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A one, the one you trust. And today we're gonna take a little

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bit of an adventure because I have
a fellow broadcaster with me who's also an

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author, and Mary Leonard. How
are you today. I'm very well,

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Tom, and I'm awfully happy to
be here with you. She speaks real

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English. I speak okay English.
But you're actually from England originally. Yes,

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I was born and raised in England
and I left at a very young

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age and I went over to New
Zealand where I joined broadcasting, and from

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there I got to New York.
In New York, I found a young

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German gentleman, and we are married. And he's sitting out that's that handsome

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fella out there. It has been
quite a long time. Well goodness that

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he's still smiling, so everything must
be going great, not bad, not

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bad. B Yeah, well,
you know, welcome to our radio station.

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You actually worked in a radio station
just down the road in Owatsaw a

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few years back. I was.
It was a classical music station started by

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John Major. And it was not
that John Major, folks, the other

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John, not the Prime Minister,
not just the name. But that was

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a real thrill because we were living
in in Bartlesville. My husband was working

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for the big company here, which
is of course used to be Bartlesville,

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and Bartlesville was Phillips Petroleum, and
I wanted something to do. I found

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this radio station really wonderful. People
were running it. I started there and

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I did some more announcing in a
warsaw. But in the in the book,

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I've called it bug Tussle, bug
Tussele. Yes, I saw that,

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I'm going to come on. You
know that there really is. Yeah,

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it's a little reason. In fact, one of the former members of

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our used to be the speaker of
the house, Carl Albert. He was

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from Bug. So I thought the
name is just too good not to use

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God, so I superimposed bug Tussle
over a while. Now the name of

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your book is Split Second Decisions,
Random or Predestined. Now, this is

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a book, folks, it's a
novel, but it's pretty much based on

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the lady you're Yarine right now,
and you did this in kind of a

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different way. It's almost like a
letter to yourself. Well, I really

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wanted to write an autobiography, but
in most of the books that I've read

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are rather boring, and I feel
the self aggrandizing and you really want to

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say, oh, come on,
tell us about the time when you couldn't

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pay the rent, tell us about
the time you got fired. But it's

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never really quite the truth. So
I thought, what I'll do is I'll

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write a novel memoir, and I'll
write it through the eyes of my young

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grand son sixteen years of age,
because I wanted a fresh, irreverent kind

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of voice. You got to play
and have fun, didn't you. I

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read this, and I'm sitting there
going, oh my, I really had.

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I got a kick out of this, I really did. Where are

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you coming from here? Well,
the thing is, the main character is

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an irishman, sure, Sean Francis
Murphy. Now, anybody who's got even

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a snitching of Irish knows that we're
really not the full shilling, any of

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us. No, not at all. So I wanted it to be amusing,

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and I hope, I hope I
got it was. It was God,

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and you took us through many different
places, many different adventures, but

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all of these were very much based
on your adventures. And but through this

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character. Now we were talking in
the green room, and folks, we

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really don't have a green room.
We just pretend because we got a little

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tea thing going on here. But
I asked Mary, I said, well,

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what kind of broadcasting did you do? You interviewed a big name rock

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and roll act when you were younger? Yes, I did. I interviewed

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George Harrison up the Beatles. Say
did you shriek like the young ladies did

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back then? You know? The
thing was we were all about the same

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agent. It was long before they
became really really famous, and they had

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made all these contractual obligations before they
became famous, and then they had to

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course carry through. This is why
they were in Dunedin, New Zealand,

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which is really a very small town
for the Beatless. Yeah, they just

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cleaned house there in Dunedin, so
you know, they had a poor house,

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I imagine, But I can only
imagine how you process these things through

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the eyes of mister Sean and through
that character. It's really a lot of

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fun. And the book is available
on uh well, on Amazon Amazon here,

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and you can get that. It's
a good read. It's a fun

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read, and it's not going to
take you, you know, a whole

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week to get through it. But
it is so enjoyable. I mean,

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I was I was laughing at a
little bit. Well, the title alone

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is the German pronunciation of fat f
a h rt. Now as when we

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pronounce it in English, it sounds
a little different. Oh yeah, but

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it's the German fat and Wise,
which is the name of two characters.

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Yes, and during the book the
character changes his name quite a few times,

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which is because he had to,
which is part of the fun of

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the book. Yes, it is, yes, And the thing is,

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I knew that when I saw it
because I took German when I was younger.

