WEBVTT - Aleta Braxton 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:13.840 He's a sexy sexy man, sexy sexy fan because he 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.200 ain't no suckers, looking so funny. You try like a trucker, 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.680 clean like a plank, you solive, younger, fool, We'll try. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.840 So he's never getting to pray so far, chicking up 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.080 a lot of bandwids. And he's a god y. He 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.360 ain't no stand and he doesn't have cheese on a 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.879 nighttime stand, which because everybody knows he's the Burge de Bandit. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:38.240 The Ron Burgundy Podcast, Ladies and Gentlemen, Live from the 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.800 Largo Theater in Hollywood, California. Put your hats out from 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:57.880 Mr Ron Barge. Hello, Hello, oh my god, Hello Hello 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.600 hard Yeah us, I hope that's not a gang sign. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:10.400 Oh my gosh. She just made a heart. Yeah, double 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:18.080 hearts you Okay, don't don't, don't do this. We just 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.000 started the show. It's so much to me. Thank you. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.440 These two young women love me. But I hope you 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:31.320 people feel the same. Well, thank you for coming out 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:38.839 Tuesday night in Los Angeles. We really appreciated this show. Actually, 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.479 we're raising money for charity. It's called Kids Save. It's 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.800 helping families in the Ukraine right now. So thank you 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.080 so much for coming out tonight and buying tickets, And 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:52.840 that's why your tickets were hundred dollars tonight. No, they 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:59.600 only paid like, well, they're going to be paying before 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:04.640 the night over. Don't you think I'm being funny? No, 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:10.000 well we'll line everyone up and we'll shake you out. No, 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.120 we won't take that, that would be crazy. How much 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:20.040 would you I would settle for a dy ahead everyone? Probably? 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.880 How much cash would you say you carry with you nowadays? 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.480 I don't think anyone really care. How do you? How 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:31.960 are you a duffel bag? For what purpose? I carry 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:40.520 a man first? Immerse? Uh? Well, I still use travelers checks. Oh, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:47.399 I have fifties, twenties, one, fifties two to fifties fives 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.760 and a thousand. I have a rare five thousand dollar 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:57.840 travelers check that's worth five thousand dollars. It's actually lost money. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.560 How long does that take when we're just trying to 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.519 do a simple really interesting, because I'll be like, you, 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.440 of course take travelers checks, and I've already filled it 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.359 out and signed it in. The server will be like, no, 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.480 we don't. Uh do you have a chip on your card? 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:20.120 And I'm like what what does that mean? Customer service? 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.359 So then I have to run to the ATOM and 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:33.080 uh put my bank card in the atom and punch 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:38.480 in my code six four. But we don't. Don't just 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.520 keep that to yourself. I said it so fast. Oh 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.040 like someone's gonna slow down the table at home. Crap, 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.120 that was my fake ATOM number. Uh, and I usually 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.080 pull out It's pronounced a t M, but it doesn't matter. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:04:04.200 A t M standing for m automatic to your president. Yeah, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:11.920 you're the big shot. You're probably carrying from the automatic 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:18.320 teller machine. Does every bank have one a T machine? Yes? Yes, 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.320 So if I walk in and say where is your 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.120 automated teller machine? You don't want to be that person. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.560 You just want to say, not that you're that person. 