Speaker 1: From workhouse connect in AJ Benza fame. Uh, he'd liked
Speaker 1: to be walked on a leash and play really dirty,
Speaker 1: kinky sex games. He's the guy put the cock in
Speaker 1: the Peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody AJ Benzy here
Speaker 1: with fame is a bitch. This is your daily Unfiltered
Speaker 1: podcast for February fourth, twenty twenty six. Two four two
Speaker 1: two six. A lot of nice even numbers there. That
Speaker 1: always makes me feel good, and boy do I need
Speaker 1: to feel good? Still kind of in I'm still kind
Speaker 1: of in a malaise. I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not gonna make a habit of it,
Speaker 1: but something if you saw me, I haven't shaved in
Speaker 1: about a week and a half, I look beastly. I
Speaker 1: did look in the mirror today, which I rarely do,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Jesus Christ, AJ cleaning yourself up.
Speaker 1: My god, I'll get there. I'll do it. But you know,
Speaker 1: we always talk about death coming in threes. We lost
Speaker 1: Katherine O'Hara. Great, what a funny actress. She was such
Speaker 1: a fan of us on SCTV back in the day
Speaker 1: with Eugene Levy and John Candy and all those other folks.
Speaker 1: And then on the studio with Seth Rogen Great and
Speaker 1: Shit's Creak with Eugene lef What a great show that
Speaker 1: was to get in a lot of years. Just amazing.
Speaker 1: Loved her, loved her. She just her face alone would
Speaker 1: make me laugh without even saying anything. I would just
Speaker 1: laugh looking at her face. So we lose her, I
Speaker 1: would imagine we're losing Savannah Guthrie's mother. That doesn't seem good.
Speaker 1: I think unless something broke just now, taken from her house,
Speaker 1: taken from being asleep, it's not good. I'm sure she's dead.
Speaker 1: That's two. And then it got the great Chuck Negron,
Speaker 1: one of the co founders of the rock band Three
Speaker 1: Dog Knight eighty three years old, lived a long life,
Speaker 1: was sick for many years. He also has one of
Speaker 1: the best memoirs to ever read about how crazy his
Speaker 1: life was with drugs and alcohol and women. It's an
Speaker 1: amazing read. But yeah, he died in studio City, Shitsville,
Speaker 1: right around the corner from me. Heart failure in the
Speaker 1: months leading up to his death chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, there's so much shit out there that people
Speaker 1: suffer from. I can't take it. But I remember being
Speaker 1: in the sixth grade in chorus, or some people called
Speaker 1: the glee club. But yeah, I went off. I sang
Speaker 1: in chorus and the song we sang for our parents
Speaker 1: at the auditorium was joy to the World. I mean
Speaker 1: as a kid to say.
Speaker 2: Jeremiah was a bullfrog Boom Boom was a good friend
Speaker 2: of mine.
Speaker 1: Never understood those single word, he said. Their lyrics, the
Speaker 1: lyrics on three Dog Night are amazing. I mean joy
Speaker 1: to the world. One is the loneliest number that you
Speaker 1: ever do. Killer. A child is black, a child is white.
Speaker 1: Together they learned to read and write. It's a beautiful side.
Speaker 1: But my favorite is Mama told me not to come.
Speaker 1: Oh god, well, now I used to come on the radio.
Speaker 1: You know I stayed well, I didn't say. I was
Speaker 1: friends with my next doname by the Rositos of a
Speaker 1: five girls and a boy. So there was plenty of
Speaker 1: things to do and play, and a lot of times
Speaker 1: we just sat in their van. They had this like
Speaker 1: camper van. They were going road trips and we would
Speaker 1: sit in the van and make believe we're on a
Speaker 1: road trip. We were young, ten eleven years old, and
Speaker 1: and then the flashlight tag and and kickball, and we
Speaker 1: did everything together. And I remember when that song came out,
Speaker 1: Mama told me not to come. We couldn't get to
Speaker 1: the radio quick enough to turn it on. Those lyrics,
Speaker 1: want some whiskey in your water, sugar in your tea?
Speaker 1: What's all these crazy questions you're asking me?
