Hey, everybody a J Benzy here with fame is a bitch. This is your free show from Monday, May fifteenth, twenty three. Yes it's me. Yes, I know I was gone last week, and yes, I guess. I didn't tell you guys, But how to tell you? I was sick and I'm still sick. The girlfriend came down with COVID and I'd been with it the night before, so I started to feel symptoms like the last time I had COVID night sweats. I'm talking, I had to change
my shirt, night sweats, like crazy, horrible sore throat. My voice is finally back to a decent level, you know, no fever, but sore throat and just complete lethargy. Didn't want to move my hand, didn't want to reach for the remote. That was exactly the way the last COVID went COVID number three, So I might have it now. I don't even know, and I don't care. I've had symptoms for like four days.
Usually by the fifth it tends to start going away. Don't feel great today, But I'm doing your show because I owe you a show, and those of you out there, I want to know why is Aja taking these three free shows off the air, and no more classics. It's very simple. I need time to do stuff better for the people who pay me, the
people who literally pay my bills. I need to concentrate more on that, not to mention the things I do on the outside, such as the poker show, such as another show I'm putting together with the same producer, such as another book. There's all sorts of ideas I have, But for me to keep being heard five days a week for free is kind of like why would someone then go to Patreon. I mean, of course some do, obviously, but to give out three free shows it used to be five a
week for five and a half years. And if you haven't come over to Patreon yet, I guess you're not coming. So I need those forty minutes, not just forty minutes talking. I need forty minutes to talk, But I also need hours to put the show together. And I don't just sit
down and brilliantly come up with things. I think about the day, how it's going, how the news is forming, what's happening in culture, what's happening with liberalism, what's happening with trends, the whole trans situation, pronouns. All this stuff's running through my head. Who's divorcing, who's back together. I've been doing it for thirty years, so my mind never shuts off, even at three four o'clock in the morning, like this morning. I
look up at three fifteen. What do you think I do? Grab my phone? Stop looking for news. I'm too early for news because news ain't even open yet in New York at six to fifteen. There might be a story or two, but there's not a load of them out there. So I'm doing it because I need time and I need my sanity back. And with all the things I do running back and forth to La Vegas, Chica, go again next the early June for my nephews celebration of life. I'm
running ragged, man. I need time for myself and the people who go to Patreon will not be disappointed. That's where I gave my all. I've never I've never hid that fact. That's where most of my exclusives go. I give you, guys a taste now and then, because you're still fans, you're still listeners. I hate the word fans, I meant listeners. But picture it this way, guy, guys, Let's say you own a restaurant and for the first five years you're thrown away food for free. People
just coming to the window a pizza place. Two slices, please? How much is that? No? Just take it? Really yeah, yeah, just take it. And the guy has another restaurant to block away that charges for pizza. You gotta really like his pizza to stop getting it for free. And then go to the store where seven dollars a slice, well, let's say five dollars a slice like patron is. But at some point the guy goes and you know, this doesn't really make sense. Everybody's going to
the free pizza spot. I name up people buying pizza, okay, and look, I understand what's out there. I'm not something guy living high in the hog. We all dropped services here and there. We drop HBO. There's so many streamers now, makes you crazy. I even I dropped Amazon Prime. I want to drop Hulu because I hate that programming. Once in a while they got something I want to watch, and I saw it begin for a month or so, but then we tend to forget and the bill
comes in. You go, god damn, and I pay for again. I don't even use it, and nowadays, I understand every five ten dollars counts for a vast majority of us. I get it. But the party it over. There'll be one free show week. You could still hear me five days a week on Patreon. You could even shot out for politics as a bitch as well, And when I feel more freed up, I might even do a second free show. But at this point in the game, five and a half years in, and I'm not being mad, I'm just
