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Speaker 1 (00:10):
We have breaking news as this really was the topic
throughout a big chunk of the early evening into the
later night hours on Monday. Four people dead, including an
NYPD officer, in a midtown Manhattan mass shooting. Wow, the explanations.
(00:32):
No one can figure out what was the motive. The
thirty six year old expecting father was the New York
City Police officer who died in the crosshairs of the shooting.
And you could clearly see on camera a man walking
calmly into the building with a rifle and then ultimately
(00:58):
it took his own life. Ky Delaney. This is Atmscutery
Board of Talk Radio. Jessica Chen was in the building
at the time and talked about what happened with the
big group she was with.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
As part of the room was about one hundred and
fifty people watching presentation on the second floor, a large
conference room. We heard multiple shots go off in quick
succession from the first floor, and a lot of us
just rushed into the room. Some went out in the
back door out onto the street. Other people, including me,
we ran into the conference room and then eventually irrigated
(01:34):
the tables across the doors and just stayed still. I
think It was very, very apparent through all this that
a lot of us were young, a lot of us
went through training and elementary school of what to do
in an active shooter situation. We were all unfortunately prepared.
People called the police. There was somebody who had a
direct line with the police updating them. The police i
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think skipped our floor and kept going up to follow
shooter because they heard that the shooter was going upstairs
towards the thirty third. So we didn't get let out
until a bit later. But it was it was very
apparent that there was a lot of gun awareness among
the room about of one hundred people. I'm still there.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Wow. And you see how calm she wasn't now she
said there was gun awareness among that group. And again
in the building in this Manhattan building, it housed the
NFL among the tenants, and also Black Rock in that
very very same building. So there's a lot of questions
as to what was this about, what could the possible
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motive be. There were other people that weren't quite as
calm as Jessica chedd and they were texting goodbyes to people.
This was at three hundred and forty fifth Park Avenue
and fifty second Street, again a really big Tony kind
of address if you will, in Manhattan, and the suspect
(03:01):
barricaded himself on the thirty third floor. Ultimately here to
talk about that him going up, He was identified as
a Las Vegas resident, Shane Tomorrow, found dead from what
they believed was that self inflected gun shot wound. This
happened right around six thirty in the evening. Meanwhile, over
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the weekend, a real shocker as a man with a
folding knife decided to stab eleven people in a walmart.
This happened in Michigan, and it really sent a shock
through the store. But what was interesting and helpful is
(03:44):
that there were a couple of veterans, one of them armed,
that helped corner the knife wielding stabber in the parking
lot in Traverse City. And this is what it sounded like,
(04:07):
throw it away. Yeah, And so eleven people and there
were people where they were believed to be in critical
condition at one point. Now they're all going to survive
that like six of them fell into critical condition. There
were many people that were in wheelchairs that were stabbed.
To talk about this the other night, Matthew Kulowawski a
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disabled vet was one of the veterans who helped stop
the attacker. This is what he said happened.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
As we are checking out, I could hear one of
the employees say he's got a knife. He's got a knife.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I was like, what the hell you know, it's just
a joke.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And then after he said that, he says something like
get out of there. And then I just hear a
massive amount of screaming, like a rush of just just
murder streams, just ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
And then all of a sudden, I.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
S him pop up, and I swear we locked eyes
for a minute and I yelled at my daughter stay
here as I caught up soon as he was leaving.
He as he exited, there was an elderly lady on
the left, and he just ran right up behind her
and just buried his knife into her back, right in
front of me.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
And then he.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Pulled a knife out of her and went to take off,
but then stopped and hesitated and turned around like he
was going to go after her again.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Wow. Really, this sent a lot of shockwaves in a
lot of different directions. I have a very good friend
that lives in Traverse City. I have friends that have
family and friends in Traverse City. So all of us
were on a text chain just in case, texting to
see if we knew anything, and just by happenstance, someone
we knew might have just been in the walmart at
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the time. Luckily that was not the not the case. Meanwhile,
the President was busy in Scotland doing more than playing golf,
cutting a deal with the EU. The EU will now
pay the US fifteen percent in tariffs. And he was
also asked about the starving kids in Gaza. If you
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haven't seen some of the video of these kids, it
is just it's just awful. And he has seen it
and it's not lost on him. Some of those kids
are that's real starvation stuff.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I see it, and you can't fake that. So we're
going to be even more involved.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, I mean just wow, something has to be done
with that in that situation. And I think that's the push.
The push is there's real starvation. We're gonna make something happen.
And he's contradicting Benjamin you know, Net and Yahoo on
all of that. There's so many other things that are
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going on, including the heat. We're two hundred almost two
hundred million, not two hundred million. Well, yeah, close to
two hundred million across if we take everybody suffering with
this incredible heat across you know, the not just the US,
but in other places too. We're talking about especially Memphis,
like one hundred and eleven degrees in other parts of
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the Southeast. Yes, we're just sizzling. We're so hot it's crazy, right,
and that's not calming down if you look at if
you look at any of the forecast, it's predicted to
be even worse as we get deeper into the week.
All right, time for some good news. You want some
good news. Yes, a national sports card franchise donating one
(07:48):
million cards to more than forty thousand kids, a lot
of teenagers in Chicago, they say, help grow the hobby
of card collecting and spark the sense of wonder and
a kid open their first pack. This was something I
did as a kid, my brother and I and the
other kids in our neighborhood too, where we were always
trading cards. Right, So Replay sports Cards is of course
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dedicated exclusively to card collecting. They're making that donation at
the twenty twenty five National Sports Card Convention in Rosemont, Illinois. Oh,
I know, that area. Well, I've spoken in that convention
center a few times, so I say thumbs up to that,
especially the fact that they're donating them. You know, the
Boys and Girls Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, they donated
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so many there, and then they're doing these the kids
in Chicago. I love, love, love that idea coming up
on the flip side.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Some odds and ends, Ah, topping odds and ends.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. I mean, that's all we're hearing, right,
And what's going to happen once the house comes back
YadA yah, and Julaanne Maxwell now making the pitch to
the Supreme Court. That's the big change, and I'm not
surprised by that. After a couple of days of conversation
with the Justice Department, the Supreme Court will they hear
(09:32):
Julayne Maxwell's appeal of her twenty twenty one sex trafficking
conviction because the government has an obligation to honor a
non prosecution agreement with Jeff re Epstein that inoculated Maxwell
from any criminal chargers. That's what her lawyers argued in
a brief to the Supreme Court on Monday. So naturally,
the President was asked about what he would do, and
(09:59):
if he would if he would step in, and if
he would pardon her, And this is what he said.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Well, I'm allowed to give her a pardon, but nobody's
approached me with it, nobody's asked me about it. It's
in the news about that that aspect of it, but
right now it would be inappropriate to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And then he also went on to say, because there's
so many questions about his relationship with Epstein, that he
never went to his island.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
I never had the privilege of going to his island,
and I did turn it down, but a lot of
people in Palm Beach were invited to his island. In
one of my very good moments, I turned it down.
I didn't want to go to his island.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, all right, So this is going to be put
to rest anytime soon. Federal prosecutors have argued, by the
way that the non prosecution agreement applied that I was
just talking about only in Florida and did not find
New York were against Jeff Epstein, and subsequently Jule Maxwell
were brought. So let's see, and this is the same
(11:09):
thing I keep saying, Let's see where all of this ends. Up,
but the story is not dying. Let's put it that
way anytime soon. By the way, I want to re
emphasize this in case you missed it. When we opened
up here on atn huge story, Huge story out of
New York, breaking news. Four people dead, including an NYPD officer,
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in a midtown Manhattan mass shooting. The guman was identified
by officials on the scene later as a twenty seven
year old who lived in Las Vegas. He died of
a self inflicted injury as he barricaded himself on the
thirty third floor. I spent so much of my life
(11:54):
in New York and I can't tell you how this
is such a rare thing. You never hear of this
kind of a shooting in Manhattan. And this was a
pretty crowded neighborhood close to major tourist attractions. So there
were sirens going off all over the place. There were
(12:18):
a lot of people in the building. This was a
building that housed the NFL and Blackrock, so there were
barricades that were set up for so many people that
were in that building. Wow. First we had the Walmart
thing in Traverse City, the stabbing the innocent people over
(12:39):
the weekend and luckily somebody a vet with a gun
and another vet helped corner room. The cops came, and
also luckily those that were hospitalized are surviving because he
went on a rampage with that folding knife. It really
makes you think what is going on? And of course
(12:59):
things happen all the time, and we know that, but
it's just that it has exploded so much lately. All Right,
on a lighter note, this is really tongue in cheek.
We know what happened with the Astronomer Company, and that's
the company, the data company where the former CEO and
the head of HR were caught at a Coldplay concert
(13:23):
on a kiss cam canodling if you will, and then
it sparked. All these memes went viral and the rest
is history. Both of them ended up resigning their jobs.
So Coldplay, of course, the front man is Chris Martin,
the former husband of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who's also the
head of the billion dollar company Goop, and she did
(13:46):
a tongue in cheek ad for Astronomer. Take a listen.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Thank you for your interest in Astronomer. Hi, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow.
I've been hired on a very temper basis to speak
on behalf of the three hundred plus employees at Astronomer.
Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last
few days, and they wanted me to answer the.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Most common ones.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Yes, Astronomer is the best place to run APATCHE airflow,
unifying the experience of running data mL and AI pipelines
at scale. We've been thrilled so many people have a
newfound interest in data workflow automation. As for the other
questions we've received, Yes, there is still room available at
(14:34):
our Beyond Analytics event in September. We will now be
returning to what we do best, delivering game changing results
for our customers. Thank you for your interest in Astronomer.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And of course, where you hear the clicking of the
computer the questions where she says, yes, she were asking
about social media and the fallout from the kisscam, very
very funny. Even our fake audience thinks, so, I think
they're somewhere there in the background. Yeah, exactly. And the
interesting thing about that is, if you're all playing along
(15:10):
at home and you don't need a scorecard, I'm gonna
give you one anyway. So a Stronomer that company, like
I said, hiring Gwyneth Paltrow, and because of the connection
to Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin, who started the whole thing
by saying, these people are either shy when they were
on camera or they're having an affair. Very funny. But
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the PR agency who handles crisis communications for Astronomer, the company,
Ryan Reynolds, is involved with it. So he's known for
a sarcasm, and he apparently threw in the idea of
having Gwyneth Paltrow do that. Very very very very very clever.
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Sad news from the sports world. Ryan Sandberg, You know, boy,
one of my first big interviews when when I was
doing sports a Cubs icon and a Hall of Fame
second basement dead at the age of sixty five. I
knew he was sick, but thought that he had beaten
the cancer. So he died Monday from metastatic prostate cancer
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and he was at his home surrounded by his family.
His number twenty three Jerseys retired, his image, of course,
immortalized with a statue outside of the legendary ballpark. If
you don't know baseball, just know he was the heart
and soul of many of those Cubs teams, and like
I said, when you get into the Hall of Fame
of any sport, you are the best of the best,
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and he, certainly Rhino was one of the best. And
I'll never forget how he gave really an inexperienced young
reporter a lot of interviews and a lot of time.
He had an incredible work ethic. That's what he was
known for. He had silver sluggers and nine gold gloves.
His skills his production led to ten consecutive All Star
(17:07):
selections every season between nineteen eighty four and nineteen ninety three.
