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Episode #49 - Unforgettable First Date, A Journey with Author Mark Scott Through Stories, Sobriety, and Celebration

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Episode #49 - Unforgettable First Date, A Journey with Author Mark Scott Through Stories, Sobriety, and Celebration

Interview with Author, Mark E. Scott
His book: Unforgettable First Date Began With a Leap of Faith

Jack Current believed his plan was foolproof. The jump off the bridge would end his life — or at least it was supposed to. But it didn't. In fact, the jump off the bridge didn't kill either of them.

First Date, the darkly humorous, poignant new book from Mark E. Scott, follows Jack as he spends the next 8 hours of his life in a hospital, escaping a nosey deputy, avoiding a psyche exam and maybe falling in love with the bartender who saved his life. 

First Date is a story of individuals haunted by suicide, remorse and unanswered questions: questions whose answers are not to be found in the bottom of a bottle. Secrets are revealed and souls are bared, but answers are still elusive. For now, they only have each other, a dollar store notebook and a teddy bear.

First Date is the second installment in Scott’s three-part, Day in the Life series, in which the unexpected, twisted saga of Jack and Aria unfolds over a combined period of 24 hours. Book One, Drunk Log, was released in 2022 and traces the first eight hours of Jack’s unsteady march toward his intended demise.

For more information, please visit www.markescottauthor.com, or connect with him on Instagram @markescottauthor and Facebook (Mark E. Scott, Author).

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/First-Date-Life-Mark-Scott/dp/164540840X/ 
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Speaker 1:

Hi, welcome to Rebooted Mindset, formerly Rebooted the Podcast. I'm your host, elita Hernandez. Come join me every Wednesday and Sunday afternoon at 2.30 pm Eastern time to hear real-life conversations with experts around the world on how we can heal our body, mind, soul and spirit. So let's get talking. Hi everybody, elita Hernandez, back to you again on Rebooted the Podcast, and simultaneously will be aired on Westworld Magazine as well. I'm with a guest today and author, mark Scott. Correct, yes, mark Scott, correct, yes, and you said this is the second book in your series. So I guess give us a little bit of background about yourself and you know, like, how you start writing these books.

Speaker 2:

Well, I actually tried writing my first novel when I was 15, unsuccessfully, because I was 15. And there was too much going on. But as the years progressed, I kept trying, kept trying, finally finished my first one about 15 years ago or so, and that didn't go anywhere. I wrote another one, didn't go anywhere, wrote a third, found an agent she liked it, publishers not so much. And then so I said well, what do you want me to do now? And she says write another book.

Speaker 1:

So like a side simple right yeah in her mind, that's you, just let you know, do it.

Speaker 2:

And I was hiking, hikes, peak with a small group and one in the group was a scientist and she was telling me about one night where she was going to go out and get drunk and record everything she was thinking and feeling like a scientist might do. And I said holy crap. And she called it her drunk blog. So I said you know, can I have that idea for free? And she said she says yours. And then she got altitude poisoning and she forgot all about the conversation. I'm just kidding. She was sure, but altitude sickness rather. And I wrote drunk log, gave it to my agent. She again, you know, was doing her job, looking for a publisher and found one who asked if I could make it and you know, do some sequels to it. And I said heck, yeah if we'll get it published.

Speaker 2:

I can continue the story, you know. So drunk log came out last year, first date. The second book of the series, which is confusing because it's called first date and it's the second book, but came out at the end of May, and the third one, I imagine. It's written it should be out before the end of the year.

Speaker 1:

So the series of books is based on those drunk logs that your friend was doing, correct?

Speaker 2:

So, yeah, the series itself is called A Day in the Life. Each book covers eight hours of a 24 hour period. Okay, the two main characters, nice or Jack and Aria.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, I haven't looked. I haven't read the book yet I have. It's very interesting I was just thinking about this while you were talking that I've been speaking to very a number of authors and I'm impressed with all of you that there are so many people out there writing books. You know it's frightening, it's unbelievable how many books there are, but it's good. It's a good thing. We need to keep that going because I feel like, since we're in the digital age now, it's just not the same anymore.