being honest. It's if you like the show so much and you long for the free show so much or my stories on whatever it is, they just spring for the five. Yeah, that's all. What do you guys think? You think? This rumor that Kim Kardashian and Tom Brady are an item, it's very interesting, I mean it is, but it's also a little bit. You know, the media likes to put things together. It's very
simple. This is going to happen because they're both well both billionaires, right, I mean Tom's right there, Well, they're probably they're both close to a billion. Kim's probably over a billion now. And they all buy vacation homes at different spots of the world, and Kim is buying one of looking to buy one in a very exclusive part of the Bahamas called Baker's Bay Golf, an ocean club, very exclusive members only residential community in the Bahamas where
all the rich people live. So she called Tom for advice about where to go, what to look for a realtor whatever it was. Is he dating or are they dating? No, I don't believe so. I think it would be. I think for Tom it would look a little bad. I know it's going to smash her. She probably already sent nudes. I mean, a girl like this, there's no way she hasn't sent Tom Brady nudes yet because the people she shocked up within the past. She was always like
that. Kim was very free and easy, even before the porn tape. Even during their marriage to Kanye, there were rumors about her and Drake and other rappers that were driving Kanye insane. And that's hard to do because he already is insane. But this is the type of community where Jennet for Lopez, Alex Rodriguez, Michael Jordan, justin timber Lake, Reese with his all
have homes in that list. Everybody's a billion had just about Reese, just Matt Justin's not, but Michael Jordan certainly is a rod is right there, jennif A Lopez is pretty close. I mean, you know these people could pay for Patreon. Oh yeah, sure, and some of them do. But I'll finish that story later on in the show. Because I wanted to get I wanted to touch on something that occurred. The only place I can tell you guys what's going on is here on the Free show if you're not
on Patreon, So I'm not on Facebook or Instagram. Because my phone got all messed up and it's still in recovery and I've really got to spend time to get it all back. I lost all my phone contacts, which was a nightmare, my bank app. I've told you the story before, I believe I still haven't done it, and the phone was in recovery till March twenty three. I've had ample time to go get it fixed, and I
haven't done it. So that's why I got to unscramble my brain and do things for me for a while before I get back to thinking about adding a second free show and maybe a classic now and then in the meantime, enjoy this show and maybe I'll see you on the other side, I'd love to We're a very welcoming group. If you go to the Facebook podcast Obsessed page or fame is a bitch podcast obsessed page, You'll get a lot of information
there from listeners. I think most of you know that by now. I'm not writing on it currently, like I said, but I will once I get back. I'm very active when i'm when i'm there, I love talking to listeners. I love it. A lot of them have my personal phone number, emails all you guys do, and I always say, you want to talk about something you want you want a bitch to me about me,
then call then email me Pope Benz at gmail dot com. Don't go to my message board that's for my fans and listeners and talk shit about the show. Then what that's for. We'll not read it. It's a message board, a Facebook page for people who like the show hence like me. But if you insist on doing that, then we'll just give you the boot and then no more, no more Facebook page. I don't want to get too
angry because this is starting to kissed me off. But look, Megan Kelly had a little bit of some harsh words for her alter ego Charlie Sterren members. Charlie played man Magan Kelly on the on the Big Movie Bombshell. So here's what happened. Oh god, Charlie Starren threatened to fuck anybody up if they oppose drag queens performing for children. I don't even know what to begin. You want to f somebody up if they opposed drag queens performing for kids?
