- 7 hours ago
How former food writer Jane Stern conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00:00Music
00:00:20You know, Michael and I are on an eternal quest for many perfect things.
00:00:24One of them is perfect corned beef hash in a diner.
00:00:27We have found something about as close to perfect as I've eaten in the last ten years.
00:00:32Not far from our house in Grafton, Connecticut, at the Laurel Diner.
00:00:35I think there's something to be said about Zen and the art of the perfect corned beef hash.
00:00:39Oh, there's a lot to be said.
00:00:41Because so many gourmet-style restaurants screw up corned beef hash by adding the most god-awful ingredients.
00:00:47The Laurel Diner serves the classic workman-style corned beef hash made from scratch.
00:00:52And it's fantastic. In fact...
00:00:55It's us, Jane and Michael Stern.
00:00:58You may know us from the magazine column we write, or from the books we've written together, 35 and counting,
00:01:05or from our radio show, or from TV.
00:01:08Everywhere we went, people would always say,
00:01:11God, I wish I had your life.
00:01:14You've got a great job.
00:01:15A great-looking husband.
00:01:17You get to eat what you want.
00:01:19You get to travel to all these fabulous places.
00:01:22You've got the perfect life.
00:01:24And I did.
00:01:26Would you like to sign the book?
00:01:28Kind of.
00:01:29But not exactly.
00:01:31And I let you in because, well, housewives can get awfully bored sometimes.
00:01:36You're too smooth, honey.
00:01:38You're much too smooth.
00:01:40Of all the primates, baboons most frequently interact with people.
00:01:43They are the most adaptable of the ground-welling primates.
00:01:46Jane!
00:01:47You've been a wide variety of habitats.
00:01:49Intelligent and...
00:01:50The fact was that I was having a sort of midlife event.
00:01:55I was a producer in Minneapolis on the phone.
00:01:59We fly out there on the 10th, in case you're interested.
00:02:02And the flames quickly spread, burning the entire house to the ground.
00:02:06You know, the station's arranged a bus trip, of course, with listeners.
00:02:10So a little restaurant's about three hours into the country.
00:02:13So, uh, what have you been doing?
00:02:16Watching TV.
00:02:18Don't go away.
00:02:21We'll be taking your calls as our canine fashion show continues.
00:02:25Go ahead.
00:02:29I'm going to the barn.
00:02:31Michael had been sober for a little over a year,
00:02:33and now he had started spending more and more time at AA meetings
00:02:37or out at high lonesome stables with his horse.
00:02:40I didn't have to take care of him anymore.
00:02:42Not the way I had.
00:02:44After your ride, are you coming straight home?
00:02:46I think.
00:02:49Kirby, come.
00:02:50Well, be careful.
00:02:52KT starts acting spooked.
00:02:54Jane, I'll be okay.
00:02:57Easy, whoa, whoa.
00:03:04Michael, wear a helmet.
00:03:08What's that Jane girl up to today?
00:03:13Sitting in front of the TV in her bathrobe.
00:03:16She sick?
00:03:17Not exactly.
00:03:18More like impossible to be around right now.
00:03:20You know, there's a, there's a scene in AA, Pete.
00:03:27Spouses get better much slower than we do.
00:03:37I knew Michael had reached a point where he was frustrated with me and my phobias.
00:03:41I've always had fears about just about everything, you name it.
00:03:46Now fear was taking hold of my life, but I just couldn't do anything about it.
00:04:00Jane?
00:04:01Oh.
00:04:02Hi.
00:04:03I haven't seen you in a while.
00:04:04What have you been up to?
00:04:05Oh, work.
00:04:06Working.
00:04:07Some new projects.
00:04:08Have you seen the display?
00:04:10Well, make sure you do.
00:04:11Okay.
00:04:20Working?
00:04:21You're working on trying to get out of bed in the mornings.
00:04:24Why don't you tell her that?
00:04:35Welcome to Minneapolis.
00:04:36Bye.
00:04:37Hi.
00:04:38We're really glad to be here.
00:04:40Michael, I can't do this.
00:04:41Hi, Michael.
00:04:42Hi.
00:04:43The idea of being trapped with a group of strangers for three hours on a bus going who knows
00:04:48where driven by somebody I don't even know.
00:04:49Hi.
00:04:50I mean, does he look like the kind of bus driver that would stop the bus if I asked him to?
00:04:53Jane, these people paid a hundred bucks a piece to meet us.
00:04:56You think they'd let me drive the bus?
00:05:02You?
00:05:03No.
00:05:04Jane, you said you might want to ride in the car with me.
00:05:07Yes.
00:05:10It'll be okay.
00:05:11I'll talk to all the listeners when we get to the restaurant.
00:05:19Let's go.
00:05:20This is the final boarding call, flight 387 today.
00:05:24They loved the food.
00:05:28Excuse me.
00:05:31They loved the tote bags.
00:05:33I don't know why we couldn't have eaten someplace in Minneapolis.
00:05:39They live in Minneapolis.
00:05:41Well, there are plenty of great restaurants in town we wouldn't have to take a bus to.
00:05:45Well, the point for them was to go on an adventure.
00:05:48Somewhere new.
00:05:49I think that's stupid.
00:05:50Some days I'd be so down in the dumps I could barely leave the house.
00:06:02Michael told me about the sign that was always up at his AA meetings.
00:06:06You are not alone.
00:06:08But I was.
00:06:17Being a writer is not like having a job job.
00:06:20It's a weird, unstructured life.
00:06:23Stretches of time went by now when I saw no one but Michael.
00:06:27It was hard to find the energy to get dressed.
00:06:30Why get dressed?
00:06:31There was no pressing need to.
00:06:35No pun intended.
00:06:38No pun intended.
00:06:44Oh.
00:06:45Oh, oh.
00:06:46Jane?
00:06:49Jane, what's the matter?
00:06:54No.
00:06:56I'm okay.
00:07:08I'm okay.
00:07:09I'm okay.
00:07:10Okay.
00:07:11Help.
00:07:12Help.
00:07:13Help.
00:07:14Help.
00:07:15Help.
00:07:16Help.
00:07:17Help.
00:07:18I don't know what's with me.
00:07:19I got all panicky and couldn't do it.
00:07:21I couldn't ride.
00:07:22So you got off and you walked.
00:07:23It's no big deal.
00:07:24Pete.
00:07:25You know me.
00:07:26I love to ride.
00:07:27I've ridden since I was a little girl.
00:07:28Michael's changed.
00:07:29Every day he gets up, works two hours, goes to his meeting at seven.
00:07:33Some days he goes to three meetings.
00:07:34Then he comes out here to get away from me.
00:07:35And I know it.
00:07:36Oh, I know.
00:07:37Oh, I know.
00:07:39I know.
00:07:40I love the ride. I've ridden since I was a little girl.
00:07:48Michael's changed.
00:07:50Every day he gets up, works two hours,
00:07:53goes to his meeting at 7.
00:07:54Some days he goes to three meetings.
00:07:57And then he comes out here to get away from me.
00:08:01And I know it.
00:08:03I don't think that that's the case.
00:08:06Has he said anything to you?
00:08:10No, I guess he wouldn't.
00:08:13And Michael's still Michael.
00:08:15Look, if you want, I'll go out there with you on the trail next time.
00:08:18I'll balk ahead of you and Pi again and lead you.
00:08:22You would, wouldn't you?
00:08:24Well, I said I would.
00:08:25I'm just thrilled to be working with you guys.
00:08:41Us too.
00:08:43You know, we really like the region by region idea for the new edition.
00:08:47Aren't you in Chicago next week?
00:08:48Yeah, we're going to try that new estate place that you mentioned.
00:08:51You will love it.
00:08:53Oh, you'll love it.
00:08:54Anyway, the book.
00:08:55Yeah, it just seems to make more sense to break it down that way,
00:08:58in case somebody's using it on a road trip,
00:09:00you know, instead of state by state.
00:09:02This meatloaf for us.
00:09:05So how do you guys work?
00:09:06Well, in the old days, we'd sit down together.
00:09:10In the old days, we did everything together.
00:09:12But now, I pretty much do a draft,
00:09:14and then Jane takes it, and she does a draft,
00:09:16and then we, uh, we look at it together.
00:09:19Hmm.
00:09:21Because we'd like to have this for our spring list.
00:09:24Shouldn't be a problem.
