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That's odoo.com. Good morning. I'm Jane Pauley, and this is Sunday morning. Tuesday marks one year since Donald Trump was inaugurated as President for the second time. and both at home and abroad, Fair to say it's been an eventful twelve months.
among the President's many priorities, rethinking the Federal Government. enforcing a strict new immigration policy, and reshaping global trade. One year in counting, Robert Costa looks back and assesses What might come next?
So, help me God. Congratulations. As we enter the second year of the Trump presidency and the 250th since our nation's founding. There are more questions than answers about the future. Where are we as a country?
After 250 years, I think we're at a turning point. Most republics in history don't last 300 years. Ahead on Sunday morning. America at a crossroads. Only the mind of Mel Brooks could have brought us movies like The Producers.
Blazing saddles. and Young Frankenstein, some of the most uproarious comedies of the past sixty years.
Now Director Judd Appetow is exploring the mind and the life of Mel Brooks in a new documentary. He'll tell Tracy Smith all about it. Uh I was born to make people laugh, so I do that. Mel Brooks has packed a lot into his 99 years, so it takes a lot to tell his story. But director Judd Apatow says he had a lot of help.
Because you got everybody to talk about him. Yeah, I mean, we tried to get the people that he touched the most, which is basically... Everybody. You know, he's the total Mount Rushmore. Later on Sunday morning, Judd Apatow on the living comedy legend who inspired a generation.
Uh Tomorrow we'll officially observe the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The civil rights leader would have turned ninety seven last Thursday. This morning Martha Teischner takes us back to a time that helped change the world. This is the place where it happened.
And there you are. Yep. in nineteen sixty. a sit in at the Whites only lunch counter in Tampa, Florida's Woolworths. I can't imagine not being Kind of scared.
You know, there are things that are bigger than fear. A generation willing to risk everything for racial justice. We were arrested, we were put in jail, we suffered all those things. But we didn't stop. coming up this Sunday morning.
Seth Doan catches up with versatile Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård. who's just picked up a golden globe for his new movie, Sentimental Value. Connor Knighton heads out with the High Pointers Club. Intrepid tourists seeking the highest peak in each of our 50 states. Plus, I'll have thoughts about Who's Your Pride on the eve of tomorrow's College Football Championship.
And more. on this Sunday morning for the eighteenth of january, twenty twenty six. We'll be back after this. Yeah. One year on, we begin with a look back at the first year of the second Trump presidency.
from our Robert Costa.
So help me go. Congratulations. Since President Trump took office a year ago, the news has never let up. Just consider recent weeks. An attack in Venezuela.
An assault like people have not seen since World War II. Talk of acquiring Greenland. I would like to make a deal of the easy way, but if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way. A criminal investigation of the Federal Reserve Chair. This unprecedented action should be seen in the broader context of the administration's threats.
And the fatal shooting of an American woman in Minneapolis by a federal immigration agent.
Now, as we enter the second year of the second Trump presidency, we also enter the 250th year of our republic. Time to take a deep breath. and take stock. Where are we as a country? I think we're at a turning point.
Most republics in history don't last 300 years, and it's because it's a really hard thing to do. It's a nation that is based on an idea rather than a shared ethnic or religious background, and that means it's going to be messy.
Well, Congress has kind of disappeared. Historian Lindsay Chervinsky is executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon in Virginia. One of President Trump's most famous quotes is, I alone can fix this. He has put himself at the center, not only of the American presidency, but the American system. I think the American system was never designed to be based on one person.
That's really what the revolution is all about. The best administrations that we have seen, I would put Washington at the top of that list, Lincoln, FDR, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, they understood that they were better if they had Congress on their side, if they were working together to pass legislation, to make decisions that would stand the test of time because they had the buy-in of the American people through their representatives. We're totally in control of the House. Look, Trump has had almost total buy-in from the Republican-controlled Congress. Buckle up passed his signature legislation last year.
What he called his big beautiful bill of spending and tax cuts. From the very beginning, Congress was always envisioned as the vital force of the government. It was the body that was going to put forth legislation. It was going to pass a budget. It established the rules for any sort of military force.
