Breaking DEI Myths, Discrimination, & the Wild World of Placentas

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[00:00:10] Bruce Anthony: Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is unsolicited perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcast and YouTube exclusive content.

[00:00:28] Bruce Anthony: Rate, review, [00:00:30] like, comment, share, share with your friends, share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies. On today's episode, it's the Sibling Happy Hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're going to be dilly dallying a little bit, then we're going to be talking about DEI, and then we're going to be talking about placentas.

[00:00:48] Bruce Anthony: But that's enough of the intro, let's get to the show.

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[00:00:59] Bruce Anthony: What up [00:01:00] sis?

[00:01:00] J. Aundrea: What up, brudda?

[00:01:01] Bruce Anthony: I can't call it, I can't call it. This is the last time that we will be meeting before. Our 200th episode.

[00:01:09] J. Aundrea: It's cra Like, I remember when we hit 100, and I was like, This is insane.

[00:01:15] Bruce Anthony: Uh,

[00:01:15] J. Aundrea: And now that we've hit 200, I mean, what's past insane? even know.

[00:01:23] Bruce Anthony: I don't know.

[00:01:24] J. Aundrea: It's

[00:01:24] Bruce Anthony: Okay. It's astounding.

[00:01:26] J. Aundrea: of us, though.

[00:01:26] Bruce Anthony: I am proud of us too, especially considering the fact that you didn't think [00:01:30] that we was going to make it to episode 10.

[00:01:31] J. Aundrea: bring that up every milestone we hit. Every single milestone, you bring it up.

[00:01:40] Bruce Anthony: I just want to

[00:01:40] J. Aundrea: think I thought we would I didn't think so. Okay, I admit it. Ladies and gentlemen, I didn't think we were gonna make it But here we are

[00:01:52] Bruce Anthony: look because of your ADHD, we might've not made it, but because of my meticulous obsession, [00:02:00] we're here.

[00:02:01] J. Aundrea: right

[00:02:02] Bruce Anthony: Um, We've gotten some interesting feedback about what we should do for the 200th episode, and we did this for the 100th episode, but I know that we have some new listeners, some new watchers that may not go back and watch.

[00:02:16] Bruce Anthony: It's so many episodes to go back and you would really only do it if one, you're right. Yes. Math.

[00:02:26] J. Aundrea: Right,

[00:02:29] Bruce Anthony: [00:02:30] Yes. And you would really only do it if one, you're a huge, huge fan of ours

[00:02:34] J. Aundrea: right,

[00:02:35] Bruce Anthony: and Benjam. We're not, it's not like we're something that you can really, truly bend like a television show,

[00:02:42] J. Aundrea: not

[00:02:42] Bruce Anthony: we'd be talking about some real stuff and you will get your feelings hurt and your heart broke dealing with us.

[00:02:48] Bruce Anthony: We're going to take you on an emotional rollercoaster.

[00:02:51] J. Aundrea: Yes

[00:02:52] Bruce Anthony: you might cry, you're gonna be angry. It's gonna be all those things, and you can only take us in doses.

[00:02:56] J. Aundrea: okay. Mm

[00:02:58] Bruce Anthony: was brought to my attention, hey, [00:03:00] why don't we answer listener and watcher questions? And we had some really, really dedicated listeners.

[00:03:09] Bruce Anthony: I'm not going to point out who they are, but y'all know who you are. Who gave us a list of questions and said, Hey, um, maybe you guys could answer these questions. Now, some of them, we ain't going to answer all of them because it was a lot, but I also encourage the audience. Hey, contact us through DM through our Instagram.

[00:03:28] Bruce Anthony: Uh, don't try and DM me, [00:03:30] uh, DMS us, um, uh, tick tock, cause we don't be answering them, but on Instagram, on Instagram, you know, go on our website. You can email us directly, um, and send us questions or suggestions or things that you want us to talk about it. And, and if it's appropriate, we'll talk about them.

[00:03:47] Bruce Anthony: Some questions, a lot of times y'all be asking real personal stuff. And I know we'd be personal in here sometimes, but we don't be too personal.

[00:03:55] J. Aundrea: Like what kind of, what, what are some examples? I'm curious.

[00:03:59] Bruce Anthony: I don't [00:04:00] remember. It was a lot of, so Bruce, what's your type? Who have you been with?

[00:04:04] J. Aundrea: Uh, gotcha.

[00:04:05] Bruce Anthony: how come you didn't call me back? And I'm like, yo, that's a real personal question. That don't have nothing to do with the show.

[00:04:11] J. Aundrea: that, okay. That's yeah, that's y'all just trying to get your own little answers.

[00:04:16] Bruce Anthony: Right.

[00:04:17] J. Aundrea: no. Ask us actual questions that

[00:04:19] Bruce Anthony: Right.

[00:04:20] J. Aundrea: would want the answer to. Not just you.

[00:04:23] Bruce Anthony: And, and the reason why I didn't call you back is because your breath stank. I didn't want to say it to your face, but it stank all to [00:04:30] be damn.

[00:04:30] J. Aundrea: a public

[00:04:32] Bruce Anthony: Yes. Well, yeah. Cause I had to say it to him directly. I don't never have to run into him again. I got them blocked on Instagram anyway. Stank, stank ass breath. Now it was foul.

[00:04:43] Bruce Anthony: I was like, yo, how's your, did you brush your teeth this morning? Did you eat?

[00:04:48] J. Aundrea: tooth or something in their digestive system or something, you know, there's a lot of, there's a lot of reasons for halitosis.

[00:04:55] Bruce Anthony: Look, if it was in her digestive system, she must've ate bad liver and onions.[00:05:00]

[00:05:01] J. Aundrea: Or she just ate liver and onions.

[00:05:04] Bruce Anthony: Or, or that too.

[00:05:05] J. Aundrea: the people who like that. Like our mother. I don't.

[00:05:09] Bruce Anthony: Ugh,

[00:05:09] J. Aundrea: can't.

[00:05:10] Bruce Anthony: so country. So country. So, give us your suggestions for the 200th episode. We'll be filming this time next week, 200. So, you only got, uh, six days. So, actually, actually, from when this airs, you got three. So, get them questions in.

[00:05:27] J. Aundrea: get em in now. The [00:05:30] fact is, if you got something, a burning question, go on and go ahead and type it in and get it to us right now.

[00:05:36] Bruce Anthony: Right. Matter of fact, pause the episode

[00:05:42] J. Aundrea: Just

[00:05:43] Bruce Anthony: and write it.

[00:05:44] J. Aundrea: We'll wait.

[00:05:45] Bruce Anthony: I'm not going to wait.

[00:05:47] J. Aundrea: Right. Go ahead and pause.

[00:05:48] Bruce Anthony: Go ahead and pause.

[00:05:49] J. Aundrea: go ahead and ask your question now.

[00:05:51] Bruce Anthony: Just ask the question. Um, so that's the 200th episode. We're really happy about it. Thank you guys for, for rocking [00:06:00] with us. And we'll probably get into some more sappy stuff on the next episode. But. For this episode, I want to do a revisit to the last episode.

[00:06:09] Bruce Anthony: This is, this is what I mean by this. Your kid's Olympic story has gotten such, such feedback.

