30 Burst results for "Hugh Hefner"
Dose of Leadership
"hugh hefner" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"It kind of reinforced that the world or my environment isn't always safe. And I need to kind of be stronger. I need to be tougher. I need to be more of a more of a man. I went through a phase of my 20s and 30s where I was smoking cigars and partying and doing all the stuff that I thought real men did. And then at some point, I was like, if this is what real men do, then this is pretty shallow existence. I'm not Hugh Hefner. I don't want to be a real man if this is what this doesn't really I think internally I finally figured out it wasn't serving. It wasn't serving anybody, but my ego. And it was like, this is stupid, right? But so anyway, I think for me it was that sense of what you talked about that safety security and so whenever I feel unsafe emotionally or think other people are unsafe emotionally, that's kind of more of the rescue than a physical thing. Totally. And so what I do and what I think all of us can do and practice more of, and like I said, it becomes a practice. It's like something that I have to be aware of and practice it. Sometimes I can forget, and then I get out of balance, but more and more, the more we practice it, the easier it gets, right? The more and more I go at the gym and lift weights, it's like my muscles respond, my joints and tendons respond. My body responds. I can go in there and lift the weights exactly as I want to, and I'm going to feel great when I come out of it. It gets easier and easier. And I feel better and better as I do it. And it's the same thing here. We practice it, it gets easier and easier and we feel better and better. And it's recognizing like, could you could you see if you look back at any bully? Let's first look at like a ten year old bully or trouble. Could you see the possibility that the reason that person is bullying somebody else is the same reason that you have for not feeling safe? It's the same reason that you have for being having not a sense of safety. For you to go internal and to feel this sense of lack of security, lack of safety, lack of respect, whatever it is, right? The same thing, could you accept the same thing happened to that person, but the reason, but their expression of it is the opposite. That they go, look, I don't feel safe. Safe. As somebody has treated me poorly, father, father figure, could be a an uncle could be another bully. But somebody treated me for it. Did somebody bullied me. So just like you said, there's two ways people respond. They either go inside and go internal and try to kind of hide away and do this or they do what I did and what a lot of others do is they go external and they dish it out on somebody else. Right. So that you're both actually dealing with the exact same underlying thing. Right. And so, right? And so what are you both need? What is both of those 6 and 9 and 12 year olds need? Well, and I broke this down early in the program that love heals all because you had said something about love. And I was like, oh, yeah, I love heals all. I gotta remember that. So love. And in love gets wrapped security acceptance. All of the things get when I say love, it's not just a hug, right? This is like a safety, I'm okay. You're okay. God loves me. People love me. The world's a safe place, right? It's not just kumbaya, give me a hug, right? Totally. And so the practice becomes in those situations that we face. Those challenging situations in our life, whatever it is. Let's say you see an adult picking on somebody else. Somebody else, whatever it might be, they're belittling them, they're treating them poorly. The first thing you can do is actually look at that person and try to find the 6 year old or 9 year old in them. There was bullying. There was treated poorly. There was molested that was there was beat, right? There was so many terrible things that happened to kids nowadays. Nowadays, there was sent to a foster home that would ever happen to see that child and what is that person or that person needs a hug that person needs love that person needs compassion. And so you do that first and then that kind of activates you to be in this place to, and then you can even see that 6 year old or 9 year old, it was bullied or treated poorly in yourself and go, what does that person need? That little person needs a hug. They need love in a compassion. They need to be told that, look, everything's going to be okay. You are safe. I'm here for you. So that's the practice. And then your response in that situation becomes one out of, I would say higher intelligence. And it might be, it might be that you still stop it. You might have to stop whenever that altercation is, but you do it in a much more intelligent way. I'll give you one example of how this worked for me recently. I was in San Diego a few months back. And I was walking down the street and I saw there was a homeless man on one corner and he was tearing garbage out of the trash can and throwing it on the street. And just draw it and it was yelling and screaming and he was pissed all over himself and shirt off and really, really, I mean, definitely going through some kind of psychotic episode or dealing with some challenges mentally emotionally. Obviously physically is homeless, he looks like he's struggling. And there's a young person across the street valet, he's working valet at a hotel, and he's yelling at the homeless man. Right. Knock that off. I'm gonna come over there. Quit that. Looked like he was like bullying him, right? He was like, he was threatening him. He was saying, I'm going to come out, you know, if you don't knock it off, I'm going to beat you. And I was like, oh, okay, I walked right in the situation. I'm like, do you have my practice breathe?.
The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"hugh hefner" Discussed on The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"So the media team hates me because they can't take any pictures or anything in the room and when they're doing the pregame videos and that, they got a steer clear of my corner because I have nothing on except for a little jockstrap. But no, the old school. And I understand the long ways this part, but I'm not like a tremendous skater. So I would hate to trip on these long laces, but I can understand where you're coming from with the old school look. I gotta tell you hearing about your under gear, man, your stall mates, they must be thrilled. They must be ready to wear a towel. I wear a towel for a lot of it. You know, like if I'm walking around the room, I'll put a towel on. Tony says he's going to get me a bathrobe to wear around. Oh, that'd be nice. Number 5, rope. Yeah, but then I get the Hugh Hefner look, and then it's like a little too old school, you know? You can pull it off. We'll see. All right, Jake, well, look, man, we pick it up enough of your time. All the best you look like a perfect fit, both on and off the ice ave, obviously, for the Minnesota wild and for your family in Minnesota. So keep it going and all the best. Well, thanks to you guys as well too. I wanted to mention to you guys we're a big part of my childhood growing up in southern Ontario, Washington TSN every day. So thanks for having me on. It was a pleasure. Awesome, Jacob, all the best two years. Thanks. Appreciate it, guys. Our interview is on rain dregs that brought to you by our friends at Canadian club whisky who are asking, are you over beer? Why not try or refreshing CC Ginger ale with lime next time you're having a drink? Maybe you're watching a game and doing both. And ray, how about this? CC and Ginger ale mixed ready in a can. It's available in most provinces across Canada. You and I last summer had the opportunity to crack one of these bad boys open and for the amateur mixers out there who want that refreshing summer cocktail. You've got your arm in the air. It doesn't get any better and it doesn't get any easier than the CC and Ginger and again. Yeah, I loved it. Tasted awesome. Highly recommend it. And they're great people at CC and they have, they have kicked it out of the park with us. And we'd like to raise a glass of 44 year old CC to Jake Middleton, Minnesota wild for joining us today. Presented by our friends at Canadian club, the 44 year old release is available everywhere. Now, Jake Middleton ray, as we talked about in the pot, excuse me, old school dude, not very old..
The Chalene Show
"hugh hefner" Discussed on The Chalene Show
"My show on Monday and she's a badass. I love her. Her name is Sarah Klein. And so I just think like over the weekend, it might be interesting for you to rewatch that if you didn't watch it the first time, it's going to give you unfortunately a very different opinion on Michael Jackson if you've wondered, you've heard the rumors and you thought, I wonder if that's true or if people were just saying that. Personally, I don't know anyone who has watched this documentary and left feeling conflicted. I think you'll watch this and my personal opinion is you're either in complete denial because it's just too disgusting and too painful to believe that someone who we all revered, someone who was such a part of our childhood, someone who we just all loved and who we all believed loved children could actually be such a child predator. And he's a predator. It's super heavy, so, but I don't know. Sometimes I love a heavy documentary. I just do, I know, bread is like, he has to be in the right mood. He always reminds me like, please. Nothing heavy right before we go to bed. So this might be a better watch on like a Saturday afternoon. I just think it would be interesting to revisit or if you never saw it, it might be interesting to watch it before, Monday's podcast with Sarah. I got a couple more. All right, this one is a maybe. It's the documentary about Kanye, and it's not what you think. So if you're like, ew, Kanye gross, he's harassing his wife right now, or whatever it is you think. It does really shed some light on his mental health. And that's the one thing that I found really fascinating is that I assume he was a co producer on this that he didn't need for it to make him look a certain way. Like you really get a sense of who he is. It's the three part documentary and it's pretty fascinating look because he had this guy, this friend of his, named cootie, who basically followed him from the moment they met, I think he was like, you know, in 1998. And he has followed him for like 20 years. And filmed like everything. So you really do see his evolution, you see his early days, you see his relationship with his mom, you see all the controversies. You see the highs and lows of his mental health. You see the highs and lows of his career. And for those of you who are, you know, hip hop fans, you're gonna love it. If you're not really a hip hop fan, those first couple of episodes you might not be. Maybe it won't be into it at all. If you're not a hip hop fan, but if you're someone who loves music and loves art and you love to see behind the scenes and see people's early days and I just, I love musical genius. I find it so fascinating. And I do think he is a personally, I think is a musical genius. Some of you are like, what? I don't see it, but I do. And he is having a major mental health struggle. You see his relationship with his mother, then she passes, you see very clearly that he takes no time to grieve, they just keeps pushing forward and that that's never been processed, which might, you know, they don't draw the conclusions for you, but as a viewer, you can't help but watch his unraveling and recognize that he didn't have proper care. He wasn't given the space or didn't maybe take the space to attend to his mental health. It was like, I'm just going to continually pour myself into my career. I'm going to use all these ways where I can try to control the world by controlling my empire. It's interesting. You're going to draw some of your own conclusions. What I thought was most fascinating is at the end, you really watch him spiral downward and the whole documentary. Is narrated by cootie his friend. His voice becomes kind of the voice of reason. I think it was really well done. Again, the first couple of episodes kind of slow, but if you have ADD, you can kind of look away, you can have something doing something in the background and you're not going to miss anything if you know what I mean. But the last episode, it's three episodes long, and they're each like 90 minutes, I would say. And again, that was on Netflix. All right, this one is on my soon to watch. I haven't watched it yet, but I've had so many of my friends and people who I really trust them because they always give great recommendations, suggest the documentary about Bill Cosby. Again, heavy topic. Boy, I really have a theme here, don't I? All right, well this one is interesting because it takes a very thoughtful searing examination of Bill Cosby's path from pop culture hero to accused serial rapist. And much like leaving Neverland, I assume that when you watch this, you're going to want to ask yourself if it's possible to separate the art from the artist when you know the artist is a monster. So the show is called, we need to talk about Cosby. It's on showtime. It's four episodes. They're an hour each. I have not yet watched it myself, but it comes highly recommended. Next up is the secrets of Playboy. Now, obviously this is another one you're probably not going to want to watch with the kids in the room and there's some controversy here. I think some people feel like, gosh, you know, these women, they chose a lifestyle, the relationship was mutually beneficial. They didn't have to work. They were famous celebrities, blah, blah, blah. I completely disagree, especially after watching this. Hugh Hefner did an amazing job of selling himself as this friendly charming, delightful Playboy for life who just did incredible things for charity, et cetera. He was gross, so gross. This is an in depth series man. They go back and they interview like every person who worked for him, drivers, cooks, chefs, house staff, girlfriends from 40 years ago. People who worked in the they had these Playboy clubs, women who were Playboy bunnies in those Playboy clubs, his girlfriends, oh my gosh, the amount of abuse and cover up that took place and again, Hollywood. Hollywood is so gross. Hollywood is so gross. His whole inner circle were these wealthy Hollywood sexual predators who were all taking advantage of young women..
