Speaker 1: From Workhouse Connect and aj Benza fame. He'd liked to
Speaker 1: be walked on a leash and play really dirty, kinky
Speaker 1: sex games. Is uh the guy put the cock in
Speaker 1: the peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody aj Benzi here
Speaker 1: with fame, is it? Bitch? This is your daily Unfiltered
Speaker 1: podcast for December sixth, twenty twenty four. Sorry about yesterday, gang,
Speaker 1: I'll get into the whole luggage, airport mishap, what have you.
Speaker 1: Of course it happens to me, you know, it just
Speaker 1: everything worked out. But you know, just when I thought
Speaker 1: it was going to be a nice, smooth day, bang, nope,
Speaker 1: God said, nope. Hey, just a minute, I got some
Speaker 1: interesting stuff to put you through today, to see how
Speaker 1: you get through it. Anyhow, weekends upon us. I guess
Speaker 1: a lot of you would decorate in the tree. When
Speaker 1: I was out of town in Vegas, the kids, uh
Speaker 1: said Dad, I want to put the tree up. All right,
Speaker 1: it's in the closet. They couldn't find it because they
Speaker 1: didn't move the coats out of the way. You know,
Speaker 1: I can't get mad because I've been I'm the same
Speaker 1: way with a lot of things. I'm looking for something
Speaker 1: Where did you put the way I leave on? Where's
Speaker 1: my keys? Did you see my sneakers? It's we're all
Speaker 1: the same, we just don't look as hard as we could.
Speaker 1: So the kids put the tree up. I come home,
Speaker 1: trees up looking good. No lights are left on, the
Speaker 1: heat was off. You know. The kitchen was clean, just
Speaker 1: as I told them to leave it when I got back.
Speaker 1: So I feel good. I got some lights and Christmas bulls.
Speaker 1: We got stuff in storage? Can I tell you I
Speaker 1: just get I don't want to. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go to storage. I already got a smaller unit that's
Speaker 1: only two hundred a month, not like the nine hundred
Speaker 1: dollars a month nott I was paying for all the bullshit.
Speaker 1: So I transferred three quarters of stuff from the expensive
Speaker 1: unit into the smaller unit. And that'll be great to
Speaker 1: not pay that nuts every month. But I don't feel
Speaker 1: like going back there. I don't like storage. Just it's
Speaker 1: like going back to all memories, some of which are
Speaker 1: very bad, and or just I don't need the memory,
Speaker 1: Like why am I looking at roxy shoes when she
Speaker 1: was seven years old? What are we keeping these for?
Speaker 1: The other one? A little bit of a hoarder when
Speaker 1: it comes to keeping shit. I understand pictures certain outfits,
Speaker 1: but once you know there's not gonna be another baby,
Speaker 1: and once you know, you can't always think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give this outfit to my son's next child. All right,
Speaker 1: how many things are we gonna keep? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean? It's just too much. So when I go
Speaker 1: to storage, I get like, ugh, I don't like, I
Speaker 1: get and throw it out mode. I just do you know,
Speaker 1: I don't, I just you know, Like, we have an
Speaker 1: air mattress here. So when I first got here, before
Speaker 1: things were set up, I put an air mattress down,
Speaker 1: rocked out his mattress. So for a night I slept
Speaker 1: on air mattress. He slept on his mattress and the
Speaker 1: air mattress. By the time I was waking up, I
Speaker 1: was like part of my body was on the wooden floor,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like there was leaking air
Speaker 1: and through the night if you roll over, twist and turn.
Speaker 1: Basically I was sleeping on a bunch of plastic. So
Speaker 1: I said, I'm throwing this out. I don't want Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a leaky air mattress. I'm never gonna fix it.
Speaker 1: Things that I'm never gonna repair, one of which is
Speaker 1: a leaky air match. I wouldn't repair a leaky boat
Speaker 1: right now. I'd get rid of that. Anyhow, I'm going
Speaker 1: a good move. I don't mean to dump all these
Speaker 1: problems on you people. Let's talk about something that's on
Speaker 1: the minds of a lot of people in America. This
Speaker 1: United Healthcare executive being shot in Manhattan. No one at
Speaker 1: this point really knows the motive. I know you guys
Speaker 1: put this on the podcast Obsess page, but I was
Speaker 1: blocked from that page until Thursday because of the picture
Speaker 1: I put up of Roxy and Rocco running around the
Speaker 1: lawn in a bikini and a diaper. I was canceled
Speaker 1: from Facebook for a week, so I couldn't comment. But
Speaker 1: I will tell you the guy that killed Brian Thompson,
Speaker 1: this big CEO. Look, I'm not going to be shocked
Speaker 1: if this guy, you know, was somebody in his family
Speaker 1: was denied medical coverage, you know what I mean? Maybe
Speaker 1: somebody who there was no money coming in for coverage.
Speaker 1: They have to spend all their money. Maybe they went
Speaker 1: bankrupt because this company probably failed to cover a serious illness,
Speaker 1: as many many healthcare companies do. I think there's I
Speaker 1: think the ratio is one in seven claims for treatment
Speaker 1: don't go through. Is that right? They fail to cover?
Speaker 1: That's that's that's terrible, that's really that's I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: we've all been with people who are dying, and many
Speaker 1: of you have insurance, some don't. Some insurance's lapse at times.
Speaker 1: That's happened to me when I had Screen Actors Guild insurance.
Speaker 1: It's great insurance, it's it's wonderful, But you know Screen
Speaker 1: Actors Guild. When it comes to insurance, you've got to
Speaker 1: make a certain amount of money each quarter of the year.
Speaker 1: And if you know, you didn't do a movie or so,
Speaker 1: and your residuals are getting smaller, if you don't meet
Speaker 1: the criteria amount of money for one quarter of a year,
Speaker 1: they'll dump your insurance. So you know, you're not really
Speaker 1: thinking about it. That's why a lot of people that
Speaker 1: are in the business will contact friends and go, look,
Speaker 1: I just I don't care if you put me on
Speaker 1: the show for two days, I need my insurance coverage.
Speaker 1: It's gonna lapse. I'm gonna lose coverage. And a lot
Speaker 1: of older people get in movies like that because they
Speaker 1: need a favor. You can't asker that favor when you're
Speaker 1: thirty thirty five. It's a little ridiculous, but it happens.
Speaker 1: Insurance's laps and you get stuck with a big fucking bill.
Speaker 1: And two hundred million Americans rely on private health insurance.
