WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.360 From workhouse connect in aj Benza fame. He'd like to be walked on a 2 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:12.080 leash and play really dirty, kinky sex games. He's the guy put the 3 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:17.440 cock in the Peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey everybody, aj Benzy 4 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:22.480 here with fame as a bitch. This is your daily Unfiltered podcast from Monday, 5 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:27.359 April eighteenth, twenty twenty two. And it's also your free show. 6 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:34.520 Yes that's right. I'm treating you freebee people to a Patreon show because today, 7 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:38.240 being Easter, Joey's got a bunch of stuff to do with his two 8 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:43.200 little girls and his wife and my family out in Chicago. I've got stuff 9 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:47.240 to do. I've got a politics as a bitch that's going to appear tomorrow 10 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:52.399 at some point. And I just said, you know what, I'm Catholic. 11 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:59.520 Why wouldn't I make this show today the pinnacle of Catholicism between Christmas and 12 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:03.239 Easter. It doesn't get bigger than that. Allow me to do one show 13 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:07.239 for both of you, and maybe you folks on the free end of things 14 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:11.519 will go. You know what I think I should I think I should be 15 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:17.159 a patron. Wouldn't that be great? So with that said, let me 16 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:21.799 take you on a bit of a journey. Here. I am in Burbank, 17 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:25.799 staying at a motel, which I've gotten to like quite a bit. 18 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:32.680 I hated to stay at the At the motel when there's one bed, which 19 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:36.519 is fine for me and Tutsie, but when the kids come in then I 20 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:42.000 need a double bed, and I need room one eleven where we can throw 21 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:47.840 the fake backboard and basket on the bed and my son Rocco can go to 22 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:52.040 town and play on a little ten foot area and we can have one on 23 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:53.640 one games like when he was a baby. Well I'm not a baby but 24 00:01:53.719 --> 00:02:00.079 a five year old. So between the single bedroom and the double bedroom, 25 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:07.120 I bounce around like some kind of a rat. And things could be worse, 26 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:08.560 you know. I mean things could be better, of course, But 27 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:13.840 I like where I'm at. It suits its purpose, and my kids are 28 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:17.560 happy, and I saw them for three days and i'll see them later today 29 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:23.439 for Easter. But enough about that. I take a lot of walks with 30 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:28.240 my dog, Tutsie, as you guys know, and a lot of walks, 31 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:31.319 and now that she's in heat, her walks consist of her walking very 32 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:38.280 slowly and let's just say putting some spray down at least ten or twelve different 33 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:44.080 times on different lawns. What have you? Wants to meet a man, 34 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:49.319 obviously, But I take these walks with Tutsie. I'm in a beautiful neighborhood, 35 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.840 by the way, in Burbank. There are houses, many of them 36 00:02:53.879 --> 00:03:01.840 are craftsman homes with lush gardens and flower beds and stately sycamore trees. Near 37 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:08.520 the sidewalk, there's jacaranda trees which are beautiful, which bloom purple, which 38 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:13.919 will knock your socks off when you turn a corner and see these beautiful purple 39 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:17.560 blooms. But they're giant trees. They've got to be a hundred years old 40 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:23.800 or more. And then there are homes with no front lawns at all, 41 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:30.360 just rocks and dozens and dozens of succulents and cacti and bloom. There's even 42 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:38.400 a wacky home where the entire front is comprised of square clay pots that have 43 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:44.319 plants in them. Some have wooden chips in them, some have black rocks 44 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:51.280 and even volcanic volcanic volcanic type material. I don't know. There's some people 45 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.599 who do a lot of artsy fartsy things with their lawns. But it's a 46 00:03:54.719 --> 00:04:00.520 very nice walk. It's the only time when I don't rush toots you to 47 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:03.879 get home, because it's calming, to be honest. And one of the 48 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:10.039 houses has one of those things where it's like a glass I don't know what 49 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:15.120 you call it, a glass cabinet that contains all sorts of books that people 50 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:17.560 are encouraged to take. You know, you take them, you read them, 51 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:23.040 you return it back into the into the cabinet. I saw a few 52 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:26.639 of those in Buffalo Grove and I was out with Rosalie, but I don't 53 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:30.480 see many of them out here in La So I stopped to look at the 54 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:36.439 books that were available in this one cabinet around the corner from the hotel at 55 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:42.000 some house, and I think it's a great thing for people to do, 56 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:46.240 you know, God knows. Whenever I've moved from house to house or apartment 57 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:50.480 to apartment, the worst part of moving is placing all of my I don't 58 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:58.560 know, two hundred and fifty books in boxes. Those boxes become so goddamn 59 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:03.000 heavy nobody can move but me. But I just can't find it in me 60 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:08.639 to toss away a book that I thoroughly enjoyed at one point in my life. 61 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:14.800 Not to mention, there are many books that I read every few years, 62 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:17.040 Like I read Catch Her in the Eye. Every year I have to. 63 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:21.800 I read Feast of Snakes. I read Fat Kid Saved the World, 64 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:30.720 to name a few. One day I saw the incredible book called Damage in 65 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.920 one of those glass thing of a jigs and I grabbed it. Now back 66 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:40.360 in nineteen ninety two when this book came out. This book is written by 67 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:46.120 Josephine Hart. It is a killer of a book. It's about a middle 68 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:51.160 aged man who succumbs to his passion over a woman who happens to be his 69 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:57.720 son's fiance. Oh, it's a killer. They made a movie out of 70 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:00.879 it. Forget the movie, Jeremy Iron, I think Juliet Minosh. Forget 71 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:05.759 the movie. Read the book now. Maybe because I was going through my 72 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:11.639 first divorce back then, I don't know, but it's such a goddamn great 73 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:17.439 book. But anyhow, these little book drops can be like landing on a 74 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:24.319 garage shale where people don't know the value of what they're giving away for pennies 75 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:29.160 or in this case, for free. So this morning, Easter morning, 76 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:35.519 I come across the book Permanent Midnight. Now, this is a killer book 77 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:43.560 written by Jerry Stall Stahl and a matter what you're going through, you need 78 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:47.480 to read this. You will feel better about your life. Permanent Midnight. 