October 2, 2025 • 31 mins
Ohio author/scribbler of fiction M.T. Bass talks about his latest release “Racing The Dream-Fly Low, Fly Fast, Turn Left” as a racing thriller as a pilot battles 7 other top-level flyers at the very first National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada! M.T. was born in Athens, OH later grew up in St. Louis and now living near Cleveland, graduated from Ohio Wesleyan Univ. majoring in English and Philosophy, worked in the private sector in aerospace manufacturing, became a commercial pilot and later a flight instructor and the author of several novels including “My Brother’s Keeper”, “Crossroads”, “Somethin’ for Nothin’”, “Murder by Munchhausen”, “Article 15” and more! Check out the amazing M.T. Bass and his latest release on all major platforms and www.mtbassauthor.wordpress.com/ today! #podmatch #mtbass #author #ohio #racingthedream #avaiation #airplanes #pilot #flyer #airrace #nationalchampionship #reno #aerospace #commercialpilot #flightinstructor #spreaker #iheartradio #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnermtbass #themikewagnershowmtbass
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Amazing Gentlemen is an author Scribble of fiction. Born in Athens, Ohio,
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later group in Saint louis currently living near Lorraine, Ohio,
which is Mudcat Falls. He's the mayor of it and
graduating from Ohio Western University major in English and Philosophy.
Worked in the private sector aerospace and defense manufacturing and
also a commercial pilot into a certified flight instructor and
has a book out which is a racing thriller. As
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a gentleman battles seven other top pilots at the very
first national Championship. It's called Racing the Dream. Live place
in Gentlemen Plus Studio some in Mudcat Falls. The amazing
author and Scribble of fiction. Born in the Athens, Ohio ARAA.
It's called Rac and The Dream Fly, Low Fly, Flash
Turn Left. Got the meltitalent, Mt Bass MT. Good morning,
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good afternoon, good evening. Thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Good morning, great to be here, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
What's great to have you on board. MT.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So. You're an author in Scribble of Fiction. You're born
in Athens, Ohio. You grew up in Saint Louis are
currently living near Lorain, Ohio, which is Mudcat Falls for him.
You graduate from Ohio Wesley University, major in English and Philosophy.
You worked in a private sector in air space and defense.
Also a commercial pilot, certified fly instructor. You have a
new book, goll called Rac and Dream Fly Low five,
(02:48):
Flash Turn Left, a racing thriller as this guy Hawk
battle seven of the top level pilots at the very
first what is the National Championship Air races?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
As well? Before getting no impt tell us how I
first got started?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Well, this is a third book in a series which
Hawk is a pilot and basically it follows different aviation
adventures through the year. The first one was a murder mystery.
He was a movie a stunt pilot in nineteen fifty.
The second book was Jungle Land, which follows him to
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the Belgian Congo where he flies T sixes in the
Civil War, and then coming out of that, he returns
to Los Angeles, where the first book was based, and
here he gets involved in air racing at a time
when it had just kind of fallen off the face
of the earth. It was huge in the twenties and
(03:47):
thirties in Cleveland, Ohio and up until like nineteen forty nine,
and then the National Air Race has ended and through
the fifties the sport just kind of died and there
was just no act. So he's he starts off just
racing other guys around and gets involved with it again,
and you know, the story builds up to the nineteen
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sixty four inaugural Reno Air Races, which was, you know,
the very first one. It ran for sixty years. So
that's kind of the basic layout of the story.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And you're being a commercial pilot yourself. You see me
draw on that, And how'd you first get involved in aviation?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Well, actually I got my private pilot certificate at Cleveland
Hopkins airport back back in the late seventies early eighties
when they still had a grass strip for flight instruction
there at the Nash at the airport there. So got
my private pilot's license there. I moved to Colorado and
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lived there in the eighties, got my commercial certificate of
my instrument rating and my flight int our first certificate
out there.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, and plus you've been doing for quite some time.
