Speaker 1: From Morecast Connect and aj Benza. Fame Uh, he'd liked
Speaker 1: to be walked on a leash and play really dirty,
Speaker 1: kinky sex games. Is the guy put the cock in
Speaker 1: the Peacock network. Okay, bitch, hey, everybody, aj Benzi here,
Speaker 1: but fame is a bitch. This is your daily Unfiltered
Speaker 1: podcast for June eleventh, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Six one, one, two two five.
Speaker 1: Love the Double Ones because they doubled their twenty two's
Speaker 1: and quadruples. We know they're forty four, So the Double Ones.
Speaker 1: I love. I love eleven eleven on the clocks. I
Speaker 1: kiss my phone, I kiss laptop. Well, it's crazy the
Speaker 1: things I kiss when I see eleven eleven. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. It's just a stupid thing. But I'm not alone.
Speaker 1: Many people do it. I just wolfed down two chicken
Speaker 1: cutlets from last night.
Speaker 2: But listen, not just.
Speaker 1: The chicken cutlets, which are expertly fried, but also sliced
Speaker 1: up really good, juicy red tomatoes, not the typical ones
Speaker 1: you see at the store, which lasts for fucking four months.
Speaker 1: Whatever you get tomatoes that last that long, last a
Speaker 1: month on your countertop, or get rid of them. They
Speaker 1: got most steroids in them than Arnold Schwarzenegger from the eighties.
Speaker 1: You need fruit and vegetables that tend to go bad
Speaker 1: anyhow for smallsh tomato, plum, tomatoes, balsamic, extra virgin olive oil,
Speaker 1: salt and pepper, some basil from the little potted plant
Speaker 1: I got in front of the house the garden there.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, cutlets over tomato, basil, balsamic and extra
Speaker 1: virgin olivo. I can't. It's just it's heaven. It's like
Speaker 1: I sometimes think of, like what if I have had
Speaker 1: a little prisk what if things really? What if I
Speaker 1: do something awful, I'll never have cutlets with tomatoes and
Speaker 1: basil and vinegar and oil again. Oh my god, think
Speaker 1: about that the next time you want to hold off
Speaker 1: and punch somebody. Because I see many things happening out
Speaker 1: there in the real world that make me want to
Speaker 1: m haul back and deliver a fucking right hand to
Speaker 1: these people's faces. I'm talking about the riots. Five days
Speaker 1: of this shit going on six now. So now I'll
Speaker 1: get into that, but before I do, I will say
Speaker 1: there is we listen us people on the right. We
Speaker 1: have a significant win to celebrate. Yes we do. It's
Speaker 1: bigger than ABC telling the Hens on the View to
Speaker 1: tone down the Trump rhetoric.
Speaker 2: This is bigger.
Speaker 1: It's bigger than the tech Titans from Northern California to
Speaker 1: DC and kissing the ring. This is bigger. ABC News
Speaker 1: has fired their stupid jerk off veteran reporter or correspondent,
Speaker 1: Terry Moran, because he went on that dumb social media
Speaker 1: rant where he targeted President Trump and Trump's advisor Steven Miller, who,
Speaker 1: for my money, might be the smartest person in politics
Speaker 1: I've seen the last twenty years. Really, guy's brilliant. I'd
Speaker 1: love to see anybody trying debate this kid. I say, kid,
Speaker 1: he's a man, but to me, he's much younger, so
Speaker 1: he's a kid. Went to the gym today. You know,
Speaker 1: I got a membership with Rocco, but I also got
Speaker 1: him his own membership in case he wants to go
Speaker 1: if I'm not around. As I said to him, look
Speaker 1: I'm too fucking fat. I gotta get this is disgusting.
Speaker 1: I gotta start working out tomorrow. I said, But I
Speaker 1: got your own membership for yourself. You want to take
Speaker 1: a friend, you go. And I was telling the guy
Speaker 1: behind the count, oh, he's available to have his own.
Speaker 1: I said, he, you don't need that. He said, strong kid,
Speaker 1: it's an athlete. Take his father's ays. Don't worry about
Speaker 1: a trainer. The guy didn't know what to do, and
Speaker 1: I said that. I said, I don't mean it like that,
Speaker 1: but I gotta go.
Speaker 2: I gotta go. I can't take people.
Speaker 1: I can't sometimes, like whenever I leave the house, at
Speaker 1: times I feel like, am I ready?
Speaker 2: Am I ready to deal with people?
Speaker 1: Like? I went to the bank today right for some
Speaker 1: stupid reason that I can't explain. There's plenty of money
Speaker 1: in my account. But earlier, but I was in La,
Speaker 1: I mean in Vegas. We did we sent a check
Speaker 1: through the computer to the landlord, and for some reason
Speaker 1: another check was like also got to them. And they
Speaker 1: called me and said, mister Ben's, we have two checks.
Speaker 1: You should I hold this till June. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I suppose, so just hold it till June's rent. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you. I get a call today, mister BENSI there's
Speaker 1: a stop payment. I said, I would never do that.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of money in that account.
Speaker 2: So I go to the bank.
Speaker 1: I say, listen, I gotta send a bill pay to
Speaker 1: my landlord, and I'm giving them. And I could tell
Speaker 1: that women at the bank, by the way, all Central American,
Speaker 1: didn't know what the fuck to do. I said, well,
Speaker 1: I can do bill pit. Yeah, you can do it
Speaker 1: on your phone, on your app. Okay, let me do
Speaker 1: it in front of you. So here's the place I
Speaker 1: have to send. If you did your account number, I
Speaker 1: don't think I do. It didn't happen last month. My
Speaker 1: wife did it, but I mean I was out of town.
Speaker 1: But I called the landlord. They're like, no, you don't
Speaker 1: need our account number. Just the point is, nobody knows nothing.
Speaker 1: And the women I were talking to what them allan?
Speaker 1: Don't ask me how I know.
Speaker 2: Just feel bad for me that I know.
Speaker 1: But here for twenty seven years, I know at every
Speaker 1: bank and every doctor's office, and every cashier is our
Speaker 1: Armenian or Central American. And they all speak the same
Speaker 1: and sound the same. The Armenians.
Speaker 2: We better jewelry, but they're the same. They don't.
Speaker 1: I remember being you. I keep I shouldn't keep talking this.
Speaker 1: I remember going to banks and the bank would give
Speaker 1: you your mother and father a set of dishes or
Speaker 1: a toaster for opening up a new account. Remember Christmas accounts.
Speaker 1: They knew your name when you walked in over unless
Speaker 1: you live in a nice small town and the people
Speaker 1: there are still red blooded Americans working behind the glass.
Speaker 1: Maybe your bank doesn't even have bulletproof class that's that
Speaker 1: would be amazing, but that doesn't exist here.
