Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #543 - A.J. Benza
Episode Date: December 18, 2017A.J. Benza ,actor, author, the former gossip columnist for the New York Daily News and the host of the "Fame is a Bitch" podcast, joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt LIVE in studio. This podcast is brough...t to you by: anchor.fm - Anchor is the easiest way to make and distribute your own podcast. Check it out and make your podcast at anchor.fm/church  Hellotushy.com - Go to Hellotushy.com/church for 10% off of your order and stop using nasty toilet paper forever!  Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount at checkout.  Recorded live on 12/17/2017.
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The church of what's happening now motherfuckers AJ Benza the Christ killer Lisa
Your uncle Joey
Are you fucking kidding me
Are you fucking kidding me? It's Monday motherfuckers
Take that stick out of your ass it's bomb history Jerry's kid
What's going on you bad motherfuckers it's Monday bitches and you made it who's better than you
AJ Benz uch Wow Lisa at we had a great weekend everything was happy
I want to thank stakings for sending us those dirty fucking boxes
Stakings I haven't had them yet, but I'm ready for my asshole to explode that fucking bidet
Let me tell you something about stakings like Lee came back and he said he shit right away
You know why is when you eat a steak and it replenishes your system in shock
It's like fucking drinking water on a Hudson fucking River
You're gonna be sick for an hour or two, but let me tell you some your immune system
You could fuck a crack hole while they're shooting you with fucking
With the flu bug while they're shooting fucking to bowl up your asshole and you'll cough
You'll fucking pee and you'll be right back at work tomorrow the morning
You know there's like they sell combo packs at stores. That'd be a great combo pack
What's that steak comes in the tissue bidet forget about oh my and by the way
I was thinking about it if you have like a white elephant like a secret Santa
That's a perfect gift for that. I would that would that would be you'd be the top of the office stakings
But I was talking about to she but that you think stakings stakings with onion
Yeah, you fucking do them up with onions nice little garlic in the pan forget about it
Two or three a minute time red hot fucking roll with fucking provolone. Get about it with some all right a friend
Shit I would stand up at this sink and not even sit down and eat them. Just let the fucking juice
Oh my god, I was telling these guys I had him I used to kill my mother. Yeah, my mother would cook a Cuban meal
Oh, I want to eat. I want to eat fucking steak. That must have killed killed. She never liked that shit
Of course, and I went on those for like a year straight every night. I take a shot every night every fucking night
While I while I showered the french fries would be getting cooked
Oh my god, and I come down with underwear and cook the steak of an underwear and sneakers on like a savage
Sacrilegious and then I would eat and pick the fire wouldn't even put the fries in a dish
Oh, I would eat them right off the tin from the oven
You just put salt on them and pep and let them cool down by the time they're cooling down the steak
I'm just cooking you blast it out and you eat two stakings and you know me
You know me dog. I'm Cuban. You give me white wonder bread
Fresh wonder bread a little bit of toast on a little bit of buddy. You put the steak. I'm on there
But warm warm butter with the fucking
With the with the cheese your brand new well cheese on anything. You're fine. You're brand fucking. No, you can't
I was telling them I ate them for so long when I played basketball
That was the week I was clogged up. I was it was like I eat 50 vicarins. Yeah
I've been up I went up my fingers and tried to get it out. Oh my god. And when you're sitting in the
You're in fucking pain and that's why I had those farts that that pre-fart before everything. Yeah, the cork
And let me tell you something that whole bus was
And then I fought again a follow later they kept saying he's changing flavors
It was fucking crazy wasn't the cheerleaders are crying. There was a bunch of cheerleaders like white chicks. That would just
Chicks and cry yeah, the Italian
Thank you because their father doesn't know their whole life
That's all that fucking life. My father used to fought in the frozen food section
We were shot but he'd hang his ass over like the meat the frozen food and he fought and he'd block us in I
Was murder but he would laugh so he loved it. I love it
I love it when you fart nobody knows it's you know time
He fought it so bad at work that the person at work called the fight upon so there was a gas leak
That he knew it was his fault that's the best you laugh your ass over
You know champion asshole the best story in my entire family was my dad farted and made my cousin throw up
And I was like ten and it was a girl and she can run in she ran into the room we're playing video game
She's like your dad farted and just threw up in the bathroom. It was the best day of my life
So what the fuck have you been since I last saw you if I've been but I've been you know, it's a good question
I haven't seen you. I'm gonna be honest. It's got ten years ten years
Just finishing up a they and he maybe what was that was a de-champ. I stopped with E in 2000
So, you know what I did a I did mysteries and scandals at E for five six years
Then I did high stakes poker on game show network, which was a really good show for poker fans for five years
Everybody watched it. I was I was a Gabe Gabe Kaplan was my co-host
I was his co-host because he knows poker and that was a show that just took off
We had billboards in Vegas million-dollar buying games. It was hot shit when poker was at its zenith, you know and
That was great. And then the economy, you know
2006 whatever that year was when the whole everything fucking fell out and
I fell out everything fell out there. They did the network dropped the show and then it was an odyssey then I just
Didn't know what to do
And I ended up go. I had a book. I had an idea for a book
And I went to New York
To live with my sister. All right, my sister bought the house. We lived in his kids
So I went back with my wife and my kids to go to New York because I was writing a book about the summer of
1974 about there was a summer where my father was a tough Sicilian his brother was a doctor
But he had a gay son
From New Jersey and then his second son who was ten was showing the same signs of being gay also
So my father's brother called one night in the summer of 74
It was so vivid I wrote a book about it and I heard my uncle talking on the phone saying to my father out
You know Gino was showing the same signs as Larry. He's shown. He has brain damage
They called the brain damage in the 70s not not he's gay
Homosexual brain damage and my uncle begged my father. Can you take Gino for the summer, you know?
Well, your house is loud. You got the music. You got the homemade one you play stick ball playboy magazines everywhere
AJ just
Toughen them up. Let's let's get him out of there and my father said sure we'll take him in
So for that summer we took in my my effeminate cousin
And we thought we'll change him. We didn't know what the fuck we were doing
But what happened inevitably was that he changed us my father saw that
Okay, this isn't gonna be what I thought it was
he's gay
And we got to adapt to him and we got to protect him and nurture him and and make him stronger
And it was a wonderful summer and I wrote a book called 74 and sunny that came out in 2015 and
It was a beautiful summer and
Obviously my my cousin grew up to be gay. He's married now and living in new york, but
That summer changed my life, but it was it was an amazing time
Because my father who look my father was the Sicilian archie bunker
I heard spic nigger. I heard wop. I mean, he didn't give a fuck. He was against all flags
But when he saw my cousin that was obviously gay
He said, okay, I gotta check so one day this is when everything changed
This is a scene out of a fucking movie and it will be
I'm in the pool. My father goes get out of the pool. I gotta talk to this
What's matter? He goes, come here get out of the pool and we go to the front of the house
And we lived on Long Island nice neighborhood and on the sidewalk in front of the house. It said in in chalk
Go home queer
So some some kids wanted to there was sending a message to my cousin
My father said who did this? I said, I don't know. I said it might be the dug in brothers
There were three irish kids down the street. I said I saw them early. He says I'm gonna take a walk
So my father who was an ex undercover cop
He puts a fucking gun in his back waistband. It was dungaree shorts
And he's holding me my hand. I'm 12 my cousin and my cousin's 10 and we start walking to this house
To the irish house and my four my father says point which house. I said they live over there dad
He knocks on the door
Mr. Dugan is a banker. He comes down. Oh, can I help you? Yeah, mr. Dugan. I'm al-benza. Hi. What's the problem?
Well, I think your sons wrote something on my sidewalk. That's not too nice
Well, I don't think my sons would do that. Well, they wrote home or go home queer. They wrote well, listen
Mr. Benza, maybe you ought to take this someplace else because obviously, you know, you're wrong my father
punched through the screen door knocked the guy down
opened the door
Sat on top and put the gun to his head and said, I'll fucking blow your heads
I'll blow your brains out in front of your kids. Get your sons down here now. They're going to clean my fucking sidewalk
And the guy called his sons down. Did you do this and I said, yeah, we did
They cleaned the sidewalk
And my father's watching and as they clean he's going you you want to go in the pool you you want some hamburgers
I'll put something on the grill. No, no, no, we're okay
But I ended up being best friends with Danny Dugan for the next 10 years
It was a my father was a lot like deniro and and and many of his movies just tough didn't give a fuck
Anyhow, I took a lot of scenes from that summer and wrote a book
Booked it well great reviews and it got optioned and now we're close to getting a development deal
To to write the screenplay and make it into a film
So the point is I was in Long Island to live with my sister to write the book
But for a year, I couldn't get a deal
So I lived in New York and I had no fucking money. This is six years ago
And I ended up driving a cab
12 14 hours a day on Long Island and then I did another job
I worked at Best Buy selling TVs. Now get this Joey. I'm at Best Buy selling TVs with the fucking blue shirt
Everybody's 22 years old. I'm 49
And uh, you know, they they have things they have the movies on every TV era
As I'm selling TVs, they got Rocky Balboa playing because Rocky was had just come out on DVD
So the movie I'm in
Is playing and people are seeing me in a movie with Stallone and I'm selling them a fucking
55 inch TV. How did that feel?
