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What kind of men do women want? To find the answer, we tell the story of how a young man was faced with the very real possibility of losing his new girlfriend to an international ladies’ man…and what he did to win her over.
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The series was originally broadcast on August eighth, twenty twenty.
The laws of attraction seem to be changing. If you
turn on a TV show or watch a commercial, the
image of what attracts a woman to a man appears
to have drastically altered.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I can't believe I'm frenching in the closet.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I feel like a teenager.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You are extremely handsome. I never noticed before that.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It is exhausting trying to be man enough for everyone
all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's an ad from Gillette, just out not selling razors,
but talking about what is now called toxic masculinity. Hollywood
in the advertising industry want us to believe that women
like girly men. Is that true? And if not, what
kind of men do women want?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm Patrick Carrelci and I'm Adriana Cortes.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And this is Red Pilled America a storytelling show.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We're all about telling stories.
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Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
The media mocks stories about everyday Americans at the globalist ignore.
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You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. You don't have to be very old
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to recognize that Hollywood's image of the ideal man has
drastically changed over the years. Men were once portrayed as
well men doing manly things, and women love them for it.
Go ahead, make my day. But today Hollywood in the
advertising industry's betrayal of the ideal man seem almost unrecognizable.
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For me and for many American men. Makeup is kind
of uncharted territory, but that may be changing. If we're
to believe our TV screens. Male feminists are the new
heart throbs? Is that true? And if not, what kind
of men do women want To find the answer, We're
going to tell the story of how a young man
was faced with the very real possibility of losing his
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new girlfriend to an international ladies man, and what he
did to winner over. Thinking about it now, it's all
a bit of a blur. Something was triggered in me
that never happened before that moment and hasn't happened since.
And if I had to describe it today, there really
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is no other way to put it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I snapped, I've known you forever, and I was so scared.
I was in the shock of my life, like I've
never seen that side of you, and you were so mad.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
What I did surprised even my oldest friends, but they
really shouldn't have been shocked. I've been displaying a series
of unprecedented behavior the moment a very unique lady walked
into my life. It all started for me on Halloween
nineteen ninety one. I just entered my fourth year at
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cal State University Long Beach with a pretty intense major
mechanical engineering, so my heavy course load typically kept me
away from my close childhood friends during the school year,
but on this night in particular, I was making an
exception because we were all going out to Los Angeles
for a Halloween party at our friend Dina's house. Dina
was a talented singer and dancer originally from West Covina, California,
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a suburb about twenty miles east of downtown Los Angeles,
but by nineteen ninety one she'd moved to the heart
of Lalla Land to pursue a career in acting. Dina
already had tons of success in the business and was
well connected in the scene there. Our crew of friends
had known her since high school. We were a group
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of style obsessed dancers, and we'd met Dina at a
place called Studio K, a popular dance club at the
notts Berry Farm theme park. Dina had become kind of
an honorary girl member of our crew, and I'd become
friends with her because she was on again and off
again dating my best friend Mark. Since at least nineteen
eighty seven, we've been traveling out to her hometown of
West Covina to hang with her and her crew of girlfriends.
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I became buddies with several of them, including one of
Dina's longtime friends Lisa, someone I'm close friends with to
this day. Lisa was and is the funniest woman I've
ever met. To us, West Covina was considered the mecca
of hot girls. For some reason. They just made them
a cut above in Westcoat. We recognized them as the
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eight one eight nine one nine Ladies because most of
their phone numbers started with that six number combination. Even
though their hood was a bit of a trek, a
good forty minute drive from us, when the opportunity came
to hang out in the debc, as locals affectionately called it,
we didn't hesitate. So when Dina told us she was
having a Halloween party, it wasn't even a question. We
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were going at the time. In nineteen ninety one, I
literally had three jobs while taking a full load in college.
I worked as a liquor store clerk. I was a
college physics teachers aid grading homework and exams, and of
all places, I worked at a prison closed distribution center.
The job was just as it sounded. We distributed prison
clothes to various incarceration facilities. So when Dina's Halloween party
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came along, my third job was a perfect fit for
the times. My friends and I were still obsessed with
style and looking cool, and Halloween was one of those
holidays that cramped up our style with the requirement of
dressing up goofily. But as luck would have it, gangster
rap was still a big thing on the West Coast,
so I decided to wear some of the prison clothes
from my job to both comply with the spirit of
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the event while retaining my cool factor. I mean. We
arrived at the Halloween party with the appropriate amount of tardiness,
and like all of Dina's shindig's, it was off the chains,
with a mixture of actor up and comers, artists, hipsters,
and the general beautiful people of Hollywood. But little did
I know that the most stunning of God's specimens still
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hadn't arrived. As I stood outside of Dina's house with
a few friends, a young lady walked up with my
old West Covina friend Lisa, and this unnamed young lady
was dressed as a genie. Now we've all heard the
cliche phrase it was love at first sight, but in
my case, cliche was reality. I'd never felt the way
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I felt when I placed my eyes on this gorgeous creature.
She immediately had me, and it was at that moment
of first sight that I did something that I'd never
done before nor since I gave her a cat call.
I'm still convinced that one of the filmmakers involved in
the movie Friday must have been within an earshot of me,
because the words that came out of my mouth as
she passed were later uttered by Chris Tucker's character Smokey.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Be He said, gimm.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And I liked it. That's, of course Adriana the recipient
of my cat call.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well, Dina was one of my best friends. I grew
up with Dina. Dina was a very successful child actress.
She was an incredible singer. She is an incredible singer,
and so she was regularly going into La and too
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basically in the scene in LA. And that's how she
actually met Patrick's group of friends.
