Keenan "Special" Bristol/ Giorgia Fumanti

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GIMMEI cotective, get crazy, gave me.

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Don't want to.

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Wait that m.

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Give me stop?

Speaker 6 (00:59):
Thank you?

Speaker 7 (01:02):
Hey, what's up?

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Everybody?

Speaker 8 (01:04):
Welcome to the Jimmy Stars Show with Ron also bringing
good times in music, fashion, pop culture and entertainment. We
got a fun show for you guys today. But before
we get started, let's just say.

Speaker 7 (01:14):
Hi to the world.

Speaker 8 (01:15):
We want to give a shout out to my cool,
outrageous man about town coast mister Ron Russell and Astro Astro.
Look at everybody, see everybody? What's up you guys? People
are starting to join us in the chat room. Stefan
is there and he says hi from Tina.

Speaker 7 (01:32):
Hey, Stefan.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Sidney.

Speaker 8 (01:35):
Lady Lake is in there. We should have a good
good time today. I want to thank everybody for tuning
in last week's show with Caitlin. We had Caitlin and
Sharony Vincent. It's turning out to be one of our
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So everybody check it out.

Speaker 8 (02:03):
It's on YouTube, listen to it on Red Circle or
Apple podcasts, and thank you for everybody for going and listening.
So it's Thanksgiving too. We want to wish everybody a
happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
I do. I'm so sad that so many people don't
know what Thanksgiving means. You know. I watched on TV
they did a thing in the street where they were
asking people what is Thanksgiving about? And these young people
said eating turkey. They had no idea. They said who
are the people that came here? And one person said

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they came on the Titanic. I am as glad when
I heard that about how fucking stupid did you be
that the Pilgrims came over on the Titanic. I mean, honestly,
they weren't all young people. They were idiots. Didn't they
learn in school that the Pilgrims came over and it
was the Mayflower. And the reason that we have Thanksgiving

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is as we broke feast with the Indians and the
Indians said, kill a turkey, they're good, and here's some corn,
which is something we had no idea what it was
because in Europe they didn't have corn, and so we
started eating corn in Turkey and.

Speaker 7 (03:15):
Corn is my favorite.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I'm speaking Italian. Have an Italian guest coming on. I'm
so excited I can show off and speak a little
bit in my half ass Italian. He's irritating me today
today I'm gonna smack him around.

Speaker 8 (03:36):
I have been so sick, so Ron has been sick.
Yesterday my dizziness and naxious thing came back.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
He's got a garbage pail in his face and left.

Speaker 8 (03:44):
In a garbage pail with my head in a garbage
pail because this is.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
What I have to love and kiss and hold a
garbage pail.

Speaker 8 (03:50):
Then when I finally was able to get up, I
had green all over my beard, and.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
I said to him, let it try. It's interesting.

Speaker 8 (03:58):
So I'm happy just the fact that I can lift
my head off a pillow today I went.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Last week, I had snots running out of my nose,
and yesterday he had snut all over his beard. So
we're a very attractive couple. People can't wait to meet
us in the street and say hi and give us
a little hugging kids.

Speaker 7 (04:15):
They say, we help we both feel better, which we
do do we both feel better?

Speaker 8 (04:19):
Now?

Speaker 3 (04:19):
You know it's I went to the hospital because you know,
of my age, being twenty two years old is very dangerous.
So I went into the hospital and the doctor said,
it's a good thing you came in because at your
age twenty two years old, it's very dangerous. Your cold
could turn to pneumonia. So I want to tell everyone

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out there, if you're past seventy and you have the flu,
please go get antibiotics and have a doctor look at you,
because that flu can turn into pneumonia and you die
from pneumonia. My grandmother in Italy, that's what she died from.
At ninety eight. She was as healthy as could be.

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She was running around cooking cleaning, doing everything like a
young woman, and then she caught the flu and got
pneumonia and died from it. Hadn't she got pneumonia, she
probably would still be alive today. She'd be about two
hundred and forty, but she'd still be that old bitch
would still be alive today. My grandmother was tough. I

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didn't care for my Italian grandmother in Italy. I lived
with her for almost a year when I lived in Italy,
and she was one tough armbre Don't forget. She was
born around Queen Victoria's time, which was the Victorian era,
and she had all the old fashioned ideas. I was
going out with the guy that cleans the building of

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the janitor his daughter, and when my grandmother found out,
she went nuts. She said, don't you dare go out
with the daughter of the street cleaner. She was so
uppity because it was an embarrassment for the rest of
the people that lived in the department building that my
grandmother lived in. So I had to deal with her

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evolution bullshit, and she wouldn't. She'd locked the door if
I came home after midnight, and I would I'd want
to tell me to go sleep in the hallway. What
a grandmother tells American grandson, go sleep in the hallway
if you come home after midnight. She's a bitch on wheels.
No wonder my father ran away from her when he

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was twenty one years old and came to America. I
don't blame them. I wanted to run away and come
home again. But anyway, that's my non nah. But I
had a nor knee here my mother's mother, who was
a saint. She was my grandmother who taught me how
to tie my shoes. She made lunch for me every
day when I came home from school. She adored me.

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I was the boy and boy or boy. She had
worshiped me and loved me. So you see, you get
some good, some bad, and it all comes in pieces.

Speaker 7 (07:00):
And you really remember one of my grandmother's Well.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Because you're an orphan, how could you remember any of them,
your dumb bell.

Speaker 7 (07:06):
I'm not an orphan. I was adopted when I was
a baby, so I had grandparents because they were you're
really your grand The only one I remember, though.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Is people.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
They weren't They weren't real.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Made for my college education, so they were, but they
weren't blood. They don't you don't look.

Speaker 7 (07:21):
I don't have any blood. I don't have anybody blood.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
So because you're an alien, you couldn't have planet.

Speaker 8 (07:26):
But when I was a kid with my grandmother, I
had to like she We lived in a two story house,
and she would come to visit, and she took a
lot of pills and she couldn't she.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Could, she could know, but she only could.

Speaker 7 (07:35):
She had a lot of diseases. I guess, I don't know.
I was a little kid. She would only be able
to take two steps at a time, so every two
steps she would stop and take a pill and then
go back. That's all I really had.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
A sister in all like that.

Speaker 7 (07:47):
I don't really remember. Hey be Claudia, did you joined
us from the from Germany?

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Heyby?

Speaker 6 (07:53):
How is it doing?

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Hope?

Speaker 6 (07:54):
Mom?

Speaker 3 (07:54):
And Nick? Or well?

Speaker 7 (07:55):
Send her you love?

Speaker 3 (07:56):
How's your shrewd? How's your shrewrudle? What's trut You don't
know what's true? The same thing as trudel? Yeah, I
love it. No, you pronounce it? How do you pronounce
it trud No, it's pronounced trutal. It's in German. I
pronounced things like the people, like the country that comes
from but Jeff Caperton also joined us. It's his daughter's birthday. Hey, Jeff,

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how you doing next year?

Speaker 7 (08:19):
Was he a big year for us?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Jeff Caperton? I love the picture of you and your bride,
your wife when she was a bride. How beautiful. I
saw it on Facebook today, Jeff. Now that's his daughter
who just got had her birthday. Oh that's your daughter.

Speaker 7 (08:32):
It's his daughter who just had a bird, a grown
up daughter.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
You look good for your age, al looks great. What
it was his wife? That's funny. You're looking good, Jeffrey.
Whatever you're doing, keep drinking it.

Speaker 7 (08:50):
He hesn't on Instagram. He's always putting up. He's in
the gym.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
I didn't you know that was his daughter. I swear
to you.

Speaker 7 (08:56):
I don't know why I saw that same picture.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (08:58):
I don't remember seeing her in ad was definitely.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
He And I didn't read the article because I was
late for work today, so I just, you know, went
through everything quickly. Uh, And I assumed it was his wife,
his daughter. I'm telling you, Jeff, thirty year old daughter.
How old are you? Jeff? Your old fucking mother? You're
all goat. You're looking good boy and tell me who

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your doctor is, your surgeon. Yeah, I'm ready, I'm read.
Look I need my neck done. Look at this, I
could pull up seven inches of face. Look look at that.
Look not looking at ae.

Speaker 7 (09:37):
That looks yes, I'm going to have.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
A face slip when I get the guts to do.
It's got to be painful having your face all cut up.
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (09:45):
He hasn't had that done though.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
He's and stitched. I mean, and then you look like
Joan Rivers. He says, you're killing me.

Speaker 7 (09:53):
He's about my age. I'm going to guess you really,
how old are you look?

Speaker 3 (09:58):
You'll be a little bit younger than me. You have
work done, you have botox or wrestling. There's some crap
in your face.

Speaker 7 (10:04):
He's a guy's guy.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
He's too butched for that ship. You know what it
is when you go down on a lot of women. Seriously,
this berm from the woman is wonderful facial.

Speaker 7 (10:14):
He has the lower face.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Very very stiff.

Speaker 7 (10:18):
He's got a wife too, you know, well he could
have a girlfriend.

Speaker 8 (10:21):
I'm not real, but you know, if you if you're
hitty nine with no work done, so he's a you're young.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Old fifty nine. You know work and he has it
has to be pussy facial good jeans, it's pussy facials.
Pussy facials are great. I used to have them when
I was married, then I got old when I stopped.
There's no pussy to get a facial from. Anyway. We
don't want to get kicked off the airsles. Why should

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we get kicked off the I didn't say anything dirty.
Oh no, pussy is a cootled cat. Yeah yeah, yeah,
and you've got cat facials all the time. Yeah, you
got you rubb your face and a cat.

Speaker 8 (11:01):
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Speaker 3 (11:54):
A lot of fun. And then we also want to
wish everybody a.

Speaker 7 (11:56):
Happy Thanksgiving because everybody's right.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, definitely talk out dress, thank you. I put on
my nice little whatever this is because it's a jacket.
What would you call it a shirty jacket?

Speaker 7 (12:06):
Kind of like it could be either it's really a shirt,
I think, but you're wearing it as a jacket and
it looks like it could be a jacket.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, it's nice. I like it. Meanwhile, on Facebook, I
put up a drag picture of myself of yet many
many many years ago when I founded Have a Heart,
the Drag the AIDS benefit called have Art, I and
a bunch of troopers get or drag queens would perform

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and we made money for AIDS and gave it to
the Elizabeth Teller Foundation for AIDS Research. Well, you know,
with this controversy about trainees. I didn't want people to
think that I think there's a woman inside me, because no,
if I have to, I like to be inside a woman.