[00:06:18] J. Aundrea: Oh my

[00:06:18] Bruce Anthony: People are dying laughing about this story. Now, they often, they often love your stories. And the way that you [00:06:30] speak and do things, the audience loves you. If we did a Q rating on me versus you, I was going, well, I was going way low.

[00:06:39] J. Aundrea: don't get your, don't get your feelings hurt by doing that.

[00:06:42] Bruce Anthony: Look, it ain't hurting my feelings. I know this is unsolicited perspectives with Bruce Anthony, but I don't want a real star to show you. Yes. Let's let's talk about.

[00:06:56] J. Aundrea: ensemble, [00:07:00] please. We are an ensemble. It only

[00:07:02] Bruce Anthony: Well,

[00:07:03] J. Aundrea: the both of us.

[00:07:05] Bruce Anthony: yes, but somebody's got to be the straight man and I do that, you know, and I think I do it quite well, but they just were like, the story is hilarious. And in my mind, I'm like, well, this is the first time I heard that story, but I know there's a million stories that you and our brother have of just y'all shenanigans.

[00:07:23] J. Aundrea: Yeah, um, we were very interesting children. So yes, [00:07:30] we, uh, we have, we do have a lot of shenanigans and I always had some sort of scheme and we were not shy children. Like it didn't, it did not bother me at all to go door to door in our neighborhood and ask people for money. Like I, That it just seemed like the next step I have to raise capital in order to get this kids Olympics off the ground. And so, yeah, there are, there are plenty of stories with me. And our younger brother [00:08:00] engaging in shenanigans,

[00:08:01] Bruce Anthony: somebody also said that's such a nineties thing like that is.

[00:08:05] J. Aundrea: much

[00:08:05] Bruce Anthony: That is such a going door to door asking for it to net you like you wouldn't do that now too many murder criminal minds and crime shows just let you know that you're going to knock on the wrong door and it's going to be some silence of the lambs type situation.

[00:08:19] J. Aundrea: Yeah. I mean, everything about the story was very nineties. Like the fact that, you know, Dan and Dave, I mean, I don't even know if you have to be our age or older to remember that,[00:08:30]

[00:08:30] Bruce Anthony: And

[00:08:30] J. Aundrea: whole campaign. Like everything about that story was very, very nineties. The fact that children are knocking on strangers doors and all that.

[00:08:38] J. Aundrea: It was very, very nineties. It was a safe era. Yeah.

[00:08:41] Bruce Anthony: I think it was a Reebok I think they were sponsored by Reebok and truth be told, I haven't seen too many people rocking the Reebok I know Reebok is still out there that she was still out there.

[00:08:50] J. Aundrea: it definitely is.

[00:08:51] Bruce Anthony: I just haven't seen me because I remember the old Reebok classics, the all whites.

[00:08:57] J. Aundrea: Yeah, them soft, them soft Reeboks. [00:09:00] Yes, yes.

[00:09:01] Bruce Anthony: they used to be, people used to rock them.

[00:09:03] Bruce Anthony: Right. But, but I don't really, I mean, I know the answer AI re launched tissue like Jordan does old releases and those were popular, but most people ain't really rocking at least to my knowledge. I don't see it, but I live in the area where everybody rocks new balance. I don't know why D. C. Is such a new balance area.

[00:09:25] J. Aundrea: it's always been very, very new balance. But you know what? I'm looking at, uh, I'm [00:09:30] on the Reebok website. It's not, hey, I wear these. So, you know, bring us, give us some more, um, you know, bring them back.

[00:09:39] Bruce Anthony: I mean, I don't

[00:09:40] J. Aundrea: advertisements. Let's,

[00:09:41] Bruce Anthony: That's a thing,

[00:09:42] J. Aundrea: yeah.

[00:09:43] Bruce Anthony: but actually when you think about it, when's the last time you've seen a shoe commercial? I mean, Nike still does shoe commercials, but like, oh, I know, I guess Adidas does, but it's just soccer. Well,

[00:09:57] J. Aundrea: time I seen a commercial? So that's, [00:10:00] that's also it.

[00:10:02] Bruce Anthony: I will not pay to get rid of the ads. So I be seeing commercials all the time.

[00:10:08] J. Aundrea: So I know the only, the only. platform that honestly is truly pissing me off is Prime because I pay a lot of money annually and they have added commercials and ads in and I'm just like, well, what am I paying you for?

[00:10:24] Bruce Anthony: Well, Basil's got to get some more money, I guess.

[00:10:28] J. Aundrea: Uh, it, [00:10:30] why?

[00:10:32] Bruce Anthony: I don't know. I mean, the more money, more problems. I guess he got more problems. You know, he had to give half. You know what I mean? He had to give half. You know what I'm saying?

[00:10:45] J. Aundrea: All right. That makes sense.

[00:10:47] Bruce Anthony: No, instead of 400 billion, he had 200 billion and I guess it's not a lot that you can do, uh, when it's 200 billion missing. I mean, you can't just be building spaceships and flying in there.

[00:10:59] Bruce Anthony: It's not [00:11:00] outer space. It's not inner space. Inner space was a movie from the 80s.

[00:11:04] J. Aundrea: Right. Cause I'm wondering, what is, what is Interspace?

[00:11:10] Bruce Anthony: Well, the movie was a great movie, by the way, where they went in this dude's ear, they miniaturized him and shrunk him and went into this dude's ear and he was going out through all the body. That was a crazy movie in and of itself.

[00:11:22] J. Aundrea: at it. It stars Martin Short 1987. I do not remember this film at all. It looks,

[00:11:29] Bruce Anthony: That's because she was [00:11:30] born in 84!

[00:11:31] J. Aundrea: it looks terrible, I definitely want to watch it, so I'm gonna see where I can watch it.

[00:11:38] Bruce Anthony: You can probably watch it on Prime. They got it.

[00:11:40] J. Aundrea: They got it on Prime and Apple TV,

[00:11:43] Bruce Anthony: See, there you go, right there. In his face.

[00:11:46] J. Aundrea: Honestly, it's gonna be on the SyFy channel on February 4th at 8 55 a. m.

[00:11:51] Bruce Anthony: Look.

[00:11:52] J. Aundrea: again on February 5th at 6 a. m. So if you have Sci fi chill and

[00:11:56] Bruce Anthony: Look. Watch me

[00:11:58] J. Aundrea: on a Wednesday, [00:12:00] can watch,

[00:12:00] Bruce Anthony: in this face starring Martin Short.

[00:12:04] J. Aundrea: and Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan.

[00:12:07] Bruce Anthony: Wait, wait a minute. Isn't Dennis Quaid like problematic right now?

[00:12:11] J. Aundrea: No, that's his brother Randy.

[00:12:13] Bruce Anthony: Uh, well, Randy always been a little different.

[00:12:15] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:12:16] Bruce Anthony: Speaking of family.

[00:12:17] J. Aundrea: the mess.

[00:12:18] Bruce Anthony: Speaking of family,

[00:12:19] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:12:20] Bruce Anthony: back to the kids Olympic story, people were saying, your sister is so funny. When you tell the story and not keep telling people. In the hierarchy of funny in our family, just to deal with [00:12:30] the siblings.

[00:12:31] Bruce Anthony: If y'all think my sister is funny, she got nothing on our brother. Our brother,

[00:12:36] J. Aundrea: tease people like that because he will not come on the show, ladies

[00:12:39] Bruce Anthony: he won't, he won't.