Yeah, well I'll get I'll get to her in a second. It boggles my mind. So Megan Kelly responded to that. And you know, Charlie's put a viral clip out with a bunch of queens behind her during some telethon. I will if anybody up who like is trying to f with anything with drag queens. Oh yes, the telethone was called drag Isn't Dangerous? Unbelievably, it raised a half a million dollars. I could believe that because every liberal in Hollywood probably ponied up. Making Kelly responded, Okay, so
why doesn't Charlie Starren comment f me up? Because I'm one hundred percent against her on this. Good for her. I love Making Kelly on her podcast. She's I know she's making a move for TV, and I know her agents are talking to the networks. Fox would have her back in a second. She could even go to CNN because now they're being really more toward the middle than the far left. She'd be a great voice there now that Trump is hit in CNN and giving them three and a half million viewers, which
they never got on their best day. Three of their shows combined couldn't reach that. You put Trump on bang viewers and when they ran a pole, they ran a pole. How many of you believe that Natalie put Trump on air? You'll never watch it again, or you'll watch us more. Seventy eight percent said watch us more. I'm telling you don't count him out. I know he's got a lot of shit hand and dragging from his belt, a lot of trouble behind him, and there's gonna be trouble ahead. But
people are fed up with this country. There was a video of the other night I saw of a guy standing at the borders someplace on the border near Texas, I assume, and about one hundred and fifty migrants were walking on this rocky pavement above him, and I figured the way you pronounced it, but like he was saying, where you're from in a certain language, I imagine Spanish, but everybody understood it, and you heard where country you're from,
where you're from it. Everybody walked by and said Brazil, Somalia, Mogadisho not Mogadisho. Um, it's thoughts with an M. It's a terrible place, Donna, Kenya. You can't believe it. Everybody's coming here, Ecuador, of course, Brazil, a lot of Brazil's. It's just disgusting. And then walking right in and you got I don't want to make this a politics show, but I just went off point for a minute. That stupid bastard Mayorkas says the border is not one hundred percent working, fine,
one hundred percent. These people need to be strung up. I'll get into that on politics a bitch the next day or two. Him. I'm cooking one up now. But Megan Kelly said that Charlie is somebody who obviously she doesn't know, but she feels like she has some weird connection to her, obviously because this person played her in a movie. And let's not forget Charlie Thrown also is in the Special Wives Club, well not wives anymore, but
in this special club Special mom's club because she adopted a black child. Not only that child is trans. So I mean, Charlie is really kicking it up a notch as best she can to stay one of the liberal front runners in this town, well that town, when I go back there in a few days. But this is about grooming kids, and that's what Megan Kelly was getting at. I've been to drag shows. I hung out with drag might and hang out with them. They were all around me in the nineties,
and I personally think that I just don't get the attraction. I just don't. It's just if they were women dressed like that, I know that sounds weird. If they were women doing that, I'd have a more I'd have a better connection to it. Because if you want to sing vampie songs and dress crazy and wear a wild makeup and big wigs and wear crazy clothes, I'm down for that. But when I know it's a man beneath all that, I mean, if it makes them happy, go ahead and do
it. You know, we all I want everybody to do it makes them happy, but just don't drag my kids into it. Pardon the punt. Don't drag kids into the goddamn thing because there is a danger associated with it. Now. You know, all these kids nowadays are thinking of transforming and transition, transforming, transitioning, so many kids talked about it. Read a story the other day where a kid came off from school and said, Mommy, should I be man that I'm a boy? Who the fuck have I
heard that? Going to school twenty thirty, forty fifty years ago? None of us did. Drag shows can be fun as long as it's all adults. But there are drag shows going on right now all over this country in schools and libraries that are very disturbing, and young kids are going to them. So what exactly is Charlie stare in supporting? I don't know. She
has children, doesn't you understand grooming a child? Even though she has a trance kid, she should be against us making Kelly said, what happens if what happens is if you introduce sexual behavior and like sexual references, just sexualization in front of children too young, it gets them used to it, Sure it does. It lures the child into that behavior. So it is a problem. And I'll touch on that real quick. When I was a kid, father and mother mainly My father took me to every movie they went to
see, and they were all R rated movies. Back then, that was the big thing, was a PG and R and M M for mature. But R was big. R was a step under X lex meaning sex, drugs, cursing, like you know, crazy stuff drugs. I saw everything foreign films. I saw so many sex scenes when I was a kid, And yeah, I squirmed in my chair a little bit because I didn't want to look my parents in the eye. I always sat in the middle.
