WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.839 From Workhouse Connect and aj Benze fame. Uh, he'd liked 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:09.119 to be walked on a leash and play really dirty 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:12.519 kinky sex games. Is uh the guy put the cock 4 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:17.760 in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody aj Benzi 5 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:22.160 here with fame is a bitch. This is your free show, Yes, 6 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:25.839 your free show. It's Sunday eleven, sixteen, twenty twenty five. 7 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:30.280 One one six, two oh two five. Hope I didn't 8 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:33.719 confuse you with reading that day. Normally we go one 9 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.960 one one six two oh two five. Sometimes it's fun 10 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:41.479 to go one one one six two oh two five. 11 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:45.439 People have no idea what to do. My number, of course, 12 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:50.079 it is six three one nine three five six two 13 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:54.320 fa people, wait, wait, wait, do that again. We're just 14 00:00:54.359 --> 00:01:00.479 creatures of habit. Speaking of creatures of habit, I am. 15 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:04.799 When there's a new guy that comes on the on 16 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:08.359 the scene in Hollywood, I'm always a little let's wait 17 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:12.359 a minute. I get very judgmental. Glenn Powell, for instance, 18 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:16.719 very handsome guy, square jord guy comes out of the 19 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:19.640 forties and fifties in terms of this is the way 20 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:23.760 a guy in Hollywood is supposed to look, tall, chiseled, 21 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:29.159 good physique, great face, great smile. Physical comedy is his 22 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:31.840 forte as well. And I got to tell you I 23 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:33.920 didn't like him to begin with, but you know what, 24 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.159 I watched SNL last night. Well I knew this before 25 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:40.079 I watched SNL, but I've made room in my life 26 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:44.079 at Glenn Powell. I didn't like him, especially when it 27 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:47.200 was said that he was banging Sidney Sweeney, who we 28 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.359 all know is my internet girlfriend. I didn't like that. 29 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:53.079 I know between her and I there's a bunch of 30 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.200 years as an age discrepancy, of course, but what she 31 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:01.319 likes about me you can't measure in birthdays. It's just 32 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:05.200 something I possess. So she's been, you know, into me. 33 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:08.400 We've kept it very quiet. We're going slow because listen, 34 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:09.960 I just got out of a relationship. I'm going to 35 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:12.759 rush into the next one. I mean how famous she is, 36 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.599 but you know, I told her she could maybe lose 37 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:20.919 a little weight, and you know she's obliging. Cold. You 38 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:24.680 imagine cold, You imagine being a guy that's rumored to 39 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:28.639 be banging Sydney Sweeney. He probably did. When you look 40 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:30.479 at the movie they made a couple of years ago, 41 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:33.080 and you realize she was about to leave her fiance 42 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:37.240 who was very too controlling. But I don't know what else. 43 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.800 I mean, this poor bastard. You land a girl like her, 44 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:43.719 and Hollywood takes her in and suddenly she's whipping her 45 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:46.919 top off every week on Euphoria and she's getting laid 46 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:50.439 by all that. I mean, your wife's about to get crazy. 47 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:54.080 And then Hollywood saw and the public saw just how 48 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:58.479 sexy she can act on top of being sexy. Oh, 49 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:01.879 forget about it, this chit is gonna go so far. 50 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:05.199 Forget that her last movie about the female boxer bombed. 51 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:09.840 That's because nobody wants to see her in anything that 52 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:12.919 doesn't show her assets. She's got to do that for 53 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:15.919 a number of years. When she's in her forties, then 54 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.800 she can do those roles where who she really got 55 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:22.080 deep into the character, you know that, Not until she 56 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:24.800 could play somebody with leprosy when she's forty eight. But 57 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:28.919 right now, just smile, show your tits, show your ass. 58 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:33.719 You're gonna make tens and tens of millions. She knows this, 59 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:36.560 But Glenn pal didn't like him because I thought he's 60 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:40.240 banging Sydney Sweeney. That bastard, that lucky motherfucker. That's the 61 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:42.639 way guys are. We can't stand that that someone's getting 62 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:44.840 to a spot. We want to get to it, even 63 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:49.319 if it's inconceivable how we get there. And if you 64 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.680 guy like me who's done the impossible, you still think, well, 65 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:54.879 you know, I mean, I've done crazy. There might be 66 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:57.800 a chance. I know this not but you tell yourself that. 67 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:01.280 But anyhow, this guy, I've watched him when it was 68 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:04.039 Hulu show. I watched the last few movies he's done. 69 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:06.800 I gotta tell you it's pretty funny. He's got good 70 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:11.000 comedy chops. So I've let him. I've opened up room 71 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:13.759 in my life for Glenn Powell. I never thought I would, 72 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.279 and now I like him. I wish he was with 73 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:20.279 Sidney Sweeney and not that Scooter Braun pussy. So you 74 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:24.000 see how weird life gets complete what eighty like I 75 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:26.759 did with Trump, wanted to kill him, told him I'd 76 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:30.879 kill him on national radio. And now I'd throw myself 77 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.240 in front of a bullet for the guy. Yes I would. 