Speaker 1: From Workhouse Connect and aj Benza fame. Uh, he'd liked
Speaker 1: to be walked on a leash and play really dirty,
Speaker 1: kinky sex games. He's uh the guy put the cock
Speaker 1: in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey.
Speaker 2: Everybody aj Benzi here with fame is a bitch. This
Speaker 2: is your daily Unfiltered podcast for July eighth, twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six seven eight two oh two six. Appreciate the comments
Speaker 2: I got from.
Speaker 1: A bunch of you regarding the screenplay. I've been told
Speaker 1: to keep reading it, so I'm going to We're halfway home.
Speaker 1: We're on page fifty and if you remember correctly from yesterday,
Speaker 1: Dino and I are. And by the way, I think
Speaker 1: I said this before, but if I say Gino instead
Speaker 1: of Dino, it's just because my cousin's real name is Geno.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I chose Dino. There came a
Speaker 1: point right before this, right when the book was about
Speaker 1: to published, a cousin, Gino, was loving it and he
Speaker 1: was reading the chapters, and I think his husband got
Speaker 1: under his skin, and suddenly Gino had a problem with
Speaker 1: certain things in the book, and it was a whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's fine, I mean we've seen each other. I'll see
Speaker 1: him in Chicago a couple of weeks, but I said,
Speaker 1: fuck it, I'll use Dino into the geno. But either way,
Speaker 1: we are now in my backyard at night, and a
Speaker 1: light wind blows in off the salty canal. Al stands
Speaker 1: alone in the dark, wearing only his shorts and sandals.
Speaker 1: He stands off into the night on the dock, close
Speaker 1: on Al's face, fixated on a spot interior AJ's room. Nighttime.
Speaker 1: AJ closes the Mad magazine. He twists around to see
Speaker 1: Dino still peeking out in the backyard. AJ is irritated.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Dino? Turn off the light? Why?
Speaker 1: Aj clicks off the small lamp, attacks to us bedframe.
Speaker 1: He climbs down to join Dino at the window. Both
Speaker 1: boys peer out into the night. From the boys point
Speaker 1: of view, we see Al standing at the edge of
Speaker 1: the yard looking off in the distance. Excuse me, Dono,
Speaker 1: what's he looking at? What are those lights lay out there? Aj?
Speaker 1: What lights? Dino points at the horizon edge. That that's
Speaker 1: New York City. That's the city, my dad. You can
Speaker 1: see the twin towers from our roof. But he won't
Speaker 1: let me go up there alone. Do you know he's
Speaker 1: just staring out there? AJ slide down from the window.
Speaker 1: He does his best to distract Dino from the window.
Speaker 1: I got thirty mad magazines here. Do you know why
Speaker 1: is he doing that? Aj? He does it a lot
Speaker 1: at night. Why I don't know? And stop asking. My
Speaker 1: mother told me to never ask him, so you know,
Speaker 1: and she was serious, So I don't ask. Dinos thinks
Speaker 1: back down from the window. AJ hands with a magazine.
Speaker 1: He is hesitant, but then takes one. Both fall back
Speaker 1: into their beds. Exterior backyard day. AJ stands in the
Speaker 1: shallow end of the pool. Dino floats in the far
Speaker 1: end of the pool, wearing a T shirt and a
Speaker 1: Tacki floatation device. He has on a large pair of
Speaker 1: designer sunglasses. Alice nearby, turning over soil in the garden.
Speaker 1: Lily sits with Row in lawn chairs, thumbing through magazines. Rosalie,
Speaker 1: this rock cuts in is so handsome. She holds up
Speaker 1: a photo to her mother. She nods, Lily, I never
Speaker 1: miss his movies. What a ladies man he was. AJ
Speaker 1: Dad says he's a fruitcake and he knows about stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Rosalie, AJ, you gotta start using your own mind.
Speaker 1: Dad thinks everybody's a fruitcake. Lily silences Row as she
Speaker 1: points to Dino and appears to be as he appears
Speaker 1: to be asleep as he floats towards the shallow end.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, mah aj Dad says he bangs women
Speaker 1: with big breast to fool everyone. Lily, don't use the
Speaker 1: word bang. It's love making. Aj. I don't know about that, ma.
Speaker 1: Not everybody that does it is in love. Rosie. Oh,
Speaker 1: now you're an expert, the fourteen year old expert on love.
Speaker 1: Ol wife's his sweaty bra aj Hey Dad, Al walks
Speaker 1: over to the jumps in the pool. He comes to
Speaker 1: the surface, grabbing aj around the waist, he throws them
Speaker 1: in the air. Aj Dad stop. I need to tell
Speaker 1: Rosalie isn't rock huts, touty fruity al clear as a
Speaker 1: round two by four. Don't believe anything you see on
Speaker 1: that EDDI, your box or in the movies all bullshit.
Speaker 1: To control your mind. Dina lifts his sunglasses. He listens in.
Speaker 1: Rosalie rolls her eyes. Al eight percent of the actors
Speaker 1: are pole climbers, and the women are all carpet munches.
Speaker 1: The whole town is filled with them, Lily, Al, come on, AJ,
Speaker 1: date carpet Why Dad, Al, I'll tell you later. Aj,
Speaker 1: you still didn't tell me why you came home last
Speaker 1: week During the day you said you'd tell me. Al,
Speaker 1: you know, you're exhausted the shit out of me, Aj.
