Honesty

it is what it is. We'll get through it. And actually this is apropos of what I want to talk about with this show and what I've been bringing to you lately. I didn't like yesterday's show. I felt it was subpar. I know, I said that, you know, there were things that were wrong. And it was titled It's the End of the World because there are so many things about what I see and hear that you know, kind of dictate to me that, I mean, we're fucking what's going on? I mean, this is bad. There's a

lot of bad things going on. Even though I love Trump and I love what he's doing, there are still so many bad things going on that I get alarmed, and I didn't do a politics as a bitch. I'm probably not going to do this for a few days. I'll tell you right now, because I'm going to be honest with you, I'm gonna walk away for three or four days from doing shows. I've never done this. I've you know, I never take vacations. It's not what I do.

Been doing this for eight years, and I've always been here on the mic, you know, whatever the fuck I always talk, But lately the stuff that's going on to me is so alarming that I need time to figure it out pard than I am. I can't believe the shit that's happening. But look, this is not a politics is a bitch show. It's an FIAB show. So we'll we'll get into that, but I promise you by the end of this show you'll understand how I feel like. For instance, you know, I just gotta tell you, I

don't know what the fuck is going on. You know, my neighborhood's not that bad, and yet you know, I go to get whatever coffee in the morning, and I took my wife to the airport because she's going back to Portland to take care of her mom and dad. And the shit I see in the streets. I just I saw a guy sitting on a white bucket and a woman behind him like putting hair on him, like extensions on him. It was like eleven o'clock in the morning.

He's sitting on a bucket. And then I turn a corner and there's like a shopping cart full of clothes and god knows what ell So it's just sitting there and I said, what where am I living? What is going on? I don't know if it's just where I live or if it's just the way things are going in life. But there are some people that are having

really fucking hard times. Like I said the other day yesterday at that chit with the you know, the beautiful little Pomeranian, and she had cuts on her face, looked like she'd been punched a few times, and I'm like, I want to take this dog. And she got very upset when I began to film her, which I understand, but I don't know. Listen, guys, I don't know what's going on, and I just feel like I have to step back and really get a good look at shit

before I continue. You understand, I've never seen things break down in this manner with people in the neighborhood, and I fuck, I can't believe it. But I'll I'll, you know, I'll give you some stuff. I'll talk about Sydney Sweeney, you know, posing for what was American Eagle Outfitters, and you know, she did a pose there. I don't know why people are upset. She's hot to trot, she's got

a great body. And apparently what she did with this particular pose and what this particular ad, oh god, everybody upset. Oh they called it Nazi propaganda. I don't know even though what they mean. It was all about my genes, right, get it E E A sorry g E A n S jeans but it was a play on G E N E S And they just I don't, I just why are people so upset about this My jeans are blue and that they call in the ad a Nazi propaganda ad? What what's going on? She did nothing wrong.

The chit is hot, big tits, you know, I mean, we know why she's hot. But if you know, if you really want to get down to uh, I mean, she's got that little down syndrome look, which you know it's you know, Selena Gomez has the down syndrome look to even though she's marrying Benny Blanco, who is addicted to cocaine. I don't know what the fuck that situation's gonna be, but yeah, she's marrying him, and stop doing blow. You'll see, You'll see. I know too much. I know

too much. And then we got Charlie Sheen's daughter, Shammy Sheen, who's talking about her O c D situation.

We always did things that were really stupid, like my mother would leave the house. We'd be waiting for her in the car. Mom, I'm gonna go to this door. Okay, I'm coming, And she closed the door, and she she would literally put her hand in the mailbox three times, as if there was mail in there, and then she'd checked the door three times to make sure it was locked,

and we go, MO, it's fucking locked. But meanwhile, me and Rosalie were secretly whenever we got out of our shoes, we'd put the left shoe a little more forward than the right shoe. Don't ask me why. Well, that sounds like a Billy Joel saw. Don't ask me why. And I'm gonna get into him because I, oh my god, I watched that Billy Joel documentary. I didn't want it to stop. I actually paused it at least fifty times because,

oh my god, I was so I was crying. I was crying about what Billy Joel has meant to me over all these years. I don't think you, I mean, maybe you guys have the same feeling about him, but Billy Joel was the shit. Oh my god. But Sammy Sheen is talking about you know, her o CD, And and then there's another story about Travis Kelcey getting a haircut, and we need to see the haircut. Who gives a rightful fuck he got a fucking haircut. Okay, listen. I

went through it with Andrea the other night. I said, Taylor Swift's bangs they don't work anymore. She looks like an asshole. She needs to stop the banks and stop being a junior high school chick, you know. And then she got so mad at me, and she's gonna hate that I said this if she listens to the show. But it's like, I don't give a fuck. How could somebody be angry about me saying enough with the banks enough? But there's such a crazy love affair with Taylor Swift fans.

