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Stephen May

Stephen May

Novelist and playwright

Aug 19, 2026

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32:19
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32:27
But it was just nursing was a great transition for me where you kind of get to pick up shifts.
32:31
There was they were always understaffed.
32:33
So you could pick up shifts if you really needed capital, because obviously the realtor world is 100 percent commission based.
32:38
No benefits, no insurance, stuff like that.
32:41
Obviously, at the time, I was still my parents insurance.
32:43
Thank God.

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PatHOST
54:39
Um, is that like a specific community online that you came across or is that just something that you've kind of your mentality that you've had? Where, where's, where did that come from?
66:22
And here's the son, Stephen, again.
66:24
I recorded the whole thing because my cynicism and my skepticism was that my dad would probably ask me at the end of it, Well, were you lying, Stephen, or were you telling the truth? So what was amazing when we got to the end and I looked at the likelihood of getting a two-question, two options right in a single question, 15 times out of 15, the odds were 32,768 to 1.
66:53
When I sat back and said, right, now talk to me about each one of the selections, my dad said that he could see them.
67:23
It was absolutely amazing to think that I could tell
67:27
the difference, even in the dark.
67:29
And if people can wrap their head around that, there's almost no training to do.
67:34
This is mind-blowing when you realize that you don't have to be a particular age to do it.
67:40
There's no skill involved.
5:19
But I'd love to hear a little bit about your connection to the organization and your organ playing.
5:26
Well, as of this year, Richard and I are co-coordinators for the program.
5:31
He started it in 2007 when he moved to the Northfield area and realized that unlike other towns with good organs and many organists, there was no recital series.
5:41
So he decided to get one going.
5:44
This is the 19th season of it, and I've played for maybe half of those.
5:49
And they're in different locations around town.
5:51
So it's always an opportunity for the other organists in town to get to hear each other because they're all tied up on Sunday mornings.

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Yeah, you can answer that.

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