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.880 You just want to say, be casual about it. Hey, 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.200 I need an a t M. Hey where's your automatic? 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.839 That's already that that WoT No, No, you will honestly 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.960 look like you're about to rob a bank. Hey i'm 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:45.559 super cash. No, I use this wheelchair because I'm tired. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:53.080 I don't have an affliction. He's going to rob the bank. Okay, 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:54.479 So just say a t M. Do you have an 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.080 a T M? Yeah? And then they'll point me in 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:00.440 the right direction. Exactly is my microphone on? Okay? Yeah? 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.080 Oh wow, you have the lovely singing voice, which is 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:13.840 foreshadowing for our guest. But you don't know now, don't 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.159 you wish I would tell you right now? But it's 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:21.840 my secret. Feels so good to have a secret over 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:28.040 all of you. Run. Oh I don't. I'm sorry. I 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.440 just haven't been around people. I haven't been around talking 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:39.120 to myself a mirror because I gave myself lockdown plus 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:46.320 twenty four months just to be extra safe. So you're 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.400 like almost done. I'm almost done with my personal lockdown. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:55.600 And my apartment is filthy. It's just pizza boxes and 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:07.960 pizza boxes, boxes, frozen burritos, hot pockets. Has it been 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:14.880 eating anything else? Any water, vegetables? Just quick alcohol? Fi? 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:21.840 Does it have alcohol? Yeah? This should be fun to 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:29.200 good to know. A little minty goodnight, yeah, winter green? 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.039 How much it burns? Yeah, a little bit, stuna gig. 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.920 I'm so excited that I hope. Does it feel comfortable 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.680 to be together? I mean, you're I appreciate that you're 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.760 you're all wearing masks and you showed you your vaccine card. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:51.080 By the way, I've got seven I've been vaccinated seven times, Madernay, 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:57.320 I have that provisor. Yeah, J and Jay, I don't 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.480 know if you're spot Nick from Russia. That wasn't it. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.720 I got the Chinese one, Israeli one, the Turkish one, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:14.520 and then there's something I called a homebrew. I'm sorry, 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:23.520 what's in? What's in the homebrew? Homebrew? Mouth flash o reganar? 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.720 Why heavy? And you just take it like a shot 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:37.920 Grabizzi pizza. Trust, It's more like a pace. You are 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.200 so grateful that you are emotional getting this vaccine's getting 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.280 so emotional. We have access. The only problem with my Homebrew. 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:50.000 The only thing, the only thing is the only way 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:56.040 that it's truly effective is to inject it in your ya. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.160 That's the thing with these things, at least that's what 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.320 my doctor says. Who do you see Dr Jacob mrnni 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:19.200 who he's also an attorney, but he gets in and 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:24.400 out of there. I love it and it helps me 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.640 with you know, anyone I want to sue seats out there, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.160 I got a lot of I'm like Junior Donald Trump 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.120 out there. I'm just suing everyone, like I sued the 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.679 dinner for not taking my travelers checks and you're still 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.600 in litigation. We're still in litigation, looking like we're going 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:44.199 to settle. Have you ever taken any lawsuit out on me? No, 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.599 you've never sued me. I don't think okay, I'm not 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.480 gonna worry about it. Yeah, don't worry about it. I 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.800 sued you once and then I said, let's call it off. 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.200 Oh my god, that it like we gotta file a SUP. 