It was
Initially horrifying
And then I got a kick out of it and I had fun with it and I started putting those DVDs in every TV in in the store
And matter of fact, I found other films I was in and put those movies in the screen and the the management said, ah, come on
knock it off
um
No, it was very humbling, but it was uh, it was something I had to go through
And the book sold I got a nice advance with that advance
I came back to LA and I was able to start my life again with my life and kids and and
And I started I started producing a movie which was a great four-year job
Produced a movie called so be it it's out in theaters now. It's a children's book. We turned into a film
So everything happens for a reason. I mean
When I'm when I was driving a cab I was driving a cab around the the neighborhood I grew up in but I was
I was writing down scenes in the book
I don't know. It all had to happen as as horrifying as it felt to work 12 14 hours and come home with
$40
It had to happen and it worked out for the better just going back home
Yeah, to that house and I'm the guy who who left Long Island. I left my little town the guy that made it
I'm the guy that oh a j benza
in my high school
There's nobody else in my high school that I mean plenty of guys in my high school are
Successful in different fields, but no one went to showbiz
So when they saw me it was you know, I know some people saw me and they didn't want me to see that they saw me
You know that that look like um, I don't want to I don't want it to know we saw him because this is a
This is really hurtful that he's here
But I did it, you know, and I'd steal I'd steal toys for my little son
I'd steal a little the these things called the skyland these these little toys that were really expensive at best boy
And I'd stuff in my socks because I couldn't afford to buy it
um
I'm glad it happened, but the the the horrifying thing was I'm sleeping in the same bed. I slept in as a kid
Now I'm with my son who's two in a single bed. My wife and my daughter are sleeping in another bedroom in a single bed
Talk about
That was insane to be back in your fucking bed from childhood after having
Been in movies and tv shows and you name it. That was really something else
I'm glad it happened. No, and it brought you back
Yeah, it brought me back. It brought me back to go back. I tell people if you ever confused
You're having a hard time. It's just a feeling you get
Where you know, you can't move forward. That means you got to go back to basics
Yeah, because it happened to me in 93 and there's brokers. I was I finagled the bank a plane ticket back to jersey
And I bumped I told the guy they upfront me a thousand 10 milligram valium's
I'd see him in two days. That's why I called my buddies in jerseys
So I'm coming with valium right at least I had a couple of thousand right off the bat
Right me started right when I came back a year later. I gave the guy the money. What happened. I lost your phone number
Man that that was fucked up. You you were a great guy. I was gonna send people to go looking for you
I lost your phone number
But I went back and I walked around the streets of where I grew up. I would I forced myself to walk
I did too walk take that. There was no ferry in those days. I took the bus
Right to port authority and I and there was days I I worked for the car dealership
As a as a salesman on 57th and 12th avenue all the way down
By demassie cadillac and all that all the car dealerships and I would go over there with just enough money to eat
Yeah, I would have to be in a 10 and I'd have to take the seven o'clock bus
As my friend's dad drove the bus
And I would get on the this is after doing time. Yeah coming out doing something with my life
I didn't get in the force and it took me all the way down to square root
But walking in those streets for nine months
Even though I was doing blow nine days a week
No matter what I was doing
I was toughening up and I went to colorado and here I am it was because of that little
Nine months that really put everything into
I went into a club. I saw like a zamo on stage
It put the process together. I had already started stand up
But I really didn't know what I was doing. I was walking around waiting for Johnny Carson to see me
You know, I mean, that's the mistake we make
We're waiting for the real I thought somebody was seeing you and nobody would see me like I gotta put work into this
Oh
Now I get it, but there's something interesting that came up. You're 55. Yeah, when's your birthday? June 2nd
Oh, so you just turned 55. Oh
I'm turning 55 in february
February 28 19th
Okay, and it's real interesting because I want most of the people that listen to this show the demographic
Is not our age
They're younger. They're very young. Yeah, you know, lee's 29, you know 29 right now
I'm out. I didn't start at 30. It's funny when we watch tv when we watch old films and
They have cell phones. I know and we're talking about in front of lee or whatever
You know explain to these people because people have no fucking idea
I told the story on comedy central. I had a bunch of rude
Off a joke. I told
Understanding about a guy that I grew up with that was Martin the fag
In spanish, he was my thing of money called money called sure everybody knew who he was. He was a him
Kind of so
For a big play in the city, right? And this has got to be 74. Yeah
Yeah, 74 because I'm I was 73 10
I went to see the Mets play the fucking ride remember the Mets play the reds in the world series with
Pete Rose big time beat up buddhavelson
And it was about two years after that
That uh, he pulled the gun at my mother's bar my thing of money come really because somebody called him a thing of money
Going out to his face. It was well known. He was gay
But just don't break his balls
Good for him and every night he come he would his whole thing was he was a seamstress
Then he'd take the bus over to jersey take a shower
Get an ounce of blow in 20s
And take it to cbgb's and all of those cars in the city
But let me tell you something I'd see him once a week and he always had a black eye
A tooth missing got to ship you every night. There was some drama and I sat on stage room
You know, you should thank faggots like martin because he was one of the originals
He took the beatings for you. That's a great line. It's very hard to explain to somebody like lee
How hard it was
To be gay in 1975. Oh my god. It was a very small community. Forget it. But you didn't accept it
There was a time you couldn't have long hair
In neighborhoods where he came of course not why I came from when I was when I first moved from new york city
Yeah from adhc to north bergen when I was 1210
There was no long hair. I had long hair and it was hard
It was hard and I had and I was I'm sicilian. So I had dark skin. I was called nigger a lot
A lot. I had fights because I was called nigger. I know there's what isn't a looks thing but
A few weeks ago. Joe was telling a story about someone was cross-country skiing in their neighborhood
And that just wasn't allowed and some guy was sitting there and the bus, you know
At the time first of all the mindset was this and that snowed it's 1983
It snowed
Two feet of snow and those days it crippled the city. Yeah, we couldn't gamble because there was no daily news
Right the book only had action on two teams brown
The same Lucius and fucking martyr
And the coke guy was out of service. Yeah because he couldn't get out of his car worse
So for three days we're scratching like monkeys, right and my friend in front of a bar window waiting
Right for heaven to come down from the skies. Yeah, he's got like a mug of beer
He's got a espionage on he's losing and i'm sitting next to him
And he's by the bar window and he's looking at and there's not a car on the street
The the streets are ice
Everything is parked some cars haven't been moved three feet of snow on top, right?
And we're sitting and he's in a half a mood
And all of a sudden he looks out and there's a fucking dude cross-country in 1983
And my friend looks and he goes, what the fuck is that? I'll do it now. No, he goes. What the fuck is that?
And he jumped out of his chair and he chased him
And he's got to beat the fuck out of him and we all kicked him one time, right?
We go back in we had a janitor in those days from the high school that we were waiting for he was drunk
They're all drunk. We wait till he gets drunk. Oh my god. He was epileptic. Yeah, so he would have
We'd steal the epileptic nose
Split them in half and we got fucked up anything now we're fucked up to the gills
Yes in the morning. I'm seeing police lights on the wall
And I go out the dude we beat up is in the back of the car with a blanket on shaking, right?
I know I know
It was it was so tough
You know
To be gay
Like it was so tough. I mean, I look I didn't know what it was. So it didn't bother. Yeah, I just heard
Okay, so so we when you guys were 10
Or 11 13 whatever the age was. What did you think of gay people?
Honest to god, I I didn't think about them at all. Um,
My I grew up inside my house was my mother
My aunt lived with us
My mother my my the other aunt was two doors down and her daughter
My two sisters lived with us. I grew up with all women
So I only heard my father came home at 10 p.m. Eight dinner had two scotches. I went to bed
I heard female stories all day
But there was no gay there were no gay stories. There was nothing like that to kick around
But when my cousin showed up
You know, my father it was a phrase my father would say, um
When my uncle called and said I think Gino was uh, brain damage
It was a very quiet night. It was like one o'clock in the morning and and I'm looking at my bedroom door
And I saw my father go to my mother
Larry thinks Gino's uh
Funoikia and he grabbed his ear. He shook his ear
And I don't know what that was a thing they did back then and I don't know what it meant
While you grabbed an ear when someone was gay
And I what I what I deduced is like because gays wore earrings back then guys, you know fags wore earrings
Oh, you couldn't wear an earring right?
Right. No, so I think that's what I did the ear. I think that's why I did the ear
And I tell you when when when they when my uncle came with the son with his son and we went on the boat
We went fishing the ladies were so concerned like how's everything what happened? You know, is everything good?