The BosBabes
"hugh hefner" Discussed on The BosBabes
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's been a while. First off, did you guys enjoy my two part special with former WWE star and model Shelley Martinez? Because if you have not checked out her two part podcast special with me, please go listen to it right after you listen to this episode of course. We discuss everything about her childhood. We even discuss her childhood family gang related trauma. Hugh Hefner and the Playboy mansion, how she enjoys rescuing animals and of course we talk about her WWE career and much more. So again, guys, please go head on over. Listen to her two part podcast episode with me right on this platform, whether you're listening on Spotify or iTunes, it's available to you for free. You know I need to hit you with a fun little wedding update. As you guys know, Ryan and I are getting married this fall. He proposed on January 1st, so New Year's Day, which ironically enough is actually our dog deckers, birthday. We are currently getting ready to send out our save the dates. We have the stamps already, the envelopes are all set to go and I ordered these super cute stickers that we're gonna put on the back of our envelopes. And I'm obsessed with them because they say sealed with love with a little heart. I'll probably show you guys a little sneak peek at some point before we get ready to mail them out. So stay tuned on my at Brittany Baldi, social media, of course, you guys can follow me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, shout out to all of my boss fanatics that already follow me on those platforms. The biggest dilemma I am dealing with right now is when it comes to these save the dates, I have the crappiest handwriting. So I'm over here trying to figure out how I can transfer all of these names and addresses onto printable stickers. So if you guys listening to this podcast episode have any freaking tips. On how I can accurately get these personal stickers created for my wedding save the dates, I mean, I would be more than thankful more than grateful if you guys slide in my DMs and tell me how the heck to do this. Please and thank you. All right, you guys also know that I got my wedding dress recently. Of course I'm keeping it a secret. No, I have not taken any photos in it just yet. Ryan and I also recently started looking at wedding bakeries for our wedding cake, of course..
The Chalene Show
"hugh hefner" Discussed on The Chalene Show
"She really thinks her style is pretty cutting edge. So like she did a little fashion show for us when we were home for Christmas. What are you laughing about? 'cause she was bagging on other people's fashion. I know. She's like, yeah, that place, that place doesn't have very good fashion. Meanwhile, it's the store that everybody in Grand Rapids goes like all the 40 somethings. Go to this place to get like all the high end brands. Because there's not like, there's no high insurance. It's not my style. It's way too conservative. I'm like, what are you talking about, mom? You're so like your style is so classic. It's like Talbot's meets the white mark, the white and black market and has a baby with a Brighton purse. That's exactly what she's like, what? No, my style is wild. I'm like, really? So then she went and she changed into a red and black plaid vest. Yes. And then red and black plaid matching boots, which were really cute. My mom is the cutest thing on the planet. She really is. And she's always dressed appropriate for her size, her height, her. And she's always just very cute. She's adorable. But I have noticed that most of the ladies in her little community have a particular look. And it makes me wonder. So what is that going to be? When, you know, the rest of us are living in a senior community. And I've told you this before. I think Lululemon will come out with something. Or maybe that's what it is. Or maybe it is Lululemon. Yeah. 'cause I think that's the fear is that you get real comfortable wearing what you're wearing. And then when do you not realize uh oh, no one else is wearing this. Do you know what I mean? So maybe it will be lululemons. Something along those lines. But you know, you just pray that you get that you're healthy enough and that you live to be that long, you live to be older and that you are still enjoying your life because, you know, when you go to, I hate to say it, but we're seeing the other side. Yeah, we're seeing the end of life and that's just, it's so weird. Do you remember we talked about this the other day on the Patreon? So I won't go over it again, but just it's strange to think about somebody's end of life. I heard a story recently about who's the guy who Playboy mansion. Hugh Hefner, yeah, Hugh Hefner. I heard a story that at the end of his life, as he was really starting to decline his very best friend, was a physician. And that when he died, the only person who was in the room with him was his best friend. It makes me wonder. I don't know. I'm not trying to start any rumors here, but I have made it very clear for people. I need to make certain everyone knows, if I don't know how to put on my lashes and look cute and know who you are and I'm not enjoying life, like don't keep me propped up just for your guilt. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I don't know if you've thought about that, but I think I've talked about it enough. I've said it enough podcasts. I've told my kids that everyone knows. So hopefully they'll all have a little plan in place for me and we can just move on with grace. That's what I want. I already feel like I've lived an amazing life. I'm not trying to jinx myself right now, but it's been a really amazing life. I do have to say. Update is and I don't know if I mentioned this last week, but Sierra is obsessed with getting a puppy. Yeah. And so she drove out to riverside, which is a place in southern. Paris. Paris, California. It's kind of like more inland from where we live. And she was going to buy today. She was going to buy a pug. A puppy pug. And she's like, mom, any advice from me, I go, yes. Watch every YouTube video like I'm a researcher. I'm like, watch every single YouTube video. Understand what you need to know about buying a dog, you know, obviously it would be ideal if she would adopt a puppy. So don't send me letters about how horrible it is that she's not adopting a dog. I get it. We've adopted plenty of dogs, but she wants a pug and she wants a pug puppy and so, you know, I'm like, first of all, you have to understand this is like a 1516 17 year commitment, get a healthy dog, no all of the things you need to know before you invest in a dog. Again, save your commentary if you're like, how dare she? She needs to adopt an animal. I understand that there's lots of dogs and shelters. I get it. But this girl has her mindset and she has all of her life wanted a puppy. So they drive out of there's a lot of things so like you said earlier to put your foot down on? Yeah. Don't put your foot down on puppies versus rescue dogs. Don't put your foot down on that. It's not a thing. Well, some people do. Everyone's got their issue. Everyone's got their mission. I get it more power to you. But our daughter, when she's decided on something, you just you do not get in her way. She's just, you know the type. There are personalities. We've said from the times here was like two years old. Once she has a bee in her bonnet, get out of the way. It's going to happen. She's just very determined. So anyways, she drives out there and the mistake number one is that they didn't want her to come to their house. They wanted to meet at a separate location. And she knew that was a she knew that was a red flag because she knew I need to see the mother of the dog. The mother of the puppies, right? And they wanted to meet and so they drove all that way. So they're like, okay, so they were supposed to be in this parking lot. And they pull into wherever was they had agreed upon to meet, and there were a couple of cop cars there. And she was like, huh, that's weird. So there are two cop cars, and they're like, well, you know what? Maybe it's a good thing we're meeting this gentleman with cash. And this maybe it's a good thing. So then the people that are supposed to meet didn't show up for like ten minutes. So then she texted him and was like, hey, are you coming? And they're like, oh yeah, let's just meet at a different location..
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"hugh hefner" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"We'll be right back. Just break this just in. Just breaking now. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has died. Looking back on my time at Playboy, it reminds me of a cult rape abuse coercion for the first time ever. There was a very dark side of Playboy. The women of Cleveland come forward. Women are speaking out. With new information. There were playmates who died. You never talked about. If anything, scandalous happened, we had to clean it up so it wouldn't hit the press. I had to keep my mouth closed. This was something deeper that was much more sinister. Exclusive interviews, revealing the truth behind the Playboy legacy. There's a lot of collateral damage within the Playboy organization. They wanted to control the narrative. They wanted to control how people viewed Playboy. I started to realize it wasn't genuine. This was all like an illusion. It's time that the illusion is broken. The groundbreaking a and the original documentary series, secrets of Playboy, premieres Monday at 9 8 central and stream the next day on the a and E app. Hey, what's up? It's me, Gustavo. As you know, the times podcast is dedicated to bringing you fascinating stories from entertainment news to climate change developments to the random tales we should care about. With your support, you make shows like the times possible and help independent journalism keep you informed. If you haven't already, consider subscribing at just $1 for 6 months. So go to LA times dot com slash exclusive to subscribe today. Gracias. So earlier we heard a little about how Felicia sees her racial identity. And in you talking to her over the years, you asked her to explain it a bit more. Yeah, I hadn't known in all the years that I've been working with her and interviewing her for sort of breaking news stories. I had not known about her background that her father was Latino that her mom was black. So we only speak English. And that was at the request of my father before he died. He wanted us to be true Americans, so she explained that to me and talked about why she identifies the way that she does. The other question I was going to ask you was about how did your family identify racially and how do you identify and did that change over time. No one's ever asked me that. When we were younger, we identified as biracial. Me and my sisters. And we were.
