Speaker 1: Does an opera have to be in a foreign language
Speaker 1: or can it be in English so Americans can understand
Speaker 1: why they hate it? Toshha, tosh sh Hello, welcome to
Speaker 1: Tosh Show. I'm Daniel Tosh and with me, as always
Speaker 1: is Eddie Gosling. April fools. Eddie's not here, Okay, he's
Speaker 1: in Florida visiting his father in the hospital. The joke's
Speaker 1: on you guys now. He's been a good son taking
Speaker 1: care of his dad. We wish them all well and
Speaker 1: I'll be back next week. By the way, if ever
Speaker 1: there were a time to talk shit about Eddie, now
Speaker 1: would be the time. Yeah, you know, he's not here
Speaker 1: to defend himself. Well, let's go. What's your biggest complaint
Speaker 1: of Eddie? Start? Okay, I don't think he's a good husband.
Speaker 1: April fools Hey. For that, how it works, you just
Speaker 1: say lies and then just April fools Hey. Speaking of which,
Speaker 1: I always put my foot in my mouth. I mean
Speaker 1: just it's just a thing I do when I talk
Speaker 1: to people. I'll say such random things out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: and then I find myself just constantly in horrible situations.
Speaker 1: Well this happened recently. I went on this rant about
Speaker 1: this person that was bothering me, and the guy that
Speaker 1: I was ranting to out of nowhere just stops me
Speaker 1: and goes, hey, just you're gonna feel bad about this,
Speaker 1: but you shouldn't because you have no idea. Yet. You
Speaker 1: have no idea, but the person that you're talking about
Speaker 1: is my brother. And I was like, oh, oh, I
Speaker 1: did not know that. But then I didn't stop. I
Speaker 1: just I piled on a little bit because I felt
Speaker 1: like if I stopped at that point, sure, you know,
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna make my point. I had to continue
Speaker 1: on a little farther. Listen.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was awkward. Did they agree, yes, okay, no, no,
Speaker 1: they agreed, but they were like, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of things contributing to why his brother acts
Speaker 1: that way. Just the fact that I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: just thought I was talking about a random person. Next
Speaker 1: thing I know, it's like the guys asked my brother.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, okay, well this is why I don't
Speaker 1: go to parties. Do you feel differently now?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, No, the person's horrible. Okay. Anyway, hey, you know
Speaker 1: when you have children and people always like say, oh,
Speaker 1: you'll feel different about that when you have kids, and
Speaker 1: for the most part, none of that is true. Recently,
Speaker 1: I was watching and john Wick four with my daughter.
Speaker 1: She loves it before bedtime. You know, just a quick
Speaker 1: three hours of screen time, lots of violence. It helps
Speaker 1: a two year old through the night. I was affected
Speaker 1: by this movie in a way I never thought I
Speaker 1: would be affected by a movie. You know, like people
Speaker 1: have kids and they say, oh, you know, you hear
Speaker 1: a tragic story about another child, and it just affects
Speaker 1: me so much now that I have kids, and that
Speaker 1: never does that never affects me. Well, I was like, whatever,
Speaker 1: that's your problem. I'm glad that didn't happen to me
Speaker 1: and my family. But now when I watch a movie
Speaker 1: like john Wick four, where he just goes around killing
Speaker 1: people in the movie, I get affected by it in
Speaker 1: a different way. You know, these nobody's that aren't crucial
Speaker 1: to the story. They're almost like extras that just get
Speaker 1: shot and killed right away. I'm like, oh, my goodness,
Speaker 1: that was somebody's That was somebody's son, you know, a
Speaker 1: mom and dad. They raised that kid, and it went
Speaker 1: through so many things. And then I mean all the
Speaker 1: sacrifices that they made for this child for him to
Speaker 1: storm john Wick way too quickly in a room and
Speaker 1: just get fucking shot and dead. I'm like, what an idiot.
Speaker 1: By the way, john Wick four, is he dead at
Speaker 1: the end? I don't even know. I just watched it.
Speaker 1: Guys at the end of the movie dies or that
Speaker 1: you think he dies, but you don't actually see his
Speaker 1: body and then you see a tombstone. He's not dead always,
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be a john Wick five that'll be
Speaker 1: exciting anyway. John Wick four was like it was beautiful.
Speaker 1: That whole movie is. The locations were beautiful. Long. It's
Speaker 1: like it's long. It's like an opera. Yeah, have you
Speaker 1: ever been to an opera? I have. I think the
Speaker 1: reason that I've never been to an opera is because
Speaker 1: I know that it's long. I know that I won't
Speaker 1: understand any of it, and then there's just tons and
Speaker 1: tons of strangers surrounding. Oh and I also have to
Speaker 1: dress really nice. That is a triggering scenario for the
Speaker 1: old ibs. Shitty in an opera house. I'm guessing that
Speaker 1: the opera houses have nice bathrooms, but what if I
Speaker 1: don't have an aisle seat. The good news for me
Speaker 1: is I don't have to go to the opera. The
Speaker 1: opera is coming to me. Enjoy Pasha. Today's episode will
Speaker 1: be about the life of an opera singer. The story
Speaker 1: follows the love affair between a woman and her desire
Speaker 1: to sing between the notes of middle C and D five.
Speaker 1: Performing in the role of my guest whose voice might
Speaker 1: make you weep, Please welcome mezzo soprano opera singer Danielle Hello.
Speaker 1: First question, mezzo soprano? What is that?
Speaker 3: It's basically a metso is kind of between the high
Speaker 3: soprano and then the lower range of the voice of
Speaker 3: an alto. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is it the most prestigious It is.
Speaker 3: Not, but it is the cooler of all the voice types.
Speaker 3: Like you get to be the witch, the bitch, and
Speaker 3: the pants basically, so you get to be like more
Speaker 3: of a fun, dark colored voice.
Speaker 4: So you get to also get the fun, dark colored I.
