WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.919 From Workhouse Connect and aj Benze fame. He'd liked to 2 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:09.640 be walked on a leash and play really dirty, kinky 3 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:12.880 sex games. Is uh the guy put the cock in 4 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:16.960 the Peacock Network. Okay, bitch, Hey everybody, aj Benzi here 5 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:19.719 with Famous Bitch. This is your daily unfiltered podcast for 6 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:29.120 Oh I hate this date July twenty eight, Oh I 7 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:34.640 guess twenty ninety twenty twenty five, so many odd numbers. 8 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:38.960 I don't like it. It scares me, but you know, 9 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:43.960 it is what it is. We'll get through it. And 10 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:49.000 actually this is apropos of what I want to talk 11 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:56.320 about with this show and what I've been bringing to 12 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:01.359 you lately. I didn't like yesterday's show. I felt it 13 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:05.439 was subpar. I know, I said that, you know, there 14 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:10.200 were things that were wrong. And it was titled It's 15 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:15.359 the End of the World because there are so many 16 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:20.519 things about what I see and hear that you know, 17 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:24.640 kind of dictate to me that, I mean, we're fucking 18 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:30.760 what's going on? I mean, this is bad. There's a 19 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:34.400 lot of bad things going on. Even though I love 20 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:38.879 Trump and I love what he's doing, there are still 21 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:44.879 so many bad things going on that I get alarmed, 22 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:53.159 and I didn't do a politics as a bitch. I'm 23 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:55.799 probably not going to do this for a few days. 24 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:59.000 I'll tell you right now, because I'm going to be 25 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:02.239 honest with you, I'm gonna walk away for three or 26 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:05.359 four days from doing shows. I've never done this. I've 27 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:10.159 you know, I never take vacations. It's not what I do. 28 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:13.879 Been doing this for eight years, and I've always been 29 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:17.000 here on the mic, you know, whatever the fuck I 30 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:25.159 always talk, But lately the stuff that's going on to 31 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:30.400 me is so alarming that I need time to figure 32 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:38.800 it out pard than I am. I can't believe the 33 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:44.680 shit that's happening. But look, this is not a politics 34 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:51.240 is a bitch show. It's an FIAB show. So we'll 35 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:55.800 we'll get into that, but I promise you by the 36 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:00.319 end of this show you'll understand how I feel like. 37 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:06.240 For instance, you know, I just gotta tell you, I 38 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:08.199 don't know what the fuck is going on. You know, 39 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:13.039 my neighborhood's not that bad, and yet you know, I 40 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:17.560 go to get whatever coffee in the morning, and I 41 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:20.360 took my wife to the airport because she's going back 42 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:22.960 to Portland to take care of her mom and dad. 43 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:29.080 And the shit I see in the streets. I just 44 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:33.960 I saw a guy sitting on a white bucket and 45 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:42.319 a woman behind him like putting hair on him, like 46 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:47.599 extensions on him. It was like eleven o'clock in the morning. 47 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:53.120 He's sitting on a bucket. And then I turn a 48 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:58.360 corner and there's like a shopping cart full of clothes 49 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:01.400 and god knows what ell So it's just sitting there 50 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:06.400 and I said, what where am I living? What is 51 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:10.199 going on? I don't know if it's just where I 52 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:13.039 live or if it's just the way things are going 53 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:17.360 in life. But there are some people that are having 54 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:22.439 really fucking hard times. Like I said the other day 55 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:28.240 yesterday at that chit with the you know, the beautiful 56 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:31.680 little Pomeranian, and she had cuts on her face, looked 57 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:33.879 like she'd been punched a few times, and I'm like, 58 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:37.199 I want to take this dog. And she got very 59 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:40.680 upset when I began to film her, which I understand, 60 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:45.879 but I don't know. Listen, guys, I don't know what's 61 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:52.839 going on, and I just feel like I have to 62 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:56.240 step back and really get a good look at shit 63 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:03.800 before I continue. You understand, I've never seen things break 64 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:11.560 down in this manner with people in the neighborhood, and 65 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:18.439 I fuck, I can't believe it. But I'll I'll, you know, 66 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.519 I'll give you some stuff. I'll talk about Sydney Sweeney, 67 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:28.279 you know, posing for what was American Eagle Outfitters, and 68 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:33.360 you know, she did a pose there. I don't know 69 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:36.560 why people are upset. She's hot to trot, she's got 70 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:42.079 a great body. And apparently what she did with this 71 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:49.720 particular pose and what this particular ad, oh god, everybody upset. 