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I'd rather that than a woman be inside me. But anyway, no,
I am not a tranny. I was only an actor
performing as a woman to raise funds for AIDS, and
I had to make that clear because I didn't want
people to know that there's a shame in it. I
have many friends that are Trane's and they're wonderful and

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I love them very much. So it's not that I'm ashamed.
I just said it's not a fact, and I like
everything to be accurate and factual. I am a man
and I love being a man. And like I said,
I wouldn't want my wang taking off. Then they give
me a little clit. What am I to do with
a clit? So I like having a nice whine. I

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would miss my dick a lot. I'm sure all you
guys out there feel as I do. If you look
down there and you're so avoidanous, emptiness would be terrible.
It's like you're looking down and it's not swinging. If
you're lucky that it's swings. Some guys. It doesn't swing.
It just perks up like a little button. But most
men and that are endowed. It swings in the meantime.

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So it's a shirt and a jacket. And they made
up a name for it called shack it a shacket.
Yeah sounds dirty. You like shacket, You like dirty jacket,
baby shacket, shack it fast, shack it hard, Yeah, shack
it deep. I like that my shacket. Okay, it's a
shacket anyway. It's nice. It's gold. It's sort of a

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muted bronze, and it's all crushed some shit fabric kind
of know what it is, cardboard something I don't know.
In the many way. I like to get dressed for
the holidays. I always dress. I've dressed all my life
since as a little kid, I can remember being poor
and coordinating my clothes so I look like I always

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had more clothes than I had. I was good at
that by combat combinations, switching things around, and I was
always a hot clothes horse. I spend my money on
clothing and furniture. I love furniture. I still loves furniture.
I still keep changing our house. I just redid it.

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I redo our house like every year. I love. You
know why I love furniture? My great excuse me, my
throat's gone. My great grand great grandfather made furniture for
the King of Italy, and one of his chairs are
in the Pennsylvania Philadelphia Museum, of which I want to

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go and photograph one day. So I come from a
furniture building family, and I think the gene is in me.
I believe in that crap, my great great grandfather's love
of furniture. That gene is I've inherited. My daughter Leslie
and Gadre, both my children. They love furniture. Also, Jimmy

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could give a shit less about it. I mean, you
can have an eighteenth century or seventeen century piece of
furniture in the living room and he puts a Coca
cola wet on it. You know, makes a ring. You
don't care. We have a lot of furniture. We change
it a lot. We have all kinds of furniture in
the garage, and it's all beautiful though. Everything that Ryan

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and his.

Speaker 7 (16:16):
Daughter's like, it's all incredibly gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
We are well. My daughter Leslie, she's an antique connoisseur.
That's her career. She deals with antiques, so we hunt antiques.
And I love old furniture, but the furniture of nowadays
I would not own because it's all pressed cardboard.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
It's not wood.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
I love wood, the speel of wood, the smell of wood,
the look of wood. Everything we have is wood. I
collect maitland Smith, which is a very good designer for openness.
And this is no bullshit. I'm not bragging or showing off.
I'm talking. In fact, our dining room table is ten

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feet long, solid carved maitland Smith, magnificent. I paid thirty
five hundred dollars for it, like forty years ago, and
I understand now it's over fifty thousand dollars. That table
is that insane? What furniture has gone up?

Speaker 7 (17:11):
And it's collective though, yes, well good.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
You know if you buy designer furniture, and maitland Smith
is something to look for in the junk stores. If
you see a piece of maitland Smith, buy it because
it's definitely worked, far more than what they're asking in
the second hand store.

Speaker 7 (17:30):
Absolutely, we've got a dining table, my desk.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, give me the tile desk. The table here next
to me is a card table, and I paid I
think I paid maybe eight or nine hundred for it,
maitland Smith, and it's worth eight thousand. Can you believe that?
I mean, they rip you off. Who the fuck is
going to go pay eight thousand for something that was

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like seven hundred? Anyway? People do because they collect buying
furniture anyway.

Speaker 7 (18:00):
So now we're going to bring on our first guest. Yes,
all right, one, let's let him in. Bring him on.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
I see him in there, so I think he's there. Yes,
hey ya, how you doing it? Yeah? Yeah? Now you
got balls, big balls to name yourself special special about
you fourteen inches so special about your special? You can

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hear us?

Speaker 8 (18:32):
Right, Let me introduce my cool, outrageous man about town
co host oait. First, we got to introduce him, but
let me introduce you first, my cool outrageous man about
town coast, Ron.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Russell, very special. Welcome, what's up? Run?

Speaker 6 (18:43):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Run?

Speaker 8 (18:45):
So you guys, Now we want to welcome to the
Jimmy Star Show with Ron Russell, Director, producer, music artist,
the founder of Music Brings Life, the fabulous Keenan Special Bristol.
And we got that room with a bunch of people
filling up so they might everybody in the chat.

Speaker 7 (19:06):
I know we want there you go, all right, you guys,
so you guys specials are really cool. Guy, that's all.
Tell us where are you right now? Where are you from?
I'm well, I'm from I'm from Brookly, New York, Brooklyn.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
I'm from Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn. You heard it, you
heard correctly, Ron Brooklyn, I was. I was born in
Red Hook. Baby, that's like this connecting.

Speaker 7 (19:32):
That's why we got this connection.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Baby. You know it's called Brooklyn bond. It's called Brooklyn bonding.
We're brothers for sure. You know, shure, you can't get
more Brooklyn than if you come from Red Hook.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
Man.

Speaker 8 (19:49):
So you you know, because black don't crack, you don't
know how old people are, but us white people, we're
a little bit different.

Speaker 7 (19:54):
He's eighty four, and look how good he looks, right,
he looks. It looks like he looks like sixty four, sixty.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Four and the awesome my mine got.

Speaker 7 (20:03):
You know how long ago? He was born in Brooklyn
in nineteen forty.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
I was born in the Brooklyn projects, the Red Hook
projects that were having on earth. When my parents moved there.
They had hot water, steam heat, and they were rich,
and we had the yep swimming pool, my god, in
the fucking rivi Era. We used to go to the

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public swimming pool a thousand people in the little part
of water. But we were so happy, we were content.
We didn't know any better, and we were all neighbors
and best friends, and everybody got along beautifully. There was
no such thing as race color or ethnicticity. That bullshit
didn't exist. Everybody was the same level poor because she

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paid twenty dollars a month rent in the projects. And
also and we got along fine, twenty bucks a month
twenty twenty Yes, that's what he says, twenty dollars and Brookley, wait,
am I not anymore? And my parents had a hard

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time raising that twenty bucks because two kids and my grandmother.
It was hard.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
And you look like an eater?

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Right, do you look like an eater?

Speaker 9 (21:23):
On?

Speaker 7 (21:24):
What do I look like an eater?

Speaker 10 (21:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:25):
He's a ten eater? Well you think him fat? I smack,
you spoke your real hard.

Speaker 7 (21:34):
He's not, but he does like he's a you know,
it's this.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Jacket I have honest. Look, if I'm I got to
show how skinny I am, askin you all, it's a
big fat jacket.

Speaker 7 (21:49):
He's a good shame.

Speaker 10 (21:50):
Ah.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
So you guys, first of all, to learn a little
bit about special First of all, he's the founder of
an organization called Music Brings Life. The website of Music
Brings Life dot org. It was founded in two thousand
and nine. Tell us give us a two mini version
of what is Music Brings Life so people kind of know.

Speaker 6 (22:08):
What it is.

Speaker 7 (22:09):
So music brings movie after that, So don't bring up
the movie yet, we'll talk about.

Speaker 10 (22:13):
Okay, So music Brings Life?

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Is it?

Speaker 10 (22:16):
Blood Award is organization that educase people students within the
Black American, Latino Caribbean Asian communities about the importance of
blood donation and bringing a witness to sickest cell disease.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
We do that by using the power of music and entertainment.

Speaker 7 (22:37):
That's stror genius too to do the music in because
because you're actually a musician.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
In an entertainment and the music is international, music belongs
to everybody.

Speaker 7 (22:47):
Everyone, It's universal. It is universal.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Music belongs to all of us.

Speaker 8 (22:51):
So, you guys, the website is Music Bringslife dot org.
Like I said, it was founded in two thousand and nine.
It's a nonprofit organization that educates young people in the Black,
Latino and Caribbean communities about the importance of donating blood.
And they have a goal is to collect ten thousand
pints of blood.

Speaker 10 (23:08):
Yeah, that's not goal, Lonie, that's our goal.

Speaker 7 (23:13):
But you've done a lot of that already though, right,
how much have you already done?

Speaker 3 (23:17):
We've raised over about seven eight thousand pints.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
Of blood we've raised.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
That's a lot. I mean today, people don't die from
sickle sell anymore. Can you say that again? People don't
die from sickle selling anymore. They still do.

Speaker 7 (23:33):
They still do.

Speaker 10 (23:36):
When I was, we all live in longer, they all
live longer though they all live a lot longer, yes, but.

Speaker 7 (23:41):
They still die from it.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
When I was in elementary school, my little friend Robert Taylor,
not the actor, my little black friend Robert Robert Taylor,
he was born, I guess with sickle cell cell and
he used to get finishing spells. I remember he would
be at his desk and he'd think we didn't understand
who helped back in nineteen forty one and knew what

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that was.

Speaker 10 (24:05):
Yeah, I mean there's there's there's still millions now, ron
that don't know what it is in America.

Speaker 7 (24:13):
I think a lot of that it be stupid. Now.
I think a lot of people don't.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
Know what it is.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Everybody knows what sickle cell is.

Speaker 7 (24:19):
I don't think they do. I really know, not a
lot of people know. I think you do because you
you knew somebody who had it, and I think people
who are offecting.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
I have lots of black friends that have it. It
seems to be. But you know that it seems to
be a disease that's primarily with black people. We don't
know why. But it's also why is it?

Speaker 10 (24:39):
Why is that in Africa it's a very It's not
only with black people, it's it's also Europeans and Asians.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Also have sickle cell also, so that knows.

Speaker 10 (24:51):
That's although in school narrative that.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
That the disease is only from black people that only
has it, and that's not that that's not really But
I said primarily I didn't say only. You know a
very good friend of ours, a singer, you may know her,
ngb Angie bgb GGB. She goes to Africa and she

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loves it there. But in private we talked about it
and she said that this seems to be a primary
disease in Africa, and she's working hard with other people
to help the people that are ill with this disease.
So ron interesting that you brought her up.

Speaker 7 (25:34):
Check this statistic.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
In Nigeria, there's over six million people that have.

Speaker 10 (25:42):
CICACEL and over one hundred thousand babies annually are bored
with cicacel in Nigeria.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
I don't understand why they don't understand they haven't found why.
You know, it's easy to find out why. Because you
have a blood, all that blood, they should test it
and find out what the hell is in it that
causes sickles cell because it's a blood disease. It's a blood,
that's right. What disease should be easy to find out?

