Fame. Uh, he'd liked to be walked on a leash and play really dirty, kinky sex games. Is the guy put the cock in the peacock network? Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody, aj Ben's are here with Fame as a Bitch. This is your free show for February tenth, twenty twenty four. Two one o two oh two four. A lot of good numbers up there. It looks to be a good days, gonna be an even greater weekend. The super Bowl is upon us, free birds, What
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five bucks against your nothing. Or you could play some props on a super Bowl and lose your shirt on Sunday. Maybe I got some prop bets I like. I haven't bet anything yet, but I'll throw twenty here, twenty to the air, forty the air, fifty there, and see what happens. Not looking for a big score, just something to make the game fun. You get me. Speaking of the game, it comes something really sloppy.
Oh, this is gonna be so bad. Look, I've made a case that Travis Kelsey's exe girl, light skin black girl, Kayla Nicole is a looker. I mean she's a sexy woman. They were together for a while. And then if you look at Travis Kelsey's exes, several of them are light skin, black girls, attractive, etc. And then you hold them up against Taylor Swift, who's to complete opposite in terms of color and personality and attitude. But she is a billionaire pop star that adds a lot
of luster, a lot of shine to your statue. Put it that way, but it comes something sloppy. Oh God, So Kayla Nicole is in Vegas for the Super Bowl. Well, let's just say she's in Vegas to find a new man, and she's going from party to party and she'll be on every list. It looks like she probably had a falling out with Patrick and Britney Mahomes, but clearly she's getting along just fine with Patrick's brother, Jackson Mahomes, because Jackson and Kava were together the other night hanging out in
Vegas. Kelsey's former flame, she was with her for years before Taylor Swift, and now Patrick's younger brother who always has issues and problems. He's the brother you gotta keep an eye on, keep a lid on. When one brother becomes we're all famous, the other brother kind of reacts in a weird way. Keep an eye on him. Well, these two were very cozy up at Aria's High Limit Lounge. I know exactly where that is. It's on the way to Moneyline. Pizza and the great big sports book that the
Aria has. I'll be there in a few days. They didn't leave each other side for over an hour. This is gonna get sloppy and weird. Keep your eye on that. By the way, let me just jump on this topic now as I need to. It's getting out a hand. So Bill Maher has announced that he acts a two hour podcast episode he had with Kanye West because he was fearful he might be further spreading Kanye's anti Semitic views. So you might have seen TMZ's special TMZ investigates Kanye West Unhinged but Unstoppable.
You see that title. They have to placid him to make him think they still think he's great, so we'll talk to them. It's basically saying Kanye West is fucking crazy, but he'll still make music as long as people buy it. Instead, they write unhinged but unstoppable, and most narcissists think that's a great line. Oh my god, they love me. Not really, bro, So Bill said to Harvey Levin, Look, I brought Kanye into my podcast club Random with Bill Maher, thinking it could be a learning
moment for him. So Bill said, So they had an amazing fun time recording the podcast, but he decided, eh, let's not release it. He didn't want to contribute to Kanye's spreading anti Semitism, and Bill said, he appeals mostly a rock star to young people. They don't know much, and they surely don't know much about the Middle Easter or Jews, which is absolutely right. These kids complaining and protesting on college campuses, somebody stopped them
and had them point out the Gaza Strip on a map. They don't know from Gaza Strip and no strips you wear when you can't breathe at night because you're sick. Bill continued, said, So the combination of you know, Kanye out there, I feel like he was helpful for spreading the fertilizer and I do mean fertilizer for this idea that Israel and the Jews are the worst
people in the world. And Bill said, look, if I released the podcast, it would have given a platform to people with similar anti Semitic views. That's why I wouldn't er it because I'm not going to contribute to this. He did describe Kanye as a very charming anti Semite. He said, Oh, by the way, he's not the only one in America who feels that way. It's not like the Jews are universally loved except for Kanye West. We know this comes from Kanye going bananas back in twenty twenty two when
he called for the death He's ongoing death con three on Jewish people. He wrote that on Instagram. Can't do that Instagram or Twitter, I forget which one. Then the floodgates opened and we found that that he would openly express his beliefs at his headquarters around Melrose Place in Los Angeles. He would talk to former employees like that. Na've alleged to the press that he praised Adolf Hitler in the Nazis during meetings. Of course, they made him lose some
branding deals with Didas and Balanciaga and several more. People thought he was broke back then. Kanye said he was broke back then. Meanwhile, he's seems fine now. I don't know how much he was hurt by this short lived but loud boycott, because the guy is still filthy rich and does whatever the hell he wants with whomever he wants. He will not let his new wife, Bianca Sensory dress like normal people. He dresses her every day and night to look like some creation of his. And this girl goes by it.
