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Well, now it's Tom for today's episode of Richard Diamond.
This one is the Farmer Evans murder case and the original air date is August the twenty third of nineteen fifty.
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Speaker 5Diamond Detective Agency.
Speaker 6We never say die, mister Diamond.
That's right.
How would you like to make twelve hundred dollars?
Do I have to name the mystery melody?
This is not a quiz show, mister Diamond.
Speaker 7I have a proposition for you, a business arrangement by which you may prompt to the June of twelve.
Speaker 6Hundred dollars oh, well, that's my favorite tune.
Speaker 8My name is.
Speaker 7Evans, Doctor William Evans.
I have an office in the Grand Professional Building, Suite four o.
Speaker 5Nine, Grant Professional Building, Suite four nine.
Speaker 7Yes, i'd appreciate it if you would come right over.
Speaker 6Well, it's after six now I'll stay in my.
Speaker 7Office until you get here, and so as to save time with explanations.
On your way over, pick up a Late Afternoon Times and read the article on page three, column two, a story about a man called Farmer.
Speaker 6I locked the office, went downstairs and out on the street, where I purchased the Late Afternoon Times, and in the cab headed for doctor Evans's office.
I read the article on page three, column two, George Pyre burns to death and the picture of a deceased According to the article, Farmer had been on a vacation in the north Woods.
He'd gone to sleep smoking a cigarette, and that was that.
Mattress caught fire before anyone noticed, the whole cabin was burning.
My cab let me out in front of doctor Evans's building, and one look at the Lyde's crowd, plus the very familiar black sedan and the passenger loading one.
I had my stomach and a nodding.
Speaker 8All right, now get back.
Speaker 6You you evening side of notice.
Speaker 8Oh what are you yelling about, mellenhat.
Speaker 5Oh evening, Lieutenant Levinson?
Speaker 6Oh no, I hope you were just passing by, mister Donald.
Speaker 4I saw the.
Speaker 6Crowd, Lieutenant Levinson, and came over to find out if you had notice, were playing hopscotch or possibly kicked the cane.
Speaker 9This is a swell time to make with the jokes.
Some guy took a dive out of the fourth floor.
Speaker 5Window, fourth floor dead.
Speaker 6Very name was Evans had offices in the building, Doctor William Evan's guy named Evans offices on the fourth floor.
Doctor some guy.
Just twenty minutes before he'd called me with a twelve hundred dollars proposition, And now it looked like the only thing I was going to get out of the deal was a late afternoon paper and a story about a guy named Farmer.
Farmer burned to Deathan bad.
Oh, yeah, we got a report on the case.
Speaker 5U listen, doctor Evans was hooked up with it in some way.
Speaker 6You overd you twelve hundred dollars, he asked me if I was interested.
Silly boy, I think it's the doctor's office.
And there's the window he went out of.
Who saw him jump?
Speaker 9Bill Mitchell, cop on the beat, saw the body come out of the window feet first, said, at least it looked.
Speaker 6Like he jumped, no sign of struggle.
I'll have the boys give the room a good going over.
Well, we're pretty sure of two things, Walt.
First, there's a strong possibility that doctor Evans didn't commit suicide.
Also that he knew something about George Farmer, the guy who got burned to that might have been Farmer's doctor.
Speaker 5There's one way to find out.
Speaker 6This Times article says that Farmer left the widow.
While you're checking things here, I think i'll go see what Missus Farmer's views are on dead husbands and dead doctors.
Yes, Missus Farmer, Yes, I like to talk to you about your late husband.
Speaker 10Are you from the police again, Well, I just left them.
Speaker 6But this is my own idea.
Speaker 5My name's Diamond.
Speaker 6I'm a private detective.
Speaker 10Oh, you working for the insurance company, then, just what do you want?
I'm tired of questions about my husband's death.
I've told the police, an insurance company everything I know.
Speaker 6I know it's been difficult, but I won't take long, and there are a few things I'd really like to find out.
Speaker 5Well, what are they do you know what doctor Evans?
Speaker 11Doctor Evans?
Speaker 10No, No, I don't know any doctor Evans.
Speaker 5Your husband never mentioned him, said he knew him?
Speaker 10No, he didn't.
Besides, what does this doctor to do with my husband?
