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Fame, he'd liked to be walked
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kinky sex games. Is uh the
guy put the cock in the Peacock Network.

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Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody
aj Benzi here with fame, is

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it? Bitch? This is your
free show for January second, twenty twenty

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four. I thought you free birds, thought I might have forgotten about you.

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But you know, Christmas Week and
New Year's Week, it tends to

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be the time of year where a
lot of people just if you're podcasting,

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you release old shows, which I
did on Christmas, or you just release

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classics, or you just take the
week off and do a couple of shows

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here or there, but basically take
that time to recharge. And I haven't

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done that before in the past,
but this year I just felt like,

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you know what I'm doing this six
and a half years, It's time for

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me to just kick back and figure
out what direction I want to take this

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show. Not that we're going in
a different direction, but I wanted to

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get more of my ducks in a
row and get some of you freebirds more

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involved with the podcast. I'm very
happy to see a bunch of you flew

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over before the year ended. That
made me very happy. So whatever I'm

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saying or reporting or bringing to your
scenes to be working. So let's keep

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it going in twenty twenty four.
I don't think I'm the only one who's

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happy to see twenty twenty three take
a fucking walk. That was a hard

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year for a lot of us.
Let's hope that twenty twenty four is going

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to be spectacular. I want to
give you some notes on I stayed home

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Christmas y on New Year's Eve,
stayed home. Son had a party,

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the daughter had a party. I
was home. I just New Years means

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nothing to me. I don't care
about it. I've done everything you can

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do. I've been in the city
when the ball was dropping, but principally

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to go out of New Year's Eve
to me is amateur hour, and I

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don't need crowds like that. So
I stayed home more than hay. In

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fact, I fell asleep before the
ball dropped. I usually watched the New

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York feed, the East Coast feed, so by nine fifteen I know all

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about the crowds and the people and
Dick Clark's Rock and Eve and all that

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crap. Switching channels going from the
country and Western New Year's to Ryan Seacrest

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to CNN, and I'll get into
that right now. I have some notes

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I took and I wanted to get
this stuff across, and i mean,

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look, if you think I'm crazy, I'm sorry, but this is what

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I see. This is what it's
like seeing the world through my eyes.

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I'm on CNN, right. I'm
not a CNN guy, as most of

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you know, but I've admitted before
that I do like CNN's take on wars

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and disasters better than Fox News,
better than anybody's actually. And I'll also

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admit I was set to hate the
New Years. You've coverage from Andy collin

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Ands and Cooper from CNN and what
they were set to bring. I think

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those guys have done this together several
years in a row now and they've got

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a team sort of thing going.
Kathy Griffin stepped in there for a while,

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but oh, I'll get into her
her divorce on tomorrow's Patreon. I

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happened to be sitting in the green
room with her ex husband when I did

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the Bill Maher Bill Maher podcast.
He was in there as well as Kathy

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was taping her Bill Maher podcast before
I did so. I spent some time

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with him, and I can sum
up there lavender marriage in one word,

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but I'll do that on Patreon tomorrow. But look, Andy Cohen Anderson Cooper

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up on the booth up top.
I think these guys, like I said,

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I have done a pretty decent job
over the years. And typically when

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you got two gay guys in the
booth, you're gonna get a lot of

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inny window and double on Tandra and
what have you. Not because of Anderson

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Cooper. But Andy Collin is easy
to that sort of stuff, and that's

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fine whatever, but not to mention
the men they invite up to the booth.

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We're gonna do the same as was
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who spent some time on a remote. Then you had John Mayer live from

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some kind of cat bar in Japan, which prompted Andy Cullen to say John

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is surrounded by pussy, which I'm
sure was the basis of him inviting John

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Mayer onto the show. But it
figures because John Cohen and I'm sorry,

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Andy Cohen and John Mayer are extremely
close, so close that the rumor mill

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has basically said they're a couple,
and it didn't help and he did,

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there's solid news that the both of
them are looking at buying a house.

