CTP (S3EMaySpecial5) BooksAuthorsWeekMay2026 Grace After Relapse

CTP (S3EMaySpecial5) BooksAuthorsWeekMay2026 Grace After Relapse
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We talk with S.E. Schritter about turning a devastating family story into a memoir that helps other people face addiction, relapse, shame, and grief with honesty and grace. We also get practical about writing and publishing, from creative nonfiction craft to word count, pricing, and making books accessible. 
• pronouncing a hard last name and jumping into Author Week 
• growing up near Chicago and moving through Minnesota, Oregon, and South Carolina 
• the heart of Prodigal Son and why readers respond to addiction recovery memoirs 
• relapse inside a marriage and the reality of hidden drinking 
• a DUI crash, legal fallout, and the shock of a cancer diagnosis 
• writing from wounds while protecting the reader’s clarity and focus 
• editing hard, cutting chapters, and thinking about page count and cost 
• the Oxford comma debate and why details change meaning 
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A Short Story: A Lasting Legacy? book Trailer

Transcript

Welcome And Name Pronunciation

SPEAKER_02 0:08

Hello, welcome to another episode of Constitutionalist Podcast. I am your host, Joseph M. Werner, that's L-E-N-A-R-D at the Francis Now that's wonderful about it. Thank you for tuning in. As Brandon used to say on his show, let's get on with the show. Welcome to Deja Vu Week. No, that's not what it is. But kind of sorta. Welcome to Bookslash Authors Week. May 2026. Just coming out of April 2026, bookslash authors week, and October books slash authors week of October 2025. So yes, you guessed it. It's all about cucumbers and tomatoes and deli shopping books. Let's get on, I guess. Joining me today, not gonna bother to even attempt to pronounce her last name as E.

SPEAKER_00 1:30

Shredder. Shredder. Most of the letters are silent. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:35

The drill silent and in in post, I'll put the scroll on the bottom for the behind the scenes video viewers and for the benefit of the audio and the transcript. The last name is T S C H R I T T E R.

unknown 1:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Very German. Yes. Yes. Silent T Schritter. Okay. I I guess I get. Yeah. Uh Keeler on my mom's side, so I'm per German heritage.

SPEAKER_08 2:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:09

I grew up, you know, Lewis, and then last name was Evans, my late husband, and then Schritter.

SPEAKER_02 2:16

So well, at least at least your book hasn't been put through the Schredder. That's true. Right. Just the way my ADHD O C D brain works. But I wanted to hit record right away. And before we get into what you're here for, what we were talking about before hitting record, I was on Mango Monday Music Xpace, and good thing the Zoom notice popped up. So I'm scrambling. Oh my god, my meeting starts. I forgot because I didn't set my alarm clock. You were saying about setting alarm clock too?

SPEAKER_00 2:57

Yeah, I did. I mean, I've there was one interview that I had three minutes to get ready for because I missed it. And it was like, you know, like changing clothes and do, you know, makeup, got just a tiny bit and three minutes. Like total transformation.

SPEAKER_02 3:12

So I hear you. And you were saying you're currently in a new book, the creation of I've been writing my next new short story that'll be a Kindle exclusive gonna drop in a couple weeks in May of 2026. So yeah, so you're you're in the middle of your next book.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

Yeah, and and you know, when you start getting into that space where you're in for me, it's fiction, right? So I totally disappear into another world, and then my kids call and they're like, Mom, I need and I like I remember that I have children again. Like it's it's it's just a really weird.

SPEAKER_08 3:53

So yeah, yeah, who are you? Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

I released a book. I don't see you on my pages here. Who are you? I don't yeah, what's your name? I don't understand what's happening, right? Yes. You expect the characters to call you. That's what you expect. Yes, yes.

From Chicago To South Carolina

SPEAKER_02 4:11

All right, so what now that all that weird stuff that wasn't planned is out of the way. Let's back up to the actual planned stuff. First, where were you born and raised? Significant where are you now? Significant places you may have been in between, that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Sure. I was born in well, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. I tell most people Chicago.

