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Act One: Act One Ira Glass Some kids are at a rest stop parking lot in the middle of August, waiting to get back in the car-- Logan, William, and Kieran.
第一幕：第一幕 Ira Glass 八月中旬，一些孩子在休息站停车场等待回到车里——洛根、威廉和基兰。
A reporter approaches them.
一名记者走近他们。
I couldn't help but notice that there's three of you guys.
我忍不住注意到你们是三个人。
So the first question that pops into my head is, who's going to have to ride in the middle?
所以我脑海中浮现的第一个问题是，谁必须骑在中间？
Unfortunately, me.
不幸的是，我。
Reporter And how come you're the guy who has to ride in--
记者 那为什么你是那个必须乘坐的人--
Because those two, um, basically-- I don't know.
因为那两个，嗯，基本上——我不知道。
They fight when they're in the middle.
当他们夹在中间时，他们就会打架。
He doesn't even want to sit next to him.
他甚至不想坐在他旁边。
Ow.
噢。
Stop that!
别这样！
Pressure pointing, actually.
实际上是压力指向。
Reporter So do you feel like this is going to be-- this is always going to be your job?
记者：那么您是否觉得这将永远是您的工作？
As you guys get older, you're always going to be the brother sitting in the middle, brokering the peace?
当你们长大后，你总是会成为坐在中间调解和平的兄弟吗？
How do you mean?
你是什么意思？
Boy I'm not sure what you're talking about.
男孩，我不确定你在说什么。
I'm actually not sure what mediator means.
其实我不太明白中介是什么意思。
I just felt like saying it.
我只是想说而已。
I think it means a guy who keeps peace.
我认为这意味着一个保持和平的人。
Like, keeping them from killing each other.
比如，阻止他们互相残杀。
They can use a guy like you in the Middle East maybe.
也许在中东他们可以使用像你这样的人。
One of the little brothers signals for the microphone.
一位弟弟示意麦克风。
Get it?
得到它？
Middle East.
中东。
Because he's in the middle, and he's out east.
因为他在中间，而且在东边。
Get it?
得到它？
Middle East.
中东。
There's nothing particularly notable about this rest stop.
这个休息站没什么特别值得注意的。
It's one of thousands all over the country, the kind of place we'd stop for 10 minutes on a holiday weekend, run inside, use the restroom, buy a burger or a coffee, head back out on the road.
这是全国各地数以千计的地方之一，我们会在假期周末停下来 10 分钟，跑进去，上厕所，买一个汉堡或一杯咖啡，然后继续上路。
But if you stayed for more than 10 minutes, you might end up talking to one of these kids or to one of the couples who are dropping off children at college, like this reporter did.
但如果你停留的时间超过 10 分钟，你最终可能会与其中一个孩子或一对送孩子上大学的夫妇交谈，就像记者所做的那样。
--the last kid off to school, so now we're the new empty nesters right now.
--最后一个去上学的孩子，所以现在我们是新的空巢老人。
I'm cooking things that I've never tried.
我正在烹饪我从未尝试过的东西。
Yeah, and I'm eating things that I've never tried.
是的，我正在吃一些我从未尝试过的东西。
There's some folks on the way back from a family reunion, might complain about the traffic.
有些人在家庭聚会回来的路上，可能会抱怨交通堵塞。
And suddenly a clown truck filled with clowns cut us off.
突然一辆装满小丑的小丑卡车挡住了我们的路。
Or there's this guy, whose entertainment on his weekly four-hour drive isn't the radio or the CD player.
或者有这样一个人，他每周四个小时的车程中的娱乐不是收音机或 CD 播放器。
Well, truthfully, so none of the police folk out there are listening, I usually read the newspaper on the way up, or a book.
嗯，说实话，外面的警察都没有在听，我通常在上楼的路上看报纸，或者看书。
Are you kidding me?
你在开玩笑吧？
Driver Here and there on the way up.
司机 一路上到处都是。
And you've been doing it for six or seven years, and you've not had an accident?
而且你已经干了六七年了，还没有出过事故吗？
No. Reporter That seems to me to be pure luck.
不，记者：在我看来，这纯粹是运气。
There's a family driving six hours to visit their dad in prison; a young couple looking for a place to have their wedding; two brothers on the way to compete in the rodeo; a 16-year-old standing inside the rest stop nursing a tea, taking a break from her own family.
有一家人开车六个小时去监狱看望他们的父亲；一对年轻夫妇正在寻找举办婚礼的地点；两兄弟正在去参加牛仔竞技比赛的路上；一名 16 岁的女孩站在休息站里喝着茶，暂时离开了家人。
She's on an eight-hour car trip with her dad, her grandma, her sister, and a couple of brothers.
她和她的爸爸、奶奶、姐姐和几个兄弟一起开车八小时。
She explains to a reporter.
她向记者解释道。
Well, it's very noisy, you could say that.
嗯，你可以这么说，它很吵。
Because everybody's arguing or talking about sports.
因为每个人都在争论或谈论体育。
We were just having an argument on who's better, Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson?
我们只是在争论穆罕默德·阿里和迈克·泰森谁更好？
And Mike Tyson won.
迈克·泰森赢了。
So my dad nearly stopped the car to argue and say, no, Mike Tyson is better.
所以我爸爸差点停下车来争辩说，不，迈克·泰森更好。
So it was just very hectic.
所以这非常忙碌。
Coincidentally, a little later, Mike Tyson's name comes up again, in conversation with the prep cook named Ozzy, who works at the rest stop.
巧合的是，过了一会儿，在与在休息站工作的预备厨师奥兹的谈话中，迈克·泰森的名字再次出现。
Sometimes I see movie stars.
有时我会看到电影明星。
I see Tyson in person.
我亲眼见到了泰森。
Mike Tyson.
迈克·泰森。
Ozzy Mike Tyson was here.
奥兹·迈克·泰森在这里。
He has a tiny voice.
他的声音很小。
How are you doing, man?
你好吗，伙计？
Can I get ice cream?
我可以买冰淇淋吗？
You know?
你知道？
So I see Mario Cuomo.
所以我看到了马里奥·科莫。
I see this old lady who got a lot of plastic surgeries.
我看到这位老太太做了很多整形手术。
Joan Rivers.
琼·里弗斯。
Ozzy Yes, she was here, too.
奥兹 是的，她也在这里。
Poor Joan Rivers.
可怜的琼·里弗斯。
The two strangers can get her name across simply by saying, "the old lady who got a lot of plastic surgery."
两个陌生人只要说“那位做过很多整容手术的老太太”就可以听懂她的名字。
Nine of us came to this rest stop with tape recorders on a weekend in the middle of August, all the way back in 2009.
八月中旬的一个周末，我们九个人带着录音机来到了这个休息站，时间要追溯到2009年。
Today's show is a rerun.
今天的节目是重播。
It was two weeks before Labor Day, the time of year when over 10,000 people pass through this rest stop each day.
距离劳动节还有两周，每年这个时候，每天都有超过 10,000 人经过这个休息站。
We thought that, for once, we would not leave after just 10 minutes.
我们以为，这一次，我们不会在 10 分钟后离开。
Stick around and find out who all these people are, where they're going, what they're thinking about.
留下来看看这些人是谁，他们要去哪里，他们在想什么。
We found love stories, and hardcore partiers, and inexplicably angry people, and all kinds of others.
我们发现了爱情故事、铁杆派对者、莫名其妙愤怒的人，以及各种各样的其他人。
We bring you those stories in this special hour of our show for this holiday weekend when so many of us are on the road.
我们在这个假期周末的特殊时刻为您带来这些故事，当时我们很多人都在路上。
WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life.
WBEZ 芝加哥，这就是《美国生活》。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Stay with us.
留在我们身边。
Act Two: Act Two Ira Glass The name of this particular rest stop is the Plattekill Travel Plaza.
第二幕： 第二幕 Ira Glass 这个特殊休息站的名称是 Plattekill 旅游广场。
It's on the New York Thruway, I-87, about an hour and a half north of New York City on the northbound side of the highway.
它位于纽约高速公路 I-87 上，距离纽约市以北约一个半小时车程，位于高速公路北行。
It's shiny and recently renovated with five restaurants in the food court-- Nathan's Hot Dog, Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips, Roy Rogers, a Canadian sandwich shop called Brioche Duree, and a Starbucks-- plus a travel mart that sells sodas, and chips and gum, and stuff like that.
它光鲜亮丽，最近刚刚装修完毕，美食广场内有五家餐厅——内森热狗店、亚瑟·特雷奇炸鱼薯条店、罗伊·罗杰斯店、一家名为 Brioche Duree 的加拿大三明治店和一家星巴克——还有一家旅游市场，出售苏打水、薯条和口香糖等。
All these concessions and the cleaning crews and everything else are run by a company called HMS Host, which does this kind of thing in airports and travel plazas across the country.
所有这些优惠和清洁人员以及其他一切都由一家名为 HMS Host 的公司运营，该公司在全国各地的机场和旅游广场提供此类服务。
They have 120 employees here, and a half dozen managers, and a general manager.
他们有 120 名员工、六名经理和一名总经理。
I think we have a very strong weekend as we get into the end of summer.
我认为随着夏末的到来，我们度过了一个非常充实的周末。
This is the general manager, Robert Woodill, a friendly, upbeat guy who carries a folded piece of paper that he pulls out and unfolds and refers to constantly through the day, which has a list of sales figures for every half hour of the day.
这是总经理罗伯特·伍德尔（Robert Woodill），他是一个友好、乐观的人，手里拿着一张折叠的纸，他把纸拉出来展开，整天不断地翻阅，纸上有一天中每半小时的销售数据清单。
All it simply is, is it's my half hour reports of last year on this day, so I can compare my sales the last year and see where we're at.
很简单，这是我去年这一天的半小时报告，这样我就可以比较去年的销售额并了解我们的情况。
And we do it usually at, like, 11 o'clock, and then every hour or so, we take a quick reading just to see where we're at.
我们通常会在 11 点左右进行阅读，然后每隔一小时左右，我们就会快速阅读一下，看看我们处于什么位置。
Today, it'll be probably from, like, 12 o'clock till 7 o'clock, very solid and steady.
今天大概是从12点到7点，非常扎实、稳定。
And then tomorrow morning, it'll pick up again.
然后明天早上，它会再次恢复。
And I think as we're getting to the end of summer, there's a big race in Saratoga this week.
我认为随着夏末的到来，本周萨拉托加将有一场大型比赛。
People have booked their rooms for Lake George, and it's the end of summer.
人们已经预订了乔治湖的房间，现在已经是夏末了。
People want to go and go on vacation.
人们想去度假。
So I think we're going to have a good weekend.
所以我想我们会度过一个愉快的周末。
We did our taping on Friday and Saturday, two weeks before Labor Day, because those are the biggest days and the biggest month here.
我们在劳动节前两周的周五和周六进行了录音，因为那是这里最重要的日子和最重要的月份。
In August, the rest stop makes a fourth of its money for the whole year.
8月份，休息站的收入达到了全年的四分之一。
And it's crucial that Robert makes his goals this weekend because it's built into the rest stop business that there are a couple months every year when he just breaks even or loses money.
罗伯特本周末实现他的目标至关重要，因为休息站业务中每年都有几个月他会收支平衡或亏损。
Also, he wants to do better than his rival-- his rival, a rest stop in Maine, run by a guy named Andy Tucci.
此外，他还想比他的竞争对手做得更好——他的对手是缅因州的一个休息站，由一个名叫安迪·图奇的人经营。
Kennebunk North, usually, and I are neck and neck.
肯纳邦克北，通常情况下，我和我并驾齐驱。
And we never place any wagers, but you know, they're Red Sox fans, we're Yankee fans.
我们从不下任何赌注，但你知道，他们是红袜队球迷，我们是洋基队球迷。
And we go back and forth on that, as well as discussing who's going to have the record sales for the day.
我们反复讨论这个问题，并讨论谁将创下当天的销售纪录。
Who won last weekend?
上周末谁赢了？
Robert Woodill Andy.
罗伯特·伍德尔·安迪.
Andy beat me red like a lobster, if you want.
如果你愿意的话，安迪把我打得像龙虾一样红。
That's what I told him.
我就是这么告诉他的。
He beat me both days, but I think I'm going to get it back this weekend, so.
他两天都击败了我，但我想这个周末我会赢回来，所以。
I hope this week, the Yankees sweep the Red Sox, and then he'll be really quiet.
我希望本周洋基队横扫红袜队，然后他就会变得非常安静。
Robert was fully staffed for the rush.
罗伯特在紧急情况下配备了充足的人员。
He had his best cashiers on.
