my father and my mother and my brother phillip. last night was the first time i had told them in korean that i love them. because in korean, it's a very, very different work. [speaking in korean] and to the community -- [speaking in korean] thank you so much for your support. someone asked me after the election if i felt that i owed the mentors in the communities that allowed me to be here today, because i would not be here if not for a community of support that brought me here. and at first when i thought about that question, i was like, of course, i owe people for being here. but it didn't sit right with me to say that i owed people. and it suddenly dawned on me that it's not that i feel like i owe people. but i have been given so much in this life. so much from my family and so much for my community. the next four years are actually my way of giving back. thank you so much for your support. it is an honor to be here today. and i look forward to working with all of you. [applause] [applause] president chiu: thank you, supervisor

my vagina tears to my ass. but i don't care. dana puts the baby on my chest.he cord is still attached. i am still shaking. the baby's eyes are wide open. i cry, the baby cries. i have a baby. it's a girl. [applause] that was wonderful. that was really great. don't you all want to be her best friend name. emanuel, queer spoken word poetry. pbs's in the life. an online journal. he's the author of the year poetry. as well as his first spoken word. it's a recipient of the masha a gomez award. please welcome manual xavier. >> hello. okay. there we go. how are you doing? first of all, thank you so much. it's such a great pleasure to be back in san francisco. i love this city and it's always a pleasure to be here. i want to thank mishell t. one is new. it will give you a back story. a few years ago, i had been attacked on the streets of brooklyn. i am deaf in my left ear. >> sitting on the l, i was made a wear, my voice of louder. he didn't know about the hearing loss in one here. i remained silent. i didn't turn around to expose the scar on the back of my head. so t

that is my brother, my sister, and me. we thought we were just as clever and smart and just as brave as the children in his story. he told stories vaguely familiar, but different some how because he told them his way. you see, i had no idea my grandfather was a functional illiterate and encouraged all 3 of us, his grandchildren to read. the way he encouraged me, he'd say y'all read to me what they taught you up at the schoolhouse today. i would whip out my dick and jane. see jane run. run, he endured that. he allowed me to read to him. i had no idea in other families the adults read to children. in my house, children read to the adults. imagine the confidence they gave me in my readings. i loved to read out loud. enjoyed it immensely. so i would read dick and jane all the way up to julius caesar. when i came to a word difficult, he would say work with it little sister. he wouldn't jump in and tell me. he would let me work it out so i did. i learned to jump into words. that built my confidence, grandmother and ggrandfather

gone is my husband, my sweet husband. gone is my sweet love. my beloved has been taken from the city. oh, you flies of the steppe, my beloved bride groom has been taken from me before i could wrap him with a proper shroud. the wild bull lives no more. his shepherd, the wild bull, lives no more. dimusi, the wild bull, lives no more. i ask the hills and valleys where is my husband. i say to him, i can no longer bring him food. i can no longer serve him drink. the jackel lies in his bed. you ask me about his reed pipe. the wind must play it for him. you ask me about his sweet songs. the wind must sing them for him. satur, the mother of dimusi, weeps for his song. once my boy wandered so freelly on the steppe, now he is captured. once dimusi wandered so freely on the steppe, now he is bound. the ewe gives up her lamb, the goat gives up her kid. my heart plays the reed pipe of mourning. in a place where he once said my mother will ask for me, now he cannot move his hands, now he cannot move his feet. i would see my child. the mother walked to the de

my guess. is. in one thousand nine hundred nine the return of the work to russia began with the first exhibition there since he went. to continue to show his work in russian. political repressions and to the architects and builders of st petersburg to the. national museum. today. mr xi thanks for coming to our program. that's walk down memory lane and. we all know that you were expelled from the soviet union the nine hundred seventy one. citizenship. what was your fishel reason for expelling your from the country. since i was not one of the chosen people. was quite a complicated one. i was arrested and then taken to the kind of state security for a so-called chat. explained to me that i had three options. first option which if it was to go into a man to asylum where i spent half a year. now it was the atsic of clinic us which was an experimental clinic actually one of the most horrible wants as it was under the jurisdiction of the state security services. they tested new psychotropic medication on

