the show was by beach blanket babylon and cast of about 1000."getting to know all about you" and you ended the show with your song, "i left my heart in san francisco." you have left it here, but please come back many times because your heart is waiting for you here, and so are we. much love. thank you. >> thank you. >> it has been the height of my career to welcome you here. >> so nice to have you with us again. >> ♪ your golden sun will shine for me ♪ [applause] >> 50 years of "i left my heart in san francisco." phenomenal. lot of san franciscans have left a big part of their hearts with you, and one of those is the man who leads our world champion san francisco giants. that is championships' problem -- championship bling right there. i want to bring up to the stage now my boss, the man who leads your san francisco giants, and your biggest fan, mr. larry bvaer -- baer. >>thanks renel. tony's recording is a huge part of not just the city tradition but the san francisco giants tradition. since we have been in the new ball park, it has been played

this is called, lament for a market place in babylon, by abdul karin al karid and it's a reference to a suicide bombing. this one and the next one are both translated by salim yusef. on this grave stone are angels and people weeping. what are people waiting for, their ship? here it comes, borne by the deluge. in a market place now frequented by money changers with beards and baggy trousers, who restores the limbs and who throws open the gates for hollow-eyed gods coming in from babylon with red chests and white furious hair? i wonder who? on the day of march 1st in the 5th year after the second millennium, a massacre took place in babylon. it's my pleasure it introduce the next poet, george evans. . >> first, i would like to read a poem by my dear friend and wife, daisy samora, who was to be here today but is in nicaragua, keeping in mind what michael said about jorge and casablanca, i will read it in her language or my spanish first, then in translation. it's a poem directly addressed to poets but certainly to activists as well. (speaking spanish) no man's land. we are a mine field o

and thank you, beach blanket babylon. what a wonderful performance. let's give her another hand.just fantastic. when i started being mayor of the city, i turned to our protocol officer and said, "you know, charlotte, we are going to do a lot of work this year, but these years forthcoming, as we work hard, i want to also have fun. isn't this fun? all right. [applause] this is our 50th anniversary of the wonderful song, "i left my heart in san francisco." tony, it is wonderful for you to be here and grace us and honor us with your presence. your 17 grammys are just so unprecedented. you just won two more this past week, and what a wonderful career. congratulations, tony. i want to thank our school of the arts. i want to thank our boys and girls choruses. thank you. wonderful performances. it is a fitting tribute that our boys and girls choruses and ouryouth -- our yout are here today to perform because they reflect tony's dedicated career to ensure the future of arts education. we have seen what he has done and seen what his support is, and he is encouraging youth to be leaders on

so, cool it and watch beach blanket babylon. >> ♪ it only takes a tiny corner by the place, not yourove. i have been away, but now i am back to tell you san francisco, open your golden gate san francisco, you are the laundering one no more tell me why the heart of the golden work. san francisco, open your golden gate shoes you're wondering one no more. but tell me you are the heart of gold in july [unintelligible] ♪ çççç>> want to welcome you . of course, we have former mayor willie brown joining us. we have former supervisor sophie maxwell here as well. we have charlotte, a protocol officer. we have all the members of our board of supervisors, our current board. we have naomi's . harlon, kelly, the kids are here. naomi's mom is here bang today. thank you for being here as well. mrs. lee is here. [laughter] >> yeah. >> of all, today has been a very active day of the just wonderful announcements, of decisions being made that really reflected the values of the city. i have another one that reflects the value of this city, someone that i have spent privileged to work with for so man

here, people from north babylon ryland shooting their fists into the air and protests against their government. >> you can watch this and other programs online at book tv at mica. specifically the idea of utopianism. this is just over an hour. [applause] okay, so we thought rather than let him give a boring speech -- [laughter] we would have a conversation, and you are going to join in on this after i get my shot at him. so marked, first, welcome to the library. >> can you put marlo books out of here? [laughter] >> we sold all the rest. >> thank you very much. >> i will start with, you know, when you wrote liberty and tyrannies sold over a million bucks. what is such a huge success now you've written a mother, and i know you haven't written either because you need money. wife of reason for the. well, you know, you can't put everything in one book and liberty and tyranny was a state of conservatism and non-conservatism, the introduction of it because honestly i felt that the republican party had turned into kind of mush and i thought it was important with what the left was doing in this country

michael streck and nathan wasserman who recently translated a 3500 area old kuhn i form tablet from babylon to discover it contained a series of jokes. yes, jokes. these tablets contain such ancient sumerian side splitters as he gouged out the eye it is not the fate of a dead man. he cut the throat. a dead man, who is it? its punch line a governor. (laughter) a governor, who can sentence people to death. it's funny, because it pleases the river god. these tablets provide a unique insight into life in the fertile crescent, the fertile crescent, by the way, the most common punch line in ancient babylonian. but since the tablet was severely damaged, not all the jokes are complete. like one was the only words remaining are of your mother is by the one who has intercourse with her, what for who is it. unfortunately, the punch line has been lost. but researchers declared this was the world's oldest yo mamma joke. which brings us to the latest installment of my award awaiting theoris. >> stephen colbert's mysteries of the ancient unknown. yo mamma jokes. this babylonian gut buster is thought to pr