February 4, 2026 • 33 mins
A heartbreaking mix of stories to open the show: an injured mountain lion cub is found on a Los Angeles County street and transported to Northern California for rehabilitation, while a man is fatally shot after getting off a Metro bus in the Westlake district of Downtown L.A.
A deep dive into baseball history as Miguel “Miggy” Rojas’ game-tying home run in Game 7 of the World Series is broken down — the moment, the pressure, and why it will be remembered forever.
Author and podcast host Mark Malkoff joins the show to talk about his book Love Johnny Carson: One Obsessive Fan’s Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legend. Johnny Carson’s unmatched legacy is explored — from 4,500 episodes and 25,000 interviews to his lasting impact on American culture. Plus, a personal connection: Tim Conway appeared on The Tonight Show 27 times, sharing memories of television’s golden era.
An emotional plea closes the hour as Savannah Guthrie, alongside her sister Annie and brother Camron, asks the public for help in the search for their missing mother, Nancy, sharing the message on Savannah’s Instagram.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I was
watching there's a I just discovered this. Major League Baseball
Network has a special out there on the World Series
and it's Game seven, the your Los Angeles Dodgers against
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the Toronto Blue Jays, and I'm gonna queue it up
here when they start talking about Mickey Rojas and his
home run, because the way they describe this is unbelievable.
I mean, all the details they were surrounding Miggy Rojas
(00:43):
hitting a home run in the bottom of the ninth
inning is incredible. It's just incredible. So I'm gonna cue
it up here and play it for you. Let me
edit that because it's really too long. Let me edit
it and we'll play it, you know, for six o'clock.
But just describing, you know, they hit, and the inning
(01:06):
and all the details that went into it, and Miguel
Rojas's wife, who was had a dream that he was
going to hit home run and in the dream he
was wearing number eleven, which was his old number when
he played with Cincinnati, and it's just an incredible, incredible story.
So I'll get that together and play the p you
before before six o'clock. I promise you that before six o'clock,
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a mountain lion is down. Boys injured mountain lion cub.
This seems to be happening a lot. I don't know
if that bridge is up and working or not. But again,
that's sucker done. We're losing a lot of mls around here.
Is not then the short name for them, They call
them mountain lions mls. Heard that on the news the
other day. It's an mL It was down, Like what
(01:54):
is that? Oh, it's a mountain lion. Don't you know? Like, no,
I didn't know that. You can't tell You have to
tell people that you'll don't know initials from.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A roadway rescue to now rehab. New video tonight shows
an adorable mountain lion cub on the moves.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I know they made a huge effort to try to
get it reunited with its mother and that didn't work out,
and so this is the next best thing.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
The cub was found last month, lying in the middle
of a busy Castaic road. Since then, CDFW has worked
with nearby neighbors who turned over video footage of what
was believed to be the cub's mom, trying to track
her down and reunite the pair.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh, that's horrible out there. Mom's looking for the.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Cub, even leaving the cub in an open air cage
hoping to draw the mom a mountain lion out.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It's really nice to see how hard they're working to really,
you know, locate where the mom is in the cub.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
We met Cindy Angelous show the first night the cub
was caught right across the street from her house. She's
been one of the neighbors helping CDFW.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So she can learn how to hunt and how to
do things on her own.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
When reunification didn't work, the cub spent some time at
the La Zoo until a profit known as Flying Tales
stepped in.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Flying Tales I never.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Heard of it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
This video is of them transporting the cup to her
new temporary home. It's so Noma County Wildlife Rescue.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It's just so rewarding to be able to find an
animal that needs help.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Founder and CEO kin Wayne has been flying animals in
need for years, including last January during the Palisades Fire
when shelters were overwhelmed. Before his most reason.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
By the way, animals, dogs, cats, in this case, mountain
lions have leapfrog over homeless people. I don't know when
that happened, not sure. Nobody was warned. Nobody told me,
nobody made a big proclamation, nobody made an official with
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voting or anything. But animals at some point leap frogged
over homeless people. And I'm not saying it's right or wrong.
I'm just telling you it. So the mountain lion is
going to get a lot of money thrown at it,
a lot of time, a lot of attention, a lot
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of learning by a lot of people. A lot of
specialists are going to concentrate on getting this mountain lion's
life back together when they could have been helping out
some homeless people. But you're now below animals. Sorry, it's
not me saying it. It's society. Society spends way, way
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much more money on pets than they do homeless, much more.
It's thing close. I think with pets it's a four
hundred billion dollars a year industry, it's off the charts,
but with homeless it's considerably less. So that might be
a wake up call, right that that we're leaving some
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people behind, some homeless people behind, and concentrating on nothing
but animals. All right, what we're just saying, Oh, the
Metro audio is in Okay, Okay, all right, may finish
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up and then we'll talk about the Metro.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Before his most recent so Cow mission, he had just
rescued a different mountain lion cub from sam Louis Obispo County.
We've learned these two cubs will be in the same
rehab enclosure.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Another example of how you know, mountain lions and pets
of leapfrogged over homeless people. They spend one hundred and
twenty eight million dollars on that bridge that goes over
the one on one freeway. How much money have they
spent on a bridge for Pepperdine students to get over
pch safely so they can go to the beach zero
zero And you hear about it all the time, pepper
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Pepperdine students either getting hit by a car or killed
by a car and there was no bridge for the
Pepperdine students to get over pc to go to the ocean. Sorry, kids,
this society really treasures mountain lions much more than does you,
and I'm exactly the opposite. I think that all that
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money that's been wasted on those on that Mountain Lion
overpass over the one oh one, all of it should
have gone to Pepperdine and putting a bridge over PCH
so those kids don't have to risk their lives every
time they cross PCH and go to the beach. But
society is crazy, filled with crazies, and that's how you
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get the Mountain Lion bridge, and that's how you ignore
the Pepperdine students, and that leads to some of their
deaths because of crazy people. That's what's going on.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
There's a shooting and let's get to what's going on
here on the Metro. A man fatally shot. This is
not good, not good for Metro with the you know,
all these events coming up, World Cup, Super Bowl, Olympics.
Metro's got to get it together. I'm not saying is
there a fault, but it is a bad.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Black eye for this well, this situation causing a lot
of concern. The fatal shooting here in the west Lake area.
