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this is Sunday morning. It was

1:02

the worst nuclear energy accident

1:05

in American history and it

1:07

put a relatively obscure Pennsylvania

1:10

power plant called Three Mile

1:12

Island front and center in

1:14

the national conversation about

1:17

our ever-increasing energy needs.

1:19

The 1979 partial meltdown

1:21

of the plant's number

1:23

two reactor marked a

1:25

devastating setback for the nuclear

1:27

power industry. But nearly 50

1:29

years later, as David Pogue will

1:32

be telling us, three-mile island

1:34

and nuclear energy may be

1:36

poised for a powerful comeback.

1:38

Radioactive xenon gas

1:40

is still being discharged,

1:42

ever since the three-mile

1:44

island accident in 1979,

1:46

America hasn't had much

1:48

appetite for new nuclear

1:50

power plants, but suddenly...

1:53

We're in the beginning of a

1:55

renewed interest in nuclear...

1:57

And who's behind this new...

2:00

nuclear push? Big tech! We

2:02

think this is a tremendous

2:04

opportunity for Google and for

2:07

the world. Ahead on Sunday

2:09

morning, how the AI boom is

2:11

bringing us a new nuclear energy

2:13

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2:16

the world of comedy

2:18

like John Malaney, performing

2:20

to sold out crowds and

2:22

hosting Saturday Night Live six

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2:27

our Tracy Smith. I was the

2:29

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by a mile. You might say

2:33

John Malaney likes working without a

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net from the adrenaline rush

2:38

of stand-up to Saturday Night

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Live to the thrill of

2:42

his live talk show. Explain

2:44

that feeling to me. It's

2:46

like coming up against a

2:48

cliff and kind of dangling

2:50

over it. No, it's dangling

2:52

from the cliff the whole time.

2:54

Hanging with John Malaney.

2:56

later on Sunday morning.

2:59

A new musical is

3:01

bringing the sights and

3:03

especially the sounds of

3:06

Cuba's old Havana to

3:08

the Broadway stage.

3:10

Martha Tyschner has a

3:12

preview of Buena Vista

3:14

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3:17

love a great second

3:19

act story? Remember

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the old mostly forgotten

3:24

Cuban musicians who recorded

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the album Buena Vista

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on Broadway, coming up this

3:44

Sunday morning. Luke Burbank

3:46

this morning visits an

3:48

organ prison. where inmates are

3:51

making a very real fashion

3:53

statement. Barry Peterson explores

3:55

the complicated history of

3:57

artworks sold generations ago.

3:59

under the shadow of

4:02

Nazi persecution. Lee Cowan catches

4:04

up with Olympic skier

4:06

Lindsay Vaughn, who's racing competitively

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again at age 40,

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six years after retiring.

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5:36

Pogue this morning tells

5:39

us all about the

5:41

surprising resurrection of an

5:43

infamous nuclear power plant

5:45

and the tech giant

5:47

funding it's unlikely

5:49

come back. It might have

5:51

seemed like one of the

5:53

weirder headlines of 2024. Microsoft

5:55

is paying $1.6 billion

5:57

to restart three miles.

5:59

Island. Radioactive xenon gas is

6:02

still being discharged. That's the

6:04

nuclear power plant whose reactor

6:06

number two had a partial

6:08

meltdown in 1979. The government

6:10

official said that a breakdown

6:12

in an atomic power plant

6:14

in Pennsylvania today is probably

6:16

the worst nuclear reactor accident

6:18

to date. There were no

6:20

injuries and nobody died, but

6:22

it set the nuclear industry

6:24

back years. Only two new

6:26

plants have been started since

6:28

that accident. This is hollowed ground

6:30

in the nuclear industry. This is

6:32

a place where we learned and

6:35

got better. So they did make

6:37

change in protocols and procedures

6:39

as a result of that accident?

6:42

Thousands. Oh my God, yes.

6:44

One behind it, that was the

6:46

reactor where we had the problem.

6:48

Joe Dominguez is the CEO of

6:51

Constellation Energy, which owns

6:53

about half of America's

6:55

54 nuclear plants, including

6:57

three-mile island. The thing that people

7:00

forget is that there was another reactor

7:02

at the site, the one we're sitting

7:04

at. That site, that reactor

7:06

continued to operate until 2019

7:08

when it was closed for

7:10

economic reasons. Meaning because natural

7:12

gas got so cheap? Cheap natural

7:14

gas, low demand, subsidization of

7:17

different technologies in the business,

7:19

no policy supporting nuclear, caused

7:21

plants to start retiring. So

7:24

what is Microsoft's interest? All

7:26

the big tech companies have

7:28

ambitious goals to fight the

7:30

climate crisis. That includes Google.

7:32

Today I'm proud to announce

7:34

that we intend to become

7:36

the first major company to

7:39

operate carbon-free. And Apple?

7:41

Apple will be 100%

7:43

carbon-neutral for our entire

7:45

end-to-end footprint. And Microsoft.

7:47

By 2030, Microsoft will

7:50

be carbon-negative. They were

7:52

making progress, too. Each has

7:54

invested billions in wind and

7:56

solar energy. And then, artificial

7:58

intelligence came along. AI data centers

8:01

require huge amounts of electricity.

8:03

Big Tech realized that they

8:06

wouldn't make their goals without

8:08

taking power into their own

8:10

hands. Microsoft is going to

8:12

enjoy the benefit of the

8:15

reliable clean energy for 20

8:17

years. Is restarting this facility

8:19

quicker and less expensive than

8:22

just building a brand new

8:24

nuclear plant? Oh yeah. At least

8:26

10 times cheaper than building a

8:28

new plant? And we think we

8:30

could get it going in about three

8:33

years versus the last plant

8:35

that was built took almost

8:37

10 years. But if you're a tech

8:39

company, what do you do if you

8:41

don't have a recently retired

8:43

nuclear plant handy? You

8:45

develop new ones. Only weeks

8:48

after Microsoft's announcement, both Amazon and

8:50

Google announced major investments in nuclear

8:52

power. This is a deal to

8:55

bring the first advanced nuclear reactor

8:57

online by 2030 and we're not

8:59

going to do just one reactor

9:02

But we hope to buy from

9:04

what will be a series of

9:06

reactors that follow that Michael

9:08

Terrell heads Google's decarbonization

9:11

efforts Google is supplementing its

9:13

already enormous green energy investments

9:15

with a new kind of

9:18

nuclear called small modular reactors

9:20

These are not the nuclear power

9:22

plants of yesterday with the very

9:25

large cooling towers. These are much

9:27

smaller facilities, but because they're modular,

9:29

you can stack them together to

9:31

make bigger power plants. Nuclear power

9:33

isn't perfect. It still produces waste

9:36

that has to be safely stored.

