Controversy Erupts: Jason Whitlock, US Legislation, & 90s Black Media

Controversy Erupts: Jason Whitlock, US Legislation, & 90s Black Media
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Welcome and Introduction
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Bruce Anthony: First of all, welcome. This is us. Listen to perspectives. I'm Bruce Anthony, your host here to lead the conversation in important events.

Bruce Anthony: Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch our video podcast, rate, review, like, comment, share, share with your friends, share with your family, hell, you your enemies. On today's episode, it's the sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis, J Andrea, we're going to be talking about Jason Whitlock and Angel Reese.

Bruce Anthony: We're going to be talking about did the U. S. just re institute the draft? And then black movie and television shows from the 90s. But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.[00:01:00] 

Bruce Anthony: What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it. I can't call it. 

Upcoming Break and Format Changes
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Bruce Anthony: But I do need to let everybody know. Next two weeks, Unsolicited Perspectives is going to be taking some time off. So there won't be any new podcast episodes until July 9th. However, if you subscribe to our YouTube channel, we'll have every day a five minute video that's exclusive to our YouTube channel that you guys can kind of partake in, so we're going to take a little break 

J. Aundrea: for the 

Bruce Anthony: holidays 

J. Aundrea: and 

Bruce Anthony: come back better than ever.

J. Aundrea: Better than ever. Yes. 

Bruce Anthony: We hope better than ever. We shouldn't be better. I feel like the show is We'll 

J. Aundrea: probably come back just the same. Maybe a little rested. You always like, you always like 

Bruce Anthony: rested. Well, since we'll be rested, that means that it will be better. 

J. Aundrea: It will be better because we'll have some sleep.

Bruce Anthony: Cause I [00:02:00] am exhausted. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm getting older and I can't keep burning candles on both ends like I, like I used to in days. 

J. Aundrea: Them days been over for me. I don't know about you, but they've been over for me. I gets my sleep. I don't play. 

Bruce Anthony: And to let everybody know that our format, as far as us releasing episodes are going to change at some point over the summer, we're still going to be releasing two episodes a week.

Bruce Anthony: You're still gonna be getting your sibling happy hour, you're still gonna be getting either a show just with me or an interview. We're just gonna change the days to accommodate my sister. 'cause she's gonna be in grad school. She, she? Yes. My sister's going to get a degree. Y'all. 

J. Aundrea: I'm getting a degree.

J. Aundrea: Another why? 'cause I'm black and bored and that means no, he get a degree or ll I'm a, I'm a black woman and I'm bored The, you, what'd you say? Get a degree. L You get a degree or llc? 

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, 

J. Aundrea: I went the degree route. Yes. 

Bruce Anthony: Alright. [00:03:00] 

Jason Whitlock's Controversial Comments
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Bruce Anthony: We celebrated Juneteenth yesterday, because we're filming this on June 20th, it'll air on June 21st.

Bruce Anthony: Juneteenth, which is June 19th, was yesterday. And you would think that we would have only positive stories to talk about. But no. 

J. Aundrea: I mean, we could, we could talk about a positive story. 

Bruce Anthony: What positive story? Willie Mays died and Jason Whitlock attacked and Angel Reese. Those are the only things happening in the world right now.

J. Aundrea: I'm talking about Kendrick's pop out, but I forgot you. 

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, no, I mean, that's Black on Black crime. It's 

J. Aundrea: American on Canadian crime. 

Bruce Anthony: Oh, okay. You want to parse it that way, but it's still Black on Black crime. Not 

J. Aundrea: like a six time. 

Bruce Anthony: I heard it was five. Don't exaggerate. Don't put a hundred on ten. It was five.

Bruce Anthony: That's 

J. Aundrea: so ret. 

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, whatever. Drake will be back. I'm not worried about it. Drake will be back. Oh, 

J. Aundrea: yeah. [00:04:00] Drake is light skin. He's not going anywhere. It's hard to keep. And they're like. What? Like cockroaches. Hard to keep.

Bruce Anthony: Art. So I, I had a, I had a, a title for this segment. I'm not going to say it, but Jason Whitlock's punk self is at it again. He's recently made some controversial comments about Angel Reese. And those are the only type of comments that he makes as controversial comments. Whitlock called Angel Reese awkward and unathletic and referred to her as the most overrated athlete in sports.

Bruce Anthony: The most overrated athletes in sports. In all of sports. That's what he said. 

J. Aundrea: Like right in, in sport, you take all of sports right now and there's some dumb sports out there. Okay. And she's the worst out of all sports. 

Bruce Anthony: Really? Why are you attacking [00:05:00] sports out there? Why are you attacking those sports? 

J. Aundrea: Nah, there's some dumb sports out there.

J. Aundrea: So you're telling me I still don't know what that is, but they, they play pickleball near me. And I'm just like. It looked like ping pong tennis. 

Bruce Anthony: Yes. That's exactly what it is. 

J. Aundrea: Okay. 

Bruce Anthony: Ping pong tennis. 

J. Aundrea: Right. So you got some dumb things out there with dumb names and you're telling me that she just the most overrated.

Bruce Anthony: That's what he says. He says she's most overrated says he's awkward and unathletic. He also criticized Reese for her comments about the growth of women's basketball, claiming that nobody's tuning in to watch her play. He also took issue was Reese's actually 

J. Aundrea: incorrect. 

Bruce Anthony: Oh, I mean, I mean, as far as the games, the attendance of the games, not attendance, the viewership of the games, Caitlin Clark's games are [00:06:00] getting way higher numbers than the rest of the WNBA games.

Bruce Anthony: But the WNBA games numbers are coming up from last year outside of Caitlin Clark's game. So it is a rise to. Wwn b Well, they, 

J. Aundrea: they had to, you know, first start by putting her games on tv. 

Bruce Anthony: Well, I mean, and 

J. Aundrea: they, you know, they weren't initially doing that. Somebody filmed it, it ended up getting a lot of streams and, and now you can catch 'em on tv.

J. Aundrea: But like, yeah, everybody knew. Yeah. I mean, Katlin Clark leading in, in the ratings. That's not, that's not news. Like we all knew that. 

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. I knew that was coming. He also, wi Whitlock also said that Reese is delusional. And is always playing the big victim just to just to give you the other side that he doesn't always attack women He has been defending caitlin clark from various online critics But it's come at the expense for, uh, Black women.

Bruce Anthony: He's stereotyped [00:07:00] Black women in sports, music, and Black style. He's always been accused of stirring up stuff as far as his comments towards women. He said that women shouldn't be sports writers. It shouldn't be sports commentators and things of that nature. Nobody wants to hear a woman, uh, talk. And, um, yeah, so we're going to start that off the day after Juneteenth by talking Jason Whitlock.

Bruce Anthony: I 

J. Aundrea: mean, Jason, he the audacity for me to call her awkward and unathletic and he looks like a pop mark baked potato. Like you have to be kidding me right now, 

Bruce Anthony: playing Division one college football at Ball State. So he wasn't this thing, 

J. Aundrea: he was wearing a helmet that way. We didn't have to see his face. 

Bruce Anthony: Well, yes, he was never a handsome man.

Bruce Anthony: And right now he looked like a thumb. So yes. Oh, I don't know. Uh, he. Yeah, the [00:08:00] criticism on him, by him towards Angel Reese is ridiculous. And he says that she's actually not playing well, but I pulled up her stats. She's averaging 12 points a game, 10 rebounds a game, 2 assists a game, almost 2 steals a game.

