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 the guy put the cock in
Speaker 1: the peacock network? Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody aj Ben's are
Speaker 1: here with fame? Is it? Bitch? This is your daily
Speaker 1: Unfiltered podcast for January twenty eighth, twenty twenty six. Oh
Speaker 1: one two seven, two oh two seventh. That's say twenty eighth.
Speaker 1: I'm in twenty seven? Sorry about that? Oh one two seven,
Speaker 1: two oh two six? What's wrong with me? I'm getting
Speaker 1: the dates wrong. That twenty twenty six, idiot, not twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven one twenty seven, twenty twenty six. Thank you
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. It's been a crazy day. Taped relationships as
Speaker 1: a Bitch today with Mike and Arena. Kenny. Kenny has
Speaker 1: been a staple the last four shows or so. He's
Speaker 1: a little bored, wants to contribute, and I love his contributions.
Speaker 1: He's Kenny's one of a kind, says what's on his mind,
Speaker 1: and he's often never wrong. I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 1: You know, me and him and Trump are all geminis.
Speaker 1: There's something too that I think. So yesterday. Oh by
Speaker 1: the way, Rosalie made something new that those of you
Speaker 1: out there can definitely do. It's not hard at all.
Speaker 1: We've had stuffed mushrooms many times here, which I love.
Speaker 1: But she made a stuffed auto choke heart. Okay, listen
Speaker 1: to this. You can go to the store and get
Speaker 1: a can of auto choke hearts. The bottoms right, no leaves,
Speaker 1: nothing like that, Just the round disc that's the most
Speaker 1: tender part of the auto choke. Get him in the can.
Speaker 1: It's no problem. Can't get him fresh. You gotta get
Speaker 1: the whole auto choke. Get him in the can. And
Speaker 1: then she makes this mixture of bread crumb, olive, oil, garlic.
Speaker 1: She actually browned a little stage too. She put that
Speaker 1: in there, some grated cheese and fixed a little. It
Speaker 1: looked like a little tart, a nice auto truck cart,
Speaker 1: around two and a half inches wide, and she plopped
Speaker 1: that stuffing on top baked it for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, is that good. You pop me in
Speaker 1: your mouth like it takes two bites and they're gone.
Speaker 1: It's so delicious. That was a Yesterday's treat in addition
Speaker 1: to other things. But I had to tell her stop cooking.
Speaker 1: She made some pasta. But I love fuzially. I haven't
Speaker 1: had long fewzillion years, and I love fuzially with the
Speaker 1: red sauce and regatta. You know, you take the red
Speaker 1: sauce and then you throw a nice, heaping spoonful of
Speaker 1: more than a spoonful of regatta on top of your bowl,
Speaker 1: and you mix it and the sauce almost becomes a
Speaker 1: pink color. It's more creamy. She made that with sun
Speaker 1: dried peppers, red peppers, not sun dried tomato. Sun dried
Speaker 1: red peppers not easy to find. She had to go
Speaker 1: through Amazon to get him Dynamite dish man. So I'm
Speaker 1: trying with the diet, but you know, I'm eating little
Speaker 1: bits here and there. You know, I said, tonight, Role,
Speaker 1: I'm having tuna fish. I can't deal with this, and
Speaker 1: you're killing me. As we're eating dinner, She's like, tomorrow,
Speaker 1: do you want fried trip rope? I can't hear this,
Speaker 1: but she loves to create, loves to feed the men
Speaker 1: in her life. What can I tell you? So yesterday,
Speaker 1: excuse me, yesterday, christ we talked about this Hungarian model
Speaker 1: that I took out Monica Zabrita. I couldn't remember her
Speaker 1: name yesterday. Today I know it because I went back
Speaker 1: and looked for her and put her picture on the
Speaker 1: Patreon page. Yesterday she was something else, and I talked
Speaker 1: about the whole Chris Rock thing and that she had
Speaker 1: Chris Rock's baby. Well, I I'm mistaken, because things happened
Speaker 1: between Chris Rock and Monica Zabrita, and it was a
Speaker 1: court case, and Chris had to hire a very famous
Speaker 1: private I named Anthony Pelicano. And let me just give
Speaker 1: you up to date about what exactly happened with this case. Eventually,
Speaker 1: these two reached the settlement, a confidential settlement of Chris
Speaker 1: Rock and Monica to end this lawsuit about paternity. And
Speaker 1: it's all because apparently, well I'll get to that in
Speaker 1: a minute, but Monica was very savvy in how she
Speaker 1: wanted to trap him. Let's say, so she brought she
Speaker 1: was pregnant, and she brought this paternity action suit against
Speaker 1: Chris Rock. But the DNA show, the DNA test showed
Speaker 1: that he was not the father of that little daughter
Speaker 1: that I held in my arms at that dinner that night.
Speaker 1: I mean, the daughter was darker than a white white
Speaker 1: Hungarian model. But man, this girl had such a plan.
