Chasing Dreams & Dodging Scams: Grad School, Clubs, and Cannabis

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Sibling Happy Hour: Jay Andrea's Accomplishments

Bruce Anthony: I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're going to be talking about some of her recent accomplishments. Then we're going to be talking about marijuana, no direct correlation between the two. And then we're going to be talking about a pair of women doing something shady to a group of men in a club, but that's enough of the intro.

Bruce Anthony: [00:01:00] Let's get to the show. What's up, sis?

Bruce Anthony: What up, brother? I can't call it. I can't call it. First thing I want to do before we get into your good news is let everybody know that Memorial Day weekend is this weekend. We are taking the weekend off. So there will not be a show on Tuesday. We will be back next Friday for a new show and then go back to our regularly scheduled Releases the following week, but just to let everybody know, no new show on Tuesday, but, but if you miss us and you want to watch or listen to stuff that you haven't heard, might I introduce you to our Patreon page at patreon.

Bruce Anthony: com backslash unsolicited perspectives, where we have well over 50 shows of after hours uncensored and talking straight ish all [00:02:00] in our Patreon page. So if you miss us, check us out. But sis, you hit me up two days ago, or was it yesterday? Two days ago,

J. Aundrea: two

Bruce Anthony: days

J. Aundrea: ago and

Bruce Anthony: told me some good news. So for this dilly daddling, it's going to all be about you.

Bruce Anthony: Which I know you love since you're a Leo.

J. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: You want to tell people the good news? Not

J. Aundrea: really. No, I don't. I don't actually love that.

Bruce Anthony: You wouldn't love that the focus is going to be on you?

J. Aundrea: Yeah. You, so that's a common misconception with Leos because some of us are introverted, but my news is I got accepted to grad school.

Theme Music: Yeah.

J. Aundrea: I will be, uh, obtaining my master's of science and data analytics. So from Georgia State University. So I'm very excited about that.

Bruce Anthony: I'm excited for you as well. And Georgia State shout out to y'all [00:03:00] because y'all have been good to the family. Just like the university of Maryland has been good to the family.

Bruce Anthony: Like those are the two schools that have just been good to the family. Because our brother got his MBA. Last year from the same university. So I'm putting you on blast because I'm so curious and I'm, and I'm sure the audience is curious because they know you, but they don't know you. So we're going to get to know you a little bit more.

Understanding Data ScienceThe Importance of Data Science

Bruce Anthony: So first of all, data science, what is that?

J. Aundrea: So you remember how, when we were growing up, the big thing was computers.

Bruce Anthony: Yes,

J. Aundrea: study, you know, like your parents was a, what you need to do is learn computers. So the new thing now is data, all of these companies, people, entities, organizations, whatever they're collecting over the years, these vast amounts of data.[00:04:00]

J. Aundrea: And. Now they're trying to figure out what do we do with it? How can we start making decisions based on all this information that we've collected over the years? So my job is to look at problems that they have, look at the data and try to figure out solutions. Okay.

Bruce Anthony: All right. Okay. So my followup question is that, Is what piqued your interest to enter into this field?

J. Aundrea: Money. No. Um,

J. Aundrea: yeah, I mean, it's partly that, but partly because it's like the next thing, you know, data is big data is very important right now. And, um, In the business of America. And also I just kind of found my niche, you know, my undergraduate degree is in English, English language and literature. So like, I feel like my niche is being able to take [00:05:00] complex ideas and data and.

J. Aundrea: Synthesize it into a form that anybody can understand. Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much what I did in undergrad and that's what I intend to do in graduate school is research. I love investigating things and figuring things out. So this just seemed like a natural progression of that.

Bruce Anthony: And so we know now why you decided to enter in that particular field, but what even was the genesis of.

Bruce Anthony: I want to go and do something different.

J. Aundrea: Yeah. I think, you know, probably turning 40.

Bruce Anthony: So is this a midlife

J. Aundrea: crisis? That's what I think. And you know what? Whenever there's a There's this thing out there. Like whenever a black woman hits a midlife crisis or she gets bored or she just gets complacent in life, she does one of two things.

J. Aundrea: She starts a business or [00:06:00] she goes back to school and she

Bruce Anthony: did a degree or an LLC.

J. Aundrea: Yes.

J. Aundrea: When a black woman gets bored, she gets a degree or LLC. Like that's the thing. Like, and it's true. And I just was like, you know, it's like a point in my career where I'm really looking for A career pivot into something linked to what I'm doing now. But, you know, just more, I'm just looking for more. And, uh, this just seemed like the right time.

J. Aundrea: I'm like, it just fell into place. So that's how I'm, that's how I got where I am. You know, I take life as it comes, honestly, like I, there's no like great rhyme or reason. I mean, I do have like. An outline,

Bruce Anthony: like

J. Aundrea: a rough outline of how I want my life to go. It's in pencil and it's, there's, there's been a race several times and rewritten.

J. Aundrea: And so [00:07:00] like, you know, it's one of those things, like you, you want to hear God laugh, tell him what you got planned, but this stuff starts to work out. So I just keep following that train.

Bruce Anthony: And I'm wrong with that. I'm proud of you. Yeah.

J. Aundrea: Thank you.

Bruce Anthony: You going out there, like I said, well, you doing both, you getting a degree and we kind of started an LLC.

Bruce Anthony: So you, you done both. Yeah. You done both. So I'm, I'm real proud of you. How long is the program?

J. Aundrea: So I'm going part time cause of course I work full time. So I should be done in two years.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. All right. Well, all right. In two years, you're going to be making that money, money, money, money. Yeah. Yeah. Money, money, money, money.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

J. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: What else you got going on?

Memorial Day Weekend Plans

Bruce Anthony: You're going to be up here this weekend. Yeah.

J. Aundrea: I'm coming home from Memorial day weekend.

Bruce Anthony: Is Roscoe

J. Aundrea: coming with you? [00:08:00] Roscoe is coming with me. Oh

Bruce Anthony: Lord.

J. Aundrea: You know, Ronnie, Does not like long road trips. It gives her a really bad anxiety. So she will be going to the border.

J. Aundrea: Uh, but I have a great border there. Just great. And she loves going there. So she will be there. Roscoe's coming with me and I'm looking for the crab, the crab boil. Like, where is it? Like, who has it? Who's got crabs? It's Maryland and it's Memorial Day weekend. I know somebody is going to be dumping out a bushel of crabs on a table on their, on their deck.

J. Aundrea: Like we know, we know,

Bruce Anthony: we know of a, we know of a get together bed.

J. Aundrea: And it only took me two calls to find it.

Bruce Anthony: I'm surprised the person, the same person invited me that I got to say, I'm not going. I thought would have called you immediately.

J. Aundrea: No. Oh, I mean, I did not, nobody knew I was coming up. I literally decided this at the last minute.

Bruce Anthony: I knew, uh, Oh, cause I talked to you [00:09:00] on Sunday. That's the reason why I knew. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's the reason.

J. Aundrea: Nobody knew, but it only took me two calls to find the crabs. And so that's where I will be on Sunday. Well, anybody else?

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Well, you, you can go be there in spirit for the both of us. Cause I ain't going, I'm not going,

J. Aundrea: but I'll see you at brunch.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah. We go do brunch cause I'm not, I'm not going look, first of all, it is not close to me.