LAPD telling us it all played out here at this
intersection of Third and Lucas between eleven thirty and noon
today right in front of an La USD school, the
Miguel Contrera School. Here's everything we know from police so
far up to this point. They say it started with
a Metro bus making a stop here at Third and
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Lucas a male passenger and getting off that metro bus
and immediately getting into a confrontation with two suspects. During
that confrontation, police said the victim was shot and that
he tried to get back on the bus to seek shelter.
LAPD says at that point the driver actually tried to
save the victim's life.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
This happened in a stone's throw away from a lot
of where we drive and go and live. This happened
in la today today. This is the second one. And
there was a Metro train. I think it's Metro. Maybe
it's an Amtrak that I think it is Metro that
hit a woman in Glendale who was driving a great
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car across the tracks, hit her and killed her and
sent the other guy to the hospital. That happened this morning,
and then this happened this afternoon. Guy shot at a Metro.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Stop, jumping into action and taking him to nearby Good
Samaritan Hospital, where he unfortunately died from his injuries.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Died just trying to get buzzing around city on Metro.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Police now say they're searching for the two suspects involved.
We don't have names, ages, or descriptions of them at
this point. We did speak with a mother of Miguel
Contrere's students who says her kids heard these gunshots inside
their classroom.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Today, it sits very uncomfortably because you know, you have
your kids sometimes riding the bus and you know it
can happen to anybody. They were terrified from hearing the
shot so and not being able to leave school slowly.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
How do you think the parents felt. You know, if
the parents work around that school, live around that school,
and they know that on Citizen they hear somebody shot
and killed, it's right next to the kid's school. You
don't think the parents were down there in two seconds.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
So they didn't know how long they were going to
be in lockdown, but they were worried.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Now, we reached out to LAUSD to ask if any
students were involved in this situation, as well as if
parents were notified of the fatal shooting right outside the
school facility. Today, the district says it's working on a
response from Westlake. Keenan Willard, NBC four News.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
All right, bad vibe, bad vibe.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Man, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I'm going to play this. This is a great audio.
I'm gonna played uninterrupted talk about Miguel Rojas and his
home run in the seventh inning. I'm sorry, the ninth
inning of Game seven in Toronto. This is Bob Costas
and some other baseball specialists. This is great, great audio.
Speaker 10 (10:01):
So keyk Hernandez chasers, the wicked slider down and a
way that's out number one. And if you're a Dodger,
Ton Ferducci, that's the other guy, and you're thinking, maybe
Rohas can get on and then we got show.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Hey yeah, I mean right now, the win probability has
never been higher for the Blue Jays to win this game.
Ninety one percent.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And you think about throughout this postseason, teams were zero
and forty two going to the ninth inning trailing in
World Series history for a Game seven, two and thirty
three trailing going into the ninth inning. Of course, two
thousand and one, the Diamondbacker came back in the Yankees.
The other you were there in nineteen ninety seven the
(10:39):
Marlins and Cleveland. Mark Shapiro was in the front office
for Cleveland, huh, and he remembers John Hart being asked
to go into the clubhouse in preparation for the celebration,
and John Hart watched it unravel on TV.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
He didn't want to go.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
He's surrounded by champagne that was never open. Mark Shapiro
now finds himself in the same situation with Toronto two
outs away.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Yeah, heart didn't want to go back in ninety seven.
Baseball superstition. I don't want to jinx that. They made
him go. Baseball protocol. You have to be there, and
then it all slipped away and eventually they lost it
in the eleventh inning. Okay, up comes Miguel Rojas. Here's
a guy who is Tom has said has been invaluable
in sort of an under the radar way throughout the season.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But he's going to come up huge in just a minute.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
This sequence of this at bet is fascinating. There's that
good slider again from Jeff Hoffman. Now the fastball he
throws more than eight of the pitch, but as far
as run value. It's the slider that was not a
good one. So he gets the count back to even Remember.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I'm begging you become a master of AI tools, especially
if you have ten years left until retire.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
He's got Shoe O'tani on deck Kaufman, so he has
to be aggressive pitching on Mickey Rojas. There there's a
fastball that misses. Now he's falling behind. He knows he's
going to get back into this count against Miguil Rojas.
And give Rojas credit here because he is not going
to go quietly at all throughout this event. I a
fastball fouled the way back into the count. Now, how
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are you going to put him away here? The key
is you cannot get to a three ball count. You
don't want to be in a situation where you must
throw the ball in the strike zone. You want to
try to get him to chase the way he got
Kik Hernandez to chase the slider. Another foul ball. He's thinking,
you know what, I'm going to go back to my
slider here. That's fine too. Two slider is a fine pitch,
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but you have to make sure you make it at
least tempting.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
For Rojas, and he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
That's not a good one at all. Now the problem
here is he must throw the ball in the strike zone.
Speaker 11 (12:46):
H Hoffman knows. This has got to be an action pitch.
And what I mean by that you got to make
him put it in play. He's got to swing at
this pitch, meaning it has to be close enough because
you do not want to walk him. You do not
mind giving up a hit right here, but it not
be a ball four And then old Timey.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Comes to the plate, payoff, drill. Do not feel indeed,
no way the go Rojas.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Dave Roberts played his gun.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
The guy haven't had a head in a month.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
In the ninth Game seven.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
He said a time home run.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
The most unlikely source has changed. Game seven, it's tied
at four. Rojas has given the Dodgers line.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Yeah, I mean I hated the pitch because to throw
a slider three to two where you cannot afford to
walk the player, it has to be in the strikes
on the whole time. Watch this pitch. It's in the
own the whole time. It's the only pitch he can
hit for a home run, and had to be a
fastball there. But he's not a good velocity hitter. Miguil
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Rojas slider batspeed. You just gave him the one pitch
he could hit out of the ballpark. Now give him credit.
He fought like heck to get to this pitch. But
look at the spin that's just rolling. Yeah, three hundred
fewer RPMs on that slider than he had on the
first slider that he threw. Mcguil Rojas. Why, because he's
guiding it into the zone. You just can't throw a
strike to strike slider.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
There.
Speaker 11 (14:29):
He sat all over a slider and he got it.
And when he got the barrel to the ball right
there and talked about a slider that hangs, it's the recipe.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
For a fly ball.
