WEBVTT - My Opera Singer - Danielle Bond 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.120 Does an opera have to be in a foreign language 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:04.840 or can it be in English so Americans can understand 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:18.640 why they hate it? Toshha, tosh sh Hello, welcome to 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.599 Tosh Show. I'm Daniel Tosh and with me, as always 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:32.640 is Eddie Gosling. April fools. Eddie's not here, Okay, he's 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:36.440 in Florida visiting his father in the hospital. The joke's 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:40.760 on you guys now. He's been a good son taking 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.960 care of his dad. We wish them all well and 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:48.760 I'll be back next week. By the way, if ever 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.200 there were a time to talk shit about Eddie, now 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.400 would be the time. Yeah, you know, he's not here 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.320 to defend himself. Well, let's go. What's your biggest complaint 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.240 of Eddie? Start? Okay, I don't think he's a good husband. 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.760 April fools Hey. For that, how it works, you just 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.160 say lies and then just April fools Hey. Speaking of which, 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.119 I always put my foot in my mouth. I mean 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:22.560 just it's just a thing I do when I talk 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:27.240 to people. I'll say such random things out of nowhere, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:32.480 and then I find myself just constantly in horrible situations. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:37.200 Well this happened recently. I went on this rant about 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:41.720 this person that was bothering me, and the guy that 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.640 I was ranting to out of nowhere just stops me 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.160 and goes, hey, just you're gonna feel bad about this, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.640 but you shouldn't because you have no idea. Yet. You 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.720 have no idea, but the person that you're talking about 0:01:55.760 --> 0:02:02.040 is my brother. And I was like, oh, oh, I 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:08.079 did not know that. But then I didn't stop. I 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.239 just I piled on a little bit because I felt 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.720 like if I stopped at that point, sure, you know, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.040 I wasn't gonna make my point. I had to continue 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.760 on a little farther. Listen. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:18.080 It was. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.600 It was awkward. Did they agree, yes, okay, no, no, 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.720 they agreed, but they were like, there's a lot of 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.320 a lot of things contributing to why his brother acts 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.760 that way. Just the fact that I didn't know. I 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.520 just thought I was talking about a random person. Next 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.480 thing I know, it's like the guys asked my brother. 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.880 I'm like, oh, okay, well this is why I don't 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.080 go to parties. Do you feel differently now? 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:42.760 No? 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:47.600 No, No, the person's horrible. Okay. Anyway, hey, you know 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:52.000 when you have children and people always like say, oh, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.000 you'll feel different about that when you have kids, and 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.000 for the most part, none of that is true. Recently, 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.280 I was watching and john Wick four with my daughter. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.800 She loves it before bedtime. You know, just a quick 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.320 three hours of screen time, lots of violence. It helps 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.840 a two year old through the night. I was affected 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.840 by this movie in a way I never thought I 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.120 would be affected by a movie. You know, like people 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:22.280 have kids and they say, oh, you know, you hear 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.560 a tragic story about another child, and it just affects 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.600 me so much now that I have kids, and that 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.799 never does that never affects me. Well, I was like, whatever, 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.160 that's your problem. I'm glad that didn't happen to me 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.600 and my family. But now when I watch a movie 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:42.119 like john Wick four, where he just goes around killing 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.600 people in the movie, I get affected by it in 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.000 a different way. You know, these nobody's that aren't crucial 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.000 to the story. They're almost like extras that just get 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.240 shot and killed right away. I'm like, oh, my goodness, 0:03:55.640 --> 0:04:00.520 that was somebody's That was somebody's son, you know, a 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:05.200 mom and dad. They raised that kid, and it went 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.880 through so many things. And then I mean all the 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:13.120 sacrifices that they made for this child for him to 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.680 storm john Wick way too quickly in a room and 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.680 just get fucking shot and dead. I'm like, what an idiot. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.840 By the way, john Wick four, is he dead at 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.040 the end? I don't even know. I just watched it. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.800 Guys at the end of the movie dies or that 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:30.440 you think he dies, but you don't actually see his 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:34.000 body and then you see a tombstone. He's not dead always, 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:35.760 So there's gonna be a john Wick five that'll be 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.640 exciting anyway. John Wick four was like it was beautiful. 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.160 That whole movie is. The locations were beautiful. Long. It's 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.120 like it's long. It's like an opera. Yeah, have you 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.719 ever been to an opera? I have. I think the 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.520 reason that I've never been to an opera is because 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.440 I know that it's long. I know that I won't 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.280 understand any of it, and then there's just tons and 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:01.839 tons of strangers surrounding. Oh and I also have to 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:07.680 dress really nice. That is a triggering scenario for the 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:13.520 old ibs. Shitty in an opera house. I'm guessing that 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.839 the opera houses have nice bathrooms, but what if I 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.000 don't have an aisle seat. The good news for me 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.960 is I don't have to go to the opera. The 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:34.200 opera is coming to me. Enjoy Pasha. Today's episode will 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.120 be about the life of an opera singer. The story 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.479 follows the love affair between a woman and her desire 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.080 to sing between the notes of middle C and D five. 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.560 Performing in the role of my guest whose voice might 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:53.279 make you weep, Please welcome mezzo soprano opera singer Danielle Hello. 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.480 First question, mezzo soprano? What is that? 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.800 It's basically a metso is kind of between the high 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.039 soprano and then the lower range of the voice of 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:05.400 an alto. Yeah. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.040 Is it the most prestigious It is. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.159 Not, but it is the cooler of all the voice types. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.560 Like you get to be the witch, the bitch, and 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.440 the pants basically, so you get to be like more 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.160 of a fun, dark colored voice. