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Episode 5 - Interview with Susan Masino: Rock Journalist / Paranormal Researcher - Part 2
Episode 55th November 2014 • See You On The Other Side • Sunspot
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As promised, we present the second half of Mike’s interview with Susan Masino !

Before getting right into the meat of the show, we thank you for listening. Seriously, it’s been fun beginning this new project and getting some content out there that’s a little different from our norm. If you’re enjoying the show, we’d really appreciate it if you could leave a review (the more stars the better!) in iTunes or Stitcher Radio. Or, if you prefer, just spread the word by telling a friend about our show or linking to it on Facebook ! Please make sure you leave your name in the review/link so we can thank you in a future episode.

Beginning on a positive note, Susan describes the larger-than-life presence that was Bon Scott of AC/DC. Although he never gave any indication of it, Susan learned through her research that he was struggling quite a bit throughout his rockstar-idol years. She tells us how, although Bon is no longer in this world with us, he’s still around the band and the AC/DC world and makes himself known through the dreams and feelings of the living. Susan tells how Bon continues to be a ray of light, in spite of his absence in the physical arena of our living world.

Next, the discussion turns to the topic of synchronicity. Also commonly referred to as white light, good energy, intuition or gut feeling, Susan explains how a person’s inner self often guides (or tries to guide) but is easy to ignore. She reminds us that the “universe has a great sense of humor” and we should pay attention when signs appear that we should pay attention to. Listen for the best example of Susan’s experience with clairaudience , which occurred while she was in living in New York Sublets , it may just make you take notice next time the “voice in your head” tells you something!

The experience led to her job at a recording studio that worked on projects with Steve Winwood, Diana Ross, John Denver, Joe Cocker, the soundtrack for the movie “Beat Streat” and music for the 1984 Olympics. In the basement of Studio 54, did Susan see any disco-dancing ghosts? She didn’t see apparitions, but Susan did have vivid dreams while living in NYC during the “wild west days” of New York.

Finally, Susan shares the biggest dream(s) she has had that came true.


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Welcome to see you on the other Mike, where the world

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of the mysterious collides with the world of entertainment.

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A discussion of art, music, movies, spirituality, the

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weird, and self discovery. And now,

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your hosts, musicians and entertainers who have their

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own weakness for the weird, Mike and Wendy from the

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band Sunspot. Hey, it's Wendy. You're

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probably anxious to hear the second half of Mike's interview with Susan Messino, so I'll

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try to keep this quick. I just wanted to mention first and foremost

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that if you haven't already listened to part 1 of this

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interview, you can find it at episode 4 of CU on the Other

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Side. Next, I just wanna thank you for taking the

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time to listen to our podcast. It's brand new, and

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we've been celebrating

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And if you do like it, it would be wonderful if you could leave us

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review, please include your Twitter name or just your

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first name so we can give you a shout out in one of the upcoming

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episodes. So without further ado, here's Mike and

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Susan with some more cool stories about rockers and ghosts

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and, well, I won't ruin it all. Just enjoy.

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Well, who would you say, I mean, that you've,

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like, had a supernatural, up positive

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that they came in, they lifted the room, they, you

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know, who had that a presence that you you think might be even

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unearthly that kinda sticks with you? Oh god. That would be

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Bob Scott. He he was he was an angel that was only

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here for a certain time and and now he's gone

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and talked about every day. I mean, he was he

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was always even though he drank, he

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I I never saw him, you know, and and I didn't spend, you

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know, I didn't spend days on end with him, but I never saw him

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so drunk that he couldn't talk or, you know, he's staggering around or

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anything like that. He just you know, he was he was a drinker, but he

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was always funny. He was always, like, when he walked into the

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room, you knew he was there. And he would always

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eat like, the band played off of him. You know? They they definitely

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followed his in his footsteps of how to be. You know?

