Good morning. I'm Jane Pauley, and this is Sunday morning. If you've visited a popular tourist destination lately, or live near one, you've probably experienced it. No room at the inn. Throngs of people crowding museums, packing famous landmarks, with seemingly everyone posing for selfies.
It's enough to make you want to take a vacation from your vacation. Yes, tourism is one of the world's biggest industries, but some cities are starting to say enough is enough. as Seth Doan will explain.
Okay, so We travel Europe in search of solutions. Over tourism is so important, we have to address it. We have to look it in the face and call it what it is. The problem of too many tourists is being felt from here in Portofino. here in Amsterdam.
A city of canals. And crowds. dealing with so many tourists coming up. this Sunday morning. The legendary musician Sting has been writing and performing almost non-stop for the past half century.
Now Mark Phillips tells us he's focusing on a musical that hits particularly close to home. I used to go to church with my dad up there. Sting had a choice growing up. Work in the shipyards. We're down in the coal mines.
Woo! Mark Slam. He chose neither. I just wanted a bigger life than the one I was being offered. It was only later that I realized that Where I'd been brought up was actually a gift.
A gift he's now giving back in a show he hopes is his legacy. Later on Sunday mornings. It's well known that all kinds of people can benefit from all sorts of therapy. This morning Leslie Stoll introduces us to one approach with horsepower. Yeah.
Yeah. As we discovered, healing doesn't always come in words.
Sometimes it arrives on four hooves. As soon as he saw me, he came right up to me and put his head down towards my chest. Oh my gosh. And it was almost like an embrace, maybe a hug. Just letting you know things are going to be okay.
Look at your smile. You're really smiling, telling me about it. You love him. I love him. horsepower ahead on Sunday morning.
Allison Aubrey this morning shows us how a free online test. could lead to a sharper brain and better overall health. We'll visit a new exhibit of artifacts dedicated to the life and work of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Lee Cowan heads to the Catskills of New York State, where a once neglected golf course is now the talk of the sports world. Luke Burbank pops the top of a Pez dispenser to explore the secrets within.
We'll have a story from Steve Hartman. HUMOR FROM AUTHOR DAVID SEDERIS and more. On this first Sunday morning of a new month, May 3rd, 2026. We'll be back in a moment. Yeah.
As we head into the summer travel season, the world's most famous destinations have one thing abundantly in common. Lots and lots and lots of tourists.
So when is many? too many. Seth Doan checks it out. Um We're bombarded, lured, or both as hotels, airlines, social media influencers, cruise companies, and our own friends curate. post.
Contempt. Tourism can bring a lot to a community. Money, jobs. Yeah, I mean tourism is a huge economic force. Globally, tourism is 10% of the global economy.
It's about one in ten jobs around the world. What's often cropped out are the crowds and lines, the frustrations that can come with vacationing today or living in a vacation destination. Where we see neighborhoods starting to serve tourists more than residents, that's where we start to see problems. And that's where we start to see pushbacks. Like we've seen some anti-tourism protests in places like Barcelona.
Paris-based writer Paige McClanahan has covered travel and tourism for decades. The Louvre is a place on many tourists' checklists. Absolutely. I mean, the Louvre is the world's most visited museum. In June 2025, employees went on strike because of its inability to cope with the crowds.
I think it's obviously an iconic spot. It's also a spot that really epitomizes some of the pressures that we've been talking about. In The New Tourist, McClanahan traces how guidebooks, low-cost airlines, and now social media are fueling a surge in travel. In 1950, there were 25 million tourist arrivals around the world. Today, there's more than 1.5 billion.
It feels like tourism is having a coming of age moment where destinations are really waking up to the fact that tourism is something that needs regulation, it needs taxes, it needs urban planning laws, it needs physical infrastructure. At the same time, tourists, we travelers, are also waking up to the impact of our presence in places. Has social media been good or bad for travel? Yes. Yes, to both.
Yes, to both. Consider this. A canyon in Iceland had to be closed after a Justin Bieber music video attracted too many tourists. A farmer in Italy's Dolomites protested crowds by installing a turnstile to charge to get to Instagrammable spots like these. Then there's this fragile city.
Each year, around 30 million visitors come here to Venice. That's about 600 times the local population. In 2024, the city implemented a fee for day trippers of 5 to 10 euros at peak times. It's one way to combat the crush of tourists. It's also tried banning massive cruise ships, but tourists still come.
Portofino on Italy's other coast added new rules to manage the behavior of those already there. It's so busy you have to limit the truck. It's busy every day. Police Commander Chierello Giuseppina got new duties this past summer when Portofino banned drinking alcohol or sitting on the ground in main streets and squares. Also off limits in peak times, being barefoot or shirtless.