Speaker 6I don't know yet.
You mentioned an insurance company.
Was your husband insured, Missus fireman.
Speaker 10Yes, the National Mutual.
If you're not working for the insurance company.
Speaker 11Or the police, who are you working for me?
You look?
Speaker 10Would you mind telling me what possible interest you could have on the death of my husband?
Speaker 6The truth I really don't know, but they're twelve hundred dollars mixed up in it somewhere, and that's not keeping me you well interested until I find some answers.
Speaker 5Thank you, missus Fireman.
Hello, well all all right?
You see the wife?
Speaker 6Yeah, lovely girl.
I could like to bring home to mom.
You'll find out anything.
Nothing in the room to indicate the doctor was pushed out of the window.
Missus Farmer didn't know the doctor that her late husband didn't either, but she thought at first I was from an insurance company.
One company, a National Mutual.
Speaker 9Artist got the names of the officials and National Mutual.
Speaker 6Yeah, bring him in right, Wow, the action we checked with the dead doctor's nurse, she said.
Speaker 9Aside from his regular practice, he worked for two or three big insurance firms.
Speaker 6National Mutual was one of them.
Speaker 9I didn't think of the connection then, but I made the check just in case.
Speaker 6Well, George Farmer was burned to dead.
Doctor Evans knew something about Farmer.
Farmer was insured with the National Mutual and the doctor worked for National Mutual might be a tier.
Speaker 9Vice president of National Mutual is Arthur Peterson.
It's not true, right, let's take a run over to his house and see if he knows.
Speaker 6Anything about it.
Speaker 12Well, gentlemen, an answer to your questions, Yes, we didn't show the late George Farmer, and doctor Evans does work for us to whether or not he was the doctor examined Farmer.
Speaker 6I really couldn't say.
Speaker 11I'd like to check the.
Speaker 12Files then, and don't are satisfied you think there's something wrong?
Speaker 6We don't know.
Doctor Evans jump go was pushed out of his office window the same night.
Speaker 5Good lord, he Carl.
Speaker 6Mistered Diamond here and indicated he knew something about Farmer's death.
Speaker 5Have you settled the claim with missus Farmer.
Yet no, but it's to be settled within the week.
Twenty five thousand dollar policy.
Speaker 6If someone could show your company that Farmer's death was no accident of their reward, wouldn't they yes.
Speaker 12Ten percent of the policy in this case twenty five hundred.
Speaker 6Half of that'd be about twelve hundred.
You think we could look at your records tonight, mister Peterson.
It's very important.
Speaker 12I of course, I'll just get a coat and we'll go right down to the office.
Speaker 5We left with mister Peterson and headed for the.
Speaker 6Offices of the National Neutrable.
A quick look through the file showed us what we wanted.
Speaker 5A full report in the state of George Farmer's health.
Speaker 6Okay for insurance about the examining physician, doctor William Evans.
Speaker 8Too bad.
Speaker 12The first claim on an action policy has.
Speaker 5To be a death.
Speaker 6Well, and tie that up.
Now, what have we got?
Enough to keep on looking?
I think I'll go have a long chalk at Farmer's wife.
Speaker 12Our company detectives checked that it was right here in the city when her husband died.
Speaker 5Well, a little talk won't hurt who saw Farmer the policy.
Speaker 6Mister Peterson.
Speaker 12According to the files, the insurance man was Martin Names.
Speaker 6You have his address here?
Yes, here you.
Speaker 5Are, good man, one of our leading salesmen.
Speaker 6Well, you're talking with missus farmer wall.
I think I'll run over and see this man aims.
Maybe he can do us some good.
If the late doctor Evans hadn't offered me twelve hundred dollars, I would have vocated his four floor dives an active suicide.
But the way things were shaping up, he was going to split an insurance reward, and, knowing doctors to be pretty practical people, I just couldn't imagine him giving up that kind of money for a fast trip to the sidewalk.
The home of my Names was an apartment on the Lower east Side.
His wife answered the door.
Speaker 10My husband here.
Speaker 5You know where I can find your husband, Missus Eames.
Speaker 10It's by the important I don't know what you want, but if you want to see my husband, that's where I'm going.
Now he's got a call.
He had an aumobile accent.