What was that one exact, precise moment that simply influenced
you and what you're doing the rest of your career.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Well, you know, actually, you know, when I was going
to college, I was a musician. And you said I
majored in English and philosophy, but I was really I
studied creative writing, and mainly I did that to kind
of help help myself, writing lyrics because that was my
main interest. And I got out of school, I played
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in bands, worked in recording studios and had that stuff,
and then kind of moved on when I moved to Colorado,
took that defense job for a while, but I kept
scribbling down novels and kind of was sitting on airplanes
or sitting in airports, you know, writing out the books
(05:54):
and just kept going but I think I have you
have like fifteen, so.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Now, now, yeah, I was gonna saying we'd like to
cover some of those books as well. Who are some
of my favorite authors, writers and favorite books running up?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Well, you know, my all time favorite book is Catch
twenty two by by Joseph Helder, And you know, of
course there's the aviation connection right there because it's about
a B twenty five bomber group in Italy. I just
it's a dark humor book that I just always amazed
when I've read it a few times, and I'm always
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amazed with that. Beyond that, I like Hackleberry Finn by
Mark Twain, Tourist Season by Karl Hasen, Slaughterhouse five by
Kirk Vonnegut, and and the list kind of goes on.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
So it's now plus you got a list of book
yourselves as well too. Besides Racer and Dream, we get
to that with Mt.
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Speaker 2 (09:09):
Somewhere right there. You must be the mayor of Mudcat Falls.
I take it.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yeah, yeah, well it's kind of my It's my own
lake Wobegonde. So that's so where I hang my hat.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
There you go and the cars. You know, you do
a good job of writing.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Besides rac and a Dream, we cover that you did
Marveless Children, Something for Nothing, Untethered and m and the
Murder by Munchausen series and tells Marpoult, especially one by Munchhausen.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
The Murder by Munchausen is about robots in the in
the near future twenty forty fifty that are very humanoid
and groups of cyber hackers figure out a way to
break into them and turn them into hitman for hire.
So the story actually follows the police unit and it's
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based in Cleveland, but it follows a police unit that
tracks down the arid robots and goes after the hackers
and there so and there's I've got four books in
that series, Murdered by Munchausen, The Dark Net, Invisible Mind,
and Motherless Children. They're all in that series. And it's
called Munchausen because it's people taking over for the robots
(10:23):
and turning into into something that they shouldn't be doing.
That's where the title comes from.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Right, And maybe think of Baron von Munchausen. You'll make
it seem like, you know, he's done everything but exaggerates it.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Yeah, yep, just like that, just like that. So and
it's a it's a pretty interesting series. That's like I
said in the fourth book.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And plus you know, we also had one of the
children Something for Nothing and Untethered tell us about those.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Something for Nothing is about two Ohio state dropouts that
go to Alaska to get rich on the Alaska Trans
Alaska pipeline. They get up there, find it's hard to
get a job. They end up working in a restaurant
until they find out that there's a buried treasure up
(11:13):
in one of the glaciers there, and they get involved
with a couple of other guys, a bush pilot, the
bar owner to go up and figure out a way
to get the get the gold out of the crashed
airplane up there. So follows that story there. Untethered is
a young adult dystopian story about a guy in high
(11:39):
school who gets sideways with the authorities and kind of
checks out of the high school and onto a like
I said, a dystopian kind of environment there and motherless children. That's,
like I said, that's the fourth book in the Munchausen series.
(12:00):
It changes with some of the detectives there and it
goes after a serial killer, you know, kind of recreating
serial killers.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Oh yes, I think we've got a lot of that
going on these days and hopefully tho's happen future in
our world here, So flying pilots, Cleveland, everything like that.
You also have Lodging, a love story and the Invisible
Mind and tell us about those, Okay.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Lodging is that's a romance story. It's a novella. Takes
place in Liberal, Kansas during World War Two where they're
training the B twenty four pilots, and it's a high
school girl that falls in love with one of the pilots. There.
The funny story about that is I had this idea
for it. Lodging means when the wind blows down the
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wheat in Kansas. So I had this idea, and I
couldn't figure out how to put it all together. And
my girlfriend, Lola, she was friends with the one hundred
year old woman, and this woman read every book on
the New York Times bestseller list, and she was actually
reading the biography of Keith Richards. Oh, reading the biography
(13:13):
of Keith Richards and said, I don't like all the
things he did, but he sure loved his mom. But anyway,
that story, that story about her kind of crystallized my
tale of logic. So it just brought it in the focus,
put it in the perspective, and helped get through that.
(13:35):
The Invisible Mind that's the third in the first three
Munchausen series, which are very tightly woven together. The three
are kind of interesting. The first book is first person,
told by one of the male detectives. The second book,
The Dark Net, is a first person told by the female,
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and then The Invisible Mind is third person, where they
actually go after a guy who's kind of replicating serial
killer homes in Cleveland and going after different as a serial.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Killer, okay, And plus you also had as well too,
like to Find a lot of physics as well too,
and then some other books I cover in the Black
and more, Yes.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
To Find the Laws of Physics that I put together.
