| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| HTA ID | HTA-0627 |
| Title | Henry's Sunday Interview — Health and Exercise |
| Era | KRON-TV (San Francisco, ~2009–2013) |
| Station | KRON-TV Channel 4 |
| Program | KRON4 News Weekend |
| Role | Host / Reporter / Interviewer |
| Segment Type | Interview |
| Duration | ~4:02 |
| Source File | henry+sunday+interview.txt |
| Record Version | V1 (Transcript Only) |
Henry conducts a Sunday interview segment about health, exercise, and wellness.
00:00 Do you get any exercise? 00:02 Exercise is important. 00:04 Even dogs need to be walked. 00:08 Look how skinny she is. 00:09 Damn, she needs to eat something. 00:13 So the show is called Outspoken. 00:16 It's a play about diversity and respect for teens. 00:19 It's put on by the new Conservatory Theatre, 00:22 part of their Youth Aware program, which has been around for two decades. 00:25 This is their latest show, which is what, since 2005. 00:29 We have two of the members of the cast, and we have the director both of the program and of the play itself. 00:36 Let me introduce you to Sarah Staley on your left, Angelica. 00:40 You're okay. 00:41 I got it right, on your far right. 00:43 And sitting there in the middle, the thorn among the roses of Staley's Morton. 00:47 Thank you all for joining us. 00:49 Can you explain the concept of the show and where you're taking it, who's seeing the show? 00:52 Absolutely. 00:53 We developed Outspoken in 2005 because we saw a need for theater and education around respect for differences. 01:00 All the reasons that young people are feeling bullied and ostracized at school. 01:03 So the play deals with a lot in a little bit of time. 01:05 We cover race, religion, sexual orientation, body type. 01:10 We toured all over northern and central California to middle schools and high schools. 01:14 So the play runs about 40 minutes and then we take a good 20 minutes at the end to do a discussion with the kids about the issues. 01:20 start the conversation about respect issues on their campus or help them further their message. 01:25 So it's a combination of performance and then discussions. 01:28 Exactly. 01:29 So in terms of what seems to resonate, what are you finding out as you tour around? 01:34 And is it different geographically? 01:36 Because I know you do a lot of work in the Central Valley. 01:38 Absolutely different geographically because every group is different. 01:41 Like we've been doing a lot of schools in San Francisco. 01:44 And some of those groups tend to be more nitty and gritty and, you know, like race issues are big there. 01:49 And so it just varies, I think. 01:51 It depends on the school. 01:52 And that's why I think it's so great about the show is that that six cast members, there's five of us. 01:56 It just completely depends on whoever is in that audience out there and what they're receptive to and what they even want to hear about. 02:02 Yeah. 02:02 It's really about, I mean, let's face it, this comes out of this whole bullying issue. 02:07 What are you finding is the most resonant? 02:10 I mean, obviously, a lot of it has had to do with gay issues. 02:13 But are you seeing that, for example, in the Central Valley? 02:16 Is anybody coming out and admitting it? 02:19 Oh, absolutely. 02:19 Absolutely. And, you know, we ask the question around language. There's a line in our play that says that words are like weapons. 02:25 So, you know, we ask about, do you ever hear the phrase, that's so gay, where kids are using gay to equal stupid or weak and hands go up 90% of the population in every school. 02:36 What's so interesting is we ask, you know, is, you know, homophobia tolerated at your school or is, you know, racism tolerated at your school? 02:42 And they'll be like, sometimes they'll be like, no, no. 02:44 Of course not. 02:45 But then we ask, who's heard that's so gay? 02:47 Everyone. 02:48 go up and it's about really getting those derogatory words out of our out of our vocabulary and making 02:54 sure that it's a safe place for everybody to go to school what kind of fan mail you guys get 02:58 uh we got some letters from presidio middle school and it's been so hard here in san francisco very 03:04 very rewarding experience and just some of the letters how you know truthful truthful they are 03:10 in expressing how we've helped them or affected them how do you know if you've been successful 03:16 at the end of the show. 03:17 We get to have conversation afterwards, luckily, 03:20 and so we ask kids right out of the gate 03:22 what's the main message of this show, 03:23 and they say, oh, to not judge people, 03:26 to be true to myself, 03:27 to not change myself for others. 03:29 So getting that right after a performance 03:31 really measures success. 03:33 So if you would like to see the show, 03:35 you're going to have to go to a high school. 03:36 No, you don't have to go back to junior high school. 03:39 You can actually come tomorrow at 7 p.m. 03:42 at the New Conservatory Theater Center in San Francisco, 03:44 which is the producing agency or the producing institution. 03:48 And you can go for details, nctsf.org slash youthaware. 03:54 Thank you for joining us. 03:55 You guys are getting, it's a pity you don't get frequent flyer miles, 03:58 or frequent driver miles, a lot of miles on you. 04:01 Thank you for joining us. 04:02 Thank you for having us.