A one, the one you trust. And today we're gonna take a little bit of an adventure because I have a fellow broadcaster with me who's also an author, and Mary Leonard. How are you today. I'm very well, Tom, and I'm awfully happy to be here with you. She speaks real
English. I speak okay English. But you're actually from England originally. Yes, I was born and raised in England and I left at a very young age and I went over to New Zealand where I joined broadcasting, and from there I got to New York. In New York, I found a young German gentleman, and we are married. And he's sitting out that's that handsome fella out there. It has been quite a long time. Well goodness that he's still smiling, so everything must be going great, not bad, not
bad. B Yeah, well, you know, welcome to our radio station. You actually worked in a radio station just down the road in Owatsaw a few years back. I was. It was a classical music station started by John Major. And it was not that John Major, folks, the other John, not the Prime Minister, not just the name. But that was a real thrill because we were living in in Bartlesville. My husband was working for the big company here, which is of course used to be Bartlesville,
and Bartlesville was Phillips Petroleum, and I wanted something to do. I found this radio station really wonderful. People were running it. I started there and I did some more announcing in a warsaw. But in the in the book, I've called it bug Tussle, bug Tussele. Yes, I saw that, I'm going to come on. You know that there really is. Yeah, it's a little reason. In fact, one of the former members of our used to be the speaker of the house, Carl Albert. He was
from Bug. So I thought the name is just too good not to use God, so I superimposed bug Tussle over a while. Now the name of your book is Split Second Decisions, Random or Predestined. Now, this is a book, folks, it's a novel, but it's pretty much based on the lady you're Yarine right now, and you did this in kind of a
different way. It's almost like a letter to yourself. Well, I really wanted to write an autobiography, but in most of the books that I've read are rather boring, and I feel the self aggrandizing and you really want to say, oh, come on, tell us about the time when you couldn't pay the rent, tell us about the time you got fired. But it's
never really quite the truth. So I thought, what I'll do is I'll write a novel memoir, and I'll write it through the eyes of my young grand son sixteen years of age, because I wanted a fresh, irreverent kind of voice. You got to play and have fun, didn't you. I read this, and I'm sitting there going, oh my, I really had. I got a kick out of this, I really did. Where are you coming from here? Well, the thing is, the main character is
an irishman, sure, Sean Francis Murphy. Now, anybody who's got even a snitching of Irish knows that we're really not the full shilling, any of us. No, not at all. So I wanted it to be amusing, and I hope, I hope I got it was. It was God, and you took us through many different places, many different adventures, but all of these were very much based on your adventures. And but through this character. Now we were talking in the green room, and folks, we
really don't have a green room. We just pretend because we got a little tea thing going on here. But I asked Mary, I said, well, what kind of broadcasting did you do? You interviewed a big name rock and roll act when you were younger? Yes, I did. I interviewed George Harrison up the Beatles. Say did you shriek like the young ladies did back then? You know? The thing was we were all about the same
agent. It was long before they became really really famous, and they had made all these contractual obligations before they became famous, and then they had to course carry through. This is why they were in Dunedin, New Zealand, which is really a very small town for the Beatless. Yeah, they just cleaned house there in Dunedin, so you know, they had a poor house, I imagine, But I can only imagine how you process these things through
the eyes of mister Sean and through that character. It's really a lot of fun. And the book is available on uh well, on Amazon Amazon here, and you can get that. It's a good read. It's a fun read, and it's not going to take you, you know, a whole week to get through it. But it is so enjoyable. I mean, I was I was laughing at a little bit. Well, the title alone is the German pronunciation of fat f a h rt. Now as when we
pronounce it in English, it sounds a little different. Oh yeah, but it's the German fat and Wise, which is the name of two characters. Yes, and during the book the character changes his name quite a few times, which is because he had to, which is part of the fun of the book. Yes, it is, yes, And the thing is, I knew that when I saw it because I took German when I was younger. Because there are kids in the neighborhood you kind of had to learn how
to talk to them. But anyway, it was a This book is just really if you like smiling folks, buy it. You will smile, you'll get a kick out of the adventures, and you'll get a kick out how he and it lives up to its spirit right there a split second decisions random or predestined, and you're left to figure that out. Well, I think most of us have that feeling. Occasionally will make a rash decision. We hope it's not rash, but you're never quite sure how it will turn out.
