New Year's Day

to keep saying it. But I'm not a five guy. I told you years ago. Lenny Kravitz is a five guy. Loves the number five. It means a lot to him. Apparently did mean enough for him to shower regularly, but it means a lot to can't give him money shit but love the guy. But for many years he did smell like a circus elephant. Either way, all you girls think he's hot. I understand he's hot. I get it, But you gotta smell him. You gotta smell them. Okay,

maybe he's changed. That was many many years ago. Hey, everybody, we're back, We're here. I know it's I'm taping this obviously a New Year's Eve, It's three point fifteen in the afternoon. I'm not a big fan of this holiday. I'm not a big fan of the changing of the years. Although I am looking forward to a new year. Twenty twenty four was an absolute shit show for many of us, and I want to see that gone. And it is going to leave. Well by the time you hear this,

it's already left. There's gonna be some residue that we have to deal with. But I will say this, I just drove down the street and I saw something that. Look it. I'm happy it happened the last day of the year because it's just magical. Driving down the street making a left onto my block and I see a female dwarf in a wheelchair holding two leashes and two golden retrievers are pulling her down the sidewalk in North Hollywood.

This is what I saw, and I thought, you know what, this is the greatest visual to end the year, because, let's face it, I don't know what you used to do as a kid to try to feel lucky, to try to think like, oh, we did a lucky thing. Remember we used to search for four leaf clovers. I don't know what happened to clovers, but when I was a kid, they were on every person's lawn, every school yard,

every empty field. And when you were bored your young kids, rather than complain and say there's nothing to do, well, we laid on the lawn. Sometimes we looked up at the clouds and told each other I see a dinosaur. I see a toaster of it. You don't see that gorilla. You know. That's what we did. And at night we laid on picnic tables in our backyards or lounge chairs and tried to find shooting stars. Nowadays you'd be looking for drones and probably have a lot more luck than

we did with shooting stus. We did see plenty of shooting us. But you know what we used to do. We'd lay on lawns. And this is after we played football, soccer, kickball, basket. All we did all day from ten am to seven pm was played ball, and we'd lay on the ground on the field at different hours of the day and search for four leaf clovers. Don't forget this is back when twenty of us had Irish friends and Irish neighbors. They've been I guess supplanted by Afghanistan neighbors. And I

don't know Ukrainian neighbors, Nigerian neighbors. I don't know who you're living with, where you're living. But back then, our Irish friends would say, let's look for four leaf clovers and guess what we found plenty of them. You know, we couldn't really do much with them. You'd like, find a full leaf clovers, show your brothers, sister, mother, father, and that was that, maybe pressing in a book that was for chicks. Guys didn't. We just threw it away.

But there was a lot of things you could do. You could play a lot of games with the lawn. Like I was just thinking, remember like those dandelion we he said, popped up everywhere. If your family wasn't doing the right thing to keep your lawn regular. You had those dandelions that would pop up and they had that big cotton ball on top that you blow it, and all the seeds and weeds would fly across people's lawns and your parents would go, don't blow that. What the

fuck is wrong with you? We're gonna have weeds. But you could do fun things. You could take a little stalk from the other one and bend it in half and put it beneath the cotton bowl and then slide it up real quick and send that cotton ball into space. And all the there was things we did with little pieces of leaves and sticks and stalks. I don't know, I don't know. We just kept we kept it interesting.

