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ANGELA PRIMAVERA: Hi, everyone.
I'm Angela Primavera, curriculum specialist here at
the Google Children's Center.
And when I was thinking about a phrase that could describe
our next guest, what kept coming to mind was the power
of connection.
For anyone who's been to a Michael Franti show, you know
that he has a way of reaching out to each and every member
of the audience.
For over 20 years, Michael has found a way to connect not
only with his musical fans, but people around the globe.
Whether it's bridging a conversation using just his
guitar, as documented in his film "I Know I'm Not Alone,"
or utilizing technology to connect to his fans in FranTV,
or even his Power to the Peaceful festivals right here
in the Bay Area, Michael Franti embraces the power of
connection.
More recently, he's used his poetic abilities to connect
with our newest generation of environmental stewards in his
children's book "Where in the World Is Away?" In partnership
with Talks at Google, Google Play, and the Google
Children's Center's Parent Education Series, I'm honored
to offer Googlers this opportunity to connect once
again with Michael Franti.
[APPLAUSE]
MICHAEL FRANTI: How's it going, y'all?
How you feeling?
All right.
Well, I was really excited to come to Google today because,
well, there's this urban myth about Google, which is--
that I--
can you push that in for me, Jay?
That I believed up until about 15 minutes ago, which is that
when you type in something on Google, there's this giant
room full of 1,000 people in lab coats.
And they see what you've typed in, like Roberto Clemente's
batting average in 1967.
And then a guy gets up, and he runs down this corridor to
this shelf full of books and encyclopedias.
And he pulls it out, and he thumbs through it.
And then he slams it shut, and then he runs back.
And he types in 323.
And I found out that it's not actually true.
So maybe you should be a myth buster.
JAY BOWMAN: Myth buster.
MICHAEL FRANTI: But it is true that kids love music, right?
Make noise, kids.
I love this kid with the sunglasses.
So let play some music.
It goes like this.
One, two, three.
Uh-huh.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Kids, put your hands together.
There you go.
Moms and dads, how you feeling?
All the Googlers, how you feeling?
Here we go.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Let me hear you sing this.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: One, two, put your hands together.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Jay Boogie, play that guitar.
Come on, now.
Kids, I want to see your air guitar.
Get it going now.
There you go.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Make some noise.
Break it down now.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: OK, kids.
I got something for you to do.
OK, ready?
What do you--
what does it look like?
Can you do a dance for when I say the word sound?
How about, that's the sound.
Put your hand up by your ear.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: All right.
You guys got it now.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: I want to hear you sing it now.
Ready?
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: One more time now.
Real loud, everybody.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Now kids, I want to hear you scream.
[SCREAMS]
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE"]
And that's
MICHAEL FRANTI: Make some noise!
Aiya!
All right.
You having fun?
Yay.
Awesome.
Well, I wrote a book.
I wrote two books, actually.
This one's called "What I Be," and this one's called "Where
in the World is Away?"
I'm going to read from this one today because April is a
very important month.
Do you know why April is an important month?
We have a birthday that we celebrate in April every year.
And you know who was born in April?
The earth.
The earth was-- you can Google it.
Earth was born in April.
And this is a book that's about
taking care of our Earth.
And it's called, "Where in the World is Away?" And it goes a
little something like this.
Little Lee and little Lou sat by a lake,
sharing a bottle of juice.
It was a warm, sunny day, and the birds where at play.
And they smiled as they watched mama goose.
As they finished the drink, Lou pulled back his arm and
said, I'm going to throw it away.
Stop, Lou.
Think, before you make a mistake, where in
the world is away?
If we throw it in the lake, it's gone for today.
But is that really away?
Not for the frogs who hip hop on the logs or the fish who
jump up in the air or the little tiny things that live
off the greens that grow on the bottom down there.
All of our spills just fill up their gills, and it's so hard
to breathe without air.
They play hide and go seek, and they
think, school is cool.
So we shouldn't make a mess down there.
I've got a plan, Lou started to say.
Over the hill's where I'll throw it away.
Not so fast, Lou, if I may say.
Is over the hill there really away?
What do you kids think?
Is that really away?
AUDIENCE: No.
MICHAEL FRANTI: No.
That's where the forest grows, tall and wide.
And all kinds of critters live deep inside.
