WEBVTT - I Wanna Be Bootsy, Too! 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.400 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:08.479 Yo, Elizabeth Dutton in here, Saron Burnett's name and joking 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:09.240 around McGee. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:10.880 Yeah. Well, I was hanging in here with the new 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:12.080 new intern Rosie. 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:14.880 Oh yeah, oh god, don't don't move quickly in front 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:15.120 of her. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.360 No kind of she is. 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:18.640 She's buddy. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.200 So I'm glad you're here because that'll distract your a 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:25.320 little from my hands. So I got a question for you. Yeah, 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:26.280 do you know what's ridiculous? 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:27.560 I do? I do. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:33.199 I'm kind of covering some road. I've already covered Pokemon, Pokemon. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:34.919 Pokemon, Oh yeah, yeah, Pokemon. 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.560 And I've also talked about Cheetos before. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.360 Yes you have, I have two of your great lovestional mashup. Hello, 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:49.040 So there was a Cheeto that looks like Pokemon Charizard 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:55.280 and yeah, and yeah it looks like Charizard, which I 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:56.120 suppose it does. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:57.520 It's one of those. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.400 Flaming hot ones flaming hot jar. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:01.960 So I guess everyone was like, oh my god, this 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:03.520 looks like good Pokemon. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:08.000 And then this first in Goal Collectibles got a hold 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.679 of it sometime between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:14.600 They're being cagy about it. And they they fixed it 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.960 to a customized Pokemon card encapsulated in a clear card 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:19.919 storage box. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.080 Oh those are the best kind. 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.360 Yeah, and then it you know, it surged in popularity 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:28.200 on social media platforms in late twenty twenty four. According 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.200 to somebody, oh the auction site anyway, it went up 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:31.639 for auction. 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:36.480 It just sold. The bidder bid seventy two thousand dollars. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:37.200 That's a lot of money. 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:38.760 It wasn't And then with the buyer's. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:42.759 Premium it goes up to eighty seven and forty dollars 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:48.240 for a Pokemon Cheeto Cheeto card in a nice collectible case. Yeah, 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.240 and that one, I think it came from maybe a 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.240 couple of people, But the one that was forwarded to 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.360 me was from Monica on Instagram. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.120 So thank you Monica. 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.680 Thanks Monica. Well that's a good one. I'll give you 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.400 that and Monica. But you know what else is ridiculous? 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:03.040 I got something for you. 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:04.720 Please please tell me when you. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.520 Look like someone famous? Yeah, why not have fun with it? 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:07.880 Right? 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.679 It's all fun and games, well right up until you 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:12.440 decide to get criminally ridiculous. 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:35.000 Sure is ziggy. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:40.960 This is Ridiculous Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:45.720 and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free and 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:50.320 one hundred percent ridiculous. Yeah, I know you feel me 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.440 on that, Elizabeth. You also love a good story like 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.560 me about criminal celebrity lookalikes. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:57.880 Correct, Oh, completely. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.680 Right, they're always fun. Well, boys, howdy do I have 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.040 some fun ones for you today? 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:02.480 Thank you? 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.160 Well, really, it's anyway you'll see. It's it's a bunch 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.359 of them. But they're all kind of it's simple. They're 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.840 related to well, I don't want to ruin it. First up, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:11.440 I want to tell you about a woman who was 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:15.239 hired to perform in Sorry noam Okay, that's fun. That's 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.880 not common. That's like worth taking a trip right now. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.480 The woman's name is Trina Johnson Finn, and the story goes. 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.200 Trina was a career backup singer, the kind you find 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.720 in Las Vegas, right, that's where she was working in 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.080 before her adventure in Surry nom Now. Over the years, 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.200 she'd performed like with Barbara streisand as a backup singer. 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.840 She toured with EMPs Hammer for five years. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.280 Like a singer and a dancer, more. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.000 Of a backup singer. Okay, now, She had her own 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.480 one woman's show that ran through a cavalcade of song. Right, 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.760 it's a musical history of Las Vegas. It was like 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.040 a tour of the American songbook. She sings songs by 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.840 Gladys Knight and the Pips. He'd cover songs by Tina Turner. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.080 She had range, right, and apparently she sang a wicked 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.120 proud Mary. Now this is why she gets hired to 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.080 go down to that little country there just north of Brazil. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:02.480 Yeah. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.280 Now, Trina was booked by an outfit called Events for Surreyname, 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.440 and it was run by this shady promoter named Angel 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.880 Ventura or on hell Ventura, which totally sounds like a 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.000 made up name, right, it sounds like the kind of 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.360 name you would expect for like, I don't know, professional wrestler. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.920 All yes, totally Anyway, this cat Ventura. 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.760 He books Trina as the singer for a Tony Braxton 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.680 tribute show. So she flies down for that, except he 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.720 told the crowd it would really be Tony Braxton. Yeah, 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.120 so Tina didn't know the real score, or so she claims. Now, 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.680 she flew down to surreynam When she got there, ready 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.480 to perform, she learns that the audience is expecting Tony Braxton. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.920 Oh no, break their hearts, Sarah, exactly. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.159 You feel me now, This poor woman, she's got a 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.159 moment to decide. She's all made up, right, What will 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.400 she do? Would she go out on stage and pretend 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.039 to be Tony Braxton? Or would she keep her integrity 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.039 tell the promoter to go get bent and fly back 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.560 home to the US. I think you know what choice 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.400 she d Trina decided to go out on stage. This 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.520 crowd in Surryna was expecting Tony Braxton. Damn it. She 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.159 was gonna give them Tony Braxton. Problem was they knew 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.560 Tony Braxton because they were fans of Tony Braxton. So 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.880 she goes out there, she takes the stage, she performs 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.880 her set right, her first song is apparently solid, but 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:20.160 something just ain't right. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.760 Well, I'm guessing it's not a huge venue. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.960 Well it's a stadium, but it is. Yeah, it's not 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.479 like a tiny club. It's like a stadium. So there's 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.880 a little distance between her and the crowd. Yeah, she 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:31.800 can kind of pull it off. But like Tony Braxton, 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.279 I don't know if she's known for her dance moves. 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.200 It's mostly her voice and her persona. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.440 And the balaklava I would hope with hope. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.560 Right. So she's out there and she can see the 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.520 crowd's faces and they do not look like they're into 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.720 this show. Some look confused, others look upset, some are 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.200 just mad. No one's smiling though, right, So Trina tries 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.640 to shake it off. Maybe her second song will win 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.080 them over. So this is when the booze now start 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.000 to rain down on her. Folks. In the first few rows, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.000 they're shooting daggers with their eyes at her. Trina, though, 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.960 keeps singing she's committed, you know, she's the show's got 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.640 to go on, and she's on now the show, So 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.880 trying like hell, she tries to win over the crowd. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.960 Then she gets hit with a glass of beer. Oh no, 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.320 it's a plastic Yeah, luckily it's a plastic cup, splashes 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.719 its contents all over her. That's bad. It's also very 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.440 fun for the crowd. So now a glass bottle comes up. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.760 Oh that's bad. That's yeah, that's worse. Then another plastic glass, 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.040 and then another bottle and another. The crowd is fully 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.480 turned on her, right, so the Trina waves for the 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.400 DJ cut the music. Cut the music, right, he does. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.640 She turns to the crowd and tells them we're gonna 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.960 stop the show now, which they did that exactly that, 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.839 and Trina cuts out. Not only does she leave the stage, 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:44.320 she leaves the venue. 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:45.799 Just who made a promise? 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.760 Exactly Also I forgot to mention, but once she was backstage, 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.839 she looked for the promoter on Hell Ventura, and ode 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.760 On Hell had disappeared. He was gone, right, he got 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.240 the money from the gate and was whooped gone. The 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.200 next day, Trina and her husband they get confronted by 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.719 the local police. They're like, you know, this was straight 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.920 up fraud. You got to give these people their money back. 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.040 They're like, we don't have the money. They get arrested, 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.480 taken to the police station, interrogated. The day after that, 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:18.560 oh wow, it was definitely. This is like in the 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.440 early two thousand, so it was like an expensive ticket. 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:26.119 Then the day after they get initially interrogated, they're feeling 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.080 like they're pressing their luck hanging out in Surinam. Once again, 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.720 they do not have the money to make this right. America, 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:37.160 Las Vegas is essentially right, So yeah, that's in America. 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.640 They trying to make a break for it. They flee 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.520 to the airport. In this desperate attempt to escape Surinam 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.800 right her and her husband, the couple, they reached the 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:48.360 airport and that's where they're confronted by police. Yet again, 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.320 they're detained at the airport. They don't make it out. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.560 The promoter Ventura, though he's pulled a full Harry Houdini. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.840 Cops can't find him. He's gone. He did not go 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:58.280 to the airport, he went some other way. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:07:58.640 Yeah. 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:00.880 So the police though, since they have training, and they're like, well, 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.560 it's just throw the law look at her, and so 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.720 they do that. Now Trina's on the hook for all 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.560 the sins of on hell. Ventura. Her husband also though, 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.560 because I don't know, he's just her husband, he gets arrested, 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.080 also detained for two weeks. He's locked up. Finally, after 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.160 two weeks are like, we have nothing on this guy. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.480 So they send him back to America. But meanwhile, in 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.920 that two weeks time, he lost his job because he 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.360 was a realtor and his employer was like, man, we 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.400 don't need a realtor who's like cooling his heels into 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.200 jail and Surinam. Yeah, so he gets back and then 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.440 what's he has to do now is get his wife 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.800 freaked because she's still detained and the authorities have no 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:36.960 immediate plans to let her go because they do have 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.679 charges on her. So her husband flies back to America 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.559 without her. Once he's home, he begins selling the couple's 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.199 few assets to raise money to fight her case. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:46.040 Oh my god. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:46.319 Yeah. 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.320 Now, so, Elizabeth, I don't know if you've ever spent 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.720 time in jail, or specifically jail and surinam, but I 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.160 know you don't. I didn't want to put you on 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.000 the spot an embarrassing front of producer Dan. But let 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.679 me tell you it's no country sleigh ride right Anyway, 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.840 Trina caught all kinds of hell when she was locked 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.120 up or calling her time behind bars. I found a 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.720 quote from Trina she explained how a quote, it was 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.440 like being locked up in a very poor country like Jamaica. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.360 If you can imagine that, it was very nasty, run down. 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:20.080 The toilet was not working, so it's said, yeah, so 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.360 instead of her proper john, though, Trina was forced to 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.440 use a small metal bucket as her toilet. A bucket, Elizabeth, Yeah. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:27.080 That's what I have? 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.280 Really? Is that what that is in your car. Well, see, 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.120 I always wonder where do you empty the bucket? Do 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:32.920 you throw it out the cell window like you live 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.160 in a medieval castle, or did this someone come around 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.040 with like a honeywagon. You go like empty it twice 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.480 like a day, Like how does that work with the bit. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:40.679 In the corner of a Walmart parking lot? 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.160 Not your bucket, fair bucket, their bucket. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.480 I don't know. I'm gonna guess they throw it out 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:47.000 the window. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.400 Okay, the prison or the jail. Well, anyway, back to Trina, 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.439 enough bucket. She also remembered how bleak the living conditions 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.320 were in her cell, and she wanted to talk about that, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.760 so she focused on the shower. She was very liquid focused, 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.760 so she Trina said, the rooms were just nasty. I 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.400 had an old bed that was extremely hard. You showered 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.880 by catching water coming out of the faucet in a 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.520 bucket and washing down that way. 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:16.640 Their buckets buckets, and the buckets are multipleower your bucket. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.000 They're like, oh man, yeah, my shower. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.080 But I wonder what was the lighting like? Was that 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:22.120 tough to imagine? 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.560 It was diom So Trina's time in jail seems like 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.640 a rather excessive punishment for pretending to be Tony Braxton. 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.640 But despite what she had, she had to suffer for 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.000 putting on this fake show. Trina tries to survive her 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.839 new life after lock up. Now after she and her husband, 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.880 they keep trying to fight her case, right, so he 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.720 pays for lawyers. She gets herself some local lawyers. She 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.680 is also hoping her story of wrongful incarceration might go 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.520 viral and help her to get free. That did not happen, Elizabeth. 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:50.760 So she's down. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.840 There because something went wrong there. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.200 You go, well, worse than that for her, since you know, 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.240 she's not getting viral fame for her suffering, and and 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.760 they started on. No one seems to care about the 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.800 fate of this phony Tony Braxton forre and a half 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:10.400 months behind bars. Finally, Trina's case goes to trial in 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.560 May of two thousand and nine. That's when a miracle occurs. 