79 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:51.519 And by the way, Jerry Stall's byline when I was younger used to appear 80 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:58.199 everywhere from La Style to The Village Voice, to Esquire to Hustler. He 81 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:03.040 was a prolific writer and still can be. He wrote scripts, He wrote 82 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:10.000 Cafe Flesh, he wrote Doctor Klagari. He banged out shows for TV mega 83 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:15.120 hits like Moonlighting and Twin Peaks and thirty something. We're talking prolific writer. 84 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:21.759 This guy was making five thousand dollars a week. He was shooting six thousand 85 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:27.720 dollars a week of Heroin into his arms. Yeah. He was writing on 86 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:32.600 the TV show ALF. Remember ALF, the that was that an Extra Terrestrial 87 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:36.399 I never watched ALF. I watched like two episodes. I found it stupid, 88 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:42.519 but was out fucking et kind of person who landed on Earth whatever it 89 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.439 was. Jerry Stole was writing on ALF, making five grand a week, 90 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:50.519 shooting six grand a week up up his arm in Heroin, and even though 91 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:55.519 he was living in a luxurious home in Los Angeles. His drug habit found 92 00:07:55.600 --> 00:08:01.879 him, you know, it found him knocking around hillacious nameborhoods in LA just 93 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:07.680 so he could finance his heroin habit. And then the habit eventually ruined his 94 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:13.319 TV writing career and nearly took his life away until he finally kicked and he 95 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:20.680 emerged clean. But Permanent. Midnight is a get this book. It is 96 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.800 a strung out confessional that sounds as if it could have been written by Lenny 97 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:33.000 Bruce or William mouse Burrows. And it details his slide into the opiate abyss 98 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:39.559 and how he scratched and clawed his way back into the light. It's a 99 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:46.240 remarkable book and definitely a Hollywood memoir for sure. Don't bother what the movie 100 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:50.600 Ben Stiller made. Just read the book, Okay, just like damage, 101 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.279 Read the book, don't look at the movie, So Matt, the book 102 00:08:54.399 --> 00:09:00.320 is a masterpiece. The movies are not masterpieces. But that's why what I 103 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:07.000 saw this book behind the glass on this house with the manicured lawn, I 104 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:13.559 had to take it. And since my copy is buried somewhere in the abyss 105 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:18.080 of public storage, I don't intend on ever returning this book. Back to 106 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:24.200 the place behind the glass cabinet of that beautiful craftsman home with the impeccable front 107 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:28.919 yard of tidy flowers and rocks and hummingbird feeders. That book is mine. 108 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:33.360 Now, I'm sorry, but I flipped a few chapters in while I was 109 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:37.919 standing there and took he was trying to do her number one and number two, 110 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:43.159 and man, it brought back some memories. You know, once I 111 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:48.399 read this book, I couldn't wait for a chance to actually meet Jerry Stall, 112 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:52.559 because I knew when I read his book, I knew I had to 113 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.759 write a book like this one day. I didn't want the heroin habit, 114 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:58.840 don't get me wrong, but I knew I had to write a book that 115 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:03.080 was as raw and honest as he was in this book. And I mean, 116 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:07.919 just for a little background, Jerry Stall, among other things, was 117 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:11.519 his staff writer, like I said on the TV show Out, and there 118 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:18.720 are passages where he's making incredible money as a writer on Network TV, and 119 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:24.799 he's got a girlfriend who's pregnant with his firstborn. Everything in life is wonderful, 120 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:28.720 right network TV job, You're making a fortune, your girlfriend's pregnant with 121 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:33.879 your baby, Except for the fact that he's shooting thousands of dollars of heroin 122 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:39.039 into his arm and feet every week just so he can function and keep turning 123 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:46.000 out dialogue for this ridiculous TV show. And there's a horrifyingly honest story in 124 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:50.679 the book where right before his girlfriend is giving birth, he's got a run 125 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:54.600 in the bathroom and shoot up. He has to leave the scene where he's 126 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:00.840 championing his girlfriend on to give birth to their baby. He's got a run 127 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:05.080 out and shoot some dope. It's awful, and he comes back. He's 128 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:09.080 got a roll of sleeves down so the nurses or doctors don't see the blood 129 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:15.320 running down his arm. And there are stories about him shooting up and almost 130 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:20.279 Odine on the Alf set, locking himself in the bathroom and passing out, 131 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:26.519 only to find the actor who played alf banging on the door to wake him. 132 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:28.320 He didn't know if he was tripping out or if that was real life. 133 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:35.759 So I did finally meet Jerry Stole once and we spoke briefly, and 134 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.399 like I'll get to at the end of this podcast, I didn't ask for 135 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:43.039 an autograph. I didn't do all that crap. I just wanted to talk 136 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.279 to him. I just want to have a moment with him. I think 137 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:50.799 that whatever celebrity you're meeting, athlete, actor, it doesn't matter. I 138 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:56.919 think they appreciate that more than the macinations of here's a piece of paper, 139 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:01.320 Do you have a pen? Can you write your autograph down? People generally 140 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:09.240 don't like that. It's just it's not natural. And I spoke to him, 141 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:11.240 and I got to the root of the matter, which is so much 142 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:16.320 more valuable than a goddamn autograph on a little piece of paper. And I 143 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:20.240 remember he told me when he wrote the book Permanent Midnight, he banged out 144 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:28.440 eighteen hundred pages a few information. Eighteen hundred pages to anyone who doesn't write, 145 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:35.000 eighteen hundred pages is enough for four books. He didn't have a computer 146 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:39.000 when he wrote that masterpiece. But he's such an interesting guy it's crazy. 