Speaker 1: Like the witch, the bitch, and the pants.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've never said that in my life, but I know
Speaker 1: that I will from this day.
Speaker 3: Forward exactly be a metso.
Speaker 1: Oh man, do you believe in ghosts? No?
Speaker 3: However, I don't have.
Speaker 1: To talk after that, just saying no, let's hear this.
Speaker 4: However, I understand why people could believe in them.
Speaker 1: Yes, sure, I can understand that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like there's energy, and like you can walk into
Speaker 3: a room and it feels amazing or it feels really awful,
Speaker 3: and that's like it's just like energy. So I get that.
Speaker 3: And then also brains do stuff.
Speaker 1: So I understand why half the country voted for Trump.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean I accept it. No disrespect to your peers.
Speaker 1: But are you small for an opera singer?
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, I mean I think is that just
Speaker 5: something that we were always taught because of loony tunes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the good thing about if you're a
Speaker 3: little heavier is like you've got like a different center
Speaker 3: of gravity and like you you're you know, the space
Speaker 3: for your resonators is like slightly larger.
Speaker 4: But no, that's it's otherwise a myth.
Speaker 1: If I want to start just practicing the opera, give
Speaker 1: me some pointers to how I can, you know, just
Speaker 1: around the.
Speaker 3: House, just make fun of opera singers, like that's the
Speaker 3: best place to start.
Speaker 1: And I also think I have to make fun of
Speaker 1: like a language that I don't really speak. Oh, you're
Speaker 1: from the armpit of America. We talk in North or
Speaker 1: South Jersey.
Speaker 4: North We smell sweet in that pit.
Speaker 1: Say coffee talk, coffee talk. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't have the big accent, did you ever? No? No,
Speaker 3: The only word that I can't, I can't really say
Speaker 3: is like orange or draw, like people like the address
Speaker 3: or draw.
Speaker 4: I can't see them, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty bad.
Speaker 3: That's my only accent accent.
Speaker 1: You still go back to Jersey ever? Yeah? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: have family there still. Yeah, So, Tony, did that speak
Speaker 1: to you as a young child.
Speaker 3: It makes me a little nostalgic surprisingly that I grew
Speaker 3: up in a town where it was very similar to
Speaker 3: the town that they lived in. Yeah, that's all I
Speaker 3: can say.
Speaker 1: Are you Italian?
Speaker 3: No, I'm French and Irish and English and German.
Speaker 1: Ah, I'm in that world too, I think. Yeah, I'm French, Irish,
Speaker 1: German something like that. I never could understand it. Talk
Speaker 1: about your childhood in New Jersey. Okay, what was it
Speaker 1: like living in that hell hole?
Speaker 3: I loved it. The Jersey Devil is a very good
Speaker 3: leader of hell. I guess I don't know. I love Jersey.
Speaker 3: It was a beautiful place to live. We were super
Speaker 3: close to the city and we also had the countryside,
Speaker 3: like I used to go horseback riding. It was idyllic.
Speaker 1: I hate Atlantic City.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, why would you go there?
Speaker 1: Isn't it weird that it didn't work that, like like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're going to have another little like Vegas, the smaller
Speaker 1: one here on the east coast. In theory, you think, oh,
Speaker 1: of course this country would relate by the beach. Doesn't work.
Speaker 4: No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, no offense. Now, if they want to have
Speaker 1: me back, I'm sure I'd love to do a show
Speaker 1: that you went to college at Indiana University and then
Speaker 1: you transferred to Arizona State. You probably don't know that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you probably do. You know that I was in the
Speaker 1: Nacoho Hall of Fame. Yeah, that is just a big.
Speaker 3: It's a huge deal.
Speaker 1: I've performed at thousands of colleges. Indiana University, I believe
Speaker 1: if you're there at the right time, which I'm going
Speaker 1: to say mid April, is the most beautiful campus I've
Speaker 1: ever stepped foot on.
Speaker 3: Gorgeous there.
Speaker 1: Like if you're talking about, oh, I want to know
Speaker 1: what if you fantasize what a cool college experience would
Speaker 1: look like, it's that campus.
Speaker 3: But then you like go to ASCU, and then you're like,
Speaker 3: I just walked onto the set of Clueless. It was
Speaker 3: like very Yeah.
Speaker 1: As to the slots at ASU, that's exciting. I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: Rage Castle, all Rage Castle? Do you ever already at
Speaker 1: Rage Castle at ASU?
Speaker 5: Ah?
Speaker 1: My good, Rage Castle. Now we have no idea we're
Speaker 1: talking about. We went there one time and a bunch
Speaker 1: of the people and my crew went to a place
Speaker 1: called rage. It was embarrassing. Which did you like better?
Speaker 1: Which experience was better for you? Indiana University or ASU?
Speaker 3: I would say ASU is better. Like as a vocal
Speaker 3: performance major, Indiana was really great for people who were
Speaker 3: like in their master's program, but for undergrad it just
Speaker 3: wasn't enough for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, how did you get into the opera? So?
Speaker 3: I was a music theater kid and I always wanted
Speaker 3: to sing. My family they do not really love music,
Speaker 3: and mom like actively did not like music for a
Speaker 3: very long time and now she's like really trying.
Speaker 1: So they like wouldn't play music as in the house
Speaker 1: and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: My mom would play Julio Iglesias and that's it.
Speaker 1: That is sexy.
Speaker 3: I mean, I understand, I understand the Julio, but like
Speaker 3: that was it, and I would like be practicing on
Speaker 3: the piano.
Speaker 1: I like you had a piano, though I did.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Atlantic City and gambling, I was able to win,
Speaker 3: like I think it was like twelve hundred dollars on
Speaker 3: a cruise ship when I was nine years old. Okay,
Speaker 3: this doesn't international waters like there are maritime lot I
Speaker 3: believe in it. So anyway, so I was like, Dad,
Speaker 3: can I pull a slot? And I put in a
Speaker 3: quarter and out came twelve hundred dollars and I'm like,
Speaker 3: now we can buy me a piano.