J. Aundrea: Right. That's

Bruce Anthony: number one. Number two, it is on a Sunday. That's number two. Which is, which is your

J. Aundrea: day.

Bruce Anthony: That's my day. Ladies and gentlemen, Sunday is Bruce's Sunday fun day. And you know what I do on that? Pop a bottle of champagne, watch whatever TV show series that I like to watch and veg out.

Bruce Anthony: You know why? Cause Monday comes and I got to be around people. Yeah, Sunday, I chill and the person invited me and was [00:10:00] like, you got Monday off and I don't know. That's not how that works. That's not how that works. I've got work to do.

J. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: You know, I got work to do.

J. Aundrea: Entrepreneurs don't have days off. No, not really.

J. Aundrea: Not really. So

Bruce Anthony: like I'm on the grind like you working on Memorial Day. I didn't know Memorial Day was a special day for me.

J. Aundrea: Yeah, I really, yeah, yeah,

Bruce Anthony: I mean, it's not really, I mean, I absolutely support veterans in the troops like that. Yeah,

J. Aundrea: I mean, we have veterans in our family, but there's also a veteran's day, correct.

Bruce Anthony: So,

J. Aundrea: so the, so Veterans Day, so is it Veterans Day is for people, the veterans that are still alive and Memorial Day is the ones we remember.

Bruce Anthony: I don't know. I'm sure a quick, uh, Google search will answer both of those questions for us. And I feel like me being a history, the historian, [00:11:00] I should know the answer to these, but I don't.

Bruce Anthony: And you know what? America got a lot of holidays that I don't know anything about.

J. Aundrea: Okay. So Memorial Day, I was right. Memorial Day is remembering those who gave their lives. Veterans Day is honoring all who served in the U. S. Armed Forces. And

Bruce Anthony: I support both of those days.

J. Aundrea: Yes. And we will barbecue

Bruce Anthony: on those

J. Aundrea: days, or we will eat something barbecue adjacent, or we'll have a Sunday fun day.

J. Aundrea: Either way,

Bruce Anthony: we'll be honoring

J. Aundrea: those who gave their lives for our freedom.

Bruce Anthony: I wanted to, because I assume that you will be here one of the days of this week. Uh, and it's not just because you're going to be here, you know, I have a balcony that overlooks the courtyard

J. Aundrea: of my place in the

Bruce Anthony: courtyard, in the pool, and it's a, it's a vibe.

J. Aundrea: It's an absolute

Bruce Anthony: vibe.

J. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: I have not been out there yet this spring because it is caked. With pollen, [00:12:00] ladies and gentlemen, I am allergic to everything outside, like really bad allergic. And typically I would mask up and put goggles on and go to work cleaning it, but it's really bad this year. The pollen was really bad.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. So I was like, I'm going to get a housekeeper to come in and clean. And I've been calling around and they're like, Hey, do you do balconies? And they're like, yeah. I was like, look, this is what I need in the balcony. I need it thoroughly cleaned, including the furniture and I need the floor of the ground of the balcony mocked.

Bruce Anthony: Like I need all that done. Oh yeah, well, let's go be more. I know it's going to be more. How much more? A lot more. And so I was like, you know what? I'm about to just talk to the people in my building. Cause I'm real cool with the maintenance man in my building. I'm like, look, I need you to come up here and give me all the equipment or you do it yourself.

Bruce Anthony: Power wash my power.

J. Aundrea: Wash it. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Just cause even if they came up here and clean it, my furniture is still going to be caked with pollen. So if you get the power wash, [00:13:00] you know, just take all that pollen off and then I can enjoy Memorial day weekend.

J. Aundrea: Yeah. I haven't used my deck. It's, it's the. It's the pollen because like you, I'm allergic to the earth.

Theme Music: It's

J. Aundrea: the pollen and it's the mosquitoes. I have really, really terrible mosquitoes. Cause there's a Creek behind my house. Won't you put a

Bruce Anthony: net over your deck? I think me and our brother was talking about that when I was down there, put a net, you got, well, I saw the setup. You have access to put a net over it.

J. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Your net will clear all that out. And then in your backyard, you should put a fire pit.

J. Aundrea: I technically have one.

Bruce Anthony: That look, oh, okay. It looked like a different fire pit. It looked like the fire pit. No, it's a fire

J. Aundrea: pit.

Bruce Anthony: Well, it looked like the fire pit that Pablo Escobar used and Narcos when he cut those people up and burned them alive.

J. Aundrea: Well, I didn't see Narcos and know that has not happened on my property. Not in the [00:14:00] time that I've

Bruce Anthony: bat time that you lived there. I don't

J. Aundrea: know what happened before that. But in the time that I've lived there, no Narcos related activity has

Bruce Anthony: occurred. What you should have did is when you killed that snake, put it on that fire pit and burn the snake.

Bruce Anthony: The way I To send the word out to all the other snakes.

J. Aundrea: The way I shoveled that snake and tossed it upon the forest. Snake gone. And that snake is a reminder to the other snakes. I haven't seen one since.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, okay. That's cause they plotting.

J. Aundrea: Snakes don't do that.

Bruce Anthony: Snakes are the Yes, they do.

J. Aundrea: Snakes get together

Bruce Anthony: in a group.

Bruce Anthony: How do you know? You ain't no snake doctor. You ain't no snake doctor. No,

J. Aundrea: but we got Google. Do snakes plot?

Bruce Anthony: Obviously, they don't plot. Well, they might plot. Let me ask. You ever see the little, the little, uh, video of when it, what was it? Was it a duck? Or no, it wasn't a [00:15:00] duck. It was like a mongoose or something like that.

Bruce Anthony: It was being attacked. No, it was a giraffe being attacked by all those snakes. No, it wasn't a draft. It was something else. It was something else that was being attacked by all these snakes and was trying to make it up the mountain. Ladies, trust me. Somebody on YouTube is going to be like, it was this you idiot.

Bruce Anthony: Right? Yeah. YouTube people. Uh, but yeah, no snakes be plotting snakes plot.

J. Aundrea: Snakes don't be plotting.

Bruce Anthony: You know what? I don't think nobody wants to hear no more about us thinking about snakes plotting. I think what they want to hear about.

J. Aundrea: That's when, so this is a key feature of ADHD, ladies and gentlemen, where you get hyper focused.

J. Aundrea: On a topic and we will sit here probably for a good portion of the show and talk about snakes. Stop trying

Bruce Anthony: to put me in your trial. I don't have ADHD.

J. Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: I got HD TV. That's what I got.

J. Aundrea: Yeah, you got several of them.

Bruce Anthony: I only got two

J. Aundrea: where you're watching at the same [00:16:00] time. With your laptop, your tablet, two phones.

Bruce Anthony: No, it's not. I don't have all that.

J. Aundrea: Eighteen walkie talkies.

Bruce Anthony: Nobody even uses a walkie talkie anymore. A can

J. Aundrea: with a cord connected to another can. No,

Bruce Anthony: I do have that. That's just a holler. That's a holler at my neighbor downstairs. Right. He'd like to play telephone from now on. Any who, ladies and gentlemen, that was enough of the dilly dallying.

Bruce Anthony: Congratulations to my sister. She going to make something of herself.

J. Aundrea: I've already made something of myself.

Bruce Anthony: I'm going to

J. Aundrea: continue to make things. Myself.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Maybe phrase that a little bit better, but next up with no correlation to what we just talked about. None

J. Aundrea: whatsoever.

Bruce Anthony: None. We're going to talk about marijuana.