But finding four leaves clovers were it was hard. But back then we never tried to find a dwarf in a wheelchair being pulled by two golden retrievers. That's really good luck. Speaking of luck, I just came across this story and I gotta tell you. I want to take this girl by the side and tell her what are you doing? What are you young? You're pretty? What are you doing? Remember the guy, the track star, Oscar Pistorius, right, the guy with the fake legs, the track star who

killed his girlfriend, Riva Steen Can right. I think that was your name, Reva right. Well, now he's dating another girl. Her name is Rita Rita, Notriva Rita. She's with him now. I hope this chick is sleeping with one eye open. He already killed one girlfriend almost the same name, and their faces are very similar. Girl, be careful, be careful anyhow, uh I did relationships as a bit earlier today with

Mike and Arena. We went through some of the things we've gone through with Christmas and New Years and presents and gifts and some fun stuff. Some fun stuff was unfurled. We talked about some of the worst gifts we've gotten. And I got to tell you, I think I might have said this in the past, but I don't mean this to be mean, but my aunt Mary was very artistic. You know, when I was a kid, Aunt Mary was old, so by the time I got to be eighteen, she

was even older and very artistic. She could draw, she could paint. She would paint scenic scenes inside of a clamshell. She traveled the world, so her room was full of paintings of Africa and wild animals that she saw, and Hawaii and sunsets and all sorts of marvelous things and Galopagos Islands and you name it. And Mary went everywhere. But of course, as I told you, when she was conceived,

my grandfather wasn't the most safe man. Put it that way, And apparently he had messed around with some woman or some girl, and he contracted a ven aerial disease and stt as it were, and he was, you know, I can't believe I'm gonna say this. He's fucking grandma. And at some point Aunt Mary was conceived, but apparently because Grandpa had a dirty dick, something was wrong with Aunt Mary. Syphilis was a kind of rea. It was the lesser

of the two evils either way. It married came through the birth canal, and her eyesight was really messed with, almost legally blind, all right, And she never complained. But as she got older she would paint and draw and really make, you know, make amazing pictures and portraits and stuff. But as she got older. Now I'm graduating high school and Mary decides she's going to paint my high school graduation picture and present it to me on Christmas Eve when we gave gifts. And I didn't know this. My

family knew. I didn't know. I opened the gift and there's a portrait of me in my cap and gown, and everybody is waiting with baited breath. Rose Jack my mother, Oh my god, what does he think of the gift? I couldn't say anything, but she painted me with like a lazy eye. It wasn't me was another person in my cap and gown graduating from my high school. Couldn't

say anything. All I could do was go oh, and Mary, this is beautiful, amazing, And of course my painless nephew Joey and his brother Jackie put it up right now, hang it up behind the bar. Put it up. We got to see this every day because they knew it looked nothing like me. So for many years, without Aunt Mary knowing, we called her. We may believe she had a studio where she painted portraits of people, and we said, Aunt Mary painting studios for the portrait that's not quite you.

And that picture of me, who didn't look like me hung up on the wall, hung on the wall behind the bar, and it stayed there for years. That was one of my I mean, looking back, was a great gift because I who can talk about gifts? Forty years later I think about I'm still talking about that one gift, so it obviously meant a lot to me. I could who could tell you about shirts and pants and things

you got? But I remember it Mary's portrait. I guess I'm talking about Christmas because I was sick and I didn't really get the chance to talk to you guys. But I did see a picture of Kim Kardashian with her kids, her four kids. It's really quite It's not amazing, but it's really interesting that these kids North Chicago, Saint and Psalm are the ages between eleven and five. And Kim did the whole thing, and look, I gave her

some credit. Kanye is gone. He is with his hot piece of ass Bianca sensory, his new wife who wears very little clothes, their globe, trotting around the world, and he's not really around his children much or his ex wife. And there's Kim in, you know, showing everybody the Christmas tree and the pictures. It's a beautiful tree, a very lavish Kardashian tree, and she's with her younger daughter and they're both wearing the same red leather dress. Kim looks great.

