WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:04.400 Hey, everybody, aj Benzi here with Fame as the Bitch. 2 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:08.119 This is your free show for October eighteenth, twenty twenty four. 3 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:12.199 Free show for those of you who still haven't gone 4 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:15.880 to patreon dot com slash Fame is a Bitch. I 5 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:18.920 know you will. It's five bucks. My faith is with you. 6 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:22.640 The shows are just getting better and better with all 7 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:29.039 this news crazy stuff happening, the Diddy case, Liam Payne 8 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:35.119 dying suicide accident. Who knows everybody's losing one hundred pounds 9 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:40.359 with this o zepic nonsense. Victoria's Secrets Fashion Show is back, 10 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:43.679 but they still kept some trainees and some heavy hitters. 11 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:47.280 I talk about all of it. You know where to 12 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:49.920 go to get it. Meantime, those of you who are 13 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:56.759 patrons and hurt yesterday's show, Sorry, sorry about it. My 14 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:01.640 Patreon notifications been going off last night like crazy, and 15 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:08.120 obviously Mike initially posted the wrong podcast. He posted the 16 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:12.879 podcast he produces called The Death of Journalism by a 17 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:19.079 good investigative journalist named John Ziggler. When you heard that beginning, 18 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:22.519 you should have known there was a mistake. I don't 19 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.319 know why anybody would have texted me saying, is this 20 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.079 you is this your new show. No, I didn't change 21 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:33.319 my name to John Ziggler. And even though I talk 22 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:36.280 about how bad journalism is, I don't host that show. 23 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:39.159 Mike produces it. Either way, it was a snap foo. 24 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:45.239 Then when he fixed it, the sound was awful. You 25 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:47.760 guys know I have aids when it comes to technology, 26 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:50.840 But I don't understand what happened, because, like I said 27 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:54.439 in the past, I always do a test run before 28 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:57.480 I send the show. It sounded perfect. Maybe I was 29 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:01.959 hearing myself through my laptop speaker. This time I hear 30 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.640 myself in my headphone, so it shouldn't be a problem. 31 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:11.639 But Mike posted the show with the correction. Now you 32 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:14.680 can hear it. Fine, I don't sound like I'm under 33 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:17.520 the pillow. Tony Soprano was trying to kill his mother 34 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:22.400 with So that was fixed. So be patient. I know 35 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:24.840 some of you going go back to the old way. 36 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:27.840 The new way sucks. Well, just so you know last 37 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:31.319 week's shows, which you all enjoyed, which people say, this 38 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:37.520 is the best week ever. That hurricane time the Milton 39 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.199 when Milton was hitting. You guys love those shows. I 40 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.560 did those on Riverside, not the old way. So it 41 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:47.039 was a snaffu has been fixed. It's not the site. 42 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:49.800 It was a fuck up with my haunted microphone system 43 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:52.840 and that should be gone now and let's now get 44 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:55.199 on with the show. You know, I'm reading the papers. 45 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:57.879 I always say the papers, even though it means I'm 46 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:01.639 flipping through the internet. I wish. I love to go 47 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:04.759 to a diner and grab the New York Post and 48 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:10.360 have a couple of eggs over easy, the toasted, well 49 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:13.400 toasted English muffeted and some nice butter on it. I 50 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:17.280 like butter from Ireland. I don't know why, but I 51 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:21.080 like the packaging. It just looks good. And some crispy 52 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:25.080 bacon naturally, how crispy. When it falls, it should split 53 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:28.840 up into one hundred pieces. That's how crispy. You grab 54 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:31.400 a paper, you drink your coffee, and you flip your 55 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:34.400 thumbs through that paper. There's nothing like it. And when 56 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:36.560 you're done, you folded in half. You'd throw it under 57 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:38.960 your arm pit and you walk back to your car, 58 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:41.439 or in New York, you walk down the street. It's 59 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:43.680 the best feeling. When I first got the gig as 60 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:46.280 a gossip columners for the New York Daily News, I 61 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:48.680 used to walk I lived on thirty six in Madison, 62 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:51.800 and I'd walk to forty second Street and second half 63 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:54.680 of you. It's a quick walk, Yeah, fifteen minute walk. 64 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.520 I'd stop, believe it or not, and get a cigar 65 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:01.759 in the morning, have my newspapers folded under my arm, 66 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.240 the news and the posts. Gotta read the competition, gotta 67 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:06.879 read my column. And I'd walked to work and I'd 68 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:09.800 do the same thing on the way home. It felt 69 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:11.840 so great to be one of the people in that 70 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:18.040 city with a voice. Now it's like what happened to 71 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:22.480 the gossip industry? Everybody became a gossip columnist. When I 72 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:24.759 was a gossip columnist, that might have been fifteen of 73 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:29.319 us in the whole country. Now everybody knows, everybody's in 74 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.879 on the stories. And when it comes to my TV 75 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:36.839 hosting career, what happened. Everybody became a TV store. Everybody 76 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:41.120 gets fifteen minutes. How many followers you got, Oh, we're 77 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:44.120 gonna put you in the movie, doesn't matter if they're talented. 