first came out, she's too
young for you.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
She is thirty nine.
Speaker 10 (13:10):
Oh okay, Kate Mara House Cards forty five, forty three,
forty two.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Josh Grobin, you raise me.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
To age forty two?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
No, he's actually Grobin into forty five forty four four.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Chelsea Clinton form her first daughter, Chelsea.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Wow, she's got to be I'm gonna say she's hitting
the fourth level forty forty two, forty five wow.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And Rosanda Chili Thomas from TLC, who looks the same,
who looks the same, she has to be fifty two.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I was an actually guess that. I'll say fifty thirty.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Fifty four wow.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
More Mario Lopez on the.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Way, it's Thursday, just flying by.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You're a Mario Courtney Lopez and if you were our
favorites on TV later right.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
That's right. Gibeon is said to perform tonight on Fallon
kim O has both line on Richie and Smokey Robinson,
and tomorrow morning, Ashanti is scheduled to stop by the
Today Show.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Okay, all right, a few more songs.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
They're gonna make another Oscar prediction er too. Mario and
Courtney Lopez here in the meantime, we'd love to play.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
A song for you, Yes, we would. So you got
something you'd really like to hear. Drop those requests into
our mentions on Facebook or x at on with Mario.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
You're a Mario Courtney Lopez. Ninety seventh Annual Academy Awards
coming up in just three days. Been making predictions all
week long a mariot dot com to catch up on
the predictions we made the last couple of days. As
Fraser tells us what category we are breaking down today.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
Original song, there's a few of these, so elle Mall,
which is from Amelia Perez, the Journey from the six
Triple Eight, Like a Bird from Sing Sing Me Camino
from Amelia Perez, and Never Too Late from Elton John,
Never too Late.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Too Late, Never too Late, number two fly Lack a
Bird That's not idiot.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
I don't think those are the interpretations of that song.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
With Elton John just because he's Elton John. Yes, even
though I'm not that familiar with these other songs and
this is it's for a documentary that's about like his
last big hurrah, like all of that.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So I think there's a lot going into that.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yes, I'm gonna go with me Camino because that.
Speaker 10 (15:37):
I take it is one of the brands, and I
will go with that as well.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
That is that, That is the right there.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
More Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I'm Mario Courney Lopez. Never a shortage of things to celebrate.
So what obscure holiday are we celebrating today? Honey?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Today is National Chili Day.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It was also Chili's birthday.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
It was Chili's birthday.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh from TLC. That's right. Oh wow, she's got a
double dose of celebrating.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Today and she's going to eat at Chili's.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Wow, that'd be a mean one, y'all. Mari Corney Lopez
reminding you about the world premiere Benson Boone. Benson dropped
his new song sorry I'm here for someone Else and
We've got it for you.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Just tap your iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your music.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
All Mark Courtney Lopez love hearing from you, guys, Questions, comments,
whatever you got. Just hit us up on Facebook or
x at on with Mario or over on ig at
on with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Would you find honey, this is from at rust belt Buckle. Okay,
heard you talking about the red pistachios and wondering what
happened to them. I don't know how old you are,
but you must be around sixty if you remember them.
Way back in the day. The pistachios came from Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran.
(16:56):
You ron, you're on, and they died them red. For
some reason. Shortly after the Iranian Revolution, we stopped importing.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Them, rust belt Buckle.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Thank you for that fun fact.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I did not know they were Persian pistachios. We still
don't know why they're read.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
But why did you say it like a surfer Persian.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Pistachios, Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't know, but I read. I guess they're appealing there.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It was as a kid around sixty, right, that's so funny.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I did not know that.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I wish I would have known this fun fact.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well now you do, I do.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Thanks for you know, thanks for listening, Russ belt Buckle.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Poor Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
All right, Mario Courtney Lopez, you're almost time to pass
some mic but not before we get to one last
thing if you want to live longer.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
A new study says have close friends.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Back in the nineties, way more people had at least
six close friends. Now that numbers dropped big time, with
more people than ever having zero close friends, and loneliness
taken a toll. Most say it's affecting their mental health,
but some don't seem to mind. However, studies show a
strong circle of friends might just add years to your life.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
My theory social media.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
You can make a lot of friends on social media,
or you can exclude a lot of people because you
start hearing opinions that you may not align with, and
therefore you feel you're not going to have something in common.