And of course he was around the game afterwards. That's
when I caught up with him and talked to him
about his career and talked to him about current Cub
teams and the state of baseball. And for all that
don't know, he was a kid that was born in Spokane, Washington,
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and he developed into one of those multi sport athletes,
and he was recruited by lots of major college football
programs and signed a letter of intent to stay close
to home and play quarterback at Washington State before choosing
baseball as his professional pursuit. Just a very talented, talented
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young athlete. Coming up on the show, a great conversation
with Elliott Kruber, who is going to talk to us
about the United States Postal Service turning two hundred and
fifty years old, and who was the first postmaster and
(18:11):
what was the influence of Ben Franklin on the early
days of mail in this country and what was the
significance of it. I've talked about this before because I
grew up outside of Philadelphia so many times walking by
Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell and what has now
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been developed into the Constitution Center. You know, the whole
story of anything related to Ben Franklin was always emphasized
to us, and I was always fascinated about what happened
with the mail and the beginnings of postal service in
the country. So at the Smithsonian they have just an
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incredible replica and artifacts of those early early days, and
then moving forward, the things that you see there are
really really mind blowing. And think about next year, what
officially the country is two hundred and fifty years old,
all the different celebrations that are planned, and the post
(19:16):
Office has everyone be by just a little bit that
combo with Elliott coming up on the flip side, I'll
meet you there. Wow, I'm really excited about speaking to
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Elliott Gruber. He's the director of National Postal Museum. I've
talked about this on the air before, growing up just
outside of Philadelphia where we take a train of stone
throw away, and you think about the postal Service breaking
two hundred and fifty years of service, established in seventeen
seventy five, and how essential it was to really winning
(20:08):
American independence, no joke about that, and creating what we've
seen in this nation, and so much so that it's
mentioned in the US Constitution. So we are thrilled to
talk to him. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Elliott, Thank you very much for having me. Kate.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
So, how is it that the Postal Service is older
than actually the United States? If I did my math right, Actually.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Your math is correct, and I think that always takes
people by surprise. You know, the Postal Service traces its
history to July twenty sixth, seventeen seventy five. And why
because communication was essential. Here we are the American patriots
trying to break away from the British to form our
own government, and you don't want the British intercepting the mail,
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reading the mail, reading the newspapers to see what's going on,
what's being planned. And so the Second Continental Congress that
we need to establish our own postal service or system,
and they did that on July twenty sixth. And you know,
the logical choice was Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Right, absolutely that what was going to ask you. So
it was logical that he became the first postmaster general
because he had that experience from France, right.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Experience from France, and even back in Philadelphia he was
the postmaster of Philadelphia. Most people know Ben Franklin from
you know, all sorts of other experiments and how successful
he was. But in seventeen thirty seven he was the
postmaster of Philadelphia. About fifteen years later he became the
Deputy Postmaster General for all of North America and that
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included Canada at the time. And he was actually very successful.
He streamline operations, he made the postal service then profitable.
And it wasn't until seventeen seventy four that actually the
British fired him, why because of his pro independent sympathies,
for actually being too much of an American. So it
was only appropriate that the Second Continental Congress said, you know,
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this guy has experience he also was fired by the British.
He's our guy, and he became the first Postmaster General
of the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I love that story. So if we move forward from
Ben's days, how has the way mail Elliott sent and
been delivered changed over two hundred and fifty years. I
would assume a lot.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
It's been massive. I mean, as you look at American history,
it really is reflected in postal history. As the country
is going west, you have the country is getting larger.
How do you deliver mail for farther distances and faster?
So you start with say the post riders on horseback
in the seventeen hundreds, You then go stage coaches. Now
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was delivered by steamboats. Railroads with Transcontinental Congress was essential
for that. But to me, probably the biggest change that
kind of look on as the advent of airmail. Today
we take airmail for granted, but it was a brand
new service in nineteen eighteen where the Postal Department at
the time actually took decommissioned planes from World War One
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and they launched the airmail service again getting the mail
faster to its destination, securely and safely. And so they
did that in nineteen eighteen, and it continues to change
to this day.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, and especially we see how rapid technology is. So
how has the postal service adapted to changing technology?
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Well, they've done so many different things from collecting and
sorting machines and you have conveyor belts, you have optical
character readers, all sorts of things that they continued to
either lead or respond to to make sure that the
mail can be delivered in a faster manner. They actually,
in nineteen sixty three came up with a new some
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called zip codes. And you know, we take zip codes
for granted now, you know, it kind of defines our
communities in our neighborhood. The zip codes were a way
of allowing the postal workers to streamline the processing of mail,
and that started only in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Me.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Right now, you can't order a pizza if you wanted
to without putting injured zip code online. Right Yeah. And
by the way, do you know what most people don't
know that zip codes actually stand for something. It's not
like zip like putting zip in, you know, making something
go faster. It's actually was called ZIP because of it
was called the Zone Improvement Plan, and it really did
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improve that. And since I am at the National post
of Museum, I have to tell you that we have
mister and Missus Zip, who were cartoon characters, and of
course they had three kids because zip codes are five
digits long, so we have the Zip family at the
post of Museums.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I love that. That's going to be a future trivia
question on this show, Elliott, So thanks for that. Were
there any famous people who worked for the postal Service?
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Oh my, yeah, there are a lot of famous people
over the decades and centuries that have worked for the
post thlu Therais. So when he stats forward from Ben Franklin,
you have Walt Disney. Walt Disney actually lied about his
age to get a job as a mail carrier in Chicago.
He was only sixteen, I believe. At the time, you
had William Faulkner, who was an author of novelist, a
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Nobel Prize winner. He was a postmaster of the University
of Mississippi, where he was known to actually read the
magazines before he delivered them. But then you had people
like Abraham Lincoln, he was a postmaster of New Salemon, Illinois.
You had Harry Truman, Charles Limberg more contemporary. You have
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Steve Carell from the office also worked at the Postal
Service a lot a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, I love that. Where can my listeners find more
information about the US two hundred fifty anniversary.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
So there are two places that I would recommend that
they go. One would be to the Postal Services website,
which is USPS dot com slash two fifty, So USPS
dot com slash two fifty. And then of course for
the National post and Museum, we have our own website.
We work very closely with the Postal Service, and our
website is Postal Museum dot SI and the SI is
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Smithsonian Institution says Postal Museum dot SI dot edu because
we are an educational institution. Those are the two places.
A lot of virtual exhibitions, a lot of unknown stories,
a lot of interesting stories. And if anybody is ever
in Washington, DC, to please come by the Smithsonian National
Postal Museum or right next to the train station.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Well, I can't wait to go there. Elliott Ruber, the
director of the Smithsonians National Postal Museum.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Thanks so much, thank you for your time.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Wow, how fascinating. There were a lot of things that
we talked about there that I had new II idea about.
I mentioned this before, but more than two hundred million
people across the US from South Dakota to Florida are
feeling the effects of heat. It is sizzling outside, and
even into the evening hours up the East Coast to Boston,
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a lot of alerts for widespread dangerous heat, and deeper
into this new work week that we're in parts of
the Southeast really bearing the brunt of the sweltering conditions
of a lot of friends in the Carolinas who are
saying they have not felt anything like this. And I
didn't realize this, but the CDC, of course, keeps this
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kind of information going back just even a handful of
years ago. On average, nearly two thousand people die from
extreme heat each year. And when you're in Memphis and
it feels like during the day that it's one hundred
and sixteen degrees, that's just a little too much, really
super hot. You know, I was looking at a map
to get a better cent of what that means. When
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you see especially extreme heat we're talking about it's purple.
That tells you what it is. That's rare, long duration
of heat, not much relief overnight and it affects anybody
that is not massively hydrating. Let's face it, they don't
have access to some sort of effective cooling. So in
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Charlotte and Raleigh, in Wilmington, parts of Savannah are nightmarish. Tallahassee,
Jacksonville really really bad. We got people listening to us.
In the Great State of Missouri and Saint louis it's
pretty nasty. It's not the extreme extreme, but it's still
definitely high high heat. Same thing in Lexington. If we
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just jump over to Kentucky, you're hitting some highs there.
In the Great State of Louisiana. In New Orleans, it's
a lot of people are melting, So just take that
extra caution. I mean, I know what this likes is
Like I talked about covering the Cowboys in an extreme
(29:10):
heat situation and thinking like we think, oh, I'm young,
I'm in shape, it's fine. I've had a bunch of
water to drink, but not really enough, and I got really,
really sick by the time I got back to a
hotel room, and I realized what would happen, what had happened,
and they were gonna take me for fluids, and then
I just was able to cool down, but it was scary,
(29:33):
and so once you go through that, you know, hey,
this is listen. This is a real, real, big big thing. Obviously,
all right, time for some birthdays? Yeah, so how about
this for birthdays? Lori Laughlin? Do you know Lori Laughlin
(29:56):
sixty one years old. She became infamous because of the
big college scandal that she was in the middle of,
where her and her husband pleaded guilty to conspiracy to
commit fraud a connection with the twenty nineteen college admissions
bribery scandal. She was actually sentenced to two months in prison,
then was released, and then the case progressed. She lost
(30:18):
a bunch of acting because she was like in so
many Hallmark television shows and a lot of that sponsorship
stuff dried up. But then there were some funny things
that she did, like in Curb Your Enthusiasm and a
couple of other things, and so she's popped kind of
back up in some cameo sort of roles. But she
was very famous from Full House, and then there was
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a sequel called Fuller House and she was in that too,
So she has if you don't know the name, you
would absolutely absolutely know the face. Sally Struthers, an older
actress who was way back in the Archie Bunk days
all in the family, seventy eight years old. A lot
(31:04):
of these shows run you know now on TV Land
and other people are being introduced to them, so some
of them, some of you would be familiar with her
too as well. We got to run over to the
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Speaker 10 (32:04):
I'm going to the man Cave, going to the Marri Cave,
going to the Marri Cave. I'm going to the mer Cave.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yeah, we are in the man Cave. Thanks for that
as always, and a tip of the cap in the
man Cave. A lot to get to including really sad
to hear about Rhino. Ryan Sandberg, known for being his
mister Cub days. He played with for other teams, but
we think of him as a Cub and a Hall
of Famer. He was a gentle soul and just a
(32:41):
great second baseman, one of the best at one point,
considered one of the best in Major League Baseball history.
I know that I was fortunate enough to interview him
several times. We had great conversations about his Cub days
because I didn't cover him when he was actually playing
and covered afterwards, and we talked about Cubs teams and
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all that kind of stuff, and I just thought he
was so so interesting, and he was an icon to
a lot of Cub fans. That was he was one
of the favorite all time Cubs. He died at the
age of sixty five, sixty five years old, and it
was prostate cancer that ultimately took his life. Here's a
(33:25):
little snippet of Rhino and a Hall of Fame speech.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
The reason I am here, they tell me is that
I played the game a certain way, that I played
the game the way it was supposed to be played.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I don't know about that, but I do know this.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
If there is a single reason I am here.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Today, it is because of one word respect, thank you,
and go Cubs.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
For the rest of the season, the Cubs, by the way,
are going to commemorate Samberg with a special jersey patch,
remembering on the all time greats, you know, in the
nearly one hundred and fifty years of a pretty historic franchise.
