Episode #49 - Unforgettable First Date, A Journey with Author Mark Scott Through Stories, Sobriety, and Celebration
Interview with Author, Mark E. Scott
His book: Unforgettable First Date Began With a Leap of Faith
Jack Current believed his plan was foolproof. The jump off the bridge would end his life — or at least it was supposed to. But it didn't. In fact, the jump off the bridge didn't kill either of them.
First Date, the darkly humorous, poignant new book from Mark E. Scott, follows Jack as he spends the next 8 hours of his life in a hospital, escaping a nosey deputy, avoiding a psyche exam and maybe falling in love with the bartender who saved his life.
First Date is a story of individuals haunted by suicide, remorse and unanswered questions: questions whose answers are not to be found in the bottom of a bottle. Secrets are revealed and souls are bared, but answers are still elusive. For now, they only have each other, a dollar store notebook and a teddy bear.
First Date is the second installment in Scott’s three-part, Day in the Life series, in which the unexpected, twisted saga of Jack and Aria unfolds over a combined period of 24 hours. Book One, Drunk Log, was released in 2022 and traces the first eight hours of Jack’s unsteady march toward his intended demise.
For more information, please visit www.markescottauthor.com, or connect with him on Instagram @markescottauthor and Facebook (Mark E. Scott, Author).
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/First-Date-Life-Mark-Scott/dp/164540840X/
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi, welcome to Rebooted Mindset, formerly
Rebooted the Podcast.
I'm your host, elita Hernandez.
Come join me every Wednesdayand Sunday afternoon at 2.30 pm
Eastern time to hear real-lifeconversations with experts
around the world on how we canheal our body, mind, soul and
spirit.
So let's get talking.
(00:22):
Hi everybody, elita Hernandez,back to you again on Rebooted
the Podcast, and simultaneouslywill be aired on Westworld
Magazine as well.
I'm with a guest today andauthor, mark Scott.
Correct, yes, mark Scott,correct, yes, and you said this
(00:42):
is the second book in yourseries.
So I guess give us a little bitof background about yourself
and you know, like, how youstart writing these books.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, I actually tried writing my first novel
when I was 15, unsuccessfully,because I was 15.
And there was too much going on.
But as the years progressed, Ikept trying, kept trying,
finally finished my first oneabout 15 years ago or so, and
(01:19):
that didn't go anywhere.
I wrote another one, didn't goanywhere, wrote a third, found
an agent she liked it,publishers not so much.
And then so I said well, whatdo you want me to do now?
And she says write another book.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So like a side simple right yeah in her mind, that's
you, just let you know, do it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And I was hiking, hikes, peak with a small group
and one in the group was ascientist and she was telling me
about one night where she wasgoing to go out and get drunk
and record everything she wasthinking and feeling like a
(02:05):
scientist might do.
And I said holy crap.
And she called it her drunkblog.
So I said you know, can I havethat idea for free?
And she said she says yours.
And then she got altitudepoisoning and she forgot all
about the conversation.
I'm just kidding.
She was sure, but altitudesickness rather.
(02:28):
And I wrote drunk log, gave itto my agent.
She again, you know, was doingher job, looking for a publisher
and found one who asked if Icould make it and you know, do
some sequels to it.
And I said heck, yeah if we'llget it published.
(02:52):
I can continue the story, youknow.
So drunk log came out last year, first date.
The second book of the series,which is confusing because it's
called first date and it's thesecond book, but came out at the
end of May, and the third one,I imagine.
It's written it should be outbefore the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So the series of books is based on those drunk
logs that your friend was doing,correct?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So, yeah, the series itself is called A Day in the
Life.
Each book covers eight hours ofa 24 hour period.
Okay, the two main characters,nice or Jack and Aria.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, yeah, I haven't looked.
I haven't read the book yet Ihave.
It's very interesting I wasjust thinking about this while
you were talking that I've beenspeaking to very a number of
authors and I'm impressed withall of you that there are so
many people out there writingbooks.
You know it's frightening, it'sunbelievable how many books
(03:59):
there are, but it's good.
It's a good thing.
We need to keep that goingbecause I feel like, since we're
in the digital age now, it'sjust not the same anymore.
I mean you know I like a book, Ilike to hold a book and you
know, sit in a corner somewhereand read a book and you know
you're always on the phone, likeI read things here all the time
(04:19):
too.
But it's not the same, it'sjust I don't know.
You kind of lose something.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, there's like 30 million books on
Amazon 50 million, which is anincredible number of books, so
that includes self-published andpublished.
But I agree with you your brain, statistically, kindle and
(04:45):
electronic book sales hasstagnated, while paper book
sales continue to increase.
I think that's because ourbrains do react differently to
an analog sort of turn-the-pagetactile experience than it does
to an electronic screen we havein front of us.
(05:07):
And what I'm for sure of,because I have read this, is
that when you're handwriting isa different relationship in your
brain than typing.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And then typing is different than a computer typing
and it's amazing that we'refiguring all this stuff out
about the brain.
But as a writer, I like paperbecause you can drop it, it
doesn't hurt it you can smokecoffee on it and you can still
read it.
You can carry it on an airplaneand if you leave it behind,
(05:45):
you're not freaking out becauseit was a 50-kilogram write.
You don't have to charge yourbook, you don't have to charge
it you can pick it up and readit literally anywhere, as long
as you've got a glow from yourwatch or something.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Something.
Yeah, I put one of those at thedollar store.
I put one of those littlelights you put on the book.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I have one of those.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Well, because I can't , as you get older you can't
really see very well.
So I'm reading I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Alita.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You're hiding your glasses.
Well, oh my gosh, that wasanother question.
I just loved me too.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But I really enjoyed writing.
I mean, I enjoy writing anddrunk a lot especially.
I brought the idea back here toCincinnati and talked to
another writer friend of minenamed Jim DeBros and he goes oh,
that's a great idea, but youknow you got to.
Why is he doing it?