in my mind. not their brothers.but i see the green brothers too they're not quite in the romantic category well they retailed white cruel. there is little romanticism in them and much fantasy. you handle many productions including is a theatrical designer. what is your attitude more than music you seem to be a man who'd rather use something composed. you know they are age or would you. more than music there's a stylistic vice. that. you know you're not quite tried there because my second larry. the magic cannot continue as an elaborate as it were in the not correct. it is its first act at the y. and not cracka became the not correct but it was used of several choreographers to fit it into a tchaikovsky school but most of it was unbearably tough it was illegible. he stood a story of the prince's spittle a part of the story of the magic of not a cracker to what he decided to make a new scenario and i wrote a new libretto. eve and i asked a friend who in my youth is in a very good we have a hard poser in the positive s

what happens to my family it's what my life is about now as my family and i denounce. it. this violence is a way of obtaining power and control this violence is usually accompanied by jealousy also a fear of losing power and control it is accompanied by verbal abuse and putdowns again as a way to obtain power and control as you can see it's a perfectly ordinary house and he really does wreck their house in about twenty minutes and what room is this this is there at the master bedroom and he went right above the bed i mean you can see whore baby killer and everything else where they divorced at the time they were really separated the time she just asked him to move out he got really jealous he came in the room said you're not sleeping with me you're sleeping with somebody else put the hand down started we were into the ground put a gun into the mouth the tin a seven year old were in the room screaming don't kill mommy don't kill mommy and the only reason he stopped her out five minutes of that was because the kids were getting hysterical and he made the mother leave the hou

pretty much 4 days a week my great uncle would come in and visit all of these people my uncle, my grand mother and so forth, all were from a town land called outside of robin. when i was growing up i would hear the names. and they would conjure the sense of another world i was no longer a part of but was connected to. i think the -- i came to the brink of this sort of, you know, really quest gradualy by hearing the names. the other experience i had when i was growing up is music in my grand mother's house. my grand mother live on the first floor of the apartment building the door was open. everyone in the apartment building stopped there after work. they would stop for a drink and play polka, not polka, poker. and lynched to john gibbons play an accordion on his wooden leg. you had the sense of people having come over if not in mass by a great number to this other place with a kind of echo of that place being transposed into the world that became my world. so that of my mother's side of the family. my father's side was more mysterious. over time i heard stories of lost aunts and saint j

my mother and my father. my immigrant parents, my father a doctor, my mother a teacher, who taught me everything i know about public service. thank you for changing my diapers. [laughter] thank you for putting up with me for 40 years. and if you wouldn't indulge me, mom and dad, could you stand up to be acknowledged by everyone here? [applause] we have many thanks. i also want to thank my constituents in district three for giving me this incredible honor of serving you. i want to thank my staff. katherine, juddson, victor. i think as, colleagues, you know, we only look good because of all the work that they do. i want to thank all the city officials that are here and the city staff for your tremendous sacrifice and your public service. and, colleagues, i want to thank all of you for the tremendous honor of serving as your board president. i have learned an incredible

road and it's my war ♪ ♪ oh it's my road it's my road and it's my war ♪ ♪ it's my war it's my war ♪ ♪ are open his eyes are open ♪ ♪ my body tells me no but i won't quit 'cause i want more ♪ ♪ 'cause i want more my body tells me no but i won't quit ♪ ♪ 'cause i want more 'cause i want more and it rides out of town ♪ i have fallen in love with making bird houses. caw caw! [ director ]what is that? that's a horrible crow. here are some things that i'll make as little portals. honestly, i'd love to do this for the rest of my life so i've got to take care of my heart. for me, cheerios is a good place to start. [ male announcer ] got something you'll love to keep doing? take care of your heart. you can start with cheerios. the natural whole grain oats can help lower cholesterol. brrrbb... makes you feel ageless. [ male announcer ] it's time. love your heart so you can do what you love. cheerios. [ bob ] squak.