(26:10):
Is it politics? Is this a good way of keeping
the black race down? I wonder about things, you know,
I don't trust government because what the government did with
AIDS when they wouldn't mention AIDS and people my buddies
were dying right and left America never said it. Ronald Reagan,
that fuck never said AIDS. Elizabeth Taylor had a shame

(26:33):
of it too, saying AIDS. So I wonder about governments
if they don't somehow keep people in minority this way,
like let the gays have AIDS, Let the Blacks have
sickle cell, Let the Jews have whatever. The dudes have
a disease also that they die from. So I wonder
what it's all about. Actually, j right, hang on one

(26:53):
second year infinite. We have been giving money to cancer
research for over one hundred years and they still haven't
found a cure for cancer. Bullshit, bullshit. Cancer is a
big money making organization, and I bet you you nail
you nailed it, You nailed it.

Speaker 10 (27:13):
Ron Cancer did so much resources that gets poured into cancer,
and we have to get resources poured in to cicket teal.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Also I have.

Speaker 8 (27:24):
Actually Jeff Caperton, who's an actor, director of producer, friend
of artist, said he used to be a paramedic and
he had a lot of patients who had sickles, who
were in sickle cell crisis and it was extremely painful.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
So I guess it's also a very painful as the
way my friend Robert, my friend Robert Taylor, also when
we went from elementary to high school, well in high school,
he passed away. He passed away, he passed away. He
got very skinny and very weak.

Speaker 7 (27:51):
So tell us why because I have because I know
more about.

Speaker 8 (27:55):
You since I've been working with you. You're very impressive
because there aren't very many people whose life mission is
basically to give back. Because you're actually you know, everything
that you do and everything you're involved with gives back
to the community, which is very amazing.

Speaker 7 (28:11):
Actually, really, let me finish.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
I have to interrupt.

Speaker 11 (28:14):
You know, he's a black man. He's fighting for his people.
I'm a gay man. I fought for my for AIDS.
I fought for my people. You fight for the people
you love and who you are. Otherwise you're a fucking
piece of shit.

Speaker 8 (28:30):
Okay, but how many how many times have you heard
sickle cell anemia on the news in the last twenty years?

Speaker 7 (28:35):
I cannot You never have the one time nobody.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Cares about black people? Who gets a shit about black people?
Do you think the government really gives a fuck about
black people? They don't give a shit about anybody. Do
you think God's bullshit? Nowadays we're putting one hundred black
people on television and a commercial that's all fudge, Baby,
that's fudge. Because you go out in the streets, you
still hear people saying, oh, that fuck I said, Nick, gup,

(29:00):
not Earth will still say it.

Speaker 12 (29:03):
And he knows the difference, ga, I said, g I said, Nick,
there's they're still saying fucking figs, queers, homos.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
But package you know, we live in a society of
a demented people.

Speaker 8 (29:21):
So that brings back my whole point though, is this
is a disease that unless you know somebody affected by it,
people don't know about it, and people don't talk about it.

Speaker 7 (29:27):
That's why we're bringing him on here.

Speaker 8 (29:29):
In the first place, to give it a more open
platform for people to know a lot about it.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
I get so sad and so frustrated when I meet
men like him because he's working hard and he doesn't
have a force behind him. He is a force, but
that's not enough. We need people to be aware of
this disease and how it's killing innocent people. It's as
bad as age, if not worse, because it's it's it's

(29:57):
the age we have under control. So do you have
it under control? Yet? I wouldn't say under control. We're
working with we you know, the FAA's approved.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
I don't want to say the word cure, so I'm
not gonna say that word. But it's a.

Speaker 10 (30:13):
It's medication that can its stems like stem therapy that
can that can help, but it's not a cure, right,
and it's not really under control. And it's the price
for ray. We're fucking over two million dollars the price
for it, you know. So, So to answer your question directly, no,
we don't have it under control.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Is actually because you know about it for so many years,
you should have it under control. What happened to your
scientists or aren't there enough scientists or do they give
a shit? But I bet you if Trump or Biden
got it, they find a cure real first.

Speaker 7 (30:53):
I think that.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
So Stephan Bell wrote in the chat room.

Speaker 8 (30:56):
He sent me a text that that that if you
have money, it can be cured because the treatment costs
two point two million dollars per patient. No way, go away,
go fuck rotation yeahation two point two.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
No, you got to hit that is that is beyond disgusting.

Speaker 7 (31:13):
That isn't and.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
That's not and that's not even curing it.

Speaker 7 (31:17):
That's not curing it. That is that's like doing the most,
you know. So anyway, I want to go back because
I don't want to get off topic.

Speaker 8 (31:26):
So number one, I think it's great that you've taken
on this cause Number two, you're working with a lot
of students and you made an amazing movie. It's called
Students or Heroes, A sickle Cell Warriors story by Music
Brings Life. I guess you you're the director of it,
and it was produced by Prince Ford and you and
tell us a little bit about the film.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
So the film, the protagonist, her name is Jordana.

Speaker 10 (31:50):
She's the protagonist, and she has aspirations on one in
in the NYC Marathon someday. So she's so currently she's
she is a student in high school and during practice
track practice, she actually collapsed, so she got rushed to
the hospital and then she learned that she's having a
now the.

Speaker 7 (32:10):
Sick of cell crisis, and she had antibody build ups.

Speaker 10 (32:14):
From constantly getting blood transfusions from different ethnicities.

Speaker 7 (32:19):
She now needs compatible blood to live.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
She's compatible blood to me to find compatible blood.

Speaker 10 (32:30):
So compatible blood is where your blood match, your blood
type matches the person who's going to donate blood to you.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Where you can't give L negative to something else you have.

Speaker 10 (32:45):
So if you if you're match, you can receive blood
from someone else. But it has if this is the
different if it's not the same match. Right, constantly the
body knows that this is a foreign this this is
foreign ploduct entering the body, right, so that can that
can create toxins which are anti anti body build up.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
And over time that can that can quickly break down
the organs in the in the body.

Speaker 10 (33:07):
So that's why, that's why it's imperative to strive to
get compatible blood donations from a from for someone who
has sick of sell But we need more Blacks and
Latinos to donate more frequently.

Speaker 7 (33:22):
So that's what the film.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
That's what the that's what the film is about.

Speaker 7 (33:25):
So doctors, they don't doctors don't have the blood for her, right,
So she's and she's aware of.

Speaker 10 (33:32):
The fact that this hospital don't have the blood and
blacks and Latinos do not donate blood frequently.

Speaker 7 (33:38):
So where are we going to get the blood from?

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Where?

Speaker 4 (33:41):
How am I?

Speaker 13 (33:42):
How I'm going to get the blood that I need
to live? So she loses all whole. Couldn't they make
a synthetic there won't work that access blood, that wouldn't work.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
That type. So everybody in Africa and go screw themselves.
They're going to die because how many people in Africa
are going to give that blood?

Speaker 14 (34:04):
Nobody, Well, we don't want to give We don't want
to give up on the Africans or give up on
anyone at all. So Georg Dana in the film, she
represents so many others that experienced this have antibody build
ups because game blood from transfusion from different ethnicities dealing
compatible blood.

Speaker 7 (34:25):
Many have lost their lives.

Speaker 10 (34:27):
Because they didn't get the blood that they need and
the antibodies book booked down the Argians, you know, So
she repents millions of people throughout the world.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Have they looked have the doctors looked into the thought
that maybe in some form of aids couldn't be related.

Speaker 10 (34:46):
It's entirely different because one is a blood disorder in age,
as you know, with a virus.

Speaker 7 (34:50):
So there are two different types of conditions.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
So circle cell is not a virus.

Speaker 7 (34:55):
It's not a virus.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
No, it is not a virus. It's not a virus.

Speaker 7 (34:59):
What the hell is It's a blood disorder where so.

Speaker 10 (35:05):
So our blood, our blood vessels, our blood cells travel
through the red cells right and they're round when it's
when you're for someone who has sick a cell. It's
sickled so sickle, meaning that it's shaped.

Speaker 7 (35:20):
Like a banana. It's shipped like a ba.

Speaker 10 (35:23):
So imagine, imagine that your blood cells are around Imagine
go through your vessels.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Right, it cannot have a fluid. Uh, it looks like yes,
So it.

Speaker 10 (35:36):
Creates blockage blockages right where and the blood oxygen cannot flow.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
The blood cannot flow.

Speaker 7 (35:42):
Which causes breakdown.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Can they tell your body?

Speaker 7 (35:44):
That's simply it and they can't find a cure for that.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
We haven't found the cure. That's that's very questionable. I
we question that. It sounds to me like they know
what it is, they see what it is. I don't know.
I don't know. I have no faith in the government.
I have lost that a long time ago.

Speaker 8 (36:06):
So I want to let everybody know who's listening. Everybody listening,
Everything is fine. If you're watching, You're going to have
to move it over to Facebook because YouTube has flagged
us for talking about.

Speaker 7 (36:15):
This conversation and shut us down on YouTube.

Speaker 8 (36:18):
And we're only on Facebook, but we're on all the
radio platforms, which is where people listen.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Why did they do that?

Speaker 7 (36:22):
Because this is a top Obviously, this is a controversial topic.
Might YouTube flagged us for this conversation?

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (36:32):
Right now, so everybody, Yeah, we got it.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Well maybe if it was other people, they wouldn't have
flagged us. No, it's not that the YouTube is prejudiced.

Speaker 8 (36:40):
No, So anyways, I'm trying to get the link for
it now. I'm putting the link you guys in the comments.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
No, you can't win in this country, can you? And
they talk about communism?

Speaker 7 (36:50):
Hang on, I don't know how to.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
I don't know freedom of speech. What happened to our
freedom of speech? I want you too.

Speaker 7 (36:56):
I want to take that link and text it to
me on my phone.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Please.

Speaker 8 (36:58):
I don't know how to get it out of the chat.
Uh here and we'll go back on. It's okay though,
you guys, because everybody's listening. But I don't want to
play the video until we get back onto YouTube.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
YouTube is afraid of reality.

Speaker 7 (37:08):
Don't don't think you talking about them. You'll never be
able to I do.

Speaker 8 (37:14):
Anyway, So you guys were going back again. The website
is Music Brings Life dot org. And I'm waiting for
the actual Facebook. Maybe we uh take a.

Speaker 7 (37:26):
Quick a quick music break and come right back so
everybody can get to the link. Hey one, let's play
b No, what.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Was wrong with this show? We were too real. We
didn't have any phony bologna here. We talked turkey. We
talked the real stuff. And people in this country can't
deal with the real stuff.

Speaker 8 (37:44):
So in the meantime, we're gonna play a big guy.
He sent it to me in Miami.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
We're gonna he talks about Okay, we're gonna take a
break when he talks about six million people in Africa dying.
You shut us down.