Speaker 1: Now talking about one pole, you had one pole with
Speaker 1: a quarter and you got twelve hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Imagine if you would have played the bonus the max
Speaker 1: amount per that slot.
Speaker 4: I was nine.
Speaker 3: I did not know about it, and.
Speaker 1: I messed up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, messed up.
Speaker 1: You probably left a huge jackpot on the table. Seriously, anyway,
Speaker 1: So you said I'm gonna buy a piano with twelve
Speaker 1: hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like I think Premie dolls or something like
Speaker 3: that for my sister and me.
Speaker 1: The fact that your dad let you have the money
Speaker 1: is pretty good because I'm guessing that wasn't your quarter.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, it's my dad's quarter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good father, I know he is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a good father. But yeah, So I bought
Speaker 3: a piano and I bought the Premie Dolls and I
Speaker 3: gave two hundred dollars to the church because I always
Speaker 3: really wanted to tithe I was Catholic. Yeah, I was
Speaker 3: like super proud and my parents were like, tell father Carl,
Speaker 3: how you got the money? Yeah, it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Give you that true hundred dollars back.
Speaker 4: It's okay, I'm just going to donate it to the Catholic.
Speaker 1: Don't give me. Are you still big into the Catholic Church?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: No, I like the ritual.
Speaker 4: I think the ritual is cool, you know which one
Speaker 4: all of it?
Speaker 3: I like like going to a thing and doing like
Speaker 3: like having something super meditative like that. If you go
Speaker 3: and you do rituals, it's very meditative.
Speaker 1: The Catholic Church actually scares me the outside of it.
Speaker 1: Inside and chance.
Speaker 3: Yea, all the chances are my favorite part.
Speaker 1: Do you belt out the chance? So people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's Danielle Boxious.
Speaker 3: If I have to go to a Catholic church, I'm
Speaker 3: going to sing. I'm going to make everybody else around
Speaker 3: me like be like what and I'll be like turn
Speaker 3: to page three hundred and seventy five or whatever it is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I love singing.
Speaker 1: Well, I get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right.
Speaker 1: Did you know how to play the piano before you
Speaker 1: bought one?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd like been like begging for lessons, Like I
Speaker 3: was that nerd kid that was like if I do this,
Speaker 3: can I have piano lessons or voice lessons? And yeah.
Speaker 3: So I always wanted to be a.
Speaker 4: Musician ian child right here.
Speaker 3: Well not for my parents, because my mom would be
Speaker 3: like stop practicing, or she'd be like stop playing it
Speaker 3: over well, because she'd be like, you're playing the same
Speaker 3: thing over and over again. I'm like, it's called practicing.
Speaker 1: Holy cat.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, did.
Speaker 1: She have you when she was sixteen or something? Oh
Speaker 1: my son practice all the time. But he's played on
Speaker 1: the piano. He's five, And I can kind of make
Speaker 1: out the greatest Showman song that he's playing, Rewrite the Stars,
Speaker 1: and I literally just like get teary eyed.
Speaker 3: I just almost got teary eyed for you. That's beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's the best thing in the world. Meanwhile, your mom's
Speaker 1: just screaming at you.
Speaker 4: To knock it all I'm singing so high. Yeah she Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm singing so hot.
Speaker 3: And that's why I'm a Metso.
Speaker 1: Okay, get me from that to being an opera singer, okay.
Speaker 3: So then I really was focused on music theater. I
Speaker 3: went to college. When you study voice, you always study
Speaker 3: classical voice because it's the healthiest position for your voice
Speaker 3: to be in, and then you kind of learn how
Speaker 3: to do music theater and things like that. So I
Speaker 3: was pretty much, you know, studying classically but with the
Speaker 3: idea that I do music theater. My last performance in
Speaker 3: college was the Coronation of Popeia, which is the second
Speaker 3: opera ever written, and it is gorgeous and fun and
Speaker 3: I got to act, sing and dance and also learn history.
Speaker 3: I am, as I said, a nerd, and like, I
Speaker 3: love history. So it just felt like I could research
Speaker 3: so much. I could really get into these characters and
Speaker 3: I loved it. I loved it. It just felt very
Speaker 3: holistic to me. And that's when I.
Speaker 1: This was was this it ASU?
Speaker 3: Yes, that was my final semester of ASU, and so
Speaker 3: that was it.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was definitely hooked. I wasn't like great at
Speaker 3: singing classical music at that point, and it took me
Speaker 3: a while to do it, but it was just you
Speaker 3: know when you like feel that passion for something and
Speaker 3: you're like m hm, yes, like you don't have any
Speaker 3: other choice but to pursue.
Speaker 1: You said, this was the second the one that you
Speaker 1: performed was the second opera ever written. How many operas
Speaker 1: have been written? Oh, it's infinite, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lot. Okay, Yeah, I don't know the answer.
Speaker 1: Have you ever written your own opera?
Speaker 3: No, there's there's one that I think I will eventually write.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm gonna ask a ton of dumb
Speaker 1: questions would make sense. When a popular opera tours, can
Speaker 1: a director are they allowed to take any liberties and
Speaker 1: change the songs?
Speaker 3: Oh no, or tweak them, or sometimes people will rewrite them.
Speaker 3: But operas typically don't tour. Every once in a while
Speaker 3: there will be a certain thing where like I did
Speaker 3: a tour in Germany, for example, where we would take
Speaker 3: a couple of operas to very historical locations and perform
Speaker 3: them there.
Speaker 4: But no, like, you really don't touch it.
Speaker 3: Mostly you might edit within it, so you might like
Speaker 3: cut a scene for time's sake or whatever. But pretty
Speaker 3: much traditionally, you're going to do what the composer wrote.
