Speaker 1: From Workhouse Connect and aj Benza fame Uh, he'd liked
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Speaker 1: Bitch? This is your daily Unfiltered podcast for December fourth,
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I just finished another episode of
Speaker 1: Relationships Is a Bitch with Irena and Michael Lagovino telling
Speaker 1: you this show is uh is gaining speed, if that's
Speaker 1: even the right term to use for a podcast. We're
Speaker 1: touching on some good topics. I don't want you folks
Speaker 1: to think it's always about well can I give a
Speaker 1: boyfriend or girlfriend? What is my husband? It's not about
Speaker 1: matching up like you think. This numerology and astrology, the
Speaker 1: aspect of numerology and astrology and what Irena knows about
Speaker 1: these two sciences. If I could say that, it's pretty
Speaker 1: astounding and it's really making a lot of sense to me,
Speaker 1: and I initially thought the same thing, Well, a show
Speaker 1: about relationships, I do I have to talk about mine?
Speaker 1: Where are we going with this? It's not really about relationships.
Speaker 1: I mean it is, but it's a much broader term
Speaker 1: than what we're thinking about with that word. So I
Speaker 1: urge you to check it out. It's every we do
Speaker 1: it every Tuesday. It uploads Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1: Check it out. You'll learn a lot about yourselves. Speaking
Speaker 1: of learning things, today I decided to listen to a
Speaker 1: new podcast. I didn't know that Stephen Baldwin has a
Speaker 1: podcast called One Bad Movie. It's a great idea. He
Speaker 1: has actors come on and talk about the one bad
Speaker 1: movie they made, and they have a lot of fun
Speaker 1: in the process of doing that. They're bringing up stories
Speaker 1: on the set and rivalries and arguments and all these
Speaker 1: sorts of things you don't know happened in the midst
Speaker 1: of making a movie. I think it's great. I mean,
Speaker 1: Stephen Baldwin is a good actor. Yeah, he's been maligned
Speaker 1: for a lot of things, not only being one of
Speaker 1: the Baldwin brothers, but of course he made some clunkers
Speaker 1: early on, like whatever was Biodome with Paulie Shore whatever.
Speaker 1: The guy's been in some good films and I don't
Speaker 1: have to tell you anything about The Usual Suspects. It's
Speaker 1: one of the best films in the last fifty years.
Speaker 1: And he's phenomenal in that. And he has a great
Speaker 1: knowledge of Hollywood, being that him and his three brothers
Speaker 1: were all over it and still are. But Michael Madsen
Speaker 1: was one of his guests. I love Michael Manson. I
Speaker 1: have a little bit of a history with him. I
Speaker 1: remember when Rosalie and Jack came. I put them up
Speaker 1: at the Beverly Hills Hotel and I went and see them.
Speaker 1: We sat by the pool and I'm like, this is it.
Speaker 1: This is Hollywood, this is nineteen ninety seven. And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, this is where it all happens. And you
Speaker 1: see actors coming and going. This is back in the
Speaker 1: day where none of us really knew about actors or
Speaker 1: celebrities politics. We just liked seeing them. And there's Michael
Speaker 1: Manson in the summertime in a thin black leather jacket
Speaker 1: and jeans with beautiful ray band, black sung lesses. Onie's
Speaker 1: sitting at the pool meeting a producer and has a
Speaker 1: script in his hand, and I'm like, this is it.
Speaker 1: This is Hollywood. Madson's at the Beverlyos Hotel pool with
Speaker 1: a glass of fresh teaze, orange shoes and a script
Speaker 1: and there's a producer. This is a deal going down
Speaker 1: in front of us hanging out. It sounds ridiculous and
Speaker 1: trite and who cares. But now, back then, I was
Speaker 1: such a fan of the way Hollywood work, and I
Speaker 1: love seeing guys like Manson out and about I love
Speaker 1: his acting. I got to know more about Michael because
Speaker 1: years ago, god must have been ninety nine, maybe me
Speaker 1: and a buddy are at this little bar in town
Speaker 1: that we decided we can make the guy more money
Speaker 1: by inviting friends to the bar. And you know, we
Speaker 1: got We got the the door, the door money, he
Speaker 1: got the bar money. So we had a little little
Speaker 1: urn going on there, right, And this girl walks in,
Speaker 1: attractive woman, and she's at the bar and we're milling
Speaker 1: around and the night goes on. She's getting louder. You
Speaker 1: can tell she's tipsy, and I'm like, all right, you
Speaker 1: know it happens at the bar, fight side up next door.
Speaker 1: We start to talk blah blah blah, and I'm in
Speaker 1: my drug phase back then, and I could tell she
Speaker 1: was on something, so I'm like, uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: got pain pills in my pocket, I got muscle relaxes,
Speaker 1: this cocaine. I mean, I just was a bad time
Speaker 1: for me, and she didn't have anything. But she made
Speaker 1: the reference that, well, I don't care if you do it.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should go back to my place. I said,
Speaker 1: you're in no condition to drive. I could tell, and
Speaker 1: you know, I said, why don't we. My buddy will
Speaker 1: take your car. You'll ride with me and we'll you know,
Speaker 1: you tell us how to get to your house. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's very nice for you. So she's in my car,
Speaker 1: we drive. My buddy's in front of me. Oh, she's
Speaker 1: behind us, and I'm driving to her home up in
Speaker 1: the Hollywood Hill's a beautiful, big house, and go ahead.
Speaker 1: There's a big pool in the backyard. And I don't
Speaker 1: have any shorts on me, but she goes, you guys
Speaker 1: can swim. We're in our underwear. I was in nothing.
