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00:00:01Music

00:00:19You know, Michael and I are on an eternal quest for many perfect things.

00:00:23One of them is perfect corned beef hash in a diner.

00:00:26We have found something about as close to perfect as I've eaten in the last ten years.

00:00:31Not far from our house in Grafton, Connecticut, at the Laurel Diner.

00:00:34I think there's something to be said about Zen and the art of the perfect corned beef hash.

00:00:38Oh, 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.

00:00:46The Laurel Diner serves the classic workman-style corned beef hash made from scratch.

00:00:51And it's fantastic. In fact...

00:00:54That's us, Jane and Michael Stern.

00:00:57You may know us from the magazine column we write, or from the books we've written together, 35 and counting,

00:01:04or from our radio show, or from TV.

00:01:08Everywhere we went, people would always say,

00:01:10God, I wish I had your life.

00:01:13You've got a great job.

00:01:15A great-looking husband.

00:01:17I'm fine.

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.

00:01:24I did.

00:01:24And I did.

00:01:26Would you like to sign the book?

00:01:28Kind of.

00:01:29But not exactly.

00:01:30And 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.

00:01:43Jane!

00:01:45Jane!

00:01:46Jane!

00:01:50The fact was that I was having a sort of midlife event.

00:01:56I was a producer in Minneapolis on the phone.

00:01:58We 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.

00:02:06The station's arranged a bus trip, of course, with listeners to a little restaurant.

00:02:11It's about three hours into the country.

00:02:14So, uh, what have you been doing?

00:02:17Watching TV.

00:02:19Okay!

00:02:20Don't go away.

00:02:21We'll be taking your calls as our canine fashion show continues.

00:02:27Go 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.

00:02:39I 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.

00:02:48Kirby, come.

00:02:50Be careful.

00:02:52KT starts acting spooked.

00:02:54Jane.

00:02:54I'll be looking.

00:03:00Whoa!

00:03:01Whoa!

00:03:03Easy!

00:03:03Whoa!

00:03:04Whoa!

00:03:05Whoa!

00:03:06Michael!

00:03:07Wear a helmet!

00:03:12What's that Jane girl up to today?

00:03:14Sitting in front of the TV in her bathrobe.

00:03:18Is she sick?

00:03:19Not exactly.

00:03:20More like impossible to be around right now.

00:03:23You know, there's a...

00:03:25There's a scene in AA, Pete.

00:03:29Spouses 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.

00:03:42I've always had fears about just about everything.

00:03:45You name it.

00:03:46Now fear was taking hold of my life.

00:03:49But I just couldn't do anything about it.

00:03:59Jane?

00:04:00Oh.

00:04:01Hi.

00:04:02I haven't seen you in a while.

00:04:03What have you been up to?

00:04:05Oh.

00:04:05Work.

00:04:06Working.

00:04:07Some new projects.

00:04:08Have you seen the display?

00:04:10Well, make sure you do.

00:04:12Okay.

00:04:14Excuse me.

00:04:15Where would I find the journals of Sylvan Pratt?

00:04:18That would be in our library.

00:04:20Working?

00:04:21Well, make sure you do.

00:04:21You're working on trying to get out of bed in the mornings.

00:04:24Why don't you tell her that?

00:04:32Can I get a picture, please?

00:04:33Come on, Jane.

00:04:35Welcome to Minneapolis.

00:04:36Hi.

00:04:37We're really glad to be here.

00:04:40Michael, I can't do this.

00:04:42Hi, Michael.

00:04:42The idea of being trapped with a group of strangers

00:04:44for three hours on a bus going who knows where

00:04:48driven by somebody I don't even know.

00:04:49I mean, does he look like the kind of bus driver

00:04:51that would stop the bus if I asked him to?

00:04:53Jane, these people paid $100 a piece to meet us.

00:04:56You think they'd let me drive the bus?

00:05:02You?

00:05:03No.

00:05:05Jane, 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.

00:05:18Let's go.

00:05:20This is the final boarding call.

00:05:22Flight 387 today.

00:05:24They loved the food.

00:05:27Excuse me.

00:05:31They loved the tote bags.

00:05:35I don't know why we couldn't have eaten someplace in Minneapolis.

00:05:38They live in Minneapolis.

00:05:41Well, there are plenty of great restaurants in town

00:05:43we wouldn't have to take a bus to.

00:05:45Well, the point for them was to go on an adventure.

00:05:47Somewhere new.

00:05:49I think that's stupid.

00:05:55Some 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.

00:06:16Being a writer is not like having a job job.

00:06:19It's a weird, unstructured life.

00:06:23Stretches of time went by now when I saw no one but Michael.

00:06:26It was hard to find the energy to get dressed.

00:06:29Why get dressed?

00:06:31There was no pressing need to.

00:06:34No pun intended.

00:06:42Oh.

00:06:44Oh, oh.

00:06:46Jane?

00:06:48Jane, what's the matter?

00:06:53No.

00:06:55I'm okay.

00:07:08I'm okay.

00:07:09Okay.

00:07:11Help.

00:07:12Help.

00:07:13Help.

00:07:14Help.

00:07:29I don't know what's with me.

00:07:32I got all panicky and couldn't do it.

00:07:33I couldn't ride.

00:07:35So you just got off and you walked.

00:07:37It's no big deal.

00:07:38Pete, you know me.

00:07:39I loved the ride.

00:07:40I've ridden since I was a little girl.

00:07:48Michael's changed.

00:07:50Every day he gets up, works two hours, goes to his meeting at seven.

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?

00:08:11No, 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.

00:08:39I'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 gonna try that new state 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.