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.840 So you get to also get the fun, dark colored I. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:27.320 Like the witch, the bitch, and the pants. 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:28.160 Yeah. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.000 I've never said that in my life, but I know 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:32.960 that I will from this day. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.960 Forward exactly be a metso. 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.360 Oh man, do you believe in ghosts? No? 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:41.800 However, I don't have. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.920 To talk after that, just saying no, let's hear this. 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.240 However, I understand why people could believe in them. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:49.919 Yes, sure, I can understand that. 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.640 Yeah, Like there's energy, and like you can walk into 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.480 a room and it feels amazing or it feels really awful, 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.160 and that's like it's just like energy. So I get that. 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.040 And then also brains do stuff. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.839 So I understand why half the country voted for Trump. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:09.000 Doesn't mean I accept it. No disrespect to your peers. 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.360 But are you small for an opera singer? 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.440 Oh no, no, I mean I think is that just 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.760 something that we were always taught because of loony tunes? 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.440 Yeah, I mean the good thing about if you're a 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.119 little heavier is like you've got like a different center 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.440 of gravity and like you you're you know, the space 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.080 for your resonators is like slightly larger. 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.200 But no, that's it's otherwise a myth. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.040 If I want to start just practicing the opera, give 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.480 me some pointers to how I can, you know, just 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:37.560 around the. 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.440 House, just make fun of opera singers, like that's the 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:41.360 best place to start. 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.240 And I also think I have to make fun of 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:55.880 like a language that I don't really speak. Oh, you're 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.080 from the armpit of America. We talk in North or 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:00.280 South Jersey. 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.680 North We smell sweet in that pit. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.680 Say coffee talk, coffee talk. I don't know. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:10.560 I don't have the big accent, did you ever? No? No, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.320 The only word that I can't, I can't really say 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:17.680 is like orange or draw, like people like the address 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:18.080 or draw. 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:20.480 I can't see them, you know. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:21.720 Yeah, that's pretty bad. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.200 That's my only accent accent. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.760 You still go back to Jersey ever? Yeah? Yeah, you 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:31.200 have family there still. Yeah, So, Tony, did that speak 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:32.440 to you as a young child. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.600 It makes me a little nostalgic surprisingly that I grew 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.840 up in a town where it was very similar to 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.680 the town that they lived in. Yeah, that's all I 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.240 can say. 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:46.040 Are you Italian? 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.560 No, I'm French and Irish and English and German. 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:55.040 Ah, I'm in that world too, I think. Yeah, I'm French, Irish, 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:59.120 German something like that. I never could understand it. Talk 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.280 about your childhood in New Jersey. Okay, what was it 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:03.520 like living in that hell hole? 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.320 I loved it. The Jersey Devil is a very good 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.480 leader of hell. I guess I don't know. I love Jersey. 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.600 It was a beautiful place to live. We were super 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:18.120 close to the city and we also had the countryside, 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.559 like I used to go horseback riding. It was idyllic. 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:23.800 I hate Atlantic City. 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:25.720 Yeah, no, why would you go there? 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.679 Isn't it weird that it didn't work that, like like, oh, 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.959 we're going to have another little like Vegas, the smaller 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.320 one here on the east coast. In theory, you think, oh, 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.440 of course this country would relate by the beach. Doesn't work. 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:39.520 No, it doesn't. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.840 I mean, no offense. Now, if they want to have 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.680 me back, I'm sure I'd love to do a show 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.160 that you went to college at Indiana University and then 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.600 you transferred to Arizona State. You probably don't know that, Yeah, 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.120 you probably do. You know that I was in the 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.720 Nacoho Hall of Fame. Yeah, that is just a big. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:54.880 It's a huge deal. 0:09:55.040 --> 0:10:00.000 I've performed at thousands of colleges. Indiana University, I believe 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.120 if you're there at the right time, which I'm going 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:07.640 to say mid April, is the most beautiful campus I've 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:08.840 ever stepped foot on. 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:09.840 Gorgeous there. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.240 Like if you're talking about, oh, I want to know 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.120 what if you fantasize what a cool college experience would 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.240 look like, it's that campus. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.640 But then you like go to ASCU, and then you're like, 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:23.920 I just walked onto the set of Clueless. It was 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.480 like very Yeah. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:32.960 As to the slots at ASU, that's exciting. I mean yeah, 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.400 Rage Castle, all Rage Castle? Do you ever already at 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.160 Rage Castle at ASU? 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:38.560 Ah? 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.720 My good, Rage Castle. Now we have no idea we're 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.760 talking about. We went there one time and a bunch 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:47.160 of the people and my crew went to a place 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.319 called rage. It was embarrassing. Which did you like better? 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.760 Which experience was better for you? Indiana University or ASU? 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.199 I would say ASU is better. Like as a vocal 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:03.080 performance major, Indiana was really great for people who were 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.600 like in their master's program, but for undergrad it just 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:07.920 wasn't enough for me. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.560 Okay, yeah, how did you get into the opera? So? 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.040 I was a music theater kid and I always wanted 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:18.560 to sing. My family they do not really love music, 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.439 and mom like actively did not like music for a 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.760 very long time and now she's like really trying. 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.720 So they like wouldn't play music as in the house 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:27.600 and stuff like that. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:33.559 My mom would play Julio Iglesias and that's it. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:34.760 That is sexy. 