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Learn more@edwardjones.com good morning Jane Pauley and this is Sunday morning for just about any question you might have in these troubled times. Thank goodness the Internet is around to provide the answer provided here among the half of all Americans who can easily logon in the first place.

As for the other half will that's a different story. As David Pogue explains this morning during the pandemic high-speed Internet has been the foundation of work, school, and doctor visits, which is great if you have high-speed Internet but about half of Americans don't to get online to do your research or your correspondence, you park at a Taco Bell.

I did go ahead on Sunday morning the great American Internet access crisis. She's a legend of country music tenure talk back before the pandemic shut most concerts down. She shared some stories with our Bob Schaffer. She was once country music while child breakout star at the ripe old age of 13. Tanya Tucker is been riding high by decade with the Grammy-winning album that's getting the best reviews of her career that 13-year-old was sitting here what would you covered. I don't know if I tell her anything. I think she would probably need to talk to me give me some later on Sunday morning. It's a new dawn for tenure talk hi Nella, can sometimes be dismissed as perhaps a bit bland, but Seth Downs travels this morning pretty much prove there is no such thing as plain-vanilla.

We journeyed to rain forests halfway around the world to truly appreciate a spice so often seen as ordinary. This concept of an orchid that must be pollinated by hand one by one before noon on the one day of flowers. It sounds like something in a fairytale magical. It's magical, extraordinarily colorful story of vanilla ahead on Sunday morning.

Moraga has some questions for Linda Lavin best remembered for her TV show, Alice plus hugs from Luke Burbank thoughts from Jim Gaffigan and more on this Sunday morning, August 2, 2020 will be right back to the Internet doesn't cost nearly as wide and that as we might think. Yes, half of us have fairly reliable service not so. The other half our cover story as reported by David Pogue after earning her Masters degree.

Writer Carrie Fugate bought this little farm in rural Oregon.

It seems to have everything beauty affordability and just a 30 minute drive to the city, but she quickly discovered one thing that wasn't available.

We don't have Internet and successful getting out here yet, so you must be able to get online. Somehow we been doing when there isn't a pandemic. I go to library go to a restaurant or café.

Now, since the pandemic. All of those places are closed down. If I need Internet Taco Bell has been very reliable so you're a professional writer and to get online to do your research or your correspondence, you park at a Taco Bell.

I do and I don't feel like a professional writer when I parked to talk about. I usually feel pretty embarrassed as modern Americans we count among our blessings.

Most of us have been able to keep going through the pandemic during our work teaching our kids saying our doctors thanks to broadband Internet that is high-speed Internet. There's only one problem. Tens of millions of Americans are not connected to broadband Internet, digital divide affects every region of our country GG stonework for the FCC during the Obama administration. How many Americans still don't have broadband depends on who you ask. If you asked the Federal Communications Commission.

They'll say it's only something along the lines of 20, 23 million people and that is a grossly undercounted number Microsoft is that a study that showed 162 million Americans don't have broadband at the speeds that the FCC defines broadband if you're scoring at home, that's about half the population with either very slow Internet or none at all. Why does the FCC so hugely under count the number of people.

What the FCC says is if you can serve one person in a census block.

That means your serving everybody in the census block census blocks are map regions that the government uses for reporting population census block can be anything from one city block to hundreds of square miles in rural areas. If I'm the FCC and there's 5000 people living in a census block and one guy has brought Internet I can record that is 5000 people. Oh, I'm sure it's not only possible, I'm sure that is absolutely the case but having no broadband Internet isn't the whole problem. Millions of communities have broadband according to the FCC, but in the real world.

It's too slow to matter, they love to have that here in Georgetown.

Me.

The FCC says that this coastal community has broadband Internet because residents can sign up for DSL service that's digital subscriber line basically Internet over the phone wires, but in practice it's terrible at his abs. The awful most of the time we have little to none and only occasionally does it get up to mediocre it's really bad. Resident Tommy Burke says that it got even worse, once everyone started staying at home during the pandemic, and worse yet, once the summer residents arrived at their vacation. The fact that lots of people are up here now that are normally here all the time.

The Internet is even worse now as the new school year begins. Many students will be taking classes remotely over the Internet. But for me residents like highschooler Cureton man that's often impossible. Taking notes in class with the Internet is pretty hard because the screen might freeze. I can't hear anybody, they might just go through all the notes without me and I have to catch up in cities like Austin, Texas. So many kids were online last semester system had to print and mail 40,000 homework packets a week and they resorted to filling school buses with portable Wi-Fi hotspots and perking them near apartment complexes were a lot of people have no broadband service. Now you might say Austin shining star of high-tech American cities.

