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Well, today I have as my guest, a 00:01:34.510 --> 00:01:38.069 good friend of mine, Bill Ayers, distinguished 00:01:38.069 --> 00:01:40.489 professor of education at the University of Illinois. 00:01:40.989 --> 00:01:43.530 He has written extensively about social justice, 00:01:43.750 --> 00:01:47.689 democracy, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, 00:01:48.030 --> 00:01:51.230 ethical, and political enterprise. His books 00:01:51.230 --> 00:01:54.950 include About Becoming a Teacher, Teaching Toward 00:01:54.950 --> 00:01:59.400 Freedom, and To Teach. He also writes the podcast 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:03.819 Under the Tree, a seminar on freedom. Welcome, 00:02:04.060 --> 00:02:08.620 Bill. Nice to see you, Jay. Bill, are you ready 00:02:08.620 --> 00:02:12.060 to tell your story? I am. All right, Bill, I'm 00:02:12.060 --> 00:02:13.979 going to get out of the way. At the end, I'm 00:02:13.979 --> 00:02:15.979 going to ask you just one question. How do you 00:02:15.979 --> 00:02:18.319 think that story and that event impacted who 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:22.080 you are today? But take it away, Bill. I'm the 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:25.099 middle child of five in my birth family. I learned 00:02:25.099 --> 00:02:27.909 to play up with the big kids. And I learned to 00:02:27.909 --> 00:02:30.189 play down with the littles. I learned to get 00:02:30.189 --> 00:02:32.469 along with everyone, as well as to get to the 00:02:32.469 --> 00:02:36.009 dinner table early and to eat fast. Optional 00:02:36.009 --> 00:02:38.569 chewing became a way of life for me. It still 00:02:38.569 --> 00:02:41.610 is. I was born near the end of World War II. 00:02:41.830 --> 00:02:44.930 I grew up in suburban Chicago in a time of peak 00:02:44.930 --> 00:02:49.969 everything, peak oil, peak prosperity, peak conformity. 00:02:50.509 --> 00:02:53.530 And I had the sweetest mom in the world. Her 00:02:53.530 --> 00:02:56.680 personal motto perfectly fitted the tone. and 00:02:56.680 --> 00:02:59.280 temperament of her circumstances and her times, 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.919 it'll be fine. She said it no matter what happens, 00:03:03.180 --> 00:03:05.639 it'll be fine. I remember coming home bleeding 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:09.020 one day because I'd run into a tree on my bicycle, 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:13.400 knees bruised, elbows bleeding, and mom took 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:15.759 one look at me and said it'll be fine. And of 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:17.919 course she cleaned it up and it was fine. She 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:20.379 had a status of a kind of clairvoyant, you know. 00:03:20.500 --> 00:03:23.020 She always said it'll be fine, it always was 00:03:23.020 --> 00:03:26.719 fine. That was her wellspring and principal channel, 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:29.659 but she had many, many brooks and streams. For 00:03:29.659 --> 00:03:33.919 example, everyone in our family remembers that 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:36.800 her mom was on the beach one day and a tick was 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.120 burrowing in through her calf. And she looked 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:41.860 at the tick and she said, that is really interesting. 00:03:42.139 --> 00:03:44.479 And we all howled with laughter. Interesting. 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:46.860 The tick is eating you. What are you talking 00:03:46.860 --> 00:03:49.699 about? But that was mom. And any time anything 00:03:49.699 --> 00:03:52.639 came up from that day on, anything despicable 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.840 or odious or unpleasant, the family motto was, 00:03:56.139 --> 00:03:58.819 that's interesting, like a tick bite, because 00:03:58.819 --> 00:04:03.539 that was mom's way. Her excessive joy, unbounded 00:04:03.539 --> 00:04:06.520 optimism, her generosity and good cheer, her 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:09.360 surplus happiness was both a gift and a bit of 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:12.289 a curse. She was the captain of her ship and 00:04:12.289 --> 00:04:14.189 the captain of mine as well when I was a kid. 00:04:14.610 --> 00:04:16.910 And it was a ship of high expectations for the 00:04:16.910 --> 00:04:20.750 good, a confidence to act in happiness for ourselves 00:04:20.750 --> 00:04:24.589 and for the world. So I was born on a ship of 00:04:24.589 --> 00:04:29.410 hope, in a world of privilege, a ship of fools 00:04:29.410 --> 00:04:32.850 and a sea of carelessness. Whatever I would become, 00:04:33.089 --> 00:04:35.629 whatever we'd make of ourselves, we'd launch 00:04:35.629 --> 00:04:40.069 from that certain happy deck. I loved war movies. 