78 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:47.879 Give me somebody like I know that I'm off course 79 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:50.519 for a second. Let me just say this. It's a great, 80 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:56.439 terrific showrunner named Bill Lawrence. He's been around forever scrubs Friends. 81 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:58.399 Well he didn't he wrote for Friends, he didn't run 82 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:00.839 the show. So many shows. No, Now he's doing bed 83 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:03.360 Monkey on Apple and just to show you how this 84 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:07.319 business is, he's on location down and uh, I think 85 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:09.920 the Florida Keys doing the show at Vince vall on 86 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:14.399 bed Monkey on Apple TV. Great series. And somebody says, 87 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:15.920 you know, we need to we need to cast a 88 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:20.079 young girl, uh, to play the daughter. We need somebody 89 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:23.160 young and very pretty, and you know, somebody with a 90 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:27.439 lot of followers. And Bill Lauren says, well, my daughter 91 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:29.600 is a singer and she's got you know, a few 92 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:32.319 million followers. Why don't we bring her in. Of course 93 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:35.439 she gets the part. Now, she does well in the show, 94 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:39.279 but this is the mentality. Now, yeah, for that part, 95 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:41.800 we need somebody with a two, three, four, five, six 96 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:45.040 million followers because they think that guarantees them ticket sales. 97 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.879 Why don't know how many followers River Fiend on the 98 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:52.759 River Joaquin Phoenix has or Lady Gaga has. But the 99 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:57.319 Joker Part two is absolute shit. No one's seeing it, 100 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:00.240 despite the fact that between the two of them, god 101 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:03.199 knows how many millions of people followed him. So it 102 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:07.079 doesn't always work that way anyhow. Back to what I 103 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:09.759 was saying, I'm reading the papers this morning. I get 104 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:12.279 up like six o'clock in the morning, and I read 105 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.360 for ninety minutes before I take Rocko to school. And 106 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:18.279 I listen to podcasts when I'm driving, listen to podcasts 107 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:20.319 when I come home, and I generally listen to my 108 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.839 shows that I like for at least a few more 109 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:25.120 hours till about eleven o'clock. Then I stop my show. 110 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:29.279 But I read everything and get my hands on It's 111 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:32.360 my job, so that's why I always do it. And 112 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:37.279 I'm looking at these pictures of celebrities. I can't take 113 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:41.959 how bad journalists are these days. But the adjectives they use. 114 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:46.639 Lizzo shocks the world with weight loss, I don't know. 115 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.759 I think Pearl Harbor was something that shook the world, 116 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:54.439 not Lizo putting on a fucking bikini after making us 117 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:56.399 think she just works out in the gym all day, 118 00:06:56.680 --> 00:06:59.759 when we really know she's got a trainer, she's got 119 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:03.480 a trishnist, and she's on Ozepic as well. So thank 120 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:05.199 you for your pictures now and then a view in 121 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:07.839 the gym. How about showing us a video of you 122 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:10.800 really sweating your ass off, or show us the video 123 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.680 of you plunging the needle into your stomach. Look at 124 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:17.279 she looks straight. I always said, she's got a pretty face. 125 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:20.720 So keep doing what you're doing. It's good that you 126 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:24.160 stop acting like being a fat pig is fuck wonderful 127 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:27.720 and fine and healthy. Thank god you got off that kick. 128 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:31.240 I remember Liza when she was putting donuts and ice 129 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:34.120 cream in the blender. Yeah, she would do that on video, 130 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:39.480 talking about how you have to love your body. Honey, 131 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:42.759 when you walk around with one hundred pounds of extra weight, 132 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:44.680 you might as well be walking around with cancer and 133 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:49.079 not doing nothing about it. Justin Timerlake rocked a swade 134 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:51.720 for Dora, as he sang to the crowd, really did 135 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:54.439 he rock it. I don't think anybody wore for Doorra 136 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:59.120 better than Gangsters or Alcohopolm, but Justin Timerlake rocked it. 137 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:02.879 And of course the other night we get to see 138 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:07.399 the Victoria's Secrets fashion shows back on TV. It's back, everybody, 139 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:10.079 It's back. It's gonna be better than ever. No, it wasn't. 140 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:12.480 It was nice. We got to see some of the 141 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:16.920 old timers back, old Timer's beautiful girls back for a minute. 