Unemployed or work in low skill positions, but as you will see ptonight. I think my greatest skill is i see things differently from other people. That may be changing. Dan may be too modest to tell you, but he is the inventor of record of this platform. And nasa has licensed it nasa is using filtergraph yes. Cooper . That you invented . Dan yes. ticking you have to see people walking on 60 minutes. We want to know how can this person walk, lets see. I dont know why, you never do a thing on 60 minutes without look at that, walking. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight Jerry Seinfeld. You see comedy in this mess. The first thing, they dont say it any more but they said, dont touch your face. Okay, so were gonna stop the whole world, and you cant laugh you cant do this. But dont do this. ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im jon wertheim. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking youre on it. 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One dose of the prevnar 13® vaccine can help protect you from this bacterial lung disease that may even put you in the hospital. Its not a yearly shot. Prevnar 13® is used in adults to help prevent infections from 13 strains of the bacteria that cause pneumococcal pneumonia. Dont get prevnar 13® if youve had a severe allergic reaction to the vaccine or its ingredients. Adults with weakened immune systems may have a lower response to the vaccine. The most common side effects were pain, redness and swelling at the injection site, limited arm movement, fatigue, headache, muscle pain, joint pain, less appetite, vomiting, fever, chills, or rash. Even if youve already been vaccinated with another pneumonia vaccine, prevnar 13® may help provide additional protection. Get this one done. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about prevnar 13® today. Pelley President Trump has been at Walter Reed Military Medical Center for two days, under treatment for covid19. His doctors said today he may be ready for discharge as early as tomorrow to continue his therapy at home at the white house. Theyve had him on a fiveday regimen of the antiviral drug remdesivir as well as a mix of monoclonal antibodies, a therapy which is still in the testing phase. More than a dozen people in the president s orbit have now tested positive for covid. In a video late yesterday the president reported hes feeling better and predicted he will be back soon. When he returns to the oval office, many crises await him, including the wildfires in the west. At least 31 have died in the largest wildfires in california history. The east is defending itself against twice the usual number of tropical cyclones. And what may be the highest temperature ever recorded on earth came in august in the United States. Its a torrid 2020 and it was forecast 32 years ago. In the 1980s, a nasa scientist named james hansen discovered that Climate Change, driven by carbon emissions, was upon us. His graphs, of three decades ago, accurately traced the global rise in temperature to the year 2020. Last week, we had a lot of questions for hansen. Are these disasters Climate Change . Do things get worse . Is it too late to do anything . But before we get to the causes let us show you the effects. Butte county, california, volunteer fire station 61. How long has the fire station been here . Rankin about 35 years. Pelley and how long have you been here . Rankin twentyeight and a half years. Pelley reed rankin is chief of what was station 61. Hes spent his life in the community of berry creek. Hes on the school board and built his home with his own hands. Tell me what your home looks like right now. Rankin nothin but a foundation with a metal roof on top of it. Its completely burned down. Pelley school burned down. Rankin yeah. Completely. All the buildings on it burned down. Nothin nothin left. Pelley 15 people died in that inferno, the second week in september, north of sacramento, where the Central Valley folds into the Sierra Nevada. Tom porter these are fires that nobody, when i started in this business, ever even dreamed of happening in california. Not even close. Pelley california state fire chief thom porter started in this business in 1999. That year just over one million acres burned. By 2007, it was a million and a half. In 2018, two million. This season, nearly four million acres have burned so far. Climate isnt the only reason. Decades of aggressively putting out every forest fire allowed brush to pile up like kindling. But the warming climate has intensified heat and drought. Chief porter showed us the length of the fire lines hes defending right now would porter they talk about career fires. And a career fire was sometimes on the order of 10,000 to 50,000 acres. 