Speaker 1: From Workhouse Connect and AJ Benza fame Uh he'd liked
Speaker 1: to be walked on a leash and play really dirty
Speaker 1: kinky sex games. Is uh the guy put the cock
Speaker 1: in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, hey everybody, AJ Benzi
Speaker 1: here with fame as a bitch. This is your daily
Speaker 1: unfiltered podcast or November fifth, twenty twenty five. One one
Speaker 1: oh five, two oh two five nice. The fives are good.
Speaker 1: We like five. Five's mean thing and mean things in
Speaker 1: the whole numbers universe. Can't remember why five is so important.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to google it now, but I know
Speaker 1: when I used to hang out with Lenny Kravitz, he
Speaker 1: loved the number five. He had a pendent on his
Speaker 1: neck that had a five on it. I just remember
Speaker 1: stupid details like that. But we are in November, almost
Speaker 1: a weekend. It's happening pretty quickly. By the way, Only
Speaker 1: one of you, only one of you, And I'm really
Speaker 1: upset about this. Out of all the people who listen
Speaker 1: to my show and know what I think, and only
Speaker 1: one of you told me that October was dwarf Ism
Speaker 1: Awaren Awareness Month, and you just did you act like
Speaker 1: that's not important. Aj doesn't need to know this a
Speaker 1: month dedicated to raising awareness and promoting inclusion for people
Speaker 1: who are dwarfs like Selena Gomez and Denny Blanco and
Speaker 1: come on. The Little People of America established US back
Speaker 1: in twenty or nine because they wanted to share positive
Speaker 1: stories and information about the lives of people with dwarfism.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you can call it dwarfism. Dwarfism. Pride Month also
Speaker 1: includes International Dwarfism Awareness Day. I dad, that's October twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: The point is, no one told me, but k okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm looking trying to find your whole name.
Speaker 1: I know it's you got k L k You got
Speaker 1: like three three k's in your name of some shit.
Speaker 1: You're very, very wonderful patron and you're always k l
Speaker 1: tyl God. Your name is crazy baby, it really is.
Speaker 1: But k L Kyle told me that, and none of
Speaker 1: you did. I forgive you. By the way, Can I
Speaker 1: just I'm gonna read you something really quickly because you
Speaker 1: know how I feel about great words. Why can I
Speaker 1: talk right today? You know how I feel about great words,
Speaker 1: and when they go together, it just makes oh, it
Speaker 1: makes magic. Obviously, I have a ton of books that
Speaker 1: I have in different parts of my house, and every
Speaker 1: day I knew one turns up and I go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love this book. Shit. And now that rot tho
Speaker 1: is looking to read and it's more interested in novels,
Speaker 1: I'm really looking for stuff for him to read. I
Speaker 1: came across this book by the great writer Rick Bragg.
Speaker 1: Rick Bragg wrote a book called all Over but the
Speaker 1: Shouting Oh, and then he wrote a book a follow
Speaker 1: up called Ava's Man. Oh, It's so good. This guy
Speaker 1: grew up in a deep South, kind of like a JD.
Speaker 1: Van's story Appalachian foothills kind of shit. But listen to this,
Speaker 1: by the way, a gang. If anybody out there thinks
Speaker 1: the first sentence of your book doesn't matter, let me
Speaker 1: give you his first sentence of his book. She was
Speaker 1: old all my life period? Can you see her? Do
Speaker 1: you understand where this story is gonna go? Six words?
Speaker 1: Even when I was sitting in face, even when I
Speaker 1: was sitting in the red dirt, fascinated with my own toes,
Speaker 1: Ava's face had a line in it. For every hot
Speaker 1: mile she ever walked, for every fit she ever threw.
Speaker 1: Her hand was long and blackest crows streaked with white
Speaker 1: in her eyes behind the ancient yellow glass of around
Speaker 1: spectacles were pale, pale blue, almost silver. The blind have
Speaker 1: eyes like that that color. But Ava could see fine.
