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The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy

The entire Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy, read by the author. "A masterpiece of American humor." Los Angeles Times peterleroy.substack.com

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🎧 892: When I was . . .

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2025/01/15

WHEN I WAS A BOY, there was quite a lot of interest in flying saucers. . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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5:15

🎧 891: At my usual . . .

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2025/01/14

AT MY USUAL EARLY HOUR I sat at the computer to do some work on the passage that I would be reading in the evening, but it was Albertine who wrote: . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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6:42

🎧 890: My little audience . .

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2025/01/13

MY LITTLE AUDIENCE was receptive, even appreciative, . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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10:21

🎧 889: Albertine and I . . .

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2025/01/10

ALBERTINE and I had the dining room to ourselves that night. After dinner, I built a fire in the lounge, poured the last of the cognac for us, and began reading the sixth episode of Dead Air, “Flying Saucers: The Untold Story,” to an audience of one. Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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8:25

🎧 888: Early in the . . .

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2025/01/09

EARLY IN THE MORNING, I ferried our three guests back to the mainland. Dick and Jane sat in the bow with their arms around each other for the whole trip. They had told Albertine, while they were checking out, that their stay at Small’s had “really meant something,” . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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1:37

🎧 887: As soon as . . .

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2025/01/08

AS SOON AS we were under the covers, Albertine said, “The boiler is on its last legs.” “What happened to ‘Good night, my darling, I love you a zillion’?” I asked. “It’s the scale.” “Okay, a billion. I can understand that we’ve got to cut back — ” . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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8:22

🎧 886: After dinner . . .

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2025/01/07

AFTER DINNER, in the lounge, Lou stood the entire crowd of eight to a round of drinks from our well-stocked bar, and I read episode five of Dead Air, “A Case of the Family Illness.” Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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7:57

🎧 885: Albertine . . .

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2025/01/06

ALBERTINE generally spends an hour or so reading in bed after she wakes up, then gets out of bed, pulls her workout wear on, runs seven circuits of the island, lifts her weights, showers, eats a light breakfast . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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7:52

🎧 884: There was applause.

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2025/01/03

THERE WAS APPLAUSE. It was Friday night, and the crowd — oh, let’s call it a crowd even if it was a very small crowd — was in a Friday-night mood. Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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8:12

🎧 883: Among my tutors . . .

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2025/01/02

AMONG MY TUTORS when I was a boy were three who almost certainly never thought of me as their pupil. They were a nondescript man who lived around the corner (or, perhaps, across the street, or on the next block), his wife, and a ventriloquist’s dummy. Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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8:57

🎧 882: Morning crept . . .

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2024/12/31

MORNING CREPT IN like a guilty drunk. Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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7:54

881: “Baldy the Dummy . . .”

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2024/12/30

“BALDY THE DUMMY is still on the air,” I remarked later, at the bar, where Lou was again playing bartender. “I tune him in sometimes late at night when I can’t sleep.” “Really?” asked Jane. . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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8:08

🎧 880: Because I am . . .

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2024/12/27

BECAUSE I am an avid eavesdropper, I have often wondered why microphones are not made to resemble ears. After all, the point of a microphone is not that someone is speaking, but that someone else is, or will be, listening. . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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5:10

🎧 879: In the morning . . .

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2024/12/26

IN THE MORNING, Albertine called three real estate agencies to list the hotel with them, and in the afternoon I ferried a dozen realtors out to look the place over. . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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3:01

🎧 878: Just before . . .

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2024/12/24

JUST BEFORE Albertine and I started up the stairs to bed, the phone rang. At that hour, Al generally preferred to let the machine take all calls, but I still had hopes that I would find on the other end of the line a representative of a vast extended family calling to inquire about taking the entire hotel for a reunion, . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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7:09

🎧 877: One spring night, . . .

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2024/12/23

ONE SPRING NIGHT, thirty-eight years ago, I was camping in my back yard with my four friends Rodney “Raskol” Lodkochnikov, Marvin Jones, Rose “Spike” O’Grady, and Matthew Barber. Spike had brought our meandering conversation to a sudden end when . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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7:32

🎧 876: I was up . . .

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2024/12/20

I WAS UP EARLY the next morning, as always, but when I entered the kitchen I found Cedric “Call Me Lou” Abbot already there, chatting with Suki, the cook, and making himself a breakfast sandwich from the meat loaf in the “leftovers” refrigerator. . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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7:17

🎧 875: When I finished . . .

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2024/12/19

WHEN I finished reading, my audience sat in awkward silence for a moment, until I said, “Please hold your applause until the author has completed the reading of all fifty episodes.” . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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9:06

🎧 874: In the evening . . .

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2024/12/18

IN THE EVENING, I had one drink too many before dinner, and, after dinner, in the lounge, I began the countdown to my fiftieth birthday by reading the first installment of Dead Air. . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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15:21

🎧 873: I stood . . .

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2024/12/17

I STOOD AT THE WHEEL of the leaking launch, approaching the dock on Small’s Island and the end of my fiftieth year, throttling down, gauging the speed of my approach . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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