But according to Gigi soon.

Austin illustrates the biggest broadband problem of all the vast majority of Americans who don't have I been Internet access is because they can't afford because the price is too high and sure enough, the US has the third most expensive broadband Internet in the developed world, mostly because there's not much competition is just a money problem and not a problem of putting wires in the ground should be complaining about both the lack of actual network infrastructure in many places, but also the cost.

The thing is we fix problems like this before. In 1934, only 11% of rural Americans had electricity. Pres. Franklin Roosevelt created the rural electrification administration. Going up almost everywhere the rate up 500 miles a day and within 20 years. 90% of those homes had cheap, reliable electricity over the years the government has come up with a basket of programs designed to help with Internet affordability and accessibility. Unfortunately, someone says I have always worked as designed. FCC has now for well over a decade paid out tens of billions of dollars to rule broadband companies to build Internet access in places where there isn't any, and the fact of the matter is, is that the government has gotten a very, very poor return on its investment.

This FCC and I'll even say you know the FCC that I work for has not done a very good job of demanding that these companies tell us what they've actually built with the money they've got.

This is not making the FCC look too good. I don't think is incompetence. I think part of it is resources. The FCC staff has shrunk enormously in the last decade or so where to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but FCC Chairman IG. I declined our request for an interview. But in a written response. The FCC says we ensure efficient cost-effective spending on subsidies for rural broadband earlier this year, Congress passed a law requiring the FCC to improve the way it measures Internet access, but the FCC says that nothing will happen unless Congress also pays for it.

The FCC simply does not have the $65 million. We need to start the process and implement that law. Through its first year. Meanwhile, the agency is promoting new technologies like 5G cellular and low Earth orbit satellites that might address our broadband problems.

Someday, but for now, most seem to agree on one thing, but especially these days, the Internet should be considered a necessity months into the pandemic.

Carrie Fugate ended up getting office space in town just to go online.

I think at this point it should be considered a utility just like water or electricity. And especially now that we've experienced this pandemic were seeing just how much we rely on it. The difference between someone who has Internet connection and someone who doesn't is just too wide touches on ethical ACCOUNT is the real trick Linda Lavan served up jokes, along with breakfast in the long-running TV series Alice this morning.

She's with our maraca for a round of questions and answers this past April a star-studded concert was announced to celebrate Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday. The lineup included Meryl Streep name depicting Audra McDonald, Bernadette peters did not include actress and singer Linda Lavan, I just love this. You go online and you write.

This is very exciting too! I'm wondering if you'd like me to sing the boy from the bad show, it's Linda Lavan. In that moment, but I really want to say was why the hell am I not on that shadow. So I tried to say it in a more gracious way and they, Lavan ended up singing Sondheim number. She first sang back in 1966… But you're willing to advocate for yourself.

I'm willing to advocate for myself absolutely. People don't think they don't know you're here.

I'm still here. They don't know your letter now.

Ellen now she's alive, all right. It's been 35 years since Linda Lavan ended her run as TVs Alice.

My body and she's been hustling ever since storing on Broadway where she wanted Tony and on shows like mom that tiny tush I hate her. Once the pandemic setting. She began doing weekly concerts from her Manhattan living room with pianist Billy Stritch and she's even released a new album. I've worked more in these two and half months then I have two and half years.

I'm not making me growing up in Portland, Maine.

Music was always a part of Lavan's life.

Her mother, Lucille sang opera and she sang on the radio and early television. She sang the George Gershwin that in those years doctors would say to women who were career women.

If you want to have a baby, you have to get up your career and that's what what my generation comes from those with did your mother give up her career when she was expecting you. When I'm in the spine which I always know what to do. Lavan says her mother always encouraged her to sing. My mother also tells the story that I stood up I hadn't spoken yet and that one night it was company and I stood up in my crib and sang God bless America for her seventh birthday.

She and her girlfriends made a fateful trip to the movies by music. I on the movie was cover girl Rita Hayward.

I remember it as if it were yesterday. Down ran.

She was in all ship carrying the I knew right then that that's who I wanted to be and what I wanted. As a concession to her parents. She went to college.