Marijuana Use in the U.S.

Bruce Anthony: That's up next.[00:17:00]

Bruce Anthony: Jay, I read an interesting article that shocked me.

J. Aundrea: Tell me about it.

Bruce Anthony: It was in the AP news and it said the daily marijuana use is now outpacing daily drinking in the U. S. I believe it. People out here smoking more than they actually drink now. Yeah, I believe that. That was a little tough for me to believe because of several factors.

Bruce Anthony: I'll get to them in a minute. So marijuana is most commonly used illicit drug in the United States. In 2022, an estimated 61. 9 million individuals aged 12 and older use marijuana in the past year and 42. 3 million reported using it in the past month. This was in 2022. Daily marijuana use has been increasing.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, and 2022, once again, an estimated 17. 7 million people reported using marijuana [00:18:00] daily or nearly daily compared to 14. 7 million daily or nearly daily drinkers. So 3 million more people were admitting. These are just people that's admitting.

J. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: Right. Admitting like, yeah, I smoke on that Chiba. More than I taste that devil's nectar,

J. Aundrea: right?

Bruce Anthony: And I'm like, okay, well, give me the devil's nectar. But, but the Swedish Chiba is also delicious. Anyway, this could be Contributing this is there's a lot of contributing factors of why this is happening. One of it being that there are rapid changing laws Dealing with marijuana throughout the 50 states.

Bruce Anthony: Correct. So, let's go with the states that have actually legalized marijuana use. Recreational use is legal in 24 states, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, [00:19:00] or as we say Merlin, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, of course, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington

J. Aundrea: and now Bruce, there are 50 states, so 24 is nearly half

Bruce Anthony: data science , there's medical use in Is legal in 38 states. I don't have all 38 states, but take the 24 and that 14 more to that. Right. Uh, we'll, we'll, we'll get to that.

Legalization and Decriminalization of Marijuana

Bruce Anthony: There is a difference between legalizing recreational use of marijuana and decriminalizing it, and I'll get to that in a minute. But the states that have decriminalized marijuana are Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, surprisingly, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North [00:20:00] Carolina, North Dakota, they have all decriminalized marijuana.

Bruce Anthony: Not South Dakota. How did North Going to decriminalize it and not the South. That's cause the

J. Aundrea: North knows what, you know, North knows where it's at.

Bruce Anthony: Nor as Project PACT said, North, North. Okay. What does decriminalize marijuana mean? It means this genuinely means certain small personal consumption amounts are a civil or local infraction.

Bruce Anthony: Not a state crime or, or the lowest misdemeanor with no possibility of jail time. Right. So that's what that basically means. It means it's like you get a ticket,

J. Aundrea: right? But you won't be, you won't be a felon.

Bruce Anthony: You won't be a felon, which is the most important thing. Yes. States that have not legalized or decriminalized marijuana.

Bruce Anthony: These are the states that just say, look, weed is bad. Okay. And you can't have none. Jersey. Kansas. [00:21:00] South Carolina and Wyoming. Yeah. Check that out. Check that out. These are the only four states. There are only four states in the 50 United States that says we don't approve marijuana at all. I'm going to run through them again, just so y'all know, don't go to these states, Idaho.

Bruce Anthony: Kansas, South Carolina and Wyoming. And it seemed like Wyoming would be down cause they all outlaws out there, you know, on the range is,

J. Aundrea: is Wyoming, uh, a big Mormon have a big Mormon population.

Bruce Anthony: I do not believe why I don't, I, you know what, I don't know, but I don't believe Wyoming has a big. More on population,

J. Aundrea: 11.

J. Aundrea: 7 percent of the state's population is the third highest percentage of church membership in the United States after Utah and Idaho. Okay. All right. Idaho is also on the list,

Bruce Anthony: but you [00:22:00] know what, though, Utah, Utah was, wait a minute. Where was Utah? I don't see Utah on this list. Utah's got to be on one of one of these lists here that I just missed.

J. Aundrea: Yeah, it's got to be somewhere. Let's check it. Let's check it out. Okay, so in

Bruce Anthony: Georgia, so in Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin, weed is illegal and not criminalized, but CBD products are allowed. Now CBD is different than THC. I can't really explain to you what the differences are.

Bruce Anthony: Can you, Jay? What the difference between CB, D and T-H-C-C-B-D

J. Aundrea: does not have THC in it.

Bruce Anthony: That's it. That's only different.

J. Aundrea: Yeah. , that's, uh, CBD is not weed because it does not have THC.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. The drug enforcement administa administration, the DEA. Uh, is moving towards reclassifying marijuana as a [00:23:00] less dangerous drug.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, the, the justice department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis weed, but would, would not legalize it for recreational use. I don't know what. Point is, is so they just say you can use it for medicinal purposes, but you can't just do it just to get high

J. Aundrea: recreationally. So Utah, it's legal medically, not recreationally.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. So I must have missed that. On my list. Cause I don't see it, but then I'm just doing a quick glance and I'm getting older. And my eyesight isn't as good. But anyway, uh, what are those

J. Aundrea: 38 states? You said medical use is legal in 38 states and you, yeah,

Bruce Anthony: see, so it was one of the 14 that I didn't mention about.

Bruce Anthony: That's

J. Aundrea: why there's two of

Bruce Anthony: us. There you go. There you go. Data scientists. Uh, what are the implications of the DEA reclassify marijuana? It's just moving it towards a less dangerous jug. If y'all don't know where marijuana is [00:24:00] currently classified, it's classified as stage one, not stage one, at the top.

Bruce Anthony: Right there next to heroin, cocaine, like all of the real stuff. Now, if anybody out there has smoked weed, And anybody out there who's done cocaine or heroin, I've never done cocaine or heroin. Uh, heroin, because even though I have tattoos, I still don't like needles and cocaine just because I've seen people on cocaine and it seems like it would be cool and I don't want to try it because I might really like it.

J. Aundrea: Yeah. That's honestly, that's the reason I haven't. I am concerned. Right. Absolutely. That I will love cocaine. Cocaine

Bruce Anthony: now, not crack. Crack is whack. Crack is

J. Aundrea: absolutely whack.

Bruce Anthony: Crack is whack. I won't

J. Aundrea: do anything that will change my appearance. So crack, meth,

Bruce Anthony: any

J. Aundrea: of that.

Bruce Anthony: I'm scared to eat popcorn for fear that I might bite too hard and break a tooth.

Bruce Anthony: [00:25:00] You know damn well I ain't gonna smoke no crack or meth cause that's, that's the first thing they lose is teeth.

J. Aundrea: And, uh, but, but just realize. How shallow we are. We will not do crack or meth, not because it's bad for us, not because we care about ourselves or our families, but because we don't want to be ugly.

Bruce Anthony: Hey, look, side tangent, side tangent, friend of mine, I was talking to him, uh, this week and he said that his dentist receptionist is an interesting character. And I said, okay, what do you mean? He said that this person has. Two fingers on one hand and zero fingers on the other hand. And I was like, and she's a receptionist, like, how did, how did she get that done?

Bruce Anthony: That's incredible. He was like, it is absolutely credible. She'd get the work done. She'd get it done. I was like, have you ever asked her if like, if she was [00:26:00] born that way, or if like it happened somewhere down the road, he was like, no, I never asked. And I was like, can you imagine, like, if you're born with it, then you automatically You're a cop.

