Erotic City

I'm not going to google it now, but I know when I used to hang out with Lenny Kravitz, he loved the number five. He had a pendent on his neck that had a five on it. I just remember stupid details like that. But we are in November, almost a weekend. It's happening pretty quickly. By the way, Only one of you, only one of you, And I'm really

upset about this. Out of all the people who listen to my show and know what I think, and only one of you told me that October was dwarf Ism Awaren Awareness Month, and you just did you act like that's not important. Aj doesn't need to know this a month dedicated to raising awareness and promoting inclusion for people who are dwarfs like Selena Gomez and Denny Blanco and

come on. The Little People of America established US back in twenty or nine because they wanted to share positive stories and information about the lives of people with dwarfism. Sometimes you can call it dwarfism. Dwarfism. Pride Month also includes International Dwarfism Awareness Day. I dad, that's October twenty fifth. The point is, no one told me, but k okay, I'm sorry, I'm looking trying to find your whole name.

I know it's you got k L k You got like three three k's in your name of some shit. You're very, very wonderful patron and you're always k l tyl God. Your name is crazy baby, it really is. But k L Kyle told me that, and none of you did. I forgive you. By the way, Can I just I'm gonna read you something really quickly because you know how I feel about great words. Why can I talk right today? You know how I feel about great words, and when they go together, it just makes oh, it

makes magic. Obviously, I have a ton of books that I have in different parts of my house, and every day I knew one turns up and I go, oh, yeah, I love this book. Shit. And now that rot tho is looking to read and it's more interested in novels, I'm really looking for stuff for him to read. I came across this book by the great writer Rick Bragg. Rick Bragg wrote a book called all Over but the Shouting Oh, and then he wrote a book a follow

up called Ava's Man. Oh, It's so good. This guy grew up in a deep South, kind of like a JD. Van's story Appalachian foothills kind of shit. But listen to this, by the way, a gang. If anybody out there thinks the first sentence of your book doesn't matter, let me give you his first sentence of his book. She was old all my life period? Can you see her? Do you understand where this story is gonna go? Six words?

Even when I was sitting in face, even when I was sitting in the red dirt, fascinated with my own toes, Ava's face had a line in it. For every hot mile she ever walked, for every fit she ever threw. Her hand was long and blackest crows streaked with white in her eyes behind the ancient yellow glass of around spectacles were pale, pale blue, almost silver. The blind have eyes like that that color. But Ava could see fine.

Ava could see forever. She could tell you your fortune by gazing into the dreads of your coffee cup, and swore that at the bottoms of your feet, itch, you'd walk on strange ground. She'd be gentle as a baby bird and sweet as divinity candy. But if her prescription was off, or if she got mad, she would sit bolt upright in bed at three o'clock in the morning and dog caused anyone who came to mind, including the dead.

Some days she would doze in a rocker and speak softly the people that I cannot find even by looking under the porch. Now I know, I was just listening to her dreams. Excuse me, oh God, Yes, I like to entertain on this show. I like to entertain and and and give you information you can run with and tell your friends. But things like that, we've got to stop and pause and just go wow, how spectacular. Anyhow,

Welcome to the show. Today. It's an election day and in our great country, and New York City is going through it. It's going through it. They are this close to awarding the mayor's position to an outright socialist. Uh piece of shit, I'm sorry, a piece of shit Muslim who can't stand Jews, can't stand Italians. He wanted a Christopher Columbus statue. You've gone, hates cops. He wants to fund the police. He's bringing up all sorts of shit that he thinks he can do to New York City. Andy,

He's hours away from winning. Okay, this is where we're at in this world. And by the way, this motherfucker excuse my French. I know yesterday's show got I was very emotional. I told you on the on the upswing of the show that I had a couple of drinks the night before, and that's why, you know I said what I said. And I know maybe some of you get disappointed when you hear that, and you go, oh, aj fuck, why isn't he in a meeting? Why isn't he a sponsor? I get all of it. I've done

very well without that whole thing. I'm not gonna call it nonsense. It just it just never felt good to me. Good enough. Put it that way. I've been to a thousand meetings, not a thousand, been to one hundred meetings. I get it, it's good. And then I just feel like, why am I still sitting with these people and hearing the same horrible, sob stories about why their lives were ruined. I don't want to do this anymore. I want to get out of this. That's just my personal thing. So yeah,

sometimes I drink and it's not good. Well I shouldn't say it's not good. It just I bring it to you, you know why, Because what's more important to me than AA is that I have to answer to you, guys. I have to answer to hundreds of you who care about me and wonder about me. And when I'm able to tell you the truth, it just it's such a good feeling. And I want you to know that you, guys are are a bigger help than any support group you might think people need when it comes to alcoholism.