I'm not gonna lie. I'm a big fan of her looks. Her looks. That's it. Not her philosophy, not her knowledge, not her intellect, just her looks from the belly button up, from the belly button up. As I've said, I think she's flat out a fucking twelve. That's it. You know, if she doesn't open her mouth. Well to talk put it that way. But she's next to the kids, right, and she's wearing a leather version of this dress. Her cleavage. She looks fan fantastic. The dress is one thousand dollars,

and of course nowadays it depressed. They gotta tell you exactly what the person is wearing. They look it up, they do, they do the research, They go to websites. Yes, she had a thing with a plunging neckline, a lace up detailed down the front, a halter neckline. Blah blah blah. We have to hear all the details about this. But of course her daughter had a dress and it was ruffled, and it was a cleavage dress costing sixteen hundred dollars in change, had the same details as her mom. Short hemline,

spaghetti straps. I mean, of course, the daughter, you know, Chicago's dress was worn over a short sleeve top, thank goodness. But she matched her. And everybody who saw this picture was just, oh, I've got to have Chicago's dress. She is a fashion icon. No one's an icon. Who's a kid whose parents or mother hands you are dressed to hear, shut the fuck up with icon. She's a fucking kid, and Kim said she wanted to keep this Christmas photo simple.

We've all been there as parents. I'm far beyond the era where you took your kids to J. C. Penny. He sat down with her husband and your two children or one child or three. You got the picture and everything was great. You paid the price, and then three weeks later the pictures came back. Remember that JC Pennies. Now that's not what Kim Kardashian does. But to say the daughter looked adorable is sick to me. It really is sick. A six year old kid dressing and acting

like an eighteen year old, now, it's not good. And for a mother to possibly force that upon the child. No, all I see, call me crazy is a bunch of bullshit coming for Kim Kardashian as a mother, because these kids seem to be very undisciplined. Look at the faces on the picture of these kids. They're all going to be many disasters by the time they reach twenty years old. If they survived that long, God forbid. But I don't

like what's going on. There's one kid psalm, Oh my god, this kid looks like the whole world has gone bad for him. You have a look at your dog when your dog is laying around with you in those big puppy eyes. And I used to always look at Toutsi's eyes and go, why does it look like everything bad in the world happened to you today? What is with those eyeballs? That's a dog's eyes. Kim's kids have those eyes.

It's very weird. And did you see speaking of Kardashian's Travis Barker, the drummer right, whose daughter Alabama with her mother, Shana Moekler Alabama, was hospitalized at nineteen years old for nicotine withdrawal. What a wonderful thing to have to tell people, to have to swallow as a parent, My nineteen year old teenager is in trouble because of nicotine withdrawal. Well, that really says a lot about your parenting, doesn't it.

You know what happened. She stopped vaping. She stopped vaping cold turkey and didn't like how she feelings, so she called nine one one went to the hospital. But she wants everybody to know the exact details. They gave her a nicotine patch and an inhaler and that's all, guys. She's fine. And on top of that, she had to tell all of us, let's please avoid spreading any rumors

and focus on moving forward. Thank you. I want to tell any kid under twenty two years old to shut the fuck up if you don't talk to grown ups like this little girl, you've been fucking up since you're thirteen. You've been vaping, you've been sucking nicotine into your lung since you're thirteen. And your father, who's a big shot, fucking rock and roll drummer, has a loudness, and your mother SHANEA Mochler or I'll tell you a story about

in a minute. This is all good Jesus Christ. Six years on nickedteen at nineteen years old, can you imagine the lack of parenting. These are parents who've mainly thought about themselves four years. How many pictures have we seen with Travis Barker the drummer sitting on a boat in Italy, with Courtney Kordashian straddling him, dry humping him on the bay in Venice as they get to the film festival,

Give me a break. And Shana Moechler Alabama's mom. When I used to go to the Playboy Mansion back when it just jumped off again. Shana was hot shit, beautiful as the day is long, sexy as hell, and she wanted to have fun and we got close. You know, we were talking, calling, emailing her email back then, if I remember it correctly, you ready for this. She was so into the movie Mulan Ruge that her email was

something about sparkling diamond. But she was hot to trot and she was juggling a bunch of different guys while she was with the famous boxer Oscar de la Joya. Mind you and I remember one time at the Playboy mansion. I was chatting her up and you know, talking about coming to see her, and she goes, you gotta come

