Dating, Social Media, and Advocacy: Exploring Financial Responsibility, and Anti-Drag Legislation

00:08.99
Bruce Anthony
On today's episode we're talking about our viral Tickt Tock video drag cranes areroomers and a very interesting story about me from back in the day. But first thanks first so this first topic

02:21.57
Bruce Anthony
So this is gonna be an interesting conversation. So there was this viral Tiktok video about this woman that went on a date and I had my initial responses to this date. But I wanted to look at it from a different perspective. You know as we're as I've obviously shown on this podcast I'm always trying to get different perspectives ah different opinions about different things to formally. An opinion about something that I think is more informed so I had my response as a male to this but I enlisted a lot of female friends and actually put it on my Instagram account for anybody to Dm me. And tell me what they thought about this from a female's perspective and I got some interesting feedback. So what I'm Goingnna do is I'm going to play the tiktokck this tiktok is from defaa underscore demot that's da f and a underscore d ah. I a am a and t this is about a first date I went viral so I'm gonna play the clip first. So you guys can hear what she had to say and then I'm gonna give my response to it and then I'm gonna tell you all the responses that I got from a female.

03:49.89
Bruce Anthony
And what I learned so that's goingnna be the entire breakdown for this segment but without further ado let me go ahead and play this tiktokck for you guys. It just get back from the hing dates. Why am I doing this to myself so we schedule to go to dinner. We are sitting at the restaurant. Very nice, not a catchfish things are going well and the waitress come over to a sticker order and I said okay I'm going to take the bruninno and he said I'm going to take the burger and the waitress asked him. Okay, how do you like your burger said how he links his burger and do you want some cheese or your burger and he asked is this gonna be extra and she says yes, he's $3 extra and he said okay the never mindd hang over there and I'm like what the actual fuck. I'm like okay I'm hungry I'm gonna eat my brands. No one see what happens and he's like oh my god you have to be extra for everything these days and I'm like yeah it's New York City so I got my brendsino. He got his burger. We were eating and once I was satisfied I got up. And I was like I'm going to the restroom for second kind of took my purse and I went to the waitress and I was like hey I just want to pay the bill and I just paid the bill and walks out of the restaurant and I texted him so I texted him the Jack he's taken care of. We should have gotten the cheese and I blocked him.

05:26.76
Bruce Anthony
Just Okay so I have a ah lot of thoughts about this. My initial thought was what the hell and and I will. Quote a friend of mine that gave me a very great adjective to describe what I thought of this person I don't like to call people weird I Think that's a dismissive term. It's a derogatory term and just because somebody is different from you doesn't make them weird I said it would make. I Used to describe these people as different, right? that person is different than me. But even then that's kind of a negative connotation that goes along with that. So My friend came up with a very interesting adjective and say that's unique, right? It is unique. That's not. Inherently Negative. It's just unique to that person. Everybody has their own Uniqueness. So I feel like this person was very very unique. Ah, especially in the way that she handled it now. My initial problem was that.

06:41.68
Bruce Anthony
If You thought if you thought so low of the person because they didn't want to pay the $3 for the cheese. Everybody has their own prefaces right? like I Love one time. What my uncle said he was being approached by this woman and. This woman asked him why he only liked a certain type of woman. Why she wasn't his type and he said hey I like what I like and that always that has always stuck with me you like who you like there's no real Roma reason for it. You just like who you like. And you know this woman decided that that particular action was something that that she wouldn't like I'll talk about that later my problem the initial problem that I had was not that she wanted to not see him again. Right? You could tell him that face to face say hey look after the date hey look that kind of bothered me I don't think that we should see each other again in a romantic setting. Maybe we could be friends. Maybe not. But in a romantic setting I don't really think this would work for me and that's okay, right? like that's okay, to basically go pay the bill which was a nice gesture. Let's not let's not push that to a side that was a very nice gesture for her to pay the bill right.

08:14.12
Bruce Anthony
Ah, so I'm not gonna take that away from her. But what was salt in a womb was escaping out through the back he's sitting at the table thinking that she's just going to the restroom. She goes pays the bill. Nice gesture. Ah and then darts out and sends him a text. Basically saying yes Shita got the cheese I don't want to see you again and then block them that this there's only a few people that I blocked in my life and it's because I said hey look I'm not interested. Stop contacting me this is get annoying. And they didn't listen and then I had to block them but I'm not just randomly out here blocking folks. It's just because I'm like ah you know things didn't work out in a date like I'm gonna block you like that's that is so childish to me and very very immature. That's not the proper way to handle it as a date I would say.