Speaker 1: I was free balling back then. So I'm like, God,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the pool. Me and my buddy
Speaker 1: were in the pool. I'm naked, he's not. She's up
Speaker 1: in a room. We'll do whatever she's doing. I go
Speaker 1: up in the bedroom, and you know me back then,
Speaker 1: I'm checking people's medicine cabinets left and right. And I'm
Speaker 1: not the only one. I mean, Carrie Fisher tells stories
Speaker 1: of doing that for years. So many actors and actresses
Speaker 1: did that, not Dana Delaney. Julian Julian Margolis has copped
Speaker 1: to doing that when she was in her bad face.
Speaker 1: I've heard nightmare stories. In fact, I when I had
Speaker 1: in my house, I had a small bathroom downstairs with
Speaker 1: a medicine cabinet, and I put a bunch of marbles,
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty marbles in the bottom shelf. I never opened
Speaker 1: that medicine cabinet because there was really nothing in it,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to see who would open it. And
Speaker 1: it was very embarrassing. One time, her friend was at
Speaker 1: a party at my house and went to the bathroom
Speaker 1: and opened the medicine cabinet, which she don't need to
Speaker 1: do in someone's house, and I hear all the marbles
Speaker 1: filling on the sink. It makes an unmistakable sound, and
Speaker 1: you know it's embarrassing. But oh, I was just looking
Speaker 1: for a toothpick. Whatever the fuck they say. It's all live.
Speaker 1: Everybody's looking for a description pill bottles. I get it.
Speaker 1: So I go to this woman's house and I look
Speaker 1: into a medicine cabinet and I see bottles of medicine
Speaker 1: with the name Michael Madson on it. What I said,
Speaker 1: are you married? No, I was some divorce from who
Speaker 1: Michael Madson. Like, Oh my god, I said, I love
Speaker 1: Michael Madson. So now I'm with Michael Madsen's ex wife
Speaker 1: and my buddy's in the pool and her and I
Speaker 1: ended up having some fun a few weeks later for
Speaker 1: a couple of nights. But Michael heard about that, and
Speaker 1: I approached him at a party one night and I said, look, man,
Speaker 1: you know, I know you heard that. I'm I see
Speaker 1: your ex here and there, but don't think anything. I'm
Speaker 1: not treating her badly. She's a nice woman and we
Speaker 1: have fun. Blah blah blah. I don't care. Man, It's okay,
Speaker 1: A jay. I know you know, I know you're not
Speaker 1: that kind of guy. Typical Madson to kind of talk,
Speaker 1: and I love listening to him talk. You're gonna bark
Speaker 1: all day, little doggy, You're gonna bite that reservoir dog
Speaker 1: scene was amazing where he cuts off the cops ear
Speaker 1: dancing too, stuck in the middle with you. That scene
Speaker 1: they want to cut from the movie, and Tarantino told
Speaker 1: producers wantin said, we keep that of the movie. You're
Speaker 1: losing every female. They get a storm out of the
Speaker 1: theater and Tarantina was like, I'm not cutting it out.
Speaker 1: It's not I'll walk away from this deal. That's staying
Speaker 1: in the movie. Harvey wimsthem is wrong. It's a fantastic
Speaker 1: scene and it made that movie so much better than
Speaker 1: what people assumed it would be. But Madson was always
Speaker 1: a cool guy with me. So I'm listening to his
Speaker 1: show and I know, I know because of his ex.
Speaker 1: We were in contact. We talk here and there. Like
Speaker 1: when Steve being the big billionaire democrat donor and Hollywood producer,
Speaker 1: committed suicide. I was on the phone with her because
Speaker 1: she was close to him, so she gave me some
Speaker 1: information about his death. And when was I going with this? Oh? So,
Speaker 1: you know, I just love when Michael Manson has stories
Speaker 1: and his ex would tell me certain things and it
Speaker 1: was said, you know, I learned that his drinking was
Speaker 1: so out of control and just was wrecking his life
Speaker 1: and no matter what girl he was with, or his
Speaker 1: new wife or whatever. He would always call his first
Speaker 1: ex wife and you know, ask her for help, what
Speaker 1: do I do I need help? Can I sleep over
Speaker 1: on the couch? And she would take him in, even
Speaker 1: though she had a boyfriend at time. It just was like,
Speaker 1: this is Mike always going for some shit. It's just
Speaker 1: strictly Hollywood stuff. This doesn't happen in Tennessee or West
Speaker 1: Virginia and happened in Hollywood. So I'm listening to Michael
Speaker 1: Manson on Stephen Bodwin Show, and you know, he's telling
Speaker 1: some great stories about all the great actors of that generation.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm listening going like Mattson is such
Speaker 1: a different ilk. If you look at the actors now,
Speaker 1: the Timothy Scharlimetz.
Speaker 2: And all the Tom holland all these like Fay kind
Speaker 2: of like they're nothing. They have thirteen in Charms and
Speaker 2: they play superheroes and killers in the in the Marvel universe,
Speaker 2: and it's just non sense.
Speaker 1: And you know, like, where are the Robert Mitchums and
Speaker 1: the Lee Marvins who Michael Manson was saying, those are
Speaker 1: the guys he looked up to when he was younger.
Speaker 1: Where are the George Caepards, the Robert Blake's, Mickey Rourke's,
Speaker 1: Eric Roberts, George Kennedy, Dennis Hopper, they're not around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not all George Clooney and Brad Pitt. You need
Speaker 1: those character actors who really spice up a film. That's
Speaker 1: what Michael Manson was and to me still is. But
Speaker 1: you can hear his voice. Man, the drinking and the smoking.
Speaker 1: He sounds so bad that that great movie star voice
Speaker 1: is now so such a It's like he's gargling with gravel.
