Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, aj Benzi here with fame is a bitch.
Speaker 1: This is your daily Unfiltered podcast or April first, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, oh four oh one, two oh two six.
Speaker 1: We did it. We did it outside of my car
Speaker 1: getting fucked up. I think we all did. Okay, So
Speaker 1: in like a lion, out like a land. That's the
Speaker 1: way it should be. So long and let's move on. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, I wanted to ask you guys a
Speaker 1: question yesterday I failed to ask this. What did you
Speaker 1: do for International Trans Day of Visibility? You know it's
Speaker 1: a a holiday or a day of note. I guess
Speaker 1: it's very important. But yeah, the visual the trans Day
Speaker 1: of Visibility, I mean, look on top of the very
Speaker 1: important day when trans make themselves visible, ordinarily whenever they're
Speaker 1: in a murder or school shooting or that type of shit,
Speaker 1: then trends are very visible as the killers. I mean,
Speaker 1: in the past few months, trans people have killed more
Speaker 1: people than ICE agents did. And get the protests of
Speaker 1: for ICE to go, not for the trends to go
Speaker 1: get help. I don't get it. But if you missed
Speaker 1: yesterday's also big important day, you could still get behind
Speaker 1: the trans and gay movements if you want later on
Speaker 1: this year, just to keep you up to date so
Speaker 1: you can always be there for your trends and LGBTQ
Speaker 1: people's very important. There's also trans Awareness Week. They've got
Speaker 1: a week from November thirteenth through the nineteenth, which is
Speaker 1: not a day of visibility, but it is a day
Speaker 1: where we need to be aware of them. Okay. Then
Speaker 1: there's National Coming Out Day, which could be for anybody.
Speaker 1: That's October twenty sixth. Then we can all celebrate, well
Speaker 1: not then, but a month before that, September twenty sixth,
Speaker 1: that's celebrate Bisexual Day. Then of course there is LGBTQ
Speaker 1: Pride Day, which is on June twenty eighth. It comes
Speaker 1: at the very end of the Pride month of June.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen our government bend over backwards so
Speaker 1: far or even forwards? I guess in this particular instance,
Speaker 1: bending over forwards so far that there toes is stuff
Speaker 1: down their throat. How much do we need to know
Speaker 1: about the lgbtqb Less than ten percent of the country
Speaker 1: is LGBTQ Lesbians make up one point four percent. Sounds
Speaker 1: kind of low, but let's go with what I checked
Speaker 1: on gronk gronk. Trans people, as we know, represent zero
Speaker 1: point zero five percent of our country, you know, but
Speaker 1: sure give them a day of visibility, a day of
Speaker 1: a week of awareness, and a month. That's that's more
Speaker 1: than fair for zero point zero five percent of the population.
Speaker 1: Well how about this, Let's just keep a tab on
Speaker 1: who a lot of the new like, let's keep a
Speaker 1: tab on a lot of these new spate of school
Speaker 1: shooters and assassins, rooftop assassins are. Let's keep a truck
Speaker 1: and keep tab of them, and let's see where their
Speaker 1: sexuality lies. I think the one who has no arms
Speaker 1: and legs, who killed the person in the car, then
Speaker 1: the two friends will run over by the truck. This
Speaker 1: person fires nine millimeters even though she is I say
Speaker 1: she because I'm looking at the picture I posted it
Speaker 1: last week. It's a fucking trance, they keep saying. They
Speaker 1: keep calling her a man. Look at the picture. She's going,
Speaker 1: it's a feminine thing. It's a feminine thing, and that's it.
Speaker 1: No one wants to believe me, but either way it'll
Speaker 1: come out eventually, because you know, I actually checked how
Speaker 1: many of the recent mass shootings were at the hands
Speaker 1: of you know of transgenders and to be surprised. Man.
Speaker 1: Of course, the internet does backflips telling you, well, they
Speaker 1: just debunk the trans shooter myth. If you type in
Speaker 1: how many mass shooters were trans page, you have the
Speaker 1: page from Google denouncing it. It's not true, it's not true.
Speaker 1: Doing all they can to make sure these sick bastards
Speaker 1: are looked upon in a good way. They the article says.
Speaker 1: One article said, there have only been four mass shootings
Speaker 1: at the hands of transgender individuals. That's bullshit. They don't
Speaker 1: even mention the one that shooting that happened in the
Speaker 1: Canada or the Rhode Island killer. Both cases, their families
Speaker 1: spoke openly about the killer being trans or turning trans.
Speaker 1: Can't always get the truth online. This is such bullshit.
Speaker 1: It's a big reason why I can't like or sy
Speaker 1: hypathighs with trans people. I can't. To me, they are
Speaker 1: impossible to like, as is some of these people that
Speaker 1: come up and down my block, who come out of
Speaker 1: the woods or the park, like weirdos from Michael Jackson's
Speaker 1: thriller video. And I've been telling you about the tubepole
Speaker 1: on the corner, the woman, the black woman with the
Speaker 1: dyed red wig and the boyfriend. I went out there
Speaker 1: again this morning because the trash that I asked three
Speaker 1: one want to pick up was picked up. Now there's
Speaker 1: all new trash in front of the car. The cars
Speaker 1: held together by bungee cords. Everything's inside the car, blankets,
Speaker 1: you name. It's disgusting. I go three one mone, which
Speaker 1: I don't want to bother the nine one one. Finally,
Speaker 1: this morning, I go out there. She's yelling, I go
Speaker 1: shut the fuck up. I said, if I come out
Speaker 1: here again, I swear to Christ, you're gonna wish. The
Speaker 1: cops came, Oh yeah, it takes a wet boat, and
Speaker 1: she's barking at me. Meanwhile, she's smoking crack. She's holding
Speaker 1: the crack pipe. Said, look at it. It's this bitch
Speaker 1: is smoking in front of me. Her boyfriend does nothing.