Bruce Anthony: You, you, you get used to it. If you weren't born that way and you lost all the fingers on one hand and three fingers on the other hand, that becomes a tough life to live. And me and him looked at each other at the same time. And I was like, You can go ahead and just take me, just go ahead, Lord, you can just take me after that.

Bruce Anthony: I knew

J. Aundrea: this was going to be a comment where you were going to hell. I knew that's what it was going to be. For

Bruce Anthony: me, for me, just go ahead and take me. I can't lose no fingers or no arms. Or nothing like that. What am I supposed to do? My life is built around. You only need a computer playing video games and you can't do that with one hand.

Bruce Anthony: Let's type on a computer where you can play video games. One

J. Aundrea: dictation software. So you don't need to type. I barely understand [00:27:00] what the hell I'm saying.

Bruce Anthony: Half

J. Aundrea: the time,

Bruce Anthony: the

J. Aundrea: computer understands it. Reception. She needs to greet people. You don't need hands to do that. She needs to answer the phone. How you waiting?

J. Aundrea: She wears a headset. All she has to do is say, good morning. You don't have to wait. You don't have to wave. I'd be waving. Have you ever worked reception?

Bruce Anthony: Yes, actually I have. When I was working, did you

J. Aundrea: wave? Yes, I waved goodbye.

Bruce Anthony: Not when they left, I waved goodbye. I'm having a nice day. I wave. I'm a waver.

J. Aundrea: Well, that's you. She have a headset for her phone. You just need one, but one finger to push the button to answer the phone. Like there are ways that you can, I knew you was going to say something where it was like, how was that any different? How's that any

Bruce Anthony: different? Hold on. How's that any different? Do you saying we ain't go smoke cracker meth because we don't want to lose our teeth and be ugly?

J. Aundrea: That's something i'm actively doing That is harming. Well. [00:28:00]

Bruce Anthony: Oh, well i'm not gonna Yeah, i'm not gonna actively do anything that's gonna harm my appearance either and if my appearance gets harmed lord, go ahead and take me Anyway, i'm not i'm saying this person is remarkable They're remarkable. I'm not as remarkable.

J. Aundrea: You will be surprised what you can do when you, when you have to. Okay. The DA is reclassifying marijuana.

Bruce Anthony: Hey, ladies and gentlemen, this is the happy hour. We haven't even smoked no weed and we just did the detour like that ADHD. All right. So the DA reclassifying reed, the proposal would move the marijuana from schedule one.

Bruce Anthony: Group to this less tightly regulated schedule three. I mean, just think about that. They're moving it not from schedule one to two from schedule two, from schedule one to three. This move could open up new opportunities for research. Here's the [00:29:00] key. Here's the key word that everybody needs to pay attention to.

Bruce Anthony: The reason why the United States company is moving towards reclassifying marijuana. It's going to open up new opportunities in research. Investment and less expansion and, and, and expansion in the legal cannabis market. Yeah. So what did I say? That's right. What did I say? Ladies and gentlemen, people are smoking more weed than they are drinking.

J. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

J. Aundrea: Which is a simple reason why that is.

Bruce Anthony: We'll, we'll, we'll get into that as I finished running down here. Um, marijuana would still be, would still be a controlled substance, even reclassified and subject to federal criminal person, uh, prosecution of anyone who traffics in the drugs without permission.

J. Aundrea: So some, some, some schedule three drugs are like ketamine, codeine things [00:30:00] you can, that are prescribed to you by a doctor.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, but didn't, what's his name, OD, Chandler, OD on ketamine?

J. Aundrea: Yeah. I mean, it's not, it's not great if you take a lot of it, that's why they're still controlled substances.

Bruce Anthony: The reclassification does not legalize recreational weed nationwide.

Bruce Anthony: I'm going to get into incarcerated people, but I want to get into why all this is really happening. And it's the business of America and notice what they did here. They said that, uh, you can still federally be charged. For criminal prosecution, if you decide to traffic and these drugs without permission, so they're going to kind of make it legal so that people can get businesses, by the way, do some research on the businesses of dispensaries and [00:31:00] legalized marijuana and medical marijuana in order to get the permits to be able to do that.

Bruce Anthony: You got to have some long backs to get that done. Only the privileged can jump into this business and start making money. Whereas historically it's always been the less privileged that's been able to jump into this business and make money. So once again, not giving an opportunity to the people that could actually benefit from new businesses, all these young, Entrepreneurs.

Bruce Anthony: That's what they really

J. Aundrea: know their stuff,

Bruce Anthony: who know their stuff and who have been creating a product for years, cross blending and all types of stuff before it was a science,

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Bruce Anthony: You're going to cut all of them out to give it to the people that run Amazon or McDonald's or Walmart. So once again, you're just moving the money from the [00:32:00] rich.

Bruce Anthony: To the rich,

J. Aundrea: right?

Bruce Anthony: That's the only people that can get at the bag.

J. Aundrea: I mean, people often ask the question. They still kind of ask this question. Why are cigarettes and alcohol legal and marijuana is not when we know that cigarettes and alcohol kill people, right? And I mean, have they done the research on the long term effects of marijuana?

J. Aundrea: I mean, no, because it's still really recent. In recent history, last several decades. I have never heard

Bruce Anthony: of anybody OD'ing

J. Aundrea: on

Bruce Anthony: marijuana.

J. Aundrea: Literally never. Literally never. And so I've heard of people taking too much edible and feeling like, I'm talking about you, feeling like they're OD'ing. I knew

Bruce Anthony: you was talking about me.

Bruce Anthony: Look, first of all, that edible, And I, and I know my homies out there listening because we didn't brought the story up before it was crack cocaine. [00:33:00] Jolly rancher. That was supposed to be an edible. Okay. I've never been that high in my entire life.

J. Aundrea: Yeah. But the, but the, the reason is, is who's making the money, right?

J. Aundrea: Black and Brown people make money. And we white people own the distilleries and the tobacco fields and all of that. So it's, it's who makes the money ultimately America is a business. And if there's money to be made, they're going to find a way to adjust the laws. It was like, yeah, if you traffic it, we're still going to arrest you, but it's.

J. Aundrea: Free for us. Because we have permission to traffic. That's exactly what they say.

Bruce Anthony: They're like, look, there's money in this thing. Yeah. There's a lot of money in it. How can we create a way that we can get some of that money, but make sure that other people can't take [00:34:00] the money away from the money that we can make from doing this?

Bruce Anthony: Well, we can make it kind of legal, but you need a permit to sell it.

J. Aundrea: Mm hmm. And we make it possible for you to get that permit.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. I think there's the, the, the number of black owned dispensaries in, in those States where you're allowed to smoke marijuana recreationally legally is less than 1%, less than 2%.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Okay. Less than 2%. Yeah. Less than 2%. And, and mind you, We got money, right? Some of us got money to do this. It's marijuana. It has never been a hard business to get into. All you needed was a plug and the plug didn't even have to be all that or knew somebody that was growing it in a basement. And we knew a couple of people that was growing in a basement or in their garden.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. And just say, Hey, I need a couple of plants to sell. Get you extra [00:35:00] seeds from the, because guess what? There are seeds when you grow it. Yeah. That's how you get more seeds. It's a plant. It's a plant. Yeah.

Impact on Incarceration and Business

Bruce Anthony: So we went through all this and legalization, but how does this affect those people that have been incarcerated

J. Aundrea: for

Bruce Anthony: marijuana?

