October 5, 2025 • 13 mins
Mindy speaks with Robert Cooperman from Stage Right Theatrics!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's booked live on my Facebook page and then the
MIDI Dreer page and Robert Cooperman is Philly and this
is normally the hour that you come in studio. Let's
brace us with your presence. But then Boots told me
maybe just yesterday. Hey, by the way, I won't be
there Sunday. I'm like, what what?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
He says, Yeah, I remember that list. He sends me
this list like at the beginning of the year, and
I didn't. I mean, that's one of those things that Okay,
these are the times I'm not going to be here.
But it's always one of those things that you're like, hey,
remember I'm not going to be there.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
He should have he should have reminded you. But did
you put these things on a calendar?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Probably not. I'm not very recognized that way.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, all right, I live for the moment, apparently,
but his his dates changed to oh okay, so anyway,
I'm right away. I knew Robert was coming in for
this three o'clock hour, and like, Robert, do you want
to do the whole show with me, the two o'clock
and the three o'clock And you said, well, yes, yes
I do.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Let's start at one o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I don't care, do we just in fact, I'll do
the whole What Matters show with you too Italy and
you work with Mikayla.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I do. And so she was supposed to get with
me and talk about Italy because I've been to Italy
for my thirtieth wedding anniversary. We went to Italy, but
I never was able to have a conversation with her
about that. So I hope she's having a good time.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well she just left today, but you have a good time.
Why we met you, Miylea's like.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You were the reason why we met you.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Kayla is the reason why we met you, that's right,
and because they worked together, And Mikayla's like, you really
should have Robert Cooperman. This guy, this crazy guy who
is just awesome and fun on the air and very conservative.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, he's like.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
The first show I was on was on What Matters, right, Yeah,
and then and then the audience fell in love with
me and the cooles were coming through. Get this guy.
You got to get him on.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So he's back now every single month he comes on
raw on six ten WTV. And because not just because
you're a great conversation and you're funny.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Look at listen to listen to read your script. It
says listen to it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But it's because of what you do.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And when I teased that you were going to be
on today, I'm like, Robert Cooperman has done something in
the United States of America that no other person has done,
man or woman.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And that's not an exaggeration.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Right now, that is not an exaggeration. We have the
only my company, my theater company is Stage Right Theatrics.
We are the only conservative theater company in the country.
And you know, I was on a how do you
know that?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Like, how do you back? I was about to explain
that with her conversation, No, that's.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Good, No, that's very conversation, and then is interrupting. Uh.
I was on a podcast last week and the person
who hosts the podcast also challenged that. And while we
were on the podcast, he looked it up and he
punched in conservative theater and he said, you know what,
he's right. And I was telling them that one time
when I was playing around with AI because I'm using
(02:55):
it more now and I was using AI and I
put in, is there any conservative theater? And it came
up with five paragraphs about me wow, idea and that
and you know. But there's a downside to this because
you get ostracized and alienated by the community that you
(03:16):
would think would be interested in other points of.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
View and accepting of everybody and accept that.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's what they preach. Right, You're supposed to accept everybody
as they come and you know, and make no judgment calls.
But I am regularly boycotted by the local theater community.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Okay, more on that in one second, La, But you
said something that I just have a quick question about.
You use AI artificial intelligence, and you're starting to use
it more and more.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I have never ever used it.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
My husband uses it, and I know people who use it,
and they say it's really easy to do. I wouldn't
know where to begin to use it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It's basically, if you use any AI program, it just
gives you a little place where you can type in
a question and then it responds to the question. So
I'll type in, are there any conservative theaters in If.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You google that, if you duck duck go.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
If you I played Duck dot Go when I was
a little kid, If you google, that's a search engine,
so you get all these different sources, and what AI
does is it kind of consolidates these sources so that
you get an answer now. But there's a downside to
that because AI is you know, is going to give
you kind of its point of view or the point
(04:27):
of view of the people who created it. So with
at least with the search engine, you can look at
all these different sources and decide for yourself. If you
go just with AI, then you only have a limited
world of sources.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I see what you're saying, because I have used AI.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Then when I go to Google something and right at
the top, it'll be AI, and it gives you your
reasoning or the answer to your question.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
But I mean some people use it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
For example, one of my best friends, Jen, her father
passed away and she was going to write the eulogy
and she put it into some system through artificial intelligence,
and it cleaned up everything and it.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Spit this beautiful eulogy out to her.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's what I'm saying. I've never used it that way.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I don't plan to use it that way. I use
it as right now to do research and as a
substitute for a search engine, but I don't plan to
use AI to write for me. So I'm a playwright.