It could declare war. It was supposed to be the most powerful branch, which is why it's first. Recently, Trump told reporters his morality is the only thing that can stop him. Is President Trump testing the bounds of executive power? President Trump is denying that there are bounds of executive power.
Washington Post columnist George Will has chronicled power dynamics for more than 50 years. You are a conservative. You have sharp criticism for President Trump and his use of power. Many Republicans, when I'm up on Capitol Hill, they privately agree with you, but they're silent. Why?
Fear! It's really simple. 435 members of the House. There are perhaps 35 competitive districts, which means. that an incumbent Republican only has to fear a primary from the right, being primaried.
And they all feel. They are one hostile Trump tweet. away from a primary challenge. But you say the job isn't even that great these days to be a U.S. House member.
And that's why we have this really unfortunate dynamic, that the very sort of people you want to stay are leaving. You want them to stay because they take the job seriously. They're leaving because they say it's not a serious job anymore. The use of federal forces in American cities and towns. alarming to you or Just the presidency and the administration doing what they do.
But other presidencies haven't done this. Surely, when Detroit had horrible riots in the sixties, and Watts and all the rest, troops were sent in, National Guard. No president has done what this one has done. These young men and women come in and I dress for combat on Iwo Jima. But the masks, why are they wearing masks?
What are they hiding and from whom? And why? When President Trump came to power in 2017, he seemed almost unfamiliar at the start with where the levers. of power were in the federal government. This time around, President Trump seems quite comfortable with where everything is and how to use his power.
I think he has adjusted to the presidency, and I also think. Unlike in 2017. In the first year of the second Trump term, we realized that he had people around him now who understood the nuts and bolts of government. And they've pushed things. They have pushed things.
You gotta be more thankful. Because let me tell you, you don't have the cards. That push is evident on the foreign front. Where the president has pursued an aggressive policy that has been cheered by domestic allies, but rattled allies abroad. He came in this time really keen to be president to the world, not just to Americans.
He's coming to it with what his supporters call masculine foreign policy. Vivian Salama covers foreign affairs for the Atlantic. Seven years ago, she and colleagues revealed President Trump had designs on Greenland. Bob, I thought it was a joke. You thought it was a joke back then, but not now.
It certainly is not a joke now. And in fact, we know that there are serious policy discussions happening at the State Department and the White House and elsewhere in the government where the wheels are very much in motion to try to figure out how best to make this happen. Venezuela. Russia and Ukraine. China, Taiwan, Iran.
The list goes on and on. In this year, What perhaps could be the most vexing issue for President Trump in the world? President Trump still has. The Ukraine-Russia war hovering over him. Remember, on the campaign trail, he promised to solve it before he even took office.
He said it would take 24 hours. Seems a little harder than that. It is a little harder than that. Governing is hard, Bob. Governing is actually hard.
And diplomacy is even harder, and especially when you're dealing with someone like Vladimir Putin, who was a shrewd KGB agent and knows how to manipulate his adversaries. And this is what President Trump is realizing. And he says, this is a hard one. And I thought it was going to be easy, but it's hard. Another hard one this year's midterm elections.
The economy will be issue number one, and who controls Congress could determine the future of Trump's presidency. And the President remains at the center of it all. leaving us all wondering what comes next. Historian Lindsay Chervinsky. It seems like we're living in history.
almost every week. with the Trump presidency. Yes, we're definitely living through a historic time. I personally like writing about historic times. I think I'd be okay living in a boring moment for a little while.
Those living through the Revolution or the Civil War understood that they were living through a historic moment. And I think that is true of this moment. We can feel that history is being made. We're just not exactly sure what future generations are going to say about us. USAA knows dynamic duos can save the day, like superheroes and sidekicks or auto and home insurance.
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I didn't have to walk around with the knowledge that there was someone like you out there. Thirty years ago, Swedish actor Stalin Skarsgård appeared alongside Matt Damon in Goodwill Hunting. Today Skarsgård is a newly minted Golden Globe winner. serious contender for an Oscar nomination later this week. Seth Doane has a Sunday profile.
