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Perience with handcuffs just 6 days to go before graduating from the Hudson County New Jersey police academy Kristen Hyman was suspended without pay this after her superiors learned a high minute failed to disclose the fact she'd been a dominate Trix who appeared in bondage movies the sheriff's office side of her sordid past from 2010 through 2012 as conduct unbecoming a public employee as well as causing the department ridicule among law enforcement however a county judge lifted the suspension allowing him to graduate with a class she's currently on modified duty pending a disciplinary hearing later this month Tom or gaudy Fox News more than $3000000.00 pounds or about 4 $1000000.00 has been raised for victims the Blunden high rise fire that killed at least 30 people or left dozens homeless when the nurse and others also donate a massive amounts of food water clothing and shelter to survivors I'm Tom. Fox News. 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M m m m m m M's Good evening good morning wherever you may be thank you for tuning into the best in overnight talk radio this is coast to coast am broadcasting live from the city of angels sitting in for George Norry I'm Dave Schrader we've got a great couple of shows lined up for you over the next 2 nights tomorrow we're going to take a look at the Kurt Cobain suicide we're going to talk with the director producer and writer of the documentary soaked in belief going to spend time and stat will be on the air with us as well is Tom Branch a retired private investigator and former detective with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who personally investigated Kurt Cobain's alleged suicide they've got some stories to share some insights on this case that may stun you and if you have not seen the documentary please check that out on Netflix Hulu all the regular outlets have this and they said that they've got more information to share with us tomorrow that they didn't even cover in this documentary we'll be doing that tomorrow all 4 hours plus opening up the phone lines giving you an opportunity to join us and share some time in a little bit we're going to be joined by Kenny Johnson and he is a successful writer producer director of film and television for more than 4 decades and he's the creator of Landmark original mini series v He also produced the 6000000 Dollar Man created the iconic Emmy winning shows such as the bio on a woman the Incredible Hulk Alien Nation and he's directed numerous t.v. Movies and feature films shorts. 2 and steal we're going to speak with him in just a short time talking about the evolution of science fiction What was it like doing special effects without all the computers and c.g.i. And we're going to hear some great stories and behind the scene anecdotes from all of the shows we just discussed before we get into that though make a couple of mentions of course the thoughts and prayers of coast to coast am are out with some u.s. Sailors 7 u.s. Sailors are unaccounted for after a Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship southwest of Yokosuka Japan early Saturday local time the Navy said the u.s.s. Fitzgerald a $505.00 foot destroyer collided with a Philippine container vessel at approximately 2 30 am Saturday local time about 56 not a call miles of Sukkot the u.s. 7th Fleet has said the ship which had experienced some flooding after the collision and the Japanese coast guard were searching for the 7 unaccounted for sailors the fleet has said right now we're focused on 2 things the safety of the ship and the well being of our sailors Admiral Scott swift commander of the u.s. Pacific Fleet said in a statement we thank our Japanese partners for their assistance there were 3 injuries they're still seeking some of these sailors will keep that your thoughts and prayers for a safe retrieval and healthy recovery for everyone involved I just flew into Los Angeles and boy had I read this and heard this news straight out know that I would have been as excited about getting on an airline but flight was cancelled only after a passenger spotted fuel leaking out of the wing before takeoff thankfully somebody was actually paying attention earlier this week a United Airlines flight scheduled to depart from Newark Liberty International Airport was cancelled why because a passenger looked out of her window and saw jet fuel gushing out of the wing a passenger stated that she alerted the crew to the issue and posted a video of the fuel leak to Twitter according to The Telegraph United Stated that they had taken the plane out of service but didn't explain what caused the leak as for the path. Injures they're given hotel rooms for the night and booked on later flights but of course one question still remains if the passenger hadn't seen the fuel pouring out would the flight have even taken off that scary we'll. Hope that everybody is on on board with that now keeping a little bit closer I And since we're talking side if I let's let's mention the new news coming out today the coroner has risen has released results of Carrie Fisher's untimely death in the death inquiry officials say that actress Carrie Fisher died from sleep apnea and a combination of other factors but they cannot conclusively determine what caused her death Los Angeles coroner's officials said in a news release late today that the Fisher had buildup