50,000, that was crazy. Pelley the kind of thing a firefighter would see once in his career. Porter correct. Once in a career. It dawned on me at one point that career fires are happening every single year, right now, today, there are ten fires in california that are 100,000 acres plus, and one thats 850,000 acres plus. Pelley four percent of the state has burned in total. The largest fires were ignited by stormsbut because the air is so drythe rain evaporated before it reached the groundleaving chief porter fighting dry lightning. Porter im afraid, without significant change in the moisture that we get from the atmosphere were gonna continue to see this getting worse and worse and worse. Pelley how much of california can burn . Porter every acre in california can and will burn someday. Pelley california smoke blew more than 2,000 miles to the east and drifted over the pennsylvania farm of retired nasa scientist, james hansen. His 1988 paper on carbon and climate accurately predicted temperatures up to the faroff year of 2020. Hansen yeah, were seein exactly what we expected. But i expected that governments would be wise enough that they would begin to adopt policies to preserve the future for young people. But they havent done that yet. Pelley hansen is the father of Climate Change science. For 32 years he was director of Nasas Goddard institute for space studies. Today at 79, he runs the program liciivsity. What is your forecast for the next 30 years . Hansen well, if we dont change anything, then were going to continue to see more and more of these extreme regional events because the physics is quite simple. As you add more Greenhouse Gases to the atmosphere, you increase the heating of the surface. So, at the times and places where its dry, you get more extreme droughts. The fire seasons become longer. The fires burn hotter. But at the times and places where its wet, you get more evaporation of the water. And you get warmer, moist air, which provides greater rainfall. And its the fuel for storms. Pelley this summer, the Atlantic Basin has soaked beneath 23 tropical storms or hurricanes double the usual number. Death valley, california, hit 130 degrees, now being evaluated as a world record. And los angeles reached 120. Michael mann people ask, are we dealing with a new normal . And the sobering answer is, thats the bestcase scenario. A new normal is the bestcase scenario cause that sort of means, well, weve got a new situation and we just have to learn how to deal with it. But its much worse than that. So, there are surprises in store and were seeing some of those surprises play out now. Pelley michael mann is a geophysicist whose work on past climate showed todays rate of warming began with the industrial revolution. Mann is a lightning rod for deniers, but his research has been verified again and again. Mann is director of the Earth System Science Center at penn state and a member of the National Academy of sciences. But thereve always been fires in the west. Thereve always been hurricanes in the east. How do we know that Climate Change is involved in this . Mann well, there are a number of independent sort of sources of information, lines of evidence that tell us that this isnt natural, that this is human caused. Lets look at the big picture, the warming of the planet a little less than two degrees fahrenheit warming of the planet since preindustrial time. Now, people ask, well, couldnt that happen naturally . Well, it turns out that if you look at the factors that are driving natural changes right now small but measurable fluctuations in the brightness of the sun, volcanic eruptions they tell us that earth shouldve cooled slightly over the past halfcentury. Pelley heres what he means. In that yellow line at bottom, nasa has measured a steady decline in heat from the sun since the 1950s but the red line, the temperature of the earth, has only increased. Mann we can only explain that warming when we include the human factor of increased Greenhouse Gas concentrations; in particular, Carbon Dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Pelley well, the president says about Climate Change, science doesnt know. Mann the president doesnt know. And he should know better. He should know that the worlds leading scientific organizations, our own u. S. National academy of sciences, and National Academies of every Major Industrial nation, every Scientific Society in the United States thats weighed in on the matter. This is a Scientific Consensus. Theres about as much a Scientific Consensus about humancaused Climate Change as there is about gravity. Pelley thats what President Trump heard last month from wade crowfoot, head of californias Natural Resources agency, which includes fire fighting. Crowfoot because if we ignore that science and sort of put our head in the sand and think its all about vegetation management, were not going to succeed together protecting californians. Trump okay. Itll start getting cooler. You just watch. Crowfoot i wish science agreed with you. Trump well, i dont think science knows, actually. Crowfoot well, with respect, i think hes wrong and hes on the wrong side of history. Pelley this is the unmasked wade crowfoot, who reminded us california emerged from a five year drought in 2016. Crowfoot in that drought, which we called a