And like I said, he was respected for the way
he played the game, but also how he respected the
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history of the game. Another athlete, in fact, one who
was a pretty good baseball player himself but opted ultimately
to focus on pro football, Dion Sanders, had his bladder
removed earlier this year after doctors found a tumor, and
he says that he's beaten cancer. He's still going through it,
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but at the age of fifty seven. The University of
Colorado head football coach and members of his medical team
held a news conference to say that he had underwent
this removal of a malignant tumor that was found on
the bladder, and he was urging other people to be
seen by doctors and be on top of their health
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and get checked out. Here he talks about his current
status right now.
Speaker 11 (35:01):
I'm still dealing with going to the bathroom like it's
a whole life change. Like I can't and I'm gonna
be transparent. I can't peel like I used to pee.
It's totally different. It was some scenes that you saw
all the bull junk that's transpired on draft Day. It
wasn't just that, it was just I knew as well
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I had a surgery coming up.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, it's interesting. He has been through some things. Remember
in twenty twenty three, he underwent surgeries or blood clots
in both of his legs, but avoided having a foot amputation.
He said this was his fourteenth surgery and he thinks
he lost about twenty five pounds. Here's more on that journey.
Speaker 11 (35:46):
Slowly but surely, I built myself back up to where
I'm able, I'm strong, I'm ready. I'm still probably about
twelve pounds down. I'm gonna get that right. I'm gonna
fit these overalls up like no other. It has been
a tremendous journey.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, so we wish him well, of certainly, he's going
into his third year at Colorado and the people there
have so embraced him, and he's done such a great
job in that head role, no doubt about it. There's
somebody else that I covered from his San Francisco days
to his days with the Dallas Cowboys, and then I
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was traveling with the Dallas Cowboys, and he again was
another one who was very generous to stop and talk
and talk about what was happening in plays that were
made and all of that in between. So I wish
him him well and I think he highlights the idea
of get checked, something's not right, don't wait, get checked,
get checked, figure it out, because he feels blessed that
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that in fact happened to him, that they were able
to catch it before it could have been life ending.
Let's turn to Major League Baseball and get you up
to date on where we are at with a really
an interesting day across the country and especially when you
get this heat wave thing going on, and you know,
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we can all say, well, yeah, I mean, how hot
is it. We've all dealt with heat in our lives,
but we're talking about pretty extreme heat. You know, there's
some ballparks where that heat becomes amplified. That's when you
appreciate domes. That's when you appreciate places where you can
cool down a lot easier. So let's start with this
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one because I know we have a lot of people
listening to us that are cards fans, and it seems
like every time I'm talking about the Cardinals, unfortunately i'm
telling you about Oh it was so close, but they lost.
This wasn't close. They blew out the Marlins as they
really should have. They picked up their fifty fifth seven
to one, the final score when it was all wrapped up.
(37:54):
So what was great is you add ap who allowed
one hit in seven scoreless innings and he retired his
the first ten batters. Has watched some of the highlights
of this before, Hey, Sue Sanchez in the fourth and
so the good news there was good news. There was
you know, pitching, pitching, and then you get the backup
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because you've got you know, you got the runs. So
there's nothing like coasting through when you have some runs
at your back, so to speak. Right, just put it
in your back pocket, as a lot of the guys
used to tell me, and then just just do what
you do. The Phillies didn't do what they normally do.
The White Sox got the better of them. They're having
kind of a rough season, but it was at rate
(38:37):
Field in Chicago, so they knocked off the Phills six
to The brew Crews brought their a game on a
sad night for cub fans, but this was a road game,
eight four the final the final score there, so the
Brewers pick up number sixty three. Brewers are having an
interesting season two fun to watch them. Andrew Vaughn among
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those that went yard. The Brewers hit three home runs
in that win to overtake the Cubs and the top
spot in the NL Central. That's one of the divisions, certainly.
To watch the Angels and the Rangers, you gotta keep
remembering all my years of covering the Rangers. The Rangers,
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think about the Rangers and winning the World Series what
two years ago. Now against the Angels in Anaheim, they
lose six' four, but they're still in the thick of it.
You can't completely count them out at this point. In fact,
we're in the dog days, so there's a lot of
people that you can't count out. Giants and the Pirates.
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This would have been a fun one to be out
at Oracle Park. The Pirates win at six' Five Oracle
park is interesting to see the boats THAT i think
they're hoping that something will go out and they'll be
able to chase down a ball in the. Water But
andrew McCutcheon hit a go ahead, run go ahead, homer
and on a crazy, night and The pirates Beat San
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francisco for the third straight. Win and LIKE i, said
it was really interesting on a night of The giants'
top pitching prospects, debut they certainly ruined. That so The
giants dropped one game above five hundred for the first
time since the third game of the. Season and now The,
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pirates as they continue this with The, giants will face
right handed Pitcher Justin, verlander who's really having a rough.
Season he has won an eight on the, season HIS
era almost five four seventy, wow four to Seventy yankees
(40:50):
and The. Rays so what happened in that one The.
Yankees i'm always watching to see what's the what's happening
with the offense with The. Yankees it's one of the
things that we've been talking about here when we look
at The. Yankees but in this game At Yankee, stadium
The rays got the better of, them bombed them, out
(41:11):
doubled them up four to. Two so The rays pick
up their fifty fourth The tigers At Comerica park knock
off The diamondbacks five to one the final score and
that one and The dodgers edge out The reds pretty
handily in the end five. Two this has had another
really fun ballpark to go to if you're ever In.
(41:33):
Cincinnati it's, beautiful the location of. It so we talked
about what happened With Ryan samberg and then of course
went into some of these scores. Here THE nfl people
are curious about what's going on in these training. Camps
some injuries sad to report and some that know they're
out even for the. Season so in these, competitions there's
(41:57):
an impact there when you when that, happens, obviously and
it's about signings and who's getting signed and who's not getting.
SIGNED i talked about the focus On Micah Parkins Micup
parsons rather for The Dallas, cowboys where you still have
the last couple of days fans holding, signs Sign i'm
giving the, money getting the, extension that kind of. THING
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i don't think they're gonna let up on. That, HEY
i caught quarterbacks ON. HBON i can't wait for hard.
Knocks The Buffalo bills are going to be featured when
that starts, UP i think in like a. Week but
if you're looking for something to watch to get you
psyched for the, season Watch quarterbacks ON. Hbo it's really really.
Good stay with. US i can't wait for you to
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Meet Mary Kathy. Gray she's in our virtual green room right.
Now she's joining us here on Off. Corner we're gonna
talk about The call of The, Morning doves Meeting god in,
reality and she's here On America tonight with Me Kay,
delaney AND i love. That, yes, Ma'am, mary thank you
so much for coming.
Speaker 12 (43:15):
On thank, you thank you for having.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Me, well let's talk about the road to writing the,
book the, inspiration how it all came together for.
Speaker 12 (43:24):
You, well many years.
Speaker 13 (43:26):
AGO i was a fairly young woman at the, time
racing a, family and as you well, know raising a
family there's always a lot of issues and your relationships
are not. Easy AND i used to get up at
dawn just as the light was, breaking AND i would
go out walking in the. Woods AND i lived in
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the rural, area SO i was in a mountainous, area
SO i was able to walk a beautiful trail up
to a place Called Copper springs and, anyway AS i would,
WALK i would just you, know talk To god about
all my problems and all the things going, on AND
i would Ask god.
Speaker 12 (44:07):
To bless my.
Speaker 13 (44:08):
FAMILY i would ask him to help my child to,
understand you know. Whatever so through that, process over the,
YEARS i begin to see How god really wants us
to talk to, him AND i don't believe That he
can really bless us without us talking to.
Speaker 12 (44:28):
HIM i think he has, many.
Speaker 13 (44:31):
Many blessings for us and many answered. Prayers but he
loves his children and he wants them to talk to,
him just like we want to talk to our.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Children do you think people sometimes and that's what the
beauty of your book is when you talk about, that
that people sometimes think they need the. Conduit, it's you,
know it's WHEN i go to. Church it's When i'm
in the pew and the pastor or whoever it is
that that is it's through, them that's my personal, relationship
(45:04):
and that not enough people have, that, really that peace
of mind and that heartfelt inness that you get when
you when you talk To god by walking through the.
Speaker 5 (45:14):
Swords.
Speaker 13 (45:14):
Yeah, Yeah and certainly we have many well known and
many unwell known called people to the ministry but when
you rely solely on that person or that, entity you're
not building a personal relationship With.
Speaker 12 (45:33):
Christ and.
Speaker 13 (45:36):
It's just like almost like living in a whole different
world when you're in relationship With, christ Because he teaches
you how to handle certain circumstances and how to live
through the hard parts of your life and how to
bless you.
Speaker 12 (45:52):
Abundantly, BOY i.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
So agree with. That tell us we're not going to
tell everyone, everything but you can get the book On,
Amazon barnes And. Noble but when people get your, book
what can they. Expect tell us more about the.
Speaker 12 (46:06):
Book, WELL i think my book is very.
Speaker 13 (46:09):
Surprising part of the book is about my personal history
and things THAT i had gone, through some very serious
and How god had blessed me through. Them and over,
time WHEN i would take these, WALKS i would just
sit down on a rock and start writing in a little.
Book and so many of the prayers in the book
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actually came from my writing love letters To. God and
SO i think some of they're very. Different they're not
like WHAT i call ordinary, Prayers god bless us and
keep us. SAFE i do believe in ordinary, prayer but
these are, different and they delve deeper into the spirit
(46:56):
and building a spirit relationship With. God and you, know
if you Seek god in that manner and you make that,
connection your life changes. Completely your whole outlook on life,
changes and a lot of things don't.
Speaker 12 (47:13):
Bother you the way they used.
Speaker 13 (47:15):
To you, KNOW i had a situation at one time
WHERE i was very hurt AND i took it To,
god And god just basically put a knowing in my
mind to forget it and let me have. It and
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so from that day, ON i, Said, Okay, god you
promised that you would take care of my. Needs you
promised that you would carry my. Burdens So i'm giving
you my burdens from this day, forward you take care of.
It i'm releasing it to. You and by doing, THAT
i was able to forgive a lot of. PEOPLE i
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was able to move on with my. LIFE i was
able to actually feel THAT i was hearing From god
BECAUSE i was actually seeing physical things take.
Speaker 12 (48:09):
Place and so that's where the prayers came.
Speaker 5 (48:14):
From.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
Wow so when people read your book and where you're saying,
it what do you hope they come away?
Speaker 13 (48:21):
WITH i hope they come away with a wanting and
a desire to Know god, deeper to truly Believe he,
exists to truly believe, that you know, what The word
Of god, says that we were created By, him and
truly believe the things That he has.
Speaker 12 (48:42):
TAUGHT i hope they go out and buy A.
Speaker 13 (48:44):
Bible you, know there are Some bibles out there now
that are very easy to. UNDERSTAND i use The King james.
VERSION i was reared under The King james, version.
Speaker 12 (48:57):
So it's home to.
Speaker 13 (48:58):
Me so they need to find A bible that becomes
home to, them that is based on the truth and
word Of.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
God for, you by putting this book out into the,
world releasing it out into the, world what does that feel?
Speaker 13 (49:12):
Like it's the culmination of a forty year. DREAM i started.