I remember I told you I was studying verse when
I was an English major, And that's got a lot
of the poems I wrote from long ago, and some
of the lyrics I wrote on the songs over the
years in the Black is we talked about I liked
(14:46):
Catch twenty two. That's kind of my answer to Catch
twenty two. It's a satire of the sixties where I,
you know, go in and go after all the people
in the sixties. You know, I lived there. Plus it's
got an element of the defense department. One of the
main characters, you know, owns his own aerospace company, and
(15:08):
then it really follows his son as they go through
the end of the sixties. And it's all just kind
of dark humor, satire kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
And you seem to write more about along the lines
of aerospace, defense work and everything like that. And what
else do you base your ideas, books and everything else on?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Just what kind of whatever comes to mind, Like I
said Lodging was totally different. That's kind of a more
of a military romance story. You know, I've got the
science fiction murder mysteries, I've got the aviation stories, and
then in the black is the aerospace story. One nut
(15:53):
that's interesting is called Crossroads that I have and it's
just an e book, but it's based on a rock
and roller in the seventies gets kind of grabbed up
into espionage and it follows the story of the government
going after him as he goes through the through the time.
(16:14):
The thing that's interesting is it's got like twenty eight
different songs from the seventies that are embedded in with
with the book, and I've got you know, the words
from the songs are important to the story. And then
the reason it's an ebook is I put all of
the songs into the book, you know, from YouTube, you know,
(16:36):
either my renditions of them, which you know, or the
original copies from Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones and Supertramp.
So that's I call it the first I think it's
the first novel that actually has its own soundtrack.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That's interesting. You got twenty of them to cover and
you know, you know, everybody should check that out. And
plus you mentioned you being in blues as well too,
and and of course you played in Cleveland for some time.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And who are some of your favorite blues are growing up?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Well, you know any you know? Of course Clapton, he's great.
I like, uh, you know, Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa, he's
he's another great guy, you know. And of course all
the Kings, Alfred King, b D King, Freddy King, all
those guys. So those are all all folks I listened
to and tried to emulate. H.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
And that's interesting as well too. And uh, just one
more thing. Do you have the book Racing the Dream
with you right now?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
As a matter of fact, I do.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, you know what h If you own mind, maybe
you can read like an excer of that. We'll get
to that one minute with Mt Bass or Racing the Dream.
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Wellbacco out there, empty bass of Bracing, the Dream, Fly
Low Fly Fast, Turn left Field the Micro Rightner's Show,
and It'll tell us about the second part of it.
What's the meaning of fly low, fly fast, and turn left.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Well, that's basically what the air racer pilots do. They
fly low between fifty feet and two hundred fifty feet
is the top altitude. Fifty feet is the lowest altitude,
so the flying low the line as fast as they can,
and just like NASCAR, all the turns are to the left,
so that's where that comes from.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
That is rather interesting.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
And then maybe just picking pubook a race and the dream,
maybe can read an extra file.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Would you like to do that today?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Sure, I'll read a little bit of it.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
But yeah, we ahead this one thing.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I'd just like to mention the picture on the cover
we talked about the very first nineteen sixty four international
air races. I was actually really lucky that I talked
to them and they gave me permission to use the
poster from the first to air race in nineteen sixty
four on the cover of my book. So, oh nice, Okay,
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it's a great honor there for that. So just starting off,
I don't know how much you want me to read.
Just got me off when you.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Read, But yeah, that's fine. You can do a little
bit that just get an idea. I mean, I love
when people read. So it's like bedtime stories, afternoon whatever.
It is, relaxed, it's a good time to do so.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Okay, well, this is the this is the first chapter.
It's called Antelope Acres. And to start off the book
and the first person from Hawk's point of view, at
Chase Scotty down the long straightaway three hundred feet back,
one hundred feet off the ground, one hundred and seventy knots.
A quick look at the panel, thirty six hundred dor
(21:45):
pm Look engine oil pressure green, look oil temperature green,
all good. Banking hard into the pylon at w Avenue
G and Mirror Canyon Road over the desert. The shadow
on the ground to my left crawled toward my British
tracing green colored wing. He had to be outside. You
can't look to the right, it's just not safe. But
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the sun was behind us. I locked it a bit
in the eighty degree turn, climbed twenty feet or so,
and quickly doed back down to close another one hundred
and fifty feet on Scotti, picking up a bit of
his wake turbulence. Rolling out and down the front straight away,
I found smooth air twenty five feet above his red
hot tnsen casset. We used the crossroads, a pile of rocks,
(22:28):
a little hump in the desert, and a windmill water
pumped set up our three mile oval course. I knew
Scotti from the Van Nyes, but the other three guys
were new from other Cellcalf airports. We were all on
company frequency one two three point five. He joined up
in a loose formation for a pace lap, then got
(22:49):
down to the business with a flying start.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
That is a really nice beginning as well too, and
it also made me think of some of the airline
paths and who are some of the aviation uh heroes
that you grew up admired and everything like that, maybe
some of the famous politic to talk about.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Uh well, you know, uh. One of the first books
that I remember, you know, reading was uh Triple Ace
Joseph McConnell. He was a World War or a Korean
War fighter fighter pilot who had fifteen shootdowns of meigs there.