Speaker 1: She hacks to plan with a friend of hers. What
Speaker 1: a dangerous Chit unbelievable. This is nineteen ninety eight. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: my voice is still not great. This is nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1: The same time I met her at the Four Seasons
Speaker 1: hotel where the publisher of the magazine called Perfect Ted,
Speaker 1: which featured all models who were real, no fake breasts, nothing,
Speaker 1: completely real. Most of them are from Europe. And norm
Speaker 1: Zeta was the guy who was the publisher of that magazine.
Speaker 1: He wanted to be the next Youugh Hefner, but for
Speaker 1: various reasons, didn't work out. He didn't have the same
Speaker 1: pinesh and style as Hefner did not many guys do
Speaker 1: when it comes to starting your own magazine. But I
Speaker 1: think Perfect Ted had about a year or two on
Speaker 1: the newsstands. The girls were gorgeous, but it wasn't like Playboy.
Speaker 1: The articles weren't great. But Chris Rock met her at
Speaker 1: the Four Seasons as well as I did, same place,
Speaker 1: and I wonder if norm Zada got Chris Rock to
Speaker 1: come to one of those brunches that I went to.
Speaker 1: But according to Monica Zabrita. She says that Chris Rock
Speaker 1: attacked her an attempted to force her to perform oral
Speaker 1: sex on um. And then a week later, you know
Speaker 1: how it is with these girls in Hollywood, and they
Speaker 1: meet a fancy star. A week later, after she says
Speaker 1: he forced her to go down on him, she went
Speaker 1: on another day with him, and that's when she says
Speaker 1: he forced intercourse on her. Now, Chris Rock says he
Speaker 1: denies those allegations. Back then denied allegations of rape and
Speaker 1: other wrongdoings. But lo and behold. Monica Zabrita becomes pregnant
Speaker 1: and she believed the kid was from Chris Rock, but
Speaker 1: like I said, the paternity test showed it, it wasn't so.
Speaker 1: During the paternity proceedings, Rock hires Anthony Pellicano, and what
Speaker 1: do you know, lo and behold. Few nights later, Zabrita
Speaker 1: says her house was broken into and pictures of her
Speaker 1: daughter were taken out of the house or the apartment.
Speaker 1: That's creepy, but that's nothing with respect to what Anthony
Speaker 1: Pelicano did in his career as Hollywood's main fixer. And
Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a minute. But Rock and
Speaker 1: Zabrita agree to confidentiality, but then it began to unravel
Speaker 1: because Chris Rocco's on the Howard Stearns Show, much like
Speaker 1: I did, and he tells Howard that he was scammed.
Speaker 1: He says he was approached by a woman saying she
Speaker 1: was a big fan, and he took her upstairs to
Speaker 1: her room. Obviously, he says he forgot to wear a condom.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that, and he stays he claims a
Speaker 1: Nigerian guy got her pregnant and it was all a setup.
Speaker 1: I never saw a Nigerian man next to her, but
Speaker 1: I can completely understand this could be the case. I mean,
Speaker 1: these chicks come here from overseas with definite plans on
Speaker 1: how to trap a rich, rich movie star. Wouldn't be
Speaker 1: the first time. So Pelicano is going to work for
Speaker 1: Chris Rock. And Rock goes on the stand during this
Speaker 1: case and he admitted to hiring Pelicano to investigate this model,
Speaker 1: and that disclosure violated the confidentiality agreement between her and him,
Speaker 1: so she sued him. She sued Pelicano. She sued Pacific
Speaker 1: Bell Telephone Company and some police officials for breach of
Speaker 1: written contract. Intrusion, invasion of privacy, wire tapping, trespass, and
Speaker 1: some other shit. But this complaint was very salacious. For instance,
Speaker 1: after Rock allegedly raped her, Monica was savvy enough to
Speaker 1: keep a kleenex of Chris Rock's seamen in a tissue
Speaker 1: in her freezer or refrigerator to keep it fresh. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just that's low down dirty ball right there.
Speaker 1: But the lawsuit also raised some doubts about some of
Speaker 1: those tests. A blood test from Rock and her was
Speaker 1: said to have been performed under peculiar circumstances quote unquote,
Speaker 1: and that an attorney prematurely jumped out of a car
Speaker 1: to deliver the blood samples to the lab, and that
Speaker 1: destroyed the chain of control and authenticity. It's just so
Speaker 1: many weird things happen here. Did he fucker? Of course
Speaker 1: he did? Is it his baby? Apparently not? The DNA
Speaker 1: test says no, it's the Nigerians. But don't tell me
Speaker 1: these two didn't cook up a plan to ensnare Chris Rock.
Speaker 1: Of course they did. So there was some discus rush
Speaker 1: between Pelicano and Chris Rock, and they got pretty down
Speaker 1: and dirty in those discussions. Chris Rock admitted that he
Speaker 1: used the condom that it could have contained his DNA.