Speaker 1: Ava could see forever. She could tell you your fortune
Speaker 1: by gazing into the dreads of your coffee cup, and
Speaker 1: swore that at the bottoms of your feet, itch, you'd
Speaker 1: walk on strange ground. She'd be gentle as a baby
Speaker 1: bird and sweet as divinity candy. But if her prescription
Speaker 1: was off, or if she got mad, she would sit
Speaker 1: bolt upright in bed at three o'clock in the morning
Speaker 1: and dog caused anyone who came to mind, including the dead.
Speaker 1: Some days she would doze in a rocker and speak
Speaker 1: softly the people that I cannot find even by looking
Speaker 1: under the porch. Now I know, I was just listening
Speaker 1: to her dreams. Excuse me, oh God, Yes, I like
Speaker 1: to entertain on this show. I like to entertain and
Speaker 1: and and give you information you can run with and
Speaker 1: tell your friends. But things like that, we've got to
Speaker 1: stop and pause and just go wow, how spectacular. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Today. It's an election day and
Speaker 1: in our great country, and New York City is going
Speaker 1: through it. It's going through it. They are this close
Speaker 1: to awarding the mayor's position to an outright socialist. Uh
Speaker 1: piece of shit, I'm sorry, a piece of shit Muslim
Speaker 1: who can't stand Jews, can't stand Italians. He wanted a
Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus statue. You've gone, hates cops. He wants to
Speaker 1: fund the police. He's bringing up all sorts of shit
Speaker 1: that he thinks he can do to New York City. Andy,
Speaker 1: He's hours away from winning. Okay, this is where we're
Speaker 1: at in this world. And by the way, this motherfucker
Speaker 1: excuse my French. I know yesterday's show got I was
Speaker 1: very emotional. I told you on the on the upswing
Speaker 1: of the show that I had a couple of drinks
Speaker 1: the night before, and that's why, you know I said
Speaker 1: what I said. And I know maybe some of you
Speaker 1: get disappointed when you hear that, and you go, oh,
Speaker 1: aj fuck, why isn't he in a meeting? Why isn't
Speaker 1: he a sponsor? I get all of it. I've done
Speaker 1: very well without that whole thing. I'm not gonna call
Speaker 1: it nonsense. It just it just never felt good to me.
Speaker 1: Good enough. Put it that way. I've been to a
Speaker 1: thousand meetings, not a thousand, been to one hundred meetings.
Speaker 1: I get it, it's good. And then I just feel like,
Speaker 1: why am I still sitting with these people and hearing
Speaker 1: the same horrible, sob stories about why their lives were ruined.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this anymore. I want to
Speaker 1: get out of this. That's just my personal thing. So yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes I drink and it's not good. Well I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say it's not good. It just I bring it to you,
Speaker 1: you know why, Because what's more important to me than
Speaker 1: AA is that I have to answer to you, guys.
Speaker 1: I have to answer to hundreds of you who care
Speaker 1: about me and wonder about me. And when I'm able
Speaker 1: to tell you the truth, it just it's such a
Speaker 1: good feeling. And I want you to know that you,
Speaker 1: guys are are a bigger help than any support group
Speaker 1: you might think people need when it comes to alcoholism.
Speaker 1: Whatever the fuck I'm serious. Okay, So you maybe get
Speaker 1: disappointed for a day or two or three, whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck I'm telling you. You mean so much to me
Speaker 1: that I can come and tell you that goddamn truth.
Speaker 1: That's it's invaluable. Anyhow, we got Zoran Mom, Donnie and
Speaker 1: near a city. Who's gonna beat Cuomo and unfortunately gonna
Speaker 1: be Curtis Sleever who oh, if I have my brothers,
Speaker 1: Curtis would win. I'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 1: But this asshole among other things, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: spend more than a minute on this. It's politics, so
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. There's plenty to talk about today.
