In short
Mark Consuelos discusses what “success” means to him (peaceful family life), how discipline and work ethic were formed, and how he and his wife Kelly Ripa maintain a long-term marriage while both work in entertainment and TV. He also describes his demanding soap-opera training, his transition to daytime TV, his self-competition routines (gym, diet, sleep), and his Italian soccer team investment.
Guests
Mark Consuelos (actor; former soap star; now co-host/performer on ABC’s Live with Kelly and Mark; entrepreneur with a stake in an Italian football club). Kelly Ripa is referenced as his wife and frequent co-worker, but she is not a separate guest in the transcript. Hosts are Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic (Skinny Confidential).
Key claims
Success is family harmony and “no arguments” at home. Work ethic came from immigrant parents and strict school/sports expectations. He competes only with himself and stays present. Marriage requires embracing “Wednesday” (consistency/boredom) and “no option” but to make it work.
Notable examples
Eloping and proposing after a Central Park walk; soap shooting 60+ pages of dialogue in a day; filling in 100+ times for his co-host role; buying a stake in a bankrupt fifth-division Italian club and winning two championships to reach the third division.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VODefining Success
0:45 to 2:35
Mark Consuelos shares his personal definition of success beyond business.
“For me, it's sitting at a table with my three kids and my wife where we have a great conversation and we have a lot of laughs and there are no arguments.”
The Journey to Marriage
2:35 to 4:54
Mark discusses his unconventional path to marrying his wife, including their breakup and elopement.
“It was a segment they did on live with Regis and Kathie Lee.”
Life on Soap Operas
4:54 to 6:30
Mark reveals the demanding nature of working in soap operas and the skills it developed in him.
“I got a lot of denials for the walks in the park.”
Balancing Family and Career
6:30 to 8:31
Mark discusses how he and his wife managed to balance their growing family with their careers.
“but you definitely learn how to memorize lines.”
Navigating Career Transitions
8:31 to 10:13
Mark shares his transition from soap operas to more varied acting roles while building a family.
“I did some theater while I was doing a soap, which was great.”
The Challenges of Working Together
10:13 to 12:20
Mark reflects on the complexities of working with his wife on a show while raising kids.
“You're done by noon or shortly after that.”
The Fun of Hosting
12:20 to 14:00
Mark discusses the joy and challenges of co-hosting with his wife, including moments of starstruckness.
“Like, how did you decide that this isn't working?”
Navigating the Challenges of Live Television
14:00 to 23:35
Learn how Mark Consuelos copes with the pressures of live broadcasting and prepares for his morning show.
“Like, you know, you have a huge guest on the show and I freeze.”
Navigating the Challenges of Live Television
23:49 to 25:16
Learn how Mark Consuelos copes with the pressures of live broadcasting and prepares for his morning show.
“and get on your way to being your best self.”
Navigating the Challenges of Live Television
25:19 to 26:38
Learn how Mark Consuelos copes with the pressures of live broadcasting and prepares for his morning show.
“Squarespace is the all-in-one website platform for entrepreneurs to stand out and succeed online, whether you're just starting out or managing a growing brand.”
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Navigating the Challenges of Live Television
26:42 to 26:52
Learn how Mark Consuelos copes with the pressures of live broadcasting and prepares for his morning show.
“Again, that's squarespace.com slash skinny.”
Behind-the-Scenes of a Power Couple
26:52 to 28:00
Mark shares insights into his relationship with Kelly and their work dynamics.
“Is the first time you see your wife when you make her coffee or on air?”
Talk Show Amnesia and Memory in Interviews
28:00 to 29:03
Explore the phenomenon of forgetting past interviews and conversations in the context of hosting.
“well, we still, yeah, we, we, she's a big, we have to re talk about the thing.”
Secrets to a Successful Hollywood Marriage
29:04 to 30:51
Discuss the foundations of a successful marriage in the entertainment industry.
“I think being a host of a show is different than being interviewed because you kind of have to keep it moving along.”
Embracing Boredom in Relationships
30:52 to 33:14
Learn why embracing the mundane aspects of marriage can lead to long-term success.
“I think that was also, I think that both our parents are still together.”
Instilling Values in Children
33:15 to 36:37
Hear the importance of teaching children empathy and inner drive for success.
“pre-social media we haven't been together that long but we didn't have all of these like for me a similar thought as you.”
Buying Into Football: A Personal Journey
36:38 to 37:55
Discover the story of purchasing a stake in an Italian football team and its challenges.
“And we had this nice room and there was a room downstairs and there was a room across from us.”
Involvement and Growth in Sports Management
37:56 to 39:59
Understand the day-to-day responsibilities and growth experienced in managing a sports team.
“And the main thing was that, listen, this town of Campobasso had a storied history in Italian football.”
Designing a Home: Collaboration and Compromise
40:00 to 42:04
Delve into the dynamics of home design collaboration between partners.
“There are people, there are fires to put out every single day.”
Design Decisions in Home Renovation
42:04 to 46:12
Learn about the collaborative process of home design and personal preferences.
“I know what I like and I know what I don't like.”
Daily Routines for Health and Wellness
46:16 to 47:35
Explore the non-negotiable routines and health practices for maintaining wellness.
“Okay, basically, this is the number one highest rated premium personal styling service.”
Daily Routines for Health and Wellness
49:27 to 50:42
Explore the non-negotiable routines and health practices for maintaining wellness.
“I have been taking creatine for probably the last two years.”
Daily Routines for Health and Wellness
50:50 to 52:03
Explore the non-negotiable routines and health practices for maintaining wellness.
“If you're into self-care, you're going to love this.”
Advice for Aspiring Interviewers
54:11 to 56:01
Gain insights on what makes a great interviewer and how to connect with guests.
“Do you do anything cold plunge, sauna, red light, anything like that?”
Navigating the News Program Experience
56:01 to 57:28
Learn about the challenges of fast-paced news programs versus relaxed conversations.
“We're in the new Disney building downtown.”
Favorite Interviews and Memorable Moments
57:29 to 59:16
Hear about memorable interviews and the joy of connecting with old friends.
“Never take advice from someone who's more screwed up than you.”
Rapid Fire Questions: Insights and Humor
59:17 to 1:00:10
Discover personal insights and humorous responses through rapid-fire questions.
“And then the type of friends that it doesn't matter if you've seen them once in six months or once, you know, or twice that weekend, you can pick up and plug in right where you left off.”
Cigar Preferences and Reflections
1:00:11 to 1:02:08
Explore cigar preferences and the reflective moments they provide.
“No, that I think is another reason people have a bad time with those is they don't realize you can't smoke it like a cigarette.”
Closing Thoughts and Future Plans
1:02:09 to 1:02:41
Wrap up with the guest's future plans and expressions of gratitude.
“So, you know, I can have a cigar and feel fine the next day.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Kelly Ripa:The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:04Mark Consuelos:She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride.
0:16Kelly Ripa:Get ready for some major realness.
0:18Mark Consuelos:Welcome to the Skinny Confidential. Him and her. Aha!
0:24Kelly Ripa:So we have cards and cards and cards and notes and notes and notes because you've done a lot. And I think the theme of what we want to drill into with you is it seems like you're a high performer in every area. And I'd like to know just to start what success means to you, not just success in a business setting, but success in life.