78 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.879 I know a lot of you maybe disillusion but I 79 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:39.439 don't give a shit. I love that guy. I love 80 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:44.240 what he stands for, and I like America being run 81 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:47.439 by him. I'm sorry it's me, but I'll tell you 82 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:49.839 who became a big star the other night. I've been 83 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:53.600 watching SNL since nineteen seventy five. I watched the first 84 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:57.120 episode as a thirteen year old kid. We're fishing the 85 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:00.279 next morning, Sunday morning, on the Great South Bay, Eat 86 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.160 my father, my brother in law's Jack and Frankie, and 87 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:05.920 we had all the tools. We were fishing for flounder, 88 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.199 which is like we call a chicken of the sea, 89 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:11.759 just a great white meat fish. The bay was crystal 90 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.519 clear back then, before the fertilizers and bullshit from all 91 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.879 neighborhoods ran off into the sewers and got pumped into 92 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:22.399 the beautiful bay. But back then it was an oasis. 93 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:26.000 You could see the bottom seven feet down. We'd move 94 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:29.319 our bait if a flounder was too small, and flounders 95 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:31.439 weren't easy to see because they lay on the bay 96 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:35.480 floor like carpets. But sometimes they move and the colors 97 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:38.319 on their back they all these these little it looks 98 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:41.240 like snowflakes. They turned white when they move. It's beautiful 99 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.040 like a trout looks like a rainbow. When you're fishing 100 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.519 flounder and fluke had these white spots on their back 101 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:50.639 that come to life when they moved. So we're plunging 102 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:53.560 the bottom with We had big poles from our pools, 103 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:57.480 vacuum fingers, and we put toilet plunges so we'd make 104 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:01.680 the bottom get all up tunded. And founder of swimming 105 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:04.639 all over the place and smelling baity threw corn in 106 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:08.560 there for chum, and we come back with fifteen twenty 107 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.319 twenty five flounder. Give it to the neighbors. My mother 108 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:14.600 was frying all Sunday afternoon. We're on the boat, Jack 109 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:18.399 says pop A J. Franket, you gotta watch this Saturday 110 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:22.120 Night Live. What a show. I did watch it, and 111 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:24.319 I watched it ever since, and people give me shit. 112 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:27.759 It's the worst show on DV No. I always find 113 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.800 something to laugh at once, twice, maybe three times. I know, 114 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:35.120 some years as slim pickens, I get it. But if 115 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:37.959 you remember nineteen seventy five with the big cast, you 116 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:44.560 know Belushi, Gilda Radner, dan Aykroy, Bill Murray, you name it, 117 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:50.240 Loraine Newman, Garrett Morris. And then five years later I'm 118 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:53.160 in high school and it's Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo 119 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:56.319 and that whole crew. That's what I really took off 120 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:00.279 with it because Eddie was like almost my age, and 121 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:03.040 these guys are comparable to the age I was some 122 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:07.319 of them, so it got really surreal. But I love 123 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:09.680 the show and Jack Stalmers, you gotta watch it, so 124 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:12.680 I always watch it. And I saw something last night 125 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:15.680 that I know is going to matter in this guy's life, 126 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.680 whether he knows it or not. But there's a sketch 127 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:24.120 not ready for prime Time player named Marcello Hernandez. Actually 128 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:29.120 it's Marcello Andre Hernandez Gondas, but he goes Marcello. He 129 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:32.879 is so funny. Every sketch he does is good. He 130 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:35.720 gives his all on everything. But last night he played 131 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:40.120 Sebastian Maniscalco in a sketch and he showed his physical 132 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:43.279 comedy because that's what Sebastian does when he's on stage, 133 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:48.160 and this kid destroyed. It wasn't the best sketch, but 134 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:52.879 it was funny, but he the way he acted made 135 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:54.920 me say, you know what this kid. This kid is 136 00:07:54.920 --> 00:08:01.839 like Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, I'm talking physical comedy, 137 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:05.959 Kristen Wick, Kate, Kate McKinnon, Sherry oh Terry my God. 138 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:09.240 With the Cheerleader sketch with Will Ferrell, Jason sudeik is 139 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:13.120 dancing on What's up with that? What's up with that? O? 140 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:17.560 Great shows? So I know you're gonna give me ship 141 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:19.600 because somebody you say, why are you watching that crowd? 