Speaker 2: Come on, Who's what the what? This is the craziest
Speaker 2: party I ever could see. Don't turn on the lights
Speaker 2: because I don't want to see. Mama told me not
Speaker 2: to go. I don't really know where those lyrics come from.
Speaker 2: Where did they come from? Want some whiskey in your water,
Speaker 2: sugaring your tea, brilliant, brilliant. And of course the next verse, uh,
Speaker 2: what the hell this room smells of stale perfume. Open
Speaker 2: up the window, sucker, let me catch my breath. I
Speaker 2: just they were amazing.
Speaker 1: Those are the kind of white guys that had a
Speaker 1: lot of black a lot of blackness them. You know,
Speaker 1: there's some white guys that got blackness in them. You know,
Speaker 1: you could hear it in their voice. You just you
Speaker 1: sense the rhythm, you just see it. I'm one of
Speaker 1: those guys that's why I could jive with all the
Speaker 1: black guys at the after hours clubs, the gangsters, the killers,
Speaker 1: the robbers. They took me in, and not only took
Speaker 1: me in, they made sure I didn't come there too
Speaker 1: often because they cared about me. Hey, man, you got
Speaker 1: you got a second shot. Motherfucker, go home, man, go home, bitch.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be here with these dangss. Motherfucker, I
Speaker 1: want to be here now. No man got to fuck home. Man,
Speaker 1: go be with your wife. Nigga. Good guys. I can't
Speaker 1: say bad things about them. They did bad things, but
Speaker 1: then again, so have I. Well, we're gonna do judge
Speaker 1: everybody right now. But if you did bad things, that's
Speaker 1: just life. Things happened. Dobi and mouse my two after
Speaker 1: hours buddies. They're both gone. And I remember a mouse
Speaker 1: Trap was on Sweet Sir and Third Street, and uh,
Speaker 1: if there was a yellow light on, that meant it
Speaker 1: was open, and you had to go around the corner
Speaker 1: and go through the gate and he would let you in,
Speaker 1: or he'd stand outside of the street with his dodger
Speaker 1: jacket on, his blue satin dodger jacket and his ball cap.
Speaker 1: He was like six six. Mouse Trap he played college basketball,
Speaker 1: and uh, I would get in there first. I made
Speaker 1: it my I made it my point to get there
Speaker 1: first every night, two o'clock on the on the button,
Speaker 1: and I just had to run to the jukebox and
Speaker 1: play all that great all those great songs I learned
Speaker 1: from Soul Train. No American bandstand not when you're unhappy.
Speaker 1: When you're unhappy today, the things I've happened, we're to
Speaker 1: drop shot the fuck up. I want soul trade. That
Speaker 1: was the ship sitting in front of my TV eating Dorito's.
Speaker 1: Remember Dorito The first flavor with Dorito's was taco flavor.
Speaker 1: They kind of brought it back recently. Dorito's and a
Speaker 1: big jug of Deer Park spring water. Why I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I remember I'd eat so many Doritos I get.
Speaker 1: The bottle had like my mouth prints on it of
Speaker 1: Dorrito juice or Doriedo dust. It was my water. No
Speaker 1: one else drank it, but man, I couldn't get enough
Speaker 1: of that shit. The dance, the dancing, and it's a
Speaker 1: great time, What a great time to be alive. But yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe this is the third one. I don't know. Chuck,
Speaker 1: Katherine O'Hara and Savannah Guthrie's bomb. Huh. Anyhow, let's talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about this whole thing with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1: I can't believe there was three million more paint. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't believe there's this much junk on this guy.
Speaker 1: And now we see an email where he's talking to
Speaker 1: the one of the New York Giants owners, Steve Tish,
Speaker 1: about a woman and Tish is asking him does the
Speaker 1: girls describe as a Tahitian named Emily? And Steve Tish
Speaker 1: is wondering is she a working girl all right? Or
Speaker 1: is she just fun? And there's some pretty interview. There's
Speaker 1: some emails that don't look good. Is my president in
Speaker 1: New York City? That's what he sent to Epstein. Can
Speaker 1: I get my surprise to take me to lunch tomorrow?
