WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.639 From more Cast Connect and aj Benza fame. Uh, he'd 2 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:08.720 liked to be walked on a leash and play really 3 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:12.240 dirty kinky sex games. Is uh the guy put the 4 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:17.120 cock in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody a 5 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:19.440 J Benzi here with fame is a bitch. This is 6 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:24.399 your daily Unfiltered podcast for February twenty six, twenty twenty five. 7 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:29.079 Oh two two six two two five. Sorry about yesterday, 8 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:31.160 screw up on the date. I don't know why I 9 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:34.240 was so confused about was that Monday show or Tuesday show? 10 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:36.600 It was Tuesdays. I think I said Monday at the end. 11 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:40.520 But you're obviously gotten about five hours ago. So we're 12 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:41.479 back on point. 13 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:45.359 Boy, if I see any more videos and hear conversations 14 00:00:45.399 --> 00:00:48.079 about Elon Musk and this woman that has the baby 15 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:52.000 who's coming after him and Grimes getting all pissed off 16 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:54.399 that one son that you have with them needs a 17 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.920 medical crisis being taken care of it. 18 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:01.439 He has thirteen babies, they'll probably have twenty. He probably will. 19 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:05.000 He's a very as brilliant as he is. He's a 20 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:09.560 very weird guy, as we know, but he's promisculous. I mean, 21 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:12.560 I don't know how the time for all this stuff. 22 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:15.760 I mean, think about the jobs and the companies he runs, 23 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:19.799 still is the time to knock up these women. I 24 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:24.000 don't doesn't take away from the fact that what he's 25 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:27.480 doing to all these agencies with DOE is amazing in 26 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:31.560 the sense that I mean, let's just be honest about this. 27 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:34.040 What we're seeing, all these billions of dollars going to 28 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:40.879 different countries, different ridiculous, ridiculous pockets for people to just 29 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:43.840 take money and launder it or take it, just take it. 30 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:47.359 We're finding out maybe I think three different senators might 31 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:51.480 have taken twenty million dollars from USAID. It's the biggest 32 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:55.159 scandal that's ever been perpetrated on the American people. And 33 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.799 I don't know how anybody can stand outside and have 34 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.159 a placard saying this has to earn. It's got to 35 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:05.640 end because you got caught clearly. So you know, he 36 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:08.680 can knock up twenty five girls, I don't care. He's 37 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:10.599 got the money and the means to make that happen, 38 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:14.560 and he keeps doing his best work for America. And 39 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:16.960 you know, I just heard someone say this, It's so true. 40 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:20.159 There are a lot of countries in Europe who are 41 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:25.759 extremely jealous that a man with his intelligence and him 42 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:29.000 having the most money in the world works with us, 43 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:34.039 works alongside Trump. Other countries would do anything to have 44 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:37.680 him help clean up their governments. But that's the way 45 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:41.319 it shook out. We got them so obviously, you know, 46 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:43.199 thirty one days of Oscars. I'm watching a lot of 47 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:45.599 movies like I always do, but lately I've been watching 48 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:48.240 The Godfather a lot. I don't know, I just I 49 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:51.680 feel like, you know, I'm reading this Jimmy Breslaw book 50 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:53.759 like I've been talking about, and it's bringing up all 51 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:56.919 the old memories of me being a kid and running 52 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.000 to the newspaper on Sundays to get his short story. 53 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:03.680 You know, Jimmy Bresden was a city columnist. He read 54 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:07.400 about murders and cops and crime and just things the 55 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:11.560 city wasn't doing right. He was the big protector and 56 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:15.120 he had the loudest voice, and I mean that figuratively 57 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:21.639 and literally, and just a remarkable person to dictate all 58 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:23.520 the things that were happening in New York City. And 59 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:25.840 for a very long period of time. Of course, he 60 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:28.159 was the guy that got letters from son of Sam 61 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:31.479 he had a friggin serial killer was a pen pal. 62 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:34.240 That was an amazing time to be alive in New York. 63 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.840 I mean that one year nineteen seventy seven blackouts in 64 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:41.199 New York, Puerto Ricans set up bombs all around Manhattan. 