Speaker 1: But you know this guy wants free bus fair He's
Speaker 1: telling everybody free buses in Manhattan. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many of you have ever ridden a bus in Manhattan. I,
Speaker 1: for one, only did it once. I forget even why.
Speaker 1: It's a miserable existence. It's a horrible way to travel.
Speaker 1: I mean, subways are good, they're fast, but getting down
Speaker 1: there and being next to crazy people is scary. Cabs
Speaker 1: takes so long, they're so expensive. You sit in traffic,
Speaker 1: you can walk faster. Typically the cab driver usually it
Speaker 1: used to be that way before Giuliani came in and
Speaker 1: cracked down. And what they carried in their trunk, what
Speaker 1: they ate on their lap. Oh, big changes, big changes,
Speaker 1: but uh, free bus fire. Let Let me enlighten anybody
Speaker 1: who's thinking this could be a great thing. No, it's
Speaker 1: not a great thing. You know why, guys, charging a
Speaker 1: fare for a bus ride is what separates us from
Speaker 1: the animals. It separates us from the Anamali. We can't
Speaker 1: be around those people. Whatever culture you want to call it, black, white, Latin,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. We have crazies in every culture in
Speaker 1: New York on the prowl. But charging of fair meant that, well,
Speaker 1: you can't go past the bus driver because you don't
Speaker 1: have the money. And this country has been overrun with
Speaker 1: animals from all sorts of shithole countries around the world,
Speaker 1: far f fun places you and I would never even
Speaker 1: dream of going to. We wouldn't. I wouldn't even look
Speaker 1: at a catalog of that country, let alone live there.
Speaker 1: But people jump on buses because there's no fear that.
Speaker 1: They're typically homeless people, or drug addicts or maniacs, troublemakers
Speaker 1: looking for an easy mark. Yes, sometimes they want to
Speaker 1: escape the brutal cold of New York City at night.
Speaker 1: Understandable they do that in Penn Station and Grand Central Station.
Speaker 1: They sleep on the Giuliani fix that as well. I
Speaker 1: used to step over to Well, we call them bums
Speaker 1: back then. I think that word's got to come back
Speaker 1: because people need to know that you're a bump. You're
Speaker 1: a bump. You're not housing challenged, Okay, you're not homeless.
Speaker 1: You're a fucking bum because you stop working, you take drugs,
Speaker 1: you get drunk every fucking day, you rob people. You're
Speaker 1: a bum. Can we bring that back? Can we bring
Speaker 1: that word back? And schoolyard bullies, can they make another appearance?
Speaker 1: Because people need to know what the fuck they're doing
Speaker 1: wrong in life. And it takes a bully to tell
Speaker 1: a kid you're doing it wrong. Fuck you. It just
Speaker 1: takes a schoolyard fight. So much can change in your
Speaker 1: life in a great way. You have not you have face.
Speaker 1: Look hit you the jaw, your teeth, hurt, your ears ache,
Speaker 1: I get it. I've been punched. It sucks, you get
Speaker 1: over it, but you know it sticks the lesson. The
Speaker 1: lesson sticks in your head and you'll never not see
Speaker 1: that guy's face who punched you because he drilled in
Speaker 1: a message into your head. Very important. These are big
Speaker 1: moments in life. You can take that away from from people.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. People jump on buses to escape the cold,
Speaker 1: to to have withdrawals from their drugs and just to
Speaker 1: cause shit and try to find somebody to rock. And
Speaker 1: as they're laying sitting on those bus seats and they're
Speaker 1: starting to get warm. Now they've been traveling for thirty
Speaker 1: forty fifty minutes. Now they're looking to get you. They're
Speaker 1: looking out jack you for your money, for your bag,
Speaker 1: for your phone, whatever the hell it is. You cannot
Speaker 1: have free buses in Manhattan. There's just one little angle
Speaker 1: about Zoran mom Donnie, that is impossible. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I think I said that yesterday. Maybe I did, but
Speaker 1: I'll tell you now, this motherfucker has never it's never
Speaker 1: been an American flag. And any one of his adverts
Speaker 1: I read that. I can't sit here and say that.
