WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.839 From Workhouse Connect and aj Benza fame. Uh he'd liked 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:09.119 to be walked on a leash and play really dirty, 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:12.519 kinky sex games. Is uh the guy put the cock 4 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:17.719 in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, hey, everybody, aj Ben's 5 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:19.719 are here with fame as a bitch. This is your 6 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:24.079 daily Unfiltered podcast for July twenty first, twenty twenty five. 7 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:29.359 Oh seven two two five. Well, sorry, today's show is 8 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:31.879 getting to you late. Mike's in New York as well, 9 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.200 so I'm taping this at eleven o'clock. Mike lea back 10 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:38.479 in two hours, so you'll get this sometime in the afternoon. 11 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:41.759 I just when my back goes out, and you do, 12 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:44.119 guys don't have a bad back, but it's been good 13 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:46.600 for a long time. But I was pulling something out 14 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:48.399 of the trunk, a box out of the trunk, and 15 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:52.320 of course I tweeked it doing that, and I was like, ah, 16 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:55.159 damn it, all right, it'll be okay. I'll just take 17 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.280 some mbipro fin lay on the heating pad. Let's give 18 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:00.960 you right. And then later that day, what was the Actually. 19 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:04.640 I went to go, I shut the AC off and 20 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:09.079 open the windows, and I have two blue dumbbells on 21 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:11.599 the floor that rock on I use sometimes to fuck 22 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:14.439 around with, and they're hard to see with her on 23 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.359 the carpet, So I'm backing away from the window, and 24 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:20.680 of course my heel hits the weights and I twisted, 25 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:23.959 so I wasn't gonna fall, and I made it worse. 26 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:27.239 So Saturday and Sunday were awful days. On my back 27 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:30.760 the whole time. I mean, I don't know. I'm gonna 28 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:32.640 see my doctor DeMar for some pills. I got it. 29 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:34.480 When I'm in this kind of pain, I can't just 30 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.280 sit around, and I wins with every step I take. 31 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:40.599 Christ As you can tell, I haven't even talking just 32 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:43.239 to laying down and watching movies. Oh boy, that I 33 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:46.280 see so many things. First of all, I like the 34 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:51.760 series Untamed on Netflix with Eric Bonna. Interesting show. He's 35 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:54.519 very good. I liked him that I forgot about him 36 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:56.760 and I liked him again and now I realize I 37 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.879 like him again. Good series. I liked it a lot. 38 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:06.079 But of course these series just the way that the 39 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:10.039 industry is now. They're setting the women, the girls and 40 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:14.879 women they're putting in these movies. I understand they need 41 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:17.280 to have more visible roles. And what have you. But 42 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:20.400 do they always have to be the goddamn hero in 43 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:22.719 the in the movies and the series they're in. They 44 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:24.759 always have to be the ones who solve the case, 45 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:27.599 save the day, do better than the man did in 46 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:30.520 the end, save his life, then find the killers, killed 47 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:34.599 theb It's the same format every fucking show I watch. 48 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.520 I'm five minutes in, I already know, Oh, that's going 49 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:39.960 to recruit. She's gonna get a lot of attention, a 50 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:42.960 lot of experience on the job. He's gonna be old curmudgeon, 51 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:45.319 but she'll soften him up. They'll meet in the middle, 52 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:47.919 and she'll save his life. It happens every fucking time. 53 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:52.680 But I still liked it. I like Intrusion with Frieda Pinto. 54 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.879 Oh God. First of all, just about a house that 55 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:58.919 keeps getting broken into a beautiful home. But I'll tell 56 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:02.879 you this movie nothing else. If you think Freeda Pinto 57 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:05.240 was as beautiful as I do, then watch this movie 58 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:08.159 because this director is in love with her. There's about 59 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:14.360 twenty shots of her just focused on her face, and 60 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:19.199 we get it. She's beautiful. Good movie, crumb chaser, small movie, 61 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:23.280 independent movie, horror film. It got me. It wasn't scary. 62 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:26.479 It was more like, holy shit, like you get angry 63 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:28.680 for these people what they're going through. I'm not even 64 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:34.000 gonna explain the plot. It's crazy. But another pretty girl 65 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:37.319 in that Spencer cop. I want to saw it. Two 66 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:40.639 Mark Wahlberg movies almost a third because I don't he 67 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:42.919 plays the same guy in every movie. He's always the 68 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.639 cop or the guy coming back to be the cop again. 