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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hey, everybody, Cat Delady here on ATM the Sharquterie Board
of Talk Radio. What's the latest in tracking the wildfires
in Canada and how is it affecting us in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We'll get to that in a few Plus.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
The United Airlines fleet down for a while because of
computer problems, so once again software affecting flights.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And right at the top of all of.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
This, a really really sad, sad story, and it has
to do with a base, Fort Stewart, in Georgia. Early
in the morning, right around eleven o'clock, you had somebody
who worked at the base who opened fire and wounded
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five soldiers. When this first broke out, you know, you
start to get the alerts. Somebody had texted me. Then
I got alerts like probably many of you have them,
maybe set.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Up on your phone.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So a US Army sergeant allegedly shot and wounded those five.
Like I mentioned, here's more in the story.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
The alleged shooter is in custody. We have re established security,
I have lifted all lockdown measures on Fort Stewart and
there is currently no threat to the local community. I'd
like to recognize and thank our Army law enforcement and
medical personnel, and our partners from local, state, and federal
law enforcement and emergency services for their quick response and support.
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I would also like to thank the brave soldiers who
immediately intervened and subdued the shooter. These soldiers, without a doubt,
prevented further casualties.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, I mean, just just just awful.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Now we do know a little bit more as far
as identity of this suspected shooter, and it was automated
logistics Sergeant Cornelius Radford who was apprehended at the base
just after eleven thirty five or so. Don't know the motive,
that's pretty unclear. Twenty eight years old. He was at
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his place of work. He used a personal handgun, and
then there's questions about how did he bring that to work.
And all five victims, once again to reiterate, are unstable
condition expected to recover. That's the good news there. And
then the way the reaction that you heard from Brigadier
(02:37):
General John Lewis listening to what he had to say
about how quickly the reaction was, but he also emphasized
that in looking into the early parts of this investigation,
they didn't aware that he had any prior behavioral or
even disciplinary issues whatsoever, to see and hear of that happening.
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The Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said right away on social media,
We're keeping the victims, their families and all of those
who answer the call to serve in our hearts and prayers.
President Trump was briefed on the shooting. He said the
same thing too. He said, the Army Criminal Investigation Division
is on site, of course, to ensure that the perpetrator
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of the atrocity, which is exactly what it is his words,
will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Boy,
do I agree with that. Still, the full circumstances surrounding
all of it not immediately clear. It is clearing up,
and I'm sure we'll know even more later in the
later in the day. Meanwhile, we've been talking about these
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Canadian wildfires, and you've got smoke from wildfires and a
bunch of Canadian providences, including Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia. So
it's leading to air quality alerts through a bunch of
our states in the Midwest and mid Atlantic, the Northeast,
and it's causing coughing and shortness of breath. And increased
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heart rate and other immediate kinds of effects that you
would get even in some really really healthy people. But
if you're not healthy and you deal with some kind
of a breathing condition, listen to what doctor Capo from
the Palisades Medical Center had to say. I always recommend
miasmatics to carry their albuterol pump when the air quality
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is bad, and to have it on them because it
can happen at any moment. Yeah, And so you know,
sometimes people, you know how it is, you're feeling pretty good.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And you forget that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I mean, I don't know how, but I do understand, right,
and then all of a sudden, this is happening. Not
a good thing. I mean, this is a serious hit,
no joke. In the West and in Canada's smoke pouring
cross the country, lingering for days, and we're talking eleven
states and it just keeps multiplying. And then there's other
(05:08):
intense wildflyers, like I said, in the Western United States,
so Canada too, but also in the Western United States.
So you got dry air, strong winds, and it's just disastrous.
By the way, the amount of wildfires now, like initially
it starts at like seventy, which you think last seventy wildfires.
It's more than five hundred out of control as of
(05:30):
late on Wednesday. Five hundred out of control fires. Wow,
the same thing though intense heat, and that's what's hit
Canada just as it has hit parts of the United States.
All Right, we turned to vaccines, which, of course we know.
(05:51):
Once RFK became the Health and Human Services Secretary, he's
absolutely not a fan of vaccines and.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
He he doesn't hide that. He wrote a book about it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And the federal government is now calling off around five
hundred million dollars worth of vaccine development projects that use
mRNA technology. Twenty two now terminated projects were funded through
the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, that's what it's called.
Most were canceled. The ones that were canceled were vaccines
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that fight COVID nineteen or the fluid includes like to
give you an idea, well, what does that mean. It
includes proposals from like Pfizer and other drug makers that
were rejected or canceled, along with a now shuttered award
to Maderno to develop a bird flu vaccine. So that's
(06:44):
not happening. Now, here's what one Nobel Laureate scientist said,
the impact will.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Be so obviously, you know, when you are sick of
you wouldn't dusk advice from a lawyer like Kennedy. You know,
you ask experts, your physician for advice, and obviously he's misinformed.
And do not understand that you know sciences knowledge which
(07:13):
was you know, around the world, and we.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Collected those with observation, experimentation, measurements and all of these
scientific evidence. And you know, when you would just reject
and rely on misinformation, then you make a decision like
he made.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
By the way he argued Kennedy that m RNA based
vaccines can stop working properly if the virus that they
target mutates too much, citing coronavirus as an example, saying
a single mutation can make m RNA vaccines in effective,
and that the technology poses more risks and benefits for
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respiratory viruses. So a lot of argument over this, and
that's not a surprise there. There was a lot of
argument heading into his confirmation. Even we turned to the
Skyways flight maares how about this? United Airlines flights did
start taking off eventually on Wednesday, a few hours after
a system wide technology issue prompted them to halt departures
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across the board.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
So it has been resolved. That's the good news.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But at issue was a key system that they call
unimatic that stores flight data feeds into other systems, including
those that track flight times, calculate white and wait rather
imbalanced data needed for takeoff. That's pretty important. They didn't
say what caused the outage. It started shortly after six
pm Eastern, but they said it wasn't cyber related.