megadrought, hasnt happened at that level in a thousand years. We experienced communities in california literally running out of water. Pelley and where california dried out is now the site of the largest single fire in state historycalled the creek fire. Crowfoot so thats an existential challenge. We lost over 160 Million Trees in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range as a result of that drought. The fire that burned the hottest and most dangerous, the creek fire, was in the epicenter of that tree mortality. It ran so hot that it created a smoke cloud 50,000 feet in the sky. Pelley what was the impact of all the smoke . Crowfoot so consider this. 50 million americans on the west coast suffered through weeks of the worst air quality on the planet. Pelley you didnt have to live anywhere near the fires to be affected by them. Crowfoot not at all. Throughout california the smoke was so bad that our kids couldnt play outside. And folks were discouraged from even spending any time outdoors. Pelley i did my first climate story more than 20 years ago and i remember, at the time, being told that there would be terrible fires and terrible hurricanes in 100 years; that this was a problem for our greatgrandchildren. What changed . Mann what were finding is that many of these changes can happen faster than we thought they could. We didnt really expect to see substantial loss of ice from the two major continental ice sheets, the Greenland Ice sheet and the Antarctic Ice sheet. But now, the satellite measurements and in situ measurements tell us that theyre already losing ice. Theyre already beginning that process of collapse. Its already contributing to Sea Level Rise, decades ahead of schedule. Pelley still, geophysicist michael mann told us warming can be stopped. Oceans and forests would begin to absorb excess carbon in a matter of years if emissions, principally from coalfired power plants, are reduced close to zero. Former nasa scientist james hansen believes the way to do that is for governments to tax cheap fossil fuels to make them more expensive than clean alternatives. Hansen they have these Wishful Thinking agreements like kyoto protocol and the paris agreement. Every country says, well try to do better. That wont work. What we need is to have an increasing price on the fossil fuels and do it in a way that the public will accept. Pelley at what point does it become too late . Hansen it becomes too late if you get to the point that you cannot stop the ice sheet disintegration. Thats the biggest point of no return. We can get to a point where were going to get several meters of Sea Level Rise out of our control. Thats too late. We would lose our coastal cities. And more than half of the large cities in the world are on coastlines. Pelley if we dont start to mosp, 50 yearsm now, someone doing research on this time might look at this interview and i wonder what you would like to say to them. Mann thatthats a tough question. I would say we did everything we could and were sorry. Were sorry that we failed. But i dont think thats our future. I dont want that to be our future. Thats a possible future. We have to recognize that. 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Anderson cooper autism is a developmental disorder that can affect how the brain processes information. People with autism have a spectrum of abilities and disabilities. Some are unable to speak, or care for themselves, while others can live on their own and have unique skills like excellent memory or attention to detail. No matter where they are on the spectrum, many adults with autism have a difficult time finding a job. Even making it past a first interview can be challenging. But that may be starting to change. As we found out, more companies are discovering the potential of people with autism, and some are now actively recruiting for talent on the spectrum. Ewan be nerve wracking for anyone, but for people with autism, its potentially overwhelming. The cameras, lights, microphones, not to mention having to shake hands with a stranger. Nice of you to be here. But last winter, before the pandemic, five adults on the autism spectrum agreed to talk with us about their struggles finding work. Erik rolan i was unemployed for three years. I just kept receiving one rejection after the other. Cooper erik rolan has a bachelors degree in sociology. How many jobs do you think you applied for . Rolan countless. I cant even count. About hundreds. Cooper how did that feel to get so many rejections . Rolan well, i felt useless. I felt like i wasnt getting anywhere with life. Cooper brian evans and Phillip Mitchell were diagnosed with autism as young children. Sarah klaich and Brennen Novak not until high school. How does being a person with autism make you different than a person who doesnt have autism . Do you see differences . Phillip mitchell oh, yes. I do see differences from person to person. With me, for example, im good with numbers and im good with mathematics. Sarah klaich differences in communication