WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.839 From Morecause Connect and aj Benza fame. Uh, he'd liked 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:09.119 to be walked on a leash and play really dirty, 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:12.519 kinky sex games. Is uh the guy put the cock 4 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:17.320 in the Peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody aj Benzi 5 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:19.559 here with fame is a bitch. This is your daily 6 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:27.480 Unfiltered podcast. Or December eleventh, twenty twenty four, two four. 7 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:33.640 This date always reminds me of when I was a kid. 8 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:40.600 We'd set the Christmas tree up today or tomorrow because 9 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:46.359 my sister Lorraine's birthday was December thirteenth, and the deal was, 10 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:49.359 let's have the tree up for Lorraine's birthday. Some of 11 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:53.119 you guys put it up right after Thanksgiving. Some people 12 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:58.840 keep it up until February. I've seen trees thrown out 13 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:05.239 in Los Ange in April. I've seen disgusting, crusty, old, 14 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:09.319 brittle brown Christmas trees on the curb for pickup in April. 15 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:12.159 In fact, the saddest thing I saw was a year 16 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:16.319 or two ago driving down the street. It was that 17 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:21.040 December twenty second, and there was a beautiful green Christmas 18 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:26.480 tree in the garbage area of somebody's lawn with tinsil. 19 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:29.719 Some some tinsel on it, you know, like maybe an 20 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:34.959 ornament or two. That had to be a very depressing 21 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:38.439 and horrible Christmas the only thing I could compare it to. 22 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:43.000 And again, I don't have any bad dreams about this, 23 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:46.159 but it was kind of funny. When Chico and I 24 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:50.400 and my nephew Jackie lived in New York City in 25 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:55.200 that duplex on Madison Avenue. It's always like a It 26 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:57.959 was always a wonderful feeling of mine to live in 27 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:03.319 Manhattan and walk down the street where there's an area 28 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:08.879 where somebody or some business is selling Christmas trees. It's 29 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:11.960 just a really good feeling. It's nighttime. I just got 30 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.879 off of work. I stopped to get a cigar on 31 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:19.159 the way home. I got my nice long wool overcoat, 32 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:21.520 and I'm walking down the street and there I see 33 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:24.240 a little tiny, you know, little not a farm, but 34 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:26.879 a little area that someone set up some trees to sell. 35 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:29.520 And you get a tree and it's wrapped up in 36 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:31.960 that white plastic mesh, and you put it on my 37 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:35.639 shoulder and walked it back to Madison Amnu two twenty Madison, 38 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.960 and nobody was home, and I set it up a 39 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:42.039 tree holder on the bottom and didn't have any ornaments 40 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:45.199 to reach too yet, but I wanted the guys to 41 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:48.719 see that I got the tree. It wasn't the best tree. 42 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:50.639 Once I unwrapped it and I got a good look 43 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:53.919 at what was underneath the mesh, and I always think, 44 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:55.560 you look, if you have a tree with like a 45 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:57.599 little bit of a dead spot or a blank spot, 46 00:02:57.639 --> 00:02:59.919 you put that spot towards the wall. It's not the 47 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:03.680 big deal. Chico took one look at it and he said, 48 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:06.159 what did you tie that tree to the bottom of 49 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:07.879 the car when you drove home. I mean, that's the 50 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:12.080 kind of you tie it to the bottom of the car. 51 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:15.280 That was Chico. And then, of course once we had 52 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:18.599 that Christmas, we had two there on Medicine Avenue. Chico 53 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:20.919 decided to go all out and get all the ornaments. 54 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:24.599 And I'm not a bird person now, I like birds. 55 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:28.560 Thirty years ago, no birds. Chico thought it'd be nice 56 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:31.080 to get some doves and some cardinals, and he put 57 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:33.039 these birds on the tree and I said, I fucking 58 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:35.680 hate the look at this tree. I feel like Tippy Hendron. 