Whatever the fuck I'm serious. Okay, So you maybe get disappointed for a day or two or three, whatever the fuck I'm telling you. You mean so much to me that I can come and tell you that goddamn truth. That's it's invaluable. Anyhow, we got Zoran Mom, Donnie and near a city. Who's gonna beat Cuomo and unfortunately gonna be Curtis Sleever who oh, if I have my brothers, Curtis would win. I'll get to that in a second. But this asshole among other things, and I'm not gonna

spend more than a minute on this. It's politics, so don't worry about it. There's plenty to talk about today. But you know this guy wants free bus fair He's telling everybody free buses in Manhattan. I don't know how many of you have ever ridden a bus in Manhattan. I, for one, only did it once. I forget even why. It's a miserable existence. It's a horrible way to travel. I mean, subways are good, they're fast, but getting down there and being next to crazy people is scary. Cabs

takes so long, they're so expensive. You sit in traffic, you can walk faster. Typically the cab driver usually it used to be that way before Giuliani came in and cracked down. And what they carried in their trunk, what they ate on their lap. Oh, big changes, big changes, but uh, free bus fire. Let Let me enlighten anybody who's thinking this could be a great thing. No, it's not a great thing. You know why, guys, charging a fare for a bus ride is what separates us from

the animals. It separates us from the Anamali. We can't be around those people. Whatever culture you want to call it, black, white, Latin, it doesn't matter. We have crazies in every culture in New York on the prowl. But charging of fair meant that, well, you can't go past the bus driver because you don't have the money. And this country has been overrun with animals from all sorts of shithole countries around the world, far f fun places you and I would never even

dream of going to. We wouldn't. I wouldn't even look at a catalog of that country, let alone live there. But people jump on buses because there's no fear that. They're typically homeless people, or drug addicts or maniacs, troublemakers looking for an easy mark. Yes, sometimes they want to escape the brutal cold of New York City at night. Understandable they do that in Penn Station and Grand Central Station.

They sleep on the Giuliani fix that as well. I used to step over to Well, we call them bums back then. I think that word's got to come back because people need to know that you're a bump. You're a bump. You're not housing challenged, Okay, you're not homeless. You're a fucking bum because you stop working, you take drugs, you get drunk every fucking day, you rob people. You're a bum. Can we bring that back? Can we bring that word back? And schoolyard bullies, can they make another appearance?

Because people need to know what the fuck they're doing wrong in life. And it takes a bully to tell a kid you're doing it wrong. Fuck you. It just takes a schoolyard fight. So much can change in your life in a great way. You have not you have face. Look hit you the jaw, your teeth, hurt, your ears ache, I get it. I've been punched. It sucks, you get

over it, but you know it sticks the lesson. The lesson sticks in your head and you'll never not see that guy's face who punched you because he drilled in a message into your head. Very important. These are big moments in life. You can take that away from from people. Jesus Christ. People jump on buses to escape the cold, to to have withdrawals from their drugs and just to cause shit and try to find somebody to rock. And as they're laying sitting on those bus seats and they're

starting to get warm. Now they've been traveling for thirty forty fifty minutes. Now they're looking to get you. They're looking out jack you for your money, for your bag, for your phone, whatever the hell it is. You cannot have free buses in Manhattan. There's just one little angle about Zoran mom Donnie, that is impossible. And like I said, I think I said that yesterday. Maybe I did, but I'll tell you now, this motherfucker has never it's never been an American flag. And any one of his adverts

I read that. I can't sit here and say that. I looked at every advertisement. I don't know, but I read it in two different places. And if that's the case in New York City, what the fuck are you doing? And all you young people who think this is the new way to go, we want this. Oh, he's going to be great. I see people like stupid Nandy Petink, you know I never liked, can't stand him. Thinks he's a singer. He sounds like my answer in two parts, saying him and his wife. We are supporting Zoran with

this is the man for New York. I can't believe what I'm seeing. But you know what New York have at it? You got yourself a Muslim whose father and grandfather I'm sure had sex with goats in the hills of some piece of shit country. They're from Uganda. What have you? We got a guy who's thirty six who's never really had a job, okay, and and from you Gonda, and he's gonna tell New York City how to live. And I know Curtis Sleever gets a lot of shit.

