Speaker 1: From Workhouse Connect and aj Benza fame. Uh he'd liked
Speaker 1: to be walked on a leash and play really dirty,
Speaker 1: kinky sex games. Is uh the guy put the cock
Speaker 1: in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, hey, everybody, aj Ben's
Speaker 1: are here with fame as a bitch. This is your
Speaker 1: daily Unfiltered podcast for July twenty first, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Oh seven two two five. Well, sorry, today's show is
Speaker 1: getting to you late. Mike's in New York as well,
Speaker 1: so I'm taping this at eleven o'clock. Mike lea back
Speaker 1: in two hours, so you'll get this sometime in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: I just when my back goes out, and you do,
Speaker 1: guys don't have a bad back, but it's been good
Speaker 1: for a long time. But I was pulling something out
Speaker 1: of the trunk, a box out of the trunk, and
Speaker 1: of course I tweeked it doing that, and I was like, ah,
Speaker 1: damn it, all right, it'll be okay. I'll just take
Speaker 1: some mbipro fin lay on the heating pad. Let's give
Speaker 1: you right. And then later that day, what was the Actually.
Speaker 2: I went to go, I shut the AC off and
Speaker 2: open the windows, and I have two blue dumbbells on
Speaker 2: the floor that rock on I use sometimes to fuck
Speaker 2: around with, and they're hard to see with her on
Speaker 2: the carpet, So I'm backing away from the window, and
Speaker 2: of course my heel hits the weights and I twisted,
Speaker 2: so I wasn't gonna fall, and I made it worse.
Speaker 1: So Saturday and Sunday were awful days. On my back
Speaker 1: the whole time. I mean, I don't know. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: see my doctor DeMar for some pills. I got it.
Speaker 1: When I'm in this kind of pain, I can't just
Speaker 1: sit around, and I wins with every step I take.
Speaker 1: Christ As you can tell, I haven't even talking just
Speaker 1: to laying down and watching movies. Oh boy, that I
Speaker 1: see so many things. First of all, I like the
Speaker 1: series Untamed on Netflix with Eric Bonna. Interesting show. He's
Speaker 1: very good. I liked him that I forgot about him
Speaker 1: and I liked him again and now I realize I
Speaker 1: like him again. Good series. I liked it a lot.
Speaker 1: But of course these series just the way that the
Speaker 1: industry is now. They're setting the women, the girls and
Speaker 1: women they're putting in these movies. I understand they need
Speaker 1: to have more visible roles. And what have you. But
Speaker 1: do they always have to be the goddamn hero in
Speaker 1: the in the movies and the series they're in. They
Speaker 1: always have to be the ones who solve the case,
Speaker 1: save the day, do better than the man did in
Speaker 1: the end, save his life, then find the killers, killed
Speaker 1: theb It's the same format every fucking show I watch.
Speaker 1: I'm five minutes in, I already know, Oh, that's going
Speaker 1: to recruit. She's gonna get a lot of attention, a
Speaker 1: lot of experience on the job. He's gonna be old curmudgeon,
Speaker 1: but she'll soften him up. They'll meet in the middle,
Speaker 1: and she'll save his life. It happens every fucking time.
Speaker 1: But I still liked it. I like Intrusion with Frieda Pinto.
Speaker 1: Oh God. First of all, just about a house that
Speaker 1: keeps getting broken into a beautiful home. But I'll tell
Speaker 1: you this movie nothing else. If you think Freeda Pinto
Speaker 1: was as beautiful as I do, then watch this movie
Speaker 1: because this director is in love with her. There's about
Speaker 1: twenty shots of her just focused on her face, and
Speaker 1: we get it. She's beautiful. Good movie, crumb chaser, small movie,
Speaker 1: independent movie, horror film. It got me. It wasn't scary.
Speaker 1: It was more like, holy shit, like you get angry
Speaker 1: for these people what they're going through. I'm not even
Speaker 1: gonna explain the plot. It's crazy. But another pretty girl
Speaker 1: in that Spencer cop. I want to saw it. Two
Speaker 1: Mark Wahlberg movies almost a third because I don't he
Speaker 1: plays the same guy in every movie. He's always the
Speaker 1: cop or the guy coming back to be the cop again.
Speaker 1: He's gonna save the day. He actually real soft around
Speaker 1: the ladies, hard around the guys. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 1: I like Wahlburg. But he's a one note guy. And
Speaker 1: the one film he stepped out Bugging Nights he puts down.
Speaker 1: He won't talk about it because he's too religious. He
Speaker 1: hated that last scene with the fake cock. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: That movie was great. He was phenomenal in that movie,
Speaker 1: but everything phenomenon is all, Hey, how you doing. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Yeah? I told you to pick the case.
