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You get your is an old saying that one man's garbage is another's treasure Richard Larimore of diamond Missouri that saying rings especially true. What started as a favor. Her brother-in-law morphed into something much, much bigger world's largest small electric finance Museum is Richard the story well and I thought in my mind, back then it was the last frontier brother-in-law in California was collecting old black and using those black ugly fans we call me up one day and said Richard he said you know you're out there, Missouri wanted to start looking for these friends for me.

I said okay so we like to travel because I don't drink or dry smoking and I can so we started looking and I got interested in the fans. I had about 100, but then again you see one black friend using the mall and they were getting harder and harder to find and when they were they were double what you started out plans so I called Dennis brother-in-law Dennis I said when you're traveling and you can't find your fan.

What do you collect electric toasters. I said what electric toasters and I didn't realize he was trying to corner the market on the newer version toaster your pulldown toaster popped up. He thought he could buy all up and make lots of money. Well he found out he couldn't but I started looking I know what he was glad when I seen a toaster stand on one night body at and then I rarely made a mistake.

I bought a book on toasters. They make porcelain toasters only. I got a fire while those we drove the wheels off the car looking for apportionment toaster now got a big collection of but that's kinda how I got started on toasters and then holy cow looking wears a coffee pot it's saying Brandon looks got the same markings have a toaster so I bought that I thought that would be nice to display them together and then pretty soon my brain went crazy if I did it for small electric and I didn't have it. I had the habit. So I started buying it all and that was in a big mistake. If I had to do it all. It cost so much.

People don't realize what it costs to run a museum like this if I paid you a dollar apiece to clean those toasters and it would cost me. I got about 8000 B $8000 and you cannot nobody wants to work anymore. They can't get harm. I've clean those up. You three times completely cleaned everything in their anyway that's basically how I got started that I started my basement.

You couldn't walk down there.

You'd have to watch it go step on this one move around here and then have you heard of gathering of the artists I have been in Neosho will old Davis Bob Tommy and a bunch of got together every year they would have a show and they would show their paintings and so forth. And they would sell it.

One day I went there to see their artwork and talk to Mike today said what are you guys doing Friday night because I knew they were in town from Texas and all over the country and Martha Spurlock super super good artist. I said Martha I said what are you guys doing Friday night she says well I don't know far as I know nothing I said. How would you like to come out the house and seek my collection of electric appliances sibling have coffee and whatever my wife wants to Baker Cook. She said okay so sure not that night the Alka that ousted they came in and we talked but I said come on down the basement will show you my appliances anyway. We went down we looked at it. I can see, they will interested pretty good to begin with even tell when people get tired well choices hey class) Genesis probably got coffee and cake or something ready force okay and all the other people went upstairs and I just made one step on the stair way. Doug grabbed me Richard. I got some save you. I sent try to think so. What Doug so I stepped back. We got to talking and if I should say what he said but you'll get the drift avatar can I say what he said he he said you know when you in invited us out to see this collection.

He said I told Deborah body. What a bunch of BS. What a waste of a good evening, see this crap. I said no but he said man. He says am I impressed. He says I can't believe this collection you got down here is that this effect.

All you got the prettiest appliances I've seen in a long time but he says I got another problem is that all now what Doug thesis you know what's wrong with this.

I said what he said as nice if collection and you got. It's a crime that only a very few people can see it, you need to have at work. Everybody can see it because he said man I've never seen any lassies that have been all over the United States and he says this is absolutely fantastic. So when we walked upstairs Iraq I think and you know he's right because I finally show people it's my friends and so forth Selena so I thought how could I do this so more people could see it while I had the Wester store and I thought I could add on to the Western store and I can have a museum and you're listening to one unique American voice Richard Larimore's words this story, the world's largest small electrical appliance Museum. This is worth the story on our American store leader behavior. The hosts of our American storerooms every day on the show were bringing inspiring stories from across the street from our big cities and small towns, but we truly can't do the show without if you love you here go to L American stories.com and click the donate a little devil L American stories.com.

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I might have one or two things so all US product back then we had manufacturers we don't have many more, and another funny thing we probably didn't think of this, they never had computers. They never had smart cell phones everything come from their head. How my going to do this I need to make a toaster.