142 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.160 We thought, hey, they're back to thinking about this is 143 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:24.360 what men dream of, and some women give us the fantasy. 144 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:28.360 Take away your trannies and your girls the weigh two 145 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:33.879 hundred pounds. That's normally not a male fantasy period, but 146 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:38.759 they thought to include a couple of trannies. And of 147 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:44.320 course Ashley Graham, the plus size model Asthley Graham walks 148 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:49.559 Victoria's secrets one way like she owns it. Stop. Have 149 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:52.600 you seen Naomi Campbell walk down a runway? Have you 150 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:56.240 seen el mcpheers and Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford, Linda Tarling, 151 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:03.000 Linda Evangelista, Christie I ain't going a lot, Helen Christiansen, Claudia Schiffer, anybody. 152 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:06.360 Veronica Webb, who's not even my favorite, but she blows 153 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:12.120 the doors off these girls. Now, christ can we stop? 154 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:15.080 Can you give us all a break? With the desaurus 155 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:19.679 you're obviously flipping through on your desk. I don't even 156 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:21.879 know when it began that you had to. I had 157 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:24.840 to write what a person was wearing to accompany the 158 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.159 picture of them walking down the street after buying coffee. 159 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:31.240 You're looking at the picture you're not gonna tell me 160 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:35.559 what I'm looking at. This isn't a radio broadcast of 161 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:38.440 a baseball game where you'd say, Babe, Ruth down the 162 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:40.799 right side of the plate, Babe batting right. Hey here 163 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:43.000 it comes to pitch from Christy Mathis and it's low 164 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:45.639 and outside. Baby. You have to describe a game because 165 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:51.559 we can't see it. Nowadays, we see everything. You ever 166 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:55.840 considered that that kind of shit isn't really a story, 167 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:58.759 you know what, Some things are just not stories. Even 168 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.039 though you have a picture of something, it doesn't always 169 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:05.360 need to be copy that accompanies it. For instance, Travis Kelly, 170 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:07.960 Travis Kelcey, and Taylors Swift went to the New York 171 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:12.559 Yankees playoff game against the Cleveland Indians. I'm not calling 172 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:15.519 them the Guardians. What is a guardian? Somebody who watches 173 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:19.039 outside the hotel room or your hospital room. They're the Indians. 174 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:21.759 Why some of these teams have to change the name 175 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:24.159 but others didn't, I don't get it. So only Indians 176 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:27.120 are offended in certain parts of the country. Native Americans 177 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:30.919 aren't upset about the names of the college football teams 178 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:35.080 in southern Florida. It's so stupid is seven oles okay? 179 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:40.159 Or is that bad? Travis Kelcey and Taylerswift go to 180 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:44.080 a Yankee game rupp in a private suite naturally, and 181 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:49.799 they're having their public displays of affection. Big deal. They're 182 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:51.799 young and in love. It would be his story if 183 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:55.600 they didn't kiss while they were together. Has the person 184 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:58.200 who wrote this story or stories like this ever been 185 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:02.159 in love? So I gotta read this shit. Travis Kelcey 186 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:05.159 wants to go on his podcast and explain to his 187 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:09.600 brother what that date was like. This is news Now. 188 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:13.080 He goes on his podcast with his brother, which I've 189 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:16.639 never listened to, and they talk about what it's like 190 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:19.120 for him to date Taylor Swift. This is the podcast 191 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:25.559 that got them millions of dollars. Travis Kelce's emotions were 192 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:29.480 running high during his PDA pack date with Taylor Swift 193 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:32.600 at the New York Yankees Cleveland Guardians game in the 194 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:36.679 Bronx on Monday. The Chiefs tight end reflected on attending 195 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:39.399 Game one of the American League Championship Series with his 196 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:44.519 girlfriend as a Guardians fan in Wednesday's episode of his 197 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.559 Due Heights podcast, and then he says it was with 198 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:50.279 mixed feelings because I was there trying to have some 199 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:54.759 fun with Tay and everybody. All our friends came. We 200 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:57.279 had an unbelievable crew with us and hanging with us. 201 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:02.759 It was fun. Wow. What a fucking breaking story. How 202 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:06.799 did you get that? WHOA? I wish I could get 203 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:09.799 a story like that? What an exclusive? Why isn't this 204 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:14.559 front page news? And then this sentence. If I'm being honest, 205 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:19.720 I don't think I'll ever get over this ridiculous mistake. 