on w o r well we love johnny carson the greatest talk show host ever and there's a book out a brand new book

the definitive book on johnny carson the ultimate book there've been some bad books to these this is

the book on johnny carson it's out it's already a bestseller i urge you to get the book hey by

the way it'd be a a great Christmas present for somebody.

The book's called Love Johnny Carson. You can get it on Amazon. It's a great book. Love

Johnny Carson. It's the real story, the whole story. And it's by Mark Malkoff, who does the Carson

podcast, which has been on for years. It's got a lot of big devoted listeners. You should listen that to the Carson podcast, which has been on for years.

Got a lot of big devoted listeners.

You should listen to The Carson Podcast.

But the author of the new book, Love Johnny Carson.

Mark Malkoff, how you doing?

Mark, I'm doing. Great. Nice to talk to you, sir.

Hey, it's, you've been on a book tour all over the place promoting it, but you just went to Johnny Carson's hometown, right? Tell us about that.

I was in Norfolk, Nebraska. They flew me out there. I thought it was called Norfolk. They say Norfolk. But I was in Johnny Carson's boyhood home. The owner invited me over there. And just to be in that space and see where Johnny slept with his brother Dick. And it was unbelievable. They had me sign, autographed the living room wall with other visitors. The Smothers Brothers have been there, Paul Reiser. And they have a local museum, the Elkhorn Valley Museum, with Johnny's awards, his Emmys,

costumes like Art Fernand Blabby, and it was unbelievable just to be at this place that made and shaped Johnny Carson.

Yeah. When you stand there in the middle of Nebraska, the Great Midwest, you realize how far this guy came and what a journey he took.

He did. I mean, when he was 17, when he graduated high school at 17, the first thing he did was hitchhike to Los Angeles and he bought a star map to the, and went to Jack Benny's

home and waited outside to see if Benny would come at, which he didn't. But yeah, Johnny always

had these ambitions, but Nebraska definitely shaped him and just to be back there. And to talk to

people that had Johnny's teacher, Fay Gordon, who turned, when she turned 100 years old and then I think

the mid-90s, Johnny returned back to Nebraska for her 100th birthday, but I talked to

people that were older that had Johnny's teacher.

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