72 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:55.000 Oh they called it Nazi propaganda. I don't know even 73 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:59.000 though what they mean. It was all about my genes, right, 74 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:03.240 get it E E A sorry g E A n 75 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:07.600 S jeans but it was a play on G E 76 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:11.399 N E S And they just I don't, I just 77 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:16.000 why are people so upset about this My jeans are 78 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:20.120 blue and that they call in the ad a Nazi 79 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:28.000 propaganda ad? What what's going on? She did nothing wrong. 80 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:34.600 The chit is hot, big tits, you know, I mean, 81 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:37.920 we know why she's hot. But if you know, if 82 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:41.439 you really want to get down to uh, I mean, 83 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:44.360 she's got that little down syndrome look, which you know 84 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:49.839 it's you know, Selena Gomez has the down syndrome look 85 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.279 to even though she's marrying Benny Blanco, who is addicted 86 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:56.839 to cocaine. I don't know what the fuck that situation's 87 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:02.079 gonna be, but yeah, she's marrying him, and stop doing blow. 88 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:08.639 You'll see, You'll see. I know too much. I know 89 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:13.199 too much. And then we got Charlie Sheen's daughter, Shammy Sheen, 90 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:18.800 who's talking about her O c D situation. 91 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:25.879 Nothing aggravates me more than when someone's like, oh my god, 92 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:30.279 I'm so OCD. I need to keep my mom my 93 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:32.560 room clean and organized. 94 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:43.160 I this chick got her tits done to try to 95 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:46.319 get in the game to make big money, and only 96 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:50.480 fans which listen, go ahead, go do it. I get it. 97 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:53.600 You got a great body, you gotta you gotta name, 98 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:57.759 You got the Sheen name. Your mom is Denise Richards, 99 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.879 who has her own bullshit going going on. So yeah, 100 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:04.920 I mean, go make your money. I have no qualms 101 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:09.839 with that. But she has to talk about her OCD 102 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:16.519 and being violently ill and throwing up what listen, I 103 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:21.240 have OCD? My mother had it, my sister Rosalie has it. 104 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:24.639 We always did things that were really stupid, like my 105 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:27.079 mother would leave the house. We'd be waiting for her 106 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:29.759 in the car. Mom, I'm gonna go to this door. Okay, 107 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:33.840 I'm coming, And she closed the door, and she she 108 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:38.000 would literally put her hand in the mailbox three times, 109 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:41.360 as if there was mail in there, and then she'd 110 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:44.559 checked the door three times to make sure it was locked, 111 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:49.320 and we go, MO, it's fucking locked. But meanwhile, me 112 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:53.840 and Rosalie were secretly whenever we got out of our shoes, 113 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:59.720 we'd put the left shoe a little more forward than 114 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:04.679 the right shoe. Don't ask me why. Well, that sounds 115 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:08.639 like a Billy Joel saw. Don't ask me why. And 116 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:12.399 I'm gonna get into him because I, oh my god, 117 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:15.399 I watched that Billy Joel documentary. I didn't want it 118 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:21.159 to stop. I actually paused it at least fifty times because, 119 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.000 oh my god, I was so I was crying. I 120 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:29.039 was crying about what Billy Joel has meant to me 121 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:34.360 over all these years. I don't think you, I mean, 122 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:39.039 maybe you guys have the same feeling about him, but 123 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:44.440 Billy Joel was the shit. Oh my god. But Sammy 124 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:50.399 Sheen is talking about you know, her o CD, And 125 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:56.200 and then there's another story about Travis Kelcey getting a haircut, 126 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:00.919 and we need to see the haircut. Who gives a 127 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:10.679 rightful fuck he got a fucking haircut. Okay, listen. I 128 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:13.559 went through it with Andrea the other night. I said, 129 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:19.919 Taylor Swift's bangs they don't work anymore. She looks like 130 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.919 an asshole. She needs to stop the banks and stop 131 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:26.840 being a junior high school chick, you know. And then 132 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.879 she got so mad at me, and she's gonna hate 133 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:31.879 that I said this if she listens to the show. 134 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:36.600 But it's like, I don't give a fuck. How could 135 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:42.159 somebody be angry about me saying enough with the banks enough? 