WRITING i felt called Of god to, write and for
thirteen YEARS i refused the. Call and, FINALLY, i you,
know went to the altar one day AND i, Said,
god you must BELIEVE i can, write SO i give
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you my. Life AND i started. Writing and that's been
probably twenty seven years. Ago it was nineteen eighty six
actually when it all. Started And i've written a lot of.
Material i've got a lot of books ready to put,
together you, know and So i'm excited about my life
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and What god has done in my life and What
he's bringing me to and so it's exciting to meet
the people in the publishing. Industry my Publisher city Of
books has been just, phenomenal and you, KNOW i met
over the Phone Jan, pearson who works directly with, me
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and it's just been amazing the things that have been
put in place and the things that are there for.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
Me and does it give you because you have that
journey and you had that moment Where i'm giving it
to You, god and you take those, walks do you
have that sense of peace that you wish more people could,
have BECAUSE i think people struggle with.
Speaker 12 (50:41):
It, YES i.
Speaker 13 (50:42):
DO i feel completely confident That god is on my
side and That he's going to see me through anything
that comes to me in. Life AND i still take
those walks every. Day you, know that's my. TIME i
talk about creating a closet in my book to go
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and to meet With, god and my closet is the.
Speaker 12 (51:09):
OUTDOORS i walk.
Speaker 13 (51:11):
AND i, talk AND i look AND i listen and
things come into my, heart things come into my mind
that encourage me and.
Speaker 12 (51:21):
Open up new ideals for my writing and.
Speaker 9 (51:26):
All of my.
Speaker 13 (51:27):
Life i've had to work other, jobs SO i did intermittent,
writing BUT i never tried to be published until this.
Year So i'm so happy and grateful that people are
receptive to What i'm. Writing we're focusing on the call
of The Morning. Doves you, know in the very back
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of the, BOOK i say to men and to, WOMEN i,
say get on your face Before, god ask him to
forgive you of anything that you were unaware was, sin
and ask him to come into your life and start
building that relationship With.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
God, yeah because you know that's part of the. Book
you're inspiring, PEOPLE i think to do. That LIKE i,
said there's sometimes there's confusion for. People they feel, like
because something, happened you talked about forgiveness and then the
power of that and. Learning oh, okay So i've done
this because that's what You that was part of your.
(52:29):
Conversation and how many more people could find what will
we talked about that peace in their heart if they
could do that?
Speaker 13 (52:37):
Well and another thing it may it these walks and
these talks are wherever you go to talk To. God
you can talk to him in your car driving to.
WORK i, Mean god is always, available but you come
to realize your own. Shortcomings you come to realize where
you need to change and how you need to. Change
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and we all need to. Change we're all developing adults
from the day we're, born and spiritually we're born from
a spirit into this world and we leave it in
a spirit to.
Speaker 12 (53:11):
Go back To. God so it's A god wants us
to live a happy.
Speaker 13 (53:18):
Life and sometimes when things happen that we don't, understand we,
say why, Me? God But i've learned that Sometimes god
allows you to suffer so that you will lean on,
him you, know with. EXPECTATION a lot of people, pray
but they don't pray with, expectation.
Speaker 12 (53:36):
AND i cover that in my.
Speaker 13 (53:37):
Book you, KNOW i Expect god to do what he
says he's going to do for, me and he. Does
so you, know that's just What i've really wanted to
share with. People pray with, expectation talk to him with,
expectation and so it can change people's everyday lives into more,
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joy more, happiness because it doesn't matter what man says
to you or how they hurt. You you've Got, god
And god Says i've got.
Speaker 1 (54:09):
It so perfect place to end this The call of
The Morning Doves Meeting god in, Reality Mary Catherine Kathy,
gray thank you so much for joining.
Speaker 12 (54:22):
Us, well thank. You i've enjoyed, it AND i hope
to talk to you again. Someday we hope to meet
you in. Person, ABSOLUTELY.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
I am so thrilled here on Author's corner to be
speaking With Jason. King he has got this great, Series
troubleshooters and way to hear about The Puppet. Show that's
one of the books we're talking, about and the characters
are so rich and so so, clever and so we're
pleased to welcome him To america tonight with Me Kate
(55:08):
delaney here On Author's. Corner LIKE i, Said, jason thanks
for coming, On.
Speaker 4 (55:12):
Thank you for having.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
Me so let's talk, about first of, all the how
you came up with the idea for the, Series what
was the impetus for, That how did, that how did
that come? About?
Speaker 5 (55:22):
WELL i like superheroes for you, know most of my,
life and IT'S i HAVEN'T i haven't been reading the
the established comics much in recent, years just because this
seems like the storytelling, quality their quality whatnot has gone.
(55:46):
Down you, know my expenses have gone up and all.
That but, OH i JUST i guess if it's not
too prideful of the. SAME i kind of felt LIKE
i could do. Better, yeah WELL.
Speaker 4 (56:03):
I can't, draw, draw SO i write novels.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
Nice and you know it's. Interesting you're you're. RIGHT i,
mean you were a fan just like me Of marvel AND,
dc but now we're retreading a lot of. That so
in creating what you're, CREATING i mean WHEN i think
of the, CHARACTERS i think of adventure and heroism and
family and relatable and. Fun fun is is what comes
to mind WHEN i think about. It so let's talk
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about let's talk about the puppet puppet.
Speaker 4 (56:32):
Show readventures to be preached.
Speaker 1 (56:35):
At, yeah, yeah me, too good way to say. That
so let's talk about the puppet. Show tell tell the
people listening more specifics about that and what we can.
Speaker 5 (56:45):
Expect, well of, course it's it's probably considered a trope by.
Now it's at least as old As James bond of
the you, know behind the scenes world controlling you, know
people and. Everything but this is a little. Different and
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it's WHEN i guess you'd, say normal people just happen
to have media human powers end up crossing into that
world and uh, like like the advertising, says it's what
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you will do to protect your family and those you care.
Speaker 1 (57:33):
About, yeah and so the, characters you, know you have Baby,
sister AND i would, say and you correct me If i'm,
Wrong Baby sister is kind of the heart of the,
team right the little.
Speaker 5 (57:43):
Powerhouse oh, Yeah, yeah everybody loves, her and you, know
for for good. Reason she's she's about five or, six
and she's she acts and sounds like like you, know
a girl her, age but she's, yeah at a little
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smarter and better educated than than the average of her
age because because of the power that she.
Speaker 4 (58:12):
Has but.
Speaker 5 (58:15):
She's a five or six year old that can, uh you,
know hold a grenade and and uh you, know not
be injured by, it or she could pick up a
school bus and throw it down the, road which is
interesting to.
Speaker 4 (58:32):
Raise the professor is raising.
Speaker 5 (58:36):
Her but, uh, yeah she's people love her because she
she's a.
Speaker 1 (58:43):
Sweetie, yeah and so it's Interesting One Eyed jack is the.
Leader so why is One Eyed jack the? Leader how
do you become the? Leader and what is he?
Speaker 5 (58:54):
Like, well he he saw her early on the meta
humans were becoming more prevalent and, everything and he realized
that government agencies are not going to leave something like that.
Alone somebody's going going to work to establish something to control.
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Them and if that somebody wasn't very ethical and, whatnot
then it could go real, bad real. Fast so he
put TOGETHER smart The ORGANIZATION'S Uh society For society For
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Many Human Advancement research And, training and.
Speaker 4 (59:45):
They and they formed The troubleshooters two.
Speaker 5 (59:51):
To help help help out many humans and keep things
from becoming meta humans versus regulars.
Speaker 4 (59:59):
As it.
Speaker 1 (59:59):
Were, yeah and that makes. Sense so and then you
think of Like Thundering, eagle and we're not gonna tell
everyone every, character BUT i want to just give them
a real flavor sense of this when you talk about The.
Troubleshooters So Thundering, eagle what is what's the deal With
Thundering eagle and how Did Thundering eagle come to be
(01:00:23):
part of the.
Speaker 5 (01:00:23):
Group, well she's actually say the catalysts of the trouble
she is getting involved with with the Puppet masters because
she the beginning of. It she's trying to figure out
what's going on with her Her she's basically she has
(01:00:48):
EAGLE dna and some other. Things she she has eagles
wings and AND uh. Senses but she's not sure of her,
origins but she knows that she has this organization hunting,
her and she crosses paths with The troubleshooters and they
(01:01:13):
invite her to, join which then ends up involving them
with the Puppet, masters who are the ones hunting.
Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Her, ooh and so you said this. Already you know
the characters have metahuman, abilities, right it's a contemporary setting for.
This when people read your, series read any of the future,
books and when they read this one Puppet, masters what
do you hope they take?
Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
Away, well, MOSTLY i just want to entertain, people give
them characters that they can get behind and a story
that will excite. Them and SO i won't say it's mindless.
(01:02:02):
Entertainment there's definitely someth to think about and. Whatnot but,
yeah LIKE i, SAID i think people would rather be
entertained than be preached. At, yeah if they can get
something good out of the, entertainment so much the.
Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
Better.
Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
Yeah AND i get this sense, too because and you
just describe some of the. Characters that's WHY i asked
you about some of the characters that there are all
kinds of families and they're all they can come in
all shape sizes all of, that and there's so much
of the standing up for yourself and for helping the.
Helpless AM i?
Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
Right, absolutely that's what they're about their.
Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Heroes, yeah and you feel.
Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
It they stand up for, themselves they stand up for each. Other.
Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
Yeah and you know what's so, interesting you and i'd
had a great conversation off the, air, which by the,
way you can Get jason's. Book you can go To, Amazon,
barnes And, noble wherever great books are. Sold you can
also check them out jasonauthorscorner dot. Com, YOU i, mean
you're further down and more of them will get. Published
but how many have you written so?
Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
Far let's, See i've got about nine written And i'm
working on a. Tenth So i've only gotten this one
and one other, published And i'm working on getting the
third one.
Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Published, Nice so tell us about the other one that's.
Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
Published, well the other one's published Is heart And.
Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
Soul it's basically the origin of the team and how
they first came, together and there they get together to
investigate a series of well serial killing that it's obviously
(01:03:53):
not it's obviously a medicum of some kind doing it
due to the nature of how it's. Happening so they
get they get brought together to investigate, that and they
find themselves in a little deeper than.
Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
They.
Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
Expected, ooh natural. Involvement.
Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
Nice nice for. You has a bit just been fun writing.
This it sounds like it's just pouring out of.
Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
You oh.
Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
YEAH i know a lot of authors they like to
do outlines and you, know all this kind of thing
THAT i can't work that.
Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
Way my characters pretty much tell me what's going.
Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
On.
Speaker 9 (01:04:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
Nice, Right so it's LIKE i, said so it's like
pouring out of you because you know the theme and
you grew up a fan of a different kind of
genre in a sense. Superheroes but like you, said AND i,
said you have kind of that retread thing that this
is a whole different. Ballgame really interesting, characters And i'll
tell you BUT i can't wait to see where all
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of this. Goes Jason, king it was great to have
you on the. Show thank you so much for coming
Speaker 4 (01:05:06):
On, off thank, you thank you for having me
We have breaking news as this really was the topic
throughout a big chunk of the early evening into the
later night hours on Monday. Four people dead, including an
NYPD officer, in a midtown Manhattan mass shooting. Wow, the explanations.
(00:32):
No one can figure out what was the motive. The
thirty six year old expecting father was the New York
City Police officer who died in the crosshairs of the shooting.
