Speaker 1: From Workhouse 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. He's uh the guy put the cock
Speaker 1: in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody aj bens
Speaker 1: are here with fame, is it? Bitch? This is your
Speaker 1: daily unfiltered podcast for Valentine's Day. Oh to one four
Speaker 1: two old two five. Hey man, Valentine's Day, wonderful day.
Speaker 1: Hope you sent the flowers off to your loved ones,
Speaker 1: your girl, your wife, your husband, your mother, your fo
Speaker 1: who knows? But uh, I like val I like Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: I do. I just think it's a nice thing to, uh,
Speaker 1: to get involved with. Not that you have to have
Speaker 1: a date and go for the overpriced dinner and instead
Speaker 1: of getting a dozen roses for whatever it is, forty
Speaker 1: bucks now because you know eighty five, you know, get
Speaker 1: your Valentine's flowers a week a week and a half before. Really,
Speaker 1: it's such bullshit. There's no reason to pay that kind
Speaker 1: of money. They just they kill us. Same thing happens
Speaker 1: when Italians cook the seafood dinner during Christmas time. My god,
Speaker 1: seafood shoots up to the point where it's like, come on, why.
Speaker 1: I understand these shopkeepers need more money and it's a
Speaker 1: perfect time to pump up a price. I get it,
Speaker 1: but I don't know they're all making money. Why why
Speaker 1: go after a certain type of person during a certain
Speaker 1: type of holiday. Just doesn't seem right, doesn't seem right. Well,
Speaker 1: my flowers went out, and I'm happy to say it
Speaker 1: was not the ridiculous sums of money they charged for
Speaker 1: a day or two or four before Valentine's Day, so
Speaker 1: you know what, and then she goes would always do
Speaker 1: something he called the cheaters, the cheers bouquet. She would
Speaker 1: always come back with flowers from the supermarket for his girlfriend,
Speaker 1: because you know, he had to apologize a lot. So
Speaker 1: when you buy your flowers from Ralph's or you know,
Speaker 1: Pigley Wiggly, whatever your supermarket chain is, girls could tell
Speaker 1: this is not really the flowers, you know, but what
Speaker 1: you really want, guys, is a girl that says, don't
Speaker 1: you dare send flowers? Don't you send me anything that's
Speaker 1: gonna die in six days? That's you know, one hundred
Speaker 1: and ten dollars. Don't let's just go to dinner with
Speaker 1: that money. Meanwhile, one hundred and ten bucks, what does
Speaker 1: that catch your dinner anymore? I mean, really, it's just
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. I took Tutsi down to Money Line Pizza. Right.
Speaker 1: We always go there, Me and Andrew and the two
Speaker 1: dogs would eat there. And you know, it's not a
Speaker 1: not a big nut when you eat there. It's a
Speaker 1: pizza joint. But they also have pastas and salads and heroes,
Speaker 1: so you sit down. You know, they have something I
Speaker 1: really love called the chef's board. It's got puttshoot, those salami. Uh,
Speaker 1: great cheese is buffalo mudzadel Uh, some peppers on his side,
Speaker 1: Cordny shones. I don't know why I'm saying it so far,
Speaker 1: little fucking pickles. They got things like that that you
Speaker 1: picked on. And they got the great cheese scamouche, which
Speaker 1: I think is really called Cavallo cheese, but we call
Speaker 1: it skimutz because it hangs from the deli counters in
Speaker 1: this wax case and that's kumuz. But you know I
Speaker 1: did that, and I'm like, I don't know if she's
Speaker 1: you need all that, because who knows. Let me get
Speaker 1: a salad for myself. A Salahatsalami Mudzadel. You know simple regae.
Speaker 1: I'm not a simple oil and vinegar situation. And then
Speaker 1: I go just to make sure she's gonna eat. Let
Speaker 1: me get a little sided grilled chicken one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty six dollars for me and my dog. Now, look,
Speaker 1: I spend no expense for Tutsi, for Tutsi testarosa. But
Speaker 1: you know, if your woman tells you, don't you dare
Speaker 1: buy me flowers. Let's just go to dinner with that money,
Speaker 1: or let's do something together. You know, she's right, don't
Speaker 1: fall into the category. If I've got to get the flowers,
Speaker 1: it's voluntarist. Don't do that. Don't do that. I think
Speaker 1: women like when you do things on your own and
Speaker 1: make your own plan and skirt the whole tradition. I
Speaker 1: think that's more sexy, ladies. What do you think now?