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He was, friendly to everybody. You know? He hung out with the

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roadies. He'd party with the fans after the show. He and

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and if he wasn't making you laugh, he wasn't happy. Okay. And he

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was just he was a ray of light. He really was. And, you

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know, now that I've researched him and written about him, I didn't

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realize that he was having problems toward the end that I wish I

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would have known. He was lonely. He was having trouble. He was on the road

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for so many years. I mean, by the time he died, including the bands

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before ACDC, he'd been on the road for 13

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years. Wow. So he was he was worn

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out. He was tired. And and I didn't

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realize that because he didn't show that when he was around. When he walked in

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the room, oh my god. You know? I mean, big smile,

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you know, making a joke, trying to make you laugh, you know,

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tripping over something, spilling something, you know, whatever it took to make people

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laugh. Well, it sounds like he was really a larger

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than life I mean, he he was a I mean, larger than life. He wasn't

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that big of a guy. Right? But Yeah. Like, his character

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was just, and his soul was, you know, bigger than

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the room. Oh, god. Yeah. And then, you know, even to this

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day, I just said this, the other night.

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Wendy see ACDC, I just saw them 4 times on the black ice

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tour, but, you know, now it's been 4 years. But, I hadn't

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seen them in 7 years since the stiff upper lip tour. Mhmm.

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And that's one of the first things we talk about

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is bun. When I hang out with Angus and Malcolm, that's what we talk about

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is bun because everybody still misses him, and he's still a big part

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of the show. I mean, half of the songs they play, he wrote the lyrics

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to. And it's, you know, it's amazing and

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and what's so sweet. I mean, Brian is probably one of the

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Brian Johnson's probably one of the biggest Scott fans on the planet,

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and he loves singing his songs. And and at the end of the the show

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Wendy they do their encore, one of it is one of the songs is Highway

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to Hell, and they show a picture behind the band of the band

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with Bon. And he just he's always there.

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You know, he's been gone for so many years, but he's always there, and and

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everybody always talks about him.

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And, have you know, when you guys

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did the, when you did Let There Be Rock,

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you know, and you did and, yeah, I'm sure you you draw on you drew

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on your own experiences, and you, you know, you must've interviewed a 1,000

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people coming up the story of ACDC.

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Did you ever get any, you know, stories that people had

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about Bon after he was gone? Any, you

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know, any feelings or I mean, obviously, he is

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well remembered by not only the band, but by everybody

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loves Bon Scott songs. They you know? I don't know anybody that's Mike, hey.

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See. Forget it. But did you ever hear

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anything where they were like, while we were recording this, like, we

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felt Bond in the room or, you know, or any any any

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paranormal stuff related to him? Well, definitely. I mean,

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only do I you know, I I have dreams about Bon,

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and people talk about him all the time. They, you know, they do feel

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him when they record and when they're on tour.

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And, Brian Johnson, who hasn't really talked about it till

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recently, he used to allude to it, but now he, you know, he

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actually said that when they went down to the Bahamas to record

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Back in Black, and he had to write, you know, the lyrics. And the songs

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were set. The titles were set. The music was ready. He

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had to come up with the lyrics, and he was terrified. And there was a

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lot of storms, you know, there's a lot of thunderstorms down there.

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And he said one night, he just sat up out of a dead

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sleep, just sat sat up and grabbed a bunch of paper and a

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pen and just wrote lyrics until they stopped coming.

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And and he said that it was it was definitely Bond

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was there, making sure that things were taken care

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of. Oh, wow. Yeah. And and, you

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know, even before I got, before I met the

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publishers that hired me to do the book. And I I see Bon, you

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know, not often, but here and there, he comes into my dreams.

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And, this was so vivid. 1 night, I dreamed he

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was here. He came to my house, and we sat, and we talked for

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hours, and we laughed, and we joked. And, you know, it's just a

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really great dream. And when I woke up the next day, I I felt really

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sad because I'm like, god, you know, that seems so real. And

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why, you know, why now? And and why did it have to feel that real?

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Because it was it was painful to realize it wasn't wasn't real. It was just

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a dream. Right. And the next day,

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John, you know, my my ex, called me from work. And,

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you know, I usually would stay up late and work. And this is,

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you know, before I had the book deal, I didn't even know about the book

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deal yet. And I couldn't remember what Von told would talk

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to me about, but now I'm pretty sure that's why he came to me to

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to tell me to get ready for it. But, John called me the next day,

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and he said, why did you leave that lamp on last night?

