Straight Talk with John J Nazarian guests are Fifi Larue, Gothic Killer Clown of Rock ‘N’ Roll, and Reality TV show host Limo Bob.

Limo Bob (Robert Strauser) has seen rough times and good times but comes through with the perseverance to not quit and it has paid off for him.

In his own words… Biography – Decades of “Limo Bob”
“I have been told that my life story has moved people in many ways. I have received hundreds of letters from people all over the world. I have hurdled over obstacles many times in my life. God has blessed me with a wonderful life and family. When times were very rough and I thought I was doomed, my wife never left my side. She even blessed me with two wonderful children and her undying support. I firmly believe that with all the support of my family and weathering all the rough times, I am truly the man I am today because of my experiences.

1970’s I started a limo business; but some very unscrupulous people blew it up and burned down the whole fleet.

1980’s I started all over again; being ever so trusting, a sophisticated con scam with a Hollywood twist takes my company away. I was scammed out of the longest limo in the world. Lost it all in the 80’s and ended up selling Barney dolls on the street corners.

1990’s I started all over again from the bottom to the top. This time I became a Limo Icon, and held the record for the longest limo ever built. Because of an attack on one of my limo drivers and a court battle, I lost all my assets.

2000’s With new insight, I now build “Limo King Enterprises, Inc.” I now: Build ~ Sell ~ Rent the worlds Finest, Longest and Most Exotic Limousines in the World!

Presently, I hold the title in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest limousine (100 feet long). Besides Limos I also rent out: Yachts, Jets, Helicopters, Security and I am a consultant for Limo World. I attribute my success to being kind to others. I donate my services to many worthy causes, such as, children in need, elderly, challenged children, battered women, and most of all nursing home clients. During the Holidays, giving nursing home members “The Grand Chauffeuring Tour”, this is truly my favorite gift to them; it makes me feel like the richest man on earth. The look of Joy and Happiness on their faces, as we give them the White Glove Treatment, it is a gift to me also, as I believe with all my heart, “What goes around, comes around”!

I have been told many times that my life story has been an inspiration to many, even some who were in such despair, they were seriously contemplating committing suicide. But after seeing a program on TV, and then talking with me personally, their lives were turned around and they gave life another chance, and succeeded.

Limo Bob “LIMO” The the NEXT BIG THING on TRU TV Premiered June 25th, @ 10pm ~ Limo Bob 2 time Guinness Book World Record holder of the Longest limo in the world, the 100 footer & the most exotic limo, the Boeing 727 jet limo limobob.com

I have had and still have the greatest life ever! I had the best wife on the planet My Beautiful Maureen, I use to say on a scale of 1 to 10, she is a “11″ & on the inside she is a 22, I will love her forever! Divorced and now single as of Valentines’ day 2010 (Mo & I spent 3 decades of our life together) today we are friends and great parents to our 2 wonderful kids, Bobby & Jenny they are what gave me my drive in life to succeed. Now I start my all new reality TV show called “Limo Bob”, and my son MTV Bobby is my co-star and we have bodyguards, assistants, and midget maître d’ serving you cocktails and Hors d’œuvre as they walk up and down the long isles of the limousines…. We Build, Rent & Sell limos worldwide! I love to motivate the world! Read my BIO. coming soon Da Movie King of Road! and the BOOK from Rags to Tuxedos! 866-LIMO-BOB and if you ever need a Motivational Speaker I’m your man! I love emptying out Nursing homes and orphanages, and children’s hospitals, FREE Rides for all……. It is my way of thanking GOD for all I have been blessed with all my entire life! Never give up your faith, drive and loyalty to you and yours…. God has now blessed me all over again by sending me Ms. Christi! a true Angel from God, She makes me so very happy! Thanks Christi. ~ Much Love Limo Bob! I love life to the fullest. Ready for Hollywood, here we come.

If my brief story interests you, you can read my Full Biography HERE at LimoBob.com

Fifi Larue Gothic Killer Clown of Rock ‘N’ Roll
Fifi Larue TV personality and also known as Gothic Killer Clown of Rock ‘N’ Roll. Larue has been featured on Gene Simmons Family Jewels, America’s Got Talent, “The Next Great American Band.” Fifi Larue looks like a member of the band “KISS” when made up and ready to go on stage. John and Larue have a friendship that has spanned decades. They will unravel more Hollywood Secrets about famous bands, including KISS.

Telephone lines are always open to call in, join in the discussion or ask questions of John and his guests, Fifi Larue and Limo Bob at 818-572-8030 long distances charges do apply.

