0:02
What's what? Is that soy cheese or is that coagulated cheese squeezed from a cow? Coagulated
0:10
You know that I'm a vegan ally. I've just come to realize that I like cheese on my crackers
0:18
I already struggle with the holiday of death. Well, if you're planning on the holiday of death as the title of our Thanksgiving play, you'll lose your job for sure
0:26
This is far more than a Thanksgiving play now. I got the Race and Gender Equity in History Grant, the Excellence in Educational Theatre Fellowship
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a Municipal Arts Grant, and the Go Girls Scholastic Leadership Mentorship. I know parents. To get them back on your side, you need to kill a turkey
0:46
I am a vegan. You're a teaching artist with a 300-parent petition to fire you
0:53
I am staying in the positive. This kind of talk isn't helping. Okay
0:59
Sending you nothing but light. Thank you. I have a surprise, too
1:07
I also got that Native American Heritage Month Awareness Through Art Grant. Really
1:13
Yes. And they gave me funding so I could hire a professional actor
1:17
Oh, finally! Thank you. And I was able to bring the perfect one to town. She elevates the whole project
1:23
She? Professional actor? Right here? Are you, technically? I mean, you volunteer for these school plays
1:32
But I get paid for that show at the farmer's market. Yeah, but you do it on a street corner and get paid in a coffee can. Exactly
1:40
Jackson, I value your work. I really do. But this woman is from Los Angeles
1:50
Here we go with Los Angeles again. It's not the center of the acting world
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It kind of is. The commercial acting world. Be grateful you didn't make it there
2:01
It shows what kind of person you are. The kind of person who isn't beautiful enough or sexy enough to compete
2:07
Don't let your head go there, Logan. Just wait until you see this actor. She's so beautiful
2:15
Beautiful. Cheekbones like glass. Just so L.A. What is beauty? A social construct
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That we don't believe in. We value talent and art, not looks
2:32
You were a talented actress. Even better. I am a director now
2:38
But I still let my past in L.A. color my present, don't I
2:43
You can't reach new lands until you let go of the shore
2:47
Or in this case, return to old lands, but as a more enlightened person
2:52
because of the journey to the other land that was new, but now is old
2:56
and it needs to be let go of. Exactly. I think I can be a mentor to this woman
3:04
Help her recover from the false value placed on her sexuality because I have taken that journey
3:13
Show her how much more she can be. Thank you for that self-awareness
3:19
You are one of the most self-aware people I know. Since knowing you
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I just do my best and I hope to Buddha that my karma makes up for the rest of it
