Fame, he'd liked to be walked on a leash and play really dirty, kinky sex games. Is uh the guy put the cock in the Peacock Network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody aj Benzi here with fame, is it? Bitch? This is your free show for January second, twenty twenty four. I thought you free birds, thought I might have forgotten about you.
But you know, Christmas Week and New Year's Week, it tends to be the time of year where a lot of people just if you're podcasting, you release old shows, which I did on Christmas, or you just release classics, or you just take the week off and do a couple of shows
here or there, but basically take that time to recharge. And I haven't done that before in the past, but this year I just felt like, you know what I'm doing this six and a half years, It's time for me to just kick back and figure out what direction I want to take this show. Not that we're going in a different direction, but I wanted to get more of my ducks in a row and get some of you freebirds more involved with the podcast. I'm very happy to see a bunch of you flew
over before the year ended. That made me very happy. So whatever I'm saying or reporting or bringing to your scenes to be working. So let's keep it going in twenty twenty four. I don't think I'm the only one who's happy to see twenty twenty three take a fucking walk. That was a hard year for a lot of us. Let's hope that twenty twenty four is going to be spectacular. I want to give you some notes on I stayed home Christmas y on New Year's Eve, stayed home. Son had a party,
the daughter had a party. I was home. I just New Years means nothing to me. I don't care about it. I've done everything you can do. I've been in the city when the ball was dropping, but principally to go out of New Year's Eve to me is amateur hour, and I don't need crowds like that. So I stayed home more than hay. In
fact, I fell asleep before the ball dropped. I usually watched the New York feed, the East Coast feed, so by nine fifteen I know all about the crowds and the people and Dick Clark's Rock and Eve and all that crap. Switching channels going from the country and Western New Year's to Ryan Seacrest to CNN, and I'll get into that right now. I have some notes I took and I wanted to get this stuff across, and i mean, look, if you think I'm crazy, I'm sorry, but this is what
I see. This is what it's like seeing the world through my eyes. I'm on CNN, right. I'm not a CNN guy, as most of you know, but I've admitted before that I do like CNN's take on wars and disasters better than Fox News, better than anybody's actually. And I'll also admit I was set to hate the New Years. You've coverage from Andy collin Ands and Cooper from CNN and what they were set to bring. I think those guys have done this together several years in a row now and they've got
a team sort of thing going. Kathy Griffin stepped in there for a while, but oh, I'll get into her her divorce on tomorrow's Patreon. I happened to be sitting in the green room with her ex husband when I did the Bill Maher Bill Maher podcast. He was in there as well as Kathy was taping her Bill Maher podcast before I did so. I spent some time with him, and I can sum up there lavender marriage in one word, but I'll do that on Patreon tomorrow. But look, Andy Cohen Anderson Cooper
up on the booth up top. I think these guys, like I said, I have done a pretty decent job over the years. And typically when you got two gay guys in the booth, you're gonna get a lot of inny window and double on Tandra and what have you. Not because of Anderson Cooper. But Andy Collin is easy to that sort of stuff, and that's fine whatever, but not to mention the men they invite up to the booth. We're gonna do the same as was the case with Neil Patrick Harris,
who spent some time on a remote. Then you had John Mayer live from some kind of cat bar in Japan, which prompted Andy Cullen to say John is surrounded by pussy, which I'm sure was the basis of him inviting John Mayer onto the show. But it figures because John Cohen and I'm sorry, Andy Cohen and John Mayer are extremely close, so close that the rumor mill has basically said they're a couple, and it didn't help and he did, there's solid news that the both of them are looking at buying a house.