Speaker 11 (14:40):
And you know that's a sick feeling right there for Kaufman,
but an electric feeling for that dugout.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Oh, Bob, I have to share this story. I didn't
find this out until after the game.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Okay, this is a great story. This is a fantastic
Rojas story.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Mcgil Rojas's wife already he had said after the Dodgers
won the Pennant, his dream was always to hit a
home run in the World Series. Well as he's leaving
to go to the ballpark for Game seven, Marianna says
to him, you're going to hit a home run tonight.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
And he says, what are you talking about. I mean,
he hasn't hit a home run off a right handed
pitcher all year except for a position player that doesn't count.
And she said, no, this time, I know it to
be true because I had a dream last night. Wow,
God told me you were going to hit a home
run and I saw your number eleven. Now, eleven has
always been his number since he was a little kid.
At he wore a little league and one year his
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mother and his grandfather died within one week, and to
honor them with the Marlins back then, he wore number eleven,
his childhood number. Well, he actually gave that number up.
He's such a nice guy when Roki Sasaki signed with
the Dodgers, but eleven is still his number. So he
comes to the plate hits the home run, which no
one was expecting, including mcguil himself. Yeah, and Marianna looked
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up at the clock, the digital clock in right field.
There's a red numbers up there, eleven eleven.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
How great is that guy? Hits a home run? His
wife said he's going to do it. God said he
was going to do it, and he hits it at
exactly eleven eleven PM in Toronto. That is unbelievable, unreal.
All right, when we come back, we have a guy
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who's written a book about Johnny Carson, and Johnny Carson
has had this unbelievable surge lately. I can't tell you
how many people I know go home and watch old
Johnny Carson replays all night Long's It's unbelievable. There's no
other show that friends of mine will say that they
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sit there and watch every single night John Colebelt does it.
One of my friends who was a teller at sant Anita,
was watching Johnny Carson as I was betting and I
think losing at sant Anita, and he was watching a
dwarf sketch while I came to the window to bet.
Everybody is watching Johnny Carson, and a guy who's written
(17:05):
the book, an awesome book, a guy named Mark Malkoff,
is coming on with us and he is some great,
great stories, great Johnny Carson stories.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
There was a statement released by Savannah Guthrie. We're gonna
get to that in a second, but first, and there's
nothing new. It's just it's just that she's really heartbroken
and really wants to see this come to an end
with her mom being kidnapped or missing. And we'll get
to that, but first. Mark Malkoff is with us. He's
(17:44):
written a book, Love Johnny Carson. I think Dutton Books
is putting this out. Yes, yes, yes, Dutton Books. And
everybody is watching Johnny Carson reruns now and I'm not
sure why. Mark, Maybe you know why. Mark. Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
How you bub, I'm doing great, Nice to talk to you,
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Talk to you. How come this surge? You think everybody?
There are probably six or seven people I know that
call me or text me saying that they're watching Johnny
Carson every night. Is it just that there's nothing else
out there? Or people are nostalgic? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I used to think he was the best that ever
did Late Night and the clips that are online and
are still shown are so funny. I mean Rodney Dangerfield,
I mean three billion views on YouTube of Johnny Carson,
I mean the Late Night hosts. Currently, they all still
talk about Carson. This is a guy again who hasn't
been on the air in thirty years, and America just
(18:39):
misses him.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
There was nobody better let me.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
There was a list of people. And I was growing
up and my day I was involved with the Carson Show.
People would always speak of a list of band guests
from the show, like Ellen DeGeneres or Jay Leno or
William Shatner, Jerry Lewis. Is that true?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Absolutely? I mean it wasn't.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Some people say it wasn't a physical list, but there was.
There was a group of people. All those people that
you just mentioned got on the list. I mean, Jerry
Lewis was rude to Carson's staff, so Johnny banned him.
Ellen DeGeneres did a joke that was they told her
not to do, and she did it and then she
was banned. So yeah, there was a list of people. Unfortunately,
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you know, Dana Carvey on Saturday Night Live would play
Johnny and he thought it was mean spirited, and then
Carvey was banned from the show.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
So there was a list probably thirty people, forty people.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Right, But wasn't I mean, when Johnny Carson finally retired,
wasn't it because they were making fun of him on
Saturday Live.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
That had a lot to do with it.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
They didn't like He didn't like that NBC was moving
a show from eleven thirty to eleven thirty five. They
didn't ask him ahead of time. He thought that was
a big disadvantage. And the Dana Carvey sketches, just because
he did not want to be perceived like Bob Hope.
They showed him on Saturday Night Live is over the
hill and senile and just not out of touch, and
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he just said, I don't don't want people to think
of me like that.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I'm going to if you remember at the top of
my game.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It's amazing that Jay Leno was on that you know,
informal band list, and then yet he goes on to
replace him.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Jay Leno had really a really great debut and car
he had the problem where Carson wanted him on so
much that after about a.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Year and a half he ran out of material.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
He I think it was his fifth appearance.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
With Johnny bombed and Johnny said, I don't find him
funny anymore. I don't want him, And then he started
going on David Letterman Show, and got red hot, and
that is what got him back with Carson in eighty six,
and Jay Leno wisely said, if I'm going back on,
I want a guest host and they gave him two
guest hosts slots and he did great. And we all
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know what happened with that.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh that's fantastic. Hey, was there any truth? But I'm
not other story I heard, you know, just because my
dad knew Johnny Carson was the whole Joe Gallows story.
Are you familiar with that story?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
I am that one happened Joe Crazy. Joe Gallo the
mobster was in jail for ten years and got out
in nineteen seventy one, and Johnny was at Jilly's, which
is here in New York City, a very popular like
Frank Sinatra restaurant, watering hole, and it was Ed McMahon
and Johnny. They were drinking. Johnny would talk on the
(21:30):
Tonight Show. He would acknowledge it was a bad drunk.
You did not want to be around him. And Joe
Gallo went to the bathroom and Carson did something inappropriate
to Gallow's girlfriend, and Jillie Rizzo said to Ed McMahon,
get Johnny the blank out of here. Gallo comes back
out and discovers what's happened and put a hit on Johnny.
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The thing that saved Carson's life was Frank Sinatra. Johnny
was friends with Sinatra, and Sinatra sat down with Gallo.
They knew each other and said, I knew the favor.
Uh leave Johnny Carson alone, And Gallo said, you tell that?
Do you tell Carson the only reason he lives and
breathes is because of he knows Brian Sinatra. But then
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NBC was still very fearful there was going to be
a hit, so they wanted to appease the acting don,
who was Joe Colombo, another mafia figure, So in order
to appease him, NBC had to do a positive story
on Joe Colombo. I watched it with my own eyes.
