Speaker 1: From workhouse connect in aj Benze fame. Uh, he'd liked
Speaker 1: to be walked on a leash and play really dirty,
Speaker 1: kinky sex games. He's uh the guy put the cock
Speaker 1: in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody, AJ benz
Speaker 1: A here with fameous it. Bitch. This is your daily
Speaker 1: Unfiltered podcast for June eighth, twenty twenty six. O six
Speaker 1: eight two oh two six. We gotta leave the numbers
Speaker 1: and let's see June eighth. Let me get my account.
Speaker 1: I'm very bit at math calculating. Here we go. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go two oh two six minus nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 1: That's easy. Forty years ago today was my first wedding
Speaker 1: to Jennifer Coletta of one Sylvia Drive West is six
Speaker 1: six one eight four three two. You know I got
Speaker 1: all that right. Don't even know my kids numbers by heart,
Speaker 1: because I've been punching their name on my cell phone.
Speaker 1: But when you dollar number incessantly for years and years,
Speaker 1: it sticks in your head. Jennifer was six six fourth
Speaker 1: three two. Yeah. Wow. I was telling Rock all about it.
Speaker 1: Because my son doesn't know much about the first marriage.
Speaker 1: I regale him with stories and he laughs about some
Speaker 1: of the shit that went on. How you know, I
Speaker 1: actually went to the church today. She got married. I
Speaker 1: didn't like the guy she married, and friends of mine
Speaker 1: told me he's no good, and it turned out he
Speaker 1: was bad. They were together twenty years, but he was
Speaker 1: a real piece of shit. And when they finally divorced,
Speaker 1: she sent me a Facebook request and said, can we
Speaker 1: please be friends? She wasn't allowed to be friends of me.
Speaker 1: She wasn't allowed to read my book, wasn't allowed to
Speaker 1: see Rocky Balboa because this crazy fucking guy was that jealous.
Speaker 1: But I went to the church to see. I sat
Speaker 1: in the back row so I wouldn't be a nuisance,
Speaker 1: you know. And then when they're about to turn around
Speaker 1: and walk back up, the ally split. But I wanted
Speaker 1: to see them. I don't know why, for the story,
Speaker 1: so that forty years later I could tell the story.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I put myself in those positions.
Speaker 1: Very weird day, the last couple of days over the weekend,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean Cloud nine with my knicks coming
Speaker 1: back from minus four down fourteen to beat the Spurs.
Speaker 1: The Spurs looked shook and rattled and way too young.
Speaker 1: The Knicks looked like grown men playing basketball seven touches
Speaker 1: before someone shoots the ball. I haven't seen movement like
Speaker 1: this since Golden State Worries, before that the Celtics, and
Speaker 1: before that the old New York Knicks. I mean there
Speaker 1: are many other teams too, The Spurs with Tim Duncan
Speaker 1: and Jenobileye and many great teams move the ball around quickly. Man,
Speaker 1: we look good. Two more ago. Trump will be at
Speaker 1: tonight's game. I'm sure he's going to be in a suite.
Speaker 1: Some people don't think he should go. I don't know
Speaker 1: what they mean. He used to always be at Nick games.
Speaker 1: He always sat courtside with one beauty after another, and
Speaker 1: they used to piss me off. I used to go,
Speaker 1: why is this guy at the fucking game? He's got
Speaker 1: children at home? Why doesn't he take his kids out?
Speaker 1: Why does he have to be with Kimberly konrad Hefner,
Speaker 1: Why does he have to be with Sandy Taylor or
Speaker 1: another penthouse pet? Beautiful women, but like, go home to
Speaker 1: see your kids. Meanwhile, you know his kids turned out
Speaker 1: fine and everything worked that vam, didn't it Jesus Christ?
Speaker 1: But yeah, a very weird couple of days coming off
Speaker 1: that high of the NIXT winning. I'll get to that
Speaker 1: in the moment, but first I clok the documentary on
Speaker 1: Peacock about Louren Michael's career at SNL, and you know,
Speaker 1: really it was special for me to see that because
Speaker 1: I've been behind the scenes. I've seen how the sausage
Speaker 1: is made, having done the show once, even though it's
Speaker 1: just two sketches, I was there for rehearsal, and frankly,
Speaker 1: I went more than I needed to go because I
Speaker 1: wanted to see everything get done. It's fascinating. It's a
Speaker 1: comedy factory. I mean, if there was no Esset, think
Speaker 1: of the comedians and the movies, the funny movies that
Speaker 1: has been that's spawned from the talent Lauren Michaels has
Speaker 1: picked from obscurity, so to speak. I mean, many of
Speaker 1: those people would have been famous anyhow. Their talent is talent,
Speaker 1: but man, just think about it. Unbelievable. So the documentary
Speaker 1: is great because Lauren Michaels is portrayed as this kind
Speaker 1: of very even keeled guy. He's been running the business
Speaker 1: the same way for a long time. He stays up
Speaker 1: till four am, wakes up at noon. The first meeting
Speaker 1: of the day is four pm. For him, He'll make
Speaker 1: you wait two to three hours in front of his door.
Speaker 1: Very eccentric. Guy has a blueberry farm, I think up
Speaker 1: in Maine. But I mean, you know, Chevy Ackroy Belushi,
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy, Dennis Miller, forget it, Phil Hartman, Tata Fe.
Speaker 1: It goes on and on on and on. And you
Speaker 1: know when I went there, when I was hired for
Speaker 1: those two sketches, I said, I gotta bring something good.