Speaker 1: I look on the ground. Right in the street, next
Speaker 1: to the curb is a bottle of prescription pills like
Speaker 1: halfway film. I'm like, this can't be. I threw him
Speaker 1: at the guy's chest. He's sitting in this chair. He
Speaker 1: doesn't do nothing. Pussy the girl and I going out,
Speaker 1: I said, that's it. I'm calling the fucking cops. I
Speaker 1: call the cops. They come in and they basically tell
Speaker 1: me two big cops are like, yeah, listen, man, you
Speaker 1: know people voted for what they voted for. They're making
Speaker 1: this political liss. I didn't vote that way. That's not me.
Speaker 1: They got not us either, But the way the laws
Speaker 1: are set up by the people who are voted in,
Speaker 1: we can't pull that person away unless we're here when
Speaker 1: the threat happens. Blah blah. We checked the cars registered.
Speaker 1: Even if she's living in it, it's registered. It's pluck legally.
Speaker 1: Right now, the garbage will be taken, I said, the
Speaker 1: garbage said, they'll take it eight Pril seventh. What the
Speaker 1: fuck most way? Eight days? Well, again, there's nothing we
Speaker 1: can do, I said. Guys, the last two cops tell
Speaker 1: me take matters into my own hands. And now you
Speaker 1: know where I live. You know him because I called,
Speaker 1: so if I take him at listen, he didn't hit
Speaker 1: that from us that. We're all laughing, but it's like, well,
Speaker 1: what the fuck do I do if you guys can't
Speaker 1: do it? Yeah, listen, we're pissed off too, these guys
Speaker 1: that you can tell, But I'm gonn drop twenty five
Speaker 1: thirty years. They've seen what I've seen the last twenty
Speaker 1: eight years. Unbelievable. It just I mean, the cops. Just
Speaker 1: last January during the it was a big fire, burned
Speaker 1: a thousand acres. There was an illegal with a blow
Speaker 1: torch who was lighting garbage and dead Christmas trees, and
Speaker 1: the neighborhood of Woodland Hills, nice upscale neighborhood ran down
Speaker 1: and got this guy and it, you know, it held
Speaker 1: him down and called the cops. The guy was let
Speaker 1: go a person of interest in the burning of a
Speaker 1: thousand acres. Well, cops, just the rest of them now
Speaker 1: February March, you know, it's a few months later. Finally
Speaker 1: got arrested and they look into this guy. He's done
Speaker 1: so many bad things, but vagrancy, trespassing, you know, all
Speaker 1: the shit I'm dealing with down the street. So I
Speaker 1: told the cops my son and I sleep on the
Speaker 1: ground floor. They can drive by with a fucking gnoll,
Speaker 1: throw a rock through the fucking window. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: come to that. I'll break their heads. Listen, hear from us.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it. A newfound respect for LA. Cops have to
Speaker 1: hearing that. I always approach me. Listen, my son's in
Speaker 1: the academy. My nephew's a detective sheriff. My father was
Speaker 1: a cop, my brother in law father in Lave. I'm
Speaker 1: from cops, so I always hit him with that first,
Speaker 1: so they know I'm not some crazy person. Anyhow, Look,
Speaker 1: big story broke moments ago. We have to talk about
Speaker 1: I have to. It's about big tits. Unfortunately not on
Speaker 1: a girl. No, I'm sure you've heard the story by now.
Speaker 1: You've got to see the pictures. The former DHS security
Speaker 1: chief Christy nom says she is devastated by the allegations
Speaker 1: her husband, Brian is living a double life because he
Speaker 1: cross dresses and has these chats online with fetish models. Well,
Speaker 1: people are saying, you know, hello, she's devastating. Family was
Speaker 1: blindsided by this and they asked for privacy and prayers
Speaker 1: at the time. So Daily Mail broke this story. They say, Byronome,
Speaker 1: there's been chatting up women from this so called bimbo
Speaker 1: fication fetish scene. This is where sicko creeps adult performers
Speaker 1: augment their breasts with massive amounts of saline to achieve
Speaker 1: a Barbie doll like appearance. We've seen these women, They're
Speaker 1: everywhere online. Blah blah blah. Well, they found hundreds of
Speaker 1: messages from Christy Nome's husband praising, enthusiastically praising these women's
Speaker 1: augmented breaths, and then he said he loves huge, huge,
Speaker 1: ridiculous boobs. Funny because I don't think Christy Nooman had
Speaker 1: a titch job. Does she? I can't think about her
Speaker 1: upper body now, but either way, I thought she was attractive.
Speaker 1: Then she wrote a book about killing her puppy, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, I don't can't be around
Speaker 1: her like this, but she's still attractive. But then she's
Speaker 1: hanging out with Corey Lewandowski, very openly cheating on this
Speaker 1: cross dressing husband, with this jerk off Lewandowski. I lost
Speaker 1: it for her again, Like, what do you do with him?
Speaker 1: Schmucky guy? So this Brian I said Byron briannaim is
Speaker 1: he's wearing pink, you guys. He can pictures pink hot
Speaker 1: pants and a flesh colored skin tight suit. He's got
Speaker 1: these giant balloons that he stuffed into his shirt. They're lopsided.