are pretty common from what ive seen like especially with like nonverbal communication like body language and stuff. Cooper what would you like people to understand about autism . Klaich the lack of or the ability to communicate doesnt equal intelligence. Dave friedman clearly they have talents and skills. Cooper Dave Friedman hired sarah and the four others at autonomy works, a tech firm he started in 2012, to proofread Digital Content and manage data for dozens of Companies Like nike and nissan. There are 32 adults on the spectrum here, now working from home due to covid19, including friedmans 25 year old son matt. Friedman lets try 700 and see what we get. Nothing beats sort of sitting in my office and looking over here and seeing matt at work. And the job has really given him sort of a whole other purpose in life. Cooper do you like the job . Matt friedman yeah. I like that its a quiet Office Environment. Cooper do you remember getting your first paycheck . Matt friedman june 22, 2015. Cooper you remember the date . Thats Matt Friedman yeah. Cooper did you worry a lot about what would happen to matt when he became an adult . Friedman for a long time, we didnt. Hes really talented with numbers, really good with detail, so we figured that there had to be jobs out there for him. What we found was, was horrifying. Like theres, there are no jobs. Cooper a child with autism reaching 18 or 21 and suddenly its friedman the cliff. Cooper people have talked about a cliff . Friedman yeah. Cooper or graduating to their parents couch . Friedman yeah. What ends up happening is they transition from a structured School Setting into their parents house with really very few prospects. Back in 2011 i was. Cooper the idea for autonomy works came to friedman when he was head of marketing at sears. He oversaw hundreds of employees checking the accuracy of advertisements in newspapers. Friedman and the thought occurred to me, matt could do this. This appeals to exactly the kind of way that matt thinks and processes information. Cooper its a lot of very small detailed information. Friedman yeah it seems like a small thing. It seems like 21. 24 versus 29. 24. But theres tens of thousands of dollars of costs that sit in that error. Cooper autonomy works employees monitor more than 2300 websites a month for accuracy and quality. Friedman says their extreme attention to detail has led to a 90 reduction in product and pricing errors. And theyre so good at sustaining focus, productivity is up 30 . Brennen i have a great memory and so when i do a task once i can usually produce it exactly the same way. Cooper do you get bored . Brennen for me, i dont get bored at all doing our work. Klaich part of it is the repetition. I can get into, like, a rhythm with certain tasks. Cooper you like the rhythm . Klaich yeah. If i was in a job that was constantly changing it wouldnt fit me very well because, like, my mind would be all over the place. Lets look over here and see which one. Cooper not all people with autism would be able to work in an Office Environment like this. The centers for Disease Control estimates about a third of people on the spectrum have significant intellectual disabilities. Friedman autism is a spectrum. It impacts people in a in a wildly different array of of ways, from people who are unable to feed themselves or care for themselves, all the way up to now hey weee you would never sptrum and can tgh life without any sort of supports. Cooper at autonomy works employees can wear noise canceling headphones and take breaks in a quiet room, where lights are dimmed to reduce sensory overload. Friedman says the most important accommodation companies can make is to change the way they interview applicants on the spectrum. Friedman for a person with autism, the first 15 or 30 seconds of an interaction are by far their worst. Theyre high anxiety about meeting a new person, trying to interpret interpersonal cues, trying to plan out a conversation to have with that person. Cooper and those first 15 seconds, thats when the other person, a job interviewer say, is making their first and lasting impression about someone . Friedman exactly. Hiring managers just arent taking the time to go past that first 30 seconds and understand the skills, the talents, and the capabilities that exist within those individuals. Shukla there are complexities that are inherently inside of these very large data sets. Cooper at the Global Accounting Firm ernst young, theyve scrapped the traditional interview process for applicants with autism. Theyve replaced it with a series of problem solving challenges. Shukla and so if i could ask you all to come up. Cooper testing aptitude, creativity, and teamwork. Jayram i think for this subject we should do analysis. Cooper in a demonstration last february in chicago, before the pandemic required they work from home, four current ernst young employees on the autism spectrum were given millions of ldata tkl analyze, and explain how theyd present it to a client. If we find that there are errors, we