69 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:48.400 He's gonna save the day. He actually real soft around 70 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:51.199 the ladies, hard around the guys. I don't know. 71 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:51.719 I just. 72 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:57.879 I like Wahlburg. But he's a one note guy. And 73 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:02.639 the one film he stepped out Bugging Nights he puts down. 74 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:05.400 He won't talk about it because he's too religious. He 75 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:07.639 hated that last scene with the fake cock. I'm sorry. 76 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:11.199 That movie was great. He was phenomenal in that movie, 77 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:15.319 but everything phenomenon is all, Hey, how you doing. What's 78 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:17.680 going on? Yeah? I told you to pick the case. 79 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:20.079 We'll keep you back my gun on my patch. It's 80 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:24.199 the same thing. But he is funny. He does have 81 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:30.879 comedic timing instant family. Another one outlaws Under the Shadow 82 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.439 of the Moon The Lifeless, which was based on a 83 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.680 best selling book that was cute, made me cry of 84 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:39.120 it at the end. California King another independent movie. Not 85 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.480 that great, but good people to look at. But what 86 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.279 I'm learning watching all these movies, you end up forgetting 87 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:47.120 the plot when you've been something. I watch four or 88 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:49.800 five movies in the weekend. You almost thought that they'd 89 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:53.000 blend into each other, especially with some of the same 90 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.839 actresses and actors are in each movie. Then you're really lost. 91 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:00.000 But I'm learning that. Okay, Sophia Carson, there's all these 92 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:02.959 young ange news now that are coming up that I 93 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:07.839 think are in every friggin Netflix movie. Sophia Carson in 94 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:11.399 The Lifeless is adorable, very pretty chick, Like I said 95 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:16.079 Freida Pinto, Victoria Justice former Nickelodeon. I think Starr now 96 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:18.000 in every movie she smokes and has a tits out, 97 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:20.160 which is fine with me. I love her and Bellaforne 98 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:22.720 for the same reasons. Belle Thorng's got a movie I 99 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:26.439 called Saint Clair, which I'm dying to see. But guess 100 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:28.120 what Shit had did I know? I didn't tell you. 101 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.120 On Friday? Shit had lost his bank, cark his ATM car, 102 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:33.680 going back and forth to the motel with the ECAD 103 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:35.839 that should have been out. Did I tell you that? Oh? Yeah, 104 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.360 we lost AC I think I tell you that. And 105 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:40.600 I had to get into an I take three days. 106 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:42.800 I said to the guy, there's one hundred dollars and 107 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:44.800 if you get it tomorrow, I need. I can't live 108 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:46.800 with his house. I'm at a motel. He got it 109 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:50.079 the next day, but I'm shuttling back and forth to 110 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:53.399 the motel for two days. And I had to fucking 111 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:55.759 cart on my desk. I didn't see it. I panicked. 112 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:58.680 I went to the bank and canceled it. I'm shy. 113 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:00.839 I must have forgot this somewhere. I come back to 114 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:03.240 the hotel. It's right there. But they couldn't reverse it. It 115 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:06.319 was just hidden in the spot you wouldn't have seen anyhow. 116 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:11.439 Was like in my bank card. I couldn't watch certain 117 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:17.639 movies because they certain Amazon, Prime and Apple are tagged 118 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.399 to this bank card. Long story whatever. So I always 119 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:25.120 saw some movies. But to all these young women, Isabelle 120 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:30.079 March said Nina Dobrev Isabelle Schlesinger, who was great in 121 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:33.079 uh one of the I think it's Spencer. She does 122 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:35.279 a real Boston chick who's in love with Wahlburg. Would 123 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.759 hate himt the same time. That was a fun performance 124 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:42.360 and she's sexy rose Byrne. I've seen a million times beautiful, funny, 125 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:46.959 great comedic timing, but all those films and there wasn't 126 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:49.800 really one big leading late rose Byrn is like the 127 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:56.560 biggest and all those films, you know, every marriage on screen, Uh, 128 00:06:56.759 --> 00:07:00.439 the man is an asshole. The wife or girlfriend calls 129 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:04.759 all the shots, even the secondary characters. You know, it's 130 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:08.240 bad enough that Wahlburg's wife was giving him a ship, 131 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:11.720 but then Tom Segura is playing the brother in law 132 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:14.319 who's given the sisters shit. I mean no, she's given 133 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:17.199 him shit because he's a pussy too. It's just they're 134 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:21.800 all even the father, the thanksgiving, the table, the spelling shit, 135 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:25.360 candle burns the house because it's just like Kenby's. Can 136 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:27.240 a woman make a fucking mistake once in a while, 137 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:31.839 always putting their husbands down? It's ridiculous. How many times 138 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:33.720 can I hear a woman in the movie say just 139 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:36.079 please keep me now shut, let me do all the talking. 