Miss Yes, I'm mister James, my husband.
Oh yes, Misses, if you'll just have a seat, I'll call doctor Tully.
He's in charge of your husband's key, but I want to see my husband.
Speaker 11Can I see you?
Speaker 10I have to see doctor Tully, but I want to know how surtous it is.
Speaker 11I should be with my husband.
Speaker 10If you will just be patient for the moment, museums, I'll get doctor.
Speaker 6I'm on, missus James.
Speaker 5Let's sit down over here.
Speaker 6I just sit down over here and try and remember.
Speaker 11Doctor Kelly Helly.
No, this is a police officers, police officer.
Speaker 6He's a friend of Minaea's names.
Speaker 11Not think about my husband.
Speaker 5Doctor Tully's the man you want to see.
Can I talk when you're rick?
Speaker 13Excuse me?
Yes, of course, he'll be all right.
I'll be all right, Okay, well this feigner about her husband.
Speaker 6Yeah, I was questioning missus Farmer when I got the call over the hardshat.
I remember, and so I figured you'd wind up here.
Have you heard how he is dying five minutes ago?
Oh?
Speaker 5No, accident, hid and run Before he died, he told us the.
Speaker 6Car ranhim off the road, went down a twenty foot embankment and right into a cement retaining wall.
The walls stopped him going any further, but broke his neck.
Speaker 5Any lead on the other car, I'll only stretcher.
Speaker 6No one else saw it.
That happened too fast.
Frames Wait a minute, that must be doctor Tully going over to miss Zaimes.
Speaker 5Now he did everything he could.
I don't envy.
Oh no, please control yourself, missus Ames.
Speaker 6Come on, this is turning into a rocket case.
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Speaker 5The laughter six I got a phone call and by six point.
Speaker 6Thirty the man who called was lying on a sidewalk broken in two from a four story drop.
Two hours later, an insurance salesman named Ames was run off the road and ended up with a broken neck.
Two incidents, not a bit.
Wald found the location of the place where George Farmer had burned to death.
Then we climbed to the squad car and started the long drive for the Catskills.
Around seven in the morning, we turned off the main highway and onto a dirt road.
A sign reading Sportsman's Retreat two miles pointed the way, and twenty minutes later we were pulling up in front of the lodge.
Speaker 8Many many Welcome to Sportsman's Retreat.
Speaker 6All right, police car, I'm Lieutenant Levinson, theft bracing New York place is mister Diamond?
Speaker 4Ooh?
Speaker 6Heardy?
Speaker 8Are you up here about mister Farmer's deck?
Speaker 6I'm officially you run the place.
Speaker 8Yeah, yeah, I'm the farmer.
My name's Pop pop Stone, but everybody just called me Pop.
Speaker 5We thought of it still, how Pop?
Speaker 6Can he put us up for sure?
Sure?
Speaker 8How long you figured out being around?
Speaker 14Oh?
Speaker 6Not long?
We only brought one change of clock.
Speaker 8Well, come on in.
Breakfast was hour ago.
But if you're hungry, I can have to cook rustle up some baiton and ages.
Speaker 6It sounds good.
Speaker 5Many people staying here?
Speaker 6Pop?
Speaker 14Oh?
Speaker 8By fourteen?
Yeah, fourteen?
Same crowd comes up every year short of a club.
Speaker 6You might call it.
How many years did George Farmer come out?
Speaker 8Oh, mister Farmer come up about you?
For the last ten years?
Hey, who wan's the blessed mister Phillips.
He ain't here now, but he phone and says he'll be in sometimes afternoon.
See.
How come you felers who are interested in mister Farmer's death.
We had the police and the insurance up here for three days.
Speaker 6You're little a age, Well, there are a few things we haven't cleared up.
Sure appreciate some help, Pop.
Speaker 8Yeah, just sure give you all the help I can.
I'll go get some breakfast for you, and then we can gabble it in a while.
Speaker 6Bob went back to the kitchen and we relaxed in a couple of big leather chairs in front of a large window that looked out on the row of cabins.
That last cabin must have been farmers.
Speaker 5Yeah, nothing much left of it.
Speaker 6It's beautiful up here.
Speaker 5Look at those trees with the sunshine and through them your soul.
Speaker 6The showing wall.