It's cool in the daytime and warm at night.
And squirrels do twirls while birds are in flight.
There's nuts, and there's berries.
There's bears, and there's fairies and a
butterfly up in a tree.
By the light of the moon, they play drums with raccoons as
the mice shout, one, two, three.
Can I hear you kids say, one, two, three, like mice?
AUDIENCE: One, two, three.
MICHAEL FRANTI: Yay!
[LAUGHS]
But if the forest has bottles on a hot, sunny day, the sun
magnifies and might set it ablaze, then all of the forest
beings would run with a fright.
We don't want that, Lou.
No, you're right.
Lou said, let's just throw it here on the street.
Someone will come and eventually sweep.
But look down below, even up through the cracks.
There grows the tiniest blades of green grass.
And where there is grass, then grasshoppers be.
And where there are grasshoppers,
let's let them be.
And besides, we all like to keep the street neat.
And we don't need glass where there might be bare feet.
There's far too much garbage.
It's just got to stop.
The landfills are filling right up to the top.
Then where is away, said confused little Lou.
And what of the bottle when there's no more juice?
They spotted a bin with a round symbol on it, and can
with the word recycling on it.
And inside the can there were hundreds of bottles in all
kinds of shapes and colors and models.
If we put it in there, will it go away, sweet little Lou
started to say.
Lee opened her mouth to say, we'll never know.
And just as she did, along came a crow.
This grow at her feet was oh, so unique, a crow named Mo
with a beak that could speak.
Good heavens, they shouted.
How could this be?
The crow said, relax.
It's just a little old me.
If you'd like to know where old bottle should go, close
your eyes, spread your wings, and follow this crow.
The bottles are picked up by truck and transported to a
glass sorting center, then they are sorted.
Green ones go there, and brown ones go here.
There's places for blue and for yellow and clear.
All of the paper and caps are removed.
And yes, even those things are recycled too.
All of the glass gets crushed into cullet, a word you
mightn't heard, but that's what they call it.
Then it's thrown into a furnace to heat to a
temperature of over 2000 degrees.
And then when it's melted, it glows into goo.
And then there are so many things you can do.
You can bend it and shape it and pour it into molds, make
magical art work or things to be sold.
And when it cools down, it turns hard very fast and
quickly returns int shiny, smooth glass.
It makes mirrors and lamps and grape jelly jars, even
eyeglasses and windows for cars.
There's so many things, so many to choose.
And yes, you can even make bottles for juice.
So always recycle, said crow with a smile.
And reduce what you use every once in a while.
When you reach for that bottle high up on the shelf, remember
away is just somewhere else.
There's so many choices, said sweet little Lou.
But this here bottle, we're going to reuse.
And they each put a flower in it.
The end.
Yay!
All right.
Let's play some more music.
You guys ready for a song?
This one, you have to repeat after me.
OK?
It goes--
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD, "HELLO BONJOUR"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Put your hands together now.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD, "HELLO BONJOUR"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Jay, play that guitar.
Come on now.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD, "HELLO BONJOUR"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Ow!
Kids, I want to see you get up and play your guitars.
There you go.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD, "HELLO BONJOUR"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Yeah!
[APPLAUSE]
MICHAEL FRANTI: You sound so good, kids.
Big kids, too.
I like that dance you were doing over there.
Yeah.
All right.
So how many kids here recycle at your house?
If you're with your parents, don't embarrass them.
You recycle?
What do you do?
Tell me how you do it?
AUDIENCE: Put the garbage in the recycling bin.
MICHAEL FRANTI: You put your things, your garbage in the
recycling bin?
Do you separate it out, like bottles and cans?
Or do you just put it in one thing?
Yeah.
Awesome.
What do you do?
The same thing?
What about you?
AUDIENCE: I use the stuff I don't want to turn into
something else.
MICHAEL FRANTI: You use the stuff that you don't want, and
then they turn it into something else?
That's awesome, man.
That's so cool.
Anybody else?
You in the back there.
AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Can you help out, dad?
I couldn't hear.
AUDIENCE: Break the glass into little pieces and make it into
something else.
MICHAEL FRANTI: You break the glass into little pieces and
make it into something else.
I love that.
That was fun.
AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]
MICHAEL FRANTI: All right.