206 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:25.879 But Travis, and Ohio native admitted watching the Guardians lose 207 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:30.240 to the Yankees two to five was rugh. Two to 208 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:34.480 five is this report of five years old? I know 209 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:37.720 she's a woman, but don't they know the higher number 210 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:41.159 always goes first. You know when your wife says the 211 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:44.440 game is seven to thirty eight, No, hunt, it's thirty 212 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:48.399 eight to seven, all right? But I thought, no, the 213 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:51.679 higher number first. But I thought if I was talking 214 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:54.799 about the Giants and they have seven, no, it's always 215 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:59.759 the high number first. Hunt. We do this every year, Okay, 216 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:04.440 Jesus Christ, I can't stand it. So I had to 217 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.600 look up this reporter, quote unquote who wrote this story, 218 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:11.080 and the New York Post has this nifty feature where 219 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:13.480 you can find out about the person who wrote the 220 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:17.840 article by clicking their name. So I did, and it said. 221 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:22.639 Leah Bitski Shocker, It's a Young Girl is a senior 222 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:25.720 reporter for the for Page six covers all aspects of 223 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:28.679 pop culture, including the British Royal Family, the American Royal 224 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:33.440 Family all aka the Cardarean, and celebrity nightlife in New 225 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:35.879 York City in Miami. She's worked at the Post since 226 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.639 twenty sixteen after graduating from American University with a BA 227 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:44.200 in Broadcast journalism and previously held positions at CNN and 228 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:47.919 The Skim. She's got a passion for exploring New York 229 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:51.759 City restaurants, traveling to New cities, working out, writing fiction, 230 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:57.080 making delicious cocktails, and curating her future perse collection. Her 231 00:13:57.080 --> 00:13:59.639 favorite New York City activity is walking around a neighborhood 232 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:02.320 with the cup of Jack's coffee and finding a nice 233 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:06.720 fluffy dog to pet along the way. Oh my god, 234 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:11.480 this is a newspaper. You know what my bio would 235 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:14.919 have said. Aj Benzer is the writer editor of the 236 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:17.679 Hot Copy in Downtown Gossip columns for the New York 237 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:20.679 Daily News. He's been a journalists nineteen eighty five, where 238 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:23.120 he began his career as a sports writer for Newsday 239 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.279 before being plucked by The Daily News to write gossip. 240 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:30.519 You can find Benza every night, typically out of four am, 241 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:34.240 chasing down stories and women while he works his way 242 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:38.399 through this city like a shark, drinking and consuming whatever 243 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:40.639 is in his path in order to bring you the 244 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:44.480 stories that nobody else can. He's typically at Boom, his 245 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:47.639 buddy's restaurant Soho, dancing on a table with a pretty 246 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:53.320 city girl, or in a tight booth with a murderous mafiosa. Yeah, 247 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:59.039 there's my bio. Why are reporters being dispatched to write 248 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:01.840 about two celebrit He's sitting down watching a ball game. 249 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:05.799 There's no story to run, the picture and maybe a 250 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:08.639 fifteen word description of what people are looking at. But 251 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:13.360 it happens all the time, and it's got to stop. Meanwhile, 252 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:17.600 what do we make of this horrible I need water? 253 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:23.000 Hold on? What do we make of this horrible story 254 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:28.159 about the one direction singer Liam Payne falling or jumping 255 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.840 from his balcony of the hotel he was at in Argentina. 256 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:36.399 You know about I don't know, maybe five six years ago, 257 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:41.039 I said on this podcast that the guy had problems 258 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:46.159 and there was a great concern to the band because 259 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:48.480 of his drug and alcohol issues. And this has happened. 260 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:53.240 This happened before his bandmate Zaye Mallick went bananas with drugs. 