of fat in the walls of her arteries the release states that Fisher had taken multiple drugs prior to her death but that investigators could not determine whether they contributed to her death in December the agency did not immediately respond to a request for additional details about whether a full autopsy report intox a college results were available Fisher suffered a medical emergency on an international flight back on December 23rd her mother longtime movie star Debbie Reynolds died the following day I also would like to make a quick mention I popped in on the show last week. Now with Richard Sera it briefly to remember of the passing of Adam West and I was here last night was fascinating they did a really great Sure tribute for Adam West the Adams Family Burr Wardley Merryweather and some other people from the Batman franchise were there on hand as they lit up Los Angeles City Hall with the bat signal and it was so beautifully done and it was a great turnout I had a chance to go down there and see this and as a lifelong. Superhero nerd I just absolutely a door this in missing Adam West was great but we had a chance to discuss briefly my encounters with Adam and how amazing he was I also made a mention that my daughter was diagnosed with last Saturday with type one diabetes and it asked for prayer and healing request from the audience and I just want to thank the coast audience always delivers you guys such a beautiful outpouring of love and support and e-mails that I received from you regarding that announcement I just to update you she's doing well we're we're in the midst of making this new transition in life and understanding how to deal with type one diabetes but as a father let me tell you it was if you start to notice dramatic changes in your children especially between the ages of 9 and 12 you notice that they're swimming out there they're drinking more water than usual they're there by bathroom breaks are multiplying Don't be afraid to ask to have them examined and checked because this was almost an identified we there's no media diabete us in our family there was no way to forsee this coming but we happened to luck out and. My girlfriend had a blood testing kit tested her and found that she was picking up at 590 which is extremely high and we were alerted to get to the hospital immediately before she went into a diabetic coma she is safe today and healthy and doing well and will be keeping updated on that but I guess I just wanted to take a few moments to thank everybody that thought about me and did that another quick question. And request for you my co-host and producer of beyond the darkness and darkness radio Tim Dennis is in the hospital another bout of infection in a shark go forward possibly in the bone doctors are are talking about doing bone and tissue biopsies in the morning they're also talk of sepsis it's all over the place they're talking about treating it with a pick line and long term antibiotics and possible amputation So of course Tim is a big part of our lives and has been so if you can keep him in your thoughts and prayers to Dennis out in Minneapolis we love you buddy and we're wishing for a full recovery and a quick recovery on that we're going to take a break when we come back any Johnson is here to talk about some of the most iconic t.v. Programs some of the t.v. Programs I loved and grew up on we're going to talk about that his new projects and what's going on we'll do that when we return to a coast to coast am. Every free app. Real. People Real stories we discover carnival or was so thrilled with the product that he shared it with his family and his friends and his patients family physicians the medical office almost all the symptoms for either diminished or gone amazing product amazing results and found for something really wonderful This happened back to show my family and I had never seen anything like this like an amazing thing having such a profound change in how I feel and knowing that it was a kind of aura that did it own faults Richard Astro on or for convoy or research international here wake up your immune system and none of your loved ones protect yourselves against harmful invaders you successfully by President Reagan in 1905 when he had it sent to the White House is a con of war a dot com or call 1866 Venus Fly the c. a R. And b. a Dot com or dial 1866 Venus Fly stop protecting yourself today Glenn Beck you listen to him and he really starts to lay out the problem Monday morning at 9 and then he presents the solution to our talk or 260 and one a one f.m. . Welcome back to coast to coast am for George Norry I'm Dave Schrader sitting in for tonight and tomorrow night by growing up in the seventy's and eighty's kind of the Silver Age of really great t.v. There are some shows and mini series that stand out far above the rest and this is in no means a way to just stroke the ego of my guests this evening but I can honestly say that of the shows I adored growing up the 6000000 Dollar Man and the biopic woman the Incredible Hulk Alien Nation and of course the mini series v. Was groundbreaking I love you you caught me watching every one of these shows and I know from watching social media that these were the same kind of shows that influenced so many of us what we're lucky enough to night to have Kenny Johnson any is a successful writer producer director of film and television for more than 4 decades he's been the