Lust For Life

thank goodness. But not as many as I used to see several years ago when I lived close to Teluca Lake, which is a beautiful upscale neighborhood in Los Angeles, and Adavino lived there. That whole development. I'm talking twenty thirty blocks. People go bananas. It's really fun to take the kids there and uh just from house to house. I mean, adults have tables at with wine and cheese, so the adults can have something while the kids trick or treat.

There's beautiful, uh you know, scary movies being shown on projectors in the yard. There are people who work in Hollywood and makeup and hair who dressed themselves up as serial killers and run around the neighborhood. That's crazy, but I think it's great and the kids loved it. But anyway, I sat home and watched a few scary movies, which, you know, look, I'm gonna go out. It's not gonna My kids are old. They rock and went to a party.

So I watched a couple of scary movies. I watched a movie called Trust with Sophie Turner, actually written by one of my great friends, Gigi LEVANGI wrote the screenplay, and uh, I'm not I was never a Sophie Turner talker. No Sophie Turner. I'm not like a huge fan of hers, but very pretty, very tall, thin life, if you will. She looks so much like Carolyn Bissett John F. Kennedy,

Junior's ex wife. I'm surprised. Maybe she was in the meetings to maybe portray Carolyn, but ten thousand times better than who they got to play her for this Ryan Murphy series that's gonna start. I don't know, they were just filming it. Maybe they're done filming it, but no

bad casting. But Sophie would have been great Sophie. This movie is interesting trust because she gets locked by accident in a utility room with a metal door, and as somebody on the other side of the door is trying to open the door handle to get her, couple of thieves they break the handle and then she all tries to open it on her and she breaks it too. So now she's no way to get out. She's locked in this cement room with a metal door, nothing in

there but a rat. I'm not gonna spoil it for you, but I went through something like this, not nearly as Oh, by the way, a pipe burst, so now the little utility room was filling up with water. Actually can't get out, so I'll let you watch it yourself. But a couple of years ago I met the motel with Rocco. He went to school, so it's like ten am. He's not due back to five hours, six hours whatever it is, got basketball practice and I going to back and went

out my phone. Well the fucking door locked from the outside, could not open it, and I'm pounding the knob and finally it breaks. I had nothing to stick in there. I couldn't use a toothbrush, there was nothing in there. I'm panicking. I can't call anybody. I get claustrophobic, so I thought jammed with my right shoulder, I busted the door frame. I told the motel people what happened. They weren't notice. They liked me. They're like, well, mister Benson

was so sorry. It's a thicket fixed of the door jam. Whatever the hell. But oh, that ain't a good place to be. So I understand that that terror of being locked in a small room, never mind the rats in the water. Jesus Christ. On my Patreon show a week or two ago, there was a story written by somebody who was alleging that Charlie Sheen was now dating a man, a guy from a not a show of bused guy, but regular guy that Charlie was very much happy with.

And I called bullshit. And I had a whole show describing to people who the writer is, what his past is like, the kind of bullshit he deals in. And I told him exactly the truth, that is to say, this story is horseshit. So Charlie Sheen now is more or less saying the same thing, even though this guy, Rob Shooter wrote that Charlie's perfectly happy with a new man in his life. The two keep a low profile.

They love to watch movies at Charlie's house, and the lover was apparently, like I said, a guy with a regular job. But they said, we've never seen Sources told Rob never seen Charlie happier. Oh really, did you see him smoking crack while the girl gave him head? I think he was happier. Then let's stop what I've never seen. See there's somebody tells it's like, shut the shut up. So I called bullshit immediately and told everybody why and how this guy is able to write such shit. And

I was right about all of it. And now Charlie Sheen is backing me up with what he's telling the press. He went to clarify his comments about hooking up with men at the height of his drug addiction, and he was on the Graham ben Singer podcast. Yeah, he was on Bill Maher, He was on a lot of Joe Rogan. None of them guys really went into the whole tell me about this man on man sex thing. They really didn't delve into it too much. Bill didn't touch it

at all. Uh, But Graham Benzinger wants to know about it, and he said, you know, uh, sex is a broad category, and he wanted to know what happened, but went on and Charlie's like, you know, and I said what I said, people immediately thought about intercourse. That's not the case. So right away I'm like, of course it's not the I know it. And Charlie's like, I don't want to be like, okay, I did this thing, but this and that part of it didn't happen. You know, I don't know what that matters.