So I just remember that story is one of the
(23:30):
most interesting. Of course, there's Chuck Yeger, Charles Lindbergh, you know,
and Robin Ols you know from the Vietnam War. All
through the years. There's different guys. Uh. The one uh,
the one guy in the book in Racing the Dream
was Bill Stead. He was an actual uh uh. He
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was a pilot and he had an airport up in Reno,
and he's the one that we founded the Reno Air
Races and got it all started on his own. And
he used to be actually be a boat racing pilot
before he became involved in the air racing, so he
had a lot of experience.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
There, Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
And plus I thought about that, you're based in Cleveland
as well too, and you're not too far from the
Right Brothers Museum in Dayton as well.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Every time I drive by this, I makes you think
the Right Brothers.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Yeah, yeah, they're down there. When I was doing the
aerospace thing for a while, I was actually calling on
the Air Force offices at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
I'd go down there for like two or three days
every month to call on people, talk to them about
you know, products and stuff. But one of the things
(24:50):
I did was every time I went down there, I
went to the Air Force Museum. And I actually started
at the very beginning of the museum wound my way
all the way through to uh, you know, the Vietnam War,
so I got to see the whole thing mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
And it does sound like you've cover a lot of ground.
And for those who want to get into being a
pilot or being air force whatever or else. So first
of all, whoever wants to be a pile what's the
best advice you can give to anybody who wants to
be a pilot?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Uh? You know, if that's something you're really interested and
it's it's a fantastic thing to do, you know, it's
like they say, it's the most one you can do
with your clothes on. You just uh. Most most uh
flight schools offer like demo rides, So if you think
you're interested, you get in touch with them and you
(25:43):
can usually get a very attractive price on a demo
ride to go and see if you really like it
being up in a plane like that. That's the best
best start, and then from there it's just uh making
the commitment to see it through. You know. Uh, there's
a there is a lot of study for it. You know,
you got to learn about weather, a bon x, their
(26:04):
aerodynamics and stuff. But it's well worth it, you know,
if you get through it, get your license. Then once
you have it, you can go anywhere in the United
States you want, anytime you want.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
And we and we encourage you way to do that.
In the meantime, where can when you find your book
rate some dream why he works.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
At It's all on Amazon under my you know, m T.
Bass is h is the title that's under with all
my other books. My website is m T. Bass dot net.
That's uh where it's got all the information about my books,
my audiobooks and you know hard hard back paperback covers.
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There you can get information, get purchasing links there.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
And what's the website again, it's w W W M T.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Bass b A s S dot net, not dot com
dot net. There's a football player with the do.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Or make him fly? I can do that too.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
So yeah, we're here at the Amazing author Empty Bath.
I raised them dream Fly, low Fly Fast turn left
here on the Microhnders show and empty just a few
more things.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
What else can we expect me twenty twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Well, right now I'm about sixty seventy percent through the
follow up book to article fifteen that's about follows a
X Navy seal he's a fixer for a law firm,
and in this book he's tracking down the stalker for
a country Western singer. Okay, solve that problem. So that's next.
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And then beyond that, book number four in the PUK
series is called Manyana and that's going to follow him
down to Central America.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Okay, well, certainly check that out and looking forward to it.
Who do you consider biggest influence in the career.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
I big inst influenced my career. Well, actually the professor
I had at Ohio Wesleyan. He was an author from Toledo.
He wrote verse and novels there, so he was really
a strong influence on me, helping me, you know, learn
more about the creative writing process, you know. And then
(28:20):
of course, you know, I have big homage to Joseph
Heller who wrote Catch twenty two.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Okay, we're certainly really good good as well too. What's
the best advice you can give the aim by at
this point?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Just in general?
