Hey, everybody A J. Benzi here with fame is a bitch. This is your free show. It is Monday, May twenty second, twenty three. Wow five two two two two three. We've got one more weekend left in May before it's this guy's birthday. And I am a double XL down below. Only kidding, but really not no no gifts necessary because some of you have gotten very angry at me about changing this for free shows from five days a week to one day a week, and I should say three freeze
a week and two classics, and I've gotten some harsh criticism. Luckily my Fame Faan jumped on my side and protected me. But boy, you really find out a lot about yourself. It's funny. I think some people forget or either don't care that when they tend to bedmouth me, which is one hundred percent you're right to do, and I would never take it away from you. Some of your bad mouth for me on my own page, which
is funny. It's like going to somebody's front porch and screaming through this screen window how much they hate you, or what a bad businessman you are, or my favorite one the other day was somebody called me a J was much better in the beginning. Now he's too cocky, and I thought, yeah, I guess I've been cocky. Yeah, I guess. I mean I was especially cocky when I was an ICU dying of COVID for eight days. That was a cocky time in my life. I really thought, like,
who the hell I thought I was? And then of course living in my sister's basement in Chicago, and you couldn't tell me nothing. I was so cocky back then, the separation and divorce and all the bad news and the crying, and then all the situations that occurs around that sort of thing. I was acting very cocky. But I think when my nephew died that's when I was at my most cocky. That's when I thought, like, my shit don't stink. And you know, I guess that person has a point.
I do become cocky during a certain periods of my career. I'm not cocky. You know what cockiness is. Cockiness is confidence. It means that I've been in this position before and I know how to get out of it. And if you can prove that you can get out of it, it ain't cocky. It's confidence. And for God's sakes, I was cocky my whole life, but I'd certainly say the last five years or so has been
a very humbling experience. I'd be the first to tell you. And I think anybody who really knows me, not just people who tune in to the free show here and there, But you guys don't know me. The patron audience really knows me because we're very personal and they hear things. And they heard some really great things about a patron of ours who passed away, a terrific man, French paratrooper, Special Forces soldier, NBA photographer, professional rodeo
photographer. I mean this last week. It was some sort of rodeo championships and they put his picture up and they talked about him on air. He was quite a special guy, and he passed away in his sleep at fifty one years old the other day, and I was very moved and shaken by it. And everybody on the patron page, you know, responded in kind because they know his name and they've been around his name. And the great Chris Elise is no longer with us. And if you knew about him or
cary to check his Instagram page. You can see what kind of a cool guy. He was just one of the coolest men I've ever met. His instagram is frow your mind. F r O y L you are m I n D frow your mind. That's because as a black man, he'd liked to wear his afrow nice and big. But he was a pisser and now he's gone. So with all these people drop like flies. My philosophy of late has been everybody take it easy. Take it easy, because you don't
know when the last time you're gonna speak to somebody is. That's how frequently these deaths are occurring. And Chris's death right now, we don't know what the causes. He was found dead in his sleep. We don't know. We don't know. Yes, he had the vaccination, so did I, so did many of us. And I don't know about you, but it's definitely put me on edge ever since that day. So anyhow, moving on from that, I just want to tell you here I am at this hotel.