140 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:39.000 Hey you no more talking, You're done, and the man 141 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:42.959 just takes it and slumps in his seat. I want 142 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:45.720 to see a man once take a woman to the size. Listen, 143 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:47.800 do me a favorite. You embarrassed me again in front 144 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:49.720 of my friends, I'll fucking leave your assy. You'll never 145 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:52.240 see me again. Your fucking head will spin. You Act 146 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:55.279 like a fucking lady, Act like a wife. Let's get 147 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:57.360 it into you. You got into me, like at the 148 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:00.240 fuck out of me. That has to happen once. The 149 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:02.480 last time I saw something like that, and this is 150 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:05.680 obviously overboard, but it was like, oh my god, he 151 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:09.879 just said that. Michael Chicklis and The Shield years ago. 152 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:12.920 I loved that movie. That show. There was a female 153 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:15.079 cop who kept like thinking she was better on the 154 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:17.720 job of some shit, and she interjected him too many times, 155 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:20.000 and she came into the room one point and he 156 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:22.759 actually said, I don't want to hear what you have 157 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:25.399 to say. The next time I want your opinion, it'll 158 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:27.519 be about making me a sandwich or giving me a 159 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:31.079 blow drop that my draw was wide open. Okay, we 160 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.679 can't go back to that, but we can get away 161 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:38.519 from the man always being the adult police. Ever happens, 162 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:40.759 and it's listen, it's gonna stay this way for long, 163 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:44.240 maybe forever, maybe when the Muslims take over in America. 164 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:47.720 Let's say, one hundred years from now and fundamentally changed 165 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:50.519 this country into the land of mosques and Sharia law, 166 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:58.279 like they're doing in England and Germany and France, people 167 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:03.840 being killed with machetes. I mean, these fucking these countries. 168 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:06.879 Oh God, you're just let in the enemy. You just 169 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:10.000 let the enemy in. And we did the same thing 170 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:13.360 with Biden. Same shit. Now we're finding out through Hunter Biden. 171 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:17.639 His father was on ambient during those debates. Not one 172 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:20.440 of the medications he's prescribed, but he took ambient because 173 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:23.039 he's eighty one years old flying around the country. Son said, 174 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:24.960 And they gave a man being to sleep, he's an 175 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.879 old man. That's not true. It's not true. Who's going 176 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:32.679 ambient this whole presidency? Stop it. But yeah, the Muslims, 177 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:35.240 they're gonna take My buddy and I, kenn Eve were talking. 178 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:37.960 He showed me this big video of what's happened to England. 179 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:40.639 I've seen a million times, all these Sharia law courts 180 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:45.159 and just Muhamad the number one baby name, All these 181 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:49.440 mayors of different cities in England are Muslim. All these men, 182 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:53.080 what do you think is gonna happen? Meanwhile, sixty to 183 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:56.120 seventy percent of Muslim women don't work and are getting benefits. 184 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:59.639 Most men don't either and live on benefits. All kids 185 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:02.279 live benefits in schools and what have you. In Europe, 186 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:07.159 and most families have five to eight children. Gets over, 187 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:09.480 it's over. So when I said one hundred years, my 188 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:12.559 buddy Kenny said, you're being kind. You're being way too kind. 189 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:16.240 It's gonna take less than that. So I think our 190 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.120 kids will be fine. But our kids' kids are gonna 191 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:21.240 have a real fucking issue one day. Just shut them, 192 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:26.360 do you. Rocott just got back. Funny. You take these 193 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:28.080 kids out now and they come on the next day, 194 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:32.000 they sleep over. I never worry. I guess my father didn't. 195 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:33.559 My mother you would worry when I left the house 196 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:36.120 for the night, But my father never said he lost sleep. 