Daily Pop
"hugh hefner" Discussed on Daily Pop
"On NBC good for him. Okay, guys, we got to talk about crystal hefner because she is ditching her sexy image. So the former playmate and widow of Hugh Hefner says she has removed everything fake from her body and deleted all of her old photos. So she explained, I grew my following during my Playboy years. Certain photos grow fast. Grow followings fast in short sex cells. I don't know whether I felt empowered by dressing scantly clad, but now I can confidently and 100% proudly say modesty is what empowers me these days. So she is different in the changed woman. We feel good about it. She's older. I mean, that's gonna happen, right? You get older, you feel differently about your body. You feel differently about your sense of confidence right. And what you need to share with the world. So, I mean, I think that's natural. Yeah, and I think that I appreciate her transparency. She's being so raw and so honest. Absolutely. And to your point, either you go, more modest as you get older, are you like, hey, I showed up. Either way, if it works for you, go for it. Confident, right? And you realize that you don't need to let it all hang out. Beauty is within. I can't listen. However you want to dress. I'm fine with it, but I think sometimes you seek validation through exactly the exterior. And so I think some people don't like to dress sexy and they're not seeking validation from anyone but themselves. But some people do it because they do want validation. So I think those that kind of figure it out as they get older. And also, you know, some people are just like, it's pandemic, we all want to be comfortable. It doesn't all rise up like that. Whatever works for you works for you. But sex definitely sounds. I have noticed a trend of celebrities removing body parts, you know, came a show famously. Several reductions from the backside. From surgery. So people are actually kind of reversing their surgeries lately. I've noticed that. A lot of it is for health reasons as well. It's not always just about the looks, right? Like with the women with the chest, the back starts to hurt. The shoulders. Tell me about it. But these are natural. But then put a lot of these like butt shots and stuff that they did. There's a health risk. And so they need to get that stuff taken out. Right. But I do feel if you want plastic surgery if it's something that makes you feel good about yourself and you're gonna dump for you, go for it. By one reverse it, go for it. It's all about your points. Whatever makes you feel good. Yeah, that's what we about right now in 2022. Just feeling good. Okay, you guys, we want you to feel good, so don't go away, all right? Because up next, our new interview with Bella Hadid. She's talking fashion Victoria's Secret. And she is spending the holidays with Gigi's baby girl. So Bella Hadid is doing big things in 2022. She sat down with Francesca to share an update on her famous.
American Scandal
"hugh hefner" Discussed on American Scandal
"For 50 years Hugh Hefner sold sex to the world. He was considered a pioneer of business and sexual freedom, but behind the expense of pajamas and fun uncle image was a darker side. Whatever you think of his journalism, activism, and centerfolds, we're living in a world shaped by his legacy today. The second season of power from something else delves into hefner's story and asks how did hefner wheel power and who were the women who tried to challenge that power? New episodes of power Hugh Hefner every Monday wherever you get your podcasts. A 30 million pound empire built around the simple principle that most people like to look at pretty girls. In this case, well trained pretty girls. Hefner will be remembered as more than an elderly gent in a silk robe. He changed the face of America. He was the ultimate Playboy. Hefner is credited with ushering in the sexual revolution in the 60s with his men's magazine. He was also known for lavish parties that were thrown at the mansion. Quick. Take a second and picture Playboy in your head. What are you seeing? Bunny costumes, right? Maybe the ritzy Playboy mansion? But whatever your personal vision is, I can guarantee we're all thinking about women right now. Today, the way Hugh Hefner presented those women might seem cheap or sad or out of date or just wrong. But when Playboy first launched, it was a sensation. He's discovered a new formula for packaging pornography, and it's made him Playboy of the western world. Over the following half century, hefner and his media empire came right up against the biggest cultural flashpoints of that time. The sexual revolution, free speech, women's liberation, and civil rights. At the center of it all was this little man and his silk robe. Who somehow bent the world around his fantasies. But it's hard to say if he understood the human cost of bringing those fantasies to life. Could I honestly say to myself that, in all those years with all those adventures, but for me, it was a celebration of my life, but I say with certainly that someone wasn't hurt when of course we know the big philosophical questions about how Playboy's magnetism affected women. On an individual level, there's a lot of evidence that hefner was abusive and controlling to some of the women he was closest to it. So were other famous powerful men who used the Playboy mansion and clubs to hurt other people. A stunning fall from grace tonight for Bill Cosby, the man once dubbed America's dead, found guilty on all three counts of aggravated indecent assault. There are so many layers to this story. As an editor and a journalist covering sex, it's been impossible for me to avoid play boys legacy. Which was also true when I worked at nightclubs or in front of cameras. Or as the girlfriend of a much older rich guy. Playboy has always fascinated me because while it feels like a relic, it's influence is still all around us. So I wanted to find out everything I could about Hugh Hefner. Just to see where else we hear the echoes of his power in our lives today. I'm going to trace hefner's rise and demise through the women who made Playboy. I'm hoping they'll help me find my way through some of the questions I think about most often. What are the tradeoffs when we try to find freedom through the cracks in our own exploitation? How can glamour and prestige become a cover for inequality and mistreatment? What will this story tell us about sex and power, then and now? I'm Amy rose Spiegel and from something else this is season two of power, the story of Hugh Hefner and the rise.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"hugh hefner" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Phone calls me no. I'm not a physician. I'm not a clinician naval officer right. So i'm looking at from solving problems. And i and i'm making phone calls to my therapist. My clinical director say. Hey guys. I know the wheel. We don't try to say to dial on the news around there because when you're in our facility where you try to limit social media and what's going on the outside world but he's still no they don't know what's going on. Hey guys this could be. You know we don't like to use the term but triggering truly and justifiably so for a lot of folks where people are saying that. Hey y did we do this. Do this all for nothing. And you and i know i have friends. Who don't have their legs were in. Wheelchairs had their eyeballs blown out and many of whom are around anymore and a lot of times. I've already been reaching out to plenty of those guys and sometimes you reach out to the families too because the the my friends aren't around anymore and this whole thing was this all in vain and right now the feeling is if probably was well. You know already back to normal more tom. I think we need to emphasize To the troops who did the the actual fighting to troops who do the actual sacrifice That they're they're sacrifices. Were not in vain that the american people appreciate them that we recognize them that we hear them and that we are going to hold. The failed leadership accountable. Leadership is a key issue. Tom salaries you know. You were a an officer in the united states navy officer in the united states army. I have been hearing from a lot of people. Currently serving one thing. They bring up again and again is the vaccine mandate now. Look i am pro vaccine. I have had the vaccine. And i look at this. Not as our our troops are somehow he's knuckle dragging anti vaxxers. I look at it as an indictment of our military leadership that the military leaderships word is not being trusted that this is the vaccine. Resistance is actually a way to demonstrate dissatisfaction with sorry state of senior military leadership. Because i like to think that colonel sector stood in front of his squadron and got the vaccine the vast majority of my guys will go. The boss does. It's probably okay for me. What do you think how do you feel about that. I agree. I'm definitely pro vaccine. Vote for those. That need kare. Actually i mean i smiled. Mother got it. I think that's the right thing to do. And also i've seen this resistance because there is a failure of leadership trust leadership all leadership we we had a mutual friend who was considering pushing back against it and they're like are there groups within the active you. They're forming and i pushed back. I said hey guys they pumped up all sorts of crap right. Yes oh where everything. Tom answer smallpox unique. Because i did you know what i did in the military early on i i did you know special stuff and running the heavily-armed car wash take immune to lot of stuff. But look. i just think they chose this. The troops are choosing this one. Because they don't trust our leaders and they wanna make a statement. It lost so about the vaccine itself about this. Hey i don't trust you. Why are you making this happen. It seems very very political. And i would be willing to bet kurt that had the election of twenty twenty a little different than president. Trump was in the middle of his second term right now. I don't think that if you would be seeing a lot of pushback among soaks on the left because if you remember you can no. Yeah we you could see. Nobody's going to trust the fact. I think kamla harris even say like. I wouldn't get too. Oh yeah scene and completely flipped. However i tell you right now you'd see both the on the right with there's a little bit of trust factor right there who would be getting a vaccine however you wouldn't see folks on the right mandating it saying he can't go. You can't go anywhere exactly. thank you. Tom sour nearby recovery. This is the hugh hewitt radio program. We have a lot more to come. Please stick around. We're back on the hugh hewitt radio program kirch liquor guest hosting for the great hugh hewitt retire united states army colonel active and reserve senior columnist townhall dot com noted los angeles trial lawyer author of various books. Would you can check out. We're talking about afghanistan right now. We're talking about The guys you gotta understand. I spent twenty seven years in the military. I love the army. Or i love what the army was. I don't recognize what it is today. And it's heartbreaking for me and it's heartbreaking for a lot of other guys and gals who served to and who are still serving. You look at the disaster in afghanistan and you think what the hell were these people thinking and the only conclusion i can come to is that. They weren't thinking at all mary beth along a former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. But that's not all she does. She does many things. Mary beth along. Welcome to the hugh hewitt radio program. Can you sketch out your very impressive bio for the listeners. Well that's very kind of you. I'm i. I spent my about the decade and a half at cia as an operations officer. Abroad i then became a litigation lawyer at williams and connolly and after that by joined the department of defense and had a number of roles some of which included me building the afghan national police and several other programs in afghanistan was a frequent frequent visitor..