I'm not going to tell me, tell it, write a
two act play about this or that.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
But wouldn't it be easier for you?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, but it wouldn't be me, and I've gotta be me.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I've gotta be me.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I don't know why this became a duet. I was
going for a solo.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So you are a playwright, and you did prove the
fact out there is that you are the only conservative
theater in the entire nation. But because of that, you
get a lot of pushback from people.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I do, so you would tease before we took a
break that we just did a really fabulous production of
Eugene O'Neil's Desire under the.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Elms, which we did promote absolutely and it was like
it was going to be hot and heavy.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, and it's really not that way, and people felt
that it was. I asked people during the talkback, were
you depressed by this? And they said, no, we're not
depressed by this. It was uplifting in its own way.
But to be that as it may. Your wife, my
wife directed it, my wife designed. She did a fabulous job.
And I'm saying this because I want to be able
to come home tonight. Yeah. Right. And she also designed
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the set, and people really pointed out how good that
set was, you know. And it wasn't a realistic set.
It was a suggestion of a house, a two floor
house it was. It was really beautifully done. But what
we did was the first weekend. We had two weekends,
and the first weekend was right on the heels of
the Charlie Kirk memorial. So I decided that I was
(06:47):
going to dedicate those first three performances to the memory
of Charlie Kirk and the idea of civil conversation, which
is what I was saying. We have at stage right
when we do a talkback, we have civil.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Conver Let me interrupt you or stop you for a second.
What's because when you did.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
This, did you just write this in the program or
did you say this before the actual place?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I said it before the actual play started. I decided that,
like the day before, well maybe that did.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I think that's really nice.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And I went out and I said that we are
dedicating this in the interest of civil conversation. We are
dedicating this to the memory of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That's fair.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Now. The first night I had people applaud in the audience.
And the second night nobody said anything, but they were
fine about that. The third night I had some lunatics
yelling back at me, no.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Inappropriate in the audience.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
In the audience, yes.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Did you say anything?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Now? Can you imagine you guys, listen to this and
just try to try to envision this.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You're in the theater.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
The head of the theater, before the play starts, just
comes up to welcome everybody, and we're going to dedicate
tonight's performance to the honor and memory of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And civil conversation, and then.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
They start screaming at me in an in civil way.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I want to know what. You didn't even throw anything
at you?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
No, no, they didn't throw anything.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Uh stop? Did you say anything back?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I said, it is absolutely appropriate, And if you don't
like it, there's the door.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You really did?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I absolutely did.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And this is your bottom dollar, Like, this is my boy,
this is how you of your living.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Right, Well, very small part, I said, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so yeah, So I just was no, of course, not no.
But that night somebody wrote we had a box of
playbuilds sitting out front, and somebody wrote the word bigot
on it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, and you just laugh at that and say, well, wow,
you could spell it. You know that that really helps men. No,
it's not funny and it but it just shows that
there is one group that is willing to have a
civil conversation and another group that isn't that just wanted
to dismiss you with name calling, you know. Uh. So
that happened, and then we had a second week of
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shows and I wasn't planning to do another memorial to
Charlie Kirk during.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
That week man out after you got heckled.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
No, no, I I planned it at all. And so
we the second week before the performances, which are on
a Friday and a Saturday, I got an em too,
emails from people who had bought tickets for that coming
week and said they wanted refunds because they heard that
I had dedicated it to charge too bad is absolutely right.
(09:20):
I have absolutely no requirement legal or otherwise to give
them a refund, And of course they didn't get one,
and I didn't even answer them because I forgured that
would upset them more.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But do you know that when you have a business,
any type of business, whether it's a theater company or
a clothing store or an ice cream shop anything. A
lot of business owners won't put their politics out there
just because they want business from everybody.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I want business from everybody too, but I don't feel
that I have to be the one to back off
my opinion to appease others. Let them back off for
a minute.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, and what you said really was not controversial.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Controversial, of course, not except for people who read a
few quotes taken out of context by Charlie Kirk and said, oh,
he's a monster.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Are you surprised out of all of the people who
celebrated his death?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Disgusting?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And then they was fired. They lost again.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Good. I was very happy about that.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
That's just created a man's death right and shot and
killed in such a horrifical way. You know, those kids
will grow up, that video will be out there forever, right,
Those little babies will grow up one day and see
what happened to their daddy.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Right, Well, let me let me say this before. Yeah,
we have to go after that thing with the tickets.
