WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.839 From Workhouse Connect and aj Benze fame. Uh, he'd liked 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:09.119 to be walked on a leash and play really dirty, 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:12.519 kinky sex games. Is uh the guy put the cock 4 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:18.160 in the Peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody aj Benzi 5 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:20.199 here with fame, is it? Bitch? This is your daily 6 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:25.120 Unfiltered podcast or September twenty fourth, twenty twenty five oh 7 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:30.960 nine four too oh to five. One more week and 8 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:36.479 we're into October. Man, the summer is gone. Fall started 9 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:40.280 a couple of days ago. Still got the AC on 10 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:42.920 all day long, although I do shut it now at night. 11 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:46.039 But I'll tell you what. When I shut it at night, 12 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:49.200 the problem is I hear the neighbors upstairs too much, 13 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.119 too much, dropping shit on the floor, moving furniture, whatever 14 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:55.119 the hell they're doing. This is apartment living, which I 15 00:00:55.159 --> 00:01:00.719 haven't done for so long, and it can get aggravating. Uh. 16 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:04.519 But yeah, you know, I hear the sirens outside. This 17 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:06.879 is shits fill after all. But when the windows close 18 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:10.840 and the AC's on, I hear nothing but my TV, 19 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:14.920 which is a very welcome thing for me to hear. 20 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:18.560 Oh god, I just saw it, by the way, Today's 21 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:23.120 show all over the board. Today's show is like, okay, 22 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.000 so many topics. You know what, I'm gonna tell you something. Now, 23 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.920 you know what an umbrella rig is. An umbrella rig 24 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:33.640 you guys know who fish. Guys and girls who fish 25 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:36.319 know it an umbrella. An umbrella rig is something that 26 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:40.359 looks like picture a couple of clotheshegers that are on 27 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.120 fishing line and you throw on the end of your 28 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:46.599 fishing pole and each there's like eight to ten different 29 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:50.319 hooks that also have like you know, rubber on them 30 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.000 to look like worms or fish. They're lures, but they 31 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:54.959 have the big hooks in them, and you throw that 32 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.200 umbrella rig in the water. You don't sit there at 33 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:01.000 your boat and just jig with it, although you can. 34 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:02.840 But the best thing you do with in an umbrella 35 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:05.640 rig is you get in the boat. You troll, And 36 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.439 by troll, I don't mean any Internet kind of shenanigans. 37 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:12.319 Trolling means you take the boat and drive it very 38 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:15.439 very slow, two miles per hour. Whatever you can do. 39 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:19.199 Just push that throttle up a little bit, no wake. 40 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:22.520 You throw your lines down so your lures and your 41 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:24.439 bait is not dragged on the bottom of the bay 42 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:28.240 or the ocean. You're like three four feet beneath the surface. 43 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:31.919 And when these bluefish, which put up a tremendous fight, 44 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:35.800 let me tell you that bluefish travel in schools like 45 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:42.240 their blm or antifa. If bluefish are more diabolical than 46 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:45.520 barracuda because they got teeth. But when you hook into 47 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:47.639 a bluefish and you get one on an umbrella rig, 48 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.800 or two or three at a time, it happens. Get 49 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.319 ready for the fight of your life. Anyhow, so many 50 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:56.439 things going on today is an umbrella rig of his show. 51 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:59.319 That's the word, the term you have to know moving forward, 52 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:05.319 umbrella rigg day. Guys won't tell me went fishing. We 53 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:08.639 always went fishing. But I'll tell you so many tales. 54 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:11.319 There was this one night we were crabbing the under 55 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:13.639 the bridge, which means you get in your boats, you 56 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:17.400 drive very slow around the pilings. It's nighttime because the 57 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:20.759 blue claw crabs come out at night and they swim on. 58 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:23.879 They swim one inch beneath the surface of the water. 59 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:26.159 It's a very no one During the day they're down 60 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:28.680 on the bottom buried in grass. At night though, they 61 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:31.639 swim right beneath the surface. So you get your boat. 62 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:34.520 You got three or four guys with long fishing nets. 63 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:38.400 You've got a car battery in your boat that's connected 64 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:42.719 to several different spotlights that the men, let's say me 65 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:45.840 Jack and Frankie or Joey Jackie are shining on the water. 