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 Benzi
Speaker 1: here with fame is the bitch. This is your daily
Speaker 1: Unfiltered podcast for August Day's twenty twenty five. Oh wait
Speaker 1: twenty twenty twenty five, twenty twenty twenty five. Love it?
Speaker 1: I love it because what we got one odd number beautiful.
Speaker 1: Let me start by saying, thank god I was raised Italian. Uh,
Speaker 1: nothing compares to it. I'm watching. I saw a video
Speaker 1: this morning. Can you imagine being Clay Thompson, NBA champion,
Speaker 1: one of the best all time sharpshooters, multi millionaire, just
Speaker 1: signed a three year contract for fifty million bucks or
Speaker 1: three years. That's on the way out of his career.
Speaker 1: He's got plenty of money. Good looking dude comes from
Speaker 1: an NBA pedigree. His dad was Michael Thompson, who was
Speaker 1: a champion as an LA laker And look, you know
Speaker 1: guys had the ability to pull or has and recently
Speaker 1: had the ability to pull who I consider a very
Speaker 1: sexy beautiful woman in Megan the Stallion. I do. I
Speaker 1: like her. I think she's hot, big girl to a degree, tall,
Speaker 1: a little thick, but I just like her. I like her.
Speaker 1: She's pretty, she's funny. They've been going good together for
Speaker 1: several months. I didn't think they'd last a long time.
Speaker 1: I still don't think they will. But hey, look they're
Speaker 1: young and in love. Good for them. But could you imagine?
Speaker 1: And I don't care how good the sex is. What
Speaker 1: do you do when your girlfriend cooks for you her specialty,
Speaker 1: her dinner specialty. I gotta tell you, I've had a
Speaker 1: number of women cook I shouldn't say number. A handful
Speaker 1: of women cooked for me who were girlfriends, and most
Speaker 1: of them go to the tribe and true, I make
Speaker 1: the best roast chicken, sure you do. You slather some
Speaker 1: butter or oil on a chicken, You throw some spices
Speaker 1: on it, throw some potatoes and shit around it, onions
Speaker 1: in the oven. That's all you gotta do. It's simple.
Speaker 1: It ain't brain surgery. Can you make a soup? Fle
Speaker 1: Not that I can, but you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: It's like very simple. Oh, let me make my roasted chicken. Okay,
Speaker 1: one girlfriend I had, Stephanie. Jane was from Belgium. Beautiful
Speaker 1: girl and she really could cook, I mean great, and
Speaker 1: you know, like I go to her apartment off Central Park.
Speaker 1: She have like you know when you buy Parsley or
Speaker 1: Solontro beat in a glass jar and you'll open her
Speaker 1: fridge and all these beautiful, you know plants, Basil's that
Speaker 1: they're all in water and they look beautiful and they're refrigerated.
Speaker 1: And she made me a great roasted chicken, and she
Speaker 1: made a number of other meals. Stephanie could cook like crazy.
Speaker 1: In fact, when I was with Johnny Boy Calvani back
Speaker 1: in the day and he was with his girlfriend Melizsa
Speaker 1: and Melitza's best friend with Stephanie, you can imagine the
Speaker 1: fun we had the four of us because we all
Speaker 1: were in love with each other and it's a great time.
Speaker 1: Calvani's niece never called me back, Audrey never I left
Speaker 1: the two messages. I know she wants to talk about
Speaker 1: Johnny Boy, but I'm sure she heard yesterday's show. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what because she got busy, but maybe
Speaker 1: she'll call. When she does, she'll give me some other stories.
Speaker 1: We can have fun with and laugh about. But here's
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson and your girlfriend, the sexy Megan Stallion wants
Speaker 1: to bring you her special tea. What's her special tea?
Speaker 1: Deep fried catfish with the side of spaghetti drowning in
Speaker 1: red sauce that I didn't see her prepare. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's out of a ragou jar. First of all, who
Speaker 1: the hell look? I give her credit for cooking for
Speaker 1: a man right up front, Good for you, But who
Speaker 1: the hell you think Cardi Be's cooking for Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 1: Last month she was trashing and for cheating on her.
Speaker 1: Now she's back in love with him. These chicks don't
Speaker 1: know what the fuck they're doing. But who have a pair?
Speaker 1: Deep fried catfish and spaghetti together? Is this cookout food?
Speaker 1: Is this what you get at the cookout? I've been
Speaker 1: to some black cookouts. I never saw catfish and spaghetti together.
Speaker 1: I have seen some combinations. I think gore weird Like
Speaker 1: I love me some ribs. Oh yeah, ribs, let's get it.
Speaker 1: But why am I getting two dollars of baked beans
Speaker 1: and one piece of whitebread? What is that? Things? That
Speaker 1: a delicacy for you people? White bread, red beans out
Speaker 1: of a can and ribs. I don't know. It's weird
Speaker 1: some of this stuff. I don't know. Some of the
Speaker 1: traditions they have in different cultures, I don't know. But listen,
Speaker 1: come on, catfish, you could afford a nice cut of fish.
Speaker 1: You can get to over sell monkfish, halibut, sea best
Speaker 1: thirty bucks a pound fish. Trust me, I know, once
Speaker 1: in a while I get it. I bite the boat
Speaker 1: and go okay, And then I get a pound that
Speaker 1: is shit, which is not nearly enough. But I'll cook
Speaker 1: a pasta and white sauce on the side. You know,
Speaker 1: I make it work. Catfish is the lower, well, tilapia
Speaker 1: is lower. Tilapia is a fish. I think we invented.