I don't know. There was an off road race this weekend past weekend called state Line and it was taking place a few miles outside of the desert here in Nevada, and I'm in three well, I'm in one of the three hotels that are all bunched together, Buffalo Bills, Whiskey Peats, and Prim Valley. Those are the first three casinos that you see once you passed the California state line into Nevada, and they was stuffed to the gills with
people who came here to drink and dream and drive. And by people, I mainly mean Mexicans because Friday night and Saturday, well, Friday night first of all, Friday night, the girlfriend and I we're in the hotel room and a great big desert thunderstorm started, and I love those, and it was pissing rain, like straight down with droplets as big as marbles, biblical,
and like we always do, we raced outside to watch it. We went on top of this awning or this bridge, so to speak, to look, but then we wanted to get closer and get in it, actually get in the rain, because how many times do you run through the rain, You know, not many once you're an adult, unless you get caught in it. But we went out and wanted to get caught in it. And then we raced outside and watched it and took in the smell of rain
on dry ground. You know that smell of rain, certain smells of our childhood that don't go away, the smell of freshly cut grass, a baseball mit with the leather that's been oiled up, maybe even the smell under the hood of your brothers nineteen sixty eighth Chavell. But rain on the ground, rain on asphalt, rain on the street, the concrete, it has a smell of its own. And you know what, there's actually a word for that. I was today years old when I found out the term is called
petro. Petro is. The smell of rain comes from the Greek comes from the Greek word petra, meaning stone and ichor, which in Greek mythology refers to the golden fluid that flows in the veins of the immortals. That's pretty damn cool. Those Greeks had a way with words and obviously storytelling stories we
still tell to this day. So we get out there and there's all these off rowed vehicles, man, and they're blast in Mexican music, and you know what, the trumpets and then another cause got somebody singing, just a culture explosion, Hispanic Hispanic culture explosion in the parking lot. And I took pictures, you know. They they some of these cars had these glow in
the dark antennas and all sorts of flair hanging off their cars. And I took pictures because so many of these Mexican dudes had Mexican flags and and American flags on them, which I loved, and a lot of them had pow m a flags on them. Was the last time you saw a pow m a flag or sticker? It's been a while for you younger folks. That term goes back to the Vietnam War, and pow meant prisoner of war and
m IA meant missing in action for those yet not yet found. It was a big thing when I was growing up in the seventies early seventies, and as bad as things were back in the seventies, it seemed the one thing we could agree on was that our hearts eight for those soldiers who were being held prisoner over there and maybe worse, missing in action. In fact, do you guys remember wearing those id bracelets during the early seventies, the pow
mia bracelets. They even had a soldier's name attached to them. They were something else. They came out in the late sixties and that the whole thing about the bracelets was to increase public awareness about, you know, what these Americans are going through, what still being prisoners or missing or unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. And back in elementary school, maybe nineteen seventy, we had a kid in our school who was the only black kid in the entire
school the trick and he was part black. His name was Richie Miller, and there was an article in the local paper about how his older brother was missing in Vietnam, and we all wore those bracelets for Richie's brother, and the town even dedicated a huge stone for him and set it down in the corner of a very public or popular intersection of Monta Highway in Higbee Lane on the way to the high school. And a year later we found out he was killed. And then Richie and his family moved out of town, out
of state. But the big stone still sits there at that same intersection, a small town, USA even today, still there. But it felt good, It really felt good to see the patriotism displayed in that parking lot in the pouring rain. Nobody cared we were getting soaked, Not even Tutsi,
the girlfriend had sandals on. I was barefoot, but there was something special about being among all those people, all that humanity, listening to blaring Mexican music and watching men and women hand out beers from the back of their cars. You want to be a man, You want to be here. I don't know. One guy gave me a taco. You have a taco, man, You like tacos, short let tacos, big, nice, beautiful tortilla, then a big piece of meat on top of that, and some
really hot sauce. Was delicious. It was beautiful. It's the way America is supposed to be, and I think America is that way in a lot of pockets that don't get talked about. But it's nice to see that you can still find that humanity and pride and love of country, even despite you know, the skeletons we have, or the skeleton we have in the White House, and who always warns us against white supremacy is the worst threat America faces. Come on, Jack, it's no joke that Jerkov should have been
in jean Nevada the other night. He would have seen white people, black people, and enthusiastic Hispanic people all together bonding over beers and brotherhood. Nobody wore a white hood, nobody had a fist fight, nobody pulled a knife. It was one culture celebrating their culture. But they made sure that the American flag was next to the Mexican flag. I love people like that. You come here as much as you want, Just don't come to our border
waving your flag like you're leaving someplace special. If it's a fucking special, stay there. You want to come to America, find an American flag and bring it across the desk. Don't bring a next flag, the flag of Ecuador on doors. No, no, no, no, no, don't bring it with you, as if to say, well, I'm bringing it on, I'm bringing my cult. No, you know you're not. You're got to come here and assimilate. Yes, you can assimilate with your culture.