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And I said, what lamp? And he no. This is big lamp that's over by

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the couch that's by my desk, but I never use it because it's really bright,

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and I don't use those lights at night. Sure. And I said, what do you

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mean? And he said, well, when I got up today to go to work, that

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lamp was on. And and I've had that lamp for over 20

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years and it's never turned on by itself. So it was kind of

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it it I I laughed because it was Bond's way of saying,

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yeah. I was there. I was doubting it. And, it was kinda

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like, yeah, I was there. And then when I look back now, it's like

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he and he did come to me during the writing of the book too because

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I was super overwhelmed by it. Sure. I

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covered 32 years at the time. I covered 32 years of history,

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and I literally broke it down to a week at a time to make sure

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that I didn't miss anything. And, one night, I

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totally had, like, a panic attack. I mean, we're

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a full blown, like, 3 o'clock in the morning. I can't do this.

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Well, that's 1500 weeks. You know, that's that's a that's a good deal of

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history. That's a lot of history. And I just I I

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I had a total breakdown that night, and I went to bed, and I prayed

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to Von. I said, you have got to help me. I need help. I need

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something. I need somebody to help me get through this.

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And, he came to me in in the dream that night, and he

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was, we were in a kitchen in this house somewhere.

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And, he was dancing around, and he was making fun of me. And he was

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saying, oh, Susie. He said, it's gonna be just fine. He said, don't worry about

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it, you know. And and I said, I felt so bad that he had he

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had died, you know, at 33, and he laughed. And he goes, oh,

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so that's my that was my time to go. He said it's fine.

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Everybody's fine. Everybody's fine. Look at me. He said I look good, don't I?

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Ah. And he just he just made me laugh. And then the next day when

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I woke up, I I, you know, honestly haven't had a a panic

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attack like that since. I mean, it he just really he was

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there for me. And, and he does. He comes in and out.

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And, those are those are probably the most innocent,

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nocturnal visits from Bon Scott ever. Oh, yeah. I have

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no he he and I are like brother and sister. He he offered a few

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times, and I I knew better to say no.

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I wanted to keep it at a professional level, you know. Oh, that's

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great. And I could I could talk about ACDC and I

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I have a 1,000 questions for you about Hank Williams and and

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and, you know, and with because with the South and country

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music, there's always superstitions and curses and

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things like that. But, I do wanna talk about

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your book a little bit, for the last stuff on the

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secrets of the universe. I wanna ask you about synchronicity

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and if you had any tips

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for, you know, what's how how do you

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get yourself in the right place at the right time? Any tips or ideas or

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or things that you found in your Mike, that can

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you found really useful for for, finding that

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synchronicity? Well, you know, for one thing, you know,

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I do talk about in, the second chapter I think

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it's the second chapter. I don't even know,

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about your chakras and your energy, you know, your god

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energy that comes down through you and which is a white

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light. And I think that you need to keep that open

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and keep that around you at all times because we are

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electrical. You know, we are, we are energy. You You know?

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We are energy in a physical body. And the more you get in

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touch with that energy, I think it opens you up more to

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things. And and Mike I said, I'm really good at, like,

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knowing when to do things, like like, maybe

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a phone call or a letter. I'll know what day to do it on.

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It'll be like, you know, oop, not today. That's not a good day. And then,

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yep, today today is the day to write that letter. Today is the day to

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pitch that book or or whatever. And, I've just I've

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always had that, and it's it's your gut instinct

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that's Mike, you know, it comes from within.

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And, you know, when people ask me, like, how do you make decisions

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on things? This is another way to to use this kind of energy

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is when you have a choice of, like, a and b. You think about

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a and what does your stomach feel Mike. And then you think about

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b, what does your stomach feel Mike? And the one

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that feels lighter and feels less stressful or less

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scary, you go with that one because your your your inner

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self always guides you in the right direction,

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but you have to to learn to listen to it. So a lot of people,

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you know, they get that stuff. They get those little things. Mhmm.