There was no reason for this to happen. But those
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are the things that saved Carson's life.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Wait, so you're saying that Frank Sinatra new guys and
the mob may be I never heard that.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
You want to mention I do want to mention you.
You were actually did a schedule two with your dad, right.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I gotta check the other day for thirty two cents
for doing one of those sketches.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
I just watched them. I watched two of them that
you were in. Ones your voice and then the other
we the Canary sketch, We see you.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Thank you very much. My well, you know, I do
radio to pay the bills, but my first true love
is the silver screen.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Hey, there you go.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Your dad was on twenty seven times with Carson, beginning
in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
And you know what a huge compliment is everybody wanted
to be on Johnny Carson's last month or last show,
and that he actually chose my dad to be, you know,
part of the last you know, comedians or actors that
came on in the last six weeks.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
They were saying no to everybody, and at that last
year there, I mean so many people that wanted to
be on, but yeah, Carson was picking his favorites. I mean,
your dad went over to Johnny's movie night when Johnny
was still in bel Air with Joanna. They talked about
that on the air. So yeah, Carson loved your dad.
The doors sketches. I mean, it was it was a
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good night off for Johnny because your dad was so funny.
Johnny just had to sit back and just enjoy.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Mark malcoff is with us. The book is Love Johnny Carson.
One more quick story. I heard that Nancy Reagan would
call him furious if he made jokes about Ronald Reagan.
Is that true?
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Nancy Reagan called Carson twice very upset. One was that
she was upset that Johnny was doing jokes about Ronnie
dying his hair, and she said, Ronnie does not dye
his hair. So Johnny the next night said, somebody very
powerful called me to tell me that Ronald Reagan does
not dye his hair, but he does bleach his face,
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so that's what. And then Nancy Reagan, when she became
first Lady, called Carson because back then on Saturday Night
Live and laughing, they were going drug humor, and she
told Johnny no more, I'm going to be.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Doing just I know so wow. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Jimmy Carter's mom, Lillian, didn't like Johnny doing jokes until
she met him and then in love with his charm.
But the four hundred people I talked to overwhelmingly just
really this was the best time of their lives going
on the show and just working on the show and
just to put all those stories together.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Their most have never been told, so it's really fun
to do this.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
The book is from Dutton Books. I'm sure it's on Amazon.
If you're ever in LA doing a book signing, please
stop by and we'll promote the hell out of it
for you.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Oh, I'd love that. It's so good talking.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
I'm grateful and I love the fact that you got
to go over to the show.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
It make TV history. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Great and please come back with us again if you're
in town doing a book signing, you are always invited
as our guest always.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Oh, I'd absolutely love that deal.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Excellent, all right, thank you, Buddie, appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
All right, Mark Malkoff Love Johnny Carson is the name
of the book by Dutton Books. And we come back.
We have a statement from Savannah Guthrie. We will read
that to you in in in detail and we'll go
through it.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Savannah Guthrie's mom, Nancy eighty four years old, taken from
her house on Saturday, and everybody is looking for this woman. Everybody,
including the President of the United States, who has not
had a great relationship with Savannah Guthrie in the past,
called her and said, we will give you the full
(26:32):
force of the US government to try to help find
your mom. And now there's a statement that she's released,
and there's rumors going around that the brother in law.
I think there's I think the reporter was Bamfield, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Actually Bedfield had come out with that, But the Sheriff's
and PMA County are saying no, that there's no truth
to that, So they're backing off of that.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Right. But remember when the LAPD had their first press
conference with Nick Ryan or they're like, oh, we don't
know who did that, We're not sure who did it.
They do who did so I think they just sort
of say that just to try to take the stink
off the brother in law. But here is the comment
and with her brother and sisters plea for Nancy to
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be released.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
On behalf of our family, we want to thank all
of you for the prayers for our beloved mom Nancy.
We feel them, and we continue to believe that she
feels them too. Our mom is a kind, faithful loyal,
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fiercely loving, woman of goodness and light. She's funny, spunky,
and clever. She has grandchildren that adore her and crowd
around her and cover her with kisses. She loves fun,
an adventure. She is a devoted friend. She is full
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of kindness and knowledge.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Talk to her and you'll.
Speaker 13 (28:09):
See the light is missing from our lives.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Nancy is our mother. We are her children. She is
our beacon.
Speaker 13 (28:26):
She holds fast to joy in all of life's circumstances.
She chooses joy day after day, despite having already passed
through great trials of pain and grief. We are always
going to be merely human, just normal human people who
(28:50):
need our mom. Mama, Mama, if you're listening, need you
to come home.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
We miss you.
Speaker 12 (29:08):
Our mom is our heart and our home. She is
eighty four years old. Her health, her heart, is special.
She lives in constant pain. She's without any medicine. She
needs it to survive, she needs it not to suffer.
(29:32):
We two have heard the reports about a ransom letter
in the media. As a family, we are doing everything
that we can.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
We are ready to talk.
Speaker 12 (29:48):
However, we live in a world where voices and images
are easily manipulated.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
We need to.
Speaker 12 (29:58):
Know out a doubt that she is alive and that
you have her. We want to hear from you, and
we are ready to listen. Please reach out to us, Bani,
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if you are hearing this, you are a strong woman.
You are God's precious daughter, Nancy. We believe and know
that even in this valley, he is with you. Everyone
is looking for you, mommy, everywhere. We will not rest,
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Your children will not rest until we are together again.
We speak to you every moment, and we pray without ceasing,
and we rejoice in advance for the day that we
hold you in our arms again.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
We love you, We love you. Staystrong.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Wow man, oh man, what a piece of audio. That's unbelievable.
The torture that that family is going through. Oh man,
it's tough to listen to. And everybody is looking for
this woman. The state police, the county, the local sheriff,
(31:30):
the FBI, Homeland Security, everybody is looking for this woman.