00:09:00Instead of state by state.

00:09:02This meatloaf rocks.

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'd pretty much do a draft and then Jane takes it and she does a draft and then

00:09:16we, uh, we look at it together.

00:09:21Because we'd like to have this for our spring list.

00:09:24Shouldn't be a problem.

00:09:27Shouldn't be.

00:09:30Michael, where are you going?

00:09:32I'm just gonna get something to drink. Jane, 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 because you don't have anybody to micromanage anymore.

00:09:44Okay, let's just, uh, can you get me a Danish or something?

00:09:48You know, you've micromanaged me all these years. You won't know the truth.

00:09:50Would you stop it with that word? I hate those words. It'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, the tower has just directed us to a different runway.

00:10:10Please remain seated with your seat belts fastened. We should be airborne shortly.

00:10:14Are you okay?

00:10:15Yeah.

00:10:17As long as it's moving in the direction it's supposed to be going.

00:10:21Thank you, sir.

00:10:25Well, ladies and gentlemen, it looks like we're gonna be sitting here for a while.

00:10:31The tower seems to be having some, uh, traffic control problems.

00:10:35I'll let you know when we're cleared for takeoff.

00:10:44This thing is like an MRI machine with wings.

00:10:56Why isn't there an update from the pilot? It's been like two hours.

00:11:06Oh, crap.

00:11:09Do you have any snacks?

00:11:10Sorry, there's nothing to eat on this plane.

00:11:14I need something.

00:11:16I don't know what we're gonna do. Last time you passed out.

00:11:27It's an emergency.

00:11:34Would you like this?

00:11:35It might help.

00:11:37Thanks.

00:11:52You should've seen your face.

00:11:54You should've seen your face.

00:11:56Oh, man.

00:12:03It looks like you saved the day.

00:12:06I guess I did.

00:12:19I couldn't stop thinking about the boy on the plane.

00:12:22It made me look at everything I knew about myself that 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.

00:12:34You, lady, I don't think this is for you.

00:12:37Oh, well, I sure would like to give it a try.

00:12:39You'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.

00:13:03I 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?

00:13:13I understand.

00:13:15Thanks, though, for your time.

00:13:19Yeah.

00:13:21Sure.

00:13:25Hey.

00:13:48Oh.

00:13:51Just trying to get a feel for it in there.

00:13:54What it feels like for the horses.

00:13:56You know, all cooped up.

00:13:59Is this a writer's thing?

00:14:01R-right.

00:14:03Research.

00:14:16Piece of cake.

00:14:25Can I look inside the ambulance?

00:14:35Do these doors open from the inside?

00:14:39Yeah.

00:14:41Oh.

00:14:43What is it exactly that you're, uh, looking for?

00:14:47Oh, nothing.

00:14:48Really, I've just never been inside an ambulance before.

00:15:13Good.

00:15:14I mean, you're not, uh, trapped in here.

00:15:18With the sick, vomiting person.

00:15:22Good.

00:15:26I mean, you're not, uh, trapped in here.

00:15:28You know what?

00:15:30I really want to sign up for that class.

00:15:34Really?

00:15:41Hey.

00:15:42Where were you?

00:15:44The Grafton Firehouse.

00:15:46Guess what?

00:15:48What?

00:15:49I'm gonna be an EMT.

00:15:51I'm not kidding, Michael.

00:15:53Who said you were?

00:15:54Laura, what do you do as an EMT?

00:15:57Well, you pull dying people from car wrecks.

00:16:00Stuff like that.

00:16:02Jane, you're 52 years old.

00:16:04You're not gonna be a fireman.

00:16:06EMT.

00:16:07EMT.

00:16:07You know, the other day, helping that kid on the plane,

00:16:11that was one time in my life when I didn't feel like

00:16:13the whole world was collapsing around me.

00:16:15Yeah, but come on, Jane.

00:16:17I mean, you're not gonna be an EMT.

00:16:20Every twinge you get, it's like, uh, a brain tumor, MS.

00:16:24Stroke.

00:16:24Well, look at my family.

00:16:26I mean, every one of them.

00:16:27They 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.

00:16:53Just doesn't cut it.

00:16:55Not anymore.

00:17:07Don't loiter in the lobby.

00:17:11Don't park in the spaces in the parking lot

00:17:13reserved for police cars.

00:17:17Yeah.

00:17:30Okay, people.

00:17:32Listen up.

00:17:35Let's get started.

00:17:39Though you will be volunteers, your training will be the same as the paid professional.

00:17:45I'd like to assist her, huh?

00:17:47You will know how to insert airways to allow the patient to breathe.

00:17:51You will assist paramedics who must insert needles into chest cavities if the patient's lungs collapse.

00:17:58Hi, I'm Jay.

00:17:58Dad.

00:18:03When a paramedic has to administer morphine, you will spike the bag and set it up

00:18:08so that instead of a bone-jarring ride to the hospital, the patient will feel like they're a baby

00:18:15in its mother's arms.

00:18:21As 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.

00:18:33Anxiety, guilt, indecisiveness, insomnia.

00:18:37I already have all of those.

00:18:39How will I know when the job's getting to me?

00:18:52BSI.

00:18:53Body, substance, isolation.

00:18:56BSI, I'm number one.

00:18:59BSI, 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.

00:19:16You 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!

00:19:56Later!

00:19:58BSI, I'm number one!

00:20:07BSI, I'm number one!

00:20:16Jane?

00:20:19Are you alright?

00:20:21Michael!

00:20:21This is it.

00:20:23This is the other side of what happens if you ever have to call 911.

00:20:27Oh, but I never have to.

