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 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:20.359 here with same is a bitch. This is your daily 6 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:24.679 Unfiltered podcast for November twelfth, twenty twenty five. One one 7 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:30.199 one two oh two five. See I read that little 8 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:34.960 little confusing one one one two two oh two five 9 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:36.759 like the sound of that good day. It is a 10 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:39.560 great day. It is taping on Veterans Day right I 11 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.359 am taping on Veterans Day right now. And as we 12 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:46.560 said yesterday and I've said throughout the day, thank you 13 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:49.280 all for your service. There are people who were on 14 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:54.119 this show who are patrons who uh served in foreign countries. 15 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:58.399 And you have brothers and sisters and fathers and others grandfathers, 16 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.960 I mean all of us to some degree or from 17 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:05.480 military families. I'm very proud about that. I remember. I 18 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:07.719 don't know why I remember this, but it's you know, 19 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:10.680 my memory is like an elephant's, but this is a 20 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:15.280 foggy one. I remember for some reason me, Kenny, Mike, 21 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.319 maybe my good buddy, our good buddy, Ronnie kinnear Whitey. 22 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:23.159 I remember us going to the post office and having 23 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:26.640 to put our name down, not to be submitted for 24 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:29.159 the draft per se, but it was something along those lines. 25 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:33.159 Even though Vietnam was over. This is like seventy seventy eight, 26 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:37.000 but there was some kind of question maybe that the 27 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:41.159 draft could be reinstated, and guys our age had to 28 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:44.079 put our names in. I remember that, but I don't 29 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:48.439 remember the specific details. But I recall us being a 30 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:50.599 little nervous, laughing a lot as we drove to the 31 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:52.879 post office, and not knowing what was going to happen. 32 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:56.079 But I could be wrong, but I doubt it. I 33 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:58.239 wouldn't have concocted that whole thing in my head. We 34 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:00.879 definitely went to the post office names down on some 35 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:06.560 piece of paper. Anyhow, I you know, I like a 36 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:08.879 lot of you. I came from a family whose father served, 37 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:13.000 and back in the seventies when Richard Nixon and George 38 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:17.879 McGovern were battling it out, my house was not the loving, 39 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:21.360 wonderful household that I described to you guys. For the 40 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:24.120 last eight years. My father was a staunch supporter of 41 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.879 America and the war, he and his brothers having served 42 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:31.319 in World War Two, enlisting the day after Pearl Harbor. 43 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:34.360 My father was underage and still went. They all served 44 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:40.280 in different factions. And I you know, obviously whose stories 45 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:44.960 are magnificent. They weren't magnificent. Those stories of World War Two. 46 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:47.840 They were chilling, They were fun. They were just filled 47 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:53.840 with camaraderie and just you know, I love talking to 48 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:59.800 people who saw who saw war. When I was thinking 49 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:04.280 to as I was driving, how lucky I am. A 50 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:06.879 lot of us, I suppose, but I turned it into 51 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:12.719 a career to be near men who went to World 52 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:16.520 War Two. And the topic on the radio was something 53 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:18.639 about the Battle of the Bulge. And I remember saying, oh, 54 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:20.560 my uncle Lui and Uncle Nikki fought in the Battle 55 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:22.680 of Bulch. My mother's brothers fought in the Battle of 56 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:25.400 the Bulch. I remember those stories. They come over and 57 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:27.759 talk about the Battle of the Bulch. And you had 58 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:30.639 guys who stormed the beach in Normandy. You had all 59 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:34.400 different sorts of relatives who fought in different wars overseas, 60 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:38.319 and of course those guys came back with tremendous stories 61 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:40.960 to tell. Whether it was at the dinner table, or 62 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:43.479 in a car, or on the boat, or on a 63 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:46.840 wedding or a function. You just I couldn't unglue myself 64 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:50.240 from those stories. So you know, you ask somebody, well, 65 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:52.719 what makes you want to tell stories? And what you know? 66 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:56.240 What about your past? You know? Motivated you want to 67 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.960 talk and tell stories because I was raised by men 68 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:06.240 who had wonderful stories. It just they captivated me. You 69 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:08.520 couldn't help but listen. And I wasn't one of those 70 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:12.400 