In fact, whenever John stays at Andy's, Andy's mom iron his pants before the boys go out to dinner or whatever is they do at night clubbing, who knows, but there's both to buy this house together. And as I mentioned a week or so ago, I don't think John Mayer is gay, but I'm all for him and Andy Collin being a great being great friends who just click. I've had great gay friends that I click with and nothing wrong
with that. As for buying a house together, you know what, it would make pretty sound sense with regard to real estate that they pull their money and grab a big house. They can both afford it, and he Colin is swimming in money. John Mayer is a rock star. I mean, money's not an issue with these two guys. But as I said, I don't think John Mayer is gay, not with all the stunning women he has
in his wake, and if he is, I just don't care. What I do care about is not so much what Andy and Anderson did in the booth. It was what was happening on the other New Year's Eve special, the one hosted by the plastic man Ryan Seacrest. But actually, before I go any further, I want to say this, Andy and Anderson Cooper, they finally hit well, they finally hit a high when Andy asked Anderson for
some liquor. Because Andy loves to drink up in the booth. Cooper does too, but he got a little bit too wound up last time, and Anderson Cooper told Andy that he didn't bring him any So Andy said, well, I brought some daddy juice. I'll take care of us, And with that he pulled out a big bottle of booze from a bed. Now this is a little bit rebellious because the CNN boss, or the last boss, Chris Licked, put out a mandate that there would be no CNN house drinking
liquor on camera. But of course Andy Cullen, always the rebel, brought his own bottle and they went off to the races. Obviously, Cooper can't drink as much as Cohen, but when he did drink, it was funny. He got very gigly, he began to get lit up, and you saw that crack in his veneer when you know, we know Henderson Cooper would be a straight journalist. Well, let me tell you, speaking as a former journalist on the job for many years, but now just a guy who
podcasts with a journalism and background. Journalists can drink, so it's interesting to see Anderson Cooper not be able to drink. But when he does, he becomes so much looser. I hung around many times with Dan Rather, the former network newsman who was a big shot for many years. You could not have asked for a better newsman, or you couldn't have asked for somebody you wanted your news from than Dan Rather. He was, you know, the next Walter Cronkite. But when Dan Lai used to go out at night,
my god, was he an animal. I've said this on many a shit. I have so many stories about Dan and I. But really Dan getting trashed and saying things he probably shouldn't have said. But Dan approaches a bartender and always asks for his drink this way, barkeep four fingers wild turkey in a rocks glass, But barkeep four fingers up and down, not sideways. I'm thirsty, not dirty. He has all these little sayings, no water back because I'm thirsty, not dirty. He loves to have these little things
in his back pocket. But journalists can drink and they have fun when they do. And it was fun to see Anderson Cooper get giggly when he began to get lit up. I liked it, but it didn't end like last year when and with Andy Cohen screaming that New York City's former mayor Michael Bloomberg was the worst and needs to leave when he said, Sayonara, I think he said scumbag off air too off camera, ce and ain't got nervous of
that shit. But look, the show was fun. It was a fun show, you know, and that's the way you're supposed to be on New Year's Eve. Fun. On the other network, ABC, we got lyon Ryan and his little helpers, Genie May who just got divorced from her man Geezy. I don't know what this guy does or sings. I know he's a rapper, I don't know his music for the life of me. She's out there with Rita Aura and Doniana Torres, all right, Mark Anthony's Mark
Anthony's with her. I don't know what she's done on TV. I'm sure she's done spots here and there from one of the entertainment channels. I really don't follow her. They're out there and the cold in New York. It was such a snooze fest. Oh you know what, maybe Doniana Torres was in Florida. I forget I was switching channel so much. But Genie May and Rita Ara were in New York and it was this newze fest. I'd rather see Dick Clark when he had his stroke counting down from ten. How
embarrassing that. I mean, I'm not making fun of the guy, but it's on record. I don't like Dick Clark. Him and I got into it. But you don't need your year to end with a man who can barely speak saying the fig five four. Not making fun of stroke victims, but most stroke victims stay away from live TV after their stroke, but not Dick Clark. He's got to be an alignmentate. So we're on the Channel
ABC with the straight host that's in quotes, straight host Ryan Seacrest. And there were so many messages sent out that, in my opinion, showed an agenda, okay, and not just the gay agenda, but in my opinion, also the notion that while we party the night away and Joe Biden takes us three one hundred and eighty second day of vacation. I don't want to hear shit about Trump golfing anymore. Not to mention, the border was about
to be slammed with tens of thousands of more migrants. Some of the imagery and words and sounds that ABC decided to put up pissed me off. For starters. Could someone tell me who put this plan of foot to have this new young comic named Matt Friend to be the next Mister Everything? Have you seen this kid? Do you know who he is? Go look at his YouTube Matt Friend fr ie nd. He's a stand up comic, does a lot of great impressions, especially as Trump is. Trump is spot on,
But who even is this kid? He's twenty five years old, the opportunities he's getting, he's everywhere. I don't know who's pulled the strings in this kid's life or whether he's straight or gay, But in my opinion, I think the game mafia has their hands in his career because he is moving up so quickly. Where were you when you were twenty five? And the way Secrets is patting him on the back and glad handing him looks like this kid is being groomed for some big jobs. And I use the word groomed on
purpose. Anyhow, before the ball drops, Seacrest throws it to Rita Ara, who, by the way, has always been known as a crazy woman. She's been called horrorsh because of her previous dating lifestyle. Now she's married to the director what's his name, But she's always been the kind of chickens always out there, you know. She's married to Taika Watiti, right, the director, who's good director actor. He's done some good stuff. Obviously
Jojo Rabbit was great, but now they're a couple. They were having three symes look whatever floats you bo. But now she's family friendly and she gets to stay in the crowd on New Year's Eve. It's a pretty big gig. So Ryan throws it to Rita horror as we used to say, and she's mingling with the crowd. They're getting very excited because it's almost time for the ball to drop, or a half hour away, and she asks this woman behind her, to her right, what is her New Year's resolution?