So I created the story based onadvice I was given by another
(06:47):
writer, you know, because hisopinion was what's he going to
do?
Just sit there and drink foreight hours?
And I'm like, yeah, Somethingwill do.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Why not, man, if I would have written the logs the
times I used to go out and beout drinking and partying with
friends and who knows?
I mean, I still remember a lotof things, you know, and I
always say I've always said, oh,I want to write.
And somebody told me, when youstart even writing a little bit,
like even a journal, that canbecome a book.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So I've never really been a journal person, like I'll
write once in a while, but I'mnot an avid journal writer.
I know a lot of people that Iknow now do that for personal
growth, that do journaling tosee where they're at and
everything like that.
So I don't know, I'm going tosee if I can start doing that.
I just do so much interviewsand so much talking that I'm
already telling my story.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So it's like trying to say, I would venture to say
that it will sound different ifyou write it down.
Oh yeah, and you and I chattinghere.
It's weird what comes outthrough the pen or through the
typewriter or through thecomputer once you start in, and
then you go back and read it ayear later, five days later,
(08:05):
whatever, and you're like what.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I have some of those.
I wake it up like three in themorning, like from a dream or
something and a great idea, andI just grab the phone and I
dictate it or start typing andnext day I read and I go I wrote
that Wow, that's pretty good.
I was like I wasn't in anothersubconscious writing or
something.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I'm quite often the opposite.
I'll read it days later andthink it's crap.
That's how I know thedifference.
That's the difference.
If something makes it all theway into the book or into a book
, it's because I've reread it 10times and it's just fine.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But it takes a lot of work I mean, it's a lot of
discipline to do something likethat.
That would you do and manyothers do on so many subjects.
And what I was thinking iswhat's your take on this?
Talking about writing, there'sa writer strike going on in
Hollywood and people don'trealize the ramification of that
(09:13):
.
I don't know if people realizehave you seen that there's no
new episodes, like no newepisodes of shows and things
like that, because there's nowriters.
Writers are very important.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Well, one of a good friend.
We were watching a show orsomething and just out of the
blue she says a writer wrotethat and it was nice of her to
point that out to me.
Sometimes you just got toremember that.
(09:44):
But I don't understand all theissues of the writer strike.
I understand that.
I mean, where are you located,alita?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm in Fort Lauderdale Florida.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
OK, so we're in the same team.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I used to live in California, so I know they're in
Hollywood.
All that's coming out ofHollywood California where the
studios are.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I would support it because I think that if and I
think the actors now are in onit too right?
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I don't, I don't know , I haven't been, I didn't read
too much about it.
I know that it came up.
It happened back in, I want tosay, the late 80s.
There was a writer strike also.
Ok, I was living in Californiaat the time and I had a good
friend.
When you live in Hollywood, Ilived in Hollywood, California.
So everybody's either a writeror an actor, right or want to be
.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Sure, just like Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, I saw that show.
Was it hot in Cincinnati.
Remember that show.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Wait, what's it called?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Hot in Cincinnati or something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I don't remember that one.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
There's a show with.
Betty White was in it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Really.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It was so funny.
It's a comedy.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Oh, I think I do sort of remember that.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
One of them was an actress.
She moved from Hollywood toCincinnati.
So her different, her way, herlife is and just it was just.
It was a fun thing.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
It was probably a lot better here in Cincinnati than
it was in California.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Probably.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I'm very pro Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I've never been there so I can't say I haven't been
to the Midwest or anything.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
So drunk log, actually all occurs essentially
all.
The first book essentially alloccurs in my neighborhood which
is called over the Rhine and hegoes from.
There's many bars and over theRhine is very it can be very
touristy on the weekends.
But he and then this, thesecond book, takes him up into
(11:42):
Clifton where University ofCincinnati is, if you're
familiar with that school.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
No, I don't, I don't know.
Like I said, I don't knowanything about Cincinnati.
I haven't.
I went.
I was born in New York, leftNew York, went to California,
lived there, had my kids there alope to Vegas, then moved here
to Florida.
So I went East Coast to WestCoast and back.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Now the they're actually.
I grew up in the Midwest.
The only time I was on a coastwas when I was in the Navy, when
I was in Virginia.
The thing is here they probablymake six or eight movies a year
here.
(12:29):
Now, oh wow, they're in the.
In my neighborhood there's 800plus buildings on an historic
register that were built 160years ago, so it's a great
stand-in if you're trying to doNew York or some or Cincinnati
itself.
Emilio Estevez loves Cincinnati.
(12:51):
He built after he visited in2016,.
He built a house somewhere nearhere.
It's a great secret.
I keep trying to figure it outwhere it is, but I'm not
stalking Emilio Estevez.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Don't think that, but my mom is.
I've met him several times, soI didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So I just learned a little secret of Emilio.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I didn't know he had a house in Cincinnati.
I see him in Miami.
I've seen him on different redcarpets because I do media
coverage, and so one time I sawhim in New York at the Tony
Awards and I said are youfollowing me?
And me, I just saw you in Miami.
He starts laughing.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
He is such a supporter of the area and my mom
has actually stalked him twice,both at the same restaurant.
I've told her to stop, let theman eat.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, he's very nice.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
He's just trying to sell my books.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Like here, take the book.
I met him, I met his sisterLily, and I met Gloria Stephan
as well, and I've met a lot ofpeople down here.
Miami is insane.
I live in Boca Raton and I havemy studio in Fort Lauderdale,
so we're like 30 minutes toMiami from Fort Lauderdale and I
(14:14):
go to Miami when I need to andI literally say otherwise you
avoid it.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, it's just.
It's very congested.
Now they are making the highwayis like a triple decker.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They have people who wears bikinis in Miami, right.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Pretty much down in South Beach If you go.
Well, it depends on where youare in Miami.
If you're in the South Beachand the Miami in the beach area,
that's a tourist area.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But they don't sell the beach right there.
So but do they go to businessmeetings and bikinis?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
No.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
No, OK, OK, I just want to.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Where is the line drawn?
