jim gaffigan made me cry this morning

On his "CBS Sunday Morning" chat, he said, "Go, science... please?"
That's all it took.

I was already invested in the show, from the moment I saw the preview clip with Julie Andrews singing "My Favorite Things" from the a long-cherished musical, "The Sound Of Music".
I've used that particular song when talking about going to Savannah Sand Gnats' baseball games at Grayson Stadium, fortune cookies forecasting dancing with friends, my office on the Armstrong campus during my three years of teaching full-time, and the Odd Lot Christmas show.
Oh, one more! The Asbury Memorial "God On Broadway" rendition of that song and the musical!

What is it that Master Oogway kept telling Shifu?
There are no accidents.
"The Sound Of Music" was top of mind for me as I had watched the movie in the wee small hours of the morn!
Not Julie Andrews' version from 1965, mind, but an updated one, made in England in 2015.
Late last night, I was casting about for a bit of pre-sleep entertainment on the big screen of my "new" tv.
I clicked over to one of the PBS stations, as I have been doing of late, and there it was!
So I stayed.
The songs were a bit jumbled from the order I knew them, but that was fine.
As long as I could sing, and dance, along with the familiar tunes, I was happy!
I'm happy, too, for staying for the post-credits bit on the making of this new version.
As I found out at the end, this was performed as a live stage production, but filmed as if they had been making a movie, with the actors sometimes running to make it to the next set.
How amazing!
I just love musicals filmed directly on the stage!

So, like I said, I saw the clip on Julie Andrews and I stayed.
Then, I stayed put for Jim Gaffigan's observations on quarantine with his five kids.
This time was a bit different, though.
This time, he was focused on his becoming a news junkie, watching whatever stories he could find about the pandemic and this coronavirus.
In his words, it was as though he "was cramming for a test".
I can fully understand that feeling.
It's one of being slightly panicked about not really understanding the material, but still trying to ingest as much as possible in hopes some of it would stick.
He also talked about how much he had come to appreciate the BBC network for its coverage, especially as it included news from all over the world and the effect of the pandemic and of quarantine life on people all over the world.
Hearing how others have handled, and are still handling, the same situations as we are in the US has had a calming effect, reassuring him that we are not alone in this crisis.
I fully understand that feeling, too.
Then, he went on to talk about all of the research being done all over the world, as scientists in every country worked together to find a vaccine to protect those not yet infected, to soften the symptoms for those who do become infected.
I had recently been reading of that same research, hopeful that with so many invested in the same goal and sharing information that a vaccine would be available sooner rather than later, perhaps by the end of 2021, if not this year.
He had closed looking straight into the camera, very serious, obviously not joking.
He was a man in search of hope, hope for his family, hope for the future, hope for the world...
and he was seeking it from those who were working toward that hope.
"Go, science... please?"