09:12.59
Bruce Anthony
Karma's gonna come back the energy that you put out is the energy that you get. So if that's the way you handle things if it's the slightest bit of discomfort. Oh when you're like in a situation where you really dig in a person. It's going to come back to you trust me. energy that you put out is energy that you get that's reason why I try to put out positivity I mean sometimes I put out some negativity you know, but ah, most of the time I try to put out positivity I mean I'll bust you your ass if you talk some ish but but you know most time I'll just try to be positive right. All right? So I have a problem with the way that she left the cheese now it is New York city and things are more expensive. This is absolutely true. Ah, and that that is a problem right? and. $3 for a piece of cheese. Okay, this person is being financially responsible but saying hey I want a burger but I want to pay $3 extra for some cheese because probably that burger is already close to $20 anyway and when you think about it in the grand scheme of things paying 23 to $ 25 paying paying above $20 for a burger a burger is ridiculous no matter what city that you live in like that's just absolutely ridiculous and that's let's not talk about the ditches she got in a dish that he got.

10:42.31
Bruce Anthony
Maybe he was thinking to himself hey I want to take it to a nice place for a first date. That's cool, right? He wasn't thinking that she was gonna get what is probably the most expensive dish on the menu once again, that's what she wants to do. He invited her out. He asked her out cool Ai n't no thing. He's like art. So this bill's gonna be significantly higher because she's what she got I'm just gonna get a burger and maybe he got a burger because he was just like look I'm already not feeling this girl. Maybe he was turned off with the fact that she got the most expensive dish and he was like. Umm, just get a burger hurry up, get the hell up out of here right? Maybe like I don't know his side only know her side and I can only put myself in issue and his shoes and I've been on days before where a woman get buck wild with order and stuff and it's just like yo I was not expecting to spend this. Amount of money on this date and and you got thinking about it ladies like on the real y'all are paid for most of these dates now there are some situations out here where I'm learning these young catses out here. Talk about split the bill and you could pay the bill on the first date I don't know I'm old school. Man always pays the the for the first date right? If you'll do a bunch of things right? If you'll go to a bunch of different places and maybe she wants to buy around on the first date cool like iin got to pay for everything especially if y'all if y'all.

12:11.94
Bruce Anthony
Get dinner and then go bar hopping or something like that and she wants to pay for like 1 of the last days because you've been paying all night no yeah that's that's cool, but for for the for the first date. The guy should should pay I'm old school like that every date after that I feel like whoever invites who up who else out. It's their responsibility to pay right? like I may pay on the second date even if she invited me out but when we get to that third date. It's whoever invited who out whoever invited who out that's who's paying right? because you ain't gonna sit here and milk me for all my money just to feed you and you got to understand. If if if guys are out there dating you ain't the only girl that he's dating and you got to pay for all these first dates I had when I was actively actively dating I had money set aside each month for dating money because it's like hey look. Most of the time I'm paying and I I gave my one of my old roommates fifty first dates I stole that title from them because now I'm Mr. Fifty first dates like I'll go on the first date with you if I'm not I'm at that age now if I don't feel that vibe like I'm not gonna go on a second date with you. We could be friends. We could be cool but I'm not gonna date you. Anymore because I I didn't get that Vob. So maybe this all this stuff is going through his head I'm only placing myself in his shoes because I don't know his side of the story but her response to it would not even really asking. Okay, so like why don't you want to pay.

13:45.46
Bruce Anthony
If his initial reactions just says I don't want to pay $3 for a piece of cheese I know what some of the responses that I got from women were and I know what my response was to her response and that she thought he was cheap but no $3 for a piece of cheese. That's just a little bit ridiculous. So. Those were some of my initial ah reactions to this Tick Tock so because I was only looking at it from a male's point of view because I'm ah I'm a male I'm a cisma um, so I can only look at it from my point of view I can't project what women should think. When I ask women so put it on my Instagram put the tech to on my Instagram and said hey women. What do you think of this write me in my Dms I'm going to put your responses on my show I asked a few of them to come on a few people had certain responses I was like that's interesting I would like to talk about it. You come on the show. They were a little too shy I get that not everybody wants to do this? Um, so I said you know what? I'm not going to invite anybody on the show I'm just going to read a bunch of the responses and then after I read a bunch of the female perspective responses then I'm going to give my response. To their response. So ah, let me go ahead. Pull them up read them out for you and you guys can formulate your own opinion. But I'm going to give my opinion about what they said.