Bruce Anthony: She's, now this is the bad part, her field goal percentage is about 37%, so she's not shooting well from the field. But her free throw percentage is about 75%. In the latest WNBA Rookie Power Rankings, Angel Reese is currently ranked second. She's the only rookie averaging a double double a game. And, uh, She's leading the entire league in offensive rebounds a game with 4.

Bruce Anthony: 6, almost five a game so that I, I've watched her play basketball and she graceful like Cheryl swoops, or I don't know why I keep forgetting the woman's name, the woman that just retired, the one I had a crush on, uh, [00:09:00] that was married to the ugly man, Sheldon Williams. I don't know why I keep forgetting her name.

Bruce Anthony: Don't know. Don't know why I keep forgetting her name. Candace Parker. That's her name. Candace Parker. You ain't Noce Parker. Yes. You ain't graceful. Candace Parker. She's not Breonna Stewart. She's not graceful when she plays a game, but she's a facto like she's going to have A-W-N-B-A career. And fact of the matter is if you know anything about basketball, which Jason Welock, clearly he doesn't.

Bruce Anthony: If you know anything about basketball, there's more than just scoring points. Yes. People love Caitlyn Clark because she scores point and she's. Her, her scoring percentage is like 16, 17 points per game. But just like Reese, her field goal percentage is really low, which means it takes her a lot of shots to get to those points.

Bruce Anthony: So she's not very, yeah, she'll get there. And Angel Reese isn't very effective offensively yet. She'll get there, but she shoots really good from the charity strike. Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't know what the charity [00:10:00] stripe is, that's the free throw line. Shoot 75 percent for the free throw line. That means for every four free throws, she's hitting three of them.

Bruce Anthony: That's a good percentage. And that's letting me know that the regular field goal percentage where she shoots on the floor will get better as she gets used to the game. Already actually double double. She's averaging a double double. That's not a bad. 

J. Aundrea: And now what that is, ladies and gentlemen, is if you've got double digits, In two categories in which you can obtain double digits.

J. Aundrea: Yes. And also, if your field goal, if your free throw percentage is 75%, that is if you had four quarters and you pull one away. That's what, geez, uh, so I am also a part of this conversation. 

Discussion on Gender Respect and Relationships
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Bruce Anthony: Okay, let's go into the larger context, [00:11:00] take it out of basketball, why this man is always attacking women, and it goes back to he doesn't like 

J. Aundrea: them.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, that's what it always goes back to. I had to ask a friend of mine, I think I talked about this with you privately, I don't think I said this on air. And I'm not throwing him under the bus, to him, I'm not throwing him under the bus, but he's going to know exactly, it's him when he sees this clipped, because I am going to clip this.

Bruce Anthony: He was talking about women and he kept describing them physically. And I was like, bruh, the only time you have anything positive to say about women is about their physical ability. I was like, you had a girlfriend, you've had a girlfriend for three years. You love her. He's like, yeah. Tell me something positive about her besides her looks.

Bruce Anthony: She's a caring person. I was like, that, that's okay. I expect her to be a caring person. She's been with you for three years. That's, that's not a compliment. Give me something else. He couldn't give me anything else. And I was like, bruh, do you like women? He was like, what do you mean? Of course I [00:12:00] like women.

Bruce Anthony: I was like, no, no, no, no, no. Let me rephrase that. And then you said it after I told you the story. And it's not like respect. Do you respect women? And a lot of these dudes out here just don't respect women. Like, at all. 

J. Aundrea: And, and the funny thing is, is a lot of them have never even thought about it. It's very similar to Uh, when you call a white person white and they get offended because they've never thought of themselves as white.

J. Aundrea: They've just thought of themselves as a person. Cause they never had to see race. 

Bruce Anthony: Men have never 

J. Aundrea: had to really see gender in terms of, because they don't, they aren't oppressed because of their gender. Right. 

Bruce Anthony: Yes, this is true. 

J. Aundrea: So there's never been any incentive for men to respect women. So a lot of men.

J. Aundrea: won't realize that they don't actually like women as people. Not saying that you don't like women sexually. I'm saying you don't [00:13:00] like women as people. A lot of men won't even notice that until you actually ask them the question and they have to answer it honestly. And then they realize they've never even thought about whether or not they respect and or like women.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. 

J. Aundrea: Cause they've never had to. 

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah. And so he just, you know, for whatever reason, Jason Whitlock, because he doesn't respect women, and I don't know why, probably because of the way he looks, he's probably been turned down by women so often, that, that can, I can understand not saying that it's right, I'm not saying it's right, and it can happen both ways, by the way, if you're constantly being turned down by the opposite sex, if you're heterosexual, and you're constantly being turned down from the opposite sex, Yeah, there could be some resentment that comes from that.

J. Aundrea: Yeah. Most people don't look inward and wonder, Hey, the denominator is me getting rejected. So what am I doing? 

Bruce Anthony: Oh my goodness. That's 

J. Aundrea: getting me rejected across the [00:14:00] board. 

Bruce Anthony: Let me tell you something. I'm about to, I'm about to get us in trouble. I'm about to get us in trouble right now. 

J. Aundrea: Okay. 

Bruce Anthony: I had a conversation with somebody recently and they asked me, do you listen to Taylor Swift?

Bruce Anthony: And I was like, no, not really. Okay. It was like, well, do you have any opinions about Taylor Swift? And I was like, I got one. And they were like, okay, you don't listen to their, to our music. What is your opinion? I was like, for somebody who writes so many songs about a failed relationship and constantly trashing a man every time she breaks up, but never writes a song about maybe what she did in that relationship.

Bruce Anthony: Maybe she's the problem and not the other person. I'm just bringing that up. If all I did was talk about how horrible these women were to me, and that was the reason why, you know, I broke up with them or they broke up with me, then you, you would honestly say, well, you don't have no fault in the failure of the relationship.

Bruce Anthony: And, and I'd [00:15:00] be like, no, it's all their fault. And he'd be like, no, you're the common denominator. If your relationships are always failing and oh, by the way, all relationships fail. Yeah. Until one 

J. Aundrea: doesn't. That's literally a hundred percent of your relationships are going to fail until one doesn't. Well, 

Bruce Anthony: okay.

J. Aundrea: Ideally, ideally, you'll be with one person and what I'll say is all of them will, 

Bruce Anthony: all of them will end. They don't necessarily need to. 

J. Aundrea: Oh, that's true. Okay. All of them will end. 

Bruce Anthony: They don't necessarily need to fail, but if you constantly have failed relationships, so I had to look inward. Cause after my divorce, I was like, it was all her fault.

Bruce Anthony: And I was like, nah, it wasn't all her fault. I had, I had a lot of, I had a lot of cause and the failure of my marriage. That was not all her fault. And then I was like, and all the relationships before that. I blamed a lot of those women, but I was sitting here doing some ill stuff. So that was the cause of it.

