Speaker 1: My laguy Bus has how the knowledge you want? My
Speaker 1: lay but has how the knowledge you need my late bus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have out the works that the whole wild world
Speaker 1: want to read. My lagy Bucks today is gonna be
Speaker 1: exciting event. It's been a couple of years because the
Speaker 1: Pandemic Council. The biggest event, the biggest book event in
Speaker 1: North America, and it's called the Los Angeles Times Festival
Speaker 1: of Books where Leek Books is going to be in
Speaker 1: the house. This is a community event and this is
Speaker 1: a big book event, the biggest in North America. Tons
Speaker 1: of authors, tons of bookstores, and tons of people and
Speaker 1: Leak Books is gonna be present. We're gonna be in
Speaker 1: the house. I'm gonna do what I do best. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get on the stomp and I'm gonna find me
Speaker 1: some authors. I'm gonna get a few author interviews, particularly
Speaker 1: some independent as well. I'm looking forward to it. Um,
Speaker 1: the thousands and thousands and thousands of people, uh asking
Speaker 1: me about fifty thousands gonna come out. Um. The event
Speaker 1: is held at usc and right, I'm a former children Uh.
Speaker 1: My first episode is called me Malake, and I talked
Speaker 1: about my journey as a Trojan as an Olympian and
Speaker 1: so forth when I attended USC. So this is home
Speaker 1: for me, and so I'm going back to the Captains.
Speaker 1: Ain't the same campus it was, you know when I went.
Speaker 1: This as seat and is taking all over Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Now you know, it's going from the thirty of in
Speaker 1: Jefferson all the way down to the Staples in the
Speaker 1: l A High And now they they actually extended it
Speaker 1: more and more down the King Boulevard, which is more south.
Speaker 1: So that's c's just growing and in all directions. This
Speaker 1: university is just uh taking over l A. Well, the
Speaker 1: l A Times Festival Books hosted at USC and uh
Speaker 1: for and I'm alumni. I'm hitting down there. Maleak Books
Speaker 1: is gonna be president on you know, we had a
Speaker 1: booth situated in the children area, but now only am
Speaker 1: I going to be hosting our booth there. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go on the stomping. I'm gonna find me some authors,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get some interviews. So stay tuned for this
Speaker 1: episode two called the Festival of Books League. Mohammed's on
Speaker 1: the stomp I got another one lined up for you.
Speaker 1: I'm getting some great content now, this brother here's the author,
Speaker 1: You Are Not Alone Alphabet Rocker. Is that okay? And
Speaker 1: and what's your name? My name is Caitlin mcgoth and
Speaker 1: I'm half of the Alphabet Rockers. Well, here we go,
Speaker 1: Here we go. I'm gonna let them tell you about
Speaker 1: this book. You Are Not Alone. You Are Not Alone.
Speaker 1: It's this book that we just came out with the January.
Speaker 1: It's about empathy and inclusion. It really includes everybody that
Speaker 1: you don't think gets included in these books and and
Speaker 1: so so get ready. The representation is uh, it's it's honest,
Speaker 1: it's what it's supposed to be. Uh, and it's very
Speaker 1: beautifully illustrated by Ashley Evans. My name is Tommy so
Speaker 1: Lati Shephard. I go by he um day uh and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, the book is here and it's a song.
Speaker 1: It's uh it's also a music video. Uh. And it's
Speaker 1: connected to all of our music which you can find
Speaker 1: on Spotify and all of the music platforms. Alphabet Rockers
Speaker 1: dot Com is everything and we're excited about let's putting
Speaker 1: this into amazing book stories like yours because uh huh,
Speaker 1: because every child in this story is actually teaching us
Speaker 1: where what they want us to be. So when we
Speaker 1: read the books with our children, they actually inform us
Speaker 1: of the world they need. And so that's what this
Speaker 1: is all about. It is like us as the readers,
Speaker 1: like learning from how they respond to the characters, the
Speaker 1: questions they ask will help us be better parents and
Speaker 1: teachers along the way. Well, that's what Meliek's Bookshelf is
Speaker 1: all about, bringing a world together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 1: And this right here is a book that I know
Speaker 1: it's important in time. You gotta show on critical race theory.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's critical and we know all about it,
Speaker 1: and it's coming to a school near you. Hello. Critical
Speaker 1: race theory is just truth, that's it. It's not even controversial.
Speaker 1: This is a this is a joke they're trying to
Speaker 1: play on us. But we already know the truth, so
Speaker 1: they can just do all their insisative for telling the truth,
Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, if we don't tell you, who will.