We all think she's brainwashed. She's certainly beautiful. She's got a mob family in Australia that would take off Kanye's head if they thought he was harming their daughter, sister, what have you. But life goes on. Every time you see them, they're walking barefoot. Of Kanye's wearing like a Friday the thirteenth mask on his face. Jason Vorhees, I don't know what explain, even in the heat, three layers of clothes, a leather jacket, leather
pants, a face mask. What does he smell? What does his ball smell like? You know, boots in July, leather pants, leather shirt, leather jacket. Oh disgusting, you know. Whenever. I don't want to say the wrong thing here, but there are certain people who have certain
odors. In New York back in the nineties, when cab drivers could be as filthy as they wanted to be and even eat some disgusting meal in the front seat while they picked you up for a ride, it was not uncommon for people to sit in a cab and two blocks later go, you know, I'm getting out right here. Fuck this, This cab stinks like my ass. You must pay me, You must pay me. I'm not paying you, shit pal. Everything stinks in here. Which you fucking kill fifteen
hundred fish in your trunk? You what's going on and what the fuck are you eating? Rudolph Giuliani clean that all up. If you own a cab or you work for a cab company, the trunk of your cab had to be Christine. Nothing in it. A lot of these filthy people had sitting in a trunk that stunk food from the other old country that people brought in from Pakistan or whether the hell India. Over on Second Avenue, that's where all the Indian cab drivers, all the seats went to have lunch or dinner.
They had a tin plates that they pick you up. Terrible smells. That's what Kanye must smell like. Ugh. We all know he's bipolar, and we screamed about Hitler and Donald Trump and Jesus during a big ten minute rant in Las Vegas recently. I know I'm gonna bump into him. I know it. I'm gonna beat the Aria. I know he's gonna be there. Something's gonna go down. He did apologize to the Jewish community in Hebrew. He has enough time to learn Hebrew. Sincerely apologize to the Jewish community
for any unintended outburst cause. But my words are actions. It was not my intention to hurt or disrespect, and how deeply we get any pain that may have caused. And then he committed himself to learning about the experience and to get greater sensitivity and understanding. And they admitted this same old bullshit, same old bullshit, one on one. This whole thing reminds me of MSNBC blacking out Trump's speeches to protect the public from dangerous ideas. Everybody's gotta stop
with the gatekeeping. Bill Maher included, you didn't want to show Kanye seeming like an anti semi lunatic, Well why not, let's see it. You don't want to show it because it would show his anti Semitic views, Okay, but then the media reports his anti Semitic views anyway, So just show the tape, show the podcast the bigger story, if I may say so, Is it just me or are Kanye and I in a very closed club, the closed club of Bill Maher not airing our podcast appearances it's only me
and Kanye. I believe Adam Crow has finally ran, so it's just me and Kanye. We're in this little elite group of people who Bill doesn't want to put on the air. I think it's time to make not being interviewed by Bill a cool thing. What do you think will that fly? So many of you keep asking me a j did you ask Bill when he's gonna ever air your podcast? Listen, gang, I don't know how many times I can tell you. This took place many months ago. At the time
I told you I was drinking. I was drinking at his place because his alcohol everywhere, and then I had the dumb idea to take a few hits off one of his joints and listen, I'm not a marijuana guy. That messed up my head that very night. When I got home, I could remember more than half of what we spoke about. At this point in time, I remember about one eighth, the first eighth being him and I knocking heads about Biden and Trump. I was relentless. Bill was aggressive, and
some of you have boycott at him or are talking shit about him. Don't do that on my account. I got no ill will toward Bill or feelings of anger about that nothing. I'm fine, listen, it could have been a merciful thing for him not to air the episode that I was on. Really, people posted stories and memes about how awkward Bill looked when his guest Patrick bet David, who by the way, is such a plant and a