Most of you have no idea Curtis Sleeber. You know Andrew Cuomo because he's got the name and he was around. He got blamed for old people dying and nursing comes during COVID. He's a piece of shit. I told you him and his brother Chris Clomo the biggest phony Italians in the world. I was proved right. One lost a job, the other one got fucking thrown out. Just I'm always right when it comes Italians and how they act and if they're real or not. They're not. But I'll tell

you right now, Curtisliva, most of you don't know. Back in the I'm gonna say late seventies, this fucking guy was working the night shift and either a McDonald's or a Burger King in the Bronx an overnight shift. Do you have any idea what that's like? Do you have any idea what it's like? I don't know where you live. You can live in a great, little, beautiful community and yeah, you get to McDonald's or a Burger King or White Castle and it's fine. There's no problem in the Bronx overnight.

Curtis Sliva is man in the fry machine. He's given out burgers. He's got a crew of four or five people he works with, nobody decides to do. Crime was so rampan in New York. This is what I really was, deciding what I want to do with my life. And I remember seeing crime and drugs everywhere. And I would go to Manhattan and just I was enchanted by the danger, enchanted by seeing bums and people with hypodermic needles in their toes and in their arms, fast asleep on a stoop.

I just thought, oh my god, this is so scary. I want to be in this horror movie. I want to be here. I want to write about it. I want to be next to these people. I couldn't take it. It was such a pull. Get out of Long Island, leave the safe harbors of Long Island and get to the city where it's dirty and mean and dangerous. Get there and tell some stories. And that's a Curtis sleep with it. Back then, it was so nasty and dark

and dangerous. He motivated him and a few of his people he worked with to ride the subways at night with t shirts that said Guardian Angels and Red Berets. I know it kind of looks silly that he's still wearing the red beret. And he's probably close to seventy right now. I'm sixty three. Curtis has to be I want to say, sixty eight, sixty nine, whatever the hell he is, maybe older, I don't know. He was married to a beautiful woman named Lisa sleeve Was. She was

also a Guardian Angel. I ended up dating her after they divorced, so I know a lot about Curtis. She always spoke very highly of him, and is his determination to make New York a better place. Him and his friends and Lisa would ride the subway at God awful hours, armed with nothing, but they're berets to make sure people got to their designated spots without getting hurt. Jack robbed, mummed. That's the kind of guy you want to run the city because he loves it so much. But it's too late.

He's not gonna win, and his fucking Muslim is gonna win. And I'll tell you right now, if you think you haven't heard the Muslim call for prayer often enough, get ready in New York. Oh, it's gonna be playing five times a fucking day. And while you're at it, by yourself a small piece of carpet and try to find where the mosque is, is an east west, whatever the fuck they pray? Get ready, Never forget nine to eleven. Never, Oh, you forgot it. You forgot it, because now you've got

a Muslim's gonna run the fucking city. You forgot it makes me sick. On a different topic, I thought of something this morning that I just thought it laughing. So remember water Picks. Remember there was a No one has a show like this. Nobody goes from the passionate plea of a Muslim running New York to the memory of water Picks in our bathtost But do you remember you remember, like, oh, hey, there's a new thing. It's a water pick. What does

it mean. Well, you take this toothbrush type thing and you fill it up with water in this machine that sits in your bathroom. It was like a twelve inch machine maybe seven inches high, and had water and a bunch of different picks, and the pick was attached to a wire and you squirk water in between your teeth. This is before dental flows, and water would fly everywhere in your bedroom, hit the mirror, hit the sink, hit the floor, but you left going it. Ooh, my teeth

feels so fresh, my ass fresh. It was the stupidest invention ever. I don't know why I threw to the water picks, how bad, because I started thinking about, you know, me with memories, and I love the memory of my youth, and I just love that. And you think about like, I remember one day, I very rarely have a beer, but I think I was at Rosalies years ago and hot, hot day, cold cold beer. Yeah, ma, have a beer, and I drank it. And after it was over, I had the long neck corona to my nose and I

smelled inside the bottle. You know what happened to me, not while I was drinking it, but when I smelled the inside of that bottle. So many high school men memories came back because so many of them are tied to the smell of beer. You know, all the fun, crazy, silly, wild times we had, typically beer was involved. And it's amazing what your sense of smell can do to your brain to bring you back to that era. Like I was cleaning the bathtub the other day and I, you know,