No, not much.
It's not Baywatch all the time.
Yeah, yeah.
But it's just, it's a different, it's a very.
We have a very eclectic culture.
Of course the Hispanic cultureis more dominant down in Miami.
I always say Miami is thesecond Cuba, because when I
(15:13):
first moved here-.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Non-communist Cuba.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
No, not communist.
Cuba, just Right.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
No, that's what I mean it's the second Cuba, it's
the non-communist Cuba.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Right, it's the American Cuba?
Yeah, exactly so, my family'sfrom Puerto Rico, so you know
Ireland as well.
But when I went to Miami thefirst time when I moved here, I
was like so people don't speakEnglish.
Like I went into a store and Igo, excuse me, I didn't know
where I was and I'm askingdirections.
And the guy just looks at meand I'm like why, why is he not
(15:43):
talking to me?
And then the person behind mestarts talking to him and he's
like oh, he's talking Spanish,cuban Spanish, right.
And I go oh, so then I realizedthat the majority of the people
, when you get in the heart ofMiami okay, not downtown, not
even I mean downtown you'll getit, but there's more English,
but there's a lot of places thatis strictly Spanish.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, that's the history of this country, isn't
it?
You know the immigrant groupscome in and then bring their
language and culture with them,and it's awesome.
I have spent some time in Cuba.
Oddly enough, although it wasagain, it was in the Navy and it
was in Guantanamo Bay where Igot a conch shell.
There's a big conch bed inGuantanamo Bay.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, there are big shells.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Right, right, and you're not supposed to, but I
took one anyway and a rebel.
Eh Wow, I didn't realize therewas that.
I was dumb, I didn't realizethere was an animal in it, and
then this animal died in becauseI had taken it back to the ship
.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh, you didn't know about the conch that's in there.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I was from Ohio.
You know how much I know it soso I can talk about.
If you want to talk about corn,I can talk about corn all day
yeah.
Conch conch's not so much.
And then my shipmatescomplained because it was
stinking up the birthing.
I tried everything to get that.
It took a week to get the deadanimal out of there.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, and I shook it overboard like this, you know,
off the side.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Oh my God.
Yeah, it's like a big muscle orsomething, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I don't like it.
They turn them into a littlebit.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
No, they eat them in Bahamas, in Bahamas a lot.
Yeah, that's like theirspecialty and I don't like it.
I'm like, nah, I'll eat a salad, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
After my conch experience, I'll never try
eating one.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Exactly, I have to see that and smelling it you're
like no way.
I was just thinking about that.
You did these books, like theChronicle, like an eight hour
period.
I can just see, you have tocome down to like little Havana
in Miami and do a book thedifference in the culture.
It would be kind of interesting, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Are you talking about with the same characters or a
whole new character Like?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
a whole new character , like now, you know, like a
cultural thing.
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You know what I agree it would be.
I wrote a book called BurningBuildings and at the end of the
book my main character is flyingto Prague.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Now, I've never been to Prague, so I couldn't have
him land yet.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You know, but I figure I'll go to Prague, and
then I'll write a sequel to thatbook as soon as I have the land
.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
So yeah, if you go to Prague, it's beautiful.
I've been there.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
But a little Havana would be awesome as well.
I think From what I've seen inTV.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, yeah, I mean Little Havana.
There's a lot of things goingon now.
There's a lot of new buildings,the kind of rebuilding Little
Havana.
This is a poor area, but that'swhere the tours go.
So you have a lot of the cigarshops.
They hand roll cigars.
You have the Cubans rolling thecigars right there.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
It's really cool, oh no kidding, yeah, they roll I do
like cigars, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
so that's very good.
You can buy all the the whiteyedda, the shirts from Cuba and
Puerto Rico that we wear, butthere's certain shirts that we
wear symbol.
They have the shirts, they havethe hats a lot of stores for
hats and just like a lot oflittle cultural things clothing
and the cigars, and then themusic.
(19:31):
The music is the biggest thing.
So my husband's from PuertoRico and he's a salsa singer and
so there's a lot of music downhere.
Miami is inundated with artistsand usually when you go down to
Little Havana, you will be in asetting that you're going, you
can go.
There's a place called you can.
It's called what?
(19:51):
Oh my God, I forgot the name.
It's some.
I was going to say Guantanamo,but it's not.
It starts with a G, but I can'tthink of it, but it's a cigar
bar.
So you go there, you have yourcigar, you have your cognac and
then you have a light bandplaying.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Is it the Guapa cigar bar?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's something.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I'm just kidding, I'm just making up.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
No, I can't remember.
Now I gotta look at the gun orEl Guapa cigar bar, but there's
a lot of places like that.
And then now there's a PuertoRican restaurant that opened up
in Little Havana, which isawesome.
So you got a little bit littledifferent flavor, because Cuban
food and Puerto Rican food arevery similar but they have their
(20:33):
differences so, and the musicis different, like salsa from
Cuba and salsa from Puerto Ricois different.
They have certain littledifferences, but usually we like
we have this Saturday, we havea salsa night at our studio and
it usually is a Colombian crowd,which is a whole nother crowd
of people, and when they comethey party hard, they stay till
(20:57):
four or five in the morning.
They play, they bringinstruments, they bring weedles,
they bring gongas and they playwith the DJ, they play music
and they, like, they engulfthemselves in the music, they
sing, they dance.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Do you stay till four in the morning?
Do you feel very tired the nextday when you have to go up at
eight o'clock?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah well, I don't get up at eight o'clock.
Now usually Sundays, my day off, unless I have an event,
because I have an event space inFort Lauderdale where that's
where my office is, and thenthat's what we do different
events that people rent out forparties and weddings and things
like that and we do a lot ofshowcases, music showcases and
(21:38):
you know different things,wellness things, and I do a lot
of shows for the podcast too.
I do some stuff there and butthey'll stay until four.