[00:12:40] J. Aundrea: ask, don't ask, he won't do it. And so it's kind of hard like, say that. And then people were like, well, now we want to, we have to hear from him. And it's like, you're not going to.

[00:12:53] Bruce Anthony: Also, it's an expectation, right?

[00:12:56] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:12:57] Bruce Anthony: like, well, he's the funniest one out the bunch. And then to [00:13:00] come on the show, like there's a certain type of energy that you have to bring to present yourself, to push out what emotion that you're trying to push out. And our brother is very dead, dead pan and really situational.

[00:13:14] Bruce Anthony: So if we put him on the spot, he might not be funny. I don't know too many people who are funny. It's just right on. Like be funny.

[00:13:21] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:13:22] Bruce Anthony: Like, I'm not no comedian. I can't just be funny.

[00:13:25] J. Aundrea: I'm not a comedian. I'm not a comedic actor. I'm not any of those things. I'm just, I [00:13:30] see stuff. And honestly, I'm not trying to be funny, you guys. I, uh, a lot of people laugh at the things I say, but I'm very serious when I say I don't really make jokes that often. So, uh. I kind of want to put that out there a little bit too. I don't make jokes that often y'all. Uh, I don't know why y'all be laughing. I'm serious. So,

[00:13:54] Bruce Anthony: something to somebody the other day and it was absolutely just mean, [00:14:00] just mean. And they broke out laughing because it was funny. So I can't remember exactly what it was, but I, somebody was telling me a story and I've had a bunch of people recently tell me a bunch of stories that go nowhere.

[00:14:13] J. Aundrea: yeah,

[00:14:14] Bruce Anthony: I'm like, what's the point was a punchline and I'm, I'm getting, I'm at that age now where I am comfortable enough saying, wrap it up, speed it up.

[00:14:22] Bruce Anthony: I'm starting to go board. Right. Right.

[00:14:29] J. Aundrea: I'll do that. [00:14:30] Cause sometimes you gotta, you gotta speed people along.

[00:14:33] Bruce Anthony: Right. So a bunch of people have been telling me stories. In which they've done actions or responded a certain way. And I was like, where did they do that at? Like, why would you do that? That's kind of dumb. I know you were thinking that you would tell me and I would be on your side, but no, what you just did was idiotic.

[00:14:51] Bruce Anthony: And I don't know, I can't compute what it is, your action and your response. So it was a string of people giving me these types of stories and me just being fed up. So [00:15:00] this person was telling me a story.

[00:15:01] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:15:02] Bruce Anthony: And first of all, the story was too long and they weren't getting to the point. Okay. And I was like, Hey man, uh, wrap this up, get, get quicker to the point, get quicker to the point.

[00:15:10] Bruce Anthony: And so they got to the point and I was like, that was. That was what you wanted to tell me.

[00:15:14] J. Aundrea: Right,

[00:15:15] Bruce Anthony: the person was like, yeah, that's what I wanted to tell you. And I was like, you know what? I've had it with, with people giving me dumb, dumb stories that lead with no point present company, not excluded.

[00:15:28] J. Aundrea: right.[00:15:30]

[00:15:31] Bruce Anthony: And they were like, Oh damn, that's not how you normally say it. You don't say president company excluded. I said, no, specifically not excluded. You just told me a dumb ass.

[00:15:40] J. Aundrea: it's very much inclusive of you.

[00:15:43] Bruce Anthony: You just told me a dumbass story that was a waste of my time. I felt like doing that, uh, what was it? The, the, not the Happy Gilmore, the Billy Madison thing, where we, he did the little speech, where they did the little, um, academic special.[00:16:00]

[00:16:00] Bruce Anthony: Everybody knows that the Billy, Billy Madison, where he had to go back to school, and he had to do this competition in the high school, and the guy was like, we are sitting here dumber from, from ever listening.

[00:16:10] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:16:11] Bruce Anthony: That's what I want. I wanted to do that big monologue, but I can't even remember exactly the scene as I just tried to describe it just now.

[00:16:19] Bruce Anthony: So I'm gonna put my stuff

[00:16:19] J. Aundrea: I know the scene. So it's, I, I, could I tell you exactly what the scene No, but I do remember in response to whatever Billy said, [00:16:30] the guy there was like, we are all dumber for having listened. To you just now. Like, so I definitely remember that.

[00:16:38] Bruce Anthony: and that's how I felt. That's how I felt. I felt dumber. I told, and I told the person, I was like, that was a dumb ass story. Uh, you and all the parties that were in the store are just dumb for the way that y'all responded. Everybody's being idiotic. And, um, don't ever tell me no story like that again.

[00:16:56] Bruce Anthony: Matter of fact.[00:17:00]

[00:17:01] Bruce Anthony: And this is who I am now at this age. Y'all be thinking we're funny. We're actually really mean. Yeah, we're really mean.

[00:17:07] J. Aundrea: mean. Also, um,

[00:17:11] Bruce Anthony: We'll do it with a smirk.

[00:17:12] J. Aundrea: what, I don't know what the, what the takeaway is for that, but just you know, we're not very nice.

[00:17:18] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, we're not, I mean,

[00:17:19] J. Aundrea: was,

[00:17:20] Bruce Anthony: uh, not very, uh.

[00:17:22] J. Aundrea: not nice.

[00:17:24] Bruce Anthony: And that, and that bothered you to no end.

[00:17:27] J. Aundrea: Um, it didn't bother

[00:17:29] Bruce Anthony: No, [00:17:30] I remember you telling me this story.

[00:17:31] J. Aundrea: the first. time that somebody articulated what is in fact the truth. Like I'm not acknowledging, I'm not saying that it's not the truth. I'm acknowledging that it's the truth. I'm not a conventionally nice, person, or even a friendly person, I'm kind. And that's, I think, more important.

[00:17:52] J. Aundrea: But am I gonna go out of my way? And no, I'm probably not gonna do that. Um, if you need [00:18:00] me for something, or if, you know, if I got to be kind about something, I'll definitely do that. But nice, friendly? Nah, probably not.

[00:18:08] Bruce Anthony: Well, okay. People would say that I'm nice. I would say I'm polite.

[00:18:13] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:18:14] Bruce Anthony: that's, that's what I,

[00:18:15] J. Aundrea: a difference between all of these things. Like, yeah,

[00:18:18] Bruce Anthony: I'm polite. You know, I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to acknowledge you, uh, until you do something stupid or say something stupid. Now I'm at that big age where I'm also going to tell you about it.[00:18:30]

[00:18:30] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:18:30] Bruce Anthony: That that's just who I am now.

[00:18:32] Bruce Anthony: Speaking of telling people for being stupid. Y'all, I If you not realizing what's going on, we haven't talked politics in a while and I haven't wanted to, but this I have to speak on because the country is literally going backwards.

[00:18:51] J. Aundrea: Yes. I don't know anything about this cause I'm gonna be honest with you guys. I checked out after the election. Um, I mean, [00:19:00] obviously I rehearsed, uh, researched for the show, but like every time Washington Post or New York Times pops into my email inbox, and I see the headline, I just delete, because it's and this is another bit of madness that we have to talk about.

[00:19:20] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, we're going to talk about DEI and we're going to get into that.