creator. Landmark original mini series viz produced all the shows we just mentioned and been involved in the creation and follow up on these shows he's here with us tonight to talk about these these amazing t.v. Series the way it helped shape the face of programming at that time and folks this is before long before c.g.i. And all of the the tricks of the trade and it was still amazing t.v. That holds up today so well Kenny thank you so much for joining me tonight it's my pleasure to be here and thank you very much for such a splendid I'm overwhelmed this is this stuff this was amazing to me this was the t.v. This was appointment t.v. Which you don't find as much anymore you don't you don't see people really kind of gathering to watch the show but all of these shows were such family friendly entertaining and just in an educational as well you guys snuck in some really great science and and legend into these stories and it was it really impacted I think many generations of filmmakers and t.v. And everybody that's out there right now and they know a lot to people like you that were at the forefront of this I was standing on the shoulders of giants Dave. Only bolstering the giant that you are as well this is thank you so much this is great now you have you actually have kind of an interesting story to start as I have I have regarding coast to coast am right yes it's funny I have a coast to coast story about the show 2 weeks ago I was flying back to Baltimore from l.a. To make a presentation at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory namedropper Yeah well I think how often does one get invited I can tell you never in my Don't you know what it is one at places like the Applied Physics Laboratory there are a lot of Saif I fans over that's what they are these are science and anyway they invited me to come back and talk about how I sort of use science fiction as a metaphor and allegory to talk about societal issues and and that sort of thing and I had to change planes in fact in Phoenix. And the plane we got when we got there the. Aircraft was not working I said we got to go to another gate so I ended up walking from the gate where I was all the way the other end of the Phoenix Airport with the pilot and we were just talking you know what where he's from where I'm from what are you doing in and I mentioned that I was going to to go to the a.p.l. I was also going to New York to do an interview with Sirius x.m. Radio and out of the blue this wonderful American Airlines pilot named Scott gods he said oh let me tell you the show you ought to do man it's Coast to come. Out of the blue and I said well that's really interesting Scott because I'm going to be there in 2. And I told him that I would give him a shout out I hope he can take a look away from the controls long enough to listen and hear it but. Scott Gus He said My name is easy it's shag spelled backwards so I you know I got it right but it was really charming to run into that and have that kind of encounter and to hear about your show and he said should they do some really weird stuff on that yes we do you know and and being a pilot he said very often he's getting up very early in the morning to meant to fly a plane or something but he said I hear it all the time and I love it and so kudos to you guys and the guys that do the show here it was it was fun to hear about anyway. And we've got so much to talk about before we kind of launch into all of these amazing series that you are part of Kenny you've got a new novel The man of legends and it even got a special Amazon Kindle 1st prerelease back on June 1st and it's already a bestseller It's amazing it comes out in it's released in full release and on July 1st in print and in audiobook and in digital and in the regular candle but they they have this special deal where the editors of Amazon get together and they pick like 6 of their upcoming books to be given this Kendall 1st premiere a month earlier and it all happened just 2 weeks ago on the on the 1st of June. And to my astonishment. It was like overnight it was a best seller The 1st day and out of the over I think they have over 1000000 titles in the candle store and we were at number we started at number 2 and we've been hovering around Number 5 ever since then and it's just been amazing and but even more rewarding Dave has been the feedback that I've gotten already from the people who have read it it's they have you know like their little 5 star rating at Amazon right and we have had like 4.4 out of 5 stars from the get go I think the last time we looked it was something like 14260 room you know reader reviews and so many of them have really. Made me happy that's also Well it's great you know when you can hear directly back from your audience right it's it's really really great or really frightening Well that's one both ways but just to give you a sort of a quick overview of what it is. I sort of think of it as a supernatural mystery Ok that I mean I'm trying to do some epic sort of stories an adventure and there's a lot of suspense and tension in it and that sort of thing but there's also this wonderful love story and all of it is rooted in what I've discovered is one of the great untold legends of human history that nobody's ever really explored before and I was intrigued by this and the story takes place in New York City over New Year's weekend of 2001 so it's just a 3 or 4 day period sure