9:38

But unlike solar and wind, nuclear

9:40

is always on, which is essential

9:42

to those AI data centers. So

9:45

Google is funding a company called

9:47

Kyros Power to design and build

9:49

this new generation of reactors. What

9:51

we're building right now, and you

9:54

can see the construction for, will

9:56

be the facility that holds our

9:58

third engineering test units. small demonstration

10:00

plants in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on

10:02

the very spot where uranium was

10:04

processed for the first atomic bomb.

10:07

CEO Mike Laufer says that his

10:09

reactors don't use fuel rods. They

10:11

use fuel pebbles like this mock-up.

10:13

It's mostly graphite and then these

10:15

little particles right here. These are

10:17

the basically the tiny kernels of

10:19

uranium that have the coatings. And

10:22

how much power capacity is there

10:24

in one of these pebbles? This

10:26

is about the same as four

10:28

tons of coal. Four tons of

10:30

coal? Four tons? And how

10:32

much carbon dioxide emissions compared

10:35

to the coal? Oh, zero.

10:37

The kyros reactors also run

10:39

at lower power and lower

10:42

pressure than traditional reactors, which

10:44

means lower risk. Well, this all

10:47

sounds great. What's the catch?

10:49

There's only one problem with

10:51

small modular reactors. They

10:54

don't really exist. George

10:56

Washington University professor Sharon

10:58

Squasone spent 15 years

11:00

researching nuclear safety for

11:02

the government She thinks

11:04

the big tech companies

11:06

might be in over their heads. I

11:09

think they're gonna find out pretty

11:11

quickly that it takes way too

11:13

long and it's way too expensive

11:15

I think we're gonna see just

11:17

how strong their commitments

11:19

are to You know clean energy so

11:22

you're saying they may have to turn

11:24

to burning stuff I'm pretty sure they

11:26

will. Do you think there's a little

11:28

bit of tech pro over confidence

11:31

there? Oh, completely, completely.

11:34

So yes, it's really hard. I

11:36

will totally agree with anyone.

11:38

Chirosa's Mike Laufer. But we're doing

11:40

it at smaller scale to start

11:42

and then building on that in

11:45

the future. How much of what's

11:47

here is still usable after

11:49

all these years? Oh, it's all

11:51

usable. Joe Dominguez's team is getting

11:53

Three Mile Island ready for Microsoft. It's

11:55

this blend of old and new, that's

11:58

really... Including renaming the plant. the crane

12:00

clean energy center and if a

12:02

i is igniting a renaissance in

12:04

american nuclear he says full steam

12:06

ahead why do all new plants

12:08

take so much longer and cost

12:10

so much more than projected honest

12:12

answer we don't build enough of

12:14

you don't want to build a

12:16

unique design you want to do

12:19

kind of a cookie cutter one

12:21

after another design now is it

12:23

well understood in government in the

12:25

industry that Dudes, if you

12:28

start doing the same design over

12:30

and over, we can get there

12:32

faster and cheaper. It's probably the

12:34

best understood idea. It's understood by

12:37

both Republicans and Democrats, which is

12:39

a hard thing to say about

12:41

anything. But sure, everybody understands

12:43

that if you build a common

12:46

design, you build a bunch of them.

12:48

So you think we'll get there? I do.

12:50

Google's Michael Terrell agrees. As of

12:52

2030, does it look like you'll

12:54

make the zero carbon goal? It

12:56

is an incredibly ambitious goal, 24-7,

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podcast. Prison Blues.

15:08

Luke Burbank tells us

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it's a popular brand of

15:13

blue jeans, not without its

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fans or critics. Jeremiah

15:19

Maurer loves his job working as

15:21

a supervisor in a garment factory.

15:23

What I do is I go

15:25

through and I look at the

15:28

seams, I'm looking for flaws like

15:30

that. Yeah, this one will have

15:32

to go back. Yes, this one

15:34

only goes back one step and

15:36

then always remember safety first, always

15:38

cut away from yourself. But there's

15:40

one thing about Maurer's work-life balance

15:43

that's probably different from yours. Both

15:45

his work and his life take

15:47

place right here at the Eastern

15:49

Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton,

15:51

Oregon. It's very normalizing. I

15:53

come to work eight hours

15:55

a day, 40 hours a

15:57

week, I mean in several

15:59

instances. not even like I'm

16:01

in prison. My days go

16:03

by fast, my weeks go

16:05

by fast. Maurer and his

16:07

co-workers make the clothes for

16:09

all 12,000 or so prisoners

16:12

in the Oregon system. As

16:14

well as a brand of

16:16

denim sold on the outside,

16:18

known as Prison Blues. It's

16:21

sold in stores on the

16:23

web and has become popular

16:25

in, of all places, Japan.

16:27

My first impression of the

16:29

product was that it's really

16:32

tough. It's made as workware,

16:34

and its toughness is really

16:36

appealing. You might be surprised to

16:38

learn all prisoners in Oregon,

16:40

like many other states, are

16:43

required to work while incarcerated.

16:45

Most of those jobs keep

16:47

institutions running, things like janitorial

16:49

work and kitchen duty. And

16:51

in Oregon, those jobs are paid

16:54

with points that prisoners can redeem

16:56

at the commissary. But

16:58

the jobs with prison blues, which

17:01

is run by an agency called

17:03

Oregon Corrections Enterprises, those jobs are

17:05

voluntary. They're highly sought after and

17:08

they're paid in actual money. Have

17:10

you been able to save some

17:12

money through this? I have, yes.