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[00:19:32] Bruce Anthony: So many people don't even understand what DEI is. So let me explain to you what DEI is diversity. Equity and inclusion, DEI, and organizational frameworks aimed at promoting the fair treatment and full participation of all individuals, particularly those from historically marginalized groups. The primary intention of DEI initiative is to [00:20:00] counteract systematic discrimination, ensuring that organizations cultivate a work environment that respects and includes diverse perspectives, and Backgrounds.

[00:20:12] Bruce Anthony: This encompasses various practices including targeted recruiting, recruitment efforts, resource groups for underrepresented minorities, and training programs designed to mitigate unconscious bias. Now, just from that

[00:20:28] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm. Mm[00:20:30]

[00:20:30] Bruce Anthony: can you explain to me, Jay, How that could ever be considered a bad thing.

[00:20:37] J. Aundrea: Sure. Um, so if you are of the, um, social political majority, you are used to having your ideas, your, um, Um, your contributions being the only valid contributions. [00:21:00] And now people are saying, no, no, wait, places like, you know, your workplace actually benefit from having people from diverse backgrounds. It actually increases innovation and engagement and decision making and stuff like that. So let's, let's actually bring more people in. Well, when you see life as a zero sum game, you meet, you think that that means that pushes you out. And [00:21:30] so you don't want anything to come into play that could make you feel what you truly are, which is mediocre.

[00:21:42] Bruce Anthony: And so I've said that before, right? We've had this conversation before. A lot of people that are against the, uh, they could be for various reasons, but there are some people who just don't want to compete because in that competition they realize, Oh, I thought I was something, but I'm not right. But, [00:22:00] but there are some misconceptions.

[00:22:03] Bruce Anthony: About DEI and you've brought up some of them. Let's expand upon that. One of the misconceptions is DEI benefits only specific groups. This leads to some to argue that the DEI programs create reverse discrimination. Critics claim DEI initiatives unfairly prioritize race, gender, or sexual orientation over merit.

[00:22:26] Bruce Anthony: All of these misconceptions overlooks the fundamental [00:22:30] goal of DEI, which is to foster. An inclusive culture, which everyone has equal opportunity to succeed. I. E. Here's an, here's an analogy and I've given it before. There's a gym down the street. All the people that work out know about the gym. There's a whole neighborhood that's right across the street that doesn't know about the gym.

[00:22:52] Bruce Anthony: Inclusive is that gym reaching out to the neighborhood and saying, Hey! We have this gem that's [00:23:00] available to all of you guys that's right here that you might not have known about it

[00:23:04] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:23:05] Bruce Anthony: That's that's DEI and a lot of people who are thinking about is race or gender based or sexual orientation And it is unfairly Prioritizing them guess what?

[00:23:17] Bruce Anthony: All of these programs unfairly pushed them out. They weren't including all this program is doing. DEI said, Hey, look, for those people who didn't know, there are [00:23:30] these jobs that are available over here. Well, I don't, I don't know about those jobs. Okay. Well, here's some information about the job. Oh, okay.

[00:23:37] Bruce Anthony: Well, I'm not really qualified for this job. Okay. That's okay that you're not qualified. Maybe one day you will be. Here are some programs where you can get training if you have interest in this field. Oh, that's great.

[00:23:49] J. Aundrea: Right.

[00:23:50] Bruce Anthony: That's, that's all it is. Once again, Jay, how is this a bad thing?

[00:23:55] J. Aundrea: Because by By reaching [00:24:00] out to diverse populations, right? What are you doing? You're expanding the talent pool now in, in ideally what it's doing is, is giving you access to not just diverse populations, but. Um, top talent that you may have overlooked because maybe they didn't go to an Ivy League school or, or, you know, [00:24:30] any, any number of things.

[00:24:32] J. Aundrea: Maybe they didn't know that your company even existed. So by going out and doing these, you know, outreach efforts and everything, you're increasing the talent pool. When you increase the talent pool, people who did not need to be talented before, you're Now they have competition [00:25:00] and now they have real competition and the way that they sort of, um, you know, discourage that is by saying, Oh no, no, no. You're just looking at race, gender, and sexual orientation. You're not looking at merit. No, no, no, no, no, no. I am widening the talent pool so that I can find top talent because. What I think, ultimately, people are [00:25:30] realizing is, you know, without DEI, the current talent pool we have is just not that great. We need to expand in order to find top talent. And that means we have to start looking at populations that we previously overlooked for whatever reason, usually discrimination.

[00:25:50] Bruce Anthony: So that's one misconception, right? That it unfairly prioritizes race, gender, and sexuality. And there are people that are just like, [00:26:00] it's reverse racism, everybody's against me. We're not saying specifically who these people are, white people, and not all white people, but the white people that don't believe in DEI, right?

[00:26:10] J. Aundrea: right.

[00:26:10] Bruce Anthony: These are the people that had this misconception. There's a whole other side. Misconception with the D. I. D. I. Programs are unnecessarily unnecessary. There are people that believe that the D. I. Programs are unnecessary in contemporary society. Skeptics argue systematic [00:26:30] inequality has been largely addressed, negating the need for focused efforts in diversity and inclusion.

[00:26:36] Bruce Anthony: F. Experts emphasize that while progress has been made, disparities still exist. However, and not only hiring practices, but pay equity and representation at various corporate levels. So you have people out here. One misconception is everybody done made it, right? Black folks done made it. Latino folks done made it.

[00:26:56] Bruce Anthony: Women done made it. They good. They see a few people then got some [00:27:00] Lexuses and got a nice, nice crib. And maybe an unfurnished at nice is like, Oh, that, that means the whole community is good. No, that's not how this country works.

[00:27:11] J. Aundrea: No.

[00:27:12] Bruce Anthony: that's not what's happening here. And the clear examples are, Hmm, still exist disparities in hiring practices, pay equity, and represents representation at the various corporate levels.

[00:27:25] Bruce Anthony: A lot of these CEOs, CFOs, vice presidents at these corporate levels, they be [00:27:30] real. Cut and paste are the same type of characteristics.

[00:27:34] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:27:35] Bruce Anthony: don't be real diverse. So to say that we have made it, no, we haven't made it. And that's.

[00:27:42] J. Aundrea: and, and it's not just important in business, right? It's important in education. It's important in healthcare, we see, we still see disparities in like for, for healthcare disparities, for instance, right? We're still, we're still seeing a higher, [00:28:00] um, mortality rate for, uh, for mothers, for black mothers. Right? During, while giving birth. Well, if we support DEI initiatives in healthcare, for example, we're reducing those disparities because you have now a workforce who, that, that can identify with their patient population. You got Black doctors that [00:28:30] understand Black patients. And understand that even though they still teach this in some medical schools, our skin is not thicker and we don't have a lower pain tolerance. We just don't trust healthcare professionals. So we're not going to tell you we're in pain. We're not going to tell you that things are okay. We just don't trust y'all. And why don't we trust y'all? Because we're not seeing ourselves represented among the healthcare workforce. It's the same with education. You still see [00:29:00] disparities in, in education. Um, funding to schools in, in urban and rural areas, things like that. There, there are so many studies out that show that talk about the importance of having not just black educators, but black male educators, these disparities. a rent and a myriad of systems. I would say all of our systems still [00:29:30] exist just because you have some people doing good. Doesn't mean that everybody's doing good. And let's talk about the most vulnerable, uh, in our population. Let's talk about. folks. And are we still seeing, yes is the answer, disparities in their treatment, in the corporate world, in healthcare, in education, in, uh, housing.[00:30:00]

[00:30:00] J. Aundrea: We're still seeing, so if, if the most vulnerable among us are still facing these inequities. We're not done. We're not done there. I don't, I don't, honestly, I don't foresee us ever reaching a destination. I feel like equity is, is constantly evolving in its definition and we're going to, we're going to have to constantly keep working to make sure that everybody has a buy in to [00:30:30] society.

