Larry Flyntonomics and Castro takes pity on Al Chin via Billy CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
LARY FLYNTONOMICS AND CASTRO HAS PITY ON AL CHIN BY WAY OF BILLY
You probably remember that when Albanian Louie's car smashed into Alejandro Castro's Mercedes Billy Jones had been sitting right next to Castro and that Billy pulled Castro out of harm's way without a milli second to spare.
Billy had gotten Castro's attention at first simply because he stands out in a crowd. Once Castro found out that Billy is an injured veteran, patriot that Castro is, he wanted to see if there was anything that he could do for Billy (within reason of course). Maybe give him a job inside. It's Billy that got Al Chin the dispatcher job. As luck would have it Chin is a veteran too
This taxi driver is not such a moron, at least about some things. Here he is talking with a stripper he's taking out to Bayside, Queens.
Stripper: "Can I sit in front with you?"
Trump: "Yeah." (As she is getting out of the back seat and into the passenger seat he puts his knapsack, where he keeps his gun and hid cash under the driver's seat.)
Stripper: "You're one of the regulars in front of the club. I recognize you. How ya doin'?"
Trump: "Pretty good for a Tuesday night. How'd your night go?"
Stripper: "Just like you. When we do good you guys do good. When we do bad you guys do bad..Could you stop at a deli before we reach the bridge?"
Trump: "Sure. Yeah."
Stripper: "Want anything? My treat."
Trump: "Soda. Diet whatever they got. Thanks."
This stripper sounds like she's American. She's white.
A few minutes later she returns to the car.
Stripper: "Here. I got me this sammich and rolling paper. You smoke?"
Trump: "Not when I work."
The stripper's phone rings. It's reveille. She puts the phone on blast, as though she wants Trump to hear the conversation, which in fact she does.
Male Voice: "Where are you?" (From his accent and intonation it's a fair bet that he's a white New Yorker.)
Stripper: "I'm in a taxi."
Male Voice: "But where the fuck are you"?
Stripper: "We're on the bridge."
Male Voice: "Turn the fuck around. I'm at the spot."
Stripper: "I'm tired, Mikey, shit! I wanna go home."
Male Voice: "Turn the fuck around."
Stripper: "Okay Mikey." (To Trump) "When we.."
Trump: (interrupting) "Yeah I know."
(Trump navigates the side streets arounde Queensboro Plaza and gets back on the QB heading back to Manhattan.)
Stripper: "Shit"
Trump : " Who was that guy?"Stripper: " My boyfriend. Can I ask you something? Why are men such assholes?"
Trump: "That's a good question. Where are we going?"
Stripper: "The Eagle."
Trump: "The Eagle? That's a homo bar. Leather, handcuffs. Some of those guys really do not want to be around any woman. I seen some women go in but I know that they're not too welcome in there. And your boyfriend he's in there?"
Stripper: " Yeah. He goes both ways. But I was asking you 'why do men have to be such assholes?'"
Trump: "I have my opinion why we have the whip hand, but you're not gonna like it."
Stripper: "Tell it to me."
Trump: "The Sexual Revolution. The men won."
Stripper: " 'splain that."
Trump: " Then you'll say I'm mansplaining. Okay though. It's pretty simple. In the old days there wasn't any question. You grew up, you got married, you had kids. Divorce was for rich people and those crazy people in Hollywood. Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio. Shit like that. Most of the girls back then and women were not putting out, at least not unless they got engaged with a ring.
"Then came Playboy magazine. Then The Pill, Roe v Wade, Gloria Steinem and all that added up to men's liberation. It's like Elvis Presley said: "Why buy a cow when you can run down to the corner deli and get a quart of milk anytime you like?"
The stripper gets on her cell phone.
Stripper: "Mikey come out. It's gonna be forty dollars."
Man's Voice. “ fuck that shit you pay it."
Stripper : "But I don't have any cash" (Taxis were still cash only).
Man's Voice: "That's your fuckin' problem."
They're parked outside The Eagle.
Trump: "You got funny money. Gimme that."Money by fiat, because Larry Flynt said so.
The stripper reaches into her purse and pulls out five twenty dollar Beaver Bucks. She hands them to Trump, who stuffs them into his cigar box and puts the cigar box back under the driver's seat.
Just then a guy gets out of The Eagle and slides into the car. The guy is a straight looking straight sounding African American man.
As luck would have it, he's going to East Harlem, a stone's throw away from the garage. It's twenty to five. Trump should get in right under the wire.
The guy noticed the stripper getting out of the taxi and heading for the door at The Eagle.
"What was that?" The guy asked. Trump wasn't sure if he should say anything. "You never know who knows who" is one of his mottoes. But just for conversation he showed the guy one of the Beaver Bucks. This made the guy curious. He said that's not Monopoly money what is it?
So Trump said to the guy that it's legal tender in Larry Flynt's Hustler Club and that it's all that the passenger had in her pocket.
The guy said "oh, so then you're going to take that money to the Hustler Club and they're going to give you real money?" Trump said that he doubted that they would do this. "After all when all when all is said and done, Larry Flynt's Hustler Club is in the business of selling these Beaver Bucks." The guy then asks him if Trump is going to go to the Hustler Club and spend them. Trump explains to him that even a hundred dollars is nothing in the Hustler Club. "Twenty to get inside. That leaves eighty. Sixty Beaver Bucks is three lap dances with no touching. (No drinks, and ya gotta buy a beer, twenty bucks at least) No touching. Why the hell would I wanna do that?"
The gay guy asked him what he's going to do with these Beaver Bucks. Trump says he'll sell them at a discount to the next passengers he gets who he's taking to Larry Flynt's Hustler Club. The gay guy asks him why he would sell them at a discount. Trump explains it beautifully. I have to give him credit. He says "it's the same as with American money or euros." He goes on to explain that the money only has value because other people accept it in exchange for some good or service. And that is based on trust. He says that the American people accept the money because the United States government and the states and municipalities will accept this money for payment of taxes, fees and fines. They trust in this fact. Without it Trump explains they would be pieces of paper. and then he asks the man if he would accept a twenty dollar Beaver Buck from a taxi driver in lieu of actual cash. The question answers itself. "Not on your life."
Trump tells him he believes that he can sell the Beaver Bucks at half price to someone who's actually going to the Hustler Club. Such a person might be willing to take a chance on a fifty percent discount. Trump tells him that he collected a hundred dollars in Beaver Bucks on a forty dollar fare.