Speaker 8 (37:57):
Anyway, guys, BNGB so much. We're gonna play it real
quick and we'll hear it right back.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
We'd love it. And she.

Speaker 15 (38:05):
Six o'clock and I'm just waiting for her.

Speaker 16 (38:41):
To will not alone in the morning with the jees cool,
getting the coffee in.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
The bay to my.

Speaker 6 (38:57):
Just put in my can.

Speaker 5 (39:03):
My deed from my house to.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
The city.

Speaker 6 (39:12):
And don't get mad.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
I don't have to knock go up.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
That's so much.

Speaker 17 (39:32):
Tend so much time.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
With you all I'm can say again.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
The day.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
By the end to come.

Speaker 18 (39:55):
And Cole just to say yes, okay, bays, why is that.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
In my word? The wet.

Speaker 19 (40:23):
So you're always annoying or the special. What if you

(40:48):
get on Different Thirlady.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
The Monday when you know about and the I am
God a A p wait you.

Speaker 6 (41:21):
And you'll.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Just see you.

Speaker 20 (41:26):
Yes, when the trust in your mind, it's just a
waste of time to.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
Try and hide another lave settlement.

Speaker 7 (41:43):
Tell you the dream will never.

Speaker 10 (41:59):
Be So.

Speaker 8 (42:46):
Yeah, and we're back, and everybody's on Facebook and and
our audio and all the other platforms. Everything is fine,
you guys, So welcome back, Spectile. We're talking about music
Brings Life and their brand new movie. Students are musical
Ward so Snell Warriors story. All we got flagged was
we're not allowed to talk about the C word.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
You're not allowed to talk about cancer or against the government.
Tell me that's not a comedy.

Speaker 7 (43:12):
Okay, that's the whole reason that we can't talk.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
About it.

Speaker 7 (43:18):
Anyway.

Speaker 8 (43:19):
We want to like you, So I want to go
back to the movie. So first of all, we have
a trailer for the movie. I want you to introduce
it because now everybody's watching again so everybody can see it.
So h let's play the trailer for the movie. You
introduce it, we'll come back talk about a little bit,
and then we're gonna also play the song you sent
me after that claiming greatness.

Speaker 7 (43:37):
The clip that you sent me for everybody talk about
that A little bit.

Speaker 10 (43:43):
Movies is the trailer for the movie Studios Our Heroes,
a SICT Sale Warriors story.

Speaker 21 (43:56):
It's not that great, so man, you mean she's telling
me she didn't have enough assument.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
This is the community organizer I was telling you about.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
Oh, come on, now you do it.

Speaker 8 (44:05):
They're inviting community organizers to a medical situation.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
People who have sickle self suffered.

Speaker 10 (44:11):
The COVID nineteen pandemic has further exacerbated and already low
supply of blood.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
A sickler will never be an athlete of any type.
It's just not possible.

Speaker 7 (44:21):
Jordaana's dream to run the New York City Marathon is
a very real go in a way like Supermen, Like supermen,
who can I count on? Today is the first meeting
of the heroes.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Don't have a blood club for the year.

Speaker 7 (44:40):
I don't know if I ket this someone like Jordana.

Speaker 22 (44:44):
If they don't find a match for me soon, I'm
going today, bro.

Speaker 10 (45:01):
I don't understand why black people, Latino people, Caribbean people,
Asian people do not donate blood frequently.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
It pisss me off.

Speaker 7 (45:15):
First of all, congratulations, you look great on screen.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Thank you, Thank you. Jimmy Starr.

Speaker 7 (45:20):
We saw you in and said, well you were the
doctor or who were you? I played Doctor Alexander.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
I like love that. I think that's terrific. So this
is an absolute sin. It's a sin, trust me, this
is a sin that this has to exist. Oh absolutely,
it shouldn't have to It shouldn't exist. We could put
a man on the moon, but we can't find the
cure for circle cell or age. Nah. I think it's terrible.

(45:52):
I think that. Uh So, first of all, you don't
even talk about it anymore. Forgive me if I bug out,
of course, I'm gonna fucking go nuts in a minute
and they'll throw me up. I lose my job. And
it's not.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
So.

Speaker 8 (46:04):
The movie is streaming and music brings life dot org
and you're a nonprofit.

Speaker 7 (46:09):
The money, the money that people spend to stream the film.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
How much does it cost to stream the film.

Speaker 7 (46:14):
It's only fourteen ninety nine to stream the field, fourteen
ninety nine to stream the film.

Speaker 8 (46:18):
And then you're using that money to go out and
get more blood donations to help cure sickle sell.

Speaker 7 (46:23):
Yes, we have a program.

Speaker 10 (46:25):
It's a high school college program called the Heroes Donating
Blood Program. So all of the funds will be used
to fund our program for our high school and our
college students.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
I think it's terrific.

Speaker 8 (46:36):
And you guys can find out more information by going
to Music Brings Life dot org.

Speaker 7 (46:41):
And that's where you go and find out about it.

Speaker 8 (46:43):
So then you also have a clip and it's called
claiming Greatness, John Greatness, So tell us what is.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
This claiming greatness?

Speaker 10 (46:52):
You know, well, Jorge Dana was always told in her
life that she can't do this because of her condition.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
She won't be able to live this certain long because
of her condition.

Speaker 7 (47:05):
She won't even graduate from high school because of her condition.

Speaker 10 (47:08):
And I'm sure they have other people that have that
had challenges in their life and they were told by someone,
you can't do.

Speaker 23 (47:16):
That because you're a woman, or you can't do that
because you're a gay man, or you can't do that
because of their condition, right some so the song, the
song represents all of those people to get them to
understand that greatness is within you.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
And do not allow no one to tell you who
you are, what you are, and what you can do
claim your greatness, and that's what the song represents. I
love it.

Speaker 8 (47:44):
I think it's perfect. So so introduce the song and
then we're gonna let it. It's a real short clip everybody,
but we're gonna play it for everybody. Introduce it and
then hang on and we'll be right back.

Speaker 10 (47:54):
This song is called claiming Greatness by myself special.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
I hope you enjoy. Jimmy, let me drop baby there
you go. Uh huh, she hold wait to go? That's right,
thank you.

Speaker 10 (48:11):
Your version so fat and you were said to tweet
that legend and you ready come, let's go.

Speaker 6 (48:17):
I was.

Speaker 4 (48:20):
So time.

Speaker 7 (48:30):
Balliant day.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
Let time.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
Tend to reach that girl to be time.

Speaker 18 (48:43):
I hold me.

Speaker 24 (48:47):
Monday, my treating end, pay great.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
Money, lasting whatever.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
Thinking the holy is the meaning of what they did.

Speaker 6 (49:27):
Yay.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
What does Spizer got to do with circles cell uh?

Speaker 10 (49:32):
Spizer is one of our sponsors, so they have been
supporting music brings live. They don't have anything for you,
city game.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
They don't have any chemicals or anything thing for you.
No chemicals, no bad chemicals. Sos. They have it for
COVID Yeah no, no nos.

Speaker 8 (49:55):
So tell me what is the I'm sure how has
this all affected you? So I'm sure there's a reason.

Speaker 6 (50:01):
Why you.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Are so attached to the project.

Speaker 7 (50:05):
That's a great question. That's a great question that you've asking.
So in two thousand and nine, my mom had major
or knee replacement and.

Speaker 10 (50:16):
They didn't have the blood that she needed because they
so they were still short of blood because and they
explained to us that it's.

Speaker 7 (50:23):
A possibility that you may lose your mom because we
don't have the blood that she needs.

Speaker 10 (50:27):
And we said why, Well, because of like your ethnicity,
do not donate blood a frequent basis, so we don't
have her type her blood type. So what we had
to do is reach out to different people and try
to get people to come out to donate blood for
my mom because after me almost losing my mom.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
But what came out of that, I got inspired and.

Speaker 10 (50:48):
I learned that I learned that many have lost their
loved one because of lack of blood donation.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Why Blacks and Latinos do not donate blood frequently? Like
why is that?

Speaker 10 (50:59):
So that is inspired me to start the organization and
as an entertainer, I said, I'm going to use music
to inspire the youth and then teach them about the
importance of blood donations for our community.

Speaker 7 (51:14):
And then that's and that's how I formed Music Brings Life.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
How a question, what hospital was your mother? And mammades
what in Brooklyn? You know you should have brought her
the New York hospital. They would add her blood type. Okay,
I don't believe hospital doesn't have a patient's blood type.
That's the whole point though, that's nonsense. This whole show

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is going to make me go crazy.

Speaker 7 (51:45):
How did your mom's need trans need replacement go?

Speaker 1 (51:48):
Then?

Speaker 3 (51:48):
Did it work out? Okay?

Speaker 10 (51:50):
Everything, everything went well. People came up to donate blood,
and my mom is still here with me today. That
was actually her in that clip that she showed that
stood up right in the pink shirt. Yes, my mom,
that was her.

Speaker 7 (52:02):
I told him when I saw I said, I bet
that's his mom and she had that. Yeah, you know,
I'm very happy to hear that.

Speaker 8 (52:09):
The and I think what you're doing is really inspirational,
and it is. It is such a big problem that
people are not paying enough attention to.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
And I think that, but you know what he said,
it's not a black problem, it's a Latino problem. And
I'm sure plenty of Caucasian people have.

Speaker 7 (52:26):
It right, absolutely, they have many people that it's like
that Europeans that have that.

Speaker 10 (52:32):
Europeans and Asian within certain regions countries have sick of
cell dis these all.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
Yes, It's like when age came out, they said it's
a gay disease. Yeah, yeah, it was not a gay disease,
and it was not a black disease. It wasn't everybody disease.
I've seen a commercial.

Speaker 7 (52:51):
But this New Medications for AIDS and I just looked
at it, and they.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
Have how they marketed.

Speaker 10 (52:58):
They marketed it from the gave people a couple in
the commercial. So the method that they're sending out is
this is a gay a disease and it's.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Only for these type of people. And it's like, that's
not the truth, that's not real, right, and that's an
upsetting So I remember doing a lecture like thirty years ago,
maybe forty years ago about age and somebody in the
audience said, well, I'll never get age, And I said,
why is that? He said, because I'm straight, And I

(53:32):
thought to myself, don't even argue with this asshole, and
and it's just that, you know what, I.

Speaker 7 (53:39):
Wouldn't even I wouldn't even guess that. I think he's
an asshole.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
It's just that he didn't. He'd been myth and formed,
he'd been psyche washed.

Speaker 7 (53:47):
That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
So he doesn't.