William and Mary right after graduation she moved to New York, I went right to work and what department were you at handkerchief Hank visited department went on a dollar a day not making that up. Lavan here she is in a televised version of damn Yankees and in 1973 she headed west and eventually sitcom stardom beef stew was the difference between a Gullah about three day nine seasons. Lavan played single mother Alice hi, hoping to make an associate getting by a waitress at a Phoenix diner and working for pay equal rights to politicize the role had a huge effect on official spokesperson for single working moms and I decided the best way to do it was to where my Alice uniform and just show up is that people knew she was and he knew it she stood for Linda Lavan is 82 now when she's not working she's spending time with her dog Mickey and her husband, artist and musician Steve Acuna's the couple met in 1999 surprise they have on me because I had no interest in another romance or marriage think I was very good at relationship, and I found out that it takes work and I'm willing to do the work and so is he somebody said to me where life like a loose garment Linda right now because this was in Costa Rica when the pandemic started. So for months to have been faced timing nightly. We just show me but can we just get back to Alice for a minute Linda laughed saying the show's theme song one of this correspondence all time favorites and with different names every season. Every season he changed every season. We tried different way with always wanted to know do you prefer bum bum bum bum phone or always wanted to know which side you land on okay then I'll say I prefer to take out with preacher Garrett this week. Stephen law alive. Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to Senate races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed what Nevada not Georgia. Georgia is right up there with New Hampshire's surprised New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like that you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the take out with major Garrett on Apple podcasts forever. You get your podcasts wonder where vanilla comes from. Probably not. Which is why we think you're in store for quite a journey in the company of our stuff down all of this quarantined cooking and baking has been a boon for at least one business. You probably had not considered vanilla vanilla instant. It's a key ingredient in those cakes and cookies, not to mention ice cream and even Coca-Cola.

In recent months. Worldwide vanilla sales have doubled, which gives new relevance to a story we were working on. Even before all of this one that took us on a journey thousands of miles away to the rain forests of Madagascar are, we come to this remote African island nation to find a pale white orchid.

The most colorful story when you see these blossoms. These pods what you think makes my heart say I love you not Josephine Lochhead is not only an admirer of the plant in our guide, but she runs cook flavoring company for family business in California which is been making vanilla extract for more than 100 years. This spring, they saw an astounding 500% increase in sales import literally tons of the raw material. It's incredibly labor-intensive. It is very labor-intensive. Each of these blossoms must be pollinated by hand before noon.

The damp loans we call the queen of the rain forest is queen demands constant attention. But while Madagascar supplies 80% of the world's vanilla not native to this island. Mexico is the only place in the world where vanilla was grown and it was the only place in the world that has a pollinator specific be pollinated's vanilla only be will pollinate Ella market to when French colonists brought the spine to the region in the 1500s. It did not produce vanilla for centuries. Then in the 1850s the story goes that an enslaved man named Edmund Albus discovered a method of hand pollinating with a tiny toothpick like stick beam and jar former showed us the male part pollen is on the topic separated from the female part by membrane to expose that pushes it together and now the flowers pollinate to wait nine months baby thin layer is to time-consuming. He said it's not really difficult need some skill. Now imagine there are around 40 million vanilla orchids in Madagascar are so pound for pound vanilla is one of the most labor-intensive ops in the world. Also one of the most expensive and by weight can sell for more than silver.

What's the value of the vanilla all around us in here US$1.5 million in vanilla vanilla Justin Justin here while Dylan around Renee Hodge a Haas Madagascar spices company is Josephine Lochhead's biggest supplier. This is for extraction is where houses under guard surrounded by barbed wire to be able to track and trace their vanilla farmers tattoo.

Each pod while it's still green. Once it's harvested, there's still more work. The vanilla beans are dipped in the hot water to stop photosynthesis in the process of drying and curing can go on for months.

Expert hands seem to dance over the vanilla sorted and massaged releasing oils and aroma the business are tots more about about 2000 times before shipping. So by default.

Madagascar is the world's vanilla producer. What he said. By default because the wages are lower than any other wages in in any vanilla producing region in the world while their vanilla crop is worth about half $1 billion. Madagascar is one of the poorest countries on earth. Most people here live on around $50 a month. How much do these workers make gadabout hundred alarm on is that a good salary it's good it's good how do you make sure that the money being made, trickles down to the workers reassure the prophets with the former directors to have their budget on that was created surge gradual Bellina loose from Madagascar are heads a cooperative of 4000 vanilla farmers there trying to establish systems is simple as savings accounts and as vital as health centers and schools to help these workers get ahead removes the most challenging things for conservation patient for the quality will destroy the forest we saw that destruction flying over vanilla territory performers burn to expand fields in the desire to escape that grinding poverty and cash in on this crop half of Madagascar has been deforested since 1950 threatening habitats, including that of the lemur, which only lives in the wild on this island. The high price of vanilla in recent years is exposed other unsavory sides to this spice through the entire process. There is teeny stealing staff when his valuable crop matures. Former Bateman jar will stay in his field all night long, keeping watch. Last year he told us half's vanilla was stolen little googling I risk my life guarding these means. He told us people might be coming to kill me. Justin incredibly more than half of the people detained in this prison, or accused of stealing vanilla including more than 100 children N tenant Olivo. We took cameras into a tourist market to see how vanilla was parked at high prices at least 10% of vanilla ends up on the black market, I'll think about it. Thank you so you might imagine.