00:20:29Yeah, but if you do...

00:20:32Ed, 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.

00:20:39And next time, he's going to teach us how to cut people's clothing 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.

00:21:12Scapula. Maxilla. I love these words.

00:21:15Cyanotic means blue from lack of oxygen.

00:21:18Oh, 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...

00:21:29The skin's been peeled off like a glove.

00:21:35I can't do this.

00:21:38Eh, they're probably just showing you the worst-case scenario.

00:21:44Huh.

00:21:53Save it from choking.

00:22:04You killed him.

00:22:24Maybe mine's defective.

00:22:27Mm-hmm.

00:22:28The fleshman.

00:22:39Oh.

00:22:41Okay.

00:22:43Just...

00:22:44Oh, man.

00:22:462000.

00:22:46Oh.

00:22:48Oh.

00:22:49Oh.

00:22:51Oh.

00:22:52Oh, my God.

00:22:53Oh, my God.

00:22:54Lift, lift, lift, lift.

00:22:58Stern.

00:23:01You've killed him.

00:23:02He had a heart attack, and now...

00:23:04he has a fatal head trauma.

00:23:11Stern.

00:23:13Rescue Randy is not a beanbag chair.

00:23:25Michael, slow down.

00:23:28This is a metal cage waiting to kill us

00:23:30in a dozen ways I never even knew about.

00:23:33Oh, great.

00:23:34You can get trapped inside under water.

00:23:37Seat belt can crush my intestines.

00:23:39Well, here we go.

00:23:41A little bit of knowledge

00:23:42some of us are getting nuts about.

00:23:44You can hit your head on the dashboard,

00:23:46send your brain bouncing around inside your skull.

00:23:49You know, it's not just cars, Jamie.

00:23:52Dogs have big teeth

00:23:54because of your function wounds.

00:23:57Bees can sting you.

00:23:59You can go into anaphylactic shock.

00:24:00Stop!

00:24:08I take this horse,

00:24:10and I walk him around back,

00:24:12and I stand there for a minute,

00:24:15and then I bring him out again.

00:24:17Same horse?

00:24:18Oh, sure. Same damn horse.

00:24:22And he looks it up and down.

00:24:25How much?

00:24:26I tell him $20,000,

00:24:28and Joey starts peeling off the bills.

00:24:33Oh, I gotta go.

00:24:35I'm gonna be late.

00:24:36You go get him, ambulance girl.

00:24:40See you guys.

00:24:47Hey, Pete.

00:24:48Listen, um,

00:24:49I told Jane that the next time we go out to Wyoming

00:24:51or the Dakotas on the research trip,

00:24:53I want you to come with us, too.

00:24:54Oh.

00:24:55I'd love to see that country.

00:24:57Yeah.

00:24:57Yeah, just the two of us.

00:24:59We'd, uh...

00:25:00We'd go out there for a couple days,

00:25:02and ride out and get lost.

00:25:05You remind me to tell Jane about the mayor in heat

00:25:09and my stallion going right at it,

00:25:11with me hanging on for dear life.

00:25:14Yeah, that's...

00:25:14That's her kind of story.

00:25:19That Jane's a great girl.

00:25:27Listen up, people.

00:25:29We need to walk through this together.

00:25:31One out of 20 of you has a main artery

00:25:33that is congenitally faulty

00:25:35and will, at some time, hemorrhage.

00:25:38If you're lucky and it is found in time,

00:25:40you will not die.

00:25:43Stern, take your hand off your carotid artery.

00:25:45You're stopping blood supply to the brain.

00:25:50Okay.

00:25:57Ow, ow, ow, ow, stop it!

00:25:59You're leaving me!

00:26:01Ow!

00:26:02Machinery's not my strong suit.

00:26:04Clearly.

00:26:19You're, uh...

00:26:20Your blood pressure's very high.

00:26:30It's true.

00:26:33P is for provocation.

00:26:35What makes the condition better or worse?

00:26:37I can't for the life of me remember

00:26:39how many liters of oxygen

00:26:40are 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,

00:26:47some of the lectures are like,

00:26:50do not try to replace someone's organs

00:26:52if they are hanging from their body.

00:26:54They say this with a straight face.

00:26:57Who would do these things?

00:27:00What's that?

00:27:01Uh, it's called pass EMT.

00:27:03If there is an impaled object in the neck,

00:27:05do not remove it.

00:27:06I'm gonna watch it twice a day

00:27:07until it soaks in

00:27:08and I pass my boards.

00:27:09Well, just be careful.

00:27:10You're not exactly Lance Armstrong.

00:27:12I have to start working out every day.

00:27:14I'm gonna do this, Michael.

00:27:15I 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.

00:27:19Looking at the eyes.

00:27:20Do they respond to life?

00:27:22Are they equal?

00:27:23Do they move symmetrically?

00:27:25Without moving his head,

00:27:27we'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...

00:27:34On almost every call,

00:27:36you will be responsible for lifting and moving patients

00:27:39without aggravating their current condition of...

00:27:41I may be more than twice his age,

00:27:43but I don't care.

00:27:43to be knowledgeable about proper methods of lifting and moving

00:27:46to prevent injury to yourself.

00:27:49So, flex at the knees using your legs like this

00:27:51to save your back.

00:27:58Straight up.

00:28:00And right back up.

00:28:05Well, who wants to help me out up here?

00:28:11Spencer and I will now hoist the patient in the air.

00:28:13And place her in the stair chair.

00:28:17How much do you weigh, Stern?

00:28:20I'd never volunteer that.

00:28:29You're unconscious, Stern.

00:28:43Hi.