SPEAKER_02 4:39

I'm joking, people. I'm joking.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Detroit area for me, pistons, bulls, yeah, right. I definitely live there during the like the three-peat, you know. Um right, right. Well, not for people in Chicago. Anyway, uh, and then I went to school. I went to a Christian school in uh St. Paul, Minnesota. Lived in Oregon for a little bit, back to Minnesota, and uh my current husband, because my late husband passed away in 2019. I remarried in 2020. I can't even use numbers anymore. 2023 is when I remarried, 1010, 23. And he was transferred to Simpsonville, South Carolina for work. So that is where we are now.

SPEAKER_02 5:29

Okay. Mini Soda, eh? Mini Soda. Almost like a Canadian accent. Sorry, man. Not screw. The Great White North. Yeah, I think so. The Mall of America. I I wouldn't go there now. That area is so out of control with crime and whatnot, but love the Mall of America. For those who don't know, it used to be the world's biggest mall, don't know if it is anymore, converted from an old baseball park. In fact, they they still have a upper deck seat at the top of the corner. And in the middle, there's a mini amusement park where the field used to be.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

There are roller coasters, multiple roller coasters inside. A log flume is it's still there?

unknown 6:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 6:23

As far as I know, yes.

Prodigal Son And Addiction Recovery

SPEAKER_02 6:24

Yeah. Uh haven't been there in decades. Again, I wouldn't go now. I was there in 2023. Oh, were you? And you're here to you live to tell the tale, huh? I did, yeah. Yeah. Well, I was about to say, I wouldn't suggest flying into Minnesota to go to Mall of America like I did a couple times, unless you can also afford full-time armed bodyguards to be with you. And I'm saying that as somebody from the Detroit suburb. Detroit's a lot better nowadays. It's pretty clean, actually. Anyway, way down another rabbit hole again. That's uh the Prodigal Son Crackhead to Jesus freak, book one, addiction recovery support series. First thing that comes to mind, I gotta ask, is this partly inspired by the My Pillow Mike Glendale guy from Crackhead to CEO book?

SPEAKER_00 7:31

No, no, not at all. Uh it is it is a memoir, it is uh creative nonfiction, and my late husband was a crack addict and an alcoholic and became a pastor and then relapsed. So it's this whole journey of addiction and relapse and grace and overcoming shame and the battle of addiction.

SPEAKER_02 7:54

Uh-huh. And uh the you're with Mickey Mickelson, right? Yes, I am, yes. Yeah, we we we both know Mickey. Uh on his release, it says now on pre-sale, we'll with a release in January 26th. Well, we're recording in April of 2026, so the book is out now, yes?

SPEAKER_00 8:17

Book is out, yeah. And it spent the first two months on the bestseller list, and it's doing really well. So I it's been good. A lot of reviews are coming in and saying thank you for writing this book. So it's it's been a powerful tool to help other people who are going through either like who know someone who's battling addiction or going through their own battles with addiction, it's been really great.

SPEAKER_02 8:41

Yeah, uh Mike Glendell's book did really well from crackhead to CEO, the My Pillow founder. There is an appetite for things like this because so many people, if they're not directly going through that struggle, it can be an analogy or a metaphor for their struggles and can help. 100%, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:04

Shame everyone battles shame and feeling insufficient at times, so it definitely touches everyone in in that way.

SPEAKER_02 10:12

Okay, well, thanks for stopping by. Bye-bye. No, I'm kidding. I it's a joke, people. I I like to keep my show short, but not that short. All right, all right. Well, I'm gonna go back to writing my fictional characters then since you brought it up again. Is is the one you're working on a sequel? Because this one's called subtitle book one. It is called book one.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

Yeah, if I write a sequel, it's gonna be called The Widow's Might, and it'll be more from my perspective of dealing with the loss of a spouse. However, right now I'm doing fiction because I just needed a break from that really, really hard. That was like a soul-sucking book, not gonna lie. That was it was a rough one.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

Yeah, I can imagine. Uh indeed. Uh, most well, I have fiction and nonfiction. Uh, nonfiction is more based on the show, our Judeo Christian Foundation's educational series nonfiction. Most of my other books are indeed fiction. I I but as they say, write what you know. Right. So even things from my life certainly get fictionalized and get put in there, and the same with you, I take it. 100%.

