From Workhouse connect in aj Benza fame, he'd like to be walked on a leash and play really dirty, kinky sex games. He's the guy put the cock in the Peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody Aji Benzi here with fame is a bitch. This is your daily Unfiltered podcast from May one, twenty twenty three. Five one two O two three. Nice to see may come up on our calendars. I'm glad April has done that one
by real quick. Oh god, I just watched my New York Knicks fall apart in the second half and lose to the Miami Heat in Game one of the second round of the NBA Playoffs, and it just hurts men having been to the second round in a long time. And by the way, when the Knicks lose the first game of a playoff series, they're o and seven in those series, so they gotta turn it around. I know the Knicks so well that even though they were winning by nine or ten in the first
half, I texted my son Gonna. I told him we're gonna lose. I'm not being negative. I just know this team. I've seen them full apart too many times. They were two up and at him in the first half, and I could tell there's gonna be a letdown or Miami's gonna figure out what the hell to do and combat it. And they did. We didn't have her a high score. Julius Randall out with a sprained ankle, but I don't think we can win without him. I missed my whole sophomore
year in high school because of a rolled ankle. And sometimes those rolled ankles are worse than a break, because what happens is you stretched the ligament so badly it's hard to build strength back anyhow. Not a good start to Sunday. And by the way, there are sounds in the walls again at that time of day. It's after twelve noon on Sunday. Every day from twelve to one thirty or so, sounds happen in the walls. I don't know what it is. It's it's like haunt it. It sounds like someone's moving
furniture, but they're not. There's no one in the room next to me, there's no one above me. It's just insane when I'm hearing here, did you hear it? Just bear with me here, I just saw a well I've been seeing commercials of Jason Momoa constantly, and I don't like the way he looks. I think he's becoming a slab. I really do. I know the guy when he first came out was handsome as all hell, and I know he's still the kind of guy that a lot of chicks like.
But he looks like a slob. He really does. And now he's once again leaving little to the imagination while getting fans an inside look into his life, also inside his robe. He did a video from Men's Health the other day in which he appeared wearing All he wore was a pink, fluffy robe, a sharp toothed necklace, and a vodka bottle graphic which was strategically placed over his privates. It's a clip on YouTube. Ladies, go check
it out. It's called Jason Momoa shows off his gym and fridge. The guy's forty three years old and he's holding a can again US in one hand, and he gives a tour of his place and at one point he shows everybody how many mountain and riding bikes he has. Then he hops on one completely in the nude, just takes off his robe, gets on a bike. Yeah, I liked the mountain bike. Like to go downhill fast, he says. And of course the bike is bumping up and down, and
there's that bottle of vodka used as a graphic to cover his junk. Then he continues riding in circles around his gym, and then he flashes the camera with his ass partially on the back seat. He's got a few parts of his workout routine that helped him maintain his body that so many women love, including lifting weight. He use his kettlebells, he boxes, He rock climbs. In fact, he's like a tremendous rock climber. I think him and his buddies do this all the time. They've been doing it forever. But
he loved to do this. Back in March, he drove fans crazy shared a video of himself walking around with his pants on without his pants on. You know what do you do when you're forty three years old? You're already an established stought. One time, he's stripped down in the middle of Jimmy Kim a live interview last year during a minimal clothing fishing trip while he cut off his signature long hair. And I saw the ad for the new Fast
and Furious movie. I know that's why he's getting new because the movie looks like my ass. Someone said they didn't understand why fans go crazy for him. Look because several years back he was dropped dead, hunky, and he looked sane. Now that he's older, he simply looks crazy. He's showing his b on display. Listen, when you get older, there are things that a person should never do anymore, like striped naked. That's not a
good look, and he should know better. I know you girls are telling me a j who cares we love the way he looks doesn't look the same, looks bloated. Now. I know the guy's got twenty times, twenty times fifty times are better about it than I do. But he doesn't look cool right now. He just doesn't. Great news looks like I'm not the only one who is very happy that Jada Pekin Smith Red Table Talk is no
longer running on Facebook. The other day on Patreon, I went off on Jada and her tone death insufferable daughter and mother and their often phony show that was always thought upon is very deep and honest and real. Oh bullshit, it was just exploitive and uninteresting and now it turns out Nick Cannon is glad Jada Pinkett Smith's show, Red Table Talk has been canceled by Facebook. He celebrated the news on his Daily Cannon Show. Does anybody listen to the show?