Speaker 1: Last night I got some shit. I had some shit
Speaker 1: last night. I went to Roccos game with my daughter
Speaker 1: Roxy and was great. He had a great game. I
Speaker 1: think he had twelve points, but it was the way
Speaker 1: he played. Some steals, some assists, and the gym was rocking.
Speaker 1: It was a home game. These guys are undefeated in
Speaker 1: the league, play two more game, one tonight and one
Speaker 1: on the fifth on wait, one tonight and one tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and I leave on the fifteenth. So he's doing well,
Speaker 1: and Roxy's with me, and we're watching him. We hear
Speaker 1: the girls behind us calling Rocco's name, like, you know,
Speaker 1: like these cheerleaders are like mentioning his name. You could
Speaker 1: tell they like him. And I said, oh, I never
Speaker 1: heard this is great. Roxy thought it was so cute.
Speaker 1: So I felt I did not say this last night, right, No,
Speaker 1: I did the no. No. I I tape this before
Speaker 1: the game, maybe because I'm playing in my head so much.
Speaker 1: I feel like I talked about it. But you know,
Speaker 1: they're behind us, and I tape me and Roxy on video,
Speaker 1: but like I'm angling the camera to get them about
Speaker 1: two or three steps above us on the bleachers. And
Speaker 1: I showed people that and apparently I'm a dirty old
Speaker 1: man and I shouldn't do that. And what are you
Speaker 1: thinking it's so embarrassing. It's not embarrassing. You know. Here's
Speaker 1: what I know for a fact, because I've been in
Speaker 1: rock those shoes, and I, god do I wish I
Speaker 1: can go back to high school basketball and just dump
Speaker 1: me back to a day, a week, a game, a
Speaker 1: bus ride. I want to remember what that was like.
Speaker 1: I just, you know, the squeak of the sneakers on
Speaker 1: the gym floor brings me right back to that era.
Speaker 1: I see cheerleaders talking and I'm just, oh God, this
Speaker 1: is the best I know. I live in the past,
Speaker 1: and I'm not talking about some guy who was like
Speaker 1: the best player on the team. I was all County.
Speaker 1: That wasn't me, But I just remember how great it was.
Speaker 1: So when I take videos and pictures and I'm already
Speaker 1: putting them together to make pictures for Rocco and maybe
Speaker 1: even a video for him when the season is completely
Speaker 1: done and I have time get it professionally done, I
Speaker 1: think I'm doing the right thing. He's gonna love to
Speaker 1: see his coach, you know, making fun of them in
Speaker 1: the heart a log getting pissed off at one of
Speaker 1: the players, and he's gonna even like the fact that
Speaker 1: there were a couple of cheerleaders above us who were
Speaker 1: mentioning his name. I don't care what people say. I
Speaker 1: know in my heart I'm not filming them because they're
Speaker 1: I don't even want to say it. I'm just filming
Speaker 1: them because they're mentioning my son's name a lot. But
Speaker 1: I get cold of dirty old man. This is not
Speaker 1: you're embarrassing the kids. Why why? And I told Roxy,
Speaker 1: I'm like, your father was so crazy like Rocco, Yes
Speaker 1: he likes girls, but he's not really vocal about it.
Speaker 1: I'm the one who goes you didn't see the cheerleader
Speaker 1: with the brown hair, with the with the blonde streaks. No,
Speaker 1: you don't know her. She's like this high, this tall,
Speaker 1: this you know. I don't. I don't know who you're
Speaker 1: talking about. I would know every cheerleader. And when God,
Speaker 1: when there were timeouts on the court and me and Kenny,
Speaker 1: my buddy Marv would sit there and the coach is
Speaker 1: telling us what we gotta do in this time out.