0:43Mark Consuelos:Oh, gosh. For me, success in life, I'll give you a few scenarios. For me, it's sitting at a table with my three kids and my wife where we have a great conversation and we have a lot of laughs and there are no arguments. if there are arguments that are just kind of easily navigated. And then, you know, maybe watch something on TV and go to bed. That to me is success at the stage of my life.
1:07Kelly Ripa:So it's simple.
1:09Mark Consuelos:Super simple.
1:10Kelly Ripa:It's not super complex. I think that's what's cool about you is you would think you'd have this huge answer and it's very simple.
1:18Mark Consuelos:I think that's if I were to choose one thing I could be successful at, that would be what I describe some my family my familial relationships would probably be the most important thing for me have you always known that you wanted to be a family man no did your wife like quick no no no we we we we often we got we eloped it's pretty famously eloped and we took we told no one for a month but if you would have asked me a week before i got married i would and said when do you think you're going to get married i'm like i don't know maybe never or 10 years or 15 years from now and I was 25 years old.
1:54Mark Consuelos:So the idea hit me that it was time to do this with this person. It's kind of a funny story. We broke up the week before I broke up with her because I was dumb and it was the most agonizing week of my life. And I just knew that I never wanted to feel like that. I've never felt like that in my life.
2:18Kelly Ripa:What did she do to you during that week?
2:20Mark Consuelos:I can't wait to hear. Well, she didn't return any of my calls. Yeah. And then we were meant to do a bit of PR together. We were both on a soap. And ironically, we were both going to be presenting a winner. It was Queen for the Day. It was a segment they did on live with Regis and Kathie Lee.
2:43Kelly Ripa:Okay.
2:44Mark Consuelos:And her dream was to have her favorite soap stars roll out this sofa this she wanted a like lazy boy sofa and so we rolled that we were meant to roll that out and surprise her and and and we both tried to get out of it i called the pr person like i can't i'm not and and she tried to get out of it as well because of seeing each other of seeing each other and so we we we we get there that day and you asked me what did she do she looked amazing she was i can still see this little like Chanel beautiful jacket mid whatever that's called with a kerchief I'm like she's French all of a sudden and she looked as I mean she's always looks amazing looks amazing but I was I was like oh man she looks so good boy did I screw up and so we do the segment we barely speak to each other I'm trying to speak to her we both smoked cigarettes back then and so she went out to for a smoke break i said do you mind if i come out with you she's like if you want and so that happened and then after the segment was done she lived on the west side i followed her and begged her just to take a walk with me through central park and she really didn't want to but i was convincing and so she did and then we ended up back at my place down i lived downtown and i asked her to marry me like after the walk that same day wow yeah Yeah.
4:14Mark Consuelos:And she said, ask me when you're serious. And I said, I am dead serious. I said, we have a day off work tomorrow. Let's fly to Vegas and get married.
4:22Kelly Ripa:The hot tip for girls. What I'm hearing is that if they break up with you, you need to go cold turkey, completely ignore them. Don't pick up their calls. Don't text back. Do literally nothing. And then when you see them, make sure you look so, so smoking hot and ignore them.
4:41Mark Consuelos:It's like being aloof.
4:43Kelly Ripa:Like just, it's that easy. We have a kind of a similar story as that. I used to do things like that to him. So I totally get her strategy and it works. Yeah, but our gap is like maybe like 15 years. That was the gap. Yeah, I made him wait 15 years. I got to wait around for 15 years.
4:58Mark Consuelos:I got a lot of denials for the walks in the park. But you played the long game. I did play the long game.
5:03Kelly Ripa:I don't think people realize how much work goes in to the soap area. I feel like it's not talked about. from what I've heard off air, it is a lot of work.
5:14Mark Consuelos:It is.
5:15Kelly Ripa:What was that like when you first started and how much work did that entail? Like pull the veil off for the audience.
5:20Mark Consuelos:That was my first job. It came up to New York on that audition and I got it. And so I had a bag that had closed for three days and I just stayed and had all my stuff shipped up. So I really had no context for what other work was like compared to other shows or, you know, doing a play or that's a lot of work as well or other one hours or sitcoms. So this is my first entree into the business. You do a one hour show a day where typically if you watch a one hour show on primetime, that takes eight days, 10 days to shoot. We shoot that in one day. So that's at least 60 pages of dialogue. You're in, depending on how heavy your story is, you're probably in a third of that dialogue.
6:08So
6:08Mark Consuelos:Sometimes they would pack other parts of other shows in that. So I think on the biggest day, I had maybe 30 plus pages of dialogue in one day, maybe more. And then you do it again the next day.
6:22Kelly Ripa:I imagine in a strange way, that's probably great prep work though for other things as you go because you're just kind of thrown in the fire right away.
6:28Mark Consuelos:Yeah, you may not be the best actor, but you definitely learn how to memorize lines. And that was big for me and learning blocking. And because if you screw up, you have to start from the beginning. It's not like other shows where they just clip it and move on. You have to start from the beginning and do the whole scene again.
6:43Kelly Ripa:When you're starting out in that, did you know that you were setting the foundation for your career and how you sort of did anything is how you did everything?
6:53Mark Consuelos:You know, as a 23-year-old kid from Tampa, I didn't know much. I just knew that, you know, my plan was to move up to New York after college and study theater or acting or get in, you know, join a studio and study and like wait tables at night. And I kind of bypassed that whole part of my story. And so I do know this, that in on soaps, you know, when they hand you, you go pick up your wardrobe from the wardrobe room and you, you know, and then at the end of the day, you hang it up and you bring it back to the wardrobe room. So a lot of the things that I still, I don't go to the wardrobe trailer on shows that I'm on now, but I do still hang up and fold and put my shoes and my socks.
7:40Mark Consuelos:So yeah, I think some of the training that I got as a young man on that show is still, that work ethic is still, is definitely still in me.
7:49Kelly Ripa:That's great husband training.
7:51Mark Consuelos:Yeah.
7:51Kelly Ripa:Where do you think your work ethic comes from? Have you always had it or is it developed over time?
7:55Mark Consuelos:my folks definitely my folks two immigrants definitely very strong immigrant mentality um school you know if b's maybe were okay if you got a c there was it was not okay your family would have disowned me yeah yeah like it was you know so doing well in school if i did a sport i had to do really really well you know just kind of always pushing to be better than where we were at at the current moment. So I think it definitely came from my mother and my father.
8:30Kelly Ripa:How did you pivot out of soaps?
8:33Mark Consuelos:I did some theater while I was doing a soap, which was great. I somehow negotiated when I was on the soap that I could take pilot season and go to Los Angeles. And if I got a pilot, I could leave the show. And I don't know how I negotiated that, but they said, sure. and so it just took a lot of you know you know as any actor you just auditioning and i got a movie and then finally when i left the show i you know transitioned to nighttime stuff and some movies
9:03Kelly Ripa:but mainly nighttime stuff and while this is going on are you simultaneously building your family or
9:10Mark Consuelos:yes yeah we had a kid our we had our child at 26 michael was when we we got pregnant quick and we had, you know, we were kids raising a kid. And Michael is funny. He says he's like the third in our relationship. And we're like, what are you talking about? He goes, I pretty much, we all grew up together. We all grew up together. And he knows that, which is kind of interesting for a kid to understand that we were also just growing up. And when you have your first kid,
9:41Kelly Ripa:how were you guys able to maintain the pace of your careers? We think about that all the time. We're on our third kid now and things change.