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Speaker 2 (09:29):
Welcome back to red pilled America. Before I met Patrick,
I actually knew of Patrick because my group of friends
in West Coviina they were friends with his group of
friends in torrent And I actually knew a bunch of
his friends. I had just never met Patrick himself.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Apparently, for Adriana, the electricity was mutual.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
When I first laid eyes on Patrick, I thought he
was a babe, so so cute. He was dressed like
a prisoner because it was Halloween, but he definitely didn't
look hard to He didn't look thuggish ruggish. He looked
like a clean cut guy that was dressed up as
a jailbird for Halloween. But I think I also had
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a preconceived notion of him because I knew about him.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
As the night progressed, I could not take my eyes
off this goddess they called aj I'd never experienced anything
like it. My mo for attracting a girl's attention was
often to casually play the ignoring game, waiting for them
to come to me. But I couldn't do that with
this one. Everything was telling me to go for it.
So when she started walking in my direction in the
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living room. I did this second thing that I'd never
done before and haven't done since. When she passed by,
I stopped her in her tracks and sat her on
my lap. I wanted to make it perfectly clear that
I had a thing for her. She laughed, obviously getting
a kick out of it, but at night's end I
failed to ask her for her number. A full seven
months would go by before I'd see her again.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The same friend who had had the Halloween party where
we initial he met had a barbecue in the summer
and Patrick was there, and I knew that he was
going to be there, so before we went to the party,
we stopped on Melrose, which at the time was like
a coup shopping area, and I bought a new pair
of shoes because I wanted to look extra cute because
I knew he was going to be there and I
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wanted him to think that I was cute. And when
we got to the party, I sat down at a
table and one of Patrick's friends immediately moved in on me.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
It was one of my best friends, Eric, who knew
I went to the party specifically to see aj.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Eric was, you know, chatting me up, and he was
definitely flirting with me.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Eric and I had a healthy rivalry when it came
to talking to girls, and in normal situations I would
have let him do his thing. But when I saw
Eric sit down next to AJ, I decided I was
going to take him out with a kill shot.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And then Patrick comes over and he grabs a chair
and he sits in between us, and he looks over
at Eric and he says, so, Eric, how are the
wedding plans coming?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Eric was scheduled to be married in a few months,
and he was using waiting time as a bachelor to
give me a hard time.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And I said, oh, you're getting married, You're engaged. And
then Eric said something like oh shit, and then he left,
and then Patrick swooped writing the bucket said flight.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Adrianna and I talked the entire party, and this time
I wasn't letting seven months go by without seeing her,
so I asked her for a.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Number and I wrote it down with an orange highlighter.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I called her when I got home and we spoke
for hours. We had that kind of conversation where you
felt instantly in love. At least that's how I felt.
I asked to take her out on a date. She
said yes, and a few days later we went to
see Sister Act, a Whoopi Goldberg comedy that had just
been released. That night did it for me. I had
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never felt like that before. Sure, I'd had girlfriends in
the past, a few for a couple of years, but
this felt different. I was in love and it became
clear to me why we use the word chemistry when
describing relationships, because she seemed to affect me on a
chemical level. As the months progressed, I wanted aj to
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get to know my group of friends better, and more importantly,
my sister Denise, someone that I loved dearly. And as
chance would have it, there was a great opportunity to
get everyone together. A band was coming to perform in
our little neck of the woods.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I'm gonna kick a little verse, some little hip hop,
and forget where it started. The claiming a white complexion
ate the reason why the records shot a police when
it's so easy to see when a white dude wraps,
the public sees it as a novelty.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The hip hop group called Marky Mark and the Funky
Bunch had just blown up, and their frontman Mark Wahlberg
had become an international sensation. Wahlberg was originally in his
brother's band, but would eventually drop out. He got into
some trouble, went to jail for assault, and while he
was serving his time, his brother, Donnie Wahlberg's group, New
Kids on the Block went on to superstardom. His brother's
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success inspired him, so Mark Wahlberg decided to clean up
his act.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
You know, I grew up in the street.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
You know what I mean. I know what it's like
to be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
He began lifting weights and created the stage name Marky Mark.
His brother Donnie helped him produce a hip hop album,
and one of the songs, Good Vibrations, skyrocketed up the pop.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Charts, Blasting from the streets of Boston. Marky Mark and
his Funky Bunch are hip hop musicians with a message.
It's a street sound with a message of hope.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
During one of his performances of the hit song, Wahlberg
did something that would change the course of his life.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
The young rapper needed something to set himself apart from
the crowd.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
How do you do that?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
By dropping his drawers?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I just pulled him down and I just saw like
fifty million camera glasses. I was like, damn it. Everybody
was cracking up.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So I just started running around the stage and my
brother was like on the ground laughing.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Speaking the trend.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
From then on, he sagged his pants well below his waistline,
showing his underwear. The saggy pants look had already become
popular in the urban areas as early as nineteen eighty eight.
An underwear maker, Calvin Klein, had noticed the trend and
was looking for an opportunity to capitalize on it. So
when MARKI Mark made sagging jeans his staple look, just
as his song was blowing up, Calvin Klein came calling,
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featuring him in advertisements with international supermodel Kate Moss.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
South goes out to my man, Calvin Klein could looking
out for the drawers, not saying I would do another
Fruit of the Loon commercial or nothing like that, because
they don't make the hype shorts.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
These are the nineties, man. They just fit good and
they hold me snug.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So Marky Mark's now signature look was quickly being compared
to another global icon.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Walker's had two legendary undergarments, Verdona's buffier and the pants
of the man sitting next to me, Mark him up
and his Calvin.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Klein, already a favorite of the American ladies, Walburg's population
grew with females all across the globe, and he wasn't
shy about it.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Let me get back to what he was talking. There's
the sexuality to sell.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Their music a lot more than that.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
No, really, well, we'll do the same thing right down't you?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Girls?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
How many girls do you see strip off into the underwear?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, how many guys do you see getting a chance
to have sex with a lot of women?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
He was confident, even cocky, and the ladies couldn't seem
to get enough of him. And with the advertisements being
displayed all across the world, Marky Mark was now an
international star. So when I caught word that him and
his funky bunch were coming to a relatively small venue
called the Strand in our sleepy suburban area, I was surprised.
His group was a bit too mainstream for my taste.