147 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:43.519 After Ben Stiller optioned the book and played Jerry in the movie, the two 148 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:48.799 became best friends. Stiller had him as his best man when he got married, 149 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:52.000 flew him out to Hawaii. He had to buy him a nice suit 150 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:56.320 too, because Jerry couldn't afford one. He's also written a book called Happy 151 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:01.320 Mutant Baby Pills, and he and still or turned that into a TV show 152 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:07.559 called If Swelling Persists. It didn't make it. It's about a guy who 153 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:13.320 failed as a novelist that gets a gig writing the side effects on pharmaceutical products. 154 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.000 But as you can see, this is the kind of guy, the 155 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:20.679 kind of brain he's got. I love the way the guy's head works. 156 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.279 But when I was flipping through the book, it got me thinking about the 157 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:30.600 show alf Now. I don't know if you remember how scandalous one of the 158 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:35.919 stars of that show turned out to be. Do you remember the dad Max 159 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:41.360 Wright. Max Wright was a mild mounted married man, also a guy who 160 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:46.960 you know, used to more or less spend his time doing wonderful stage plays, 161 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:52.879 worked with Shakespeare, he worked on Shakespeare plays and Heinrich Ibsen like major 162 00:13:54.240 --> 00:14:01.200 stage productions. I'm talking tippy top of stage acting. And at one point 163 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:07.320 some years ago, he turned his back on his television show's success and decided 164 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:13.440 to go abe shit and go wild with a vice filled life of hardcore casual 165 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:20.080 gay sex with men and taking hardcore drugs, even though he was still married 166 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:24.679 to his wife Linda. Yeah, this guy went bananas. Max Wright went 167 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:28.120 bananas. If you don't know what he looks like no google his name you'll 168 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:33.399 remember immediately. And after his wife thought of breast cancer in twenty seventeen, 169 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:39.120 after fifty two years together, this guy decided the jig is up and it's 170 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:45.480 time to let my freak flag fly. So he took up with a very 171 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:52.159 like minded German male nurse. And it was through this male nurse they began 172 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:58.240 to understand why Max Wright never felt right in his shoes. The male nurse 173 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:03.200 was name Reiner debt Linger, and Max described him as his life partner. 174 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:09.279 And this particular German guy said he's ashamed of the TV show ALF. It 175 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.840 was a demotion because he came from the theater. It was a demotion, 176 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:18.080 but he needed the money the network TV paid him to live his sordid life 177 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:22.320 behind the camera and away from his wife. Could you imagine the hell this 178 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:28.799 guy was in? And as many of you might recall, Max Wright played 179 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:35.440 this mild manner TV dad named Willie Tanner in that family comedy which centered around 180 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:41.600 the extraterrestrial Alf who comes to live with the middle class American family all screen. 181 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:46.200 His life was to complete opposite The guy beats cancer the nineteen nineties and 182 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:50.759 then some cracks begin to appear. He got a couple of DUIs. Whenever 183 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.559 that happens, you know that dramas right around the corner. You can't get 184 00:15:54.559 --> 00:16:00.559 a dui or two late in life. That I mean, is there some 185 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:07.320 issues creeping up? So in two thousand and one, the National Inquirer Exposed 186 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:15.080 exposed him. It showed stills from a video get this of him smoking a 187 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:22.840 handmaid I'm sorry, a homemade crack pipe while kissing another man with a dwarf 188 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:29.399 right next to them. This guy wasn't scared of any exposure to AIDS. 189 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:33.759 He went headlong into gay male sex, didn't care. He would meet twice 190 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:37.720 a week with this German guy. They'd picked up homeless men, take them 191 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:42.120 home, pay them one hundred bucks to sex, and they'd have unprotected sex 192 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:48.879 with the homeless guys. A lot like the Democratic donor and Buck who just 193 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:52.679 got thirty years a couple of days ago for doing similar shit, picking up 194 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:59.960 homeless guys downtown LA, bringing them back to his West Hollywood condo, inject 195 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:06.039 them with meth and having sets with them. Two of them unfortunately had overdoses, 196 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:12.279 but you know, each his own I suppose, and this guy did 197 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:17.880 drugs with his German male nurse paling the homeless men, and he took a 198 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:23.559 page out of the h He took a page out of the Kim Kardashian story. 