Speaker 1: I looked at every advertisement. I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: read it in two different places. And if that's the
Speaker 1: case in New York City, what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1: And all you young people who think this is the
Speaker 1: new way to go, we want this. Oh, he's going
Speaker 1: to be great. I see people like stupid Nandy Petink,
Speaker 1: you know I never liked, can't stand him. Thinks he's
Speaker 1: a singer. He sounds like my answer in two parts,
Speaker 1: saying him and his wife. We are supporting Zoran with
Speaker 1: this is the man for New York. I can't believe
Speaker 1: what I'm seeing. But you know what New York have
Speaker 1: at it? You got yourself a Muslim whose father and
Speaker 1: grandfather I'm sure had sex with goats in the hills
Speaker 1: of some piece of shit country. They're from Uganda. What
Speaker 1: have you? We got a guy who's thirty six who's
Speaker 1: never really had a job, okay, and and from you Gonda,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna tell New York City how to live.
Speaker 1: And I know Curtis Sleever gets a lot of shit.
Speaker 1: Most of you have no idea Curtis Sleeber. You know
Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo because he's got the name and he was around.
Speaker 1: He got blamed for old people dying and nursing comes
Speaker 1: during COVID. He's a piece of shit. I told you
Speaker 1: him and his brother Chris Clomo the biggest phony Italians
Speaker 1: in the world. I was proved right. One lost a job,
Speaker 1: the other one got fucking thrown out. Just I'm always
Speaker 1: right when it comes Italians and how they act and
Speaker 1: if they're real or not. They're not. But I'll tell
Speaker 1: you right now, Curtisliva, most of you don't know. Back
Speaker 1: in the I'm gonna say late seventies, this fucking guy
Speaker 1: was working the night shift and either a McDonald's or
Speaker 1: a Burger King in the Bronx an overnight shift. Do
Speaker 1: you have any idea what that's like? Do you have
Speaker 1: any idea what it's like? I don't know where you live.
Speaker 1: You can live in a great, little, beautiful community and yeah,
Speaker 1: you get to McDonald's or a Burger King or White
Speaker 1: Castle and it's fine. There's no problem in the Bronx overnight.
Speaker 1: Curtis Sliva is man in the fry machine. He's given
Speaker 1: out burgers. He's got a crew of four or five
Speaker 1: people he works with, nobody decides to do. Crime was
Speaker 1: so rampan in New York. This is what I really was,
Speaker 1: deciding what I want to do with my life. And
Speaker 1: I remember seeing crime and drugs everywhere. And I would
Speaker 1: go to Manhattan and just I was enchanted by the danger,
Speaker 1: enchanted by seeing bums and people with hypodermic needles in
Speaker 1: their toes and in their arms, fast asleep on a stoop.
Speaker 1: I just thought, oh my god, this is so scary.
Speaker 1: I want to be in this horror movie. I want
Speaker 1: to be here. I want to write about it. I
Speaker 1: want to be next to these people. I couldn't take it.
Speaker 1: It was such a pull. Get out of Long Island,
Speaker 1: leave the safe harbors of Long Island and get to
Speaker 1: the city where it's dirty and mean and dangerous. Get
Speaker 1: there and tell some stories. And that's a Curtis sleep
Speaker 1: with it. Back then, it was so nasty and dark
Speaker 1: and dangerous. He motivated him and a few of his
Speaker 1: people he worked with to ride the subways at night
Speaker 1: with t shirts that said Guardian Angels and Red Berets.
