Speaker 1: From Morecast Connect and AJ Benze fame. Uh he'd liked
Speaker 1: to be walked on a leash and play really dirty,
Speaker 1: kinky sex games. He's uh the guy put the cock
Speaker 1: in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey everybody. AJ Benzi
Speaker 1: here with fame as a bitch. This is your daily
Speaker 1: unfiltered podcast from May to May. Slow Down, AJ March
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, twenty twenty five, Oh three five two two five,
Speaker 1: great date and I think a great show, great show
Speaker 1: on tap. Let me just check this message really quickly. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: lot going on today. Took my blood test today. I'm
Speaker 1: got my prostate check. That's what I'm doing. But I'm
Speaker 1: not getting the finger in the ass. I went to
Speaker 1: the urologist the other day and pee a lot. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm pining too much. I don't like how much im peing.
Speaker 1: And I'm not one to get the test too often.
Speaker 1: And i know I've been lax about that. I shouldn't
Speaker 1: be that way at my age, but just I've been
Speaker 1: lax like everything in my life. I'm a last minute guy,
Speaker 1: which is stupid with your health. But anyhow, I went
Speaker 1: to the eurologists the other day thinking, okay, they're gonna
Speaker 1: stick to the you know, finger in my butt and
Speaker 1: check the press. And I get to this place and
Speaker 1: the doctor's a female. I go, wait a minute, hold
Speaker 1: it to female other female eurologists? Do they for men?
Speaker 1: Do they do they put their finger in your ass?
Speaker 1: I don't think I want this. I'm not a finger
Speaker 1: in the ass guy. I'm not even a knuckle in
Speaker 1: the ass guy. So when you go in there to check,
Speaker 1: I've had it done a couple of times. But these
Speaker 1: are men, doctors in Beverly Hills. I tell you, one guy,
Speaker 1: what's my doctor, Doctor Trabulus? What a name rhymes with fabulous?
Speaker 1: Doctor Trabulus was doing it, and as he did it,
Speaker 1: I don't know what we got on the subject of
Speaker 1: I was dating a lot of girls. I was in
Speaker 1: La on TV and he asked me about Actually I
Speaker 1: think it corresponded his finger in my butt corresponded with
Speaker 1: him asking me you get any action. It was the
Speaker 1: worst timing for that question. But you know, anyway, she
Speaker 1: didn't do that, the female doctor. She just said, it
Speaker 1: doesn't really tell much with a finger, you know, So
Speaker 1: let's get a blood test and see what that says.
Speaker 1: So I'm waiting for that test. I took it today.
Speaker 1: We'll see you in the next day or two. What
Speaker 1: that means. Feel fine, feel great, but you know, you
Speaker 1: never know. But I promise to be more proactive moving
Speaker 1: forward with my health. You got to it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: too many people around me are dropping. It's just scary,
Speaker 1: you know, scary. Anyway, let's talk about what's happening out there,
Speaker 1: and this show will end with a family story, which
Speaker 1: you guys tend to enjoy, particularly with regard to some
Speaker 1: of the pictures I've posted on the podcast of cess
Speaker 1: page from back in the forties and fifties, showing my
Speaker 1: father and my relatives and grandparents and Rosalie. And we'll
Speaker 1: get to that at the end. But I want to
Speaker 1: ask this question, I how many articles do I have
Speaker 1: to read and how many pictures do I have to see?
Speaker 1: Once a year, every year, I gotta see pictures of
Speaker 1: Reese Witherspoon and her lookalike Doughter. They love saying this,
Speaker 1: they love talking about how much they look alike. I'm
Speaker 1: sick of it. The kid's cute, Reese Witherspoon's a door.
Speaker 1: But we get it. But every year there's stories everywhere
Speaker 1: because Rene wishes her daughter a happy birthday, or the
Speaker 1: daughter wishes the mother happy birthday or Merry Christmas on Instagram,
Speaker 1: and you know, the lazy press turns it into a story,
Speaker 1: and it's always about Reese Witherspoon stills feels and looks
Speaker 1: youthful at forty nine or forty eight or forty seven,
Speaker 1: same story every year. Can we move on, please? It's annoying,
Speaker 1: it really is. I don't like to hear this. I
Speaker 1: could never imagine working at a newspaper or a magazine
Speaker 1: right and actually telling your editor, hey, here's a feel
Speaker 1: good story. Reese Witherspoon turned a year older and she
Speaker 1: still looks like a daughter. Wow, yeah she does. You know,
Speaker 1: give me two hundred words on that. Make sure a
Speaker 1: fifty of those words are spent describing what they're wearing,
Speaker 1: even though anybody looking at the picture can see what
Speaker 1: they're wearing. But I can't stand the way stories are
Speaker 1: padded in newspapers or magazines. You know, they'll never say
Speaker 1: the person's name, if they can say the such and
Speaker 1: such star of you know, like if they're doing a
Speaker 1: de Niro story, you know, the Irish The star of
Speaker 1: the Irishman was wearing brown corduroy is like, Okay, who
Speaker 1: cares what he's wearing. It's not a beat shot, it's
Speaker 1: not a bikini in Sardinia we're talking about. I'm from
Speaker 1: a different world. I used to love well. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: used to dread heading into the afternoon meeting with all
Speaker 1: the editors at the New York Daily News, because that's
Speaker 1: when you have to let the desk editors and the
Speaker 1: guys there to ex but to expect story wise when
Speaker 1: it comes to deadline, and if there was anything really
Speaker 1: good that ought to maybe be moved out of the
Speaker 1: gospep column and get preferential treatment on page three or
Speaker 1: five or even the front cover, that's where it was discussed. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: you tell the right people what you're working on, and
Speaker 1: they know what to expect. The only time it sucked
Speaker 1: was when whether there was some days that just nothing
Speaker 1: was really happening, didn't have anything meaty. It was like
Speaker 1: two two thirty three o'clock, two hours till deadline. We
Speaker 1: need four or five stories, you know, twelve hundred words.