Speaker 1: That's what Miss the Shawl said. She said, I'm exhausting.
Speaker 1: What's the difference between exhausting and an inquisitive, Rosalie. People
Speaker 1: say a person is an inquisitive if they have the
Speaker 1: answer to your question. If they don't, then they call
Speaker 1: you exhausting. Dino says, then what is nosey? They all
Speaker 1: turn to look at Dino. Not a word. Exterior Mimi
Speaker 1: Mayor's home. Daytime close on AJ's face. He stands at
Speaker 1: the front door of Mimi's home nervously bites his lip.
Speaker 1: Dino stands off, holding onto AJ's bike curb side, looking on.
Speaker 1: Ad looks back at Dina as the door front door opens.
Speaker 1: Missus Mayor, an attractive blonde woman, opens the door. Yes,
Speaker 1: is Mimi home. She turns to call to her daughter.
Speaker 1: Mimi Summon's at the door, smiling as she gives Aj
Speaker 1: the once over. Let me guess you must be AJ. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're Mimi's mother, right, I am. Mimi appears from behind
Speaker 1: her mom. She pushes open the door and steps out
Speaker 1: onto the front porch. Missus mayor don't forget what having
Speaker 1: dinner with Cassie and her mom tonight. She shuts the door. AJ,
Speaker 1: wait until she disappears. AJ castilabella. You know her her
Speaker 1: mom called my mom because I said tits? And what
Speaker 1: context did you say it? What? Mimi rolls her eyes.
Speaker 1: Why did you say tits? She makes turns to make
Speaker 1: sure her mother's out of earshot. AJ. Because her mother's
Speaker 1: got really big. You know, I didn't say anything wrong.
Speaker 1: I just told her. I heard her mom got a
Speaker 1: new set. Mimi. I said, of what, AJ, tits? I
Speaker 1: haven't said they look nice? Watch out for that one, Mimi. Whatever, AJ,
Speaker 1: she does ballet with me, My mom and her mom
Speaker 1: bowled together. We're gonna go to the Golden Drum for
Speaker 1: Chinese tonight, AJ, dade katz so get the BROCOLI lost
Speaker 1: her words. Mimi is torn between scolding Ag again or
Speaker 1: just giving in. Kissing him one more time. She looks
Speaker 1: over his shoulder. From her point of view, we see
Speaker 1: Dino standing curbside with the bike. He's now surrounded by
Speaker 1: three young boys. Mimi, what do they want? AJ turns,
Speaker 1: oh God, hold on without prodding. Mimi hurries down the
Speaker 1: steps with age on her heels. Exterior street daytime. Dino
Speaker 1: appears nervous. On each side of him stand three Dugan boys.
Speaker 1: AJ takes the by kandle from Dino. Mimi stands cross arm,
Speaker 1: glaring at the visitors. The older of the boys, Marty Dugan,
Speaker 1: looks Dino up and down. Marty is just a cousin
Speaker 1: from Jersey. He laughs, a devilish laugh. The middle aged
Speaker 1: dug and Danny steps toward Dino. Danny looks a little
Speaker 1: light in the loafers if you ask me, Aj and
Speaker 1: even match for Danny goes nose to nose with him.
Speaker 1: He keeps a careful lie in the older, more menacing Marty.
Speaker 1: Why don't you shut your face, Danny. Marty grabs a
Speaker 1: hold of AJ's bike and sits on it. Marty, nice bike, Denza,
Speaker 1: You're riding your little cousin around on it must be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun, huh. Him holding your waist from behind,
Speaker 1: He stops the in front of Dino. He leans in
Speaker 1: toward him. Marty, I'm talking to you, Sally, Dino winces.
Speaker 1: He looks toward AJ for direction. Mimi jumps right in. Oh,
Speaker 1: so you're tough, right, Dino's a friend of mine. And
Speaker 1: if you don't leave, Age and I are both gonna
Speaker 1: kick your asses. Marty drops the bike on the ground.
Speaker 1: He walks up to Mimi. Really, who are you gonna take?
Speaker 1: Mimi says, first, I'll kick your little brother and the
Speaker 1: balls as hot as I can. Timmy wins Is, then
Speaker 1: moves back Mimi. Then, when you fighting AJ, I'll rip
Speaker 1: Shitthead's eyes out with my sharp nails and blind them.
Speaker 1: AJ tries to speak, but she continues that. She moves
Speaker 1: closer to the trailer, to the taller and stronger Marty.
Speaker 1: And after I'm done with him and he's laying on
Speaker 1: the ground crying with the eyeballs, I'll jump on your
Speaker 1: back and rip your face off. I think AJ can
Speaker 1: keep you busy till I'm done with your ugly retarded brothers.
Speaker 1: Marty laughs a nervous laugh. He looks toward his two
Speaker 1: younger brothers, who are clearly wishing they had never stopped.
Speaker 1: He's met his match for the moment Marty nice girlfriend,
Speaker 1: Benza filthy mouth. I like that. AJ, just fuck off.
Speaker 1: He turns to Dino. What get in the bike and
Speaker 1: go back to the house now. Dino steps forward, picks
Speaker 1: up the bike, climbs on awkwardly, then pedals off towards
Speaker 1: the safety of the Benza home. There's a long, awkward silence.