Speaker 2: We got that in delicatessens and shock.
Speaker 1: Its gross. And they know what you call these stores
Speaker 1: out here? You know, they just I guess liquor stores
Speaker 1: again in New York to bodegas, you get everything, fruits, vegetables, sodas, liquor,
Speaker 1: whatever you want, sandwiches, cereal. You do all your shopping
Speaker 1: there at like thirty percent of a higher rate, but
Speaker 1: you get everything done. And it's always a Vietnamese or
Speaker 1: a Chinese person sitting on a pail, you know, separating
Speaker 1: beans from the string being thing. They just don't stop
Speaker 1: working here.
Speaker 2: There's three or four people that don't know what you're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 1: Ah, what need to do? Excuse me? What the melting pot?
Speaker 1: With the melting pot? But I was in New York.
Speaker 1: New York City was called the melting Pot, and I
Speaker 1: gotta be honest, I loved it. I loved going out
Speaker 1: and the people I met, the people I hung out with,
Speaker 1: in drank with, and dance with and fell in love with,
Speaker 1: were all from every part of the world. There wasn't
Speaker 1: a muscle in my body that didn't like or or
Speaker 1: had preconceived ideas about anybody else. Black, White, Egyptian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Pole.
Speaker 2: It didn't matter.
Speaker 1: The older I got, it changed. It's just different. Now
Speaker 1: it's different. It's not as friendly as it used to be,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We used to go out
Speaker 1: and it kind of all felt the same. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: touch on that in a second, but I want to
Speaker 1: talk about it's so great that Terry Moran was dumped
Speaker 1: suspended by the network.
Speaker 2: Not too many hours after.
Speaker 1: He gave Steven Miller the bullshit and called him a
Speaker 1: world class hater, and ABC News says, we're at the
Speaker 1: end of our agreement with Terry Moran, and based on
Speaker 1: his recent post, which was a clear violation of ABC News,
Speaker 1: we've made the decision to not renew. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1: We hold all of our reporters to the highest standards
Speaker 1: of object Let's not get carried away because you haven't
Speaker 1: held up to that standard for years. But I remember
Speaker 1: what I was the Daily News, and it came down to,
Speaker 1: you know, Pete's gonna fire you. Pete Hamill, my oiler
Speaker 1: in chief, my idol, who I assume was still a
Speaker 1: fist fire and womanizing, hard drinker, because that's the guy
Speaker 1: I wanted to be turned out. He was none of
Speaker 1: those things. He sober, he was no longer throwing punches.
Speaker 1: He was married to I think an Asian woman, and
Speaker 1: he was very liberal. And he said, look, you know,
Speaker 1: I can let you go because I could hire four
Speaker 1: or five reporters and pay them what I'm paying you,
Speaker 1: or you could change your beat. You could be my
Speaker 1: guy in New York City that writes about all the
Speaker 1: new immigrants coming into the city. This is nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: And I said, I don't think. I don't want to do.
Speaker 2: That, Pete, I don't. That doesn't excite me.
Speaker 1: You're talking about the new immigrant I mean, but that's
Speaker 1: where he was way back then.
Speaker 2: These things don't happen overnight.
Speaker 1: It takes a few decades before it's like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: this is the problem right about the new immigrants who
Speaker 1: are really in the city. I don't think I want
Speaker 1: to do that, you know what I mean? It didn't
Speaker 1: feel right, and here we are.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 1: I lost my train and thought I had to run
Speaker 1: to the kitchen because I actually had a pot of
Speaker 1: water on to cook some pasta and made some pestal
Speaker 1: the other day, and I wanted to have a quick
Speaker 1: bowl of pesto. But it's getting too late, so I
Speaker 1: shut the sole wolf. I wasn't thinking what I had
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 3: But you know, Pete Hamill wanted me to be that
Speaker 3: guy that talked to the new immigrants, and I had
Speaker 3: no desire to do that. But like I said, these
Speaker 3: things start to become an issue way before you think it.
Speaker 1: That was like an innocent thing he suggested I do.
Speaker 1: But I knew that's not the way I am. I
Speaker 1: don't want to sit down with Haitians in their kitchen
Speaker 1: or check stands or whatever the new people were coming in.
Speaker 1: I know. I said, I'd rather write about Pam Anderson's
Speaker 1: new tits. He said, well, that's where we you know,
Speaker 1: that's where we disagree. Well that was it. He's gone.
Speaker 1: The News fired him six months after he got rid
Speaker 1: of me. And unfortunately he's gone. Pete great man, great ride,
Speaker 1: a great American. And I'm still talking about things like
Speaker 1: pam Anson's new Tits. So I guess I win. But
Speaker 1: ABC News making a big commotion, and I love when
Speaker 1: he interviewed Trump, Trump said, looks, Stee, I gave you
Speaker 1: a shot.
Speaker 2: You know I didn't. I didn't thank.
Speaker 1: I don't know who you are, but I gave you
Speaker 1: a shot. You're doing very terribly. You're doing a very
Speaker 1: bad job. My Trump isn't up the standards. I haven't
Speaker 1: been doing it as much, so I got to get
Speaker 1: back into it. But he told them, Steve, you're not
Speaker 1: doing right. You're doing it wrong. Terry, I don't know
Speaker 1: who you are. Now I'm not there. I gotta fix it.
Speaker 1: Speaking the fixes yesterday, I mentioned a bunch of suicides
Speaker 1: that occurred in that period in twenty eighteen where we
Speaker 1: lost a lot of people, and I mentioned Paul Walker,
Speaker 1: and some of you said, ay J, Paul Walker crashed
Speaker 1: his car into a tree. He wasn't committing suicide. No.
Speaker 2: I know that. I know exactly how he died.
Speaker 1: And there's a theory out there that he might have
Speaker 1: done it on purpose, or the.
Speaker 2: Car was.
Speaker 1: Messed with that kind of shit. I'm sure it wasn't
Speaker 1: the case, but I do tell that story of the
Speaker 1: one night I went out with him because for a
Speaker 1: moment in time, we had the same manager, Stephen Fenton,
Speaker 1: Steve Fenton, Corny Little. He's a good looking, decent looking guy,
Speaker 1: blonde haired guy. Actually told me when he signed me,
Speaker 1: I want to be in the aj Benza business. And
Speaker 1: I said, well, business is shot right now.
Speaker 2: Let's see if you can resurrect it. And he did
Speaker 2: his part.
Speaker 1: One night, we were driving through New York's through La
Speaker 1: late one o'clock, two o'clock in the morning, coming back
Speaker 1: from a movie shoot for some independent short film I did, and.
Speaker 2: I was hungry.
Speaker 1: I said, you might let me stop betting at one
Speaker 1: of these donuts. It's one of those donut chains that's
Speaker 1: here in La, you know. And it wasn't the best neighborhood.