Speaker 1: That's when I'd have to pick up the phone and
Speaker 1: call as many plugged in people as I knew, and
Speaker 1: I knew everybody back then. Sometimes I forget d the
Speaker 1: drama that happened in our office. My god, But back
Speaker 1: in the day, New York City had tons of bicycle messengers,
Speaker 1: bike messengers right racing across the city, speeding through midtown traffic.
Speaker 1: A lot of these guys would even to save time.
Speaker 1: The would ride up alongside a bus or a truck
Speaker 1: and they with one hand hold on to the wheel
Speaker 1: well or you know, a window something, and they'd let
Speaker 1: the bus or the truck move them and they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have to peddle for a while. They'd get a break.
Speaker 1: They used to call that skitching. And these messengers were
Speaker 1: typically wiry guys, you know, very hyperactive kind of dudes
Speaker 1: with knee peds and elbow pads. Not all of them
Speaker 1: were helmets either, But when someone had to get me
Speaker 1: a roll of film or a document, court papers, whatever,
Speaker 1: bike messengers were the fastest way to get your shit.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you one time I was I was
Speaker 1: in the city before I had the job. I was
Speaker 1: with my girlfriend soon to be wife at the time,
Speaker 1: and I'm driving my Gray RX seven. I love that car,
Speaker 1: and I'm pulling over to the right side of the
Speaker 1: road to it's the parkinged meter, and I wasn't used
Speaker 1: to driving in the city too much, you know. I
Speaker 1: would go in there for weekends. And I flung up
Speaker 1: on the driver's side door, and a bike messenger like
Speaker 1: you see in the movies, he hit the brakes really hard,
Speaker 1: but it was too late, and he crashed into my
Speaker 1: door and he flew over the handleballs and nothing happened.
Speaker 1: Cursed me out. I said, what the fuck are you
Speaker 1: doing solo? You know, we both did a whole New
Speaker 1: York little curse dance. He got back on his bike
Speaker 1: and left, and I, you know, went on my day.
Speaker 1: But those days don't happen, and now there's laws, suits,
Speaker 1: there's cops involved it all. It used to be like,
Speaker 1: you're okay, I'm okay, good, okay, it was my fault.
Speaker 1: You're right, Oh, I'll take care because we were both
Speaker 1: busy people had shit to do. But these bike messengers
Speaker 1: depended on tips a lot, you know, and they did
Speaker 1: really well, especially on shitty days like it was raining
Speaker 1: really hard or even snowing. Sometimes just too hot and
Speaker 1: too humid to be outdoors. And there was this one
Speaker 1: day where a messenger I hadn't seen before, because we
Speaker 1: got to know them. Came into my office and to
Speaker 1: hand me something. I was about to run to a meeting,
Speaker 1: so I told Michael to handle it. And I got
Speaker 1: back to my desk ten minutes later, and I see
Speaker 1: my day book is gone. Now, back before there were
Speaker 1: iPhones that had all your contacts in there, people actually
Speaker 1: had rollo deses on their desk or you know. I
Speaker 1: used the leather Barrend notebook that had the names of
Speaker 1: the biggest people in New York and LA. I mean everybody.
Speaker 1: They on me Campbell's cell phone, like I had everybody
Speaker 1: and whoever this guy was, and he was never caught.
Speaker 1: He hit the mother load my book. He hit the
Speaker 1: mother load. Not sure what he could do with those
Speaker 1: numbers except Prank called him. I don't know, but he
Speaker 1: got them all. I had to start from the scratch.
Speaker 1: It was awful. It's a lot different than going up
Speaker 1: and getting your shit back from the cloud. Back then,
Speaker 1: you just start over. Anyhow, how embarrassing to have to
Speaker 1: write that yearly non story about Reese Witherspoon looks as
Speaker 1: young as your daughter. Okay, I think much of today's show,
Speaker 1: especially at the top, it's going to be about these
Speaker 1: these these bullshit type stories. Okay, So in addition to
Speaker 1: Reese Witherspoon, I also see a photograph of the singer
Speaker 1: Meghan Trainer. Remember it's all about that bass that show
Speaker 1: is proud of herself on being you know, the girl
Speaker 1: that wasn't skinny, she wasn't a size too. Meghan Tray
Speaker 1: was proud to be a size whatever, twelve. I don't
Speaker 1: know what she was. But the song all about that
Speaker 1: bass meant it's all about women having a big ass,
Speaker 1: big hips that bass, and you know, girls, a lot
Speaker 1: of women latched onto it, just like they latched on
Speaker 1: to listen. They loved hearing a girls saying who talked about, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm big and I don't care. Good Good for you guys,
Speaker 1: I understand. But so in addition to the reason with
Speaker 1: this one, I see this Megan Trainer pitch and she
Speaker 1: dropped a shit ton of weight. Remember Megan Trainer was
Speaker 1: also the girl, the married singer. I figure she married,
Speaker 1: but they got his and her toilets. Remember, because they
Speaker 1: said they don't mind if they both take a shit
Speaker 1: in front of each other, they don't mind they walking
Speaker 1: on each other. So they thought for their their anniversary
Speaker 1: they'd buy a his and her shitter where you're both
Speaker 1: like facing the other way, like your backs are kind
Speaker 1: of together, but you're next to each other. I cannot
Speaker 1: imagine a scenario unless me and my girl were taken
Speaker 1: hostage or whatever, fought in front of a let alone. Shit,
Speaker 1: I mean, taking a leak doesn't bother me. Better dump. No,
Speaker 1: there's somethings people shouldn't see or smell it. Just stop it.