00:28:45I'm Jane.

00:28:47I'm an EMT.

00:28:50Hi, Jane.

00:29:13Do not touch anything.

00:29:16Do not talk to the firemen.

00:29:18Do not ask them questions.

00:29:20I feel like a second grader going to a museum.

00:29:23Stern!

00:29:24Yes, sir?

00:29:30Stair chair.

00:29:31It's a folding chair used for carrying someone

00:29:33in a sitting position down the stairs.

00:29:35You be the patient.

00:29:42Come on.

00:29:44Yeah.

00:29:46Don't worry.

00:29:47I'm really strong.

00:29:49All right.

00:29:50On my count of three.

00:29:51One, two, three.

00:30:01I have to stop.

00:30:05Stern, maybe you should take the foot part.

00:30:07All right.

00:30:08It's a little lighter.

00:30:08I don't do backward.

00:30:09Even at home.

00:30:10Stern!

00:30:16Tell anyone to step off.

00:30:18Lift.

00:30:21Step.

00:30:22Step.

00:30:23Just don't let him hang in the air.

00:30:26Keep both hands in a chair.

00:30:28You will drop him.

00:30:29Oh, that hurt.

00:30:36Fail.

00:30:37Stern?

00:30:39See me after class.

00:30:58Can't call 911.

00:31:00You're all here.

00:31:04I 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.

00:31:11Besides, that's what the cops and firemen are there for to help you lift people.

00:31:15Ooh.

00:31:16Big hunky men at my command.

00:31:18Now I feel better.

00:31:22You sure you don't mind if I use you as a guinea pig?

00:31:24I love playing doctor with you.

00:31:31Normal.

00:31:45That's a gorgeous saddle.

00:31:47There's nothing you can't do.

00:31:49Michael and I wish you had been our father.

00:31:52That would have made you some kind of perverts.

00:31:55Okay, then.

00:31:56You can be Michael's father.

00:31:58My father.

00:31:59My father.

00:31:59My father had a steel plate in his skull.

00:32:01Did I ever tell you that?

00:32:02Mm-hmm.

00:32:03He'd just go off, you know, in these uncontrollable rages.

00:32:07It was something about him playing on the trolley tracks when he was a kid.

00:32:10His forehead caved in and then came out again kind of weird, I guess, where the plate was.

00:32:14I used to have these nightmares about Frankenstein's monster chasing.

00:32:21When I was eight, my mother packed me up and ran away with me while he was out walking her

00:32:24dog.

00:32:25She studied to be a concert pianist.

00:32:27And when we finally found a place, the only thing she brought was her grand piano.

00:32:31So we ate our meals on top and then we slept underneath.

00:32:34Well, that's a vision.

00:32:36Yeah.

00:32:37He never forgave her for leaving.

00:32:43He threatened to kill us both.

00:32:46I was, I was afraid to leave the house.

00:32:51When was this?

00:32:53How long ago?

00:32:56Well, it was when I...

00:32:59It was a long time ago.

00:33:02Yeah.

00:33:03A long time ago.

00:33:09Let me see if I can find my old binoculars so I can see back that far.

00:33:22I 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.

00:33:33Oh, damn it.

00:33:35Apply pressure.

00:33:37I'll call 911.

00:33:39No, you won't. It's not that bad.

00:33:42What are you so happy about?

00:33:43I'm not.

00:33:44Well, you don't exactly inspire confidence.

00:33:48Apply more pressure.

00:33:50Do you want me to do that?

00:33:51No. Here.

00:33:53Jane, Jane, please.

00:33:55Stop.

00:33:56Elevate.

00:33:56Look, easy. I'm not exactly Rescue Randy.

00:33:59I know. Rescue Randy lets me help him.

00:34:01Please.

00:34:04Oh.

00:34:05Oh.

00:34:05I think you should go to the ER.

00:34:07Let me drive you.

00:34:08No.

00:34:09I'm gonna go at the CKT.

00:34:10What?

00:34:12Keep 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.

00:34:48Hey.

00:34:50You should get some snitches in that boy.

00:34:52You need to get to a doctor.

00:35:06What?

00:35:08Dr. Leeds, please report to physical therapy.

00:35:10Oh.

00:35:13Oh.

00:35:15Oh.

00:35:17Jane, why don't you just go wait outside?

00:35:20Oh.

00:35:21Just go wait outside.

00:35:23Okay. You gonna be okay?

00:35:24I'll be fine.

00:35:25Okay.

00:35:31Dr. Phillips, please call 5-5-6.

00:35:34Dr. Phillips, please call 5-5-6.

00:35:37Oh.

00:35:41Sometimes life is a waiting game.

00:35:44Now all I had to do was pass my boards.

00:35:47I'd have to wait 6 long, agonizing weeks

00:35:50until the National Registry of EMTs gave me a thumbs-up or down.

00:35:55Those weeks crawled by, and then one day, I heard.

00:36:00Oh, my gosh.

00:36:03Oh, God.

00:36:09Congratulations! I got it!

00:36:12Michael!

00:36:13Hey.

00:36:15I passed!

00:36:17Michael!

00:36:18Way to go, Dave!

00:36:20I passed the national board!

00:36:22I more than passed. I did exceptionally well.

00:36:25Look, my EMT certification and my wallet cards.

00:36:29Look, patches I can sew on.

00:36:33I'm proud of you, honey.

00:36:39Wow.

00:36:42I'm an EMT.

00:37:01I've got to call it.

00:37:24I've got to call it.

00:37:27Hi. Jane?

00:37:30I'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 gonna need that when you feel like the ambulance runs you.

00:37:42This is so terrific.