can loop back over to this step. Cooper ernst young has used this technique to hire dozens of employees with autism who work around the world in fields like artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and cybersecurity. Is this about corporate responsibility, doing the right thing, being altruistic . Kelly grier make no mistake about it, this is absolutely a business imperative, and it makes great sense from a business perspective. Cooper kelly grier, ernst youngs u. S. Chairwoman, says the employees theyve hired have saved the Company Millions of dollars by looking at problems in a different way, and creating algorithms to shortcut and automate processes. Grier that is one of the things every one of our clients is focused on right now how do they use data differently to create competitive advantages, or to stave off vulnerability . And it is a very, very rare skill set in high demand. Theres still so many people on the spectrum that are underemployed or unemployed. And theyve got this incredible talent that is going unused at the moment. Stassun this is a place where we can bring autistic staff. Cooper last year vanderbilt un a groundbreaking research center, where scientists and others are developing tools and technology to transform the workplace for people on the autism spectrum. What subject did you most enjoy in school . Cooper theyre creating computer simulated job interviews, specially designed driving challenges, and a block design test to help a company assess a potential employees visual problemsolving abilities. Maithilee kunda so people have done research on this. Cooper Maithilee Kunda is a Computer Scientist at the frist center. Kunda so, this is a wearable eye tracker. Right here and here are two little, tiny cameras and theyre actually facing inward and theyre recording your eyes. Cooper the infrared cameras detect where your pupils are pointing. You can start as soon as i turn the page. Okay. Cooper dan burger, a Data Scientist at the center, who is on the autism spectrum, volunteered to take the block design test to compare his visual problem solving abilities with mine. For 10 minutes he assembled a series of increasingly complex block patterns. Can i go . Yes. Cooper next it was my turn. Dan made it look easy. For me, it wasnt. At this point my head is hurting. Should it be hurting . I completed the puzzles, but dan did them faster and was more efficient. How can you tell . Look at the square on the right of your screen. Dan methodically placed the blocks left to right, line by line. And amazingly, he usually only had to look at the sample pattern once before placing a block. I wasnt organized at all. I placed blocks randomly. And had to look back and forth thirteen times at the sample pattern before figuring out how to place the last block. My mind is a sieve, essentially. Like, im not holding onto any of that information so im constantly having to refer back to the original. Whereas kunda right. Cooper dan, he memorizes it. Kunda yeah, its very interesting cooper so, its a completely different way of processing information or trying to solve problems . Kunda yes, yeah, it is. Cooper Maithilee Kunda hopes employers might use tests like this to more accurately assess the capabilities of people on thautismrum. Kunda you know, you imagine, like, t. S. A. Baggage screening is something thats super visual. Or when youre inspecting batteries coming off the line for quality control. So theres theres lots of different jobs that this is relevant for. In the model we put things like. Cooper dan burgers unique abilities caught the attention of Keivan Stassun an astrophysics professor at vanderbilt. His son is on the autism spectrum, and stassun helped start the frist center. Why did you want dan here at the center . Stassun i brought him on board with my Astrophysics Research Group Originally because we were dealing with these massive amounts of data from space telescopes. And needed help, from someone who had dans unique talents to help us look for patterns in data. Cooper so one of the skills that you have is looking at large amounts of information . Dan i think my greatest skill is i see things differently from other people. Stassun this is a picture of the seven sisters. Cooper dans challenge was to make sense of data from nasas kepler telescope. His solution . He built an Interactive Software program called filtergraph. Stassun using dans software tool, we were just able to slice and dice the data, spin it around in different ways, until something visually popped. Cooper what popped was a breakthrough in astrophysics. Dans filtergraph produced a new way of judging the size and age of stars based on how vigorously they flicker in the night sky. Stassun dan may be too modest to tell you, but he is the inventor of record of this platform. And nasa has licensed it cooper nasa is using filtergraph dan yes. Cooper that you invented . Dan yes. Cooper i mean, the brilliance that dan, that you have, thats gonna become increasingly important. Theres only gonna be more and more data coming down the road. Dan and i feel like people who can understand the data, thats going to be more important. Cooper theres a lot of people who are unemployed who are on the spectrum. Do you have any advice for them . Dan oh, gosh. I feel like there are a lot of strengths to being on the spectrum. And i think imagination is a huge key trait. Cooper we found about 30 Large Companies actively seeking employees on the autism spectrum, including microsoft, j. P. Morgan and ford, but there are still so many people with autism who are unemployed, and the numbers are growing. In the next decade, researchers at Drexel University estimate as many as 1. 