17:15

There are some people that live

17:17

paycheck to paycheck, but I'm pretty

17:19

simple as far as what my

17:22

tastes are. Chris Sifer is working

17:24

an embroidery machine. which could pay

17:26

him up to $400 a month.

17:28

That is, after the state takes

17:30

its money for room and board

17:32

and restitution for victims. Is there

17:35

a kind of a personal dignity

17:37

thing about going to a job

17:39

that just kind of changes your

17:41

mentality? Absolutely. If you don't have

17:43

that money because you have a

17:45

small, small job, low-paying job like

17:47

working in the scullery or other

17:49

ones that don't pay very much.

17:52

having to ask for money from

17:54

the outside, it can break the

17:56

heart sometimes. That's right. Inside prison,

17:58

you can save... money or go

18:01

broke, just like a lot of

18:03

people do living on the outside.

18:05

Then there are the seven states,

18:07

according to the ACLU, that don't

18:09

pay prisoners at all for most

18:12

jobs. And in those places, refusing

18:14

to work can lead to

18:16

loss of privileges or punishment,

18:19

which critics say amounts to

18:21

forced labor. Labor that we

18:23

on the outside benefit from.

18:25

If you go to a public university,

18:27

you may be sitting on furniture,

18:30

dorm furniture, produced by incarcerated people.

18:32

Jennifer Turner is a researcher at

18:34

the American Civil Liberties Union. If you

18:36

are in law enforcement, you may be wearing

18:38

a bulletproof vest or in a car that's

18:41

been serviced by incarcerated people. And if you

18:43

go to the supermarket, you may be buying

18:45

milk that came from cows that were milked

18:48

and raised by incarcerated people.

18:50

An AP investigation last year found that

18:52

a lot of prison work. especially

18:54

in states where it isn't paid,

18:57

can be dangerous and

18:59

demeaning, like picking cotton in

19:01

the blistering sun or

19:03

working in unsafe facilities

19:05

with minimal training. According to

19:08

Turner's research at the

19:10

ACLU, incarcerated labor produces

19:12

at least $2 billion

19:14

worth of services every

19:16

year. Because the supply chain

19:18

is challenging to track, so much

19:21

produced by incarcerated people ends up

19:23

in our supermarkets, in our

19:25

government buildings, and elsewhere, and

19:27

we are buying these products

19:29

and using those services without

19:32

realizing it, the fruits of this labor

19:34

is all around us, and we

19:36

constantly benefit from it, but we

19:38

don't know it. Not to mention

19:40

the impact on the labor market,

19:43

where a prison crew, say, fighting

19:45

wildland fires in California, will always

19:47

be earning less money than a

19:49

group of non-incarcerated firefighters driving wages

19:52

down potentially. It feels a lot

19:54

of the times like we're being

19:56

more treated as like free labor.

19:58

I try to put that... perspective

20:00

for some of the staff out here

20:03

is like, well, what if you had

20:05

to come here but not get paid?

20:07

Some might wonder how indentured servitude is

20:09

still legal in the US. Well,

20:11

because when slavery was outlawed

20:13

by the 13th Amendment, a

20:15

specific exemption was made for incarcerated

20:18

people. The fact that some

20:20

states don't even pay inmates at

20:22

all strikes Jeff Adair, incarcerated at

20:24

Eastern Oregon correctional institution, as unfair.

20:26

I don't see a negative from

20:28

people working in prison. It's actually

20:30

a good thing to teach people

20:32

a skill. I mean, if you

20:34

just sat around doing nothing, then

20:36

you're not going to be very

20:39

productive out there when you get

20:41

out. But at the same rate,

20:43

I feel that if it's going

20:45

to be a job, they should

20:47

be compensated just like anybody else.

20:49

Doesn't matter where we're at, whether

20:51

we're in here out there. We're

20:53

still people. was about to use

20:55

the money he'd earned working at

20:57

Prison Blues to start building a

20:59

life on the outside, after spending

21:01

most of his adulthood behind bars.

21:03

I was going down a

21:05

self-destructive life. Me being here gave

21:07

me a chance to reflect. This place

21:10

could eat you up as well if you don't

21:12

do the right thing. If you don't take

21:14

the initiative to want to change,

21:16

you got to want to change.

21:19

A changed person, he says. Thanks

21:21

in part to his work with

21:23

Prison Blues. which he says is

21:26

his first steady job he's ever

21:28

had. For me, just being in

21:30

here, it was a different environment

21:33

than me feeling that I'm incarcerated.

21:35

It helped me to mold my

21:37

skills and hone into a better

21:39

person that I can be. Spending

21:42

time at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution

21:44

drove home one fact for us,

21:46

and that is, prisoners are people.

21:48

Yes, people who've been convicted of

21:51

committing crimes to be certain, but

21:53

also people who will very likely

21:55

be released one day and who

21:57

the research shows will have a

21:59

better chance of success if

22:02

they've been able to

22:04

mend their lives. Martha

22:06

Tyschner this morning

22:08

is taking us on

22:11

a colorful journey.

22:13

Martha Tyschner this morning

22:16

is taking us on

22:18

a colorful journey to

22:20

old Havana for a

22:22

preview of the new

22:24

Broadway musical Winavista

22:27

Social Club. Remember

22:30

Buena Vista Social Club,

22:33

the album, even if

22:35

you don't. Now there's

22:38

Buena Vista Social Club,

22:40

the album, even if

22:43

you don't. Now there's

22:45

Buena Vista Social

22:47

Club, the musical. An

22:50

exuberant blasta.

22:52

Now there's Buena

22:54

Vista Social Club, the

22:57

musical. Old Cuban music for

22:59

a new audience. There is

23:02

a music studio in Old

23:04

Atlanta. The Broadway version is

23:07

a stand-in for the city's

23:09

corroded grandeur, and for

23:11

the studio, where in

23:13

1996, a group of

23:15

old, mostly forgotten Cuban

23:17

musicians recorded the album. What

23:19

follows is the story of a

23:21

band. Not ours, though, we will do

23:24

our best. Some of what follows is

23:26

true, is true. Some of

23:28

it only feels true. The true

23:30

part. The real person this

23:33

actor is playing. Wanda

23:35

Marcos Gonzales. Look, there he

23:37

is during rehearsals. Wanda

23:39

Marcos had already located

23:41

and brought together the

23:44

old musicians before

23:46

music producers Ry

23:48

Kooter and Nick Gold showed

23:50

up in Havana. When their

23:52

plan to make an album...

