WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.919 From Workhouse Connect and aj Benza fame. He'd liked to 2 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:09.640 be walked on a leash and play really dirty, kinky 3 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:12.839 sex games. Is uh the guy put the cock in 4 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:17.879 the peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody aj Benzi here 5 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:20.519 with fame, is it? Bitch? This is your daily Unfiltered 6 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:25.920 podcast for December sixth, twenty twenty four. Sorry about yesterday, gang, 7 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:31.719 I'll get into the whole luggage, airport mishap, what have you. 8 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:34.280 Of course it happens to me, you know, it just 9 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:39.640 everything worked out. But you know, just when I thought 10 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:43.719 it was going to be a nice, smooth day, bang, nope, 11 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:47.359 God said, nope. Hey, just a minute, I got some 12 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:50.799 interesting stuff to put you through today, to see how 13 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:57.880 you get through it. Anyhow, weekends upon us. I guess 14 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:00.359 a lot of you would decorate in the tree. When 15 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.600 I was out of town in Vegas, the kids, uh 16 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.680 said Dad, I want to put the tree up. All right, 17 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:09.159 it's in the closet. They couldn't find it because they 18 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:11.560 didn't move the coats out of the way. You know, 19 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:13.799 I can't get mad because I've been I'm the same 20 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:15.599 way with a lot of things. I'm looking for something 21 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:17.640 Where did you put the way I leave on? Where's 22 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:20.680 my keys? Did you see my sneakers? It's we're all 23 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:23.400 the same, we just don't look as hard as we could. 24 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:25.159 So the kids put the tree up. I come home, 25 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:28.920 trees up looking good. No lights are left on, the 26 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:32.519 heat was off. You know. The kitchen was clean, just 27 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:34.280 as I told them to leave it when I got back. 28 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.000 So I feel good. I got some lights and Christmas bulls. 29 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:40.760 We got stuff in storage? Can I tell you I 30 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:43.480 just get I don't want to. I don't want to 31 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:47.879 go to storage. I already got a smaller unit that's 32 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:51.239 only two hundred a month, not like the nine hundred 33 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:53.840 dollars a month nott I was paying for all the bullshit. 34 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:58.480 So I transferred three quarters of stuff from the expensive 35 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:03.280 unit into the smaller unit. And that'll be great to 36 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:06.799 not pay that nuts every month. But I don't feel 37 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:10.240 like going back there. I don't like storage. Just it's 38 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:13.319 like going back to all memories, some of which are 39 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:17.400 very bad, and or just I don't need the memory, 40 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:21.000 Like why am I looking at roxy shoes when she 41 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:23.280 was seven years old? What are we keeping these for? 42 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:27.759 The other one? A little bit of a hoarder when 43 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:32.039 it comes to keeping shit. I understand pictures certain outfits, 44 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:34.759 but once you know there's not gonna be another baby, 45 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:37.560 and once you know, you can't always think I'm gonna 46 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.360 give this outfit to my son's next child. All right, 47 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:42.639 how many things are we gonna keep? You know what 48 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:44.439 I mean? It's just too much. So when I go 49 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.599 to storage, I get like, ugh, I don't like, I 50 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:51.360 get and throw it out mode. I just do you know, 51 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:54.199 I don't, I just you know, Like, we have an 52 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:57.000 air mattress here. So when I first got here, before 53 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:59.840 things were set up, I put an air mattress down, 54 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:03.080 rocked out his mattress. So for a night I slept 55 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:06.560 on air mattress. He slept on his mattress and the 56 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.879 air mattress. By the time I was waking up, I 57 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:12.639 was like part of my body was on the wooden floor, 58 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:16.439 you know what I mean, Like there was leaking air 59 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:20.199 and through the night if you roll over, twist and turn. 60 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:24.240 Basically I was sleeping on a bunch of plastic. So 61 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:26.879 I said, I'm throwing this out. I don't want Okay, 62 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:29.319 it's a leaky air mattress. I'm never gonna fix it. 63 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:34.039 Things that I'm never gonna repair, one of which is 64 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:36.840 a leaky air match. I wouldn't repair a leaky boat 65 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:41.120 right now. I'd get rid of that. Anyhow, I'm going 66 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:43.840 a good move. I don't mean to dump all these 67 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:47.879 problems on you people. Let's talk about something that's on 68 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:51.120 the minds of a