59 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.000 And then al for Hitchcock movie, the birds get rid 60 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:44.479 of this shit. I'm saying the second Christmas was over, 61 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:48.719 Chico took the whole tree, even the bottom holder, the 62 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:53.719 green and red holder, all the ornaments, the lights, the 63 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:57.319 whole thing, walked in the hallway, dragged the tree out 64 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:02.719 to the garbage choot and dumped the whole thing down balls, lights, garland, tensil, 65 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:07.719 you name it right there, And he said, and that's that. 66 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:10.000 That's one of my Christmas memories. But I want to 67 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:12.120 talk about something else today and if I can, and 68 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:13.919 I'm not asking you permission, because I'm going to do 69 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:17.240 it anyhow. But there's more I want to burp up 70 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:24.560 about this big case with Daniel Penny, you know, choking Jordan, 71 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:30.120 nearly killing him, finally found not guilty the other day, 72 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:33.920 and I want to talk more about it because it really, 73 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.399 the more I thought about it had a profound effect 74 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:38.639 on me, the fact that he did what he did. 75 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:44.160 You guys know, I have used an expression and a credo, 76 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.439 if you will, that I told you my father instilled 77 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.160 in me many many years ago. I was a little boy, 78 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:55.680 and as I grew up, it was I'm not lying, 79 00:04:55.759 --> 00:05:00.480 it was absolutely normal to see my father jumping to 80 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:05.639 his own defense and even other people's defenses, and just 81 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:09.000 taking action wherever it was needed. It could have been 82 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:13.160 a shopping store or you know, I'm sorry, grocery store, 83 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:17.079 a mall, a movie theater, or the street in front 84 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:21.199 of our house. My father had this conviction in him 85 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:26.639 about not allowing any bullshit or violence or anything like 86 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.920 that on his watch. And I remember one night I 87 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:34.079 saw him lean forward in a movie theater and calmly 88 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:36.839 tell the two teenagers sitting in front of us who 89 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:40.279 were throwing popcorn up in the air, that they needed 90 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:44.040 to stop. And he calmly told them this is back 91 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:47.560 when people smoked in movie theaters, which is annoying enough. 92 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:49.759 But I'm between my mother and my father, who are 93 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:52.800 both smoking. These two idiots in front of me, there 94 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:56.040 are the teens. They're throwing popcorn behind them, hitting my 95 00:05:56.160 --> 00:06:00.000 mother's lap. Not good. And he leaned phone and he's 96 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:02.720 says to them, if you throw one more piece of 97 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:06.959 popcorn anywhere near my family, I'm gonna bust you skulls 98 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:10.480 wide open. And I think I know. I remember this 99 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:13.959 was during we watched the movie called The Garden of 100 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.120 the Finsy Contenies. And I guarantee you none of you 101 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:20.680 out there saw that. What will be fourteen hundred strong. 102 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.279 None of you saw it. If you did, email me. 103 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:29.959 Made by the Italian director Vittorio Decico. It's about it 104 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:32.480 was a weird movie. An upper class Jewish family lives 105 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:36.040 in fascist Italy. Why my father thought this was something 106 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:38.639 an eight year old boy with love. I have no idea, 107 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:42.120 what can I say? But I've never forgotten it. And 108 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:45.120 on top of that, it made me develop a tremendous 109 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:49.439 curiosity for the director of Desika, and as I got older, 110 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:52.000 I saw more of his films. He made a ton 111 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:55.759 of great movies. One I absolutely loved and Rosalie was 112 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:58.279 always on my back to see this movie. And I 113 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:01.120 still look at it from time to time, yesterday, today 114 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.399 and tomorrow. This was done in the sixties. I was 115 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:07.199 nineteen sixty three. I was one years old when this 116 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:11.439 movie was made. It's actually an anthology with the anthology 117 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:15.519 film It's Got sophiaa Wren at her most gorgeous, and 118 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:20.040 my man Marcello Monstrianni and the film is well. It 119 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:24.399 consists of three short stories about couples in different parts 120 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:28.079 of Italy. The one part of the movie I liked 121 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:33.160 the best was this section called Adelina of Naples. This 122 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:37.279 is set in Naples back in the fifties, and it's 123 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:40.199 the story of a woman named Adelina played by Sophiaaren 124 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:44.920 who who basically supports her her husband who's unemployed Carmine 125 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:48.839 and that's Marcello Mastriani, and she supports him and their 126 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:54.480 child by selling cigarettes on the black market, and she 127 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:58.319 got fine and when she doesn't pay the fine, they 128 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:02.519 begin to repossess her furniture, but her neighbors are on 129 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:05.519 her side and they start to help her hide the furniture. 