Bruce Anthony: So legalizing marijuana has led to fewer marijuana related arrests and court cases. I mean, yeah, we kind of figured that like that's. Pretty self explanatory ending the federal marijuana prohibition would reduce incarceration costs by 57. 1. No, 50, 571. Let me rephrase it reducing and it would. Ending the federal marijuana prohibition would reduce incarceration costs by 571.

Bruce Anthony: 8 million and reduce the federal prison population [00:36:00] by 2, 807 over a five year period. I'm going to get into that, but I just also want to point out that even through all these, you know, legalizing the marijuana and medical use marijuana, decriminalizing when people are arrested, there's still a very high racial disparity and weed related arrests.

Bruce Anthony: But I want to get into

Bruce Anthony: why they are, they might reduce sentences. But they're not going to just let people out. And it's that 57, that's 571. 8 million dollars. Jails are private entities.

J. Aundrea: Well that's costs. That's what, that's what it's costing the federal government to incarcerate

Bruce Anthony: people. Yeah, where do you think [00:37:00] that money goes?

Bruce Anthony: All right. The money's go to the prisons, the

J. Aundrea: private prisons.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, the private prisons. That's where the money goes. The prisons, I guarantee you that the prisons are out there right now. They have a committee. They have a group that is lobbyists that is going against the legalization of marijuana. And here's a, here's another kicker.

Bruce Anthony: Because it was 15 years ago, I was teaching a bootcamp class and I, you know, in my classes or when I train people, I talk a lot.

J. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, I do that on purpose and my clients know this. I'm talking a lot to divert their attention to what they're actually doing because what I had them doing is excruciating and they know it.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I've worked out with

J. Aundrea: you once. Never again.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

Reflecting on a Workout

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Mom got through the workout just fine.

J. Aundrea: I was tired.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, you were. And it was

J. Aundrea: a lot of squats.

Bruce Anthony: It was a lot of squats. You worked out with me twice. It was the squat type.

Debating Drug Legalization

Bruce Anthony: [00:38:00] Anyway, it was so one time during this class, I thought I was talking to a group of people.

Bruce Anthony: I'm in Northern Virginia and this was 15 years ago. And I said, yeah, they should just go ahead and legalize drugs completely across the board. It's a mental health issue. It's not a criminal issue. The class, the class was full of a certain demographic. Let's just say conservative type.

J. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: That were up in arms saying, what are you talking about legalized drugs?

Bruce Anthony: Mind you, none of them probably had any connection to, to drug users or sellers at all. Mm hmm. We ain't

J. Aundrea: selling it to nobody who don't want it.

Bruce Anthony: Stop quoting Ali Sadiq. But that's where, that's where the real money is. Can you imagine if we, if we decriminalized and then legalized recreational use for cocaine?

J. Aundrea: No, everything will go to hell in a handbasket. Listen, listen. [00:39:00] Wait

Bruce Anthony: a minute. Why do you think everything will go to hell in a handbasket?

J. Aundrea: Because another reason why I don't do cocaine is because I don't want to show up on drug tests and affect my employment, right? So if we are no longer checking us for any drugs because drugs have been legalized or decriminalized or whatever, Okay.

J. Aundrea: The, the reasons I have for not doing cocaine become less and less.

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

The Case for Legalizing Drugs

Bruce Anthony: I, uh, my kind of argument to that reason why we should just legalize all drugs because the harshest drugs out there are opiates and we're prescribed opiates legally by doctors every day, all day long. Take them. Why? Because they are run by corporations making that dollar dollar y'all.

Bruce Anthony: So it's only a [00:40:00] matter of time.

The Case for Marijuana

Bruce Anthony: Marijuana is this first step. Other drugs will become legalized because these companies will realize, Oh, there's money in this. Yeah, it's money in this. All of Mexico has been built and Columbia has been built off of powder cocaine.

J. Aundrea: And you will get. Tons and tons of litigation because as much litigation as there is for legal opiates like fentanyl and things like that.

Bruce Anthony: You mean illegal?

J. Aundrea: No, fentanyl is legal.

Bruce Anthony: Fentanyl is not legal. Fentanyl, fentanyl is the one that's killing everybody.

J. Aundrea: Yeah, they've pulled it because it is killing people, but people were being prescribed fentanyl. Yes, it is legal. It is a class one scheduled drug, but it is legal. And now pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, everything opened up to all this litigation because people are overdosing and dying.

Bruce Anthony: Well, see, that's the reason why you [00:41:00] legalize these drugs. Cause you can monitor what people are getting. So there are no more overdose. You can also control the peer, the purity of the drugs. And a lot of people are spiking some of these street drugs with fentanyl. And that's the reason why you're getting a lot of these overdoses.

J. Aundrea: But even for the people who were legally prescribed fentanyl and overdosed on it. Or have become addicted because it's highly addictive.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. It's a hell of a drug.

J. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: If they've not

J. Aundrea: been able to contain overdoses. With the drugs that are currently legal. I don't know. Let's walk through this. I don't know how they're going to do that with even harder drugs.

Bruce Anthony: Well, look, my thing is, making it illegal has never stopped people in this country from doing anything.

J. Aundrea: Should drugs be decriminalized? Yes. Because, like you said, [00:42:00] it is a public health issue.

Bruce Anthony: Yes, public health issue.

J. Aundrea: Drug use is a public health issue. It is not a criminal issue. It becomes a criminal issue when people start committing crimes in order to get it.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

J. Aundrea: Right?

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

J. Aundrea: So, that, yeah, okay, you want to penalize that, sure, but the use of it, if I'm not selling it, I'm using it. Using drugs should not send you to jail. It's just send you to a rehab facility.

Bruce Anthony: So the comment, and I have a friend who was in the

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Bruce Anthony: and I used to debate with them, I'm going to slip up on the gender anyway, as I continue to tell this story, but I'm trying to keep them safe, clouded by not gender neutral.

Bruce Anthony: When I used to debate with them about it, I would say, you keep, you guys [00:43:00] keep worrying about the cartels. The cartels have been getting drugs into this country for decades and will not stop and you cut, you take down one cartel, another one pops up and replace it and they will still get drugs into America.

Bruce Anthony: Why? The question is why? Is America the biggest consumer of illegal drugs? That's what you should be asking yourself. And what can we do to solve that issue?

J. Aundrea: Because we live in a

Bruce Anthony: require looking inward.

J. Aundrea: We live in a corporation and everybody's got burnout and that's why everybody.

Marijuana vs. Alcohol

J. Aundrea: So, so, so for me, there's two reasons why there is increased marijuana use over drinking alcohol.

J. Aundrea: One, alcohol has, uh, adverse effects on the body. Right. Like what? Cirrhosis of the liver. Deaf.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, well, I mean, you know, I mean, yeah, that's what they say. Hot

J. Aundrea: bellies.

Bruce Anthony: [00:44:00] No. Yellow eyes. Not if you drink tequila. I don't have yellow eyes.

J. Aundrea: Uh, you gonna get, your skin will be all, your skin will be, listen, you have, because you have a, you drink 86 gallons of water a day and you have a pretty detailed skin care routine.

J. Aundrea: Pretty detailed. Pretty detailed.

Bruce Anthony: And I eat. clean. Yes. Right. I'm not up here eating a bunch of fatty food. You can have all the alcohol. Okay. No, you can't. Lazy Jimmy. You can't really can't get you one. You really can't. But if you're going to be a drinker, make sure that the only two things that you drink is water and alcohol.