And sometimes I have to, we'llhave to tell them we have to
shut the lights off, I mean sortof turn them on because we're
like, no, it's time to go andthey'll be four thirty, they're
still.
Come on.
Can I get another drink?
No, you can't get another drinkGo, and I'm sober like all
night.
So it's weird to be up, like inmy life now from times before
(22:01):
and I used to really drink, soto be four, five, five o'clock
in the morning and you're likesober, you're like, oh, my god,
you're watching.
Everybody's a whole different.
It's a whole different mentaltrip.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I'm sure.
Oh my god, yeah, absolutely, itsucks being the sober one.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
No, but I have a good time anyway because I love the
music.
So you can.
You know what I mean.
You don't need alcohol to havea good time.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Oh no, certainly not, but to be the, to be the
designated driver in your groupfull of, oh, you know they get
all loud, and that's a differentexperience.
Then you find you're the adult.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Suddenly you know then that's when you start video
taping.
Let me videotape you so you cansee yourself tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Then I, now I go, boy , did I look that silly?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Well, that was one of the.
The my characters are are tipsyor drinking the through the
entire book series.
Not heavily, well, first, firstbook pretty heavily.
But they're each on theirlittle journey through all the
bars in my neighborhood andone's trying to, one's trying to
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find the other, but the, andthen she, she gets it, finds
them right at the end of thebook, but and she has to because
there's a second book and athird.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Also the two of them are out.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
There's no book.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So they're out to bar hopping and then they can't
find each other.
And they finally find eachother at one bar, the last bar,
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
So his story is that he's responsible for the death
of a seven year old nephew, andso a year after the accident, he
decides he's going to killhimself by jumping off our
suspension bridge that goesbetween Cincinnati, Ohio, and
Covington, Kentucky, over theOhio River.
And but before he does that, hebuys himself a notebook and
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he's.
He decides he's just going toget drunk and write everything
he thinks and feels in thenotebook, the drunk log.
And then the bartender, hisfemale semi love interest, gets
hold of his log, reads part ofit doesn't say anything
specifically about killinghimself, but she gets her spidey
(24:19):
sense is tingling and shedecides she's got to go.
He leaves, but she decidesshe's going to go find him.
So she gets somebody to coverher shift and then she starts
hitting bar to bar to bar, notsort of in parallel but on a
separate street Right, and shefinally catches up to him on the
bridge, the bridge itself after.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, and then that's the end of that book.
The next book starts with themcrawling out of the river after
they yeah, I'm trying not togive too much away.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
No, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
And they clearly they do survive.
And the first date is calledfirst date because about halfway
through the book they'vedecided that they're a little
adventure.
They're just going to considerit to be their first date.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Oh my goodness, we'll talk about a first date.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Right, it's very exciting.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Tell all your readers .
Well, that's why we buy booksright To live in the story, to
disappear in the book, right Toit's a safe way to live
vicariously through others.
Yeah.
That's a great way to say ityes.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And I encourage everybody out there.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Get a new book, get Mark's new book.
There's a lot of differentbooks out there, different
interests.
Whatever interests you, thatcalls on to you, Get a new book
out there and get a real book.
Get some paper.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
And then you can take it to the beach and drop it.
It won't hurt it.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Exactly, and you can't read your phone at the
beach.
Have you ever tried?
I even bought a little umbrella.
I bought a little umbrella.
That goes over it.
It just doesn't work.
It still doesn't work, and thenthe phone starts getting hot.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Oh my God, yeah, yeah .
Speaker 1 (26:04):
And I'm like my phone's going to explode in the
middle of the sun, especiallyhere.
Do you have any idea?
The other day it was 93 degrees, right, it was 90% humidity.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Actually, I do get that.
My sister lives in Tampa andalso Cincinnati gets
surprisingly humid.
It's been a great summer thissummer for it.
Knock on wood.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
But it's been a very mild summer here Usually it's a
little hotter and more humid andhave the river right there
evaporating into the valley.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You have mountains, though, right, you have
mountains.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
The Kentucky side is.
You know, geographically?
Yeah, geographically, kentuckyis where the mountains really
began.
Cincinnati has very tall hillsaround it, oh, ok.
And it was once called the Cityof Seven Hills.
You know sort of a.
You know it was rather arrogantto compare it to Rome, but
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that's neither here nor there itwas.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Rome right.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
But yeah, the mountains really start about a
mile from here.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Oh, ok, that's not that far though.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
So you can see them.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
You can see them.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
You can see them.
The foothills, you can see them.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, that's one thing I do miss about Limea.
California is the mountains,the views.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well, those are some serious mountains out there.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Those are just.
It's beautiful and I used tolive in the valley in San
Fernando Valley, so I used todrive on the foothill mountain,
a foothill highway which goesthrough the foothill mountains.
So you would drive andliterally you had the huge
mountains on both sides andyou're driving right through
like a tunnel.
It was just.
I would just be like, oh, everyday I would be like, wow, just
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you know just it's justbeautiful, the nature,
everything.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Oh yeah, california is beautiful, even when it's on
fire.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
But and earthquakes, and earthquakes.
I've been there when there wasearthquake.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
There's some problems .
You know they're experiencingsome issues.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
So we get earthquakes .
You get earthquakes here, weget hurricanes over here, you
know.
You get tornadoes in theMidwest.
You get rain you get.
I mean, it's like it doesn'tmatter where you go.
There's going to be somethingyou know, naturally.
But but anyway, thank you somuch for your time and we look
for the.
You said you have a third bookthat you're working on.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
And it's written.
It should be out at the end ofthe year.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, oh, okay, Great .
So we'll talk again when thefor the third one and I'll look
for it too, so I can get thebook and and everybody go buy
this.
Yeah, first thing, and I'll putall the links and everything
here on the podcast so they knowhow to get reach you and you
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have Instagram and all that, orFacebook or anything.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, I have a Marky Scott author on Facebook.
Same for Instagram.
I have a Www.
Marky Scott author website.