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9:47Mark Consuelos:Yeah.
9:47Kelly Ripa:And I was thinking just about the early days of the show because we started it close to a decade ago. No kids, young, tons of energy.
9:54Mark Consuelos:Yep.
9:55Kelly Ripa:And it's just a different dance now.
9:56Mark Consuelos:Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if it wasn't well thought out. We just did it. You know, being on a soap, you know, we could bring a caretaker with us there while we were working. So our kids were always around us. Shortly after that, Kelly got the daytime show, which is the perfect schedule for a working mom. You're done by noon or shortly after that. So she was, she was always been extremely involved, even as busy as she is. I can say that even before I got this gig with Kelly, I think for seven years, I wasn't really living at home. I was either in Los Angeles or in New Mexico or in Canada for months at a time.
10:36Mark Consuelos:So she really held down the fort. And I think as actors, we've always had New York city as a base, which is really, really rare, you know? And given that the soaps were shot here initially and then live is, you know, was the anchor that kept us here. So our kids never really changed schools. They always went to the same school. They always live. We changed homes as they grew up, but they really had, they grew up in New York City.
11:03Kelly Ripa:And what was the transition like from traveling so much to then being able to be home?
11:08Mark Consuelos:I think it was great.
11:09Kelly Ripa:Yeah.
11:10Mark Consuelos:Yeah. Because the last few years of travel were right smack dab in the pandemic. and I was working in Canada at the time and whenever I came and went to Canada, I would have to quarantine for two weeks at a time. So I couldn't leave. So if I had five days off, typically before COVID, I would fly home and I'd take a red eye home and I'd be home for four days and I'd take a flight back to Vancouver and I'd go back to work. Or if in a specific episode, if I only had two days of work out of 10 day shoot, I'd do my two days and I'd fly home but during the pandemic that changed everything and I think we the last year I worked on a show in Vancouver I was gone it was a 10-month shoot and I think I was home 20 days.
11:57Wow that's tough. Yeah I mean oh I remember I came home and she was sleeping on my
12:03Mark Consuelos:side of the bed and I said like she says just closer to the door and this is where you sleep but it's closer. And I kind of looked at her. I go, yeah, but this is my side of the bed. She's like, you don't live here. You live in Canada. This is where I sleep. I said, you're right. You're right. I guess I'll take the other side.
12:20Kelly Ripa:So what do you do about that? Like, how did you decide that this isn't working?
12:24Mark Consuelos:It came down, my contract was over. And I think there might've, you know, I knew that I wanted to come back to New York. And when this opportunity came up to to join her on the show, I thought, man, this, you know, we started out working together under really hard circumstances, new parents, young kids, 12 hour days, you know, and we worked, our storylines were always together. So there was a lot, we worked, we were working together a lot and that, and then I think we also lived in New Jersey for like a year and a half, two years of that. So we commuted a lot of that, that was insane. You commuted together?
13:01Mark Consuelos:Yes, commuted together. So there was an hour commute, 12-hour day, another hour commute back. So that was really under hard circumstances.
13:10Kelly Ripa:I'm very excited to learn from you because obviously we have a similar dynamic where we work together. And my advice on this show is I tell couples not to do it. When they ask, I say don't do it. Because it's really, I actually think in a weird way, and she may disagree, figuring out this dynamic has been easier than figuring out how to be a couple, how to be parents together. It depends on the day. The professional relationship together is a harder thing.
13:32Mark Consuelos:It definitely is. It absolutely is. But in this iteration of us working together, my calculus was I had filled in so many times, I think over a hundred times. And sometimes it was if I was home from Vancouver and Ryan got sick or something, she'd wake me up at like 7.30 in the morning, said, can you do the show today? I said, when does it start? She said, we have to leave in like 10 minutes. can you be ready i said sure yeah i just shave and shower i'm put on a suit or whatever and i just go with her and i'm like but i knew that out of those hundred times that i did it it was so much fun i'm working with arguably the best in the business it's quite agreed yeah incredible career she's amazing i've done it so many times with her times where i kind of was screwing up and she'd always, she always saved me, always kept the ball in the air.
14:31Kelly Ripa:What's a screw up? Like, what?
14:33Mark Consuelos:Like, you know, you have a huge guest on the show and I freeze. I'm like starstruck and she's committing, she's conducting the interview by herself.
14:40Kelly Ripa:Who are you starstruck by?
14:42Mark Consuelos:Oh gosh. Let me, let me think about that. Yeah. But along the way, for sure, you know, starstruck. I didn't know how to like, you know, what to say. And she would just handle the interview. And then we, you know, the host chats are always fun and great because it's us. And I have such a good rapport. We have such a good rapport. and she's so funny and she's so quick. And I trust her because that relationship, as you know, you have to trust each other so much because things can go left or right, you know? And I knew that through that, my whole experience had been great. And the fan response was always great.
15:16Mark Consuelos:And so I said, look, I haven't been home. I'd love to be home for a while. I get to work with someone who's really good at what they do. The schedule is amazing. you know we're out of there early you know noon-ish I have the flexibility to maybe do a play because I haven't been in New York for such a long time and I'd like to do this now and so that was kind of the calculus I the calculations that we that we made.
15:42Kelly Ripa:And did all of that fall into line as you wanted it to?
15:45Mark Consuelos:Oh yeah I will say that you know the hundred times plus that I filled in there were no consequences. I was a hero. I showed up, I saved the day. You know, I was like, and I had no, it wasn't my job. I was just filling in. As soon as it became real and it was for real, there was definitely a period of time where I was probably overthinking things. And it was like, wait, I'm, you know, and she's like, relax, you're doing fine. Or if I would screw something up, reading off a teleprompter, I thought it was like the biggest deal ever. Whereas before, I don't even remember reading Alpha Telepron, I didn't remember what I was saying.
16:22Mark Consuelos:So I think that the weight of the decision became super real for me. And I think it goes back to what does success mean for me? I want to be good at what I do.
16:31Kelly Ripa:And do you have an inner monologue that, me and Mark, who we're friends with, I was talking about you and I was like, I wonder who you compete with at this point. Is it yourself and your inner monologue? Are there ideas of yourself or other people? When you think about what's driving you and pushing you.
16:47Mark Consuelos:I think myself. Yeah, for sure.
16:49Kelly Ripa:What does that look like inside your head?
16:51Mark Consuelos:It could be at the gym. You know, that's a daily competition with myself. I'm not competing against anybody. There's nobody else. I know what I need to do. I know what I'm there to do. I know if I didn't do it, being prepared for my morning show. I, you know, I want to be prepared. We get notes the night before. I wouldn't say I pour over them because at this point, after two years, You kind of know how it goes. Being, I would say, being present on that show is super important. That's, you know, not thinking about, you know, the 20 other things that are going through my mind. That's a competition that I kind of keep with myself, be really present.
17:31Mark Consuelos:Knowing that the assignment for that show in the morning, it's unlike any other show where we're not a new show. People are not there to hear anything super serious. They're there for a reprieve, I think. And that's our assignment. So I think that making sure I do that and I get the energy up to do that every day, I'm competitive with myself about that.