i have followed my heart in many parts of my career.many people gave me the advice not to start my foundation at that early stage of my career. truth be told, i never lived and died inside the lines. i never really wanted it for most of my career. it came with a lot of tanks and pressure. the one thing i connect to is the ability to impact somebody. it was always my goal to get out there and find that extra bit, as scared and nervous as i was, as tired and injured as i was, to say maybe i can provide an escape to somebody else's life who came here today to watch me. again, but chose to look at the platform of shifting from tennis into my next career as a heck of an opportunity. i have been blessed enough to be able to do it. tavis: how do you become great at something that you don't love? >> i was really talented, but i did not become great at it, in my own mind, until i took ownership of it. when i walked away from the game at 27 years old, i give myself permission to quit. i had been depressed, dabbled in self destruction, drugs, crys

my mother was a home economics teacher, and my dad was a geologist.to the university of kentucky and got a master's, and met charlie snow. charlie snow was the head of the department; he was a forensic anthropologist. i was in the lab studying osteology...studying bones. and he came in one day and said, "i've got an id case this weekend, would you like to go?" i said, "yeah, sure, i've been reading about this..." so about six months before that, two trucks ran together one morning outside of frankfurt, kentucky. they burned, and when the fire was out there were three people in the two trucks instead of just the two drivers. well, who was this third individual? we went out and he was able to make a positive vivification of the woman. and it was, "aha! that's what i want to do!" it was like you see in the cartoons, where the light flashes... [making explosion sound] all of the stuff i'd worked on all these years... and we go out...and it's the only case i ever threw up on. from then on i've never thrown up on a case, and there have been gruesome ones. a

she needs my arm for balance but avoids my touch. she counts the 10 sign posts. 5 stop signs and 2 mailboxes to our destination. she moves her lips as if remembering. before i came here, i had a name. 4 palm trees faced us when we landed loomed like guardians to pass the golden gate we tell them what they wanted to hear. on this island of desperate dreams we shed our skins and wore new once. we burned our parents name and let our past curl into smoke. no longer my father's daughter. no longer my husband's wife. only the sea gulls know who i really am. for months we were held in separate rooms the dampness went through the bunks and gnawed our bones the wales of ghosts kept us awake. 32 steps to my father's house. 4 windows facing north. 24 steps to my uncle's house, 2 doors facing south. i have 3 sisters, 2 brothers, 4 cousins on my father's side. now i store the memory in a drawer along with bitter herbs and rhinoceros horns we dine at restaurants on the better side of towns with pink table cloths and real flowers in the vases. we h

not my 29th, not my 31st, my 30th. i'm 30 today. not the way that i thought i'd be spending my 30th birthday. happy freaking birthday to me. all i want for my birthday is brad. i got everything i wanted for my birthday. >> it's your birthday? >> it is my birthday. -- on my birthday. i don't know if you got the memo, but it's my birthday. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, we got the memo, about 100 times. it's also kind of weird because someone looks a little older than 30. [ laughter ] [ applause ] "i'm 29." [ laughter ] it's time for our last clip, you guys. now, if you're gonna go streaking -- show of hands. who's gonna go streaking later, after the show? [ cheers and applause ] 75% of our audience. if you're gonna go streaking, here's a few things to think about. one -- make sure you're naked. two -- make sure your buddy videotapes it. and three -- look out for plexiglas walls. [ audience ohs ] >> going streaking -- come on! [ crash ] [ laughter ] [ audience ohs ] [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: oops. ow. as bad as that look