136 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:48.519 But there's such a crazy love affair with Taylor Swift fans. 137 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:54.480 It's actually like Trump derangement syndrome. These people can't hear 138 00:10:54.799 --> 00:11:00.840 anything spoken about Taylor Swift that might make her see different. 139 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:08.519 It's fucking ridiculous. Relax, she looks better without bangs, but no, 140 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:15.559 you can't say that anyhow. Look, I gotta tell you 141 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:22.360 I watched it was so hard to watch the Billy 142 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:29.480 Joel documentary on HBO Max because this guy's been such 143 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:35.200 a big part of my life for so long. Until 144 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:39.120 you see the documentary, you just don't know how much 145 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:45.600 he You don't know, like how big he wasn't influencing 146 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:49.480 your life, and it's it's amazing. And you guys know, 147 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:53.840 I'm not gonna repeat the same story over and over. 148 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:57.759 But my mom, when we first moved from Brooklyn to 149 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:00.720 Long Island, she got a job working as a bathroom 150 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:04.919 attendant in a girl's room at a nightclub called a Hullablue. 151 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:09.600 And you know, girls come in, they're crying, they're pissed 152 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:12.360 the boyfriend left at whatever it is. And she'd give 153 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:15.600 the mint, she'd wash their face. Honey, you're gonna be okay. 154 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:21.159 You know they needed that. My mother would say, there's 155 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:26.440 a fella who sings such a beautiful song, and he 156 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:30.519 was in a group called the Hassles. Back then, the 157 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.759 Hassles weren't really big, but you know a lot of 158 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:37.720 music people know the Hassles. And my mother would always 159 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:42.519 say that that fella on the drums, boy can he sing. 160 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:46.519 We didn't pay any attention to it. And then several 161 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:52.440 years later, we're going at our supermarket called King Colin. 162 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:57.639 Lorraine's driving the silver Camaro. I'm in the back seat, 163 00:12:57.799 --> 00:13:01.399 Mom's in the front. The radio's on on AM radio 164 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:06.360 that this jockey was Bob Otone. Do you understand how 165 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:11.000 much I remember? And along comes a song don't go 166 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:15.639 change and try to please me? And my mother said, 167 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:22.080 oh my god, this is the fella. We said, Ma, 168 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:26.960 this is Billy Joel. I this is the fella I 169 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:33.879 saw us singing at the Hulla Ba Loo. So I 170 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:39.120 I've been so close to Billy Joel all my life. 171 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:45.759 You have no idea. We're both Long Island guys, and 172 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:51.120 when you both ride the same highways, take your boat 173 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:56.120 on the same base, it's just we just there's a 174 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:00.080 feeling of camaraderie because this is the guy were We 175 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:03.399 were both from the same place. He was from Hicksville, 176 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:10.720 from Wee Sislo, and he would sing songs that were 177 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:14.960 so beautiful. And as I got older in high school, 178 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:21.360 and I've said this before class week, which I don't 179 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:24.480 know how many of you had, but class week was 180 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:29.440 a really fun time where you decorated the holes in 181 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:32.840 a certain way, what have you. And then before prom, 182 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:38.720 before graduation, you know, songs were dedicated to certain people 183 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:42.840 and me and Kenny and Agraavino and Whitey and Chico. 184 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:47.840 The song dedicated to us, was you may be right, 185 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:52.559 because it began with Friday night. I crashed your party. Saturday, 186 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:55.600 I said, I'm sorry. Sunday came and crashed me out 187 00:14:55.639 --> 00:15:01.120 again because we crashed parties, and Mike and other got 188 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:06.440 big shot, you know, given to them during class week 189 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:09.759 because you know, we did certain shit that maybe we 190 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:14.639 shouldn't have done. But after high school, I'm working at 191 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:18.960 Driftwood Day Camp and I'm mowing a lawn. Driftwood Daycamp 192 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:22.799 was twenty acres, I believe, and I'm mowing a lawn 193 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:25.120 without a bag on it, you know what I mean. 194 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:31.559 I'm just mowing lawns for days. And I would pack 195 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:36.679 a ham and cheese sandwich my mother made me and 196 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:42.120 a mountain dew. But when I was mowing the lawn, 197 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:49.559 I would sing every single song from his Glasshouses album. 198 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:54.679 I memorized every song in what order they came out. 199 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:58.240 That's how big he was. And then I got married, 200 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:02.919 and when things were going bad with me and Jennifer, 201 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:09.080 you know, Billy Joel was always playing on the radio. 