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In fact, whenever John stays at
Andy's, Andy's mom iron his pants before

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the boys go out to dinner or
whatever is they do at night clubbing,

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who knows, but there's both to
buy this house together. And as I

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mentioned a week or so ago,
I don't think John Mayer is gay,

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but I'm all for him and Andy
Collin being a great being great friends who

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just click. I've had great gay
friends that I click with and nothing wrong

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with that. As for buying a
house together, you know what, it

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would make pretty sound sense with regard
to real estate that they pull their money

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and grab a big house. They
can both afford it, and he Colin

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is swimming in money. John Mayer
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money's not an issue with these two
guys. But as I said, I

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don't think John Mayer is gay,
not with all the stunning women he has

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in his wake, and if he
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I do care about is not so
much what Andy and Anderson did in the

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booth. It was what was happening
on the other New Year's Eve special,

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the one hosted by the plastic man
Ryan Seacrest. But actually, before I

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go any further, I want to
say this, Andy and Anderson Cooper,

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they finally hit well, they finally
hit a high when Andy asked Anderson for

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some liquor. Because Andy loves to
drink up in the booth. Cooper does

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too, but he got a little
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Anderson Cooper told Andy that he didn't
bring him any So Andy said, well,

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I brought some daddy juice. I'll
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that he pulled out a big bottle
of booze from a bed. Now this

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is a little bit rebellious because the
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Chris Licked, put out a mandate
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liquor on camera. But of course
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his own bottle and they went off
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drink as much as Cohen, but
when he did drink, it was funny.

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He got very gigly, he began
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saw that crack in his veneer when
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be a straight journalist. Well,
let me tell you, speaking as a

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former journalist on the job for many
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podcasts with a journalism and background.
Journalists can drink, so it's interesting to

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see Anderson Cooper not be able to
drink. But when he does, he

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becomes so much looser. I hung
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former network newsman who was a big
shot for many years. You could not

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have asked for a better newsman,
or you couldn't have asked for somebody you

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wanted your news from than Dan Rather. He was, you know, the

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next Walter Cronkite. But when Dan
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my god, was he an animal. I've said this on many a shit.

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I have so many stories about Dan
and I. But really Dan getting

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trashed and saying things he probably shouldn't
have said. But Dan approaches a bartender

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and always asks for his drink this
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a rocks glass, But barkeep four
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I'm thirsty, not dirty. He
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back because I'm thirsty, not dirty. He loves to have these little things

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in his back pocket. But journalists
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do. And it was fun to
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to get lit up. I liked
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year when and with Andy Cohen screaming
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was the worst and needs to leave
when he said, Sayonara, I think

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he said scumbag off air too off
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that shit. But look, the
show was fun. It was a fun

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show, you know, and that's
the way you're supposed to be on New

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Year's Eve. Fun. On the
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Ryan and his little helpers, Genie
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Geezy. I don't know what this
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a rapper, I don't know his
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out there with Rita Aura and Doniana
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Anthony's with her. I don't know
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she's done spots here and there from
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don't follow her. They're out there
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was such a snooze fest. Oh
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in Florida. I forget I was
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and Rita Ara were in New York
and it was this newze fest. I'd

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rather see Dick Clark when he had
his stroke counting down from ten. How

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embarrassing that. I mean, I'm
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it's on record. I don't like
Dick Clark. Him and I got into

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it. But you don't need your
year to end with a man who can

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barely speak saying the fig five four. Not making fun of stroke victims,

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but most stroke victims stay away from
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Dick Clark. He's got to be
an alignmentate. So we're on the Channel

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ABC with the straight host that's in
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there were so many messages sent out
that, in my opinion, showed an

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agenda, okay, and not just
the gay agenda, but in my opinion,

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also the notion that while we party
the night away and Joe Biden takes

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us three one hundred and eighty second
day of vacation. I don't want to

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hear shit about Trump golfing anymore.
Not to mention, the border was about

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to be slammed with tens of thousands
of more migrants. Some of the imagery

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and words and sounds that ABC decided
to put up pissed me off. For

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starters. Could someone tell me who
put this plan of foot to have this

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new young comic named Matt Friend to
be the next Mister Everything? Have you

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seen this kid? Do you know
who he is? Go look at his

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YouTube Matt Friend fr ie nd.
He's a stand up comic, does a

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lot of great impressions, especially as
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But who even is this kid?
He's twenty five years old, the opportunities

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he's getting, he's everywhere. I
don't know who's pulled the strings in this

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kid's life or whether he's straight or
gay, But in my opinion, I

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think the game mafia has their hands
in his career because he is moving up

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so quickly. Where were you when
you were twenty five? And the way

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Secrets is patting him on the back
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is being groomed for some big jobs. And I use the word groomed on

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purpose. Anyhow, before the ball
drops, Seacrest throws it to Rita Ara,

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who, by the way, has
always been known as a crazy woman.