Speaker 1: This is very important. I want number two going here
Speaker 1: for is gonna cut across. It should be an open layup.
Speaker 1: And all we're doing is looking at the cheerleader's Sue
Speaker 1: and Nino, Jamie Powers, Jennifer Stewart, Kathy Craiger. And there
Speaker 1: was a drill down a drill. There was a cheer
Speaker 1: where they bent over and yelled our names out. And
Speaker 1: when the hot cheerleader like Sue or Kathy or Jamie
Speaker 1: or Lisa Royd. It was another one. My goodness, she
Speaker 1: ended up marrying Mike Cestaro, the half back on our
Speaker 1: football team. When they called your name, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it was everything. I don't know. These kids don't seem
Speaker 1: to I don't know what it is to me. That
Speaker 1: was everything I told you in the past. I used
Speaker 1: to have my friend Ronnie Misseli go across the court.
Speaker 1: I'd say, commute, see that girl four steps up to
Speaker 1: the right of the girl in the purple, get her number.
Speaker 1: Tell a number forty four wants to call it. I
Speaker 1: had all the numbers on my sneakers. You know. The
Speaker 1: narcissism was gross. But had a ball, had a bull.
Speaker 1: But am I wrong to want to tape that stuff
Speaker 1: for prosperity? I don't think so. Not enough is said
Speaker 1: for not only fathers who make every game, but fathers
Speaker 1: who end up watching every game through one eye or
Speaker 1: through a camera lens. Not enough is said because if
Speaker 1: somebody else was taping the whole game, I wouldn't bother.
Speaker 1: I'd be right there, two eyes on every play. But no,
Speaker 1: I've got to work the camera. Delete something that was
Speaker 1: in a good play, Exit out, come back, you know,
Speaker 1: record again. It's it's a little daunting, but it's worth
Speaker 1: it anyhow. I don't even know if we're going to
Speaker 1: be here in the next seven years. You've heard about
Speaker 1: this killer asteroid coming. It's called a city Killer. Why
Speaker 1: are four twenty twenty four. They say it could hit Earth,
Speaker 1: it might even hit the Moon. But then when you
Speaker 1: get to the fine print, they go, well, it's just
Speaker 1: over a two percent impact probability on Earth. Okay, then
Speaker 1: should we really be worrying about this. It's the size
Speaker 1: of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and they say it
Speaker 1: would have around a one and forty eight chance of
Speaker 1: striking the Earth on December twenty second, twenty thirty two.
Speaker 1: So forget climate change, forget anything else. You're worried about
Speaker 1: the city Killer, the asteroid that's apparently coming here. And
Speaker 1: if it hits the moon, well, I mean, Denver can
Speaker 1: completely screwed. But they're doing simulations on YouTube what have you.
Speaker 1: If you look at it, be careful to look at
Speaker 1: it because it's very scary. You know, It's just it's
Speaker 1: like a goddamn Roland Emeric film. It's just a disaster flick.
Speaker 1: You gotta be careful when you watch this. But something
Speaker 1: that has a two percent chance of hitting us, that
Speaker 1: would be like me warning you I might start dating
Speaker 1: beyond cosen. Sorry, why, well, I think I got a
Speaker 1: two percent chance if I get nearer. So, but the
Speaker 1: newspapers love putting this shit out there because you know
Speaker 1: it is what. It is so biblically raining here in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and it's been raining for a week or so.
Speaker 1: But today I have to go into my storage unit jackets.
Speaker 1: I have a couple of leathers that I have to
Speaker 1: wear because you can't wear a hoodie out there. You
Speaker 1: your hoodie gets soaked. It's bad. It's really raining hard,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I wanted to call. Yesterday, I
Speaker 1: had a guy come in and fix my ceiling fan
Speaker 1: in the dining room. The cord broke off inside the
Speaker 1: whole unit. And he came and he did his thing,
Speaker 1: and I gave him twenty bucks. He's like, look twenty no,
Speaker 1: I said, come on, take it, No, I saides, come on,
Speaker 1: I believe in the twenty dollar bill. I believe in
Speaker 1: that for years. When you see a bartender, you're give
Speaker 1: him that ahead of time. So when he sees you coming,
Speaker 1: makes your drink right away. I believed that with Dormant.