Bruce Anthony: So I remember what the original thing was and why I [00:16:00] brought up the Taylor Swift thing. But yeah, that's the only, that's my about men, 

J. Aundrea: about men, like not liking women. And then you were like, I can see how men getting rejected on a consistent basis will make them not like women. And I say, yeah, because most people are not introspective 

Bruce Anthony: and thinking 

J. Aundrea: that the common denominator in this situation is me.

Bruce Anthony: Right. Okay. So that's how I got to the Taylor Swift. Yes. Yes. See, this is one of the rare times where you didn't disassociate and you was right here with me the whole time. 

J. Aundrea: You know, medication is a wonder. Modern medicine is a wonder. Yeah. To just do a quick detour, modern medicine is 

Bruce Anthony: a wonder, but them side effects, every time I see a commercial.

Bruce Anthony: And there's like, Oh, I can fix my liver. That'll be fantastic. But the side effects is uncontrollable diarrhea. Nah, I'm just gonna let my liver fail. 

J. Aundrea: But it's like, it's a medicine for just something inocul [00:17:00] like it's, you know, uh, you have psoriasis. Okay. Do this treatment for psoriasis. Side effects may include your shit on yourself.

J. Aundrea: You become real angry. You punch people. You get arrested. You're like, you're like, it's messed up. You 

Bruce Anthony: almost said that. You almost said that. That's why 

J. Aundrea: I used to be

J. Aundrea: like, damn, if I keep this itchy, you know, skin, like, I might just keep it. Like, it would ruin my life. 

Bruce Anthony: Because I'm a fitness professional, people keep asking me about Ozempic. And I keep telling them, stay the hell away from Ozempic. Okay. Anytime you take a shortcut to try and get somewhere, it's never going to be where you want to be.

Bruce Anthony: Trust me. Shortcuts never lead to the undesired goal. 

J. Aundrea: And I 

Bruce Anthony: was like, it just takes hard work and determination and dedication. Don't nobody want to do that? I mean, I get it. [00:18:00] Look, I can't wait to turn. First of all, I can't wait to turn 55. It's a little retirement community right around the corner from me.

Bruce Anthony: I've already been scoping it out. I know that's 

J. Aundrea: right. 

Bruce Anthony: Look, I saw it. It was really nice in there. They had a lot of 

J. Aundrea: a lot of amenities. 

Bruce Anthony: Yes. A lot of amenities. It was good. Look, and it's right around the corner. And I said, can I get some information? They were like, are you thinking about somebody moving in?

Bruce Anthony: I said, no, but in 11 years, I will be, and I just want to get some information now, find out how much all this is going to cost. It's everything that you need. 

J. Aundrea: It's literally everything. It's a one stop shop and you live there. 

Bruce Anthony: And I won't have to worry about no ruckus and no riffraff because it's all older people.

Bruce Anthony: They're going to be quiet and, and, and studious. Um, 

J. Aundrea: they are quite randy. I would watch yourself, you know? Cause. I am anticipating that you're not going to look that much different than how you look now. Uh, you probably still be in the fitness, but [00:19:00] you know, you're good looking tall and everything. You got 

Bruce Anthony: to watch him.

J. Aundrea: You got to watch out for Gertie. 

Bruce Anthony: When an older woman tells me I'm attractive, that means more to me than these young little young chicks running around here telling me I'm cute because They ain't beatin around the bush, and they done seen a lot of people during their time. Yeah, they done seen Nat King 

J. Aundrea: Cole.

J. Aundrea: They done seen Nat King Cole. They didn't see, they didn't see, uh, Dr. King. They didn't see them all, okay? So, they didn't see Malcolm X, they heard him speak in Chicago. 

Bruce Anthony: Alright, that means my chest hurt. You gonna have me have a heart attack on air. I'm just 

J. Aundrea: saying, they didn't been around, they didn't see it all.

J. Aundrea: So, you can bet your bottom dollar.

J. Aundrea: They're giving it to you straight and they're giving it to you real. 

Bruce Anthony: Oh, well, speaking of old people, only old people would know about this next topic that we're going to get into. 

The U.S. Draft and Misinformation
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Bruce Anthony: And we're going to get into the [00:20:00] draft, the draft into the armed forces. We're going to get into that next.

Bruce Anthony: Okay, Jay, the U. S. House of Representatives passed a bill that H. R. 8070, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2025, which includes a provision that would automatically register all males between the ages of 18 and 26 in the Selective Service System. This is often referred to in a more common term as the draft.

Bruce Anthony: However, it's important to really understand what this really means. Registering for the draft under the current U. S. law, anyone who was assigned male at birth is currently and currently between the ages of 18 and 26 is eligible and required to register for the draft. Once you turn 26, you're out of the draft.

Bruce Anthony: Now, getting drafted is different. The U. S. [00:21:00] military has not used the list of names to call people up for military service. Drafting them since the Vietnam War, but in the case that a draft is reinstated. The U S needs a list of everyone eligible for services to determine who would actually be called to serve.

Bruce Anthony: So while the bill doesn't involve automatic registration for the selective service, doesn't mean that it's, that is that those registered are being drafted into the military service. It's also worth noting that most States automatically register men for the draft when they apply for a driver's license.

Bruce Anthony: So this provision in the bill could be views as an effort to streamline the registration process. By automatic, by automating it into a national level, instead of relying on a state by state basis. You wanted to talk about this. I just gave a quick synopsis, but I'm going to give you the floor to let you say everything that you want to say about this, because you was like, I want to talk about this.

Bruce Anthony: And ladies and gentlemen, when my sister sends me something that says she wanted to talk about this, I give her the floor [00:22:00] because she could go about 35, 45 minutes, but I don't cut her off in time, but anyway. I 

J. Aundrea: will keep my eye on the clock. Y'all 

Bruce Anthony: don't worry about the clock. Say what you want to say. I'm booked in time for you to say what you want to say on this.

J. Aundrea: The reason why I brought this up is because I've been seeing this reporting on my timeline, specifically with Black blogs. And we got to talk about misinformation and we got to talk about material misrepresentation. Okay. 

Bruce Anthony: Those are two different things, but go ahead and bring it 

J. Aundrea: down. Okay. Okay. You got, so when I see it on there and I go through the comments and I'm like, Oh, they can, they drafting us, y'all is happening and all this stuff.

J. Aundrea: The problem with these blogs is that you guys are intentionally misrepresenting what is going on [00:23:00] for clicks and for likes, but what you're, but what's happening as a result of that is you're inciting people for something that First of all, 46 states. And some territories automatically register you, like you said, when you get a driver's license, or if you apply to college, and you get certain, you know, state backed or state funded loans, things like that.

J. Aundrea: There, the Select Service, uh, Selective Service Office has existed since the 60s, and it has been every year registering individuals born male between the ages of 18 and 26. So we all have all been on this list. First of all, you are either actively on it or you were on it or you got a child or a grandchild that's about to be on it.

J. Aundrea: Your 

Bruce Anthony: name been on the list. 

J. Aundrea: You been on the 

Bruce Anthony: list. Your grandpappy's [00:24:00] name was on the list. Your pappy's name was on the list. Your son and your grandson gonna be on the list. We gonna 

J. Aundrea: be on the list. Okay. And every year we have to pass the National Defense Authorization Act. It's a ver a version of this bill get passed every year because every year the military needs a budget.

J. Aundrea: Congress has to write the check. You gotta put a, they put a bunch of provisions and things and different stuff in there. So this year, what has stood out to people is that it will automatically register people for the Selective Service System. That is, it, the proposal, first of all, was brought forth by a Democrat.