Speaker 1: But sometimes they become very, very seriously ill, and they're
Speaker 1: left with medical bills that are destroying them. They're not
Speaker 1: got any the best treatment. And I read someplace that
Speaker 1: people who have really really high medical bills. Forty percent
Speaker 1: of bankruptcies are due to extremely high medical bills. And
Speaker 1: you know, there are people out there who listen. They
Speaker 1: want to settle that squabble pretty quick. And you know
Speaker 1: there there are There are six major insurance companies. Anthem Signa,
Speaker 1: United Health is one of the biggest. I think, I
Speaker 1: think it is the biggest. But these these companies have
Speaker 1: like trillions of dollars, you know, and and sometimes they
Speaker 1: well I don't to tell you, guys know what insurance
Speaker 1: companies can do. I'm sure you've had experience with them.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the killer was certainly okay with killing Thompson,
Speaker 1: but these healthcare companies, I could see people getting their
Speaker 1: anger up and doing something that they normally wouldn't do.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you something right now, Obviously it wasn't
Speaker 1: a professional hit. The guy shot him in the back
Speaker 1: and the caf the gun malfunction. No, the guy was
Speaker 1: not a professional. He was an amateur hired to do
Speaker 1: this perhaps, or just somebody on his own who thought
Speaker 1: I could skirt all these laws. I could find this guy.
Speaker 1: I know where is gonna be. He's getting deposed in
Speaker 1: this building at this hour. I'm gonna wait and shoot
Speaker 1: him first. I'm gonna go Starbuck and have a cup
Speaker 1: of coffee. What's really scary about the world right now?
Speaker 1: There are cameras everywhere. You're never ever gonna commit the
Speaker 1: perfect crime anymore. Just with people's ring doorbells in the suburbs,
Speaker 1: it's impossible. People see everything. They're a camera everywhere. So
Speaker 1: thinking you can have a couple, I could have a
Speaker 1: latte before a murder is a bad idea either way.
Speaker 1: Here's what I feel. I'm telling you. I listened. I
Speaker 1: read what his wife said right after the murder, and
Speaker 1: you know, she was like, yeah, there were threats, there
Speaker 1: were definitely threats, but she didn't know nothing about it.
Speaker 1: And then she was like, I have to tend to
Speaker 1: my children. They just don't even know what happened. Yet
Speaker 1: something's off with this, something's off with the wife. It's
Speaker 1: just it's my gut, it's my gut. I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: My gut tells me either the wife had something to
Speaker 1: do with the murder or she knew just tad just
Speaker 1: what a bad predicament her husband was in. I don't
Speaker 1: think this is like, oh, I had no idea, And
Speaker 1: I think she knows exactly what the threats were and
Speaker 1: who they came from. She does a lot more than
Speaker 1: what she's saying. But in my gut, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: she's the one who hired the hit man. It's possible
Speaker 1: some way. In my gut, I feel she has some
Speaker 1: knowledge about this. We will see. Now let me clue
Speaker 1: you in on the airport drama from Vegas to bird Bank.
Speaker 1: First of all, I had a chaotic uber ride, right.
Speaker 1: I go down to the lower level of Aria, where
Speaker 1: I always going to get an uber. And for some reason,
Speaker 1: because casinos are so close together, they think if you're
Speaker 1: down at Aria, they'll go, oh, we're gonna pick you
Speaker 1: up at the whatever. The hotel is called Vrana of Rada.
Speaker 1: I forget vr something. I always see it at the
Speaker 1: window and you go, no, I'm not at that. I'm not.
Speaker 1: You got a right to uber go No, I'm at Aria. Okay,
Speaker 1: are your main entrance? No, I'm at Aria lower level.
Speaker 1: That takes a while. Then it's like, oh, we're eight
Speaker 1: hundred feet away. Then we're two miles away, then areo
Speaker 1: point three miles away. Then it's like we're getting a
Speaker 1: new car. I don't I cancel the ride. But it's
Speaker 1: not canceling. I said, fuck it, I got time. I
Speaker 1: always get to the airport. I'll wait. Big black guy
Speaker 1: shows up in a big black truck. All right, nice
Speaker 1: aj Yeah, man, Okay, I get in the car, throw
Speaker 1: the luggage down. I shut the door. The guy turns
Speaker 1: me and goes, okay, man, you didn't have to slam
Speaker 1: my door. I said, slam your door, bro, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I just shut the door. I'm sorry, No, man, you
Speaker 1: slammed it. Hey man, I'm listen. Let's not argue about this, bro.
Speaker 1: Look it's a big truck. I got a big car
Speaker 1: at home. I just shut the door. Man. Someone one
Speaker 1: time shut my door on the window came off the
Speaker 1: track and busted. All right, you know what, you because
Speaker 1: of your job, you win, your door must open a
Speaker 1: hundred times a day. Maybe this isn't your line of work.
Speaker 1: You know what, Man, I'm pulling over. Do it? Please?
Speaker 1: Just let's just stop. Come on, you're in a bad mood.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be Let's just come on. Let's just move
Speaker 1: on now. I'm telling you, man, all right, look, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna fight bro the next red light. Telling you, man,
Speaker 1: if you know you gotta be careful, I said, look
Speaker 1: to stop fucking lectric me about your car door. You're
Speaker 1: an uber driver. People are gonna close your car door
Speaker 1: one hundred times. You know what, man, I'll pull over.
Speaker 1: I'll go fuck yourself. Okay, pull over. Make sure you
Speaker 1: give me a bad review because I'm gonna rip your
Speaker 1: ass apart of my review. Boom boom, fuck you, fuck
Speaker 1: you amount of the car. Now. I'm in the middle
Speaker 1: of the strip in Las Vegas. An Asian guy in
Speaker 1: another black truck sees me. What happened? You need ride? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to the airport. You're not uber? No, no,
Speaker 1: I take you? How much? Thirty dollars? All right? Uber
Speaker 1: was twenty two. Yeah, let's go. Nice guy, Nice Asian
Speaker 1: guy takes me to the airport. That's the yin and
Speaker 1: yang of life. Okay. I get to the airport, you know,
Speaker 1: I like the people watch. I get there an hour
Speaker 1: and a half earlier, watching people having a sandwich, and
Speaker 1: I see this big transgender things. He looks like a woman,
Speaker 1: but it's a man, you know, big, big breast. But
Speaker 1: the guy's about three hundred and forty five pounds with
Speaker 1: a sweatsuit on, and he's carrying a white purse a handbag.
Speaker 1: Very delicately. I'm like, I look, the guys thinks he's
Speaker 1: a woman. Whatever the fuck. Okay, I see him pass
Speaker 1: Viena air put a few times. Now we're in the
Speaker 1: same area at the gate B twenty. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this guy might be on my flight. Then you want
Speaker 1: up to fly and he is on my flight Southwest
Speaker 1: where you're rushing like cattle. Find a seat. So I
Speaker 1: find my seat. I get a window seat, which I like.