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My friends and I were what you'd call obscurists, more
into hip hop groups with names like De La Soul, Brand,
Nubian Umcs, and Foo Snickens. The kinds of artists that
were big in the underground scene, but never really reached
pop status. Less. I thought his band performing in our
neighborhood was a good opportunity to invite AJ and my
hilarious old West Covina buddy Lisa, who just so happened
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to be AJ's best friend, to join my sister Denise
and the rest of our posse to the concert. Denise
remembers the build up to the event as well.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I just remember the one song, It's just a good vibration,
just that song. That's the only song. But he was
a pretty big name for such a close venue for us,
and I think that was like, really, you know some
I remember us being like, what Marky Mark is going
to be at the strand like right here in the
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South Bay. So I just remember that we were all
excited about that.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Is AJ going to be happy? I remember thinking as
I pulled the trigger on buying the tickets.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch were definitely not cool
in the circles that we ran in, and so when
Patrick said that he had tickets to Marky Mark and
the Funky Bunch, I thought it was strange and I
asked Lisa. She thought I should break up with him,
but you know, all his friends were gonna go. Oh,
and I think that it was going to be a
fun night, and his sister was going to go and
I knew how close him and his sister were, and
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actually they still are, and so I wanted to hang
out with his sister so that, you.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Know, she would like me.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I wanted her to like me.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Lisa remembers it a bit differently.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
We were excited and he was cute as hell too.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Everyone met at my mom's house, where my sister and
I lived at the time. Adriana came down with Lisa.
Two of Denise's friends came through as well, and my
friends arrived posse deep but there was a ton.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Of guy but I didn't know all of them.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Who I specifically remember being there was Denise and her
friends because I wanted to impress Denise. I wanted Denise
to like me, and I remember that they were very,
very excited to see Marky Mark in the fronky bunch.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
AJ arrived with Lisa looking like a billion bucks. I
know most men think their girlfriends are hot, but Adriana
was really next level. Besides having a perfect face that smiled,
she was curvy before it was popular for.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
The most spart I spent my life wearing clothes that
hid my body because I'm built like a Kardashian hobbit,
you know. But in those days it wasn't cool to
be built like a Kardashian and really, it's a deformity.
Let's be honest, it's a bit of a deformity. And
so I always wore clothes that hid my body.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
On that night, however, she wanted to step it up.
But at first glance you wouldn't have noticed. AJ wore
a jacket to hide which she was going to be
wearing to the club. But once we got into the car,
out of sight of my mother, she exposed your real
uniform for the night.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We were going to a concert. So of course I
wanted to look cute and I wanted to impress Patrick.
I wanted him to think that I was attractive. I
think I was twenty years old at the time, and
so I wore a little fitted a line skirt that
was high waisted and short, but not super short, because
I was still very very modest, and I wore a
boostdia like the type that Madonna made very very famous,
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and on top of it. I had a jean jacket,
and so when we arrived to Patrick's house, I knew
that his mom was going to be there because he
lived at home at the time, and I know I
was a good Catholic girl, and I didn't want to
be disrespectful. So when I walked into his house, I
was still wearing my jean jacket. But when we got
into the car, Patrick, Lisa and I, I took off
the jean jacket and Patrick looks over at me and
he goes, oh, my gosh, you're wearing a bra. And
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I said, it's not a bra, it's a boos die.
What are you talking about.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I have to say I was surprised by the outfit,
albeit pleasantly surprised. When I first met Aj at Dina's
Halloween party, if I had to guess her costume, I'd
say she was dressed as a Latina Dolly Parton genie.
AJ was made in the mold of the famed country
singer from the waist up, so from day one I
knew she was packing heat. But every time we dated,
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she'd been very modestly dressed, even prudish, So I just
chalked up the Genie outfit to her dressing for the occasion,
but the boostier brought her sex appeal to the next level.
She went to a fifteen on a scale from one
to ten. I was proud to have my new girlfriend
in my arm as we headed to the Strand nightclub
and Redondo Beach, but I had no idea how much
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Speaker 1 (22:33):
Welcome back. So a big posse of us were headed
to see Marky Mark in The Funky Bunch before at
The Strand in Redondo Beach. En route to the concert,
my new girlfriend AJ revealed her real nighttime attire when
she took off her jean jacket, showing that she was
wearing a Boostdia, a brawl like top popularized by Madonna.
The look worked for her, but I had no idea
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how much trouble her outfit was about to bring to
Marky Mark, the Funky Bunch and yours truly. The Strand
nightclub was located at the intersection of Redondo Beach, Torrents
and the foothills of Palace Verdes. The nightclub got its
name from being a few blocks from the beach in
an area that was known to be pretty safe at
the time, so Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch likely
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had no concern that the venue audience could get out
of hand. We'd been going to the Strand for years.
It was a twenty one in over club, which meant
my sister, her friends, Ag and Lisa basically all the
ladies would have to use fake IDs to get in,
which always meant the walk up to the club would
be a bit nerve wracking. Luckily, for everyone, their ideas
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looked enough like them and let's face it, all of
them being gorgeous females didn't hurt. Everyone got in without
a hitch. As we walked into the venue, the layout
was a bit different than I'd ever seen again.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Lisa, I remember, I was kind of tripped out on
the setup of the concert or how it was, because
it was, you know, it's not a huge venue, but
there was tables that went all the way from the
stage to the back of the room.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
They were sort of like long picnic tables.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
They were set up in such a way that if
you got on top of the tables in the back
of the venue. You could walk all the way to
the stage, almost like it was one long runway again
my sister Denise, I think there.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Might have been a dinner or something. Maybe you could
have a dinner beforehand.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I can remember the moment we all got in. I
was there with all my best friends, My sister and
her buddies were with us, and I had my new
girlfriend on my side. We were in a tractive crew,
and Aj looked like a voluptuous five foot two supermodel.
I couldn't have been happier seeing her hanging out with
my sister and her friends. Eventually, the stage lights went
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on and the Funky Bunch were the first to come out.
After a few dance moves and chanced to the crowd.
