WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.839 From workhast Connect and aj Benza 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 --> 00:00:12.839 kinky sex games. He's the guy put the cock in 4 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:17.800 the Peacock network. Okay, bitch, hey everybody, aj Benz is 5 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:19.719 here with the famous it bitch. This is your daily 6 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:24.399 Unfiltered podcast for February twenty fifth, twenty twenty sixth oh 7 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:27.760 two five, two oh two six. As I always say, 8 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:30.879 this month two is looking good toward the end of 9 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:35.799 the month. A lot of live wild twos makes me 10 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:39.320 happy to start shows off that feel I don't know 11 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:45.079 what the word is, succinct or magically cemented by the numbers. 12 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:47.840 Not really sure what I mean by that, but it 13 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:52.000 just makes me feel better as opposed to a month 14 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:59.119 with a nine inch and seven eh. I just boy, 15 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:03.399 oh boy, got my energy back yesterday, just when I 16 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:05.040 thought I was gonna have to go to the er 17 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:08.760 and figure out what's rolling me yesterday, Well, I do, 18 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:11.840 I have to admit. During the day, late morning I 19 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:14.120 said to Rosalie, you know what, you have a percoset 20 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:17.640 because I know that'll perk me up, and I didn't 21 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:19.239 think it would perk me up the whole day, maybe 22 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.280 a couple hours, and not for nothing. The whole day 23 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.359 and night I felt great. I watched TV till eleven o'clock. 24 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:29.040 Normally I'm trying to get myself to bed nine thirty, 25 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.359 and I know I'm out of my funk. When I 26 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:35.640 want cereal and eat cereal at one o'clock in the morning, 27 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:40.519 that's the old me trying to bust through. So after this, 28 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:43.640 they're gonna have a nice Italian tuna fish sandwich on 29 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:46.760 some good Italian bread, which, believe it or not, is 30 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:50.799 not easy to get in Chicago suburbs. I think that's ridiculous. 31 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:55.200 It's almost impossible to get in Los Angeles. You buy 32 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:58.000 one day, you buy it on Monday Tuesday it's rock hard. 33 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:01.400 Or you buy a low that stays soft forever and 34 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:03.920 it's not even bread. What is this shit? My sister 35 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:06.480 bought a bagel about two weeks ago and she hasn't 36 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:09.120 wrapped up in plastic by the toaster of it, it's 37 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:14.280 still soft. There's something wrong, something wrong with fruit. Last 38 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:18.240 two months in your fruit bowl without going back, I 39 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:22.680 don't eat that shit. So yeah, I think I'm getting 40 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:25.400 back to my old self. Bought a long journey. It's 41 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:31.759 been losing a lot of actors lately. They're gone quick Man, 42 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:37.479 James Vanderbeek, Eric Dane. Now, yesterday we lost Robert Chardine, 43 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:41.719 the half brother of David Carodine and uncle TAMARTHA Plimpton, 44 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:49.560 brother to Keith Chardine. It's a wild family, uh star 45 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:54.960 those dumb Revenge the Nerds movies. I never liked that. 46 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:57.000 I was never a nerd, so it never made sense 47 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:59.560 to me wearing glasses with tape on him and looking 48 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:01.560 through a whole was in his locker room to see 49 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:04.759 girls in the showers. Maybe that was Porky's I forget. 50 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:08.919 Those movies did not do anything for me. Never liked 51 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:11.159 the guy either. I never liked Robert Carrodine, did nothing 52 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:14.479 for me, and never watched Lizzie Maguire. Didn't care for 53 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.400 the Revenge of the Nerds franchise. I'm sure he was 54 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:20.280 a decent actor. The whole family's good. John Carrodine he 55 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:24.439 did great, you know, but I found it as weird 56 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:28.879 as most of the Carrodines. His brother Keith says he's 57 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:32.159 proud of his brother's twenty year fight with being bipolar, 58 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:37.759 which ultimately made him take his own life. And actually 59 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:42.280 some years back, he was in the car with his 60 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:46.400 wife and I believe two kids and suddenly went into 61 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:50.800 oncoming traffic and hit a tractor trailer. No one got 62 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:55.719 really seriously hurt, but it's pretty scary. And then years 63 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:59.919 later he admitted to his wife that I did drive 64 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:04.800 into oncoming traffic to kill us. All holy shit, good 65 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:09.560 luck living with that guy. But it made me automatically 66 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:11.919 think as eerie as that is. And I've had that 67 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:14.759 same thought because a movie, a famous movie, put it 68 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:18.319 in my head. I'm talking about Annie Hole. Oh, I 69 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.600 love that movie. TCM is great