Speaker 1: We'll keep you back my gun on my patch. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing. But he is funny. He does have
Speaker 1: comedic timing instant family. Another one outlaws Under the Shadow
Speaker 1: of the Moon The Lifeless, which was based on a
Speaker 1: best selling book that was cute, made me cry of
Speaker 1: it at the end. California King another independent movie. Not
Speaker 1: that great, but good people to look at. But what
Speaker 1: I'm learning watching all these movies, you end up forgetting
Speaker 1: the plot when you've been something. I watch four or
Speaker 1: five movies in the weekend. You almost thought that they'd
Speaker 1: blend into each other, especially with some of the same
Speaker 1: actresses and actors are in each movie. Then you're really lost.
Speaker 1: But I'm learning that. Okay, Sophia Carson, there's all these
Speaker 1: young ange news now that are coming up that I
Speaker 1: think are in every friggin Netflix movie. Sophia Carson in
Speaker 1: The Lifeless is adorable, very pretty chick, Like I said
Speaker 1: Freida Pinto, Victoria Justice former Nickelodeon. I think Starr now
Speaker 1: in every movie she smokes and has a tits out,
Speaker 1: which is fine with me. I love her and Bellaforne
Speaker 1: for the same reasons. Belle Thorng's got a movie I
Speaker 1: called Saint Clair, which I'm dying to see. But guess
Speaker 1: what Shit had did I know? I didn't tell you.
Speaker 1: On Friday? Shit had lost his bank, cark his ATM car,
Speaker 1: going back and forth to the motel with the ECAD
Speaker 1: that should have been out. Did I tell you that? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we lost AC I think I tell you that. And
Speaker 1: I had to get into an I take three days.
Speaker 1: I said to the guy, there's one hundred dollars and
Speaker 1: if you get it tomorrow, I need. I can't live
Speaker 1: with his house. I'm at a motel. He got it
Speaker 1: the next day, but I'm shuttling back and forth to
Speaker 1: the motel for two days. And I had to fucking
Speaker 1: cart on my desk. I didn't see it. I panicked.
Speaker 1: I went to the bank and canceled it. I'm shy.
Speaker 1: I must have forgot this somewhere. I come back to
Speaker 1: the hotel. It's right there. But they couldn't reverse it. It
Speaker 1: was just hidden in the spot you wouldn't have seen anyhow.
Speaker 1: Was like in my bank card. I couldn't watch certain
Speaker 1: movies because they certain Amazon, Prime and Apple are tagged
Speaker 1: to this bank card. Long story whatever. So I always
Speaker 1: saw some movies. But to all these young women, Isabelle
Speaker 1: March said Nina Dobrev Isabelle Schlesinger, who was great in
Speaker 1: uh one of the I think it's Spencer. She does
Speaker 1: a real Boston chick who's in love with Wahlburg. Would
Speaker 1: hate himt the same time. That was a fun performance
Speaker 1: and she's sexy rose Byrne. I've seen a million times beautiful, funny,
Speaker 1: great comedic timing, but all those films and there wasn't
Speaker 1: really one big leading late rose Byrn is like the
Speaker 1: biggest and all those films, you know, every marriage on screen, Uh,
Speaker 1: the man is an asshole. The wife or girlfriend calls
Speaker 1: all the shots, even the secondary characters. You know, it's
Speaker 1: bad enough that Wahlburg's wife was giving him a ship,
Speaker 1: but then Tom Segura is playing the brother in law
Speaker 1: who's given the sisters shit. I mean no, she's given
Speaker 1: him shit because he's a pussy too. It's just they're
Speaker 1: all even the father, the thanksgiving, the table, the spelling shit,
Speaker 1: candle burns the house because it's just like Kenby's. Can
Speaker 1: a woman make a fucking mistake once in a while,
Speaker 1: always putting their husbands down? It's ridiculous. How many times
Speaker 1: can I hear a woman in the movie say just
Speaker 1: please keep me now shut, let me do all the talking.
Speaker 1: Hey you no more talking, You're done, and the man
Speaker 1: just takes it and slumps in his seat. I want
Speaker 1: to see a man once take a woman to the size. Listen,
Speaker 1: do me a favorite. You embarrassed me again in front
Speaker 1: of my friends, I'll fucking leave your assy. You'll never
Speaker 1: see me again. Your fucking head will spin. You Act
Speaker 1: like a fucking lady, Act like a wife. Let's get
Speaker 1: it into you. You got into me, like at the
Speaker 1: fuck out of me. That has to happen once. The
Speaker 1: last time I saw something like that, and this is
Speaker 1: obviously overboard, but it was like, oh my god, he
Speaker 1: just said that. Michael Chicklis and The Shield years ago.