but there are a flashback over the last 2000 years back to the Holy Land and then further back beyond that into some primal imagery from like Paradise Lost and really deep mythology and and the hero is this really engaging guy flesh and blood guy like you or me who made a mistake like you or I might easily have made but it brought down on him this terribly. Grave consequences and he has had to remain alive ever since that happened and and he cannot die and he cannot stay in one place for more than 3 days before he has to move on it's like needles in the back of his brain if he doesn't move and he has to move it look you know further down the road every 3 days . And so obviously it sort of becomes the story becomes kind of a quest to understand why this is happened and when the what his reason for being is that's sort of the theme actually that runs through the whole story most of the care principal characters are trying to sort of discover their reason for being but the beauty of the character is that when you're when you're having to constantly move like this across the world for like the 20 last 20 centuries you meet a lot of people right and you could realize meet a whole lot of very important historical people and you could impact on them in a way that or inspire them in a way that would literally change the course of human history which is what he has done for the last 20 centuries and it's it's you know really an intriguing path to follow both for good and for bed I mean he's basically a good guy but sometimes no good deed goes unpunished right now and he's been pursued for about the last 1600 years by authorities from the Vatican who are eager to contain him and capture him because of the treasure that he represents to them but also the danger that he represents to their empire and organized religion in general because of what he knows his latest Nemesis is a French priest very devious duplicitous man who has be going to be the one that brings him in he's sort of I was sort of inspired by inspectors affair and let me share that kind of determined obsessed man who tense and and he's in a list of the New York Archdiocese and the n.y.p.d. And they're all sort of closing in on New Year's weekend but there are also 2 women who are. Eagerly seeking Him One is a reporter for like a National Enquirer tabloid kind of paper and she has seen. This man's face in photographs taken at 3 of 3 different times like 150 years apart and the guys in the same photograph I mean he looks the same you know and then she chances to see a news broadcast a local news broadcast in New York where this heroic and in a fight man has just saved the life of this little 5 year old Latina girl from a burning tenement house in Spanish Harlem the walls collapsed on him though and he's like 90 percent burned over his body Bookham broken bones he's in a coma he's not expected to live but she sees them slipping him into the in the paramedic van and she sees his face and goes it's figure hey wait a minute who is this and at the same time there's another woman who is very different she's an 85 year olds thought of Catherine help on feisty New England lady former United Nations envoy who was his lover 60 years ago please tell me that you're doing the audiobook version for the yes all to get to that I'll get to that right because it's really fun and but she was his little love of his life and he was the love of her life that she traveled with him understood who he was and why it was going on for a year but then he forced himself to separate from her because he knew it would be too painful for her to watch him remain young while she kept growing older he'd been through that with his wife and his children 1000 years earlier but now she's sort of slipping into all Simers and she's so hoping to reunite with him before she loses all of her memories and she sees the same newscast and it's like oh my God And you know he's closing in on it and it's. There's also one other character that I need to mention he's described in the book as a sleek young man I used sort of Leonardo Dicaprio or Jude Law in my head as I was writing that sort of absolutely charming friendly humorous guy who's been shadowing our hero for the whole 2000 years so obviously the. Something else going on with him and we suspect early on that he's an emissary of darker forces which indeed he is and and the whole thing sort of comes to this amazing conclusion in a in a warehouse on the upper east or west Upper West Side of Manhattan at the end where he ends up surrounded by a 100 or so people whom he's encountered over just this weekend in Manhattan and who are for some reason drawn to be with him at the time and part of the fun of the novel is that it's told in the 1st person by about 15 different people. By the different people that have encountered him including the reporter who was not only an eyewitness but also a participant in what's going on that Katharine Hepburn type lady has got her voice even our hero has is has his voice and it so when we did the audio book. Brought in a dozen of my favorite actors several of them from Alien Nation as a matter of fact Eric Pierpoint who was my lead and. Erica did the voice of Will who is my hero and Terry trees who was the beautiful and across the hall in alienation she didn't oh no you started drugged out Carnie your little alcoholically and it doesn't look like Terry at all Jeff Marcus who played Albert the slightly candy kept janitor mentally handicapped janitor and alienation is in it for me as well as Carrie Keane and a couple of other friends so the the audiobook really plays like a radio play off now and I love that this kind of a theater of the mind the trade exactly that's exactly the kind of thing and and I decided to write the book in that fashion because it gave me an opportunity to get inside a character's head and really you know begin to check it out with Man of Legends you got to go preorder get in on that right now we'll take a break we'll come back we've got more with Kenny Johnson and more about some the most fascinating t.v. 