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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Dakota Mornings. I am your host, Michael
(00:02):
Bell kfy R five fifty AM nine nine point seven FM.
We are and iHeartMedia production, and we're going to spend
a couple of minutes here talking about reading, specifically a
book that I just read that is certainly in the
top five books of all time that I have read.
I am a reader. I love to read. I have
for forty years. I probably average four or five books
(00:27):
a month, if not slightly more. I'll read anything I
can get my hands on. But I just read one
of the most impactful books that I have ever read.
My favorite books, the top three are The Bible, Atlas Shrugged,
and now THEO of Golden This book, well, I just
(00:50):
I'll just read you some of the some of the
top lines of it. It's literary fiction by an American author,
Alan Levy. Self published in twenty twenty three. It was
re published by Simon and Schuster in the fall of
twenty twenty five. I picked it up while I was
on vacation. I read the jacket, I read the back
(01:10):
as to what the book was about. I thought, I would,
you know, associate it and be a nice light beat
read turned out to be so much more than that. Now,
THEO of Golden is very simply about a man who
arrives in a town called Golden. His name is Theo.
The town is Golden. It's somewhere in the south around Atlanta.
(01:32):
And he goes to a coffee shop owned by a
couple and there are pencil sketches of people on the walls,
and they're for sale, and there are one hundred and
some odd pencil sketches. And he decides that what he's
going to do is he's going to purchase it and
give it to the person that the pencil sketches is rendered.
(01:55):
And in return, all he asks them is their story.
And he has some uh, some you know, leading sort
of indicators into why he chose that picture that pencil
sketch at that particular time. But he goes through and
he buys them all and he gets the he gets
the stories from the people. Now, I'm not gonna go
too much further in the book because I cannot recommend
(02:16):
it enough. But what what attracted me to the book?
I I think I read it in about twenty four hours.
It's not it's not a it's not a voluminous read.
What attracted me about the book was the story aspect
and and him wanting to get people's stories and to
hear their stories. And I'm particularly attracted to that because
(02:37):
that's one of the things that, uh, you know, has
been sort of how I've acted in my you know,
my adult life, maybe even much further than that. But
it's also the basis for Dakode of Mornings, and that
is that people I get the opportunity to hear people's stories. Everybody,
in my opinion, everybody has a story. Everybody has a
(02:59):
compelling the story. Everybody has a book in them, and
I am in the unique position to facilitate that, to
hear their stories firsthand about you know, the good, the bad,
the ugly parts of their life. You know, everybody has challenges.
But I particularly was enchanted by this book from the
(03:19):
you know, from the first page where he's describing the
reasoning behind him picking these pencil sketches and the order
in which he picked them, and the impact that it
had by him giving this very simple present to the people.
So you know, there's a there's a cost to the
(03:40):
purchase of them, which is uncovered later on and explained
later on how he's able to deal with that. How
he's able to do that. But you know, one of
the one of the themes, and I'm just gonna read
the theme that I pulled up on the Google machine. Uh,
the novel. The novel explores complex human relationships, resilience, and
the search for belonging against the backdrop of changing American landscapes.