to my house. I'm having a party. What because Oscar cheated on me and I'm having an open house and we're all gonna drink his expensive wine and tequilas he's bought over the years, and he's not gonna know shit and come to my house or hour. I didn't go because I thought, oh my god, this is gross. Okay, he cheated on her, but she's gonna empty his wine cellar and his expensive liquor. Yeah. I didn't want any part of her after that. But think of how their

little girl's lungs. MU look, step up and be a dad and a mom and put an end to this shit. She's nineteen years old. She's not a queen that you can't get to. She's your fucking kid. You know, I look at this kid. I watch her on Instagram with the very expensive sexual body suits, the tons of make up, the smoking, the drugs, the sex, the parties, and you know, of course there's many pictures of her giving the finger to the camera because you know, it's so hard. It's

so hard in her life. And when your dad is a multi millionaire rock and roll star and your step mom is a Kardashian, of course you're gonna give the finger to the world because it's just hard. I mean, you know, she didn't she didn't ask for that life, guys, she just got it. I'm not in favor of hitting kids. I've never done it. I don't raise my voice, I don't raise my hands to my children. They've never needed it. This fucking kid needs to smack in the face and

to be grounded for a fucking month and change. And her father needs to step up his game and make sure she runs and walks the straight and fucking narrow or else she will be gone in the next five years. But here's the funniest part. Alabama, you know, is only an occasional vape smoker. She says. These people are all full of shit. People who vape and tell you it's not a big deal. Don't worry, No, don't listen to them.

And by the way, she wants to be a rapper, and people in the music industry told this girl, hey, look, vaping could damage your voice. She doesn't care. But the fact that she wants to be a rapper, a rich white girl, from what bazes somebody? Fucking light my hair on fire. Speaking of rappers, it looks like our friends in Australia are dealing with the same suppression of speech we dealt with here in America before Trump won. And podcasters have been elevated to the point that we are

now the people who disperse the truth, not the mainstream media. Anyhow, some cute little rapper named Eliah May out of Australia has a song called Karma Geddon and I wish I thought of that. It's a great title, Karma Geddon. And because she spit some hard truth about COVID in the vaccine. Oh, she's in a lot of trouble. She's now an independent artist. She lost her manager. They dropped her from her label because the lyrics on a song she refused to change.

And what are those lyrics in question? Man made virus? Watched the millions die, biggest profit of their lives. Here's inflation. That's your prize. This is karma. Geddon done, drop dismissed. What bullshit? Thank god things are turning around here for the better. Really, man, it's just it's wonderful to be able to speak your mind, not look not to say there's not disadvantages or bad parts about that, because there is.

You know, like, look all my life when I was a journalist, and you know, I wrote about people, I holm my intuition, I pulled together great sources, and I was able to write great stories for a long time, and I always got information that nine times that ten,

nine point nine times out of ten was true. And I've taken that attitude and that experience into the podcast world for the last seven and a half years, and I've always spoken from my hip, and that's what makes this podcast better than a lot of podcasts, because you're hearing things from me that no one else will say. And frankly, for many years, people didn't know if it was okay to speak frankly on a podcast. It was like uncertain, Oh no, no, it's fine, it's fine. It's

almost the wild West. You can almost say what you want on podcasts because no one's coming to sue you. It's really weird. And I think in twenty twenty five now that podcasts have surpassed the mainstream media liars, and I'm so happy about that. It is gonna come a point in time very soon where they laid down the law and those of us who have these podcasts are going to have to make sure what we say is accurate or will pay the price. And that's fine. I

don't care. I've worked within those parameters for many, many years. Bring it on, but we have freedom of speech, and Donald Trump will make sure, as will Elon Musk, and we're going to continue on and have a great time and escape the last four years of this bullshit nonsense, where not only could we not say we wanted to say, but we had to believe the bullshit that was being pushed on us, and we all knew it was nonsense. Going back to Kim Kardashian real quick. I gotta say