他拥有最好的收银员。
And now, he just needed the crowds, the big summer weekend crowds.
现在，他只需要人群，夏季周末的人群。
We chose this particular rest stop because, a couple years ago, I came here on the way to a wedding, and I noticed that a couple of the college students working at the Starbucks were speaking Polish.
我们选择这个特别的休息站是因为，几年前，我在去参加婚礼的路上来到这里，我注意到几个在星巴克工作的大学生说波兰语。
When I asked, they said, yeah, they were from Poland, here for the summer, on a special visa program called the J-1 program, where they live in the United States and work for three months at the rest stop and then get to travel for a month in America before flying home.
当我问起时，他们说，是的，他们来自波兰，来这里度暑假，参加一个名为 J-1 计划的特殊签证计划，他们住在美国，在休息站工作三个月，然后在美国旅行一个月，然后飞回家。
And it seemed like such a crazy thing to fly all the way to America and then be stuck behind a counter in the middle of nowhere for the summer.
千里迢迢飞到美国，然后在一个偏僻的地方被困在柜台后面过夏天，这似乎是一件疯狂的事情。
I wondered if they felt cheated.
我想知道他们是否感到被欺骗了。
I wanted to come back and find out.
我想回来看看。
I'm Sandy, and I'm from Taiwan.
我是桑迪，来自台湾。
And I work at Starbucks in Plattekill Travel Plaza.
我在普拉特基尔旅游广场的星巴克工作。
There are no Polish students this summer.
今年夏天没有波兰学生。
It's mostly Taiwanese and Ukrainians working in Plattekill.
在普拉特基尔工作的主要是台湾人和乌克兰人。
Sandy's name back home is Moche Cho.
桑迪在家里的名字是莫切乔。
She's a college junior and English major.
她是一名大三学生，英语专业。
This is her second year doing this summer work program.
这是她第二年参加暑期工作计划。
Last year, she was one of hundreds of foreign students who got jobs at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio.
去年，她是在俄亥俄州桑达斯基雪松角游乐园找到工作的数百名外国学生之一。
But this year, she wanted to see a different part of the country and signed up for this location because of two magic words-- New York.
但今年，她想去看看这个国家的不同地方，并报名了这个地点，因为两个神奇的词——纽约。
I love New York.
我爱纽约。
Last year, I went to New York City just three days.
去年，我只去了纽约三天。
So this time, I want to stay in New York City more.
所以这一次，我想在纽约多呆一会儿。
And then when you got here, were you surprised how far it was from New York City?
当你到达这里时，你是否对这里距离纽约市有多远感到惊讶？
Yes, very surprised.
是的，非常惊讶。
Yeah.
是的。
So actually, I'm a little regret about I choose this place, yeah.
所以实际上，我有点后悔选择这个地方，是的。
She knew the rest stop wasn't in New York City.
她知道休息站不在纽约市。
She just thought it would be a little closer and easier to get to.
她只是觉得这样会更近一些，更容易到达。
Without a car, everything's a hassle.
没有车，一切都很麻烦。
So she hasn't seen New York at all this summer.
所以今年夏天她根本就没有去过纽约。
The only place she's gone is some outlet stores.
她唯一去过的地方是一些直销店。
When she's not at work, she hangs around the apartment with five other students, all women who came over from Asia this summer to work at the rest stop.
当她不工作的时候，她和另外五名学生一起在公寓里闲逛，这些学生都是今年夏天从亚洲来到休息站工作的女性。
When we have day off, we will go to a supermarket to buy grocery.
当我们休息的时候，我们会去超市买杂货。
Yeah.
是的。
That's it?
就是这样？
Sandy Maybe go to a restaurant to eat something.
桑迪 也许去餐馆吃点东西。
What's the best thing that's happened this summer on your trip?
今年夏天你的旅行中发生的最好的事情是什么？
This summer?
今年夏天？
So far, I didn't make happiness in this trip.
到目前为止，我在这次旅行中并没有获得快乐。
So far, no.
到目前为止，没有。
Wait, you haven't had much that's been so good this trip?
等等，这次旅行你没有经历过太多美好的事情吗？
No, so far.
不，到目前为止。
Ira Glass So this seemed, frankly, a little sad.
艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass） 坦率地说，这似乎有点悲伤。
A bunch of students quietly tolerating their summers, counting the days until they could finally travel the country.
一群学生静静地忍受着暑假，数着日子，直到终于可以环游全国。
Cooking food they don't eat, like hamburgers, and drinks they'd never heard of before arriving here, like frappucinos, all for people who have cars at a place that's all about cars on the side of the highway, but without cars of their own.
烹饪他们不吃的食物，例如汉堡包，以及他们到达这里之前从未听说过的饮料，例如星冰乐，所有这些都是为那些在高速公路旁有汽车但没有自己的汽车的地方有汽车的人准备的。
I felt bad for them.
我为他们感到难过。
And then I started talking to the Ukrainian students.
然后我开始和乌克兰学生交谈。
And how's it going?
进展如何？
Evgenia Trekasa Very good.
叶夫根尼娅·特雷卡萨 非常好。
I think that I really get a very big, huge experience here because I like this place, and I want to come back here.
我认为我在这里真的获得了非常非常丰富的经历，因为我喜欢这个地方，而且我想回到这里。
It's really true.
这是真的。
I'm happy that I'm here.
我很高兴我在这里。
Evgenia Trekasa goes by the name Jane or Angelina here in the States.
Evgenia Trekasa 在美国的名字是 Jane 或 Angelina。
She's 18, entering her junior year of college.
她今年18岁，即将进入大学三年级。
It's her first time away so long from her parents, and she misses them terribly, but it's also very exciting.
这是她第一次离开父母这么久，她非常想念他们，但也很兴奋。
She says that in the first week or two in Plattekill, she and the other Ukrainians felt stranded, same as the girls from Taiwan and Hong Kong felt.
她说，在普拉特基尔的头一两周，她和其他乌克兰人感到陷入困境，就像来自台湾和香港的女孩的感受一样。
Because that we don't have a car, we can't drive.
因为我们没有车，所以不能开车。
We just can take a bus, so that's why.
我们只能坐公共汽车，所以这就是原因。
But then we find friends that, like, when we have a day off, they always can take us.
但后来我们找到了朋友，比如当我们休息的时候，他们总是可以带我们去。
Like, all the guys, it's OK.
就像，所有的人，都没关系。
We will show you beautiful places.
我们将向您展示美丽的地方。
So when we have a day off, we always go to somewhere.
所以当我们休息的时候，我们总是去某个地方。
We never stay at home.
我们从不呆在家里。
What happened is that the Ukrainians befriended a couple of the American teenagers who work at the rest stop, and those teenagers introduced them to other young people.
实际情况是，乌克兰人与几个在休息站工作的美国青少年成为了朋友，这些青少年将他们介绍给其他年轻人。
And before they knew it, they had rides to the mall, to Six Flags Amusement Park, to New York City.
不知不觉中，他们已经乘车去了购物中心、六旗游乐园、纽约市。
My name is Adelaide Giron.
我叫阿德莱德·吉隆。
I'm 19.
我19岁了。
I work at Roy Rogers.
我在罗伊·罗杰斯工作。
Adelaide is a big, cheerful, fun-loving guy and probably the American who's gotten closest to the Ukrainians.
阿德莱德是一个高大、开朗、有趣的人，可能是与乌克兰人关系最密切的美国人。
In two years working at the Roy Rogers at the rest stop, he's seen lots of foreign students come through.
在罗伊·罗杰斯休息站工作的两年里，他看到了很多外国学生。
I think this group has definitely, by far, been my favorite.
我认为到目前为止，这个团体绝对是我最喜欢的。
Why?
为什么？
Adelaide Giron I felt like the other groups before, I've gotten attached to them.
Adelaide Giron 我感觉就像以前的其他团体一样，我已经对他们产生了依恋。
But this group, I think it's since I'm in college and they're in college.
但这个群体，我想是从我上大学开始，他们也上大学了。
And we drink, and I drink, and they drink.
我们喝酒，我喝酒，他们也喝酒。
And it's a fun experience.
这是一次有趣的经历。
I just recently got my license about two years ago-- actually, a year and a half ago.
我大约两年前刚刚拿到驾照——实际上是一年半前。
Before that, I was driving illegally, so I really couldn't drive all over the place.
之前我是违章驾驶，所以确实不能到处开车。
But now that I got my license, so, like, [BLEEP] I'm driving everywhere.
但现在我拿到了驾照，所以，就像，[BLEEP] 我开车去任何地方。
So I hang out with them.
所以我和他们一起出去玩。
I take them shopping.
我带他们去购物。
At night, we go, like, swimming at this lake, trespassing.
晚上，我们就像在这个湖里游泳一样，擅自闯入。
Who cares, though?
但谁在乎呢？
Just having a good time.
只是玩得开心。
We're young.
我们还年轻。
The cops showed up one time.
有一次警察出现了。
We had alcohol on us.
我们身上带着酒精。
It was a pretty bad story.
这是一个非常糟糕的故事。
For a while, he says he was going over to their apartment three times a week-- Fridays, Saturdays, and Wednesdays for parties-- parties he taught them how to throw.
他说，有一段时间，他每周去他们的公寓三次——周五、周六和周三参加派对——他教他们如何举办派对。
Here's one of his students in this matter, Peter Molov, one of the Ukrainians.
这是他在这件事上的学生之一，彼得·莫洛夫，乌克兰人之一。
What's your favorite thing that you've done so far since you've been here?
自从来到这里以来，您最喜欢做的事情是什么？
Favorite thing?
最喜欢的东西？
Probably the parties.
大概是当事人吧。
Parties.
派对。
They're a lot different than in our country.
他们与我们国家有很大不同。
If we want to have parties, we just go to the club in our country, in Ukraine.
如果我们想举办派对，我们就去我们国家乌克兰的俱乐部。
Go to the club, loud music and stuff, you know.
去俱乐部，听吵闹的音乐之类的，你知道的。
But since we came here, we get to know other Americans, and they said, let's have a party.
但自从我们来到这里，我们认识了其他美国人，他们说，我们开个派对吧。
Well, OK, let's go to the club.
好吧，好吧，我们去俱乐部吧。
Why to the club?
为什么去俱乐部？
Let's do it at home.
我们在家做吧。
OK.
好的。
We go to home.
我们回家吧。
They showed us games they play.
他们向我们展示了他们玩的游戏。
Beer pong.
啤酒乒乓球。
Introduced them to my beer funnel-- they'd never seen that before.
向他们介绍了我的啤酒漏斗——他们以前从未见过。
We showed them flip cup.
我们向他们展示了翻转杯。
We showed them how to play flip cup, and--
我们向他们展示了如何玩翻杯，并且——
It is fun.
这很有趣。
A lot of people play, so it's really fun.
很多人都在玩，所以真的很有趣。
And you didn't have beer pong back in Ukraine?
你们在乌克兰没有啤酒乒乓球吗？
No. I never knew.
不，我从来不知道。
Ira Glass Will you be taking that back to show your friends back home?
Ira Glass 你会把它带回去给你的朋友们看吗？
Oh, yeah.
哦，是的。
We even want to buy a beer pong table, you know?
我们甚至想买一张啤酒乒乓球桌，你知道吗？
Special for it.
特别为之。
I'm not sure they call it a beer pong table.
我不确定他们称之为啤酒乒乓球桌。
They're pretty good for not knowing what beer pong is.
他们很擅长不知道什么是啤酒乒乓球。
Like, we just introduced them to beer pong two months ago, and yet, they're better than me.
就像，我们两个月前刚刚向他们介绍了啤酒乒乓球，但他们比我更好。
So yeah, we actually have, like, tournaments going on sometimes, and the Ukrainians end up on top most of the time.
所以，是的，我们实际上有时会举办锦标赛，而乌克兰人大多数时候都会名列前茅。
So yeah.
所以是的。
It's impossible to drink so much as Americans do.
不可能像美国人那样喝那么多酒。
Americans really drink very much.
美国人真的很爱喝酒。
This is Dasha, another 19-year-old from Ukraine.
这是 Dasha，另一位来自乌克兰的 19 岁女孩。
She said most of the parties here in America in their apartment or out by the lake went until dawn.
她说，在美国，大多数聚会都在他们的公寓或湖边举行，直到黎明。
At 6:00 AM, 7:00 AM.
早上 6:00、早上 7:00。
And then the most fun is then when you work from 9:00 AM and you don't sleep at all.
最有趣的是当你从上午 9:00 开始工作并且根本不睡觉的时候。
Like, one day, I just slept 30 minutes.