Speaker 1: Marty turns, the heads off. Marty turns Mamrty turns, then
Speaker 1: heads off with his brothers in tow The youngest Timmy
Speaker 1: gives his only and last shot, going to Meatball Benza.
Speaker 1: He speeds up to catch up with his older brothers.
Speaker 1: AJ turns to Mimi. AJ, what's Meatball's got to do
Speaker 1: with it? Mimi takes a deep breath. She's relieved AJ
Speaker 1: has lost the words, and she senses it. Mimi, what assholes?
Speaker 1: Who are they? The Dugan boys? We play football on
Speaker 1: the weekends. You play football with them? Did you hear
Speaker 1: what they just said about Dino? You got to find
Speaker 1: new friends. They can't help, but they're irish. Their dads
Speaker 1: are drunk, their mother don't wear a bra, shows the
Speaker 1: smoke's pot and blows the smoke out of a bedroom window.
Speaker 1: I see it every day he turns. There a touch
Speaker 1: of sh aj. So you want to come to our
Speaker 1: fifth of July party, Mimi, Jesus a jay, it's the
Speaker 1: fourth of July. No, it ain't. It's it's the fifth.
Speaker 1: The party's are the fifth? More confused? What party? I
Speaker 1: just told you my dad's birthday this year is going
Speaker 1: to be halfway to one hundred years old, Mimi. But
Speaker 1: you call it the fifth of July. Hey, yeah, fuck
Speaker 1: the fourth. We do the fifth instead. Fireworks, bottle, rocket sparkles,
Speaker 1: all kinds of food. We got lobsters and crabs. What
Speaker 1: are you doing the fourth of July? We go fishing,
Speaker 1: Like I said, we gotta get stuff to eat on
Speaker 1: the fifth. Mimi hesitates. She looks back at the front
Speaker 1: door of her house as her mother locks the door,
Speaker 1: then heads down the front steps toward the driveway. I
Speaker 1: got to ask my parents, but I'm sure it'll be okay, Aj.
Speaker 1: They can come too. Some of the neighbors show up,
Speaker 1: and my dad's old friends from the police department to come.
Speaker 1: If anyone gets drunk, my dad lets them sleep on
Speaker 1: the lawn chairs. If it rains, we will the lawn
Speaker 1: chairs into the garage and they sleep there till the morning. Mimi,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm not gonna buy my parents, but like
Speaker 1: I said, I'm sure it's okay. Aj smiles a boy
Speaker 1: or smile. She likes it. She turns and heads off
Speaker 1: toward her mother, who was now waiting in the family car.
Speaker 1: Lorraine's bedroom day, Loraine is rummaging through her closet. She
Speaker 1: takes out several items and tosses them onto her bed.
Speaker 1: Dino appears in the doorway. He's still out of breath
Speaker 1: from his bike ride. She approaches him. Loraene, what's wrong, Dino?
Speaker 1: Nothing bullshit? He looked like you saw a ghost. She
Speaker 1: takes his hand in hers and leads them over to
Speaker 1: the bed. He sits at the foot of the bed
Speaker 1: alongside the large white book Our Bodies, Ourselves. Lorraine, where's Aj?
Speaker 1: And while? Are you out of breath? Dina is drawn
Speaker 1: to the book. She pulls it away and sits next
Speaker 1: to him. Talk he's with Mimi, Lorraine. Who's that his girlfriend?
Speaker 1: She's nice girlfriend. Come on, Dino, some kids wore bother me.
Speaker 1: So Memi and AJ told me to go home and
Speaker 1: they were gonna fight. I guess, Loraene, Him and this
Speaker 1: girl I'm going to fight some kids. Yeah. She reaches
Speaker 1: for the book. She hands it back. She hands him
Speaker 1: back to him. He's quick to thumb through the pages.
Speaker 1: She watches him. Lorraine, there are some pictures in there
Speaker 1: with naked women. I'm not sure if you should see him?
Speaker 1: He turns through her. Why. I don't know. Maybe it'll
Speaker 1: help me. I mean, I don't think you need help.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, Din know, I know what people think.
Speaker 1: I see naked women all the time. In my father's room.
Speaker 1: He's got magazines. Lorraine, Oh my god, what's wrong with
Speaker 1: this family? What's wrong with the men in this family?
Speaker 1: Dino stops on a photo. His face shows disgust. She
Speaker 1: takes the book away from him. I'm sorry. Some of
Speaker 1: the pictures are gross, I know, but girls can learn
Speaker 1: things that parents won't talk about. Can I ask you something?
Speaker 1: Do you know what? She points up with the poster
Speaker 1: of Davy Jones from The Monkeys. Do you like Davy Jones?
Speaker 1: Dino nods. How about Burt Reynolds. He shakes his head. No,
Speaker 1: he's Harry and he seems kind of mean. Lorraine. I
Speaker 1: think he's sexy, but he does that like an asshole
Speaker 1: sometimes my friend Paula says, he looks like an ape.
Speaker 1: So to each his own. The two sits sound for
Speaker 1: a moment. He notices an outfit lying on the bed, Lorraine,
Speaker 1: that's a bill gibtop, Dino says. Nice. He reaches for
Speaker 1: another item. It's a rap dress. Diane von Furstenberg Dino,
Speaker 1: my friends. My friend Rick's mother wears them to work.
Speaker 1: She works in an office with a lot of men. Lorraine. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a symbol of female power. My dad would burn
Speaker 1: it if he saw it, and if AJ saw it,
Speaker 1: he tattled out right away. Dino laughs. She notices it.
