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Yep, a preacher. So help me. By rights, I still am. Look here, I've got the license right here in my wallet.

10 seconds sound clip from the Love's Lovely Counterfeit classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:12:05 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I can't say I liked it.

- What time is it?

- Oh, a couple of minutes to four.

- It's too bad about you, Ben.

- What's too bad?-That you don't like trouble.

- You could go a long way in this racket, Ben, because you've got brains. Now, me, I don't have the brains.

- I wouldn't.

- Did I ever tell you how I started, Ben?

- No.

- I was a preacher.

- Yep, a preacher. So help me. By rights, I still am. Look here, I've got the license right here in my wallet.

- It was one of those hillbilly outfits, and the Bishop, as he called himself, was so far away from me that he never ever heard about me, I guess. Anyway, he never canceled the license.

- 'The Reverend Richard José Gauss.'

- Yeah, that's one for the books, Lefty.

- I was just a kid. But I got hooked up with one of those big-time evangelists, and if I'd stuck to it, I could've hit the big time myself.

- But you know what I did? The first time we made a really big take, I tied a handkerchief over my face, got me a rod, and sticked up the cash box!

[...]

Love's Lovely Counterfeit Sound Clip

Love's Lovely CounterfeitQuotes with audio samples from the old-time radio play "Love's Lovely Counterfeit" by James M. Cain, first aired on Friday August 03, 1945 on CBS.

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Ben), Lurene Tuttle (June)

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