Nice.
Any other kids?
Do you compost?
JAY BOWMAN: Wow.
MICHAEL FRANTI: Can you tell us about that?
How about if mom tells us, and you just nod your head?
AUDIENCE: We put all of our food scraps in a bowl, and
then it gets turned into dirt.
Is that what we do?
MICHAEL FRANTI: Nice.
Do kids know what that is, composting?
It's when you take all your food scraps, and
you put it in a bowl.
And then you put it in a place in your garden,
and worms eat it.
And then the worms poop it out, and it turns into dirt.
That's pretty cool.
What were you going to say?
AUDIENCE: Nothing.
MICHAEL FRANTI: OK.
You?
AUDIENCE: My sister's magic and turns
stuff into other stuff.
AUDIENCE: Her sister's magic turns other
stuff into other stuff.
MICHAEL FRANTI: Your sister's magic turns the cycling into
other things?
That's awesome.
Awesome.
Cool.
All right.
Well, we were going to just open it up to any questions
for any Googlers, perhaps if you have for
us, about any subject.
It doesn't have to be about worms and poop.
But it can also be about that, if you want.
ANGELA PRIMAVERA: I'll go ahead and start it off.
MICHAEL FRANTI: OK, go ahead.
ANGELA PRIMAVERA: And for those of you on the VC, you
can add it to the Dory at goto slash Franti.
Or anybody here can go ahead and step up to the mic.
So you found an inspirational way to use your voice to
connect with those around you.
Is there a message that you have for some of our young
children here about the power of their voice?
MICHAEL FRANTI: Well, my message to every kid here is
that all of us are different.
And being different is beautiful.
When you look in your house at something that's like a salad,
if you have tomatoes in there and carrots and greens and
sprouts and--
what are kinds of things you guys put in your salads?
What do you put in your salad at home?
Avocado?
I love avocado.
Tea?
JAY BOWMAN: Cheese.
MICHAEL FRANTI: Cheese.
Oh, yeah.
We love cheese.
What?
Fruits.
Yeah.
Yeah, fruits.
So the more things that are in the salad, the more beautiful
and tasty the salad is.
And that's the same thing with people in our world.
The more difference that we have and the more diversity--
we call it-- that we respect and love and honor and
cherish, the better the world is.
So that's my message to kids, same as to adults.
Be your authentic self.
Live your truth.
AUDIENCE: Pizza.
MICHAEL FRANTI: Pizza.
You put pizza in your salad?
You do?
AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]
AUDIENCE: What'd you say?
I didn't hear.
AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Nice, nice.
You put salad in the garbage when it's done.
ANGELA PRIMAVERA: I'll go ahead and ask another one.
MICHAEL FRANTI: OK, cool.
ANGELA PRIMAVERA: Feel free to hop up on the mic there.
We also have books for those of you that would like to ask
a question of Michael.
What is something you've learned from fatherhood that
you'd like to share with us?
MICHAEL FRANTI: That I'm wrong most of the time.
Being a dad, you have to make it up as you go along.
I have one son who's 25 and another son who's 14.
And I was really young when I had my first son.
And so when you have a kid, your first kid, your time--
you have to do all the wonderful things in life that
you do, like go to parties and hang out at the beach and do
all these things.
It gets eliminated.
And so you have the time with your kids.
And then you have like just that one hour or two hours
that you have for yourself every day.
And so what I did during that time is I would take care of
my son all day and then put him to sleep.
And he would go off with his mom after that in the night.
And I'd go to work at night at nightclubs in San Francisco.
But I'd have one or two hours at home.
And I would just write.
I had these yellow legal pads of paper that I would
write lyrics on.
And at first, I was like, man, my time is gone.
But then it really makes you think about
what you want to do.
What's the most important thing that you want to
do with your time?
And for me, it was writing.
And so it really helped me to hone in on what I love and
what my passion is and to really do my best during those
moments that I had.
And my mom was--
she is an amazing woman.
Mrs. Franti adopted me.
And she had three kids of her own with my
father, Charles Franti.
And they're Finnish Americans.
And they adopted myself and another African American son.
So we grew up in this house, a diverse household.
I have one sister who's lesbian.
And it's a very mixed household.
And one time I asked my mom.
I said, what did you do with us kids?