Speaker 1: I got a bottle of a nice bottle liquor to Jerry,
Speaker 1: and something nice for Lorn. Jerry was the host, and
Speaker 1: I bought them two really nice bottles of scotch Johnny
Speaker 1: Walker whatever the top brand was back then. It wasn't blue,
Speaker 1: maybe it was black. Whatever the top brand was, Doers whatever,
Speaker 1: tippy top Scotch. Right, And they both looked at me like, like,
Speaker 1: no one does this. It was such a strang like
Speaker 1: you never received the gift, You never received a thank
Speaker 1: you gift from somebody who appreciates what you did. They
Speaker 1: looked at me like I was crazy. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I had just come off me and Michael.
Speaker 1: What is Michael really broke the initial story about Jerry
Speaker 1: dating Shoshanna Lonstein when she was nineteen he was thirty one.
Speaker 1: But the day we saw them, me, Linda Staysy and
Speaker 1: Michael were in a Knicks game, a playoff game, and
Speaker 1: we saw them sitting courtside, and Linda was like, who
Speaker 1: is that girl? We loved her because she's stacked right
Speaker 1: and she's got a pretty face. But from you know,
Speaker 1: from I don't know, two hundred feet away, you could see,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what a body. No one knew she
Speaker 1: was young. And that's when Michael called the house and
Speaker 1: he got her number and we had to confirm she
Speaker 1: was seeing him, and he called and she picked up
Speaker 1: and it was during dinner time, and she said, it's
Speaker 1: how young she was. He was asking her, is it
Speaker 1: true you're seeing Jerry Seinfeld? You saw you the Nick
Speaker 1: game last night? Is he your boyfriend and you're dating?
Speaker 1: And she's like yeah, yeah, and you hear like the
Speaker 1: parents talk in the background, who is it? Who is it?
Speaker 1: And she goes, I have to go now, we're eating dinner,
Speaker 1: like something a kid would say. Then he married the
Speaker 1: needle landed chick or the shick who was with the
Speaker 1: needle landed guy ah Shirshana was the one, but look,
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld's got a great life. Who am I to
Speaker 1: say you picked the wrong girl? But being backstage and
Speaker 1: I've told you the story was amazing with David Bowie
Speaker 1: there and the pressure cooker of people turning in sketches
Speaker 1: that could turn down and turn down, and no one
Speaker 1: knew Rachel Drats yet. And I happen to see her
Speaker 1: crying her eyes out of the floor in the hallway
Speaker 1: because another sketch of hers didn't make it. You do
Speaker 1: that first show, the rehearsal show in front of a
Speaker 1: live audience. Then you've got like an hour or two,
Speaker 1: an hour and a half whether the show gets cut
Speaker 1: down from a lot of sketches down to the exact
Speaker 1: amount they need. So a lot of sketches are cut
Speaker 1: never to be heard from again. They just disappear. You
Speaker 1: can't like resubmit them week. Once the whole the whole
Speaker 1: staff has heard them, it loses its luster. You gotta
Speaker 1: go back to the drawing. But some come back, but
Speaker 1: it takes like weeks and weeks later. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it was a great time. And I'll never forget when
Speaker 1: I walked out on stage and the silly sketch a
Speaker 1: guy had grown a pizza place, and I come out
Speaker 1: eating a pizza pizza and I had to just say,
Speaker 1: fame ain't and the bitch, That's all I had to say.
Speaker 1: The smoke machine was coming on behind me. It was
Speaker 1: just so it meant nothing like a sketch about a
Speaker 1: pizza place with the ratio sands and a couple other people.
Speaker 1: And then I walk out with the sketches over with
Speaker 1: a pizza pizza and they got a whole pie. It
Speaker 1: was delicious pizza somewhere in midtown. And they're like, you
Speaker 1: get the que cart. I said, no, shue cott. I
Speaker 1: see this all the time. But when I'm on that
Speaker 1: stage Studio eight h and you look and you see
Speaker 1: all those people there, it's sat on a fucking night live,
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, Yeah, give me give me
Speaker 1: a cue car of all things for me to need
Speaker 1: to read Fame. And I saved it for years in
Speaker 1: my garage and then with all the moving we did,
Speaker 1: it just it got ripped, it trieded it dirty, and
Speaker 1: I just threw it out. What am I gonna do
Speaker 1: with that? I have my little door sign with the
Speaker 1: snl insignia on it and my name. That was kind
Speaker 1: of cool. But I remember I heard Rosalie's laugh, you know,
Speaker 1: I heard her laugh more than and you can still
Speaker 1: hear her laugh when that sketch ends, because she left
Speaker 1: first like she normally would do when I tell a joke.
Speaker 1: But what a night. And David Bowie's singing three songs
Speaker 1: when the show ended very different than Paul McCartney's singing
Speaker 1: his three songs when the show ended a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, when he sounded awful. I mean, he's eighty
Speaker 1: one or eighty and it's time to hang it up.
Speaker 1: But Bowie was an animal and that's what he walked
Speaker 1: by me re saying fame. And I didn't know anything
Speaker 1: him knowing me my show. My show was international. Whoever
Speaker 1: thinks that people like David Bowie would know you? And
Speaker 1: after he sings fame and the show ends or his
Speaker 1: set ends, he walks by me and says, see, it's
Speaker 1: not always a bitch. Unbelievable. By the way, do you
Speaker 1: go through this? I'm sick and tired of this. How
Speaker 1: many times do I spell asshole on a text message
Speaker 1: and it becomes asshok? H ok, does this happen to you?
Speaker 1: The people in Apple gotta get their shit together. You
Speaker 1: know me fix this. If you guys have all our data.
Speaker 1: If I text a friend that I need a new
Speaker 1: pair of tires on my car, I get tire reeds
Speaker 1: on Google. Come on, so they should know, I say, asshole.