Speaker 1: I know it kind of looks silly that he's still
Speaker 1: wearing the red beret. And he's probably close to seventy
Speaker 1: right now. I'm sixty three. Curtis has to be I
Speaker 1: want to say, sixty eight, sixty nine, whatever the hell
Speaker 1: he is, maybe older, I don't know. He was married
Speaker 1: to a beautiful woman named Lisa sleeve Was. She was
Speaker 1: also a Guardian Angel. I ended up dating her after
Speaker 1: they divorced, so I know a lot about Curtis. She
Speaker 1: always spoke very highly of him, and is his determination
Speaker 1: to make New York a better place. Him and his
Speaker 1: friends and Lisa would ride the subway at God awful hours,
Speaker 1: armed with nothing, but they're berets to make sure people
Speaker 1: got to their designated spots without getting hurt. Jack robbed, mummed.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of guy you want to run the
Speaker 1: city because he loves it so much. But it's too late.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna win, and his fucking Muslim is gonna win.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you right now, if you think you
Speaker 1: haven't heard the Muslim call for prayer often enough, get
Speaker 1: ready in New York. Oh, it's gonna be playing five
Speaker 1: times a fucking day. And while you're at it, by
Speaker 1: yourself a small piece of carpet and try to find
Speaker 1: where the mosque is, is an east west, whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck they pray? Get ready, Never forget nine to eleven. Never, Oh,
Speaker 1: you forgot it. You forgot it, because now you've got
Speaker 1: a Muslim's gonna run the fucking city. You forgot it
Speaker 1: makes me sick. On a different topic, I thought of
Speaker 1: something this morning that I just thought it laughing. So
Speaker 1: remember water Picks. Remember there was a No one has
Speaker 1: a show like this. Nobody goes from the passionate plea
Speaker 1: of a Muslim running New York to the memory of
Speaker 1: water Picks in our bathtost But do you remember you remember, like, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: there's a new thing. It's a water pick. What does
Speaker 1: it mean. Well, you take this toothbrush type thing and
Speaker 1: you fill it up with water in this machine that
Speaker 1: sits in your bathroom. It was like a twelve inch
Speaker 1: machine maybe seven inches high, and had water and a
Speaker 1: bunch of different picks, and the pick was attached to
Speaker 1: a wire and you squirk water in between your teeth.
Speaker 1: This is before dental flows, and water would fly everywhere
Speaker 1: in your bedroom, hit the mirror, hit the sink, hit
Speaker 1: the floor, but you left going it. Ooh, my teeth
Speaker 1: feels so fresh, my ass fresh. It was the stupidest
Speaker 1: invention ever. I don't know why I threw to the
Speaker 1: water picks, how bad, because I started thinking about, you know,
Speaker 1: me with memories, and I love the memory of my youth,
Speaker 1: and I just love that. And you think about like,
Speaker 1: I remember one day, I very rarely have a beer,
Speaker 1: but I think I was at Rosalies years ago and hot,
Speaker 1: hot day, cold cold beer. Yeah, ma, have a beer,
Speaker 1: and I drank it. And after it was over, I
Speaker 1: had the long neck corona to my nose and I
Speaker 1: smelled inside the bottle. You know what happened to me,
Speaker 1: not while I was drinking it, but when I smelled
Speaker 1: the inside of that bottle. So many high school men
Speaker 1: memories came back because so many of them are tied
Speaker 1: to the smell of beer. You know, all the fun, crazy, silly,
Speaker 1: wild times we had, typically beer was involved. And it's
Speaker 1: amazing what your sense of smell can do to your
Speaker 1: brain to bring you back to that era. Like I
Speaker 1: was cleaning the bathtub the other day and I, you know,
Speaker 1: I throw ajax in there. And let me tell you,
Speaker 1: the best way to clean your bathtub, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: used Dawn dish soap. Now a Now, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: Dawn Dish shall on a bathtub is fantastic. But I
Speaker 1: drew comment in there and I'm scrubbing it, and I
Speaker 1: smelled it a Jackson the Comet at the Comet, and
Speaker 1: I drew a little bleach in the water, and you
Speaker 1: know what it brought me back to. It brought me
Speaker 1: back to New York City very late at night when
Speaker 1: we used to go see the Hookers, and we'd stop
Speaker 1: into show World, which was a big kind of a
Speaker 1: place in Tire I'm square where you walk in and
Speaker 1: you put a dollar into these machines and see stag films.