Speaker 1:

I mean you know I like a book, I like to hold a book and you know, sit in a corner somewhere and read a book and you know you're always on the phone, like I read things here all the time too. But it's not the same, it's just I don't know. You kind of lose something.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, I mean, there's like 30 million books on Amazon 50 million, which is an incredible number of books, so that includes self-published and published. But I agree with you your brain, statistically, kindle and electronic book sales has stagnated, while paper book sales continue to increase. I think that's because our brains do react differently to an analog sort of turn-the-page tactile experience than it does to an electronic screen we have in front of us. And what I'm for sure of, because I have read this, is that when you're handwriting is a different relationship in your brain than typing.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

And then typing is different than a computer typing and it's amazing that we're figuring all this stuff out about the brain. But as a writer, I like paper because you can drop it, it doesn't hurt it you can smoke coffee on it and you can still read it. You can carry it on an airplane and if you leave it behind, you're not freaking out because it was a 50-kilogram write.

Speaker 2:

You don't have to charge your book, you don't have to charge it you can pick it up and read it literally anywhere, as long as you've got a glow from your watch or something.

Speaker 1:

Something. Yeah, I put one of those at the dollar store. I put one of those little lights you put on the book.

Speaker 2:

I have one of those.

Speaker 1:

Well, because I can't, as you get older you can't really see very well. So I'm reading I wouldn't know.

Speaker 2:

Alita.

Speaker 1:

You're hiding your glasses. Well, oh my gosh, that was another question. I just loved me too.

Speaker 2:

But I really enjoyed writing. I mean, I enjoy writing and drunk a lot especially. I brought the idea back here to Cincinnati and talked to another writer friend of mine named Jim DeBros and he goes oh, that's a great idea, but you know you got to. Why is he doing it? So I created the story based on advice I was given by another writer, you know, because his opinion was what's he going to do? Just sit there and drink for eight hours? And I'm like, yeah, Something will do.

Speaker 1:

Why not, man, if I would have written the logs the times I used to go out and be out drinking and partying with friends and who knows? I mean, I still remember a lot of things, you know, and I always say I've always said, oh, I want to write. And somebody told me, when you start even writing a little bit, like even a journal, that can become a book.

Speaker 2:

Yes.

Speaker 1:

So I've never really been a journal person, like I'll write once in a while, but I'm not an avid journal writer. I know a lot of people that I know now do that for personal growth, that do journaling to see where they're at and everything like that. So I don't know, I'm going to see if I can start doing that. I just do so much interviews and so much talking that I'm already telling my story.

Speaker 2:

So it's like trying to say, I would venture to say that it will sound different if you write it down. Oh yeah, and you and I chatting here. It's weird what comes out through the pen or through the typewriter or through the computer once you start in, and then you go back and read it a year later, five days later, whatever, and you're like what. Oh yeah.

Speaker 1:

I have some of those. I wake it up like three in the morning, like from a dream or something and a great idea, and I just grab the phone and I dictate it or start typing and next day I read and I go I wrote that Wow, that's pretty good. I was like I wasn't in another subconscious writing or something.

Speaker 2:

I'm quite often the opposite. I'll read it days later and think it's crap. That's how I know the difference. That's the difference. If something makes it all the way into the book or into a book, it's because I've reread it 10 times and it's just fine.

Speaker 1:

But it takes a lot of work I mean, it's a lot of discipline to do something like that. That would you do and many others do on so many subjects. And what I was thinking is what's your take on this? Talking about writing, there's a writer strike going on in Hollywood and people don't realize the ramification of that. I don't know if people realize have you seen that there's no new episodes, like no new episodes of shows and things like that, because there's no writers. Writers are very important.

Speaker 2:

Well, one of a good friend. We were watching a show or something and just out of the blue she says a writer wrote that and it was nice of her to point that out to me. Sometimes you just got to remember that. But I don't understand all the issues of the writer strike. I understand that. I mean, where are you located, alita?

Speaker 1:

I'm in Fort Lauderdale Florida.

Speaker 2:

OK, so we're in the same team.

Speaker 1:

I used to live in California, so I know they're in Hollywood. All that's coming out of Hollywood California where the studios are.