this month because they're 70 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:25.439 showing Oscar films every day till March thirteenth until the 71 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:27.959 Academy Awards, So you've seen some great stuff. I saw 72 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:32.920 Umberto Dee, this beautiful Italian film y Vittoria de Sica, 73 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:36.240 which was panned as a bomb and then over the 74 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:41.720 years became an Italian classic. So many good movies. The 75 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:44.839 Bridge on the River Kwai I saw. I watched George C. 76 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:47.879 Scott as General Patton. Hadn't seen that since my father 77 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:51.879 took me to the theater to watch it. Georgie Scott 78 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:54.360 was an animal in that movie. What a tough bastard 79 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:57.800 he was. They don't make actors like that anymore. I 80 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:02.759 just don't. But there's the scene in Annie Hall where 81 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:08.279 Christopher Walking, of all people, plays Diane Keaton's brother Dwayne Hall. 82 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:12.920 She's Annie Hale, and what he plays Alvi Singer, the 83 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:16.160 guy who's after Annie Hale. And as he's walking in 84 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:19.199 the house of his girlfriend, Chris Walkin calls him in 85 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:25.639 his bedroom. He goes, Alvi, come in, this is my bedroom, 86 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:31.759 and Woody Allen's like, yeah, pretty good, and Walking is 87 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:33.639 just sitting there on the bed. Woody Allen takes a 88 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.160 seat by the door and he goes, I tell you 89 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:40.879 this because as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes 90 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:43.879 when I'm driving on the road at night, I see 91 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:47.360 two headlights coming toward me fast, and I have the 92 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:51.199 sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly head on into 93 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:56.439 the oncoming car, and I can anticipate the explosion, the 94 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:00.160 sound of shattering glass, the flames rising out of the 95 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:07.759 flowing gasoline. What are he? Allan's like, right, well, we 96 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:10.319 have to go now, Chris. We do back on the 97 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:15.240 planet Earth. Yeah, thank you. But when he actually did 98 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:17.560 that scene the first time, when he was done what 99 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.839 he Allen was staring at him, and Chris Walker said, 100 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:23.439 do you want it to be stranger? I could make 101 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:26.480 it more strange? And what he said, no, no, please, 102 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:29.879 no more strange. That's the perfect amount of strange. But 103 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:32.480 ever since that movie, I've had that stupid thought of 104 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:34.360 doing the same thing. Not that I have a wood, 105 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:36.680 but sometimes at night you're driving and I'm in that 106 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:38.800 left flame with no divide, I'm like, give me the 107 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.800 fuck out of here. Somebody else might have seen any hole, 108 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:43.399 I'm thinking the same thing. All it takes is to 109 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:46.560 lean over and grab something in your box or CD 110 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.160 fell on the floor, whatever it is, and you crash. 111 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:52.600 Very scary. Not a big fan of driving at night. 112 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:58.360 Back then, I let the wife shrive. Eyes of a 113 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:04.480 person twelve thirteen is younger. Always helps speaking to people 114 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:08.319 that well, there are a few years younger than me. 115 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.720 Jennifer Aniston and her boyfriend Jim Curtis were pictired in 116 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:18.160 New York City at an apartment together, and realtor dot 117 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:21.920 Com reported them at a luxury building on the Upper 118 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:25.319 East Side of Manhattan, where several units are for sale 119 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:29.319 to Park Avenue co Op, built in nineteen twenty five, 120 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:32.920 sixteen stories, a doorman, a basketball court, wine cellars, and 121 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:37.879 a concierge. People aren't sure why they're touring the building, 122 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:40.800 but it looks like the fact that her boyfriend recently 123 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:44.240 put up is one point five million dollar property in 124 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:47.160 Low Manhattan up for sale that they're looking to grab 125 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.800 a spot together. And one point five million in Manhattan 126 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:56.800 must be a fucking shoe box either way. But this guy. 127 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:58.800 The more he this guy talk, I didn't like him. 128 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:00.560 From Jump Street I found I want to be a 129 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:05.480 bullshit artist, flame flamman. I don't think Anathy can see that. 130 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:07.680 If I had my druthers, I bet that when she 131 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:09.680 goes out to dinner with Jason Bateman and all her 132 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:12.319 other buddies, Jimmy Kimball, that they tell her. I'm not 133 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:16.199 sure if there's jim Guy's for you. But he's talking 134 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:21.959 about how he's a hypnotherapist, and he's talking about how 135 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:26.319 they share a healthy dynamic when it comes to arguments, 136 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:29.759 and he did admit that he and Aniston have little 137 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:31.959 things that flare up once in a while, but they 138 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:34.799 deal with those issues in a positive way. You shouldn't 139 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:36.960 have anything flaring up you've been together for a year. 140 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.200 This is the honeymoon phase. You should be doing nothing 141 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:43.600 but fucking and laughing and having dinners out come on, 142 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:47.759 he said. I spend a lot of time with my girlfriend. 