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We pretty much taken for granted now, but they truly did change the world. David Pogue sits down with the man who believed were not invented them, and he is still hard at work already on telephone on your board in 1972 mobile phone was a car telephone a 30 pound box installed in your trunk got a radio transmitter.

The Hall of Fame, but this man had a vision of something much better ball of fur in her pocket, but it also go-between or errors in your mouth coming up on Sunday morning. The 92-year-old Marty Cooper, the father of the cell phone from Star Wars Indiana Jones ET Harry Potter. The music of John Williams is part of the soundtrack of our lives and as Tracy Smith tells Williams is about to stop now. John Williams is still busy as ever and still not satisfied.

I know you're very modest man, but you ever allow yourself that moment to step back and say wow look what I've done is very hard for me to take complete pleasure later on Sunday morning comparable unstoppable John will visit one ghostly town with one very living resident, Dr. Trump, who introduces us to a musician whose practice makes perfect story from Steve Hartman and more on the Sunday morning for 22 August 2021 will be back. It's been nearly a week since the Taliban seized control, the capital of Afghanistan. The return to power swift and organized master David Martin help us make sense of just what happened and what it might mean for the future. There was nothing that I saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government and 11 days, the collapse no one saw coming again on Friday, August 6 with the fall of the provincial capital in the far west of Afghanistan. White House said it was time for the Afghans to step up now is the moment for the leadership will act in the face of the Taliban's aggression in the next two days for more provincial capital spell including the key city of Kuhn surrendered without a fight night.

Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan alerted the Pentagon cobble could be surrounded within 30 day alarming prediction that turned out to be way off gun spokesman John Kirby clearly that security situation is deteriorating and just all over the last 72 hours, roughly 5 venture capitals fell to the Taliban that's deeply concerning the Temple has one after another Afghan unit trained and equipped by the US gave up without a fight. By August 12 Ghazni, just south of Kabul was until about half joint chief German Gen. Mark Millie warned that the Taliban was within 24 hours of Kabul.

The Pentagon ordered in combat troops to reinforce the airport and safeguard the evacuation of Americans from the embassy.

The first movement will consist of three infantry battalions. They will move to Hamid Karzai international Airport in Kabul within the next 24 to 48 hours. Taliban leaders assured US officials the only intended to surround the capital, not take cobble is not right now, in an imminent threat environment.

But clearly David, if you just look at what the Taliban's been doing, you can see that they are trying to isolate cobble last Saturday.

Gen. McKenzie, the central command chief flew to the Persian Gulf to meet face-to-face with Taliban leaders who took a map showing a 25 km area around the airport, intending to warn the Caliban to stay out with their fighters would be attacked by the time they met on Sunday.

Taliban fighters were already rolling into the city. All McKenzie could do was tell them not to interfere with the evacuation Afghan Pres. Donnie fled the country and the Caliban were taking Selfridge in the presidential palace. The collapse of the house of cards erected over 20 years was complete. It was a very hollow government and a hollow military since 2012 John Sako has been the watchdog for reconstruction is the special Inspector General for Afghanistan issuing report after report, calling out failed projects and rampant corruption. Just this past week he issued a lessons learned report I did not think it would collapse. This quickly. Although once it happened.

We realize that all the preconditions for failure where there the report is based on his own inspections in Afghanistan and on more than 700 strikingly candid interviews with senior administration officials down to eight workers in the field, none more candid than Douglas lute and army general who served as a special advisor on Afghanistan to Presidents Bush and Obama. We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan told the Inspector General. We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.

It's really much worse than you think.

Or this recorded interview with Ryan Crocker, former ambassador to Afghanistan, talking about the Afghan police force. This is a corruption is also one of the key reasons of the success of the Taliban. When we poured money like mine from heaven on in Afghanistan.

What would you expect they grabbed we contributed to the corruption by just pouring too much money. $145 billion went into rebuilding Afghanistan, producing according to Pres. Biden Afghan army and police that should've been capable of holding his own against the Taliban. We trained and equipped in Afghan military force. Some 300,000 strong, incredibly well-equipped without a real 300,000.

That's what the Afghans reported, but we knew that there were serious problems with what we called ghosts. That means people on the rolls don't exist, but whose salary and everything else is just stolen by the Afghan officers in general and it was more than sounds.

It was all the supplies for those ghost soldiers and police. US Gen. told us 50% 50 of the fuel we provided to the Afghans was stolen 50%. We were talking about billions of US dollars, but sheer waste doesn't explain why Afghan Armed Forces couldn't or wouldn't fight once the US withdrew.