Marky Mark made his big entrance market too, and it
felt like every girl in the venue made their way
closer to the front. The group didn't have many songs
in their library, so it wasn't long before you heard
the first beats of their fame song, good Vibrations hitting
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the speakers. That's when our entire crew of girls made
a beeline for the stage again. My sister Denise.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Somehow we got separated from you guys, because I just
don't remember you being around. When that song came on,
everybody just started rushing the stage and pushing forward, you know,
And I'm like, we were all like, hey, you know,
we want to see them too, and of course that's
the greatest song. We're all waiting for that song because
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I think he was probably playing stuff that maybe we
weren't familiar with, but that song came on and we're
like one of them. Course not me, what one of
my friends? You know? Somebody said, let's get on these tables.
Let's stand on the tables and get all the way
up to the stage.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
So we did.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
We got up on the tables and we all pushed
forward to the stage.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
The ladies that made the move to stand on the
tables were largely all near the stage.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Denise and her friends got on the table to dance.
In fact, a lot of the girls in the venue
were actually on the tables and they were dancing. And
I'd never been to this venu and I thought, okay, well,
maybe that's what like what people do, but it really
was not something that I did. I didn't wasn't the
type of girl that would get on tables and dance,
and neither was Lisa.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I didn't go with Aj. I'm like the one that
watches everything. I pay attention on the sober one always.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
So Lisa was perched up on the side watching everything
go down.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
So AJ went up. And that's why I remember the
table so well, because she basically like walked up the
tables kind of to get to the front. And it's
like weird to be because I'm like, why did she
go on the tables? But she did.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Your sister convinced me to get up on the table,
and I did because I wanted her to like me.
And so we were up on the tables and we
were dancing, we were feeling the vibrations and you know,
it was good. It was fun.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
And when he was singing, he was like pointing at
us and we were like what.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
GoF like by it?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And then.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Marky Mark saw Adrianna and it was over. He wanted
her up on that stage.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I caught Marky Mark's eye and it was love it
for sight for him. He had to come near me.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
I remember Adriana getting cooled up to the stage.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I remember Marky Mark came down on the table, and
he took my hand and he led me onto the
stage so I could like dance on stage with him,
I guess.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
And then that's when it went bad. It went real bad,
real quick.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I want to pause here for a minute and give
a disclaimer. I'm not the man I used to be.
In high school, I was a typical boy without a
father present. I got into some trouble. I was never
arrested or anything like that, but I didn't shy away
from throwing punches when provoked. Maybe a few times when
I wasn't. But my saving grace was that I got
good grades. My mom always made me finish my homework
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first before I went dancing or hanging out with my crew.
By the time I got to college, most of that
aggressive side of me was in the rear view mirror.
I also had a few girl friends over that time,
but none of them were the one, so if they
did something that rubbed me the wrong way, I'd quickly
dump them and move on. Frankly, I thought my shit
didn't stink. I was young, strong, didn't have much of
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a hard time with girls, and I knew I was
going places, and foremost I was not a jealous guy.
In fact, I was the exact opposite. I largely projected
the air of indifference. I gave my girlfriends enough rope
to hang themselves with. If they did something that rubbed
me the wrong way or felt disrespectful, it was over.
So by nineteen ninety two, high school tough guy Patrick
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was replaced by going places engineering Patrick without a jealous
bone in his body. That is, apparently, until a j
entered my life. When I saw that one hit Wonder
grab my girl's hand and bring her up on the stage,
something inside me snapped, and I again did something that
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I'd never done before or since I became a beer
bottle flinging madman. As I mentioned, they set up the
tables in a way that was almost like a runway
from the back of the room to the stage, so
if you were daring enough or stupid enough, you could
get to the funky bunch very quickly by hopping on
the tables and bypassing the crowded venue floor. The tables
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also had an added convenience of being littered with free
ammo in the form of beer bottles. What happened next
is kind of hazy, but I remember AJ on stage
dancing next to the shirtless six packed abed Markie Mark.
I remember thinking, there's no way this one hit Wonder
is going to make a play for my girl. So
from the back of the venue, I jumped on the
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tables and began running towards the stage, grabbing beer bottles
all along the way and hurling them at Marky Mark
and the funky bunchers.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
And I'm up there just for a couple of seconds
when all of a sudden, I don't remember, I wasn't
quite shit sure what was happening that all hell broke loose.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
And then everybody started pushing up behind us.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I asked Lisa, what you remember seeing from her vantage point,
you were.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Like rapid firing. I think it was like equivalent to
an AK forty seven of beer bottles.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Like.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
There was an endless amount of beer bottles. It felt like.
I was like, what is going on? And people were running.
It's like what you see in the moon. That's what
it looked like. People scrambling and running and ducking. And
I was like, oh my god. And then all of
a sudden, all the lights went out, and the bodyguards like,
clear up the whole stage, and so.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
They turned off the lights and then security that was
on stage made sort of like a human chain and
they ushered us all off of the stage, like rushed
us off the stage, and so I ended up backstage.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
She went back with Marky. She was part of the
Funky Bunch at that point.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
And then it just got crazy. They shut it down
and they started pushing us all out. They were like,
get off, get down, get off the table, get out
of here. It's over, and it was just craziness.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
They made everybody leave. So the concert was over at
that point. There was no more feeling vibrations at all.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Luckily I had bad aim. No one was hurt. And
let me publicly say now that I ask God, the
concert goers, and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch for forgiveness.
That side of me died that night at the Strand.
But the fact was that I single handedly shut down
the concert. It was a dumb move, though for more
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than the obvious reasons, because my actions led to AJ
being herded not off stage into my arms, but instead
to the backstage area with the shirtless, saggy panted international
sex symbol Marky Mark Brilliant Patrick. Everyone slowly began to
gather in the parking lot, exchanging stories on what had
just happened. But all I could do was scan the
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crowd looking for AJ. As one minute turned to five
minutes turned to twenty minutes, my anger began to slowly
turn to fear. Where was my girlfriend? And I wasn't
the only one. Lisa began to worry as well, and
I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Like I was a nervous wreck because I'm like, where's
my best friend.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
We'd eventually find out next time on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
And when I first got backstage, I was completely disoriented.