130 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:09.680 In fact, a lawyer who lives in the neighborhood tells 131 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:12.720 her husband that, look, you know, as the fine and 132 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:15.600 furniture are in your wife's name, she's gonna go to 133 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:19.319 jail if this keeps happening. But there's a law in 134 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:24.560 Italy that says women cannot be imprisoned when they're pregnant 135 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:28.800 or within six months after a pregnancy. So as a result, 136 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:32.480 so feel her end has a scheme and that is 137 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:38.279 to stay pregnant continuously. Great idea. And after seven kids 138 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:42.480 in like eight years, the husband Marcello is so exhausted 139 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.000 and then she's gonna make the choice. Does she get 140 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:49.759 pregnant and if he's so tired, can she go to 141 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:55.600 their mutual friend pascually to get pregnant, or she's going 142 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:57.799 to go to prison. I'm not gonna spoil the ending 143 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:03.080 great movie, but anyhow, sorry long tangent. But there was 144 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:07.200 my father throwing down the gauntlet to those two kids, 145 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:10.440 who must have been eighteen nineteen twenty years old. And 146 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:14.399 a few minutes later, what do you know, popcorn is 147 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:16.879 up in the air again and it hits my mother's legs. 148 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:20.639 And there were people around us murmuring, and people around 149 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:23.559 us were upset with these clowns. But it was only 150 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:29.519 my father who took action, just like Daniel Penny, and 151 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:32.039 he calmly put a hand on each one of their 152 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.840 heads and grabbed their long hair. This was the seventies, 153 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:38.600 and he slammed their heads together. I can still hear 154 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:42.159 the noise of their heads titting. They couldn't believe it. 155 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:47.039 They were like, you were just teenagers. And my father said, 156 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:49.960 now go get your fucking father and tell them to 157 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:52.639 come down here. Tell them what I did. Tell them, 158 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:56.919 al Benz, that knocked your fucking skulls my father. Man, 159 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:00.600 you know, go get your Father'll bust his skull too. 160 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:03.120 I mean that I can hear the words. I can 161 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:06.279 see it all his his bracelet shaking on his wrist, 162 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:08.879 the way he pointed with the cigarette and his fingers. 163 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.159 He had away with words, which should come as no 164 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:17.480 surprise since you know his son. But like comedians, know 165 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:21.679 that the K sound or the hard C in a 166 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:26.279 word is funny. It's funny in a story or a punchline. 167 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:28.080 If you use a word that starts with a C 168 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:33.720 or a sound, you know, for whatever reason, in the 169 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:37.440 science of comedy, it's funnier. And it's true. When I 170 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:39.799 began writing for the Gossip column, I remember I wrote 171 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:43.080 something for Linda and I used the word nude in 172 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:45.639 the story Some people were nude, and Linda changed it 173 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:48.200 to naked, and I asked, why, what did you have 174 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:50.720 against the word nude? She said nothing. I just know 175 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.720 that naked is funnier, and she's right because of that 176 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:59.799 hard K sound in the middle. Anyhow, the kids of 177 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.960 Ely walked out of the theater, and there were moviegoers 178 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:07.399 near us who clapped and whistled as these two kids left. 179 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:11.600 We get in the car, we're driving home. My mother says, al, Yeah, 180 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.039 did you have to hurt them, he said, Lily, they 181 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:18.720 asked for it, and I warned them, and she knew 182 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:21.879 better to interrupt him. But then he said, when you 183 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:25.000 see a wrong in life, you gotta have the balls 184 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.360 to make it right. And then he looked in a 185 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:30.879 rear view mirror and he repeated it as his eyes 186 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:33.440 closed in on his little boy in the back seat. 187 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:36.200 I'm not going to get into detail of all the 188 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:38.600 fights I saw my father in, but let me tell 189 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:43.480 you know, there were several, and the last one I 190 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:46.039 think I ever saw was a Fourth of July celebration. 191 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:49.720 I believed my father had just turned fifty years old. 192 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.519 We always had his party on the fourth of July 193 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:57.519 weekend because his birthday was July fifth. And back then, 194 00:11:57.559 --> 00:12:00.879 my nephew Jackie was a baby and Rosalie had just 195 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:04.080 put him down to sleep in the guest well their bedroom. 