Speaker 1: I remember back when I won all that junk from
Speaker 1: the presenting an Emmy one of the gifts. There was
Speaker 1: so many like we can't getaways at this hotel and
Speaker 1: this spa, and I took advantage of a couple of those.
Speaker 1: One I liked was down There's a place in Santa
Speaker 1: Monica on the beach, a great hotel called Shutters. Shutters
Speaker 1: on the beach. You might know of it. It's a
Speaker 1: great place in Santa Monica, right on the water. I
Speaker 1: took the when I was dating Michelle Brandah. We went there,
Speaker 1: but we weren't we just had started dating. We were like,
Speaker 1: you know, honeymoon phase. Right. We get to the hotel,
Speaker 1: great beautiful, that's great restaurant. The beach is right there,
Speaker 1: and we settle in, dropped the luggage, and I got
Speaker 1: an a bathroom, but number two not number one. So I
Speaker 1: put the TV on high, because you got to do
Speaker 1: that first, because guys sound differently than girls do behind
Speaker 1: closed doors. Except the doors that shutters. They're not doors
Speaker 1: that close. They're doors that have slats on them, so
Speaker 1: you can hear and smell whatever goes on in that bathroom. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not the way you want to begin to relationship.
Speaker 1: But yet we still made it to two years, so
Speaker 1: I guess I wasn't that much of a caveman in there.
Speaker 1: Speaking of caveman, how ugly is Benny Blanco and what
Speaker 1: is Selena Gomez trying to prove? Obviously, you can't have
Speaker 1: a man that you think is prettier than you are beautiful.
Speaker 1: I've already said there's a midget in her line, there's
Speaker 1: a dwarf in her family, and Benny Blanco's is the
Speaker 1: same thing. There's chromagnum in his family, nanderthal in his family.
Speaker 1: Look at the picture. And then I saw him have
Speaker 1: an interview where he actually said that you know he's
Speaker 1: went through he's dressing nice thing. Going to all these events.
Speaker 1: They'll probably be at the met Ball in May, and
Speaker 1: he said to either Seth Myers or Jimmy Fallon, you know,
Speaker 1: I've actually become hot to some people. And he was giggling,
Speaker 1: but he kind of felt like he's now hot to
Speaker 1: some degree. I understand the guy's a brilliant music producer.
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about his talents to say that,
Speaker 1: but I heard he is just like Scott Storch. Is
Speaker 1: not a good looking guy and developed such a cocaine
Speaker 1: addiction and pain pill addiction. But Scott Storch was like
Speaker 1: a wizard with the way he can create beats and
Speaker 1: make those beats at a piano or an organ. I
Speaker 1: mean just he made some of the greatest beats in
Speaker 1: hip hop. You can imagine, not another guy, but everybody,
Speaker 1: every girl banged him, Paris Hill, they all, they all
Speaker 1: wanted a piece him. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: just because he's talented. But this this Benny Blanco horrible looking,
Speaker 1: horrible like circus level, and Solana comes, She's happy. I
Speaker 1: can't you know, I'm off on a tangent. But Megan
Speaker 1: Trader right, okay, Megan fan his and her shitters, Okay,
Speaker 1: Megan Tranda is really thin now in this picture, alarmingly thin.
Speaker 1: And she also got a boot drop that was last
Speaker 1: month or two months ago. Story and uh, the picture
Speaker 1: doesn't even look like her, that's how thin she is.
Speaker 1: And the person who wrote this article is acting like
Speaker 1: it's a shock that she lost so much weight, like,
Speaker 1: what did she do? What do you think she did?
Speaker 1: Do you think she actually hit the gym? You think
Speaker 1: she lifted weights? Any and all actresses and plenty of actors,
Speaker 1: actors who have terrible allergies to heavy weights. They have
Speaker 1: forsaken the gym from Manjaro or Ozempik. That's what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Bet the house on it. There's no reason to wonder
Speaker 1: how they went about getting thinner. Those days are over.
Speaker 1: There's no wondering anymore. Even Channing Tatum, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: we have so many videos in our phones of Rosalie
Speaker 1: after a wine. Now she has one wine and she's done.
Speaker 1: Sometimes she makes the man to read the while she's cooking.
Speaker 1: Why she does it, we don't know. If she does
Speaker 1: it on empty stomach, she's done. She gets what she
Speaker 1: calls ossified on one drink. And she loves Channing Tatum.
Speaker 1: She loves guys who can dance. And there's about four
Speaker 1: videos in my phone and Joey's phone and her phone
Speaker 1: of Joey saying to how do you pronounce that actor's
Speaker 1: name you like? And when she's drunk, she can't remember
Speaker 1: Tanning Chatham, Right, Tanny Chatham, Try again, ma, And as
Speaker 1: she's thinking, we're throwing that name is like Carol Channing huh,
Speaker 1: and we're just naming the other names that sound kind
Speaker 1: of adjacent to Channing Chanky, shit, Tanning Tanning Chatham. Then
Speaker 1: she's positive Channing Tatham, No, you're wrong again. Oh it's
Speaker 1: so crazy. So Channing Tatum apparently gained forty pounds for
Speaker 1: a roll. I don't know what movie he was where
Speaker 1: he appeared any different than he normally looks. I don't
Speaker 1: know what that is. But there's a before and an
Speaker 1: after picture of him. In the after he looks great,
Speaker 1: you know, Rip City. The guy's got a great body.
Speaker 1: But the before picture he's like, I'll never play a
Speaker 1: fat role again. And I'm looking at the before picture
Speaker 1: that he calls fat, and I want to I wish
Speaker 1: that picture were my after picture. I mean, for him,
Speaker 1: it's a fact pick I get it. For most of us,
Speaker 1: fifty to sixty year old fathers. It's as close as
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to a Greek guy his before picture.