It's actually like Trump derangement syndrome. These people can't hear anything spoken about Taylor Swift that might make her see different. It's fucking ridiculous. Relax, she looks better without bangs, but no, you can't say that anyhow. Look, I gotta tell you I watched it was so hard to watch the Billy Joel documentary on HBO Max because this guy's been such

a big part of my life for so long. Until you see the documentary, you just don't know how much he You don't know, like how big he wasn't influencing your life, and it's it's amazing. And you guys know, I'm not gonna repeat the same story over and over. But my mom, when we first moved from Brooklyn to Long Island, she got a job working as a bathroom attendant in a girl's room at a nightclub called a Hullablue. And you know, girls come in, they're crying, they're pissed

the boyfriend left at whatever it is. And she'd give the mint, she'd wash their face. Honey, you're gonna be okay. You know they needed that. My mother would say, there's a fella who sings such a beautiful song, and he was in a group called the Hassles. Back then, the Hassles weren't really big, but you know a lot of music people know the Hassles. And my mother would always say that that fella on the drums, boy can he sing.

We didn't pay any attention to it. And then several years later, we're going at our supermarket called King Colin. Lorraine's driving the silver Camaro. I'm in the back seat, Mom's in the front. The radio's on on AM radio that this jockey was Bob Otone. Do you understand how much I remember? And along comes a song don't go change and try to please me? And my mother said, oh my god, this is the fella. We said, Ma, this is Billy Joel. I this is the fella I

saw us singing at the Hulla Ba Loo. So I I've been so close to Billy Joel all my life. You have no idea. We're both Long Island guys, and when you both ride the same highways, take your boat on the same base, it's just we just there's a feeling of camaraderie because this is the guy were We were both from the same place. He was from Hicksville, from Wee Sislo, and he would sing songs that were

so beautiful. And as I got older in high school, and I've said this before class week, which I don't know how many of you had, but class week was a really fun time where you decorated the holes in a certain way, what have you. And then before prom, before graduation, you know, songs were dedicated to certain people and me and Kenny and Agraavino and Whitey and Chico. The song dedicated to us, was you may be right, because it began with Friday night. I crashed your party. Saturday,

I said, I'm sorry. Sunday came and crashed me out again because we crashed parties, and Mike and other got big shot, you know, given to them during class week because you know, we did certain shit that maybe we shouldn't have done. But after high school, I'm working at Driftwood Day Camp and I'm mowing a lawn. Driftwood Daycamp was twenty acres, I believe, and I'm mowing a lawn without a bag on it, you know what I mean.

I'm just mowing lawns for days. And I would pack a ham and cheese sandwich my mother made me and a mountain dew. But when I was mowing the lawn, I would sing every single song from his Glasshouses album. I memorized every song in what order they came out. That's how big he was. And then I got married, and when things were going bad with me and Jennifer, you know, Billy Joel was always playing on the radio.

But there came a point where we were done. We were divorced, right, And turns out Billy Joel's playing in Montauk Point, an outdoor concert, and I got the tickets and I said, hey, why don't we go? You know, you know what the fuck? She agreed. We went and we sat on hay bells, you know, we sat on big squares of Hey, that's what the seats were. And we listened to him singing in that beautiful night sky.

And of course on the way home, we pulled over on Sunrise Highway and steamed up the windows because we were so I don't know, Billie's music just did it for us. You see this documentary, and you must see the documentary. It is like, I can't explain it.

said I would. Billy Joel said as much, the same thing. He wanted a supermodel. I said the same shit. And then when you get them, you go, Okay, I'm in this world. Now I got the supermodel, and your life takes on a whole different angle. It's just very weird. It's great, but it's weird. And he wrote songs for Christy Brinkley that I don't think were his best songs, but he wrote them for her because you know, that's the thing to do. And I, you know, I look

at when you're a writer. You know, you write how you talk and you write how you think. And that's why I think Billy Joel is the best lyricist in the last I don't know one hundred years. I'm not lying, you know, I'm not lying. And let me tell you something. Writing is a very lonely occupation, and you feel completely isolated from the rest of the world, like you can't even look at people who are related to you because you're just detached from whatever it is they're doing. You

have to do something that is I don't know. I'm sorry if I'm not explaining it right, but you have to do something that goes so deep in your soul. But that's the way you got to do it if you're going to create some magic, you know. And while you're doing this, and this is where Billy Joel fucked up. And that's okay, because we all do. When you're doing this. When you're the writer, you can't be the boss and the employee at the same time because you're gonna fuck

things up. And of course that happened to him, you know. And I couldn't take watching this documentary. It blew me away. I almost I literally watched it Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and this morning because I couldn't keep watching it. I kept breaking down. I kept crying, and I didn't want to do a show like that. I didn't want to come out here olver klent, as we say in the Hebrew language. I just my emotions were right beyond my tongue. I just was so emotional about what he said, what

he did, how he got through the bad times. And it's the same thing about me writing my book. It's the same kind of thing, you know. It's like, I don't know, this is one of those shows like I've done, where I don't have any I don't have any blueprints, I have no plan. I'm just talking to you. But you know, I think you need to hear this stuff and maybe it'll ring true in your heads. I don't know.