Speaker 1: It's just bad. I feel bad for the guy because
Speaker 1: he really has had a problem with alcohol and smoking.
Speaker 1: And you know he lost his son to suicide not
Speaker 1: too long ago, and he tells some great stuf or
Speaker 1: is he he made Donnie Brasco or Johnny Depp And
Speaker 1: you would think like, oh, these guys must have had
Speaker 1: a ball on the set. I loved that movie and
Speaker 1: I loved what Michael Madson brought to that role. But
Speaker 1: he told Stephen Baldwin, no, I don't think Johnny was
Speaker 1: up to that task. And seems like what because none
Speaker 1: the material was above him. He just it didn't look real.
Speaker 1: It didn't look like he would be a guy that
Speaker 1: could infiltrate the mob and just play an opposite Paccino
Speaker 1: as Lefty Ragario. He's like, thank god Pacino down played
Speaker 1: his performance because if he did a real Pacino, he
Speaker 1: would overpower Johnny Depp. And Baldwin is going no, and
Speaker 1: I'm listening and going come on, man, Johnny Depp was
Speaker 1: great in that role. Not according to Mats and then
Speaker 1: he says we didn't get a law. Oh what happened? Well,
Speaker 1: these guys were playing real life mafiosa's who did some
Speaker 1: bad stuff back in the day, and some of the
Speaker 1: remaining mafiosa heard about this movie. In fact, I wrote
Speaker 1: about this in my column when Donny Brasco came out.
Speaker 1: I mentioned that the director better get things right because
Speaker 1: the people he's portraying in this movie, some of them
Speaker 1: are still around and they're not going to be happy
Speaker 1: if they're portrayed as punks or pussies. He better get
Speaker 1: it right. I thought he did. But there was a
Speaker 1: point where some mafiosa. It was a party one night
Speaker 1: at the I forget where, but some mafiosa approached Madson
Speaker 1: and said, look, man, you're playing my friend. You're playing
Speaker 1: my brother. You're this, you're that. You better get it right,
Speaker 1: you better get you know, Johnny Depp is playing a
Speaker 1: rat man. He rat it, you know. We this kid
Speaker 1: needs to learn a lesson, And Michael's like, what do
Speaker 1: you mean? I'm not what am I going to do?
Speaker 1: So these crazy mafiosa guys come up with this rubber rat,
Speaker 1: a very a rat that was rubber but look so
Speaker 1: real because of that a little It was battery operated.
Speaker 1: It was rubber, it was big, and when you said
Speaker 1: it in the room and press the battery with a button,
Speaker 1: it would move like a real rat. So at one
Speaker 1: point of the night wherever they were hanging out, the
Speaker 1: mafia guys put this rubber rat in a room that's empty,
Speaker 1: and Michael is talking to Johnny and says, I'm want
Speaker 1: to show you something, and he shoves Johnny in the
Speaker 1: room and locks the door behind him, and it's not
Speaker 1: very well lit in that room, and Johnny is watching
Speaker 1: this rat walk toward him and he's screaming, I mean,
Speaker 1: if he's anything like me, I can't stand this side
Speaker 1: of a road that big anywhere near me, even a mouse,
Speaker 1: I can't stand. I'm standing on a chair trust me,
Speaker 1: and Johnny Depp never got over that. He didn't like
Speaker 1: that that that's what Michael Matson did, even though the
Speaker 1: Mafia put him up to it. You know, he would
Speaker 1: never know things like even to the point where when
Speaker 1: when they wanted Michael Manson to read for Donny Brasco,
Speaker 1: and he said something that I wish I had the
Speaker 1: power to say because I feel the same way. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna read. What do you mean I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna read for the movie. You guys know I can
Speaker 1: do this. You know my work. You know I can
Speaker 1: do this with my eyes closed. What I would have
Speaker 1: to read. I'm gonna give you a shitty reading and
Speaker 1: you're gonna be confused. I'm I good for the part.
Speaker 1: You know him good for the part. I love that rationale.
Speaker 1: So they said, well, well you at least meet Al Pacino.
Speaker 1: He wants to meet you, and I guess size him
Speaker 1: up to see if he's good enough. Because Michael had
Speaker 1: a good part. Was it Sonny Black or Sonny Red?
Speaker 1: I forget what Sonny you want? I think Sonny Black.
Speaker 1: It was a real character. So he said, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: meet al Pacino. So he meets Al and right away
Speaker 1: the only thing Al says to him to read the book.
Speaker 1: Reread the script. Yeah, I read the script. Read the book.
Speaker 1: I read the book. What do you think I like it?
Speaker 1: I like it good. Oh by the way, yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: you got no birds in this movie. The point was
Speaker 1: that in the movie, Michael Madson's character was gonna have
Speaker 1: pigeons on his roof like a lot of people have
Speaker 1: in the tough world, the tough guy world, like Mike Tyson.
Speaker 1: Some mafia guys would do things with pigeons on their roofs.
Speaker 1: Right in the script, Michael Madsen's character had the pigeons.
Speaker 1: This is how crazy Hollywood gets. Al Pacino reads the
Speaker 1: script and says to the people making the movie, I
Speaker 1: want the birds. He look at the birds. I get
Speaker 1: the birds. So he tells Manson at the meeting, you
Speaker 1: look at the birds. What do you mean the birds?
Speaker 1: I get the birds? No birds for you. Matt is
Speaker 1: like all right, you know, and Al reports back, I
Speaker 1: like him. Hire them, and they hire them. That's how
Speaker 1: crazy Hollywood can get. Al Pacina wants the birds. Michael
Speaker 1: Madsen's not gonna read. It's not how nutty things can be.