Speaker 1: I loved that movie. That show. There was a female
Speaker 1: cop who kept like thinking she was better on the
Speaker 1: job of some shit, and she interjected him too many times,
Speaker 1: and she came into the room one point and he
Speaker 1: actually said, I don't want to hear what you have
Speaker 1: to say. The next time I want your opinion, it'll
Speaker 1: be about making me a sandwich or giving me a
Speaker 1: blow drop that my draw was wide open. Okay, we
Speaker 1: can't go back to that, but we can get away
Speaker 1: from the man always being the adult police. Ever happens,
Speaker 1: and it's listen, it's gonna stay this way for long,
Speaker 1: maybe forever, maybe when the Muslims take over in America.
Speaker 1: Let's say, one hundred years from now and fundamentally changed
Speaker 1: this country into the land of mosques and Sharia law,
Speaker 1: like they're doing in England and Germany and France, people
Speaker 1: being killed with machetes. I mean, these fucking these countries.
Speaker 1: Oh God, you're just let in the enemy. You just
Speaker 1: let the enemy in. And we did the same thing
Speaker 1: with Biden. Same shit. Now we're finding out through Hunter Biden.
Speaker 1: His father was on ambient during those debates. Not one
Speaker 1: of the medications he's prescribed, but he took ambient because
Speaker 1: he's eighty one years old flying around the country. Son said,
Speaker 1: And they gave a man being to sleep, he's an
Speaker 1: old man. That's not true. It's not true. Who's going
Speaker 1: ambient this whole presidency? Stop it. But yeah, the Muslims,
Speaker 1: they're gonna take My buddy and I, kenn Eve were talking.
Speaker 1: He showed me this big video of what's happened to England.
Speaker 1: I've seen a million times, all these Sharia law courts
Speaker 1: and just Muhamad the number one baby name, All these
Speaker 1: mayors of different cities in England are Muslim. All these men,
Speaker 1: what do you think is gonna happen? Meanwhile, sixty to
Speaker 1: seventy percent of Muslim women don't work and are getting benefits.
Speaker 1: Most men don't either and live on benefits. All kids
Speaker 1: live benefits in schools and what have you. In Europe,
Speaker 1: and most families have five to eight children. Gets over,
Speaker 1: it's over. So when I said one hundred years, my
Speaker 1: buddy Kenny said, you're being kind. You're being way too kind.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take less than that. So I think our
Speaker 1: kids will be fine. But our kids' kids are gonna
Speaker 1: have a real fucking issue one day. Just shut them,
Speaker 1: do you. Rocott just got back. Funny. You take these
Speaker 1: kids out now and they come on the next day,
Speaker 1: they sleep over. I never worry. I guess my father didn't.
Speaker 1: My mother you would worry when I left the house
Speaker 1: for the night, But my father never said he lost sleep.
Speaker 1: I sleep. I just trust them anyhow. Uh yeah, the pendulum,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, the pendulum shouldn't swing all that way
Speaker 1: with the way Muslims treat women. Fucking Flintstone era, Flintstone Age,
Speaker 1: and that's probably the only I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 1: The Flintstones is probably the only show Muslims think was
Speaker 1: a good show in America. But when they take this
Speaker 1: country over. Those of you who are left, you're gonna
Speaker 1: scream and cry and wish on your life that Archie
Speaker 1: Bunker wasn't so bad after all. You're gonna wish he
Speaker 1: was back. But everything's going to shit. Everything's going to shit.
Speaker 1: I gotta see. I very rarely watch network TV. I
Speaker 1: don't even know why I haven't. All I watch is
Speaker 1: streamers and Fox. But uh, I gotta watch the w NBA.
Speaker 1: Woman's a game. They came out to, all the women
Speaker 1: came out to with T shirts that said, pay us
Speaker 1: what you owe us. Listen. There are definitely several w
Speaker 1: NBA players who light up the league and they're the
Speaker 1: main reason why anyone watches this shit show. Obviously, Caitlin
Speaker 1: Clark is number one. Angel Reese for all the shots
Speaker 1: she misses and all the me bounds she gets in
Speaker 1: her big mouth, she's staying in the public's eye as well.
Speaker 1: There's there's two handfuls of others who are great at
Speaker 1: what they do. The rest of them get the fuck
Speaker 1: out of here. Product is shit. The league is a joke.