I can't make it like the ones in sorry there so I gotta change it because they had about a dollar a patent fee or something so they change it. These inventors kept coming out with new new products because of people never had those before so that's brand-new I gotta have that they might not never used it but it's different. There's perch or toasters should just put in sets on top and it cooks you got floppers flopped the toast over you swingers swing around the manufactures. I think this is my own personal feeling. If that toaster could do more than one thing and you can have two different type of people they might need this they could buy for that toaster.

So I would love to talk to some of those inventors and some other stuff they invented was so stupid and dumb. But I'm glad they did because I love talking about stupid and dumb stuff well somewhere. I've got it, toaster that is also a heater.

Can you have yahoo your heaters get all the dirt there cried you imagine having a toaster like your say it's dumb but I'm glad they did it gives me. I love to talk about the stuff that so different. I've got one back there whenever Kai got a lot probably got 40 or more one-of-a-kind toasters coffee pot. I got a waffle iron. They have the old drive-in movies. Well it turned into a free market on weekends and I went there and I seen this waffle iron point that sucker is brand-new. I don't want to buy that I want old stuff. Well I kept thinking about that you know that was in mint condition. I got up I so I bought it and it came its original box, which was nothing just plain cardboard box brought it home had a guy come to the museum. Listening slowly since I see you got a rare waffle iron. I said I have a city I will write their is is you gotta be joking know… That's where I said how come he told me the story. It was made out of aluminum and when you plugged it in and heated up. If you forgot to turn it off. It would completely melt fall apart are it would start a fire liquid manufacturing you not gonna plug it in. If it's gonna start fire or forget about it and that's another thing with the old appliances when they made if they have the same kind of laws. Back then, as they had the day we wouldn't have none left. Because if you're little boy burned his hand on a toaster that's unsafe well you can't make dad anymore so back then they educated their kids don't touch Erica taught right. Dad and you only did that one.

Tell me what this is.

I was just about to say don't say what you think it is. If I want to got a dollar for every time somebody said, hairdryer, I'd be rich as whatever and not let me tell you a story. There's another one of those stories I bought this in Eureka Springs, I seen it on the shelf and I walked up the guy behind economists Sir what I says you know I'm not the smartest man in the country but I'll think I'm dumb either.

I was a hairdryer with the holes in the side work he started laughing he says we got no hairdryer with holes in the side damn dumb can a guy get run the place rolled don't even realize he's got one like that and then he looked up and seen he starts laughing recently door and I got the patent. Somewhere he pulled here read I are Naro have invented this man's man's face steamer to take place of the hot towels that they would draw from.

Before they would shave very very rare and what really scares me right now. God forbid that if anything ever happened had it torn in that tornado just missed this place. You know if a tornado took that out.

You can't replace that. When I got back there. I'm proud to say that, but it scares you know what out of me that tornado would take it away.

You can't find that stuff anymore.

I'm still looking for things I don't have but there's not too many out there. We drove been driving all of I love looking, Hunter going there.

I don't have this look at that. I spent thousands of dollars on eBay and I had a good friend of mine.

He was a multimillionaire. In fact, I wish to know his name.

He had 40 patents. I'm not sure whether medical or what, but he was smart for a guy and the only way I could outbid him on eBay if I want to bid on that okay that's worth $100. I had to been 150 or $200 to get it because I knew he was bidding on. I met him one day before he passed away.

I said you know you rotten set.

You cost me lots of money and easiest I know it was a game with him but I wonder for my museum and he had a museum that would make good questions. It would really small and never open to get an appointment in my different items in their love what I'm doing. I spent half my life collecting the stuff back there younger people nowadays.

If it's not a cell phone they're not interested but I'm surprised several young people would come in here. That's it.

Toaster others at work.

That's what Gothic wool.

That's cool you several young people ask better questions and I figure just people like myself young once I had three boys come here. They were ups 17, 18, and I thought of this is only fun because I can usually spot people it might be interesting. I like sure people and they asked so many questions in one young guy says for he says I can't believe how pretty. Some of this stuff because I looked at a Misys for your wallet. Calling Sir I said to stop and think everybody love something that's pretty ices when you're looking for girlfriend. Are you going I'm trying to find snugly what know you're looking for perky girlfriend and they really got a bag now that and financed the they give me the best donations of anybody I could not play because they were so weak I love. That's what I had tons of questions. When I told him that I he thought I said get your girlfriend or she ugly hoax.