Speaker 1: I always give a doorman twenty bucks. Sometimes, when I
Speaker 1: was really being an asshole, I would have Chico give
Speaker 1: him the money instead of me, because I thought I
Speaker 1: was Frank Sinatra and Chico was Jilly. I know it's stupid,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Palla corrupts whatever you want to say. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's awful out here today, And I'm like, do I
Speaker 1: even call the handyman to come back? Because the fan
Speaker 1: was fixed? But it's only fixed in the sense that
Speaker 1: it comes on, but only one speed, the fast speed
Speaker 1: where the fan is shaken and napkins blow off your table.
Speaker 1: The other two speeds then I fixed. Do I clone back?
Speaker 1: I feel like it's like, I feel like you come
Speaker 1: here and think, what an asshole You're worried about the
Speaker 1: speed of your fan. I don't know. I'm up in
Speaker 1: the air about it. But nothing's gonna happen today. But
Speaker 1: this rain here's something I'm thrilled about. A lot of
Speaker 1: people thought Marvel Studios was really going to get back
Speaker 1: to making fewer films but more high quality films. Right.
Speaker 1: That was the edict, That was the word and now
Speaker 1: apparently people who've seen Captain America Brave New World, the
Speaker 1: word is out. It's absolute shit. It's very, very dire
Speaker 1: over there at that studio because the Great well, I
Speaker 1: want to say the great, I mean in his mind,
Speaker 1: the Great Anthony Mackie. This is his first big screen
Speaker 1: crack at Captain America. And no, it's awful. And I
Speaker 1: could have told you it was awful. Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I said it a week ago on the show. No
Speaker 1: one wants to see a black Captain America. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make me a racist, that just makes me
Speaker 1: cognizant of people's opinions. I don't even think black people
Speaker 1: are calling for a black Captain America. I really don't.
Speaker 1: But there we go, movie studios. I just think, enough
Speaker 1: with the superhero comic book movies. Stop feeding the nerds.
Speaker 1: You've gotten enough. You've gotten more than your fair share
Speaker 1: of movies that you know, I know, made you shut
Speaker 1: the door in your room and hold up that comic
Speaker 1: book with one hand. I know. But this shit movie
Speaker 1: is really important because Captain America films on their own,
Speaker 1: I understand, do very well. But this one they're saying
Speaker 1: is the worst by a wide margin. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say it's only because he's black. I'm not gonna go
Speaker 1: that far. But I just think they're going to the
Speaker 1: well too often. And you just can't plugging people into
Speaker 1: a superhero role because you want to satisfy DEI standards.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what this was about. And a guy
Speaker 1: like you know, Mackie, isn't going to admit that, because
Speaker 1: then he'd have to know that, well, I'm not really
Speaker 1: good enough, but they needed somebody black in that spot.
Speaker 1: He asked to know that. Come on, man, it's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: They got a guy in this movie that's supposed to
Speaker 1: be the comic relief. He's not stupid jokes like should
Speaker 1: I make your phone tech larger? Really? Who wrote that joke? Christ?
Speaker 1: It's so bad? And of course you got Harrison Ford
Speaker 1: in there. You know what, Harrison Ford replaces William Hurt.
Speaker 1: The both of these guys, as great as they were
Speaker 1: in the eighties, they're not great anymore. They mail it
Speaker 1: in now, William Hurt and Harrison Ford. And this is
Speaker 1: not like to put them down. They've always only been themselves.
Speaker 1: Kevin Costa plays Kevin cost Harrison plays himself. William Hurt
Speaker 1: does as well. When you go to some other actors
Speaker 1: who changed their face, they look, their accent, their walk.
Speaker 1: That's a different kind of actor. I like those actors
Speaker 1: way better. Harrison Ford now is an eighty year old
Speaker 1: man who you can tell maybe he has his wits
Speaker 1: about him when he's hanging out with his wife. I
Speaker 1: don't know, just being his typical wry self. Could be
Speaker 1: a fun guy to sit around with. But you throw
Speaker 1: him in a movie or a TV show, I can't
Speaker 1: watch what's it called shrinked? I can't. I can't watch it.