Speaker 1: I don't call anybody an ass hop. Jesus needed shampoo
Speaker 1: the other day, so I ran to Target at a
Speaker 1: gift card from Christmas. Oh, this is great. We got
Speaker 1: twenty bucks from Okay, good, get some shampoo. I'm looking.
Speaker 1: There's so many new shampoos. I was using the shampoo
Speaker 1: called Native, but it kept making my head itch. Stop
Speaker 1: using it. But I'm looking up and down the aisles
Speaker 1: and I'm looking. How much money does a guy need?
Speaker 1: Dwayne the Rock Johnson with all his money, well, this
Speaker 1: movie style money, his wrestling money, his liquor money, and
Speaker 1: now he's got a hair, a hair brand. Like I say,
Speaker 1: I never forsake anyone who wants to make more money
Speaker 1: and make go ahead, God bless strike while the iron
Speaker 1: is hot, and his iron is gonna be hot forever.
Speaker 1: It's the way it happens to some people. There's not
Speaker 1: enough room in the mountain for everybody. Some people get
Speaker 1: to the top and fall down a few hundred feet
Speaker 1: they live there. Some stay up on the top of
Speaker 1: that mountain. You can't budget Rock is one of those people,
Speaker 1: and I really do. I don't get jealous of here
Speaker 1: if they're talented and they're doing some great good. But
Speaker 1: but come on, why is anybody gonna buy Dwayne the
Speaker 1: Rock Johnson's hair product. You gotta be an idiot. The
Speaker 1: guy's bold, He's been bold forever. What does he know
Speaker 1: about shampoo and conditioner? Why do people think he's a
Speaker 1: good example of He ought to know what's good for
Speaker 1: our hair? Come on, but yet we do it? By
Speaker 1: the way, quick announcement from Mike Agavino, our producer, Lord
Speaker 1: and savior. He said, I heard from some of you
Speaker 1: having difficulty uploading the shows the last few days. Turns
Speaker 1: out your frustrations about the podcast being posted are valid.
Speaker 1: Mike wrote, Dude, we have a problem with Apple that
Speaker 1: I'm trying to resolve. But the Patreon episodes are not
Speaker 1: getting distributed to third party apps like Overcast or Spotify
Speaker 1: or Apple. Anyone who listens through the Patreon app will
Speaker 1: still be able to listen. In the meantime, we'll post
Speaker 1: new episodes on the free feed, and people will be
Speaker 1: able to listen to that feed through any third party app.
Speaker 1: So I realized that he's gonna try to fix it.
Speaker 1: The next day or so. He asked me if I
Speaker 1: can post it on Facebook, and I did. I wrote
Speaker 1: a post about it several hours ago. But for some
Speaker 1: god forsaken reason, all my posts now have to be
Speaker 1: submitted for approval, like the fucking Twilight Zone submitted for
Speaker 1: your approval? Why it's my page? There's nothing dirty about
Speaker 1: that that note. Why does it have to be submitted?
Speaker 1: Who's approving it? That sounded very much like Seinfeld? Who's
Speaker 1: approving the page? And I realized I may be talking
Speaker 1: right now to people who aren't hearing the show, which
Speaker 1: makes no sense. But such aids I have, it'll be fixed.
Speaker 1: It will be fixed. We'll get back to normal. Some
Speaker 1: news broke over the well on Friday that I find
Speaker 1: quite tacky. Knowing the Knicks are going to be in
Speaker 1: the garden tonight and at least two more times tonight
Speaker 1: and Wednesday. Uh, and maybe maybe three more times, right
Speaker 1: to one more more? Yeah, it could be three more
Speaker 1: times and that's all we're they did right now is
Speaker 1: the next The Knicks of New York. Madison Square Garden
Speaker 1: is the Knicks. But now here comes Paris. I'm in Paris.
Speaker 1: Here comes Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey, and the word
Speaker 1: is their wedding will take place at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: I think that I know they can transform a room.
Speaker 1: If you pay the right money to the right people,
Speaker 1: they can make a look at These are Hollywood people.
Speaker 1: These are set designors that she's hiring to make sure
Speaker 1: this wedding is tip top perfect, that no one could
Speaker 1: ever to take or duplicate. I should say, but Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden a wedding, there will be you know what,
Speaker 1: enough enough. I just pick a beautiful seaside hotel, you know,
Speaker 1: on a bluff. What the why do you need to
Speaker 1: be at the garden? People are gonna come on off
Speaker 1: Seventh Avenue and it doesn't it's just not glamorous. I
Speaker 1: know they'll make it glamorous, but no, what does she
Speaker 1: think she is? This is not a royal wedding. It's
Speaker 1: a pop star, a football player. Of course, everyone's been
Speaker 1: sworn to secrecy, as we know. And the plan is
Speaker 1: Apparently guests are gonna be transported there on blacked out buses,
Speaker 1: Coffee big. You see their faces, and there's all different
Speaker 1: entrances to Madison Square Garden. There's a lot of security. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be dangerous. New York is a dangerous city
Speaker 1: right now. It's a very odd choice for a ceremony,
Speaker 1: if you ask me. I mean, I know she's got
Speaker 1: a couple of billion dollars. She can transform it into anything.
Speaker 1: But that's the word. No one's confirming it. But it
Speaker 1: is worth mentioning that MSG has no events planned from
Speaker 1: June twenty ninth to July sixth, so perhaps they're leaving
Speaker 1: that open for Tayte. Sounds tacking to me, sounds tacky,
Speaker 1: and I think the tacking has reached a new level.