65 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:45.479 The Yankees getting the World Series again against the Dodgers, 66 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:48.639 they rekindled that relationship. We had the big Blackout, As 67 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:52.080 I said, Studio fifty four opened David Burke with Summer 68 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:55.680 of Sam. It was an amazing summer. And that's when 69 00:03:55.719 --> 00:03:58.080 Bresln was just somebody I looked up to him, just 70 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.000 always thought I wanted to be like because I could 71 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:03.360 read his stories and he wrote very simple sentences, very 72 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:07.439 strong and loud, like I tend to do. Uh, That's 73 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:09.599 what can I tell you. I loved his stories and 74 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:12.000 what he did on the weekend. Sometimes during the week 75 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.199 when there wasn't any crime to report or anything scandalous 76 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:18.720 to go on, he would have these characters he invented 77 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:22.240 that he would write about their travails in the city, 78 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:24.079 and these were all you know. He grew up in 79 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:26.680 East Harlem around a lot of mafio, So there were 80 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:31.600 mafia back then in East Harlem. Uh, specifically East Harlem. Funny, 81 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:33.800 that's where Richi Esposito, who wrote the book, is from. 82 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:40.519 And he he concocted these characters. One was called Anokio, 83 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:43.199 which is an old Italian man with one eye. The 84 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:46.120 wolf I Loopo was another way. All these characters, and 85 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.920 they write these little they were not They weren't short stories. 86 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:51.600 There were a thousand words, fifteen hundred words. But you 87 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.519 get to know these people and they weren't even alive. 88 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.199 He just invented them. But the oh, he made them 89 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:00.560 a part of the fabric of me York City and 90 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.720 I just couldn't get enough of it. But back in 91 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:07.040 that era, the Godfathers came out and it changed everything 92 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:09.879 for me, just as much as journalism did. Movies and 93 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:12.519 acting came crashing in and I was hooked on both 94 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:15.759 things at the same time. So I've been watching godfather 95 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:18.439 a lot. I mean I used to leave it on 96 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:21.639 TV in my other house, just all day, all night, like, 97 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:24.399 just let it run. When it runs out, it'll start 98 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:26.839 again on DVD. I just I'll kick the sound down. 99 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:28.240 If it was up to a good part, I'd put 100 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:30.920 the sound up and watch for ten minutes. I love 101 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:33.360 doing that. It's just the best movie ever. I know 102 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:35.920 many of you haven't seen it. I'm not gonna sit 103 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:38.279 here and chastise you. I don't know how it could be, 104 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:41.879 but for God's sake, make that move and see Godfathers 105 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:44.959 one and two. Don't see three. Three's a piece of shit, 106 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.160 like I was gonna say yesterday, but forgot. Eli Wallach 107 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:50.399 is in Baby Ball, an old Jewish actor playing a 108 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:54.480 Sicilian and Baby Ball, and then of course he's in 109 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.279 Godfather Free playing in old Italian again, and it looks 110 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:00.360 so ridiculous because now when he was young, younger and 111 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:02.240 baby Doll, he did have a little bit of a 112 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:06.759 Mediterranean look. Not in nineteen whatever the Gold for eighty something, 113 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:09.480 he looked like an old Jewish man and he didn't 114 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:11.879 have the manners was downright, And of course he made 115 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:15.920 that killer Canoli for to give to Michael slip to 116 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:20.600 Michael poleone think just so stupid. So but I'm watching 117 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:24.279 it a lot, and uh, not to get too political, 118 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:27.839 so I promised this show is really fun, but I 119 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:31.720 want to make this point. I think what we're watching 120 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:35.759 h is very close to what we see when I 121 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:37.399 watch The Godfather, and the way the sons in the 122 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:40.560 rack with the father, I feel like it's very similar 123 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:44.160 to President Trump and his sons. He's got some really 124 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.639 strong soldiers beside him, including his sons and possibly Baron 125 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.560 Trump is going to be on there. Really, people don't 126 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:54.319 need to test. I mean what, he's already six eight 127 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:57.920 sixty nine, whatever he is, he's a giant. And what 128 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:02.680 he whispered into Joe Biden's at the inauguration was so cold. 129 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:06.120 The lip reader says. He just said to him, it's on. 130 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:09.079 And then he walked back to his mom and she said, 131 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:11.399 try to be nice, and she smiled at him, and 132 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:13.879 he looked back at Biden, who was still looking. Oh 133 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:17.399 my god. You could see Biden's Irish smile