Speaker 1: What the fuck that talapia from. I'm sorry to all
Speaker 1: you folks down south who love your catfish. You can
Speaker 1: keep your catfish and your crawfish. Okay, Trish, let's stop that.
Speaker 1: I know crawfish are plentiful, they're not that great. Never
Speaker 1: put anything deep fried next to spaghetti. I don't care
Speaker 1: what culture you're from. Plus, if I can be picky,
Speaker 1: he was eating on it a TV train, like you
Speaker 1: know when you watch TV. To put the little folding
Speaker 1: table Are they that comfortable already after a few months.
Speaker 1: That's a bad sign too. They should still be in
Speaker 1: the wooing stake. And the video begins with them fast
Speaker 1: asleep on a couch. I'm not sure if it's her
Speaker 1: place or his place. He's out like a light under
Speaker 1: a blanket and she's walking out dinner. In my experience,
Speaker 1: if you're doing that three months in, eat dinner on
Speaker 1: a TV tray, I don't think it's gonna work. You
Speaker 1: should still be having dinner on a magnificent restaurants. Your
Speaker 1: basketball season starts in October. Let this last month be amazing.
Speaker 1: And of course, Megan the Stallion added to Hawaiian rolls
Speaker 1: to the plate. I will admit I am one of
Speaker 1: those guys late at night, and I listened the last
Speaker 1: week or two I've woken up at two thirty three
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning hungry. Why well, I know why
Speaker 1: because when I cooked dinner for Rockell, I gave him
Speaker 1: the majority of the meat and I take a little
Speaker 1: bit I eat, you know, I eat like little portions
Speaker 1: at dinner. But then to wake up at two thirty
Speaker 1: and want an Hawaiian roll with butter on it not great.
Speaker 1: But I love a Hawaiian role. But I want to
Speaker 1: throw up that meal she cooked for Clay and I
Speaker 1: haven't even had it yet, but I want to puke
Speaker 1: it up. Wish them lunk love birds. Yesterday's show, I
Speaker 1: want to just mention something yesterday's show where Johnny Boy
Speaker 1: Calvani told Jack Nicholson that he was going to steal
Speaker 1: that scene in Printzy'sana right out from Under. It made
Speaker 1: me remember something that I forgot to say. Johnny Boy
Speaker 1: told that story one hundred years ago, who knows when,
Speaker 1: And I remember when he told that. We were hanging
Speaker 1: out with Richie Palmer, a buddy of Arrows who owns
Speaker 1: Mulberry Street Pizza in Beverly Hills. There's three or four
Speaker 1: of those pizza places. Richie's originally from New York. Him
Speaker 1: and I go way back. I've spoken about him. He's
Speaker 1: the guy that got me to write the TV pilot
Speaker 1: for stallone. Blah bah bah. Richie's great love him to death.
Speaker 1: At some point he was yeah looking into acting and
Speaker 1: he got a teeny weenie roll in an Eddie Murphy movie.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I forgot the Eddie Murphy movie. But
Speaker 1: the clumps I don't know, but he played a driver
Speaker 1: and his only job in the scene was to wait
Speaker 1: for Eddie to get in the car and then literally
Speaker 1: drive the call forward for like whatever, thirty forty feet
Speaker 1: and stop before the sandbags, and then Eddie gets out
Speaker 1: of the car. Okay, that's it. And he was told,
Speaker 1: like Johnny Boy was told, listen, when Eddie gets in
Speaker 1: the car, it would be best if you didn't speak
Speaker 1: to him, okay, like, don't strike up a conversation or
Speaker 1: ask for an autograph. He wouldn't like that, and Richie's like, no,
Speaker 1: of course not, I would never do that. Richie, good
Speaker 1: looking bastard from the Bronx, always has a line of
Speaker 1: shit to throw the pretty girls. Always done well with
Speaker 1: them too, married Raquel Welch, dated Priscilla Presley, among other beauties,
Speaker 1: so he knows his way around how to charm people,
Speaker 1: male or female. Eddie Murphy gets in the car. They're
Speaker 1: waiting for action to be called, and before it's called,
Speaker 1: Richie says to him in the rear view mirror, mister Murphy,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, I'm gonna steal this scene
Speaker 1: right from under your ass. You're not gonna know what hits,
Speaker 1: and of course Eddie Murphy dies laughing. And now all
Speaker 1: these years later, whenever Eddie's nearby Richie's place on Camden,
Speaker 1: he stops for a pie or two to bring back
Speaker 1: to his family of what twenty five people I don't
Speaker 1: even know, but having heard those stories, I knew the
Speaker 1: minute I got cast in Rocky Balboa instead of like well,
Speaker 1: in addition to celebrating and going I can't believe this
Speaker 1: is happening, callin Rosalie, calling friends, what, I can't believe
Speaker 1: this happened to me. I just was saying to my wife,
Speaker 1: I want to be in movies. I gotta get more work.
Speaker 1: And the phone rings and it's my manager. They want
Speaker 1: you to read for Rocky six Rocky what. It was insane,
Speaker 1: But then I knew, Oh, I gotta do the thing.
Speaker 1: I gotta say. I'm gonna steal this scene right from
Speaker 1: under you. So I get the script. I'm looking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's scenes with me and Sly. Okay, that's it, it's done.
Speaker 1: I gotta do this. My stomach is turning, not because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go make a big movie, but because I
Speaker 1: gotta do this to one of my film heroes. I
Speaker 1: got it. This is like when I was younger. Oh
Speaker 1: I'm always younger in my stories. When I was doing
Speaker 1: a lot of TV, a lot of TV, and I
Speaker 1: would take Joey with me. We go to the green room.