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:39.520 I mean, I understand, I understand the Julio, but like 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.320 that was it, and I would like be practicing on 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:41.800 the piano. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.240 I like you had a piano, though I did. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.880 Speaking of Atlantic City and gambling, I was able to win, 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.120 like I think it was like twelve hundred dollars on 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.840 a cruise ship when I was nine years old. Okay, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:59.120 this doesn't international waters like there are maritime lot I 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.360 believe in it. So anyway, so I was like, Dad, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.280 can I pull a slot? And I put in a 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.719 quarter and out came twelve hundred dollars and I'm like, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.120 now we can buy me a piano. 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.520 Now talking about one pole, you had one pole with 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.480 a quarter and you got twelve hundred dollars. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:13.920 Yeah. 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.319 Imagine if you would have played the bonus the max 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:17.880 amount per that slot. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:18.640 I was nine. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:19.720 I did not know about it, and. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:20.280 I messed up. 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:20.960 Yeah, messed up. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.760 You probably left a huge jackpot on the table. Seriously, anyway, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.280 So you said I'm gonna buy a piano with twelve 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:25.800 hundred bucks. 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.000 Yeah, and like I think Premie dolls or something like 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:29.960 that for my sister and me. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.040 The fact that your dad let you have the money 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.240 is pretty good because I'm guessing that wasn't your quarter. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.080 No, no, no, no, it's my dad's quarter. 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.240 Yeah, good father, I know he is. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.160 Yeah, he's a good father. But yeah, So I bought 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:46.360 a piano and I bought the Premie Dolls and I 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.480 gave two hundred dollars to the church because I always 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.040 really wanted to tithe I was Catholic. Yeah, I was 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.040 like super proud and my parents were like, tell father Carl, 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.199 how you got the money? Yeah, it was ridiculous. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:00.760 Give you that true hundred dollars back. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.800 It's okay, I'm just going to donate it to the Catholic. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.960 Don't give me. Are you still big into the Catholic Church? 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:11.520 No? 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:12.720 No, I like the ritual. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.440 I think the ritual is cool, you know which one 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:16.280 all of it? 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.959 I like like going to a thing and doing like 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:24.160 like having something super meditative like that. If you go 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.959 and you do rituals, it's very meditative. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:31.319 The Catholic Church actually scares me the outside of it. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.120 Inside and chance. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.560 Yea, all the chances are my favorite part. 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.240 Do you belt out the chance? So people are like, oh, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.439 there's Danielle Boxious. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.480 If I have to go to a Catholic church, I'm 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.680 going to sing. I'm going to make everybody else around 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.120 me like be like what and I'll be like turn 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.960 to page three hundred and seventy five or whatever it is. Yeah, 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:55.679 I love singing. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:56.880 Well, I get it. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:58.000 Yeah all right. 0:13:58.200 --> 0:13:59.480 Did you know how to play the piano before you 0:13:59.480 --> 0:13:59.839 bought one? 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:00.360 Yeah? 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.080 Yeah, I'd like been like begging for lessons, Like I 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.400 was that nerd kid that was like if I do this, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.880 can I have piano lessons or voice lessons? And yeah. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.199 So I always wanted to be a. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.120 Musician ian child right here. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.960 Well not for my parents, because my mom would be 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.920 like stop practicing, or she'd be like stop playing it 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.120 over well, because she'd be like, you're playing the same 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.239 thing over and over again. I'm like, it's called practicing. 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:28.120 Holy cat. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:29.480 Yeah yeah, did. 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.600 She have you when she was sixteen or something? Oh 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.520 my son practice all the time. But he's played on 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.400 the piano. He's five, And I can kind of make 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.240 out the greatest Showman song that he's playing, Rewrite the Stars, 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.320 and I literally just like get teary eyed. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.360 I just almost got teary eyed for you. That's beautiful. 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.880 It's the best thing in the world. Meanwhile, your mom's 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:50.320 just screaming at you. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:54.000 To knock it all I'm singing so high. Yeah she Yeah, 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:55.440 I'm singing so hot. 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:56.720 And that's why I'm a Metso. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.520 Okay, get me from that to being an opera singer, okay. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.560 So then I really was focused on music theater. I 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.960 went to college. When you study voice, you always study 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.760 classical voice because it's the healthiest position for your voice 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.960 to be in, and then you kind of learn how 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.040 to do music theater and things like that. So I 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.320 was pretty much, you know, studying classically but with the 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.960 idea that I do music theater. My last performance in 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:29.760 college was the Coronation of Popeia, which is the second 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:35.560 opera ever written, and it is gorgeous and fun and 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.880 I got to act, sing and dance and also learn history. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.840 I am, as I said, a nerd, and like, I 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.760 love history. So it just felt like I could research 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.640 so much. I could really get into these characters and 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.920 I loved it. I loved it. It just felt very 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.720 holistic to me. And that's when I. 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.120 This was was this it ASU? 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.200 Yes, that was my final semester of ASU, and so 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:00.320 that was it. 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:00.600 I was. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.080 Yeah, I was definitely hooked. I wasn't like great at 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.720 singing classical music at that point, and it took me 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.480 a while to do it, but it was just you 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.600 know when you like feel that passion for something and 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.120 you're like m hm, yes, like you don't have any 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:17.600 other choice but to pursue. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.520 You said, this was the second the one that you 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.560 performed was the second opera ever written. How many operas 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.000 have been written? Oh, it's infinite, right. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.120 Yeah, it's a lot. Okay, Yeah, I don't know the answer. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:28.320 Have you ever written your own opera? 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:33.920 No, there's there's one that I think I will eventually write. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:35.400 By the way, I'm gonna ask a ton of dumb 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.240 questions would make sense. When a popular opera tours, can 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.560 a director are they allowed to take any liberties and 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.360 change the songs? 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:49.560 Oh no, or tweak them, or sometimes people will rewrite them. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.360 But operas typically don't tour. Every once in a while 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.320 there will be a certain thing where like I did 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.200 a tour in Germany, for example, where we would take 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.040 a couple of operas to very historical locations and perform 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:02.520 them there. 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.320 But no, like, you really don't touch it. 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.800 Mostly you might edit within it, so you might like 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:14.560 cut a scene for time's sake or whatever. But pretty 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.080 much traditionally, you're going to do what the composer wrote. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.679 How long's as a standard opera? 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:23.320 About three hours? 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.040 That's too long, but it's fun. 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.040 Yeah, you get intermissions? 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:28.400 How many intermissions? 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:33.800 Usually too you get two intermissions and it's like a spectacle. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:35.520 I get it. But now you're talking. Is that three 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:36.600 hours with the intermission? 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:41.359 Yeah? Usually we try to, like nowadays, we keep it short. 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.879 But like imagine, like back in like the days before TV, 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.280 and like you would only go out once every like 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:48.040 month or so. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:53.720 I refuse to think about life. There's no reason. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:55.719 And also okay, so this is funny. 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.240 A lot of operas, especially in France, were written with 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.719 the idea that people would go to the opera and 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:07.240 the ballet dancers would do a ballet, but then the 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.840 gentlemen that were there for the ballet would go and 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:12.840 canoodle with the ballerinas. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:17.479 Bang ballerinas. I had no idea you might be an 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:22.240 opera guy. Yeah, I love the opera. What language would, 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:27.879 in your opinion, is the ugliest sounding for the opera. 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:28.399 I don't know. 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.080 I have not come across that yet. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:31.160 Let's go your preference. 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:32.920 I sing a lot of French opera, which I think 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.439 is wonderful, It's beautiful, It's gorgeous. That's my favorite language 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.480 to sing in other than Russian. 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.160 Russian, say it not in this podcast? I know, I know. 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.760 Don't you go canoodling with Putin here? 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.959 Oh no, no conodling with Putin? But my god, Russian 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:49.160 music is so gorgeous. 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.800 Can you speak these languages or do you just memorize 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.360 the song and can sing in all these languages? 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:58.919 I speak some of a few of the languages, like French, Italian, German, 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:02.159 but then Russia I can barely speak. But also like 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:04.960 a lot of it is pre revolutionary, so I would 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.199 sound like I was speaking Shakespearean English if I was 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.960 actually to speak in the same you know words as you. 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:16.320 Can just you can just memorize the song in any language. 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.119 Yeah, well, there's like helpful ways, like you can you know, 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.400 read the IPA so that way your pronunciation is really 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.080 good and specific, and then you just memorize the words 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:27.439 and the feelings behind them. 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:49.960 So talented. I can't learn the words of Grace the 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.720 Abrams song, Like I listened to these songs over and over, 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.240 and you know, my son will sing them verbatim. I 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:01.240 think when you can't sing For some reason, you just 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:05.240 can't learn the words to songs. That's my theory. 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.280 I learn a lot of the wrong words to songs, 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:11.000 especially if they're like pop songs, like yeah, yeah, it's 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.400 it one. It's more fun, like you if you don't 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:15.480 need to know them the like, make them your own. 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:16.679 You like singing in German? 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:19.879 Yeah, I do. It's beautiful. I mean, if the music 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.560 is gorgeous, everything is gonna be great. But my favorite 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.320 thing about singing in German is like when you're holding 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.760 a really long note and you're like, I can't hold 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.840 this any longer. They have such good like endings to 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:32.359 the words that a lot of times I'll be like, 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:38.920 and it sounds like I sang longer than I really did, 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.720 so you just like put the consonant on the end 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:43.600 and you're like, I just sing super long. 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:48.200 How often are you singing, like really belting out every day? 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:51.840 I should be, but no, you should I should yeah, 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.200 like you should be singing pretty much every day? 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:56.080 Like an hour? How long you sing? 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.159 You know, I'll spend like maybe like fifteen minutes on it. 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:01.880 But if I'm working on a roll, then I don't 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.120 really spend time like singing singing. If I'm preparing something, 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:10.600 I will literally be you know, doing a few measures 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.719 at a time and like refining that measure. So I 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.600 might work for like two hours on that, but it's 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:18.280 not like belting out a song. 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.439 Run me through some warm up exercises. Should I do 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:22.760 these before every episode? 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:27.280 Ooh okay, yeah, so when I start warming up, I 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:31.480 actually don't really like sing sing. I do more like 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:34.240 this is actually really great for voice actors. You can 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:38.000 tell a dramatic story but with your mouth closed like 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:40.720 a blowfish. So also you look ridiculous, so it goes 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:47.600 and it just gets you into like a better resona 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:50.600 resonating placement, and it drops your layings down. 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:52.919 So it's really healthy for your voice. 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:55.320 And the reason why you want to tell a dramatic 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:57.880 story is so that way you get pitch range. 