Speaker 1: It was Hollywood, but it was still like you know.
Speaker 1: It was an armed security guard at the door and
Speaker 1: a few black guys going around us. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: get a glazed donut and a clo if he wants to, no,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think we should up. What are
Speaker 1: you talking about, Well, it just looks very dangerous, Steve.
Speaker 1: It's a fucking donut shop.
Speaker 2: What are you worry about what do you want? Hayes
Speaker 2: a lot. What do you what if you want to get?
Speaker 1: No? No. I think we set out here. He didn't want
Speaker 1: to be there. He was dating the actress Yale O'Grady.
Speaker 1: I mean Gale O'Grady, good looking woman. Anyhow, he also
Speaker 1: represented Paul Walker, and one night he and me and
Speaker 1: Paul Walker went out with Steve, and then Steve left
Speaker 1: us after a while. He basically told me, this kid's
Speaker 1: going to be a star, you know, take him out.
Speaker 2: I couldn't like.
Speaker 1: Looking back on it now, it seems ridiculous that I
Speaker 1: be the guy that you say, take this good looking
Speaker 1: young actor out because he might be somebody one day.
Speaker 2: But that's really what happened.
Speaker 1: I went to d'antannas, which I might go to Wednesday
Speaker 1: night with the great Alison Martino.
Speaker 2: We've been talking about hanging out again.
Speaker 1: She wants to really do something fun with all these
Speaker 1: mysteries and scandals episodes he has on tape, in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe getting a theater where we can show
Speaker 1: some episodes, have a question and answer, you know, time
Speaker 1: between me and her and other people with the audience.
Speaker 1: I think it'd be great, and you have to go
Speaker 1: to her page Vintage los Angeles on Facebook. Allison is
Speaker 1: the curator, the greatest curator of all things Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: But I'll let you know, well, hopefully i'll see her tonight,
Speaker 1: being Wednesday night. But anyhow, I'm out with Paul, and
Speaker 1: I'm at D'antani's, where i'll probably go tomorrow tonight. And actually,
Speaker 1: what's his name? The Jarkroff ginger head from seventy show
Speaker 1: comes around me, the guy who's in prison now. He
Speaker 1: was like, hey, what's going on? Just being a Jarkroff
Speaker 1: couldn't stand him. Then Danny Masterson and then Paul and
Speaker 1: I hang it out waiting for waiting for a table,
Speaker 1: and suddenly it's like a lot of noise behind me,
Speaker 1: and I see his face light up. It's like three
Speaker 1: girls who were looking very interested, very pretty girls in
Speaker 1: our direction. And I thought, oh, well, I'm gonna show
Speaker 1: this kid how it's done. No, they were not looking
Speaker 1: at me. They wanted Paul. They fell in love with
Speaker 1: his ocean blue eyes. But he did say that night
Speaker 1: in terms of what he wanted to do in his career,
Speaker 1: he said, look, I just want to play a copper
Speaker 1: a guy that gets behind the wheel of a fast car,
Speaker 1: and that's what his career became, fast and furious until
Speaker 1: he fucking crashed his car into a tree. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to address that because people thought I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that maybe he committed suici. I don't mean it that way.
Speaker 1: I mean it was a thing. People were throwing theories
Speaker 1: out there and no. And I was talking about cars,
Speaker 1: and I thought of, remember last week we talked about
Speaker 1: people who named their houses that very interesting to say
Speaker 1: the least, Like, oh, yes, remember when we looked at
Speaker 1: the Phairmont, Like what, why didn't you what the fucking address?
Speaker 1: You know? Evans house was Woodland but he lived on
Speaker 1: Woodland Drive, so it wasn't a stretch. But some people
Speaker 1: really have big names for their homes, which I'm not against.
Speaker 1: But I was talking about naming cars, and I remember
Speaker 1: when I got my sixty four Fleet would Cadillac painted
Speaker 1: Caribbean blue?
Speaker 2: Not painted?
Speaker 1: He came that way, a paint color they no longer use,
Speaker 1: just like my ninety three Lincoln Continent of that color's gone.
Speaker 1: And it's a shame. Every fucking car looks the same nowadays.
Speaker 1: So I had like six thousand dollars to my name,
Speaker 1: and me and Chico, we just we just drove to
Speaker 1: La We're at seven eleven and a fucking u hole
Speaker 1: getting some gatorade of beef turkey or something. And this gypsy,
Speaker 1: this older man, a gypsy Romanian type guy you see
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, steps out of his car.
Speaker 2: Beautiful car. The interior is the looor blue and black.
Speaker 1: The car you could raise a family of six in
Speaker 1: the back seat. I'm like, God, this fucking amazing. I
Speaker 1: just I knew I was gonna get the nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: six El Dorado from Vinnie, and I had it for
Speaker 1: a week or two and it started giving me issues,
Speaker 1: and I thought, I can't afford to have a car.
Speaker 1: I gotta keep going to the mechanic for every visits
Speaker 1: through fifty three fifty I can't do it.
Speaker 2: So I walked it.
Speaker 1: She goes like, you gotta get this car, said Chica.
Speaker 1: I got six thousand dollars and pay days two weeks away.
Speaker 1: You gotta get it, Pope, you gotta get it. Think
Speaker 1: about you with this car and the show you have.
Speaker 1: It's perfect. I'm like, I know. So I sit to
Speaker 1: the guy in seven to eleven. Are you selling that car? Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm telling how much you want. Five thousand, Oh god,
Speaker 1: five thousand. Listen, he said, But for I'm taking a
Speaker 1: drive it around the block. You'll see you sitting in it.
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know about engines. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: lie to you. I'm not a car guy. But if
Speaker 1: I feel good in it, I'll buy it. He goes
Speaker 1: drive it me and she go get in for ten minutes.
Speaker 2: She didn't care. He's drinking his coffee.
Speaker 1: It felt good, you know, it felt great, And I said,
Speaker 1: this thing is amazing.
Speaker 2: He said, sixty four. Bro, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: I said, okay, I said the guy, I'll give you
Speaker 1: the money tomorrow and make a deal with him. Give
Speaker 1: him five grand I got a thousand dollars left. Chico
Speaker 1: was riding around in the car. He made a sign
Speaker 1: up that just said it's a sixty four. Because everybody
Speaker 1: would get to a red light, what's the year? So
Speaker 1: he just got holding up the sign with a stick
Speaker 1: in his hand, it's a sixty four. It was so stupid.
Speaker 1: But I called him a gypsy because he was like
Speaker 1: a Romanian gypsy type.
Speaker 2: Well, the reason why I knew I had to have
Speaker 2: the car.