SPEAKER_00 11:31

Yeah, like even like sometimes I had a character, I was describing her, and I needed to just put her in an outfit, and I was wearing burgundy sweats, so my character is wearing burgundy sweats, because it doesn't matter, but you she needs clothes, so grab a pair of burgundy. Like be creative or you need to be creative, and you know, use right, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

There's no would have been no sense spending a week and a half pun intended since you mentioned sweats sweating over that detail. Right.

SPEAKER_00 12:09

What is she gonna just what the first thing that comes to mind? And then it's kind of like Mad libs almost writing a book.

Writing For Short Attention Spans

SPEAKER_02 12:16

I mean, unless if it really matters, obviously, in certain cases and certain scenes, they need to be attired a particular way, and that's why you would describe it as such.

SPEAKER_00 12:28

Or the setting or it describes the character more, and yeah, yeah. But it doesn't matter. Don't spend too much time on it.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

I'm gonna hold this up close to the camera so people could kind of see the cover on the behind the scenes video. I have a copy like not too far away.

SPEAKER_00 12:47

I can put my headphones in.

SPEAKER_02 12:49

Well, most listen over audio to the 40-ish audio platforms. I only have five video channels, so but I still like to drop the video behind the scenes. I I I prefer video, I like to see, I want to see the person and you know, the yeah, my my Italian background and my hands waving.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

I suppose it's harder if people are driving, though, they're just gonna do the audio then, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:19

Exactly, right. And about the short shows I was joking by, but I try to keep my shows around 30 minutes. That way, you know, your lunch break, uh, 10 minutes to the diner, order your food, put on the podcast, eat, you're done with your food, the podcast's done. A go home. Or go back to work.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

I like that's really smart. That's a smart business strategy, actually.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

Yeah, it's almost as if I actually thought about it.

unknown 13:53

Right?

SPEAKER_02 13:54

It just kind of worked that way, and I apply that ex post facto now. But I did coin today's Twitter TikTok attention span. Everybody wants short.

SPEAKER_00 14:09

Yeah, they do. Yeah, it's the same thing with the book, right? You have to hook them in the first page or the first paragraph or are you uh are you writing full-length novels? I am, yes. That's my that's my goal. Romantic suspense is what I'm headed for right now.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

Okay, yeah, I find of late I'm been writing novelettes, and like I said, the one I'm working on now, so I could try to make it a 99 cent Kindle ebook exclusive because gotta help them stretch their entertainment dollar and again the attention span thing. So novelettes are shorter than oh, I might read that then. Otherwise, you know, anybody trying to write war and peace today, good luck with that.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

Right, exactly. Yeah, they look at the page count and they're like, no, thanks.

SPEAKER_02 15:04

Yeah, exactly. And of course, the higher the page count, the higher the print cost. Well, with ebook, it matters less, but yeah, actual print books. Uh higher the page count, the higher the cost, the higher the MSRP of the book has to be. And we gotta be mindful of people's budgets these days, yes?

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Yeah, you want to make it as accessible as possible. I that's why I I made Prodigal Sun available on Kindle Unlimited because I, you know, if people have the subscription, then go for it.

A Pastor’s Relapse And Hidden Drinking

SPEAKER_02 15:39

You know, uh they may not otherwise read it if it's not in the Kindle Select or Kindle Unlimited uh availability. So okay, well let's talk. Well coming into the room in the last minute, you could see. In fact, I was just on Suno before this because I was listening to Mango Monday Music X Base. A couple of my tunes are played uh in the space, and I've had an ongoing running gag for decades now. Mornings, bah humbug. They'd be great if they came around 1 p.m. instead, right? So I the light bulb went on. I should do a song. Mornings, bah humbug. So that's another thing I just did before the the Zoom alert said, hey, you got a meeting in five minutes, dummy, you better get ready. So my in fact, a line in there, my brain is still foggy, but feeling a bit swirly. And that that's exactly my space right now. I'm like, ah, interview? How do you do these things? So just just take over. Uh, what do you really want to tell the audience?