00:09:27It shouldn't be.
00:09:30Michael, where are you going?
00:09:32I'm just going to get something to drink.
00:09:33Jane, please.
00:09:34Please what?
00:09:36You just, you're so needy.
00:09:38I am not.
00:09:40You know, you've become this anxiety-riddled recluse
00:09:42because you don't have anybody to micromanage anymore.
00:09:44Okay, let's just, uh...
00:09:46Can you give me a Danish or something?
00:09:48You know, you've micromanaged me all these years.
00:09:49You won't know the truth.
00:09:50Would you stop it with that word?
00:09:51I hate those words.
00:09:52It's like empower or proactive.
00:09:54Jane, it sucks being the center of somebody else's life.
00:10:01I'll be right back.
00:10:07Ladies and gentlemen,
00:10:07the tower has just directed us to a different runway.
00:10:10Please remain seated with your seatbelts fastened.
00:10:12We should be airborne shortly.
00:10:14Are you okay?
00:10:15Yeah.
00:10:17As long as it's moving in the direction
00:10:19it's supposed to be going.
00:10:25Well, ladies and gentlemen,
00:10:27it looks like we're going to be sitting here for a while.
00:10:31The tower seems to be having some, uh,
00:10:33traffic control problems.
00:10:35I'll let you know when we're cleared for takeoff.
00:10:37This thing is like an MRI machine with wings.
00:10:56Why isn't there an update from the pilot?
00:10:58It's been like two hours.
00:11:00Do you have any snacks?
00:11:10Sorry.
00:11:11There's nothing to eat on this plane.
00:11:14I need something.
00:11:16I don't know what we're going to do.
00:11:17Last time you passed out.
00:11:18It's an emergency.
00:11:34Would you like this?
00:11:36It might help.
00:11:38Thanks.
00:11:38Thanks.
00:11:38You should have seen your face.
00:11:55Oh, man.
00:12:03It looks like you saved the day.
00:12:06I guess I did.
00:12:07I couldn't stop thinking about the boy on the plane.
00:12:23It made me look at everything I knew about myself
00:12:25that I wanted to be different.
00:12:27So right then and there, I made a decision.
00:12:30I decided to take control of my life.
00:12:33You, lady, I don't think this is for you.
00:12:36Oh, well, I sure would like to give it a try.
00:12:39Well, you're talking car accidents.
00:12:41You have to be prepared to deal with all sorts of unpleasant sights.
00:12:46And I mean some pretty damn grizzly ones.
00:12:49Oh, well, I would imagine.
00:12:52Death and disfigurement?
00:12:54I mean, some of us end up heaving our guts out.
00:12:57You can't help it.
00:12:58Oh, I hate vomit.
00:12:59Loads of vomit.
00:13:00I try never to vomit.
00:13:02They'll vomit all over you.
00:13:04I guarantee you.
00:13:05Cooped up in the back of an ambulance.
00:13:07Cooped?
00:13:07Racing down some bumpy road.
00:13:11You haven't kept in shape.
00:13:14I understand.
00:13:15Thanks, though, for your time.
00:13:20Yeah.
00:13:21Sure.
00:13:22Hey.
00:13:48Oh.
00:13:49Well, I'm just trying to get a feel for it in there.
00:13:54What it feels like for the horses.
00:13:57You know, all cooped up.
00:14:00This a writer's thing?
00:14:02Right.
00:14:03Research.
00:14:16Piece of cake.
00:14:19Whee!
00:14:20Whee!
00:14:21Whee!
00:14:26Can I look inside the ambulance?
00:14:36Do these doors open from the inside?
00:14:39Yeah.
00:14:40Oh.
00:14:43What is it exactly that you're looking for?
00:14:47Nothing.
00:14:48Really.
00:14:49I've just never been inside an ambulance before.
00:14:52Good.
00:14:53I mean, you're not trapped in here with the sick vomiting person.
00:15:09You know what?
00:15:10You know what?
00:15:11I really want to sign up for that class.
00:15:12Really?
00:15:13Really?
00:15:14Hey, where were you?
00:15:15Hey, where were you?
00:15:16The Grafton Firehouse.
00:15:17Mm-hmm.
00:15:18Guess what?
00:15:19The Grafton Firehouse.
00:15:20Guess what?
00:15:21What?
00:15:22I'm gonna be an EMT.
00:15:24I'm not kidding, Michael.
00:15:25Hey, who said you were?
00:15:26Who said you were?
00:15:27What do you do as an EMT?
00:15:29What do you do as an EMT?
00:15:30Well, you poor boy, it's a great thing.
00:15:33Wow!
00:15:34We are sad and I'm too much.
00:15:35I'm so much more out of the time.
00:15:38It was just a great thing.
00:15:39You know what, I really want to sign up for that class.
00:15:44The Grafton Firehouse.
00:15:46Guess what?
00:15:47What?
00:15:48I'm gonna be an EMT.
00:15:51I'm not kidding, Michael.
00:15:53Who said you were?
00:15:54What do you do as an EMT?
00:15:56Well, you pull dying people from car wrecks.
00:15:59Stuff like that.
00:16:01Jane, you're 52 years old.
00:16:03You're not gonna be a fireman.
00:16:05EMT.
00:16:06EMT.
00:16:07You know, the other day,
00:16:09helping that kid on the plane,
00:16:11that was one time in my life
00:16:12when I didn't feel like the whole world
00:16:14was collapsing around me.
00:16:15Yeah, but come on, Jane.
00:16:17I mean, you're not gonna be an EMT.
00:16:19Every twinge you get is like a brain tumor,
00:16:22MS, stroke.
00:16:24Well, look at my family.
00:16:25I mean, every one of them.
00:16:26They wouldn't fly.
00:16:28They wouldn't take boats.
00:16:29They wouldn't talk on public telephones.
00:16:31They wouldn't eat in restaurants
00:16:32because they were afraid they would be poisoned.
00:16:34I mean, I'm just like them.
00:16:35My whole life, I've just been paralyzed by my fears.
00:16:39Well, number one is admitting that you're powerless.
00:16:41I know, I know.
00:16:43Twelve steps.
00:16:44But this is not like that.
00:16:50I've done powerless.
00:16:52Just doesn't cut it.
00:16:54Not anymore.
00:17:06Don't loiter in the lobby.
00:17:08Yeah.
00:17:11Don't park in the spaces in the parking lot
00:17:13reserved for police cars.
00:17:17Yeah.
00:17:18Okay, people.
00:17:31Listen up.
00:17:35Let's get started.
00:17:39Though you will be volunteers, your training will be the same as the paid professional.
00:17:43I'd like to assist her, huh?
00:17:44You will know how to insert airways to allow the patient to breathe.
00:17:48You will assist paramedics who must insert needles into chest cavities if the patient's lungs collapse.
00:17:56Hi, I'm Jay.
00:17:57Daughter.
00:17:58The paramedic has to administer morphine.
00:17:59You will spike the bag and set it up so that instead of a bone-jarring ride to the hospital, the patient will feel like they're a baby in its mother's arms.
00:18:15As an EMTB, you will be smack in the middle of the emergency care hierarchy.
00:18:27This is the most stressful job of all.
00:18:30Know the warning signs of stressed people, anxiety, guilt, indecisiveness, insomnia.
00:18:37I already have all of those.
00:18:39How will I know when the job's getting to me?
00:18:41BSI, body, substance, isolation.
00:18:55BSI, I'm number one.
00:18:58BSI, I'm number one.
00:19:01You are an EMT.
00:19:02You do not even think about touching a patient without at least a barrier of rubber between you and them.
00:19:10I'm number one.
00:19:11I'm number one.
00:19:12You are important to yourself and to the rescue unit.
00:19:17You arrive on a scene and someone is pointing a gun at you.
00:19:21The house is burning down.
00:19:23Toxic fumes are clouding the air.
00:19:25Or some psychotic is telling you the Martians have ordered him to kill you now.
00:19:30You do not attempt to be a hero.
00:19:35You run for cover and get help.
00:19:38That's what being number one is all about.
00:19:42BSI, I'm number one.
00:19:45BSI, I'm number one.
00:19:48Later!
00:19:49BSI, I'm number one.
00:19:52Later!
00:19:53BSI, I'm number one.
00:20:00Jane?
00:20:01Are you alright?
00:20:02Michael, this is it.
