395: Middle of the Night - This American Life
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Prologue Ira Glass When I was in my 20s, I worked as a temp typist on the overnight shift.
序言 Ira Glass 当我 20 多岁的时候，我是一名临时打字员，上夜班。
And it was one of my favorite jobs I ever had.
这是我最喜欢的工作之一。
I showed up at work at midnight.
我半夜才来上班。
Downtown was completely dark.
市中心一片漆黑。
Nobody on the streets at all.
街上根本没有人。
And I'd take the elevator to the, you know, 20th floor or whatever it was.
我会乘电梯到 20 楼或者其他什么地方。
And it would be all lit up and bustling with activity, dozens of people rushing around.
那里灯火通明，熙熙攘攘，有几十个人在忙碌。
Usually we were hustling out some kind of legal brief or exhibit for court the next day.
通常我们会在第二天匆忙向法庭提供某种法律摘要或证据。
I loved being up when the rest of the world was asleep.
我喜欢在世界其他地方都睡着的时候起床。
And the next morning, when I would walk to the subway as the sun was coming up, I loved knowing that everybody else on the street was dragging themselves to their jobs and I was done for the day.
第二天早上，当太阳升起时，当我步行去地铁时，我很高兴知道街上的其他人都在拖着自己的脚步去工作，而我这一天已经完成了。
It was like I was part of a secret society that's alive in the middle of the night.
就好像我是一个在半夜活跃的秘密社团的一员。
OK.
好的。
Everybody, go home.
大家回家吧。
We're about to start this.
我们即将开始这个。
It's a regular thing for Austin and his high school friends at night.
对于奥斯汀和他的高中朋友来说，晚上这是家常便饭。
The pile into a Honda Odyssey minivan.
堆进一辆本田奥德赛小型货车。
They remove the backseats and drive around the Northern California suburbs, fake-kidnapping their buddies.
他们拆掉后座，在北加州郊区开车兜风，假装绑架了他们的好友。
15 of them.
其中 15 个。
Open the door!
开门！
Open the door!
开门！
Friend 2 Did you get him?
朋友2 你找到他了吗？
Opa!
欧巴！
The fake kidnapping is all part of a tradition that they've made up.
假绑架都是他们编造的传统的一部分。
They call it "going out living" or "living a little." It's not the weekend.
他们称之为“出去生活”或“稍微生活一下”。现在不是周末。
The whole point of this is do this on a boring Monday or Tuesday or Thursday night.
这样做的全部目的是在无聊的周一、周二或周四晚上做这件事。
A school night when other people aren't out having fun.
学校的夜晚，其他人都没有出去玩。
There's no destination.
没有目的地。
It's basically just glorified cruising.
这基本上只是美化的巡航。
They drive around for hours, talking about whatever, singing along to the music.
他们开车几个小时，谈论任何事情，跟着音乐唱歌。
[SINGING]
[唱歌]
They bring their minivan to the top of a hill and put it in neutral, and then they all rock back and forth inside the van in unison until finally it rolls down the hill.
他们将小型货车开到山顶，并将其置于空档，然后大家齐声在货车内来回摇晃，直到最后货车滚下山。
Whoa!
哇！
Ira Glass And then sometime after 1 AM, Ian, the driver, pulls out the soundtrack to the Disneyland ride Space Mountain.
艾拉·格拉斯 (Ira Glass) 凌晨 1 点过后，司机伊恩 (Ian) 播放了迪士尼乐园太空山之旅的配乐。
He's worked out a way to drive in sync with the soundtrack, to simulate the actual ride.
他找到了一种与配乐同步驾驶的方法，以模拟实际的骑行。
Yeah.
是的。
We're in the car driving very slowly up this dark hill.
我们坐在车里，缓慢地驶上这座黑暗的山坡。
This is Austin.
这是奥斯汀。
Austin The headlights are very low.
奥斯汀 车头灯很低。
This kind of eerie music.
这种诡异的音乐。
Everyone's a little bit nervous, because you're about to do something-- probably the most dangerous thing we do.
每个人都有点紧张，因为你要做一些事情——可能是我们做的最危险的事情。
Launch control, LV.
发射控制，LV。
Go ahead.
前进。
All video recorders off.
所有录像机都关闭。
Roger.
罗杰.
At this point he flips on his emergency lights and starts speeding up a little bit up the hill, turns the car around.
这时，他打开应急灯，开始稍微加速上山，然后掉头。
Lets the car roll down the hill, accelerating all the way.
让车子滚下山坡，一路加速。
His lights are turning on and off, on and off, on and off.
他的灯不停地打开和关闭，打开和关闭，打开和关闭。
Driving very, very quickly, at this point, around turns.
此时，转弯时开得非常非常快。
Yeah.
是的。
We're going down a very steep, windy hill.
我们正要走下一座非常陡峭、多风的山坡。
It's remote enough, by the way, that in a year of doing this, they have never even seen another car.
顺便说一句，这里距离太远了，在一年的时间里，他们甚至从未见过另一辆车。
None of this would be fun during the daytime, Austin says.
奥斯汀说，白天这些都不会有趣。
At night, nobody sees you.
晚上没人看见你。
You can do anything.
你可以做任何事。
Late at night is kind of the whole fun of the event.
深夜是整个活动的乐趣所在。
People don't really pay attention to who's doing what at night.
人们并不真正注意晚上谁在做什么。
[SINGING] Ira Glass From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life, distributed by Public Radio International.
[演唱] Ira Glass 来自 WBEZ 芝加哥，这就是美国生活，由国际公共广播电台发行。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Today on our show, we spend an hour with the secret society that is up in the middle of the night.
今天在我们的节目中，我们花了一个小时与半夜醒来的秘密社团相处。
All the people doing things that they would never do during the daytime, and the people doing things that they might be during the day that just feel different when you do them at night.
所有的人都在做他们在白天永远不会做的事情，还有那些人在白天做他们可能会做的事情，但当你晚上做这些事情时感觉会有所不同。
Moving products, and hauling across a war zone, and caring for sick kids, and just wandering the streets to get out of the house.
运送产品、拖运穿越战区、照顾生病的孩子，以及在街上闲逛以走出家门。
Everything is different at night.
到了晚上一切都不同了。
We witness how in five acts.
我们在五幕中见证了这一点。
Stay with us.
留在我们身边。
Act One.
第一幕。
Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Banana?
橙色你很高兴我没有说香蕉？
To get to the Hunts Point Market, you drive through this industrial part of the South Bronx, and at night, it's abandoned.
要到达亨茨角市场，您需要开车穿过南布朗克斯的这个工业区，而到了晚上，这里就被废弃了。
For miles, you pass all these closed auto repair lots and plumbing supply stores.
几英里之外，您都会经过所有这些关闭的汽车修理厂和管道用品商店。
And then you go through a fence, pass some pretty intense security, drive a bit more, and suddenly, boom.
然后你穿过栅栏，通过一些相当严格的安全措施，再开一点，突然，轰隆隆。
You are in the Hunts Point Terminal Market.
您现在位于 Hunts Point 终端市场。
And it's like a busy city at rush hour.
这就像高峰时段繁忙的城市。
Bright and loud.
明亮而响亮。
Forklifts whipping around, carrying pallets to trucks.
叉车快速运转，将托盘搬运到卡车上。
Warehouses in long rows, several city blocks long.
仓库排成一排，有几个街区那么长。
60 acres of produce.
60英亩农产品。
When people arrive here at 10 PM to work, what they say to each other is "good morning," because the middle of the night is when the most of the business gets done.
当人们晚上 10 点到达这里上班时，他们互相说的是“早上好”，因为半夜是大部分业务完成的时候。
Two members of the team of economics reporters at Planet Money, Adam Davidson and Chana Joffe-Walt usually report on financial markets and derivative markets and currency markets, so they were pleased to get a chance to actually visit a market what people buy and sell stuff that you can see and touch and smell.
Planet Money 经济记者团队的两名成员 Adam Davidson 和 Chana Joffe-Walt 通常报道金融市场、衍生品市场和货币市场，因此他们很高兴有机会实际参观人们买卖的东西的市场，这些东西是你看得见、摸得着、闻到的。
Here they are.
他们在这里。
His name is actually Edward Joseph.
他的名字实际上是爱德华·约瑟夫。
They call him "Eddie One-Way" because he wants prices to go one way-- down.
他们称他为“埃迪单向”，因为他希望价格单向下降。
He's a buyer, one of thousands of guys who show up here every night.
他是一名买家，是每晚出现在这里的数千名买家之一。
And they're buying for pretty much every grocery store, restaurant, corner market in the northeast.
他们为东北部的几乎所有杂货店、餐馆、街角市场购买商品。
If you have ever bought a Golden Delicious apple or ate a salad in a restaurant between Philly and Boston, chances are it came through here.
如果您曾经在费城和波士顿之间的一家餐馆买过金冠苹果或吃过沙拉，那么它很可能是从这里来的。
And it is nothing like when you or I buy a salad at a restaurant.
这与你或我在餐馆买沙拉完全不同。
There are no posted prices.
没有公布价格。
It us pure supply and demand.
它是纯粹的供给和需求。
And right now, demand-- that's Eddie One-Way, the buyer-- is looking for supply.
现在，需求——也就是买家埃迪·单向——正在寻找供应。
Let's see here, where's my salesman?
让我们看看，我的推销员在哪里？
Oh, Mr. Timmy?
哦，蒂米先生？
Timmy is a salesman at one of the wholesalers here, to Rigo Brothers.
蒂米是这里一家批发商 Rigo Brothers 的推销员。
He's close by.
他就在附近。
I think he's in one of these refrigerators.
我认为他在其中一台冰箱里。
This place here is a stadium.
这里的这个地方是一个体育场。
I think you need GPS to get around here.
我想你需要 GPS 才能在这里走动。
It would help.
这会有帮助的。
Eventually, Eddie One-Way finds Timmy, and they enter into a ritual that will happen thousands of times throughout the night.
最终，埃迪单向找到了蒂米，他们进入了一个整夜会发生数千次的仪式。
They try to negotiate a price.
他们试图协商价格。
Eddie thinks $15 for a box of pears seems fair.
艾迪认为 15 美元一盒梨似乎很公平。
Timmy doesn't.
蒂米不这么认为。
I told you 20 yesterday.
我昨天告诉过你20个。
Eddie One-way Yesterday's gone.
埃迪 单程 昨天已经过去了。
Today's a new day.
今天又是新的一天。
Stay close, Timmy.
保持靠近，蒂米。
Adam Davidson Timmy offers Eddie a different kind of pear for $15, which to me looked exactly the same.
亚当·戴维森·蒂米以 15 美元的价格向埃迪提供了另一种梨，在我看来，它看起来一模一样。
$15 on these, $18 on them.
这些是 15 美元，这些是 18 美元。
Adam Davidson But Eddie One-Way knows things about pears that I will never know, and he ignores that ridiculous offer.
亚当·戴维森（Adam Davidson）但埃迪·单向（Eddie One-Way）知道我永远不会知道的关于梨的事情，他忽略了这个荒谬的提议。
Why do you want to pay $15?
为什么你要支付 15 美元？
Why is 18--?
为什么是18--？
I'd like to pay 13, but I'm being generous.
我想付13，但我很慷慨。
All right.
好的。
That's it, brother.
就是这样，兄弟。
That's it, man.
就是这样，伙计。
18 is the right number.
18 是正确的数字。
You know it's what they're worth.