23:54

Paring Cuban and West

23:57

African performers fell

23:59

through. They went with Plan

24:01

B and recorded with the

24:04

group Wanda Marcos had assembled.

24:06

I was so happy because

24:08

they were my idols. You know,

24:10

I grew up listening to their

24:12

music and then suddenly I

24:15

was the band leader. Did

24:17

any of the people involved

24:19

including you have any idea

24:21

that what became Wainavista

24:24

Social Club would be something

24:26

big? No. They became

24:28

pop stars. It was

24:31

like unbelievable then. The

24:33

unexpected and irresistible

24:36

phenomenon that resulted

24:39

is the subject

24:41

of the Oscar-nominated

24:43

1999 Vim Vender's

24:46

documentary. Well, it

24:48

was just ubiquitous.

24:50

I mean, you would

24:52

hear this music everywhere.

24:54

Music journalist Judy Cantor

24:57

Navas is a sub

24:59

stack contributor and the author

25:01

of Cuba on record. To

25:03

say that yes, we're listening

25:06

to this old Cuban music

25:08

that is suddenly selling millions

25:10

of albums seemed like something

25:13

that was very unlikely. Why

25:15

do you think people loved the

25:17

music so much? I think not

25:19

only this, but Cuban music

25:22

has... really appealed to so

25:24

many different kinds of

25:27

people. They say that it

25:29

has, you know, the perfect

25:31

combination of the Afro-Cuban

25:33

rhythms and the Spanish

25:36

melodies that came together

25:38

in Cuba. It's just

25:41

this very infectious music

25:43

that like gets in

25:46

your soul. It wasn't just

25:48

the music they loved. It

25:50

was who the musicians were, the

25:52

improbable last act of their

25:55

careers. The album won a Grammy

25:57

and has sold more than 8

25:59

million... copies worldwide. And

26:01

they were so happy,

26:04

you know, because they

26:06

came back to the

26:09

stage. Because if

26:11

you are a musician

26:13

and you are an

26:15

artist, you are always

26:18

an artist, you know.

26:20

And even when you

26:23

are retired, you have

26:26

this small candle in

26:28

your heart. They

26:31

began touring the

26:33

world. Even singing

26:35

to me for

26:38

a Sunday morning

26:40

story 25 years

26:42

ago. I still have

26:44

to pinch myself to

26:47

make sure I'm not

26:49

asleep and dreaming

26:52

for rare says. I

26:54

never thought I'd have

26:57

so much success. The

26:59

play tells the imagined

27:02

origin story of the

27:04

musicians, of their careers,

27:06

their personal struggles.

27:09

But I know how this

27:11

story goes. With hints of

27:14

romance. Decades before their fame

27:16

late in life. What's this

27:18

place called? The Buena

27:21

Vista Social Club. I'm

27:23

Cuban American. I was

27:25

born and raised in Miami. but my

27:28

parents and my family's Cuban. And so

27:30

for me, what brought me to this

27:32

was the music. It was music that

27:34

I was raised around my entire life.

27:37

Marco Ramirez wrote the Broadway show. He

27:39

was 14 when the album came out. This is

27:41

a moment of intense pride of us

27:43

realizing that the world cared about our

27:45

music and that these songs that I

27:47

was used to hearing on my grandfather's

27:49

little yellow Sony boombox above the washing

27:51

machine. These were songs that suddenly the

27:53

whole world cared about. That meant everything

27:55

to me. I guess I just dreamed

27:57

that one day with the right record.

27:59

We might remind the world that

28:02

Mozart has got nothing on us.

28:04

And I was just obsessed with this

28:06

album. I kept listening to it

28:08

on repeat. Something about the lyrics

28:11

spoke to me. I learned the

28:13

lyrics without knowing what I was

28:15

talking about because he leaves my

28:17

first language. This was in Kenya

28:19

where Sahim Ali, the director of

28:21

the show, grew up. His father,

28:23

an airline pilot, brought the

28:26

album home. I knew

28:28

nothing about their stories.

28:30

Absolutely nothing. The first

28:32

time I knew about

28:34

the stories was reading

28:36

Marco's script. That's what

28:38

excited me about this musical.

28:40

People are going to know

28:42

about them now in a

28:44

way that young people like me

28:46

never had a chance to. Brought

28:48

to life on a Broadway stage.

28:51

The old songs as they were

28:53

played in the 1940s and

28:55

50s. At the actual

28:57

Buena Vista Social Club,

29:00

a members-only Havana

29:02

nightclub for working-class

29:05

black Cubans. It was

29:07

shut down after Fidel Castro

29:10

came to power in 1959.

29:12

The events of the Cuban

29:15

Revolution lurk at the edges

29:17

of the show. It's not

29:20

your fault the world made

29:22

us take sides until one

29:24

day. There are only two

29:26

types of Cubans, those who

29:29

stayed and those who left.

29:31

Playing yesterday's Cuban

29:33

music on Broadway,

29:35

some of today's finest

29:38

Cuban musicians, most of

29:40

whom now live outside

29:42

Cuba, because making a living

29:44

there is tough. The people

29:46

are going to see their

29:48

real Cuba. They are going

29:50

to get a piece of

29:52

our country when they attend.

29:55

the musical.

30:03

We have nothing in our country.

30:06

We don't have oil, we

30:08

don't have gold, but we

30:10

have the music, beautiful

30:12

ladies, good coffee, the

30:15

best cigars, and the best

30:17

round. That's what we have,

30:19

and the music. Which is

30:22

the most important thing,

30:24

like food for us. Served

30:26

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32:01

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32:03

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32:06

for Lindsay Vahn. For Lindsay Vahn

32:08

it was a reluctant farewell. The

32:10

last run of her stellar career.

32:13

In the world of Alpine skiing

32:15

few have been more decorated. She's

32:17

won almost every major title. From

32:20

World Cup championships. into the lead

32:22

by more than a half seconds.