(04:04):
I think that's a dramatic oversimplification, which I appreciate because
there's a lot there to capture and and and reading
about the stories from these people's perspectives. Uh, you know,
he talks about and again I don't want to give
away too much of the book, but he talks about
seeing a sadness in in well multiple but in one
(04:27):
in particular, he talks about seeing a sadness and you know,
uncovers a very sad episode in this one render's life,
and and and he's able to explore that with the
person and and just listen, which is really really important
and a delightful part of it, because the story goes
through virtually unbroken, as two people are sitting there. And
(04:50):
then there's there's another one where it's a pencil sketch
of a woman and and the woman and her husband
have a discussion about you know, do I do I
meet this guy? You know, can you be there? And
that sort of thing, and and they and they uncover
a really pretty story, a very compelling story that then
goes on to spread itself through the rest of the
(05:13):
book through these other different renderings that THEO purchases. Now,
THEO of Golden is an excellent book, but it is
not the type of book that that you can read
a page or two every night over the course of
a month. I would encourage, I would recommend if you're
(05:35):
going to buy the book, if you're going to purchase
the book, that you know, plan on plan on plowing
through it in a week. And I think it's a couple
one hundred pages. It's not very long, but really in depth,
and the character development is tremendous, especially THEO, but also
the the husband and wife that owned the coffee shop, uh,
(05:55):
the the person that that THEO hires to help him
problem solved some of the some of the challenges with
finding people, the renderings and finding those people. You know,
he gets really in depth. And then the end, the
last maybe I don't know fifty pages are just absolutely
delightful the first the first maybe hundred pages are like, uh,
(06:20):
like a like a perfect perfect day like today here
in Bismarck, you know, seventy five degrees, not a cloud
in this guy. Nice and sunny, not too hot, not
too cold, light wind. That's the first hundred pages. I
really really enjoyed that first, that first part. And then
and then it sort of gets to and uh and
(06:43):
and instills itself inside your conscience and and I'm talking
when I say your conscience, I'm talking about your heart.
It it does a wonderful job of help well, it
did a wonderful job of helping me examine the impact
and the role that I play in other people's lives.
And and and listening to those stories, listening to their
(07:05):
stories right now, that's what I can do, uh, And
that's what I enjoy. You know. I am one of
those people that I go to the grocery store in
the and the person doing the checkout will tell me
their life story. It's just been a blessing of mine
for my entire life. And and I find that part
and parcel of how I was drawn to Two Dakota Mornings,
(07:27):
how I was drawn to, you know, the lobbying profession,
which I did for a long time. How I was
drawn to working for the United States House of Representatives
because I love to listen to people tell their stories
and talk about the good things. I understand that they're
that we all face challenges, and hearing about those challenges
can be really fulfilling because you know, once you once
(07:49):
you talk about a challenge that you have, you're sharing
that burden. But hearing the good parts and the highlights
and the wonderful things that North Dakotan's do that people
throughout the country do and have done. One of my
favorite parts of my former profession lobbying in Washington, was
that I got to spend a lot of time traveling
(08:12):
throughout the country. I've been to. Like I said, I've
been to forty eight states. Maine and Hawaii those are
the two states I haven't been to. I've been to
forty eight states, have worked in right around thirty. I
don't think I've ever done in a formal count, but
I had the wonderful opportunity to meet people from all
over the country, and there are some really remarkable human
(08:33):
beings that that are going about their lives in a
very peaceful way. You know, and and and I love
hearing their stories about the successes they've had in their life.
And you know, I don't measure the story by the
by the success whether you're a professional athlete or or
(08:54):
what have you. You know, the the the success of
the story is the abilities for somebody to reflect back
on the good times and the good things and apply
that to their days. Right now, I love that I'm
inspired by it. And and that's part of the reason
why on Facebook I love to read the comments so much.
(09:16):
Now there's a lot of negativity, Yes, of course there is,
but I also like to hear the or like to
read and like to hear about the inspirations, you know,
the people that were an inspiration to you. I could
list the people that have been an inspiration to me,
you know, I don't. I could fill the front and
back of a piece of paper on it pretty pretty easily.
(09:37):
But that those inspirations, they take all forms, and it
could be something as simple as, you know, a line
that somebody said to you, or something that's stuck with
you particularly strongly. And I really can't say enough good
things about the stories that are uncovered in this book,
The over Golden We need to go to a commercial break.
(09:59):
This is to go to Morning Zime. Your host Michael
Bell kf y R five fifty am, not a nine
point seven FM. We are inn iHeart Media production. And
then we will be back after this short commercial break.
Welcome back to the code of Morning z i'me your
host Michael Bell kf y R five fifty am, not
a nine point seven FM. We are an iHeart Media production.
And we are just discussing before we went to commercial break.