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I'm going to the man Cave, going to the Marri Cave,
going to the Marri Cave. I'm going to the Mays.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We are in the man Cave. Everybody is welcome. Thank
you very much. For a lot of people are actually
sending me questions about their various teams, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Going to have one of those.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I'm going to call it hike Hike and in the future,
and we're going to exactly hike hike, and I'll go
through all of them, and we'll go through all of them.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
We'll do it. Uh, we'll do it once a week.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
And so I'm collecting them all and I'll tell you
what I know about the dramas that are going on.
For example, I got a couple of a couple of
people that were asking me about what's happening with the
Cowboys and Micah Parsons and that whole saga and how's
not going to play out and will he be traded
or not? It does make it. I mean, this has
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just become the overwhelming story, certainly of what's going on
with the Dallas Cowboys, because everybody wants to know, you know,
is he getting an extension?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Are they talking to the agent? What's the latest?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
And Jerry Jones, the latest is he says he has
a contract in writing for Micah Parsons. So how about that?
That's a very very big story. Of course, how about that?
I mean, you can't not have Micah Parsons. He's awesome?
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
If you want to have you want.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
To talk about a you want to talk about a
stud that you need to anchor a key element of
your team.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Think about that, think about you, just think about just
think about what he means to the team.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So he he makes an impact with a defense, he
makes an impact. You can not you can't. I just
don't see how you could not have him on your team.
So it's really strange the you know, this idea of
the holdout and what do you do with a contract,
(14:18):
and you know all of that that becomes an issue
and you have like Bengals edge rusher Trey Hendrickson, you
have the Commanders wide out Terry McLaurin and of course
Micah Parsons who go to training camps, but they're not
happy with their contracts, so they have these you know,
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this kind of that brief holdout thing and then they
get fined for every day of training camp that's missed.
So none of the three I mentioned have practiced during
training camp. Right now, McLaurin can't practice because he hasn't
passed his preseason physical, so he was he's on the
physically unable to perform list with an ankle injury. But
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with Parsons, for example, you know, it's a different story.
And Hendrickson, who say, you won't play for the Bengals
in twenty twenty five with the current contract where he's
scheduled to make sixteen million next season, and of course
Parsons also does have the issue a little bit of
the back issue. So now it's kind of called hold
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ends and that's the tactic that there's been some conversation
about for players to get contract unhappiness address, let's say,
because of so they show up, but there's but they're
not part of the whole practice situation. But it also
I think what it does is it does maybe put
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pressure if I'm an agent, does that work. It puts
pressure on the teams, But it's a it is a
distraction I mean that's a major distraction. You go to
camp and you have so much time with everybody together
where you're focused on the camaraderie aspect and also looking
at every angle you can imagine a footage and looking
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at new players and connections with how they do and
on various teams, whatever side of the ball they're playing on.
And I think it is absolutely a major major distraction.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You know, I love me some baseball, And because you
request the scores and we are in the thick of
it in baseball where some would say the dog days,
I'm going to make sure that we get some of
that in this time around. So the Cardinals, good news
for my Saint Louis fans. You beat the Dodgers in
Dodger territory, five three final score, picking up the fifty
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eighth win for the Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You know, and we're talking about show.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Hey Otani was on the on the stick, so to speak,
because he homeward for his one thousand hit and he
struck out eight, but the Cardinals still managed to beat
the Dodgers. Jordan Walker had three hits for Saint Louis,
including an RBI single that tied the score with two
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outs in the eighth, and then Saint Louis took that
five to four lead on the same play when rookie
third baseman Alex Frielan made a throwing error trying to
get Walker at second, and so pretty interesting. Walker was
a late addition to the starting lineup because he replaced
Wilson Contreras, who had a stomach bug. That was a
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good replacement, wasn't it. And you know it's funny because
I'm talking about what a great game like show hey
Otani dhing. He gave up his first dole in base
of the season though, when Walker swiped second in the third,
So he was the guy for sure.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
He's the guy of.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
The moment anyway in that game because that's a nice
win over a really good team. Obviously, the Padres knocked
off the Diamondbacks. Sorry for my fans in Phoenix three two.
That's your final in that game. If you look at
the Diamondbacks, it's been a really a roller coaster season
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for sure, and the fans were out there at Chase Field.
Jose Iglesias followed Ryan O'Hearn and that was the tying
homer with a run scoring single in the ninth inning.
So the Padres rallied to beat your Diamondbacks on Wednesday night,
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because they scored five runs in the eleventh inning to
beat the Diamondbacks on Tuesday night. And now here they
staged another late rally. So no fun here on the
Arizona side of this, right, That's why you stay for
the whole game. You watch to see what happens because
you never know. You never know if you're going to
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have those late rallies. Even if you think it's in
the bag, it's not always in the back. Here's a
hot team, the Brewers nd he wins and they knocked
off the Braves five four in Atlanta. They are quietly
unless the course sheerry Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
They are quietly a hot team. Not a surprise.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I say that heading into the season, and if you
look at their lineup, it makes sense, right, So I
was looking at little highlights from this game. Blake Perkins
doubled hit a homer, drove in two RBIs, Andrew Vaughn
homeward and Vaughn extended his hit streak to a career
best twelve games. And he's hitting four point thirty five
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who with five home runs and sixteen RBI in that span.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
The Brewers are twenty six games above five hundred for
the first time since finishing the twenty one season ninety
five and sixty seven. And fans are definitely loving that.
Not in Atlanta they weren't, but fans back home, we're
loving it. Let's just say that, all right. Let me
throw in a couple other quick scores. Mariners knocked off
the White Sox eight six. How about the Royals knocking
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off the Red Sox at Fenway seven to three. Nationals
glide by the A's as they're having a terrible season,
though two to one. Not much to cheer about. They
have forty four wins. Marlins beat the Astros six four,
Rays get the Angels five to four. This was a
crazy game. The Blue Jays beat the Rockies. You want
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to know what the final score was? Like a laugher.
If you were at Coors Fields, you are gone. And
when this was happening, twenty twenty to one. That was
the final score. So the Blue Jays pick up their
sixty eighth. Vladimir Guerrero had four hits, including a home run.