就像，有一天，我只睡了 30 分钟。
I woke up and went to work.
我醒来并去上班。
That was the most fun?
那是最好玩的吗？
Dasha Yeah.
达莎 是啊。
As for me, I was dying at work.
至于我，我在工作中快要死了。
Fortunately, she works at a Starbucks.
幸运的是，她在星巴克工作。
The Plattekill Rest Stop has employed foreign students for nearly a decade.
近十年来，普拉特基尔休息站一直雇用外国学生。
They're hard workers and easier to schedule into shifts than American teenagers, who are always needing time off for family vacations, and sports practice, and other activities.
他们工作努力，比美国青少年更容易安排轮班，美国青少年总是需要休假来进行家庭度假、体育练习和其他活动。
There's a group in the summer and then smaller groups in the winter and spring.
夏季有一组，冬季和春季有较小的组。
And the Plattekill Rest Stop is a close knit enough place that people cry when they leave.
普拉特基尔休息站是一个联系紧密的地方，人们在离开时会哭泣。
One of the managers told me how she still emails kids from Brazil and Peru who worked here years ago.
一位经理告诉我，她仍然给多年前在这里工作的来自巴西和秘鲁的孩子们发电子邮件。
At least one marriage has come out of this, between an American worker and a Bulgarian girl.
至少有一桩婚姻是由此产生的，即一名美国工人和一名保加利亚女孩之间的婚姻。
Though all the managers of the rest stop agreed that they like the Ukrainians, they're good kids, but the Ukrainians are the rowdiest group with the most issues they have ever had, hands down.
尽管休息站的所有经理都同意他们喜欢乌克兰人，他们是好孩子，但乌克兰人是最吵闹的群体，他们遇到过的问题最多，毫无疑问。
Probably because the Ukrainians are the first group that were friends back in their home country.
可能是因为乌克兰人是第一批回到祖国成为朋友的群体。
They came to Plattekill for a summer adventure.
他们来到普拉特基尔进行夏季探险。
They're having too much fun, one manager told me.
一位经理告诉我，他们玩得太开心了。
Fireworks after 2:00 AM, complaints from neighbors.
凌晨 2:00 后燃放烟花，邻居投诉。
The police have come out a few times, because of the noise.
由于噪音，警察已经出来好几次了。
Robert, the general manager, has no idea where he's going to find them housing if their landlord evicts them.
总经理罗伯特不知道如果房东驱逐他们，他该在哪里为他们找到住处。
It's been a little bit of a rough summer with them.
他们度过了一个有点艰难的夏天。
They're enjoying it.
他们很享受。
They're college kids.
他们是大学生。
And I think the thing is they forget that they're not living in the dorms.
我认为问题是他们忘记了他们不住在宿舍里。
They live in an apartment complex, where there's families, and kids, and little kids.
他们住在一个公寓楼里，那里有家人、孩子和小孩。
So they just have to be more respectful at times.
所以他们有时必须更加尊重。
It's not like we don't want them have a good time.
我们并不是不希望他们玩得开心。
You got to make sure you draw the line someplace and say, OK, maybe 1 o'clock is late enough.
你必须确保在某个地方划清界限，然后说，好吧，也许 1 点已经够晚了。
Or the people are going to work because it's a Tuesday, and you just got to kind of be good neighbors.
或者人们要去工作，因为今天是星期二，而你们必须成为好邻居。
As it turned out, everything came to a head the night before we arrived to record with an all-night party that Adelaide says was their craziest ever-- a party that was not thrown by the Ukrainians.
事实证明，一切都在我们到达的前一天晚上达到了紧要关头，我们要举办一场通宵派对，阿德莱德称这是他们有史以来最疯狂的派对，但这场派对并不是乌克兰人举办的。
It was the very first party thrown by the girls from Taiwan, total turnaround for them.
这是台湾女孩举办的第一次聚会，对她们来说是彻底的转变。
Adelaide says before this, he and the Ukrainians had only invited them to one party.
阿德莱德表示，在此之前，他和乌克兰人只邀请过他们参加一场聚会。
And they really don't drink, so they got drunk off a couple of beers.
而且他们真的不喝酒，所以喝了几杯啤酒就醉了。
And we just-- they couldn't hang, so we just didn't invite them anymore.
我们只是——他们不能挂，所以我们就不再邀请他们了。
But now they threw this party, a goodbye party for one of the girls who was leaving early, and they partied with the best of them, everybody dancing and making noise.
但现在他们举办了这个派对，为一个提前离开的女孩举办的告别派对，他们和她们中最优秀的人一起参加，每个人都跳舞、喧闹。
After the second beer run, there was a late night beer fight with people pouring their drinks on each other.
第二次啤酒跑后，深夜发生了一场啤酒大战，人们互相倒酒。
As usual, all this bothering the neighbors.
和往常一样，这一切都让邻居们烦恼不已。
Then what was it, they complained to the landlord?
那他们向房东投诉又是什么呢？
Yeah.
是的。
The landlord doesn't like me or my other friends hanging around there.
房东不喜欢我或我的其他朋友在那儿闲逛。
He actually refers to me as a big crazy Mexican that walks around, but.
他实际上称我为一个四处走动的疯狂墨西哥人，但是。
So I don't know.
所以我不知道。
I don't think I'm a big crazy Mexican at all.
我不认为我是一个疯狂的墨西哥人。
I'm a gentle giant, really.
我真的是一个温柔的巨人。
And so then Robert had a talk with everybody?
那么罗伯特就和每个人都进行了交谈吗？
And it was kind of time to play the heavy-handed dad and just to make sure that they get the full message that this can't go on.
现在是时候扮演严厉的父亲了，只是为了确保他们得到完整的信息，即这种情况不能再继续下去。
That we shouldn't have any more parties here.
我们不应该再在这里举行任何聚会。
We should be quiet because if there will be one more party, they will send us home.
我们应该保持安静，因为如果再有一场聚会，他们就会送我们回家。
They will, like, break our contract with Plaza, and then there will be no more students in Plaza the next year.
他们会，就像，打破我们与广场的合同，然后明年广场将不再有学生。
I don't know.
我不知道。
Just, I don't really care they will have any other students next summer.
只是，我真的不在乎明年夏天他们还会有其他学生。
Because I won't be there.
因为我不会在那里。
The American kids also got a warning from their boss.
美国孩子们也收到了老板的警告。
Again, here's Adelaide.
再说一次，这里是阿德莱德。
You know, just to stop going over there.
你知道，只是为了停止去那里。
The landlord doesn't want me on his property.
房东不希望我住在他的财产上。
He sees me or my car, it's getting towed at my expense.
他看到我或我的车，被拖走，费用由我承担。
I'm going to get charged for trespassing.
我将因非法侵入而受到指控。
Well, I'll probably still go over.
好吧，我可能还是会过去。
[BLEEP] it.
[哔]它。
There's really nothing-- I mean, if they say anything, I'll just be like, oh, OK.
真的什么都没有——我的意思是，如果他们说什么，我就会说，哦，好吧。
It won't happen again, officer.
这样的事不会再发生了，警官。
And of course it'll happen again, but.
当然，这种事还会再次发生，但是。
And do you worry that you could get the Ukrainians in trouble in a way that they'd get sent back early?
你是否担心你会给乌克兰人带来麻烦，导致他们被提前遣返？
I hope not, but if they do, it's all a good time.
我希望不会，但如果他们这样做了，那就太好了。
And I told them if anything happens, I'm deeply sorry, but whatever happens happens.
我告诉他们，如果发生任何事情，我深感抱歉，但无论发生什么都会发生。
There's nothing we can do.
我们无能为力。
And that, everybody says, was the last big party of the year.
每个人都说那是今年最后一次大型聚会。
But no matter.
但没关系。
It was still a great summer.
这仍然是一个美好的夏天。
I asked Evgenia if she ever felt jealous of all the travelers she saw pass through the rest stop, people on the way to vacations while she was stuck working.
我问叶夫根尼娅，她是否曾嫉妒过那些她看到经过休息站的旅客，以及那些在她忙着工作而去度假的路上的人。
And she said never.
她说从来没有。
She'd come so far to get here.
她千里迢迢来到这里。
They should be jealous of me, because I'm here.
他们应该嫉妒我，因为我在这里。
Inside the rest stop, right when you enter the lobby, between the bathroom and the food court, is this room full of racks of brochures.
在休息站内，当您进入大厅时，在浴室和美食广场之间，就是这个房间，里面摆满了小册子的架子。
Lisa Pollak is one of the gang of nine reporters that we had at Plattekill.
丽莎·波拉克是普拉特基尔的九名记者之一。
You know those brochures you'll see in the lobby of a discount hotel, the ones advertising local attractions that inevitably, no matter where in the country you are, include a water park and an underground cavern tour?
您知道您会在折扣酒店的大堂看到那些宣传当地景点的小册子，无论您身在该国的哪个地方，这些小册子都不可避免地包括水上乐园和地下洞穴之旅？
It's that, floor to ceiling.
就是这样，从地板到天花板。
This is the New York State Information Center.
这是纽约州信息中心。
It confusingly is run not by New York State, but by a private company that charges businesses to display their pamphlets here.
令人困惑的是，它不是由纽约州运营的，而是由一家私营公司运营的，该公司向企业收取在这里展示小册子的费用。
The manager of the center is a guy named Lenny Wheat.
该中心的经理是一个名叫莱尼·麦特的人。
He also stands behind a counter offering travel advice to the lost.
他还站在柜台后面为迷路者提供旅行建议。
When I talk to Lenny, he gets this look on his face, almost like he feels a little sorry for me.
当我和莱尼说话时，他脸上的表情几乎就像他为我感到有点遗憾。
Because I think I'm in the middle of nowhere, and he thinks I have no idea what I'm missing.
因为我认为我身处一个偏僻的地方，而他认为我不知道我错过了什么。
Right here, the next exit alone, you have best rock climbing in the country here.
就在这里，仅下一个出口，您就可以在这里体验该国最好的攀岩活动。
Oh, seriously?
哦，认真的吗？
Lenny Wheat Yeah.
莱尼·小麦 是的。
It's the Napa Valley of the east around here.
这附近就是东部的纳帕谷。
We have the oldest vineyards, the oldest winery, one of the best wineries.
我们拥有最古老的葡萄园、最古老的酒庄、最好的酒庄之一。
You have the best hotel resort spa in the United States in the area here, too.
这里还拥有美国最好的酒店度假村水疗中心。
Wait, how do you know it's the best in the--
等等，你怎么知道它是最好的--
That's according to Mobil Travel Guide and Day Spa Magazine.
这是根据《美孚旅游指南》和《日间水疗》杂志得出的结论。
I got one of the best dude ranches in the country up here by New Paltz, too.
我在新帕尔茨这里也拥有全国最好的牧场之一。
No, you don't.
不，你不知道。
Lenny Wheat Yes, Rocking Horse Ranch Resort.
莱尼·麦特 是的，摇马牧场度假村。
Yeah, great place to take a family.
是的，带家人去的好地方。
By the time Lenny tells me about something called the Catamount Adventure Park-- largest adventure park in North America, according to the brochure--
当莱尼告诉我一个叫卡塔蒙冒险公园的地方时——根据小册子，这是北美最大的冒险公园——
--I am so overwhelmed by superlatives that I just take his word for it.
——我对最高级的说法感到如此不知所措，以至于我只相信他的话。
Lenny knows this area.
莱尼了解这个领域。
He's a local, lives eight minutes away.
他是当地人，住在距酒店八分钟路程的地方。
And he used to drive for a messenger service so he's an expert at getting directions.
他曾经为送信服务公司开车，所以他是获取路线的专家。
I found it especially impressive when he told travelers the exact number of miles between highway exits by memory.
当他凭记忆告诉旅行者高速公路出口之间的确切英里数时，我觉得特别令人印象深刻。
But Lenny actually ended up in this job by accident.
但莱尼实际上是偶然得到这份工作的。
His neighbor used to work here, and Lenny would visit him from time to time to help out.
他的邻居以前在这里工作，莱尼会时不时地来看他帮忙。
And he was feeling ill one day, and I was like-- he says, you think you can stay here and do this?
有一天他感觉不舒服，我就想——他说，你认为你可以留在这里做这件事吗？
And I'm like, sure, why not?
我想，当然，为什么不呢？
I mean, I know my way around.
我的意思是，我知道我的路。
I know the roads, so.
我认识路，所以。
And he had some issues and stuff, diabetes and stuff, and wound up taking time out and stuff.
他遇到了一些问题，糖尿病之类的，最后不得不休息一段时间之类的。
He recently passed away and stuff.