kids who went to bed. I'd never bedtime. My mother tried, 71 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:15.520 aj come on ten o'clock, go to bed. My father 72 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:18.959 lily live my alone, let me alone, hej you want 73 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:20.920 to hear me? Uncle Nicky, Uncle Frankie talk. You want 74 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:23.720 to hearncle Yeah, Dad, Okay, please go away, go go 75 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:26.120 to the kitchen. It was that kind of world. And 76 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:28.879 I'd sit there, my eyes would sometimes close half masks, 77 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:32.959 but I'd wake up because there was a funny story. Man. 78 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:38.399 It was a different, different era. Those men are gone, 79 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:44.120 so those women. My buddy tough Tony Botch sent me 80 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:48.199 a text this morning. I want to cry. I don't 81 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:54.439 want to cry. Picture of his mom. He says, this 82 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:57.600 is my mom. I think she's in her early seventies. 83 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:01.920 Here reminds me of your sister, Rosalie. Both classy. My 84 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.959 mom had a great complexion. Italian women are aged well. 85 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:10.879 Irish boughs looked like washed out trucks. I didn't prove 86 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:14.079 read that before I read it. But they're making a 87 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:19.480 poster out of this picture for a son's wedding next weekend. 88 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:23.399 But you know, I was just thinking, like it's true. 89 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:25.839 And I wrote back to my says, Tony, those those 90 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:30.040 women are gone, bro, you know those women are all 91 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:35.720 but gone. And he said, quite correct. They were tougher 92 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:38.639 than the beta males of today. God damn right, they 93 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:44.800 were Jesus Christ, were they tougher anyhow? My sister Rosalie, 94 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.800 she's hobbling around with a bum knee, a bum hip, 95 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:51.920 a fucking sciatica. Oh I just didn't heating pig. Could 96 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:55.720 you get me a title and all? Rosalie, you have percocet, 97 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:58.920 your doctor Piscott. Take a pill? No, no, I ignore, 98 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.079 she said, I don't want that. I'll fall asleep. I 99 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.519 want to watch this movie if it was me and 100 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:07.199 it's been me, gave me the pills. I want the 101 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:11.879 pain pills now no, not her. My mother never took 102 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:16.560 anything either. Never she took librium to calm down, because 103 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:20.160 who the hell about? She had a lot of things 104 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:24.279 that were bugging her nerves and gots, as we say 105 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:27.360 in Italian gotss little things, little things that a bunch 106 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:31.519 of goats is around me, motherfucker, and gods, gotsa means prick. 107 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:34.160 So it doesn't even make sense to people who don't 108 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:37.319 understand Italian. But when you say, I got some gotss, 109 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:42.439 just things that bug you. But yeah, man, thank you 110 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:45.439 for all those people we know in love who served. 111 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:52.920 I was reading today about my buddy Bill Maher. I 112 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:55.519 couldn't sleep yesterday. It was a weird day. I was. 113 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:58.600 I told Rockog I take a nap. I picked them 114 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:01.639 from school, and about four o'clock I said, look, I'm 115 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:03.279 gonna lay down for like an hour or so. He goes, well, 116 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:05.040 I'm gonna go to the park and play basketball. I said, 117 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.439 I'll you're gonna eat dinner and I'll eat my friend okay, 118 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:10.959 so I don't got to cook. I laid down. I 119 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:14.319 woke up. It was five twenty and it was kind 120 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.920 of dark out, and I go, oh shit, oh my god, 121 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:18.839 I fell a sleep by a couch, I get my charge, 122 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.720 I get my phone, go into my bedroom, thinking it's 123 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:26.279 five twenty am. I laid down. It's not am, it's PM. 124 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:29.480 This is dinner time, asshole. So I fucked up my 125 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:32.439 sleep and I kenp't wake it up. Last night one 126 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:35.600 o'clock two thirty three, tag four point fifty, and I'm like, 127 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.879 all right, just stay up, look at the phone, listen 128 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:41.480 to people on Instagram. Just let it go. And I 129 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:47.079 did and read a lot of stories and social videos 130 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:50.199 that really intrigued me and made me laugh and inspired me. 131 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:52.399 It's amazing what you can find late at night if 132 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:55.600 you go down different rabbit holes. We all have different algorithms. 