Speaker 1: It won't get told, It won't told. It's been It's
Speaker 1: been a lot of years of lives for all of us,
Speaker 1: and sometimes we we got to check ourselves as we are.
Speaker 1: We are storytellers. Every human is a storyteller. So what
Speaker 1: story do you tell. Do you let your nostalgia, which
Speaker 1: buries a lot of the truth, be the thing, or
Speaker 1: do you allow the truth to be complicated and say, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: we live in a world that's unfair and we haven't
Speaker 1: been treated right, and sometimes it feels like we can't
Speaker 1: make change. But actually we just gotta believe we can,
Speaker 1: and we gotta listen to one another. It's really about
Speaker 1: just honestly shifting your point of view. You don't gotta
Speaker 1: about face, you don't gotta turn completely around in the
Speaker 1: opposite direction to get things happening. You just gotta pivot
Speaker 1: a little bit and let that space open up for
Speaker 1: your point of view to open and not be so skewed.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's about it. That's why Malik Books exists.
Speaker 1: You know, we kind of amplify vote because we don't
Speaker 1: tell our story. Who will, right? I got a microphone,
Speaker 1: you want to talk on it? I got a lot
Speaker 1: of turn it on and you can turn it up.
Speaker 1: I'll turn it up, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: that's what we do. We we amplify these voices. Brings
Speaker 1: people together, you know. So, Hey, I was just want
Speaker 1: to thank you for taking the time I'll give me
Speaker 1: a few minutes for Meleek's books show bringing the world
Speaker 1: together with books culture community. This has been wonderful. You
Speaker 1: are not alone. Let me drop your little station. I
Speaker 1: d ready on links links books books to get to
Speaker 1: cut the books dot com, but leaks up books dot
Speaker 1: com dot com. WHOA, that wasn't it? That was lit
Speaker 1: for literature? For was hot? Thank you, thank you. My
Speaker 1: name is Nicholas Smith. I'm the illustrator of Born on
Speaker 1: the Water sixteen nineteen. Father. Um, and I've had I've
Speaker 1: had a pretty fun and crazy adventure to get to
Speaker 1: this point. UM. When I was little, maybe like your age,
Speaker 1: your age, your age, I would draw a lot of pictures.
Speaker 1: I love to draw. Um. I found myself from many
Speaker 1: years later designing theme parts about Disney imagineering and hey
Speaker 1: we've got some for imagineers and the audience. Um. And
Speaker 1: now I'm a full time artist. And what I do
Speaker 1: is I I like to illustrate and write children's books. UM.
Speaker 1: I create movie posters. UM. I you know sometimes do
Speaker 1: concept art for for films, UM, like Space Jam where
Speaker 1: they have a lot of words and no pictures and
Speaker 1: I need to create some concept Artum. What is this
Speaker 1: gonna look like before to think what is Lebron gonna
Speaker 1: look like in a loony tune or all. I don't know,
Speaker 1: let's figure it out. That kind of stuff, which I
Speaker 1: really love. It's it's all about imagination. Um. And I
Speaker 1: also do traditional digital paintings. Um. And what I love
Speaker 1: to do is artivism, and that's art and activism. So
Speaker 1: I try to find, like, what is that thing that's
Speaker 1: not working right? What is that has broken in the
Speaker 1: world that needs to be fixed, and how can I
Speaker 1: fix it? And how can I use my art to
Speaker 1: really like encourage people and inspire people to make that
Speaker 1: positive change. So there are so many issues that we
Speaker 1: want to talk about in the world that aren't working right, immigration,
Speaker 1: mass incarceration, you know, shooting, community outreach, suicide, prevention, wildlife conservation.
Speaker 1: It was just Earth Day. Um. We have global health,
Speaker 1: which has been a huge thing this past couple of years. UM.
Speaker 1: Global peace because wars are bad and piece is good, right. UM.
Speaker 1: I like to create superheroes. This is my friend child
Speaker 1: close men who is the child the Black Panther. He's amazing.
Speaker 1: And you know heroes that are in the justice system,
Speaker 1: life Totanti Brown Jackson, she's a really really important judge. UM.
Speaker 1: And people like my great great great great grandparents, who, uh,
Speaker 1: they were around a long time ago, and unfortunately they
Speaker 1: were born into slavery and on Juneteenth they realized that
Speaker 1: they were free. Um. And they are amazing and wonderful
Speaker 1: and beautiful human beings. And I just wanted the whole
Speaker 1: world to know that my ancestors were wonderful people and
Speaker 1: they did brilliant, amazing things and helped create this you know,
Speaker 1: this country, um, which brings me to Born on the Water. Um.