The Daily Nick Cannon Show. Well, the stupid bonnets he wears on his head, whatever you called the turbans, he said, if there was no Red Table Talk, then we wouldn't he wouldn't have slapped the ship out
of Chris Rock. He's kind of right, He's right. He went on to explain that he thinks Will Smith's heated reaction began because Jada is always bringing their relationship issues to the table, and she brought them to the table in twenty twenty to discuss her entanglement with that young singer August I'll see that. Who is her son's friend? Nick Cannon smartly said, I don't want to know about all this shit, okay. He said the couple were considered royalty
before they divulged their open marriage. Listen, I always knew it was open. I told you guys, or at least I told my Patreon listeners that back in the mid nineties, I was invited to hang out with them well, in the in the in the hope. So what have you of being like a swinger's night. I was with Albi Sure, the the R and B singer, my buddy Rocco, and Albi was like, let's go hang
out with Will and Jada. And it was widely known in my circles that they liked people to come over and they like the fucking around with other people. So it's nothing new. They've been doing this forever, doing it forever. But Nick said, I just want to mind my black owned business. I don't want to be up in everybody else's kitchen. Keep that ship to y'all selves. Now, his co host, ma, I'm not called his baby mama Abbie Della Rosa, who shares three kids with him. She didn't
agree. She said, stop bashing, stop calling it a toxic table. It was an honest table. She said, there's still royalty. It feels human, like they're human, it feels relatable. They're trashed too, like the rest of us. And when she decided she might want a table talk of her own, Nick Cannon clapped right back at her and said, then you're getting that table all by yourself. F that table. But for Nick
the funniest thing he said in a long time. I agree with the bringing Will Smith on to shout about her damn entanglement for ratings for her Facebook show is what ended up leading to the Chris Rock slap that led to will Smith's downfall. We didn't need to see Will Smith humiliated like that, and we didn't need to know that Jada was a cheater. I mean, this is a great example this kind of stuff right here is a great example of two
things being true at the same time and right message, wrong messenger. And I think Nick Cannon makes a very valid point about how the Red Table show could have led to the overreaction slat and number two. With all the weird shit going on in Nick's personal life, he's not in a position to judge or verbalize this point. Honestly, what he needed to say is that the Red Table talk was a vanity project with a massive dose of talentless nepotism.
That's what these two have done with their children for a long time. It's all nepo baby nonsense. But what Jada did in banging her son's good friend is beyond the pale, and she'll never return to what she used to be whatever the hell that was, and maybe not even Will Smith. So a very bad, very sad story Sunday Morning. CBS Sunday Morning had Michael J. Fox calling to terms with how difficult his thirty year battle with Parkins disease has become. He said to Jane Polly, I'm not going to be eighty
years old, okay. And Jane Polly told Michael J. Fox in the clip that he has not squandered, but that his illness will one day make the call as to win. Is his time to go? And he said, yeah, it's it's banging on the door. Very sad. He said, I'm not gonna lie. It's getting hard, it's getting harder, it's getting tougher. Every day is tougher. Then he explained that he had surgery to remove a benign tumor on his spine, but the procedure messed up his
walking and then he started to break other parts of his body. See we're not told this stuff. This poor guy has broken his arm, his elbow, his face, his hands. And he was telling Jane that the biggest killer of Parkinson's disease is falling and you can also dive from aspirating food and which is a horrible way to go to choke on food, and getting pneumonia. These are all the subtle ways that the Parkinson's gets you. You don't
die from Parkinson's, Michael said, you die with Parkinson's. So I've been I've been thinking about the mortality of it all. You gotta remember, this guy was diagnosed with this disorder at the young age of twenty nine years old. And of course we know he's become a leading advocate for research for this condition. He launched a Michael J. Fox Foundation twenty some month years ago to help educate the public on the disease, and had of fun studies.
