Good to be here. So to our audience, know that if you have any questions for connor or maurice they can type them out in the chat room and they will either deal with those while theyre talking or wait till the end of the conversation to give those questions and for those of you whove not gotten connors book i put a link in the chat room where you can go to our website and order copies of the book. I dont think weve talked about getting signed book plates or not but we would love to get some signed bookplates. We will make that happen. But anyway, welcome everybody. First of all im going to introduce Maurice Ruffin and maurice was born and raised in new orleans, hes published his debut novel the devils steps which cast a shadow in 2019. It was a finalist for the pen open book award and long listed for the first novel. Maurice is an assistant professor of creative writing at lsu and also the 2020, 2021 Donna Ray Grisham writer in residence at the university of mississippi. Maurice, welco
Tamron remember the movie pay it forward with helen hunt and Haley Joel Osmond . It certainly about how you pay it forward, take on lifes challenges and see how it affects other people but you put their feelings before yours, pay it forward. Our next guest gives a fresh meaning to that phrase. Jon potter said he made it his mission to say yes to anyone desperate for help. Buying a car for a friend, to get work, to giving up half of his life savings to pay off someones debt and even donating, as i said before the commercial break, he donated one of his kidneys to save a life. He goes beyond simple acts of kindness, to say the least. This man is a superhero and the jon is of people magazines kindness award recipients. For their first ever kindness issue, on stands tomorrow. Please welcome jon and his wife. [applause] jon, this all started after meeting a woman in a gas station. Not just meeting, it was an encounter. I always said i wasnt a terrible person at that point in my life but i w
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