>> hinojosa: oh, my gosh! >> okay. >> hinojosa: so and you end up, you know, addressing the ted conference, and you end up meeting vice president al gore... >> uh-huh. >> hinojosa: ...and that moment when you meet al gore is pretty amazing, right? >> it was. >> hinojosa: because he basically says to you, "oh, just apply for a grant," you know, "we're going to include you in the environmental stuff." and you said to him... >> well, actually, he didn't say it includes me in the environmental stuff. >> hinojosa: oh. >> it was more of, like, a brush-off. the, you know, "apply for a grant" was kind of like, "we'll have these little things that, you know, that's what we do for folks that don't really deserve a seat at he table." and i was just like, "no, we all need to have a seat at the table." it's big enough for all of us. >> hinojosa: i love that. you're replying to the vice president... >> yeah. >> hinojosa: ...former vice president, and saying, "no, no, no, no, no. i'm not asking for anything; i'm telling you.

>> hinojosa: he was born on the u.s./mexico border and crossing borders has been the overarching theme of his writing and of his life-- poet, novelist, and best-selling author, luis alberto urrea. i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. luis alberto urrea, welcome to the program. a lot to people know you because you're a best-selling author. you wrote across the wire. you wrote the amazing book the devil's highway-- extraordinary. your newest book, into the beautiful north, which we'll get to in a minute. but a lot of people also know you because you're the mexicano who breaks all theolds. >> ah, yeah. >> hinojosa: you are not the mexicano who looks like all the other mexicanos that they think they know. >> yeah, yeah. i... in louisiana, somebody told me i was a "bubba-looking mexican." >> hinojosa: bubba? >> yeah, "the bubba-looking mexican." >> hinojosa: ( laughing ) and you can... you even got that southern training twang there. you can... >> well, you know, it's having lived in the south, i guess. i'm fascinated by i

i like that. >> hinojosa: you mean in missoula. >> in montana. >> hinojosa: in missoula, montana. >> i love that about it, right? but not everyone is so stimulated by that. and for poor people living on the margins of nature, you know, they have real livelihoods and real needs. now, here's the good news-- what we find out is that for poor people, nature is frankly even more important than it is for the rich and well off. >> hinojosa: because? >> because if the river dries out, they don't have an alternate source for getting water. if the forest does not have trees anymore, they do not have an aernate source r heatg thr homes. you know, there are 149 million people in the pacific rim who feed on fish. that is their primary source of protein. if the fish go off from the reef, if there's a massive dieoff of coral, bleaching happens, and they lose their potency to have... you know, to produce fish, those people will starve. so what i have found is when i've traveled into rural areas, they're not calling it conservation. they don't use that word. but nature is incredibly important to the

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. john francis, welcome to our program. >> thank you, maria. >> hinojosa: good to have you here. so you are the author of the book planetwalker: 17 years of silence, 22 years of walking. >> yes, i am. >> hinojosa: and so it really was. people, i'm sure they're like, "really? he stopped talking for 17 years?" >> right, i did, actually. >> hinojosa: and you walked for 22. >> for 22 years, without motorized vehicles, yeah. >> hinojosa: and throughout all of that, an essential part is your friend here, the banjo. >> my friend the banjo. >> hinojosa: does banjo have a name? >> well, it's american princess. american princess. it's an old banjo. it's over 100 years old, and was built in philadelphia. >> hinojosa: so the banjo became a central part of you as a persona in these years where you were walki and you were not talking. >> yeah, it did. >> hinojosa: but let's go back for... and you play it normally. >> i do, all the time. so you might hear it as we're talking. >> hinojosa: it's an exte

his name is alfredo quinones- hinojosa, the turnaround for the rest of us as dr. q. the book is "becoming dr. q: my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon." i am honored to touch your hands one more time. good to have you here. up next, speaking of "star trek ," spock here to talk about another project. zachary quinto. stay with us. zachary quinto is a talented actor whose credits include "he rose -- heroes." his latest project is called "margin call." it opens in theaters around the country this weekend. >> what does your model say that means for us here? >> that is where it becomes a projection, but -- >> you are speaking with me, mr. solomon. >> sir, if those assets decrease by just 25% and remain on our books, that loss would be greater than the current market capitalization of this entire company. >> so, what you are telling me is that the music is about to stop. >> -- tavis: that is the best you could do for your film -- jeremy irons, kevin spacey? >> it does not get any better than that. stanley tucci, paul betony -- bettany. it is an incredible gro

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[captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: alfredo quinones- hinojosa is a renownede pituitary tumor center at johns hopkins. his remarkable path from mexico to the united states is the subject of a new memoir, "becoming dr. q: my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon." an honor to have you on this program. i just want to touch this hand. >> i am honored to be here with you. tavis: it is my delight. let me jump into it. i was thinking that if herman cain had his way, you would have been electrocuted, trying to halt the fence from mexico to the united states. let us deal with this now. what is your sense of the immigration debate? you have to be the poster tough for what happens in america when we treat with disney -- with dignity and america -- dignity and respect the people who come to america. >> i read the newspaper today. it breaks my heart when i hear things like that. i look back at my life, my history, when i first came in the mid to late 80's. i was welcomed. this country opened