Robin's Wish

We didn't know what. 477 00:25:34,617 --> 00:25:36,410 - Yeah, you got to kill a little. 478 00:25:36,702 --> 00:25:37,930 - Because we knew he was getting tested, 479 00:25:37,954 --> 00:25:41,791 he was feeling infirm or not himself, 480 00:25:42,083 --> 00:25:43,123 and he was getting tested. 481 00:25:43,334 --> 00:25:46,003 And I think that those tests included 482 00:25:46,295 --> 00:25:48,422 brain scans and nothing was showing up. 483 00:25:49,465 --> 00:25:51,884 - It wasn't like he's my son 484 00:25:52,176 --> 00:25:54,345 and I can say all right, time out. 485 00:25:54,637 --> 00:25:57,515 I'm gonna pull you out of this because 486 00:25:57,807 --> 00:25:59,527 you're getting sick, and you need some rest. 487 00:25:59,767 --> 00:26:02,103 And I don't care what the teachers say, no no no. 488 00:26:03,312 --> 00:26:05,523 He's signed up, these are contracts you don't break. 489 00:26:05,815 --> 00:26:07,525 This is this, this, and the other thing. 490 00:26:09,402 --> 00:26:10,402 What can I do? 491 00:26:11,195 --> 00:26:13,406 - And Robin, he aimed to please. 492 00:26:13,698 --> 00:26:15,783 Every day every minute, he aimed to please. 493 00:26:16,075 --> 00:26:19,161 If the studio or the network came begging for 494 00:26:19,453 --> 00:26:20,853 more interviews and more publicity, 495 00:26:21,122 --> 00:26:23,916 he would always give it his all. 496 00:26:24,208 --> 00:26:29,005 His intellect, his mental acumen were or so beyond ours that 497 00:26:30,423 --> 00:26:32,550 it could be compromised a great deal probably, 498 00:26:32,842 --> 00:26:34,343 and he would still be playing 499 00:26:34,635 --> 00:26:36,721 a step ahead of the rest of us. 500 00:26:37,013 --> 00:26:39,515 - How much of the script in the show is you... 501 00:26:39,807 --> 00:26:41,017 - 23.5% improv. 502 00:26:41,308 --> 00:26:43,078 - [Reporter] Good, that's exactly what I wanted... 503 00:26:43,102 --> 00:26:44,454 - [Reporter] She hadn't finished the question yet, Robin. 504 00:26:44,478 --> 00:26:46,355 - But I knew where she was going. 505 00:26:46,647 --> 00:26:47,898 The new dancing. 506 00:26:48,190 --> 00:26:50,359 There's one dance number, and it's a ballet. 507 00:26:51,694 --> 00:26:55,197 - So lewy body dementia, like all degenerative diseases, 508 00:26:55,489 --> 00:26:58,701 is a problem of plumbing and circuitry. 509 00:26:58,993 --> 00:27:02,621 These degenerative diseases are caused by misfolding 510 00:27:02,913 --> 00:27:06,417 of proteins within neurons, or the parts of the brain 511 00:27:06,709 --> 00:27:09,086 that allow us to move, think, and feel. 512 00:27:10,796 --> 00:27:15,176 We have 70 billion neurons, they slowly disintegrate. 513 00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:18,721 This bad protein, Alpha-synuclein, 514 00:27:19,013 --> 00:27:23,059 relentlessly picks off neurons in a specific neighborhood, 515 00:27:23,350 --> 00:27:25,227 spreading through that neighborhood, 516 00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:28,230 and then moves into different neighborhoods in the brain. 517 00:27:29,732 --> 00:27:33,319 And then finally it swept across the entire brain stem. 518 00:27:33,611 --> 00:27:36,697 Almost every neuron in that circuit 519 00:27:36,989 --> 00:27:41,786 with sleep, mood, anxiety, cognition has been affected. 520 00:27:42,161 --> 00:27:44,747 And that is really the late stage of dementia 521 00:27:45,039 --> 00:27:48,667 with lewy bodies, the stage that no one can get out of. 522 00:27:52,797 --> 00:27:56,801 (Jet engine roaring past slowly) 523 00:27:58,552 --> 00:28:00,596 - Soldiers have very refined bull detectors. 524 00:28:01,055 --> 00:28:04,183 And to see that instantaneous connection 525 00:28:04,475 --> 00:28:06,018 that Robin was able to make. 526 00:28:08,854 --> 00:28:10,773 - Good evening, Baghdad! 527 00:28:11,065 --> 00:28:12,265 (Audience cheers and applauds) 528 00:28:12,441 --> 00:28:12,983 Thank you! 529 00:28:13,275 --> 00:28:16,529 - What he understood about the American soldier 530 00:28:17,571 --> 00:28:19,406 was where they came from. 531 00:28:20,491 --> 00:28:23,327 Some of these kids are dying, they're getting wounded. 532 00:28:23,619 --> 00:28:26,747 He had a way of connecting with them 533 00:28:27,039 --> 00:28:29,250 that just made them feel so good. 534 00:28:30,668 --> 00:28:34,004 - He was there for them, and they understood that. 535 00:28:34,755 --> 00:28:36,035 - There's combat hardcore stuff, 536 00:28:36,215 --> 00:28:38,384 and then it's a lot of waiting around. 537 00:28:38,676 --> 00:28:39,903 And it's that stuff where people need 538 00:28:39,927 --> 00:28:41,247 things just to fight the boredom. 539 00:28:41,387 --> 00:28:42,763 And that is most important. 540 00:28:43,055 --> 00:28:43,597 And I think most people are just 541 00:28:43,889 --> 00:28:45,033 kind of shocked that someone showed up. 542 00:28:45,057 --> 00:28:46,767 Like why are you here, man? 543 00:28:50,146 --> 00:28:51,939 Afghanistan's six times, Iraq five. 544 00:28