shill and a shy star. I can't take it down with monsters basically reading a book and learning about Samuel Bowl, he learns about Michael Frenchay's and puts them together in the same room, trying to close a fight so he gets bigger numbers, bigger ratings. The guy's are fucking planned. He's not what you think he is. Came to America and made himself very wealthy. Good for him. But all these things he's doing, his podcast network, all this horse shit. Now, Now, why do people think he's so goddamn
important. Well, Patrick Begdavid was talking a bill about California, and by the way, Patrick bet David won't say if he's voting for Biden or Trump, but he does make fun of Biden, but he won't say if he's voting for Trump. I can't stand people like that. I don't you know, why he doesn't want to lose any viewers. Got to keep all the listeners. Fuck it, I am who I am. If you don't like Cohan, move on, go SOMEBCE else. Heathy McDonald's got plenty of people
that are dying to hear a show once again. I like Heather. It's just an inside joke. But this whole thing about I'm not gonna tell you I'm voting for listen. I'll do my thing, you do yours. But Patrick bed David PbD as we call him, asked, Bill, Okay, you know you live in California. What has Gavin Newsom done that sold Bill with California? And Bill couldn't answer it, and PbD was like, Bill, Bill, you're a results guy. See you're a results guy. That's
code talk. He doesn't know that Bill is a results guy, but it makes his point. I could do a whole show on what a bullshit are as Patrick bed David is. This guy's a plant that slipped in because he never says anything outside the lines. Anywhow Bill, you're a results guy? What is Gavin Newsom done for California? And Bill couldn't think it anything, so he just said he made it rain this week? What do you want
from me? Most of you wanted me to take him to task. In fact, one of my patrons wrote something to me on the Patreon page that I think is a little ridiculous. He goes, So, your pal Bill whatever his name is, just made a fool of himself with PbD on his show. You still claim him? First of all, bro, I can't take anyone serious who pretends not to know Bill Maher's last name. And if you really don't know his last name, then that just shows me how tuned
out you are. Of course you know his last name. And by the way, knowing his last name doesn't mean you automatically have to like him or agree on his stances. Yes, he looked like a fool when Patrick Bete David pressed him up against it about the Gavin News something absolutely, but that whole ending. Do you still claim him? You mean as a friend, of course I do. You never had a friend who, for a few seconds in time, didn't have to quick comeback, couldn't spin out an answer
fast enough for you. Bill Maher is as sharp as they come, and for a moment he didn't look so sharp with his answer to the PbD question. But yeah, he's still my friend. If I dropped friends every time they said I did something dumb, I'd be a very lonely guy. In fact, conversely, a lot of my friends would have dropped me years ago because of dumb shit. I said. Anyhow, I don't drop friends I've
known for over thirty years. And I spoke to Bill last week. As soon as real time ended last Friday, I called him up and I said, I want to come see you doing. You're doing the mirage is sixteenth and seventeen Febry. Yeah, I want to come see you. Great man, come to sixteenth. But well after the show will go out. Cool. I'm bringing Andrew Great. He and I are fine, like we've always been. I'm not so smug to think that him not airing my interview on
his podcast is a big mistake on his part. Like I've said many times, Gang, he may have done me a favor. I was getting sloppy there for a while. Remember that. Speaking of sloppy, the troubled son of who's that honest? Who's that honest? Not many people. Theovan's very honest. Tucker Calson's honest, although he's gotta be careful he's really reaching the heights. Now. This interview with Putin, which was fantastic, can't believe
journalists are mad how Dairy interviewed this man. This man's killing Ukrainians. Listen. Then that's what you do. You gotta go talk to the bad guys. And since you real journalists won't do it, Tucker said, fuck it, I'll do I'm not scared. Let's go handsh it out. You gotta talk to these people. They feel more important that way. It actually behooves you to talk to them. Leaving them alone to their own devices not the
greatest idea, Like I said. The troubled son of music icon Cindy Lauper was caught with a gun and some drugs after a shooting that took place in Harlem the other night. Cops for canvassing this area a hundred twelve street after some young guy was shot in the leg outside of an apartment building. Fifteen minutes later, the MIPD finds the rapper, Declan Dex Laupper, near the