[00:30:30] Bruce Anthony: Mm

[00:30:32] J. Aundrea: because

[00:30:34] Bruce Anthony: So what are some of the reasons behind the attacks on DEI? Well, there, of course, if y'all haven't been paying attention, there's been some political changes and increased polarization in public discourse having spurned some backlash against DEI. So basically, certain politicians have run on the fact that That they are taking away from you.

[00:30:59] Bruce Anthony: That's [00:31:00] what they've run on. And they are saying it's all DEI or woke. Once again, half of them can't even give you a definition of DEI. And I know damn sure that they can't give you the definition of woke. There's also been corporate responses to the backlashes against DEI from, from political people, right?

[00:31:18] Bruce Anthony: So these companies have started scaling back DEI commitments due to fear of legal replications, replications, And a hostile political environment. Customer based sentiments [00:31:30] against DEI initiatives perceived as misaligned with personal beliefs. Think about Bud Light and the backlash they got for the LGBTQ plus marketing.

[00:31:39] Bruce Anthony: Uh, and corporations have become cautious to avoid similar pitfalls to these types of situations, which have led to conservative groups leading complete campaigns to get rid of DEI, which the president just did as he signed, uh, No more DEI programs in the government. Right? Um, so conservative groups, [00:32:00] Project 2025, me and my sister told you about that.

[00:32:03] Bruce Anthony: Y'all didn't want to hear about it, but we told you about that. They are enacting everything. And so when I said at the top, Hey, the country is going backwards. All the progress we made to be inclusive and to give everybody a fair shot is being erased.

[00:32:23] J. Aundrea: Let's be honest, they don't want everyone to have a fair shot because if [00:32:30] everyone has a fair shot, then you have to do the work of keeping up with the competition. And when you have historically, and in modernity, not done the work, enslavement, having to now do the work seems like an imposition. And you'd rather not include anybody else.

[00:32:57] J. Aundrea: You'd rather just keep the status quo. Mm[00:33:00]

[00:33:01] Bruce Anthony: So let's just be real. What is DEI? I'm going to put it in real simple terms for you. DEI is really about respect, opportunity, and treating people right. That's what it's about. So, for all those people who are conservative Christians, who have said that DEI wasn't a good program because everything should be based on merit.

[00:33:29] Bruce Anthony: One, you don't [00:33:30] really believe that because as me and my sisters repeatedly said, if you open up competition, you find out that you're mediocre. So you don't really want that. Okay. But if you're truly a Christian and you truly believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, I'm not going to get up here and start preaching, but I'm just talking to you.

[00:33:52] Bruce Anthony: Conservative Christians. Cause I see a lot in that community

[00:33:56] J. Aundrea: hmm. Yeah.

[00:33:57] Bruce Anthony: and you truly believe in the teachings [00:34:00] of Jesus treating folks. Right. It's like top of the list, right? Being fair

[00:34:07] J. Aundrea: uh,

[00:34:07] Bruce Anthony: like top and be having compassion and empathy. It's like at the top of the list. Right

[00:34:11] J. Aundrea: yeah. I feel like one of Jesus's. Like main things was inclusion,

[00:34:18] Bruce Anthony: there.

[00:34:19] J. Aundrea: like bringing people, especially, uh, people from vulnerable populations, especially people who are, um, [00:34:30] ostracized or pushed into the margins of the community, bringing them all to the table. Mm.

[00:34:36] Bruce Anthony: of the hoes.

[00:34:43] J. Aundrea: Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm.

[00:34:46] Bruce Anthony: What, what, what? I don't, I don't get what that all is about.

[00:34:52] J. Aundrea: I just wouldn't have phrased

[00:34:55] Bruce Anthony: Well,

[00:34:58] J. Aundrea: it.

[00:34:59] Bruce Anthony: he was a [00:35:00] fan of the hoes. Let's just be real. He had a prostitute right by his side.

[00:35:04] J. Aundrea: listen,

[00:35:06] Bruce Anthony: Supposedly.

[00:35:06] J. Aundrea: supposedly because again, the representation of women in the Bible is highly suspect, but at any rate, at any rate, uh, you know, what is diversity, equity, and inclusion? It's diversity. Equity and inclusion. It ain't that it's not that difficult. It that difficult. [00:35:30] You guys, if you don't want your workplace, your school, your hospitals, wherever to be diverse. To offer equity to everyone and to make people feel included. I don't know what to tell you, but it doesn't make you that great of a person.[00:36:00]

[00:36:01] Bruce Anthony: There is a flip side to this. Hear me out on this.

[00:36:05] J. Aundrea: Oh boy.

[00:36:06] Bruce Anthony: Hear me out.

[00:36:07] J. Aundrea: Hmm.

[00:36:09] Bruce Anthony: Equal Opportunity Act is an act in hiring, I believe, for employers is that you can't be denied a job based on the very things that DEI is talking about, right? Like

[00:36:21] J. Aundrea: right.

[00:36:22] Bruce Anthony: race, your religion, all that type of stuff. DEI effectively gets rid of that.

[00:36:28] Bruce Anthony: Right? Because now [00:36:30] you don't have to be diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Which means now, that if you own a company, and you'd like, who'd you vote for? Because you can ask that question. Potentially. Legally, there's some gray area here. But, potentially, an employer could say, who'd you vote for? And if you said, I voted for Trump, go ahead and get out of my office.

[00:36:51] Bruce Anthony: They've opened the door to segregating themselves and eliminating opportunities for themselves. Now, it just so [00:37:00] happens that a lot of these corporations and the richest people in the world are bending the knee to this hatred. But we've seen throughout history that eventually things like this in the long run lose, right?

[00:37:14] Bruce Anthony: This is a losing proposition because any time that you push out hate Eventually, the people that are rocking with you, they're actually going to feel that hate too. Because when you've eliminated all the people that you actually hate, you got to turn the [00:37:30] hate to somebody else. Let me give you a point throughout our history.

[00:37:33] Bruce Anthony: At one point, white people really hated black people, so much that they enslaved us. But also, They really hated Irish people, Italian people, anybody that wasn't what they considered American, even though they all came from these countries. So eventually these groups that were also included in hating black people found out, Oh, we're getting hated.

[00:37:55] Bruce Anthony: As well,

[00:37:56] J. Aundrea: hmm.

[00:37:56] Bruce Anthony: people are starting to find out, Hey, wait a minute. [00:38:00] I thought Trump was a fan of the Jewish people, but he is really bringing in all of these people, especially with Elon Musk doing a basically Nazi salute, um, that are not fans of Jewish people. There, I, I know Jewish people that voted for him twice.