Speaker 1: We had a brief association where we exchange emails about
Speaker 1: adult women, Tis said, and in addition we discussed movies, philanthropy,
Speaker 1: and investments. I did not take him up on any
Speaker 1: of his invitations and never went to his island. As
Speaker 1: we all know now, he was a terrible person, and
Speaker 1: some of I deeply regret associating with these guys. Don't
Speaker 1: regret it. They don't regret it. They had a fucking
Speaker 1: ball with this guy. This guy supplied them with girls.
Speaker 1: Don't let me say the P word. He gave them girls.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm sure Tish was married and looked
Speaker 1: down upon to cheat, and it's this is bad, This
Speaker 1: is really bad. Tish offered Epstein two tickets to his
Speaker 1: suite for a New York Giants game and also an
Speaker 1: invitation to his Caribbean island. He says he didn't go.
Speaker 1: I think we can check those check those notes, but uh,
Speaker 1: this is this is not a good thing. NFL owners
Speaker 1: are subject to you Personal Conduct Policy, and it states
Speaker 1: that an owner and club or league management have traditionally
Speaker 1: been held to a higher standard and will be subject
Speaker 1: to more significant discipline when violations of the Personal Content Policy. Car.
Speaker 1: I think we all signed those agreements when we get jobs.
Speaker 1: We just don't realize what we're signing. But yeah, there's
Speaker 1: moral codes that you have to adhere to. But I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, we're supposed to trust at the end
Speaker 1: of is gonna do a better job investigating Jeffrey Epstein? Really,
Speaker 1: I mean it's been a decade. It's been a decade,
Speaker 1: and the FBI hasn't charged a single client. You get
Speaker 1: the point, nothing's gonna happen. There's too many powerful people involved.
Speaker 1: If one Domino falls, the other five hundred Domino's got
Speaker 1: a fall. Well, the next five thousand Domino's got a fall.
Speaker 1: It's you're never gonna hear about it. And don't talk
Speaker 1: to me about Trump. At Emstein, he didn't like the
Speaker 1: fucking guy for a minute. Yeah, he was at mar
Speaker 1: A Lago. They got along, and then Trump just turned
Speaker 1: the blind eye to him because he didn't like the
Speaker 1: way he was acting to the women in mar Alago.
Speaker 1: And I'm sick of people say, Oh Trump what. I
Speaker 1: hope he sues Trevor Noah from the Grammys for saying
Speaker 1: that Trump needs to go to Greenland because he can't
Speaker 1: go to Jeffrey IF's Island anymore. I hope he sues
Speaker 1: that bastard can't stand Trevor Noah, can't stand the Grammys.
Speaker 1: Snooty fucks, snooty fucks who think they're better than us,
Speaker 1: and they're not. They're not justin be his goddamn underwear.
Speaker 1: What the hell you know? Back in the day, in
Speaker 1: the eighties and early nineties, it's talking about Michael Jackson,
Speaker 1: Tina Turner, Lionel, Ritchie, Aerosmith, so many great bands and
Speaker 1: people who made their mark on the world. Now, what
Speaker 1: the fuck are we getting? Bad? Bunny and these I
Speaker 1: can't stand Chapel rowing in the stupid dress. It's not
Speaker 1: the same. I don't want to watch these shows anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch they used to be classy.
Speaker 1: Even the oscars have turned into shit. I don't like it.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't sound good, and morally it's ugly either way.
Speaker 1: But legally one version is not good and the other
Speaker 1: is undoubtedly well, it's gonna be life changingly bad. You know. Look,
Speaker 1: if it's adult women and it's not prostitution, then okay,
Speaker 1: a little shady but legal. Even if it is prostitution
Speaker 1: with adult women, chances are that the statue of limitations
Speaker 1: has run out. And even if it hasn't, no one's
Speaker 1: going to go after him. You know, guys or John's,
Speaker 1: as we say, rarely get charged except if they're caught
Speaker 1: in the act. And we know from Bill Belichick's defenders
Speaker 1: and Robert Kraft's continued place and respected society, plenty of
Speaker 1: plenty of people are willing to look past pervy old
Speaker 1: men looking to get some p okay. It doesn't go away.