Speaker 1: Most boys varsity high school teams could destroy any w
Speaker 1: NBA team wouldn't even be close. And then during the
Speaker 1: WNBA All Star Game. You have three female broadcasters at
Speaker 1: the game, which is interesting because on every fucking men's
Speaker 1: sports telecast baseball, basketball, football, we have to have a
Speaker 1: woman in the booth or a woman courtside calling the
Speaker 1: action or being the expert analys analyst. So some idiot
Speaker 1: female figure of the name says in the halftime break
Speaker 1: about the two teams paraphrasing, but this is exactly what
Speaker 1: she said to a degree. Someone's got to step up
Speaker 1: tonight because so far this games looks like a girls'
Speaker 1: night out in can Kun no d no d as
Speaker 1: in no dick, because there's no men. When an all
Speaker 1: girls trip to can Kun and there's no defense in
Speaker 1: the game, it's just okay, cute, cute. But if a
Speaker 1: male comic or broadcast has said that, they'd be canceled,
Speaker 1: called upon to apologize to old women after the next
Speaker 1: commercial break, not even next to the next day. But
Speaker 1: they just laughed it off. The worst things somebody said
Speaker 1: was even the doghouse, and they laughed. They giggled one
Speaker 1: off the air. Double standard. Everything's changing fast. I think
Speaker 1: when I lay on my back for two days, I
Speaker 1: get at what's the word wistful, nostalgic. I see so
Speaker 1: many articles about things being done in our world. Our
Speaker 1: old world is just God. The world we grew up
Speaker 1: in is coming down so fast, and this New America
Speaker 1: is being put up so quickly. And it's happening a
Speaker 1: lot in New York City. It's even happening a lot
Speaker 1: in LA. There's so many landmark restaurants and nightclubs and
Speaker 1: properties that are gone the last five years or so
Speaker 1: that Alison Martinez was great at writing about because she
Speaker 1: knows it all. She's the historian, and it's just a
Speaker 1: sin and you know, her places means so much to
Speaker 1: her when she was a kid growing up as mine
Speaker 1: doing New York. When I was a kid growing up,
Speaker 1: but I lived in New York City's meatpacking District, way
Speaker 1: downtown West Village, all the way by the Hudson River.
Speaker 1: There was this iconic diner that was featured in the
Speaker 1: movie Taxi Driver, which I loved, obviously DeNiro and Scorsese,
Speaker 1: and it was a famous diner. There was something that
Speaker 1: just grabbed me about the meat district, the fact that
Speaker 1: literally it's called the meat district because there are butchers
Speaker 1: there butchering animals and you know that meat then goes
Speaker 1: on trucks and gets transport of the different you know,
Speaker 1: restaurants and supermarkets, what have you. And these guys, these
Speaker 1: butchers would be in the streets with bloody white long
Speaker 1: aprons on trucks would come out and you'd see these
Speaker 1: carcasses come out and they'd hang them on hooks. It
Speaker 1: feels like nineteen twelve, right, this is this is nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety seven, and they're hanging them on hooks and pushing them.
Speaker 1: They go into the building. This is like from two
Speaker 1: am to six am. That's when these people work. And
Speaker 1: it's literally blood in the streets and they get the
Speaker 1: houses out and wash the streets and you can see
Speaker 1: the blood go down to the sewer grats. It's like archaic,
Speaker 1: but you know what, can I tell you? The public
Speaker 1: wants what they want red meat. And there was this diner,
Speaker 1: a couple of diners in the West Village in the
Speaker 1: Meat district that I was in love with because of
Speaker 1: what they meant to me. And this little diner which
Speaker 1: ended up being around the corner from my apartment, Hector's
Speaker 1: Cafe and Diner. Seventy six years it was there, and
Speaker 1: it was underneath the old railroad track which is now
Speaker 1: called a high line, and very expensive big hotels, big boutiques,
Speaker 1: and restaurants out the ass. It's closing the close a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago because the local butchers who supply
Speaker 1: this place struck a deal to pack up so New
Speaker 1: York City can build affordable housing and public space on
Speaker 1: that block. Affordable housing, like I told you when I
Speaker 1: lived there in my loft, caused twenty seven to fifty
Speaker 1: a month. Okay, I met a guy who has my
Speaker 1: loft years later in New York City on the street
Speaker 1: because he got my mail and he recognized me, and
Speaker 1: he's paid I think like forty eight hundred or something
Speaker 1: like that. It went up. It's skyrocketed. He worked on
Speaker 1: Wall Street. It meant nothing to him and his girlfriend
Speaker 1: living him, she worked on Wall Street too. They're like,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. It's not that bet, not that bet.
Speaker 1: It's a fucking loft. It's three bowling lanes wide. Anyhow.
Speaker 1: But the old man there, Nick capalonis of course in
Speaker 1: Old Creek, but they weren't making money anymore. But back
Speaker 1: of the day when I used to go there at
Speaker 1: that crazy hour because I'd come home from my nightly rounds.
Speaker 1: You know, they knew everybody's first name, last name, who
Speaker 1: had kids, what the parents were, where they went to school,
Speaker 1: you know. And there were people who'll be like, you know,
Speaker 1: sixties seventies and say, my grandfather broughab me here. So
Speaker 1: it was just a great place. It didn't look great,
Speaker 1: but you knew it was there. It was tucked away.