Bruce Anthony: And also take care of yourself.

J. Aundrea: This isn't great advice. That's the

Bruce Anthony: advice that I'm here to give.

J. Aundrea: Right. That's your unsolicited

Bruce Anthony: perspective. But

J. Aundrea: yeah, it's, it's one, uh, weed ain't never killed nobody.

Bruce Anthony: That's what they say.

J. Aundrea: And alcohol does. And also we live in a [00:45:00] corporation and, uh, everybody's got burnout and they want to Smoke and relax and, or eat an edible.

J. Aundrea: It's so easy to, it's just like a little candy pop it, you know,

Bruce Anthony: just as long as it's not the Jolly Rancher ones.

J. Aundrea: Well, you shouldn't ate the whole thing. That's the, that's the lesson there is that you ate the whole thing and you shouldn't have. And I don't know what to tell you about that.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. I don't know, tell myself about that either.

Bruce Anthony: That was an experience that I wish I could take back. But yes, the reason why people are experiencing. Uh, the reason why we're experiencing an uptick in marijuana use is over drinking is drinking kind of makes you hyper marijuana brings you down.

J. Aundrea: Well, it depends on the strain, uh, sativa.

Bruce Anthony: What I mean is it mellows you.

Bruce Anthony: Regardless, if it's an upper or down, it still has

J. Aundrea: a lot of positive health effects and benefits like it really [00:46:00] does pain relief, it helps you increase the sleep. If you have problems with your appetite,

Bruce Anthony: don't you worry. That's what it was started for.

J. Aundrea: Product for you.

Bruce Anthony: That's what it was started for. People were using medical marijuana because they were cancer, cancer patients that the chemo was causing them not to eat.

Bruce Anthony: So, and it also helps with the nausea. It helps with nausea, helps with the pain and helps with the appetite.

J. Aundrea: Yes. And then, and then also now a lot of companies are not drug testing for marijuana now because, because there are so many states where it's legal, either medicinally or recreationally or decriminalized, a lot of companies have stopped.

J. Aundrea: Drug testing for marijuana. So, cause they're like, Hey, to get through life, you got to do something. You got to do something. So we're not gonna, you [00:47:00] know, keep you from working cause you do this,

Bruce Anthony: right? So, so our takeaway from this segment is. Hey, hey, hey, smoke weed every day. Is that, is that what we're telling people out there?

J. Aundrea: I mean, I think that's fair. It's got great health benefits. And you might be in a state where it's already decriminalized or legalized. I mean.

Bruce Anthony: And live your best life. Yeah. As Smokey said, it was put here on earth for both me and you. So smoke it. Just smoke it.

Club Etiquette and Scams

Bruce Anthony: All right, Jay, we go from marijuana to alcohol. Yeah. You sent me a story and I was like, this can't be true. But then when I read it and thought about it, Oh, it absolutely is true. And I can totally see this.

J. Aundrea: Yeah. Yes.

Bruce Anthony: Let's give the people a rundown of what the story is and then let's talk about it.

J. Aundrea: Okay.

J. Aundrea: So this was actually posted on the shade room [00:48:00] on IG. And basically what happened is a young lady. With a few of her cousins, all the females, they're in Miami. They got a section at a club for her cousin's birthday. One of her other cousins, a male, joined them. So it's a bunch of ladies and a guy, right? So they're drinking, popping bottles.

J. Aundrea: And another group of girls comes up to them and their section and says, well, whose birthday is it? We point out the birthday girl. And they're like, let's do a birthday shot.

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J. Aundrea: they were like, cool, that sounds, you know, it's always cool to make friends in the club, especially as women, because, you know, who are you going to talk to when you go to the bathroom?

J. Aundrea: So, so the group of ladies walk off and, and, and the, the girl who's in the section, she's thinking they're going to grab their bottle. And come back and they're going to have some shots. [00:49:00] They come back with cups. Right. She's thinking, Oh, y'all already got y'all shot in the cup. They hold out their cup. She clinks glasses with them, like cheers.

J. Aundrea: Right. And they said, no, we were waiting for you to pour. Our, they had four empty cups.

Bruce Anthony: So the group that was having a party, having a table, another group of girls approached them and say, what are y'all celebrating a birthday? Cool. Let's take shots. So girl, girl group table, let's say girl group table. Yes.

Bruce Anthony: It's saying, yes, let's do shots. Girl group. Don't have a table. Say, cool. They go. Come back with cups, girl group table says, cool. Everybody got shots. Clank girl group. No table says, no, we ain't got no shots. We got some reason why we coming for y'all bottles coming for y'all bottle. Yeah. Okay. All right.

Bruce Anthony: We're going to take

J. Aundrea: shots with y'all.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

J. Aundrea: [00:50:00] So we told them y'all going to have to order. So the cousin group. Team table

Bruce Anthony: team table

J. Aundrea: team table say y'all gonna have to get y'all own cause you can't have none of our liquor, right? This is ours. So team no table goes and sits in the section next to them. And they start ordering, ordering drinks.

J. Aundrea: I mean, they're popping bottles, having a good time.

Bruce Anthony: Team table told team no table. Hey, look, you can't hand in ours. Go get your own. So they went right next

J. Aundrea: door. Right. And got their own. And got their own. Right. Cool. But it's a little suspicious. Okay. Why is it suspicious now? They just like something don't seem right.

J. Aundrea: Y'all came over here with empty cups and now all of a sudden you can pop bottles.

Bruce Anthony: Right.

J. Aundrea: Okay. So team table, she goes over to the waitress. And says [00:51:00] they got their own tab, right?

Bruce Anthony: Hold on. You're missing something. So team no table start trying to Mac on the lone gentlemen.

J. Aundrea: Yes. That's

Bruce Anthony: in the team table group.

J. Aundrea: Yeah. Talking them up. The cousin. Yeah. They hollering, hollering,

Bruce Anthony: hollering

J. Aundrea: hard, giving them crazy rhythm. Okay.

Bruce Anthony: He, he is vibing to everything right now. He is I'm Joe this lit right now.

J. Aundrea: Yes. So,

J. Aundrea: So, so team table, she goes up to the waitress and she's like team. No table got their own tab, right? Waitress says, no, they said they're with y'all and that. Male cousins going to pay

Bruce Anthony: right

J. Aundrea: team. No team table said, we don't know them split our [00:52:00] stuff off. They paid left out. Okay. So team table paid their part and she was like, let me go, let me go to the bathroom before we head out.

J. Aundrea: She goes to the bathroom, one of team no table comes up to her and is like, Hey, I know we don't know each other, but can I ask you something? I just lost my job and I bought my friend here for her birthday. We really want to make sure she has a good time. Can you just add our drinks to your tab and we'll pay for our food.

Bruce Anthony: Now, hold on now. Hold on. Time out. Cause you, you left that part out. You said that they was getting bottles. They was also ordering food. Yeah. So they just made themselves a lovely evening.

J. Aundrea: They had a lovely evening intersection.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Okay. All right. All right. And then go ask the birthday people, the people that had the table.

Bruce Anthony: Hey, can y'all just put our [00:53:00] drinks on your tab and we'll take care of our food.

J. Aundrea: Well, because they were both, Okay. Celebrating birthdays, team table and team. No table, both celebrating birthdays, except only team table had bread.

Bruce Anthony: And ladies and gentlemen, we ain't talking about the loaf. We talking about them green backs.

