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Jeff Janoda's Season Of Life The Aftermath Of Gettysburg · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Only on Arrow.net. A-R-R-O-E.net. Enjoy your exploration. Hello. Jeff, how
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  Speaker 1: are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, Arrow. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Doing fantastic. You're up there in Ontario? Yeah, I'm in Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: I live in Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. That whole entire area has won a
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  Speaker 1: major place in my heart. And the reason why is
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  Speaker 1: because when I was on AM radio back in the 1980s, Somehow,
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  Speaker 1: some way, the universal gods would bring my signal to
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  Speaker 1: your area, and I got more listeners from your area.
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  Speaker 1: So anytime that I hear anybody from that area, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, automatic win, they're in. Maybe that's one
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  Speaker 1: of the seasons of life you're talking about. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's right. Yeah. I'm glad you had
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  Speaker 2: some listeners up here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. You know, all I want is one.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that what they teach us in radio? Just go
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  Speaker 1: for one. And then everybody else will start following. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's what they always try to teach us. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's the same way when you write books like
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  Speaker 1: you're doing here. How else can we get the conversation
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  Speaker 1: started if you don't touch one? That's all we need
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  Speaker 1: is one. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. You're never really writing for a group of people.
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  Speaker 2: You're you're almost like writing for yourself. And that's just
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  Speaker 2: one person.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Does this sound good to me?
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you guys had some serious headlines up there
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  Speaker 1: with that vote. I mean, you're talking about voting inside
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  Speaker 1: the book and everything in that sense of freedom. But man,
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  Speaker 1: the world was watching your country yesterday, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You mean the Alberta referendum?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I mean, my
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  Speaker 1: eye was on that news all freaking day yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Well, it was pretty much as we anticipated.
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  Speaker 2: Four-fifths of Albertans want to stay in Canada. And that's
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  Speaker 2: about what I expected from what I got from talking
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  Speaker 2: to people in Alberta.
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  Speaker 1: When you put a book like this together, doesn't it
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  Speaker 1: get inside the head and heart and those that have
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  Speaker 1: the questions and want to kind of break free of things?
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  Speaker 1: It kind of gives them a redirection of thought of like,
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  Speaker 1: look at the soil that you're walking on. There is
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  Speaker 1: a plan. There is a purpose. Just stay truer to it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a point there.
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  Speaker 2: Like Gettysburg, where my novel is set and thereabouts, I
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  Speaker 2: walked the ground myself while I was doing the actual
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  Speaker 2: writing of the novel. And I really wanted to... Send
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  Speaker 2: it out, you know, like what this place is, what
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  Speaker 2: happened here, you know. Why is it special in the
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  Speaker 2: American hearts, you know? I think I did a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good job, too. I think I got through the spirit
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  Speaker 2: of the place.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look at what you do to We Who Read, man.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a farmer turned a spy, a volunteer nurse,
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  Speaker 1: and a supernatural presence. I mean, come on. You've got me.
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  Speaker 1: If this was Netflix, I'd be all over this thing, like, instantly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's hoping.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if this really did take off into
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  Speaker 1: something like that? Because, I mean, what you're doing here,
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  Speaker 1: if you're putting pictures in my mind, I want them
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  Speaker 1: from my eyes as well, dude.
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  Speaker 2: You're right. What would you prefer, a movie or a
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  Speaker 2: show of the novel?
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be a series. It's got to be
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  Speaker 1: a series. Yeah, I agree. This way, nothing's going to
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  Speaker 1: hold you back as a writer and that you've got
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  Speaker 1: all the time in the world to share the character
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  Speaker 1: divisions as well as the explorations that each and every
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  Speaker 1: one of your characters are going to go through.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got a point there. And there's, like, many
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  Speaker 2: points of view in the book.
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  Speaker 1: There are.
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  Speaker 2: Not a multitude of characters, but there's, like, four main characters,
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  Speaker 2: and they each have their own story, right? So it
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  Speaker 2: would be, I think, a lot more suited to television,
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of emotions did you go through when you
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  Speaker 1: were trying to put this book together? Because, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it starts with you, dude. You're the seed. All we're
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  Speaker 1: doing is we're reaping on the fruit. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Well, I became fascinated, as most Canadians who are
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  Speaker 2: interested in history, with the American Civil War. It was
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  Speaker 2: just such a convulsive thing for your country. It almost
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  Speaker 2: ended your country, right? And up here in Canada, we're
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  Speaker 2: great observers of the United States. The metaphor I like
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  Speaker 2: to use is that– it's kind of like you're in
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  Speaker 2: a small enclosure with an elephant, right? And so you
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  Speaker 2: pay attention to the elephant. You pay attention to what
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  Speaker 2: the elephant does. So you don't get, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: elephant's fine just doing elephant stuff, but it might step
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  Speaker 2: on you or sit on you. It's so big, right?