143 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:51.000 We spend a lot of time in the house together. 144 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:53.480 Sometimes we can have like little things that flare up, 145 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.879 and we have the opportunity to either be silent and 146 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:01.120 be angry, or go leave the house, or think about 147 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:03.279 it and meditate on how to change it. Or we 148 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:06.240 can say, hey, look this is what happened. I'm sorry, 149 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:10.799 and then do the repair. He did also explain that 150 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:14.320 some steps need to be taken so that certain issues 151 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:18.879 don't keep coming up. Jesus Christ, these are brand new people. 152 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:22.759 She's a fucking big star. Can't you make this work? Idiot? 153 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:26.559 He says, Well, once you make a repair and then 154 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.879 it just happens five more times, no one trusts it. 155 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:32.879 He think it's important for couples to pregame the rules. 156 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:34.960 This guy is not the man you want to live with, 157 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:38.679 he says. We're also screwed up, But unless we start 158 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:42.440 to be really consciously proactive about that, then we're just 159 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:44.399 going to be having all of our inner stuff come 160 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:46.440 up all over the place and not know how to 161 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:49.279 experience it together. The guy uses a lot of words 162 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.039 that really don't sound good together. He's not that smart. 163 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:55.360 I mean that we are so screwed up that unless 164 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:58.480 we start to be really consciously proactive about that, then 165 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:00.360 we're just going to be having all of our inner 166 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:02.960 stuff come up all over the place and not know 167 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:05.240 how to experience it. I think he's I think he's 168 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:08.600 a schmuck. They've been to get us since last July 169 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:12.919 when official and Instagram in November. If I'm in my fifties, 170 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:15.440 I would never use the term Instagram official or even 171 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:20.480 make it official. Fuck everybody. He was on the Today's 172 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:23.759 Show promoting his book. Speaking to the Today's Show is 173 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:25.600 not the one that Savannah Guthrie was on. I don't 174 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:27.519 even know, Like I said, I don't keep track of 175 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:29.879 her career. But she did up the reward to a 176 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:34.080 million dollars today for missing dead mother. Good timing, there, 177 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:37.360 said Ma, Savannah, good timing twenty four days into this 178 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:40.120 the whole thing. Now you're calling up the money when 179 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:45.679 your mother's dead in a shallow grave someplace in Nogalls. Stupidity. 180 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:50.039 She's saying that the police department didn't want her offering 181 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:52.679 money straight up front. I don't believe that at all. 182 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:58.840 The guys wanted six million dollars in bitcoin. You got 183 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:01.360 to show him some fucking cat. She can't leave a 184 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.600 fifty one hundred thousand dollars two hundred thousand dollars dare. 185 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:06.919 It's ridiculous, It's an insult, and her mother got to 186 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.080 shift for it. So this guy's on the Today Show 187 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:13.519 promoting his book, Book of Possibility, and he told people 188 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:17.639 how their romance began. Not exciting. We were just introduced 189 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:20.080 by friends. That's it. We found out we had mutual friends, 190 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:22.759 and we started to just check let me shat it 191 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:24.720 for a long time and became close. It took a 192 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.840 long long time before things turned romantic. I'm sure she 193 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.879 was probably on guard. This guy sounds like he was 194 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:35.200 difficult to get close to. Doesn't sound like the kind 195 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:37.120 of guy would be happy that he fell into Jennifer 196 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.919 Aniston's life. She's not my type, but of course she's 197 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:47.120 a beautiful, talented, big time actress. She's fifty seven years old. 198 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:51.200 She looks great. He whisked her happy birthday on Instagram 199 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:53.799 picture of them laughing. A black and white shot of 200 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:56.559 them kissing Happy Birthday and my love. He captured the 201 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.679 post a little low key dinner and a night in 202 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:04.879 for her birthday. Okay, a night in, but they were 203 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:08.759 called inseparable. I don't know. People say this is the 204 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:11.240 most comfortable she's felt in a long time and it's 205 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.639 still going well. I don't know. He seems like another 206 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:15.919 jerk off who's not meant for her. I think her 207 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:19.000 picker's broken. I mean, this guy's a fifty some more 208 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:21.840 year old divorced dad who some people say is a deadbeat. 