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[caption id="attachment_374962" align="alignnone" width="620"] A young student attends school from home. | Image by Joe Shlabotnik [1] is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 [2][/caption] On today's show: 0:08 The legislative package that would have brought California closer to its own single payer healthcare system stopped dead in its tracks yesterday. Democratic Assemblymember Ash Kalra of San Jose (@Ash_Kalra [3]) joins us to unpack his decision to call off a floor vote for AB 1400. 0:16 - After that, president of the California Nurses Association (@CalNurses [4]), which has been campaigning for single payer bills in the state capitol for almost two decades, RN Zenei Triunfo-Cortez joins us to discuss Asm. Kalra's decision. Also joining us is Dr. Rupa Marya (@DrRupaMarya [5]), Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF, co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, and one of Governor Newsom’s appointees to the Healthy California for All Commission [6]. 0:33 - Dr. Tyler Black (@tylerblack32 [7]) Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia, suicidologist, and full-time emergency psychiatrist at a provincial hospital in Canada joins us to discuss the COVID pandemic's impact on children's mental health. 1:08 - We spend our second hour with Johann Hari (@johannhari101 [8]), who joins us to discuss his latest book Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention - and How to Think Deeply Again [9]. [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/49946574711/in/photostream/ [2] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ [3] https://twitter.com/Ash_Kalra [4] https://twitter.com/CalNurses [5] https://twitter.com/DrRupaMarya [6] https://www.chhs.ca.gov/healthycaforall/ [7] https://twitter.com/tylerblack32 [8] https://twitter.com/johannhari101 [9] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634289/stolen-focus-by-johann-hari/