[00:38:21] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:38:22] Bruce Anthony: But didn't vote for him the third time because they finally saw what I was trying to tell them 12 years ago. And now they're even, they're sickened. They're sending me [00:38:30] stuff. And I was like, yeah. Oh, Elon Musk is a Nazi sympathizer. You just, you just now realizing that, like I told you this, uh, about a year or two ago.

[00:38:38] Bruce Anthony: No, but I didn't, but, but, but yeah, but like I could see it cause I've seen the hatred before. I know that aura of hatred. I see it coming from miles away. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's going to come to you.

[00:38:53] J. Aundrea: of why DEI is important. Because if you have a bunch of people who [00:39:00] don't have, that kind of perspective, right? They're all living in this bubble where they miss that perspective. Because you, you and I have to have a certain perspective Black. have to understand whiteness at a certain, at a certain depth, right?

[00:39:22] J. Aundrea: In order to just operate in this country. I have to have a certain knowledge as a woman, because I have to [00:39:30] understand and masculinity to operate safely. In this country. your DEI opens up the door to diverse perspectives. What that does is give you more information, which helps you make better decisions, helps you be more innovative. creative. This, you're, you gave a perfect illustration of why [00:40:00] DEI is so important. that person would have remained in that bubble and possibly voted for him a third time. Had not they had the perspective of someone who sits in a different seat of knowledge. Sounded out.

[00:40:21] Bruce Anthony: dumb and she smartened it up. I give up all the hoops and she slam duck it. See, that's the reason why my sister's on the show. You see how to be [00:40:30] successful in life is that you have smarter people around you than yourself to help you in your weak points.

[00:40:37] Bruce Anthony: I'm not well spoken. My sister is, she'll use words like impugn. Still don't know how to spell it, but that's what she does. Impugn hooked on phonics did not work for me. So that's

[00:40:54] Bruce Anthony: No, but it's true and even though we are black people, um, I know we in our winter [00:41:00] white phase right now. We experience that every single day and people are always like What are you talking about race? What are you talking about? I don't see color. First of all, you're lying to yourself The person told me that it's fairly close to me.

[00:41:11] Bruce Anthony: It was like I don't see color I was like, well, you're lying to yourself because Absolutely. You see color and I live in this.

[00:41:18] J. Aundrea: you for that.

[00:41:19] Bruce Anthony: Yes,

[00:41:20] J. Aundrea: We never asked you for that. I am black. It's okay to see me as, but my color is not the problem.

[00:41:26] Bruce Anthony: exactly.

[00:41:27] J. Aundrea: is the response to my color. That's the problem.

[00:41:29] Bruce Anthony: [00:41:30] There you go.

[00:41:30] J. Aundrea: I have no problem with being black. Black's not an issue.

[00:41:34] Bruce Anthony: I'm black and extremely proud. I would not want to be anything else in the world. I love being black.

[00:41:41] J. Aundrea: That you see about, I know what you're trying to say. You're trying to say the color doesn't inform your decisions on how to treat people. That is a lie. Okay.

[00:41:56] Bruce Anthony: You know, when people say something, all right, I'm [00:42:00] about to go real left with this analogy, but follow me here. I've been going real left on this episode already. I've been throwing Jesus on in the bus, but he know I'm just playing. He gave me this as a human, you know, I'm just playing. All right. You know how people say something

[00:42:14] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:42:15] Bruce Anthony: and they throw out that warning and like, Hey, I'm not going to do this, but they ended up doing it.

[00:42:19] Bruce Anthony: Case in point. Maybe you have somebody come over to visit you

[00:42:23] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:42:24] Bruce Anthony: and they say, Hey, Hey, just to let you know, I'm not going to sleep with you now. You didn't bring up [00:42:30] sleeping with them at all, right? They just brought that up,

[00:42:33] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:42:35] Bruce Anthony: you probably realize it's on their mind, not on your mind. And guess what?

[00:42:40] Bruce Anthony: They ended up sleeping with you. And so it's just like you trying to say, you trying to convince yourself.

[00:42:45] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:42:45] Bruce Anthony: That's all you trying to do by saying something like that. And so when you say, well, I don't see color. You just trying to convince yourself. You want to be a good person. Not to say that, you know, if you go over to somebody's house to sleep with them, you're not a good person.

[00:42:57] Bruce Anthony: That's not, that was an analogy. Just saying, I was just using that [00:43:00] example. Um, like people want to be a good person. They want to see themselves as a good person. Nobody wants to see themselves as a villain. Not really.

[00:43:08] J. Aundrea: Right.

[00:43:09] Bruce Anthony: you're going to lie to yourself. You're lying to yourself. You believe that you don't see color because I see color.

[00:43:14] J. Aundrea: it, it, yeah. It, it, and you, you can't help but have it inform your, the decisions that you make in the way that you treat people. Because I mean, that's just how our society is [00:43:30] set up. Um, certain people are villainized and certain people are held as a standard. And. We have all internalized that to some degree, right?

[00:43:42] J. Aundrea: And so we're constantly, you are woke, constantly checking yourself, not just calling other people in, but calling yourself in, um, It's a constant work in progress, but don't, don't act like I don't, [00:44:00] that's a very definitive thing to say for it to just not be true. Um, so also, cause I know somebody is going to say it. I know impugn is not a word. I don't know if you've met imbune or impunity. But I know somebody's going to ask.

[00:44:21] Bruce Anthony: I said that.

[00:44:21] J. Aundrea: say it. You said impugn.

[00:44:23] Bruce Anthony: When did I say that?

[00:44:24] J. Aundrea: You said that I use words like impugn. And I was like, I don't know.[00:44:30]

[00:44:30] Bruce Anthony: Uh, okay. Well, whatever words you use, I got it wrong.

[00:44:38] J. Aundrea: Neither here nor there. I just knew it would come up. I knew somebody was going to say something about it. But yeah, uh, uh, the, the, the

[00:44:46] Bruce Anthony: Not, no, not everybody is us. Not everybody has to point out flaws.

[00:44:52] J. Aundrea: that's true. Well, the, you know, uh, the Person who is currently occupying the Oval [00:45:00] Office, did sign an executive order, um, getting rid of Equal Employment Act, I believe. Maybe I'm making that up.

[00:45:13] Bruce Anthony: A lot of these executive orders though, that he's signing have already been, like, as soon as he signs them, there's a lawsuit. So a lot of the,

[00:45:23] J. Aundrea: he tried, he tried by executive order to revoke the Equal Employment Opportunity [00:45:30] Act. Um, because again, this whole issue with DEI, everything, it's very simple. They don't want you to expand the talent pool, period. They do not want talent pool expanded. They want to be the only ones considered. They want to be the only ones considered you don't want to have to [00:46:00] put in the work to compete fairly and honestly. It's very, very simple. This is not going to return us a time of meritocracy. There was never in this country ever a meritocracy. Ever. There never, ever was. People, the founding of this nation, the people who founded this nation, [00:46:30] okay? There was never, ever any meritocracy. They were the richest land owning people. Men. Like, it is not a meritocracy. This country was not built on that. Stop lying. And we're seeing the effects, right? So, uh, affirmative action was struck down. And now you're seeing a [00:47:00] decrease in Asian enrollment in some universities like Yale, for example, that'll do it. That'll do it because this country, again, it's not a meritocracy. It never was. You don't see color. This country is a meritocracy. Stop lying. Stop lying to all of us. We're not dumb. And you want to know why we're not dumb? Because we sit [00:47:30] in a different seat of knowledge from you. So we could see going on in a way that you can't, or either that you won't admit to yourself or that, you know, and you're standing on business on it, that you don't want this. You don't want to expand the talent pool. You don't want everyone to be on equal footing. You don't want equity in this country. Period. [00:48:00] Lyin ass. Stand on business! Stand on it! Right. Am I right? Like, am I tripping? Like stand on business. If you want to be real, be like, Hey, look, I'm not trying to put up the numbers I got to put up in order in order to be competitive in whatever industry, when normally, you know, little hiring manager would just look at me and if my [00:48:30] resume was acceptable enough, I got the job. If my name was the right kind of name, if it was pronounceable, I got admission, right? If my skin was a certain color and i'm Then I I have better health outcomes I can live in this neighborhood [00:49:00] and that's the truth. I almost

[00:49:06] Bruce Anthony: that's the truth, Ruth.

