>> i got to say that i knew that i thought, okay. i think i've conducted myself well here and i think i have fans. but the intensity of it surprised me. and i'm not a tech savvy, even though i told my viewers are tech savvy and drink vodka, i am not a tech savvy person. i might as well, i'm amish practically. i have a computer that i whittled out of wood. it's steam powered. i have now the beard to match. and so i didn't -- i wasn't that aware of the internet and then there is this explosion that was very organic. i think what was very funny is at the time the people at nbc thought that i was doing this. i think they gave me credit for it. what is he doing? how is he making this eruption happen? and i think, thanks for giving me credit for it. i was as surprised as anybody. i was delighted but i was surprised. >> larry: back with conan o'brien right after this. k the k check the flava from your shirt make sure your pits don't stank check the new hairdo, check the mic one two 'cause i'm about to drop some knowledge right on top of you

i want to try i got on a stool and. i remember i was living in the y. in new york city totally alone i don't just to put my bathroom sasha rock hung it sort of share. and why i got down was because. my friends. i had made after the war who had been through the same thing i had and i felt if i did that to myself i would betray. the bond we had. coochie a vietnam federer for taint one thousand and sixty six by a.p. they call it hell's halfacre because of the american bull. that had been stale there tano do well and viet cong snipers have done most of the damage today was no exception on the second but tagged on the twenty seventh and for troy the framed wall founds moved out to attack the snipers opened up from such perfectly camouflaged positions the most of the a copy what the whole day without seeing one of the enemy a sergeant was hit in the shoulder in the leg as a rolled over a third shot were up to his back. a medic broke from cover and rushed to his side as he dropped to his knees to began given a bullet smashed into the stomach both the sergeant

one thing i hope the book will do is, one, i promised robert that i would write this book before i died. -- before he died -- before i died. i promised him i would write our story. sometimes, when you are writing poetry, you are doing something very obscure, and you are not so concerned with the listener or the reader. i was hoping that this book might inspire people and give them hope. it is about two young people who started with nothing but believed in each other. everything robert had to go through, the awakening of homosexuality, and how we had to deal with bad -- with that as lovers and friends, struggling, not having things to each. i am just hoping it will be helpful to new generations, and maybe nice memories bring out nice memories for the older generation. tavis: i appreciate that. tell me how you navigated just appear nature of the relationship. you started as friends. -- just the pure nature of the relationship. the roller-coaster of the relationship. >> well, robert and i started almost immediately as boyfriend and girlfriend. in 1967, we did not even use the term "lovers.

i was really lost. i was borderline.as either going to end up pregnant or in jail or dead, or i was going to be able to change my life. all my sisters were in loco bloco. my sister, one day, she begged me and begged me. she goes, "come to this photography class they're having for the summer." and i'm like, "alright." i started with the photography class, and then went to a cooking class. then it went to the drum class, and then it was like, "okay, why don't you perform?" then it was a theater class, then it was this class and-- next thing you know i didn't have time. i was so happy with what i was doing that i didn't have time to be miserable on the street, or miserable drinking, or miserable going in a downward spiral. like, i had purpose. ♪ drumming (aleks) they made me feel me being there was very significant, that if i wasn't here it was going to be different. you know, you see a little kid who's really off the hook and not listening and you're like, "wow, you're amazing. that's great." and they're like, "give me mor

they probably feel the same way i do. i wish i had been here 30 years. i am paying big rent. i want the place fixed. if they cannot fix it, tear it down and build new one. i cannot conceive the idea of the city displacing thousands of people by reneging on rent- control. it does not make business or political sense. i think there are a lot of dramatics going on here tonight. whatever, you know. i do not have much more to say except that the first speaker of the night, john with the merchants association, i back him up with everything he said. thank you very much. [applause] > >> i am a resident of parkmerced. i am very much in favor of this new plan they have. i have a garden apartment. i see the plan as taking the residential area to the future. we leave the past behind us. i see that these apartments that they are talking about will be meeting the needs of the residence for the future for the next 50 years. i will not be here in 50 years. the people who live in these apartments will have apartments that are more energy efficient. they will be saving water. that is going to