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:18.800 A miracle. Elizabeth, the ever mysterious long presumed disappeared promoter 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.079 on Hell Ventura reappears on the scene. Oh really, yeah, 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.600 better than that. He shows up in court. Trina tells it. Quote, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.280 they said they found him, but I think he just 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.520 turned himself in and had probably paid a lot of 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.840 people off to avoid taking responsibility for this. Well, so 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.000 when paying people off failed, he finally agreed to face 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.000 the music. So back to Trina quote, I don't think 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.400 there's any big man hunt for him, but the prestice 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.960 was generating internationally forced them to take a look at 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.160 the real evidence. And we had a contract specifically stating 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.280 that I was a tribute act. He basically got called 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:52.720 out and had to turn himself in. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.200 So where was this contract? Couldes she show the police? 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.720 Apparently I don't ask. I guess maybe he still hasn't 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:01.840 his BF case and she's like, look at his briethdays 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.400 find the contract. I do not know the details were 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.480 scarce got it? Got it? So once they do have 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.000 this slippery promoter on the witness stand, as I am 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.480 imagining it, he confesses to his part in the fake 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.280 Tony Braxton scam concert, gets convicted, sentenced to two and 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.800 a half years in prison. Wowrin sur on prison with the. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.040 Buckets of bucket. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.480 I hope you like buckets, buddy, so is Trina. She 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.000 gets sent home to America, where she returns to Vegas 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.000 and her one woman tour of the American songbook, So 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.480 they're happy ending for her, right, Yeah, Trina, Now I've 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.280 got a much bigger surprise for you, and this one 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.160 that was about to tell you. It's a series of stories, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.200 but they all involve a very famous man who is 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:40.160 Snoop Dogg's uncle. 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.079 Is Snoop Dogg's uncle is famous? 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.720 Yeah, let's take a little break and after these beautiful, 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.679 beautiful lads we will be back. I'll tell you about 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.240 this famous man who is Snoop Dogg's uncle. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:13:14.040 All right, Elizabeth Zaren do you figure out who Snoop 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:15.200 Dogg's famous uncle was? 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:20.240 No, you really don't know? You have any guesses? U? No, Well, 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.520 the stories will be about folks who pretend to be 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.760 Snoop's famous uncle, not actually about Snoop's famous uncle. 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.640 That was it his uncle on his mother's side or 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:28.600 his father's side. 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.439 I didn't examine his last name, Brotus. I didn't examine 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.240 the actual genealogy. They just both claim each other as 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:37.040 nephew and uncle. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:38.400 Oh was it like play uncle? 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:38.680 No? 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.800 I think I think it's real. I don't think it's play. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.320 I think it's real. I'll give you a hint. His 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:49.240 name rhymes with cutesy rawlins. What, Yes, Bootsy as in 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.840 Collins Uncle, the Calvin brotus aka Snoop Dogg. 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:54.960 How in the what I know? 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:55.400 Right? 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.040 Yeah? Everything I found that I could find online. It 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.280 could not find like their sestry dot com, but I. 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.720 Found I don't know what you're going to talk about 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.240 ahead of time. I will go on to ancestry dot 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:07.880 com after this. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.280 Yeah you should. Yeah, I don't even have it like 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.280 a log in. So bootsy seks to be the word 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.800 bootsy is slang that you use all the time. What 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:16.840 does bootsy mean to you? 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.920 To me? When I say something is bootsy, it's you know, 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.000 it's a less than high quality. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.200 It's it's kind of janky. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.800 Okay, another one, all right, so that's a synonym for bootsy. 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:31.400 Think you know, uh poor quality? Gross? 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.240 Okay, now we got a definition. Yes, I guess all right, 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.200 Well I feel I feel like whenever you say it, 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:38.920 I totally get what you mean. But then also I 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:40.760 obviously think of Bootsy when I hear it, I think 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.880 of Bootsy Collins. So when I say bootsy as in 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.600 Bootsy Collins, what do you picture? What do you imagine? 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:52.320 I imagine huge platform boots, and like star shaped sunglasses. Yes, Bootsy. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.640 How about his star based that he nicknamed space. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:56.840 Bas Yes, space based? 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.880 Well a little just about Bootsy. He was born William 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:05.720 Earl aka Bootsy Collins. He was born nineteen fifty one. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.320 His mama nicknamed him Bootsy. He once asked her, like, 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.080 why did you name your baby boy Bootsy? 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:11.440 Right? 