It was uncomfortable. But you know, what ends up happening, I believe, guess ends up growing up as a kid and loving sex at a young age, very young age. Now what if I was a little girl. That's kind of dangerous. If a little girl loves sex and is very curious about sex at five and six and seven years old, that was a kind of a little boy. I was never did anything bad at that age,
never got molested, no one touched me. But I think being exposed to that stuff, you know, may have put me in a similar type position. I just grew up loving sex and wanting it all the time, and you know, to be quite frankly honest, I still that way with my girlfriend. Absolutely, and I don't feel sixty. I may look at sometimes, but I don't feel. I feel like I'm thirty five when I'm in bed. But I've always had this sexual connection and I think it comes from
Mommy and Daddy letting me see the movies they saw back then. Home Box Office just hit. HBO is a brand new thing. They showed like six five movies all day, over and over, maybe three movies all day. One was called Shila Levine is Alive and Living in New York. I still remember the title. I must have been eight and nine years old. So it definitely does something to kids heads. I'm not saying it fucks up every
kid, but it can. Controls is all against you know, these proposed laws all these states run by GOP people that want to ban public drag shows. I don't think public drag shows should be banned. I just think there should be an age limit on how young the kid could be to go see it, period. But Charlie's doubled down. There were so many things that are hurting and really killing our kids. And we all know what I'm talking about right now, and ain't no drag queen. We know they're not killing
them, but there's some seed being planted in the kid's head. Just like the person who picks up a gun and goes to a school and shoots it up. There's a seed in that kid's head. Maybe there was too many video games, maybe whatever. If I don't know, bullying, there's also straight up mental illness, whatever you want to call it. But seeds are planted at young ages. Again, she said, if you've ever seen a drag queen lip sync for her life, it only makes you happier, It
only makes you love more. It makes you a better person. Oh no it doesn't. But because shit in your hat a better person. I want to see a drag queen lip sync get out of here. Please support all the great organizations that are out there helping all this nonsense go away like it should. Stupid policies, buy no more room for hate, only love and love equals drag queens. Love equals drag queens. No one the guys run out on you, Charlie's what a bunch of horse duty. But what do
you expect? What do you expect it to be like? Since she had you know, doctor kids, one becomes trans This is the world. She feels she has to live in since she has one foot in the trans world, one foot in the liberal world of politics, and her ass planted firmly at the tippy top of Hollywood. So I'm not shocked she said it, but I'm glad Megan Kelly spoke up. And you know, I know the transient situation comes up a lot on these shows, but it's too big an
issue. It's too big an issue for me to step away from and talk about. I don't know, bad Bunny and Kendall Jenner, who gives a shit, that's all that's all pr work for her tequila brand. She's not with that guy. It's all pr work for eight one eight tequila and his next album next whatever the hell he's dropping. Boy, I'm whipped up today, huh, and have some tea hold on. This is work of his team, better than better than water, A little throat coat love it.
Another insufferable Hollywood liberal has come to my attention, Edward Norton, and his latest uninteresting role appears to be bank rolling New York City's biggest socialist. Ed Norton has given more than thirteen grand two Alexandria Akatzio Cortes or as we call Alexandria occasional coitus. Since twenty twenty has forked out of that money. Not a big amount of money, but still. He was among AOC's top individual donors for the first quart of twenty twenty three, so he's still sending three
years later. He likes to be a cheerleader for these people people. He loves to be a cheerleader for socialist congressmen and congresswomen. You can look at them, look at his posts online. Way back in twenty twenty. He was all old. He was so so just gushing after AOC went after Florida SENAA Marco Rubio that Edward had had to tweet thank you, AOC. The
staggering scale of the hypocrisy is exhausting. Doubly so. In a week we learned that the operational core of our government, including on nuclear of military security complex, has been brazenly attacked by Russia at an unprecedented level. GOP silence ed Norton, whose family, by the way, refers to him as Edward Harrison Norton. There's even an he's like a third name in there too that Wikipedia didn't have. But this is like four names people of four names come
from money, and Norton comes from billionaires, philanthropic billionaires. That's money just you could wipe your assel with. I mean, it's just like, get rid of it, get rid of it. That's where he comes from. So I don't know. I don't know why he gives such a shit about what HELC says. I do know why he's a socialist, but you know, maybe maybe he wants to crack at that rack of hers. That could
be it. A lot of guys want to pony up to that. He also said the only dangerous socialists in this country at banks and all the other publicly subsidized corporations. What a blow hard. Now, I know he's a terrific actor. When you want to see some of his movies, I get it. I liked a bunch of his movies, not a bunch, but I like him in a movie. Although to me, he's one of those people if you just imagine whiskers on his face, he looked like a little
rat. He does. He has that little rat face. To me, loved him in American History X loved him, didn't really love him in Fight Club Love Brad Pitt didn't really love Edward Norton kind of too soy boy for me and that, but the movie was great. He's also been court It is saying socialism as socialism for some people carries a pre sixties definition that puts certain people's teeth on edge, as do words like conservative. I think that labors are limiting him. I can't even read. He just talks and talks.