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And they just blow it off. You know, they're like, whatever. You

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know? Nah. You know? That's that's silly. And, I've had

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you know, I've just I've literally had great you know,

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amazing things happen to me because I've had that heard that

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voice say, you know, yeah, go make that call now

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or, yeah, apply for that job. Go ahead. Apply for that job.

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You'll get that job if you apply for it. You know, things like that. And

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and, I just I love synchronicity. I love numbers.

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Numbers come up on license plates. They, you know, come up,

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all over the place. I mean, it's almost comical. It's, like,

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almost, in Bruce Almighty with Jim

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Carey Right. You know, where he's begging for a sign and he has a truck

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in front of him filled with signs, you know, road signs, and he

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doesn't notice it. He doesn't see it. It there

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are signs all over, but people don't notice them.

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You know? Like like, I'll be thinking of, you know, let's say, I'll be thinking

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of some you know, my friend who lives in England, And,

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I'm out on the road driving somewhere, and I'm thinking about my Wendy, and I'm

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missing my friend. And pretty soon, a big, you know, semi truck will go

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by with the with the word England on the side of it. And

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it's just kind of fun because the universe has a great sense of

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humor, And it shows you or, like, when,

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you know, you feel like you're late or you're not doing the right thing at

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the right time, but then everything falls into place.

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You have to remember, like, you you pull up to that stop sign

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and your birthday is on a license plate right in front of you.

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And that's the universe saying you are right where you

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are at the right time. You're it it's okay.

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So so what what do you think is, what do you think is a

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maybe a decision you've made or a moment you've had or

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something that that you've done where, you know, you were given that you were talking

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about that choice you make where your stomach feels one way

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versus your stomach feeling another, where you followed your gut. Like, what do you think

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is the biggest example of that? And and you don't have to say it if

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it's in the book. Some people can go to the book. But what do you

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what do you think in your own life has been where

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you followed your gut or are you in the right place at the right Mike?

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And if you weren't there at that specific moment, everything would have

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been different. I think one of the and this this sounds

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kinda crazy, and I don't talk about it a lot. That's alright. I love crazy.

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Yeah. It it it it involves a voice, actually. When,

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John and I moved to New York City with a roommate in 1983,

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We were staying with friends until we could find an apartment.

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Now we were looking for an apartment in Manhattan, and we had

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no idea what was a good part of town and what was a bad part

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of town. So I literally, you know, got up early in

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the morning on Wednesdays, The Village Voice would come out, and that was the day

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that they would list all the apartments, and the good stuff would be gone

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within the day. Okay? So I got

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up. I circled what I just read, you know, went up and

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down, up and down, and circled what I looked good, what looked good. And

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we had about maybe 6 places to see that day. And,

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we were in a rental truck, and we were in Manhattan traffic.

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And there was this apartment on the Upper West Side that was, you know, up

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toward Harlem, and and that, you know, that's scary. That's 19 eighties and

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Right. Like I said, we had we had no idea what was a good place

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or what was a bad place. And we had an appointment for an

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apartment up there, and then we also had one down by Times

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Square. Now at this time of the, you know, New

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York City's history, Times Square was not the place you wanted to live in

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in the 19 eighties. But the upper west side,

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it was right on the edge of Spanish Harlem, and that also

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was, you know, intimidating. And we were going through an

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intersection, and, we were gonna blow off the

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appointment to the apartment on the upper west side.

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And I literally this is the first time that I ever heard the,

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I think it's called clairaudience where where you actually hear

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somebody. And this guy in my

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head in my right side of my head screamed at

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me, no. No. Come up and see this

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apartment. No. Turn right. Turn right. And John was

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literally turning left in the middle of a ton of traffic. And

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I I just said, no. No. Turn right. Turn right. He said, I thought you

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said turn left. I said, no. Turn right. We gotta go see this other apartment.