你知道这就是他们的价值。
The night's still young.
夜晚还很年轻。
Adam Davidson Eventually Eddie One-Way walks away.
亚当·戴维森最终埃迪·单向走开了。
The night is still young.
夜晚还很年轻。
At this hour the sellers, guys like Timmy, feel like they are in control.
在这个时候，像蒂米这样的卖家，感觉一切都在掌控之中。
They don't want to give anything away too cheap yet.
他们还不想以太便宜的价格赠送任何东西。
There's lots more buyers still to come.
还有更多买家即将到来。
But Eddie, the buyer, is hoping that if he comes back later in the night, Timmy won't have sold that much.
但买家埃迪希望，如果他晚上晚些时候回来，蒂米就不会卖那么多。
He'll be desperate to get rid of his pears, and will accept a lower price.
他会不顾一切地想卖掉他的梨，并接受更低的价格。
But Eddie's really taking a risk here.
但艾迪确实是在冒险。
I know.
我知道。
I actually saw this risk play out with carrots, and it was really stressful.
我实际上看到了这种风险与胡萝卜的关系，这真的很有压力。
Jeff Steinberg is a buyer like Eddie, and he was looking for this one particular kind of carrot.
杰夫斯坦伯格和埃迪一样都是买家，他正在寻找这种特殊的胡萝卜。
A fancy one.
一件奇特的。
Loose California.
宽松的加州。
And I followed him around, walking the aisles, one seller to another.
我跟着他，在过道上走来走去，一个卖家又另一个卖家。
And at first, everyone has the carrots, but Jeff is offended-- or at least acts offended-- by the high prices.
起初，每个人都有胡萝卜，但杰夫对高价格感到冒犯——或者至少表现得冒犯了。
And then an hour passes.
然后一个小时过去了。
And now nobody has Loose Californias anymore.
现在没有人再拥有宽松的加州了。
Jeff can't find the carrots he needs at any price.
杰夫不惜一切代价也找不到他需要的胡萝卜。
So he's thinking he may have to settle for something inferior-- Loose Canadians.
所以他认为他可能不得不接受一些劣等的东西——宽松的加拿大人。
Eugh.
呃。
Adam Davidson Jeff asks a seller named Carlos how much for the Loose Canadians.
亚当·戴维森·杰夫向一位名叫卡洛斯的卖家询问宽松加拿大人的售价。
Carlos tells him eight bucks a box.
卡洛斯告诉他一盒八块钱。
I'll be right back, then.
那我马上回来。
Chana Joffe-Walt What's he doing now?
查纳·乔夫-沃尔特 他现在在做什么？
Going to look at something that he's going to come back and tell me he doesn't like.
去看一些他会回来告诉我他不喜欢的东西。
What does it mean that he's not going to like it?
他不会喜欢这是什么意思？
Probably because they're not good enough for his customers.
可能是因为它们对他的客户来说不够好。
He's fairly picky, so you have to give the right people the right stuff.
他相当挑剔，所以你必须给合适的人合适的东西。
And sure enough, Jeff comes out of the warehouse, shaking his head.
果然，杰夫从仓库里出来，摇着头。
No good.
不好。
Chana Joffe-Walt No good?
查纳·乔夫-沃尔特 不好？
And where are you going to look for carrots next?
接下来你要去哪里寻找胡萝卜？
That's a good question, because I've pretty much looked all over the place.
这是一个很好的问题，因为我几乎到处都看过。
So it's 11:30 at night, and carrots are your problem at the moment.
现在是晚上 11:30，胡萝卜就是你此刻的问题。
At the moment.
眼下。
It's coming down to that hour where I'm probably going to have to pay what they wanted, what I don't want to pay.
到了那个时候，我可能不得不支付他们想要的费用，而我不想支付的费用。
Around midnight, it starts to get hectic.
午夜时分，开始变得忙碌起来。
Buyers fill the streets.
买家挤满了街道。
Sellers wave their arms and yell into faces and cell phones.
卖家挥舞着手臂，对着脸和手机大喊大叫。
There's a lot of sweating.
有很多出汗。
And as the minutes pass, all these little stories emerge.
随着时间的流逝，所有这些小故事都浮出水面。
Midnight, the big story-- tomatoes.
午夜，大故事——西红柿。
They're on fire.
他们着火了。
Yesterday they were selling for $15.
昨天他们的售价为 15 美元。
Now they're $25.
现在是 25 美元。
Everyone is buying.
大家都在买。
Also breaking this hour-- leafy greens from California.
打破这个小时的还有来自加州的绿叶蔬菜。
They're huge, because as everyone says, they have weather out there.
它们很大，因为正如大家所说，那里有天气。
There's not enough leafy greens coming to satisfy the demand.
没有足够的绿叶蔬菜来满足需求。
It's around this time that we meet Angela Poricelli.
就在这个时候，我们遇到了安吉拉·波里切利。
Angela is the only woman we see the entire night.
安吉拉是我们整个晚上唯一见到的女人。
She says she knows of only one other woman who works here alongside something like 7,000 men.
她说，据她所知，只有一名女性与大约 7,000 名男性一起在这里工作。
Her booth is decorated with pictures.
她的摊位上装饰着图片。
She has a big cross.
她有一个大十字架。
She brings in fresh flowers every week.
她每周都会带来鲜花。
She offered me candy.
她给了我糖果。
And hanging out with her, we learned that it's not all business here in the middle of the night.
和她一起出去玩后，我们了解到半夜在这里并不全是生意。
We keep seeing her next door neighbor, Henry Polio, stopping by on all sorts of dubious missions.
我们经常看到她的隔壁邻居亨利·波利奥（Henry Polio）顺便过来执行各种可疑的任务。
Right now he's looking for a fork.
现在他正在寻找一把叉子。
Yes, I do.
是的，我愿意。
Henry Polio She's the loveliest woman in the market.
亨利·波利奥 她是市场上最可爱的女人。
Believe me, she's the most wonderful person in the world.
相信我，她是世界上最棒的人。
I know who her family is.
我知道她的家人是谁。
Our family, grandfathers know grandfathers, fathers knew fathers.
我们一家人，祖父认识祖父，父亲认识父亲。
Wonderful woman.
很棒的女人。
Thank you, Henry.
谢谢你，亨利。
Henry Polio All right.
亨利·波利奥 好吧。
Bye.
再见。
Adam Davidson When you buy a few hundred pounds of fruit or vegetables, there is so much you don't know.
亚当·戴维森（Adam Davidson） 当您购买几百磅的水果或蔬菜时，有很多东西您不知道。
What's the quality?
质量如何？
How long has it been on the truck?
它在卡车上呆了多久？
Is the price reasonable?
价格合理吗？
And it's true-- sellers and buyers who don't know each other that well, they lie to each other all the time.
这是真的——卖家和买家彼此不太了解，他们总是互相撒谎。
So with all this uncertainty, there is tremendous economic value in long-term, trusting relationships.
因此，尽管存在所有这些不确定性，长期的信任关系仍具有巨大的经济价值。
Hey Adam?
嘿亚当？
You're overthinking it it's so much simpler than that.
你想多了，事情比这简单得多。
I followed Henry from Angela's back to his booth.
我跟着亨利从安吉拉后面来到他的摊位。
No, I do, since I'm a kid.
不，我是这样的，因为我还是个孩子。
But she always said no.
但她总是说不。
Really?
真的吗？
Henry Polio Yeah.
亨利·小儿麻痹症 是的。
I want to take her upstairs and she don't to.
我想带她上楼，但她不肯。
Have you ever asked her out?
你约过她出去吗？
Henry Polio No, no, no.
亨利·波利奥 不，不，不。
Oh, she knows.
哦，她知道。
I tell her.
我告诉她。
Chana Joffe-Walt You've worked next door to her for all these years and you're never been out with her?
Chana Joffe-Walt 你在她隔壁工作了这么多年，却从未和她一起出去过？
No!
不！
And I ain't going to.
我不会这么做。
Chana Joffe-Walt Why?
查纳·乔夫-沃尔特 为什么？
Because It's not the right thing to do.
因为这不是正确的做法。
She's my sister.
她是我的妹妹。
She's not your sister.
她不是你的妹妹。
Henry Polio Well, she's close to it.
亨利·波利奥 嗯，她已经很接近了。
You're not with anybody.
你没有和任何人在一起。
Henry Polio Who, me?
亨利·波利奥 谁是我？
Yeah, I got a wife.
是的，我有老婆了。
Actually, I followed up.
事实上，我也跟进了。
Henry doesn't have a wife.
亨利没有妻子。
He did, but his marriage fell apart.
他做到了，但他的婚姻破裂了。
And he blames the night shift for that.
他将此归咎于夜班。
They never saw each other.
他们从未见过对方。
He says all these guys here have wives they never see, kids never see.
他说这里的所有这些人都有他们从未见过的妻子，孩子们也从未见过。
So I go back to Angela's, and turns out she's also divorced.
于是我回到安吉拉家，发现她也离婚了。
She raised two boys on her own.
她独自抚养两个男孩。
And she says, yeah.
她说，是的。
The night shift definitely gets in the way of life.
夜班确实会妨碍生活。
I remember my father.
我记得我的父亲。
There's a lot of things he couldn't make it.
有很多事情他都做不到。
On Sundays, if there was a wedding, he couldn't go.
周日，如果有婚礼，他就不能去。
Sundays, work.
周日，上班。
My graduation, too, was on a Friday, and he couldn't come.
我的毕业典礼也是在星期五，他没能来。
Really?
真的吗？
Angela Poricelli Yeah.
安吉拉·波里切利 是的。
But that's OK.
但没关系。
I understood.
我明白了。
So Henry, he said you'll never go out with them because you think of him as a brother.
所以亨利，他说你永远不会和他们出去，因为你把他当作兄弟。
Yes.
是的。
I agree with him there.
我同意他的观点。
That I do.
我就是这么做的。
Plus, I'm engaged to someone right now.
另外，我现在已经和某人订婚了。
His name is Wayne.
他的名字叫韦恩。
He's a Green Bay Packer fan.
他是绿湾包装工队的球迷。
Does he work in the market?
他在市场工作吗？
Angela Poricelli No.
安吉拉·波里切利 No.
Does he work days?
他工作几天吗？
Angela Poricelli Days, yes.
安吉拉·波里切利时代，是的。
How is it?
如何？
It's hard to start a relationship.
开始一段关系很难。
Very hard, very hard.
非常难，非常难。
It's just Friday and Saturday, really, that we see each other.
事实上，我们见面的时间只是周五和周六。
Can I check back in with you?
我可以再和您联系吗？
Henry Polio Yeah, go ahead.
亨利·波利奥 是的，继续吧。
It's one o'clock in the morning, and I'm with Henry again.
现在是凌晨一点，我又和亨利在一起了。
He's taking a quick break.
他正在快速休息。
I ordered lunch, I've got Guido here, and that makes tonight.
我订了午餐，Guido 也在这里，今晚就这样了。
It's one o'clock in the morning and you just ordered lunch.
现在是凌晨一点，你刚点了午餐。
Yes, yes.
是的，是的。
So everything is going smooth.
所以一切都很顺利。
Tomatoes are on fire.
西红柿着火了。
Still?
仍然？
Henry Polio Yeah.
亨利·小儿麻痹症 是的。
We're sold out and they didn't come off the truck.
我们已经卖完了，但卡车上还没有下来。
This is the point in the night where the market really changes.