I didn't know what was going on, and I was
nervous because here I am backstage with all of these
strange men that when I was back there, Markie Mark
somehow came back and he found me. Red Pilled America
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The series was originally broadcast on August eighth, twenty twenty.
The laws of attraction seem to be changing. If you
turn on a TV show or watch a commercial, the
image of what attracts a woman to a man appears
to have drastically altered.
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I can't believe I'm frenching in the closet.
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I feel like a teenager.
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It is exhausting trying to be man enough for everyone
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in the advertising industry want us to believe that women
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And this is Red Pilled America a storytelling show.
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This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We're all about telling stories.
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You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries
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to recognize that Hollywood's image of the ideal man has
drastically changed over the years. Men were once portrayed as
well men doing manly things, and women love them for it.
Go ahead, make my day. But today Hollywood in the
advertising industry's betrayal of the ideal man seem almost unrecognizable.
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For me and for many American men. Makeup is kind
of uncharted territory, but that may be changing. If we're
to believe our TV screens. Male feminists are the new
heart throbs? Is that true? And if not, what kind
of men do women want To find the answer, We're
going to tell the story of how a young man
was faced with the very real possibility of losing his
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new girlfriend to an international ladies man, and what he
did to winner over. Thinking about it now, it's all
a bit of a blur. Something was triggered in me
that never happened before that moment and hasn't happened since.
And if I had to describe it today, there really
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is no other way to put it.
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I snapped, I've known you forever, and I was so scared.
I was in the shock of my life, like I've
never seen that side of you, and you were so mad.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
What I did surprised even my oldest friends, but they
really shouldn't have been shocked. I've been displaying a series
of unprecedented behavior the moment a very unique lady walked
into my life. It all started for me on Halloween
nineteen ninety one. I just entered my fourth year at
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cal State University Long Beach with a pretty intense major
mechanical engineering, so my heavy course load typically kept me
away from my close childhood friends during the school year,
but on this night in particular, I was making an
exception because we were all going out to Los Angeles
for a Halloween party at our friend Dina's house. Dina
was a talented singer and dancer originally from West Covina, California,
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a suburb about twenty miles east of downtown Los Angeles,
but by nineteen ninety one she'd moved to the heart
of Lalla Land to pursue a career in acting. Dina
already had tons of success in the business and was
well connected in the scene there. Our crew of friends
had known her since high school. We were a group
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of style obsessed dancers, and we'd met Dina at a
place called Studio K, a popular dance club at the
notts Berry Farm theme park. Dina had become kind of
an honorary girl member of our crew, and I'd become
friends with her because she was on again and off
again dating my best friend Mark. Since at least nineteen
eighty seven, we've been traveling out to her hometown of
West Covina to hang with her and her crew of girlfriends.
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I became buddies with several of them, including one of
Dina's longtime friends Lisa, someone I'm close friends with to
this day. Lisa was and is the funniest woman I've
ever met. To us, West Covina was considered the mecca
of hot girls. For some reason. They just made them
a cut above in Westcoat. We recognized them as the
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eight one eight nine one nine Ladies because most of
their phone numbers started with that six number combination. Even
though their hood was a bit of a trek, a
good forty minute drive from us, when the opportunity came
to hang out in the debc, as locals affectionately called it,
we didn't hesitate. So when Dina told us she was
having a Halloween party, it wasn't even a question. We
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were going at the time. In nineteen ninety one, I
literally had three jobs while taking a full load in college.
I worked as a liquor store clerk. I was a
college physics teachers aid grading homework and exams, and of
all places, I worked at a prison closed distribution center.
The job was just as it sounded. We distributed prison
clothes to various incarceration facilities. So when Dina's Halloween party
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came along, my third job was a perfect fit for
the times. My friends and I were still obsessed with
style and looking cool, and Halloween was one of those
holidays that cramped up our style with the requirement of
dressing up goofily. But as luck would have it, gangster
rap was still a big thing on the West Coast,
so I decided to wear some of the prison clothes
from my job to both comply with the spirit of
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the event while retaining my cool factor. I mean. We
arrived at the Halloween party with the appropriate amount of tardiness,
and like all of Dina's shindig's, it was off the chains,
with a mixture of actor up and comers, artists, hipsters,
and the general beautiful people of Hollywood. But little did
I know that the most stunning of God's specimens still
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hadn't arrived. As I stood outside of Dina's house with
a few friends, a young lady walked up with my
old West Covina friend Lisa, and this unnamed young lady
was dressed as a genie. Now we've all heard the
cliche phrase it was love at first sight, but in
my case, cliche was reality. I'd never felt the way
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I felt when I placed my eyes on this gorgeous creature.
She immediately had me, and it was at that moment
of first sight that I did something that I'd never
done before nor since I gave her a cat call.
I'm still convinced that one of the filmmakers involved in
the movie Friday must have been within an earshot of me,
because the words that came out of my mouth as
she passed were later uttered by Chris Tucker's character Smokey.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Be He said, gimm.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And I liked it. That's, of course Adriana the recipient
of my cat call.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well, Dina was one of my best friends. I grew
up with Dina. Dina was a very successful child actress.
She was an incredible singer. She is an incredible singer,
and so she was regularly going into La and too
La Proper, and so she actually knew thank you all
of these people that lived in LA and that were
basically in the scene in LA. And that's how she
actually met Patrick's group of friends.
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Speaker 2 (09:29):
Welcome back to red pilled America. Before I met Patrick,
I actually knew of Patrick because my group of friends
in West Coviina they were friends with his group of
friends in torrent And I actually knew a bunch of
his friends. I had just never met Patrick himself.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Apparently, for Adriana, the electricity was mutual.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
When I first laid eyes on Patrick, I thought he
was a babe, so so cute. He was dressed like
a prisoner because it was Halloween, but he definitely didn't
look hard to He didn't look thuggish ruggish. He looked
like a clean cut guy that was dressed up as
a jailbird for Halloween. But I think I also had
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a preconceived notion of him because I knew about him.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
As the night progressed, I could not take my eyes
off this goddess they called aj I'd never experienced anything
like it. My mo for attracting a girl's attention was
often to casually play the ignoring game, waiting for them
to come to me. But I couldn't do that with
this one. Everything was telling me to go for it.