Speaker 1: To put together a movie. It's just you wonder why
Speaker 1: things don't get made, what's the hold up? What's going on?
Speaker 1: All stupid shit like this. Another podcast I caught, and
Speaker 1: I really I'm gonna try to make it my point
Speaker 1: to see this more, but or to listen to it more.
Speaker 1: Have you checked that Army Hammer's podcast? I forget the name,
Speaker 1: but just look it up. His mother is a part
Speaker 1: of his podcast, and it's great because she's so horrified
Speaker 1: and disappointed in her son. Not because of the alleged
Speaker 1: catibalism and then his marriage falling apart because of his
Speaker 1: cheating and carousing. No, she's horrified that her son, one
Speaker 1: of the heirs to the armaher Armenhammer, you know, Riches,
Speaker 1: is living in a rent controlled apartment building in Glendale,
Speaker 1: which if you're in Hollywood living in Glendale, you might
Speaker 1: as well be in you know, Mississippi. I mean it's
Speaker 1: not that far, but you don't consider people in Glendale
Speaker 1: to be part of the business unless they're behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: And not only that. The first podcast I listened to,
Speaker 1: he tells his people, and it was a very bad episode.
Speaker 1: That cuts were bad, the edits were horrible, the sound
Speaker 1: was bad. But he made no bones about it. He's like,
Speaker 1: this is all I wanted, this is all I can do.
Speaker 1: No one's hiring me. He'll get work. I'll let him
Speaker 1: fool you. He's tall, handsome, and he's got a name.
Speaker 1: He'll get plenty of work. But he bought a couch
Speaker 1: that day on Facebook marketplace that was really cheap, and
Speaker 1: that's where his mother was sitting. She looked like she
Speaker 1: was sitting on a pile of shit. That's how she is.
Speaker 1: She's very snooty, nose up in the air. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen with this podcast. I
Speaker 1: know the whole world. Everybody in the world has a podcast.
Speaker 1: There's good news about that. In bed I told you
Speaker 1: last week. I was happy to hear, and I'm happy
Speaker 1: to know that people have really admitted that podcasters had
Speaker 1: such a huge effect on the outcome of the presidential campaign. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, you need to find people who worked in
Speaker 1: the media who were independent journalists and not rely on
Speaker 1: the networks and the cable networks, but find the independent journalists.
Speaker 1: And they really made mention constantly of how much podcasters
Speaker 1: helped Trump. And I love that because I wanted to
Speaker 1: do that when he began to run years ago. That
Speaker 1: was my goal. I want to help him. I want
Speaker 1: to make this happen. And if you look back to
Speaker 1: back in the late eighties and only nineties, when I
Speaker 1: was covering the beat and you know, writing about Trump, often,
Speaker 1: I was writing about him because he would tip me
Speaker 1: off to another story, and as a payback, I'd put
Speaker 1: him in the column because he was in a basketball game,
Speaker 1: or he ateed some restaurant, or he bought a new building.
Speaker 1: That's how you pay people back in the trade. It's
Speaker 1: very quid pro quo. So I had a hand, as
Speaker 1: did many of us in New York gossip columns and such,
Speaker 1: of making him famous to the point where he became
Speaker 1: a TV star and if he's not a TV star
Speaker 1: on his show The Apprentice, I don't think the rest
Speaker 1: of America knows enough about Donald Trump's one day he
Speaker 1: can run for president and win not once but twice.
Speaker 1: So I think, well, I know I had a hand
Speaker 1: in the first, uh, the first the first spurt of
Speaker 1: Trump becoming a person of interest and then president, and
Speaker 1: I think I had a hand in the second go round,
Speaker 1: and I'm proud about that. I didn't know that would
Speaker 1: be something that I look back on and like when
Speaker 1: I began these podcasts. But I know that was a
Speaker 1: goal of mine, and I'm glad it happened. This story,
Speaker 1: you know, I just I see these things that I
Speaker 1: have to comment. Kim Kardashians getting a lot of shit
Speaker 1: for people saying she's making a mockery of religion because
Speaker 1: she posed half naked while wearing rosary beads. This hypocrisy
Speaker 1: bugs this shit out of me. The other day there
Speaker 1: was pictures of herself posing in some all white one
Speaker 1: of her skims collaboration with the adult chain Gabana. She
Speaker 1: had a cotton bray boxers shorts, lace leggings, and she
Speaker 1: had rosary beads and a cross around her neck, and
Speaker 1: her hair was long and black and parted down in
Speaker 1: the middle. She looked great. At one point, there's a
Speaker 1: picture she pulls her boxer shorts down a little bit,
Speaker 1: exposing that not her pubic area, but it was not.
Speaker 1: There was no hair showing, if I want to be blunt,
Speaker 1: but her boxes were pulled down a little bit, and
Speaker 1: that got some people being very upset, very distasteful pictures.
Speaker 1: My word, I don't feel right with the Rosary there
Speaker 1: and this type of photo shoot. People are saying, why
Speaker 1: is she always wearing her across but she's half naked. Listen,
Speaker 1: you gotta stop. You know that priests wear rosary beads
Speaker 1: when they give boys head, right, you know that this
Speaker 1: is not a big mystery. They're either wearing them or
Speaker 1: they're in their hands wearing a cross while being half naked.
Speaker 1: Would you make a mockery out of other religions too? Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, just do the research on Look, Madonna did
Speaker 1: this years ago and rolled around the floor on the
Speaker 1: MTV Awards or the VH whatever it was, and caused
Speaker 1: a worldwide Oh what, I can't believe she's doing this?
