Speaker 1: From Morecause Connect and aj Benza fame. Uh, he'd liked
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Speaker 1: here with fame is a bitch. This is your daily
Speaker 1: Unfiltered podcast. Or December eleventh, twenty twenty four, two four.
Speaker 1: This date always reminds me of when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: We'd set the Christmas tree up today or tomorrow because
Speaker 1: my sister Lorraine's birthday was December thirteenth, and the deal was,
Speaker 1: let's have the tree up for Lorraine's birthday. Some of
Speaker 1: you guys put it up right after Thanksgiving. Some people
Speaker 1: keep it up until February. I've seen trees thrown out
Speaker 1: in Los Ange in April. I've seen disgusting, crusty, old,
Speaker 1: brittle brown Christmas trees on the curb for pickup in April.
Speaker 1: In fact, the saddest thing I saw was a year
Speaker 1: or two ago driving down the street. It was that
Speaker 1: December twenty second, and there was a beautiful green Christmas
Speaker 1: tree in the garbage area of somebody's lawn with tinsil.
Speaker 1: Some some tinsel on it, you know, like maybe an
Speaker 1: ornament or two. That had to be a very depressing
Speaker 1: and horrible Christmas the only thing I could compare it to.
Speaker 1: And again, I don't have any bad dreams about this,
Speaker 1: but it was kind of funny. When Chico and I
Speaker 1: and my nephew Jackie lived in New York City in
Speaker 1: that duplex on Madison Avenue. It's always like a It
Speaker 1: was always a wonderful feeling of mine to live in
Speaker 1: Manhattan and walk down the street where there's an area
Speaker 1: where somebody or some business is selling Christmas trees. It's
Speaker 1: just a really good feeling. It's nighttime. I just got
Speaker 1: off of work. I stopped to get a cigar on
Speaker 1: the way home. I got my nice long wool overcoat,
Speaker 1: and I'm walking down the street and there I see
Speaker 1: a little tiny, you know, little not a farm, but
Speaker 1: a little area that someone set up some trees to sell.
Speaker 1: And you get a tree and it's wrapped up in
Speaker 1: that white plastic mesh, and you put it on my
Speaker 1: shoulder and walked it back to Madison Amnu two twenty Madison,
Speaker 1: and nobody was home, and I set it up a
Speaker 1: tree holder on the bottom and didn't have any ornaments
Speaker 1: to reach too yet, but I wanted the guys to
Speaker 1: see that I got the tree. It wasn't the best tree.
Speaker 1: Once I unwrapped it and I got a good look
Speaker 1: at what was underneath the mesh, and I always think,
Speaker 1: you look, if you have a tree with like a
Speaker 1: little bit of a dead spot or a blank spot,
Speaker 1: you put that spot towards the wall. It's not the
Speaker 1: big deal. Chico took one look at it and he said,
Speaker 1: what did you tie that tree to the bottom of
Speaker 1: the car when you drove home. I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: kind of you tie it to the bottom of the car.
Speaker 1: That was Chico. And then, of course once we had
Speaker 1: that Christmas, we had two there on Medicine Avenue. Chico
Speaker 1: decided to go all out and get all the ornaments.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a bird person now, I like birds.
Speaker 1: Thirty years ago, no birds. Chico thought it'd be nice
Speaker 1: to get some doves and some cardinals, and he put
Speaker 1: these birds on the tree and I said, I fucking
Speaker 1: hate the look at this tree. I feel like Tippy Hendron.
Speaker 1: And then al for Hitchcock movie, the birds get rid
Speaker 1: of this shit. I'm saying the second Christmas was over,
Speaker 1: Chico took the whole tree, even the bottom holder, the
Speaker 1: green and red holder, all the ornaments, the lights, the
Speaker 1: whole thing, walked in the hallway, dragged the tree out
Speaker 1: to the garbage choot and dumped the whole thing down balls, lights, garland, tensil,
Speaker 1: you name it right there, And he said, and that's that.
Speaker 1: That's one of my Christmas memories. But I want to
Speaker 1: talk about something else today and if I can, and
Speaker 1: I'm not asking you permission, because I'm going to do
Speaker 1: it anyhow. But there's more I want to burp up
Speaker 1: about this big case with Daniel Penny, you know, choking Jordan,
Speaker 1: nearly killing him, finally found not guilty the other day,
Speaker 1: and I want to talk more about it because it really,
Speaker 1: the more I thought about it had a profound effect
Speaker 1: on me, the fact that he did what he did.
