And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Its the cast of characters through the decades. Those funny animated characters from the comics to saturday morning tv. We grew up with them. We couldnt find a more likeable and relatable group. They taught us what was right and wrong, helped us learn how to of course made us laugh. Today we celebrate some of our very favorite characters, through the decades, because even though we may be grown up now, the truth is we never drifted too far away. They still make us think, laugh and dream. So we begin where it all started, in the sunday paper. Where the debut of both tarzan and buck rogers on the same day later, the start of flash gordon in 1934. This trio of champions triggered a whole movement. They are now a staple of sciencefiction and adventure movies fighting blazing battles of good and evil in highflying spaceships and in exotic kingdoms but hollywood didnt bring them to life. They first captured our imaginations in a very differ
Joining us right now is somebody who has dyslexia, the Lieutenant Governor of california, gavin newsom. Thanks for having me. Its fun. Thank you for being so open about this. Yeah, no, its interesting. The response has been interesting. Ive always been pretty honest about the fact i have dyslexia, but no one really paid much attention to it until i became mayor. And actually, one of the first things i did as mayor, the first public events, was visiting kids with dyslexia in the school, and everyone was shocked to know that i had this learning disability, which if i look back, was probably the best thing thats ever happened to me. Except a lot of kids would hear that and go, for me, its the worst thing. It was, and it was terrible growing up. Well, take me back. I think, for me, i think it was two things. One, it was very difficult for me, in terms of my own academic experience. School was a terrible and terrorizing experience. Ill just be candid with you. Spelling, reading, writing, i
Around growing up and men had the power and tried to imitate them and my father wanted me to have a career because he was a lawyer in sth 60 positive and saw far too many women divorced by their husbands after they put them through graduate school and supporting them. In law school and learned to shed my emotions. That is what a lawyer meant, it meant not feel thg tug for a victim but reasoning in a abstract way and leaving emotion out of it. As a law professor and dean and government official, i succeeded by impitating the men around me. I learned a lot. It is important that all of us be able to behave with confidence and know how to compete, but along the way i left many of my deepest intuitions behind and i will ask all of you to claim your whole sevls. It is not rocket science. [applause] it not rocket sciness to know that making room for the caring side of who we are, the love and investment in others and Family Members, biological constructed, the people you invest in the workpla
Google the obama babies youll see the babies in the overhead office. Thats a baby whisper the first lady holding a baby he takes the baby and the baby is silly and the look on her face is radio you kidding me how does that work this is a segue the smarter dinner you ever went to we wanted to figure out how valerie got to be valerie ive read about it you were looking to hire someone and her first maim was michelle she wanted to bring here fiance and his name was barack obama and that was 25 years ago. 25 years this month i think june. So i was mayor details chief of staff and worked in a law firm and took Maternity Leave it is miserable and said im going to get up and leave any baby and i honest was doing what my parents thought was great my family was proud i was moishlt itself left the beautiful offense in chicago and Lake Michigan and sail boats in the summer i went to work in city hall and my office turn out to be a urgent care news a hiring i loved my example four years later i lef
Commissioner hasz is he said women want the whole damn dollar and men in the audience men in the audience you want it for them two and the men go crazy now thats a particular kind of progressive audience; right . How important to get men and women to Work Together and make your case for the employer. Right this is a good question im so happy to see an audience full of women and a few men brave men have to be a part of conversation the reason it is important to men, women now comprise half hour the workforce working moms are the sole breadwinners in many households to the income is more important so those issues are important not only to the women but the family and the economy we have got to pull that wage gap well all be better off more money disposalable and spend that money and that creates more jobs good for the economy and businesses and women we are encouraging businesses to do is to just do a survey look at our books figure out whether or not youre paying people equally request