Speaker 1: Of course, he's got fake protruding nipples. And he's into
Speaker 1: this shit, very into it. And you know there are
Speaker 1: some national security experts who think that the way that
Speaker 1: her husband's acting or has been acting for herever how
Speaker 1: long you know, that it could have left her vulnerable
Speaker 1: to blackmail. You know, if you if you're somebody that
Speaker 1: knows this, and you have this information, you go to
Speaker 1: Christy home. Listen, I get this thing. Okay, are you
Speaker 1: turning your back on this or else? I'm going to
Speaker 1: get the pictures of your husband balloons down your shirt.
Speaker 1: What do you want to do? That's how easy it is,
Speaker 1: the blackmail. She wouldn't want those pictures out before I
Speaker 1: finished the story. I'll get to what I think is
Speaker 1: going on. But you know, they got three kids. They're
Speaker 1: not babies, thirty one, twenty nine, and twenty three. I
Speaker 1: didn't picture and know him having a thirty one year
Speaker 1: old kid, I don't know, uh, and and two of
Speaker 1: them have kids in the road. So she's a grandma
Speaker 1: and he's a grandpa with his big watermelon watermelon, with
Speaker 1: his big balloon tits. But Christy's telling people with such
Speaker 1: a transparent family, you know, we're an open book. Now,
Speaker 1: you know what come on. Even Chris Jenner eventually copped
Speaker 1: to seeing Bruce Jenner in high heels and address. She
Speaker 1: eventually came forward after it broke and said, well, you know,
Speaker 1: there were those times where Bruce, you know, was honest
Speaker 1: to me. And I came in and he had my
Speaker 1: shoes on, and you know she I mean not her shoes,
Speaker 1: but hes because her size. He could never squeeze his
Speaker 1: big the cathlon feet into those heels. But yeah, that
Speaker 1: could be it. I mean that, you know, you're an
Speaker 1: open book bullshit. You knew about this. Some of you
Speaker 1: are going to see the video in the pictures. You
Speaker 1: have to you got to run to do it. Now,
Speaker 1: put the sew on hold and come back. But here's
Speaker 1: my take. You know this one, Christy's been out in
Speaker 1: the open traveling with Lewandowski, her lover, and there's been
Speaker 1: public displays of affection. So everybody knows they've been fucking
Speaker 1: around a while, travels with her. That's why Trump finally
Speaker 1: put a stop to it because it's embarrassing. So he
Speaker 1: you know, she's no longer he's no longer associated like
Speaker 1: like Christy with the DHS. But here's what I think happened.
Speaker 1: First of all. Part of me is saying, hmm, even
Speaker 1: though I think it's ridiculous, part of me is going,
Speaker 1: why is this an issue with the left, which is
Speaker 1: where this is probably coming from. Probably possibly because Joe
Speaker 1: Biden had a bunch of openly trands and cross dressers
Speaker 1: in his cabinet and in senior level positions and the military,
Speaker 1: and people were told to say, hey, this is great.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know this is great. It's you that's
Speaker 1: the problem. Now, all of a sudden, the left cares
Speaker 1: about this shit. What happened to acceptance and inclusion? You
Speaker 1: see what kind of hypocrites they are? Now? They jumping
Speaker 1: on the bandy this Trump. He's got a bunch of
Speaker 1: creeps surrounding. This is not good for Trump because you
Speaker 1: know what, when they vetted her, come on, you got
Speaker 1: to come up with this ship. You gotta find this shit.
Speaker 1: If you're vetting her family for DHS, no, you gotta
Speaker 1: vet better. It's an embarrassment. But you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want Lewandowski anywhere near anybody who works for Trump. So
Speaker 1: my real takeaway is this, what if Trump and others
Speaker 1: in DC knew about this? Now, if you know that
Speaker 1: some of the leaders and he ran her gay. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you'd know about this, It's in your backyard. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there were rumors from some people in the know.
Speaker 1: Now what if they, meaning Trump's people, made sure this
Speaker 1: shit became public? This way, firing her would be an
Speaker 1: easier thing, right or you know? I mean, I remember
Speaker 1: shit like this going down when I had my column.
Speaker 1: And this also feels to me like it could be
Speaker 1: an information league by her own camp to make him
Speaker 1: look bad, because maybe in anticipation of an upcoming divorce,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, she's got to kind of
Speaker 1: have this in her pocket, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: That could happen her camp is trying to salvage some
Speaker 1: future political career of hers. I don't know, but both
Speaker 1: theories make sense. But this one has had some fall.
Speaker 1: She gets no sympathy, not a good tenure as the
Speaker 1: age Chess secretary. You know, didn't do much on her
Speaker 1: own to remove illegals, and then things got out of
Speaker 1: hand with her down in Minnesota. But the worst thing
Speaker 1: was spending almost a half billion taxpayer dollars on commercials
Speaker 1: with herself making believe she was an ice agent, and
Speaker 1: she wasted taxpayer money on a fleet of private jets
Speaker 1: for her personal use with Lewandowski on board. On top
Speaker 1: of that, you know, there were a lot of corroborated
Speaker 1: stories that Lewandowski did whatever he pleased to do in DHS.
Speaker 1: Didn't have a formal role because he always told Christy
Speaker 1: Trump will pardon me, but no matter what I do, well,
Speaker 1: we're going to see. But I can understand how pistoff
Speaker 1: Trump was when it became news that Christynam used two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty million dollars for a photoshoot of horror
Speaker 1: on a frigging horse near Mount Rushmore. And then the
Speaker 1: air contracts went to this firm, well, a bunch of firms,
Speaker 1: but one had ties one main one had ties to
Speaker 1: Republican operatives, and there was no traditional bidding process. And
Speaker 1: you know, get this, one firm called Safe America Media
Speaker 1: was incorporated just one week before it won a one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty three million dollar contract. Okay, come on.
