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Don Johnson on Co-Starring with Cheech Marin in the Revival of ‘Nash Bridges’ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Nov 17, 2021
Thanksgiving weekend premiere date will mark the return of ‘Nash Bridges’ as a 2-hour movie on USA Network.
The original cast members Don Johnson and Cheech Marin will be returning as elite investigators for the San Francisco Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit. Johnson called in to Sway In The Morning to talk about the reboot of a classic.
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Don Johnson on Co-Starring with Cheech Marin in the Revival of ‘Nash Bridges’ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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that's nice to say about somebody right
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ain't it
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you go to go the way with a man actor
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producer director singer songwriter dad
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and resident of the bay area the one and
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only don johnson is back
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[Applause]
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hey man i'm just cruising around here
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trying to stay out of trouble
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are you in your car right now
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no right now i am uh trapped in a uh
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somewhere in uh rockefeller center
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oh you're in new york
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oh
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oh okay
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yeah i don't know why not sitting over
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there and uh having heather bring us
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food
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listen don i promise you the next time
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you hanging out with us and we chilling
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and we having a good time whatever you
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want to snack on and hang out look the
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food is on us don i got you baby
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oh baby
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i'm uh we're making a date that that
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this this is a date
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absolutely hey dog what you doing for
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thanksgiving
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where you spending it
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uh i'm gonna spend it at home with all
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of my children and uh brother that's
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where you want to be a fly on the wall
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beautiful absolutely absolutely man is
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it do you do you cook at all do you
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contribute in the dishes don
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i
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i cook brother
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i cook just not food
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wow
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[Laughter]
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hey this guy is legendary
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she
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said he knows where all the bodies
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buried he probably buried them and
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buried them himself this is don
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johnson's ladies
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oh man hey um
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what you know a lot of folks
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uh missy elliot um
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big boy you know um
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a lot of our friends recently have been
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getting um
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stars on the hollywood walk of fame
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what what what is that like man when i
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see my friends experiencing that i could
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i can't even imagine what that must be
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like i know you this happened for you a
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couple of years back but what what what
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did that say to you what did that mean
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to you
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you know it's a funny kind of thing
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because it's a
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you know you you cause you know when
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you're a young actor or a young musician
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or
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or
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or whomever you you if you have a chance
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to be in hollywood and you walk down the
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hollywood walk of fame you just kind of
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imagine dream that one day that that you
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know you could be good enough or be
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recognized enough to be offered that
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that that honor and when the when the
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date it's surreal it's like and when
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when your star is on the hollywood walk
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of fame you go okay i am in in a small
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group of people who have been allowed to
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be honored on this
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this august boulevard which sometimes
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doesn't live up to its augustus
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a lot of europe a lot of urine stains on
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that same boulevard right
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oh yeah you know you have to you have to
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deal with being walked on a little bit
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but
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what's the big deal you know
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nice thing that's a nice thing how much
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it cost
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beat the hell out of me i didn't pay for
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it i think i made cb pay for it okay
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[Laughter]
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you gotta love it man hey let me let me
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ask you uh being um
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you know having lived in the bay area
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49ers raiders
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um well i don't like either one of them
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right now
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okay okay okay
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but but if you if you had to say i mean
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the the niners looked pretty good last
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night
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uh they beat up rams pretty handily
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and uh i love the raiders i just have a
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soft spot in my heart for the raiders
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they're just you know they're the bad
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boys of football and i you know and i i
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go back to the days when there was john
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matuzak and the snake and you know and
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all those guys and you know they just
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got that that uh that kick-ass football
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kind of mentality that's kind of you
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know kind of fun
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it's kind of fun right uh for those who
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don't know when he mentioned the snake
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that would be kenny stable a round of
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applause for the snake ladies and
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gentlemen
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okay you didn't know that heather this
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way yeah okay legendary quarterback for
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the oakland raiders uh
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don johnson is here nash bridges the
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movie is premiering november 27th y'all
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brought it back huh
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yeah man uh i didn't think it was done
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and i was right it's uh we uh we brought
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it back it's uh it's as good or better
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than it's ever been
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and uh and i'm really proud of it i am
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really proud of it and when we were
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making it we kind of
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uh san francisco was still under uh you
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know kind of covered sleepiness and we
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were making that movie and by us being
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up there and making the movie it kind of
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woke everybody up and said oh okay hey
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let's let's let's get after it you know
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so i feel good about it
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okay that's what's up db you want to
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jump in
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yeah as a matter of fact um i'm not
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going to get too hard on the miami vice
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stuff because we did that last time we
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had don on the show but i did want to
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ask um you know just like sonny crockett
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drove that infamous 1986 ferrari
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tessarosa nash bridges also has a iconic
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car with the 71 plymouth barracuda which
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one was more fun for you to drive
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oh man that's a tough question because
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uh you know if it goes fast i like to
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drive it
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so um
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the ferrari
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someone once asked me uh
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did did i drive the front did i drive it
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fast and and i said as fast as it would
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go and they said how fast is that and i
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said i don't know because after 180 i
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was too scared to look at the man
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yeah 180 miles an hour when you're going
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180 miles an hour you start thinking of
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all the little nuts and bolts and
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connections and things like that maybe
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not staying together and come flying
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apart
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that that'll get your attention
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okay db you good with that
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well yeah uh i i guess just to roll off
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because a lot of vectors may have not
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gone into another series based around a
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cop with a car because you could draw so