I don't know. But when you're writing a book or writing a song, you know, like it's a You're like a carpenter who looks at a property and someone says, we're going to put a house up here, okay, and the carpenter looks and figures out what kind of lumber he needs, what kind of plywood, what kind of sheet rock, how many screws, drills, hammers, men, You just, you know,

you just kind of figure it out. That's what it's like when I, you know, do a show, you just a show like this trying to talk about Billy Joel. You just have to figure it all out. And I don't think anybody else can understand that. You know, you got to figure out the dimensions and the scope of it all. Blah blah blah. I don't know. You get lost in your madness. You understand what I mean. You just get lost in the madness. But uh, I don't know. Gang.

This Billy Joel documentary is so beautiful. You need to watch this immediately because this guy has been through so many amazing, crippling, horrifying, wonderful things. Married four times, blah blah blah. It doesn't matter. He was in my life for so many years, whether it was the class Week dedication song to my first wife, wanting to name our daughter Alexa, because I said, no, that's a shit marriage. What are you saying? I said, he's with Christy Brinkley.

This is me back in nineteen eighty something. I said, you don't stay with the centerfold and die with the centerfold. It's just a part of your life. He's not gonna stay with the beautiful model. She couldn't believe. What do you mean? I said, No, this is not the end all for him. The centerfold. You don't want to see the centerfold get old is not that horrible. It's horrible, but it's true. You just don't want to see the centerfold get old, so you marry someone else who's younger.

I mean, I know people right now are going to age. You sound so ridiculous. I'm telling you. I'm telling you that's how guys are. Yes, Christy Brinkley not my type, but boy was she a looker and Billy Joel grabbed her and they had a great time together. But that's not who you grow old with. It just isn't You grow old with somebody who wants to help you and wants to resurrect your career and your reputation. And it's

I don't know. I've been through it, you know. I know what it's like to have been divorced several times and have a girlfriend that now wants nothing to do with me, and you have to rebuild, You have to rebuild your life and go, Okay, well there's got to be somebody else that can handle all this bullshit. I mean, it's just brutal honesty. The way you talk to yourself. You know, it sucks. It hits the bottom of your stomach. You can't shake it loose. But that's the truth. I

don't know. Look, I'm trying to figure it all out. Gang. I started this show by saying, I want to tell you something, and I'm going to tell you something now. I hope you weren't too nervous or you know, upset about the last show where I that it's the end of the world as we know it. I know that's hard to hear. However, I don't like what's happening in America. I don't like what's happening with the Trump administration and the Jeffrey Epstein nonsense. I don't like. I don't like it.

I don't like it. And I really believe that we are on the precipice of something that's gonna make or break this country. I swear to God I do. And I'm gonna take a step back. You know, I'm not gonna give you a politics as a bitch this week. I might, I might, but I need to take a step back and look at all of this nonsense. Whether it's same or politics, it doesn't matter. It's all the same horseshit. I don't like what's going on, you know, And I know some of you look toward me to, hey,

J tell us what's going to happen next? And this I understand that, and I love it, and I God, I love you for that, and you know it's why I get up in the morning. But I think that I'm going to take the rest of the week off because I don't like the way I feel. I don't like the way things are going in this country. I

don't like the way I'm responding to it. And I don't want to come off half cocked every day and give you a show that might rankle some of you or make you think, well, what's wrong with aj I don't like again, I don't like it. Uh. And I fell off the wagon a few days ago being brutally honest, and I just need a few days to fit get this whole fucking thing out, because I always want to bring you good stories and you know, a positive podcast where we could all laugh and have fun and this

and that. But there's some bull shit going on that I think needs to be addressed, and I'm gonna step back and take a good look at it and give you my my all, Mike, and I will do everything is a bitch, okay, So you'll hear me again tomorrow. But I've never I don't take I don't take weeks off. I never done that outside of me being an ICU with my life at stake, I don't. I don't. I never take a week off. I've never done it in

fucking eight years. But I'm gonna take a few days off here to to really look at this shit and figure it out, because I don't. I just the I can't believe where we're headed. It's alarmingly bad. You can all talk to me and go no, ay day, listen to Eric Weinstein, listen to Tucker. It doesn't matter. Do you understand everybody the last several weeks are just fucking grabbing straws. They don't know what's going on. Everybody is trying to tell you what they think is going on,