There's an up to 500 Euro fine. Do you ever hear complaints? People who say, why do I have to put on a shirt? No, no, we have no complaints. In general, people understand.
We explain that we are Yes, on the sea, but we are in a very famous center and it's correct to respect and enjoy the town. Across Europe, countries are trying to regulate tourism. Spain started removing tens of thousands of illegal Airbnbs and introduced taxes which decrease over time to encourage longer stays. What should tourist destinations, municipalities do? It's not the sexiest topic really, but one really interesting tool is a tourism tax.
And we're seeing that in Amsterdam, they've upped the tourist tax to 12.5%, which is currently the highest in Europe. Amsterdam is known for its canals and more and more its crowds. Home to fewer than one million residents, it saw a record twenty-three million tourists in twenty twenty four. At a certain point, residents started to raise their voices. Anushuka Trauszka used to manage what she called a typical tour company, but said she had an inner conflict.
She organizes community sessions to brainstorm solutions to over-tourism. We is her booner in Audienciad. And started tours that matter. Which tailors visits, often touring less trafficked spots. It's upcoming districts.
And it's not long to get here. It's a minute. like taking the ferry to North Amsterdam.
So they used like old houseboats. This former shipyard is on one of her tours. Isn't this just a drop in the bucket? When you're talking about 20 million, 20 million plus tourists, bringing a handful of people here doesn't really change anything. That's what you would think.
But with Tours That Matter we've been very much part of a pioneer movement. And then we still have this large, large tourism that is just asking for transition.
Okay, this is my street. This is your street here? Yeah, my street. Edwin Shlovenik is pushing for that transition. How long have you been here?
33 years. He lives in the world-famous Red Light District, known for its windows and sex workers, but says his friends won't come visit anymore. Because they're too many tourists. Lately he's been able to find a little more peace at home. Guided tours are no longer allowed in the often noisy neighborhood, and bars must close earlier.
He's also joined a community campaign called We Live Here. The idea is to uh show this uh the visitors to this area. that there's not only party, but there's also a residential area. There are different campaigns, the We Live Here campaign. We can see the sign right there.
There are different efforts underway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I love that campaign. I think those efforts are great. But it's great, but it's just not enough.
Jasper Van Dijk is an economist who's part of a group trying to sue the city of Amsterdam for not adhering to an agreed-upon cap of 20 million tourists. One of the reasons we wanted to come here is because you see both the problem and you do see some solutions too. The city has taken measures to combat this. Yeah, the city definitely took measures. And I think we also wanted to fund runners in Europe, but we're saying it's quite too little, too late.
We can do way more. He thinks even higher tourist taxes would cut down on the numbers. We had plenty of questions for the city of Amsterdam, but could not get anyone to talk with us. The mayor, the deputy mayor involved in tourism, even the marketing agency working with the city each declined our request to be interviewed. The irony is that 10 years ago, the city had so much success with its marketing iAmsterdam that it later launched another campaign encouraging rowdy visitors to stay away.
In too many cases, you have to get to sort of a breaking point before the city wakes up and realizes they need to invest like this. Paige McClanahan says solutions need to be catered to each community, but some of the responsibility lies on those of us traveling. Whether tourism is going to be more of a force for good in the world or more of a destructive force, a challenging force, is really up to us to decide. You know, if we all come together and treat tourism with the respect and the scrutiny and the responsibility that it deserves, then we can use our power to turn tourism into a constructive force for humanity. Here's Golden Temple, Golden Tempo, and Cherie DeVoe make history in the Kentucky Derby.
First female trainer to win. The Kentucky Derby. Horsepower was on full display at Churchill Downs for the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby. This morning our Sixty Minutes colleague Leslie Stahl has a story about a slightly different kind of horsepower. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, you got it, you got it.
Meet 12-year-old Thomas. Remember, no trotting. He has a horse therapy session once a week.
Okay? Yeah, you got it. We'll be right here with you. To help deal with his developmental delays. You're amazing.
Riding boosts his confidence and calms him.
Okay, we're ready for. 22-year-old Bella has Down syndrome.
Alright, Bella, let's do it again. We're gonna trot. We're at Endeavour Farm in Westchester County, New York, where horses are helping people with disabilities. Good job, better. Horses have a sixth sense about people who need help.
Mm-hmm. Are you ready now? Yeah. Are your heels down? Yeah.
Like 19-year-old Ana Lucia Meyer, who has cerebral palsy.
So, Anna Lucia, look towards me. Steer Scout to come in towards me. Horses are unique in that they can sense and feel human emotions. And they move a lot more like we do than you might think. Ana Lucia's mother, Amelia Meyer, says Scout has changed her daughter's life.