I've said this a million times. I think she's gorgeous, but she looks late. Look, let me tell you something. That red dress on Christmas fucking knockout. But I'll tell you right now, she looks like she's been seeing Lauren Sanchez, his surgeon. You know, Jeff Bezos is hot to truck girlfriend. I'm not even gonna say bad shit about Lauren Sanchez. Of course she's had work. Of course she's half fake, half plastic. I don't care. Have you seen Jeff Bezos

twenty years ago? Did you ever think he'd have a piece of ass next to him like that? No? You didn't. So he's having a ball. She's dressed him better. He's a cooler guy, he's making better moves. A good woman next to a dark and a nerd like Kim makes a huge difference. But Lauren Sanchez, who ladies. I hate to tell you it is because she want to think your boyfriend's or husbands think just like you. Ninety percent of your boyfriend's a husband with fuck Lauren Sanchez in

a second. We would, we would because she's sexy enough. I don't even know why I got oh, I got the subject because Kim Kardashian looks like she's using the same surgeon, and I hope she's not, because she's a much more beautiful person than Lauren Sanchez ever was. And I knew Lauren Sanchez before the surgery, way back in the day in nineteen ninety five, when she was on the make, trying to find the next Jeff Bezos or him, and she found them. Oh my god. Anyhow, she Kim

has this. Here's the thing about Kim Kardashian. There are some people who think she did that Santa Baby. Did you see that video on Christmas Day where she crawled on the floor in the Santa Bait. It was a very strange video. Travis Barker was involved, and it was weird. Kim looked like a soused Elizabeth Taylor after a drunken argument with Richard Burton, and she was crawling around the floor. Even though she looked I still found it sexy. I hate to tell you she looked a mess, but guys

are fucked up. We even think if you're messy, you're sexy. But there are there, there are there are people who think she did that. That video to draw attention away from the fact that apparently helped me out here. I'm not good with money, and apparently she's there's a change in her investment firm where she's not the main name on top of her firm. Or I heard this briefly

and I was half listening. I don't really I hate money talk and investment talk, but there's something about Kim that she's not any longer on the top of her investment I don't know, but I will tell you this. If that's the case, it doesn't matter because she is going full hog into her fascination with the royal family.

It's taken on a life of its own. If you look at her, you can tell Kim wants to be Elizabeth Taylor, she wants to be rapedel Walch and if she had her druthers, she want to be Princess Diana. And as a result, she has always been dying to and trying to buy things that were once Diana's. Ever since she was a teenager, she's been obsessed with Princess. She's studied her life for legacy, she's got the books, and now people are saying she's on a mission to

collect anything of Diana's that comes up for auction. So there was an auction last month and she went and she bought a bunch of shit. I mean, Diana, there's so many insanely expensive things. She was well, they had auctioned Dolf for her some some cross Atala cross she war back in eighty seven. Kim bought that. It's a purple crossed necklace. She bought that two years ago for

two hundred thousand dollars from Sotheby's. Princess Dana's got jewelry and gowns that are rarely up for auction, but there was a big one over the summer and pieces of Diana's closet and a lot of royal memorabilia were up for sale. People aren't really sure if Kim bought anything, but some people think there was a huge silk and lace evening dress by I don't know who this designer is, Victor Edelstein. He should have changed his fucking name. What

gay guy would keep Victor Edelstein as a designer. Some magenta silk and lace evening dress sold for nine hundred and ten thousand dollars. No one's saying who bought it. I think Kim bought it, but listen, I wouldn't. I don't have that kind of money. But even if I did, I wouldn't pay that money if Diana was still in the fucking gown. Kim Kardashian can buy whatever she wants of Princess Diana's, but she will never have the class that Diana had. Okay, let's be real, and on top

of that, let's really be real. Diana never looked as beautiful and sexy as Kim does in any outpha. She's worned. I'm being just honest. But Diana had class and style. There's no question about it. And if you think about it, think about Kim Kardashian bring it back twelve thirteen, fourteen years. She could have married Harry. She could have lived the