And the woman says, and she didn't look butcher or anything, the typical woman. She goes, uh, definitely more rock climbing, gotting it up on those rocks, rock climbing all the way in twenty twenty four. Okay, one wants the rock climb. Good for her? Wow, I am woman, hear me raw, very impressive. Then she turns to the man on the other side, What did I use, sir? What's your resolution for twenty twenty four? What do you see yourself doing more in twenty twenty
four? And this guy says straight to her face, definitely crochet. I'll be doing a lot more crocheting. Not laughing. Wasn't a joke. But we're witnessing the death of straight men right before al very eyes on a nationally televised programmer, and look it bothers me that they definitely set this kind of thing up during the commercial. You know, some producer, it's their job
to go and find these people in the crowd on purpose. Whoever that producer is, she or he made it her point or their point to make sure that they found these people who fit the profile of what men and women should be in their eyes. I know I'm right. All those crowd questions are typically set up so you don't get some crazy drunks or cycles that I'll say, dumb shit on live TV. You've got to get the right people. Then they turn over the microphone to the great Paul Anka, who's eighty two
years old. I love Paul Anka, I mean my way, come on, he wrote that for Frank Sinatra. Even though he sings in himself. Paul Anka is a national treasure. Songs like Diana, you are my Destiny, You're having my baby, put your head on my shoulder, the times of your life, national treasure, as I said, And if you think he's been a terrific singer, you should sit down and talk to him over dinner like I did. My God, this guy's got stories, the life
he's led, the things he's seen. I'm talking the birth of Las Vegas, hanging out with Sinatra, Mafia's stories, Hollywood stories for days. Paul Anka has had a hell of a life. Not to mention, by the way, did you know that he's Jason Bateman's father in law. Yeah, find that Jason maybe married his daughter interesting. But I'll give you an example, a real quick example of what kind of stories Paul Anka has in his back pocket. He and Buddy Holly worked on a song that paul Anka wrote
for Buddy Holly called it doesn't matter anymore. But a few weeks before the song was finished, Buddy Holly died in that plane crash, and Paul Anka made sure to give all the royalties from that song to Buddy Holly's heartbroken wife. Stand up guy not to mention when that plane went down and changed Anchor's life as well. He didn't travel as much, he didn't do the road as often. It changed a lot of lives. But that shows you the kind of stand up guy Paul Anker is and the kind of stories he's got
at the tip of his tongue. As much as I love Paul Anker and guys like him are Tony Bennett, they don't belong as the performer to send us to the countdown. These guys, however precious they are or work, don't make them sing anymore because now they just talk their songs. They don't sing their songs. Paul Anker was talking the song he sang last night, and a talked song is not what we need right before the most raucous close
of an evening during the year. Come on, producers figuring this out, Like you found the guy who crochets, you could have Paul Anker sing earlier in the night. But worse than that, he's singing the John Lennon song. Imagine, now I love that song, but the lyrics suddenly, this time my life, this time of year, what's happening right now? Those lyrics to me, sound a lot like this was a message from the liberal ABC network to let's say, embrace the millions of illegal immigrants already here and
the fucking poisonous parade to follow. Imagine, there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. No, it's not hard, because we're watching every country pillage America right now. Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too well, the Muslims will have a lot to say about that. Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one. No, right there, the world will be
as one. That's about open borders. Don't get me. I see hidden meanings everywhere. I couldn't even watch Dora the Explorer with my kids because I knew it was about immigrants coming from Mexico. I know it. I'm the guy, I'm that father grumpy old troll rhymes with border patrol. I'm sorry. And Dora had the map. She got the map from a coyote. I know what I'm saying. It's all there. It's all imagery that they put in front of you that they don't realize. But this you have to
realize. The world will be as one that's no borders. That means ABC is fine with America losing not only it's borders, but also it's language and it's culture. And I'm not so one more thing about that night that I can think of right now. I wrote these down because they were bothering the shit into me. As soon as the ball drops. The very first shot, ABC goes to You're ready, and these things are obviously meticulously planned.