Speaker 2:

I would support it because I think that if and I think the actors now are in on it too right? Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 1:

I don't, I don't know, I haven't been, I didn't read too much about it. I know that it came up. It happened back in, I want to say, the late 80s. There was a writer strike also. Ok, I was living in California at the time and I had a good friend. When you live in Hollywood, I lived in Hollywood, California. So everybody's either a writer or an actor, right or want to be.

Speaker 2:

Sure, just like Cincinnati.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, I saw that show. Was it hot in Cincinnati. Remember that show.

Speaker 2:

Wait, what's it called?

Speaker 1:

Hot in Cincinnati or something like that.

Speaker 2:

I don't remember that one.

Speaker 1:

There's a show with. Betty White was in it.

Speaker 2:

Really.

Speaker 1:

It was so funny. It's a comedy.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I think I do sort of remember that.

Speaker 1:

One of them was an actress. She moved from Hollywood to Cincinnati. So her different, her way, her life is and just it was just. It was a fun thing.

Speaker 2:

It was probably a lot better here in Cincinnati than it was in California.

Speaker 1:

Probably.

Speaker 2:

I'm very pro Cincinnati.

Speaker 1:

I've never been there so I can't say I haven't been to the Midwest or anything.

Speaker 2:

So drunk log, actually all occurs essentially all. The first book essentially all occurs in my neighborhood which is called over the Rhine and he goes from. There's many bars and over the Rhine is very it can be very touristy on the weekends. But he and then this, the second book, takes him up into Clifton where University of Cincinnati is, if you're familiar with that school.

Speaker 1:

No, I don't, I don't know. Like I said, I don't know anything about Cincinnati. I haven't. I went. I was born in New York, left New York, went to California, lived there, had my kids there a lope to Vegas, then moved here to Florida. So I went East Coast to West Coast and back.

Speaker 2:

Now the they're actually. I grew up in the Midwest. The only time I was on a coast was when I was in the Navy, when I was in Virginia. The thing is here they probably make six or eight movies a year here. Now, oh wow, they're in the. In my neighborhood there's 800 plus buildings on an historic register that were built 160 years ago, so it's a great stand-in if you're trying to do New York or some or Cincinnati itself.

Speaker 2:

Emilio Estevez loves Cincinnati. He built after he visited in 2016,. He built a house somewhere near here. It's a great secret. I keep trying to figure it out where it is, but I'm not stalking Emilio Estevez.

Speaker 1:

Don't think that, but my mom is. I've met him several times, so I didn't know that.

Speaker 2:

So I just learned a little secret of Emilio.

Speaker 1:

I didn't know he had a house in Cincinnati. I see him in Miami. I've seen him on different red carpets because I do media coverage, and so one time I saw him in New York at the Tony Awards and I said are you following me? And me, I just saw you in Miami. He starts laughing.

Speaker 2:

He is such a supporter of the area and my mom has actually stalked him twice, both at the same restaurant. I've told her to stop, let the man eat.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, he's very nice.

Speaker 2:

He's just trying to sell my books.

Speaker 1:

Like here, take the book. I met him, I met his sister Lily, and I met Gloria Stephan as well, and I've met a lot of people down here. Miami is insane. I live in Boca Raton and I have my studio in Fort Lauderdale, so we're like 30 minutes to Miami from Fort Lauderdale and I go to Miami when I need to and I literally say otherwise you avoid it.

Speaker 2:

Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's just. It's very congested. Now they are making the highway is like a triple decker.

Speaker 2:

They have people who wears bikinis in Miami, right.

Speaker 1:

Pretty much down in South Beach If you go. Well, it depends on where you are in Miami. If you're in the South Beach and the Miami in the beach area, that's a tourist area.

Speaker 2:

But they don't sell the beach right there. So but do they go to business meetings and bikinis?

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 2:

No, OK, OK, I just want to.

Speaker 1:

Where is the line drawn? No, not much. It's not Baywatch all the time. Yeah, yeah. But it's just, it's a different, it's a very. We have a very eclectic culture. Of course the Hispanic culture is more dominant down in Miami. I always say Miami is the second Cuba, because when I first moved here-.

Speaker 2:

Non-communist Cuba.

Speaker 1:

No, not communist. Cuba, just Right.