J. Aundrea: And it is specifically to help streamline the process of registration. But every, y'all been on this list. They're, they're volley, you know, they're talking about in Congress now, whether or not women are going to be included. As a feminist, I don't want anybody [00:25:00] included. I would like to not need to go to war.

J. Aundrea: That's my opinion about it. 

Bruce Anthony: Sometimes you gotta, sometimes you gotta fight. Like, I mean, come on, we, we grew up in, come on now, where we grew up and where we from? Like, you gotta fight sometimes. Like, like, you could be a pacifist all you want, but 

J. Aundrea: No, I don't know. You know, men have been running stuff for a while and it's been pretty bloody.

J. Aundrea: And I think maybe they should get somebody else to try. Um, but that's neither here nor there. 

Bruce Anthony: We tried. We tried in 2016. Yes. And women, women voted against her. Cause you know, women, women be hatin on women. 

J. Aundrea: Women do be hatin on women. Women do be hatin on women. Okay. So, so, and it's also, it's important to note that this, again, registering people for the select service system is not instituting the draft or reinstating the draft that requires a [00:26:00] whole other bit of legislation.

J. Aundrea: And that's got to go through all the processes. And I don't know if anybody remembers, uh, how a bill becomes a law. A 

Bruce Anthony: lot of schools, Yeah, a lot of these folks did not have schoolhouse rocks. 

J. Aundrea: If you're Gen X or millennial, you probably remember schoolhouse rock. I'm just a bill. But it's a, there's a process.

J. Aundrea: Just because this passed in the house, there is a very slim chance that it's going to get into the state. Passed through the Senate because they have included some things in there like, um, not funding abortion access or gender affirming care. They've included things in there that, uh, obviously is not going to pass, uh, a Democratic led Senate.

J. Aundrea: So I don't know if that means that this provision in the bill is going to be taken out or not, but what the point of the point I'm trying to make is nobody is reinstituting the draft. We have not done [00:27:00] so in over 50 years. There's no immediate need for us to do it now. Yes, they are, the Pentagon is facing recruitment issues, but, but we can't start getting up in arms about something that's not a thing yet, just because you read it on Facebook.

J. Aundrea: And I say yet because, you know, hell we don't damn know. But the point, 

Bruce Anthony: the point is right now, right now 

J. Aundrea: this is not happening. Nobody has re instituted the draft. This bill has not become a law. Uh, again, I don't know, refer back to the song, uh, on how bill becomes a law, but the bill has not become a law.

J. Aundrea: And do I agree with some of the comments that Voting registration should also be automatic if select service conscription or registration is automatic. Yes, I do agree with that. Everybody should be registered to [00:28:00] vote automatically when they turn 18. That's just, 

Bruce Anthony: that's just smart. Well, I was about to say, no, I know.

Bruce Anthony: When I turned 18, I had to register to vote. I mean, you got to register to vote. I think once you renew your driver's license, it becomes really easy to register to vote. Yeah. You go to your local DMV or in Maryland, it's the MVA. When you go get your license renewed and things like that. And then when you move and you go get, anytime you got to change your license, they give you the option to.

Bruce Anthony: You know, register to vote, but yes, if they're going to automatically say, enter you with selective service, you should automatically be interested in that voting registry. 

J. Aundrea: Right. So I'm not saying that it's not, you know, a little nerve wracking, especially if you didn't know you was already on this list, but like, and you've been on the list 

Bruce Anthony: until you 

J. Aundrea: turn 26.

Bruce Anthony: Good. [00:29:00] I remember getting my driver's license. Cause you gotta get your, you get your driver's license at 16. Most people. And in that 21, you got to change your driver's license because you got it, but when you were 16, you got that little side profile and 21, you face it because now you can go buy you some alcohol.

Bruce Anthony: Right. And in that process, I remember. Asking, it was like, yo, what is this secret service thing? And they told me, cause it was in Maryland. It was like, oh yeah, you automatically in the secret service. I was like, well, I don't want to do this. It's like, it's just, it's no draft. I was like, I know there's no draft cause I'm a history major.

Bruce Anthony: I know what it is and what it's not. It's like, we'll just, we need a role. And I was like, I don't really know how I feel about this, but I want to be able to buy alcohol legally. So I'm going to go ahead and hit this check. 

J. Aundrea: Failure to register is considered a crime. So, and there's a range of punishments for it.

J. Aundrea: So. If you think you're not on that list, you're crazy. You've been on the list, like you on the 

Bruce Anthony: list, 

J. Aundrea: unless you turn 26. [00:30:00] And then when you turn 26, then you're off the list. But like, I think it's the, it's the part where the misinformation and the misrepresentation of what's going on inciting people to get angry about things that aren't even happening.

J. Aundrea: When there are things that are actually happening that they can get angry about, let's direct that energy. Towards solving issues that are actually occurring right now in real life. 

Bruce Anthony: I hear everything that you're saying, and I absolutely agree with it. I'm going to make a couple of points here. Some people just don't have any substance.

Bruce Anthony: Some people can only think about what's bring presented to them. They, they're not deep thinkers. Not to say that that's good or bad. They tend to be a lot happier. So I'm thinking that when they say ignorance is bliss, they mean it. They mean it. Um, there is a real problem. There's a real [00:31:00] problem of people getting half assed information and taking it for fact, whether it's TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, X, whatever you want to call it, or, uh, Facebook, people don't do their due diligence to say, is this real?

Bruce Anthony: And, and I'm realizing that, thank God for our parents, you know, I hate to bring this back to us and, uh, but praise our parents because Mother's Day and Father's Day just passed. 

J. Aundrea: Yeah, 

Bruce Anthony: they, they questioned us on everything and made us research stuff. So naturally, when people give us information that make us sideways, cock our head sideways and 

J. Aundrea: be like, that seems sus, let me look it up, 

Bruce Anthony: we look it up.

Bruce Anthony: Like our Google is anytime me and you get together and spend any extended amount of time together. We always get to talking about stuff. Yeah. And it's like, well, I don't know about that. Google, Google, we Google stuff. And also when we Google stuff, we [00:32:00] look at the sources of information of which we're getting our information from.

Bruce Anthony: If it's such and such. com, maybe I could trust it. If it's such and such. org, I could trust it a little bit more. If it's such and such. net, mmm. I 

J. Aundrea: don't trust, you know, that's somebody's Tumblr. I don't know what that is. I don't 

Bruce Anthony: know. There's so many people, and I get it from our comments when we post stuff online.

Bruce Anthony: When we post those little shorts or those one minute clips, people are like, well, that's not what it is. I'm like, one, did you listen to the entire clip? Cause it's a minute long and you're arguing me, arguing with me about something that I literally talk about 30 seconds in so that you only watch 15 seconds of the clip because if you watch the whole clip, people's attention span is short.

Bruce Anthony: They just want information when they get information and they're not double checking the information when they put it back out into the world. I told you, I got a friend always coming to me. Like, did you hear about this? Did you hear about that? Every [00:33:00] time they come to me about some information that they just received, I always look at them sideways.

Bruce Anthony: And I said, did you do the research before you brought it to me? Because at this point, you know, I'm damn near calling you stupid because every time you bring something to me, all I do is a quick Google search and prove that whatever it is that you thought was real was not real. So like, there's a prime example.