142 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:22.519 It's all a bunch of liberals. I get it. I know. 143 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:25.920 I even watched. You know, when I watch Weekend up 144 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:30.120 making ship, they say about Trump. Look, it's okay. Let 145 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:33.600 them have their time, let them make their big uppercuts 146 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:36.200 and right crosses. It doesn't matter in the long run, 147 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:40.639 but I laugh. If it's once or twice a night 148 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:45.240 for ninety minutes, that's good enough for me. Sorry, water break, 149 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:49.879 but yeah he will. He is now going to get 150 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:52.720 so many offers for comedies. I'm sure he already has, 151 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:55.600 but it's gonna be even bigger for my cellovern enderes. 152 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:01.519 Let me turn it to a sad story. I wasn't 153 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:04.559 a Dawson's Creek fan. I was too busy back in 154 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:08.720 the day, just building my life and going out every 155 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:13.000 single night. But I did see Varsity Blues, you know, 156 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.039 because I'm a sucker for I love a great football movie, 157 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:19.360 and I know you know James Anderbeek was a Dawson's 158 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:24.320 Creek guy, also in Varsity Blues, and I love that movie. 159 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:28.360 I love the book and one of my top twenty 160 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:30.440 movies of all time. I really think I love a 161 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:35.080 great football movie or bad. I love a good sports movie. 162 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:39.200 Not because the acting was so great, but it's because 163 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:43.840 what it harkens back to, back to life in high 164 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:48.120 school and how it was both hard at times to negotiate, 165 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:53.559 but it was also wonderful to navigate those days. And 166 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.399 I feel like that way of life right now is 167 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:59.759 not going on for our sons and daughters. Is that's 168 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:03.000 or bad to me? It's bad to you? You might say, good, 169 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:05.480 I don't know my kids doing anything crazy. Yeah, but 170 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:09.039 you can't coddle them every single day of the week, 171 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.799 every hour of the day. They've got to go off 172 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:16.159 and make mistakes. That's the beauty about being young, that 173 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.960 the world lets you go out and be stupid and 174 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:23.039 make mistakes, hopefully not too bad. But you make mistakes, 175 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:25.960 you learn, you come back, you regroup, and you live life. 176 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:29.039 And you just thought to bust open the seams of 177 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:32.120 this young little d doll. You were in the hopes 178 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:36.919 of building yourself up to be a person that's needs 179 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:39.679 to be seen and loved and heard. And you know, 180 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:45.480 I love those days. My buddy, Tony, Tony Botch was 181 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:47.799 mentioning to me how our lives were different back then. 182 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:51.440 You know, how we'd go out after games, even after 183 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:53.960 practice in high school. You know, we'd head to the 184 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:57.240 city at sixteen, seventeen years old. Oh you know, we 185 00:10:57.279 --> 00:10:59.080 had one or two friends in that car. If that's 186 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:01.799 all we needed five bucks of gas, maybe ten, we 187 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:04.799 were good to go. And we would just head to 188 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:07.960 the city hoping to see something, hoping to see anything, 189 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:10.960 just as long as we were a part of that 190 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:14.120 world for a couple hours, just to see the city, 191 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:18.799 the skyscrapers, the junkies, the hohrrors, the pimps, the cops, 192 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:23.840 hear the sirens, the yelling and the screaming, all of it. 193 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:27.279 It was so different from the tiny, perfect town we 194 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:31.720 lived in fifty miles away. That our parents were wonderful 195 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.000 enough and lucky enough to spot and make a home 196 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:38.960 for all of us. So Tony was talking about we 197 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:41.480 were both talking about the rituals back then. You know, 198 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.039 I don't think these rituals are still going on. I mean, 199 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:49.159 the world has changed. I know COVID. COVID was a 200 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:54.919 big factor with these kids developing, for sure. And we 201 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:56.720 used to have our fun. We'd go to a club. 202 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:00.120 Maybe between the four of us we had thirty forty bucks. 