66 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:49.560 My pop, my father's driving the boat through the pilings, 67 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.199 avoiding other boats. It's a traffic jam. But you spot 68 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:56.319 a crab and you go bananas. You reach over the boat, 69 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:58.080 you grab it. If you're missing, you tell the other 70 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:00.560 guy on the stern side, Frankie yours. I watched at 71 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:04.560 three o'clock, Bye bye. It's a great time. Don't know 72 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:06.280 why I brought up the crabs. What was I saying 73 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:11.520 about crabbing? I don't know. God damn it. See there's 74 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:13.240 so many things to talk about. I forget what I'm 75 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:15.599 talking about. But I wanted to say this before I 76 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:20.399 move forward. I saw a video it's so sad James Vanderbeek, 77 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:23.959 you know, from Dawson's Creek, and I love Varsity Blues. 78 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:27.120 What a great fun movie. If you haven't seen it, 79 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:30.680 for God's sake, see Varsity Blues. If not for anything 80 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.120 but the stars it turned out. Go look at a 81 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:37.120 young Ali Lauder there's so many people in that movie 82 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:42.199 that made it. But anyhow, James Vanderbeek is suffering from 83 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:47.519 a rectal cancer and he couldn't make the Dawson's Creek Reunion. 84 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:50.040 It's a show I never watched with Michelle Phillips and 85 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:53.800 Joshua Jackson. I think Katie Holmes right, never watched it once, 86 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:55.600 but I know it was a huge hit. I was 87 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:58.240 too busy back then, working and going out every night. 88 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:03.040 And he you appeared on video. He wanted to be there, obviously, 89 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:06.800 And you know, it's the face of cancer. You know. 90 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:09.720 I don't. It's just we've all seen it. Some of 91 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.920 us have had it, and I hope never to have 92 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:14.879 it again for many of you, for all of you, 93 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:18.000 but it's there. And he was brave enough to get 94 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:21.319 on video and tell people he misses them, And you know, 95 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.920 just fuck, don't you? Are you like me? Do you 96 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:26.879 go to bed at night or wake up in the 97 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:29.160 morning and go okay? Like when I go to bed, 98 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:31.800 I go okay, you know, got through another day. If 99 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:35.360 I die in my sleep, I'm gonna complain. I did it. 100 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:37.399 I had a great time. What a fucking life. I 101 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:39.800 would do it again in a second. But when you 102 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:42.000 wake up in the morning, you go, holy shit, I'm 103 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.120 still alive. Okay, I gotta straighten my shit out. I 104 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:46.160 gotta do things better. I gotta this, I gotta die. 105 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:49.800 As you're sleeping, you feel like it was a great time. 106 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.000 But when you wake up and you know that God's 107 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:54.800 given you more time, you go, oh shit, I have 108 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:57.639 to redirect my shit in the right way. I'm not 109 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:02.000 gonna die. I can't die. Anybody who's suffering it goes 110 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:05.040 on video to talk to friends and family. Oh my god. 111 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:07.680 It's a very brave act. And it's as hard as 112 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:10.560 it is for us to see. You imagine the people 113 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:13.120 who do it what they feel, you know what I mean. 114 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.720 Speaking of TV, I told you briefly about Black Rabbit 115 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:21.720 with uh. I love him. I love Jason Bateman, don't 116 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:24.680 like his politics, love his acting, love his podcast. And 117 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:27.600 Jude Law. Not a huge fan of Jude Law, but 118 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:30.519 he's turned out some movies that worked out pretty well. 119 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:34.560 And this series Black Rabbit. I really like Black Rabbit. 120 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:37.160 To me, it fell apart in the middle, but it 121 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:40.160 definitely came together in the end. I think I've said 122 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:41.920 that it reminded me of me and Rocco when he 123 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:44.319 had his restaurant downtown. There's a lot of things for 124 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:48.199 me that I love, but I think you will too. However, however, 125 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:52.920 there's always these instances. I know, we say Dei's over 126 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:54.959 and this and that, but it was another one. This 127 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.639 movie was being or the series is being made. There 128 00:06:57.639 --> 00:06:59.480 are things that you might see on your screen or 129 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:02.240 on a movie get his screen tomorrow next week, that 130 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:04.399 were made two and a half years ago when Dei 131 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.199 and all the woke bullshit was still alive. So I'm 132 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:10.600 watching Black Rabbit and I love it, and I love 133 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:15.839 the acting. I love Cleopatrick Coleman. She's so what a 134 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:18.279 face and a smile on those lips, and she's got 135 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:20.399 two dimples, like I always said, that can hold a 136 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:23.680 cup of water. But then by the end of the movie, 137 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:25.319 by the end of the series, they have it with 138 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:29.800 no wig on, just very little hair and no makeup. 