Speaker 1: You guys know, I have used an expression and a credo,
Speaker 1: if you will, that I told you my father instilled
Speaker 1: in me many many years ago. I was a little boy,
Speaker 1: and as I grew up, it was I'm not lying,
Speaker 1: it was absolutely normal to see my father jumping to
Speaker 1: his own defense and even other people's defenses, and just
Speaker 1: taking action wherever it was needed. It could have been
Speaker 1: a shopping store or you know, I'm sorry, grocery store,
Speaker 1: a mall, a movie theater, or the street in front
Speaker 1: of our house. My father had this conviction in him
Speaker 1: about not allowing any bullshit or violence or anything like
Speaker 1: that on his watch. And I remember one night I
Speaker 1: saw him lean forward in a movie theater and calmly
Speaker 1: tell the two teenagers sitting in front of us who
Speaker 1: were throwing popcorn up in the air, that they needed
Speaker 1: to stop. And he calmly told them this is back
Speaker 1: when people smoked in movie theaters, which is annoying enough.
Speaker 1: But I'm between my mother and my father, who are
Speaker 1: both smoking. These two idiots in front of me, there
Speaker 1: are the teens. They're throwing popcorn behind them, hitting my
Speaker 1: mother's lap. Not good. And he leaned phone and he's
Speaker 1: says to them, if you throw one more piece of
Speaker 1: popcorn anywhere near my family, I'm gonna bust you skulls
Speaker 1: wide open. And I think I know. I remember this
Speaker 1: was during we watched the movie called The Garden of
Speaker 1: the Finsy Contenies. And I guarantee you none of you
Speaker 1: out there saw that. What will be fourteen hundred strong.
Speaker 1: None of you saw it. If you did, email me.
Speaker 1: Made by the Italian director Vittorio Decico. It's about it
Speaker 1: was a weird movie. An upper class Jewish family lives
Speaker 1: in fascist Italy. Why my father thought this was something
Speaker 1: an eight year old boy with love. I have no idea,
Speaker 1: what can I say? But I've never forgotten it. And
Speaker 1: on top of that, it made me develop a tremendous
Speaker 1: curiosity for the director of Desika, and as I got older,
Speaker 1: I saw more of his films. He made a ton
Speaker 1: of great movies. One I absolutely loved and Rosalie was
Speaker 1: always on my back to see this movie. And I
Speaker 1: still look at it from time to time, yesterday, today
Speaker 1: and tomorrow. This was done in the sixties. I was
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three. I was one years old when this
Speaker 1: movie was made. It's actually an anthology with the anthology
Speaker 1: film It's Got sophiaa Wren at her most gorgeous, and
Speaker 1: my man Marcello Monstrianni and the film is well. It
Speaker 1: consists of three short stories about couples in different parts
Speaker 1: of Italy. The one part of the movie I liked
Speaker 1: the best was this section called Adelina of Naples. This
Speaker 1: is set in Naples back in the fifties, and it's
Speaker 1: the story of a woman named Adelina played by Sophiaaren
Speaker 1: who who basically supports her her husband who's unemployed Carmine
Speaker 1: and that's Marcello Mastriani, and she supports him and their
Speaker 1: child by selling cigarettes on the black market, and she
Speaker 1: got fine and when she doesn't pay the fine, they
Speaker 1: begin to repossess her furniture, but her neighbors are on
Speaker 1: her side and they start to help her hide the furniture.
Speaker 1: In fact, a lawyer who lives in the neighborhood tells
Speaker 1: her husband that, look, you know, as the fine and
Speaker 1: furniture are in your wife's name, she's gonna go to
Speaker 1: jail if this keeps happening. But there's a law in
Speaker 1: Italy that says women cannot be imprisoned when they're pregnant
Speaker 1: or within six months after a pregnancy. So as a result,
Speaker 1: so feel her end has a scheme and that is
Speaker 1: to stay pregnant continuously. Great idea. And after seven kids
Speaker 1: in like eight years, the husband Marcello is so exhausted
Speaker 1: and then she's gonna make the choice. Does she get
Speaker 1: pregnant and if he's so tired, can she go to
Speaker 1: their mutual friend pascually to get pregnant, or she's going
Speaker 1: to go to prison. I'm not gonna spoil the ending
Speaker 1: great movie, but anyhow, sorry long tangent. But there was
Speaker 1: my father throwing down the gauntlet to those two kids,
Speaker 1: who must have been eighteen nineteen twenty years old. And
Speaker 1: a few minutes later, what do you know, popcorn is
Speaker 1: up in the air again and it hits my mother's legs.