202 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:15.759 But there came a point where we were done. We 203 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:21.600 were divorced, right, And turns out Billy Joel's playing in 204 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:26.799 Montauk Point, an outdoor concert, and I got the tickets 205 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:28.480 and I said, hey, why don't we go? You know, 206 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:33.039 you know what the fuck? She agreed. We went and 207 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:37.320 we sat on hay bells, you know, we sat on 208 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:41.240 big squares of Hey, that's what the seats were. And 209 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.759 we listened to him singing in that beautiful night sky. 210 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:50.080 And of course on the way home, we pulled over 211 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:53.600 on Sunrise Highway and steamed up the windows because we 212 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:58.080 were so I don't know, Billie's music just did it 213 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:02.679 for us. You see this documentary, and you must see 214 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:10.519 the documentary. It is like, I can't explain it. 215 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:15.400 It's so great, the fact that he lays his whole 216 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:20.319 life out and you get to really understand what he 217 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:28.640 went through, you know, four marriages, alcoholism, so many, so many. 218 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:34.240 Horrible, beautiful, wonderful things. His first wife was tremendous. He 219 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:37.119 wrote so many songs for her. She was his muse. 220 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:41.480 And then he gets to Christy Brinkley and you know, 221 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:47.079 not that she's my type, but of course he's going 222 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:51.920 to sing songs for her. And I'm watching the documentary 223 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.039 and I'm going No one's gonna understand why this didn't 224 00:17:56.079 --> 00:18:00.160 work out, but I can, and I'll tell you why. 225 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:07.240 Because when I was dating Kara, who was, you know, 226 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:13.000 a supermodel, blah blah blah, it was fantastic. I always 227 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:17.559 said I would. Billy Joel said as much, the same thing. 228 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:21.000 He wanted a supermodel. I said the same shit. And 229 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:26.079 then when you get them, you go, Okay, I'm in 230 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:31.400 this world. Now I got the supermodel, and your life 231 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:35.720 takes on a whole different angle. It's just very weird. 232 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:42.039 It's great, but it's weird. And he wrote songs for 233 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.720 Christy Brinkley that I don't think were his best songs, 234 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:49.559 but he wrote them for her because you know, that's 235 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:57.200 the thing to do. And I, you know, I look 236 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:02.079 at when you're a writer. You know, you write how 237 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:05.920 you talk and you write how you think. And that's 238 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:10.200 why I think Billy Joel is the best lyricist in 239 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:13.920 the last I don't know one hundred years. I'm not lying, 240 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:17.839 you know, I'm not lying. And let me tell you something. 241 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:25.920 Writing is a very lonely occupation, and you feel completely 242 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:30.559 isolated from the rest of the world, like you can't 243 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:33.400 even look at people who are related to you because 244 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:39.680 you're just detached from whatever it is they're doing. You 245 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:44.039 have to do something that is I don't know. I'm 246 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:46.000 sorry if I'm not explaining it right, but you have 247 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:49.000 to do something that goes so deep in your soul. 248 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:54.079 But that's the way you got to do it if 249 00:19:54.160 --> 00:20:00.279 you're going to create some magic, you know. And while 250 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:05.240 you're doing this, and this is where Billy Joel fucked up. 251 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:08.920 And that's okay, because we all do. When you're doing this. 252 00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:15.559 When you're the writer, you can't be the boss and 253 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:18.960 the employee at the same time because you're gonna fuck 254 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:23.920 things up. And of course that happened to him, you know. 255 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:34.319 And I couldn't take watching this documentary. It blew me away. 256 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:39.880 I almost I literally watched it Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 257 00:20:39.960 --> 00:20:43.759 and this morning because I couldn't keep watching it. I 258 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:46.920 kept breaking down. I kept crying, and I didn't want 259 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:48.839 to do a show like that. I didn't want to 260 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:53.359 come out here olver klent, as we say in the 261 00:20:53.400 --> 00:21:00.079 Hebrew language. I just my emotions were right beyond my tongue. 