turned down 134 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:22.240 so quickly. Densher's were invisible. He just had a big 135 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:24.600 frown on his face. He shook him to his core 136 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:29.680 because he finally realized that this trouble ahead, the thing 137 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:31.879 about Trump and his sons. I'm gonna tell you there's 138 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:34.800 no Fredo in the group. You can make fun snl 139 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.800 of Eric all you want. He's no Fredo. Trump's got 140 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:41.920 two Michaels and one Sonny. Okay, And I'm not sure 141 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:45.079 if right now. Baron won't turn into the biggest Michael, 142 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:47.120 but I'll give him Sonny right now. Because he's younger 143 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:51.000 and scrappier than Donald Jr. I'll make him Michael for now. 144 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.519 But I love what he did. I know he's a 145 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:55.839 giant nowadays, but I still see him as that little 146 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:58.079 baby boy, well not a baby, but that young kid 147 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:02.839 in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen. And one of the reasons 148 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:04.480 why I got back in touch with the Trump and 149 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:07.800 wanted to apologize after that whole dust uff on how 150 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:11.079 it's dourned was because I sowed a a twenty twenty 151 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:14.160 I think episode of him and his kids, and it 152 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:17.040 just suddenly appeared to me, appealed to me that you 153 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:18.800 know what, this guy's not a prick to his kids. 154 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:20.720 I always thought it was out all night with models 155 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:22.959 and you know, going to this place and that place, 156 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:27.839 and but you know, his kids were so loving to 157 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.160 him on that show that I said, I got to 158 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:32.200 write this. I got to write the man, this is ridiculous. 159 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:34.279 And I wrote him a long letter about he's a 160 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:35.879 good man and a good father and I was too 161 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:38.000 young and stupid to know that. And you know, he 162 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:40.399 accepted the apology, as you guys know, and we all 163 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:47.000 were at right now. But he's got he's taught his 164 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:50.559 kid's confidence and toughness and even how to get through danger. 165 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:55.279 You know, you remember, Don that's a crazy segue. Remember 166 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.559 dodgeball back in the day. Remember when I remember going 167 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:01.120 to gym class in elementary school and climb the ropes 168 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:03.960 and gym class working on the rings. That was always 169 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:06.399 scary to me. They were very intimidating to go up 170 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:08.120 the rope and put tape but your name on it 171 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.200 on top of the ceiling of the gym. I could 172 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:13.639 never do it. I could never get up there. Mister Reeves, 173 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.000 my old gym teacher, would sit against the stage and 174 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:18.960 count his cash. I don't know why he did it. 175 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:20.720 He clearly want to be in the gym with us. 176 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:24.200 They bark a few orders out, I got that rope, 177 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.360 Benz Doc, come on, you know, just a real prick 178 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:30.039 of a man. But those were intimidating times for a 179 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.519 lot of us young boys. But I loved gym class. 180 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:35.639 When I walked in the gym and see that mister 181 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:39.080 Reeves had taken on a bunch of gymnastics equipment but 182 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:42.679 threw big wrestling mats over them, and he turned the 183 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:46.879 gym into an obstacle course that I loved. And you know, 184 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.360 we were just we just made tougher that then jumping 185 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:53.639 over parallel bars and going up ropes. And I don't 186 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.240 think you can do that anymore in school. I just don't. 187 00:09:57.639 --> 00:10:01.799 But speaking of dodgeball, that carried on into the early eighties. 188 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:03.320 I mean it went on past that, but in the 189 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:06.080 eighties it was big because when I was a camp 190 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:10.840 counselor at Driftwood Day Camp, where Jack was a head 191 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:15.879 swimming instructor. It's a great camp, eight weeks in the summer, 192 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:18.639 filled with mostly Jewish kids, as Long Island camps tend 193 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:22.320 to be. I was the counselor of the Barracudas, just 194 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:25.639 a messy haired group of thirteen year old boys who 195 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:30.679 gave me my first taste of loving to coach kids 196 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.480 at sports, at girls, at life, at being tough, at 197 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.440 being funny. I just I like being around boys. And 198 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:39.360 I don't mean that in a Michael Jackson sort of way, 199 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:42.960 but I love that camaraderie of forming a boy, you know, 200 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:50.480 casting him into something