That was on a Monday. On a Tuesday, I got
an email from one of the lead actors who said,
unless I announced that my dedication to Charlie Kirk was
mine and mine alone and does not reflect any of
the actors. He will not go on. So there's a
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threat there that I would not that I could, I
would have to close my show and give back all
that money, which I would do if we canceled the show,
and all the actors in the cast who they had
some people whose parents had not yet seen the show
and were coming that weekend or were watching it on
livestream that weekend.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
So he did this on the third performance night.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
No, he did this right before the show. He did
this on the Tuesday, and we were going to perform
on Friday.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So what happened?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I said to him, I said, you may have a
point that I should have mentioned it to the cast
I so I'll know that going forward. And he was like, oh, okay,
that's what that's open dialogue. And I was like, that's
not open dialogue, that's appeasement. And I told him so
in an email by the way, I sent him this
morning and said, you should be ashamed of yourself to
(11:41):
threaten that. That's unprofessional. And you've worked with him before,
I have once years ago. Yeah, were with him again
now because he also was kind of a pain in
the rehearsal process, which we shouldn't. We don't need to
go over. But I mean, that is the most unprofessional
thing and it's selfish and I'm you know, I had
I I had to have the show go on, so
(12:01):
I had to do some appeasement. But now after the fact,
I'm going to let you know how I feel.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
But you're gonna always have people like that.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Right, Well, we do because the theater companies rather the
theater community BALLI and large Boycottony.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
But I don't even mean in the theater world, Okay,
in the country in general.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yes, you're always going to have people like that.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
However, the far majority of people there is a revival
and there is a movement because of Charlie Kirk right, millions,
millions of people are now going to church. They're having
conversations with Jesus. Young people are finding God. There is
a movement. So yes, you're gonna have the few people
who make the noise and want to fight against it,
(12:41):
but they're so outnumbered.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
They absolutely are.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
It's a beautiful thing because if you have a problem
with people starting to pray and go to church for
more peace of mind, then who's really with the problem.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Is you or them?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Oh? Them right?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
All right?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
More on this conversation and on, and you keep calling
me more sorry, Well you are filling in for boots,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
When you come back, we're gonna find out what else.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
This theater company is up to now that the big
Racie production is over.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
What else is up your sleeve?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
We're talking to Robert Cooperman from Stage Right Theatrics, Stage
Right Theatrics.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We'll be right back, everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You're listening to RAW on six ten WTV in maybe
He's booked live on my Facebook page and then the
MIDI Dreer page and Robert Cooperman is Philly and this
is normally the hour that you come in studio. Let's
brace us with your presence. But then Boots told me
maybe just yesterday. Hey, by the way, I won't be
there Sunday. I'm like, what what?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
He says, Yeah, I remember that list. He sends me
this list like at the beginning of the year, and
I didn't. I mean, that's one of those things that Okay,
these are the times I'm not going to be here.
But it's always one of those things that you're like, hey,
remember I'm not going to be there.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
He should have he should have reminded you. But did
you put these things on a calendar?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Probably not. I'm not very recognized that way.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, all right, I live for the moment, apparently,
but his his dates changed to oh okay, so anyway,
I'm right away. I knew Robert was coming in for
this three o'clock hour, and like, Robert, do you want
to do the whole show with me, the two o'clock
and the three o'clock And you said, well, yes, yes
I do.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Let's start at one o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I don't care, do we just in fact, I'll do
the whole What Matters show with you too Italy and
you work with Mikayla.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I do. And so she was supposed to get with
me and talk about Italy because I've been to Italy
for my thirtieth wedding anniversary. We went to Italy, but
I never was able to have a conversation with her
about that. So I hope she's having a good time.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well she just left today, but you have a good time.
Why we met you, Miylea's like.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You were the reason why we met you.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Kayla is the reason why we met you, that's right,
and because they worked together, And Mikayla's like, you really
should have Robert Cooperman. This guy, this crazy guy who
is just awesome and fun on the air and very conservative.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, he's like.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
The first show I was on was on What Matters, right, Yeah,
and then and then the audience fell in love with
me and the cooles were coming through. Get this guy.
You got to get him on.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So he's back now every single month he comes on
raw on six ten WTV. And because not just because
you're a great conversation and you're funny.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Look at listen to listen to read your script. It
says listen to it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But it's because of what you do.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And when I teased that you were going to be
on today, I'm like, Robert Cooperman has done something in
the United States of America that no other person has done,
man or woman.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And that's not an exaggeration.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Right now, that is not an exaggeration. We have the
only my company, my theater company is Stage Right Theatrics.
We are the only conservative theater company in the country.