00:37:43Do you know Vince Milnick from the gas station, Archie?

00:37:48And his brothers, Frank, and Joey, Walter, and this is Grant.

00:37:55He is gonna give you your radios and your pagers.

00:37:57Hey.

00:37:58Nice to meet you.

00:37:58Hey.

00:37:58You want to come up in?

00:38:00Okay.

00:38:02Let's don't take no chance.

00:38:06Let's not be a seven.

00:38:09Come and learn to dance.

00:38:11Wully bully!

00:38:14Wully bully.

00:38:18Wully bully.

00:38:19Wully bully.

00:38:21Wully bully.

00:38:25Wully bully.

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.

00:38:35To keep the blood and debris out of my eyes.

00:38:38They gave you all this stuff?

00:38:40Some of it.

00:38:41Some of it I ordered off the internet.

00:38:46IMG-65.

00:38:47That's my number.

00:38:49Huh.

00:38:51Is this too much?

00:38:53I don't care.

00:38:54I love it.

00:38:58Okay.

00:38:59I 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.

00:39:09Wully bully.

00:39:11Wully bully.

00:39:13Wully bully.

00:39:14Wully bully.

00:39:14Watch it.

00:39:14Now watch it.

00:39:15Watch it.

00:39:19Oh.

00:39:21Oh.

00:39:24Oh.

00:39:26Oh.

00:39:31Oh.

00:39:39Oh.

00:39:40Oh.

00:39:41Oh, oh.

00:39:42Oh.

00:39:45Oh.

00:39:47Oh, oh.

00:39:51Oh.

00:39:54Blueberry?

00:39:54Okay.

00:39:56Yeah.

00:39:56It's tiny for the radio, not some, yet, yet on the telephone.

00:40:26She tricked. I think she may have broken her hip.

00:40:29What is your mother's name?

00:40:31Muriel Bergman.

00:40:36Hi. I'm Jane with the Grafton Ambulance.

00:40:41Don't worry, Mrs. We're gonna fix you right up.

00:40:46Mrs., on a scale of one to ten, how bad is the pain?

00:40:50Ten.

00:40:52Um, I'm gonna take a quick peek, and I'll try to be as gentle as I can.

00:40:57No!

00:41:01I'm so sorry. Um, I'm gonna take your blood pressure.

00:41:07My mother's had a mastectomy.

00:41:10Which side? I can't take a reading on the side that's had the surgery.

00:41:13On both sides.

00:41:22Sorry. Let's get a pulse.

00:41:24Okay?

00:41:25Okay.

00:41:33What happened?

00:41:34She fell.

00:41:36Did you get a pulse and a BP?

00:41:39No.

00:41:50Jane, do you want a ride with us?

00:41:53Not now.

00:41:54I have, uh, company at my house.

00:42:06I want to thank you for all your help.

00:42:11Then I...

00:42:13You're lucky I didn't kill her.

00:42:19Kept 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.

00:42:50I'm going back to bed.

00:42:57I've got to get out of this before it's some real damage.

00:43:06Hi.

00:43:11Yeah, yeah.

00:43:12It's starting to come off.

00:43:13Your late young lady.

00:43:15Work detail.

00:43:16Every Saturday morning.

00:43:18Ted Sherman.

00:43:20I 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.

00:43:33What 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.

00:43:59Crafted Ambulance Personnel.

00:44:01Nineteen...

00:44:01Oh, my God!

00:44:04Go! Go!

00:44:07I like it.

00:44:13Jane, go to the rig and get the fracture pack.

00:44:17Okay.

00:44:20Fract pack!

00:44:22Fract pack!

00:44:24Fract pack!

00:44:25What's a fracture pack!

00:44:27Fracture pack!

00:44:28Here we go.

00:44:30Easy, you're gonna be okay.

00:44:31His leg.

00:44:32You want me to?

00:44:33Split the guy.

00:44:34Yeah, his right leg's twisted badly.

00:44:36It's broken.

00:44:43Set it next to his leg.

00:44:45Right.

00:44:46Right.

00:44:47Now get the shoe off first.

00:44:53Stuck.

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?

00:45:10Just keep going.

00:45:13Now get his pant leg high enough so you can get the splint on.

00:45:19One, two, three.

00:45:28Let's go.

00:45:29Alright, he's good.

00:45:36Go.

00:45:37Let's go!

00:45:40Let's go!

00:45:45Clear.

00:45:54Cut his jacket off.

00:45:55Okay.

00:45:56By the way, my name is Jane.

00:46:00Newtown, this is paramedic unit 787.

00:46:02Do you copy?

00:46:02Get away from me, you bitch.

00:46:04Don't crush my leathers.

00:46:05Get the jacket off.

00:46:07Okay.

00:46:07Male patient, 36 years of age, involved in a motorcycle collision.

00:46:11Obvious fracture, right tipped, tipped, fully immobilized.

00:46:14My leathers.

00:46:14My leathers!

00:46:15Don't do that!

00:46:16Don't cut his leathers!

00:46:18Blood pressure has not been obtained.

00:46:20Respirations, 16.

00:46:22Copy 787.

00:46:23The waiting year arrival.

00:46:24On color.

00:47:03Good job, Jane.

00:47:05Double Delta or burgers, ladies?

00:47:07Donuts.

00:47:08How 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.

00:47:19Eat pizza.

00:47:20Curse.

00:47:20Put 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.

00:47:38Build my gas tank.

00:47:39Took 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.

00:47:51It's so soothing here.

00:47:57I did it.

00:47:59I was able to sit in the back of an ambulance and not freak.

00:48:03That's great.

