Hey, everybody, aj Ben's are here with fame? Is it? Bitch? This is your daily Unfiltered podcast for November twenty second, twenty twenty four. One two two, two oh two four wow, three four five twos. It's a full house of twos, which is impossible but looks pretty cool. What's going on again?
It's Friday, and I gotta tell you, I'm very pissed off about this whole situation with Overcast not getting the Patreon show to you folks, and it's infuriating because I can't reach all of you and speak to you personally. All I can do is leave a message on the Patreon app to tell you to listen to the show
on Patreon, do not go to Overcast. I can put a message on my Facebook page, on my podcast obsessed page, but there are people who listen who aren't involved with Facebook or go into the Patreon app to write, so I hope they don't split and think that the show's over. I hope they write me. If you know anybody who's having problems not getting the show, please let them know what the deal is. Stay the fuck away from Overcast. I don't get it. Overcast is still getting the free
shows out but not the Patreon shows. So Adavino put some instructions up. Go to the Patreon page to look at it. I left the message otherwise I want to climb a tower with a rifle right now where the Overcast offices are. This is pissed me off, just suddenly. This is what I can't stand, Like, you know, who do you argue with Overcast? Where do you go? Who do you call? As if they answer phones over there? It's like today I want to get so I want
to strangle somebody. I'm in a good mood. Things have about a good day, but yet something like this happens, and I want to scream. You know, my credit's not the best credit, right so I've been fixing. Even the guy that got me this apartment goes, yeah, your credit's not a big deal. It's you know, some credit card depth and you don't know ten of thousands of I said, I know, it's so stupid. You know, I got a few credit cards to make my credit better. I pay
them on time. I never never go over the limit. I'm never late, and he guys, I know. So I always get these messages from credit karma. I get these emails AJ, your credit your numbers have gone up, and I'll check it. Oh, okay, it's up to blah blah blah. Oh I gained fifteen points. Then I get a message today, AJ, your credit took your hit. Okay, why is that? I look because a credit card company that they told me to look at to make my credit better. They offered me, hey,
you should look at these credit cards. This has been good for your credit. So I applied for one and I get it. I haven't even used it yet, and they took fifty points off my credit score because it appears you've opened a credit card. Yeah, you told me to open one. You mother fifty points for opening a credit fifty not five. It's just that's the joke again. Do you know anybody that works for credit Karma? Other people there are just robots. Speaking of robots, I know
people have different feelings about this. I'm talking about Matt Gates. Don't worry, it's not a political show. I got a great Denzel Washington story to tell you a personal story. But I told you four or five days ago, Matt Gates would not make it. He would not become Attorney general. It's a stupid idea there were those of you out there who thinking this is a great He's gonna kill for Trump, he's such a loyalist. Yeah, okay, there are plenty of people who are loyal to Trump who don't
do good things, who fuck up. Okay, his lawyer number one was real loyalty, real loyal So is Scarramucci a loyalist to Trump. They're assholes. Matt Gates is an asshole and a laos And I told you then on Politics
a bitch, and I mentioned it briefly on Fame. If you can't tell by looking at his face and watching him in action, if you really don't, if you really don't believe that there's a cocaine kind of situation around him and younger girls, and him having a folder with their names on it and showing some people of the girls he was with. He's told these stories to other people on Capitol Hill. They find it disgusting. The guy's no good. But I still have people, Oh, you're wrong,
you're wrong. I'm not wrong, I'm right, and do me a favor. I love you, guys, but some of you are still so fucking concerned about did you see who lost in fucking Colorado? Did you see this, gaya, this person's gonna lose this. It's like, hold it, hold it. Can we just relax? We just had the biggest political comeback story of our lives, possibly in American history. Our guy one the House of the Senate are going to be ours. It was a landslide. And you're still gonna
complain and get worried about shit. Calm down. Let me fucking enjoy this. I don't want to go back to being critical. Oh you see what happened to Carry Lake? I don't give it. Clearly something's wrong with Carrie Lake. Clearly she's not who she pretends to be. There's something about Carrie Lake that some people in that state know, and she can't get over the top. Is it always cheating? I don't know. Two straight chances can't make it happen.