i would not let go what i was doing. so i couldn't move forward. i couldn't swing forward because i was caught in this life. >> charlie: the push and pull of one thing or another. >> i kept going back and forth. i said i'm going to let this go, i'm going to give it 120%. but in the back of my mind i didn't think it would work. >> charlie: jay-z for the hour, next. whatever you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer, or donate for the causes you believe in at membersproject.com. take charge of making a difference. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: born shawn carter, jay-z is one of the most successful entertainers around. his albums have sold 50 million copies worldwide. each of his 11 records has reached the top of the u.s. charts, giving him more number one albums than anyone but the beatles. he has won 10 grammy awards, 10 mtv video awards, nine b.e.t. hip-hop awards and three american music awards. ♪ ♪ >> ch

i felt good at the time when i when i did it bother me if i. didn't get a chance to kill someone it went beyond a certain a call of duty it turned into something i said. that i hate that i had had growing up in the sol i think it had expanded. because of what was happening in vietnam because so knows and people. i feel i've become an animal i. feel no remorse. i literally saw young men turn into psychopathic killers. but the great thing about the marine corps is the training process that the young men and women go through gives them all the ability to kill at least one time to put that warrior ethos in effect and then once you've done it then it's on you. so many things happen in a war that put you at odds with your sense of right and wrong. i've seen things that would be described as is war crimes. the sergeant who had the ring of yours who. is not a secret i mean he's walking around with a big wiring with human ears pushed through the low been there all hanging on the ring these are people he has cut off their ears to try to get information.

i thought i was going to die. i said mr. president, i have experienced the same thing, but it's a pretty terrifying experience, but he went right back and did it again. i admired him. >> host: you had a total of like 450 jumps from 30,000 feet? during the course of your career. yet you had one outfall from low level that resulted in a pretty bad consequence. why don't you talk about what happened to you. >> guest: it was ironic about five months after i retired i was trimming a tree up my backyard, i love to do handiwork. a week before i trimmed a couple of 100-year-old zero countries with big limbs on them but on this particular morning i went out and started treading a very small branch off a tree right on the borderline between my neighbor's yard and mine and there was a cyclone fence about 4 feet tall and my feet for about 5 feet off the ground and i trimmed the first no problem but it didn't fall it stayed there. then i trimmed of the one right below and when it gave way both of them hit the extension arms on the ladder

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>> i think i would. i mean, i think so.an, i don't like to see anybody beat up on and down. and people are -- some are down on him today, although his numbers aren't bad. and -- but i -- he's a good man. he's a decent man. and my trouble is if you like somebody, it's hard to be hypercritical. >> larry: what do you have make of michelle? >> i like her very much. she's been very nice to me. i feel a little bit like george w. there are plenty of people who can pick on the president. we've been there. i mean, dowdy and fat and whatever. but she's -- she's very attractive, she's into literacy, she's into children. that's good. i'm for that. but i'm not going to criticize her, nor am i going to criticize the president, much to your shock. >> larry: i'm not sure -- well, yeah, i'm a little shocked. i didn't expect you to be. we'll be back with more of the open bushes after this. >>> we're back with the bushes i'm off to the post office... ok. uh, a little help... oh! you know shipping is a lot easier with priority mail flat rate b

fast forward again, i decided i know, i am going to tell my grandmother's stories, so i wrote the dark:30, southern tales of the supernatural. i had never written anything longer. these are short stories, a collection of 10. based on southern stories, my stories but based on stories that i heard. they were like stories i heard. one in particular comes from my growing up. we managed our monsters. i was the founder and first president of monster watches of america. i ate 6 boxes of crinkle cereal and in the mail i received 6 glow in the dark id badges, oh yes. and i invited 5 friends to join me. the most prized possession was the monster book, you know the monster rules, you know them. module no. 10, monsters cannot come within the circle of light. if you have light, they can't come in that circle of lot. monster rule no. 7, you don't play near where monsters live. isn't that common sense? why do they have people stay in houses and it says get out? i say who wrote that? [laughter]. so in my book when the house says get out, well get out. monster no. 5 says never lie about seeing a monste