197 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:41.679 I sleep. I just trust them anyhow. Uh yeah, the pendulum, 198 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:44.320 I mean, look, the pendulum shouldn't swing all that way 199 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:49.519 with the way Muslims treat women. Fucking Flintstone era, Flintstone Age, 200 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:54.000 and that's probably the only I'll tell you right now. 201 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.639 The Flintstones is probably the only show Muslims think was 202 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:00.200 a good show in America. But when they take this 203 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:04.120 country over. Those of you who are left, you're gonna 204 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:06.919 scream and cry and wish on your life that Archie 205 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:09.000 Bunker wasn't so bad after all. You're gonna wish he 206 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:14.200 was back. But everything's going to shit. Everything's going to shit. 207 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:17.919 I gotta see. I very rarely watch network TV. I 208 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:19.840 don't even know why I haven't. All I watch is 209 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:26.159 streamers and Fox. But uh, I gotta watch the w NBA. 210 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:31.679 Woman's a game. They came out to, all the women 211 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:33.720 came out to with T shirts that said, pay us 212 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:38.440 what you owe us. Listen. There are definitely several w 213 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:41.000 NBA players who light up the league and they're the 214 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:44.440 main reason why anyone watches this shit show. Obviously, Caitlin 215 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:47.480 Clark is number one. Angel Reese for all the shots 216 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:50.120 she misses and all the me bounds she gets in 217 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.759 her big mouth, she's staying in the public's eye as well. 218 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.879 There's there's two handfuls of others who are great at 219 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:58.639 what they do. The rest of them get the fuck 220 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:03.039 out of here. Product is shit. The league is a joke. 221 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:07.559 Most boys varsity high school teams could destroy any w 222 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:11.679 NBA team wouldn't even be close. And then during the 223 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:15.879 WNBA All Star Game. You have three female broadcasters at 224 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.720 the game, which is interesting because on every fucking men's 225 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:22.120 sports telecast baseball, basketball, football, we have to have a 226 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:25.679 woman in the booth or a woman courtside calling the 227 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:31.720 action or being the expert analys analyst. So some idiot 228 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:35.879 female figure of the name says in the halftime break 229 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:40.120 about the two teams paraphrasing, but this is exactly what 230 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:43.120 she said to a degree. Someone's got to step up 231 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.440 tonight because so far this games looks like a girls' 232 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:52.279 night out in can Kun no d no d as 233 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.519 in no dick, because there's no men. When an all 234 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:59.279 girls trip to can Kun and there's no defense in 235 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:02.720 the game, it's just okay, cute, cute. But if a 236 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:06.039 male comic or broadcast has said that, they'd be canceled, 237 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:09.360 called upon to apologize to old women after the next 238 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:12.720 commercial break, not even next to the next day. But 239 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:15.159 they just laughed it off. The worst things somebody said 240 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.480 was even the doghouse, and they laughed. They giggled one 241 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:24.879 off the air. Double standard. Everything's changing fast. I think 242 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:26.320 when I lay on my back for two days, I 243 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:32.080 get at what's the word wistful, nostalgic. I see so 244 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:36.200 many articles about things being done in our world. Our 245 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:39.279 old world is just God. The world we grew up 246 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:41.960 in is coming down so fast, and this New America 247 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:45.279 is being put up so quickly. And it's happening a 248 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:47.840 lot in New York City. It's even happening a lot 249 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:50.639 in LA. There's so many landmark restaurants and nightclubs and 250 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:53.720 properties that are gone the last five years or so 251 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:59.039 that Alison Martinez was great at writing about because she 252 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:04.559 knows it all. She's the historian, and it's just a 253 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:07.120 sin and you know, her places means so much to 254 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:09.879 her when she was a kid growing up as mine 255 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:11.639 doing New York. When I was a kid growing up, 256 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:17.679 but I lived in New York City's meatpacking District, way 257 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:20.240 downtown West Village, all the way by the Hudson River. 258 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.399 There was this iconic diner that was featured in the 259 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:27.639 movie Taxi Driver, which I loved, obviously DeNiro and Scorsese, 260 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:31.480 and it was a famous diner. There was something that 261 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:34.000 just grabbed me about the meat district, the fact that 262 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:37.879 literally it's called the meat district because there are butchers 263 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:42.840 there butchering animals and you know that meat then goes 264 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:45.240 on trucks and gets transport of the different you know, 265 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:50.759 restaurants and supermarkets, what have you. And these guys, these 266 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:53.440 butchers would be in the streets with bloody white long 267 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:56.799 aprons on trucks