princess's life, that's what she wanted. But Harry was the wrong color, not a ginger, she was white and that just is not good anyhow, Gang, What will we miss from twenty to twenty four? What will we remember? I can't stand this year. I'm so happy it's fucking gone. I'll tell you a story that really makes me thrilled. The twenty twenty four is over the other day three terrorists. Those fuckers who were involved in orchestrating the nine to

eleven attacks avoided the death penalty. They avoided the death penalty. They got a sweetheart deal from military appeals court judge and this came in after five months. It was a long saga, and what a blow to the family of the victims of nine to eleven. They've been holding out for justice and hope for almost twenty five years, and of course they're one hundred percent against this plea deal.

The whole process was bullshit. So under this new deal, Khalid Shaik Muhammad, that fat, fucking ugly bastard, Whalid been Atash, and Mustafa Aljausawi, they agreed to plead guilty to war crimes in exchange for not getting the death penalty, and they're all going to be at Guantanamo Bay, which they've been since two thousand and three. I you know, things like this really make me question what kind of world

we live in. Obviously it is it is enraged to victims of the loved ones who went through this horrible nightmare. The death penalty is the only just punishment for these assholes. The worst terror attack in US history. It's just a bunch of bullshit. It's salt in the wound. Its salt soaked in alcohol, stuffed in your wound. If anybody deserves to be killed, these fuckers do. They should have been killed years ago. You take the death penalty off the table.

Who who was okay with this? They killed three thousand people and not to mention thousands of others who later died from all the toxic dust from those collapsed buildings. So let's make it six or seven thousand people. Assholes, And they're not remorseful, by the way, when they first went to Guantanamo Bay, they told soldiers there, we do it again. And this fucking President Biden, I want to you know, I don't want to even bring his name up, but let's end the year on this piece of shit.

President Biden, with his ridiculous clemency spree, commuted nearly fifteen hundred sentences in one day, two days before Christmas. This is his mm, this is what I feel like. He's always got a big load of shit in his pants

and wants to move on to the next thing. Do you ever have a day like that where you maybe didn't wipe your ass good enough and you just can't stand sitting down or walking around if you want to find a bathroom to get back in there and take care of that little biter in the back of your ass. I know you ladies don't get it, but you guys get it it. I mean, I know we all talk like, oh, you know a j Now listen, listen, ladies, we know you always take care of your butts in the bathroom.

There's never a situation. First of all, we don't even think you shit or far so when you do. I know, we know allest men know you wipe fine and your bowels do not have anything to make you have a harder day. They will do anything to make things easier for you. But men, I don't know what we eat. I'm not eating manwiches and frozen dinners. Why are there some days where I just can't get away from the bathroom. I'm like, should I drive? Or should I shower? Should wait? Wait?

Why am I wait? There's an itch? I know maybe you don't want to hear this at the end of the year, but this is the way it is for guys. Guys, tell the truth to your girls and your wives. Our asses are monsters. Sometimes. Where did I get to oh, Joe Biden with a load of shitness pants. Yeah, sometimes he makes decisions what a bider in his asshole, and

he doesn't really make the right decision. He should be in the bathroom cleaning his ass with Cottonell or any kind of depends paperwork that not paper, It depends napkins that you can't flush, but we all flush anyhow we do because we're the worst. We do. I can't take it. This is Biden's m He's released murderers and rapist people on death row. Oh my god, you know how much

damage he's done before January twentieth. The whole country should feel let down by these assholes who went to a strip club before they took command of those planes and crashed them into different buildings. I'm not even sure that Pentagon was one of them, but let's just say the towers. I'm not going to get into the fucking controversies of the conspiracies. Whatever. Thousands killed, and they're I'm punished with the ultimate punishment. This is I don't know what else