139 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:37.079 Why why do that to her? Anyhow, there's a part 140 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:39.399 in this move where there's a character in this movie. 141 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:42.800 She's an Asian journalist. We've got to check boxes game, 142 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:46.800 don't forget in the in the kitchen downstairs, there's a 143 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:52.439 black bull Dyke chef and a Latino gay sous chef 144 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:54.959 and they have it going, Oh you know what I'm saying. 145 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:57.800 You know what I'm saying. How you doing, baby? You're 146 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:03.000 looking that kind of ship? Okay, but get out of 147 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.959 the nineteen nineties. Can we come up with new dialogues 148 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:09.000 and look in God's sister, Oh my goodness, where you're 149 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:10.879 going to that well, you're gonna make them last, sister. 150 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:16.560 Stop it. You think those scenes are throwaway scenes, they're not. 151 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:21.199 We need to hear original dialogue. I broke my dick 152 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:28.720 last night, something something different. Never forget when Dennis Robin 153 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:30.959 told me he broke his dick. I'll never forget that 154 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:33.360 because we were together in Miami and he was with 155 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:37.080 this blonde girl who was kind of like my not fixer, 156 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:39.279 but she was the chick I met who would get 157 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:41.360 me to the interviews on time and get me in 158 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:44.559 my hotel on time. And she's a great chick. I 159 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:48.320 never had anything with her at all, Robin, really nice girl, 160 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:51.960 pretty girl. Robin took to her like white on rice, 161 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:56.519 and he told me, he rouges, I can't, I can't 162 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:59.159 even and I can't. And when I see your name 163 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:01.399 on my phone, oh, Oh my god, he broke his 164 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.320 stick on her. It's hard for me to reconcile that. 165 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:08.720 But it's not her fault. You can't elevate the girl 166 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:11.960 too high or else you run the risk of breaking 167 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:15.679 your disc Okay, I was better at that time. I 168 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:19.799 didn't say dick and either way, Asian journalists at the 169 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:24.919 restaurant trying to get answers because this other girl, some waitress, 170 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:28.039 had an overdose at the restaurant. She is getting down 171 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:32.799 to the nitty gritty. But the way they portray this journalist, 172 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:35.799 I wanted to go, can we get a consultant on set? 173 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:39.200 This is not the way journalists treat people. She's in 174 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:44.159 the restaurant, she's looking for the story. Right, you have 175 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:47.200 to ingratiate yourself to a degree to have these people 176 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:51.360 talk to you, give up information. But she's like, you 177 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:56.039 need to come with me and tell me the story. No, no, no, no, reporters. 178 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:01.879 Journalists can't do that. And then she sees the person's phone. 179 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:04.200 She goes, tell me right now, who's on that phone? Call? 180 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:06.720 Tell me who you were just on the phone with 181 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:10.519 five minutes after that murder, Tell me now now again. 182 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:17.600 Journalists don't do that. So stupid. But watch Black Rabbit. 183 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:20.200 It's it's definitely something you should You should watch and 184 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.879 get behind if nothing else. Jason Bateman with the long 185 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:25.840 hair and the beard looks like this from nineteen sixty nine. 186 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:30.519 He's great. This is his emmy. I know he did Ozark, 187 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:34.039 which was great. This is not as good as Ozark, 188 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:41.000 but Bateman he needs an award. And he's directing some 189 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:44.840 of the series. And so is his co Starc from Ozark, 190 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:48.200 Laura Lenny, who I love. So it's a family affair 191 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:54.000 either way. Just drop Rocco off to get a haircut. 192 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:59.480 And I passed this particular area on Tahunga Avenue and 193 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:03.440 there's always this homeless encampment to the left off off 194 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.559 the road, but on the sidewalk under and underpass. I'm talking. 195 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:11.679 This guy's got a dresser, a couch. You have no idea. 196 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:14.240 He has more shit to move than I have in 197 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.240 stories right now that I paid two hundred and twenty 198 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.559 hours a month for. This guy's got it with him. 199 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:20.720 And of course a couple of shopping cards from Ralphs. 200 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:23.879 It's been there for months and I pass it and 201 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:26.960 I go, why don't I just go? These fucking assholes upstairs. 