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During our Johnny Dollar Week, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of yours truly Johnny Dollar's first broadcast,

we did an interview with John Abbott, and it was placed throughout the course of the seven episodes that week.

So this is just kind of an omnibus version of that with all seven portions together.

So you can listen to the whole interview if you are so inclined.

So let's go ahead and listen to this from John Abbott as we talk about yours truly Johnny Dollar

and his book.

All right.

Well, we have John Abbott with us.

He is the author of the Who is Johnny Dollar Matter, which is now in its second edition

in two volumes.

So could you tell me what made you decide to write a nearly 1,400-page book in two volumes

about yours truly Johnny Dollar?

Well, originally, I was just going to write a biographical piece about the character, Johnny Dollar.

This was way back in 1999, but things kind of got out of control, and I just realized after writing a page and a half that there was more to be written about Johnny Dollar.

So I just started listening to each and every program that I could find, documenting the contents of the programs,

you know, the directors, expense accounts, staff, and the cast, and the programs, you know, the directors, the expense accounts, staff, and the cast, and it just

kind of snowballed. And I really wrote as much as I wrote because at the point in time when I

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