Speaker 1: How long's as a standard opera?
Speaker 3: About three hours?
Speaker 1: That's too long, but it's fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you get intermissions?
Speaker 1: How many intermissions?
Speaker 3: Usually too you get two intermissions and it's like a spectacle.
Speaker 1: I get it. But now you're talking. Is that three
Speaker 1: hours with the intermission?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Usually we try to, like nowadays, we keep it short.
Speaker 3: But like imagine, like back in like the days before TV,
Speaker 3: and like you would only go out once every like
Speaker 3: month or so.
Speaker 1: I refuse to think about life. There's no reason.
Speaker 4: And also okay, so this is funny.
Speaker 3: A lot of operas, especially in France, were written with
Speaker 3: the idea that people would go to the opera and
Speaker 3: the ballet dancers would do a ballet, but then the
Speaker 3: gentlemen that were there for the ballet would go and
Speaker 3: canoodle with the ballerinas.
Speaker 1: Bang ballerinas. I had no idea you might be an
Speaker 1: opera guy. Yeah, I love the opera. What language would,
Speaker 1: in your opinion, is the ugliest sounding for the opera.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I have not come across that yet.
Speaker 1: Let's go your preference.
Speaker 3: I sing a lot of French opera, which I think
Speaker 3: is wonderful, It's beautiful, It's gorgeous. That's my favorite language
Speaker 3: to sing in other than Russian.
Speaker 1: Russian, say it not in this podcast? I know, I know.
Speaker 1: Don't you go canoodling with Putin here?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no conodling with Putin? But my god, Russian
Speaker 3: music is so gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Can you speak these languages or do you just memorize
Speaker 1: the song and can sing in all these languages?
Speaker 3: I speak some of a few of the languages, like French, Italian, German,
Speaker 3: but then Russia I can barely speak. But also like
Speaker 3: a lot of it is pre revolutionary, so I would
Speaker 3: sound like I was speaking Shakespearean English if I was
Speaker 3: actually to speak in the same you know words as you.
Speaker 1: Can just you can just memorize the song in any language.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, there's like helpful ways, like you can you know,
Speaker 3: read the IPA so that way your pronunciation is really
Speaker 3: good and specific, and then you just memorize the words
Speaker 3: and the feelings behind them.
Speaker 1: So talented. I can't learn the words of Grace the
Speaker 1: Abrams song, Like I listened to these songs over and over,
Speaker 1: and you know, my son will sing them verbatim. I
Speaker 1: think when you can't sing For some reason, you just
Speaker 1: can't learn the words to songs. That's my theory.
Speaker 3: I learn a lot of the wrong words to songs,
Speaker 3: especially if they're like pop songs, like yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it one. It's more fun, like you if you don't
Speaker 3: need to know them the like, make them your own.
Speaker 1: You like singing in German?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do. It's beautiful. I mean, if the music
Speaker 3: is gorgeous, everything is gonna be great. But my favorite
Speaker 3: thing about singing in German is like when you're holding
Speaker 3: a really long note and you're like, I can't hold
Speaker 3: this any longer. They have such good like endings to
Speaker 3: the words that a lot of times I'll be like,
Speaker 3: and it sounds like I sang longer than I really did,
Speaker 3: so you just like put the consonant on the end
Speaker 3: and you're like, I just sing super long.
Speaker 1: How often are you singing, like really belting out every day?
Speaker 3: I should be, but no, you should I should yeah,
Speaker 3: like you should be singing pretty much every day?
Speaker 1: Like an hour? How long you sing?
Speaker 3: You know, I'll spend like maybe like fifteen minutes on it.
Speaker 3: But if I'm working on a roll, then I don't
Speaker 3: really spend time like singing singing. If I'm preparing something,
Speaker 3: I will literally be you know, doing a few measures
Speaker 3: at a time and like refining that measure. So I
Speaker 3: might work for like two hours on that, but it's
Speaker 3: not like belting out a song.
Speaker 1: Run me through some warm up exercises. Should I do
Speaker 1: these before every episode?
Speaker 3: Ooh okay, yeah, so when I start warming up, I
Speaker 3: actually don't really like sing sing. I do more like
Speaker 3: this is actually really great for voice actors. You can
Speaker 3: tell a dramatic story but with your mouth closed like
Speaker 3: a blowfish. So also you look ridiculous, so it goes
Speaker 3: and it just gets you into like a better resona
Speaker 3: resonating placement, and it drops your layings down.
Speaker 4: So it's really healthy for your voice.
Speaker 3: And the reason why you want to tell a dramatic
Speaker 3: story is so that way you get pitch range.
Speaker 4: Quick little tipat blowfish.
Speaker 1: I had a really bad sore throat for about twelve
Speaker 1: years from performing okay, and then I would go see
Speaker 1: you know, my uh what my I and T guy
Speaker 1: and they would give me these exercises like every night,
Speaker 1: I want you just to spend like five minutes talking
Speaker 1: like like this way, and I never did it, and
Speaker 1: I was like you know what, I'll just have a
Speaker 1: sore throat.
Speaker 3: You know what if it gives you a little bit
Speaker 3: of color.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just was like, I don't I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do these things. Yeah. When I see actors and
Speaker 1: musicians doing those things and I'm just in awe of
Speaker 1: how fearless they are. I think that's why I was
Speaker 1: never a good actor, because I would watch people audition
Speaker 1: and they would be practicing in the hallway yea, And
Speaker 1: that would always just mortify me. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: what are they doing? Don't do that? I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird to like practice in public. But I
Speaker 3: catch myself like singing and you know, like as I'm
Speaker 3: walking down the street and stuff, and I'm like.
Speaker 1: Well, whatever, how can you hold your breath?
Speaker 3: I don't know. My friend got into like free diving,
Speaker 3: but like now I'm like I need to do those exercises.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't hold my breath that long. I try.
