Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "No Bear Wrestling"

Missouri's just one of those things where you're like, what's going on down there?

There have been bear sightings in one area of Missouri, specifically Salem, which is a town of about 5,000 in the middle of the state.

So local police took to social media, reminded people that bear wrestling in Missouri is illegal.

It's a class A misdemeanor.

They shared the language from the actual statute, which bans promoting

or allowing bear wrestling on your property, training a bear to wrestle, and surgically altering a bear for wrestling purposes.

You know what I'm thinking about

doing right now?

I see that bear on my property.

I'm gonna go over there and give him a back suplex.

Put him in a cobra clutch and call it a day.

Maybe drop him with a stunner.

Oh, hell, girl.

Throw me a beer, honey.

The Rock

108

Morning Show.

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the Sturbs latest unstoppable on the Rock 108 morning show 817 hitting a high of 73 mostly sunny skies today and then tomorrow sunny with a high of 76 full details coming up in the forecast so we have a three time offender

on the rock, what a white morning show.

My favorite Irish author, La Serena McMaster.

Good morning.

Hello.

I prefer hat trick.

I'm scoring a hat trick with rock.

What are we being my third?

Yeah.

You missed it.

Like door was wide open there for that one.

Yeah.

Well, we'll talk about doors being wide open because of your sexy time books here.

You've got a brand new book that's featuring the Cedar Rapids raccoons.

It's a hockey novel.

It is pulling the goalie, which is sitting right here in my hands right now.

Very thrilled.

You go.

got it.

So this is the second book in the Cedar Rapids Raccoon series, correct?

It is.

I'm hoping.

So I originally planned to do seven books in the series, but I have since the last book, I have written two short stories that my alpha readers are like, okay, these need to be full books now.

So it's potentially a nine book series that Cedar Rapids wanted originally was.

But I thought hockey went to the best of seven in the Stanley Cup.

I know, but the characters want what the characters want and the readers want what the readers want.

So I don't know, I have plans to extend these two short stories, but it may never happen, although it's probably going to

happen.

I haven't asked you this

question

before, but as an author who is so engaged with their audience, does that make it difficult sometimes for you to come up with or to develop the universe that is the Cedar Rapids raccoons in this case?

I don't think so.

I try to write.

independently of that.

I try to write whatever I need to write or whatever the books and characters tell me I need to write.

The raccoons, I have had some interesting comments from people that were unexpected because I didn't realize that some of my advanced team are either from Iowa or have been to Iowa.

So, for example, in the book that you're reading, I think they mentioned Zoey's Pizza in Marion.

And one of my readers messaged and was like, oh, I know the owners of this.

And I was like, oh, no.

So when I'm trying to make it a little more authentic and use places I have been or people like base characters on loosely on people that I know, I didn't really expect my advanced team to be like, oh, I love it.

You know, I had one person message me and go, I haven't been home to Iowa in 20 years.

I'm so.

I'm sick.

And this is like, this really makes reminds me of home.

And, you know, it hit the mark for, you know, being Cedar Rapids, you know, and that kind of stuff is nice.

But I don't go in thinking, okay, what do they want from me?

What do my readers want from me?

I go in with the mindset that the story will be what the story is.

And

I'm just like a puppet master or the puppet dependent on the books.

Like that book you're reading right now, I was the puppet and the characters were the puppet masters.

You know, speaking of being a puppet, pulling the golly.

Los Serena McMaster is our guest here on Rock 108.

I turn to the prologue of pulling the goalie.

I have it in front of me.

I'm gonna read this right now because it's very special to not only you, but to me.

Good morning Cedar Rapids.

This is Marshall Bryant and you're listening to Rock 108.

Summer's almost over, which means we're on the slippery slope into the new college hockey season, and coach Bales is putting together an interesting roster of raccoons over at the University of Cedar Rapids.

Speaking of the trash pandas, I lured one of them onto the show.

You know, I like having interesting guests on the show from time to time, so joining us this morning for a quick Q&A is rookie UCR goaltender, Eris de la Peña.

No stranger to the limelight.

the youngest of four siblings.

Aries already has twin older brothers on the team and is suiting up to play between the pipes in the fall.

Thanks for joining us today, Aries.

Look at you go.

I'm so happy.

I'm so glad I wrote that too.

Interesting.

The notes

that Marshall Bryant is based on one of your favorite Iowa DJs.

We've written a tailgating scene in there where they pumped into each other and we're like, Hey, you want to do my radio show?

Which is interesting because you had reached out to me and said hey if you were to interview a hockey player What questions would you ask I go?

I need more information in this particular story, and I'm not gonna give away too much of it But the area seems to think that I'm going to ask a bunch.

I'm sorry Marshall Bryant is going to ask a bunch of questions and It looks like you may have used some of my

questions.

I did.

In fairness, I did say the first time we met that my friends all know that when they talk to me and tell me things that chances are they're going to end up in a book.

I didn't want your answers to be colored by the fact I was using it for, but I wanted authentic Brian answer.

I have never had my words in somebody else's universe or in the book.

So the only thing I don't see is a credit in here.

Go

to the end.

It is.

You haven't got there yet.

Three acknowledgments.

Oh, that's right.

I got to go to the acknowledgments.

Oh,

man.

Okay.

So lots arena McMaster.

My favorite Irish author is with us here on the Rock 108 morning show, not Marshall Bryant, but I'm Brian Marshall.

This is pulling the goalie Cedar Rapids raccoon hockey novel, raccoons hockey novel.

I got it on Amazon.

Where else can they get it?

Just Amazon.

I'm an Amazon exclusive author.

So ebook and paperback are on Amazon and it is enrolled in the Kindle Unlimited program for those who have Kindle Unlimited.

Is it bad that I want to try and get this in the Cedar Rapids Public Library?

They can actually get it.

So I have put the paperback what's called wide.

So people like Barnes and Noble and libraries can go and get the paperback.

And that's why I put the discrete option because I know that some libraries don't want the

delicious man chest versions on their shelves in the libraries.

So you probably could get it into the Cedar Rapids library.

It was weird.

When I came up in my Amazon like ordered list, it was blurred out.

I go, what did I order?

Like, I've had this.

She said it was steamy, but she's

like, what the fuck is going on here?

But anyway.

Oh, I see what you did there.

Well,

you

know, I missed the hat trick one.

So I had to get you with a different pun before the

interview.

Six hours of time difference.

She's in Northern Ireland.

She's my favorite Irish author, Los Serena McMaster, a hat trick or three time offender on the rock, one away morning show.

Thanks so much for being back.

Thank you for having me.

An Eastern Iowa original.

This is no ordinary man.

Brian Marshall in the Rock 108 Morning Show.

Who used all the Wi-Fi?

Ah,

apartment life.

Bad Wi-Fi, mystery laundry piles, and a roommate who says, I'll Venmo you.

Maybe 2027 deserves an upgrade.

Coming August 2027, Four Lakes Properties introduces the brand new Union Station apartments.

Furnished, in-unit washer and dryer, internet included, a great central downtown location, one to five bedroom apartments, and no double occupancy fees.

That's less adulting and more actually enjoying where you live.

Union Station apartments, now leasing from Four Lakes Properties.

Wait, we have a washer and dryer in the apartment?

apartment?