133 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:58.040 Some of us have kind of the same, some of 134 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:02.319 us overlap. A lot of folks send me memes and stories, 135 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:04.120 and I'm like, I saw this, I saw that. But 136 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:07.879 you know, I'm still very appreciative of people sending me 137 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:10.279 things in the hopes that maybe I didn't see it, 138 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:14.040 But I see everything. There's never a story about go 139 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:15.800 I don't know about that. I didn't hear about that, 140 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:21.600 so I started watching. I started listening to Bill Maher's 141 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:25.959 podcast with Cheryl Hines. You know, rfk's wife who's a 142 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.199 Democrat and has had to go through a lot of 143 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:32.840 shit because of her husband, and people on the left 144 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:37.600 are shutting her literally, not wanting anything to do with 145 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:42.600 her anymore. We heard from the Fucking Dyke comic Tig Natara, 146 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:45.840 who broke a friendship with Cheryl because I can't be 147 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:48.039 friends with someone like you. It just it makes me 148 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:51.399 sick how people just walk away from her friend over politics. 149 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:55.519 And there was a story today where a radio DJ, 150 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:59.679 Stephanie Miller, who apparently has about five million listeners. Now 151 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:01.519 she's not well, she's out here in La now. But 152 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:04.120 back in my day, in the early nineties, she was 153 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:06.600 a DJ in New York and I knew Stephanie. We 154 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.000 even went out a few times. It wasn't romantic. We 155 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:11.399 just went out because she was fun. She was opigionated, 156 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:14.639 And my buddy asked me to say, what was she like? 157 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:17.320 Was she had liberal? I said, no, one knew who 158 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:19.840 anybody was in nineteen ninety two. We didn't ask, We 159 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:23.399 didn't care. You voted for Bill Clinton was the big story, 160 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:27.799 So it didn't like politics wasn't even a thing you 161 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.799 tried to figure out on people. If you got along. 162 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:34.759 You got along. If you thought someone was cute, handsome, hot, sexy, 163 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.200 it didn't matter who they voted for. I said, I 164 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:38.919 don't know what the fuck she was. Back then, she 165 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:40.720 was a fun chick. We went out, we had laugh 166 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:43.919 we had drinks, we had dinner. Stephanie was fun. And 167 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:47.679 now she's kissing Jasmine Crockett sneakers at a fucking airport. 168 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:51.200 Oh my god, how the world has gone upside down. 169 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:56.559 I can't take it, can't take what I'm seeing and 170 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:59.120 anyway I watch you. I'm listening to Bill Maher's podcast 171 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:01.960 with Cheryl Hines. I love Bill's show. I love everything 172 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:05.960 Bill does. I didn't love this episode, though I didn't listen. 173 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:09.759 I'm on record years ago when I first saw Cheryl 174 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:13.200 Hanes on Curb Your Enthusiasm, I'm like, I think she's sexy. 175 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.080 This is something I like her. I found her sexy 176 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:19.919 on the kerb and maybe something. You think I'm crazy, 177 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.240 but I did. I still think she's sexy to this day. 178 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:25.039 I find her something about is very attractive. I love 179 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:29.039 her voice, I love her face or figure. I don't know. 180 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:33.759 People turn you on for different reasons. So they're talking 181 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:39.919 and apparently Bill had mentioned that it was a story 182 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:42.200 out there that back in the nineties when he had 183 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:44.799 his show Politically and Correct, which I did about six 184 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:50.120 seven times. It was a fun show Comedy Central. It 185 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:53.039 was a lot of fun. We did one episode outdoors 186 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:56.000 on the pier on the West side of Manhattan with 187 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:59.360 a bunch of mafia type stories, and Bill introduced me 188 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:01.960 outside to all these people. My next guest is a 189 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:05.399 real made man aj It was so fun. I came 190 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:07.440 out with a baseball bet. He loved it. I didn't 191 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:10.039 tell him that the Pev's story was on the Big 192 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:12.559 Pussy had a lot of fun, but he said, like, 193 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:15.840 you know, there was a story that sometimes back in 194 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:18.639 the day before the show came on, he would master 195 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.519 be in his dressing room and everybody's like, and Cheryl 196 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:28.039 Hines was like, is this you know, is this all true? Yeah? 197 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:30.480 He says, well, yeah I did. I didn't do it often, 198 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:32.360 but I did it. And he said, look, you know, 199 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.480 this is the nineties. I mean we taped every single day, 200 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:37.799 three four days a week. It was an everyday show, 201 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:40.639 and I was a wild man back then. I would 202 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:43.320 be out at night and hung