Speaker 1: This book is all about my ancestors. It's about where
Speaker 1: I come from and the amazing people that persevered and
Speaker 1: fought and did so many wonderful things so that I
Speaker 1: can get to where I am right now. UM. And
Speaker 1: the thing that I really really love about this book
Speaker 1: is that it starts off many many years before typically
Speaker 1: you might hear about my ancestors. It starts off in
Speaker 1: West Africa. Now, when my ancestors were intential West Africa. Uh,
Speaker 1: they had a kingdom called in Dongo, and it was
Speaker 1: a beautiful place and you know, they laughed and they
Speaker 1: loved and they lived wonderful lives. Um. They were unfortunately
Speaker 1: taken from that place, and slavery happened, and they fought
Speaker 1: and fought and fought to get their freedom back. And
Speaker 1: that's another beautiful thing about this book is resistant Also
Speaker 1: so many beautiful and wonderful people were born from that
Speaker 1: movement and escaped that movement, and geniuses who helped, honestly
Speaker 1: build the US capital, the White House, they helped design
Speaker 1: entire cities, They did so many wonderful things. They wrote poems,
Speaker 1: they you know, created inventions, they did beautiful things, and
Speaker 1: I love that I get to highlight all of them
Speaker 1: in the book. Um there's a few of them here
Speaker 1: if you can see, as Christmas Addicts, and there's Frederick Douglas,
Speaker 1: and there's George Washington Carver, and there's just like so
Speaker 1: many wonderful people, surely Chisholm, beautiful politicians, you know, activists, authors, artists,
Speaker 1: so many amazing people. And I just love that I
Speaker 1: get to, you know, talk about him in the book.
Speaker 1: And so if you look in the book the first page,
Speaker 1: before you even get into the entire book, there is
Speaker 1: what I like to call the in papers, and so
Speaker 1: the im papers of the book, UM actually tell the
Speaker 1: entire story of the book, and it's in scarification form,
Speaker 1: which is like, really, there's um this beautiful thing about
Speaker 1: how a lot of Africans will um honestly tell the
Speaker 1: story of their lives or tell specific stories about their
Speaker 1: character or their tribe right on their face. Um. And
Speaker 1: it's through scars. And so you'll see the entire story
Speaker 1: uh in in symbols before you even get to the book. Um.
Speaker 1: And so this is one of my favorite reads of
Speaker 1: the book. It's called and they danced, and it is
Speaker 1: it's really just a celebration of joy um. And so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read this this scrap from the book, absolutely
Speaker 1: one of my favorites. And they danced, and the people
Speaker 1: moved their feet, move their whole bodies to the melody
Speaker 1: of horns and stringed instruments of marimbas and drums. They
Speaker 1: danced to celebrate some more. They danced as a way
Speaker 1: of worship, to offer things their bodies. I saw, under
Speaker 1: open sky and bright sun, their bodies a swaying testament
Speaker 1: to the qut of creation. And that is and they danced.
Speaker 1: Malik is owned the stomp. I'm out here at USC
Speaker 1: at the festival books. Then I got another author, what's
Speaker 1: your name, I am Kwan Jamison. Kwan Jamison came up
Speaker 1: with some finance at literacy books. I'm very impressed. They
Speaker 1: four kids and that's very important. And she also developed
Speaker 1: in a business box entreprene a kid. So tell us
Speaker 1: about only these wonderful books, because you also have been
Speaker 1: in Spanish too. Yes, So we have a couple of
Speaker 1: Chinese I'm sorry, a couple of finance my daughters learning
Speaker 1: Chinese and she just talked to my mind. A couple
Speaker 1: of financial literacy books. UM. One is the first title
Speaker 1: we releases, A Spare Counting, and that is a storyline
Speaker 1: following a little girl that is starting her own cupcake business.
Speaker 1: So it's teaching children the basics the terminology, um, you know, accounting, budgeting,
Speaker 1: credit scores, employees. And then the second book that we
Speaker 1: published is called Paying with Plastics. So in that story,
Speaker 1: there's a little girl going to the mall and her
Speaker 1: mother's just to swipe in her credit card away and
Speaker 1: and and she's learning the lessons of how to is
Speaker 1: that properly? So those are two books that we have,
Speaker 1: and like you said, we have our a Square County
Speaker 1: in Spanish. Um. Yeah, and we're we're working we're trying
Speaker 1: to get the correct alone and in games and things
Speaker 1: to make kids engage. Yeah, because one thing that I know, Um,
Speaker 1: because you know, I've been a part of the black
Speaker 1: community for all my life, and financial literacy wasn't a
Speaker 1: topic in my house at a very early age. And
Speaker 1: I think this is a subject matter this should be discussed.