Speaker 1: He got to see the whole way was the whole
Speaker 1: way this sausage was made. The publicists meet you at
Speaker 1: the car, They walk you in the studio or in
Speaker 1: this case, the TV set, and they're going over the
Speaker 1: things you're gonna talk about, and Joan is very excited
Speaker 1: to see you, or Montela came, we could talk to
Speaker 1: you about this. Make sure when you talk to Lisa
Speaker 1: you say all that kind of shit and you're like,
Speaker 1: you get makeup hearing these people talk. I got you,
Speaker 1: no problem, don't want I got I got it. And
Speaker 1: because it was boring and easy, Joey and I developed
Speaker 1: this game where and I've told you, he would give
Speaker 1: me things to say and try to sneak in the interview,
Speaker 1: which was I've on the air and we come He
Speaker 1: come up with like, Okay, can you say frozen peas
Speaker 1: during this interview about you know O J. Simpson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I could do it. And he would come up with
Speaker 1: these phrases the last minute and I say, okay, I
Speaker 1: gotta work in it. And then all I was doing
Speaker 1: that TV show for whether it was Donnie Deutsch or CNN,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. I just wanted to make Joey laugh
Speaker 1: in the green room. And it got to a point
Speaker 1: where Joey would tell the publicists of each respective show,
Speaker 1: this is what AJ's gonna do, this is what we do,
Speaker 1: and they would watch because they couldn't believe it, and
Speaker 1: I'd say, like, you know, O J. Simpson, well you
Speaker 1: know he got Nicole and the family and Ronald Goleman,
Speaker 1: and now the Goldmans are saying they're never gonna get
Speaker 1: that money from OJ. AJ. Your take, And I'd say,
Speaker 1: well listen, I mean, look, they're never gonna get the
Speaker 1: money they're owed. It's a it's a damn shame. But
Speaker 1: you know what they're trying to do. They're trying to
Speaker 1: get frozen peas out of a out of a out
Speaker 1: of a wet bag. You're not gonna it made no sense,
Speaker 1: But all I know is that me and Joe were laughing,
Speaker 1: and on the way back home we would laugh our
Speaker 1: asses off that I got it in so I knew,
Speaker 1: oh fuck, I gotta tell sly, I want to take
Speaker 1: this scene out from NDI what do I do? And
Speaker 1: I knew, you know, I knew Slide twenty years, for
Speaker 1: twenty years. Ninety six doesn't sick. No, it's only ten years. Well,
Speaker 1: I knew Slight ten years before Rocky bell Ball, you know,
Speaker 1: met him in Miami, hung out of his house for
Speaker 1: a day, blah blah blah. So we knew each other.
Speaker 1: Then I get the role, and we're buddying around for
Speaker 1: three weeks whatever the fuck it was rehearsing, and I knew.
Speaker 1: There's that scene in the restaurant in Philadelphia, Victor's Cafe
Speaker 1: on Dickinson in thirteenth famous place they called it Adrians
Speaker 1: for the movie. Places filled with all his friends as extras,
Speaker 1: all these people who considers Fly the godfather to their
Speaker 1: baby son or daughter. I mean it was like the
Speaker 1: pipe piper. There are one hundred and fifty people outside
Speaker 1: the restaurant, all quote unquote related to Lie. They weren't.
Speaker 1: This is what I see every time I come to Philly.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't even do. It's a lot of love, you know.
Speaker 1: So we're sitting down at the restaurant, we're getting and
Speaker 1: I hadn't worked for three or four weeks, so I'm
Speaker 1: a little rusty. But of course he sits down. We're
Speaker 1: getting ready, and I go, I'm sorry, slow, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: steal this scene right out from under you. This is
Speaker 1: my shot. There's nothing you can do about it. My
Speaker 1: partner in the scene, Loud de Bella, almost died. Sly
Speaker 1: laughed and said, good luck stealing the scene from Rocky.
Speaker 1: You'd be the first. But that's the way we handle
Speaker 1: things back in the day. Fun fun, fun fun stuff, Hey, ed,
Speaker 1: very fun stuff. I want to say this, by the way,
Speaker 1: today's show all over the board. It's the way I feel.
Speaker 1: I want to say, Uh, I cannot only blame black
Speaker 1: women anymore, black women in shower caps for acting a
Speaker 1: fool when the arrive wherever the fuck they are, CVS, Walmart,
Speaker 1: a red light, whatever. You can't touch me. You can't
Speaker 1: touch me, sir. No, I will not give you my license.
Speaker 1: I will not just it's well. Now, there's a video
Speaker 1: of a white woman, a Rhode Island prosecutor no less,
Speaker 1: trying to school the police on the law. And then
Speaker 1: she got schooled herself, and she got handcuffs put on
Speaker 1: her for trespassing, creating a wild scene outside this restaurant
Speaker 1: with her loudmouthed drunk girlfriend, all on bodycam footage. Devin
Speaker 1: Hogan Flanagan again, the three named people. Can't stand it? Sorry,
Speaker 1: Dawn Marie Sullivan. I don't like the three names. I mean,
Speaker 1: in your case, it's one name. But I'm not out
Speaker 1: for Joseph Benzon. Can we stop? Devon Hogan Flannagan is
Speaker 1: a special Assistant Attorney General, and she had the audacity
Speaker 1: to tell the officer that she he would regret this.
Speaker 1: Don't ever tell cops you're gonna regret this. There's not
Speaker 1: one cop that has regretted these things that happen on TV.