203 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:04.120 I'm telling you that's all we needed, maybe less. Like 204 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:07.679 you know what, we allowed ourselves to feel that way. 205 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:10.759 We allowed ourselves to feel like we were rich. We 206 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:14.799 could do anything. But there were many nights where things 207 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:18.080 happened that we never imagine happening to us, and that 208 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:22.159 was so exhilarating. It was also scary because you got 209 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:25.679 to take those memories back home and head to school 210 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:30.960 the next morning. Not many kids are doing that now, 211 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:33.679 but we felt like it made us grow. We felt 212 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:36.559 like we were getting older and smarter. We felt like 213 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:40.240 we aged ten years. After one night, driving through the 214 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:43.279 Midtown total and coming back, it made us feel like 215 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:49.440 somehow we'd surpassed all those in our class in terms 216 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:52.639 of the kind of times we were having. The blasts 217 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.159 we had just we weren't wasted a minute of our 218 00:12:56.200 --> 00:13:01.159 precious lives. And once we headed from along nightclub or 219 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.960 the city, we'd inevitably pull into a diner do these 220 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:09.120 kids still go to a diner. The fucking diners are 221 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:12.639 the best. And we finished the night eating dan romletz 222 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.519 or cheese fries with gravy, anything that was great to 223 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:21.000 soak up the alcohol from several hours before. And we 224 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:24.799 continue to swap stories of what just happened, you know, 225 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:28.200 earlier that evening. It wasn't stop, and we'd laughed so 226 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.720 hard that whoever was in the diner would kind of 227 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:33.840 turn their chairs toward us to see what else we 228 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:36.320 were gonna say, or how wild we were going to get. 229 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:39.120 Who's standing up on a chair, who's putting an ang 230 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:43.519 on his face? Just stupid high school shit. Now fast 231 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:47.639 forward several years after high school. I'm with Chico and 232 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:50.360 our buddy Johnny Diaz, who's getting married the next morning. 233 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:53.559 We're upstate New York. I forget the town. I think 234 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:56.120 it was like near Lake George or some shit, which 235 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:59.600 might as well be Kansas. If you're from Low Island 236 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.200 and New York City. Upstate New York is like Oklahoma. 237 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:06.360 We don't consider it New York. Apple orchards, long highways, hills. 238 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:10.679 It's not like us. So we're driving around and the 239 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:14.480 only option for food was it was like after midnight, 240 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:18.919 maybe one o'clock, and is a Denny's. All right, we've 241 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:21.000 gotta be up in five hours. Let's finish the night 242 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:24.679 with sandwich whatever the fuck, you know, we'll be fine. 243 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:29.320 The waitress was taken forever, we'd already ordered our food. 244 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:31.960 It wasn't a fault. There was a bunch of drunks 245 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:35.240 sitting down being too demanding, And at some point Chico 246 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.600 had enough of waiting and he says to the waitress, listen, honey, 247 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.200 if I don't get my moon over my hammy in 248 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:44.799 the next five minutes, I'm gonna shoot holes through the roof. 249 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:49.240 And you know I'm doing my best. She kind of 250 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:52.120 heard it, but didn't hear it. But I knew Chico. 251 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:55.440 I knew what he meant he was gonna do. He's 252 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:58.559 got the gun in his waistband. I didn't know what 253 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:03.000 it turned. Four minutes goes by, five minutes goes by, well, 254 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.240 well into the seventh minute, Chico takes out of his 255 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.799 gun and fires two shots into the ceiling and he yells, 256 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:12.279 I bet you making my eggs now? Am I? Right? 257 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.639 Whole place went bananas me. We all run out of there. Now. 258 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:20.720 You would think that's enough. Go home, cut your losses. 259 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:23.480 Don't beat a dead horse. All those sayings you said 260 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:27.279 when you let's just go back. No. On the way home, 261 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:31.440 we see a small bar, like a real dive bar joint. 262 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.720 We barked. We walk in. There was some karaoke shit 263 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:37.639 going on. There was a little DJ to the right, 264 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:41.120 jammed against the wall, maybe fifty sixty people in there. 265 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:45.000 We walk in. We are the three drinks. Now we 266 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:47.600 should have went home. We should have drank those drinks 267 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:50.600 quickly and headed back to the hotel, maybe four or 268 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:54.679 five miles away. But we didn't do that. Chico felt 269 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:57.360 like we had enough to talk about at the next 270 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:02.240 day's when. So at some point Chico grabs me and says, 271 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:06.159 I'm gonna go to the bar and get shots for everybody. 