I said there you go you like pretty stuff. That's why this museum is different everything back there, has its own prettiness to and a special thanks to Katrina Hein Jim Watkins and Monty Montgomery for all the fine work putting that story together. One of the white Richard Larimore, the world's largest small electrical appliance museum in diamond Missouri was small and electric. I had to have it said. We drove the wheels off the car searching for porcelain toaster. I love what Julie and so many Americans have these hobbies, Richard Larimore's hobby world's largest small electrical appliance museum. The story about museum during our American story. This is our American stories and up next. The story from one of our regular contributors also happens to be a warrior feel bright people don't have the highest view of lawyers will lots of people don't.

But not every lawyer is an ambulance chaser. Let's listen to Bill Bright. I understand on the only active practicing lawyer in rural and from New Hampshire that may make me the best lawyer with a one lawyer town. I was writing one Saturday morning when a neighbor telephoned with a problem or 17-year-old daughter had received a speeding ticket a little after 3 PM on December 4, 2017 sheep and driving a friend to a medical appointment in Concord, New Hampshire. She was more concerned for passenger than the speed limit.

She didn't notice the speed limit had dropped from 65 to 50. She was barreling along at 75. Anyway, she was stopped in Henniker small town on Route 202 Main Rd. between Antrim and Concord. The traffic stop was just bad luck, an acquaintance that lives in my town is a self-confessed lead foot Antrim's constabulary had stopped him twice during the last two years. Each time it was cautioned to slow down and sent on his way without a ticket.

Henniker police apparently exercised their discretion differently. She paid the fine.

There were two things she didn't know about New Hampshire traffic law which I too didn't know until it became my business to know first paying the fine is an admission of guilt came over second drivers of the age of 20 complete guilty to a traffic violation risk a 20 day suspension of their licenses. The daughter had received a notice of hearing from New Hampshire Department of safety's Bureau of hearing her parents sent me a PDF of the notice, email and PDF images are good things, and I began reviewing the relevant statutes and the Bureau's rules of procedure if she defaulted didn't show up her license would be suspended for 20 days. If she appeared she could present evidence in mitigation of penalty, the notice of hearing and the legal materials agreed that a respondent may make a plea in mitigation of penalty. In her case by presenting evidence of an otherwise spotless driving record and the effects of the suspension on her education and employment. Her parents emailed me more documents their daughters.

In her senior year of high school with a 3.5 index and an internship.

She's working for college credit. She's been accepted to six colleges, New Hampshire and Massachusetts and has applications out was many more outside the granite state. She drives to school and internship. She also drives to upstate colleges for interviews as part of the application process. All these things are important, both now and in her future.

Both parents work suspending her license would inconvenience the entire family. So I took the case. Learning a new area of law. As part of the lawyers trade spent eight years prosecuting employee disciplinary cases before Administrative Law Judge is. I presided over a couple of dozen proceedings of the hearing officer. I've represented hundreds of clients of bankruptcy hearings.

This kind of work wasn't wholly unfamiliar but a few years had gone by since my last trial and I've never been counsel for the defense I was retained on Saturday. The hearing was on Wednesday time to work. Preparation is everything that a trial on Sunday after mass I drove through Henniker along Route 202 from border to border to see whether any of the signage was defective. It wasn't still the lawyer should always go to the scene of the incident to see for himself. I was finishing my draft direct examination when Mr. blue entered the room more formally known as Bolingbrook are shy, gentle and affectionate feral tabby began weaving about my ankles and viewing when he thought I wasn't paying him enough attention. I had work to do. I look for my office. Mr. blue followed once far enough down the hall. I doubled back and closed the door.

My client parents would pay me not pay attention to Mr. Booth working days if he will keep me in whiskey and cigars and Catholic to my client initially wanted to default but I learning I done some work.

She asked her father to bring her to my office so we might talk about. I told her that her parents were paying my fee.

She was my client them by executor instructions. I do an ethical duty to do that I couldn't guarantee success if she didn't want to defend the case. I do everything I could expedite the suspension and return of her license. We talked for a bit about her hopes and dreams of majoring in art and becoming a painter and sculptor.

Then we went through my draft direct examination, I explained my reasons for asking each question elicited her answers and suggested appropriate and truthful responses.