00:48:04It was really good.

00:48:06Cause his leg was like, snapped like a chicken leg and twisted.

00:48:09I got it.

00:48:10But I was so busy with what I was supposed to do.

00:48:12I 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.

00:48:20Jim McGuire says the Milnick brothers like you.

00:48:23They do?

00:48:24God, Vince Milnick.

00:48:26He's incredible.

00:48:28You should have seen the way he got the area secured.

00:48:30The two of them off to the hospital.

00:48:32Guess I'm not your type anymore, huh?

00:48:35Oh, silly.

00:48:37The book.

00:48:39Remember our book?

00:48:40Road Food?

00:48:44Great.

00:48:45Great.

00:48:49They liked me.

00:48:53When it comes to fried chicken, which might be the universal all-American food,

00:48:58Stroud'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.

00:49:17But don't worry.

00:49:19You can't hurt him now.

00:49:29See, this is my idea of chicken heaven.

00:49:34It started as an old road house 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.

00:49:44God bless her.

00:49:45God bless her.

00:49:47She did.

00:49:47And 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 time in general.

00:50:18Have a look at Blanche and Bill's pancake house.

00:50:21I made a couple of changes in that one, too.

00:50:26Grafton 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.

00:50:49The 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 chili?

00:51:10Go ahead.

00:51:11Go ahead, Jane.

00:51:13Go be a hero.

00:51:15This 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.

00:51:28Oh, Jane!

00:51:39In the beginning, when the radio tone would go off, I'd get terrified before I'd pull it together and say,

00:51:46I'm okay. It's okay.

00:51:48Because you never know what horrors you 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.

00:52:11Well, keep the radio on low.

00:52:14No, I just need a good night's sleep.

00:52:21I'll be okay.

00:52:33—

00:52:34—

00:52:34I don't know.

00:53:12Are you feeling any better?

00:53:15Yeah.

00:53:17I'm going to go to my meeting.

00:53:19See you around noon.

00:53:39I'm going to go to my meeting.

00:54:04Oh my god.

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. They need different things.

00:54:38Sometimes they just don't know it.

00:54:43Seems like you lucked out.

00:54:47Yeah.

00:54:48I always dreamed of having a big family.

00:54:51Now I feel like I do.

00:54:55Whole firehouse full of them.

00:55:03Vince, hey. There's Vince and Rosemary.

00:55:06Jules, 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

00:55:11for the training session on Monday if we buy the pizza.

00:55:14Sounds good to me.

00:55:17Jane.

00:55:20The fish stew was perfection. I loved it.

00:55:23She really did like it.

00:55:24Oh, and 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?

00:55:37Oh, I 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.

00:55:48Thanks.

00:55:49Merci.

00:55:54Great place, huh?

00:55:56I'd like to stop at that firehouse we passed coming into town.

00:55:59Why? Do you know them?

00:56:00No.

00:56:02I just want to get a picture up front.

00:56:05Wherever we travel to across the country,

00:56:07you 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.

00:56:18We need to reschedule that.

00:56:19She thinks she's getting the book.

00:56:21You've been working on it, haven't you?

00:56:22It's going to be ready, isn't it?

00:56:23I hope.

00:56:23Wait, wait, wait.

00:56:24Jane, look.

00:56:26Why don't you just give me what you've done,

00:56:27and 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.

00:56:34You bet it isn't.

00:56:35I can do this, Jane.

00:56:37Let me just do this,

00:56:38and let's just stop all this pretending.

00:56:41You 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.

00:56:50You are so full of yourself.

00:56:52Where do you think you're going?

00:56:53I'm not getting in the car with you.

00:56:56Poor Michael.

00:56:57All these years I've been on your back.

00:56:59Nothing but this huge neurotic weight around your neck.

00:57:02No, no, not all these years.

00:57:03Just since I've been sober.

00:57:05And now that I'm not, you can't handle it.

00:57:09Now you know what it feels like.

00:57:11This is about getting back at me?

00:57:12You can't handle that I don't need you like that anymore.

00:57:16No, what 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.

00:57:43Crafton Ambulance Personnel.

00:57:45Woman needs transport to hospital.

00:57:47Number 6 Gordon Road.

00:57:49Okay.

00:57:53The AIDS hospice.

00:57:55I have to go.

00:58:01Yeah.

00:58:01I guess you do.

00:58:09She had a seizure?

00:58:16You don't need that.

00:58:18Nobody 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.

00:58:26TB.

00:58:26Thrush.

00:58:27Hepatitis.

00:58:29Brain surgery.

00:58:32She should be dead 10 times over.

00:58:35Up here.

00:58:36Up here.

00:58:43Mavis.

00:58:44Mavis Cotter.

00:58:4533.

00:58:50It's just, uh, they put hobbies on here.

00:58:57Sewing and gospel singing.

00:59:05I really like Shirley Caesar.

00:59:10I like her, too.

00:59:14My husband.

00:59:16He likes the Clark sisters.

00:59:22His name is Michael.

00:59:25We're writers.

00:59:27Both of you?

00:59:29We write together, yeah.

00:59:33What about?

00:59:34Food.

00:59:36We've always loved food.

00:59:38Discussing it.

00:59:39It's like this primal thing with us.

00:59:43He's the smartest man I've ever met.

00:59:48I'm very fortunate.

00:59:54One of my top ten wishes would be to sing like Mahalia Jackson.

01:00:05Soon it will be done, trouble of the world, trouble of the world, trouble of the world.

01:00:23I know I suck.

01:00:39Soon we will be done with the trouble of the world, trouble of the world.