Speaker 7 (53:49):
He doesn't know any better.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
That's what it is. Listen, Special, I fought age for
thirty years. I got in drag as Jane Russell, the
movie star. I formed to Have a Right, which is
the biggest age benefit in the country. A bunch of
drag queens and I went all over doing shows to
raise money for Elizabeth Taylor Foundation for AIDS Research. And

(54:11):
we help bring the vaccine that we have today that
prolongs it. It sets the AIDS virus back. So what
you're doing what I did, I'm like you. I'm a rebel,
I'm a fighter. I'm a big man from Brooklyn, Brooklyn,
Brooklyn people are big mons. And guess what what you're

(54:35):
doing will be heard, And guess what what you're doing
will help Because if you don't do anything and you
sit back and say, uh, what the hell, make a noise, Special,
Make noise all the noise you can, and somebody's gonna listen.
And I'm telling people out there don't care. Black people

(54:59):
are human being as our gay people. We are not
strange or people that should not be on the planet
as some people think. We are here. We have families,
we have hearts, we have children, we have mothers and
fathers them, and they hurt when we're ill. So please

(55:20):
give blood. It'll help some family. It'll help some mother
to take care of her children. It's a necessity. You
must do this. It's not a social thing that rich
people do. Oh let's go to a tea party and
give blood. Fuck that shit. It's about people give blood.

(55:42):
This is necessary. It'd be a good human being because
if you do good, you get good. I can't give
blood because I'm a Type two diabetic, so I can't
give blood. But if I could, out sure wood.

Speaker 8 (55:56):
So in the meantime, we want everybody's first of all,
to follow follow the Instagram for I don't know if
this is hero it's Heroes donate Blood. It's that's for
the actual Music Brings Life organization.

Speaker 10 (56:09):
Just correct, you are correct, jimme start you absolutely correct,
So follow Heroes Donate Blood at Heroes Donate Blood.

Speaker 8 (56:17):
Please check out Music Bringslife dot org. Stream the movie.
That would be great if you could stream the movie
because all the money is you know, going back to.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
How special work it needs to do. You need to
get a medical truck and go around to all the
neighborhoods and get blood. People will give blood if the
truck is there. You give them cookies and some lemonade shit, whatever,
and they'll give you blood. That's how you're going to
get your blood. Go to the people, to get your blood,

(56:45):
well to the people. Go to the people.

Speaker 7 (56:47):
And that's what we're doing. And that's one of the
reason why we're here on this platform.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
With you guys, and thank you for allowing us to
speak and.

Speaker 6 (56:56):
Run.

Speaker 7 (56:56):
I know you you have empathy, I said, you have
the fee. Oh that's that's powerful. Oh that's powerful.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
I see. Thank you, not like they say. You know,
many of my friends are Jewish that I was raised
with black people. My first friend was Sammy, who lived
across the hall from me, and he was black. My
mother used to walk because we were dirty as kids.
My mother would stand me in the kitchen sink and
she washed one leg and the leg was white and

(57:25):
I'd say that's the Ronnie leg. And the leg that
was brown, I'd say that's the Sami leg. That's what
I was raised with color. The family Miriam gave me baths.
Miriam was a black woman. When I came home from
the hospital, my mother, of course couldn't do anything, she
had a baby, but Miriam was there. Miriam gave me.

(57:46):
A black woman gave me my first bath, and then
a Jewish woman gave me my second bath. So I
came from a very ethnic background. To me black people
with people, I never saw color. I learned about color
when I went to school and I heard the other
kids talk about black people. And I used to have fights.
I used to No, I don't like to fight. I

(58:08):
like to hit people that say bad things about my friends.
You can't talk bad about my friends. To this day,
I stick up with my friends. I'm going to show
who you are. That's a Brooklyn thing. And I never
understood what the hatred was for black people. I still
don't understand it. I love listen you know C. C. Pennings,

(58:28):
And finally it happened. I'm a darling friend of mine.
I love an adore her. I have only right, Jimmy,
and I'm not saying it to you. I'm saying it
because I want my fans out there to know that
black people are wonderful people. Their hearts, they're very spirited,
and they're beautiful. NGB is a drop dead looking woman.

(58:51):
She's gorgeous and c. C. Pennings and is magnificent. These
are beautiful people. Johnny Mantis my favorite singer. I love him.
He's a black.

Speaker 7 (59:01):
Actually, do you know Johnny Mathis especially might be too
young to know who Johnny Mathis is?

Speaker 3 (59:05):
Do you know Johnny Mathis is? The name sounds familiar.
Ask Johnny Mathis, Johnny Manthis is the greatest singer in
the world, better than Frank Sinatra. And he's black.

Speaker 7 (59:19):
He's actually so.

Speaker 8 (59:20):
He came out before they keep track of record sales,
but they say that if they would have been keeping track,
he would be the biggest selling artist.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Of all time.

Speaker 7 (59:28):
Well, tag has a voice like something like three hundred
and sixty million. You know what I don't understand.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
What I don't understand is some white people I have
encountered they speak poorly of black people. Oh one moves
next door to me, I'm out of here. I don't
want no blacks next to me. Yet they'll go to
a concert of a black artist. I don't get it.
You don't want a black family next to you, But

(59:55):
yet you'll go to a concert of a black artist.
What the fuck is that all about? So I did
it's time that white people and old people, not only
white people, there are black people who are prejudiced against
black people.

Speaker 7 (01:00:08):
You know, I'll stare start with you, guys.

Speaker 10 (01:00:10):
So I was in Georgia and I went to It
was like seven eight o'clock in the morning, and I
went into the I went into the restaurant and I
see the staff was.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
Was white, was a white staff.

Speaker 10 (01:00:22):
And initially there were thoughts that came when I seen this,
thoughts that came.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
And right after those thoughts came, the other mind came with.

Speaker 10 (01:00:35):
Other thoughts, and those other thoughts went like this, No,
those people are going to be respectful, those people are
going to be kind, and this food is going to
be delicious. The lady came over, the waitress. She was
very respectful, she was kind, and the food was delicious.

(01:00:56):
So I noticed noticed what I did, and I heard
Wayne Dyer. Can you guys hear me?

Speaker 7 (01:01:03):
Well, yes, no, I said, it was in your head though, yes, I.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Heard Wayne Dyer.

Speaker 10 (01:01:07):
And with Wayne Dyer and this new scientist said however
you view the world that's gonna be projected to you
right totally. Instead of me allowing those thoughts that initially came,
I didn't give anything. Because I'm in the South and
it's white people.

Speaker 7 (01:01:25):
I didn't get any I didn't get any light.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Nor energy to those thoughts.

Speaker 10 (01:01:29):
I said, no, No, the food is going to be
delicious and those people are going to be respectful and kind.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
And that was the reality that I wield. Congratulations. The
thing that gave people share in common with black people
is prejudice. All right, gay people, you can't move next
Chimmy and I moved next door to a straight neighborhood.
You know, the first thing they're going to say is
watch your son. Fact gets moved in, I'm going to

(01:01:58):
rape your son. All right. We have that prejudice, just
like black people do. That's why I know what it's
like growing up and having the kids on the block say, oh,
you out like a girl, You're a faggot, don't hang
out with us. I know what that prejudice is. I
know what that pain is. Maybe that's what everybody has
to experience the pain of prejudice, and then they won't

(01:02:22):
be prejudice because it's a nasty.

Speaker 6 (01:02:25):
To move on.

Speaker 7 (01:02:26):
Oh I'm sorry, I have to move on nowhere because
we have like three minutes left.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
Anyway, any time you want to come back, you come back. Okay,
Thank you guys.

Speaker 10 (01:02:34):
Anybody goes stream stream the movie, students the heroes and
sicket sell Warrior story and goes shooting at music Brings
Life dot Org.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:02:44):
So I want you to look up Johnny Mathis be
Claudie in Germany. One of our friends from Germany. Looked
at that piece. The third highest singer, a selling singer
of all time with three hundred and sixty million sales,
and I phenomenon.

Speaker 7 (01:02:56):
You will love his voice.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
I've had the pleasure of meeting him and he is
the most gentle kind man you'll ever meet. He's so soft,
He's very religious, he learned to sing in church. He
is He is probably one of the nicest people I've
ever met. And I'm happy that I've met him three
times because I love him. His music is fabulous.

Speaker 8 (01:03:18):
So again, everybody follow follow Heroes Don't Eat Blood on Instagram,
check out Music Brings Life dot Org.

Speaker 7 (01:03:27):
Stream the movie, and we wish you all the luck
in your again.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
Come back if you need us.

Speaker 7 (01:03:31):
Thank you, guys, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
Hey, you want to know what's so special? You gotta
tell me off camera.

Speaker 7 (01:03:43):
Because I know you're a music artist. I got one minute.
I know you're also a music artist.

Speaker 8 (01:03:46):
Is there are a place to do that people can
go and actually listen to your music because we didn't
really talk about your music because we were.

Speaker 7 (01:03:52):
Promoting the film. But you are a musical artist.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Yes, we have, so we have music.

Speaker 10 (01:03:56):
I have a nice song that maybe Ronald like, also
called Red bi you can that's been that's released right
now on Spotify and Apple and Apple Music's all digital platforms.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
It's called Red Bikini. What's it under the name?

Speaker 7 (01:04:09):
What name are you as your artist? You go by
Special Special?

Speaker 8 (01:04:12):
Yeah, aye, you guys read Bikini by Special you guys
check it out on Spotify or Apple And we wish you.

Speaker 7 (01:04:19):
And your family are very happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
You're coming on the show.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
Thank you, guys.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
Be great, healthy and wise. You're you're a wonderful man.
God will look at you. Thank you. God, definitely we'll
look at you all right. Thanks bye bye, bye bye bye.
What a sweet man. Absolutely, you know when you care
about people like he does. It's so I know what
it's like to take care of ill people.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
When I used to work and the show is hard
and my feet hurt from my heels, and I didn't
like doing what I did because I found it humiliating sometimes.
But I thought, Gee, the money we're earning is gonna
help people that is sick. That's right, and that makes
you feel good. There's nothing better. When you go to
bed at night, you lay in bed tired and you

(01:05:08):
say I did good today. I hope I saved somebody's life.
It's a wonderful feeling.

Speaker 7 (01:05:15):
Absolutely all right. So now we're going to bring on
our next guest, you guys, we're bringing it on early.

Speaker 8 (01:05:21):
Hello, Hello, Hi, hello, oh hello you all right, let
me introduce you first and then we'll get going.

Speaker 7 (01:05:28):
Hey, everybody, Now, we want to welcome to the Jimmy
Star Show with Ron Russell.

Speaker 8 (01:05:33):
Cross Crossover operatic pop star, world renowned crossover artist, Billboard
charting singer Georgia Fumati.