I don't know. But I'm not gonna worry about those people. And I'm not gonna worry about Matt Gates and who's gonna come up behind him. But there was gonna be a very devastating congressional ethics report on him about drug use and about sexual misconduct. That was always over his head and he knew it. And by the way, Another female witness said she saw this little sexual episode happened with her seventeen year old friend. She saw them both naked back in twenty seventeen at a big party they
called a rager. You don't want to be tied to parties that are called ragers, especially now with Diddy and the freak offs. People have a bad taste in their mouths. If you're partying and Matt Gates is young, He's allowed to go to parties, he's allowed to have sex with women, but not seventeen year olds. And if there's any drug use, calm down. I got a great drug story. Excuse me that water went down the road part great Denzel Washington
drug story. I wouldn't tell this except Denzel was talking about how he's straight and how he was in trouble for years with drugs and wine, and all right, that opened the door for me to talk and lets me have another chapter in my book, which, believe it or not, I am putting together, but uh, not nearly quick enough. The other thing that got me pissed off today Jesse Smolette and what the fuck are we doing? We all
know the guy's guilty, we knew it. We knew it when Kim Fox did all she could to overturn things and get him out of jail. That frig face. Remember Kim Fox, how bad she was, Like Letitia James conjoined twin, I swear to God or separated at birth with the Latitia James. But this is a joke, and it's such a joke that I don't even care. It doesn't even matter. No one's gonna give a shit that. Does anybody think
Jesse Spilett was really innocent? I mean, you can watch the video of the two African guys who are supposedly the guys who put a hood over his head and started telling them, are you that faggot on him? Empire? Yeah, we Mega wear Mega. I forget the black guy's names that let's call him Bob loves Abashola. Two Nigerian guys who are gay half gay, who get massages with Jesse, get him drugs. He pays them for drugs. They are in cahoots. The guys came forward and told the truth
and now it's overturned. Listen, after all these years at his core, we know Jesse Smilett is a sociopath. He'll never apologize for what happened. He's refused to acknowledge what he did and how sinful it was to basically turn Americans against each other for his gain, for his career, to do better than to have a weekly part, a big part on a hit show. Now he wanted more. So we used white people and a fake lynching to get his way, and it didn't work, and now it works.
Chicago's all fucked up, all sorts of fucked up. The guy's gaslighting Americans. He's gonna run around now streaming is innocent. I told you I was innocent. I told you. But there are countless pieces of evidence against this asshole, this witness testimony. The guy's full of hatred. And don't forget Kamala Harris was the first one to jump up and say that it was a racial attack. She did all she could to pit whites against black She tried Obama
two point zero. Patrick Bett David is always on Instagram and Facebook, what have you. The guy really made quite a name for himself as an interviewer. He mentioned something really profound and I think we think this, but to hear it said was interesting that Barack Obama is like done, He's done. You know if Kamala won, then obviously we would get another four years of Obama, maybe eight years. Who knew? We don't know. But after all that said and done.
He scolded people, he argued with people, he begged, he begged America, he scolded young black man, and his words meant nothing.
Wow, good good. That should put an end to him and an end to Michelle Obama running one day because their words didn't mean jack shit. Don't ever forget that. Finally, before I launched it to my Denzel story, this is not a story, just something that gets my goat. It gets my goat. I listened to Joe Rogan often enough. I never listened to his fight shows or when he has these people from all sorts of life that I actually give a shit about. So and so is a
cellular scientist at the universe. I don't want to hear this guy talk. But actors, actresses, you know, leading people of the world. Yeah, I'll check it out. So we've got Josh Brolin on. And by the way, Josh bro here's what's happening with big podcasts. This is not good. It's good when podcasts do things in their own lane and their quirky lane, but now you've got a few podcasts lined up as basically being a pit stop that all the late night shows used to be for people
pitching movies, pitching books, pitching TV series, pitching awards. Suddenly, in the last week I heard Bob's and mechas on three different podcasts. The director you know of Forrest Gump for one thing, and that new film which I'm not going to see with the camera stays in one position, it's just one room. And Tom Hanks got deaged along with what's her name from Princess Briane. I don't want to see that movie? But what was I saying? Oh