[00:49:10] J. Aundrea: said Ruth I almost said but I was like i'm trying to be like serious So i'm like i'm not gonna say that's the truth Ruth, but I almost did I almost did so i'm kind of glad you did

[00:49:21] Bruce Anthony: Alright, if y'all don't get that, watch Do The Right Thing. Actually, you'll learn something. But we gon talk about placentas, we gon talk [00:49:30] about that next.

[00:49:32]

[00:49:39] Bruce Anthony: Placitophagy.

[00:49:41] J. Aundrea: I

[00:49:42] Bruce Anthony: Say that five times fast.

[00:49:44] J. Aundrea: cannot.

[00:49:44] Bruce Anthony: Me neither. Toy spelling has sparked considerable interest and laughter with a recent revelation regarding placenta consumption. I said that right. Placenta consumption.

[00:49:56] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:49:57] Bruce Anthony: episode of her podcast Miss Spelling, [00:50:00] Spelling shared that she has kept multiple placentas stored in her freezer, specifically mentioning.

[00:50:06] Bruce Anthony: Two that belong to her children. Although she's unsure which placenta belongs to which child, she clarified that keeping placentas is a common practice often linked to benefits. About good luck or health benefits, though. She jokingly admitted her laziness is sending them off for processing into pills.

[00:50:24] Bruce Anthony: I'm going to expand on this, but I just, she says a common practice. Um, [00:50:30] and obviously there is a term for it. Um, we say at the top and it's becoming popular among, uh, new mothers and, uh, but that's because of celebrity endorsements. So is it common practice or is it just common practice in her small circle?

[00:50:47] Bruce Anthony: Well,

[00:50:52] J. Aundrea: in nature. Um, but is it common in like human culture? [00:51:00] It happens. Um, I even thought about it personally. I'm still on the fence. I would definitely have. it encapsulated if Like I wouldn't eat it like like I wouldn't just like eat it. Yeah, um Yeah, I thought about it. I'm gonna be honest.

[00:51:27] J. Aundrea: I did I did I did think about it. [00:51:30] Um, I don't know that there's enough um Like research on the actual benefits, which is why i'm like, I don't really think about I don't really think so um I am Gonna keep the cord blood though because that has, um, oh gosh, what is that? Um, uh, [00:52:00] it's like, uh, oh my gosh. I can't think of it right now, but there is a reason to keep the cord blood. But yeah, it's, uh, Okay.

[00:52:12] Bruce Anthony: this is the thing that tripped me out as I was reading up on this. She said once again in her podcast misspelling, which, okay, that's clever.

[00:52:21] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:52:21] Bruce Anthony: clever.

[00:52:22] J. Aundrea: is, yes.

[00:52:23] Bruce Anthony: She told a story that her and her ex husband actually cooked and ate one of her placentas. She [00:52:30] described the experience by saying that she,

[00:52:32] J. Aundrea: That's what I meant.

[00:52:33] Bruce Anthony: yes, himself,

[00:52:34] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:52:35] Bruce Anthony: she described the experience and said, you know, she's.

[00:52:38] J. Aundrea: hmm,

[00:52:38] Bruce Anthony: of tasty if you season it well, which by the way, I'm just going to go on the fact that it's probably not seasoned well. Tori Spelling looks really bland to me as a person. So I'm going to just assume she don't know how to season. Now, if she was from the South, even though she looked bland, [00:53:00] and I'm not talking about just her skin tone, cause I know Plantini, the little, Tick tock teeny,

[00:53:07] J. Aundrea: mm hmm.

[00:53:07] Bruce Anthony: she looked bland, but her food is not bland.

[00:53:10] Bruce Anthony: So that's not,

[00:53:11] J. Aundrea: never don't judge a book by it's

[00:53:13] Bruce Anthony: I'm not.

[00:53:13] J. Aundrea: know. Tori Spelling could throw down in the kitchen. We don't know.

[00:53:17] Bruce Anthony: going to assume that she can't. And I'm going to assume that she especially can't season no placenta well enough to put it on the table and have me eat it like her and her ex husband did. Now, I'm also, [00:53:30] in the words of my best friend, a chicken finger eating bitch. But!

[00:53:36] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:53:37] Bruce Anthony: But! Also, that sounds gross, but she's, you know, she runs by this childhood lesson that she learned when she was a child, obviously, that to try everything once, and I don't believe in that lesson to try everything once, because you're going to try some poop, because I'm not going to eat no poop.

[00:53:56] Bruce Anthony: That's ridiculous to me.

[00:53:57] J. Aundrea: gristle lumps? No.[00:54:00]

[00:54:00] Bruce Anthony: What is that?

[00:54:01] J. Aundrea: remember on You remember the ladies man? When he

[00:54:06] Bruce Anthony: Yes.

[00:54:06] J. Aundrea: Uh,

[00:54:10] Bruce Anthony: man is a movie star and I don't remember who was starting. He was on SNL. Uh,

[00:54:16] J. Aundrea: Tim Oh, gosh.

[00:54:20] Bruce Anthony: we are a ladies gentlemen. We struggling today. I don't know. My sister got a lot of stuff going on. I I've been forgetful lately. I don't know what's good.

[00:54:27] J. Aundrea: Meadows.

[00:54:28] Bruce Anthony: That's right.

[00:54:29] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:54:29] Bruce Anthony: man [00:54:30] starring Tim Meadows, which It's hilarious. Hillary Banks from, uh, Fresh Prince is also in that movie as well. Karen Parsons, funny, funny movie.

[00:54:39] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:54:40] Bruce Anthony: so me and her, me and my sister just referencing that. Y'all would have to watch the movie to understand that. But, but anyway, not everything is to be eaten, but they did say That there has been a little bit of research that there is some, you know, slight scientific evidence to support the benefits, even though this is limited.

[00:54:59] Bruce Anthony: [00:55:00] Um,

[00:55:01] J. Aundrea: I have, I have seen no scientific study that

[00:55:07] Bruce Anthony: well,

[00:55:07] J. Aundrea: but,

[00:55:08] Bruce Anthony: that's what these people that are promoting it are saying, but there is a lot of experts and medical experts that are warning against this. Well, they remain skeptical, skeptical. And the CDC is also like, look, eating a placenta. I don't know about that. Citing concerns over potential for contamination and lack of umbilical evidence support and claims of health benefits.