00:04:40.410 --> 00:04:42.889 As I said, it was the end of World War II. And 00:04:42.889 --> 00:04:45.290 I was in love with John Wayne, Montgomery Cliff, 00:04:45.730 --> 00:04:49.329 Henry Fonda. I just thought these were the greatest 00:04:49.329 --> 00:04:51.810 things in the world. I was at the Glenn Theater 00:04:51.810 --> 00:04:55.089 every Saturday afternoon and the movie swallowed 00:04:55.089 --> 00:04:57.949 me. And they kind of poured into our games in 00:04:57.949 --> 00:05:00.850 the street. We played war games every night. 00:05:01.170 --> 00:05:04.750 Every summer we would race up and down the neighborhood, 00:05:05.009 --> 00:05:07.490 war games, different crews, different tribes. 00:05:07.980 --> 00:05:11.319 But one summer morning when I was about 10, at 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:14.139 an age when war play was beginning to fade as 00:05:14.139 --> 00:05:17.300 a preoccupation, the calm and quiet of my neighborhood 00:05:17.300 --> 00:05:21.180 was shattered by the sounds of sirens. Ambulances 00:05:21.180 --> 00:05:24.579 and fire trucks rushed up the street, converging 00:05:24.579 --> 00:05:27.639 on the house right across from ours. And I ran 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:30.360 barefoot with my brothers and my sister to see 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.209 what was happening. Kids from everywhere crowded 00:05:33.209 --> 00:05:36.290 the lawn, and we were thrilled to have serious 00:05:36.290 --> 00:05:39.850 -looking cops tell us, stay back. I was giddy, 00:05:39.889 --> 00:05:42.790 I was excited and happy, joking in rough housing 00:05:42.790 --> 00:05:45.370 with my friends, and I was gripped by a fresh, 00:05:45.589 --> 00:05:49.709 tingling feeling of the expectant scene. Within 00:05:49.709 --> 00:05:52.110 moments, a surge of firefighters spilled through 00:05:52.110 --> 00:05:55.490 the front door, hosting a stretcher with a bloody 00:05:55.490 --> 00:05:59.089 body flung upon it. It was Jimmy, a kid just 00:05:59.089 --> 00:06:01.959 eight years older than me. And I'd known him, 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:04.319 and he'd blown his brains out with a handgun. 00:06:04.779 --> 00:06:08.060 I got sick. Jimmy, I found out later, didn't 00:06:08.060 --> 00:06:11.800 want to go to Korea. He felt like a misfit. Plus, 00:06:11.819 --> 00:06:14.259 he was high -strung, I was told, and must have 00:06:14.259 --> 00:06:18.740 been temporarily insane. I realized then that 00:06:18.740 --> 00:06:21.939 there was the world beyond our green lawns and 00:06:21.939 --> 00:06:25.319 our neatly trimmed hedges. And that's my story. 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:28.899 Man, man, that makes me cry to think about that 00:06:28.899 --> 00:06:32.829 poor kid. I think about you too, even you and 00:06:32.829 --> 00:06:35.470 your family at the, you know, a little guy joking 00:06:35.470 --> 00:06:37.750 around and all of a sudden it turns serious on 00:06:37.750 --> 00:06:40.889 you, but that must have been some traumatic moment 00:06:40.889 --> 00:06:44.569 for you there, Bill. Staggering, staggering. 00:06:44.730 --> 00:06:47.649 And suddenly the real world pressed in in a way 00:06:47.649 --> 00:06:52.509 that was completely unexpected. Well, I know 00:06:52.509 --> 00:06:55.689 you for many years, as you know, you and I go 00:06:55.689 --> 00:06:57.990 back a long way because we're both educators 00:06:57.990 --> 00:07:02.180 and I actually knew you before you knew me, which 00:07:02.180 --> 00:07:05.899 is to say you're sort of famous in a way because 00:07:05.899 --> 00:07:08.620 of your anti -war activism. I don't want to jump 00:07:08.620 --> 00:07:13.180 on the impact of Jimmy's death on you, but as 00:07:13.180 --> 00:07:16.079 an outside observer, I can't help but think that 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:19.839 your kid's death may have turned you. I don't 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:22.500 want to speak for you. I'll let you tell me how 00:07:22.500 --> 00:07:24.800 you think it's impacted your life. Well, I would 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.560 say there's two things, Jay, and one is that 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:31.459 war wasn't funny anymore. that what seemed heroic 00:07:31.459 --> 00:07:35.920 and manly from the movies suddenly seemed hollow 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:40.379 and frightening. And so that's one impact for 00:07:40.379 --> 00:07:44.319 sure. But the other is that realizing that there's 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:49.279 a world beyond your narcissism, beyond your scope, 00:07:49.819 --> 00:07:53.120 beyond the suburbs, beyond America, to realize 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:56.060 that there's something bigger. And that's become 00:07:56.060 --> 00:08:00.290 a a lifelong quest of mine is to, and I say it 00:08:00.290 --> 00:08:03.230 to my students all the time, we have to spend 00:08:03.230 --> 00:08:06.629 our time trying to open our eyes, not once where 00:08:06.629 --> 00:08:08.410 we see everything and then we're all completely 00:08:08.410 --> 00:08:11.370 clear. No, you have to open your eyes every day 00:08:11.370 --> 00:08:13.649 anew, and you have to find new perspectives, 00:08:13.850 --> 00:08:16.750 new angles of regard, and you have to kind of 00:08:16.750 --> 00:08:19.629 act on what the known demands of you. I would 00:08:19.629 --> 00:08:23.220 not, I was living I was kind of with my mother, 00:08:23.860 --> 00:08:26.279 sleeping the deep, deep American sleep of denial. 