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"hugh hefner" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"I warned you about any networks releasing this secrets of Playboy early in 2022. It's gonna be a documentary about the hidden truths behind the Playboy empire. Viewed through these, well, the younger generation who haven't picked that the carcass of you hefner. And the quote from the vice president of programming is the fantasy world of Playboy has been shrouded in secrecy for decades and we're proud to lift the veil of these long hidden stories. It's a masterful example of brave storytelling that takes an unflinching look at the personal effects of you have this empire, but also exploring his legacy's larger influence on our society. But that's a bunch of shit. They're going to go after them. They're going to try to meet to him after he's dead. They're going to say all sorts of bad shit. They're going to turn the microphone on to a couple of girls who want to save bad shit because whatever reason, they fell out of favor the mansion. And I'll tell you in a second why a lot of girls fall out of favor at the mansion. It's not because you have to a meme wasn't mean man. Because he had principle principles of certain things and some of those girls broke those pencils. Some of those girls had cost them the playmate of the year. I'll get to that in a second. But this past girlfriends are on the show. Holly Madison Bridget Mark watt, Sandra Theodore, his personal secretary, and this chick that lived there a long time ago, Jennifer Saginaw. She's going to have a bad thing to say. I think she's the daughter of one of the best Friends. I think that was the doctor friend, doctor Mark Saginaw, maybe. I could be wrong. And I think that was have doctor. And this is his daughter. Either way. A lot of playmates are going bananas. They don't want to see this happen to have especially with his legacy being what it is and him being dead.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
The 'Secrets of Playboy' Documentary Is Going to 'Me Too' Hugh Hefner
"I warned you about any networks releasing this secrets of Playboy early in 2022. It's gonna be a documentary about the hidden truths behind the Playboy empire. Viewed through these, well, the younger generation who haven't picked that the carcass of you hefner. And the quote from the vice president of programming is the fantasy world of Playboy has been shrouded in secrecy for decades and we're proud to lift the veil of these long hidden stories. It's a masterful example of brave storytelling that takes an unflinching look at the personal effects of you have this empire, but also exploring his legacy's larger influence on our society. But that's a bunch of shit. They're going to go after them. They're going to try to meet to him after he's dead. They're going to say all sorts of bad shit. They're going to turn the microphone on to a couple of girls who want to save bad shit because whatever reason, they fell out of favor the mansion. And I'll tell you in a second why a lot of girls fall out of favor at the mansion. It's not because you have to a meme wasn't mean man. Because he had principle principles of certain things and some of those girls broke those pencils. Some of those girls had cost them the playmate of the year. I'll get to that in a second. But this past girlfriends are on the show. Holly Madison Bridget Mark watt, Sandra Theodore, his personal secretary, and this chick that lived there a long time ago, Jennifer Saginaw. She's going to have a bad thing to say. I think she's the daughter of one of the best Friends. I think that was the doctor friend, doctor Mark Saginaw, maybe. I could be wrong. And I think that was have doctor. And this is his daughter. Either way. A lot of playmates are going bananas. They don't want to see this happen to have especially with his legacy being what it is and him being dead.
Channel 52: The DC Podcast
"hugh hefner" Discussed on Channel 52: The DC Podcast
"That hugh hefner com ovalles. Meanwhile betty brant. Peter parker en route to the wild animal sightings wild legged animal. Along the way fatty explains that she decided to start a new career after the death of her husband that leave under subsequent nervous breakdown accurate about thirty years. He'll be back. What was that two years. Airtime yeah they soon. Had a police barricade in order to turn turnaround. Peter tells betty that he's going to poke around to get photos at the scene that he's not. I wouldn't want to take me to a crime scene. Neither but in reality it allows them to get away and change in two spiderman. Suspecting that there's something more going on a wall crawler finds a set of jeep tracks in the woods decides to follow them. Nothing good can come city drivers. But y'all know which i'll be doing especially in florida right lower deeper. No doors at the beach brian. The jeep and question is being driven by armand jones who has been tracking the wild animal since discovering that has been giving off a gamma radiation. You didn't know before long. Sign didn't know before his device brings him to the ice house were. Bruce and betty are slumbering felt recalling. It's these days numbering man. I keep them calm. What use his bio connecticut. Absorption device on banner..
Fred + Angi On Demand
"hugh hefner" Discussed on Fred + Angi On Demand
"To lawyers on tic tac. And i trust that yes kristie for not getting vaccinated. Also you don't get unemployment benefits because it's 'cause they again. Don't take legal advice from us. But that's what i've learned From tick-tock of course A phd student from new haven connecticut. Name matt's amodeo sure Here in his seventeenth consecutive. Win on jeopardy thursday makes him the third all-time highest winter on jeopardy. Total earnings of five hundred forty seven thousand dollars placing him behind only two top player. Ken jennings two point five million dollars and james hall tower. Two point four million dollars. Rupee i watch this guy. And he's really good. The thing that annoys me about him as he answers one is for everything it could be like. It could be a person's name he'll be like what is fred instead of. Who is fr- h. He doesn't change the right he does. It's he's really good and it does. Because that's not how you play the game. You're supposed to be like what is who is you know what i'm saying. But but he's a genius so fun to party with an crammer police. This guy is a traditionalist jeopardy traditionalist. Yeah take the jeopardy stage tonight on the final episode of season thirty seven before they do the whole thing with the ep host and and then the little lady gets to fill in. Sometimes i still think that's so silly. Just don't do that like either either maker the host. Don't make her those. But what certainly don't make her the special host sometimes but not all the time. It's an easy show. Let her do the college way. We'll do the jeopardy do that one. I just with me it. Just it looks. And he's totally deserving. She's very his alive. Miami's very talented person. Good presenter the whole thing. I just think it's it's like doesn't look good to me And happy birthday kaylin. I spend two million dollars So that you could be buried next to marilyn monroe and hugh hefner in los angeles super marilyn monroe right. I still spend two million dollars accidentally lucille ball. I wanna be is it. For some reason. They're interchangeable in my head and then when the time comes to finding something special for your birthday for some reason just marilyn monroe. She loves marilyn monroe. But it's lucille ball that you love that mix up their famous as paul is very famously a. Rod well but redhead was black and white natural but yeah she was in black and white. I can't tell Next to each other hugh hefner marilyn monroe man so anyway joke though is that i would have spent two million dollars on the wrong celebrities. Bail for two million bucks located at the pierce brothers westwood village memorial park and granite crypt I guess it was. This particular crip was purchased the nineties by theatrical composer lyricist when he died though he was not buried there is buried somewhere else. Now the family wants to sell it And two million bucks will get it. If you want that nassar white spend much money because see you dead. I mean that's a party of maryland and hugh. Yeah finding international lefthanders day day-to-day national blame someone else day for some people. That's every day and national echo day today as well and ladies and gentlemen slowly push the button with my fingers. Welcome back your ass. Sorry that on you had it means you today. National blamed on the other person day. Your yeah that was quick of you. George by the way nice So you've got the jesse mccartney tickets we love you. Thanks for hanging on. And i want you to have a good day and good weekend. I'd love. I'd love to take my wife good time jesse mccartney man and beautiful soul. Where are you going to be at. You're gonna throw in some so we can have dinner. Let's throw so. I don't even know do we have. We don't want to be on waiting by the phone. We pay if your wife wants to talk for a while. Jesse mccartney yeah. Sure i was that you guys had a couple of weeks ago. Where that one girl was a. She'd never been with a guy then. White guy wasn't into it the whole time. I'm driving the current. Thank you you like men but he just admit it admit george. George has some deeper philosophical thoughts about waiting by the phone. Okay all right yours well. You're going jesse mccartney and willow budget. So i don't think we have anything owner of work that out have a good day man. Hold on say right there. Hot take the castaways castaways. I don't know how many we have giving them away. Like i don't even have. We even have the gift cards. Just keep giving a parts can't stop stafani group. Hey guys sorry. Here's another one month. Oh go this weekend. Everyone north avenue beach. He'll be lovely Let's come back. We'll do Ran eliza music. Waiting might have phone the entertainment report. All coming up fred show..
Advanced Selling Podcast
"hugh hefner" Discussed on Advanced Selling Podcast
"Six hundred evangelists fact. Check everything so our topic today. We thought that since we are doing a Gig here in a couple of hours and it's about a four hour. I think we've got four hours on stage. Primetime do and and we're going to be working with a group of about fifty people. We're going to be doing kind of a headline keynote thing. And then we're going to break up into groups. We thought it might be interesting for you all especially if you plan things like this to know how we go about thinking through the sequence of events and how we think about events like this and so whether you're putting them on or whether you're sitting through them We thought it might be interesting for you to hear how we do it. Yeah and as. I was preparing for the episode. And i'm looking at the items as i'm writing them down. I'm going to my saying to myself that more noise here pans dropping in the background. That's great i love this. Nobody heard that though is that this. This is great. Just preparation in general. Because the things. I wrote down like this could be for a sales call so this this one really can run the gamut. You can use what we're going to talk about it here. I think for preparing for a sales call. You can also use it front preparing for a sales meeting so your sales manager. Vp of sales. You could use it for that or lots of other. Yeah i suppose so so you want to start and then all all chime in i'll start sure. The first thing i did was i went and bought a new sport coat. We're speaking linked to a group. That is kind of. Let's just say they're kind of they're not fancy but they're a design oriented group very creative and so i bought this kind of velour kind of smoking that you hugh hefner smoking jacket so i know my fiancee bought this for me and with close i want one of those guys..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"hugh hefner" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Use the promo code k. I. r. k. So candice our conference made headlines these last couple days because we found out that some person that calls himself a pornographic person call an actress. I think that's just awful thing to say it was at. Our event kicked her out as soon as we found out. You have an opinion on this. I do so first and foremost. I have tons of porn stars and i speak to some of them like in really a lot of the porn. Stars are conservative. all of hugh hefner ex girlfriends ever. They're all when i say conservative. I mean they all vote in accordance with conservatives museum vote for trump right. yeah vote. republican republican not conservative. None of them have ever like raise the bar into saying you know. I'm a conservative. And i have a right to be at a student action summit so there was. I saw this happening on twitter. How could they ban brandy love. Okay a lot of other questions should be asked foremost. Why isn't this. A former porn star. I then looked to see who she was on twitter and saw her full-frontal private parts. She was spread open. Eagle and. I didn't even know that was not on twitter. Apparently trump's not but you're allowed to do this in twitter. Which shocked me. I was like why am i looking at a fully naked frontal woman apparently that contents allowed And so that was shocking and nobody asked the question. Why did she log on and decide that she wanna tickets as a vip at a student summit first and foremost is inappropriate because summit. That's for students high school and high school kids and if these parents giving their children permission to go to this conference they're expecting they are not going to have porn stars. Walking around you have conservatives defended this. Ben dommage meghan mccain's husband runs a federal list. Because i guess she writes the federal lists and he says this thing got me so angry we conservatives. She's a wonderful conservative no. She's not a conservative libertarian. Trumpy republican nationalists solid conservative. The word conservative. It has meaning it has meaning okay so same way that would cannot be water and water cannot be would a full frontal pornographic. Actress cannot be a conservative okay. You can't say. I'm a christian because i stepped into a church but i'm also a drug addict and i do these terrible things. You're not a christian. You happen to be at a church. So while i the big temple also says that we need to be more like a left right and also find this and in fact i think turning point. She got more people from the conferences. I've been like kind of hitting what i found out that tommy learn endorsed. Bruce jenner. caitlyn jenner. I don't know how to do this. But like endorse caitlyn jenner and well. This is what same thing. We need to be more big tent. No when you're talking about positions of power right and you're saying that you're endorsing transgenderism which is one of the biggest threats to the pillar of faith. Let's not forget. Faith came before the constitution faith informs the constitution faith and family. These pillars these natural pillars. These natural conservative pillars informed the constitution. Not the other way around okay and these people are now antiethical in calling themselves conservatives if you do anything that is against the family unit. You are not a conservative now. It doesn't mean that me and brandy love can't be at a trump rally and because there are other things that we vote on right. We're not trump is it brings together libertarian. Tapering brings together nationalists. He brings to other conservatives agree on a lot of topics..