Speaker 1: I don't care if you're eighty, you still want to taste.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to look forward to. Although I hope
Speaker 1: the lady's not eighty. That would be a weird taste.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, it's good to know
Speaker 1: you still want it, and I don't. I just look.
Speaker 1: If it involves miners, then the guy's toast period. I
Speaker 1: get it. He can defend himself, but he's done. He's ruined,
Speaker 1: and the statue of limitations may not have run out
Speaker 1: for that. Even if it has run out, he's done.
Speaker 1: Tish's ruined. This is not a sympathetic, sympathetic figure. The
Speaker 1: Tissues are a real, big, prominent family, and he'd have
Speaker 1: to be taken down and removed from everything. He's got
Speaker 1: family members who also work within the Giants organization who
Speaker 1: take charge. I see this guy stepping down. You know,
Speaker 1: life as he knows is kind of over now for him.
Speaker 1: And then we go to Jeffrey Epstein, who apparently had
Speaker 1: a kid fifteen years ago. This big bombshell email from
Speaker 1: Andrew Boughton's Windsor ex wife Sarah Ferguson never liked her,
Speaker 1: never liked her, but she congratulated him on the note
Speaker 1: that she's sent on September twenty first, twenty eleven. This
Speaker 1: is after he was already convicted of sex with an
Speaker 1: underage girl, so she's still writing him. And he's a
Speaker 1: complete perf pedophile, we know. But yeah, those people in England,
Speaker 1: they they're pretty wild. The royal family's wild.
Speaker 2: Don't know if he's still on the BBM, but have
Speaker 2: heard from the Duke that you have a baby boy.
Speaker 1: Okay, Sarah, it's kind of weird. And apparently this girlfriend
Speaker 1: he's got, Karina schuliac who have not I saw one
Speaker 1: picture look kind of cute. And he wanted to leave
Speaker 1: his private island as well as fifty million and his
Speaker 1: Upper east Side townhouse, and he signed his will two
Speaker 1: days before he was found dead in his jail cell.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the topic is that Epstein father's son, who
Speaker 1: is now about out fifteen years old. It's a good
Speaker 1: thing the kid's been kept out of the limelight. It's
Speaker 1: not the kid's fault who his father is. And it's
Speaker 1: highly doubtful that Epstein's sickness is an inheritable trait. I
Speaker 1: hope not. But let's be honest. The only bad thing
Speaker 1: that gets passed down on with sexally abusing kids is
Speaker 1: the person who gets abused as a child does it
Speaker 1: to kids when they become an adult. I think it's
Speaker 1: like ninety It's been studied for a long time. It's
Speaker 1: one reason why small town's gonna have such a high
Speaker 1: percentage of kids getting molested. Isn't that disgusting? All sorts
Speaker 1: of shit going on today, Gang, I gotta catch up
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashians now with Lewis Hamilton, the f one driver. Man,
Speaker 1: they're having a ball Paris Hotel room disappeared for the night.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Kanye is doing. I know Kanye
Speaker 1: last week decided to apologize about all the Jewish stuff
Speaker 1: and the Nazi memorabilia. But look, I think his wife,
Speaker 1: Bianca is way more beautiful than Kim. I think Bianca
Speaker 1: is one of the tippy top girls of all time.
Speaker 1: She just has it for me. That's gotta feel good
Speaker 1: for him. But by the same token, Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: let me just say this, speaking of I watched a
Speaker 1: porno the other day. I don't know. Look, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I don't like I don't need
Speaker 1: to see like I like seeing porno where the man
Speaker 1: and the woman obviously love each other, there's some kind
Speaker 1: of romance. I don't just need to see straight banging.
Speaker 1: I don't know that does nothing for me. Show me
Speaker 1: that kissing, show me that she's talking to him, he's
Speaker 1: talking to her. That turns me on. So I'm watching
Speaker 1: this girl. Oh, let me let me step on this one.
Speaker 1: I press play as a beautiful girl and she's starting
Speaker 1: to make out slow with her man, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be good. Let me get ready for
Speaker 1: this one. And then the camera pans down and she's
Speaker 1: got a prick. It was a transgender And now I go, well,
Speaker 1: now I gotta watch what they do because I've already
Speaker 1: I've already committed to this. I thought she was a
Speaker 1: beautiful girl. And now what happens? What do they do?