18:01Kelly Ripa:And what are the things you're doing to prepare and to get yourself in that headspace? Not only just in the work, but in the gym. I think it's interesting for people to know, because like I said, you're a high performer in a lot of areas and i think that inner dialogue is important i'll look at pictures of me like two or three years ago look like better or worse and i want
18:19Mark Consuelos:to be because i was i think i'm in i'm you know at 50 i was definitely in better shape than i was at 30. interesting yeah and i just got serious and you know i take health very seriously i have very few vices i love a cigar nice but that's about it and so i try to i know that you know that that that that kind of health is is is it's fleeting and knowing what the next stage as you know i'm 54 going and what is 60 going to look like what i what do i want to be where i where do i want to be doing at 60 and what i what how do i want to look at 60 and it seems super vain but i also want to be able to play with my grandkids and I want to be able to run around and you know do that I took up golf that's a whole other level of competition a lot of time you know I like to play by myself okay if I can I it's totally therapeutic so I run around that golf course I can get done in less than two hours yeah imagine if you're doing it by yourself and not lugging around the group you can you can know not a lot of conversation just a few conversations with myself like, oh, why did you do that?
19:34Mark Consuelos:So that's, I love that, that competitive side because you're really playing against yourself.
19:39Kelly Ripa:I'm curious how you think about time and, and maybe specifically in a day, because how do you get it all done? How do you make sure you're hitting all the buckets? Do you have a set schedule every single day or do you live and die by the calendar?
19:52Mark Consuelos:Down by the, to the, to the hour. Typically, if there's a window of four or five hours, I love that because then it's just decompress and just kind of heal a little bit and just kind of don't do nothing sometimes i do nothing which is great but usually it's pretty it's pretty regimented and what's the morning routine before you go in okay so and what time do you guys have to go in early i imagine yeah early but not as early everybody thinks you know they think wow you must get up at three or four o 'clock that's what i thought no the show is live at nine o 'clock in the morning.
20:27Kelly Ripa:Oh, that's so nice. Okay.
20:28Mark Consuelos:So it's live at nine. I walk into the studio at eight. Oh, I wake up at six.
20:33Kelly Ripa:Okay.
20:34Mark Consuelos:Theoretically I could wake up at seven and shower and shave and be in my car at seven 20 with no problem. But Kelly gets up a little bit earlier and starts to prepare. And I like, I get up to make her a cup of coffee. So I get up at six and I think it'd probably be a mistake to get up at seven because I'm not fully awake by your, it takes me, it takes me a little bit to get awake.
20:55Kelly Ripa:I think you need two hours before you do anything. I agree.
20:59Mark Consuelos:So six by eight o 'clock, I'm awake. I walk into the studio and I got to tell you the hardest, I think the most nervous I get about anything during the day at 828, I do what's called a live cut in. And so for ABC news in New York city and the Triborough area. So anybody that's watching ABC and what that means is they say, hey, we're going to cut to Marc Inswell. He's going to tell you what's on live today. And so I have to tell them who's on the show and what we're doing. And the thought that I'm on the news really freaks me out.
21:32Kelly Ripa:Oh my gosh, that's so crazy.
21:34Mark Consuelos:It freaks me out that I'm on ABC News in New York, the biggest market in the country.
21:39Kelly Ripa:You're on one of the biggest television shows and that freaks you out.
21:42Mark Consuelos:To me, being on the news is completely different. And I don't know why.
21:48Kelly Ripa:It feels more serious, maybe.
21:49Mark Consuelos:It's totally serious. I'm reading off a teleprompter and I'm a little dyslexic, if not a lot. And so I know that it's going to be an issue and I'm going to get something wrong probably. And it's okay. And sometimes I don't get anything wrong. That's great. The first year, they probably, they could have a blooper reel of the slip ups and the mess ups that I do. But that to me is probably the most nerve wracking part of my work day.
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26:59Mark Consuelos:when she gets up and she goes to you know and then i see her in the in the bathroom we're getting
27:03Kelly Ripa:ready for work and do you guys have a strategy sesh or do you just kind of throw it to the wall it's like it we never talk about work wow we never talk about really michael are you writing notes right now that's the secret i am literally in the shower dry brushing it like trying to have one moment to myself of peace and he's like so what do you what do you maybe that's the the
27:25Mark Consuelos:secret that's the secret we talk too much about it but on the flip side when i was doing a show and she was doing this show we would talk about work all the time we would say how was your day and we talk about it now we know how our day went ah we may talk about something that struck us as funny okay like that was really funny today and we'll say that or whoa that was weird or but yeah
27:52Kelly Ripa:You don't really need the, hey honey, how was your day thing? Cause you were, I still want it. Even if you were with me all day, just so you know, well, we still, yeah, we, we, she's a big, we have to re talk about the thing. I like to take the cadaver on the table. We'll dissect it. We'll dissect this moment later. I didn't want to talk about this. Mark and Hillion know this. Turn it over.
28:14Mark Consuelos:Really?
28:15Kelly Ripa:Oh yeah. Oh my God. We don't even,
28:17Mark Consuelos:you know, I gotta tell you, there's this thing called talk show amnesia.
28:19Kelly Ripa:Okay.
28:20Mark Consuelos:If you were to ask me who was on the show today. I know exactly what you're talking about. I know exactly what you're talking about.
28:26Kelly Ripa:Are you serious you don't know who was on the show?
28:27Mark Consuelos:One person, Joanne Froggitt, because I think the name is interesting and I love her on Mobland.
28:32Kelly Ripa:That's interesting. It's almost like you're in your flow and your routine.
28:35Mark Consuelos:And then it's gone. You forget sometimes who you've spoken to or the conversation.
28:39Kelly Ripa:It's not that you forget the person, you forget the conversation.
28:41Mark Consuelos:Dude, I hope you remember this conversation later.
28:43Kelly Ripa:I will remember this one. You know why? We're going to go to dinner and she's going to beat the dead horse. I'm going to dissect it. She's going to unbear it. Don't worry, it's good. It's all good. It's all good. I think that when you, it seems, when you do what you guys do for a living, and kind of this goes with us too, is like you only have capacity for so much in your brain. And when you're interviewing all these different people, you have to like move on to the next one or you have to like clear capacity.
29:05Mark Consuelos:Does that make sense? Bandwidth.
29:07Kelly Ripa:Yes. Bandwidth is a better word. Storage.
29:09Mark Consuelos:Totally.
29:09Kelly Ripa:I think being a host of a show is different than being interviewed because you kind of have to keep it moving along. And so you're one, trying to be present in the moment, but you're also trying to make sure that it's flowing and going well.
29:20Mark Consuelos:That's right. So you're keeping kind of like two opposing ideas in your head. We had Charlie Sheen on this week. I remember that interview. I want to talk to that guy.
29:26Kelly Ripa:I just started his book.
29:28Mark Consuelos:Did you see the, no, you haven't seen the documentary. I haven't seen the documentary. We watched the documentary.
29:32Kelly Ripa:Okay.
29:33Mark Consuelos:Fascinating. It's a fascinating life. You know why he's so great?
29:36Kelly Ripa:Because he's so honest.
29:38Mark Consuelos:That's right.
29:38Kelly Ripa:It's refreshing.
29:40Mark Consuelos:I agree. It's like he lays it all,
29:42Kelly Ripa:he lays the cadaver on the table.
29:44Mark Consuelos:Yeah, and all, and look under the covers.