Speaker 1: When they went to see the Knicks play Cleveland at
Speaker 1: Cleveland and the Knicks were destroying, well, Cleveland gave us
Speaker 1: a little bit of a fight for a while, but
Speaker 1: Travis stood up and sucked the whole beer caned down
Speaker 1: standing up for the crowd. It didn't work. It didn't work.
Speaker 1: She looked embarrassed. The crowd didn't go. Banana is the
Speaker 1: nixt one. It just didn't work. If you're not someone
Speaker 1: that goes there, you're not a Cleveland star. Yeah it
Speaker 1: might be your hometown, but you're a Kansas City star.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work if you're in Cleveland. It just doesn't.
Speaker 1: It didn't work, And once every couple of years this
Speaker 1: story floats around. I haven't really said much about this,
Speaker 1: but this is one of the first in my career
Speaker 1: that I can speak about. Oh. By the way, I'm
Speaker 1: in touch with Michael lowid Is. We're gonna talk today Monday.
Speaker 1: As far as him coming on the show to reminisce
Speaker 1: and tell stories that I probably forgot or remember half
Speaker 1: of because Michael's got a steal trap memory as well.
Speaker 1: So that'll be good. That'll be a good show. At
Speaker 1: least one or two shows with Michael. It might be
Speaker 1: long enough. We could split it to two or just
Speaker 1: let it go for as long as we want. But
Speaker 1: you'll finally see how funny this kid is and why
Speaker 1: I was ugh doubled over every day laughing with him.
Speaker 1: But once again, Ted Danson says he will apologize forever
Speaker 1: for that nineteen ninety three black face stunt when he
Speaker 1: was dating Whoopy Goldberg at the Friars Club roast in Manhattan,
Speaker 1: so huge story. He was on the w Camal Bells podcast.
Speaker 1: I don't like him. I hate his hair. He looks sloppy.
Speaker 1: Everything is anti white. I'm not a w you can
Speaker 1: be pro black, just don't make everything anti white. It
Speaker 1: gets so boring. And the hair the afro pushed forward.
Speaker 1: Come on, man doesn't look good. So look he's on
Speaker 1: the show and he's praising Whoopy Goldberg the way she
Speaker 1: handled the incident, and he's calling it an arrogant mistake
Speaker 1: on his part. But no, it really wasn't. It was
Speaker 1: something that Whoop bey wanted him to do. Poor Whoopy
Speaker 1: has to defend me over the years, sweetly and gracefully,
Speaker 1: so the last thing she probably wants to do is
Speaker 1: be put in this position again. But then he went
Speaker 1: ahead and said, because you know he's woke, I would
Speaker 1: like to address this and apologize forever. I know what
Speaker 1: was in my heart, so I have no problem talking
Speaker 1: about this, but I need to and want to apologize
Speaker 1: for the rest of my life because somebody today can
Speaker 1: go on the internet and look at me and say
Speaker 1: what the hell. Wow, I feel betrayed, I feel angry,
Speaker 1: and I did that. Who gives a shit that was
Speaker 1: acceptable comedy back then. Jimmy Kimble did blackface twenty years
Speaker 1: after you did on a show playing Karl Malone. Come on,
Speaker 1: Sarah Silgman did blackface. It's people. I'm not saying it's good,
Speaker 1: but it's still being done. Well, not now, but it
Speaker 1: was being done many years after he did. And it
Speaker 1: was Whippy's idea. I mean, Ted says he wanted to
Speaker 1: do something outlandish and outrageous for her birthday and between
Speaker 1: well not between you and me, but the word is
Speaker 1: their relationship was not working out as well as it
Speaker 1: had been, so he wanted to really go over the
Speaker 1: top with something. Now, there has never been a woman
Speaker 1: invited to a friar's roast a reporter, no reporter was
Speaker 1: ever invited, I shouldn't say a woman, no reporter period.
Speaker 1: And they let Linda. They invited Linda, and she took
Speaker 1: me and I'd never been to a roast, never been
Speaker 1: to a fraud. They don't invite people friars to very
Speaker 1: close society, and we happen to go to the roast
Speaker 1: that was going to be talked about all these years later.
Speaker 1: That's the luck that we had Linda is there. I
Speaker 1: remember she was on a red sweater and a necklace
Speaker 1: hanging outside of her shirt. I remember what she was
Speaker 1: wearing because she was so she couldn't believe the Ted
Speaker 1: dance in that black face. She looked at me and
Speaker 1: her face was as red as his sweater. She goes,
Speaker 1: what the fuck are they doing? And Ted wanted to
Speaker 1: drop out, but the friest club said, we'll sue you.
Speaker 1: We sold too many tickets. You can't walk away now.
Speaker 1: So he figured the more over the top I go,
Speaker 1: the better. And he's thinking to himself, I'm with one
Speaker 1: of the most outrageous, funny black women in the world.
Speaker 1: Now she's just a flat out fucking nut, a lefty
Speaker 1: lunatic who think Trump, who thinks Trump is getting rid
Speaker 1: of women and throwing blacks out of the country. I mean,
Speaker 1: the things that people say are so outlandish. And Sonny
Speaker 1: hasted backs are up in the other hand, and at
Speaker 1: whatever the fuck are I can't stand that show. And
Speaker 1: he's not a stand up comedian Ted dancing, He said,
Speaker 1: I can't run with the bulls. I'm an actor at best.
Speaker 1: So we looked at all those tapes and he said, well,
Speaker 1: if I were black, I could say all these outrageous things.