他最近去世了等等。
I'm so sorry.
我很抱歉。
Lenny Wheat So but kind of like sometimes you feel like what you've done in your life is-- and it comes together, that it's like you were meant to do something, you know?
Lenny Wheat：所以，有时候你会觉得你一生中所做的事情是——而且综合起来，就好像你注定要做某事，你知道吗？
So you're saying it kind of seemed like it was meant to be?
所以你是说这似乎是命中注定的？
Sometimes it feels that way.
有时会有这样的感觉。
Lisa Pollak I hung out with Lenny for a couple hours.
丽莎·波拉克 我和莱尼一起玩了几个小时。
I saw him cheerfully field dozens of information requests, everything from where to buy beer-- nowhere at the rest stop, but try New Paltz, there's a lot of college kids there-- to how to get to Maryland.
我看到他兴致勃勃地回复了几十个信息请求，内容包罗万象，从哪里买啤酒——休息站哪里都没有，但试试新帕尔茨，那里有很多大学生——到如何去马里兰州。
A crucial first step-- turn around.
关键的第一步——转身。
Maryland is south of here.
马里兰州就在这儿的南边。
You are headed north.
你正在向北行驶。
When anyone wanders in to browse, Lenny pounces.
当有人走进去浏览时，莱尼就会猛扑过去。
Lake George, the guy says.
乔治湖，那家伙说。
Lenny Wheat OK.
莱尼小麦 好的。
Can I get you anything for Lake George?
我能给你买点乔治湖的东西吗？
We just got in the fall events guide, too.
我们也刚刚获得了秋季活动指南。
Sure, if you want to.
当然，如果你愿意的话。
Lenny Wheat Anything for Washington County on the other side of the lake?
莱尼·麦特 (Lenny Wheat) 湖对岸的华盛顿县有什么好玩的吗？
Anything on hiking?
徒步有什么好玩的吗？
No. Lenny Wheat Waterways?
不，莱尼小麦水道？
Whitewater rafting?
白水漂流？
Even though all these places are paying to advertise here, Lenny gets genuinely excited when he's pitching them.
尽管所有这些地方都付费在这里做广告，但莱尼在推销它们时还是感到非常兴奋。
If he doesn't believe the Plattekill Rest Stop is the gateway to vacation gold, he sure fooled me.
如果他不相信普拉特基尔休息站是通往度假黄金的门户，那他肯定愚弄了我。
And if he didn't know it, in Karo, there's bear statues all around the village, and there's a treasure hunt going on with that, OK?
如果他不知道的话，在卡罗，村庄周围都有熊雕像，而且正在进行寻宝活动，好吗？
Here's another one.
这是另一张。
Lenny Wheat And that is also the best concert facility in the world.
Lenny Wheat 那也是世界上最好的音乐会设施。
Loggins and Messina's playing tonight.
洛金斯和梅西纳今晚将演奏。
Oh.
哦。
Messina, the comedian?
梅西纳，喜剧演员？
Lenny Wheat No. No.
莱尼·麦子 号 号
And one more.
还有一个。
Lenny Wheat And the world's largest kaleidoscope there, too.
Lenny Wheat 那里还有世界上最大的万花筒。
At a time when people plan their trips on computers and drive to them using GPS, it's a little surprising that a place like this even exists.
当人们在电脑上计划旅行并使用 GPS 开车前往时，像这样的地方竟然存在，有点令人惊讶。
I actually watched Lenny pull out a magnifying glass for a guy having trouble seeing a map.
我实际上看到莱尼为一个看不清地图的人拿出放大镜。
By the time I left, Lenny had me almost convinced that what he has to offer is better than the internet.
当我离开时，莱尼几乎让我相信他所提供的比互联网更好。
You can sit here in 10, 15 minutes, flip through the pages, and seen most everything every county might have to offer you.
您可以坐在这里 10 到 15 分钟，翻阅页面，并看到每个县可能为您提供的几乎所有内容。
You know how long it would take you to find all that on the internet?
您知道在互联网上找到所有这些内容需要多长时间吗？
You turn the page, you got shopping.
你翻过这一页，你就可以购物了。
You turn the page, you got your fishing, your antiquing.
你翻过这一页，你就得到了你的钓鱼，你的古董。
How're you doing, guys?
伙计们，你们好吗？
Where are you going to?
你要去哪里？
You know, you don't really go on a long car trip with strangers.
你知道，你不会真的和陌生人一起去长途汽车旅行。
Usually you're with people who you know really, really well.
通常你和非常非常了解的人在一起。
And being confined in the car together in a tiny space, staring ahead at the road, that's one of the nicest places to talk, have a long, long talk.
一起被限制在车里的一个狭小的空间里，凝视着前方的道路，这是最好的谈话场所之一，可以进行一次很长很长的谈话。
One woman told us that she actually plans things to discuss with her husband and her kids when she knows that they're going to be in the car for hours.
一位女士告诉我们，当她知道丈夫和孩子要在车里呆上几个小时时，她实际上计划与他们讨论一些事情。
Another woman, this mom named Elizabeth McMann, was driving from DC to Albany with her 9-year-old.
另一位名叫伊丽莎白·麦克曼 (Elizabeth McMann) 的母亲带着 9 岁的孩子从华盛顿开车前往奥尔巴尼。
It's a long drive.
这是一个很长的车程。
And the son decided that he was going to use the time to get to the bottom of some things.
儿子决定利用这段时间查清一些事情的真相。
He's been on this whole Q&A thing, where, Mom, who do you like better, your sister or your brother?
他一直在进行整个问答环节，妈妈，你更喜欢谁，你的妹妹还是你的兄弟？
Uncle Jenny or Uncle Chad?
珍妮叔叔还是查德叔叔？
Or how long would you cry if I died?
或者如果我死了你会哭多久？
Or would you rather be married to your old boyfriend or to Daddy, who's-- we're divorced.
或者你宁愿嫁给你的前男友，还是嫁给爸爸，我们已经离婚了。
He's been kind of weird.
他的性格有点奇怪。
So that stimulates some conversation.
这会激发一些对话。
He just asked, for example, Mom, are you really Santa Claus?
他只是问，比如，妈妈，你真的是圣诞老人吗？
The reporter who talked to that woman was Jonathan Goldstein.
与那位女士交谈的记者是乔纳森·戈德斯坦。
He mostly stationed himself outside the rest stop in the parking lot by the picnic benches.
他大部分时间都站在停车场休息站外的野餐长凳旁。
Somehow, everybody Jonathan talked to seemed to be enjoying their time on the road to the max.
不知何故，乔纳森交谈过的每个人似乎都很享受在通往巅峰的路上度过的时光。
Stan is sitting on the bench in front of the parking lot.
斯坦坐在停车场前的长凳上。
Unlike everyone else you see-- people looking to eat, looking to get to a washroom-- Stan looks perfectly at home, smoking a cigar like he's got the world on a string.
与你看到的其他人不同——人们想要吃饭，想要去洗手间——斯坦看起来很自在，抽着雪茄，就像他把世界拴在一根绳子上一样。
Like hanging out at a rest stop is the best part of any vacation.
就像在休息站闲逛是任何假期中最好的部分。
He's waiting for his girlfriend, who he likes to call--
他在等他的女朋友，他喜欢这样称呼她——
The War Department.
陆军部。
Jonathan Goldstein And by which you mean?
乔纳森·戈德斯坦 你的意思是？
It's my girlfriend.
这是我女朋友。
The War Department, or the wife, is the War Department.
陆军部，或者说老婆，就是陆军部。
Get with it, baby.
接受吧，宝贝。
Let's go, baby.
我们走吧，宝贝。
It's always sort of the sky is very clear and blue today.
今天的天空总是那么晴朗、蔚蓝。
That's not blue.
那不是蓝色的。
That's not blue.
那不是蓝色的。
That's not clear.
这还不清楚。
Have you guys been arguing a lot in the car?
你们在车上经常吵架吗？
No, we never argue.
不，我们从不争论。
She told me to say that.
她让我这么说。
This is me.
这就是我。
See this, under the thumb?
看到这个，在拇指下吗？
Yes, dear.
是的亲爱的。
Yes, dear.
是的亲爱的。
That's me, right there.
那就是我，就在那里。
Yes, dear.
是的亲爱的。
And yet, in spite of Stan's take on couplehood-- one perhaps modeled on Warner Brothers cartoons of the '50s-- it looks like there's still a never ending line of people all too eager to sign up.
然而，尽管斯坦对夫妻关系的看法——可能是以 50 年代华纳兄弟的动画片为蓝本的——但看起来仍然有无穷无尽的人们急于报名。
Case in point-- a group of four women come striding across the parking lot in the midst of a bachelorette party.
举个例子——在一场单身派对上，四名女性大步穿过停车场。
Oh.
哦。
Woman It's a surprise because it's a bachelorette party.
女人 这是一个惊喜，因为这是一个单身派对。
We're taking her away somewhere she's never been before.
我们要带她去一个她以前从未去过的地方。
I feel like I need to know where I'm going pretty soon.
我觉得我需要尽快知道我要去哪里。
Do you even know in what direction you're heading?
你甚至知道你正朝着什么方向前进吗？
North.
北。
Jonathan Goldstein And that's it?
乔纳森·戈德斯坦：就这样了吗？
That's all you know?
你只知道这些吗？
Well, the only thing I know is that I need flip-flops, a whistle, and something else.
嗯，我唯一知道的是我需要人字拖、口哨和其他东西。
Yeah, flip-flops and a whistle.
是的，人字拖和口哨。
Now does that really come into play, or are you just messing with her mind at this point?
现在这真的起作用了，还是你现在只是在扰乱她的思想？
It's very important.
这非常重要。
It's very important to the whole evening.
这对于整个晚上来说非常重要。
Flip-flops and a whistle, I'm thinking some--
人字拖和口哨，我在想——
And comfortable clothes.
还有舒适的衣服。
Jonathan Goldstein All right, now I'm going to ask you guys-- I'll ask you to step over there.
乔纳森·戈尔茨坦：好吧，现在我要请你们——我请你们到那里去。
I'm going to ask these guys what they've got planned.
我要问这些人他们有什么计划。
And I won't tell anything, and by the time this airs, it won't make a difference.
我不会告诉任何事情，到播出时，这也不会产生什么影响。
So you're just going to go stand over there, I'm sorry.
所以你就去那边站着吧，抱歉。
Because now I'm going to get this scoop.
因为现在我要得到这个独家新闻。
All right, just crowd in here.
好吧，就挤在这里吧。
All right, so flip-flops and a whistle, what's that all about?
好吧，人字拖和口哨，那是怎么回事？
It's all crap.
都是废话。
It's complete crap.
这完全是一派胡言。
We're making the whole thing up.
我们正在编造整件事。
My name's Jack, man.
我叫杰克，伙计。
Jonathan Goldstein And where are you coming from?
乔纳森·戈德斯坦 你从哪里来？
I'm coming from mother [BLEEP] Boston, heading to West Virginia.
我从母亲[BLEEP]波士顿出发，前往西弗吉尼亚州。
What's your last name?
你姓什么？
Jack I ain't getting into that right now.
杰克，我现在不打算讨论这个。
No last names on this.
这上面没有姓氏。
I've been drinking.
我一直在喝酒。
As it turns out, Jack is not the one driving.
事实证明，杰克并不是开车的人。
He's traveling with a couple friends back from mother [BLEEP] Boston, where he's dropped off his four-year-old, who he spent the summer with in West Virginia.
他和几个朋友从母亲[BLEEP]波士顿回来，在那里他把四岁的孩子送到了那里，他和孩子一起在西弗吉尼亚州度过了夏天。
Jack has four kids in three different states.
杰克在三个不同的州有四个孩子。
Each of their names are tattooed across his upper torso.
他们每个人的名字都纹在他的上躯干上。
Jack is on his way home.
杰克正在回家的路上。
Got lost a couple times, so it took us, like, 12 hours.
迷路了几次，所以我们花了大约12个小时。
So how long was he with you?
那么他和你在一起多久了？
Jack Probably, like, three, four months.
杰克 大概三四个月吧。
And you only get to see him during the summer?
你只有在夏天才能见到他吗？
Nah, I get him for Christmas.
不，圣诞节我会去找他。
You know how the women are.
你知道女人是怎样的。
They don't want to pay for all the Christmas presents and stuff.
他们不想支付所有圣诞礼物之类的费用。
You know what I mean?
你知道我的意思？
They all make sure the kids are with me for Christmas.
他们都确保孩子们和我一起过圣诞节。
And you saw his mom, too, when you pick him up and drop him off?