my god, I'm so aggravated today, Hollywood? Whatever's happened to Hollywood? Joe Rogan? Oh God, where am I anyhow? Joe Rogan? Oh, all these actors are making pit stops. So the latest one is Josh Brolin. Josh brow was on Joe Rogan Today, two days ago, he was on SmartLess or on Flying the Wall with Spaden Carvey. Then he was with Mark Marin three times in a week. He's pitching his book Don't do This, Don't do This. I mean. Brolin's always a fun guest. He likes to say a lot of
crazy shit. He talked about his mother being absolutely bonkers, the chick that James Brolin married. I mean, it's amazing Josh even to this age. So he's got an interesting story. But I don't need to hear Bob's at Mecha's on three different shows, you know, or just I hope some of these big shows don't turn into Kimmel, Colbert and uh Fallon. Just don't do that. Be original, don't jump on the bandwagon for a new movie coming out. Otherwise we're gonna go right back to that bullshit we used
to have for years. That worked, but we put a monkey wrench into that because no one cares about the late night shows. Now it's all about how many bits on your late night show can make it online the next day to get a million, two million, three million hits. It's so crazy how different it used to be. Johnny Corssen got viewers leto let him and viewers now no. Now it's booking go on social media tomorrow. Okay, Joe Rogan,
it's got broin on. Joe Rogan likes to listen. I know he knows a lot about a lot, but some things he doesn't know. It just makes me crazy. He didn't know what the twenty one Club today was in New York. The twenty one Club twenty one in New York probably the most famous restaurant in this city. Everybody goes to. Who's important, politicians, actors, sports plays. It's been around forever, twenty one never heard of it. He lived
in New York. Blew. My mind doesn't know how to pronounce parmigiano, reggiano, parmesan, rega, reganano, oh my god, give it, can't pronounce other Italian stuff. I cringe when I hear him trying to save these words because he likes to say he's half Italian. Well it must be his mother, I suppose, But maybe his father was half. But whoever was half or or whole to make him half, They don't give a shit about their heritage. Because Joe Rogan
doesn't know who gott's about being Italian. I know he doesn't care what I think because he doesn't cared about me some people over the years. Bro, you gotta get on Rogan, No kidding, you get on Rogan, you just blow up, of course. But like I said, you know, Joe Rogan doesn't know I exist he's not much for gossip.
He doesn't care. Matter of fact, I hurt some guys, like when I was hanging out with Joey Diaz and I did Joey's show and he did my show, and at one point I said to him, you know, like, I want to come back into your show, and how's it going with Joe Rogan. I would never ask him to get me on that show. This is like six y, just five years ago. He goes, Joe's Okay, who's gonna move to Texas? He goes, do me a favor, bro, don't ask me to get on the show. I said,
I'm not asking you. Whatever I said, I fully understand that whole dynamic. I'm not asking you. Oh okay, okay, Because I got so many friends a woman to get them on Joe's show, I said, Joey, I'll never ask you.
I don't give a fuck, all right, okay. I heard other guys like Kreischer say when they go out with Rogan to like a UFC event or whatever, a comedy club, people want pictures of like Berg, Kreischer or Tom Segura, and they'll go, can Joe pose And they'll look at the person and go, he's not going to pose for selfie, really, can you just ask him? And he's never gonna come here and pose for a picture. He doesn't do that.
And then some people will give Bert christ or Tom Segorl whoever hangs out with Rogan a gift and they'll go, yeah, I got one for Joe too, Can you give this to Joe? And Bert or whatever comic will say, Okay, you just gave me two, thank you. I love them both. I'll cherish them. But Joe's not going to take this gift. So, like people know, don't ask or anything. Don't give him nothing. He wants to beat his own world, and whether or not you want to respect it or not, that's just him.
But what got me today was I'm listening to him and Brolin, and because I'm into gossip, but I know the details and the little little things of so many stories, it just gets to me. So he's talking to Brolin
about Sean Penn. Josh and Sean hang out a lot, blah blah blah, and they get to talking about Sean knowing l Choppo and Sean doing the Rolling Stone article about El Choppo the cocaine kingpin, and they got so many things wrong about Yeah, I guess Sean just approached him one day, and you know, and Sean just trumble up to Mexico and he just went to Mexico and met him. No, none of that went the way they think it went. It was. They're so off on that.
And Brolan knows Sean Penny's a buddy of his. How can he get this wrong? It's like Chuck CeDell telling the story about him punching me out. Yeah, he did punch me out, but every detail from meeting him to getting knocked out was wrong. I don't know.
Basically what happened is Kate del Castillo, the Latina actress who's on the Spanish soap opera called Ladiena del Sir, The Queen of the South.