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Just in general, my motto is persevered to the point
of stupidity. You just got to keep out whatever you
want to do, you just got to keep going. So
that's my.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Model, and I think that's really good advice.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
As well too here with author Empty Bass of Racing
The Dream Fly Low Fly Fast Turned Left Field of
Mike Whenders Show, m Taverabi, Thanks for time, if you've
been abst fantastic, Leonard Lot, look at Ford, having Soon,
keeps up today, Keep in touch lavvavy Back And what's
your website? How do people contact you? Whor can people
purchase or check out your books?
Speaker 5 (29:09):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Where can people purchase or check out your books?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Again? All the ebooks are on Amazon, They're all in
Kindle unlimited. I've got the hardback books available from my website,
from Barnes and Noble, from you know any other place
that will sell printed books. You can get them there.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Okay, well, certainly check that out once you get mpt
at very big. Thanks for time, you've been abste fantastic,
looking forward, having Soon, keeps up to day, keep in touch,
labavy Back, We wish all best and Mudcat you define
have a great.
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Fit you you Hey, Thanks, it's been great talking to
you today. I had a great time.
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good afternoon, good evening. Thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Good morning, great to be here, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
What's great to have you on board. MT.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So. You're an author in Scribble of Fiction. You're born
in Athens, Ohio. You grew up in Saint Louis are
currently living near Lorain, Ohio, which is Mudcat Falls for him.
You graduate from Ohio Wesley University, major in English and Philosophy.
You worked in a private sector in air space and defense.
Also a commercial pilot, certified fly instructor. You have a
new book, goll called Rac and Dream Fly Low five,
(02:48):
Flash Turn Left, a racing thriller as this guy Hawk
battle seven of the top level pilots at the very
first what is the National Championship Air races?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
As well? Before getting no impt tell us how I
first got started?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Well, this is a third book in a series which
Hawk is a pilot and basically it follows different aviation
adventures through the year. The first one was a murder mystery.
He was a movie a stunt pilot in nineteen fifty.
The second book was Jungle Land, which follows him to
(03:25):
the Belgian Congo where he flies T sixes in the
Civil War, and then coming out of that, he returns
to Los Angeles, where the first book was based, and
here he gets involved in air racing at a time
when it had just kind of fallen off the face
of the earth. It was huge in the twenties and
(03:47):
thirties in Cleveland, Ohio and up until like nineteen forty nine,
and then the National Air Race has ended and through
the fifties the sport just kind of died and there
was just no act. So he's he starts off just
racing other guys around and gets involved with it again,
and you know, the story builds up to the nineteen
(04:10):
sixty four inaugural Reno Air Races, which was, you know,
the very first one. It ran for sixty years. So
that's kind of the basic layout of the story.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And you're being a commercial pilot yourself. You see me
draw on that, And how'd you first get involved in aviation?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Well, actually I got my private pilot certificate at Cleveland
Hopkins airport back back in the late seventies early eighties
when they still had a grass strip for flight instruction
there at the Nash at the airport there. So got
my private pilot's license there. I moved to Colorado and
(04:54):
lived there in the eighties, got my commercial certificate of
my instrument rating and my flight int our first certificate
out there.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, and plus you've been doing for quite some time.
What was that one exact, precise moment that simply influenced
you and what you're doing the rest of your career.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Well, you know, actually, you know, when I was going
to college, I was a musician. And you said I
majored in English and philosophy, but I was really I
studied creative writing, and mainly I did that to kind
of help help myself, writing lyrics because that was my
main interest. And I got out of school, I played
(05:33):
in bands, worked in recording studios and had that stuff,
and then kind of moved on when I moved to Colorado,
took that defense job for a while, but I kept
scribbling down novels and kind of was sitting on airplanes
or sitting in airports, you know, writing out the books
(05:54):
and just kept going but I think I have you
have like fifteen, so.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Now, now, yeah, I was gonna saying we'd like to
cover some of those books as well. Who are some
of my favorite authors, writers and favorite books running up?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Well, you know, my all time favorite book is Catch
twenty two by by Joseph Helder, And you know, of
course there's the aviation connection right there because it's about
a B twenty five bomber group in Italy. I just
it's a dark humor book that I just always amazed
when I've read it a few times, and I'm always
(06:29):
amazed with that. Beyond that, I like Hackleberry Finn by
Mark Twain, Tourist Season by Karl Hasen, Slaughterhouse five by
Kirk Vonnegut, and and the list kind of goes on.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
So it's now plus you got a list of book
yourselves as well too. Besides Racer and Dream, we get
to that with Mt.
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Somewhere right there. You must be the mayor of Mudcat Falls.
