0:08 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you. 0:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey guys, welcome back. 0:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Gemma is with me today. 0:33 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to be talking about her book for a little bit. 0:36 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to read a chapter. 0:37 [SPEAKER_00]: How have you been, Gemma? 0:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Shane, I am so glad to be back working with you again. 0:42 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the Shane attends, the Shane stirred, the shank stir. 0:47 [SPEAKER_01]: And he rocks and we miss working with each other. 0:51 [SPEAKER_01]: So we get to do this. 0:53 [SPEAKER_01]: And I've been good overwhelmed, but getting the book sail and trying to make everybody happy. 1:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's been a long time. 1:02 [SPEAKER_00]: We both been pretty busy. 1:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, your book just came out. 1:05 [SPEAKER_00]: So I know you've been pretty swamped with questions and stuff. 1:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Where can people find your book if they would like a copy of it? 1:12 [SPEAKER_01]: So the book is called Keeping One. 1:14 [SPEAKER_01]: How I came to know why I was born. 1:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Right now, mascot publishing has it in their warehouse. 1:22 [SPEAKER_01]: I have a limited number of copies I can sign. 1:26 [SPEAKER_01]: So if that's what you want, please send me a messenger one Facebook to find out if I have anymore. 1:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And if I do, I'll let you know and can get your information. 1:37 [SPEAKER_01]: The book is also going to be available to pre-order on Amazon probably within the next week. 1:46 [SPEAKER_01]: And let's see today is the date today is August 18. 1:52 [SPEAKER_01]: So, not sure when you're going to hear this, but by the time you do, it'll probably be available. 1:57 [SPEAKER_01]: The retail relay state is not until November, and at that time you will also be able to get an audible version of the book narrated by me, which was interesting and fun and kind of scary, but it's my Baltimore accent, and it'll also be available as an e-book. 2:20 [SPEAKER_01]: I did not do large 2:25 [SPEAKER_01]: And that will be available when Amazon. 2:29 [SPEAKER_01]: So in November, it will also be available at Barnes and Noble, books a million, ingrown books, a couple of your venues, and you can also, you know, Facebook message may and ask where what stores it is. 2:47 [SPEAKER_01]: If you live on the Eastern Shore, it's going to be in a number of retail books stores down here. 2:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I will also put a link to the mascot web page for where you work is. 2:59 [SPEAKER_00]: So if listeners would like to go to it's foul play, that's F-O-U-L foul play.com. 3:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Just click on the sister Kathy link, and I'll have a link for the book. 3:10 [SPEAKER_00]: So you can go straight toward the book on Jim's page for mascot. 3:14 [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, Shane. 3:15 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're buying it directly from me and it's international, I can get a way lower shipping rate that what you're going to pay if you get it from mascot unsigned, but again, I'm going to have a limited number of copies and I'm doing all the international figure and all that out. 3:34 [SPEAKER_01]: If you live in Canada, it's going to be $32, which includes the book signed and the shipping to you and if you live in Europe, Australia, or New Zealand, it's going to be $37, which is a lot cheaper than I think what you would get it if you were trying to do it the other way around. 3:54 [SPEAKER_01]: That makes sense, Shane. 3:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it does. 3:56 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you guys have a problem finding Jemel on Facebook, you can email me at Shane S. H. A. E. N. E. At its foul play, I. T. S. F. O. U. L. Play, PLAY.com. 4:09 [SPEAKER_00]: And all four of that Jemels, you'd be able to communicate with her that way. 4:12 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I've had to tighten up the security on my pages, understandably. 4:17 [SPEAKER_01]: So even my Facebook friends page is only my friends can see it. 4:23 [SPEAKER_01]: And right now, I'm not taking friend requests, the keeping on with Gemma page. 4:29 [SPEAKER_01]: It's up to about 700 now. 4:31 [SPEAKER_01]: but I have a team of 10 who monitor that page for me and we're very picky. 4:37 [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't have a Facebook profile or if it's a big profile, or you don't answer all the questions, we're gonna have to decline your request. 4:47 [SPEAKER_01]: And I think, you know, Shane's had to do the same thing with some of the stuff he's covered. 4:51 [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, we're gonna just be really careful and appropriate. 4:56 [SPEAKER_01]: No trolls. 4:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly. 4:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Jim, the chapter you're reading today, what all are we going to hear about? 5:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 5:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm not going to tell you much about it, except to say what the title is. 5:08 [SPEAKER_01]: The title of this, the chapter eight in the book, it's called How Dad saved May from Jones of Maskled. 5:16 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is a story that probably very few people know about. 5:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, how died saved me from Joseph Maskel. 5:26 [SPEAKER_01]: My father's impact on my life was not especially evident, even after his sudden death in 1970. 5:35 [SPEAKER_01]: My dad had a tough childhood. 5:37 [SPEAKER_01]: His own father was an alcoholic, and his mom was ill in her twenties with what was then called consumption. 5:50 [SPEAKER_01]: She was admitted to a sanatorium, which in those days was a medical facility for long-term care for people with contagious diseases. 6:02 [SPEAKER_01]: I know very little about my grandmother, except that my dad and his brother were left on their own at the ages of 14 and 12. 6:12 [SPEAKER_01]: My father lived in the area of Baltimore called Irvington, and was an intensely studious young man who worked very hard. 6:22 [SPEAKER_01]: He and his brother walked to their aunt's house when their dad left them, off when a binge someplace. 6:31 [SPEAKER_01]: His dad's sister, My Aunt Sadie, took them in and raised them with her own children. 6:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Years later, Sadie Stob's daughter, his cousin Betty, introduced my dad Charles that we called Bough to my mom, Cecil Buchernan. 6:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Mom said the dad was very handsome at very serious. 6:54 [SPEAKER_01]: He did not go out like other teams because he had a job at the Arundal ice cream store in Irvington every day after school. 7:04 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't like thinking of him having to serve all the kids who came in after school to eat and hang out. 7:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Although my dad was pretty much on his own, most of his growing up years, he managed to win a full scholarship 7:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Dad walked to school every day while Mom was likely riding the bus right past him on Frederick Road to get downtown. 7:40 [SPEAKER_01]: I bet she watched him through the dirty bus window. 7:44 [SPEAKER_01]: My father buck was in the army during World War II. 7:49 [SPEAKER_01]: I looked at a copy of his draft papers a few years ago online. 7:53 [SPEAKER_01]: He was stationed behind the front lines in Germany as an anti-aircraft soldier. 8:00 [SPEAKER_01]: His paper said he was in the army for about 18 months before leaving with an honorable discharge. 8:09 [SPEAKER_00]: life can get overwhelming and talking to someone can make all the difference. 8:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Better help, the sponsor of this episode, make starting therapy simple. 8:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Complete a short questionnaire and you'll be matched with a licensed therapist and as little as a couple of days. 8:28 [SPEAKER_00]: You can connect by message, phone or video, from wherever you feel comfortable. 8:33 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They married in 1946 and lived with my grandmother, which was not unusual in the 1940s. 9:42 [SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of young couples started out living with parents who also were the best babysitters. 9:50 [SPEAKER_01]: By the time they moved into their own tiny house in Edinson Village, there were two of us kids and a third of on the way. 9:59 [SPEAKER_01]: My father always took a keen interest in our schooling. 10:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Although he worked very late hours as a home delivery salesperson for the dual-t company, he would often ask about homework and what was going on in class. 10:16 [SPEAKER_01]: On weekends, died with throw-foot balls to us in the backyard. 10:21 [SPEAKER_01]: When he cut down the rose bushers to make more room for running and catching, the neighbors paused him. 10:28 [SPEAKER_01]: The lecture of West Choms Road. 10:32 [SPEAKER_01]: My mom did not drive until after my father's death in 1970. 10:36 [SPEAKER_01]: So he was our transportation to baseball games, school plate practice, church events, and to get cheese steak, submarine sandwiches, and every Saturday night at Chippolo's or Mr. G's in Caitonsville. 11:02 [SPEAKER_01]: During high school, Daddy also drove us to CIO dances and school mixers. 11:08 [SPEAKER_01]: If he ticked us up afterwards, I'm gonna ask him not to pick me up at the dance, but at the closest fast food joint so that I could walk over there with my friends. 11:21 [SPEAKER_01]: When I entered Archbishop Kio in 1966, my father had begun working for the United States Department of Defense. 11:31 [SPEAKER_01]: Stationed at Fort Hollywood and Dundock, Maryland, died began working regular hours. 11:38 [SPEAKER_01]: However, his trip to and from work through the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel made his day long, but at least he was able to eat dinner with us, get involved with the mother's club at St. Williams and participate in events at Kio. 11:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Unbeknown to me at the time, his involvement with my high school education and extracurricular activities was critical in protecting me from a monster. 