Speaker 3: Singing isn't about holding your breath though, it's like about
Speaker 3: releasing air, but it's not like you don't hold it.
Speaker 1: I gotta try. I gotta try it and stand up.
Speaker 1: See how long I can hold a joke. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: let it rip. Opera house versus a theater, they're different, yes, somewhat.
Speaker 3: I think that an opera house is built for the
Speaker 3: acoustics but can be used for general theater as well,
Speaker 3: you know. And that's why, like you might end up
Speaker 3: having some microphones in places because they're not really set
Speaker 3: up acoustically for opera.
Speaker 1: That's cheating, though, right, total cheating, cheating to have a microphone.
Speaker 1: I've done it before. You ever done that Eddy where
Speaker 1: you're at a show and they're like the microphone doesn't
Speaker 1: work for whatever reason, and you're like, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go for it. No, I have done it, you really.
Speaker 1: I've done a college where I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: this isn't worth it. Here I go. I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna rip the voice, but I'm gonna project.
Speaker 3: I did have my microphone turned off gig at the airport.
Speaker 1: I did. I had my microphone turned off doing a
Speaker 1: show in Mormon Land in Utah once when I was younger.
Speaker 1: They said that'll be enough. That college was like, yep, nope,
Speaker 1: we're not going to have Oh no, And I'll be
Speaker 1: honest with you. I was working under the rules that
Speaker 1: they had given me at least in my head. I
Speaker 1: was like, because this was a this was a I
Speaker 1: was very handcuffed. But when people told me what rules
Speaker 1: were before I did the show and I accepted the gig,
Speaker 1: I would I agreed to it. Yeah, so I would like,
Speaker 1: I'll give this a shot. Let's see how funny I
Speaker 1: am without talking about anything. But sure enough they were like,
Speaker 1: you know, no, that's it, You're done.
Speaker 3: You had to do the soda joke. He just had
Speaker 3: to didn't even.
Speaker 1: Do a soda joke. I don't know what I was
Speaker 1: talking about. I remember just kind of awkwardly walking off
Speaker 1: stage and like, am I going to get paid? I
Speaker 1: got paid?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: A favorite outdoor venue that you've performed at. Oh, it's beautiful.
Speaker 3: It's a castle in Germany in like the Rhine area.
Speaker 3: The count and the Countess still live there, and they
Speaker 3: like had us to dinner and they were like super
Speaker 3: obsessed with dentists. Yeah, it was very funny. They kept
Speaker 3: asking about our dentists. They were crazy and wonderful. They
Speaker 3: were great people.
Speaker 1: I as far as born right off the Rhine River
Speaker 1: in Germany.
Speaker 3: But really, oh, that's so cool.
Speaker 1: What town?
Speaker 3: I don't know it.
Speaker 1: Why would you yeah, but if you if you Wikipedia
Speaker 1: Boupart it's it says like whatever notable people from there,
Speaker 1: And I think I'm like number two and somebody else,
Speaker 1: like a mathematician from the fifteen hundreds, whoa.
Speaker 4: That was a span of time that they just were
Speaker 4: not producing.
Speaker 1: So damn it, Beaupart at a dry spell'iusler. Have you
Speaker 1: ever performed in Italy?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: I have not.
Speaker 1: Is that the dream for operas or no? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think like a lot of American opera singers, the
Speaker 3: dream is to sing at the met But for me,
Speaker 3: my dream was to sing in like all of the
Speaker 3: major cathedrals of Europe. That's what I wanted, as you know,
Speaker 3: at one point. But now I just really love working
Speaker 3: on new music. Like that's the thing that I'm the
Speaker 3: most interested in is working with new composers that are
Speaker 3: creating things that are gonna be relevant for a modern audience.
Speaker 1: How does the breakdown of the money work for an opera?
Speaker 1: Who's pulling in the real money? Is it? Is it
Speaker 1: always just the opera singer?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: You know? Where's the orchestra at? I mean, how much
Speaker 1: is this?
Speaker 4: It's so expensive?
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm wondering because like I perform at
Speaker 1: a show, I show up, there's a microphone. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta throw Eddie some scratch. But other than that, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty much. That's it. You guys have such a.
Speaker 3: Production it is crazy. So it's so expensive. And that's why,
Speaker 3: especially in America, like you only get a few performances
Speaker 3: even at like the big houses. I sing with La
Speaker 3: Opera often and we do six performances of a production.
Speaker 3: And like you train for like years on a roll
Speaker 3: and you're like, okay, done.
Speaker 1: What are tickets? What are tickets called? A good seat
Speaker 1: in that house? That's you know, face value? What's that
Speaker 1: ticket cost?
Speaker 3: Somewhere like around two fifty or something like that? Has
Speaker 3: something around there for like, what's a really good one?
Speaker 1: What's that? What's that opera seat?
Speaker 4: I think it's around two thousand some odd.
Speaker 3: Okay, So it's like the because opera isn't, like, you know,
Speaker 3: the most highly attended thing, you need to get as
Speaker 3: many people into those.
Speaker 4: Seats as possible in this country.
Speaker 3: In this country, yeah, if you go to other countries,
Speaker 3: like in Germany, they have pretty much every major city
Speaker 3: has an opera house and they have full time people
Speaker 3: at each of those houses. But in America, like you
Speaker 3: get contracted per performance, per production, I should say, and
Speaker 3: then and eat all of the musicians too, like you know,
Speaker 3: the instrumentalists, the all of the singers, and then sometimes
Speaker 3: like there's full time crew.
Speaker 4: But that's pretty much it.
Speaker 1: What's the diference between an opera and a musical? Like
Speaker 1: true operas always use a live orchestra.