00:20:03This is the other side of what happens if you ever have to call 911.
00:20:07I hope I never have to.
00:20:08Yeah, but if you do...
00:20:09Ed, he's our teacher.
00:20:10He's this professional EMT from over in Bridgeport.
00:20:12You wouldn't believe some of the stuff he's seen.
00:20:13Jane?
00:20:20Are you all right?
00:20:21Michael, this is it.
00:20:23This is the other side of what happens if you ever have to call 911.
00:20:27I hope I never have to.
00:20:29Yeah, but if you do...
00:20:31Ed, he's our teacher.
00:20:34He's this professional EMT from over in Bridgeport.
00:20:37You wouldn't believe some of the stuff he's seen.
00:20:38And next time, he's going to teach us how to cut people's clothing off really fast
00:20:43and look them over for bullet wounds that have entered and exited.
00:20:46Honey, are you going to get undressed?
00:20:49When there's an emergency, you've got to be able to jump in your clothes
00:20:51and get out the door in a split second, day or night.
00:20:53Oh, boy.
00:20:56This stuff is amazing.
00:20:58Good, good. Let's just... Let's go see.
00:21:08Scapula. Maxilla. I love these words.
00:21:15Cyanotic means blue from lack of oxygen.
00:21:18Ah, I didn't know that.
00:21:20Oh, my God.
00:21:22You have to look at this.
00:21:24I'll pass, thanks.
00:21:25No, you have to look at this.
00:21:27His... his...
00:21:29The skin's been peeled off like a glove.
00:21:36I can't do this.
00:21:37Oh, they're probably just showing you the worst-case scenario.
00:21:44Huh.
00:21:49It's cool.
00:21:53Save it from choking.
00:22:05You killed him.
00:22:07Maybe mine's defective.
00:22:26Mm-hmm.
00:22:28Still...
00:22:51Oh, God.
00:22:52Oh, God.
00:22:52Oh, my God.
00:22:53Wait.
00:22:53Oh, man.
00:22:54Lift, lift, lift.
00:22:55Ah!
00:22:58Stern.
00:23:00You've killed him.
00:23:02He had a heart attack, and now he has a fatal head trauma.
00:23:11Stern.
00:23:13Rescue Randy is not a beanbag chair.
00:23:24Michael, slow down.
00:23:28This is a metal cage waiting to kill us in a dozen ways I never even knew about.
00:23:32Oh, great.
00:23:34You can get trapped inside under water.
00:23:37Seatbelt can crush my intestines.
00:23:39Well, here we go.
00:23:40A little bit of knowledge something else is getting nuts about.
00:23:43You can hit your head on the dashboard and send your brain bouncing around inside your skull.
00:23:49You know, it's not just cars, Jamie.
00:23:51Dogs have big teeth because of your function wounds.
00:23:56Shut up.
00:23:57Bees can sting you.
00:23:58You can go into anaphylactic shock.
00:24:00Stop!
00:24:08I take this horse, and I walk him around back, and I stand there for a minute, and then bring him out again.
00:24:16Same horse?
00:24:17Oh, sure.
00:24:18Same damn horse.
00:24:22And he looks it up and down.
00:24:24How much?
00:24:26I tell him, $20,000.
00:24:28And Joey starts peeling off the bills.
00:24:33Oh, I gotta go.
00:24:34I'm gonna be late.
00:24:35You go get him, ambulance girl.
00:24:40See you guys.
00:24:41Hey Pete, listen, I told Jane that the next time we go out to Wyoming or the Dakotas on a research trip, I want you to come with us, too.
00:24:54Oh, I'd love to see that country.
00:24:56Yeah.
00:24:57Yeah, just the two of us, we'd, uh, we'd go out there for a couple days and ride out and get lost.
00:25:05You remind me to tell Jane about the mayor in heat, my stallion going right at it, with me hanging on for dear life.
00:25:13Yeah, that's, that's her kind of story.
00:25:19That Jane's a great girl.
00:25:20Listen up, people.
00:25:28We need to walk through this together.
00:25:31One out of 20 of you has a main artery that is congenitally faulty and will, at some time, hemorrhage.
00:25:38You're lucky and it is found in time, you will not die.
00:25:41Stern, take your hand off your carotid artery.
00:25:44You're stopping blood supply to the brain.
00:25:50Okay.
00:25:56Ah, ah, ah, ow, ow, ow, ow, stop it, you're with me.
00:26:01Machinery's not my strong suit.
00:26:03Clearly.
00:26:11Your, uh, your blood pressure's very high.
00:26:30It's true.
00:26:32P is for provocation.
00:26:35What makes the condition better or worse?
00:26:36I can't for the life of me remember how many liters of oxygen
00:26:39are in an M-sized O2 tank.
00:26:42That's important?
00:26:43Yes.
00:26:44Sometimes I think I'm too stupid for this class.
00:26:46And other times, some of the lectures are like,
00:26:50do not try to replace someone's organs if they are hanging from their body.
00:26:55They say this with a straight face.
00:26:57Who would do these things?
00:26:59What's that?
00:27:01Uh, it's called pass EMT.
00:27:03If there is an impaled object in the neck, do not remove it.
00:27:06I'm gonna watch it twice a day until it soaks in and I pass my bullets.
00:27:09Well, just be careful.
00:27:10You're not exactly Lance Armstrong.
00:27:11I have to start working out every day.
00:27:13I'm gonna do this, Michael.
00:27:14I think it's good, Jane.
00:27:16You do?
00:27:17Well, yeah, you're doing your own thing.
00:27:18It's good to see.
00:27:20Do they respond to life?
00:27:21Are they equal?
00:27:23Do they move symmetrically?
00:27:25Without moving his head, we'll have the patient follow our index finger
00:27:29as we move it side to side and up and down.
00:27:32If eye movement is restricted...
00:27:33On almost every call, you will be responsible for lifting and moving patients without aggravating their current condition of...
00:27:40I may be more than twice his age, but I don't care.
00:27:42You obviously need to be knowledgeable about proper methods of lifting and moving to prevent injury to yourself.
00:27:46So, flex at the knees using your legs like this to save your back.
00:27:57Straight up.
00:27:59And right back up.
00:28:00Well, who wants to help me out up here?
00:28:06Oh.
00:28:10Spencer and I will now hoist the patient in the air and place her in the stair chair.
00:28:17How much do you weigh, Stern?
00:28:19I never volunteer that.
00:28:21You're unconscious, Stern.
00:28:43Hi.
00:28:45I'm Jane.
00:28:47I'm an EMT.
00:28:49Hi, Jane.
00:28:51It's man.
00:29:13No Ka- The firemen.
00:29:15Do not touch anything.
00:29:17Do not talk to the firemen.
00:29:19Do not ask them questions.
00:29:20I feel like a second grader going to a museum.
00:29:23Stern!
00:29:24Yes, sir?
00:29:29Stair chair.
00:29:30It's a folding chair used for carrying someone
00:29:32in a sitting position down the stairs.
00:29:34You be the patient.
00:29:42Come on.
00:29:43Yeah.
00:29:45Don't worry. I'm really strong.
00:29:48On my count of three.
00:29:50One, two, three.
00:30:01I have to stop!
00:30:05Stern, maybe you should take the foot part.
00:30:07It's a little lighter.
00:30:08I don't do backward. Even at home.
00:30:10Stern!
00:30:11I'll tell you how to step off.
00:30:16Lift.
00:30:17Step.
00:30:18Step.
00:30:19Just don't let him hang in the air.
00:30:23Keep both hands in a chair. You will drop him.
00:30:27Oh!
00:30:28Oh!
00:30:29Oh!
00:30:30Oh!
00:30:31Oh!
00:30:32Oh!
00:30:33Oh!
00:30:34Oh, Robert.
00:30:35That's good.
00:30:36Fail.
00:30:37Stern?
00:30:38See me after class.
00:30:40I can't call 9-1-1. You're all here.
00:30:55I couldn't even walk down a flight of stairs without holding on.
00:31:08I'd trust you to carry me.
00:31:09Well, you'd really have to be out of it.
00:31:10Besides, that's what the cops and firemen are there for to help you lift people.
00:31:14Ooh.
00:31:15Big, hunky men at my command. Now I feel better.
00:31:21You sure you don't mind if I use you as a guinea pig?
00:31:24I love playing doctor with you.
00:31:30Normal.