Speaker 1: Remember Reese Witherspoon's drunken tirade. Do you know who I am? Oh,
Speaker 1: don't ever say that either. Whenever you're in the back
Speaker 1: of a patrol car, shut your mouth. So this body
Speaker 1: cam footage you can look at. It shows her telling
Speaker 1: the cops constantly. She's an ag attorney general. I'm an agg.
Speaker 1: You can't do this. I'm an agg. They can do
Speaker 1: whatever the fuck they want their police and they can
Speaker 1: put their hands on you, you know what, because they're
Speaker 1: the law. How do people not know this? And she's
Speaker 1: ordering cops to turn off their body cameras, like what,
Speaker 1: she's gonna make a citizen arrest. It's so stupid, and
Speaker 1: the cops are like not laughing, but you know they're laughing. Now.
Speaker 1: Her buddy, Veronica Hennan, who you don't need to be
Speaker 1: your buddy. She got real mouthy. You don't need friends
Speaker 1: like this. And she's telling cops you need to listen
Speaker 1: to her because she's a lawyer. Could you imagine. Have
Speaker 1: you ever seen a video where one cop goes, I'm sorry, wait,
Speaker 1: you're a lawyer, give me the key, take the cuffs
Speaker 1: off her. I'm so sorry. I didn't know you studied law.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, please don't report this. I want to
Speaker 1: lose my job. Ma'am, ma'am did you just start to
Speaker 1: call me han? No? Man, please, it never happens, because
Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. Take your fucking licks, stay away.
Speaker 1: She's a lawyer. Cops are trying to arrest her. She
Speaker 1: puts up a fight. She's in a fucking evening gown.
Speaker 1: I don't care who your opponent is. Don't fight with
Speaker 1: an evening on on. And of course you know she's
Speaker 1: twisting her arm so police can't cuff her hands, and
Speaker 1: she breaks away at one point. Very bad idea. Of course,
Speaker 1: they eventually shove her inside the patrol car. That's why
Speaker 1: cops come and bulk or call for backup. They don't
Speaker 1: want to fight you one on one or two on one.
Speaker 1: Let's make it five on one. You're going away. You
Speaker 1: could hear a staff member tell the police to remove
Speaker 1: them and take the cuffs off them. It look it
Speaker 1: all goes downhill. She got charged with willful trespass and
Speaker 1: she got a summons, both of them did, and Hanan
Speaker 1: got the resisting arrest. Blah blah blah. But all these
Speaker 1: two idiots had to do was walk away from this restaurant.
Speaker 1: And the man inside said they would try whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck they were. They have too long, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Just walk away. My father always told me, as a
Speaker 1: former cop, you ever get arrested, It's like he was
Speaker 1: predicting the future with me. I've been busted three or
Speaker 1: four times. Be a gentleman. Be a gentleman. Don't be
Speaker 1: the kind of guys I dealt with. And he always
Speaker 1: told me, and I've said this before, he'd the rest
Speaker 1: Italian gangsters. They would turn around and put their hands
Speaker 1: behind it back before you even were asked to do so.
Speaker 1: But if they went into a tenement in Harlem with
Speaker 1: blacks or Puerto Ricans, but have you this is way
Speaker 1: back in the fifties and sixties, well they would put
Speaker 1: up a fight. Not only not, they had people on
Speaker 1: the roof of those buildings, those tenements who would throw
Speaker 1: bowling balls and pails of cement off the roof, hoping
Speaker 1: to kill an arresting officer. My fellow always said, put
Speaker 1: your hands behind your back. They got you. It's cat
Speaker 1: and mouse, that's it. And when I got busted, you know,
Speaker 1: there's five guys coming up your driveway, you know, ones
Speaker 1: in front, there's two on each side of you, and
Speaker 1: one behind you. Just comply like I did with that
Speaker 1: wonderful policeman and wanted to impound my car because of
Speaker 1: a hit and run while I parked the car. No,
Speaker 1: it's more like two Russians or Armenians looking to get
Speaker 1: me in some insurance scam. They should have at least
Speaker 1: damaged their front bumper. But no, So I called my
Speaker 1: insurance company today and alerted them to this fact. They said,
Speaker 1: don't worry, mister Benson. They're gonna have to if they call.
Speaker 1: We don't do anything until we call you and let
Speaker 1: you know what's going on. Then present me all the
Speaker 1: information you have, the video you took. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: But I did go down to the precinct to lodge
Speaker 1: a complaint against this cop. Oh yeah, Oh I did that. Listen,
Speaker 1: that's my right. It's my right as a citizen, is
Speaker 1: it not. I went there with the stupid fucking piece
Speaker 1: of paper that was written up. I said, listen, you know,
Speaker 1: can I watch a complain? I've never done this in
Speaker 1: my life. Yeah. Sure. I tell the guy what's going on?
Speaker 1: Why the fuck with this cop? Sir? The language? Okay,
Speaker 1: we're just two guys talking. Why the hell would this
Speaker 1: cop come to this call and make it a hit
Speaker 1: and fucking run when I'm in my on my couch
Speaker 1: laying down. I mean, this is obviously a money grab
Speaker 1: a tent by these fucking people. What's wrong happening? Not
Speaker 1: know this? Tell't to go away? No, well, wait, will
Speaker 1: certainly look into it. Blob. I just wanted to be
Speaker 1: there and say it. This camera's there, good, let them
Speaker 1: show I was there. I'm prepared. But I said to
Speaker 1: the guy, there are better things you guys can do
Speaker 1: when you come to that neighborhood. I never saw two
Speaker 1: cop cars on my block. But if you go two
Speaker 1: blocks up, you'll see crack deals, you'll see prostitutes Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. When just take a fucking trip around
Speaker 1: a block. We will do that. Yeah, well you haven't
Speaker 1: done it in eight months. Let me know when you start. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: let's move on to some celebrity news. We're only twenty
Speaker 1: one minutes into the show. The Great Terrance Stamp has died.