Speaker 1: Was when I got in the car to test driving,
Speaker 1: because I said, Chico, I'm gonna buy a car from
Speaker 1: his fucking gypsy at seven to eleven, Chica, we just
Speaker 1: got here to fuck these people up. Pope, you gotta
Speaker 1: get this cars.
Speaker 2: You turned on the radio.
Speaker 1: I wasn't working, and suddenly he turned a couple of
Speaker 1: corners of the antenna from the back shoots up, and
Speaker 1: now the song's coming in and it's Stevie Nick singing
Speaker 1: Gypsy from Fleetwood Mad And not only did I call
Speaker 1: him the Gypsy, but because she prosally had three different
Speaker 1: Gypsies in her Yorkshire Terrier brood. And it's I gotta
Speaker 1: do it. It's done, It's done. You know all my
Speaker 1: cars have that kind of feeling. And I'll get to
Speaker 1: the love affair I had with my nineteen ninety six
Speaker 1: Mercedes five hundred sl which was a celebrity lease.
Speaker 2: Back in the.
Speaker 1: Day, because you know, my column was popping and I
Speaker 1: was on TV a lot, and I met this guy
Speaker 1: at a wedding. Actually I think it was Tico Torres's
Speaker 1: wedding to Ava Hertzekova, who worked at Mercedes on the
Speaker 1: West side of Manhattan.
Speaker 2: And you know, you're looking for a celebrity lease.
Speaker 1: I know I did. He was talking about so I'm
Speaker 1: looking for a car, yeah, you know, and he gave
Speaker 1: me the car. It was gonna be given to the
Speaker 1: New York Jets rookie name key Shawan Johnson, but he
Speaker 1: said he's dropping too many passes and Mercedes doesn't want
Speaker 1: to be associated with him.
Speaker 2: John Johnson went on to have a.
Speaker 1: Great NFL career, But it was me lucky at one point,
Speaker 1: and they well, they didn't give me the car.
Speaker 2: I paid four in a month.
Speaker 1: On top of that, it was three fifty to garage
Speaker 1: in Manhattan, so seven to fifty month I had my
Speaker 1: Mercedes five hundred SL convertible hard top. The whole thing.
Speaker 1: It was classic. And I'll get to that when I
Speaker 1: talk about sly Stone, who died the other day and
Speaker 1: left a big hole in the music industry.
Speaker 2: But before I get there, this whole thing with Simone.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna save Simone.
Speaker 1: Bowles and Roley Gaines for tomorrow because it's so like,
Speaker 1: it's just not where I want to go. Simone Bowles
Speaker 1: is wrong in the way she spoke about transgenders coming
Speaker 1: into the sport and acting like it's not a big
Speaker 1: deal and let's all, you know, virtue signaling. I'll get
Speaker 1: to that tomorrow. I'll talk about Jared Lado tomorrow too.
Speaker 1: I know he's been weird lately. There's been stories about
Speaker 1: women saying when I was young, he came after me.
Speaker 2: He's very creepy and sneaky.
Speaker 1: Unit I've always heard that about him.
Speaker 2: Fantastic actor.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to measure the talent level of an
Speaker 1: actor with how weird he can be off camera.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's right. I'm saying it exists.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of actors like Nicholas Cage who are
Speaker 1: completely insane off camera, but when the movie is on
Speaker 1: and the camera's rolling, they know what their job is.
Speaker 1: Mickey Rourke's the same way. But you get these guys
Speaker 1: off a movie set and they're fucking nuts. And Jared
Speaker 1: Laedo is one of those guys. He's a rock star
Speaker 1: in addition to a movie star and an Oscar winner.
Speaker 1: And when you have that kind of you just you're
Speaker 1: gonna take advantage of opportunities. Sometimes that don't always seem right.
Speaker 1: I'll give you the It was an example of like
Speaker 1: many years ago when I was on top of my
Speaker 1: little hill my mid to late thirties, and some girl
Speaker 1: was with her mother at some movie premiere.
Speaker 2: I forget where I even was.
Speaker 1: Was someplace in Hollywood, and she recognized me from watching
Speaker 1: me on TV. I'm like, let's say thirty six, she's
Speaker 1: like nineteen twenty, and you know, the mother's like, hey,
Speaker 1: but my daughter's a big fan of yours. The mother
Speaker 1: was like, not that much older than I was. It
Speaker 1: was very weird, but she's like, get her number, get her,
Speaker 1: give us your number. And I'm doing this going yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I'd like to see this girl. She's young,
Speaker 1: but the mother's behind it. I mean, you get these
Speaker 1: situations where you go, oh, okay, I guess this is same,
Speaker 1: like that awful crazy story of a woman I'll never
Speaker 1: know her name when Jack and Joey and Rosalie and
Speaker 1: Jack came out here and I was, you know, my
Speaker 1: E show is.
Speaker 2: Popping my name mama on TV. The whole thing.
Speaker 1: I'm living life like crazy and I'm at the Montreon Hotel.
Speaker 1: Skybar was the place inside the hotel off Sunset Boulevard
Speaker 1: on Sunset Boulevard and with my two nephews.
Speaker 2: To me, this was the epitome of fame.
Speaker 1: I could fly my family out, put them up in
Speaker 1: a beautiful hotel, hang out with my nephews, slash brothers,
Speaker 1: and show them what it's like to be in my shoes.
Speaker 1: It was just great, you know.
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 1: Watching me shoot mysteries and scandals on the boulevard. It
Speaker 1: was just, you know, I lived for that, opened up
Speaker 1: a bank account, gave the bank cards. You need money,
Speaker 1: you know, don't worry about it. This just I loved
Speaker 1: being that guy. And a girl approaches me and approaches us,
Speaker 1: and she's a little tipsy, you know, we start talking
Speaker 1: to her. I came out here with my mother from
Speaker 1: Oregon or maybe San Diego, whoever it was.
Speaker 2: It was like two hours away at least, because.
Speaker 1: I wanted to find aj Ben's and he always talks
Speaker 1: about Skybar when he's on his e show, when he's
Speaker 1: on the Gossip Show, he's always at Skybar. So he
Speaker 1: came out here to find she's looking at me right
Speaker 1: in the face. I said, did you find him? No,
Speaker 1: I don't see him anywhere. Matphews and I are just
Speaker 1: like kind of staying quiet. Oh that's weird. He usually
Speaker 1: comes here. I see him all the time. What would
Speaker 1: you do if you saw him? I definitely have to
Speaker 1: sleep with them. Just she's getting slopping now. And after
Speaker 1: like five minutes this, I go, listen, I'm a j no,
Speaker 1: I give him my license. Oh my god, so embarrassed,
Speaker 1: drags her mother over, talk about embarrassing.
Speaker 2: It's AJ.
Speaker 1: Can you you knew you'd made him?
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of.
Speaker 2: You, proud of you.