David Schneider deep, I mean, I could go through the
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It just take too long. He went deep twice, so
it was an onslaught. It was a massacre, is the
best way. That's the best way to put that. Gerra,
by the way, extends his on base streak to twenty
three games, the longest current streak in the American League.
So how about that. And this has been a tough,
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tough series for the Rockies, who are having the worst
of the worst seasons. They are thirty and eighty four.
I mean, they are just handing out tickets for people
to go and watch the Rockies. Let's put it that way.
It's a tough it's a tough place to play. Guardians
knocked off the Mets for one. The Giants beat the
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Padres four to two, and the Orioles got the better
of the Phillies at Citizens Bank Ballpark in Philly five
to one. That's your final there. As I said, keep
an eye out earlier in the show for what's coming
up this season. We're gonna have Hike Hike of course,
where we go through your questions about what's happening in
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the NFL.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
But also nail the score.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, nail the score will come back and it's your
chance to win. Amazing prizes where you can email me
your scoring guesses of the game of the week, or
you can call in, or you can even go into
our special mailbox and leave your scoring guests. But all
the details on that will be rolled out in the
next couple of weeks. I'm gonna introduce you to a
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man who tells you why it's so important to love
your mother, and I love the sentiment. Next, I'm so
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excited to introduce you to doctor John Akiyemi. He is
with us with a smiling face, and you can see
behind him is a picture of his beautiful wife, Agnes.
Will talk about his family and the name of his
book is one I bet all of our mothers would
love for us to have written. It's called Meet My Mother,
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Portrait of my Quintessential, My quintessential consonman, and I love
that word. He's got the book in his hand mother,
So wait till you hear the stories of his mother
and the impact that she had and just such an
interesting life. Doctor John, thanks so much for coming on
with us, my pleasure. Let's talk about your book. What
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made you decide to write this book?
Speaker 11 (23:46):
I decided to write this book two weeks in advance
of the last Mother's Day, I sat off her on
my said, will it be nice if I can commemorate
a book in her name to honor all the mothers
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across the glory, because I know for a fact that
a mother's duties in the home, in the family is
never finished. It's a love affair that almost parallels a
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divine love that the Goodlord decides that all couples should have.
My mother. When I look back, I give her all
the glory. I give God the glory, of course, and
I give her all the honor for the way she
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brought all nine of us and one in the middle.
I have four older siblings and four younger siblings. A
case in point was the fact that I recall, growing
up in Nigeria, West Africa as a young child, how
she not showed us how she built the foundation for
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our lives. Each day started with a morning devotion in
the family, and all nine of us we had a
family Bible. She had her own, my father had his own,
and we have won for the siblings. She would partially
a part of the verse in the Bible for us
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to read, and each one of us, from the oldest
demmandual to the youngest, we would read a verse and
has it onto the lost sibling.
Speaker 16 (25:53):
Now that I recall my experience, I wondered how much
I valid that I was about serving as I recalled,
and what does something you all know?
Speaker 11 (26:07):
I was bored with the ritual of having to wake
up for a lady in the morning and the ring
of bear from my next older brother, who was a
porson to be the bell boy. It would ring the
bell and all of us who come to the living
room where we'll have the devotion, and my mother would
interpret each lesson that we were supposed to get from
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that devotion. And I just wondered, that is the foundation,
that is the pillar of my life today. And I
credit her for building my life on a piece of rock.
And that is what I just glorified God for she,
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like my father, was an educational educator by training, so
she aspired to the rank of being the principal of
a Methodist elementary girls school, and my father, my father,
likewise became the principal of the boys' school. When I
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look back at the foundation of my life, I just rejoice.
First of all, they're not sal us to know whose
sons or daughters who we are. She and my father
imposupon us the idea of knowing who you are. I'm
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going to know who you are. You have established the
rock for the foundation, as there is the rock for
whatever building, so to speak, comes on top of that.
So my quintessential mother, as I recall, I was about
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ten years old when she went in one of those
Methodist synods it's like a meeting of leaders in the
Methodist churches of Nigeria. She took me along with her
and she made me have a commitment. It said, John,
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I am taking you on this synod of meetings. However,
I want you to write an essay on your experiences.
So I recall after this synod, it was a four
day meeting one of the large just cities in Nigeria
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called Ibadan. I came back and she asked me for
my essay, which I wrote. So she was my very
first teacher. H all over that were read dramatical errors
of course. Wow, well, anyway, I think, oh, I should
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silence that.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
This is people understand that new silence the vote.
Speaker 11 (29:19):
It is funny.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
We heard a rocky theme and I thought, you know what,
your mother coming through to us and telling us and
reaching out, Hey, you're talking about me, I feel her spirit.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
Oh thank you. So anyway, she was my my first teacher,
and I think for all mothers in in in in
the world, I need to emphasize the idea that mothers
parents in particular, uh the rock educators of their family members.
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Later on, two decades or so later, when I I
was a student at Aurora College, which has not become
a rural university, I was lucky enough to have a
mentor I still remember her name, doctor, and then just
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momentarily escaped me. But she was a female professor who
encouraged me. I took her course in creative writing, and
creative writing course really brought the very best out of
every student. It was more like she siphoning out the
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creative spirit in each of us. Apparently she recognized that
I have this dormant emotion. She encouraged me, and in
that year that was nineteen sixty five, I remember so well,
she encouraged me to submit some kind of competition to
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the National Anthology of College Poetry at the time. Alone,
behold the little poems that I wrote were published. So
that was my very first introduction to the publishing field.