it is part of my story. what if i embarrassed you--i grew up watching. >> i would like to know what you think about two point immigration policy. >> please say that again? emigration policy in arizona? i assume you are talking about arizona's infamous -- i am sorry -- he was asking about my father's immigration policy, i was against it. it was a poorly written bell. it was for poor people being hispanic. it is a large part of being in arizona and it was overblown by the media. it was not a racist bill that people on msn b.c. -- it was poorly written. i come from a family of immigrants and immigration is such a large aspects and worry about the time of making judgment calls and immigrating to this country. i was against it, i have a lot of friends who are small business owners and it really took major hits economically because of it. thank you. >> hello. coming back to the u.s. senate. those would be his legacy is. does he have any thoughts. what are your thoughts about it? >> no matter where i go in my life,

what my cats are up to. i always carry my business cards. i am not a poet, i only write to masture bait my mind. i am trying to convince myself that poetry it save lives. it's the dust of art. and i am going to close with to poet. americano. i look at myself in the mirror. trying to figure out what makes me an american. i see chickens. practicing religions without a roof. i see my own blood. proud american blue genes labels. i see them sits outside with the eyes of an alley cat. i see myself trying to be more like james dean. i see carlos san tanna. more than sporadic latino explosions. as american as bruce spring teen and elvis presley. i see taco bell. i see purple, red, blue, green, orange. i see cheetah revera on broadway. as american as the lee's, the kennedys. none sound american to me. i am not a shamed. jose can you see. i pledge allegiance to this country. land of commercialism. if i can win gold medals. if i can sign my life away. ain't no language. this is my country too. i believe in free dom and diversity, need to get the hell o

my history is having doors shut in my face, never wide-open. there was the door shut against me anymore. on the good things happening to me. >> host: why do you think this book has been on the bestseller list forever, has been on top, which after it first hit the bestseller list? >> guest: it's a mystery to me. today read in "the new yorker" review of a book. that's a genre slightly to be feared because they can try out some very reviews. it was an enthusiastic review by admin named neal asher said. and i thought i'd get a mixed review from it because they're not known for their enthusiasm. >> host: so the new york review of time magazine, "newsweek" and the "los angeles times." i thought it was kind of a simple narrative in the tradition of what they call the shanna quay, the old storyteller. it amazes me what the review was cited in the book. it's a double layer is the island and finding what they consciously clever writer i was. the prime minister of ireland, which is all right because one time on the last day of the world, were richer like

it's--and it's about the--my--my life in new york. but mainly what i discovered, what i learned as a teacher--i stood in front of those classes for --over 27 years talking, exhorting, evoking and learning mostly. i used to say to them in stuyvesant high school in september and january when we get these new classes in. i said, 'by the end of this term there's one person in this class who will--who will have learned the most and that's me because i want to learn.' and i would learn something from each time--for instance, we did "hamlet." each year if you do it over and over, it just keeps--the poem, the play keeps revealing itself. and--and they--and they by their--by my admission to them that i was almost illiterate and that i really knew as much about a poem as they did because they had the idea if you read a yeats poem or t.s. elliot, the teacher knows what it means. the teacher doesn't know. you can only-- guess. they thought the teacher--i said, 'no, we don't know. the poet himself sometimes is puzzled by what he has written.' so w

my gas is shut off at my meter, and i'm able to live in my apartment without gas. ceqa should not be suspended for the residence because there can be a substantial environmental impact. it also states no impact physically for the moving. one of the residents told me that if she had to move -- she has lived here 35 years -- that it would kill her husband and. i have two letters from my neighbors, and i'm going to start to read one. "i look at the developer agreement. i'm not an attorney. i also looked at the vision plan. the plans and promises parkmerced -- the developer agreement in no way matches with the plan promises. "i'm a resident of 316 to reynaud. i've lived here 15 years. my life actually started back in 1972. my grandmother moved to parkmerced when i was two years old. i cannot remember a time when parkmerced was not part of my life. when i got married, my husband and i knew this was where we wanted to live. we started our family here. we have two young children who have known this as their only home. we loved living here. this is our home. please do not