Speaker 2:

No, that's what I mean it's the second Cuba, it's the non-communist Cuba.

Speaker 1:

Right, it's the American Cuba? Yeah, exactly so, my family's from Puerto Rico, so you know Ireland as well. But when I went to Miami the first time when I moved here, I was like so people don't speak English. Like I went into a store and I go, excuse me, I didn't know where I was and I'm asking directions. And the guy just looks at me and I'm like why, why is he not talking to me? And then the person behind me starts talking to him and he's like oh, he's talking Spanish, cuban Spanish, right. And I go oh, so then I realized that the majority of the people, when you get in the heart of Miami okay, not downtown, not even I mean downtown you'll get it, but there's more English, but there's a lot of places that is strictly Spanish.

Speaker 2:

Well, that's the history of this country, isn't it? You know the immigrant groups come in and then bring their language and culture with them, and it's awesome. I have spent some time in Cuba. Oddly enough, although it was again, it was in the Navy and it was in Guantanamo Bay where I got a conch shell. There's a big conch bed in Guantanamo Bay.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, yeah, there are big shells.

Speaker 2:

Right, right, and you're not supposed to, but I took one anyway and a rebel. Eh Wow, I didn't realize there was that. I was dumb, I didn't realize there was an animal in it, and then this animal died in because I had taken it back to the ship.

Speaker 1:

Oh, you didn't know about the conch that's in there.

Speaker 2:

I was from Ohio. You know how much I know it so so I can talk about. If you want to talk about corn, I can talk about corn all day yeah. Conch conch's not so much. And then my shipmates complained because it was stinking up the birthing. I tried everything to get that. It took a week to get the dead animal out of there.

Speaker 1:

Oh, my God.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and I shook it overboard like this, you know, off the side.

Speaker 1:

Oh my God. Yeah, it's like a big muscle or something, yeah.

Speaker 2:

I don't like it. They turn them into a little bit.

Speaker 1:

No, they eat them in Bahamas, in Bahamas a lot. Yeah, that's like their specialty and I don't like it. I'm like, nah, I'll eat a salad, it's okay.

Speaker 2:

After my conch experience, I'll never try eating one.

Speaker 1:

Exactly, I have to see that and smelling it you're like no way. I was just thinking about that. You did these books, like the Chronicle, like an eight hour period. I can just see, you have to come down to like little Havana in Miami and do a book the difference in the culture. It would be kind of interesting, you know.

Speaker 2:

Are you talking about with the same characters or a whole new character Like?

Speaker 1:

a whole new character, like now, you know, like a cultural thing. You know.

Speaker 2:

You know what I agree it would be. I wrote a book called Burning Buildings and at the end of the book my main character is flying to Prague.

Speaker 1:

Oh, okay.

Speaker 2:

Now, I've never been to Prague, so I couldn't have him land yet.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

You know, but I figure I'll go to Prague, and then I'll write a sequel to that book as soon as I have the land.

Speaker 1:

So yeah, if you go to Prague, it's beautiful. I've been there.

Speaker 2:

But a little Havana would be awesome as well. I think From what I've seen in TV.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, I mean Little Havana. There's a lot of things going on now. There's a lot of new buildings, the kind of rebuilding Little Havana. This is a poor area, but that's where the tours go. So you have a lot of the cigar shops. They hand roll cigars. You have the Cubans rolling the cigars right there.

Speaker 2:

It's really cool, oh no kidding, yeah, they roll I do like cigars, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

so that's very good. You can buy all the the white yedda, the shirts from Cuba and Puerto Rico that we wear, but there's certain shirts that we wear symbol. They have the shirts, they have the hats a lot of stores for hats and just like a lot of little cultural things clothing and the cigars, and then the music. The music is the biggest thing. So my husband's from Puerto Rico and he's a salsa singer and so there's a lot of music down here. Miami is inundated with artists and usually when you go down to Little Havana, you will be in a setting that you're going, you can go. There's a place called you can. It's called what? Oh my God, I forgot the name. It's some. I was going to say Guantanamo, but it's not. It starts with a G, but I can't think of it, but it's a cigar bar. So you go there, you have your cigar, you have your cognac and then you have a light band playing.