Speaker 1: I'll take it now. You think Channing Tatum or Tanning
Speaker 1: Chatham just jogged and Ate Paleo. No, he takes the
Speaker 1: shot too when needed, Are you kidding me? When needed?
Speaker 1: Hollywood suddenly getting thin like Megan Trainer or Rebel Wilson,
Speaker 1: Tracy Morgan, Tom Segura, Kelly Clarkson, Adele Lizzo, Sharon Osmoe Oprah,
Speaker 1: countless others. These diabetes drugs for them would be like
Speaker 1: if steroids were suddenly legal. For athletes, it'd be like
Speaker 1: Mark Wigarre, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds and Jose Kints
Speaker 1: go all over again. Every athlete in the world would
Speaker 1: take them to get an edge like they had back then.
Speaker 1: For athletes, it's about strength and muscle repairs. For Hollywood,
Speaker 1: it's all about squeezing into his size two or being
Speaker 1: considered for a Marble movie. You know, Rachel's who's playing
Speaker 1: snow White, and because of her mouth, it's gonna be shit,
Speaker 1: and it's getting shit reviews and it's just not gonna
Speaker 1: be a big hit. She's back pedaling somewhat, but she's
Speaker 1: an asshole, anti Trump, also anti Disney, anti man. You
Speaker 1: know what she said, she's got a not in the
Speaker 1: snow white, they made it look like a child in
Speaker 1: snow white. But other pictures, not what she's doing, blowing
Speaker 1: her jaws, moving a mile a minute, but just regular pictures.
Speaker 1: She is a really beautiful girl. I'm telling you. I
Speaker 1: know she looks like a kid, forget that she's not
Speaker 1: a kid, but she's a beautiful girl. Have you seen
Speaker 1: a chest on her? It's like they it's like they're
Speaker 1: making themselves look like young boys, even galaic at doll.
Speaker 1: I'll get her in a second. What the all she
Speaker 1: is now is an action star. She's not a good actress.
Speaker 1: She's beautiful, but they only use her in these roles
Speaker 1: where she can throw a couple of high kicks and
Speaker 1: beat up men like the Rock and Ryan Reynolds. They
Speaker 1: just they're just filling niches with these people. They're not
Speaker 1: they're not getting people who've studied and are tremendous actresses
Speaker 1: and actors who can do comedy, drama, dance, sing that
Speaker 1: those days are over. They just they're just plugging people
Speaker 1: in for certain Roles just I don't know. I watched
Speaker 1: TCM too much. I just I like the where it
Speaker 1: used to be, where people actually studied to know everything
Speaker 1: there was about being a Hollywood star. Now it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter you make a Marvel movie, you'd go for life.
Speaker 1: Like I said, Ggado, I've been thinking I saw her
Speaker 1: in a film recently. It was a caper called Red Notice.
Speaker 1: Because I've seen everything on Netflix. Like I said, I
Speaker 1: can't where she outsmarts the rock and Ryan Reynolds, who
Speaker 1: I got to omit. He's funny in this movie. But
Speaker 1: the more and more I see him, especially after the
Speaker 1: whole Blake, Blively and Baldoni lawsuit, Ryan Reynolds appears more
Speaker 1: and more to come off as a caddie queer. He
Speaker 1: reminds me of a homocentral who's married and the wife
Speaker 1: doesn't know, or maybe she does know. But it's a
Speaker 1: good it's a good union, it's a good business partnership.
Speaker 1: I swear to God, because he's always funny with those asides,
Speaker 1: he does or looks to the left or right, or
Speaker 1: breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to the camera right.
Speaker 1: You know, I've seen him in a few things recently,
Speaker 1: and I can tell whether it's Red Notice or The
Speaker 1: Adam Project or Deadpool, that he writes his own shit.
Speaker 1: Whoever the screenwriters are in these movies, they give him
Speaker 1: the script that he makes changes. That doesn't happen much too. Actors,
Speaker 1: four actors he has to because there cannot be three
Speaker 1: or four separate screenwriters. Who's who's perfectly captured his language
Speaker 1: and unique sense of humor? That's they know? Why is
Speaker 1: that important? Why does that matter? It really doesn't accept it.
Speaker 1: If you think about it, you can kind of put
Speaker 1: two and two together to better understand the kind of
Speaker 1: person he is. Because, as we know, Blake Lively has
Speaker 1: bragged that Ryan wrote the entire Rooftop Flirty Sexy scene
Speaker 1: where Blake and Baldoni first meet in that movie. It
Speaker 1: ends with us, right, And when you watch that scene,
Speaker 1: it's called that ends with rough right. Yeah, I've actually
Speaker 1: forgotten the name of the film because it's all about
Speaker 1: the lawsuit. But yeah, I'm pretty sure it ends with us.
Speaker 1: But you watch that scene and you hear that, the
Speaker 1: jokes and the dialogue, it's pure Ryan Reynolds. And on
Speaker 1: top of that, if you remember back on SNL's fiftieth
Speaker 1: anniversary show. There was that moment in the beginning where
Speaker 1: Amy Poehler and Tina Fay come out and they're looking
Speaker 1: across the audience trying to spot the famous people sitting down,
Speaker 1: and they go, hey, there's Ryan Reynolds. Hey, Ryan, how's
Speaker 1: it going right in the fit of the lawsuit conversation?
Speaker 1: And Ryan stands up all smiles and Blake Lively looking
Speaker 1: very glamorous to his left. She's beautiful, but you know,
Speaker 1: I can't like her as much over all as bullshit,
Speaker 1: But anyhow, she is a beautiful woman, even though she
Speaker 1: changed her face like everybody else has done in this town.