She's been on there for years. She's very popular. She wrote El Chopo letter while he was in prison, begging him, asking him, with all the money you've gotten to the drug trade, can you build some schools, can you build a hospital, daycare centers? Do something good? Right? She got to him and he was always a fan of hers because he used to watch that show. And suddenly he gets a letter from Kate del Castillo, and he's like, they become pen pals. And he's in prison, you know
where he was living. He finally escaped when he picked up the tub and went down in that tunnel for miles and miles on a motorcycle. But he has this new pen pal and I'm not sure what they were saying to each other in these letters, but he got a little steamy. And that's when Kate del Castillo kind of let him know I want to make a documentary about this and about you, and that it perked up his interest a little bit. Okay, hold that thought. So he sends word back that he wants to see her,
and he tells her it'll be the secret spot. My people will reach out to your people. Don't tell anybody. And this is the way it's gonna happen. Because now he's out of jail, he's out of prison, out and he wants to meet her. So she's cooking up this documentary about her story with him, and then Gillian Barbary
throws a party one night. Was actually invited to this party, but he didn't go because she didn't have a close Back then, back when Gillian loved Trump, and we used to say great things about him on this radio show she co hosted with John Phillips on KABC, and I was on every Friday for a year and a half doing Trump stuff, and maybe two years. But I was on the air with them election night eight years ago when I said to the crowd, Trump's gonna win tonight.
He's gonna beat Hillary. Late at night, people booed me. I was right. So suddenly, then Jillian begins to hate Trump because she got friendly again with her man hating bitchy girlfriend Lisa Guerrero, who got in her ear and reminded her you were a celebrity, you have to be liberal. And then Jillian just couldn't do that radio show anymore, and they ended up getting rid of her, and what a shame. Anyhow, So Jillian throws his party. Kate's invited
because Kate's a really good friend. And Kate was being followed. Apparently people in America knew that she was talking to out chopo black car following her at night. She would stay at Jillian's and she'd cry and she was shaking with anxiety. Things I couldn't tell anybody because her life depended on AJN. Please don't tell anybody. I won't and I did, but they were following Kate around and it was really scaring her. Sean Penn goes to this party. He hits it off with Kate, but once Kate starts
talking to him about her idea. This is after they they have their fling. Now they're fucking around now, and then Kate decides to tell Sean what she's thinking of doing and her new friend Al Choppo. This puts Sean on alert. He gets on his tippy toes, like, holy shit, I can make this movie. I could get this done. I want to do this. I want to talk to al Choppo. I'm a writer. I gotta I'm gonna call Rolling Stone and tell him I make it. To seel Choppo,
they give mc green light to write an article. Sean's gonna go up there for his own good, fuck Kate Castillo's movie. He's doing this for himself. Sure enough, when he gets there, he has a cell phone on him that he hid, and that's basically a tracking Uh what do you call it? A tracking thing that people can see they can tell you. Oh, that's where Sean Penn is. And he's supposed to meet al Choppo. This weekend, so he really fucked up El Choppo's life, and that's how
al Chopo got locked up again when people came. The Mexican police come up there and shot everything up and took him away. But Seawan did that because he wanted in on the story. Of course, he didn't stick with Kate doug Costillo. In fact, when this went down, he was with Layla George from Disclaimer, who was arguably the sexiest most sexual actress around right now if you saw a Disclaimer. So he turns his back on how together with Kate del Castillo, and that whole thing falls apart
because Al Choppa goes back to prison. They blamed Sean Penfrit. Then Sean's thought's getting followed. But it's such a big story, and to get it so wrong with am I crazy. I just don't like when people get stories I think is so big and just massacre them. Anyhow, Denzel Washington
has opened up. I read an article. There's been articles everywhere because you know, Gladiator comes out tonight, Gladiator too, which I want my son to see, but he hasn't seen the first one yet, so he can't see the second until he sees the first one that goes to all of you too. So Denzel's coming out everywhere talking about his past drug and alcohol use. He's admitting that he did a lot of damage to his body. Now he says he's been sober for ten years. But in
an Esquire article, he really opened up. He said his unhealthy habits began with wine. Now, listen, I got a beef with that, because all these fancy people who don't want you to think they were dirty enough to get involved with cocaine or a little chip of heroin now and then, or crystal meth under control, they go to wine because that's class here. That makes you think, Oh, he just likes a few glasses of wine, too many, not a big deal, not something to go to rehab over.