You don't want to kick it. Before social media, you
didn't know what someone thought really politically or spiritualist to
talk to them unless you talk to him and asked
about it, and those are sort of taboo subjects. You
didn't bring up religion or politics, right, So you just
(18:31):
kind of hung with people and if you liked them,
you liked them. Later on, if you got close, maybe
you brought it up, but other than that you didn't. Now
you know what everyone thinks, so people tend to get
in little.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Clicks that way, Yeah, because they don't want to deal
with exactly and hear it, and I'm all about having
a handful of friends or.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
All right, that's gonna do it for us.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Big thanks again to singer Jojoe for joining us earlier
on Maria dot com from my full chat with her.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
More fun.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Tomorrow, we'll make more Oscar p diictions, talk must see movies,
engage in another passion at fake debate, and more. Until then,
this is Mario and Courtney Lopez saying good night
Speaker 1 (19:08):
With Mario Lopez
On with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
What on Mario Courtney Lopez back in studio, Fired up
that we get to hang with you for the next
few hours. Lots to get to, including today's guest singer,
songwriter Jojo, who's got a new EP and single to
tell us all about.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Plus we're gonna share another life hack, dig into our
mentions and see what's on your mind. And we're just
a few songs away from our throwback soundtrack. So turn
it up. You're on with Mario and Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Happy Throwback Thursday.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Mario Courtney Lopez, you're dusting off the time machine for
our throwback soundtrack, going back forty three of the years
to this week in nineteen eighty two. That's when the
greatest duel of all time couldn't go for that?
Speaker 5 (01:00):
That yeah, that's the jam right there.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Hall and Oates, of course, And we saw them not
too long ago, Daryl Hall seventy five years old, and
they still got.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It, they still have it, and Journey was a little
more welcoming.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
So what.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
I love this song, Open Arms, such a beautiful song
and difficult song to sing. I tried, I have not
right out, I've tried it in my car that I've
seen like contestants on American Idol and stuff, and it's
just like, oh, it makes you realize how people that
song is.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
By the way, Steve Perry, lead singer on My Mount
Rushmore of greatest voices of all time?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Is he the George Washington. He very well could be. Okay,
very well could be.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
And the cards were shaking it up.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
Up, shake it up, Shake it up, ric Oquasic, Yes,
get it, Mario Lopez will be right back.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You're on, Mario Courtney Lopez Music rolls on after a
quick look at what's new on TV and streaming, History.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Has the season three premiere of Swamp Mysteries with Troy Landry.
Troy and his crew returned to the Louisiana Swamps off
from there as well to extract the valuable treasure trove
of old growth cypress logs they discover last season.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I'll tell you what the swamps are, no joke.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Not only do you have a ton of alligator, you
have a thing called a nutria rat, which.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Is a rat. Those are like giant right.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It looks like a mutant random feet because I know
a lot of things about it and you know, it's
a lot about swamps. Yeah, and they're huge rats right, Yeah,
but they have their teeth or orange. It's crazy why,
I don't know, but they're the most crazy looking things. So, yes,
swamps are wild.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Amazon has a serious premiere A House of David, which
tells the story of the ascent of the biblical figure David,
who eventually becomes the most renowned and celebrated King of Israel.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I Like biblical stories, I love these. I'm sure Amazon's
gonna do great job.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Max has a series premiere of Coyote, Hero and Beast,
a young man with supernatural abilities uses his power to
protect his loved ones and his hometown from warring drug cartels.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Ooh, kind of like the Beast Master.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I'm assuming we don't know. Getting closer to.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Our twenty twenty five I Heart Podcast Origin.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
On Mario Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Get ready to celebrate the best in podcasting as it
all goes down live Monday, March tenth at south By Southwest.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Biggest night of the year for the podcast fans. Think
you know who will win Podcast of the Year. We'll
all find out on March tenth. iHeart Podcast Awards dot
Com for a full list of nominees and tune in infall.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Hey Eron Marril Courtney, lopezz time to get some fresh
live acts in Courtney's Corner, which you got for us today.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Honey, making chips last longer?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Hold on?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Well, you know, once you open the bag, the chips
start their journey to becoming stale. They're like, where comings?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's not really a journey? Can I interrupt for a second.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
You know why that's the case, because obviously the bag
doesn't seal up properly. But I don't know why the
serial people and the chip people don't get together with
the ziplock people.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You brought this up before, and it's a very good point.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
They need to get together with them and induce some
sort of mashup because it will solve all this problems.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
The collaboration that we've needed for a long time.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Right yeah, Well until then, if you store chips in
the freezer, once opened, they will last for months. They
won't ever freeze either, They'll just get cold.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Never tried that. That's a good that's a good little hack. Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I know this because my grandmother was the freezer queen.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
She put everything in an official title or.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
That's what we called her.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Okay, got me.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Poor Mario Lopez gave it the music and fun coming
your way. You'll Mariow Courtney Lopez letting things get a
little weird for a second with Courtney's random thought.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
What you got, honey?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
So weird? You know, ever since I could remember, I've
just I've always wanted to go back to bed. I
literally my alarm goes off and I think about the
nighttime when I get to get back into bed.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You know that expression, You've made your bed, now lie
in it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Okay, that sounds awesome. Yeah, that sounds great. That's not
a punishment. I'm down for that. I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Okay, a little more music and they're gonna fire up
the Zoom and get to today's guest singer songwriter Jojo
Mario and Courty Lopez.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Here we're gonna get the scoop on the new music.