It's kind of dancing around it. But then he said, look, they say you experiment in college. You know, I never went to college, so maybe that explains it. Charlie's great with interviews. He knows how to playcate people. He never gets upset and walks away. He always rolls with it. He's fucking so smart at being a celebrity. You know what this guy's gone through, what he's put his life through, and yet he always comes out smelling like a rose.

I marvel at people like this, And like I told my patrons, in five years or less, he's gonna be in a drama and he's gonna be up for awards. I'm telling you, this guy, Charlie's been so good for so long, but he got pigeonholed into certain roles. And then of course his drug addiction didn't help him, nor did tiger blood and winning that didn't help him. What sounded like him a lot winning anyhow. But you know, look, he did say it was liberating to flip the menu over.

But he was happy that. You know, the world didn't end, the train didn't come through the restaurant and kill him when he said it. A piano didn't fall out of the sky, got it. But you know, when you get too high, especially on crack, crack is a I'm not a crowd that was never a crack guy, but crack

is a nasty drug. Oh that is mentally physically debilitating, and it's a sex drugg When I was first shooting mysteries and scandals on Hollywood Boulevard back in ninety seven, when Hollywood was shit, I mean, I'm taking you have no. There wasn't the big Hollywood Hyland's Complex. There wasn't the Jimmy Kimmel Theater that was abandoned. There was an old movie theater abandoned. I mean, just awful stretch of Los Angeles. Helicopters flying above us with spotlights trying to catch people.

There was a murder during one of our shows. A few guys left the girl dead behind a pet boys and a dumpster, and all four of them, three guys and the victim came to watch our shoot and took pictures, and I'm in the pictures. They found the girl's camera and saw me and the production crew and they questioned us at e We had the cameras roller, but we didn't film the guys faces. The cameras were down, so all we got with their feet. But they were talking about camera guys and talking to me. It was a

bad area. I saw homeless having sex, crackheads having sex on benches. It was disgusting and that's what crack does.

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or two or three, who knows. I don't want to know exactly. I would think the guy went down on Charlie, or he went down on the guy and he came away not being upset that he tried it. Maybe he felt liberated because nothing changed in his life, so he just went with the flow I'm saying. And I think Charlie is too that there was no pillow biting going on. And maybe it's just me. I never had a moment with a boy or a man when I fell backed

into a corner or curious in any way. Shape Before years ago, Rogan talked about him being friends with an older man who I think they were fishing or something, and this guy was making began to make a little bit of overtures to Joe. And this is before Joe was a tough kid, you know, tough guy, and he extricated himself from the situation. But he definitely had the sense to know this is not a good place to be and he got out of there. And I hear

so many comics. I don't know why, comics, but on their podcast openly admitting that they have experimented with blowing a male friend or having that friend do gay shit to them, and then they weren't like five or six, they were older, but junior high school kind of shit that didn't exist in my day. If it did, nobody talked about it. I know people were gay in the sixties and seventies as they are now, but I don't know, man, I'll hear it, like once a month all these comic

could podcasts talk about Yeah, I remember that. You know, the guy like my friend is wanting to blow me. I tried it. What the what are you talking about? I can tell you right now in my day, and I know this is gonna sound archaic and wrong, but in my day, these guys would have gotten clobbered in the neighborhood. They would have got the shit kicked out

of him. I know it's not right. I'm not standing on it, but I can't believe the number of men in their forties and fifties who openly talked about having a gay experience. So Charlie Sheen's a good company. It's not my bag. But you know, I don't care that he's now seen the world from both sides. But the only time I got close to it, I'm like, maybe eleven twelve, we're playing tackle football across the street from

my house. In the school yard. There's a big round grass area at least eighty yards long, eighty yards wide, a big circle with a flag in the middle, right across from my house, Bayview Elementary School, and it was so many fields to play ball, and it was great. And you know, like ten twelve of us, fifteen of us would play rumbles, kill the guy with the ball, whatever you want to call it. And then at some point we'd have to take a piss break, or get

some food, get some soda, whatever the hell. And my neighbor and I, Peter, who was a year older than I was, but we were best friends, went upstairs to take a leak. And back then it wasn't odd for a couple of guys to piss in the same toilet. It just was. It wasn't a gay thing. Was like, all, we're just both pee together and and even have our piss hit each other's piss like a this sounds so gay, but yeah, like a like a sword fight with your p streams okay. And you know that was like a