I'm incredibly proud of her. You know, she's come so far. Do you think that this has helped her to walk? Oh, absolutely. I mean, when she first started at four years old, she was wearing a brace to hold her upright.
And now she's holding herself upright and she's able to keep that posture. Don't look at me! Look at your horse! What I think is so unique about horses is the fact that they're a herd animal, and they invite humans to be part of their herd. Emily Bushnell started Endeavour Farm as a non-profit 12 years ago.
They invite us to be part of the herd, but what does that mean? Herd animals, their whole goal is to keep one another safe.
So once you're within eight feet of a horse, They're cueing into your heart rate, to your breath rate, and they are picking up on how you're feeling. When you choose horses to work in your program, what are you looking for? We're looking for horses with different movement, different height, different Personality, different width, and so all the different types of people that come to the farm have a horse that matches well with them. That's Bear sitting in on our interview. There are fifteen horses in the Endeavour herd.
Rye is the resident thoroughbred. And look at these adorable sibling minnies. Cookie and Cody. What inspired you to start this farm? Ever since I was a young girl, horses have been part of my story.
They've been my best friends. They've been my teachers. Did a horse ever help you? 100%. When I was a young kid, I really struggled with anxiety, with ADD, and it wasn't something that really was talked about a whole bunch.
And then my work with horses really helped me. be calm, be present, and kind of find that inner strength. Emily and her team go to Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York State's only maximum security prison for women. They transport the horses there for a 10-week course twice a year. Hardened inmates interact with the horses on foot.
They walk the horses. They groom them. When we're grooming our horse, that's how we make a bond with them. And they even braid their hair. helping them make a connection free of judgment.
The women are being trained for an entry-level job at a racetrack. And of course, there's the therapeutic value. What do you think you're getting out of the grooming part of it? You know, it's like petting a dog. You know, when you have a dog on your lap and you're just brushing and petting the dog and you get that comfortable feeling.
You get that with the horses as well here. Are you mostly in this place agitated or tense?
Some days you're agitated, some days you're not. But no matter what, it's still very calming. This young mother was convicted of assault in the second degree. Tell me about the dormitory you're in. Oh, yes, I'm in the nursery.
So when I got incarcerated, I was pregnant and I had her while I was up here.
So they have a special unit for like moms and the babies. We take parenting courses, prenatal courses. How old is your baby? Oh, she's almost two months. Do you think that this program?
keeps you calm after this session all week. It lasts. Honestly, it's a great experience all around. It's soothing, you know, after stressful days of being in here, I wake up looking forward to come to this program. Back on the farm, Endeavour works with a third group, Veterans with PTSD.
It's their largest program. Horses are prey animals. their Characteristics are exactly the same characteristics of someone with PTSD.
So when you partner those two, there is an amazing healing. Laurie Chavardini, a licensed clinical social worker and certified military counselor, runs this free therapy program. when the horses are partnered with The veterans that come in with all kinds of pain and symptoms, the horses can ground them. It is the time mostly that they can find peace when they're in the presence of the horses. I'm smiling.
I'm wondering if you if you observe it, you actually can tell. Definitely, you can tell. Tell me what you see. Usually, when they come on property, they might be agitated, upset. activated for a variety of reasons and within probably five minutes, you can see them begin to relax and calm down.
And I felt it myself when Laurie got me to stroke this gentle giant named Clifford. Leslie, look at his eyes. He's starting to close his eyes. That's a reflection of your energy. Oh, Clifford, we are communicating.
As soon as he saw me He turned around. came right up to me and put his head down towards my chest. Look at your smile. You're really smiling. Telling me about it.
He's a special guy. You love him. I love him. Army vet Tony Mendes suffered a traumatic brain injury when his helicopter crashed in Afghanistan in 2011. He came home with PTSD.
Tony was first introduced to horses ten years ago. and he says they have helped him manage his condition. One year In the presence of a horse, like I am with Goliath, he demands your presence. You have to give him your attention. I think that there's something special going on there that.
They're allowing for you to feel. Without fear. Yes. You think they take fear away? I think they definitely absorb our energy.
And fear is part of that. It's taught me how to live with PTSD. in a better way. Which I didn't know before. He's taught me to pause, to slow down.
He does this great thing where he'll uh he'll go to the fence in his paddock and he would just stare out into the sunset. And I feel that it's him telling me to just take it all in. And it's something that I think a lot of people with PTSD, combat PTSD specifically. Can forget that there's beautiful things out there and things that matter. As the expression goes, there's something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
I think there's an intimacy that people have with Mozart. They feel like they know him, they love his music, they cherish it. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the most renowned figures in classical music, is now center stage at New York's Morgan Library and Museum. The exhibit is a collaboration with the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, where the Austrian composer was born in 1756. The story I most wanted to tell was That bridge between Mozart, the human being, and Mozart, the icon or the legend.