She just dropped, her recent memoir and lots to talk
about when Jojo joins us.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Next top be a.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Mario Lopez joining me right now on Zoom. Multi platinum
recording artist Jojo, How you beening, Jojo?
Speaker 9 (06:15):
I've been good, Mario? How you been?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I'm doing well?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You look great. You look great.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Congrats.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You dropped your brand new EP ANDNGL a couple of
weeks ago, and a lot of people are digging the music.
How's it feel to be back in the studio again?
Speaker 9 (06:30):
It feels great. I was.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
I was on Broadway for the past couple of years,
doing a couple of runs at Mulin Rouge, and fun
to be to be singing my you know, putting out
my new stuff just feels like it feels great.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
It's been a minute.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, how did you like that Broadway run? It's a
lot of hard work.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
I loved it.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I wanted to rise to the level of these performers,
like eight shows a week.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Is no joke, no exactly.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
I loved living in New York so much that I
moved there.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Like I'm a East Coast girl, so being back in
that felt really good and I just I got to
really grow and after being in the game for a
long time, like I'm looking for opportunities to expand and grow,
and it really it gave me.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
That awesome Where are you from?
Speaker 9 (07:12):
Originally Massachusetts?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Okay, so yeah, definitely an East Coast gar.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
All right, Jojo?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Hang tip for me quick break and we're gonna have
more with Jojo, more.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Fun on the way on with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Mario Lopez here agetting back to singer Jojo, who's hanging.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Out with us this hour.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
New EP is n g L And the album is
it a Does it have kind of a musical representation,
a little maybe Broadway feel to it? Or is it
more about like your memoir of last year?
Speaker 9 (07:36):
Or no, Yeah, there's there's no Broadway feel to it.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
It's it's inspired by it's soul full, but there's really
great hooks I think on there. So it's like, you know,
it's a cross note pop, R and B type of record.
Genre matters so much less than when I started out,
which is so nice, you know, And so yeah, NG
(08:00):
well is basically being like, I'm not gonna lie about
all the things that sound like their contradictions within me,
feeling like strong and superbomb and confident and then sometimes
being like, oh you.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Know what am I doing?
Speaker 6 (08:14):
And just like that confusion that I think lives within
a lot of us is something that I write about
on the CP.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Got it all right?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well, Hey, in time, We're gonna have more with Jojo
coming up the first and more music. Catching up with
multi platinum recording artist Jojo.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
This hour you on, Mario Lopez.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Let's talk about your latest single, ready to Love. People
are calling it a throwback to nineties R and B,
which is I love personally?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Is that the vibe you we're going for.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
I mean, I don't know that I.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Was trying to make a nineties R and B record necessarily,
but I love that it might make people feel that
way because there was something very special about that time
where people weren't afraid to be vulnerable to say, you know,
I love you, I miss you, all these different things.