I take it.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yeah, yeah, well it's kind of my It's my own
lake Wobegonde. So that's so where I hang my hat.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
There you go and the cars. You know, you do
a good job of writing.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Besides rac and a Dream, we cover that you did
Marveless Children, Something for Nothing, Untethered and m and the
Murder by Munchausen series and tells Marpoult, especially one by Munchhausen.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
The Murder by Munchausen is about robots in the in
the near future twenty forty fifty that are very humanoid
and groups of cyber hackers figure out a way to
break into them and turn them into hitman for hire.
So the story actually follows the police unit and it's
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based in Cleveland, but it follows a police unit that
tracks down the arid robots and goes after the hackers
and there so and there's I've got four books in
that series, Murdered by Munchausen, The Dark Net, Invisible Mind,
and Motherless Children. They're all in that series. And it's
called Munchausen because it's people taking over for the robots
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and turning into into something that they shouldn't be doing.
That's where the title comes from.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Right, And maybe think of Baron von Munchausen. You'll make
it seem like, you know, he's done everything but exaggerates it.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Yeah, yep, just like that, just like that. So and
it's a it's a pretty interesting series. That's like I
said in the fourth book.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And plus you know, we also had one of the
children Something for Nothing and Untethered tell us about those.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Something for Nothing is about two Ohio state dropouts that
go to Alaska to get rich on the Alaska Trans
Alaska pipeline. They get up there, find it's hard to
get a job. They end up working in a restaurant
until they find out that there's a buried treasure up
(11:13):
in one of the glaciers there, and they get involved
with a couple of other guys, a bush pilot, the
bar owner to go up and figure out a way
to get the get the gold out of the crashed
airplane up there. So follows that story there. Untethered is
a young adult dystopian story about a guy in high
(11:39):
school who gets sideways with the authorities and kind of
checks out of the high school and onto a like
I said, a dystopian kind of environment there and motherless children. That's,
like I said, that's the fourth book in the Munchausen series.
(12:00):
It changes with some of the detectives there and it
goes after a serial killer, you know, kind of recreating
serial killers.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Oh yes, I think we've got a lot of that
going on these days and hopefully tho's happen future in
our world here, So flying pilots, Cleveland, everything like that.
You also have Lodging, a love story and the Invisible
Mind and tell us about those, Okay.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Lodging is that's a romance story. It's a novella. Takes
place in Liberal, Kansas during World War Two where they're
training the B twenty four pilots, and it's a high
school girl that falls in love with one of the pilots. There.
The funny story about that is I had this idea
for it. Lodging means when the wind blows down the
(12:51):
wheat in Kansas. So I had this idea, and I
couldn't figure out how to put it all together. And
my girlfriend, Lola, she was friends with the one hundred
year old woman, and this woman read every book on
the New York Times bestseller list, and she was actually
reading the biography of Keith Richards. Oh, reading the biography
(13:13):
of Keith Richards and said, I don't like all the
things he did, but he sure loved his mom. But anyway,
that story, that story about her kind of crystallized my
tale of logic. So it just brought it in the focus,
put it in the perspective, and helped get through that.
(13:35):
The Invisible Mind that's the third in the first three
Munchausen series, which are very tightly woven together. The three
are kind of interesting. The first book is first person,
told by one of the male detectives. The second book,
The Dark Net, is a first person told by the female,
(13:55):
and then The Invisible Mind is third person, where they
actually go after a guy who's kind of replicating serial
killer homes in Cleveland and going after different as a serial.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Killer, okay, And plus you also had as well too,
like to Find a lot of physics as well too,
and then some other books I cover in the Black
and more, Yes.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
To Find the Laws of Physics that I put together.
I remember I told you I was studying verse when
I was an English major, And that's got a lot
of the poems I wrote from long ago, and some
of the lyrics I wrote on the songs over the
years in the Black is we talked about I liked
(14:46):
Catch twenty two. That's kind of my answer to Catch
twenty two. It's a satire of the sixties where I,
you know, go in and go after all the people
in the sixties. You know, I lived there. Plus it's
got an element of the defense department. One of the
main characters, you know, owns his own aerospace company, and
(15:08):
then it really follows his son as they go through
the end of the sixties. And it's all just kind
of dark humor, satire kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
And you seem to write more about along the lines
of aerospace, defense work and everything like that. And what
else do you base your ideas, books and everything else on?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Just what kind of whatever comes to mind, Like I
said Lodging was totally different. That's kind of a more
of a military romance story. You know, I've got the
science fiction murder mysteries, I've got the aviation stories, and
then in the black is the aerospace story. One nut
(15:53):
that's interesting is called Crossroads that I have and it's
just an e book, but it's based on a rock
and roller in the seventies gets kind of grabbed up
into espionage and it follows the story of the government
going after him as he goes through the through the time.