Speaker 1: But Ryan says nervously, everything's great. Why what have you heard? Haha?
Speaker 1: Audience laughs awkwardly. Now the story is that wasn't the
Speaker 1: way that bit was supposed to go. Nobody was supposed
Speaker 1: to find us out. But what happened was the guy
Speaker 1: who's held up the cute cards for SNL and Seth
Speaker 1: Myers and he even did Carson Daily Show. This guy's
Speaker 1: been at this job for like thirty or forty years,
Speaker 1: Wally Ferriston. They call them Wally cute cards. He was
Speaker 1: being interviewed for some reason by some people in the
Speaker 1: Australian press, and they asked about that moment. They were
Speaker 1: obviously fishing to get some information on Ryan and Blake
Speaker 1: and just They asked about that moment when Amy and
Speaker 1: Tina and Ryan made that comment, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: was it tense? How did ago that night? You know,
Speaker 1: with everything in the press, And Wily innocently said, oh,
Speaker 1: that wasn't what was originally written, so I have to
Speaker 1: change the hue card. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ryan didn't like the line they gave him, so
Speaker 2: he changed it to what he said. Now, it's not
Speaker 2: very important in the scheme of things, but it does
Speaker 2: show you how hands on he is with his words
Speaker 2: and his wife's words.
Speaker 1: I mean, how crafted. In other words, he's been, to
Speaker 1: use that word again, crafting their image as a couple
Speaker 1: a lot. And I firmly believe, especially with the way
Speaker 1: Blake kissed justin so passionately. But more than that, there
Speaker 1: was one particular kiss where she bit his lower lip
Speaker 1: at one point. That kind of stuff isn't written in
Speaker 1: scripts generally. That's something that happens when you're into someone,
Speaker 1: and I think she was into him in that scene
Speaker 1: and during that film, and I think Ryan Reynolds got
Speaker 1: jealous with the way she was getting along with this
Speaker 1: co star. And I'll always believe this whole lawsuit thing
Speaker 1: Blake was pushed by Ryan Reynolds to go through with
Speaker 1: it because of his own insecurity because I don't know,
Speaker 1: possibly being gay. Maybe I don't know, may have gotten
Speaker 1: him jealous. Anyhow, long tangent back to Megan Trainer follow
Speaker 1: me here looking real Finn she is. Last month or so,
Speaker 1: she was excited to get new boobs, like I said,
Speaker 1: And I think she had complained because after having two
Speaker 1: young sons back to back, her boobs had gotten deflated.
Speaker 1: A lot of women talk about this, I understand, and
Speaker 1: she needed something to make herself feel better. Good for her.
Speaker 1: I always say, if you don't like when you see
Speaker 1: in the mirror, change it. By the way, speaking the mirrors,
Speaker 1: the urologist has me stand Oh, I didn't tell you this.
Speaker 1: She was a very hands on doctor, and by that
Speaker 1: I mean she wanted to do, you know, none investigating.
Speaker 1: She wanted to look at my package. And I'm not
Speaker 1: really I don't get funny around doctors, even if female.
Speaker 1: Whether it's a nurse or a doctor, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'm where I'm supposed to be have at it, so
Speaker 1: I dropped my pants obviously, you know, whenever you're nervous,
Speaker 1: the guy shoots back into your body a look like
Speaker 1: a turtle hat. That happens, you know, But I didn't care,
Speaker 1: and it didn't even shoot back that far. So I
Speaker 1: was feeling pretty good. And she's feeling around me, and
Speaker 1: she goes, have you felt different lately? And again just
Speaker 1: grubbing the my thing and my bulls. I'm looking for
Speaker 1: her nis and I don't. She finally were in front
Speaker 1: of a full length mirror and I'm watching her handle
Speaker 1: me like a substape, and she goes, oh, I see
Speaker 1: a little hearing your belly button. I said, what she says,
Speaker 1: you have a little hernia your belly button. I said,
Speaker 1: I've never seen that, but I never look at my body.
Speaker 1: She goes, you need to. You gotta inspect your buddy.
Speaker 1: And I looked at my belly button for the first time,
Speaker 1: and I don't know since I'm thirty eight, and I
Speaker 1: see the right side of my belly buttons got a
Speaker 1: little bump belly button HERNIAU phunu. But yeah, she worked
Speaker 1: me over and they asked me to write a review
Speaker 1: of how Well do you Feel at north Shore blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, and I said, I like the way Angelica
Speaker 1: Kaslowski handled me, and I mean handled me. She has
Speaker 1: very warm hands and a great disposition. Hope she reads that.
Speaker 1: So Meghan Trader, good for he wants to feel better,
Speaker 1: get yourself some boobs. Great. But if I were Meghan Trader,
Speaker 1: I would have gotten that nose fixed before anything. Take
Speaker 1: a look at the picture of her kneeling down, very thin,
Speaker 1: and she's making the heart sign with her fingers. You know,
Speaker 1: the heart with your thumbs and index fingers, or if
Speaker 1: you're really obnoxious, all four fingers up top and the
Speaker 1: two thumbs and you gotta hold it by heart and
Speaker 1: push it out. That's worse than Hal Hitler. To me,
Speaker 1: I'd rather see a Hitler salute than than the fucking
Speaker 1: ten thing is doing the heart. I can't stand it.
Speaker 1: Whenever I see Ariana Grande or the green bitch from
Speaker 1: Wicked doing that, I want to snap their fingers in half.