And and my father was like it hurt him it hurt him that his brother's son was gay and he said
My mother said well, look, you know, it's not the worst things in the world my my father. I remember he said
It's fucking close
It's close. He got mad like
You know, I'm a man. That's not something a father wants to go through
So this is many many years ago now if my son
Was gay I would buy him the best makeup. I would make sure he had the best fucking clothes
It wouldn't bother me. I I I it really wouldn't bother me. I swear to god. My son's an athlete. He's a great athlete
I wouldn't bust his balls. I wouldn't go to bed at night and ring my hands
As I got older in life. I just want my kids to be happy now
Being happy and being gay
It nowadays is easily achievable. But in the 70s, it was fucking impossible
You're gonna get fucking killed when I moved to jersey the toughest family in the neighborhood
Had a kid that was a feminine
And at that time I knew but let me tell you a funny story
We called him you know, yeah, we you've been to cuba a couple three times. I love cuba has a very huge gay society
Sure, very big prostitution society. I know I I enjoyed it. Yeah cubans are a haven of debt
But they're also society to have is this and I've talked about before it's an amiqua society amiqua
It's santeria. I went I love all you can see the bracelets mean you was crazy
There's a thing that abaquan they were the long showmen's of cuba really and they were the men of cuba
They were the Sicilians of cuba. They were so Sicilian
They couldn't eat pussy. Oh, you're right about that. They couldn't be in another room
They couldn't be in a room if lee was gay. I have to walk out of the room right nothing against lee
Then I'm gonna say nothing
No, but they don't want to be around. No, they don't want to be around it
Because of my santeria roots. There's a lot of gay guys in the santeria room
And there was one in particular that was about eight
And he was partners with my mother in some venture
Jesus Christ good guy good guys to remember
But whatever he would see me he would scare me. Yeah, and he would always he wouldn't say sexual things to me because my mom was in the room
He would always say to walk ahead
And in some Spanish national and some Spanish circles
That means I'm gonna fuck you one day one was there one was abaquan one didn't play that shit at all
If we came time to hug him he would put his hand out and shake their hand
It was embarrassing how one acted but he never lashed out of him. In fact, he always spoke to him my mother's bar
He was friends with martin
When he heard that that guy say that to me he pulled me inside one day
And he goes don't ever let that motherfucker say that to you again. Yeah, that motherfucker says that to you again
You either knock him out or you kick him in the fucking balls. Right. I'm telling you to shoot him
I mean it was
It was scary and that the situation came up and he said it and I went off on him in front of my mother my mother got pissed and
But uh, my it was such a touchy. It's very situation in those days
And I see it now today. I have gay friend nothing. I don't care. I don't care at all about that does not bother
But I'll tell you my brother-in-law is 70 is 71 years old. He's been with me since some five years old. So he's like my father
and
Spanish Puerto Rican
Tough queens guy, you know, and
When his little son Jackie was growing up
You know, we were watching the cabaret and my sister put him
She put a little rouge on his cheeks. She put him in a little she put him in a little black dress
It was funny. We just were laughing around the house. My father dressed as joel gray
From cabaret and she made her son to look like like kind of like liza manelli. He was like two is three
Well the foot my my brother-in-law saw it
You would have you would have thought he saw him sucking cock. That's how fucking mad he got
You know
Spanish Italian the lat the latin people they don't they he get that fucking dress off my son
His face got red. You know, I'll tell you who was the worst
And um, and if I ever get to meet him, I'm gonna pull him aside and ask him why he put that in his pilot
Oh, and it was brilliant the pilot empire
Yes, sir
Okay, the pilot empire there's a scene in the beginning
Where the kid comes down with a dress. I know and shoes on I remember the fucking poem ballistic
And he picks him up and puts me in a garbage can and he puts the lid over it
So dream your scene. Let me tell you something guys
My first friend when I came from cuba with a ball under 27th
And west end there whatever that street is right off the west. Oh, yeah, right up on the upper west side
It was a black ball right but it was numbers my mother's partnership was numbers
dude
But I would go in there and I became friends and and I became friends a little black
And the kid was my goomba who ran around and went on and we bought james brown records
Right. I love it. He took me to the projects and I ate with his family
It's great. There was sometimes my mom let me sleep over on saturdays
And they picked me up on sundays
And I still remember 1968 like it was yesterday
The father in that house going off
About the brother-in-law was gay
Well, you know when I'm in this fucking mother fucking chat. I don't want no mother fucking gay niggas my mother fucking
Now I know he would say shit. I was five and I was scared. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and I would go home and ask my mom
Mom my mom didn't really know the whole cuban
She didn't know the american translation. Yeah, she took go to bed
But it was all about their brother-in-law
Being gay like the the wife's brother. Mm-hmm. And I don't know if it was on a saturday night, right?
And he embarrassed the guy in front of us
And then he told the wife one time when I was there eating
I don't want to mini when I'm eating because he's gonna ruin my motherfucker. I don't have to take
Shit like that. I don't have to be I still remember being five and going wow. Yeah
His hatred for that man and finally years later. I figure out why the guy was fucking gay
That was the biggest hate I ever saw in my life for gay. Yeah was the black and that's why
Years ago when they said they're gonna put gay players in the NBA. Oh good luck. No way. Good luck
Gay players in the NFL. Good luck. Well, they're in there. They're in there
But they in the closet big because they know sure that they're the front
Listen that thing with ricky jackson. I heard it was about somebody went upstairs and said listen
We think ricky goes on both sides. Yeah, right. They had to ship them out two days later ricky williams ricky the guy from New Orleans
They're running back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's got that vibe. I could see that
I said that one that was when he was in New Orleans. I could see that that was one of the rumors
And then they shipped them right down to my hand. I could see that he seemed like someone who was just like like he was a hippie
He just he was hippie. Yeah, it was sweet. He just whatever whatever. So he couldn't give a fuck about money
Yeah, I could see he had no use for money. He's married now. He's got a kid
But people still say it was a I don't matter. I guarantee you know that guarantee
He got high one night and went home with a guy that gave for a day two beers and a shot man
I guarantee he swaps bit with some guy or something. Listen. I got gay friend. I got a gay friend who tells me we we left
He says to me, you know many guys
Two beers and a shove and they'll take a shot at the other team
And he says to me and I've seen I know stories from him. He's he was the Andy Warhol crew
He's got great stories about people we know now
that have experimented but
That happens a lot that happens a lot in show business my god
I I'm not going to mention names obviously, but my god. Does that happen a lot?
You know, uh, hey, hey, how do you feel? You know, like james franco is a guy like that a lot of guys go
I don't want to go through life with one hand one hand top behind my back
You know, I'm not
Nowadays everything's about being gender fluid and hey, you know, I'm not going to put down what this guy does
You know, hey, you know act is a great like that
But uh, the american public
The the vast majority of the movie going public
Doesn't want to know that they're not ready for that. I'm not ready for that
You can't tell a guy in illinois james franco sucked a cock wants to try when I used to come home from my my gossip rounds
I lived in the west village. I lived in I lived in the gayest building
I was in the meatpacking district her ratio in washington
I mean and I had three yorkies so people thought that I must have been you know playing on both sides
But I come home four o'clock in the morning
And I'd see all the transvestites there and I went around a couple of nights with remember i'll be sure come on
Yeah, so i'll be and I would drive i'll be I loved albie because he loved to fight
Night and day and i'll be loved to fight when we would go to night clubs if there was any shit
He would jump right off of me and we'd fight guys
One night we're driving around in this range rover
And he goes, uh, I'll drive you home. I was all right
He goes watch this and my area was all trannies
And he stops the car with a bunch of trannies and he likes he puts down his uh his dark window
And he goes uh, hey, babe. What's going on and this tranny goes
Oh my god, I'll be sure what the fuck. Oh my god
Now five of the trannies come
And he puts the window up and we drive off and they're running after us
He he liked that he liked having that kind of uh
That kind of relationship of that kind of fun with the tranny crap and when I get home from my rounds
There was a couple there was one girl named coco
Ha
Who I'd see with the fucking uh deli downstairs put makeup on in the mirror, right and she would tell me
Hey, man. Hey, hey, Mike Tyson was here tonight. Our city. I was here tonight eddie murphy came tonight
They're up and they're up in limousine stop it off seeing the girls. I'm like you're full of shit. She goes
And now you look back
I completely believe it eddie murphy
Come on getting pulled all around sunset taking that tranny home
I'm sitting on the hall. Can you can you sit not right down here and tell me unequivocally? He's straight
You can't Mike Tyson. I think he likes anything Mike Tyson
No, I'm not saying no, no, no, no. I love Mike. I just was moving last week
But I'm saying when you're that sexual
I think Mike is one of those guys that has taken a shot with everybody
I really think that I think if a guy's in the room is my choice him was fucked up
on coke like he was getting
And some dudes that I'll suck your dick Mike would let him
Richard prior like guys suck is
I don't want to know who anyone's fucking like this is
Richard try it. That's a great example. Listen. I remember working on the best dance board show
And one of the girls in wardrobe or something was black
And we became friends
Nothing. I'm not nothing like that. We're just on the set
She was a fan of stand up. Yeah
And one night she was explaining to me about the whole of the Murphy thing
As guys I was blown the fuck away. Well, look at his look at his wife. His wife looks like a man
The jack's wife Nicole my my fucking film idol. Yeah, no, no kid 48 hours and trading places. Come on
Now it wouldn't make a difference to me. I don't give exactly. I don't it's like I always knew Judas Priest singer was gay
I knew when I was fucking 19
17
I knew this guy jumped the fence. It didn't make a difference to me. Right. It never did my mother didn't raise me at all
Yeah, I don't care even kids. I don't care. I'm just intrigued by it. I wasn't even intrigued by it
I just didn't I was more blown away
Like when they said Eddie Murphy and then I I remember going home that night not saying a word and not like
I don't know what the fuck Eddie Murphy. I could he sold it. Yeah, but then I saw him at the comedy store
And everything went away. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, everything went away. Well, he was dressed who he was with right. I used to see it and then I saw
banks uh richer prize old manager one night
And he goes cuba watch watch you watch me fuck with these mother fuckers. There was Eddie arcenio
The singer from
Boston. Oh, yeah
What's the guy's name? I don't know his name. Come on the singer. I don't lead singer. Who's bobby brown
What band was bobby fucking brown in first edition first edition?
Yeah, who's in first edition
Get the five characters in first edition. I can't think of their names. I know who's the most the singer
They're the black singer really good-looking. I can't google black singer. No
No, there's a lot of new addition new addition new addition. So new addition singer just new addition
Just the band new addition
Bobby brown johnny gill gill gill big time. There you go. No doubt
It was eddie murphy didn't get it. It was eddie murphy's gist house johnny gill
arcenio hall
Yeah, and paul moody. Okay. They're sitting by the comedy store sign
And banks walks up to me and rogue and maybe somebody else. He goes. Hey, watch me fuck with these motherfuckers
And he goes up and he goes, hey, what are you guys gonna do the queens of comedy tour?
