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the best at April Fools jokes. Every year. She just kept it up, and so many of my family members just got caught. There was one Outside of doing silly stuff around the house, like tying black thread around the stoop or the opening of our house from our cars to the mailbox to the front door. At now, you can't see black thread. You can't see blackdread during a day either, and you end up getting tangled in thread. And if you're watching people get tangled up, it's funny.

You just don't put an eye level. It's really funny. It looks like they're just beginning to start a moonwalk or something. It's very strange, but Rosalie would do these elaborate pranks where one year she called my brother in law, Frankie's brother, who was about probably eighteen nineteen years old at the time. All the brothers were running a restaurant, an Italian restaurant called Andres that they owned, and they it was great food. Rosalie in the Rain were waitresses there.

They made nice money on the side, all cash. And then my sister Lorraine draw was just a bunch of fives, tens and ones in her draw because she made that as tips. When I was a kid, I looked through that drawer and got I take three bucks. You'd never know, And I would an occasion, but not too many times anyhow. So Rosie closed the restaurant one day and she gets Nicky Frankie's brother, who's, like I said, eighteen nineteen, and she says, listen, I'm coming in tonight. I hope you

guys can accommodate me. I am the manager and publicist of a very famous chimpanzee. You've seen him in movies. And then she mentioned the movies this particular monkey was in and nick He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, okay, you know, very gullible young kid doesn't want to mess up the phone call. We're bringing him in tonight for dinner. We've heard great things about the food, especially some of your dishes with chicken franchaise and shrimp franchise. And he says,

oh no, yeah, that's one of our specialties. She says, that's the problem. What's that when we come in tonight, I assume we can have a reservation at eight There w three of us, the monkey and me and my partner. Yeah, yeah, no problem, I if I may, I can't have any dishes franchise cooked at all the whole night while we're there, at least. Well what do you mean? Well, my monkey, I don't know if it's an allergy or what have you, but the word franchise just sends him into a fit.

He spirals out of control. And you're not gonna like it. Oh no, yeah, but it's easily correctable. Just no one ordered anything, friend Chase, or even mentioned the word. If you can tell your waiters perhaps when they mentioned specials not to use that phrase. The poor kid was going, I think we can handle that, you know, I think so. And then of course he gets off the phone and he's telling his brothers that Rosalie found out letter we got a famous chimpanzee coming in tonight. Yeah, it's a

monkey in the movies. You've probably seen him. You can't use the word franchaise though, so silly. And then one time she called my Aunt May, my cousin, Arleen's mother who lived two doors down. You think you'd understand Roseley's voice, but she disguised it a little bit, and she told Aunt May. At this time, Arlema was his senior in high school and there was a class trip to Ireland, of all places, that maybe fifteen seniors were gonna go

on with some chaperones. And this is during a time where there was some bad shit going on in Ireland and Belfast and Ira and terrorism. It was bad, but she was gonna go. And Roselei calls as an official from the school, Miss Benza, missus Benza, I am you know, I am a regina ficial. I am with these schools. Oh, yes, hi, I understand only has a field trip coming up to beautiful Dublin. And yes she's very excited as she must be. Just a note on leaving all the parents and chaperones.

This not to get alarm but above all, pack extra toilet paper, as some of these places in Europe are not sufficiently equipped for Yes, no problem, we have some. I put three extra roles and are look great. Great, so you're above there, you're ahead of the curve. Great. One more thing, if you happen to have an army helmet of such, I would pack that as well. Well. Really, why well, I mean, look, it's just a standard measure

because these kids are going to be in Ireland. As you know, there's been trouble in Ireland with the IRA and respeck to terrorism and car bombs, and they will be in certain areas where such terrorism has occurred. If you have, perhaps your husband served in World War Two, did he, well, yes he did. Fantastic If you happen to have his helmet, simply packed that in the luggage, and if Arlene could wear it as other students would as well, I'm sure they'll all be safe and sound. Well,

now hold it. If I don't have a helmet, you can easily purchase one in any army Navy store, a surplus store. There's several in your area. Is this rosaliague? You know, it's just she killed people and the one of the worst ones ever was I was not too fond of the dark, even into my young teenage years. And there was this gorilla mess that we had. Jack had. He would scare the kids at his high school and his grammar school when he's working up in Westchester County,

and they kept the mask. And one time I got a bunch of stuff in my room and stuffed clothes into she's stuffed paper and newspapers and other clothes into dungaree. She made like a scarecrow, put it that way, except it wasn't a scarecrow. It was a gorilla. And she set this gorilla in my closet, sitting down. So when I went this way down to try to get some rest, i'd have to see the closet to my left. The door was always open because I don't want me, you know,