00:08:26.779 --> 00:08:29.399 And when you wake up from that, it can be quite 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:32.240 shocking, but also important to your own humanity. 00:08:32.860 --> 00:08:36.519 Yeah, I guess that is interesting. As you said, 00:08:36.659 --> 00:08:38.919 I am thinking of the contrast of your mother 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:43.139 saying, it'll be fine. It's like, yeah, but also 00:08:43.139 --> 00:08:46.659 there's a lot of stuff out there that maybe we 00:08:46.659 --> 00:08:48.659 can do something about. Maybe. I don't know. 00:08:48.659 --> 00:08:51.509 I don't know. but this is a good example where 00:08:51.509 --> 00:08:53.990 Jimmy's coming out on a stretcher and there's 00:08:53.990 --> 00:08:56.450 no it'll be fine for Jimmy it will not be fine 00:08:56.450 --> 00:09:00.389 nor for his mother and you know that was the 00:09:00.389 --> 00:09:05.210 end and and it was something so amazing to me 00:09:05.210 --> 00:09:07.710 and eight years later I was at the University 00:09:07.710 --> 00:09:11.330 of Michigan and I was blinking my eyes open and 00:09:11.330 --> 00:09:14.629 I saw a world on fire and I felt like I had to 00:09:14.629 --> 00:09:17.830 act on that world and that has been the defining 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.039 I guess a defining feature of my conscious life 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:25.980 is wanting to open my eyes and see what's underneath 00:09:25.980 --> 00:09:31.740 the neatly trimmed hedges and so on. And that's 00:09:31.740 --> 00:09:34.720 really beautifully put, Bill. I mean, I'll tell 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:36.200 you, like I said, I've known you for a thousand 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.779 years. I know you've been teaching at the U of 00:09:38.779 --> 00:09:42.220 I for a million years and helping young teachers 00:09:42.220 --> 00:09:45.100 try to get... I think to that understanding that 00:09:45.100 --> 00:09:47.100 it's a big world out there and we got to try 00:09:47.100 --> 00:09:50.000 to give everybody a chance to see it and everybody 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:52.460 a chance to live with eyes wide open and not 00:09:52.460 --> 00:09:55.299 necessarily in a false sense of security. And 00:09:55.299 --> 00:09:57.179 at the same time, you don't want to have people 00:09:57.179 --> 00:09:59.980 walking around in despair either. Well, I mean, 00:10:00.179 --> 00:10:03.240 I think that there's two things really, Jay, 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:04.779 and you and I have talked about this forever. 00:10:05.419 --> 00:10:07.940 But one is exemplified in your teaching, which 00:10:07.940 --> 00:10:11.200 is you have to have one eye. aimed at your children, 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:15.320 at your students. You have to see them as fully 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.179 as you can see them, not as little bits of deficit, 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:21.080 not as little labels, but you have to see them 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:23.779 as the full human beings they are. That's one 00:10:23.779 --> 00:10:26.360 eye. The other eye has to be looking to a world 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:29.399 that could be and maybe should be. And that's 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:32.399 the whole idea of expanding your horizons, getting 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:35.899 out of your narcissistic zone, and trying to 00:10:35.899 --> 00:10:40.320 see with empathy and generosity a big, big world 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:43.600 that's dynamic and ever -changing. But it's the 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:46.059 two things because you have to see the kid and 00:10:46.059 --> 00:10:50.279 you have to see the kid fully and in scale, you 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:54.100 know. So you go from the smallest of tiny details 00:10:54.100 --> 00:10:56.940 to the largest concentric circles of meaning 00:10:56.940 --> 00:11:01.580 and history and culture. It's an exciting profession, 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:03.980 isn't it? It really is and I've been blessed 00:11:03.980 --> 00:11:09.179 to be in it for a while. Me too. Loved every 00:11:09.179 --> 00:11:11.600 minute of it. I think I tried my best every minute 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:13.460 of it. Before we get on the air, we were talking 00:11:13.460 --> 00:11:15.519 about your son, who is actually, I don't know 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:17.240 if he's in elementary school or high school teacher. 