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Bart Johnson · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: This is on with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: Tabion.
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  Speaker 1: Mario Lopez, is there any mean right now? Actor Bart Johnson?
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  Speaker 1: How you doing Bart?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. Good to see you, Mario. Thanks for having
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  Speaker 2: me on.
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  Speaker 1: Man, oh, thanks for taking the time. Brother.
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  Speaker 3: One of your iconic acting roles, of course, was his
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  Speaker 3: coach Bolton in the High School Musical franchise. And now
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  Speaker 3: you've launched a podcast about the movies called get your
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  Speaker 3: Head in the Game.
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  Speaker 1: What are you going to be getting into there?
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  Speaker 4: Well, if you could believe it. January is the twenty
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  Speaker 4: year anniversary. So this a little bit of a celebration,
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of you know what I've realized, Mario
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  Speaker 4: was like, I'm the biggest fan of High School Musical fans,
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  Speaker 4: Like they're the greatest and have been so good to
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  Speaker 4: me for the last two decades. So we had to
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  Speaker 4: do something special for the twenty years. So you have
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  Speaker 4: been think for the last two years, like what can
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  Speaker 4: I do to get back? What do my wildcats want?
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  Speaker 4: And I thought, Man, some more insights, some stuff maybe
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  Speaker 4: they've never heard before, some stories. You know, the cat's
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  Speaker 4: been interviewed a million times, but they've never been interviewed
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  Speaker 4: by someone that was on set with him a fellow
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  Speaker 4: cast member. So or hopt a good bunch of like
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  Speaker 4: just new, insightful stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you, man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll left their guard down, I'm sure, and probably
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  Speaker 3: be a little vulnerable and have some fun. I know
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna have some other stars of film on the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Uh have you? Have you spoke by a chance like
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  Speaker 1: Zach or Vanessa?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not supposed to give away all the secrets yet,
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  Speaker 4: but I will say I think I think all of
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  Speaker 4: the cast will be on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Oh nice.
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  Speaker 4: So everybody's been really receptive. You know, it's like we're
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  Speaker 4: doing it. You know, it's not on camera, it's not
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  Speaker 4: like a you know, it's not for show. Really, it's
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  Speaker 4: just it's hopefully a little more intimate and a little
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  Speaker 4: more personal, and a lot of a lot of stories
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  Speaker 4: that like I know that I've never heard them, you know,
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  Speaker 4: tell he tell these stories.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got to get into I think a lot
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of personal stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good, that's cool.
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  Speaker 4: Personal experiences and you know, yeah, yeah, for.
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  Speaker 3: The twentieth anniversary, are you planning something as far as
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  Speaker 3: aside from the podcast, I should say, because obviously it's
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  Speaker 3: a big number.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big number. I can't believe. The thing is,
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  Speaker 2: it seems to be a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Bigger now than it was twenty years ago, which just
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  Speaker 4: blows my mind. I was in the airport yesterday. I
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  Speaker 4: was stopped like ten times, and people are so excited,
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  Speaker 4: and even kids that are.
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  Speaker 2: Like five years old, they could recognize me.
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  Speaker 4: So it's I think the generation is kind of you know,
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  Speaker 4: the parents are like, I'm going to teach my kid.
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  Speaker 4: My kids are going to be raised on this like
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  Speaker 4: I was. So it's really sweet. And the fan base
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  Speaker 4: is growing, so you know, I've been thinking what.
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  Speaker 2: Else I could do.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, there's a lot of tiktoks, a lot of
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  Speaker 4: things trending on social media, and I'm all over it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm all about it, like I'm just no shame whatsoever. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: been loving that. So more of that, and then maybe
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  Speaker 4: a couple of little secret things that are little projects,
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  Speaker 4: a couple of scripts flowing around.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good for you, Good for you. And I know
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  Speaker 1: you were also in the season one of land Man.
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  Speaker 1: Love that show.
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  Speaker 2: That is love it. That is great.
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  Speaker 3: How may we see you back on a season two?
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  Speaker 3: And how was the experience overall.
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  Speaker 2: I was great.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I've been I auditioned for Yellowstone for like
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  Speaker 4: six years, and then you got on land Man and
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  Speaker 4: it was for there was like a certain number of episodes,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm supposed to be coming back to this next season,
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  Speaker 4: which I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Like, please, you know you know how it is, Mario.