Speaker 1: I love Terrence Stamp. Most of you know him from Superman.
Speaker 1: He played General Zod. Eighty seven years old. Died the
Speaker 1: other day. Very colorful life. I'll be honest. I'm not
Speaker 1: a big Superman and I saw a Superman as a
Speaker 1: kid whatever, as a young kid, a young adult, whatever,
Speaker 1: you know. I remember him. He didn't leave a mark
Speaker 1: playing General Zod. I gotta be honest. People act like
Speaker 1: here's General Zod. I don't really care to remember that movie.
Speaker 1: It's not what I think is great acting. That's a
Speaker 1: paycheck role. But uh, look, great guy, working class guy,
Speaker 1: tough kid, got to the top in the sixties, well,
Speaker 1: you know, rose to the spotlight in the sixties, had
Speaker 1: several claims to fame. He was very good friends with
Speaker 1: Princess Diana. He was roommates with Michael Caine when he
Speaker 1: was younger, and he had affairs with Bridget Bardoux, Julie Christie.
Speaker 1: I love those two and Gene Shrimpton, who was a
Speaker 1: gorgeous supermodel back in the day. But they people like
Speaker 1: to say he was romantically involved with Princess Danna. He wasn't.
Speaker 1: He was and he just loved being around her. Also
Speaker 1: roommates with Michael Kaine, as I said, And you know,
Speaker 1: back then they were young, and Michael Kaine would try
Speaker 1: to tell him what to do with your career, and
Speaker 1: he would give an advice. He would give young Tarrant
Speaker 1: Stamp a voice Michael Kaine. I'm Michael Kaine, Michael Kain
Speaker 1: giving Tarrant Stamp advice. All acting see, I have to
Speaker 1: hold my nose when you do an impression of Michael Kain.
Speaker 1: It's always important you remember that the voice is coming
Speaker 1: from behind your nose. Michael Okay, okay, this is my okay,
Speaker 1: And you have to remember one thing you guys out
Speaker 1: there doing impressions. If you want to do a quick
Speaker 1: impression at the party there, sir, I can help you.
Speaker 1: Always remember when you say his name, don't say Michael Kane,
Speaker 1: say my cocaine, Michae Okay, Hello, I'm Michael. Okay, Michael okay.
Speaker 1: See that's how he sounds. But he wasn't romantic with
Speaker 1: Princess Die. He says they were just good chums. He
Speaker 1: loved hanging around her. I can understand that she was
Speaker 1: one of those guy girls. And I met her twice,
Speaker 1: shook her hand. Can't say I got a lot out
Speaker 1: of it, but I do think she was a special person,
Speaker 1: and I love the way she played the press. I
Speaker 1: was almost on my way. I was on my way
Speaker 1: out at that point. So you know, she came to
Speaker 1: New York and when she came bought the whole city
Speaker 1: shut down and I forget where we were would party,
Speaker 1: but whatever. She made herself available to the press, and
Speaker 1: she was as sharp as attack. But he pegged her
Speaker 1: right and when he said she just wanted someone to
Speaker 1: talk to, she wasn't really happy. And they opened up
Speaker 1: to each other and you know, just two Brits having
Speaker 1: some fun, eh, but that supermodel Genie Shrimpton. It sucks
Speaker 1: that she's eighty two. Now. I hate the beautiful people
Speaker 1: get older. That was the love of his life way
Speaker 1: back in nineteen sixty four. I'm two years old and
Speaker 1: he said, just to lay owz on her was amazing.
Speaker 1: We were together for three years. She left me because
Speaker 1: she saw I was a lunatic. I wasn't ready for
Speaker 1: twin soul relationship. Listen, I've never said it perfectly like that,
Speaker 1: but I've said to you before. The girlfriends who suffered
Speaker 1: with me, Michelle Brando, e Dollars de Leon, there was
Speaker 1: a few of them who I was not at my best,
Speaker 1: even Andrea recently wasn't at my best, and you lose
Speaker 1: people because of that. He only got married once, had
Speaker 1: no kids. The woman he did marry it was kind
Speaker 1: of weird. He was sixty four, she was twenty nine.
Speaker 1: But I love this guy's acting. He was something special,
Speaker 1: one of those guys who was their own worst enemy.
Speaker 1: You know, he could have done so much more. But
Speaker 1: it's like Shilah Buff, like great Shilah Buff is a
Speaker 1: phenomenal actor. But of course he he fucks himself up.
Speaker 1: You know, he just does and it's a shame, but yeah,
Speaker 1: those were I mean, you know, Stamp never became a
Speaker 1: huge star, but after the seventies he kind of just disappeared.
Speaker 1: There was a point where he was actually looked at
Speaker 1: to replace Sean Connery as James Bond. You talk about
Speaker 1: a life changing moment, and he was recorded as saying, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know why it didn't happen. I was in
Speaker 1: my prime when the sixties ended. All just ended with it,
Speaker 1: you know. And I gotta tell you I feel the
Speaker 1: same way about the nineties. I feel like when the
Speaker 1: nineties ended, I ended with it. I really do. I
Speaker 1: just thought of watching the Netflix doc about the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys' lore in the nineties. You know what that whole
Speaker 1: franchise meant the football? What it means the football. It's
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, the owner, It's Troy Aikman, the quarterback, emittt
Speaker 1: Smith the running back, Michael Irvin the superstar wide receiver.