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.440 Because I imagine like you was. It doesn't sound like 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.160 it's exactly a compliment. His mama told him, and I 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.560 quote because you looked like a Bootsy And he said, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.080 I left it at that, you know, mama said, So 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.400 Bootsy's Collins. He's He first came to prominence in James 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.480 Brown's band, the JBS. Right now. He played on a 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.280 raft of James Brown's legendary songs. Hey, I'll tell you 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.440 a couple of them. Get up. I feel like being 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.200 a sex machine. He was on super Bad, He's on 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.880 Soul Power. So like right when James is getting funky, 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.800 he's there. He's the one who introduces or helps introduce 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.760 the funk. He gave those tracks. That's super funky. So 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:49.600 him and his brother Catfish Collins low End. Yeah, Now, 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.960 as you might imagine, working for James Brown was no 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.280 picnic in the park. Her stories, I imagine right now 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.080 it is. Bootsy remembered it in one colorful story about 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:01.320 his time with the Godfather's Soul. He said, and I quote, 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:03.800 he treated me like a son, and being out of 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.680 a father this home, I needed that father figure and 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.600 he really played up to it. I mean, good lord. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.560 Every night after we played a show, he called us 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.720 back to give us a lecture about how horrible we sounded. 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.360 Not on that son. I didn't hear that one. You 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.960 didn't give me the one. He would tell me this 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.920 after every show. One night we knew we wasn't sounding 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:25.920 really good. We were off, and he called us back 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.400 there and he said, oh, now that's what I'm talking about. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.480 Y'all was on it tonight. You hit the one. My 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.880 brother and I looked at each other like this mother 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.600 has got to be crazy. We knew in all heart 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.200 and soul that we wasn't all on that show. So 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.000 then I started figuring out his game. Man by telling 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.320 me that I wasn't on it, he made me practice 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.000 hort up. So I just absorbed what he said and 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.400 used it in a positive way. So that was about 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:51.120 how he did it. 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:53.920 I like that I didn't. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.920 I needed a father figure, someone who would criticized him needless. 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:59.920 A real tough, hard hand is what I'm looking for. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.640 James Brown, like I keep my hands strong. So he 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.240 got this tiny tyrant James Brown, right, who's just like 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.880 a bound muscle of aggression on stage and off right. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.359 So in the meantime, Bootsy, he's trying to handle the 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.879 stress of dealing with his boss and now he's like, 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.159 you know, newfound and growing fame as a musician, so 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:22.120 he chooses to self medicate. His medicine of choice was LSD. Oh, 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:26.600 that's an interesting as Bootsy tells it, LSD was a 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.800 big part of why I left James Brown's band. I 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.480 promise myself I'd never do it during a show, but 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.040 we had a father son relationship, and he pestered me 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.959 so much not to do it that one day I 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.520 just did. My base turned into a snake and I 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.399 can't even remember playing. After he called me in the 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.480 back room as he always did and was explaining how 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.639 terrible I was, even when I wasn't taking LSD. I 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.640 laughed so hard I was on the floor. To him, 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.480 that was very disrespectful. He had his body God throw 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.080 me out. So he's high in LSD and he gets 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:02.320 thrown out of James. 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.840 Brown's the tech bro micro dos. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.879 No, he's doing MAXI dosing MAXI do. Yeah, He's like, 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.480 how many he did? He says he did elist every 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:11.879 day for two years. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:16.520 What, yes, Bootsy, I don't think that's healthy. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.840 No, but it helped him decide it was time to 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.600 move on from James Brown. Okay, Boots it is. It 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.360 helped him to see things in a new way, give 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.560 him new perspectives and insights. He stayed with James bound 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.359 for about a year, but I think it's like eleven months. No, 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:31.920 he and his brother, Catfish Collins, they split from the band. 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.800 What a great pair of names, right, these are my sons, 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.880 Bootsy and Catfish. So next up the brothers Bootsy and Catfish. 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:43.560 They joined George Clinton's band, Parliament Funkade. Now that's where 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:47.040 Bootsy becomes a superstar, right, that's where we think of 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.200 him with the star shaped sunglasses, the yeah, you know, 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.560 the platform heals. So George Clinton, obviously he appreciates all 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.399 the way out there antics in the funky bass of 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.400 Bootsy Collins. So Bootsy stayed with George Clinton in Parliament 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.640 Forkadelic for the rest of the seventies and into the eighties, 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.119 and together they make the funkiness into a cultural revolution. 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.840 So over the years, Bootsy tries on many many personas, 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:14.040