262 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:04.440 I just was so emotional about what he said, what 263 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:10.480 he did, how he got through the bad times. And 264 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:14.079 it's the same thing about me writing my book. It's 265 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:18.599 the same kind of thing, you know. It's like, I 266 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:22.000 don't know, this is one of those shows like I've done, 267 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:27.000 where I don't have any I don't have any blueprints, 268 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:30.000 I have no plan. I'm just talking to you. But 269 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:34.559 you know, I think you need to hear this stuff 270 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:37.519 and maybe it'll ring true in your heads. I don't know. 271 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:41.519 I don't know. But when you're writing a book or 272 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:46.200 writing a song, you know, like it's a You're like 273 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:51.559 a carpenter who looks at a property and someone says, 274 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:55.839 we're going to put a house up here, okay, and 275 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:59.880 the carpenter looks and figures out what kind of lumber 276 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.319 he needs, what kind of plywood, what kind of sheet rock, 277 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:08.799 how many screws, drills, hammers, men, You just, you know, 278 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:13.720 you just kind of figure it out. That's what it's 279 00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:19.640 like when I, you know, do a show, you just 280 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:23.920 a show like this trying to talk about Billy Joel. 281 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:27.920 You just have to figure it all out. And I 282 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:32.920 don't think anybody else can understand that. You know, you 283 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:35.839 got to figure out the dimensions and the scope of 284 00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:42.359 it all. Blah blah blah. I don't know. You get 285 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:44.799 lost in your madness. You understand what I mean. You 286 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:52.799 just get lost in the madness. But uh, I don't know. Gang. 287 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:58.759 This Billy Joel documentary is so beautiful. You need to 288 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:04.519 watch this immediately because this guy has been through so 289 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:13.279 many amazing, crippling, horrifying, wonderful things. Married four times, blah 290 00:23:13.400 --> 00:23:17.039 blah blah. It doesn't matter. He was in my life 291 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:20.279 for so many years, whether it was the class Week 292 00:23:20.440 --> 00:23:25.160 dedication song to my first wife, wanting to name our 293 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:30.839 daughter Alexa, because I said, no, that's a shit marriage. 294 00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:35.519 What are you saying? I said, he's with Christy Brinkley. 295 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:40.359 This is me back in nineteen eighty something. I said, 296 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:45.599 you don't stay with the centerfold and die with the centerfold. 297 00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:49.839 It's just a part of your life. He's not gonna 298 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:55.480 stay with the beautiful model. She couldn't believe. What do 299 00:23:55.519 --> 00:23:58.680 you mean? I said, No, this is not the end 300 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:02.119 all for him. The centerfold. You don't want to see 301 00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:07.440 the centerfold get old is not that horrible. It's horrible, 302 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:10.480 but it's true. You just don't want to see the 303 00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:15.359 centerfold get old, so you marry someone else who's younger. 304 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:20.079 I mean, I know people right now are going to age. 305 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:25.880 You sound so ridiculous. I'm telling you. I'm telling you 306 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:30.039 that's how guys are. Yes, Christy Brinkley not my type, 307 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:33.799 but boy was she a looker and Billy Joel grabbed 308 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:36.960 her and they had a great time together. But that's 309 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:41.960 not who you grow old with. It just isn't You 310 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:46.079 grow old with somebody who wants to help you and 311 00:24:46.200 --> 00:24:51.039 wants to resurrect your career and your reputation. And it's 312 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:56.519 I don't know. I've been through it, you know. I 313 00:24:56.599 --> 00:25:00.599 know what it's like to have been divorced several times 314 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:06.319 and have a girlfriend that now wants nothing to do 315 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:10.720 with me, and you have to rebuild, You have to 316 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:13.680 rebuild your life and go, Okay, well there's got to 317 00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:20.359 be somebody else that can handle all this bullshit. I mean, 318 00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:24.119 it's just brutal honesty. The way you talk to yourself. 319 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:29.480 You know, it sucks. It hits the bottom of your stomach. 320 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:37.039 You can't shake it loose. But that's the truth. I 321 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:40.079 don't know. Look, I'm trying to figure it all out. Gang. 322 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:46.880 I started this show by saying, I want to tell 323 00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:49.319 you something, and I'm going to tell you something now. 324 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:57.839 I hope you weren't too nervous or you know, upset 325 00:25:57.880 --> 00:26:00.799 about the last show where I that it's the end 326 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:03.079 of the world as we know it. I know that's 327 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:09.599 hard to hear. However, I don't like what's happening in America. 