i don't know where i am. >> traj i can j. government guide guidelines for what you should do, get in a stable building. what about the homeless people? >> i don't know. >> they are called subways. >> i thought they said stable. >> if it is a fast one you never go out. the government's slogan was, if you see something, it is dead. nothing worth noting. it tells people to stay indoors and the kids don't come outside enough. are you suggesting usa today wants children to die? i'm suggesting you need to make it easier. >>> greg, you brought up uh poke lip particular movies. the government spends on what to do about the attack. but not a single thing when the zombie uh poke lils happens. there is more likely to have a zombie apocalypse. >> when there is a zombie apocalypse, i want to be the zombie. i don't want to be the person cow -- cow bettering with my family. >> back in the day you wou have been a nazi. >> that's not true. >> you jus realized how perfect that was. >> that was a war, my end from. >> it is a war with the zombie

i mean, i don't think i succeeded in that regard. [ lit lauger ] but, you know, i told him when i metughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. yeah. but he's so cool and just -- >> so cool. [ as mccartney ] >> jimmy: he's just, you know, "yeah, i guess, you know, i'll try that, yeah. sure. we'll do it. let me try it. get the guitar and i'll try it." and he's just playing "yesterday." >> yh. >> jimmy: and i'm just, like, freaking out, trying to, like, not wet my pants. i'm like, "what the heck is going on?" >> it's really hard. and you did harmonies. you sang harmonies with him. how do you -- >> jimmy: i just figured, if i screw up -- i'm a comedian first, so if i screw up, it's funny. so -- [ laughter ] >> that's amazing. >> jimmy: yeah, i got away. i got lucky with that. but i was -- it was just bonkers, man. but you must be used to working with legends now. jack nicholson is in this new movie that you're in. >> yeah. >> jimmy: how was that? >> same kind of thing. i mean -- in the acting world, he's right up the with, i think, paul mccartney in the music world. >> jimmy: yeah, beatles -- >> where do

i wish i was like that."sometimes certain days this, like, other side of me will kick in and be, go, "this is disgusting. these people shouldn't be living like this. what's wrong with them?" it's like part of me is completely ana, and part of me is anti-ana. so it's like a complete struggle every day. >> interviewer: what do your parents know? >> nothing. >> interviewer: nothing? >> nothing. all they know is i like to eat healthy and i like to exercise. they know nothing. >> it really helps for me to talk about my feelings to someone, and know that people are listening. >> narrator: why tell their parents when they have the whole world to talk to? >> you know, it's better than talking to the people in my life. >> at least i'm getting it out. and you guys can make what you want. >> the internet is always a willing listener. it's very seductive. >> and i thought i'd put my two cents in. >> you can do it in the middle of the night when you can't sleep, you can do it when you're tired without any makeup. >> i'm r

as soon as i graduated i had no idea what i was doing. with moving away and going to grad school, but i wasn't sure. so, i had interned at a letterpress shop my senior year. after working for several years, and really getting exposed to the process and really learning all the little nitty gritty stuff, i moved in here and, you know, we had all this space. so i decided at that point that i wanted to have a shop. and that was after, like, many coffee shop conversations with friends where we're sitting around smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee and doodling, you know, and like, "what do you see yourself doing? what, ultimately, do you want to have?" and i was like, "i want to have my own shop." and so, it just...once i started looking it was just like it found me. before you made the decision that you were going to open up your own shop, was it something that you always kind of always thought about, but you also followed it with, like, a reason not to? i just got to a point where i just felt like i was waiting for something, and it's like

>> yes, i did. i went to him. i went to every single director i knew and they all gave me advice. >> rose: was it good? >> yes. >> rose: did you write that down? >> no. >> rose: i thought you wrote everything down? >> no, i don't write everything down. if i did, i'd remember something. >> rose: you don't go home and keep a diary. >> no, and you know why i don't? because i already know it. do you see what i mean? you sit there and think why am i writing this down because i know this. >> rose: because of what your mother said. >> if my mother had said, "sit down everyone night and write what you did today." that would be one day. she didn't say that. >> rose: i just want to you remember this. i want to tap into your nostalgia. >> yes. >> rose: roll tape. >> oh, no! >> do you have any time? >> i can talk to you onier break or something. >> i can't. >> just for a couple of minute? >> maybe next week. >> are you monitoring yourself, karen? >> yes, georgie. >> i hope you write it down in your little notebook every time