Speaker 1: Then she spent four thousand on hair and makeup, twenty
Speaker 1: thousand on horse rentals. This is all our money, you know.
Speaker 1: But look, she's a bear girl, all right, be a
Speaker 1: bear girl. But let's delve into the story of a
Speaker 1: couple of Hollywood Bear girls from yesteryear. I promise you
Speaker 1: I'd dial the I'd turned the dial back the way
Speaker 1: back now. But both these women had an insatiable sexual desire,
Speaker 1: sometimes not for the same sex, but for the opposite.
Speaker 1: Obviously a breath of fresh air compared to the shit
Speaker 1: I'm reading now. So the first woman I speak about
Speaker 1: actress is Gloria, one of my patrons. I wish I
Speaker 1: should have wrote it down, asked me, hey, j you
Speaker 1: ever do something on Gloria? Why don't I think it
Speaker 1: was Russell. Maybe I'm wrong, but you know you've done
Speaker 1: something on Gloria Graham my Mysteries and the Scandal. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we did an episode on her. She was It was
Speaker 1: a pretty interesting story. I never really heard of her
Speaker 1: when I did the show, which was part and parcel
Speaker 1: of a lot of people, and some people I never
Speaker 1: heard of. You know, these quote unquote stars from yesteryear,
Speaker 1: I'd say about ninety percent I heard of some I
Speaker 1: had no idea. And somewhere there's a funny audio of
Speaker 1: me and the sound booth having to read a bunch
Speaker 1: of Monday back to back episodes of Mysteries and Scandal,
Speaker 1: starting first with Gloria Graham next with Jeff Dean, and
Speaker 1: I go like, who the fuck is Jeff Deane? What
Speaker 1: did this home moode do? And the guy who's recorded
Speaker 1: me is laughing, and I kept going up against names
Speaker 1: I never heard of them. I said, who's this bitch?
Speaker 1: What did she do? Either way, I wish I could
Speaker 1: find that's such a funny one. Gloria Graham. Yeah, married
Speaker 1: four times, like I said, insatiable, but then got involved
Speaker 1: with her step son who she later married. I'll get
Speaker 1: into that scandal a little bit down the road on
Speaker 1: this show here. But you may have seen a movie
Speaker 1: called Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool and that Benning
Speaker 1: played her, and that's what she did her last year's
Speaker 1: Gloria Grams. Last year's were spent with a much younger
Speaker 1: actor named Peter Turner, and like I said, that became
Speaker 1: a movie. It's interesting movie. By the way, Speaking of movies,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you I finished is this thing on
Speaker 1: with Will Arnett and Laura Dernt. It's really sweet and
Speaker 1: it really is so familiar to me without giving away anything,
Speaker 1: It's about marrors As going to pieces. They split up
Speaker 1: and he finds stand up comedy. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: ruin the rest, but you know, see it soon because
Speaker 1: I'm dying to talk about that dynamic of what happens
Speaker 1: sometimes when you divorce and then suddenly a month later,
Speaker 1: once you to have new places to live, you find
Speaker 1: yourself feeling insatiable for the other one, your ex, and
Speaker 1: you might go there to give mail. Hey, listen, this
Speaker 1: came and came to the house that your mail. You
Speaker 1: instantly closed it being ripped off, and you're having sex.
Speaker 1: It's just like, why did this happen? Now? Why didn't
Speaker 1: this happen while we were married? We'd still be married.
Speaker 1: Good movie, don't miss it, will And that's great. Laura
Speaker 1: Durna's always great. I find it so sexy and so sweet.
Speaker 1: But anyhow, Gloria Graham, something else. I got a friend
Speaker 1: watch such a gay couple. I might get this role.
Speaker 1: And if Alison Martino here's this, text me and tell
Speaker 1: me I'm wrong. But these two guys are producer directors.
Speaker 1: They did a movie I was in called Men's Field
Speaker 1: sixty six sixty seven, all about those two years and
Speaker 1: Jane Mansfield's life on one of the talking heads in
Speaker 1: this documentary. They did a doc on Share. They did
Speaker 1: a doc on the movie with Nicholson, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: odd you know the crazy movie where he is Johnny,
Speaker 1: the Stanley Kubrick movie and all the different things that
Speaker 1: are going on during that movie, and really good. They're
Speaker 1: really good filmmakers. Anyhow, I think it was their house,
Speaker 1: beautiflowers and palm springs, real funky and one of the
Speaker 1: bedroom I slept, and I slept over, spent the night
Speaker 1: and I'm in this bedroom that they made, I believe
Speaker 1: specifically for Gail or Gloria Graham. I think so it
Speaker 1: could be another film more actress, but that's who I
Speaker 1: think it was, and it's just an an homage. The
Speaker 1: whole bedroom is movie posters of the movie she started,
Speaker 1: and signed shots that have framed of her face. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: but you know, gay guys love this kind of shit
Speaker 1: and I got a kick out of it. I love
Speaker 1: those guys. They're fun guys. But let's go back to
Speaker 1: the early fifties. Gloria Graham is at the Academy Awards,
Speaker 1: just on the verge of super stardom. She was twenty
Speaker 1: nine years old. The last year that she was working.