Of course we've all done that. Many of us had relatives who did it legally, and now some of you are doing it illegally. Millions are doing it illegally. So don't bring the flag of your nation. Little tip to Christ's say you're getting brand new sneaks in brand new clothes to walk those two thousand miles in the desert somebody must be able to handle hand you a fucking American flag. Ridiculous. Anyhow, I just wanted to give you a
glimpse of what it's sometimes like out here. It can be lonely, especially when I don't have the girlfriend to share the bed, but it can also be very lovely and enlightening, and give you an insight into an America the media pretends doesn't exist and doesn't want you to even think it exists. I mean, everywhere you look, everything you read, every talking head will fill you with gloom and doom, night after night after night. I don't know
how they do it. I would lose my mind. You have to give people hope, and the media has the microphone and the platform to do so, but they'd rather keep you in fear. That's not to say it's safe everywhere in America. We know that's not true. It's also not to say that every governor or mayor in most major cities knows what the hell they're doing. Case in point, New York City's mayor Eric Adams is a guy who has about one hundred and fifty suits and goes out every single night. The
old joke is that guy would go to the opening of an envelope. No mayor in my recent memory had seventy five different suits. Unbelievable. So Eric Adams is desperately trying to lower crime in New York City, which has become a dystopian nightmare. The Roosevelt Hotel, which is such a famous place. Marilyn Monroe used to live there. So many movies were shot there. Wall Street, I believe that departed a million. Hundreds of movies were shot there.
It's an iconic building. Well, now it's being filled with migrants. Only migrants. We've got migrants being put in high school gymnasiums. Yeah, your kid goes to school, his gym isn't his gym anymore. Now it's from migrants from Somalia and Ghana and Ecuador, in Brazil and god knows wherever the hell else. So Eric Adams is doing whatever he can to lower the crime, to cut down on shoplifting. Here's his big brainstorm me. You're
ready, because New York City is rife with crime. Okay, Over the last two years, burglaries have increased by twenty five percent, Grand Larsity has increased by fifty one percent, and Grand Larsity Old All is sword by eighty four percent. Basically, it means if you drive into the city you either get mugged, pushed in front of the subway area cause getting stolen. Something
bad's gonna happen. And worse than that. Last year alone, three hundred and twenty seven repeat offenders were responsible for thirty percent of more than twenty two thousand retail thefts across the city. What do you think that does the businesses, to the workers, the customers, the entire city as a whole. And this Mayor Adams was elected because he promised to be tough on crime. He's the next cop. That was his platform, tough on crime. Well,
here's his new plan to combat rampant retail theft. He's called for installing kiosks inside stores to offer social services to thieves. I don't know about you, but I can't stand using a kiosk inside of McDonald's. I find it too confusing. I want to talk to a human being and give my order. I don't want to punch sixteen buttons with all people's fingerprints on him. I just just let me talk to somebody. I don't care if they only
speak Spanish. I'll point to the picture of what I want. The plan would allow nonviolent offenders to avoid prosecution or going to jail by meaningfully engaging with services to help address underlying factors that lead to shoplifting. Oh well, that's just so nice, so nice in accommodating, isn't it. I mean, it makes so much sense. The government will ask retailers to send their employees to training for de escalation tactics, anti theft tools, and security best practices
to help keep them safe in the event of an emergency step back. I've been trained in de escalation tactics. I've also got a great deal of knowledge and anti theft tools and security practices. The guy be shot three words into that sentence. Part of this brainstorm is to establish a neighborhood retail watch system for businesses in close proximity to one another. So the Korean deli can tell the Italian pork store, which you can then tell the Hispanic bodega exactly who's
