Only one of my good friend, but
he also happens to be magnum
P.I.
No, I am not talking about Tom
Selleck.
I am talking about Mr. Jay
Hernandez!
Come on out here, Jay!
>> Look at that grand entrance
and everything!
>> Thank you!
I love it!
>> Have a seat!
>> You know, first of all, it's
always great to see you.
You're looking extra tan coming
back from the islands.
>> When I'm out of Hawaii I go a
couple of shades lighter and
when I go back there I go five
shades darker.
>> I spend time there and people
start thinking I'm Sam on an.
>> Working on the tan.
>> I always swell with pride
because I like to tell people I
feel partially responsible for
you getting into the business
because you have an old school
Hollywood story.
You were literally discovered in
an elevator by a dude who I got
hired -- I mean, right?
For those not familiar, give the
cliffnotes version.
>> I ran into a guy literally in
an elevator and from the first
floor to the tenth floor he
pitched me how I was going to be
in Hollywood and make it big and
be in movies and all this kind
of stuff and he was the guy that
discovered me.
And you guy his a relationship.
>> I got him the job.
>> Howard, may he rest in peace.
A great, great guy.
>> He was a nut, though.
>> A great character and cared
for you, which is awesome, man.
Right now you couldn't have a
cooler gig shooting "Magnum
P.I." In Hawaii.
It was delayed this year, so
when did you get to go?
>> Everything changed because of
covid.
>> Sure.
>> We had tons of protocol and
we had a lot of things we had to
do because a lot of what we do
is exterior locations with tons
of extras.
You want to get the beach.
>> Right.
>> Just like a lot of activity
and Hawaii itself is as socially
distanced as it can get for
mother's day.
>> That was one of the things
about Hawaii.
You are able to track who's
coming in and who's going out
and test everybody, and during
shooting, I mean, we had one of
the lowest rates of covid in the
entire country.
>> That's great.
Have you taken up surfing and
you hadn't.
>> I hadn't surfed at all
because I stay with Zach on the
show who plays Rick, the entire
first season.
We stayed together.
We lived together.
I rented this place.
There was nothing there, and the
very first thing I got was a
surf board.
Zach said let's go check it out.
I don't even have a couch, and I
have a surf board at my house,
so I have it there and it's
sitting there for a couple of
years.
I don't ever get on it and
finally this season I had a
little bit of time off on the
weekends, you know?
The schedule was a little bit
better and so I made an effort
to get out there in the water,
and I have to say, man, I love
it!
>> Isn't it awesome?
>> Even if you don't catch the
waves it's fun.
>> It was near sunset.
It was after work, and I'm just
looking at the skyline of
Honolulu, you know, the sun is,
like, dancing off the water and
people are just chilling, having
a good time in the waves and I
was, like, I get it.
This is why people do it.
>> A pinch-me moment.
>> I had to get out there a
couple of more times and I'm
hooked at this point.
>> Coming out looking like Kelly
slater.
>> I'm going to do my best.
>> Taking a deep dive into the
I.G., one of the photos that was
pretty cool and I don't know if
it was a bachelor party or what
was going on in Hawaii.
A horse's head and looking like
an astronaut.
I don't know what's going on
right there.
>> This is my homage to bojack.
>> It was funny because the
Halloween before this one, we --
it was Halloween night and
nobody had costumes and we
wanted to go in chinatown and
hang out and have a couple of
drinks and we went to a
Halloween store and just bought
a bunch of random stuff,
horseheads, afros and face
paint, and a bunch of stuff and
that was left over from the
prior year and I just threw it
on.
I had nothing to do, because it
was covid time.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> You had to kind of, like,
make something happen.
>> I didn't realize there was a
chinatown -- I guess there's a
chinatown everywhere.
>> It's like the cool part of
town where the hipsters are and
where the cool little
restaurants are.
>> Good to know.
>> Definitely a nice little
secret because all of the
tourists stay in Honolulu.
The locals don't really go to
Honolulu.
>> Okay.
You guys stay on that one island
pretty much.
All of our stuff is on oahu.
>> They just announced Hawaii
and Vanessa lachey whom I feel
like I partially discovered,
too.
>> Oh!
>> I was hosting teen usa when
shy won and I crowned her.
>> Okay.
That's valid.
You did discover her.
>> You have to call her up and
get your percentage, man.
I'm looking at 5%, 10%.
>> I'm very proud and she's a
sweetheart, too, so she's going
to be the lead in "NCIS," I
imagine --
>> And cross paths at some
point.
That would be a cool crossover
right there.
>> I like your version of magnum
P.I.
Higgins is a woman and you guys
have that moonlighting, will
they or won't they sort of
relationship.
>> Yeah.
>> We have an exclusive clip
from your show.
Tell us what's going on.
>> Well, right here, this is a
stalker which is part of the
case that we're involved in and
finding information, and more
importantly, I'm finding
information out about Higgins'
love life.
>> Check it out.
Phone is one picture.
>> Okay.
>> It looks like it was age
progressed.
I'll send it to you now.
>> I'm going to run it now.
>> Hey, how did it go with
Ethan?
>> It actually went quite well.
We're back together.
>> Okay.
That's good.
>> So he's not leaving.
>> No, no, he's still leaving.
We don't know what's going to
happen next.
We're just figuring it out.
>> If it was up to they, would
they or wouldn't they?
>> They would not.
>> You have to draw this out.
>> The chase is fun.
>> If you take away that
dynamic, a really fun aspect of
the show gets taken away.
>> It changes everything.
>> I'm told a number of times,
when we get the script and it
says magnum and the kiss, we
know the show is over.
The kiss of death and it's a fun
dynamic and we get to explore
and play around with and we
should draw that out as long as
possible.
>> I'm with you right there.
>> The last time we had you on
the show I sent you a burrito.
>> Right!
And the timing was perfect.
Check your front door and I
opened the door and there was a
massive burrito.
>> I don't know how you pulled
it off.
>> I actually brought in a
talented chef, chef Marcela who
will cook something up for us so
people can have something
delicious to watch.
>> I love it.
Let's do it.
>> So the magnum P.I. Finale
airs tomorrow night on CBS and