And you know, I was on a how do you
know that?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Like, how do you back? I was about to explain
that with her conversation, No, that's.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Good, No, that's very conversation, and then is interrupting. Uh.
I was on a podcast last week and the person
who hosts the podcast also challenged that. And while we
were on the podcast, he looked it up and he
punched in conservative theater and he said, you know what,
he's right. And I was telling them that one time
when I was playing around with AI because I'm using
(02:55):
it more now and I was using AI and I
put in, is there any conservative theater? And it came
up with five paragraphs about me wow, idea and that
and you know. But there's a downside to this because
you get ostracized and alienated by the community that you
(03:16):
would think would be interested in other points of.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
View and accepting of everybody and accept that.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's what they preach. Right, You're supposed to accept everybody
as they come and you know, and make no judgment calls.
But I am regularly boycotted by the local theater community.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Okay, more on that in one second, La, But you
said something that I just have a quick question about.
You use AI artificial intelligence, and you're starting to use
it more and more.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I have never ever used it.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
My husband uses it, and I know people who use it,
and they say it's really easy to do. I wouldn't
know where to begin to use it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It's basically, if you use any AI program, it just
gives you a little place where you can type in
a question and then it responds to the question. So
I'll type in, are there any conservative theaters in If.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You google that, if you duck duck go.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
If you I played Duck dot Go when I was
a little kid, If you google, that's a search engine,
so you get all these different sources, and what AI
does is it kind of consolidates these sources so that
you get an answer now. But there's a downside to
that because AI is you know, is going to give
you kind of its point of view or the point
(04:27):
of view of the people who created it. So with
at least with the search engine, you can look at
all these different sources and decide for yourself. If you
go just with AI, then you only have a limited
world of sources.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I see what you're saying, because I have used AI.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Then when I go to Google something and right at
the top, it'll be AI, and it gives you your
reasoning or the answer to your question.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
But I mean some people use it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
For example, one of my best friends, Jen, her father
passed away and she was going to write the eulogy
and she put it into some system through artificial intelligence,
and it cleaned up everything and it.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Spit this beautiful eulogy out to her.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's what I'm saying. I've never used it that way.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I don't plan to use it that way. I use
it as right now to do research and as a
substitute for a search engine, but I don't plan to
use AI to write for me. So I'm a playwright.
I'm not going to tell me, tell it, write a
two act play about this or that.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
But wouldn't it be easier for you?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, but it wouldn't be me, and I've gotta be me.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I've gotta be me.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I don't know why this became a duet. I was
going for a solo.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So you are a playwright, and you did prove the
fact out there is that you are the only conservative
theater in the entire nation. But because of that, you
get a lot of pushback from people.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I do, so you would tease before we took a
break that we just did a really fabulous production of
Eugene O'Neil's Desire under the.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Elms, which we did promote absolutely and it was like
it was going to be hot and heavy.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, and it's really not that way, and people felt
that it was. I asked people during the talkback, were
you depressed by this? And they said, no, we're not
depressed by this. It was uplifting in its own way.
But to be that as it may. Your wife, my
wife directed it, my wife designed. She did a fabulous job.
And I'm saying this because I want to be able
to come home tonight. Yeah. Right. And she also designed
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the set, and people really pointed out how good that
set was, you know. And it wasn't a realistic set.
It was a suggestion of a house, a two floor
house it was. It was really beautifully done. But what
we did was the first weekend. We had two weekends,
and the first weekend was right on the heels of
the Charlie Kirk memorial. So I decided that I was
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going to dedicate those first three performances to the memory
of Charlie Kirk and the idea of civil conversation, which
is what I was saying. We have at stage right
when we do a talkback, we have civil.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Conver Let me interrupt you or stop you for a second.
What's because when you did.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
This, did you just write this in the program or
did you say this before the actual place?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I said it before the actual play started. I decided that,
like the day before, well maybe that did.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I think that's really nice.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And I went out and I said that we are
dedicating this in the interest of civil conversation. We are
dedicating this to the memory of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That's fair.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Now. The first night I had people applaud in the audience.
And the second night nobody said anything, but they were
fine about that. The third night I had some lunatics
yelling back at me, no.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Inappropriate in the audience.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
In the audience, yes.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Did you say anything?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Now? Can you imagine you guys, listen to this and
just try to try to envision this.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You're in the theater.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
The head of the theater, before the play starts, just
comes up to welcome everybody, and we're going to dedicate
tonight's performance to the honor and memory of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And civil conversation, and then.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
They start screaming at me in an in civil way.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I want to know what. You didn't even throw anything
at you?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
No, no, they didn't throw anything.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Uh stop? Did you say anything back?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I said, it is absolutely appropriate, And if you don't
like it, there's the door.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You really did?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I absolutely did.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And this is your bottom dollar, Like, this is my boy,
this is how you of your living.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Right, Well, very small part, I said, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so yeah, So I just was no, of course, not no.