Speaker 1: You should know you know the ins and outs about
Speaker 1: credit scores, um, how to use classic card, interest rates,
Speaker 1: all of these things. It's very important in the biggest
Speaker 1: investment that most of us going to make in our
Speaker 1: lifetime is a buying a home normally, and so unless
Speaker 1: you become archreneur, open your own business. Now you're making
Speaker 1: different investments, making different different business decisions. It's all important, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and and and he was your inspiration. Yeah, to your point,
Speaker 1: that was my inspiration. Um. By trade. I'm an accountant
Speaker 1: and my daughter was just so intrigued about what I did,
Speaker 1: and I figured, you know what, she's not too young
Speaker 1: to learn that, so it's never too early to start.
Speaker 1: And once I saw that she was really engaged, I
Speaker 1: wanted to find ways to really connect with her and
Speaker 1: other families to connect with their kids and have those
Speaker 1: conversations because most grown ups don't understand that. So how
Speaker 1: can you teach someone that you understand you started? We
Speaker 1: gotta starts for them exactly, you know, because how do
Speaker 1: you fit You don't have to say answer that, but
Speaker 1: adult it's like, how do you put all those years
Speaker 1: into a book for little kids? You know? And you
Speaker 1: te Well, the biggest piece is starting with one topic
Speaker 1: and then just trying to make it real life because
Speaker 1: they see us as adults going through things, paying bills,
Speaker 1: purchasing homes, but we don't engage them in the conversations.
Speaker 1: So that was the biggest inspiration. Is making sure that
Speaker 1: my daughter was more advanced than me. You know, I
Speaker 1: didn't learn these lessons into like college and afterwards. It's
Speaker 1: never too early. Well, I know that um, as parents,
Speaker 1: we like to invest in our kids and we wanted
Speaker 1: the fastest towards We want them to take it to
Speaker 1: another level. And so for UM, but I know that
Speaker 1: for a lot of people that I've interviewed since I
Speaker 1: had the podcast, Malik books Shall bringing the world together
Speaker 1: with books coach your community kids have been a major inspiration.
Speaker 1: Why a lot of people have written books is that
Speaker 1: if I knew man, what I know now you know,
Speaker 1: things would be so much differently and they say, you know,
Speaker 1: the best knowledge you can find is reading a book.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, well, I love your collection and whatnot. I
Speaker 1: definitely want to make sure Malik book has representations because
Speaker 1: find out your lives so important. So we're gonna connect
Speaker 1: and what have you. And I appreciate this interview at
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Times Festival. Books out here at USC
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. MALIEK Books is proud to be
Speaker 1: partner with Harper College new publication Finding Me by Viola David.
Speaker 1: You heard me the actress Violet Davis Well April twenty
Speaker 1: six and evening with Viola Davis at virtual event to
Speaker 1: talk about her new book, Finding Me, a memoir about
Speaker 1: the life and career of Viola Davis. So that's April
Speaker 1: twenty four pm Pacific time. Go to Millie books dot
Speaker 1: com to register for the event. And on April thirty
Speaker 1: and planning a big event around independent booksellers. They were
Speaker 1: gonna have twenty authors and our headliner is Terry Crews.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be headline independent book store Day. So you
Speaker 1: want to come out. It's fun for the families, all ages.
Speaker 1: April thirty, from twelve to seven is the event. Now
Speaker 1: it's a free rent, but you got a register for
Speaker 1: the Terry Crews book signing his book Tough My Journey
Speaker 1: to True Power. Tough My Journey Through True Power by
Speaker 1: Terry crew book signing April thirty of Independent Bookstore Day.
Speaker 1: Bus rs repeat. Go to Malik books dot com under
Speaker 1: events and register for the Terry Crews book signing at
Speaker 1: Malik Books on April thirty of Independent Bookstore Day. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't want to read this book, but you already
Speaker 1: know that written by Maximenfield and he illustrated by again
Speaker 1: the Gray Mike Lowery. Okay, I don't want to read
Speaker 1: this book. I know it happens to be at the
Speaker 1: title of this book, but let me make myself very clear.