29:47Kelly Ripa:lets you look everywhere under everywhere everywhere and to have his exes you'll see on the in the dock he has his ex-wives and they speak freely wow yeah no and there's still love there i mean just went on the carpet with him right i think for his event she's been on the show and i thought that was nice because they were together and it seemed like you know very yeah he had heidi
30:05Mark Consuelos:fleiss on the show who was like the madam that he was she's pissed at him she's really angry at him still.
30:11Kelly Ripa:Wow.
30:12Mark Consuelos:Because he had to testify.
30:13Kelly Ripa:Oh.
30:14Mark Consuelos:Against her.
30:15Kelly Ripa:Okay. I forgot about that. I can't wait to watch this talk.
30:17Mark Consuelos:It's great. What a life. Yeah.
30:19Kelly Ripa:You have had, in my opinion, one of the most successful marriages in Hollywood. How have you guys managed to do that? How have you blocked out the noise? I'm sure you could ask this a lot, but like, what are, what are the secrets after reflecting back?
30:33Mark Consuelos:The first thing is that we would say that we're really not in Hollywood. We live in New York. And I know it's kind of like a pedantic type of thing, but I think it's, there's something about New York that you got to be tough and there's a bunch of stuff going on every day, bigger than you. And nobody has time for any of that stuff. So that's cool. I think that was also, I think that both our parents are still together. We have, you know, 60 years of our parents together. So that's was like, you know, there's no option. Nope, no option you're getting through it i'm crazy about her i would think that's a huge thing i have i guess just the utmost respect for for who she is as a person i know she's got my back all the time she's extremely patient with me she was extremely patient with me because i did not come you know ready-made as you know a guy that was ready to step up and be that person right away.
31:38Mark Consuelos:And so she was, I don't know, I feel like we really love the idea of sharing a life with someone that you really respect and love and the different chapters in these books. And just like any book that you read, some of the chapters suck and some of the chapters are amazing. And some of the chapters are kind of boring and boring is great. And I love the idea of that when it's all said and done, that we'll have this, you know, if I'm lucky, we'll have this, we'll have this book of us being together and with multiple generations, you know, grandkids, and, you know, we'll, we'll have done it together.
32:17Mark Consuelos:These two silly kids who on a wing and a prayer and like went to Vegas and got married, it's not supposed to work, you know, and it, and so far, you know, knock on wood and May, it'll be 30 years.
32:29Kelly Ripa:Wow. Congratulations. Thanks. Wow. I think I think you're onto something what you said about the boredom thing, because I tell Michael this, no, marriage is like a Wednesday. It's like a Wednesday. You have to like get really comfortable with that Wednesday because it's going to be sort of like, you know.
32:46Mark Consuelos:And thank God for that Wednesday.
32:47Kelly Ripa:Yeah, I like a Wednesday, but you know, sometimes a Wednesday is boring.
32:51Mark Consuelos:Because you can't do Saturday night every day.
32:52Kelly Ripa:You can't do Saturday night every day.
32:53Mark Consuelos:The consistency is not a bad thing. It's a great thing. but the but the generation i think below us maybe our generation too they sometimes want
33:04Kelly Ripa:saturday night every single night yeah and i think like you're really on to something about the boredom thing you have to embrace the boredom part that comes with anyone in any couple sure yeah i mean we think about this all the time we've known each other for so long pre-internet pre-social media we haven't been together that long but we didn't have all of these like for me a similar thought as you. It was like, there was no real other option than to make things work when they get tough. It wasn't just like, oh, that annoyed me for the day. Now I'm on to the next. And it's like the swipe culture of, hey, something made me a little uncomfortable.
33:35Kelly Ripa:I didn't like that just a little bit. And it's like, next, next.
33:37Mark Consuelos:Sure, I mean, we have so many friends that are not married anymore. You know, and I'm like, okay, well, that's, you know, I feel like if you can get through the other side, you know, albeit there are obviously certain circumstances where it should be done and certain behaviors should not be accepted and all that. That's not for this discussion, but if you can make it to the other side, I think it's so rewarding.
34:01Kelly Ripa:Yeah. Yeah. And it builds character in the relationship and it shows that you can kind of get through things together. That's right. You have three kids. What do you want to instill in your children?
34:11Mark Consuelos:You know, I think we started really early on not being assholes. Can I curse on this? Of course. Okay. So being polite. and one I was having a conversation with one of my children recently and I was like taking issue with certain like just like like you can't say that and this is really and I'm like I'm not it wasn't so much of a lecture and he said just know that outside of this house you get nothing but good reports from about me I'm like you're right you're right so but you know I said it's not a bad thing to bring that kind of into this house so that would be number one to be to have some empathy and to be driven to have that inner drive of themselves for themselves to be to do things greater and better than we ever have to be better than us whatever however that is i mean it's not money or just to be just to be six have have a passion and go after it and be happy or you know we we're super proud of our kids and we recently since we've been empty nesters over the past few years because our youngest went to college we essentially are empty nesters for the past four years until he would come home and this past summer we planned a trip to Italy for the first time just just Kelly and me for two weeks and we had to stop over in Switzerland to visit Lola and her boyfriend and their family and then we went to Italy and my daughter's like where are you guys going?
35:42Mark Consuelos:I said, we're going to go to this place. She said, oh my God, I love that place. She says, do you mind if I stop by for a few days? We'd love that. And then my son who just graduated called, he said, what are you guys doing? And we said, we're in Italy. He said, yeah, you mentioned that. Does that offer still stand? I said, of course. And so he flew over. And so we're sitting there with our kids who are in their twenties that still want to be with us and still want to hang out with us. And I think that to us, it might be a reflection of a certain few things that we're doing. We did right.
36:14Kelly Ripa:It's very full circle in what you said at the beginning about family. There's that clip that I'm sure many people have seen. And there's a guy interviewing a billionaire and he says, what does success look like to you? And the guy said, when you get to an age where your grown children actually want to take the time to come and spend it with you. Yeah. And he said, that's basically success. And this guy had financial business success in the world.
36:32Mark Consuelos:I agree. It's great. It's I, and yeah, sure. It would have been a little more, a little more, a lot more romantic. And we had this nice room and there was a room downstairs and there was a room across from us. And our daughter decided to take the room across from us in Italy. I'm like, why are you staying next door to us? Go downstairs.
36:52Kelly Ripa:At least it wasn't a joint room.
36:54Mark Consuelos:No, it wasn't, but it was literally, you know, 10 feet away was across the hall. I'm like, gosh, please just stay downstairs.
37:00Kelly Ripa:Tell us about your entrepreneurship outside of the show. Cause I know you just got a team. You got to tell us about that. Is it bought a team, got a team?
37:09Mark Consuelos:Bought a stake in a team. Bought a stake in an Italian team. Yeah. Okay.
37:12Kelly Ripa:Tell us about that.
37:13Mark Consuelos:You know, I played soccer, not really well, you know, I, but it's definitely a passion of mine. I love the sports so much, you know, being raised in Europe for, you know, first part of my life and having European, you know, my mom's Italian, really falling in love with Italian football. It's been a big, huge part of my life. I love it. I love it. I didn't get any soccer players as kids, which was, you know, a moment that I had to come to terms with because that's what I wanted. I wanted a soccer player. Didn't get one, but that's okay. They're awesome. So when this opportunity came, it came out of nowhere.