Speaker 1: Suddenly I see him coming down the out walking sideways
Speaker 1: because he's very very heavy. He sees me, I don't
Speaker 1: know why. He stops and sits down on the aisle
Speaker 1: no one's in the middle of thank God, because he
Speaker 1: was shoot. So I was sitting there and meggan some
Speaker 1: small talk. What have you. I gotta be honest, I
Speaker 1: always want to know if if God put a transgender
Speaker 1: person next to me, Well, that's just my feeling that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to this person and see what's going
Speaker 1: on and maybe I can learn something. You know, he's
Speaker 1: next to me for a reason. So we're talking about
Speaker 1: whatever stupid shit the weather, and I said to him,
Speaker 1: ask you a question, Yeah, and did you know you
Speaker 1: weren't in the right gender? What did you know your
Speaker 1: agenda was an issue? He says, Is it that obvious? Said,
Speaker 1: I'm laughing. I know it's fine. I enjoy talking about it.
Speaker 1: I said, right, when did you know? He goes, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you the story. When I was about four or
Speaker 1: five years old, I saw my mother holding a beautiful
Speaker 1: white purse. I don't remember who the designer was, but
Speaker 1: I was like five years old and I knew I
Speaker 1: wanted a purse like my mom. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: play basketball or baseball, and I played those things when
Speaker 1: I was little. I just wanted to be a woman
Speaker 1: with a beautiful white handbit. I'm like, wow, well that's
Speaker 1: I said. One of my bosses as a producer, knew
Speaker 1: he was gay when he was like four years old,
Speaker 1: sitting on the couch at his home in Oaklaw, or Nebraska.
Speaker 1: In Nebraska, his father was the mayor of some small
Speaker 1: town out there and you know, church going family, and
Speaker 1: plumber came in to fix the kitchen sink. And when
Speaker 1: the plumber walked in with his overalls and his T
Speaker 1: shirt underneath, he saw my boss, who at this point
Speaker 1: was you know, five years old, four years old, and
Speaker 1: he just pinched his cheek like, hey, little boy, like
Speaker 1: a nice guy would do it. You can't do that
Speaker 1: shit anymore, but back then you could do it. And
Speaker 1: my boss told me that he knew at that moment
Speaker 1: he felt like he wanted that attention from a man
Speaker 1: and it was a sexual thing, even at that age.
Speaker 1: He goes, oh, honey, I know. I was like, okay, listen,
Speaker 1: I god, I know you. I know you don't want
Speaker 1: to go through life like this. I know it's a hassle,
Speaker 1: yeah it is, but you know I want to be
Speaker 1: so I have a good conversation. Suddenly he goes, I
Speaker 1: smell exhaust what I smell it, I said, I don't
Speaker 1: smell it. What do you? I said, no, I have
Speaker 1: I don't have a great nose, but I don't. I
Speaker 1: goes no, No, I smell exhaust. I don't like this.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll see I don't smell. I think maybe
Speaker 1: you're just worried about flying. I do have some anxiety. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: rate of fly. We're taxiing on the runway, picking up speed.
Speaker 1: This is when I take the crucifix on my neck
Speaker 1: and I do the I make the cross four times.
Speaker 1: I have to do it four times and kiss it,
Speaker 1: and then do it four more times because of forty
Speaker 1: four and then until the plane lifts off, I keep
Speaker 1: the cross holding in my teeth. It's ridiculous, I know,
Speaker 1: but so far I haven't died in the plane crash.
Speaker 1: We're flying down the runway. I make the four cross,
Speaker 1: I make the eight crosses, and without instead of taking
Speaker 1: off or lifting off, the plane, the pilot hits the
Speaker 1: brakes I mean hard, like when you have to hold
Speaker 1: the seat in front of you and the luggage moves
Speaker 1: in the over overhead bins like crazy. Hit the brakes
Speaker 1: and the plane, you know, levels off and he goes, folks,
Speaker 1: there's your captain. We got to go back to the gate.
Speaker 1: We have a situation here in the cockpit. Something needs
Speaker 1: to be looked at. We're gonna have to call maintenance,
Speaker 1: and well we'll be talking about in fifteen twenty minutes
Speaker 1: to see what's going on. Now. I'm petrified. And this guy,
Speaker 1: this tran he's going. I knew it. I knew it.
Speaker 1: There's an exhaust problem, said Jesus Christ. All right, let's
Speaker 1: stop talking about it. He goes, I'm getting off this plane.
Speaker 1: I said, they're not going to get you off the plane.
Speaker 1: But they did pull into the gate all right, and
Speaker 1: they had to have maintenance come on the plane, so
Speaker 1: theoretically the guy could leave. I'm getting off. He gets
Speaker 1: up with his handbag. Was nice to chat with you.
Speaker 1: He does up the out sideways like he did before.
Speaker 1: He talks to this, do this whatever, whatever. They let
Speaker 1: him leave. I'm going. Should I leave? Oh? Fuck, I
Speaker 1: can't leave. I checked a bag. I never checked a bag.
Speaker 1: Rarely do I check a bag, but I checked it
Speaker 1: because I had I bought three bottles of beautiful shower
Speaker 1: gel that the Aria has, and I love these shower
Speaker 1: jels and I'm like, the last time I bought them
Speaker 1: on my trip to Vegas, I took them on my
Speaker 1: personal luggage, and they took them at TSA and just
Speaker 1: threw them in the go garbage. I'm like, oh no,
Speaker 1: I said, why don't you keep me? Because I can't
Speaker 1: keep I lose my job. He goes, I got to
Speaker 1: check those candles too, I said, the candles are fine.
Speaker 1: The candles. He goes, You know, if you want to
Speaker 1: keep these things, you should always pack a bag, you know,
Speaker 1: check a bag this time. I said, okay, I got
Speaker 1: three friggin shower gels that I love. I'll check the bag.
Speaker 1: It's only a forty five minute flight. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: get lost. I check it. All my shit's in there
Speaker 1: except my laptop. The laptop I put in my bag
Speaker 1: that I was holding as I walked up to the plane.
Speaker 1: But the headset and the microphone they're in the luggage.
Speaker 1: I get the burdbank. Where's my luggage. Everybody's getting their
Speaker 1: shit and leaving that horrible feeling, you know, Oh, it's
Speaker 1: the worst feeling. But let me go back for a second.