Bruce Anthony: They brought up to me that there is this woman out there claiming. That she wrote both the Terminator and, uh, the Matrix. Yes. Black woman. Yeah. That's not true, though. She didn't do that. 

J. Aundrea: Uh, she, she wrote books off of, and they were, those movies were based off those. 

Bruce Anthony: No, no, no, no, no, they're not. No, they're not.

Bruce Anthony: It really, yeah. No, they're not. 

Debunking the Matrix Lawsuit Myth
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Bruce Anthony: And in Time Magazine, this is the reason why I was like, oh, this could be true. And I waited until I read Time Magazine. Actually wrote an article disproving everything [00:34:00] and saying that people have been believing that she did do it and it's an internet, basically a hoax. One person said this is fact and it's been passed on down to now everybody believes it's fact and Time Magazine did an expose, exposing this is not true.

J. Aundrea: Well, it looks like According to Google, she had filed a lawsuit against the franchise 

Bruce Anthony: and lost, 

J. Aundrea: saying that one of her original science fiction books and script, The Third Eye Matrix, was what they based Terminator on. 

Bruce Anthony: Right. 

J. Aundrea: Right. Well, 

Bruce Anthony: no, but then she says that they stole Matrix and then she tried to explain how Neil was Jesus Christ and, and, and he was also John Connor, but he was John Connor and Jesus Christ.

Bruce Anthony: And I knew just by listening to her talk, I was like, this is a bunch of BS. Cause I know both of those franchises like the back of my head and this don't even connect. But my friend brought it to me. It was like, cause he, [00:35:00] he. Low key is kind of religious, but not really. And it was like, it's all based on Jesus Christ.

Bruce Anthony: And I was like, Superman is more based on Jesus Christ than the Terminator and John Connor. 

J. Aundrea: I, yeah, I would agree with that. I don't, I don't think I don't see the parallel with John Connor at all. 

Bruce Anthony: Right. But they said John Connor and Neo is the same person just in the future. And I was like, that don't make no, no, 

J. Aundrea: no, 

Bruce Anthony: really don't make 

J. Aundrea: no sense.

J. Aundrea: No. 

The Internet's Role in Spreading Misinformation
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Bruce Anthony: So anyway, it's been proven that. She lost that lawsuit, right? But just because she loses a lawsuit doesn't necessarily mean that what you're saying isn't true, but Time Magazine actually did a step by step expose and, and broke the lie, not the lie, but maybe she, in her mind, believes it in 

J. Aundrea: her mind, but 

Bruce Anthony: it's not true.

Bruce Anthony: Right. And, but it's, everybody is thinking because of the internet, that it is true. And so. That person sent me this video of her [00:36:00] explaining it. And immediately I was like, let me Google this. And it took me literally five minutes. And there were other articles before that time magazine, time magazine didn't pop up first, which is a problem in and of itself.

J. Aundrea: Right. 

Bruce Anthony: Because those other news articles weren't from reputable news organization and time, time is right. So why was it not the first click? I don't know, but I was like, no, I'm gonna go to time and read this. And I read it and I was like, Oh yes, this is all a big hoax, but it's a bigger problem because people believe what they see on the internet and these quick sound bites, because these people are saying inflammatory stuff for clickbait, just like Jason Whitlock is doing when he's attacking Angel Breeze.

Bruce Anthony: You see it all the time, all over the place. I'm sick of it. I'm like, well, somebody And 

J. Aundrea: it's just bad journalism. Like it's just bad 

Bruce Anthony: Right, 

J. Aundrea: but they're, they're [00:37:00] market, they're trying to market themselves like they're journalists, even though we know that they're all entertainers, like, it's just, it's just lazy journalism and it's bad journalism, which is why y'all are just entertainers.

J. Aundrea: But like, okay, I get right now. 

Sports Rivalries and Media Narratives
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J. Aundrea: The story is Angel Reese, bad. Caitlin Clark, good. Let's find ways. in which to keep pushing that narrative and everybody's going to do it even though the two of them are like, we don't have a problem with each other. I think it's very unfair what you guys are doing to us.

J. Aundrea: And we just want to play some basketball, uh, knock it off, right? I mean, they 

Bruce Anthony: do have a competitive, they, they, they are competitive. Yeah. Sports. They want to beat one another, but they don't hate one another. Even Magic Johnson and Larry Bird didn't hate one another. They wanted to beat each other badly, but they didn't [00:38:00] hate one another.

Bruce Anthony: If Angel Reese wins a game. She's going to be happy that she won the game. If Angela Reese beats Caitlin Clark, she's going to be even happier and vice versa, right? Caitlin Clark is just as big as a competitor as Angel Reese. 

J. Aundrea: Yes. Yes. 

Bruce Anthony: That's how athletics work. 

J. Aundrea: Yeah. It's called, it's a, it's a competition.

J. Aundrea: Literally all sports competition is a competition. We're looking for a winner and a loser. That's what sports 

Bruce Anthony: fact of the matter is these board games, people, people that don't play sports. You play board games, you play cards, you want to win. If you don't want to win, what you playing for? 

J. Aundrea: What are you playing for?

J. Aundrea: I'd like to play Uno because I love when people hit me with a draw four. Nobody, nobody, nobody. Come on now. Are you a masochist? No, everybody wants to win. Some 

Bruce Anthony: people are masochists though. Some 

J. Aundrea: people are. And I'm sure. You know, if draw fours turn you, I didn't mean to shame you. [00:39:00] If draw fours turn you on, all right, um, I don't, I'm not gonna shame anybody.

J. Aundrea: But my point is, you play a game to win it. 

Bruce Anthony: Mm hmm. 

J. Aundrea: That's the point. 

Bruce Anthony: Yes. And 

J. Aundrea: so, yeah, they're gonna be competitive. They're gonna trash talk. They're gonna do this and that. And if they were men, nobody would be, nobody would be making this a problem. Or 

Bruce Anthony: would be more celebrated. 

J. Aundrea: Yes, it will be celebrated, man, look at the intensity at which they play and how badly they want to win and the fire and all of the, yeah, but because it's the two of them and because y'all have already decided that Angel Reese is the villain.

J. Aundrea: No matter what she says, she does play 

Bruce Anthony: that role. Well, 

J. Aundrea: what she's like, if you can't beat them, join them. If y'all go do that, then fine. But I'm not, I'm not going to change who I am. If I think I can beat you, [00:40:00] I'm gonna let you know. I think I can beat you. 

Bruce Anthony: Right. 

J. Aundrea: And then I'm gonna go ahead and beat you like that.

J. Aundrea: I get that as a, as a former athlete, myself, uh, night, 1993 shoots and ladders champion. What? What? What? 

Bruce Anthony: Shinsen Ladder? How'd I play? That's a straight forward game. 

J. Aundrea: Listen. You outplayed Shinsen Ladders like we played Shinsen Ladders in the Regional Tournament of 1993. Look it up. 

Bruce Anthony: I'm not looking it up. I'm gonna let that die.

J. Aundrea: Don't, because it doesn't exist. I was about to say that. 

Bruce Anthony: Somebody going to be like, there was no shooting legends regional in 1993. She lied. Yes. Or 

J. Aundrea: there was, and they were in it and they know for a fact that I was not. So I, either way, either way I lied, but that's not the point. The point is. I lost [00:41:00] the point 

Bruce Anthony: because we were 

J. Aundrea: talking about the 

Bruce Anthony: point of the house.