you have to do. You have to kill Santa Claus. He is the money too. What else do you have to do? Rape the tooth fairy It's an abomination. The fact that Joe Biden allowed these plea deals to happen on his watch is unforgivable. Three thousand families will never be the same because of nine to eleven, and they should have had the right to see these fuckers for their suffering face the death penalty. Sorry about that asshole conversation, but it's true. You come here for honesty, brute honesty,

brutal honesty. Speaking of death, guys, I might as well end the year on one more death of a friend of mine, a j again. Yeah, great man by the name of Richard Perry died the other day, a music producer who worked with some of the biggest stars in his seventies and eighties. Richard Perry had Parkinson's disease, and

I mentioned him probably a year or two ago. I know he was sick months ago, and lately I heard from friends he wasn't able to verbally communicate, which is hard for me to even fathom knowing Richard the way I knew him. Those of you don't know his name, I'll spare you the Google search. But Richard Perry was in the music industry, started out producing the first couple of albums for a cult legend named Captain Beefheart. Those of you in any kind of feel which is filled

with creative endeavors, remember things like this. Everybody has their start, because when you hear what Richard Perry went on to do after Captain Beefheart, tuck it away and always remember this. In the nineteen seventies, Richard worked with Carly Simon, Barbara Streiss, and Art Garfunkel, Diana Ross, Ringo Starr. I mean him and Rod Stewart had a really close relay. I met rodgs to it one night at Richard Perry's house. Back in the late seventies. Richard had his own record label, RCA.

Finally bought it in the early eighties. He produced a bunch of platinum and gold records over the years. He got a Grammy in twenty fifteen for his contribution to the field of music, which he absolutely earned and which shocked me. Began to date Jane Fonda. They fell for each other while he helped Jane recover from knee surgery way back in two thousand and nine. I was not going to his house anymore at that point, but I was happy that my buddy had a beautiful woman and

was being you know, taken care of. It's essentially with a great girl like Jay, I mean, forget our politics. But Jane Fonder in general, beautiful woman. I mean, christ, how many women kept up and looked as great as Jane. And she's still beautiful and they're still they were still close until he died. But Richard Perry was eighty two years old. Way back in nineteen ninety four, when I was dating Margaret Maldonado, the ex wife of Jermaine Jackson, I would go to I was new, I was new.

I'd fly to LA. I didn't know much about Los Angeles, and I was just relying on other pe people to tell me where to go, what to do, and they picked me up, they send me cars. I didn't know what I was doing, what clubs were hot, what restaurants were good. But these folks were just like, we got you, We got you. They read my column in New York and they wanted to be a part of my column,

even though they were three thousand miles away. No New York City gossip column was writing about Los Angeles nightlife until I began to come out here. I mean none, nobody was so I began to really shine a light on the LA nightlife, and it brought a lot more readers to our paper, and it made my TV appearances that much better, and it got me a big name in Hollywood. People were afraid of me in Hollywood because

Hollywood had no gossip columns. Nobody was talking in a certain tone about some of the movies and shakers in Los Angeles until I did it in my column, and all these big shots, these fucking nerds were running things in LA suddenly said, Hey, this age Benzer in New Yorkers talking a lot about it. So who is this guy? And boy? They treated me like royalty because they wanted to be right next to me. They wanted to make sure that they were in my pocket and I would

take care of them. It's a great position to be in if you were me. And I was dating Margaret in a matter of apartment and she says, I gotta go to Richard's house. I gotta he doesn't know what to wear tonight. I said, what do you have to watch? I'm just gonna go to Richard's house. He's three blocks away. I want to I'm gonna put out some clothes for him to wear. For the party tonight. I said, Oh, this is this fucking guy. He's not you know, I

don't know fifty. You gotta tell him a clothes to it. AJ, it's not a big deal. Are you fucking them? Oh my god, No, he's Richard Perry. He's not like that. I couldn't believe it. I'm like, all right, go, what the fuck do you tell him? You're gonna lay out clothes for this guy in his bed? You're not fucking no, Ahi, Margaret, I hadn't met the guy yet. Margaret was hot shit all right. Finally I meet him. Obviously not the kind of guy Margaret would fuck, but you know, very cool guy,

nice to me. And turned out he had a big ass closet in his in his master bedroom that had like one of those dry cleaning rocks that he pressed a button and all the clothes would would wrap around that closet. He could pick out a suit or a pair of pants or a coat. And I was like, holy shit, no, wonder the guy needs help. He's got six hundred pairs and suits and pants and shirts. Okay,