1 million americans with autism will turn 18. Back at autonomy works outside chicago, brian, sarah, brennen, phillip, and erik told us they hope more companies will start to recognize the Untapped Potential of people on the spectrum. Cooper what does having a job mean to you . Brian for me, having a job is important because it provides me with muchneeded structure in my life. Phillip having the job is important to me because otherwise i would become very financially dependent on my parent, asking them, can you buy me this . Can you buy me that . Brennan its just been nice to be able to go home and talk to my parents about what i did during the day. Cooper yeah. They must be very proud of you. Brennan yeah. They always say theyre not surprised. So. ticking five touchdowns for tom brady en route in victory. Go to cbs hq. Com. Jon wertheim did you ever hear the one about the new his. What is that, an adjustable spanner . Good choice, steve. Okay, dont forget youre not assisting him. You hired him. If you have nowhere to sit, you have too many. Who else reads books about submarines . My dad. Yeah. Oh, those are progressive cant protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. Look at that. Im to help californias 19 most vulnerable. Over 24,000 homes were destroyed by wildfires in less than two years. Too many of those victims are also hit with a sudden tax hike after their forced to move. Its wrong. Prop 19 limits taxes on wildfire victims and limits taxes on seniors and severely disabled homeowners. Join firefighters and Emergency Responders in voting yes on 19. Jon wertheim did you ever hear the one about the new yorker who, even in the best of times, was famous for focusing on lifes little annoyances . A Global Pandemic hit and, heres the punchline, he turned into a pillar of optimism. So it goes for that titan of comedy, Jerry Seinfeld. Now 66, seinfeld has halted his soldout, standup tour due to covid. His latest successful show, comedians in cars getting coffee, is also on hiatus. Like many of us, hes been sheltering at home with family. But that hasnt stopped him from doing what hes always done helping himself to lifes absurdities and meticulously spinning them into comedic gold. The observational comic, almost by definition, sees the world differently. We spent a day in september with seinfeld and found out how he sees things in the year 2020. Jerry seinfeld hey jon. Wertheim nice to see you. Greeting Jerry Seinfeld can be uncomfortable under normal circumstances. Do one of these . Jerry seinfeld i dont i dont. That doesnt do anything. Wertheim. Then you factor in covid. Jerry seinfeld no more handshakes, no more hugs. Wertheim youre not into the elbows . Jerry seinfeld nah. Its its a poor substitute. Wertheim are you seeing comedy in this mess . Jerry seinfeld i dide thinte first thing they told you remember, they dont say it anymore, but they said, dont touch your face. Okay, so were gonna stop the whole world, and you cant laugh you cant do this. But dont do this. How how do you not do this when they tell were were shutting down the world, but dont go, oh my god. Oh, my god. Wertheim when we asked seinfeld where hed like to spend the day, he said queens, halfway between his hometown of massapequa, long island and his current address in manhattan. This park was the site of the 1964 worlds fair, which seinfeld visited as a boy. Jerry seinfeld you know, the worlds fair was always about, were going to perfect the world. Its gonna be easy. And were gonna do it. And heres what were gonna do. And its gonna be great. And when youre ten years old, you believe that. And i dont think that completely foolish optimism has ever left me. Wertheim we found Jerry Seinfeld downright upbeat to be out of the house and in front of a camera for the First Time Since covid. Are we okay with this . Even with the aggravation of planes flying overhead. Jerry seinfeld now were in show biz. Now were back. This is really being back. Hold for plane. Wertheim show business has been his business for five decades. When 60 minutes checked in with seinfeld in the 90s, he was in the thick of his wildly successful sitcom. Ladies and gentlemen, Jerry Seinfeld. Wertheim the series grew out of seinfelds observational style of standup. Jerry seinfeld waterproof watch thats important. Gee, im completely out of oxygen and look at the time. Now im dead