Speaker 1: I hope bakings being nice to you. He is. I
Speaker 1: think he's funny. Really, I think my brother can be
Speaker 1: an idiot sometimes, Dino says, I know what you mean.
Speaker 1: But he protected me today, him and Mimi in Lorraine.
Speaker 1: That's a miracle. He's probably just showing off to hear
Speaker 1: a noise downstairs. She quickly shoves the book under the
Speaker 1: pile of clothes. Her mother appears in the doorway. Lily,
Speaker 1: what are you two doing? Not them? She looks around
Speaker 1: the room, then back of the two of them. Whatever
Speaker 1: it is, your father better and I'll find out she
Speaker 1: walks off, leaving the two smelling at each other. Exterior
Speaker 1: fluke shoals afternoon. Alan Aj stand knee high in the
Speaker 1: flats of the bay. The beautiful white sandbar runs to
Speaker 1: the edge of the bay. Al dating into the sand
Speaker 1: with a clam rakers. Aj twists and turns with the
Speaker 1: heels of his feet. He also holds tight to the
Speaker 1: edge of the small aluminum boat. Al let go of
Speaker 1: the boat, AJ, I like to be near, just in
Speaker 1: case that. Dino sits in the boat with an oversized
Speaker 1: life jacket wrapped around a skinny torso. He's wearing a
Speaker 1: large straw hat and sunglasses and zinc oxide on his nose.
Speaker 1: Dino says, nervously, just in case what Alan terrupts, Here
Speaker 1: we go. I got a two for here. Lifting the
Speaker 1: clam rake, He removes two medium sized clams. He holds
Speaker 1: them under the water for a moment to rinse the
Speaker 1: sand off. First catch today, Come on, Aj, We've got
Speaker 1: a long way to go. Signo then tosses the clams
Speaker 1: in him. Dino flails his arms in an attempt to
Speaker 1: catch even one of the clams. They both hit the
Speaker 1: floor of the boat. Al, you can't let them hit
Speaker 1: the floor of the boat. You got to catch them
Speaker 1: and put him in the bushel basket. Dino try one
Speaker 1: at the time. They don't bite, do they. Al Shakeson's head,
Speaker 1: then goes back to his raking. He mumbles under his breath.
Speaker 1: AJ says, they can't bite you. They got no teeth. Okay,
Speaker 1: but a razor clam will rip your arterie open. You'll
Speaker 1: bleed out and bring in the sharks. Then then it's
Speaker 1: all over, you know, Dino shutters. Aj smiles a sinister smile,
Speaker 1: continues to twist and turn. AJ. I feel something, Al,
Speaker 1: what do you want a trophy? Pick the goddamn thing up.
Speaker 1: Aj leans down, lifts up a small rock. Aj a rock,
Speaker 1: toss it to Dino, who attempts to catch it, but
Speaker 1: it also hits the floor of the boat. Dino bends
Speaker 1: over and lifts a small stone up. He examines it closely.
Speaker 1: Dino says, can I keep this? Al glances over. AJ's
Speaker 1: back to twisting. AJ, you want a rock, Godead, it's yours.
Speaker 1: I'll give it to my dad for his desk. He
Speaker 1: puts it in his pocket. Al moses to Aj Al,
Speaker 1: bring the boat over here. I just hit the motherload. Quick,
Speaker 1: hurry up, hurry up. AJ carefully watches where he steps
Speaker 1: as he makes his way over to where his father
Speaker 1: furiously digs into the sand. Dina lifts his face heavenward,
Speaker 1: taking in the sun exterior canal. Later, Al slowly maneuvers
Speaker 1: the skiff up to his dock. AJ reaches out takes
Speaker 1: a hold of one of them dock lines. Dina remains seated. Al,
Speaker 1: good work, he Jane. Tie that to the bell. Throw
Speaker 1: the other line to Dino, and Dino, you can tie
Speaker 1: that line to the cleat. Dino, what's the cleat? Frustrated,
Speaker 1: Al points to the small metal fixture attached to the
Speaker 1: boat's hull. AJ throws the line to Dino. He fails
Speaker 1: to catch it. He attempts to do it again. The
Speaker 1: line Hitstino in the face. Al throws his hands up
Speaker 1: in the air. Forget it. I'll tie it tomorrow. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have a noctying class. AJ. Maybe the next day, Dad,
Speaker 1: Tomorrow's party. Al kills the energy. He turns to his son.
Speaker 1: I told your mother there's no party this year. I
Speaker 1: was one hundred percent clear on that. She says, you
Speaker 1: said it every year. That bull shit. You should know better.
Speaker 1: Aj Aj says, we already got people coming. Dad the
Speaker 1: Lucas catering some of the stuff, and Rosie and Mom
Speaker 1: are inside cooking right now. They said they cook while
Speaker 1: we were out climbing. God, damn it. Why are you
Speaker 1: telling me now? Aj shrugs. Even you say I can't
Speaker 1: keep a secret, so I'm telling you now, al you
Speaker 1: should have told me last week or two days ago.
Speaker 1: Now I'm the prick if I raise hell. Al turns
Speaker 1: to Dino. Did you know about the party? Dino says
Speaker 1: sort of, then you should have told me. I would
Speaker 1: have knocked you up a few notches in my book.