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She's been called horrorsh because of her
previous dating lifestyle. Now she's married

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to the director what's his name,
But she's always been the kind of chickens

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always out there, you know.
She's married to Taika Watiti, right,

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the director, who's good director actor. He's done some good stuff. Obviously

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Jojo Rabbit was great, but now
they're a couple. They were having three

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symes look whatever floats you bo.
But now she's family friendly and she gets

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to stay in the crowd on New
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So Ryan throws it to Rita horror
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she's mingling with the crowd. They're
getting very excited because it's almost time for

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the ball to drop, or a
half hour away, and she asks this

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woman behind her, to her right, what is her New Year's resolution?

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And the woman says, and she
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woman. She goes, uh,
definitely more rock climbing, gotting it up

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on those rocks, rock climbing all
the way in twenty twenty four. Okay,

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one wants the rock climb. Good
for her? Wow, I am

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woman, hear me raw, very
impressive. Then she turns to the man

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on the other side, What did
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for twenty twenty four? What do
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four? And this guy says straight
to her face, definitely crochet. I'll

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be doing a lot more crocheting.
Not laughing. Wasn't a joke. But

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we're witnessing the death of straight men
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televised programmer, and look it bothers
me that they definitely set this kind of

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thing up during the commercial. You
know, some producer, it's their job

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to go and find these people in
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is, she or he made it
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that they found these people who fit
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be in their eyes. I know
I'm right. All those crowd questions are

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typically set up so you don't get
some crazy drunks or cycles that I'll say,

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dumb shit on live TV. You've
got to get the right people.

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Then they turn over the microphone to
the great Paul Anka, who's eighty two

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years old. I love Paul Anka, I mean my way, come on,

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he wrote that for Frank Sinatra.
Even though he sings in himself.

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Paul Anka is a national treasure.
Songs like Diana, you are my Destiny,

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You're having my baby, put your
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of your life, national treasure,
as I said, And if you think

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he's been a terrific singer, you
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dinner like I did. My God, this guy's got stories, the life

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he's led, the things he's seen. I'm talking the birth of Las Vegas,

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hanging out with Sinatra, Mafia's stories, Hollywood stories for days. Paul

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Anka has had a hell of a
life. Not to mention, by the

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way, did you know that he's
Jason Bateman's father in law. Yeah,

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find that Jason maybe married his daughter
interesting. But I'll give you an example,

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a real quick example of what kind
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back pocket. He and Buddy Holly
worked on a song that paul Anka wrote

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for Buddy Holly called it doesn't matter
anymore. But a few weeks before the

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song was finished, Buddy Holly died
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made sure to give all the royalties
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Stand up guy not to mention when
that plane went down and changed Anchor's

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life as well. He didn't travel
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as often. It changed a lot
of lives. But that shows you the

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kind of stand up guy Paul Anker
is and the kind of stories he's got

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at the tip of his tongue.
As much as I love Paul Anker and

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guys like him are Tony Bennett,
they don't belong as the performer to send

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us to the countdown. These guys, however precious they are or work,

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don't make them sing anymore because now
they just talk their songs. They don't

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sing their songs. Paul Anker was
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and a talked song is not what
we need right before the most raucous close

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of an evening during the year.
Come on, producers figuring this out,

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Like you found the guy who crochets, you could have Paul Anker sing earlier

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in the night. But worse than
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Imagine, now I love that song, but the lyrics suddenly, this

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time my life, this time of
year, what's happening right now? Those

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lyrics to me, sound a lot
like this was a message from the liberal

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ABC network to let's say, embrace
the millions of illegal immigrants already here and

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the fucking poisonous parade to follow.
Imagine, there's no countries. It isn't

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hard to do. No, it's
not hard, because we're watching every country

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pillage America right now. Nothing to
kill or die for, and no religion

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too well, the Muslims will have
a lot to say about that. Imagine

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all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer,

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but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us and the

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world will be as one. No, right there, the world will be

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as one. That's about open borders. Don't get me. I see hidden

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meanings everywhere. I couldn't even watch
Dora the Explorer with my kids because I

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knew it was about immigrants coming from
Mexico. I know it. I'm the

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guy, I'm that father grumpy old
troll rhymes with border patrol. I'm sorry.

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And Dora had the map. She
got the map from a coyote.