Speaker 1: Why do we get this way over religion? Don't play
Speaker 1: with the Holy Rosary? You know, when I went to
Speaker 1: Rome and been there twice, I've been to the Vatican,
Speaker 1: walked up the steps of the Cupolo all the way
Speaker 1: to the tippy top, and you look out on that
Speaker 1: roof and you see how the architecture of Rome and
Speaker 1: the people, how they put it together. It's beautiful what
Speaker 1: they did. I mean, it's absolutely gorgeous. But I also
Speaker 1: remember being in the gift shop at the Vatican, which
Speaker 1: I think is tacky as all hell. And I got
Speaker 1: a lot of shit for this when I wrote about
Speaker 1: it in my column that the Vatican has a gift
Speaker 1: shop and I use the word gaudy. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of things they sell that were gaudy, and boy
Speaker 1: did people come down on that word. And you can't
Speaker 1: talk that way. Do nothing of the Vatican is gaudy.
Speaker 1: The Vatican, Michael Jackson, and scientology. Those are the three
Speaker 1: areas that you don't want to make fun of because
Speaker 1: the fans or the supporters of those three things are rabbit.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't bother me. Oh, I take it back.
Speaker 1: When I was looking at the pictures of the article,
Speaker 1: I wanted to zoom in, but I couldn't. That offended me.
Speaker 1: But what do you wanted to wear? Should she wear
Speaker 1: a minora? What should she do? And after people trying
Speaker 1: to shame her, trust me, don't even go to church? Okay,
Speaker 1: So you know, I just I can't take that stuff.
Speaker 1: But look, I look at Kim Kardashian and I think
Speaker 1: we've lost sight of Don't get mad at me. She's
Speaker 1: a very beautiful woman. I mean, she just is. There's
Speaker 1: a lot there to make fun of anybody who's as
Speaker 1: themselves for so many years of their daily life and routine.
Speaker 1: Any one of us would be maligned. But you just
Speaker 1: can't look past the fact that she's a very attractive woman.
Speaker 1: She's now basically raising those four kids. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: on her own. I know she has plenty of help,
Speaker 1: but if the father's not there, Kanye is just doing
Speaker 1: whatever the hell he's doing with his other wife. But
Speaker 1: just for shits and giggles, and for the fact that
Speaker 1: anyone offended by these sorts of pictures, you know, I'd
Speaker 1: love to say, I'd love to see Kim Kardashian just
Speaker 1: put her toe into the Only Fans pool and watch
Speaker 1: how many millions of dollars she will pull in per day,
Speaker 1: not a month, per day. Kim Kardashian would crash that site.
Speaker 1: And if she could crash it, what the hell do
Speaker 1: you think Taylor Swift would make on it. I know
Speaker 1: she'd never do it, but she would be the first
Speaker 1: only fans billionaire, but make another billion and only fans
Speaker 1: not counting or torn her songs and everything else. She
Speaker 1: would just blow it up. I wouldn't want to see
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift naked. I'd rather see Kim. Have you seen
Speaker 1: these girls? There's so many girls and only fans. I've
Speaker 1: seen this article. I don't subscribe, but there are articles
Speaker 1: on these women. You see their faces, there's interviews there
Speaker 1: on podcasts. Some of them are no better than a six,
Speaker 1: and they're making millions of dollars a month. They're earning
Speaker 1: more than some Hollywood celebrities. There's a chick named Sophie
Speaker 1: Rain who is adult star. I don't follow he up,
Speaker 1: know nothing about it. I've seen her, nothing special. She
Speaker 1: revealed recently the amount of money she made on one
Speaker 1: year and only fans. It's tens of millions. Another one,
Speaker 1: Camilla Arajo, a youngster making millions millions, And they asked,
Speaker 1: how did you feel when you saw that? And one
Speaker 1: girl began to tear up four million dollars a month.
Speaker 1: Four million dollars a month. I can't. But then the
Speaker 1: person interviewing this woman says, you know these men have wives, children, baby,
Speaker 1: mama's bills and ladies. If you're seeing this, go through
Speaker 1: your man's phone, because four million a month, I promise
Speaker 1: you you will find that link in his search history.
Speaker 1: You know what, woman, Lady shit head. You know, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna flash your tits and asks for men, don't
Speaker 1: kick him in the ass on the way out. That's
Speaker 1: not fair. If you're offered to show that to people
Speaker 1: and men oblige and pony up the dough, don't knock
Speaker 1: them for doing it. Now, Clearly, if you're doing it
Speaker 1: and you're married or you got a you know, a
Speaker 1: very good relationship with your girlfriend, you gotta question yourself
Speaker 1: of why you're doing it. There are men who look
Speaker 1: through Instagram and that's fine, But going to OnlyFans and
Speaker 1: watching women do things, and you know, that's I agree
Speaker 1: with women, that's cheaty. I mean, especially if you're talking
Speaker 1: to a woman or watching you do something for you specifically,
Speaker 1: that's cheating. It's the kind of cheating that breaks up
Speaker 1: a marriage. But yeah, in the course of twelve months,
Speaker 1: this chick Rein made forty three point four million dollars.
Speaker 1: That's more money than Listen am a Stone made about
Speaker 1: twenty six million. Last year. Scarlo Trahanson made twenty million
Speaker 1: for a part in Black Widow. This chick made forty
Speaker 1: three four and she's not alone. Another chick made so
Speaker 1: much money she left Karna Cop not a sexy name Kopf.