Speaker 1: I just know that Harrison Ford is doing it for
Speaker 1: the money now, for the paycheck. His heart, his passion
Speaker 1: is no longer wrapped up in acting. So he's in there,
Speaker 1: and you know what, Look, Harrison Ford had a tremendous run.
Speaker 1: He was very good in the eighties, tolerable in the nineties.
Speaker 1: We don't need him now, we just don't. We've got
Speaker 1: to stop acting like he's sorely needed in movies. He's
Speaker 1: not water Break, which sounds weird with all this water down.
Speaker 1: But oh, by the way, I wanted to tell you
Speaker 1: more about Chelsea Handler. Yesterday I began to tell you,
Speaker 1: and I kind of pewed it out, but I really
Speaker 1: listened to the podcast with her on Armchair Expert and
Speaker 1: really got to like her for just how silly she
Speaker 1: can be and the thing she says to people that
Speaker 1: the prank she plays on people, and she plays some
Speaker 1: big pranks. When you've got a lot of money, you
Speaker 1: can do huge pranks that last a long time. And
Speaker 1: it reminded me of this is kind of in vogue
Speaker 1: now because Kanye West has a website that's selling one item.
Speaker 1: It's a Nazi swastika T shirt, white background, black swastika.
Speaker 1: I don't want it. I'm not a Nazi. I love
Speaker 1: the Jewish people. The Nazis were fucking awful, but there's
Speaker 1: something in me that wants the shirt. It has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with my feelings towards the Jewish faith. I
Speaker 1: love my Jewish friends. In fact, I put them right
Speaker 1: after Italians. I really do. We have a lot in
Speaker 1: common with family and this and that, And I wish
Speaker 1: my family had more jew in that. I wish my
Speaker 1: father and mother knew had more Jewish qualities. I'd know
Speaker 1: more about money, I know about the market. That the
Speaker 1: market in our house was where they were selling the
Speaker 1: best steak, the best plant. That was the market talk.
Speaker 1: It wasn't about what's what's what does this cost? Now?
Speaker 1: How much is this? It's a different world. So it's
Speaker 1: not about me being anti Jewish. No, but why is
Speaker 1: it I want that swastika shirt. Obviously it can never
Speaker 1: be worn, just like my Trump shirt got me PEPPI
Speaker 1: sprayed and punched the swastika shirt. No, of course, not horrible,
Speaker 1: but I do harken back to that dinner I had
Speaker 1: years ago in New York City with a guy named
Speaker 1: Ralph Schaller who was a big execut well not exactly.
Speaker 1: He owned a meat company Shaller. I think it was
Speaker 1: Shallar meats, like you know, the best beef, pork veal.
Speaker 1: Ralph Shaler supplied so many New York restaurants and stores
Speaker 1: with the best coal cotts, the best steaks, the best everything.
Speaker 1: So we go to his house for dinner. He's a
Speaker 1: wild man, and I knew that he was an avid hunter,
Speaker 1: I mean a big like big game elephants and shit,
Speaker 1: that kind of hunter. And I know that he would
Speaker 1: beg these animals and drain them of their blood, and
Speaker 1: he would ship the blood to the artist Peter Beard, who,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, used to do a lot of
Speaker 1: artwork with smeared blood instead of paint. And that blood
Speaker 1: was animal blood. Well it was supplied by Ralph Sharlow.
Speaker 1: So I get to Schalla's place on the Upper east Side,
Speaker 1: beautiful building with a white building with one red door
Speaker 1: like Elizabeth Arden, just a red door, and everything in
Speaker 1: this apartment was so wrong or illegal or both. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at end tables that are are you a
Speaker 1: plate of glass, but they're being held up with a
Speaker 1: gigantic elephant foot real taxidermy elephant, if you forget the
Speaker 1: size of the elk and the moose and everything else
Speaker 1: on his wall. He had a great room in Manhattan.