当你接送他时，你也看到了他的妈妈吗？
Oh, yeah.
哦，是的。
I still got the big red marks on my back where she tried to beat me up.
我的背上仍然有她试图殴打我的大红色痕迹。
Are you kidding?
你在开玩笑吧？
Jack Nah, man.
杰克·纳，伙计。
I'm for real.
我是真的。
Hey, don't bring your new girlfriend to your ex-wife's house.
嘿，别带你的新女友去你前妻家。
That's all I got to say.
我要说的就是这些。
That baby's mama drama stuff, you know.
那个婴儿的妈妈戏剧的东西，你知道。
Seeing how she's on crutches, and she broke her leg a few weeks ago, she tried to beat me up with her crutches.
看到她拄着拐杖，几周前她摔断了腿，她就想用拐杖打我。
Your new girlfriend's in the car with you now?
你的新女友现在和你一起在车里吗？
Yeah, man, yes.
是的，伙计，是的。
That's the pretty blonde over there in that black car.
那是那辆黑色汽车里那个漂亮的金发女郎。
You walk over there, you'd be surprised, though.
不过，你走到那里，你会感到惊讶。
Her and my buddy driving, we call him Hot Wheels.
她和我的伙伴开车，我们称他为“风火轮”。
He's a handicapped kid in a wheelchair, so you know what I mean?
他是一个坐在轮椅上的残疾孩子，所以你明白我的意思吗？
We nicknamed his ass Hot Wheels.
我们给他起了个绰号“风火轮”。
I walk across the parking lot to a big black rusty car.
我穿过停车场，来到一辆生锈的黑色大汽车前。
Yeah, 'cause I'm always in a wheelchair.
是的，因为我总是坐在轮椅上。
Tore my foot off.
把我的脚扯断了。
How did that happen?
这是怎么发生的？
Hot Wheels A car crash back in 2006.
风火轮 2006 年的一场车祸。
Hit a wall at about 100.
100左右就撞墙了。
What do you expect?
你期望什么？
You don't expect to walk away from something like that.
你不会期望能够摆脱这样的事情。
And you are-- you're in the back seat here.
而你——你坐在后座上。
Krissy.
克丽丝。
Jonathan Goldstein You're also from West Virginia?
乔纳森·戈德斯坦（Jonathan Goldstein）您也来自西弗吉尼亚州？
Yes.
是的。
Jonathan Goldstein And how old are you guys?
乔纳森·戈德斯坦 你们几岁了？
24.
24.
Jonathan Goldstein Do you do much traveling?
乔纳森·戈德斯坦 你经常旅行吗？
No, not at all.
不，一点也不。
I'm a stay-at-home mom, so.
我是一名全职妈妈，所以。
How old are your kids?
你的孩子几岁了？
Krissy I have one.
克丽丝 我有一个。
He's nine.
他九岁了。
So you don't get a chance to travel very much.
所以你没有机会去很多地方旅行。
Yes.
是的。
I went to New Jersey once before, but other than that, this is definitely the farthest and longest.
我以前去过新泽西一次，但除此之外，这绝对是最远、最长的一次。
And have you been in a lot of, like, parking lots like this, a lot of rest stops?
你去过很多像这样的停车场、很多休息站吗？
Actually, no. I think this is probably the first, like, rest stop I've ever come to.
事实上，没有。我想这可能是我来到的第一个休息站。
Really?
真的吗？
Krissy Yes.
克丽丝 是的。
I don't just live in West Virginia.
我不仅仅住在西弗吉尼亚州。
I live in West Virginia, and I don't ever go anywhere.
我住在西弗吉尼亚州，哪儿也不去。
Coming up, love in the middle of the night, and much more.
接下来，还有半夜的爱情等等。
That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues.
芝加哥公共广播电台一分钟后我们的节目仍在继续。
Act 2 Ira Glass It's This American Life.
第二幕 Ira Glass 这就是美国生活。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Each week on our show, of course, we choose a theme, bring you different kinds of stories on that theme.
当然，我们的节目每周都会选择一个主题，为您带来有关该主题的不同类型的故事。
Today's show, Rest Stop.
今天的节目，休息站。
Nine of us stayed for two days in the middle of August at the Plattekill Travel Plaza on the northbound side of I-87 in New York State.
八月中旬，我们九个人在纽约州 87 号州际公路北行的普拉特基尔旅游广场 (Plattekill Travel Plaza) 住了两天。
This was back in 2009 that we did this.
早在 2009 年，我们就这么做了。
Today's show is a rerun.
今天的节目是重播。
We were talking with the people passing through, most of them on vacation, and of course, with the people who stay at the rest stop, working.
我们与路过的人交谈，其中大多数人在度假，当然，也与留在休息站工作的人交谈。
I'm still waiting for Andy's report back.
我还在等安迪的报告回来。
Let me see if he sent anything back.
让我看看他有没有寄回来什么东西。
3 o'clock, Friday.
星期五，下午 3 点。
Robert, the general manager at the rest stop, checks his BlackBerry for an email from his rival in Maine, Andy Tucci.
休息站的总经理罗伯特正在检查他的黑莓手机，看是否有一封来自缅因州竞争对手安迪·图奇 (Andy Tucci) 的电子邮件。
Noon to 3:00 was supposed to be some of the busiest hours of the year for Robert, but he does not look happy.
中午到 3:00 本来应该是罗伯特一年中最忙碌的时间，但他看起来并不高兴。
He's not hitting the half hourly goals on that piece of paper that he carries around with him.
他没有达到随身携带的那张纸上的半小时目标。
I am down a bunch from last year, about $3,300 behind last year and $600 behind last week, which is not a normal thing.
我比去年下降了很多，比去年下降了约 3,300 美元，比上周下降了 600 美元，这不是正常的事情。
And so it's a little cause for concern right now.
所以现在这有点令人担忧。
So right now, we're not sure why.
所以现在我们还不确定为什么。
There doesn't seem to be a lot of traffic problems.
交通方面似乎没有太大的问题。
We can make it up.
我们可以弥补。
In an hour and a half, we can make it all back and be right where we're supposed to be, so.
一个半小时后，我们就可以把一切恢复原样，回到我们应该去的地方，所以。
Every couple hours when I check with Robert, this is what he says.
每隔几个小时，当我与罗伯特联系时，他就会这么说。
We can still make it up.
我们还可以弥补。
The rush still can come.
高峰期仍然会到来。
Robert is optimistic, mostly.
罗伯特基本上是乐观的。
I haven't emailed Andy yet, but I'm afraid to email Andy right now.
我还没有给安迪发电子邮件，但我现在不敢给安迪发电子邮件。
I'm sure it's going very well.
我确信一切进展顺利。
But maybe that's a good thing I haven't heard back from Andy.
但也许这是一件好事，我没有收到安迪的回复。
Now it's starting to get a little overcast outside.
现在外面开始有点阴了。
Actually, he tells me, rain isn't always bad.
事实上，他告诉我，下雨并不总是坏事。
If it rains at the right time, people get backed up in traffic, then they gotta stop.
如果恰逢下雨，人们就会陷入交通堵塞，那么他们就必须停下来。
'Cause now they've been in traffic a little longer, so perfect timed rainstorms will be nice, and maybe not too hard.
因为现在他们的交通时间已经长了一些，所以完美时机的暴雨会很好，而且也许不会太猛烈。
I think that'll be good because people will get out of their car and walk in a light rain, but they don't want to walk in a downpour.
我认为这会很好，因为人们会下车在小雨中行走，但他们不想在倾盆大雨中行走。
If it's a downpour, they don't come out of the car.
如果下倾盆大雨，他们就不会下车。
We'll keep our fingers crossed.
我们会祈祷。
Still got a lot of night to go, so.
还有很多夜晚要走，所以。
Fingers crossed.
手指交叉。
Robert Woodill You're killing me, man.
罗伯特·伍德尔 你简直要杀了我，伙计。
Within 25 minutes, the skies literally blacken.
25分钟之内，天空完全变黑了。
[THUNDER] And it is the wrong kind of rain, the kind that includes tornado warnings one county over, the kind where you do not run from your car across the parking lot to buy a nice sandwich or a hot coffee from Robert.
[雷声]这不是一种错误的雨，这种雨还包括一个县的龙卷风警告，这种雨让你不会从车里跑过停车场去罗伯特那里买一份美味的三明治或一杯热咖啡。
The kind that I figured would just please one person on this earth, and that person was in Maine.
我认为这种方式只会取悦地球上的一个人，而那个人就在缅因州。
I would say probably by his last email, we're probably right in the same boat, right in the same area.
我想说的是，通过他的最后一封电子邮件，我们可能就在同一条船上，就在同一个地区。
Ladies and gentlemen, Andy Tucci, Roberts' rival, general manager of the Kennebunkport Travel Plazas.
女士们先生们，安迪·图奇 (Andy Tucci)，罗伯茨的竞争对手，肯纳邦克港旅游广场 (Kennebunkport Travel Plazas) 的总经理。
And his day actually wasn't going great either yet.
事实上他的日子也过得并不好。
Yeah, I just shot him an email, letting him know that we'd be busy later on after the Red Sox game.
是的，我刚刚给他发了一封电子邮件，让他知道红袜队比赛结束后我们会很忙。
Oh, I see.
我懂了。
Oh, you think you can make it up later.
哦，你认为你可以稍后弥补。
I think so.
我想是的。
There'll be a lot of people on the road later on celebrating.
稍后路上会有很多人庆祝。
Well, these Boston fans will be.
好吧，这些波士顿球迷会的。
Celebrating, huh?
庆祝吧？
Andy Tucci Celebrating, absolutely.
安迪·图奇绝对在庆祝。
Now later on, does he have anything going on?
现在后来，他有什么事情吗？
I don't really believe he has a whole lot going on down here tonight, you know, the Yankees being on the road.
我真的不相信今晚他会在这里发生很多事情，你知道，洋基队正在客场。
I would say so.
我会这么说。
Ira Glass At one point, finally, one of the concession stands, Nathan's Hot Dog, does get a real rush with a line that extends to the middle of the food court.
艾拉·格拉斯 (Ira Glass) 最后，内森热狗 (Nathan's Hot Dog) 的小卖摊终于迎来了一场真正的抢购潮，人们排起了长队，一直延伸到美食广场的中央。
This is where speed becomes crucial.
这就是速度变得至关重要的地方。
Robert says that if people walk into the rest stop and see a line, if the line doesn't seem like it's moving, they'll walk out without buying.
罗伯特说，如果人们走进休息站并看到一条队伍，如果队伍看起来没有移动，他们就会走出去而不购买。
So his staff has to pour it on during the rush if they're going to make their goals and, of course, beat Maine.
因此，如果他们想要实现目标，当然还要击败缅因州，那么他的工作人员就必须在比赛高峰期倾尽全力。
Sean Cole went behind the Nathan's counter to watch the action.
肖恩·科尔走到内森柜台后面观看这一活动。
Every now and then during the rush, Nathan's runs out of food.
在高峰期间，内森的食物时不时就会耗尽。
Heather Rafertee's working one of three cash registers.
希瑟·拉弗蒂正在操作三台收银机之一。
One corn dog is a problem since a customer has been waiting a long time for two.
一只玉米热狗是个问题，因为顾客已经等了很长时间才买了两只。
They prepare as well as they can here, but there's only so much food you can cook in advance.
他们在这里准备得很好，但是你可以提前准备的食物有限。
Heather has to grab parts of other people's orders just to keep the flow going.
希瑟必须抢走其他人的部分订单才能维持流量。
I'm taking one of your large fries.
我要吃一份你的大薯条。
You're waiting on nuggets anyway.
无论如何，你都在等待掘金。
It's like putting together a puzzle where a lot of the pieces are exactly the same shape.
这就像拼一块拼图，其中很多碎片的形状完全相同。
And it'd be easy if it wasn't so hard.
如果不是那么难的话那就很容易了。
People are fanatical about Nathan's, and workers joke about it.
人们对内森的餐厅很狂热，工人们也拿它开玩笑。
They feel like saying, you know, Roy Rogers has food, too.
他们想说，你知道，罗伊·罗杰斯也有食物。
Luckily, Heather's break is imminent.
幸运的是，希瑟的突破即将到来。
I've got four minutes.
我还有四分钟时间。
Four long minutes.
漫长的四分钟。
Four long minutes later, she clocks out and sneaks through the maze-y hallway in the back.
漫长的四分钟后，她下班了，偷偷穿过后面迷宫般的走廊。
On her way out the back door for a smoke, she walks up to another worker--
当她从后门出去抽烟时，她走到另一名工人面前——
Alex.