So when she started walking in my direction in the
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living room. I did this second thing that I'd never
done before and haven't done since. When she passed by,
I stopped her in her tracks and sat her on
my lap. I wanted to make it perfectly clear that
I had a thing for her. She laughed, obviously getting
a kick out of it, but at night's end I
failed to ask her for her number. A full seven
months would go by before I'd see her again.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The same friend who had had the Halloween party where
we initial he met had a barbecue in the summer
and Patrick was there, and I knew that he was
going to be there, so before we went to the party,
we stopped on Melrose, which at the time was like
a coup shopping area, and I bought a new pair
of shoes because I wanted to look extra cute because
I knew he was going to be there and I
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wanted him to think that I was cute. And when
we got to the party, I sat down at a
table and one of Patrick's friends immediately moved in on me.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
It was one of my best friends, Eric, who knew
I went to the party specifically to see aj.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Eric was, you know, chatting me up, and he was
definitely flirting with me.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Eric and I had a healthy rivalry when it came
to talking to girls, and in normal situations I would
have let him do his thing. But when I saw
Eric sit down next to AJ, I decided I was
going to take him out with a kill shot.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And then Patrick comes over and he grabs a chair
and he sits in between us, and he looks over
at Eric and he says, so, Eric, how are the
wedding plans coming?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Eric was scheduled to be married in a few months,
and he was using waiting time as a bachelor to
give me a hard time.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And I said, oh, you're getting married, You're engaged. And
then Eric said something like oh shit, and then he left,
and then Patrick swooped writing the bucket said flight.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Adrianna and I talked the entire party, and this time
I wasn't letting seven months go by without seeing her,
so I asked her for a.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Number and I wrote it down with an orange highlighter.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I called her when I got home and we spoke
for hours. We had that kind of conversation where you
felt instantly in love. At least that's how I felt.
I asked to take her out on a date. She
said yes, and a few days later we went to
see Sister Act, a Whoopi Goldberg comedy that had just
been released. That night did it for me. I had
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never felt like that before. Sure, I'd had girlfriends in
the past, a few for a couple of years, but
this felt different. I was in love and it became
clear to me why we use the word chemistry when
describing relationships, because she seemed to affect me on a
chemical level. As the months progressed, I wanted aj to
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get to know my group of friends better, and more importantly,
my sister Denise, someone that I loved dearly. And as
chance would have it, there was a great opportunity to
get everyone together. A band was coming to perform in
our little neck of the woods.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I'm gonna kick a little verse, some little hip hop,
and forget where it started. The claiming a white complexion
ate the reason why the records shot a police when
it's so easy to see when a white dude wraps,
the public sees it as a novelty.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The hip hop group called Marky Mark and the Funky
Bunch had just blown up, and their frontman Mark Wahlberg
had become an international sensation. Wahlberg was originally in his
brother's band, but would eventually drop out. He got into
some trouble, went to jail for assault, and while he
was serving his time, his brother, Donnie Wahlberg's group, New
Kids on the Block went on to superstardom. His brother's
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success inspired him, so Mark Wahlberg decided to clean up
his act.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
You know, I grew up in the street.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
You know what I mean. I know what it's like
to be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
He began lifting weights and created the stage name Marky Mark.
His brother Donnie helped him produce a hip hop album,
and one of the songs, Good Vibrations, skyrocketed up the pop.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Charts, Blasting from the streets of Boston. Marky Mark and
his Funky Bunch are hip hop musicians with a message.
It's a street sound with a message of hope.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
During one of his performances of the hit song, Wahlberg
did something that would change the course of his life.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
The young rapper needed something to set himself apart from
the crowd.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
How do you do that?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
By dropping his drawers?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I just pulled him down and I just saw like
fifty million camera glasses. I was like, damn it. Everybody
was cracking up.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So I just started running around the stage and my
brother was like on the ground laughing.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Speaking the trend.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
From then on, he sagged his pants well below his waistline,
showing his underwear. The saggy pants look had already become
popular in the urban areas as early as nineteen eighty eight.
An underwear maker, Calvin Klein, had noticed the trend and
was looking for an opportunity to capitalize on it. So
when MARKI Mark made sagging jeans his staple look, just
as his song was blowing up, Calvin Klein came calling,
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featuring him in advertisements with international supermodel Kate Moss.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
South goes out to my man, Calvin Klein could looking
out for the drawers, not saying I would do another
Fruit of the Loon commercial or nothing like that, because
they don't make the hype shorts.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
These are the nineties, man. They just fit good and
they hold me snug.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So Marky Mark's now signature look was quickly being compared
to another global icon.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Walker's had two legendary undergarments, Verdona's buffier and the pants
of the man sitting next to me, Mark him up
and his Calvin.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Klein, already a favorite of the American ladies, Walburg's population
grew with females all across the globe, and he wasn't
shy about it.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Let me get back to what he was talking. There's
the sexuality to sell.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Their music a lot more than that.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
No, really, well, we'll do the same thing right down't you?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Girls?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
How many girls do you see strip off into the underwear?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, how many guys do you see getting a chance
to have sex with a lot of women?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
He was confident, even cocky, and the ladies couldn't seem
to get enough of him. And with the advertisements being
displayed all across the world, Marky Mark was now an
international star. So when I caught word that him and
his funky bunch were coming to a relatively small venue
called the Strand in our sleepy suburban area, I was surprised.
His group was a bit too mainstream for my taste.