Speaker 1: They touched Dix. I'm sorry to be so crass. They
Speaker 1: touch them together, and then the guy goes down on her.
Speaker 1: I couldn't why immediately got out of there, and I
Speaker 1: hope that nobody noticed me there. Whatever turns you on,
Speaker 1: But Jesus Christ, why do you want to be a
Speaker 1: pretty girl and have a package down there. What's the
Speaker 1: point of that. Some people have turned down by that shit.
Speaker 1: Ye I'm not one of them. I like a good porn,
Speaker 1: but not that shit. But it is interesting to see,
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. It is something that I go.
Speaker 1: Let me just see what they're up to, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, I enjoy that sometimes, not transsexual stuff,
Speaker 1: but I enjoy a porn now and then to see
Speaker 1: what people are doing. I just I like when two
Speaker 1: people look to be in love and get down together.
Speaker 1: That's a turn on to me. But let me change
Speaker 1: courses here. This morning I met Rosalie up the top
Speaker 1: of the stairs. We're sitting in the living room talking
Speaker 1: and these are the kind of moments I just cherished
Speaker 1: so much. Where she's having coffee, I'm sitting down on
Speaker 1: the couch, the dogs are there. We're just shooting the
Speaker 1: shit about life. And I asked her questions about her family,
Speaker 1: and you think you know everything about your family, but
Speaker 1: you don't. And thank God, she's there to be the
Speaker 1: person that knows all of it because she lived it
Speaker 1: seventeen years older than myself. She saw it all. And
Speaker 1: we're talking about I said, Grandma Pipanella, my mother's mother.
Speaker 1: Pipanella is Josephine and Italian. That's my middle name. I'm
Speaker 1: named after her, my mother. I was in my mother's
Speaker 1: belly when she died. I never met Grandma Pipanella. I
Speaker 1: understand she was a great woman and my father loved
Speaker 1: her to death. And she used to make wine and
Speaker 1: impostla for the local mafiosa. She served al Capone because
Speaker 1: Capone was a Brooklyn boy before a Chicago boy, and
Speaker 1: he would walk around on these underground tunnels to my
Speaker 1: grandma's apartment in Brooklyn, in Bensonhurst, and the things that
Speaker 1: people did to stay alive. She told me about this
Speaker 1: guy that grandma took him named Benny. I said, who
Speaker 1: the fuck is that? Benny? Was a border she was,
Speaker 1: he was old man and Grandma took him in. He
Speaker 1: had a he had a room to himself, and you know, okay,
Speaker 1: and then that was the big story about Well, it's
Speaker 1: the big story of our life. This this man money
Speaker 1: who began to come around when my grandfather fell off
Speaker 1: a building. He was a brick layer, fell off a building,
Speaker 1: hit his head was never the same. He got like
Speaker 1: childish played hide and seek with the kids. We call
Speaker 1: it don de lee in Italian, little Don Deli in
Speaker 1: the fucking head. You know, Grandpa just disappeared. But I
Speaker 1: would look at pictures of him, go, this can't be
Speaker 1: our grandfather. He looks like Norman Rockwell. Who is this guy?
Speaker 1: Who's this white haired old man? This is not our grandfather.
Speaker 1: And sure enough, there's this story in our family that
Speaker 1: comes around in a few years about Grandma taking in
Speaker 1: a border named a man named Manino, who was very Italian,
Speaker 1: very dark Sicilian, maybe possibly part black. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: grandma came here from Italy and my supposed grandfather's grandfather's
Speaker 1: brothers were in the mob, and when she landed in
Speaker 1: Ellis Island, she was immediately given to my grandfather to
Speaker 1: be married. She had no say in the matter. None.
Speaker 1: It's almost it's like it's like Iran, like these these
Speaker 1: girls have they just get married off. It's terrible. And
Speaker 1: the guy said, if you don't marry him, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go back to Sicily and tell everybody you're a big
Speaker 1: bhutana in America, you're a big tramp. And that's like
Speaker 1: the worst thing to not to have your town in
Speaker 1: Italy think that you're a terrible woman. So she married him,
Speaker 1: was never happy, and this money comes along as a border.