building with a gun and drugs. It's not clear if he was connected or how he's connected to the shooting, but bad place, bad time man, shooting victims and stable condition. But there's a story here. Lapper was charged with Lauper. Laper was charged with the criminal possession of a weapon, and that weapon being his mother's voice. No, I'm kidding, but she did ruin We all the world? Man, Well, well, who the fuck talkt Who did she clear that one? Anybody? You got all these great
musicians recording on us laying down their lines? Beautiful Cindy Lauper comes in. Well, well, well, oh my god, talking about needing attention, and here's her son needing attention as well. It's not the first time this kid has caused problems. His father is David Thornton, nice guy. A couple of years ago, Decks copped the play and avoided jail time because he
was busted with a stolen Mercedes outside another Rappers memorial. Yeah you don't want to You want to show up in a spiffy car to the other rappers memorial, steal a car and go to the memorial that really is rock and roll or I guess rap. Back then, a judge in Manhattan ordered him to complete five days of community service and have promised to stay out of trouble for one year. Once he pled guilty to disorderly conduct. He stole a fucking
car. I can't take these pussy judges in DA's You know what, if you or I stole that car, We're going to jail. I think he and Tom Hanks' rapper's son should do a record together about how hard it was growing up wealthy and privileged. Actually, you know what, Chet Hanks has come a long way. He's a Christian now and he's making an honest living as a fitness trainer. So he made us laugh for a while with his shenanigans, But now apparently Chet is on the straight and narrow. Guy steals
a car and the Manhattan DA lets him get away with it. Now a gun. Let's see if the DA treats him like a celebrity again and lets him get away with it again, and then let's see what crimes this guy does next. Hey, Alvin Brett, you stupid DA doucheban. If you didn't know broken windows policing and prosecuting actually works. Yeah, you can prosecute people. It works. I swear under Rudy Giuliani, when I was in New York City, there was no screwing around. It was the first time
I actually knew a mayor who was leading this city. I was so tied to where I made my living, where I earned my stripes, where I was a big name. And I've said in the past, as much as Rudy and I argued, you know, he was trying to shut down nightlife, putting in new parking rules, putting in distance rules. You can't be this close to a neighborhood or a school if you play music after two two am. Well, no one's in school at two am. What's the difference.
But that all these crazy rules Rudy was coming out with and it was hurting my lifestyle. And him and I went head to head. I had to head with him in the paper, and I'd see him in the lanes at night and over a drink we'd argue together. How much more can you ask of a mayor, of a man to just face the shit and come and argue with them? What the journalists who wrote what he wrote. I
love that about him. I'll never say bad words about it, even though he was crucified for standing up for Trump and his fucking hair dye leaked down his face. Oh god, you know what that shit happens? Just last night Shaquille O'Neil on the NBA on TNT, he put too much dye in his beard. It was too black, and he wiped it away with a napkar. You could see all the black on his beerd everybody left. Giuliani does it, and the whole world thinks he's a shyster and a scam and
a filthy human being. Ridiculous. He really cleaned up that city, always honest and up front about how slowly he was gonna kill New York City's nightlife. And he did. But by the time that happened, I was gone. One night after Jack and Rosalie and all of us had seen a Broadway play and then we all walked to Carmares. We actually wasn't a play. We saw this guy dance. He was at the time apparently dating Naomi Campbell. I think his name was Joaquin Something. This beautiful, fucking handsome,
sleek dancer. I want to say Spanish or Portuguese, something like that. Well, what a dancer. The whole hour and a half was him dancing show Joaquen Something. I'm pretty sure Joaquin Something, I'll find it. But we saw him, and then we had a big family style meal over at Carmines. Bumped into my godfather, Richard Mantilla, the great artists who passed away a couple of years ago. He sat with us. He's supposed to be in Ohio, but he was in New York. We bumped into him.