Dead Celebrity
"hugh hefner" Discussed on Dead Celebrity
"I'll give this rob built this early on when our clients start working with their estate plan so we have a call next week. I have a call with a client. Who's newly minted fifty plus millionaire and they. They have an estate plan now. But that estate plan was based on a three or four million dollars state twelve years ago and we revisit it every year but now over the last twenty four months. Everything's changed and they finally have the time to tackle the estate plan. Well i've had a pre call with the attorney already. And the attorney knows every nook and cranny of their estate. They know every insurance policy ever retirement account every beneficiary. And that's recordkeeping our right. So for folks. Out there recordkeeping component a team a team members keeping those records and knows every aspect of your world. It helps so much when you walk into the attorney's office and you've got it laid out because what happens is the client walks in. Especially if they're complicated wealthy client they just don't have the time to put all that together and their attorney or their accountant typically don't have those details and their investment advisor typically knows where some of the investment accounts are so rare where hundred percent of it is captured clearly and succinctly. And so that. That's something that if you don't have that role in your team you gotta fill that role because those details all the sudden become in critically important. Ten fifteen years from now stressing having these conversations early because effectively these conversations once started are never going to end because we're fighting against an enemy that can't lose effectively right. Were refunding against time. Who always wins. And we're just trying to mitigate the damage to states like you said you know the state made fifteen years ago may have been just wonderfully plan but fifteen years has a way of just completely destroyed your wonderful plan. If you just let it sit there. So it really is they. These conversations need to start because they need to keep happening indefinitely effectively. Which sounds scary. But it's easier and unless scary. Once you started doing rob is. I'll you know what one thing we've instituted and again rob roy drives. This is not meetings. And there's an annual calendar these clients all these families want to have it and it looks like mr hefner added by all accounts. What we're seeing is. It was a constant part of his annual checklist of minding his home was he had planning meetings probably quarterly or semi annually with his team. And this team was clearly from attorneys. probably some tax advisors and wealth advisors. And so that that has to become part of your every year rhythm. It's it's like going to the dentist And in many ways more far more important. And that's the rhythm these. I think you take a lesson like that for mr hefner's estate. It looks like he did that or folks that's about all the time we have really. Unfortunately this is if you have state is always nice to see one on this show where we're not talking about a disaster for once and actually instead of saying don't do this. We can point to saying something that is well done I think that you know robin. Kevin really have done furnished album of sort of expanding on very complex topics but at least for once positive topics on the show that that advisers can really sink their teeth into. So i looked to thank eh robert wermuth and kevin donoghue for being fantastic s guys. Thank you for coming on. Thanks very much acts david and for all listeners. I'll see you or i guess you'll hear me on the next episode of celebrity estates wills of the rich and famous. Thank you for listening to the celebrity estates wills of the rich and famous podcast. Click the subscribe button below to become notified. When.
Dead Celebrity
"hugh hefner" Discussed on Dead Celebrity
"Or the senior accountant or adviser but the have a plan. Oftentimes try to match that communication plan with the proper age if we have a thirty two year old child. Let's try to find someone within a decade of their age to communicate and listen because oftentimes you you separate the core adviser team from the children. You put somebody in the middle boy. Those children will speak a lot more at openly. When there's somebody different at the table. So just improves the outcome. An idea of the importance of communication is something that we talk about. Just basically every episode on the show on avoidable. Its that important And it's something that i worry. That people listening sometimes roll their eyes. Because it's like. Go talk to your kids thanks. Dr should be so hard but you know. Ironically it is. It's getting harder and harder. You think that today we have more and more tools to communicate with and yet i think it almost experts to tell you that people are communicating less than they were before because we have families are getting more complex right. We have people are living longer. They're getting married more often. they're getting divorced. More often families are becoming increasingly blended. And so there's just more and more barriers just as many barriers being removed by technology and the internet and and all the ways we can reach out to one another. There's other barriers replacing them in that. Oh i don't know my stepbrother's at all or i have three half brothers. Why never say you know. There's all of these complicating factors when we say like. Oh just talk to your kids. You know there's a lot more than that. It's not just that easy. Yeah it's not for sure and the longer you put it off especially in the blended families what we find is when mom and the new boyfriend or dad and the new girlfriend start dating and then they decide to get married. Oftentimes they still have not had the conversation about finances and there is an assumption on the less wealthy of the two.
Dead Celebrity
"hugh hefner" Discussed on Dead Celebrity
"Welcome to the celebrity estates wills of the rich and famous podcast in this podcast breakdown. High profile celebrity estate.
Standup Comedy "Your Host and MC"
Show 7a "Magic of Hollywood" Redux with Larry Wilson - burst 02
"Film we do a we do a cut away and walks through the door and then we cut to the other side of them come in well it doesn't mean the doorways the same location right right. It's exactly like magic and it's no surprise that serves interesting. Great filmmakers like orson welles huge magic fan interest but it does make sense. What you're saying is i mean. There's the term movie. Magic for a reason will the first magicians Starting up the first. Magicians but the first filmmakers george me as frenchman filmmaker in paris. He was a stage magician. I saw a tv special about him. didn't do the movie man in the moon. Yes yeah and that was all tricks. Well we'll scorsese's films yes scorsese's film. Hugo is about george malays and his origins and he realized it's typical of magicians. He just saw this film medium as a way to do his magic act. Better you know you can do all these tricks. You could shoot him walking onstage. Then stop the camera. Move someone off. Start the camera and they would appear to disappear in the film right exactly so all these. There's a huge huge history film of affects
The BreakPoint Podcast
WAP and "Cuties"
"Americans remain a morally serious people at least in our quickness to condemn each other's Hitler's for various misdeeds we are clearly not as concerned with moral consistency. For example, we demand that churches close to stop the spread of Covid Not Walmart's bars or casinos. We protest police violence with acts of violence we celebrate. Hugh. Hefner. Has Some great liberator of women and just weeks after his death condemned Harvey Weinstein we say character counts but only when it's in office not hours and then last week after three plus years of the Hashtag to. Movement has protested the objectification and abuse of women the most objectify Song in history one that reduces women's nothing more than their private parts hit number one on the charts now couldn't possibly share the lyrics of this song any of them and please don't look them up essentially to women rapper. She performed the song repeatedly call themselves prostitutes though not using that word and bag men to treat them as such by any definition legal or otherwise America's most popular song right now and the video that accompanies it can only be called pornography and it's Available everywhere to anyone of any age. Also last week Netflix announced a new film to be carried on its platform called cuties. It's a French film about an eleven year old Muslim girl who liberates herself from the oppressive morality of her family into religion by joining an all girl dance crew, the image Netflix's used to advertise the film on social media featured a group of preteen girls and sexually suggestive poses. The trailer featured this dance crew of young girls working among other sexually suggestive dance moves back in nineteen sixty, four Supreme Court justice. Potter Stewart's famously said that though he could not give a precise definition of pornography quote I know when I see it well, thankfully, the public outcry to the movie poster was loud enough, consistent, enough, and incredulous enough that what the public saw was clearly child pornography response Netflix's apologized and pulled the ad. But so far I've decided not to pull the movie itself as one facebook mean put it. If conspiracy theorists needed AMMO that government and media elites are behind some international pedophile ring net flicks just gave it to them as morally monstrous is. Both of these cultural artifacts are they do reveal a great deal about the society that could produce them one that considers self determination self actualization and absolute freedom from any restraint as among the highest human goods such a view emerges only when you reject the idea that the universe is created an ordered for some predetermined purposes intern such a society embraces a profoundly tragic misunderstanding, not only about what's right and wrong but of what it means to be humid of what freedom truly is often teach this important truth using an analogy with my. Students imagine that I'm an airplane pilot and feeling quite free one day I decided I don't WanNa, fly my plan I want to drive my plane. So I go to the end of the runway and I turn left who's GonNa stop me I'm a seven forty seven I'm cruising down the road and then I decide I want to see pike's peak. So I start up the curvy winding mountain drive and, of course, get stuck he see my expression of freedom actually could limit my freedom if I want to see pike's peak in a plane I shouldn't drive it there. I, should fly it because a plane is most free not when I drive it but when I fly why? Because that's what it was designed for the same is true of human sexuality. We're not most free when we do whatever we want, we're free when we are who God created us to be a view of freedom that denies accountability or consequences will only always enslave us to our own passions. This is what Paul wrote in Romans six. Do you not know that if you yield yourself to anyone as Obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey either of Sen which leads to death or of Obedience, which leads to righteousness. See the very beginning the sexual revolution promised the wrong kind of freedom what it delivered instead by reimagining not only morality but we fundamentally ours human beings was only slavery in fact women and children are disproportionately the victims of these bad ideas are to most recent cultural artifacts just retail those same lies and it's no accident that one is aimed at women and the other children
Colleen and Bradley
Hugh Hefner's son Cooper, 'Harry Potter' actress Scarlett Byrne welcome baby girl
"You have nurse son Cooper and Harry Potter star Scarlett Burn. Welcome to daughter Betsy. Rose. Isn't this interesting? Oh, yeah. You don't hear that much about this, son, But this is one of Hugh have nurse Children, and it's a darling little baby. I mean, how wonderful Cooper is 28. His wife is 29. Then they revealed their baby news in March, And now they've got a new little one kids. Did you have your hats? And I was wondering, I'm trying to figure that out. Think he had four or three because he had the older Children with his first wife and Christie Hefner was involved in Playboy. And then he had the two kids with his wife, Kimberly, You're right. Yeah, and so is their total. Eso. Cooper is the oldest of the second set and he's interesting because we've read blind items about Cooper that he has political ambition. So he left Playboy enterprises and joined the Air Force. Wow. Kick that off. Because in that picture that they released today of Mom, Dad and being a U s Air Force shirt? Yeah s o. We have to keep an eye out on Cooper
Your Brain on Facts
Bored? Games!