Speaker 1: And like in two minutes, I said, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get out of here. My nephew's is staying here. I
Speaker 1: gotta go back to Hollywood. Says I'm coming with you,
Speaker 1: and the mother gives us the whole, like, hey, how
Speaker 1: fun kind of thing, the traveling back to my apartment,
Speaker 1: this teeny weeny place off Santa Monica Boulevard, the first
Speaker 1: place that Marilyn Monroe lived in. It's a hovel, it's
Speaker 1: a gingerbread house. And she's starting to tell me about
Speaker 1: her life. And I said, listen to me right now.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know your name, because I'll be honest.
Speaker 1: She wasn't a ten Okay. It was the kind of
Speaker 1: girl that my nephew said, are you sure you want
Speaker 1: to go home with her? Yeah? I do. What's I
Speaker 1: wasn't thinking, right, I don't want to get it just
Speaker 1: wasn't my type.
Speaker 2: But I said, I'm gonna go. I don't want to
Speaker 2: know your name.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know anything.
Speaker 2: Don't you want to know where I work?
Speaker 1: No? Actually they were from San Francisco. Now I remember,
Speaker 1: because she finally was able to say she works in
Speaker 1: a menagerial position.
Speaker 2: For the gap.
Speaker 1: I was like, stop, that's it, that's all I want
Speaker 1: to know, and went back to my apartment, did the
Speaker 1: deed and we're done, And I said, I flow you
Speaker 1: camp gets back to the Mandre and that's where you stay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no problem, but let me tell you my name?
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, here's my phone.
Speaker 1: I don't want your phone them please just not center
Speaker 1: back to the Mandra never heard from her again, obviously,
Speaker 1: but that's the level of stupidity and quote unquote fame
Speaker 1: that exists out there, and her mother was behind it,
Speaker 1: signing all fun and so Jared leto Yes, he could
Speaker 1: be creepy because he's a big fucking movie star and
Speaker 1: yet he likes girls on the younger side.
Speaker 2: Anyhow, We'll get into that more during the week, but.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about sly Stone and the importance
Speaker 1: of him passing away. I mean, this guy, I don't
Speaker 1: know how much she listened to his music, but you
Speaker 1: talk about you can't even pin him down to a
Speaker 1: certain kind of music that his group sly and the
Speaker 1: Family Stone had did perform psychedelic cold funk. I don't know.
Speaker 1: The guy created the songs, wrote the songs, produced them,
Speaker 1: sang on them, the brainchild of a supergroup in the
Speaker 1: sixties and seventies. And you look, you know, some of
Speaker 1: the best musicians out there will tell you that when
Speaker 1: he got there, when he got to the top as
Speaker 1: bligd as he was later in life for having issues
Speaker 1: with drugs and shit like that, this is a guy
Speaker 1: who opened the door for so many other musicians to
Speaker 1: know where to walk in. Like I said yesterday, there
Speaker 1: might not have been a Prince or Lenny Kravitz, or
Speaker 1: an Andre three thousand, or an outcast or Bruno Mars,
Speaker 1: maybe not even Public Enemy without sly Stone doing what
Speaker 1: he did. I mean, listen, you can't sing on every
Speaker 1: day people. You can't sing that without absolutely knowing what's
Speaker 1: in your heart. And at the same time trying to
Speaker 1: help others find that feeling in them. That's a song
Speaker 1: that goes so much deeper than some of the pop shit,
Speaker 1: the bull shit pop songs.
Speaker 2: I saw Katie Perry the other day.
Speaker 1: Some gay fan jumped on stage and Sydney Australian you know,
Speaker 1: got next to while she's playing the song You're.
Speaker 2: Hot and You're cold, You're.
Speaker 1: Yes and your no, you know, and then you're a
Speaker 1: rapp its like, who fucking cares about that song?
Speaker 2: I guarantee you she hates it. But everyday people.
Speaker 1: That did did they And here she comes a uh oh,
Speaker 1: that's summer day, Oh summer. There's so many hits they
Speaker 1: blended into each other. I used to ride around that
Speaker 1: cat and that Mercedes with with my Slider family Stone
Speaker 1: CDs man. Ah.
Speaker 2: As brilliant as he was, like.
Speaker 1: This happens in Hollywood, it came down to how he
Speaker 1: can handle the money, the notoriety, the flash, the schedule,
Speaker 1: the demands, the public, the.
Speaker 2: And the thing.
Speaker 1: You know, there's another battle besides just creating the songs
Speaker 1: and the music and the sound and the group. Well
Speaker 1: then how can you sustain it?
Speaker 2: Can you keep.
Speaker 1: Juggling all those instruments and those balls in the air.
Speaker 2: You gotta keep it going. Are you strong enough?
Speaker 1: It's fucking tough man. I'm not saying we should feel
Speaker 1: bad for people who get to that point in life,
Speaker 1: but there is an additional amount of work you have
Speaker 1: to do. Can't just take the god, the gift that
Speaker 1: God gave you and performing.
Speaker 2: And think that I've done. No, you gotta get the
Speaker 2: work done.
Speaker 1: You're gotta take what He's given you and make.
Speaker 2: It all work.
Speaker 1: It's look, it ain't taking ditches, but it's a different
Speaker 1: kind of hard work. And when you work for yourself,
Speaker 1: and to a minuscule example me, you know, I work
Speaker 1: for myself. It's not a familiar position. I've always worked
Speaker 1: for network studios, what have you, newspapers, big institutions that
Speaker 1: you follow rules and guidelines and you know, instructions. Well,
Speaker 1: when you're your own boss. Somebody said recently, you can't
Speaker 1: be a shitty boss and a shitty employee and stay successful.
Speaker 1: And again, eventually he got to slidestone, and you know,
Speaker 1: he succumbed to some of the things in life that
Speaker 1: people do. But there's this crazy moment in this documentary
Speaker 1: that questlove the musician produced. Excuse me, it's called Slide Lives,
Speaker 1: and it opens up with this female.
Speaker 2: Interviewer is saying to Slicestone.
Speaker 1: You know this musical talent you have, you're the envy
Speaker 1: of so many people in the recording industry, and you've
Speaker 1: made it to the top. And then she asked him,
Speaker 1: why did you blow it all? And he's sitting there smiling, going,
Speaker 1: I didn't blow nothing, you know. He just life just
Speaker 1: met him headfirst, and he got to a point where
Speaker 1: he wasn't showing up to venues on time.
Speaker 2: He was skipped in concerts, He.
Speaker 1: Had to put up twenty thousand dollars up front for
Speaker 1: a club or arena before they would agree to pay
Speaker 1: him because he was unreliable.
Speaker 2: Drugs, you know.