亚历克斯.
Sean Cole --and gives him a quick passing smooch, which made me feel like I was really behind the scenes.
肖恩·科尔——并给了他一个快速的吻，这让我觉得我真的是在幕后。
Alex is Heather's boyfriend.
亚历克斯是希瑟的男朋友。
About four months ago, they had a kid, a little boy.
大约四个月前，他们有了一个孩子，一个小男孩。
I ask what it's like to live and work together, but Heather says they don't.
我问一起生活和工作感觉如何，但希瑟说他们没有。
She lives with her parents right now and the baby.
她现在和父母以及孩子住在一起。
And Alex lives with his family.
亚历克斯和他的家人住在一起。
We're still together, definitely, but we plan on moving in together at some point.
我们肯定还在一起，但我们计划在某个时候搬到一起。
It's just that right now, money's tight, and this was kind of-- as much as I love my son, he was kind of like a surprise, so.
只是现在，钱很紧张，尽管我很爱我的儿子，但他有点像一个惊喜，所以。
Yeah, so.
是的，所以。
But eventually down the road, me and Alex will move in with each other.
但最终，我和亚历克斯会搬到一起住。
And you're thinking of getting married and--
而你正在考虑结婚并且——
I'm hoping so.
我希望如此。
We've been together for two years now, so I'm definitely considering it.
我们已经在一起两年了，所以我肯定会考虑这一点。
But he's 20 years old.
但他已经20岁了。
He just turned 20 in June, so he's kind of still young, so.
他六月份刚满20岁，所以他还很年轻。
And how old are you?
你几岁了？
Heather Rafertee I'm 21.
希瑟·拉弗蒂 我今年 21 岁。
Heather and Alex are a mixed couple.
希瑟和亚历克斯是一对混血夫妇。
She works at Nathan's, he works at Brioche Duree, the pastry and sandwich shop at the rest stop.
她在 Nathan's 工作，他在休息站的糕点三明治店 Brioche Duree 工作。
This has led to a little inter-restaurant tension in the relationship.
这导致餐厅间的关系有些紧张。
He's like, well, I worked this shift.
他说，好吧，我轮班了。
I'm like, well, I worked this shift, and it was busy like this.
我想，好吧，我这个轮班工作，而且很忙。
And he's like, well, it was like this.
他说，嗯，事情就是这样。
And you know, we get into debates.
你知道，我们陷入了争论。
Over who is more busy.
比谁更忙。
Heather Rafertee Yeah.
希瑟·拉弗蒂 是的。
And which one's more crazier and which one's more harder, so.
哪个更疯狂，哪个更难，所以。
I've not been privy to these debates, and I don't work at the rest stop, but no one's fanatical about Brioche Duree.
我对这些争论并不知情，而且我不在休息站工作，但没有人对布里欧修·杜里（Brioche Duree）狂热。
Nathan's is way harder.
内森的难度要大得多。
Across the lobby, all the way across on the other side from Nathan's, over in the travel mart, another one of our reporting team, Gregory Warner, was there when cashier Clara Dragon started her shift.
穿过大厅，就在内森餐厅的另一边，在旅游市场的另一边，当收银员克拉拉·龙开始值班时，我们的另一位报道团队格雷戈里·华纳也在场。
First thing Clara does on her shift, before she rings up a sale or even opens her register, she picks up a three-foot cardboard display of Purell hand sanitizer and sets it down on one side of the cashier's counter.
克拉拉 (Clara) 上班后做的第一件事是，在打折促销甚至打开收银机之前，她拿起一个三英尺高的纸板展示架，展示 Purell 洗手液，并将其放在收银台的一侧。
It's a simple maneuver that blocks and redirects the flow of customers.
这是一个简单的策略，可以阻止并重定向客户流。
Without it, she'd get bombarded from both sides.
没有它，她就会受到双方的轰炸。
Because they'll come over here ahead of the other people, and it causes an argument.
因为他们会先于其他人来到这里，这会引起争论。
So I barricade it so that they know they gotta go over there.
所以我把它设置为路障，这样他们就知道他们必须去那里。
Keeps them from standing here and cutting the people off.
阻止他们站在这里切断人们的联系。
Everyone says I'm crazy, but I do it immediately when I come in.
每个人都说我疯了，但我一进来就立刻这么做了。
Plus, it saves arguments.
另外，它还可以节省争论。
You don't want to rile them up more than they already are.
你不想让他们更加愤怒。
Clara grew up in a rough part of Astoria, Queens and spent her youth staying out of the way of trouble.
克拉拉在皇后区阿斯托里亚的一个贫困地区长大，她的青少年时期一直远离麻烦。
At Plattekill, she's worked nine years as waitress and then cashier.
在 Plattekill，她做了九年的服务员，然后是收银员。
I was a waitress in Bob's Big Boy.
我是鲍勃大男孩餐厅的一名女服务员。
And when they shut that down, they opened this, and I jumped in here.
当他们关闭它时，他们打开了这个，我就跳到了这里。
So, um-- Man Ask her if she voted for Barack Obama and if she thinks he's a good president or is he a [BLEEP]?
所以，嗯——男人问她是否投票给巴拉克·奥巴马，她是否认为他是一位好总统，或者他是一个[BLEEP]？
A tall guy with a sunburn and a pink polo shirt wags a Butterfinger bar.
一个晒伤的高个子男人穿着粉色 Polo 衫，摇着一根 Butterfinger 酒吧。
Ask her.
问她。
She'll tell you.
她会告诉你的。
Do you think Obama's going to give you free health care, and do you think you deserve it?
您认为奥巴马会给您提供免费医疗保健吗？您认为您应得的吗？
Clara looks up at the angry man.
克拉拉抬头看着愤怒的男人。
She wears bifocals and shimmery eyeshadow.
她戴着双光眼镜和闪闪发光的眼影。
She doesn't say anything.
她什么也没说。
She just smiles.
她只是微笑。
It's a smile so genuine that the man can't help himself.
这是一个如此真诚的微笑，让这个男人无法自拔。
He smiles back.
他回以微笑。
Well, I don't like the Democrats in general.
嗯，总的来说我不喜欢民主党。
The guy continues talking politics, but less belligerently.
这家伙继续谈论政治，但不再那么好斗了。
Clara still doesn't say a word.
克拉拉仍然没有说话。
And by the time he collects his change, he's halfway apologizing.
当他领取零钱时，他已经在道歉了。
Clara hasn't spoken.
克拉拉没有说话。
You know what?
你知道吗？
We were stuck in New York, man.
我们被困在纽约了，伙计。
Bad traffic.
交通不好。
You have a good day.
你有美好的一天。
Excuse my language.
请原谅我的语言。
That's an example of what we deal with, and you've got to smile.
这就是我们处理的一个例子，你必须微笑。
That's an example of what you deal with?
这是你处理的一个例子吗？
Yeah.
是的。
Not all the time, but sometimes.
不是一直，但有时。
They're battling the roads or this heat or traffic, especially.
他们尤其要与道路、炎热或交通作斗争。
They're coming in fuming.
他们冒着烟而来。
They're even rough with their families.
他们甚至对家人也很粗鲁。
So you just say, oh, I'm sorry.
所以你只要说，哦，对不起。
I rush to get them out so that they don't have to be on you longer than possible.
我赶紧把他们救出来，这样他们就不用在你身上呆太久了。
I only had one run-in with someone a while back who got on my goat, and I yelled back at him, which we're not supposed to do, but he just got me.
不久前我只和一个骑了我山羊的人发生了一次冲突，我对他大喊大叫，这是我们不应该做的，但他就抓住了我。
I was doing a fax for a truck driver.
我正在为卡车司机发传真。
There's a fax machine under the cash register.
收银台下面有一台传真机。
And my head is down.
我的头低着。
And all of a sudden, I hear, you're very rude.
突然之间，我听说你很粗鲁。
I pick my head up, and he says, you're very rude.
我抬起头，他说，你太粗鲁了。
He says, you're doing whatever you're doing down there.
他说，你在那里做你正在做的事情。
He says, you're not paying attention to me.
他说，你没有在意我。
I said, I'm doing a fax for someone.
我说，我正在给某人发传真。
It's important.
这很重要。
No, it's not, he says.
不，不是的，他说。
I don't give a heck what you're doing down there.
我根本不在乎你在下面做什么。
I'm going to report you, he says, and it's going to make my day.
我要举报你，他说，这会让我很开心。
I couldn't take it.
我无法接受。
I said, you do that if it makes you happy.
我说，如果你高兴的话，你就这么做。
That's it.
就是这样。
That's the one time she yelled at a customer.
那是她有一次对顾客大喊大叫。
You have a good night.
祝你有个美好的夜晚。
Ira Glass After midnight, only a few businesses are still left open in the rest stop.
艾拉·格拉斯 (Ira Glass) 午夜过后，休息站里只有少数商家还在营业。
There's a gate blocking that room with all the New York State pamphlets, but a promotional video plays inside, in the room, behind the gate, all night long.
有一扇门挡住了那个房间，里面放满了纽约州的小册子，但里面、房间里、门后面都播放着宣传视频，整夜都在播放。
Two people from our team of reporters, Jay Allison and Nancy Updike, stayed up for the midnight to 8:00 AM shift.
我们的记者团队中有两个人 Jay Allison 和 Nancy Updike 从午夜一直熬夜到早上 8:00。
Here's Nancy first.
首先是南希。
Between midnight and 8:00 AM, the first question isn't where are you going, but why?
从午夜到早上 8:00，第一个问题不是你要去哪里，而是为什么？
Why are you awake at a rest stop when it's--
你为什么在休息站醒着——
What, 4:00 AM, I believe?
什么，凌晨 4:00，我相信？
Yeah, 4:00 AM in the morning, so.
是的，凌晨 4:00，所以。
Notice they're both laughing.
注意他们俩都在笑。
It's funny, but seriously.
这很有趣，但很严肃。
Is this where you intended to be at 2:00 AM?
这是您打算在凌晨 2:00 到达的地方吗？
We had no idea what time we would be here, actually.
事实上，我们不知道我们什么时候会在这里。
We figured we would drive until we got tired and then hopefully find a place.
我们想我们会开车直到累了，然后希望能找到一个地方。
We'll call those people the non-planners.
我们将这些人称为非计划者。
And then there are the planners.
然后是规划者。
That's the way my son liked to drive, with no lot of traffic on the road.
这就是我儿子喜欢开车的方式，路上交通不多。
So that's why we're on the road this time in the morning.
这就是我们早上这个时候上路的原因。
And then there are the people Jay's talking to, the bad planners.
还有与杰伊交谈的人，那些糟糕的计划者。
Over at one of the tables, Sebastian and John are getting their last hot meal before they switch to granola.
在其中一张桌子旁，塞巴斯蒂安和约翰正在吃最后一顿热餐，然后他们换成了格兰诺拉麦片。
They're headed into the Adirondacks to start hiking at dawn.
他们黎明时分前往阿迪朗达克山脉开始徒步旅行。
And they're in a good mood, laughing a lot and talking, maybe a little nervously, about bears.
他们心情很好，经常开怀大笑，谈论着关于熊的事情，也许有些紧张。
Bear bell?
熊铃？
I'm all right.
我没事。
Sebastian Dinner bell.
塞巴斯蒂安 晚餐铃声。
Yeah, dinner bell for them.
是的，他们的晚餐铃声响起。
Sebastian I'm here.
塞巴斯蒂安我在这里。
Are you worried about bears?
你担心熊吗？
John Well, they say they're pretty active up there, so.
约翰 嗯，他们说他们在那里非常活跃，所以。
You see them all over, especially when you have food around you.
你到处都能看到它们，尤其是当你周围有食物时。
They come visiting, definitely.
他们肯定会来拜访。
Yeah.
是的。
You gotta watch out for that.
你必须小心这一点。
Can't keep no food.
不能不留食物。
That reminds me, I forgot the bear canister at home.
这让我想起了，我把熊罐忘在家里了。
Wait, so you forgot to bring the thing that you put the food in--
等等，所以你忘记带放食物的东西了——
Yeah.
是的。
It's a bear canister.
这是一个熊罐。
You put all your food in, anything with odors.
你把所有的食物都放进去，任何有气味的东西。
You seal it up, and you stick it, like, about 100 yards from your tent.
你把它密封起来，然后把它贴在距离你的帐篷大约 100 码的地方。
That's a good idea.
这是个好主意。
Where is that, in your apartment?
那在哪里，在你的公寓里吗？
Jay Allison Out in the parking lot, Tony and Debbie Longo are lost, and it's Tony's fault.