lot of people in America. This 69 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:57.840 United Healthcare executive being shot in Manhattan. No one at 70 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:00.599 this point really knows the motive. I know you guys 71 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:04.719 put this on the podcast Obsess page, but I was 72 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:08.759 blocked from that page until Thursday because of the picture 73 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:11.280 I put up of Roxy and Rocco running around the 74 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:15.639 lawn in a bikini and a diaper. I was canceled 75 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:18.839 from Facebook for a week, so I couldn't comment. But 76 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:23.399 I will tell you the guy that killed Brian Thompson, 77 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:27.560 this big CEO. Look, I'm not going to be shocked 78 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:31.600 if this guy, you know, was somebody in his family 79 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:35.600 was denied medical coverage, you know what I mean? Maybe 80 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.759 somebody who there was no money coming in for coverage. 81 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:41.439 They have to spend all their money. Maybe they went 82 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:46.720 bankrupt because this company probably failed to cover a serious illness, 83 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:53.240 as many many healthcare companies do. I think there's I 84 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:56.560 think the ratio is one in seven claims for treatment 85 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:03.399 don't go through. Is that right? They fail to cover? 86 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:07.879 That's that's that's terrible, that's really that's I mean, I mean, 87 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:11.040 we've all been with people who are dying, and many 88 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:15.000 of you have insurance, some don't. Some insurance's lapse at times. 89 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.199 That's happened to me when I had Screen Actors Guild insurance. 90 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:22.560 It's great insurance, it's it's wonderful, But you know Screen 91 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.560 Actors Guild. When it comes to insurance, you've got to 92 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:28.279 make a certain amount of money each quarter of the year. 93 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.120 And if you know, you didn't do a movie or so, 94 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:34.800 and your residuals are getting smaller, if you don't meet 95 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:38.240 the criteria amount of money for one quarter of a year, 96 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:40.759 they'll dump your insurance. So you know, you're not really 97 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:43.519 thinking about it. That's why a lot of people that 98 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:45.800 are in the business will contact friends and go, look, 99 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:47.279 I just I don't care if you put me on 100 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:49.920 the show for two days, I need my insurance coverage. 101 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:52.639 It's gonna lapse. I'm gonna lose coverage. And a lot 102 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:54.839 of older people get in movies like that because they 103 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:57.560 need a favor. You can't asker that favor when you're 104 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:00.519 thirty thirty five. It's a little ridiculous, but it happens. 105 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.560 Insurance's laps and you get stuck with a big fucking bill. 106 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:09.120 And two hundred million Americans rely on private health insurance. 107 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:13.959 But sometimes they become very, very seriously ill, and they're 108 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:17.600 left with medical bills that are destroying them. They're not 109 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:22.040 got any the best treatment. And I read someplace that 110 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:27.279 people who have really really high medical bills. Forty percent 111 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:32.399 of bankruptcies are due to extremely high medical bills. And 112 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:36.680 you know, there are people out there who listen. They 113 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:40.360 want to settle that squabble pretty quick. And you know 114 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:45.920 there there are There are six major insurance companies. Anthem Signa, 115 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.439 United Health is one of the biggest. I think, I 116 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:51.399 think it is the biggest. But these these companies have 117 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:56.000 like trillions of dollars, you know, and and sometimes they 118 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:58.480 well I don't to tell you, guys know what insurance 119 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:01.160 companies can do. I'm sure you've had experience with them. 120 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:06.240 I'm not saying the killer was certainly okay with killing Thompson, 121 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:12.879 but these healthcare companies, I could see people getting their 122 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:16.279 anger up and doing something that they normally wouldn't do. 123 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:19.920 But I'll tell you something right now, Obviously it wasn't 124 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:22.079 a professional hit. The guy shot him in the back 125 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:25.920 and the caf the gun malfunction. No, the guy was 126 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.680 not a professional. He was an amateur hired to do 127 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:32.199 this perhaps, or just somebody on his own who thought 128 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:35.920 I could skirt all these laws. I could find this guy. 129 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:38.560 I know where is gonna be. He's getting deposed in 130 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:41.040 this building at this hour. I'm gonna wait and shoot 131 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:43.279 him first. I'm gonna go Starbuck and have a cup 132 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:46.480 of coffee. What's really scary about the world right now? 133 