i am, who i am mad to be as a person. who god put me on this earth to help my fellow man, to have a kind heart, to be a good person. i want to get back to that. that is what i am saying -- through the record. that is what i am trying to convey. i said this on a tv show in england. i got this comment, he is blaming the unemployed. what are right wing -- how did he get that out of that? i am not blaming them. no. we want to help. we want people to stand up, to feel good about themselves. we want people to have self- esteem, we want -- having a job makes you feel good. about yourself. it makes you feel worthy of being a human being, taking care family. once you establish that and you have this personal responsibility, you feel good about helping other people. and that is where this album came from. tavis: my sense is to your point, part of what people are struggling with is trying to hold on to their dignity. it is one thing to live in a world as you suggested earlier where your humanity is not affirmed. on top of your humani

as am i have not dined for days. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and offers tea made from the liquid he's crying. i do not want my lover crying and i am sorry i ever asked for tea. my lover, who lives far away opens the door to my room pretending he never cried. he offers tea and cold cakes. the tea is delicious. spiced like the start of our courtship. honeyed and warm. i drink every bit of the tea and put aside the cakes. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room like a man loving his strength. the lock i replaced this morning will not keep him away. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and brings me nothing. perhaps he has noticed how fat i have grown indulged. perhaps he is poor and sick as emptying his store. it is no matter to me any longer he has filled me already so full. my lover who is far away opens the door to my room and tells me he is tired. i do not ask what he's tired from for my lover far away has already disappeared. the blankets are big with his body. the cat, u

who am i? what do i want? how do i imprrve the quality of my relationships? do i have a soul?hat does death mean? how do i deal with it? is there a god? do we have a soul? what happens to us after we die? these areequestions science, at the moment, does not address. and yet, science is based on the fact that we have a consccousness. all -- and by consciousness i mean, spirit, you know.i use the words synonymously. so science is based on observation, theories, experiments. well, theories are conceived in consciousness, experiments are designed in consciousness, observations are made in consciousness, science is a product of our consciousness. and, therefore, it behooves us to address that part of ourselves, too. >> smith: well, speak on behalf of spirituality, then, becaase there are people who may have hostility to science at the moment who believe that science is somehow in conflict with spiriiuality, notwithstanding. >>>chopra: yes, i don'' think so. i thinn science is not at all against a legitimate evolving spirituality. our questions chaage as we evolve as the human speci

i am ho i am and that's all that i am. >> smith: i am who i am -- i love that. >> meat loaf: and i, andle go -- i'm always amazed, truly amazed when i walk nto somm place and somebody knows who i am because i don't think of myself in that light. i'll get into a roommwith like a de niro anddppoppe like thha and i'll go, wow, i'm ii a room with all these people, and there's me, too. >> smith: you know what? thinking i'm in a room with meat loaf. >> meat loaf: but tteealbum is fantasttc. >> smith: yeah. been a, a great pleasure talking to you. >> smith: well, let's hopp that the album is as successful,,if not 43 million copies, then let's get a bunch oo copies sold. you know, i'll settle forow, this grouu listening to it here. [laughter] >> smith: okay, good. i think e got -- i think we got a few covered over here. meat loaf, an honor to meet you. >> meat loaf: oh, niie to meet you. >> smith: congratulations on everything. thank you very much, meat loaf, very welcome.3 [ applaase ] >> funding for overheard with evvn smith is provided in part by hillco partners, texas government affairs con

. >> i did not have anything that showed me it was ok to be who i am. >> i had times when i did not wantet up and get out of bed, face the day. >> the feeling was really low. >> i wanted to just not be around. >> i thought of suicide. i was depressed. >> mostly, the message was that there was something wrong with me and i should just died. >> it did not feel good to want what i thought everybody should want. it just made me angry. >> there was a part of me that was a little bit ashamed. >> when the pain got too bad, in the pit of my stomach, i realize i need to tell my parents. >> mom, i think i am gay. she says, i think i knew that. >> it was harder for me to tell my mom that it was for my mom to hear what i needed to say. >> i was a police officer for four years, thinking i was the only gay male police officer in the world. i believe i was the only gay male police officer in the world. >> others were like, huh? >> their jaws dropped. i expected my father to have a different reaction than he did. he looked about me and said, are you happy? i said, yes. he said, he looked down and said,

and while you're sitting there in silence, the question comes up, who am i? who am i really?m and saying lionel, who are you? i did it that time. who are you really? and as an artist you are defined by your voice. now, let's look at when you first start. it's a young voice. as you get older, can you hit those same notes for 1945? no. you take it down a half step. then by 50 and 60 you take it down a whole step. in other words, you're not as spot object as you're supposed to be. >> what does the pressure of performance become like when you go through that deterioration? >> you are going through panic because we are perfectionists or as i say, all artists, we're egotistical maniacs, we want to take over the world and at the same time, 15 seconds after walking down that elevator to walk off the stage it's 30,000 people who say, we love you. in your head you go, i can't do that again. until you walk back up those stairs again and actually do it. and each time you walk out there, you have to be perfect. you have to -- they are looking for you. you have to hit that note like you di