Speaker 1: You know, there was a she was kind of portrayed
Speaker 1: in movies as like a they call it a tart
Speaker 1: with a heart like kind of a dumbish kind of chick,
Speaker 1: but like the hooker with the heart of gold kind
Speaker 1: of thing. That was her image, and that began nineteen
Speaker 1: forty four in a second comedy called Blonde Fever. Then
Speaker 1: she took a sultry job on It's a Wonderful Life
Speaker 1: for Jimmy Stewart. You might remember her. There she was
Speaker 1: with Jimmy Stewart again and Cecil b De Mills The
Speaker 1: Greatest Show on Earth, which won Best Picture. So she
Speaker 1: began to be recognized as somebody that's a serious actress.
Speaker 1: She was nominated for her performance in The Bed and
Speaker 1: the Beautiful for Supporting Actress Oscar. That was the second one.
Speaker 1: She got one for Crossfire, and then her image began
Speaker 1: to harden as this mysterious bad girl of film noir,
Speaker 1: which I love, like the big heat and human desire.
Speaker 1: And yeah, she also did Oklahoma as the girl who
Speaker 1: just remember I'm just a girl who can't say no.
Speaker 1: That was her part. And she married a guy named
Speaker 1: Cy Howard, a writer producer, and she was pushed. She
Speaker 1: kept getting belittle by the crew because she wasn't that
Speaker 1: good musical. She would cry to the man she married
Speaker 1: and didn't really know how to do that kind of work,
Speaker 1: couldn't carry a tune too well, and people kept telling
Speaker 1: her how horrible she was. And that's what she was
Speaker 1: good at. She was good as a film noir actress.
Speaker 1: I mean, think of some of the actresses today that
Speaker 1: have that look and that appeal, and yeah, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to see them in the music of Oklahoma, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I don't want to see Sidney
Speaker 1: Sweeney singing I'm just a girl, can't say no. By
Speaker 1: the way, the third season of her show on HBO
Speaker 1: is beginning April thirteenth, and this season, Sidney Sweeney's character
Speaker 1: Cassie goes on only fans, so you know there's gonna
Speaker 1: be plenty of shots of her with minimal clothes or
Speaker 1: no top on, and she's going to go right back
Speaker 1: to being who she always has been on that HBO show,
Speaker 1: which delves into all sorts of shit. But this season,
Speaker 1: now that I'm very familiar with her work, I'll be
Speaker 1: watching for Sydney either way. Yeah, you don't want to
Speaker 1: see some sex spots in a musical like, you know,
Speaker 1: a goody goodie show. And but you know, Gloria Graham
Speaker 1: can only take so much shit. Apparently, after a while,
Speaker 1: she assaulted a couple of co stars, Charlotte Greenwood and
Speaker 1: Gene Nelson. On separate occasions, she would step on their lines.
Speaker 1: She was getting back at them, and then she said,
Speaker 1: you know what, fuck it, I got young kids. I
Speaker 1: just got divorced nineteen fifty seven. You know, I'm going
Speaker 1: to scale my work back and concentrate on my kids.
Speaker 1: And you ready for this crazy shit. At that point,
Speaker 1: she went and married her former step son, Tony Ray,
Speaker 1: who was the son of Nicholas Ray. This happened in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty. She was battling her ex Cy Howard for
Speaker 1: custody of their daughters, and rumors began to go around it.
Speaker 1: You know, hey, Gloria, what about that kid used to
Speaker 1: douce Tony Ray when he was just thirteen, And that
Speaker 1: really fucked up her reputation and it made her a
Speaker 1: Hollywood out guest. So she stuck with her family and
Speaker 1: didn't do a whole hell of a lot. Got back
Speaker 1: to the big screen eventually, you know, once she went
Speaker 1: Oscars and you got a name, they'll find you again.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just got to disappear for a while. But
Speaker 1: she ended up doing movies like Blood and Lace, Mama's
Speaker 1: Dirty Girls, you know, not the best films, but she
Speaker 1: was getting work. But her reputation always followed her. And
Speaker 1: that affair with Tony Ray that was a huge scandal.
Speaker 1: It'd be a scandal now back in the late sixties,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy, sixty nine, seventy terrible. You knoweople around her
Speaker 1: were aware of it while they worked with her. I
Speaker 1: guess they kept better secrets back then. Nowadays, that shit
Speaker 1: would come out right away. People nowadays have good things
Speaker 1: to say when they look back in her career. But
Speaker 1: you know, she began to play little roles just to work.
Speaker 1: She did you know, Melvin and Howard, you know, big
Speaker 1: movie in nineteen eighty, a ward worthy movie. She was
Speaker 1: in that a very small role. Mary stein Bergen at
Speaker 1: the time, who got an oscar for that movie, couldn't
Speaker 1: believe that the great glory of grammaruld take such a
Speaker 1: little role. But that's the way it was back then,
Speaker 1: you know. But then the final stages of her crazy
Speaker 1: relationship with showbiz never got back to her level of
Speaker 1: fame or glory. You know, no one knows even where
Speaker 1: her oscars went. Used to be on her mantle, Oscar Oscar,
Speaker 1: but she got too I believe either way one or two,
Speaker 1: they don't know where they are. The locations are unknown.
Speaker 1: Might gone to her ex husband's daughter. People. It's all
Speaker 1: like a mystery, which is kind of weird. Did she
Speaker 1: give it to him when they split? That? No one
Speaker 1: really knows because everybody's dead. But you know, if you
Speaker 1: look at the remains of her faded career, at least
Speaker 1: her personal life began to bloom or blossom. She met
Speaker 1: Peter Turner, who I mentioned earlier, three decades younger than her.
Speaker 1: She was in London working on a movie and they
Speaker 1: have this big old whorldwind romance and it lasted all
Speaker 1: the way till her dying in nineteen eighty one at
Speaker 1: just fifty seven years old from cancer related to complications.