The very first shot is two black gay men sloppily kissing each other on the mouths. That's it. Not a man and a woman. And I'm still sure that the norm here in America and around the world is a man and a woman union. Not even a picture of a family. How about a mother and a father are hugging their little ones. What about that? Wouldn't that be a warm message to send on a cold December night. No. Two black gay men. Why because lgb t Qia plus the rest of thebaut
Fungoul army. That's why if before you paint me as a gay basher, and don't, because there's nothing further from the truth. I just tell it like it is. Listen to me. Here's what bothers me the most is that the men then most of us grew up with, the men who most of us had in our homes as kids. These men that we grew up with and learned from and admired and loved and even feared to a degree, are just gone. They're not including anymore games. Lock you gotta go,
We're not turning the camera on you anymore. If they're not fully gone, then they're holding on by their fingertips before extinction sets in. I still want to see men like my father represented on TV. I'm tired of every man in a TV commercial or a TV show be the bumbling idiot who can't cook dinner. When mom goes off on a big business trip for two days, she comes downstairs with a luggage all packed, and Daddy says, I've got it. And when she gets back, oh, the sauces on the ceiling.
The kid in the high chest, got whipped cream and mashed potatoes on his hair. Oh, it's all things go to shit because mom left town. Dad can't talk to the car dealer until mom does she gets the good price. He can't teach his kid how to drive because well, he's just not the best driver himself. You've all seen this buffoon portrayed time and time
again. Not get angry because I missed my father and I missed men like him, and not for enough that those men did pretty well when it came time to protect America and build America, not fuck that, protect the world. These were the men who were rarely seen in our school classrooms. That just wasn't a place they went, but always spent their days off with their family. These were tough guys, and a lot of them were forced to be that way when they went off as teenagers and protected the world from the
likes of the Third Reich and Japan. But just once, I'd like to see men like them portrayed on TV or in a remote shot or in a Times Square crowd, just once. Wouldn't it be great if a TV host asked a man in the crowd what was his New Year's resolution, and he said this year, and I don't want to work as hard. I want to spend more time with my family rather than I really need the crowchhe more,
give me a fucking break. Look on tomorrow's Patreon. I've got really good stuff on Jermaine Jackson and the sexual assault case, as well as a personal story that goes with Jermaine Jackson and his ex wife and the mother of his two sons. Also Paula Abdul facing the same sort of state don't after Nango Lifthgow for sexual assault that happened many, many years ago. I've got information on that, not to mention personal anecdotes having hung out with Paula in
the past and know about her lifestyle if you want to call that. I've got news on Share and her son, her son from that dopey drug addict Greg Olman and what's going on in his drug addictive life and the conservativeship Share wants to set up. And also a personal story of myself meeting Share and spending the after in her house many years ago. So I urge all of you, before the week is over, how about today take some of that Christmas money you got. Maybe you got a visa card, one of those
gift cards. Yeah, that's it, that's the ticket. Then go to patreon dot com slash Famous Bitch and hear the stories that only I have from the horse's mouth. And I'm the horse, get it. But I'm not full of horseshit. I'll full of the real deal. That's it for today, gang. We're starting off the new year with a promise that this year will be the best when it comes to dirt. All right, get it from me first, I'm AJ Benzon. That was your free show for January
second, twenty twenty four. Oh two. I'm sorry one two two o two four. I'll talk to you in a couple of days. Thank you for listening. Fame as a Bitch is an AJ Benzon Workhouse Connect production featuring the endless wisdom, insightful commentary, and sometimes fucked up perspective Jay Benza, executive producer, Mike Agavino, h