You worked as a school teacher for 35 years.
Then you'd come home and deal with us five kids.
And she said, every day I'd come home.
And I had one expectation of all of you, which is that when
you went out into our neighborhood, you treated
everybody as good or better than you wanted to
be treated at home.
And she said, I tried to teach all of you kids and treat all
of you kids exactly the same, which meant that if one of us
got a lollipop, then all of us had to share it.
I'm just kidding.
I don't advise that to any parent.
But she insisted that we treat every kid in our
neighborhood the same.
And she said that the greatest gift that any parent could
give their children is wings.
And the wings are the self confidence you have, that when
you're in whatever precipice in your life, that you feel
like I have the ability to jump off and fly and face
whatever it is that this challenge is in my life.
And so that's what I try to do with both my sons.
And my mom did a really great job with that,
I think, with me.
ANGELA PRIMAVERA: All right.
We have a question from the audience.
MICHAEL FRANTI: Cool.
AUDIENCE: Hey.
Thank you for coming out.
And we really appreciate it.
MICHAEL FRANTI: You're welcome.
AUDIENCE: What's the story behind you being barefoot?
And how often do you run into a place where you think, no,
probably not going to go there?
MICHAEL FRANTI: Well, man, walking onto the Google
campus, I was like, ew, with a name like Google, I don't know
if I even want to--
no.
I've been barefoot--
it'll be 13 years on my birthday, which is at the end
of this month.
And I started walking barefoot in countries where kids
couldn't afford to wear shoes.
And I'd go out and I'd play soccer with them and stuff.
And so I would take off my shoes just to not stomp on
their feet or whatever.
And I could barely take three steps.
I was like, ouch, ouch, ouch.
So I decided to go home.
And for three days, I was going to go barefoot.
You have a question?
AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]
When did you learn guitar?
AUDIENCE: When did you learn guitar?
MICHAEL FRANTI: When did I learn guitar?
I learned guitar not too long ago.
I've only been playing guitar about seven or
eight years, actually.
Yeah.
I started really late.
I'll tell you more about that in a minute.
But so I decided to go barefoot for three days.
And three days turned into a week and into a
month and into a year.
And my son's waving at me back there.
He's like, dad, your feet are gross.
And there are times when I feel like, wow, it's really
gross around here.
But I'm just more observant of where I step.
It's funny that you have to wear shoes when you go into
the airport, and then you have to take them off when you go
through the security.
And then you got to put them back on again.
Then when you get on the plane, you can
take them off again.
So I always carry a pair of flip-flops around that are for
those kind of moments.
And I never do it out of any form of protest.
If I'm somewhere, and they say, please put your shoes on,
I always put my flip-flops on.
And that's kind of the story.
And when it was the tenth anniversary of me being
barefoot, I partnered with this organization called
Soles4Souls.
And we collect used shoes for kids and families
all around the world.
It started after Hurricane Katrina.
A lot of people left their homes without shoes.
And so they started collecting shoes for that.
But now we're in Haiti, South America, Africa, places in
Asia, all over the world.
Oh, so my guitar--
I went on this trip to this place called Cuba.
And I was there with a group of musicians from around the
world who are collaborating with Cuban artists.
And we were there singing the songs that we'd written
together during a week.
And so every night, this guitar would get passed around
this table.
And everybody would sort of sing these wonderful boleros
off into the Cuban Havana moonlit night with bottles of
rum and cigars being passed around.
And probably should lay off the cigars and rum till you
get your first chords down, at least.
And so I decided, I'm never going to be caught in this
situation when I can't play guitar.
And so a year passed.
And I was at this great festival up in Oregon.
And the same thing, the guitar got passed to me.
And all I could do was go--
[MUSIC - THE SUGARHILL GANG, "RAPPER'S DELIGHT"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: So I decided, golly, I'm going
to learn the guitar.
So finally, another year passed.
And I was in another embarrassing situation.
And I was up with a friend of mine who's a farmer up in
Humboldt County.
And I decided this would be the perfect place to sit on
his porch for hours and learn my first guitar chords.
And I've been playing now about seven, eight years.
And I love it.
Yeah.
AUDIENCE: Yeah.
Thanks again for coming here.
It is just terrific to have people like you come visit us.
So you've had this amazing career.