Speaker 1: And there were people around us murmuring, and people around
Speaker 1: us were upset with these clowns. But it was only
Speaker 1: my father who took action, just like Daniel Penny, and
Speaker 1: he calmly put a hand on each one of their
Speaker 1: heads and grabbed their long hair. This was the seventies,
Speaker 1: and he slammed their heads together. I can still hear
Speaker 1: the noise of their heads titting. They couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: They were like, you were just teenagers. And my father said,
Speaker 1: now go get your fucking father and tell them to
Speaker 1: come down here. Tell them what I did. Tell them,
Speaker 1: al Benz, that knocked your fucking skulls my father. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, go get your Father'll bust his skull too.
Speaker 1: I mean that I can hear the words. I can
Speaker 1: see it all his his bracelet shaking on his wrist,
Speaker 1: the way he pointed with the cigarette and his fingers.
Speaker 1: He had away with words, which should come as no
Speaker 1: surprise since you know his son. But like comedians, know
Speaker 1: that the K sound or the hard C in a
Speaker 1: word is funny. It's funny in a story or a punchline.
Speaker 1: If you use a word that starts with a C
Speaker 1: or a sound, you know, for whatever reason, in the
Speaker 1: science of comedy, it's funnier. And it's true. When I
Speaker 1: began writing for the Gossip column, I remember I wrote
Speaker 1: something for Linda and I used the word nude in
Speaker 1: the story Some people were nude, and Linda changed it
Speaker 1: to naked, and I asked, why, what did you have
Speaker 1: against the word nude? She said nothing. I just know
Speaker 1: that naked is funnier, and she's right because of that
Speaker 1: hard K sound in the middle. Anyhow, the kids of
Speaker 1: Ely walked out of the theater, and there were moviegoers
Speaker 1: near us who clapped and whistled as these two kids left.
Speaker 1: We get in the car, we're driving home. My mother says, al, Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you have to hurt them, he said, Lily, they
Speaker 1: asked for it, and I warned them, and she knew
Speaker 1: better to interrupt him. But then he said, when you
Speaker 1: see a wrong in life, you gotta have the balls
Speaker 1: to make it right. And then he looked in a
Speaker 1: rear view mirror and he repeated it as his eyes
Speaker 1: closed in on his little boy in the back seat.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into detail of all the
Speaker 1: fights I saw my father in, but let me tell
Speaker 1: you know, there were several, and the last one I
Speaker 1: think I ever saw was a Fourth of July celebration.
Speaker 1: I believed my father had just turned fifty years old.
Speaker 1: We always had his party on the fourth of July
Speaker 1: weekend because his birthday was July fifth. And back then,
Speaker 1: my nephew Jackie was a baby and Rosalie had just
Speaker 1: put him down to sleep in the guest well their bedroom.
Speaker 1: Because jack and Rosie lived with us toil, they had
Speaker 1: enough money to put a down payment on their house,
Speaker 1: so they stayed in that room, which was in the
Speaker 1: front of the house. And that's why the fireworks out
Speaker 1: front were waking up Jackie, because these two guys across
Speaker 1: the street were blown off loud m eighties Ash cans.
Speaker 1: There's a word from the past, you know, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is no good. So I walked to the back
Speaker 1: where everybody's hanging out by the pool and my mother's
Speaker 1: got sandwiches out there, and John and air and all
Speaker 1: that kind of shit. And because then it was over
Speaker 1: a long time, cake was served. This was like the
Speaker 1: after party sandwiches. There's an omelet, peppers and onions, you know,
Speaker 1: just crazy. And I told my father what the guys
Speaker 1: were doing across the street, blowing up firecrackers too loud.
Speaker 1: Jackie can't sleep. Rosie went out there. She's looking at
Speaker 1: me like, dot, don't age it, don't say this. And
Speaker 1: I can't forget the image because my father heard this.
Speaker 1: Took it very calm. Yeah, a sandwich in his hand,
Speaker 1: Hamdi cheese sandwich. I want to say gobble gold, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's for sure. But he stands up.
Speaker 1: He calls out to my brothers in law, Frank and
Speaker 1: Frankie and Jack. This guy's come with me. And Jack
Speaker 1: had just cut his foot very badly. When he worked
Speaker 1: at a summer camp teaching swimming. He was a swim instructor.
Speaker 1: He stepped on a bottle and he ripped his foot up,
Speaker 1: so he wasn't in the mood to fight. Frankie had
Speaker 1: just brushed his teeth and was getting ready for bed.
Speaker 1: He had a toothbrush in his hand. My father's got
Speaker 1: a sandwich, Jackson limping, and Frankie's got a tooth And
Speaker 1: they all went outside to see these two guys. And
Speaker 1: you know, I've said, Frankie, you know, this is the seventies.