32:24

To Olympic medals. Sometimes when you're

32:26

in it, you don't really think

32:29

about... What it took to get

32:31

each one. Yeah, I think you

32:33

just have a different perspective. You

32:36

know, you're focused on the next

32:38

one and racing and, you know,

32:40

performance and you never really get

32:43

to look back and say like,

32:45

hey, good job. Yeah. She was

32:47

also fearless. Allow yourself to get

32:50

onto the charge. She goes down

32:52

hard. And resilient. Crash after terrible

32:54

crash. As she hits, one, two,

32:56

three. And as she shakes it

32:59

off. She always fought her way

33:01

back. And now has dropped back

33:03

and gone over the top. But

33:06

2013. That was one of her

33:08

hardest seasons. And the landing is

33:10

absolutely awful to watch. Vons' right

33:13

knee bore the brunt of that

33:15

crash, and it was never really

33:17

the same. Fast forward, almost six

33:19

years, the day of her last

33:22

race, bumny and all. For the

33:24

final time in her story career,

33:26

but... Still, she somehow took home

33:29

the bronze anyway. And we've seen

33:31

this seen quite a bit. The

33:33

82 World Cup wins, the 20

33:36

World Cup titles. But at 34,

33:38

she was retired. Skiing was always

33:40

my son and everything in my

33:42

life revolved around it. What time

33:45

I woke up, what I ate

33:47

when I went to bed, you

33:49

know, it was all... dictated around

33:52

what's best for my skiing career.

33:54

And then I woke up one

33:56

day and my son is gone.

33:59

Say hi, Lindsay! Ski racing is

34:01

old Lindsay Vaughan ever really wanted.

34:03

Her dad, a former Alpine skier

34:06

himself, moved the family from Minnesota

34:08

to Vale Colorado just so that

34:10

Lindsay could train for the 2002

34:12

Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

34:15

The same slopes, she now sees

34:17

from her home in Park City,

34:19

Utah. This is kind of... Just

34:22

where I go to, you know,

34:24

regroup and charge my batteries and

34:26

the dogs love it. Who's my

34:29

big boy? In retirement, she kept

34:31

many of her corporate sponsors, which

34:33

helped her buy homes in Miami

34:35

and Beverly Hills, too. She continued

34:38

to wow red carpets and not

34:40

racing, gave her more time to

34:42

pour into her foundation, helping underserved

34:45

girls achieve their own athletic dreams.

34:47

But that knee, that kept getting

34:49

worse. That kept getting worse. I

34:52

just couldn't do the things I

34:54

love to do anymore. Was that

34:56

bad? Yeah, it was really bad.

34:58

I couldn't straighten it all the

35:01

way. I couldn't flex it all

35:03

the way. And so I just

35:05

stuck in this half state that

35:08

ended up causing hip pain, back

35:10

pain, neck pain. It wasn't just

35:12

my knee. Unfortunately, it was kind

35:15

of everything. You know, it's like

35:17

you get to the end of

35:19

your rope and you got to

35:21

make a decision. So I did.

35:24

titanium. Sounds like though, you didn't

35:26

do it to get back into

35:28

skiing. You just did it to

35:31

like live your life. Yeah. I

35:33

don't need to ski. I am

35:35

Lindsay. I am not a skier.

35:38

I'm a person that loves to

35:40

ski. And that's a really big

35:42

distinction for me and in my

35:45

mind, in my heart. How soon

35:47

afterwards did you wonder how far

35:49

you could push it? It was

35:51

pretty quickly after. Only four months,

35:54

in fact, she took her. coaches

35:56

to New Zealand to equate her

35:58

new knee with her old sport.

36:01

It just was such a drastic

36:03

difference that I thought well if

36:05

if I can do all of

36:08

these things that used to hurt

36:10

me before where would that take

36:12

me you know and I then

36:14

my mind starts to wander and

36:17

you know and here we are

36:19

and here we are and where

36:21

she is and hoping to qualify

36:24

for one more trip to the

36:26

Olympics, Italy, 2026. I will be

36:28

at a disadvantage. I am 40,

36:31

and at that time, next year,

36:33

I will be 41. 40-year-old Lizzie

36:35

Ball, just off the podium in

36:37

the Americans. But I know my

36:40

skiing is there. I'm actually, I

36:42

think I'm actually skiing better now

36:44

than I was last few years

36:47

of my career. Is there some

36:49

good-natured ribbing? Yeah, for sure. Yeah.

36:51

There's one girl that calls me

36:54

grandma, which I don't exactly appreciate.

36:56

But there's definitely, you know, some

36:58

jokes around the team that, you

37:01

know, I raised in my first

37:03

Olympics before one of the girls

37:05

was born. She knew there would

37:07

be some raised eyebrows, but she

37:10

got more than that, with some

37:12

critics going so far as to

37:14

question her sanity. These past few

37:17

weeks have been tough. She posted

37:19

on Instagram last month. I know

37:21

there are only a few voices

37:24

out of many, but it still

37:26

hurts. What I didn't expect was

37:28

people to criticize me as a

37:30

person and why I'm doing it

37:33

and that I can't handle life

37:35

outside of ski racing. She dismisses

37:37

most of it, choosing to concentrate

37:40

on training smarter, not harder. It's

37:42

not like I'm preparing for another

37:44

10 years of my skiing career.

37:47

I'm just preparing for one year

37:49

for literally two races. She's put

37:51

the rest of her life on

37:53

hold for the moment. A single

37:56

goal does require a singularity of

37:58

focus, much like making her banana

38:00

bread does. put on weight, man.

38:03

Do you really? Yeah, I'm not,

38:05

I'm about 20 pounds less than

38:07

I was when I was racing

38:10

before. That brand of determination, she

38:12

says, came from a mom. Lindy

38:14

Lund. She would have given anything

38:17

to play tennis, to play squash,

38:19

to ride a bike, and she

38:21

couldn't. Her mom suffered a stroke

38:23

while pregnant with Lindsay in 1984.