Speaker 1: Peter Turner went and wrote Their Loves in his memoir
Speaker 1: called film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool. It's a good
Speaker 1: movie and the movie really doesn't dwell too much on
Speaker 1: her misfortunes like I just did, but tells the story
Speaker 1: of them being happy together before she died, which I
Speaker 1: guess is good. But bottom line is she really didn't
Speaker 1: enjoy the Hollywood system. She called it a jungle and
Speaker 1: she said, I don't want to be one of the
Speaker 1: beasts in that jungle. How's that? I love when people
Speaker 1: can can speak like that from the heart right away.
Speaker 1: The other the other girl. I want a woman I
Speaker 1: want to mention who was a badass. Maybe we did
Speaker 1: a show on her too, and I don't remember. I
Speaker 1: had to look it up. I said, we did a mysteries.
Speaker 1: I don't remember this chick, but that's the coming. You
Speaker 1: do one hundred and seventy two shows, some you just
Speaker 1: don't remember. This chick's name was Gail Russell. She's got
Speaker 1: a star on the Walk of Fame. I stood right
Speaker 1: on it. You probably never heard of her unless you're
Speaker 1: a real buff. But this is a chick that died
Speaker 1: young of just being a crazy ass trunk Girls like
Speaker 1: the women like this fascinate me because sometimes you run
Speaker 1: across somebody with the real sad case of you had
Speaker 1: the world by the bulls and what did you? I mean?
Speaker 1: I could curse myself at some things I did and
Speaker 1: didn't do it Like god d you could have made
Speaker 1: that work, could have made this work, but you know,
Speaker 1: it is what it is, and it's not a fair business.
Speaker 1: You've heard enough examples, You've seen things that go on.
Speaker 1: But this girl had the world by the balls. Beautiful, young, talented.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of another Mysteries and Scandal's episode we did,
Speaker 1: but just a sad case. We did one on Billie Holiday,
Speaker 1: very famous singer. You guys know her and her story
Speaker 1: meant a lot to me because my father would play
Speaker 1: her music when I was little, and then I got
Speaker 1: a little older and Diana Ross portrayed her in a
Speaker 1: movie called Mahogany. Soundtrack was great. My sister Lorraine had
Speaker 1: the soundtrack play constantly and that's how I learned so
Speaker 1: many lyrics of Billy Holliday said songs. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you gotta listen to songs like Strange Fruit, which is
Speaker 1: about black people hanging from trees. Oh my man, Oh
Speaker 1: my man. She just laments the fact that she's in
Speaker 1: love with a no good, dirty stay out But that's her, man,
Speaker 1: I mean the lyrics. He's not much on looks, he's
Speaker 1: no hero out of books, but I love him, Yes,
Speaker 1: I love him. Two or three girls has he that
Speaker 1: he likes as well as me, but I love him
Speaker 1: killer killer, And she got to oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is a song called Gloomy Sunday. She didn't write it,
Speaker 1: she re recorded it. Listen, this is listen that he's
Speaker 1: a Sunday is gloomy. My eye was a slumberless Dearest,
Speaker 1: the shadows I live with, our numberless little white flowers
Speaker 1: will never awaken you, not where the black coat of
Speaker 1: sorrow has taken you. Angels have no thoughts of ever
Speaker 1: returning you. Would they be angry if I thought of
Speaker 1: joining you. Gloomy Sunday. Oh, it's called the Hungarian suicide song.
Speaker 1: The guy who wrote it obviously was Hungarian, and there's
Speaker 1: very many tales about this. Back in nineteen thirty three
Speaker 1: became linked to suicides. It was banned by radio networks.
Speaker 1: They said in the thirties, over one hundred suicides to
Speaker 1: that song in Hungary and America were tabulated, but not
Speaker 1: quite easy to verify it. But you know, there was famine,
Speaker 1: there was poverty, some other economic factors. But listen, man,
Speaker 1: those songs will get to you. And the guy who
Speaker 1: composed it, Rezzo Ceris, got a suicide in nineteen sixty eight,
Speaker 1: thirty five years after writing that song. But Billy Halliday's
Speaker 1: autobiography and various things I've seen on her say she
Speaker 1: had many relationships with both men and women, mostly jazz
Speaker 1: dudes and gangsters. I even heard Sinatra hata, why would
Speaker 1: you want to put your hand? She looked disgusting to me.
Speaker 1: I guess you just want to fuck the talent. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but she wasn't a looker as far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned, but she was interested with women. She had
Speaker 1: flings with Tallula Bankhead, I mean, not a flame. She
Speaker 1: was with her for quite a while. They kept it private, obviously,
Speaker 1: but they would go to the Allah on Azimova's retreat up
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, I think on the corner of Crescent Heights
Speaker 1: and Sunset, And like I've said in the past, al
Speaker 1: azim of a very famous Russian actress. She bought this
Speaker 1: property where celebrities could go to and have rooms like
Speaker 1: a hotel, beautiful pool, they can get meals and nobody
Speaker 1: would snoop on them. Paparazzi weren't there. So men could
Speaker 1: have their homosexual relationships, women could have their gay ones,
Speaker 1: and all you know, heteros could cheat without having an
Speaker 1: I see them. That's the old Hollywood. It ain't that
Speaker 1: way now. But back to Gail Russell. Successful career. But
Speaker 1: I've been reading about her a lot, and I've watched
Speaker 1: my episode. Apparently the filming process made her in their
Speaker 1: nervous and because of the nerves, she began to drink. Sorry. Interesting,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I keep putting in, but I saw an
Speaker 1: interesting video. There was a guy at one of the airports,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it was California, where a big
Speaker 1: ball of vodka TSA line was taken forever. He opened
Speaker 1: up with vodka and was giving people shots with plastic
Speaker 1: cool cups while they waited online. Nice guy. Nobody stopped them.