So let him pretend that he was drinking big expensive glasses or bottles of wine, which I'm sure he was, But stop stop with the I was just wine. I'll never believe that because I know Denzel, and of course he says, wine's very tricky. It's very slow. It ain't like boom all of a sudden. He said, I never got strung out on heroin, never got strung got strung out on coke. Never got strung out on hard drugs. I shot dope just like they shot dope. But I never got strung out. Now I didn't know that that
he shot dope, he said. I never got strung out on liquor. I had this ideal idea of wine tastings, and you know, that's what started it. And it was a very subtle thing. And I drank the best that he talks about drinking two four thousand dollars bottles of wine a day because he had the money, or he'd just called gil Turner's, which is a famous liquor store on Sunset Boulevard. When I was hanging out with Manola Ryders, she lived up that street. I forget the name of it.
All of Sunset you make are right going west, right by gil Turner's, then you make your second right. Her house is on the left side, like four houses down. But she was partying a lot, obviously because we were hanging out and we could walk to gil Turner's, but we would never walk. She would call them and they'd bring it to her. When you when you're hanging out with somebody that famous, that much of a big star, every single restaurant in Beverly Hills or anywhere. I never
knew this. You can call up and they'll they'll bring you dinner to your house. I didn't know that. Like, what do you feel like eating tonight? Oh? You know, I'd love to go to mister Chill. Let's go to mister Chill. Well, I'll just call them. What do you mean you just call It's not fucking Jersey Mike's No, just don't. They'll bring it here. And there's like a special thing celebrities can call a certain number. They can give it the fuck they want. Yeah, nice to be
a star. So anyhow, he's buying bottles at guild Turner's finishing two four thousand dollars bottles a day. His wife's getting a little nervous, bah bah bah. But you know, he said he never drank while he's preparing for a role. Clean up, go back to work. I can work and drink. It didn't bother me, you know. So there are people like that. I understand that when I was doing a little bit of too much of a not a lot of a bad thing, but a little bit of a
bad thing. It always starts small, you know, it's starting to work. I'm working till three o'clock in the morning, and I'm fine, I'm not falling asleep. I'm filming a TV show. But it did get tiring. So I had a friend come around with some coke here and there, and it was a little forty dollars bag. It's so easy, a little bag. It's like the width of two fingernails. Okay, and you don't think anything of it. Could do a few bumps here and there, you stay awake. It's great.
The next morning, you don't wake up messed up because he just had a little bit. Matter fact. In the beginning, you bring home home, you bring stuff home to save for the next day. Maybe he didn't last you three or four days. Well that doesn't last long, No, Pretty soon you need more of the same day, and more again the same day. It's disgusting. So you started that way, which I did on mysteries and scandals, and you know, it got me through the night. But then it becomes
more of a thing. I want it all the time, I want it every day, I want it twice a day. Now. I'm not saying that's what Denzel got into, but if he was shooting hard drugs at one point, then wow, he he went down, I never shot anything that's very, very scary, But he said, basically, look, when he's hit his sixtieth birthday, he realized reflecting on his past, that he did a lot of damage to his body. And I know I've been in the same boat. I've sat there in hospitals, so laid there and got the same
news from people who would know about that. But he was being honest about his life, and I like that about people, especially now that he's seventy. And I like the fact that even though he's being honest about this, there was never a time that Denzel Washington was sloppy or he was never a mean spirited drunk, you know. I never heard stories like that about him. He wasn't
always getting in trouble, you know. And if he was drinking a lot or doing drugs and never gotten the way of his performances, did you ever see Denzel not great? Not for nothing, but he might be like the top three of the best actors in the world. I always go to see a Denzel Washington movie. There's not many hollywooded lead people like him. There just isn't. And I'll tell you he's exactly how you think he'd be if you met him in person. Years ago, probably twenty four
or twenty three years ago. I had a fun night with Denzel back in the day. This is right after Training Day came out, so about two thousand and one, and he was so great in that role. Tem Com
don't go shit on me. I mean, I was at Ago, my favorite restaurant, one night when everybody was going there and I was with a small crew people, and I saw Denzel and several other people walk in for dinner, and a few minutes later, I went to the restroom and he's behind me, okay, and I tell him casually, Hey, you know I know the guy who work with you on your character for Training Day, the guy I know Bone. He's like, oh, you know Bone. I said, yeah, I