And now he's saying he doesn't fear death. He said, I'm really blunt with people about cures. When they asked me if I will be relieved of Parkinson's in my lifetime, I say, I'm sixty years old and science's heart so no. But I'm genuinely a happy guy. I don't have a morbid thought in my head. I don't fear death at all. I'm not shocked. I'm not shocked. Michael has put up a valiant fight, but Parkinson's is such an insidious disease that rob's mobility and in the later stages it robs
her mind. And I got to applaud this guy, and I got to applaud his wife, Tracy Paulin and their kids because you know, I don't want to say the wrong thing, but in other families it would have been easier to abandon him because the stress of taking care of somebody with that disease is incredible. My wife is going through this right now with her mother. It's horribly stressful. And I don't even know. A while ago he said
he stopped taking his medications because he didn't like the side effects. I'm not sure if he's taken them again or what, but he just God, he got a bad hand dealt to him. But you know what, he's never acted like he feels sorry for himself about it. He's made the best of it, and I hate to hear that things are getting worse for him. I've loved seeing him on Larry Sanders and other shows where they basically made fun
of his situation, and Michael J. Fox was up for it. That episode on The Curb You Enthusiasm when there was a lot of noise upstairs and and Larry David was pissed because Michael J. Fox was living above him something like that. It was hysterical and Fox was up for it. I loved that. But you know, at some point people get tired, you know.
I remember when my father, who had suffered from an insidious form of incurable cancer for over ten years, in the last six months of his life, he was in the hospital bid and I remember one day I watched his teeth clenching a lot, and I said, how you doing, Dad? You know, where was your pain? And he said, It's all over. It's all over me. I'm just tired. I'm just tired. He didn't mean go to sleep tired. He meant I think it's time to let
go tired. And I remember telling him that he didn't let go, man go, you did everything. If you're tired, go daddy, It's fine, We'll be okay a few days, letting me let go. But from talking about Michael Jake Fox, from from Family Guys to the Secret of My Success, he epitomized the eighties. I mean the eighties were Michael J. Fox, leg warmers, MTV, Michael Jackson, Nintendo, parachute pants, Ronald Reagan, and aids. That's a pretty good round up of what the
eighties were. Oh my god, parachute You hear this crazy this in the walls. Do you believe this? I swear this poltergeist at this hotel. But parachute pants. Take me back. I remember going to different stores in Manhattan in search of parachute pants, like the Thompson Twins war Remember the Thompson Twins Lives Lives Lies? Yeah, Dan, Dane lies, I had to get parachute pants. I look like a crazy person. In the nineteen eighties, after high school, I was trying to find my identity. We all
do that. I see my daughter doing it now. It's fun to watch it, but it's it's a bit challenging and painful to get through it. I used to go every Saturday to New York City, take the hour drive from my house to Manhattan, shop at antique stores, you know, um Antique, Boutique, Flip Ferrucci, Capizio, any and all sorts of shops
in the village and soho. It's funny what you remember. I used to know of this parking meter that never worked, and there was a traffic cop named Al and I always thought like maybe this is my father, you know, reincarnated, because this guy Al which is my father's name, obviously used to let me park at this one broken meter on Seventh Avenue South, and I would walk all over from that area, and I would go to Rocco's Pastry shop on Bleaker Street and I would bring out a cup of cappuccino and
some Semolina cookies and he'd letting me park there for hours, never gave me a ticket. And during those years, Al Lewis, you know Grandpa Munster. He owned a restaurant on Bleaker Street, so he was always walking around
the street with a cigar talking all the shop owners. There was Fico Brothers, where I'd bring home some beautiful cheese and you know, muzza al and sausage from my mother John's Pizza. There was a little store that sold pot pourri of all different sense I used to bring home a paper bag for my girlfriend at the time, who eventually became my wife. Number one trip.
I found an avocado green puffy leather jacket that I had to have, you know, big shoulders and shit, because I wore a lot of drab green back then a lot of military jackets and pants actual outfits from veterans whose families either sold them or gave them away to good will or you know, antique shops is what they were called. But I had to take three paychecks to buy it. Took me a month to buy this jacket on layaway, and when I finally was able to buy it, it was the summertime. I
didn't care. I wore it like crazy. Actually, speaking of Michael J. Fox, one of my might have been my first one nine those of my first. One of my first auditions was a movie Michael J. Fox starred in. I answered an ad in backstage for actors looking, you know, for teachers or backstage newspaper was like where you can find acting coaches, or who takes good headshots or where to get voice lessons, all that kind of stuff. And in the back of the paper he is the list castings
and auditions. So it was for anyone who could play the drums, that's what this call for. What this call was for in this audition, any drummers. I didn't know how to play the drums, but I bought a pair of drumsticks and I played on buckets and pails for a few days and waited for my big audition. It took place at the infamous rock venue called Cbgbast, which at the time was known for having acts like Iggy Pop and the Ramones and lou Reid. It was a very druggy place on the Bowery.