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:20.039 No, he's a middle school math teacher in Oakland, 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.840 California. And he's a lifer. He's been at it 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.620 for 15 years. And he's going to stay at it. But 00:11:26.620 --> 00:11:29.059 he's that teacher that the kids want to crowd 00:11:29.059 --> 00:11:33.039 into his room at lunchtime. And they want to 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:35.379 hang out with them after school. He's that teacher. 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:37.950 If I say to him, Malik, you're a great teacher. 00:11:38.129 --> 00:11:40.269 He says, Pops, don't say that. I'm a guy who 00:11:40.269 --> 00:11:43.429 tries to show up every day and do a decent job. 00:11:43.769 --> 00:11:46.149 I said, that is greatness in teaching. That is 00:11:46.149 --> 00:11:48.830 greatness. You know, you don't have to be Jaime 00:11:48.830 --> 00:11:52.029 Escalante or some movie star. You do the work. 00:11:52.939 --> 00:11:55.559 Amen to that man. I'm glad I'm glad that you 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:58.080 were professor for all those years telling these 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:00.240 teachers the same thing on these wannabe teachers 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:02.259 or perspective teachers the same thing because 00:12:02.259 --> 00:12:04.820 Because I think I did get into the business thinking 00:12:04.820 --> 00:12:06.940 so I was gonna solve everybody's problem and 00:12:06.940 --> 00:12:09.480 that really isn't how it worked You just do the 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:13.379 best you can do The astonishing thing Jay, you 00:12:13.379 --> 00:12:17.019 know, I think I think you and you and I, and 00:12:17.019 --> 00:12:18.940 the folks we know who we admire as teachers, 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:22.279 we have a personality flaw. And the personality 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:25.100 flaw is we don't need much feedback to keep going. 00:12:25.460 --> 00:12:28.259 I can have one student come back to me. I can 00:12:28.259 --> 00:12:30.600 have one student come back to me and said, you 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:32.899 know, you made a difference in my life. And I 00:12:32.899 --> 00:12:34.799 always say, was it a positive difference? And 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:37.000 if they say yes, That'll keep me going for another 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:41.100 five years. I don't need much. I don't need much. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:45.440 Amen to that. I think that's exactly right. I've 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:47.659 definitely been blessed to have those occasional 00:12:47.659 --> 00:12:49.539 moments where somebody says something nice. And 00:12:49.539 --> 00:12:54.659 then it's like, OK, I got the engine, the gasoline 00:12:54.659 --> 00:12:57.559 to keep going for a while. Exactly. But if you 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:00.909 go into it, I always ask teachers. Are you in 00:13:00.909 --> 00:13:03.549 this to get rich or famous? And they laugh at 00:13:03.549 --> 00:13:05.529 me. I say, good. I don't have to start at the 00:13:05.529 --> 00:13:10.350 very beginning. But you're not going to get rich. 00:13:10.429 --> 00:13:12.269 You're not going to get famous by being a teacher. 00:13:12.350 --> 00:13:14.690 But you're going to find yourself doing ethical 00:13:14.690 --> 00:13:19.049 work day in and day out on the ground, real life 00:13:19.049 --> 00:13:22.710 ethics. And that's different than becoming lawyer 00:13:22.710 --> 00:13:25.590 reading the warranties on toaster ovens or whatever 00:13:25.590 --> 00:13:28.409 lawyers do. You don't get the recognition, but 00:13:28.409 --> 00:13:31.639 you get the joy. Yeah. Yeah, I had a lifetime 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:34.000 of it. I've enjoyed every minute of it. I've 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:35.700 been blessed every minute of it, even though 00:13:35.700 --> 00:13:37.620 at the time, every once in a while I do look 00:13:37.620 --> 00:13:39.620 around and I say, did I do the right thing for 00:13:39.620 --> 00:13:41.879 my family or whatever? Could I have done better 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:44.879 for them in another way? But personally, I couldn't 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:46.879 have done any better than I did. Well, it is 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:49.399 better for them. You raised two tremendous... 