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.160 Quick little tipat blowfish. 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:05.360 I had a really bad sore throat for about twelve 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:08.920 years from performing okay, and then I would go see 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:11.960 you know, my uh what my I and T guy 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:14.800 and they would give me these exercises like every night, 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:17.359 I want you just to spend like five minutes talking 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:21.040 like like this way, and I never did it, and 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:22.560 I was like you know what, I'll just have a 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:23.159 sore throat. 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:25.080 You know what if it gives you a little bit 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:25.560 of color. 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:28.040 Yeah, I just was like, I don't I'm not going 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.720 to do these things. Yeah. When I see actors and 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:35.159 musicians doing those things and I'm just in awe of 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:38.760 how fearless they are. I think that's why I was 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:40.960 never a good actor, because I would watch people audition 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:44.560 and they would be practicing in the hallway yea, And 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:47.760 that would always just mortify me. I was like, Oh, 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:50.520 what are they doing? Don't do that? I know. 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:53.320 Yeah, it's weird to like practice in public. But I 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:57.320 catch myself like singing and you know, like as I'm 0:22:57.320 --> 0:22:59.000 walking down the street and stuff, and I'm like. 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:01.000 Well, whatever, how can you hold your breath? 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:04.840 I don't know. My friend got into like free diving, 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:07.800 but like now I'm like I need to do those exercises. 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:10.439 Yeah, I can't hold my breath that long. I try. 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:12.840 Singing isn't about holding your breath though, it's like about 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:15.520 releasing air, but it's not like you don't hold it. 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:17.240 I gotta try. I gotta try it and stand up. 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:20.240 See how long I can hold a joke. Yeah, just 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:25.240 let it rip. Opera house versus a theater, they're different, yes, somewhat. 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:26.960 I think that an opera house is built for the 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:30.280 acoustics but can be used for general theater as well, 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:32.679 you know. And that's why, like you might end up 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:35.880 having some microphones in places because they're not really set 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:37.119 up acoustically for opera. 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:41.000 That's cheating, though, right, total cheating, cheating to have a microphone. 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:43.640 I've done it before. You ever done that Eddy where 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:45.520 you're at a show and they're like the microphone doesn't 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:47.680 work for whatever reason, and you're like, I'm just gonna 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:50.399 go for it. No, I have done it, you really. 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:52.199 I've done a college where I was like, all right, 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:54.719 this isn't worth it. Here I go. I'm just I'm 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:57.560 gonna I'm gonna rip the voice, but I'm gonna project. 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:01.000 I did have my microphone turned off gig at the airport. 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:03.959 I did. I had my microphone turned off doing a 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:07.439 show in Mormon Land in Utah once when I was younger. 0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:12.720 They said that'll be enough. That college was like, yep, nope, 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:15.359 we're not going to have Oh no, And I'll be 0:24:15.400 --> 0:24:18.840 honest with you. I was working under the rules that 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:21.199 they had given me at least in my head. I 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.040 was like, because this was a this was a I 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:27.600 was very handcuffed. But when people told me what rules 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:31.919 were before I did the show and I accepted the gig, 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:35.000 I would I agreed to it. Yeah, so I would like, 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:37.439 I'll give this a shot. Let's see how funny I 0:24:37.480 --> 0:24:42.639 am without talking about anything. But sure enough they were like, 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:44.080 you know, no, that's it, You're done. 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:46.000 You had to do the soda joke. He just had 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:46.920 to didn't even. 0:24:46.760 --> 0:24:48.480 Do a soda joke. I don't know what I was 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:51.200 talking about. I remember just kind of awkwardly walking off 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:53.240 stage and like, am I going to get paid? I 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:53.760 got paid? 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:54.199 Okay. 0:24:54.560 --> 0:24:59.760 A favorite outdoor venue that you've performed at. Oh, it's beautiful. 0:25:01.240 --> 0:25:05.639 It's a castle in Germany in like the Rhine area. 0:25:06.080 --> 0:25:08.480 The count and the Countess still live there, and they 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:10.160 like had us to dinner and they were like super 0:25:10.200 --> 0:25:14.200 obsessed with dentists. Yeah, it was very funny. They kept 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:17.199 asking about our dentists. They were crazy and wonderful. They 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:18.159 were great people. 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:20.880 I as far as born right off the Rhine River 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:21.959 in Germany. 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:23.560 But really, oh, that's so cool. 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:23.920 What town? 0:25:25.000 --> 0:25:25.600 I don't know it. 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:28.800 Why would you yeah, but if you if you Wikipedia 0:25:28.840 --> 0:25:33.600 Boupart it's it says like whatever notable people from there, 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:35.800 And I think I'm like number two and somebody else, 0:25:35.880 --> 0:25:39.400 like a mathematician from the fifteen hundreds, whoa. 0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:42.000 That was a span of time that they just were 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:42.800 not producing. 0:25:42.800 --> 0:25:48.920 So damn it, Beaupart at a dry spell'iusler. Have you 0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:49.919 ever performed in Italy? 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:50.280 No? 0:25:50.800 --> 0:25:51.240 I have not. 0:25:51.760 --> 0:25:54.120 Is that the dream for operas or no? Yeah? 0:25:54.119 --> 0:25:56.040 I think like a lot of American opera singers, the 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:59.280 dream is to sing at the met But for me, 0:26:00.160 --> 0:26:03.600 my dream was to sing in like all of the 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:07.080 major cathedrals of Europe. That's what I wanted, as you know, 0:26:07.240 --> 0:26:10.159 at one point. But now I just really love working 0:26:10.200 --> 0:26:12.760 on new music. Like that's the thing that I'm the 0:26:12.800 --> 0:26:16.320 most interested in is working with new composers that are 0:26:16.800 --> 0:26:20.680 creating things that are gonna be relevant for a modern audience. 0:26:21.080 --> 0:26:24.320 How does the breakdown of the money work for an opera? 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:26.240 Who's pulling in the real money? Is it? Is it 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:28.280 always just the opera singer? 0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:29.160 Is it? 0:26:29.600 --> 0:26:32.160 You know? Where's the orchestra at? I mean, how much 0:26:32.240 --> 0:26:32.439 is this? 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:34.320 It's so expensive? 0:26:34.359 --> 0:26:36.639 And that's what I'm wondering because like I perform at 0:26:36.640 --> 0:26:39.080 a show, I show up, there's a microphone. Yeah, I 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:41.800 gotta throw Eddie some scratch. But other than that, yeah, 0:26:41.840 --> 0:26:45.080 it's pretty much. That's it. You guys have such a. 0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:48.359 Production it is crazy. So it's so expensive. And that's why, 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:52.360 especially in America, like you only get a few performances 0:26:52.400 --> 0:26:55.480 even at like the big houses. I sing with La 0:26:55.520 --> 0:26:58.200 Opera often and we do six performances of a production. 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:01.960 And like you train for like years on a roll 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:03.640 and you're like, okay, done. 