Speaker 1: It's a three story townhouse that would just marvel any
Speaker 1: hunt or anywhere in America. And on top of that
Speaker 1: is if that's not enough. At one point he says,
Speaker 1: I got to show you guys something, and he takes
Speaker 1: us around the corner from the kitchen into the dining
Speaker 1: room and there's his back wall where there's a long
Speaker 1: picture about three feet long and about ten inches high.
Speaker 1: Because it's a group shot, it's a big group shot,
Speaker 1: not of a ball club, but of a klu Klux
Speaker 1: ku klux Klan rally. Ku klux did I say ku
Speaker 1: kux Klan? I used to say klu klux Klan as
Speaker 1: a kid, Ku kux Klan meeting with the hoods and
Speaker 1: the torches and a tree with the noose and a
Speaker 1: person hanging in from that tree. It was very unsettling.
Speaker 1: Nobody would want that art or that picture in the house.
Speaker 1: But can I tell you something. I couldn't stop looking
Speaker 1: at it because I couldn't believe that this country was
Speaker 1: ever at a point like that. What they call strange fruit.
Speaker 1: Billy Howell, they called black folks that hung from trees
Speaker 1: strange fruit. That's why that song I didn't know. As
Speaker 1: a kid. I loved the song, but I didn't know
Speaker 1: that's what it meant. You can't want the picture, but
Speaker 1: there's something about it that I wanted to keep looking
Speaker 1: at it. And then the piece the resist stones said
Speaker 1: the Frenchman looked under your plates that were eating That
Speaker 1: china you have under it had a Nazi symbol. It
Speaker 1: was china from Hitler, not from him specifically, but it
Speaker 1: was Nazi China. Even that china had the swastika on
Speaker 1: the bottom. Wow. I mean, we weren't told ahead of time,
Speaker 1: we weren't warned, we knew he was eccentric, et cetera.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, crazy, crazy. I forget why I got
Speaker 1: to this point with Uh. I was talking about Chelsea
Speaker 1: Handler and different, oh, different things she's doing and the
Speaker 1: way okay here, I know why Kanye has been just
Speaker 1: talking Jewish hate and Nazi love and he just will
Speaker 1: not quit. And it reminds me of when me and
Speaker 1: Michael Lwoit is that the New York Daily News would
Speaker 1: just feel like being a couple of pricks, and we'd
Speaker 1: be in an elevator headed down, and when someone walked
Speaker 1: in the elevator, we would do this ridiculous back and
Speaker 1: forth where there'd be silenced for a second or two,
Speaker 1: and then Michael or myself would say, I get the
Speaker 1: fact that you think Hitler was misunderstood. I completely understand
Speaker 1: that point. MY only argument toward that, and then the
Speaker 1: doors would open up and we walk out as if
Speaker 1: we were having a really, really good discussion about Hitler.
Speaker 1: It was so crazy, but we heard people huffing and
Speaker 1: puffing as we left, or we'd walk in an elevator
Speaker 1: as people were there are really, Is that right? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: I know he was a painter, but I didn't know
Speaker 1: Hitler was such a great painter with it was watercolor.
Speaker 1: Oh oh my god. Matter of fact, his watercolor pictures
Speaker 1: should be in a goddamn museum. That's how wonderful hit
Speaker 1: was is a painter, Sistra Floor. I mean, we drove
Speaker 1: people crazy, but we also did something that made only
Speaker 1: us laugh, and I love it to this day. When
Speaker 1: we had an enemy of the column or someone that
Speaker 1: said something about the column we didn't like. You know,
Speaker 1: we used to do or I used to send them
Speaker 1: canned hams. I don't know what they cast back then,
Speaker 1: twelve bucks whatever it was or not only canned hams.
Speaker 1: When a person gets them, can you imagine their face?
Speaker 1: What am I who? And there's no return address, just
Speaker 1: a canned ham in your mail. And then on top
Speaker 1: of that, we'd send we'd find these magazines where you could,
Speaker 1: you know, subscribe to magazines and which magazines would you like?