Speaker 1: So Frankie was one of those disco guys who would
Speaker 1: wear high heeled shoes, you know, platform shoes. So they
Speaker 1: run into the front of the house and they went
Speaker 1: to go talk to the guys. Initially it was it
Speaker 1: was calm, but then I couldn't hear what's happening. I
Speaker 1: climbed the big tree in front of my house to
Speaker 1: look down on what was I wanted to big view,
Speaker 1: big perspective, and I don't know what was said because
Speaker 1: it was loud out. But at one point one of
Speaker 1: those guys must have said something stupid. My father unloads
Speaker 1: and holes off and punches just one guy, a very
Speaker 1: big guy, above his eye. Boom. Then it was on.
Speaker 1: Jack and Frankie are throwing haymakers. Frankie, who was not
Speaker 1: only a kung fu black belt, but he also used
Speaker 1: our garage to build and make all these long swords
Speaker 1: and all that shit that kung fu masters use. So
Speaker 1: it was like it was on And at one point
Speaker 1: Frankie gave one of these guys a spinning back kick
Speaker 1: to the chest so hard it broke off one of
Speaker 1: his platform heels. It was insane. Long story short, my
Speaker 1: father Jack Frankie beat the shit out of those two guys.
Speaker 1: And I'm serious. These guys were like they were big.
Speaker 1: They lifted weights. You could see there were no pussies.
Speaker 1: Cops show up, my father lets him in. You know,
Speaker 1: they got one of the guys with him and his
Speaker 1: face looked like a swollen volleyball and he was drunk
Speaker 1: on top of that, and back then, my father calmly
Speaker 1: spoke to the cops, told him he was once on
Speaker 1: the job, you know, bob being bang boom. The cops leave,
Speaker 1: They gave my father a warning. They made the guy
Speaker 1: apologize to us, but you know, the guy went home
Speaker 1: all busted up. Three years later he killed himself with
Speaker 1: a shotgun, shot his fucking head off around the corner.
Speaker 1: I swear to God, not related, but sad story point
Speaker 1: is I saw my father spring into action and actually
Speaker 1: live the credo he stood for, which is, if you
Speaker 1: see a wrong, have the balls to make it right.
Speaker 1: And that's what Daniel Penny did. And I read stories
Speaker 1: about this whole thing, and it's like, you know, the
Speaker 1: associated press is Daniel Penny who choked out and killed
Speaker 1: a subway rider. Excuse me, let's stop with the subway
Speaker 1: riders ship. The guy was a menace. He was a
Speaker 1: drug abusing menace who had announced on the train that
Speaker 1: someone was gonna die that day. Okay. Was he under
Speaker 1: the influence of drugs, of course, but that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Did that make the people run in the subway feel safe? No,
Speaker 1: they felt the opposite. And then I heard Jordan Neely's father, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, if Neely was still alive, he'd be
Speaker 1: very curious why his father shut up out of the blue,
Speaker 1: because he was never in his life. Now he's there
Speaker 1: not only complaining that his son is dead, but he
Speaker 1: also shouts during this televised interview, many of you have
Speaker 1: heard it that black people now now need to beat
Speaker 1: up white people. Okay. He even threatened Daniel Penny that
Speaker 1: he know, hey, we're coming at you kind of thing.
Speaker 1: No one shut them up, no one grabbed them. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't understand you can make these threats so publicly
Speaker 1: and nothing happens. The guy's a complete asshole, a nut
Speaker 1: job who abandoned the boy he fathered many years earlier.
Speaker 1: What else is new? And at one point somebody from
Speaker 1: Jordan Nearli's family actually said that all Jordan nearly did
Speaker 1: was ask for food. Horse shit. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: something all New Yorkers know about people asking for food.
Speaker 1: We're very used to that. After a while in New
Speaker 1: York City, you get to know the homeless people near you, right.
Speaker 1: You get to know the people you're stepping over to
Speaker 1: get to your door. You get to know their personalities,
Speaker 1: their quirks, their talents, even what might make them dangerous.
Speaker 1: And back in the day, there were always homeless people
Speaker 1: who would ask me your Chico for money downtown and
Speaker 1: at some point she'd know this one guy. She would
Speaker 1: tell this one guy, well, do something you always ask
Speaker 1: I always give you a buck or a fight all bill,
Speaker 1: do something, guy says, I can do a backflip. This
Speaker 1: guy had to be fifty six years old. We're like no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't do it bad. He does a backflip and
Speaker 1: lands perfectly. This guy just sat up from the concrete,
Speaker 1: cold sidewalk, and does she go give hie hundred dollars?
Speaker 1: Then we liked the guy. He'd always see us and
Speaker 1: she'd go decided, I'm gonna get you money. Every month.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a haircut in a shave on me,
Speaker 1: all right. And that's what Chico did for about six
Speaker 1: months until the guy disappeared. He gave him a haircut
Speaker 1: in a shave. The point is, we know homeless people
Speaker 1: who need help, and we know those who just want
Speaker 1: to start shitting scare people. And that's what Jordan Nearly was.