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:05.960 What are tickets? What are tickets called? A good seat 0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:08.480 in that house? That's you know, face value? What's that 0:27:08.520 --> 0:27:09.120 ticket cost? 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:13.040 Somewhere like around two fifty or something like that? Has 0:27:13.080 --> 0:27:15.040 something around there for like, what's a really good one? 0:27:15.160 --> 0:27:16.560 What's that? What's that opera seat? 0:27:16.680 --> 0:27:18.720 I think it's around two thousand some odd. 0:27:18.840 --> 0:27:23.160 Okay, So it's like the because opera isn't, like, you know, 0:27:23.320 --> 0:27:26.880 the most highly attended thing, you need to get as 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:28.000 many people into those. 0:27:27.880 --> 0:27:29.800 Seats as possible in this country. 0:27:29.920 --> 0:27:33.080 In this country, yeah, if you go to other countries, 0:27:33.119 --> 0:27:36.240 like in Germany, they have pretty much every major city 0:27:36.320 --> 0:27:39.360 has an opera house and they have full time people 0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:42.399 at each of those houses. But in America, like you 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:46.480 get contracted per performance, per production, I should say, and 0:27:46.560 --> 0:27:50.439 then and eat all of the musicians too, like you know, 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:56.160 the instrumentalists, the all of the singers, and then sometimes 0:27:56.160 --> 0:27:57.720 like there's full time crew. 0:27:57.840 --> 0:27:59.119 But that's pretty much it. 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:02.159 What's the diference between an opera and a musical? Like 0:28:02.280 --> 0:28:06.280 true operas always use a live orchestra. 0:28:07.000 --> 0:28:10.400 In my book, they always do. I feel like opera 0:28:10.640 --> 0:28:15.080 technically is a story that is fully sung, is how 0:28:15.080 --> 0:28:17.479 I've heard a lot of people define it. But I 0:28:17.560 --> 0:28:19.600 also think that it has something to do with like 0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:23.680 the vocal mechanism and the production of it, where you 0:28:23.760 --> 0:28:27.640 really have a certain way that you are projecting your 0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:31.720 voice and utilizing your voice that can be carried over 0:28:32.119 --> 0:28:32.760 an audience. 0:28:33.119 --> 0:28:36.720 By the way, why are operas so goddamn depressing? They're 0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:38.040 not like like the. 0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:41.160 I mean, everybody dies, but other than that, right, that's. 0:28:41.040 --> 0:28:43.560 What I mean, Like the death, the weep, being, the sorrow, 0:28:43.680 --> 0:28:45.760 the angst, all of it. That just has to be 0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:48.400 the story that's told. There's no there's no is there 0:28:48.400 --> 0:28:50.960 comedy opera? Yes, Okay, I gotta go see comedy. 0:28:51.040 --> 0:28:54.320 You to, So there's this one company. They do English 0:28:54.440 --> 0:29:00.080 translations of operas, but they have like it's basically a 0:29:01.160 --> 0:29:06.280 Mario Brothers meets Zelda production of the Magic Flute and 0:29:06.320 --> 0:29:11.920 it maps perfectly. It's hysterical. That one is great. And 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:15.719 then they do like a Star Trek themed Abduction from 0:29:15.720 --> 0:29:17.480 the Seralio and it's amazing. 0:29:17.720 --> 0:29:19.120 I mean, do you have to be so in the 0:29:19.160 --> 0:29:21.000 know to appreciate it or can if. 0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:23.480 You've ever played any Nintendo games. 0:29:23.360 --> 0:29:25.520 I thought I meant in the know with opera god. 0:29:25.360 --> 0:29:27.520 No, no, no, no, no, no, Like it's one of the 0:29:27.520 --> 0:29:30.560 most successible things that I've ever seen. Both of those 0:29:30.600 --> 0:29:32.360 productions are just so much fun. 0:29:32.600 --> 0:29:33.440 Can you yodel? 0:29:33.880 --> 0:29:34.240 No? 0:29:34.640 --> 0:29:35.240 I've tried. 0:29:35.280 --> 0:29:38.320 I mean, like I've tried to learn, and I need 0:29:38.360 --> 0:29:40.280 to focus on it because it is. 0:29:40.720 --> 0:29:42.200 No one needs to learn to you. 0:29:42.280 --> 0:29:45.280 No, No, it's like it's good for you, like to experiment 0:29:45.320 --> 0:29:47.840 with your voice like that, that's like vocal health. It's 0:29:47.880 --> 0:29:51.440 good for you. And also like I'm scat, you know, yeah, 0:29:51.480 --> 0:29:53.240 I can do it a little bit, but I can't 0:29:53.240 --> 0:29:54.560 do it now. 0:29:55.240 --> 0:30:01.960 I'm not gonna ask scat. 0:30:01.040 --> 0:30:01.720 Very well done. 0:30:02.080 --> 0:30:05.720 Hmm. That's just what's her name from? From Sex and 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:08.760 the City Kim Cotrell. There's an old viral video of 0:30:08.760 --> 0:30:12.600 her scatting okay with her husband, who plays the upright bass. 0:30:12.960 --> 0:30:16.640 It's just very humiliating. It's the worst video, but it's enjoyable. 0:30:16.920 --> 0:30:17.800 Sounds correct. 0:30:18.320 --> 0:30:20.640 You had to sign a nine page NDA to perform 0:30:20.720 --> 0:30:23.040 for Beyonce? Was that because Diddy was there? 0:30:23.520 --> 0:30:26.120 Oh god, I know. I didn't even get to I 0:30:26.120 --> 0:30:28.400 didn't meet her. I just did like a pre record 0:30:28.520 --> 0:30:31.120 for the Grammy performance that she did in twenty seventeen 0:30:31.240 --> 0:30:35.040 as the Opera singer. But yeah, it was intense, like 0:30:35.080 --> 0:30:38.160 that was I was like, oh my god. And you know, 0:30:38.280 --> 0:30:41.000 I was like I wanted to tell people to watch 0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:42.720 and see, but. 0:30:42.760 --> 0:30:45.240 You were scared they were going to come for. 0:30:45.240 --> 0:30:48.640 You because seriously, Oh no, I take it seriously, Like 0:30:48.800 --> 0:30:51.480 I understand why somebody at that level has to have 0:30:51.520 --> 0:30:54.680 privacy and stuff. So but and I was like, no, 0:30:54.760 --> 0:30:56.920 I can never tell anybody. And they're like, it's aired, 0:30:57.200 --> 0:30:58.080 It's okay. 0:31:00.600 --> 0:31:04.240 What modern pop singers do you go? Oh? Their voice 0:31:04.280 --> 0:31:05.680 is pretty. 0:31:05.080 --> 0:31:10.120 Pretty legit ariana grande. Oh my god, her performance on 0:31:10.240 --> 0:31:12.200 SNL that was insane. 0:31:12.720 --> 0:31:15.200 No, she's good, but there she is. She is a 0:31:15.400 --> 0:31:17.760 I believe she is a robot, Like I don't believe 0:31:17.800 --> 0:31:22.440 she's actually a person. It's just so at all times 0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:25.560 a version that I'm like, man, don't believe you. 0:31:25.680 --> 0:31:28.080 Yeah. You know who else's voice I love is Dave Grol. 0:31:28.360 --> 0:31:30.240 I love his voice and I know that that's like. 0:31:30.240 --> 0:31:32.120 Why would you bring him up after what he did 0:31:32.240 --> 0:31:33.800 but put his wife through? Right now? 0:31:33.920 --> 0:31:35.360 Really, I don't know. 0:31:35.480 --> 0:31:37.600 I am like not a good fan. I like don't 0:31:37.600 --> 0:31:38.520 know anything about it now. 0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:40.680 I only know this because I don't know. Maybe my 0:31:40.760 --> 0:31:43.960 phone thinks I want to know about Dave girl sex life, 0:31:44.000 --> 0:31:50.120 but he just fathered a child outside of his long marriage. 0:31:50.400 --> 0:31:52.720 Like his voice, I love it because he just expresses 0:31:52.800 --> 0:31:59.400 himself really like fully, like that announce what I would 0:31:59.440 --> 0:32:04.560 love to like. His level of commitment when he plays 0:32:04.720 --> 0:32:07.240 or sings is what I would love to be able 0:32:07.280 --> 0:32:08.320 to do with myself. 0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:14.239 When I see or watch him sing, I'm like, I 0:32:14.280 --> 0:32:18.560 could do that for maybe thirty minutes once, Yeah, before 0:32:18.640 --> 0:32:20.880 my throat was gone forever. 0:32:21.200 --> 0:32:24.040 No, it's like it because it comes from him, Like 0:32:24.120 --> 0:32:24.560 it's just. 0:32:24.600 --> 0:32:28.760 Like you're saying, you're you're justified why he cheated on 0:32:28.800 --> 0:32:29.240 his way. 0:32:29.200 --> 0:32:31.280 Yes, because it's just like, oh. 0:32:30.920 --> 0:32:31.840 It's too much. 0:32:32.960 --> 0:32:35.040 It was too much music inside of him. 0:32:35.320 --> 0:32:37.520 Are you crazy protective of your voice? 0:32:37.760 --> 0:32:40.480 Not as protective as I probably should be, but yeah, 0:32:40.680 --> 0:32:43.560 like you have to be really mindful if you're in performance. 0:32:43.880 --> 0:32:47.640 But again, like that's why you just do it regularly 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:50.040 so that way you keep yourself as healthy as possible. 0:32:50.400 --> 0:32:53.280 But if I'm doing a big show, obviously, yeah, you 0:32:53.320 --> 0:32:58.640 get sick often. Not really anymore. I gave myself bronchitis 0:32:58.840 --> 0:33:03.400 the other week inhaling lime dust accidentally, so lime dust. Yeah, 0:33:03.400 --> 0:33:06.680 I was like moving like the contractors had left a 0:33:06.800 --> 0:33:09.080 bag of lime dust, and I was like, what's this? 0:33:09.680 --> 0:33:12.000 And my friend who's helping me get organized, was like 0:33:12.240 --> 0:33:14.120 put a mask on, and I was like, you're right, 0:33:14.160 --> 0:33:16.160 And then I threw it into the garbage and it's 0:33:16.200 --> 0:33:17.200 not snort. 0:33:17.280 --> 0:33:20.160 It was like, what's this And your friend's like, you 0:33:20.200 --> 0:33:25.560 know what to do? You just bought a house. Congratulations, 0:33:25.560 --> 0:33:29.600 thank you. It's so terrifying but also such a great 0:33:29.680 --> 0:33:30.280 feeling too. 0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:31.360 Yeah, it really is. 0:33:31.560 --> 0:33:34.080 Are you on the market? Is there a mister bond? 0:33:34.160 --> 0:33:36.920 Oh No, I am on the market. Yes, if you 0:33:37.000 --> 0:33:40.840 have recommendations. I refuse to do the dating apps right now. 0:33:40.880 --> 0:33:43.720 I just cannot. So, yeah, I'm just gonna this is 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:44.400 my dating app. 0:33:44.440 --> 0:33:48.320 I guess my experience. I went off the market before 0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:52.360 dating apps. But I have my wife's cousin who always 0:33:52.760 --> 0:33:56.080 shall have the dating apps on. And then I'll talk 0:33:56.120 --> 0:33:59.320 to her like a day later and they're all deleted. 