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.880 This is a breach of protocol. He's fourteen minutes late. Um, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.840 I'm getting off track here, really getting off track. I'm 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:19.400 just excited to be Yes, you've never really even asked 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:35.520 me though today? How I'm doing? How are you doing? Carolina? 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:43.679 You can how are you doing? Okay? Less impatient? How 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.240 are you doing? Um, it's actually been kind of a 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.040 hard week. I am, Oh, I'm sorry, No, it's okay. 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.679 Guy problems and then, um, you know that I had 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.360 those problems with my kidneys forever ago, which we're kind 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:06.040 of serious and diageo. I'm so sorry. Yes, your kidneys. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.199 You had the issue go ahead, so I had this 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.439 serious problems. I was actually get theaters for these My 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:18.920 kidneys were just running out of that's awful. What is it. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.800 I don't know what this is. Oh, it's a wonderful 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:31.160 liquor company. They make wonderful spirits Johnny Walker. Uh what 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:35.640 else do they make? You have a whole thing for diagio? 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:45.000 I do hold? Please? Do you even want to hear 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.880 the end of my kidney? Well, let me just get there. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:55.319 Oh yeah, they make Johnny Walker, Tanker A Bailey's other 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.680 delicious libations. But continue your story. I'm sorry. I don't 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:01.480 know why you didn't had a late ideal with them. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.600 I have to say their name seventy five times tonight. 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:11.679 So wait, was that the that's the liquor company that 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:18.920 deal fell through last night? Yeah? Yeah, it's done. It's done. Well, 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.199 I do I'd love that how it rolls off the tongue. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.599 All right, Well, you don't want to hear you know, 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:29.120 I'm not gonna even don't. I'm fine. You know it 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:37.240 might help your kidney though, I wasn't gonna say it. 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.360 I was gonna say a nice sip of Johnny Walker 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:46.400 paid bye. The money is not going to come through. Okay, fine. 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.520 We we are working on sort of a catchphrase, something 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.760 that we can say for the podcast, and so would 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:57.800 you help me say it all together. Just run. That's enough. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:04.680 Let's yeah, let's try to coordinate one to three. Let's enough. Okay, 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.760 maybe throw it away more. Lets you know, you know, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:14.760 I feel like half of you were with me and 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.560 half of you don't like me. Okay, maybe we can 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:25.319 do it in a Brooklyn accent. Oh yeah, run Oh 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.520 I like that. We have some Thespians in the crowd. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:37.760 That's gonna play great in the Northeast corridor. Um, we 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.280 should get to some headlines. Actually we should. Let's cover 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.880 some of the headlines. What's happening in the world. Um. 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:47.520 I've opened up ron to u du mois. It's an 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:51.959 Instagram account that gives you news really quickly. I love it. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.880 Ron's a big fan. There's a lot of good stuff 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.800 on here and you're not going to hear it from 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:04.440 any mainstream new from So recently, there's been some hot tips. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:09.880 UM spotted Natalie Portman and Los feels So Sweet. Server 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.040 accidentally knocked over her glass of wine all over the 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.920 table and what happened. Natalie made a very sweet joke 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.000 about it. That's very classy of Natalie. It doesn't surprise me. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.600 You know, she went to Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg. Oh 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:27.280 you mean Mark Zuckerberg. No, I mean Mark Zuckerberg. He 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.199 was Zuckerberg in Harvard and then when he became a 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.080 big show, I became Zuckerberg. I know what I did 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:36.120 the research. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna argue with you. 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:41.440 I wouldn't. We have another tip Um stood behind Julia 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:46.960 Fox in line at Arawan Studio City. Who's Julia Fox? Um? 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:51.720 It's a long story. Do you know she dated Kanye 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.920 for a second and she's been in a few movies. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:14:00.000 She's very attractive, like on a Vivicate A Fox level. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.240 I wouldn't, I don't know, very hot. Yeah, because she's 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.840 the top of my list. I know, I know Vivica 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:16.640 A Fox. Vivica a Fox is what? Okay, seven days 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:21.800 a week? What's wrong with you? I watched a lot 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.880 of Vivica A Fox stuff in quarantine. I'm not gonna 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.000 lie to you. All right, you guys, come on run. 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.600 We gotta you like Vivica Fox. That was beautiful, by 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:52.200 the way. Another headline, Yes, Selina Gomez at chipp Riani 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:57.320 downtown with a big group celebrating someone's birthday. What happened? 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.480 She was looking stunning as always. By the way, Selena, 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:09.920 what come happen? Are those choppers? Selina? Is that? Is Selina? 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:22.120 Selena Gossure? Is that my Mike is that? Every time 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:28.840 I move it's hard to say. Okay, slowly, slow, slowly. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:34.920 I feel like we're diffusing a bomb. It's me you 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:45.640 and Selena Gomez and vivocated a fox, spotted spotted. Jacob, Wait, 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.320 can I just say one thing? If you go to Gippriani's, 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:58.000 get the clams casino. Continue, Continue, Jacob, don't even mess around, 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:04.800 Just walk in and say clams Casino, Jacob, lord clans 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.040 Casino Carolina. Just so you know. I don't know if 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.960 you've ever had them before, but they're delightfully broiled clams. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:18.560 With who this is? This is going to happen. Okay, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.400 but we just want to say, don't blow a lit 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.920 off the top. Okay, we don't want the chopper to 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:27.200 come back. Each clam has a poker chip in him. 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:37.320 Clams Casino. Okay, all together now, I thought so too. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.680 I deserved that one. Jacob all Lordia Jones last night 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:47.560 with some friends. Jacoba that at the more secluded part 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:49.520 of the restaurant and seemed to be having a good time. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.120 Went to the bathroom, and as I came out, he 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.400 was leaving it as well. Overheard him saying something along 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.560 the lines of have a great night, cheers boys. L 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:03.920 O L it is O L. I could not believe 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.080 how tall he is and how good he smelled when 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.440 he would walk past us. He seems so sweet and 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:15.600 friendly A non please, Wow, I wish Jacob was here tonight. 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:26.280 Well he's not. Yeah, but really the big news is 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:31.879 um hell o, L are you? No? That's how I 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.280 drift off when I go to sleep at night. I 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:43.000 just go hello, L, Hello, hello L. We do have 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.840 to talk about something that we haven't really discussed, though. Oh, 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:47.720 I know what you're gonna talk about. You're thinking the 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:54.040 same thing, Kim. How does everyone feel about pet and Kim? 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:59.440 No one's into Pete and Kim. They have so little 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:04.560 in this life. If so, what's the latest? The last 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:09.200 I heard was that Kanye who's now referred to as 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:17.240 Ye or is it? Yeah? Yeah, okay, thank you, thank 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:23.800 you that you wanted to chop his head off. Yeah, 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:28.920 something like that, something like that which I can identify with. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:35.159 I mean, how many Spern lovers I've driven by their 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.640 boyfriend's house and like, I'm gonna chop your head out 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:42.440 if I see you around Nancy. Of course I never 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.159 did it, and if I did, Jacob would be on 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.960 my side to get me out of jail. Jacob Jacob 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:57.760 MRONI but in the TV movie of Jacob m ronni job. Yes, 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:06.720 I let's get writers here. We're submitting are I don't know, 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:13.639 I don't know the terms. Kimberly obviously is a person 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:20.120 of celebrity. Kimberly, Yes, the Kardashians. It's what a powerful 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.800 and famous family. The luxury. I mean, I've been at 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.880 the Kardashian's house and that is a party. To sneak 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.040 into one of their big fancy parties. Do you sneak 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:30.639 into one of the big fancy parties? Well, I have 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:35.200 to ye. I'm not on the guest list. No. I 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:40.760 usually pose as a caterer or plain, close security person 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:48.040 or groundskeeper. And I poked my head in, oh whoa right, 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:56.200 and I get back to raking Leaves. I usually blow 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.399 my cover because I'm like, oh, I can how are you? 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:04.119 I'm Ron very an, I think you're great. That'll do it, 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.160 But they are what's going to happen. Do you think 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:10.680 do you think their love will last? Do we know? No? 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:19.000 Probably not? Yes, Okay, he believes in love. And there's 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:21.560 one of them here, one romantic man in the audience. 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:25.360 There's one out of two hundreds. But that's the way, 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:30.760 you know, loves loves a fickle, fickle beast. I've been 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.359 I love so many times. Yeah, you told me you've 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.840 been playing guitar for I have. I've been playing a 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:41.320 little flamenco guitar. That seems pretty romantic. Would you like 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:50.200 to hear something? What now? This is a of course, 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:56.679 I only play on a Strattenburger. Uh. It's a German 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:05.800 guitar um Strattenberger L ten eleven um, handcrafted in Austria 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:14.439 and then uh shipped to Czechoslovakia. These all these uh, 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.440 these strings are whalebone, so you know they're gonna sound good. 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:22.000 This is flaming. This will be a little flamenco number. 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:24.440 This is called do you know what you want to 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:37.840 do it? Oh? H Playing an out of tune instrument 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:44.399 is a sin so M, so you need to make 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:51.159 sure your instrument is probably too. I think you got it. M. 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:55.280 One of the beauties of flamenco guar is that it's Uh, 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.720 it's a it's a device that's used to pert love making. 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.120 And once you hear the flamenco, it's less than thirty 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:11.680 seconds before before you someone's laying on top of you. 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:23.399 Are you still tuning? Well, it's a sickle gentle lover. Here, 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:37.840 you're rush. This guitar was given to me my uncle Bruce. Um. Well, 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:43.199 wait till I play. That's yet to be determined. All right. 0:22:46.880 --> 0:23:04.800 This is called Sunset Beach. One of the beautiful things 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:13.240 about this instrument is that it you start to feel it, 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:16.120 and it starts to feel you, and there's a real 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:24.359 relationship here. I know how to play guitar. You weren't 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:28.040 bluffing well, I think a lot of us were catching on. 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:34.400 But if we had a trumpet here or a flute lookout? Yeah, agreed, agreed. 