Speaker 1: I need my boys watching my back. Alice secures the line.
Speaker 1: He holds the boat steady as the boys climb up
Speaker 1: onto the dock. Alice pissed and the boys know it.
Speaker 1: He turns to make sure all is secure. He then
Speaker 1: reaches for a nearby hose in order to rinse down
Speaker 1: the boat. He suddenly stops and looks at his hand,
Speaker 1: revealing we see his hands covered with white bird shit.
Speaker 1: He looks up and around. He wipes the mess off
Speaker 1: his shorts, but instead it rubs it further into his skin.
Speaker 1: How what the fuck is going on. He looks at
Speaker 1: the two boys, both too terrified to talk, and then
Speaker 1: he turns looking off across the canal to the adjacent home.
Speaker 1: Al's point of view, Pete and Pete and Maria Mecha
Speaker 1: are both on the end of their dot. Pete's busy
Speaker 1: waxing his speedboat. Maria stands in a bikini throwing bread
Speaker 1: around her lawn and dot Pete spots out, glaring across
Speaker 1: at him. He tilts his shades, then grins a big grin.
Speaker 1: How two assholes. Maria looks across and gives out the
Speaker 1: middle finger. She goes back to her bird feeding. Pete
Speaker 1: places his wax down and steps to the edge of
Speaker 1: the dock. Pete, you're having a bad day out. Not enough,
Speaker 1: moving enough, not moving enough, carpet ol tell your wife
Speaker 1: barrel ass that she's killing the birds. Pete laughs. Here
Speaker 1: we go again, Professor benzon Or what was the bird
Speaker 1: man of Westleislan, Ah? Listen, shit for brains. Their guts
Speaker 1: can't handle a crap you feed them. You're throwing after
Speaker 1: natural migratory instincts. Pete, Now you're an expert on bird guts.
Speaker 1: I know a lot, asshole and since you and your
Speaker 1: disco queen moved in, the birds have been shitting glue.
Speaker 1: Why don't you get a new hobby, maybe a second
Speaker 1: job somewhere to help pay for those fake hits, Pete,
Speaker 1: they're real, Al reels rained, and I'm sure the boys
Speaker 1: are learning a lot right now about how to treat
Speaker 1: a lady. Al A lady, fuck her. I could see
Speaker 1: a dick from here, Maria says, fuck you, you guinea bastard.
Speaker 1: AJ motions to dean on the followers. They make their
Speaker 1: way up to dock and onto the lawn. Keep it up,
Speaker 1: your gob, Al yells, I know all about your can
Speaker 1: I see you heading off to the city at night
Speaker 1: to dance around like a fucking fagot with your drugs.
Speaker 1: You're like having strange men OOLI at your wife. What
Speaker 1: a real man you are, Pete laughing jealous, he's jealous, jealous.
Speaker 1: At least there's a man, and there's men out there
Speaker 1: who'd like a piece of that. By the way, where's
Speaker 1: your old lady? Al explodes, reaches down and picks up
Speaker 1: a wrench. He throws it towards Pete's dock as hard
Speaker 1: as he can and falls short into the water. Pete
Speaker 1: laughs harder, nice sharp pops. Look like you got to
Speaker 1: buy a new tool. Lily hurries down the lawn. She
Speaker 1: grabs a hold of both boys and pushes them toward
Speaker 1: the house. AJ resists. She hurries off with Dino, still
Speaker 1: wearing the bulky life vest. AJ leans down and picks
Speaker 1: up a rock at the edge of the lawn. Matter
Speaker 1: of fact, he picks it up and taps his father.
Speaker 1: He hit that thanks. Al winds up and tosses the
Speaker 1: rock towards Pete. Pete spots the rock coming. His smirk
Speaker 1: disappears as the rock approaches with perfect accuracy, It connects
Speaker 1: with the bows perfectly maintained speedboat and hits the front.
Speaker 1: That crack. Pete says, you fucking caveman, your all lunatics,
Speaker 1: you benzes, Pete, that's a twenty thousand dollars dons of you, moron.
Speaker 1: Al smiles a big smile. The rage is gone. Aj
Speaker 1: is beaming with pride. They watch on his Pete and
Speaker 1: Maria's screaming yell. Al places his hand on aj shoulder.
Speaker 1: They turned in proud of the head towards the house,
Speaker 1: where Lily stands with her hands on her hips. Great guys,
Speaker 1: just Gray, good life. Lesson for your son and nephew.
Speaker 1: The hell is wrong with you? You're don't have to
Speaker 1: work overtime. Al there goes to Christmas money. Al's all smiles.
Speaker 1: He marches. AJ marches alongside him, also smiling. As they
Speaker 1: walk past Lily, Al reaches out, grabs a hold of her,
Speaker 1: plants a kiss on her lips. Let's get this fucking
Speaker 1: party going. Lily shakes out as she follows him on
Speaker 1: her heels. Here on his heels. They all disappear into
Speaker 1: the house. Front of the house. Evening, a police car
Speaker 1: is parked in front of the house. Al stands alongside
Speaker 1: the car, talking with two uniformed officers. Dino and AJ
Speaker 1: sit on the front steps with Rosalie and the Ring. Rosie,
Speaker 1: sometimes I think he needs a few weeks at Pilgrim State.
