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The Importance of The Creative Coalition With Actor Tim Daly · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, great? Thanks? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: What is it like for you that we usually talk
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  Speaker 1: about the entertainment side of acting, but today it is
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  Speaker 1: the business side. Thank God in Heaven you're doing this
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  Speaker 1: because the average person does not know what goes behind
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  Speaker 1: closed doors, and you guys are making it very visible
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  Speaker 1: and transparent. I love you for this.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. Well.
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  Speaker 3: To answer your first what was the first part of
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  Speaker 3: your question, it was like, how does it feel.
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  Speaker 1: To yeah, because I mean we've gone from today today.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we all know about that that movies and
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  Speaker 1: stuff is entertainment, but today we're talking about the bizness
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  Speaker 1: of movies because I mean, the Creative Coalition, this is
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  Speaker 1: important stuff and without it, oh my god, I can't
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  Speaker 1: imagine a world without it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. I mean, there's two parts of that.
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  Speaker 3: One is that you know, I feel like I started
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  Speaker 3: out in show business and I wound up forty years
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  Speaker 3: later in business show there's a lot, maybe a little
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  Speaker 3: too much business in this for me right now. But
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  Speaker 3: I will say that, you know, one of the arguments
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  Speaker 3: for protecting and preserving the national doubt for the arts
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  Speaker 3: and arts education is that the truth of it is
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  Speaker 3: that arts are an enormous engine of the American economy.
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  Speaker 3: We drive a lot of the economic activity all over
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  Speaker 3: this company. And it's important to note also that the
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  Speaker 3: Creative coalitionon goes to Washington not to advocate for people
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  Speaker 3: becoming professart, but because we know and side spars this
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  Speaker 3: out that children especially that have a curriculum of the
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  Speaker 3: arts are not only three times more likely to graduate
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  Speaker 3: from high school, but everything about their lives improves right,
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  Speaker 3: more likely to go to college, more likely to be
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  Speaker 3: in student government.
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  Speaker 2: They will make more money.
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  Speaker 3: Everything about your life improves that you embrace the fact
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  Speaker 3: that human beings are meant to create and participated.
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  Speaker 1: You are so spot on when it comes to this,
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of us that are in the creative business,
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  Speaker 1: they'll go, how do you know there's another creative person
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  Speaker 1: around you. You can feel it. There's an energy about them.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear it in their confidence and their courage.
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  Speaker 1: You are so spot on on what the acting and
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  Speaker 1: entertainment can do to a little mind as they grow
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  Speaker 1: through life.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the amazing thing about human beings, the thing that
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  Speaker 3: sets us apart other species is our creativity and imagination.
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  Speaker 2: And those things are muscles.
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  Speaker 3: And the arts are the gymnasium for the muscles of
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  Speaker 3: the imagination and creativity. And like other muscles, if you
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  Speaker 3: don't use them, day atrophy. So we've got to acknowledge
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  Speaker 3: and help and encourage people to participate and be exposed
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  Speaker 3: to arts so that their imaginations and their creativity and
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  Speaker 3: their humanity can stay alive and active.
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  Speaker 1: See, and there's got to be T shirts or some
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  Speaker 1: sort of merch that says this right here, the right
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  Speaker 1: to bear arts because I want this. I want to
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  Speaker 1: be a loud activated voice to make sure that the
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  Speaker 1: average person at a grocery store or a church goes, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. They need to be reminded, dude.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. I mean, the thing is if
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  Speaker 3: we're present. I was just to say to Michael earlier.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you say to someone did you participate
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  Speaker 3: in the arts today? They're more likely than not say no.
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  Speaker 3: And then I say, you know, did you listen to
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  Speaker 3: the radio. Did you listen to some tunes on the
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  Speaker 3: way to work? Like, yeah, I was listening to my
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  Speaker 3: favorite rock station. Say okay, so you did participate in
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  Speaker 3: the art. Do you have a painting on the wall
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  Speaker 3: of your office?
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  Speaker 2: Sure? Do?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so you are participating in the arts. You're not
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  Speaker 3: a professional artist, but you are. You are using arts
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  Speaker 3: to kind of furnish your life and help you enjoy
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  Speaker 3: the experience of being a human being.
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  Speaker 1: How important is the federal government with the support here?