That's why Josephine Lochhead travels thousands of miles each year to gauge the crop meat producers and examine the product vanilla take one of the gourmet has a more subtle or much more subtle is really strawberry powerful powerful some of her suppliers are able to buy items unimaginable with another crop.

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Now consider this, at least 95% of products sold as vanilla do not require formal at all, nor do they contain real vanilla synthetic stuff can be produced in a lab for 1/20 of the cost, but Josephine Lochhead would argue, also with a fraction of the flavor vanilla brisket is pure vanilla that would be the way to go, we would have to go through all of this laborious, tedious, frisky process. Vanilla is a work of art and just can't treat it like a bag of sugar.

There's so much that goes into it and would like to think this much is certain now in our journeys in. We bet you'll never think of it again as plain vanilla all but impossible to how those near and dear to us from 6 feet away. So what to do. Luke Burbank has been asking the experts you seen this video when it first went viral back in the before time. It's adorable, sure, but it also demonstrates something about us humans about something. We need that were not getting enough of these days we hundred person both people and not exchange release chosen. That's right were not getting our daily requirement of hugs says Emiliano Simon Thomas who studies human happiness at UC Berkeley. When we release it doesn't we feel pleasure, fieldwork.

We feel that sense of safety our stress physiology is quieter. Oxytocin is a really important part of our collective demeanor as as a species a species that these days is supposed to be socially distanced, which, while safer and feel very isolating.

Anyway you look at it zero physical contact is bad for our health, but says Simon Thomas, there are still ways to stay connected. I think it's going to be a challenge and I think we have to take on some compensatory behaviors.

If it's something like making eye contact more deliberately with other people who we encounter even a 6 foot distance in times were previously reminded just walked by. We need to make eye contact. Simon Thomas says there are still things we can do to boost our oxytocin engaging in small talk with strangers and weird as it may sound even hugging ourselves solo can help make up for some of this loss of human connection, but the big question is, is hugging someone outside your bubble ever okay these days. If you want zero risk don't hug Lindsay Morris environmental engineering at Virginia Tech and a leading expert on how the virus is transmitted. She says there's still hope for the hug, but there are some rules if there is someone you really want to hug. I think the safest way to do it is to first of all make sure both people are wearing a mask. Second of all got from a distance cross that distance quickly to get to your hug. Keep your faces away from each other.

In fact, pointing in opposite direction.

If you're having trouble visualizing it.

The New York Times published this handy guide to safe or at least safe hugging reference based on Mars recommendations. Meanwhile, in Washington state where I live we have some good news first date today with some of the strict quarantine measures were lifted, which had me excited to hug my daughter for the first time in three months. I printed out this helpful graphic from the New York Times. I texted her to run the same page about safe hugging and she just showed up so let's see how this goes okay. Analyzes hug how how was the hug with with great because you are both running mass looks like you pointed your faces away from each other.

If I had to critique one thing there wasn't. Maybe a few seconds.

We kind of lingered and if you feel like taking each other and that's where you kind of honest to get here to the hug and then sprint away from each other, but otherwise I would say is a pretty good hug.

Even if you can't get a pretty good hug. In real life Emiliano Simon Thomas says just the memory of a good hug can go a long way.

We all have to sort of figure that equation out for ourselves also think for adults in particular, we can use our powers of visualization we can imagine the times that we have in touching people who we trust and care about you go ahead and watch all the adorable hugging videos you want after all, it's something we can probably all use a little more of these things in the world of country music. Tanya Tucker is unquestionably a legend back before the live music world shut down. She talked about her long career with our Bob Schieffer on a cold rainy December Sunday outside Northern Virginia. Berkshire music, the sellout crowd was lining up by our show got some even early 2007 this morning. We were first we only remember and they are inside.