Margaret's fashionable. I'm getting it. And then as things went on, I would go to Ago every night, and there's Richard Perry hanging out with beautiful people, recording stars, hot girls. You know, like I gotta hang out with Richard pett And he liked me. He knew I was with Margaret or I was with Margaret now I'm on my own. He loved me a lot. He just loved that I was young and fucking scrappy and making noise in LA

and you're gonna be this, You're gonna be that. And one of the big things in LA back then, in the late nineties, really early aughts, was to be invited to Richard Perry's beautiful home up on the cliffs of the Hollywood Hills after dinner was done at Ago or at any other restaurant, mister chow, Spago, you name it. Because the nights end early in Los Angeles, but there's

still plenty more partying to do. And you know, I'd get in my car and drive up the hill Sunset Boulevard, make a right, and Richard's house is beautiful, circular, the driveway overlooking the city, gorgeous, glistening, you could smell the

eucalyptus trees. And the LA back then was a shangra law to me, and you walk in the house, and I mean everybody from Naomi Campbell to Oliver Stone to Brad Pitt, who you name it, were there and I'm walking in and because it was that era, cocaine was everywhere,

and Richard would put it out in bowls. And he also had a room downstairs which was his music room, and it was a nice room, not too big, maybe twenty by twenty, very quaint, but there was a jukebox there and every song, every record in the jukebox was a record that he produced, and it was great. And all the pictures in that room were all the artists

he worked with over the years. And I, you know, I had to live with Robert Evans, so I knew about these movers and shakers in Los Angeles who put these pictures of movie stars and recording artists on their walls because these are all their friends, and they're all pictures of award shows, and you know, you get used to it. And I was just hanging out at Richard's house and just drink and hang out with Naomi Campbell and Oliver Stone and all these fucking people. And yes,

the drugs were everywhere, and yes we all imbibed. And it was a great fucking time. I mean, I don't know what else to say. It was just a great time to be alive, was very carefree, and to be young, and to have so much of your life ahead of you, and to look at a guy like Richard to impart wisdom on you about the business and what needs to be done and what to avoid and how to make it and it just was, uh, it was invaluable to

a large degree. And I remember seeing him on TV at some awards show, probably the Grammys, and Jane was with him, and I thought, good for my man, good for him, she's a beauty, Good for Richard. And then that broke up and he got sicker and sicker with that in citious disease, and he finally passed. And it's been a shit year, guys. It's been a shit year, you know, it really has. I mean, it could have

been worse. These years could always be worse. We're still alive, We're still walking and talking and breathing, so I'm not going to make it the end all of years. But twenty twenty four sucked. And just to put a cherry on top, a guy like Richard Perry to split before twenty twenty five just really but goddamn exclamation point to the year. We fought through, many of us did, and

I hope to God twenty twenty five is better. I know we're going to lose people like we always do, but I hope maybe this next year I can avoid some of the big names who were good to me and really fun to be around while I was young and on the up and up and didn't have much of care in the world. Boy has that changed, right in the blink of an eye. All right, listen, I hope you have a great new year. Remember, it ain't the big things. It ain't the big things. You'll have

three big things happen this year. It's the one hundred little things you have to hold on to. Trust me, hold on tight the little things and you'll be okay. I'm aj benz that was your last show for twenty twenty four. Anios and shall Alvida, Zane Syinara and Gon' fuck yourself talk is tomorrow.