so i am who i am. but i love who i am and i embrace who i am.nd that's just who it is. >> larry: were you addicted when you were boxing? >> i have always been addicted. i have always been addicted. i wasn't using drugs when i was boxing, but it was so interesting. and i said i didn't do drugs for 14 years, but i never considered alcohol was a drug too. but i would get drunk before every fight. i said i'm off drugs for 14 years, but really i wasn't. that wasn't really true, i was just lying to myself. i would get drunk after every fight, blasted. >> larry: do you still consider yourself an addict? >> yeah. >> larry: how long soeber? >> probably 18 months. >> larry: if you were born an addict, your mother is an addict, that can happen at birth? >> no, i don't use that for no excuse. because if i use that for an excuse, no one could ever have accomplished what i have accomplished. you can't help who you are or what you are. but you can sure help your conduct. >> larry: how do you avoid temptation? >> hey, i have responsibilities in my life. i don't

ran to the garage and i knew i had to hide so i found a tarp and i read myself in that and i hid in a corner behind some things and i heard him come in and he had a stick and i heard him poking around in the garage. and i just prayed that he didn't find me if i could just live through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me because he told me so many times and that night he he promised me that he kill me and that he those kids would never see their mother my youngest son was at home at the time and he was. upstairs but he heard his father yelling and. he came down and his father just continued to attack me and he threw me to the ground in the hallway and then while i was down and i was trying to caress of abuse started kicking me. and my son the look on my son's face was the scariest thing or similar because in that we can stop his dad could. i can remember pleading for my life as the mother of his children please don't hurt me i'm the mother your children they made me want to pick myself off before i

i get phone calls all day long in my voice mailbox. when i addressed those, i went down there. i personally saw people picking up trash. the community benefits district between -- they were cleaning the sidewalk. he is a good neighbor. to address the issues, he was on top of it. we support this conditional use permit. >> i would like to indicate the castro location in that general area is a internationally recognized landmark. yesterday, i was at ike's place and touched base with him to find out what this new transition is going to be, moving from market street into a more familiar location from 16th and sanchez. ike was really responsive about the issues with the wind. he said was going to be bringing the people from the outside inside instead of standing them on the street. the reason that happened is because there were so many people coming in there. there was not a lot of opportunity for people to go into the shop. this provided an opportunity to expand ike's place and become a better neighbor than they were before. but providing a new location that is bigger than before, w

i mean, i don't... i hate pompous people. i hate like the super wasps or the super english aristocracy. i'm not that interested. the english sometimes are funny because they're such originals but i'm not interested by that. i'm interested by artists, scientists, businessmen, i'm interested by very pretty girls. but not models who will talk to you about the next shoot and how does my hair look. just about people who do interesting things and i think people like to talk about this and love to talk about what they're doing and also i like to laugh. so, you know, somebody like friendly and people that i'm... and there's people... and the person i really like... i feel the most comfortable with is charles saatchi who i think is the most intelligent man i've ever met in my life. with steve, he's on another level. >> rose: i've been trying to get him to come on the show to talk. >> i will try to help you. not an easy... >> rose: i know. two projects. >> well, i very rarely wear suits but i wore a double breast and i feel there are a

>> i am. >> jimmy: i feel like i saw a ufo once. fishing, my cousin sal, my friend tony, the three of us were there and tony and i both saw something just suddenly make a weird kind of turn and my cousin sal, who is the only one that wasn't very, very, very drunk at the time thought we were crazy and still thinks we're crazy. but i thought it was weird that we both -- it's not like we discussed it and decided we saw it -- >> thousands of people do every day. go to the website. we had an interesting sighting in los angeles. we hate a con trail. they said it was a 747. if you look closely at it and we're going to get photo analysis done. it's not a jet and not a rocket. it's an orb. >> jimmy: you think so? >> you can see it in the "l.a. times" photo. it's obviously a round object, not a sill lander. >> jimmy: what percentage of the sightings do you think are -- there's something to them? most of them have to have some reasonable explanation. >> i would say, like, an extraer theless real ship coming here and visiting, probably 2%. 80%

