{"id":94766,"date":"2026-02-22T16:21:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94766"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:21:41","slug":"andy-and-shia-in-the-pokey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/andy-and-shia-in-the-pokey\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy and Shia in the Pokey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cI do have more socially liberal views.&nbsp;<br \/>\nSome of my best friends are gay.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Savannah<\/strong><strong> Chrisley<\/strong> on the <strong><em>Behind the Table<\/em><\/strong> podcast<br \/>\n(an offshoot of <strong><em>The View<\/em><\/strong>).&nbsp; Doesn\u2019t she also have a<br \/>\nfamily member who is gay?&nbsp; Someone very close to her?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>How was your birthday, <strong>Billy<\/strong>?&nbsp; Thank you for asking.&nbsp; It was one of the best birthdays ever.&nbsp; It was even more brilliant after hearing how the artist formerly known as <strong>Prince Andrew <\/strong>spent his birthday \u2013 in the pokey!&nbsp; Admittedly, I might have enjoyed a birthday in a British prison more than most.&nbsp; But something tells me it wasn\u2019t the type of celebration Andrew anticipated.&nbsp; The icing on the cake was when his brother, <strong>King Charles III<\/strong>, refused to intervene. &nbsp;\u201cThe law must take its course.\u201d&nbsp; Happy bday, sir.&nbsp; And so say all of us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It also wasn\u2019t a good week for <strong>Shia LaBeouf <\/strong>\u2013 a name one rarely mentions anymore.&nbsp; He was in New Orleans for <em>Mardi Gras <\/em>and, according to reports, he attacked one <strong>Jeffrey Damnit <\/strong>and screamed, \u201cYou\u2019re a fucking faggot\u201d.&nbsp; Damnit, it should be noted, had on mascara, eye shadow and lipstick.&nbsp; But it was Mardi Gras in New Orleans, for fuck\u2019s sake!&nbsp; Another queer man, <strong>Nathan Thomas Reed<\/strong>, was a witness: \u201cI want it to be known that he was calling people \u2018faggot.\u2019\u201d&nbsp; A newspaper quoted LaBeouf saying, \u201cThese faggots put me in jail \u2013 I\u2019m a Catholic.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; And yet, this utterance was omitted from the \u201csworn probable cause statement\u201d filed in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI do have more socially liberal views.&nbsp; Some of my best friends are gay.\u201d&nbsp; \u2013 Savannah Chrisley on the Behind the Table podcast (an offshoot of The View).&nbsp; Doesn\u2019t she also have a family member who is gay?&nbsp; Someone very close to her? How was your birthday, Billy?&nbsp; Thank you for asking.&nbsp; It was one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94775,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94766\/revisions\/94775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}