Okay, yeah, you can, althoughyou can buy the book on Amazon,
barnes, noble, all online orsome local bookstores have it
(29:21):
here in Cincinnati, but I shouldtry some bookstores down in the
in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, I don't, I'm sorry, uh-oh, you're frozen.
Oh, I froze.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, I'm on frozen.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I'm on frozen, you are.
I can see you now, okay.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Are you still recording?
Yes, I'm still recording.
I heard that, then it's okay,it's all good, this is all the
natural show.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I never, I never script anything, I just we just
talk, you know, because that's Ijust make it real.
But um, but yeah, great.
So we can find you on MarkyScott.
Um dot com.
Marky Scott, authorcom and thenalso on social media.
So I will put all those linksup there so everybody can find
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you and order the book firstdate.
Well, thank you very much,you're welcome.
Have a great, great weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, thank you, elina.
Have a great day.
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So let's get talking.
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Hi everybody, elita Hernandez,back to you again on Rebooted
the Podcast, and simultaneouslywill be aired on Westworld
Magazine as well.
I'm with a guest today andauthor, mark Scott.
Correct, yes, mark Scott,correct, yes, and you said this
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is the second book in yourseries.
So I guess give us a little bitof background about yourself
and you know, like, how youstart writing these books.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, I actually tried writing my first novel
when I was 15, unsuccessfully,because I was 15.
And there was too much going on.
But as the years progressed, Ikept trying, kept trying,
finally finished my first oneabout 15 years ago or so, and
(01:19):
that didn't go anywhere.
I wrote another one, didn't goanywhere, wrote a third, found
an agent she liked it,publishers not so much.
And then so I said well, whatdo you want me to do now?
And she says write another book.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So like a side simple right yeah in her mind, that's
you, just let you know, do it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And I was hiking, hikes, peak with a small group
and one in the group was ascientist and she was telling me
about one night where she wasgoing to go out and get drunk
and record everything she wasthinking and feeling like a
(02:05):
scientist might do.
And I said holy crap.
And she called it her drunkblog.
So I said you know, can I havethat idea for free?
And she said she says yours.
And then she got altitudepoisoning and she forgot all
about the conversation.
I'm just kidding.
She was sure, but altitudesickness rather.
(02:28):
And I wrote drunk log, gave itto my agent.
She again, you know, was doingher job, looking for a publisher
and found one who asked if Icould make it and you know, do
some sequels to it.
And I said heck, yeah if we'llget it published.
(02:52):
I can continue the story, youknow.
So drunk log came out last year, first date.
The second book of the series,which is confusing because it's
called first date and it's thesecond book, but came out at the
end of May, and the third one,I imagine.
It's written it should be outbefore the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So the series of books is based on those drunk
logs that your friend was doing,correct?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So, yeah, the series itself is called A Day in the
Life.
Each book covers eight hours ofa 24 hour period.
Okay, the two main characters,nice or Jack and Aria.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, yeah, I haven't looked.
I haven't read the book yet Ihave.
It's very interesting I wasjust thinking about this while
you were talking that I've beenspeaking to very a number of
authors and I'm impressed withall of you that there are so
many people out there writingbooks.
You know it's frightening, it'sunbelievable how many books
(03:59):
there are, but it's good.
It's a good thing.
We need to keep that goingbecause I feel like, since we're
in the digital age now, it'sjust not the same anymore.
I mean you know I like a book, Ilike to hold a book and you
know, sit in a corner somewhereand read a book and you know
you're always on the phone, likeI read things here all the time
(04:19):
too.
But it's not the same, it'sjust I don't know.
You kind of lose something.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, there's like 30 million books on
Amazon 50 million, which is anincredible number of books, so
that includes self-published andpublished.
But I agree with you your brain, statistically, kindle and
(04:45):
electronic book sales hasstagnated, while paper book
sales continue to increase.
I think that's because ourbrains do react differently to
an analog sort of turn-the-pagetactile experience than it does
to an electronic screen we havein front of us.
(05:07):
And what I'm for sure of,because I have read this, is
that when you're handwriting isa different relationship in your
brain than typing.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And then typing is different than a computer typing
and it's amazing that we'refiguring all this stuff out
about the brain.
But as a writer, I like paperbecause you can drop it, it
doesn't hurt it you can smokecoffee on it and you can still
read it.
You can carry it on an airplaneand if you leave it behind,
(05:45):
you're not freaking out becauseit was a 50-kilogram write.
You don't have to charge yourbook, you don't have to charge
it you can pick it up and readit literally anywhere, as long
as you've got a glow from yourwatch or something.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Something.
Yeah, I put one of those at thedollar store.
I put one of those littlelights you put on the book.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I have one of those.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Well, because I can't , as you get older you can't
really see very well.
So I'm reading I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Alita.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You're hiding your glasses.
Well, oh my gosh, that wasanother question.
I just loved me too.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But I really enjoyed writing.
I mean, I enjoy writing anddrunk a lot especially.
I brought the idea back here toCincinnati and talked to
another writer friend of minenamed Jim DeBros and he goes oh,
that's a great idea, but youknow you got to.
Why is he doing it?
So I created the story based onadvice I was given by another
(06:47):
writer, you know, because hisopinion was what's he going to
do?
Just sit there and drink foreight hours?
And I'm like, yeah, Somethingwill do.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Why not, man, if I would have written the logs the
times I used to go out and beout drinking and partying with
friends and who knows?
I mean, I still remember a lotof things, you know, and I
always say I've always said, oh,I want to write.
And somebody told me, when youstart even writing a little bit,
like even a journal, that canbecome a book.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So I've never really been a journal person, like I'll
write once in a while, but I'mnot an avid journal writer.
I know a lot of people that Iknow now do that for personal
growth, that do journaling tosee where they're at and
everything like that.
So I don't know, I'm going tosee if I can start doing that.
I just do so much interviewsand so much talking that I'm
already telling my story.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So it's like trying to say, I would venture to say
that it will sound different ifyou write it down.
Oh yeah, and you and I chattinghere.