It was amazing, great meal. We leave, let's go walk to our cars. Eleven fifty eight pm. It could be midnight, and ten minutes we found ourselves turning a corner and on forty second Street and eighth Avenue, well, forty second in Broadway, and you could see the swirl of street lights and tail lights headed downtown. Normally, if you're on forty second in Broadway at midnight, your stomach would drop and you'd pray for a cab to come by. But with Juliani in charge, forty second Street was still
crowned with parents and little ones in carriages and strollers. The Disney Store was jammed. There were throngs of people walking. My nobody seemed up tight. Everybody was light on their feet, happy to go where they were head. Try that nowadays. Try to walking down a migrant street nowadays in New York City. Speaking of being out at night with drugs and a gun. Cindy's son was arrested while he started a building in one hundred and twelve Street.
That's Harlem. That's a bad street to be on. Nothing good happens in the streets of Harlem after dark. I'll tell you a story. One time, Joey and I were in New York City having dinner at this place that my monster pal owned. Place was called Maria Elena, named after this gangster's very pretty daughter. She was dating our buddy John Scotto at the time. The Scatto's are a big name in New York City. Rosanna Scatto, it's a long time New York City newswoman, an anchor hosts the morning show in
New York City. I did my book tour. I went to see her there. She's great. Everybody loves Roseanne. Her family owns the popular restaurant Fresco. But there's also monsters on her side of the fence. Okay. Father was Anthony Scotto. Came from Italy, ended up being a long shoreman with plenty of friends and relatives in the mob. Eventually he became a labor union racketeer in the Gambino crime family who ruled the Brooklyn waterfront Anthony Scotto was
toughest nails. One of his sons, Anthony Jr. Took after his dad and became a made man. My buddy, John Scotto was on the fringes, but he was coming as the college educated monster's son, like a Frenzies. But things never panned out. Apparently there was a time when he was involved with a crime of some sort and he went and rattled out someone and that was the end of his being an almost mobster. Anyhow, the guy who was gonna be John Scotto's father in law was named Andrew gard Julo.
He owned the restaurant Maria Elaine's, and he and I got along great. His daughter and I were friends for a long time. Andrew loved that. I used to get some New York Knicks to go eat to the restaurant. Some superman. I got Jack Nicholson to meet this for dinner one night. That's when he showed with Ashley Judd, who was hanging all over him and
calling him daddy. That was the weekend he blew off his shoot for George magazine and inadvertently told me that John Kennedy was getting married off the coast of Georgia in two days. Andrew loved all that, and whenever the restaurant was filled with beautiful people or famous people, he used to come over to me and squeeze my shoulders and always give me food to take home. But Andrew
Gordula was known as the biggest bookmaker on the East Coast. He used to hate it when I got down action with him and I mentioned that I was gonna put five hundred bucks on a game, a thousand on a game. He didn't like that. He wanted me to do better with my money, and he'd tell me win a Louise. You're coming to see me, but I hate to see it when you gotta pay me pal, But this is business, I said, I know, Hendrew, don't worry, but I
could pay you. But they called him bank because of the amount of money he theoretically was holding every damn night of the week. So in the early nineteen nineties the Feds in the Brooklyn DA they considered guard Dulo the largest book hey on the East Coast. They said he was a gentlemanly mobster, but basically a moneyman. He's not a man of violence, and he wasn't He spoke softly. Ninety four he pled guilty to a corruption he ran the legal
gambling operation. No surprise there. He got one to three years in prison. He paid one and a half million bucks in restitution. I bring up Andrew Guardjulo because one day his life just hit a patch of black ice and it spun out of control, no coming back. He's having dinner one night in Brooklyn with his wife and his sister's husband, his brother in law, and they're reading in Brooklyn and a mob joined called Amtschi. Now, like I said, Andrew was Genevieci, his brother in law was Gambino. But
that happens, it's no big deal. Some point, some bullshit starts up at the table, and now the two men are arguing vehemently, and this violence spills out into the street. Andrew Gardulo had taken a dinner and my estate knife out with him. When he went to the street. His brother in law was unarmed, and he proceeded to stab him. His brother in law, Preston Germedtana. He stabbed him five times in the chest, killed him in cold blood in the street. Women and children screaming and crying.