monsters in the closet. And then twenty minutes into my being in the bedroom, I see this gorilla sitting in the backward horrifying. Can't do those jokes anymore. I don't know why you just she got away with so much, but I guess now she can't. We'll see, we'll see. Let me just start with this here. I gotta say that. When I wake up, I normally, you know, I checked my messages. You guys love to text me and DM me,

and I love it. I love all the messages. I stroll through Instagram and TikTok when I get up, but I want to see what the world is up to. In the last few days, there have been a few videos that keep popping up everywhere, and one in particular got to me. And I'm not gonna make this a political show, so don't worry, but I need to say this for about a minute and then we'll move on to the normal bullshit at hand. I keep seeing videos of Marjorie Taylor Green, right, who was obviously in a

quiet taste for many people. I happen to love what she feels and what she says, even though the left always labels her a Karen or what have you. But I think Marjorie Taylor Green makes a lot of salient points. And the other day some female reporter from England began to ask her questions about this whole controversy with the signal call okay, where the editor from the Atlantic was on while we were deciding when and how to bomb the Hooties Okay, bad moment. I don't think it's gonna

hurt us. We're gonna move on, but the Left's gonna keep this going forever. The point is, before this reporter could say much, Marjorie Taylor Green gave it to her man and as my mother would say, g gave it to her. But good, She says to the lady, I don't give a crap about your opinion or your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country where you have a major migrant problem. Okay, you should care about your own borders. And let me tell you something. Do

you care about people from your country? What about all the women that are raped by migrants? Very true? Good for Marjorie Taylor Green, because look, let's just put it in terms. You just need to understand. England has been conquered. Okay,

it's not immigration that's their problem. It's an invasion. When you consider the Mayor of London is Muslim, the Mayor of Birmingham is London is Muslim, the Mayor of Leeds is Muslim, the mayor of black Burner's Muslim, of Sheffield is Muslim, of Oxford is Muslim, of Luton is Muslim, and the mayor of Rockdale is a Muslim, and all this is being achieved with only four million Muslims out of the sixty six million people who live in England.

I just saw a video of some kind of Muslim prayer day in New York City, thousands of them with their fucking call to prayer, with the music and the horn, when a mile and a half away they took out those towels like it was no big deal and you sure come on in and do your prayer. Or how short sighted are we? In England? There are over three thousand mosques. There are one hundred and thirty Sharia courts in England. We didn't want one. There are one hundred

and thirty of them. There are more than fifty Sharia councils. Seventy eight percent of Muslim women don't work and receive state support and free accommodations. Almost seventy percent of Muslims don't work and receive state supports well and free housing and state supported Muslims and their families have an average of six to eight children, who all receive free accommodations. Every school in the UK is required to teach about Islam. The number one common baby name, as I've said in

England is Muhammed. Listen, guys, stop saying immigration, start saying invasion. So don't come here and act like your questions about our society matter. When you've already given in to having the religion of peace take over, the religion of peace will leave you in pieces, mark my words. And you'll see it play out in videos constantly. Everybody's getting hacked up and stamped. It's disgusting. Well you have school shootings, yeah,

we do, and it sucks. I'm not going to try to compare our school shooting versus people getting hacked up in the street. But I don't like seeing men with swords and masks running around slicing people up. You can't either look at this development and twenty twenty two an ad campaign, remember this one that had kids holding teddy bears and bondage harnesses and costumes that have the Blenciaga name on it. Blentciaga as you may, and I know how to designer named Demna d Mna, big controversial guy.

Him and his brother they don't talk anymore, but they're both you know, those queer designers. But since then, since twenty twenty two, Blentciaga has been on a you know, a very big journey towards rebilitating itself after we all got to look at those ads and those pictures of kids holding Teddy Bears in bondage outfits. There were four runway shows, six collections, and a bunch of red carpet outfits,

and they've all passed and here we are. Celebrities are now warming back up to that brand, and in the beginning of the year they came back full circle. This is after a year ago when Kim Kardashian said she was reevaluating a long time, her long standing relationship with Valenciaga because of the scandal. You know, she launched her first campaign as Blenciaga's official ambassador. So by all appearance, the brand is at the end of its road to redemption.