261 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:56.200 But back then the guy was having a ball. He 262 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:58.039 was on top of the world, so no one really 263 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:02.399 cared that much, and he kept cranking out him you 264 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:07.279 don't know, you know your beautiful girl, that kind of 265 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:12.279 shit to catch you song. Basically, Liam Payne lived his 266 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.919 storybook life, plucked from obscurity by Simon Cowell on The 267 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:19.480 X Factor, then being deposited into a group he was 268 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:25.120 managing called One Direction. And not only that, Liam also 269 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:28.559 met the mother of his only child on that audition, 270 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:32.559 Sheryl Cole. That was in twenty eight. They dated for 271 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:35.240 two years and produced their son, Bear, who's now seven 272 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:38.240 years old and probably just found out his daddy's gone. 273 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:44.000 Heartbreaking now. Like I said back then, I'd also mention 274 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:48.720 that Naomi Campbell reached out and plucked Liam Payne from 275 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:52.559 stardom and dropped him in her bed and they had 276 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.440 a wild flame, even to the point, as I said 277 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:58.600 that she went out and spent tens of thousands of 278 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:03.120 dollars on new clothes for him, because I assume Naomi 279 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:06.599 needed to have him look better in pictures standing alongside her, 280 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:09.480 and she needed people to see that she wasn't robbing 281 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:12.839 the cradle, that he was, in fact a man who 282 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:16.960 had his shit together, and he looked really good in 283 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:20.839 his new clothes. But that was short lived. That went 284 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:24.319 about four months. But he did call the sex with 285 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:28.920 Naomi Cammell mind blowing. I don't know what that does 286 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:32.680 to women, but whenever a guy reads that having sex 287 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:36.680 with a certain girl's mind blowing, it does something to us. 288 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:40.640 It piques our interest. Like when John Mayer said sex 289 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:44.960 with Jessica Simpson was like sexual napalm. It makes a 290 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:47.920 guy go a little bananas because we may think a 291 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:51.480 particular person is pretty or sexy, and then you find 292 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:53.160 out that the guy who was slepting it says it's 293 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:56.640 mind blowing or napalm, and it makes you go, holy shit, 294 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:59.279 what is she doing? What is she doing in that bedroom? 295 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:03.599 I mean a lot of guys fell for Jessica Simpson 296 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:06.319 when she did that stupid show with her ex husband 297 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:13.359 Nick and she thought, uh tuna was chicken, because it's 298 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:15.319 called Chicken in the Sea. It was a whole thing. 299 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.720 She was so adorable and also so dumb, and that 300 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:21.160 made a lot of guys get turned on by her. 301 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:23.599 Then we find out that sex with her as sexual 302 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:28.000 napop and that she even let guys like Dane Cook 303 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:35.000 and and and and Johnny Knoxville and and Bam have 304 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:40.799 a crack in her. Jesus Christ, I'm sure uh Dax 305 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:42.759 Shephard did his well. I think every guy that was 306 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:46.599 in a movie with her banger. Anyway, I've said this 307 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:49.319 in the past. Naomi Campbell also had a fling with 308 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:51.640 a longtime buddy of mine who was a producer at E. 309 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:54.720 I never mentioned his name. Fuck it, it's Darren Madteron. 310 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:57.839 He should be he should be happy. People know this. 311 00:18:57.839 --> 00:18:59.960 This happened many years ago, way before he was married. 312 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:04.759 Not to worry about, but he was a producer of 313 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:09.519 mine at E for the Gossip Show. Darren Good looking, tall, 314 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:14.119 California dude, well spoken, had his shit together, raised right dressed. 315 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:17.480 Good drove a little Miata which was weird, but look, 316 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:21.640 that was his thing. Also one of his things which 317 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:25.680 was fascinating to me. He lived out in Santa Monica 318 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:28.240 and he'd invited girl over to go on dinner, and 319 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:33.000 the girls would typically California, sometimes you live twenty minutes apart, 320 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:35.200 like we all do, and a girl will drive to 321 00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:37.440 the guy's place and she'll park her car at his place, 322 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:39.119 and they'll go to dinner in his car and return 323 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:41.160 in his car, and then she'll leave to go back 324 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:43.680 to her home in her car. Well, Darren had this 325 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:46.160 thing down perfectly where he'd tell the girls come to 326 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:48.960 my place where I live. You could park in the garage. 327 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:51.440 It's a spot open view. But he also knew at 328 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:55.799 a certain hour the garage wouldn't open, they couldn't get out, 329 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:58.640 nothing bad happened. He wasn't some kind of maniac like 330 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:01.000 a Pete Diddy, but that kind of in short, that 331 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:06.680 the girl would sleep over. Interesting technique either way. He's 332 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:10.960 minding his own business one day and Naomi Campbell spots 333 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.759 him in some function, like I said, tall, good looking 334 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:18.319 white dude, typical California guy, very polite, all about good 335 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:23.920 vibes and shit like that, and they spoke briefly and 336 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:26.240 before the function ended, she went up to him and said, 337 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:28.759 I have to fight in Mexico tomorrow for a shoot. 