Like right to their faces and let us say nothing to him
and as soon as uh
somebody johnny gill walked away
charlie murphy
Eddie murphy like just nickled for him really and he came over again if you listen to this
Doesn't bother me at all. Yeah, I don't just let you know this shit. We see yeah, I say listen
It's it doesn't matter and johnny gill lived in eddie's guest house for a while and i'm a big fan eddie murphy still
Love them
I'm gonna say eddie murphy used to come in and tip my wife a yardstick for three waters really that's great
Two yardstick so you're any waitress who waited on the yardstick on those guys are the best
And one night my wife gave him two waters. He came in there with johnny gill
And my wife said I was walking to pink dot to the car
And I heard a car beat and it was eddie and johnny gill. They pulled over there. He goes. I forgot to give you this
That's a stand up fucking guy and it was that I love eddie murphy. No, that's great stuff
And that's the the funny thing. I tell you my wife will tell you my wife will tell you
it's a funny thing about the negative responses you got to that story about uh
martin arm about martin because yes, you said the word faggot, but it was a very positive story
No, and this is what happened
He did something
You know, I came from a macho society. Yeah, Cuban. Yeah macho society right not to mention like I tell people
I grew up in north bergen, new jersey. This is really weird and I didn't know this for sure
But I always knew I thought a little fucking crazy
I grew up in north bergen, new jersey when I moved there. It was an italian iris cesspool
Right, right, but it was italians that had moved on up from hoboken. Yeah, and then I watched the sinatra documentary
How those italians
Were not allowed because there were italians and the irish were fucking with them
They weren't allowed about above night street in the 40s
So these kids parents that I was talking to like I like ask Elise for example
I would go to the house in the summer and eat and she would say let me tell you how much are you paying for that concert 22
22 let me tell you what seems for three dollars. I at st. Rockles. I saw Sinatra
This guy and I had money for chinese and we would talk like that she would go listen
All right, because she was from the city and she would go to those dances because I would talk to Sinatra
The mother right right whole fucking thing. You know everybody knew everybody. I know two dollars. Yeah
It's all those people from hoboken
Move to north bergen. So I always tell people I'm from north bergen
But I got when my mother died who took me in sicilians from hoboken
Who's who's the baby's godfather sicilians?
Who's uh
They're all from hoboken and we all you know like I tell people I can't sing
I got one thing from hoboken balls. I don't give a fuck. I came out here to swing. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, like Sinatra this way and I love it. It's just really weird that people
I always want people to understand like
You got to stick up for yourself and these two dudes said to him one day. I mean, I can't tell you they were drinking
There were both bookies one guy's name was anado and his brother was umberto
And they were but umberto had a regular job
But our dardo was the bookmaker that belonged to the bar right from 10 to 3
To 10 to 5. He sat at that stool. Yeah from 10 to 3
He took numbers at 3 the number took off
But if you want to give him action for the next day, he'd stay there till 5
But they get their drink on and when they got their drink on martin was going into the city
To sell coke and came in there was because around the corner from my mom's bar was the last
Bus stop to take the new york city was in front of a post office
Yeah, coming out of the union city of new jersey mixed we walk and they call
I know we all can sure right out of the tunnel
Right out of the tunnel so martin came in and I was playing that stupid game
Maybe that stupid game that was bowling pins and you had a metal puck and it had sawdust
Yeah, of course, of course. I'm playing this game league. This is unimaginable to you. No, I think another game
It's like a shuffleboard. It's like a shuffleboard type of thing
And I'm playing this game, but martin's where you are. Yeah, and the bookies are where he is
So he says
And there was like a minute of
Calmness and then martin went in his back. No and pulled down like a 38 and he goes oh yeah, let me tell you something
Unless I suck your dick or your dick or you suck my dick
Then you call me martin saying martin call until then you call me martin
And my mom's yelling at martin to put the gun down. Coco is right behind you because she knew umberto packed
Coco's right behind you. Don't get this shit off in the bar right now. You're gonna get it. Oh sintonio
Better because that's my real name. Jose and tony. Oh, yeah, so sintonio. Where did I eat? I froze
I was right there and he's like
Nunkka into weed. I'm ready. I call me a faggot again. Let's get there
And then my mother said to him again
martin coco's there and she got and he goes
Coco needs to see this don't ever call me a faggot again
My mom started yelling him get the fuck out. You're not allowed in here again martin. I don't care how long I love
Wow, he pulled the gun out disappeared. I was just shocked. They said something to each other
I never thought about again three days later was a knock on my door
I opened it up. It was martin. He goes. I really apologize for taking the gun on for the
My mom won't let me in the bar unless I apologize to you. I go martin. Are you fucking kidding me?
That's great. You're my personal child. That's right. I fuck child. That's awesome. You are the king
What you did your day in front of me that is great. You blew every circuit in my mind now
When I was like six I saw my stepdad beat up a guy in the Bronx for hitting the dog
You know humans old humans today in fact today sent Lazarus birthday
December 17th. I stayed up last night a little purple candle. Oh nice. Yeah, you got today's December 17th
Today's don't hit a dog day. It's because in a year from now, you're being fucking crutches saying oh, you'll have leprosy
That's awesome. So he hit a guy for that. That's big in Cuba. I hit the dog
And then when dogs are all over Cuba and then one time in
At a santeria party
He shot a guy in the leg on a hundred forty eight and brought away
And then we got in the play through gun
It was right broadway goes down into riverside drive in those days
Which went into right by there. It was a park. I never forget we ran up 147 because 148 was came up to
Came up to hill right 147 went down. He parked on like 147 then broadway
We made a right. We drove a couple blocks. He goes wait right here. He took the gun to the Hudson
We drove home. He never said anything again
Never said anything again
So that I haven't already seen the real deal. Yeah, but what he did that afternoon at four in the afternoon
It blew me away. So I I always loved the guy until I robbed him
You know, he was dealing tremendous cocaine. What are you gonna do? I had to take what are you gonna do?
You gotta
But you still loved him. I loved him to death. Business is business. Yeah. No, no, no, I fucked up as a kid
I fucked up. I know
But I never
but it's funny that you said something because
I have a video on youtube that people were really getting pissed at me over the years
That I just miss said the words
What'd you say?
Well, we were kids. We used to go to boulevard east. Yeah 16 17 18. We used to go to boulevard east
and mug
dudes that were coming
That would get drunk in the city and would go over looking for the guy that sucked their dick
And went on the street where guys would stand by boulevard east by suicide bridge
If you wanted to get your dick sucked
After a while, we just started hanging out there and we'd make guys pull over got out of the car
We'll suck your dick under the tree. Wow, then we'd jump you
I said fag, but I shouldn't have said no. I know what you mean. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Nine out of ten of those guys were guys that were probably married, right? Just oh, of course they were sure sure
Yeah, I had a buddy who
It wasn't my scene. I wasn't I didn't do coke as a kid. I didn't do coke till I did coke
In college
I got out of college my father died when I was 21
And when I got out of cup one of my buddies came back from college and he had that coke and a tinfoil wrap
I said, what is this? He got trites coke. I said, uh, I what year is this? This is 1980
I was 21. So I was born in 62
You know 83 82 81 like that 81 and I said that
It was still fucking delicious. No, it was great. I tried it. I said look my fucking throat closed up
My father just died. My father was an undercover narc agent. So I just I had a bad feeling about it
My throat closed up naturally an hour later. I loved it and I loved it and then I didn't do coke again
I just said now I'm done. I got married young my first wife
Uh, my bachelor party, of course we did coke. I had a 1980s wedding
So forget about it. My my my all my ushers have fucking coke. They fucking had bloody noses
Please I have the pictures with the white shirts with the red red spots
No, coke again and in like in 1990. I don't know four
Number seven six nine ninety six my nephew was in college and he goes
Me and my buddy want to try cocaine
And I said, oh, you're not going to try it. I'm going to try no you're going to do it with me
I don't want you going to some jerk off and get some beer. I'll I'll get this stuff
I have all I know who to get it from and I did it with them
And then I got hooked
I I didn't like in my 20s. I could just drop in didn't care about it
But in my 30s, that's what's so fucked up about that drug. You don't know in my 30s. I couldn't
Couldn't get enough of it. So for a long time. It was like I did it constantly
Whenever I could I had plenty of money plenty of time. I wasn't I was working like
Two days out of 10. I had filmed a few shows
And then I was off forever. So it was easy. I was home and uh
It's so weird and then then it became a problem for me. But um, yeah, that's a fucking weird
But my buddy
He got so crazy with it that he would go
Try to cop some crack
And this is what he did
He told some guys who were driving around with crack
I want to see what you got
And he drive what he drive with the car and he'd say I want to cop and they'd show him the crack in their hand
And he fucking hit them with a hammer
And the crack would fully grab the crack and drove off. So he did this like five or six times
He got a bunch of crack the word got out
He got guys with welds on their head the size of golf balls
It was a small hammer, but fuck, you know, you go down
So that was his big ploy for a while that hitting the big guys in the head with a hammer for crack
But he said he got he he went to jail and got lit on fire. He's dead
Fucking guy
Glenn Glenn edgridge. He got lit on fucking fire. Oh my god. Oh my god evil evil drug Tony better, buddy
Oh my god
You know, this is the song my mother sang to me because she thought I was treating girls wrong
She said I want to be around she'd say to me who the fuck you think you're doing
I was like you kidding me master
I
Got anything like this in there when you kind of drink nothing somebody breaks something your heart a beer
Oh, yeah, I mean shot of that in the mirror. We're good. Somebody hit me with gold
I'll go with them the teacups
Although we gotta I don't want to
Sit back in the bottle like a fucking but I'll do it
Something inside the fridge buddy a cup and a beer and we'll go
That'll make that'll that'll make the show a hit
That's
Is
Sponsored by Tito's no, no, it's fine. It's right here. I love to be sponsored by Tito's
Oh, I thought you wanted off the table completely
Give me the beer, please
Next I'm gonna tell you pick the fucking sausage out of so
Let's see
We have you have a thing on your I'm sorry to bother you. What you have an opener
Oh here we go. I got him. I got this is perfect
Oh, here you go. That's when I'm this guy. What a
Fucking nuts or what some guy just got lit on fire. We had to take a breather for a second couldn't help it
No, no, let me do some shout outs real quick before we go deeper the murky waters here
Riding floor tech
cubie kenko
nick marquez basement monsters
norm not a problem
woken marv dog
joe zahra gunzales
walker pierce
And the mini prod. I love you cocksuckers. You want dates? I ain't got no fucking dates. All right. That's how we're doing it
A.J. Benz is still on there
That is fucking hysterical. Yeah, fine. Yeah, his brother was my best friend
He was in and out of the joint
Ronnie Ronnie was the best Ronnie when I hear you
I know you for years, but I just
Because I started my podcast six months ago. I've been to podcast now and I started listening to yours
And you sound just like the guys I grew up with except you sound exactly like my buddy Ronnie macelli
In and out of the joint the funniest fucking guy in the world with friends since we're six years old
He's down in florida now
Of course where everybody goes when they got a fucking run away from shit
She'll like him
She's like a lot of guys I grew up my cousin phil who's a building inspector. You got all that stuff
So when I listen to you talk I get so into it because I feel like I'm listening to my buddies. It's the best
I love it
So you went to college with cw post out long island to be a writer. I went for journalism. Yeah, I came out and um
I didn't want to go to fucking, you know, Ohio to be a reporter or alabama
No, normally you gotta leave new york to get into a newspaper job. I said, I'm not leaving. I can't leave
I can't I could never leave my mother or father
And I got a part-time job at news day, which is a big newspaper in on long island big
Like top fucking five in the country and I was doing high school and college sports
And that was nice. I go to games write the fucking highlights. I enjoyed that. I like being around sports
And I wanted to be a full-time writer. It wasn't happening and then eventually after like five six years
one night
This is great. I got divorced
I got divorced
I had a little money
And I sold my house and I said i'm gonna go to fucking new york. It was vulg magazines 100th birthday party at the fucking
Some museum in Manhattan and I didn't know anybody I said i'm going i'm going
So I fucking go to new york. I try to get through everybody's there velvet robes you name it bob
Wyatt it was no way I was gonna get in and as I'm trying to get in mickey ruckett's thrown out
And I love mickey popo grandage village. I still have the tattoo on my nickname is pope for fucking 30 years because of that movie
So he he gets thrown out
And it was like I couldn't make this up. He turns around looks at me and he goes
Where are you going?