199 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:30.359 It eventually started a shocking homemade porn tape before his wife Linda forced him 200 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:34.839 into a twelve step program and began to straighten his life out. But eventually 201 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:41.319 she couldn't take his druggie antics and she kicked him out in two thousand and 202 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:48.519 three. Now, Alf was done thirteen years before that was only on the 203 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:53.680 air for four years, and Max Wright's career had languished with a number of 204 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:59.519 bit parts. You know, you'd a couple of small stints in early episodes 205 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:04.480 of Ends. Basically he stopped working back in two thousand and five. The 206 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:11.640 phone stop ringing. It's an awful thing to happen in Hollywood when the phone 207 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:15.839 stop ringing. It's just said. So, there's a picture of this guy 208 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:19.720 when he went berserk. He's holding a crack pipe making out with a black 209 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:23.839 guy and there's a dwarf in the picture too. It's just insane. You 210 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:30.720 can find it online now. Feet of that set where the head writer Jerry 211 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:37.359 Stall is shooting heroin locked in the bathroom while the character Alf is banging on 212 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:41.759 the door. All the while Max right, the daddy, is on set 213 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:48.000 pretending to be straight and normal. Guys, this is Hollywood. Can you 214 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:55.519 imagine? Speaking of crazy sexy Hollywood ship. The other day we learned that 215 00:18:55.720 --> 00:19:00.720 Tandy Newton had made the difficult decision to step away from starring in Magic Mike's 216 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:10.240 Last Dance, that promising new drama, the third and the franchise of hit 217 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:15.920 movies. That's gonna be just ridiculous. She stepped away. Well, last 218 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:22.079 I told you, Channing Tatum fired her as the star and producer of the 219 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.920 movie. They've got some mahaiak coming in to replace it. They've got they've 220 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:33.799 got to redo eleven days of shooting that Tandy was in for now. Various 221 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:38.759 publications have reported that Channing Tatum fired Tandy. And by the way, just 222 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:44.200 so you know, I don't know when this began, but when Tandy Newton 223 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:48.359 first came out, her name was spelled t A N d i E. 224 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:53.519 They've thrown a w in there, guys. Now her name is t A 225 00:19:53.759 --> 00:20:00.799 n d I wue. Nobody knows why. Nobody remembers why this happened when 226 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:04.839 it happened. But apparently there's a w there and we don't know what it 227 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:11.279 means, but let's just go on with this pretentious bullshit. So the initial 228 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:18.559 story was Channing Tatum fired her after an argument over the slap at the Oscars 229 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:23.000 and the discussion got out of hand. Apparently Tandy sided with Will Smith. 230 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:27.559 Channing, Tatum and his girlfriend Zoey Kravitz are big Chris Rock fans, and 231 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:33.799 they sided with him. It got loud and it got nasty, and Channing 232 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:37.079 was like, I can't work with her. I think there's more to it 233 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:44.200 than that, but that was the straw that broke the camel's back. But 234 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:48.319 now Tandy Newton has got bigger family issues to deal with than merely having to 235 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:53.279 as we all must divide our house in two with masking tape and insist that 236 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:57.759 everybody who thinks Will Smith was in the right live on one side and everybody 237 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:03.359 who thinks Will was in the live on another side. It's all harshit So 238 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:07.920 Paige Sense has said that Tandy is headed to rehab. That's the way they 239 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:14.480 spun this story. She's going to rehab for acting bizarrely on this set. 240 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:21.880 Because her marriage of twenty four years is breaking up. It's imploding. That's 241 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:29.039 all they're saying the tape. I'm sorry, the slap is sending her to 242 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:33.119 rehab, but that's not really true. They're making you believe that when she 243 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:37.400 went bananas on set. They don't want to make it racial. They don't 244 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:41.039 want to make it she's pro Will Smith. That's going to be worse for 245 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:45.839 her career than drugs. So now they're blaming drugs. Don't believe the drug 246 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:52.400 thing. They just don't want somebody on their roster to be pro Will Smith 247 00:21:52.559 --> 00:21:59.720 during a very tense time in Hollywood where you cannot throw your allegiance to his 248 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:03.880 side of things. You can't do it. It's too raw. So they 249 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:08.000 decided, let's take her to rehab. Okay, So she's headed to rehab 250 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:14.200 after exiting that movie because she acted very bizarrely on the set and had a 251 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:22.359 supposed breakdown while her marriage is dissolving. Tandy Newton had been in London filming 252 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:30.079 Magic Mike's Last Dance and people apparently became worried about her, so her agent 253 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.720 flew in from la to try to smooth things over. But the other day 254 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:38.000 they said it's not gonna work. We've got to get her into facility. 255 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:41.640 I think what happened is he sat it down and said, what the fuck 256 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:45.799 is the problem, and she told him, I'm on Will Smith's side and 257 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:48.960 Channing is on Chris rock side. I can't work with this person. And 258 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:52.799 they said, Tandy, are you what your fucking mind? You cannot side 259 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:56.440 with Will Smith? Do you understand that? And we cannot leave this set 260 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:02.519 telling the world that the fight happen because you are pro Will Smith. You'll 261 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:06.359 never work again. It's better to have a drug habit. Do you understand 262 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:10.039 me? While he shook her by the arms. At least that's the way 263 00:23:10.039 --> 00:23:15.160 I see it. But they said, what's going on in your life? 264 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:18.319 Is your marriage not doing well? Of course it's not doing well. Well, 265 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:22.400 that's a good thing. We can pin it on that. We can 266 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:26.359 pin it on a bad marriage, twenty four years marriage, You've got three 267 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:30.960 kids. This is perfect. This is what we'll hang it on. So 268 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.279 that's what we're going on. That's what happens when agents fly into town and 269 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:38.880 try to concoct a new theory of why an actress or an actor is acting 270 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:42.759 a certain way. God forbid, They tell you the truth that she thinks 271 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:48.440 Will Smith was right. That won't wash in Hollywood right now. You've got 272 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:52.319 to either be triggered by what happened, or you've got to be solidly on 273 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:57.480 Chris rock side. You cannot at all think that Will Smith was partially right. 