and im late. Wertheim he first honed his craft on manhattans comedy club circuit. What was it like coming into the city to perform . Jerry seinfeld it was like when the doors open on the emerald city in in the wizard of oz. And i would gulp so hard. Oh my god. Im going into the grownups place. And not just going in there. Im gonna go on stage there. Wertheim did it live up to your expectations . Jerry seinfeld sure. Still does. I am so madly in love with new york city. I didnt know how to be. And and in new york theyd say, this is how you do, this is what to do. Heres how to be. Be cranky and be loud and be funny. And and complain. And and suffer. And make fun of everything and everybody. Thats how you be. Wertheim this city he romanticizes, seinfeld remembered seeing a miniature replica of new york at the worlds fair as a kid. The model is still on permanent exhibit at the Queens Museum and since we were right there. Jerry seinfeld wow wertheim . He wanted to take another look. We were allowed past the perimeter, through a hidden entrance for a v. I. P. Perspective. Jerry seinfeld i guess this is the way god looks at things. My first apartment would be right there. Wertheim his civic pride is such that when a local Comedy Club Owner posted an essay on linkedin this past summer, claiming new york city would never bounce back from covid, seinfeld was moved to write a rebuttal. Is new york dead . Jerry seinfeld are you asking me . Wertheim im asking you. Jerry seinfeld pssshh. When you were a kid, remember kicking over the anthill . Wertheim sure. Jerry seinfeld thats what just happened to us. They just kicked over the whole anthill. And what do the ants do . All right. Hand me the next crumb. Lets get back to work. And by the way, i have nothing against that guy. Hes fine. I didnt like that nobody was rebutting it. Then i realized, oh, i guess thats my job. Somebody a real new yorker has to answer this. Wertheim you called him some putz on linkedin. Jerry seinfel dont enknowt. Thats who that guy is for the rest of his life. Oh, look whos here. The putz from linkedin. Wertheim but you felt the need toto defend your turf. Jerry seinfeld i just dont want new yorkism to die. I dont want it to be replaced by wertheim by what . Jerry seinfeld deep concern. And oversentimentality. You can have those things, but be be a little badass, too. We dont care that things are tough. We didnt everythings always tough. Its tough to live here. Wertheim you got a little little blowback for that. Oh, hes out in the hamptons writing about new york. Did you Jerry Seinfeld oh, shut up. Wertheim did you expect that . Jerry seinfeld sorry. Sorry i did better than you. My apologies. Got a laugh from the camera guy. Wertheim getting a laugh was the ultimate currency for seinfeld. Growing up, as he did, in a middleclass, jewish household. Were your folks funny . Jerry seinfeld yes. My dad particularly. Wildly funny. Like, if thered be a fly, would land on your soup, and somebody would go, ew. And hed go, how much could he eat . Wertheim what was their parenting style . Jerry seinfeld complete neglect. Absolute, total neglect. It worked for me. It made me very independent. They were both orphans. So they had a natural independence. Wertheim both your parents were orphans . Jerry seinfeld yes. Wertheim what impact do you think that had on your family growing up . Jerry seinfeld it was fantastic. Complete selfreliance that was expected. Now, you know, you end up having to raise yourself in a lot of ways. I you know, i dont know how to hold a fork, or i i cant make a sandwich. You know . 18 years, not a hint of what to do. Wertheim for someone who couldnt make a sandwich, hes done all right. I could see directly into the eye of the great fish. Mammal. Whatever. Wertheim seinfeld, the series, has made more money in syndication than any other comedy. Whos driving . You are. I cant get that thing in my car. My parents. They did not know where my school was. Wertheim in 2017, seinfeld signed an estimated 100 million deal with netflix to run two comedy specials and a series no streaming Service Wanted at first. Why does comedians in cars getting coffee work . Jerry seinfeld i think it works because comedians dont like to chitchat. We like to really talk about something. People say Disgusting Things to me. Cause they think ill like it. Jerry seinfeld and i wanted to show this other part of my world, of hanging out with these people and how fun it is. Wertheim his latest project the guy who, famously, did a show about nothing, has a new book titled is this anything . Seinfeld explained thats what comedians ask each other when theyre working on new material. Published by simon and schuster, part of viacomcbs, the book is a primer on joke writing. Jerry seinfeld im not an autobiography kinda guy. But what im interested in is craft and technique and approach to doing an art. And being able to look at how these bits are built, you could kind of learn, oh, i see why that word is here. Wertheim are there words that are objectively