And of course, later in my scientific en devil. I
had to write a thesis for the master's degree and
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a dissertation for the PhD. But of all these creative
things that the Good Lord has enabled me to do,
the the most important one was is the writing of
books in my retirement years. Every time I feel like
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expressing my joy, expressing my frustration, sometimes expressing a tip field,
I just get a piece of paper, get my computer
and put the thoughts down. So the idea of writing
this book was really conceived two weeks before the last
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Mother's Day, and I made a deal with my publisher,
said do you think you can publish this just in
time for Mother's Day? Of course I didn't meet that
that deadline. But the memories of my mother are saw
in Debt and all my all my siblings in Africa,
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and we are scattered all over where in Europe and
South Africa, when of course I uh in Canada and
of course here, all of them are just so enamored
that John is able to write about make my mother,
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who of course was meet their grandmother, their great grandmother,
and so on and so forth. Because I'm blessed enough
to have written another book called Belongings. Belongings is a history,
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a genealogy of the K and the family, tracing back
all the way from eighteen forty eight, that's six generations.
I was able to trace the effort for this. I
give the credit to my oldest niece, missus Grace or
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like you okay me of course a k and who
did all the work from my mother's collection at home.
My mother was a meticulous not She kept record of
the birthdays of each member of the family. So my
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niece was able to dig into this family bible that
she kept in which noted all the family birthdays and
so on and so forth, and shared it with me. So,
with her co operason, with her encouragement and of course
the encournment drop of all my cousins and nephews and
family members, I was able to write this genella u,
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which is called belonging.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
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Here on at n On Author's Corner, we're talking to
doctor Akiemi about his book My Mother, which is I
think so powerful and really just made me think about
my own mother, and I hope it's doing the same
for all of you. I know that was one of
his intended purposes. And then you know this other book.
We mentioned it in Belonging and immediately what pops to
(38:24):
all of our heads is as humans wanting to feel
like there is a space for you wanting to feel
like there's there's a group for you. Am I right
about that, Doctor John?
Speaker 11 (38:37):
I figure out that way Homo sapiens, human beings truly,
truly would belong to one another. I figured that I
am where I am today because I am standing on
the shouldness of sip that preceded, that came before me.
(39:05):
I figured, if I wrote something that shows this family,
human relationships, we belong to one another, we belong to
each other, it's a fresh scene. And what is going
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on in today's world when the leadership of this great
country is encouraging coalition between different groups for some and
godly purpose. I figured, if I wrote a book that
(39:49):
shows that we humans, we truly are each others keepers,
that the world will be a better Wow.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
What a great sentiment When people read either one of
these books, both of these books, I hope they get them.
What do you hope they take away from.
Speaker 11 (40:11):
My Leave my Mother?
Speaker 20 (40:15):
I hope they take away the incredible legacies that mothers
throughout the world lead to their families and children if
the mother does it right. I figured that I hope
(40:41):
that people would take the idea home to know that assistance, love, caring,
all these things that a mother shows to her children
(41:02):
are really the foundation the groups of our advancement as
human beings.
Speaker 11 (41:11):
I suffer deeply in my mind when I read stories
of some mothers who, for one reason or the other,
decide not to give their consummate love to their family
(41:35):
or to their children. I feel hurt when I see
a young mother with two children. Sharpener came up shop
at Walmart. I'm not saying a father to accompany them.
I know that I cannot imposs upon them my whole values,
(42:01):
but it would be so much better when I see,
and I'll tell you a little story that demon say
what I'm trying to say. When I see a photo
or a scene in which a mother and a father
(42:24):
show this connection, this connectivity, this low the causain point.
I was shopping at Costco the other day and I
saw two couples, a man and a woman, holding hands,
and something told me. I said, I like that. Then
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I said what I said when I grew up, I'm
going to learn how to hold my spouses hands. Both
of us laugh when I see that. It's a show
how body language that demonstress what love is, what caring is.
(43:10):
I always marvel a gentleman who take their hat when
they see a lady who opened the door of the
car for their lady. This is just awesome to me.
And he just tells me, this is a little practice.
You don't need to have a PhD.
Speaker 17 (43:31):
To have that.
Speaker 11 (43:33):
It's just a little practice knowing that whoever you're with
means so much to you. My mother demonstrates all her
life that we, her nand children mean so much to her.
As a matter of fact, when my father died, and
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he died rather young, fifty one years young, he was
an excellent health. However, at that time I'm talking about
nineteen fifty six, there was no medical care for asthma. Reportedly,
he probably died of an asthmatic attack, again putting it
(44:17):
back in the years nineteen fifty six when there was
no care for that. So I'm hoping that readness will
know that we a society sometimes who don't give enough credits,
(44:39):
enough credits to mothers who sacrificed everything just to make
sure that we the children become somebody without me. And
again a little side story about this that earlier, but
(45:01):
I have four older and far younger siblings. When I
look back at my parents on their way of handling
family planning, I said to myself, Oh, my goodness, I
am so glad my parents did not stop at just
(45:26):
having three or four children. Otherwise I would not be
alive today and the fifth of nine. Wow, and this
ties in a love intricate way with my beautiful wife
in the earlier years of I had dated. She remarked
(45:47):
to me, what time said, whoever I married must agree
to have ten round with me. I smiled, and I
said to her, I guess that rules me out of it.
(46:08):
So later in life, as I was thinking I became
new wises, I wondered what might have been in her
mind when she said that. And noe, behold, it don't
mean you know, it's been said that parents read their
children the way these parents themselves were real. So later
(46:34):
I found out that Agnes has ten siblings, including herself. Wow,
it was her father and her mother. No multiple wives now,
just husband and wife and ten children. So I figured
that maybe at that moment when she said that, she
was saying, if I can't break my parents' record, at
(46:58):
least I must make it. And it's so funny too
that my may myself I for some reason, I'm in
the middle. So I have a total of ed siblings,
so I forget oh man lo, this is this is
this is a wonderful coincidence in terms of family numbering system.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Yeah wow, I mean your stories are beautiful and there's
so many more stories and prayers and things that happened
to you during your life, and so much of that. Again,
the rock, as you said, your mother, meet my Mother
is a wonderful gift belongings. Another book worthy of people
going to get doctor John, we could talk to you forever.
Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 11 (47:45):
Yes, God bless wow.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
I tell you what listening to doctor Akahemi and the
passion he really has for people. I think that comes
across in both of those books, whether we're talking about
overall as a group of whether we're talking about his
own family and his mother and his desire that we
all understand, really the importance of our own mothers, and
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especially in today's world, where I think a lot of
that because we're zooming from one direction to the next,
a lot of that gets lost.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Hopefully you take that to heart.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Go call your mother if you still are lucky enough
to have her with us, and if not, just think
some really good thoughts Thanks so much for listening to
this interview here on ATM
Hey, everybody, Cat Delady here on ATM the Sharquterie Board
of Talk Radio. What's the latest in tracking the wildfires
in Canada and how is it affecting us in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We'll get to that in a few Plus.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
The United Airlines fleet down for a while because of
computer problems, so once again software affecting flights.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And right at the top of all of.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
This, a really really sad, sad story, and it has
to do with a base, Fort Stewart, in Georgia. Early
in the morning, right around eleven o'clock, you had somebody
who worked at the base who opened fire and wounded
(00:56):
five soldiers. When this first broke out, you know, you
start to get the alerts. Somebody had texted me. Then
I got alerts like probably many of you have them,
maybe set.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Up on your phone.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So a US Army sergeant allegedly shot and wounded those five.
Like I mentioned, here's more in the story.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
The alleged shooter is in custody. We have re established security,
I have lifted all lockdown measures on Fort Stewart and
there is currently no threat to the local community. I'd
like to recognize and thank our Army law enforcement and
medical personnel, and our partners from local, state, and federal
law enforcement and emergency services for their quick response and support.
(01:41):
I would also like to thank the brave soldiers who
immediately intervened and subdued the shooter. These soldiers, without a doubt,
prevented further casualties.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, I mean, just just just awful.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Now we do know a little bit more as far
as identity of this suspected shooter, and it was automated
logistics Sergeant Cornelius Radford who was apprehended at the base
just after eleven thirty five or so. Don't know the motive,
that's pretty unclear. Twenty eight years old. He was at
(02:15):
his place of work. He used a personal handgun, and
then there's questions about how did he bring that to work.
And all five victims, once again to reiterate, are unstable
condition expected to recover. That's the good news there. And
then the way the reaction that you heard from Brigadier
(02:37):
General John Lewis listening to what he had to say
about how quickly the reaction was, but he also emphasized
that in looking into the early parts of this investigation,
they didn't aware that he had any prior behavioral or
even disciplinary issues whatsoever, to see and hear of that happening.
(03:03):
The Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said right away on social media,
We're keeping the victims, their families and all of those
who answer the call to serve in our hearts and prayers.
President Trump was briefed on the shooting. He said the
same thing too. He said, the Army Criminal Investigation Division
is on site, of course, to ensure that the perpetrator
(03:26):
of the atrocity, which is exactly what it is his words,
will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Boy,
do I agree with that. Still, the full circumstances surrounding
all of it not immediately clear. It is clearing up,
and I'm sure we'll know even more later in the
later in the day. Meanwhile, we've been talking about these
(03:48):
Canadian wildfires, and you've got smoke from wildfires and a
bunch of Canadian providences, including Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia. So
it's leading to air quality alerts through a bunch of
our states in the Midwest and mid Atlantic, the Northeast,
and it's causing coughing and shortness of breath. And increased
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heart rate and other immediate kinds of effects that you
would get even in some really really healthy people. But
if you're not healthy and you deal with some kind
of a breathing condition, listen to what doctor Capo from
the Palisades Medical Center had to say. I always recommend
miasmatics to carry their albuterol pump when the air quality
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is bad, and to have it on them because it
can happen at any moment. Yeah, And so you know,
sometimes people, you know how it is, you're feeling pretty good.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And you forget that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I mean, I don't know how, but I do understand, right,
and then all of a sudden, this is happening. Not
a good thing. I mean, this is a serious hit,
no joke. In the West and in Canada's smoke pouring
cross the country, lingering for days, and we're talking eleven
states and it just keeps multiplying. And then there's other
(05:08):
intense wildflyers, like I said, in the Western United States,
so Canada too, but also in the Western United States.
So you got dry air, strong winds, and it's just disastrous.
By the way, the amount of wildfires now, like initially
it starts at like seventy, which you think last seventy wildfires.
It's more than five hundred out of control as of
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late on Wednesday. Five hundred out of control fires. Wow,
the same thing though intense heat, and that's what's hit
Canada just as it has hit parts of the United States.
All Right, we turned to vaccines, which, of course we know.
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Once RFK became the Health and Human Services Secretary, he's
absolutely not a fan of vaccines and.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
He he doesn't hide that. He wrote a book about it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And the federal government is now calling off around five
hundred million dollars worth of vaccine development projects that use
mRNA technology. Twenty two now terminated projects were funded through
the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, that's what it's called.
Most were canceled. The ones that were canceled were vaccines
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that fight COVID nineteen or the fluid includes like to
give you an idea, well, what does that mean. It
includes proposals from like Pfizer and other drug makers that
were rejected or canceled, along with a now shuttered award
to Maderno to develop a bird flu vaccine. So that's
(06:44):
not happening. Now, here's what one Nobel Laureate scientist said,
the impact will.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Be so obviously, you know, when you are sick of
you wouldn't dusk advice from a lawyer like Kennedy. You know,
you ask experts, your physician for advice, and obviously he's misinformed.
And do not understand that you know sciences knowledge which
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scientific evidence. And you know, when you would just reject
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By the way he argued Kennedy that m RNA based
vaccines can stop working properly if the virus that they
target mutates too much, citing coronavirus as an example, saying
a single mutation can make m RNA vaccines in effective,
and that the technology poses more risks and benefits for
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respiratory viruses. So a lot of argument over this, and
that's not a surprise there. There was a lot of
argument heading into his confirmation. Even we turned to the
Skyways flight maares how about this? United Airlines flights did
start taking off eventually on Wednesday, a few hours after
a system wide technology issue prompted them to halt departures
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across the board.
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So it has been resolved. That's the good news.