SPEAKER_00 17:08

Oh my gosh. All right. I was looking forward to like a question answer. Tell us about life. Uh so like I said, Prodigal Son was super hard to write emotionally because it was my late husband's story. Uh, he actually asked me to write his story. So he had been a crack addict when he was 19, and he said, God knocked him upside upside the head with a two by four. That that was his wording. With a cross, right? Like he just bam. And uh, and then he became sober after that, but he relapsed into alcohol. He knew never relapsed into crack addiction, but he relapsed into alcohol in the beginning of our marriage, and then he he was sober for about nine and a half years, and there was a weekend he had been telling me, like, hey Sam, I've been sober for nine years, you can buy some alcohol if you want, which a lot of people told me like was him asking me to buy it because right, he wanted it around, he wanted it around, he was and so, but I didn't know that anyway. I had alcohol in the house, and I had made a drink or two over the course of a couple weeks. I'm not an alcoholic, so the alcohol just sat there, it just it it was there. And I went away for a writing weekend, and that same weekend, his mentor slipped on the steps. We're talking Minnesota, the January, right? Slipped on ice, fell back, hit his head, and went into a coma and passed away a week later. Oh this was this is my this is my real life. And I was gone, and and my late husband Clint relapsed that weekend. He was a pastor, and he didn't tell me about his relapse. So he relapsed at the end of January in 2017, and I like March, April, I caught him once. Like I just saw that the level of the vodka bottle was low, and I was like, You need to not drink, you can't drink, you can't drink, and he's like, fine, fine, you know, and I just I was in denial at that point because he was a pastor, things were going well. I was like, everything's fine, it's fine, and it yeah, it doesn't sound like he was blackout drunking at that point, not at that point, in the beginning of our marriage, and this is these stories are in the book. There is some blackout drinking at the beginning of our marriage, but at this point, he was like it's like he was just drinking enough to feel good, drinking enough to you know, just to make it. Uh, but he he was also still trying to hide it because he had all these other responsibilities. So, and then I caught him again in September, and we had a come to Jesus moment. I was like, you are choosing between your family and alcohol, which for an addict, there's not necessarily a choice. The the addiction chooses them. However, I was like, You are choosing if I'm not going back through another Chicago. We called it Chicago, our dark years. Like the two years that we lived in Chicago were the two years that he was relapsing on and off. And then we moved ended up moving out to Oregon after that, and he was able to get sober, stay sober. Uh, however, I I was like, You are choosing, you are choosing between your family and alcohol. And we had three daughters at that point. I'm not making them go through blackout drunk again. I'm not, we're not doing this. We're not doing this. And so I think in his mind, he got this really defiant look, which unless you've seen the look, you can't understand it. But he got this defiant look, and in his head, he started thinking, I can't drink at home. I can't drink at home. I can't drink at home. So he went, he was playing semi-pro semi-pro football at the time, and he drove a car from what team? Uh semi-pro. So it was the Warhawks in Minnesota, is what he was playing for.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

For those who may know it, shout out to them.

SPEAKER_00 21:06

Right. And and he played for Sabercats, he played for a bunch of teams in Minnesota. Uh, and had he it was that's all that's in the book too. There are some football stories in the book. Uh and he was on uh the Sabre Cats and he was center.

SPEAKER_02 21:21

He the arena football league team or a different it's it's different than arena.

DUI, Arrest, And Cancer Diagnosis

SPEAKER_00 21:26

It's okay, but it he played arena too. He he somehow figured out how to make football like last all year long in our house. Football was not just NFL that started in the fall. It was you know, you had the you have semi-pro which practiced, and then you had arena football in the summer, and you do the draft in the in the in the spring. And so he he figured out how to make football last for forever. Uh I used to have all sorts of things like statistics memorized that I like I had no business knowing, but he just it was always football. Uh anyway, so he he played for these teams. He went away, he he had to drive about an hour to get to practice that particular day. And on the way back, he stopped at a gas station, grabbed some small bottles that you can grab, and he drank. Uh and he drank a bunch of them. And I I I'm not even sure if he stopped and drank again, or if it was just a one-time thing. But the alcohol, because he hadn't been drinking that much, the alcohol hit him much quicker than it did at the you know, when he was younger. And it hit him harder. And so he was still driving when he got drunk. He was about 13 miles from home. No one was injured, I will say that. But he was he this would be funny if it wasn't if it wasn't so terrible, but he got turned around in a roundabout. Like missed the term.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

Oh, I hate those sentences.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

He was drunk.

