Mike Paterniti
speaker
232 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 28 Jun
Mike Paterniti’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
In general, I'd say things are back to the way they were, intimate but not intimate.
We stand around in dumbfounded joy with 10, 20, 30 other gaping grown adults, reveling in the simplicity of stupidly entertaining dog play.
Dalmatian man still flashes sign language at his deaf Dalmatian.
The pickup artist still works his magic.
The lawn chair family still sets up by the cemetery gate each day and cover their legs with wool blankets.
Fact is, even without somebody like Jeff pulling people together, if you stand on a corner with a bunch of strangers for long enough, eventually something happens that brings you together.
Sometimes something small.
The other night I went to the cemetery at sunset.
There were the same broken headstones, the same sea captains and paupers.
And there were all these living people, too, who only know me as Trout's dad, or as the guy who stupidly named his dog Trout, or however they see me.
The dogs were playing hard, racing in circles, not wanting any of it to end.
And a gigantic moon came up, came up tangerine.
It was the kind of moon that stills everything, and we stood in a circle watching it rise.
For a minute or two, we just stood there, glowing orange.
The dogs didn't exist at all.
I thought maybe I'll see him in action.
Maybe I'll get to see him save somebody.
Just his backstory.
I mean, I actually came, I had come from Cambodia.
So I was covering these genocide trials.
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