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Straight Talk with John J Nazarian guest is Film and TV personality Donna D’Errico.

John’s guest today is actress and civil liberties activist, Donna D’Errico. John and Donna will be discussing the topics they ran out of time on Nov. 3rd, there is a lot more John wants to ask Donna about.

Donna D’Errico is beautiful, educated, and funny; all a great combination for a perfect fit with John.

Since leaving Baywatch, D’Errico appeared in numerous independent films as an ensemble cast member alongside actors such as Colm Feore, Jennifer Tilly, and Andie MacDowell.

Donna plans a trip to Turkey next year to climb Mount Ararat and search for Noah’s Ark. Donna just completed filming a documentary for the Discovery Network chronicling her training and preparations to climb Mount Ararat and search for Noah’s Ark. Before going on to search for Noah’s Ark, Donna will join in the search for 48-year-old Donald MacKenzie, a missionary from the small town of Stornoway Scotland who disappeared on Mount Ararat in September, 2010 while searching for Noah’s Ark. MacKenzie has been missing ever since, and foul play is suspected. MacKenzie’s family needs closure, so Donna is launching a major search for him in August 2012. August and September are the only two months out of the year when Ararat can be climbed and searched on the north side, where Donald disappeared; and where Ark searchers focus their attention on as the most likely place where the Ark now rests.

For more information on Donald MacKenzie you can read about him at:

ttp://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/276403

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2011/09/11/baywatch-babe-hunts-for-scot-who-went-missing-while-hunting-noah-s-ark-86908-23412701/

http://yerevanmagazine.com/donna-d%E2%80%99errico-the-dream-girl/

Donna will be featured on the syndicated television show, “The Doctors” by Stage 29 Productions and CBS Television Distribution on November 16th. (check your local listings for time and station in your area). John hopes to have Donna back that night to discuss what the diagnoses is and what now for the beautiful TV and film star.

D’Errico is due to appear in an upcoming HBO film about 9/11 (filming starts in January)

Donna is also developing and producing a cooking show from her southern roots with her sister, Alabama style!

To learn more about Donna keep up with her on Face Book:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Donna-DErrico/201810028100

Telephone lines are always open to call in, join in the discussion or ask questions of John and his guest, Donna D’Errico at 818-572-8030 long distances charges do apply.

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Good things always come in threes is what people say, well guess what they come in twos also. On October 9, 2011 at 11:03 AM my son Mike and his girlfriend Laura had a 6lb 10oz little boy, a bundle of joy, Benjamin Michael. This is my second grandson in less than two years, thus the “twos.” From the size of Laura I would have thought that she was going to have a baby in the 20 lb range.

To have the chance to enjoy another grand child is going to be fun, I get all the fun, when it gets too much it is a mere call for assistance and I can wait to enjoy another encounter at a later date. No diapers, no messes it is all pleasure, after all I am the grandfather who happens to be John J. Nazarian and why would I stress, “can’t we hire someone for that?”

Benjamin has one of the nicest nurseries I have ever seen, it is just wonderful and full of fun things and nothing was left out. Class! He is after all my grandson. Mike and Laura have done all the right things, bought a wonderful new home and have nothing but love and great times when they are together. They seem more like one and now after a great deal of ups and downs they have achieved their goal, a healthy baby boy, Benjamin. As for my other grandson, Benjamin will need a start someday and we need to take the responsibility seriously, that will be my job, Welcome to the world Benjamin.

Laura and Mike, all I can say, I can rest now,

Dad

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October 10, 2011
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Here’s a little interview for Alloy TV’s “Living Your Dream” that turned out pretty nice.

http://www.teen.com/tv/q-and-a/living-your-dream-private-investigator/

Here is a story to commemorate our 3rd year of DesperateExes.com and my 19th as a private investigator. If I was to take my last breath tonight and not awake in the morning, someone would have to ask, where did he come from? My influence on the P.I. world will be around long after I am gone, that I promise you. And the guy who started the whole adventure…. Well, many readers know of my being adopted as an infant by a law-abiding, middle-class Armenian family in the 50s. John Joseph “Jack “ Nicholson and John James Nazarian have much in common in our early days on the planet, though he got here 15 years before me…he being born in New York City and I, Boston. We have let’s just say a very unusual and common thread..and it is also funny how much I always enjoyed the movie “Chinatown,” never to imagine I would become a P.I. myself one day.