01:00:57How soon we will be done with the trouble of the world, how soon we will be done with the

01:01:18trouble of the world.

01:01:43I'll wrap up the great plains this afternoon.

01:01:48They called from Nicky Rivers.

01:01:49They want us in Chicago on the fifth for the taping.

01:02:01So what's the deal?

01:02:04So what's the deal?

01:02:04Are you staying in there?

01:02:06Uh, for now.

01:02:11I really think we should see someone, talk to somebody, professional.

01:02:20Michael.

01:02:21Michael.

01:02:22Michael.

01:02:23This is important.

01:02:27I think we should too.

01:02:37Here, sweet boy.

01:02:40Want to know something?

01:02:41There you 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.

01:03:06It is.

01:03:11My baby.

01:03:13What the hell?

01:03:15A dog?

01:03:16What do you say?

01:03:17Well, 911 said his baby fell in the pool.

01:03:21Ooh.

01:03:22This mutt weighs a ton.

01:03:23When we got here, he was floundering around.

01:03:25He probably had a heart attack.

01:03:26I don't know what we're supposed to do with it.

01:03:28We're not gonna put him in the ambulance.

01:03:30Jane, come on.

01:03:30We called the animal warden.

01:03:33Uh.

01:03:34Uh.

01:03:36Uh.

01:03:37Uh.

01:03:38Uh.

01:03:39Uh.

01:03:41Uh.

01:03:43Uh.

01:03:55What's wrong with the doggy?

01:03:57He's asleep.

01:03:57He's dead.

01:04:08Oh my god.

01:04:09Oh my god.

01:04:10Jane, what are you doing?

01:04:11He's alive.

01:04:15He's alive.

01:04:17He's alive.

01:04:19My baby.

01:04:20Winston.

01:04:29Oh no.

01:04:31It's Rhonda from Animal Control.

01:04:32False alarm.

01:04:44You 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.

01:04:54Jane saves lives.

01:04:56My 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.

01:05:18That'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.

01:05:29I hate you so much.

01:05:39You know something?

01:05:42You would never talk to Vince Melnick like that.

01:05:46You'd treat him with respect.

01:05:50And just because we're married doesn't give us license to muck all over each other.

01:06:04I first saw Michael when we were in college.

01:06:07I said, are you a Scorpio?

01:06:10I knew he was a Scorpio too.

01:06:15We were born one day apart.

01:06:18We went to Kenosha, Wisconsin once and had matching Scorpios tattooed on our legs by these Hells Angels guys.

01:06:27We've been incredibly close.

01:06:29Married 33 years.

01:06:31We were acting like we don't know each other.

01:06:33Incredibly close.

01:06:35Ever since we started writing together, we'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.

01:06:48And, uh, we just have each other.

01:06:52And the animals.

01:06:53And the work.

01:06:56And I love that.

01:07:00I love it too.

01:07:03But I don't love it now.

01:07:08I don't love it now.

01:07:20I got an extra room here.

01:07:25I'm just saying.

01:07:27In a pinch.

01:07:29Huh?

01:07:32For 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, you know, encouraging about all this EMT stuff.

01:07:52I just keep coming off looking like the bad guy.

01:07:56If I was you, I'd be into 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, because 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.

01:08:16I wake up every morning.

01:08:18I wonder where I've been for the last 30 years.

01:08:38Jane?

01:08:40Honey.

01:08:42Got a room?

01:08:47Yeah, I got it.

01:08:56You're gonna be fine.

01:08:58You're gonna be fine.

01:09:01That's it.

01:09:02You're gonna be fine.

01:09:03There you go. You'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.

01:09:11Anyone call the police?

01:09:13She said it's the other thing.

01:09:24Jane?

01:09:25It's Audrey.

01:09:27You seemed a little out of it.

01:09:30I'm sorry.

01:09:32I just had to come home and lie down.

01:09:34I was feeling a little weird.

01:09:37Jane, are you okay?

01:09:40No.

01:09:43Careful.

01:09:45Because I will burn you.

01:09:47I know a good EMT.

01:09:54I cry all the time.

01:10:00In the car, Michael drives and I cry.

01:10:05I cry every time I see couples our age together.

01:10:10Every restaurant we go into.

01:10:13Every 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.

01:10:29It's just that Michael and I...

01:10:31I love him.

01:10:34And 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.

01:10:48I love him.

01:11:06And 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, we'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 is 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 going 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.

01:11:36Jane 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. I 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, but the cheese grater and his coffee beans are 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 to talking about the knives that we own.

01:11:59Yes, well, I don't like you thinking about knives, Michael, when you're annoyed with my kitchen habits.

01:12:04I think I'm going to have to see about getting a group rate on a marriage counselor.

01:12:07I think so, too.

01:12:08I think so.

01:12:10Oh!

01:12:12Whoo!

01:12:19Nikki, Michael.

01:12:20Tristan, you're the best.

01:12:21That was great.

01:12:22You're terrific.

01:12:23I know.

01:12:24Thank you very much.

01:12:25Appreciate it.

01:12:28God, that was amazing.

01:12:31I know.

01:12:33Even now.

01:12:35Michael?

01:12:35Hi.

01:12:36I've got the information on that barbecue plate.

01:12:45What time is the flight?

01:12:483.16.

01:12:49Why can't they just call at 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?

01:13:05It 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.

01:13:22I'm afraid nothing could be the same again.

01:13:26That we aren't going to be Jane and Michael Stern again.

01:13:30Anymore.

01:13:31more.

01:13:55With everything that gets splattered or sneezed on me,

01:13:58I can get AIDS or SARS or the flu or this is 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

01:14:06There are times when I ask myself, why? Why am I doing this?