I said, I don't know. I couldn't even speak to him was mickey ruck
He goes get in the car. We're gonna go downtown just like that. He didn't know me from adam
I get in a black town car his buddy's driving
He's got bob dillon on knock knock knocking on heaven's door. Mickey's getting high. We're going downtown
We ended up a place called rex downtown. He says don't worry in two hours. The whole fucking party's gonna be here
Two hours later
Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, claudia ship. Yeah, every girl you can imagine walks in they're all over mickey mickey
Isn't that and I saw shit that night. I saw Cindy Crawford making out with chicks. I saw girls putting their hands down mickey's pan
Insanity and I'm a guy who was just married for five years on long island putting up fucking wallpaper with my wife going to home
Depot on the weekends. I was a regular guy
And I said Jesus christ
So the next day I called a gossip columnist at new york news day and I said
You know, I work at news day in the sports, but I said I was out last night
I got a couple of tips for you. I saw I told her what happened. She goes. Wow. She says, uh, why don't you go out for me every few nights
I'll give you 50 bucks a night
Just bring stories back. I was all right
So I started hitting Manhattan. I knew nobody what year is this? This is 1991
I knew nobody and I'd I'd wait there by the velvet rope like an asshole. I'd wait there
and uh
I had a little bit of money
I was doing something you remember the tout services where you coat gamblers would pay you
Why did you pay for mic duffy? I knew mic. No, I was with stew fine. I still still raised me on that
I did that stew stew is the long island still doing it on the internet
God bless him. You go to instagram and look at stew funny. He's out of his fucking mind still love him
I just saw him not too long. I love the guy. He's a he's an animal
He taught me
And I I worked for major wage. You're a profit line Curtis. Who Curtis slope
Yeah, I remember that name, but I didn't work for him now. I mean that's who I work the captain
I work for Curtis. You did in colorado. Oh, wow
This is 91. Okay. So I work for Curtis in colorado and stew funny that would come out
And what happened was that I worked for them for two football seasons
I was terrible
But they had to pay me the second season
Because they're competitive
One of their guys quit that they grew up with because all those hot guys had grown up together
I know I tell that story all the time league. They were jewish the slopes him his brother his mother
did this in a basement
By themselves they taught me how to sell football season. They taught me how to close
It made 700,000 dollars. No, no, no bullshit the first football season ever
The mother and the two sons
Did in the basement the guy your guy told them how to do it and send them leads
It's it's amazing the business how much did the guy get here's where his way works
The way it works is you get leads you we used to get the
List of names from casinos in vegas or a lannick city of guys who gambled and then you cold-cold
And you say how the game's treating you whatever the fuck you use a different name
And back then they could pay you through west union through visa master card the fucking card
I'm going to an old exactly you're gonna sit there betting what 200 a game like a moot that you are
I'm telling you hold on one second. Yeah, I know right. That's it. Is there a line of fucking coke
I just got from the fucking columbian. Listen to me. I'm gonna go out to that with this chinese girl
She's gonna suck fucking my balls while she doesn't pump a coke
You're gonna sit in your little fucking apartment in the Bronx
Fucking wishing that you won now one of your bets is opposite mine. I have a fucking card
I'm going two and oh forget about two and oh
Let's bang one in for 10 g's right now as a matter of fact
Put me on hold go in your mother's room. Get the fucking phone
Grab that phone and talk all the book and see how much you can put in there right now
I'll fucking hold right now. Good. I guarantee you you won't be fucking. Sorry. What I'm asking you for a measly 300
You miserable embarrass myself embarrass myself. I don't know if we get one night
Because uh the first season I did he fired me because I was just doing blow
Yeah, everybody did I was just making so much bacon egg and cheese sandwiches blow and be I was just making so much
Three hours a night. We were I was half my check was going on the attorney
I know the divorce and the other half I had the pork in on the arm
So he came to me. He was listening to his courage going to do
Stu's going to do the show Friday nights
Come in I want my guys to come in I want you to come in
You can make a couple hundred just coming on Friday nights from six to 12
Yeah, and I would go in the guy would stop by 11 drop the package or what's great
So he let me go in january. He goes joey
I can't
You're at the desk with a paper and you know now you I I I wasn't doing I was there
I did a few bumps here and there because there were guys you were saying I did really well
And I quit because of football season ending, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah football was the big one and then I moved to seattle
And I bought a sports magazine. They go. He did it on this fucking. No, listen. Hey
You did it alone. I did it too. I did it to one of their friends
But the phone bill gets hard no at that time it was 1 800 was for free
Oh, I kind of deal with 1 800 coming in was for free
And I would call you back and let me tell you a really funny story fucking
I did it and I called one of Kurt's friends and as I was talking to him
I knew Kurt telling me a story about this Greek guy
And he goes, what do you want to do? I'm looking to buy leads
I want to cold call people out of here. He goes. Who did you work for before?
I told him and that night. I'm sitting there watching tv. I'm like, I hear the club going off
Yeah, it's too fine to threaten me your mother fucking next time I see him
It was the best it was the best
So listen this fucking guy I'm done with stew and a big guy named Andy Carp. He weighed 550 fucking pounds
He used to forget about it. So we're making calls and I was good at it
One day I hooked into a guy named Paul Hicks
He was a fucking
Stockbroker in Colorado, but
Lovelin, Colorado
But he wasn't all sorts of shit. He was fucking betting a lot of money and out of nowhere
Stu says to me
Tell me you're going. I'm 21. Tell me 22. Tell me you're going to Vegas and you're taking your five best customers
Everybody's giving you 60,000 dollars. You're gonna turn it into 250,000
I'm not I'm like, is this gonna fucking work. He says do it
I get Paul this and I'm going to Vegas. Bye. Bye. Bye. Tell him the whole scan. I says you can meet me out there
I'll turn the money around. I'll give you four or five times when you're invested just
Okay, my name is Johnny rock. I use Johnny rock. I use Frankie Nolan Eddie Grant. He's okay, Johnny
I'll be out there side. I'll make her so we go we fly into Vegas. I'm with my buddy Mitch. He was a big cold kid
Clear limousine
I'm waiting at the airport. Here comes he looked like Richard Dreyfus
He's coming in his pants were too long his heels was hitting the fucking back of his suit
And he has a briefcase in his hand. He gets in the limousine and we're going to Caesar's Palace
and
We're talking we get in the room. I open the briefcase and I'm counting the money
I'm looking for 60 grand and he's talking to Mitch and I go. I said, you know, Mitch is a
black belt in kung fu and taekwondo all that shit
And I just made it up and Paul goes on the black belt as well. What form do you use? Mitch wasn't a black belt
He was a Mitch goes. I don't want to talk about it. I killed a man five years ago. It's very uh, I can't talk about
I said, Paul I'm counting the money. You're short 3800. Oh, I'm sorry, Johnny
He's pulling money out of his fucking top shirt pocket his fucking pants his underwear. Okay. Good. I said go home relax
I got it from here
Naturally
All we did is get coke get girls fucking gamble
We lost 60 grand in two days gone
So I got it. I call still I says, uh, you know
He's just calling back get another 20. I says, all right
So I called Paul. He says, hey, Johnny. How'd it go? I says, no, not good
Oh, really? I said, I need 20 000 more. Well, Johnny. I said, Paul
I I got the game Yankees, Toronto, blue jays. I know exactly what's going on. We got an umpire on our side
Do me a fucking favor. He's calling balls and strikes. Don't be a fucking asshole. This isn't a gold mine. This is the game
Get the 20 000 was okay, Johnny. He sends it all over
But at that point I just took the 20 and left. I wasn't gonna fuck around
So I told stew we lost it blah blah blah
I left but the point is I had money in my pocket
And we did so well that we had a tv show that was that was actually on on on espn for a while
It was called football forecast and it was for, you know, four of us from different sports agencies
Were the host and we'd give out fucking art picks. We couldn't mention the spread
But we say I think the giant should win by at least six tomorrow
blah blah blah
And people would see the show and call in and the phones were fucking light up
The money was I got a guy named car mosaic who was an owner of a half owner of the charlotte bobcats back then
He had irrigation systems in the carolinas. The guy was filthy fucking rich. We called him the elephant
the guy would bet
50 60 80 thousand dollars a night
And I hooked him up with john goddy's operation
That's how the whole me and goddy thing happened because he his bookie died
And I couldn't afford to hit to have him with no bookie. So I said I can find a guy for you
So I called my cousin albert who was hooked up with working for john
I said, I need a guy got a guy here. He's he's betting fucking bigos. Do you vouch for him?