(10:20):
The latest read, which was a couple of weeks ago,
but I've been moved on to a couple of different
books since then. But THEO of Golden I cannot recommend
this book highly enough one of the and I just
want to give you a little bit of context and texture.
It's a it's set in the fictional town of Golden, Georgia,
which I characterized as in or around Atlanta. It's actually
what I've discovered is it is based on Columbus Georgia.
(10:44):
Columbus Georgia. I've been to the I've been to Columbus
Georgia a couple of different times. I was I went
to a wedding in Columbus Georgia. I played golf in Columbus, Georgia,
and my youngest brother was stationed in Columbus, Georgia for
quite some time, and it in the story was a
downtown area modeled after the downtown area in Columbus, Georgia
(11:04):
called Broadway, and specifically a coffee shop, Fountain City Coffee.
Now I have been I also looked at the length
of the book. It's about four hundred pages, which I
wasn't aware that it was that long. I think part
of it was because it captured me so soon. I
don't know what the reviews well, I mean, I can
(11:25):
speculate on the reviews that it is. Oh, it has
been reviewed very highly. You know, their people are characterizing
as the end left me sobbing, like a mess. I
don't know that it left it. Well, it didn't leave
me sobbing, but it endeavored in to get me to
take a lot of self reflection, which I had. I
(11:46):
had plenty of time on the beach, I had plenty
of time on airplanes in order to do just that.
And you know, I've talked to a bunch of people
who have read it, and one of the things that
I like, that I find most powerful is that everybody
took some thing different from the book. That to me
is the power of literature. And I would imagine that
(12:07):
if I read this book again a year from now,
two years from now, three years from now, that it
will have a different impact on me, and I will
highlight and reread through certain passages that will have a
more discernible impact on my on my current life, how
my life is is going at that point, which is
(12:27):
back to my original my one of my favorite reasons,
one of my favorite parts of reading the Bible is
that each part that I read, you know, whether it's Acts,
whether it's Proverbs, the Gospels, Jeremiah, each of them has
a different impact on me at different points in my life.
(12:48):
You know, the Bible is is literature at its very best,
and any problem can be solved, any issue can be
dealt with, any challenge can be over come in the Bible.
That's the beauty of it. It is it is very
much an instruction Manuel. Now, I understand that there are
folks who are who are not Christian, who don't place
(13:11):
a lot of faith and reliance on the Bible, and
that's fine, But if you want to read it as
a piece of literature, it really is quite quite impressive.
The second book, my second favorite book is Atlas Shrugg
by Ein Rand. I have read this book. I think
I try to read about every four years since I
first read it in nineteen ninety four. I just read
(13:33):
it last summer, the summer of twenty twenty five. I
got through it. Now this you want to talk about
a long book, That is an incredibly long book that
takes a deep commitment to reading it. So if you're
not into reading, the audiobook is remarkable as well. You know,
obviously it's it's the same story, but Atlas Shrugged has
(13:56):
a different impact on me every time I read it,
and I pay a little bit closer to attention. What
Atlas Shrug does is it celebrates capitalism. It celebrates the
marketplace of ideas and the funding of that, and how
the two are directly related. So you know, now thea
of Golden has has dramatically risen to you know, the
(14:20):
very top. Having read it, I didn't again, I didn't
realize it was four hundred pages. Kind of it kind
of flew by for me. I suspect it will for
you as well. And if it's not something you want
to engage in right away. That's okay to to let
it sit on your nightstand or your bookshelf for a
little while. It will draw you in, and it draws
(14:41):
you in relatively immediately. So that's why I encourage people
to read it in a relatively short fashion. You know,
I'm saying, you know, a week is usually my suggestion
on that it's not the type of book that you
that you want to, you know, a couple of pages
a night before you go to sleep, because it the
(15:04):
pacing of the book is it's really incredible. It's you know,
one of the one of the things that I love
about about literature again is the pacing. And I i
am I'm a sucker for good pacing. Like I said,
I read anything I can get my hands on. And
I think that maybe what I'm going to do is
once a month, I'm going to talk about, uh, a
(15:27):
piece of literature that's particularly impacted me, that has that
has you know, formed some of where I am in
my life, just to give a little bit of a
window there. I love to read, and I uh, there
is there's very little that makes me happier. I mean,
obviously spending time with the Lord, spending time with my family.