You know, this is a Yale guy. I believe Ivy League school either Yale heart, I believe Yale. I think whole family went to Yale. You know there's buildings, there's wings and schools with the name Norton On it throw away money. This how his kid grew up. But you know made his family so wealthy, not socialism, capitalism did it still is because he's making millions. This guy gave forty one grand to President Obama, more
than fifty eight thousand to the Democratic National Committee. He also hangs out sometimes with far left asshole Megadona George Soros, who's destroying this country from the inside out, putting all these liberal das in all these blue states and just releasing
criminals. And both of them went to the Clinton Global Initiative Annual meeting together along with other A listers like Richard Branson and what do you know, Charlie's Then you know Norton's little fucked up in his head because he's born into a very interesting, if not ironic family. He's a descendant of slave owners and Pocahontas. He's also the grandson of the affordable housing advocate James w Rouse. Big money. This guy developed the whole city I think in South Carolina,
is it. Yeah. He's on the board of trustees First Enterprise Community Partners Foundation, and he told NBC that his movie Motherless Brooklyn was written as an homage to the things he cared about, and nobody went to see it at cost twenty seven million dollars to get it grossed about eighteen. That's called a flop. So no one likes to hear movies. Listen to dialogue and the kid, look the kid is I call him the kid. I knew, Like I said before, I Caughtney love with in my building and she was
dating Ed Norton at the same time. He lived in the same neighborhood. But I'd see him in our building and I heard Caughtney love on and I always found a weird, a weird coupling because she's so she was so grungy and doped out and drunk and just maybe not drunk but just fucked up all the time, really just out there. But she is very smart. It's just that her brain works so quickly that she the stop and starts to her conversations. And I've had them with her, making want to go crazy.
But the stuff she knows is crazy. She's also a big liberal too, but who's the whole interviewed the recently they listened to Mark Barrin, I believe interviewed. He couldn't get a word and edgewise. But she she did say that out of all the guys she dated, Edward Norton was like the last, the least guy she thinks she would have. She'd ever marry, There's no question of that. If she didn't. If you can't lay in Courtney
love my goodness. I think if he's saying stuff like this out loud, is the easiest thing to, you know, damage his acting appeal in one easy step. You pair your name with AOC. He's gonna get movie roles. But the question is will anyone want to see him? And of course there's money tucked away forever, and that family's got rainy day money for the
next three hundred, four hundred years. Who knows. But that's who AOC really represents, not the poor in working class people in her district, but millionaires who want to keep the poor poor so they can pay peanuts to get their lawn mode and they're food cooked or they dogwashed. The why people in queens or constituents can't see how well, I don't know. It's so easy
to see just socialism has failed whenever and wherever it's been tried out. But the problem is with people like Ed Norton and AOC is that they're so full of bullshit that they think they're the ones who can make it work. But first they'd have to enrich themselves through capitalism. Of course. Listen, this dude, to me has been a you know, outside of American history X. He's never been a tough guy. He's a very beta cup kind of
guy. I've heard I think he has alternative sexual approclivities. Let me just put it that. I'm just gonna put it out there because I've always heard a rumor that his wife, her name is Shawna. I think Shawna Robertson or Livingston running Robertson. I heard Shawn has been you know, you know, had her fun with other men since the wedding, and not sure either of those kids are his, and that wouldn't surprise me one bit. But this is the way people get. People can be stupid, and I'm not
saying if you vote Democrat, you're stupid. I'm talking far left. You know, obviously you guys doing friends with Bill Moore. He's not really He's a true liberal of what they used to be. He's not a far left crazy person. He's not a woke idiot. These people I just talked about r but there's so many weak minds out there and Ivy League educated. So
I'll end the show by just bringing something out. I'm not being bitter or mean or angry, but it has to do with people who decide not to go to Patreon and that if you don't want to go, that's fine. But a lady today said on my list, I was told I didn't read it, but said something to the effect of one person said, I can't believe AJ just left and never apologized, as if like as if it wasn't a farewell tour it was just me being sick, and since I'm not on
social media, I couldn't get in touch with anybody. I got messages out through my girlfriend. But if not on the page, then you're stuck. There's no big message board. I don't use Twitter, so you got to look at the board if you want to know what's up. Sometimes shows don't land right, oh, I mean at the right time. What have you Because my nephew, Joseph copp he gets home at certain hour is now.