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Up to 2000 demonstrators marching in St Paul after a jury acquits a police officer of the fatal shooting of a black man last year a Navy destroyer limps back to port in your so-called Japan after colliding with a cargo ship yesterday but the search continues for 7 missing sailors from the u.s.s. Fitzgerald he directed films including The Karate Kid and won an Oscar for this one . The director of the Rocky Albertson died yesterday the best just alone who wrote and starred in Rocky praise the director for believing in him. All that son died in Los Angeles of pancreatic cancer he was 81 Fox News Week record. Most of us in agriculture are aware that areas of the Midwest were devastated by massive wildfires in March of 2017 the fires were Headline News for a couple of days but those headlines faded quickly many people outside of agriculture had no idea just how unbelievably huge the fires were the losses were terrible entire ranches burned cattle were killed outright or even worse the life started burned so bad that some of them had to be put down in the days after the fire buildings and fences were burned to the ground and I member of lives were lost the numbers are so big they're almost incomprehensible there were over 7000 individual fires that burned more than $2000000.00 acres more than 3000 square miles the fire swept through a hog farm in Oklahoma killing more than $4000.00 hogs in Texas alone $1500.00 cattle were killed the cost to replace the fences alone is estimated at $4000000.00 property losses are at least $6000000.00 More Well nearly 100 years ago both of my parents grew up on the prairie my mother especially remembered prairie fires that filled this guy was smoke and ash and sometimes game way too close to the house so this massive fire isn't new thing I expect that what happened after wasn't too different from what happened this year out there on those same grasslands after the smoke cleared the people pick themselves up dust themselves off help mend the injured to bury the dead then they rebuild they may not have expected help but they would get it just as our ranchers did today it began as a trickle of postings on Facebook then it became a flood of supplies hay food drinking water at 1st followed by close fencing supplies canned goods. More trucks home today from as far away as California to the devastated towns the local feed stores made space for the donations and community service clubs set up all of tears to help move all that stuff that came in carry explode to local charities who knew best how to pass it out it was people helping people farmers and ranchers in small towns around the country were feeling the loss I wanted to share the burden yes to fire was awful but the heartfelt response of the agriculture community is doing a lot to heal the damage that was done and that's why we love the living out here in the country I'm Lynn Walcott's That's the Western view from ag now West now West . Radio is easy to use it for music. 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We're back in this is coast to coast am sitting in for George Norry I'm Dave Schrader and tonight in studio I'm very lucky to be graced with the presence of Kenny Johnson who was behind many of the most iconic t.v. Shows of of my youth and many of the listeners here on coast to coast am we just talk about his new novel The man of Legends 1st of all what a fascinating story did I hear some slight shadowing him reflections of even the Incredible Hulk in that where he's always on the move every couple of days has to move on to affect some other part of life in somebody else's life you know it's interesting I realized as I was into it that there were certainly echoes of the whole even right couple of little inside jokes to our hope fans friends out there or when they read the book that you know that they'll see that too but what intrigued me about this character was the fact that he would be able to interact with a lot of historical people that we've heard about you know I mean he he was a shipment turns out he was a ship mate with Herman Melville whaling ship you know and he suggested movable type to this metalsmith name Gutenberg and so suddenly that you know things developed almost got a little bit of a force to gum. Exactly Jason Kirk who was the editor of Emma zine who bought the book. We had been approached by Harper's and Little Brown and some of the other major publishers but Jason just came at me from from Amazon and just so got it and understood what I was trying to do in the fun that we could have with it because here's a guy that. You know can we can have conversations with Mark Twain and suggest things that make Mark Twain what he is one of my favorite