And they'll find her eventually, but hopefully they'll find her
and alive and healthy. And she's on this medication that
she has to take daily to stay alive, and without
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that medication, it's already been what five days, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
four days. And so can you imagine the grief that
that family is going through just listening to that audio,
and you know, waking up in the morning and you
maybe wake up and you don't, you know, you forget
the nightmare that's going on, and then it hits you again,
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and all day long, you do nothing but try to
find this woman with phone calls and emails and texts
and interviews and talking to people and doing videos and
sending out audio and sending out statements. And then you
have to also eat, and you have to sleep, and
you have to stay strong and you can't, you know,
(32:35):
melt down. But it's taking every ounce of energy that
that family has to stay alive and to stay strong
for this woman, for Nancy, Oh unbelievable audio. Any updates,
we will have them for you right here, all day,
all night and throughout the week. We're live on KFI
(32:56):
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I was
watching there's a I just discovered this. Major League Baseball
Network has a special out there on the World Series
and it's Game seven, the your Los Angeles Dodgers against
(00:22):
the Toronto Blue Jays, and I'm gonna queue it up
here when they start talking about Mickey Rojas and his
home run, because the way they describe this is unbelievable.
I mean, all the details they were surrounding Miggy Rojas
(00:43):
hitting a home run in the bottom of the ninth
inning is incredible. It's just incredible. So I'm gonna cue
it up here and play it for you. Let me
edit that because it's really too long. Let me edit
it and we'll play it, you know, for six o'clock.
But just describing, you know, they hit, and the inning
(01:06):
and all the details that went into it, and Miguel
Rojas's wife, who was had a dream that he was
going to hit home run and in the dream he
was wearing number eleven, which was his old number when
he played with Cincinnati, and it's just an incredible, incredible story.
So I'll get that together and play the p you
before before six o'clock. I promise you that before six o'clock,
(01:31):
a mountain lion is down. Boys injured mountain lion cub.
This seems to be happening a lot. I don't know
if that bridge is up and working or not. But again,
that's sucker done. We're losing a lot of mls around here.
Is not then the short name for them, They call
them mountain lions mls. Heard that on the news the
other day. It's an mL It was down, Like what
(01:54):
is that? Oh, it's a mountain lion. Don't you know? Like, no,
I didn't know that. You can't tell You have to
tell people that you'll don't know initials from.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A roadway rescue to now rehab. New video tonight shows
an adorable mountain lion cub on the moves.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I know they made a huge effort to try to
get it reunited with its mother and that didn't work out,
and so this is the next best thing.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
The cub was found last month, lying in the middle
of a busy Castaic road. Since then, CDFW has worked
with nearby neighbors who turned over video footage of what
was believed to be the cub's mom, trying to track
her down and reunite the pair.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh, that's horrible out there. Mom's looking for the.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Cub, even leaving the cub in an open air cage
hoping to draw the mom a mountain lion out.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It's really nice to see how hard they're working to really,
you know, locate where the mom is in the cub.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
We met Cindy Angelous show the first night the cub
was caught right across the street from her house. She's
been one of the neighbors helping CDFW.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So she can learn how to hunt and how to
do things on her own.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
When reunification didn't work, the cub spent some time at
the La Zoo until a profit known as Flying Tales
stepped in.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Flying Tales I never.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Heard of it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
This video is of them transporting the cup to her
new temporary home. It's so Noma County Wildlife Rescue.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It's just so rewarding to be able to find an
animal that needs help.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Founder and CEO kin Wayne has been flying animals in
need for years, including last January during the Palisades Fire
when shelters were overwhelmed. Before his most reason.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
By the way, animals, dogs, cats, in this case, mountain
lions have leapfrog over homeless people. I don't know when
that happened, not sure. Nobody was warned. Nobody told me,
nobody made a big proclamation, nobody made an official with
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voting or anything. But animals at some point leap frogged
over homeless people. And I'm not saying it's right or wrong.
I'm just telling you it. So the mountain lion is
going to get a lot of money thrown at it,
a lot of time, a lot of attention, a lot
(04:11):
of learning by a lot of people. A lot of
specialists are going to concentrate on getting this mountain lion's
life back together when they could have been helping out
some homeless people. But you're now below animals. Sorry, it's
not me saying it. It's society. Society spends way, way
(04:34):
much more money on pets than they do homeless, much more.
It's thing close. I think with pets it's a four
hundred billion dollars a year industry, it's off the charts,
but with homeless it's considerably less. So that might be
a wake up call, right that that we're leaving some
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people behind, some homeless people behind, and concentrating on nothing
but animals. All right, what we're just saying, Oh, the
Metro audio is in Okay, Okay, all right, may finish
(05:14):
up and then we'll talk about the Metro.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Before his most recent so Cow mission, he had just
rescued a different mountain lion cub from sam Louis Obispo County.
We've learned these two cubs will be in the same
rehab enclosure.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Another example of how you know, mountain lions and pets
of leapfrogged over homeless people. They spend one hundred and
twenty eight million dollars on that bridge that goes over
the one on one freeway. How much money have they
spent on a bridge for Pepperdine students to get over
pch safely so they can go to the beach zero
zero And you hear about it all the time, pepper
(05:52):
Pepperdine students either getting hit by a car or killed
by a car and there was no bridge for the
Pepperdine students to get over pc to go to the ocean. Sorry, kids,
this society really treasures mountain lions much more than does you,
and I'm exactly the opposite. I think that all that
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money that's been wasted on those on that Mountain Lion
overpass over the one oh one, all of it should
have gone to Pepperdine and putting a bridge over PCH
so those kids don't have to risk their lives every
time they cross PCH and go to the beach. But
society is crazy, filled with crazies, and that's how you
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get the Mountain Lion bridge, and that's how you ignore
the Pepperdine students, and that leads to some of their
deaths because of crazy people. That's what's going on.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
There's a shooting and let's get to what's going on
here on the Metro. A man fatally shot. This is
not good, not good for Metro with the you know,
all these events coming up, World Cup, Super Bowl, Olympics.
Metro's got to get it together. I'm not saying is
there a fault, but it is a bad.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Black eye for this well, this situation causing a lot
of concern. The fatal shooting here in the west Lake area.
LAPD telling us it all played out here at this
intersection of Third and Lucas between eleven thirty and noon
today right in front of an La USD school, the
Miguel Contrera School. Here's everything we know from police so
far up to this point. They say it started with
a Metro bus making a stop here at Third and
(07:32):
Lucas a male passenger and getting off that metro bus
and immediately getting into a confrontation with two suspects. During
that confrontation, police said the victim was shot and that
he tried to get back on the bus to seek shelter.