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:38.600 Speaking of music, if you like music, why don't we 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:43.440 bring out our guest? Yes, please, ladies and gentlemen, please 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:54.280 welcome Aletta Braxton. Thank you so much. Thank you for 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:58.399 having a seat right over here. Alita, thank you so 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:02.040 much for coming on the podcast. Uh you look lovely tonight. 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:05.000 Thank you really do, Alita. Now I understand you you 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:10.600 are an opera singer sort of? Yes, okay, well that's wonderful. Um, 0:24:14.600 --> 0:24:19.440 I've never seen opera in my life, and I'm sure 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:25.320 none of these people have either. What exactly is opera? 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:34.520 Opera is? Um? Some speech, some speech sung? All the 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:38.840 lines are sung? Right, everything is sung every down. There's 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:46.440 a little speaking okay, I'm sorry, word okay, yes, but 0:24:46.520 --> 0:24:49.040 most the lines were sung. I once had a case 0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:55.760 of sprech tma when I was backpacking through Europe. No, 0:24:57.640 --> 0:24:59.360 I just got some penicillain and it was all good. 0:25:02.840 --> 0:25:10.200 And so you you sing opera? And uh where where 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:16.440 she's a opera? Los Angeles has an opera company. Oh 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:19.400 so you're with the l A Opera, l A Opera. Yes, 0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:23.200 I'm one of the original chorus. There's oh my goodness, 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:25.600 for for how long? When did you? When did you start? 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:28.879 A long time ago? But I'm up to a hundred 0:25:28.920 --> 0:25:33.920 and sixty productions. Oh my gosh. We think I'm the 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:36.119 first black woman of any opera company to reach a 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:43.720 hundred and sixty productions. And do you use a lot 0:25:43.760 --> 0:25:46.920 of flamenco guitar and your opera productions? Every now and 0:25:46.960 --> 0:25:50.520 then we do a lla opera, good to know opera 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:54.840 in Spain, Spanish, Gypsy Spanish, um oh, Gypsy Spanish. Of course, 0:25:56.440 --> 0:26:02.159 I usually stay away from Gypsy Spanish. Regular Spanish. Okay, 0:26:02.400 --> 0:26:16.440 Gypsy Spanish yikes. So opera, yes, trying to wrap my 0:26:16.560 --> 0:26:22.280 head around this ethereal art form. I feel like a 0:26:22.359 --> 0:26:25.440 lot of people know about it and go to it. Okay, 0:26:25.480 --> 0:26:27.880 How is it different from say, The Days of Our Life, 0:26:30.119 --> 0:26:32.680 which is a popular soap opera. They probably wouldn't sing it, 0:26:32.760 --> 0:26:34.959 and they probably wouldn't be dressed in all the fancy 0:26:35.040 --> 0:26:37.640 costumes we get to wear. But they do wear costumes 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:40.760 in a soap opera. I think ours are more beautiful. 0:26:42.160 --> 0:26:43.960 How did the term soap up? I mean they don't 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:46.280 ever sing on a soap proper. I don't know. They 0:26:46.280 --> 0:26:49.400 don't think about soap either. They don't know. Maybe they did, 0:26:49.880 --> 0:26:53.680 maybe at one point. Maybe they're forced to bathe incessantly. 0:26:54.640 --> 0:26:58.479 One would only hope. Here's a question. I'm I assume 0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:02.399 you can't make money in the business, So what what 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:08.280 do you do for a living? Doing my grown up job? Well, 0:27:08.320 --> 0:27:11.280 I also teach music, and a lot of us what 0:27:11.400 --> 0:27:15.320 we call gigging around town. Opera singers gig around town. 0:27:15.440 --> 0:27:18.520 We've teached. Sometimes we have church choirs, singing jobs or 0:27:18.560 --> 0:27:22.480 conducting jobs. Or there's also the Los Angeles Master Corral, 0:27:23.359 --> 0:27:26.119 So we have lots of gigs there. Some of us 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:30.200 sing on film and TV soundtracks. There's so there's some 0:27:30.280 --> 0:27:34.440 wonderful opportunities out there. There can be. Oh so there's 0:27:34.480 --> 0:27:42.520 not that many. I showed up once for a Master 0:27:42.680 --> 0:27:49.840 Corral and I'm not going to tell you what happened. 0:27:51.160 --> 0:28:01.159 It was not what I thought. Um, it really wasn't. Sorry, No, 0:28:01.560 --> 0:28:05.280 please don't be sorry about anything. So would you, I mean, 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:08.399 could you please sing a little opera for est right now? 0:28:12.960 --> 0:28:21.160 A little bit? Okay? Mos horrible? Can you top reef 0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:26.640 wazy is? If you don't, then call up Helena Sui. 0:28:26.840 --> 0:28:39.480 Commander refuses if mona super pulabyan lodres because she prefer 0:28:40.280 --> 0:28:49.360 you not Auntie Amazing. You might play long low more 0:28:51.200 --> 0:28:58.920 long mo lo more lamuripo fund the bow and you 0:28:59.120 --> 0:29:07.080 najam you don't make a due setunum mam pashum see 0:29:07.240 --> 0:29:23.680 you to secunium man secunimate mestesia tem sesia tim Pretty good? 0:29:41.080 --> 0:29:47.400 Was that? Okay? That was pretty incredible? Why didn't have 0:29:47.440 --> 0:29:49.800 the car that? You can't know how anyone makes money 0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:53.480 doing that? Come on, whats amazing things I've heard in 0:29:53.560 --> 0:29:57.440 this theater. It is pretty amazing. It is pretty amazing. 