Speaker 1: This is this is what's happening to this country. I
Speaker 1: can't believe it anyhow serious drinking problem. It got worse
Speaker 1: and worse, and she dies of the effects of alcoholism
Speaker 1: at thirty six. We're talking like Amy winehow's kind of shit,
Speaker 1: you know? And she made some really bad decisions while
Speaker 1: she was in her addiction. But she was beautiful. She
Speaker 1: worked with Republic Pictures. He was the most their most
Speaker 1: popular actress, or one of the most popular actresses. She
Speaker 1: was also one of the she's most troubled, beautiful brunette,
Speaker 1: dark blue eyes. Look at the picture I post a
Speaker 1: lot of talent, wanted to become a commercial artist. And
Speaker 1: because she came out when Hetty Lamar was big and gorgeous,
Speaker 1: she was dubbed the Hetty Lamar of Santa Monica because
Speaker 1: she was a local girl. Well, she was born in Chicago,
Speaker 1: but moved here when she was a kid, and they
Speaker 1: say that something interesting in her childhood. She was very,
Speaker 1: very shy, painfully shy, and she would often hide under
Speaker 1: her parents piano whenever guests came over to the house.
Speaker 1: Now I would have had it checked out right there
Speaker 1: from her parents, get into a doctor. The fuck is
Speaker 1: wrong with this kid. But what she would do down
Speaker 1: there was pretty cool and it helped her defeat her shyness.
Speaker 1: Apparently she felt completely comfortable when she was sketching people
Speaker 1: and places in her you know, in her life. And
Speaker 1: she began to draw at the age of five under
Speaker 1: that piano, and people said her artistry was exceptional. Her sketches,
Speaker 1: her paintings were beautiful, and that's what she wanted to do.
Speaker 1: But her mother, when she was in her late teens,
Speaker 1: her mother, Gladys said, hey, you know what, you should
Speaker 1: forget the drawing. She was fourteen. Let's take you to the Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Los Angeles. You know, you could pursue
Speaker 1: your dream of becoming a star. But that was what
Speaker 1: the mother wanted. So she goes to Santa Monica High School.
Speaker 1: As soon as she graduates, she auditions for Paramount Pictures
Speaker 1: signs a contract with the studio fifty bucks a week.
Speaker 1: Big money, right, but still very shy. Acting instructors were
Speaker 1: hired help her come over her timidity. If you will
Speaker 1: didn't go away. The studios brought in doctors, you name.
Speaker 1: It couldn't fix her. Then she began to make some
Speaker 1: movies John Wayne and Her Maid, The Angel and the
Speaker 1: bad Man. Now here's where it gets interesting. The Duke
Speaker 1: specifically requested Gail Russell to play opposite him in this western.
Speaker 1: I love when actors do that. I mean, when they
Speaker 1: have the power to say, you know, I'd like to
Speaker 1: do this movie with Kate Winslet or whatever, Sophia Vergara,
Speaker 1: anybody who they think they might want to get involved in.
Speaker 1: Happens happens all the time. She plays opposite the Duke,
Speaker 1: height of his not the hype, but he's blown up
Speaker 1: as a big star. And john Way began to like
Speaker 1: her because she was quiet, very unassuming personality. He treated
Speaker 1: her with respect. He was very kind to her, and
Speaker 1: she didn't know many other leading men like this or
Speaker 1: producers who treated it that way. So they've got to
Speaker 1: be good friends. While working on the film, he was
Speaker 1: very protective of her. Saw how vulnerable she was, how
Speaker 1: young she was, and people could take advantage of her.
Speaker 1: He didn't want that for her. So it said he
Speaker 1: was kind of a father figure to Gail Russell and
Speaker 1: she was happy with that. Well, let's just say she
Speaker 1: saw him as a father figure, maybe as a diff
Speaker 1: dads I'd like to fuck because they began to get
Speaker 1: it on. And yes, she was successful in some of
Speaker 1: those movies, but personal life was shit. She spent a
Speaker 1: month in a sanitarium having to deal with humiliation and
Speaker 1: the hurt she experienced from a public divorce. A lot
Speaker 1: of these actors and ant Belle looked goes see Francis Farmer.
Speaker 1: So many went to the sanitariums and got you know,
Speaker 1: electric shock treatment, all this crazy shit. Different world back then.
Speaker 1: I just saw Jessica Lang on the Francis Farmer movie.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that for years. God, she was so
Speaker 1: great in that. But gil Russell gets released, goes right
Speaker 1: back to drinking. Then in fifty three, she's arrested for
Speaker 1: drunk driving. Two months later, at her hearing, she gets
Speaker 1: two years probation and the condition is, you have to
Speaker 1: stop with these intoxicants. You've got to stay away from
Speaker 1: places where liquor is sold, and you got to get
Speaker 1: medical treatment and pay this one hundred and fifty dollars fine.
Speaker 1: So less than four years after she pledged to set
Speaker 1: a new course in her life, back in sixty one,
Speaker 1: she's found dead, lost her battle with alcohol. Her body
Speaker 1: was discovered by neighbors that staying came by to check
Speaker 1: guard and they saw mail piling up. They let's go
Speaker 1: to Gale's house and see what's going on. Well, they
Speaker 1: hope they got in and she's on the floor dead
Speaker 1: next to an empty vodka bottle, but there were many
Speaker 1: other empties strewn around the home. Vodka that was her
Speaker 1: poison thirty six years old. But the John Wayne thing
Speaker 1: was something that may have led to her desire to
Speaker 1: just drink herself to death because it was a huge scandal.