00:31:44That's a gorgeous saddle. There's nothing you can't do.
00:31:48Michael and I wish you had been our father.
00:31:51That would have made you some kind of perverts.
00:31:53Okay, then. You can be Michael's father.
00:31:57My father. My father had a steel plate in his skull. Did I ever tell you that?
00:32:01He'd just go off, you know, in these uncontrollable rages.
00:32:06It was something about him playing on the trolley tracks when he was a kid.
00:32:09His forehead caved in and then came out again kind of weird, I guess, where the plate was.
00:32:13I used to have these nightmares about Frankenstein's monster chasing me.
00:32:20When I was eight, my mother packed me up and ran away with me while he was out walking her dog.
00:32:25She studied to be a concert pianist, and when we finally found a place,
00:32:28the only thing she brought was her grand piano.
00:32:30So we ate our meals on top and then we slept underneath.
00:32:33Well, that's a vision.
00:32:35Yeah.
00:32:37He never forgave her for leaving.
00:32:43He threatened to kill us both.
00:32:45I was, I was afraid to leave the house.
00:32:50When was this? How long ago?
00:32:55Well, it was when I, it was a long time ago.
00:33:00Let me see if I can find my old binoculars so I can see back that far.
00:33:13I suppose I should wait until I even pass my boards.
00:33:26Of course I'm gonna pass my boards.
00:33:28They have all these cool websites where you can order this EMT stuff.
00:33:32Oh, damn it.
00:33:35Apply pressure.
00:33:36I'll call 911.
00:33:38No, you won't.
00:33:39It's not that bad.
00:33:41What are you so happy about?
00:33:42I'm not.
00:33:43Well, you don't exactly inspire confidence.
00:33:47Apply more pressure.
00:33:49Do you want me to do that?
00:33:51No.
00:33:52Here.
00:33:53Jane, Jane, please.
00:33:54Stop.
00:33:55Elevate.
00:33:56Look, easy.
00:33:57I'm not exactly Rescue Randy.
00:33:58I know.
00:33:59Rescue Randy lets me help him.
00:34:00Please.
00:34:01Oh, oh, I think you should go to the ER.
00:34:06Let me drive you.
00:34:07No, I'm gonna go at the CKT.
00:34:09What?
00:34:11Keep applying pressure.
00:34:13Heel.
00:34:15Michael, at least let me take a look at it.
00:34:18No, this EMT stuff is making you even more of a control freak.
00:34:22Kirby.
00:34:31Hey.
00:34:32You should get some stitches in that boy.
00:34:36You need to get to a doctor.
00:34:37What?
00:34:38What?
00:34:39Doctor.
00:34:40What?
00:34:41Doctor.
00:34:42You should get some stitches in that boy.
00:34:43You need to get to a doctor.
00:34:44What?
00:34:45What?
00:34:46Doctor.
00:34:47You should get some stitches in that boy.
00:34:48You need to get to a doctor.
00:34:49What?
00:34:50What?
00:34:51Oh.
00:34:52Oh.
00:34:53Oh.
00:34:54Oh.
00:34:55Oh.
00:34:56Oh.
00:34:57Jane, why don't you just go wait outside?
00:34:58Oh.
00:34:59Just go wait outside.
00:35:00Okay.
00:35:01You gonna be okay?
00:35:02I'll be fine.
00:35:03Okay.
00:35:04Dr. Phillips, please call 5-1-6.
00:35:05Oh.
00:35:06Dr. Phillips, please call 5-1-6.
00:35:07Oh.
00:35:08Oh.
00:35:09Oh.
00:35:10Oh.
00:35:11Oh.
00:35:12Oh.
00:35:13Oh.
00:35:14Jane, why don't you just go wait outside?
00:35:17Oh.
00:35:18Just go wait outside.
00:35:19Okay.
00:35:20You gonna be okay?
00:35:21I'll be fine.
00:35:22Okay.
00:35:23Dr. Phillips, please call 5-1-6.
00:35:24Dr. Phillips, please call 5-1-6.
00:35:26Dr. Phillips, please call 5-1-6.
00:35:27Oh.
00:35:28Oh.
00:35:29Oh.
00:35:34Oh.
00:35:35Oh.
00:35:36Oh.
00:35:37Oh.
00:35:38Oh.
00:35:39Oh.
00:35:40Oh.
00:35:41Oh.
00:35:42Oh.
00:35:43Oh.
00:35:44Oh.
00:35:45Oh.
00:35:46Sometimes life is a waiting game.
00:35:47Now all I had to do was pass my boards.
00:35:49Oh, oh.
00:35:50Oh.
00:35:51Oh.
00:35:52Oh.
00:35:53thumbs up or down.
00:35:55Those weeks crawled by, and then one day, I heard.
00:36:01Oh my gosh.
00:36:09Congratulations, I got it!
00:36:12Michael!
00:36:13Hey.
00:36:16I passed!
00:36:17Michael!
00:36:19Way to go, Dave!
00:36:20I passed the national board!
00:36:22I'm more than passed.
00:36:23I did exceptionally well.
00:36:25Look, my EMT certification, and my wallet cards,
00:36:30and look, patches I can sew on.
00:36:34I'm proud of you, honey.
00:36:35Oh, oh, oh, wow, I'm an EMT.
00:36:49That's the angle.
00:36:49Oh, look at you.
00:36:52Probably I'll pass on and call.
00:36:54Nice one.
00:36:55Did you do it?
00:36:56Nice tea.
00:36:57Did you do it?
00:36:58I don't like that charge, but I don't know.
00:37:00I've got to call it.
00:37:02I've got to call it.
00:37:03I've got to call it me now.
00:37:07Ready, sir?
00:37:16Get to call it.
00:37:16Hi.
00:37:17Jane?
00:37:18I'm Audrey.
00:37:19Hi. Jane? I'm Audrey.
00:37:31Hi.
00:37:32Congratulations.
00:37:33Thanks.
00:37:33This is for you.
00:37:35Wow.
00:37:36See, it flashes the date and hour in military time.
00:37:39You're going to need that when you feel like the ambulance runs you.
00:37:42This is so terrific.
00:37:44Do you know Vince Milnick from the gas station, our chief?
00:37:47And his brothers, Frank, and Joey, Walter, and this is Grant.
00:37:55He is going to give you your radios and your pagers.
00:37:57Nice to meet you.
00:37:58Hi.
00:37:59Can you come up here?
00:38:00Okay.
00:38:06Let's not be a seven.
00:38:09Come and learn to dance.
00:38:11Wally bully!
00:38:14Wally bully.
00:38:17Wally bully.
00:38:19Wally bully.
00:38:21Wally bully.
00:38:22There's a huge decal on the hood of your car.
00:38:25It's the Star of Life.
00:38:27I put it there.
00:38:28I'm in love with my sticker.
00:38:30It's like this great bonanza of stuff they give you
00:38:33to keep the blood and debris out of my eyes.
00:38:37They gave you all this stuff?
00:38:40Some of it.
00:38:41Some of it I ordered off the internet.
00:38:45I am G-65.
00:38:48That's my number.
00:38:49Huh.
00:38:51Is this too much?
00:38:53I don't care.
00:38:55I love it.
00:38:55I want to know something.
00:39:00What's that?
00:39:01I have to get this in my ear.
00:39:03Where is your heart?
00:39:05I don't know.
00:39:06You have to check your heart to see if you have a heartbeat.
00:39:08Wally bully.
00:39:11Wally bully.
00:39:13Wally bully.
00:39:14Watch it.
00:39:14Watch it.
00:39:15Watch it.
00:39:24Craft in ambulance personnel.
00:39:26Number 6 Perkins Road.
00:39:28Elderly woman fallen.
00:39:29Possible broken hip.
00:39:30Come in.
00:39:31G-56 responding.
00:39:43G-56.
00:39:45Jane, G-56 is already signed on the call.
00:39:48You're G-65.
00:39:50I mean G-65.
00:39:52I was so paranoid I was going to do that, and I did it.
00:39:55You're supposed to be like Joe Franny for the radio, not some...
00:39:58You get on the telephone.
00:40:01Ugh.
00:40:26She tricked.
00:40:27I think she may have broken her hip.
00:40:29What is your mother's name?
00:40:31Muriel Bergman.
00:40:32Muriel.
00:40:36Hi.