0:33:59.360 --> 0:34:02.360 They're all and just just furious, and then she has 0:34:02.400 --> 0:34:05.680 to like reinstate all of them six months down the road. 0:34:05.920 --> 0:34:08.080 But she's like, all of they're gone. They're not on 0:34:08.120 --> 0:34:10.200 my phone because I would take them and I would 0:34:10.200 --> 0:34:12.560 do the swiping for her. Oh that's good because she's 0:34:12.600 --> 0:34:14.560 not capable of picking the right person. 0:34:14.920 --> 0:34:15.120 Yeah. 0:34:15.600 --> 0:34:17.040 Ye, all right, so you're not You're on the market, 0:34:17.040 --> 0:34:18.480 but you're not on the apps. 0:34:18.520 --> 0:34:21.000 Correct, Okay, I'm just being a little lazy right now. 0:34:21.080 --> 0:34:23.920 That's fine. You know, listen, you got house projects, I 0:34:23.920 --> 0:34:25.200 got I got a lot to do. 0:34:26.239 --> 0:34:27.360 But yeah, but like, what's. 0:34:27.160 --> 0:34:29.200 The biggest house project you're working on right now? 0:34:30.600 --> 0:34:35.319 Getting the electrical to not spark? So yeah, just a 0:34:35.400 --> 0:34:39.920 whole house. Yeah, like they said everything was did. 0:34:39.760 --> 0:34:40.160 You get. 0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:44.640 Yes, I know, a shitty one. 0:34:44.440 --> 0:34:47.520 A shitty one, yeah, and then like it's a whole thing, 0:34:47.719 --> 0:34:51.759 like they the disclosures were not accurate and la la 0:34:51.800 --> 0:34:54.680 la la la. So anyway, I have an electrician coming 0:34:54.719 --> 0:34:57.680 tomorrow and I get to spend tons of money. 0:34:58.000 --> 0:34:59.400 But I was like, yeah, but you'll get all that 0:34:59.440 --> 0:34:59.919 money back. 0:35:00.160 --> 0:35:00.600 I hope. 0:35:00.719 --> 0:35:03.759 Yeah, so you will, it'll it'll, it'll all work out. 0:35:03.880 --> 0:35:06.320 I'm a big I'm a big fan of home buying. 0:35:06.600 --> 0:35:08.000 I think it's fun, you know what. 0:35:08.080 --> 0:35:10.360 I love it, and like, I never thought that I 0:35:10.400 --> 0:35:11.920 would be able to afford my neighborhood. 0:35:11.960 --> 0:35:13.560 And I'm like, I did it. 0:35:13.760 --> 0:35:18.200 Have you informed the neighbors of your little little uh 0:35:18.320 --> 0:35:19.239 little freshion law? 0:35:19.760 --> 0:35:23.440 No, But okay, here's this is a huge benefit to me. 0:35:23.440 --> 0:35:25.280 I'm sure it would be super annoying to other people. 0:35:25.719 --> 0:35:29.560 Every Friday night there's a mariachi band that rehearses in 0:35:29.680 --> 0:35:32.359 the backyard of my next door neighbor's house. 0:35:32.640 --> 0:35:34.080 Yeah, that would be annoying to everyone. 0:35:34.520 --> 0:35:37.319 No, it is like a free concert. It's only for 0:35:37.400 --> 0:35:38.800 like a couple of hours. 0:35:38.840 --> 0:35:41.799 If you wanted to go to a mariachi concert every. 0:35:41.520 --> 0:35:45.640 Week, every night, every Friday night. I love it. I 0:35:45.640 --> 0:35:48.759 think it's the greatest. And like they're not like a 0:35:48.800 --> 0:35:51.839 great band or like anything like that, but they're like 0:35:52.120 --> 0:35:54.919 they've got it, and I. 0:35:54.840 --> 0:35:58.480 Think you actually have an out on your home if 0:35:58.520 --> 0:36:00.400 you wanted to get out of the perch. I think 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:02.160 that should have been disclosed. 0:36:02.320 --> 0:36:04.480 Oh this is. 0:36:03.760 --> 0:36:06.839 It's way worse than somebody dying in your bathroom. No, 0:36:07.200 --> 0:36:09.560 you need to know if there's a mariachi band performing, 0:36:09.600 --> 0:36:13.320 that's not even a good mariachi band every week. Well okay, 0:36:13.440 --> 0:36:16.479 now I know that you just bought a home, but 0:36:16.600 --> 0:36:19.520 prior to that, when you were living in an apartment, 0:36:20.239 --> 0:36:21.920 I mean your neighbors, were they annoyed where they like 0:36:21.920 --> 0:36:23.480 think it's oh, it's beautiful, so. 0:36:23.440 --> 0:36:28.040 It's okay, Well so they it's interesting. Like I always 0:36:28.040 --> 0:36:31.319 would give like a card and be like, hey, I'm 0:36:31.320 --> 0:36:34.040 your next door neighbor now, and here's my card. If 0:36:34.040 --> 0:36:35.840 you ever just want to call me and tell me 0:36:35.920 --> 0:36:37.520 to shut up, because you can't. 0:36:37.400 --> 0:36:40.120 That's danger though. Yeah, but like trust these people. 0:36:40.239 --> 0:36:42.680 I don't know, like you know, you've got to be kind. 0:36:42.520 --> 0:36:44.520 To okay, And so did they ever complain? 0:36:44.760 --> 0:36:48.279 No, they would request certain songs a lot, so I'm like, 0:36:48.360 --> 0:36:51.319 I don't that would be mean. Yeah. So, and it 0:36:51.400 --> 0:36:55.360 was sweet like I lived upstairs in this in this 0:36:55.440 --> 0:36:59.120 apartment building with like the greatest landlords the greatest neighbors. 0:36:59.120 --> 0:37:03.239 They were so sweet. And this woman was in the 0:37:03.680 --> 0:37:07.799 downstairs apartment and she would always request Abby Maria and 0:37:07.800 --> 0:37:11.240 she would always want certain songs. But she was passing away, 0:37:11.520 --> 0:37:13.840 and so her daughters were like, will you come and 0:37:13.880 --> 0:37:17.319 sing to mom? And it was like absolutely, And so 0:37:17.400 --> 0:37:19.080 I sang to her the night that she passed, and 0:37:19.120 --> 0:37:22.000 I sang at her wake. It was really beautiful and meaningful. 0:37:22.040 --> 0:37:23.680 And then I asked my landlords. I'm like, can I 0:37:23.719 --> 0:37:27.080 get her apartment because it's bigger, and so I was 0:37:27.080 --> 0:37:29.200 like new York about it. I just like slid in there. 0:37:29.640 --> 0:37:32.280 It's weird that you were a part of her death 0:37:32.440 --> 0:37:35.240 and then immediately took her apartment. 0:37:35.320 --> 0:37:35.880 Yeah. 0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:39.240 Yeah, interesting. By the way I got you, I always 0:37:39.239 --> 0:37:41.120 get people a gift. I just take some of them 0:37:41.160 --> 0:37:43.319 from my house and I give them something this much 0:37:43.440 --> 0:37:46.080 show you I could. I was like, oh, the only 0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:48.359 thing I could find. I don't drink tea and I 0:37:48.400 --> 0:37:49.719 have this in my house. So I was like, oh, 0:37:49.719 --> 0:37:50.960 I give her this for her voice. 0:37:50.960 --> 0:37:51.600 It cute. 0:37:51.719 --> 0:37:54.080 It's kind of cute. So you can keep that. Oo Okay, 0:37:54.239 --> 0:37:54.600 you go. 0:37:54.760 --> 0:37:58.520 It's like the very do you just like getting rid 0:37:58.600 --> 0:38:01.600 of things in your house? Does your wife agree with 0:38:01.640 --> 0:38:02.640 this method of. 0:38:03.239 --> 0:38:05.160 No, I mean she didn't. I don't. I don't ask her. 0:38:05.160 --> 0:38:06.560 I'm gonna need you to put that on the floor. 0:38:07.640 --> 0:38:10.919 I'm sorry, but you'll like it. You'll I think you'll 0:38:10.920 --> 0:38:11.200 love that. 0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:11.960 I'm delighted. 0:38:12.000 --> 0:38:12.920 Do you drink tea? 0:38:13.040 --> 0:38:13.879 I do? 0:38:13.880 --> 0:38:14.600 Is that any good? 0:38:15.160 --> 0:38:15.640 I don't know. 0:38:15.800 --> 0:38:16.799 I haven't tried this yet. 0:38:16.840 --> 0:38:18.360 Well do you know it does? Do you know the 0:38:18.360 --> 0:38:20.960 brand at all? Or now? I don't know? All right? 0:38:21.320 --> 0:38:24.360 Can someone really shatter a glass when hitting a high 0:38:24.400 --> 0:38:26.600 sea or is that bullshit? It's I mean like you. 0:38:26.600 --> 0:38:29.120 Could like hold a glass and be leg crack it. 0:38:29.239 --> 0:38:32.880 But yeah, no, it's like the frequency of glass is 0:38:32.880 --> 0:38:35.880 supposedly the same frequency, and then that could shatter it. 0:38:35.960 --> 0:38:38.839 What if it's like the thinnest piece of glass, you know, I. 0:38:38.800 --> 0:38:42.640 Mean maybe I think it actually can be done. But 0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:47.239 the human voice, like even if you're not singing like 0:38:47.400 --> 0:38:51.680 opera opera, it vibrates between frequencies. And that's why we 0:38:51.719 --> 0:38:53.839 connect with it as much as we do. So like 0:38:53.880 --> 0:38:56.319 it has that vibrato in it, like where if I go, 0:38:58.680 --> 0:39:01.919 you hear that little wobble that's vibrato, and so it's 0:39:01.960 --> 0:39:06.560 like constantly oscillating between the pitch frequencies to get that 0:39:06.680 --> 0:39:09.920 little vibrato. So I don't think that it wouldn't sustain 0:39:10.520 --> 0:39:13.760 a sea on a straight tone for long enough to break. 0:39:13.880 --> 0:39:16.080 What about your new house? How about in one of 0:39:16.080 --> 0:39:18.920 the bathrooms just as kind of a joke, an easter 0:39:18.960 --> 0:39:22.120 egg for people you have, like the window in the 0:39:22.120 --> 0:39:23.880 bathroom by the shower shatter. 0:39:24.760 --> 0:39:25.680 That's a great joke. 0:39:26.280 --> 0:39:26.839 I like that. 0:39:27.160 --> 0:39:28.680 Oh my goodness, I should just. 0:39:28.680 --> 0:39:32.960 Like for April Fool's Day just crack all of my windows. 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:35.560 That seems like we went a little too far. Okay, fine, 0:39:35.880 --> 0:39:39.319 name the greatest opera singer of all time? Is there 0:39:39.400 --> 0:39:41.839 is there a clear pick for most people? Do most 0:39:41.840 --> 0:39:44.920 people agree on this or no? No, it's a personal preference. 0:39:44.960 --> 0:39:48.640 It's a personal preference. Yeah, I mean, like is probably 0:39:49.000 --> 0:39:50.040 like the to. 0:39:50.040 --> 0:39:53.120 Say it like that. To be a you have to 0:39:53.160 --> 0:39:53.680 do it like that. 0:39:53.840 --> 0:39:55.920 Yeah, I can be. 0:39:56.040 --> 0:39:56.279 I can. 0:39:57.360 --> 0:40:01.120 It's jersey. I can't even do a jersey right now. Yeah, 0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:06.400 But he's like one of the most highly valued singers 0:40:06.480 --> 0:40:07.240 and whatnot. 0:40:07.239 --> 0:40:09.920 But like Maria Kalis for other reasons. 0:40:10.400 --> 0:40:12.200 But I don't know, Like I think it's got to 0:40:12.200 --> 0:40:15.800 be what what's connecting you? I feel like Joyce Dinato 0:40:16.040 --> 0:40:19.960 is like the person that for me is the exemplary 0:40:20.120 --> 0:40:23.239 of the way that I love performing and I love 0:40:23.800 --> 0:40:24.960 experiencing opera. 0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:28.240 So she's my favorite and a gorgeous voice, stunning. 