Speaker 1: I'm not. Then his mind said to himself, I'll do
Speaker 1: blackface and it'll be funny or not, but it will
Speaker 1: be like I have license. Now. Well, it didn't go
Speaker 1: over well within I don't know, but in the first
Speaker 1: two minutes you could tell people are very uncomfortable. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one specific line that did it, and
Speaker 1: it's a very filthy line. So get ready. Because he
Speaker 1: figured at this point no one believed that he and
Speaker 1: her would be in love. He just thought people had
Speaker 1: to be thinking, it's got to be a sex thing
Speaker 1: between these two. Could you imagine kissing that mouth? Could
Speaker 1: you imagine kissing that mouth with the purple gums and
Speaker 1: the Winston cigarette breath. I want to throw up now.
Speaker 1: Now I know, back of the day when she first
Speaker 1: started and she was young and vibrant and just like
Speaker 1: completely new on the scene, Tiffany Hattish had that same
Speaker 1: kind of vibe. What he was on welfare, single mother,
Speaker 1: gave himself a ro own abortion. Tiffany Hattish lived in
Speaker 1: a car outside NBC. Similar beginnings. But man, the way
Speaker 1: this thing took a nose dive. Like I've said, you
Speaker 1: could say anything at a roast. That's the way these
Speaker 1: roasts are run. But even though it was nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 1: the blackface didn't look good and he said something that
Speaker 1: was awful, and the tide turned. He said, my parents
Speaker 1: are concerned, and I'm sorry ahead of time, guys, my
Speaker 1: parents are concerned about me and what be My mother called.
Speaker 1: My father called. My mother said, Ted, what about your children?
Speaker 1: What will they look like? He said, Mom relaxed, I'm
Speaker 1: only fucking her in the ass. That was like the
Speaker 1: first joke. Okay, that's how crazy roast get. Linda was
Speaker 1: so happy we were there because no one else had
Speaker 1: that story except for our column. But yeah, bad idea.
Speaker 1: But stop apologizing over things that he did. How many
Speaker 1: years ago? Thirty three years ago? It's over. Later on
Speaker 1: in life, he marries Mary Steinberg version and she's like,
Speaker 1: I can't understand why he would do that, because they
Speaker 1: showed clips of him during the Black Lives Matter movement
Speaker 1: and he got dropped. He got dropped from some corporate gigs.
Speaker 1: He started to get a little nervous, as if Ted
Speaker 1: Danson doesn't have enough money. I think he's been like
Speaker 1: four shows that are syndicated by the way Rocky Balboa
Speaker 1: finally comes on Netflix twenty years later. I don't know
Speaker 1: why that is, but all the other Rockies have been
Speaker 1: on Netflix. Rocky Bubo just landed this weekend. Unbelievable, So
Speaker 1: there'll be a nice check at some point, I hope.
Speaker 1: Although everything's changed now, ain't the old days? Residuals are
Speaker 1: different and now they used to be. I'm curious to
Speaker 1: see what this one's going to be, just from Netflix alone. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: Here's what he did, though this makes me sick. He
Speaker 1: had to go visit a woman, a very prominent liberal
Speaker 1: Hollywood woman, to find out how he could cope with this.
Speaker 1: And who would that be but Jane Fonda, And she
Speaker 1: put him together with this author of a book called
Speaker 1: The Some of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How
Speaker 1: We Can Prosper Together, written by Heather McGee. And Jane
Speaker 1: Fonda said this author helped ted reflect on his actions.
Speaker 1: She wasn't giving him a pass. She was saying, this
Speaker 1: is an opportunity that I hope you take. I want
Speaker 1: to throw up. It was a joke. Back then, you
Speaker 1: could do blackface. It wasn't the end of your life
Speaker 1: or career as a picture of my mother and my
Speaker 1: father in blackface at a Halloween party. Some of you
Speaker 1: are probably not shocked, but this is back in the sixties.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm shocked about, that the old Hollywood sexpot,
Speaker 1: maybe Van Dorian, is still spilling secrets. I'm shocked not
Speaker 1: because she's building to secret. I'm shocked as I was
Speaker 1: sure she was dead. Maybe Van Dory. We forget she
Speaker 1: was younger than Marilyn and Jane Mansfield and in my
Speaker 1: book Prettier, in my book Sexier. I hate to say it,
Speaker 1: I just feel that way. Look at the picture side
Speaker 1: by side. She won a memoir called You Thought I
Speaker 1: Was Dead? Yes, I did, Mamie, and she talks about
Speaker 1: all the fun and she had over the decades, and
Speaker 1: of course she's ninety five now. There's also a documentary
Speaker 1: about her life in production that would be great to see.
Speaker 1: There's not many of these sexpots left and Margaret's hanging around.
Speaker 1: There's not many. And of course she talks about in
Speaker 1: her latest book about Bill calls Being Harvey Weinstein, how
Speaker 1: they've been ousted and tried and punished by the Me
Speaker 1: Too movement, and she says women can and should feel
Speaker 1: empowered by the support of their sisters. Young women being
Speaker 1: preyed upon and seduced by rapacious Hollywood producers, stars, and
Speaker 1: studio heads is a tired cliche, but like all cliches,
Speaker 1: it's based in reality. The casting couch was and is
Speaker 1: part of Hollywood's shameful legacy. Yeah but you spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time, but you're back on that couch and
Speaker 1: your legs up in the air. Believe me, they would
Speaker 1: take your legs and tuning it to get their TV channels.
Speaker 1: Maybe you fell down clicking and I don't know what.
Speaker 1: My god, Well, there was a star in the room
Speaker 1: made me felt right down on the back. She was
Speaker 1: famous for that. I'm living proof that it's survivable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you went through a bunch of husbands and god
Speaker 1: knows how many superstars, you know, If that's the way
Speaker 1: you lived your life in major career, if your career
Speaker 1: was built on sex, why can't you just look back
Speaker 1: and go, I knew my role. I was a sexpot.