, i think i would be pretty close to where i would imagine it to be.a pretty good imagination. and i think that, you know, we really feel before we see. we really hear before we see. because the information, you know, goes into our minds and we have to -- we have to really -- i mean, if we're honest with ourselves, if we're being ourselves, we have to say, okay, this is how i view this. but when you have preconceptions, if your vision gives you preconceptions, then you've got a problem with yourself. >> larry: do you read brail? >> what is that? >> larry: you don't read brail? >> of course i read brail, yes. >> play under me. anything you wrote. ♪ >> larry: our guest is stevie wonder. we're honoring him tonight for the full hour. don't go away. ♪ it's a sale. nothing beats a sale! wrong move! you. you can save up to half off that sale when you name your own price on priceline. but this one's a deal...trust me. it's only pretending to be a deal. here, bid $79. got it. wow! you win this time good twin! there's no disguising the real deal. ♪ ♪ ♪ very supe

(applause) i do. i do. i work in a sweatshop pretty much in new york. (laughter) i just... there's a lot of ups and downs on the road to success and highs and lows and bouts of self-doubt and naysayers and [no audio] talkers. what's the best advice you can give to someone, insight or inspiration to get through those rough times and kind of keep your eye on the prize? >> i think the best thing is you have to believe... you have to have such a strong belief in yourself that you can quiet all the outside noise because you're going to need that every step of the way. there are people that are projecting their fears and their shortcomings and failures on you and you have to be very careful with that. people telling you you can't do that. why can't i? because they may have tried or they don't believe it that they can do it. and it's not really about you. it's about what they feel and their fear inside. so you have to be strong enough and resilient to believe in whatever it is you're trying to do and good luck with it. >> it was a pleasure just seeing you. i know you're a legend.

i can't do that. i thought i don't have a contract. i said i'll get rid of my brother and sister. [laughter]. and i'll keep myself. and i'll get rid of the wolf, bear, and snake and keep the fox because i like his voice. i dare say a little girl like you should be simply terrified of me. whatever do they teach children in school these days? whatever you are, you sure think of heap of yourself as she skipped away from the fox leaving him to prove that he really was who he said he was. before long she came to a tree there were flowers and she picked wild flowers, this fox fled up beside her. prepare to be frightened. i am a fox because i have 6 luxurious furs. he leaned over for me to stoke his back. it is soft. it feels just like rabbit's fur. you are not a fox, you are a rabbit all the time trying to fool me. did you hear her call me a rabbit? a mere bunny. i have you know young lady, i am a fox of rare breed. i am rated some of the finest hen houses from franklin to madison. i am a fox and you'll act accordingly. she put her hands on her hip and said [inaudible] she skipped away

i eventually -- just for now, i stay in school. i passed my freshman year. i get good grades. currently i have a 3.33. i take honors classes. [applause] i take honors classes, and i made it to the police academy team, which is the best known players around the area of northern california. i also represent san francisco in that team, because i am the only guy from san francisco on it. i just think there should be -- like i said before, i think there should be more lsps around san francisco. even elementary schools have too many kids that seek help, but do not know where to find it. i just really want to get in everybody's mind that this is a very important job to keep in schools. thank you. [applause] >> i really want to thank both of you for coming to speak with us today. this is really about us restoring many things our public schools need besides construction, many of the things we had to cut when prop. 13 passed, which is counseling and a lot of our leadership. i think it is really important for the board to hear how this funding impact students, and it impact your ability

>> i will not tell you what i thought i would be doing because i do not want to offend anybody. tavis: come on. >> i came from dinner theater. i moved out to l.a. and i heard myself and i said, let's give it a try. kind of what this choice has in store. i have been lucky. you put the work in and the time. ultimately, i met up with a really great manager right away. and a great agent and i got lucky. tavis: two questions here. how is motherhood? >> awesome. tavis: more than acting? you had better say yes. that was a trick question. >> if anything, the reason i paused is motherhood has made me enjoy acting more. tavis: you are psychic. >> i am. i was not going to talk about that. i took a pause because i really love acting more that i have had my daughter. the focus is off of me. that is freedom, that i am no longer the most important thing in my life. as much as i did not want to admit it that i was maybe self- centered, i was so self- centered. i did not realize how so self- centered. my small day-to-day dramas, it was different. now she is my priority. i cannot think about the