SPEAKER_02 23:07

So he went around and around and around. That is kind of funny. It is a little funny.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

So he was supposed to be going home, turned around, went back the way he was going, and then into this other town and got in a drunk driving accident. I got a call at 1:30 in the morning. Miss Evans, this is Sergeant Jeremy Reid with the New Ellen Police Department. There's been an accident. Your husband's taken to the hospital. When he's released from the hospital, he will be arrested for the felony charge of fleeing police. So that was that. Yes. And the cover copy. Yeah. And then six hours later, the hospital called and said, Miss Evans, we found something on the CAT scan. Again, this is my real life. So he went to jail with a potential cancer diagnosis, which turned out to be a cancer diagnosis. I saw that in the royal.

SPEAKER_02 24:01

Yeah. I'm glad you're bringing it up. Exactly. This is all the addiction stuff. Someone could relate to the cancer thing.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

It's this whole the whole thing. And I was like, I was stuck on, he lied to me. He drank and he drove and hid it from me. And I am paying the price for his choices. I was stuck there. And the rest of the world was cancer, cancer, cancer, the sky's falling, the sky is falling. And so there was a lot of grief to try to pack into one tiny little moment. And somewhere in the midst of that, it was he lived 20 months diagnosed to death. And somewhere in the midst of that, he said, Sam, what are the chances I would be married to an author whose best work comes from wounds? I want you to write my story. I want you to interview me, and I want you to write my story. I didn't I didn't want to because I knew how dark it was.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

Yeah, you get too close to a subject at times.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

We'd been married 14 years at that point. Like I lived a lot of the dark with him and knew that part of my part of his story would be part of my story. But to honor him and to honor people who battle addiction or battle shame, we really wanted it to happen. We wanted people to know that no matter how badly you screw up, God still loves you, and that his love for you is not based on what you do or what you don't do. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 25:31

If it were a movie, it's one of those things, you know, based on a true story, and people walk out of the theater say, No, I don't believe that at all. Right. No, but this is all that happened. Yeah, and I didn't choose cancer. Cancer chose me too. I didn't choose this lack of a hairdo, the chemo, so I keep it shaved now, so I can relate to that part of the story. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Yeah, that was absolutely uh I it's I still tell people my story and they look at me like, Are you serious? I'm like, Yeah. I I wrote it in a creative nonfiction style. So it's written like fiction. Oh, that's better. Yeah, I I've got that better.

Turning Trauma Into Creative Nonfiction

SPEAKER_02 26:15

Yes, I've got a book, how to write a book and get it published, to help people who have a story in them get it out from creation, yeah, yeah, you know, character building, scenery building, publishing options, reviews, and promotion after blah blah blah blah blah. But I bring that up not to try to promote that book, but you're allowed to, it's your show, yeah, but to make the point, memoirs, John the memoir of John Doe. Well, who the hell is John Doe and why should I care? But the story of John Doe fictionalized can tell great tales and give life lessons, yes?

SPEAKER_00 27:00

Right, right. So you're not just telling someone's life, you're inviting them into it. That's the difference, but it's still very much nonfiction. There are a couple scenes where I have to combine like different conversations or things that happen and pull them into one scene, but they all happen individually. It just they're a conglomerate.

SPEAKER_02 27:21

Yeah, it's like one of my I love the movie Patriot Games with Wahlberg about the marathon uh uh Boston Marathon bombing. It's the same thing in books as with movies. In that movie, Martin Wahlberg's character was a conglomeration or a compilation or uh you know several people of that day because you can't have 50,000 characters in a movie or a book. It gets too confusing. So, like in your case, you took things that kind of sort of happen at different times, but did happen, but squeeze them into one scene that makes more sense.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

One particular scene I did that with was visitations to homebound or shut-ins. He would go deliver communion to people all the time. As pastoral duties, correct. But no one wants to read about 16 different pastoral visits. Bingo, perfect example. So you take the pieces of all of them, and it's one character that he goes to visit twice in the book and two different times, and it it matters, but it but the pieces of it are all real, and Millie, this character, is uh like you said, like a conglomeration of probably about 30 different people that he was going to visit.