When you land in the airport, your picture's up. I've seen that. You're a big deal. have a picture up in the airport. Sweden is a small country.
He's self-effacing, and while Stellan Skarsgård was recognized on our stroll through his hometown of Stockholm, respectful, shy Swedes may help keep any Hollywood actor ego in check. They don't say like Americans does that, oh my god, it's you! These orders are seven bloody hours old. Sitting on the bottom like an adult schoolboy. He's recognizable from any number of roles over the decades.
Hollywood blockbusters. He made it! He's alive! And now he sends you to tell me that he's coming to get me. Popular streaming shows what is my sacrifice?
I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy. to defeat them. European Art House Fair. To make love to. And then come back here and tell me about it.
And, well, Uh This morning I was watching you singing in Mamma Mia. Watching is okay, but listening to it. I've tried to get into projects where I enjoy myself and have a fun time and uh that's why I'm I'm not bored. I'm I made 150 films, I I still love it, you know? 150 films it seems impossible to make that many films.
Well, some are very short. His break came at age 16 on Swedish television. And I think it's a good thing. Yeah. Now at 74, a new high in the Norwegian film Sentimental Value.
He plays a once-successful filmmaker trying to reconcile with his estranged daughter. Best amount of money. I'm not sure. Ha ha ha ha ha. I'm not sure if I can do it.
How is it to get a role like this at this point? It's not perfect. We talked about that role over a meal of herring. This is in Laisil, that is just pickled herring. And Swedish meatballs.
I wonder if I have got any of rolls like this before. I think this is the best Roll for you ever? Maybe.
Alright wrong. Stellan Skarsgaard. He picked up a golden globe for it just last week. I thought that I was too old. around your street You have a lot of moments of sentimental value where the camera just watches you.
where you're not necessarily saying much, but you're saying a lot with with your expression. You like all that stuff? I love that stuff. Movies, real movies, are not literature. Cinema to me is what happens in the image.
Not what what is said. What is not said In the film, he plays the father of two. In real life, he's the father of eight. All eight of the kids live right around here? Yeah.
What are the chances of that? Slim. All of his kids have worked in the film industry. Five are actors. It's an unusual family business.
Why do you make that face? Insane. In a way, I mean uh what is the chance? I didn't encourage them. They have no illusions about the uh the business.
They see I am I'm happy and I'm enjoying what I'm doing, so they probably learn from that. You're going down. I'm an old man. You're going down. We'll see you go to the top.
He playfully sparred with one of his sons, Alexander, when the two were nominated for the same award last year. Cinema Value Beautiful film. You play yourself, right? That's an insult. Absentee father.
Did you ever find that? You had difficulty in balancing family and career? I sort of made sure that I was at home a lot. But you can't be a perfect father all my son. You've got to accept.
And the kids have to accept. I'm flawed. Good luck. Do you remember productions that you did here? We met Skarsgård at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre.
I did like L'École de Femme, The School of Wives, by Bolière with a great actor called Uh you see? Yeah. That's what you're talking about. That's what we're talking about. Uh had a stroke that makes me forget my language, forget uh words and makes me more stupid and makes me less funny and everything.
Do you really feel that? That's funny? You should I felt so funny before. Must be tough. Yeah, well.
I'm I'm 74 years old and uh And uh I'm alive. Since that twenty twenty two stroke, he wears an earpiece on set to help with lines. It's actually more complicated than learning the lines, because the prompter has to say their line while the other actor is talking. He wore it while shooting Sentimental Value, this film about the pull between career and what's really important. Hi, Papa.
I've had kids in the seventies, in the eighties, in the nineties, in the zeros and in the tens. Do you learn more from Having kids for five decades or making 150 films? Maybe I couldn't have made 150 films if I hadn't have eight kids to learn from. Because you learn things from your kids. Yeah, I stole things from them.
Like what? Like expressions and the sort of naive. uh attitude towards everything and just watch them is fantastic. It's a curiosity in humanity that Stellan Skarsgård explores and expresses through acting. It is like being a child, you know, you never grow up, you're allowed to play all the time.