Musically, you've done an incredible range of things,
and then outside of music, from video stuff to writing
children's books to just social projects.
What are you most proud of?
And what do you think is going to have the biggest legacy?
MICHAEL FRANTI: Well, it's the same thing,
the two same things.
I'm most proud of my kids.
And hopefully, my kids have the biggest legacy.
Right?
High five, son.
There's a lot of things that I've done in music.
And the most memorable things are being in places where
music is absent most of the time and then going and
bringing music there and seeing the environment change
immediately.
AUDIENCE: You had such an eclectic career from your
activism, social justice, your films, to music.
What inspired you to jump into children's
books of all things?
And then I think what you previously just said might
explain that already.
But--
MICHAEL FRANTI: Yeah.
OK.
Well, my favorite artists have been--
my favorite artists are Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, John
Lennon, and Johnny Cash.
And the reason is because they both-- or all of them were
able to write songs about how much they wanted to see the
world be a better place.
And then they would also write a song right next to it about
how much they love their girlfriend.
And I've always felt like if you can't do both, or if
you're only settled on just doing one of those things,
then you're missing so much of what it's about.
And so that's why I do the different things.
That's why I go to Iraq and play music on the street and
make a film about that and then write a children's book,
like this book, the other book that's here, "What I Be,"
which is about being yourself.
And really, the message is the same thing.
It's about reaching out to other people and being the
person that you are and then being able to embrace other
people for being the person that they are.
And my mom used to always tell me, it's not enough--
she hated the word tolerance.
That was a buzz word.
We need to have tolerance.
And there's a Museum of Tolerance, which is a
fantastic place.
But she never liked the word tolerance,
because it was always--
you tolerate getting your teeth grinded at the dentist.
But she liked the words like embrace and to honor and to
respect and cherish because she's always felt like we
should be that towards other people, towards other
cultures, other walks of life, that to really live life and
to live a fullness for yourself is to find the beauty
in other things that are different than you.
AUDIENCE: Thank you.
MICHAEL FRANTI: Yeah.
ANGELA PRIMAVERA: Go ahead.
AUDIENCE: Did you do any Johnny Cash
songs at San Quentin?
"Folsom Prison," or "*** Blues?"
MICHAEL FRANTI: It was funny.
Before we-- we also played in Folsom Prison.
AUDIENCE: Oh, wow.
MICHAEL FRANTI: And we were the first artists playing
there in 37 years since Johnny Cash had done it.
And when we went in, the warden of the prison required
that I send a list of the songs that I was going to sing
and all the lyrics.
And he went through line item, veto style, and said, you
can't sing this line.
You can't sing this line.
And you can't sing this song.
And you can't sing this song.
And at first, I was like, man, this is not cool.
I'm not going to do this.
I got a pride feather sticking out of me.
And then I thought, these cats are locked
down for a long time.
And who am I to not sing or not show up because the warden
won't let me sing a song?
This is not the protest that I want to make.
So the answer to your question, no, we weren't
allowed to.
And no, I didn't
AUDIENCE: Oh, wow.
Just Sesame Street.
MICHAEL FRANTI: Well, there's plenty of other
songs besides that.
But that's what--
one of the things that we come across as musicians is where
are our values?
And what are the lines that we choose to cross?
Are we going to put a song in this movie?
And if we put a song in the movie, are we going to put a
song in the commercial that goes along with the movie?
And then if that commercial also has a partnership with
some brand, do we support that brand?
Do we allow the song to be in there?
And at the end of the day, I always feel like I'm out there
every day of my life on tour, singing things and expressing
the things I can in the best way I can for whatever the
situation is.
But I'll talk to these kids differently than I would kids
in San Quentin.
AUDIENCE: What I really want to ask though was about, when
you were a kid, what was your favorable books?
Or do your kids have any favorite?
MICHAEL FRANTI: Oh, yeah.
My favorite books were the "Curious George" books.
AUDIENCE: Oh, yeah.
MICHAEL FRANTI: Yeah.
And "Harold and the Purple Crayon." And then all of the
Roald Dahl books, and especially "Willy Wonka and
the Chocolate Facotory."
AUDIENCE: What about music when you were young?
What was the first stuff that you
listened to and then after?