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But at issue was a key system that they call
unimatic that stores flight data feeds into other systems, including
those that track flight times, calculate white and wait rather
imbalanced data needed for takeoff. That's pretty important. They didn't
say what caused the outage. It started shortly after six
pm Eastern, but they said it wasn't cyber related.
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We are in the man Cave. Everybody is welcome. Thank
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I'm going to call it hike Hike and in the future,
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Are they talking to the agent? What's the latest?
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And Jerry Jones, the latest is he says he has
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That's a very very big story. Of course, how about that?
I mean, you can't not have Micah Parsons. He's awesome?
Are you kidding me?
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So he he makes an impact with a defense, he
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have the Commanders wide out Terry McLaurin and of course
Micah Parsons who go to training camps, but they're not
happy with their contracts, so they have these you know,
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this kind of that brief holdout thing and then they
get fined for every day of training camp that's missed.
So none of the three I mentioned have practiced during
training camp. Right now, McLaurin can't practice because he hasn't
passed his preseason physical, so he was he's on the
physically unable to perform list with an ankle injury. But
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with Parsons, for example, you know, it's a different story.
And Hendrickson, who say, you won't play for the Bengals
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scheduled to make sixteen million next season, and of course
Parsons also does have the issue a little bit of
the back issue. So now it's kind of called hold
(15:28):
ends and that's the tactic that there's been some conversation
about for players to get contract unhappiness address, let's say,
because of so they show up, but there's but they're
not part of the whole practice situation. But it also
I think what it does is it does maybe put
(15:50):
pressure if I'm an agent, does that work. It puts
pressure on the teams, But it's a it is a
distraction I mean that's a major distraction. You go to
camp and you have so much time with everybody together
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at every angle you can imagine a footage and looking
(16:12):
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on various teams, whatever side of the ball they're playing on.
And I think it is absolutely a major major distraction.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You know, I love me some baseball, And because you
request the scores and we are in the thick of
it in baseball where some would say the dog days,
I'm going to make sure that we get some of
that in this time around. So the Cardinals, good news
for my Saint Louis fans. You beat the Dodgers in
Dodger territory, five three final score, picking up the fifty
(16:52):
eighth win for the Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You know, and we're talking about show.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Hey Otani was on the on the stick, so to speak,
because he homeward for his one thousand hit and he
struck out eight, but the Cardinals still managed to beat
the Dodgers. Jordan Walker had three hits for Saint Louis,
including an RBI single that tied the score with two
(17:18):
outs in the eighth, and then Saint Louis took that
five to four lead on the same play when rookie
third baseman Alex Frielan made a throwing error trying to
get Walker at second, and so pretty interesting. Walker was
a late addition to the starting lineup because he replaced
Wilson Contreras, who had a stomach bug. That was a
(17:40):
good replacement, wasn't it. And you know it's funny because
I'm talking about what a great game like show hey
Otani dhing. He gave up his first dole in base
of the season though, when Walker swiped second in the third,
So he was the guy for sure.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
He's the guy of.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
The moment anyway in that game because that's a nice
win over a really good team. Obviously, the Padres knocked
off the Diamondbacks. Sorry for my fans in Phoenix three two.
That's your final in that game. If you look at
the Diamondbacks, it's been a really a roller coaster season
(18:20):
for sure, and the fans were out there at Chase Field.
Jose Iglesias followed Ryan O'Hearn and that was the tying
homer with a run scoring single in the ninth inning.
So the Padres rallied to beat your Diamondbacks on Wednesday night,
(18:40):
because they scored five runs in the eleventh inning to
beat the Diamondbacks on Tuesday night. And now here they
staged another late rally. So no fun here on the
Arizona side of this, right, That's why you stay for
the whole game. You watch to see what happens because
you never know. You never know if you're going to
(19:03):
have those late rallies. Even if you think it's in
the bag, it's not always in the back. Here's a
hot team, the Brewers nd he wins and they knocked
off the Braves five four in Atlanta. They are quietly
unless the course sheerry Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
They are quietly a hot team. Not a surprise.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I say that heading into the season, and if you
look at their lineup, it makes sense, right, So I
was looking at little highlights from this game. Blake Perkins
doubled hit a homer, drove in two RBIs, Andrew Vaughn
homeward and Vaughn extended his hit streak to a career
best twelve games. And he's hitting four point thirty five
(19:45):
who with five home runs and sixteen RBI in that span.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
The Brewers are twenty six games above five hundred for
the first time since finishing the twenty one season ninety
five and sixty seven. And fans are definitely loving that.
Not in Atlanta they weren't, but fans back home, we're
loving it. Let's just say that, all right. Let me
throw in a couple other quick scores. Mariners knocked off
the White Sox eight six. How about the Royals knocking
(20:15):
off the Red Sox at Fenway seven to three. Nationals
glide by the A's as they're having a terrible season,
though two to one. Not much to cheer about. They
have forty four wins. Marlins beat the Astros six four,
Rays get the Angels five to four. This was a
crazy game. The Blue Jays beat the Rockies. You want
(20:37):
to know what the final score was? Like a laugher.
If you were at Coors Fields, you are gone. And
when this was happening, twenty twenty to one. That was
the final score. So the Blue Jays pick up their
sixty eighth. Vladimir Guerrero had four hits, including a home run.
David Schneider deep, I mean, I could go through the
(20:58):
It just take too long. He went deep twice, so
it was an onslaught. It was a massacre, is the
best way. That's the best way to put that. Gerra,
by the way, extends his on base streak to twenty
three games, the longest current streak in the American League.
So how about that. And this has been a tough,
(21:21):
tough series for the Rockies, who are having the worst
of the worst seasons. They are thirty and eighty four.
I mean, they are just handing out tickets for people
to go and watch the Rockies. Let's put it that way.