37:51Mark Consuelos:Through a friend of a friend, it was opportunity to buy a stake in this club and it went something like this there's a fifth division team in this region of italy they used to be in the third division they went out they went bankrupt so the the federation kicked them out and they have to start in the fifth division and we the season starts in two weeks and i said okay and how do we have any players and And the partner who eventually became a partner said, no. I said, okay, do we have a coach? He said, no. Do we have a stadium? Maybe. I said, when does the season start? He says, two weeks. I said, let's do it.
38:32Mark Consuelos:I think this is awesome. This is great. And the main thing was that, listen, this town of Campobasso had a storied history in Italian football. They never made it past the second division, but still second division soccer in Italy is humongous. you know, Serie A is the ultimate, that's, you know, that's the best. But even in the lower leagues, it can be massive for these towns. And they were going to lose their team unless we stepped in and did something about it. And I said, this is awesome. This is like the best fantasy league I could ever possibly be part of. And that was three years ago.
39:08Kelly Ripa:And so what is your interaction with the team, like kind of day to day or month to month look like?
39:12Mark Consuelos:You know, I thought it was going to be more of a silent partnership, but my partner, Matt Rosetta, who's amazing. And he'd been involved in Italian soccer a few years before that. He does a lot of the heavy lifting, but he brought me in really early on with a lot of the player selections, a lot of the coach and general manager selections, dealing with sponsors, dealing with all facets of it. So it was kind of like an MBA in professional sports that I like just jumped into and I knew that I was spending a lot of time on the phone I knew that I was but every time Kelly would walk in the room and I'm speaking Italian because we're talking to Italy and she was like turn around and walk out like oh man this is a lot of time and this is taking a lot of time but I loved it loved it and getting to you know our first two years we won two championships so we made it right back up to the third division where the team was before we bought them and which is where we currently sit currently sit it sounds creative
40:11Kelly Ripa:too for you like to be able to put all the pieces together it pushes all my buttons the competitive
40:16Mark Consuelos:side i'm extremely i'm extremely competitive typically with myself but then when it's a soccer when it's my soccer team i'm very competitive and it's creative we have to design uniforms which i think are very cool i mean that they're going to be wearing that kit for the full season and it's amazing. There's drama every day. There are people, there are fires to put out every single day. I do like problem solving. So it pushes, it pushes that button for me too. A little bit of problem solving and you get really comfortable with, with losing as well, which I probably needed to do a little bit.
40:55Kelly Ripa:I think that you should do a little marriage therapy on Michael and I. Cause so I saw you guys' house. I think it was an arc digest. I want to say. Somewhere online, I saw your beautiful home.
41:05Mark Consuelos:Yes.
41:05Kelly Ripa:Did you have a say? Did Kelly have a say? Did you guys work together? Because we butt heads in the design department, but it sounds like you like to be creative. Don't you think she should not maybe like step into like the garage portion of the design? No, the garage is all mine. I feel like that's like an overstep. I don't know. I would say
41:23Mark Consuelos:you got to give her something and she's got to give you something on that. Like, does she have a hair sink maybe that she can get her hair done?
41:29Kelly Ripa:A hair sink? Oh, hair sink. like a blowout bar. Yeah. I thought you meant like a vanity. I might.
41:34Mark Consuelos:Well, maybe I'll use that too. You know, like a place you can get your hair.
41:37Kelly Ripa:Yeah, give me a hair sink.
41:38Mark Consuelos:And then you'll have your garage. Don't you set up a water? It's negotiations, Mike. It's negotiations. I want to set up a cigar room. I know you're big on cigars. I have a cigar room. Yeah, see? You have that.
41:46Kelly Ripa:That's where I saw the cigar room that I sent to you. That's important.
41:49Mark Consuelos:That's important to have.
41:50Kelly Ripa:So did you have hands-on like authority?
41:52Mark Consuelos:I love architecture. Design is, you know, I work with people that are really good at that. and I do have opinions, but I work with people that give me just a few choices and I know what I like. I know what I like and I know what I don't like. I don't necessarily know how to create like a color palette or any of that stuff, but like spatial things in architecture, I'm super fascinated about.
42:20Kelly Ripa:So is it Kelly's infusion of her opinion on the design or do you feel like you have like your own she's trying to lead you down the route of like you don't have a say but it sounds like you have a say i think i think if you're next i think if you would ask kelly
42:34Mark Consuelos:she would say it's my i was a driving force through every detail really yeah well huh it's
42:42Kelly Ripa:like we're gonna have to be wrong she did say i think i would love a hair sink i go perfect this
42:49Mark Consuelos:is how we're gonna do this and what do you want and i think she's super happy about everything in the house. So I might give you a hair sink. You know, though, with the hair sink,
42:58Kelly Ripa:you have to attach a special water thing or there's like something you have to do to the water.
43:03Mark Consuelos:A filter? I don't know what it's called. A drain?
43:06Kelly Ripa:No, you have to like get something in the house that connects. I don't know what it's called. We're not going to solve it in this episode. Yeah. Okay. One of the biggest topics on this show is health and wellness. Okay. And this could be a whole episode with you. If you and I were sitting down, I would be drilling you for hours just about your routines. But what are the kind of non-negotiables for you? Like, what are you doing every week, every day? Like the things you keep coming back to, to take care of yourself?
43:30Mark Consuelos:At least four or five days in the gym.
43:31Kelly Ripa:Weightlifting?
43:32Mark Consuelos:Yep. Okay. Pretty strict on my diet. I got this crazy calculator that calculates my macros. The chrono type of thing? Chronometer. Chronometer. Love it. Love it. This just tells you everything.
43:44Kelly Ripa:Are you eating mainly meat? Are you a vegetarian?
43:46Mark Consuelos:Like what's your - I do eat a a lot of meat and fish. I'm not a vegetarian. I hit my protein goals. Nice. Because I know that as I get older, I'm losing muscle daily. At least in my mind, that's the fight that I'm fighting. So I want to keep fueling that. Sleep, I'm getting better at. I'm getting better at sleep. Have you guys tried to eat sleep yet? I was one of the first. Yeah. Do you have any sleep? Yeah. I had to fight her for it.
44:12Kelly Ripa:Do you know how to turn it on?
44:13Mark Consuelos:Yes.
44:13Kelly Ripa:No, him. Of course. It's on
44:15Mark Consuelos:every night it's amazing it is a i have to say though it is it is a little clumsy if you know if we have it in a couple places so it tells me i'm somewhere else sometimes i'm not there i'm here i think the best feature of the eight sleep obviously is the cooling if you do you like it hot i like it cool oh you like it cool and you like it cold my wife likes it hot all night what do you do so but i'm on it's split on the middle oh so i didn't know that uh-huh we have different settings i can control my i'm i'm like in a you could refrigerate meat on my side and she's could you could cook meat on her side but i think the best feature of eight sleep is how to wake up is that vibration the best no more like alarms it just it just he still uses them it's a gentle
45:03Kelly Ripa:i need that alarm across the room to make me the vibration won't wake you up it will wake me up but I might pass back out. I get up like, are kids, and maybe, I don't know what's going on with these school schedules. Why do they start so early?
45:15Mark Consuelos:And why aren't they in school all the time?
45:18Kelly Ripa:I don't know. Like, I don't, but my whole thing is like somebody should lobby about why these kids have to start. It's probably not good for them from a health perspective either. Well, how early is early? Like they have to be at school. 7.30. At 7.40.