这是夜间市场真正发生变化的时刻。
There are none of those people buying fancy stuff for high-end restaurants and specialty Manhattan stores.
没有人为高档餐厅和曼哈顿专卖店购买高档商品。
They're all gone.
他们都走了。
There's no more high-end guys like Jeff inspecting every carrot.
不再有像杰夫这样的高端人士检查每根胡萝卜。
A whole new group of buyers enters the market now.
现在，一批全新的买家进入市场。
And they're buying for not-so-fancy places-- bodegas and grocery stores in working class neighborhoods, pushcart vendors.
他们购买的商品是在不太高档的地方——工人阶级社区的杂货店和杂货店、手推车摊贩。
They're not quite as concerned with getting the best possible quality.
他们不太关心获得最好的质量。
They want a good price.
他们想要一个好的价格。
It's in this second phase that the dynamic between sellers and buyers starts to shift.
正是在第二阶段，卖家和买家之间的动态开始发生转变。
Remember early in the night, when Eddie One-Way had to go searching for someone to sell him pears?
还记得深夜，艾迪单向不得不去找人卖梨吗？
Over the next couple hours, it's the reverse.
在接下来的几个小时里，情况恰恰相反。
The sellers are looking for the buyers.
卖家正在寻找买家。
And this, says a warehouse man named Thomas Kilgaren--
一位名叫托马斯·基尔加伦 (Thomas Kilgaren) 的仓库管理员说道：
Nickname Killer-- Adam Davidson Is the time to see who is a great salesman and who's not.
绰号杀手——亚当·戴维森 是时候看看谁是伟大的推销员，谁不是了。
There's some guys down here that couldn't sell life insurance to the Kennedys.
这里有些人无法向肯尼迪家族出售人寿保险。
Know what I mean?
知道我的意思吗？
But there's some that are pretty good.
但也有一些是相当不错的。
If you could sell something that somebody doesn't want, that's a good salesman.
如果你能卖掉别人不想要的东西，那就是一个好的推销员。
I come down here looking for lettuce, you sell me lettuce-- any moron could do that.
我来这里寻找生菜，你卖给我生菜——任何白痴都能做到。
Sell me something that I don't want-- you know what?
卖给我一些我不想要的东西——你知道吗？
That's a salesman.
那是一个推销员。
Selling something that no one wants?
卖掉没人想要的东西？
That is exactly what a guy named Mike Sack, Big Mike, is trying to do right now.
这正是一个名叫迈克·萨克（大迈克）的人现在正在尝试做的事情。
We catch up with him toward the end of the night.
我们在深夜时赶上了他。
Earlier in the night, buyers were begging Big Mike to lower his prices, and he didn't.
当晚早些时候，买家恳求大迈克降低价格，但他没有。
He refused.
他拒绝了。
And it worked out pretty well for him.
这对他来说效果很好。
He sold a lot of Red Globe grapes and mangoes, and he made a killing in persimmons.
他卖了很多红地球葡萄和芒果，靠柿子赚了大钱。
But now that daylight's approaching, he's got piles and piles of oranges from Chile, and he's the one begging.
但现在天亮了，他从智利得到了成堆成堆的橙子，而他就是那个乞讨的人。
He's pleading with one of his regular carports, a guy named Amerigo Perrera, to buy some of those oranges.
他恳求他的一个常驻车库，一个名叫阿梅里戈·佩雷拉的人，购买一些橙子。
Amerigo is pretty clear about his wishes.
亚美利哥很清楚自己的愿望。
No oranges.
没有橙子。
Big Mike You've got to give in, Amerigo, today.
大迈克，亚美利哥，今天你必须屈服。
You've got to be nice.
你一定要表现得很好。
What part of no oranges don't you understand?
《没有橘子》哪一部分你不明白？
I'll give you one pallet.
我给你一个托盘。
Amerigo Perrera No!
亚美利哥·佩雷拉 不！
Stop playing.
别玩了。
Be nice today.
今天要乖一点。
Be nice in front of the camera.
在镜头前保持友善。
There's a lady present.
有一位女士在场。
Shut up already.
已经闭嘴了。
Big Mike Can I give you one for $18?
大迈克 我可以给你一个 18 美元吗？
I don't need it today.
我今天不需要它。
Big Mike One skid only.
大麦克一号仅打滑。
Stop it, stop it, stop it.
停下来，停下来，停下来。
This stuff is being recorded, you understand?
这些东西正在被记录，你明白吗？
Yeah, but they just want to see, you know, and I've give you one skid.
是的，但他们只是想看看，你知道，我已经给你带来了一次滑行。
Be nice for the microphone, Amerigo.
对麦克风好一点，亚美利哥。
Amerigo, one skid.
亚美利哥，一滑。
How about a 56.
56的怎么样。
Why don't you stop playing around already?
你为什么还不停止玩耍呢？
No.
不。
How about a 56?
56的怎么样？
Amerigo!
亚美利哥！
Amerigo Perrera No!
亚美利哥·佩雷拉 不！
At around 4 AM, all of the sellers in the market find themselves pretty much in the same situation as Big Mike.
凌晨 4 点左右，市场上的所有卖家都发现自己的处境与大迈克几乎相同。
Tired and with too many oranges.
累了，橙子太多了。
Listen to Henry-- so tired.
听亨利的话——太累了。
Oranges.
橙子。
Oranges are moving slow, so you know, you try to give everybody some oranges.
橙子移动得很慢，所以你知道，你试着给每个人一些橙子。
Even if they don't want it, they're taking them.
即使他们不想要，他们也会拿走。
You know what I mean?
你知道我的意思？
Poor couple.
可怜的一对。
This is, like, what time do you go to bed at night?
这就像，你晚上几点睡觉？
What time I go to bed?
我什么时候去睡觉？
Probably like 11.
大概是11号吧
So this is like your nine o'clock.
所以这就像你的九点钟。
You know?
你知道？
I hate the day.
我讨厌这一天。
Wait, you hate the day?
等等，你讨厌这一天吗？
Henry Polio Oh, I hate it.
亨利·波利奥 哦，我讨厌它。
I don't know.
我不知道。
The sun, everything.
阳光，一切。
I get a headache.
我很头疼。
How are you, my friend?
你好吗，我的朋友？
I just don't like the sun.
我只是不喜欢阳光。
I don't like it.
我不喜欢它。
I mean, I like it, but you know, like now, if the sun came up, I hate it.
我的意思是，我喜欢它，但你知道，就像现在，如果太阳升起，我讨厌它。
The morning, I ain't into.
早上，我不喜欢。
I like the dark.
我喜欢黑暗。
At 5 AM, Henry heads home.
凌晨 5 点，亨利回家。
He rakes some leaves in the front yard, and then heads to sleep just as the sun comes out.
他在前院扫了一些树叶，然后在太阳出来时就去睡觉了。
And later that day, a fancy grocery store in Greenwich, Connecticut might have some very nice, but kind of pricey, tomatoes.
那天晚些时候，康涅狄格州格林威治的一家高档杂货店可能会出售一些非常美味但价格昂贵的西红柿。
A high-end restaurant in Manhattan may be offering the chef's tomato bisque.
曼哈顿的一家高档餐厅可能会提供厨师的番茄浓汤。
But further out, in poorer neighborhoods in South Boston, Brooklyn, Queens, tomatoes will be very hard to come by.
但在更远的地方，在南波士顿、布鲁克林、皇后区的较贫困社区，西红柿将很难获得。
Oranges, though, will be very cheap.
不过，橙子会很便宜。
And there will be lots of them.
而且会有很多。
Chana Joffe-Walt and Adam Davidson of Planet Money, which is a co-production of our radio show and NPR news.
Planet Money 的 Chana Joffe-Walt 和 Adam Davidson，该节目是我们的广播节目和 NPR 新闻的联合制作。
You can hear them three times a week speaking in language anybody can understand about the human drama that's part of all kinds of economic systems at their podcast at www.npr.org/money.
您每周可以在 www.npr.org/money 的播客中听到他们用任何人都能理解的语言谈论人类戏剧，这是各种经济体系的一部分。
Jenifer Hixson told this story about the random kinds of things that can happen in the middle of the night at The Moth, where people get on stage and tell personal stories in front of an audience.
Jenifer Hixson 讲述了 The Moth 半夜可能发生的各种随机事件的故事，人们登上舞台，在观众面前讲述个人故事。
I reached over and secretly undid my seatbelt.
我伸手偷偷地解开了安全带。
And when his foot hit the break at the red light, I flung open the door and I ran.
当他的脚碰到红灯时，我猛地打开车门，跑了。
I had no shoes on.
我没穿鞋。
I was crying.
我哭了。
I had no wallet.
我没有钱包。
But I was OK, because I had my cigarettes.
但我没事，因为我有香烟。
When you live with someone who has a temper, a very bad temper, a very, very bad temper, you learn to play around that.
当你和一个脾气暴躁的人一起生活时，脾气非常不好，脾气非常非常不好，你就会学会避开这个脾气。
You learn, this time I'll play possum, and next time I'll just be real nice, or I'll say yes to everything, or you make yourself scarce, or you run.
你知道，这一次我会扮演负鼠，下一次我会变得非常友善，或者我会对一切都说“是”，或者你让自己变得稀缺，或者你逃跑。
And this was one of the times when you just run.
这是你跑步的时候之一。
And as I was running, I thought, this was a great place to jump out.
当我奔跑时，我想，这是一个跳出去的好地方。
Because there were big lawns and there were cul-de-sacs, and sometimes he would come after me, and drive, and yell stuff at me to get back in, get back in, and I was like, no. I'm out of here.
因为那里有大草坪，也有死胡同，有时他会追着我，开车，对我大喊大叫，让我回去，回去，我当时想，不。我要离开这里了
This is great.
这太棒了。
And I went and hid behind a cabana and he left.
我躲到一间小屋后面，他就离开了。
And I started to walk in this beautiful neighborhood.
我开始漫步在这个美丽的街区。
It was 10:30 at night.
当时是晚上10点30分。
And there was no sound except for sprinklers.
除了洒水器的声音之外，没有任何声音。
Ch, ch, ch, ch, brrrrr.
ch，ch，ch，ch，brrrrr。
Ch, ch, ch, ch, brrrr.
ch，ch，ch，ch，brrrr。
And I was enjoying myself, and enjoying the absence of anger, and enjoying these few hours I knew I'd have of freedom.
我很享受自己，享受没有愤怒，享受这几个小时，我知道我将拥有自由。
And just to perfect it, I thought, I'll have a smoke.
为了让它更完美，我想，我要抽烟。
And then it occurred to me, with horrifying speed, I don't have a light!
然后我以惊人的速度突然想到，我没有灯！
Just then, as if in answer, I see a figure up ahead.
就在这时，就像是在回答一样，我看到前面有一个人影。
Who is that?
那是谁？
It's not him, OK.
不是他，好吧。
They don't have a dog.
他们没有狗。
Who is that?
那是谁？
What are they doing out on this suburban street?
他们在这条郊区街道上做什么？
And the person comes closer, and I can see it's a woman.
那人走近了，我看得出是个女人。
And then I can see she has her hands in her face.
然后我看到她双手捂着脸。
Oh, she's crying.
哦，她在哭。
And then she sees me, and she composes herself, and she gets closer, and I see she has no shoes on.
然后她看到了我，她镇定下来，靠近了一些，我发现她没穿鞋。
And just as she passes me, she says, you got a cigarette?