am sorry. that is completely wrong. it allows -- it would be anybody who wants to do it, but they have to get permission. in our case, the board of supervisors. i am sorry i was completely out of the field there. a lot of people are not ready for it. i think most people are not ready. we are, and i think we can set a model for how to do it right, so this is a very good thing. vice president studely: commissioners? >> i do not have a direct question about the report, but i do every question going back to some of the earlier public comment. is inappropriate for me to pose that question at this time? and that is when we have made a ruling, such as in the case of the library commission president, are there any other further steps that we can take to urged the mayor to make a decision or to take some action? or, essentially, we make a recommendation, and that is the end of it in this particular case or similar cases? the executive director: there is nothing official batting powers the commission to do something like that, but there is no prohibition on determin

who gives a share it. - softball is the root of all gayness. i started crying and i broke down. i said i want you to know that i am gay. ere was a long puase. -- pause. my grandfather, a typical person who would not accept somebody, he said, we love you. >> my whole world opened up. >> selling at first person was a big deal. after the first few people, i just started acting like everybody should know this. i'm gay. >> this is who i am. >> i opened the door, my dad is out there. he looks at me and says, i am so sorry if i ever said fag. >> my life is great. >> i can be me. >> loving i would have missed experiencing the the joy of life. people who show me amazing things all the time. new ways to think and look at the world. i never foresaw being a police officer. i thought it was something i could not do. >> things keep getting better for me. >> it gets better. i will help you. we are here to help make your transition as smooth as possible. >> it gets better. >> you have so many people who are just like you. >> things get better when you reach out to others. >> you have to tolerate that not acceptance. you forge ahead and

thank you, stocks miracle gro, and who am i forgetting?ranklin county, my hometown local gardens curator -- my botanical gardens. this is an amazing example of what it takes to turn a community are round. it takes leadership from the public sector. we have two community challenge grants and the department of environmental justice grant, and that has kept us afloat. we would not be here if it was not for that. mendoza from the mayor's office is here. she would tell you she is first and foremost the mayor. she is on the school board. good we are blessed. it takes a lot of bridges with the community sector and the corporate sector to do things like this, and we feel like we have derived region we have arrived. and we are moving into the future because of you guys. thank you so much. good >> we would like to present a sharcheck. >> it does not look like it will fit in the atm. >> no. >> thank you. >> we have john murray who is here. we also have lynn here. we also have nicole riviera from leader pelosi's office, who is going to read a proclama

so there are a variety of ways to assure, one, i am who i am. when i report my income, it is that which is truly income that is coming into my household. >> let me ask you this. how does the s.n.a.p. era compare to other programs. >> i haven't tracked them lately but i think it's one of the best among federal state benefit programs. i know at a state level, governor's office, i know this directly, pay attention when the qc error rate is made known to each state. we do this individually. we punish the state that falls below certain minimums around qc error rates and reward states who do an outstanding job thain regard. >> let me ask you, miss fong, you mentioned the amount of indictments. you know, my question to you would be what is the conviction rate? sometimes we read about indictments and that's all we hear. sometimes people get all excited because there's an indictment but no conviction. what is your conviction rate? >> i'll be happy to provide that for the record but my recollection of the data is we have a very high conviction rate. it's

our youth department coordinator, nadia, peter -- who am i missing? with all the work, we have been able to make this a successful program. the program could not have been this successful, had it not been for the other members and the audience right now, the parents, caregivers, the adult allies, the friends, the cousin, and we also want to say thank you for supporting our warriors in making this monumental time in their lives. it is an honor for me to be able to be here to express my appreciation for the accomplishments that every one of these warriors has achieved. starting from helping pc y f -- dcyf informing our decisions, to helping us have a transparent and community-based project in the mission, to helping us advise the white house on what young people need in our country. i am sure each and everyone of you would agree it is such an inspiration to be in this room, in this space, with all of you, future leaders, and i definitely hope to see you one day in my position so that you can honor the next group of leaders. so i want to personally say c

i am talking, what are the implications for someone who lives here? i am someone who lives in the city who wants to send my children to public school. if this comes up here, you can watch me leave. there are a lot of people in this community as well. you will see them leave. i moved to this area because it was quiet, because there was not a lot of traffic and it was a nice neighborhood, and if you put 400 cars in there, at on the emporium, the america's cup, this is not going to be a nice place to live. it is great you are going to put 150 units in there for people who make multiple millions of dollars, but they do not have kids. you will watch your city get older and get childless and it will be a tough place to continue. i am not against development. i am for development. if they want to develop this site and put zero parking spots on it, i am all for it. i have an issue with the parking spots. i have an issue with the new traffic. @ think you need to look at -- i think you need to take a look. it is great everyone is giving their views on the neighb