Speaker 1: It was part of that old New York that when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, you had to drive around and
Speaker 1: walk around to find walk around actually, because there's so
Speaker 1: many little nooks and crannies in the city, especially downtown.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they're looking to make a sixty six thousand
Speaker 1: square foot project with mixed income housing, public open space,
Speaker 1: make the Whitney Museum bigger. Oh, come on, ridiculous. It's
Speaker 1: so sad. So many places are gone. But scrosec used
Speaker 1: that place in Taxi Driver. It's been used in Law
Speaker 1: and Order many times. Oh god, it's part of the
Speaker 1: New York spirit. You know. It's just sad when these
Speaker 1: places go. It's a places like that are a dying breed.
Speaker 1: How many times can you eat at a bagel boss
Speaker 1: or a fucking you know, name your five guys or
Speaker 1: name your breakfast joint. That's a lunch and dinner joint.
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean. Do we have to
Speaker 1: all go to a big Saphora. Can we have little shops?
Speaker 1: The problem is they can't afford the real estate. But
Speaker 1: the meat district was my home base. You know a
Speaker 1: friend of mine, a friend of mine owned a chicken
Speaker 1: plant over there, and you don't hear about that anymore.
Speaker 1: El Farrow at one point was the oldest Spanish restaurant
Speaker 1: in New York City on Jaine Street, tucked away you
Speaker 1: walk down steps to get inside of it. Summer spot.
Speaker 1: Oh what's the greatest shrimp? I hel shrimp and garlic
Speaker 1: sauce and these old metal dented pots or pewter pots. Beautiful.
Speaker 1: Took the kids there every date. There Rosalie and Jack
Speaker 1: a hundred times. Maybe my first wife and I found
Speaker 1: that place. Manny and Pepe were the owners. Tight loud,
Speaker 1: skinny skinny bar at the walk sideways to get past
Speaker 1: it to go to the dining room. The best potent
Speaker 1: red saying grea in the world. Then when I moved
Speaker 1: into my building, I remember looking out the windows, I
Speaker 1: could see the twin towers and one it's so cool.
Speaker 1: Look at the other look to my left and I
Speaker 1: see I said, is that Florent Diner? Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: The real estate guy said, Florent Diner. FloraNT was a
Speaker 1: twenty four hour French American diner. It was a New
Speaker 1: York institution. It's gone now. It's gone, very diverse clientele
Speaker 1: as you can imagine LGBT crowd, of course, because the
Speaker 1: guy who founded it, FloraNT Morley, was gay and the
Speaker 1: dining became a big spot, especially during the AIDS epidemic.
Speaker 1: I wasn't going there at that point. But these places
Speaker 1: are used to paying six thousand a month rent and
Speaker 1: they get shot up to thirty thousand a month when rent.
Speaker 1: When some big shot buys the whole building, it makes
Speaker 1: unavailable to live. Same should happen to the famous bar
Speaker 1: Hogs and Heifers, which the movie Kyrie Ugly is based on.
Speaker 1: The owner told me when I called, because I was
Speaker 1: still working, what happened? They arja closing, so some rich
Speaker 1: arab bought the entire building that her bar was in
Speaker 1: and the rent went sky high. She told me that
Speaker 1: it's the rent went up so much that in order
Speaker 1: to keep the joint, she'd have to raise the cost
Speaker 1: of long neck beers from five bucks to thirty seven
Speaker 1: to fifty each. Can't do that. And the other day
Speaker 1: I got word from a patron Frank Jamond was on
Speaker 1: Long Island. He's my guy out there on Long Island,
Speaker 1: and he remembered hearing me talk about one of the
Speaker 1: greatest restaurants ever, Laparma in a little town called Williston Park.
Speaker 1: Beautiful neighborhood, big, beautiful, bustling restaurant where even a reservation
Speaker 1: there was always forty five to sixty seventy minute wait
Speaker 1: for your table, but it was just worth it. Everybody
Speaker 1: there wanted to be there so bad. That's shrimp. I
Speaker 1: always say shrimp s It's my favorite. Everything was so great.
Speaker 1: We never had food like this. Horsefield went there. I
Speaker 1: was desperate to take a girl there right. I wanted
Speaker 1: to take a girl there so bad. I was divorced.
Speaker 1: And one day, being my buddy Johnny Glente, who I
Speaker 1: wrote with at Newsday, we're driving and we were going
Speaker 1: to put a book together about all people, the different
Speaker 1: jobs they have, the weird the night jobs, the weird jobs.