338 00:20:28.839 --> 00:20:32.559 Do you want to come with me? After he couldn't 339 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:35.640 believe this is even happening to him, He's like, yeah, sure, 340 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:38.599 you're sure he've got nothing else to do, because no, no, 341 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:42.359 it's fine. I'm clear, my schedules clear. And they flew 342 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:45.240 to Mexico on a private jet and once they were there, 343 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:49.559 he too also said the sex was mind blowing. I'm 344 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:51.640 not sure what Naomi Campbell does under the sheets, but 345 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:54.359 I'm sure a lot of what guys feel is the 346 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:56.839 fact that they can't believe they're banging Naomi Campbell. Let's 347 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:01.960 start with that, but either way, good for them. One night, 348 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:04.839 he stays in, Naomi goes out to dinner with people 349 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:07.319 she knows for a long time. They are politicians from 350 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:10.759 another country. What have you, big shots? He stays back. 351 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:15.599 She comes in whatever eleven thirty, and he sees her 352 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:18.079 go to the safe in the room and puts something 353 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:21.039 in the safe and lock it. And when she gets 354 00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:22.799 back to the bed, he asks her what's in the 355 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:26.960 safe and she sheepishly told him I was giving a 356 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:33.839 blood diamond as a gift from some Malaysian billionaire. And 357 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:36.599 he's like, uh oh. His head's started to spend he's 358 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:39.640 getting nervous. He suddenly felt he was in over his head. 359 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:41.640 So the next morning, while she's at the gym or 360 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:43.799 no she had to go to her modeling shoot, my 361 00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:46.720 friend packs up one to the airport and split. I 362 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:48.640 don't think I would have done that, but my buddy 363 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:51.519 doesn't have that crazy brain like I do. But he 364 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:54.519 bolted me. I would have just thought to settle in. 365 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:58.240 Although Naomi Campbell's gorgeous in a lot of ways, but 366 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:01.519 I'd been with her in in the sense of being 367 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:03.839 a friend, and I've hung out with her. We've gotten 368 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:07.000 high together at Oliver Stone's house. I've been around her 369 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:11.200 a few times. She's wicked. She'll pull you in. She's 370 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:14.799 good at that. But he's got a story to tell 371 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:18.000 her for a long time. But some models are like that. 372 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:23.799 Stephanie Seymour was so sex crazed and at some point 373 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:26.920 wanted to get back at was an Axel row. I 374 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:29.519 think she had a fight with Axel before she left 375 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:32.799 Axel for Warren Baty, which she did while she was 376 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:36.440 on the phone with Warren and home with Axel. That's 377 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:39.799 how cold blooded she is. But another time she had 378 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:43.200 this doctor who was performing a breast exam. I don't 379 00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:45.079 think he was an obgu ann, but he was a 380 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:48.759 doctor performing a breast exam. And she's pissed at Axel 381 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:53.519 Rose for some reason. And she just flat out told 382 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:56.400 the doctor, I'm going on a trip tomorrow to whatever 383 00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:59.759 fancy island it was, let's say the Maldives. Do you 384 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:03.240 want to come with me? And this guy was like 385 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:06.240 a sixty year old doctor and she's thirty something and 386 00:23:06.279 --> 00:23:08.680 looking like all get out. Of course, he cleared a 387 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:12.200 schedule and went with her. I mean, these chicks are 388 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:15.440 like men. They want something, they go get it. Anyhow, 389 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:19.119 point is, Liam Payne had an amazing time with Naomi 390 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:22.599 Campbell and other women. Since he was such a superstar, 391 00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:27.279 isn't it cruel? His last name is pain. It's you know, 392 00:23:28.039 --> 00:23:30.400 we're all learning about the pain this guy was through. 393 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:32.839 I had a girl I dated whose last name was Greeves, 394 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:34.680 and I said to her, you know, your name is 395 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:38.119 a sentence. You know, let's say her first name was Susan, 396 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:41.759 Susan Greaves, it's a sentence. And she did grieve for 397 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:43.559 a long time about things that happened in her life. 398 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:46.920 It's the weird trick God plays on you. But everyone 399 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:50.279 thought his bandmate Zaane Mallick was gonna be the one 400 00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:53.640 who jumped off of balcony one day, but it was 401 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:58.400