Mark Simone on 710 W0R

Well hey if you're a big Johnny Carson fan listen carefully first of all there's a thing called the Carson podcast

It's excellent it's everything you could ever know about Johnny Carson Mark Malkoff the host he's done like 600 episodes interviewing everybody that was ever on the Tonight Show, worked at the Tonight Show.

Listen, start listening to it, the Carson podcast.

Now, that all turned into a book.

It just came out this week.

The book is called Love Johnny Carson.

It is the most detailed, fascinating, never-before-told story of Johnny Carson, the Tonight Show.

It's called Love Johnny Carson.

You can order it right now.

Here's the author Mark Malkoff.

Mark Malkoff, how you doing?

Mark, it is so good to talk to you.

Thanks for having me on.

And I have to tell you, your expertise on this book.

I mean, you're very generous. You say that you thought you knew everything about johnny carson and i was the one person that presented

all these new things to you and some other people but your expertise on carson just astounds me i'm

grateful for your help in this book and you're all over the book with your quotes, and you've added so much to it, so thank you.

I knew everything you could know about Johnny Carson. I start listening to your podcast. I learned like 27,000 more things I didn't know.

But you're a young guy, so you were not really around in the original days of Carson. How did this love of Johnny Carson start with you?

You know, I was like five or six years old,

and my dad would let me stay up on Friday nights and watch Johnny,

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