Speaker 1: I hate the fingerhart thing. So I'm looking at Megan Trainer,
Speaker 1: especially her nose, and I couldn't help but think what
Speaker 1: my father would say if he was still alive to
Speaker 1: see this, he would have said, my own, This one's
Speaker 1: got the map of Israel on her face. He always
Speaker 1: called people with big noses, they look like the map
Speaker 1: of Israel. Normally those people are Jewish, you know, Jewish noses.
Speaker 1: Jews have noses that are very distinct. Some Italians do too,
Speaker 1: look at Justin Baldoni. Matter of fact, a lot of
Speaker 1: good looking guys have noses that are a little bit
Speaker 1: too big for their head. I think, so it's my finding.
Speaker 1: But like Chuck Schuma, Chuck Schuma, his nose gives him
Speaker 1: a face that could be the map of Israel, but
Speaker 1: he's Jewish. Megan Training is not you, so it's weird.
Speaker 1: But me while my father had a big nose, so
Speaker 1: the whole thing is weird. That even says it. I
Speaker 1: thought I got my mother's Roman nose. Speaking of my father.
Speaker 1: The last few days, I've had a picture dump on
Speaker 1: the Facebook podcast Obsessed page, and the pictures have been
Speaker 1: from the late forties into the fifties. They were taken
Speaker 1: back in the day when my father and mother, as
Speaker 1: well as many aunts and uncles, would leave Brooklyn or
Speaker 1: Queens or Bronx wherever they were living and they'd spend
Speaker 1: the weekends at this place my grandmother had out in
Speaker 1: the country in New Jersey. The house, little house on
Speaker 1: like twenty acres of land on a lake, streams, the
Speaker 1: very nice wild animals roaming, not wild, not lions, you know,
Speaker 1: like animals. Only Roselie in the rain went to this place.
Speaker 1: I wasn't born yet. I wish I were, because the
Speaker 1: pictures and the stories that I grew up hearing, they
Speaker 1: were so fun to listen to. This place was where
Speaker 1: everybody would spend weekends. Look at how rich knobs and
Speaker 1: celebrities leave this New York city and flock to the Hamptons. Well,
Speaker 1: this place was in a town called bud Lake. There
Speaker 1: was another house in a town called Upper Hibernia that
Speaker 1: I sometimes confuse. That's the story for another day. Either way,
Speaker 1: we referred to this place as the country, or those
Speaker 1: years as the country. But you know how if you
Speaker 1: move around a lot, or if you've left your house
Speaker 1: or two houses. Most of us live in two or
Speaker 1: three houses as we get older, you know, and whenever
Speaker 1: you're telling the story, you'll always preface the story by saying,
Speaker 1: remember back on Lington Street, like you'll mention the address
Speaker 1: you know how we go to the beach on Saturdays
Speaker 1: when we lived on Arlington. You know, hey, let's just
Speaker 1: think of that an Terry have her daughter once you
Speaker 1: lived on at least deck or was that that the
Speaker 1: grand planes has. I don't know why we do that,
Speaker 1: as if we need to be shocked into that era
Speaker 1: to correctly remember a story, but against the person in
Speaker 1: the proper state of mind. You know, do we have
Speaker 1: this car on Sneeker review or was not taken from Brooklyn?
Speaker 1: There's stupid questions like that. So I grew up with
Speaker 1: many great tales from the country, and as I got older,
Speaker 1: as you know, my family always had cameras around. As
Speaker 1: you can tell, I'm so thankful for that, because now
Speaker 1: that's none, they're all gone. I cherished those pictures more
Speaker 1: than anything. And we were moving this big trunk that
Speaker 1: belonged to my grandmother, and Roseley has it in that
Speaker 1: trunk or all photo album. So I took the big
Speaker 1: trunk downstairs and I opened all these albums, and oh
Speaker 1: my god, I love what comes out. So many great shots,
Speaker 1: some of which I've never seen before. But when we
Speaker 1: were younger, living on Long Island, living at the Snetter
Speaker 1: Care Avenue house. Many times after a big Sunday meal,
Speaker 1: we would start to beg my father, Daddy, can we
Speaker 1: see home movies tonight? Can we see home movies? I
Speaker 1: want to see the country. I want to see Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: And that meant that I all into the walking closet
Speaker 1: under the stairs and pull out the projector and the
Speaker 1: white screen on which we'd watch a bunch of old
Speaker 1: eight and sixteen millimeter films of bygone days. I mean,
Speaker 1: and Mary had a shit ton of films from all
Speaker 1: of her world travels. I mean, I hate to say,
Speaker 1: but we got rid of them when Rosie and Jack move.
Speaker 1: We just I just threwmn, like who even has that
Speaker 1: projector anymore? Who's even gonna convert them? We're not. It
Speaker 1: was a Marian Polity, French Polynesia, Alaska, Africa, feeding groupers
Speaker 1: with a diving bell and the butterfly outfit, like Mary
Speaker 1: was crazy. But they're gone. But there's plenty of videos
Speaker 1: of the Brooklyn days and the country days, and there
Speaker 1: was a lot of me as a baby in benzonurse Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: But I love watching the movies from the Country because
Speaker 1: I was in awe that all the stories I'd heard
Speaker 1: that was like living proof. I'd see the proof in
Speaker 1: flickering images of black and white or muted color, sepia tones,
Speaker 1: you know, like that movie Big Fish with Albert Finney.
Speaker 1: I love that movie so much because this movie was
Speaker 1: about a guy who told great, big stories, you know,
Speaker 1: like unbelievable type stories that his son didn't believe. See
Speaker 1: the movie Big Fish. It's one of my top ten movies.