Now I didn't understand that term vouch for him back to us. Yeah, the guy's fucking loaded. I vouch for him
He says a g you vouch for him. It's important. This is albert. I vouch for him
So
We're gambling the guy's winning and he's losing his pain. He's getting paid
And suddenly after the third week
This is the kind of guy who had like a half a million dollars rolling on a fucking night in college basketball
He'd bet kraton verse drake like the worst teams he'd bet
And long story short. He fell out. He was down like 48 thousand dollars
And he had to pay I says I says listen carl
You can't fuck around. This is not your bookie in nebraska. This is a big fucking guy
I know I know johnny. I'll pay
He sends 500 dollars
Which is an insult to anybody that's running a house
let alone goddy
Thanksgiving time
john goddy calls my house Thanksgiving during dinner
And says hey listen to me. He goes listen to me
Your friend
No good
He says this is 1985 now. He says
He's in colorado
I'm gonna send you and albert to colorado not to learn how to ski to get my fucking money. Do you understand me?
I says okay, okay, and he said the best line. He goes
In a business with no ethics. We got to have ethics
That's what he said to me. I said, okay, okay. He hangs up. I said albert the fuck's wrong. He said a j get that fucking money
The guy I could never find a guy again. Now. This is Thanksgiving
If you remember december 14th, whatever it was 85
Goddy and company wax castellano in front of spark state cows. He becomes godfather
And apparently everything changed in his life. He didn't care about the debt
He didn't care about that money that my guy owed him
And it went away
It went away
So I ended up knowing john because of that. He broke my balls because of that
John was a big gamp. John was a big bad gambler. Goddy was the worst
He would give you he said I'd bet against two cockroaches running across the street. I don't give a fuck. I'm not you know
Uh, but those so I had money. So when I went to that party, I mean mickey was there
I was running around throwing dollars around and long story short, uh
Mickey we went to the party at recs. The chick showed up. I told that gossip columnist. So I started going out and seeing shit
and
in time
The woman who hired me
Got hired by the new york daily news and she took me with her
And she goes how much money do you want to make mortz stuck him in board the news and he's bringing me over
He wants me. I said I want you. What do you want to make? I said, I don't know. I had no clue
I don't know. I said
60 70 000 she was done. No problem
I should ask for 100 so I came in at 60 or whatever the fuck 65
and then
back in the 90s
It was so different
I would get raises like every eight months. I would walk in our page was so good
We were breaking such big stories that I would walk in
And she'd tell me go ask for more money get more money
I'd say really just go in there and get more money
And I'm walking and say I broke this story that story this story
Okay, I said I think I should make 90 now
And I I'd make 90
It this went on for two years to the point where I was making I was making a you know
200 and change as a gossip comes with all my meals paid for all my drinks paid for
All my flights paid for I was
flying high
and
I don't mean a regular kid
In the city
I'm working in Manhattan in 84 in 85
And that would go out four nights a week
And I can't sit here because I was coked up and fucking coiled it up. I was pilled up. I didn't do coke back then but I remember
certain situations that
If you if you would and I know you you're a slick dude, you also had five dudes helping you uh
You had a guy at aria. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? You had a guy at the garden
You have to you had a guy at the black club
Of course, and you had a guy at the shrimp club so kids you had a guy and you had a guy in jersey jade club
Whatever always always
Just to see who would show up of course and the guy would call you know
You're not gonna believe we just walked in of course bread pit with a blonde with a wig on and then and there you go
That's how you work it scores was the big the big mecca back then I remember one thing
I still remember one of the craziest things like I remember going out one night and seeing
Richard gear no big fucking deal
But the craziest not everyone out was an 84
And I saw your boy
Mickey no, oh boy
I know you miss me. I know you miss me. Yeah, I know you come to church. I saw I know
I was very enjoying heroine out
Dancing with a wall
And those days there was no fucking cell phones late
Yeah, it was the best memory. There was no cell phone nothing and you could walk into a club and see three people on a table
Drinking drinks forget about a mirror with cocaine. Yeah, right there right there. I mean you can forget it
That would not have like your cat. No guys who walked in the club with guns. They put the gun
Crazy get it. I used to see oh my god. I would go to regular. I was never a city night life
I was a northern new jersey guy
Listen, if I could save a hundred bucks of snow an extra gram
That's what I did. I'm gonna go to the city. It's not the same fucking gram. Yeah to pay
Yeah, I know and the toll that some nights I go over to
The rooftop some nights I go to the area
You know, and then I got a job at the sheriff in the 52nd and 7th
And you get out at one. So you're already out at one. You stole a yardstick. Yeah, of course
You made two yardsticks. You're in the middle of the city at 1 a.m in 1985 that money's gone
That money is gone
You catch a fucking you get a cab downtown. You're already got a package on you
You would just walk into a barn. There's a fucking things going on
But how great was how great was that the fact that you
I to this day when I go to new york and I land that I'm in Manhattan and especially downtown
I remember today. I had a Mercedes 500 SL. I fucking I was the okay
I was the man because of my job
And I had a I had a fucking super. Well, you're a gossip cause everybody's gotta be nice to you
All the restaurants boy picked up your dad. I didn't pay a fucking don't nothing. You were the Lawrence Taylor without even knowing
Listen, I took Lawrence's girl
I I remember taking
Randall Cunningham's wife to china club and fucking Lawrence Taylor going you the fucking man nigger
Because this is like, you know when Randall Cunningham was the man and Lawrence Taylor was I was
Dating downtown Julie Brown when Lawrence Taylor was
Kind of dating or wanting to get in there
Oh, it was that the scene back then was the palladium. It was the palladium limelight
Uh
There were so many places to go and be seen so I was plugged into all of it all of it and everybody would call me and when you're a gossip columnist
There are publicists and they're all fucking cute. They're all hot
They all wore black clothes and they all they all want their clients in the paper and they all want their
They represent a shoe store on west broadway
And I would just sit there. I would I would go to spy bar, which was on green street
Which was the hardest fucking spot in the 90s
And I had a boy. I had a buddy named Johnny boy Calvanny who is
67 maybe
Big pothead and we wrote he had an old Mercedes
I had a new one we drive around and they would move the fucking cones we'd park in front of the club, which is
That those little things like that mean so much when you can just roll up to the club
And they just let you park in front of the club and you toss the keys to the guy
And he would say I don't care what you do the rest of your life when you get older
You get remember they fucking move the cones for us on west broadway
And you said earlier you he was he was doing a bomb here
You said this is the shit that killed Castro Johnny would say this is the shit that killed bruce lee
That was his line
And johnny would say we'd sit at the piano at spy bar, which is like about five feet above the crowd
And johnny would say to me, you know what he goes
If you were up in space
And you looked down
On earth and you looked down on
America
And in america you look down in new york city and in new york city you look down in
Greenwich village and in Greenwich village you went spring street in spring street
You found spy bar and in spy bar you found the fucking piano
You'd find us buddy
He'd say we're the fucking kings of the world
And back then as stupid as it sounds that was true to be at the piano at spy bar in the 90s
With everybody running around
Fucking insane. We were kings kings of the city
Well after that talk we just had what are the people around you think when you said you were gonna be a gossip columnist
It's a very powerful position and you have people around town
And the reason why my podcast kind of took off the last few the last seven eight weeks is because
I was a really good friend and I still am of harvey winestines
and
I am I love the guy. I love the guy and I talked to him all the time
I talked to him all the time
And he was mad at me that I was in the new york times article and there's a picture of me and
But the point is
It was all
Free harvey, right?
No, well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no free harvey
I'm just saying I love harvey. He did some bad shit
And we'll see what he's guilty of
However, that motherfucker
Put out the best fucking movies
You could think of and I know that things sound awful and I don't want to disagree with the girls who said
What happened happened? I don't think I don't think a lot of girls lie, but I will say this
For every girl who got molested or raped
I think there are five others
Who went up to that fucking hotel room and let him wear the robe and let him jerk off
That's hollywood
But i'm not taking away from the girls who got no, no, no, no, no, because I believe them
I just loved that. I wasn't gonna bring harvey up. Oh, I got a friend. Listen. I got a friend harvey
I'm gonna listen. Oh, I talked to him. I got a friend fucking. He got so mad. He got so mad at me
Go ahead. I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, remember that episode put it on Lee
What just put on youtube, okay?