Robin McClellan is curator of the show, which includes a symphony of treasures, like Mozart's earliest musical works, some created when he was just five years old. which his father lovingly noted down for him because Mozart was still too young to even write them himself. Mozart wasn't the only prodigy in his family. The exhibit also highlights his lesser-known older sister, Maria Anna, nicknamed Nanero. It's the final measure of music in the only known composition that she wrote, and so it's tiny but incredibly meaningful.
Mm. Leopold Mozart, his father, was an entrepreneur in a sense, touring the children around Europe, making a big impression, and he even had the idea to sell what we might call merch nowadays. This was sold as a souvenir to anyone who was lucky enough to come and hear the Mozart children perform. The exhibit even shares details about the young composer's romantic life. Here's a flirtatious letter written at age 21 to his first cousin.
Back then, that sort of relationship was not uncommon. His letters are famous for bathroom humor and sexual innuendo.
So toward the end of the letter, he says to her, I sign with such affection and love. I kiss you on your face, on your hands, on your knees, and anywhere else you'll let me kiss you. Also on display on this side of the Atlantic for the very first time. Mozart's childhood violin. And the clavichord he used to compose some of his most acclaimed operas.
Here you see ink spots where Mozart spilled ink as he was composing, probably in a hurry, you know, composing multiple pieces at once. One of the most lovely aspects of this actually is this note that was placed into the clavichord by his wife Constanza after his death where she attests to its authenticity and says, this was the instrument my husband used to compose the magic flute, the requiem and many other of his most famous pieces. Mozart was working on his famous Requiem when he died in 1791. He was just 35. He died young, people began to realize more and more what a rare and incredible composer he was, and that became the legend that we know today.
A legend burnished by other classical music greats, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven, all helped enhance Mozart's legacy. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a short life in many acts. with a body of work that resonates to this day. It turns out that centuries-old adage, healthy body, healthy mind, has never been more true. as contributor Alison Aubrey discovered.
If you worry about your risk of dementia, Lauren Sprague knows your fear. Every day of my children's lives up until now, I've worried that that could be me. Her father had a stroke when she was in high school. What followed was a long, slow descent into memory loss and dementia. He died at just 63.
So since I was 16 years old, pretty much every day of my life, I worry is today the day. that the same thing could happen to me that that happened to my dad. That's quite a fear to walk around with. It's an incredible fear to walk around with. Then she went to see doctor Jonathan Rosand.
Time and again, I would get the question, doctor, what can I do to take good care of my brain so that I don't end up like my mother, my brother, my father? Dr. Roseand is a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He explained to her how it's possible to cut the risk of dementia by making changes to daily habits. Choices you make every day.
What you eat. How much physical activity do you get every day? It turns out that these modifiable risk factors probably account for at least 40%. of all dementia cases. A committee of experts from around the globe concluded that about 40 to 45 percent of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by addressing 14 modifiable risk factors.
A lot of people assume if dementia or Alzheimer's is in their family, that that's it, they're doomed.
Well, I think that's a very common conception. But the truth is, there's so much we can do. The idea that exercise and diet are important is not new, of course. But what is new is a tool from Roseand and his team to help you understand exactly how much and what kind of lifestyle changes are beneficial. It starts with a simple questionnaire, free to everyone online.
It's called the Brain Care Score. The Brain Care Score is a tool for any of us to use in our daily lives. that lists out the modifiable risk factors for dementia, stroke, and depression. The healthier your habits, You want it? the higher your score.
And to improve your score, you pick which habits you want to focus on changing. You can think of it as a choose your own adventure. It's a guy talking. where you can go next. And in our work with patients, It really does give a choice and a sense of freedom.
A groundbreaking study finds a five point higher brain care score is associated with a forty three percent lower risk of developing heart disease and a thirty one percent lower incidence of most common cancers, including lung cancer, colorectal and breast cancer. It's evidence that what's good for the brain is good for the rest of the body, too.
So, where to start? Like put it in the pan after the chicken's cooked. For Lauren Sprague and her husband Scott, change started in the kitchen. They doubled down on greens and cut out highly processed foods. This added one point to her score.
They spent more time outdoors, which helps with fitness and stress relief. That can add two more points. I haven't been on many bright stages. She also takes time to sing and create, adding meaning, more stress release and purpose, adding to additional points. The brain care score really gave me the prescription that I needed and the wonderful thing about it, so it is a recommendation, but there is nuance and it can be customized, which is wonderful.
