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I'll Prove It - Prt. 4

In this episode – I’ll Prove It . . .

 
Music and singing,
“In the year 2141- 
The air it can’t be seen
The smog is rather clean, we can breathe” . . . 

Audio – Narration of Chapter 2 pgs. 21 - 23.

You've just heard an excerpt (part IV) from the novel A New World of Hope by Don Hanley.

We received another question from one of our listeners. Let’s give Professor Haloran a call on our communicator to see if we can chat.

Question; “I believe you were a bit shocked by what you saw in the U.S. when you arrived in the year 2018, what shocked you the most?”

Mark's response . . . 

"Thank you, Mark, for joining us today; we hope to have you on another episode down the road.”

If you haven't heard, this podcast is now available on Amazon Music! Just say, "Alexa play - On the Fly podcast by Patrick Ball.

Also, if you have a question for Professor Haloran or would like to be a guest on this podcast, visit our blog - On The Fly, and email pball@sbcglobal.net. Or click the following link  https://anchor.fm/patrick-ball/message and leave me a voice message.


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I'm Patrick Ball; thanks for listening. See you in the next episode.


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