James Fenimore Cooper call this practice course shedding the witness the phrase stemmed from the observation of attorneys who rehearsed their witnesses and carriage heads near the courthouse in White Plains, New York. Any resemblance to extra mental phrase was probably intentional.

To me this is legitimate witness preparation, the best client is one empowered with an understanding of the process become more comfortable despite his stressful situation. Once they understand how best to testify truthfully before they take the stand.

We knew she'd already pled guilty to speeding by paying the ticket for arguments and medication of penalty work strong, great grades, a job and acceptances to good colleges. At the end of the conversation I asked her to talk about this with her father left the room gave him five minutes and returned to find that she changed her mind. She wanted to fight the understanding she might lose until then I hadn't expressed an opinion on whether to fight that had to be her decision without pressure from me now. I told her that she'd made the correct decision. Better to fight than just rule over the quoted Pascal God does not require us to succeed. He requires us to try on Wednesday morning I drove to my clients house and her parents drove us to the Bureau of hearings and Concord.

We went over the questions again.

She admitted nervousness felt less nervous than before. We were second on the calendar. The hearing examiner was a pleasant looking man of about 35 it was warm and friendly without being familiar, he started on time at 9 AM. Explain the processing clear simple terms.

He conducted the first hearing that he called my client's case.

We went up to councils table. I began my direct examination. She explained why she was driving the Concord friend would Dr. Langford used copy of the traffic summons into evidence and moved to dismiss the state's case because of a flaw on the tickets face.

The examiner was interested by my argument, but denied the motion. I then brought in her transcript and asked about her extracurriculars.

Her answers made clear that his suspension would interfere with her education and extracurriculars and effector parents would then have to transport her to and from school. We are in rural New Hampshire are regional high school is about 20 miles away by car is no public transportation unless one counts a Chevy school bus with some rowdy unpleasant student writers. I was about to bring in the evidence of her internship, no money, but college credit.

When the examiner smiled. He waved his hand warmly saying I've heard enough, don't keep talking, when you want. I shut my mouth over preparing is better the hearing examiner didn't suspend the license or levy another fine he gave three years probation without another hearing the client and her parents are happy. Now I get to send them the bill and you been listening to Bill Bright so nice lawyer story not an unpleasant one better. Really nice when a by the way, we all hate lawyers on all of course we need but we love them and hate them. And if you're listening on an ex-lawyer, will I never actually practice but I went to law school, so many my friends are and live with this with with this, their whole lives throughout the story Bill Bright defending a young girl in his hometown to fight and the judge giving the greatest lesson of all 21 Bill Bright story here on our Americas continue here with our American stories and up next Greg Hendler as an unlikely World War II story about George McGovern, the liberal antiwar Democratic presidential candidate from South Dakota was soundly defeated by Pres. Nixon in the 1972 election. Stephen Ambrose is one of America's leading biographers and historians, Ambrose's works have inspired Americans to regard its war veterans with newfound reference is bestsellers chronicle our nation's critical battles and achievements from his seminal war works DDN band of brothers undaunted courage and nothing like it in the world. The men who built the transcontinental railroad.

Stephen Ambrose passed in 2002, but his epic storytelling accounts can now be heard here at our American stories thanks to the permission from those who run his estate here Stephen Ambrose to tell us a short story from his book the wild blue men and boys who flew the B 24's over Germany. My next book is the story of the B 24 and the second world war and it it's not exclusively advice about a squadron and and then about the bomb group, but one of the members of the squadron was George McGovern who was a pilot of the B 2435 missions got the distinguished flying Cross. She flew bombers in the second world war and he did and thought how do you open a story I hope it would.

George did come back to Laredo or VNA was all shot up with shrapnel everything the plane just barely limping along innards.

I got a good story in itself and the crew called out to Lieut. we got a bomb stuck in the Bombay half-and-half and so they're either going to have to bail out to get rid of that bond and Georgetown go to work on that monsignor loose and they finally called up and they were now over a part of Western Austria rural and I called up Janet. We got ready since John and they were by this time because it was so badly shot down about 10,000 feet was a clear day and he could see that bomb going down. He wants you want to walk in a farmhouse and George looked at his watch/farmer like him South Dakota.