Speaker 1: I had to exude sex, and I think I did
Speaker 1: a good job of it. People still talk about me
Speaker 1: to this day. Just say that we all know about
Speaker 1: the casting couch. Everybody said it from Shirley Temple on
Speaker 1: what more can you d predatory environments? The Golden Age?
Speaker 1: A new starlet in her first movie was like blood
Speaker 1: in the Water to the mail sharks at the studio. Yes,
Speaker 1: this we know. I felt used. I was now part
Speaker 1: of that multitude of stories about the cast ead couch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he kept returning, how many more lies? What I
Speaker 1: have to tell? Before I got what I wanted? As
Speaker 1: I drove home, I asked myself, is this the way
Speaker 1: I wanted to become a movie star tonight? The answer
Speaker 1: had clearly been that I would fuck my way to
Speaker 1: the top. But there was a cold, sick not in
Speaker 1: the pit of my stomach signaling that my conscience was winging,
Speaker 1: and well, good for you, Good for you. He learned
Speaker 1: a hard lesson. You figured, that's it. I'm gonna walk
Speaker 1: this straight, narrow out and rely solely on my acting ability,
Speaker 1: which was really not there. You know. Marilyn was the
Speaker 1: best actress out of the three. J Mansfield had more
Speaker 1: of a shocking look to her, but she got to
Speaker 1: be a cartoon character. Mamie was straight up sex. Even
Speaker 1: the titles of her movies were like sexy sounding, you know.
Speaker 1: She wrote a lotobiography years ago, the first one, and
Speaker 1: she was honest about herself. She didn't portray herself for
Speaker 1: some shrinking Violet. She talked about the affairs she had.
Speaker 1: Are you ready get your pencil and pad it out?
Speaker 1: Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, Howard Hughes well with tits like hers.
Speaker 1: Howard Hughes was probably building Ano lebra like he did
Speaker 1: for Jane Russell, Burt Reynolds, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Van Johnson,
Speaker 1: Warren Batty, Jack Pallance, Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran, Joe Namath, Broadway,
Speaker 1: Joe got in there, Johnny Carson, and the former mayor
Speaker 1: of Hollywood, a small man named Johnny Grant, But boy
Speaker 1: was he popular. Johnny Grant was mayor of Hollywood when
Speaker 1: I was doing Mysteries and Scandals, and he liked the show.
Speaker 1: We used them on several episodes because he knew a
Speaker 1: lot about the history and the lore of Hollywood. It
Speaker 1: also paid to have the mayor of the town you
Speaker 1: shoot in to be on your show, to make permits
Speaker 1: easier and that sort of thing. But there came a
Speaker 1: time where him and I had a meeting where he
Speaker 1: was thinking of let's say every one hundred feet, every
Speaker 1: other telephone pole, all they were going to put up
Speaker 1: polls or what have you. Where there'd be a phone
Speaker 1: that tourists could pick up the phone on Hollywood Boulevard
Speaker 1: and it would be my voice telling the story about
Speaker 1: whatever star they were standing on, telling the story the scandal.
Speaker 1: They'd be like, you know, a minute and a half
Speaker 1: kind of a conversation and then hear my voice. That
Speaker 1: would have been so cool, But it didn't go through,
Speaker 1: like so many things in Hollywood didn't come to fruition.
Speaker 1: But maybe then during your whole career you got your
Speaker 1: tits out come on. Would you expect my book sexier
Speaker 1: than Jane and possibly even sexier than Marylyn. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why I got more pictures of Marilyn in my
Speaker 1: house than my mother. I really do. I got Marilyn everywhere.
Speaker 1: Love Marylyn, but largely because of the sexual and the
Speaker 1: tragic figure. She had both of those things going at
Speaker 1: the same time. Whenever you're with the sexy girl who's sad,
Speaker 1: it kind of adds to the sexuality. I can't explain it,
Speaker 1: but Jane was always up and looked cartoonish and Mamie
Speaker 1: was younger and really had pretty, a pretty face. She
Speaker 1: never drank too much, didn't drug like Marilyn did, so
Speaker 1: she looked healthy. You know, I'll post a picture of her.
Speaker 1: She was the Bee's D's. If Marilyn wasn't all fucked up,
Speaker 1: then I think she'd get the nod. But you know,
Speaker 1: speaking of pretty girls with how but check this out
Speaker 1: Weird Day on Saturday. Jennifer Esposito, the actress, very pretty.
Speaker 1: She was married to a Bradley Cooper for a while.
Speaker 1: Very pretty girl. And I know her from way back when.
Speaker 1: And she's posting on Instagram this sad sack story. How
Speaker 1: that just pressed? I don't want you to hear a
Speaker 1: voice a sad sack story. She's laying on her back.
Speaker 1: She's always been a beauty to me, but clearly in
Speaker 1: this video she doesn't care if she looks. She's on
Speaker 1: her back, she's wearing big glasses, her hair's not really well.
Speaker 1: It's not for me to say she's a beautiful girl.
Speaker 1: But she looks different, all right, we all do. Who
Speaker 1: might have talked, but she's talking about how hard it
Speaker 1: is for women and what women have to go through
Speaker 1: and body autonomy. And all this shit, And I think
Speaker 1: I wrote back, like, relax everything. Look where you've gone
Speaker 1: in your life. You know, something to that effect, like
Speaker 1: you shouldn't complain you've had a one life, even though
Speaker 1: I know because everybody's got an illness. Her thing is
Speaker 1: silliac's disease. I'm not saying she's lying, but she has that.