But that night somebody wrote we had a box of
playbuilds sitting out front, and somebody wrote the word bigot
on it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, and you just laugh at that and say, well, wow,
you could spell it. You know that that really helps men. No,
it's not funny and it but it just shows that
there is one group that is willing to have a
civil conversation and another group that isn't that just wanted
to dismiss you with name calling, you know. Uh. So
that happened, and then we had a second week of
(08:53):
shows and I wasn't planning to do another memorial to
Charlie Kirk during.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
That week man out after you got heckled.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
No, no, I I planned it at all. And so
we the second week before the performances, which are on
a Friday and a Saturday, I got an em too,
emails from people who had bought tickets for that coming
week and said they wanted refunds because they heard that
I had dedicated it to charge too bad is absolutely right.
(09:20):
I have absolutely no requirement legal or otherwise to give
them a refund, And of course they didn't get one,
and I didn't even answer them because I forgured that
would upset them more.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But do you know that when you have a business,
any type of business, whether it's a theater company or
a clothing store or an ice cream shop anything. A
lot of business owners won't put their politics out there
just because they want business from everybody.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I want business from everybody too, but I don't feel
that I have to be the one to back off
my opinion to appease others. Let them back off for
a minute.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, and what you said really was not controversial.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Controversial, of course, not except for people who read a
few quotes taken out of context by Charlie Kirk and said, oh,
he's a monster.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Are you surprised out of all of the people who
celebrated his death?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Disgusting?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And then they was fired. They lost again.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Good. I was very happy about that.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
That's just created a man's death right and shot and
killed in such a horrifical way. You know, those kids
will grow up, that video will be out there forever, right,
Those little babies will grow up one day and see
what happened to their daddy.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Right, Well, let me let me say this before. Yeah,
we have to go after that thing with the tickets.
That was on a Monday. On a Tuesday, I got
an email from one of the lead actors who said,
unless I announced that my dedication to Charlie Kirk was
mine and mine alone and does not reflect any of
the actors. He will not go on. So there's a
(10:51):
threat there that I would not that I could, I
would have to close my show and give back all
that money, which I would do if we canceled the show,
and all the actors in the cast who they had
some people whose parents had not yet seen the show
and were coming that weekend or were watching it on
livestream that weekend.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
So he did this on the third performance night.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
No, he did this right before the show. He did
this on the Tuesday, and we were going to perform
on Friday.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So what happened?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I said to him, I said, you may have a
point that I should have mentioned it to the cast
I so I'll know that going forward. And he was like, oh, okay,
that's what that's open dialogue. And I was like, that's
not open dialogue, that's appeasement. And I told him so
in an email by the way, I sent him this
morning and said, you should be ashamed of yourself to
(11:41):
threaten that. That's unprofessional. And you've worked with him before,
I have once years ago. Yeah, were with him again
now because he also was kind of a pain in
the rehearsal process, which we shouldn't. We don't need to
go over. But I mean, that is the most unprofessional
thing and it's selfish and I'm you know, I had
I I had to have the show go on, so
(12:01):
I had to do some appeasement. But now after the fact,
I'm going to let you know how I feel.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
But you're gonna always have people like that.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Right, Well, we do because the theater companies rather the
theater community BALLI and large Boycottony.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
But I don't even mean in the theater world, Okay,
in the country in general.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yes, you're always going to have people like that.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
However, the far majority of people there is a revival
and there is a movement because of Charlie Kirk right, millions,
millions of people are now going to church. They're having
conversations with Jesus. Young people are finding God. There is
a movement. So yes, you're gonna have the few people
who make the noise and want to fight against it,
(12:41):
but they're so outnumbered.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
They absolutely are.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
It's a beautiful thing because if you have a problem
with people starting to pray and go to church for
more peace of mind, then who's really with the problem.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Is you or them?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Oh? Them right?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
All right?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
More on this conversation and on, and you keep calling
me more sorry, Well you are filling in for boots,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
When you come back, we're gonna find out what else.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
This theater company is up to now that the big
Racie production is over.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
What else is up your sleeve?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
We're talking to Robert Cooperman from Stage Right Theatrics, Stage
Right Theatrics.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We'll be right back, everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You're listening to RAW on six ten WTV in maybe
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