00:00:00 - “Western Wall” by Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
00:00:52 – Intro by David Chen, introduces Stephen by referencing his role as Bill Bowman in the television series “Rita Rocks”
00:01:34 – Stephen references Tobolowsky Files Episode 33, “The X Factor”
00:04:01 – Story 1 in-cue: “When my mother passed away...”
00:04:06 – Stephen references Tobolowsky Files Episode 4, “The Alchemist”
00:07:40 – Stephen mentions, “...and the liquor store he used to run in Los Angeles...”
00:07:46 – Stephen mentions, “...drop by his apartment for a schnapps.”
00:07:52 - Stephen mentions, “Now the schnapps Abe preferred was not technically schnapps but was Canadian club whiskey.”
00:08:06 – Stephen references the film “Fiddler on the Roof”
00:09:05 – Stephen mentions, “There was a liquor store that sold vodka. Abe remembered it was always trouble when the farmers drank. He recalled that once a farmer killed his dog...”
00:09:37 – Stephen mentions, “...and have a shot of schnapps...”
00:09:47 – Stephen mentions, “...and started whipping people at random […] came back and started the beatings again.”
00:10:05 – Stephen mentions, “...and struck him with the whip. Abe's uncle reached up, grabbed the Kossak, pulled him off the horse, threw him down on the ground, a fight ensued and Abe's uncle kicked the Kossak in the head and killed him.”
00:10:34 – Stephen mentions, “...poured another round of Canadian club...”
00:10:56 – Stephen mentions, “Then why the hell don’t you go look for him at his house?”
00:11:03 – Stephen mentions, “He killed a Kossak and he's Jewish and they thought he was going to sit around and have dinner? My uncle was long gone by then, in fact he was probably out in the damn country...”
00:11:16 – Stephen mentions, “What a bunch of dumb bastards.”
00:11:36 – Stephen mentions, “...and sipped some whiskey.”
00:12:23 – Stephen mentions, “They were either dead or running back home.” (no god damn)
00:12:31 – Stephen mentions, “...shooting guns into the air.”
00:14:49 – Stephen mentions, “...and this bastard was a Jew.”
00:15:41 – Stephen mentions, “Wives and daughters of the Hebrews were raped...”
00:16:00 – Stephen mentions, “...which lead to physical beatings.”
00:16:24 – Stephen mentions, “...and any Jew escaping this area was shot.”
00:17:06 – Stephen mentions, “He assumed that Golda and his mother were starved to death.”
00:17:09 – Stephen mentions, “...Abe poured some more whiskey in our glasses and muttered 'rotten bastards'.”
00:18:43 – Stephen mentions, “...at gunpoint they were told to leave everything behind...”
00:18:55 – Story 1 out-cue: “They were put on a train bound for Auschwitz.” Music fades up, “Western Wall” by Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
00:19:15 – Story 2 in-cue, music fades down: “The Three Musketeers...”
00:19:28 – Stephen mentions, “Most of the women and children were killed with fifteen minutes of their arrival.”
00:20:48 – Stephen mentions, “Germany was bent not only on eliminating Jews but also homosexuals.”
00:21:47 – Stephen mentions, “...the bastards just wanted to wear us down.”
00:22:36 - Stephen says "Hell of a couple of nice guys"
00:23:14 – Stephen mentions, “What the hell ya talkin' about?”
00:24:42 - Stephen says "What the hell, I was in the camp three years"
00:24:53 – Stephen mentions, “How long could you get a way to make love...”
00:25:46 – Stephen mentions, “The SS were bastards. The Gestapo, terrible bastards.”
00:26:18 – Stephen mentions, “You weren't screwing that girl?”
00:26:31 – Stephen mentions, “...had a shovel in his hand and he split my head open.”
00:26:38 – Stephen mentions, “Give him hell.”
00:26:47 – Stephen mentions, “Abe took a sip of whiskey.”
00:27:00 – Stephen mentions, “I put a cloth on my head to soak up the blood.”
00:27:11 – Stephen mentions, “My two Germans, they didn't give me hell.”
00:27:16 - "Hell of a nice couple guys."
00:28:02 – Stephen mentions, “...why you were fed anything if the purpose was to kill you? Abe said, 'because they didn't want to kill us all at once.”
00:28:19 – Stephen mentions, “People died in the cars. We stepped over the bodies, tried to throw the bodies out.”
00:28:37 – Stephen mentions, “... the Nazis would shoot a few of us as we walked.”
00:28:48 – Stephen mentions, “So they just murdered you? 'Yeah, they just shot you in the back with pistols for no reason, left the bodies on the ground.'”
00:29:42 – Stephen mentions, “...and they killed as many prisoners as they could...”
00:30:41 – Stephen mentions, “Some were shot dead on the spot. Imagine Stephen, to survive the camps only to be murdered.”
00:30:52 – Stephen mentions, “One Jewish man I know went into a shop and killed every German in the store and said he would keep killing them.”
00:33:44 – Stephen mentions, “...my uncle, the man who killed the Kossak...”
00:34:38 – Stephen mentions, “Because they're bastards, it's that simple. They tortured us because they could.”
00:34:59 – Stephen mentions, “They wanted to kill us, they found a way to do it.”
00:35:28 – Stephen mentions, “Who was the biggest son of a bitch...” (CENSORED)
00:35:35 – Stephen mentions, “That Jewish bastard...”
00:35:49 – Stephen mentions, “He was a real son of a bitch too, he tried to kill me...” (CENSORED)
00:36:15 – Stephen mentions, “Maybe a little more schnapps?”
00:37:05 – Stephen mentions, “...battering the helpless with a shovel.”
00:39:18 – Stephen mentions, “I took a final sip of schnapps and said...”
00:40:14 – Stephen mentions, “They tortured us because they could, because they were bastards...”
00:41:02 – Story 2 out-cue: “The father answers, 'the one you feed'.” Music fades up, “Western Wall” by Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
00:41:14 – Outro with David Chen: “That was 'A Good Day At Auschwitz...”
00:41:25 – Stephen reflects on how he writes the stories and on Abe
00:42:00 – Stephen mentions, “It took about five case of Canadian club whiskey...”
00:46:03 – Stephen mentions, “He saw his mother starve to death...”
00:46:54 – Stephen mentions, “...the night he was robbed at gunpoint...”
00:50:35 – Music fades up, “Western Wall” by Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
00:51:03 – End.