maybe a five second giggle fest. Okay. When it was over and we both were looking out the way, know, above the toilet. The guys are getting back on the field to play. I said, let's go, let's go. We're gonna be late. Peter takes the tube of toilet paper, which was empty, so it just was the cardboard too, which we used to call it dutruth because when you were a kid, you would take the tube and go and make like a trumpet. Anyhow, Pete takes the off the roll and he says he puts his penis in

and says, here, blow into this. And I'm like, I'm not. No the fuck now, I'm not doing that. And then he laughed and we ran out of the bathroom and played football. But that was the only moment in my life where I thought the same right, the same right. Again. I didn't have any crack on me at the time at twelve years old. So maybe if I were high, I would have said let's go for Pete, but I doubt it. Ah, Justin Bieber has sparked a big reaction because he opened up his mouth. He opened up about

his beliefs during a Twitch live stream. He said, he said, to people who are listening and watching, if you even think of a woman with lust. It's the same thing as actually doing it, committing adultrey or whatever. It's the same thing. So it's like, if it even crosses your mind for one second, if you treat a man with anger or something, it's the same as killing a man. This fucking kid has lost it, lost it. You know.

There was that preacher a few years ago, Carl So Carl Wentz, the real window, who got caught cheating on his girl with some hot shake he meant at the dog park. They were all hypocrites, they're all hypocrite bullshitaris. But this guy grabbed baber when he was young, and god knows what he told them. But it is not adultree. If you think lustfully about a woman, you're not acting on it to make sure a good guy. You can't

control what your mind thinks of. Don't let don't let religious people tell you you're you're guilty for that kind of a thought. They have no idea what they're talking about. This is scientific. You can't no one can stop that thought. How many times have you seen a preacher crying at at his podium because he had evil thoughts? They're not evil, bro, they're beautiful thoughts In fact, if you do that while you're with someone who you love, it's okay. It just

keeps the relationship alive. You're not acting on If you act on it, then you're a piece of shit. But you're thinking about it. If I think about having a fucking pizza a my fat, I mean just it's just a thought. So obviously what he's talking about left a lot of people divided, like, well, why is he talking about this? It's bullshit. For anything in life, you can't control your thoughts. You can't control your thoughts, so if you act on them, yeah, that's wrong. But the thought

doesn't mean shit. You know. But there are people out there who are really religion will tell you, oh no, no, if you think of this stuff, this is very bad. You know, you got to accept that you're a man. You can't do that. Well, let me tell you something. If you accept that you're a man, that you accept that we are hunters. Okay, you don't have to act on it. But an innocent, quick lust thought is perfectly normal. Don't talk to yourself justin you know, I know there's

a I know, I looked it up. There's a big there's this di sermon on the Mount Jesus said, whoever looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultry with her in his heart. Matthew five twenty eight. No, no, no, Although you know I'm watching Justin say this. He's wearing a pink hoodie and I'll just leave it right there. But you know what lust is everywhere. That's just the way it is Bill Clinton. You know it wasn't beat with Hillary. God knows presidents have a ship ton on

their mind. I'm not saying women don't. And this only goes for men. Only applies to men, not for women. No, women go through their own shit. They can think lustfully about a man. It's completely natural. And of course she got this young, vivacious, big chest. That intern is bouncing in your office. Who wants to please the president, the most powerful man in the free world. And she's looking up at him with those eyes And you're a man,

you're a man. She wasn't under age. And it's not always about oh, I gotta get myself the most beautiful woman. I can't wait to cheat. No, sometimes it's just like, ah, I just need a blood job. But it's got to be a safe blow. Who is the safest person Ah Monica, she won't talk. That's all came down to. It's all that came down to. Meanwhile, got him impeached perjury, obstruction of justice. But ba bab, he didn't do himself any favors by the way he said, it depends what the

word is means, you know, stupid. I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Bill can't do that. Even Jimmy Carter, who was never a looker at least Bill blew out saxophone and looked like a young kind of a machio dude and making the talk show circuit. We all liked him. And this guy's fun, right. Remember being in the Hamptons many years ago, mid nineties with the girl I was dating who was beautiful. She was Dan