Speaker 1: And you pay whatever, twenty bucks, fifteen bucks a month
Speaker 1: whatever it was, not even a month, probably thirty bucks
Speaker 1: a year back then, and we pick out the worst
Speaker 1: magazines for someone to want to read. Same day surgery,
Speaker 1: you know, hot rods or the stupidest things, and then
Speaker 1: we'd send it to somebody we hate. So they always
Speaker 1: got these magazines or they got a can Ham. I
Speaker 1: love being in charge of ship back then, even we
Speaker 1: used to do this thing where you know, back then
Speaker 1: there was people needed press for a book they wrote.
Speaker 1: You know, when you write a book, you feel so
Speaker 1: empty and lost. You need publicity. People have to talk
Speaker 1: about the book. And back in the day, there wasn't
Speaker 1: many avenues to publicize your book. You would hope that
Speaker 1: a newspaper would do an interview with you and that
Speaker 1: would make it. Oh, it would be so great. My
Speaker 1: book got written about and people are reading the paper.
Speaker 1: Even when I wrote my second book that I was
Speaker 1: interviewed from my own hometown paper Newsday. That stuff means
Speaker 1: a lot. Nowadays, you just put it on social media.
Speaker 1: You get all their hits and clicks and like you need.
Speaker 1: But back then, we used to have thirty forty books
Speaker 1: a week that would land in our cubicle in our
Speaker 1: mail room. How do we what do we do with
Speaker 1: these books? So we decided to just open them up
Speaker 1: and take the most ridiculous, boring, stupid, passage in a
Speaker 1: book that meant nothing, and write that, include that little
Speaker 1: clip from the book, and say, let's say the book
Speaker 1: is called Anchors Away, Anchors Away, We'll hit Newsday, we'll
Speaker 1: hit the Bonds and Noble Tuesday. Here's a snippet, and
Speaker 1: it would be the worst. It could be a book
Speaker 1: about like Pearl Harbor and the excerpt would be so
Speaker 1: Then we walked toward Jimmy's locker, knowing full well it
Speaker 1: would be empty. But what else we do at a
Speaker 1: time like this? And people were looking, go, why would
Speaker 1: I buy a buck that this is not exciting at all?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Am I the only person who would
Speaker 1: do things to just excite myself? I don't care who
Speaker 1: was looking. But I love Chelsea Handler. This is why
Speaker 1: I'm starting to love her. Forget the politics that this
Speaker 1: was twenty five thirty years ago. We never know who
Speaker 1: she voted for. We would just like her free spirit.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to get back to that. And I
Speaker 1: love what she did when she broke up with the
Speaker 1: big hotel owner Andre BelAZ. This guy's worth millions and
Speaker 1: millions of dollars. They dated in twenty eleven and twenty
Speaker 1: thirteen and when they broke up, and this guy owned
Speaker 1: Chateau Marmont, the stand Dard, which I mentioned the other day,
Speaker 1: the Mercer Hotel in New York, Chiltern Firehouse, major, major money,
Speaker 1: and they had a very toxic relatetionationship, according to Chelsea,
Speaker 1: and she would look through his phone because he'd be
Speaker 1: out late because he worked in restaurants and clubs. And
Speaker 1: I know how girls get. I've had my phone look through.
Speaker 1: It sucks. It's the worst. But sometimes women who do
Speaker 1: that put themselves in their own prison. And I would
Speaker 1: tell them, you got yourself locked up in a prison.
Speaker 1: I don't have the key for you didn't need to
Speaker 1: go through my drawers and look at old pictures of girlfriends.
Speaker 1: You did that. You're in a cell. I don't have
Speaker 1: the key. But whatever, she had a reason to feel
Speaker 1: that way, so woman's intuition wins out sometimes. Anyhow, she
Speaker 1: got so angry at him and unhinged during a breakup.
Speaker 1: He had this gigantic estate in upstate New York, and
Speaker 1: she went online and found thirty five Linden trees that
Speaker 1: she imported from Germany, very extravagant, and she bought them
Speaker 1: and had these people plant them on his estate seventeen
Speaker 1: on either side of the driveway as it leads up
Speaker 1: to his you know, insane compound. And every year she
Speaker 1: didn't know the leaves had such beautiful blooms. Every year
Speaker 1: the leaves would change and then bloom and it would
Speaker 1: be so gorgeous, and andre Blase would always call her
Speaker 1: and say, you know, I can't believe I lost you.