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:51.319 There are cameras everywhere. You're never ever gonna commit the 134 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:56.560 perfect crime anymore. Just with people's ring doorbells in the suburbs, 135 00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:00.839 it's impossible. People see everything. They're a camera everywhere. So 136 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:03.040 thinking you can have a couple, I could have a 137 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:07.959 latte before a murder is a bad idea either way. 138 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:11.759 Here's what I feel. I'm telling you. I listened. I 139 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:15.079 read what his wife said right after the murder, and 140 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:16.920 you know, she was like, yeah, there were threats, there 141 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.199 were definitely threats, but she didn't know nothing about it. 142 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:22.759 And then she was like, I have to tend to 143 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:25.600 my children. They just don't even know what happened. Yet 144 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:29.519 something's off with this, something's off with the wife. It's 145 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:32.279 just it's my gut, it's my gut. I could be wrong. 146 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:36.000 My gut tells me either the wife had something to 147 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:39.559 do with the murder or she knew just tad just 148 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:42.879 what a bad predicament her husband was in. I don't 149 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:45.240 think this is like, oh, I had no idea, And 150 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:48.159 I think she knows exactly what the threats were and 151 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:51.200 who they came from. She does a lot more than 152 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:54.919 what she's saying. But in my gut, I'm not saying 153 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:57.840 she's the one who hired the hit man. It's possible 154 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:04.679 some way. In my gut, I feel she has some 155 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:10.519 knowledge about this. We will see. Now let me clue 156 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:14.279 you in on the airport drama from Vegas to bird Bank. 157 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:18.960 First of all, I had a chaotic uber ride, right. 158 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:21.679 I go down to the lower level of Aria, where 159 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:24.039 I always going to get an uber. And for some reason, 160 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:27.200 because casinos are so close together, they think if you're 161 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.639 down at Aria, they'll go, oh, we're gonna pick you 162 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:33.039 up at the whatever. The hotel is called Vrana of Rada. 163 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:35.919 I forget vr something. I always see it at the 164 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:38.480 window and you go, no, I'm not at that. I'm not. 165 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:42.639 You got a right to uber go No, I'm at Aria. Okay, 166 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.919 are your main entrance? No, I'm at Aria lower level. 167 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:48.960 That takes a while. Then it's like, oh, we're eight 168 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:52.519 hundred feet away. Then we're two miles away, then areo 169 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:55.320 point three miles away. Then it's like we're getting a 170 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:58.519 new car. I don't I cancel the ride. But it's 171 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.799 not canceling. I said, fuck it, I got time. I 172 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.159 always get to the airport. I'll wait. Big black guy 173 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:08.120 shows up in a big black truck. All right, nice 174 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:10.879 aj Yeah, man, Okay, I get in the car, throw 175 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:14.000 the luggage down. I shut the door. The guy turns 176 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:16.440 me and goes, okay, man, you didn't have to slam 177 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:20.279 my door. I said, slam your door, bro, I didn't. 178 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:22.240 I just shut the door. I'm sorry, No, man, you 179 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:26.720 slammed it. Hey man, I'm listen. Let's not argue about this, bro. 180 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:28.960 Look it's a big truck. I got a big car 181 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.919 at home. I just shut the door. Man. Someone one 182 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:33.960 time shut my door on the window came off the 183 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:37.519 track and busted. All right, you know what, you because 184 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.919 of your job, you win, your door must open a 185 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:42.639 hundred times a day. Maybe this isn't your line of work. 186 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:45.440 You know what, Man, I'm pulling over. Do it? Please? 187 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.279 Just let's just stop. Come on, you're in a bad mood. 188 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:50.679 I'm gonna be Let's just come on. Let's just move 189 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:52.919 on now. I'm telling you, man, all right, look, I'm 190 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.759 not gonna fight bro the next red light. Telling you, man, 191 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:58.720 if you know you gotta be careful, I said, look 192 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:01.360 to stop fucking lectric me about your car door. You're 193 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:04.000 an uber driver. People are gonna close your car door 194 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:06.200 one hundred times. You know what, man, I'll pull over. 195 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:09.320 I'll go fuck yourself. Okay, pull over. Make sure you 196 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:11.279 give me a bad review because I'm gonna rip your 197 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:14.679 ass apart of my review. Boom boom, fuck you, fuck 198 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:16.000 you amount of the car. Now. I'm in the middle 199 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:19.919 of the strip in Las Vegas. An Asian guy in 