Speaker 1: These guys won three Super Bowls in four years back
Speaker 1: in the nineties. And I'm telling Ruckley, you gotta watch
Speaker 1: this documentary. I know you don't know enough about the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but you gotta look at Michael Irvin. He's going to
Speaker 1: court for his cocaine conviction. It's hot outside. I think
Speaker 1: it was summer. This guy's wearing a full length mink
Speaker 1: coat with a hat. And I said, that was the
Speaker 1: nineties and your father was there for every second of it.
Speaker 1: Oh what a great time, crazy time. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: phone stopped ringing. I know that feeling, and it's tough.
Speaker 1: You wake up in the morning, you think you're doing great,
Speaker 1: you're young, you're popping. All of a sudden, the phone stop.
Speaker 1: Is it working? You check the connection, you call friends,
Speaker 1: Is my phone working? I mean he gets that. It
Speaker 1: gets that paranoid and you called, Yeah, I got your call.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was working. Why, man, I
Speaker 1: just you know, having gotten a call for days. So
Speaker 1: tern Stan couldn't stand it, got on airplane and went
Speaker 1: around the world. He stopped in India, got involved in yoga, vegetarianism.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that, I mean, why is that interesting?
Speaker 1: He lived in an ashram, he said. Federico Fellini introduced
Speaker 1: him to the Indian mystic Christa Murty, and that got
Speaker 1: him interested. One thing I gotta tell you, one thing
Speaker 1: I cannot get into is Indian culture. There's too many variables.
Speaker 1: I don't like that rats crawl across their food in
Speaker 1: the street and they eat it, and they spend time
Speaker 1: with rats, and they jump in the Ganges River which
Speaker 1: got shit and dead bodies around, and they brush their
Speaker 1: teeth in there and washed their come on. And it's
Speaker 1: not like I don't like Indian people. I do. I mean,
Speaker 1: the woman who ran the travel loge on Jana, what
Speaker 1: a great lady. I mean. I don't think I haven't
Speaker 1: been a nicer person in person. I swear to God.
Speaker 1: We still talk in text to this day. I don't
Speaker 1: stay there anymore. I stayed there when the air conditioning broke.
Speaker 1: I don't go there. But we left such a mark
Speaker 1: on each other. And she's such a caring person that
Speaker 1: I always want her in my life. I bring her gifts,
Speaker 1: I bring her candles, coffee for her and the girls
Speaker 1: who cleaned the room up. You know, I just my
Speaker 1: father's cancer doctor, Abou doctor albu Mohedon actually Jack's doctor.
Speaker 1: Two same doctor, same cancer doctor. You know how much
Speaker 1: you revere those guys who are trying to repair the
Speaker 1: two biggest men in your life. A bull moheedon the
Speaker 1: best bedside manner I've ever seen. Always began his visits
Speaker 1: in the hospital or or in his room at his office,
Speaker 1: while he'd walk in loud and say why are you here?
Speaker 1: Why are you here? You don't need to be here.
Speaker 1: Come on now, why are you here? None home? And
Speaker 1: then he would smile and I'd see those big white
Speaker 1: teeth and those purple gums, yes, those lavender colored gums,
Speaker 1: which many Indians have. The point is this, it's not
Speaker 1: the people. I love Bollywood movies. The women are beautiful,
Speaker 1: the men are tough to see. The movie are are
Speaker 1: are for Christ's sake. But these minutes, everybody's got the best,
Speaker 1: most healthy, beautiful, shiny black hair. It's not the people,
Speaker 1: it's the country. I can't. I feel like, Okay, in
Speaker 1: my mind's most warped idea about my life. If you
Speaker 1: take your life and stretch it to ridiculous proportions, which
Speaker 1: I do sometimes just to amuse myself, Suddenly I'm out
Speaker 1: one night at a restaurant and me and free to
Speaker 1: pinto lockeyes, and I look like me and she looks
Speaker 1: like her, and for some reason we are hooked on
Speaker 1: each other. And as she's leaving, I go I can't
Speaker 1: believe this. I always wanted to meet you. I just
Speaker 1: think you're so beautiful. Do you have to leave now?
Speaker 1: I just got here. No, I will stay with you.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And now me and free to Pinto
Speaker 1: are having a fun night where regaling each other with's
Speaker 1: what was slum Dog Millionaire like? Oh? What was gossip
Speaker 1: like in the nineties. We're having a great fucking time.
Speaker 1: But I but at the same time, this is what
Speaker 1: my warped mind tells myself. I know it's a dream,
Speaker 1: it'll never happen, but I go, well, if she did
Speaker 1: like me or love me, at some point, she'd have
Speaker 1: to say to me, we have to go to India
Speaker 1: to meet my parents. And I know, oh shit. First
Speaker 1: of all, that flight okay. Second of all, I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna get the smell out of curry. Now, I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna curry out of my clothes because that's what they
Speaker 1: cook with constantly. I gotta really think about, do I
Speaker 1: want to be with Freeda Pento and smell like curry forever?
Speaker 1: I know it's crazy. And by the way, I fell
Speaker 1: for a girl who was born in India to very
Speaker 1: wealthy parents, raised in boarding schools in England. Beautiful woman.
