After the last five days, I have newfound respect for rock stars, major-league athletes, political candidates, traveling salesmen and anyone else whose career puts them in constant motion. I am wiped.

Brad’s visit to Los Angeles to tape his appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” unexpectedly expanded into a quickie weekend trip to New York City where Brad would tape an appearance on “Live With Regis and Kelly” which will air the week of June 2. Yes, that makes two “Live” shows in five days, neither of which actually aired live! We did walk by Rockefeller Center around 11:30pm Saturday, but sadly no one invited Brad inside to do a cameo on “Saturday Night Live” so he could have made it a “Live” trifecta.

I must agree with the sentiment of a multitude of t-shirts, keychains and coffee mugs, in that I too (heart) NY. I dream of being talented and lucky enough someday to be offered a job which would allow me to live and work in Manhattan without going broke. Our time in the city was limited, but we did manage to squeeze in a bit of fun by attending a performance at the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre. The amazingly sharp cast of improvisational actors included the ever-endearing and hilarious Jack McBrayer (Kenneth the page from “30 Rock”) and, as a special treat, the evening’s featured monologist was “Freaks and Geeks” star and Hollywood Superhunk™ Samm Levine.

We also paid a visit to Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio, Inc., billed as “the largest vintage TV soundtrack archive in the world”, with audio tapes of television programs from 1946 to 1979. For two hours, Phil welcomed us into his basement lair and played selections from his massive collection which preserves on magnetic tape most of the programming which is also stored inside Brad’s head. Brad could probably have stayed there for days, listening to one long-forgotten program after another. (Well, long-forgotten except by Brad.) Phil did, however, prove definitively that Brad WAS wrong in identifying the guests on the March 28, 1969, episode of “This Is Tom Jones” in his recounting of the events of that day in our “Some Assembly Required” clip… but also proved that Brad’s memories were remarkably accurate of the following week’s episode, the one featuring Judy Carne and JoAnne Worley which he erroneously thought had aired on March 28. It remains a mystery why Brad mixed up the weeks. Just one more bit of evidence that, despite the oversimplification running through nearly all the coverage of hyperthymesia, Brad’s memory is not “perfect”, nor does he “remember everything”. He just remembers more than you or I ever will.

Squeezed between Jimmy and Regis chronologically was another visit to Dr. McGaugh and Dr. Cahill at the University of California – Irvine, this time for the benefit of a crew from ABC’s “Medical Mysteries”. The UC-I staff are at the epicenter of hyperthymesia, and every news article or TV appearance triggers new aftershocks of media requests and another tsunami of inquiries from people who claim to have, or know someone who has, a similarly astonishing memory. You can imagine how swamped they are in the wake of the publication of Jill Price’s book, the emergence of Rick Baron as “hyperthymestic #3″, and Brad’s appearances on Kimmel and CNN. (We’re told that the CNN piece was the most viewed story of the day on cnn.com, registering over one million hits.)

We should have a breather for the Memorial Day weekend, which will give me a little time to plow through all the new video I’ve accumulated. But there are rumblings of at least one more media event on the horizon. Brace yourselves, Irvine; this ain’t over yet.