"A lot of playing board games these days and that's pretty fitting human making board games for a long time like a long longtime seven thousand years or more for a bit of historical context. We stopped hunter-gathering and settled down to be farmers about ten thousand years ago rather than try to cram seven thousand years in six occupied continents worth of history into a half hour podcast. I'll hit some of the high points. Especially the less well-known once the earliest gaming pieces ever found are forty nine. Small carved painted stones found a five thousand year old burial mound in southeast Turkey. Similar pieces have been found in Syria and Iraq and seemed to point devoid games originating in the Fertile Crescent. You remember the Fertile Crescent from the first week of world history class. It's the same region discovered alcohol invented papyrus and made calendars all of which you need. If you're hosting game night other early dice games were created by painting a single side of a flat. Stick these sticks would be tossed at once and that would be your role Mesopotamia. Dice were made from a variety of materials including carved knuckle bones would painted stones and turtle shells. No wonder folks used to say roll them bones dice from the Roman era. Looks like the six sided die. We use today though. Some of them had their corners. Cut off to be able to reach a higher number not unlike dungeons and dragons dice. Imagine excavating a distant Roman out host and finding a D twenty serious cricket board games became popular among the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. And that shouldn't surprise. That board games were a bigger part of life for upper class people since they have both money for entertainment and time to play. Even before the first dynasty Egypt loved a game called Senate. It's even seen on. The walls of tombs and copies of the game are buried with noble people. Ancient Egyptians were strong believers in the concept of fate. And that your luck in the game of Senate meant that you were under the protection of the major gods of the Pantheon raw toe to toe Cyrus. The significance of the game is clear. The game play not as clear. Historians have made educated guesses as to the rules more on that later and Board Game. Companies have used those guesses as a jumping off place to make modern versions. Four Games also became tied into religious beliefs. One such game was Mahan played around three thousand. B C e Mahan was a protective God depicted as a snake with coils around the Sun God raw during his journey through the night the game and the God became intertwined. Tim Kendall and ancient Egyptian historian believes that it's not possible to know for sure with the information we have available whether the game was inspired by an existing deity or the Deity was inspired by the game. Many people think backgammon is the longest plate of all the board games with evidence that it existed around two thousand B C but there is an extant game. That is a little bit older. Relatively speaking the royal game of for the game gets its name from being found in the royal tombs of in Iraq. There was also a set found in Pharaoh. Tutankhamun tune the game. Play is simple but very familiar. You're trying to get all of your pieces around the board first thumping off your opponent's pieces along the way again. Proving there's nothing new under the Sun. The royal game of herb was played with four sided or tetrahedral dice. A D Four for the tabletop games out there. Even though the game's over four thousand years old amazingly we found a copy of the rules Irving Finkel the British museum deciphered cuneiform tablet and discovered. It was the rules for the Royal Game of Earth. He then saw a photograph of a nearly identical board game being played in modern India. That makes the Royal Game of Earth. The longest played game in history and there is a great video of Irving Finkel. Who has ever so pleasantly mad teaching youtuber or Tom Scott how to play Lincoln the show notes and a little clip right here. Because I just couldn't help myself. All sorts of evidence has come to live so that we know how this game was played and we can play it now with a great deal of excitement. Sometimes it brings out violence. Come Times it brings out savagery. I have to say that this so we've decided to bring in a member of the public. I can't remember the name on Tom. Scott I make videos about science technology in the world. Who's never paid this game before? I have never played this game before. I'm Gandhi swift overview of the walls. Hope he masses and I'm getting to play of course play gently at first because I don't say hi to hang I'm to wipe the floor with it wouldn't do it for me even discovered these rules and I'll throw in his mind. Game listing whitlow. Marta is similar to that question of modern. There were some minor differences s today. Each player has fifteen checkers and uses six sided dice to be the first to bear off. All of one's checkers. I confess that I am reading that. From a website verbatim. I know less about that. Yemen do cricket. Backgammon had a renewed surge of popularity in the nineteen sixties which is held longtime for a comeback. Thanks in part to the charisma of Prince Alexis. Obolensky the father of modern backgammon cigarette liquor and car. Companies began to sponsor tournaments and Hugh Hefner held backgammon parties at the Playboy Mansion. At the same time that the Romans were playing Latin backgammon. The Chinese were play. We she or you may have heard of it. Go Que- she may even predate the game of twelve markings and the royal game of Earth. According to legend which has a pesky habit of morphing into history quay g was created by the ancient Chinese. Emperor Yell to teach his son on Ju discipline. Concentration and balance the popularity of wage e grew throughout Eastern Asia especially in Japan. Which is where the name go comes from another ancient game which is still out there and a favourite of nearly every household in my family is the African game of Mangala in our modern parlance. Munkala refers to a specific game. But the name actually belongs to an entire genre of games a genre eight hundred traditional games strong. This family of Board Games is played around. The world is referred to as Sewing Games S. O. W. I N. G. Devotes the way that you pick up and drop the stones playing pieces like you were sowing seeds in the ground. The word Mukalla comes from the Arabic Nicola to move most one college games share a common structure where each player has gained pieces in divots on the board and moves them to capture their opponent's pieces leading them to also be called count and capture games. The boards can be wooden clay even just little holes in the dirt playing pieces of everything from seeds. Stones shells anything near at hand that fits in the holes. The earliest evidence of the game are fragments of pottery. Board found in Eritrea dated to the sixth century CE. Though if the games were played with seeds on wooden boards or pebbles in divots in the dirt the game could be even older. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence after all that particular logical fallacy is called argument from ignorance at ignorant him. And it's not a good look now. We go to the land of ice and snow of the Midnight Sun. Where the hot springs flow Scandinavians played chess. Like game called. Nevin tough at least as early as four hundred see. I'm sure my clever listeners haven't forgotten that. Viking refers to the raids undertaken by a small portion of the population themselves called Viking US meaning kings table noth- Atoll was a war strategy game. The kings objective was to escape to the edge of the board while the opponents laurel objective was to capture him. The attacking force had the natural advantage at the start of each game. Perhaps mimicking a cultural mindset of a small group being victorious against a larger force like say a few boats full of Viking attacks against the army of an English King Scandinavians spread the game to Ireland Britain and Wales through. Let's call it. Unexpected cultural exchange archaeologists have also discovered that it was popular as far to the east as Ukraine.
BrainStuff
What Else Did Shel Silverstein Write?
"Decades ago in the evenings around closing time a man with a very bald head and a very dark beard used to come sloping into the mysterious bookshop in New York City. His shoulders hunched is the warding off a perpetual cold wind. The proprietor auto pens ler had come to expect these visits indeed. He looked forward to them. He would close up the shop and guide the man back to his. Inner Sanctum. A book lined study with floor-to-ceiling shelves there the bearded man would deliver a Sheaf of papers containing a new freshly penned mystery story to be added to the theology. That Pencil publishing the writer refused to take any money for his efforts. Even though pens lawyer was paying well. He craved compensation. His eyes gleamed as pennsly- slid his payment across the desk between them. It was a stack of used books containing dozens of stories written in the mystery genre later that night he would devour them one by one but first pens lawyer and the bearded man would talk and talk. They talked about books about life. Auto pens layer was just recovering from a devastating break-up and so they spoke about battling in a recent phone interview for this article. Pennsly- remembered that at a certain juncture. His guests said something so piercingly insightful and eloquent about the break up that it took his breath away Henseler said I wish I could remember what he said but I failed to write it down what I do remember. Is that when I expressed my amazement at his facility with words he just shrugged and said I guess that's why they call me a poet. He could've added among many other things because our bald and bearded man was Shel Silverstein a true renaissance man. Of course many of us know him as the author and illustrator of the giving tree a light in the attic and where the sidewalk ends among many of the other wildly successful books that he wrote Andrew for children. That's only the tip of the proverbial Iceberg Silverstein also drew cartoons and wrote plays for adults and penned numerous songs especially country songs. In fact he won. Two grammys for song. Writing one of them for the Johnny Cash. Hit A boy named Sue Sheldon Allen. Shel Silverstein was born into a Jewish family in Chicago in nineteen thirty his father and a bakery which only began to thrive in the wake of the Great Depression. After high school. Shell spent some time studying at the Art Institute of Chicago and later Roosevelt University but was drafted into the US army serving in Korea and Japan. Silverstein began working for the military periodical. Stars and Stripes and it was there that he began regularly publishing his idiosyncratic cartoons after his military service Silverstein got a job as a cartoonist. For the fledgling magazine. Playboy for his playboy gig. He traveled the world sending cartoon dispatches from Bahrein wide in nineteen sixty three Silverstein. Met Book Editor Ursula Nordstrom. Who prodded him into writing books for Children? And that same year he wrote the giving tree a book about the nature of Altruism and selfishness there would become his most famous and popular work his sense of the absurd and the whimsical cartoon line drawings that illustrated this and all of his books would become his hallmarks in deceptively simple language. His exploration of the innocence and imagination of childhood made him one of the most celebrated and widely read authors for generations of children and adults like Auto Penn's lair recall Silverstein telling him that he spent a year living at the playboy mansion as a guest of Hugh Hefner. It was there that he met Susan Hastings with whom he had daughter named Shoshana in nineteen seventy tragically. Susan died in nineteen seventy five and two. Shana passed away. Unexpectedly after cerebral aneurysm. In one thousand nine hundred two by many accounts her death utterly devastated Silverstein in Nineteen eighty-four. He had a son named Matthew with Sarah Spencer. According to Pens Ler Silverstein was a deeply eccentric. Man Pennzoil told us for instance. It wasn't unusual for him to be having dinner in a restaurant with a group of friends and then suddenly announced that he was done. Get up take a taxi to the airport and flight of Chicago or Los Angeles or Florida or wherever he felt like going on the spur of the moment shel. Silverstein died of a heart attack in nineteen ninety nine at the age of just sixty eight but in story song and image. He left behind a remarkably prolific artistic record.