It's all right here in front of you. And Dr. Rosand is hoping that this is one prescription that we all can share. The key message we want to convey with a brain care score is: it is you, it is each of our viewers. It is everyone who wants to take a step forward.
It's up to you and you're in control. It's a small candy with a big history. But just where does the name Pez come from? and why this famous click top dispenser. Luke Burbank has the sweet story.
If you were a kid in the US anytime in the last 74 or so years, there's a pretty good chance at some point you had one of these. Hot brush purs. But you probably had no idea the long strange journey that Pez Candies took to become part of American life. They actually tried, yeah, to sell it as an anti-smoking device in American jobs. Peppermint-flavored candies, to be specific.
According to Pez historian Sean Peterson, who also works for the company, the mints were invented in Austria in 1927 by Edward Haas III. who took three letters from the German word for peppermint and combined them to make Pez and eventually candy history. A way to freshen your breath and an alternative to smoking. Very much ahead of his time. And he had a lot of success though with it and this is how it was sold throughout Europe and other parts of the world.
But when the Pez Company came to America in 1952, it was a failure. No one wanted these little mints that came out of a plastic cartridge.
Somebody got the thought and said, you know, we've got this new dispenser, maybe we add a dimensional cartoon character to the top and we'll change from peppermint to fruit flavors. Let's shift the marketing to children, and it worked. Did it ever? These days, Pez US makes some 5 billion candies a year. which are then rolled together and paired with dispensers here at its headquarters in Orange, Connecticut.
Uh But really, is this a candy? or a toy. Do you like the candy? I know Sean would like me to say yes, and I try the new candy flavors when they come out, but I don't eat the candy. Everything you see here is different in some way.
Brian Trowman could be forgiven for not eating all the Pez candy that goes with his collection of dispensers, because that could take a few lifetimes. How many dispensers are we talking about? The record is 6,481, but that was as of the end of 2024, and I've added maybe 50 or so since. In all, it's enough to make Truman the Guinness records holder for the most number of unique Pez dispensers in a private collection. This was made by Pez in Austria for Harry and Megan's wedding in 2018.
Trauman's collection is so vast and valuable, he says he recently turned down an offer to sell it for a number in the high six figures. And yet even he has a white whale, or in this case, a gray elephant he's looking for. The Holy Grail of Pez Collecting. A story involving none other than JFK himself. John F.
Kennedy was visiting Linz, Austria, which is where Pez is headquartered. And as a gift to him, Pez gave him a donkey, Pez dispenser. Bozo the Clown, and a Golden Glow, which is one without a head. Ultimately, it was returned to Pez. Uh because it came with candy and presidents can't accept food.
Whether everything was returned or just the candy is somewhat unclear. No one knows what happened to that precise dispenser. Then, one day, Sean Peterson over at Pez called Trauman up with incredible news. One of the ultra-rare donkey dispensers, like the one JFK had been gifted in Austria in 1961, had been located and its owner wanted to sell. And I said, I've got a backpack at my feet here with 10,000 in cash.
Would you be interested? And they said, Can I have a minute with my wife? And so we gave them a minute And then made the deal with a bag of cold hard cash in exchange for an ultra rare piece of plastic originally meant just to deliver candy to some kid's mouth. There's also the fact that these are being primarily given to children. Right.
So if you want to talk about the archival aspect of it, it's like not the demographic that's the greatest at hanging on to stuff. Correct, yeah. Ends up in a toy box. The spokes of the wheels are Pez dispensers. Like Brian Truman, Sean Peterson has made it his life's work to scour those toy boxes to try and recover and preserve every single Pez dispenser ever created.
Many of which are on display here at the Pez Visitor Center. which Sean moved to Connecticut to supervise the building of. bringing his own valuable collection to put on display. And yet? He's still not done.
So you're still acquiring Pez dispensaries? Right, yeah. I guess I figured like this was your life's work and it's done. And I'm done. No, no, that, you know, go back to my wife, much to her dismay.
I still am acquiring, there's still packages show up. I don't buy like I used to, but yeah, I'm still interested. There's things out there that I'd like to have. Steve Hartman is here to remind us why, in times of need. It helps to have good neighbors.
Uh If you drive to the edge of nowhere and keep heading toward the middle of it, You will eventually come to the home of Mike and Kayla Wentz. I've traveled this country. I don't know if I've ever been as remote as I am right now. How remote are they? A gallon of milk is a little over an hour away.