I throw ajax in there. And let me tell you, the best way to clean your bathtub, believe it or not, used Dawn dish soap. Now a Now, I'm telling you, Dawn Dish shall on a bathtub is fantastic. But I drew comment in there and I'm scrubbing it, and I smelled it a Jackson the Comet at the Comet, and I drew a little bleach in the water, and you

know what it brought me back to. It brought me back to New York City very late at night when we used to go see the Hookers, and we'd stop into show World, which was a big kind of a place in Tire I'm square where you walk in and you put a dollar into these machines and see stag films. They were called stag film. You guys don't even know what that is. Most of you little porto shorts. And you go in this booth and a place called show World. You'd go in a booth and I think it was

a buck. You put a buck in and you'd sit down on this ugly stool and this the wall you were looking at, would open up. It would go up, and now you're looking into this room the size of a modern day living room. You know, I don't know, fifteen by fifteen foot eleven the fuck it was round, and there were girls there laying down, touching themselves, rubbing their bodies, you know, moaning, writhing, and they'd come to your window and talk to you. And you're a sixteen

seventeen year old kid. It's very daunting. It's scary, like well, then a sayless girl. You know, I can't remember what I said, but these girls knew we were kids, and they try to get more money out of us. Oh, if you put more money in, why do you see what I do? And next time, and then after like talking to them for a minute, the door would slam shut you couldn't see them anymore, and you're like, no, no, I gotta give me a CHEEKO, give me another dollar.

I'm out. Come on, Kenny, you got a dollar, I gotta And you put it on a dollar and the door would open up and she's there again talking to you. It was insane. It was like speed dating with whores. Not that we'd never be with them or walk away with them, but that was their chop. And it smelled in those little rooms of Clorox and bleach because I remember seeing the guys come around with their bucket and the mop, because older men would masturbate in those little

rooms and just let it fly on the floor. Oh it was horrible, but what a right of passage? Ah, guys, who does shows like this? I don't think anybody. I really don't. Yesterday I got a package of six beautiful bottles of extra virgin olive oil from a patron Jeffrey Wick. Tremendous guy went to Italy with this girl. They had a tremendous trip. You have no idea. He told me what they did, where they went, where they drove. Guys

spared no expense. As a matter of fact, he tells me I'm gonna get you some olive oil because he came across the place that has Benza olive oil. I said, bro, I'm related to those people. My cousin Orlean got in touch with them. I had this oil twenty five years ago in my house and I told him the story. Anyhow, he sent me six beautiful bottles. It's so expensive I got.

I got a text from the from DHL saying you owe three hundred and seventy something bucks for I said, Jeff, bro, I don't know what did you pay this kind of money. Don't worry, I got it. Don't worry about it, I said, they want for me, No, no, I took care of it. These are the kind of people I got with the Fame family. You're all amazing. You're just amazing people. Oh

my god, how beautiful you are. And thank you for going to aj Beenza dot substat dot com and not only reading my stories of my upcoming book, but subscribing. I don't care if it's ten bucks a month or a hundred bucks of a year, the fact that you do it, Oh God, I love you guys. Anyhow, this oil is so great. Many years ago I met Ago. Let me tell you this story. Sorry, I'm not gonna give you a lot of gossip today. Who gives this shit?

You know, Sidney Sweeten, you want the silver dress? People are mad she looks hot, this Jennifer and is gone public? Just what the who cares? So years ago, I'm at Ago, the restaurant I went to every night. Ago was owned by a number of people. Robert de Niro, Sean penn Uh, Harvey Weinstein, You owned the piece, Tom Sizemore, A lot

of people had a piece of I'll go. And I was really on the balls of my ass at this point, and Roxy was a little baby, and I had very little money coming in, and as as a result, I was dealing cocaine. I talked to my dealer and said, you got to set me up. I'll buy whatever it is, an ounce, two ounces, whatever the fuck it is, a kilo, I'll buy it. I'll chop it up, help me out. I want to move this stuff. And I did, and I did, and for I don't know, six seven months.