(15:47):
But there is very little I love more than having
a book in front of me that I'm reading watching
a ballgame. Baseball preferably, but football as well, is is great.
You know. I've I've I've endeavored to watch some of
the World Cup while reading, and I cannot speak highly
enough of what the impact that has on my day
(16:08):
to day life, that reading has had for my entire life,
you know, Like I said, one of one of my
most joyful times is the time I get to spend
the hour two hours reading and watching a ballgame. And
it could be, you know, the Brewers versus the Toronto
Blue Jays kind of thing. It doesn't really matter. I
just love watching baseball and football as well, college football
(16:30):
more specifically. But but I again, THEO of Golden is
just an incredible piece of literature that I think is
going to gain a lot of momentum and be widely
read and discussed in great detail over the time, you know,
over the next year or so. I give the author Levi,
(16:52):
I'm sorry, I just lost his name, Alan Levi. I
give him a lot of credit. He's written another book.
I don't know the name of it off the top
of my head, but This book was self published initially
in twenty twenty three, and then it was picked up
by Simon and Schuster, an offshoot of Simon and Schuster.
And so you know, I give Alan Levi all the
(17:13):
credit in the world. He's brought us something great and
I look forward to to what he puts out there
in the Ethernext, I appreciate that this is Dakote Mornings.
I'm your host, Michael Bell kf y R five fifty
AM at A nine point seven FM. Next up, we
are going to be joined by Todd Schaeffer, Doctor Todd Schaeffer,
I should say, President CEO Samford Bismarck, and we're going
to talk about this great thing that got going on
(17:35):
with price transparency.
Welcome back to Dakota Mornings. I am your host, Michael
(00:02):
Bell kfy R five fifty AM nine nine point seven FM.
We are and iHeartMedia production, and we're going to spend
a couple of minutes here talking about reading, specifically a
book that I just read that is certainly in the
top five books of all time that I have read.
I am a reader. I love to read. I have
for forty years. I probably average four or five books
(00:27):
a month, if not slightly more. I'll read anything I
can get my hands on. But I just read one
of the most impactful books that I have ever read.
My favorite books, the top three are The Bible, Atlas Shrugged,
and now THEO of Golden This book, well, I just
(00:50):
I'll just read you some of the some of the
top lines of it. It's literary fiction by an American author,
Alan Levy. Self published in twenty twenty three. It was
re published by Simon and Schuster in the fall of
twenty twenty five. I picked it up while I was
on vacation. I read the jacket, I read the back
(01:10):
as to what the book was about. I thought, I would,
you know, associate it and be a nice light beat
read turned out to be so much more than that. Now,
THEO of Golden is very simply about a man who
arrives in a town called Golden. His name is Theo.
The town is Golden. It's somewhere in the south around Atlanta.
(01:32):
And he goes to a coffee shop owned by a
couple and there are pencil sketches of people on the walls,
and they're for sale, and there are one hundred and
some odd pencil sketches. And he decides that what he's
going to do is he's going to purchase it and
give it to the person that the pencil sketches is rendered.
(01:55):
And in return, all he asks them is their story.
And he has some uh, some you know, leading sort
of indicators into why he chose that picture that pencil
sketch at that particular time. But he goes through and
he buys them all and he gets the he gets
the stories from the people. Now, I'm not gonna go
too much further in the book because I cannot recommend
(02:16):
it enough. But what what attracted me to the book?
I I think I read it in about twenty four hours.
It's not it's not a it's not a voluminous read.