202 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:31.360 They're playing the music again. Two young black kids with 203 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:34.240 a guy smoking pot on a poster out of their window, 204 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:37.279 pop smoke who died of an overdose. This is the 205 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:40.639 guys that got above me. There's gonna be stories, trust me. 206 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:43.039 I already knocked on their door last week. They didn't answer. 207 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:46.120 If I get shot and killed in the hallway, you 208 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:49.840 know why? Anyhow, I'm like, do I call three one 209 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:51.919 one and tell them, look, you gotta get rid of 210 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:56.840 this this bullshit? And I said, ay J, you can't 211 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.960 do that. This guy didn't know he'd end up there. 212 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:03.080 Whoever's there did not know. He may have been driving 213 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:05.159 his car to work or taking his kids to school 214 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.600 every day like you do. And suddenly, because of this, 215 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:11.840 that and the other thing, he's now relegated to being 216 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:15.159 homeless on the street he used to drive on every day. 217 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:20.000 Do you know how how low he must feel. I said, 218 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:24.799 I can't call anybody to get this guy clean. I 219 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.919 can't do it. And that's you know what I mean, 220 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:30.679 that's that's weird, Like we don't want to see it, 221 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.759 but we don't want to do anything to make these 222 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:37.000 people's lives worse, you know, what I mean. It's a shame. 223 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:39.559 It's just a shame. And I know Trump had a 224 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:42.639 bad day. Listen, Trump had a bad day. I was 225 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:46.519 hysterical when he gets on the escalator, I guess at 226 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:49.720 the UN to make his big speech, and the escalator 227 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:54.200 within within within ten seconds, stops moving while he and 228 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:57.519 Milaia are on it. And he's just like me, right away, 229 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:01.320 the anger, right away, excuse me, what's going on? You know? 230 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:06.440 Once answers immediately he has to walk, god forbid, walk 231 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:10.720 up the escalator like steps, you know, like we all 232 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:16.200 do every day, and and uh. And then he gets 233 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:19.080 to the podium. The teleprompt is not working great, so 234 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:23.000 of course he has to comment bad escalator, bad teleprompt, 235 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:26.919 just a bead, just very bad. When the president's here, 236 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:29.879 you need to make sure these things UPRK. He's just me. 237 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:33.799 Excuse me, but I left. I laughed so hard watching 238 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:37.639 him get so pistol. But that guy in the homeless encampment, 239 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:40.639 that will be gossip about Hollywood. Hold on, the guy 240 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:43.240 in the homeless encampment. I just thought, you know what, 241 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:48.840 how he never knew he'd end up there. This guy 242 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:52.240 had dreams, This guy had plans, I would imagine, like 243 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:56.000 we all did and still do. I remember when I 244 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.240 was living with Rosalie with no money, me and my 245 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:03.240 two kids, Lola live in her house. I shed a 246 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.519 bedroom and a bed with Rocco, a single bed, Lola, 247 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:11.279 shevyl Roxy, another single bed, you know, the beds, the 248 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:16.120 bed of my youth. And it was very humbling, of course. 249 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.360 And I take the cab in the morning to go 250 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:22.000 to best Buy. I would get a lift from a 251 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.600 cabby and go to best Buy. And I talked to 252 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:27.440 these camp drivers and they tell me hell stories. When 253 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:30.480 you start driving a cam pal, well, you know, it's interesting. 254 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.120 I used to live in this very neighborhood. You did, Yes, 255 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.679 I did. I lived down on Drake Court, had a 256 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:39.600 nice dirty foot boat. I mean, I had a great time. 257 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:42.440 We had a lot of friends and relatives. And the 258 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:44.840 marriage started to go bad, and my two kids and 259 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:47.559 left the band. She divorced me, and now I live 260 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:50.120 in an a basement apartment in Bay Shore and she's 261 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:53.919 got the house. And I swear to God, I talked 262 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.720 to at least three of these guys with the same 263 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:59.080 shitty stories. And I said to myself, because at this 264 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:01.960 point my marriage, I it was not good. And I said, AJ, 265 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:05.879 you're gonna be exactly what these guys are right now. 266 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:09.440 You're gonna you just don't, don't go all the way underwater, 267 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:13.120 but you're gonna jump in that wall. Life's gonna dump 268 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:16.440 you in that side of the pool. Just don't go underwater. 