196 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:06.000 Because jack and Rosie lived with us toil, they had 197 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:07.879 enough money to put a down payment on their house, 198 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:10.320 so they stayed in that room, which was in the 199 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:12.679 front of the house. And that's why the fireworks out 200 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:17.080 front were waking up Jackie, because these two guys across 201 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:20.399 the street were blown off loud m eighties Ash cans. 202 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:24.679 There's a word from the past, you know, And I'm like, 203 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:27.279 this is no good. So I walked to the back 204 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:30.039 where everybody's hanging out by the pool and my mother's 205 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:32.600 got sandwiches out there, and John and air and all 206 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:35.080 that kind of shit. And because then it was over 207 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.320 a long time, cake was served. This was like the 208 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:41.159 after party sandwiches. There's an omelet, peppers and onions, you know, 209 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:46.200 just crazy. And I told my father what the guys 210 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:49.200 were doing across the street, blowing up firecrackers too loud. 211 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:52.559 Jackie can't sleep. Rosie went out there. She's looking at 212 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:55.759 me like, dot, don't age it, don't say this. And 213 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.639 I can't forget the image because my father heard this. 214 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.039 Took it very calm. Yeah, a sandwich in his hand, 215 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:04.200 Hamdi cheese sandwich. I want to say gobble gold, but 216 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:07.559 I don't know if that's for sure. But he stands up. 217 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:09.279 He calls out to my brothers in law, Frank and 218 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:13.799 Frankie and Jack. This guy's come with me. And Jack 219 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:16.559 had just cut his foot very badly. When he worked 220 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:19.759 at a summer camp teaching swimming. He was a swim instructor. 221 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:22.799 He stepped on a bottle and he ripped his foot up, 222 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:26.720 so he wasn't in the mood to fight. Frankie had 223 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:28.879 just brushed his teeth and was getting ready for bed. 224 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:32.240 He had a toothbrush in his hand. My father's got 225 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:34.840 a sandwich, Jackson limping, and Frankie's got a tooth And 226 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:38.080 they all went outside to see these two guys. And 227 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:41.399 you know, I've said, Frankie, you know, this is the seventies. 228 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:44.679 So Frankie was one of those disco guys who would 229 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:48.200 wear high heeled shoes, you know, platform shoes. So they 230 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:49.759 run into the front of the house and they went 231 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:52.240 to go talk to the guys. Initially it was it 232 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:55.600 was calm, but then I couldn't hear what's happening. I 233 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:58.120 climbed the big tree in front of my house to 234 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.519 look down on what was I wanted to big view, 235 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:04.679 big perspective, and I don't know what was said because 236 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:07.320 it was loud out. But at one point one of 237 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.200 those guys must have said something stupid. My father unloads 238 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:13.639 and holes off and punches just one guy, a very 239 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.879 big guy, above his eye. Boom. Then it was on. 240 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:21.679 Jack and Frankie are throwing haymakers. Frankie, who was not 241 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:25.120 only a kung fu black belt, but he also used 242 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:28.200 our garage to build and make all these long swords 243 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:30.639 and all that shit that kung fu masters use. So 244 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:35.080 it was like it was on And at one point 245 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.440 Frankie gave one of these guys a spinning back kick 246 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:39.799 to the chest so hard it broke off one of 247 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.919 his platform heels. It was insane. Long story short, my 248 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:47.360 father Jack Frankie beat the shit out of those two guys. 249 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:50.279 And I'm serious. These guys were like they were big. 250 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:52.480 They lifted weights. You could see there were no pussies. 251 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:56.159 Cops show up, my father lets him in. You know, 252 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:58.600 they got one of the guys with him and his 253 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.720 face looked like a swollen volleyball and he was drunk 254 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:05.200 on top of that, and back then, my father calmly 255 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:07.240 spoke to the cops, told him he was once on 256 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:10.720 the job, you know, bob being bang boom. The cops leave, 257 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:13.240 They gave my father a warning. They made the guy 258 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:18.200 apologize to us, but you know, the guy went home 259 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:21.120 all busted up. Three years later he killed himself with 260 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:23.440 a shotgun, shot his fucking head off around the corner. 261 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:28.080 I swear to God, not related, but sad story point 262 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:31.679 is I saw my father spring into action and actually 263 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:34.320 live the credo he stood for, which is, if you 264 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:37.120 see a wrong, have the balls to make it right. 