0:40:28.600 --> 0:40:32.080 Do you remember that the pope in nineteen oh three 0:40:32.680 --> 0:40:35.879 banned boys from being cast rated. 0:40:36.040 --> 0:40:40.040 So that they remember it like it was yesterday, nineteen 0:40:40.080 --> 0:40:40.720 o three. 0:40:41.400 --> 0:40:44.240 What did you know this bit of history. 0:40:44.360 --> 0:40:46.680 Well, I knew that they stopped castration, but I didn't 0:40:46.680 --> 0:40:47.719 know it was the Pope that did that. 0:40:48.000 --> 0:40:51.000 Hope was one that made it official that we are 0:40:51.040 --> 0:40:54.160 going to stop you guys castrating these boys. So that 0:40:54.200 --> 0:40:58.040 they continue to say, do children still sing in the opera? Yeah, 0:40:58.080 --> 0:41:00.480 m hmm, that's common. I didn't even that's not. 0:41:00.640 --> 0:41:03.400 Like common common, but they think there will be like 0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:06.640 a children's chorus for something, and a lot of those 0:41:06.760 --> 0:41:12.880 castrati parts like so there used to be like people 0:41:12.880 --> 0:41:14.680 that were castrated. 0:41:14.280 --> 0:41:20.359 And they're called the castrati boys, the castrati boys, Castrati 0:41:20.520 --> 0:41:24.080 boy sing that high note boys. 0:41:24.760 --> 0:41:27.759 They were like totally, I don't know they it's very 0:41:27.800 --> 0:41:31.160 especially desirable, but anyway, of course, I mean, so a 0:41:31.200 --> 0:41:34.560 lot of those those voices that would sing in the 0:41:34.600 --> 0:41:37.200 early operas are the one the roles that I would 0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:41.000 do because they're like kind of the higher placement of 0:41:41.040 --> 0:41:41.920 the male voice. 0:41:42.360 --> 0:41:48.520 You've taken taken the child for you, so you're you're 0:41:48.600 --> 0:41:49.480 doing God's work. 0:41:49.600 --> 0:41:50.279 I really am. 0:41:50.680 --> 0:41:53.120 When can we watch you live perform next? 0:41:53.880 --> 0:41:56.880 I'm going to be in Aina Deamar at la Opera. 0:41:57.040 --> 0:41:59.960 It's in Spanish, so that's fine. It's fun. 0:42:00.520 --> 0:42:04.880 And get probably, you know, do my little translate thing 0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:05.759 on my phone for people. 0:42:06.120 --> 0:42:09.200 No, no, no, you get a translation right above the above 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:09.680 the stage. 0:42:10.080 --> 0:42:10.520 Beautiful. 0:42:10.560 --> 0:42:13.600 Yeah, and it's gorgeous. It's one of my favorite operas 0:42:13.600 --> 0:42:15.640 and so I'm very pumped about it. 0:42:15.800 --> 0:42:17.880 When is that April? April? 0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:18.359 Yep? 0:42:18.600 --> 0:42:21.000 All right, Danielle, thank you for being on the show. 0:42:21.160 --> 0:42:31.520 Thank you, okay, Casa. 0:42:29.840 --> 0:42:35.360 Thank you, Dan yea, thank you, Dan yell, thank you 0:42:35.480 --> 0:42:42.520 Dan yeah Phi being on our show. Thank you Carl 0:42:42.640 --> 0:42:44.520 for sitting across from me. 0:42:45.440 --> 0:42:51.600 Right, No, that's fun, right Carl, we gotta go to 0:42:51.600 --> 0:42:56.839 the opera. You know what to sing? Oh you sing 0:42:56.880 --> 0:43:02.360 for me? Oh you know that? Sing sing for me? 0:43:04.880 --> 0:43:11.160 Come on sing sing? Can you sing? Come on? Sing 0:43:11.160 --> 0:43:23.000 for me? Sing? No? Go all right, let's do some plugs. 0:43:23.000 --> 0:43:27.320 Then we got tossshowsstore dot com. You get yourself some merch, 0:43:27.680 --> 0:43:30.239 come see us do stand up comedy. Got Eddie's tour, 0:43:30.280 --> 0:43:34.839 You got me on tour. Guys, make sure you come 0:43:34.880 --> 0:43:39.960 see me this weekend in New York City, Big shows. 0:43:40.400 --> 0:43:42.800 You ready to do the free plug? Let's hit the music. 0:43:48.239 --> 0:43:54.719 Sorry about that free plug. Okay, this free plug is 0:43:54.719 --> 0:44:01.120 is for Rivian. Rivian originally founded in Florida, I believe, 0:44:01.360 --> 0:44:04.759 and their headquarters is in Orange County here in California. 0:44:05.239 --> 0:44:05.759 Ah. 0:44:06.000 --> 0:44:08.160 Now, you might think, oh, you're just doing this free 0:44:08.160 --> 0:44:12.520 plug so you can get a free Rivian. No, I 0:44:12.680 --> 0:44:17.719 own two Rivians. I have an R one T and 0:44:17.760 --> 0:44:20.000 an R one S. I have the suv and the 0:44:20.040 --> 0:44:24.120 pickup truck. Okay, and you're probably well, the only reason 0:44:24.200 --> 0:44:28.200 you're doing a free plug to Rivian is because you 0:44:28.320 --> 0:44:37.120 want a vehicle pun intended to shit on Elon Musk. Ah, 0:44:37.160 --> 0:44:38.919 you caught me, all right, let's do it. Let's shit 0:44:38.960 --> 0:44:42.840 on Elon for a second. Because I love hearing people say, oh, 0:44:43.040 --> 0:44:48.439 these liberals, the ones that loved Elon Musk are now 0:44:48.560 --> 0:44:51.520 the ones that hate them. It just shows how how 0:44:51.600 --> 0:44:55.200 stupid they are you miss you miss with me on 0:44:55.280 --> 0:44:59.200 that one? Okay. You know people talk about liking a 0:44:59.360 --> 0:45:04.680 band before they were famous, and that's never me. I'm 0:45:04.719 --> 0:45:07.840 always the guy that like, oh, I buy their next 0:45:07.880 --> 0:45:13.080 album and it's garbage. I'm never on the cutting edge 0:45:13.320 --> 0:45:20.920 of music. But Elon Musk Tesla, I always hated it. 0:45:21.760 --> 0:45:24.920 Never owned a Tesla, always hated Elon Musk. I was like, 0:45:24.960 --> 0:45:28.879 this guy fucking rubs me the wrong way. Just a 0:45:28.960 --> 0:45:33.319 gut feeling from the day he became a person that 0:45:33.360 --> 0:45:35.439 we had to know about. I was like, I fucking 0:45:35.480 --> 0:45:39.600 hate him. Ah. And I was never into it. And 0:45:39.640 --> 0:45:42.359 then the Ribban guys came along and I'm like, well, 0:45:42.400 --> 0:45:45.160 I want a pickup truck anyway, Boom, give them a 0:45:45.239 --> 0:45:48.919 thousand bucks deposit. I'll get this cool pickup truck back 0:45:48.960 --> 0:45:54.640 in twenty fourteen or something. Lord knows. That took six 0:45:54.760 --> 0:45:57.560 years longer than it was supposed to, but whatever. Then 0:45:57.600 --> 0:46:00.000 I got my truck, and I'm like, I love it. 0:46:00.120 --> 0:46:02.360 My truck so good. 0:46:02.880 --> 0:46:03.080 Nah. 0:46:03.600 --> 0:46:08.120 Anyway. Rivian's on a mission to keep the world adventurous. 0:46:08.600 --> 0:46:12.600 It's an American electric vehicle founded in two thousand and nine. 0:46:14.080 --> 0:46:16.600 They found a more responsible way to explore the world 0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:19.960 and are determined to make the transition to sustainable transportation 0:46:20.120 --> 0:46:24.000 an exciting one. Well, yeah, I will give you a 0:46:24.040 --> 0:46:31.760 few complaints. One, they definitely advertised tank turns and then 0:46:32.160 --> 0:46:34.560 disabled the ability for the truck to do it. So 0:46:34.560 --> 0:46:37.480 I would like them to release the software so that 0:46:37.560 --> 0:46:40.799 I can do tank turns in my truck and know 0:46:40.880 --> 0:46:43.960 that I will do it in a responsible area. I'm 0:46:43.960 --> 0:46:48.040 not going to be destroying the environment, But don't sell 0:46:48.040 --> 0:46:50.359 me on tank turns. And then I get my truck 0:46:50.360 --> 0:46:51.879 and you're like, oh no, it turns out we can't 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:55.960 do them. So I'm giving you this free plug. But 0:46:56.000 --> 0:46:59.520 I'm a little angry now that I think about it. Anyway, 0:46:59.640 --> 0:47:02.840 they got a new one, the new R two smaller 0:47:02.960 --> 0:47:07.280 suv five seater, coming out next year. Reservations can happen 0:47:07.320 --> 0:47:10.200 now if you want to be in the top of 0:47:10.200 --> 0:47:14.040 the queue. Join me and my fellow Rivian owners in 0:47:14.200 --> 0:47:18.160 living out their slogan keep the World Adventurous Forever. Oh, 0:47:18.680 --> 0:47:22.320 now that I did this free plug, is it considered 0:47:22.320 --> 0:47:26.040 a free plug? If after I do it, they do 0:47:26.200 --> 0:47:30.040 send me something for free, We'll just redact it. We'll 0:47:30.080 --> 0:47:33.440 redact it. Okay, that's good to know because I'm not 0:47:33.520 --> 0:47:37.440 above them sending me something free or all of us 0:47:37.920 --> 0:47:40.480 or all of us. You send me a free truck 0:47:40.560 --> 0:47:44.520 or suv, or you send me that new small suv 0:47:44.640 --> 0:47:49.440 Rivian and I'll give it to somebody that deserves it. Okay, 0:47:50.239 --> 0:47:53.360 make that a thing. But currently this is a free plug. 0:47:54.040 --> 0:47:58.320 I'm receiving nothing other than getting to shit on Tesla. 0:47:59.200 --> 0:48:04.279 And you know, talk about my Rivians, people trying to 0:48:06.080 --> 0:48:08.920 what's dumbers that people trying to put the stickers on 0:48:09.000 --> 0:48:13.680 their Tesla's to be like, hey, protest, I'm sorry, I 0:48:14.480 --> 0:48:20.279 didn't know. Well, enjoy your shitty resale value. Don't key 0:48:20.360 --> 0:48:27.279 my car. And I'm not encouraging people to vandalize Tesla's. 0:48:27.840 --> 0:48:31.840 That's nonsense. I could never key a Tesla because my 0:48:32.000 --> 0:48:34.800 Rivian doesn't have a key. I just used my phone, 0:48:35.320 --> 0:48:38.200 so I can't I rub my phone on the side 0:48:38.239 --> 0:48:41.560 of a Tesla. That seems That seems Dumbah Here's how 0:48:41.600 --> 0:48:45.799 I protest. There's this Tesla showroom that's right next to 0:48:46.800 --> 0:48:50.480 the Whole Foods grocery store that I frequent So what 0:48:50.680 --> 0:48:55.880 I do out front of this showroom They always have 0:48:56.640 --> 0:48:59.600 their Tesla's parked right out in front, but they're not 0:49:00.400 --> 0:49:04.399 reserved for the tesla, so anytime one is opened up, 0:49:05.000 --> 0:49:09.040 I back in real cool with my Rivian and and 0:49:09.120 --> 0:49:12.440 you know, I make it look nice, and I I 0:49:12.600 --> 0:49:15.840 just park right in front, and they always give me 0:49:16.000 --> 0:49:19.200 it's it's it's inconvenient for the how far I have 0:49:19.239 --> 0:49:21.160 to walk to the grocery store from there. My wife 0:49:21.239 --> 0:49:25.600 gets annoyed, but it's my my little protest, and I 0:49:25.640 --> 0:49:28.120 put my Rivian right in front. And then the people 0:49:28.120 --> 0:49:30.399 in the showroom always shoot me a look. And I'm 0:49:30.440 --> 0:49:34.919 sure they open their doors into my truck and try 0:49:34.920 --> 0:49:37.040 to give me a little little door ding. But guess what, 0:49:37.560 --> 0:49:42.399 I got a truck. Okay ding, It doesn't bother me. Okay, 0:49:42.440 --> 0:49:46.840 I'm a man. I got a truck. Broom, broom. Well, anyway, 0:49:47.440 --> 0:49:49.879 there's my free plug. See you next week.