J. Aundrea: We talking about the dollar dollar bills that you need when you step outside the house, because the moment I step out my door, 150 flies out of my pocket.

Bruce Anthony: It's 200 up here. It's 200 up here.

J. Aundrea: Well, I mean, I'm still in the South.

J. Aundrea: So it's only 150 fly out. I mean, it just flies out. Like what happened? Don't know where it goes. You

Bruce Anthony: stepped on sidewalk.

J. Aundrea: Yeah, you

Bruce Anthony: stepped on a

J. Aundrea: public sidewalk.

Bruce Anthony: Where you left whatever concrete that you were standing on, whatever, whatever porcelain floor. Is it porcelain floors? I don't know, tile floors or whatever.

Bruce Anthony: I don't know. I'm just throwing out stuff. When, [00:54:00] when you leave a tile floor and you step on the sidewalk, the public sidewalk, 200 in DC immediately fly out of your pocket.

J. Aundrea: When you left that wood laminate apartment flooring and stepped onto the public concrete, there go your money.

Bruce Anthony: And it, and it used to be cash would fly out your wallet.

Bruce Anthony: Now it's just automatically deducted from your bank account.

J. Aundrea: It'll come out. Zelle Venmo cash app, Apple pay doesn't matter. Google pay

Bruce Anthony: don't matter.

J. Aundrea: Google pay. You just see it disappear from your account.

Bruce Anthony: Disappear. All right, let's go back. So she approached, she approached home girl in the bathroom. What did home girl say?

J. Aundrea: She said, why are you at the club? And you don't got no job.

Bruce Anthony: That's a good question.

J. Aundrea: Good question. So team no table said it was pre planned before I lost my job.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Well,

J. Aundrea: So the party, they had already planned this [00:55:00] outing and then she lost her job.

Bruce Anthony: What seemed like what they planned was just to go out. It didn't, it wasn't like they had called at the place.

Bruce Anthony: They had a reservation for a table and it seemed like they just, the plan was, we're going to go out for your birthday. That was the plan. Correct. It doesn't seem like they had. No solid plan. So you can always say, Hey girl, why don't you come on through the crib? We pop bottles over here.

J. Aundrea: Right? Cause that's what I do.

Bruce Anthony: Right. Well, that's what I do too. Cause it's cheaper.

J. Aundrea: Cause it's cheaper. So team table looks at her and says, Damn, that sucks.

J. Aundrea: It sucks that your friend is going to have to come out of her pocket to cover her own birthday bill. And she walked out. And I would have done the same thing. Listen,

Bruce Anthony: I

J. Aundrea: don't know that this is in Atlanta. I don't know that. It [00:56:00] said it

Bruce Anthony: was in Miami.

J. Aundrea: Oh, that's right. They were in Miami. Which is just as bad.

J. Aundrea: Okay.

The Epidemic of Entitlement

J. Aundrea: But there is an epidemic and I'm noticing this, an epidemic of ladies going out and they ain't got no bread.

Bruce Anthony: Oh Lord, you, you going to open up the manosphere to, to just to co sign everything that you saying now. You sound like an ally of the manosphere.

J. Aundrea: No, no, taking accountability is not siding with people in the management that you're a grown adult.

J. Aundrea: If you can get into a club, you over 21. So you're an adult, right? If you are planning an outing. And you're hoping your, your plan is that because you're so attractive, people will probably pay your tab for you. That's a dumb thing to do. If you live in Miami, if you live in Atlanta, if [00:57:00] you live in LA, if you live in New York, Because everybody fine.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, that's true.

J. Aundrea: That's not a good plan. That's not a solid plan.

Bruce Anthony: It's not a solid plan.

J. Aundrea: Now, if you in hell, I don't know, something dc some place where people ain't fine,

Bruce Anthony: DC DC is not the defined capital. I mean, I'm here, but ordinarily speaking,

J. Aundrea: if you're 8, 9, 10 in a, in a, in a city of fives and sixes, then you can get away with that.

J. Aundrea: Probably

Bruce Anthony: right.

J. Aundrea: But in Miami,

Bruce Anthony: no, you're not going to get away with that. No. In Miami, in all those places that you're talking about, if you go out with people, then you, that's something that you might could expect. But if you out dolo with the girls and you not accompanied by people who would actually Pay the bill for

J. Aundrea: you.

Bruce Anthony: That's a crapshoot.

J. Aundrea: [00:58:00] You gotta

Bruce Anthony: come with some bread.

J. Aundrea: If you're not the birthday girl, please know you're going to have to come up out your pocket. And I'm, and, and you know, I'll have my little situation,

J. Aundrea: but I just have never, I have never gone out and I don't have no money in my pocket. Because you never know what you're going to come up against, especially as a woman.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Okay. That's a good point.

J. Aundrea: You never know. And I just don't listen. If you just lost your job, if your friend doesn't understand that you can't go out with her, because I just lost my job.

J. Aundrea: Going out is just not an option for me. If they don't understand that you need new friends,

Bruce Anthony: right?

J. Aundrea: The last thing you need to do is go out there out in the world and think you're going to scam somebody. It's really the [00:59:00] audacity for me and, and I just don't understand it, but it really is. Epidemic. I mean, we see these tick tock videos.

Bruce Anthony: Jay, hold on that. Now, now you definitely co signing a lot of what they get. There's going to be dudes in our comment on YouTube. Cause that's where they at. They're going to be like, she told you these women ain't no good. And they're going to put it across the board to all women. And this is not the case,

J. Aundrea: but this is what I'm saying.

J. Aundrea: That's different from what they're saying is I'm saying y'all need to stop thinking that you can rely on and get your own weight up.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah. And if you

J. Aundrea: ain't got it, you ain't going because don't put yourself in a situation where now you're beholden to somebody else because they've been paying for your drinks all night and now they want something

Bruce Anthony: right.

Bruce Anthony: That's the, that's the other thing too.

J. Aundrea: Stop doing that. You're putting yourself in a, in a predicament.

Bruce Anthony: That's what happened. That's what happened to diamond and the players club. Put herself in a predicament. The [01:00:00] dude was paying for drinks. I've been paying for your drinks all night. Yeah. Showed up

J. Aundrea: at her house.

Bruce Anthony: At a house. There's diamond from the players club is a movie ice cube. Uh, produced it. It's a dark, but funny because of Bernie Mac, but not the dark parts. No, but Bernie Mac is hilarious in that movie.

J. Aundrea: And so it's

Bruce Anthony: Jamie Foxx.

J. Aundrea: Yes. But yeah, I don't know what's going on. Had that been me and y'all came up with some empty cups, you're going back with some empty cups.

Bruce Anthony: I just know me in these types of situations and the older I've gotten, the less patience I have for, I call that stupidity. That's just dumb as hell to think that you say to me, Oh, let's do shots. And then you come to me like, I'm going to give you some of my liquor.

J. Aundrea: Right?

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. So I don't have the patience for stupid people and it's [01:01:00] written all over my face.

Bruce Anthony: I don't hide my emotions anymore. It's like, what is, is, is the WTF face? Huh?

J. Aundrea: What did you just say? Like, what's the logic? What was your plan?

Bruce Anthony: The plan was a scam.

J. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: that was the plan. And you know what? Not all women are like that. Look, no, let me give you an example. Let me give you an example. My bestie is an attractive woman.

