"[cat yowls]" "[phone line ringing]" "Man:" "Hi, I'm calling from The New Yorker magazine's fact-checking department." "There's just a couple of details that I'd like to run by you, if that's okay." "So you describe, um," "Sayed as coming from a family of fruit-pickers?" "We have here that the bar used to be a hardware store?" "Okay." "The question here is that the official inauguration," "I'm sure you know this, was in 1925." "You serve white wine on tap." "I see." "So you thought "Age of Ostracism"" "That was a more literal translation." "But I guess-- Both work." "The author here describes kind of a smoked banana taste?" " All right." " Joseph doesn't recall the incident, but that's neither here nor there." "The DJ wore big glasses and spun soul records." "Okay." "Excellent." "I really appreciate you taking the time to speak with me today." "It should be out on newsstands Monday." "Have a good day." "[typing]" "[radio static] [radio stations changing]" "[radio static continues] [overlapping radio chatter]" " [glass shatters]" " Holy cow!" "Delusions are fixed ideas that are usually false that people hold on to tenaciously despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary." "We see every form of mental illness." "Someone who thinks that their neighbor is a vampire, or their blood is not in their body any longer." "One day, this gentleman walked in." "He said that he had cameras in his eyes." "Everyone in his life, his family members, his neighbors, were all actors and were reading from scripts." "He asked me, "Do you know the movie, The TrumanShow?"" "That's my life." "Over the course of the next couple of years," "I saw five guys saying the same thing." "They felt that their lives were being taped for reality television without their consent." "[projector whirring]" "** [acoustic guitar strumming]" "Tim:" "I believe it was the summer after my sophomore year of college."