0:29:59.800 --> 0:30:02.200 I I I understand there's a lot of I mean, 0:30:02.320 --> 0:30:06.719 you were singing in Italian, French, French, as long as 0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:11.280 not Gypsy Spanish. That's well. Carmen takes place in Spain, 0:30:11.360 --> 0:30:12.960 but they think it in French. I don't know why. 0:30:13.560 --> 0:30:17.400 So Carolina is always talking about foreign language movies, which 0:30:17.680 --> 0:30:22.840 I asked him, drive my car? Makes her sound pretty snooty. 0:30:25.600 --> 0:30:28.560 Do you think opera is for snooty people? Know? It's 0:30:28.640 --> 0:30:32.280 for the general public. It's very accessible and what it 0:30:32.400 --> 0:30:35.880 obviously was back in its day when it was created 0:30:36.000 --> 0:30:39.840 was for the general public absolutely, kind of like the 0:30:39.920 --> 0:30:44.360 eighties banned general public absolutely, of course, did they ever 0:30:44.600 --> 0:30:48.800 have opera? Okay, this is a tough one, but I 0:30:48.880 --> 0:30:51.840 gotta ask it. I'm not I'm not a good journalist 0:30:51.880 --> 0:31:00.160 if I don't. Do you think opera lovers are dangerous people? Wait? Ll, 0:31:02.160 --> 0:31:07.760 I haven't experienced it yet, OK, Because I just wonder 0:31:08.680 --> 0:31:12.160 could be scary, but probably not dangerous. The Marx Brothers 0:31:12.280 --> 0:31:17.440 made a Night at the Opera? Was that the last 0:31:17.560 --> 0:31:25.360 opera ever made? Fortunately? No, they're more. Oh several yes, 0:31:26.520 --> 0:31:35.120 name them oh Phantom, Phantom. Yes, technically I would say 0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:39.160 it's borderline musical theater opera because it's almost all sung, 0:31:40.040 --> 0:31:45.560 but mostly on the Broadway stage. I Portian best best Okay, 0:31:48.840 --> 0:31:53.360 uh Candy, Oh yeah, Ken, I was gonna say candid Um, 0:31:55.560 --> 0:32:04.000 Jesus Christ superstar. No said rock opera? Okay? What was that? Later? 0:32:04.080 --> 0:32:25.760 Mouse later, Mouse the bat Thank you because syntight. I 0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:28.320 think I'd like to try a little opera. Would you 0:32:29.240 --> 0:32:31.680 tell me what you think? I'll be honest. I'll be honest. 0:32:36.760 --> 0:32:58.320 Over callo. No, I'm in trouble finding my note. I 0:32:58.560 --> 0:33:05.960 can't see you. I'm a far I'm sat of our castle. 0:33:06.960 --> 0:33:12.520 Look at that. I'm a captain, a man rush back. 0:33:12.960 --> 0:33:26.720 I love you, Hey, I love you. M Now I 0:33:26.840 --> 0:33:30.600 can take criticism. Carolina knows this. I've got a thick skin. 0:33:32.240 --> 0:33:39.440 Please be brutally on. You've got potential me and work 0:33:39.480 --> 0:33:42.640 on the technique a little bit. Maybe maybe you're breathing, 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:46.680 but that's it, and let's work on the rapid twie. Well, 0:33:48.480 --> 0:33:52.480 oh hey, I thought that she was being so nice. 0:33:53.320 --> 0:33:57.280 It's the first time I've ever tried it, I said, 0:33:57.520 --> 0:34:00.600 before time got out. I made up a whole created 0:34:00.640 --> 0:34:06.080 a picture. No, he's standing on top of my castle 0:34:08.320 --> 0:34:16.160 trying to talk to the lady. Operas take decades to write. 0:34:16.280 --> 0:34:24.840 I wrote one right here on the spot. Do opera decades? 0:34:25.000 --> 0:34:30.200 You're right? I mean, are there any opera singers in 0:34:30.280 --> 0:34:36.200 the house tonight? Find any chance anyone? No? No, I 0:34:36.239 --> 0:34:38.000 didn't think so. I didn't know. If you want to 0:34:38.080 --> 0:34:43.640 try an opera battle with Ala here, she'll shut you down. 0:34:47.200 --> 0:34:51.720 All right, Well, look how about we sing one together? Okay, 0:34:51.760 --> 0:34:53.480 what would you like to I'd like to sing the opera? 0:34:53.600 --> 0:35:00.439 Take me out to the ball game. Take me out 0:35:00.560 --> 0:35:06.120 to the ball game, Take me out to the crowd. 0:35:09.080 --> 0:35:15.160 Peanuts and crock put tuck. I don't care. I never 0:35:15.520 --> 0:35:19.800 get back for his root root root, for the whole 0:35:20.560 --> 0:35:25.759 team if they don't win it for the shame for 0:35:26.120 --> 0:35:47.040 it's one two restruction out out the old I was 0:35:47.080 --> 0:35:50.239 gonna throw this Scotch glass on the ground to make 0:35:50.280 --> 0:35:55.279 it look like I broke it with my voice, but 0:35:55.520 --> 0:35:58.799 everyone would have seen it was fun. That was beautiful. 0:35:59.040 --> 0:36:01.560 I mean, the Dodgers go win again with that so too, 0:36:03.120 --> 0:36:09.960 if they can get by the San Diego padres. Of course, 0:36:10.200 --> 0:36:19.359 Santiago discovered by the Germans. They named it Sandiago, which 0:36:19.520 --> 0:36:34.560 means oh, whales, vagina, thank you, Okay, you've you've I'm 0:36:34.600 --> 0:36:37.120 sorry if I've come off mean and dismissive. I wondered, 0:36:38.040 --> 0:36:40.120 let's let's have a little bit of fun with you. 0:36:40.239 --> 0:36:44.160 Would you mind just singing some some statements for us? 0:36:44.160 --> 0:36:47.840 It just might be fun to hear some things, some 0:36:48.000 --> 0:36:51.080 things sung in your operatic voice? For instance, can you 0:36:51.160 --> 0:36:54.880 just sing? Where are my keys? Where are my key? 0:36:58.120 --> 0:37:07.160 Can you sing? I farted uttered, I lost my ham sandwich, 0:37:07.800 --> 0:37:15.479 I lost my sandwich. I'm breaking up with you. I'm 0:37:15.719 --> 0:37:21.520 breaking up with you. May the Force be with you, 0:37:22.000 --> 0:37:27.200 May of course be with you. Steph Curry for three, 0:37:29.520 --> 0:37:37.400