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Because there are kids in the neighborhood
you kind of had to learn how

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to talk to them. But anyway, it was a This book is just

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really if you like smiling folks,
buy it. You will smile, you'll

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get a kick out of the adventures, and you'll get a kick out how

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he and it lives up to its
spirit right there a split second decisions random

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or predestined, and you're left to
figure that out. Well, I think

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most of us have that feeling.
Occasionally will make a rash decision. We

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hope it's not rash, but you're
never quite sure how it will turn out.

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But we just seem to leap in
and make a decision at random and

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very often it turns out to be
quite successful. And this was what happened

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to my character. Oh, we're
going to read here for a little bits

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on the tablet left to read you
just a little bit. Please tell This

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character is as a young boy of
fourteen, he gets onto a ship going

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to the United States. The way
he gets on the ship is it's really

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a fluke. It's a Jewish doctor
who is escaping from Kiev from the pogroms

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with his family, and he sees
this young boy there with almost tears in

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his eyes. He can't get a
job as a cabin boy, and he

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needs to get to the New World
because of the potato famine, which has

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been a terrible blight in his own
country. There literally is no hope for

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him in Ireland. And he gets
on this ship with the family and they

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point him down to the where the
stowways go. And this is a little

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bit of what happens when he gets
there to Ellis Island. From the barge

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to Lower Manhattan just a moment,
let me get this right. From the

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barge to Lower Manhattan. Okay,
now here he is on the barge to

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Manhattan, he remembered shouting of names, somebody answering with a raised hand,

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a quick signing of papers, then
either deliverance or rejection through a blue painted

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door. That door, the one
marked immigration, was the gateway to the

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world he craved, but he lacked
the necessary papers. The ID tag he

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had he was certain would not be
sufficient to get him through. What happened

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next was either a miracle or the
result of officials being overworked or maybe careless.

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Schwisvuss Albert. Nobody responded, hesitating
for a moment, the name was

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repeated, Schwais Voss Albert. Still
no one answered, so he raised his

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hand. He raised his hand.
Sean Francis Murphy entered the United States of

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America with a working visa in a
stranger's name. He later learned that had

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officials recognized as stowaway, he would
have received the same treatment like regular passengers,

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respect and politeness. But his fixation
with split second decisions started at that

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moment and it affected his entire life. And you can feel the adrenaline in

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that moment, looking around, looking
around, Should I should I not?

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Should I should have? Then split
second? Whoop, here goes the hand,

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yes, and you know you could
You can really feel that when you're

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reading it. He took a chance. He took a chance, He rolled

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the bones, and Homie came at
that age, at such a young age,

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it did affect his life from then
on. Later on, as he

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matured, he realized that sometimes these
random decisions are not always successful. At

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first they can be rather disappointing.
But later on I think he realized that

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maybe certain people come into our life
for some reason, maybe shows we're going

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on a different path. It should
be we should get on a different path

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with our lives, and other times
they're there forever. But sometimes, as

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it has often been observed, it
takes a brilliant mind. We need to

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know the difference. And therefore I
think we're in the hands of the divine

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when it comes to it, I
would agree. Folks, I'd like for

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you to go to your computer and
order this on Amazon, and it's a

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fact and wi are split second decisions
random or predestined. In paperback, you

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can get that. You can also
get it on Kendall for only four ninety

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nine and less than sixteen dollars on
hardcover and paperback, it's about fifteen dollars.

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What's up? Just oh, one
more time? Yeah, the name

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fact and why each RT and wiss
colon are split second decisions, random or

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predestined. You get that paper back, hard back or kindled, because I

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know people do that. They do
that kindle thing all the time. I

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like the feel of a book myself, Yes, me too, Nothing like

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that field of a book is it? And it's an author. When you've

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written it, it becomes part of
you. I look at it sometimes and

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and I lovingly touch it because all
my life I have wanted to do it,

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and suddenly in my ages, oh
heavens, I did it. Oh

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I did it. Yes, that's
one of those aha moments. Look here,

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we've done it. Success. Mary. It has been a pleasure having

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you on the radio today and talking
about the book. And I hope folks

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have a great time reading it as
much as I did about a month ago.

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And somehow I got a little amnesia, but I did read it about

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a month ago when you said it, and my golly, it is.

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It is fun and you will kind
of live the character a little bit.

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You'll you also raise a couple of
times, and you will chuckle a bit

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too. So it's really got its
ups and downs, and it's got it's

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a. It's moments of oh my, and you kind of look for the

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oh mai in this book. Mary, thank you, Thank you so much.

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Tom. It's late the pleasure.
Ladies and gentlemen, you've been listening

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