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He's Mike and, you know, and he's like, well, I thought you said that was

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too far north. And I said, just just just do it. Just do it. We

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gotta do it. We gotta do it. And we went up there, and we met

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the most amazing people. We got an apartment on the upper west side

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with a doorman and laundry, and,

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the the people that own the apartment lived, 10

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floors above us. It was a furnished apartment, and it would have been gone

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that day. I mean, it would have been snapped up immediately, and they

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took a chance on some kids from Wisconsin that didn't know where they

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were going. Right. And we we,

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got a great apartment. And then it,

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even happened when we stopped, we were moving

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our stuff. You know? And we stopped in at a

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friend who used to live in Madison. His name's Mark Kaufman, and he's

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in, in the scandal video Goodbye to You. He's the drummer.

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Awesome. Yeah. He lived he lived there, and he

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was at SoundWorks, recording studio, which was a digital

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one of the only 2 digital studios in New York City at the

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time built in the basement of, Studio 54 on West

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54 Street. Okay. And we got to stop and say hello

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to him one day, and he said, come on down and check it out. You

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gotta see this place. And we were I was messy. I mean, we were moving,

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and I wasn't you know, I didn't think I should go in. And he and,

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he's like, no. You know? I mean, when are you gonna get a chance to

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come in here? You better come in and check it out. At the time, it

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was a $35100 a day studio. Wow. People

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like Diana Ross and, you know, Joe Cocker and, you know,

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people like that. I mean, Harry Belafonte, those were the people

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that that came in and recorded and mixed there. And,

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I walked down the stairs, and the guy was on the phone. And I looked

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around the studio, and I said to myself, now this is the kind of job

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you want. You know? This is what you really want. You know? This is a

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place that you need to work at. And as I'm thinking

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this, the guy on the on the phone who is, an engineer who

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is filling in at the desk says, no. No. The the position

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hasn't been not filled yet. I'm sure she's interested. She'll call you back. And he

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hung up, and I turned around, and I said, do you have a job opening

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here? And he's like, well, yeah. We're looking for a receptionist that can, you

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know, do billing and do phones and stuff. Why? You interested?

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And I said, oh, yeah. I'm interested. It took me

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2 weeks when I got the job. Oh,

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wow. If I wouldn't have gone in the studio because I felt all

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grubby and messy that day, that would have been a big life

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changer. But I did, and I went with

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my instinct. And, I ended up getting the job of the

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apartment and the job. And that was all on

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gut instinct completely because I really had no idea where

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I was going. I was terrified of New York. I I got used to it

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quickly, but it was very scary when we first moved there.

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Well, how I mean, so how old were you guys when you when you went

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to New York City? I was 27. Okay. So, I

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mean, a little bit of life experience, but still, I mean, most of

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it, obviously, if you grew up in the Sauk City area,

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was around I mean, the Madison area, and Madison's great, but it's not that big.

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Oh, yeah. No. I spent my whole life in Wisconsin, you know, moving

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around Wisconsin and had never lived in a big city like New York. I

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never had visited before or anything. Had no idea what I was getting

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into. And And loved it. So

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what so when you worked at the studio, did,

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like, did you ever get to see anybody famous or any cool songs that were

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recorded there or anything like that? Oh, yeah. They mixed,

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Steve Winwood's, Roll With roll with it or roll with

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me. They Mike that there. Diane Ross did

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missing you there, her big hit. John

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Denver came in a couple times. He he was a really good friend of the

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owner. Joe Cocker, I can't remember.

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Oh my god. I wanna say civilized man was mixed there. They did a

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lot more mixing than they did recording. Sure. Well, digital, you

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know. Yeah. It was digital. Yeah. But, they did, like, the

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movie I think it's called Beat Street. Harry Belli

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Belafonte, produced that. That was all,

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recorded and mixed there. They even did the, 1984

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Olympics. They they mixed all the music for that. Oh.

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It was I mean, we had everybody in there. It was I that was one

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job that I could not literally, could not wait for the alarm to go off

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in the morning. Well, that that's awesome. Did you now

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that you said in the basement of Studio 54. Right? Yes. Yep.

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So, I mean, by 1983, that was that

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was that place still hopping, or was it kind of at the end because the

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disco era was kinda faded out? Yeah. Actually, when

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when I worked there, it was closed down, but then they did open it later

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on and then it closed again. So but when we when I worked

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there, they it was closed. And, they

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they built this beautiful studio, in the basement.

