"Schottelkotte."
Al Schottelkotte was a newscaster in Cincinnati, Ohio,
which is also where I grew up.
And it wasn't until after this book was published
that my father told me that they used
to call him Blood and Guts Al.
I had no idea about that, but I was always
freaked out by the newscasts when I was younger.
[LAUGHING]
Maybe you guys should turn that down a little bit.
I don't know.
[LAUGHING]
It was really freakish.
"Schottelkotte."
"All our good nights sounds like matches striking.
Good night, grenade.
Little knock in the murk.
Little pill in the palm.
Put us to sleep while we sleep.
One bee leads to another.
Boom.
The footage fumes.
Once upon a time, there was a suicide.
Once upon a time, there was an affair.
And a missile, a misunderstanding,
an intervention, a b--
bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom.
Keep mouthing after the newscaster moves on.
Ka-boom.
A 14-year-old girl married a bomb."