I think little throwaway pieces is when he. Gets involved with the Scotsman up in a named James Watt in the 1700s who is trying to get this infernal. Impression called the steam engine to work and he can't quite get it to go in right and in our hero will has seen some things in his travel that gives him some suggestions that he passes along to James Watt and so pretty quickly in 3 days the steam engine is working and so not only did he help what create the steam engine but he helped kick start the Industrial Revolution but also while he's there he uses the steam valve relief elf to heat up a little warm milk there to the poor and coffee creates the 1st capital you know you know so there's a lot of a lot of fun like That's awesome Yeah and but also you know a lot of times as I said good no good deed goes unpunished I mean it's a good thing when he could save a little child in Bavarian Alps and from a blizzard in the 18th hundreds and it's a good thing he saved the child almost freezes to death himself but but Except the problem is the child grows up to be the grandfather of it all Hitler and you know so part of that what the story talks about is the ripple effect that our actions have and we have to think about you know how they can affect other people and you know another when does the hero have an understanding of how that ripple effect happened does he realize that it was Hitler's grandfather Yes As a matter of fact it's part of the reason that he later became part of the Vulcan replot to assassinate Hitler. And trying to clean up your own mags actually actively and so that there's the that constant you know trend of seeking to to do the to the right to do the right thing because it's really a basically a very humanistic book and about how about a right way to live more than anything else but at the same time I you know what I've always tried to do Dave is to take a high concept like this some man who cannot die kind of situation and a concept that will intrigue people that will catch their attention catch their imagination and then once I get them I have to of course deliver a story right makes good on all of that and keep them engaged but also what I've always tried to work sort of the man. Actually and see what I could work into the story that would give it some substance and some underlying depth and and certainly . Always throughout my whole career tried to inspire as much tolerance and humanism as I could because I ugly enough I was raised in a very bigoted anti-Semitic household and I heard the hate words all the time every night at dinner and I was an only child so I had nobody to bounce off of and and somehow it didn't stick I just instinctively felt that this was wrong I couldn't bring myself ever to use those words or anything and so through my whole career I've tried to sort of wherever I could chip away at that you know kind of intolerance and prejudice and alienation was a course of the classic example right of doing that and I was so fantastically told to take it from that movie and then and adapted for t.v. Well and do it to do it justice and almost I think in my opinion and again I mean because up it was almost far superior to the movie when it was a great kernel of an idea that you fleshed out beautiful you know it's so funny and thank you very much for that I had a lot of a lot of very talented people helping me to do that but when my friends called me from Fox for them I was prob was head of Fox t.v. And he called so we got this movie that didn't do very well but there might be a promise when you come a look at it and he told me it was alienation and by then I had already done the Incredible Hulk by ionic woman v. And you know I was more and more I was being thought of as the scythe high guy you know that's what they do in this town and and I saw Ok well I look at it and I look at the movie sitting alone in a screening room and Fox and it was like sort of Miami Vice with Coneheads right now it was just it was just I just it was such a good premise but it didn't and I was just about I don't even want to start to through the rest of the movie but then there was this one scene where the alien cop gets picked up at his home by his human partner and he waves to his family on the porch and his wife and 2 little kids alien kids in the bell went off in my head and I said wait a minute wait a minute who are they what's it like to be them and I went back to the Fox exact. Is and I said Ok you think you've got like Lethal Weapon with aliens right and they said yeah yeah and I said No no what we have here is the opportunity to do in the heat of the night is to do what he said that's about culture clash about prejudice about discrimination and really talk about it right on the nose right in your face but never offend anybody right and and it was so cool because when I went on the air I got this we got a lot of wonderful letters my favorite I think came from an African-American doctor in Detroit who said I saw the shows coming on the air and it really made me angry why do they want to do another show about this alien stuff why doesn't somebody do a show about the black experience he said and then I saw your show and realized it was about the black experience. And the Asian American community the Hispanic American community the community everybody gave us awards and honors because everybody thought it was about them right and you didn't force feed