269 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:19.000 And I did. I ended up in that side of 270 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.600 the pool. I ended up not only listening to them, 271 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:24.240 but driving a camp and knowing the guys. He used 272 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:29.120 to take me to work and they knew me. Still 273 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.559 working at best Buy. Yeah for now. Yeah, but they're 274 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.279 not gonna go get some money and go back to 275 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:36.399 Los Angeles. How are you gonna do that. I'm writing 276 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:38.799 this book. I got a book idea, and I think 277 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:42.240 my agent will get me a nice advance. Okay, good, 278 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:46.879 good luck pal, And I go, motherfuckers, you have no idea. 279 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:49.080 And we go to the same bodega to get the 280 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:52.120 same chip, chip, beef sandwich or bacon, egg and cheese 281 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:55.159 at five am and then have something at lunch with 282 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:59.000 the bay. The bodega next to the train station had 283 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:03.440 you know, like the best Cuban music playing and people 284 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:06.399 with dance and you know, when you get out of 285 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:09.639 your offices and out of your cars and just immerse 286 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:13.200 yourself in that side of life where people are hustling 287 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:16.519 and working so hard that people under the radar. You 288 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:20.559 can't believe how fast things are moving. You know, I 289 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:22.399 got to give them a lot of credit because they're 290 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:27.480 surviving under they're under all of us. And not to 291 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:30.440 mean that they're worse than us, so they're not as 292 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:33.960 good as us. I mean, sometimes life puts you under things. 293 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:37.240 Like I've said before, you know, like you think things 294 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:40.000 are bad, I've been where things are bad. I've been 295 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:44.879 at rock bottom. But guess what rock Bottom's got trap doors. 296 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.159 Rock Bottom is not the end you think. Oh I 297 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:50.320 fell on my ass. I'm at rock bottom now. The 298 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:53.080 only thing to do is get back up. Now there's 299 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:57.240 trapped doors. You're full, You're full. Deeper, there's spikes underground, 300 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:59.759 there's walls that close with spikes that can kill you. 301 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:05.640 There's a lot of shit there. I'm telling you, I'm 302 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:09.799 bringing back reports from the front. Rock Bottom's got trapped doors. 303 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:12.240 Stay away. But speaking of the guy, I tell you 304 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.279 this show is crazy, speaking of the guy in the 305 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:20.319 homeless encampment, you know, the other night, Shay Wiggham who's 306 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:23.359 a really good actor. I started to watch that show, 307 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:27.960 uh primeval which I gotta tell you I'm not I'm 308 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:30.480 not crazy about it. It's a lot of it's a 309 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:33.119 lot of murders, a lot of Indians and people keep 310 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:36.640 people killing people like you know, I get it. It 311 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:42.400 was a crazy time to you know, across the country 312 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:45.240 with Indians and pioneers and all sorts of bad people. 313 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:50.559 So the show to me with uh Betty Gilpin, who 314 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:54.960 I think is a doll tailor Kish who is a schmuck, 315 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:59.759 good looking kid, halfway good actor. He was on Joe 316 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:04.839 Roe showing Joe didn't have more than one hundred words 317 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:08.160 to say. Taylor just kept talking abous awesome life. Bro. 318 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:11.960 It was amazing. And then we do like we'd meditate, Bro, 319 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:14.000 And then I run with the Seal team. Bro, it 320 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:16.920 was awesome. Have you ever run with the Seal? J 321 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:19.519 was like, yeah, I have, oh man, Bro, it was 322 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:23.359 such a either way. I'm watching Prime Villa and Shay 323 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:27.240 Wigham is there and he says to Betty Gilpat you 324 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:31.720 know I'm gonna paraphrase, you know, men get some place 325 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:33.559 they don't know where they're gonna go. They end up 326 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:36.079 somewhere and they put down their spikes and that's where 327 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:38.599 their life's gonna begin. And if you think about people 328 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:43.200 traveling across country all those years ago, like what made 329 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:48.359 people stop in Missouri or stop in Pennsylvania. If they're 330 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:51.160 leaving from the east coast, what made them go? Now, 331 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:54.079 I'm gonna keep going man? And then they almost get 332 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:58.160 to all stay in Arizona. This area is okay, But 333 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:03.319 the people who kept going and the people in general, unbelievable. 