coming in this store and who looks like a thief. I just got hit for fifteen dollars. You might be next. Be on the look. None of this makes sense. What are you get? Everybody? Walkie talkies CB radios, so they can share real time intelligence with each other and with law enforcement in the event of a theft. Hello, law enforcement, I'm watching a man steal at pack of hot dogs? What do I do? So they're gonna install resource kiosks inside the stores to connect individuals in need to critical
government resources and social services. Of course, here we go, communism. We're almost there. Don't leave yet, We're right behind you. The Democrats answer to his skyrocketing crime in cities is to install self help kiosk for thieves. How long before you think they fucking steal these kiosks? Oh my god? Anyhow, let's let's get to some other ridiculous things that are going on
in this country. Oh and by the way, before I do that, real clear those of you who have yet to become patrons, I just I want to let you know that I'm the only person in the country that knows the truth about Jamie Fox's medical situation. I have a source who was in the room, and trust being when I tell you his daughter lied when she said that Jamie's being playing pickle ball. First of all, can we talk a black dude playing pickleball? No? But if you want the exact details,
of what Jamie Fox is facing and it's very, very dire. Go to patreon dot com slash fame is a bitch. Doctor Drew Pinski heard the show and had his people call me yesterday morning to be on his show on May thirtieth. So if you can, like I always say, you have a much better time on Patreon. But either way, I'll be delivering a free show for you guys once a week. Now. Then when our company's gonna learn. Here's the other wing bang Dang dang story of the year.
The retail giant Target has rolled out an LGBT Pride collection that includes so called tuck friendly wear and rainbow colored onesies for infants and children. Why because babies know what sex they want to be. Toddlers have that on their mind. What is going on? Guys? Whoever is running Target? Do they realize they're about to become bud Light two point zer targets line of trans options. Remember, Target, I believe, was the first store that separated toy aisles
and made them. In other words, they incorporated toy asles. There's no more boys toys than girls toys. Now every toys unisex. So if you're looking for something that boys typically play, you're gonna find it mixed in with things that girls play with. It's just, you know, we don't want to separate them in the store. It's a little bit. It's not nice
to separate them because their gender really is up in the air. So we've got to let them choose by walking down a couple of aisles that offer everything. Maybe a boy wants the Barbie doll that wets her pants, I don't know, and the little girl wants rockham socck'em robots. That's just the way it's gonna be. And if she reaches her rockh'am soccer robots bingo, she's definitely gonna be a boy. She identifies the boy. If a boy grabs his sister's doll, he's a girl. You gotta get the operation.
You gotta stuck get normal blockers. What are you doing when you're getta get You're late? Kids go through phases asshole as holes, I should say so, tough friendly construction and extra crotch coverage. Other things they are offering have gotten people pissed off. They have t shirts that say Pride, Adult Drag Queen Katya. Trans people will always exist and girls gaze days. This is so ridiculous, you know, it's such bullshit. Take your business elsewhere.
They're indoctrinating and grooming our kids with this LGBTQ ideology. They're not even being bashful about it. It's very inappropriate and disturbing. And I hope they're in parents out there that understand how wrong this is and just show Target that this bullshit is not going to sell. Some people think the only thing these corporations understand is money. Some people want Target to get the bud Light treatment, and we should work to put the pressure on them. I'm all for that
because I think what they're doing is worse than what bud Light did. Because Target is selling chest binders and tough friendly bathing suits for kids. Bud Light is dealing with adults. That's a different story. But as I said on the Patreon, Corporate America is not doing this for money. They're doing this.