Speaker 1: It's so beautiful. But throughout the end of the movie
Speaker 1: it comes to he comes to learn that all those
Speaker 1: stories his father told were true. And I won't tell
Speaker 1: you how he knows, but it's a brilliant ending. It's
Speaker 1: so sweet. So you have those videos, I'm sure at
Speaker 1: home where everybody's in the videos moving a little quicker
Speaker 1: than they normally do. I don't know why that film
Speaker 1: made people look quicker, like throwing a football or catching
Speaker 1: catching the ball, flipping a burger on the grill. Everything
Speaker 1: was a little quicker two seconds quicker. Billy Crystal is
Speaker 1: a great bit where he imitates the days of watching
Speaker 1: old movies like that and how sons and fathers have
Speaker 1: baseball catches happened so quick with the ball in the midt.
Speaker 1: Don't why the film was just quicker back then, but
Speaker 1: I guess the flickering made it seem that way. But
Speaker 1: I had forever heard stories about how my grandmother built
Speaker 1: her own rock garden with these great big stones that
Speaker 1: her son's my father and brother Larry and Phil would
Speaker 1: collect from all over the property. And my father would
Speaker 1: tell me stories of how he would unearth these great
Speaker 1: big stones and carry them to his mother where he
Speaker 1: and his brothers and cousins would help her cement them
Speaker 1: in place. Matter of fact, when I got older and
Speaker 1: my father's physique became important to me because he always
Speaker 1: had a great physique. Dad, you didn't lift weights, No,
Speaker 1: what weights? What weights? How'd you get muscles? How'd you
Speaker 1: from working in the country, from working, you know, will
Speaker 1: barrel shovels? You know, No, I don't know. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: so you get muscles. It's different era, different time, lift
Speaker 1: them up, big sacks of dirt and this and that. Okay.
Speaker 1: So it was there that grandma w grow you vegetables,
Speaker 1: that herb and of course there were fruit trees everywhere.
Speaker 1: There are pictures out posted my father and other men
Speaker 1: building a wooden structure. One was a big chicken coop
Speaker 1: because at one point, a weasel came in and killed
Speaker 1: all the grandma's chickens, so they had to build a
Speaker 1: bigger coop, but the right kind of wiring. There was
Speaker 1: also an addition they built into the house. And I
Speaker 1: just asked Rosie what they were building in this picture,
Speaker 1: and she said, my mother and father had My father
Speaker 1: just came home from war. Rosalie was like two years old,
Speaker 1: and don't forget, my father didn't see over the first
Speaker 1: eighteen months. He was still overseas. So they built a
Speaker 1: small addition or a honeymoon suite that was for him
Speaker 1: and my mother and Rosalie for more privacy. But the
Speaker 1: country was where they fished and hunted. It of course
Speaker 1: ate these great, great big meals, and it was also
Speaker 1: where the younger cousins could run wild through all these
Speaker 1: acres of forests and streams and get away from city life.
Speaker 1: And Rosie told me one of the big adventures back
Speaker 1: then was they visited a supermarket. You know, it was
Speaker 1: a place that was obviously the precursor for what markets
Speaker 1: look like today, but way way smaller. Obviously, before that,
Speaker 1: they either took food with them from Brooklyn or went
Speaker 1: to the one general store for staples around the house,
Speaker 1: and Rosie was telling me she also remembers as as
Speaker 1: that way of life not being so great since there
Speaker 1: was no plumbing in the country. Everybody had to use
Speaker 1: an outhouse and the water pump from the well to
Speaker 1: get water. Just very different kind of lifestyle. But the
Speaker 1: one picture I posted yesterday was one of my father.
Speaker 1: I'd never seen his picture before, holding a scythe in
Speaker 1: his right hand, and in front of him is a great,
Speaker 1: big turtle hanging from a tree branch. Looks like a big,
Speaker 1: stopping turtle and there's twine around its neck. And I
Speaker 1: was struck by that post because my father loved animals,
Speaker 1: and I remember him as a man who would fall
Speaker 1: to the floor whenever he got home from work and
Speaker 1: play with our two months Sonny and Pippin before it
Speaker 1: even ate dinner. He'd spend five ten minutes on the
Speaker 1: floor tickling them, rubbing their bellies. And he always liked
Speaker 1: to do what I found myself doing to tutsi as
Speaker 1: I had done to dogs in the past, and that
Speaker 1: was to hold their faces and push their nose, their
Speaker 1: wet noses into your cheeks, or he take the dog
Speaker 1: or cat's hat and put it gently under his chin,
Speaker 1: with his teeth clenched, his hand bespatching them on their bellies.
Speaker 1: I do the same thing. Probably many of you do too.
Speaker 1: In fact, Lorrainium, Rosey's first dog was a little Pomeranian
Speaker 1: named Tutu. His real name was Ozi as an o
Speaker 1: z and it had a little something to do with
Speaker 1: my father getting grief when he worked under cover for
Speaker 1: the US Treasury. His higher ups didn't like that he
Speaker 1: accepted this puppy from one of his informants. You can't
Speaker 1: do that. This guy came upon a litter of Pomeranians,
Speaker 1: asked my father would his daughters liked them? He said,
Speaker 1: of course. He took Tutu or Ozi called Osie because
Speaker 1: in the drug trade, Ozi meaning ounce was how they
Speaker 1: measure drug. So Ozi was the day and my father
Speaker 1: surprised Rosalie in the rain with this little fur ball.
Speaker 1: And then in time he bought a female Pomeranian, so
Speaker 1: so Ozie could make anyhow, I'm saying he loved animals,
Speaker 1: So why is he in the picture holding a scythe
Speaker 1: by this poor dead turtle? Did they eat? Rosie said?
Speaker 1: I don't remember us eating it? But then she put
Speaker 1: on a sad face. She said, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he ate that or not, but you know, she did
Speaker 1: say that this was a period, or there was a
Speaker 1: period after he got home from the war where he
Speaker 1: would go off into the woods and try and bring
Speaker 1: birds and small game home to eat, and shockingly, sometimes
Speaker 1: just to shoot. I mean, he was a great marksman.