everything from my letter to my blood pressure is superb. if i can hang on, i intend to try. >> you just had your gall bladder removed. >> i had a very bad episode a couple of weeks ago. i crashed. as my doctor said. i had a melt down in my bone marrow. that can happen in chemotherapy. i was in terrible i have lost the gallbladder. i am hanging on. >> what has this done to the old head? >> the worst of the initial treatment is what's called chemo-brain. you feel foggd in the head. -- iught by can't read, thought if i can't read, i would not have a persuasive reason to live. i did not want to give in to despair. turns out the chemo-brain is transitory. i am quite lucid, at least in my own opinion. i could write a column today if i was lucky. and that's and strong coffee. i can certainly it read. and converse. the pending was to spread in that direction, i probably would feel that was the end. >> what has been the reaction from other people to your condition? they are trying to assure me that my life does not waste time. i am 62 in april. beli

my health and energy has gotten a lot better. same for my wife. one thing i will say is i will just tell you this that i had a conversation with my wife recently, and she did not understand -- i do not know either -- why the plans are to destroy such beautiful, durable places like garden apartments. i will tell you that when we moved here, we sought and we still think this is a little slice of heaven, so i find myself distressed to hear about the project plans to demolish and garden apartments. as we live in 100 block of gonzales, if they go through, we will probably be one of the first ones to have to leave. that is my guess. i could be wrong. another thing i would like to bring to your attention -- a small matter, perhaps not germane to your decision, however, what is decided in this matter concerning division plan will be utilized in not only local law, but state and federal matters across the country to help decide similar issues. i think it has something to do with the good faith clause in the constitution. i'm not going to take any more time

if anyone would take over my contract i was terrified that these were my last moments of watching my career. and i called my mom, and i said, mom, i'm so enforce about this and she said i'd love you if you were a garbage man and she wasn't taking a crack at garbageman. but she says i don't care what your and i love you and every day i write those words i'd love you as a garbage man soaking in her strength. the best hero in the book they are on the last two pages because they are blank. and they say your hero's photo here and your hero's story here and i promise you take this book and you give it this holiday season or on a birthday or whatever it and you write one sense about your father, your grandfather, a military member of your family about what they mean to you, that will be the most beautiful page in heroes for my son and i wanted the book something you could give to your son at any age and say thank you for being my hero. >> you included two contemporary u.s. presidents in this book. who are they? >> the book has no politics and prose so nobody is in it for political reasons i

it is going to take away my view, my life. i have a view department, which we paid extra for to get, and i'm going to lose that. this is somewhat unavoidable, they say, but i'd think just not building there is how you avoid it. [applause] i'm concerned about the densely populated east side. most of the housing on the east side, and i love the idea of dense housing, and i did live in new york, and i like an urban lifestyle, but i do have a car. i take transit most of the time to work, but my family has one car, and we do use it. i'm concerned i'm not even going to be able to do that, that with so much more population, in addition to the muni the train coming in, which i assume will remove some of the parking where the station is going to be, i think there will be a lot of pressure on fewer spots, and i'm concerned that when friends and family come to visit, they will not be able to park. i do support urban development and creation of affordable housing. i love the green aspects of this plan. i'm willing to live with the inconve

it knocked out 4 of my teeth and broke my bone and jaw. and put it in my jaw. i got shot here 2 or 3 times. got shot in my leg. right here. really, i was like, i am addicted to the hood. i like being there. i got shot. i got jumped. but it all started. getting shot like this. >>[inaudible]. >> and this is where the other bullet went in. it went through here. bam. and it come out the other side right here. and plus, like before i got stabbed. my brother got stabbed. >> this is a tremendously serious issue in san francisco. the whole of the leading cause of lives lost in san francisco. part of the reason why so many lives lost compared to heart diseases. substance abuse. some of it is gang related. some of it is not >> i heard somebody say. i have to get out of hospital to get my mine. i heard that today. and you know, it's scary because i felt like that's another somebody i have to see in the hospital or hear their mother have to hear the news their son just died. >> i see them if i person tries to talk to me. they don't even know my po. you came in, you would b