would come out and you'd see these 268 00:14:56.840 --> 00:15:00.039 carcasses come out and they'd hang them on hooks. It 269 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.240 feels like nineteen twelve, right, this is this is nineteen 270 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:06.559 ninety seven, and they're hanging them on hooks and pushing them. 271 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:11.159 They go into the building. This is like from two 272 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:15.679 am to six am. That's when these people work. And 273 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:18.279 it's literally blood in the streets and they get the 274 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:20.240 houses out and wash the streets and you can see 275 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:23.840 the blood go down to the sewer grats. It's like archaic, 276 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:28.000 but you know what, can I tell you? The public 277 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:32.279 wants what they want red meat. And there was this diner, 278 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:34.639 a couple of diners in the West Village in the 279 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:37.720 Meat district that I was in love with because of 280 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:40.360 what they meant to me. And this little diner which 281 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:44.080 ended up being around the corner from my apartment, Hector's 282 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:48.039 Cafe and Diner. Seventy six years it was there, and 283 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:50.679 it was underneath the old railroad track which is now 284 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:55.440 called a high line, and very expensive big hotels, big boutiques, 285 00:15:55.519 --> 00:16:00.279 and restaurants out the ass. It's closing the close a 286 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.480 couple of days ago because the local butchers who supply 287 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:08.200 this place struck a deal to pack up so New 288 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.720 York City can build affordable housing and public space on 289 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.879 that block. Affordable housing, like I told you when I 290 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.279 lived there in my loft, caused twenty seven to fifty 291 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:24.279 a month. Okay, I met a guy who has my 292 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:26.799 loft years later in New York City on the street 293 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.200 because he got my mail and he recognized me, and 294 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:32.399 he's paid I think like forty eight hundred or something 295 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:35.759 like that. It went up. It's skyrocketed. He worked on 296 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:37.519 Wall Street. It meant nothing to him and his girlfriend 297 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:39.240 living him, she worked on Wall Street too. They're like, 298 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:41.919 it's pretty good. It's not that bet, not that bet. 299 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:47.840 It's a fucking loft. It's three bowling lanes wide. Anyhow. 300 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:51.799 But the old man there, Nick capalonis of course in 301 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:56.440 Old Creek, but they weren't making money anymore. But back 302 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:58.360 of the day when I used to go there at 303 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:01.799 that crazy hour because I'd come home from my nightly rounds. 304 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:05.160 You know, they knew everybody's first name, last name, who 305 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:08.759 had kids, what the parents were, where they went to school, 306 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:12.400 you know. And there were people who'll be like, you know, 307 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:17.839 sixties seventies and say, my grandfather broughab me here. So 308 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:20.720 it was just a great place. It didn't look great, 309 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:22.440 but you knew it was there. It was tucked away. 310 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:24.720 It was part of that old New York that when 311 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:26.559 I was a kid, you had to drive around and 312 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:29.920 walk around to find walk around actually, because there's so 313 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.880 many little nooks and crannies in the city, especially downtown. 314 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:36.279 But yeah, they're looking to make a sixty six thousand 315 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:41.000 square foot project with mixed income housing, public open space, 316 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:46.240 make the Whitney Museum bigger. Oh, come on, ridiculous. It's 317 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:51.599 so sad. So many places are gone. But scrosec used 318 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:55.039 that place in Taxi Driver. It's been used in Law 319 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:57.559 and Order many times. Oh god, it's part of the 320 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:01.079 New York spirit. You know. It's just sad when these 321 00:18:01.079 --> 00:18:04.240 places go. It's a places like that are a dying breed. 322 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:08.240 How many times can you eat at a bagel boss 323 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:12.559 or a fucking you know, name your five guys or 324 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:14.960 name your breakfast joint. That's a lunch and dinner joint. 325 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.920 But you know what I mean. Do we have to 326 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:21.200 all go to a big Saphora. Can we have little shops? 327 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:25.319 The problem is they can't afford the real estate. But 328 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:29.039 the meat district was my home base. You know a 329 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:31.880 friend of mine, a friend of mine owned a chicken 330 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:35.240 plant over there, and you don't hear about that anymore. 331 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:39.680 El Farrow at one point was the oldest Spanish restaurant 332 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:42.599 in New York City on Jaine Street, tucked away you 333 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:46.559 walk down steps to get inside of it. Summer spot. 334 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:49.440 Oh what's the greatest shrimp? I hel shrimp and garlic 335 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:54.559 sauce and these old metal dented pots or pewter pots. Beautiful. 