Speaker 1: Before I finished the luggage talk, the guy gets off
Speaker 1: the plane and you know when I was at the
Speaker 1: airport earlier that day. I'm sitting down, I get a
Speaker 1: moment someone I flaw. You guys know that. I always
Speaker 1: feel like when you're in an airplane, you're closer to
Speaker 1: Heaven than when you're just down here. You're at least
Speaker 1: thirty forty thousand feet closer to heaven, if there is
Speaker 1: such a thing. And I get very emotional thinking I'm
Speaker 1: close to people who are no longer hear who I miss,
Speaker 1: and I mean, I wake up during the morning of
Speaker 1: my flight and I get emotional. My eyes fill up.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. I know it's stupid, but that's me. And
Speaker 1: I'm at the airport, and you know, me and the
Speaker 1: girlfriend we talk. We're not together together, but we talk.
Speaker 1: And there's something about not having someone you know is
Speaker 1: in really really deep love with you and not text
Speaker 1: them while you're at the airport. To me, the airport
Speaker 1: was always a place where you either you text your
Speaker 1: wife or your girlfriend or your kids, whatever you do.
Speaker 1: But outside of that, I'm looking going this really sucks.
Speaker 1: Like I'm getting on this plane. No one knows the
Speaker 1: flight number, no one knows the time I'm leaving. Blah,
Speaker 1: blah blah. And it got me like, well, many people go,
Speaker 1: it's just a flight age, it's this freaking bus trip
Speaker 1: from Vegas to can You'll be fine. But now I'm
Speaker 1: getting sad, like I don't have anybody to text. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to get some sympathy. I know it's ridiculous,
Speaker 1: but I text Rosalie. We started talk and I told
Speaker 1: her about the plane and I did text the Andrea
Speaker 1: and tell her, and I told my kids I might
Speaker 1: be late, blah blah blah. But I you know, I
Speaker 1: just said, something feels off. And don't you think there's
Speaker 1: something about letting people know you're right when you land
Speaker 1: or here's the flight number. I'm on. I know, if
Speaker 1: your a husband or a wife, if you're married or
Speaker 1: a long term relationship, you always I would think, tell
Speaker 1: the person you love when you're leaving, what the number
Speaker 1: of the flight is, when you're gonna arrive whatever. And
Speaker 1: you know, Joan Rivers once told me we had dinner
Speaker 1: at her apartment at the start of my career because,
Speaker 1: as I told you, she really got behind me and
Speaker 1: believed in me. And I told you she stopped this
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinner she had for a lot of people thirty
Speaker 1: years ago or so, and she told the people in
Speaker 1: the room, this kid, and she pointed to me, this
Speaker 1: kid's going places all of you. When he calls you,
Speaker 1: you take his call. He's going to be something. He's
Speaker 1: going to take this city by storm. I mean, I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe I was even there hearing it, let alone
Speaker 1: living it. But she and I got really close after
Speaker 1: I went on a talk show because Linda Stacey, my boss,
Speaker 1: didn't want to do TV, and at the time journalists
Speaker 1: were doing hard copy, inside edition, all those shows Heraldo,
Speaker 1: you name it, Bill, O'Reilly. We did it. We got
Speaker 1: paid good money. It was five hundred bucks for a camera.
Speaker 1: Could have walk in a guy with a light, someone
Speaker 1: holds a camera and a producer fifteen twenty minutes, you
Speaker 1: talk five hundred bucks. Boom. It was so easy. What
Speaker 1: a sid income that was for years because the nineties
Speaker 1: and the tabloid wars and then the stories and the
Speaker 1: scandals were just endless. Linda didn't want to do TV.
Speaker 1: I got the feeling having watched her do TV, because
Speaker 1: they do it in our newsroom. She didn't. She wasn't
Speaker 1: really good at it. She didn't seem she didn't seem real,
Speaker 1: and I hate saying it because I love her. But
Speaker 1: Joan Rivers invited to do one of her gossip shows
Speaker 1: every Friday, and Linda turned her down. She said, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm not gonna do. You do Joan. I go. Really,
Speaker 1: I'd not done TV. The only thing I've done on
Speaker 1: TV was that gambling show Football forecast in like eight,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, right, and now she's telling me go
Speaker 1: on Joan Rivers talk show and bring her three or
Speaker 1: four items of gossip. She'll love you. And I knew,
Speaker 1: holy shit, this is Joan Rivers, this is Johnny Carson
Speaker 1: sometime fill in the host of the Tonight Show. Of
Speaker 1: course I'm gonna go. You bet your ass I'll go.
Speaker 1: So I do the show and during a commercial break,
Speaker 1: I had this picture of my three Yorkies when I
Speaker 1: lived in New York, and I knew she had a Yorkie.
Speaker 1: Cindy Adams had a Yorkie. I was a Yorkie nut
Speaker 1: I knew that would make us close. I showed her
Speaker 1: a picture of my three Yorkis during the commercial and
Speaker 1: she went, oh my god, what beauty is You know?
Speaker 1: We just hit it all so she befriends me, and
Speaker 1: she kept using me every Friday on her Gossip Friday show.
Speaker 1: So we bonded and we're at this dinner one night
Speaker 1: and she brings up her ex, her husband, Edgar, who died,
Speaker 1: who committed suicide because he felt it was his fault
Speaker 1: that Jones' career took a beating because she accepted the
Speaker 1: late night talk show on Fox, and Johnny Carson was offended,
Speaker 1: never had a back on his show, stopped talking to her.
Speaker 1: Real catty shit. But she told me that when Edgar
Speaker 1: killed himself out of what he felt he did to
Speaker 1: her career, she said, you know what I really missed.
Speaker 1: Don't let anybody tell you you missed the sex. That's bullshit.
Speaker 1: I missed coming home and talking to my closest friend.
Speaker 1: I miss coming home from a dinner party and saying,
Speaker 1: can we talk about what that bitch was wearing? What
Speaker 1: she won with those heels? I mean, come on, and
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there going Joan Rivers just said to me,
Speaker 1: can we talk? And I'm here inside this luxurious apartment
Speaker 1: eating off of China Park. Have you It was surreal,
Speaker 1: but I understand what she meant. You live long enough
Speaker 1: you go through a number of busted up romances. And
Speaker 1: suddenly I could completely understand what she meant by that,
Speaker 1: and she began to cry and I touched her back,
Speaker 1: and it was like an outer body thing. I can't believe.
Speaker 1: I've never seen her, and I'd sull of them. And
Speaker 1: I was a kid with my parents. It didn't make
Speaker 1: sense to me. But I'll tell you, Hollywood is filled
Speaker 1: with people who will step on you, who will kick
Speaker 1: you down the ladder, you know what I mean, if
Speaker 1: they have a chance to deny your dreams, they will.