200 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:23.960 another black truck sees me. What happened? You need ride? Yeah, 201 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.720 I'm going to the airport. You're not uber? No, no, 202 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:31.000 I take you? How much? Thirty dollars? All right? Uber 203 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:33.799 was twenty two. Yeah, let's go. Nice guy, Nice Asian 204 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:36.519 guy takes me to the airport. That's the yin and 205 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:39.879 yang of life. Okay. I get to the airport, you know, 206 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:41.480 I like the people watch. I get there an hour 207 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:44.120 and a half earlier, watching people having a sandwich, and 208 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:49.360 I see this big transgender things. He looks like a woman, 209 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:52.399 but it's a man, you know, big, big breast. But 210 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:56.039 the guy's about three hundred and forty five pounds with 211 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:01.440 a sweatsuit on, and he's carrying a white purse a handbag. 212 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.639 Very delicately. I'm like, I look, the guys thinks he's 213 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:07.360 a woman. Whatever the fuck. Okay, I see him pass 214 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:09.039 Viena air put a few times. Now we're in the 215 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:12.279 same area at the gate B twenty. I'm like, oh, 216 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.240 this guy might be on my flight. Then you want 217 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:16.879 up to fly and he is on my flight Southwest 218 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:19.919 where you're rushing like cattle. Find a seat. So I 219 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.120 find my seat. I get a window seat, which I like. 220 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:25.399 Suddenly I see him coming down the out walking sideways 221 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.519 because he's very very heavy. He sees me, I don't 222 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.120 know why. He stops and sits down on the aisle 223 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:32.919 no one's in the middle of thank God, because he 224 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:37.200 was shoot. So I was sitting there and meggan some 225 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:40.240 small talk. What have you. I gotta be honest, I 226 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:44.120 always want to know if if God put a transgender 227 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:47.639 person next to me, Well, that's just my feeling that, Okay, 228 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:49.679 I'm gonna talk to this person and see what's going 229 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:52.639 on and maybe I can learn something. You know, he's 230 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.200 next to me for a reason. So we're talking about 231 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:57.519 whatever stupid shit the weather, and I said to him, 232 00:12:57.519 --> 00:13:01.919 ask you a question, Yeah, and did you know you 233 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:04.679 weren't in the right gender? What did you know your 234 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:08.279 agenda was an issue? He says, Is it that obvious? Said, 235 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:12.519 I'm laughing. I know it's fine. I enjoy talking about it. 236 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:15.120 I said, right, when did you know? He goes, I'll 237 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:18.399 tell you the story. When I was about four or 238 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:22.320 five years old, I saw my mother holding a beautiful 239 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.440 white purse. I don't remember who the designer was, but 240 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:28.639 I was like five years old and I knew I 241 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:31.240 wanted a purse like my mom. I didn't want to 242 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:33.919 play basketball or baseball, and I played those things when 243 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:36.759 I was little. I just wanted to be a woman 244 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:41.519 with a beautiful white handbit. I'm like, wow, well that's 245 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:45.519 I said. One of my bosses as a producer, knew 246 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.120 he was gay when he was like four years old, 247 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:52.399 sitting on the couch at his home in Oaklaw, or Nebraska. 248 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:55.480 In Nebraska, his father was the mayor of some small 249 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:59.720 town out there and you know, church going family, and 250 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:03.600 plumber came in to fix the kitchen sink. And when 251 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:05.720 the plumber walked in with his overalls and his T 252 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:08.679 shirt underneath, he saw my boss, who at this point 253 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:11.799 was you know, five years old, four years old, and 254 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:14.919 he just pinched his cheek like, hey, little boy, like 255 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:16.720 a nice guy would do it. You can't do that 256 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:19.639 shit anymore, but back then you could do it. And 257 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.919 my boss told me that he knew at that moment 258 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:25.679 he felt like he wanted that attention from a man 259 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:28.360 and it was a sexual thing, even at that age. 260 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:31.559 He goes, oh, honey, I know. I was like, okay, listen, 261 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:34.200 I god, I know you. I know you don't want 262 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:36.559 to go through life like this. I know it's a hassle, 263 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:38.840 yeah it is, but you know I want to be 264 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:41.720 so I have a good conversation. Suddenly he goes, I 265 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:45.480 smell exhaust what I smell it, I said, I don't 266 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:47.279 smell it. What do you? I said, no, I have 267 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:49.480 I don't have a great nose, but I don't. I 268 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.639 goes no, No, I smell exhaust. I don't like this. 269 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:55.279 All right, we'll see I don't smell. I think maybe 270 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:59.480 you're just worried about flying. I do have some anxiety. Okay, now, 271 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:02.639 rate of fly. We're taxiing on the runway, picking up speed. 