Speaker 1: The Ring. Yeah, maybe some shock therapy something. Jack walks
Speaker 1: out the door. Rosie says, where have you been? What
Speaker 1: happened out here? A dad through a disco, Pete's boat,
Speaker 1: just his boat. I'd like to crack his elvis. Looking ahead,
Speaker 1: Rosie says, jackie're not helping here? Din know that man
Speaker 1: said bad things about that. Lily Lorraine, he did, ag, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did. Jack tell you, come on, let's watch the
Speaker 1: fire right from the back porch. The five of them
Speaker 1: get up and head off the head across the lawn
Speaker 1: to Rosalie and Jack's home interior kitchen. Later, Al enters
Speaker 1: the kitchen Lily's trying dishes. He opens the refrigerator, picks
Speaker 1: up a cold meat pull and bites into it. Lily watches.
Speaker 1: He prepares a glass of scotch on the rocks. Lily, so,
Speaker 1: so what, Lily says, what's the verdict out there? No charges?
Speaker 1: Nobody's charging me with nothing. Lily, You're married to a
Speaker 1: man who knows his way around the legal system. Come on, really,
Speaker 1: you think I just landed in the spaceship? He changes
Speaker 1: the topic. Where's the kids? The rovert roses they're watching fireworks?
Speaker 1: Al you know, I don't I don't want that fucking
Speaker 1: party tomorrow, Lily says. I know, you know. I don't
Speaker 1: want to see anyone from the department. I told you this, right,
Speaker 1: I know. But you're gonna you're gonna see him. Tommy
Speaker 1: and Frank are coming. Frank is bringing his new fiance.
Speaker 1: Literally might god, what did you do? She shushes? Him
Speaker 1: while taking a taking a hold of him. I told
Speaker 1: Rosy to keep them over there for an hour. Oh boy.
Speaker 1: She fads him out of the kitchen as he bounces
Speaker 1: his glass of scotch. Interior AJ's room night. AG's in
Speaker 1: his bed reading a Hollywood Gossip magazine. He turns the
Speaker 1: page and glances over at Dino. His bed is empty.
Speaker 1: He twists around to see Atino is kneeling up against
Speaker 1: the window. He's peeking on into the dark. AJ, is
Speaker 1: he out there? Dino? No? Dino climbs back into the bed,
Speaker 1: lifts up a red book magazine and begins to thumb
Speaker 1: through it. Mimi, do you know is Mimi coming tomorrow? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Maybe not? I asked her, though I think she'll come.
Speaker 1: I think she lets her a lot. Yeah, well maybe
Speaker 1: she does. But she has to know that I can't
Speaker 1: be tied down on school starts. I got options. Do
Speaker 1: you know, Well, whatever you do, don't tell her that.
Speaker 1: AJ says, like, like, you know what to do with women, huh?
Speaker 1: And keep them guessing. That's the key, do you know what?
Speaker 1: Plays the magazine down. He pulls the covers up over himself.
Speaker 1: AJ continues, riveted to the magazine interior kitchen morning. Lily, Rosalie,
Speaker 1: and Jack are all busy in the kitchen. Lorraine sits
Speaker 1: peeling shrimp at the table. Allan is the kitchen. He
Speaker 1: stands love a Lorraine, she never see, avoids his glance.
Speaker 1: Al what times you get in last thing? Lorraine? Late?
Speaker 1: Lisa's parents got home late, so I couldn't get a ride.
Speaker 1: Her family doesn't have a phone. She's digging herself in
Speaker 1: a deeper grave and she knows it. Lily never see
Speaker 1: watches on Lily, Lorraine. I wasn't gonna wait for you.
Speaker 1: Today's your birthday. I wanted you to rest al. How thoughtful,
Speaker 1: what a thoughtful kid we got. I told you before.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you again. There's only two kinds of people
Speaker 1: out of at two o'clock in the morning, whores and milkmen.
Speaker 1: And I don't see any milk in the back of
Speaker 1: your clack. I don't see any milk in the fridge.
Speaker 1: So much fun of you. He walks up with the fridge,
Speaker 1: looks around, slams the door. No milk. Shea bottles of milk? Jack,
Speaker 1: how about you, Lily, bro I don't see milk. She
Speaker 1: melts into her seat. Shrimp shells stop sit piled up
Speaker 1: in front of her. Al next four weekends. I don't
Speaker 1: want you going out. That's it period, Lily Al coming
Speaker 1: to this later. I don't want to get upset today.
Speaker 1: If you throw my balls to be in an uproar,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be doing this bullshit party. Watch watch the
Speaker 1: shit that's gonna happen for this. He walks to the
Speaker 1: cabinet where he keeps the scotch. Where's my jamb Jack,
Speaker 1: I set up an icce little bar outside. Pop, got
Speaker 1: your ice and lemon and everything all set up some mint.
Speaker 1: Won't you have a seat. Let us do a thing.
Speaker 1: Ow are you serious? I gotta open a bushel of clams.
Speaker 1: I gotta rip the bats off of these blue claws,
Speaker 1: gotta make the sauce. I got too much to do, Jack,
Speaker 1: He turns back to the ring. I mean, go get
Speaker 1: your father a scotch. She welcomes the chance to exit
Speaker 1: the room. She dashes off the phone rings. Nothing goes
Speaker 1: to grab it, but I'll beat her to it. Hello.