209 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:24.679 He looks to be in his sixties. Never speaks with 210 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.919 his ex or his kid. I don't know what you 211 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:31.399 call his way of making money. I don't know how 212 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:34.399 much money he earns. Can't be a lot. Says he's 213 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:39.559 a hypnotherapist, love guru. He's got a deteriorating spinal cord condition, 214 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:42.240 has to use a cane to walk sometimes, has a 215 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:47.279 long history of erable bowel syndrome. Wow, you could pick him, Jen, 216 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:49.840 what could go wrong? I wouldn't pick him because the 217 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:57.240 ibs alone, deteriorating spinal court nibs. Oh, what a horrible 218 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:01.279 way to live. Yet, when she was married to justin Thureau. 219 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:05.440 She hated the idea of living in New York, and 220 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:09.559 what now she's into it with that socialist Muslim mayor. 221 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:12.960 I know it takes the right person to change your 222 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.039 point of view, but she's gonna regret this move if 223 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:18.720 she makes it. That the smart move would be, you know, 224 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:23.039 buy my house near yours, like Simone de Bauvier and 225 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:25.120 Paul Sarta did when they were married. But they had 226 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:28.200 each each had their own homes. Now there's a lot 227 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:31.919 of people have their own bedrooms, which I completely understand. 228 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.039 I never thought I would, but I do. The older 229 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:38.360 you get, you sleep a certain way, and you need sleep. 230 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:40.120 It's important to you. And if you have someone that's 231 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:41.919 on a different sleep patter than you are, it gets 232 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:48.120 up very early hers insomnia, then life sucks. My Lola 233 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:51.360 had still has terrible insomnia up till four five o'clock 234 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:53.320 in the morning. Sometimes I can't be next to somebody 235 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:56.080 in bed like that, so we started sleeping in the bed. 236 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:57.840 She was in the couch, I was in the bedroom. 237 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.639 And it stayed that way. The law, oh you do that. 238 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:02.679 The harder it is to get back into the groove, 239 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.879 you know, I mean, these too have powerful, professional social lives. 240 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.399 But does he match her in any of those things. 241 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:15.679 I just feel like she's so tired of not having 242 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:19.200 a man around to help her celebrate her success. Because 243 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:21.720 she's had a wonderful storybook life. It's hard to have 244 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:24.360 had that and not have that special someone to speak 245 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:26.960 to when your head HiT's to pillow. I understand that 246 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:32.080 it's lonely. Some people call it freedom. There's not that 247 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:35.480 much of a different difference between those two words. If 248 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:37.639 you can stay up as lady as you want, wake 249 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.399 up as lady as you want, is that freedom or 250 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:44.519 is that just being lonely because no one's around you. 251 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:49.039 I don't know. I doubt she's gonna stay with this guy. 252 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:53.960 But what's most alarming to me is buying or even 253 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.559 renting property in New York City. That's about the dumbest 254 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:58.840 thing you can do right now with this young jeehattist 255 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.360 mayor taking over. Maybe if you buy it and don't 256 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:05.159 live there and let it just go up in money value. 257 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:08.600 But this asshole mayor who made it legal for New 258 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:11.679 Yorkers to become professional snow shovelers, you guys have heard 259 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:15.799 this right in light of the second snowstorm, to hit 260 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:19.200 New York City in less than two three weeks, Mam 261 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:23.679 Donnie laid down a precedent for regular people to apply 262 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:28.320 to be snow shovelers around their neighborhoods, being a good neighbor. 263 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:32.320 And get this, for a stupid socialist liberal who's in 264 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:35.840 favor of people not needing to show ID to vote, 265 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:42.559 his snow shoveling endeavor requires people to have ID because 266 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:45.120 clearing someone's car out of a five foot tall snow 267 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:50.759 drift is much more important than voting for your president. Unbelievable. 