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Art Doesn't Just Happen We Cant Stop Defending Expression Actor Michael Chiklis · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Ero dot net A r r O E A r
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  Speaker 1: r OE not just one podcast, it's twenty different selections
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  Speaker 1: for that cruise back to work or maybe sitting around
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  Speaker 1: the office. One of the top podcasts is a show
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  Speaker 1: called Play It Forward. Missed Opportunity. I'm giving the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: and blessed it that to share conversations with some of
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  Speaker 1: the most famous people around the world, be it in
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood or even Washington, d C. So what happens when
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  Speaker 1: they don't show up for the interview? That's a missed opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: but we still ask the questions only on ero dot
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  Speaker 1: net A r r OE dot net. Enjoy your exploration.
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  Speaker 2: Ah are you doing? Man?
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic? How about you?
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  Speaker 2: Michael terrific? Thanks, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Dude. I got to tell you this is an exciting
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  Speaker 1: moment because you're doing exactly what we try to do
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  Speaker 1: in these smaller cities, and that is get actively involved
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  Speaker 1: with our with our councils, our city councils as well
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  Speaker 1: as our school boards. And we need people like yourself
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  Speaker 1: to step up here with the creative coalition to say, look,
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  Speaker 1: he's not joking around, guys. This is happening nationwide and
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  Speaker 1: let's create unity here.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, thanks man for saying so, you know, look the NEA,
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  Speaker 2: the creative Coalitions and nonpartisan group. It's not about politics.
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  Speaker 2: It's about the arts in America, right. And all I
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  Speaker 2: ask people to do is zoom out and look at
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  Speaker 2: their own lives and what it would be like if
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  Speaker 2: you can imagine your own life not being able to
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  Speaker 2: go to a concert, not going to your local theater,
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  Speaker 2: not looking at the walls in your own house and
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  Speaker 2: at the art on the walls. Right, Artists start somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: and the National Endowment for the Arts gives grants to
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  Speaker 2: programs from every corner of this country. And this is
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  Speaker 2: where you find the new young Mozart, the new young
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  Speaker 2: great artist, these people that have great talent that would
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  Speaker 2: otherwise go undiscovered and nurtured their talents. When I was
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  Speaker 2: fourteen years old, I helped to open a theater where
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  Speaker 2: this wonderful gentleman who ended up being my first theatrical mentor,
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  Speaker 2: this guy named Mark Kaufman, was the founder of a
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  Speaker 2: small theater called the Merrimack Regional Theater in Lowell. There
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  Speaker 2: were a regional theater in Lowell, Massachusetts. That one of
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  Speaker 2: the first things he did in founding this theater was
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  Speaker 2: to secure a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't just the money, it was the stamp
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  Speaker 2: of approval from the government that legitimized this little theater
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  Speaker 2: and allowed people from all over the Merrimack Valley in
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  Speaker 2: Massachusetts to flock to this theater. And it thrives to
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  Speaker 2: this day, over forty five years later. And I think
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  Speaker 2: to myself, what would my life look like if, at
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  Speaker 2: fourteen years old, I didn't get to play Sampson in
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  Speaker 2: Romeo and Juliet when I was fourteen years old with
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  Speaker 2: professional actors. Galvanized my love of the theater and my
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  Speaker 2: desire to be in the film and television industry. And
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  Speaker 2: now here I am, you know, a grandfather, all two
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  Speaker 2: years later, having spent my entire life making film and television,
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  Speaker 2: in theater and music. It was foundational in my life.
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  Speaker 2: And that's in part due to that support for the
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  Speaker 2: National Endowment for the Arts. And I also challenge people
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  Speaker 2: to say, you know, when you go when you go
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  Speaker 2: to Washington, d C. For example, And you walk down
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  Speaker 2: the mall and you look right and left, what do
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  Speaker 2: you see? You see museums, arts and antiquities. These are
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  Speaker 2: snapshots of a society with artists hold a mirror up
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  Speaker 2: to society and they and we we it's a reflection
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  Speaker 2: of who we were at that time. It speaks to
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  Speaker 2: who we are as a as a nation, as a people,
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  Speaker 2: as a society. And without those things, you know, life
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  Speaker 2: would become very gray.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, please do not move. There's more with Michael Chickliss
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  Speaker 1: coming up next, the Creative Coalition. Trust me, it's affecting
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  Speaker 1: your neighborhood, your city, your world. Let's get back in
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  Speaker 1: with that conversation with Michael Chickliss.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you at? You're in? Are you in in Charlotte? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Charlotte? Where we I mean, my god, I can't
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  Speaker 1: imagine what this city would be like without those grants, dude,
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  Speaker 1: because there's so many different community schools here. They need
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  Speaker 1: those grants to keep just a song inside their dang building.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean because it changed my grandson's life, because
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  Speaker 1: he's a leader for his own age group now because
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  Speaker 1: he had that that grant at a community school which
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the world was writing off. But no,
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  Speaker 1: they still had the arts in there. Boom, it works off.
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  Speaker 1: Look what it's doing to him as an adult.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, there you go, man, The that says it all.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you story after story of people who say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, people in the hinterland all over this country.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's all this talk, you know, but there's
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  Speaker 2: this sort of division that we're going through. And that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: It's a secular thing. The pendulum swings, it moves in
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  Speaker 2: crazy ways. But one thing that brings us together is
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  Speaker 2: the arts. And it's a wonderful thing. It's a chance
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  Speaker 2: for people to express themselves and the idea of kids
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  Speaker 2: all over this country being able to do that in
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  Speaker 2: a way that you know, again, you can discover that
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  Speaker 2: next that next mosat or wonderful actor, actress, or you
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  Speaker 2: know whomever. That we're talking about nurturing art and also
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  Speaker 2: advocating for the First Amendment. So I want people to
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  Speaker 2: go to go to the Creative Coalition dot org or
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  Speaker 2: to the Right to Bear Arts dot net and see
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  Speaker 2: how they can help to have their congress person or
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  Speaker 2: their senator keep the National Endowments for the Arts alive
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  Speaker 2: and well and thriving in the country. Because the United
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  Speaker 2: States has been a beacon all over the world for arts.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons why the United States is aspirational.
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  Speaker 2: It's you know, really think about the power and influence
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  Speaker 2: we've wielded all over the world because people see our
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  Speaker 2: films here are meeting, see our art and go that
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  Speaker 2: place is cool, you know right. It's one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that separates us and makes us a great nation
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  Speaker 2: is that people see that the arts that we produce,
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  Speaker 2: and they go like, hey, this is a cool place
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  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 1: You know, wow, what is that website? One more time,
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  Speaker 1: because seven minutes with you is not going to be enough.
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  Speaker 1: I want them to go and really truly look at
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  Speaker 1: this this website, what you're doing and what everybody is
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  Speaker 1: activating because it does affect their life. And don't wait
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  Speaker 1: for the silence to hit. That's gonna be too late.
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  Speaker 2: The Creativecoalition dot org.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, dude. You got to come back to
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  Speaker 1: this show anytime in the future because I want to
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  Speaker 1: break down your own career. Yeah, dude, there is brother.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, you know, I'm still going. I got stuff happening,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it's the love of my life being
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  Speaker 2: in film and television and music, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: keep doing it until they put me in the ground.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Will you be brilliant today?
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  Speaker 2: Okay sir, Thanks man, you too.