J. Aundrea: No, the point is this for those 

Bruce Anthony: same people that wanted to do the research, right? Or shoots and ladders, regionals, 1993. Do some research when you see something on the internet. 

J. Aundrea: Yes, question, question, and figure out what's the real thing. I'm supposed to be putting my energy behind. What's a real thing. I completed if you, if you, if anything out of this.

The Importance of Voting and Civic Engagement
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J. Aundrea: comes out of this, your, um, your confusion or frustration or whatever you're feeling about this House bill and the idea of being automatically registered for elective service. If anything comes out of that, it should be, uh, you putting your energy behind voting and getting the people around you to vote.

J. Aundrea: Because if you're so worried about what House bills are passed, then make sure that the House is filled with people who represent you. And 

Bruce Anthony: the 

J. Aundrea: only way you can do that is by [00:42:00] voting. 

Bruce Anthony: Oh, so rock the vote. Remember when they used to do that for MTV, the rock the vote 

J. Aundrea: campaign? I think they still do rock the vote.

Bruce Anthony: I haven't, well, I don't watch MTV anymore. Unless it's Teen Mom. They got a Teen Mom reunion. Well, does anybody have kids? 

J. Aundrea: Does? I'm sure somebody out there still has kids. One of 

Bruce Anthony: my friends. Will not get off cable because it's like I just want to know where the channels are where the channels are I just want to watch what I wouldn't watch when I want to watch it and I say you're gonna pay 300 I just want to watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it I was like, all right, man, you do You can't end on the 

J. Aundrea: streaming apps you 

Bruce Anthony: right look me and my other friend tried to point it out You know just streaming apps and you can use this one this one something like that And he was like, Oh, what the, I said, YouTube TV is basically, or slang is basically, you don't have to do cable.

J. Aundrea: Yeah. I mean, essentially I have K in, in the amount that I pay for streaming apps and then having sling, like I have cable. 

Bruce Anthony: But you have the cable that [00:43:00] you want. It was your choice. I have 

J. Aundrea: been on my terms. 

Bruce Anthony: Okay. 

J. Aundrea: If I don't want one of these streaming apps, then I cancel it. You can't just cancel channels that you don't watch when you have cable.

Bruce Anthony: No, you can't. Well, you can get the basic cable and then be mad. You can be every time you got the basic cable. Yeah. You got basically like, man, that TV show look good. You'd be on the guide. This is back in the day. Ladies and gentlemen, we had a TV guide. It was a video guide that would tell us, you know, what channel, I guess they still have it.

Bruce Anthony: They 

J. Aundrea: absolutely still have it. 

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. And then you were like, Oh, I'm gonna watch this. And you click on that channel and they say the channel was not available because you got basic ass. 

J. Aundrea: Yeah. Now you, now you watching golf on Saturdays or old reruns of Shawshank redemption, that's all you got because you decided not to do TV your way.

Bruce Anthony: And we got off topic again, but let's, let's sum it up with this. Okay. I'm going to sum it up with this. [00:44:00] A draft is not good for people in lower social economic, social economic categories, right? 

J. Aundrea: No, I know why it's on the black blogs. It's because 

Bruce Anthony: we're the 

J. Aundrea: overwhelming majority of, well, 

Bruce Anthony: not poor people.

Bruce Anthony: Now, poor 

J. Aundrea: people. We are 

Bruce Anthony: really poor, but you know, another group of people that's really poor. All right. Uh, brown people, brown people are really poor in this country as well. Uh, and yes, you know, when another group of people is really poor, white people, people always seem to forget that there's large groups of really poor white people that would be affected by this.

Bruce Anthony: Now, they think a little differently than, than maybe we do, right? The Undertaker, Mark Calloway, Had a problem with Muhammad Ali because he said he didn't go fight for his country when his country asked him to. I, when he gave the interview, I was like, it's a really ignorant and naive way of looking at it.

Bruce Anthony: You didn't look at an entire context of why Muhammad [00:45:00] Ali decided not to, but okay, you being a white man, look at it as my country has asked me to do something. I'm going to go do it. Why? Because the country has given you everything that you needed from jump. 

J. Aundrea: Yeah. 

Bruce Anthony: Whereas other people have been at.

Bruce Anthony: Abusive relationship 

J. Aundrea: by people. We meet everyone else, 

Bruce Anthony: everyone else have been in an abusive relationship. So if you're a user, if your spouse or parent that's abusing the hell out of you, ask you to do something, you either going to do it out of fear or you're going to be like, no, you don't give me any reason why I would do this.

Bruce Anthony: Now, it doesn't mean that we wouldn't defend our country because if somebody came on our shores, we're going to fight. If we off overseas fighting in a war that we don't really understand why we're there fighting and you can't really explain it to us why we fighting and it don't make no sense to us.

Bruce Anthony: It's like jumping in. That's like your friend getting into a fight that they started. You're going to jump in that fight [00:46:00] and help them when they started. No, they on their own. They got to fight that fight on themselves. Uh, this is a weird analogy for America, but follow me here, folks. All I'm saying is, yeah, we not going to volunteer most of the time to go fight because oftentimes this country has told us, well, we don't really care about you.

Bruce Anthony: Well, if you don't care about us, you don't need to fight. Even though we are the reason why that we've won every war in America that we've actually won. 

J. Aundrea: Right. And when's the last time America fought a war where we were defending our country? Right. 

Bruce Anthony: Uh, well, the, the, the war on terror, the war in Afghanistan, the war on terror was a, was a blanket of a lot of different stuff.

Bruce Anthony: Put your glasses down like that. The war, I mean, they attacked us. We were defending our country. They attacked us. We were [00:47:00] defending our country. World War II. Initially we were. 

J. Aundrea: Then it 

Bruce Anthony: became 

J. Aundrea: about something else entirely. 

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, well, that's how the world works. I mean, if you're going to fight, you might as well find some money in it.

Bruce Anthony: I ain't going to fight for free. 

J. Aundrea: Yeah, I would hope. Yeah, I would hope not. But you got a lot of People wondering what's the benefit because then they get home and it takes you a year to even see somebody if you need a doctor at the VA or, you know, 

Bruce Anthony: so, 

The Reality of Military Service and Support
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J. Aundrea: And 

Bruce Anthony: they support the troops, but they don't really, that's not what they really mean.

Bruce Anthony: What they really mean is they support the military, not the troops. Cause if you're supported the troops, you'd be with Jon Stewart when he is kicking down doors and yelling at people for VA benefits, the way we treat our soldiers, when they come home needing the stuff that they need at the day, went and fought for [00:48:00] us and our freedoms.

Bruce Anthony: It's a travesty. If I ever ran for office, that would be my platform. My platform would be helping those people that are coming home, get the services that they need to propel themselves in life to be better than when we sent them off to war, because they literally. They literally re 

J. Aundrea: acclimated to civilian life.

J. Aundrea: You don't understand. You, you are literally in the trenches. We like to say, Oh yo, I've been in the trenches. We're really, 

Bruce Anthony: you, 

J. Aundrea: you was door dashing for two weeks because you were short on rent. You wasn't in a train 

Bruce Anthony: and you didn't even want to do 

J. Aundrea: it when it was raining. Exactly. So they were, they are literally in the trenches.

J. Aundrea: And then to come home and then, and just expect them to just be like, Oh, you can go back to just being regular, just regular life now. 

