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The damage to that passenger rail car. again, as we've been talking about over the course of the night, if you've been a passenger on an amtrak car, you know there's a lot of open space inside a train, one of the reason traveling by train is more fun than rail frankly, you got move to room around room to move around big open aisle, there aren't seat belts, the train seats give you more space between them. in a dining car like former congressman patrick murphy was in tonight, there's a lot of space, including tables that seat four people and seats are very far apart. while that is a pleasure wh...

Different. finding those commonalities of humanity and them looking at the differences in our fiction form or nonfiction form. going from coast to coast by train train, i can imagine the back story of everyone i meet. when we met in the common spaces, whether it's the dining car or observation cars or cafe cars we have these social interactions. on all these different levels including race class gender, there's a dialogue about society that can occur in a profound level just in these casual conversations you have on a train. i had one particularly interesting conversation with a woman who was ...

To avoid having differences between the passengers. perhaps it would be more of a convenience if we rearranged your seating. and as a small compensation, if you come with me to the dining car, we'll give you a free meal. maybe we'll find a banana for your monkey. [ laughter ] >> i'm dick cavett, funnier than chet hutley, and as pure and honest as newark, new jersey. >> you could get people like norman mailer and woody allen. >> my only new year's resolution this year, i think i'm going to try to sleep through the nixon administration. >> you have authors on there. heavyweight boxers. there wer...

And when you scored, he scored. >> i said now calm down. he said madam, the pennsylvania railroad will go to any length to avoid having differences between the passengers. perhaps it would be more of a convenience if we rearranged your seating. and as a small compensation, if you come with me to the dining car, we'll give you a free meal. maybe we'll find a banana for your monkey. [ laughter ] >> i'm dick cavett, funnier than chet hutley, and as pure and honest as new jersey. >> you could get people like norman mailer and woody allen. >> my only new year's resolution this year, i think i'm goi...

>> i didn't even know you were jewish! >> johnny was the best audience in the world. and he loved comedy. >> the woman is watching him from the corner of her eye and says to him what are you looking at? the guy says i'm looking at that ugly baby. that's a bad-looking baby, lady. >> johnny was there listening for you. he wanted you to score. and when you scored, he scored. >> i said now calm down. he said madam, the pennsylvania railroad will go to any length to avoid having differences between the passengers. perhaps it would be more of a convenience if we rearranged your seating. and as a sma...