Oh, it was a beautiful place, all right.
The cabin stood in the clearing, fronted by well kept pies.
Speaker 5And back by tall trees.
Speaker 6Pop came in a little later with enough bacon and eggs to feed a platoon of tapeworms, and we talked, where is everybody, Pop, I'm fishing.
Speaker 8Get up about four thirty around here.
Speaker 5Many of the men bring their wives, oh.
Speaker 8Some of them.
Mister Farmer used to bring his ingen up every year.
Find looking woman.
Missus Farmer didn't come up this year.
There was why, well might have sieved them used to smoke in bed all the time.
Maybe if she'd been around here, she might have quught him atic who discovered the fire?
Oh, we all saw it, but it was too late.
By the time we got there, the whole place was burning.
By the time we got the hoolie going, there wasn't much left.
Speaker 5You say, all saw it?
Speaker 6Where were you?
Oh?
Speaker 8We was up to Willow Peak cooking out.
That's about three miles from camp.
You he from there?
See she the tall peak there lifted them trees.
Speaker 6H I'm come.
Farmer didn't go along.
Speaker 8Oh he never went on many hikes, had trouble with his legs.
Speaker 5You know, anyone to stay here in camp besides farmer?
Speaker 8No, no, no, everybody was up to Willow Peak.
Speaker 6Who examined the body?
Speaker 8Doc Comb from Emerson come up and look at the body.
Speaker 6Where's Evanston about.
Speaker 8Fifty miles east.
But if you want to talk to the dock, you'll have to wait till everybody comes in from fishing.
Speaker 5Oh God's up here now, yeah, yeah, come up last night.
Speaker 8We'll stay weak for the fishing.
Oh ah, oh, well, I'm Bonn and Mimus Phillips the figure.
You just have to do this.
This is mister Phillips, the owner.
Speaker 6Oh, I have some bags out in the car.
When they got them?
Speaker 8Please the good morning, gentlemen, Good mind, yere's some more police fellas.
Speaker 5Mister Phillips, Oh about.
Speaker 8I got to clear up a few things.
Speaker 6Would you please get those bags form up banks?
We just wanted to ask a couple of questions, mister Phillips, I am Lieutenant Elevens and this mister, well out of you?
Do you mind deface it?
Out?
Hold?
Not at all.
I thought the authorities were subspent.
I guess they are.
Where were you when they accident the curt mister Phillips, Oh, I was on my way here from the city, arrived about an hour later.
Speaker 5You live in the city, mister Phillips, Well, yes, I have a house there.
Speaker 6I divide my time between there and the lot.
Tell me something about Farmer, mister Phillips.
Speaker 8Of the man, was they well you finished run any more?
Breakfast?
Speaker 6No thanks, man, I'll go ahead, Miss Phillips.
Speaker 5Good old.
Speaker 6Well, there really isn't much to tell.
Farmer was a nice sort of a guy, got quiet, as you know.
He had a very bad habit of smoking in bed.
You have any trouble with him smoking in bed before?
Oh?
Speaker 5Yeah, several times, nearly started a fire two years ago.
Speaker 6Well wouldn't that make you watch them a little more closely?
Well, you see His wife came up with him every year, but this one she was usually near enough to prevent any trouble.
Speaker 5How long did he use to stay here?
Speaker 6Oh?
Week, ten days?
However long his vacation lasted.
Speaker 5M What was his business?
I think he was an advertising take much money?
Speaker 6I have no idea.
He certainly never spent much.
As tight as the devil.
It was no important fact.
Coming up here was the only luxury he allowed himself.
He'd tell everyone he'd save all year just to come up here and relax for.
Speaker 8A week of He ain't, Lieutenant, it comes Doc Holmes.
He must have got his limit.
Speaker 6Oh you gentlemen interested in talking to the doctor.
Yeah, Pop tells us he was the one who examined the body.
Speaker 8Well what did you get, doc.
Speaker 4Hi, Pap, I got my limit?
Speaker 6Good for you, Good for you?
Speaker 8Come on over here, he prefers one.
Speaker 11Talk to you.
Speaker 14Well, how I fail?
Pop said, you weren't doing endless afternoon?
Speaker 6Oh this is Lieutenant Lemonson and mister police.