It's a tough it's a tough place to play. Guardians
knocked off the Mets for one. The Giants beat the
(21:43):
Padres four to two, and the Orioles got the better
of the Phillies at Citizens Bank Ballpark in Philly five
to one. That's your final there. As I said, keep
an eye out earlier in the show for what's coming
up this season. We're gonna have Hike Hike of course,
where we go through your questions about what's happening in
(22:07):
the NFL.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
But also nail the score.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, nail the score will come back and it's your
chance to win. Amazing prizes where you can email me
your scoring guesses of the game of the week, or
you can call in, or you can even go into
our special mailbox and leave your scoring guests. But all
the details on that will be rolled out in the
next couple of weeks. I'm gonna introduce you to a
(22:32):
man who tells you why it's so important to love
your mother, and I love the sentiment. Next, I'm so
(23:00):
excited to introduce you to doctor John Akiyemi. He is
with us with a smiling face, and you can see
behind him is a picture of his beautiful wife, Agnes.
Will talk about his family and the name of his
book is one I bet all of our mothers would
love for us to have written. It's called Meet My Mother,
(23:20):
Portrait of my Quintessential, My quintessential consonman, and I love
that word. He's got the book in his hand mother,
So wait till you hear the stories of his mother
and the impact that she had and just such an
interesting life. Doctor John, thanks so much for coming on
with us, my pleasure. Let's talk about your book. What
(23:43):
made you decide to write this book?
Speaker 11 (23:46):
I decided to write this book two weeks in advance
of the last Mother's Day, I sat off her on
my said, will it be nice if I can commemorate
a book in her name to honor all the mothers
(24:08):
across the glory, because I know for a fact that
a mother's duties in the home, in the family is
never finished. It's a love affair that almost parallels a
(24:32):
divine love that the Goodlord decides that all couples should have.
My mother. When I look back, I give her all
the glory. I give God the glory, of course, and
I give her all the honor for the way she
(24:56):
brought all nine of us and one in the middle.
I have four older siblings and four younger siblings. A
case in point was the fact that I recall, growing
up in Nigeria, West Africa as a young child, how
she not showed us how she built the foundation for
(25:20):
our lives. Each day started with a morning devotion in
the family, and all nine of us we had a
family Bible. She had her own, my father had his own,
and we have won for the siblings. She would partially
a part of the verse in the Bible for us
(25:41):
to read, and each one of us, from the oldest
demmandual to the youngest, we would read a verse and
has it onto the lost sibling.
Speaker 16 (25:53):
Now that I recall my experience, I wondered how much
I valid that I was about serving as I recalled,
and what does something you all know?
Speaker 11 (26:07):
I was bored with the ritual of having to wake
up for a lady in the morning and the ring
of bear from my next older brother, who was a
porson to be the bell boy. It would ring the
bell and all of us who come to the living
room where we'll have the devotion, and my mother would
interpret each lesson that we were supposed to get from
(26:31):
that devotion. And I just wondered, that is the foundation,
that is the pillar of my life today. And I
credit her for building my life on a piece of rock.
And that is what I just glorified God for she,
(26:55):
like my father, was an educational educator by training, so
she aspired to the rank of being the principal of
a Methodist elementary girls school, and my father, my father,
likewise became the principal of the boys' school. When I
(27:17):
look back at the foundation of my life, I just rejoice.
First of all, they're not sal us to know whose
sons or daughters who we are. She and my father
imposupon us the idea of knowing who you are. I'm
(27:43):
going to know who you are. You have established the
rock for the foundation, as there is the rock for
whatever building, so to speak, comes on top of that.
So my quintessential mother, as I recall, I was about
(28:04):
ten years old when she went in one of those
Methodist synods it's like a meeting of leaders in the
Methodist churches of Nigeria. She took me along with her
and she made me have a commitment. It said, John,
(28:27):
I am taking you on this synod of meetings. However,
I want you to write an essay on your experiences.
So I recall after this synod, it was a four
day meeting one of the large just cities in Nigeria
(28:48):
called Ibadan. I came back and she asked me for
my essay, which I wrote. So she was my very
first teacher. H all over that were read dramatical errors
of course. Wow, well, anyway, I think, oh, I should
(29:13):
silence that.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
This is people understand that new silence the vote.
Speaker 11 (29:19):
It is funny.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
We heard a rocky theme and I thought, you know what,
your mother coming through to us and telling us and
reaching out, Hey, you're talking about me, I feel her spirit.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
Oh thank you. So anyway, she was my my first teacher,
and I think for all mothers in in in in
the world, I need to emphasize the idea that mothers
parents in particular, uh the rock educators of their family members.
(29:56):
Later on, two decades or so later, when I I
was a student at Aurora College, which has not become
a rural university, I was lucky enough to have a
mentor I still remember her name, doctor, and then just
(30:16):
momentarily escaped me. But she was a female professor who
encouraged me. I took her course in creative writing, and
creative writing course really brought the very best out of
every student. It was more like she siphoning out the
(30:38):
creative spirit in each of us. Apparently she recognized that
I have this dormant emotion. She encouraged me, and in
that year that was nineteen sixty five, I remember so well,
she encouraged me to submit some kind of competition to
(31:03):
the National Anthology of College Poetry at the time. Alone,
behold the little poems that I wrote were published. So
that was my very first introduction to the publishing field.
And of course, later in my scientific en devil. I
had to write a thesis for the master's degree and
(31:26):
a dissertation for the PhD. But of all these creative
things that the Good Lord has enabled me to do,
the the most important one was is the writing of
books in my retirement years. Every time I feel like
(31:52):
expressing my joy, expressing my frustration, sometimes expressing a tip field,
I just get a piece of paper, get my computer
and put the thoughts down. So the idea of writing
this book was really conceived two weeks before the last
(32:14):
Mother's Day, and I made a deal with my publisher,
said do you think you can publish this just in
time for Mother's Day? Of course I didn't meet that
that deadline. But the memories of my mother are saw
in Debt and all my all my siblings in Africa,
(32:37):
and we are scattered all over where in Europe and
South Africa, when of course I uh in Canada and
of course here, all of them are just so enamored
that John is able to write about make my mother,
(33:00):
who of course was meet their grandmother, their great grandmother,
and so on and so forth. Because I'm blessed enough
to have written another book called Belongings. Belongings is a history,
(33:21):
a genealogy of the K and the family, tracing back
all the way from eighteen forty eight, that's six generations.