rather the newsman's assistant. Her name was Kim Actar. Gorgeous Indian but raised in uh British schools, so she was Indian and had a so feel a run type body, but spoke with the British accent, not Indian. It was so it was weird to look at her and hear the accent and that it not it was an Indian. It was brilliant, it was sexy, so we come out

of her. She had a vintage blue truck many years ago, in flat like a little like a small truck with a flatbed in the back, two seater, and she's righting a bikini top with like a white shirt over her shoulders. It was warm. It's the Hamptons, and I mean she bounces out of the car. We're headed into a deli to get some sandwiches, and who's walking out with Bill Clinton with a couple of secret service guys, and he's looking right at her tits, and all he said, without

looking away, was nice truck. That's all you got to do when you're a president, say something like that. You're in Thank god she was with me. But she did say, oh my god, I actually got she really in barrosbyed that was she was flush. Women love power. So Jimmy Carter, who's president, you know, obviously the most powerful man in the free world, said in a Playboy mansine article many years ago nineteen seventy six, he said he committed adultery

in his heart many many times. Well that's that that interview and that comment sparked a lot of controversy and almost destroyed his campaign. But he said he admitted he looked he looked at women with lust and committed adultree in his heart. He also used the word screw and shocking up in the interview, and the media jumped on it, but it didn't keep him from being elected President of the United States. The chick he was talking about was

hot shit Patty Maguire. That's the playmate he lusted after. Patty was Playmate of the Year in nineteen seventy seven, went on to marry the tennis great Jimmy Connors. And you know these days, Jimmy Carter is dead, Jimmy Connor is still around, and Patty sells sweet pickles online. So no m no foul. And this, you know, I got to talk about Rosie o'donnald is turning to her fans to support It's hard to support somebody who's as hateful as she is. And every time she's on Twitter or Instagram,

there's always a herpie on our top lip? What is it? Or a bottom lip? What's going on? I'm not saying, you know, you have to be a tramp or a loose woman to get hurpie. You could be with one person at one time and that's it. You got it. But it's always on her face. So she went on social media asking for all of us to pray for her oldest daughter, Chelsea. Chelsea was sentenced to prison for violating the terms of her probation for drug charges. These

two never got along. Rosie's shit mother spends too much time not dealing with her children's problems, but worrying about her own fame and fortune and how much she can shit any Republican nearby, mostly Donald Trump. But she said to her followers, my child Chelsea Bell before addiction took over a life. I loved her then, I love her now, and she faces a scary future. You know, this is the chick that Rosie and her partner Kelly. Kelly Copperer

was kind of hot. They adopted her back in ninety seven. This chick was arrested in Wisconsin three different times in three months. She's got a big problem. She's twenty years old. Got busted in September on felony charges, child neglect and of course, possession of meth anthetamine. She look at her face and you see how unfortunately bad it's looking. That's meth. That is meth. She posted bail and she got busted again.

On more felony counts. She bail jumped, resisted or obstructing an officer, possession of myth again, and she got busted a third time possession of math, bell jumping other drugs. So Rosie sit to be tied, doesn't know what to say. Yes, it's true. After being bailed out by her birth mother, Chelsea was busted again and is facing more charges related to her drug addiction. We all hope she's able to get the help she needs to turn her life around. Well, can't you get to the help she needs? What are

you hoping for? You got tons of fucking millions, get the help. So this Chelsea pleaded guilty to three felony accounts and all the other shit. Got six years of probation back in March of twenty twenty four, but the conditions about her probation were got to stay sober. Can't possess alcohol or other controlled substances without a prescription, can't have any contact with drug dealers or drug sellers drug users, and you cannot own a gun. And of course you

got to present. Her probation revoked a week or two ago, and she said, goes, I have compassion for those struggling with addiction. Chelsea was born into addiction and has been a painful journey for her and four young children. Listen, I don't care for Rosie o'donnald. I met her when we both were guests on the pilot episode of the