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  Speaker 1: Because I want to dig in deep, because is it
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  Speaker 1: something that needs to go to the state by state,
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  Speaker 1: Because that seems like that's all we hear anymore. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to give it to the states.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think that it's important to the federal that
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  Speaker 3: the federal government be involved for two reasons. One, there
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  Speaker 3: are countries like England, which is one fifth the population
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  Speaker 3: of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Their budget for the arts is one point four billion dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Our budget is two hundred and seven million, so we're
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  Speaker 3: rolefully behind.
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  Speaker 2: But what that two hundred and seven million dollars does is.
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  Speaker 3: It gives grants to every single congressional district in the
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  Speaker 3: United States, and organizations who are trying to start up
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  Speaker 3: theater or a dance company, or an orchestra or a
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  Speaker 3: museum can take that seed money like a good housekeeping
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  Speaker 3: stamp of approval from the federal government, and they can
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  Speaker 3: go around to private entities and raise the money to.
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  Speaker 2: Start their endeavor or that might be.
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  Speaker 3: I've started my career at a little theater in Providence,
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  Speaker 3: right Island, called called Trinity Rep. And Trinity Rep started
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  Speaker 3: with a five thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Dollars grant from the NEA. It was in a.
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  Speaker 3: Church and now is one of the premier regional theaters
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  Speaker 3: in the United States. So and you know, you ask
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  Speaker 3: them any mayor, including the you know, the guy who's
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  Speaker 3: a convicted fellon Buddy Ciency.
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  Speaker 2: About the Trinity Rep.
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  Speaker 3: And what it did for that community and their economy,
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  Speaker 3: and they will tell you do not take that away.
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  Speaker 3: It generates you know, people, foot traffic, people should shop
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  Speaker 3: at the restaurants, hotels.
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  Speaker 2: It's a huge.
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  Speaker 3: Driver of economic activity as well as an enlightening artistic endeavor.
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  Speaker 1: Not move. There's more with Tim Daily coming up next,
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  Speaker 1: the Creative Coalition. This is the real deal. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: movie business today. Okay, with Tim Daly, you know you
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  Speaker 1: speak of the theater for your family being that of
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  Speaker 1: being your temple. Well, the four walls of your temple
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  Speaker 1: are down, and you're one of the leading crusaders right
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  Speaker 1: now in making sure that we understand what's going on here,
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  Speaker 1: because I think parents and listeners need understand those little
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  Speaker 1: programs where your kids go to a light factory to
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  Speaker 1: learn how to use those cameras and lighting and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that that's coming from this right here. They need
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  Speaker 1: to understand it's not just about the big Marvel movies.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: Although you know, I will say that you know, movie
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  Speaker 3: making and television productions, it is the most collaborative art
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  Speaker 3: form there is and by and by, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: it is adjacent and dependent on a lot of science
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  Speaker 3: right all the all the cameras, the lighting, the sound,
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  Speaker 3: the technicians that are involved are it's credible the amount
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  Speaker 3: of economic employment opportunity there is from things like this,
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  Speaker 3: because it's not just the people you see, you know,
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  Speaker 3: on the screen or in the tabloids. It's the drivers,
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  Speaker 3: the painters, the people that sow, the clothes that you know,
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  Speaker 3: the people that cater It's a huge driver of our
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  Speaker 3: economy and ken also at its best be you know,
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  Speaker 3: an emissary of our really show.
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  Speaker 2: People who we are and what we're capable of.
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  Speaker 1: Well, right there, every day, you and I and the
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  Speaker 1: people around us, we are watching the entertainment and even
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  Speaker 1: the news world shrink and shrink and shrink. It's getting
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  Speaker 1: smaller and smaller. And it's one of those things that
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  Speaker 1: we've got to get a louder voice, or we've got
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  Speaker 1: to do something to get the attention to where we
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  Speaker 1: don't disappear, because we will because out of sight, out
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  Speaker 1: of mind.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I disagree with you there.
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  Speaker 3: I think that the human impulse to I think the
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  Speaker 3: human impulse to tell stories and create things that express
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  Speaker 3: who we are is unstoppable. I mean, you know, for
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  Speaker 3: better or for worse, look at TikTok, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: people are creating these hilarious little things.
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  Speaker 2: Who are these people?
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  Speaker 3: They are They're human beings with creative impulses that cannot
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  Speaker 3: be restrained. And you know, but there will be a
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  Speaker 3: huge detrimental impact on this country if we don't start
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  Speaker 3: putting arts back in schools, because, as I said, training
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  Speaker 3: the creative mind is so important, because if those muscles atrophy,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to get a bunch of a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: disgruntled people who you know, are unable to furnish their
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  Speaker 3: lives with things that give them enjoyment and give them
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  Speaker 3: pleasure and help share the experience.