Speaker 1: Of course it containered DNA. Bro't give her a pre come,
Speaker 1: of course it did, if he even used one. He
Speaker 1: was still married to his wife Day was separated at
Speaker 1: that time for a brief separation. But the fact that
Speaker 1: she kept Kleanex with his seemen in the freezer on
Speaker 1: a tissue. Wow. So Rock was arguing that this case
Speaker 1: should be dismissed because it was filed too late, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, beyond the statue of limitations. So a judge
Speaker 1: ended up throwing out twelve of the thirteen claims on
Speaker 1: summary judgment, but allowed the breach of contract action to survive.
Speaker 1: So Rock was never charged with a crime, and he
Speaker 1: still denies that a rape never occurred. But look, I'm looking.
Speaker 1: I'm reading this story, and I forgot this is the
Speaker 1: way it went. I haven't read about this for years.
Speaker 1: But man, did I dodge a bullet or what what
Speaker 1: I mean? Obviously, when I met her and asked to
Speaker 1: take her out, we have a little hanky panky in
Speaker 1: the car, and you know, it was all a green
Speaker 1: light until she brought the baby to dinner and then
Speaker 1: I called her one more time after that, and she
Speaker 1: told me she had to go back to Hungary to
Speaker 1: hire a nanny for that baby. She would only have
Speaker 1: a Hungarian nanny. I remember I was in the bathtub.
Speaker 1: I rarely take a bath, but I remember I was
Speaker 1: in the bathtub and I called her for another date
Speaker 1: and she said, I gotta call you when I get back.
Speaker 1: And I never called her again. So much for her
Speaker 1: saying I stalked her, But that's as far as it went.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I had a picture of my refrigerator.
Speaker 1: I mean I was a single guy back then. Obviously
Speaker 1: all my friends were like, who the fuck is this? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a shick monica. She's a model from Hungary. She's insane. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't know how insane she was. But Chris Rock
Speaker 1: has said repeatedly that he was hustled by some Nigerian
Speaker 1: guy who already got her pregnant and then pushed Rock
Speaker 1: to be with her. So it looks to me like
Speaker 1: the plan was for her the fuck Chris Rock and
Speaker 1: say she's pregnant even though she already was from the
Speaker 1: Nigerian and make believe it's Chris's baby, hoping that he'd say,
Speaker 1: oh shit, it's my baby, I'll pay you the money,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But he fought, you know, And I thought,
Speaker 1: I thought her lying to Howard sterned that I was
Speaker 1: stalking her was the worst thing this girl could do.
Speaker 1: But no, you see what's out there fellas unbelievable, and
Speaker 1: she was beautiful and sexy enough that any guy would
Speaker 1: do anything to be with her, and not for nothing.
Speaker 1: When I went to those brunches, there was a table
Speaker 1: of like fourteen fifteen of these models, and Norm would
Speaker 1: throw out lobster tails and shrimp and carving stations. It
Speaker 1: was like a small wedding, and he would say, pick
Speaker 1: whoever you on, go have a ball, talk to of
Speaker 1: you on like he was like a pimp. Not that
Speaker 1: we you pay him, but he presented those girls like
Speaker 1: a bounty to men. I remember Vin diesel into one
Speaker 1: of those lunches. Never saw Chris Rock there, but yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the kind of shit that goes on. So I
Speaker 1: really haven't spoken much about Anthony Pelicano over the years
Speaker 1: on this show, but he was a very famous and
Speaker 1: in demand private eye, extreme fixer to the stars who
Speaker 1: I knew pretty well back in the day. We talked
Speaker 1: on the phone a lot. We did some talk shows together.
Speaker 1: One talk show I think it was Jenny Jones. He
Speaker 1: approached me once about maybe somehow working together because, as
Speaker 1: he said to me, something like, you know, everybody throw
Speaker 1: my name around. If anybody Hollywood, powells or having a problem,
Speaker 1: I'll make the troubles disappear in a pinch. I've been
Speaker 1: doing this since President Johnson was in office. In fact,
Speaker 1: he told me that President Johnson was the president who
Speaker 1: put recording devices in the White House, not Nixon. So
Speaker 1: this guy has been around for a long long time.
Speaker 1: And the way he talks, it's hard to walk away
Speaker 1: because he talks like a gum shoe. He talks like
Speaker 1: he run out of a nineteen forties film more with
Speaker 1: Humphrey Baulguard and Lauren McColl you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But he was a well known private eye in Hollywood
Speaker 1: back in the nineties. The rich and powell will hired
Speaker 1: him whenever there was a problem in their lives. And
Speaker 1: in his heyday, I mean his clients included many many
Speaker 1: studio executives, lawyers, Chris Rock obviously, Michael Jackson, Don Simpson,
Speaker 1: the crazy producer who died, But this guy was asked
Speaker 1: to dig up dirt, cover up scandals, and if need be,
Speaker 1: intimidate those folks who posed problems to his clientele. And
Speaker 1: eventually his operation came to light. He was sentenced to
Speaker 1: fifteen years in federal prison for wire tapping, racketeering, conspiracy, wirefraud.