38:26

It was debilitating, but she soldured

38:28

on without complaint. When she was

38:30

diagnosed with ALS, once known as

38:33

Lou Gehrig's disease, she, like her

38:35

daughter, wasn't about to give up.

38:37

She thought that she could beat

38:40

the odds and she could be

38:42

the one that would live 20

38:44

more years and she lasted one.

38:46

Man, it was hard. I still

38:49

got her number in my phone.

38:51

I still messager. You

38:54

just call her and talk to

38:56

her? I send her text message.

38:58

Do you really? Yeah. Yeah. She

39:01

said her mom would want her

39:03

to be flying high once again,

39:05

even though winning another downhill will

39:08

be an uphill battle. 1.18 off

39:10

the pace. In a sport measured

39:12

in hundreds of a second, the

39:15

difference between first and last can

39:17

be miniscule. But on this second

39:19

go-round, Lindsay Vaughan. It's taking time

39:22

to savor the view, just as

39:24

much as the chase. The fact

39:26

that I'm even talking about going

39:29

to Olympics right now is something

39:31

I never thought I would ever

39:33

do. So, I'm already winning. The

39:36

Bible tells us to give and

39:38

you shall receive. Steve Hartman has

39:40

proof. In one of Baltimore's poorest

39:43

neighborhoods... We found one of its

39:45

richest doctors. Rich, not in money.

39:47

In fact, he's pretty much broke.

39:50

But 66-year-old family doctor Michael Zalikoffer

39:52

is... with job satisfaction. Just love

39:54

people. I love to see a

39:57

rash. If you say you got

39:59

a rash, I'm going to find

40:01

you because I love a bump

40:04

on your head. You see what

40:06

I'm saying to you? No, not

40:08

really. I love a bump. Has

40:11

anybody taken your temperature? No. This

40:13

is to my sweetie. That infectious

40:15

spirit is part of what sets

40:18

him apart. Another is his prices.

40:20

Can't pay. That's okay. You make

40:22

everything sound so easy. It is

40:25

easy. Forget that dollar bill. Now

40:27

I don't see you no matter

40:29

what. You walk in that door.

40:32

You will be seeing you bring

40:34

your grandma with you. I don't

40:36

see her too. Okay. But here's

40:39

what amazed us even more. Right.

40:41

In the nearly 40 years, Dr.

40:43

Z has been practicing. That was

40:46

good. He's never taken a real

40:48

vacation. I think you live. Tells

40:50

every patient they can call him

40:53

24 7, 365. I have his

40:55

cell phone number. Does everybody have

40:57

his cell phone? Yeah. He's always

41:00

available. This guy seems almost unbelievable.

41:02

He is unbelievable because you'll never

41:04

meet another person like him ever.

41:07

A superhero. But hardly. A few

41:09

months ago. Dr. Z was diagnosed

41:11

with cancer. So I got two

41:14

separate cancers. One renal, one rectal,

41:16

but I don't care for them.

41:18

And to add insult to injury,

41:21

Dr. Z didn't have insurance. There

41:23

was a whole series of snafoos,

41:26

but bottom line is he had

41:28

no way to pay for his

41:30

radiation treatments until his patients turned

41:33

the tables on that evergiving doctor.

41:35

I'm like, let's fight, what can

41:37

we do? Dr. Z will not

41:40

give up on you. We damn

41:42

sure ain't giving up on him.

41:44

Whatever needs to be done to

41:47

save Dr. Z, we're going to

41:49

do it, collectively. So, collectively, they

41:51

started a crowdfunding campaign. Nearly a

41:54

thousand people donated, raising more than

41:56

a hundred thousand dollars. Today, his

41:58

prognosis is good. He got his

42:01

insurance back, and now plans to

42:03

funnel any money left over back

42:05

into the community. You know what?

42:08

I'm going to say something I've

42:10

seen crazy as hitting. I'm thankful

42:12

that I got cancer. Because I

42:15

am the happiest man on the

42:17

planet, no matter what the outcome.

42:19

But we have shown and why

42:22

we're sitting in this table right

42:24

there, to show America, this is

42:26

what you about. We about giving.

42:29

I can't make it without them.

42:31

No, can they make it without

42:33

them? You need each other. Let

42:36

this nation hear this story. Let

42:38

it hear this story. And let

42:40

it follow his prescription for a

42:43

better outcome. If you need something,

42:45

you just buzz me, okay? You

42:48

know, I am Irish, and Irish

42:51

people, they don't tell you a

42:53

thing. Irish people keep it so

42:55

bottled up. You know, like the

42:58

plan with Irish people is like,

43:00

I'll keep all my emotions right

43:03

here, and then one day I'll

43:05

die. It's Sunday morning, and here

43:07

again, is MoRaka. From performing to

43:10

sold-out crowds, to hosting Saturday Night

43:12

Live, to starring on Broadway, there

43:14

isn't much comedian John Malaney can't

43:17

do. But as he tells Tracy

43:19

Smith, his career and his life

43:22

haven't always been laughing matters. John

43:24

Malaney is a comedy superstar, finding

43:26

the funny in the familiar. Thank

43:29

you for coming to see me

43:31

at Radio City Music Hall. I

43:33

love to play venues, where if

43:36

the guy that built the venue

43:38

could see me on the stage,

43:40

he would be a little bit

43:43

bummed about it. At 42 he

43:45

already has five highly rated comedy

43:48

specials to his name. Three primetime

43:50

Emmys and a reputation as one

43:52

of the best stand-up guys in

43:55

the game. I can't listen to

43:57

any new songs. Because every new

43:59

song is about how to... Night

44:02

is the night and how we

44:04

only have tonight. I want to

44:07

write songs for people in their

44:09

30s called Tonight's No Good, how

44:11

about Wednesday? But for his new

44:14

job, he's sitting down. Malaney's hosting

44:16

a talk show on Netflix, complete

44:18

with a couch and celebrity guests,

44:21

and the whole thing is live,

44:23

in part because he likes it

44:26

better that way. I love that.

44:28

It's the best. Explain that feeling

44:30

to me. It's like coming up

44:33

against a cliff and kind of

44:35

dangling over it. No, it's dangling

44:37

from the cliff the whole time.