That's the way it stands right now. But there was a big scandal with them that holiday campaign with the kids and the Teddy Bears and the BDSM accessories. They were on the runway at Balenciaga's show in Paris Fashion Week, and of course the backlash became very quick and swift. There were hashtags out there canceled Balenciaga was all over Twitter and TikTok. They accused the brand and this trek

Will of condoning pedophilia and exploiting children. And in a separate ad that dropped later that month, a bag from the Fashion Houses collaboration with Adidas was photographed a top copies of what were documents from the Supreme Court case United States versus Williams, which was a ruling that upheld the Protect app to protect that is, basically increases federal

protections against child pornography. So both campaigns quickly became a conservative talking point and there were conspiracy theories abounding everywhere. And that's when Kim Kardashian, who was a vocal supporter of the brand, and actually made statements about the situation, one of which said, I've been quiet for the past few days, not because i haven't been disgusted and outraged

by the recent and Balenciaka campaigns. That she went on to say that she's currently reevaluating her future relationship with the brand bab Ba ba, basing them off their willingness to accept accountability for something that should have never happened to begin with.

never even been to one of their shows. They haven't invited me. I think it's a rific and when I read and watch all the videos, I literally feel sick to my stomach. She had to say literally in there, otherwise it wouldn't be a real statement from someone like her. But she went on to say, this is not just a problem of Hollywood or the fashion industry, but it's an issue with men period. All sorts of shit happen.

But here's the thing I wanted to say, and not many people are saying it, and I want to know why I'd love to see this demented clear Denma get tossed from the fashion industry, but that's not gonna happen. In the industry that while do you get and the craziest shit you put out, you fail up. So not only is Denna out of the industry and treated like a pariah, no, now he got the top spot at Gucci. I can't so is Gucci, and I love Gucci. I

love my Gucci loafers at the Mysteries and Scandals. My god, I must have won them for one hundred and forty five shows. The bottoms. Actually I wore a hole in them. I wore them everywhere, and I was going to get them resold, to have my sole a new soule put in because the top of the signes were terrific. They were beautiful leather loafers. And somebody popped my trunk and robbed a bunch of shoes and bunch of clothes and suits that were being taken the dry cleaned and taken

to the shoe guy. The shoe guy a cobbler. What do you call the shoe guy? Either way, I lost so many great things, but those loafers are gone. I love Gucci. So it's Gucci going to be a brand to the spy soon or will they handcuffed this asshole from doing what his demented mind truly wants to convey. And that's his gay minds twisted fascination about our kids.

And before you can say, oh, it's just one bad apple, no, there's a lot of bad apples in that in that barrel, and it's high time we see it and call attention to it and don't get involved with brands that mess with kids period. Speaking of people who mess with things, I love it when Oprah Winfrey gets her feet put to the fire. Oh boy, that she deserve it and how And now Russell Simmons seems to have dragged her, the Great Oprah, into his legal turmoil. If you recall

a woman named Drew Dixon. Drew is one of the women who have accused Russell Simmons, who is the big music mogul over at Deaf Jam. She accused them of sexual offenses, including rape, and she has now subpoened Oprah in her defamation case against Russell Simmons. And she's demanded that Oprah give evidence and cough up documents. Oh I hope this had. I hope this transpires. I'm dying to see this. Let's review, because it's been a while. Back in twenty seventeen, when I began this show, I remember

detailing this story about Dixon. Now, Dixon was a former executive who worked at def Jam with Russell, and she has accused him of raping her in his apartment, sorry, his place back in nineteen ninety five, and that's when I was with Russell. A lot story ran in the New York Times. It blew me away, or did it? Let's fast forward to twenty twenty four. She sues Russell. She says he defamed her in an interview a year before that in which he cast doubt on her claims.

He had to sit down with a journalist named Graham Bessenger, who I think is great, and Russell asked, could someone want notoriety in the market where people thirst for fame? Just throwing it out there. He also said I've never been forceful in any of my relationships and that all those relationships had been consensual. Now, look, that word consensual has tossed around way too much, especially from men who just aren't being truthful about the dynamic they had between

certain girls they dated. Now I know him. Saying that he's never been forceful is a lie. I had an ex girlfriend who was very tight with Russell. I've told you about it in the past. And you know, some night she'd have dinner with him and a friend and I'd go, see, my buddy's no big deal, and she'd come home and say, you know, she'd hear these stories that he would tell her at dinner, and she would tell me, Russell, that'd be more careful. He's too rough,

he's too forceful with girls. And then I'd sit up and get mad, like, is he trying any shit with you? I'll knock his fucking teeth and he knows who I am, he knows we're together. And she'd say no, and I'd say, did he ever try? And she would tell me, And I'm grateful she was this honest. She goes, he's a man, they all try. I used to hate that, but I liked that she was honest about that. I say, does he admit that he's pushing? Because no, he doesn't say that,