274 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:03.400 That is career death. Now. Will Smith will bounce back because he's 275 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:07.039 made billions for Hollywood. He'll being put in time out for a year and 276 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:11.599 then he'll come back. He's having meetings right now for movies that'll start to 277 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:15.279 shoot a year from now. Don't worry about him. But you cannot be 278 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:21.359 an actress or an actor who works once in a while who throws your allegiance 279 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:26.880 to him. You'll never work for a long goddamn time. I mean, 280 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:32.119 it's bad enough. She put up an Instagram picture of her and two people 281 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:34.279 from this set. I don't know if it's makeup or wardrobe people, but 282 00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:40.960 they're all sitting there, and she hashtagent Will Smith, hashtag Jada Pinken Smith, 283 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:45.240 hashtag the Academy, and then she texted U booon too. Uboon too 284 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:52.519 is the ancient African word meaning humanity to others. Well, clearly, Will 285 00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:56.720 Smith wasn't thinking about humanity when he smacked Chris Rock, So I'm not sure 286 00:24:56.759 --> 00:25:03.799 what that hypocritical text means. Also, Ubuntu is often described as reminding us 287 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:06.359 that I am what I am because of who we all are. I don't 288 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:10.880 even understand that, but that's how deep this girl runs. The truth of 289 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:15.160 the matter is this, If she's taking Will and Jada Pinkensmith and the Academy, 290 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:21.440 she probably had some strong feelings about it. But if we are to 291 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:26.559 believe some other reports from the tabloids in London like The Sun, Tandy's unhinged 292 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:33.359 behavior on set went beyond one single incident. There's a crew member who reportedly 293 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:37.880 said that everyone on set found her challenging to work with, she's an absolute 294 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:44.799 diva, and that they watched her have a go at the first assistant director 295 00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:48.400 and her costume girl. Apparently, the word is that she was in such 296 00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:53.160 a state that she even brought her two pet rabbits to her hotel for emotional 297 00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:57.720 support. Put a pin in that for a second. I go to a 298 00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:06.440 pizza place around ther yesterday. Paul Dinos very good. Pizza LA's got horrible, 299 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:11.400 Pizza Dinos is good. The water comes in from New York. They 300 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:15.559 got a whole thing, and I really enjoy Dinos. It's mainly a takeout 301 00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:18.640 joint. You don't get slices. There's a dining room in there, but 302 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:23.039 right now people are getting takeout. Yesterday, I feel like a slice. 303 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:26.240 It was like two o'clock, two thirty and anthrom and I said, I 304 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:29.799 just want to slice a pizza, maybe two. I don't want to poe, 305 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:33.799 So I've got a Dinos. I'm holding Tootsie. It's big, tall, 306 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:37.359 black, big fat, tall black guy, obviously gay. If you're 307 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:40.400 gonna ask me, how do I know, I can't. I can't help 308 00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:42.200 you. I'm almost sixty years old. I've been around gay people on the 309 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:45.480 life. I can tell why I'm doing there in front of me in a 310 00:26:45.559 --> 00:26:48.519 second. So I very nicely said, with Tootsie in my arms, you 311 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:52.680 guys sell slices sometimes, because I heard they do. He goes, well, 312 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:56.960 we do until two and then no, I said, what time is 313 00:26:56.960 --> 00:26:59.680 it now? He said two twenty. I said, you got nothing left? 314 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:03.920 At that point I knew him dealing with a gay guy. No big 315 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:07.319 deal. I go, okay, um, he goes, sir, you 316 00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:11.759 can't have a dog in here, and I just ignored him. I go, 317 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:14.920 all right, so what's the smallest pie I can get? He holds 318 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:18.160 up a pan, which was perfect for me. I see, ye, 319 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:22.160 I'll take I'll take a sausage by I'll take a cheese and sausage. Sir, 320 00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:23.440 you can't have a dog in here. How much is that? Do 321 00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:26.079 you take a straight credit card? Do you take a debit card? I 322 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.160 just steamrolled him. I'm like, here's my card here it is. Put 323 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:33.359 fight all tip down for yourself and rack that one up. I know, 324 00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:37.480 sir, we just can't have dogs in here. I said, hey, 325 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:41.039 listen to me. Shut the fuck up. The dogs in here we already 326 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:44.759 ordered. No one got bit or killed. She's not running around the dining 327 00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:48.480 room. She's in my fucking arms. She's a puppy ring up the pizza. 328 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:51.480 I'm not doing this anymore. I said, you didn't even ask me 329 00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:56.480 is she's an emotional support dog? And he goes, is she? I 330 00:27:56.599 --> 00:28:00.319 say yeah, which is a complete line, but at this point you might 331 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.559 as well be, because emotionally I get ripped up. I said, yeah, 332 00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:04.519 she is. I said, you know, want let me tell you 333 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:07.839 something. I go look after the pizza was putting me up and I said, 334 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:08.440 gonna tell you something. I said, listen. I said, look, 335 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:12.599 I know who you are. You and people like you. You fought 336 00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:18.720 for years for equal rights. You fought for years to be included. You 337 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:22.200 want inclusivity. You people are still fighting for that. The trans people would 338 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:26.759 have you. I walk in with a fucking dog, that's an emotional support 339 00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:30.519 dog. I would think someone like you, who's been on the other end 340 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:36.039 of trying to work toward inclusion, would look at me and go, there's 341 00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:38.599 nothing wrong with a guy holding his puppy. But no, you want to 342 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:42.920 exclude us without even asking if she's emotional support. Does that sound right to 343 00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:48.160 you? Pal. At this point, the owner comes out, taps him 344 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:49.559 on the shoulder, tells him to leave. He goes, so, I'm 345 00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:52.200 sorry, what could I do face it? You don't have to do nothing. 