over on the set 203 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:45.879 the next day, and I remember that it was a 204 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:49.360 different world. No one looked down upon you if you 205 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:51.799 went out and had two martinis at lunch and came 206 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:54.279 back and finished her column and then got a few 207 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:56.679 drinks sing you into the TV show. A lot of 208 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:00.399 people were doing the same thing. It was a devil 209 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:05.399 may care attitude back then. It wasn't frowned upon. I'm 210 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:09.960 not lying, it just wasn't. And I would go out 211 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:11.759 with Bill back then. That's when he and I really 212 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:14.399 struck up a big friendship. Nineteen ninety one and ninety two, 213 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:17.679 and we I mean, I set him up on a 214 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:20.080 double date with me and the Baker sisters. I leen 215 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:24.240 Baker was a knockout. I wanted I lean so badly, 216 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:27.320 but I could tell she wanted someone with money, someone 217 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:30.799 a little more. I don't know. Her sister was more 218 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:34.879 for me. Her sister was a gorgeous Robin was another knockout. 219 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:37.799 But I leaned Baker, so I set them up with 220 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.679 her and the four of us went out dinner, went 221 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:44.279 to a club, and it didn't turn out for Bill. 222 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:46.799 He really he'ash you know these girls in New York? Eh, 223 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:49.159 I like la girls. I'm like you do, I said, No, 224 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:51.519 New York girls are the best. He said, oh, you know, 225 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:55.240 I don't know. I just and I said, we still 226 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:56.720 talk about it to this day. I said, you know what, 227 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:01.120 to me, an LA girl is like putting Uh, It's 228 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.720 like putting in a layup in the basketball court, like 229 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:06.240 the girls in LA that I've met. It's like somebody 230 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:08.639 misses a shot. You're there under the basket, you put 231 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:10.480 back in the you put back in the layup, and 232 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:13.039 you score two points. That's an LA girl, a New 233 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.240 York girl. You got to start working at half court. 234 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:18.840 You got to back them up, double behind your back, 235 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:22.200 through the legs, crossover, switch them up. It's a different 236 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.720 kind of relationship. So I'm more interested in the ones 237 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:27.679 who play hard to get. And maybe Bill likes the 238 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:30.200 easy ones. I don't know. I don't mean easy and tramp. 239 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:33.240 I just mean like less work, less effort. But yeah, 240 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:36.879 he jerked off before shows. Who cares? You know, there 241 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:38.759 are a lot of things you do when you're on TV. 242 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:42.200 And I didn't know who I was going to be 243 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:43.840 the kind of man I was going to be once 244 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:47.039 I got my TV show, and you're taping the talk 245 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:49.759 show or you're doing mysteries and scandals, and you know, 246 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:51.679 at the beginning, it was just okay, I have a 247 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:53.799 TV show, this is weird. I just left New York, 248 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:55.759 and now I want to set and then being filmed, 249 00:13:55.799 --> 00:14:00.840 and it's kind of cool. And then you just start 250 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:05.240 to become this person that the town is recognizing and 251 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:08.320 they know your name and they know they catchphrase, and 252 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:10.519 they see you and they call your name out on 253 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:14.200 airplanes and restaurants, in the street in traffic. There goes 254 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:17.279 a bus what you're faced on it advertising the show. 255 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:20.440 Suddenly you start to become this person that you would 256 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:23.679 never used to be. And then you take some liberties 257 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:26.840 with that theme. You go, you know what, I don't 258 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:28.840 have to fucking read up on this show. I'll wing 259 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:30.639 it when I get there. You show me my mark 260 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.159 like Sinatra, show me my mark. I'll hit my mark. 261 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:35.440 Tell me action. You'll get a great show of me. 262 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:39.080 And many times that works. And then you get really ballsy. 263 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:41.440 Now I want to film at three o'clock in the morning, 264 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:43.360 I need some cocaine. Let me get this guy I 265 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:45.000 know who's gonna bring a little bag of coke, a 266 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:46.799 little footy dollar bag of coke. I'll do a couple 267 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:49.279 of bunks before the show, and every time there's a break, 268 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:51.720 I'll bump it up again. And then suddenly you're doing 269 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:55.480 this every night. Now, you know, Am I jerking off 270 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:58.519 before shows? No? But I'm doing something else. I'm doing 271 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:01.919 some kind of religious thing. I don't mean religion, something 272 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:06.399 you do religiously that you think is working and it's not. Yeah, 273 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:09.559 cocaine may keep you up, but there's a crash involved later. 