It's weird what comes outthrough the pen or through the
typewriter or through thecomputer once you start in, and
then you go back and read it ayear later, five days later,
(08:05):
whatever, and you're like what.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I have some of those.
I wake it up like three in themorning, like from a dream or
something and a great idea, andI just grab the phone and I
dictate it or start typing andnext day I read and I go I wrote
that Wow, that's pretty good.
I was like I wasn't in anothersubconscious writing or
something.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I'm quite often the opposite.
I'll read it days later andthink it's crap.
That's how I know thedifference.
That's the difference.
If something makes it all theway into the book or into a book
, it's because I've reread it 10times and it's just fine.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But it takes a lot of work I mean, it's a lot of
discipline to do something likethat.
That would you do and manyothers do on so many subjects.
And what I was thinking iswhat's your take on this?
Talking about writing, there'sa writer strike going on in
Hollywood and people don'trealize the ramification of that
(09:13):
.
I don't know if people realizehave you seen that there's no
new episodes, like no newepisodes of shows and things
like that, because there's nowriters.
Writers are very important.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Well, one of a good friend.
We were watching a show orsomething and just out of the
blue she says a writer wrotethat and it was nice of her to
point that out to me.
Sometimes you just got toremember that.
(09:44):
But I don't understand all theissues of the writer strike.
I understand that.
I mean, where are you located,alita?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm in Fort Lauderdale Florida.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
OK, so we're in the same team.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I used to live in California, so I know they're in
Hollywood.
All that's coming out ofHollywood California where the
studios are.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I would support it because I think that if and I
think the actors now are in onit too right?
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I don't, I don't know , I haven't been, I didn't read
too much about it.
I know that it came up.
It happened back in, I want tosay, the late 80s.
There was a writer strike also.
Ok, I was living in Californiaat the time and I had a good
friend.
When you live in Hollywood, Ilived in Hollywood, California.
So everybody's either a writeror an actor, right or want to be
.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Sure, just like Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, I saw that show.
Was it hot in Cincinnati.
Remember that show.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Wait, what's it called?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Hot in Cincinnati or something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I don't remember that one.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
There's a show with.
Betty White was in it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Really.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It was so funny.
It's a comedy.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Oh, I think I do sort of remember that.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
One of them was an actress.
She moved from Hollywood toCincinnati.
So her different, her way, herlife is and just it was just.
It was a fun thing.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
It was probably a lot better here in Cincinnati than
it was in California.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Probably.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I'm very pro Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I've never been there so I can't say I haven't been
to the Midwest or anything.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
So drunk log, actually all occurs essentially
all.
The first book essentially alloccurs in my neighborhood which
is called over the Rhine and hegoes from.
There's many bars and over theRhine is very it can be very
touristy on the weekends.
But he and then this, thesecond book, takes him up into
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Clifton where University ofCincinnati is, if you're
familiar with that school.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
No, I don't, I don't know.
Like I said, I don't knowanything about Cincinnati.
I haven't.
I went.
I was born in New York, leftNew York, went to California,
lived there, had my kids there alope to Vegas, then moved here
to Florida.
So I went East Coast to WestCoast and back.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Now the they're actually.
I grew up in the Midwest.
The only time I was on a coastwas when I was in the Navy, when
I was in Virginia.
The thing is here they probablymake six or eight movies a year
here.
(12:29):
Now, oh wow, they're in the.
In my neighborhood there's 800plus buildings on an historic
register that were built 160years ago, so it's a great
stand-in if you're trying to doNew York or some or Cincinnati
itself.
Emilio Estevez loves Cincinnati.
(12:51):
He built after he visited in2016,.
He built a house somewhere nearhere.
It's a great secret.
I keep trying to figure it outwhere it is, but I'm not
stalking Emilio Estevez.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Don't think that, but my mom is.
I've met him several times, soI didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So I just learned a little secret of Emilio.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I didn't know he had a house in Cincinnati.
I see him in Miami.
I've seen him on different redcarpets because I do media
coverage, and so one time I sawhim in New York at the Tony
Awards and I said are youfollowing me?
And me, I just saw you in Miami.
He starts laughing.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
He is such a supporter of the area and my mom
has actually stalked him twice,both at the same restaurant.
I've told her to stop, let theman eat.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, he's very nice.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
He's just trying to sell my books.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Like here, take the book.
I met him, I met his sisterLily, and I met Gloria Stephan
as well, and I've met a lot ofpeople down here.
Miami is insane.
I live in Boca Raton and I havemy studio in Fort Lauderdale,
so we're like 30 minutes toMiami from Fort Lauderdale and I
(14:14):
go to Miami when I need to andI literally say otherwise you
avoid it.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, it's just.
It's very congested.
Now they are making the highwayis like a triple decker.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They have people who wears bikinis in Miami, right.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Pretty much down in South Beach If you go.
Well, it depends on where youare in Miami.
If you're in the South Beachand the Miami in the beach area,
that's a tourist area.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But they don't sell the beach right there.
So but do they go to businessmeetings and bikinis?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
No.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
No, OK, OK, I just want to.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Where is the line drawn?
No, not much.
It's not Baywatch all the time.
Yeah, yeah.
But it's just, it's a different, it's a very.
We have a very eclectic culture.
Of course the Hispanic cultureis more dominant down in Miami.
I always say Miami is thesecond Cuba, because when I
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first moved here-.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Non-communist Cuba.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
No, not communist.
Cuba, just Right.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
No, that's what I mean it's the second Cuba, it's
the non-communist Cuba.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Right, it's the American Cuba?
Yeah, exactly so, my family'sfrom Puerto Rico, so you know
Ireland as well.
But when I went to Miami thefirst time when I moved here, I
was like so people don't speakEnglish.
Like I went into a store and Igo, excuse me, I didn't know
where I was and I'm askingdirections.
And the guy just looks at meand I'm like why, why is he not
(15:43):
talking to me?