strong and smart. But they gave 201 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:52.559 me my first taste of loving, that sort of feeling, 202 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:57.200 and it's insane to even think this was allowed back then. 203 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:00.440 But on some days we take the whole lot of 204 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:03.840 them to a local beach for like four hours, and 205 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.039 each council would drive their group of kids on a 206 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:09.759 short school bus. Will I don't even remember ever having 207 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:12.399 to prove to any camp administrator that I was a 208 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:15.240 good driver or had a license and good standing. I 209 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:19.039 looked that was even asked of me. I'm nineteen years old. 210 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:22.240 Their kids are thirteen. This is ridiculous, and we were 211 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:25.759 on that bus. Oh god. I used to have all 212 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:29.120 the boys, you know, tell me which girls they liked, 213 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:31.639 and the female Barracuda group, who eathing is cute? Who 214 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:33.799 do you like? And they get so red faced. They 215 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:35.679 were starting to feel sex cruel, you know what I mean. 216 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.519 They're thirteen. But it was a little more innocent of 217 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:41.960 a time back then, although it was more normal. No 218 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:46.600 one had cell phones, so everybody had to socialize and 219 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:50.960 play and get through life facing people in the eye, 220 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:53.919 you know, not texting, not leaving and making you an email. 221 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:56.200 Go up and talk to the girl, go up and 222 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:59.320 talk to the guy. It just it makes you a 223 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:04.120 better person and there was a There was a group 224 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:07.159 of girls who had already started to develop in the 225 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:10.279 Barracudas group. You know, thirteen year old girls can develop 226 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:13.159 quicker obviously the boys do. And they were led by 227 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:18.399 a very pretty girl named Rita Kaufman, Jewish girl about 228 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:21.039 my age. I was nineteen twenty years old back then, 229 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:24.120 and she was short, but she was stacked, and she 230 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:27.519 was very shy, and it took me the whole summer 231 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:31.200 to get with her. I mean the whole summer, and 232 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:35.360 until I did, I used to take this tall Italian 233 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:40.080 girl named Rnda into the big walk in freezer as 234 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:42.759 we made believe we were, you know, getting juice boxes 235 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:45.600 for the kids, the orange juices and all that red 236 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.120 grape juices, all that shit. There was a big freezer 237 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:52.240 that you could open up from the inside. But you know, 238 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:56.320 she was so sexy and cute, and we were both young, 239 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:59.600 and you know how it is. But whenever she was 240 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:02.799 around then on her own, I'd make sure she knew 241 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:05.919 that we should probably hit the big freezer. The problem 242 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:08.960 was Ronda was dating an older counselor at the camp, 243 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:10.480 and not even a good looking guy. I didn't know 244 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:11.960 what the hell she saw on. I think he had 245 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:13.759 a car or something that was knife forget, But I 246 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.679 was like, what's this guy do with you? But what 247 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:19.679 I used to do, I'd walk up near her wherever 248 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:21.759 she was when she was on her own, and I'd 249 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:24.720 start to saying, help me, rond, to help help me, Rond, 250 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:28.200 to help me round. And she knew where I was 251 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:30.039 going to go, so I'd beat it to the freezer 252 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:33.000 and wait for her secret knock and I'd let her 253 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:36.720 in for about thirty forty five seconds, and we try 254 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:39.039 to get away with as much as we could. And 255 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:41.080 you know, i'd have my hand on all the good 256 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:46.399 places like you did back then. Rushing things couldn't take 257 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:49.000 it slow back then. But the kids never knew that. 258 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:51.960 But on the bus on the way to the beach, 259 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:55.559 some of our talks got pretty dicey with those kids. 260 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:58.440 For thirteen year olds, I mean I could tell who 261 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:01.799 going to be the Romeo's right way, the heartbreakers, the nerds. 