Speaker 1: But there are also many people in this town who
Speaker 1: extend the hand and pull you up the ladder. And
Speaker 1: Joan Rivers was you know, she was one of the
Speaker 1: ones who pulled me up, and I'll always love her
Speaker 1: for that. Anyhow, back to the plane, everything's good. Plane
Speaker 1: takes off and it lands fine. I was anxious, but
Speaker 1: it was all good. As I'm leaving the flight, the
Speaker 1: stewardess is saying bye bye, bye bye, and one of
Speaker 1: them looked like a little bit like Ariana Grande, not
Speaker 1: really but almost. You know, she had glasses a little
Speaker 1: bit like Ariana. I walk by and I go Ariana Grande.
Speaker 1: I know you've heard that before. She says, I'll take it.
Speaker 1: I'll take it, thanks, AJ And I go wait, I said,
Speaker 1: you know me? How do you know me? I don't
Speaker 1: know you, she says, I listened to your show. Silly,
Speaker 1: I had no idea. She didn't say it in the
Speaker 1: whole flight. So strange fun. But oh, speaking of Ariana Grande,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, did you hear one of those horrifying
Speaker 1: interviews she and Cynthia Arrivo are doing for Wicked. I
Speaker 1: can't look. I've already told you I'm over it, and
Speaker 1: I think more most of us are. We've seen the
Speaker 1: picture of how thin they are, and in Masha, these
Speaker 1: two women are from just a year or two ago.
Speaker 1: It's disgusting. They both look like they're in Auschwitz. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry not to bring up a horrible situation, but that's
Speaker 1: what they look like. Apparently, Ariana Grande thinks all of
Speaker 1: the references to the word queer in The Wizard of
Speaker 1: Ours means that everybody loved the lgbt qia plus password
Speaker 1: wy fi whatever the fuck, No, it doesn't, asshole. I
Speaker 1: know you so intelligent, Arianna. But the book was written
Speaker 1: in nineteen hundred and back then queer meant strange, just
Speaker 1: like back then fags meant cigarettes. This woman is thirty
Speaker 1: one years old and has no idea the word queer
Speaker 1: meant strange back then stupid. She's sitting there doing publicity
Speaker 1: with her friend, and the way she talks. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: such a queer world, and everybody loves queers. I love
Speaker 1: all my queer friends. She's just shut up, just shut up,
Speaker 1: just bending over backwards, loving all your queer friends. Why
Speaker 1: highlight them? I just people are trying to be so
Speaker 1: good and so perfectly politically correct and woke. When is
Speaker 1: she gonna wake up? This is the girl who licked
Speaker 1: the donut several years ago, and you know what, I
Speaker 1: like her. She's funny, but she's an asshole. By the way.
Speaker 1: Frank Baum, who wrote The Wizard of Walls in nineteen hundred,
Speaker 1: you know he wrote thirteen sequels in nineteen years. You
Speaker 1: know how hard it is to write thirteen books in
Speaker 1: nineteen years. That's like, as soon as you finished one,
Speaker 1: you start the next one immediately. Jesus, But what an idiot.
Speaker 1: The last month or so, I know has shown America
Speaker 1: that celebrities do not have the answer to things. Stop
Speaker 1: listening to them and believing what they say. Anyhow, luggage
Speaker 1: isn't there. I'm going. What you know, I was supposed
Speaker 1: to pick up Rocco from basketball. Now I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I text him, I call Southwest. Oh, it never left
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. They tell me it'll be there the last
Speaker 1: flight out. All right, not the worst news, you know.
Speaker 1: Burnbank Airport's a couple of miles away. Okay, I'll go tonight.
Speaker 1: But by the time eleven o'clock roll, I was tired.
Speaker 1: I fell asleep. I'm like, I'm not gonna go. I'll go,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll go in the morning. I drove the
Speaker 1: Burnbank Airport this morning. I see the bag there, sitting
Speaker 1: alone in this office. It looked like an orphan. I
Speaker 1: took it. Everything was there nice. This doesn't even compare
Speaker 1: to when I wrote the first book, Fame Ain the Bitch.
Speaker 1: I was leaving. Where was I I think I was
Speaker 1: in California coming back home to New York. And in
Speaker 1: my luggage I had my laptop my manuscript. That's all
Speaker 1: there was. The laptop had my book in it, and
Speaker 1: the manuscript that was printed out was in the laptop.
Speaker 1: There was no other way to have it. It was
Speaker 1: not a thumb drive because I'm an asshole. And the
Speaker 1: luggage got lost and it went to I think Hawaii.
Speaker 1: It was insane. It went to Florida. Finally it was
Speaker 1: sent back to Newark Airport about four days later, and
Speaker 1: I had everything there, but ugh, I don't ever want
Speaker 1: to check a bag again. Anyhow. I saw Sean Hannity
Speaker 1: had Sylvestistlan on his show the other day, and he
Speaker 1: brought up the story about it when Sly broke up
Speaker 1: with Jennifer Flavian when they were dating back in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four with a FedEx letter and Handedy asked Fly
Speaker 1: who FedEx a breakup letter? And Sly said, a coward?
Speaker 1: Does you know? I'm glad he said that. He said,
Speaker 1: the most the most intensity of breakup you can get.
Speaker 1: You can't even say you put it down in words
Speaker 1: because you don't have the guts to do it face
Speaker 1: to face. I'm glad that story came up, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad Sly said that because I'm the one who broke
Speaker 1: the story. Now, I remember fulling Jennifer Flavin's modeling agent
Speaker 1: at her agency, and he was cage. I said, listen,
Speaker 1: I forget his name. He said, listen, I know everything.
Speaker 1: I know why Slide did that. You want to, you know,
Speaker 1: you want Jennifer Flavian to know why, so it's not
Speaker 1: a mystery. Have her call me. All right, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna say anything bad, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: write the story. So wouldn't you rather have her talk
Speaker 1: to me? Because I'm writing this story either way. So
Speaker 1: he gets on the phone me and I have this
Speaker 1: conversation with her, and I felt good. I mean, whatever,
Speaker 1: you have a story that nobody else in the country has.
Speaker 1: It feels amazing. And how did I get the story?