265 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:41.200 And that's what Daniel Penny did. And I read stories 266 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:43.080 about this whole thing, and it's like, you know, the 267 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.879 associated press is Daniel Penny who choked out and killed 268 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:50.679 a subway rider. Excuse me, let's stop with the subway 269 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:53.360 riders ship. The guy was a menace. He was a 270 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:56.960 drug abusing menace who had announced on the train that 271 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:00.879 someone was gonna die that day. Okay. Was he under 272 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:03.240 the influence of drugs, of course, but that doesn't matter. 273 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:08.399 Did that make the people run in the subway feel safe? No, 274 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:13.480 they felt the opposite. And then I heard Jordan Neely's father, who, 275 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:16.519 by the way, if Neely was still alive, he'd be 276 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:19.399 very curious why his father shut up out of the blue, 277 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:23.320 because he was never in his life. Now he's there 278 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:26.000 not only complaining that his son is dead, but he 279 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:29.519 also shouts during this televised interview, many of you have 280 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:33.080 heard it that black people now now need to beat 281 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:38.240 up white people. Okay. He even threatened Daniel Penny that 282 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:42.399 he know, hey, we're coming at you kind of thing. 283 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:46.440 No one shut them up, no one grabbed them. I mean, 284 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:49.000 I don't understand you can make these threats so publicly 285 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:52.559 and nothing happens. The guy's a complete asshole, a nut 286 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:56.759 job who abandoned the boy he fathered many years earlier. 287 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:59.720 What else is new? And at one point somebody from 288 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:03.600 Jordan Nearli's family actually said that all Jordan nearly did 289 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:07.319 was ask for food. Horse shit. Let me tell you 290 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:11.880 something all New Yorkers know about people asking for food. 291 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:14.200 We're very used to that. After a while in New 292 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:18.440 York City, you get to know the homeless people near you, right. 293 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:21.400 You get to know the people you're stepping over to 294 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:25.319 get to your door. You get to know their personalities, 295 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:29.119 their quirks, their talents, even what might make them dangerous. 296 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:33.079 And back in the day, there were always homeless people 297 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:35.559 who would ask me your Chico for money downtown and 298 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:38.160 at some point she'd know this one guy. She would 299 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:40.519 tell this one guy, well, do something you always ask 300 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:42.480 I always give you a buck or a fight all bill, 301 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:46.440 do something, guy says, I can do a backflip. This 302 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:48.640 guy had to be fifty six years old. We're like no, no, 303 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.240 I don't do it bad. He does a backflip and 304 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:57.480 lands perfectly. This guy just sat up from the concrete, 305 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:02.440 cold sidewalk, and does she go give hie hundred dollars? 306 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:05.599 Then we liked the guy. He'd always see us and 307 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:08.559 she'd go decided, I'm gonna get you money. Every month. 308 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:10.559 We're gonna get a haircut in a shave on me, 309 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.039 all right. And that's what Chico did for about six 310 00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:15.279 months until the guy disappeared. He gave him a haircut 311 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:17.759 in a shave. The point is, we know homeless people 312 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:20.240 who need help, and we know those who just want 313 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:23.079 to start shitting scare people. And that's what Jordan Nearly was. 314 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:28.440 Don't let the Michael Jackson impression fool you, you know, 315 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.319 just and when he got on the subway, he gave 316 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:35.440 off that violent vibe. And that's when Daniel Penny did 317 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:37.599 the sort of thing my father preached and also what 318 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:40.839 my father instilled in me. Now, I gotta tell you, 319 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:44.920 when I was younger, I absolutely followed this code, and 320 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:48.880 I got myself from predicaments and fistfights I wish I had, 321 00:18:49.160 --> 00:18:53.279 but I did because I could never take bullshit in person, 322 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:57.039 and I was always the one to jump in, and 323 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:59.200 in my mind I had to be the guy that 324 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:01.440 called that bullshit to keep people safe. And then I 325 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:04.240 go on my way. Happened last night. I went to 326 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:06.359 the weed store to get my gummies to go to bed. 327 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:09.200 I go there once a month. I get the same 328 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:13.119 thing all the time. You know, it's I know, the 329 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.000 bud tenders in the back. I hate that word. They 330 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.880 act like they're so special, this salesman, that's all. And 331 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:22.279 you know another thing in the front. The guy's like, oh, 332 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:24.200 I don't have you on file. You know I'm here 333 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:26.240 every month for three years. You got me on file. 334 