272 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:05.399 This is when I take the crucifix on my neck 273 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:08.679 and I do the I make the cross four times. 274 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:11.039 I have to do it four times and kiss it, 275 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:13.480 and then do it four more times because of forty 276 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.080 four and then until the plane lifts off, I keep 277 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:19.519 the cross holding in my teeth. It's ridiculous, I know, 278 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:21.639 but so far I haven't died in the plane crash. 279 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.720 We're flying down the runway. I make the four cross, 280 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:27.960 I make the eight crosses, and without instead of taking 281 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.120 off or lifting off, the plane, the pilot hits the 282 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:35.840 brakes I mean hard, like when you have to hold 283 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:38.080 the seat in front of you and the luggage moves 284 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:41.840 in the over overhead bins like crazy. Hit the brakes 285 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:45.320 and the plane, you know, levels off and he goes, folks, 286 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:47.879 there's your captain. We got to go back to the gate. 287 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.320 We have a situation here in the cockpit. Something needs 288 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:54.679 to be looked at. We're gonna have to call maintenance, 289 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:58.919 and well we'll be talking about in fifteen twenty minutes 290 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:04.080 to see what's going on. Now. I'm petrified. And this guy, 291 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:06.559 this tran he's going. I knew it. I knew it. 292 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.159 There's an exhaust problem, said Jesus Christ. All right, let's 293 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:11.799 stop talking about it. He goes, I'm getting off this plane. 294 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:13.600 I said, they're not going to get you off the plane. 295 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.320 But they did pull into the gate all right, and 296 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:19.039 they had to have maintenance come on the plane, so 297 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:24.159 theoretically the guy could leave. I'm getting off. He gets 298 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:26.039 up with his handbag. Was nice to chat with you. 299 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:28.960 He does up the out sideways like he did before. 300 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:31.600 He talks to this, do this whatever, whatever. They let 301 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:35.240 him leave. I'm going. Should I leave? Oh? Fuck, I 302 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:38.519 can't leave. I checked a bag. I never checked a bag. 303 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:41.399 Rarely do I check a bag, but I checked it 304 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:46.240 because I had I bought three bottles of beautiful shower 305 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:50.759 gel that the Aria has, and I love these shower 306 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:52.919 jels and I'm like, the last time I bought them 307 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:56.080 on my trip to Vegas, I took them on my 308 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.919 personal luggage, and they took them at TSA and just 309 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:01.320 threw them in the go garbage. I'm like, oh no, 310 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:03.960 I said, why don't you keep me? Because I can't 311 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:06.200 keep I lose my job. He goes, I got to 312 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:08.559 check those candles too, I said, the candles are fine. 313 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:11.079 The candles. He goes, You know, if you want to 314 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:13.039 keep these things, you should always pack a bag, you know, 315 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:15.319 check a bag this time. I said, okay, I got 316 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:19.880 three friggin shower gels that I love. I'll check the bag. 317 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:21.880 It's only a forty five minute flight. It's not gonna 318 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:26.079 get lost. I check it. All my shit's in there 319 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:28.720 except my laptop. The laptop I put in my bag 320 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:30.880 that I was holding as I walked up to the plane. 321 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:36.279 But the headset and the microphone they're in the luggage. 322 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:39.279 I get the burdbank. Where's my luggage. Everybody's getting their 323 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:43.680 shit and leaving that horrible feeling, you know, Oh, it's 324 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:47.039 the worst feeling. But let me go back for a second. 