but he knows better than how he's acting. But he tells me things he probably shouldn't tell me anyhow, Dixon is also suing over Russell's remarks about Oprah Winfrey's part

in this scandal. He said during that interview that Oprah had dropped out of producing a documentary called On the Record, which addressed a number of the women and their accusations against him, because Oprah, Russell said, found inconsistencies in their allegations, and he said that Oprah had recording the conversations with

the accusers that revealed those alleged inconsistencies. Okay, by the way, After she quit the project, Winfrey told reporters that she still believed Dixon, but the newspaper wrote she also thought there were inconsistencies in her account that the film had not adequately addressed, and the Times. The New York Times also said that the filmmakers say they have voluminous research

files corroborating all the women's accounts. So now Dixon's attorneys have subpoena Oprah, and I love this story because Oprah's feet have never been held to the fire. A subpoena to Oprah from Dixon's lawyers seen by a number of magazines newspapers, what have you says you are hereby commanded to produce the books, records, papers, data, documents, evidences, writings, and all other tangible things has described more fully in

the attached schedule. Blah blah blah. Now it's unclear. I can't say I know what assets exactly were called for in this attachment, or or whether Oprah complied with this demand, or maybe her lawyers are going to fight the subpoena. I don't know. But it also goes on to say you are further commanded to appear and attend before a notary public or other person authorized by law to administer oaths at any recessed or adjourned date, to testify and

give evidence as a witness. I mean, she's look at there, pushing her against the wall, and the deposition will be videotaped and will continue from day to day until it's completed. Now, Russell, as you know, has said over and over again, he didn't do anything wrong. He's never been arrested or charged with a crime. I know him to be pushy with women, like I said, and several are spoken up against him, and as a result, Russell picked up his shit, left

his kids and ex wife and moved across the world. Okay, he's in Bali. But let's look at this. Let's consider the years nineteen ninety five to twenty twenty five. In that time, Drew Digson and I really want to believe women, and I know Russell will be the type that this should be believable. But through those years, Drew Digson never went to the police and has no hospital proof of what she's accusing Russell of doing. I'm no judge, but to me, it's clear to see this woman is not

after justice, She's after money. And like I said, Russell lives on an island. He's on Balley. He's far away from the United States, and he is a citizen of Indonesia, which by the way, ironically has no extradition treaty with the United States period. And that means he cannot be forced to come back here for a civil trial, nor can he be forced to pay a cent if he's the citizen of another country with no bank account in America. Basically means that Russell has been very smart to avoid

his accusers. Now I personally believe that he's a monster and capable of carrying out attacks like this that his accuser are accusing him of doing. Yes, yeah, but proving it and forcing him into a US courtroom. Good luck with that. But the bottom line here for all women go to the police and a hospital and get it down on paper and then go to the media. You don't wait twenty five years for a fucking payout or

twenty years whatever it is. By the way, I know Oprah was once not as much these days, but there was a time when the great Oprah could do no wrong. You remember she had the whole world fooled. I want to say, not me. I never understood it. My mother and I would look and go, what is this, What's the big deal with this woman? I always felt she was full of shit, But more than that, I just didn't understand all the crazy hoopla around her and her show. The one day that I said the hell with this,

because Elper was always on. It was like appointment TV. You turn an Oprah on at four o'clock, blah blah blah. But one day I said it, no, if I'm done. She was going bananas about that book The Secret about Manifestings, manifesting one's wishes and dreams. And I'm looking at this show and the person who wrote this book, and I'm going this is a breakthrough you put on a board or on a book, what you want to do, what you want to accomplish. Doesn't everybody do I've been doing this,

I'm a kid. Doesn't everybody want to do this? As I told you guys years ago, I wrote down twenty things I want to accomplish in life. I haven't done. I've done them all but two things. I got two things left. I'm gonna get them. Not hard, but everything I wanted to do I did because I dreamed it, I manifested it. I'm gonna sound corny, but they came true. I thought, doesn't everybody do this? No secret? What horseshit?