Speaker 1: Don't let the Michael Jackson impression fool you, you know,
Speaker 1: just and when he got on the subway, he gave
Speaker 1: off that violent vibe. And that's when Daniel Penny did
Speaker 1: the sort of thing my father preached and also what
Speaker 1: my father instilled in me. Now, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: when I was younger, I absolutely followed this code, and
Speaker 1: I got myself from predicaments and fistfights I wish I had,
Speaker 1: but I did because I could never take bullshit in person,
Speaker 1: and I was always the one to jump in, and
Speaker 1: in my mind I had to be the guy that
Speaker 1: called that bullshit to keep people safe. And then I
Speaker 1: go on my way. Happened last night. I went to
Speaker 1: the weed store to get my gummies to go to bed.
Speaker 1: I go there once a month. I get the same
Speaker 1: thing all the time. You know, it's I know, the
Speaker 1: bud tenders in the back. I hate that word. They
Speaker 1: act like they're so special, this salesman, that's all. And
Speaker 1: you know another thing in the front. The guy's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't have you on file. You know I'm here
Speaker 1: every month for three years. You got me on file.
Speaker 1: Here's my license. Check it out. No, we don't see it.
Speaker 1: Check aj benz And sometimes they use that no no.
Speaker 1: I said, well, there's something wrong because I'm always here.
Speaker 1: Now there's a female black security cop next to who's arm.
Speaker 1: She's got the gun on the right hip and she
Speaker 1: starts to get a little jump because I'm going that
Speaker 1: it's bullshit, man, I'm in the fucking system. I'm here
Speaker 1: every month. I can show you what I spent. She's
Speaker 1: getting jumpy. Puts your hand on the gun, not not
Speaker 1: to shoot me, but to let me know, Like this
Speaker 1: guy's got help, I said, hun, do me a favorite.
Speaker 1: My father was a cop, my brother in law, father
Speaker 1: in law, my nephew's a shriff. I'm from cops. Listen,
Speaker 1: this is not a bad thing. He fucked up. I
Speaker 1: finally get go in the back. I said, can I
Speaker 1: talk to the manager? Manager? What's problem? This guy doesn't
Speaker 1: know what he's doing. Blah blah blah. She goes, Well,
Speaker 1: what he needs to do is punch you. I said,
Speaker 1: now tell me what he needs to do. Tell him
Speaker 1: what he needs to do. Now people are getting pissed
Speaker 1: off because they're not being helped too. Now this stow
Speaker 1: has got a problem. And I said, the problem why
Speaker 1: everybody's mad is because you don't have enough people working
Speaker 1: for you. You got the cop people to hand on
Speaker 1: a gun and say she's gonna shoot somebody. All we
Speaker 1: want is our gummies and are gonna go. Can you
Speaker 1: stop making this into an issue? I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: help myself, even though when I smacked stuttering John was
Speaker 1: because of what my father told me. So I love
Speaker 1: what Daniel Penny did, and I love that a jury
Speaker 1: of his peers saw it the same way. And I
Speaker 1: saw their faces and I could tell that they've been
Speaker 1: there on a subway when shit one sideways, and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they were there when a couple of assholes tossed popcorn.
Speaker 1: I'm the wrong way in a movie theater. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I gotta tell you the truth. Even though I
Speaker 1: decided to pick up the mantle and do like my father,
Speaker 1: I would never instill that in Raco, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. As far as I'm concerned, the world is
Speaker 1: correcting itself. I'm happy about that. I think that's because
Speaker 1: Trump won. In fact, I know it is, but it's
Speaker 1: still largely an unjust and scary place, especially with respect
Speaker 1: to men who jump up and elect to take matters
Speaker 1: into their own hands. Nowadays, you just don't know if
Speaker 1: you're gonna be hailed the hero or walked out with
Speaker 1: cuffs on you guys, you know, you know. I never
Speaker 1: get very critical of all the things my father passed
Speaker 1: down to me. But with the way the world is now,
Speaker 1: the fact that wokeism is still there, it's hard to
Speaker 1: still beating. So is DEI and whatever the fuck I
Speaker 1: used saw an ad for. There's a Transanta movement now.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna get into it. But a lot
Speaker 1: of things have made the majority of men pussies. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you ask me. Barack Obama has had twelve years
Speaker 1: in the White House, and he's a direct reason why
Speaker 1: men have turned into pussies and why there's so much
Speaker 1: perceived racism in this country when there even isn't. They
Speaker 1: like to go take it to that place, and it's
Speaker 1: not that place. Jordan nearly would have been choked out
Speaker 1: if he was Asian or Mexican or from fucking Bosnia.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. But I'll tell you the truth. The
Speaker 1: way the world is now, maybe he shouldn't have instilled
Speaker 1: that in me way back when, although how could he
Speaker 1: know that they'd be wokeism one day? Way back in
Speaker 1: the seventies. And again, I'm still here, and I'd like
Speaker 1: to think I'm here because I've stood up at times
Speaker 1: and acted as my father wished. In other words, i
Speaker 1: can look at myself in the mirror and know that
Speaker 1: I've gone that way. I was able to shoulder that burden,
Speaker 1: but I'd rather not saddle Raca with that shit. As
Speaker 1: it is now, He's seen me spring up and do
Speaker 1: and say things that most men don't do. Most dads
Speaker 1: don't do, especially with respect to doing it in front
Speaker 1: of his sons. But look, I just hope this course
Speaker 1: correct that's happening across America, goes quicker and happens without
Speaker 1: a lot of hiccups, because I don't want my son
Speaker 1: to think he needs to be the hero all the time.
