>> in response to the high school, going after high school, i think that that is a great idea. i remember high school. >> yeah, me too. >> it wasn't that long ago for me and i remember not caring. it's not that i didn't understand the message but it was that i didn't care enough that the message went right over my head and through my ears. elementary school kids don't do that. believe it or not they will pause and they will cry. and middle school. you guys know that. they understand, the message sinks in. i do encourage lots of communities it try and take it to their high schoolers and i don't mind being pointed out and booed off the stage. >> yes, you do. >> that is the risk that you take. and then the response to

the question about whether there has been a higher impact, if we've seen any changes, i've been in the show since the beginning, i missed a couple semesters since starting but when we go back to the schools we have kids coming back to you, i remember you, i remember you, i had a few kids say, yeah, i wanted to write on the desk but i didn't. something as simple as drawing on your desk is gravanis because there are people paid to clean off the desk and now they ain't doing that, the fact that when we go to these schools and when we see these kids they always have answers ready for us as far as the last time they saw us, after the show, oh, yeah, i'm not going to do this. >> every semester. and there's some schools that won't let us come in. it's really strange. oh, no, our kids

don't do that. it's true. >> i've been in the show plenty of times, starting in 06 -- it was 06 -- and i've done this show numerous times. and don't get it twisted, yes, we are in sacramento and i have been staying in the good part of the city, you know what i mean? and three different bad parts of the city, we've gone to, probably, 6 schools in those bad cities and occasionally you get those, sometimes you see those kids that when they are coming into the cafeteria or the gym, multi purpose room, what have you, they are always like talking

the whole time, you know? and still to this day i see like three of those kids from those kids that are not -- what can i say -- they are not that bad any more. they are not that bad. i see them, they are cool, they are not making no bad choices. they remember me. oh, i'm making right choices, i'm making right choices. it makes you feel good that you reached out and you got hold of somebody, somebody that was probably on the wrong path on to the right path, you know what i mean? >> was the play based on characters in real life? >> yeah, some of them are. obviously like ivo, evolution, we wanted to make him the leader because he evolves

throughout the play and teaches the rest of the kids. damage, the antagonist, the joker, crash, officer frank, who speaks frankly, we wanted to do the elementary school but do the confront thing. also, too, you know, the neighbors that unfortunately i'm a code enforcement officer so i have to deal with citing property owners even though they didn't do it. so i get the backlash from the property owners, you know? i've been here 5 times, call the cops. this is what we can do. so definitely those are the characters in our community. >> to give you guys experience how we do this, we can have the guys come out, hand out the goodies. if you

guys can get people, then noel and i can --. >> thank you so much. thank you (applause).