[00:55:28] Bruce Anthony: So, you [00:55:30] know, I mean, yeah, you can eat that stuff if you want to, but that don't necessarily mean this is going to be good for you. And there could be a placebo effect, right? People could be thinking, oh, I eat this and this makes me feel so much better. No. You're thinking it's making you feel better. So when you eat it, you feel better.

[00:55:46] Bruce Anthony: It's called a placebo effect. Please, ladies and gentlemen, just, we learned placebo effect in what, in biology class or something like that. Yeah. If y'all don't know what that is, I'm not going to explain it to you.

[00:55:57] J. Aundrea: So like, [00:56:00] uh, people believe that the has, you know, health benefits, it can prevent depression, and things like that. Again, I, I'm on the fence about it because I haven't seen any, any, any, you know, scientific studies, like, proving these benefits, but like, um, Yeah, I think you might be right, it could be a little bit of placebo effect, like, people are like, oh, I, Ate my placenta.

[00:56:29] J. Aundrea: So I [00:56:30] feel great. Like, do you feel great because you ate it or you feel great because you think it did something for you? So like, I don't know. Um, but

[00:56:41] Bruce Anthony: alcohol is supposed to be a depressant, but every time I drink it, I feel good.

[00:56:44] J. Aundrea: right. So it's like, you know, what, who knows? I don't know. Um, but, uh, yeah, I'm just, I'm still on, I'm on the fence about that. But I, I, I think that it's common in, in certain cultures. [00:57:00] Um, I know, I think I've read that it. It's an ingredient in a lot of traditional Chinese medicine, things like that. Um,

[00:57:12] Bruce Anthony: I think I,

[00:57:13] J. Aundrea: never, I'm never gonna, you know, I'm not gonna judge nobody. I thought about it myself, but I gotta see some more, some more evidence.

[00:57:21] Bruce Anthony: well, um, you're being a good person about it and you say you're not going to ever judge nobody. Um, I'm going to judge them and I'm going to judge you as well because this seems like it's nasty [00:57:30] as hell to me. And, um, yes, granted,

[00:57:32] J. Aundrea: I

[00:57:33] Bruce Anthony: granted,

[00:57:33] J. Aundrea: mean,

[00:57:33] Bruce Anthony: I'm literally eating chicken fingers and french fries and potato chips.

[00:57:37] Bruce Anthony: That's all I want in my life. I don't like to expand my palate, but this seems super expansive and gross and disgusting.

[00:57:45] J. Aundrea: well, I mean, eating something that comes from your own body is, Yeah, I get that. Um, you know, we, we ain't got to do everything animals do. [00:58:00] animals do it, you know, it's like, it's a food source for them and it's to prevent, you know, predation, right? You don't want this hunk of flesh attracting predators when you just gave birth, right?

[00:58:15] J. Aundrea: So you get rid of it. So, uh, we ain't gotta, we ain't got to do everything they do. We don't have to, I know a lot of people are like, oh, this is how this plant based diet is, how certain animals eat and da, da, da. [00:58:30] Okay, again, you know, we're different. Uh, we're also animals. I get that, but, um, we're different. our physiology is different, um, you know, uh, so I would say, hey, uh, look into it a little bit more. Look into it, you know?

[00:58:49] Bruce Anthony: say this. This animals do. Animals have stronger stomachs than us. Animals will eat anything.

[00:58:55] J. Aundrea: yeah.

[00:58:55] Bruce Anthony: can barely, y'all can barely, y'all eat a piece of chicken that isn't [00:59:00] cooked just right. You got the stomach virus. anything.

[00:59:05] J. Aundrea: Roscoe. He was gonna eat aluminum foil. Yeah, so I mean, you gotta, you gotta, you know, hey, we can't do everything they do.

[00:59:15] Bruce Anthony: We're supposed to be a little bit more civilized. It seems like, it seems like this whole show has been about how much we're regressing as a society as whole in the human race.

[00:59:25] J. Aundrea: Yeah, uh, yeah.

[00:59:27] Bruce Anthony: I thought we were supposed to be evolving and getting smaller, [00:59:30] smarter. We were, we're regressing.

[00:59:31] J. Aundrea: no, no. the more knowledge you have, the more you realize your own insignificance. And when that happens, people are like, well, now I'm going to put my fingers in my ears and my head in the sand because I don't like to feel that I'm just one person among billions of people uh, I might not matter as much as I thought I [01:00:00] did.

[01:00:00] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[01:00:02] Bruce Anthony: That's really the real deal. Holyfield and other know how I feel.

[01:00:07] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[01:00:08] Bruce Anthony: Okay. Ladies and gentlemen.

[01:00:09] J. Aundrea: said hoes. I don't know why you won't say it again. Do we have

[01:00:12] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[01:00:12] J. Aundrea: count on hoes?

[01:00:14] Bruce Anthony: No, I just don't want to. I don't want to be like demonetized by YouTube by putting lyrics. And then they were like, Oh, you copyright infringement and all that type of stuff. Yeah.

[01:00:23] J. Aundrea: Gotcha. Yeah.

[01:00:24] Bruce Anthony: a whole thing.

[01:00:25] Bruce Anthony: But on that note,

[01:00:26] J. Aundrea: line to walk.

[01:00:27] Bruce Anthony: yeah, on that note, uh, I could tell that we running out of [01:00:30] steam and, and we still got some other stuff to film. This is another thing that y'all don't get. Ladies and gentlemen, somebody said to detour to go back to the 200 episode coming out next week. Somebody was like, and y'all should make the show longer.

[01:00:44] Bruce Anthony: Thank you. No. And I'll tell you why. No, my sister has one day and in that day, a specific timeframe that we could film in that timeframe. We are filming the main show, the sibling happier. We are filming the after hours uncensored and we're filming YouTube [01:01:00] exclusives. It takes two hours if she's on time.

[01:01:02] Bruce Anthony: She ain't never on time. Although she was today. That's what I just.

[01:01:06] J. Aundrea: extremely busy today.

[01:01:08] Bruce Anthony: So no,

[01:01:09] J. Aundrea: get this going.

[01:01:10] Bruce Anthony: okay, so no, we are not gonna make this show longer. Plus, this is infringing on my Sunday Funday. I ain't had Sunday Funday. That's not true. I, I just pack it, which means that I'm really struggling on Monday. So, so we not gonna do that.

[01:01:24] Bruce Anthony: But Jay, what do you want to leave the people with today?[01:01:30]

[01:01:30] J. Aundrea: Oh, I feel like I said, went to eat today. It's funny. Cause I thought, uh, because I'm so busy right now with school and everything, I thought I was going to phone this episode in, but you picked some good topics and you got me going, so, know, Hey, stop, just stop lying to yourself about your positions on things.

[01:01:50] J. Aundrea: Like if you, if you believe something like just be 10 tones down on it. If you are racist, just be that and let us operate with you accordingly. Like, that's how it is. Like, [01:02:00] Don't, don't lie in people face so that they don't treat you differently. If you know that us knowing that you're a racist will have us treat you differently.

[01:02:08] J. Aundrea: And maybe you should rethink being a racist. I don't know. But, uh, but just be 10 toes down on whatever you, whatever you believe in 2025, because we got to fight ahead of us.

[01:02:19] Bruce Anthony: And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching and until next time, as always, I'll [01:02:30] holla.​

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