Speaker 1: They were called stag film. You guys don't even know
Speaker 1: what that is. Most of you little porto shorts. And
Speaker 1: you go in this booth and a place called show World.
Speaker 1: You'd go in a booth and I think it was
Speaker 1: a buck. You put a buck in and you'd sit
Speaker 1: down on this ugly stool and this the wall you
Speaker 1: were looking at, would open up. It would go up,
Speaker 1: and now you're looking into this room the size of
Speaker 1: a modern day living room. You know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: fifteen by fifteen foot eleven the fuck it was round,
Speaker 1: and there were girls there laying down, touching themselves, rubbing
Speaker 1: their bodies, you know, moaning, writhing, and they'd come to
Speaker 1: your window and talk to you. And you're a sixteen
Speaker 1: seventeen year old kid. It's very daunting. It's scary, like well,
Speaker 1: then a sayless girl. You know, I can't remember what
Speaker 1: I said, but these girls knew we were kids, and
Speaker 1: they try to get more money out of us. Oh,
Speaker 1: if you put more money in, why do you see
Speaker 1: what I do? And next time, and then after like
Speaker 1: talking to them for a minute, the door would slam
Speaker 1: shut you couldn't see them anymore, and you're like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I gotta give me a CHEEKO, give me another dollar.
Speaker 1: I'm out. Come on, Kenny, you got a dollar, I
Speaker 1: gotta And you put it on a dollar and the
Speaker 1: door would open up and she's there again talking to you.
Speaker 1: It was insane. It was like speed dating with whores.
Speaker 1: Not that we'd never be with them or walk away
Speaker 1: with them, but that was their chop. And it smelled
Speaker 1: in those little rooms of Clorox and bleach because I
Speaker 1: remember seeing the guys come around with their bucket and
Speaker 1: the mop, because older men would masturbate in those little
Speaker 1: rooms and just let it fly on the floor. Oh
Speaker 1: it was horrible, but what a right of passage? Ah, guys,
Speaker 1: who does shows like this? I don't think anybody. I
Speaker 1: really don't. Yesterday I got a package of six beautiful
Speaker 1: bottles of extra virgin olive oil from a patron Jeffrey Wick.
Speaker 1: Tremendous guy went to Italy with this girl. They had
Speaker 1: a tremendous trip. You have no idea. He told me
Speaker 1: what they did, where they went, where they drove. Guys
Speaker 1: spared no expense. As a matter of fact, he tells
Speaker 1: me I'm gonna get you some olive oil because he
Speaker 1: came across the place that has Benza olive oil. I said, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm related to those people. My cousin Orlean got in
Speaker 1: touch with them. I had this oil twenty five years
Speaker 1: ago in my house and I told him the story. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: he sent me six beautiful bottles. It's so expensive I got.
Speaker 1: I got a text from the from DHL saying you
Speaker 1: owe three hundred and seventy something bucks for I said, Jeff, bro,
Speaker 1: I don't know what did you pay this kind of money.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, I got it. Don't worry about it, I said,
Speaker 1: they want for me, No, no, I took care of it.
Speaker 1: These are the kind of people I got with the
Speaker 1: Fame family. You're all amazing. You're just amazing people. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, how beautiful you are. And thank you for
Speaker 1: going to aj Beenza dot substat dot com and not
Speaker 1: only reading my stories of my upcoming book, but subscribing.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's ten bucks a month or
Speaker 1: a hundred bucks of a year, the fact that you
Speaker 1: do it, Oh God, I love you guys. Anyhow, this
Speaker 1: oil is so great. Many years ago I met Ago.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this story. Sorry, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: give you a lot of gossip today. Who gives this shit?
