Pushkin.

Right, out of the blue.

Out of the blue.

And what does he say?

He says, Dr. France, I've heard the possibility that there might be some very interesting data

in your father's basement.

I'm talking to Robert France, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota,

about a phone call he got not long ago from a man named Chris Ramston.

He had a question for Robert France about his father.

My parents lived in the same house for over 50 years and essentially my father passed

and then my mother was living and assisted living.

The house was empty.

The family hadn't gotten around to selling it.

So we just sort of left it.

Nobody was necessarily living in it but it was there.

And so when Chris said there might be something in the basement of interest.

I feel like every great Midwestern detective story begins with a line.

There might be something in the basement of interest.

I had some concern because the joke on our family was that if we ever need to sell that house

we should just call the Air Force and call it an A-POM strike.

There were files that had every paper that my father had ever published

and every PhD thesis that he'd ever reviewed.

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