Hi Paul. Hi Ardly. How are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm so good. It's so great to have you on Small Town Dicks. Oh I am so happy to be here. So we want to know how did we persuade you to join us here on Small Town Dicks. Oh it was it was a lot of arm twisting. Not the truth.

Well what has always impressed me about Small Town Dicks is the professionalism. First you have your authenticity. You know Dan and Dave, myself we come out of real crime. We've had real experiences. And so the audience, the listeners are getting from Small Town Dicks. What actually happens out there. Not something that's been glamorized. But also you guys don't exploit the cases. You're empathetic to the victims. And this is what I'm all about. And I know that people who know me from

other projects, they will truly see that when they start listening to Small Town Dicks. That's an incredible endorsement. Dan and Dave tell the fine people about some Patreon. Where Paul Holes also joins us on quite a few nuggety nuggets. For just five bucks a month you'll have access to an assortment of bonus episodes, outtakes, listener questions, special series.

All Town Fam you get everything Dave said and your hard earned money goes to support our incredible staff behind the scenes to give you this podcast that we all love. So please join us at patreon.com slash Small Town Dicks.

So I often struggled at school. Once when we had a mass test I looked around the room and everyone was just doing it. And I couldn't and I began to cry. But my teacher came over and said it might be a good thing.

But it's just a handful of small ones and you can deal with that. I hear her voice in my head for every problem I face to this day.

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And I say, I'm a small town fan. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Listen, at least it's the next year. Anyway, today, even though our regular season is ended, we have a fabulous bonus episode for you. Are you sitting down? We have Detective Joe Kenda.

The man's a legend says Detective Dan and he is not wrong. We recorded with Kenda over Zoom. So you know, the usual disclaimers in case there might be garbage trucks, pets, lawn mowers, things. So without further ado, please settle in for the list.

Irrespective of the size community you live in, there are other humans there and humans are violent by nature. They are. That's why wild animals run from us. They know what we are. We're the most dangerous animal in this planet.

When a serious crime is committed in a small town, a handful of detectives are charged with solving the case. I'm yardly and I'm fascinated by these stories. So I invited my friends, detectives Dan and Dave, to help me gather the best true crime cases from around the country and have the men and women who investigated them. Tell us how it happened.

I'm Dan and I'm Dave, where identical twins from small town USA. Dave investigated sex crimes and crimes against children. He's now a patrol sergeant at his police department. Dan investigated violent crimes. He's now retired. Together we have more than two decades experience and have worked hundreds of cases. We've altered names, places, relationships, and certain details in these cases to maintain the privacy of the victims and their families.

So we ask you to join us in protecting their true identities as well as the locations of these crimes out of respect for everyone involved. Thank you.

Today on Small Town Dicks we have the usual suspects. We have Detective Dan. Good morning. Good morning and I have Detective Dave. Good morning, yardly. Good morning, David. So good to see you.

I'm excited for a guest today. Small Town fam. Take a deep breath. Sit down because today is a huge day. We are so thrilled and honored to welcome the one and only Joe Kenda to the podcast.

And good morning to you.

I love how you're so great. I love how understated you are. So you of course you have had your own show, the homicide hunter. What's the title of the new one?

The new one is titled American Detective with Lieutenant Joe Kenda. Okay. The principle of the show is we move around the country to very small places.

For example, in Vermont, the town of 7,000 violent crime still happens. If there are people, there is crime. No matter how many people, there is violent crime. And we're looking for and able to establish the skill and the dedication of the detectives involved.

From small places to make little or no money to suffer this things and arrows of the media and everything else. And they do the work because they love it. And because they're good at it. And that was the principle of the show.

I'm on each show as a commentator and a sort of a host that leads you through the case.

They're all mysteries are all incredibly violent. And they're all cases that nobody's ever heard of because they occurred in little places. So that's what it's about. It's very cool.

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