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:28.799 Here's my license. Check it out. No, we don't see it. 335 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:32.160 Check aj benz And sometimes they use that no no. 336 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:34.440 I said, well, there's something wrong because I'm always here. 337 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:39.039 Now there's a female black security cop next to who's arm. 338 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:41.200 She's got the gun on the right hip and she 339 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:42.960 starts to get a little jump because I'm going that 340 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:45.400 it's bullshit, man, I'm in the fucking system. I'm here 341 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:47.480 every month. I can show you what I spent. She's 342 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:49.839 getting jumpy. Puts your hand on the gun, not not 343 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:52.400 to shoot me, but to let me know, Like this 344 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:54.680 guy's got help, I said, hun, do me a favorite. 345 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:56.960 My father was a cop, my brother in law, father 346 00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:59.880 in law, my nephew's a shriff. I'm from cops. Listen, 347 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:03.039 this is not a bad thing. He fucked up. I 348 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:04.920 finally get go in the back. I said, can I 349 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:08.480 talk to the manager? Manager? What's problem? This guy doesn't 350 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:10.720 know what he's doing. Blah blah blah. She goes, Well, 351 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:12.680 what he needs to do is punch you. I said, 352 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:15.799 now tell me what he needs to do. Tell him 353 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:18.400 what he needs to do. Now people are getting pissed 354 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:20.759 off because they're not being helped too. Now this stow 355 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:23.039 has got a problem. And I said, the problem why 356 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:25.240 everybody's mad is because you don't have enough people working 357 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:27.039 for you. You got the cop people to hand on 358 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:29.160 a gun and say she's gonna shoot somebody. All we 359 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:32.119 want is our gummies and are gonna go. Can you 360 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:35.839 stop making this into an issue? I can't. I can't 361 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:40.160 help myself, even though when I smacked stuttering John was 362 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:44.119 because of what my father told me. So I love 363 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:46.799 what Daniel Penny did, and I love that a jury 364 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:49.880 of his peers saw it the same way. And I 365 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:52.759 saw their faces and I could tell that they've been 366 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:56.680 there on a subway when shit one sideways, and you know, 367 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:59.960 maybe they were there when a couple of assholes tossed popcorn. 368 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:01.960 I'm the wrong way in a movie theater. I don't know, 369 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:07.759 but I gotta tell you the truth. Even though I 370 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:10.480 decided to pick up the mantle and do like my father, 371 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:14.640 I would never instill that in Raco, you know what 372 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:17.160 I mean. As far as I'm concerned, the world is 373 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:20.680 correcting itself. I'm happy about that. I think that's because 374 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:23.960 Trump won. In fact, I know it is, but it's 375 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:30.039 still largely an unjust and scary place, especially with respect 376 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:33.200 to men who jump up and elect to take matters 377 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:36.519 into their own hands. Nowadays, you just don't know if 378 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:39.319 you're gonna be hailed the hero or walked out with 379 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:43.599 cuffs on you guys, you know, you know. I never 380 00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:46.119 get very critical of all the things my father passed 381 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:49.240 down to me. But with the way the world is now, 382 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:54.680 the fact that wokeism is still there, it's hard to 383 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:59.079 still beating. So is DEI and whatever the fuck I 384 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:02.599 used saw an ad for. There's a Transanta movement now. 385 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:06.200 I'm not even gonna get into it. But a lot 386 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:11.440 of things have made the majority of men pussies. Okay, 387 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:14.920 if you ask me. Barack Obama has had twelve years 388 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:17.759 in the White House, and he's a direct reason why 389 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:20.400 men have turned into pussies and why there's so much 390 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:24.160 perceived racism in this country when there even isn't. They 391 00:22:24.319 --> 00:22:26.480 like to go take it to that place, and it's 392 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:30.240 not that place. Jordan nearly would have been choked out 393 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:34.759 if he was Asian or Mexican or from fucking Bosnia. 394 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:41.240 It doesn't matter. But I'll tell you the truth. The 395 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:46.240 way the world is now, maybe he shouldn't have instilled 396 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:48.160 that in me way back when, although how could he 397 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:52.160 know that they'd be wokeism one day? Way back in 398 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:56.799 the seventies. And again, I'm still here, and I'd like 399 00:22:56.839 --> 00:23:01.079 to think I'm here because I've stood up at times 400 00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:05.240 and acted as my father wished. In other words, i 401 00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:07.000