know Bone. Bone is well, his name is Clee Sloan, Clee Bone Sloan. But Bone was a former gang banger who I used to see at Doobi's, the after hours house over on Crenshrow Boulevard and a bad part of town. And I'm like, yeah, I know Bone. I said, I know that line. To protect the sheep, you got to catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a Wolf. He's like, yeah, that's Bone. I said, I know Bone gave that line to me. I said, I know he did. I know he told me so, I said,
we talk all the time. Now, Bone, You have to understand. Bone was basically the guy you have to hire. Like whatever a Hollywood whenever a Hollywood production is going to shoot in a part of town that's run by street gangs, you need a black dude who knows who runs each block and to whom you need permission to park, permission to work. It ain't just permission from the city. You need permission for certain people on certain blocks. It's no
different than Little Italy. You know, when we were using guns, uh fake guns for his shootout scene for this little short movie when I killed me and Willy DeMeo killed Chris Maloney and this little short uh he was he was called Revolving Doors. You know, we had the guns out. The cops came on horseback. We told the cops, you know, we got permit. It's sold good, no problem, you got permission, Yeah, we got we got permission from the city. Like yeah,
but do you have permission? Yeah. The director's going, yeah, I got permission, And the cop looks down the street at this joint on Mulberry Street that was owned by a guy that everybody knew. And you got permission from so and so. Oh yeah, yeah he knows, he knows, And the cops just wrote off. They didn't care. Once we had permission from the other guy down the street, the name of Chatchaw. We call him Cha Cha cha Chaw knew Uh same thing. In the streets in La
that have gangs, you gotta get permission. And Boone was the guy, a former gangbanger who could go in there and talk to people and make sure that the people in Hollywood can get in there and work and not, you know, have to worry about their livelihood. You think about movies like Colors with Sean Penn and Dennis Hopper, Boys in the Hood, New Jack City, you know, all those movies need a guy like Bone. You can't be a twenty six year old white girl, you know, coming
out of graduating from Carnegie Mellon or some shit. You can't just roll up on a neighborhood or a street and start planning a shoot. Now, try that and somebody will start shooting, but it won't be a camera. So Bone's real name, like I said, is Clee Sloan, And after being part of the Athens Park Bloods, he left the gangs. He left it and he became someone who's tried to broke or peace between the Bloods and the Crips.
He worked on training Day, like I said, he was a gang advisor, helped persuade actual gang members to lend their credibility to the project on the screen. And you know, he took Denzel aside, and Denzel would ask him questions, and eventually he got him paid as an advisor, as a technical advisor on how Denzel should speak and say certain things on training Day. So before Training Day came out, I knew Bone had worked with Denzel to get him ready and he was. Actually he got introduced to movies
by Jim Brown, the great football player. Jim Brown got him a Giggs an assistant when he got out of prison. The first time he met Antoine Fuqua, who shot Training Day. Next thing, you know, he's a friend. He meets Denzel and he's got this whole new career. Now, Bone Sloan is a cinematographer making documentaries, really cool stuff. But they hit it off right away. And when I told him, I used to hang with Bone at Doobie's his eyes lit up. He's like, Denzel's like, you know, Doobie, how
doobey Ben? I haven't seen Deubie in a long time. And I said, I'm going in now for a pickup. You need anything. I just figured i'd say that because I could tell he was down you need anything, I'm gonna go for a pickup, meaning I'm gonna get some drugs. And he gave me this look. He gave me that Denzel latitude. You're saying you're going to doobies. Now, you're going to the house and you're coming back. I'm like, yeah, I'm just gonna go pick something up, make the night
more fun, turn up the volume. You're gonna be here in thirty five forty minutes. He's like, yeah, we haven't even eaten yet. I said, good, I'll be right back. Sure enough. I go downtown, I pick up the shit, drive back, walk in the door, and I'll go. I see Denzel's looking right at the door, which makes him to be the kind of person who knows his cocaine, because if you know someone's going to get it, your eyes are on that door. And as soon as I walk in the door. I head right for the bathroom.
Sure enough, he gets up and starts walking over. I'm in there twenty seconds. Knock on the door. It's a big bathroom. I let him in, and you know, we're in the bathroom and he's laughing. Were like two kids. He's like, all right, so you went to Dubie's. I said, yeah, I went, I got it right here and this is from Dubie. I said, yeah, go ahead, how fun. He's like, you know, maybe I'll just do a little bit. I'm gonna get myself in trouble. I don't need a lot
that kind of talk. I'm like, you can have it, man, I got another one from me. Take this one. Excuse me. And he's like all embarrassed, like he just looked very embarrassed that I bought him one. I got him one. But he's like, for real. I said, yeah, is that okay? He goes, yeah, yeah, it's all right. Sorry, iron try it. I said, okay, here and he patted me on the shoulder. I mean we did. We did a couple of bumps and he pats me on the shoulder. He's going to leave.