Tanya Tucker was doing what she's been doing since she was nine years old, getting ready to put on a show and after more than 50 years on stage. We met up with Dr. Joseph after her nomination, not just one ram, more than any other country soon as it sunk in. I don't really think so now it's like, well, no, it's great to be nominated to be nice when one Tucker wound up winning not just one best country song first ripe old age of 13. She said merely does top 40 out on the number one songs you know that given me hello like the number 10.

I became country music while personal life that is often grab more attention. Letter music now, but her latest album is made or the critics darling music headlines again.

Well I gotta tell you I got my marching orders. Here I'm told to not ask her how she likes his comeback goes, you say is not a comeback. So what is God's not. I like the word relaunch realized it wasn't something that I had really planned out and it really just kind happened not always the best way when something just short of course you make plans and God chuckles it and when you start making plans for God only knows how oilfield roughneck Jesse boat truck recognize the potential in his youngest daughter, €10 in each born 1958, Seminole Texas, but by age 9 she knew what she wanted and her father was with her all the way I was ready then, but they just were ready for me because my dad always said here nine-year-old girl. He said, so that means you're going it twice as much feeling in that song singing is because another blade, a nine-year-old kid singing them well enough to take my main 1970s legendary Nashville producer Billy show still hot after his success. Tammy Wynette standby Cheryl wanted change of the record in age-appropriate all the happiest girl. She was set on up. It started out 640 want and that is to hold a baby and that's a window that is myself.

She's on the dog new song from the point of view of a middle-aged faded servility. Cheryl heard that middle of all, people sing it on the Tonight Show. Yet somehow he saw fit to offer it to talk Dale know what set you have the faded bellows days go and say he was here today to take you to his mansion in the sky. The lyrics seem so improbable coming from a 13 year old but the record label tried to keep his agency didn't last as the hits rolled in.

So do them a little girl with a big took on some grown-up drinking from and roommates. Do you think in any way any of that hurt your career now. It could have.

It probably did insert some ways, but in a way I don't think you could be successful is that a lot of failures and I've had some the same can be said for Lovelock, though she was never married. She's raised her three children as a single mother and made no apologies for throughout the 1980s.

She carried on a public affair with Glen Campbell, who was more than two decades are seen. It was a kind of love that I think I probably sound too soon in life, and was not mature enough at that time. I think with lead met later on we would if we would've made it because it was love their just the sort of feeling here and are shown the emotion that has always come through the tabloid headlines. Maybe that's why Tucker expands you one particular word to describe the real deal is real, very real, yet a lot with her yesterday and the more real. She gets. Thank you very much.

Thank you rodeo green as it turns out to Tucker's biggest fans would help compose this latest chapter in her life story solitaire on the piano in 2018, musician and producer shooter Jennings song of country giant Waylon Jennings recruited superstar singer-songwriter Randy Carlisle to write new material for Tucker but it was a song that Tucker's been trying to put on paper for decades that would with Carlisle's help bring the entire project.

My body. If your heart is in flowers.

Bring a moan. It kinda chokes me up just hear you sing it because it makes you think of the times that you wished your toes absolutely is because when you make a real effort to try to tell those that I love that I do love them and even some of those that I don't know maybe bring my flowers now is the sound of a more reflective Tanya Tucker at age 61. Here in Franklin Tennessee. She surround yourself with the people and the animals.

She looked has my baby just going on the box with me and of course his dad is already a small box here go in there with may want to have an extra big box though because I have five dogs and two horses will be together forever in your Tucker is packed a lot of living in our time on earth since she was a little girl.

Her voice is better to and her voices never had. My dad always told me to sit you build your platform now billet billet milk. You can't build it any harder. You can't get no higher. And that's when you can change the world is and people will listen to you.

That's the thing I wanted not just be another female on this planet.

I want to change a lot of things. Well, I think you change people when you remind them to bring the flowers and that's just another way of saying show me love me now, don't hesitate. How wrong can you be about losing track of the days during the pandemic hour. Jim Gaffigan is losing track of the months it's already but is it really the calendar may indicate that it talks. The weather outside might feel like August.

The corn I planted would make you think it's August, but is it really August planted corn can't be August there was an actual June or May and April.

April Froehlich accrual extension of March. Still, in March, it could still be March. I'm still doing the same thing I was doing in March still only hanging around these people. I call my family like I did in March. I'm still dressing like I'm struggling with a hangover like I did in March.

I still understand how those meetings work.

I still watch the news frustrated and flabbergasted like I was in March. I still don't understand that term like I didn't understand it in March. How can something be new and normal. How can something be normal and new my corn so that's why I know it's not March. Growing corn and my growing corn.

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