Is that how you feel now? Yeah. This uh make-believe and Kids in the the sandbox, they they do that all the time. And they shouldn't stop. As we mark the birth of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. this holiday weekend. Our Martha Teischner offers a snapshot of a critical time in these United States.
Now is the time. to make real the promises of democracy. For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday.
Now is the time. There he is in granite on the National Mall in Washington, DC. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, We thought it might be a good time to look back at some events from the tumultuous decade between 1955 and 65. This is the place where it happened. And there you are.
Yep. and meet people who lived them. Once we die, then the civil rights generation leaders will be gone. There I am. Arthenia Joyner became a prominent lawyer and a Florida state senator.
but in February nineteen sixty, Joyner, seventeen then, was one of twenty black high school students picked by the NAACP to take part in a sit in at a whites only lunch counter.
So where exactly was the lunch counter? It was right about here. The old Woolworths in downtown Tampa, Florida is just a gutted shell now. Where were you?
Okay. I was about, oh yeah, about here. Yeah. Similar sit-ins by students took place across the South. I can't imagine not being kind of scared.
You know, there are things that are bigger than fear. Older folks thought that You're taking a heck of a chance. You could get killed. Why are you doing this? Because we have a right to fight for respect and dignity and we are going to do it.
It's time for a change. Joyner was a fifth grader in 1954 when the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated schools were unconstitutional. it said that I was equal. I was entitled.
to have schools like the ones that the white kids went to. That inspired me. 1955, December 1st. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. What came next was the Montgomery bus boycott.
Approximately 40,000 black Montgomeryans decided it was time. They walked or took black-owned taxis or carpooled rather than riding the bus. for over a year. 90% at least. Other regular Negro bus passengers are staying off the buses and we plan to continue.
until something is done. Their spokesman, a young, unknown Martin Luther King Jr. We still advocate non-violence, a passive resistance, and the man next to Dr. King. With Rosa Parks, was their lawyer, Fred Gray.
Just out of law school, twenty six years old, he won the US Supreme Court case that ended segregation on Alabama's buses, and by extension all public transportation. The first of four civil rights cases he would win before the Supreme Court. big ones, by the age of thirty five. It was just taking one step at a time. And in my mind, was to ultimately File lawsuits would destroy everything segregated on the trial.
Fred Gray, 95 now. Winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. was the titan of the civil rights movement the public didn't see at the head of a march. He was in court. Without those lawsuits, would any of what we consider the civil rights movement achievements of that ten years have been possible?
I don't think so. That just hurt me. What else was pushing change? Television. I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.
On the evening news, images of nonviolence. Being met with brutality. Can we get that? Let us close the springs of racial poisoning. The Civil Rights Act passed in 1964.
Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize, but the confrontations didn't stop. The screams of the marchers and the thud of the clubs and hoofbeats were carried by television to an unbelieving America and to a determined president. Bloody Sunday. Selma, Alabama, March 7th, 1965.
at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Ah! This was not the peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery to promote voting rights that King and other movement leaders had spent months planning. staying here. with the Jackson family in Selma.
The world had a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I had an Uncle Martin. They read me bedtime stories. and offered me cookies.
Joanna Jackson was four. Her father, a dentist, and her mother, a teacher, saved everything. And this is. The chair aware that they were preserving history. The house and its contents have been acquired by the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan and moved there.
This house, for a brief period of time, belonged to the world. It opens to the public in June. History is portable. The history and the message of the Jackson House can be told anywhere. but it must be shared.
Here, after Bloody Sunday, Coordinating with President Lyndon Johnson and convincing the federal courts to let the march to Montgomery go ahead. consumed these men. On March 15th, as President Johnson spoke, 70 million Americans watched. Really, it's all of us. who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry.
and injustice. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his inner circle from the Jackson Living Room. and we shall overcome. On March 21st, Marchers set off from Selma protected, not beaten, by law enforcement.
By the time they reached Montgomery four days later, There were 25,000. We ain't gonna let nobody turn us around. That's not the same. There you go. That's my mother.
