1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:01,800 Speaker 1: Looking for a good summer read. 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 2: Just to ask California's first partner, it's one more thing. 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 3: I'm strong Andy. There's a new book coming out in August. 4 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 3: I just listened to a podcast with the author the 5 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 3: other day. I'm going to try to read it. It's 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 3: about I don't even know if I can explain what 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 3: it's about. Complex. Well, the simple thing is what is life? 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: Well, that's got to be quite a book. 9 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 3: Which has never been answered. Nobody knows. There's no good 10 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 3: did you know? I didn't even know this. There's no 11 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 3: good definition for what life is as opposed to something 12 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 3: that's not alive. Nobody has any idea why life started, 13 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 3: how it started, what it is, how to define it anyway. 14 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 3: This new book is supposed to get closer to that 15 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 3: or trapped in the matrix, Yeah. 16 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: Exactly, Well that's true. Yeah, I remember having it to 17 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: find in college, but people find it. There's unsatisfactor. 18 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 3: There's not an agreed upon definition because every definition you 19 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 3: can come up with has all kinds of flaws. Then 20 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 3: you would say, okay, well then why isn't this life 21 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 3: or why isn't that life? Or you know that sort 22 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 3: of thing. 23 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: So well, says you Life's a bitch. I learned that 24 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: long ago. There's your definition, like. 25 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 3: You to say when I was in high school, life's 26 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 3: a bitch, and then you die and life's a party. 27 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 3: That's me My definition, life is a highway. 28 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 4: I got a question for you, guys, Yes, do you 29 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 4: consider working to be life? And the reason I'm asking 30 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 4: this is I knew somebody that they were retiring. I asked, 31 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 4: why are you retiring? He said, so I can finally 32 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 4: do something, I can finally live. 33 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 3: Well, they must have hated their job a lot. It's funny. 34 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 3: We're in a special circumstance. This is fun to me. True, 35 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 3: I do always have to remember that I have a 36 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 3: job I really enjoy doing and get tremendous satisfaction out of. 37 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 3: But uh, I also know a guy real recently. I 38 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 3: talked to him last Friday who retired from a job 39 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 3: he hated like six months ago, and he's more miserable 40 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 3: now than when he worked his job. 41 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: Wow. 42 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's you know, work is a lot of 43 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 3: your life. It's a lot of who you are. 44 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just no question that you cross that bridge 45 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 2: and some people land on that new shore quite comfortably 46 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 2: goes great. I have friends like that. I play golf 47 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 2: with them and some it's a lot of trouble and 48 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 2: they struggle. 49 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: Just who knows. 50 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 2: Anyway, back to the question of a beatree jack as 51 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 2: Summer read Alert listener Alnonymous, good old friend of the 52 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty Show and of me personally sent this along. 53 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: The first Partner's Summer. 54 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: Book Club from the gov dot CA dot gov website. 55 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 2: The first Partner's Summer Book Club California for All Kids, 56 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 2: launched in partnership with the California State Library. The first partner, 57 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 2: that's Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who is a far left neo 58 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 2: Marxist activist loon her book. 59 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 3: I'm offended by the mere idea of the governor's wife 60 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 3: putting out a reading list that anybody would look at 61 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 3: to come up with what they want to read or 62 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 3: what they want their kids to read. That just the 63 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 3: idea of it offends me. Really, if that's where you're 64 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 3: going to get your reading information from a politician's spouse, 65 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 3: all right, who's a far. 66 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: Well known far left activist. 67 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, when we read with our children early and off, 68 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 2: and it encourages young readers blah blah blah, which is 69 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 2: absolutely true. 70 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: I agree with that. But here's here's your book list. 71 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: Let's start with preschoolers. 72 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 2: Here's what the first partner recommends preschoolers read or have 73 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 2: read to them. 74 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: Nana the Great goes camping. Okay, in our garden. 75 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 2: Millie has recently moved to a new city from a 76 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 2: place more than an ocean away. She misses her garden 77 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 2: used to grow food. Amara's far Mamara hosting a pot 78 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 2: luck for friends on her farm. She needs help finding 79 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 2: her pumpkins. Blah blah blah. 80 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: All our neighbors. 