12:07 [SPEAKER_01]: My parents came to every show I was in when sister Kathy oversaw the drama club. 12:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Dad would take turns with other parents, 12:21 [SPEAKER_01]: If he came to pick us up early, he would sit in the back row of the auditorium and watch us on the stage under sister's direction. 12:31 [SPEAKER_01]: On the way out to the car at the curb, he would give my head an easy 12:40 [SPEAKER_01]: During my last year at KEO, my dad suggested we take part in the father-daughter of freshman orientation. 12:49 [SPEAKER_01]: I was surprised, but very excited. 12:51 [SPEAKER_01]: We poured over a map of the school and practiced our parts. 12:57 [SPEAKER_01]: It would be our responsibility to take a group of incoming students and their parents on a tour of the school. 13:09 [SPEAKER_01]: would talk, would take turns reading or telling them about what went on in that room or program. 13:18 [SPEAKER_01]: I remember this so clearly because my dad and I were having so much fun. 13:24 [SPEAKER_01]: I know he made some mistakes, but I was not going to correct him in front of new students. 13:32 [SPEAKER_01]: I wonder how many freshmen ended up in the auditorium when they thought they were going to the music room, or who went to the senior lounge thinking it was for all the students. 13:44 [SPEAKER_01]: And then, there was father Joseph Maskel. 13:48 [SPEAKER_01]: stand in guard at the chapel, looking over the new class of girls. 13:54 [SPEAKER_01]: He made my skin crawl, and I know I stepped a little closer to my father at that stop. 14:01 [SPEAKER_01]: My father died suddenly, exactly one week after my high school graduation. 14:08 [SPEAKER_01]: He and my mom were enjoying the Saturday evening, 14:18 [SPEAKER_01]: He and my mom were in the clubhouse laughing with friends. 14:23 [SPEAKER_01]: My mother went downstairs to the ladies room. 14:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Suddenly, as someone was telling a joke, my dad fell backwards onto the concrete floor in the clubhouse. 14:35 [SPEAKER_01]: He was having a heart attack. 14:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, because this was a public place, none of the doctors on the scene were willing to work on him. 14:46 [SPEAKER_01]: A keo friend, Dotty Norton, just last year, told me that she was there and gotten a card to go get her father, Dr. Norton. 14:58 [SPEAKER_01]: The Norton's live just a few minutes away, and Dr. Norton came to the pool immediately. 15:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Although he worked hard to save my father, it was already too late. 15:09 [SPEAKER_01]: At his age of 49, I unexpectedly lost my dad and buddy to a massive coronary attack. 15:20 [SPEAKER_01]: I never realized until I delves into the crimes of Joseph Moscow and Neil Magnus and some of the nuns who were complicit, how his role as my father at school kept danger away. 15:34 [SPEAKER_01]: My dad was visible and involved at T.O. 15:39 [SPEAKER_01]: both my parents attended events, but if Joseph Maskel was praying on girls who may not have been so lucky as to have their dad or mom there on a regular basis, my sister and I may have been approached by the devil. 15:57 [SPEAKER_01]: Now I know that because of my parents, he would never have had a chance. 16:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Daddy, I love you, and this is a poem I wrote about what I just shared with you. 16:17 [SPEAKER_01]: This is called The Butcher of West Chills Road. 16:20 [SPEAKER_01]: Daddy cut down the rose bushes shortly after we moved. 16:28 [SPEAKER_01]: The neighbors called him The Butcher because they did not approve. 16:34 [SPEAKER_01]: It never 16:39 [SPEAKER_01]: One of them had a nasty dog that barked and scared all of us. 16:45 [SPEAKER_01]: The next guy off of Mr. Jones, foot nails and broken glass, a topist fence to keep us out when balls rolled in his grass. 16:57 [SPEAKER_01]: So Daddy made a safer yard for even when it snowed where we could play and run around, our butcher of West Hills Road. 17:06 [SPEAKER_01]: The moral of the story is a role that's not so hard. 17:11 [SPEAKER_01]: When somebody cuts the roses down, please look in your own backyard. 17:18 [SPEAKER_01]: So thank you friends and thank you Shane for letting me share a little bit of my life with you. 17:24 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was really good. 17:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for reading that. 17:34 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you very much for joining us today, thank you very much for joining us today, thank you very much for joining us today, thank you very much for joining us today, thank you very much for joining us today, thank you very much for joining us today, thank you very much for joining us today, thank you very much for joining us today, thank you very much for joining us today, thank you very much for joining us today, thank you very much for joining us today, thank you very much for joining us today, thank you very much for joining us today, thank 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