Joanna Jackson and her mother among them. On the 6th of August 1965, LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act. considered by many the crowning achievement of the civil rights era. Lately, Attorney Fred Gray has watched as the Supreme Court chips away at it and other milestones, he's devoted his life. to making the law of the land.
Do you think the clock is turning back? I think it has turned back. But we can't give up. We can't look at saying it's turned back and then say, well, I'll go up. We were arrested, we were put in jail.
We suffered all those things. But we didn't stop. If you're blue and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits? Young Frankenstein is just one of the films that made Mel Brooks a comedy legend.
Now at age 99, Brooks is the subject of a new documentary directed by one of his biggest fans, Judd Appetow. Who's talking with Tracy Smith? I'm very honored to be asked to present the award for Best Director. Because I'm pretty sure that means the Globe's people think I'm also one of the best directors. At the Golden Globes last week, Judd Apatow cracked up the room, but he's more at home behind the camera.
You won't look good after this, man. Thanks, man. Apatau has helped create some of the more memorable moments on film. Yeah. Oh.
Oh, you s. None of these journals are the same. He's also made documentaries about some of his idols, like Gary Shandling. and George Carlin. This is your home.
You have a giant Buddha. But his latest subject hardly needs an introduction. A house needs a Buddha. That's a huge. Every house needs a Buddha.
How'd this get decorated? Who picked this? My late great wife, Anne Bancroft. She had good taste in everything except husbands. Why'd you decide to do one on mail?
Well, Mel is the reason why most of us went into comedy. You know, when I was a kid, I was born in 1967, and all these Mel Brooks movies came out. while I was a little kid. and trying to figure out what the world meant and who I was. And here was this hilarious tiny Jewish man who was really loud and brash and confident and seemed like the coolest guy in the world.
And I think me and a lot of people thought. Oh, that's the job. You would want. You would want to be Mel Brooks.
Now why did you become a comedian? Sex. I see. Mel Brooks, the 99-year-old man, streams this week on HBO Max. Co-directed by Michael Bonfiglio, it's the surprisingly personal origin story of a comedy legend.
A Brooklyn kid raised by a single mom whose four sons went off to war. I was sent from a provincial tenement in Brooklyn. to France. 1104th Engineer Combat Battalion. And the Germans had just left France?
Yeah. And so your job was to make sure they didn't leave behind booby traps and 45 degree angle with your bayonet, go through the soil. Fine, fine, fine. Tink. Think.
Nothing. And I said to him, You know, did you ever think that you were gonna die? And he goes, only every second of every day. Mel Brooks came home from the war, but he never really stopped fighting the Nazis. Springtime for Hitler.
Why do you think Hitler was a frequent target for him? The fear that it was going to happen again. And then if you don't keep pointing out how horrifying this is, And it can you know, slowly bubble back up. which is something we see right now. Emel was the one always pointing the finger, so Hey boys Look what I got here!
Uh Hey, where the white women at? And he was equally fearless against racism. His 1974 film Blazing Saddles is the story of a black sheriff in a racist town. Mm-hmm. Critics were divided over the raunchy comedy, but it was a monster hit with moviegoers.
Pardon me, boy. Is this the Transylvania station? Yeah, yeah, truck 29! And just a few months later, he came out with this. Walk this way.
Okay. Yeah. Mm-hmm. This way. We all know that there are all these great movies that he's done, but two of them came out in the same year.
Yeah. Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein? What did that do for Mel Brooks' status? He just became Beyoncé for a little while. I mean, he was a real sensation.
And it was kind of shocking, right, to two of the best comedies of all time come out in the same year. And we didn't talk about this in the documentary, but there was some sense. that blazing saddles was so daring that maybe he made sure to make another movie.
So if they really turned on him with the blazing saddles, they already had another one to show them. Bye! It wasn't all just for laughs. Mel Brooks also produced dramas like The Elephant Man, but he did it quietly. He didn't put his name on it.
He thought it was a distraction and he would think the movie was silly because his name was on it. But yet it said Brooks Film, so I think people figured it out. I think he should put his name on there. What has kept you alive for 2,000 years? An enormous fear of death.