I was able to trace the effort for this. I
give the credit to my oldest niece, missus Grace or
(33:45):
like you okay me of course a k and who
did all the work from my mother's collection at home.
My mother was a meticulous not She kept record of
the birthdays of each member of the family. So my
(34:07):
niece was able to dig into this family bible that
she kept in which noted all the family birthdays and
so on and so forth, and shared it with me. So,
with her co operason, with her encouragement and of course
the encournment drop of all my cousins and nephews and
family members, I was able to write this genella u,
(34:29):
which is called belonging.
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Thanks for listening to us.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Here on at n On Author's Corner, we're talking to
doctor Akiemi about his book My Mother, which is I
think so powerful and really just made me think about
my own mother, and I hope it's doing the same
for all of you. I know that was one of
his intended purposes. And then you know this other book.
We mentioned it in Belonging and immediately what pops to
(38:24):
all of our heads is as humans wanting to feel
like there is a space for you wanting to feel
like there's there's a group for you. Am I right
about that, Doctor John?
Speaker 11 (38:37):
I figure out that way Homo sapiens, human beings truly,
truly would belong to one another. I figured that I
am where I am today because I am standing on
the shouldness of sip that preceded, that came before me.
(39:05):
I figured, if I wrote something that shows this family,
human relationships, we belong to one another, we belong to
each other, it's a fresh scene. And what is going
(39:26):
on in today's world when the leadership of this great
country is encouraging coalition between different groups for some and
godly purpose. I figured, if I wrote a book that
(39:49):
shows that we humans, we truly are each others keepers,
that the world will be a better Wow.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
What a great sentiment When people read either one of
these books, both of these books, I hope they get them.
What do you hope they take away from.
Speaker 11 (40:11):
My Leave my Mother?
Speaker 20 (40:15):
I hope they take away the incredible legacies that mothers
throughout the world lead to their families and children if
the mother does it right. I figured that I hope
(40:41):
that people would take the idea home to know that assistance, love, caring,
all these things that a mother shows to her children
(41:02):
are really the foundation the groups of our advancement as
human beings.
Speaker 11 (41:11):
I suffer deeply in my mind when I read stories
of some mothers who, for one reason or the other,
decide not to give their consummate love to their family
(41:35):
or to their children. I feel hurt when I see
a young mother with two children. Sharpener came up shop
at Walmart. I'm not saying a father to accompany them.
I know that I cannot imposs upon them my whole values,
(42:01):
but it would be so much better when I see,
and I'll tell you a little story that demon say
what I'm trying to say. When I see a photo
or a scene in which a mother and a father
(42:24):
show this connection, this connectivity, this low the causain point.
I was shopping at Costco the other day and I
saw two couples, a man and a woman, holding hands,
and something told me. I said, I like that. Then
(42:45):
I said what I said when I grew up, I'm
going to learn how to hold my spouses hands. Both
of us laugh when I see that. It's a show
how body language that demonstress what love is, what caring is.
(43:10):
I always marvel a gentleman who take their hat when
they see a lady who opened the door of the
car for their lady. This is just awesome to me.
And he just tells me, this is a little practice.
You don't need to have a PhD.
Speaker 17 (43:31):
To have that.
Speaker 11 (43:33):
It's just a little practice knowing that whoever you're with
means so much to you. My mother demonstrates all her
life that we, her nand children mean so much to her.
As a matter of fact, when my father died, and
(43:53):
he died rather young, fifty one years young, he was
an excellent health. However, at that time I'm talking about
nineteen fifty six, there was no medical care for asthma. Reportedly,
he probably died of an asthmatic attack, again putting it
(44:17):
back in the years nineteen fifty six when there was
no care for that. So I'm hoping that readness will
know that we a society sometimes who don't give enough credits,
(44:39):
enough credits to mothers who sacrificed everything just to make
sure that we the children become somebody without me. And
again a little side story about this that earlier, but
(45:01):
I have four older and far younger siblings. When I
look back at my parents on their way of handling
family planning, I said to myself, Oh, my goodness, I
am so glad my parents did not stop at just
(45:26):
having three or four children. Otherwise I would not be
alive today and the fifth of nine. Wow, and this
ties in a love intricate way with my beautiful wife
in the earlier years of I had dated. She remarked
(45:47):
to me, what time said, whoever I married must agree
to have ten round with me. I smiled, and I
said to her, I guess that rules me out of it.
(46:08):
So later in life, as I was thinking I became
new wises, I wondered what might have been in her
mind when she said that. And noe, behold, it don't
mean you know, it's been said that parents read their
children the way these parents themselves were real. So later
(46:34):
I found out that Agnes has ten siblings, including herself. Wow,
it was her father and her mother. No multiple wives now,
just husband and wife and ten children. So I figured
that maybe at that moment when she said that, she
was saying, if I can't break my parents' record, at
(46:58):
least I must make it. And it's so funny too
that my may myself I for some reason, I'm in
the middle. So I have a total of ed siblings,
so I forget oh man lo, this is this is
this is a wonderful coincidence in terms of family numbering system.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Yeah wow, I mean your stories are beautiful and there's
so many more stories and prayers and things that happened
to you during your life, and so much of that. Again,
the rock, as you said, your mother, meet my Mother
is a wonderful gift belongings. Another book worthy of people
going to get doctor John, we could talk to you forever.
Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 11 (47:45):
Yes, God bless wow.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
I tell you what listening to doctor Akahemi and the
passion he really has for people. I think that comes
across in both of those books, whether we're talking about
overall as a group of whether we're talking about his
own family and his mother and his desire that we
all understand, really the importance of our own mothers, and
(48:09):
especially in today's world, where I think a lot of
that because we're zooming from one direction to the next,
a lot of that gets lost.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Hopefully you take that to heart.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Go call your mother if you still are lucky enough
to have her with us, and if not, just think
some really good thoughts Thanks so much for listening to
this interview here on ATM
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