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many comparisons to sonny crockett miami
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vice but
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were there any i guess um
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was there any hesitance on your part
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about going from a successful show like
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vice into nash bridges and being like
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all right do i want to do this again do
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i want to portray another character
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that's so similar or did you just jump
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right in because you get to work with
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with cheech and i know you guys are
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close friends
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well you know um miami vice i thought
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was was a very dark
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for a television show you know it uh you
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know there
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it was sort of the undoing of sonny
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crockett and so i specifically designed
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nash bridges along with my friend good
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friend hunter s thompson to be a comedy
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in the four walls
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of uh of a cop show
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and uh and and the way the the show was
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designed i i was um i was kind of uh uh
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an aficionado of uh anime japanese anime
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uh at the time and so it you could see
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the colors the car is this yellow kind
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of poppy yellow and the way that we all
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dress we're in these poppy medium
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saturated colors and stuff like that
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because uh san francisco is kind of a
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monochrome
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kind of city beige and gray and stuff
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like that and i wanted
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to pop
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from those backgrounds and so
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i felt that the show was considerably
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different the only thing that was
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similar to it was
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the that it was cops
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and but it was it was just a different
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tone all together and it happened to
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have a car but the the testa rosa was
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brand new and
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the cuda was a a sentimental uh uh
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uh leftover holdover from when uh nasa's
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brother went off to vietnam
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and so
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you know it it they were both yeah i i
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guess you could say they were similar in
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that they had
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similar toys and stuff like that but
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other than that i think the similarity
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stops there well actually crockett was a
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vietnam correct
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well crockett was but not nash
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okay
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okay cool
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don johnson is with us uh nash bridges
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the movie is premiering saturday
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november 27th it's a two-hour movie
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right yeah
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[Applause]
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you don't
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we don't see two-hour movies that often
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any longer no
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i know
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and um you know this this is getting a
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little bit of love so or a lot of love
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actually so i think we'll probably end
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up making some more and i don't know
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whether we'll make more two-hour movies
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or you know whether we'll
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do a little mini series or something or
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or some standalone one hour i don't you
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know i'm not really sure yet but uh but
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i think we're gonna make some more of
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these too
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yeah i can see i can see like some parts
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like i know you like how this cooking it
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it might be something you know nash you
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know might be in his car listening to
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you know the sway in the morning with
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heather b and tracy g
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you know i can see some i don't know if
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you do another two hour movie i could
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see some parts you could write us in don
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is that possible
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you're talking to the executive producer
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that's what i'm saying hey man's on the
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line let's go i'm gonna start working
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look don i'm gonna start working on a
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recipe for you now what are some of your
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favorite foods you love to eat
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i i i like everything that isn't tied
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down
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so
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do you not eat meat right are you vegan
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no no i'll i'll eat meat occasionally
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it's not a normal thing but i'll eat
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meat occasionally uh
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as long as it's good stuff i'm a fish
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and chicken kind of guy though
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i love it
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that's my yeah that's that's one of my
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specialties can't go wrong with that don
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i'm curious um because you're such a
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multi-hyphenate artist you know actor
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producer director singer songwriter
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you've mastered all of these areas um
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what are you learning right now that's
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outside of your wheelhouse that's
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something that you haven't mastered
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wow that's a beautiful question
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um
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you know
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i i
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am a practitioner of meditation
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nice and
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and i am uh i am learning more now than
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i have ever learned in my whole life
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about
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about how connected we all really are
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and um
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and uh i i meditate every day at first
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thing out of bed i don't i brush my
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teeth i wash my face i go sit
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and
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and it's changed my life
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i am
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i'm just so much happier every day i
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just have joy and
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and happiness in my world and that makes
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me capable of being of service to
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those that are struggling a little bit
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that's amazing man what was it was it
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something that came easy to you because
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how did when you got into meditation or
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or it took a while for it before it
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became effective
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it
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well it took a while for me some people
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get it right away i had to practice i
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had to practice at it because
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learning how to shut down the the the
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you know the orchestra that sits on top
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of your shoulders
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is is a is
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it's a practice and it's a discipline
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but man when you learn how to get
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control over your mind and not let your
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mind have control over you
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it is a beautiful day
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yeah
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i like the way you describe that too the
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orchestra that sits on top of your
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shoulders
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yeah i can't even get mine to play in
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the same key
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i'm tired
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[Laughter]
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hey don it's always great having you on
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the show man
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we love you too
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next next time in person okay
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yeah third all right don johnson man the
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ep of nash bridge is the movie that's
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coming november 27 9 pm on the usa
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network and then look for the sequel
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where you'll find sway in the morning
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would have to be in tracy g you'll find
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us in it too right guys
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yeah
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we'll be going we'll just be going like
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that out of hell somewhere there it is
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man congratulations on your life brother
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congratulations okay god bless y'all
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love you i love you too man johnson man
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you gotta love it man all right man
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[Music]
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you
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