Speaker 1: She made so much money she just put on her
Speaker 1: on her page. No more link in bio, but that
Speaker 1: on X she's done. She made sixty seven million dollars
Speaker 1: in three years and walked away. You know, this girl's
Speaker 1: got six point five million follows on Instagram, three million
Speaker 1: on X you know, a million on a YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: She's gonna be fine. I mean, look, I can't get
Speaker 1: Manethe's women. But the question is, guys, ladies, what if
Speaker 1: your daughter wanted to do it? If what if you
Speaker 1: were really strapped and things were bad, We're gonna lose
Speaker 1: the house. Uh, the cancer so and so has can't
Speaker 1: be covered by insurance. We need to go to a
Speaker 1: different part of the world to get this treatment. Just
Speaker 1: pick a scenario, and you've got your daughter there who says,
Speaker 1: maybe I can go on OnlyFans for a couple of months. Guys,
Speaker 1: I have millions of followers. Do you say yes or
Speaker 1: do you say not? On your life? I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're in this era where these women are making staggering
Speaker 1: amounts some money, I mean so much money that they
Speaker 1: apparently out earned NBA players by almost two billion dollars
Speaker 1: last year only fan content creators made six point six
Speaker 1: billion dollars collectively. NBA players made four point nine billion collectively.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, so, what's America's pastime? Basketball? Baseball? Tits and
Speaker 1: as it's tits and as right or wrong, you can't
Speaker 1: get mad. It is what it is. Speaking of tits
Speaker 1: and ass. This stuff gets people. You know what, maybe
Speaker 1: I'll save this story and get back to what I wanted. Well, no,
Speaker 1: you know me, let me, let me, let me, let
Speaker 1: me include this, because this this got me, and I
Speaker 1: think this, this kind of shit has to stop. I look,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's one thing in this world to make
Speaker 1: a living. Only fans or let's say make a living
Speaker 1: gonnae reality show because I've been attacking reality shows for
Speaker 1: a while, right, but they hear today. Remember what Warren
Speaker 1: Baty said. I told you the other day about reality
Speaker 1: TV's not going anywhere. It's so personal people can't turn
Speaker 1: away from it. But it's another thing. If you're on
Speaker 1: these shows and you're trying to get some press on them,
Speaker 1: maybe more likability by mentioning your miscarriage. When a doubt
Speaker 1: ladies or couples mention your miscarriage, this is gonna make
Speaker 1: the whole country feel bad about you, and I guess
Speaker 1: they think support you or tune into your show. The
Speaker 1: Kardashians taught us this because they had a show every
Speaker 1: week and they had to come up with drama. Most
Speaker 1: of it was conceived with a bunch of producers around
Speaker 1: the table. This happens all the time on every reality show.
Speaker 1: Get a room and there's a bunch of liquor. Find
Speaker 1: the one who's crazy, the one is a peacekeeper. Put
Speaker 1: them in the same room. Get the college street art,
Speaker 1: get the towne whore, put them in a hot Tell
Speaker 1: what's an alcohol. They do this all the time. But
Speaker 1: there are two people I've never heard of that I
Speaker 1: don't want to know anything about. These people, by the way,
Speaker 1: but they're being written about. So here I go. Because
Speaker 1: the media has deemed these people newsworthy. I can't take it.
Speaker 1: There's a show called Selling the OC never watch it,
Speaker 1: but it's out there. The stars of the show are
Speaker 1: Geo Hellou and his wife Tiffany, and they've shared some
Speaker 1: heartbreaking news that they suffered a pregnancy loss. And this
Speaker 1: Tiffany got very candid on Instagram post last week. She said,
Speaker 1: how the joy of learning they were expecting. Baby number
Speaker 1: two quickly washed away in a wave of blood test, ultrasounds,
Speaker 1: and an er visit, all confirming that it was an
Speaker 1: ectopic pregnancy that never had a chance of surviving, and
Speaker 1: she shared how that loss really hit hard. During the
Speaker 1: holiday season. She found herself crying to God, questioning why
Speaker 1: her precious get this, why her pressure poppy seed sized
Speaker 1: embryo implanted in the wrong place, and why she even
Speaker 1: got pregnant if it was gonna end in devastation. Okay, look,
Speaker 1: they're leaning on faith. She made it very clear, they're
Speaker 1: trying to find the silver lining for all this. But
Speaker 1: just try, try and be happy with what you have,
Speaker 1: stop leaning on what you lost. My mother had a
Speaker 1: miscarriage before I was conceived. Roseley had at least one.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure, And honestly, I've been down this road
Speaker 1: before with women and wives and my most recent ex girlfriend.
Speaker 1: It happens, but I'm sorry. I think these things are
Speaker 1: between you and the person you love, not the public.
Speaker 1: That's why I never said anything when this stuff happened
Speaker 1: to us. But I can't get over how many how
Speaker 1: many times celebrity publicized this shit. Enough, we don't have
Speaker 1: to know everything about you, gang. Don't you agree with me? Rice? Anyhow?
Speaker 1: Civil Water just a round out yesterday's show where I
Speaker 1: talked about things being looking good in Hollywood and not
Speaker 1: working out. I have to tell you, I mean, I
Speaker 1: obviously had some luck on my side. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to end the story like that. Apparently that at Horseshoe
Speaker 1: I have up my ass, according to my mother, went
Speaker 1: into effect and I ended up having a nice amount
Speaker 1: of success in Hollywood. And this is this is the
Speaker 1: Hollywood when actors didn't walk around with their politics on
Speaker 1: their sleeves. Nobody, and I mean nobody talked about it.
Speaker 1: And that changed in a hurry. But at that point
Speaker 1: I figured, you know what, I've hosted seven or eight
Speaker 1: TV shows, sold a few screenplays. I said, let me
Speaker 1: see about getting cast in some TV shows now, right.
Speaker 1: So of course back then people knew who I was,
Speaker 1: but rarely are you given a part because of that.