346 00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:56.279 You put the pizza the oven. I paid for the pizza. I 347 00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:59.240 gave him a final tip. I don't like the fact that the first thing 348 00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:02.640 he said out of this was my dog's not allowed anything. That's not good. 349 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:06.759 He shouldn't do that to people, because you're absolutely right, he isn't 350 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:10.759 wait in your car. I'll bring your pizza out I'm very sorry. Oh 351 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:15.519 score one from me. Fuck these people talking about your dog can't be in 352 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:18.559 here. Why there are dirty people on the fucking doorway who are looking for 353 00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:26.640 a pizza. My dogs clean as a whistle anyhow, don't get me started. 354 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.119 So. A source on the set of this movie said, Dandy've been 355 00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:33.440 acting strange, very strange on set. She was very high strung. Her 356 00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:38.599 breakdown caused so much disruption on the set it became clear she could not play 357 00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:42.279 the role. There's a lot going on in her personal life. She and 358 00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:47.680 her husband are separated. She seems very stressed out. Listen as a person 359 00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:51.519 who's going through a separation out, I understand. Maybe that's why I got 360 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:56.000 so fucking nuts at the pizza place. This is what happens. I mean. 361 00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:00.519 Dandy Newton fired her agent back in the in the UK after ten years 362 00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:07.039 of being together. It's bad and her team wants her to go to rehab 363 00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:10.799 for mental health support. She was supposed to leave immediately for a facility. 364 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:14.640 They tried for a malible rehab. They couldn't get her in there. Now 365 00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:18.720 she's going to Arizona. The rehab is bullshit, guys. She's not on 366 00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.160 drugs. Don't believe a word of it. I mean, I hope she 367 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:29.279 gets to help she needs. But it's not about drugs. Okay, this 368 00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:33.279 is not a trip for someone who was on drugs. Tandy Newton is not 369 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.119 a drug abuser, so this trip away should be properly noted as such. 370 00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:41.599 A lot of rehabs have at least a dual diagnosis unit where people who have 371 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:47.920 both addictions and mental health issues are treating. I never really heard of her 372 00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:52.960 being a mess before. This is perhaps a side effect of a relationship breaking 373 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.000 down in a bad way. I've been there before myself, so I don't 374 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:59.400 want to judge her for it. I hope she gets better in heels from 375 00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:03.039 the pain that's causing this alleged anger. It's Magic Mike three. It's not 376 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.240 like it's says she's losing out on some big giant role. It's not a 377 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:10.960 big, wonderful scores ac movie. You know, it's Magic Mike three. 378 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:15.640 Who gives a shit you got? You know, if you think about it, 379 00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:21.759 you know Tandy Newton is the epitome of the perfect face broken brain syndrome. 380 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:26.359 Think about that for now. On perfect Face, Broken Brain. There's 381 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.200 a lot of actresses and actors who suffer from perfect face, broken brain, 382 00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:34.319 and Tandy is a little lobots for years. Like I said, she went 383 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:40.920 by Tandy a few years ago. She added a we have you seen the 384 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:45.400 spelling. It doesn't make any sense. I could give you five years to 385 00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:48.079 spell Candy the way she prefers it, and none of you would get it 386 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.599 right. No one would add to w in there. But honestly, Dandy 387 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:57.559 seems like one of those insufferable women with lots of opinions. The reality is 388 00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:02.160 that it gets tiring when someone is subject to it on a never ending basis, 389 00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:07.119 when everything is an exhausting battle. That's what she's like. I see 390 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:09.680 people like that, I just want to exit the room they're in. It's 391 00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:15.480 not a tractor or inviting the older we get. It's even worse. It 392 00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:21.160 just seems a sign of true unhappiness. I want to grab her by the 393 00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:23.279 face and say, Candy, would you rather be right or be happy? 394 00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:27.599 But the fuck is wrong with you? But no one will do that. 395 00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:32.039 Everybody's too scared. But not for nothing. As to Tandy, if you 396 00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:37.079 see her in recent interviews, when her star was really shining bright with working 397 00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:43.240 on Westworld, on HBO a big hit. She became so vocal and challenging, 398 00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:47.440 and her character became that of someone unafraid where she may have once been 399 00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:52.400 before. She even talked about a ton of childhood trauma and shit she had 400 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.920 to deal with because she was an interracial British actress. Oh, I don't 401 00:32:55.920 --> 00:33:00.160 know why that's so fucking so lame that people gotta put up with crap for 402 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:06.119 being into racial. But imagine if you woke up one morning married to this 403 00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:09.720 person or was not who you married twenty plus years ago. She may be 404 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:14.079 dealing with a lot. So if rehab is going to help her, good 405 00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:17.759 for her. I personally believe it's not rehab, But it's a mental facility. 406 00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:22.880 You heard it here first, because this is not the first time she's 407 00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:28.119 gone off on people. She was with Tom Cruise together a Mission Impossible too, 408 00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:30.640 and she said a lot of bad shit about Tom Cruise back then. 409 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:36.519 She called him a very dominant individual. She discussed what it was like working 410 00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:39.880 with him, even the fact that she left the cast of Charlie's Angels. 411 00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:46.160 This girl goes through things that are not drug related. They're about mental illness. 412 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:52.440 Trust me. Tom even gave her a scientology, Bible, trying to 413 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.799 help her. She didn't want any part of it. You know, this 414 00:33:55.920 --> 00:34:00.400 is the way she is. And when you work with Tom Cruise, the 415 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.599 last thing you're supposed to do is talk about what it's like to work with 416 00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:07.920 Tom Cruise, especially if you're going to be critical, and she was critical. 