and they have no knowledge. They don't. Okay, I know Tucker's got a big name. I love Tucker. Megan Kelly, big name, love her, think she's gorgeous, But no, no one really knows. But these people who have these top ten podcasts in the country and the world, they have to appear every day and act like they know, but they don't know. Nobody knows, Okay, nobody knows what's going

on with Epstein and all this horseshit. I just as a journalist, as a guy who's been down the road and done the work, I'm not gonna I don't want to jump in that fucking I don't know. I don't want to jump in that playground and act like I know because I don't. I don't know, but I know that it's very, very important we figure out what the hell is going on. And I know, I'm you know, this is not about Billy Joel. It's about America. I

get it. But there was something about watching the Billy Joeld documentary that really.

telling you something that's gonna really make a difference. It's not gonna happen today, but I feel like I'm going to get the goods and let you know what's going on, because right now, I you know, I feel like we're in a boat and no one's manning the steering wheel and we're just spinning around. That's what I feel like. And it's not easy for me to say that because I love Donald Trump, but I really feel our country's

in the best hands with him at the helm. But right now we're just spinning in the bay and no one's at the wheel, and it's it's not good. So if I can escape and watch the Billy Joel documentary and other things, maybe you're the same as me. Maybe you felt the same way. Maybe you've decided I'm gonna watch Netflix. I'm gonna watch the new Paul Rudd movie. I can't take well, I'm the same fucking way. I

can't take it. I can't take it. We're being lied to, you know, we're just being They're treating us like fucking assholes. They're not telling us anything, forget about everything. They're not telling us jack shit. And it really, it really bothers me because I believe in this country and I believe in the president, but I can't believe what we're going through right now and how split we are as a people.

It fucking bothers me, man. So yeah, I lost myself in the Billy Joel documentary, and I can go on and on about what he means to me and how I mowed lawns listening to his music and sang every song by you know, by memory. Yeah, man, Billy Joel's the best. But there was a time where Billy Joel stepped back too and said, eh, you know what, I don't want to do this yet. I just want to observe. That's all I want to do. I want to observe for a few days so you don't get shows you know,

the rest of the week. Don't worry, It's all good. I just want to get my head cleansed of all this bullshit nonsense and try to make fucking sense of it, because no other journalists is doing this. They're just spouting the same bullshit over and over. I can't keep hearing about the Jeffrey Epstein. I can't. I can't. I've had it. I can't. I want to punch Damn Bongino in the face.

I want to strangle cash for tell. I want to kick Pam Bondi in the asshole because they're all lying to us, and I didn't think this was gonna happen when Trump got elected. I'm really upset. So this is a combination of Pia B and FIAB. I'm not sure what I'll give you the next politics as a bitch, but you better fucking understand it's not going to come

from somebody who's happy with what's going on. I'm really pissed off and I'm very disillusioned, and I never thought i'd be this way, and I know a lot of you feel the same way I do. Fucking bullshit, man, it really is. We don't deserve to be treated this way. We don't deserve to not know what's going on in our country. It's really really bad. And you know, I know Trump can't run again, obviously, but this is hurting

him in ways. I think he might understand, but if he doesn't, he better get hipped to it because this is some horseshit. I know I'm off the topic of Billy Joel, but it all comes together. You know, I grew up with Billy Joel. I drove the same highways and rode the same got on the same boats in the bay. We ate the same seafood, we went to the same restaurants. He's a Long Island boy like me, and I love the guy and my mother found him and told us all about him. So he means the

world to me, and it's coming to an end. His honesty and the way he writes songs and portrays people. And it sucks because I'm not sure if I'm going to be alive when the next brilliant lyricist comes by that can do what he's done. I don't think this. I don't know. I don't know, but you know I'm here for it. I'm sorry if this makes you feel upset or you know, I just I gotta step back and really take a look at things. So give me a few days, all right. Don't worry. I ain't going nowhere.

I just need to really condense my thoughts and take a look at all this because it all matters, It all matters, It all comes together, Okay, it really does. If you're doing this. I've been doing this a long time. There's something in the air. There's something wrong, and as Americans, we're not getting the truth. And that's not a good that's not a good thing. So give me a few days, Okay, don't get mad. I'll be back. Don't worry about it. Is that, okay, Okay? I love you as all trust me.

I just need to do this to get my fucking head back on track and honest to God. Like I said, fill off the wagon. Not doing great. I'm being completely honest and I want to be the best I can be for you. So yeah, I'll talk to you during the week. We're friends. You know where to find me. It's all good. I love you, talk to you.