Speaker 1: You know, Sidney Sweeten, you want the silver dress? People
Speaker 1: are mad she looks hot, this Jennifer and is gone public?
Speaker 1: Just what the who cares? So years ago, I'm at Ago,
Speaker 1: the restaurant I went to every night. Ago was owned
Speaker 1: by a number of people. Robert de Niro, Sean penn Uh,
Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein, You owned the piece, Tom Sizemore, A lot
Speaker 1: of people had a piece of I'll go. And I
Speaker 1: was really on the balls of my ass at this point,
Speaker 1: and Roxy was a little baby, and I had very
Speaker 1: little money coming in, and as as a result, I
Speaker 1: was dealing cocaine. I talked to my dealer and said,
Speaker 1: you got to set me up. I'll buy whatever it is,
Speaker 1: an ounce, two ounces, whatever the fuck it is, a kilo,
Speaker 1: I'll buy it. I'll chop it up, help me out.
Speaker 1: I want to move this stuff. And I did, and
Speaker 1: I did, and for I don't know, six seven months.
Speaker 1: It was an easy way to earn money because I
Speaker 1: just learned how to cut it up and put ten
Speaker 1: bottles in my pocket and go buy cab to two
Speaker 1: or three different restaurants. Every waiter, every chef, every hostess,
Speaker 1: they all wanted blow. So I leave and come back
Speaker 1: at night with twenty five hundred dollars cash. It was simple.
Speaker 1: So I'm telling mister Harvey, and he was going through
Speaker 1: shit because he had just like I said. I said, Harvey,
Speaker 1: I know that you're having an affair with this woman, Georgina,
Speaker 1: who later became his wife. I said, I bought a
Speaker 1: painting for you, and I was cooking and pay for it.
Speaker 1: And the girl in West Hollywood says to me, who's
Speaker 1: this force and my buddy, Harvey Weinstein. He's a big producer. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's dating my friend. I said, he's dating your friend.
Speaker 1: And I told Harvey, I said, this woman in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: not West Hollywood, Holliwood. She apparently knows that you're dating
Speaker 1: a woman in England. He goes, it's not true. All right.
Speaker 1: I said, if you need help, let me know. I'll
Speaker 1: help you. He calls back ten minutes later, it's true.
Speaker 1: What do we do? All right, meet me in Ago tonight.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it. So I go to Agle and
Speaker 1: we're hanging out at the table and we're talking about
Speaker 1: the situation, about he's cheating on his wife. And you
Speaker 1: know he was obviously, but at least he went and
Speaker 1: married that woman and had kids with her. But we're
Speaker 1: talking in there, out of nowhere. I've never noticed it.
Speaker 1: A bottle of olive oil and bread gets put on
Speaker 1: the table and it says, Ben's olive oil. I never
Speaker 1: saw that before. Now. I always like to pride myself
Speaker 1: with Harvey, to let him know that I can get
Speaker 1: things done. I'm tough, I'm strong, I got mafia background,
Speaker 1: you know, I got the right people I can love.
Speaker 1: He loved that about me. Aj Can we take this
Speaker 1: guy's legs out? Can we take can we shut this
Speaker 1: guy up? He loved it. So I'm telling him my
Speaker 1: plank of not having enough money. By bah bah, he says.
Speaker 1: I think, Look, you need money, I need help. I
Speaker 1: can pay you ten thousand dollars a month. I want
Speaker 1: you to supply my girls at the PR firm, I
Speaker 1: mean at my job. All the PR girls give them
Speaker 1: gossip every day so that whenever people call to find
Speaker 1: out about my affair, they can trade with them quid
Speaker 1: pro quo and give them gossip that's better than my story.
Speaker 1: And I did. I fucking I wasn't doing gossip anymore.
Speaker 1: But I sat there and I hit the phones and
Speaker 1: I got I broke huge stories that no one did.