the dog of any or anything it was just it was showing the relation which what I think is what Star Trek really honed in on was being able to to look at these different stories and aspects of our humanity exact and make them relatable I want to ask you before we go too deep into the different shows. With with the book you map this out you've got such a rich history in t.v. And movies why why isn't this a movie why didn't you bring it to movie instead of a novel you know it's funny when I 1st. I think I was reading Mark Twain's book. Called Innocence abroad it was sort of a travel book that he did for a for when he when he was early in his career and he mentioned this my character my leading character because he's a character that is a legendary character the people have heard about sort of vaguely but they don't know who he was or what you to get was all about Mark and I read realize a Mark Twain wrote about him and I'd to start digging into the research and I realized that Percy Shelley the poet had written a couple of poems about him having apparently met him and this was like 5060 years before Mark Twain and the deeper I got into it the more I realized there were reports about this man that went back into the 16th hundreds of the 1400s the 1200 . And I thought wait a minute wait a minute this is too rich a character and I actually started writing a script a screenplay but I realized that I couldn't do service to the character and the the wondrous thing that I had stumbled onto here to try to cram it into 2 hours of a movie was just not going to do it service and and I had to settle back and I said Ok that I really did need to do this is a novel so that I can really do the breath of it and then maybe if I'm lucky will turn it and maybe into a mini series you know where that that where you Netflix Amazon Hulu are you listening there you go there's something this is exactly what we love to watch these type of experiences and do you have a little bit of fear though that you know he's going to come looking for you in one of the residuals for you writing about it I think yeah you know stranger things have happened but I tell you if this guy walked into your life it with it would be it would be a good thing for everybody that he runs into now Amazon's already locked up for a 2nd book is going to be a sequel to this is that's what they asked for and it could be because the story although it comes to a conclusion could conceivably continue on but I said No I really feel like I've done the story that I want to do here it's got a good beginning middle and an end as Aristotle says that you're supposed to do and I always have followed and I said decide to have another idea how about let me just give you a few minutes about that and I did and they said Ok we like that and then they bought it and I am out of it I just turned in the manuscript for that a couple of weeks ago and I'm just about to start the final copy edit on it but that's that's next year we'll come back and talk about that I'm all for it let's let's start to talk about some your back and you just talked about your childhood kind of raised in this environment bigoted dams isometric and of environment which helped it seems like birth the idea of of understanding and acceptance I think it did you know and. Because it just as I said it just felt wrong Oscar Hammerstein in South Pacific wrote that lyric that he won the Pulitzer Prize for the song was called you've got to be taught before it's too late. Before you were 6 or 7 or 8 to hate all the people your relatives hate you've got to be carefully taught and for some reason it just didn't stick and then when I was 13 Dave I had an extraordinary experience I was of course being a geek I was in the audio visual aid club you know so that I could run the projector and I was there of course. Of course you would know if you are correct and but I was in 7th grade I was 13 and I had and we had a junior senior high that was combined and I had heard that one of the seniors had brought in a roll of film that his father who was a general at the Pentagon had allowed was going to allow this one class of advanced seniors only to see at the school and I thought I'm not going to and I let that slip by you know when I took I broke out of my lunch room and had a key to the audiovisual room so I went and I found the film set up a projector in a closet literally and I just screamed this this film on the wall there and Dave what it was was all of the footage that was used in evidence in the war crime trials at Nuremberg this was all of the liberation of the concentration camps the Soviets and the Americans and the British took the film that they took of these I had never in my life seen skeletal human beings walking around I had never conceived of seeing a but piles of hundreds of thousands of people. Being pushed by a literally by a bulldozer into a mass grave and it was staggering to see I had never heard the word hole accost certainly not in my family and I was really it was profound and I went home that night and mentioned it to my parents and the reaction I am embarrassed to tell you was they said too bad they didn't finish the job. And it was yeah that's that's so how does it impact there's a child when you hear this kind of hate coming from the people who are supposed to raise you to be a better person it was so did they did they ever give you explanations can why well my