Mike and Kayla are ranchers deep in the sand hills of western Nebraska. And although they are isolated, Mike and Kayla say they have never felt more connected to this great nation. Thanks to the blessing. of a curse. A couple months ago, the largest wildfire in Nebraska history burned about a thousand square miles of ranchland.
including the fields that Mike and Kayla lease. You have 11,000 acres? Yes. How much of that burned? All of it.
Within two hours it's all gone. It's tough. With the grass gone, the cattle couldn't graze, and Mike and Kayla were in real danger of losing their livelihood. other ranchers in the area who might have helped, we're in the same boat. They didn't have hay either.
But then? Mike's phone started ringing. Telling me that hay was on the way, where did I want it? How many are here? I'm guessing 700.
And they're still coming? Yeah. So far, Mike has been gifted about $80,000 worth of hay. from mostly anonymous donors. They don't want the glory.
Isn't that the best kind of kind deed though? Yeah. They know they did it and that's all they need. Yeah. It is selflessness.
Yeah. And it is of great magnitude. Up to 200 phone calls a day. of people wanting to donate hay. Sarah Covert is a volunteer.
She's been connecting donors with other ranchers in the area who lost all their grass and hay too. You see these convoys of 20 plus trucks loaded with hay and there's school kids cheering them on. No one asked for this help. It just came. From thousands of farmers and ranchers and truck drivers as far away as South Carolina.
and although the need remains desperate. Every rancher that we have called to send them hay has asked us to send it to their neighbor first. Empathy. charity and grace. qualities that guarantee no matter how isolated you are, You are never.
Alone. Just the cash. And I lost a sea another. A lonely day with no one here but me. For five decades and counting.
Sting's legendary career has taken him all over the world. But as he tells our Mark Phillips, he drew the inspiration for his latest work in the in the place where it all began. Everybody's rolling? All right, clap. It's the first applause of the day.
That's right. Hopefully, not the last. When Sting comes back to his hometown these days, it's not to the same place he left more than five decades ago. The city of Newcastle, tucked up in the northeast corner of England, now presents a tranquil vista where modern architecture spans calm waters. But for centuries Newcastle was a hard, scrabble, noisy industrial powerhouse.
It built ships. And Sting, a boy from a working-class family, was given some fatherly advice he didn't want to hear. Yeah. Go to sea. See the world, make something of yourself.
Of course that disappointed him. Yes, you hardly made anything of yourself at all. Rock Sound! You gonna? All Sting did was become one of the most successful songwriters and pop performers of his generation.
Snips. Starting with his 70s band The Police. Every breath you take. Every movie. And through many variations since, In his jealous sky As we lie in fields of gold.
Every little thing she does is magic. Everything you do destroy me all. His most popular songs have streamed in the billions. with a B. You keep Score of any of this stuff?
How many awards you've won? How many albums you've sold? The answer is enough. I've had more than enough. Success and affirmation.
I don't actually need any more. It's lovely. But it's not something I particularly think about. I don't think of myself as a celebrity. I don't like to I like to think of myself as a working Musician with a story to tell.
A story about his hometown. I just wanted a bigger life than the one I was being offered. It was only later that I realized that where I'd been brought up was actually a gift. How so? Because of these very profound symbols to to wake up to every morning.
A a gigantic ship hanging over the street, an army of men walking to work. the ship being built, launched into the river. out to sea. Those are very powerful images for an artist.
So I wanted to... Honour where I came from because what they gave me was a sense of identity. a work ethic and so I wanted to repay that. We built battleships and cruisers for Her Majesty the Queen Supertankers for an assistant and all the classes in between The British ship and boys the world has ever seen. And the only life we've known is in the shipyard.
Sting's musical, which he's been working on for more than a decade, is called The Last Ship. and recounts the demise of Newcastle's shipyards.
Now he's taking it on tour with the advantage of added star power. himself and his good friend the reggae star Mr. Bumble Mr. Boombastic himself Shaggy. I'm tempted to ask whether you've done anything this bombastic before.
So I did. Not quite on this scale. You know, not quite on this scale. I'm still sitting here and I'm like, what have I got myself into? Why, Shaggy?
Come on, girl, don't. Make me wait. Don't make me wait.
So love. Working together has paid off before, when they won a Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2019. I immediately knew Shaggy was the perfect man for the job. She's oily and smelly and a bugger to steer. He has a great sense of mischief.
A great sense of joy, but he's also a natural actor. He knows me better than me, because there's things I'll be like, yeah, I can't really. I was like, no, you can do that. And then I'm doing it. And I was like, damn, I hate admitting that he was right.
The show has already played to sell out halls in Europe and Australia. And he is set for a run at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. You've been very stubborn about this project. Why does this mean so much to you? I'm tenacious.