(16:14):
The thing that's interesting is it's got like twenty eight
different songs from the seventies that are embedded in with
with the book, and I've got you know, the words
from the songs are important to the story. And then
the reason it's an ebook is I put all of
the songs into the book, you know, from YouTube, you know,
(16:36):
either my renditions of them, which you know, or the
original copies from Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones and Supertramp.
So that's I call it the first I think it's
the first novel that actually has its own soundtrack.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That's interesting. You got twenty of them to cover and
you know, you know, everybody should check that out. And
plus you mentioned you being in blues as well too,
and and of course you played in Cleveland for some time.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And who are some of your favorite blues are growing up?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Well, you know any you know? Of course Clapton, he's great.
I like, uh, you know, Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa, he's
he's another great guy, you know. And of course all
the Kings, Alfred King, b D King, Freddy King, all
those guys. So those are all all folks I listened
to and tried to emulate. H.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
And that's interesting as well too. And uh, just one
more thing. Do you have the book Racing the Dream
with you right now?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
As a matter of fact, I do.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, you know what h If you own mind, maybe
you can read like an excer of that. We'll get
to that one minute with Mt Bass or Racing the Dream.
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Low Fly Fast, Turn left Field the Micro Rightner's Show,
and It'll tell us about the second part of it.
What's the meaning of fly low, fly fast, and turn left.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Well, that's basically what the air racer pilots do. They
fly low between fifty feet and two hundred fifty feet
is the top altitude. Fifty feet is the lowest altitude,
so the flying low the line as fast as they can,
and just like NASCAR, all the turns are to the left,
so that's where that comes from.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
That is rather interesting.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
And then maybe just picking pubook a race and the dream,
maybe can read an extra file.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Would you like to do that today?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Sure, I'll read a little bit of it.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
But yeah, we ahead this one thing.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I'd just like to mention the picture on the cover
we talked about the very first nineteen sixty four international
air races. I was actually really lucky that I talked
to them and they gave me permission to use the
poster from the first to air race in nineteen sixty
four on the cover of my book. So, oh nice, Okay,
(21:05):
it's a great honor there for that. So just starting off,
I don't know how much you want me to read.
Just got me off when you.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Read, But yeah, that's fine. You can do a little
bit that just get an idea. I mean, I love
when people read. So it's like bedtime stories, afternoon whatever.
It is, relaxed, it's a good time to do so.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Okay, well, this is the this is the first chapter.
It's called Antelope Acres. And to start off the book
and the first person from Hawk's point of view, at
Chase Scotty down the long straightaway three hundred feet back,
one hundred feet off the ground, one hundred and seventy knots.
A quick look at the panel, thirty six hundred dor
(21:45):
pm Look engine oil pressure green, look oil temperature green,
all good. Banking hard into the pylon at w Avenue
G and Mirror Canyon Road over the desert. The shadow
on the ground to my left crawled toward my British
tracing green colored wing. He had to be outside. You
can't look to the right, it's just not safe. But
(22:06):
the sun was behind us. I locked it a bit
in the eighty degree turn, climbed twenty feet or so,
and quickly doed back down to close another one hundred
and fifty feet on Scotti, picking up a bit of
his wake turbulence. Rolling out and down the front straight away,
I found smooth air twenty five feet above his red
hot tnsen casset. We used the crossroads, a pile of rocks,
(22:28):
a little hump in the desert, and a windmill water
pumped set up our three mile oval course. I knew
Scotti from the Van Nyes, but the other three guys
were new from other Cellcalf airports. We were all on
company frequency one two three point five. He joined up
in a loose formation for a pace lap, then got
(22:49):
down to the business with a flying start.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
That is a really nice beginning as well too, and
it also made me think of some of the airline
paths and who are some of the aviation uh heroes
that you grew up admired and everything like that, maybe
some of the famous politic to talk about.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Uh well, you know, uh. One of the first books
that I remember, you know, reading was uh Triple Ace
Joseph McConnell. He was a World War or a Korean
War fighter fighter pilot who had fifteen shootdowns of meigs there.