Bruce Anthony: Some people can. They 

J. Aundrea: need support. 

Bruce Anthony: But by and large, they do. They need support. They need support, they need [00:49:00] resources, there, there should never be a reason why a person that went and gave, risked their life for our freedoms should ever have to come back to this country and ever starve, be unhoused, be unclothed or anything.

Bruce Anthony: Should never be the case. And you should see the living conditions that our active military are living in and need barracks. , um, mm-Hmm. , it's, no, it's no bueno. Right? So we actually support the troops. 

J. Aundrea: Yeah. Not solely 

Bruce Anthony: the military, the 

J. Aundrea: actual service. 

Bruce Anthony: So we would, you know, if push comes to shove, we're going to be there front line, like we always have been going all the way back to the, um, revolutionary war, it was Black people fighting in that war as well, definitely in the Civil War, World War I, Korean War, World War II, it was World War I, then World War II, then the Korean War, definitely in Vietnam, Desert Storm and everything in between, we've been there fighting.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. So. [00:50:00] We don't have no problem with that. Just, you know, it's like, take 

J. Aundrea: care of them when they get home. 

Bruce Anthony: Right. And black folks, this is my message to you. Do some damn research and stop reading these blogs 

J. Aundrea: and vote. If you really got a problem with it. All 

Bruce Anthony: right, sis. For the last segment, before we take our mini vacation.

Bruce Anthony: And once again, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to have exclusive Five minute videos every day on YouTube during our vacation subscribe to the channel watch our stuff I put a lot of work into this production So just just watch it just to give me the satisfaction That the work that I'm putting in for this production is worth it, 

J. Aundrea: right?

Bruce Anthony: Okay. I I was talking to a friend today He's 

J. Aundrea: he's 

Bruce Anthony: a black gentleman. Mm 

Media Representation and Stereotypes
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J. Aundrea: hmm I don't know how else to say that. He's a, he's a [00:51:00] African American gentleman. 

Bruce Anthony: He's African American gentleman. And he was like, 

J. Aundrea: Hey 

Bruce Anthony: man, I, I grew up, he's the same age as me. He was like, I love the nineties black movies. 

The Impact of 90s Black Movies
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Bruce Anthony: Yeah. But also some of them gave a bad representation of us now that I'm older and looking back at it.

Bruce Anthony: And I was like, what do you mean? What are you talking about? He was like, what was, what was the purpose of juice? What was the purpose of menace to society? There's a lot of movies out there that show a bad representation for us. Yeah. And it's not like there's nothing flattering on the other end. And I was like, huh, I actually, I never thought about that.

Bruce Anthony: And I took it a step further and I said, well, television portrayal for people who aren't around a diverse group of Black people, because like you say, well, Tom, we're not a monolith, right? Like we're all, Black people are different, right? We are all in every socio economical category. Every [00:52:00] educational category, or, or lack thereof, every, every working category, we, we are different.

Bruce Anthony: The North is different from the South, which is different from the East, to the West, to the Midwest. Texas, Houston people, Houston Black people are different than Dallas Black people that are different than San Antonio Black people. We are not the same, we are different. Yeah. So, Some of these movies and television shows gave representation of specific groups of Black people at specific areas during specific times, but also if you're not around a diverse group of Black people and you're watching this media, especially during the nineties, right, where we got our stereotypical generic representation of different groups of people from television and movies.

Bruce Anthony: You're going to think what you saw on the screen is how we all are. So in one sense, you might look at it. Wow. [00:53:00] South central LA. It's crazy as hell boys in the hood. That's all they do is shoot and kill each other. And on another flip side, you might watch the Cosby show and see, I don't know what black people were talking about.

Bruce Anthony: There are doctors and lawyers. It's not tough out here. There's no racism. And, and, and I was like, huh, is the portrayal from nineties television and negative, positive, or both. 

J. Aundrea: Um, so what I'll say first is, um, stories, you know, movies, television shows, these are stories that people wanted to tell. Uh, sometimes it's not, there's no bigger purpose or meaning behind them beyond this is a story that I wanted to tell.

J. Aundrea: Um, when you ask what was the purpose of Juice or Boys in the Hood, it was a story to tell. I think [00:54:00] they're incredibly important stories because J Juice and movies like Men in Society and Boys in the Hood give you give dimension and depth and humanity to people behind the stories that you're seeing on the news.

Bruce Anthony: Mm, that was deep. 

J. Aundrea: Yeah. I mean, that's who I am. Uh, so Methods. Yeah. I mean, so it's just, it's, it's the same. It's the same as telling stories from Appalachia or, or from Peoria or wherever in the Midwest, the, you know, it's the same as like watching Yellowstone. Is that a, is that a good representation of white ranchers?

J. Aundrea: Like, I don't know. Is that a good representation of white people? I don't know. It's a story that they're telling and, and the point or [00:55:00] a good story, a good story. We'll give you some insight into that character that maybe you never thought about, right? Maybe you see somebody like Doughboy on the street.

Bruce Anthony: Doughboy is from Boyz n Hood, ladies and gentlemen. If you ever watch the movie. Texts are kind of important. You should watch that movie. 

J. Aundrea: You should. Play by SKU. You might see a guy like Doughboy on the street and not know that behind that he's lost two siblings. He doesn't have a, he, I think he had another sibling and then Ricky got killed too.

J. Aundrea: I think there was another sibling. 

Bruce Anthony: I don't think there was another sibling. I just think it was him and Ricky. Yeah, it was just him and Ricky. 

J. Aundrea: And then Ricky had a, I felt like Ricky had a, 

Bruce Anthony: Ricky had a kid, but, uh, yeah, I felt like, what if 

J. Aundrea: he have a line where she's like, I can't lose another son or something like that.

J. Aundrea: Maybe, maybe, you know [00:56:00] what? I'm going to watch boys in the hood this weekend. Yeah. Yeah, I, uh, I might be wrong about that, but I know somebody in the comments. So, oh, you know, they definitely will. They're 

Bruce Anthony: going to correct you. 

J. Aundrea: Yeah. They'll look actually happen. Right. They'll 

Bruce Anthony: look that up. They'll look that up, but they won't look up, you know, the institute and the draft and notice how I cut that off.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, 

J. Aundrea: but you know, that's, it'll give you some insight into that character, how he became the way he became. We, we saw a dough boy from a child grow into a man. The hopes he placed on his younger brother, his desire to have some sort of relationship with his mother that he really could never get because she just had so much pride in his brother that like, you 

Bruce Anthony: know, 

J. Aundrea: the complex, like the complex that gives you as a child, like, and growing into like, you're getting now to see [00:57:00] you're, it's giving humanity to black life, whether it's, you know, You know, I hate to use the Cosby's, but whether you're seeing positive representation or, or, or seeing black people in, in, they're affluent or they have, you know, high paying or high powered jobs or things like that, or, or you're seeing us, you know, In the hood and we're struggling, but each time, if the storytelling is good and it's done right, you walk away feeling something about that character, how they got there, how they dealt with whatever stressors, whether the stress was money or, you know.