当她经过我身边时，她说，你有烟吗？
And I say, you got a light?
我说，你有灯吗？
And she says, damn, I hope so.
她说，该死，我希望如此。
And then first she digs into our cutoffs in the front-- nothing.
然后她首先深入我们前面的边界——什么也没有。
And then digs in the back, and then she has this vest on that has 50 million little pockets on it.
然后挖开后面，然后她穿上了这件背心，上面有 5000 万个小口袋。
She's checking and checking, and it's looking bad.
她检查了又检查，情况看起来很糟糕。
She digs back in the front again-- deep, deep-- and she pulls out a pack of matches that have been laundered at least once.
她再次从前面往后挖——深深地、深深地——然后她拿出一包至少洗过一次的火柴。
We open it up and there is one match inside.
我们打开它，里面有一根火柴。
OK.
好的。
Oh my god.
我的天啊。
This takes on-- it's like Nassau.
这就像拿骚一样。
Now we've got to like, how are we going to do it?
现在我们必须喜欢，我们该怎么做呢？
OK.
好的。
And we hunker down.
我们蹲下来。
We crouch on the ground.
我们蹲在地上。
And where's the wind coming from?
风从哪里来？
We're stopping.
我们停下来。
I take out my cigarettes.
我拿出香烟。
Let's get the cigarettes ready.
让我们准备好香烟吧。
Oh, my brand, she says.
哦，我的品牌，她说。
And we both have our cigarettes at the ready.
我们都准备好了香烟。
She strikes once, nothing.
她打了一次，什么也没有。
She strikes again-- yes, fire!
她再次出击——是的，着火了！
Puff, inhale.
噗，吸气。
Mm, sweet kiss of that cigarette.
嗯，那支香烟的甜蜜之吻。
And we sit there, and we're loving the nicotine, and we both need this right now.
我们坐在那里，我们喜欢尼古丁，我们现在都需要它。
Immediately we start to reminisce about our 30 second relationship.
我们立即开始回忆我们30秒的关系。
"I didn't think that was going to happen!" "Me neither!" "Oh, man, that was close!" "Oh, I'm so lucky I saw you!" "Yeah!'
“我没想到会发生这种事！” “我也不！” “噢，伙计，那已经很接近了！” “哦，我真幸运，见到了你！” “是的！'
Then she surprises me by saying, "What was the fight about?" And I say, "What are they all about?" And she said, "I know what you mean." She said, "Was it a bad one?" And I said, "You know, like medium." She said, "Oh."
然后她让我惊讶地说：“为什么吵架？”我说：“它们都是关于什么的？”她说：“我知道你的意思。”她说：“这是一件坏事吗？”我说：“你知道，就像媒介一样。”她说：“哦。”
And we start to trade stories about our lives.
我们开始交换我们生活的故事。
We're both from up north.
我们都来自北方。
We're both kind of newish to the neighborhood.
我们都是邻居的新手。
This is in Florida.
这是在佛罗里达州。
We both went to college.
我们都上了大学。
Not great colleges, but man, we graduated.
不是很棒的大学，但是伙计，我们毕业了。
And I'm actually finding myself a little jealous of her, because she has this really cool job washing dogs.
事实上我发现自己有点嫉妒她，因为她有一份非常酷的洗狗工作。
She had horses back home, and she really loved animals, and she wants to be a vet, and I'm like, man, you're halfway there!
她家里有马，她真的很喜欢动物，她想成为一名兽医，我想，伙计，你已经成功了一半！
I'm a waitress at an ice cream parlor.
我是一家冰淇淋店的女服务员。
So I don't know where I want to be, but I know it's not that.
所以我不知道我想去哪里，但我知道不是那样。
And then it gets a little deeper, and we share some other stuff about what our lives are like.
然后事情会变得更深入一些，我们会分享一些关于我们生活的其他事情。
Things that I can't ever tell people at home.
这些事情我永远不能告诉家里的人。
This girl-- I can tell her the really ugly stuff, and she still understands how it can still be pretty.
这个女孩——我可以告诉她真正丑陋的事情，而她仍然明白它如何仍然是美丽的。
She understands, like, how nice he's going to be when I get home, and how sweet that'll be.
她明白，当我回到家时，他会多么友善，那将是多么甜蜜。
We are chain smoking off each other.
我们互相抽烟。
Oh, that's almost out, come on!
噢，快结束了，加油！
And we go through this entire pack until it's gone, and then I say, "You know what?
我们检查整个包直到它消失，然后我说，“你知道吗？
This is a little funny, but you're going to have to show me the way to get home.
这有点好笑，但你必须告诉我回家的路。
Because although I'm 23 years old, I don't have my driver's license yet, and I just jumped out right when I needed to." And she says, "Well, why don't you come back to my house and I'll give you a ride?" I say, "OK, great," and we start walking.
因为虽然我已经 23 岁了，但我还没有驾照，我只是在需要的时候跳出来。”她说，“好吧，你为什么不回到我家，我载你一程？”我说，“好吧，太好了，”然后我们开始步行。
And we get to this-- lots of lights.
我们得到了这个——很多灯。
And the roads are getting wider and wider, and there's more cars, and I see lots of stores.
道路越来越宽，汽车也越来越多，我看到了很多商店。
You know, laundromats, and dollar stores, and EmergiCenters.
你知道，自助洗衣店、一元店和 EmergiCenters。
Then we cross over U.S. 1, and she leads me to someplace, and I think, no!
然后我们越过美国 1 号公路，她带我去了某个地方，我想，不！
But yes.
但是是的。
Carl's Efficiency Apartments.
卡尔效率公寓。
This girl lives there.
这个女孩住在那里。
And it's horrible, and it's lit up so bright, just to illuminate the horribleness of it.
而且它很可怕，而且它被点亮得如此明亮，只是为了照亮它的可怕。
It's the kind of place where you drive your car right up, and the door's right there, and there's 50 million cigarette butts outside, and there's like doors one through seven, and you know behind every single door there's some horrible misery going on.
在那里，你把车开到那里，门就在那里，外面有 5000 万个烟蒂，还有一扇到七扇门，你知道每扇门后面都发生着可怕的痛苦。
There's someone crying or drunk or lonely or cruel.
有人在哭泣，有人喝醉，有人孤独，有人残忍。
And I think, oh, God.
我想，哦，上帝。
She lives here.
她住在这里。
How awful.
太糟糕了。
We go to the door, door number four, and she very, very quietly keys in.
我们走到门口，四号门，她非常非常安静地开门。
As soon as the door opens, I hear the blare of television come out, and on the blue light of the television, the smoke of a hundred cigarettes in that little crack of light.
门一打开，我就听见电视的声音传出来，电视的蓝光上，那小小的光缝里，有一百支香烟的烟雾。
And I hear the man, and he says, "Where were you?" And she says," "Never mind, I'm back." And he says, "You all right?" And she says, "Yeah, I'm all right." And then she turns me and says, "You want a beer?" And he says, "Who the [BLEEP] is that?"
我听到那个人说，“你在哪里？”她说：“没关系，我回来了。”他说：“你还好吗？”她说：“是的，我很好。”然后她转过身来对我说：“你想喝啤酒吗？”他说：“那个[BLEEP]是谁？”
And she pulls me over, and he sees me, and he says, "Oh, hey." I'm not a threat.
她把我拉到路边，他看到了我，他说：“哦，嘿。”我不是威胁。
Just then he takes a drag of his cigarette and I follow the cigarette down.
就在这时，他吸了一口烟，我顺着烟往下走。
And I'm surprised when I see, int he crook of his arm, a little boy, sleeping.
当我看到他臂弯里有一个小男孩正在睡觉时，我感到很惊讶。
A toddler.
一个小孩。
And I think, [GASP].
我想，[喘息]。
And just then, the girl reaches underneath the bed and takes out a carton, and she taps out the last pack of cigarettes in there.
就在这时，女孩把手伸到床底下，拿出一个纸盒，把里面最后一包香烟敲了出来。
And on the way up, she kisses the little boy, and then she kisses the man.
在上升的过程中，她亲吻了小男孩，然后又亲吻了那个男人。
And the man says again, "You all right?" And she says, "Yeah.
那人又问：“你还好吗？”她说：“是的。
I'm just going to go out and smoke with her."
我只是想和她一起出去抽烟。”
And so we go outside and sit amongst the cigarette butts and smoke.
于是我们走到外面，坐在烟头中间抽烟。
And I say, "Wow, that's your little boy?" And she says, "Yeah, isn't he beautiful?" And I say, "Yeah, he is.
我说：“哇，那是你的小男孩吗？”她说：“是啊，他不是很漂亮吗？”我说：“是的，他是。
He is beautiful." "He's my light.
他很漂亮。” “他是我的光。
He keeps me going," she says.
他让我继续前进，”她说。
We finish our cigarettes.
我们抽完香烟。
She finishes her beer.
她喝完了啤酒。
I don't have a beer, because I can't go home with beer on my breath.
我没有啤酒，因为我不能带着啤酒回家。
And she goes inside to get the keys.
她进去拿钥匙。
She takes too long in there getting the keys, and I think something must be wrong.
她拿钥匙花了太长时间，我想一定出了什么问题。
And she comes out and she says, "Look, I'm really sorry.
她出来后说道：“听着，我真的很抱歉。
But um, like we don't have any gas in the car, it's already on E, and he needs to get to work in the morning, and um, you know, I'm going to walk to work as it is.
但是，嗯，就像我们车里没有汽油一样，已经是 E 档了，他需要早上去上班，嗯，你知道，我要步行去上班。
So what I did was, though, here, look, I drew out this map for you.
所以我所做的是，在这里，看，我为你画了这张地图。
And you really, you're like a mile and a half from home, and um, if you walk three streets over, you'll be back on that pretty street, and you just take that, and you'll be fine."
你真的，你离家只有一英里半，嗯，如果你走过三条街，你就会回到那条漂亮的街道上，你只要走那条路，就没事了。”
And she also has wrapped up in toilet paper seven cigarettes for me.
她还用卫生纸给我包了七支烟。
A third of her pack, I note.
我注意到，她的包里有三分之一。
And a new pack of matches.
还有一包新火柴。
And she tells me, "Goodbye!", and "That was great to meet you," and "How lucky," and "That was fun," and you know, "Let's be friends."
她告诉我，“再见！”，“很高兴见到你”，“多么幸运”，“很有趣”，“让我们成为朋友吧。”
And I say, "Yeah, OK!" and I walk away.
我说：“是的，好吧！”然后我走开。
But I kind of know we're not going to be friends.
但我知道我们不会成为朋友。
I might not ever see her again.
我可能再也见不到她了。
And I kind of know, I don't think she's ever going to be a vet.
我有点知道，我认为她永远不会成为一名兽医。
And I cross, and I walk away.
我穿过，然后走开。
And maybe this would have seemed like a visit from my possible future and scary, but it kind of does the opposite.
也许这看起来像是我可能的未来的一次访问并且令人恐惧，但事实恰恰相反。
On the walk home I'm like, man.
在回家的路上我想，伙计。
That was really grim over there.
那里真的很严峻。
And I'm going home now to my nice boyfriend, and he's going to be so extra happy to see me.
我现在要回家见我好男朋友了，他见到我一定会非常高兴。
And we have a one-bedroom apartment, and we have two trees, and there's a yard.
我们有一套一居室的公寓，有两棵树，还有一个院子。
And we have this jar in the kitchen where there's like loose money that we can use for anything.