mother was a standard My mother was born in in Arkansas as I was and I was my so is my father my biological father and and they were raised there my father on a cotton plantation literally but my mother they were divorced after World War 2 and we moved to Washington by then and my daddy went back to said Come on Helen it's time to go back to Little Rock and my mother said no I'm staying in Washington and they were divorced and she remarried an Irish Catholic guy from from Massachusetts are really getting. But he was a bigger bigot against black people than she was Wow And and people who were Jewish were the bottom end of the scale for him because they had I kept hearing had robbed his compass stolen his company from him and all of this and decades later I heard from a and eye witness who was reliable who said no no no there were no Jewish people involved in your stepfather's failure he was just a bad businessman. So it was it was just the way it was and I just decided that I wouldn't go that way and determined that I you know that I wouldn't and and so since then I've really as I said try to chip away at it you know whenever whenever I could to you know to try to make the world a little bit better when did the spark. Come to life for you regarding science fiction I mean to go from that in that's the humanitarian side of life to fantasy and. I think. I had like enjoyed a lot of the 1st book that I spent all night reading was journey to the center of the earth Jules Jules Verne I was so captivated in that put took me through all of the rest of Jules Verne and then I got into h.g. Wells and War of the Worlds and the Invisible Man and all that and then into some of the later. Contemporary authors like Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury and the people that were also in influencing people like Rod Serling who I got to know good pretty well later on. And it was that was sort of the thing that sparked me into it and I thought I enjoyed about science fiction was the what if aspect of it you know it wasn't just life as usual it was something else my friend my dear late friend Steve Cannell who created The Rockford Files and a team and everything that r.c. Merican here on exactly all of those Magnum p.i. Right what if was Steve's license plate and how really and it was something that I think drew me into it a lot too and it's funny because in reading the science fiction I at one point came across the the radio play script for The War Of The Worlds that Orson Welles had done in 1939 and scared the pants off of right a lot of people thought it was a live broadcast and that the Martians had landed in New Jersey and it really frightened people and I said this is so cool and by then I had being a Navy geek I had bought a tape recorder reel to reel tape recorder that was you know about the size of a suitcase and weighed 10000 pounds. But I thought you know this is cool I've got this radio play script I'll get together a bunch of mine 8th and 9th grade friends and we did our own version of War of the world so my 1st production was a dramatic production was more of the world's on tape and how old were you when I was 14 you know and we share a lot and I used to sit in the garage of my body with a little blue. Tape Recorder doing Hardy Boys mysteries and story so I'm with you that's that's exactly it was it was so fun but what happened is that very quickly too was that my teachers all wanted to play it for all the different classes in school and suddenly I was known as the drama guy. And that led to me doing more plays and stuff in high school and eventually realizing that the theater was was the way that I wanted to go with my life and I Then I went into it to get into the drama department at Carnegie Tech which is a theater school is no film or t.v. It was all pure theater theater Shakespearean and Stanislav. And it was. But I was lucky enough to have encountered a guy named Bill Pence who was a big man on campus and who ran the school newspaper and also this thing called Film Arts Society where we screened classic films and I helped him to do it and ended up taking it over bill incidentally went on to create the Telluride Film Festival which he ran for 35 years. And but so I had the great theater training on one hand but at the same time I was seeing all these great movies on the other hand Bill really introduced me to cinema I'd always been a movie fan but Bill introduced me to the world of really classic cinema from all over the world and it was it was a great way to blend the 2 things and I realized ultimately that film was the way that I wanted to go Kenny Johnson our guest we have him for a whole nother hour leaving open phone lines if you have some questions we've got so much more to cover as we continue talking with this man behind so many of the most iconic shows 6000000 Dollar Man the bio Nick woman Incredible Hulk alienation he has a brand new book called The Man Of Legends you can find information on Amazon Kindle you can go out and sign up for that right now and you can check out his Web site Kenneth Johnson dot us that's Kenneth Johnson dot us I am your host this evening sitting in for George Norry I'm Dave Schrader don't check out my website keep up with what we're doing you can find me at darkness Radio dot com We'll be back with more on coast to coast am one of the perks of being a coup. 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