i know. i know. i know. >> larry: did you like michael corleone? >> i loved the people i played.hat's like saying to a painter when he paints a painting that, how did you -- how could you paint this painting of whoever? do you, you know, you don't feel as though -- you don't do that. you see always are looking at the meter. always looking at what the character is. what is the deeper -- what is being said about our life and our world through this character. you know. and one can make the argument that michael corleone. why did the audience like him? because it was couched in a drama, so it had a different -- it comes at you differently. it comes out of the drama. >> larry: do you agree godfather is about a family. >> that's what i mean about this. that's was the thing that turned people on so much to the first one. i remember i was there and the reaction was so universal across the board. had a lot to do with family. the family structure. and people related to it. you didn't have to be an italian-american or -- you just related to the whole family dynamic. >> larry: when he goes i

if i am the one he made the motion to reopen, i mean to vote, because i would withdraw that. i thought maybe you had done that. commissioner fung: can you restate that? commissioner hwang: if we can narrow the issue, that be more efficient. my focus is whether or not there was a valid permit. and this goes to work being done prior. vice president goh: if we went ahead and voted and went ahead and voted tonight, i am not sure if that means that commissioner garcia would change his vote in vote to overturn or not, because now we have in different than the last time we voted with president peterson, so i think there are concessions that they remove the fixtures. we probably have enough if we change some of the language in the findings. >> my order of preference would be -- commissioner garcia: my order of preference would-be -- would be, at this point, i am not really ready to change my vote, and i think the appellate or the permit holder still has a right to ask for a rehearing, and my only change would be the sentence would start that dbi was not aware, through to the point wh

later when i saw it, and i real -- when i saw a comic, i gave it away now.nyway, it doesn't matter. >> larry: it was a comedy? >> i saw somebody doing something in a club, and i suddenly saw what i would want to do with this part. and what happened -- it's -- that was a great performance by dustin hoffman, it was amazing. ♪ [ man ] i thought our family business would always be boots. until one day, my daughter showed me a designer handbag. and like that, we had a new side to our business. [ male announcer ] when businesses see an opportunity, the hartford is there. protecting their employees and property and helping them prepare for the future. nice boots. nice bag. [ male announcer ] see how the hartford helps businesses at achievewhatsahead.com. >>> i'd know it was you frado, you broke my heart. >> larry: "godfather i & ii" may be the best movies ever made. many people consider that now. >> wow! i know. >> larry: did you like michael corleone? >> i loved him. that's like saying to a painter, when they paint a painting, how could you paint this painting of

my only concern is that i may be wrong when i say that i vote. i see a lot of people here. do we vote? >> we have vote! >> thank you very much. that is the bottom line. we can discuss this a lot. this is about politics and power. i do not think a lot of people here have a lot of money, but we do have the vote. thank you very much. [applause] >> i am john scott. i will be very brief. i have lived here for 24 years. if i wanted to live in high- rise, i would have stayed in brooklyn and manhattan. i am diametrically opposed to the demolishing of the garden apartments. i have lived through four owners. the first owner was called the queen of mean. [laughter] the one thing i will say about the sooner, the so-called queen of mean, is that she was very good to the residents of the garden apartments. [applause] if you members approve of this greedy new owner, you should be ashamed of yourselves. that is all i have to say. [applause] >> thank you. after these speakers, maria eggbert, judy brooke, terrence falkner. >> i live in the neighborhood. i do not live in parkmerced, but i hav

but i just take -- and i dislike -- i just hate, i dislike being prejudice. i stand up for that. bless you. supervisor avalos: next speaker, please. >> [speaking spanish] >> the afternoon -- good afternoon, we're here to support john avalos's hiring for construction ordinance. >> [speaking spanish] >> the southeast neighborhoods of san francisco have been severely hit by this economic recession. we have been dealing with high levels of poverty and unemployment. >> [speaking spanish] >> the local hiring law will ensure that the money that our city is investing to stimulate the economy will be in part to benefit the economies that have ahead -- been hit the hardest. it will mean $70 million in the pockets of san francisco residents and a boost for the city goes the economy -- city's economy. >> [speaking spanish] >> this local hiring law is necessary for all san franciscans. >> [speaking spanish] >> if this ordinance is approved, my husband can have the opportunity to work in the construction area and we would be able to have more resources for our family. >> [speaking spanish] >>