274 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:12.080 But at the beginning, I didn't even care about the crash. 275 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:15.679 I just care about the being up, finishing the show strong. 276 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:18.720 Four o'clock in the morning, my whole crew is shot. 277 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:21.639 They're dead. I'm wearing a goat. Let's go to the 278 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:23.919 after hours. They're like after hours. I'm going to bed. 279 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:26.879 I gotta be at work at nine o'clock. Different world. 280 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:29.559 But yeah, I did those things before. I remember, before 281 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.679 my talk show, I got to be so cocky. The 282 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:36.080 money was flying in. I just saw an old contract 283 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:39.000 the other day in the one of the boxes from storage. 284 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:40.879 Jesus Christ. They would pay me a lot of money 285 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:43.679 to do something I found so easy to do, which 286 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:47.039 was basically be me. And I'm getting paid a lot 287 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:49.679 of money to be me, And you know, I remember 288 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:53.759 before the talk show, I would be in the little dress. 289 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:56.799 It was a bathroom, actually my own bathroom, A shot 290 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:00.000 a vodka, a bump at each nostrill, let's start the show. 291 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:04.519 And it seemed to work for me. But just as 292 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:09.000 football players take steroids and eventually have this this anger 293 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:12.399 that comes out of them for no reason, I became 294 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:15.679 that kind of person too. Not anger as much as 295 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:20.120 just taking chances, being reckless, not caring what society says, 296 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:24.519 being your own guy, you know, breaking a girl's heart. 297 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:28.000 There is all. There's always an effect that you have 298 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:31.879 to suffer from, and people around you suffer from because 299 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:35.559 of your indulgences. And clearly, if you're drinking off before 300 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.480 your TV show, no one's gonna suffer. But it doesn't 301 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:41.159 bother me. The other day he had Michael Rappaport on 302 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:46.240 his show, and I found that a fun show. I 303 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:50.519 told you about rapp Report and stalking Lily Taylor back 304 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:52.559 in the day when he made the movie Ransom. But 305 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.279 Rappaport was telling Bill and you got to get out 306 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:57.600 Pacinam on your show. Al will love he talks now, 307 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:00.559 he'll talk about anything. He's older now. It Bills like 308 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:02.919 I tried, he won't come on. Trust me, he won't 309 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:06.119 come on. And I'm like, and Michael's like, what do 310 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.759 you mean, well, why would he come on? And Bill's like, 311 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:12.039 he just won't come on. Trust me. I tried, And 312 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:15.799 then I'm saying I'm yelling at the phone. The answer 313 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:20.559 is obvious. Bill Maher and that chick uh Nora Alfalla 314 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:24.960 who's thirty one, who has two kids without Pacino Roman 315 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:28.640 And uh, well she has one son, right, I think 316 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:30.920 they have one. Oh, she's pregnant again. I forget. There's 317 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:33.720 definitely a son named Roman who's two years old. I 318 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:37.839 feel like she's pregnant again. Either way, Pacino has always 319 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:40.400 said we're just friends. She's always said we're just friends. 320 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:44.279 Then Bill's out with our Halloween night at some costume 321 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:46.799 party and she's telling people, no, we're not dated, we're 322 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:49.920 just friends. Al's my best friend, Bill's my friend. It's 323 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:52.640 all weird. But wouldn't you think that's the reason why 324 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:56.319 Pacino won't go on Bill Maher's show. I think right, 325 00:17:57.079 --> 00:17:59.359 But Rapaport didn't pick up on it, and Bill didn't 326 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:01.599 want to divulge you. I think that's the real reason. 