What I love about Ready to Love is that it
(09:02):
talks about me arriving at that place within myself where
I was clear on who I was and what my
boundaries were, and saying, if if someone is not ready
for the things that I'm ready for, then I need
to move on.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
So absolutely, see very very wise now because I got to grow,
you know exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
All right, One more thing, I want to ask a
few songs that we're going to come back and rap
it up.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Sorry, I got to wrap it up with singer Jojo.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Mario Lopez here and I remember you were signed young,
like twelve years old, I believe, like one of the
youngest artists to debut at number one, right, Yeah, we
remember about that time. Was it a bit of a blur?
Speaker 9 (09:44):
Or it was a dream come true?
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Like I know a lot of people who started out
as children had really negative experiences because they didn't want
to be doing it, and that was my case.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
For me.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
I wanted it more than anything, you know. I loved
I love performing, and I loved getting to use this
gift that God gave me and from a very young age.
So yeah, it was a bit of a blur. But
in writing my memoir, which came out last year, over
the Influence, I really just gave myself the space to
even see what I remembered because.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
I hadn't thought about it yea that much, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 6 (10:22):
And it was it was really cool to look back
on my twenty year career and be like, whoa, things
that confused me or didn't make sense, Now that I'm
seeing them all laid out in black and white, I
can have compassion for my younger self, even when I
was a bit of like a bit of a like
a bit of a like you know whatever, like like
a little diva or whatever.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
I can understand.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
The process too, imagine was very therapeutic. So that's very cool.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well, cong congratulations.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I'm glad that he's still doing your thing.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And kicking butt out there.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Everyone.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Please be sure to check out JoJo's new EP ng L,
which is out now, and check her out on tour
all spring long. And please give my love to Randy.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
I will Randy the dog.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
We love him, He's the man, He's an all right, Jojo,
thanks for checking in.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Thanks Maria, Okay, you're the full interview now at on
with Mario dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
More Mario Lopez on the way, what a Mario.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Courtney Lopez here making a quick digital pit stop at
on Mario dot com to see what's trending.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Drake postponing the remainder of his Anita max Win tour.
Find out why and what that means for ticket holders.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I don't believe it's because it's Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Zoe Saldania hilariously shares one of her major dating deal
breakers okay, and Rihanna reveals which of her albums she
listens to with.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
No shame Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Reread on with Mario dot com for all that and more.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
The music and fun coming your ways.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
We get closer and closer to our twenty twenty five
iHeartRadio Music Awards.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
What up?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Mari Courtney Lopez.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Here letting you know the awards show for fans is
back live on Fox March seventeenth. The biggest stars from
all genres of music.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
We'll go home winners, plus Lady Gaga will be honored
with the Innovator Award. M Mariah Carey will receive the
Icon Award. You want to be there in person? Win
a trip for four and one thousand dollars spending cash
just by opening up your iHeartRadio app, tapping the contest
tab and entering for your chance to win. On with
Mario dot Com Slash Awards to find out more.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
All right, gonna make some more predictions ahead of this
Sunday's Academy Awards later this hour. So I think we're
gonna go ahead and squeeze in today's birthday shout out
to Mario and Courtney Lopez here. Fraser's gonna name them.
We're gonna try to guess the ages.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
What do we got?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Jay Wow from Jersey Shore?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Jaywow is forty three?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Wow? You're so often?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Oh wow?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Come on that was good.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
That was good.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I believe she is forty two. And I saw funny
meme the other day that said, bro, if she didn't
watch Jersey Show when it first came out, she's too
young for you.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
She is thirty nine.