Speaker 1: Larry's Den interior morning. Larry's riding his exercise bike in
Speaker 1: his Gordy Den. He's wearing a sweatsuit. He continues to
Speaker 1: pedal as he talks into the phone, inter cut as necessary. Larry, Hey,
Speaker 1: birthday boy. How does it feel finally hitting the big five? Oh? Al?
Speaker 1: Are you serious? So far? It's a fucking nightmare. What's what, Larry? Listen?
Speaker 1: I got a platter of DELI ready to go, a
Speaker 1: gown of for TCMO. I'm ready to dance, but I
Speaker 1: got a problem. A'l nervously rubs his forehead of For
Speaker 1: fox sake, Larry, just say that. What's the problem? Count down.
Speaker 1: Helena's leg is flaring up again. I think it's neuropathy,
Speaker 1: but one of my associates thinks it's a deficiency. So
Speaker 1: I got him on quinine and vitamin C. But I
Speaker 1: don't think we can make it ow. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: do this to me? Are Yeah? Larry? You're all I got.
Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by a bunch of stoodats you and I
Speaker 1: don't want this to be something I could go through alone. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, but I can't now. Helena is not
Speaker 1: happy about it. Lead, So here's what I'm thinking. He
Speaker 1: stops and yells to his wife. I'll be up at
Speaker 1: a minute on I'm on the phone with out I will,
Speaker 1: I will. Helena wants you to have a happy birthday
Speaker 1: out she knows she got a good heart. She means, well,
Speaker 1: oh there, nice, listen, I got a lot of cooking
Speaker 1: to do whilere you breathing like that stationary bike. Ol,
Speaker 1: you gotta get one or Betty yet, let me get
Speaker 1: you one for your birthday next birthday. I'll be up
Speaker 1: there next week to pick up Dino. I'll drop by
Speaker 1: corvettes and grab you one. How's that sound? Can't wait?
Speaker 1: By the way, I hope dinos taking the vitamins. You
Speaker 1: get up. You're keeping up with that right now, Ol, exhausted, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all I think about, Larry three times a day,
Speaker 1: seven days a week. Dino in vitamins. Larry is blinding
Speaker 1: to the sarcasm. Thanks. Al can't wait to see how
Speaker 1: he's doing. I know you're bringing out the benz in him.
Speaker 1: All right, let me go, Larry talk Layer to Chow Chow.
Speaker 1: Hangs up the phone. Lily and the others remains silent.
Speaker 1: Al leans his head against the wall. I told you,
Speaker 1: I told you, storms out of the kitchen. Jack watches
Speaker 1: that her storms out the back door onto the back porch.
Speaker 1: He nudges Rosalie. Jack says, why don't you help to
Speaker 1: dab with the clams. She wraps her hands without a word,
Speaker 1: then hands out the door. Jack continues, you said some
Speaker 1: of these guys for the apartment are coming. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: sent the invite and talked with Tommy next week. He
Speaker 1: said he'll be here. Jack to himself, Holy shit if
Speaker 1: they don't come right, Lorraine storms back in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: She sits back down in front of the shrimp. Lily
Speaker 1: turns to her. Lorraine burst out into tears. Why is
Speaker 1: he taking everything out on me? Lorrainy's fit to be
Speaker 1: tied to that. That's not you, Shoe, it's all of us.
Speaker 1: Is anyone else grounded for four weekends? Lily? Stop? He
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it. Please stop, it's gonna go away. Just
Speaker 1: let's have a good day. Exterior backyard afternoon. The backyard
Speaker 1: has been set up for a party. Jack is vacuuming
Speaker 1: the pool. Rosalie is pulling the redwood tables together. There
Speaker 1: are coolers with soda and beer on the patio. Red, white,
Speaker 1: and green balloons are all tied to table, sent in pieces.
Speaker 1: A few close relatives and friends have arrived already and
Speaker 1: are picking on cheese and Italian meats. Al's at the barbecue,
Speaker 1: appairing clams. Casino. AJ pulls both stereo speakers out front
Speaker 1: from the house and onto the patio. He puts on Sinatra.
Speaker 1: The record is skipping. Al looks up to the sky, annoyed.
Speaker 1: Fix Frank AJ woods Jesus Christ, what else could go
Speaker 1: wrong today? AJ wipes off the treasured album. He carefully
Speaker 1: places the needle back onto it. This time it plays flawlessly.
Speaker 1: AJ breathes a sigh of relief. Now that's what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. That's Frank. Dino sits at the edge of
Speaker 1: the pool, splashing his feet. Al Dino, come up, your uncle, Ale,
Speaker 1: Let me show you how men work with the grill
Speaker 1: with wet feet. Dino tiptoes tortel. Al hands of an
Speaker 1: oversized spatula, now like the clams up top, waiting for
Speaker 1: them to open. Meantime, I got the patties cooking on
Speaker 1: one side, say he. And when it's time to flipping,
Speaker 1: so simple and easy. Al slides his spousel under one patty,
Speaker 1: turns it over to meet sizzles. See it's perfect. You
Speaker 1: see those charm marks on that meat. The wrists It's
Speaker 1: all about the wrist, you know, just like you're turning
Speaker 1: the door knob. Give a shot. Dino's expression is filled
Speaker 1: with dread. Holding that Spashal with two hands, he turns
Speaker 1: the patty. He manages to turn the burger, but still
Speaker 1: it breaks. Al bites his tongue. I can't it's too heavy,
Speaker 1: Uncle Lyle. No, no, no, no, you're almost it. Let
Speaker 1: me get you some the stand do stay they put.
