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  • are you writing, or have you finished a memoir?

  • I just did.

  • A memoir slash novel Took me eight years to do wow with a friend of mine, Dana, bash on.

  • And, uh, it's a study of persona and the fallacy of the human being.

  • Okay, Yeah.

  • Sell that book.

  • Yeah, creates a persona and, uh, and, uh, is, uh, let down by it ultimately.

  • And you posted a picture off?

  • I don't.

  • This is is this the cover that it's going to have these things that are very interesting story behind this cover.

  • It's called memoirs and misinformation.

  • And what happened there was there was there was a missile alert in Hawaii a little while back, and, uh and I, uh, and I was in Hawaii, which is the thing where they texted everybody.

  • Well, it was the alarm on the television.

  • It was crazy.

  • And, uh, and, uh, my assistant, Linda, who lives on the other side of the island, called me crying and, uh, she called me crying and said, We have 10 minutes left, Chief.

  • And, uh, what should we do?

  • The missiles are gonna land.

  • And that a picture on the front of my book is an accidental screengrab that she did because she was so tense.

  • So that's my face when I believe that I have 10 minutes left to live.

  • Wow!

  • And it's Ah, yeah, I truly think it's left.

  • That's the face.

  • And it was more It was the feeling was, uh well, that's kind of weird.

  • Funny.

  • Wait for it to end, you know, And I went into this time of the last 10 minutes thinking she should.

  • She said, Should we get in the car?

  • Shall we all try to meet up?

  • And I said, I don't want to die in my car.

  • And, uh and then, uh, I sat down and this overwhelming sense of peace came over me, and I started to go through a list of gratitude for my life for everything that had happened.

  • And I about two minutes left to go, I thought I'll just close my eyes and, uh and then I got the information that it was a really But I was.

  • I know what it's gonna be like in the last 10 minutes.

  • If if I was to know that it was gonna end, so it's a kind of a unique place to be, you know, to be able to sit back and go.

  • Okay, there's there's actually a state of calm and tell me a thing at the eight minute mark when somebody said, Oh, by the way, that's not happening.

  • And was it?

  • No, the two minute mark.

  • We were down to two minutes down.

  • Was it a sense off relief, or was there a tiny bit of disappointment?

  • I was angry.

  • Yeah, OK, who do I have to call?

  • I do here.

  • I was ready for this.

  • Yeah, said something like, Oh, we pushed the wrong button.

  • It's not that much of a family business, does it?

  • Really?

  • I would hope there's a process.

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