The honeymoon is harvey. Oh the harvey honeymoon is episode
I got a harvey said harvey. Listen, I got a friend. Go ahead. My friend harvey's even bigger than me
Remember that guy? I got a friend. Surely it was bigger than you. That is the line of the fucking year
That was great. I before I came here. I left to see what episode was on tonight
Oh, tonight's a classic tonight at 11 o'clock on channel 20 channel 20, right? I know tonight's the one when he throws his wife out
He makes a record
All emotional, but he has to make the third record finally is when he does a sweet one
But norton sends the wrong record the one that he's really angry
And he calls his wife a big mouth and all
It's a classic episode, but I got it on tape. So I don't give a frenchman's fuck
Ha ha ha it's it's
That's the one right there. Jesus. Yeah, they got it the bomb
Ralph beats harvey. Harvey was a great actor. This motherfucker was big this uh, fuck. Here we go. Right there's what you're telling
Here we go my heart and harvey said
I'm going in and tell my friend harvey
harvey
Oh harvey
You're going to tell your friend harvey
Or be he's gonna tell harvey. That's a nice name. I like what a nice name harvey. I don't care if you tell harvey
Go ahead and tell him
He's got me mighty scared. I'm shaking the duck
You better be careful and my friend is even bigger than me
Your friend harvey is bigger than you I have a friend charlie this bigger than you
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Thank you much
Very luck those that you do
Watch this boy. Watch how harvey talks. Watch how he talks. I told you you're not gonna get the table now go away
Come on. Will you and you beat it too harvey?
Hey, you know ralph he's even bigger than your friend charlie
I've had an idea those bookends are gonna be a little lopsided
What are you talking about bookends? He said he was gonna twist me and you into bookends
Oh, he did uh, so you're gonna twist me and him into bookends
That's right. That's right. He's gonna push you and him in a bookend. You got nothing to worry about ralph. You're in the right
Nobody can push you around. Why don't you?
That's not all he said he made fun of your name. He said harvey was a funny name
Oh, he did huh harvey's lovely name. So harvey's a funny name
You're a real wise guy, huh? I think it's cool. I had to be so straight. You know what I might do to you
I might punch you right in the mouth. I know way way way way
You can't talk to us that way. You keep out of this
Yeah, I wasn't gonna push you into a pretzel heated
Shut up
You're gonna twist me into a pretzel. I don't even like pretzels
He's gonna twist me into a pretzel
All right wise guy, I'll give you a chance. Come on step outside. Well ralph, I'll hold your coat
Come on wise guy step outside and twist me into a pretzel
Fucking it. That is one of the passengers boss. My I've got it on the class. That's my hometown
And then at the end they set him up
Yeah, he comes in and they make a guy bigger than him show up
And he knocks him out. Oh my god. And the guy says even my friend didn't show up
Gleason make it tonight Gleason is and that was all one takely
That was live that shot live. Oh, sure. That's right. That's a live shot live
Fuck's on that live that shot fucking live dog right there live. I went throw up last time
It's funny because we know we were both with the same age for a while when I took your meetings
We were gonna do a show for a minute and then we both disappeared. We both fired them
And then I didn't see you around and
Out of this town there's people going home and stuff like that. Whatever. Yeah
And I was really really happy to see you in rocky six
Balboa, yeah, beautiful. Thank you. You do a great job and then
Like, you know when you don't see somebody and then you see him fucking 10 times in two weeks, right, right, right
Then a few weeks later
It was some
Maybe an episode they do something on Tuesday nights
On one of those channels and it was you walking
Six eight feet from John Gotti about the interview. Oh, yeah. Yeah tape old tapes. Yeah old tapes. Yeah
And it was you
Interviewing him at one point and then the other interview was an Irish guy John Miller was there. Miller. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, I got to be real close with him
I got to be close with him because uh when I worked at news day
I got close with john and you know, he knew me from the whole fucking
Gambly thing
And I remember I went to see him downtown when he was on trial. I went to the trial
Uh
And uh, that was a trip Anthony Quinn went to the trial. Mickey rock went to the trial a lot of a lot of a lot of actors go to the trials
and I remember uh, there was one moment where uh
His life hung in the balance. It was gonna be you're gonna go to jail forever
or whatever
And across from the court
downtown of Manhattan, there's a restaurant on march street called, uh, jim bones
I think it's still there. It's great fucking joint real fucking old school phone booth in a restaurant. Like forget it like
and uh
I followed him to the restaurant
And I sat down with them Jerry shagel bruce cutler. Sammy the bull
But at one point Sammy the bull
He was looking me up and down and he said to john
Like what the fuck is this guy doing? Where was this kid and john said, uh, he's all right
And sam he said, yeah, but he's with the press. He said, yeah, but he's more he's more right than them
I love that saying
so let me sit down
and uh
He was good to me. He was good to me and I believe his daughter's been good to me. She came to my book party
I don't know. It's one of you know, there are things in life that happen
That you kind of get kissed by an angel like why?
through through stu finder and the gambling thing
I would meet john goddy
And he would end up liking me and that would end up
honestly making people think
Something about me like aj's, you know aj's around the mob that kind and it worked and then when I got into the night
mid 90s and I started running around
Uh, I was a nightclub called rouge and the upper east side, which was all genovese
And scores the strip club was genovese and gambino
And but yet my name even though it was a gossip columnist my name
They under they knew it. They accepted it and they didn't fuck around with me
They're not at goomba johnny getting trouble
Ah, you know goomba johnny. He was around either a doorman. Yeah, he was in the scores crew
They were shaking down the girls. Yeah. Yeah, my my roommate chico was uh
was involved in all that and
Between me and you goomba johnny
He he was working on fucking borrowed time. There's nothing he did that made him fucking strong or tough or important
Kind of a lazy name too
It's a it's a it's a it's an expression of respect goomba john
You were going to the strip club shaking down the girls. They all did the strip is the strip is
They fucking paid out up front. They used to pay out to everybody. They got shook down everybody shook people down
Uh, it was it was it was like a pyramid. Everybody got shook down money
Down to the security guards to the fucking valet guy. Everybody got shook down everybody
And when the mobsters walked in
Joe Watts, Joe the german
All these mobster angelo bruno all these mobsters would walk in and they'd say and you you mentioned this early about
People paying people's rent
Like, you know eddie murphy when when when when mafioso come to new york city clubs
They'd approach the head of security who was my roommate chico who was no longer. Well, he's he died
But they'd say cheek how many guys are working tonight in security and chico would say ah, you know six
Our hair and they fucking and they fucking just peel off fucking hundreds
They say yeah, take care of the guy. Here's fucking face twenty eight hundred dollars. Take care everybody
And chico would do if you get three you get four you get two you get five
And every and my ex-girlfriend was a bartender
And i'd see the bartender's all the girls were hot bartender
I'd see their faces when the mafios would walk in they knew
Rent is covered this month if joe watts and and and and viny gorgeous walked in angelo bruno. You name it
They knew okay. We're cool if a if a bartender walked the scotch and soda to joe watts. She got 250
You know if he came in twice that week. She got a 500 that week
Those guys they kept the city running they kept it oiled
You know more than celebrities. They were just
They fucking took care of everybody. They were great. They were great and and
Because I vouched for chico
I ended up being on the bad side of them because chico at one point
started collecting money for my buddy
He was a pot dealer who he had outstanding debts and chico said i'll get i'll get your money
Because one of the big genivisi guys rafi capola who's now dead
He liked us and he said listen. You're around me now. It was like donny brasko. You're around me
Don't worry, but no one can touch you anybody bothers you say i'm with rafi. Okay when you hear that you think you want
You did in essence. You won the fucking lot of you could do whatever the fuck you want
Someone bothers you. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, you gotta talk to rafi and it works
So chico was asking for money from an old guy who's had a fucking pot debt
He didn't want to pay he goes listen. I'm with rafi
Unfortunately that guy's father grew up with rafi and he told his father and the father called rafi and said
Why is this kid using your name for a fucking marijuana debt?
So one night
rafi calls and says why don't you and chico come up to geno's on third avenue
We'll have a fucking great meal when we out all night. We'll get to drink some fucking grap
But it's gonna be great. All right. We all go to geno's
It's fucking fat snowing in Manhattan fucking great
Best meal he says a g why don't you go do your thing me and chico gonna hang up? Okay
So about an hour late. I got a phone call
And chico was just destroyed in the street. They beat the fuck out of him
when when I left
They walked him out. They had a nice meal cigars grappa
And they just punched the fuck out of him. They had they I mean he had to have a screen put in his stomach because his intestines were coming out
So they beat the shit out of him and I vouched for chico
There's that word again vouched
So I call one of my guys who's an old-time mobster and I said, what do I do now? I vouch for chico
I got to go back to the club
He said don't change anything you do go to the club
Go to the bar order your espresso with sambuca and I did
And when I went there the same guys who would see me and hug me and go crazy. Hey, joey. What's going on?
I walked in the fucking stairs. They gave me they didn't say nothing. They looked at me
With fucking eyes like daggers and I sat there at the bar and I drank my espresso
And I left and I was ready to get jumped on park avenue
I knew I was going to get jumped killed knife whatever nothing happened
Those days are awful as much fun as you have with the guys
You know wiping out a bar
In westchester county taking cleaning out their liquor whatever the fuck grabbing girls
When you're on that bad side. Oh my god. Is that the fucking scariest thing in the world?
horrifying
Anyhow the guys who were after were all dead
They're all dead. I mean this is 20 years later. They it's a it's a horrible lifestyle, but they're all done
When I lived in boss and I lived in
In the north end for a couple years north end is tough and yeah
And the rumor was that there were a couple people on my street
That were actually connected and I didn't know if how much of it was true. Is there actually people there north?