327 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:07.079 Speaking of relationships, I could talk about this next couple 328 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:11.599 for a long time. But we did an episode of 329 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:16.519 Mysteries and Scandals on Desi Arnez and didn't do it 330 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:19.799 on Lucy, but it was kind of a show about 331 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:22.319 both of them. Really, you can't talk about one without 332 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:28.920 the other. Such mavericks those two. But recently, these never 333 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:33.160 before seen letters between the two of them have gone 334 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:36.680 public and it really gives people a better understanding of 335 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.480 what their love story was all about. These two were 336 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:42.440 married for twenty years back in the forties, for twenty years, 337 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:46.759 and there was a lot of insecurity. It was very emotional, 338 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:50.720 very affectionate. And this new book called Lucy and Desi 339 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:54.480 the Love Letters is out and there's notes that were 340 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:57.480 written between the two of them basically during World War Two, 341 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:01.720 right after they got married, and it showed a lot 342 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:04.559 of the notes that you read the letters well. First 343 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:07.480 of all, I love the letter writing campaign of the 344 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:10.200 old days. You know, every time I wrote a girlfriend 345 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:13.519 a letter or a girlfriend or girl I want to 346 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:17.000 be my girlfriend, somebody I was chasing. I always would 347 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:19.440 print it up a newsday where I worked. I'd write 348 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:21.519 late at night because the workday was over and I 349 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:24.160 could fuck around on my computer for ninety minutes before 350 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:26.440 I went home, and I'd write these beautiful letters, and 351 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:29.160 i'd print them out and i'd save a copy. I 352 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:30.839 don't know why, but I'm so glad, I think because 353 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:33.839 I read them. To this day, I still read them. 354 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:36.359 Oh my god. There's one letter that I wrote to 355 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:38.559 a girl who was in town for a while and 356 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:42.039 she was leaving, and the first line we were both heartbroken. 357 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:45.200 And the first line I wrote was I hate all 358 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:50.160 planes today because their planes were taking her away. I 359 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:52.480 just remember, I don't want to forget these lines. So 360 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:55.119 I'm writing all these letters and it reminds me of 361 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:57.240 what these two were like back in the day. There's 362 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.839 something so powerful about the written word, holding a piece 363 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:04.039 of paper that your loved one pressed their hands on 364 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:06.400 and wrote with the ink, and you could smell their 365 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:10.880 perfume or cologne. They licked the envelope, they licked the stamp. 366 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:13.680 It comes in your box, you'll hold it. It's so 367 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:17.920 much better than a fucking email or a goddamn text 368 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:22.599 that no one cares about. So these two went back 369 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:27.400 and fort with these letters. But nineteen sixty it all ended. 370 00:20:28.559 --> 00:20:31.079 They struggled, You know, DESI was banging a lot of 371 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:36.440 showgirls and hookers. Desi wasn't into other actresses as much. 372 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:40.119 She liked his hookers and showgirls. He liked anonymous sex. 373 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:44.799 And Lucy knew about this, and she was very jealous. 374 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:49.839 But she did become a very forgiving woman. And a 375 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:51.640 lot of what you see on that TV show, what 376 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:54.640 we saw on that TV show, and who didn't watch 377 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:57.039 that when we stayed home from school? How great were 378 00:20:57.039 --> 00:20:59.119 those black and white TV shows when you were sick 379 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:01.839 and you stayed on from school and you watched all 380 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:06.000 the father knows best. I love Lucy, Donna Reid my 381 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:10.359 three sons. That you start to realize Fred McMurray is 382 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:12.960 not just famous for My Three sons. He was in 383 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:15.119 a movie, He was in a He had a Hollywood 384 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:18.079 career before that. You don't even realize when you're a 385 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:22.720 kid that these people had careers. Bewitched Agnes Moorehead. There's 386 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:25.400 so many people went to TV at the end of 387 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:28.000 their careers that you don't know what they did. Thankfully, 388 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:30.440 we get older, we got the Internet, we got Turner 389 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:33.400 classic movies, and you can see what kind of great 390 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:38.279 careers they had. So Lucy writes one letter. I'll read one. 391 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:41.160 He's out there touring with his band and she's begging 392 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:44.960 him don't give into temptation. She's like, you never answer 393 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.599 my letters, DESI do you throw them away and forget 394 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:50.640 what I write about. You know, it's funny nowadays. I've 395 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:53.119 said the same thing in the past to Andrea. Don't 396 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:55.440 you get my text? Why aren't you responding to this text? 397 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:59.079 It's the same shit, It's just different technology. The feelings 398 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:02.640 are the same. And I would say I could never 399 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:05.559 see a text from you, or see a miscall from 400 00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:08.119 you and not return it. That's just not a part 401 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:11.319