LAPD says at that point the driver actually tried to
save the victim's life.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
This happened in a stone's throw away from a lot
of where we drive and go and live. This happened
in la today today. This is the second one. And
there was a Metro train. I think it's Metro. Maybe
it's an Amtrak that I think it is Metro that
hit a woman in Glendale who was driving a great
(08:13):
car across the tracks, hit her and killed her and
sent the other guy to the hospital. That happened this morning,
and then this happened this afternoon. Guy shot at a Metro.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Stop, jumping into action and taking him to nearby Good
Samaritan Hospital, where he unfortunately died from his injuries.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Died just trying to get buzzing around city on Metro.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Police now say they're searching for the two suspects involved.
We don't have names, ages, or descriptions of them at
this point. We did speak with a mother of Miguel
Contrere's students who says her kids heard these gunshots inside
their classroom.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Today, it sits very uncomfortably because you know, you have
your kids sometimes riding the bus and you know it
can happen to anybody. They were terrified from hearing the
shot so and not being able to leave school slowly.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
How do you think the parents felt. You know, if
the parents work around that school, live around that school,
and they know that on Citizen they hear somebody shot
and killed, it's right next to the kid's school. You
don't think the parents were down there in two seconds.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
So they didn't know how long they were going to
be in lockdown, but they were worried.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Now, we reached out to LAUSD to ask if any
students were involved in this situation, as well as if
parents were notified of the fatal shooting right outside the
school facility. Today, the district says it's working on a
response from Westlake. Keenan Willard, NBC four News.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
All right, bad vibe, bad vibe.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Man, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I'm going to play this. This is a great audio.
I'm gonna played uninterrupted talk about Miguel Rojas and his
home run in the seventh inning. I'm sorry, the ninth
inning of Game seven in Toronto. This is Bob Costas
and some other baseball specialists. This is great, great audio.
Speaker 10 (10:01):
So keyk Hernandez chasers, the wicked slider down and a
way that's out number one. And if you're a Dodger,
Ton Ferducci, that's the other guy, and you're thinking, maybe
Rohas can get on and then we got show.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Hey yeah, I mean right now, the win probability has
never been higher for the Blue Jays to win this game.
Ninety one percent.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And you think about throughout this postseason, teams were zero
and forty two going to the ninth inning trailing in
World Series history for a Game seven, two and thirty
three trailing going into the ninth inning. Of course, two
thousand and one, the Diamondbacker came back in the Yankees.
The other you were there in nineteen ninety seven the
(10:39):
Marlins and Cleveland. Mark Shapiro was in the front office
for Cleveland, huh, and he remembers John Hart being asked
to go into the clubhouse in preparation for the celebration,
and John Hart watched it unravel on TV.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
He didn't want to go.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
He's surrounded by champagne that was never open. Mark Shapiro
now finds himself in the same situation with Toronto two
outs away.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Yeah, heart didn't want to go back in ninety seven.
Baseball superstition. I don't want to jinx that. They made
him go. Baseball protocol. You have to be there, and
then it all slipped away and eventually they lost it
in the eleventh inning. Okay, up comes Miguel Rojas. Here's
a guy who is Tom has said has been invaluable
in sort of an under the radar way throughout the season.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But he's going to come up huge in just a minute.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
This sequence of this at bet is fascinating. There's that
good slider again from Jeff Hoffman. Now the fastball he
throws more than eight of the pitch, but as far
as run value. It's the slider that was not a
good one. So he gets the count back to even Remember.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I'm begging you become a master of AI tools, especially
if you have ten years left until retire.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
He's got Shoe O'tani on deck Kaufman, so he has
to be aggressive pitching on Mickey Rojas. There there's a
fastball that misses. Now he's falling behind. He knows he's
going to get back into this count against Miguil Rojas.
And give Rojas credit here because he is not going
to go quietly at all throughout this event. I a
fastball fouled the way back into the count. Now, how
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are you going to put him away here? The key
is you cannot get to a three ball count. You
don't want to be in a situation where you must
throw the ball in the strike zone. You want to
try to get him to chase the way he got
Kik Hernandez to chase the slider. Another foul ball. He's thinking,
you know what, I'm going to go back to my
slider here. That's fine too. Two slider is a fine pitch,
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but you have to make sure you make it at
least tempting.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
For Rojas, and he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
That's not a good one at all. Now the problem
here is he must throw the ball in the strike zone.
Speaker 11 (12:46):
H Hoffman knows. This has got to be an action pitch.
And what I mean by that you got to make
him put it in play. He's got to swing at
this pitch, meaning it has to be close enough because
you do not want to walk him. You do not
mind giving up a hit right here, but it not
be a ball four And then old Timey.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Comes to the plate, payoff, drill. Do not feel indeed,
no way the go Rojas.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Dave Roberts played his gun.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
The guy haven't had a head in a month.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
In the ninth Game seven.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
He said a time home run.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
The most unlikely source has changed. Game seven, it's tied
at four. Rojas has given the Dodgers line.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Yeah, I mean I hated the pitch because to throw
a slider three to two where you cannot afford to
walk the player, it has to be in the strikes
on the whole time. Watch this pitch. It's in the
own the whole time. It's the only pitch he can
hit for a home run, and had to be a
fastball there. But he's not a good velocity hitter. Miguil
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Rojas slider batspeed. You just gave him the one pitch
he could hit out of the ballpark. Now give him credit.
He fought like heck to get to this pitch. But
look at the spin that's just rolling. Yeah, three hundred
fewer RPMs on that slider than he had on the
first slider that he threw. Mcguil Rojas. Why, because he's
guiding it into the zone. You just can't throw a
strike to strike slider.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
There.
Speaker 11 (14:29):
He sat all over a slider and he got it.
And when he got the barrel to the ball right
there and talked about a slider that hangs, it's the recipe.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
For a fly ball.
Speaker 11 (14:40):
And you know that's a sick feeling right there for Kaufman,
but an electric feeling for that dugout.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Oh, Bob, I have to share this story. I didn't
find this out until after the game.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Okay, this is a great story. This is a fantastic
Rojas story.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Mcgil Rojas's wife already he had said after the Dodgers
won the Pennant, his dream was always to hit a
home run in the World Series. Well as he's leaving
to go to the ballpark for Game seven, Marianna says
to him, you're going to hit a home run tonight.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
And he says, what are you talking about. I mean,
he hasn't hit a home run off a right handed
pitcher all year except for a position player that doesn't count.
And she said, no, this time, I know it to
be true because I had a dream last night. Wow,
God told me you were going to hit a home
run and I saw your number eleven. Now, eleven has
always been his number since he was a little kid.
