The Best of 2017 - 26 minutes of snippets of some of the policies, persons and personalities that defined the Soul of California this year. In the following order: 

• UCLA's Donald Shoup on why company parking is massively unjust: 
• Bassist Nathan East on picking up a guitar for the first time;
• Secretary Norman Mineta on being a “non-alien” of Japanese ancestry during WWII; 
• Mural Queen Judy Baca on “getting caught” painting on her boss’s wall with gang members; 
• Rocker Chuck Prophet on Bobby Fuller’s legacy and California Noir; 
• Stanford's Clayborne Carson on Martin Luther King, Jr’s most memorable speech; 
• Betty Reid Soskin and the reaction that her park ranger uniform evokes;
• Literary statesman T.C. Boyle on human nature and the dying off of a species; 
• Jim Harris on the mythic ending of Route 66; 
• Poet Laureate Luis Rodriguez on what he would tell himself as a teen-ager; 
• UC Berkeley’s Michael Dear on why walls don’t work; 
• Biographer Earle Labor on Jack London’s farcical struggles with immediate and ultimate happiness; 
• Writer Steven Provost on James Dean’s last meal (and speeding ticket);
• Novelist Dana Johnson on how well-told accomplishments and not-so-well-told accomplishments make some immortal and some (undeservedly) forgotten.     

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