So I just remember that story is one of the
(23:30):
most interesting. Of course, there's Chuck Yeger, Charles Lindbergh, you know,
and Robin Ols you know from the Vietnam War. All
through the years. There's different guys. Uh. The one uh,
the one guy in the book in Racing the Dream
was Bill Stead. He was an actual uh uh. He
(23:54):
was a pilot and he had an airport up in Reno,
and he's the one that we founded the Reno Air
Races and got it all started on his own. And
he used to be actually be a boat racing pilot
before he became involved in the air racing, so he
had a lot of experience.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
There, Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
And plus I thought about that, you're based in Cleveland
as well too, and you're not too far from the
Right Brothers Museum in Dayton as well.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Every time I drive by this, I makes you think
the Right Brothers.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Yeah, yeah, they're down there. When I was doing the
aerospace thing for a while, I was actually calling on
the Air Force offices at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
I'd go down there for like two or three days
every month to call on people, talk to them about
you know, products and stuff. But one of the things
(24:50):
I did was every time I went down there, I
went to the Air Force Museum. And I actually started
at the very beginning of the museum wound my way
all the way through to uh, you know, the Vietnam War,
so I got to see the whole thing mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
And it does sound like you've cover a lot of ground.
And for those who want to get into being a
pilot or being air force whatever or else. So first
of all, whoever wants to be a pile what's the
best advice you can give to anybody who wants to
be a pilot?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Uh? You know, if that's something you're really interested and
it's it's a fantastic thing to do, you know, it's
like they say, it's the most one you can do
with your clothes on. You just uh. Most most uh
flight schools offer like demo rides, So if you think
you're interested, you get in touch with them and you
(25:43):
can usually get a very attractive price on a demo
ride to go and see if you really like it
being up in a plane like that. That's the best
best start, and then from there it's just uh making
the commitment to see it through. You know. Uh, there's
a there is a lot of study for it. You know,
you got to learn about weather, a bon x, their
(26:04):
aerodynamics and stuff. But it's well worth it, you know,
if you get through it, get your license. Then once
you have it, you can go anywhere in the United
States you want, anytime you want.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
And we and we encourage you way to do that.
In the meantime, where can when you find your book
rate some dream why he works.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
At It's all on Amazon under my you know, m T.
Bass is h is the title that's under with all
my other books. My website is m T. Bass dot net.
That's uh where it's got all the information about my books,
my audiobooks and you know hard hard back paperback covers.
(26:44):
There you can get information, get purchasing links there.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
And what's the website again, it's w W W M T.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Bass b A s S dot net, not dot com
dot net. There's a football player with the do.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Or make him fly? I can do that too.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
So yeah, we're here at the Amazing author Empty Bath.
I raised them dream Fly, low Fly Fast turn left
here on the Microhnders show and empty just a few
more things.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
What else can we expect me twenty twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Well, right now I'm about sixty seventy percent through the
follow up book to article fifteen that's about follows a
X Navy seal he's a fixer for a law firm,
and in this book he's tracking down the stalker for
a country Western singer. Okay, solve that problem. So that's next.
(27:39):
And then beyond that, book number four in the PUK
series is called Manyana and that's going to follow him
down to Central America.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Okay, well, certainly check that out and looking forward to it.
Who do you consider biggest influence in the career.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
I big inst influenced my career. Well, actually the professor
I had at Ohio Wesleyan. He was an author from Toledo.
He wrote verse and novels there, so he was really
a strong influence on me, helping me, you know, learn
more about the creative writing process, you know. And then
(28:20):
of course, you know, I have big homage to Joseph
Heller who wrote Catch twenty two.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Okay, we're certainly really good good as well too. What's
the best advice you can give the aim by at
this point?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Just in general?
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Just in general, my motto is persevered to the point
of stupidity. You just got to keep out whatever you
want to do, you just got to keep going. So
that's my.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Model, and I think that's really good advice.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
As well too here with author Empty Bass of Racing
The Dream Fly Low Fly Fast Turned Left Field of
Mike Whenders Show, m Taverabi, Thanks for time, if you've
been abst fantastic, Leonard Lot, look at Ford, having Soon,
keeps up today, Keep in touch lavvavy Back And what's
your website? How do people contact you? Whor can people
purchase or check out your books?
Speaker 5 (29:09):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Where can people purchase or check out your books?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Again? All the ebooks are on Amazon, They're all in
Kindle unlimited. I've got the hardback books available from my website,
from Barnes and Noble, from you know any other place
that will sell printed books. You can get them there.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Okay, well, certainly check that out once you get mpt
at very big. Thanks for time, you've been abste fantastic,
looking forward, having Soon, keeps up to day, keep in touch,
labavy Back, We wish all best and Mudcat you define
have a great.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Fit you you Hey, Thanks, it's been great talking to
you today. I had a great time.
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