Look, they know these moves won't grow their bottom line. They know that, but right now, all these companies, whether it's Budweiser, Nike, Maybeling, Target, they're making these ridiculous changes so they can improve their soul social score in terms of diversity inclusion and equity. I like to say it in that order. I don't like saying diversion, equity, inclusion,
because diversity, inclusion and equity those initials stand for die. And that's exactly what's going to happen to their sales and maybe even their companies that that keep this shit up. But I mean, everyone's being pushed and urged, and I wouldn't be surprised that there weren't money under the table from George Soros and any of his dastardly American hating wealthy friends who are making this happen. But this is being done so that these companies will have a better social score.
You don't how to have social scores. In China, there was even an episode on Black Mirror about people having social scores get lower or higher on any given day if you said hi to somebody in the street, or didn't say hi to somebody in the street, if you ignored somebody at work, you see a social go down like it's a day only thing, like a stock market of what you're worth in terms of what everybody thinks you're worth. And suddenly, if your social score goes down too much, you may not be
able to attend your girlfriend's wedding because only certain people can add. I mean, it gets the black Mirror episode is wild, But then again, is this shit any less wild? So it's all being done so that they can have a better social score. So what T shirt are you going to get for your little one come their birthday or Christmas? Did their T shirts that read, like I said, prod adult queen Katya trans people will always exist, girls gaze days. I mean, it's a tough choice. Take your
business elsewhere they're indoctrinating and grooming kids with LGBTQ ideology. Just go This other store is shop local, shop shop, go to go to stores, go to boutiques, go to stores that are run by families in your neighborhood. Support those businesses. But this is where the alphabet army has taken us, and this is where the woke have taken us. And I'm sure a lot of you thought, oh, do these moves really come on? They don't really mean anything. How harmful can these changes be? Well, this is
how stupid things have gotten. Now. You know the famous Oscar Mayer wienermobile. I'm sure you've seen it. Maybe you've seen one of them driving across country, or maybe they stopped in your neck of the woods. Maybe you have one in your hometown. But it's basically a yellow car, a long yellow car with a giant hot dog on top that's curved upward. It isn't a been sexual looking. It's about hot dogs are sexual looking because some hot
dogs are sold with a curve and not just straight. I prefer the curve hot dog. They look better in a bun if you ask me. It's always been great advertising for the top hot talg brand Oscar Mayer to have that weenermobile driving across country. But blah blah blah blah blah blah, Jeff Goldblum says, should we really be saying weener anymore? That's what this comes down
to. I mean, what does that do for the kids? You mean, the kids who get to pick from bathing suits to target that have a greater crotch area or more tough room for their little boys who want to hide their wieners to look more like little girls. Let me just listen to that question that I just posed. It's ridiculous, but basically, Oscar Maya just
announced that it's renaming its world famous Weenamobile after eighty seven years. They're now called Frankmobiles, and there's a new fleet of Frank Mobiles that are going to hit the streets any day now as part of a Want of US entry rebranding that the company says, pays homage to its new one hundred percent beef Franks. Don't believe it. They've always had them, well not always, but
they're not that new. The Weeningmobile is a beloved American icon. It's been making kids smile, grown up smile, you know, because we all see it and then we all want one of those delicious wieners that we've been eating for the last hundred years. The company lies and says the goal of the Revamped Mobile hot Dog, which basically was born in nineteen thirty six at the General Body Assembly Plan in Chicago. That's where it began. The whole new
Revamped Mobile hot Dog is to discourage people from taking things to seriously? What does that even mean? Was our people put their lips on the Weenermobile? What do they? What do you mean taking things too seriously? Is it? Is it sexual? When it drives by? Do people get turned on? Now? These cars are going to feature decals that urge hungry passers by