Speaker 1: But I'd be lying if I said it wouldn't make
Speaker 1: me proud if he did exactly what Daniel Penny did.
Speaker 1: In fact, I played this game since I'm since I
Speaker 1: was a former tabloid writer, and I love the New
Speaker 1: York Posts and their headlines. The Delli News is gone now,
Speaker 1: so you know, we're left with one tabloid, the New
Speaker 1: York Post, and their headlines are great. When I saw that,
Speaker 1: you know, Daniel Penny was found not guilty. To me,
Speaker 1: the headline was Penny Saved. Even one of my buddies
Speaker 1: on Instagram said the same thing. It's such an easy choice.
Speaker 1: But the Post wrote enough is enough, and that's a
Speaker 1: bigger meaning. Right, enough is enough that I'll tell you
Speaker 1: exactly how Americans feel. But I mean, look, guys, I
Speaker 1: you know it's like deja vu. I'm looking at TV.
Speaker 1: I see Black Lives Matter was out there talking about
Speaker 1: getting back at white people. You heard Jordan Neely's family,
Speaker 1: especially his father, was never around. As I said, in
Speaker 1: one of the most leftist jurisdictions in America. My said,
Speaker 1: state of New York City, where people were chanting, no,
Speaker 1: Jordan Nearly is not guilty. That's what they were saying.
Speaker 1: They also make big crowds and say that Palestine's great,
Speaker 1: Israel is horrible. People are off their rocker. But this
Speaker 1: is what it is. Trump gets re elected and Daniel
Speaker 1: Penny is acquitted. He's white, Jordan Neely's black, and still
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter is yelling We're a racist country when
Speaker 1: they had nothing to do with color. It's over, BLM,
Speaker 1: it's over. Your grift is through your bullshit attempt to
Speaker 1: be some sort of helpful organization that was disproven years ago.
Speaker 1: Many of you got busted because you used the millions
Speaker 1: of dollars stupid and idiotic liberals forked over, and you
Speaker 1: all bought big houses and fancy cars, and still you're
Speaker 1: all looking to take the many millions of dollars that
Speaker 1: stupid white liberals continue to walk over to you because
Speaker 1: they feel like they have white kilt. They all read
Speaker 1: the stupid book, White Fragility. Did I tell you some
Speaker 1: years ago, maybe five years ago, whenever it was that
Speaker 1: I talked about the Adam Carolla and Lynette Corolla filing
Speaker 1: for divorce. It was that same day because I got
Speaker 1: a phone call from a buddy of mine. I don't
Speaker 1: say buddy, a colleague, somebody I knew and hung out
Speaker 1: with here and there, a showbiz friend, guy named Michael Addis,
Speaker 1: And he calls me out of the but and you know,
Speaker 1: it was okay because him and I were talking about
Speaker 1: pitching some TV show ideas. He had some juice, right,
Speaker 1: We basically came up at the same time together, but
Speaker 1: he had some juice. He was a show runner eventually
Speaker 1: f Impractical Jokers, He did the Showbies Show with David Spade.
Speaker 1: He did Extreme Makeover. So you know, you find people
Speaker 1: like that that have some poll in the industry, maybe
Speaker 1: you get a show sold. So we pat up for
Speaker 1: a bit and the phone he calls me, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1: What's up? Michael? Hey, how's things going? To take a
Speaker 1: look at the Yeah, I took a nibble on the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so sure, the shit, but the show idea is not
Speaker 1: coming up in our conversation, which is weird to me
Speaker 1: because I have nothing else to do with this guy.