Speaker 8Yeah, yeah, they want to ask you a few questions.
We got a clear up, a few things about George Farmer getting burned.
Speaker 6Pop, that's enough.
Speaker 14Well, certainly, gentlemen, here, will you take these fish please pop the old Yeah.
Sure, Well, I don't think I could tell you much more than I've already told the police.
Speaker 6Did you know George Farmer prior to his death?
Oh?
Yes, over the period of ten years.
Speaker 5Did you identify the body?
Speaker 6Well?
Not at first it was too badly burned.
Not at first, you mean you did identify it later?
Speaker 14Well, when they told me that George had a broken wrist, I found the broken section of bone and identified.
Speaker 6Him broken risk.
Oh yes, mister diamond.
You see, when George arrived his lower arms in the cast, he told us that he'd broken his wrist the week before.
What day did he arrive on?
Tuesday?
Last week?
Well?
What did they call to Ordison?
Haven't find out where George Farmer had his broken wrist treated?
Most of all, when the accident occurred.
What are you getting at right?
Then?
Have him find out the day the insurance policy went into effect, doctor, which risk was broken?
The right one and it was in a cast?
Huh would you say?
A good move his fingers well enough to write?
Depends on recent the accident stepping it?
Well, okay, but I don't get it.
Speaker 9I talked Otis He'll get the information call us back.
Now, would you mind telling me what the devil this is all about.
Speaker 6George Farmer had to sign the insurance policy, didn't he Yeah, but he could have done that with his left hand.
An accident policy would cover a broken wrist, wouldn't then, sure, mister Phillips, you said Farmer was known to be careful with his money.
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 5I can vouch for that.
Speaker 14I treated him for a cigarette burns three years ago, and then.
Speaker 6A devil of a time collecting thanks Doccer which, so if Otis gives us the answers I want, I think I can show you George Farmer was murdered.
Murdered.
Yeah, and I think I can explain why an insurance salesmen and the doctor were killed.
Speaker 5So we all sat around and waited for my hunch.
Speaker 6To grow muscles.
I kept turning the whole thing over in my mind.
The more I thought, the more the whole thing tied together.
Around noon, a call came in from OTIS and Walt gave him the information I needed.
Here it is George Farmer broke his wrist on the twenty sixth of the last month.
It was treated at the Olive Hospital about three weeks ago.
He stayed one night at the hospital and went on What day did he arrive here, mister Phillips, about the fourth, two weeks after the accident.
Speaker 5He died on the eleventh, according to papers.
Speaker 6Yes, that's right, he'd been here about a week.
What did insurance policy go into efect?
Wall twenty second?
And last month it went into effect.
It wasn't taken out.
I sat went into effect.
I would cost him a few bucks to have a broken wrist taken care of and spend the night in the hospital withn't the doctor?
Yes, it would.
Remember what the vice president of the National Neutral said, Walt, who bad the first claim on an accident policy had to be dead?
Yeah, And if Farmer had an accident policy, why didn't he put in a claim for his broken wrist?
Come on, Walt, I was going back to town and talked to missus.
Farmer.
Speaker 5You got your men spotted around the building.
Speaker 6Whole blocks surrounded.
Peterson and Evers are covering the front cars in every corner.
There is going to play.
And there's been some complaints about noisy cats in the neighborhood.
So I stuck otis and back in the alley.
You'll drive every cap right into the river.
You might have made a mistake.
One yell out of otis and he'll end up with all the shoes in the block here it is.
Yeah, oh the mind if we come in missus.
Speaker 11Farmer, No, I guess well what is it this time?
Lieutenant?
Speaker 6We think your husband was murdered.
Speaker 11Well that's ridiculous.
Speaker 6I mean, no, you didn't do it, but you were in on it.
You know who did?
Speaker 11Are you serious?
Speaker 6Right?
We just had the lab make a check on the insurance policy.
The signature and the finger prince was in the right hand.
So your husband didn't have a broken rest at the time.
Speaker 11Well, no, he did that sometime later, and you'll sear.
Speaker 5That it's his signature on the policy.
Speaker 11Certainly.
I went to the doctor with him.
Speaker 5I thought you said you didn't know a doctor rabbit, I don't.
Speaker 6He was the insurance doctor.