Speaker 1: Do you want to come up and see your trees?
Speaker 1: And she'd say, Nope, not interested. I mean, it's cold hearted.
Speaker 1: It's also fun to be that unbridled and just don't
Speaker 1: not give a shit and have the money to have
Speaker 1: the fuck you money to do that to somebody. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I wish I could get to
Speaker 1: that point one day. I would love to do something
Speaker 1: that grandiose. The most we did back when we were
Speaker 1: kids was take a four sales on someone else's lawn
Speaker 1: or better yet, an open house signed and put it
Speaker 1: on some poor, unsuspecting people lawns and they have no idea.
Speaker 1: We'd throw a couple of balloons with strings on the
Speaker 1: sign and its people would show up at noon, and
Speaker 1: these poor people had no idea what to do. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you just got to amuse yourself because people around you
Speaker 1: just aren't that amusing, but you guys are always amusing.
Speaker 1: Cutting the show a little bit short. Thirty one oh
Speaker 1: eight got to go to Rocos second to last game,
Speaker 1: and wow, I can't believe it. Tomorrow, well, Friday night
Speaker 1: is his last game. And I went so fast that
Speaker 1: I just can't wait for a place for him to
Speaker 1: play in the postseason and doing all over again next
Speaker 1: year on varsity. What a great what a great gift
Speaker 1: that was. And oh, by the way, as I'm at
Speaker 1: the gym last night watching his game, this kid comes
Speaker 1: up to me, look different, kind of familiar, coach, And
Speaker 1: I tell you, there's something about being called coach that
Speaker 1: just melts your heart. And it's this kid who was
Speaker 1: so great with Rocco. Him and his brother were the
Speaker 1: best tandem every season. I drafted them both, Lucas and
Speaker 1: Eli Gonzalez, the Gonzales twins, Speedy Gonzales, we called them.
Speaker 1: They were great, and I'm like, what are you doing, buddy,
Speaker 1: And he's like a bigger kid. Now, you know, he's seventeen,
Speaker 1: he's not thirteen or twelve anymore. But I would draft
Speaker 1: Lucas and Eli first, because if you get one kid,
Speaker 1: you got to get the brother. That's the rule in
Speaker 1: little league sports. So I already had Roco. My first
Speaker 1: pick would always be the Twins, and I felt I
Speaker 1: got all I need. And then one year I got
Speaker 1: this kid named Jagger, who Lucas and Eli told me
Speaker 1: I should get. He's a good left handed quarterback, which
Speaker 1: is not too common. I draft, I take the kid.
Speaker 1: We had a great few seasons. Lucas was so good.
Speaker 1: If he had to leave early because he had a
Speaker 1: baseball game, I let him. He played one half then split,
Speaker 1: but we'd have a twenty ninthing lead. I said to
Speaker 1: Lucas last night, how where's Uh's Jagger? Jagger's great. Jagger's
Speaker 1: here at North Hollywood. He's quarterback. They were ten and zero.
Speaker 1: I said, you kid me. He goes, yeah, he's great,
Speaker 1: and then he goes, you know what. Whenever I whenever
Speaker 1: I look at that that record and know that Jagger
Speaker 1: was the best on the team, I always wish man
Speaker 1: if me and Rocco signed up, the three of us
Speaker 1: could have just been crazy together. I said, I know, Lucas,
Speaker 1: I just I want to rock her to play football.
Speaker 1: But his mom put the put the concussion thing in
Speaker 1: his head and he didn't want to do it, but
Speaker 1: uh I miss it. But man, there's nothing better than
Speaker 1: being called coach and a kid remembers you and hugs
Speaker 1: you twice because he remembers how fun it was to
Speaker 1: win and to learn how to play the game. But
Speaker 1: the way I coached wedding came first and we won.
Speaker 1: I'm aj Benza. That was your daily Unfiltered podcast for
Speaker 1: February fourteenth, Happy Valentine's Day twenty twenty five. Will talk
Speaker 1: to his Monday