What attracted me about the book was the story aspect
and and him wanting to get people's stories and to
hear their stories. And I'm particularly attracted to that because
(02:37):
that's one of the things that, uh, you know, has
been sort of how I've acted in my you know,
my adult life, maybe even much further than that. But
it's also the basis for Dakode of Mornings, and that
is that people I get the opportunity to hear people's stories. Everybody,
in my opinion, everybody has a story. Everybody has a
(02:59):
compelling the story. Everybody has a book in them, and
I am in the unique position to facilitate that, to
hear their stories firsthand about you know, the good, the bad,
the ugly parts of their life. You know, everybody has challenges.
But I particularly was enchanted by this book from the
(03:19):
you know, from the first page where he's describing the
reasoning behind him picking these pencil sketches and the order
in which he picked them, and the impact that it
had by him giving this very simple present to the people.
So you know, there's a there's a cost to the
(03:40):
purchase of them, which is uncovered later on and explained
later on how he's able to deal with that. How
he's able to do that. But you know, one of
the one of the themes, and I'm just gonna read
the theme that I pulled up on the Google machine. Uh,
the novel. The novel explores complex human relationships, resilience, and
the search for belonging against the backdrop of changing American landscapes.
(04:04):
I think that's a dramatic oversimplification, which I appreciate because
there's a lot there to capture and and and reading
about the stories from these people's perspectives. Uh, you know,
he talks about and again I don't want to give
away too much of the book, but he talks about
seeing a sadness in in well multiple but in one
(04:27):
in particular, he talks about seeing a sadness and you know,
uncovers a very sad episode in this one render's life,
and and and he's able to explore that with the
person and and just listen, which is really really important
and a delightful part of it, because the story goes
through virtually unbroken, as two people are sitting there. And
(04:50):
then there's there's another one where it's a pencil sketch
of a woman and and the woman and her husband
have a discussion about you know, do I do I
meet this guy? You know, can you be there? And
that sort of thing, and and they and they uncover
a really pretty story, a very compelling story that then
goes on to spread itself through the rest of the
(05:13):
book through these other different renderings that THEO purchases. Now,
THEO of Golden is an excellent book, but it is
not the type of book that that you can read
a page or two every night over the course of
a month. I would encourage, I would recommend if you're
(05:35):
going to buy the book, if you're going to purchase
the book, that you know, plan on plan on plowing
through it in a week. And I think it's a couple
one hundred pages. It's not very long, but really in depth,
and the character development is tremendous, especially THEO, but also
the the husband and wife that owned the coffee shop, uh,
(05:55):
the the person that that THEO hires to help him
problem solved some of the some of the challenges with
finding people, the renderings and finding those people. You know,
he gets really in depth. And then the end, the
last maybe I don't know fifty pages are just absolutely
delightful the first the first maybe hundred pages are like, uh,
(06:20):
like a like a perfect perfect day like today here
in Bismarck, you know, seventy five degrees, not a cloud
in this guy. Nice and sunny, not too hot, not
too cold, light wind. That's the first hundred pages. I
really really enjoyed that first, that first part. And then
and then it sort of gets to and uh and
(06:43):
and instills itself inside your conscience and and I'm talking
when I say your conscience, I'm talking about your heart.
It it does a wonderful job of help well, it
did a wonderful job of helping me examine the impact
and the role that I play in other people's lives.