Speaker 1: You see any big words you can read along with me.
Speaker 1: I really don't want to read it. Liked. I mean,
Speaker 1: why would I read this book? I already know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. I'm gonna open up the front cover
Speaker 1: only to find pages with let me guess, words, sometimes
Speaker 1: a lot of words. This is not one of those dames,
Speaker 1: but this one is this words words, words, words, words, words, words, words, words, words, words, words, words, words, words, words,
Speaker 1: I'm not actually reading it night words, words, word of words, words, words, words, words, words,
Speaker 1: words words. Look. Most words are fine, like cake and YouTube.
Speaker 1: But some words are just plain ridiculous. Take the word doubt,
Speaker 1: for example, a bee doing in there? If no one
Speaker 1: can hear the be, why don't we have to see it?
Speaker 1: I doubt whoever put it there was very smart at all?
Speaker 1: Are words are too big? Like infinitessimal? Do you can
Speaker 1: believe it? This word means small? Words like infinitessimal are
Speaker 1: the exact reason I don't want to read this book.
Speaker 1: And as if words weren't bad enough, I'm sure this
Speaker 1: book also has its para share of sentences, which is
Speaker 1: really just too many words I'll switched together without period
Speaker 1: at the end. Sentences are the worst. I don't ever
Speaker 1: want to read a book that has sentences in a period,
Speaker 1: which brings me to paragraphs. I do not, under any circumstances,
Speaker 1: want to read a read a book with a single
Speaker 1: paragraph in it. Did you know that a paragraph could
Speaker 1: be more than half a page long? I have seen
Speaker 1: some that take up an entire page. I mean want
Speaker 1: these paragraphs trying to prove just looking at a paragraph
Speaker 1: exhausts me. All those words. I would love to to
Speaker 1: me a person who is able to read a full
Speaker 1: paragraph and not lose their train of thoughts, as if
Speaker 1: anyone wouldn't lose interest after a sentence or two and
Speaker 1: started thinking about other things, like how Azzi threw his
Speaker 1: snack at Chilly right and it was class today, and
Speaker 1: how no one could believe it, and Artilly was like,
Speaker 1: what is wrong with you? And how as he was
Speaker 1: like what is wrong with you? And until it was
Speaker 1: like and then you know, wait a minute, where was
Speaker 1: that again? Oh yeah? Paragraphs yuck. I don't want to
Speaker 1: read any book that has a paragraph, and a paragraph
Speaker 1: belong in chapter books, and chapter books are for people
Speaker 1: with nothing better to do. Chapter two. I still don't
Speaker 1: want to read this book. The job doesn't want to
Speaker 1: read it. All the things I could be doing that
Speaker 1: are more important than reading this book. One eating cake,
Speaker 1: to eating cake while watching YouTube, three watching YouTube and
Speaker 1: now you can can't but truth be told, I much
Speaker 1: prefer to be eating cake. My brain hurts, laugh, and
Speaker 1: my eyes be all tired. Reading this book has been
Speaker 1: a truly miserable experience. I can't believe that I'm almost
Speaker 1: done with this book. I did not want to read it.
Speaker 1: After I'm done, I'm gonna need some space, all right,
Speaker 1: I really don't want to read the last page. I
Speaker 1: already know what it's gonna say. It's how all books
Speaker 1: and as if anything could be anymore predictable, let's just
Speaker 1: get it over with. I guess v and what I'm abtable.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I just read this book. The chances
Speaker 1: of it ever happening again? Are you anyway some space?
Speaker 1: You know what I do best. I'm out here at
Speaker 1: the festival books, my leaks bookshelf. I got the interview
Speaker 1: some author. I came up with the author, her name
Speaker 1: is she got how many books? You are? I already illustrated?
Speaker 1: Around thirty books? Thirty books? Tell us some of the titles.
Speaker 1: There are one series, it's called the Life of La
Speaker 1: Vida there and they are about play Flora um Selena,
Speaker 1: and they are about the life of several important characters
Speaker 1: in Latin American culture and in yeah they are Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's wonderful, wonderful. These are children books, they board books,
Speaker 1: and they for you know, the next generation to change.
Speaker 1: And she's illustrated and are the thirty books are thirty
Speaker 1: So hey, I'm just blessed to be able to be
Speaker 1: out here and get some interview. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: give you your problems because Malik books bringing a world
Speaker 1: together with books, coaching community, and this is what it's
Speaker 1: all about. Because books bring opportunity, books bring change. Then
Speaker 1: this is a wonderful collection of books and this bilingual.