SPEAKER_02 28:43

Yeah, 30 visitations people would be just too confused, not able to find out.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

But why do we care? That's not what it's about. But to show that he did visitations and to show what he was talking about when he did those visitations, that piece was very important.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

You could save the other characters for the extended. I like to joke. I'm gonna I'm gonna grab it right. There's the Google defined. There is a short story, typically under 7,500 words, novelette ranges 7,500 to 17,000 words, novella 17.5 to 40k words, a novel 40,000 or more, and I dare say there should be a new category called novel X. Anything over 450 pages is too big for most people nowadays. That should be its own category. Anything over 450 pieces pages, the user should be warned. This is a novel extend or a director's cut, if you will. Right words.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

Right, the extended version of it. Yes, 100%. I I had to cut thousands of words because when I first wrote the book, I was writing it to write it. Just get it out. First version is for the writer, right? First version is for you, and then you go through and you say, Okay, people aren't gonna care about this, they're not gonna care about this. I was like name-dropping stuff because I wanted to honor people that were part of the story, but in the end, readers aren't gonna understand who those people are, they're not gonna get it. And it and it wasn't it wasn't adding enough to it, so I had to I ended up just taking some of it out, unfortunately.

Editing Choices And Oxford Commas

SPEAKER_02 31:12

I hear you. My terror strikes coming soon to the city near you. I cut whole chapters. I'm a former IT guy, but I cut out the cybersecurity chapter. I cut out this chapter, that chapter, because indeed, again, a 500-page book is too big. The story in that now is 250-ish pages, the overall book 286 or so. That cost starts to get up too high then.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

Yeah, and it's hard for readers because we're talking about word count, but then you translate that to page numbers.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

Yeah, I've got that broken down on my sheet. Oh, yeah, tell me. In in like uh yeah, novel, uh the uh 40,000 words or more, around 196,000 characters. Because when you're writing, you're not just dealing in words or page size, you're dealing in character count, word count, uh all that you know prodigal son was about 90,000 words.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

Prodigal Sun is like 300 pages, but it's there's there's a lot of space in there because there's there are actually images and uh things like that. So the there are chapter breaks and things.

SPEAKER_02 32:30

So I like including occasional images too. That's the honorable benefit, yeah, of modern publishing. Uh, you don't have to literally typeset the pages as and putting a picture on a page in a book 50 years ago was a big deal. Now with it all digital, you could throw them in all over the place and it's just standard color printing.

SPEAKER_00 32:59

Well, black and white printing, but yeah. I recently learned about the Oxford comma too.

Website, Social Links, And Farewell

SPEAKER_02 33:05

Did you like I'm glad you brought that up because I I can't remember what other Mickey uh author I had on, and we were joking about that because Mickey in his release uh marriage murder something it was that not Maria Jane. Oh, I don't remember like murder mystery mayhem, something like that, and you know, murder, comma, mystery, comma, mayhem, and mayhem, and he left one of the commas out that was actually in the title. So we joked for like 15 minutes about the aster comma and people introduce Mickey to it, yeah. Exactly your point. Yes, it saved ink. I mean a hundred years ago, yeah, a hundred years ago, one comma on this page across three hundred pages adds up to significant ink. But today we argue the average comma has to be there because this comma, that comma, and the other thing is different from this comma, that and the other thing. That and the other thing become together when they're not. This comma, that, comma, and the other thing. They're three things. Leaving the OTX for comma there changes the meaning. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, other than that.

SPEAKER_00 34:47

I was like, oh my gosh, that's crazy.

Mornings Bah Humbug Lyrics

SPEAKER_02 34:51

Yeah, no, that's you when it comes to English, math was my favorite subject. I like to joke. But but yes, I had a lot of English and creative writing classes, so I'd always emphasis I took a journalism class too, and the Oxford comma was a big thing because again, when you're doing journalism, the facts matter. This, that, the other thing is a whole different story than this comma, that, and the other thing. Details matter, and with modern modern printing and publishing, especially digital, all those extra commas don't hurt, they help. Yes. Yes, so now I'm gonna give Mickey a hard time again. We talk about the English the Oxford combo again. You'll get a kick out of that. Oh anyway, well the time has flown. It indeed is now over 30 minutes. So let's wrap things up. Do you have a website for people to find you?