Speaker 11Well I've never seen him before or since.
Speaker 6How could you expect me to run a husband didn't turn the claim for his broken rest?
Speaker 11He didn't.
Oh that was his business, wasn't it.
Speaker 6Don't you think it's rather strange to take out an accident policy and not turn in a claim when your first accident I don't know.
Speaker 10I didn't bother with my husband's Is this.
Speaker 6Your husband's driver's license?
Speaker 11Where did you get that?
Speaker 6Motor Vehicle department?
Is it your husband's license?
Yes, so the signature on his license is not the same as the one on the insurance policy.
Speaker 11What do you mean?
Speaker 6He means that the signature on the insurance policy is a very clever forgery.
Who forged it?
Missus Farmer?
Speaker 11I don't know.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6Who went to the doctor's office representing your husband?
Speaker 11No one.
Why in the world would I do that?
Why would I have someone represent my husband?
Speaker 5Probably because you wanted your husband out of the way.
Speaker 11It's horrible.
Get out of here.
That's not true.
Speaker 6Who was in it with you?
Who killed your husband?
Not but his cabin at the line?
Speaker 11Get out, Get out.
Speaker 5It had to be someone at the lines.
You knew what cabin he was in.
Speaker 10No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 5Did you give the papers your husband's picture?
Speaker 4Yes, you're lying.
Speaker 6The newspapers tell us you claim not.
Speaker 11To have a well, I don't remember.
I don't remember.
Speaker 5Sure you do.
Speaker 6You didn't want to give the papers a picture of your husband because you knew the insurance salesman and the doctor would identify it as not.
Speaker 5Being the man who took out the accident's palace.
Speaker 6No, you knew your husband was going to take his trips, so he planned his death and stayed home for an alibi.
The picture came out and the insurance man and the doctor had to be killed.
A man killed them, missus farmer, someone strong enough to run a car off the road and lift an unconscious man out.
Speaker 5Of a window.
Feed first, who killed them, missus farmer?
Speaker 6Stop otis has got something.
Let's get out on the fire escape a new line.
Somebody halfway up the fire escape, look out on this hit a hurt of elephants and brew closet.
He got him.
Speaker 5No, make him happy, wall climb out and see what we got.
Speaker 6Okay, just take it easy, honey.
Yeah, that guy Phillips, the one on one by lot and he's dead.
Speaker 5Well, missus farmer, that's it.
Want to tell me about it?
Speaker 6Oh?
Speaker 11Yes, it doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 5Now, Phillips killed your husband and the other two men.
Speaker 11It's selling not three sons ago.
But he planned the whole thing.
Speaker 10Was his idea?
Speaker 6Oh sure, sure I know.
But the state is pretty narrow minded about those things, honey.
Guy like that gets ideas and gets dead for it.
You like his ideas, and you just got to get in some kind of trouble along the way.
Oh onlime here and you're not hurt that dad, I guess you get shot ots.
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Speaker 2A Richard Diamond Private Detective stars Dick Powell in the title role and is written by Blake Edwards, with music composed and conducted by Frank Wirtz.
Featured at the night's cast were Virginia, Greg Ted Decotia Wilms, Herbert Wallymeyer, Joan Banks, and Bill Bouchett.
Richard Diamond Private Detective is transcribed.
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Speaker 1Welcome back, well and unusually serious Richard Diamond, very minimal on any sort of laughs.
This script would actually be adapted as a Yours Truly Johnny Dollar script with DM and O'Brien starred.
This program was adapted as the George Farmer Matter, which aired March or junananth excuse me of nineteen fifty one, and use many of the same plot details, only making changes such as the doctor pulling up Diamond was obviously not part of the plot, and no doctor called up Johnny Dollar under Edmin O'Brien and Johnny Doller was one of those that adapted a lot of scripts from other materials, and this was just one of them.
Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and I have an email from mister Kelly who writes in, I've just discovered your site on YouTube.
I'm a longtime fan of old time radio.
I really appreciate how you take the time to do an introduction to the programs you post.
I look forward to becoming a loyal listener and supporter of your side.
Well, thank you so much.
Appreciate your comment, Kelly, and this is the first actual email we've received from someone who found us on YouTube, and hopefully it won't be the last.
Speaker 6We have.
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