I have to thank you guys again. I know I've already thanked you in the person but I'm now going to thank you publicly for tirelessly showing up every semester.

To participate in a program that I do called Young Storytellers. You guys are so gracious with your time you come out and you act.

It's so much fun. It is a blast. It really is a blast.

Yeah, I know. Everybody wants to see you.

You have a lot of fun when you do it. So I don't feel like I'm asking too much but it's a long haul from your side of town to my side of town.

So I really appreciate you guys are always there for me.

Tell everyone what it is. It's so fun.

Yeah, it's really it's a blast. Young Storytellers is this incredible organization that started in L.A. I want to say 15 years ago, maybe more.

It's moved into other cities and stuff but it's primarily based on Los Angeles and we bring in screenwriters and actors and editors just general movie people who know how to write or know how screenplays work and we go to underserved schools in Los Angeles and work with fifth graders for a semester.

Every fifth grader gets assigned to their own mentor writer teacher mentor person and they we teach these kids we do a bunch of group exercises and then they get one on one time with their own mentor and their mentor transcribes whatever they want to write they get to write a five page movie script about anything.

And you know a lot of times we encourage them to express themselves and we run them through exercises about their communities and where they're from or you know we encourage them to just write about space exploration and weird aliens that they want to talk about our song vampires.

Vampires, vampire. We did the vampire one which is so fun.

So we just encourage them to express themselves and then we just give them the space and the mentors have their own you know they bring their computer with final draft writing program on and they write out the screenplay like literally the kids will be like

now this person says this and they type exactly what the kid wants and they work with them and then so at the end of ten weeks or eight weeks actually we have finished screenplays like five page screenplays and we do what's called the big show we bring in actors ten professional actors.

And then us and me yeah and then then you know he.

You guys are the best because they a lot of the actually now it boy me twirl may have finally been aged out but they do you guys. But yeah we try and get you know if I know anybody from a show that they might know you know like my friend Allison Mon was on Ricky Dickie Nikki and Dawn so I brought her on and they all were like immediately cast her and everything.

But anyway so the actors come and we have ten actors and they perform I ask you guys as actors to audition for the kids which is my favorite part and probably your least favorite.

Oh man.

I said to the whole time like I'm not going to get cast.

Mark go first.

Yeah.

We have the incredible Mark gagli already go first and he's just a genius of improv and performance and he's been a mental with you.

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