杰伊·艾利森 (Jay Allison) 在停车场，托尼和黛比·隆戈迷路了，这是托尼的错。
The thing about Tony is he's not supposed to get lost.
关于托尼的事情是他不应该迷路。
He's a New York City homicide detective.
他是纽约市的一名凶杀案侦探。
I don't know how I missed that exit.
我不知道我怎么错过了那个出口。
I don't know how I missed it.
我不知道我是怎么错过的。
Big sign, Tappan Zee Bridge.
大标志，塔潘泽大桥。
There it was.
就在那里。
When you're a cop, you're not supposed to make mistakes.
当你是一名警察时，你不应该犯错误。
Yeah, not the direction.
是的，不是方向。
The direction thing has to be down pat.
方向一定要顺着。
I lost control.
我失去了控制。
I really hate my whole family right now.
我现在真的很讨厌我全家。
They didn't want to leave in the morning.
他们早上不想离开。
God forbid we leave in the morning.
上帝禁止我们早上离开。
Oh, we'll leave in the morning next time.
哦，下次我们早上就出发。
Next time, I'm not coming.
下次我就不来了
Jay Allison It's after 3:00 in the morning, and they've been lost for hours.
Jay Allison：现在是凌晨 3:00 以后，他们已经迷路了好几个小时了。
And Debbie Longo says she's not a happy camper.
黛比·隆戈说她不是一个快乐的露营者。
But you can tell she is.
但你可以看出她是。
There's no soft serve, and it's not taking my money.
没有软服务，也没有花我的钱。
I don't care anymore.
我不在乎了。
I don't care.
我不在乎。
I'm going to get fat, and I don't care.
我会变胖，但我不在乎。
I'm going to blow up like a balloon.
我会像气球一样爆炸。
And you're going to have a big fat wife.
你将会有一个又大又胖的妻子。
But we stay happy.
但我们保持快乐。
Nancy Updike Isn't there some truism about if you want to test your relationship, go on a long drive together?
南希·厄普代克 如果你想测试你们的关系，就一起去长途开车，这不是老生常谈吗？
What I'm saying is, I'm expecting a lot of grouchiness here at the rest stop during the graveyard shift-- scowls, sniping, mutual recrimination.
我想说的是，我预计在墓地值班期间，休息站会出现很多人的不满情绪——皱眉、狙击、相互指责。
Instead, I keep seeing couple after couple walk up to the glass doors of the rest stop and reach for each other's hands right before they walk through.
相反，我经常看到一对又一对的情侣走到休息站的玻璃门前，在通过之前互相握住对方的手。
Instinctively, like, here we go, you and me.
本能地，就像，我们走吧，你和我。
Couples of every age-- 20s, 40s, 60s.
各个年龄段的情侣——20多岁、40多岁、60多岁。
And I'm Peter.
我是彼得。
Nancy Updike Edetta and Peter are on a five-hour drive to pick up their kids from summer camp, their first time at camp.
南希·厄普代克·艾德塔 (Nancy Updike Edetta) 和彼得 (Peter) 开车五个小时去夏令营接孩子，这是他们第一次参加夏令营。
In other words, a Parenting 101 trip-- unexciting, long, and happening at an inconvenient time.
换句话说，“育儿101”之旅——乏味、漫长，而且发生在不方便的时间。
But listen to them laughing.
但听他们的笑声。
Did the kids want to go, or did you say, "You're going?"
孩子们想去还是你说“你要去？”
Edetta And our oldest left for college exactly for the same time, so it works well.
艾德塔和我们最大的孩子在同一时间去上大学，所以效果很好。
Free time for ourselves, and they have free time for themselves.
我们自己有空闲时间，他们也有自己的空闲时间。
[LAUGHTER] Nancy Updike It's at this point that I blurt out the most obvious and inappropriate question.
[笑声] 南希·厄普代克 就在这时，我脱口而出一个最明显、最不恰当的问题。
Which they handle admirably.
他们处理得令人钦佩。
Edetta We really had time to connect.
艾德塔 我们真的有时间联系。
Had some romantic dinners and spend time together.
吃了一些浪漫的晚餐，一起度过了时光。
When was the last time you had time to do that before this?
在此之前您最后一次有时间这样做是什么时候？
Oh, I remember back then.
哦，我记得那时。
Nancy Updike And there's more giddiness inside the rest stop.
南希·厄普代克（Nancy Updike） 休息站内还有更多令人头晕的事情。
Another couple, Lisa and Marcus.
另一对夫妇，丽莎和马库斯。
Did you see me giving him little kisses and telling him how cute he was when he walked in?
你有没有看到我在他走进来时轻轻地吻了他，并告诉他他有多可爱？
Lisa and Marcus, as you can tell, are in deep.
正如你所知，丽莎和马库斯关系很深。
They're looking at a map on the wall of this half-closed rest stop on their way up to Lake Champlain to go camping.
他们正在前往尚普兰湖露营的路上，看着这个半封闭的休息站墙上的地图。
It's the middle of the night.
现在是半夜。
They've gotten lost already, not sure where they're going to sleep.
他们已经迷路了，不知道要睡在哪里。
But the two of them cannot stop smiling.
但两人却笑得停不下来。
I can feel endorphins radiating from them in waves.
我能感觉到内啡肽从它们身上一波一波地散发出来。
They met salsa dancing less than a year ago, and love is making them ambitious.
不到一年前，他们认识了萨尔萨舞，爱情让他们雄心勃勃。
We're planning on maybe moving to Argentina.
我们正计划也许搬到阿根廷。
And we started already dancing tango here in Philadelphia.
我们已经在费城开始跳探戈了。
So we want to become professional tango dancers.
所以我们想成为专业的探戈舞者。
No, that's a joke.
不，那是个笑话。
No, it's not.
不，不是。
Nancy Updike Outside the rest stop, Katarina and Johnny are sitting next to each other on a bench.
南希·厄普代克 (Nancy Updike) 在休息站外，卡塔琳娜 (Katarina) 和约翰尼 (Johnny) 并排坐在长凳上。
Not a bench in a beautiful park, a bench looking out on a highway and a parking lot.
不是美丽公园里的长凳，而是俯瞰高速公路和停车场的长凳。
Of course they don't care.
他们当然不在乎。
In fact, they seem not to have noticed at all.
事实上，他们似乎根本没有注意到。
You're going to Montreal?
你要去蒙特利尔吗？
Katarina Mm-hmm.
卡塔琳娜 嗯嗯。
Yeah, we're coming from New York, and we're going to Montreal.
是的，我们来自纽约，我们要去蒙特利尔。
Right, yeah.
对，是的。
Nancy Updike Johnny is finishing up his residency, but he's not sure he even wants to be a doctor.
南希·厄普代克·约翰尼即将完成住院医师实习期，但他不确定自己是否想成为一名医生。
35 years old with more than $200,000 in school debt.
35 岁，学校债务超过 20 万美元。
But he doesn't want to talk about that.
但他不想谈论这个。
He's on a road trip with his girl.
他正在和他的女儿一起公路旅行。
He brushes off my questions, leans into the microphone, and steers us back to what we should be talking about.
他不理睬我的问题，靠向麦克风，引导我们回到我们应该讨论的话题。
(SINGING) Love me tender, love me true, never let me go.
（唱）温柔地爱我，真诚地爱我，永远不要让我走。
Oh my god.
我的天啊。
But even at a rest stop that's fizzy with love, there is heartache.
但即使在充满爱的休息站，也有心痛的感觉。
As I'm standing outside, a man asks what I'm doing.
当我站在外面时，一个男人问我在做什么。
So I ask what he's doing.
所以我问他在做什么。
We end up talking for a while.
我们最后聊了一会儿。
His name is Dan.
他的名字叫丹。
He's driving back to upstate New York after a day in New York City.
在纽约市度过一天后，他正开车返回纽约州北部。
How old are they?
他们几岁了？
Dan 19 and 20-- oh my god-- 23.
丹 19 和 20——天哪——23。
How often do you see them?
您多久见到他们一次？
Dan Not often enough.
丹 不够频繁。
I'm trying to make it more regular 'cause I just got divorced, like, a year or so ago, and so.
我正在努力让它变得更加规律，因为我刚刚离婚，大约一年前，等等。
They're staying with their mom, so I'm seeing less of them.
他们和妈妈住在一起，所以我很少见到他们。
Try to get to see them, like, once a month.
尝试每月见一次。
How is the divorce for them?
他们的离婚情况如何？
Dan I don't really know.
丹，我真的不知道。
It seems to be OK for them, you know?
这对他们来说似乎没问题，你知道吗？
It's a little weird still, but we still try to do things together and--
虽然还是有点奇怪，但我们仍然尝试一起做事，而且——
No, I don't do things with her anymore.
不，我不再和她做任何事了。
Last year, my son's 18th birthday, we went skydiving together.
去年，我儿子18岁生日，我们一起去跳伞。
All four of you.
你们四个人。
Dan Yeah, all four of us.
丹 是的，我们四个人。
Like, she wanted her boyfriend to come.
就像，她希望她的男朋友来。
And I was like-- I actually called him and said, don't come.
我当时想——我实际上打电话给他说，别来。
You called him?
你给他打电话了？
Dan Yeah.
丹 是的。
I called him, left him a message.
我给他打了电话，给他留了言。
It was a very polite message.
这是一条非常有礼貌的信息。
And I was like, Michael, please don't come.
我当时想，迈克尔，请不要来。
Yeah.
是的。
I knew him, yeah.
我认识他，是的。
So.
所以。
It was a tough thing.
这是一件艰难的事情。
She wanted him to come and, like, go on my son's 18th birthday.
她希望他能来参加我儿子 18 岁生日的活动。
And it was like, really, it was just too weird.
真的，这太奇怪了。
It's a very weird thing, trying to be friends with your ex, and then you can't really be friends.
这是一件非常奇怪的事情，试图与你的前任成为朋友，然后你就不能成为真正的朋友。
And then you have this other girlfriend, and then it's just like it's such a difficult thing.
然后你有了另一个女朋友，然后这就像是一件很难的事情。
She didn't want me to go to the house to pick the boys up.
她不想让我去家里接孩子们。
And then one week, we're having a good conversation, and next week, something like that comes up.
然后一周，我们进行了一次愉快的谈话，下周，类似的事情又出现了。
And you're like-- you have the thing.
你就像——你有东西。
You want to call that person, and yell at them, and talk to them about it.
你想给那个人打电话，对他们大喊大叫，和他们谈谈这件事。
But you don't have that relationship anymore.
但你们已经不再有那种关系了。
That's a hard moment, when you realize, right, we don't have that relationship anymore.
那是一个艰难的时刻，当你意识到，我们不再有那种关系了。
Try to go to counseling and stuff and try to get her to come back.
尝试去接受咨询和其他事情，并尝试让她回来。
She went with me one time, but then she wouldn't stop seeing this guy, this other guy she was seeing.
她和我一起去过一次，但后来她就无法停止见到这个人，她正在见到的另一个人。
So I mean, that kind of-- I made her pay the copay and we left.
所以我的意思是，我让她支付自付费用，然后我们就离开了。
This other guy, Michael.
另一个人，迈克尔。
Dan Yeah.
丹 是的。
I had actually met him.
我确实见过他。
I had met him at a party and her and him had become friends.
我在一次聚会上认识了他，她和他成了朋友。
And they just became more and more intimate.
他们变得越来越亲密。
And instead of trying to work stuff out with me, she was trying to work stuff out with him, so-- I just think about it a lot.
她没有试图和我一起解决问题，而是试图和他一起解决问题，所以——我想了很多。
I beat myself up for where did I go wrong as a father, as a husband or whatever.
我责怪自己作为一个父亲、作为一个丈夫或者其他什么地方做错了。
And I'm basically 45 years old, and I figure half my life is over.
我已经45岁了，我觉得我的人生已经过去一半了。
And I'm really trying to figure out what to do with the next half.
我真的很想弄清楚下半场要做什么。
I know this is just a rest stop, but really, some kind of love force field is in effect here tonight.
我知道这只是一个休息站，但实际上，某种爱的力场今晚在这里发挥作用。
Because guess what?
因为你猜怎么着？
Dan has a new girlfriend.
丹有一个新女朋友。
She's at the rest stop with him, just doesn't want to talk into a microphone.
她和他一起在休息站，只是不想对着麦克风说话。
They met through a singles group, and they've been together long enough that they've started meeting each other's kids.
他们是通过一个单身团体认识的，而且他们在一起的时间已经足够长了，他们已经开始认识彼此的孩子了。
It's still complicated, but wow, it feels great.
