That's a possible scenario, al66pine, and I have wondered who he was talking to or if he was like me (often) talking to himself. In any case, I find his discourse even more reliable, in that, whoever he was talking to never did dispute anything he was saying/describing. Unless I missed something important, I thought it sounded more like a live-stream description of what was happening, like he was blathering to someone next to him as it was actually happening. But I'll have to listen again, more carefully, to make sure.