And and and listening to those stories, listening to their
(07:05):
stories right now, that's what I can do, uh, And
that's what I enjoy. You know. I am one of
those people that I go to the grocery store in
the and the person doing the checkout will tell me
their life story. It's just been a blessing of mine
for my entire life. And and I find that part
and parcel of how I was drawn to Two Dakota Mornings,
(07:27):
how I was drawn to, you know, the lobbying profession,
which I did for a long time. How I was
drawn to working for the United States House of Representatives
because I love to listen to people tell their stories
and talk about the good things. I understand that they're
that we all face challenges, and hearing about those challenges
can be really fulfilling because you know, once you once
(07:49):
you talk about a challenge that you have, you're sharing
that burden. But hearing the good parts and the highlights
and the wonderful things that North Dakotan's do that people
throughout the country do and have done. One of my
favorite parts of my former profession lobbying in Washington, was
that I got to spend a lot of time traveling
(08:12):
throughout the country. I've been to. Like I said, I've
been to forty eight states. Maine and Hawaii those are
the two states I haven't been to. I've been to
forty eight states, have worked in right around thirty. I
don't think I've ever done in a formal count, but
I had the wonderful opportunity to meet people from all
over the country, and there are some really remarkable human
(08:33):
beings that that are going about their lives in a
very peaceful way. You know, and and and I love
hearing their stories about the successes they've had in their life.
And you know, I don't measure the story by the
by the success whether you're a professional athlete or or
(08:54):
what have you. You know, the the the success of
the story is the abilities for somebody to reflect back
on the good times and the good things and apply
that to their days. Right now, I love that I'm
inspired by it. And and that's part of the reason
why on Facebook I love to read the comments so much.
(09:16):
Now there's a lot of negativity, Yes, of course there is,
but I also like to hear the or like to
read and like to hear about the inspirations, you know,
the people that were an inspiration to you. I could
list the people that have been an inspiration to me,
you know, I don't. I could fill the front and
back of a piece of paper on it pretty pretty easily.
(09:37):
But that those inspirations, they take all forms, and it
could be something as simple as, you know, a line
that somebody said to you, or something that's stuck with
you particularly strongly. And I really can't say enough good
things about the stories that are uncovered in this book,
The over Golden We need to go to a commercial break.
(09:59):
This is to go to Morning Zime. Your host Michael
Bell kf y R five fifty am, not a nine
point seven FM. We are inn iHeart Media production. And
then we will be back after this short commercial break.
Welcome back to the code of Morning z i'me your
host Michael Bell kf y R five fifty am, not
a nine point seven FM. We are an iHeart Media production.
And we are just discussing before we went to commercial break.
(10:20):
The latest read, which was a couple of weeks ago,
but I've been moved on to a couple of different
books since then. But THEO of Golden I cannot recommend
this book highly enough one of the and I just
want to give you a little bit of context and texture.
It's a it's set in the fictional town of Golden, Georgia,
which I characterized as in or around Atlanta. It's actually
what I've discovered is it is based on Columbus Georgia.
(10:44):
Columbus Georgia. I've been to the I've been to Columbus
Georgia a couple of different times. I was I went
to a wedding in Columbus Georgia. I played golf in Columbus, Georgia,
and my youngest brother was stationed in Columbus, Georgia for
quite some time, and it in the story was a
downtown area modeled after the downtown area in Columbus, Georgia
(11:04):
called Broadway, and specifically a coffee shop, Fountain City Coffee.
Now I have been I also looked at the length
of the book. It's about four hundred pages, which I
wasn't aware that it was that long. I think part
of it was because it captured me so soon. I
don't know what the reviews well, I mean, I can
(11:25):
speculate on the reviews that it is. Oh, it has
been reviewed very highly. You know, their people are characterizing
as the end left me sobbing, like a mess. I
don't know that it left it. Well, it didn't leave
me sobbing, but it endeavored in to get me to
take a lot of self reflection, which I had. I
(11:46):
had plenty of time on the beach, I had plenty
of time on airplanes in order to do just that.
And you know, I've talked to a bunch of people
who have read it, and one of the things that
I like, that I find most powerful is that everybody
took some thing different from the book. That to me
is the power of literature. And I would imagine that
(12:07):
if I read this book again a year from now,
two years from now, three years from now, that it
will have a different impact on me, and I will
highlight and reread through certain passages that will have a
more discernible impact on my on my current life, how
my life is is going at that point, which is
(12:27):
back to my original my one of my favorite reasons,
one of my favorite parts of reading the Bible is
that each part that I read, you know, whether it's Acts,
whether it's Proverbs, the Gospels, Jeremiah, each of them has
a different impact on me at different points in my life.