Speaker 7 (01:05:41):
Hello and welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 8 (01:05:45):
This is my cool, outrageous man about town co host
Ron Russell, and this is our dog Estro.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
Bella like Comna Vakos fan you've never study in Italian,
you probably.

Speaker 7 (01:06:13):
Do you understand anything? He said everything everything?

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
I love it?

Speaker 25 (01:06:18):
Okayino and that's Scan and Florence, Toscany see me and no, no,
no Genua.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Italia nice.

Speaker 7 (01:06:33):
So now tell us what you just said in Italy.
Where are you from? Because like I know, I heard
the scar so.

Speaker 21 (01:06:39):
I was born in Toscany, the north beautiful.

Speaker 7 (01:06:43):
Have you ever seen that movie Under the Tuscan Sun
with Diane Ladd? Diane what's her name? I love that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
Cruder none, Lad, anyway, I love that movie. That's a
great movie.

Speaker 7 (01:06:58):
I've never been there, but Ron talks about it often.

Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
So no, you're like the.

Speaker 21 (01:07:09):
Crossover like kind of like and the feminine side.

Speaker 26 (01:07:13):
So I have a classical my aunt in a Milano
and my aunt Erminia Antonasia a una opera singers.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
And the feature it's Diane Lane Lane not dying.

Speaker 7 (01:07:34):
Lad, there we got something.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
It's a very difficult opera Tosca. Yes, but she at
a at a poigrass she was fat. Okay. At the
end of the opera, you know she throws herself off
the castle. Well, my aunt threw herself off the castle
and we heard a boom and everybody in the audience

(01:07:59):
started to I felt so bad. Well, my aunt was
so mad because the mattress, she said, wasn't big enough.
It was a little mattress. So that's the story. But yes,
I came from an opera loving family. My father used
to put opera on and teach me, see, this is
the high, this is this is the you know, the

(01:08:20):
the the emotion of opera. Yes, I am a fan.
Of course. My favorite opera is stood in That. You know,
because of his wonderful passage that he sings no, yes,
became so popular now everybody likes it now.

Speaker 8 (01:08:41):
So one because I don't think that I think when
we call you a crossover artist, I think a lot
of people don't actually know what that means.

Speaker 7 (01:08:50):
Explain to everybody what a crossover artist is.

Speaker 21 (01:08:53):
Yes, I have a classical voice like a soprano, but
I sing everything that touched my heart so on the
very rebel like wild and I just recorded new songs
or movie team. But I have the classical of a
soprano a little bit.

Speaker 7 (01:09:14):
She sings like songs that are on the radio today
in your voice.

Speaker 3 (01:09:19):
Oh you don't sing actual opera, No, you don't sing,
Madam Butterfly.

Speaker 21 (01:09:25):
No, I had the honor to sing with Jose Carreras,
one of the three tenor. I sang with many orchestra
everywhere in the world, but never really.

Speaker 3 (01:09:34):
You could sing Madam Butterfly.

Speaker 21 (01:09:36):
Yes I could, but I am too man to bossy
and I want to decide, depending on the mood and
the day my emotion, and just follow a script. Sometimes
it's a little bit too tight.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
You're a fan of.

Speaker 21 (01:09:52):
Yes, actually was one of the first to cross over,
and it did a lot of opera. He collaborate with
many pop art So let me let me.

Speaker 8 (01:10:01):
Brag for you a little bit, okay, you guys. So,
first of all, she's performed in all kinds of places.
I only wrote some of them down, but she's performed
with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Beijing Symphony
Orchestra in Hong Kong, the Philharmonic Orchestra and Soul, the
Philonian Orchestra, the Ra Symphony in Rome, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra,
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, and a whole bunch more. She's also

(01:10:24):
performed with Michael Bolton, who's one of my absolute favorite singles.
Luciano Pavarotti, Lang Lang, Zukoro and Jose Carreras. With Zukoro
many years ago when I was in England, had a
hit song.

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
With a with a pop star.

Speaker 7 (01:10:38):
It was like a duet. That's how I knew who
he was. I wouldn't probably know who he is.

Speaker 21 (01:10:45):
Yeah, the song was Mizerea and he discovered actually Andre
And it's funny because I come from the same region
and it's a friend of my friend. And this is
how my myself. I started this profession through Zuke, so
he helped.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
Awesome.

Speaker 7 (01:11:01):
I mean, did you have a Lanelane? Have you heard
of Lang Lane?

Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
Yes, You're very beautiful.

Speaker 7 (01:11:08):
Thank you, You're so kind.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
I'm Italian and I believe all the Italians are beautiful,
so I think we're beautiful people. Don't you agree we're
a beautiful people.

Speaker 21 (01:11:19):
I you know, I move away from Italy twenty years
ago to follow my dreams and I miss so much Italy.
I am located in Montreal in Canada, but from here
I travel a lot and next in the next twenty
you don't live, No, I don't because my career brings
me everywhere. And now I have four kids, so I'm

(01:11:41):
a full time mom and I'm a full time singer,
and so my life now is mostly in Canada, but
as soon as I can, I go back to it because.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
My performing in Japan or someplace in December.

Speaker 21 (01:11:55):
I'm performing in Shanghai in China in December.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Okay, China, and just say I knew it was someplace? Okay,
you guys.

Speaker 8 (01:12:03):
So she has a new album that she's recently released.
It's called The Cinema Collection Deluxe Edition. It's her thirteenth
albums songs from movies basically, and songs from Top Gun,
Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio, At of Africa, Kismet, Gladiator, City
of Angels, Breakfast at Tiffany's Artificial Intelligence, Baghdad Cafe, Once

(01:12:27):
Upon a Time in the West, and Shinder's List. So
how did you pick the songs that you decided you
were going to sing? Because this is a great album.

Speaker 21 (01:12:34):
Yes, it's beautiful music because because you know, when you
have this kind of voice, you can just sing only
pop song. You need to have the space and the
time to fly through a melody, and often the melody
from the movie they have this space and you can
really go down like a pop singer and then have

(01:12:54):
like high notes like a soprano. So movie teams are
definitely my favorite. And I'm working on the second collection now,
and there are so many beautiful movie teams that I'm
still discovering and redoing it in my own way.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
Do you have it looked a little bit like Vernon
Lissi beautiful recorded ver.

Speaker 7 (01:13:23):
Beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
Thanks you just much. I'm serious, you look like Vernon Lissay.
You're very beautiful.

Speaker 21 (01:13:32):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
So I'm very proud.

Speaker 8 (01:13:35):
So you're very before we go in, because we're going
to play some of your music because I want everybody
to yes, I want, but you like actually trained, right?
I wrote down that you studied at the Musical Conservatory
and part of Italy. Yes, you're classically trained, like you
didn't just wake up and start singing, You've actually no.

Speaker 21 (01:13:54):
Actually I wake up and I discovered this voice. You
were talking about, this previous wonderful singer that discovered the
voice in the church, and me too was the same.
I was in Italy and I was a very shy girl,
and at sixteen years old, I was near the church
and I heard the choir needed young people, so I
went there and that night I discovered that I had

(01:14:16):
this natural soprano voice. So it was a different path
because my parents wanted a normal job, and I studied
law to try to be normal, but then my heart
needed to sing, and finally I sang a lot in choirs.
But then around twenty to twenty three years old, I

(01:14:36):
started to study, but I didn't want to do opera
because I almost lost my voice after a difficult training,
and my love story was difficult. I was in a
violent relationship and I was not strong enough, and I
was allowing so many people to do everything they want,

(01:14:58):
and finally I needed to find the inside of me,
the strain to be who I was and who I
in my difference like we were talking before, and my
voice was different. I was not like a pop artist,
but I didn't want to be an opera singer. I
just wanted to be myself. I loved any and this

(01:15:19):
kind of relaxing, spiritual music, and I finally found the
courage to follow my nature. And I was studied at
the conservatory, but I wanted to do my music and
I started with some composition and finally I found somebody
in Canada that believed in myself. So I moved away

(01:15:39):
from Italy. I arrived in Canada and I studied this
adventure twenty one years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
That was twenty one.

Speaker 7 (01:15:48):
Yeah, you don't look old enough to have four children.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
And twenty one years old.

Speaker 7 (01:15:53):
Yeah, just A said, no, I'm almost true.

Speaker 3 (01:15:58):
You know, child, you know you're married a Canadian.

Speaker 21 (01:16:02):
I married an Italian Canadian. An Italian got through you,
and then I had my first two biological children. Then
I adopted in China my third girl, and my fourth
boy is a foster foster family boy, but he's with

(01:16:22):
us from when he was two days old and we
are starting the process of adoption.

Speaker 7 (01:16:27):
So for you, I'm adopted, So I think adopted.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
So now one question, one question, do you cook?

Speaker 21 (01:16:39):
Yes, but the essential I'm not. I mean every Italian
knows how to cook. I mean pasta is like how
to married.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
That's why I said, you know he loves pasta because
I cooked. I learned from my grandmother.

Speaker 21 (01:16:55):
Yes, of course, but my mom and my sisters are
very good chefs, so you know, sometimes it's intimidating. So
my talent is really in the voice.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
Like Italian food. Did you know in America it's the
second food after their native food. People love pasta and pizza.
Pizza here in America is like phenomenal. The pizza is
not good in California, New York.

Speaker 7 (01:17:23):
New York pizza is good, but California pizza is not good.
It's a real exiting the water.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
The water, you know, the water makes a big difference.

Speaker 7 (01:17:31):
So wait, we're gonna play a video.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
I think you're very sweet. I like her, she's my friend.

Speaker 7 (01:17:35):
Yes, so hold on, we're gonna play it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
What I want you to do?

Speaker 8 (01:17:38):
So I actually took the Georgia Fumanti Over the Rainbow
video and sent it to our engineer. So I want
you to introduce it one after she introduces it. You
play you just hang on and we'll be right back.
But you introduce it for us.

Speaker 21 (01:17:53):
It's wonderful over the Rainbow. And I read read we
did it with all our herd. That's this wonderful, magical song,
and we play with colors and nature just too to
understand that this place over the rainbow is so close
to our reality.

Speaker 7 (01:18:11):
Doctor Enjoy Everybody Over the Rainbow by Georgia Fuma.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
When all the world is a.

Speaker 27 (01:18:27):
Whole bless jumble and the rain drops lumbos a.

Speaker 4 (01:18:38):
Much chic one all the boss narking up the skyway.
There's a rainbow, a highway to be fun.

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
In a.

Speaker 24 (01:18:58):
Window to a place behind this sne just to step
out sooner, wait.

Speaker 9 (01:19:38):
Fallous, very head of songs, sen a long.

Speaker 6 (01:19:58):
More.

Speaker 3 (01:20:01):
The skin is.

Speaker 6 (01:20:18):
Drain.