It's not so easy, but we make it work. Usually drops the shows the night before the day they're supposed to air, so you have an extra time to get it before you go to bed. But this woman also said,
yeah, you know, AJ repeat himself too much. I don't know why you'd bring that kind of comment to my page filled with people who like me and like listening to me. But I want to ask this lady, who obviously has a life worthy of no stories, if she thinks she could for the next six years talk, just talk, tell stories about your life that no one knows, enlightened people. But do it for forty minutes a day, NonStop. I don't care what else is going on in your life.
There's death, this doom, there's disaster, there's pandemics, there's children, a girlfriends as divorces. Just do it. Maybe your life is charmed and you're bored by my story sometimes repeating it's impossible not to repeat a story or a theory. It's impossible to do this every day. If I did this show a month, yeah, then it would take you twenty five years
to hear all my great stories. But saying I repeat myself, it's like saying you know that when Jackie Gleeston goes on a talk show, he repeats himself because you might have had the same joke on Dick Cabott and Johnny Carson. Big fucking deal. If everybody asks, it's a good joke, it's a good story. There's so many Franks and actress stories we've heard from different people, but they're great stories. These are told by racing tours, which
I consider myself one. Mark Marin has said the same story. Mark Brown is a great style, begins his show talking about whatever he wants to talk about, throws some ads in there, and then he goes into the guests. He's great at what he does. And the first guys who started this business. I'm Carolla has told his saving story about his family, his mother, his father. I mean, it goes on and on Bill Maher's show.
I was in to Bill Moore. He's repeated his theories and feelings and stories to the guests he's had on in the last year and a half or so. You think in six years he wouldn't done any more. Smartest, SmartLess. Jason Bateman will on Sean Hayes. I've heard the same stories. This is what it is. Guys. If you've lived a great life, or a fun life, or a crazy life, you've got stories. Sometimes
they're worthy of being told twice. Sometimes you tell a half and then the other half comes back to your mind two months later, like yesterday on Patreon or a Friday. I believe it was I had to go back and correct something because I want that people to know the ending of house. A friend of all has gotten murdered by a friend of him is in the mafia.
Listen to Dana Carvey and David Spade their brilliant show called Fly on the Wall where they have a lot of comics and people who worked on SNL sit down with them once a week. I've heard Dana Carvey talk the same stuff. How we starends with Mickey Rooney, How George Bush has them all for dinner. I could go on and on. If I'm repetitive, you gotta go somebody else, and I guarantee you're gonna say, well, you're told that story ready, Who gives a shit? Life's not perfect? So for now
on one free show week. Okay, we're all good, we're square. You want to hear more, you come to Patreon. It's very easy. Patreon dot com. Slash fame is a bitch, and I promise you you'll have more fun than you have of the free show. I'm a J. Benzer. That was your free show for Friday, May fifteen, twenty twenty three, and I'll talk to you next week