Speaker 1: I got a lot of my stories because I was
Speaker 1: fine immersing myself into celebrities lives. Once I got past
Speaker 1: those velvet ropes, then I really made it my point
Speaker 1: to get in those tight booths and bankheads and VIP
Speaker 1: rooms and all that shit. And you know, I would
Speaker 1: stay out till last call and last calls for four
Speaker 1: four thirty in the morning. I sat down with them,
Speaker 1: I dated them, I did drugs with them. I did
Speaker 1: that until they felt comfortable enough to tell me intimate
Speaker 1: details about themselves and other people. See. Then suddenly I
Speaker 1: would come to them and say, listen, I heard someone's
Speaker 1: trying to do this thatt to you x y Z.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, Well, this is what's going around.
Speaker 1: I don't want to write it because I like you.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's gonna get written. But I have
Speaker 1: the story about let's just say you cheated on so
Speaker 1: and so. No way, Yeah, it's out there, bro, So
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, I'm not gonna write it,
Speaker 1: but maybe you can give me something else, on somebody else,
Speaker 1: and I'll have this story killed. Really yeah, just anything
Speaker 1: you know, like what anything, anything about a celebrity, whatever
Speaker 1: the fuck you know about so and so. Just tell
Speaker 1: me they're not gonna find that it's from you, and
Speaker 1: your story's gonna die with me, all right, okay. And
Speaker 1: that they would give me shit on other people, even
Speaker 1: their own friends. That's how dirty and sordid this business was,
Speaker 1: and I think still is. But no one did it
Speaker 1: like I did it. Nobody. So I knew this because
Speaker 1: I hung out with Janis Dickinson a lot back then,
Speaker 1: and she was as wild, or I was as wild
Speaker 1: as her. Put it that way. She was a super
Speaker 1: model of the eighties. Well, I was just in college.
Speaker 1: So Janis was living it up, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: no surprise. She loved getting high, she loved having fun,
Speaker 1: and I took part in that with her. She and
Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun together. This is way
Speaker 1: before all the crazy botox and facial procedures. Trust me.
Speaker 1: I also was good friends with her sister, Debbie, so
Speaker 1: I was good with both of them. But I was
Speaker 1: so con soon with getting the truth that I did
Speaker 1: some things that when I look back, oh my, I
Speaker 1: shud her. I really do. But you know, those are
Speaker 1: my war stories, and those are the scars on the
Speaker 1: scars on my health, I guess. But I actually began
Speaker 1: to think about how I used to literally get excited,
Speaker 1: like not goosebumps, but almost that feeling whenever I knew
Speaker 1: I was onto a big story and I could nail
Speaker 1: it down. And once I knew there was no stopping me,
Speaker 1: forget it. The adrenaline now it was too much. I
Speaker 1: mean back then, you know, I remember being in bed
Speaker 1: with a really bad back after my first back surgery,
Speaker 1: and I'm not allowed to get up. I'm I'm in
Speaker 1: bed rest. My wife at the time is crying in
Speaker 1: the bathtub because she doesn't want to abuse me any longer.
Speaker 1: And she's apparently in love with the English teach or
Speaker 1: the English teacher the next auto or in school, or
Speaker 1: falling for him. She's listening to the soundtrack of The
Speaker 1: Deer Hunter in the bathtub, crying. My mother's got cancer.
Speaker 1: I'm on my back, can't get up, and I got
Speaker 1: a I was out of my mind. Suddenly I'm watching TV.
Speaker 1: There's a plane crash. Alvianca out of Columbia crashes and
Speaker 1: it's like forty five minutes away from my house. I
Speaker 1: get my car. Where you go and you can't leave bed.
Speaker 1: I gotta go to this plane crash. I had a
Speaker 1: Toyota Corolla and a Marsda RX seven. I took the
Speaker 1: Corolla because it was more comfortable. I fly was up
Speaker 1: in National County, up in the North North area. And
Speaker 1: as I get closer I've told you this before, I see,
Speaker 1: you know, images of a plane crash. As you get
Speaker 1: closer to the site. I couldn't get within maybe a
Speaker 1: mile of the actual crash. But as I'm getting closer,
Speaker 1: you see things in trees, sweaters, suitcase parts. You could
Speaker 1: tell that this fucking plane was hitting trees and stuff
Speaker 1: and things have falling out of it. It was horrible.
Speaker 1: It was a horrible story, but I was there. I
Speaker 1: got to see it. And then I remember there was
Speaker 1: another story that blew my mind because I started to
Speaker 1: feel that I'm one of these people like now we
Speaker 1: call me Forrest Gump or whatever we call me, you know,
Speaker 1: like by life, I'm always around these things that occur.
Speaker 1: I can connect the dots so easily between me and
Speaker 1: a scandal or somebody in scandal. And Linda Stacey was
Speaker 1: just like that. And one day there was a huge
Speaker 1: story and I forget where this took place, but somebody
Speaker 1: was sending letter bombs to people with nails and them
Speaker 1: and sharp pieces of glass, just awful, and a number
Speaker 1: of people, I think one or two died, but people
Speaker 1: got injuries to their face and hands, severe injuries. And
Speaker 1: this story broke that this guy was doing this, and
Speaker 1: Linda said, oh my god, what I worked for him?
Speaker 1: When what? And she told me years ago she had
Speaker 1: some kind of job. He was involved in the call.
Speaker 1: She knew him, she worked with him, so she had
Speaker 1: the inside track to this guy's life and the story.
Speaker 1: And we nailed it from from day one because Linda
Speaker 1: had that that thing about her that she could always
Speaker 1: tie herself into some bullshit like I can, and back then,
Speaker 1: I mean so many things in the nineties, Michael Jackson,
Speaker 1: Joey buttafuco Amy Fisher, long Al Lolita Menandez Brothers, Tanya Harding, kneecapping,
Speaker 1: Nancy Kerrigan, oh j Simpson, of course, Loreena bob At
Speaker 1: cutting off her husband's dick, Susan Smith drawtled her three kids,
Speaker 1: Rodney King, and there were just some smaller ones. Roseenn
Speaker 1: Barr singing the National anthem was a big thing. Snead
Speaker 1: O'Connor ripping up the picture of the Pope on SNL.
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts leaving Keith for suddenly at the altar, Millie
Speaker 1: Vanilli's lip syncing, Marlon Brando's son convicted of man's laughter,
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld dating a teenager, Woody Allen marrying sun yee
Speaker 1: peebe Herman jerks off in the theater, Diddy and j
Speaker 1: Low and the club shooting Ana the Cole Smith marries
Speaker 1: the old Man. Mike Tyson bites Evanda holy Fields, ear
Speaker 1: you name it. It was the best time to be
Speaker 1: a gossip columnist. One of the biggest ones, John Benet Ramsey,
Speaker 1: who killed that little girl the Pedophile's Dream? What do
Speaker 1: I think? I watched the Netflix Dock last night. I
Speaker 1: was fall asleep with the goddamn remote in my hand,
Speaker 1: but I watched three episodes and I posted a picture
Speaker 1: yesterday on the podcast of Says page of my buddy
Speaker 1: Kevin Dornan, who I call gay Kevin called because he
Speaker 1: passed away a few years ago, entirely too young. But Kevin,
Speaker 1: don't take this the wrong way. I've told you the past.