Speaker 1: I said, ro Grandpa was there, She goes, yeah, he
Speaker 1: was there, but he didn't leave his room a lot.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure grandma and my nee were having sex
Speaker 1: because Grandpa wasn't having sex. I say grandpa, but my
Speaker 1: supposed grandpa was not having sex with her anymore. But
Speaker 1: yet two more kids appeared, my mother and my uncle NICKI,
Speaker 1: who were darker complexion than the other sisters and brothers.
Speaker 1: That's when me, rose Lee and some other Roators come from,
Speaker 1: and we all kind of look alike. And I don't
Speaker 1: really know the truth of it. My mother didn't want
Speaker 1: to talk about it. Her sister and Anna was like, no,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about that. They wouldn't denounce their mother,
Speaker 1: just in the sense that she probably had sex with him.
Speaker 1: And then at some point he left and went back
Speaker 1: to Italy. My grandfather, supposed grandfather Nick got angry that
Speaker 1: two more little kids running around the house and he
Speaker 1: ain't he's not having sex with Grandma, so he snapped
Speaker 1: out of it. I Nan left and we just had
Speaker 1: a great talk about I told her, I said, remember that,
Speaker 1: I said, I listened to Sam with the Bolo Gravado's podcast.
Speaker 1: Hadn't listened for a while. It used to be great.
Speaker 1: His stories were amazing. I said. He was always talking
Speaker 1: about this gangster John Poppa. I said, isn't that the
Speaker 1: guy that Daddy threw the milk bottle at She says, yeah,
Speaker 1: a long time ago. I must have been an infant
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, and this guy, John Popper was a tough guy,
Speaker 1: young guy. He's walking down the street. He's saying awful
Speaker 1: things to people. Back then, people had their windows open.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a lot of air conditioning back then. In fact,
Speaker 1: air conditioning was a tub with a big block of
Speaker 1: ice and you blew a fan behind it to get cool.
Speaker 1: So the windows were open. You could hear people in
Speaker 1: the street. You could hear, you know, the high school
Speaker 1: guys singing under the board walk all that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I didn't hear that, but that's what they were doing
Speaker 1: back then. So he here's this guy, Oh you spicks
Speaker 1: and jews and kikes and this and that and and words,
Speaker 1: get the fuck out of Brooklyn, Get out of Benson nurse,
Speaker 1: real nasty. My father didn't like that. He went got
Speaker 1: a bottle of milk from the refrigerato, went to the
Speaker 1: roof of the building and threw the bottle of milk
Speaker 1: at the kid. It crashed above his head on the
Speaker 1: brick wall of the school, and he said, you want
Speaker 1: to fucking come see me? Come see me? And then
Speaker 1: my father, Rosie said. Daddy sat down in a chair
Speaker 1: with the door open and a rifle in his hand,
Speaker 1: ready to shoot that kid, And thank god, he ran
Speaker 1: up the wrong staircase. I said, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is a great story. This is great shit. I forgot
Speaker 1: that stuff. Sometimes I forget how my father was just
Speaker 1: a different kind of man. He just he captivated rooms.
Speaker 1: But then again, if I can keep it in the family,
Speaker 1: Rosalie had a different father than I did. He was
Speaker 1: not the same with her as he was with me.
Speaker 1: Huh could have been. He was away in World War
Speaker 1: Two for five years and didn't see it till she
Speaker 1: was eighteen months old. She grew more attached to my
Speaker 1: uncle Lowry, his brother. It took time for her to
Speaker 1: warm up to him. He was a strange man. She
Speaker 1: didn't know it was a father. She was a baby,
Speaker 1: and who knows between World War two and being an
Speaker 1: undercover cop. That's very stressful shit. And she told me
Speaker 1: his story. I just cannot believe that he well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought he'd never hit us. He hit me once
Speaker 1: because I didn't understand the words she was saying in Italian.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't understand it, and I acted like,
Speaker 1: what are you saying? I don't know the hell you're saying?