417 00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:13.599 That's a certain death in Hollywood. She talked about filming this entire scene 418 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:16.960 where Tom didn't like what she was doing, so he switched it around and 419 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:22.239 said, okay, we filmed the entire scene with me being him and him 420 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:27.519 being me. And it was the most unhelpful. I can't think of anything 421 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:30.760 less revealing. It just pushed me further into a place of terror and insecurity. 422 00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:37.320 I remember at the beginning of the night seeing this slight red mark on 423 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:38.840 Tom's nose, and by the end of the night, I kid you not, 424 00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:43.719 this is how his metabolism is so fierce. He had a big white 425 00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:46.760 head where that red dot was, and it was like the ZiT was me 426 00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:52.159 just getting bigger and bigger. You think Tom Cruise wants to hear shit like 427 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:58.639 that. Now, people say, well, Tandy's honesty, it happens to 428 00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:02.360 be because she's an older woman, who's recognized that knowing the truth and speaking 429 00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.199 the truth has benefited her a hell of a lot more than being silence or 430 00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:12.920 seeing people's silenced around her. Some people say she has nothing to lose. 431 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:16.800 I disagree. Tandy says, I've got nothing to lose because I could just 432 00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:21.440 then not get hired, which is kind of normal for people in my generation. 433 00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:24.679 Anyway, it's not about confessionalism. It's not even about my confessions. 434 00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:30.239 It's about that this is the reality of what people face. Well now it 435 00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:35.760 might not. It might be about either drug addiction or mental illness. I 436 00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:38.440 side with mental illness. Either way, we're about to find out if the 437 00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:43.519 press does their job. I just hope that when she's there that she go 438 00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:50.719 on to some type of treatment to remove the pomposity and the needless we at 439 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.960 the end of her fucking name. Maybe then she'll start heading toward a healthy 440 00:35:54.039 --> 00:36:00.880 lifestyle. Because she's shot. Tandy Newton is done. She keeps talking. 441 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:07.280 She's not gonna work again. She's got to be careful anyhow. I'm going 442 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.360 to finish today's show with a Fame is a Bitch story. You know, 443 00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:15.400 I've asked my listeners, those of you on the free site. Don't know 444 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:17.519 this, but I've asked my listeners, my patrons, to send me their 445 00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:22.519 brushes with celebrity, good, bad, or indifferent. They are to send 446 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:28.280 those stories to fiab Stories at gmail dot com, in which case I read 447 00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:32.199 them Summer anonymous. Many people want their name attached. And these are fun 448 00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:37.079 stories that people get a chance to listen in on because we've all had brushes 449 00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:39.920 with celebrity, some good, some bad, some indifferent. And here I 450 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:46.679 go reading this latest one from patron Laura faith So. Laura says, back 451 00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:50.480 in the mid nineties, she was living in Las Vegas. I was at 452 00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:53.400 the Gold Coast Casino with my husband and infant daughter. It turns out there 453 00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:58.639 was at Kenny Rogers convention. We saw Kenny Rogers walking with a hot young 454 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:02.199 blonde That makes a lot of sense. He looked really awful. He was 455 00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:07.440 definitely up all night, maybe still a little wasted. We were shocked to 456 00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:12.280 see him, but didn't bother him. We were in the ice cream shop. 457 00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:15.760 He came in and a little boy went up to get Kenny's autograph, 458 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:20.840 and the kid was pushed there by his parents to do so, and the 459 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:24.719 kid told Kenny that he loved him and he loved his music, and Kenny 460 00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:29.159 was so rude. He looked at the kid and he said, name the 461 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:34.760 song I sing. Kid. The little boy was mortified and ran away back 462 00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:38.320 to his parents crying. He was really sad. Kenny Rogers was a total 463 00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:44.440 dick. You know, I've gotten a few of these on the same theme. 464 00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:46.800 One of you, one of you patrons, wrote to me about the 465 00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:52.159 wonderful NFL great Gail Sayers doing the same thing. Where he was at a 466 00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:57.119 restaurant in Chicago, his hometown where he's a god, waiting for friends, 467 00:37:57.159 --> 00:38:00.519 I guess, and some people sent their kid up to get an autograph, 468 00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:04.639 and Gail Says told the kid, you must be confusing me with someone else. 469 00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:08.159 I'm not, Gail says, And it left the parents perplexed. And 470 00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:13.880 then fifteen minutes later some friends walked in and shouted Gail and obviously it was 471 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.920 him, and the kid was so forlorn it stayed with him for a very 472 00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:23.639 long time. Here's what I do. Don't do that. Don't ask for 473 00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:30.000 an autograph, because most likely that piece of paper will only get lost or 474 00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:34.880 become smudged years later. The kind of thing nobody's gonna want to hear about 475 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:37.360 it will be able to even read. You know. I had an autograph 476 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:40.400 of all four Beatles. My uncle Sal got it to me because he used 477 00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:45.880 to work on the Ed Sullivan Show doing color and when the Beatles showed up 478 00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:50.800 that show, Uncle Sal took the back of the shot chart, which is 479 00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:54.320 when the commercials air would acts come on. It's like a shot to show 480 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:58.320 you what's happening in the show. And he turned his over and he got 481 00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:00.760 all four Beatles to sign it. It would be worth a lot of money 482 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:05.440 one day now that two Beatles are dead. But it got stolen from me 483 00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:08.159 when my house got robbed. The people who stolen didn't even know what they 484 00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:12.320 was stealing. They just wanted jewelry, but that was in the bottom of 485 00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:15.679 my jewelry box they emptied. They emptied my jewelry box into a pillowcase. 