I mean people used to shoot herold in the bathroom. It was known to have the messiest, ugliest restroom in New York City. There, and there's a drum set with some lights set up above it, and about sixty guys standing online auditioning. Everyone thought it was gonna be a big deal, real rock and roll movie, you know. I remember hearing guys go in front of me who could really play the drums. I was mortified. It was nerve wracking. I almost left the line and went home, but I
stayed. I drummed over some track they played. I forget what it was, but obviously I didn't get the part. But the movie became Light of Day, starring Michael J. Fox and Joan Jet. You look at IMDb, a brother and a sister dream of musical startom, working at a succession of menial jobs to finance their ambitions. Pickering all the wall over the sisters young son and conned by unscrupulous agents. Visits to their dying mother prooved stressful
as the old woman voices disapproval of her daughter's unmarried status. Sounds like a winner, right, But didn't get anything at the buve officers. But I'll tell you what. Nineteen eighty seven and Joan Jett has a scene with the great Jenna Rawlins, who played their mom. She's so good. It's worth watching for that movie for that scene alone. And ironically it was written and
directed by the great Paul Strader, whom I devoted Friday's Patreon to. I spoke about the love that exists between he and his wife, the actress Mary Beth Hurt, who's now suffering from Alzheimer's, and they both live in the New York City healthcare facility, so he can be with her whenever he wants, as she receives the care she needs. I told that story, and now I got to wonder how Michael J. Fox's wife, Tracy Pollen, has done it all these years. I know Parkins isn't Alsheimer's, but they're
both debilitating and in a weird way. Sometimes I have witnessed someone who had Parkinson's for a while, watched them begin to forget people around them, family members, caregivers. It's just it's terrible. It's a terrible way to live. Michael J. Fox, brave guy have suffered this blow at such a young age and now has to live with it. He's actually live with it longer than he's lived without it. He was just twenty nine when he got the diagnosis. He's now sixty two. Jesus Christ, that ain't fair.
Hey, I want to take you back to a particular time in this world when Britney Spears was suffering from her mental illnesses. Remember the days of sharing off her hair and swinging umbrellas a vehicles and putting her baby on her lap driving her car. Close your eyes and try to take yourself back there. Well, there's one very special Britney Spears super fan who if you remember, shot to fame back in twenty seven with their comment which became a meme.
It was a young boy, gay gay guy crying saying leave Brittany alone. Ray Present That big rant became one of the Internet's first viral videos. Well guess what. He's now re emerged as a transgender only fans model. Are you shot? Is anybody shot? Are you shocked at all by this. We all knew the kid was off his rocker back then, and now he's apparently making some good money. He goes by Kara cutting him. He used to be called Chris Crocker transition to twenty twenty one and age thirty three.
Got some breaston plants hormone therapy late last year. This kid is completely unrecognizable compared to his days as Chris. Now Tara is sporting long blonde hair, se cup cleavage, and very voluptuous man made curbs. When you read the articles that people write about this kid, the way they describe it, they go allverboard on saying how gorgeous he is, busty, beauty, long, beautiful blonde locks, voluptuous man. Just calm the fuck down, everybody.
It's a boy who took hormones and got some kits. Put in calmed down. But look, he took his act to only fans, where he puts up some uncensored photos and images, and of course he does that's what only fans models do. He said, I'm finally feeling comfortable to show my surgery results on only fans. Of course, there are a lot of trolls after him. Since he's gone public with his transition on social media, but he's
got millions of followers. He said, I get that in certain circles it's cool to shoot on only fans, creators and modernism, but I like, I never said I was contributing anything valuable to the world. I never said I was even smart. What I was going for was me and is a set of things that can copy and paste my Only Fans links. She's still dumb as a stump. Thought he'd often post muck bang eating videos on Facebook.