00:40:37I'm Jane with the Grafton ambulance.
00:40:40Huh?
00:40:41Don't worry, Mrs.
00:40:43We're going to fix you right up.
00:40:45Okay.
00:40:46Mrs., on a scale of 1 to 10, how bad is the pain?
00:40:50Ten.
00:40:53I'm going to take a quick peek, and I'll try to be as gentle as I can.
00:40:57Oh!
00:41:01I'm so sorry.
00:41:03Um, I'm going to take your blood pressure.
00:41:08My mother's had a mastectomy.
00:41:10Which side?
00:41:11I can't take a reading on the side that's had the surgery.
00:41:13On both sides.
00:41:15I'm sorry.
00:41:16I'm sorry.
00:41:17I'm sorry.
00:41:18I'm sorry.
00:41:19I'm sorry.
00:41:20I'm sorry.
00:41:21Sorry.
00:41:22Let's get a pulse.
00:41:23Okay?
00:41:24Okay.
00:41:25Okay.
00:41:26What happened?
00:41:34She fell.
00:41:35Did you get a pulse and a BP?
00:41:38No.
00:41:39No.
00:41:40No.
00:41:41I'm sorry.
00:41:42I'm sorry.
00:41:43No.
00:41:45No.
00:41:47I got a plug.
00:41:47I got a plug.
00:41:49I got a plug.
00:41:50Jane, do you want a ride with us?
00:41:52Not now.
00:41:53I have, uh, company at my house.
00:42:05I want to thank you for all your help.
00:42:11Then I...
00:42:13You're lucky I didn't kill her.
00:42:15I kept calling her Mrs. like I was the cleaning lady.
00:42:24Boy, that Audrey, boy, she's the real deal.
00:42:27I mean, she knows what to do in an emergency.
00:42:29I only know what to do on paper.
00:42:31Jane.
00:42:32Then I couldn't even get in the back of the ambulance.
00:42:35If I had, they would have had another patient on their hands.
00:42:39This whole thing has been a huge mistake.
00:42:45I'm going back to bed.
00:42:57I've got to get out of this before I do some real damage.
00:43:06Hey, Jane.
00:43:07Hi.
00:43:08Hey.
00:43:09Coming off?
00:43:10Yeah, yeah.
00:43:11It's starting to come off.
00:43:13Your late young lady.
00:43:15Work detail.
00:43:16Every Saturday morning.
00:43:18Ted Sherman.
00:43:20Um, I, uh, I went on a call last night.
00:43:23I read your report.
00:43:25I came down here to resign.
00:43:30I don't think I have what it takes to handle this.
00:43:32What can't you handle?
00:43:35Bed people.
00:43:37Uh, puke.
00:43:39Feces.
00:43:41Amputations.
00:43:43Nobody can.
00:43:45Until you have to do it.
00:43:46FRAFTED AMBULANCE PERSONNEL,
00:44:0190-170.
00:44:03Go!
00:44:04Go!
00:44:05Go!
00:44:06Go!
00:44:07Go!
00:44:08Go!
00:44:09Go!
00:44:10Go!
00:44:11Go!
00:44:12Go!
00:44:13Jane.
00:44:14Go to the rig and get the fracture pack.
00:44:16FRACT pack.
00:44:17Okay.
00:44:21FRACT pack.
00:44:22FRACT pack.
00:44:23FRACT pack.
00:44:24FRACT pack.
00:44:25FRACT pack.
00:44:26FRACT pack.
00:44:27FRACT pack.
00:44:28FRACT pack.
00:44:29Here we go.
00:44:30Easy.
00:44:31You're gonna be okay.
00:44:32His leg.
00:44:33You want me to?
00:44:34Split the guy.
00:44:35Yeah, his right leg's twisted badly.
00:44:36It's broken.
00:44:38Didn't have any break.
00:44:41Set it next to his leg.
00:44:44Right.
00:44:45Right.
00:44:46Now get this shoe off first.
00:44:52Stuck.
00:44:53I don't know if I can...
00:44:57You're doing good.
00:44:59That's it.
00:45:00That's it.
00:45:02Is this okay?
00:45:03Should I keep going?
00:45:04Just keep going.
00:45:05Put his pant leg high enough so you can get the splint on.
00:45:19One, two, three.
00:45:20Let's go.
00:45:21All right, he's good.
00:45:26Go.
00:45:27What?
00:45:28Let's go.
00:45:29Clear.
00:45:30Cut his jacket off.
00:45:31Okay.
00:45:32Ugh.
00:45:33Cut his jacket off.
00:45:34Okay.
00:45:35Ugh.
00:45:36By the way, my name is Jane.
00:45:37Newtown.
00:45:38This is paramedic unit 787.
00:45:39Do you copy?
00:45:40Get away from me, you bitch.
00:45:41Don't crush my leathers.
00:45:42Get the jacket off.
00:45:43Get the jacket off.
00:45:44Go.
00:45:45Go.
00:45:46Go.
00:45:47Go.
00:45:48Go.
00:45:49Go.
00:45:50Go.
00:45:51Go.
00:45:52Go.
00:45:53Go.
00:45:54Go.
00:45:55Go.
00:45:56Go.
00:45:57Go.
00:45:58Go.
00:45:59Go.
00:46:00Go.
00:46:01Go.
00:46:02Go.
00:46:03Go.
00:46:04Go.
00:46:05Go.
00:46:06Go.
00:46:07Go.
00:46:08Keep it.
00:46:09Back it off.
00:46:10Okay.
00:46:11Fail patient.
00:46:12Six years of age involved in a motorcycle collision.
00:46:13Obvious fracture right tipped it to fully immobilize.
00:46:14My leathers.
00:46:15My leathers!
00:46:16Don't do that!
00:46:17Don't cut his leathers!
00:46:18Mostly Mighty.
00:46:19Blood pressure has not been obtained.
00:46:21Respirations.
00:46:2216.
00:46:23Copy 787, awaiting your arrival.
00:46:24On color.
00:46:25Let's go.
00:46:55Good job, Jane.
00:47:05Double Delta or burgers, ladies?
00:47:07Donuts.
00:47:07Donuts.
00:47:09How scary can this be if you get to have donuts afterwards?
00:47:13These guys.
00:47:14I love them.
00:47:16It's like their favorite things to do are smoke, drink, eat pizza, curse, put out fires.
00:47:22What else is there?
00:47:23What else is there?
00:47:25They have no idea what I do in my other life.
00:47:27Yeah, they do.
00:47:28In a vague sort of way.
00:47:30But they don't care.
00:47:34I never used to pay attention to the Milnick brothers.
00:47:36I mean, they were always just mechanics.
00:47:38Filled my gas tank, took my credit card.
00:47:40Well, on a one to ten scale of gregarious, they're about a two.
00:47:44But they're the best.
00:47:46It's so soothing here.
00:47:55I did it.
00:48:00I was able to sit in the back of an ambulance and not freak.
00:48:03That's great.
00:48:04It was really good.
00:48:06Because his leg was like snapped like a chicken leg and twisted.
00:48:10I got it.
00:48:10But I was so busy with what I was supposed to do, I didn't have time to utz about my own stuff.
00:48:15Well, I stopped by the vest today to pick up Kirby's pills.
00:48:19Oh.
00:48:19Jim McGuire says the Milnick brothers like you.
00:48:23They do?
00:48:25Vince Milnick.
00:48:26He's incredible.
00:48:28You should have seen the way he got the area secured, the two of them off to the hospital.
00:48:32Guess I'm not your type anymore, huh?
00:48:34Oh, silly.
00:48:37The book.
00:48:39Remember our book?
00:48:41Road food?
00:48:44Great.
00:48:45Great.
00:48:46They like me?
00:48:54When it comes to fried chicken, which might be the universal all-American food,
00:48:59Stroud's Restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri is truly head and shoulders above the rest.
00:49:03Here's why it's great.
00:49:05Basically, you can't screw up fried chicken that much.
00:49:07I mean, even the worst fast food fried chicken, I could eat a bucket full of, no problem.
00:49:12However, what makes Stroud's fried chicken perfect is that the crust is completely thin.
00:49:18Don't worry.
00:49:19You can't hurt him now.
00:49:29See, this is my idea of chicken heaven.
00:49:31It started as an old roadhouse dating back to the 1930s.
00:49:37Helen Stroud started it as a fireworks stand.