45:29Mark Consuelos:Is that early? I forget.
45:32Kelly Ripa:It's hard to rip them out of bed at 6.30, shove food in their face when they don't want to eat. And then like.
45:37Mark Consuelos:It is early. brush the hair, the girls,
45:40Kelly Ripa:they don't like, you know, it's just, it's a lot of like,
45:43Mark Consuelos:yeah, I don't, I forgot about that. I haven't had to deal with that for a decade. And then they go and they get sick all the time. Yeah, strep throat, pink eye. Oh, we haven't had double pink eye.
45:52Kelly Ripa:We haven't had hand to mouth or whatever that is.
45:54Mark Consuelos:Yeah, hand to mouth, hand in mouth.
45:56Kelly Ripa:Hand in mouth.
45:56Mark Consuelos:Hand in mouth. Any lice? No, not yet, but no lice. We haven't had, I think we, we, we had a scare once, but that was, that was about it.
46:03Kelly Ripa:If they get lice on my eight sleep, it's going to be a hard one for me.
46:07Mark Consuelos:But sleep is a big, it's huge, huge.
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48:14Kelly Ripa:They are the best. So if you're looking for diapers or wipes, that is what I would recommend. That is what I use on my newborn, my toddlers, their hands, all the things. All their products are multitasking. So they also have a first wash. It's a tear-free hair and body wash that leaves everything so silky. They have a soft cream that lightly but so effectively moisturizes both body and face. And they have a bum balm. And this is a gorgeous occlusive balm that I love not only for diaper changes, but also for dry patches all over. So if you're looking for a brand that really gets it, that has a big focus on ingredient, you know what an ingredient checker I am, and you're looking to put it on your baby's skin, this is a really good brand to check out.
48:58Kelly Ripa:I personally love this brand because it takes a lot of guesswork out of it. Everything is hypoallergenic, dermatologist tested, made without fragrance, which is really important to me, or parabens. It's cruelty-free, vegan, microbiome-friendly, and pH balanced. They do all of the heavy lifting for us. Head to Coterie.com and use code SKINNY20 at checkout for 20 % off your first order at Coterie.com. Definitely get the dipes and the wipers. I do not mess around when it comes to my creatine. I have been taking creatine for probably the last two years. I habit stack it. I put it in a big tumbler with a bunch of ice.
49:35Kelly Ripa:I froth it up with some aminos. I love it. The creatine that I use is by Momentus. We have talked about this brand so many times. They're very specific about their ingredients. They don't follow trends. They don't use any generic ingredients. Everything is thought out. So they have this new creatine lemon and this is the purest creatine on the planet. Okay. So it's pharmaceutical grade creatine. It's single sourced from Germany. It's not bulk creatine or questionable origin. It's like very legit creatine. And that's this brand. Like I'm telling you, it's like no fillers, no artificial junk. Everything is validated and their creatine is awesome.
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52:16Kelly Ripa:That's J-O-I-N-B-L-V-D.com to learn more. J-O-I-N-B-L-V-D.com. So obsessed with this brow peptide. I use it all day long. I use it in the morning. I use it to touch up my brows. I even use it at night. Why it's amazing is it's castor oil. Castor oil is what Egyptians used to use to grow their hair. And I added a peptide to it. So it's a little oomph. So many of these brow growth serums on the market are melting the fat around the eyes, which is so crazy. And this one is just non-toxic. I use it while pregnant and it just gives your brows this like glazed, useful look, almost like a feathered brow.
52:59Kelly Ripa:It's so pretty. I caught Michael using it. That's how like clean it is. A guy can use it and it lifts your face. I use this after my skincare. so in the morning I habit stack it onto all of my skincare so I'll do everything I'll put my caffeinated sunscreen on and then I'll just use the spoolie to go through my brows and brush them up and like I said it gives you like a wet lifted look and then I also will use the little lash one see how we have like a little lash situation at the bottom on top of my lashes before I go to bed after my skincare. You can touch up your brows with this. I sometimes even will use brow pencil.
53:40Kelly Ripa:My makeup artists use it. I think this is my favorite Skinny Confidential product. I'm very, very proud of this. And it works. It grows your brows because like I said, castor oil, Egyptians, telling you, you got to try this. I have one in every purse. You can't go wrong. You can subscribe on our site, shopskinnyconfidential.com, and it's delivered straight to your door. If you want to upgrade your beauty routine and upgrade your eyebrows and lift your face, you got to try the Skinny Confidential's Brow Peptide. Do you do anything cold plunge, sauna, red light, anything like that?
54:17Mark Consuelos:I do sauna. I love that a lot. I do cold plunge. I find it hard to do it in a place that it's cold outside.
54:26Kelly Ripa:Yeah, that is hard.
54:27Mark Consuelos:You know, so I do it when it's really like warm and I can get out into the sun right afterwards. I'm a bit of a wimp that way. But yeah, it's great.
54:36Kelly Ripa:If you were to give our audience one piece of advice when it comes to interviewing, say someone wants to be an interview, they're a podcaster. I'm asking this for myself, their self too. What would that be? What makes a good interviewer?
54:49Mark Consuelos:I guess being really interested, being curious, yeah, being interested and being okay with going off script a little bit sometimes. Yeah. I wouldn't say, you know, usually we know what people don't want to talk about. I don't I'm not saying going there but kind of going maybe it's it's okay to make a left turn at Albuquerque and go go into go into another something you're curious about I find that fun especially within an open format like you guys have where you have time to talk and on our show it's pretty you know two to three minute segments so you're pretty limited to how deep you can go
55:23Kelly Ripa:and so when you only have two to three minute segments and what if someone says something that
55:28Mark Consuelos:shouldn't be on there does that happen it does happen yeah sometimes ride it they gotta ride it and they you know it's way out of my depth of what people are doing with the commercial time and all that stuff but yeah they're telling me to wrap it up and i in my head i'm like all right we gotta wrap this up and they're going and there's a bit of leeway sometimes it makes the
55:46Kelly Ripa:later segments a little shorter do you see the guests before they go on in sometimes so just
55:51Mark Consuelos:depends yeah depends in the in the old studio is much easier to see the guests because our Our dressing rooms were across the hall from them. Now they're in a different section. They're all over there. We're in the new Disney building downtown. They're in a green room. That's a nice building. It's beautiful.
56:07Kelly Ripa:That's a nice building.
56:08Mark Consuelos:It's a really, and they're down the hall. If I have a friend coming that I know, I'll find them and I'll go say hi to them.
56:14Kelly Ripa:And do you rip out of there right when you're done or do you have to do like a protocol before you leave?
56:19Mark Consuelos:When I'm done, I usually rip out of there.
56:22Kelly Ripa:That's so nice. What a dream job.