268 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.519 To sign up as an emergency snow shoveler for the 269 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:58.080 New York Sanitation Department, New Yorkers are required to provide 270 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:01.679 two original forms of ID, copies of those original ideas, 271 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:06.639 a social Security card, and two small one by one 272 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:10.879 and a half in square inch photos. That's what it 273 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:15.080 gets to be paid, twenty eight twenty nine thirty bucks 274 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:19.559 an hour. What people are doing is they're getting registered, 275 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:23.399 getting their shovel and going home and not shoveling anything 276 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:26.879 because there's no supervision, so more money fluck flying out 277 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:31.559 the window. But really, New York is not a desirable 278 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:34.919 place any longer. There are no more small hole in 279 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:38.120 the wall restaurants or bars that made the city so precious. 280 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:40.720 There are no more neighborhoods for young artists to move 281 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:44.480 into and grow and cultivate a true talent for their 282 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:48.799 respective arts. Everything's corporate. Now. You've got big Apple stores, 283 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:53.240 of four fast food joints, office towers that are near 284 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:57.080 empty because of COVID, not much nightlife at all. I 285 00:16:57.159 --> 00:16:59.360 hear nothing about nightlife. When I was there, it was 286 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:03.200 like two hundred clubs. You could raise hell at prices 287 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.799 of sky High and Mandana just decided, well, we got 288 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:09.400 to go a nine point five tax increase for everybody. 289 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:16.119 The very character of New York City is gone. It's 290 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:18.880 no different than the Palisades being lit up in flames. 291 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.519 And that was a fire that eliminated the Palisades. New 292 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:27.359 York wasn't a fire. It was a slow and steady decline. 293 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:30.000 The entire city ought to be found on the back 294 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.799 of a milk cart and reported missing. Because most building 295 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:37.119 owners are selling their properties and moving to Red States. 296 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:40.440 They know the mayor doesn't know shit, so they're leaving 297 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:45.160 the city. They're not moving there. It's sad man. When 298 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.400 I left New York and then watched from la at 299 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:52.599 how many wonderful, magical restaurants and bars and little joints 300 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.480 went belly up every other week. Just to name a few, 301 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:00.279 The Great Jones Cafe, the Great Great Jones Eat his 302 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:03.400 tiny street in the village. You gotta see it to 303 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.039 believe it. It was a bright orange exterior. It had 304 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:10.519 a bust of Elvis from his Vegas era leaning through 305 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:15.160 the window. It was a big landmark, and it employed 306 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:17.839 a lot of artists and musicians. It opened in nineteen 307 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:23.079 eighty three. The menu was a drinker's dream. It was 308 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:27.599 an American bar standards plus a dose of Cajun Creole fu, 309 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:29.559 which is always hard to find in New York City. 310 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:35.759 There was Jingfong O, Chinatown's dim sum restaurant for over 311 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:40.720 twenty years. Jimfong seated eight hundred people. You have to 312 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:44.480 take an escalator up from the street level in the 313 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:46.920 old style. The dumplings were pushed around the room and 314 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:56.079 dining carts. Shrimp hargoo so good. The Pearl Oyster Bar 315 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:59.400 in the village opened in ninety seven just as I 316 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:03.839 was leaving, and I kept going back. I visit Small Seafood. 317 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:08.000 The Small Seafood scale restaurant, local seafood. I used to 318 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:10.559 go to El Faro all the time. The oldest Spanish 319 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:14.079 restaurant in New York City's history was one block away 320 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:16.599 from me. I ate there once a week, always stopped 321 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:19.200 at the bar for some saying gria. I remember seeing 322 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:21.319 it on the Regis Philman show one morning when I 323 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:23.119 was first married to my first wife, and I said, 324 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:25.960 we should go there with your parents, make a date, 325 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.799 made a date. The marriage wasn't really great at that point, 326 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.759 and this trip to New York and specifically Tell Faro 327 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:38.519 cemented my brain that I knew I had to leave 328 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:41.839 Long Island and the marriage and sell my house and 329 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:44.079 not only live in New York City, but live in 330 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:48.359 that neighborhood on that block. How the hell did I 331 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:51.160 have the bulls to want all those things and write 332 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:55.839 for the newspaper. And sure enough we get there and 333 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:58.200 we park on the side street. There's El Faro, a 334 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:02.079 little joint. You take three steps down in the restaurant. 