我们厨房里有这个罐子，里面有我们可以用来做任何事情的零用钱。
Like we would never, ever run out of gas.
就像我们永远不会耗尽汽油一样。
And I don't have a baby, you know?
而且我还没有孩子，你知道吗？
So I can leave whenever I want.
这样我就可以随时离开。
I smoked all seven cigarettes on the way home.
我在回家的路上把七支烟都抽完了。
And people who have never smoked cigarettes just think ick, disgusting and poison.
而从不吸过烟的人只会觉得恶心、恶心、有毒。
But unless you've had them, and held them dear, you don't know how great they can be, and what friends and comfort and kinship they can bring.
但除非你拥有过它们，并珍视它们，否则你不知道它们有多伟大，也不知道它们能带来什么朋友、安慰和亲情。
It took me a long time to quit that the boyfriend, and then to quit smoking.
我花了很长时间才戒掉那个男朋友，然后戒烟。
And sometimes I still miss the smoking.
有时我仍然怀念吸烟的时光。
Jenifer Hixson at The Moth.
詹妮弗希克森在飞蛾。
You can here more stories like this on The Moth's free weekly podcast at themoth.org.
您可以在 the Moth 的免费每周播客上观看更多类似的故事，网址为themoth.org。
They also have a new weekly radio show, The Moth Radio Hour, that's on many public radio stations around the country.
他们还有一个新的每周广播节目“飞蛾广播时间”，在全国许多公共广播电台播出。
Coming up, the time of night in Iraq when you can fool yourself into thinking that you're not in Iraq at all.
伊拉克的夜晚即将到来，您可以欺骗自己，以为自己根本不在伊拉克。
That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio and Public Radio International when our program continues.
一分钟后，芝加哥公共广播电台和国际公共广播电台将继续我们的节目。
It's This American Life .
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, The Middle of the Night.
今天的节目是《深夜》。
Stories that happen when most of us are already asleep.
当我们大多数人已经睡着时发生的故事。
We've arrived at Act Three of our show.
我们已经到了节目的第三幕了。
Act Three.
第三幕。
The Early Bird Catches the Chicken
早起的鸟儿有鸡吃
Now a story about that people staying up all night hoping for nothing more than a chicken sandwich.
现在有一个关于人们彻夜不眠只希望得到鸡肉三明治的故事。
When the change Chick-Fil-A opens a new store, they encourage people to line up 24 hours ahead of time, at 6 AM the day before.
当 Chick-Fil-A 开新店时，他们鼓励人们提前 24 小时排队，即前一天早上 6 点排队。
And for 100 people who do that, Chick-Fil-A gives away coupons for a year of Chick-Fil-A.
对于 100 名这样做的人，Chick-Fil-A 会赠送 Chick-Fil-A 一年的优惠券。
One combo meal per week.
每周一顿组合餐。
52 coupons, which is worth, if you add it up, 260 bucks.
52张优惠券，加起来价值260块钱。
Well, Dave Hill and Shaina Feinberg were curious about who comes out for that, because a lot of people do.
戴夫·希尔 (Dave Hill) 和谢娜·范伯格 (Shaina Feinberg) 很好奇谁会站出来支持这一点，因为很多人都这样做。
Neither of them is real reporter.
他们都不是真正的记者。
Shaina is a very funny writer.
谢娜是一位非常有趣的作家。
Dave is a musician and a comedian.
戴夫是一位音乐家和喜剧演员。
But when a new Chick-Fil-A store opened in Orlando, Florida recently, they went down to stay up all night and see what happens.
但当一家新的福来鸡店最近在佛罗里达州奥兰多开业时，他们彻夜不眠，看看会发生什么。
OK.
好的。
It's about nine o'clock.
大约九点钟了。
Shaina's trying to set up the tent right now.
莎娜现在正在尝试搭建帐篷。
I would totally help her, but I'm busy reporting.
我完全愿意帮助她，但我正忙着报道。
How's it going, Shaina?
怎么样，莎娜？
Good.
好的。
I think we put this into here, and then we can-- this is where I don't get-- how does this bend?
我想我们把它放在这里，然后我们可以——这是我不明白的地方——它是如何弯曲的？
Again, I would help, if I could, but I can't.
再说一次，如果可以的话，我会帮忙，但我不能。
I'm busy reporting.
我正忙着报道呢。
Can we interview you?
我们可以采访你吗？
Yeah, I can set up your tent.
是的，我可以给你搭帐篷。
Dave Hill That'd be awesome.
戴夫·希尔 那太棒了。
The DJ will be shutting down about 11:30.
DJ 将于 11:30 左右关闭。
At that time, most of the folks will sleep, and at roughly 4:30 in the morning, the DJ comes back, and we wake them up.
那时，大多数人都会睡觉，凌晨 4:30 左右，DJ 回来，我们叫醒他们。
It becomes a family-friendly event.
它成为一项适合家庭的活动。
Especially in the summer, you'll see whole families out here.
尤其是在夏天，您会看到全家人都在这里。
So you'll see a whole list of rules about, you know, no drinking, and certain behavior.
所以你会看到一整套关于禁止饮酒和某些行为的规则。
There's lots of dance contests.
那里有很多舞蹈比赛。
It's 11:23.
现在是 11 点 23 分。
We're sitting here in the parking lot across from Chick-Fil-A, just to see it from afar, I guess.
我想，我们坐在福来鸡对面的停车场，只是为了远远地看看。
I'm going to sit closer to you, if you're comfortable with that.
如果你觉得舒服的话，我会坐得离你近一些。
Yeah, that's fine.
是的，没关系。
I think we should describe what we see.
我认为我们应该描述我们所看到的。
Well, we're pretty much in like a regular strip mall parking lot.
嗯，我们就像是在一个普通的购物中心停车场。
There's a Blockbuster.
有一个重磅炸弹。
There's that that rib place that we ate earlier that I'm kind of regretting.
我们之前吃过的那个排骨店我有点后悔了。
Yeah.
是的。
And basically, there's a lot of tents up.
基本上，有很多帐篷。
Easily the most tents I've ever seen in a fast food restaurant parking lot in my lifetime.
这是我一生中在快餐店停车场见过最多的帐篷。
It's weird with radio.
收音机很奇怪。
You've got to fill in the blanks.
你必须填补空白。
The visuals.
视觉效果。
We should we should go get some celery and break it, like old time radio.
我们应该去买一些芹菜并打破它，就像老式收音机一样。
So people will be like, what is that noise?
所以人们会问，那是什么噪音？
Oh.
哦。
I just broke my arm in two for no apparent reason.
我只是无缘无故地将手臂断成两半。
Hello?
你好？
Hello?
你好？
Hi.
你好。
I'm Dave.
我是戴夫。
Ken Perkins I'm Ken Perkins.
肯·帕金斯 我是肯·帕金斯。
I'm Ann.
我是安。
Ken Perkins But I call her Hanusha.
肯·帕金斯 但我叫她哈努莎。
Hanusha?
哈努沙？
Ann Hanusha, in Ukrainian, is Ann.
Ann Hanusha，乌克兰语，就是安。
Oh, I like that.
哦，我喜欢这样。
Shaina Feinberg How long have you guys been married?
Shaina Feinberg 你们结婚多久了？
We aren't married.
我们没有结婚。
Ann We were married to somebody else.
安 我们已经和别人结婚了。
But he died, and she died.
但他死了，她也死了。
I think he gave her mushrooms or something.
我想他给了她蘑菇什么的。
No. My wife died of Alzheimer's just a little over a year ago.
不。我的妻子一年多前死于阿尔茨海默氏症。
And then and her husband died two years ago.
然后她的丈夫两年前去世了。
Three.
三。
Ken Perkins She was lonesome, and I was lonesome, so we got our lonesomes together.
肯·珀金斯 她很孤独，我也很孤独，所以我们把孤独的人聚在一起。
Was it love at first sight for you guys?
你们是一见钟情吗？
Not for me, not for me.
不适合我，不适合我。
I learned to love her.
我学会了爱她。
It took me a while.
我花了一段时间。
Why, why?
为什么，为什么？
This one, I'm going wild for this one, and I've only been been here like three minutes.
这一次，我为这一次疯狂，而我只在这里呆了三分钟。
Are you married?
你结婚了吗？
Dave Hill Well, we're like, no. We're not married.
戴夫·希尔：嗯，我们的回答是，不。我们没有结婚。
How would you say, as long as we're on the topic, how do you think we're doing as a couple?
你怎么说呢，只要我们说到这个话题，你觉得我们作为情侣怎么样？
Like just from vibes, just work off of vibes.
就像只是从共鸣中一样，只是从共鸣中发挥作用。
Go with your gut.
跟着你的直觉走。
You are a lovely couple.
你们是一对可爱的情侣。
Ken Perkins I think you're charming
肯·帕金斯 我认为你很有魅力
Really?
真的吗？
Just me charming, or together charming?
单独迷人，还是一起迷人？
You should have beautiful children together.
你们应该一起拥有漂亮的孩子。
That's why we brought the tent.
这就是我们带帐篷的原因。
No, I'm just kidding.
不，我只是开玩笑。
I'm going to play it slow.
我要慢慢地玩。
Taco Bell?
塔可钟？
Ken Perkins That's my favorite.
肯·帕金斯 这是我的最爱。
Taco Bell's your favorite?
塔可钟是你的最爱？
I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that.
我会假装没有听到。
That's a pretty long nickname.
这是一个很长的昵称。
Veggie OIl Man, Clearwater--
素食油人，克利尔沃特——
Florida.
佛罗里达州。
Dave Hill What about such Vegman300?
Dave Hill 这样的 Vegman300 怎么样？
U.S.A.
美国
Dave Hill Do you love Chick-Fil-A?
戴夫·希尔 你喜欢福来鸡吗？
I kind of do Been to about 32 grand openings.
我大概去过大约 32 个盛大的开幕式。
32?
32？
Now, wouldn't the thing to do, rather than spend the money on all that travelling, is just save that money and put that money towards the chicken?
现在，与其把钱花在旅行上，不如把钱存起来，然后把钱花在养鸡上？
Travel's free.
旅行是免费的。
I got a Mercedes that runs on used cooking oil for free.
我有一辆免费使用废食用油的奔驰。
You have a what?
你有一个什么？
Veggie Oil Man I got a Mercedes, a diesel Mercedes.
素食油人 我有一辆奔驰，一辆柴油奔驰。
An '83 station wagon that runs on used cooking oil for free.
一辆 83 年的旅行车，免费使用废食用油。
Yeah.
是的。
That's what I go to the grand openings in.
这就是我去参加盛大开幕式的原因。
Do you think anything crazy's going to happen in the middle of the night?
你认为半夜会发生什么疯狂的事情吗？
I don't know.
我不知道。
This is a bad neighborhood.
这是一个糟糕的街区。
Is it?
是吗？
Veggie Oil Man Yeah.
素油人 是的。
As long as you stay in the parking lot, you'd be OK.
只要你呆在停车场就没事。
But I wouldn't go out walking around outside.
但我不会出去到处走走。
Yeah.
是的。
Dave Hill Is there a lot of riffraff here?
戴夫·希尔 这里有很多痞子吗？
They said the hood is right across the street a couple blocks.
他们说引擎盖就在街对面几个街区。
What do you mean, the hood?
你说的引擎盖是什么意思？
Veggie Oil Man You know.