Linda Richmond Talk Show. Linda Richmond was the mother in law of Mike Myers and the woman he based his snl sketch coffee talk on because his mother in law, his wife's mother, is Linda Richmond, and she would talk like this. She'd loved her gossip. She loved talking about clothes, you know, loved coffee, love sweater, you know, the whole

skit sketch, I should say. And I was asked to appear on that pilot with Mike Myers, Rosie o'donald and I think David chokacie of old people because Linda Richmond loved gossip, so I was asked. She read my column want me to be on? I was thrilled, But when I met Rosie that day, she was such a bitch. She walked into the green room in sweats and an ugly T shirt. And I'm on my period. I'm in a bad fucking mood, just being loud and nasty. What are you doing here? I said, I think Linda's into gossips,

so they called me, oh great. And back then, you know, Rosie was in the columns, not as much as she was in the columns after she got a talk show. But she only got a talk show because the people at BWEN it is the TV who we did the pilot for, didn't think Lynda Richmond had what it took to be a talk show, and she didn't. But Rosie. They thought we could make a show with Rosie and the rest was history. So I was there for that moment or on that show, but she was a bitch.

And then once she got her talk show, I made it my point to uncover all sorts of dirt and the goings on behind the scenes with the crew that work with that the director she was firing every week, And I mean, I know, I got her back good, So I don't really you know, I don't care for her, But in her defense, it seems like we all have someone in our families who maybe suffer from drugs or maybe you have her addiction qualities that you know. The

good news is Jail's gonna sober. Her up, you know, but Rosie's kid is messed up, I think because of Rosie. And as soon as she takes accountability for her poor parenting, the soon as this kid, well'm not kid. She's twenty eight, the sooner this person, maybe you're gonna ask some a

sort of a normal life. She Rosie applied for Irish citizenship, and she might be in trouble because looking at the information on applying for a citizenship in a different country or in Ireland, applicants for Irish citizenship with criminal records may be refuse citizenship on grounds of failing the good character test. If your child is applying for Irish citizenship by naturalization, their conviction and history of drug addiction will

likely weigh heavily under the good character assessment. Interesting, right, It's so odd how they take in everybody else from any place else with no filters, no restrictions.

And I wonder does Rosie appreciate Trump's war on drugs? Because the iron is, if she didn't publicly suffer from trump The arrangement syndrome so badly, maybe she could ask Trump for a pardon for her daughter. I mean, Rosie's been down this road before with this kid. Not the fact that the kid did anything bad, but when Rosie and Howard's Terham were all when Howard Stern was giving Rosie's shit for years, he was dumping on her and dumping on her, and I was there for that. That's

what Howard was just no filter. He wouldn't after anybody he could. But there came a point where Howard's fans were getting a little crazy and some death threats got to Rosie. And not only death threats, but we're going to kidnap your kids. And I think one of the kids that that was about was Chelsea. Yeah, I'm positive. And that's when Rosie had to call Howard because Howard stopped fucking with her, and I asked him why we pull him back on Rosie. He goes, no, no, we can't.

That's off limits. She called me. You know what, there are Sikos out there who is say they're gonna kidnap her kid, kill her kid, and I can't have that. So I'm never gonna mention her name again in a bad way. And he never did, and for that you gotta respect him because he could have. He could have kept it up. And finally, let me just put this in your bonnet as I leave, because my patrons know

these stories. I want to show you, or at least give you a hint as to the kind of stuff I bring people that ninety five percent of the time turned out to be true. We all know the Dodgers ultimate baseball player, Shohel Tani, who's gonna start the seventh game of the World Series after he was magnificent a few nights ago. There's a rumor out there that I think is substantiated that he's not really into road games, doesn't like playing on the road. It's not really about

the sport or about him being tired. It's about the proximity of where his mistress typically is. Okay, because there are people on that baseball team talking up ear echelon, not just players, but people who run the team, have had to discreetly ensure that this mistress is comfortable and close by, because Shoheo Tani told the higher ups that he performs better when she's around. He feels free with her away from home and away from the chaos at home.

And I'm telling you right now, I know that Shohio Tani was death involved in the gambling scandal that fell onto his translator to the tune of many, many millions of dollars. But shali Otani is a gambler, has always been a gambler, and believe me, he know all about it. But Baseball can't afford to have our current babe Ruth be dragged down in such a scandal, especially because he's from a different country that Major League Baseball wants to

stay close with and on good terms with. Because everything's going international. If you watch the NFL. We're playing a love of the world. Now basketball, same thing. Baseball has been doing it to a degree, but they want more. So that story's never gonna get out. But I'm telling you it's true. And maybe one day, as his career starts to wane ten years from now, it'll start to trickle out. And then by then, hopefully you'll be a patron for a long time and you'll hear me. Mind

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