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My friends and I were what you'd call obscurists, more
into hip hop groups with names like De La Soul, Brand,
Nubian Umcs, and Foo Snickens. The kinds of artists that
were big in the underground scene, but never really reached
pop status. Less. I thought his band performing in our
neighborhood was a good opportunity to invite AJ and my
hilarious old West Covina buddy Lisa, who just so happened
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to be AJ's best friend, to join my sister Denise
and the rest of our posse to the concert. Denise
remembers the build up to the event as well.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I just remember the one song, It's just a good vibration,
just that song. That's the only song. But he was
a pretty big name for such a close venue for us,
and I think that was like, really, you know some
I remember us being like, what Marky Mark is going
to be at the strand like right here in the
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South Bay. So I just remember that we were all
excited about that.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Is AJ going to be happy? I remember thinking as
I pulled the trigger on buying the tickets.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch were definitely not cool
in the circles that we ran in, and so when
Patrick said that he had tickets to Marky Mark and
the Funky Bunch, I thought it was strange and I
asked Lisa. She thought I should break up with him,
but you know, all his friends were gonna go. Oh,
and I think that it was going to be a
fun night, and his sister was going to go and
I knew how close him and his sister were, and
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actually they still are, and so I wanted to hang
out with his sister so that, you.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Know, she would like me.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I wanted her to like me.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Lisa remembers it a bit differently.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
We were excited and he was cute as hell too.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Everyone met at my mom's house, where my sister and
I lived at the time. Adriana came down with Lisa.
Two of Denise's friends came through as well, and my
friends arrived posse deep but there was a ton.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Of guy but I didn't know all of them.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Who I specifically remember being there was Denise and her
friends because I wanted to impress Denise. I wanted Denise
to like me, and I remember that they were very,
very excited to see Marky Mark in the fronky bunch.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
AJ arrived with Lisa looking like a billion bucks. I
know most men think their girlfriends are hot, but Adriana
was really next level. Besides having a perfect face that smiled,
she was curvy before it was popular for.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
The most spart I spent my life wearing clothes that
hid my body because I'm built like a Kardashian hobbit,
you know. But in those days it wasn't cool to
be built like a Kardashian and really, it's a deformity.
Let's be honest, it's a bit of a deformity. And
so I always wore clothes that hid my body.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
On that night, however, she wanted to step it up.
But at first glance you wouldn't have noticed. AJ wore
a jacket to hide which she was going to be
wearing to the club. But once we got into the car,
out of sight of my mother, she exposed your real
uniform for the night.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We were going to a concert. So of course I
wanted to look cute and I wanted to impress Patrick.
I wanted him to think that I was attractive. I
think I was twenty years old at the time, and
so I wore a little fitted a line skirt that
was high waisted and short, but not super short, because
I was still very very modest, and I wore a
boostdia like the type that Madonna made very very famous,
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and on top of it. I had a jean jacket,
and so when we arrived to Patrick's house, I knew
that his mom was going to be there because he
lived at home at the time, and I know I
was a good Catholic girl, and I didn't want to
be disrespectful. So when I walked into his house, I
was still wearing my jean jacket. But when we got
into the car, Patrick, Lisa and I, I took off
the jean jacket and Patrick looks over at me and
he goes, oh, my gosh, you're wearing a bra. And
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I said, it's not a bra, it's a boos die.
What are you talking about.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I have to say I was surprised by the outfit,
albeit pleasantly surprised. When I first met Aj at Dina's
Halloween party, if I had to guess her costume, I'd
say she was dressed as a Latina Dolly Parton genie.
AJ was made in the mold of the famed country
singer from the waist up, so from day one I
knew she was packing heat. But every time we dated,
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she'd been very modestly dressed, even prudish, So I just
chalked up the Genie outfit to her dressing for the occasion,
but the boostier brought her sex appeal to the next level.
She went to a fifteen on a scale from one
to ten. I was proud to have my new girlfriend
in my arm as we headed to the Strand nightclub
and Redondo Beach, but I had no idea how much
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Speaker 1 (22:33):
Welcome back. So a big posse of us were headed
to see Marky Mark in The Funky Bunch before at
The Strand in Redondo Beach. En route to the concert,
my new girlfriend AJ revealed her real nighttime attire when
she took off her jean jacket, showing that she was
wearing a Boostdia, a brawl like top popularized by Madonna.
The look worked for her, but I had no idea
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how much trouble her outfit was about to bring to
Marky Mark, the Funky Bunch and yours truly. The Strand
nightclub was located at the intersection of Redondo Beach, Torrents
and the foothills of Palace Verdes. The nightclub got its
name from being a few blocks from the beach in
an area that was known to be pretty safe at
the time, so Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch likely
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had no concern that the venue audience could get out
of hand. We'd been going to the Strand for years.
It was a twenty one in over club, which meant
my sister, her friends, Ag and Lisa basically all the
ladies would have to use fake IDs to get in,
which always meant the walk up to the club would
be a bit nerve wracking. Luckily, for everyone, their ideas
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looked enough like them and let's face it, all of
them being gorgeous females didn't hurt. Everyone got in without
a hitch. As we walked into the venue, the layout
was a bit different than I'd ever seen again.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Lisa, I remember, I was kind of tripped out on
the setup of the concert or how it was, because
it was, you know, it's not a huge venue, but
there was tables that went all the way from the
stage to the back of the room.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
They were sort of like long picnic tables.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
They were set up in such a way that if
you got on top of the tables in the back
of the venue. You could walk all the way to
the stage, almost like it was one long runway again
my sister Denise, I think there.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Might have been a dinner or something. Maybe you could
have a dinner beforehand.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I can remember the moment we all got in. I
was there with all my best friends, My sister and
her buddies were with us, and I had my new
girlfriend on my side. We were in a tractive crew,
and Aj looked like a voluptuous five foot two supermodel.
I couldn't have been happier seeing her hanging out with
my sister and her friends. Eventually, the stage lights went
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on and the Funky Bunch were the first to come out.
After a few dance moves and chanced to the crowd.
Marky Mark made his big entrance market too, and it
felt like every girl in the venue made their way
closer to the front. The group didn't have many songs
in their library, so it wasn't long before you heard
the first beats of their fame song, good Vibrations hitting
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the speakers. That's when our entire crew of girls made
a beeline for the stage again. My sister Denise.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Somehow we got separated from you guys, because I just
don't remember you being around. When that song came on,
everybody just started rushing the stage and pushing forward, you know,
And I'm like, we were all like, hey, you know,
we want to see them too, and of course that's
the greatest song. We're all waiting for that song because
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I think he was probably playing stuff that maybe we
weren't familiar with, but that song came on and we're
like one of them. Course not me, what one of
my friends? You know? Somebody said, let's get on these tables.