Speaker 1: And of course Questlove goes into this whole other thing,
Speaker 1: which I'm not happy about, but it's a great documentary
Speaker 1: either way. But it's like, you know, Sly lived, He says,
Speaker 1: Sly lives with the burden of black genius. He lived
Speaker 1: with the burden of black jeens. That's a fucking cop
Speaker 1: out to me. Doesn't matter what color you are, people
Speaker 1: blow their opportunities. White, black, brown, doesn't matter. People blow
Speaker 1: their opportunities and blow their fame has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with color. I don't like the Questlove introduce that, but
Speaker 1: you know, whatever the hell bound to happen when a
Speaker 1: musician like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know the black experience.
Speaker 1: I think I know a lot about it.
Speaker 2: I was around a lot.
Speaker 1: Of it for many years, and I'm still amazed by
Speaker 1: some of the shit that people say in the black
Speaker 1: community that I'm like, really, you still feel that way? Wow?
Speaker 1: But I'm not in their shoes.
Speaker 2: So but it's sad, you know, there's so many.
Speaker 1: People who don't truly understand how influential Sylvester well sly Stone,
Speaker 1: Sylvester Stone was. He was just very important to the
Speaker 1: music we all love and took for granted for many years.
Speaker 1: There was a time where Questlove was on this panel
Speaker 1: talking about the documentary and he said, sly happened to
Speaker 1: be at the helm creating the language and the alphabet
Speaker 1: for which even to this day, we're still using his
Speaker 1: tools and his tricks of the trade to express ourselves
Speaker 1: through music. But it's also extremely it's very possible for
Speaker 1: all of that to get lost to history. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of what this is about. What me and my producer.
Speaker 1: Want you to know is why would you get to
Speaker 1: the mountaintop and then just walk away from it? And
Speaker 1: that's what sliced alone slone Sly Stone did. Sorry, it's
Speaker 1: so easy to say sliced alone. That's what Stone did.
Speaker 1: Had his band in the mid sixties, Sly and the Stoners,
Speaker 1: which would give you an idea right away what they're like.
Speaker 2: And then it was Freddy and the Stone.
Speaker 1: Souls and they joined forces those two and they had
Speaker 1: this concept to make this band and there's so many hits.
Speaker 1: Thank you for letting me be myself again. And it's
Speaker 1: not even like when you were my age and you
Speaker 1: got an album where your sisters had an album that
Speaker 1: you could read the front, back, the middle. The liner notes,
Speaker 1: it was a whole day. It wasn't just hearing the
Speaker 1: song on the radio or on TikTok and going who
Speaker 1: sings this song and then knowing it instantly. It took
Speaker 1: weeks to know the lyrics to a song that you
Speaker 1: heard at the beat or in your car.
Speaker 2: One time there was no internet to run to.
Speaker 1: You had to wait by the fucking radio and hope
Speaker 1: it came on again. Like Bohemian Rhapsody or My Sharona
Speaker 1: or any one of those earworms, Stairway to Heaven, whatever
Speaker 1: came out. How could I know all the words? Well?
Speaker 1: When albums were available in our childhood, we read the
Speaker 1: line of notes and many songs the lyrics were there.
Speaker 2: But that's not enough for sly Stone.
Speaker 1: People think the song thank you for letting Me be
Speaker 1: myself again, okay, but the way he spelled it, thank
Speaker 1: you is spelled the traditional way for let me is
Speaker 1: f A l E t t I n m e
Speaker 1: thank you for let me b b e mice m
Speaker 1: I ce elf e l f again A g I
Speaker 1: n thank you for letting me be mass elf again.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure maybe you think that's not a
Speaker 1: big deal, but it is a big deal. It's changing
Speaker 1: the way people can hear a lyric in their ear
Speaker 1: and turn it upside down and make it mean something else.
Speaker 2: They just I mean, I'm very partial to that music.
Speaker 1: It was in my house a lot, and it's this
Speaker 1: guy to me and that group had You know, I
Speaker 1: grew up as a kid and when my brother in law,
Speaker 1: Jack was coaching at a largely black high school, and
Speaker 1: he'd bring these athletes back to our home when they
Speaker 1: were going on for a baseball championship or basketball championship.
Speaker 1: I used to go with him to Westchester County, an
Speaker 1: hour north of New York City and watch these boys
Speaker 1: play ball, and I developed a.
Speaker 2: Keen interest in.
Speaker 1: Black culture with the Afros and the Afro Picks, the
Speaker 1: bell bottomed pants and the silk shirts, and I'm like, ah, fuck,
Speaker 1: have these guys play ball?
Speaker 2: And they dunk?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the music they played, but they walk
Speaker 1: into an arena. When Jack's team walked out to BT Express, he.
Speaker 2: Comes the Express Express. I don't even know if you
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't even words, which just here comes the
Speaker 1: BT Express and that's what they came out to, colembing
Speaker 1: their hair forward with the Afro Picks, dunking on the
Speaker 1: layup line.
Speaker 2: I was hooked, line and sinker.
Speaker 1: So this guy still sly Stone had had the street,
Speaker 1: he had the church, and he had Motown. You know,
Speaker 1: he knew he was like a Smokey Robinson in addition
Speaker 1: to being cool and hip and dangerous.
Speaker 2: Smokey was never dangerous. He was just sweet.
Speaker 1: But with sly Stone, you go, well, how much can
Speaker 1: I like him without getting my heart broken?
Speaker 2: Dance to the music.
Speaker 1: I'm five years old, dance to the music that the
Speaker 1: day all we need is a drama? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: That was the first single. Then they come out with
Speaker 1: Stand Stand two years later I'm seven years old. That
Speaker 1: became a big hit. Like everyday people like hot fun
Speaker 1: in the summer time, and thank you for letting me
Speaker 1: be myself again, and also everybody is a star.
Speaker 2: But if you listen to.
Speaker 1: Stand, I'm telling you that's how I discovered that there
Speaker 1: are other hits on albums besides this one, the songs
Speaker 1: you hear on the radio at the beach on people's blankets. Wait,
Speaker 1: there's another song called Stan that's the B side. Stan
Speaker 1: was like that for me, and the other song that
Speaker 1: blew me away was My Lady. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: it's an apostrophe la d Malay.
Speaker 2: I remember dating chick who.
Speaker 1: Lived in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, which is where I was born,
Speaker 1: and we go out in the city and I drop
Speaker 1: her off. Her name is Terry, and I drop her
Speaker 1: off at her apartment in the seventies. I was raised
Speaker 1: in eightieth Street. She was in the seventies. I just
Speaker 1: always was like, what this is amazing, I'm back at
Speaker 1: benson Hurst.
Speaker 4: I remember these streets as a young young boy, you know,
Speaker 4: the creamsickles and sitting on the stupid my grandmother and
Speaker 4: Rosalie and walking to the park store.