my ' out of ph.d. so i followed my mother in this respect. just go here grandfather was struggling under the depression and my great-grandfather was a butcher. while your father was at city college studying my father was a basketball star. >> guest: your kids are good athletes. now i'm going to mention a few names that were instrumental in his electoral formation and in the book, each of these two people, the first is lionel trilling. could you describe who he was and what his influence was? >> guest: is a great literary critic considered one of the greatest literary critics. he taught at columbia for many decades and was a good friend, he and his wife were good friends of my parents but were a generation older i guess you could say. one of the most striking essays and my favorite of hers group is his essay on lionel trilling's book on forrester the british novelist. i think trilling, trilling was a liberal, critic of liberalism, critic of the progressive liberalism and it more tragic view of life, more complex view of the world. i think in t

i have my children. i have my vote -- my son. i am here because i am frustrated. i need help. i have been asking for help for a long time. i am out here on my own. korea and not in a mood to beg people. i thought this was a place where this country was a place where we all help each other. i am not experiencing a lot of that, and i am frustrated. i am enraged every day. i have to go to a greek camp, when i should be on vacation with my children -- a grief camp. i am taking my children to grief camp. a mother's fight to push the city to act. i have been fighting. how long do i have to go? i just need help. i have their pictures. [bell] president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i have had two years' experience. i want to recognize san francisco's right to now, how much radiation their cell phones emit. this is important. it is a standard for other cities. your past stated opposition to your pg&e smart meter program. since we have started the program, we have been getting reports from all over the state where these smart meters have been installed, people reporting headaches, n

my aim, i guess is to at the end of my novel that [inaudible] good mexican novelists. alexander looked at the mirror and saw a mexican stairing back at him. the bad mexican had paid alexander a visit much the conversation from last night's party brought him back in full force. why did he always have to open his big mouth. why tell people that don't care that he hated and despised? he actually might like the [inaudible] hated me english and spanish he could not understand how someone could say he was mexican having been born in the usa. he doesn't like going to mexican places. he does not like to discuss beer and shots of tequilla. he never listened to spanish radio stations. no more mexicans. who did not have a problem being objective with a mexican. [inaudible]. i should try to do something about this he thought this is not good. may be i should try, may be i should make an effort. may be i should drive to the mission and spend quality time with my own people. i'm sure it would be simple. he doesn't have to be so hard. i am sure anyone who looks at me and talks to me

my parents took me there. i have taken my children that are now adults. it is not somewhere the to go for a restaurant. we have a million restaurants in san francisco. the important part is keeping the tranquillity and have the part not become another tourist attraction in a negative way. supervisor chu: thank you. >> my name is kristin neighborly. by m. forsaking the boat house. i was just in carlsbad caverns last year. everyone keeps talking about food. when i heard that there were five or six tables replace that this boat house, but i have heard is that they're going to be losing money on the food. not that the ortega's do not serve food. we do not need another caesar salad. we need a historic but house. we need to save about house. we do not need to save grace. we need bicycles. we need something charming in golden gate park. we do not need another commercial teacher joint. i walked in there with a huge community of people every day. there is an entire community of people that love the bucolics ready. i believe in saving the boat house historically. t

my credit cards and my cell phone on me but i couldn't see my daughter for fear of being arrested that i had to live with friends or relatives. i contacted lawyers my whole life changed when i wasn't free anymore i couldn't go back to college and get a job all this caused a lot of emotional turmoil in my life. within that family. as a practitioner of military law over the last twenty six years i return many people to military control and it is never easy for someone to go bad it's never easy it takes great courage for camilla to do what he is doing today because he does not know what he faces upon his return to military authorities thank you thank. god. thank you thank you thank you thank you. i did not prepare a statement because what i have to say i have to say from the heart and it's a very simple message and a message and it simply is that i'm saying no to war. we're dying there iraqis are being killed every day and then here people are you know reading us about janet jackson's breast or the super bowl or whatever when there is a war going on right now and there are people die and