Speaker 10 (13:10):
Oh okay, Kate Mara House Cards forty five, forty three,
forty two.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Josh Grobin, you raise me.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
To age forty two?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
No, he's actually Grobin into forty five forty four four.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Chelsea Clinton form her first daughter, Chelsea.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Wow, she's got to be I'm gonna say she's hitting
the fourth level forty forty two, forty five wow.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And Rosanda Chili Thomas from TLC, who looks the same,
who looks the same, she has to be fifty two.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I was an actually guess that. I'll say fifty thirty.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Fifty four wow.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
More Mario Lopez on the.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Way, it's Thursday, just flying by.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You're a Mario Courtney Lopez and if you were our
favorites on TV later right.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
That's right. Gibeon is said to perform tonight on Fallon
kim O has both line on Richie and Smokey Robinson,
and tomorrow morning, Ashanti is scheduled to stop by the
Today Show.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Okay, all right, a few more songs.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
They're gonna make another Oscar prediction er too. Mario and
Courtney Lopez here in the meantime, we'd love to play.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
A song for you, Yes, we would. So you got
something you'd really like to hear. Drop those requests into
our mentions on Facebook or x at on with Mario.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
You're a Mario Courtney Lopez. Ninety seventh Annual Academy Awards
coming up in just three days. Been making predictions all
week long a mariot dot com to catch up on
the predictions we made the last couple of days. As
Fraser tells us what category we are breaking down today.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
Original song, there's a few of these, so elle Mall,
which is from Amelia Perez, the Journey from the six
Triple Eight, Like a Bird from Sing Sing Me Camino
from Amelia Perez, and Never Too Late from Elton John,
Never too Late.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Too Late, Never too Late, number two fly Lack a
Bird That's not idiot.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
I don't think those are the interpretations of that song.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
With Elton John just because he's Elton John. Yes, even
though I'm not that familiar with these other songs and
this is it's for a documentary that's about like his
last big hurrah, like all of that.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So I think there's a lot going into that.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yes, I'm gonna go with me Camino because that.
Speaker 10 (15:37):
I take it is one of the brands, and I
will go with that as well.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
That is that, That is the right there.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
More Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I'm Mario Courney Lopez. Never a shortage of things to celebrate.
So what obscure holiday are we celebrating today? Honey?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Today is National Chili Day.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It was also Chili's birthday.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
It was Chili's birthday.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh from TLC. That's right. Oh wow, she's got a
double dose of celebrating.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Today and she's going to eat at Chili's.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Wow, that'd be a mean one, y'all. Mari Corney Lopez
reminding you about the world premiere Benson Boone. Benson dropped
his new song sorry I'm here for someone Else and
We've got it for you.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Just tap your iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your music.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
All Mark Courtney Lopez love hearing from you, guys, Questions, comments,
whatever you got. Just hit us up on Facebook or
x at on with Mario or over on ig at
on with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Would you find honey, this is from at rust belt Buckle. Okay,
heard you talking about the red pistachios and wondering what
happened to them. I don't know how old you are,
but you must be around sixty if you remember them.
Way back in the day. The pistachios came from Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran.
(16:56):
You ron, you're on, and they died them red. For
some reason. Shortly after the Iranian Revolution, we stopped importing.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Them, rust belt Buckle.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Thank you for that fun fact.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I did not know they were Persian pistachios. We still
don't know why they're read.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
But why did you say it like a surfer Persian.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Pistachios, Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't know, but I read. I guess they're appealing there.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It was as a kid around sixty, right, that's so funny.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I did not know that.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I wish I would have known this fun fact.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well now you do, I do.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Thanks for you know, thanks for listening, Russ belt Buckle.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Poor Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
All right, Mario Courtney Lopez, you're almost time to pass
some mic but not before we get to one last
thing if you want to live longer.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
A new study says have close friends.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Back in the nineties, way more people had at least
six close friends. Now that numbers dropped big time, with
more people than ever having zero close friends, and loneliness
taken a toll. Most say it's affecting their mental health,
but some don't seem to mind. However, studies show a
strong circle of friends might just add years to your life.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
My theory social media.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
You can make a lot of friends on social media,
or you can exclude a lot of people because you
start hearing opinions that you may not align with, and
therefore you feel you're not going to have something in common.
You don't want to kick it. Before social media, you
didn't know what someone thought really politically or spiritualist to
talk to them unless you talk to him and asked
about it, and those are sort of taboo subjects. You
didn't bring up religion or politics, right, So you just
(18:31):
kind of hung with people and if you liked them,
you liked them. Later on, if you got close, maybe
you brought it up, but other than that you didn't. Now
you know what everyone thinks, so people tend to get
in little.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Clicks that way, Yeah, because they don't want to deal
with exactly and hear it, and I'm all about having
a handful of friends or.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Mario Lopez coming up.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
All right, that's gonna do it for us.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Big thanks again to singer Jojoe for joining us earlier
on Maria dot com from my full chat with her.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
More fun.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Tomorrow, we'll make more Oscar p diictions, talk must see movies,
engage in another passion at fake debate, and more. Until then,
this is Mario and Courtney Lopez saying good night
Speaker 1 (19:08):
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