00:49:40Then she decided the fireworks business isn't so good.
00:49:43I'm going to start frying chicken.
00:49:45God bless her.
00:49:45God bless her, she did.
00:49:48And since the 30s, Stroud's has been known as the fried chicken place in Kansas City,
00:49:52which is a very serious fried chicken town in general.
00:49:55Have a look at Blanche and Bill's pancake house.
00:50:21I made a couple of changes in that one, too.
00:50:23Grafton Ambulance Personnel, Crisis Intervention, 2946 Richfield Avenue.
00:50:31Please respond.
00:50:35G65, G65 responding.
00:50:37Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:50:38What are you, what are you, whoa, Jane, Jane.
00:50:40What are you, what are you doing?
00:50:42I'll be right back.
00:50:43We'll finish.
00:50:44We have a deadline.
00:50:45We got a, we got a trip coming up.
00:50:46You resent this, don't you?
00:50:48Oh, okay.
00:50:49No, you do.
00:50:50The intrusion of other people's emergencies.
00:50:52Well, yeah, when we sort of have one of our own.
00:50:55Right.
00:50:55This isn't just about you anymore, Michael.
00:50:57Thank God.
00:50:59No, it's about our work, which is us, which you aren't doing anymore.
00:51:04Because being an EMT is, I mean, how can saving lives even begin to compare with writing about
00:51:09chili?
00:51:10Go ahead.
00:51:11Go ahead, Jane.
00:51:13Go be a hero.
00:51:14This is so idiotic.
00:51:17What are you even talking about?
00:51:20I can't even tell what you're talking about.
00:51:24I know you can't.
00:51:25In the beginning, when the radio tone would go off, I'd get terrified before I'd pull it
00:51:45together and say, I'm okay.
00:51:47It's okay.
00:51:48Because you never know what horrors you'll find behind those strange doors.
00:51:53This time, it was my own guest room.
00:52:02Michael?
00:52:07I think I'm coming down with something.
00:52:08Well, I'll keep the radio on low.
00:52:14No, I just need a good night's sleep.
00:52:21I'll be okay.
00:52:22Okay.
00:52:38I'll be okay.
00:52:56I'll be okay.
00:52:59And I'll be okay.
00:53:06Oh, and any other George?
00:53:06Are you feeling any better?
00:53:15Yeah.
00:53:17I'm going to go to my meeting.
00:53:19See you around noon.
00:53:36Okay.
00:54:04Has Michael been here?
00:54:05Has Michael been here?
00:54:07He came and he went.
00:54:08You missed him.
00:54:12You two haven't been around here much lately.
00:54:15Not together.
00:54:17Whoa!
00:54:19I haven't been able to keep much of a schedule these days.
00:54:28Yeah, horses need that.
00:54:31Yeah, people too.
00:54:33Well, everybody's different.
00:54:35They need different things.
00:54:38Sometimes they just don't know it.
00:54:43Seems like you lucked out.
00:54:47Yeah.
00:54:49I always dreamed of having a big family.
00:54:52Now I feel like I do.
00:54:55Whole firehouse full of them.
00:54:57Hey, there's Vincent Rosemary.
00:55:07Jules, this was pretty terrific.
00:55:08I'm glad I saw you.
00:55:09Gran and Audrey say they'll take care of the photocopying for the training session on Monday if we buy the pizza.
00:55:14Sounds good to me.
00:55:16Jane.
00:55:20The fish stew was perfection.
00:55:22I loved it.
00:55:23She really did like it.
00:55:24Oh, the mussels and the clams and the shrimp and the scallops.
00:55:27I mean, there was like every kind of fish in there.
00:55:29It was absolutely amazing.
00:55:30And the stock.
00:55:31It's an old family recipe.
00:55:33It's secret.
00:55:34At the end, a stir of brandy.
00:55:37Brandy?
00:55:38I am in the restaurant business all my life.
00:55:40And I believe our fish stew beats any fish stew anywhere.
00:55:44Great with French bread there, Jules.
00:55:46Michael's a big dunker.
00:55:47Thanks.
00:55:48Merci.
00:55:55Great place, huh?
00:55:56I'd like to stop at that firehouse we passed coming into town.
00:55:59Why?
00:56:00Do you know them?
00:56:01No.
00:56:02I just want to get a picture up front.
00:56:05Wherever we travel to across the country, you always have to check out all the AA meetings.
00:56:09That's different.
00:56:10Yeah?
00:56:11How?
00:56:12Look, we have some revisions we have to make this afternoon.
00:56:15Jane, we're seeing Sarah in New York on Thursday.
00:56:17We need to reschedule that.
00:56:18She thinks she's getting the book.
00:56:20You've been working on it, haven't you?
00:56:22It's gonna be ready, isn't it?
00:56:23I hope.
00:56:24Wait, wait, wait.
00:56:25Jane, look.
00:56:26Why don't you just give me what you've done and I'll finish the rest.
00:56:28No.
00:56:29I'm doing all the work anyway while you're out on the fire truck.
00:56:32That's not exactly fair.
00:56:33You bet it isn't.
00:56:35I can do this, Jane.
00:56:37Let me just do this and let's just stop all this pretending.
00:56:40You pompous...
00:56:41I don't need you anymore.
00:56:45Not like this.
00:56:46It's like pulling teeth to get you to pay attention.
00:56:48Oh, get over yourself.
00:56:49You are so full of yourself.
00:56:51Where do you think you're going?
00:56:53I'm not getting in the car with you.
00:56:54Come on, come on, Jane.
00:56:55Poor Michael.
00:56:56All these years I've been on your back.
00:56:59Nothing but this huge neurotic weight around your neck.
00:57:01No, no.
00:57:02Not all these years.
00:57:03Just since I've been sober.
00:57:04And now that I'm not, you can't handle it.
00:57:09Now you know what it feels like.
00:57:10This is about getting back at me?
00:57:12You can't handle that I don't need you like that anymore.
00:57:15No.
00:57:16What I can't handle is the fact that I've lost my partner.
00:57:19And not just my writing partner.
00:57:23You're right.
00:57:24I can't handle that.
00:57:25Crafton Ambulance Personnel.
00:57:26Woman needs transport to hospital.
00:57:27Number 6 Gordon Road.
00:57:28Okay.
00:57:29The AIDS Hospice.
00:57:30I have to go.
00:57:47The AIDS Hospice.
00:57:49I have to go.
00:57:53It's the AIDS hospice.
00:57:55I have to go.
00:58:01Yeah, I guess you do.
00:58:09She had a seizure?
00:58:17You don't need that. Nobody here is going to hurt you.
00:58:19Well, it's for the protection of the patients as well as us.
00:58:22Whatever.
00:58:24AIDS, TB, thrush, hepatitis, brain surgery.
00:58:33She should be dead ten times over.
00:58:35Up here.
00:58:43Mavis.
00:58:44Mavis Cotter, 33.
00:58:47Ha.
00:58:50It's just, uh, they put hobbies on here.
00:58:57Sewing and gospel singing.
00:58:59Hmm.
00:59:06I really like Shirley Caesar.
00:59:11I like her, too.
00:59:13My husband.
00:59:16He likes the Clark sisters.
00:59:23His name is Michael.
00:59:25We're writers.
00:59:27Both of you?
00:59:29We're right together, yeah.
00:59:32What about?
00:59:34Food.
00:59:36We've always loved food.
00:59:38Discussing it is like this primal thing with us.
00:59:41He's the smartest man I've ever met.
00:59:45I'm very fortunate.
00:59:50One of my top ten wishes would be to sing like Mahalia Jackson.
00:59:54Soon.
00:59:55Soon.
00:59:56It will be done.
00:59:57Trouble of the world.
01:00:00Trouble of the world.
01:00:03Trouble of the world.
01:00:05Trouble of the world.
01:00:07It will be done trouble
01:00:15Trouble of the world
01:00:18Trouble of the world. I
01:00:23Know I suck
01:00:37Soon we will be done with the trouble of the world
01:00:49Trouble of the world
01:00:53Trouble of the world
01:00:58How soon we will be done with the trouble of the world
01:01:07I'm going home to live
01:01:12With God
01:01:37You wrap late
01:01:40I left the sections I finished on your desk
01:01:44I'll wrap up the Great Plains this afternoon
01:01:48They called from Nicky Rivers they wanted us in Chicago on the fifth for the taping
01:01:51What so what's the deal
01:02:04Are you staying in there
01:02:07uh for now
01:02:09I really think we should see someone
01:02:16Talk to somebody professional
01:02:20Michael
01:02:23This is important
01:02:24I think we should too
01:02:38Here sweet boy
01:02:39Want to know something?