Speaker 1: I'm talking Sophie Laren type. I'm not lying. She was
Speaker 1: a publicist for Howard Rubinstein and associates when I first
Speaker 1: began gossip, and her voice got me so hooked on
Speaker 1: her that I imagine this one has to be beautiful an
Speaker 1: English accent. This is before I knew she was Indian.
Speaker 1: But the last name Actar was, you know, obvious to me. Kim.
Speaker 1: Why are so many foreign people from other countries named
Speaker 1: their daughter Kim when they want to, I guess americanize them.
Speaker 1: Don't name your daughter Kim or Amanda or Mary. Go
Speaker 1: what's your fucking name from your country. It's sexier, it's better.
Speaker 1: You don't need to make them integrate into culture. If
Speaker 1: your daughter's beautiful, she'd be fine. Named ass wipe, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, okay. But Kim had the English accent coming
Speaker 1: out of her Indian mouth. It was so sexy. We
Speaker 1: go to this restaurant called Rosolio. We began to have
Speaker 1: dates and go there, and it was so romantic. It
Speaker 1: was right next to the most romantic restaurant in the
Speaker 1: world in New York City named one If by Land,
Speaker 1: two If by Sea, and it's it was right next
Speaker 1: door on Barrow Street, probably the most beautiful, quaint street
Speaker 1: in Manhattan, Commerce Street, Barrow Street, it looks like you're
Speaker 1: in Europe. It's amazing. And we'd go there and I'd
Speaker 1: be so enchanted by the face, the voice, the accent,
Speaker 1: everything sounded sexy. But sometimes she'd drop all the niceties
Speaker 1: she learned in school right and the Indian would come out,
Speaker 1: the Bombay would come out of her. It was actually
Speaker 1: sweet because she would get to a point in his
Speaker 1: story and I would I would tell a story and
Speaker 1: I'd try to explain something or who somebody was, and
Speaker 1: in the middle of the stuctuy go, she said, not knowing,
Speaker 1: not knowing what word to say, not knowing, not knowing.
Speaker 1: No one says not knowing, honey, and then she'd giggle.
Speaker 1: She eventually became Dan Rather's guy Friday. She was his
Speaker 1: executive assistant for years at CBS. And I've told you
Speaker 1: about her. I mean Dan tried and tried. Oh he
Speaker 1: was a pussy hound that Dan Rather man told you
Speaker 1: about that too, But she would eventually admit to me that.
Speaker 1: Of course, when they were away in Europe or some
Speaker 1: far flung place, because Dan was always out there interviewing
Speaker 1: world leaders and luminaries, et cetera. He would inevitably invite
Speaker 1: her up to his suite where he ordered champagne, and
Speaker 1: he would ask her to he would ask her to
Speaker 1: read him Homer's The Iliad, because like me, he fell
Speaker 1: for that voice. Anyhow, tripped down memory lane nineties. What
Speaker 1: can I tell you? I see my life ended there too.
Speaker 1: Gotta admit Terence Stamp, you know, bounce Back nailed that
Speaker 1: role General Zade and Superman did it again in the sequel.
Speaker 1: Did some good movies, but then his career kind of
Speaker 1: just didn't really pop like it should have, especially with
Speaker 1: the old the promise he had in his early years.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, it's a weird thing he played.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, he took the role in Superman. He
Speaker 1: acts like you know, well, I took the role and
Speaker 1: I didn't want to feel embarrassed and depressed about playing
Speaker 1: the villain. Oh look, you took the role because of
Speaker 1: the money. I understand that we all do things like that.
Speaker 1: I don't blame you. Sure it was a good payday.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what he got for Superman two. But
Speaker 1: on this latest Superman okay, which is a hit, which
Speaker 1: I said it would be a hit. The director, James
Speaker 1: Gunn was paid fifteen million dollars to direct this movie.
Speaker 1: The guy who played Superman, David Corn, sweat the worst
Speaker 1: name ever. I predict a dismal Hollywood career after this.
Speaker 1: He made seven hundred and fifty grand, so did his
Speaker 1: co star Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Holt, who plays Lex Luthor,
Speaker 1: made two million. I don't know, I look like I
Speaker 1: like character actors, and Stamp was one of the best.
Speaker 1: And he had very eccentric habits. He never owned a home,
Speaker 1: but he did buy homes for many people. He bought
Speaker 1: homes for his parents, his aunt because he never felt
Speaker 1: he needed one. I know the exact same feeling. I
Speaker 1: would do the same thing because I love everybody around me,
Speaker 1: being happy. I can live anywhere. It doesn't even today
Speaker 1: and walking back to my apartment coming back from this
Speaker 1: running an errand this morning, and I just done a
Speaker 1: show with Mike and Arena, and you know, Mike has
Speaker 1: a beautiful home, has had beautiful homes forever. Kenny, of course,
Speaker 1: and Arena beautiful Palm Beach. Kenny's had multiple homes, still does.
Speaker 1: And here I'm walking back to my apartment and I
Speaker 1: just it doesn't matter to me. It just doesn't matter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we all want to die with assets and be worth money.
Speaker 1: I understand that, but it's late in the game. It's
Speaker 1: the fucking eighth inning of my life, maybe the seventh,
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna be hopeful it is what it is.
Speaker 1: But I like where I'm at. I don't need a lot.
Speaker 1: I can't explain it. I don't need a lot. But
Speaker 1: to me, Terence Stamp dying means we lost a really good,
Speaker 1: classically trained actor. And you know how much I love
Speaker 1: guys like that. I don't think a guy like him
Speaker 1: ever had a career strategy. You go from playing a
Speaker 1: villain and superman to a drag queen and the Adventures
Speaker 1: of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Now you're playing then
Speaker 1: at the end you're playing granddads. That's the very finition
Speaker 1: of an actor. You can keep your general Zod or
Speaker 1: anything else he did. Do yourselves a favor. Jock this down.