funny . Jerry seinfeld linkedin. Putz. I mean, linkedin, if i was to break it down, its the ks and the ns and the ls, and its new. And i mean, if you want me to go further, i will. Youre taking a yiddish word from the 18th century and youre putting it with linkedin. Thats what a laugh is. Its a chemical explosion. Wertheim a little shtetl, a little Silicon Valley Jerry Seinfeld a little shtetl, a little internet. The yiddish language is the greatest gold mine of comedy ever. Every word is funny. Wertheim putz notwithstanding, seinfeld has always kept his act clean. Jerry seinfeld the buffet is like taking your dog to petco and letting your dog do the shopping. Wertheim at a time when many comedians have had to apologize for causing offense, he considers it part of his Job Description to accommodate changing standards. What do you say to some of your colleagues who say, like, everyones so sensitive. You cant joke about anything anymore . Jerry seinfeld theyre always moving the gates. And ya gotta make the gates. And it is always difficult, changing, sometimes unfair, sometimes not right, you know . Lenny bruce dealt with what he had to deal with. And we have to deal with what we have to deal with. Wertheim it was time for a break in our interview and seinfeld focussed his powers of observation on us. Jerry seinfeld oh, we got to do the walk and talk. You have to see people walking on 60 minutes. We want to know how, can this person walk . Lets see it. I dont know why. You never do a thing on 60 minutes without watch them walk. Look at that, theyre walking. Wertheim and sure enough. Jerry seinfeld its so beautiful. Wertheim seinfeld has spent the last two decades growing into another role Jessica Seinfeld hello. Jerry seinfeld hello, you look so perfect. Jessica seinfeld thank you very much. Wertheim . Family man. Jessica seinfeld im very nervous here jerry. Wertheim he and his wife jessica have three teenaged children and lead a largely private life. Jessica seinfeld are you wearing your white socks on tv . Jerry seinfeld yeah, yeah. Wertheim she is more complimentary of his co parenting skills. Standup seems like such an individual sport. How is he as a teammate . Jessica seinfeld i will tell you that it was a slow build. It wasnt natural. And when we first had children, he had absolutely no idea what to do. Jerry seinfeld the look on their face was, is anyone helping you . Because i didnt seem to be connected to anything that was going on. Wertheim but you say hes hit his stride now that hes parenting teenagers. Jessica seinfeld he wasnt one of those dads who wore a front carrier. He grew up in the 50s. But now he is much better at this age than i am at this age. Jerry seinfeld yeah, thats true. I never th looked at it that way. Weve kind of. Jessica seinfeld switched roles. Jerry seinfeld yeah, a little bit. Wertheim jessica runs good , a foundation she started almost 20 years ago as a used stroller and baby goods drive. Good now helps 50,000 low income families, with a focus on engaging dads. And she does it despite some household distractions. Jessica seinfeld i think maybe that he misses being on stage. And when he and his friends are on the phone, they just yell. And it is something to live with. Jerry seinfeld you know, a lot of times when you you could say the same thing louder, its funnier when you say it louder. Why would you do that . Its stupid. Right. Jessica seinfeld yes, that. Cooper with the home of his other great love just a few hundred yards away, we asked seinfeld if he had considered putting in a bid this year when the new york mets were up for sale. Jerry seinfeld i dont have the money. Wertheim would you if you did . Jerry seinfeld no, absolutely not. Why . Why . So i could have more people yelling at me on the street when they lose . The ultimate peak experience of a baseball game is a seat, a hot dog, and a beer. Theres nothing above that. Wertheim hell have to wait to sit in the stands with a hot dog, just as his fans will have to wait until the pandemic is over to watch Jerry Seinfeld perform in person. Jerry seinfeld this will be funny. Comedians will figure out what we can say and and cant say when we get back in front of audiences. Wertheim hows this gonna work . Jerry seinfeld i dont think its gonna work for awhile. I dont like compromised versions of things. I want the real thing, the authentic thing. I want the pure hit. I want the real drug. I want real new york pizza. So ill wait. ticking en ti withgh risof k due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. So if theres a better treatment than warfarin, im on top of that. Eliquis. Eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. Plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. Eliquis is fdaapproved and has both. Whats next . Getting out there. Dont stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. Eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. Dont take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. 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