Oh god, well, they just stuffed their faces with food. He's got three million people there watching him do this, and he says he shouldn't be attacked for simply trying to earn a living on the adult subscription site. I agree, I got no problem with people using that site. You want to sell your body, go right ahead. One fan demanded that he stopped promoting his Only Fans site online. That he shot back and posting an advertisement
because I don't know. Sometimes it's fun to survive and pay bills in ways other than posting stupid eating videos. So he earns money through his music career and a recently released single titled Messy This kid was assigned mailed at birth obviously, then began to open up about his transition and a very what they call heartfelt Instagram post back in twenty twenty one, saying he just had hormone replacement
therapy after years of suffering from gender dysphoria. He said, it's been thirty three years coming, and I'm happy to be in a place where I can embrace who I am. I've put my identity and personal happiness aside for so long out of fear of rejection on or me not wanting to embarrass my family, and he realized that anyone who actually loves him would have cared about how long he's been feeling this way in the first place. All these stories are
blending into one. All these quotes dound the same. I'm transitioning and I have no more apologies to make for who I am. This will be a lonely process in terms of emotional support from others, but I will happy. I'll be happy knowing I'm doing this for myself and what I've needed for my gender dysphoria. Get this with this hand to take free Brittany movement number that he was able to sell the video of him saying, leave Brittany alone as
an NFT for more than forty three thousand dollars. Okay, I don't think many of you know what those things are. They're impossible to explain. There are moments in time that you can have that maybe worth something one day. I don't know. I'm not into this ship. They're called quote unique digital tokens, encrypted with the creative signature that verifies its ownership and authenticity and has permanently attached to the piece. Maybe when Britney Spears finally unravels and dies,
this will be worth a lot more money. But to four cup of forty three Grandford, Now, that person must have an idea that when Brittany finally goes like Drudy Garland, like Amy Winehouse, like so many others before her, that price will easily triple. But I'm not into the whole coin NFD ethereum stuff. I don't understand that blockchain. That to me, it's all algebra. But he did use that money to get the sex change. Is anyone shocked that this guy transitioned? I mean, come on, I'm not
shocked at all. I think Brittany Spears fans are just as fucked up as she is. But I'll say this, and this is wild as it is concerning. He actually looks prettier than Brittany does now and he seems less crazy. He's also put out more music than Brittany has in the last few years. So I don't know. Maybe I've been too hard on these people transitioning. I don't know. I'm starting to rethink some of the things I've said
about people with this transsexual stuff, particularly Dwayne Wade. I come down on him hard. I'm going to reassess that. But first I don't want to ruin your day, much less your awards season. But I got very distressing news. One of the key actors, actresses on Yellowjackets, is sitting out the Emmy season. I know, and I know this is very important news.
The non binary actress Live Houston, who plays the scared teenage goalkeeper Van Palmer on the Showtime series Yellowjackets, will not be submitting herself for this year's Primetime Emmy Awards, even though she's eligible in the main acting races. It's a twenty seven year old girl. She told a variety that, look, they made the decision. They made. She made the decision because of the Television Academy separation of acting categories into male and female. See they want to
do away with dad. She said, there's not a place for me in the acting categories. It would be an accurate for me to submit myself as an actress. It neither makes sense for me to be lumped in with the boys. It's quite straightforward and not that loaded. I can't submit myself for this because there's no space for me. She's a very important part of this show, this ensemble that has Melanie Lynsky Christina Ricci with both Emmy nominees last
year. Houston had been a highlight of the sophomore season. She's considered a long shot for any kind of Emmy recognition, but season two shows her towing a thin line between her love for a girlfriend and teammate, Tysa and her growing fear of the evil that may lie within tie. Oh. Yes, it's quite a show, no shit. I like the show. It's good.