Speaker 1: He came out of jail in twenty nineteen. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what he's doing now, but there was a I
Speaker 1: think there's a documentary on him on Hulu. I feel
Speaker 1: it's called What's It Cold? I know it's called I
Speaker 1: looked it up. I want to watch it tonight. It's
Speaker 1: called Sin Eater, Si n Eater, The Crimes of Anthony Pelican.
Speaker 1: I want to check that out if it's still streaming.
Speaker 1: But you know, those of you who don't know him,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's like in Hollywood, you may
Speaker 1: find it difficult to just understand what kind of a
Speaker 1: looming figure this guy was. Back It started back in
Speaker 1: the beginning of the eighties. He came to lad He
Speaker 1: came to La to help the auto executive John Doloorian
Speaker 1: on those cocaine distribution charges, and while he was here,
Speaker 1: he built an all star client roster, Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor,
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone, Rose and Barr, Gary Shandling Court,
Speaker 1: and he loved so many more people and eventually, you know,
Speaker 1: seventy eight counts of wire tapping. He ended up spending
Speaker 1: a lot of years in Terminal Island in California, but
Speaker 1: he worked with Brad Gray, lot of a list people.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you how insane some Hollywood heavyweights
Speaker 1: can get and why a guy like Anthony Pellicanno was
Speaker 1: very much in demand. Here's a guy who fancies himself
Speaker 1: like an old school mobster. He loves the term omerta,
Speaker 1: which is to stay silent and not talk. This vow
Speaker 1: of loyalty he took for his clients, and that's the
Speaker 1: same vow that cost him his freedom because he wouldn't
Speaker 1: mention any names, and that's why he went away. But
Speaker 1: I remember one thing he said to me that struck
Speaker 1: a nerve, and actually it did more than strike a nerve.
Speaker 1: It made me keep going on my quest to get
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson. I hate the way it sounds because I
Speaker 1: grew up loving Michael Jackson. I still love his music.
Speaker 1: I feel bad that he's dead. But like you guys know,
Speaker 1: I was the guy. My page was the page that
Speaker 1: began to take Michael Jackson down. We broke the sexual
Speaker 1: molestation story, and Pelicanno, to his credit, fired Michael Jackson
Speaker 1: as a client. Michael asked him to help mat with
Speaker 1: his molestation shit, and Pelicanna said, no, I'm stepping away,
Speaker 1: and Michael's like why, and he told me because, Aj,
Speaker 1: there was so many more disgusting truths, even darker shit
Speaker 1: than that's been alleged in the press about this molestation
Speaker 1: scandal that I don't I don't have the red conscience
Speaker 1: to continue to work with him. You know, the guy
Speaker 1: was offered a half a million dollars to tell his
Speaker 1: story by a tabloid. He said no. So he is
Speaker 1: an old school guy. He did need the money. He
Speaker 1: was in jail at the time. A tabloid offered it
Speaker 1: to him. He said no. But uh man, he did
Speaker 1: his part to help a lot of people get out
Speaker 1: of trouble, keep their heads above water, and take down
Speaker 1: other folks who were trying to take down their careers.
Speaker 1: I mean, at one point, when the Feds raided his offices,
Speaker 1: they found he had an office on Sunset Boulevard, a big,
Speaker 1: big building where a lot of talent agents there, and big,
Speaker 1: big big building on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. But
Speaker 1: when they confiscated stuff from his office, they found, you know,
Speaker 1: c four hand grenades locked in evidence safes. I mean,
Speaker 1: just crazy shit. I don't know what kind of celebrities
Speaker 1: would need that kind of firepower, but that's the kind
Speaker 1: of stuff Pellicano had. The big story that made him
Speaker 1: really stand out was back in the early two thousands,
Speaker 1: during that FBI raid. There was an incident that occurred
Speaker 1: about a reporter from the La Times named Anita Bush
Speaker 1: and she was writing something not too good about Steven Sagal,
Speaker 1: and one day she walked to it. She was writing
Speaker 1: about Steven Sagall's mafia's eyes, which, believe me, they're true.
Speaker 1: I worked for Segal and I worked for him for
Speaker 1: his producer friend Jules Nasso, who was a Gambino associate.
Speaker 1: I made a movie with them called Not Even the Trees,
Speaker 1: which went to the cann Film Festival. It's a terrible movie,
Speaker 1: but it went there. And Jewels was on set every day,
Speaker 1: and Cigal was there every day. That's those are the
Speaker 1: two guys who told me when I needed a when
Speaker 1: they were gonna hire a girl, I played a drug
Speaker 1: dealing pimp kind of thing, and I needed a hot
Speaker 1: shick to be my girlfriend. I went in the office
Speaker 1: one day. They led out three headshots of three different chicks.
Speaker 1: Picked the girl you want? I said, what about ca?
