…..this could be the start of an amazing joke!

#dotell

Hush.

Actually, it’s what was on CBS Sunday Morning.

A little back story, we move slowly on Sunday. We tend to get up 7:30ish (we stayed up late last night drinking my first attempt at winemaking (a little dry, but surprising fresh) and playing Scrabble), make coffee, and then settle in for CBS Sunday morning. It fits us and it is easily the most enjoyable way to start a Sunday.

I’d seen a teaser about the music for the show the night before, so I really wanted to see that part. The other parts were simply bonuses for being awake!

First, the Cuban Musicians. I’m not sure how I missed the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon, but I did. When I caught up, the musicians were touring all over and making their music known to the masses. They were a group of older Cuban musicians who were pulled out of retirement to make an album. That album swept the world and reintroduced the world to many of these amazing men and women who, in their 70s and beyond, simply made incredible music (their spin-off, The Afrocuban All-Stars, was a cd I listened to pretty much nonstop for a year). They have created a Broadway musical based on the group and their back stories. There are creative liberties taken of course, but the music, that’s all authentic. If I ever make it to Broadway, this is a show that I would LOVE to see, because this group opened my eyes up of the idea of “world music”.

The doctor, a man name Dr. Michael Zollicoffer, a doctor from Maryland, was featured because he just doctors. If you can pay, that’s great, but if not, they figure things out. He’s available to his patients 24/7/365, and as they had a group of them there to talk about the doctor, all of them said, “Yes, we have his cell number and can call him anytime.”

#damn

I know! Michael was diagnosed with two types of cancer during a time where he lost his insurance due to a problem. His patients, when they found out, crowdsourced over $100,000 help him pay his bills. We see the doctor breaking down at one point, calling for Americans to hear his story because we are all better together. I couldn’t have said it better myself!

The comedian, John Mulaney, was interviewed for two reasons. One, because the man in funny as hell! Belly laughs are hard to get out of me, and I was in pain by the end of the segment. Just rolling with the interview, making fun of himself and others out there about various topics. They hit on his drug issues and he said his intervention was a “star-studded affair”.

#whodoesthat

It was amazing. They talked about him growing up and how having kids gave him a purpose that he’d never felt before. It was a great interview just about being able to battle your demons and come out better on the other side.

And that leaves the skier, Lindsey Vann. She’s done it all: World Championships, Olympic metals, national championships at all levels, and when she retired in 2019 because of a body, her knee in particular, that wasn’t allowing her to live her best life, we thought she was done. But in the interview, it went through her struggle after retirement with knee pain, to the point where it was partially replaced. As she went through rehab, feeling no pain, and a sense of renewal, she began to wonder, can I do this again? And of course she did! She’s skiing professionally again and is in training to secure a spot on the Olympic team in 2026, for one last run. She was asked if the team made fun of her, to which she replied, “One girl calls me grandma which I don’t like very much. Another one comments about how I was winning races before she was born.”

We live in dark times for a number of reasons, but this show, for whatever reason, whether it’s the music, the laughter, or just getting a sense of what the human spirit is capable of doing, gives me hope.

And rebellions are all about hope! 🙂