At he wore a little league and one year his
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mother and his grandfather died within one week, and to
honor them with the Marlins back then, he wore number eleven,
his childhood number. Well, he actually gave that number up.
He's such a nice guy when Roki Sasaki signed with
the Dodgers, but eleven is still his number. So he
comes to the plate hits the home run, which no
one was expecting, including mcguil himself. Yeah, and Marianna looked
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up at the clock, the digital clock in right field.
There's a red numbers up there, eleven eleven.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
How great is that guy? Hits a home run? His
wife said he's going to do it. God said he
was going to do it, and he hits it at
exactly eleven eleven PM in Toronto. That is unbelievable, unreal.
All right, when we come back, we have a guy
(16:23):
who's written a book about Johnny Carson, and Johnny Carson
has had this unbelievable surge lately. I can't tell you
how many people I know go home and watch old
Johnny Carson replays all night Long's It's unbelievable. There's no
other show that friends of mine will say that they
(16:43):
sit there and watch every single night John Colebelt does it.
One of my friends who was a teller at sant Anita,
was watching Johnny Carson as I was betting and I
think losing at sant Anita, and he was watching a
dwarf sketch while I came to the window to bet.
Everybody is watching Johnny Carson, and a guy who's written
(17:05):
the book, an awesome book, a guy named Mark Malkoff,
is coming on with us and he is some great,
great stories, great Johnny Carson stories.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
There was a statement released by Savannah Guthrie. We're gonna
get to that in a second, but first, and there's
nothing new. It's just it's just that she's really heartbroken
and really wants to see this come to an end
with her mom being kidnapped or missing. And we'll get
to that, but first. Mark Malkoff is with us. He's
(17:44):
written a book, Love Johnny Carson. I think Dutton Books
is putting this out. Yes, yes, yes, Dutton Books. And
everybody is watching Johnny Carson reruns now and I'm not
sure why. Mark, Maybe you know why. Mark. Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
How you bub, I'm doing great, Nice to talk to you,
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Talk to you. How come this surge? You think everybody?
There are probably six or seven people I know that
call me or text me saying that they're watching Johnny
Carson every night. Is it just that there's nothing else
out there? Or people are nostalgic? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I used to think he was the best that ever
did Late Night and the clips that are online and
are still shown are so funny. I mean Rodney Dangerfield,
I mean three billion views on YouTube of Johnny Carson,
I mean the Late Night hosts. Currently, they all still
talk about Carson. This is a guy again who hasn't
been on the air in thirty years, and America just
(18:39):
misses him.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
There was nobody better let me.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
There was a list of people. And I was growing
up and my day I was involved with the Carson Show.
People would always speak of a list of band guests
from the show, like Ellen DeGeneres or Jay Leno or
William Shatner, Jerry Lewis. Is that true?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Absolutely? I mean it wasn't.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Some people say it wasn't a physical list, but there was.
There was a group of people. All those people that
you just mentioned got on the list. I mean, Jerry
Lewis was rude to Carson's staff, so Johnny banned him.
Ellen DeGeneres did a joke that was they told her
not to do, and she did it and then she
was banned. So yeah, there was a list of people. Unfortunately,
(19:24):
you know, Dana Carvey on Saturday Night Live would play
Johnny and he thought it was mean spirited, and then
Carvey was banned from the show.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
So there was a list probably thirty people, forty people.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Right, But wasn't I mean, when Johnny Carson finally retired,
wasn't it because they were making fun of him on
Saturday Live.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
That had a lot to do with it.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
They didn't like He didn't like that NBC was moving
a show from eleven thirty to eleven thirty five. They
didn't ask him ahead of time. He thought that was
a big disadvantage. And the Dana Carvey sketches, just because
he did not want to be perceived like Bob Hope.
They showed him on Saturday Night Live is over the
hill and senile and just not out of touch, and
(20:05):
he just said, I don't don't want people to think
of me like that.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I'm going to if you remember at the top of
my game.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It's amazing that Jay Leno was on that you know,
informal band list, and then yet he goes on to
replace him.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Jay Leno had really a really great debut and car
he had the problem where Carson wanted him on so
much that after about a.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Year and a half he ran out of material.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
He I think it was his fifth appearance.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
With Johnny bombed and Johnny said, I don't find him
funny anymore. I don't want him, And then he started
going on David Letterman Show, and got red hot, and
that is what got him back with Carson in eighty six,
and Jay Leno wisely said, if I'm going back on,
I want a guest host and they gave him two
guest hosts slots and he did great. And we all
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know what happened with that.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh that's fantastic. Hey, was there any truth? But I'm
not other story I heard, you know, just because my
dad knew Johnny Carson was the whole Joe Gallows story.
Are you familiar with that story?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
I am that one happened Joe Crazy. Joe Gallo the
mobster was in jail for ten years and got out
in nineteen seventy one, and Johnny was at Jilly's, which
is here in New York City, a very popular like
Frank Sinatra restaurant, watering hole, and it was Ed McMahon
and Johnny. They were drinking. Johnny would talk on the
(21:30):
Tonight Show. He would acknowledge it was a bad drunk.
You did not want to be around him. And Joe
Gallo went to the bathroom and Carson did something inappropriate
to Gallow's girlfriend, and Jillie Rizzo said to Ed McMahon,
get Johnny the blank out of here. Gallo comes back
out and discovers what's happened and put a hit on Johnny.
(21:51):
The thing that saved Carson's life was Frank Sinatra. Johnny
was friends with Sinatra, and Sinatra sat down with Gallo.
They knew each other and said, I knew the favor.
Uh leave Johnny Carson alone, And Gallo said, you tell that?
Do you tell Carson the only reason he lives and
breathes is because of he knows Brian Sinatra. But then
(22:12):
NBC was still very fearful there was going to be
a hit, so they wanted to appease the acting don,
who was Joe Colombo, another mafia figure, So in order
to appease him, NBC had to do a positive story
on Joe Colombo. I watched it with my own eyes.
There was no reason for this to happen. But those
(22:33):
are the things that saved Carson's life.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Wait, so you're saying that Frank Sinatra new guys and
the mob may be I never heard that.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
You want to mention I do want to mention you.