Speaker 1: That's on her Wikipedia page. That's her cause. She even
Speaker 1: has a bakery in New York. I think it's called
Speaker 1: Jennifer's Way, No Gluten, that kind of shit. But I
Speaker 1: said what I said, and she writes, Aja, this is
Speaker 1: why we have so many issues. I cannot state all
Speaker 1: the reasons here why this is so deeply inaccurate. Everyone
Speaker 1: has hard times, agreed, But men aren't fighting to stay alive,
Speaker 1: Yes we are. Men aren't fighting to stay safe, yeah
Speaker 1: we are. Men aren't fighting to stay employed, yes we are.
Speaker 1: Men aren't fighting for body autonomy? Okay, you got me there.
Speaker 1: Equal rights. You have equal rights. There's no difference between
Speaker 1: a man and a woman in America. You have equal rights.
Speaker 1: When you voted for Kamala with what you're saying, imagine
Speaker 1: if she only had equal rights, how far she be along?
Speaker 1: Now enough with this equal rights shit. You got them,
Speaker 1: and men aren't viewed as an as an equal, actual
Speaker 1: human being in the Constitution of America. I could go on.
Speaker 1: So no, it's not the same. This is a very
Speaker 1: lonely girl. I know she's married, but God bless her
Speaker 1: husband if he has to deal with this kind of shit.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine actual human being in the I can't
Speaker 1: believe she thinks she's going back to the Constitution, as
Speaker 1: if things haven't changed since then. Some of these girls
Speaker 1: just want to hear themselves complain and want to be victims.
Speaker 1: I had it out with the wife the other day.
Speaker 1: All the sudding wasn't stupid, it was actually important. And
Speaker 1: I don't yell. I really don't yell. I want piece,
Speaker 1: I just want peace. But it took like five hours
Speaker 1: take it to the bottom of something. And finally she
Speaker 1: told me what she had to tell me, and I said,
Speaker 1: why is that so hard? Why did it take five hours?
Speaker 1: And as I'm talking it begins. I know you're always right.
Speaker 1: I'm the victim. I'm stupid, you're the man. You know everything.
Speaker 1: I'm done. I didn't say that. I said, no, let me,
Speaker 1: let me. I didn't listen that's that'll that'll drive a
Speaker 1: man to leave, which I did, but Jesus stop. And
Speaker 1: then speaking of diseases, which I don't want to, but
Speaker 1: they're out there. I go to seven eleven to get
Speaker 1: a coffee, just like a seven eleven coffee once in
Speaker 1: a while. And by the way, let me rewind. Jennifer
Speaker 1: Esposito one night called us while me and my cousin Mario,
Speaker 1: when we lived together, because she felt she saw an
Speaker 1: next boyfriend was talking her on her property. And she
Speaker 1: called me crying, and we got in the car and
Speaker 1: went there with baseball bats. I think I had a machete.
Speaker 1: And we get there and she's crying and she's huddled
Speaker 1: up in the bed and we stayed there for hours
Speaker 1: with her. We were there for her. She got to
Speaker 1: put this out there. You don't have a ecal right,
Speaker 1: we don't have ecal right. Come on, do you forget
Speaker 1: how quickly we were there for you? And everything she
Speaker 1: said about men is wrong. Plenty of men are are
Speaker 1: worried about employment, worried about a lot of things, staying safe,
Speaker 1: keeping your family safe. What is this bullshit? Anyhow, go
Speaker 1: to seven eleven, get in the coffee and I see
Speaker 1: Selma Blair, right, the pretty actress who has multiple sclerosis,
Speaker 1: and it was really bad several years back during the
Speaker 1: Me Too movement, she was doing these. She started to
Speaker 1: get a little better, and she's going to an award
Speaker 1: show with a k doing her best to walk and
Speaker 1: her talking was off. It was tough to see and
Speaker 1: I'm getting mine and I didn't want to say hi
Speaker 1: because it's like nine thirty in the morning, and that's
Speaker 1: not what you want to say, hey, Selma, like movie
Speaker 1: stars don't want to be talked to with that hour.
Speaker 1: But she's out in her big forest green BMW truck
Speaker 1: and how you doing? Because I was really I talked
Speaker 1: to her a lot during during her really bad time,
Speaker 1: and I sent her my book because she wanted something
Speaker 1: to read, and she liked the book, and we were
Speaker 1: tweeting each other back and forth, and I said, you
Speaker 1: look great, and she had like riding pants on, and
Speaker 1: you know those one of those tall boots called shot first. Like,
Speaker 1: apparently she's on a horse. So whatever she's doing or
Speaker 1: whatever treatment she got for MS, she's talking fine. She's
Speaker 1: obviously on horses or maybe working with horses. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but she goes you know, I've been training, and you know,
Speaker 1: I work out a lot, and then before she goes
Speaker 1: she gets two packs of American Spirit cigarettes. I guess
Speaker 1: that's part of the training regimen. But yeah, very strange
Speaker 1: is he here? It was in Teluca Lake, which is
Speaker 1: like a mile from here. And then I thought of,
Speaker 1: I was, so, this is such a weird thing. I
Speaker 1: got jealous one day. I used what I was dating
Speaker 1: Vanessa and we'd break up and we'd get back because
Speaker 1: she was so young, and you know, we fought a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot of passion too. But she's from Italy, from
Speaker 1: a very passionate fa Her mother shot her father in
Speaker 1: the balls but missed and hit his thigh because he
Speaker 1: was cheating on her. I mean passionate. She comes from
Speaker 1: passionate stock. Sorry, I had a coughing fit, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, the dry cough is much better. Last two nights,
Speaker 1: not one cough, So I guess the new blood pressure
Speaker 1: peel kicked in. Feeling good though. So there was this
Speaker 1: movie called, Oh God, what was it? Called The Sweetest Thing?