335 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:03.920 There was a bar in the left and the restaurant 336 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.799 was three more steps down. The meals came out in 337 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:13.039 these old pewter metal pots and pans that had dentsen them. 338 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:18.720 For years of service. The shrimp by heel h should 339 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.119 eat so, fried, should eat so and and like red 340 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:26.880 sweetened olive oil, just amazing shit. Red sand Gria, white 341 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:29.599 sand Gria. So we got out of the car, we 342 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:31.920 have a mea. But before we get into the restaurant, 343 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:35.319 a very pretty woman and I'm looking at the street 344 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:38.200 street level in grantwitche Villaws. You can see in people's windows. 345 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:41.799 I'm seeing people's bedrooms, I'm seeing TVs on the wall, 346 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:45.960 I'm seeing money, I'm seeing people living well. And I'm like, god, damn, 347 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:48.000 I know I got a house on Long Island, but 348 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:51.119 I want this. And just then a really beautiful woman 349 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:54.119 walks past us on the street. She had thigh highs 350 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:57.319 on with with the up the back was a you know, 351 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:00.920 not a slit. It was a can't think of the word, 352 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:04.839 you know, sewing up the bat little straight line behind 353 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:07.960 her thigh highs was this beautiful stitch. And she looked 354 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:09.759 back and smiled at me a little bit like because 355 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:11.519 you know, we were all looking at her, and I 356 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:14.799 just said, I gotta get here. A year and a 357 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:18.240 half later, I lived, I left my house, sold the house, 358 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:21.440 got a divorce, moved to New York City and moved 359 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:25.880 one block away from Alfaro. Then there was gem Spot 360 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:30.039 used to buy egg creams and bamboo rolling papers way 361 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:34.079 back in the seventies late seventies. Monkey. But there's so 362 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:37.119 many places like get the Bagelace Deep Breakfast at almost 363 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:41.000 every morning. Old lady waitresses who talk in diner talk. 364 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:46.759 If you wanted ride toast and sunnyside up eggs, they'd 365 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:50.440 say whiskey down, you know, whiskey down meaning rye toast 366 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:53.880 pushed down. They had that jargon, that old diner dragon 367 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:58.720 that I loved, love, love, love, but not everything is 368 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:01.759 good stuff, Not every store fun. Some things I've told 369 00:22:01.799 --> 00:22:04.960 you about Carrie Wait and I hate to say I 370 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:07.400 was right about this, but when we began this podcast, 371 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:13.000 I was very up and at him about trans people 372 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:18.039 and mainly pedophiles wanting to be accepted. And I always 373 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:20.960 said that alphabet army LGBTQ was going to get the 374 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:26.799 P in that alphabet one day. Well now comes word 375 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:30.839 as a trans identified male and radical queer activist who 376 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:36.480 lives in Seattle, has been publicly advocating for pedophilic relationships 377 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:40.960 with kids, while also organizing in person events for anyone 378 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:45.960 under the clear Rainbow. This person's name is Ali Kotetsu 379 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:49.400 describes himself as a non binary, transgender woman who was 380 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:56.640 trans raced Japanese. So completely normal, it's campaigning online and 381 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:59.960 in public through an effort he calls Beyond the Plus, 382 00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:02.960 which advocates for the rights of people who are romantically 383 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:05.519 are sexually attracted to beings who are below the age 384 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:10.039 of eighteen. He of course, describes minor attraction as an 385 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:14.880 orientation and talks refers to individuals with the sexual interest 386 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:18.440 in children as maps, otherwise known as minor attracted people. 387 00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:22.400 Maps are some of the world's most marginalized being, this 388 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:26.640 asshole says. The site also goes on to describe age 389 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:32.480 based attractions as being innate and similar to heterosexuality or homosexuality. 390 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:37.119 Quote a number of maps, usually ones who are intersexual 391 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:40.759 with other queer identities, do not always consider age based 392 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:43.880 attractions to be another less recognized type of orientation. What 393 00:23:43.880 --> 00:23:46.480 the fuck is she talking about? I say she because 394 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:49.640 it's clearly a woman when you see the picture. Importantly, 395 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:52.440 this only refers to attractions without implying harmful, low or 396 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:55.240 legal actions. Most maps are lawbody and don't want to 397 00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:58.680 harm anyone any more than non maps to bullshit you 398 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:02.799 want to fuck little kids. Due to intense social stigma, 399 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:07.279 which is warranted that comes from me. The overwhelming majority 400 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:09.480 of these maps remain closeted and are never known to 401 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:13.279