He's like, my man, just everything you expect Denzel Washington to say, and but I did have to ask him something before he left, something I'd always heard and I was hoping it's true, because she was she was beautiful, and there was always this story, this roomor that Denzel had for years, even though he's married, had maintained this relationship with this really beautiful actress named Sinai Latham. You've
seen her. She's been in his movies as well. Matter of fact, he gets parts for here and there because he doesn't mind working with her. So I go, look, I just got to ask him. You don't have to answer me, but just let me know in some way. He's like, what's that? I said, Sinai Latham and he just smiled that. Denzel smiled and he said, well, she's a wonderful actress and the work she puts in all this kind of bullshit. So I cut him off. I'm like, I start reaching for the shit in his pocket, but
give me this stuff back. I'm not I can't deal with people like you. Give me that. So I started pulling at his pants. I said, you're gonna go a PC on me now, and he's laughing, Oh, okay, okay, okay, Because look, it's what you think it is. It's what you think, all right, what do you think? I said? You know what I think? He goes, it's what you think? All right. Now, let me get back to my table.
Let me get out of here. Man, you're dangerous. Was not Denzel's voice, but I just remember, I can't really do Denzel, But yeah, it was in a lot of ways. And I've been around some very famous guys that the Neros and the Pacinos and what have you, and they are very quiet and introspective when you're around them. But Denzel is lively. He's a live wire. He doesn't just sit there and do nothing. He talks, he's he He does the Denzel things you see on screen, which I love.
And you know, I never saw him again. I've never really talked about it too many times, but I will put it in my book now that he's talked about shooting dope Christ's sake, So I'm glad I heard that story before I finished my book. Sometimes the longer I wait, the more these people cop to certain things, and suddenly my chapters don't seem that scary. The reason why that book has taken me a while is because, you know, I don't want to write a book and insinuate certain things.
I want to write a book and say what happened, just like I'm honest like this on the show. Once I'm able to be this honest like I've been for seven years and not pull back any punches, to take all these stories and put them in a book and have to like, you know, let me couch that. I don't want to couch shit, you know. So I'm trying
to figure out space and time. And now, believe it or not, it made sound funny, but with Trump winning, I think there's gonna be things that are more uh more easy to get into manuscripts than things used to be. As a matter of fact, when I wanted to write a book about Trump, when he announced that he was gonna run, and I had this epiphany for the podcast, and I'm like, I got to write a book about my relationship with him and how I did a one to eighty and I got so many stories. My mind
was racing. I called my agent, and William Morris Melberger been around for decades. He was my first agent. He's great handle everybody. I give him the idea and he's always complimentary. Well, ah, you can run anything anything. You right, it's gonna be interesting, he said. But let me your question. He said, I don't know why you like him. I said, I just do. He's a liberal, I said. He said, out look, agent, listen, old Jewish guy from New York,
break guyd listen. I'm just telling you truth. Do you want to keep writing books? I said, well, yeah, yeah, okay, then I wouldn't write this book. I said, why, because people are not going to want to publish a book where you say you're friends with Donald Trump. That's not where this community's at. I said, what do you mean community books in generally? Because he's not a favorable person to write about, you're not going to have any easy path to write a story about him, let alone a
book in a positive way. So if you want to still be an author and write books down the road, I suggest you sit this one out. I was told that back in twenty fucking fifteen. So you know the world was changing in a lot of ways, especially with publishing and television and what things you can say, which you can write, what you can't write. I don't like
being in that world. And now things is loosening up, and the pendulum is swinging a better way right now, and this opens the door for more things and more risks to be taken without possibly being canceled or losing your livelihood. Because for seven years or more, I've walked a tightrope and I've made it, never fell into the net below. That's because there is no net. Benzes don't use nets. We walk in the wire without the net.
That's what I'll do this weekend on politics a bitch, and that's what i'll do Monday for you moving forward again. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with overcast, but I'm going to figure it out. But just no, it's nothing on our end, but it pisses me off just the same. I'm aj Benz and I was your daily Gonna Filtered podcast for eleven, twenty two, twenty twenty four. Have a great weekend and I'll talk to you tomorrow