Speaker 1: Who cleans the phone bolts at night? Who works at
Speaker 1: a lighthouse, who's a night watchman and you know, everything
Speaker 1: and everything at night after hours kind of shit. We're
Speaker 1: interviewing people for this book, and we're going to the
Speaker 1: highway in New York City one night and pull up
Speaker 1: to her light and there's a girl to my left driving.
Speaker 1: It's being John. I'm driving my car, she's driving hers,
Speaker 1: who's an absolute stunner. And she looked to her right.
Speaker 1: I looked at my left. We caught each other. She
Speaker 1: flipped her hairs mild and the light turned green. I said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I gotta get that. He goes, calm down, Pope.
Speaker 1: I said, no, no, no, I gotta get this girl. You
Speaker 1: just got out of a marriage. I know. I gotta
Speaker 1: get this girl. Next light, boom, flirting. Hey, Hey, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Hey? You know, just guys talk. And
Speaker 1: she's smiling, laughing. The next light, we'll both stop. She
Speaker 1: puts up her hands. She shows me at ring uh.
Speaker 1: I said, come on, one more fling, one more fling.
Speaker 1: Come on, when are you getting married? Now? We're talking
Speaker 1: and each light and she's liking it. Getting married in September.
Speaker 1: This is like June, like you got time. We got
Speaker 1: plenty of time. You never know what does your boyfriend do?
Speaker 1: He's a trader. Really asked if he wants to trade
Speaker 1: his future for mine, and she's giggling and laughing. Gas
Speaker 1: come on, just pull over, pull over. My buddy's going
Speaker 1: you too much. I'm embarrassed. I could just come on,
Speaker 1: just let me talk, let me give me number, Just
Speaker 1: give me. She pulls over. About five nights later, he
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. I get out. I go to a
Speaker 1: car ridiculous head to tell ridiculously beautiful and I give
Speaker 1: it a whole pitch. You know, you never know what
Speaker 1: life's about. You see somebody, you make a face. You
Speaker 1: know this could change our lives. Just the whole thing,
Speaker 1: a bunch of bullshit, but it works sometimes. Excuse me
Speaker 1: a number. I call him, all right, and we set
Speaker 1: up a date. She does in Nassau County. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you to La Parma and Williston Park. Oh,
Speaker 1: I've heard of that place. It's great. Look one meal.
Speaker 1: If nothing happens, if there's no sparks, I'll go on
Speaker 1: my way. But if there's sparks, we should think about this.
Speaker 1: And she's laughing, Okay, I'll meet you at La Parma. Great,
Speaker 1: I set up a date. I get there, I'm so ready.
Speaker 1: She don't show, she don't call, she don't show. I call,
Speaker 1: she don't pick up. I was like devastated. I called Johnny,
Speaker 1: I said, she and show. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back at her again. Pope just relaxed.
Speaker 1: I can't I call her again? What happened? Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: just I got cold feet. He's such a good guy,
Speaker 1: my guy. I'm sure he is. I'm a good guy too.
Speaker 1: This won't take any time. Don't worry about Let's just
Speaker 1: see what happens. Said another date, La Parma. This time
Speaker 1: she shows up, but I mean had to tee knockout.
Speaker 1: We had dinner, very nice and yeah, there was some flirting,
Speaker 1: but she did she stuck to her guns. She said,
Speaker 1: I think you're really andsome. I think you're funny. Maybe
Speaker 1: if I met you a couple of years ago, be different.
Speaker 1: But I got to move forward with my guy, and
Speaker 1: I like that. She said, my guy. Once you said
Speaker 1: my guy, my heart melted for him because that's a
Speaker 1: good I like that. That's very loving and possessive. And
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, that's fine. He'll never know
Speaker 1: you know not to worry about. You did what you
Speaker 1: have to do, or at least what I told you
Speaker 1: had to do, and now you can move on. She says,
Speaker 1: you are relentless. I said, I know, but you don't
Speaker 1: see girls like you. And we parted and I told
Speaker 1: John we had dinner when you see her again, said
Speaker 1: we're not. We just have to do what I had
Speaker 1: to do. But she's got a guy, and that's it.
Speaker 1: You knew she had a guy. I don't care. Well
Speaker 1: they wasted money on dinner. It's not a waste, John,
Speaker 1: it's life lesson. It's a story. It's oh man, all right,
Speaker 1: But yeah that's gone. Man. You know what else is gone?
Speaker 1: And nothing has replaced it. I heard a tuck across
Speaker 1: and that guy named Walter Kerrn on the other day.
Speaker 1: And Walton knows an awful lot about an awful lot
Speaker 1: of things. He used to work at Spy Magazine. Spy
Speaker 1: Magazine was the most influential magazine of the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1: It is a big reason why I grew up wanting
Speaker 1: to write the way I did and and talk the
Speaker 1: way I talk when it comes to you know, not talk,
Speaker 1: but like the way I use certain expressions and stories,
Speaker 1: largely because of what Spy had still did me. It
Speaker 1: was a very It was the most influential magazine. Like
Speaker 1: I said it, it made It remade New York's cultural landscape.