Speaker 1: There's no casting director, No, no, who do you want
Speaker 1: to Which one of these girls you want to be with?
Speaker 1: That's how blatant was. I'm like, oh, if it's gonna
Speaker 1: be that way, I want the one in the middle.
Speaker 1: She was the hottest one. They go, she's hired, and
Speaker 1: then I ended up having a fling with her. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's how dirty Hollywood can get at. I didn't care.
Speaker 1: It was a shitty movie, but yeah, it's crazy. So
Speaker 1: Anita Bush is walking to a car leaving the La
Speaker 1: Times and she finds a bullet hole through a windshield
Speaker 1: and a dead fish with a rose in its mouth.
Speaker 1: The words stop on a cardboard sign underneath the fish.
Speaker 1: All because she was working on Cigal's Mafia Tais and
Speaker 1: she also had written about Michael Ovitz, the Disney exact
Speaker 1: who was once Anthony Pellocanno's client, so he had methods
Speaker 1: that were not too uh not to not too nice,
Speaker 1: but things get pretty rough in Hollywood, just crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: But uh, this guy, I wish I could talk to him. Now.
Speaker 1: I gotta kind of track him down and know where
Speaker 1: he's at. But this is the kind of stuff like
Speaker 1: I call myself a fixer sometimes about the stuff I
Speaker 1: did for celebrities. Nothing to this extent, obviously, but can
Speaker 1: you imagine you know, you want your daughters to get
Speaker 1: involved in his business. I've been telling you, folks for
Speaker 1: a while, do not put your kids in Hollywood. I
Speaker 1: don't think any of you will, judging from all the
Speaker 1: stories we reread and rumors we hear. It's disgusting. But yeah,
Speaker 1: don't let your kids get involved in Hollywood. Do not
Speaker 1: do that, because there's people like this out there and
Speaker 1: it's disgusting. But that's the kind of guy Pelicanna was.
Speaker 1: Maybe one day I'll be able to talk to him
Speaker 1: before he dies. He must be eighty years old this
Speaker 1: point in the late seventies, I don't even know. But
Speaker 1: from that story we go to a very different, sordid
Speaker 1: affair concerning Hollywood. This is this makes me sick. The story.
Speaker 1: It concerns the two brothers who had been the IT brothers,
Speaker 1: the IT directors of the moment, Josh and Benny Safti.
Speaker 1: These guys have made some movies that are up for
Speaker 1: rewards starring big stars. They made big names for themselves
Speaker 1: recently in the last five years or so, and they
Speaker 1: were directing movies together for a while. Now they're doing
Speaker 1: movies on their own. And there's a reason for the split.
Speaker 1: So the breakup between these two, it's been reported, happened
Speaker 1: because of well, some Hollywood and sires are saying that
Speaker 1: one brother don't know who went full maga and that
Speaker 1: created tensions with the other brother. That could be true,
Speaker 1: who knows. There's also some other speculation of why they split.
Speaker 1: Josh has nabbed four OSCAR nominations for directing Marty Supreme.
Speaker 1: Benny came up empty handed for his directing The Smashing
Speaker 1: Machine with Dwayne the Rock Johnson, which is a shit movie.
Speaker 1: Don't ever see it. But the root of the fight,
Speaker 1: the root of the quarrel comes from a much darker
Speaker 1: incident that happened back in twenty seventeen, the old me
Speaker 1: Too era, Remember something called good Time. Benny cut ties
Speaker 1: with his brother back in twenty twenty three, after he
Speaker 1: learned exactly what went down in twenty seventeen. So was
Speaker 1: this seventeen year old girl who was cast to play
Speaker 1: a prostitute in this crime thriller, and once on set,
Speaker 1: this girl was put into a scene that involved nudity
Speaker 1: and simulated sex with an actor named Buddy Duress. This
Speaker 1: happened in New York and as part of their verite style,
Speaker 1: the Safdies have always been known for using a mix
Speaker 1: of a real actors that star as the film's lead
Speaker 1: and also some other non actors who just seem authentic right.
Speaker 1: Some of the directors do that as well, But this
Speaker 1: particular movie starred Robert Pattinson and this other actor, Buddy Duress,
Speaker 1: was the person who wasn't an actor but had just
Speaker 1: been released from prison. I'd went to jail a bunch
Speaker 1: of times, going back to two thousand and nine. Drug chargers,
Speaker 1: weapons violations, fencing, stolen property, steal a car. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a bad guy. So Josh is watching the action
Speaker 1: unfold on his monitor and Benny's standing in the corner
Speaker 1: holding the boom mic and this actor Buddy Duress, who
Speaker 1: was high as a kite at the time, he pulls
Speaker 1: down his pants and found this seventeen year old girl,
Speaker 1: exposed himself and asked the girl if he could stick
Speaker 1: it in, and the cameras are rolling by the way.