01:02:40There you go
01:02:41I think we should go
01:02:50Grafton ambulance personnel
01:02:52Baby floating face down in swimming pool
01:02:54145 Columbia Heights
01:02:57G65
01:02:58G65 responding
01:03:00Baby floating in swimming pool
01:03:02Okay
01:03:04It's terrible
01:03:05It is
01:03:11My baby
01:03:14What the hell?
01:03:15A dog?
01:03:16What do you say?
01:03:17The 0-9-1-1 said his baby fell in the pool
01:03:21Oh this mutt weighs a ton
01:03:23When we got here he was floundering around he probably had a heart attack
01:03:26I don't know what we're supposed to do with it
01:03:28We're not going to put him in the ambulance
01:03:30Jane come on we called the animal warden
01:03:39You okay?
01:03:40Get him to sleep
01:03:55What's wrong with the doggy?
01:03:57He's asleep
01:03:57He's dead
01:03:58Oh my god
01:04:09Oh my god
01:04:10Jane what are you doing?
01:04:12He's alive
01:04:15He's alive
01:04:18He's alive
01:04:19My baby
01:04:21Winston
01:04:28Oh no
01:04:30It's Rhonda from animal control
01:04:32False alarm
01:04:45You sure you don't want to put something else on?
01:04:46No
01:04:47I'm fine
01:04:48It's drying
01:04:51Quite an episode
01:04:52Yeah
01:04:52There have been many
01:04:53Jane saves lives
01:04:57My own
01:04:58I saved my own life when I became an EMT
01:05:02Michael's angry because I don't need him to prop me up anymore
01:05:06Is that right Michael?
01:05:08Well I don't really have this need to have someone to take care of
01:05:11I never have
01:05:12That's where you're headed
01:05:13Where are you headed?
01:05:15He doesn't need me anymore
01:05:17He thinks I don't need him
01:05:19That's not exactly how I'd put it
01:05:22Don't you begin to hate the person that you cling to the most
01:05:24Isn't that true?
01:05:26Go to hell
01:05:27You go to hell
01:05:30I hate you so much
01:05:40You know something?
01:05:42You would never talk to Vince Melnick like that
01:05:46You'd treat him with respect
01:05:48And just because we're married
01:05:51Doesn't give us license to muck all over each other
01:05:54I first saw Michael when we were in college
01:06:08They said, are you a Scorpio?
01:06:09I knew he was a Scorpio, too.
01:06:15We were born one day apart.
01:06:18We went to Kenosha, Wisconsin once
01:06:20and had matching Scorpios tattooed on our legs
01:06:23by these Hells Angels guys.
01:06:27We've been incredibly close.
01:06:29Married 33 years.
01:06:31We're acting like we don't know each other.
01:06:32Incredibly close.
01:06:35Ever since we started writing together,
01:06:36we've always been a foot away from each other in the car.
01:06:39We have a double byline.
01:06:41That constant.
01:06:43Michael.
01:06:46We don't have any kids.
01:06:49And, uh, we just have each other.
01:06:52And the animals.
01:06:54And the work.
01:06:56And I love that.
01:07:00I love it, too.
01:07:03But I don't love it now.
01:07:04I don't love it now.
01:07:21I got an extra room here.
01:07:26I'm just saying.
01:07:27In a pinch.
01:07:28For either of you.
01:07:33Yeah.
01:07:35Thanks, Pete.
01:07:37This might take you up on it.
01:07:41I don't know, Pete.
01:07:45I try to be...
01:07:47You know, encouraging about all this EMT stuff.
01:07:50I just keep coming off looking like the bad guy.
01:07:55If I was you, I'd be under the scotch by now.
01:07:59Yeah, well, that's just it.
01:08:00I was good for all those years.
01:08:03It was good for her, too,
01:08:04because she knew exactly where I was.
01:08:06Passed out in the chair.
01:08:09But then I got sober.
01:08:12And I wasn't in the chair anymore.
01:08:13I'd wake up every morning.
01:08:18I wonder where I've been for the last 30 years.
01:08:38Jane?
01:08:39Huh?
01:08:40Honey.
01:08:42Got a new room?
01:08:43Yeah, I got it.
01:08:56You're gonna be fine.
01:08:58Take it easy.
01:09:01That's it.
01:09:02You're gonna be fine.
01:09:03All right, there you go.
01:09:04You're gonna be fine.
01:09:06And we're gonna get to the hospital.
01:09:07Sir, I'm just gonna buckle you in here, okay?
01:09:09Okay.
01:09:12Anyone call her?
01:09:12She said she's gonna be fine.
01:09:15Your microphone is on.
01:09:24Hello?
01:09:25Jane?
01:09:25It's Audrey.
01:09:28You seemed a little out of it.
01:09:31I'm sorry.
01:09:32I just had to come home and lie down.
01:09:34I was feeling a little weird.
01:09:36Weird.
01:09:36Jane, are you okay?
01:09:40No.
01:09:43Careful.
01:09:45Because I will burn you.
01:09:47I know a good EMT.
01:09:49I cry all the time.
01:10:00In the car, Michael drives, and I cry.
01:10:03I cry every time I see couples our age together.
01:10:09Every restaurant we go into, every motel room.
01:10:15I'm crying.
01:10:18Every couple goes through this.
01:10:20I mean, you stay together this long.
01:10:22Yeah, yeah, I know all that.
01:10:25I've seen those movies, too.
01:10:28It's just that Michael and I, I love him.
01:10:32And he says he loves me, too.
01:10:39We just don't like each other.
01:10:46God, I hope this is nerves and not Parkinson's.
01:10:48And we're back with Jane and Michael Stern.
01:11:09Okay, Jane, Michael, tell me.
01:11:10Do you ever have time to just stay home and cook?
01:11:13Yeah, people think we live out of doggy bags.
01:11:15But when we're not on the road,
01:11:17we're very passionate cooks,
01:11:18and we're passionate about kitchenware as well.
01:11:20Oh, are there pieces you just can't live without?
01:11:23Well, my favorite thing I have to have
01:11:25is a really good cheese grater.
01:11:27Okay, tell me, what kind do you like?
01:11:29Well, Jane and I actually have a battle royale
01:11:31going on about cheese graters.
01:11:32We each have our own.
01:11:33Yeah, Michael hides his cheese grater.
01:11:35That's because you don't clean yours properly.
01:11:36Really?
01:11:37Jane prefers the boxy type.
01:11:39I'm so humiliated!
01:11:41I have this great, fabulous flat one.
01:11:43It's old, I love it.
01:11:45I know exactly how to hold the cheese.
01:11:46Yeah, Michael is anal lieutenant.
01:11:48He hides his cheese grater.
01:11:49He thinks I don't know this,
01:11:51but the cheese grater and his coffee beans
01:11:52are hidden somewhere where he thinks
01:11:53I don't know where they are.
01:11:55Oh, I think I've struck a nerve here.
01:11:57You know, this naturally leads me
01:11:58to talking about the knives that we own.
01:11:59Yes, well, I don't like you thinking about knives, Michael,
01:12:02when you're annoyed with my kitchen habits.
01:12:04I think I'm going to have to see
01:12:05about getting a group rate on a marriage counselor.
01:12:07I think so, too.
01:12:10Oh!
01:12:11Nicky, Michael.
01:12:20Tristan, you're the best.
01:12:21That was great.
01:12:22Great job.
01:12:22You're terrific.
01:12:23I know.
01:12:23I had a ball.
01:12:23I know.
01:12:24Thank you very much.
01:12:25Thank you for coming on the show.
01:12:25Appreciate it.
01:12:28God, that was amazing.
01:12:31I know.
01:12:32Yeah.
01:12:33Even now.
01:12:35Michael?
01:12:36Hi.
01:12:36I've got the information
01:12:38on that barbecue plate.
01:12:45What time is the flight?
01:12:483.16.
01:12:49Why can't they just call it 3.15 or 3.20?
01:12:54Is there a stop?
01:12:56Non-stop.
01:12:57What time do we get home?
01:12:595.30.