Legacy-Dads Podcast
Faith and Parenting in 2020: Intimacy and Marriage
"Wants US train up our children in his way of life you know impress on them. Your children talk to them as you sit at home when you walk along the road when you lie down when you get up we read this in Deuteronomy read this throughout Biblical truth one. One of the most important areas to talk to our kids about lance is sex. Sex is a way of expressing love between husband and wife. This is made plain in Paul's pissing Fijian's as we read and five husbands love. Your Wives Justice Christ also loved the Church and gave himself for her that he should that she should should be holy and without blemish so husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. For this reason it man shall leave his father and mother and joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh and in the Timothy. We read young leader of the Church. As Paul's talking to Timothy he says to Timothy Flea we also youthful lust instead pursue righteousness. Faith love peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart we find and that in the second Timothy and escaping thing that we read about you know we've been talking about born in the last couple of podcast half of the. US adults lands fifty percent agree. Strongly that quote choosing not only the have sex outside of marriage is healthy unquote but generational differences are significant. Embargoes out in say a six. Ten elders older generation fifty nine percent of them agree strongly with his statement. Compared to fifty three percent of baby boomers forty nine nine percent of Gen xers and forty. Three percent millennials that it doesn't necessarily have to be between you know a husband and the wife. And so. Who is we get into this you know lance hot? What say you on? Why is it? So important to differentiate with our kids the idea of sex intimacy in a godly basis versus. What cultures telling us you know? I think it's this one of those topics where we don't would. We don't always want to talk about it but honestly our children are going to learn They'RE GONNA learn from us. What sex what marriage? What intimacy looks like and and I think honestly our marriage starts as one of the biggest examples of that not not to toot my own horn or anything but you know my my wife life and I constantly get comments about us? You know from friends and things like that that we have this sense of love and intimacy that you don't see in a lot of marriages is and even our kids realize that That there is this sense of of love and intimacy between Me and my wife I'm I'm glad that we were able to model that To our children and I think as as parents really important part because Believe me if we don't come in and we don't teach model to our kids The the biblical purpose enroll of sex the cultures gonNA come in and tell them it's something else Known Donte you're talking about right now and we saw some of the statistics from last week's podcast and some of the stuff barnes doing but many in our culture right now they see sex. It's a fundamental human rights. And it's just a bodily function society's kind of devalued what it's what what is meant to be shared between one man and one woman and God's Holy Marriage Covenant Covenant and our our culture kind of teaches now that that sex is not a big deal as long as it's two consenting adults involved. We saw the research on that last week. Where people agreed to that that is as long as two consenting adults WANNA have sex whether they're married not married in a marriage not married whatever? Go ahead and do it And the The other Stark factor Dante in. We were talking about this. In Barnard's researchers actually comes from the book. Good faith and this really stood out to me that The the way that we've devalued sex is a culture and the easy access everyone has to pornography right now. It cheapens sex and takes away from the deep intimacy. God intended to to be shared between a husband and wife and what they talked about in the book and in some of the Barna Research. Is that the issue that this has and I know you know. I've seen a lot of younger. People can probably relate to this. They just don't realize cicadas but this casual approach to sex's creating negative relationship hurting side effects And instead of Intimacy and emotional depth depth. Sex Any way you want. It is leading leading to more anxiety more depression more loneliness and more insecurity and for some we see the sexes. No longer even worth the trouble. You've got people now who I can. Just I don't have to go after sex. I can stay home and use pornography or you know. There's this thing in its. I hate to get into this Dante. What is GonNa if you haven't heard of this coming up? There's a sink called hookups. Where young people say? I don't want I want my sexual needs met. I want I want. I want to be sexually gratified but I don't necessarily want the emotional baggage the The amount of time and effort to put into a a healthy relationship. So I'd rather just jump into bed with somebody for a one night. Stand get my sexual needs met and then I can move on with my life And this this you know when you couple couple this with the prevalence in the access to pornography on demand this is really. It's it's having a cost on relationships it's having a cost on intimacy and ultimately want someday in when we get married it's GonNa have a cost As as what we bring into the marriage One one of the start. You know things. I think that They pointed out in the barn. Research was an I don't I I can't verify this so you can call me on this but playboy magazine in the you know Hugh Hefner the guy that kind of started the whole pornography or naked women in magazines business stopped. They actually don't Publish that in their magazine anymore. Because they said There's such a high prevalence. Everybody has access to porn that they've stopped even publishing publishing that type of stuff. And all this you know not going on rabbit hole here. But all of this is because these cultural The cultural beliefs the way our culture is going. It's ultimately it has consequences in these consequences is being seen within the intimacy in once. Finally people are getting married. They're getting into what we would call a A godly marriage. They're bringing some of this baggage and some of this emotional damage from years of Of of not not being biblical might be moral into marriage and it's causing issues in the marriage. And that was one of the scariest things to me Dante. As we talk about giving into self I give into my sexual gratifications gratifications I given to. What's desirable pleasurable right now? There's going to be long term consequences for that. Does that make sense you. Yeah my wife and I do marriage mentoring at our church. We do marriage mentoring in relationships that we pour into and I you know honestly I can tell you. Personal experience is buying into into the lie of sex before marriage doing it my way versus God's way there there is a lot of psychological and also physical damage image. That are a result of that enemy from you know people that just did not want to wait for marriage to God help us. You know of of kids getting abused or or an incident that somebody had the rights taken away or they were molested or they were attacked. You know in college or something like that and these are things that you know we sit there and we cheapen cheapen wait and we wonder like you even suggest pornography like I don't even need to go into the statistics I mean you can go out there and you can look at the most you know. a cultural statistics and or or Biblical statistics. But you know whether you're looking at mainstream or whether you're looking at you know religious background the all of the studies affirm absolutely that you know pornography is a into intimacy destroyer and and so there's a I think even a mainstream movie that Scarlett Johansson is in an effort the gentleman but just the the facts of how bad pornography destroys intimacy and. That's you know we're sitting there saying we'll okay but where do you. Where do you stop in like for you? The Listener. Listen if you're sitting there saying well you know I'm in a loveless or a lack of physical relationship right now with marriage so pornography is my justification. You can't justify that as a Christian and the let alone if you're sitting there telling me that I don't have intimacy anymore my relationship but then you're sitting there telling Lanson that you're justifying pornography pornography. The reason you don't have intimacy in your relationship is because that graffiti has stolen intimacy from your relationship and to have these AH honest questions okay. So what we permit we promote what we promote we permit and trying to have the influence of the spirit of those around us now all of a sudden therefore sitting there saying that's okay to our kids got help us that we're doing that to our daughters. Were doing that to our sons. You know I can tell you one friend whose mom was. It was very liberal about these is still having relationship issues. And he's in his fifties right now of trust of intimacy and all that and it's just because of these things that we don't look about long term consequences to living our way versus God's way and so you know like you said Lance I got way off into a rabbit hole but pulling it back you know. There's a way that God wants to live to pursue intimacy to pursue sexual relations and that's in a covenant marriage between one man one woman and that's not only biblical but that is so true and so many ways
Fred and Angi
Cardi B Is a No-Show in Court, Faces Arrest If She Misses Next Hearing
"Magazine where she's a bunch of did Disney princesses. Which is hilarious. So there was an auction over the weekend of playboy founder Hugh Hefner's belongings. And there's a detail. I miss somebody paid twenty two thousand dollars plus for a very special ring of his it's a golden onyx ring that opened up it opens on the top to reveal a secret compartment, which is exactly the shape to hold a Viagra pill. So you open it and there's secret Viagra inside the race twenty two thousand dollars. Yeah. It's like Hughes version of a life alert bracelet. With that like. You could you can use it. But like, otherwise, what do you mean? You gotta have a lot of money spent twenty two thousand dollars on that. What the hell do you do with that? Where it, you know. No for when you need your Viagra. It's actually kind of a cool ring. Just keep mine on my pocket is just like right there. I don't need a ring. Lantana? And you know, you might forget it's in there and into the washing machine timers. Right. I don't care if wash my drugs again, and they're expensive too from what I understand. I've never messed with that stuff. We talked about it a couple of weeks ago because I said I wanted to drag my husband. Yeah. I've never. Fortunately, I'm not at that point yet. I you have some gray hair. But the point here from having a pop that so, but I I know people who've tried it. I've. I'm afraid I'd be that guy who had never went down like ever and for the rest of my life. I'd have to like. I'd have to go to the yard or I'd have to purchase kind of brace or something to like keep it down because it would never go down ever. Do you know if it lasted too long, you'd have to go to the? What are the on their like sorry, dude? Like, we can never go down. It's going to be like this forever. You'd have to walk around like this forever. And then I become the dude is pitching at ten twenty four seven like people think, I'm perverted. I'm like, no I recreationally took Viagra never went down. So they have to give you a shot in your Wang. If it doesn't go down. I've heard that Dr listing. What do you do how does that work? Eight five five five nine one one zero three five everyone else. Listen to Christmas music. Let's have a valuable conversation public service. What happens if you take Viagra and it lasts then? And and the soldier never retreats. You know, he just continues to stand at attention. What is it true that you have to like drain it or there's an injection involved? This is all your floods. Rush. Matter is someday, I'm going to need it. So I'm not screwing with it. Until that time. We're we're talking wait until we're way away from that time. Fortunately, but someday, I'm going to need it. And I'm not messing around till it. It's essential. I'm just not people do for fun. Fun to me this summer. We're back to find out. What happened? He works on women to do. You take it. Hopefully, nothing stays up. You know? I hope not. So if you wanna do it, then you're doing. All right. More to check it online. You could see that ring, by the way. It's kind of a cool looking rain that's up there. Yeah. I think so. And you could