Speaker 1: John Wayne had just began a divorce from his second wife,
Speaker 1: a crazy person named Esperanza Bauer. You can't blame the guy.
Speaker 1: Esperanza one time heard that the Duke might have been
Speaker 1: fucking around with this Gail Russell. She gets nice and
Speaker 1: drunk and she shoots him. She shot John Wayne. And
Speaker 1: Wayne called it a very tumultuous relationship, like shaking two
Speaker 1: votal chemicals in a jar. All right, I haven't done
Speaker 1: him in years. I really don't do him, but very
Speaker 1: unstable woman. And the wife blamed Gail Russell for her
Speaker 1: marriage going to shit. And this is after she took
Speaker 1: a shot at John Wayne. I said, it's in court.
Speaker 1: And that made Gail Russell even, you know, spiral out
Speaker 1: of control, quicker, as fragile as she was, as shy
Speaker 1: as she was, you know, just down with spiral into alcoholism.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna post a picture. She was acutie hie. And
Speaker 1: so look there's not there were They weren't just crazy.
Speaker 1: There aren't just crazy people in Hollywood. Now. This is
Speaker 1: a long tenured kind of thing. We have here. Plenty
Speaker 1: of crazy women and crazy men in Hollywood. But nowadays
Speaker 1: I guess there's just more opportunity to see them talk
Speaker 1: and post and video, and we see too much of
Speaker 1: them when back in the day, what did you know
Speaker 1: about Clark Gable outside that he loved Carol Lombard? What
Speaker 1: did you know about Montgomery Cliff outside of he had
Speaker 1: such an attraction to Liz Taylor even though he was
Speaker 1: bisexual or gay. I mean, we didn't know so many
Speaker 1: personal things about the people. We looked at in Hollywood
Speaker 1: and thought, this is the greatest do we know about
Speaker 1: Jimmy Stewart's bullshit? Now? It's just it was. They weren't
Speaker 1: always filmed, videoed, thankfully, they weren't posting about the political
Speaker 1: beliefs and all that shit. And what we have now
Speaker 1: is just a very different Hollywood than we remember. The
Speaker 1: people that we see at award shows, now we know
Speaker 1: all about them before well they go up and get
Speaker 1: their askart, we almost know what they're going to say.
Speaker 1: As great as the Internet has been and it's brought
Speaker 1: this world closer and made some things that you would
Speaker 1: think we were impossible back in the day virtually easy
Speaker 1: to do, it's also made us so angry at one
Speaker 1: another and pushed us further apart and it's kind of
Speaker 1: equal doses. You may have it that it's a friendly
Speaker 1: place to be and you've gotten a lot of people
Speaker 1: you like and whatever, and you might be one of
Speaker 1: those people who fight all day on the internet and
Speaker 1: tell people they're wrong. And I've been both. I've loved
Speaker 1: it on occasion, and I've cursed it on occasion, And
Speaker 1: lately I cursed it even more. Because I'm in the
Speaker 1: news business. I love to read up on pop culture
Speaker 1: and anything that is involved with Hollywood, and I've never
Speaker 1: been around the business this long where I virtually know
Speaker 1: so much about everybody where. When I was a calumnist,
Speaker 1: there were so many secrets and things I didn't know
Speaker 1: that I had to go out and find. Now, they
Speaker 1: just they just give it to you. It's right there
Speaker 1: in the open. You got people like Shilah buff having
Speaker 1: these mental breakdowns in three different states, three different two
Speaker 1: different countries, three different. I mean, people are losing their
Speaker 1: fucking minds. It's a different world. But where are we
Speaker 1: gonna go? What corner can we go to? They say
Speaker 1: Finland is the happiest place in the world three years running.
Speaker 1: I believe I don't want to eat fish that gets
Speaker 1: buried in dirt for a year. I don't want that
Speaker 1: kind of diet. Not that I'm thinking I'm moving to Finland,
Speaker 1: but for Christ's sake, you're happy there with the shit
Speaker 1: you eat. I can't. To me, so much of life
Speaker 1: is about eating. So much of life is about food.
Speaker 1: Food is memory, food is love, food is imagining your
Speaker 1: family around you again. It's just food is everything. It's memories.
Speaker 1: It takes you back. I never had a fermented fish
Speaker 1: that was in a hole in the ground for a
Speaker 1: fucking year or well, blubber. I don't want that stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, that's all for today, crazy show forty two minutes.
Speaker 1: But I had to get that Christinos husband stuff in
Speaker 1: balloons down his shirt? Boy, is this story gonna be fine?
Speaker 1: I can't wait here, Trump, Look, the guy's got a problem. Okay,
Speaker 1: he likes balloons, he likes party balloons, but down his shirt,
Speaker 1: not balloon animals, big titty balloons. How soon do we
Speaker 1: bet on calshie the Trump will say tits. If he does,
Speaker 1: that would be completely something to the world will hate.
Speaker 1: I'll love it. I'll spit my drink out by drink
Speaker 1: I mean water. Relax, all right, gang, AYJ Benzie, that
Speaker 1: was your daily unfiltered podcast for April Fool's Day and
Speaker 1: nothing I said was a joke. Just imagine this whole
Speaker 1: show could have been a joke, especially the Christino him
Speaker 1: husband pop. But now it's all real. So enjoy your
Speaker 1: day and enjoy the craziness around you. Hom maj Benz
Speaker 1: will talk tomorrow.