336 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:58.400 Took the kids there every date. There Rosalie and Jack 337 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:00.880 a hundred times. Maybe my first wife and I found 338 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:06.640 that place. Manny and Pepe were the owners. Tight loud, 339 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:09.880 skinny skinny bar at the walk sideways to get past 340 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:13.359 it to go to the dining room. The best potent 341 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:17.000 red saying grea in the world. Then when I moved 342 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:20.000 into my building, I remember looking out the windows, I 343 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:22.640 could see the twin towers and one it's so cool. 344 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:25.079 Look at the other look to my left and I 345 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:29.039 see I said, is that Florent Diner? Yeah, it is. 346 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:31.839 The real estate guy said, Florent Diner. FloraNT was a 347 00:19:31.960 --> 00:19:35.240 twenty four hour French American diner. It was a New 348 00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:39.680 York institution. It's gone now. It's gone, very diverse clientele 349 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:44.519 as you can imagine LGBT crowd, of course, because the 350 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:48.920 guy who founded it, FloraNT Morley, was gay and the 351 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.920 dining became a big spot, especially during the AIDS epidemic. 352 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:57.640 I wasn't going there at that point. But these places 353 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:00.039 are used to paying six thousand a month rent and 354 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:02.680 they get shot up to thirty thousand a month when rent. 355 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:05.799 When some big shot buys the whole building, it makes 356 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:09.200 unavailable to live. Same should happen to the famous bar 357 00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:12.079 Hogs and Heifers, which the movie Kyrie Ugly is based on. 358 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:15.200 The owner told me when I called, because I was 359 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.839 still working, what happened? They arja closing, so some rich 360 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:22.160 arab bought the entire building that her bar was in 361 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:24.599 and the rent went sky high. She told me that 362 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:27.359 it's the rent went up so much that in order 363 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:30.200 to keep the joint, she'd have to raise the cost 364 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:32.920 of long neck beers from five bucks to thirty seven 365 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:37.119 to fifty each. Can't do that. And the other day 366 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:41.279 I got word from a patron Frank Jamond was on 367 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:43.440 Long Island. He's my guy out there on Long Island, 368 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:45.920 and he remembered hearing me talk about one of the 369 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:51.359 greatest restaurants ever, Laparma in a little town called Williston Park. 370 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:56.119 Beautiful neighborhood, big, beautiful, bustling restaurant where even a reservation 371 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:59.240 there was always forty five to sixty seventy minute wait 372 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:01.960 for your table, but it was just worth it. Everybody 373 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:04.119 there wanted to be there so bad. That's shrimp. I 374 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:07.079 always say shrimp s It's my favorite. Everything was so great. 375 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:12.920 We never had food like this. Horsefield went there. I 376 00:21:13.079 --> 00:21:15.559 was desperate to take a girl there right. I wanted 377 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:17.680 to take a girl there so bad. I was divorced. 378 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:21.880 And one day, being my buddy Johnny Glente, who I 379 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:26.480 wrote with at Newsday, we're driving and we were going 380 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:30.519 to put a book together about all people, the different 381 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.400 jobs they have, the weird the night jobs, the weird jobs. 382 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:35.880 Who cleans the phone bolts at night? Who works at 383 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:39.119 a lighthouse, who's a night watchman and you know, everything 384 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:42.079 and everything at night after hours kind of shit. We're 385 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:45.720 interviewing people for this book, and we're going to the 386 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:48.160 highway in New York City one night and pull up 387 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:50.640 to her light and there's a girl to my left driving. 388 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:53.079 It's being John. I'm driving my car, she's driving hers, 389 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:57.000 who's an absolute stunner. And she looked to her right. 390 00:21:57.079 --> 00:21:59.119 I looked at my left. We caught each other. She 391 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:02.440 flipped her hairs mild and the light turned green. I said, 392 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:04.480 oh my god, I gotta get that. He goes, calm down, Pope. 393 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:06.720 I said, no, no, no, I gotta get this girl. You 394 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:08.880 just got out of a marriage. I know. I gotta 395 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:13.440 get this girl. Next light, boom, flirting. Hey, Hey, what 396 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:15.400 are you doing? Hey? You know, just guys talk. And 397 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:19.200 she's smiling, laughing. The next light, we'll both stop. She 398 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:21.680 puts up her hands. She shows me at ring uh. 399 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:24.680 I said, come on, one more fling, one more fling. 400 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:26.799 Come on, when are you getting married? Now? We're talking 401 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:30.039