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I know what I'm saying. It's
all there. It's all imagery that they

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put in front of you that they
don't realize. But this you have to

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realize. The world will be as
one that's no borders. That means ABC

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is fine with America losing not only
it's borders, but also it's language and

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it's culture. And I'm not so
one more thing about that night that I

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can think of right now. I
wrote these down because they were bothering the

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shit into me. As soon as
the ball drops. The very first shot,

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ABC goes to You're ready, and
these things are obviously meticulously planned.

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The very first shot is two black
gay men sloppily kissing each other on the

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mouths. That's it. Not a
man and a woman. And I'm still

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sure that the norm here in America
and around the world is a man and

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a woman union. Not even a
picture of a family. How about a

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mother and a father are hugging their
little ones. What about that? Wouldn't

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that be a warm message to send
on a cold December night. No.

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Two black gay men. Why because
lgb t Qia plus the rest of thebaut

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Fungoul army. That's why if before
you paint me as a gay basher,

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and don't, because there's nothing further
from the truth. I just tell it

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like it is. Listen to me. Here's what bothers me the most is

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that the men then most of us
grew up with, the men who most

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of us had in our homes as
kids. These men that we grew up

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with and learned from and admired and
loved and even feared to a degree,

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are just gone. They're not including
anymore games. Lock you gotta go,

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We're not turning the camera on you
anymore. If they're not fully gone,

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then they're holding on by their fingertips
before extinction sets in. I still want

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to see men like my father represented
on TV. I'm tired of every man

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in a TV commercial or a TV
show be the bumbling idiot who can't cook

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dinner. When mom goes off on
a big business trip for two days,

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she comes downstairs with a luggage all
packed, and Daddy says, I've got

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it. And when she gets back, oh, the sauces on the ceiling.

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The kid in the high chest,
got whipped cream and mashed potatoes on

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his hair. Oh, it's all
things go to shit because mom left town.

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Dad can't talk to the car dealer
until mom does she gets the good

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price. He can't teach his kid
how to drive because well, he's just

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not the best driver himself. You've
all seen this buffoon portrayed time and time

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again. Not get angry because I
missed my father and I missed men like

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him, and not for enough that
those men did pretty well when it came

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time to protect America and build America, not fuck that, protect the world.

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These were the men who were rarely
seen in our school classrooms. That

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just wasn't a place they went,
but always spent their days off with their

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family. These were tough guys,
and a lot of them were forced to

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be that way when they went off
as teenagers and protected the world from the

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likes of the Third Reich and Japan. But just once, I'd like to

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see men like them portrayed on TV
or in a remote shot or in a

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Times Square crowd, just once.
Wouldn't it be great if a TV host

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asked a man in the crowd what
was his New Year's resolution, and he

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said this year, and I don't
want to work as hard. I want

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to spend more time with my family
rather than I really need the crowchhe more,

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give me a fucking break. Look
on tomorrow's Patreon. I've got really

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good stuff on Jermaine Jackson and the
sexual assault case, as well as a

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personal story that goes with Jermaine Jackson
and his ex wife and the mother of

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his two sons. Also Paula Abdul
facing the same sort of state don't after

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Nango Lifthgow for sexual assault that happened
many, many years ago. I've got

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information on that, not to mention
personal anecdotes having hung out with Paula in

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the past and know about her lifestyle
if you want to call that. I've

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got news on Share and her son, her son from that dopey drug addict

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Greg Olman and what's going on in
his drug addictive life and the conservativeship Share

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wants to set up. And also
a personal story of myself meeting Share and

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spending the after in her house many
years ago. So I urge all of

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you, before the week is over, how about today take some of that

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Christmas money you got. Maybe you
got a visa card, one of those

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gift cards. Yeah, that's it, that's the ticket. Then go to

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patreon dot com slash Famous Bitch and
hear the stories that only I have from

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the horse's mouth. And I'm the
horse, get it. But I'm not

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full of horseshit. I'll full of
the real deal. That's it for today,

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gang. We're starting off the new
year with a promise that this year

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will be the best when it comes
to dirt. All right, get it

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from me first, I'm AJ Benzon. That was your free show for January

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second, twenty twenty four. Oh
two. I'm sorry one two two o

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two four. I'll talk to you
in a couple of days. Thank you

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for listening. Fame as a Bitch
is an AJ Benzon Workhouse Connect production featuring

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the endless wisdom, insightful commentary,
and sometimes fucked up perspective Jay Benza,

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executive producer, Mike Agavino, h