MICHAEL FRANTI: The first stuff that I listened to was
music that was in my house that my brothers and sisters
were playing.
So it was Al Green, Jim Croce, Carole King.
And then it was The Clash and
Parliament-Funkadelic and The Police.
And then it became Run-DMC.
Somewhere in all of that was the "Saturday Night Fever"
soundtrack which didn't leave the turntable for a long time.
Earth, Wind & Fire.
And then once I went through all that stuff, I went
straight into hardcore punk rock for many years and just
listen exclusively to all the great Bay Area bands, Dead
Kennedys and the Circle Jerks and all the bands that were
touring through here.
ANGELA PRIMAVERA: All right.
We'll take one more from the audience.
AUDIENCE: Hi.
I want to say, thanks for coming.
Your message that you're sending--
it's really positive.
And you're doing a great job inspiring
children as well as adults.
MICHAEL FRANTI: Thank you.
AUDIENCE: I'm also an aspiring writer myself.
My question goes out to--
it's for adults but also for children.
Can you give us words and advice in overcoming a
challenging situation or whether it's music, writing,
or just in life in general?
MICHAEL FRANTI: Well, I think that if you get yourself out
of your comfort zone a lot of the time, then it becomes more
familiar crossing over those lines where you don't feel
comfortable or where you feel scared.
I practice yoga.
And in our practice of yoga, we put ourselves into
uncomfortable positions.
And we learn how to breathe while we're going through
these really intense stretches.
And to quiet our mind and say, I'm not going to listen to
this voice that's saying I'm not good enough or I'm not
limber enough or I'm too tired or whatever--
and we practice the exercise so that when we get into
uncomfortable situations in our day to day life, they
become easier.
And they're still not.
It's still always hard.
But writing a book is something that I never
imagined I would do.
But I made a five year plan at one point.
And I said, there's a few things that I want to do.
I want to write a book.
I want to make a film.
I want to start a yoga school.
And I wanted to get my band to a certain level of
musicianship and get ourselves out touring at a certain level
and had goals in that regard.
And just to write them down, those goals, was really
helpful for me.
And then I said, I'm not going to prioritize them in terms of
what's most important, because they're all really
important to me.
But I prioritized them in terms of
what was most imminent.
So in order to become a better musician, I needed to take
guitar lessons.
So that became in the A pile.
And then there was the B pile of things and
the C pile of things.
So writing stuff down and then creating a priority of--
I need to-- if I'm going to write a book, I
got to do this first.
And then I got to find the illustrator second.
Then I got to figure out a way to publish it.
AUDIENCE: Nice.
Thank you.
MICHAEL FRANTI: You're welcome.
ANGELA PRIMAVERA: All right.
You got another song for us?
MICHAEL FRANTI: I do.
Yup.
ANGELA PRIMAVERA: All right.
Thank you.
MICHAEL FRANTI: All right.
Let's do [INAUDIBLE].
JAY BOWMAN: OK.
MICHAEL FRANTI: So we need some kids up here.
We need some kids up here to dance.
Come on up.
All right.
Are you guys ready?
OK.
Any other kids who want to come up here, just feel free
to join us.
Any adults that want to come up, feel free to join us too.
OK.
It goes like this.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: OK, kids.
You ready?
Ready to dance?
One, two, three, come on now.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Put your hands up high.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Woo.
You want to sing it?
It goes like this.
I'll teach you how it goes.
Come over here to the microphone.
Ready?
It goes--
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: A little louder.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Adults, we need an adult to come up here.
You, young man, get up here.
JAY BOWMAN: That's right.
Come on up here, big boy.
MICHAEL FRANTI: It goes--
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
AUDIENCE: Was that right?
Was that right?
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Yeah!
One, two, three, come on.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Put your hands together.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Let me hear you.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Everybody now.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Sounds good.
On your feet.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Everybody on your feet now.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: This is the last time.
I want to see everybody in here jumping.
[MUSIC - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
"SAY HEY (I LOVE YOU)"]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Google, give it up for these kids up here.
Give it up for Jay Boogie on the guitar.
Give it up for all the people here at Google who take care
of all the kids at Google.
We love you.
I'm Michael.
Thanks for having me here today.
Give it up for Jay Boogie one more time.
[APPLAUSE]
MICHAEL FRANTI: Thanks, y'all.