Speaker 1: We had a sixth sense of human together. We'd make
Speaker 1: pedophile jokes and just stlew stuff. You have to be there.
Speaker 1: But he would call me as John Benney. He was
Speaker 1: obsessed with this case, and he wrote a song about
Speaker 1: John Bay. He gave it to Richard Belzer to use
Speaker 1: it a comedy act because he was friends with Belzer.
Speaker 1: But I thought about Kevin so much last night watching
Speaker 1: this documentary. But I'm watching this and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. I forgot about this. There's so
Speaker 1: many things you just think you know, but you forget
Speaker 1: after all these years. But it's an interesting documentary or
Speaker 1: series because initially, just like the Cops in Boulder thought
Speaker 1: they penneded on the parents immediately, like detectives and investigators
Speaker 1: walked in. One even said I knew they killed their daughter,
Speaker 1: like they just had it. They figured they had it
Speaker 1: figured out, and because of that, they fed the media
Speaker 1: all these angles. And the documentary is really about how
Speaker 1: the ram He's had to fight the media because the
Speaker 1: detectives and the cops in Boulder were giving the media
Speaker 1: bullshit stories. And every time you want to say, oh,
Speaker 1: the father has something to do with it, the mother did,
Speaker 1: you'll hear John Ramsey tell you the converse theory of
Speaker 1: what he really said and did that the cops ignored
Speaker 1: or lied about. It's fascinating in that respect. You could
Speaker 1: see Patsy Ramsey obviously being on some kind of mood stabilaza.
Speaker 1: When she's talking to the camera after the daughter is
Speaker 1: kidnapped and found dead, she's on something. She sounds weird,
Speaker 1: but she says there's a killer out there, and that
Speaker 1: turned off people in Boulder, turned off her neighbors. None
Speaker 1: of her neighbors want to talk about it. People implicated
Speaker 1: the son, who was nine years old at the time.
Speaker 1: How the hell could nine year old boy Taye Garott,
Speaker 1: you know, that that break a paintbrush and tie it
Speaker 1: on a rope and use it to choke a little
Speaker 1: girl and then smash her over the head with something
Speaker 1: heavy enough to cause an eight inch cracked in a skull.
Speaker 1: Of course, he was exonerated, but all these things happened,
Speaker 1: and initially back in the day when I covered this story,
Speaker 1: I thought, all right, parents had to have something to
Speaker 1: do with it. Maybe it was that Santa Claus guy.
Speaker 1: One time I called a guy who played Santa Claus.
Speaker 1: He came to their home the year before, and that
Speaker 1: the day before she was found dead on the twenty
Speaker 1: sixth December, and I talked to him and he was
Speaker 1: describing to me the shrine he built of John Benney
Speaker 1: in his backyard. I said, Linda, this guy's the fucking killer.
Speaker 1: Why he's built the shrine to it. The way he's
Speaker 1: talking is so weird. Okay, they never got this guy either.
Speaker 1: Other people came to light over the years, different people, drifters,
Speaker 1: people who had sexual assault cases across the country. Some
Speaker 1: people who did similar crimes. Broke into a house, kidnapped
Speaker 1: the girl, or at least jumped in the girl's bed,
Speaker 1: assaulted her sexually, and left that was happening here and there.
Speaker 1: But some of the most fascinating things about this about
Speaker 1: this story, you'll hear people say when John bday and
Speaker 1: when Patsy and John had copstare that next morning where
Speaker 1: they got the ransom note, which is a very weird note.
Speaker 1: The note demands one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars, very strange.
Speaker 1: That's a strange amount. Why not one hundred? Why not
Speaker 1: two fifty? Why at one eighteen? Can you believe that
Speaker 1: was the amount of money he got for his bonus
Speaker 1: that year? One hundred eighteen thousand. That would make you
Speaker 1: think immediately this guy knew John Ramsey had worked, or
Speaker 1: he saw paperwork on his in his office desk that
Speaker 1: actually had the paperwork that showed the check, or at
Speaker 1: least the receipt for the check. So who knows, but
Speaker 1: it's really creepy. Shit. What I find creepy is this
Speaker 1: ransom note looked like it could be Patsy's handwriting. It
Speaker 1: was deemed it wasn't a hand running. But what's interesting
Speaker 1: is it was on this yellow legal pant that the
Speaker 1: Ramseys had in their house, and the page above the
Speaker 1: Ramsom note. In other words, they started to write it,
Speaker 1: and then stopped, and the second page they wrote it.
Speaker 1: The first ransom note began with mister and missus Ramsey,
Speaker 1: and then it stopped, and the next page was to
Speaker 1: John Ramsey, the father, explaining everything we have your daughter
Speaker 1: will kill her if you go to the cops, et cetera.
Speaker 1: But what I found the most weird is when they
Speaker 1: searched the house Christmas morning, nine ten o'clock, they don't
Speaker 1: find the girl's body. A day or two later, for
Speaker 1: some reason, the police detectives go, why don't you go
Speaker 1: back and search the house again and really look. They
Speaker 1: show up the house. John Ramsey lets them in. We
Speaker 1: have stitched the whole house. We have to sitch again
Speaker 1: if we missed anything, and they missed the basement or
Speaker 1: what they call the train room, because that's where there
Speaker 1: was a train set another room. It was a very
Speaker 1: big house, which by the way, it still has not sold.
Speaker 1: No one has bought that house since nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful home. Nobody wants a piece of it.
Speaker 1: So the next day they go down with John Ramsey.
Speaker 1: He walks them straight downstairs, not looking left or right,
Speaker 1: goes right to this door where the training room is
Speaker 1: and there's a bunch of blankets and John Bunney's under
Speaker 1: the blanket dead. How if you're a police detected, do
Speaker 1: you not search the entire house? You don't look for
Speaker 1: a kid in the oven, the bathtub, every how, you
Speaker 1: just walk away. We checked, We checked at least five bedrooms.
Speaker 1: How do you not go to the basement and why
Speaker 1: would John Ramsey walk right to that spot. Then there
Speaker 1: was the famous guy John Carr, who was on the
Speaker 1: phone with an investigator for years describing that he killed her.
Speaker 1: He feels awful about it. He's known John bin A
Speaker 1: for years. He could be somebody involved in the pageant business.