Just to show you what a small world it is around New York City and the mob. Preston Gerretana was one of the guys who pulled the trigger in the nineteen ninety one murder of John Gotti's former chauffeur and bodyguard, Bobby Borriello.
A few weeks after this happened, I got a message from Anthon, from Andrew Gardulo, from his daughter, and they were asking me or somebody to write a very positive article on Andrew and to show people that he wasn't just the biggest bookie on the East Coast and a made member of the genev c crime family. He was a smart businessman. He wanted people to see the side of him that was a great father and a grandfather, somebody who
shook hands with so many actors write as politicians around New York City. In other words, Andrew knew this was not something he was used to doing, all right. He was a moneymaker, not a bone breaker, not a life taker for the mob. So this sudden murder shook up the neighborhood. In restaurant world, people couldn't believe it. I told Maria Lana that there was much as much I could do. I didn't have a newspaper. I was writing for At the time, I said, I'd try to get this
idea to someone else at the post of the news. But I don't know, Maria. It's not going to be easy, and I couldn't do it. Andrew never got that good pr story he wanted. I felt bad about it, but not as badly as I felt when I heard he killed his brother in law and cold blood. I mean, one minute, you're dropping into a guy's joint, you're betting on the Knicks, having a nice big dinner and espresso with him as the wade is head home. The next you
realize you're never gonna see that guy again. He was sixty seven and he got a twenty life bid right around now he's almost ninety. So one night Joey and I were eating there and we told his buddy to meet us there at one hundred and thirteenth Street, one hundred and thirteenth Street, where Andrews restaurant was, And we're waiting and wait, and he should have been here by now it's forty five minutes since he got the Penn station. Now what's
going on? If he's walking, he should have been here. Joey goes off, makes a phone call. He says, hey, where are you? He goes, Hey, Joey, I'm on one hundred and thirteenth Street. Where are you? Guys? We're like, where are you? He was on speaker. He said, you told me to go one hundred and thirteenth Street. He said no, no, no, no, we said one hundred thirteenth Street, number, one hundred thirteenth Street. Dude, you're in a Harlem it's after eleven. You're gonna be killed. You the whitest
guy in the world. He said, I've been trying to hail cabs. No one's picking me up. I'm like, yeah, that's always the case. No camby likes to take anyone to Harlem uptown because they know they're probably gonna get jacked or driven into a scenario where the driver has his boys waiting to ambush the guy or three cavvies know that if they take anyone up to Harlem, they're probably not going to get a ride a fair back down to Midtown, so they'll speed off. If they see a black guy start to
say and address in Harlem, they will peel out on you. His friend made it there at one piece. But it makes me think, what CYNDI Lauper must be feeling because I was nervous for that kid that night. That is her son, hernaire Dowell's son, who's out there with guns and drugs on one hundred and twelve Street. Not good to know your son has a drug issue and he was hanging on the streets in Spanish Harlem. That's what you call losing your boy. That kid does not feel parented at all,
and I'll guarantee you he's a spoiled brad Anyo gang. Go to patreon dot com Slash is a Bitch. A lot of personal stories this week. I love for you. Here some intricate rumors that are making the rounds that I've cracked. Of course, the conspiracy theory surrounding Travis Kelcey and Caller Swift is discussed. My rant against Black History Month is discussed, which got some people pissed off. But hey, I gotta be me, I gotta be me. I got it all right. I'm aj Benzon. That was your free
show, Free Birds, February tenth, twenty twenty four. We'll talk again next week. Thank you for listening. Fame as a Bitch is an aj Benza Workhouse Connect production featuring the endless wisdom, insightful commentary, and sometimes fucked up perspective. AJ Benza executive producer, Mike Agavino Kah