272 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:08.440 Come on, now, I'm gonna do it. Pop, I got 273 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:10.879 the money, don't worry about that. But when I do that, 274 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.960 just when we're about to drink the shots, pull that 275 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.559 blue pluck. See that blue plug to the next to 276 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:21.159 the detail, Yeah, pull that out and then get the 277 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:24.679 fuck out of here. I'll be wrapped behind you with Johnny. Oh, Chico, 278 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:26.840 come on, can we just go? Come on, come, on 279 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:29.600 do it. He goes to the ball order shots to 280 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:31.840 everybody in the house. The place is going bananas. The 281 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:35.039 bartender and she's a shoot girl. She's so thrilled. She's 282 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:38.200 on the bar pouring a bunch of shots. The waitresses 283 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:41.600 are coming with the shots on the tray. Everybody so hip, 284 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.039 hip parade, Chico, You're the best, that kind of shit. 285 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:48.200 As soon as they throw back the shots, I pulled 286 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.919 the plug out. Boom everything. I don't know how Chico knew. 287 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.399 I don't know what his criminal brain knew, but he 288 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:58.000 knew that plug controlled. So the lights went out, the 289 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:02.480 karaoke machine done, DJ soundless. There's nothing going on but 290 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:06.599 a bunch of people yelling. It was a calamity. And me, 291 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.039 Chico and Johnny run out three o'clock in the morning. 292 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:15.440 Just sick, stupid, insane fun. But that was us. And 293 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:17.839 I wonder is it's still happening with the younger generation 294 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:24.440 or are they all still into their fucking phones. But 295 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:26.680 you know me, I love to reminisce about high school 296 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.480 days and those days right after high school, mostly with 297 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:34.440 the football team, which had the craziest guys in school. 298 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.400 Speaking of which, talking about football, this is a sad story. 299 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:42.359 James Vanderbeek is auctioning off merchandise from his time on 300 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:45.480 Dawson's Creek because he's got to pay for cancer treatments. 301 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:49.200 I hate these stories, and all the proceeds from the 302 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:51.960 auction are going to go toward his treatment. And the 303 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:56.680 things he's put up for sale is both wardrobe and 304 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.359 props from the show. There's a sweater in his shirt 305 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:03.440 he wore in the pilot and a necklace that Katie 306 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:09.640 Holmes gave him. There's also a Spielberg themed room decors 307 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:14.720 with an et plushy and an Indiana Jones poster that's 308 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:21.039 put together in a bundle. He also included his cleats 309 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:24.759 and the hat he wore in the film Varsity Blues. 310 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:31.640 Listen just him, He and Ali Larder. You know when 311 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:33.240 she came out with the whig cream on her tits 312 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:36.119 and the cherries on her nipples and the whig cream downstairs. 313 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:38.880 That was a great moment in films, I mean in 314 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:42.279 film history, that was fantastic. Ali Lauter is sexy as 315 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:46.759 she looked at Now Are You Kicked? Twenty six years 316 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:49.680 later on land Man with Billy Bob Thorton, she's ten 317 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:53.960 times hotter. Oh my god, Ali latter is tremendous. I 318 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:56.640 wrote screenplays with her and mind back in the day 319 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:01.680 Herr and Jamie Presley. Now Ali Lader, Oh my god, chilling, 320 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:10.960 watch Landman. So this auction is in early December because 321 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.640 James said he was storing all these treasures up for 322 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:17.599 years and waiting for the right time to do something 323 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:21.480 with them, and unfortunately it's got to be because he's 324 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:25.440 got cancer and these treatments are going to be very expensive. 325 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:28.799 And he said, well, I have some nostalgia tugging at 326 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:31.640 me as I part with these items. It feels good 327 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:34.200 to be able to offer them through this auction to 328 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:37.200 share with those who have supported my work over the years. 329 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:40.960 I understand what he's saying, but that's a very heavy, 330 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:44.599 sad sentence because he knows what it means that he 331 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:49.200 might be gone. I saw a video on Instagram the 332 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:53.000 great quarterback Bernie Cosar who played for the Cleveland Browns. 