Speaker 1: Roger Clemons on steroids, you have no idea. I broke
Speaker 1: huge stories, and I gave multa Harvey's PR team. And
Speaker 1: then at the end of the day, you got a
Speaker 1: j perfect But you need help. I need help, you
Speaker 1: need money. I'll give you ten thousand a month. Oh
Speaker 1: you're good, I said, Harvey. We're good to go. And
Speaker 1: that's the way it went for ten months, and one
Speaker 1: day he says, I think the worst has passed. I
Speaker 1: think I'm in a clear Do you mind if we stop?
Speaker 1: I said, no, fucking finish paying me. But I said no,
Speaker 1: I'm only kidd and of course we're fine. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about it. And you know, eighty thousand dollars to give
Speaker 1: him and his people some gossip thing. But this is
Speaker 1: what he was like. So it's but when the olive
Speaker 1: OI hit the table, I remember going, I got to
Speaker 1: use this. I got to use my acting. I got
Speaker 1: to improve this. He said, are you sure you can
Speaker 1: get this done? I said, Harvey, I can get a
Speaker 1: lot of things done. I said, take a look at
Speaker 1: the oil. This is your restaurant, right, Yeah, I own
Speaker 1: a piece. I said, look at the oil you serve.
Speaker 1: He looks at it. Ben's a olive oil. I said,
Speaker 1: that's my family, that's my people, all right. So I
Speaker 1: could tell I was talking out of my ass. But
Speaker 1: the prospect of him paying me that kind of money
Speaker 1: to just, you know, to keep him out of the paper,
Speaker 1: keep his affair out of the papers, I felt like
Speaker 1: a million bucks. And he was like, oh, well, it's
Speaker 1: just your family. I said, yeah, of course it is
Speaker 1: my family. And I've since come to learn. My cousin
Speaker 1: Aleen went further and actually had conversations with this company
Speaker 1: and we all related in an off way, like you know,
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you who's who, but yeah, we figured
Speaker 1: out that we're related. And I think it's great. If
Speaker 1: I were to be related to anybody or any person,
Speaker 1: it would be a company in Italy who makes extra
Speaker 1: virgin olive oil, because that's the beginning of all my food,
Speaker 1: every dish I make. Ah, so great.
Speaker 2: You know what, guys, the fucking landscapers are here. Maybe
Speaker 2: you can't hear them, but I can of drive me crazy.
Speaker 2: The windows are shut, but I can hear them. I'm
Speaker 2: twenty nine minutes and change in. I'm probably gonna call
Speaker 2: it two oh five.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick up Rocco before three, So I apologize.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a longer show tomorrow because I have
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about. Amy Schumer is stealing jokes. No,
Speaker 1: I have a lot of things. We're gonna get into
Speaker 1: that you'll laugh and have a good time about a
Speaker 1: song I heard on the radio I haven't heard for years,
Speaker 1: and what it did to me, what it did to
Speaker 1: my head, Howard kicked in memories. You'll get the same
Speaker 1: feeling once I tell you the song. I know you
Speaker 1: forgot about it, but there's a lot more to talk about.
Speaker 1: I apologize. Today's an in and out thirty minute show.
Speaker 1: Like I said, tomorrow, you'll get forty five to fifty
Speaker 1: maybe more. So bear with me. But thank you for
Speaker 1: letting me be honest yesterday and tell you that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the night before I had a couple of drinks. That's
Speaker 1: how my voice sounded like shit. I'm so happy and
Speaker 1: honored that I can talk to you guys that way
Speaker 1: and be so honest and not be criticized and not
Speaker 1: be chastised because we all go through shit. Man. We're
Speaker 1: all facing shit right. Maybe not a firing squad, but
Speaker 1: we're all sitting there every day, standing up, Paul and
Speaker 1: straight and trying to get through the day. So thank
Speaker 1: you for letting me be honest. I love you, so
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you tomorrow.