81 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 2: When a new family moves in, the whole neighborhood comes 82 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 2: together to celebrate their diverse community and the tree in me. 83 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 2: Through poetic text and exquisite illustrations of children reveling in nature, 84 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 2: this book explores various ways we as human beings are strong, creative, 85 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 2: and connected. That sounds just fine. Okay, that's your preschoolers's 86 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 2: let's move on. 87 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 3: Diverse is more than I wanted, but isn't not into 88 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 3: the I'm angry territory yet. 89 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna see certain patterns emerging here. K through 90 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 2: two Just Like Me, a collection of poetry filled with 91 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 2: engaging mini stories about girls of all kinds. Girls who 92 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 2: feel happy said, don't love their. 93 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 3: Bed and brunette or different kinds. 94 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 2: Water Day a joyful picture book about a young girl 95 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 2: in her community celebrating the arrival of something in water. 96 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 2: I Am Enough, a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who 97 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 2: you are, respecting others, being kind to one another. She 98 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 2: Persisted in sports. In the third She Persistent book, Chelsea 99 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 2: Clinton introduces the readers to women who have excelled in 100 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 2: their sports. 101 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 3: The pattern I'm supposed to pick up on here is 102 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 3: are all girl oriented? 103 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: Finding my dance? 104 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 2: Follow along is Rhea Thundercloud shares her dance journey from 105 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 2: blah blah blah. 106 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: Grades three through five. 107 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 2: Plant Cookieat discover how plant seeds and patio containers, blah 108 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,799 Speaker 2: blah blah, food harvest, Just ask. 109 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: Be different, be brave, be you. 110 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 2: Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sottomoyor shares her blah blah blah. 111 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 2: The Oldest Student, How Mary Walker learned to read Mexic Kid, 112 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 2: The Trip of a Lifetime. Along the way, Pedro finally 113 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 2: connects with zab willdo and learns what it And then 114 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 2: Arelli is a Dreamer, A story about Aurelli Morales a 115 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 2: DACA recipient, So you got to be a chick or 116 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 2: an immigrant. Otherwise your story is bullshit. Nobody wants to 117 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,919 Speaker 2: hear it. All right, you can be a chick or 118 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 2: an immigrant. 119 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:55,559 Speaker 1: That's it. 120 00:05:56,279 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 3: So no. Uh, two boys like the Hardy Boys. One 121 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 3: of the reasons boys like the Hardy Boys so much 122 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 3: as those boys doing boys stuff. Popular book series from 123 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 3: when we were young. Yeah, Mexicans can't be Irish, lad 124 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 3: I've got ages eleven through fourteen. Here it's teens who 125 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 3: are in the autism spectrum. Obviously I have no problem 126 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 3: with that. Let's see, here's another immigrant who's swimming at 127 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 3: a swimming pool. Apparently than the Blackbird Girls, Brown Girl Dreaming, 128 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 3: Rebel Girls Celebrate Pride, twenty five Tales of Self Love, 129 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 3: Community Inspiring Tales Chicks only from the LGB t q 130 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 3: I ab CD Barbecue Community Women in Art. Let's skip 131 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 3: to the grades nine through twelve. Brave Plucky Eliza deals 132 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 3: with lung lingering trauma. Or You're a girl on Earthed 133 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 3: and I Am not your perfect Mexican daughter rounds out 134 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 3: the choices. I know we talk about it, but at 135 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 3: some point it's got to reach national consensus that Okay, 136 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 3: we went, We went plenty far and making sure girls 137 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 3: are getting an education and have an opportunity to go 138 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 3: to college, and blah blah blah. We kind of left 139 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 3: boys out of it somewhere along the way, and we 140 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 3: better turn our attention to that, because well, the reading 141 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 3: list and all kinds there's all kinds of stats out there. 142 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 3: I got two boys. All the girls are super into 143 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 3: learning and straight a students. A lot of the boys 144 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 3: are kind of meh about school, and I think that's 145 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 3: because of the way it's structured. It's structured. It's very 146 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 3: girl centered focused, designed for your personality and interests. 147 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 2: I never talk about politicians' children and never will in 148 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 2: any substantive way. I happen to know the nwsoms have 149 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 2: a couple of sons, and I have a sick feeling 150 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 2: in my stomach, which I hope is wrong. I'm sure 151 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 2: they love their sons very much and want the best 152 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 2: for them. But to grow with with a mom who 153 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 2: is so openly disdainful of males that her reading list 154 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 2: includes not a single boys adventure unless they're an immigrant. 155 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 2: That just that it's my Angelou's When people try to 156 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 2: show you or tell you who they are, believe them. 157 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, book about two guys building a fort and 158 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 3: climbing a mountain and you know whatever, fishing or eavingly. 159 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:39,439 Speaker 2: Right, No, she's openly disdainful of that. 160 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 3: That's interesting. Yeah, but don't get your reading lists for 161 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 3: your kids from politicians anyway. Yeah right. 162 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 2: Unless your dearest dream is that your child become a 163 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 2: little Marxist, then this list is perfect for them. 164 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 4: Join us next time for California Lieutenant Governor's list of 165 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 4: helpful maps and Almanax. Don't travel until you've heard it. Well, 166 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 4: I guess that's it.