SPEAKER_00 36:03

Yes, loveunedited.com.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

Love unedited, one T in there, yes.

SPEAKER_00 36:10

Yes, dot com.com, yeah. I'm because I don't want people to have to spell Shredder.

SPEAKER_02 36:17

Good idea, but that raises the point. Normally I like to make sure the name is dropped at least seven times from people.

SPEAKER_00 36:25

S E Shredder, S E Shredder, S E Schritter.

SPEAKER_02 36:27

There you go. S period E, period Schritter, but there's a T on the front of that E-S-C H R I T T E R. Thank you, Ms. Shredder.

SPEAKER_00 36:42

Yes. So when people go to loveunedited.com, there's a let's connect button, and they can connect with uh YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, all the things they can find me there, and I would love to connect with your listeners. That'd be fun.

SPEAKER_02 36:56

Yeah. And despite my foggy slash squirrely brain, we made it through.

SPEAKER_00 37:02

What a great. This is a great conversation. Thank you, SE. Uh take care, God bless. God bless. Talk soon. Bye.

SPEAKER_05 37:16

I woke up and immediately regretted. Mornings by Humbug. Could be great if not arrived so damn. Brain still fogging. Yet feeling squirrely. I woke up mad at the ceiling faint. My face set on white before I could stand. Cough is not enough for this only brain. I'm half a ghost in a school bus lane. Eyes like the steps like a joke. Hair doing math. I can't get coke. The world showed up way too soon. I'm not awake, I'm barely noon. Too early again. Too early again. Batch my clock and then Too early again. Morning God's too tight. I need one more hour Just to get my light. Let my socks in the dark by the sink. One window, one wind. My keys were there in the board. Doom I lost my words to the hallway gloom. I like the steps, like the joke here, doing math. I can't get cold. The world showed up way too soon. I'm not awake, I'm barely known too early. That's my clock came out. Too early again. I need one more hour just to get my eye. If sunrise wants to fight, pick the wrong guy. I'm wrinkled, I'm mirrored a bull. I don't know why. Give me a minute. Give me a check. Give me a version of a day. I can be too early again. Too early. Too early again. Too early back. My I can't man. Too early. Too early again. I do one more hour.

SPEAKER_03 40:19

Just to get my life too early again. Too early again. Mornings. They be alright. If they start around one o'clock in the afternoon light. Let me sleep till the day is already half gone. Mornings. Y'all can carry on.

SPEAKER_04 40:53

Mornings were rough with that Bahumbug bite. Now the sun's past noon and I'm losing the fight. Coffee's gone, cold motivation took flight. Welcome back to the afternoon. Clock hits 3.15.

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SPEAKER_06 41:13

Eyes heavy as lead. That third cup betrayed me. Now I'm half dead. Emails are laughing, the to-do list won't quit. But my brain checked out and it ain't coming back yet. Staring at the screen while the cursor just blinks. Brain fog so thick, you could stir it with a drink. Try to power nap. Woke up more confused. Afternoon blaz got me thoroughly bruised. It's the afternoon blaz. Yeah, they hit me hard between lunch and quitting time. Life's a discard. Energy crash. Motivations on strike. Afternoon blas. Lord, throw me a lifeline tonight. Morning set by humbug. Now this is the sequel bite. Afternoon blah, hold me tight. Now I'm stuck in this light, great lake, shining outside. But I'm glued to this chair. Trying real hard, but the afternoon just ain't fair. Factories closed, politicians still taxing the soul. Same old story. We keep falling back in the hole from morning by. It's a confusion, coast to coast. Just the same now. Even the hours of the day are playing the blame game. Mastery of mornings, coming for your dreams at night. State of misery, middays in Illinois by daylight. Might change in afternoons, got me feeling the squeeze. Fly over energy lost. Somewhere over the trees, red states, blue states. Doesn't matter the zip. Afternoon blas, don't care who you are. But they still hit mornings, say by humbug. Afternoons whisper, why even try? But somewhere past five o'clock, the evening might let this old boy fly. Energy's gone, but I'm still in the fight. Afternoon blah.

SPEAKER_07 43:46

Afternoons. States of confusion. Lord have mercy on the people.

SPEAKER_01 43:55

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