And you could clearly see on camera a man walking
calmly into the building with a rifle and then ultimately
(00:58):
it took his own life. Ky Delaney. This is Atmscutery
Board of Talk Radio. Jessica Chen was in the building
at the time and talked about what happened with the
big group she was with.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
As part of the room was about one hundred and
fifty people watching presentation on the second floor, a large
conference room. We heard multiple shots go off in quick
succession from the first floor, and a lot of us
just rushed into the room. Some went out in the
back door out onto the street. Other people, including me,
we ran into the conference room and then eventually irrigated
(01:34):
the tables across the doors and just stayed still. I
think It was very, very apparent through all this that
a lot of us were young, a lot of us
went through training and elementary school of what to do
in an active shooter situation. We were all unfortunately prepared.
People called the police. There was somebody who had a
direct line with the police updating them. The police i
(01:56):
think skipped our floor and kept going up to follow
shooter because they heard that the shooter was going upstairs
towards the thirty third. So we didn't get let out
until a bit later. But it was it was very
apparent that there was a lot of gun awareness among
the room about of one hundred people. I'm still there.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Wow. And you see how calm she wasn't now she
said there was gun awareness among that group. And again
in the building in this Manhattan building, it housed the
NFL among the tenants, and also Black Rock in that
very very same building. So there's a lot of questions
as to what was this about, what could the possible
(02:37):
motive be. There were other people that weren't quite as
calm as Jessica chedd and they were texting goodbyes to people.
This was at three hundred and forty fifth Park Avenue
and fifty second Street, again a really big Tony kind
of address if you will, in Manhattan, and the suspect
(03:01):
barricaded himself on the thirty third floor. Ultimately here to
talk about that him going up, He was identified as
a Las Vegas resident, Shane Tomorrow, found dead from what
they believed was that self inflected gun shot wound. This
happened right around six thirty in the evening. Meanwhile, over
(03:24):
the weekend, a real shocker as a man with a
folding knife decided to stab eleven people in a walmart.
This happened in Michigan, and it really sent a shock
through the store. But what was interesting and helpful is
(03:44):
that there were a couple of veterans, one of them armed,
that helped corner the knife wielding stabber in the parking
lot in Traverse City. And this is what it sounded like,
(04:07):
throw it away. Yeah, And so eleven people and there
were people where they were believed to be in critical
condition at one point. Now they're all going to survive
that like six of them fell into critical condition. There
were many people that were in wheelchairs that were stabbed.
To talk about this the other night, Matthew Kulowawski a
(04:30):
disabled vet was one of the veterans who helped stop
the attacker. This is what he said happened.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
As we are checking out, I could hear one of
the employees say he's got a knife. He's got a knife.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I was like, what the hell you know, it's just
a joke.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And then after he said that, he says something like
get out of there. And then I just hear a
massive amount of screaming, like a rush of just just
murder streams, just ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
And then all of a sudden, I.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
S him pop up, and I swear we locked eyes
for a minute and I yelled at my daughter stay
here as I caught up soon as he was leaving.
He as he exited, there was an elderly lady on
the left, and he just ran right up behind her
and just buried his knife into her back, right in
front of me.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
And then he.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Pulled a knife out of her and went to take off,
but then stopped and hesitated and turned around like he
was going to go after her again.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Wow. Really, this sent a lot of shockwaves in a
lot of different directions. I have a very good friend
that lives in Traverse City. I have friends that have
family and friends in Traverse City. So all of us
were on a text chain just in case, texting to
see if we knew anything, and just by happenstance, someone
we knew might have just been in the walmart at
(05:51):
the time. Luckily that was not the not the case. Meanwhile,
the President was busy in Scotland doing more than playing golf,
cutting a deal with the EU. The EU will now
pay the US fifteen percent in tariffs. And he was
also asked about the starving kids in Gaza. If you
(06:15):
haven't seen some of the video of these kids, it
is just it's just awful. And he has seen it
and it's not lost on him. Some of those kids
are that's real starvation stuff.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I see it, and you can't fake that. So we're
going to be even more involved.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, I mean just wow, something has to be done
with that in that situation. And I think that's the push.
The push is there's real starvation. We're gonna make something happen.
And he's contradicting Benjamin you know, Net and Yahoo on
all of that. There's so many other things that are
(06:58):
going on, including the heat. We're two hundred almost two
hundred million, not two hundred million. Well, yeah, close to
two hundred million across if we take everybody suffering with
this incredible heat across you know, the not just the US,
but in other places too. We're talking about especially Memphis,
like one hundred and eleven degrees in other parts of
(07:20):
the Southeast. Yes, we're just sizzling. We're so hot it's crazy, right,
and that's not calming down if you look at if
you look at any of the forecast, it's predicted to
be even worse as we get deeper into the week.
All right, time for some good news. You want some
good news. Yes, a national sports card franchise donating one
(07:48):
million cards to more than forty thousand kids, a lot
of teenagers in Chicago, they say, help grow the hobby
of card collecting and spark the sense of wonder and
a kid open their first pack. This was something I
did as a kid, my brother and I and the
other kids in our neighborhood too, where we were always
trading cards. Right, So Replay sports Cards is of course
(08:13):
dedicated exclusively to card collecting. They're making that donation at
the twenty twenty five National Sports Card Convention in Rosemont, Illinois. Oh,
I know, that area. Well, I've spoken in that convention
center a few times, so I say thumbs up to that,
especially the fact that they're donating them. You know, the
Boys and Girls Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, they donated
(08:37):
so many there, and then they're doing these the kids
in Chicago. I love, love, love that idea coming up
on the flip side.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Some odds and ends, Ah, topping odds and ends.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. I mean, that's all we're hearing, right,
And what's going to happen once the house comes back
YadA yah, and Julaanne Maxwell now making the pitch to
the Supreme Court. That's the big change, and I'm not
surprised by that. After a couple of days of conversation
with the Justice Department, the Supreme Court will they hear
(09:32):
Julayne Maxwell's appeal of her twenty twenty one sex trafficking
conviction because the government has an obligation to honor a
non prosecution agreement with Jeff re Epstein that inoculated Maxwell
from any criminal chargers. That's what her lawyers argued in
a brief to the Supreme Court on Monday. So naturally,
the President was asked about what he would do, and
(09:59):
if he would if he would step in, and if
he would pardon her, And this is what he said.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Well, I'm allowed to give her a pardon, but nobody's
approached me with it, nobody's asked me about it. It's
in the news about that that aspect of it, but
right now it would be inappropriate to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And then he also went on to say, because there's
so many questions about his relationship with Epstein, that he
never went to his island.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
I never had the privilege of going to his island,
and I did turn it down, but a lot of
people in Palm Beach were invited to his island. In
one of my very good moments, I turned it down.
I didn't want to go to his island.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, all right, So this is going to be put
to rest anytime soon. Federal prosecutors have argued, by the
way that the non prosecution agreement applied that I was
just talking about only in Florida and did not find
New York were against Jeff Epstein, and subsequently Jule Maxwell
were brought. So let's see, and this is the same
(11:09):
thing I keep saying, Let's see where all of this ends. Up,
but the story is not dying. Let's put it that
way anytime soon. By the way, I want to re
emphasize this in case you missed it. When we opened
up here on atn huge story, Huge story out of
New York, breaking news. Four people dead, including an NYPD officer,
(11:33):
in a midtown Manhattan mass shooting. The guman was identified
by officials on the scene later as a twenty seven
year old who lived in Las Vegas. He died of
a self inflicted injury as he barricaded himself on the
thirty third floor. I spent so much of my life
(11:54):
in New York and I can't tell you how this
is such a rare thing. You never hear of this
kind of a shooting in Manhattan. And this was a
pretty crowded neighborhood close to major tourist attractions. So there
were sirens going off all over the place. There were
(12:18):
a lot of people in the building. This was a
building that housed the NFL and Blackrock, so there were
barricades that were set up for so many people that
were in that building. Wow. First we had the Walmart
thing in Traverse City, the stabbing the innocent people over
(12:39):
the weekend and luckily somebody a vet with a gun
and another vet helped corner room. The cops came, and
also luckily those that were hospitalized are surviving because he
went on a rampage with that folding knife. It really
makes you think what is going on? And of course
(12:59):
things happen all the time, and we know that, but
it's just that it has exploded so much lately. All Right,
on a lighter note, this is really tongue in cheek.
We know what happened with the Astronomer Company, and that's
the company, the data company where the former CEO and
the head of HR were caught at a Coldplay concert
(13:23):
on a kiss cam canodling if you will, and then
it sparked. All these memes went viral and the rest
is history. Both of them ended up resigning their jobs.
So Coldplay, of course, the front man is Chris Martin,
the former husband of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who's also the
head of the billion dollar company Goop, and she did
(13:46):
a tongue in cheek ad for Astronomer. Take a listen.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Thank you for your interest in Astronomer. Hi, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow.
I've been hired on a very temper basis to speak
on behalf of the three hundred plus employees at Astronomer.
Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last
few days, and they wanted me to answer the.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Most common ones.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Yes, Astronomer is the best place to run APATCHE airflow,
unifying the experience of running data mL and AI pipelines
at scale. We've been thrilled so many people have a
newfound interest in data workflow automation. As for the other
questions we've received, Yes, there is still room available at
(14:34):
our Beyond Analytics event in September. We will now be
returning to what we do best, delivering game changing results
for our customers. Thank you for your interest in Astronomer.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And of course, where you hear the clicking of the
computer the questions where she says, yes, she were asking
about social media and the fallout from the kisscam, very
very funny. Even our fake audience thinks, so, I think
they're somewhere there in the background. Yeah, exactly. And the
interesting thing about that is, if you're all playing along
(15:10):
at home and you don't need a scorecard, I'm gonna
give you one anyway. So a Stronomer that company, like
I said, hiring Gwyneth Paltrow, and because of the connection
to Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin, who started the whole thing
by saying, these people are either shy when they were
on camera or they're having an affair. Very funny. But
(15:34):
the PR agency who handles crisis communications for Astronomer, the company,
Ryan Reynolds, is involved with it. So he's known for
a sarcasm, and he apparently threw in the idea of
having Gwyneth Paltrow do that. Very very very very very clever.
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Sad news from the sports world. Ryan Sandberg, You know, boy,
one of my first big interviews when when I was
doing sports a Cubs icon and a Hall of Fame
second basement dead at the age of sixty five. I
knew he was sick, but thought that he had beaten
the cancer. So he died Monday from metastatic prostate cancer
(16:20):
and he was at his home surrounded by his family.
His number twenty three Jerseys retired, his image, of course,
immortalized with a statue outside of the legendary ballpark. If
you don't know baseball, just know he was the heart
and soul of many of those Cubs teams, and like
I said, when you get into the Hall of Fame
of any sport, you are the best of the best,
(16:43):
and he, certainly Rhino was one of the best. And
I'll never forget how he gave really an inexperienced young
reporter a lot of interviews and a lot of time.
He had an incredible work ethic. That's what he was
known for. He had silver sluggers and nine gold gloves.
His skills his production led to ten consecutive All Star
(17:07):
selections every season between nineteen eighty four and nineteen ninety three.