Speaker 1: I have all the certificates and plaques that show his ability.
Speaker 1: While he was in law enforcement and shit like that,
Speaker 1: and in the Coastguard, he was always like first when
Speaker 1: it came to the marksmanship. So I asked, roh, what
Speaker 1: do you mean he just would hurt animals, because that's
Speaker 1: not like him at all. And she says she remembers
Speaker 1: a period when she was very young when my father
Speaker 1: was with his gun everywhere. He had these rifles, a
Speaker 1: car being and a twenty two he'd sent home and
Speaker 1: pieces from overseas and put him back together when he
Speaker 1: got home, and he used them to hunt and whatever
Speaker 1: the hell. So, in addition to that turtle, she said,
Speaker 1: there was a day when he shot and injured an owl,
Speaker 1: and there were other instances too that she remembers not
Speaker 1: being happy, and because she loves animals, But the story goes,
Speaker 1: and I remember my father telling me this when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, I asked him why he didn't like
Speaker 1: to go hunting, and he told me this story about
Speaker 1: one day, while hunting in the country, he set his
Speaker 1: sights on a female deer, A young doe was kind
Speaker 1: of close to him, certainly within shooting range, and he
Speaker 1: got into place and he, you know, he fired his
Speaker 1: rifle and down went this dough. Now I would imagine
Speaker 1: this is going to be brought back to eat. You know,
Speaker 1: people ate venison, and that would have been a great
Speaker 1: big meal and for many meals to go freeze the
Speaker 1: meat had said. But before my father could go and
Speaker 1: grab the dead deer, he spots this big buck who
Speaker 1: apparently was with this dough was kind of lagging behind.
Speaker 1: And this great buck walks up to this dead dough
Speaker 1: and sniffs her, looks at my father, looks back at
Speaker 1: the dead deer, and he picks up his chin and
Speaker 1: looks at my father again, and this time he began
Speaker 1: to take several steps toward my father. I mean, had
Speaker 1: you know, big head and everything. It was not going
Speaker 1: to be a pleasant scene. And my father always told
Speaker 1: me after that incident, he felt such shame and disgusted
Speaker 1: with himself that he never hunted an animal again, let
Speaker 1: alone go on a hunt. And for the rest of
Speaker 1: his life, he only shot that rifle on the fourth
Speaker 1: of July. We always celebrated his birthday on the fourth.
Speaker 1: He was born July fifth. We celebrated on the fourth,
Speaker 1: and on that night every year, he'd take me up
Speaker 1: to the deck, which was right off his the master bedroom,
Speaker 1: and he'd fire about five shots into the black night
Speaker 1: sky high above us, into the and over the Great
Speaker 1: South Bay. I guess those bullets never landed into someone's
Speaker 1: boat or into someone's body while they were fishing at night.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, we never read a story
Speaker 1: about a fisherman being shot dead in his boat, so
Speaker 1: I guess those bullets landed harmlessly into the water. But
Speaker 1: there was one particularly frightening day, and there's a picture
Speaker 1: to prove it. I can't find it. It was always
Speaker 1: in Rosalie's dining room. She might know where it is.
Speaker 1: I'll post it if I find it, because it's exactly
Speaker 1: this story. There was this one day, very frightening day,
Speaker 1: when he had his car being with him. I think
Speaker 1: it was whatever it was the twenty two were it
Speaker 1: had a sight on it right, a scope, I should say,
Speaker 1: and he was an expert with that scope. Everybody knew that.
Speaker 1: But one day, I'm sure, with a belly full of
Speaker 1: my grandmother's homemade red wine, he ordered Rosalie to hold
Speaker 1: a small stick in her hand to the side of
Speaker 1: her body and above her head. I don't know what
Speaker 1: she was ten eleven, I don't even know. He tells
Speaker 1: her to walk twenty thirty feet away and face him.
Speaker 1: And when my relatives saw what was about to happen,
Speaker 1: obviously my father was showing off that he could shoot
Speaker 1: the stick clean from his young daughter's fingers, they all
Speaker 1: began to beg him to stop. But my father had
Speaker 1: a bad way about him. But unfortunately I've inherited that
Speaker 1: sometimes nobody could tell him nothing. So Rosalie goes, walks
Speaker 1: thirty steps away, hauls up the stick. My father lowers
Speaker 1: his chin to the barrel of the rifle. Imagine you're
Speaker 1: a mother and that's your daughter, closes his right eye
Speaker 1: and looks through the scope with his left, and then
Speaker 1: he asked, Rosalie Railroad, do you trust your father? Yes, daddy.
Speaker 1: Then he squeezed the trigger and the stick was blown
Speaker 1: from her hand. It's when Rosalie tells me those stories
Speaker 1: that I complainly see that. In the past, she's told
Speaker 1: me that the father she grew up with and the
Speaker 1: one who raised me were two entirely different men. And
Speaker 1: I shudder to think that that's the truth, but I
Speaker 1: know it is. You always think your father is your father,
Speaker 1: whether it's nineteen forty five or nineteen eighty five. But
Speaker 1: no Men change, sometimes for the better, hopefully for the better.
Speaker 1: But there is more than one side to complicated men.
Speaker 1: Maybe some of you out there know them, but I
Speaker 1: know how she felt. I would have walked out there
Speaker 1: with a stick in my hand too, but he would
Speaker 1: have been much older by that, and I think cooler
Speaker 1: heads would have prevailed. But back then, home from the war,
Speaker 1: you can't tell him nothing. I'm aj Benz. So that
Speaker 1: was your Daily on Filtered podcast from March twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Let's do this again tomorrow.