Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.

Thank you for joining me today as we take a journey with the handsomest man ever to sail the South Seas,

at least the South Seas located on the Fox back lot, Gardner McKay.

Dominic Dunn discovered Gardner McKay as much as Gardner McKay wanted to be discovered.

Gardner McKay was a legit smoke show, so, so dreamy, and he made his mark in Hollywood and then dropped out of the whole thing

all together in today's episode we are taking a little bit from nicks writing in 1999 about his

big discovery gardner mackay adventures in paradise and then I have a few follow-ups at the end.

I promise you it all connects in this episode. It is Gardner McKay Day here on Dun & Dun,

episode 296. Let's investigate.

No one was more surprised than I. I did a real deep dive in the collected writing of Dominic Dunn we still have yet to discover. I have a spreadsheet that would blow you away. We have

miles and miles and miles still to go in our podcast journey. I've got a particular piece today, though, the real

McKay from 1999 that delighted me in every way possible. I'd forgotten all about it, or it was my

first time finding this little tiny slice, but not about Gardner McKay's story in general.

We talked about Gardner McKay and Jimmy Buffett and Dominic Dunn all the way back in

episode five.

I'm going to encore that at the back end of this story for you because, oh boy, was I young

and a little green, but oh, so earnest.

And there are some fun facts and quotes in there.

I don't want y'all to miss out on as we're

bringing this one in today we do know our man nick is always name checking always always

i want to drop in here with the subhead from this piece the real mackay from vanity fair january

1999 as we talk about some more name-dropping and a little bit more

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