If I believe in something I will stick at it. And I do not conflate. commercial success. With Excellence. or quality at all.
I think this play, even though it's set in the nineteen eighties, has something to say to people now. all of us are in danger of Losing uh work to AI. All of us. May the angels protect us if all else should fail when the last Shit. Sales.
You want to be taken seriously as distinct from your pop career. I'm very grateful for the the pop career and it was a certain time in my life when I you know was of a certain age and looked a certain way and made a certain kind of music but it's it can't be my entire life. I don't want to be justifying from how I was at the age of 25. You know, I'm 74 now. And Stick.
Born Gordon Sumner was given his stage name because of the striped yellow and black top he used to wear that someone said made him look like a wasp. And there's been plenty of buzz about his career ever since. Yeah, remove. Including about the real meaning of his biggest hit. What should you do?
Some people interpret that song as being a very romantic. Love song, or it's about a stalker, this obsessive. Watching, I'll be watching you. I don't contradict people in their individual interpretation of the song. I think it enriches the song.
Hmm. Which I I think gives us its its power. It's about both things. Do you think or does it matter whether or not people are getting it? It's almost big brother.
Some people get married to that, so yeah. God bless them. Yeah. Sting's life has been about many things.
Now it's about coming home. Spiritually at least. This is CBS News from New York City.
So they have come. Bring me home to shoot some local colour, which would be you.
So please be as colourful as you are. I'll send an SO West to the world. I'll send an SO West to the world. If ever there was a local boy makes good story, this is it. And everybody here seems to know the words.
Do you ever think of taking a vacation? Explain that concept to me.
So Well We'll be here next Sunday. It's not going to be free. You've got houses all over the place, probably more money than you know you have. Why are you still doing this? Because I like to work.
Could I retire? I'm not sure I could do it. I haven't developed that skill to just sit. and do nothing. Are you afraid of doing nothing?
Perhaps I'm afraid of it. Uh I haven't prepared myself for it. But while I'm still fit enough to do my work, I will continue. At some point, I hope I have the objectivity to say, okay. You've done enough.
Go and sit on the farm. Yeah. Could you do that? I'm not sure. Yeah.
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Not so, says our Lee Cowan, at least in one very special case. Tom Coyne has. One of those jobs most would envy. Turned. There it goes.
As a best-selling author and editor of the Golfers Journal. How are you to meet you? Thanks for being here. He gets to travel to and play. Whoa!
Some of the most exclusive courses in the world. It's not a bad uh perk of the job, Lee. I'm not gonna lie to you. He's played over a thousand courses, including Augusta National Golf Club, Home of the Masters, Saint Andrews in Scotland. the oldest course in the world.
and a Pacific hugging Pebble Beach, which is where we met him. There's all sorts of different places in golf. You know, there needs to be all sorts of different different places in golf. Most wouldn't argue that point, but just how different? What are we talking about?
Welcome to your worst nightmare. For a guy who's been invited to the top clubhouses in the world, I've never looked at that.
Okay. Yeah. Don't go in there, anybody. How in the world did he end up in this way? Here's the car drive.
Oh my god. Leaky roofs, abandoned mowers, mold as thick as the rough itself. And yet, locals weren't scared off. winded perhaps, Play their love of the game. This is the Sullivan County Golf Club.
A rural nine-hole course. that opened back in 1925. here in Liberty, New York. It's a small town about two hours from Manhattan. up in the Catskill Mountains.
where tourists used to flock during the Borg Belt resort boom. The course even made headlines when a local pilot took off from what was then the Eighth Fairway. for a daring transatlantic flight to Denmark. Hence the logo. a nod to both its golf and aviation history.
I think I started caddying when I was uh fifteen or sixteen. Denyon's family has been here so long. There's a street named after them. The club championship board boasts its fair share of the family name too. But over the decades, as the tourists took their clubs and money to fancier courses, Things at Sullivan County were left to the locals to keep up.
Well, it was going downhill a little bit. Basically, I think we were maintaining it ourselves. Eventually, there were more deer than players. In twenty twenty three, the unprofitable but still golfable 170 acres went up for sale. I fall in love with golf courses pretty easily.
The only Greenskeeper left, self-described turf nerd Sean Smith. Feared that that would be the end of an era. It's always been the local course on the edge of town. It's kind of always been for everybody. That brings us back to Tom Cohn and his golf writing.
Sean was a fan. and reached out to him. And the two got to talking about the course. As a writer always in search of a good story, Tom took the bait. and came up for a visit.
It looked like a place that was ready to close.
So this is the first hole which comes down. Still, there was something about it, he says. It had none of the trappings today's golf often has. There were no tea times, no ballets, no swimming pools or tennis courts. and there was certainly no attitude.