But we just seem to leap in and make a decision at random and very often it turns out to be quite successful. And this was what happened to my character. Oh, we're going to read here for a little bits on the tablet left to read you just a little bit. Please tell This character is as a young boy of fourteen, he gets onto a ship going to the United States. The way he gets on the ship is it's really
a fluke. It's a Jewish doctor who is escaping from Kiev from the pogroms with his family, and he sees this young boy there with almost tears in his eyes. He can't get a job as a cabin boy, and he needs to get to the New World because of the potato famine, which has been a terrible blight in his own country. There literally is no hope for him in Ireland. And he gets on this ship with the family and they point him down to the where the stowways go. And this is a little
bit of what happens when he gets there to Ellis Island. From the barge to Lower Manhattan just a moment, let me get this right. From the barge to Lower Manhattan. Okay, now here he is on the barge to Manhattan, he remembered shouting of names, somebody answering with a raised hand, a quick signing of papers, then either deliverance or rejection through a blue painted door. That door, the one marked immigration, was the gateway to the
world he craved, but he lacked the necessary papers. The ID tag he had he was certain would not be sufficient to get him through. What happened next was either a miracle or the result of officials being overworked or maybe careless. Schwisvuss Albert. Nobody responded, hesitating for a moment, the name was repeated, Schwais Voss Albert. Still no one answered, so he raised his hand. He raised his hand. Sean Francis Murphy entered the United States of
America with a working visa in a stranger's name. He later learned that had officials recognized as stowaway, he would have received the same treatment like regular passengers, respect and politeness. But his fixation with split second decisions started at that moment and it affected his entire life. And you can feel the adrenaline in that moment, looking around, looking around, Should I should I not?
Should I should have? Then split second? Whoop, here goes the hand, yes, and you know you could You can really feel that when you're reading it. He took a chance. He took a chance, He rolled the bones, and Homie came at that age, at such a young age, it did affect his life from then on. Later on, as he matured, he realized that sometimes these random decisions are not always successful. At
first they can be rather disappointing. But later on I think he realized that maybe certain people come into our life for some reason, maybe shows we're going on a different path. It should be we should get on a different path with our lives, and other times they're there forever. But sometimes, as it has often been observed, it takes a brilliant mind. We need to know the difference. And therefore I think we're in the hands of the divine
when it comes to it, I would agree. Folks, I'd like for you to go to your computer and order this on Amazon, and it's a fact and wi are split second decisions random or predestined. In paperback, you can get that. You can also get it on Kendall for only four ninety nine and less than sixteen dollars on hardcover and paperback, it's about fifteen dollars. What's up? Just oh, one more time? Yeah, the name fact and why each RT and wiss colon are split second decisions, random or
predestined. You get that paper back, hard back or kindled, because I know people do that. They do that kindle thing all the time. I like the feel of a book myself, Yes, me too, Nothing like that field of a book is it? And it's an author. When you've written it, it becomes part of you. I look at it sometimes and and I lovingly touch it because all my life I have wanted to do it, and suddenly in my ages, oh heavens, I did it. Oh I did it. Yes, that's one of those aha moments. Look here,
we've done it. Success. Mary. It has been a pleasure having you on the radio today and talking about the book. And I hope folks have a great time reading it as much as I did about a month ago. And somehow I got a little amnesia, but I did read it about a month ago when you said it, and my golly, it is. It is fun and you will kind of live the character a little bit. You'll you also raise a couple of times, and you will chuckle a bit
too. So it's really got its ups and downs, and it's got it's a. It's moments of oh my, and you kind of look for the oh mai in this book. Mary, thank you, Thank you so much. Tom. It's late the pleasure. Ladies and gentlemen, you've been listening to and watching our Community Connection program on K one The One you Trust