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  Speaker 2: Of being a human.
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  Speaker 1: Tim as a martial arts instructor, one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that I've been seeing over the past five years is
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  Speaker 1: the fact that yes, they're they're in school, there is
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  Speaker 1: hardly any art work. So they're bringing their students to
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  Speaker 1: our classes because in reality, Marshall Arts, we are teaching
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  Speaker 1: the arts in martial arts. They understand it is about acting,
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  Speaker 1: it is about being present. But it's like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to go that direction where we start
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  Speaker 1: getting these secondary and third levels of where creativity is.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we should find it wherever we can,
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  Speaker 3: but I think that it should absolutely be a part.
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  Speaker 2: Of, you know, growing up.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the thing is, here's the thing. Anyone who's
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  Speaker 3: had children we included. You know, you send your kids
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  Speaker 3: off to kindergarten or whatever and they come back with
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  Speaker 3: a drawing, and no matter what it looks like, you
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  Speaker 3: look at that child and you say, oh, honey, that's beautiful,
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  Speaker 3: and you probably tape it up on the refrigerator. And
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  Speaker 3: then somehow, when they're like ten, we shut that creative
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  Speaker 3: impulse down, say, okay, enough of that silly painting. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to start doing math and science. Not to say
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  Speaker 3: that math and science aren't important, but why do we
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  Speaker 3: shut off the creative impulse of children at a certain
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  Speaker 3: age as if it's thing that is extraneous.
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  Speaker 2: It's not. It's it's it's who we are.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's what are our basic you know impulses are
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  Speaker 3: is to tell stories about each other, to prove to
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  Speaker 3: ourselves that we exist by showing people how we sing,
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  Speaker 3: how we dance, how we act, how we write. So
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  Speaker 3: all of those things need to be nurtured, protected and promoted.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, you hit my favorite word.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You are so absolutely right about that. If we don't
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  Speaker 1: start getting back into storytelling through writing, physical writing, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be missing out on a very valuable piece
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  Speaker 1: of the puzzle.
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  Speaker 2: For sure. And uh, you know, I do.
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  Speaker 3: I do think there's some precar We're in a precarious
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  Speaker 3: time right now because a lot of computers are doing
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  Speaker 3: our writing for us.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think that.
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  Speaker 3: It's really important that we understand every way possible to
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  Speaker 3: express ourselves, whether it's verbally or through writing, or through
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  Speaker 3: or through movement, because that's who we are.
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  Speaker 2: We need to express ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: This is a very important thing that's taking place with
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  Speaker 1: so many people in the entertainment business. Where can the
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  Speaker 1: average person go to offer support, to get involved, to
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  Speaker 1: know what they can do inside their own community.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I would say that the main thing that people
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  Speaker 3: can do is go to their school boards, go to
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  Speaker 3: their local politicians, go to the principles of their high schools,
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  Speaker 3: and say, if it's true, which it is, that children
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  Speaker 3: are three times more likely to graduate from high school
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  Speaker 3: if they have arts, why in God's name are you
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  Speaker 3: cutting the arts budget in this school? Find a way
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  Speaker 3: to do it. Put arts back in there. So, first,
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  Speaker 3: of all, children can have some fun and enjoy school,
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  Speaker 3: and second of all, so that their imaginations and their
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  Speaker 3: creativity stays alive. Because, you know, an engineer without an imagination,
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  Speaker 3: it's just a technician.
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  Speaker 2: You can get a machine to do that, you can
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  Speaker 2: get you know, probably ape to do that.
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  Speaker 3: But if you have an imagination, you're going to be
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  Speaker 3: the engineer that invents the next thing, or streamlines something
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  Speaker 3: that already exists, or has a blue sky idea that
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  Speaker 3: changes the world.
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  Speaker 1: Well, my first idea is Tonka trucks and dirt hails. Dude,
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  Speaker 1: That's what started my imagination. And I'm still addicted to creativity.
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  Speaker 1: I can't get enough of it, and I love the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you're doing what you're doing. Please don't ever
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  Speaker 1: stop being a voice, Tim, Please don't ever do that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Raa. I'll do my best.
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  Speaker 1: Will you guys be brilliant today?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well they're our best. We're trying