Speaker 1: And at one point he begins to go in on
Speaker 1: a book he read that he says change his life.
Speaker 1: And I'm waiting to hear what this book is, something
Speaker 1: that allowed him to see the light. And he tells
Speaker 1: me the reason for his calling me is to see
Speaker 1: if I read the book White Fragility. Now I had
Speaker 1: known or heard of that book to be a complete
Speaker 1: pile of shit, you know, another attempt, a ballsy attempt
Speaker 1: by the author Robin D'Angelo to make white people feel
Speaker 1: guilty about the subjugation of black people. And he asked
Speaker 1: me if I read it. I said no, I never,
Speaker 1: I never will. I didn't you know, I didn't catch
Speaker 1: the virus shoe car bro. My family had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with keeping black people's slaves, you know. In fact,
Speaker 1: my people were the black people of Italy, we're the
Speaker 1: black people of Europe. So stop. But this shit, it's
Speaker 1: to tell it to someone else. It's trash. Oh he
Speaker 1: couldn't believe. Oh, HEYJ you really should read it. Why
Speaker 1: why this woman, this author? It was just so much
Speaker 1: about how bad white people are and what we can
Speaker 1: do to change everything. And you know what she did
Speaker 1: is she handed over this author handed over so many
Speaker 1: things to HR departments all over America to deploy rules
Speaker 1: and standards and all this shit that dealt with race
Speaker 1: and diversity. It was such bullshit. I don't have anything
Speaker 1: to apologize for for being white. I feel bad that
Speaker 1: black people were treated that way. Absolutely, in fact, I
Speaker 1: got I have nothing but love and respect for the
Speaker 1: black people. I just not like Trump. They're eating the cats,
Speaker 1: the black peu. I really mean, like, I don't care
Speaker 1: what color you are, give a shit, Just be nice,
Speaker 1: be good. I don't care who you love. I just
Speaker 1: just old and crusty. This whole thing about well, you
Speaker 1: say you have black friends, what is that name? Like,
Speaker 1: you can't even say that anymore? What else can we say?
Speaker 1: You know? A week or so ago, my ex girlfriend
Speaker 1: carl Young lost her mother, and I'm bringing it up, well,
Speaker 1: not only for this, but because you know I've said
Speaker 1: this in the past. Carra's mother was as black as Oprah,
Speaker 1: as I've said, her dad was as white as Johnny Carson,
Speaker 1: and they had a terrific marriage, to the point where
Speaker 1: her dad was in some sort of arm service. I
Speaker 1: forget which branch, but he met her mom, who was
Speaker 1: who was who already had a child, a black child,
Speaker 1: and was pregnant with another black child. And this man said,
Speaker 1: I don't care, I want to marry you. I love you.
Speaker 1: And then they went off to have children to But
Speaker 1: this is this is the furthest thing from racism that
Speaker 1: occurs in this country. It occurs all over the world,
Speaker 1: but the fact that it does, we look past it
Speaker 1: and look over it. And they went out and had
Speaker 1: a tremendous relationship. I met them many times in the
Speaker 1: four years, and so we were together and the twenty
Speaker 1: years we've been friends. Thirty years we've been friends. Mother's
Speaker 1: a great woman and she passed away, and you know,
Speaker 1: it made me think of her relationship with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: That's why I bring it up, because there's always been
Speaker 1: criticism that people think Trump, you know, was racist, is racist,
Speaker 1: was whatever? The fuck. It's all bullshit. It's absolute bullshit.
Speaker 1: In fact, I brought this up because her mother was
Speaker 1: a wonderful woman, truly, the matriarch of her family of
Speaker 1: three beautiful daughters and a tough son. And as you
Speaker 1: four daughters, well four daughters, not four, and you know,
Speaker 1: I was close to them for many years, and I
Speaker 1: know that once Carra and I broke up when I
Speaker 1: moved to Los Angeles and I had to, you know,
Speaker 1: deal with the fact that a long distance relationship would
Speaker 1: not work. Our situation changed. I began to see people,
Speaker 1: She began to see Donald Trump. And you all know
Speaker 1: the story, and it's so over with. Who even cares anymore.
