bill: i honestly believe that if the man from the train had ever come to mayetta, kansas, i know wheree would have gone. i grew up in a small town in the 1950's and very much like the places where the men from the train would have gone. there was no police force on site. there was a county sheriff 10 miles away. i understand not 100 years ago, but 50 or 60 years ago, and i have a lot of -- well, i often feel that the people who live in those towns are not taken seriously, that they are not respected, that their view of life -- not their political philosophy -- but their view of life is not respected. brian: can i read from your book what you said? it is one of the more interesting paragraphs of your book. bill: feel free. read the whole book. [laughter] brian: you can expand on this. "if you read about crime in a small town you will encounter frequently the comment that the lived in the kind of quiet place where nothing very interesting ever happened. this is a despicable thing to say. it is a form of bigotry directed at the past, and bigotry brian: you say there were 33 things that yo