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  Speaker 4: It's like whatever the serial, like whoever is being focused on,
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  Speaker 4: Like the lawsuit needs to happen. I'm this like cowboy
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  Speaker 4: lawyer on the show. But I got to work with
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  Speaker 4: Billy Bob Thornton. I got to work with my wife,
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  Speaker 4: Robin Lively, like she was this this is the waitress
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  Speaker 4: at the patch, so we like we crossed path.
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  Speaker 2: Like during my scene, I'm like checking around.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, that's great.
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  Speaker 2: Throw that in there, man, just look at that. Good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So Billy Bob though, Man, Billy Bob's amazing. He has
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  Speaker 4: like just such just tons of dialogue. And you can
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  Speaker 4: just watch that guy, like you could just I could
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  Speaker 4: just sit there and watch him all day long, just
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  Speaker 4: if he was saying nothing. I could watch He's just
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  Speaker 4: so interesting. The writing's so great. I've known Taylor Sheridan
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  Speaker 4: for thirty years or so, and this is the first
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  Speaker 4: time I got to be on one of his shows
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  Speaker 4: so I could die. I could live the rest of
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  Speaker 4: my actor life on a Taylor Sheridan show.
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  Speaker 2: It's the best. It really is. Man.
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  Speaker 1: No, that was great.
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  Speaker 3: And I remember I ran into I Believe you and
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  Speaker 3: your wife for the Cobra Kaid premiere.
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, yes, yes, recently, yeah, yeah, she was.
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  Speaker 4: She was the lead in Karate Kid two yes, three
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  Speaker 4: three three three yes, but the Bonzie Tree one yes,
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  Speaker 4: and so it was really fun for her to go
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  Speaker 4: back and h and get involved in that storyline on
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  Speaker 4: Cobra Kay.
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  Speaker 2: That was cool.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Martin, I had I just realized that
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  Speaker 4: you and I were up for a job together.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you and I audition. I just I just
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  Speaker 2: memory of being in.
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  Speaker 4: The producer's room with you on this movie. You ready
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  Speaker 4: for this one? It was called Scavenger Hunt and it
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  Speaker 4: went away.
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  Speaker 2: The movie was like, was never made?
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  Speaker 1: Because I need to look that up.
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  Speaker 2: If it was, I don't think. I don't think it
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  Speaker 2: was ever made. It was it was like early. It
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  Speaker 2: was a while ago, man, but I remember remember it.
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  Speaker 1: No idea, that's crazy. You have a good well.
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  Speaker 4: The reason I remember was because you were the cast
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  Speaker 4: you already and then I was like the next guy
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  Speaker 4: on the show.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember I went in the producer's.
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  Speaker 4: Room and you you were doing your scene and you
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  Speaker 4: were like going through the producer's death on his like
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  Speaker 4: going through his bookshel and I'm like, Oh, this guy's
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  Speaker 4: like he's.
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  Speaker 2: Like bringing it to life in this room.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, Like actors are like, I'm sure I
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  Speaker 1: knew the dude. I don't think I was like randomly
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  Speaker 1: going through some stranger. I'm sure he was like a
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  Speaker 1: buddy of mine.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't sure it was why you were already in
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  Speaker 2: with these guys. It was just like was it weird
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  Speaker 2: or what?
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  Speaker 4: It was just like it was so good, Like you're
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  Speaker 4: like really using the space and I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: It's like I'm really in the movie with this guy.
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  Speaker 2: That was It was great method.
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  Speaker 1: Did Mario take anything from the office.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he was great.
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  Speaker 1: Man, tell me funny. Yeah, I appreciate you telling you
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  Speaker 1: that story part. That's cool, man, that is so funny.
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  Speaker 1: Hey dude, well, congratulations on everything. Hope to get to
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  Speaker 1: see you in person soon.
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  Speaker 3: And listen everyone, be sure to check out the new
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  Speaker 3: podcast Get your Head in the Game, which is streaming
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  Speaker 3: right now on iHeartRadio part Thanks for the time.
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  Speaker 2: Brother, Thanks Mario, good to see me.
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  Speaker 1: All right you too, man, Take care
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  Speaker 2: With Mario Lopez