Speaker 1: You still have to ace whatever it is you're doing,
Speaker 1: whatever you're going after. And I mean I got some
Speaker 1: crazy direction from people who brought me in to read
Speaker 1: a lot of times, and I mean a lot of times,
Speaker 1: people in charge of hiring or casting would tell me.
Speaker 1: Just be A do your thing, be the AJ we see,
Speaker 1: you know, be the guy you are. I've always was
Speaker 1: given direction like that, just do AJ stuff. What like
Speaker 1: when I got hired to call female n Anda fights
Speaker 1: in Florida and different states, and they're like, okay, I
Speaker 1: don't know much about and doesn't matter. We want you
Speaker 1: to be AJ, all right. So I was AJ. It's
Speaker 1: very strange how I'm happy for it. Even with a
Speaker 1: high stakes poker. Just be you. If you don't know
Speaker 1: all the rules to folk would just say it and
Speaker 1: just be you. Be funny, be irreverent. Okay. But when
Speaker 1: I have to go read and be someone else, I
Speaker 1: began to see, I don't know if I like this,
Speaker 1: you know? And I love immersing myself in the part
Speaker 1: and being someone other than myself. I love that. So
Speaker 1: I went out started getting some parts here and there.
Speaker 1: I did an episode of Numbers. I did some soap
Speaker 1: operas I think almost called almost called passions. I forget
Speaker 1: what almost called Loving I Thing and Passions. The third
Speaker 1: one was one that was more popular that has been
Speaker 1: out for years. I forget the name. I never watched
Speaker 1: those stupid shows and remind me never to talk about
Speaker 1: what it's like working on a soap opera. It's it's
Speaker 1: so boring, such solitude. You get there at five am.
Speaker 1: You get hair and makeup, then you just sit. You
Speaker 1: get some breakfast, you get your signes of dialogue. You sit,
Speaker 1: or you're laid down in your trailer and wait for
Speaker 1: them to call you. Eight nine, ten, oh, ajma, ready
Speaker 1: for you. Someone comes to get you in a room.
Speaker 1: They're walking with you. There's a walking talking on their hip,
Speaker 1: there's headphones on their head. I've got talent. Now I'm
Speaker 1: making my way to set with talent. Talents with me,
Speaker 1: no one, No one has names, just talent talent. They
Speaker 1: treat you like it made a gold. Talent's coming. You
Speaker 1: meet the director, you talk for a few minutes about
Speaker 1: what he's looking for. Great, you do the scene, it's
Speaker 1: a wrap. You leave. It's so boring and uneventful. You leave.
Speaker 1: You go all right, it's a thousand dollars day. Now
Speaker 1: what do I do? Two o'clock in the afternoon. You
Speaker 1: don't feel like you work. You don't feel like you
Speaker 1: did any special. That's a strange thing. Strange. But then
Speaker 1: I began to read for crime shows. Right, I was
Speaker 1: telling the kids about this. The other night, after Thanksgiving dinner,
Speaker 1: we were watching a couple of movies on Netflix. One
Speaker 1: was called Don't Breathe Two. I love the first Don't Breathe.
Speaker 1: The second one ain't shit. Then we watched some thriller
Speaker 1: called Nowhere See Nowhere about this chick stuck in a
Speaker 1: storage bin that's floating and sinking in the middle of
Speaker 1: the ocean. I won't tell you any more than that,
Speaker 1: but I'm looking at the acting, not the woman in
Speaker 1: the storage containing She was great, but the other people
Speaker 1: like in Don't Breathe too. I'm showing my kids shitty acting.
Speaker 1: And I said to you, guys, this is why I
Speaker 1: stopped reading for TV shows. Now. Look, I love to
Speaker 1: read for sopranos or Tulsa. King said, some shows I
Speaker 1: love that are done right, but the majority of them
Speaker 1: are just cookie cutter bullshit. They know exactly what they want.
Speaker 1: It's like making donuts. It's nothing special, you know. It's
Speaker 1: not the TV shows I grew up learning the business
Speaker 1: about or loving. So I'm watching this actor and I
Speaker 1: had to stop it and go, guys, look at what
Speaker 1: he's doing. He's trying to coax somebody out of their
Speaker 1: home and obviously this guy is with people who want
Speaker 1: to harm this person, you want to kill him. And
Speaker 1: he's going, he's speaking into a doorway where he knows
Speaker 1: the guy is and he's like, nobody here to hurt you,
Speaker 1: just me. Just want you to come out talk to me. Now,
Speaker 1: that's what stupid casting directors and stupid directors want because
Speaker 1: they think you're dumb watching TV. So the actor's got
Speaker 1: to act like there's nobody to hurt you, which everybody
Speaker 1: in the world knows at that point, Oh, there's someone
Speaker 1: that had hurt him. It's stupid. It's it's no one
Speaker 1: talks that way. You can hear it. Why is it
Speaker 1: accepted as acting if you didn't want the guy to
Speaker 1: think there were people with you and say, listen, man,
Speaker 1: I'm alone. There's nobody with me. Man, just come out
Speaker 1: and talk. I swear to God, there's nobody here. That's
Speaker 1: how you sell it. Not nobody need to hurt you,
Speaker 1: Just come out. The fuck. I can't keep going out
Speaker 1: to read for shit like this, so I stopped going.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want you guys to see me on
Speaker 1: TV like that. We don't care, and kids don't care.
Speaker 1: They just they just they don't care. They're happy that
Speaker 1: they can get an uber or get ober eats, or
Speaker 1: you're at the basketball game, or you help with the homework.