Speaker 2:

Is it the Guapa cigar bar?

Speaker 1:

It's something.

Speaker 2:

I'm just kidding, I'm just making up.

Speaker 1:

No, I can't remember. Now I gotta look at the gun or El Guapa cigar bar, but there's a lot of places like that. And then now there's a Puerto Rican restaurant that opened up in Little Havana, which is awesome.

Speaker 1:

So you got a little bit little different flavor, because Cuban food and Puerto Rican food are very similar but they have their differences so, and the music is different, like salsa from Cuba and salsa from Puerto Rico is different. They have certain little differences, but usually we like we have this Saturday, we have a salsa night at our studio and it usually is a Colombian crowd, which is a whole nother crowd of people, and when they come they party hard, they stay till four or five in the morning. They play, they bring instruments, they bring weedles, they bring gongas and they play with the DJ, they play music and they, like, they engulf themselves in the music, they sing, they dance.

Speaker 2:

Do you stay till four in the morning? Do you feel very tired the next day when you have to go up at eight o'clock?

Speaker 1:

Yeah well, I don't get up at eight o'clock. Now usually Sundays, my day off, unless I have an event, because I have an event space in Fort Lauderdale where that's where my office is, and then that's what we do different events that people rent out for parties and weddings and things like that and we do a lot of showcases, music showcases and you know different things, wellness things, and I do a lot of shows for the podcast too. I do some stuff there and but they'll stay until four.

Speaker 1:

And sometimes I have to, we'll have to tell them we have to shut the lights off, I mean sort of turn them on because we're like, no, it's time to go and they'll be four thirty, they're still. Come on. Can I get another drink? No, you can't get another drink Go, and I'm sober like all night. So it's weird to be up, like in my life now from times before and I used to really drink, so to be four, five, five o'clock in the morning and you're like sober, you're like, oh, my god, you're watching. Everybody's a whole different. It's a whole different mental trip.

Speaker 2:

I'm sure. Oh my god, yeah, absolutely, it sucks being the sober one.

Speaker 1:

No, but I have a good time anyway because I love the music. So you can. You know what I mean. You don't need alcohol to have a good time.

Speaker 2:

Oh no, certainly not, but to be the, to be the designated driver in your group full of, oh, you know they get all loud, and that's a different experience. Then you find you're the adult.

Speaker 1:

Suddenly you know then that's when you start video taping. Let me videotape you so you can see yourself tomorrow.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Then I, now I go, boy, did I look that silly?

Speaker 2:

Well, that was one of the. The my characters are are tipsy or drinking the through the entire book series. Not heavily, well, first, first book pretty heavily. But they're each on their little journey through all the bars in my neighborhood and one's trying to, one's trying to find the other, but the, and then she, she gets it, finds them right at the end of the book, but and she has to because there's a second book and a third.

Speaker 1:

Also the two of them are out.

Speaker 2:

There's no book.

Speaker 1:

So they're out to bar hopping and then they can't find each other. And they finally find each other at one bar, the last bar, or whatever.

Speaker 2:

So his story is that he's responsible for the death of a seven year old nephew, and so a year after the accident, he decides he's going to kill himself by jumping off our suspension bridge that goes between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, over the Ohio River. And but before he does that, he buys himself a notebook and he's. He decides he's just going to get drunk and write everything he thinks and feels in the notebook, the drunk log. And then the bartender, his female semi love interest, gets hold of his log, reads part of it doesn't say anything specifically about killing himself, but she gets her spidey sense is tingling and she decides she's got to go. He leaves, but she decides she's going to go find him. So she gets somebody to cover her shift and then she starts hitting bar to bar to bar, not sort of in parallel but on a separate street Right, and she finally catches up to him on the bridge, the bridge itself after.

Speaker 1:

Wow.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and then that's the end of that book. The next book starts with them crawling out of the river after they yeah, I'm trying not to give too much away.

Speaker 1:

No, I know, I know.

Speaker 2:

And they clearly they do survive. And the first date is called first date because about halfway through the book they've decided that they're a little adventure. They're just going to consider it to be their first date.

Speaker 1:

Oh my goodness, we'll talk about a first date.

Speaker 2:

Right, it's very exciting.