And then the person behind mestarts talking to him and he's
like oh, he's talking Spanish,cuban Spanish, right.
And I go oh, so then I realizedthat the majority of the people
, when you get in the heart ofMiami okay, not downtown, not
even I mean downtown you'll getit, but there's more English,
but there's a lot of places thatis strictly Spanish.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, that's the history of this country, isn't
it?
You know the immigrant groupscome in and then bring their
language and culture with them,and it's awesome.
I have spent some time in Cuba.
Oddly enough, although it wasagain, it was in the Navy and it
was in Guantanamo Bay where Igot a conch shell.
There's a big conch bed inGuantanamo Bay.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, there are big shells.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Right, right, and you're not supposed to, but I
took one anyway and a rebel.
Eh Wow, I didn't realize therewas that.
I was dumb, I didn't realizethere was an animal in it, and
then this animal died in becauseI had taken it back to the ship
.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh, you didn't know about the conch that's in there.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I was from Ohio.
You know how much I know it soso I can talk about.
If you want to talk about corn,I can talk about corn all day
yeah.
Conch conch's not so much.
And then my shipmatescomplained because it was
stinking up the birthing.
I tried everything to get that.
It took a week to get the deadanimal out of there.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, and I shook it overboard like this, you know,
off the side.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Oh my God.
Yeah, it's like a big muscle orsomething, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I don't like it.
They turn them into a littlebit.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
No, they eat them in Bahamas, in Bahamas a lot.
Yeah, that's like theirspecialty and I don't like it.
I'm like, nah, I'll eat a salad, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
After my conch experience, I'll never try
eating one.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Exactly, I have to see that and smelling it you're
like no way.
I was just thinking about that.
You did these books, like theChronicle, like an eight hour
period.
I can just see, you have tocome down to like little Havana
in Miami and do a book thedifference in the culture.
It would be kind of interesting, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Are you talking about with the same characters or a
whole new character Like?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
a whole new character , like now, you know, like a
cultural thing.
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You know what I agree it would be.
I wrote a book called BurningBuildings and at the end of the
book my main character is flyingto Prague.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Now, I've never been to Prague, so I couldn't have
him land yet.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You know, but I figure I'll go to Prague, and
then I'll write a sequel to thatbook as soon as I have the land
.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
So yeah, if you go to Prague, it's beautiful.
I've been there.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
But a little Havana would be awesome as well.
I think From what I've seen inTV.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, yeah, I mean Little Havana.
There's a lot of things goingon now.
There's a lot of new buildings,the kind of rebuilding Little
Havana.
This is a poor area, but that'swhere the tours go.
So you have a lot of the cigarshops.
They hand roll cigars.
You have the Cubans rolling thecigars right there.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
It's really cool, oh no kidding, yeah, they roll I do
like cigars, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
so that's very good.
You can buy all the the whiteyedda, the shirts from Cuba and
Puerto Rico that we wear, butthere's certain shirts that we
wear symbol.
They have the shirts, they havethe hats a lot of stores for
hats and just like a lot oflittle cultural things clothing
and the cigars, and then themusic.
(19:31):
The music is the biggest thing.
So my husband's from PuertoRico and he's a salsa singer and
so there's a lot of music downhere.
Miami is inundated with artistsand usually when you go down to
Little Havana, you will be in asetting that you're going, you
can go.
There's a place called you can.
It's called what?
(19:51):
Oh my God, I forgot the name.
It's some.
I was going to say Guantanamo,but it's not.
It starts with a G, but I can'tthink of it, but it's a cigar
bar.
So you go there, you have yourcigar, you have your cognac and
then you have a light bandplaying.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Is it the Guapa cigar bar?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's something.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I'm just kidding, I'm just making up.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
No, I can't remember.
Now I gotta look at the gun orEl Guapa cigar bar, but there's
a lot of places like that.
And then now there's a PuertoRican restaurant that opened up
in Little Havana, which isawesome.
So you got a little bit littledifferent flavor, because Cuban
food and Puerto Rican food arevery similar but they have their
(20:33):
differences so, and the musicis different, like salsa from
Cuba and salsa from Puerto Ricois different.
They have certain littledifferences, but usually we like
we have this Saturday, we havea salsa night at our studio and
it usually is a Colombian crowd,which is a whole nother crowd
of people, and when they comethey party hard, they stay till
(20:57):
four or five in the morning.
They play, they bringinstruments, they bring weedles,
they bring gongas and they playwith the DJ, they play music
and they, like, they engulfthemselves in the music, they
sing, they dance.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Do you stay till four in the morning?
Do you feel very tired the nextday when you have to go up at
eight o'clock?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah well, I don't get up at eight o'clock.
Now usually Sundays, my day off, unless I have an event,
because I have an event space inFort Lauderdale where that's
where my office is, and thenthat's what we do different
events that people rent out forparties and weddings and things
like that and we do a lot ofshowcases, music showcases and
(21:38):
you know different things,wellness things, and I do a lot
of shows for the podcast too.
I do some stuff there and butthey'll stay until four.
And sometimes I have to, we'llhave to tell them we have to
shut the lights off, I mean sortof turn them on because we're
like, no, it's time to go andthey'll be four thirty, they're
still.
Come on.
Can I get another drink?
No, you can't get another drinkGo, and I'm sober like all
night.
So it's weird to be up, like inmy life now from times before
(22:01):
and I used to really drink, soto be four, five, five o'clock
in the morning and you're likesober, you're like, oh, my god,
you're watching.
Everybody's a whole different.
It's a whole different mentaltrip.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I'm sure.
Oh my god, yeah, absolutely, itsucks being the sober one.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
No, but I have a good time anyway because I love the
music.
So you can.
You know what I mean.
You don't need alcohol to havea good time.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Oh no, certainly not, but to be the, to be the
designated driver in your groupfull of, oh, you know they get
all loud, and that's a differentexperience.
Then you find you're the adult.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Suddenly you know then that's when you start video
taping.