Speaker 1: I remember these things as a young two three four
Speaker 1: year old kid. And I kept going to Brooklyn after
Speaker 1: that because we had relatives there.
Speaker 2: And I remember leaving.
Speaker 1: Her apartment, dropping her off, and I had the five
Speaker 1: hundred sl It was February. It was like twenty six
Speaker 1: degrees out at night. We just had a great meal
Speaker 1: at a restaurant called John's on Twelfth Street in Manhattan. John's
Speaker 1: is an old school Joint's been there at least one
Speaker 1: hundred years. Their main thing in the middle of the
Speaker 1: dining room was a bunch of candles. They would put
Speaker 1: in kiyanti bottles right and the wax would drip down
Speaker 1: from the candle and get over the bottles. That was
Speaker 1: a very artistic thing back in the seventies for people
Speaker 1: to have in their houses. But John's, I think at
Speaker 1: this point twenty twenty five, I don't know if they
Speaker 1: still feature it, but in the middle of their dining
Speaker 1: room was a bunch of kiyanti bottles with just a
Speaker 1: wax strippings down them, and it was like the centerpiece
Speaker 1: of the restaurant. It's a great place to take a
Speaker 1: chick and not be seen. No one knows you're there.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a neighborhood joint. Read my tablecloths, shit
Speaker 1: red booth, red sauce.
Speaker 2: And I took her hair.
Speaker 1: And drove it back to Bens and Earth and I
Speaker 1: didn't care back then, Oh yeah, I'm gonna go to
Speaker 1: this dry and get you. And Brooklyn picked you up,
Speaker 1: take you back to Manhatan for a meal, go what night?
Speaker 1: Clib drove it back to Bench and urse, I'll get
Speaker 1: on the belt Parkway and go home. I mean, you talk,
Speaker 1: ten drinks, fucking espresso, coffee pills. Just how the fuck
Speaker 1: did I do it? But I remember kissing her in
Speaker 1: the car. The car seats were so crisp and strong.
Speaker 1: Everything in that car was new, and I would I
Speaker 1: would lower the top. I kept the hardtop in the garage,
Speaker 1: but I lowered the soft top and it was like
Speaker 1: twenty five degrees out and I keep the windows up
Speaker 1: and the heat on high. So we'd drive with her
Speaker 1: hair whipping around, this beautiful Italian black hair. And I
Speaker 1: remember kissing her good night. Nothing really came in this relationship,
Speaker 1: but sitting at good night and then flipping on sli
Speaker 1: Stone singing Milady as I drove away, and she called
Speaker 1: me like fifteen minutes later saying, I heard your radio
Speaker 1: for like five minutes after you left. It was blast
Speaker 1: that you obviously had to just get on the bay
Speaker 1: the Bell Parkway.
Speaker 2: I heard it.
Speaker 1: Oh what a memory. And I think about some of
Speaker 1: the things when you look at sly Stone. He performed
Speaker 1: at Woodstock. They performed at Woodstock. Cynthia Robinson was a
Speaker 1: female who played the trumpet. Sly Stone was the first
Speaker 1: guy to incorporate women in his band, white people with
Speaker 1: Black people, with males with females, a.
Speaker 2: Woman playing the trumpet.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Prince introduced Chilae playing the drums.
Speaker 1: That was great. But like I said, is there a
Speaker 1: Prince or Bruno Mars or Letty Kravitz or a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys without sly I don't think so. But
Speaker 1: when they performed that Woods singing I Want to Take
Speaker 1: You Higher, which was a tough song for my father
Speaker 1: to like because it's basically.
Speaker 2: A drug song.
Speaker 1: I want to Take You Higher, they couched it to
Speaker 1: me in romance, but it was about drugs and there
Speaker 1: was a thunderstorm of woodstock.
Speaker 2: One of their guys in the band got shot.
Speaker 1: The equipment was crackling, but Sly sat there, stood there,
Speaker 1: singing like nothing was wrong. Half a million people in
Speaker 1: his hand. Also a moment you cannot recreate, like Diana
Speaker 1: Ross in Central Park in the pouring rain, prints at
Speaker 1: the super Bowl playing Purple Rain in the pouring rain.
Speaker 2: That's those are God given moments.
Speaker 1: But man, flying the Family Stone. They got songs. They
Speaker 1: got a bunch of songs that made Rolling Stones five
Speaker 1: hundred greatest songs of all time. Dance to the music everyday,
Speaker 1: people hot, fun in the summertime. Thank you for letting
Speaker 1: me be myself, family fair and stand. And by the
Speaker 1: mid seventies, you know, substance abuse, missing concerts, missing interviews,
Speaker 1: missing appointments, like I said, having to put twenty grand
Speaker 1: up front before he showed up.
Speaker 2: But they kept going.
Speaker 1: They kept going, and a lot of people, not only
Speaker 1: Prince but Beck, George Clinton, Parliament, Bootsye Collins, they all
Speaker 1: give it up. The Livestone. And I remember being a kid,
Speaker 1: I'm talking maybe eleven years old. They were on a
Speaker 1: show back in a day called Don Kirsher's Rock Concert.
Speaker 1: It was a show that came on, I think at midnight,
Speaker 1: and it was like I always felt, if I was
Speaker 1: up and watching that show, I was doing something so
Speaker 1: cool and probably disallowed in a lot of homes, you know,
Speaker 1: to be up that late and watching the show about
Speaker 1: rock and roll, which was supposedly coming into your children's
Speaker 1: brains and fucking them up. But to stay up and
Speaker 1: listen to Don Curs's Rock Concert felt like a variety
Speaker 1: show slash talk show. And I'm telling you I'm not wrong.
Speaker 1: I know for a fact that watching that show along
Speaker 1: with Dick Cabin, Mike Douglas, Johnny Carson obviously David let
Speaker 1: him and later on it made me want to do
Speaker 1: something like that. I was enchanted just sitting there, my
Speaker 1: knees on the rug and my elbows on this little hasseck.
Speaker 1: We had a colonial, fucking little stool thing.
Speaker 2: We voughted Ethan Allen. Why do I remember this shit?
Speaker 1: Ethan Allen on, Oh my god, it's too much to
Speaker 1: remember the shit your brain keeps in. Get it. I
Speaker 1: want to get rid of that, bring a new memory in.
Speaker 2: But yeah, man, I said, I could do this.
Speaker 1: I want to do that, and that's why when I
Speaker 1: have my talk show, I wanted singers to perform, bands
Speaker 1: to perform on the roof of this building we had
Speaker 1: on the fire escape. I just thought that would be
Speaker 1: really cool. People aren't doing that, and now you see
Speaker 1: John Mulaney. He does it on his Netflix show which
Speaker 1: ran for what ten weeks on Netflix.
Speaker 2: Which I loved.