No history of Mel Brooks' life would be complete without a mention of his best friend, the comedy giant, Carl Reiner. It's one of the great friendships of all time because they were friends for. I mean 70 years, maybe more. And You know, some people are just magic together. They just fit.
And they adored each other more than I've ever seen two people. Adore and respect each other. And I asked him, you know, what is the core of this? And he said, he's my father. Carl was only four years older, but Mel looked up to him, and later in life, as widowers, they leaned on one another.
Anne Bancroft died in 2005. Estelle Reiner in 2008. How do you think he went on after Ann died? I think it was very, very hard. You know, he famously would go eat dinner and watch a movie with Carl Reiner at Carl Reiner's house.
and did that for many, many years and they supported each other. And that's how both of them got through it. And then after Carl died, Mel would go to Carl's house. Alone And eat dinner and watch a movie. And I asked him why, and he said, because it just feels like.
He's there. in some way. Um I want everything I've ever seen in the movies! Leo, Seo, join me! I'll do it!
My God, I'll Mel Brooks, who will turn 100 in June, has two Oscars, four Emmys, and the Broadway version of his hit movie The Producers has 12 Tonys, a record that still stands today. He also won three Grammys, so that gives him rare EGOT status as the winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. Hiyang Z. Anxiety. What's more, he's lived long enough to see how his work endures, in his films, and in the countless comedians he inspired.
What did he say when you asked him about his legacy? He said He thought he was put on this earth. to make people laugh. And He did that. What do you think Mel Brooks's legacy is?
The main one is Probably the funniest person. of all time. and creator of some of the best films of all time, one of the great Broadway musicals of all time. who had the courage to make comedy both about unimportant things and the most important things. And he did it.
Longer than anybody. Our Connor Knighton has begun twenty twenty six. On a high. California's Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States. Reaching its windswept summit requires a strenuous hike of more than twenty miles round trip.
ascending to an elevation of 14,505 feet. But for the 180 people who recently gathered in the nearby town of Bishop, Mount Whitney is on exactly the same level as Mississippi's Woodall Mountain, Nebraska's Panorama Point, or Indiana's Hoosier Hill. Each stands tall as a state high point. There is Denali, there's Rainier, there's Hood that are really difficult peaks, but you can do a lot of peaks. that are easy to do, that are a fun trip with a family.
Shannon Brummond is the president of the High Pointers Club, a group devoted to celebrating and summiting the highest peak in every state. It's partially about just coming together as a group that enjoys this kind of weird hobby that people haven't heard of. On the surface, to those who do not prioritize elevation above all else, high pointing might sound a little bit pointless. I mean, after all, why would a person with enough skill to climb Wyoming's challenging Gannett Peak at nearly 14,000 feet also care about visiting Britton Hill, a parking lot in the panhandle of Florida with an elevation of 345 feet? We have this like huge, unique, beautiful, and diverse country, and a lot of people don't see a lot of it.
And I just think high pointing is an amazing way to travel around the country and have like a purpose and a guideline on how to do that. In 2021, at 17 years old, Lucy Westlake became the youngest woman to ever visit every state high point. She now writes a column for the club's Apex to Zenith newsletter. For most members, getting to all 50 is a lifetime goal.
So, 50 completed, please stand up. Get the love of this crowd. Back in 1970, CBS's Charles Courault met up with a man in Colorado on a mission to visit them all in a single year. What Mitch Michaud was doing there was fulfilling an ambition to climb to the highest peak in all 50 states in one year. What I was doing there is exactly what I kept asking myself.
Okay. While some of the high points are extremely physically challenging, others like Mount Washington in New Hampshire or High Point State Park in New Jersey have drivable summits. And some can be logistically complex. A lot of high growth says this is the hardest high point because you just gotta time it. The highest point in Illinois, Charles Mound, is on a private farm.
But to accommodate the altitude-obsessed, the landowners allow access on just four weekends a year. Oh, look at this. They've been to 38 high points. Carol and Greg Weiland came from Ohio to continue their tradition of taking photos of their shoes on every survey marker. Ray O'Connor came from New York.