i would like to acknowledge and thank my husband for being my rock and my support. [applause] my sons, kevin, baby monty, my beautiful mother and sisters for the teaching of unconditional love. my ancestors that walk before me. my mentors. my sf bay area community, the yin and the yang. i am proud to be an american indian and will continue to be inspired by the way of life. don't sweat the small stuff, life is too short. angels fly high because they take things lightly. love generously, carried the flag -- care deeply. speak kindly. thank you. [applause] >> please join us in presenting. congratulations, aurora. [applause] >> barack, all i have to say is -- aurora, all i have to say is, omg. calling to the podium at this time, joan. good to see you, joan. >> i am the executive director of the native american aids project. it was founded by a group of gay american indians back in 1984 as the american indian aids institute. we have become the most comprehensive hiv/aids organization for native americans. besides providing care and prevention services for our community,

you know, byron gallimore, my producer, missy, gallimore's wife, my band, my management. is going to be out with me. luke bryan is going to be out with me. so, there's going to be a lot of good people out. >> jimmy: are you going to come to nuevo york? >> i hope so. i hope so. i would like to play the garden again. >> jimmy: if you do, you got to hook me up with tickets. >> well, you got to come sing. you'll come play. >> jimmy: yeah. oh, my god, you don't want that. >> get these guys to come jam with us. >> jimmy: all right, we can all do it. absolutely, they can go. hey, i want to show everyone a clip from "country strong." here's the great tim mcgraw. >>> anything else to say to your fans? >> i love y'all. thanks for coming out. >> she looks great, doesn't she, guys? >> thank you so much. thank you. >> hi, ms. kelly. would you mind signing this for me, please? >> sure. >> thank you so much. if you have any advice for a young artist, such as myself, i would love to hear it. >> oh, i have some advice. >> and james has been so helpful. i won't sell it on ebay or anything.

uh, no, london electricity provide my gas. or is it london gas provide my electricity? know, i'm sorry, i can't really remember. oh, and he's picked up the phone to a cold caller. classic schoolboy error. shhh. classic mistake, dad. i mean, obviously i would like to pay less for my energy. don't get involved, dad. this is stupid. shhh! they call up six o'clock at night every night and-- i know what i'm doing. no, you don't. get on with that. sorry, could you say that again? i missed the bit about units. karen: what can i get as a pet, then? we really can't have pets at the moment, darling. why can't we get a giraffe? a giraffe? we could keep it outside. well, no, because giraffes are a bit big, aren't they, darling? what about, then, a...lion? a lion. yeah. well, that might be a little bit on the dangerous side, my lovely. what about a, um... puffin? a puffin?! you're well lucky, you don't have to wear a uniform. it's weird. psst. it's okay-- ( both mouthing words ) i'm sorry, i gotta go, mate. my dad's making a stupid face at me. get on with your homework. what? i am.

you were always on my mind, you were always on my mind.ell me, tell me your city love and has not died. give me, give me one more chance to keep this city satisfied, satisfied maybe i was not always there for every item that came along boat maybe i was not perfect on my city, city song little things i should have said and done i just never took the time but you were always on my city mind you were always on my mind ♪ and thank you for being supervisors. ♪ so glad you made the city number one ♪ [applause] >> good afternoon, supervisors, or elective there of. happy new year, and, unfortunately, i hope it does not progressively get any worse in the city of san francisco. can the city of san francisco afford the type of activism that members, like the one that just cannot up and walked up of the chamber, he has a wife that is a teacher, and is the city voted, voted, -- this city voted to have activities for our school children. what does this progressive board of supervisors do with this vote? 0. what did eric mar do to protect our parks befor

