Episode 0088 - “Bowled Over”

Frank Murphy is joined by author Gene Masters, who has published seven books including the war novel Silent Warriors and the mystery novel Bobby Doyle Is Missing. Frank is currently reading The Dry Cleaner. 

Frank took a break from recording podcast episodes while he was recording 58 episodes of Scholars’ Bowl and 4 episodes of Up Close for East Tennessee PBS during October and November.  The shows will air in 2023. 

Frank and his wife Jere took on the additional responsibility of preparing the questions used on Scholars’ Bowl. They also wrote new questions and rewrote many of the old ones. 

Gene’s bestselling book is Silent Warriors, which is about a submarine captain during the war. The Dry Cleaner is the first in a series of books featuring detective Rich Vittelli. Gene is currently writing the fourth Vitelli book. 

Frank’s neighbor Nancy marched in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as a toy soldier with the Hallmark float. Joss Stone sang on the float. Nancy brought back a box of cookies from Palermo Pastry Shop in Brooklyn for Frank and Jere. 

This episode is sponsored by BoneZones.com (don’t forget the S). Buy books and other merchandise autographed by Body Farm founder Dr. Bill Bass at https://bonezones.com/  Dr. Bill Bass will speak at Historic Cherokee Caverns on December 5, 2022. 

Frank and Becca James will host the Karns Network’s livestream of the Karns Christmas Parade on YouTube. The parade starts at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, December 3, 2022. The link to watch the parade is https://youtu.be/x3Jf1SqMM5I 

The parade organizers from the Karns Fair asked Frank to help them invite Heather Waliga of WBIR-TV to be the Grand Marshal. Heather is a Karns High School alumna. Find details at https://www.karnsfair.org/events 

Frank and Heather Waliga will be the public address announcers for the Rocky Hill Christmas Parade on Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. The parade is preceded by a Christmas festival in the Rocky Hill shopping center. Cruz Contreras and Emi Sunshine will each perform during the festival. Find details at https://rockyhillchristmasparade.org/ 

Gene has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, a master’s degree in environmental engineering, and a PhD in civil engineering. In his career, most of his work was in chemical engineering. Dr. Frank Jr. PhD recently received a job offer. Frank is hoping he and his wife can live in their son’s basement someday. 

One of the teams competing in Scholars’ Bowl had never watched the show. They fared poorly against a team that studied past episodes and could anticipate some of the questions before Frank finished reading them. Gene and Dr. Frank Jr. PhD sent in some new Scholars’ Bowl questions. 

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