01:13:02What did you mean when you said even now?
01:13:04It was amazing even now.
01:13:09With everything falling apart.
01:13:14I'm so afraid.
01:13:16Jane?
01:13:17We're only going to be in the air for an hour.
01:13:23I'm afraid nothing can be the same again.
01:13:26That we aren't going to be Jane and Michael Stern again.
01:13:30Anymore.
01:13:31No.
01:13:34With everything that gets splattered or sneezed on me,
01:13:58I can get AIDS or SARS or the flu or...
01:14:03This is 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
01:14:06There are times when I ask myself,
01:14:08why?
01:14:08Why am I doing this?
01:14:10I mean, I became an EMT
01:14:11because I thought it would be a way to get out of my head
01:14:14and force me to think about other people's problems,
01:14:16but it's not working anymore.
01:14:18And I'm...
01:14:19I'm letting Michael down.
01:14:21I mean, the better I get at this,
01:14:23I don't know what to do except quit.
01:14:25You exhaust the hell out of me.
01:14:27I exhaust me, too, sometimes.
01:14:34Just ease up.
01:14:35You don't have to go out on every call.
01:14:38You know, when I first met you,
01:14:40I thought, oh, here we go.
01:14:42Another damn do-gooder.
01:14:44I was so scared of you.
01:14:47You mean you're not anymore?
01:14:48I thought that you'd be the last person on earth
01:14:52to stick it out.
01:14:54Me, too.
01:14:55But you did.
01:14:57I know one thing.
01:14:59If I was ever trapped in a burning building,
01:15:01I could count on you to run in there and get me.
01:15:06Did I wake you?
01:15:19No, no.
01:15:20No, I was awake.
01:15:25What you're saying is you don't want to be married to me anymore.
01:15:29I love you, Jane.
01:15:30I'll always love you.
01:15:34But you don't want to be married to me anymore.
01:15:43Okay.
01:15:45Jane.
01:15:45Enough.
01:15:49What do we do?
01:15:49I mean, I know what we do,
01:15:53but what do we do about our work?
01:16:00Michael,
01:16:01if we're that miserable...
01:16:03I don't know what I am anymore.
01:16:05We're incredibly miserable with each other.
01:16:09And we both know that this is it.
01:16:11For us.
01:16:13We both know.
01:16:13We both know.
01:16:20Pete has a spare room.
01:16:23I know.
01:16:28There's an apartment for Rhett behind Milnick's garage.
01:16:32I know that, too.
01:16:36We worked so hard for this place.
01:16:39I hate the thought of leaving.
01:16:40Well, you know,
01:16:45we have, uh,
01:16:48certain obligations to work,
01:16:50and I, you know,
01:16:50I don't see that, uh...
01:16:55I'm sorry.
01:16:57Now,
01:17:11maybe, uh,
01:17:14maybe we can get little houses
01:17:15next to each other, huh?
01:17:19I wonder what it would take
01:17:20to wall this place in half.
01:17:22Well,
01:17:30we, uh,
01:17:33we have to figure everything out tonight.
01:17:35I know what's gonna happen.
01:17:54You're gonna end up
01:17:55out back of Milnick's garage.
01:17:56Thank you, sir.
01:18:23Motion was passed
01:18:25that the 75th anniversary of the Grafton Volunteer Fire Company
01:18:29would be held on June 23rd.
01:18:32That's, uh, Craig's birthday, for any of you who don't know already.
01:18:36Parade at 3 o'clock following the chili cook-off with celebrity judges.
01:18:40Listen, I hope we don't have any unfortunate incidents like last year.
01:18:44I mean, who would have known that a gas barbecue could cause that much damage?
01:18:49Young lady, I want to talk to you.
01:18:55Two things.
01:18:56What did I do?
01:18:59Uh, we were wondering about asking Michael to be a celebrity judge at the chili cook-off.
01:19:04What do you think?
01:19:05Audrey says that the two of you wrote a book about chili.
01:19:09Yeah, we did.
01:19:10It's called Chili Nation.
01:19:11Oh.
01:19:13Um, I could ask him.
01:19:16Good, good.
01:19:18Uh, now the second thing.
01:19:21Uh, you're not still considering quitting, are you?
01:19:24Every day.
01:19:26We were wondering if you'd take over as firehouse secretary.
01:19:29Ken Rapp's term is up.
01:19:32Me?
01:19:33You write every damn thing down anyway.
01:19:35Never miss a meeting.
01:19:37Might as well put you to work.
01:19:40Now don't start up on me.
01:19:43Yes.
01:19:44Absolutely.
01:19:45I would be deeply honored.
01:19:48All right, then.
01:19:50I'll talk to the chief.
01:20:01Michael?
01:20:06I'm on my way now.
01:20:07Dr. Iqbali, please call the pharmacy.
01:20:13Dr. Iqbali, please call the pharmacy.
01:20:20Michael, what happened?
01:20:24He was, uh, he was in the barn, and he was cleaning out the stools.
01:20:29And, uh, his brain hemorrhaged.
01:20:34He had a massive stroke.
01:20:46Oh, shit.
01:20:47Oh, shit.
01:20:47Oh, shit.
01:20:49Oh, shit.
01:20:51Oh, shit.
01:20:53Oh, shit.
01:20:55Oh, shit.
01:20:56Oh, shit.
01:20:57Oh, shit.
01:20:58Oh, shit.
01:21:28Hey, people have been showing up all morning just to help out.
01:21:51I keep expecting to see him sitting there like he always is when we come in from a ride.
01:21:57He's always there.
01:22:12Told me everything I know about riding.
01:22:19About everything.
01:22:22I know he did.
01:22:29I don't know what to do.
01:22:37I don't know what to do for him.
01:22:44I don't know what to do for him.
01:22:51You know, the other day we were talking about what we were going to do and our logistics.
01:23:06I couldn't stand the thought of losing you.
01:23:13I went upstairs and I had this picture of you in my head as a little girl.
01:23:20No, I didn't mean like that.
01:23:36That sounds stupid.
01:23:37No, it doesn't.
01:23:40No, what I meant was I saw myself as the same as not a bad person.
01:23:50And I know that you're not a bad person.
01:23:56And I know that you want to be a good person with me, too.
01:23:59And I want that, too.
01:24:03I felt the same way, too.
01:24:07I don't want to lose you.
01:24:12You know, I guess what I had were these feelings for our relationship.
01:24:22When you looked at me, I knew I could never leave you.
01:24:30As horrible as it's been?
01:24:32Yeah.
01:24:33As horrible as it's been.
01:24:36It's not worth throwing away.
01:24:40There's something really worth saving here.
01:24:43We've been eating at Mom's.
01:24:52Actually, it's called Mother's.
01:24:53It's one of our favorite restaurants in New Orleans.
01:24:55Well, it sure ain't my mother's home cooking.
01:24:57I wish my mother had cooked like this.
01:24:59My mother, unfortunately, was not a soul food cook.
01:25:01And this is great New Orleans soul food at its best.
01:25:04Which means red beans and rice,
01:25:07a length of really wonderfully taut sausage.
01:25:11Since I was a little girl, I've been afraid of losing people.
01:25:15The fact is, one way or the other, eventually you just do.
01:25:19As a working person's cafe.
01:25:21The thought of losing Michael frightened me so much that I almost did lose him.
01:25:25But in the end, figuring out how to be together and still allow each other our own separate lives made us even closer.
01:25:34At the last meeting for the Grafton Volunteer Fire Company, the meeting came to order.
01:25:44I also learned something else.
01:25:46Becoming part of a firehouse and working side by side with the men and women of the Grafton Volunteer Fire Department was the hardest thing I've ever done.
01:25:56And the most rewarding.
01:26:00And it helped me figure out something really interesting about fear.
01:26:06Fear is like a hologram.
01:26:08It seems real.
01:26:10Filled with substance.
01:26:12Perfect belief.
01:26:13So whatever can I do.
01:26:14So guys, how do you know what makes me?
01:26:15Being that shocked and
01:26:16how do you know which two parts its own.
01:26:20On the other side.
01:26:25Put your hands,
Recommended
2:06
|
Up next
1:13
2:03
2:07
1:42
1:35
1:03
1:46
1:30:08
1:44
1:42
1:37:00
1:34:14
1:47:27
11:54
1:09:17
1:06:03
1:24:26
Be the first to comment