Speaker 3: In my book, they always do. I feel like opera
Speaker 3: technically is a story that is fully sung, is how
Speaker 3: I've heard a lot of people define it. But I
Speaker 3: also think that it has something to do with like
Speaker 3: the vocal mechanism and the production of it, where you
Speaker 3: really have a certain way that you are projecting your
Speaker 3: voice and utilizing your voice that can be carried over
Speaker 3: an audience.
Speaker 1: By the way, why are operas so goddamn depressing? They're
Speaker 1: not like like the.
Speaker 4: I mean, everybody dies, but other than that, right, that's.
Speaker 1: What I mean, Like the death, the weep, being, the sorrow,
Speaker 1: the angst, all of it. That just has to be
Speaker 1: the story that's told. There's no there's no is there
Speaker 1: comedy opera? Yes, Okay, I gotta go see comedy.
Speaker 3: You to, So there's this one company. They do English
Speaker 3: translations of operas, but they have like it's basically a
Speaker 3: Mario Brothers meets Zelda production of the Magic Flute and
Speaker 3: it maps perfectly. It's hysterical. That one is great. And
Speaker 3: then they do like a Star Trek themed Abduction from
Speaker 3: the Seralio and it's amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you have to be so in the
Speaker 1: know to appreciate it or can if.
Speaker 4: You've ever played any Nintendo games.
Speaker 1: I thought I meant in the know with opera god.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no, Like it's one of the
Speaker 3: most successible things that I've ever seen. Both of those
Speaker 3: productions are just so much fun.
Speaker 1: Can you yodel?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I've tried.
Speaker 3: I mean, like I've tried to learn, and I need
Speaker 3: to focus on it because it is.
Speaker 1: No one needs to learn to you.
Speaker 3: No, No, it's like it's good for you, like to experiment
Speaker 3: with your voice like that, that's like vocal health. It's
Speaker 3: good for you. And also like I'm scat, you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: I can do it a little bit, but I can't
Speaker 3: do it now.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ask scat.
Speaker 3: Very well done.
Speaker 1: Hmm. That's just what's her name from? From Sex and
Speaker 1: the City Kim Cotrell. There's an old viral video of
Speaker 1: her scatting okay with her husband, who plays the upright bass.
Speaker 1: It's just very humiliating. It's the worst video, but it's enjoyable.
Speaker 2: Sounds correct.
Speaker 1: You had to sign a nine page NDA to perform
Speaker 1: for Beyonce? Was that because Diddy was there?
Speaker 3: Oh god, I know. I didn't even get to I
Speaker 3: didn't meet her. I just did like a pre record
Speaker 3: for the Grammy performance that she did in twenty seventeen
Speaker 3: as the Opera singer. But yeah, it was intense, like
Speaker 3: that was I was like, oh my god. And you know,
Speaker 3: I was like I wanted to tell people to watch
Speaker 3: and see, but.
Speaker 1: You were scared they were going to come for.
Speaker 3: You because seriously, Oh no, I take it seriously, Like
Speaker 3: I understand why somebody at that level has to have
Speaker 3: privacy and stuff. So but and I was like, no,
Speaker 3: I can never tell anybody. And they're like, it's aired,
Speaker 3: It's okay.
Speaker 1: What modern pop singers do you go? Oh? Their voice
Speaker 1: is pretty.
Speaker 3: Pretty legit ariana grande. Oh my god, her performance on
Speaker 3: SNL that was insane.
Speaker 1: No, she's good, but there she is. She is a
Speaker 1: I believe she is a robot, Like I don't believe
Speaker 1: she's actually a person. It's just so at all times
Speaker 1: a version that I'm like, man, don't believe you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You know who else's voice I love is Dave Grol.
Speaker 3: I love his voice and I know that that's like.
Speaker 1: Why would you bring him up after what he did
Speaker 1: but put his wife through? Right now?
Speaker 4: Really, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I am like not a good fan. I like don't
Speaker 3: know anything about it now.
Speaker 1: I only know this because I don't know. Maybe my
Speaker 1: phone thinks I want to know about Dave girl sex life,
Speaker 1: but he just fathered a child outside of his long marriage.
Speaker 3: Like his voice, I love it because he just expresses
Speaker 3: himself really like fully, like that announce what I would
Speaker 3: love to like. His level of commitment when he plays
Speaker 3: or sings is what I would love to be able
Speaker 3: to do with myself.
Speaker 1: When I see or watch him sing, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: could do that for maybe thirty minutes once, Yeah, before
Speaker 1: my throat was gone forever.
Speaker 3: No, it's like it because it comes from him, Like
Speaker 3: it's just.
Speaker 1: Like you're saying, you're you're justified why he cheated on
Speaker 1: his way.
Speaker 3: Yes, because it's just like, oh.
Speaker 1: It's too much.
Speaker 3: It was too much music inside of him.
Speaker 1: Are you crazy protective of your voice?
Speaker 3: Not as protective as I probably should be, but yeah,
Speaker 3: like you have to be really mindful if you're in performance.
Speaker 3: But again, like that's why you just do it regularly
Speaker 3: so that way you keep yourself as healthy as possible.
Speaker 3: But if I'm doing a big show, obviously, yeah, you
Speaker 3: get sick often. Not really anymore. I gave myself bronchitis
Speaker 3: the other week inhaling lime dust accidentally, so lime dust. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was like moving like the contractors had left a
Speaker 3: bag of lime dust, and I was like, what's this?
Speaker 3: And my friend who's helping me get organized, was like
Speaker 3: put a mask on, and I was like, you're right,
Speaker 3: And then I threw it into the garbage and it's
Speaker 3: not snort.
Speaker 1: It was like, what's this And your friend's like, you
Speaker 1: know what to do? You just bought a house. Congratulations,
Speaker 1: thank you. It's so terrifying but also such a great
Speaker 1: feeling too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 1: Are you on the market? Is there a mister bond?
Speaker 3: Oh No, I am on the market. Yes, if you
Speaker 3: have recommendations. I refuse to do the dating apps right now.