to please do not lick. Let me let me read that again. There's gonna be decals on these new mobiles that discourage people from licking the wienermobile. I guess that was a thing. I hope they didn't try to lick it while it was moving. Also, frank whistles are now what they call what used to be weener whistles. Can't say weener. About four or five years ago, I told you guys, one day, we're not going to be able to sell mister Coffee coffee machines. I know, curing is the thing
right now and other breast, so there's all sorts of coffee machines. But mister Coffee in its day was gigantic. And I know for a fact that there's gonna be a major rebranding. You're not gonna there's no They cannot sell a mister Coffee. It's very misogynistic. There might be a miss Coffee, maybe a mister and missus Coffee. I don't know, but mister Coffee is gonna come next. So frankmobile drivers will now be known as frankfurters. That's
very original. They used to be called hot doggers. Isn't that it's not fun? What do you do for living? I'm a hot dogger? What is that? I drive the Wienermobile? Oh no, what do you do for a living? I'm a Frankfurter? What do you do? I drive the Frankmobile? But why? And that's not all? By the way, of course, the animal rights activist group Peter people for the Ethical Treatment of
assholes. They even offered to pay for the replacement part and maintenance for one year if the company promised to convert the vehicle to not dog mobile, not dog mobile or a vegan hot dog mobile. We know why this happened. They're trying hard to spend this as being anything, but it really But what it really is Oscar Mayah went awoke. The name is offensive to the perpetually offended victimhood class, and as a result, there goes another once great American
brand pushing consumers and customers away. Craft and Hinds will soon join Anheuser Busch in giving away their products. Have these pricks never heard of? If it ain't broken, don't fix it. I don't care personally because I buy Nathan's or Boar's Head or Hebrew National. But the Oscar Mayer brand is iconic. Oh, I wish share an askarim ioween er. That is what I truly like to be, because if I wasn't ask him ioween er, everyone would
be in love with me. Those simple lyrics they took an hour to write by a career jingle write on named Richard Trent Litch, and it became one of the longest running, the most popular jingles in American history. This guy also had big jingles with McDonald's and V eight and the National Safety Council. I don't remember that catchy tune, but I guess it had a jingle. Basically, he heard a radio advertisement about a jingle contest the hot Dog brand
was sponsoring. He started to work the next night. Then he recalled something his son, who was eleven years old, had said to him regarding a wish that he were a dirt bike hot dog. And the father said, what's that? And basically, a dirt bike hot dog that's what they called a cool kid back in the day. And that's where Trentlitch found his inspiration and he submitted the finished product and then he recorded his son and nine year
old daughter singing the lyrics. Those are his kids singing the lyrics, and the rest is well, you know history. He died in twenty sixteen, but his songwriting legacy lives on to this day. The Oscar Mayah Weenas song is still one of the most recognized jingles of all time. But it's gonna go away. That's this is what some of us mean when we talk about when America was great. I know, it's just a dumb hot dog, I get it. But Wieners make barbecues. Wieners make a quick and easy
dinner. Wieners are passed over fences to your neighbor. Weeners bring families together. And now they're frank furs and not even hot dogs because of Peter. Now we're just gonna go back to the word the Nazis used to call them great progress. And in the wake of the recent bud Light and other marketing fiascos, maybe Oscar Mayer should have a frank internal discussion about this change. If you get my drift, and pardon the pun, but this is one
of the greatest marketing gimmicks of all time. If you've seen the Weenamobile in person a few times, it's great. Man. Kids go crazy, even adults love to see it. They should have kept the original name and not worried about the goddamn one person out of ten million that's gonna be offended. You think I'm kidding, I'm not kidding. I'll tell you right now.
I'm always ahead of this stuff. Get ready for the good Year Blimp to be renamed the good Year Balloon because some fatties are offended by the word blimp. You'll see. I guess they have to write a new theme song too. These pansies are ruining everything. An infinitesimal, tiny tooth, loudmouth, bluehead minority makes the rules now in America. I can't believe it's taken this long to correct this misogyny. But now the world will be a safer place
and we can all sleep better now. I'm aj Benz and that was your free show from Monday, May twenty second, twenty twenty three. I'll talk to these next week.