Let me videotape you so you cansee yourself tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Then I, now I go, boy , did I look that silly?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Well, that was one of the.
The my characters are are tipsyor drinking the through the
entire book series.
Not heavily, well, first, firstbook pretty heavily.
But they're each on theirlittle journey through all the
bars in my neighborhood andone's trying to, one's trying to
(23:13):
find the other, but the, andthen she, she gets it, finds
them right at the end of thebook, but and she has to because
there's a second book and athird.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Also the two of them are out.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
There's no book.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So they're out to bar hopping and then they can't
find each other.
And they finally find eachother at one bar, the last bar,
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
So his story is that he's responsible for the death
of a seven year old nephew, andso a year after the accident, he
decides he's going to killhimself by jumping off our
suspension bridge that goesbetween Cincinnati, Ohio, and
Covington, Kentucky, over theOhio River.
And but before he does that, hebuys himself a notebook and
(23:58):
he's.
He decides he's just going toget drunk and write everything
he thinks and feels in thenotebook, the drunk log.
And then the bartender, hisfemale semi love interest, gets
hold of his log, reads part ofit doesn't say anything
specifically about killinghimself, but she gets her spidey
(24:19):
sense is tingling and shedecides she's got to go.
He leaves, but she decidesshe's going to go find him.
So she gets somebody to coverher shift and then she starts
hitting bar to bar to bar, notsort of in parallel but on a
separate street Right, and shefinally catches up to him on the
bridge, the bridge itself after.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, and then that's the end of that book.
The next book starts with themcrawling out of the river after
they yeah, I'm trying not togive too much away.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
No, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
And they clearly they do survive.
And the first date is calledfirst date because about halfway
through the book they'vedecided that they're a little
adventure.
They're just going to considerit to be their first date.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Oh my goodness, we'll talk about a first date.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Right, it's very exciting.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Tell all your readers .
Well, that's why we buy booksright To live in the story, to
disappear in the book, right Toit's a safe way to live
vicariously through others.
Yeah.
That's a great way to say ityes.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And I encourage everybody out there.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Get a new book, get Mark's new book.
There's a lot of differentbooks out there, different
interests.
Whatever interests you, thatcalls on to you, Get a new book
out there and get a real book.
Get some paper.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
And then you can take it to the beach and drop it.
It won't hurt it.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Exactly, and you can't read your phone at the
beach.
Have you ever tried?
I even bought a little umbrella.
I bought a little umbrella.
That goes over it.
It just doesn't work.
It still doesn't work, and thenthe phone starts getting hot.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Oh my God, yeah, yeah .
Speaker 1 (26:04):
And I'm like my phone's going to explode in the
middle of the sun, especiallyhere.
Do you have any idea?
The other day it was 93 degrees, right, it was 90% humidity.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Actually, I do get that.
My sister lives in Tampa andalso Cincinnati gets
surprisingly humid.
It's been a great summer thissummer for it.
Knock on wood.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
But it's been a very mild summer here Usually it's a
little hotter and more humid andhave the river right there
evaporating into the valley.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You have mountains, though, right, you have
mountains.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
The Kentucky side is.
You know, geographically?
Yeah, geographically, kentuckyis where the mountains really
began.
Cincinnati has very tall hillsaround it, oh, ok.
And it was once called the Cityof Seven Hills.
You know sort of a.
You know it was rather arrogantto compare it to Rome, but
(27:09):
that's neither here nor there itwas.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Rome right.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
But yeah, the mountains really start about a
mile from here.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Oh, ok, that's not that far though.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
So you can see them.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
You can see them.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
You can see them.
The foothills, you can see them.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, that's one thing I do miss about Limea.
California is the mountains,the views.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well, those are some serious mountains out there.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Those are just.
It's beautiful and I used tolive in the valley in San
Fernando Valley, so I used todrive on the foothill mountain,
a foothill highway which goesthrough the foothill mountains.
So you would drive andliterally you had the huge
mountains on both sides andyou're driving right through
like a tunnel.
It was just.
I would just be like, oh, everyday I would be like, wow, just
(27:55):
you know just it's justbeautiful, the nature,
everything.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Oh yeah, california is beautiful, even when it's on
fire.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
But and earthquakes, and earthquakes.
I've been there when there wasearthquake.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
There's some problems .
You know they're experiencingsome issues.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
So we get earthquakes .
You get earthquakes here, weget hurricanes over here, you
know.
You get tornadoes in theMidwest.
You get rain you get.
I mean, it's like it doesn'tmatter where you go.
There's going to be somethingyou know, naturally.
But but anyway, thank you somuch for your time and we look
for the.
You said you have a third bookthat you're working on.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
And it's written.
It should be out at the end ofthe year.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, oh, okay, Great .
So we'll talk again when thefor the third one and I'll look
for it too, so I can get thebook and and everybody go buy
this.
Yeah, first thing, and I'll putall the links and everything
here on the podcast so they knowhow to get reach you and you
(28:53):
have Instagram and all that, orFacebook or anything.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, I have a Marky Scott author on Facebook.
Same for Instagram.
I have a Www.
Marky Scott author website.
Okay, yeah, you can, althoughyou can buy the book on Amazon,
barnes, noble, all online orsome local bookstores have it
(29:21):
here in Cincinnati, but I shouldtry some bookstores down in the
in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, I don't, I'm sorry, uh-oh, you're frozen.
Oh, I froze.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, I'm on frozen.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I'm on frozen, you are.
I can see you now, okay.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Are you still recording?
Yes, I'm still recording.
I heard that, then it's okay,it's all good, this is all the
natural show.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I never, I never script anything, I just we just
talk, you know, because that's Ijust make it real.
But um, but yeah, great.
So we can find you on MarkyScott.
Um dot com.
Marky Scott, authorcom and thenalso on social media.
So I will put all those linksup there so everybody can find
(30:11):
you and order the book firstdate.
Well, thank you very much,you're welcome.
Have a great, great weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, thank you, elina.
Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Okay, bye-bye, bye.
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