素油人你知道的。
And across the street over the other way is the redneck trailer park.
街对面的另一条路是乡下人拖车公园。
What what goes on over there?
那边发生什么事了？
Veggie Oil Man I don't know, but we've seen a lot of people over there earlier today.
素油人 我不知道，但今天早些时候我们在那里看到了很多人。
Oh, you went over to the redneck trailer park?
哦，你去了乡下人拖车公园吗？
No, we seen them when we got our food at the drive-through.
不，我们在得来速买食物时看到了他们。
They were hanging out over there drinking beer on the porch.
他们正在那边的门廊上喝啤酒。
I'm going to sleep.
我要去睡觉。
Shaina Feinberg Hello?
谢娜·范伯格 你好？
OK.
好的。
What's your name?
你叫什么名字？
My name's Cole Naismith.
我叫科尔·奈史密斯。
Shaina Feinberg And what time is it?
Shaina Feinberg 现在几点了？
Do you know what time it is?
你知道现在几点了吗？
It's probably about 1:15.
大概是1点15分左右。
Shaina Feinberg Is it like what you expected?
Shaina Feinberg 和你想象的一样吗？
I didn't know what to expect.
我不知道会发生什么。
I looked around and I thought, there's definitely a type here.
我环顾四周，心想，这里肯定有一种类型。
And you're probably going to ask follow up questions about what that means.
您可能会提出有关这意味着什么的后续问题。
Because I feel like-- I feel like I don't want to be the type.
因为我觉得——我觉得我不想成为那种人。
What is the type?
是什么类型？
Cole Naismith I feel like most of the people that I've seen here seem to be a little bit twiddling their thumbs in life, not just for 24 hours?
Cole Naismith 我觉得我在这里见过的大多数人似乎都在生活中无所事事，而不仅仅是 24 小时？
Something as ridiculous as sitting out in front of a Chick-Fil-A makes you ask questions about, am I wasting my life?
像坐在福来鸡面前这样荒谬的事情会让你问这样的问题：我是在浪费生命吗？
I don't want to look around and seem like I'm judging others' actions.
我不想环顾四周，让自己看起来像是在评判别人的行为。
But it definitely has caused me to be introspective about my own.
但这确实让我开始反思自己。
Oh hey.
哦嘿。
This is Dave.
这是戴夫。
It's about 4:15 AM and there's not much action going on right now.
现在是凌晨 4 点 15 分左右，目前没有太多活动。
Shaina's back in the tent.
谢娜回到帐篷里。
Not sure what she's doing.
不确定她在做什么。
Probably thinking about me, I guess.
我想，大概是在想我吧。
Tension's been-- not a bad tension.
紧张气氛——还不错。
Just excitement, I guess, between us.
我想，我们之间只是兴奋。
It's been pretty incredible.
这真是太不可思议了。
It's now 4:15, and everybody is sleeping, for the most part.
现在是四点十五分，大部分人都在睡觉。
I think it's going pretty well.
我认为一切进展顺利。
I like Dave.
我喜欢戴夫。
He's so nice.
他真是太好了。
Wish I could figure out if he was straight or gay.
希望我能弄清楚他是异性恋还是同性恋。
I can't really figure it out.
我实在想不通。
But if I figured out if he was straight or gay, then I would totally set him up with someone.
但如果我弄清楚他是异性恋还是同性恋，那么我完全会为他撮合某人。
Just have to figure out what his type is, you know?
只要弄清楚他是什么类型，你知道吗？
OK.
好的。
Check this out.
看看这个。
Jason Have you ever looked with love in your heart?
杰森 你是否曾用心中充满爱意的目光注视过？
This guy, it's like five in the morning.
这家伙，现在才凌晨五点。
And this guy just came from out of nowhere and is screaming and preaching.
这个家伙不知从哪里冒出来，一边尖叫一边说教。
Yes!
是的！
Jason Well, the Bible says that all thieves will end up in hell.
杰森：嗯，圣经说所有的小偷最终都会下地狱。
I'm going to hell.
我要下地狱了。
Jason Now folks, have you ever used God's name in a curse word?
杰森 伙计们，你们曾经在咒骂词中使用过上帝的名字吗？
I want you to think about it like that.
我希望你也这样想。
You don't curse Hitler's name.
你不会咒骂希特勒的名字。
You don't curse bin Laden's name.
你不能咒骂本拉登的名字。
But you use the name of God who gave you life and breath, who has allowed Chick-Fil-A to give away free meals, and you curse his name!
但你却用上帝的名字来诅咒他的名字，上帝给了你生命和呼吸，他允许福来鸡免费提供食物！
Jesus Christ out on the cross!
耶稣基督被钉在十字架上！
He paid--
他付了钱——
Excuse me--oh.
对不起——哦。
Jason For your sins and my sins!
杰森 为了你的罪孽和我的罪孽！
Folks, did you know the Bible says that God sees hatred as murder?
朋友们，你们知道圣经说上帝将仇恨视为谋杀吗？
A lot of you right now hate me this morning for coming out here and sharing the gospel with you, therefore committed murder in your hearts!
你们很多人现在恨我今天早上来到这里与你们分享福音，因此在你们心中犯下了谋杀罪！
Excuse me.
打扰一下。
Jason All the sins of the world were placed upon Jesus Christ.
杰森 世上所有的罪孽都归咎于耶稣基督。
Sure.
当然。
Dave Hill Um, what brings you to Chick-Fil-A?
Dave Hill 嗯，是什么让你来到 Chick-Fil-A 的？
To preach the gospel.
去传福音。
Dave Hill How did you know to come now?
戴夫·希尔 你怎么知道现在要来？
Did you come because, were you just driving by?
你来这里是因为你只是开车经过吗？
Oh, hey.
哦，嘿。
Oh, yeah, I saw the name tag.
哦，是的，我看到了名字标签。
I'm Dave.
我是戴夫。
Nice to meet you, Dave.
很高兴认识你，戴夫。
Dave Hill Is this your first Chick-Fil-A opening?
戴夫·希尔 (Dave Hill) 这是您的福来鸡 (Chick-Fil-A) 首次开业吗？
Yes.
是的。
I woke them up for sure.
我肯定叫醒了他们。
Dave Hill Yeah.
戴夫·希尔 是的。
That was kind of funny.
这有点好笑。
I'm always a little loud.
我总是有点大声。
Dave Hill Do you do this sort of thing often?
戴夫·希尔（Dave Hill）：你经常做这种事吗？
Like go to, doesn't have to be a fast food restaurant, but like in public, yelling?
比如去，不一定是快餐店，但就像在公共场合，大喊大叫？
Well, I try not to make it look like I'm yelling.
好吧，我尽量不让自己看起来像是在大喊大叫。
I'm trying to preach.
我正在努力传教。
Well, not yelling.
还好，没有大喊大叫。
You're just making it so people can hear your voice in a loud way.
你所做的只是让人们能够大声地听到你的声音。
I woke up my wife this morning.
今天早上我叫醒了我的妻子。
I said, babe, I'm going to Chick-Fil-A, and I'll be back right before I've got to go to work.
我说，宝贝，我要去福来鸡，我会在上班前回来。
And she was like, all right.
她说，好吧。
I'm going back to bed.
我要回去睡觉了。
She's like, what?
她就像，什么？
Yeah.
是的。
Then she went back to bed.
然后她回到床上。
OK.
好的。
It is now 5:40 in the morning, and people are lined up to get their 52 coupons.
现在是凌晨 5 点 40 分，人们正在排队领取 52 张优惠券。
And everyone is looking really, incredibly jazzed.
每个人看起来都非常非常兴奋。
When I say count, we're going to count down from five, all right?
当我说数时，我们要从五开始倒数，好吗？
Five!
五！
Four!
四！
Three!
三！
Two!
二！
One!
一！
Eat more chicken!
多吃点鸡肉吧！
Hey Shaina, let's sing the song we wrote.
嘿，莎娜，让我们唱我们写的歌吧。
Ready?
准备好？
Chick-Fil-A.
福来鸡。
Dave Hill If you like chicken, go to--
戴夫·希尔（Dave Hill）如果你喜欢鸡肉，那就去——
Chick-Fil-A.
福来鸡。
Dave Hill If you like chicken, why not--
戴夫·希尔（Dave Hill）如果你喜欢鸡肉，为什么不——
Go to Chick-Fil-A!
去福来鸡吧！
Dave Hill Waffle fries and lemonade.
戴夫·希尔 (Dave Hill) 华夫饼薯条和柠檬水。
These are just a couple of the items that they have available at Chick-Fil-A.
这些只是 Chick-Fil-A 提供的一些产品。
And at first that carrot and raisin salad is a little bit suspicious.
起初，胡萝卜和葡萄干沙拉有点可疑。
But you know what, I've tried it.
但你知道吗，我已经尝试过了。
And as it turns out--
事实证明——
Quite delicious.
相当好吃。
Dave Hill That's right.
戴夫·希尔 没错。
Chick-Fil-A, Chick-Fil-A...
福来鸡，福来鸡……
[END SINGING] Ira Glass Dave Hill and Shaina Feinberg.
[结束演唱] Ira Glass Dave Hill 和 Shaina Feinberg。
Act Four: Midnight Run Ira Glass Act Four.
第四幕：午夜狂奔 艾拉·格拉斯 第四幕。
Midnight Run.
午夜奔跑。
A little while back, after we did a program that all took place at a rest stop on the side of the highway, we got an email from specialist Lindsay Freeland, who's in the Oregon National Guard, and who heard the episode by podcast from where she's stationed in Iraq.
不久前，在我们完成了一个全部在高速公路边的休息站进行的节目后，我们收到了一封来自俄勒冈州国民警卫队专家 Lindsay Freeland 的电子邮件，她在伊拉克驻扎地通过播客收听了这一集。
She wrote to us about the road trips that she goes on in her job, in the middle of the night, without real rest stops, to forward operating bases across the country.
她写信给我们讲述了她在工作中进行的公路旅行，在半夜，没有真正的休息站，前往全国各地的作战基地。
Quote, "It's late, it's dark, and it's not the normal to be up and driving to a destination.
引用：“已经很晚了，天黑了，起床开车去目的地并不正常。
Here in Iraq, this is our military time for driving, late at night, due to the agreement between the American military and the Iraqi military to conduct most convoy operations at night to bring a normalcy back to the Iraqi local nationals."
在伊拉克，这是我们深夜的军事行驶时间，因为美国军方和伊拉克军方达成协议，大部分车队行动将在夜间进行，以使伊拉克当地国民恢复正常生活。”
One of our producers, Nancy Updike, reached Lindsay Freeland on the phone and learned that she's 24.
我们的一位制片人 Nancy Updike 通过电话联系了 Lindsay Freeland，得知她 24 岁。
Just got to Iraq in July.
七月刚到伊拉克。
Started doing these convoys in August, mostly transporting fuel.
八月份开始进行这些车队，主要是运输燃料。
There are three people in her vehicle.
她的车里有三个人。
She's a driver.
她是一名司机。
There's also a gunner and a commander.
还有一名炮手和一名指挥官。
And it's so noisy that they have to talk to each other over headsets for the whole trip.
而且这里太吵了，他们在整个旅途中都必须通过耳机互相交谈。
What's amazing is how huge these convoys are-- 20 to 100 trucks, plus another 11 military vehicles providing security, which is what Lindsay's in.