>> i don't know, larry. i wanted it i don't know if i was prepared for it but i know i wanted it. i was prepared to get it. i trained hard and worked hard, you know. >> larry: how old were you when you were a champion? >> 20 years old. >> larry: in reflection, would would you have been better off had you been 25? >> no, because i would have been obsolete. i would have just been like everyone else. >> larry: so you're glad that you're the youngest person to hold the title? >> yes. >> larry: you grew up in a tough neighborhood in brooklyn. >> you did, too. >> larry: same neighborhood, saratoga park, did you used to go there? >> all the time. >> larry: you had to bust out of that neighborhood? >> yes, probably toughest city in america, poorest city in america. and it's just a world of dog eat dog. of course, it's where murder incorporated originated from. >> larry: you know your history. >> yeah. >> larry: you have brooklyn still in you, though? >> still the dye day i die. it's just who you are. >> larry: me, too. >> there's something about brooklyn people and it's interesting, becau

i love it. i live basically half a block from market. i hear noise all the time. i hear chatter all the time. it does not bother me. this is the city of san francisco. we should be able to be very involved and cultural. a lot of new people meet. a lot of new friends meet. i am sure if you approve this that this will be a lot of good -- this is a good thing for the community and is helping a lot of other people, and a lot of other organizations. i am in support of it. president miguel: thank you. is there additional public comment on this item? >> john bascel. i live a block and a half from the restaurant. i never do public speaking, but i feel like to have to speak up on behalf of ike's. they have been a plus to the neighborhood. i think from what i have seen, the people who complained to live right across the street, i do not live across the street, but i have lived in the neighborhood for over 20 years. i have seen more trash generated from the subway, from bars, from the creamery. i am blocks from places and stuff and so on my block. people walk around and do t

but i looked at myself and i thought, " i think i am."rviewed, but i was at pratt school and i went up to study at cambridge university, the only black girl in my year. >> the only black role in the entire -- and you into an all woman's college at cambridge. >> yes. >> i got a big kick out of this this morning. i will not show it, but, in the paper, they have an article -- "40th anniversary." the article was from the same college. page three, every day, they have the photograph of a bare chested woman. >> they do. >> and all of the women in the picture are all white. >> is that true? they are always right? >> yes. >> why is it so popular in this country? >> in many ways, britain is more open about issues of sex and then maybe america. but rupert murdoch will do anything to watches tv specials. >> it is the 40th anniversary of that successful date of the future. >> a lot of guys by the paper for the bare chested ladies. >> there are a lot of well-known names of the list of alums from your college. what was the name of your college? >> it w

and i wrote jimmy, and i said, "i don't have to be me anymore.g that night. >> jimmy: i mimicked your tele, your telecaster. look at this guy. if you zoom in -- >> bruce: this is kind of sad. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: this is fake. it's not sad. this is not -- look at this. this is not -- this is still nice. >> bruce: this is a replica of -- this is like -- this looks like it was made with your mama's nail file. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: at one point -- i had a chisel out at one point. >> bruce: it's not 40 years of playing. this with his mama's nail file. >> jimmy: i painted it out, but i got the chords. it was the "e" chord. >> bruce: you did good. >> jimmy: i came out with that. it's a little embarrassing showing you. >> bruce: no, you did very well, and i don't ever want to see that again. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i came out. i felt it. i felt the power. because you know what it is? you grow up and you hear -- you're the first artist, i think, you hear, you're like, "you've got to see this guy in concert. this guy is -- this guy invented the concert.

i didn't know it, because all i knew was what i knew. my father was a milkman, and we lived in a neighborhood that was dominated by mexican americans. but there was no prejudice. there were no lines that i was aware of, because it was during the second world war, when i was a child, and everybody's united by the war effort. so there was no prejudice, there was no anti-semitism, at least that i was aware of. there was no anti-minority-- whatever. and i thought very highly of my neighbors and my friends. many of them had sons and daughters off to-- fathers off to the war. and that's how we were united. when the war ended, i was shocked by what came afterwards. rather than the celebration of the victory-- certainly there was that, but what threw me was this wave of stuff i couldn't imagine: anti-, anti-. so i think that's where my early concerns or interests began, with, "well, why is this? "why are these people that i understood "and got along so well suddenly wary of me, "and what influence is causing that? "i know they're good people. wh