Speaker 1: Thank god, this guy duress out of a heroin overdose
Speaker 1: two years ago or three years ago November. Sorry about
Speaker 1: the throat, damn it. So it's a bad dude. You
Speaker 1: don't need guys like this on a movie set. Let
Speaker 1: alone with a seventeen year old girl in a nude scene.
Speaker 1: She's under age, for Christ's sake. So Josh is watching
Speaker 1: the action unfold. Benny's in the corner with the boon MIC.
Speaker 1: Any director who had seen this kind of shit would
Speaker 1: have yelled, cut, stopped the scene, but Josh Saftie let
Speaker 1: it go on, and Benny couldn't say shit, he's not
Speaker 1: you know, he's holding the boom mic. So Josh becomes
Speaker 1: aware of the girl's age that day of production, which
Speaker 1: I don't believe, and obviously the girls traumatized and wants
Speaker 1: to leave. But you know, using a minor for nudity
Speaker 1: and a sex scene is not an industry norm. Let's
Speaker 1: put it that way. It's not even a screen actor's guilt.
Speaker 1: It goes against the rules. There's there's there's stipulations about
Speaker 1: work conditions not to be detrimental to the health, morals
Speaker 1: and safety of a minor. And anybody who's familiar with
Speaker 1: movies knows is that there's a there's a chain of
Speaker 1: events that say this director's recklessness. It's just you can't
Speaker 1: put up with it. So they did take the scene
Speaker 1: out before the movie made its premiere at the can
Speaker 1: Film Festival. But these are the kind of people that
Speaker 1: are working in Hollowen. Now Here is a name that
Speaker 1: is also involved in this. And I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: you know, my spidy sense, if you remember back, I
Speaker 1: don't know five years ago. You know Emily Radikowski, the
Speaker 1: hot shit sexy model. You've seen her. She's always like you,
Speaker 1: with her tits out, bikinis, she's everywhere. She was with
Speaker 1: and had a baby with this guy named Sebastian Bear
Speaker 1: McLeod mclark. I didn't like him when I saw his
Speaker 1: face because I had a heart on for Emily Redikowski.
Speaker 1: She's I think she's sexy as hell. I know she's
Speaker 1: an asshole, but just looks why she's so sexy And
Speaker 1: this guy was like a dope. And I remember saying
Speaker 1: on the show, what is she seeing this asshole? He said,
Speaker 1: I could tell the guy's a bad guy just by
Speaker 1: looking at him. Obviously he is because Sebastian Bear McClard
Speaker 1: after he was done with well, no, he was still
Speaker 1: with Emily Redikowski then has a fleeing with this seventeen
Speaker 1: year old actress who was in the nude scene. And
Speaker 1: that's why Emily Redikowski filed to get away and wanted
Speaker 1: a custody of son. What a piece of shit, a
Speaker 1: seventeen year old girl. He's got a knockout tip top
Speaker 1: model as his girl and a baby, but he wants
Speaker 1: the seventeen year old on the movie set. And they
Speaker 1: say that he did this during the movie Uncut Gem
Speaker 1: starring Adam Sandler, directed by the Safties, and he had
Speaker 1: this extra mamteral affair with this cast member and the
Speaker 1: brothers were made aware of his behavior back in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, and that's when Benny Saftie decided to walk
Speaker 1: away from his other brother. And you know, Josh blamed
Speaker 1: Baron McClard for hiring the miner in the first place.
Speaker 1: He probably did it because she looked hot and he
Speaker 1: wanted to be with her. Baron McLeod pushes back and
Speaker 1: says he wasn't the producer responsible for insuring her age.
Speaker 1: So it's all this finger pointing bullshit. Mean, while this
Speaker 1: girl's traumatized. Although I'm not sure why she'd have an
Speaker 1: affair with Sebastian they call him Sebo. Why she'd be
Speaker 1: with Sebo? I have no idea. But now this one
Speaker 1: brother apparently has developed a moral conscious and won't work
Speaker 1: with the other brother. Just very strange. I used to
Speaker 1: wonder why they hit the They hit the spot so quickly,
Speaker 1: and they were the it They were the it team
Speaker 1: for it seemed like overnight they were the two guys
Speaker 1: that had to direct your movie. Now I know why.