I know what time pharmacy cell McGovern close the bomb bay doors and headed home on the intercom for the navigator talk McGovern asked was the highest elevation in the past. Cooper looked at his map that is calculation replied 8000 feet charge 8003 in an interview, Cooper told me that it was only 7000 feet but I added another thousand three because I was engaged to get married and it is George's first child. Yet another thousand feet on top back at share know it was an easy landing. No McGovern jumped into a truck and rolled over to the debriefing area where the Red Cross woman gave him coffee and a doughnut and intelligence officer came running up to him the same officer who had handed him a cable back in December. The told of his father had a heart attack and died and the bomb group commander told Georgia can take tomorrow off and John said no I'm not gonna take that excuse.

I'm here for a job this time. However, the officer was grinning from ear to ear as he handed a cable McGovern.

He said congratulations – you now have a daughter. The cable will somehow honor their first baby and she named Dan had been born on March 10 in the midget Mitchell Methodist Hospital counter concluded the cable child doing well. Love, I was just a static. McGovern said that he thought that I had brought a new child in the world today and I probably killed somebody else's kids right at lunchtime. Tell why did that bond have to hit their order. The officers club and had a drink cheap red wine he was toasted and care body later said it really did make me feel different. For the rest of the war and I was a father not only a wife back on the little girl all the more reason why wanted to get home and see their child to return to his tent brought Elinor a long letter, he did not mention the farmhouse, but he couldn't get it out of his mind.

In an interview last year. He said to me that things stayed with me for years and years and decades. If I thought about the war almost invariably, I would think about that farm there's been much criticism of the American error effort in the second world war.

People are sad she's all that document when end up making those bombers. All of the expensive training. Those pilots and the cruise that would've been better spent on the Army or on the Navy instead of on those big bombers plus what what they did was just awful. They kill women and children from entering their targets.

According to the critics we should've done what we don't know what we do know is the allies won the war.

What McGovern did with the 744 squadron did along with the rest of the 4/55 bomb group and all of the 15th Air Force and the eighth Air Force, most especially in their attacks against oil refineries and marshaling yards was critical to the victory. They paralyzed the German army in April 1944. The Germans were producing oil at a rate of 100% bad plenty of this was down a year later to 1% or could not get gasoline for his Mercedes German tanks could move, they became fixed fortifications.

The Germans this is the country of Mercedes. The Germans had no trucks. They become a horse-drawn army fighting 1/20 century war.

McGovern is crew all the airmen had spent the war years, not in vain. But in doing good work, along with all the peoples of the Allied nations they saved Western civilization. George Clement saw the French Prime Minister of the first world war was living in London in the second world war that he watched these aircrews and activity had this to say they were kittens and play like tigers and battles in 1985 McGovern was lecturing at the University of Innsbruck, the director of Austria is television the state on station contacted him to ask him to do a documentary to do an interview for a documentary he was producing Austria and World War II. McGovern reluctantly agreed. It was a woman reporter during the interview. She said certainly got your known around the world for your opposition to war your replies in the second world war. You are beautiful cities, Innsbruck, Vienna. You kill women and children. Don't you regret that McGovern's answer. Well, nobody thinks war is a lovely affairs humanity at its worst is a breakdown of normal communication.

It's a very savage enterprise but on the other hand, there are issues that sometimes must be decided by warfare. After all else fails, I thought Adolf Hitler was a madman who had to be stopped. So my answer to your question is no. I don't regret bombing strategic targets in Austria and her face just dropped. She was terribly disappointed and George being George saw that they so well. There was one bomb that I do regret was that McGovern told her about the bomb that is stuck in the bomb bay door had to be jettisoned on March 14, 1945 and what happened in that interview and the documentary was shown a couple months later on Austrian TV and there's a call at the station.

Some old maps he sent him a farmer and that was my farm that he it was exactly what he described, and I want you to tell Sen. McGovern that I saw that bomb, then I got my wife and our two little girls away when end of the ditch and nobody got hurt and I further want to tell you to tell Sen. McGovern I don't care why that Austrian say I hated I hated him so much that the instant I saw my little farmhouse in my barn go. I thought to myself if this shortens the war by one second that was worth it. McGovern told him what the farmer and said for McGovern it was quote an anonymous release and gratification. It seemed to just wipe clean slate and what great storytelling by one of the great storytellers of all time, particularly all things surrounding World War II, and thanks to the Stephen Ambrose estate for allowing us to use that story. The story of George McGovern and of course the story of the conscience of the soldier here on our American stores