Speaker 1: Al looks around for something to use. He screams up
Speaker 1: at the house. He's doing his best to be that
Speaker 1: great patient uncle Roe, get me the oysters and the opening.
Speaker 1: Al turns his attention back to the nervous Dino. He
Speaker 1: takes a hold of his bachelor. He dices the broken
Speaker 1: patty into several pieces. Al, this is for us, this
Speaker 1: is the chef's share. Okay, don't worry about it. He
Speaker 1: Al pops the steaming hot piece of the burger into
Speaker 1: his mouth. A morsel sticks to his bushy mustache. This
Speaker 1: is why the men hanging around the grill first shot
Speaker 1: at the best parts. You see that you're doing great.
Speaker 1: He holds out a portion of a hot paddy to
Speaker 1: Dino with his weathered hand. Dino retracts. I don't like
Speaker 1: it with catching and bred. Al hangs his head. He's
Speaker 1: doing all he can, he screams again. Ro literally get
Speaker 1: me those damn oysters. Back to Dino. All right, let's
Speaker 1: forget the grill. Uncle Ale's gonna show you how to
Speaker 1: open the blue points. Okay, forget it. Best ois is
Speaker 1: in the world. Dino fights their urge to run. Jack
Speaker 1: arrives with a bushel of oysters. He drops them in
Speaker 1: front of the owl, then takes out several tubes from
Speaker 1: his rear pocket. Here you go, Pop, you need a
Speaker 1: garden glover or a towel owl for while. Pop, we
Speaker 1: only have tripped a goods man in the hospital this year.
Speaker 1: Please don't cut your hand. I'll be fine. You know
Speaker 1: what you know hurts themselves open oysters morons because they
Speaker 1: apply too much force. It's a little delicate dance with
Speaker 1: an oyster. Dino is past confused. Al grabs an oyster
Speaker 1: and leans down with his oyster and hand oyster knife
Speaker 1: in hand. Look at me. I love my son alone,
Speaker 1: but he's got no expertise opening these things. Now, listen,
Speaker 1: if you push too hard, you drive that knife right
Speaker 1: through your palm. Understand he pushes on the oyster. He
Speaker 1: stops and holds it close to Dino's face. You see
Speaker 1: this spot right here, Yeah, Jack disappears. He's heard this
Speaker 1: a thousand times. It's the dance, Dino. He plays the
Speaker 1: tip of the knife into that small hinge like it's
Speaker 1: like a door hinge. Then you gently apply some pressure.
Speaker 1: You don't push, just pressure, and boom, oyster pops open.
Speaker 1: Al is proud. He lifts the sweet oars into his
Speaker 1: mouth and sucks it down. No lemon, no dressic, no nothing,
Speaker 1: just salting meat. Dino, Oh gross, gross, You sound like
Speaker 1: Lorraine with the gross word. Listen, listen to your uncle out.
Speaker 1: You take one of these down and you're gonna be hooked.
Speaker 1: Although they're alone, Al still leans down the whiskers out
Speaker 1: of the side of his mouth. A Dino trut, These
Speaker 1: these things here might fix everything, if you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Dino is completely confused. What never mind, Let's
Speaker 1: grab another one. Al riches for another rister, carefully places
Speaker 1: knife for the seat spot. No pushing, just gentle, gentle pressure,
Speaker 1: Dino says. The dance I got it had a boy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna plause it. The pitch seventy eight. It's gonna
Speaker 1: get hectic now. A lot's gonna happen, a lot's gonna
Speaker 1: go on, some neighborhood fights, some interesting us had it.
Speaker 1: Two days out of this, two more days out of this.
Speaker 1: But it's really gonna turn quickly now. And now that
Speaker 1: you know the characters, there's no new characters coming in.
Speaker 1: Now that you know what the yard looks like and
Speaker 1: food smells like, and what the people sound like, you
Speaker 1: have a much easier time following this screenplay. But again,
Speaker 1: I appreciate all of you for letting me do this
Speaker 1: and learning the basics of reading a screenplay having not
Speaker 1: written one. If that's the case for most of you,
Speaker 1: if not all of you. But it's a different way
Speaker 1: of storytelling. It's much more intense and finite. Like I
Speaker 1: said the other day, you have to hit on every
Speaker 1: little fact, every little detail to put the picture a
Speaker 1: director's mind. You know, when you when you chell screenplay
Speaker 1: to somebody that wants to direct it, they'll read it
Speaker 1: first and they'll like it or not like it. If
Speaker 1: they like it, they'll come back and say to you,
Speaker 1: I like this. But now I got to read it
Speaker 1: again as a director, I got to really see it
Speaker 1: and because directors can can see how much money it's
Speaker 1: going to cost for this scene that scene. Do we
Speaker 1: need this scene? Can we combine these two scenes? And
Speaker 1: that's why there's so much rewriting that goes on. And
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the words right now that I wrote
Speaker 1: and I got rewrited to on this just before you know,
Speaker 1: I know, I do. There's some sentences on a like
Speaker 1: all this time later I want to fix, so I will.
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, enjoy the craziness of the Benza
Speaker 1: and Fernandez families. And I'm aj Benza. And that was
Speaker 1: your daily Famous A Bit Uncensored podcast at July eighth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Talk to you guys tomorrow