Speaker 1: It changed the whole talent of magazines. Graydon Carter was
Speaker 1: behind it. It was cruel at times, it was brilliant.
Speaker 1: It was written beautifully. The design was very pretty. And
Speaker 1: everybody feared this magazine if you lived in New York.
Speaker 1: But we all grabbed it because at any minute they
Speaker 1: could be talking about you. And this is no magazine
Speaker 1: I know of that's so talked about a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: or held up as a benchmark. So many people talk
Speaker 1: about this. In fact, some people talk about it who
Speaker 1: were who couldn't have read it when it came out
Speaker 1: because they were too young. But I guess they caught
Speaker 1: up because it's online. You can read it online. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a few years out of college and
Speaker 1: into my first year of marriage, and I said, have
Speaker 1: got nothing was funny. The Cosby Show, I mean SNL
Speaker 1: was you know, rumbling along with the kind of a
Speaker 1: shitty cast. Johnny Carson was getting old. National Lampoon was
Speaker 1: not my cup of tea. There was no Onion yet,
Speaker 1: no Family Guy, no Simpsons, no Seinfeld, not even Kids
Speaker 1: in the Hall. So Spy Magazine was everything, and it
Speaker 1: was it just it made me when I when I
Speaker 1: read it, it was like seeing the early SNLS or
Speaker 1: for discovering Monty Python. You know, memory when you discovered
Speaker 1: Monty Python, how how you felt like? At least for me,
Speaker 1: I thought, oh my god, no one knows about this
Speaker 1: but me. It comes on once in a while on
Speaker 1: Channel thirteen at night on Sunday nights before school. But
Speaker 1: I saw Spy Magazine. I subscribed immediately, and they just
Speaker 1: ripped people apart. But also the way they combined their
Speaker 1: their storylines, and you know, it was lowbrow, silly, but
Speaker 1: very high brow investigation, very smart staff. It was. It
Speaker 1: was more like if you read Spy, you felt like
Speaker 1: you were at a club, a club with very funny
Speaker 1: people around you, too smart to be scared of anybody.
Speaker 1: Anybody's anything, anybody anything said, if you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And I wanted to be those people. I wanted to
Speaker 1: I wanted to sound like them. So I started reading
Speaker 1: Lynda Stacey's column in Newsday inside New York. She was
Speaker 1: the first thing. She was the first column I read that.
Speaker 1: I said, that's exactly how I write, like. I love
Speaker 1: writing this way. I love breaking stories this way. And
Speaker 1: to work with it was a dream come true because
Speaker 1: then we had two. Then we were a double ball shotgun.
Speaker 1: Then the Wittis comes along with his acerbic wit, and
Speaker 1: now we're running three three battles, And in my opinion,
Speaker 1: we were the best gossip comments because we mixed humor,
Speaker 1: a cerbic wit with breaking news. I mean they took
Speaker 1: apart Bill Cosby. One issue they had a picture of
Speaker 1: a picture of checking a pay phone for change, which
Speaker 1: I love things like that. They Wance did a survey
Speaker 1: with college freshmen asking them their opinions on the situation
Speaker 1: in Fredonia, which is a country that was made up.
Speaker 1: It's a country that was in a Marx Brothers movie,
Speaker 1: and people would comment very important people would comment on
Speaker 1: fre Donia and the situation that. So they would capture
Speaker 1: this at printed. What else they do? They opened up
Speaker 1: a fake food restaurant and a New Jersey mall selling
Speaker 1: bunny meat. People were so nauseous about that. Although rabbits,
Speaker 1: but they couldn't take it. They did so many things,
Speaker 1: you know, they oh, one time they sent checks for
Speaker 1: twenty five cents to billionaires just to see if somebody
Speaker 1: like Rupert Murdoch or whoe you would cash it, and
Speaker 1: most of them did. I can't take it. They even
Speaker 1: did an article about the ten most litigious New Yorkers
Speaker 1: and on that list was a very famous writer named
Speaker 1: gor Vi dal who was known to be very litigious.
Speaker 1: So he gets this. The story runs, No one calls,
Speaker 1: but Gourvi Doll calls Graydon Carter at Spy magazine and says,
Speaker 1: this is I can't have this. You better run a correction.
Speaker 1: This cannot be in your magazine. This is detrimental to me.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. If you don't take it out, I
Speaker 1: will sue. And Graydon Carter said, don't you see the
Speaker 1: irony here that of the ten most litigious people in
Speaker 1: New York, you're thrying to assume it and he hung
Speaker 1: up the phone. You knew they had him by the bulls.