令人惊奇的是这些车队的规模有多大——20到100辆卡车，再加上林赛所在的另外11辆军用车辆提供安全保障。
It's a pretty amazing scene.
这是一个非常惊人的场景。
I mean, especially when I'm like the front truck, and I can see this line of lights behind me, because we're so tightly compact within our convoy that we brighten up that whole night road.
我的意思是，尤其是当我像前面的卡车一样时，我可以看到我身后的这条灯光线，因为我们在车队中非常紧凑，以至于我们照亮了整条夜间道路。
I always think of it that we're stringing through Iraq like Christmas tree lights.
我一直认为我们就像圣诞树上的彩灯一样穿过伊拉克。
A bunch of white, big, bright lights snaking through the dark desert.
一束白色、巨大、明亮的灯光蜿蜒穿过黑暗的沙漠。
And we usually are the biggest light out there, because not many local nationals like to drive at night.
我们通常是那里最亮的灯，因为没有多少当地人喜欢在晚上开车。
Right.
正确的。
And sometimes they're out there.
有时他们就在那里。
There are not too many of them.
它们的数量并不算太多。
And if we do see them, they're usually a lot nearer their own types of Iraqi rest stops, which are like their kind of markets or whatever.
如果我们确实看到它们，它们通常更接近他们自己类型的伊拉克休息站，就像他们的市场或其他什么。
So that's the side of the road.
所以那是路边。
Or a fuel station, which can be a tanker truck with a hose hooked onto it with a little kid ready to fuel up to make money for the day, and markets along the back of it.
或者是一个加油站，它可以是一辆挂着软管的油罐车，上面有一个小孩子准备加油以赚钱，后面还有市场。
You'll just see these on the side of the road as you're driving?
当你开车时，你会在路边看到这些吗？
Yeah, exactly.
是的，完全正确。
They're just out in the middle of the desert, sometimes in the middle of nowhere.
他们就在沙漠中央，有时甚至在荒无人烟的地方。
They're usually to the side of the road.
他们通常在路边。
It's their version a Starbucks or whatnot.
这是他们的星巴克或其他版本。
In the email you sent to us, you said that the night convoys were part of an agreement between the U.S. military and the Iraqis.
在你发给我们的电子邮件中，你说夜间车队是美军和伊拉克人之间协议的一部分。
Explain that.
解释一下。
We conduct our operations at night.
我们在夜间进行行动。
It's just our agreement so that we don't interrupt their life as much.
这只是我们的协议，这样我们就不会过多打扰他们的生活。
Just because we are a really long and big convoy.
只是因为我们是一个又长又大的车队。
So I mean, that is kind of a big deal, and that is kind of an interrupter, I guess you could say.
所以我的意思是，这是一件大事，而且是一种干扰，我想你可能会说。
And they don't like us, and you can tell that.
他们不喜欢我们，这一点你可以看出来。
Because some traffic, if we're headed northbound, you know, they'll be going both ways in the southbound lane.
因为有些交通，如果我们向北行驶，你知道，它们会在南向车道上双向行驶。
So basically, they would rather cram traffic going in two directions into one lane rather than try to share the lane that your convoy's in.
所以基本上，他们宁愿将两个方向的交通挤进一条车道，也不愿尝试共享你的车队所在的车道。
Right, exactly.
对，完全正确。
They don't want to be near us.
他们不想靠近我们。
Because we have big cruiser weapons on our vehicles.
因为我们的车辆上有大型巡洋舰武器。
We have bright lights.
我们有明亮的灯光。
We try to be nice and try to turn off the left side or something, so we dim the lights for them.
我们尽力表现得友善，并尝试关闭左侧或其他东西，因此我们为他们调暗灯光。
So you're not kind of blinding other drivers.
所以你不会让其他司机失明。
Right, exactly.
对，完全正确。
But usually they just don't like being near us, so they'll pull off the road completely and just turn their flashers on and wait for us to pass.
但通常他们只是不喜欢靠近我们，所以他们会把车完全驶离道路，然后打开闪光灯等待我们过去。
How many of these convoys have you done?
这些车队你完成了多少？
Probably 20 or 30.
大概有20或30个。
I mean, it can get pretty mundane.
我的意思是，它可以变得非常平凡。
Now on eight hour missions, they're like a quickie, you know, really fast.
现在，在执行八小时的任务时，他们就像一个快速行动者，你知道，非常快。
The longest we've had is about 15 hours.
我们最长的一次是15个小时左右。
It seems very, very long and drawn out, and your legs get pretty tired staying in that one position for a long time when you only have one stop throughout those 15 to 16 hours, you know.
它看起来非常非常长，而且你知道，当你在这 15 到 16 个小时中只停一站时，长时间保持在同一个位置，你的腿会变得非常累。
But for the most part, we are pretty energy drink fulfilled, with a cooler next to our gunner's turret, and we just reach behind him, and grab our energy drinks.
但在大多数情况下，我们的能量饮料已经很满足了，我们的炮手炮塔旁边有一个冷却器，我们只需伸手到他身后，拿起我们的能量饮料。
And I think I drink probably about three energy drinks in one convoy.
我想我在一个车队中可能喝了大约三种能量饮料。
Which is not good, you know.
这不好，你知道。
Not good for you.
对你不好。
But it helps.
但这有帮助。
Especially on the boring convoys, and the long, long drawn out convoys.
尤其是那些无聊的车队，以及漫长的、拖得很长的车队。
I mean, we always usually have at least one or two breakdowns of our third country national supply trucks.
我的意思是，我们的第三国供应卡车通常至少会出现一两次故障。
I think one convoy, our 15 hour convoy, what we had probably about seven or eight breakdowns.
我认为一个车队，我们 15 个小时的车队，我们可能发生了七八次故障。
It was ridiculous.
这太荒谬了。
Is there ever a time, when you're driving or you're stopped, that you almost forget where you are?
当您开车或停车时，您是否有过这样的经历：您几乎忘记了自己身在何处？
Oh yeah, for sure.
哦，是的，当然。
Sometimes I feel like I'm driving in, you know, the desert of the U.S., like Arizona or something like that.
有时我觉得我正在开车进入美国的沙漠，比如亚利桑那州或类似的地方。
You know, it looks like a normal highway within the States.
你知道，它看起来就像美国境内的一条普通高速公路。
Because A, it's dark, and B, it's just a normal paved road.
因为A，天很黑，B，这只是一条普通的柏油路。
Yeah, it's not as kept up as well as how the states keep it up, and half the road isn't even painted where the stripes are supposed to be, but for the most part, it reminds you of a normal highway.
是的，它不像各州那样保持得很好，一半的路甚至没有画在应该有的条纹处，但在大多数情况下，它会让你想起一条普通的高速公路。
And so sometimes I feel like I'm on a long roadtrip.
所以有时我感觉自己正在进行一场长途旅行。
Sometimes I feel like I'm driving a big freight truck, like if I was a truck driver back home, you know.
有时我感觉自己就像在驾驶一辆大型货运卡车，就像我是家乡的卡车司机一样，你知道。
It's usually a pretty quick feeling, because you can be brought back pretty fast.
这通常是一种很快的感觉，因为你很快就能恢复过来。
There's tires everywhere.
到处都是轮胎。
They line the road.
他们排列在路边。
I mean, I'm not even kidding when I say that.
我的意思是，我这么说并不是在开玩笑。
Most Iraqis, they run out their tires until they're completely destroyed to smithereens, and so they'll just leave those pieces on the side of the road.
大多数伊拉克人的轮胎都会耗尽，直到完全被炸成碎片，所以他们只会把这些碎片留在路边。
There's no type of cleanup crew to come clean up the trash on the road.
没有任何类型的清洁人员来清理路上的垃圾。
There's no type of officer to come pick up the destroyed tire that's in the right lane.
没有任何警察会来捡起右车道上损坏的轮胎。
So that's usually just what seems to bring me back to being in Iraq.
所以这通常就是让我回到伊拉克的原因。
And then, you know, sometimes I look down-- wait, I have my body armor on.
然后，你知道，有时我会低下头——等等，我穿着防弹衣。
I'm in still in Iraq.
我还在伊拉克。
Specialist Lindsay Freeland of Alpha Company 141 with the Organ National Guard in Iraq, talking with Nancy Updike.
伊拉克国民警卫队管风琴第 141 连的专家林赛·弗里兰 (Lindsay Freeland) 与南希·厄普代克 (Nancy Updike) 交谈。
Act Five.
第五幕。
Bump in the Night.
夜间碰撞。
We end our show today with this story about a very common experience-- staying up all night with a sick child.
我们今天以这个关于一个非常常见的经历的故事来结束我们的节目——和一个生病的孩子一起熬夜。
One of our producers, Jane Feltes, tells what happened to her and her parents back when she was six years old and her parents were 26.
我们的一位制片人 Jane Feltes 讲述了她 6 岁时、她父母 26 岁时发生在她和她父母身上的事情。
They were visiting family friends with holidays in the UP, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which is the part of the state that isn't, you know, the mitten.
他们正在密歇根州上半岛的北方邦（UP）度假，探望家人朋友，你知道，这个州的一部分并不是戴手套的。
Here's Jane.
这是简。
This night, a lot of adults wanted to go out, so my mom volunteered to babysit about seven of us kids altogether.
这天晚上，很多大人想出去，所以我妈妈自愿照顾我们大约七个孩子。
And all the kids' bunks were upstairs in this old, old log cabin, and the staircase to get upstairs had no railing.
所有孩子们的铺位都在楼上这个破旧的小木屋里，而上楼的楼梯没有栏杆。
It was just kind of, shoots out into the middle of the room.
它只是射到房间中央。
And I remember we all got our pajamas on, and we all ran upstairs.
我记得我们都穿上了睡衣，然后跑上楼。
And I'm not exactly sure if you slipped or got bumped by the herd of children running up the stairs--
我不确定你是否滑倒或被一群跑上楼梯的孩子撞到了——
This is my mom.
这是我妈妈。
Jane's Mom But you were falling.
简的妈妈但是你正在跌倒。
And I managed to grab your ankle as your head smashed into the concrete floor.
当你的头撞到水泥地板上时，我设法抓住了你的脚踝。
From about eight feet up.
从大约八英尺高处。
And everybody, all the kids were just frozen on the stairs.
每个人，所有的孩子都被冻在楼梯上了。
And-- ugh, this is creepy.
而且——呃，这太令人毛骨悚然了。
So I had to do something.
所以我必须做点什么。
So I'm trying to comfort you, and then you'd be crying and crying-- I mean, like, screaming.
所以我试图安慰你，然后你就会哭啊哭——我的意思是，就像尖叫。
And then you'd say, oh, I'm so sleepy.
然后你会说，哦，我太困了。
You'd get really calm and still, and kind of go limp a little bit.
你会变得非常平静、静止，并且有点跛行。
And then you'd start screaming again.
然后你又会开始尖叫。
My part, embarrassingly, was I was drinking at Pine Stump Junction.
令人尴尬的是，我的角色是在松树桩枢纽站喝酒。
You remember the name of it?
你还记得它的名字吗？
Jane's Dad Pine Stump Junction.
简的爸爸松树桩交汇处。
Everybody knows that place.
每个人都知道那个地方。
So that's my dad.
这就是我的父亲。
My mom somehow piled seven kids into a car that wasn't even hers, that was sitting in the driveway, and drove us all to the bar.