Speaker 1: That bang right across the face, that he hugged me
Speaker 1: and kissed me. But my sister Loring got smacked. I said,
Speaker 1: what tell me this story? Oh you know, she was
Speaker 1: talking bed to mommy and Uncle Sally said, don't talk
Speaker 1: to your mother that way. Or maybe Jack did, and
Speaker 1: my father heard about it. He smacked Lorne face for
Speaker 1: talking down down to my mother. But the story with
Speaker 1: Rosalie is atrocious. He came home from work one day
Speaker 1: from being undercover cop, and I don't know what was
Speaker 1: up his ass, but she said he went into her
Speaker 1: room and ripped up her stuffed animals and broke all
Speaker 1: of her records over his d I said, you gotta
Speaker 1: be kidding me, Daddy. Yes, aj, you had a different
Speaker 1: father than I did. And that's why when he was dying.
Speaker 1: She didn't seem as upset as I was, and it
Speaker 1: bothered me. But why aren't you upset daddy's dying. You
Speaker 1: act like it's not a big deal. And she had
Speaker 1: kids and her husband. You know, there's more pressing things
Speaker 1: in life. You're losing a parent, but you have your
Speaker 1: own family, and she just we didn't talk for a
Speaker 1: while while he was dying, and it came to a head.
Speaker 1: We were arguing in my backyard and a horrible thought.
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine I did this, but he got physical.
Speaker 1: I took Rosie and put her over my I threw
Speaker 1: it to the floor. It was awful on the tile floor.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. But I don't know what hell he
Speaker 1: was going through. I just I've always said row. He
Speaker 1: didn't live the life he wanted to live. He wanted
Speaker 1: to be a lawyer. There was no more money, Grandma said,
Speaker 1: there's no more money. His two brothers became doctors and teachers,
Speaker 1: and by the time he came along, he was an accident.
Speaker 1: No more money. In fact, the word is Grandma didn't
Speaker 1: want him. She can believe that she was not prepared
Speaker 1: to have another son that late in life. And I
Speaker 1: think he carried that with him for many, many years.
Speaker 1: And I remember when I was telling Rosie about these
Speaker 1: stories that I remember, and it was one time he
Speaker 1: went he used to about fishing with my uncle Sal.
Speaker 1: They both used to like to drink on the boat,
Speaker 1: first fish, first, white cap first, everything a shot, a shot,
Speaker 1: a shot. And they get back home and they're both drunk.
Speaker 1: You could see it. And my mother's like, oh, did
Speaker 1: you finish all the scotch? Or is there anything left?
Speaker 1: And he picked her up and placed her on the stove.
Speaker 1: It wasn't on. The stove wasn't on, but I remember going, oh,
Speaker 1: my god, that's not good. What's daddy doing? And then
Speaker 1: she climbed down from the stove. But another time he
Speaker 1: was said none as recliner with his big bottle of
Speaker 1: doers watching a movie. I'm over here, and Mary's across
Speaker 1: the room. My mother's next to him, and he starts
Speaker 1: to pour another scotch and she says, okay, another scotch?
Speaker 1: How many are you gonna have tonight? And he took
Speaker 1: the bottle and dumped it upside down and said not
Speaker 1: anymore and her and it. Mary said, who's going to
Speaker 1: clean up? The boltes are I'm not touching it. Then
Speaker 1: he trudged upstairs to bed. There's somebody as if different
Speaker 1: sides to men. It's released quite something. You think you
Speaker 1: know someone and something else is uncovered, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of scary. It's not what you expect to hear about
Speaker 1: your dad. But still in all, we had great times.
Speaker 1: We loved him very much. We had wonderful holidays, and
Speaker 1: he was a good band. Made us laugh all the time.
Speaker 1: Always pinched my mother's ass and pinched her breast, tell
Speaker 1: her he loves her so much, Cold her five times
Speaker 1: a day from work, never went to a bar, never
Speaker 1: went to a restaurant, always came home. You know, but
Speaker 1: you don't know what's in a man's head. That's the
Speaker 1: kind of show I was talking about last week about
Speaker 1: the things that men carry. I'm not saying women don't
Speaker 1: carry things, but men carry I think a lot more
Speaker 1: of burdensome things in their mind because they're less apt
Speaker 1: to talk to their buddies about it. How you doing, man,
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm fine, I'm good, I'm good. Instead of
Speaker 1: just saying I'm having a fucking rough go of it. Man,
Speaker 1: we don't do that. We lie. Everything's good. Bro, I'm good.