334 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:07.279 What heart, what strength? What courage? So Wigan basically says, 335 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:11.160 you know, a guy puts down is his feat and 336 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.759 that's where he's going to start his life. And you know, 337 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:17.160 I thought about the guy in the homeless encampment, and 338 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:19.200 I thought of my dad and a lot of us. 339 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:21.559 I don't know where your parents began and how they 340 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:23.559 found the house you grew up and as a kid. 341 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:27.200 But my father, his story was he went to go fishing. 342 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:30.240 We lived in Brooklyn, and he loved fishing. And he said, 343 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:33.920 this great fishing on Long Island, this fishing in Brooklyn too. 344 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:36.680 Off the pier in the bay, Gravesend Bay. You know, 345 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:38.839 my father caught a stripe bass. The dad was born 346 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:43.599 after I was born. He went fishing and he claims 347 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:46.000 that's the only striper he ever caught. And I believe him, 348 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.000 because we didn't catch many stripers when I was a kid. 349 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:52.480 But my father was going fishing. And as he's driving 350 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:56.480 down Montauk Highway, which runs the south it's the south 351 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:59.640 shore of Long Island. You're like a mile away from 352 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:02.640 the which is the bay and then the ocean. And 353 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:06.240 he got a flat tire in his Mustang sixty five 354 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:09.279 Mustang flat tire. What does he do? Takes his tackle box, 355 00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:12.839 his fishing pole, puts his knife in his back pocket, 356 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:17.599 and begins to walk down a street polled Snetecore Avenue. 357 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:20.400 And he kept walking and there was nothing but lots 358 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:24.799 and an occasional house here and there, lots and reeds 359 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:30.359 and weeds and hills and there the street turns into sand, 360 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:32.839 and the sand turns into the bake. And he fished there. 361 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:35.200 But while he was fishing, as he walked back, he 362 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:38.279 noticed a home, a model home that he thought would 363 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:41.240 be a great deal for us to all leave Brooklyn 364 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:45.759 in and live in. And it was twenty four thousand dollars, 365 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:51.440 this beautiful four bedroom house, really with a great yard. 366 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:55.160 I mean, just a perfect house across from a school, beautiful. 367 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:00.960 And we pulled our money, my father's money. Mary chipped in, 368 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:04.920 my father's father chipped in. We all live together. And 369 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:09.119 but it's amazing, like where do people end up and 370 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:12.240 why do they end up where they are? Something as 371 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:16.440 crazy as a flat tire can change so many lives. 372 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:20.359 That flat tire, which I'm sure he cursed, although he 373 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:23.599 still got his gear on one fishing that flat tire. 374 00:21:24.519 --> 00:21:29.599 Think of the lives it changed, the reverberations. Is that 375 00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:33.599 a word to use? The ripple effects, so to speak? 376 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:39.319 You know what I mean? Anyhow, I know I'm going 377 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:44.519 everywhere with this, but uh, I feel like I have 378 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:47.359 to some a storytelling bug me. I'm reading a story 379 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:52.559 about a cruise ship and the fact that some people 380 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:56.160 on the cruise ship, mainly women or all women, like 381 00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:59.960 to stuff their key, their pass key, in their brother 382 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:03.839 I have no problem. It's called a sea pass. They 383 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:07.039 put it in their bras, And apparently now the people 384 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:09.599 around these cruise ships are not happy with the fact 385 00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:14.640 that these women are putting their passes in their bra 386 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:18.920 and not wearing a lanyard. Nobody looks good with a lanyard. 387 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:21.319 You feel like you're in a fucking conference. You went 388 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:24.640 to Pittsburgh for the conference. You're all staying at Holliday 389 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:28.599 in Hoo. Did Helen blow after the party? You know 390 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:31.400 what that's like. No, fuck lanyards, You're not in a 391 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:35.359 rock and roll concert. Put the pass between your tit 392 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:38.480 and your bra. And by the way, men love this. 393 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:41.119 If a woman gives me a If I work at 394 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:43.359 hotel and here's my kid, it's not working, and I 395 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:45.640 know I'm touching something that was just on her tit, 396 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:51.640 I know we're ridiculous, We're stupid, we're monkeys. We don't understand. 397 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:55.920 We just we react. So this is on her body, 398 00:22:56.599 --> 00:23:00.720 it's got her sweat. Ha. Don't forget my asshol who 399 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:03.000 bought the alarm clock that the woman down the block 400 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:05.119 from my house we called the whore, used to hit 401 00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:07.880