Speaker 1: But he decided to introduced music acts. My deal was,
Speaker 1: I'm going to introduce new comedians and some music acts,
Speaker 1: and on Monday, when Broadway is dark in New York City,
Speaker 1: my guest will be from Broadway shows. That was mostly
Speaker 1: an idea of my producer, my gay producer, Michael Danny.
Speaker 2: But it was a great idea.
Speaker 1: People don't really interview Broadway stars anyhow. The point is
Speaker 1: I sat there and watched his shit on TV. Don
Speaker 1: cursed this ron concert. I think he came out eleven
Speaker 1: or twelve at night. It was a magical time of night,
Speaker 1: everyone's to sleep, and it always felt like I was
Speaker 1: I don't know how to say this. I didn't feel nervous.
Speaker 1: I felt a little more protected by the dark. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it was, but it just kind of
Speaker 1: helped me. It helped shape who I became good or band,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. Those are because of
Speaker 1: the influences. Not listen. Before we coined the term social influencers,
Speaker 1: and we sat through millions of their bullshit things they
Speaker 1: do to steal our precious hours away from us on
Speaker 1: TikTok and Instagram and what have you. But before that term,
Speaker 1: it was just influences. They were everywhere, but they weren't
Speaker 1: always pointed directly at us. You have to search for
Speaker 1: them somehow. Sometimes you went and go find them. Other
Speaker 1: times they can come at you any old time. You
Speaker 1: could be mowing your lawn. Something in your brain could
Speaker 1: be sparked while you're sitting there moaning lawn, or in
Speaker 1: a red light, even having an argument. It didn't matter
Speaker 1: that influences came at you. If you had any kind
Speaker 1: of creativity in your body and it just came at you,
Speaker 1: like tennis balls in a match, you have to fire
Speaker 1: and back. Even while we sleep, there are things that
Speaker 1: are constantly coming at our heads, and if they're already
Speaker 1: in there anyways, you're gonna want to put them to work, right.
Speaker 1: So you start to take these influences and make them
Speaker 1: into the person you think you can be. I'm way
Speaker 1: off point, but the point is, you know, they show
Speaker 1: these videos of Slidestone coming up in the ranks in
Speaker 1: San Francisco in the early sixties when it was wild
Speaker 1: and a wacky place, with you know, just a lot
Speaker 1: of talented people and all bumping into each other with
Speaker 1: the same.
Speaker 2: Iconic time, and it kind of reminded me.
Speaker 1: I heard Jay Moore on his podcast the other day
Speaker 1: called More Stories m o Hr.
Speaker 2: I love his show. I love Jay. He went through
Speaker 2: his troubles.
Speaker 1: He's straight and clean now for years and he's married
Speaker 1: to Jeanie Buss, who runs the Lakers. I'm very happy
Speaker 1: for his success. But he's got the life he had.
Speaker 1: This kid was in you know. Jerry mcgo wire on snel,
Speaker 1: he has had an amazing life, radio shows, TV shows.
Speaker 1: One of his show's action should still be on the
Speaker 1: air when he played the sports agent.
Speaker 2: He was magnificent at it.
Speaker 1: Anyhow, he was talking about a time in his life
Speaker 1: when him and Dane Cook and David Tell and Jim
Speaker 1: Norton and all these young comics were banging around each other.
Speaker 1: Jerry O'Connell, and it's like he said, we all made it.
Speaker 1: We all didn't know what the fuck to do with
Speaker 1: the next day, but we all made it in some capacity.
Speaker 1: And that's the way I feel when I think about
Speaker 1: those days back in New York City at my buddy
Speaker 1: Rocco's restaurant Boom and the people I was around. How
Speaker 1: do you not, with the electricity around you become something
Speaker 1: with a sparking you Growing up in New York City
Speaker 1: in a specific circle of people, and I had out
Speaker 1: with many of those people who were bumping into each
Speaker 1: other in small rooms and small lounges and restaurants and
Speaker 1: whatever the hell, and we all made it in.
Speaker 2: Some way, shape or form. I went downtown.
Speaker 1: Julie Brown, Charlie Thren, the B fifty two singer what's
Speaker 1: her name? Crew was in the Lady, whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: your name. We were all together, the guy who made
Speaker 1: the bull on Wall Street, the statue Ortruda.
Speaker 2: Everybody was together in little rooms. Of course, we were gonna.
Speaker 1: Rub off each other, and sparks would ignite and send
Speaker 1: us in different directions, you know what I mean. We
Speaker 1: took energy from each other and gave it to one another.
Speaker 1: And then that energy that the neighborhood had it just
Speaker 1: made everything wonderful. It was a fuel to help us
Speaker 1: make it. And maybe I'm being cynical or sounding like
Speaker 1: an old man on the block, but.
Speaker 2: I think we were all better off when.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe you're doing it now, and God bless you
Speaker 1: if you are, but it doesn't seem like that exists anymore.
Speaker 1: Maybe not. Maybe it was a better place when there
Speaker 1: were bookstores on every few corners and jazz clubs and
Speaker 1: music thank yous in places where maybe a poet could
Speaker 1: hang his hat and try his wares. The world's not
Speaker 1: like that anymore.
Speaker 2: It's very impersonal to kind of impersonal.
Speaker 1: That I don't think a lot of songs and words
Speaker 1: could be born right and have a life. And you know,
Speaker 1: some people have to be touched and smelled and felt
Speaker 1: and heard very up close to recognize the genius. And
Speaker 1: that's what Slidestone was. He was an innovator. It's not
Speaker 1: even strong enough words to call him, but I'll tell
Speaker 1: you something he was, And it's just this is very important.
Speaker 2: Like I say all the time, it's one thing.
Speaker 1: If God gives you a talent or and if you
Speaker 1: waste it, you fucked up the plan. Man.
Speaker 2: If he gave you something.
Speaker 1: You gotta follow it. I don't care if it make
Speaker 1: sure a millionaire or a miser. You've got to follow it.
Speaker 1: I follow it every day. I'm not high in the hog,
Speaker 1: but I follow God's gift. And it's not enough to
Speaker 1: have the talent. You've got to be a steward of
Speaker 1: that talent. You gotta earn your wings and be the
Speaker 1: boss and the employee at the same time. And Slyestone,
Speaker 1: he honored the gift that God gave him, and in
Speaker 1: return he.
Speaker 2: Gave us so many timeless things.
Speaker 1: The guy carried the weight of how heavy that fame was,
Speaker 1: and at times it broke them. And look when he
Speaker 1: left us.
Speaker 2: And now he flies free and another good man God.
Speaker 2: But listen to their music this week, and he'll live.
Speaker 1: I'm aj Benz that That was your Daily Unfiltered podcast for
Speaker 1: June eleventh, twenty twenty five. I'll talk to these tomorrow.