00:13:49.450 --> 00:13:52.470 girls, you have these two young women who have 00:13:52.470 --> 00:13:54.809 all the right perspectives on their own lives 00:13:54.809 --> 00:13:57.169 and on trying to make their way in the world 00:13:57.169 --> 00:13:59.230 that'll make a difference. What could be better 00:13:59.230 --> 00:14:02.769 than that? And they saw in you somebody who was 00:14:02.769 --> 00:14:05.809 doing moral, ethical work, intellectual work, 00:14:06.250 --> 00:14:08.309 very few professions you can say, I get up every 00:14:08.309 --> 00:14:10.549 morning. I have to think my way into what I'm 00:14:10.549 --> 00:14:13.190 doing and I have to do the right thing day in 00:14:13.190 --> 00:14:16.070 and day out in a world of complexity where the 00:14:16.070 --> 00:14:18.809 right thing isn't obvious always. That's beautifully 00:14:18.809 --> 00:14:21.470 said. Well, I'm going to leave it at that, Bill. 00:14:21.629 --> 00:14:23.549 Your kind words, I'm going to leave it at that. 00:14:23.990 --> 00:14:26.730 Thank you for being on the show. Say happy to 00:14:26.730 --> 00:14:30.029 do it and go forth and do good. Thank you, my 00:14:30.029 --> 00:14:32.509 brother. I appreciate that. Talk to you soon. 00:14:32.809 --> 00:14:35.149 Talk to you soon. All right. Well, that's my 00:14:35.149 --> 00:14:38.889 show. I'd like to thank my friend, mentor, Professor 00:14:38.889 --> 00:14:41.730 Bill Ayers, man I've known for many years, who 00:14:41.730 --> 00:14:44.450 is an author, of course, but he also has a podcast 00:14:44.450 --> 00:14:47.389 called Under the Tree, a seminar on freedom. 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:50.799 And he's had some incredible guests. I've gone 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:52.720 through it, and you should check it out if you 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:56.779 get a chance. I'd also like to thank our sponsors, 00:14:57.740 --> 00:14:59.500 Sidelining Publishing, publishers of quality 00:14:59.500 --> 00:15:03.100 books, and laughsaver .com. Visit laughsaver 00:15:03.100 --> 00:15:05.960 .com and record your laughter. We'll keep it 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.500 for you now and forever. It's free. That's laughsaver 00:15:09.500 --> 00:15:13.039 .com. So I'm going to end this show a little 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.820 differently. In honor of our friends in Ukraine, 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:20.159 and the folks in Russia as well. I'm going to 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.120 end this show with Susan Salador's classic, I've 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:27.899 Got Peace in My Fingers, hoping it all gets resolved 00:15:27.899 --> 00:15:33.539 soon. So until next time, this is Jay Rehak asking 00:15:33.539 --> 00:15:36.120 you all to please stay safe out there and try 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:40.840 not to hurt anybody. I've got peace, peace, peace 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:45.700 in my fingers. Watch what I can do. I've got 00:15:45.700 --> 00:15:50.039 peace. Piece, piece in my fingers I'm gonna shake 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:55.080 hands with you I've got piece, piece, piece in 00:15:55.080 --> 00:16:00.120 my fingers Watch what I can do I've got piece, 00:16:00.580 --> 00:16:04.399 piece, piece in my fingers I'm gonna shake hands 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:09.799 with you I've got words, words, words in my head. 00:16:10.019 --> 00:16:15.620 Watch what I can do. I've got words, words, words 00:16:15.620 --> 00:16:19.379 in my head. I'm gonna talk things over with you. 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:24.399 I've got words, words, words in my head. Watch 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:29.860 what I can do. I've got words, words, words in 00:16:29.860 --> 00:16:32.960 my head. I'm gonna talk things over with you. 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:38.830 I've got love. Love, love in my heart Watch what 00:16:38.830 --> 00:16:44.570 I can do I've got love, love, love in my heart 00:16:44.570 --> 00:16:49.850 I'm gonna give some to you I've got love, love, 00:16:50.250 --> 00:16:55.230 love in my heart Watch what I can do I've got 00:16:55.230 --> 00:17:00.090 love, love, love in my heart I'm gonna give some 00:17:00.090 --> 00:17:05.619 to you I've got peace, peace, peace in my fingers. 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:09.740 Words, words, words in my head. I've got love, 00:17:10.099 --> 00:17:14.299 love, love in my heart. I'm gonna give song to 00:17:14.299 --> 00:17:14.519 you.