>> i am excited. i am proud.ife and to have been with you on this journey and excited that we are moving forward to continue things. >> how you feel, chance, on this historic evening? chances a lot of. >> i feel mostly happy for you and knowing that you can be with me more and i can see you a lot more. and, that, you'll not be on here anymore. >> we are doing other things. seen you play baseball. >> and cannon who is ten. he does need. >> get in the car. i'm too old for this. i've done this for the years. >> how do you feel about this not? >> i feel glad for you and for us. it is not like you will not be on the show anymore. you will come back and it will be fun for us. you're going to do specials here and you are going to try to get on the nl be network. >> baseball has to be something. >> and if it doesn't work, we will get you a paper route. we have to keep you out of the house just a little. >> dr. phil, do you want to analyze her? let's go to dr. phil. >> we have mapped the talent here in the family. clearly

and i was like, "no i don't."and i sang the [ bleep ] out of it. sorry. [ laughter ] i'm not allowed to say the "s" word? >> jimmy: saying slower doesn't help you. [ laughter and applause ] that's the longest bleep we've ever had in our show ever. >> i sang the crud out of it. and actually they all looked at me astonished and were like, "wow, that was amazing." >> oh, dude, it's gotten -- upper range, which i love as a tenor. tenor power brother. so, i was just -- i was just busting your chops. >> adam: oh, of course. >> you're a great singer, dude. >> jimmy: oh, he's amazing. >> adam: as are you. >> jimmy: we love adam levine. [ cheers and applause ] we -- [ cheers and applause ] he's been doing it all night. i have a guitar. dean guitar came up to me and the guys from dean guitars, they go, "we'd love to make you a guitar." and i'm like, "okay." and then he goes, "just look at my website and look at our guitars." and i go, "it's too heavy for me. have you ever seen my act?" i mean, there's no way i can play any

h., i think i need more acts -- like host: i think i need to give more explanation. it talked about the deficit commission. leaders of the presidential panel, erskine bowles and alan simpson, saying the compromise ignores the cancer of national debt and they are frustrated it was announced just days after their plan was put forward. guest: i completely agree. host: you said you do not think the tax cut -- extension of the tax cuts would have impact on the deficit. guest: if you look in the past, the way the congressional budget office -- they are very good people but they are do what they are told. the way they are supposed to score, there term, how much a tax decrease caused the government is what is called a static modeling. they assume that people don't change their behavior when tax rates go up and down but i am a cpa, a master's in taxation and i used to prepare tax returns and you do, when the tax rate moves around, the first thing you do is sit down much your client and say let us figure out how we can avoid this, how we can compensate for this, whenever. when

i said boy, i would love to. a nurse and my husband is a firefighter and i don't think it's probably something that we qualify for but it's beautiful and i would love to help you find someone who can buy this. he said, "ah, you look okay to me." i said sir, you don't know my last name. you don't know my social security. what if i'm a bad credit risk or not who you think i am? he goes honey, i know people. you look fine. i said okay, but i don't have financing for that. he goes oh, no, i'll do it. 6% okay? he goes honey, you ought to take this because that's a great commercial rate. i said really? he said, "yeah." i said okay. he said shake on it. we did. then i called my husband and said, "mark, i think i just bought a hotel." [ applause ] >> glenn: there is her husband. look at her husband. [ applause ] is that the arm twisting. how long have you had it? how long have you had the hotel now? >> seven years in february. >> ever missed a payment? >> no. >> glenn: she looks pretty okay to me. let me tell you somethi

i get on the bus, i tell the driver where i need to get off, even if i think there digital voice system is going to announce that. just so they know in the event that it is not working. i would say a good amount of the time, i do get acknowledgment, actually. >> good morning. >> morning. is your announcements system working? >> i'm sorry, it is not. >> could you let me know when we get to van ness and sacramento? >> i sure will. >> i have had a number of drivers be really helpful in terms of getting passengers to move down a few seats so i can sit in the front. >> can somebody give this lady a seat? >> the bus driver was say, "please wait a moment. i want to make sure you have a seat." and i hear him or her announced that he needs a seat for a person with a disability. >> as soon as the person gets on the bus, i ask the passengers if we can have a seat for this person. >> anybody help us? thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> sides, federal law requires that the customers give their seats to the elderly and disabled if they should need it. >> buses should stop in zones that can accommodate m

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