Speaker 1: Go watch a movie called Volimey. It's a Steven Soderbergh
Speaker 1: pick right during his heyday nineteen ninety nine. God, I
Speaker 1: wanted to, Oh my god. For many years, I worked
Speaker 1: next to Jules Asner at E she was on the news,
Speaker 1: very sexy, pretty girl, a little bit, you know, like
Speaker 1: forty torty kind of shit like she wouldn't have her
Speaker 1: parents wouldn't have approved of me. But Jules would have
Speaker 1: wanted to tumble for a night or two, because we
Speaker 1: had plenty of times together. And suddenly she's with Steven
Speaker 1: Soderberg and I knew, Okay, that's it. She's done. She
Speaker 1: locked herself up. She's gonna make, you know, have a
Speaker 1: great life for the guy that makes a lot of money,
Speaker 1: and he's absolutely homely. But those are the decisions some
Speaker 1: women make. Could have had me and lived in this
Speaker 1: two bedroom apartment. I don't know why she didn't want
Speaker 1: to do that. Go watch Ti Limi. It's about Terence
Speaker 1: Stamp being a very volatile and dangerous Englishman who goes
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles to find the man he thinks his
Speaker 1: responsible for killing his daughter. And I love films with
Speaker 1: this premise. George She Scott did it many years ago
Speaker 1: in a film called Hardcore. He's a businessman, Georgie Scott,
Speaker 1: fucking tremendous actor, a businessman whose daughter is a teenager disappears.
Speaker 1: She's on a church trip to California. He finds out
Speaker 1: she's involved in the in the porn business. He goes
Speaker 1: out there on this dark journey to find her. Watch
Speaker 1: that also, Bob Hoskins did it. Mona Lisa is the
Speaker 1: name of the film, and Nat king Cole sings it
Speaker 1: in the movie plenty of times. Bob plays an ex
Speaker 1: convict whose daughter gets entangled in a very dangerous uh well.
Speaker 1: He gets with this this coal girl, high class coral
Speaker 1: girl named Tyson, and he's her driver, and she begins
Speaker 1: to tell him she thinks her daughter has been taking
Speaker 1: hostage and her pimp is to blame. So Hoskins, who's
Speaker 1: already fallen in love with this hooker, begins to try
Speaker 1: to help her. It's not hard to fall for this
Speaker 1: hooker played by Kathy Tyson. Cicily, Tyson's niece actually very
Speaker 1: sexy in the movie. Check it out, but see the liney.
Speaker 1: Not only teren Stamp, you got Peter Fonda, you got
Speaker 1: a nineteen ninety nine version of George Cooney coming off
Speaker 1: the movie Out of Sight that Soderbergh also directed. This
Speaker 1: is one him and I were hanging out if you
Speaker 1: can believe it. And one of the sexiest chicks to
Speaker 1: ever come out of the seventies, Leslie Ann Warren elis
Speaker 1: Elie y Okay, we's spelling it different for a goddamn reason.
Speaker 1: She ain't your Leslie. Oh she was so hot. And
Speaker 1: it's got Luis Guzman. I fucking hate him. He plays
Speaker 1: the same guy and every movie he's even in and
Speaker 1: the guy lives high in the hog on a big
Speaker 1: ranch someplace. It pisses me off. He's not a good actor.
Speaker 1: Can stay. And as a treat we get Barry Newman
Speaker 1: AJ Who's Barry Newman. Barry Newman was a detective in
Speaker 1: my youth on a TV show called Petra Celly on
Speaker 1: Italian as a detective that was a thing for a while.
Speaker 1: It was required viewing in my house. So was Tony
Speaker 1: Mussante and a detective show called Toma. Oh you have
Speaker 1: no idea, you had to watch it. It was like
Speaker 1: back then. We get the election, you know, the voting
Speaker 1: ballot that come in to mail for local elections, towns, supervisor,
Speaker 1: city plan and all this bullshit. My mother would just
Speaker 1: go vote for the Tians and vote for the both
Speaker 1: family's handsome I'm not trying to make my mother sound dumb.
Speaker 1: That's what a lot of people did back then. I
Speaker 1: think they still do it to a large degree. It's
Speaker 1: obviously hurt out of country because well, for obvious reasons,
Speaker 1: they're not voting for someone who really is doing the
Speaker 1: best for their particular city, state, or town. They're voting
Speaker 1: based on ethnicity and good looks. And if that's the case,
Speaker 1: well we know Gavin Newscomb, the governor out of Shipsville,
Speaker 1: is going to get some votes in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Don't want them pretend to you he's not running. He's running.
Speaker 1: He's getting ready right now, trying to be the left
Speaker 1: version of Donald Trump, and it's going to fail miserably.
Speaker 1: But don't want to stray too far. Terrence Stamp, if
Speaker 1: I were, well, it's too late now, but he had
Speaker 1: some beauties in his day. And we always talk about
Speaker 1: women getting the tramp stamp tattoo on their back. What
Speaker 1: if all those women we've got the tramp stamp I
Speaker 1: got a picture of Terence Stamp on their lower back.
Speaker 1: That would make guys like me thrilled to be behind
Speaker 1: them and not see the initials of their ex christ.
Speaker 1: I married one. I'm aj Benz, and that was your
Speaker 1: daily Unfiltered podcast for August twenty, twenty twenty five. Talk
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