Why couldn't the Afghan army become less dependent on the United States.

We didn't let him become less dependent.

The Afghans could deliver the food or by the fuel we did it for them. So we essentially made them dependent. We gave them equipment that they didn't know how to maintain and couldn't sustain, they just couldn't function without us military officers who were advising and assisting the Afghan army must've seen all this in detail with a warning that as soon as we pull our support. They're going to collapse. It was the U.S. Air Force that first alerted us and alerted the Pentagon that without US coalition contractor support the Afghan Air Force would collapse within a matter of months. The American way of war simply didn't work for the Afghan military child mortality rates went down over the last 20 years.

Sick babies must now be lifted over barricades to get care scenes of chaos at Kabul airport promise to be the most indelible of the lessons learned from the American failure in Afghanistan so the debates going to take place who lost Afghanistan the United States lost Afghanistan as a whole lot of mistakes to go around for everything and I think in my humble opinion, a healthier question is what we learn from those 20 year so we don't repeat it again by one estimate there are no more cell phones than people pocket-size marble to change the world. David Pogue tells us we have one man to think there wouldn't be over or lift or Google maps or face time or Instagram or tender or Snapchat or tick-tock or iPhones or android phones if someone hadn't invented the cell phone.

Fortunately, somebody did I know a lot about the future because I spent all my time there when I should be thinking about practical things of today. It was Marty Cooper, whose memoir tells the story Chicago native Navy submarine officer and eventually an executive at Motorola, maker of police and military radios in the early 70s the two-way radio known as the car phone something like this one that are ready to connect you drive these car telephones were not cellular. That's correct. They had one transmitter in the city and very limited amount of radio channels, transfer one and 20 that you could make a phone call. That's how bad the service was in 1972 the idea of a cellular network was catching on, were cities were divided into smaller land regions called cells each with a transmission tower as you move from cell to cell your call would be handed off from one tower to another AT&T. Motorola's much bigger rival asked the FCC for a monopoly on cellular communications, not because it had a vision of phones in our pockets but to expand its car phone business I were going to take over our business, as well as a whole new thing and do it wrong. People have been wired to their desks in their kitchens for over hundred years and now they're gonna wire us to our cars, where we spent 5% of our time.

Motorola wanted to prove that opening up the airwaves to competition would spur more innovation so I thought about how can we do a dazzling demonstration.

The only way to do this to have a working something in only three months. Marty Cooper had overseen the construction of a working cell phone. Cooper named it the Dinah attack you could talk for 25 minutes before the phone rang on April 3, 1973, Cooper made the world's first public cell phone call is a demonstration for a reporter so we bet this guy on 6th Ave., New York, fervently hope and that I have to make a phone call demonstrated, and whom did he call Joel Engel his arch rival over it. AT&T and I said hello I'm calling you on a cell phone. But a real cell phone, a personal handheld portable cell phone silences the other in Cooper's gambit worked. Scenes like this are becoming commonplace in US cities were centers available today, the FCC was so impressed that it opened the cellular industry competition, more people will take advantage of cellular as its benefits become apparent. Cooper left Motorola in 1983. Since then he and his wife Arlene Harris attack inventor in her own right. That started a series of companies in the cellular industry is general advice for relationships not to work with your spouse. We don't agree with everything but you know that the spice of life is that this agreement is its friendly technological dispute. Can't you just go I'll have you know I'm the father of cell phone when you automatically win now. The cell phone has come a long way, but Cooper thinks that is only begun to tap its potential. David, we are only at the very very beginning we are going to revolutionize mankind in many ways I believe that the whole process of education is going to be revolutionize and the other revolutions that are going to happen is in healthcare.

I know I sound like an optimistic poverty is going to be a thing of the past.

Already he says workers in poorer countries use their cell phones to move money around without needing a bank. This is simulated entrepreneurs in people's lives are being saved. People are removed out of poverty is a notorious for both at 92. He lifts weights and takes walks sometimes on the beach in front of his home but he considers mental exercise even more important if you don't keep learning or your life. Keep an open mind so comfortably curious, you lose the ability to learn and to me that's the scariest thing of all. As for his book well. Hollywood has already bought the film rights.

I was hoping that you would really only started. I know you hear people talk to my people usually find strange Marty. I know this is a stereotype, but is a 92-year-old guy.