It was an easy way to earn money because I just learned how to cut it up and put ten bottles in my pocket and go buy cab to two or three different restaurants. Every waiter, every chef, every hostess, they all wanted blow. So I leave and come back at night with twenty five hundred dollars cash. It was simple. So I'm telling mister Harvey, and he was going through shit because he had just like I said. I said, Harvey, I know that you're having an affair with this woman, Georgina,

who later became his wife. I said, I bought a painting for you, and I was cooking and pay for it. And the girl in West Hollywood says to me, who's this force and my buddy, Harvey Weinstein. He's a big producer. Oh, he's dating my friend. I said, he's dating your friend. And I told Harvey, I said, this woman in Hollywood, not West Hollywood, Holliwood. She apparently knows that you're dating a woman in England. He goes, it's not true. All right. I said, if you need help, let me know. I'll

help you. He calls back ten minutes later, it's true. What do we do? All right, meet me in Ago tonight. We'll talk about it. So I go to Agle and we're hanging out at the table and we're talking about the situation, about he's cheating on his wife. And you know he was obviously, but at least he went and married that woman and had kids with her. But we're talking in there, out of nowhere. I've never noticed it. A bottle of olive oil and bread gets put on

the table and it says, Ben's olive oil. I never saw that before. Now. I always like to pride myself with Harvey, to let him know that I can get things done. I'm tough, I'm strong, I got mafia background, you know, I got the right people I can love. He loved that about me. Aj Can we take this guy's legs out? Can we take can we shut this guy up? He loved it. So I'm telling him my plank of not having enough money. By bah bah, he says. I think, Look, you need money, I need help. I

can pay you ten thousand dollars a month. I want you to supply my girls at the PR firm, I mean at my job. All the PR girls give them gossip every day so that whenever people call to find out about my affair, they can trade with them quid pro quo and give them gossip that's better than my story. And I did. I fucking I wasn't doing gossip anymore. But I sat there and I hit the phones and I got I broke huge stories that no one did. Roger Clemons on steroids, you have no idea. I broke

huge stories, and I gave multa Harvey's PR team. And then at the end of the day, you got a j perfect But you need help. I need help, you need money. I'll give you ten thousand a month. Oh you're good, I said, Harvey. We're good to go. And that's the way it went for ten months, and one day he says, I think the worst has passed. I think I'm in a clear Do you mind if we stop? I said, no, fucking finish paying me. But I said no, I'm only kidd and of course we're fine. Don't worry

about it. And you know, eighty thousand dollars to give him and his people some gossip thing. But this is what he was like. So it's but when the olive OI hit the table, I remember going, I got to use this. I got to use my acting. I got to improve this. He said, are you sure you can get this done? I said, Harvey, I can get a lot of things done. I said, take a look at the oil. This is your restaurant, right, Yeah, I own a piece. I said, look at the oil you serve.

He looks at it. Ben's a olive oil. I said, that's my family, that's my people, all right. So I could tell I was talking out of my ass. But the prospect of him paying me that kind of money to just, you know, to keep him out of the paper, keep his affair out of the papers, I felt like a million bucks. And he was like, oh, well, it's just your family. I said, yeah, of course it is

my family. And I've since come to learn. My cousin Aleen went further and actually had conversations with this company and we all related in an off way, like you know, I couldn't tell you who's who, but yeah, we figured out that we're related. And I think it's great. If I were to be related to anybody or any person, it would be a company in Italy who makes extra virgin olive oil, because that's the beginning of all my food, every dish I make. Ah, so great.

I apologize. Today's an in and out thirty minute show. Like I said, tomorrow, you'll get forty five to fifty maybe more. So bear with me. But thank you for letting me be honest yesterday and tell you that, Yeah, the night before I had a couple of drinks. That's how my voice sounded like shit. I'm so happy and honored that I can talk to you guys that way and be so honest and not be criticized and not be chastised because we all go through shit. Man. We're

all facing shit right. Maybe not a firing squad, but we're all sitting there every day, standing up, Paul and straight and trying to get through the day. So thank you for letting me be honest. I love you, so I'll talk to you tomorrow.