01:14:09I mean, I became an EMT because 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, but it's not working anymore.

01:14:18And I'm letting Michael down.

01:14:21I mean, the better I get at this, I don't know what to do except quit.

01:14:25You exhaust the hell out of me.

01:14:30Well, it exhausts me too sometimes.

01:14:34Just ease up. You don't have to go out on every call.

01:14:38You know, when I first met you, I thought, oh, here we go.

01:14:42Another damn do-gooder.

01:14:44I was so scared of you.

01:14:46You mean you're not anymore?

01:14:50I thought that you'd be the last person on earth to stick it out.

01:14:53Me too.

01:14:54But you did.

01:14:57I know one thing.

01:14:59If I was ever trapped in a burning building,

01:15:02I could count on you to run in there and get me.

01:15:18Did 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.

01:15:32I'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?

01:15:51I mean, I know what we do, but 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.

01:16:12We 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.

01:16:31I know that, too.

01:16:36We worked so hard for this place.

01:16:39I hate the thought of leaving it.

01:16:44Well, you know, we have certain obligations to work, and I, you know, I don't see that.

01:16:57I'm sorry.

01:17:11Now, maybe, uh, maybe we can get little houses next to each other, huh?

01:17:19I wonder what it would take to wall this place in half.

01:17:30Well, we, uh, we have to figure everything out tonight.

01:17:51I know what's going to happen.

01:17:54You're going to end up out back of Milnick's garage.

01:17:56Oh, gosh.

01:17:59Oh, gosh.

01:18:00Oh, gosh.

01:18:08Oh, gosh.

01:18:24was passed that the 75th anniversary

01:18:27of the Grafton Volunteer Fire Company

01:18:29would be held on June 23rd.

01:18:32That's, uh, Craig's birthday,

01:18:34for any of you who don't know already.

01:18:36Parade at 3 o'clock following the chili cook-off

01:18:38with celebrity judges.

01:18:40Listen, I hope we don't have any unfortunate incidents

01:18:42like last year.

01:18:44I mean, who would have known that a gas barbecue

01:18:46could cause that much damage?

01:18:49Young lady,

01:18:52I want to talk to you.

01:18:55Two things.

01:18:56What did I do?

01:18:58Uh, we were wondering about asking Michael

01:19:01to 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.

01:19:14Um, 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 it 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.

01:19:54Oh.

01:20:01Michael?

01:20:04Michael?

01:20:06I'm on my way now.

01:20:10Dr. Igbole, please call the pharmacy.

01:20:13Dr. Igbole, please call the pharmacy.

01:20:20Dr. Igbole, please call the pharmacy.

01:20:21Michael, what happened?

01:20:23He was, uh, he was in the barn, and he was cleaning out the stools.

01:20:30And, uh, his brain hemorrhaged.

01:20:34I had a massive stroke.

01:20:47I don't know.

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01:21:43¶¶

01:21:44Hey.

01:21:46Good one's 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.

01:21:55but he's always there.

01:22:11Tell me everything I know about writing.

01:22:18About everything.

01:22:27I know he did.

01:22:37I don't know what to do.

01:22:43I don't know what to do for him.

01:23:11I don't know what to do.

01:23:12I don't know what to do.

01:23:12You know, the other day,

01:23:15we were talking about what we were gonna do

01:23:16and our logistics.

01:23:23I couldn't stand the thought of losing you.

01:23:27I went upstairs,

01:23:29and I had this picture of you in my head

01:23:31as a little girl.

01:23:34No, I didn't mean that.

01:23:36That sounds stupid.

01:23:37No, it doesn't.

01:23:40No.

01:23:41What I meant was...

01:23:45I saw myself as the same,

01:23:47as not a bad person.

01:23:51And...

01:23:52I know that you're not a bad person.

01:23:55And I know that you want to be a good person with me, too.

01:23:59And I...

01:24:00I want that, too.

01:24:02Go.

01:24:06I felt the same way, too.

01:24:07I don't want to lose you.

01:24:12You know, I...

01:24:13I guess what I had...

01:24:16were these feelings for our relationship.

01:24:25When you looked at me...

01:24:28I know 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.

01:24:50We'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.

01:25:05Which means red beans and rice,

01:25:07a length of really wonderfully taut sausage...

01:25:11Since I was a little girl,

01:25:12I've been afraid of losing people.

01:25:15The fact is, one way or the other,

01:25:17eventually, you just do.

01:25:19As a working person's cafe...

01:25:21The thought of losing Michael frightened me so much

01:25:23that I almost did lose him.

01:25:25But in the end, figuring out how to be together

01:25:29and still allow each other our own separate lives

01:25:32made us even closer.

01:25:38At the last meeting for the Grafton Volunteer Fire Company,

01:25:42the meeting came to order...

01:25:43I also learned something else.

01:25:46Becoming part of a firehouse

01:25:48and working side by side with the men and women

01:25:51of the Grafton Volunteer Fire Department

01:25:53was the hardest thing I've ever done.

01:25:56And the most rewarding.

01:26:00And it helped me figure out something really interesting

01:26:03about fear.

01:26:06Fear is like a hologram.

01:26:08It seems real, filled with substance.

01:26:12And then, when you go beyond it,

01:26:15you realize...

01:26:16it's just an illusion.

01:26:43And that's something I'm trying to do.

01:26:44Oh, sweet feet.

01:26:59I'm sorry.

01:26:59So, that one day...

01:26:59I put my hair on a side...

01:27:02I, I'll get it right now.

01:27:03I'll kind of go ahead and find...

01:27:05Let's go ahead and see.

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