44:40

This begins an experiment during the

44:42

Netflix Comedy Festival last year called

44:45

Everybody's in LA. Talking about LA

44:47

things like earthquakes and coyotes. What's

44:49

a humane, responsible way to scare

44:52

a coyote off if they're coming

44:54

near you? Good question, John. Now

44:56

the show's back with a broader

44:59

focus and a new name and

45:01

it'll go live every Wednesday night

45:04

starting this week. It's a fun

45:06

feeling to know that hopefully a

45:08

lot of people are watching and

45:11

it's live globally with no delay

45:13

and you could really... Damn it.

45:15

And he knows all about live

45:18

TV. Thank you. Thank you very

45:20

much. It is great to be

45:23

here hosting Saturday Night Live for

45:25

the sixth time. It's very nice

45:27

to see all of you. For

45:30

John Malaney, Saturday Night Live is

45:32

home turf. He started as a

45:34

writer there in 2008 and helped

45:37

create some of the show's biggest

45:39

characters, like Bill Hater's Stefan. Malaini

45:43

would often change the script

45:45

last minute to throw Haider

45:47

off, like in this Halloween

45:49

sketch. Have you heard of

45:51

Blackula, the Black Dracula? Yes.

45:53

Well, they have a Jewish

45:56

Dracula. Oh, what's his name?

45:58

Sydney Applebaum. It seems like

46:00

this is the thing John

46:02

Malaney was born to do. Raised

46:04

in Chicago, Malaney says he grew

46:06

up feeling that comedy was his

46:09

destiny. Growing up, was there a

46:11

moment or a memory where you realize

46:13

that you were funny? Always interesting

46:15

in these things because you don't

46:18

want to sound egotistical,

46:20

but I don't remember a time when

46:22

I didn't. Not long after graduating

46:24

from Georgetown, he joined S&L

46:27

and a career was launched.

46:29

Malaney made his mark in

46:31

New York, but he's fascinated with

46:33

Southern California, where he now lives

46:35

year-round. He took us record shopping

46:38

at one of his favorite places,

46:40

the legendary amoeba music, in Hollywood.

46:42

When you come out to places like

46:44

this, do people come up to you or

46:46

do they leave you alone? A little bit.

46:48

My joke is that I'm like Lewis Farakon.

46:51

I mean a lot to a small group

46:53

of people. Truth is, John Malaney is a

46:55

lot bigger than he'll admit. Hello,

46:58

old friend. It is most recent

47:01

special, Baby Jay. He played

47:03

to a sold-out crowd and

47:05

focused on his drug addiction

47:08

and recovery. I walk

47:10

into my intervention two hours

47:12

late. According to my friends,

47:14

this is what I said. Oh, okay.

47:16

He describes a 2020 intervention

47:18

on his behalf, staged

47:21

by friends like Seth

47:23

Myers and Fred Armason.

47:25

Let me just call this out now.

47:27

I don't mean to be weird.

47:29

It was a

47:31

star-studded intervention. It's funny

47:33

now, of course. Malaney says

47:36

he's been clean for more

47:38

than four years. Forgive me

47:40

if this is a naive

47:42

question, but is sobriety

47:44

something that you have to

47:46

think about every day? Well, that's

47:49

a good question. I

47:51

don't think about cocaine opioids

47:53

and... Benz O'Day as a

47:55

pre -in -every -day. I'll acknowledge day. I'll

47:58

acknowledge that I... understand

48:02

the vigilance I

48:04

need? I do not think

48:06

about it every day. I

48:09

just, I don't. I do think

48:11

about the ways that

48:13

I can lead my life

48:15

to perhaps never feel

48:18

the kind of strain

48:20

that got me there. So

48:22

yeah. So Briety maybe being like

48:25

a bigger term than just abstaining

48:27

from the chemicals? I definitely

48:29

think. Malaney credits his

48:32

wife, actress Olivia Munn,

48:34

with helping him navigate his recovery.

48:36

Are you slagging Nebraska? Uh, yes

48:38

I am, you cornfed hay seed.

48:41

You might remember her from Aaron

48:43

Sorkin's The Newsroom. Or maybe X-Men

48:46

Apocalypse. But she's a bit of

48:48

a superhero in real life as

48:50

well. She was diagnosed with breast

48:53

cancer in 2023 and has

48:55

shared her whole journey online

48:58

from the initial test to

49:00

a double mastectomy. Other women

49:03

have since credited her with

49:05

saving their lives. There's this

49:07

lifetime risk assessment test that

49:10

is the really the only

49:12

reason her cancer was discovered

49:14

and seeing so many women.

49:17

publicly and privately come to

49:19

her that they discovered how high their

49:21

risk was from that. She's also a

49:24

mom to their two young children Malcolm

49:26

and May. I have this feeling a

49:28

lot of times I go, I can't believe I

49:30

know this person, let alone in my

49:32

life. My wife and I just welcomed

49:34

a baby girl into our family. Fatherhood

49:37

has given him not only more

49:39

material, but a whole new outlook

49:41

on life. My wife takes care of

49:43

the five-week-old, and I take the

49:45

two-year-old out, and that's not fair.

49:48

That's not an equal distribution of

49:50

labor at all. Saying, you have

49:52

a five-week-old, I'll take a two-year-old.

49:54

That's like saying, I'll transport this

49:56

convict across state lines. You hold

49:59

a potato. John Milaines built

50:01

a good life making people

50:03

laugh. Now, as a husband and

50:05

father of two, he says he

50:07

has something to live for. How

50:10

do you think fatherhood changed

50:12

how you look at the world?

50:14

I'm in the world now that I'm

50:16

a father. My head was my only

50:19

home before that. When my son

50:21

was born, the first thought I

50:23

had was I went, oh, there

50:25

you are. And when my daughter was

50:27

born, I had this... Not

50:30

to meant sound woo or anything.

50:32

Oh, be woo. Well, when she

50:35

was born, I went, oh, my

50:37

thought was like, oh, we've met

50:39

before. I've collided with you some

50:42

other time. So it's like these

50:44

people came in that just, I

50:46

don't know, make me like the

50:48

world a lot more. Although

50:51

Germany's Nazi regime fell

50:53

some eight decades ago, reverberations

50:55

from that reign of terror...