Speaker 1: But this guy eventually told people I killed her. He
Speaker 1: knew details that weren't really known to the general public.
Speaker 1: This investigator is getting freaked out. The guy says he
Speaker 1: did it, but once again, after him getting arrested, et cetera,
Speaker 1: his DNA wasn't there either. There's no one whose DNA
Speaker 1: is there. But the whole basis of this documentary is
Speaker 1: nowadays we have more access to DNA than we did
Speaker 1: in the nineties. There's this public genealogy base which points
Speaker 1: to relatives you have across the world that you can
Speaker 1: get you closer and closer to the DNA that was
Speaker 1: found there, because the only database they had back in
Speaker 1: ninety six, nobody in that database matched the DNA, No
Speaker 1: criminal matched it. So it's somebody who wasn't arrested yet,
Speaker 1: et cetera, and they still haven't found it. So now
Speaker 1: cops are saying they're getting closer to figuring out what happened.
Speaker 1: My theory is, and it's kind of the same as
Speaker 1: I thought years ago, and I came away last night
Speaker 1: from fielding the same thing. The father the pageants. I
Speaker 1: think somebody involved in that business or that business, that
Speaker 1: that festivity of the pageant girls, the way she was dressed,
Speaker 1: the way she was made to look like a young
Speaker 1: woman with the lipstick and the hair, and the way
Speaker 1: she moved on stage. And there's one video where she's
Speaker 1: playing the saxophone and one woman is calling it how
Speaker 1: sexual she was. This is a girl who was sexually
Speaker 1: abused because she's moving her she's playing the saxophone and
Speaker 1: bending up and bending down like most saxophone players do.
Speaker 1: That pissed me off. Then they said John Ramsey was
Speaker 1: going through his mail the next morning when detectician. He
Speaker 1: was going through his mail because he thought they might
Speaker 1: be more correspondence from the kidnappers. A lot of people
Speaker 1: said things that were just wrong. I think there was
Speaker 1: somebody involved in this sort of beauty pageant slash pedophile thing,
Speaker 1: because there were people with these pageants that weren't husband
Speaker 1: and wife or parents of the girls in the show.
Speaker 1: They weren't relatives. They were just people who came to
Speaker 1: see the show. That's fucking weird. And I think the
Speaker 1: person who did this possibly knew John and Patsy and
Speaker 1: maybe there was like a little bit of a i'll
Speaker 1: see your daughter, you see my daughter thing. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's completely innocent. Patsy Ramsey gave me
Speaker 1: the creeps, and I just think it has to do
Speaker 1: with some sort of pedophile ring that this John Carr described,
Speaker 1: But again, he's not the killer. But what I wanted
Speaker 1: to say was, I mean, Jay Kevin would call me
Speaker 1: as John Benney so much that I just found one
Speaker 1: of those old emails. It came after I wrote my
Speaker 1: second book, and I sent them the review from the
Speaker 1: company called Kirkus that reviews books when they first come out,
Speaker 1: and Kirkus gave me a great review, like stunning review,
Speaker 1: and many people told me that that's tremendous. Kirkus doesn't
Speaker 1: like anything. They never get this positive over a new book.
Speaker 1: Of course, Kevin, with his sixth sense of humor, had
Speaker 1: to compliment me, but then had to kick me on
Speaker 1: the ass in the way out. And you read the book.
Speaker 1: The first chapter deals with me going to New Jersey
Speaker 1: with my mother and meeting my uncle Larry before he died,
Speaker 1: and he was being taken care of by an Indian man,
Speaker 1: a Native American who lived in the woods, who came
Speaker 1: to my uncle Larry because he sensed there was somebody
Speaker 1: in the area that needed his help. And this Indian chief,
Speaker 1: we called him Chief I met him, would give him
Speaker 1: all these plant elictures and different things that the Native
Speaker 1: Americans used before antibiotics were evolved, like branches from this tree,
Speaker 1: leaves from this flower, roots of this plant, and he
Speaker 1: treated him naturally. It's very strange. But when we went
Speaker 1: there that night. The first chapter opens up with me
Speaker 1: and my mother going to Uncle Larry's house as he's
Speaker 1: dying and his chief is there. That's the first part
Speaker 1: of the first chapter. Gay Kevin writes me back, I
Speaker 1: agree with the reviewers at Kirkus. They definitely gave it
Speaker 1: a two thumbs up, as they should. You know, good
Speaker 1: sleazy guinea fuck. In my book, I would have fucked
Speaker 1: the Indian chief and lived happily ever after. But I'm
Speaker 1: not your uncle, Larry. And then he goes on and on,
Speaker 1: but he says, congrats you bumm. By the way, John
Speaker 1: Beney wants to talk to you. Here she is, and
Speaker 1: then he writes in her voice, and I don't have
Speaker 1: the voicemail anymore. But he used to call me is
Speaker 1: John Beney, And he wrote as John Beney high Aga.
Speaker 1: Your book was a tough slog to get through, but
Speaker 1: not as tough a time as I had in the
Speaker 1: basement with John Carr. He was my sometimes love. You know.
Speaker 1: We used to play sex games. He made me a
Speaker 1: necklace to die for. If you see the documentary the
Speaker 1: way John Bennet was killed or strangled, this guy made
Speaker 1: a garat and twisted and those are normally used to
Speaker 1: make pressure and then release it. It's used in a
Speaker 1: lot of sexual audio asphyxiation kind of games. And he
Speaker 1: said on the documentary that this was their love game
Speaker 1: they played, and here he is having John Benet say
Speaker 1: he made me a necklace to die for because John
Speaker 1: Carr told her I brought you a necklace, and that
Speaker 1: was the garat. It's disgusting, but that's Kevin. That's who
Speaker 1: we were back then, and I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: thought of him last night. I know that letter and
Speaker 1: the things we said are in bad taste, but sometimes
Speaker 1: the only way to get over something so disgusting is
Speaker 1: to try to find a laugh in there somehow, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to concentrate on just how awful human
Speaker 1: beings can be. But that's it. That was my very
Speaker 1: eventful exit from Las Vegas and my night watching the
Speaker 1: Life and Death of John Benay Ramsey. I hope you
Speaker 1: enjoyed that. Now I've got to go put some lights
Speaker 1: on the Christmas tree and we'll hang the balls this weekend.
Speaker 1: Speaking of hanging bulls, I gotta go. I'm aj Benzon.
Speaker 1: I was your Daily Unfiltered podcast for December sixth, twenty four.
Speaker 1: You have a great weekend because it only a couple
Speaker 1: more till Christmas. Talk to Monday.