Let's stand on the tables and get all the way
up to the stage.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
So we did.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
We got up on the tables and we all pushed
forward to the stage.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
The ladies that made the move to stand on the
tables were largely all near the stage.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Denise and her friends got on the table to dance.
In fact, a lot of the girls in the venue
were actually on the tables and they were dancing. And
I'd never been to this venu and I thought, okay, well,
maybe that's what like what people do, but it really
was not something that I did. I didn't wasn't the
type of girl that would get on tables and dance,
and neither was Lisa.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I didn't go with Aj. I'm like the one that
watches everything. I pay attention on the sober one always.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
So Lisa was perched up on the side watching everything
go down.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
So AJ went up. And that's why I remember the
table so well, because she basically like walked up the
tables kind of to get to the front. And it's
like weird to be because I'm like, why did she
go on the tables? But she did.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Your sister convinced me to get up on the table,
and I did because I wanted her to like me.
And so we were up on the tables and we
were dancing, we were feeling the vibrations and you know,
it was good. It was fun.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
And when he was singing, he was like pointing at
us and we were like what.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
GoF like by it?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And then.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Marky Mark saw Adrianna and it was over. He wanted
her up on that stage.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I caught Marky Mark's eye and it was love it
for sight for him. He had to come near me.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
I remember Adriana getting cooled up to the stage.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I remember Marky Mark came down on the table, and
he took my hand and he led me onto the
stage so I could like dance on stage with him,
I guess.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
And then that's when it went bad. It went real bad,
real quick.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I want to pause here for a minute and give
a disclaimer. I'm not the man I used to be.
In high school, I was a typical boy without a
father present. I got into some trouble. I was never
arrested or anything like that, but I didn't shy away
from throwing punches when provoked. Maybe a few times when
I wasn't. But my saving grace was that I got
good grades. My mom always made me finish my homework
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first before I went dancing or hanging out with my crew.
By the time I got to college, most of that
aggressive side of me was in the rear view mirror.
I also had a few girl friends over that time,
but none of them were the one, so if they
did something that rubbed me the wrong way, I'd quickly
dump them and move on. Frankly, I thought my shit
didn't stink. I was young, strong, didn't have much of
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a hard time with girls, and I knew I was
going places, and foremost I was not a jealous guy.
In fact, I was the exact opposite. I largely projected
the air of indifference. I gave my girlfriends enough rope
to hang themselves with. If they did something that rubbed
me the wrong way or felt disrespectful, it was over.
So by nineteen ninety two, high school tough guy Patrick
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was replaced by going places engineering Patrick without a jealous
bone in his body. That is, apparently, until a j
entered my life. When I saw that one hit Wonder
grab my girl's hand and bring her up on the stage,
something inside me snapped, and I again did something that
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I'd never done before or since I became a beer
bottle flinging madman. As I mentioned, they set up the
tables in a way that was almost like a runway
from the back of the room to the stage, so
if you were daring enough or stupid enough, you could
get to the funky bunch very quickly by hopping on
the tables and bypassing the crowded venue floor. The tables
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also had an added convenience of being littered with free
ammo in the form of beer bottles. What happened next
is kind of hazy, but I remember AJ on stage
dancing next to the shirtless six packed abed Markie Mark.
I remember thinking, there's no way this one hit Wonder
is going to make a play for my girl. So
from the back of the venue, I jumped on the
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tables and began running towards the stage, grabbing beer bottles
all along the way and hurling them at Marky Mark
and the funky bunchers.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
And I'm up there just for a couple of seconds
when all of a sudden, I don't remember, I wasn't
quite shit sure what was happening that all hell broke loose.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
And then everybody started pushing up behind us.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I asked Lisa, what you remember seeing from her vantage point,
you were.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Like rapid firing. I think it was like equivalent to
an AK forty seven of beer bottles.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Like.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
There was an endless amount of beer bottles. It felt like.
I was like, what is going on? And people were running.
It's like what you see in the moon. That's what
it looked like. People scrambling and running and ducking. And
I was like, oh my god. And then all of
a sudden, all the lights went out, and the bodyguards like,
clear up the whole stage, and so.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
They turned off the lights and then security that was
on stage made sort of like a human chain and
they ushered us all off of the stage, like rushed
us off the stage, and so I ended up backstage.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
She went back with Marky. She was part of the
Funky Bunch at that point.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
And then it just got crazy. They shut it down
and they started pushing us all out. They were like,
get off, get down, get off the table, get out
of here. It's over, and it was just craziness.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
They made everybody leave. So the concert was over at
that point. There was no more feeling vibrations at all.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Luckily I had bad aim. No one was hurt. And
let me publicly say now that I ask God, the
concert goers, and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch for forgiveness.
That side of me died that night at the Strand.
But the fact was that I single handedly shut down
the concert. It was a dumb move, though for more
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than the obvious reasons, because my actions led to AJ
being herded not off stage into my arms, but instead
to the backstage area with the shirtless, saggy panted international
sex symbol Marky Mark Brilliant Patrick. Everyone slowly began to
gather in the parking lot, exchanging stories on what had
just happened. But all I could do was scan the
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crowd looking for AJ. As one minute turned to five
minutes turned to twenty minutes, my anger began to slowly
turn to fear. Where was my girlfriend? And I wasn't
the only one. Lisa began to worry as well, and
I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Like I was a nervous wreck because I'm like, where's
my best friend.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
We'd eventually find out next time on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
And when I first got backstage, I was completely disoriented.
I didn't know what was going on, and I was
nervous because here I am backstage with all of these
strange men that when I was back there, Markie Mark
somehow came back and he found me. Red Pilled America
is an iHeartRadio original podcast. It's owned and produced by
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