And of course he was around the game afterwards. That's
when I caught up with him and talked to him
about his career and talked to him about current Cub
teams and the state of baseball. And for all that
don't know, he was a kid that was born in Spokane, Washington,
(17:27):
and he developed into one of those multi sport athletes,
and he was recruited by lots of major college football
programs and signed a letter of intent to stay close
to home and play quarterback at Washington State before choosing
baseball as his professional pursuit. Just a very talented, talented
(17:49):
young athlete. Coming up on the show, a great conversation
with Elliott Kruber, who is going to talk to us
about the United States Postal Service turning two hundred and
fifty years old, and who was the first postmaster and
(18:11):
what was the influence of Ben Franklin on the early
days of mail in this country and what was the
significance of it. I've talked about this before because I
grew up outside of Philadelphia so many times walking by
Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell and what has now
(18:33):
been developed into the Constitution Center. You know, the whole
story of anything related to Ben Franklin was always emphasized
to us, and I was always fascinated about what happened
with the mail and the beginnings of postal service in
the country. So at the Smithsonian they have just an
(18:54):
incredible replica and artifacts of those early early days, and
then moving forward, the things that you see there are
really really mind blowing. And think about next year, what
officially the country is two hundred and fifty years old,
all the different celebrations that are planned, and the post
(19:16):
Office has everyone be by just a little bit that
combo with Elliott coming up on the flip side, I'll
meet you there. Wow, I'm really excited about speaking to
(19:46):
Elliott Gruber. He's the director of National Postal Museum. I've
talked about this on the air before, growing up just
outside of Philadelphia where we take a train of stone
throw away, and you think about the postal Service breaking
two hundred and fifty years of service, established in seventeen
seventy five, and how essential it was to really winning
(20:08):
American independence, no joke about that, and creating what we've
seen in this nation, and so much so that it's
mentioned in the US Constitution. So we are thrilled to
talk to him. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Elliott, Thank you very much for having me. Kate.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
So, how is it that the Postal Service is older
than actually the United States? If I did my math right, Actually.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Your math is correct, and I think that always takes
people by surprise. You know, the Postal Service traces its
history to July twenty sixth, seventeen seventy five. And why
because communication was essential. Here we are the American patriots
trying to break away from the British to form our
own government, and you don't want the British intercepting the mail,
(20:54):
reading the mail, reading the newspapers to see what's going on,
what's being planned. And so the Second Continental Congress that
we need to establish our own postal service or system,
and they did that on July twenty sixth. And you know,
the logical choice was Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Right, absolutely that what was going to ask you. So
it was logical that he became the first postmaster general
because he had that experience from France, right.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Experience from France, and even back in Philadelphia he was
the postmaster of Philadelphia. Most people know Ben Franklin from
you know, all sorts of other experiments and how successful
he was. But in seventeen thirty seven he was the
postmaster of Philadelphia. About fifteen years later he became the
Deputy Postmaster General for all of North America and that
(21:42):
included Canada at the time. And he was actually very successful.
He streamline operations, he made the postal service then profitable.
And it wasn't until seventeen seventy four that actually the
British fired him, why because of his pro independent sympathies,
for actually being too much of an American. So it
was only appropriate that the Second Continental Congress said, you know,
(22:06):
this guy has experience he also was fired by the British.
He's our guy, and he became the first Postmaster General
of the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I love that story. So if we move forward from
Ben's days, how has the way mail Elliott sent and
been delivered changed over two hundred and fifty years. I
would assume a lot.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
It's been massive. I mean, as you look at American history,
it really is reflected in postal history. As the country
is going west, you have the country is getting larger.
How do you deliver mail for farther distances and faster?
So you start with say the post riders on horseback
in the seventeen hundreds, You then go stage coaches. Now
(22:50):
was delivered by steamboats. Railroads with Transcontinental Congress was essential
for that. But to me, probably the biggest change that
kind of look on as the advent of airmail. Today
we take airmail for granted, but it was a brand
new service in nineteen eighteen where the Postal Department at
the time actually took decommissioned planes from World War One
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and they launched the airmail service again getting the mail
faster to its destination, securely and safely. And so they
did that in nineteen eighteen, and it continues to change
to this day.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, and especially we see how rapid technology is. So
how has the postal service adapted to changing technology?
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Well, they've done so many different things from collecting and
sorting machines and you have conveyor belts, you have optical
character readers, all sorts of things that they continued to
either lead or respond to to make sure that the
mail can be delivered in a faster manner. They actually,
in nineteen sixty three came up with a new some
(24:00):
called zip codes. And you know, we take zip codes
for granted now, you know, it kind of defines our
communities in our neighborhood. The zip codes were a way
of allowing the postal workers to streamline the processing of mail,
and that started only in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Me.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Right now, you can't order a pizza if you wanted
to without putting injured zip code online. Right Yeah. And
by the way, do you know what most people don't
know that zip codes actually stand for something. It's not
like zip like putting zip in, you know, making something
go faster. It's actually was called ZIP because of it
was called the Zone Improvement Plan, and it really did
(24:39):
improve that. And since I am at the National post
of Museum, I have to tell you that we have
mister and Missus Zip, who were cartoon characters, and of
course they had three kids because zip codes are five
digits long, so we have the Zip family at the
post of Museums.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I love that. That's going to be a future trivia
question on this show, Elliott, So thanks for that. Were
there any famous people who worked for the postal Service?
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Oh my, yeah, there are a lot of famous people
over the decades and centuries that have worked for the
post thlu Therais. So when he stats forward from Ben Franklin,
you have Walt Disney. Walt Disney actually lied about his
age to get a job as a mail carrier in Chicago.
He was only sixteen, I believe. At the time, you
had William Faulkner, who was an author of novelist, a
(25:29):
Nobel Prize winner. He was a postmaster of the University
of Mississippi, where he was known to actually read the
magazines before he delivered them. But then you had people
like Abraham Lincoln, he was a postmaster of New Salemon, Illinois.
You had Harry Truman, Charles Limberg more contemporary. You have
(25:50):
Steve Carell from the office also worked at the Postal
Service a lot a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, I love that. Where can my listeners find more
information about the US two hundred fifty anniversary.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
So there are two places that I would recommend that
they go. One would be to the Postal Services website,
which is USPS dot com slash two fifty, So USPS
dot com slash two fifty. And then of course for
the National post and Museum, we have our own website.
We work very closely with the Postal Service, and our
website is Postal Museum dot SI and the SI is
(26:26):
Smithsonian Institution says Postal Museum dot SI dot edu because
we are an educational institution. Those are the two places.
A lot of virtual exhibitions, a lot of unknown stories,
a lot of interesting stories. And if anybody is ever
in Washington, DC, to please come by the Smithsonian National
Postal Museum or right next to the train station.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Well, I can't wait to go there. Elliott Ruber, the
director of the Smithsonians National Postal Museum.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Thanks so much, thank you for your time.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Wow, how fascinating. There were a lot of things that
we talked about there that I had new II idea about.
I mentioned this before, but more than two hundred million
people across the US from South Dakota to Florida are
feeling the effects of heat. It is sizzling outside, and
even into the evening hours up the East Coast to Boston,
(27:18):
a lot of alerts for widespread dangerous heat, and deeper
into this new work week that we're in parts of
the Southeast really bearing the brunt of the sweltering conditions
of a lot of friends in the Carolinas who are
saying they have not felt anything like this. And I
didn't realize this, but the CDC, of course, keeps this
(27:39):
kind of information going back just even a handful of
years ago. On average, nearly two thousand people die from
extreme heat each year. And when you're in Memphis and
it feels like during the day that it's one hundred
and sixteen degrees, that's just a little too much, really
super hot. You know, I was looking at a map
to get a better cent of what that means. When
(28:02):
you see especially extreme heat we're talking about it's purple.
That tells you what it is. That's rare, long duration
of heat, not much relief overnight and it affects anybody
that is not massively hydrating. Let's face it, they don't
have access to some sort of effective cooling. So in
(28:24):
Charlotte and Raleigh, in Wilmington, parts of Savannah are nightmarish. Tallahassee,
Jacksonville really really bad. We got people listening to us.
In the Great State of Missouri and Saint louis it's
pretty nasty. It's not the extreme extreme, but it's still
definitely high high heat. Same thing in Lexington. If we
(28:48):
just jump over to Kentucky, you're hitting some highs there.
In the Great State of Louisiana. In New Orleans, it's
a lot of people are melting, So just take that
extra caution. I mean, I know what this likes is
Like I talked about covering the Cowboys in an extreme
(29:10):
heat situation and thinking like we think, oh, I'm young,
I'm in shape, it's fine. I've had a bunch of
water to drink, but not really enough, and I got really,
really sick by the time I got back to a
hotel room, and I realized what would happen, what had happened,
and they were gonna take me for fluids, and then
I just was able to cool down, but it was scary,
(29:33):
and so once you go through that, you know, hey,
this is listen. This is a real, real, big big thing. Obviously,
all right, time for some birthdays? Yeah, so how about
this for birthdays? Lori Laughlin? Do you know Lori Laughlin
(29:56):
sixty one years old. She became infamous because of the
big college scandal that she was in the middle of,
where her and her husband pleaded guilty to conspiracy to
commit fraud a connection with the twenty nineteen college admissions
bribery scandal. She was actually sentenced to two months in prison,
then was released, and then the case progressed. She lost
(30:18):
a bunch of acting because she was like in so
many Hallmark television shows and a lot of that sponsorship
stuff dried up. But then there were some funny things
that she did, like in Curb Your Enthusiasm and a
couple of other things, and so she's popped kind of
back up in some cameo sort of roles. But she
was very famous from Full House, and then there was
(30:42):
a sequel called Fuller House and she was in that too,
So she has if you don't know the name, you
would absolutely absolutely know the face. Sally Struthers, an older
actress who was way back in the Archie Bunk days
all in the family, seventy eight years old. A lot
(31:04):
of these shows run you know now on TV Land
and other people are being introduced to them, so some
of them, some of you would be familiar with her
too as well. We got to run over to the
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Speaker 10 (32:04):
I'm going to the man Cave, going to the Marri Cave,
going to the Marri Cave. I'm going to the mer Cave.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yeah, we are in the man Cave. Thanks for that
as always, and a tip of the cap in the
man Cave. A lot to get to including really sad
to hear about Rhino. Ryan Sandberg, known for being his
mister Cub days. He played with for other teams, but
we think of him as a Cub and a Hall
of Famer. He was a gentle soul and just a
(32:41):
great second baseman, one of the best at one point,
considered one of the best in Major League Baseball history.
I know that I was fortunate enough to interview him
several times. We had great conversations about his Cub days
because I didn't cover him when he was actually playing
and covered afterwards, and we talked about Cubs teams and
(33:03):
all that kind of stuff, and I just thought he
was so so interesting, and he was an icon to
a lot of Cub fans. That was he was one
of the favorite all time Cubs. He died at the
age of sixty five, sixty five years old, and it
was prostate cancer that ultimately took his life. Here's a
(33:25):
little snippet of Rhino and a Hall of Fame speech.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
The reason I am here, they tell me is that
I played the game a certain way, that I played
the game the way it was supposed to be played.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I don't know about that, but I do know this.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
If there is a single reason I am here.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Today, it is because of one word respect, thank you,
and go Cubs.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
For the rest of the season, the Cubs, by the way,
are going to commemorate Samberg with a special jersey patch,
remembering on the all time greats, you know, in the
nearly one hundred and fifty years of a pretty historic franchise.