486 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:20.960 In that box was all the jewelry my father left me after he died, 487 00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:24.679 and I'm left with nothing but a gold ring on my middle finger of my 488 00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:29.440 right hand. Everything else was taken, including the Beatles autograph, and I 489 00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:34.719 guarantee that ended up in a fucking garbage. Autographs don't mean shit. I 490 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.639 know, it's like what we automatically do. It's our default thing to do. 491 00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:43.239 You don't need an autograph. You don't need it because I know as 492 00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:46.679 a society we're conditioned to ask for the signature. And as a person who 493 00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:52.400 signed autographs before, I always feel stupid because I know that my signature waning 494 00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:59.880 absolutely nothing in time and all the machinations to get it or useless. It's 495 00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:02.599 when paparazzi shoot me. I go, what the fuck is this is gonna 496 00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:07.400 be used for my death? There's no way you're gonna give this picture to 497 00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:09.880 a magazine. I laugh with them. They laughed back. Really you're gonna 498 00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:14.320 you're gonna sell this to a magazine for what? Six dollars? Who's gonna 499 00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:16.800 buy a picture for me? And as I kill someone or I kill myself 500 00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:22.719 otherwise this picture it doesn't mean nothing naturally, if it's a big star, 501 00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:29.679 you're going for that signature. Why, maybe it's gonna be worth something one 502 00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:34.039 day. I don't know. Is it written on a piece of paper or 503 00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:37.920 won't mean shit? Is it written on a playbill of a play he acted 504 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:40.719 in? But are there six thousand other ones of those? It won't mean 505 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:45.679 shit? It won't mean did he sign the back of his baseball card? 506 00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:50.480 Again, If there's five thousand other signatures on the back of his baseball card, 507 00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:55.719 your autograph won't mean shit. So trust me, you know what's worth 508 00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:01.199 more. Just go up and say hi to an actor or an athlete or 509 00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:07.000 a rock store. Say hi. Have a human experience for five to ten 510 00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:09.840 seconds. Tell them you loved him in this. Tell me you'll never forget 511 00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:15.360 that touchdown run. Tell him you'll never forget that home run. Have a 512 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:21.559 human moment. They'll appreciate that way more than the robotic motion of signing a 513 00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:25.000 football or a baseball or a playbill or whatever the hell's in your pocket. 514 00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:30.519 Years ago, many years ago, I could have gotten Al Pacino's autographed way 515 00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:35.079 back when I was an acting student in New York City in the early eighties, 516 00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:39.360 and I waited for Al, took him out the backdoor after a performance 517 00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:44.800 of American Buffalo. I think of what the Schubert Theater I could be wrong, 518 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:50.639 And while everyone was shoving playbills in front of him, which he signed 519 00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:55.199 without even looking, and good luck figuring out what he signed, by the 520 00:41:55.239 --> 00:42:00.840 way, I just stuck my hand out and said to him this way, 521 00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:07.840 Al, and we locked eyes and he took my hint and he literally followed 522 00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:14.639 me. And a few minutes later he was in his truck and my wife 523 00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:20.039 and I were behind him, following him out of New York City towards the 524 00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:22.320 tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel in New Jersey, and we had about four more 525 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:25.079 wives before we could talk to him. I said to my wife, you 526 00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:30.239 gotta do it now. We were neck and neck with his car and we 527 00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:34.840 stopped at a red light. I got out of the car. I said, 528 00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:37.639 Al, you gotta see my wife. She's crazy for you. He 529 00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:43.440 lowered his window down. My wife went to the window and he shook her 530 00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:46.519 hand and he kissed her on the cheek, and we said, we love 531 00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:51.119 you, Al, and he loved us back. That's worth more than an 532 00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:57.159 autograph. Use your imagination. Ten years after you get that signature, tell 533 00:42:57.159 --> 00:43:00.760 the truth. Nobody wants to see it. Don't even know what to do. 534 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:05.800 It is when story is worth one hundred signatures, Do the story, 535 00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:10.039 not the signature. If you get the autograph, that's it for today. 536 00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:15.199 I hope you had a great easter. I hope you had a great easter. 537 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:19.199 I could have told the story about my last column appearing on Easter Sunday 538 00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:22.800 way back in nineteen ninety seven. Maybe I'll do that for tomorrow's show. 539 00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:30.079 Maybe I'll took my own home. Our last column ran in nineteen ninety seven 540 00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:32.920 East to Sunday, and I said in the column, and now the resurrection, 541 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:37.920 the Resurrection of me begins. It was very narcissistic and crazy, but 542 00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:43.119 I had a great time writing it. So anyhow, guys, hope you 543 00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:45.960 had a great Easter. I hope you saw your family kissed. Everybody made 544 00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:50.639 nice. No arguments like Thanksgiving and Christmas. East. It seems to be 545 00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:55.079 a more calm holiday. Pink and blue and Pastel's. That seems to work 546 00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:59.599 right. The kids search for eggs in the morning. Hope you had a 547 00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:05.239 great day. That was your free show. That was your daily Unfiltered podcast 548 00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:08.800 for April eighteenth, twenty twenty two. There will be a Politics is a 549 00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:15.440 Bitch landing today Monday. Beyond that, I will talk to you folks tomorrow. 550 00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:27.559 I'm a J. Benza And that was Fame is a Bitch. Thank 551 00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:30.840 you for listening. Fame as a Bitch is an AJ Benza Workhouse Connect production 552 00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:37.000 featuring the Endless wisdom, insightful commentary, and sometimes fucked up perspective of aj 553 00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:39.159 Benza executive producer Mike Agabno