333 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:58.440 Bernie was a terrific quarterback and he's sick with cancer 334 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:02.960 and he's on Instagram I'm talking and being as wide 335 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:06.400 awake and energetic as he can be with these treatments 336 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:10.640 coming up. The guy is so thin, you know, cancer thin, 337 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:14.839 thin in the face, thin like that's you know what 338 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:17.799 I'm talking about. It's a horrible thing to see. But 339 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:21.000 he's out there putting his best foot forward. And I 340 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:25.519 think Van Derby is right there, if not beyond that. 341 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:29.279 But he said, there's no playbook, playbook on how announced 342 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:32.920 these things, but I want to raise awareness and tell 343 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:38.680 my story. Said, I don't like this stuff. I mean, 344 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:41.759 these kids are younger than me and they're they're dying, 345 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.960 and it just gets you. I knew when he missed 346 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:49.240 there was a stage reading. They were reading a Dustin's 347 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:52.440 Creek pilot episode on stage to raise funds for his 348 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.640 treatment a couple of months ago. Well, these stomach viruses 349 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:59.279 he was getting and he couldn't do it. So Lynn 350 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:04.880 Manuel Miranda did it, and those things just said, it's 351 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:08.079 sad how it ends for a lot of people, you know, 352 00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:12.119 having to sell off memorabilia. But then part of me 353 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:16.319 is confused. You know, Van der Beiek has been acting 354 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:19.279 in Hollywood for what twenty five thirty years. I'm not 355 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:23.559 saying he's a multi multi millionaire, but I'm sure he's 356 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:27.880 got great insurance and some money saved he's got properties out. 357 00:21:28.519 --> 00:21:31.640 I'm not sure why this needs to happen. It's one 358 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:35.440 thing to sell memorabilia to get you know, your fans 359 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:37.559 involved and all the things that you brought us. But 360 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:41.559 I feel like this is more about money to help 361 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:44.359 with the treatments. And that's you know, same thing happened 362 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:47.759 to the Francis fort Coppola. He's not sick, but he's 363 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:52.000 selling off a bunch of very expensive wriskwatches he has 364 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:55.119 from his personal collection. He's got this one piece work 365 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:58.759 over a million dollars and he's selling the shit because 366 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:04.039 he lost so much of his wealth financing this movie, Megalopolis, 367 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:07.880 that was in the pipeline for decades, was a passion 368 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:11.119 project and it didn't do well. Like a lot of 369 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:15.559 Francis for a Copla films, give it time and in 370 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:17.480 the future you'll look at this movie and go, you 371 00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:20.880 know what, Ashley, it's a very good film. But films 372 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:24.880 are weird sometimes Sometimes the ear they hit they don't 373 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:27.839 really hit people the way they should. But wait a 374 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:30.359 few years, like a great book or a great album, 375 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.759 and suddenly you realize, Wow, there's genius in this song, 376 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:37.400 this genius in this book, this genius in this movie, 377 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:42.440 but a any six year man who's been a tremendous 378 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:48.880 Hollywood star. He invested one hundred and twenty million of 379 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:52.359 his own dollars into making this movie. The science fiction 380 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:57.279 movie it only grows fourteen million. He put one hundred 381 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:04.480 and twenty in fourteen point three million. Broke them. He's 382 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:08.400 broken now. Seven of his watches were up for sale 383 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:11.880 first week of December, and he said, I need money 384 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:14.920 to keep the ship afloat. I love when guys though 385 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:19.759 just that honest, I need money to keep the ship afloat. Wow, 386 00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:23.359 don't ask me the names of the watches, because I 387 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:27.279 don't care. I'm not a watch guy. I know Copola 388 00:23:27.359 --> 00:23:31.160 designed one or two or three of these themselves. I 389 00:23:31.240 --> 00:23:34.480 got no time for watches. Pardon the punt. I think 390 00:23:34.519 --> 00:23:37.839 watchers look great on some people, you know, depending on 391 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:40.960 the guy, they look fucking fantastic. Like when I travel 392 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:46.400 sometimes with Mike Agavino on airplanes, Mike wears a blazer, jeans, belt, 393 00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:49.599 blazer and ice shoes. Me, I'm in sweatpants, T shirt, 394 00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:54.920 you know, a hoodie, fucking crocs. I fly comfortably. Mike 395 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:58.480 old business looks great. Watch on his wrists. Don't know 396 00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:00.680 what it costs, but he looks put together. I don't 397 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:03.160 look that way. I got eight bracelets on my wrist. 398 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:08.119 That's what I like more. They're not worth anything, they're worthless, 399 00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:12.519 but to me, they're very valuable. And I got my phone. 400 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:15.000 I know what time it is all the time. Plus, 401 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:17.400