Speaker 9 (01:20:20):
That to the.

Speaker 4 (01:20:23):
Drain really to come true.

Speaker 24 (01:20:32):
Someday I wish an as father and wake.

Speaker 4 (01:20:37):
Up while the colds our father be.

Speaker 24 (01:20:48):
What troubles smelt like? Level drolls ho Chisle's school.

Speaker 4 (01:21:34):
So then why can't it's not collet loop slow?

Speaker 16 (01:21:49):
We own the rag?

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
Yeah, Brava, brava, brava. Are you have a better voice
than Selingio? Oh? Thank you? Alto It's higher and it's
like a whistle. It's clean, clean voice. You know what
that means? Clean?

Speaker 7 (01:22:47):
Thanks, clean, Yeah, from my agent.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
To hear you sing opera, I love it. If you
were singing opera and California, I would go imagine what
you would do with let's say love a a I
can I can.

Speaker 21 (01:23:08):
Hear you doing Puccini's definitely a beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:23:13):
Pini, beautiful, beautiful voice. Thank you. So verybody is agreeing
with us in the chat room. Yeah, they all love it.

Speaker 7 (01:23:20):
You can sing they say, it comes my soul. It's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:23:24):
Don't want don't smoke you don't smoke no, because beautiful, beauty.
You sound out like an angel. Thank you angela.

Speaker 7 (01:23:36):
So what did you think of when Michael Bolton did
his opera album?

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
When you're saying opera, what.

Speaker 21 (01:23:42):
Did you so?

Speaker 7 (01:23:42):
I love Michael Bolton. I know a lot of people
either like him or don't like him, but I like
him very very much. I love him as a beautiful voice.

Speaker 21 (01:23:52):
And when I met him and I had the chance
to sing with him, we were in London at the
Royal Albertol and he was so kind.

Speaker 7 (01:23:59):
I was in the beginning of my career. He was
so kind and he.

Speaker 21 (01:24:03):
Told me beautiful things about my voice. He was really
a beautiful you can see in his eyes. He was
really a beautiful human being, a part of a wonderful artist.

Speaker 7 (01:24:12):
I like love him.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
I I really hung up on this opera thing. You know,
why is it with the voice like that? Why the
hell wouldn't you want to sing?

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (01:24:25):
As I told him a little bit wild in a
way that I need to design many things and when
you are in an opera, you really need to follow
my instrument.

Speaker 3 (01:24:36):
Harder to become famous in opera, and it is in
a singing ballads like Over the Rainbow is easy because
everybody enjoys it, but opera it's only a certain people.
I know my aunt, she really was an opera singer.
Don't know how many years she sang with Mario del Monico,

(01:24:56):
So that's how good my aunt was. But she also sang.
She used to sing, I remember, I wish I could
remember the song. I used to ask of sing now blue,
deep into the blue feeling she just started. I still

(01:25:18):
love that because I was in Italy at that time,
fifty seven. I lived in Italy for a year.

Speaker 8 (01:25:25):
So what kind of music did you listen to them
when you were like sixteen and seventeen? Like, what kind
of music were you listening to?

Speaker 21 (01:25:32):
Surely I was a very different teenager, but I was
in love with the Elton John and Stevie Wonder and
John Barbara's Trees, and you know these melodies, they were
so beautiful, and Stevie Wonder is such a sensitive artist.
I was really attracted by sensitive artists in general. And

(01:25:53):
I had a grandmother, the only grandmother I met, the
one that she was taking care of me. That she
loved to sing, and her way to make me sleep
and make me forgive about the nightmares was taking me
in her arms and singing for me. So it was
a special bond and a special moment of love that

(01:26:16):
now I when I discover my voice, and now after
so many years, I really always pray to recreate that
feeling of comfort and lullaby for people everywhere in the world,
for your children.

Speaker 7 (01:26:30):
Do you sing your kids to sleep at night?

Speaker 21 (01:26:32):
Yes, but not too much.

Speaker 7 (01:26:34):
They heard many concerts they heard.

Speaker 21 (01:26:37):
But when I am in the house, I'm.

Speaker 7 (01:26:39):
The mom really, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
Italians love to sing. If you go to a restaurant
in general, anywhere wrong and there's somebody in the kitchen singing.
Italians sing in the street Venice, they sing in the
gondolos and country of singing, yes, way of singing. It's
really like Italian.

Speaker 7 (01:27:02):
Have you recorded any Elton John songs as John?

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:27:06):
We did the Circle of Life of course, the next
album and is so few.

Speaker 7 (01:27:12):
Oh good, Okay, that's exciting.

Speaker 3 (01:27:14):
You know. I love being centoiento Italiano. Like people say
to me, but you're American, I say no, I'm an
Italian America. But lasango alasna Italiano, So if I was
in Italy, I'd be Italian, not American. So people get

(01:27:38):
they get confused with that. So I'm it Americano's beautiful,
beautiful Italians and beautiful people. I love every one of them.
Even then, did you have.

Speaker 8 (01:27:52):
Any kind of a fear like fear because you said,
you know when you first came on that you were shy.

Speaker 7 (01:28:00):
So the first time you sang a solo, you know,
was there a big fear or did you just do
it and it was easy?

Speaker 10 (01:28:05):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (01:28:06):
I mean, I'm my personality is really not the one
I was singer. But when I go on stage, something
happened and I transform myself because I become so happy
actually singing is I become like a little girl and
my heart really just want to In the beginning, I'm afraid,
but then I just want to share with the people

(01:28:26):
what I feel. So of course in the last few
moments before going on stage, I have doubts and say
why I'm here.

Speaker 3 (01:28:34):
I want to be here.

Speaker 7 (01:28:35):
I want to go home every time.

Speaker 21 (01:28:39):
But then as soon as the music start and the
first notes are going, and I also have a lot
of trust in my voice. I'm very lucky because she
never left me and it's very natural for me to sing,
and so I was very lucky she never left me.
But you know, it's my mind the problem, the mind
that's telling me, no, go home.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
I will not. With a voice like yours, you never
have to be shy or afraid to go on the
stage because you know what you're doing. You know once
you're there, yeah, is going to make everybody happy. You
know what a good singer. If you stink, then you're
worried about performance because you know you're gonna bomb.

Speaker 1 (01:29:21):
And I know that.

Speaker 21 (01:29:22):
It's more it's more about the person. I trust, the singer,
but it's more like this little voice that tells me
why people need to be interested in Georgia.

Speaker 7 (01:29:31):
So it's more the person, the little girl inside of
me that's still.

Speaker 3 (01:29:35):
I think you're very chilling. You're a very woman and
very beautiful and very gracious and very lovely. So I
think that shows on the stage.

Speaker 21 (01:29:46):
It's a it's a journey. It's a journey that I
am through this voice.

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
That the whole package actor. So when I work, it's
everything that makes the movie good. My move voice, my acting,
it's everything. And it's the same thing with you. When
you come on the stage, we see a beautiful woman
who's Alegarte, who's very, very sophisticated, and then when she

(01:30:12):
could sing like you do, it's only bravo, thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:30:16):
So do you have a favorite song, like a go
to song that's like your favorite song to sing?

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
And of all the songs you've done.

Speaker 21 (01:30:24):
Well, definitely the first one and I'm still singing it
after so many years. Is Anny Morricone like Once upon
a Time in the West, These kind of songs from
the great composer Italian composer and Maricona that he did,
these wonderful themes like for so many iconic movie and

(01:30:45):
his way of writing music was really perfect for this
kind of voice because it was going low but then
he was flying. Definitely, that is one of my favorite
and his Italian roots, and I work with him in
the past and it was such an inspiration, such a

(01:31:05):
masstro that really taught me a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:31:09):
So you were lucky. You're a family that was behind you,
supporting you. Noma, you just speaking up a leg.

Speaker 21 (01:31:25):
They were too afraid about me believing in this dream.

Speaker 3 (01:31:29):
Did they believe that they didn't believe in you?

Speaker 21 (01:31:32):
No, because they were too afraid, and they knew, they
knew how difficult was this, profet.

Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
I heard that they heard your voice and they didn't
believe you were great in the beginning.

Speaker 9 (01:31:43):
Now it was.

Speaker 21 (01:31:48):
That's why I studied law and I tried to become
a normal lawyer.

Speaker 3 (01:31:52):
But finally, if I was your brother, I would have said,
my god, sister, you got some voice. Are you serious?
You have a voice better than Barbara Streisand.

Speaker 7 (01:32:07):
I need your number when I am feeling down. I
need to call it. Your husband has it.

Speaker 8 (01:32:15):
A number to call, a number to call when I'm
feeling down, because you're like saying.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Listen, I
don't lie. I tell the truth. If you were terrible,
I would say, it's nice meeting you. Oh you're a singer.
Oh that's nice. Nice George, you you're beautiful. Listen. I'm gay,

(01:32:42):
so I'm not hitting on you. I'm not flirting with you.
I'm telling you the truth. You're beautiful. You're an Italian.
You're a beautiful Italian. He loves Italian. I'm my people
two beautiful daughters too, and they're Italian more than you,
more than you. Yes, they go to Italy all the time.

(01:33:03):
If they stay with my cousins in Genoa, they spak Italian,
they cook Italian. My waters are more Italian than you, really,
there are.

Speaker 21 (01:33:14):
I spent so many summer near Genova, in Chiquet, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:33:19):
Yeah, yeah, well we've been. My grandmother was in Pegi
forty Genova, but Chta. But then we have a house
up in Costello do Caiero. Wow, we have a beautiful
house up there, Yeah, with vineyards, wine, vineyards and it's heaven.

(01:33:40):
When I got, I got, I keep telling Jimmy, I
have to bring him to Italy. When he sees where
we come from, he's gonna want to live there, exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:33:48):
I think so.

Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
Right underwater my grandmother's apartment. You looked on at a balcony.
You saw the war, the Mediterranean. The water is right there,
general beautiful. The food is what food?

Speaker 4 (01:34:04):
The food?

Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
I know, I know.

Speaker 21 (01:34:06):
I was there last summer.

Speaker 7 (01:34:08):
I sang there and I visited my mother and my sister.

Speaker 6 (01:34:11):
And I love it.

Speaker 7 (01:34:14):
Are they happy with your decision now that you've done
very well?

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (01:34:18):
Yes and no, because I'm far and yes, you.

Speaker 3 (01:34:23):
Italian stick together, stay all your family, stay together.

Speaker 21 (01:34:26):
Oh yeah, when I left, I was twenty seven and
it was a big shock, especially for other Now it's
a heart break.

Speaker 3 (01:34:34):
It's a heartbreak.

Speaker 8 (01:34:35):
So follow George on Instagram. She's at Georgia Fulmonty. Her
website is Georgiafumonty dot com.