Sure north end. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah post them. Oh, how about whitey bulger for one?
Oh, yeah, well he was here. Yeah, I know
Are you gonna try to get grubano on your podcast?
I
I you know that'd be great. I don't know how much he's talking
Yeah, I'd love to I try sure
I don't know how much he wants to how much he wants to talk about it, but uh
You know, sammy ratted. I don't you know people rat. I I can't even
It ain't the old days and this is we're going back 20 years when he ratted. It was really
Not what people did not what tough guys did
But who's the joke on everybody's dead
Sammy went to arizona. He did his time. By the way
He had an ecstasy ring that was bringing in 750,000 fucking dollars a month
When he was in arizona, that's how he got pinched
He did his time. He's out now
He'll probably get a foot not probably I know he's going to get a reality show
I know for a fact who's going to fucking be the show runner
I made a joke on it on my podcast. It's going to run in a couple in about six seven days that you know
Suddenly this guy's going to get more work than me. So many people
They're going to hire him for more shows than me. He'll probably be hosting a show that I would have hosted
But now sammy the bull is going to get it. That's the way hollywood is
What am I going to do? You know, everybody rats. I didn't the old days
The new the new guys the new guys rat the new guys want their screenplays to be made into movies
It's a very different mafia. It's very different
Don't you think you had a very interesting life, man? I'm a journalist
covering all type of shit
Like I said one time I watched one of your shows when you were at the magician's house
Oh, yeah, not Houdini somebody
That was fucking crazy on laurel canyon
Well, david blames the buddy, but it was in his house. No, somebody was dead
No, we had a
Yeah, that's when a and e was kicking I liked any a lot that
No, I was on e you
Are you on e? He was he was hot though, but he was hot. He was
True Hollywood stories, mysteries and scandals, Howard Stern, he was, he was, he was hot.
That's right.
Howard Stern was on me, that's right.
Holy shit.
Yeah, I used to follow, I was on after Howard, I was on before Howard and then I had a talk
show after Howard.
Was only out for four weeks, was a fucking, it would have been good but they pulled the
plug because they were fucking nervous but those, he was great.
He was, he was great back then, they let me do what I wanted to do, they said what else
do you want to do?
I said I want a talk show.
Okay, I grabbed a fucking loft in Manhattan, I found a place downtown with a Chinese doorman
with an elevator that went upstairs, I booked the guests, I booked Dan Rather, Al Sharpton,
fucking supermodels, it was great but it lasted only four weeks and the last week, check
this out, this is Hollywood.
George Hamilton came on, I said if you let me have this show, trust me, people are going
to show up because it's going to be a spot to go before you go out.
My barmaids were hot Brazilians, I had alcohol in the audience, no one had alcohol yet, this
is before Jimmy Kimmel, no one had alcohol.
It was, the fucking crowd was great, I had music acts, everybody smoked weed, like it
was a loft, so people smoked weed before they came on, very loosey-goosey and for the
fifth show, I'm ready, I'm at the, I'm staying in the hotel on the other side, I'm about
to go downtown to shoot and the girl I was dating was my little assistant and she gets
a phone call, oh okay really, I'll put them on, oh what's up?
I had a book, my book came out, it was in the window of bookstores, I had a fucking TV
show, I had a talk show and I hear, listen the show is not going to go tonight, so what
do you mean?
I had Chris Rock was a guest, I had like five great guests, they pulled the plug as I'm
going down to do the show, not live, but tape, but I was going down, so they let the stars
fly in, they pulled the plug and I was out of my fucking mind, that's the kind of shit
that happens in Hollywood.
I was literally dressed and ready to go on and they pulled the fucking plug, it's the
worst and Joey, it took me eight fucking years, there was a lesbian boss at E named
Mindy Herman who fucking loved me and every article and the reporter and Variety was AJ's
the best and she pulled the plug and it killed me for eight years and one night I got a fucking
Facebook message from Mindy Herman, I go, what the fuck is this, I accept, she says I
want to apologize, it's not you, it was me, I'm nervous about talk shows, you were great,
I'm so sorry, I said do you know what my life has been like for the last eight years, how
fucking miserable I've been, how, you know like that would have been my ticket, I was
going back to New York to host a talk show, which is something I always wanted to do and
this cunt just decided nah, I don't want to do it, killed me, it destroyed me, but eight years,
I was miserable for eight fucking years, that's the business bro, I'm happy you got over it AJ,
yeah I'm over it now and now you're doing movies, I'm here with Joey Coco, you're fucking close
by, you have your children, yeah, you look good, well that's the most important thing,
let me listen, it's like fucking Mick Jagger said you can't get what you want, you can't always
get what you want, but you get what you need, we put a lot of the, I think you're right, fame
is a bitch, and when does it come down, every Wednesday and Friday are new episodes and you'll
like it because lately I've been, the last six, seven weeks I've been outing every pervert,
every fucking pedophile in Hollywood, I'm very close to the Harvey Weinstein situation, so I
got the goods on everybody, so you're not in trouble for what for Harvey Weinstein, I think
I'm in trouble, Harvey gave me a book deal 20 years ago, Harvey's been my man, and Harvey asked me
for help a year ago in December, he texted, he called me and said come to the peninsula, I need
your help, this is way before anything came out, I went to the peninsula, I said what's up, he said
look they're doing a bad article on me, New York magazine is gonna kill me, I said okay what do
you want to do, he says why don't you write, let's make believe, let's, why don't you be an author
and you're gonna write a bad book about me, I'll give you people to call, and if you call them
and they tell you bad shit about me, I'll know where the bad stories are coming from, I said okay,
he said I'll give you 20,000 a month, this is gonna be fine, that's all right, so a week goes by,
he didn't call, two weeks no call, I said boss what's up, he said hang tight, and I never heard back,
but between me and you, I said I can't write a bad book about Harvey, people know I'm his friend,
they know he doesn't work, but thank God because he didn't say the stories surrounding him were about
rape and chicks getting molested, he just said there's a bad article coming out, and I'm the guy
13 years ago who protected him when he was cheating on his wife and having an affair,
and I buried that story for months and months and months, because he needed the help,
because Disney and Miramax were doing a big business endeavor, so I'm close to him,
but I never knew, I never knew the side of him, never, I figure the guy that came,
he's a movie mogul, they get laid, stallards come to them, they fuck him, I understand,
Howard Hughes, Daryl Zanuck, you named the mogul, you know come on, it's Hollywood,
but I never in a million years ever thought fucking pushing indoors, raping chicks,
no, never, so him and I talked a couple of weeks ago, and he said you talked to the New York Times,
I said yeah, he said why would you do that, I said because the story they came to me at was wrong,
they had it wrong, they had it that I suggest that I write a book about you, I said that's not
true, he says both shit, I said no Harvey, I said I got a wife and family, I got a fucking career,
I'm not gonna, I can't go down like that, it was wrong, so I cooperated and I told the kid what was
right, he says AJ you and I, we're guys that don't talk, I said I understand, but it was full
of errors and I had to correct that, he said okay what else did you say, so I told him what I said
and I said nothing for nothing Harvey, he said why are you worried about me, do you know what
people are saying about you, he says no I don't, tell me, I said you don't know what they're saying,
I said you're the biggest fucking monster in the last hundred years, he said AJ everything you hear
was consensual, and we went down girl by girl, I'm not gonna bore you with the details,
but at the end of the phone call he said listen, you heard Clooney, you heard Damon, you heard
these guys talk about me, Affleck, he said if I told everybody what I know about this town,
it would fall to its fucking knees and stop, I said I'm sure you're right bro, he said okay
amigo, I'll see you, I'll see you down the road, I said Harvey I got two pictures on my wall in my
office, you and John Gotti, he said that's some fucking company you keep, I said yeah,
so I'm not betting against him, I'm sure he's guilty, but I'm not betting against him coming
back, I won't, I just think that a guy like him, if he had this script of pulp fiction, if he had
the script of the next pulp fiction now, I'm telling you right now, there'd be a line up and down
the 405 with people who want the accolades, the money, and the fame to work with him, even with
the fucking fires raging on each side of the highway, this fucking town, satan lives here
brother, what's that, satan lives here part time, no kidding, no kidding, in the beginning of the
exes, the archeologists, they see him, he finds a little devil, he lives in satan, he lives here
in hollywood, and the other part, he's like a snowbird, great to have you, I'm my brother,
I'm happy you, I love you buddy, you too, those are some great fucking stories, thank you pal,
God bless you man, Lee how you doing brother, I'm doing great, I didn't hear Lee tonight,
no he doesn't even need to say it's Hanukkah, maybe it's a double bond here, I don't know,
he's trying to rest, he's resting, no no, it was great stories, double bond here, I could tell
by your eyes your shot, oh no, what about the thousand milligrams of TAC we eat, I didn't know
about that, what about that enema you gave him earlier, I didn't know about that, that was tremendous,
so Lee you downloaded the Hanukkah app, I did, that was a great, okay, it's a very cool app, it's
you put in what you're interested in, and what you want to hear like the latest news stories,
sports, I'm sure they have stuff about gossip, let me just take a drink of water, so what you got to
do Lee, but the evening is amazing, people who are doing like short five minute long podcasts
that they upload straight from their phone, and it's great you can call in to these
separate different channels and talk directly to the people who are doing the shows, it's really
interesting, and there's so much content, I had a really good time looking at it this afternoon,
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