Speaker 1: But that's the kind of shit they did. And it
Speaker 1: was actual journalists who ran the show, Like I said,
Speaker 1: Craydon Carter, Kurt Anderson, Walter Kern. So many young guys
Speaker 1: coming up the ranks that would eventually become big stars
Speaker 1: as well, and it just they set themselves apart from
Speaker 1: so many different magazines. There would be no Daily Beasts
Speaker 1: or so many magazines. Today they kind of talk and
Speaker 1: write with a little, you know, little snide comments. New
Speaker 1: York Magazine turn more snide. My column was an offshoot
Speaker 1: of Spy I know it. And they made you look.
Speaker 1: I never even heard of tribecka New York City when
Speaker 1: they wrote about it. Never heard of it. They were great,
Speaker 1: But now what the hell's out there? Do you see
Speaker 1: anything you liked? Is there a magazine? First of all,
Speaker 1: do you even see magazines anymore? Used to be on
Speaker 1: every corner in New York a newsstand, a magazine stand,
Speaker 1: and they used to be on opposite sides of the street.
Speaker 1: They were everywhere. Now there's like a few left ones
Speaker 1: on the ones in the village, I think on prints
Speaker 1: in the spring, which is kind of big. Even in
Speaker 1: La La used to have these block long newsstands. Every
Speaker 1: magazine from all over the world and newspapers from all
Speaker 1: over the world were there, and you just perused that
Speaker 1: because then forty minutes there opening up papers and they
Speaker 1: didn't bother you to if you're touching, you buy it.
Speaker 1: If you're read it, you buy it. They didn't care
Speaker 1: about that. It was just great. Those are gone now,
Speaker 1: so I don't like the Well, actually I forgot one
Speaker 1: thing they did perfectly that no one's done since is
Speaker 1: separated at birth, which was just you know, they would
Speaker 1: put two people's faces together and make you think for
Speaker 1: the first time in your life, these people had to
Speaker 1: be brother and sister, but they got separated at birth,
Speaker 1: and it was so it was so great and funny
Speaker 1: to see the people they picked. Well, they did an
Speaker 1: audicol white Santa Claus doesn't exist, just very naughty things,
Speaker 1: and they really went after Trump like you have no idea,
Speaker 1: but they went after that also held them up. That's
Speaker 1: why Trump has loved Graydon Carter and virtually hated Graydon Carter.
Speaker 1: He does that a lot, as you can tell. But
Speaker 1: they nicknamed Trump the short fingered Vulgarian with the Vulgarian
Speaker 1: and people thought they meant Bulgarians from the country. And
Speaker 1: Trump couldn't take this. He would write letters, he would
Speaker 1: make phone calls to Graydon Carter. But then it got
Speaker 1: really strange. At some point they read a big article
Speaker 1: on why President Trump and why they urged him to
Speaker 1: run for president. This is back in nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 1: and they wrote, we have come to believe that Donald
Speaker 1: trump candidacy is viable. This is the one candidate who
Speaker 1: will not let you down. After all, we already have
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's personal guarantee that if he did run a president,
Speaker 1: he would win. You see what I'm saying. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's very very It's just such great stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: now you got influences of spy magazine everywhere. The Daily
Speaker 1: Show with john'still is a perfect example of what spy
Speaker 1: magazine would have been on TV. Gawker, which is gone
Speaker 1: now there is a great example of that as well,
Speaker 1: mild Colum the Onion and for all tents and purposes,
Speaker 1: now this podcast at times, maybe not this show, but
Speaker 1: this podcast. But back about nineteen ninety two, it's not
Speaker 1: to disappear. And other things became more relevant. Newspapers, i mean,
Speaker 1: magazines began to dwindle, and TV and media began to
Speaker 1: take hold, and the Internet began to take hold. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you when spy works, and you can hold
Speaker 1: a magazine in your hand, or wrap it up into
Speaker 1: a into a tube and put it under your arm.
Speaker 1: No one does that anymore. There's nothing worth taking and
Speaker 1: reading anymore. But in my day, there wasn't anything more cool,
Speaker 1: more fun and more smart then spy. There's certainly nothing
Speaker 1: like that out there now, no way, nohow. But we
Speaker 1: got to move on, right, guys. That's the way the
Speaker 1: world works. In with the old, I mean, out with
Speaker 1: the old, in with the shit. Alright. My first showback.
Speaker 1: I'm a little rusty because I'm still kind of in
Speaker 1: pain here my throat from my six hundred milligram motrins
Speaker 1: I took two this morning. Ton't do a fucking thing.
Speaker 1: We'll see what tomorrow brings. Anyhow. That's it for today.
Speaker 1: That's your daily Unfiltered podcast for July twenty first, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, and I'll talk to you this later