Speaker 7 (01:34:41):
G I O R G I A FU M A
N t I dot com.

Speaker 8 (01:34:45):
I want to play one more song for everybody, So hey,
I'm yeah. So this one, this one is going to
be close to your heart. I picked it out because
it's viral on YouTube, so many views on it. So
you introduce it for us, and then one you play
it and then we'll be right back.

Speaker 21 (01:34:58):
Yes, this one is an original song and I wrote
the lyrics and it's just the music is like a
beautiful almost jazz feeling and I received this beautiful melody
and we did this version. It's a very different song
once again, but I love the lyrics, especially just just

(01:35:18):
say just close, be close to your.

Speaker 5 (01:35:20):
Heart bread and gives you the fun.

Speaker 4 (01:35:51):
True come, be.

Speaker 17 (01:35:55):
Close to your alms.

Speaker 4 (01:36:03):
Kind and brings your compassion to understand.

Speaker 17 (01:36:13):
Let me be close to your father. Love the pleas unite.

Speaker 4 (01:36:27):
You can to your home. You know, the sunshine on
the morning in your home never nose to your hall,

(01:36:51):
you know an it shows you the less that you

(01:37:16):
all are.

Speaker 17 (01:37:19):
We close to your fall.

Speaker 4 (01:37:26):
This fall, and since you switch more fall.

Speaker 17 (01:37:34):
Gain every week, shall training be close to your colla.

Speaker 4 (01:37:44):
Level that len me see you.

Speaker 3 (01:37:52):
Go to your heart.

Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
Shine, going for Christmason, your hollow fat nost to your home.
You say, yay, that was.

Speaker 7 (01:39:37):
Beautiful, What a beautiful original song.

Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
You are a tranquilizer.

Speaker 7 (01:39:42):
Oh that's what they wrote in the chat room too.

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
Of course, the fellow, the man that was on the
show before you today, was here about a disease, and
I got upset with the politics of nobody's curing diseases.
So I was very upset, and I said to Jimmy,
I hope I'm not going to be nerve you angry
when you come on. Well after hearing you sing, I

(01:40:07):
am so tranquil absolutely like I had three bottles of wine.
I'm so crazy about your voice. People are going to think, oh,
he's saying that because he's Italian and she's Italian. I'm not.
You have a voice, my dear. Your voice is like

(01:40:28):
an angel. When you sing, it.

Speaker 7 (01:40:30):
Just makes you.

Speaker 21 (01:40:34):
Like my grandmother did with me.

Speaker 3 (01:40:37):
Yes, answer me a question, honestly, Freda in Canada top
of Freda.

Speaker 21 (01:40:45):
No, yeah, no, it's annoying and.

Speaker 3 (01:40:49):
An Italian in Canada is not good. I know it's
too cold. I know you got to move to Florida,
and you.

Speaker 7 (01:40:59):
Know, yes, you're right.

Speaker 21 (01:41:02):
Now, I need to wait a little bit that my
kids grew up a little bit, and then yes, do
they travel with you? Yes, now we will go to
Shanghai and we leave the six of us, me and
my husband and.

Speaker 7 (01:41:16):
The four kids.

Speaker 3 (01:41:17):
That's awesome.

Speaker 21 (01:41:18):
That's three musicians plus the sound engineer. Yes, I'm not
able to leave them.

Speaker 3 (01:41:24):
I can't. That's good.

Speaker 7 (01:41:26):
You don't leave them when I think that's when when
an Italian.

Speaker 3 (01:41:30):
When Italian children are young, they learn three things from
their grandmother. Lave familia, la familia, la familias.

Speaker 21 (01:41:40):
I to my mom when I was little, she was
working so much and I couldn't see her laugh. And
so when I had my kids, I said, music will
never remove me, will add to my heart, will never remove.

Speaker 7 (01:41:53):
That's why.

Speaker 21 (01:41:54):
Also I choose this kind of style and career because
I am the boss of myself. My husband is my manager,
so I can decide a lot. And I wanted to
be present for my kids, and I have four, and
I can't be without them there too.

Speaker 3 (01:42:12):
My daughter just moved to Pennsylvania, and guess what, I'm
selling our house and we're going to move to Florida
because it's close to Pennsylvania, a closer so I can
go up and down and visit her.

Speaker 21 (01:42:28):
I can do without my children, I can't exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:42:32):
I bring them everywhere they were too.

Speaker 21 (01:42:35):
They were in Italy, in China, they were to USA,
they were Mexico, they were in Argentina with me. I'm
really lucky because I will love that too.

Speaker 3 (01:42:45):
How old are they?

Speaker 7 (01:42:46):
Sixteen?

Speaker 21 (01:42:47):
The first one ten, seven and four.

Speaker 8 (01:42:51):
That's my father worked for Delta Airlines, so when I
was we weren't rich, but we got to fly for free.
So we traveled all the world as a kid. And
it opens up your eyes for your children, you know,
to have so much more worldly.

Speaker 7 (01:43:04):
Experience as they're growing up, will be something on that
yet never forget it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:08):
When I was young, they sent me to Italy. When
I was in Italy, I went to Switzerland, Germany, France,
all over Europe, you know, so I had an education
of what other people customs, food was and I did
the same for my daughters. They go to Europe all
the time. Yeah, because you have to be international just

(01:43:31):
be American. How boring is it to be American? What
Coca cola and Hamburger. There's more life than coca cola
and Hamburger.

Speaker 21 (01:43:40):
They're lucky because they speak already Italian and English and
they go to a French school so much younger. She
speaks for languages.

Speaker 7 (01:43:48):
And the second one. Do any of them have the
singing gene?

Speaker 21 (01:43:54):
My second daughter, yes, I did that. Actually a Christmas
song with her that is available on YouTube and on Spotify.
La Premier Noelle is in French. She has a pretty voice.
My first one, she's a dancer, and the little too.
They just like to listen for now and we'll see

(01:44:16):
what there is the talent. They just want that they
will find their own special talent, no matter whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
Yes, well they have a mother who will encourage them.
And that's important.

Speaker 7 (01:44:28):
Yeah, to find their own way. You know, every one
of us as a special.

Speaker 3 (01:44:32):
When I was young, you know, my mother actress, Okay,
back in the nineteen twenties. So when she said, when
I said to her, mom, I'm going to be an actor,
and she said to me oh yeah, right, Hollywood's just
waiting for you.

Speaker 26 (01:44:48):
Thought.

Speaker 3 (01:44:48):
I was shocked because I thought that she, being an
ex actress, would want me to be an actor. But
because she failed, she married my father. Jenna Vee is.

Speaker 7 (01:45:00):
That time woman. I couldn't do no.

Speaker 3 (01:45:05):
Kushia concui genty so.

Speaker 7 (01:45:10):
Exactly, I'm actually z it boy.

Speaker 3 (01:45:13):
My mother couldn't work as an actress because all actresses
were exactly you know, that's the stupid Italian, the old old,
stupid mentality. So she, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:45:29):
I's also older, like like his when his grandmother. So
I don't know how old do you think Ron is?
But he's eighty four. Yeah, he's still work all the time.
He just shot a movie. He's got a movie coming
out in a couple of weeks. Yorks all the time
between the show movies, and so he's so like a Vergil.

Speaker 21 (01:45:52):
Looked like.

Speaker 8 (01:45:55):
Everybody's like sixty something. So it's working perfect, but he's
and he's still working. But I also think that's one
of the things that keeps him young.

Speaker 7 (01:46:02):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:46:03):
He enjoys it. Getting old is in the head. All
my friends are dead and I have one friend left
from when I was young. Want Mike Greco, another Italian,
and all my other friends have died because they didn't
stay young. They all became old. And you can't be old.

(01:46:28):
You know that you have to stay like you. You'll
be young forever. You're like me. I tell the type,
I could tell the personality. Women your age in Italy
look like old ladies, right, the truth. But your girlfriends
that you went to school, you look very young. You

(01:46:51):
know you look young. Even in your video you look young.
You don't know what I think you are. I think
of your age. I don't think so. But if you'll go,
if you look at friends, they don't look as good.
I know I have friends that don't. Before they died,
they didn't look like me, like old people.

Speaker 21 (01:47:14):
Your passion and.

Speaker 3 (01:47:15):
That that's right.

Speaker 8 (01:47:16):
You got to do your passion and enjoy it. So
so we have two minutes. So you guys, this is
Georgia Flamanty. You can find her on Instagram g I
O R G I A f U M A N
t I.

Speaker 3 (01:47:28):
If you go to.

Speaker 8 (01:47:28):
Georgia Framonti dot com you can find out about all
her albums. She has thirteen of them. Please, you know,
go and listen stream them. I'm sure They're all on Spotify.
The newest album is called Cinema Collection Deluxe Edition. Again,
it has he does have the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow,
but it's got a whole bunch of other great songs.

Speaker 7 (01:47:47):
She even sings the song from Breakfast to Tiffany's Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:47:51):
Yes, I Love that.

Speaker 7 (01:47:53):
That's one of his favorites in Georgia, The Truth.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
Please, if you're coming to California to perform in the
Los Angeles area, please contact us and let us know.
Definitely come and hear you. Definitely, I promise you all
be there. I love to hear your show. I would love,
love love to see your show.

Speaker 8 (01:48:16):
And we know that so you're very popular in like
China and Korea, China, So California wantsh you all the
best going to China on your next trip with you
and your family. We hope you guys have a wonderful
I don't know if you guys celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada.

Speaker 21 (01:48:32):
We did it in October.

Speaker 8 (01:48:34):
Yeah, in October, that's what I thought, so so happy
Thanksgiving back then. We wish you a very merry Christmas
and a successful, wonderful concert when you go to China.
We want to thank you for coming on the show.
You've been a great guest. You're a true talent, lovely,
lovely singer, lovely person.

Speaker 3 (01:48:51):
Thank you. It was a pleasure.

Speaker 7 (01:48:57):
Thank you so much, and all the best to you
and your family for the holidays. Same to you.

Speaker 3 (01:49:02):
Okay, bye bye bye bye.

Speaker 8 (01:49:04):
Yeah, everybody, So, we want to thank everybody for tuning
in for our show today with our great guests King
and Special Bristol and Georgia Fumanti.

Speaker 7 (01:49:12):
It was a fun show.

Speaker 8 (01:49:14):
We hope everybody has a wonderful Thanksgiving because Thanksgiving is Yeah,
Happy Thanksgiving, have a great Thanksgiving and we'll see you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:49:22):
Listen, listen, after you eat that big meal, go for
a walk. Okay, so you don't get happy, you have
to digest.

Speaker 8 (01:49:30):
Okay, Happy Thanksgiving, my everybody, thanks so much, See you
next week.

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