Speaker 1:

Tell all your readers. Well, that's why we buy books right To live in the story, to disappear in the book, right To it's a safe way to live vicariously through others. Yeah. That's a great way to say it yes.

Speaker 2:

And I encourage everybody out there.

Speaker 1:

Get a new book, get Mark's new book. There's a lot of different books out there, different interests. Whatever interests you, that calls on to you, Get a new book out there and get a real book. Get some paper.

Speaker 2:

And then you can take it to the beach and drop it. It won't hurt it.

Speaker 1:

Exactly, and you can't read your phone at the beach. Have you ever tried? I even bought a little umbrella. I bought a little umbrella. That goes over it. It just doesn't work. It still doesn't work, and then the phone starts getting hot.

Speaker 2:

Oh my God, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

And I'm like my phone's going to explode in the middle of the sun, especially here. Do you have any idea? The other day it was 93 degrees, right, it was 90% humidity.

Speaker 2:

Actually, I do get that. My sister lives in Tampa and also Cincinnati gets surprisingly humid. It's been a great summer this summer for it. Knock on wood.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

But it's been a very mild summer here Usually it's a little hotter and more humid and have the river right there evaporating into the valley.

Speaker 1:

You have mountains, though, right, you have mountains.

Speaker 2:

The Kentucky side is. You know, geographically? Yeah, geographically, kentucky is where the mountains really began. Cincinnati has very tall hills around it, oh, ok. And it was once called the City of Seven Hills. You know sort of a. You know it was rather arrogant to compare it to Rome, but that's neither here nor there it was.

Speaker 1:

Rome right.

Speaker 2:

But yeah, the mountains really start about a mile from here.

Speaker 1:

Oh, ok, that's not that far though.

Speaker 2:

So you can see them.

Speaker 1:

You can see them.

Speaker 2:

You can see them. The foothills, you can see them.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's one thing I do miss about Limea. California is the mountains, the views.

Speaker 2:

Well, those are some serious mountains out there.

Speaker 1:

Those are just. It's beautiful and I used to live in the valley in San Fernando Valley, so I used to drive on the foothill mountain, a foothill highway which goes through the foothill mountains. So you would drive and literally you had the huge mountains on both sides and you're driving right through like a tunnel. It was just. I would just be like, oh, every day I would be like, wow, just you know just it's just beautiful, the nature, everything.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, california is beautiful, even when it's on fire.

Speaker 1:

But and earthquakes, and earthquakes. I've been there when there was earthquake.

Speaker 2:

There's some problems. You know they're experiencing some issues.

Speaker 1:

So we get earthquakes. You get earthquakes here, we get hurricanes over here, you know. You get tornadoes in the Midwest. You get rain you get. I mean, it's like it doesn't matter where you go. There's going to be something you know, naturally. But but anyway, thank you so much for your time and we look for the. You said you have a third book that you're working on.

Speaker 2:

And it's written. It should be out at the end of the year.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, oh, okay, Great. So we'll talk again when the for the third one and I'll look for it too, so I can get the book and and everybody go buy this. Yeah, first thing, and I'll put all the links and everything here on the podcast so they know how to get reach you and you have Instagram and all that, or Facebook or anything.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I have a Marky Scott author on Facebook. Same for Instagram. I have a Www. Marky Scott author website. Okay, yeah, you can, although you can buy the book on Amazon, barnes, noble, all online or some local bookstores have it here in Cincinnati, but I should try some bookstores down in the in your neck of the woods.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't, I'm sorry, uh-oh, you're frozen. Oh, I froze.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm on frozen.

Speaker 1:

I'm on frozen, you are. I can see you now, okay.

Speaker 2:

Are you still recording? Yes, I'm still recording. I heard that, then it's okay, it's all good, this is all the natural show.

Speaker 1:

I never, I never script anything, I just we just talk, you know, because that's I just make it real. But um, but yeah, great. So we can find you on Marky Scott. Um dot com. Marky Scott, authorcom and then also on social media. So I will put all those links up there so everybody can find you and order the book first date. Well, thank you very much, you're welcome. Have a great, great weekend.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, thank you, elina. Have a great day.

Speaker 1:

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