Speaker 1: I mean, I could tell these guys they probably don't
Speaker 1: play by the rules obviously, and they seem pretty dirty
Speaker 1: in the way they deal with casting, et cetera. Also,
Speaker 1: they had this project with Adam Sandler was going to
Speaker 1: be on Netflix, but it got canned when they went
Speaker 1: their separate ways. Josh did Marty Supreme with Timothy Challamette
Speaker 1: and Betty did his Mastery Machine with The Rock. But
Speaker 1: there's this situation that I find really weird. He's on
Speaker 1: set with Shalomet, this drug addict, the guy that died
Speaker 1: to the criminal, and he's on the set of Marty
Speaker 1: Supreme and Timothy Chalom had a problem with him being
Speaker 1: there and he threatened the kid. He said to the kid,
Speaker 1: I was just in jail for thirty years. You really
Speaker 1: don't want to fuck with me. You don't want to
Speaker 1: see me angry. Who needs to hear this kind of
Speaker 1: shit making a movie? Right? It's insane, But it just
Speaker 1: goes to show you the Academy these guys are rough
Speaker 1: for awards. It just goes to show you the Academy
Speaker 1: has such a short memory when it comes to the
Speaker 1: behavior on set of these movies directed by people they
Speaker 1: consider best directors. It's disgusting. It's very troubling. They're being
Speaker 1: honored and they'll continue to be honored because they do
Speaker 1: good work. But you know, you can't have a non
Speaker 1: union You can't hire non union kids off Instagram to
Speaker 1: do nude scenes when they're underage and hope. Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: there was another kid they had on a rooftop after
Speaker 1: one o'clock in the morning, an underaged kid, which is
Speaker 1: against the law, and the kid was nervous, he wanted
Speaker 1: to go home, he was asking for his mother, and
Speaker 1: they kept shooting. I'm sure the parents didn't care because
Speaker 1: the kid was making money. They're probably one of those
Speaker 1: sets of parents, but really shitty stuff. But I mean,
Speaker 1: this has been going on in Hollywood forever. The famous
Speaker 1: Louis mau he directed Pretty Baby with Brooke Shields. Brookshield
Speaker 1: was ten years old and the lead actor in that
Speaker 1: movie was Keith Carradine who was thirty, and he was
Speaker 1: naked under the sheets and Brooke Shields was ten years
Speaker 1: old at the time. And I remember reading a story
Speaker 1: where he said to Brooks, she was very nervous. He said,
Speaker 1: don't worry, it's only make believe. It's easy for him
Speaker 1: to say at thirty years old, but a ten year
Speaker 1: old kid seeing a man naked and under the sheets horrible,
Speaker 1: just horrible. But those are two quick stories about how
Speaker 1: sordid Hollywood can be, and I think those kinds of
Speaker 1: stories are required. If any of you are thinking, even
Speaker 1: mulling over the idea of any of your children getting
Speaker 1: anywhere near this town, think hard and long, and don't
Speaker 1: do it. It ain't worth it. They'll either be raped,
Speaker 1: or be on drugs, or just have horrible trauma the
Speaker 1: rest of their lives. Even though there are many kids
Speaker 1: who get in Hollywood and continue to be great and
Speaker 1: seem pretty well put together as grown ups. But I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, Don't do that to your flesh and blood.
Speaker 1: It's just not worth it. And finally, yesterday I was
Speaker 1: talking about the best Frank Sinatra songs. A bunch of
Speaker 1: you gave me your favorite list of top five. All
Speaker 1: of you are right, because Frank has at least fifty
Speaker 1: songs I love that could be top five. And I
Speaker 1: did forget one that I love very much. And Alexis Boehm,
Speaker 1: who lives out in Norway, one of my earliest patrons.
Speaker 1: I want to say, by the way, she lost her pug, Jimbo.
Speaker 1: Jimbo was adorable. You might have seen him on our
Speaker 1: Facebook page time and again, just a chunky little pudge
Speaker 1: out there in Norway running around Frogner Park with his mommy.
Speaker 1: And he died. And I saw the post on Facebook.
Speaker 1: And what can I tell you? Sometimes I feel worse
Speaker 1: when a dog dies than a person dies. You with me,
Speaker 1: So Alexia told me, you know what, it was a
Speaker 1: very good year. I said, oh shit, I forgot that song.
Speaker 1: I used to sing that to my kids before he
Speaker 1: went to bed. I sang, the best is yet to come,
Speaker 1: another great one. I got you out of my skin.
Speaker 1: But I sang it was a very good year. And
Speaker 1: I remember this is when Frank sang that song. Was
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five. Frank's career, he just turned fifty, and
Speaker 1: his career was on the skids. You know. He was
Speaker 1: like MySpace and suddenly all the kids would go on to Facebook.
Speaker 1: It was that kind of thing, right. It's a good analogy,
Speaker 1: and rock and roll had become the dominant form of
Speaker 1: American pop music. It wasn't the standard sung by Tony
Speaker 1: and Frank and Perry Como and Jerry Vale and all
Speaker 1: those guys, Angle Bert, Tom Jones. It was different. So
Speaker 1: Frank is in his car, he's listening to the radio
Speaker 1: and up comes a song sang by the group called
Speaker 1: the Kingston Trio, and this singing it was a very
Speaker 1: good year. And the kid that was singing it was
Speaker 1: twenty some years old. His name was Bob Shane. And
Speaker 1: Frank is listening to this song small Town Girls and
Speaker 1: soft Summer Nights. When I was seventeen. You know, blue
Speaker 1: blooded girls of independent means. It's just a beautiful song.
Speaker 1: And as the guy goes older, his tastes mature and
Speaker 1: the woman become more sophisticated, And in that final verse
Speaker 1: of the song, where he's in the autumn of his years,
Speaker 1: he can finally appreciate the fruits of a life well lived.