Speaker 3: I just cannot. So, yeah, I'm just gonna this is
Speaker 3: my dating app.
Speaker 1: I guess my experience. I went off the market before
Speaker 1: dating apps. But I have my wife's cousin who always
Speaker 1: shall have the dating apps on. And then I'll talk
Speaker 1: to her like a day later and they're all deleted.
Speaker 1: They're all and just just furious, and then she has
Speaker 1: to like reinstate all of them six months down the road.
Speaker 1: But she's like, all of they're gone. They're not on
Speaker 1: my phone because I would take them and I would
Speaker 1: do the swiping for her. Oh that's good because she's
Speaker 1: not capable of picking the right person.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ye, all right, so you're not You're on the market,
Speaker 1: but you're not on the apps.
Speaker 4: Correct, Okay, I'm just being a little lazy right now.
Speaker 3: That's fine. You know, listen, you got house projects, I
Speaker 3: got I got a lot to do.
Speaker 4: But yeah, but like, what's.
Speaker 1: The biggest house project you're working on right now?
Speaker 3: Getting the electrical to not spark? So yeah, just a
Speaker 3: whole house. Yeah, like they said everything was did.
Speaker 5: You get.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know, a shitty one.
Speaker 3: A shitty one, yeah, and then like it's a whole thing,
Speaker 3: like they the disclosures were not accurate and la la
Speaker 3: la la la. So anyway, I have an electrician coming
Speaker 3: tomorrow and I get to spend tons of money.
Speaker 1: But I was like, yeah, but you'll get all that
Speaker 1: money back.
Speaker 3: I hope.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you will, it'll it'll, it'll all work out.
Speaker 1: I'm a big I'm a big fan of home buying.
Speaker 1: I think it's fun, you know what.
Speaker 3: I love it, and like, I never thought that I
Speaker 3: would be able to afford my neighborhood.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, I did it.
Speaker 1: Have you informed the neighbors of your little little uh
Speaker 1: little freshion law?
Speaker 3: No, But okay, here's this is a huge benefit to me.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it would be super annoying to other people.
Speaker 3: Every Friday night there's a mariachi band that rehearses in
Speaker 3: the backyard of my next door neighbor's house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be annoying to everyone.
Speaker 3: No, it is like a free concert. It's only for
Speaker 3: like a couple of hours.
Speaker 1: If you wanted to go to a mariachi concert every.
Speaker 3: Week, every night, every Friday night. I love it. I
Speaker 3: think it's the greatest. And like they're not like a
Speaker 3: great band or like anything like that, but they're like
Speaker 3: they've got it, and I.
Speaker 1: Think you actually have an out on your home if
Speaker 1: you wanted to get out of the perch. I think
Speaker 1: that should have been disclosed.
Speaker 3: Oh this is.
Speaker 1: It's way worse than somebody dying in your bathroom. No,
Speaker 1: you need to know if there's a mariachi band performing,
Speaker 1: that's not even a good mariachi band every week. Well okay,
Speaker 1: now I know that you just bought a home, but
Speaker 1: prior to that, when you were living in an apartment,
Speaker 1: I mean your neighbors, were they annoyed where they like
Speaker 1: think it's oh, it's beautiful, so.
Speaker 3: It's okay, Well so they it's interesting. Like I always
Speaker 3: would give like a card and be like, hey, I'm
Speaker 3: your next door neighbor now, and here's my card. If
Speaker 3: you ever just want to call me and tell me
Speaker 3: to shut up, because you can't.
Speaker 1: That's danger though. Yeah, but like trust these people.
Speaker 3: I don't know, like you know, you've got to be kind.
Speaker 1: To okay, And so did they ever complain?
Speaker 3: No, they would request certain songs a lot, so I'm like,
Speaker 3: I don't that would be mean. Yeah. So, and it
Speaker 3: was sweet like I lived upstairs in this in this
Speaker 3: apartment building with like the greatest landlords the greatest neighbors.
Speaker 3: They were so sweet. And this woman was in the
Speaker 3: downstairs apartment and she would always request Abby Maria and
Speaker 3: she would always want certain songs. But she was passing away,
Speaker 3: and so her daughters were like, will you come and
Speaker 3: sing to mom? And it was like absolutely, And so
Speaker 3: I sang to her the night that she passed, and
Speaker 3: I sang at her wake. It was really beautiful and meaningful.
Speaker 3: And then I asked my landlords. I'm like, can I
Speaker 3: get her apartment because it's bigger, and so I was
Speaker 3: like new York about it. I just like slid in there.
Speaker 1: It's weird that you were a part of her death
Speaker 1: and then immediately took her apartment.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting. By the way I got you, I always
Speaker 1: get people a gift. I just take some of them
Speaker 1: from my house and I give them something this much
Speaker 1: show you I could. I was like, oh, the only
Speaker 1: thing I could find. I don't drink tea and I
Speaker 1: have this in my house. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I give her this for her voice.
Speaker 3: It cute.
Speaker 1: It's kind of cute. So you can keep that. Oo Okay,
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 3: It's like the very do you just like getting rid
Speaker 3: of things in your house? Does your wife agree with
Speaker 3: this method of.
Speaker 1: No, I mean she didn't. I don't. I don't ask her.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need you to put that on the floor.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you'll like it. You'll I think you'll
Speaker 1: love that.
Speaker 3: I'm delighted.
Speaker 1: Do you drink tea?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 1: Is that any good?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I haven't tried this yet.
Speaker 1: Well do you know it does? Do you know the
Speaker 1: brand at all? Or now? I don't know? All right?
Speaker 1: Can someone really shatter a glass when hitting a high
Speaker 1: sea or is that bullshit? It's I mean like you.
Speaker 3: Could like hold a glass and be leg crack it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, it's like the frequency of glass is
Speaker 3: supposedly the same frequency, and then that could shatter it.