Bruce Anthony: She went out on New Year's cause I didn't feel like crossing the bridge. So she went out on New Year's and she was like, I'm just going to go out to this local place and just have a drink. So she goes and sits down. Dude buys her a drink. Okay. Oh, that's nice. That's nice. It's like a guy bought me a drink.

Bruce Anthony: I was like, yeah, okay. That kind of makes sense.

J. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Another dude buys her a drink.

J. Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, okay. You got two free drinks. Yeah.

J. Aundrea: Not bad. Then

Bruce Anthony: the bartender says, [01:02:00] here's another drink on me. Right. Yeah. She got three free drinks. Also. My bestie makes money. She came there to spend her own money. Yes. She just got some free drinks.

Bruce Anthony: She went there to spend her own money and I've dated women. That just expect me to pay all the time. And let me tell you something, you get one, two dates cause I'm a gentleman.

J. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: So the first day to always pay,

J. Aundrea: right.

Bruce Anthony: And the second date more than likely 95. 9 times out of a hundred. Right. Cause there is a 4.

Bruce Anthony: 1 where I'm just like, this is all you. I'm going to pay for the second date. But at third date, especially when it's your idea. Cause I don't be asking people out. So you asked me out to go on the first two, right? That third date you ain't reaching for your pocketbook. We done. I don't [01:03:00] even want to talk to you no more.

J. Aundrea: You got to at least do the pump fake.

Bruce Anthony: Look, if they don't do the pump fake on the first date, I'm done.

J. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: I'm done. I like co you just, you just came here just expecting it like I'm a gentleman. But to, to expect it. That's a different ball game. You gotta at least fake it. And then I'm gonna do this big What are you doing that's so disrespectful?

Bruce Anthony: You know, I got, I'm I'm taking you out. Yeah. This is, yeah. We gotta do that whole song of dance. Yeah. Don't be proud me of the song of dance. I know it's a song of dance, but play the game.

J. Aundrea: But it's, it's, listen, scammers in general are on the rise. Yeah. Well one of 'em was President, protect your neck. Okay.

J. Aundrea: like scammers are out, but it's honestly, it's the entitlement and the audacity. Yeah. To You are fine explaining all of this to a stranger.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-Hmm.

J. Aundrea: But not to your friend group.

Bruce Anthony: Hey, that, that [01:04:00] makes sense. It's easier to tell strangers your secrets than it is people close to you. Cause you could never see that stranger again.

J. Aundrea: True.

Bruce Anthony: But the people close to you, they see you more frequently. You're going

J. Aundrea: to see me again. Cause you're going to have to pay me back. What'd you mean?

J. Aundrea: Covering y'all tab. Oh, you mean you're going to see me again? You mean

Bruce Anthony: her friend?

J. Aundrea: No team table. If I paid that, if I add the goodness of my heart, the moment you get a new job, I'm going to let you get that first check. Cause I'm gonna let you get back on your feet. And for that second check, you need to start making some payments.

Bruce Anthony: I look at

J. Aundrea: this tab. Y'all just ran up over there.

Bruce Anthony: I would never in that situation. There is no, there's no instance in which I would put anything on my tab because of the way they moved in the beginning. Yes. The way they moved in the beginning had, had she, if I was on team table and she came to me, I pulled a corner.

Bruce Anthony: Hey, Hey, what's up? [01:05:00] This is my girl's birthday too. I just lost my job. Do y'all mind if we party with you? I really don't have a, I really don't have a lot of money, but here's a little bit to help out. But is it okay?

J. Aundrea: I would absolutely let her in a second.

Bruce Anthony: That's something that I'm like, you know, you know, it's your birthday too.

Bruce Anthony: Come on in. Like, don't go crazy. As soon as you start going crazy though,

J. Aundrea: the moment you go crazy, you got to get the hell up out of my section. But like,

Bruce Anthony: Cause I remember when my boy got out of jail and he had this little girl, right? And we was at the bar and we, we, we was like, look, you just got out. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: So, you know, the first time we get you a couple of sweaters, we went, we, no, we took him to Dave and busters the first time. Right. It was the first time that we hang out. We say, we got something planned bigger, but man, you, you home. Yeah. Let's go to Dave and busters. He was eating. When we went to go pick him up, he was eating dinner.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. We get to Dave and Buster's like, yeah, man, let's get some drinks. He turns to me. It was like, Hey, you mind if I get some food? Didn't you [01:06:00] just finish eating? That was the first sign. Now, now that was the first sign.

J. Aundrea: I might've been thinking, Hey, he just got out. He's happy to have real Food, you know, maybe he want to get him a burger.

J. Aundrea: So I can understand that a lot of people get big after they get out. All right.

Bruce Anthony: So the next instance was we took him to a nice club in DC, top level. I knew somebody that could get us in VIP. We was partying. We had, uh, there was the Washington professional football team players in there. There was Raven players in there.

Bruce Anthony: It was wizards players in there. And we got a section cause I know somebody, right? He goes up to the bar. And I was like, man, you want a drink? We got a table. He was like, yeah, I'll just go up to the bar. Cause my girl want to drink. I was like, I can get your girl drink. We got a table. She don't want what we got at the table.

Bruce Anthony: [01:07:00] I was like, okay, I think we had like bourbon or something like that. She wanted vodka. I was like, all right, you just want a one drink. You know, I'll just go to the bar and you know, get you a drink. So our other boy was like, yo, don't worry about it. Cause you helped us out getting in here and the table, everything I got.

Bruce Anthony: I got their drinks if they want something different than what we got at the table. So my boy orders his drink. I think he wanted the Heineken or something. And then his girl ordered a drink. She was like, let me get a vodka and cranberry. Okay. Okay. Mind you, we're like 21 years old, 22.

J. Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: So that's a

J. Aundrea: standard 21 year old drink.

J. Aundrea: It's standard. And

Bruce Anthony: also. If you're 21, 22, you ain't got that much money.

J. Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: Right. Remember I got the table and everything because I got the hookup. I'm not paying full price. Right. I got the hookup. Yes. So he says, yeah, can I get a vodka cranberry? And she goes, uh, gray goose. My boy looked at me [01:08:00] and I looked at him and I was like, oh, oh, Boy ordered it and I, that was the last time that we hung out with him after the David busters.

Bruce Anthony: And then that, I was like, Oh, like we happy that you home. But I actually, truthfully, I wasn't really his friend. Uh, he was, uh, you know, it was my boy's friend. I guess we was, I was a friend through association. I knew he was shy. See, that's the reason why I went to jail in the first place.

J. Aundrea: Jay,

Bruce Anthony: what do you want to tell these people out here?

Final Thoughts and Farewell

J. Aundrea: Listen, legalize it. Come on. Across

Bruce Anthony: the board. We're tired of

J. Aundrea: this. No, not across the board. I'm talking about cannabis.

Bruce Anthony: No, I'm talking, yeah, no. Oh, yeah, yeah. across the board. Yeah. All the states, yeah.

J. Aundrea: Come on. Like, seriously. Throw us a frickin bone. Throw the little guy. A bomb. Legalize it. Give us something to hold on to in this [01:09:00] hellscape that we are living in.

Bruce Anthony: Okay, that's a lot. All right. You told people what you said. And for me, I'm going to say thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I holla. Woo! That was a hell of a show. Thank you for rocking with us here on unsolicited perspectives with Bruce Anthony. Now, before you go, don't forget to follow, subscribe, like, comment, and share our podcast wherever you're listening or watching it to it.

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