(12:48):
You know, the Bible is is literature at its very best,
and any problem can be solved, any issue can be
dealt with, any challenge can be over come in the Bible.
That's the beauty of it. It is it is very
much an instruction Manuel. Now, I understand that there are
folks who are who are not Christian, who don't place
(13:11):
a lot of faith and reliance on the Bible, and
that's fine, But if you want to read it as
a piece of literature, it really is quite quite impressive.
The second book, my second favorite book is Atlas Shrugg
by Ein Rand. I have read this book. I think
I try to read about every four years since I
first read it in nineteen ninety four. I just read
(13:33):
it last summer, the summer of twenty twenty five. I
got through it. Now this you want to talk about
a long book, That is an incredibly long book that
takes a deep commitment to reading it. So if you're
not into reading, the audiobook is remarkable as well. You know,
obviously it's it's the same story, but Atlas Shrugged has
(13:56):
a different impact on me every time I read it,
and I pay a little bit closer to attention. What
Atlas Shrug does is it celebrates capitalism. It celebrates the
marketplace of ideas and the funding of that, and how
the two are directly related. So you know, now thea
of Golden has has dramatically risen to you know, the
(14:20):
very top. Having read it, I didn't again, I didn't
realize it was four hundred pages. Kind of it kind
of flew by for me. I suspect it will for
you as well. And if it's not something you want
to engage in right away. That's okay to to let
it sit on your nightstand or your bookshelf for a
little while. It will draw you in, and it draws
(14:41):
you in relatively immediately. So that's why I encourage people
to read it in a relatively short fashion. You know,
I'm saying, you know, a week is usually my suggestion
on that it's not the type of book that you
that you want to, you know, a couple of pages
a night before you go to sleep, because it the
(15:04):
pacing of the book is it's really incredible. It's you know,
one of the one of the things that I love
about about literature again is the pacing. And I i
am I'm a sucker for good pacing. Like I said,
I read anything I can get my hands on. And
I think that maybe what I'm going to do is
once a month, I'm going to talk about, uh, a
(15:27):
piece of literature that's particularly impacted me, that has that
has you know, formed some of where I am in
my life, just to give a little bit of a
window there. I love to read, and I uh, there
is there's very little that makes me happier. I mean,
obviously spending time with the Lord, spending time with my family.
(15:47):
But there is very little I love more than having
a book in front of me that I'm reading watching
a ballgame. Baseball preferably, but football as well, is is great.
You know. I've I've I've endeavored to watch some of
the World Cup while reading, and I cannot speak highly
enough of what the impact that has on my day
(16:08):
to day life, that reading has had for my entire life,
you know, Like I said, one of one of my
most joyful times is the time I get to spend
the hour two hours reading and watching a ballgame. And
it could be, you know, the Brewers versus the Toronto
Blue Jays kind of thing. It doesn't really matter. I
just love watching baseball and football as well, college football
(16:30):
more specifically. But but I again, THEO of Golden is
just an incredible piece of literature that I think is
going to gain a lot of momentum and be widely
read and discussed in great detail over the time, you know,
over the next year or so. I give the author Levi,
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I'm sorry, I just lost his name, Alan Levi. I
give him a lot of credit. He's written another book.
I don't know the name of it off the top
of my head, but This book was self published initially
in twenty twenty three, and then it was picked up
by Simon and Schuster, an offshoot of Simon and Schuster.
And so you know, I give Alan Levi all the
(17:13):
credit in the world. He's brought us something great and
I look forward to to what he puts out there
in the Ethernext, I appreciate that this is Dakote Mornings.
I'm your host, Michael Bell kf y R five fifty
AM at A nine point seven FM. Next up, we
are going to be joined by Todd Schaeffer, Doctor Todd Schaeffer,
I should say, President CEO Samford Bismarck, and we're going
to talk about this great thing that got going on
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