J. Aundrea: Uh, you know, being thrusted into the spotlight, you got power now, you know, you got uncle Phil, who was a, who went from being a activist to being a judge. And how did he make that transition and trying to raise his family and give him a life that he didn't have, but also still keep them grounded. Did it work [00:58:00] out?

J. Aundrea: And when it's like, you're seeing different sides to us. That's why it's important. It doesn't, that's why it's important, recognize that it's a story that we're telling, but it's also a story to give dimension to people you wouldn't normally have access to. 

Bruce Anthony: I, I agree with everything you're just saying. My counter argument would be that it's easier for people in a particular group to see themselves portrayed various, in various different forms in media.

Bruce Anthony: And be able to have that discerning eye to say, well, yes, this is us. We are all of these things. I'm talking about the people who are not in those particular groups. 

J. Aundrea: Then they're, they missed the whole point of the story. And, and guess what? It wasn't for them. 

Bruce Anthony: Well, okay. 

Hollywood Stereotypes Across Cultures
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Bruce Anthony: So I would say that I was really ignorant before I, I guess until 16 or 17, anytime I met an Italian person, I'd always be like, so you connected to the [00:59:00] mafia somehow.

Bruce Anthony: And not realizing how really insulting that is, but the only representation I had seen in media, of Italian people, and it's something that, that Italian people would say, yeah, it's kind of jacked up that they don't ever talk about any of our good stuff. The most popular show, television show, from, that represent Italian people is what?

Bruce Anthony: Sopranos? And then I guess the second one would be Jersey Shore. Jersey Shore. 

J. Aundrea: I, I've never seen any of them, so I don't know. Oh, I 

Bruce Anthony: love Jersey Shore. Pauly D is my boy. And, and then, like, what's the most popular television shows for Black people? No, no, no. Let's take Black people out of it. What's the most popular television shows or movies for Asian people?

Bruce Anthony: It's always It's always something to do with martial arts. 

J. Aundrea: Oh, not for them, but featuring them. 

Bruce Anthony: Featuring them. Yes. Excuse me. Featuring [01:00:00] them. It's always something I do. You see what I'm saying? Like a lot of times Hollywood plays into these stereotypes. 

J. Aundrea: A lot of times, all the time. Hollywood typecasts. 

Bruce Anthony: I think a lot of time, a lot of times, all 

J. Aundrea: the time, Hollywood typecast.

J. Aundrea: That's what I'm saying is 

Bruce Anthony: of us during the nineties, because we came out, look in the nineties, we had movies and television shows, you know, because we had new networks like UPN. And WB and hell, even going all the way back to Fox and how these networks build themselves is by giving Black people television shows, because they know Black people will watch and they'll gain viewership and then they'll sell the network.

Bruce Anthony: Or 

J. Aundrea: Because whatever Black people think is cool, everybody will think it's cool. 

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I mean, that's, you know, we build things. That's how we built this country. Oh, wait a minute. 

J. Aundrea: This country? 

Bruce Anthony: I just don't know how to tell you. Everything and influence in this country, except for capitalism. We didn't, [01:01:00] that's not us.

J. Aundrea: That's not us. That's 

Bruce Anthony: not us. And if that's how you, if that's what you want to hang your hat on, okay. 

J. Aundrea: That's 

Bruce Anthony: you. I don't, I still don't think capitalism is, is the great thing. And I think, y'all 

J. Aundrea: made ranch and that is delicious. 

Bruce Anthony: No, I hate ranch. 

J. Aundrea: You ate ranch? 

Bruce Anthony: No, I ate a whole bunch of ranch. I was just eating 

J. Aundrea: some carrots and ranch earlier today.

Bruce Anthony: No, I ate a whole bunch of ranch in the fifth grade and I got sick. And then I can't eat no more ranch for the rest of my life. I 

J. Aundrea: thought that was pineapples. 

Bruce Anthony: That was when I was five. I can't eat pineapple or ranch. That's 

J. Aundrea: your problem. You keep eating everything till it's gone. You make it sounds like that's a problem.

J. Aundrea: We ain't talking about me. We're talking 

Bruce Anthony: about other black folks. So we ain't talking about me. We're talking about other black folks. 

J. Aundrea: I would, I would absolutely agree with you. If the portrayals of us in the nineties were a monolith, but I don't think that they were. No, 

Bruce Anthony: they weren't. They weren't a good 

J. Aundrea: difference.

J. Aundrea: And no reason why we have such nostalgia for [01:02:00] very problematic black shows and movies. 

Bruce Anthony: Oh, God. Oh, problematic. 

J. Aundrea: Hub. It's because, it's because no matter where we were, socioeconomically or what have you, you could find somebody on a television or a movie that was like you. And so I think, and, and you could see stories of people like you.

J. Aundrea: Being told or like people that you know, or people you aspire to be, even, even if your frame of reference for Italian Americans were mob movies, right? Those movies are still giving you fully fleshed out dimensional human beings. 

Bruce Anthony: Some of the life lessons I take now, I learned from the Godfather. Like he had certain quotes in that movie that, [01:03:00] that I'm just like, okay.

Bruce Anthony: Family was everything to Vito Corleone. Everything. And, and that's a, uh, shout out to Francis Ford Coppola. That's what he said. This is a movie about a family. Yes. It's centered in the world and the mafia, but this is a movie about a family. Ultimately 

J. Aundrea: that part of it is peripheral to the main story about family.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah. Uh, okay. I think that's it for this bit of show. So yeah, 

J. Aundrea: absolutely. 

Bruce Anthony: No, uh, I have a, I have a final point that I want to make, but before I make my final point, Jay, what do you want to tell the people out there? 

J. Aundrea: You got to vote. I'm a, that's going to be, that's going to be my word until November y'all 

Bruce Anthony: vote.

Bruce Anthony: You're going to emphasize it to November, but you mean it all the time. 

J. Aundrea: I mean it all the time. Right. Get active. If you got up, if [01:04:00] you don't like the way stuff is going, don't just sit there and complain about it. Get active. Activate. 

Bruce Anthony: So for my final point, before I thank everybody and send them off, I'm going to leave you with this.

Bruce Anthony: We celebrated Juneteenth yesterday. For some people out there, you still don't understand what Juneteenth is. Juneteenth is when the last slaves found out that they were free. Two years after the Emancipation Proclamation 

J. Aundrea: in Galveston, Texas, 

Bruce Anthony: in Galveston, Texas. 

The Crabs in a Barrel Analogy
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Bruce Anthony: And there's a, there's a common phrase that's attributed in the Black community of crabs in a barrel.

Bruce Anthony: Mm hmm. And that when one Crab gets out of that barrel that the other crabs are trying to pull him down. I would say that's a good analogy for all of America. Very rarely do we lift people up. We're always trying to climb over top of them to get ahead. Hence capitalism. [01:05:00] But is it that we're crabs in a barrel?

Bruce Anthony: Or is it the water is so hot, and all we're trying to do is get out? Because, see, crabs, when they're not in that barrel, when they're not in that steam barrel, getting steamed, getting killed, they don't tug at each other. They don't fight at each other. It's that barrel that makes them fight. It's the barrel that makes us fight.

Bruce Anthony: It's the barrel that makes us find the differences between each other and pull each other down, as opposed to looking at each other, looking at the differences and saying that, Hey, I can learn something. I could be a better person by learning from you. Differences don't have to separate us. Differences can bring us together.

Closing Remarks and Call to Action
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