I might expect you to relish the stories from the past. More than this, the stories of the future well but I have observed that things in the past. Continue to improve know people are richer today.

They are healthier today.

We still got a lot of problems but there's no reason to think that we are good to keep improving tree Barry mar at all my get mad. I want to tell you about our new shout to business podcast and each episode Nina weekly gastric and other quirky find inspiring and informative stories that exist because well, maybe you need to find a new listing Terry to sign trying to be quire to the right and wrong way to flasher us out getting the things that you just kind of well probably not able to do in daytime television.

So watch out.

Tristan is ever you get your podcast on the most of us have felt the urge to get away from it all and Brent Underwood is taken that concept to a whole new is Luke Burbank explains all right day to Cerro Gordo six-month LSL costs. There might only be a few people on planet Earth can say they've been more socially distant during the pandemic rent underway. What better place to socially distance than the Benetton in the middle of nowhere.

So back to my truck I drove out here, here, perched on the edge of death Valley 8 miles up the winding dirt road is the abandoned mining town of Cerro Gordo, California population grant hello givers, or to feel sort of like Tom Hanks and castaway. I do people think that it's a really lonely place. I can be.

But I think the combat that I remind myself that a lot of people only the past year. So where are we standing right now. This is one of the original cabins. Underwood isn't just Cerro Gordo's sole resident.

He also owns it all.

380 acres back in 2018. He and some business partners bought it to turn it into a tourist destination by restoring the town and its old hotel Vermillion. I did have Eric close to that much but I have to put down the earnest money deposit so is, let's secure this thing let's figure out the rest later.

As it turns out, people have been taking a chance on Cerro Gordo ever since 1865 when silver was discovered here hi in the Inyo mountains things during the silver. While Roger Vargo is an expert on Cerro Gordo wrote a book about along with his wife Cecile.

We talk about a wild West town right out of a Clint Eastwood movie, various newspaper accounts had shootings once a week.

Stabbings other kinds of violence at its peak in 1872 Cerro Gordo generated roughly $150 million adjusted for inflation in silver and led mining but like all blooms, things eventually went bust. By the 1930s Cerro Gordo was all but abandoned over the years, a series of different owners lived here, and maintain the town before 34-year-old Brent Underwood bought it how you think are to stay here on time.

During my time appear on the parents. So my childhood home and so if you asked you what's home now. It's like that Cerro Gordo this is this is my home Underwood left his city life in Austin Texas where he ran a hostel to live and work full time at Cerro Gordo and then slowly I regaled the floor and it is very much a full-time job. You know how to build things like your background and do not consider learning on the job on the job training, if you will, but of course living in an abandoned mining town has its perks. So 400 feet of ladder would lead you down the 400 level. Brent gets to explore the mind haven't been touched in decades. He what we have here and the stuff that he finds excited to early, but there's definitely garments over here. It all goes into his museum. The most common type of bodily find here is the lien parens, Worcestershire sauce, really because the meat was so bad that he had to put a lot of sauce on all the meat that was here and when he finds cool things Underwood is sure to put them on his YouTube channel ghost town living. He shares both the highs and lows of living in Cerro Gordo on Tuesday morning. A fire burned down. The videos have become so popular that fans often trek up the mountain. Thank you to volunteer or just tell Brent they love the channel demonstrates in a dream. That's what I see I see somebody who's able to do what they others would only think about in the back of their mind and he got this. Have you been pleasantly surprised.

At least on himself and do it will absolutely he's gained an understanding of Cerro Gordo that you can only get when you actually live there and experience it for an extended amount of time. Of course, even his biggest fans. Eventually head back down the mountain. This is Lola. For now, Underwood Katz, how are you goats and alpacas all will have to do for companionship is priority.

He says, is to rebuild that town hotel that burned down so we can start posting paying customers. Who knows maybe Cerro Gordo has one last boom and it after all it was here before I was here I see myself as the current chaperone and do my best. When you get a mile.

Steve Hartman now with a lobster tail at 78. Max Oliver is an old salt to his crewmate on this lobster boat maxes, but it shot her child Virginia Oliver is 101 means oldest lobster fishermen three days a week, May through November find Virginia out here on day balancing on her sea legs tackling one of the most jobs in the country ever got now. Not long ago, she got caught so badly she needed seven stitches and follow-up requested that I want to. I think you might've thought that a little too dangerous for summary, I don't clearly Virginia has been lobster ring on and off since the age of seven she used to go out with her father was man's work then not another girl in sight but 94 years later. She is the master of the sea after Max falls in the trap. Virginia measures the lobster now. Lauren tosses out the small then tames the clause of the keepers who's the boss out there okay so let's say he didn't want to go out one day he's too tired now. Now I will put up. Virginia says he expects nothing of her son that she would endorse her. Unfortunately, her son, how many days you called in sick in the last year will give a what would you say if you set ready to retire. That hasn't really been excellent Robert. As for Virginia's retirement date. She says you find that one is in one place only attached on her tombstone when wended.