Speaker 1: It's go good, but it's not all good. And at
Speaker 1: some point that has to manifest itself in some kind
Speaker 1: of action. And those are the things that came out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: man sitting in the chair with a rifle with the
Speaker 1: door open, rate and shoot this kid in the chest.
Speaker 1: What sick fuck? And I'll tell you this story one
Speaker 1: more time in case you forgot it. He comes home
Speaker 1: from work where night he'd have his big meal at
Speaker 1: ten thirty, eleven o'clock, his big meal. Right, he's sitting
Speaker 1: at the table, no shirt on. My mother's watching to meet.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting across room. I'm starting to fall asleep. It's late.
Speaker 1: He says, you don't look good. What happened? Is there
Speaker 1: a problem today? What happened? No? No, tell me tell
Speaker 1: your father what happened? Well? I was wanted to play
Speaker 1: tackle football across the street in the school yard, and
Speaker 1: Jimmy Peager, Jimmy Peeker told me I couldn't play. My
Speaker 1: father put down his forking knife, took the napkin off
Speaker 1: his chest and leaned back in the chair and said,
Speaker 1: now I'm fucking pissed off. What did he tell you?
Speaker 1: I said, he just couldn't play. That is I think
Speaker 1: his father's in the mafia or something. I heard that. Well,
Speaker 1: here's what you're gonna do. What's that? There's a brick
Speaker 1: outside on the four yer. Put a brick in your book,
Speaker 1: big and when you go to play football tomorrow and
Speaker 1: he says you can't do it, smash him on the
Speaker 1: head with the fucking brick. If you don't do it,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. You better do it. Stand up for yourself.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. I packed that brick. I went
Speaker 1: to the school yard. Jimmy's diagramming plays in the dirt
Speaker 1: with his finger. I'm over his shoulder. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: You can't play? Bang with the brick? Bang? What you
Speaker 1: just do? Oh my god, Jimmy, I'm playing and I played.
Speaker 1: Never had a problem with Jimmy peg again. That's the
Speaker 1: kind of justice that was handed out back then. It's
Speaker 1: over now. There's too many ring cameras, there's too many lawyers.
Speaker 1: There's too many lawyers and people who just want to
Speaker 1: get you arrested and press charges. And I loved just
Speaker 1: being able to take care of matters on our own terms.
Speaker 1: Busted up a guy's car with stickball bats. It just was.
Speaker 1: It was a good street, just so they got the
Speaker 1: fucking message. You can't do that. Now you go to jail.
Speaker 1: Can't do it anyhow. Gang a little all over the
Speaker 1: place today, but I wanted to just clue you and
Speaker 1: on some of the family talk I had. I also
Speaker 1: want to say before I finished this show that the
Speaker 1: great Catherine Stewart is not doing well. She's been in
Speaker 1: the hospital for several days with a bad flu, pneumonia
Speaker 1: and sepsist and she's texted me a few times that
Speaker 1: that the text aren't great. She's down and out, she
Speaker 1: doesn't feel right, she thinks she might be going and
Speaker 1: not to cry again, but just keep bring your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Her husband John is let me know what's happening to her,
Speaker 1: but keep bring your thoughts. She's been working from day one.
Speaker 1: I don't know a more generous person in my life,
Speaker 1: Catherine Steward. So let's just all hit on knees tonight,
Speaker 1: say a prayer for her, and hopefully good duels will
Speaker 1: appear in a few days. But that's it. No more
Speaker 1: crime Christ. I've cried myself to sleep. I'm done. I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta stamp out of this, but thanks for
Speaker 1: hanging around. Guys. This is our aj Benzi, your daily
Speaker 1: unfiltered podcast for Fame as a Bitch. February fourth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. Hit your knees tonight, Okay, lovies,