262 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:04.679 You could see at that age. I had this kid 263 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.159 on the squad named Richie Collins. We all called him 264 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:10.679 Crash because one day smashed a go cart into a 265 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:12.840 wall to show off to a girl. He had a 266 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:16.240 crush on, scraped his knees and shit didn't cry. It 267 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:18.600 was a big crash too, so you got the name 268 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:22.480 Crash Collins. But that day, once we got to the 269 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:24.919 actual beach, they would, like I said, twenty two kids 270 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:29.080 running in every direction. Naturally, we're not supposed to curse 271 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:30.960 in front of the kids or even put our hands 272 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:33.600 on that's out. Can't hit the kid. I mean, even 273 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:35.919 though it was a different time, you still shouldn't put 274 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:38.399 your hands on a kid, right. I don't mean, like 275 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:41.039 really hurt them, just like playful put your hands on them, 276 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:42.759 like you know, slap fight that kind of shit. But 277 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:48.240 that didn't matter to me. That lasted about a week, okay, 278 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.000 and then it was right back to me being me 279 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:52.639 and then knowing that I meant business the way I 280 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:54.720 am and the other councils were different. Well too bad, 281 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:57.519 you got me. It's more fun. But one time on 282 00:14:57.519 --> 00:14:59.600 the way back from the beach, they they were all 283 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:02.440 on a show high, you know, and we get up 284 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:05.440 and down up the seats and they're talking to walking 285 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:07.639 across the aisle throwing paint. But there's no seat belts 286 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:10.200 on this bus back then, And like I said, I'm 287 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:13.639 nineteen or so, and there's six shares younger than I am, 288 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:17.480 and their lives were really hands and they were so 289 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:19.840 high on sugar. I had to pull over the bus 290 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:21.679 and stand up and let them have it. I mean 291 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:25.399 I picked out three culprits right away. I told Kyle 292 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:29.000 Nobler it was David tennantbaun And and Jimmy Hayman. Never 293 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:31.559 forget those kids' faces. That we get back to camp 294 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:35.080 the last ten minutes before four o'clock, at three point fifty, 295 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:37.840 before you get in that bus, all your parents come 296 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.039 pick you up. I'm gonna take you three behind the 297 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:43.799 cubby room, which roll over their jackets and pants and 298 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:47.399 shit the lunch boxes were. And I'm gonna give the 299 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:50.480 old what four what's that? I told them We're gonna 300 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:52.919 go out back and all three pains and the asses 301 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.200 are gonna get have a slap fight with me. They 302 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:58.000 got real quiet in their seats. I put the bus 303 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:01.200 back on, put it in drive, and headed back to 304 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:06.039 camp in peace and quiet. Sure enough, it's three fifty. 305 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:08.279 I see the kids taking peaks at the clock. Those 306 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.600 three they stayed together two. So come out to go, 307 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:15.039 you three. All the other kids are watching. I get 308 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.399 on my knees so it's more even. And I give 309 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:19.039 them like two minutes a piece to try to hit me, 310 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:21.360 and I'm blocking their shots and I'm hitting them lightly 311 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:23.159 in the beginning of the chest, in the arms. Then 312 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:24.799 I start biffing them, you know, just getting the top 313 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:26.799 of their hair, top of their heads, giving like a 314 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.679 biff recall on the street. Let's come on, I'm just biffing. 315 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:31.639 I'm not hitting, gonna hit you. I'm biffing you. That's 316 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:34.840 not a hit. That's a biff. Hurts though it doesn't hurt. 317 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:38.279 Come here. Eventually they got to love it. Eventually they 318 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:41.000 love the rough housing. And some kids would start to 319 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:43.679 beg me to have me fight them behind the covey, 320 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.639 the cuby room. It's just in the way you treat 321 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:49.000 a kid. I think boys, some boys can handle that. 322 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:51.679 They like that rough housing shit, as long as you 323 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:54.799 don't have any meanness to you. And I wasn't worried 324 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:57.639 about getting caught, but I did warn them. Look at 325 00:16:57.639 --> 00:16:59.960 you telling any of your parents. It's gonna get worse. 