So. Variety said that Showtime's plans for acting submissions where Houston was named among the Supporting Drama Actress contenders, and since Dan in a meeting with Showtime and other team members, they shared the decision not to submit themselves. Wow. LGBTQ activists and allies have advocated for gender neutral acting categories at major awards
ceremonies like the Oscars and the Golden Globes. Back in twenty seventeen, Asia Kate Dillon from Billions, the first non binary performer to play a non binary character on a major TV show, asked the TV Academy to clarify its gender classifications, and other actors who identify as non binary also have weighed in. Ammadarcti, who submitted for Lead Drama Actress for a House of the Dragon this year, and Carl Clement Hopkins, the first non binary actor recognized for Supporting
Comedy Actor for Hacks back in twenty twenty one. So they think look progress has been made recently. The Gotham Awards back in twenty twenty one have to stop defining its categories by gender. The Independent Spirit Awards did the same thing a year later. Even the Grammys have been completely gender neutral for over ten years. At the same time, though, these inclusion advocates are afraid that if non gendered categories become the norm, then cis gender white men will be
the biggest benefit. Jerry's rolling back all the gains they made since the hashtagg Oscars So White ceremonies in twenty sixteen. But Guson says, look, there's an implied fatalism there would suggests that we've all agreed that equality is impossible, and that's said, we're not going to start awarding best female and male director, or female or male cinematographer because we all understand that implicitly that will be insulting. You can keep things the way they are right now. I just
won't be participant painting. You know, this dilemma puts non binary actors in a place where they got to make what they call a very uncomfortable choice. So us it has made hers. But Jay Harrison Gee, a non binary actor on Fox's crime series Accused, is going to submit himself for Lead Actor in a Limited Series in the Emmy consideration. Meanwhile, they'll be vying for a Tony nomination for Lead Actor for the revival of Some Like It High.
You know, if you want the award, they'd go for the fucking award. Just put yourself down as what you are at birth, for God's sake. It's so simple. But the guy said it's not a gendered profession to me, and I was grateful to be asked for consideration on where I wanted to be viewed. Making that decision wasn't hard on my spirit. It was
just to be confident and intentional about my work in meeting the moment. As for the Painley ass, you said, Showtime and their fellow cast members have been incredibly supportive of her decision, especially after they had Oh god, she had top surgery before filming the second season. So she's in it to win it. She is in it to win it. She's going all the way. She wants their stand to be meaningful and for Hollywood to continue discussing the
complexities of these questions. It's worth talking about, and I very gently and respectfully ask that people get their gears turning a little. Well, look, I'm not going to call this person a crazy bitch. I'm not going to talk badly about her. If she can't figure out where she fits in the Emmy categories or one or else she does in life, I suggest she just put herself down as what she was born under. She was born a biological female. Put yourself down for best Actress. I don't care if you feel
male now you began in the show as a woman. Second season, you got top surgery. I just it's a long career. No one's gonna care what your award says down the road, actress or actor. They're just gonna say, hey, you won the goddamn Emmy. You're fantastic. And I want to say something real quick before I leave. I've put down Dwayne Wade,
the former NBA star, a lot. I put him down a lot because he has a son who became his daughter, Zaiah, and him and Gabrielle Union, his wife, are very much behind this little boy turned girl. Gabby Union is her step mom, her biological mother is upset about it. She thinks that Dwayne Wade and Gabby Union are pushing this on the kid. The more I look at this kid, the more I see that she really feels more comfortable as a female. Not easy for me to say this.
I've been very against this stuff for a long time, but I see what Dwayne Wade is doing. He's moving his family out of Florida because the laws they have are discriminatory, he says, towards transgenders. And I want to soften my hits on him and just say you know what if that's the kind of father he is and wants to put his son slash new daughter in a better situation where life is easier and not as vicious than any father would understand that. So I'm gonna ease off on the gas pedal a bit but
Dwayne Wade. But I will not ease off on the gas against Dylan mulvaney, that creep who's obviously a boy who just slaps on makeup and puts on Nike sports bras covering nothing but a male's chest. He's a hoaxter Dwayne Wade's daughter. While initially as a model, she looked horrendous. It's because they made her look ridiculous. The pictures I've seen recently show her or him as a pretty girl. So I'll lease off a little bit, But don't think
I'm gonna give up my fight for this down the road. I'm not. But I'll lease off on Dwayne Wade. Anzire. That should make some of you happy. That's it for today. I'm AJ Benza. That was your free show for Monday, May first, twenty twenty three. Talk this Friday. 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 of a J. Benza. Executive producer Mike Agavino