Speaker 1: Looking for a good summer read.
Speaker 2: Just to ask California's first partner, it's one more thing.
Speaker 3: I'm strong Andy. There's a new book coming out in August.
Speaker 3: I just listened to a podcast with the author the
Speaker 3: other day. I'm going to try to read it. It's
Speaker 3: about I don't even know if I can explain what
Speaker 3: it's about. Complex. Well, the simple thing is what is life?
Speaker 1: Well, that's got to be quite a book.
Speaker 3: Which has never been answered. Nobody knows. There's no good
Speaker 3: did you know? I didn't even know this. There's no
Speaker 3: good definition for what life is as opposed to something
Speaker 3: that's not alive. Nobody has any idea why life started,
Speaker 3: how it started, what it is, how to define it anyway.
Speaker 3: This new book is supposed to get closer to that
Speaker 3: or trapped in the matrix, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Well that's true. Yeah, I remember having it to
Speaker 1: find in college, but people find it. There's unsatisfactor.
Speaker 3: There's not an agreed upon definition because every definition you
Speaker 3: can come up with has all kinds of flaws. Then
Speaker 3: you would say, okay, well then why isn't this life
Speaker 3: or why isn't that life? Or you know that sort
Speaker 3: of thing.
Speaker 1: So well, says you Life's a bitch. I learned that
Speaker 1: long ago. There's your definition, like.
Speaker 3: You to say when I was in high school, life's
Speaker 3: a bitch, and then you die and life's a party.
Speaker 3: That's me My definition, life is a highway.
Speaker 4: I got a question for you, guys, Yes, do you
Speaker 4: consider working to be life? And the reason I'm asking
Speaker 4: this is I knew somebody that they were retiring. I asked,
Speaker 4: why are you retiring? He said, so I can finally
Speaker 4: do something, I can finally live.
Speaker 3: Well, they must have hated their job a lot. It's funny.
Speaker 3: We're in a special circumstance. This is fun to me. True,
Speaker 3: I do always have to remember that I have a
Speaker 3: job I really enjoy doing and get tremendous satisfaction out of.
Speaker 3: But uh, I also know a guy real recently. I
Speaker 3: talked to him last Friday who retired from a job
Speaker 3: he hated like six months ago, and he's more miserable
Speaker 3: now than when he worked his job.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's you know, work is a lot of
Speaker 3: your life. It's a lot of who you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just no question that you cross that bridge
Speaker 2: and some people land on that new shore quite comfortably
Speaker 2: goes great. I have friends like that. I play golf
Speaker 2: with them and some it's a lot of trouble and
Speaker 2: they struggle.
Speaker 1: Just who knows.
Speaker 2: Anyway, back to the question of a beatree jack as
Speaker 2: Summer read Alert listener Alnonymous, good old friend of the
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Speaker 1: The first Partner's Summer.
Speaker 2: Book Club from the gov dot CA dot gov website.
Speaker 2: The first Partner's Summer Book Club California for All Kids,
Speaker 2: launched in partnership with the California State Library. The first partner,
Speaker 2: that's Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who is a far left neo
Speaker 2: Marxist activist loon her book.
Speaker 3: I'm offended by the mere idea of the governor's wife
Speaker 3: putting out a reading list that anybody would look at
Speaker 3: to come up with what they want to read or
Speaker 3: what they want their kids to read. That just the
Speaker 3: idea of it offends me. Really, if that's where you're
Speaker 3: going to get your reading information from a politician's spouse,
Speaker 3: all right, who's a far.
Speaker 1: Well known far left activist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when we read with our children early and off,
Speaker 2: and it encourages young readers blah blah blah, which is
Speaker 2: absolutely true.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. But here's here's your book list.
Speaker 1: Let's start with preschoolers.
Speaker 2: Here's what the first partner recommends preschoolers read or have
Speaker 2: read to them.
Speaker 1: Nana the Great goes camping. Okay, in our garden.
Speaker 2: Millie has recently moved to a new city from a
Speaker 2: place more than an ocean away. She misses her garden
Speaker 2: used to grow food. Amara's far Mamara hosting a pot
Speaker 2: luck for friends on her farm. She needs help finding
Speaker 2: her pumpkins. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: All our neighbors.
Speaker 2: When a new family moves in, the whole neighborhood comes
Speaker 2: together to celebrate their diverse community and the tree in me.
Speaker 2: Through poetic text and exquisite illustrations of children reveling in nature,
Speaker 2: this book explores various ways we as human beings are strong, creative,
Speaker 2: and connected. That sounds just fine. Okay, that's your preschoolers's
Speaker 2: let's move on.