56:24Mark Consuelos:Yeah, it is. it's funny though as you were talking whenever i've been on news type programs i find it
56:31Kelly Ripa:challenging because with this you can kind of slow and stop and go and we can go in all bunch of different directions it doesn't really matter i find myself talking really fast on those you
56:40Mark Consuelos:have to get to the points yeah you can like hear somebody in your ear saying like you know wrap it up yeah we don't have any of that thank god we don't have any of those things in our ears
56:47Kelly Ripa:but we have people going oh that would drive me nuts and is the audience are you feeding off the
56:52Mark Consuelos:audience's energy yes you know i again during covid we didn't have an audience when i would when i would fill in and it was cool it was fine you get used to it with an audience it's great we found that for some reason on tuesdays the audiences are more reserved it's a tuesday audience i don't know why it's tuesdays maybe people in general are a little more reserved on tuesdays so you you know you don't take it personal if it's a little quieter you just know
57:17Kelly Ripa:there's a tuesday audience who have been some of your favorite people that you've interviewed uh carol burnett was absolutely amazing cate blanchett amazing i'm such a big fan of hers
57:28Mark Consuelos:again if i could remember everybody who's been on i told you i have a little bit of amnesia
57:32Kelly Ripa:that makes sense though that's exactly what happens to us i feel like well i just think you when you talk for a living you talk to a lot of people it's not that you again like if you see some on the street you'll be like oh i remember but it's just like trying to recall it off the top of your head is challenging yeah yeah we have rapid fire questions for you let's do it Best piece of advice you've ever received?
57:51Mark Consuelos:Never take advice from someone who's more screwed up than you. That's a great piece of advice.
57:57Kelly Ripa:What's your favorite thing about working with your wife?
57:59Mark Consuelos:That I'm in the presence of greatness.
58:01Kelly Ripa:Oh. Yeah. Do you say that about me?
58:04Mark Consuelos:Yes.
58:04Kelly Ripa:I say it to everyone all day long, but only when you're not around. That's good tips. I don't want to get your head too big. Biggest risk you've ever taken? Today? Sure.
58:16Mark Consuelos:Oh, gosh. I think I roll the dice a lot. God, I can't really think of, I would guess, you know, sometimes it might be like a piece of real estate. Like this is going to work. I wouldn't say getting married was the easiest best bet I ever made. I would say, yeah, probably like just like maybe financial stuff.
58:35Kelly Ripa:What's the most underrated restaurant in New York City?
58:38Mark Consuelos:Most underrated restaurant in New York City.
58:42Kelly Ripa:Like where are you and Mark and Keith and Kelly going? Like, where's the place?
58:47Mark Consuelos:Underrated. Hmm.
58:49Kelly Ripa:A good spot.
58:50Mark Consuelos:Mullet, do you have any suggestions for that? Oh, gosh. What's that? Oh, yeah. Oh, you know what? Yes. That's right. That's right. I would say my dining room table in my house.
59:04Kelly Ripa:Tell us about Sunday Night Chinese.
59:06Mark Consuelos:Sunday Night Chinese. Well, first of all, it's a tradition here in New York City that Chinese food is a big deal. You know, we not so often, not often enough, but we'll get together with some great friends and we'll catch up. And then the type of friends that it doesn't matter if you've seen them once in six months or once, you know, or twice that weekend, you can pick up and plug in right where you left off. I love those kinds of friends.
59:36Kelly Ripa:Last and final question. I think I know what you're going to say. What's your favorite guilty pleasure?
59:41Mark Consuelos:A cigar.
59:43Kelly Ripa:What kind? Michael's a big cigar guy. Are you? Yeah. I don't want to say big, but I love a good cigar. And as I've gotten older, I've gotten more into my, less alcohol, more cigars. Which one should he try? I think they're much better for you actually. And people don't like when I say that.
59:56Mark Consuelos:Yeah. I would say that my favorite right now is a Romeo and Julieta, short Churchill. Short Churchill. Short Churchill. show it's like a it's a nice gauge yeah it's a kind of a robusto size it's like 30 or 40 minutes
1:00:12Kelly Ripa:yeah whenever i've had one too many i take a couple puffs of that but i forget that you can't
1:00:18Mark Consuelos:swallow it or you mean inhale inhale pull that clip and then like every single morning i wake up
1:00:27Kelly Ripa:and i'm like oh my god why do i feel so bad and it's because i took a couple swallows of your cigars. Swallows. Pull that clip, splice it up. No, that I think is another reason people have a bad time with those is they don't realize you can't smoke it like a cigarette.
1:00:42Mark Consuelos:I think it's more, that one's more of like an hour, 45 minutes to an hour cigarette. Sorry, cigar.
1:00:47Kelly Ripa:Okay. And what is your favorite one
1:00:49Mark Consuelos:right now?
1:00:50Kelly Ripa:I don't know. I don't have a favorite one. A buddy of mine gave me these Monte Cristos. Oh shit, which ones were they? Bundos? I don't remember. You got to know your cigars before this interview. Like I said, I'm new to it. This is I did get a nice box. You should have seen a cigar room. Yeah. Well, I don't have a cigar room yet because you're worried about your hair room or whatever it's going to be.
1:01:10Mark Consuelos:Yeah, you have to have good ventilation in the cigar room.
1:01:12Kelly Ripa:Yeah, I've been gifted some. What are the ones that you got me from Vic? I have no idea. I just said good cigars. These are Arturo Fuentes, rare pinks. Amazing. Yeah, those are great.
1:01:24Mark Consuelos:Those are really good.
1:01:24Kelly Ripa:Those are great. Rare pinks, that's cute. But I'm new to it, right? So I don't have like my go-to.
1:01:29Mark Consuelos:Do you watch a game while you're smoking it? Or do you with your buddies?
1:01:32Kelly Ripa:I either have with buddies or I'll go outside and I'll be by myself. I like, it's very meditative for me. I agree. And it's done. Sometimes a lot of times I like it almost when I'm not being social, just to kind of sit and think.
1:01:45Mark Consuelos:My daughter who lives in London called me the other day and she said, dad, I was walking on the street and I, a guy, somebody, a gentleman was smoking a cigar and it made me think of you.
1:01:56Kelly Ripa:Oh,
1:01:57Mark Consuelos:she loves the smell of the smell, the smell of a cigar.
1:02:00Kelly Ripa:Yeah. No, I think it's like a very, especially now is like limiting a little bit of alcohol, especially alcohol. I've had some good times with alcohol, but as you get older, it's rough, especially with those young kids getting up in the morning. So, you know, I can have a cigar and feel fine the next day. If I, if I have two drinks or even smell any, I'm, I'm done for a week. Yeah. Yeah. Where can everyone find you?
1:02:18Mark Consuelos:9am on check your local listings and either we're, we're, you know, we're on multiple networks and 9am in New York on ABC.
1:02:27Kelly Ripa:Thank you so much for coming on. What an honor to interview you. Thank you.
1:02:30Mark Consuelos:interviewer of the world you you guys are awesome i really hope you get your hair sync i will and i really hope you get your cigar room i will or cigar our garage where i don't know where you're
1:02:41Kelly Ripa:gonna put that well now it's we'll have to make some compromises thank you mark thank you guys
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#885: Join us as we sit down with Mark Consuelos – actor & TV host, best known for his role on All My Children & as co-host of Live with Kelly & Mark alongside his wife, Kelly Ripa. In this episode, Mark gets real about what success means to him, how he & Kelly have built a strong 30-year marriage, & what it's really like raising a family while working day-to-day in the entertainment industry. He reflects on his early soap days, the relentless discipline that shaped his career, & how health, fitness, & family guide everything he does. We also dive into his leap in the co-ownership of Campobasso FC – an Italian soccer team, how he prepares for live TV, & the routines that keep him performing at his peak, on & off-screen!
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