Speaker 1: What if it's like the thinnest piece of glass, you know, I.
Speaker 3: Mean maybe I think it actually can be done. But
Speaker 3: the human voice, like even if you're not singing like
Speaker 3: opera opera, it vibrates between frequencies. And that's why we
Speaker 3: connect with it as much as we do. So like
Speaker 3: it has that vibrato in it, like where if I go,
Speaker 3: you hear that little wobble that's vibrato, and so it's
Speaker 3: like constantly oscillating between the pitch frequencies to get that
Speaker 3: little vibrato. So I don't think that it wouldn't sustain
Speaker 3: a sea on a straight tone for long enough to break.
Speaker 1: What about your new house? How about in one of
Speaker 1: the bathrooms just as kind of a joke, an easter
Speaker 1: egg for people you have, like the window in the
Speaker 1: bathroom by the shower shatter.
Speaker 4: That's a great joke.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I should just.
Speaker 3: Like for April Fool's Day just crack all of my windows.
Speaker 1: That seems like we went a little too far. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: name the greatest opera singer of all time? Is there
Speaker 1: is there a clear pick for most people? Do most
Speaker 1: people agree on this or no? No, it's a personal preference.
Speaker 3: It's a personal preference. Yeah, I mean, like is probably
Speaker 3: like the to.
Speaker 1: Say it like that. To be a you have to
Speaker 1: do it like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can be.
Speaker 1: I can.
Speaker 3: It's jersey. I can't even do a jersey right now. Yeah,
Speaker 3: But he's like one of the most highly valued singers
Speaker 3: and whatnot.
Speaker 4: But like Maria Kalis for other reasons.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, Like I think it's got to
Speaker 3: be what what's connecting you? I feel like Joyce Dinato
Speaker 3: is like the person that for me is the exemplary
Speaker 3: of the way that I love performing and I love
Speaker 3: experiencing opera.
Speaker 4: So she's my favorite and a gorgeous voice, stunning.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that the pope in nineteen oh three
Speaker 1: banned boys from being cast rated.
Speaker 4: So that they remember it like it was yesterday, nineteen
Speaker 4: o three.
Speaker 1: What did you know this bit of history.
Speaker 3: Well, I knew that they stopped castration, but I didn't
Speaker 3: know it was the Pope that did that.
Speaker 1: Hope was one that made it official that we are
Speaker 1: going to stop you guys castrating these boys. So that
Speaker 1: they continue to say, do children still sing in the opera? Yeah,
Speaker 1: m hmm, that's common. I didn't even that's not.
Speaker 3: Like common common, but they think there will be like
Speaker 3: a children's chorus for something, and a lot of those
Speaker 3: castrati parts like so there used to be like people
Speaker 3: that were castrated.
Speaker 5: And they're called the castrati boys, the castrati boys, Castrati
Speaker 5: boy sing that high note boys.
Speaker 3: They were like totally, I don't know they it's very
Speaker 3: especially desirable, but anyway, of course, I mean, so a
Speaker 3: lot of those those voices that would sing in the
Speaker 3: early operas are the one the roles that I would
Speaker 3: do because they're like kind of the higher placement of
Speaker 3: the male voice.
Speaker 1: You've taken taken the child for you, so you're you're
Speaker 1: doing God's work.
Speaker 3: I really am.
Speaker 1: When can we watch you live perform next?
Speaker 3: I'm going to be in Aina Deamar at la Opera.
Speaker 3: It's in Spanish, so that's fine. It's fun.
Speaker 1: And get probably, you know, do my little translate thing
Speaker 1: on my phone for people.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, you get a translation right above the above
Speaker 3: the stage.
Speaker 1: Beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's gorgeous. It's one of my favorite operas
Speaker 3: and so I'm very pumped about it.
Speaker 1: When is that April? April?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 1: All right, Danielle, thank you for being on the show.
Speaker 3: Thank you, okay, Casa.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dan yea, thank you, Dan yell, thank you
Speaker 2: Dan yeah Phi being on our show. Thank you Carl
Speaker 2: for sitting across from me.
Speaker 1: Right, No, that's fun, right Carl, we gotta go to
Speaker 1: the opera. You know what to sing? Oh you sing
Speaker 1: for me? Oh you know that? Sing sing for me?
Speaker 1: Come on sing sing? Can you sing? Come on? Sing
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Speaker 1: You ready to do the free plug? Let's hit the music.
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Speaker 1: is for Rivian. Rivian originally founded in Florida, I believe,
Speaker 1: and their headquarters is in Orange County here in California.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 1: Now, you might think, oh, you're just doing this free
Speaker 1: plug so you can get a free Rivian. No, I
Speaker 1: own two Rivians. I have an R one T and
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Speaker 1: Never owned a Tesla, always hated Elon Musk. I was like,
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Speaker 1: now that I did this free plug, is it considered
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Speaker 1: send me something for free, We'll just redact it. We'll
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Speaker 1: I'm receiving nothing other than getting to shit on Tesla.
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Speaker 1: I do out front of this showroom They always have
Speaker 1: their Tesla's parked right out in front, but they're not
Speaker 1: reserved for the tesla, so anytime one is opened up,
Speaker 1: I back in real cool with my Rivian and and
Speaker 1: you know, I make it look nice, and I I
Speaker 1: just park right in front, and they always give me
Speaker 1: it's it's it's inconvenient for the how far I have
Speaker 1: to walk to the grocery store from there. My wife
Speaker 1: gets annoyed, but it's my my little protest, and I
Speaker 1: put my Rivian right in front. And then the people
Speaker 1: in the showroom always shoot me a look. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure they open their doors into my truck and try
Speaker 1: to give me a little little door ding. But guess what,
Speaker 1: I got a truck. Okay ding, It doesn't bother me. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm a man. I got a truck. Broom, broom. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: there's my free plug. See you next week.