326 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.320 It's just gonna goross. I'm taking dodgeball next, and we're 327 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:06.079 gonna take your shirts off, and I'm gonna bring the heat. 328 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:10.119 So they never switched snitched. I said, they never snitched on, 329 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:11.920 which I'm very proud of them. They kept their mouths 330 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:15.519 shut all summer. Never got a complaint nowadays with the 331 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:17.400 kids did in the little league that I used to see, 332 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:20.720 not my kids, but other kids. They snitch on coaches constantly, 333 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.640 get calls and emails from parents. You know. Jimmy said, 334 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:27.000 you grabbed somebody's shirt today. Yeah I did. He didn't Okay, 335 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:30.640 he didn't move fast enough. You know whatever. I'm trying 336 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:32.240 to line and play. I got an hour to do it. 337 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:35.559 The kids are still like a little watered so give 338 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:37.960 me your shirt. You're gonna stand here, Frank, Come on, Frank, 339 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:41.720 you're here. Kyle. It's no big deal. But some yoga 340 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.960 moms didn't like it with the little lemons and the 341 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:50.079 water cups, the big straws. Jesus Christ. But there's something 342 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:53.799 about having a bunch of kids from a rag tag 343 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:57.880 union with you. I love it. It's you just used 344 00:17:57.920 --> 00:17:59.960 to make you feel like a very powerful pie pie, 345 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:02.680 you know what I mean. And I was always the 346 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:04.599 guy when I was younger in my neighborhood to get 347 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:07.559 all the young kids the neighborhood kids, both boys and girls, 348 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:11.519 to play rumbles, tackle football on my lawn stup ball, 349 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:15.799 you know. Actually, whenever I got Tracy Dscoli, my next 350 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.200 door able to play with us, then we could use 351 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:21.759 her lawn too, and where our lawns met that was 352 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:24.240 the fifty yard line, so to speak, and our driveways 353 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:26.599 with the end zone. So we had so many fun 354 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:31.039 days every season. My favorite little power back then was 355 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:33.519 a little girl named My mother used to watch this 356 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.640 little girl. She babysit her. Her name was Gail Frizzetta 357 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:40.200 and her mother was like head dietitian of all the 358 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:44.599 elementary schools. Right. Her name was Regina, and Regina had 359 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:47.880 a fake plastic hand on her left hand. Left side. 360 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:51.079 Left hand was fake and she'd sling her pocketbook, old 361 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:53.039 it and make like you know, she'd do a lot 362 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:54.559 of talking with her right hand, so you didn't look 363 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:56.599 at the left. But once you saw it, you saw it. 364 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:59.000 It was a different skin color. It was like weird 365 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:01.200 for a kick to see it, kind of gross and scary. 366 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:05.480 But she was nice. And the reason why she'll have 367 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:08.000 a hand is because she was born a conjoined twin 368 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:12.119 with her twin brother and back in like the late thirties. 369 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:16.839 They're drawn at this hand, his right, her left, and 370 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:20.640 the thinking was, you know, a man's gonna need the 371 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:22.960 right hand as he gets older. A woman, you know, 372 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:25.359 she can deal with just having a right hand and 373 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:28.519 not having a left hand. Very strange. But obviously the 374 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:30.599 hand that he got was in the shape of his 375 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:33.119 you know, it was in his hand, so it had 376 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:34.960 to be his either way. But they were prepared to 377 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:36.839 just go no, the guy gets there, the boy gets hanned. 378 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:40.960 It's a different world. Like I said, nice woman had 379 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:43.359 a very weird way of speaking, a nervous tick. She 380 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:46.960 would always tag on two words at the end of 381 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:52.000 almost every sentence. She'd say she hollowed through the other 382 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:54.079 she'd hollow through the screen door out front, you know, 383 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:57.039 which was always open and anybody could come. And we 384 00:19:57.119 --> 00:19:59.039 used to call it, I'm gonna come, call for you, 385 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:01.000 call for me, it too, call for me at ten o'clock. 386 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:02.960 And that just made you ride your bike up to 387 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.960 the kids porch, the front doors opened, the screen door shut, 388 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:09.839 and you yelled through the screen door, ajay you coming out, missus. 389 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:12.039 Ben's will call for aj you know. I'd run down 390 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:13.640 the stairs and hop on my back and we go play. 391 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:15.599 So that doors did open all day, so Regina would 392 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:18.759 come to the house hollow through the screen door. Hey lol, 393 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:22.279 I'm a little early today. On it? Where's my little 394 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.839 tom girl? Where's my tom girl? On it? Why? On it? On? It? 395 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:28.400 Was dropped at the end of almost every sentence. Also, 396 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:30.000 a hell of a day today. You don't want? I 397 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.480 know what they like in that school? Lily on it? What? So? 398 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:36.279 I used to shoot my sister Lorrain a quick look 399 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:39.599 because she'd lose it. Because I would imitate Regina every 400 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:43.119 Sunday at the dinner table. One day, I had a 401 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:45.799