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And, when I've read stories about what used to happen in the basement of

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Studio 54 Right. I'm surprised I didn't see

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any ghost out there. That's what I was gonna say. I mean, being in

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a that, obviously, there was a lot of,

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energy and, you know, mental energy and all these kind of things based around that

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hub of the disco era. So I just if there are any

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feelings or you picked up anything or, you know, saw that goes to somebody snorting

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coke in the bathroom. You know, saw the ghost of somebody

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snorting coke in the bathroom. I didn't see that, but, I

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mean, we we just it was just an incredible place to be. You know, like

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I said, I, Diana Ross worked there for 2 weeks, so

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I got to know her. And, you know, Joe Cocker came in, and I

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got to know John Denver. And Does Joe Cocker does Joe Cocker talk like

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that? Like, real in real life? Actually, yes. He,

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he was drinking at the Mike, and, he came down the stairs

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one day with a Heineken. He had to have Heineken, you know, always stocked up

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when he came in. He had a Heineken in each hand,

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and we kinda met on the stairway. So he did a jig around

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me and sang me a little song using my name, Susie. So he was Mike,

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Susie, Susie, Susie, and he did a little dance around me. So it was it

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was very cute. Oh, that's great. Not everybody gets a personal

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Joe Cocker performance. No. Not everybody, but but I

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did. And and how long were you guys in New York City?

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Almost 3 years. Yeah. Almost 3 years. And then I I

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actually had a dental thing that, went wrong with the

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root canal that caused nerve damage, and that's why I moved home.

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Otherwise, I I was determined to never leave New York, and now I go back

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for the book expos and, at the end of May for my

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books and stuff. And, I love New York City. I mean, it's just

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to me, when I go there, I don't sleep because, that's waste

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in time. Right. There's so I mean, there's so much to do, and there's so

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many people. And, did you ever have any paranormal

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experiences while you guys were out there? Not that

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you know, I had prophetic dreams again. I had very vivid dreams

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when I was in New York. And I think it was because of the energy,

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but, mostly, you know, real life scary stuff, not

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paranormal. Fair enough. Fair enough. You know,

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people being shot in the subway and, you know, people being

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mugged right in front of you. And, it was, the 19

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eighties. I call I call that the Wild West days of New York. It's

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true. It certainly was a different time. I mean, it really was when you go

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visit I remember visiting when I was a kid a few times. And

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going now as compared to going 30 years ago, it's

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it's a completely different experience. And Mike you said,

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Times Square. I mean, Times Square used to be porno theaters. It wasn't

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this family friendly and somebody's dressed like Mickey Mouse and things. I mean,

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it is different. Oh, yeah. No. It's totally a different city. I

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mean, believe Mike, it's just yeah. It's and, you know, sadly, and

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on the anniversary of 911 Oh, yes. The city is

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completely different after that happened. I mean, I

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when I went back in 2003, I was stunned by,

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you know, people. I I was just out there last year. And I mean, people

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in the subway, they're talking, they're partying with each other.

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There was a girl sleeping with jewelry and a purse in her

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lap. And in 1980, you know, she not only would have woke up without

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all her stuff, but she might not have woken up. And, people

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are it's so different. It's just a it's a different city. It it

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911, how horrifying that day was

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completely changed the city of New York. I I, I

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agree with you a lot there. Now now now one

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last question. I know I've kept you over time, so thank you for

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hanging, Susan. Oh, no. Anytime. Anytime, Mike. But one last

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question. So what what's the biggest

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thing that you've dreamed of that's come true?

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Like, so in in your dreams, what kind of what

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clairvoyant or precognitive dream have you had that,

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you're Mike that the biggest thing you think that you're that you to yourself are

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like, yeah, that came I dreamed that and that came true. I can't I

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can't deny that. I can't even doubt it. Okay. That I I have a

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perfect story for that. Right. When I see ACDC in

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my dreams, it whether it's one member or all of

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them, I write it down and it always manifests.

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It sometimes is years out, but they always

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manifest. And I wrote in my dream

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journal back in, I believe, 2005,

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sorry, that I was, at an outdoor stadium.