Speaker 1: In that final verse, from the brig to the dregs,
Speaker 1: it poured sweet and clear. It was a very good year.
Speaker 1: And Frank gets out of his car and calls his
Speaker 1: manager and he says, I gotta sing that song. This
Speaker 1: kid's too young. He doesn't understand what it is to
Speaker 1: live a life. I got to record this song so
Speaker 1: because he understood the lyrics so well on an intimate level,
Speaker 1: and knew how to convey the mixture of nostalgia and
Speaker 1: melancholy and getting your heart busted up and stepped on
Speaker 1: it trampled. He knew all of it. So he records
Speaker 1: the song on his album called September of My Years,
Speaker 1: one of his best albums, and he did it in
Speaker 1: one take. Gang one take. Frank liked to sing with
Speaker 1: an orchestra behind him and some people in the room.
Speaker 1: He liked an audience, He had his drink, he had
Speaker 1: his cigarette, and he sang one take when you hear
Speaker 1: that song on that album, one take that's unheard of,
Speaker 1: and he followed it up with Strangers in the Night,
Speaker 1: not one of my favorite songs. And I know, my
Speaker 1: dear fred Allison Martino, if she's listening, he's going to
Speaker 1: hear this because it was her father, Al Martino, who
Speaker 1: first sang that song, and Frank and he were in
Speaker 1: the same studio one day and Frank heard that song
Speaker 1: being sung as he went in the hallway for a break,
Speaker 1: and he came back in and asked his people, who's
Speaker 1: singing this song? Well, that's the kid, Al Martino, that's
Speaker 1: the song. Frank says, hell, hell it is. I want
Speaker 1: that song. I'm singing that song. And just like that,
Speaker 1: because of Frank's stature, they took it away from Al
Speaker 1: Martino and they gave it to Frank and the rest
Speaker 1: is history. And that created such a hatred and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say a rivalry, but Al Martino understandably and
Speaker 1: justifiably couldn't stand what that meant to his career and
Speaker 1: had Frank thugs would go into juke joints and take
Speaker 1: that record of Al Martino's out of the jukebox. They
Speaker 1: would smash the juke but I mean just horrible shit.
Speaker 1: His car was key and flat tires. Al Martine had
Speaker 1: to leave America and perform in Europe because the mob
Speaker 1: was Frank Scoons were after him. How crazy Hollywood gets.
Speaker 1: But it was a very good year. Really one of
Speaker 1: the best songs of all time, if you're mature enough
Speaker 1: to understand the words and live a life like a
Speaker 1: real man does. It's a Swan song that all of
Speaker 1: us don't want to sing, but eventually we all have to.
Speaker 1: And I can't remember. As a kid, we had this
Speaker 1: big stereo in the dining room. It was green, big
Speaker 1: console that played records. It had a radio. You could
Speaker 1: ditch all your albums in it. On the left side
Speaker 1: with my comedy albums George Colin, Richard Pryor, Red Fox.
Speaker 1: On the right side of my father's albums, some of
Speaker 1: Rosalie and Jack's albums that he liked, but plenty of Sinatra,
Speaker 1: Jusepe de Stefano from Naples, Jimmy Rosselli and my father
Speaker 1: and his brother Larry and his other brother Philly were
Speaker 1: sitting on the table with their drinks in their hands
Speaker 1: and their cigarettes on the other hand, and they put
Speaker 1: that record on and they didn't say a word. It
Speaker 1: wasn't the first time they heard it. It wasn't nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 1: But I was about eight nine years old at the time.
Speaker 1: That's call it nineteen seventy. And I watched these three
Speaker 1: men listen to this song with their heads down, eyes closed,
Speaker 1: and they would tell me when it ended. Aha, played again,
Speaker 1: played again, and I played again. And I'll never forget
Speaker 1: the way these guys appeared. And now I'm older than
Speaker 1: they were, And Frank's song makes me HARKing back to
Speaker 1: my life and all the great years I had, and
Speaker 1: the danger I endured, and the loves I took for granted,
Speaker 1: and the hearts I trampled and my own heart included
Speaker 1: stepped on and kicked, and the wonder of a lifetime
Speaker 1: that just seemed to speed by lack a rocket ship.
Speaker 1: Listen to that song tonight and ask yourself, men, where
Speaker 1: the fuck did the time go? What happened? How do
Speaker 1: we find ourselves on top of this hill? It's scary,
Speaker 1: but at least we have a beautiful song to walk
Speaker 1: out on I'm aj Benz. So that was your daily
Speaker 1: Unfiltered podcast for July twenty eighth, twenty twenty sixth. I
Speaker 1: got it right, No I didn't, I said. July from
Speaker 1: January twenty eighth, twenty twenty says christ what's wrong with me?
Speaker 1: Let's starting to cry. Sorry, talk to you tomorrow