我妈妈不知何故把七个孩子塞进一辆甚至不是她的、停在车道上的车里，然后把我们所有人都送到了酒吧。
And she didn't know how to get there, but an eight year old in the car did, so he instructed her.
她不知道怎么去那里，但车里一个八岁的孩子知道，所以他指导她。
And my mom and my dad, and me and my brother-- we just drove to the nearest hospital, which was in Newberry, which was a really, really tiny town in the Upper Peninsula.
我的妈妈和爸爸，还有我和我的兄弟——我们刚刚开车去了最近的医院，那是在纽伯里，那是上半岛的一个非常非常小的小镇。
And you weren't quite unconscious, but you weren't conscious.
你并没有完全失去意识，但你没有意识。
And you weren't responsive or alert.
而且你没有反应或警觉。
And when we got down to Newberry, it was after hours in the clinic, and night was following, and the only guy there, physician, was some retired part-time guy.
当我们到达纽伯里时，诊所已经下班了，夜幕降临了，那里唯一的人，医生，是一个退休的兼职人员。
Older fellow.
老家伙。
So I had just started practicing dentistry, and the things that were just fresh in my mind from the medical school aspect of my education-- so it was very, very scary.
所以我刚刚开始从事牙科工作，在我的脑海中，从医学院接受的教育中学到的东西都是新鲜的——所以这非常非常可怕。
wait, Jane Feltes Wait, what kind of stuff?
等等，Jane Feltes 等等，什么样的东西？
Well, like when you're looking at a patient, and they're kind of alert, and they're kind of talking, and then one of their eyes dilates, and they start to slow down and slur a little bit, and then the other eye dilates, and they're gone.
好吧，就像当你看病人时，他们有点警觉，他们有点说话，然后他们的一只眼睛扩张，他们开始放慢速度并有点含糊不清，然后另一只眼睛扩张，然后他们就消失了。
Oh.
哦。
Jane's Dad No, no. But I was checking every five minutes.
简的爸爸 不，不。但我每五分钟检查一次。
And I would snap my fingers and see if you were-- just because you were just listless.
我会打响指，看看你是否——只是因为你只是无精打采。
You just were a little while lump.
你只是有点肿而已。
So they told my dad that they weren't even going to call a radiologist until the morning to do X-rays.
所以他们告诉我爸爸，直到早上他们才会打电话给放射科医生去做 X 光检查。
And they wanted to just keep me there, overnight, like, sitting there.
他们想让我留在那里过夜，就像坐在那里一样。
And I just-- I couldn't believe that I was hearing this.
我只是——我不敢相信我听到了这个。
That he was going to make us wait until eight or nine o'clock the next morning before we even called the radiologist.
他要我们等到第二天早上八九点钟才打电话给放射科医生。
This was up in the middle of BFE, and it was at night.
这是 BFE 的中间，而且是晚上。
And I thought, this is bad.
我想，这很糟糕。
Because she could be gone by morning.
因为她可能会在早上离开。
And I can't do nothing overnight.
而且我不可能一夜之间什么都不做。
So I called the nurse in, and your mother and I talked about it a little bit, and then we called him in and said, we're taking her.
所以我叫了护士进来，你妈妈和我谈了一会儿，然后我们叫他进来说，我们要带她去。
And I remember thinking, we're going to be out in the middle of the UP now.
我记得我当时想，我们现在要到 UP 的中间了。
Nowhere near a hospital.
离医院不远。
In a car with a sick little girl and another little boy.
车里有一个生病的小女孩和另一个小男孩。
And we have something like a five and a half hour drive to get home.
我们大约需要五个半小时的车程才能回家。
Home, at the time, was Ann Arbor, Michigan, where my dad went to school and where they knew there was a trauma center where if, you know, worst case scenario was happening, something could be done about it.
当时的家是密歇根州的安娜堡，我父亲在那里上学，他们知道那里有一个创伤中心，如果发生最坏的情况，可以采取一些措施。
And I remember very little from that night, but just coming to in little flashes in the first hospital, and in the car.
我对那天晚上的记忆很少，只记得在第一家医院和车里的一些闪光。
And I remember everything looked like I was in that movie Tron.
我记得一切看起来就像我在电影《创》里一样。
You know, it was all very, like, black, and the edges of everything kind of glowed bright neon colors.
你知道，一切都非常黑色，所有东西的边缘都闪烁着明亮的霓虹灯颜色。
And I wasn't walking, and I wasn't really moving much, except to throw up.
我没有走路，也没有动太多，除了呕吐。
The first leg of the trip was really-- actually scary to me.
这次旅行的第一站对我来说真的很可怕。
Because the UP in the middle of the night-- there's no lights.
因为半夜的UP——没有灯。
There's nobody there.
那里没人。
It's desolate.
很荒凉。
And you kind of look for lights in houses.
你会在房子里寻找灯光。
Kind of trying to get an idea of the time.
有点想了解一下时间。
You know, our car at the time didn't have a clock in it.
你知道，我们当时的车里没有时钟。
Oh really?
哦真的吗？
Jane's Mom Oh yeah.
简的妈妈哦，是的。
Cars didn't use to have clocks on the dashboard, and I didn't use to wear a watch.
过去汽车的仪表板上没有时钟，我过去也不戴手表。
So I didn't really even know what time it was.
所以我什至不知道现在几点了。
So you'd kind of watch the windows and see if there's people up.
所以你会观察窗户，看看上面是否有人。
Of course there was no traffic.
当然，没有交通。
I don't think we stopped.
我不认为我们停止了。
If we did, we stopped for fuel.
如果我们这样做了，我们就会停下来加油。
That's kind of a long trip.
这是一次漫长的旅行。
So I know we had to have stopped for fuel.
所以我知道我们必须停下来加油。
But we didn't really need-- anything.
但我们其实并不需要任何东西。
Didn't need anything.
不需要任何东西。
There was no need to stop.
没有必要停下来。
It was still really scary.
仍然很可怕。
I remember wondering if you were going to be trapped, somehow.
我记得我想知道你是否会被困住。
Like that same little girl would be trapped with a brain injury.
就像那个小女孩会因脑损伤而陷入困境一样。
I mean, you couldn't walk at that point because you were so dizzy.
我的意思是，你当时无法行走，因为你太头晕了。
But of course, in my mind, I'm connecting that with you can't walk.
但当然，在我看来，我把它与你不能走路联系起来。
You know?
你知道？
Things aren't going to work anymore.
事情不再有效了。
And I don't think your dad and I talked about any of that on the way home.
我认为你爸爸和我在回家的路上没有谈论过这些。
I worried that there was an undiagnosed spinal injury, and that you would have to fight with a wheelchair your whole life.
我担心你的脊椎有未确诊的损伤，你将不得不终生与轮椅战斗。
I worried that you'd have migraines and puke all your life.
我担心你会终生偏头痛和呕吐。
Which you do.
你就这么做。
That's true.
这是真的。
That was one of the main lasting effects of the accident.
这是事故的主要持久影响之一。
We got to the hospital, and they did a CT scan, and found that I had what's called a contrecoup lesion in my brain.
我们到了医院，他们做了CT扫描，发现我的大脑里有所谓的对冲病变。
And I wasn't really able to walk for a couple of weeks.
有几个星期我真的无法走路。
And then I didn't get back to school regularly-- I think I was out for like a month.
然后我就没有定期回学校——我想我大概有一个月没上学了。
So that first night driving home after the accident just led to hundreds and hundreds of nights like that, where I was up all night sick.
因此，事故发生后开车回家的第一个晚上就导致了成百上千个这样的夜晚，我彻夜难眠。
I started getting really bad migraines.
我开始出现非常严重的偏头痛。
I would always get them, like, two, three, four in the morning.
我总是会在凌晨两点、三点、四点拿到它们。
I would wake up and I'd see these sparkly lights kind of around the edge of my field of vision.
当我醒来时，我会看到这些闪闪发光的灯光出现在我的视野边缘。
Then there's a little bit of, like, TV v static that gets bigger and bigger over the course of an hour until I'm blind.
然后有一点，比如电视静电干扰，在一个小时内变得越来越大，直到我失明。
And then it's like worst-- pain so bad that it makes you throw up.
然后就是最糟糕的——疼痛得让你呕吐。
And that whole thing is like a big cluster [BLEEP].
整个事情就像一个大集群[BLEEP]。
Because you'd come in the bedroom and bend over me and say, I'm seeing those lights, Mom, I'm seeing those lights.
因为你会走进卧室，弯下腰对我说，我看到那些灯了，妈妈，我看到那些灯了。
I do remember, as a mom, in the middle of the night when you would wake me up about that, feeling like a good mom.
我确实记得，作为一个妈妈，在半夜，当你因为这件事叫醒我时，我感觉自己是一个好妈妈。
Because I just got up.
因为我刚起床。
You know?
你知道？
And I just remember as a kid when I was sick, a lot of times people didn't have time for that.
我只记得当我还是个孩子的时候，当我生病的时候，很多时候人们没有时间这样做。
What do you mean?
你是什么意思？
Jane's Mom Here's a blanket.
简的妈妈这是一条毯子。
You know?
你知道？
Go get a puke bowl.
去拿一个呕吐碗。
And kind of being sick by myself.
我自己也有点生病了。
So I know I do remember feeling good that I wasn't going to be that kind of mom.
所以我知道我确实记得我感觉很好，因为我不会成为那样的妈妈。
It was nice of them to get up with me like that.
他们能像这样和我一起起床真是太好了。
But after a while, it just started to seem pointless, because there wasn't really anything that they could do to make me feel better.
但过了一段时间，这一切开始显得毫无意义，因为他们实际上没有什么可以做的来让我感觉好一点。
My mom says when you do get up to take care of kids in the middle of the night, it can feel like you're the only people awake in the whole world.
我妈妈说，当你半夜起床照顾孩子时，你会感觉自己是全世界唯一醒着的人。
And that was true the first night, when we drove through the Upper Peninsula.
第一天晚上，当我们开车穿过上半岛时，情况确实如此。
And it was true for all the nights my mom got up with me.
我妈妈陪我起床的所有夜晚都是如此。
And it's true now that I have to deal with it all by myself.
现在确实是这样，这一切都得我一个人来处理。
Jane Feltes.
简·费尔特斯。
Our program was produced today by Robyn Semien with Alex Blumberg, Jane Feltes, Sara Koenig, Lisa Pollak, Alissa Shipp, and Nancy Updike.
今天我们的节目由 Robyn Semien 与 Alex Blumberg、Jane Feltes、Sara Koenig、Lisa Pollak、Alissa Shipp 和 Nancy Updike 共同制作。
Our senior producer is Julie Snyder.
我们的高级制片人是朱莉·斯奈德。
Production help from Aaron Scott.
亚伦·斯科特提供制作帮助。
Seth Lind is our production manager, Emily Condon our office manager.
Seth Lind 是我们的生产经理，Emily Condon 我们的办公室经理。
Our music consultant is Jessica Hopper.
我们的音乐顾问是杰西卡·霍珀。
[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] Our website, thisamericanlife.org.
[致谢] 我们的网站 thisamericanlife.org。
This American Life is distributed by Public Radio International.
《美国生活》由国际公共广播电台发行。
WBEZ management oversight for our program by our boss, Mr. Torey Malatia, who comes to me every week as I'm preparing the credits of the program and pleads with me--
我们的老板 Torey Malatia 先生对我们的项目进行 WBEZ 管理监督，他每周都会在我准备项目的学分时来找我，并恳求我——
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 is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange.
《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。