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I was talking to some of the band, and we were laughing at the tour

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manager because he was arguing with a roadie in Italian,

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so I was in Italy. And I always

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wanted to see them play in Europe. I mean, I used to be so

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jealous when I saw, like, the big stage setup with the big horns

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and, you know, and and how many people Wendy thought, oh, you know, I'd

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never been to Europe before, and I just I I always thought that was, like,

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at the top 10 of my list of what I wanted to do. Well,

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in 2010, I got an

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email early in the year, an email from, a

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fan in Italy that says, to Mike,

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ACDC is playing in Mike, you know, hometown of Udine,

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which is in Northern Italy, on May 19th

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2010, would you come here for a book signing? And I said,

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well, yeah. I'd love to come there for a book signing, but I don't I

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don't make that kind of money. Right. And, he said, well, let

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me you know, I don't either, he said, but let me do let me see

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what I can do. And shout out to Mario Romati who is

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still a wonderful friend of mine. He went to the bookstore. He

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cleared the book signing. They loved it. They thought it would be a great idea.

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And he went to the promoters. They loved it. They thought it would be a

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great idea, but they, again, did not have the funds to do this.

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Well, one of the kids, we call him Saint Lou, he was in his twenties

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at the time, he went to the Northern,

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Tourism Bureau of Italy and talk to the

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lieutenant governor about bringing over this author

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to do a signing the day before ACDC played and make a big deal

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out of it. And, you know, because ACDC on their black ice

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tour only played one city in Italy. And I

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found out later Italy has a lot of, like, sound restrictions

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and just lots of things. And and they were flying in and out of

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Wendy that summer, that toward the end of the black ice tour, so

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they picked Udine to play in. It was the only city in

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Italy. So so they were really, you know, like, bragging it up. Like, you know,

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we're so cool that, you know, ACDC is playing here. Well, sure

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enough, they paid for me the tour

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the the bureau of tourism of Northern Italy paid

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my airfare, my hotel, all my food, and I had an

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entire week in Italy, saw the band play live,

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did radio, TV or not TV, but

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newspaper articles. And just I had a blast,

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and I saw them on a bright sunny day in Italy

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exactly like what my dream showed me 5 years earlier.

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That's an awesome story. That I wanna have dreams like that, Susan.

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Well well, like I said, every time I see ACDC in my dreams,

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I write it down because it it will manifest.

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And that's why I think, you know, I I do have a past life with

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Angus and Malcolm. I I honestly believe that we were related

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in another life because they they've always treated me like family from the

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the first day I met them, and they still do. Well, and your and your

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career has been very much connected to them. Yes. Oh, god. That they made

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my career. They made my career. I mean, I wouldn't have a career without

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ACDC. I honestly don't think I would. So I I give

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them all the credit. They they are the talented ones.

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Well I was lucky enough to be there. Well, you're certainly talented too. You

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got 5 books out, and the latest book is The Secrets of Universe,

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Universal Laws, Past Lives, Ghost Adventures, and Mike.

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And people can get that at susamasino.com. Where else can they

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get it at? And they can get it at Amazon on Amazon.

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It's in paperback and on Kindle. Okay. So you can get it. You don't

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have to go to the bookstore, and you don't have to wait for it. You

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can get it from your Kindle next time you next time you go to

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it. Right away. And, if you go to my website, all

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5 books are on there, and my 6th books will be out next spring,

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the ACDC FAQ book, everything you wanted to know about the

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world's true rock and roll band. Awesome. Well, I'll look forward to

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reading it when it comes out. And thank you so much for your time, Susan.

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It's been a lot of fun. There's probably about a 100 more things

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we could talk about. And so I'm gonna save that, and we'll have to do

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another episode soon. I would love to. Thank you so much,

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Mike. And anytime. Call me anytime as Bond would say.

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Show notes for today's podcast can be found at othersidepodcast.com

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slash 5. Since today's interview with Susan covered a lot

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Thank you for listening to today's episode. You can find us

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online at othersidepodcast.com. Until next

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Mike. See you on the other side.

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