>> no, i came over with my wife and my -- my 2 1/2-year-old daughter.yed, literally, three blocks from here. >> jimmy: oh, really? and what did you make of california when you got here? >> people called me dude a lot. a lot of dude stuff. i thought it was -- i thought that was in those "bill and ted" movies. >> jimmy: that's what you think about mate, too. but people say it. >> it's unfortunate. >> jimmy: i like being called mate. it makes me feel like we're friends. >> my son calls me "dude dad." he puts my name on the end. he knows i don't really like it. so, he goes, "dude dad." >> jimmy: if you do a show after "the mentalist," "dude dad" would be good. i think there's a dude dad parade in pasadena every year. the show is very popular. you just got renewed and all that stuff, and -- [ cheers and applause ] i mean, it's phenomenal. and i guess the lesson, i mean, if there is a lesson, really, it's don't bother going to school. right? >> yeah, i don't think there's a lesson. it doesn't have to be a lesson. >> jimmy: that is the lesson. simon baker, eve

in early 2007, my unit, my permit unit had bedbugs. i reported this to my manager on monday. they did not send a maintenance man into my unit until wednesday fifth if i did not get anyone from pest control until the following monday. if you do not know what it's like to be up at night with your lights on for, wondering if you are going to get ate up, living with hiv aids, this is dangerous. i called the department of public health. they referred me to dbi. i called them. they put me on hold and said they cannot do anything for me and to go back to dph. there's a mix of with the department. it's not the lack of funding. it is the department merry-go- round. come up with a solution to get off the department merry-go- round. maybe more tenants would not be eaten up by the bugs. with over 500 hotels in the city and more than 350 low-income housing buildings, two inspectors from each department is not going to cut it. i have to spend my own money to do my own laundry. management did not move me out of the unit. the problem is enforcement. someone needs to step up to the plate and

give my best to your wife. the camera cannot pick this up, but there's a wonderful pattern in the suit you are wearing. you said your wife picked that out and got you to lose weight. you look amazing. your wife is hooking you up. i love it. that is our show for tonight. until next time, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org tavis: join me next time for a conversation with an award winning film maker on "the king's speech." >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment, one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> be more. >>

because i'm -- my mom bought it for me, because my boyfriend -- well, my ex-boyfriend broke up with me crying and moping and she just -- i think she wanted to shut me up, so, she bought this for me to kind of make me feel better, but it was two years ago and i'm kind of over it and i don't even want to look at it anymore, so i just wanna give it away. >> jimmy: hey, thanks. yeah, absolutely. >> so, there you go. >> jimmy: thank you. [ applause ] get over it. >> i am over it. >> jimmy: get over it, yeah. your boyfriend isn't brett favre, is he? >> no. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: just checking. >> how are you doing, buddy? nice to see you, rob. >> hello. >> jimmy: where are you from? what is your full name, where you from? >> rob donnelly from denver, colorado. >> jimmy: oh, welcome, all right, colorado in the house. -- good, welcome, buddy. what did you bring for us for the jackpot? >> i have some custom orthotic insoles in my shoes that i -- [ light laughter ] -- as of late, don't need anymore. >> jimmy: now, what do you mean? what happened? >> i broke my leg snowboarding two years ago and

somebody has to be a stickler. >> my bad, my bad. >> jimmy: no problem, man. i hear ya.and. >> jimmy: and, yeah -- and you were doing andy. yeah. very, very good. what did you -- do you have a -- do you ever do police songs on record? >> yeah, we love to cover the police 'cause i have a high voice like -- like sting, who's in the police. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i only know his solo stuff so i don't know what you're talking about. [ laughter ] >> i'm just a "fields of gold" guy. >> jimmy: well, thanks for being here, buddy. i appreciate it, man. >> right on, thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: he's a good man. we have such a great finish to the week tonight. from the movie "all good things" and she is fantastic in this movie, the lovely and talented kirsten dunst is here. [ cheers and applause ] one of my faves. this next guy is the lead singer -- the lead singer of twisted sister, who is currently starring in "rock of ages" on broadway. dee snider is joining us! [ cheers and applause ] come on. and like i said, we've got some great music from the one and only mar