And like I said, he was respected for the way
he played the game, but also how he respected the
(34:15):
history of the game. Another athlete, in fact, one who
was a pretty good baseball player himself but opted ultimately
to focus on pro football, Dion Sanders, had his bladder
removed earlier this year after doctors found a tumor, and
he says that he's beaten cancer. He's still going through it,
(34:36):
but at the age of fifty seven. The University of
Colorado head football coach and members of his medical team
held a news conference to say that he had underwent
this removal of a malignant tumor that was found on
the bladder, and he was urging other people to be
seen by doctors and be on top of their health
(34:56):
and get checked out. Here he talks about his current
status right now.
Speaker 11 (35:01):
I'm still dealing with going to the bathroom like it's
a whole life change. Like I can't and I'm gonna
be transparent. I can't peel like I used to pee.
It's totally different. It was some scenes that you saw
all the bull junk that's transpired on draft Day. It
wasn't just that, it was just I knew as well
(35:22):
I had a surgery coming up.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, it's interesting. He has been through some things. Remember
in twenty twenty three, he underwent surgeries or blood clots
in both of his legs, but avoided having a foot amputation.
He said this was his fourteenth surgery and he thinks
he lost about twenty five pounds. Here's more on that journey.
Speaker 11 (35:46):
Slowly but surely, I built myself back up to where
I'm able, I'm strong, I'm ready. I'm still probably about
twelve pounds down. I'm gonna get that right. I'm gonna
fit these overalls up like no other. It has been
a tremendous journey.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, so we wish him well, of certainly, he's going
into his third year at Colorado and the people there
have so embraced him, and he's done such a great
job in that head role, no doubt about it. There's
somebody else that I covered from his San Francisco days
to his days with the Dallas Cowboys, and then I
(36:26):
was traveling with the Dallas Cowboys, and he again was
another one who was very generous to stop and talk
and talk about what was happening in plays that were
made and all of that in between. So I wish
him him well and I think he highlights the idea
of get checked, something's not right, don't wait, get checked,
get checked, figure it out, because he feels blessed that
(36:47):
that in fact happened to him, that they were able
to catch it before it could have been life ending.
Let's turn to Major League Baseball and get you up
to date on where we are at with a really
an interesting day across the country and especially when you
get this heat wave thing going on, and you know,
(37:10):
we can all say, well, yeah, I mean, how hot
is it. We've all dealt with heat in our lives,
but we're talking about pretty extreme heat. You know, there's
some ballparks where that heat becomes amplified. That's when you
appreciate domes. That's when you appreciate places where you can
cool down a lot easier. So let's start with this
(37:33):
one because I know we have a lot of people
listening to us that are cards fans, and it seems
like every time I'm talking about the Cardinals, unfortunately i'm
telling you about Oh it was so close, but they lost.
This wasn't close. They blew out the Marlins as they
really should have. They picked up their fifty fifth seven
to one, the final score when it was all wrapped up.
(37:54):
So what was great is you add ap who allowed
one hit in seven scoreless innings and he retired his
the first ten batters. Has watched some of the highlights
of this before, Hey, Sue Sanchez in the fourth and
so the good news there was good news. There was
you know, pitching, pitching, and then you get the backup
(38:16):
because you've got you know, you got the runs. So
there's nothing like coasting through when you have some runs
at your back, so to speak. Right, just put it
in your back pocket, as a lot of the guys
used to tell me, and then just just do what
you do. The Phillies didn't do what they normally do.
The White Sox got the better of them. They're having
kind of a rough season, but it was at rate
(38:37):
Field in Chicago, so they knocked off the Phills six
to The brew Crews brought their a game on a
sad night for cub fans, but this was a road game,
eight four the final the final score there, so the
Brewers pick up number sixty three. Brewers are having an
interesting season two fun to watch them. Andrew Vaughn among
(39:00):
those that went yard. The Brewers hit three home runs
in that win to overtake the Cubs and the top
spot in the NL Central. That's one of the divisions, certainly.
To watch the Angels and the Rangers, you gotta keep
remembering all my years of covering the Rangers. The Rangers,
(39:22):
think about the Rangers and winning the World Series what
two years ago. Now against the Angels in Anaheim, they
lose six' four, but they're still in the thick of it.
You can't completely count them out at this point. In fact,
we're in the dog days, so there's a lot of
people that you can't count out. Giants and the Pirates.
(39:43):
This would have been a fun one to be out
at Oracle Park. The Pirates win at six' Five Oracle
park is interesting to see the boats THAT i think
they're hoping that something will go out and they'll be
able to chase down a ball in the. Water But
andrew McCutcheon hit a go ahead, run go ahead, homer
and on a crazy, night and The pirates Beat San
(40:06):
francisco for the third straight. Win and LIKE i, said
it was really interesting on a night of The giants'
top pitching prospects, debut they certainly ruined. That so The
giants dropped one game above five hundred for the first
time since the third game of the. Season and now The,
(40:29):
pirates as they continue this with The, giants will face
right handed Pitcher Justin, verlander who's really having a rough.
Season he has won an eight on the, season HIS
era almost five four seventy, wow four to Seventy yankees
(40:50):
and The. Rays so what happened in that one The.
Yankees i'm always watching to see what's the what's happening
with the offense with The. Yankees it's one of the
things that we've been talking about here when we look
at The. Yankees but in this game At Yankee, stadium
The rays got the better of, them bombed them, out
(41:11):
doubled them up four to. Two so The rays pick
up their fifty fourth The tigers At Comerica park knock
off The diamondbacks five to one the final score and
that one and The dodgers edge out The reds pretty
handily in the end five. Two this has had another
really fun ballpark to go to if you're ever In.
(41:33):
Cincinnati it's, beautiful the location of. It so we talked
about what happened With Ryan samberg and then of course
went into some of these scores. Here THE nfl people
are curious about what's going on in these training. Camps
some injuries sad to report and some that know they're
out even for the. Season so in these, competitions there's
(41:57):
an impact there when you when that, happens, obviously and
it's about signings and who's getting signed and who's not getting.
SIGNED i talked about the focus On Micah Parkins Micup
parsons rather for The Dallas, cowboys where you still have
the last couple of days fans holding, signs Sign i'm
giving the, money getting the, extension that kind of. THING
(42:19):
i don't think they're gonna let up on. That, HEY
i caught quarterbacks ON. HBON i can't wait for hard.
Knocks The Buffalo bills are going to be featured when
that starts, UP i think in like a. Week but
if you're looking for something to watch to get you
psyched for the, season Watch quarterbacks ON. Hbo it's really really.
Good stay with. US i can't wait for you to
(42:54):
Meet Mary Kathy. Gray she's in our virtual green room right.
Now she's joining us here on Off. Corner we're gonna
talk about The call of The, Morning doves Meeting god in,
reality and she's here On America tonight with Me Kay,
delaney AND i love. That, yes, Ma'am, mary thank you
so much for coming.
Speaker 12 (43:15):
On thank, you thank you for having.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Me, well let's talk about the road to writing the,
book the, inspiration how it all came together for.
Speaker 12 (43:24):
You, well many years.
Speaker 13 (43:26):
AGO i was a fairly young woman at the, time
racing a, family and as you well, know raising a
family there's always a lot of issues and your relationships
are not. Easy AND i used to get up at
dawn just as the light was, breaking AND i would
go out walking in the. Woods AND i lived in
(43:47):
the rural, area SO i was in a mountainous, area
SO i was able to walk a beautiful trail up
to a place Called Copper springs and, anyway AS i would,
WALK i would just you, know talk To god about
all my problems and all the things going, on AND
i would Ask god.
Speaker 12 (44:07):
To bless my.
Speaker 13 (44:08):
FAMILY i would ask him to help my child to,
understand you know. Whatever so through that, process over the,
YEARS i begin to see How god really wants us
to talk to, him AND i don't believe That he
can really bless us without us talking to.
Speaker 12 (44:28):
HIM i think he has, many.
Speaker 13 (44:31):
Many blessings for us and many answered. Prayers but he
loves his children and he wants them to talk to,
him just like we want to talk to our.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Children do you think people sometimes and that's what the
beauty of your book is when you talk about, that
that people sometimes think they need the. Conduit, it's you,
know it's WHEN i go to. Church it's When i'm
in the pew and the pastor or whoever it is
that that is it's through, them that's my personal, relationship
(45:04):
and that not enough people have, that, really that peace
of mind and that heartfelt inness that you get when
you when you talk To god by walking through the.
Speaker 5 (45:14):
Swords.
Speaker 13 (45:14):
Yeah, Yeah and certainly we have many well known and
many unwell known called people to the ministry but when
you rely solely on that person or that, entity you're
not building a personal relationship With.
Speaker 12 (45:33):
Christ and.
Speaker 13 (45:36):
It's just like almost like living in a whole different
world when you're in relationship With, christ Because he teaches
you how to handle certain circumstances and how to live
through the hard parts of your life and how to
bless you.
Speaker 12 (45:52):
Abundantly, BOY i.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
So agree with. That tell us we're not going to
tell everyone, everything but you can get the book On,
Amazon barnes And. Noble but when people get your, book
what can they. Expect tell us more about the.
Speaker 12 (46:06):
Book, WELL i think my book is very.
Speaker 13 (46:09):
Surprising part of the book is about my personal history
and things THAT i had gone, through some very serious
and How god had blessed me through. Them and over,
time WHEN i would take these, WALKS i would just
sit down on a rock and start writing in a little.
Book and so many of the prayers in the book
(46:32):
actually came from my writing love letters To. God and
SO i think some of they're very. Different they're not
like WHAT i call ordinary, Prayers god bless us and
keep us. SAFE i do believe in ordinary, prayer but
these are, different and they delve deeper into the spirit
(46:56):
and building a spirit relationship With. God and you, know
if you Seek god in that manner and you make that,
connection your life changes. Completely your whole outlook on life,
changes and a lot of things don't.
Speaker 12 (47:13):
Bother you the way they used.
Speaker 13 (47:15):
To you, KNOW i had a situation at one time
WHERE i was very hurt AND i took it To,
god And god just basically put a knowing in my
mind to forget it and let me have. It and
(47:36):
so from that day, ON i, Said, Okay, god you
promised that you would take care of my. Needs you
promised that you would carry my. Burdens So i'm giving
you my burdens from this day, forward you take care of.
It i'm releasing it to. You and by doing, THAT
i was able to forgive a lot of. PEOPLE i
(47:59):
was able to move on with my. LIFE i was
able to actually feel THAT i was hearing From god
BECAUSE i was actually seeing physical things take.
Speaker 12 (48:09):
Place and so that's where the prayers came.
Speaker 5 (48:14):
From.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
Wow so when people read your book and where you're saying,
it what do you hope they come away?
Speaker 13 (48:21):
WITH i hope they come away with a wanting and
a desire to Know god, deeper to truly Believe he,
exists to truly believe, that you know, what The word
Of god, says that we were created By, him and
truly believe the things That he has.
Speaker 12 (48:42):
TAUGHT i hope they go out and buy A.
Speaker 13 (48:44):
Bible you, know there are Some bibles out there now
that are very easy to. UNDERSTAND i use The King james.
VERSION i was reared under The King james, version.
Speaker 12 (48:57):
So it's home to.
Speaker 13 (48:58):
Me so they need to find A bible that becomes
home to, them that is based on the truth and
word Of.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
God for, you by putting this book out into the,
world releasing it out into the, world what does that feel?