Same horseshit? As as she has a loving relationship with Stedmand Graham, even though she never lets him in our sights. Have you seen him recently? Have you seen him since COVID? I don't know. Is he still alive? There was a great TV show back in the day. It was called TV Funhouse like two thousand, two thousand and one, and there was one ongoing sketch called Annipals where many domesticated animals like ducks and cats and dogs, acted like humans,

They spoke like humans, they did drugs like humans. They had marital issues like humans. It was hysterical. Joey and I would laugh like crazy. I knew her publicists who used to work for Weinstein. Her name was Christina Yuri, and I said, please, I need to see anything you know because she was a publicist for a Comedy Central and they ran this show. She sent me all the videotapes they had of a TV Finals and Anna Palus and we laughed for years. Oh God, wasted so much

time laughing, but it was worth it. Go look them up on YouTube, TV Finals and Annipaluse. Anyhow, there was also this animated sketch on that show that featured James Brolin and Stedman Graham both being able to somehow get away from Barbara Streisand and Oprah Winfrey. And I swear, I'm telling you Streisand and Oprah must have had a scrub from the internet, because I cannot find it. I just looked before I did the show. Can't find it.

Maybe I'm gonna search more. But it's so funny the extent these guys go to getting out of the house and away from their old ladies. And they said that I think it was Steedman who told James Now, I think Brolin told Steedman, how do you get out? And he says, oh, she thinks some of private eye or she thinks some of a special a secret agent. It's so stupid that that's how they get house. They have to lie to Oprah and Barbara about this elaborate of the life. So you gotta see it. It's great anyhow,

at some point you gotta face it with Oprah. Her name has been interlaced with too many criminals to ignore. Harvey Weinstein was a great buddy Sean Dinny Combs, another great buddy Jeffrey Epstein, and her Rapalsy Walsey. She also loved that disgusting yogi Bick bron Chowdry, who went on to be accused of sexually abusing and raping dozens of women who paid ten thousand dollars to take his scam

hot yoga class. When you see this guy in this filthy little ponytail, you wonder what the fuck was Oprah thinking he's slimmy from a mile away. She also ran that shady school in South Africa where many girls were abused. Her heart was in the right place, but abuse just eventually shut it down. She is Oprah has saddled up with a very nefarious dude. I'm sorry, but it's time to go all out for Oprah Winfrey's hide. Let's get

her enough of this. I think we've all had enough of her bullshit, her lives, the scandals, and basically just Oprah Winfrey's way of hippocritically staying above the fray while she's in there mixing in the mud with some of the worst characters we've come to know, Diddy, Epstein, Harvey. Why do all her relationships with guys like this get a pass? I know she's not on TV every day anymore, but we all know she left TV a billionaire and don't feel badly for her now she does just fine.

You saw her doing the interview with me again, Marklin, Prince, Harry no more talk show? Who needs a talk show when she still gets a fee of like she sat down with Harry and Meghan and got paid between seven and nine million dollars by CBS. The same year the same network forked over between five and seven million to interview Adele. Who gives this shit about a CBS has that kind of dough because what Adele's got big worldly secrets. We all need to know five to seven million to say,

how have you been lately? What the Meanwhile, Oprah charges between two and three million for speaking. He gave her so she's fine. And there were rumors about her Florida home being used as a child set slavery thing some people went after a few years back. The house was swatted. She had to go online and say I have nothing to do with this. The FBI didn't come, and she made sure to tell the press he has nothing to

do with it. It's all lie, very proactive. There's also the bullshit about her relationship, which nobody can understand, but won her best friend King must be very happy with because nobody has spent more time with Open than Gail. And I don't think Steedman gives one shit this woman. I mean thinking she's been quote unquote with Steedman for forty years. They got to age in ninety two. Then they called it off a year later because she realized she didn't want a marriage. She said, I realized I

didn't actually want a marriage. I wanted to be asked, oh, coach shit in your hat? I wanted to know how, I wanted to know he felt I was worthy of being his missus, but I didn't want to sacrifice this the compromises, the day and day, the day in, day out commitment required to make a marriage work. Are you selfish, bastard? That's why we're different, because we've all done that. She thinks that's why they're still together. Hey and I, we say if we had married, we would not be together,

no question about it, we would not stay married. I don't know where she gets this from. She calls this relationship with him a spiritual partnership. Blow it out, your asshole, But please, I can't take her hypocrisy. That's why I'm thrilled that she's being dragged into this case with Drew Dixon and Russell Simmons because it's time for Oprah winfeet

free to face the fire. Who's with me? Too many people like our Too many big shots get to walk around, strut their stuff and never get their feet put to the fire. It's time Oprah has her day. Come on, I know you feel the same way. We'll talk about it more this week. Let's see what happened, Let's see the unfold. Until then, I'm Aja Benson. That was your Daily Unfiltered podcast for April first, twenty twenty five, And I'll talk to you tomorrow