Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Konstantin Kissen. And this is the show

for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people. Our terrific guest today is a

classically trained professional actor and Broadway veteran Clifton Duncan. Welcome to Trigonometry.

Hey, what's going on fellas? How you doing today? Oh, it's great to have you on man. We've been

looking forward to this chat for a long time. For people who don't know who you are before we get

into the conversation itself, terror, but who are you? How are you where you are? What has been the

journey that leads you here talking to us? Uh, yeah, well, it's kind of funny because I'm not

somebody who gets star struck. I've spent the last few years working with famous people, but it is,

it is kind of, it gives me tingles inside to work with people that, or not work with, but to talk

to people that I watch on the internet all the time. But yeah, you know, I'm a classically trained

actor. I've been based in New York City for 15 years. I moved there originally to attend,

to attend conservatory training at NYU's Graduate Acting Program, which is one of the top three,

it's, you know, it's up there with Juliard in the Yale School of Drama. And, or Jail School of

Drama as they call it. And I got out about 10 years ago. I've been working at the top theaters

around the country. I've been off Broadway. I've been on Broadway and guest start on several television

series. And for years, I've basically been living a double life. And it's, it's not as though I'm

some sort of hard right wing nut. It's just that I, I am not as enamored with the, the quote-unquote

progressive train, you know, I mean, I don't even know what that word means anymore. As everyone

else in the industry seems to be, and I notice, excuse me, I began to notice, especially after Trump's

election, I likened the, I don't know if you want to call it the left or the Democrats in America,

but it's, it's like watching a corpse writhing in convulsions after receiving a bullet to the

head. And I notice this, I want to say stench of activism that's like, that's flooding different

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