虽然还是很复杂，但是哇，感觉棒极了。
I just told her tonight.
我今晚刚刚告诉她。
I said I don't know what I would do with somebody else in my life.
我说我不知道我一生中会和别人一起做什么。
I mean, this is-- I found a woman that really loves me.
我的意思是，这是——我找到了一个真正爱我的女人。
And I'm, like, so over bowled by that, you know?
我对此感到非常震惊，你知道吗？
It's just, it's--
只是，这是——
It's like a miracle.
这就像一个奇迹。
Dan Yeah, it is.
丹 是的，确实如此。
I'm optimistic about the future.
我对未来持乐观态度。
Very optimistic.
非常乐观。
In the parking lot, when I first saw Stevie G from a distance, I thought he was naked.
在停车场，当我第一次远远地看到Stevie G时，我以为他赤身裸体。
And right now, I'm de-kinking the muscles in my buttock.
现在，我正在扭结臀部的肌肉。
Then he kicked one leg in the air above his head, and I saw he was wearing little white gym shoes.
然后他把一只腿踢到头顶上方的空中，我看到他穿着白色的小运动鞋。
Oh, it opens up the Fountain of Youth in the front of the hip joint.
哦，它打开了髋关节前面的青春之泉。
And then he jumped into a pool of light, and I saw he actually had on some tiny black nylon shorts.
然后他跳进了光池里，我看到他实际上穿着一条黑色的尼龙小短裤。
Stevie G teaches bodywork, pilates, yoga, massage, and such.
Stevie G 教授健身、普拉提、瑜伽、按摩等课程。
And he stopped at this rest stop to stretch and move.
他在这个休息站停下来伸展活动。
It's hard not to notice, though, that while Stevie is working out in the parking lot, he's simultaneously smoking a hand-rolled cigarette.
不过，很难不注意到，当史蒂夫在停车场锻炼时，他同时抽着手卷烟。
That's what I am, you know?
我就是这样的人，你知道吗？
Unfortunately, I'm polluting my lungs, but they're doing well.
不幸的是，我污染了我的肺部，但它们状况良好。
I clean them out on a daily basis.
我每天都会清理它们。
How do you clean them out?
你如何清理它们？
Stevie G Usually a mixture of running, and steaming, and meditational breathing, and not swallowing what I cough up.
Stevie G 通常是跑步、蒸腾和冥想呼吸的混合，并且不吞咽我咳出的东西。
I always spit it out.
我总是吐出来。
Like, I have a little cup.
比如，我有一个小杯子。
I can spit out all-- I don't never swallow it.
我可以全部吐出来——但我从不吞下去。
Our conversation, by the way, is happening next to Stevie's vehicle, which figures largely in his life.
顺便说一句，我们的谈话是在史蒂夫的汽车旁边进行的，这在他的生活中占据了很大的比例。
It's an old yellow school bus he got up in Woodstock to start a volunteer service program.
这是一辆旧的黄色校车，他在伍德斯托克开始了一项志愿者服务计划。
Picking up the drunk people, like, going into the bars and finding the ones and say, all right, who looks really bombed?
接起醉酒的人，就像走进酒吧，找到那些人，然后说，好吧，谁看起来真的被轰炸了？
Offer them a free ride home.
让他们免费乘车回家。
But now Stevie G has a larger vision for the bus.
但现在 Stevie G 对巴士有了更远大的愿景。
He wants to build a health center made of school buses.
他想建造一个由校车组成的健康中心。
Before he leaves the rest stop, Stevie G gets out a big foam roller and takes it to his favorite spot for a final stretch.
在离开休息站之前，Stevie G 拿出一个大泡沫轴，带到他最喜欢的地方进行最后的伸展运动。
All right, we got all the big 18 wheeler trucks on one side.
好吧，我们把所有的 18 轮大卡车都放在一侧。
We've got all the smaller cars over here on the other.
我们这边所有的小型汽车都在另一边。
We are on 87 highway.
我们在87号公路上。
This is where I think it's the cleanest.
这是我认为最干净的地方。
You just got to watch out to see if the dogs have been here.
你只需要留意看看狗是否来过这里。
Abracadabra, scoop that belly, burn the jelly, America.
阿布拉卡达布拉，舀起肚子，烧掉果冻，美国。
You gotta get off your fat one and do something good, something good like the solid oak wood.
你必须摆脱你的胖子，做一些好事，像实心橡木那样的好事。
Get out there and help others.
走出去帮助别人。
And especially help yourself to be your best, so that you are not a cranky old fool.
尤其要帮助自己做到最好，这样你就不是一个脾气暴躁的老傻瓜。
Now we all got to pull up the hill.
现在我们都得把车拉上山。
Stevie rolls all around the sidewalk, with truckers looking down at him from their cabs.
史蒂夫在人行道上打滚，卡车司机从出租车上俯视着他。
He doesn't notice.
他没有注意到。
When he's all loosened up, he picks up his roller and heads back to his vehicle.
当他完全放松下来后，他拿起滚轮，走回自己的车上。
[ENGINE STARTING] Stevie G Oh, it sounds good.
[发动机启动] Stevie G 哦，听起来不错。
That's my baby.
那是我的宝贝。
Take care.
小心。
Take it easy.
别紧张。
Stevie G coughs up some phlegm, spits it out, and heads off for Woodstock.
Stevie G 咳出一些痰，吐了出来，然后前往伍德斯托克。
It's morning.
现在是早上。
English sparrows are congregating like crazy in the trees just outside the rest stop doors.
英国麻雀疯狂地聚集在休息站门外的树上。
Standing out in the parking lot, nine-year-old Brian Belco looks kind of like a bird, actually.
九岁的布莱恩·贝尔科站在停车场里，实际上看起来有点像一只鸟。
His eyes are bright.
他的眼睛很明亮。
His arms are stiff at his sides and held out a bit like wings.
他的手臂僵硬地垂在身体两侧，伸出来有点像翅膀。
And when he speaks into the microphone, he bobs his head forward, like he's pecking at it.
当他对着麦克风讲话时，他的头向前摆动，就像在啄它一样。
We're going fishing up in Swanton's Mine.
我们要去斯旺顿矿钓鱼。
Bass, pike, pickerel, perch.
鲈鱼、梭子鱼、梭鱼、鲈鱼。
Jay Allison Wow, it sounds like you've done this before.
Jay Allison 哇，听起来你以前做过这个。
Yep.
是的。
But the tradition started with my family.
但这个传统是从我的家人开始的。
It started with my great grandfather.
这要从我的曾祖父开始。
Is that right?
是这样吗？
Brian Belco My great grandfather was a great fisherman.
布莱恩·贝尔科 我的曾祖父是一位伟大的渔夫。
He really liked fishing, so he went up to Lake Champlain.
他非常喜欢钓鱼，所以他去了尚普兰湖。
And some of the cabins were built right over the historic battlefield of the war in 1842, the Battle of Lake Champlain.
部分小屋建在 1842 年历史悠久的尚普兰湖战役战场上。
You're a student.
你是一名学生。
Brian Belco This is my first radio interview ever.
布莱恩·贝尔科 这是我第一次接受电台采访。
You did great.
你做得很好。
Brian Belco I know.
布莱恩·贝尔科我知道。
I'm really, really excited.
我真的非常非常兴奋。
Credits Ira Glass And with the new day here, we have just the time for one final note before we go.
伊拉·格拉斯 (Ira Glass) 致谢 新的一天即将到来，我们在出发前还有时间做最后的笔记。
Final tallies from the battle between the rest stops in Plattekill and Maine.
普拉特基尔和缅因州休息站之间的战斗的最终统计。
At the end of the afternoon, after our two days in Plattekill, I can report to you that business never really picked up for either rest stop.
下午结束时，在普拉特基尔度过了两天之后，我可以向您报告，两个休息站的生意都没有真正好转。
And after two days on Saturday afternoon, Robert told me he only had one consolation for the weekend-- he beat Andy.
周六下午两天后，罗伯特告诉我，他周末只有一个安慰——他击败了安迪。
I'm the king for the day.
我是今天的国王。
I beat Andy, and the Red Sox got smacked around and massacred by the Yankees.
我击败了安迪，红袜队遭到洋基队的围攻和屠杀。
The unfortunate thing is being king for the day when you miss your sales by seven grand isn't so good.
不幸的是，当你错过七大销售额的时候，当国王的日子就不太好了。
And everybody was down.
每个人都很沮丧。
So it was a bad day for everybody.
所以这对每个人来说都是糟糕的一天。
Maine-- Andy sent out a quick note, not hitting his numbers at all.
缅因州——安迪快速发出了一条信息，但根本没有达到他的要求。
But you know, we're ready for next weekend.
但你知道，我们已经为下周末做好了准备。
We still got two more weekends to go.
我们还有两个周末。
I still think they're coming.
我仍然认为他们会来。
I mean, yeah, in this business, you've got to be positive.
我的意思是，是的，在这个行业，你必须保持积极的态度。
When I left, he was around $12,000 down for two days, 7% or 8% lower than where he needed to be.
当我离开时，他两天内亏损了约 12,000 美元，比他需要的水平低了 7% 或 8%。
But all this rain, he said, could make for really beautiful leaves upstate come the fall.
但他说，所有这些降雨都可以让秋天到来时北部地区的树叶变得非常美丽。
A lot of people could get on the roads for that to look at those leaves.
很多人可以上路去看那些树叶。
He could still turn this around.
他仍然可以扭转局面。
Today's show was reported in 2009.
今天的节目是在 2009 年报道的。
In the years since, Robert, the general manager, has been promoted several times.
此后的几年里，总经理罗伯特多次晋升。
He's now a senior director of Motorways, overseeing travel plazas in the New York Thruway, the main turnpike, and a few Starbucks in Massachusetts-- which means, of course, that the competition between Plattekill and Andy in Kennebunkport came to an end.
他现在是高速公路公司的高级总监，负责管理纽约高速公路、主要收费公路的旅游广场以及马萨诸塞州的几家星巴克——这当然意味着普拉特基尔和安迪在肯纳邦克港的竞争结束了。
Though, Robert says, they do still argue about baseball.
罗伯特说，尽管如此，他们仍然在棒球问题上争论不休。
You can still find Lenny Wheat dispensing travel advice and Clara Dragon behind the register at Plattekill, though they've stopped using J-1 visas to bring in foreign students.
尽管 Lenny Wheat 和 Clara Dragon 已经停止使用 J-1 签证引进外国学生，但您仍然可以在 Plattekill 的收银台后面找到提供旅行建议的 Lenny Wheat 和 Clara Dragon。
Well, our program was produced today by Sean Cole and myself, with Alex Blumberg, Jane Marie, Sarah Koenig, Lisa Pollak, Alyssa Shipp, and Nancy Updike.
好吧，我们今天的节目是由肖恩·科尔和我本人以及亚历克斯·布伦伯格、简·玛丽、莎拉·科尼格、丽莎·波拉克、艾莉莎·希普和南希·厄普代克制作的。
Our senior producer for today's show is Julie Snyder.
我们今天节目的高级制片人是朱莉·斯奈德。
Additional production on today's rerun from Jessica Lussenhop, Katherine Rae Mondo, Stowe Nelson, and Matt Tierney.
今天重播的附加制作由杰西卡·卢森霍普、凯瑟琳·雷·蒙多、斯托·尼尔森和马特·蒂尔尼担任。
Special thanks today to Morgan Hook, from former New York Governor David Patterson's office, to the New York State Thruway Authority, and to Shelia McGee at HMS Host.
今天特别感谢前纽约州州长 David Patterson 办公室的 Morgan Hook、纽约州高速公路管理局以及 HMS Host 的 Shelia McGee。
Our website, ThisAmericanLife.org.
我们的网站 ThisAmericanLife.org。
This American Life is delivered to public radio stations by PRX, the Public Radio Exchange.
《美国生活》由公共广播电台 PRX 向公共广播电台播出。
Thanks, as always, to our program's co-founder, Mr. Torey Malatia, who says do not believe his reputation.
一如既往地感谢我们项目的联合创始人 Torey Malatia 先生，他说不要相信他的声誉。
Do not believe what people say about him.
不要相信人们对他的评价。
It's not true.
这不是真的。
I don't think I'm a big crazy Mexican at all.
我不认为我是一个疯狂的墨西哥人。
I'm a gentle giant, really.
我真的是一个温柔的巨人。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Back next week with more stories of This American Life.
下周我们将带来更多《美国生活》的故事。
This American Life This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange.
This American Life This American Life 与 WBEZ Chicago 合作制作，并由 PRX 公共广播电台传送到各电台。