Flash forward 30 plus years…I have done it all, had my trouble as a juvenile, high speed pursuit, in the 60’s (they were unheard of in those days!). Sent out to California for what I guess was to punish me or my sister who I lived with, not sure. Got my head out of my ass to some degree, did well in school and off to the Navy after graduating from High School, and then began my next career as an embalmer. That was great in those days, when you’re young death doesn’t get to you much, you think you’ll live forever. I had a ball during the Disco Era and wild nights and even wilder days working at several mortuaries, one big party! “Six Feet Under” should have had me as an advisor…that show would still be on the tube had I been there… STORIES!!!! You would not believe!

Became a State Prison Guard, Deputy Sheriff and Police Officer and then I met Gary Lieberman, Esquire (much has been left out as many would not believe all that I have done!). Mr. Lieberman pretty much kicked my ass as well as my lawyer’s in a legal action involving my purchasing an apartment building in San Francisco….which was going well till “Mr. Lawyer” Lieberman came on the scene. That would lead to a friendship of more than 25 years that still exists to this very day, Gary was the guy who said, “John, have you ever thought of being a private investigator?” Gary Lieberman was also the very first lawyer to ever pay me, nineteen years ago, $45 an hour (it was a lot then!). Gary was first, then Lisa Meyer and Sorrell Trope, my three Jews, and Armand Keosian, Armenian. That is pretty much how I got started and the rest, as they say, is history. I owe so much to Gary for convincing me to take the P.I. Test and getting me started that I will always have a very special place in my heart for him and his family. Armand gave me a great office in Century City and Lisa and Sorrell put up with me all these years, and those checks!!!! I have no idea where I would have ended up had it not been for these wonderful and generous people.

Gary was kind enough to remind me how he “nailed” me, my partner, and my Stanford graduate lawyer to the wall and prevented me from buying my first apartment building in San Francisco……we became immediate friends on the spot!

Gary emailed me just the other day:

“John: I have now looked at your website and I am more impressed than ever. To think that I had something to do with all of this is quite rewarding. I am sad that you didn’t talk about me at being at the beginning (just kidding). Remember when I took your deposition? The look on your face (and your attorney also) when I asked the realtor what kind of a deal this was that my client, the seller, had to put in $45,000 to close the deal???????????????? You were a good deponent……

Honestly, I am very proud to say that I know you (and knew you when) and that I paid you so much to work for me. See you soon my friend.

Gary”

Thanks Gary,

John

PS – I am sure there are many who wish you and I had never met, and the best part is that they have not seen the best yet!

Forty years already, were does the time go? For me as with so many, the late 60’s and early 70’s were a time of turmoil. I was in the process of getting kicked out of my home in Boston by the original wicked stepmother, aka Marian Badasher Nazarian, “a women that my father slept with.” My adoptive mother Cecelia F. Nazarian died March 26, 1963, I was ten. “Dad” was lonely I guess and met this whore as a passenger on one of his ships. “Daddy” married her in 1966. And it wasn’t long before she managed to unload me thanks to her hard work convincing my father I was a “bad kid” (this “bad kid” grew up to be a cop and all these years later I can now look back and see what Marian conspired to do). I was on my way to a dry desolate little place called Saugus, California. Back in those days there was nothing much in Saugus, California and it was hot and it was dry and this was where my sister and her family lived, and it was were I was going to be living for a very long time. This would turn out to be some of the best times of my life….the 70’s.

Well as time went on I became friends with Deputies from the old Newhall Station on San Fernando Road and for me coming from a suburb of Boston this was like visiting a western movie set. I remember the Manson murder case and I also remembered very vividly a man called Vincent Bugliosi…Vincent was the prosecutor who became famous on so many levels in sending many of the Manson Family to state prison. We all watched in fascination on television those horrific events. Vincent had a powerful presence in those days and later in my life he would still have it. A few years ago I interviewed Vincent Bugliosi for the O.J.Simpson story I did for Discovery Channel and I was very impressed with his still very strong presence and energy, he is sharp as ever and opinionated and interesting to speak with. This was a man that I had watched as a teenager on TV and now I was at his house, in his living room, reflecting on a very large part of his career. That large part was Charlie Manson and the three girls, all vicious killers, though Charlie always stated that he killed no one….

My early entry into law enforcement was as a prison guard at CIW, California Institute for Women in Frontera. Not a question in my mind that the time spent with the California Dept. of Corrections was one of my best learning experiences. Go figure, and as time went on I was introduced to all the famous female killers and others who had achieved an interesting level of fame — bank robbers, child killers, drug dealers and “Queens of Fraud.” I had them all for 8 to 16 hours a day, and little did I know that when I took my initial physical at the prison hospital it was an inmate handling part of my “intake” as a California State Prison guard…looking back on that experience it was strange but hey, I did not care, I needed a job. My first few days I had to remind myself that these inmates were all “female” no matter how masculine they appeared or the roles they play while incarcerated.