In other words, no time soon.

This morning's commentary comes from a decorated veteran of the board, staff Sgt. Travis Mills to my fellow veterans who have bravely served in Afghanistan over the last two decades into all the goals are families with loved ones made the ultimate sacrifice. My message to you can best be summed up in three short words we did good. I know it might not feel that way in this immediate moment. 10 years ago, when I put down my back pack on an idea during my third tour in Afghanistan lost portions of both arms and legs. I was feeling angry, hurt, depressed and hopeless into the emotions we are facing right now. I have been there. I feel your pain since my injury. I spent the majority of my second chance at life trying to live life to the fullest helping other veterans overcome a range of mental challenges and physical obstacles while building a close knit veteran community. So my message is simple. Afghanistan was an offer, nothing.

It was because of us. Those who have served that some good things did in fact happen, we did good week… Well survive fresh drinking water to the Afghan people.

We built school so that more of the population had access to education, including women and children. We provided modernized Western medicine and provided medical assistance in the region. We built hospitals also help the local economy and commerce by hiring Afghans to build infrastructure. These are all tools of the population will hopefully still be able to use even after we leave. We did good. Could the plot have been handled logistically better. Of course we probably should've left Afghanistan a long time ago but don't let recent events raise all the positive that we did to make the country better.

It wasn't all in vain. As hard as it might be.

I hope there's some comfort in that and mean Dylan Springsteen and then there's Rich Kruger, Dr. John uses this to a songwriter who truly knows the healing power of music at a bar in the Chicago suburbs early last year before the pandemic. Rich Kruger rocked the house you think you have a blessed. I love love playing in 2018.

Kruger independently released two albums of original songs. Since then he's won some high profile fans say this little-known musician is the real deal.

Why should anyone pay attention to Richard Kruger because he is one of the greatest songwriters ever make longplaying records as simple as that pioneering rock critic Robert Chris Kao has written for the Village voice and Rolling Stone magazine during a career that has spanned over 50 years. I don't mean he's a Randy Newman or Linda McCartney or Jack or Richard but just below that yes he is. Is that good.

You heard his music and set something. I'm sorry I think it's more than it's not that it said something to me is that it says something it says something it says something. Some people what I do is pretty amazing, but what's remarkable is that for rich Kruger music there is only the half of it so 25% of 2 L Kruger is also a neonatologist doctor who takes care of ill or premature newborns for him music and medicine aren't as different as they might seem its observation with Dr. those that helps to treat the patient, the poet articulates the language is the same skill set is just doing something different with the information story that the best invention. Dr. Kruger wrote and performed music throughout medical school and residency a few years ago he set out to finally make professional recordings of his song did not come cheap if you were not a doctor, you would not able to have babies out that possibly how much does it cost for album. I spent about three or $50,000 of the two records while that take a hit into your life well and that's why work a 200 hours week really is a is a physician, Dr. Kruger doesn't dwell much on his day job in his socks with one notable exception.

Somebody basically said you got a right side of theme for the show and the theme happened to earth to cut a road itself so uncomfortable sentence errors straight face. Most partisan comics. This is a difficult birth is what neonatologist to a mentions that he lost one and is just a couple lines well I got a bottle wine at home in the one hand is being light and cynical, but on the other hand, has to deal with tragedy. Dr. Cooper his line of work tragedy is inevitable, so learning to cope is critical. Sometimes things go wrong and you move on.

You know was this week was going to put a baby died and how do you deal with that were professional, professional, and regular dealing with emergency appropriate since the pandemic began. Dr. Kruger has continued his normal hospital duties performing two virtual crowds from home. Music remains a lifeline. Best thing about music the way sometimes you need is doing very well even in trying times, especially in trying times seems to strike just right. Have you enjoyed being a physician and enjoyed a lot of really special of the really lucky was had a really amazing life. It has really really incredible friend like we count please join us again next Sunday morning. Until then, stay safe, be well and enjoy the rest. This is intelligence matters with former acting Dir. of the CIA.

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