also see Lindsay Lohan as the DNC Disney princesses and the preview for her club show. It's all at dot com. I know offense. We have a nursing student. We have an EMT, I'm we'll take both of them. But I know we have like OB gyns listen to us and stuff like that. I really liked to talk to. But that's fine. Let's see what we got nursing students. Good. Hi nursing student. Nikki, how are you? I so what happens if if one is to take the pill after using Hugh Hefner's twenty two thousand dollars Viagra ring. And then it doesn't go down. What happens? So it's almost like a shot, but there is a needle drain the blood out of your. So you put the needle in the johnke. All right, Nikki, I gotta go. Thank you. Side and the whole. Dr Tim, Tim. Doing. Well. How are you? Dr tim. Thank you so much. He's an ER physician. No sense a nursing student. That's lovely and thank you for going to nursing school. This is great. But we had Dr Tim now. And so Dr Tim is she right? If the if first of all, why does that happen? If one is to take the pill, and it does not retreat. Why not? The wait a medication works is. It makes the blood vessels expand and get real like open. Goes in. But it doesn't come out and is seen this. Oh, yeah. Lots of times. Okay. So the blood vessel. Okay. So so you seen this as in your physician? And so then what do you do when person comes in and says, it's we'll go down. Nice back on it. You tell me think about you know, boring thing. Are you serious right now in icepack numb? Yeah. Okay. Work which by about half, the time doesn't work again. Having to do you large needles? Jesus who? Okay. What happened? And you take some medication designed to reverse biogra-. And from either side of the Panthers. Stop. Oh my gosh. Antidote. Okay. So what kind of how many of these cases? Do you see Dr? Common. So I've been practicing now for my ten years and I've seen from about fifteen or twenty. So when it comes in with that issue is he in pain or is he just like this on? Titles. That usually brings him in. Why would it hurts? Why would it because it doesn't hurt when you have it for, you know, the time that you need it for the time that you're using it? So why would it hurt later? You know, what I'm saying would always much blood for too long in one place exactly block going in. But it's back coming out. He's still got all the blood keep going in towards just filled in pressure and pressure in front. The needle is probably secondary all the Neal between injecting the medication and then truthfully pulling some of the blind out. On. Are the guys like just screaming believable? Yeah. Usually, they are known ROY. The needles darn they're usually very appreciative. Because. Dame there in from the prolong your accent was preemptive. That is orders of magnitude worse than what I'm gonna do. I'm sure how
Donna and Steve
The Sugarbakers Might Live On: ABC Is Developing a Designing Women ‘Sequel’
"Designing women just took a big step closer to its TV return twenty-five years, wrapping it's seventies and run on ABC. It looks like it has handed out a script commitment on. What is being billed as a sequel to the CBS comedy? The new designing women will follow the next generation of sugarbakers with a crop of new young female designers at an Atlanta interior design for the project, which has been in the works for several months of ABC looks like it comes from the same studio that produced the original and Sony Pictures television and sources say original cast member full occasionally, stop by and to take on new roles in the series. I think it's fun. It's interesting what these reboots it's up for grabs after they figure out if they're owned by a specific network in any capacity, then it's up for grabs and it gets the Land Rover land so ABC is the tone, correct. ABC's the home now. Original health. Wonderful Walker five eyewitness news the best channel if I
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Sexual Harassment Has Always Been a Part of Hollywood
"Look, for as long as Hollywood has existed, the casting couch has been around. It's so familiar, it's become hackneyed. Over the years, film big shots like David O. Selznick, Alfred Hitchcock, they've all been accused of sexually assaulting young actresses, but only in the last decade, I guess because fearing industry reprisals, actresses have begun to speak out, like Charlize Theron, Andy Newton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Helen Mirren, Zoe Kazan, and others, they came out and shared their stories of sexual harassment on the set or during productions or during auditions. Charlize said at one point that she thought it was a little odd one night when she went to go on an audition on a Saturday night at a director's house in LA, but, you know, she thought maybe that was normal. So she goes, she told us to okay magazine in 2009. And the guy comes out, she won't say who it is, but he's wearing Hugh Hefner type pajamas, and she goes inside and he offers her a drink, and I'm thinking, my God, this acting thing is really relaxed. I mean, that chicks this blind because then it becomes very clear that guy wants to bang her and Charlie says no, not gonna happen, got the wrong girl, buddy, and she beats it out of there. So I have a lot of respect for her good for her. I respect her bravery and fuck the guy for trying some shady shit like that, but there's a lot of hypocrisy here in Hollywood, man. That really makes you wonder, who's feeling what? A few years ago, more than a 130 Hollywood heavyweights signed an online petition demanding that the decades old statutory rape conviction against Roman Polanski be overturned and two of the signers were Woody Allen and Harvey Weinstein. And by the way, it's also important to know that since that initial rate, there were three more tagged on to old Roman plants. So he's done his share of illicit stuff in and out of Hollywood. So there clearly are going to be people in this town who don't think that Harvey allegedly did anything wrong. Whether they speak up in his favor, that remains a mystery. What is an industry is that reporters are going to keep digging. And they're the ones who are going to keep talking to actresses who don't want to talk. And that shows you right there that fame is a
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
AJ Talks Cameras, Privacy and Hefner Relationship Advice
"I remember walking into the mansion one night, and I see this poster, this sign. I think it was 2005, but basically the sign was a warning, letting everybody know you're going to be filmed once you walk past this gate. And I'm thinking, that's fucked up. Why would anybody want their actions or their image at the Playboy mansion to be displayed anywhere? It was the moment when it became apparent to me. And crystal clear that you have there wasn't the only person making decisions of the mansion. Because I just sat down with him several years earlier when I needed his insight about a relationship I had with a girl that was going bad. And I went to the mansion and sat down, had a nice lunch with a guy, was 1996, and I laid out my problems. And I said this girl wants to get serious. And I was telling him my career is just starting to take off. I can't do that. Because of what I do, I can not settle down. And I honestly sought advice from him because sale you want about the guy, but there's nobody on earth who knows more about women than hef. And he was very calm, very enlightening. And he didn't blow me away with his intellect. He just basically told me, look, you can't settle down, but you can't let that girl think for a second that you maybe want to settle down. He told me it was time for complete honesty. And if she really loved me, she'd understand and respect what I said. Of course, when I told her that we should take a break, she didn't quite take it the way he anticipated. She punched me in the jaw and locked herself in the closet with a bottle of pills. But I got her out of there. And it kind of worked out. Just like have set. But what also happened at lunch that day was me looking around the grounds at the mansion and just shooting the shit with the guy about the greatest stories in the world of what those parties must have been like in the 70s and 80s. And when he told me some tales, a lot of which included James Caan naked in the grotto, he always made it a point to mention how important privacy was to the people who came there. At one point, he said privacy is a great tonic and truth serum. I love that line, privacy is a great tonic and truth
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
How Playboy Took Teenage AJ From Ape to Artist
"But in the mid to late 70s, come on, I was turned on and jerking off to just about anything that was naughty and it came before my eyes. Which listen, when you're in your teens, it could be anything. Even a younger aunt who's chick falls out of her bikini, boom, you're up in your bedroom with the door shut. Or my next door neighbor went overnight from abroad to a beat cup overnight. Boom. Back upstairs in the bedroom. And I remember my real Chernobyl wasn't even a picture of a nude chicken Playboy. It was the comic strip in the back of the magazine called little Annie fanny, which is insane. It was a cartoon strip. And then my sister got married and she and my new brother in law, they lived in our House. But I found a Playboy that was printing letters to the editor where you have to use your imagination. And holy fuck, truckers who picked up hitchhikers, babysitters, screwing the horny dad, stuff like that. But I found that I could suddenly get turned on more from words and a visual that I made up in my mind than an actual picture of a naked chick. And that's a step above caveman. But as I got older, and I mean weeks at a time older, I started to look at center falls in layouts and decide what girl was my type and exactly why she turned me on. And this is an important boot camp for boys. It begins to get our minds straight. This is when Playboy is the most important textbook in your life and hefner is the best teacher you love a have. Suddenly, because hef is offering us a smorgasbord, a beautiful women, we learn to discern and be particular. So he helps us go from knuckle dragging truck off to young men with respect for a certain type of women. That's a huge step in adolescence. I don't know what the equivalent is for young girls, maybe Cosmo, but I doubt Helen Gurley Brown did a fucking 8th of what you have
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Hugh Hefner's Aging Is the End of a Beautiful Era
"I've lived a nomadic lifestyle since my divorce in 1991. Over the last 25 years, I've lived in like ten different houses or apartments. As a result, with all those moves, I've lost I've lost a lot of great personal effects to mark a lot of memories along the way. Some got stolen from movers with sticky fingers, a lot got destroyed when the stripper who lived above me in Hollywood had a leaky bathtub and gallons of water rained down inside my closet and destroyed a lot of stuff. But some of those memories are buried in a box somewhere in my backyard shed. And the one box I'm dying to find is a great has a great big stuffed envelope inside that contains about 50 beautiful invites to the Playboy mansion parties. Anybody who's received these in the mail can tell you they are meticulously done. And they're all beautiful art pieces on their own. And I've always thought about making a giant frame with all those in fights inside one day because sadly an invite to a party at the Playboy mansion is a thing of the past. As are the memories that come from a night spent there amid the beautiful grounds, the gorgeous pool, the myriad of zoo animals surrounded by your favorite celebrities and the most ball aching beautiful girls you've ever seen. I mean, where else can you hang out with Jack Nicholson or play pinball with Leonardo DiCaprio? And then have a peacock watch you bang miss November behind the monkey cage. The answer is both nowhere and not anywhere ever again. Because sadly, you have to can't live forever. In fact, at 91 years old, it's kind of common knowledge that is health is pretty much failing. What's not common knowledge is that he's been pulled away from the day to today operations at the mansion. And where it has it, he no longer shall we say is allowed to take every phone call or receive personal visits from some friends. And there are people close to the situation that charring crossroad and holmby hills that are almost calling it a case of elder abuse. And while I can't unequivocally say that is the case, I can say that it's a special kind of crime when the man who was so responsible for allowing a generation to feel and express love can no longer be the recipient of both love and admiration when he most