As a Prison Guard at C.I.W. I had a great deal of interaction with Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie Van Houten and of course the infamous Susan Atkins. These girls were celebrities in the prison system, and at one time were housed in the specialty housing unit aka Death Row. Till “the girls” arrival there was not a Death Row at C.I.W. Death Row, C.I.W. style, was built of brick and cement with the intent of holding the “Manson Girls.” In time “the girls” would be released to General Population aka, GP, once the death penalty in California was no more. Surviving this was an achievement for the three convicted murderers, as for one of the other inmates to kill them would have given that inmate a certain level of jailhouse fame…these three girls were very smart inmates. They got their educations and became mouthpieces for others, as they could get instant access to the administration. I always found them interesting, Susan was very friendly and I would be selected to handle her wedding, and to take a picture with her and her new and very short-term husband Don Laisure (he was a huckster and a con) and Captain Brueske. That picture was worth more than $10,000 during those days but I kept it. Over time I acquired many photos of the girls and even a lock-up order for Ms. Van Houten, as it was I that was placed in charge of locking her up for a period of time.

Leslie had violated an institutional rule and had to be confined…look at it as a jail within a prison. Inmates had rules and regulations that they had to follow or they would be punished. Like many of the infamous murderers and killers within the institutions and State Pens, most of these people “program” and were not security issues or trouble makers. The trouble makers in the prison system tend to be the petty thieves and drug dealers. The “heavys” tended to be very easy to deal with. The only reason I could figure was they “got it” and understood what needed to be done to “do their time.” All of the Manson Girls were very pleasant and social with guards in a very professional way, they knew they were “cons” and they also knew of their fame.

Myself and Officer Sonny White were assigned one time to take Susan Atkins out to a medical appointment. This was huge as Susan had not been outside the C.I.W. since her arrival many years ago. Security was very tight and I was driving, not even the media caught wind of this event…she too was a little excited as it was a big deal. Note: I was the first armed prison guard to ever transport a female inmate on a one on one basis, back in those days this was a huge task. A female convicted felon could concoct a million stories as to what did or did not occur while away from the prison. Over the time I was assigned to C.I.W., along with Officer White and Officer Bertha Gonzalez, the three of us transported hundreds of felons off the prison grounds and never was there one incident. Well, sorta, that being I was attacked while moving an inmate from a building at Riverside General Hospital to a State Prison Vehicle for return to C.I.W. Yes, I was attacked by a German Shepherd/Collie mix! No he did not bite me but I did fire three .38’s into him and all hell broke loose. “A state prison guard fires his weapon,” well it was as if I had shot and killed Lassie. I love dogs, but I love me too.

There was another time that I and Officer Sonny White may have foiled a rescue attempt. One late afternoon we were headed back to the prison when we spotted an inmate who had been released a few days earlier. Neither I nor White knew of her release, we thought that she had escaped…when in fact she was going to try and either make contact with her lesbian lover or try and rescue her from our custody. Well, after much yelling as you see on TV and handcuffed bodies it was all figured out. The recently released inmate was in violation of her parole by being so close to the prison. Also, when she saw it was Officer White and myself, she knew that any rescue attempt would have ended in a shootout, and I still believe that she “weighed her options” and took the heat for being so close to the prison and dealt with that. Her “lover” was returned to the confines of C.I.W. and Officer White and I went home that night.

I have nothing but very fond memories of my time at C.I.W and many of the inmates that I dealt with there. Some had been dealt some bad cards, for others it was just the life they chose. I can recall one inmate telling me, “Mr. Nazarian, I will stop coming back when I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

My interaction with Susan Atkins was always a positive one. As was my contact with the other two, I found them very interesting as I did many of the infamous felons that as a guard I was in charge of. Susan knew that if I had to, I would have killed her, and as an inmate she “got it.” And at the same time, based on what I am hearing of her terrible ill health, I think that she should be allowed to die outside the confines of C.I.W. And I do understand revenge, probably better than I want to, and I know more of what took place at the scenes of all of those murders back in the days of “Helter Skelter”…however, enough is enough, she spent her entire life in prison and is dying as I type, let her go, she has only one leg and is terminal with brain cancer. We all have beginnings and ends, her end is real and will arrive very soon, the point has been made, she spent her natural life locked up in a state prison.

To Susan I wish you comfort, and to Patricia and Leslie, you are some of my most interesting memories.

John J. Nazarian, Former State Prison Guard at C.I.W.