325 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:51.839 Before I finished the luggage talk, the guy gets off 326 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:53.680 the plane and you know when I was at the 327 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:59.759 airport earlier that day. I'm sitting down, I get a 328 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.079 moment someone I flaw. You guys know that. I always 329 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:05.200 feel like when you're in an airplane, you're closer to 330 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:07.440 Heaven than when you're just down here. You're at least 331 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:10.759 thirty forty thousand feet closer to heaven, if there is 332 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.319 such a thing. And I get very emotional thinking I'm 333 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:15.519 close to people who are no longer hear who I miss, 334 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.279 and I mean, I wake up during the morning of 335 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:20.519 my flight and I get emotional. My eyes fill up. 336 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:24.519 It's ridiculous. I know it's stupid, but that's me. And 337 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:26.720 I'm at the airport, and you know, me and the 338 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:30.079 girlfriend we talk. We're not together together, but we talk. 339 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:39.200 And there's something about not having someone you know is 340 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:43.720 in really really deep love with you and not text 341 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:46.480 them while you're at the airport. To me, the airport 342 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:48.880 was always a place where you either you text your 343 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.240 wife or your girlfriend or your kids, whatever you do. 344 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:56.559 But outside of that, I'm looking going this really sucks. 345 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:59.279 Like I'm getting on this plane. No one knows the 346 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:01.920 flight number, no one knows the time I'm leaving. Blah, 347 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:06.200 blah blah. And it got me like, well, many people go, 348 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:09.519 it's just a flight age, it's this freaking bus trip 349 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:12.240 from Vegas to can You'll be fine. But now I'm 350 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:14.720 getting sad, like I don't have anybody to text. I'm 351 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:17.039 not trying to get some sympathy. I know it's ridiculous, 352 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:20.039 but I text Rosalie. We started talk and I told 353 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:22.680 her about the plane and I did text the Andrea 354 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:25.119 and tell her, and I told my kids I might 355 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:27.559 be late, blah blah blah. But I you know, I 356 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:33.119 just said, something feels off. And don't you think there's 357 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:36.279 something about letting people know you're right when you land 358 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:39.640 or here's the flight number. I'm on. I know, if 359 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:42.279 your a husband or a wife, if you're married or 360 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:45.480 a long term relationship, you always I would think, tell 361 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:47.960 the person you love when you're leaving, what the number 362 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:52.279 of the flight is, when you're gonna arrive whatever. And 363 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:57.079 you know, Joan Rivers once told me we had dinner 364 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.000 at her apartment at the start of my career because, 365 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:02.000 as I told you, she really got behind me and 366 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:06.240 believed in me. And I told you she stopped this 367 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:09.640 Thanksgiving dinner she had for a lot of people thirty 368 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:11.680 years ago or so, and she told the people in 369 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:13.680 the room, this kid, and she pointed to me, this 370 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:16.480 kid's going places all of you. When he calls you, 371 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:19.200 you take his call. He's going to be something. He's 372 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:21.000 going to take this city by storm. I mean, I 373 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:25.039 couldn't believe I was even there hearing it, let alone 374 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:28.079 living it. But she and I got really close after 375 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:31.839 I went on a talk show because Linda Stacey, my boss, 376 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:36.200 didn't want to do TV, and at the time journalists 377 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:40.640 were doing hard copy, inside edition, all those shows Heraldo, 378 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:44.359 you name it, Bill, O'Reilly. We did it. We got 379 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:47.119 paid good money. It was five hundred bucks for a camera. 380 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:49.799 Could have walk in a guy with a light, someone 381 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:53.000 holds a camera and a producer fifteen twenty minutes, you 382 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.279 talk five hundred bucks. Boom. It was so easy. What 383 00:20:56.440 --> 00:20:59.759 a sid income that was for years because the nineties 384 00:20:59.799 --> 00:21:02.720 and the tabloid wars and then the stories and the 385 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:06.359 scandals were just endless. Linda didn't want to do TV. 386 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:09.359 I got the feeling having watched her do TV, because 387 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:12.720 they do it in our newsroom. She didn't. She wasn't 388 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:16.880 really good at it. She didn't seem she didn't seem real, 389 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:19.000 and I hate saying it because I love her. But 390 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:24.400 Joan Rivers invited to do one of her gossip shows 391 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:26.599 every Friday, and Linda turned her down. She said, you 392 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:28.960 know what, I'm not gonna do. You do Joan. I go. Really, 393 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:31.440 I'd not done TV. The only thing I've done on 394 00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:35.039 TV was that gambling show Football forecast in like eight, 395 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:39.359 nineteen eighty eight, right, and now she's telling me go 396 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:41.960 on Joan Rivers talk show and bring her three or 397 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:45.319 four items of gossip. She'll love you. And I knew, 398 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.079 holy shit, this is Joan Rivers, this is Johnny Carson 399 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:51.640 sometime fill in the host of the Tonight Show. Of 400 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:53.319 course I'm gonna go. You bet your ass I'll go. 401 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:56.119