We couldn't be less stuffy. We are not fussy. You don't have to get dressed up. Uh you just show up, bring your dog and go play golf. purists might argue that's the way golf ought to be.
wild fairways kept like a bad haircut. Nothing manicured. but playable and accessible to anyone. And that's the story Tom wanted to write. And he has, in his latest book, A Course Called Home.
I've been consuming golf my whole life, but what have I got on the side of actually? providing golf. That would be different. Just how many course owners do you know who mow their own fairways? Yeah, I like that.
Long story short, Tom asked its former owners to let him run the course for about a year along with Sean Smith. And if together, they could turn it around. Tom. Might just buy the place. Obstacles weren't strangers to either one of them.
I recognized the kindred sort of golf sicko, like myself, you know.
So we bonded on that level. There was also a connection there in that Sean's sober and I'm sober. And I think people who have gone down that path and know what that experience is like. There's a connection there and an understanding with someone that is pretty meaningful. It really became something that.
we forge kind of a trust around quicker than maybe two strangers would have otherwise. I guess he probably feels like I trust him a lot too. Yeah. At a ridge here. Yeah.
Together, along with his golf course architect Colton Craig, the T here that's drawn here, they set about rerouting some of the holes to take advantage of the topography and the views. They also put in a putting course and a driving range. The goal was to make the course attractive for folks to travel in from outside the Catskills. but keep every bit of the cat's kills in the course. that this has to remain a rural Cat skills, Sullivan County Golf Course.
It has to feel like that. It's got to be that. Yeah, it has to feel like you've gone somewhere else. All of that. And you can still play.
For less money than you might spend on lunch. you're not sure who came in on a first class flight and who's the local school teacher. And everyone's just there for the love of golf and the love of camaraderie. As Word got out of the rescue effort, remarkable things started to happen. Yeah.
It looks like a marret. It's in the hold! Caddychacks Bill Murray and NFL star Jason Kelsey. Both came on as Tom's partners. Before long?
Applications for memberships were coming in from far and wide. Players, Tom says, who would likely never set foot on his greens. for folks that have joined just for the sake of joining. they're enabling people to play golf who wouldn't have a golf course otherwise. I think that that's a beautiful thing about the golf community.
You know, it's not just about my golf, it's about. Star Golf. These days, when he sees the ground crews at premiere courses like here at Pebble Beach, He's both appreciative. But also a little jealous. I even like covet.
Like a pile of dirt. Like, because that's a good pile of dirt. It's all part of the game he never saw before. And now he has. It's not golf that's taken on more significance.
It's all those who make the game. Possible. Golf doesn't let you hide. You know, I've seen some very powerful or famous people look very normal after about two holes. If you had it to do all over again, would you do it?
Yes, absolutely. A hundred percent. And for one simple reason, it's 'cause the people that it's put in my life. This was something where I absolutely had to be part of a a team who wanted to make something good in the world. What a gift.
Humorist and best-selling author David Sederis now with some thoughts for the dogs. I don't get dogs anymore. Don't understand why they need to be in grocery stores and on airplanes. You never see them tied up outside shops or restaurants nowadays. They have to be inside, no different from people.
I read a column in the New York Times about a woman who had taken her dog to a play area in a park. It was in heat, and upon their arrival it was mounted and impregnated by another dog.
Now the woman was suing the owner of the male dog, insisting that he pay for half the pregnancy care plus half the expenses for the puppy's first six weeks. The guy said no to the above, but offered to pay for the woman's dog to have an abortion. This she turned down, saying it was against her religion. A dog abortion is against her religion, I thought when I read that. There were hundreds of comments accompanying the article.
What did you think would happen when you brought a female in heat to the park?
some people ask. Me, though. Who was still stuck on the woman's conditions? Paying the pregnancy costs and for the first six weeks of puppy care? When I was a child, my family had collies, and when the female duchess had a litter of six in our garage, it cost us exactly $0.00.
We didn't know she was pregnant until the first one came out of her, so there was no prenatal care. When it looked like one of the newborns would die, my mother popped it into a warm oven for a while, and it was fine after that. The puppies drank their mother's milk, no cost to us. They lived on a blanket next to the car until we put them in a cardboard box with free collies written on the side of it, brought them to the grocery store where we gave them away, full of worms most likely, but that was the next person's responsibility. Do people hire midwives for their dogs now, I wonder?
It wouldn't surprise me any. I have no idea how the man and the woman in the park resolved their problem. I'm just glad that I don't know them, so I never have to say, I'm telling you this as a friend. But you're both. Crazy.
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