Pablo Torre

Oh, yeah.

I mean, even into the turn of the 20th century, the man regarded as the world's first ever international recording star was an opera singer named Enrico Caruso, who was not a castrato, we should definitely point out here, but he was paid extraordinarily handsomely to use his physical gifts

The first time

that the New York Times writes about you.

It's 1996.

You're doing The Gondoliers, I believe.

Oh my gosh, yeah, okay.

And here's the quote.

But the true heir turned out to be the Duke's strapping attendant, strapping attendant to your physical description just now, winningly played by the bright-voiced tenor, Brandon Jovanovich, whose stiff demeanor was a refreshing contrast to some of the mugging going on around him.

And again, you've now typecast yourself as the big American oaf.

Right.

But you're on these stages and you're like infiltrating this company, this culture and the clime.

That was 96, 30 years ago.

Jeez Louise.

How do you describe the clime?

What was the sort of, I can't believe this is happening to me moment?

On player podcasts in sports, what was your welcome to the league moment?

Brandon Jovanovic, what was your welcome to opera moment?

Much like Tom Brady filling in for Drew Bledsoe.

That's right.