Speaker 13 (49:12):
Like it's the culmination of a forty year. DREAM i started.
WRITING i felt called Of god to, write and for
thirteen YEARS i refused the. Call and, FINALLY, i you,
know went to the altar one day AND i, Said,
god you must BELIEVE i can, write SO i give
(49:34):
you my. Life AND i started. Writing and that's been
probably twenty seven years. Ago it was nineteen eighty six
actually when it all. Started And i've written a lot of.
Material i've got a lot of books ready to put,
together you, know and So i'm excited about my life
(49:56):
and What god has done in my life and What
he's bringing me to and so it's exciting to meet
the people in the publishing. Industry my Publisher city Of
books has been just, phenomenal and you, KNOW i met
over the Phone Jan, pearson who works directly with, me
(50:19):
and it's just been amazing the things that have been
put in place and the things that are there for.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
Me and does it give you because you have that
journey and you had that moment Where i'm giving it
to You, god and you take those, walks do you
have that sense of peace that you wish more people could,
have BECAUSE i think people struggle with.
Speaker 12 (50:41):
It, YES i.
Speaker 13 (50:42):
DO i feel completely confident That god is on my
side and That he's going to see me through anything
that comes to me in. Life AND i still take
those walks every. Day you, know that's my. TIME i
talk about creating a closet in my book to go
(51:05):
and to meet With, god and my closet is the.
Speaker 12 (51:09):
OUTDOORS i walk.
Speaker 13 (51:11):
AND i, talk AND i look AND i listen and
things come into my, heart things come into my mind
that encourage me and.
Speaker 12 (51:21):
Open up new ideals for my writing and.
Speaker 9 (51:26):
All of my.
Speaker 13 (51:27):
Life i've had to work other, jobs SO i did intermittent,
writing BUT i never tried to be published until this.
Year So i'm so happy and grateful that people are
receptive to What i'm. Writing we're focusing on the call
of The Morning. Doves you, know in the very back
(51:48):
of the, BOOK i say to men and to, WOMEN i,
say get on your face Before, god ask him to
forgive you of anything that you were unaware was, sin
and ask him to come into your life and start
building that relationship With.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
God, yeah because you know that's part of the. Book
you're inspiring, PEOPLE i think to do. That LIKE i,
said there's sometimes there's confusion for. People they feel, like
because something, happened you talked about forgiveness and then the
power of that and. Learning oh, okay So i've done
this because that's what You that was part of your.
(52:29):
Conversation and how many more people could find what will
we talked about that peace in their heart if they
could do that?
Speaker 13 (52:37):
Well and another thing it may it these walks and
these talks are wherever you go to talk To. God
you can talk to him in your car driving to.
WORK i, Mean god is always, available but you come
to realize your own. Shortcomings you come to realize where
you need to change and how you need to. Change
(52:58):
and we all need to. Change we're all developing adults
from the day we're, born and spiritually we're born from
a spirit into this world and we leave it in
a spirit to.
Speaker 12 (53:11):
Go back To. God so it's A god wants us
to live a happy.
Speaker 13 (53:18):
Life and sometimes when things happen that we don't, understand we,
say why, Me? God But i've learned that Sometimes god
allows you to suffer so that you will lean on,
him you, know with. EXPECTATION a lot of people, pray
but they don't pray with, expectation.
Speaker 12 (53:36):
AND i cover that in my.
Speaker 13 (53:37):
Book you, KNOW i Expect god to do what he
says he's going to do for, me and he. Does
so you, know that's just What i've really wanted to
share with. People pray with, expectation talk to him with,
expectation and so it can change people's everyday lives into more,
(53:57):
joy more, happiness because it doesn't matter what man says
to you or how they hurt. You you've Got, god
And god Says i've got.
Speaker 1 (54:09):
It so perfect place to end this The call of
The Morning Doves Meeting god in, Reality Mary Catherine Kathy,
gray thank you so much for joining.
Speaker 12 (54:22):
Us, well thank. You i've enjoyed, it AND i hope
to talk to you again. Someday we hope to meet
you in. Person, ABSOLUTELY.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
I am so thrilled here on Author's corner to be
speaking With Jason. King he has got this great, Series
troubleshooters and way to hear about The Puppet. Show that's
one of the books we're talking, about and the characters
are so rich and so so, clever and so we're
pleased to welcome him To america tonight with Me Kate
(55:08):
delaney here On Author's. Corner LIKE i, Said, jason thanks
for coming, On.
Speaker 4 (55:12):
Thank you for having.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
Me so let's talk, about first of, all the how
you came up with the idea for the, Series what
was the impetus for, That how did, that how did
that come? About?
Speaker 5 (55:22):
WELL i like superheroes for you, know most of my,
life and IT'S i HAVEN'T i haven't been reading the
the established comics much in recent, years just because this
seems like the storytelling, quality their quality whatnot has gone.
(55:46):
Down you, know my expenses have gone up and all.
That but, OH i JUST i guess if it's not
too prideful of the. SAME i kind of felt LIKE
i could do. Better, yeah WELL.
Speaker 4 (56:03):
I can't, draw, draw SO i write novels.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
Nice and you know it's. Interesting you're you're. RIGHT i,
mean you were a fan just like me Of marvel AND,
dc but now we're retreading a lot of. That so
in creating what you're, CREATING i mean WHEN i think
of the, CHARACTERS i think of adventure and heroism and
family and relatable and. Fun fun is is what comes
to mind WHEN i think about. It so let's talk
(56:29):
about let's talk about the puppet puppet.
Speaker 4 (56:32):
Show readventures to be preached.
Speaker 1 (56:35):
At, yeah, yeah me, too good way to say. That
so let's talk about the puppet. Show tell tell the
people listening more specifics about that and what we can.
Speaker 5 (56:45):
Expect, well of, course it's it's probably considered a trope by.
Now it's at least as old As James bond of
the you, know behind the scenes world controlling you, know
people and. Everything but this is a little. Different and
(57:09):
it's WHEN i guess you'd, say normal people just happen
to have media human powers end up crossing into that
world and uh, like like the advertising, says it's what
(57:30):
you will do to protect your family and those you care.
Speaker 1 (57:33):
About, yeah and so the, characters you, know you have Baby,
sister AND i would, say and you correct me If i'm,
Wrong Baby sister is kind of the heart of the,
team right the little.
Speaker 5 (57:43):
Powerhouse oh, Yeah, yeah everybody loves, her and you, know
for for good. Reason she's she's about five or, six
and she's she acts and sounds like like you, know
a girl her, age but she's, yeah at a little
(58:04):
smarter and better educated than than the average of her
age because because of the power that she.
Speaker 4 (58:12):
Has but.
Speaker 5 (58:15):
She's a five or six year old that can, uh you,
know hold a grenade and and uh you, know not
be injured by, it or she could pick up a
school bus and throw it down the, road which is
interesting to.
Speaker 4 (58:32):
Raise the professor is raising.
Speaker 5 (58:36):
Her but, uh, yeah she's people love her because she
she's a.
Speaker 1 (58:43):
Sweetie, yeah and so it's Interesting One Eyed jack is the.
Leader so why is One Eyed jack the? Leader how
do you become the? Leader and what is he?
Speaker 5 (58:54):
Like, well he he saw her early on the meta
humans were becoming more prevalent and, everything and he realized
that government agencies are not going to leave something like that.
Alone somebody's going going to work to establish something to control.
(59:19):
Them and if that somebody wasn't very ethical and, whatnot
then it could go real, bad real. Fast so he
put TOGETHER smart The ORGANIZATION'S Uh society For society For
(59:40):
Many Human Advancement research And, training and.
Speaker 4 (59:45):
They and they formed The troubleshooters two.
Speaker 5 (59:51):
To help help help out many humans and keep things
from becoming meta humans versus regulars.
Speaker 4 (59:59):
As it.
Speaker 1 (59:59):
Were, yeah and that makes. Sense so and then you
think of Like Thundering, eagle and we're not gonna tell
everyone every, character BUT i want to just give them
a real flavor sense of this when you talk about The.
Troubleshooters So Thundering, eagle what is what's the deal With
Thundering eagle and how Did Thundering eagle come to be
(01:00:23):
part of the.
Speaker 5 (01:00:23):
Group, well she's actually say the catalysts of the trouble
she is getting involved with with the Puppet masters because
she the beginning of. It she's trying to figure out
what's going on with her Her she's basically she has
(01:00:48):
EAGLE dna and some other. Things she she has eagles
wings and AND uh. Senses but she's not sure of her,
origins but she knows that she has this organization hunting,
her and she crosses paths with The troubleshooters and they
(01:01:13):
invite her to, join which then ends up involving them
with the Puppet, masters who are the ones hunting.
Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Her, ooh and so you said this. Already you know
the characters have metahuman, abilities, right it's a contemporary setting for.
This when people read your, series read any of the future,
books and when they read this one Puppet, masters what
do you hope they take?
Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
Away, well, MOSTLY i just want to entertain, people give
them characters that they can get behind and a story
that will excite. Them and SO i won't say it's mindless.
(01:02:02):
Entertainment there's definitely someth to think about and. Whatnot but,
yeah LIKE i, SAID i think people would rather be
entertained than be preached. At, yeah if they can get
something good out of the, entertainment so much the.
Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
Better.
Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
Yeah AND i get this sense, too because and you
just describe some of the. Characters that's WHY i asked
you about some of the characters that there are all
kinds of families and they're all they can come in
all shape sizes all of, that and there's so much
of the standing up for yourself and for helping the.
Helpless AM i?
Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
Right, absolutely that's what they're about their.
Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Heroes, yeah and you feel.
Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
It they stand up for, themselves they stand up for each. Other.
Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
Yeah and you know what's so, interesting you and i'd
had a great conversation off the, air, which by the,
way you can Get jason's. Book you can go To, Amazon,
barnes And, noble wherever great books are. Sold you can
also check them out jasonauthorscorner dot. Com, YOU i, mean
you're further down and more of them will get. Published
but how many have you written so?
Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
Far let's, See i've got about nine written And i'm
working on a. Tenth So i've only gotten this one
and one other, published And i'm working on getting the
third one.
Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Published, Nice so tell us about the other one that's.
Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
Published, well the other one's published Is heart And.
Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
Soul it's basically the origin of the team and how
they first came, together and there they get together to
investigate a series of well serial killing that it's obviously
(01:03:53):
not it's obviously a medicum of some kind doing it
due to the nature of how it's. Happening so they
get they get brought together to investigate, that and they
find themselves in a little deeper than.
Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
They.
Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
Expected, ooh natural. Involvement.
Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
Nice nice for. You has a bit just been fun writing.
This it sounds like it's just pouring out of.
Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
You oh.
Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
YEAH i know a lot of authors they like to
do outlines and you, know all this kind of thing
THAT i can't work that.
Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
Way my characters pretty much tell me what's going.
Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
On.
Speaker 9 (01:04:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
Nice, Right so it's LIKE i, said so it's like
pouring out of you because you know the theme and
you grew up a fan of a different kind of
genre in a sense. Superheroes but like you, said AND i,
said you have kind of that retread thing that this
is a whole different. Ballgame really interesting, characters And i'll
tell you BUT i can't wait to see where all
(01:05:02):
of this. Goes Jason, king it was great to have
you on the. Show thank you so much for coming
Speaker 4 (01:05:06):
On, off thank, you thank you for having me
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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.