50:58

echo to this day. Here's

51:00

Barry Peterson. Few who

51:03

see Picassas, the actor, at

51:05

New York's Metropolitan Museum

51:07

of Art, know it's

51:10

complicated history. It used

51:12

to hang in the home

51:15

of my great-granduncle Paul Leftman.

51:17

Leftman, a German-Jewish

51:20

businessman, sold it

51:22

in 1938. He needed

51:24

money to escape the Nazis.

51:26

They did get out and they did

51:28

survive, but not all of

51:31

the family did. Laurel Zuckerman

51:33

represents Leftman's heirs, who have

51:35

fought for the painting, worth

51:37

as much as a hundred

51:39

million dollars, claiming it was

51:41

sold under duress. Sold under

51:44

duress. Which means... If there

51:46

had not been Nazi persecution

51:48

against them, they never would

51:50

have sold it. Yet, two American

51:52

courts disagreed. But for other cases...

51:55

The tide may be turning. An

51:57

Amsterdam museum returns out a leaf.

51:59

by Henri Matisse to the

52:01

heirs of Albert and Marie

52:04

Stern, saying it was sold

52:06

under duress. The Sterns had

52:08

tried to escape, but most

52:10

of the family died in

52:12

concentration camps. And in a

52:15

historic policy shift, the French

52:17

Parliament recently unanimously approved a

52:19

law fast tracking the return of art

52:21

to families who claim it is

52:24

rightfully theirs. Why? What's the motive

52:26

here? To recognize what happened and

52:28

to help families to get their

52:30

work. David Jivi of the Culture

52:33

Ministry heads the mission for research

52:35

and return of Nazi-era looted property.

52:37

We have to know the history

52:40

because they should be in the

52:42

rightful owner's hands, because they are

52:44

the last witnesses of what happened

52:47

during the war. These works are

52:49

like the witnesses of the persecution.

52:52

I think there finally is political

52:54

will to recognize that this

52:56

is part of belated justice.

52:58

A decades later, Justice. Yes,

53:00

quite belated. University

53:02

of Denver Professor of History

53:04

Elizabeth Campbell wrote about the

53:07

complicity of the French and

53:09

other European governments in

53:11

keeping what the Nazi stole. She

53:13

says there could be even more

53:15

change, with new guidelines agreed to

53:18

by France and other countries, including

53:20

the United States. These new

53:22

guidelines say that any

53:24

persecuted person who sold a

53:26

work of art during the Nazi

53:29

era should be assumed to have

53:31

done so under duress. So it's

53:33

now giving a blanket acknowledgement

53:36

of coercion in any sale.

53:38

So it's really a dramatic

53:40

change. I don't think you've

53:43

been properly introduced. When

53:45

the Germans retreated, Sam?

53:47

It's your neighbor, Mr.

53:49

Rembrandt. Allied art experts

53:52

found stacks of stolen

53:54

paintings everywhere from caves

53:56

to castles. More than

53:58

60,000 pieces... of art were

54:00

returned to France, but some 2,000

54:03

pieces ended up in limbo, held

54:05

by the French government, with

54:07

no clear rightful owner. So this

54:09

is maybe a painting which was

54:11

not that. We met on, as

54:14

Washington's Renard, in front of one

54:16

such painting at the Musee d'Oresseil

54:18

in Paris. There's really a huge

54:20

wish now by the French to

54:23

clarify the situation. As the museum's

54:25

newly hired providence researcher, her

54:27

job is to find the

54:29

truth about a piece of

54:31

art, naziera past. It's somehow

54:33

as if you take a detective,

54:35

you say, look at all the

54:38

cold cases which happened eight years

54:40

ago and solve it. Each story

54:42

is important and it is worth

54:44

for each family to do this

54:46

effort. But the case of Armand-Dorville

54:48

has pitted the French

54:51

government... against his heirs.

54:53

Among them, Francine Khan.

54:55

Discovering those pictures, it's a

54:58

way to know him. And Raffa. I feel

55:00

anger when we have so

55:02

much difficulties to achieve them.

55:04

Windorville died of natural causes.

55:07

His art collection was sold

55:09

at auction. But due to

55:12

anti-Semitic laws, the French

55:14

authorities confiscated the proceeds

55:16

and family members without

55:18

money to escape. were later

55:21

murdered at Auschwitz. 80 years later,

55:23

a North Carolina museum returned

55:25

one of Dorville's paintings

55:27

to the family, and a

55:30

German museum returned one

55:32

by impressionist Camille Pesaro.

55:34

But the French government is

55:37

refusing to give back more

55:39

than half a dozen paintings

55:41

held in public museums, saying

55:43

the auction was not done

55:45

under duress. It must be hard

55:47

for them to give them back. So...

55:49

I can understand that, but it's just

55:51

right, you know, it's just right. Right

55:54

to give them back to. That's right.

55:56

This one was at the Louvre. The

55:58

family hired Peres lawyer. Karina

56:00

Hirsch, who has spent

56:02

30 years recovering art

56:04

for Jewish families. All

56:07

these people in charge

56:09

of the cultural heritage,

56:11

they were more concerned by

56:13

keeping alive or preserve

56:16

all these paintings and

56:18

worked about than to

56:20

preserve the Jews. Do you

56:22

think some of these museum

56:25

directors are still

56:27

ashamed of how they got? These

56:29

paintings? I think so. I

56:31

think so. They are embarrassed. That's

56:33

for sure. I could imagine.

56:35

The Dorville heirs believe

56:38

they are fighting for

56:40

their history. When you get

56:42

them back into the family,

56:44

do you feel somehow that bad

56:46

history has been corrected,

56:49

erased? Not erased, never

56:51

erased. Members of our family

56:53

died because of it. In

56:55

my mind, it's a way

56:58

to repair the damage that

57:00

was done. It is the

57:03

memory of the family,

57:05

because it was totally

57:08

forgotten, and it

57:10

is on our shoulder to

57:12

awake this story.

57:14

To tell the story. Yes,

57:16

to tell the story.

57:19

I'm Morocco. Thanks

57:21

for listening.

57:23

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