Hey guys, Willie Geist here. Thanks for clicking and listening along again this week to a bonus episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast

And it's my favorite one ever there. I said it. We've talked to a lot of people that there's none bigger than this because

It's my dad Bill Geist many of you know him from his 31 years on CBS news on another show that came on on Sunday mornings

And I'm told still does from time to time. Maybe you know him from his books from his column in the New York Times

Or if you're really old school, I'm talking 1970s old school. You know his column in the suburban trip in Chicago

He's got a new book out right now. It's called Lake of the Ozarks. It's a memoir of his high school and college years

Working at his uncle Ed's arrowhead lodge at Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. These are stories I've been hearing about

Literally all my life and my dad now since he retired from CBS last year finally had time to sit down and write him

And I have to say I'm a little biased. It is absolutely hysterically funny. He thought it was going to be glamorous and glorious

Going down to work at the lake as a teenager and he found when he got to Uncle Ed's arrowhead lodge his first job was to go out and

Rake over the septic field behind the lodge. A lot of that a lot of great stuff

And so fun just for me on a personal level to get to sit down for my dad

We're sitting in the living room of his house. A lot of you know as well that he's been battling Parkinson's disease for the last 27 years

He's been doing national television pieces bravely going out traveling the country with his Parkinson's

And I'm just so proud that he sat down and wrote this book that he's been thinking about and wanting to write for my entire life

More than 40 years and it's here now the book is called Lake of the Ozarks and here right now my gosh I can't believe I'm saying it

On the Sunday sit down podcast my dad Bill Geist thanks for having me over

Happy happy happy home. Is it weird to have all the cameras back in your house?

Yes it is. It's very weird. It's so flashbacked when you used to be eating breakfast and there'd be a camera crew in it

In the kitchen shooting something I think it's why you're at ease around the camera. It just became part of our lives.

You come down for school and there'd be a setup like this.

Yeah I know that. Photographers and exact things. Yeah.

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