328 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:13.720 I don't like what's happening with the Trump administration and 329 00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:17.599 the Jeffrey Epstein nonsense. I don't like. I don't like it. 330 00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:24.960 I don't like it. And I really believe that we 331 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:29.039 are on the precipice of something that's gonna make or 332 00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:33.559 break this country. I swear to God I do. And 333 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:39.640 I'm gonna take a step back. You know, I'm not 334 00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:42.640 gonna give you a politics as a bitch this week. 335 00:26:43.359 --> 00:26:46.319 I might, I might, but I need to take a 336 00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:50.279 step back and look at all of this nonsense. Whether 337 00:26:50.359 --> 00:26:53.799 it's same or politics, it doesn't matter. It's all the 338 00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:59.799 same horseshit. I don't like what's going on, you know, 339 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.200 And I know some of you look toward me to, hey, 340 00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:05.640 J tell us what's going to happen next? And this 341 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:09.119 I understand that, and I love it, and I God, 342 00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:12.680 I love you for that, and you know it's why 343 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:16.880 I get up in the morning. But I think that 344 00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:20.640 I'm going to take the rest of the week off 345 00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:25.359 because I don't like the way I feel. I don't 346 00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:27.920 like the way things are going in this country. I 347 00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:33.279 don't like the way I'm responding to it. And I 348 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:36.240 don't want to come off half cocked every day and 349 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:39.720 give you a show that might rankle some of you 350 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:44.839 or make you think, well, what's wrong with aj I 351 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:50.039 don't like again, I don't like it. Uh. And I 352 00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:54.680 fell off the wagon a few days ago being brutally honest, 353 00:27:56.119 --> 00:28:00.279 and I just need a few days to fit get 354 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:04.400 this whole fucking thing out, because I always want to 355 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:11.440 bring you good stories and you know, a positive podcast 356 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:13.640 where we could all laugh and have fun and this 357 00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:20.799 and that. But there's some bull shit going on that 358 00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:23.440 I think needs to be addressed, and I'm gonna step 359 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:26.279 back and take a good look at it and give 360 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:34.039 you my my all, Mike, and I will do everything 361 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:38.200 is a bitch, okay, So you'll hear me again tomorrow. 362 00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:44.839 But I've never I don't take I don't take weeks off. 363 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:48.440 I never done that outside of me being an ICU 364 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:52.039 with my life at stake, I don't. I don't. I 365 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:54.680 never take a week off. I've never done it in 366 00:28:54.759 --> 00:28:58.519 fucking eight years. But I'm gonna take a few days 367 00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:01.960 off here to to really look at this shit and 368 00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:10.079 figure it out, because I don't. I just the I 369 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:16.519 can't believe where we're headed. It's alarmingly bad. You can 370 00:29:16.599 --> 00:29:19.519 all talk to me and go no, ay day, listen 371 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:26.039 to Eric Weinstein, listen to Tucker. It doesn't matter. Do 372 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.640 you understand everybody the last several weeks are just fucking 373 00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:36.279 grabbing straws. They don't know what's going on. Everybody is 374 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:39.680 trying to tell you what they think is going on, 375 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:44.839 and they have no knowledge. They don't. Okay, I know 376 00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:48.960 Tucker's got a big name. I love Tucker. Megan Kelly, 377 00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:54.119 big name, love her, think she's gorgeous, But no, no 378 00:29:54.160 --> 00:29:58.480 one really knows. But these people who have these top 379 00:29:58.759 --> 00:30:02.440 ten podcasts in the country and the world, they have 380 00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:05.480 to appear every day and act like they know, but 381 00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:12.680 they don't know. Nobody knows, Okay, nobody knows what's going 382 00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:19.319 on with Epstein and all this horseshit. I just as 383 00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:23.400 a journalist, as a guy who's been down the road 384 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:28.160 and done the work, I'm not gonna I don't want 385 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:34.799 to jump in that fucking I don't know. I don't 386 00:30:35.079 --> 00:30:37.200 want to jump in that playground and act like I 387 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:40.920 know because I don't. I don't know, but I know 388 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:44.599 that it's very, very important we figure out what the 389 00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:47.799 hell is going on. And I know, I'm you know, 390 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:52.160 this is not about Billy Joel. It's about America. I 391 00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:57.519 get it. But there was something about watching the Billy 392 00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:00.119 Joeld documentary that really. 393 00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:06.559 Made me think, you know what, bro fucking take a 394 00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:07.200 step back. 395 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:12.880 Billy Joel did that. This motherfucker was as I mean, 396 00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:29.039 I'm sorry, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Billy Joel is phenomenal, and 397 00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:32.160 it's hard to me. It's hard for me to encapsulate 398 00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:36.400 just how great his music was. But you need to 399 00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:39.440 watch the documentary. In the meantime, I don't know what 400 00:31:39.559 --> 00:31:47.079 to say about this whole fucking situation with Epstein, and 401 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:53.559