Speaker 1: Hey tell us your name again. Well, thank you. I
Speaker 1: appreciate the opportunity interview. Best of luck. You're welcome. Malik
Speaker 1: Bookshelf wouldn't be doing his thing if I didn't get
Speaker 1: an interview from Shnefa Nazi, who's doing a book signed
Speaker 1: here at the l A Festival. Book right here at
Speaker 1: Malik Books. She got two books, It's In You and
Speaker 1: Simply Love. And you know I got to interviewer for
Speaker 1: Malice Bookshelf. This is the episode twenty two, so I
Speaker 1: gotta standing right here. So without further delay, welcome to
Speaker 1: Melik's Books. Thank you, thank you for having me. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: talk to us about your books. Um. Sibling Love and
Speaker 1: It's In You are both my book babies. It's in
Speaker 1: You I published in It's a book for big dreamers,
Speaker 1: So shout out to all the big dreamers. Out there
Speaker 1: and um, it's about a caterpillar with a big dream
Speaker 1: to fly. And this is an encouraging tale and message
Speaker 1: for all children that no matter what you want to
Speaker 1: be in life, UM, if you stick to your goals,
Speaker 1: if you're consistent, if you're uh, you know, trust people
Speaker 1: that mean good for you, Um, good things will happen.
Speaker 1: So that's what it's in you. It's all about what
Speaker 1: Malik Books is all about the kid. We believe children
Speaker 1: are of our future and that's why we carry a
Speaker 1: large selection of children books at Malik Books. And this
Speaker 1: has when one of the most brisk selling books. Every
Speaker 1: time we get your book, we sell out. That's right.
Speaker 1: I love Leek Books. Thank you, I love it. You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Are you working on another project? I am going to
Speaker 1: be working on a memoir? Um, so that slightly different
Speaker 1: but still encouraging and about having faith and stepping out
Speaker 1: on faith. Okay, stepping on moving away from children and
Speaker 1: putting your memoir. That's a beautiful thing. But these two
Speaker 1: books are doing very well out here at the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Times Festival Books and we're blessed to have you
Speaker 1: signed him with us and we just I mentally thank
Speaker 1: you and we want you to be selling. We want
Speaker 1: to help sell a million these books. What do you
Speaker 1: want to leave, um meliast bookshift audience with something inspiring,
Speaker 1: something encouraging, something inspirational. Um. Well, as I mentioned about
Speaker 1: dreaming big, that's just always been my motto. Right, we
Speaker 1: have to we only have one life, right what did
Speaker 1: Drake say? Yolo? So um, I'm a believer that you've
Speaker 1: got to use all your talents whatever that is? Right.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are scared. A lot of people
Speaker 1: at are at nine of five that they hate a
Speaker 1: lot of people are doing things that they just don't enjoy.
Speaker 1: And we only got one life to live. So um.
Speaker 1: The books are written for kids, but really adults too.
Speaker 1: It's for y'all to read it, enjoy it, and you know,
Speaker 1: go after the things that you're you're passionate about and
Speaker 1: that you really love doing. Absolutely, we're gonna end on
Speaker 1: that note. We appreciate you, and uh and thank you again,
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm out here at the Festival books out
Speaker 1: here in USC I got an author. And you know
Speaker 1: what I do when I see an author, I like
Speaker 1: to get a few words for them to talk about
Speaker 1: their book. I have an author she wrote a book
Speaker 1: called Family Thirteam Mona Falkey. Okay, okay, please tell us
Speaker 1: about your book. Well, it's about a family that is
Speaker 1: misunderstood and um a situation that they come up with
Speaker 1: to prove that they are not what everybody thinks they are.
Speaker 1: I see, I see. And what are the lessons we
Speaker 1: should learn from your book that be kind to everyone,
Speaker 1: regardless if they are different from you, if they look
Speaker 1: different from you, UM, be kind because uh, sometimes someone
Speaker 1: will look different from you, but it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: they are against you. Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, And this is
Speaker 1: your first book, Yes it is any more books? Did
Speaker 1: you're planning? Yes, We've got a couple of more surprises coming.
Speaker 1: Are you going to build off of this book and
Speaker 1: just something different? For now? We have something different to
Speaker 1: other different books, but maybe in the future will build
Speaker 1: off of this. Is how important children? All of you
Speaker 1: everything to me because your book is about children, right,
Speaker 1: It's about families, about kids, about experience. It's about family
Speaker 1: and experience and accepting everyone into your life, giving love
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