Speaker 1: We all grew. It's called maturity and growth. None of
Speaker 1: it matters anymore. But they were in love. And whenever
Speaker 1: I see the media talking about Trump being a racist,
Speaker 1: it makes me insane because I knew just how much
Speaker 1: he loved not only Kara, but how much he loved
Speaker 1: her mother. And there was a period of time years
Speaker 1: ago that she had a health scare, the first health scare,
Speaker 1: and Donald did all he could, getting o the best doctors,
Speaker 1: the which hospital she was going to go to because
Speaker 1: she lives out in Oakland. But you know, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was very instrumental where she would go, what special she
Speaker 1: would see, and blah blah blah, you know the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And I remember one time, you know, and I only
Speaker 1: know these stories because I asked Kara, what type of
Speaker 1: man was he? This is when I didn't like the guy,
Speaker 1: and she told me, you know the stories about you know,
Speaker 1: she was going to take a young son, Nick to
Speaker 1: the one of the museum, Museum of Natural History, and
Speaker 1: you know, she told Trump, and he sent a car
Speaker 1: to pick her to the boy up and take him uptown
Speaker 1: to the museum. And that's nice, you know. And she said,
Speaker 1: I get in the car with Nick, and he's very
Speaker 1: excited to go to the museum, And about a mile
Speaker 1: into the ride, the driver turns around, takes his hat off,
Speaker 1: and it was Trump. She didn't notice that he wore
Speaker 1: a big black coat and a you know, a cap
Speaker 1: that a chauffeur would wear, and he turned around and
Speaker 1: it was him. And she told me stories about being
Speaker 1: backstage with him at a James Brown carncer where he
Speaker 1: took James Brown cape and danced for him. Probably was
Speaker 1: the first initial dance he did of that famous movie
Speaker 1: has where it looks like he's jerking two guys off.
Speaker 1: We all love to dance. But these are the stories
Speaker 1: I know about him that makes me infuriated when people
Speaker 1: call him a racist. I know him very off topic.
Speaker 1: But the point is he's not nor am I, and
Speaker 1: neither is Daniel Penny. All he did was stand up
Speaker 1: and reveal that he had the determination and this strength
Speaker 1: to stop a threat that was worrying those people rotting
Speaker 1: on that subway car with him. And I don't know
Speaker 1: Daniel Penny's father, or if he was even the type
Speaker 1: of dad who felt it was very important to impart
Speaker 1: some wisdom on his son, and maybe if he had
Speaker 1: a father like mine, Daniel Penny may have been driven
Speaker 1: by that simple but scary credo, if you see a
Speaker 1: wrong son, have the balls to make it right. And
Speaker 1: as I leave you, I will say this. You may
Speaker 1: not like what my father imparted on me and what
Speaker 1: he did during those times of trouble or strife. Whether
Speaker 1: it was about popcorn or pyrotechnics doesn't matter, but there
Speaker 1: should be many of you who understand his conviction. That's
Speaker 1: all I wanted to get that because I was gonna
Speaker 1: talk about Jamie Fox's comedy special on Netflix. I caught
Speaker 1: it this morning. The first fucking ten minutes, all he
Speaker 1: says is Atlanta saved my life. Atlanta say. It's very churchy,
Speaker 1: but you know, he gets down to telling the story,
Speaker 1: and as I said, in addition to breaking the story
Speaker 1: that he suffered a stroke. He never did say once
Speaker 1: that P Diddy was the cause of his illness. A
Speaker 1: lot of you sent me messages of a few comedians
Speaker 1: saying they were at the taping and it was then
Speaker 1: Jamie said he blamed Ditty, and I calmly said, no,
Speaker 1: that's a bunch of bullshit. He didn't say that. That'll
Speaker 1: never make the show because it's not true. Jamie Fox
Speaker 1: had a bad reaction to the COVID shot, a shot
Speaker 1: he didn't want to get, but when he had to
Speaker 1: to make the movie, and as a result, he fell.
Speaker 1: He had a stroke and fell into a coma and
Speaker 1: nearly died. And I told you partially blind, partially paralyzed.
Speaker 1: Both things are true. Do you think he's able to
Speaker 1: say that openly about the COVID shot. No, he's not,
Speaker 1: of course not. He's still in Hollywood, and he's still
Speaker 1: a big part of Hollywood. But here we are, more
Speaker 1: than a year after the fact, and it's become more
Speaker 1: and more obvious that what I said about Jamie's illness
Speaker 1: was one correct. And may I say, like I've said before,
Speaker 1: I think Jamie Fox is the most talented man in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Swear to god, singer, dancer, dramatic, actor, comedy, fucking The
Speaker 1: guy could do anything, and I'm always there for it,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad he's still here. But I've been with
Speaker 1: him many times in the past, and i can tell
Speaker 1: you that if he saw me now, I guarantee you
Speaker 1: he'd give me that look. He'd pull me up and
Speaker 1: say it. I don't know how you knew, motherfucker, but
Speaker 1: you knew. Yeah, I did, and I know a lot,
Speaker 1: and that's why you guys listen. I'm aj Benzon. That
Speaker 1: was famous bit for December eleventh, Right Wow, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: Talk to just tomorrow.