Floridian Rick Wise has been hitting high points with his dog, Kika. Two weeks before traveling to Illinois from Montana, D. Winter summited Utah's 13,528-foot Kings Peak. As a group, they encourage you to keep going and keep moving. And I think that's important.
As you age, you've got to keep moving. You have to. Otherwise she'll sit and die. And I'm not up for that yet. Up on Charles Mound, surrounded by soybean fields, it's certainly scenic.
But It's not like this is some superlative viewpoint that everyone says you have to see. It is really just the sort of geographical quirk that has brought you here. Yeah, but you know, the scenery, the farm fields, the dirt roads, there's a little bit of magic in almost every route that brings you to one of these places. It's what brought siblings Leady and Shak von Schee from the Netherlands to the U.S. for dozens of high-pointing expeditions.
When you tell your friends back home that you flew to the US to go to some mountain in Kentucky that no one there has ever heard of, what reaction do you get?
Well, they don't understand, but we do, and that's most important. And the nice thing about high pointing is that all those high points are places you would would normally not go, so. Places like Bishop, California. As Shannon Brummond explains, coming to these conventions, discussing all of these highs and lows, offers a chance to enjoy some middle ground. I think being part of the club has helped me realize like if you sit down in a room with people.
and you're talking about something that you love. all the rest of the stuff matters less. Tomorrow night, the Miami Hurricanes take on the Indiana Hoosiers in the highly anticipated college football championship game. And I, for one. We'll be watching.
Are we love? The opening phrase of my school anthem, as inscrutable as it is beautiful. Gloriana Frangipana. Lord. Franchipana, in the context of our anthem, has no real meaning.
But it's lovely, and it rhymes Gloriana Frangiopana, Ere to her be true Back in the day I knew of a girl who thought Herbie True was the university's founder. Gloriana Franjipana. She's the pride of Indiana. See ya. Surprise.
Indiana, hail to all time. I speak of Indiana University. And please make a note, there is no University of Indiana. anywhere. None.
Indiana, University.
Okay. I am a proud alumna. Not only that, I'm a Hoosier. Five generations on both sides. Touchdown.
Nice touchdown. Touchdown!
Now my Hoosiers have reached the pinnacle. a national championship within their grasp. Consider that at the start of this season Indiana held the record for the most losses by any college football program. Let's go, Hoosiers! Let's go!
That's the kind of story we Hoosiers can get behind. A Come From Behind Underdog Story. Rudy. And don't forget, men, today's the day we're gonna win. They can't wait us in the fight, and who's been gonna go in there and fight, fight, fight, fight?
Breaking away. Mm. I'm not sure if I can do it. And of course. Let's win this and for All the small schools have never had a chance to get here.
My all-time number one. Hoosiers is a perfect movie. The story is true.
Well It's true enough. A basketball crazy town, name me one in Indiana that isn't. In 1954, Tiny Milan defies the odds and makes it to the State Finals. Everything stops during the Indiana State High School basketball tournament. Where do you think the expression March madness comes from?
The coach of Milan hailed from my father's home town. That was the first year the state championship was televised from the cathedral of high school basketball. Butler Field House. I was only three. But I remember.
The kids had been put to bed, but awakened by jubilation and tears. Five point down, drop this from the tackle. Go ahead. Plucky Myelin won. The Indiana of Memory and Mythology.
Mm-hmm. The Hoosiers take the field. These current Hoosiers have flipped the script. A story not steeped in nostalgia, but glamour and excitement. an unexcitable coach, discipline training.
and a lot of money to back it up. But the Stars, a team assembled from the overlooked, not an elite five star recruit among them. Tomorrow night Indiana meets its destiny against the hurricanes of the University of Miami. I can't predict the outcome, but can say with certainty there will be a sea of crimson. Zone.
Quarterback Fernando Mendoza. Born a mile from the Miami Stadium. A Florida boy. A Hoosier now. who brings with him the Hope of Indiana along with a Heisman Trophy.
And a 15-0 record, Indiana's first perfect season in 139 years. Lord. Gloriana Frenjapana. She's the pride of Indiana. Hale to old and new.
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