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  Speaker 2: So you pay attention to the elephant. And so you
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  Speaker 2: learn a lot. Sometimes you learn things about the elephant
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  Speaker 2: that the elephant might not know about itself, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. There's more with Jeff DeNoda coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: The name of his book is Season of Life. It
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  Speaker 1: is for all ages, and you are going to find
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  Speaker 1: so much history in it and a twist that only
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Janota could give you. We are back. One of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I'm learning about YA readers is that
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  Speaker 1: they love their history. I don't know what the switch
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  Speaker 1: is or who finally turned that switch on, but my God,
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  Speaker 1: for them to see Season of Life, I think they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be carrying this around with them long after
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  Speaker 1: the big fad is over, if you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I'm certainly hoping for that. The great thing about historical
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  Speaker 2: fiction is that, you know, people get tired of history
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  Speaker 2: because it's facts and dates and things like that. But
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  Speaker 2: about what happened. But historical fiction is about the people
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  Speaker 2: who were there during those facts and dates. Right. And
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  Speaker 2: what happened to them and how they responded to it.
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  Speaker 2: That's the most important part about historical fiction.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you love it, though? I mean, to be in
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  Speaker 1: that moment, because one of the things that I want
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  Speaker 1: listeners to know, you're not using hidden speak. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: you're not hiding anything, that you're taking a story and
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  Speaker 1: building a story upon it, because you're putting us as
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  Speaker 1: readers in that moment. It's like, oh my God, he
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  Speaker 1: took me there. I feel like I'm there. It's not
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  Speaker 1: something that I get to imagine. You get to give
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  Speaker 1: it to me through your writing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. And I try to deal with, like,
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  Speaker 2: there's some sensitive things in there. Like, I'm dealing with
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  Speaker 2: 19th century racism, both in the North and the South.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got to be, you've got to come from
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  Speaker 2: a place of respect and understanding. You know, you better
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  Speaker 2: know what you're talking about when you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: doing a novel that includes those things, you know. And, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Other factors, too, like the appalling state of medicine at
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  Speaker 2: the time. You don't want to be offending people about
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  Speaker 2: the fact that medicine at the time was causing more
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  Speaker 2: harm to people than it was helping them. We were
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  Speaker 2: just coming out of that phase of medicine, actually, at
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  Speaker 2: that time in the mid-1860s.
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  Speaker 1: Do we get to see this inside a school library?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, down here in the States, they're all, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they can be little monsters down here when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to books. And I really think this would be the
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  Speaker 1: type of book that I know I would walk in
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  Speaker 1: there and I would sit there and I would say,
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  Speaker 1: this is the book I want to read. And because
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  Speaker 1: I know that we didn't have that challenge when I
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  Speaker 1: was in school. But today, we need to get this
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  Speaker 1: book into those libraries, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, too. I'm actually doing library outreaches,
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  Speaker 2: both myself and through some author organizations like the IBPA
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  Speaker 2: and CIPA. I'm trying to reach libraries. It's very important
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  Speaker 2: for that. School libraries, too. I mean, it's a book
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  Speaker 2: that's written for adults. But if you had a precocious,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like a high school student who's interested in reading,
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  Speaker 2: Not just the Civil War, but things like race relations,
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  Speaker 2: 19th century medical techniques, the political situation in their own country.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a really valuable way to teach history, really,
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  Speaker 2: to read this book.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about everything
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  Speaker 1: that you're doing? Cause I love what you're doing. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not because I'm a radio freak. It's because I
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  Speaker 1: really don't do love reading about history and then having
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  Speaker 1: stories just like this. Great.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's available on Amazon. Um, uh, you can get
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  Speaker 2: it there. It's available for my publisher, freezing press as well, too. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it is, uh, it's found in electronic form on, on, uh,
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  Speaker 2: on Kindle, on Kobo, all the other ones too. And
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  Speaker 2: just the other day, the audio book came out. So
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  Speaker 2: you can get that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It's very important. Yeah, I know. It's on Amazon too,
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  Speaker 2: or you can go like right to Audible and get
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  Speaker 2: it there too. Or you can go to my website, jeffgenota.ca,
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  Speaker 2: and all the information on the book and my other
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  Speaker 2: books is there. And it has buttons to go to Amazon, Reason,
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  Speaker 2: and to Audible too.
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  Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show anytime in
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  Speaker 1: the future, dude. The door is always going to be
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  Speaker 1: open for you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: You bet, man. You be brilliant today, okay?
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  Speaker 2: I'll send you an email so you have my email.
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  Speaker 1: I would love that because I'll set up another day
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  Speaker 1: with you in a heartbeat, dude.
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  Speaker 2: All right, man. Take care.