Speaker 1: Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and some wa Blair and how
Speaker 1: weird did Christina and some of both have ms now
Speaker 1: but there's this scene me and General and Me and
Speaker 1: Vanessa were breaking up getting back right, And at one
Speaker 1: point we broke up, and she stayed in LA and
Speaker 1: met this guy, a young, good looking guy who was
Speaker 1: a young actor named Johnny Messler mass n E R.
Speaker 1: And you know, I didn't want to hear about his name.
Speaker 1: He didn't want to hear my name because he called
Speaker 1: me the old man. She ended up leaving him to
Speaker 1: go back to me, and he was like, why would
Speaker 1: you go with that old man? You know that kind
Speaker 1: of shit, And I'm calling him a young prick. You know.
Speaker 1: We went back and forth, and I went to the
Speaker 1: movies one night to see the Sweetest Thing, and this
Speaker 1: is with Selma Blair is obviously I just giving had
Speaker 1: just given head to Johnny mess It was his first
Speaker 1: big movie. And he's on his back and apparently she
Speaker 1: has braces and he has a piercing and her braces
Speaker 1: caught his piercing and she couldn't get her head or
Speaker 1: mouth off of him, and you know, he's very nervous,
Speaker 1: and she's nervous. Her eyes are watering. Cameron runs up
Speaker 1: with Christina and they start singing a song. I think
Speaker 1: they're saying I don't want to miss a thing. It
Speaker 1: relaxed the vocal court, something like that, and she finally
Speaker 1: got free. And I remember being jealous because this guy
Speaker 1: got sala. I thought some of them such a cutie
Speaker 1: play Selma Blair right down there, And now he's got
Speaker 1: a partner movie and that's probably gonna make Vanessa think
Speaker 1: he's gonna skyrocket to fame. I was jealous. I was
Speaker 1: pissed off. So that happens. And then one night I
Speaker 1: go to a bar tower bar in Sunset, Bulevard, great spot,
Speaker 1: there was one. They were throwing parties there, so a
Speaker 1: lot of people were there and I was with Charlie
Speaker 1: Sheen for a while. Then he had to split and
Speaker 1: on the way out, somebody said something stupid to me.
Speaker 1: I forget what was said, who said it, but I
Speaker 1: mouthed off. They mouthed off. You know, I pushed the guy.
Speaker 1: He fell over a bush. He gets up, tries to
Speaker 1: grab me. People are now separating it. A cop saw
Speaker 1: it driving by. A cop makes a U turn about
Speaker 1: three blocks away, and I'm like fuck. I had no
Speaker 1: car that night for some reason. Somebody dropped me off.
Speaker 1: I forget what, but I had no car. I get
Speaker 1: grabbed by this guy. He goes, commit get my car,
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go. We gotta go. Cops are coming
Speaker 1: because this guy helped me. When I shoved the guy
Speaker 1: over the bush and he got up, this other guy
Speaker 1: grabbed him and said get the fuck and shoved them again.
Speaker 1: He took my side. I didn't even know me. He
Speaker 1: goes getting my car, jump in his car and we're
Speaker 1: driving and we beat the cops and I go, oh, man,
Speaker 1: thanks so much, bro, I didn't bring my car tonight,
Speaker 1: And I said, thanks a lot. My name is AJ.
Speaker 1: By the way, he goes Johnny, I said, Johnny. He
Speaker 1: goes AJ Vanessa AJ. I said Vanessa, Johnny. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: we ended up having a laugh about that. Him and
Speaker 1: I ended up having a couple of drinks and laughing
Speaker 1: about shit. Good looking kid. Don't know where he is.
Speaker 1: He did have a great scene with Denzel Washington and
Speaker 1: The Equalizer with Denzel beats the shit out of him
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the movie. I don't know what
Speaker 1: he's doing now, but he had the right look. Tough
Speaker 1: looking kid. What we do for girls, We'll have all
Speaker 1: people to run into to take my side and throw
Speaker 1: me in the car and get me out of there.
Speaker 1: But Johnny Mester, unbelievable. That's how small a town Hollywood is.
Speaker 1: But what are you gonna do like shooting fish in
Speaker 1: a barrel? Anyho? Gang, that's it for today. Gonna make
Speaker 1: some pork cutlets for Rocco when he gets home. Although
Speaker 1: this is the last few days of school before graduation
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and then comes the summer of me being
Speaker 1: nervous and scared every time he goes out. Hate the
Speaker 1: summer of graduation. Uh loveing the lump in my throat,
Speaker 1: just like my mother want me. You're gonna see one
Speaker 1: day what you put me through. Your kids are gonna
Speaker 1: put you through. Okay, Ma, she had an expression. It
Speaker 1: meant nothing chinky chow shows. We don't even know what
Speaker 1: that means. It just meant what you put me through,
Speaker 1: your kids are gonna put you through. I don't even
Speaker 1: know why those words matter, chinky chow shows, unless it
Speaker 1: was an old time expression. But that was my mom,
Speaker 1: and she was right all right, Gang of mind. So
Speaker 1: uh check out politics to bitch. A very good show,
Speaker 1: very passionate in my thoughts and my ideas. And I
Speaker 1: got a big week coming up. We got the UFC
Speaker 1: fight on the White House lawn. We got maybe more
Speaker 1: war coming. Wow. Wow, what a week. Forget June gloom.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be great. Keep it right here. I'm
Speaker 1: aj BENZTT. That was your Daily on Filtered podcast for
Speaker 1: June eighth, twenty twenty six. Forty years I would have
Speaker 1: been married, but uh we snapped out of it. Talk
Speaker 1: to you tomorrow.