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[Jerry Seinfeld:] ...it's a special thing, you know.
This has nothing to do with making it.
[Orny Adams:] Did you ever stop and compare your life and go,
"OK, I'm 21. My friends are all married.
They're all having kids. They all have houses.
They have some sort of sense of normality."
[Jerry Seinfeld:] [throat noise] Yuck.
I've got to tell you a story.
[Orny Adams:] What do you tell your parents?
How do you deal with that?
[Jerry Seinfeld:] Especially your parents, yes.
[laughter]
[Jerry Seinfeld:] Your parents. Let me tell you a story.
This is my favorite story about show business.
Glenn Miller's Orchestra, they were doing some gig somewhere.
They can't land where they're supposed to land because it's a winter,
snowy night, so they have to land in this field and walk to the gig.
They're dressed in their suits, they're ready to play,
they're carrying their instruments. They're walking through the snow
and it's wet and it's slushy. In the distance they see this little house.
There's a light on in the inside and a ball of smoke coming out the chimney.
They go up to the house and they look in the window.
In the window they see this family. There's a guy and his wife,
it's just beautiful, and his two kids.
They're all sitting around the table, and they're smiling,
they're laughing and they're eating. There's a fire in the fireplace.
These guys are standing there in their suits. They're wet,
and they're shivering, and they're hauling their instruments.
They're watching this incredible Norman Rockwell scene.
One guy turns to the other guy and goes, "How do people live like that?"
That's what it's about.