Speaker 3: Diverse is more than I wanted, but isn't not into
Speaker 3: the I'm angry territory yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna see certain patterns emerging here. K through
Speaker 2: two Just Like Me, a collection of poetry filled with
Speaker 2: engaging mini stories about girls of all kinds. Girls who
Speaker 2: feel happy said, don't love their.
Speaker 3: Bed and brunette or different kinds.
Speaker 2: Water Day a joyful picture book about a young girl
Speaker 2: in her community celebrating the arrival of something in water.
Speaker 2: I Am Enough, a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who
Speaker 2: you are, respecting others, being kind to one another. She
Speaker 2: Persisted in sports. In the third She Persistent book, Chelsea
Speaker 2: Clinton introduces the readers to women who have excelled in
Speaker 2: their sports.
Speaker 3: The pattern I'm supposed to pick up on here is
Speaker 3: are all girl oriented?
Speaker 1: Finding my dance?
Speaker 2: Follow along is Rhea Thundercloud shares her dance journey from
Speaker 2: blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Grades three through five.
Speaker 2: Plant Cookieat discover how plant seeds and patio containers, blah
Speaker 2: blah blah, food harvest, Just ask.
Speaker 1: Be different, be brave, be you.
Speaker 2: Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sottomoyor shares her blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: The Oldest Student, How Mary Walker learned to read Mexic Kid,
Speaker 2: The Trip of a Lifetime. Along the way, Pedro finally
Speaker 2: connects with zab willdo and learns what it And then
Speaker 2: Arelli is a Dreamer, A story about Aurelli Morales a
Speaker 2: DACA recipient, So you got to be a chick or
Speaker 2: an immigrant. Otherwise your story is bullshit. Nobody wants to
Speaker 2: hear it. All right, you can be a chick or
Speaker 2: an immigrant.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: So no. Uh, two boys like the Hardy Boys. One
Speaker 3: of the reasons boys like the Hardy Boys so much
Speaker 3: as those boys doing boys stuff. Popular book series from
Speaker 3: when we were young. Yeah, Mexicans can't be Irish, lad
Speaker 3: I've got ages eleven through fourteen. Here it's teens who
Speaker 3: are in the autism spectrum. Obviously I have no problem
Speaker 3: with that. Let's see, here's another immigrant who's swimming at
Speaker 3: a swimming pool. Apparently than the Blackbird Girls, Brown Girl Dreaming,
Speaker 3: Rebel Girls Celebrate Pride, twenty five Tales of Self Love,
Speaker 3: Community Inspiring Tales Chicks only from the LGB t q
Speaker 3: I ab CD Barbecue Community Women in Art. Let's skip
Speaker 3: to the grades nine through twelve. Brave Plucky Eliza deals
Speaker 3: with lung lingering trauma. Or You're a girl on Earthed
Speaker 3: and I Am not your perfect Mexican daughter rounds out
Speaker 3: the choices. I know we talk about it, but at
Speaker 3: some point it's got to reach national consensus that Okay,
Speaker 3: we went, We went plenty far and making sure girls
Speaker 3: are getting an education and have an opportunity to go
Speaker 3: to college, and blah blah blah. We kind of left
Speaker 3: boys out of it somewhere along the way, and we
Speaker 3: better turn our attention to that, because well, the reading
Speaker 3: list and all kinds there's all kinds of stats out there.
Speaker 3: I got two boys. All the girls are super into
Speaker 3: learning and straight a students. A lot of the boys
Speaker 3: are kind of meh about school, and I think that's
Speaker 3: because of the way it's structured. It's structured. It's very
Speaker 3: girl centered focused, designed for your personality and interests.
Speaker 2: I never talk about politicians' children and never will in
Speaker 2: any substantive way. I happen to know the nwsoms have
Speaker 2: a couple of sons, and I have a sick feeling
Speaker 2: in my stomach, which I hope is wrong. I'm sure
Speaker 2: they love their sons very much and want the best
Speaker 2: for them. But to grow with with a mom who
Speaker 2: is so openly disdainful of males that her reading list
Speaker 2: includes not a single boys adventure unless they're an immigrant.
Speaker 2: That just that it's my Angelou's When people try to
Speaker 2: show you or tell you who they are, believe them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, book about two guys building a fort and
Speaker 3: climbing a mountain and you know whatever, fishing or eavingly.
Speaker 2: Right, No, she's openly disdainful of that.
Speaker 3: That's interesting. Yeah, but don't get your reading lists for
Speaker 3: your kids from politicians anyway. Yeah right.
Speaker 2: Unless your dearest dream is that your child become a
Speaker 2: little Marxist, then this list is perfect for them.
Speaker 4: Join us next time for California Lieutenant Governor's list of
Speaker 4: helpful maps and Almanax. Don't travel until you've heard it. Well,
Speaker 4: I guess that's it.