Speaker 1: They don't care what you do for a living, especially
Speaker 1: if it's television. My kids don't care. It's just I
Speaker 1: get a kick out of it. No one ever asked Dad,
Speaker 1: what was it like in that they don't ask me
Speaker 1: that shit. Kids don't care. And for a while that
Speaker 1: bothered me until I heard like big stars say the
Speaker 1: same thing, even Jimmy Kimmel. I remember him saying his
Speaker 1: wife never watches his show or fallon, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I used to get mad and my wife when I
Speaker 1: began the podcast that she didn't listen. And I'm finding
Speaker 1: out that rarely does your partner ever listen to the
Speaker 1: shit you do or watch the shit you do because
Speaker 1: they got their own life. It's becoming more clear now.
Speaker 1: But that's why I stop reading for TV. That. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, there's a great show out there. Oh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'll be I want to go. I told you, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to do it until I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: ready and I'm in shape. And I think the tide
Speaker 1: has turned in a pendulum obviously is starting to swing
Speaker 1: the other way. I don't think that. Well, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that Hollywood's not going to be Hollywood. It used
Speaker 1: to be when I was going out to read for things,
Speaker 1: and I just felt like it's phony bullshit, and uh,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna want a guy who supported Trump publicly
Speaker 1: to read for their show. But now I think that's
Speaker 1: starting to change, and maybe or not, maybe definitely, I'm
Speaker 1: not afraid. Afraid's a bad word. I'm not concerned to
Speaker 1: wear my Trump shirt around California, not that I ever was,
Speaker 1: but now I'm especially not worried. I'm actually happy to
Speaker 1: do so. And I think all those factors play a
Speaker 1: big part in me getting back to doing what I
Speaker 1: love to do, but not for shitty TV shows. I
Speaker 1: got to be very selective. And I've told agents before,
Speaker 1: don't bother me, don't give me shit like this, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna read for this ship not and they're like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean it's worked? I don't want that
Speaker 1: kind of work. I can't anyhow. It's like when I
Speaker 1: did I don't want to be sour grapes. When I
Speaker 1: did the What's just what the fuck's wrong with me
Speaker 1: Graves at season one, I played the mom few boss right, Okay,
Speaker 1: Willie DeMeo put this together. Get a good cast, Jimmy Russo,
Speaker 1: Nick Tatar Uh Toro, good guys who were fun and
Speaker 1: you know, good actors, not like fancy people with big,
Speaker 1: big fucking resumes, just good actors. I felt at home there.
Speaker 1: Dan He starts going season two with different stunt casting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Chas palmer Tieri's great. Sure if any passed, story is great,
Speaker 1: but now you're just making another Sopranos and it's a
Speaker 1: weak Sopranos. It's not a good Sopranos. The third season
Speaker 1: you have Andrew Dice play and Shaquille O'Neal. Get the
Speaker 1: fuck at you. This is not a TV show I'll
Speaker 1: ever watch. So when I wanted to be in season
Speaker 1: two and I saw her he cast, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: want nothing to do with that. Then season three comes
Speaker 1: along and I'm like this, I don't want to I
Speaker 1: want no part of this. I don't care what the
Speaker 1: pay is. I can't be on a show like this
Speaker 1: and see my ass and not be embarrassed. I can't.
Speaker 1: I still think that matters more. I have to wake
Speaker 1: up in the morning. And like myself in the mirror,
Speaker 1: which I rarely do. But I can't have a shitty
Speaker 1: TV show on my back as something I'm a part of.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I can't. Anyhow, I'm rambling. I gotta go
Speaker 1: to poker. I just want to get a show to
Speaker 1: you guys before I split. It's gonna be a long
Speaker 1: day that I'm out of here in a couple of
Speaker 1: days and back home and shits. But at least my
Speaker 1: sons to get it. My daughter's with us, well, she's
Speaker 1: with Rocco now because I'm out of town. And I
Speaker 1: feel good about that that daddy finally has a place
Speaker 1: that the kids can convene and we can watch movies
Speaker 1: and eat dinner. And it's such a great thing that
Speaker 1: I've missed for a long time. And I'm cooking again,
Speaker 1: and you know that makes me very happy. And I'll
Speaker 1: be posting recipes and tell you more about that, and
Speaker 1: don't worry. Look, I know you guys want the cookbook,
Speaker 1: and you want my third book. I know I want
Speaker 1: those things too. I do, on occasion write more recipes
Speaker 1: and include more chapters in the book in time. I
Speaker 1: think this year twenty twenty five, both of those things
Speaker 1: will be just at the point of getting him out there.
Speaker 1: But I gotta find my agent, my lit agent again
Speaker 1: and get him hyped up on the book that I
Speaker 1: pitched a couple of years ago. But it's all in motion,
Speaker 1: it's all good. Everything's happening. And I called it to
Speaker 1: my December monthly Horoscope on Relationships as a bitch. It's
Speaker 1: never been a better time for me. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take full advantage of that, and we'll all have a
Speaker 1: good time and I'll have more stories to tell. And
Speaker 1: that's what you guys like, all right, all right, gang,
Speaker 1: I'm aj Benza. That was a very long, well not
Speaker 1: very long, forty two minutes. Fame is a Bitch, The Unedited, unexpurgated,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it show. Check out Stephen
Speaker 1: Bowen's podcast that you can stand that. It's not the
Speaker 1: best production line, but I like hearing actors tell the
Speaker 1: truth about their past. Eric Roberts, Michael Manson, Denise Richards.
Speaker 1: There's some Bronson Pinn show, some good episodes. See I
Speaker 1: don't care I pump other people's shows because I want
Speaker 1: everybody to be happy and successful. There's plenty of money
Speaker 1: to go around, all right, talk to this tomorrow.