You were actually did a schedule two with your dad, right.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I gotta check the other day for thirty two cents
for doing one of those sketches.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
I just watched them. I watched two of them that
you were in. Ones your voice and then the other
we the Canary sketch, We see you.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Thank you very much. My well, you know, I do
radio to pay the bills, but my first true love
is the silver screen.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Hey, there you go.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Your dad was on twenty seven times with Carson, beginning
in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
And you know what a huge compliment is everybody wanted
to be on Johnny Carson's last month or last show,
and that he actually chose my dad to be, you know,
part of the last you know, comedians or actors that
came on in the last six weeks.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
They were saying no to everybody, and at that last
year there, I mean so many people that wanted to
be on, but yeah, Carson was picking his favorites. I mean,
your dad went over to Johnny's movie night when Johnny
was still in bel Air with Joanna. They talked about
that on the air. So yeah, Carson loved your dad.
The doors sketches. I mean, it was it was a
(23:55):
good night off for Johnny because your dad was so funny.
Johnny just had to sit back and just enjoy.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Mark malcoff is with us. The book is Love Johnny Carson.
One more quick story. I heard that Nancy Reagan would
call him furious if he made jokes about Ronald Reagan.
Is that true?
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Nancy Reagan called Carson twice very upset. One was that
she was upset that Johnny was doing jokes about Ronnie
dying his hair, and she said, Ronnie does not dye
his hair. So Johnny the next night said, somebody very
powerful called me to tell me that Ronald Reagan does
not dye his hair, but he does bleach his face,
(24:38):
so that's what. And then Nancy Reagan, when she became
first Lady, called Carson because back then on Saturday Night
Live and laughing, they were going drug humor, and she
told Johnny no more, I'm going to be.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Doing just I know so wow. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Jimmy Carter's mom, Lillian, didn't like Johnny doing jokes until
she met him and then in love with his charm.
But the four hundred people I talked to overwhelmingly just
really this was the best time of their lives going
on the show and just working on the show and
just to put all those stories together.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Their most have never been told, so it's really fun
to do this.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
The book is from Dutton Books. I'm sure it's on Amazon.
If you're ever in LA doing a book signing, please
stop by and we'll promote the hell out of it
for you.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Oh, I'd love that. It's so good talking.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
I'm grateful and I love the fact that you got
to go over to the show.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
It make TV history. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Great and please come back with us again if you're
in town doing a book signing, you are always invited
as our guest always.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Oh, I'd absolutely love that deal.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Excellent, all right, thank you, Buddie, appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
All right, Mark Malkoff Love Johnny Carson is the name
of the book by Dutton Books. And we come back.
We have a statement from Savannah Guthrie. We will read
that to you in in in detail and we'll go
through it.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Savannah Guthrie's mom, Nancy eighty four years old, taken from
her house on Saturday, and everybody is looking for this woman. Everybody,
including the President of the United States, who has not
had a great relationship with Savannah Guthrie in the past,
called her and said, we will give you the full
(26:32):
force of the US government to try to help find
your mom. And now there's a statement that she's released,
and there's rumors going around that the brother in law.
I think there's I think the reporter was Bamfield, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Actually Bedfield had come out with that, But the Sheriff's
and PMA County are saying no, that there's no truth
to that, So they're backing off of that.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Right. But remember when the LAPD had their first press
conference with Nick Ryan or they're like, oh, we don't
know who did that, We're not sure who did it.
They do who did so I think they just sort
of say that just to try to take the stink
off the brother in law. But here is the comment
and with her brother and sisters plea for Nancy to
(27:17):
be released.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
On behalf of our family, we want to thank all
of you for the prayers for our beloved mom Nancy.
We feel them, and we continue to believe that she
feels them too. Our mom is a kind, faithful loyal,
(27:42):
fiercely loving, woman of goodness and light. She's funny, spunky,
and clever. She has grandchildren that adore her and crowd
around her and cover her with kisses. She loves fun,
an adventure. She is a devoted friend. She is full
(28:05):
of kindness and knowledge.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Talk to her and you'll.
Speaker 13 (28:09):
See the light is missing from our lives.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Nancy is our mother. We are her children. She is
our beacon.
Speaker 13 (28:26):
She holds fast to joy in all of life's circumstances.
She chooses joy day after day, despite having already passed
through great trials of pain and grief. We are always
going to be merely human, just normal human people who
(28:50):
need our mom. Mama, Mama, if you're listening, need you
to come home.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
We miss you.
Speaker 12 (29:08):
Our mom is our heart and our home. She is
eighty four years old. Her health, her heart, is special.
She lives in constant pain. She's without any medicine. She
needs it to survive, she needs it not to suffer.
(29:32):
We two have heard the reports about a ransom letter
in the media. As a family, we are doing everything
that we can.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
We are ready to talk.
Speaker 12 (29:48):
However, we live in a world where voices and images
are easily manipulated.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
We need to.
Speaker 12 (29:58):
Know out a doubt that she is alive and that
you have her. We want to hear from you, and
we are ready to listen. Please reach out to us, Bani,
(30:20):
if you are hearing this, you are a strong woman.
You are God's precious daughter, Nancy. We believe and know
that even in this valley, he is with you. Everyone
is looking for you, mommy, everywhere. We will not rest,
(30:45):
Your children will not rest until we are together again.
We speak to you every moment, and we pray without ceasing,
and we rejoice in advance for the day that we
hold you in our arms again.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
We love you, We love you. Staystrong.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Wow man, oh man, what a piece of audio. That's unbelievable.
The torture that that family is going through. Oh man,
it's tough to listen to. And everybody is looking for
this woman. The state police, the county, the local sheriff,
(31:30):
the FBI, Homeland Security, everybody is looking for this woman.
And they'll find her eventually, but hopefully they'll find her
and alive and healthy. And she's on this medication that
she has to take daily to stay alive, and without
(31:50):
that medication, it's already been what five days, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
four days. And so can you imagine the grief that
that family is going through just listening to that audio,
and you know, waking up in the morning and you
maybe wake up and you don't, you know, you forget
the nightmare that's going on, and then it hits you again,
(32:13):
and all day long, you do nothing but try to
find this woman with phone calls and emails and texts
and interviews and talking to people and doing videos and
sending out audio and sending out statements. And then you
have to also eat, and you have to sleep, and
you have to stay strong and you can't, you know,
(32:35):
melt down. But it's taking every ounce of energy that
that family has to stay alive and to stay strong
for this woman, for Nancy, Oh unbelievable audio. Any updates,
we will have them for you right here, all day,
all night and throughout the week. We're live on KFI
(32:56):
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