15:25.38
Bruce Anthony
Okay, so this response I'm not gonna put her name out there but she's my bestie and she was the first person that I set. Ah the Tick Tock to and this was her response ha what question my question mark yam lost on that one. And I was like yeah just because he didn't want to pay the $3 for his cheese. She decided to block him and never talk to him again. She seems like the toxic one not him all so this is just our conversation and I called the woman toxic but she's unique, not toxic. And my friend said absolutely I don't understand the rationale I understand that we typically see the first date as an interview but it's stuff like this that makes people feel like you can't be themselves or be honest and brasino is also the most expensive dish right? Um, and and I told her yes it it is expensive. That's the reason why I'm always ordering chicken tenders. Um, and then she was like she's judgmental and honestly the guy dodged a bullet um, and then she said I should be using this as a litmus test and and I and I agree. Ah. It's good to have something like this though because it really gets at the heart of how someone feels if you were to ask women directly how they feel about men spending. They'd say something like oh that's not important to me I take care of myself blah blah blah but a lot of women are shallow and greedy.

16:49.55
Bruce Anthony
Now me and my bestie have a unique relationship where we are brutally honest and she gives me ah a woman's perspective person but her perspective as a woman on certain things and I never thought about women being shallow and greedy I know that's often something that men will say um. That that women are shallow and greedy and and I don't know if I've been lucky I have definitely coming across more than a few women who are shallow greedy. But I've also come across a lot of women who are not shallow and greedy who will pay and not even the pump fake I feel like every woman on the first date should do the pump fake. If. You don't know what the pump fakeke is the pump fakeke is when the bill comes to the table. You act like you're reaching for your credit card or wallet or something and the guy supposed to say what are you doing? Don't disrepect me like that. Ah i' um, ah I'm treating you but it's the gesture. It's the pump fakeke of the woman. To say hey you know I'm not using you for your money so that was a interesting so ah perspective ah about that and I sent it to another friend of mine. Ah and her response was a little bit different from my bestie. So her response was that strange dude sounds cheap a f and and I said him not want to put cheese on a burger because it's an extra $3 is as cheap as f and that is a reason to walk out on a date. Her response was not a reason to walk out but it's a turnoff.

18:23.32
Bruce Anthony
If he'll do that on date 1 He'll probably do it in a future many many times and it is uncomfortable or unattractive to her she has ever reason to want to leave the date and not see him again. I probably but wouldn't walk out on a date but I'd never see him again after either and I was like ok. That was interesting so that was just 2 responses. But I I had to pull out more I had to see who else had things to say and so I hit up another really good friend of mine. She's been a friend of mine for for years and um, this is what she has to say.

19:01.25
Bruce Anthony
She's ridiculous who cares $3 is a lot for a damn slice of cheese which it is if he doesn't want to pay the excessive fee doesn't mean he's cheap just doesn't think that the cost is worth the slice for me cheese is a must for others that could take it or leave it. He didn't want it that bad to judge. Everything on that 1 thing is crazy. Ah, then then she sent it to a couple of her friends. 1 of her friends kind of agreed it said I would think it's weird that he didn't get the cheese but not enough to stop talking I'm frugal sometimes.

19:40.48
Bruce Anthony
I've seen red flags before that and I was like ok you know that's pretty much you know on standard then another friend, another friend. Another female said I wouldn't have paid unless he asked me and then I would still block him L O l. I've never paid on dates at the beginning unless it gets more serious so that person says never paid on dates. Ok, but there was a really really interesting conversation I had another friend of mine who had a different perspective. She said ha. When I asked her about her response to the video. She said hi I wouldn't pay the check that was above and Beyond I thought it was a very nice gesture If you're gonna block me I guess at the very least you could pay the Check. That's just my own personal response I'm get back to my friend's response. It's a minor red flag for me. My dad has been super Stingy. So I grew up with that.. It's not a deal breaker for me. However, if they keep dating and he's showing other red flags of not paying for things I think that could be more concerning is he avoiding activities backslack experiences because of the cost of money is he willing to sell it for cheaply made stuff making his life harder in some way by not purchasing something. Then it's time to say Bye Bye and and and okay so I was something I didn't even think about right I didn't even think about and in the woman's mind on the ticktock that the wheels are turning and she's saying to herself. Well wait a minute.

21:14.30
Bruce Anthony
If he won't pay for a $3 piece of cheese. What else will he not pay for and there is a thing of being so cheap that you don't do certain activities I've been accused of that before in the past. Ah I don't think I'm cheap.

21:32.28
Bruce Anthony
I don't think I'm frugal I think I not smart my money. Ah, but I think that if I can find what I want at a cheaper price I will search out to do that but she brought up a very valid point like will he buy stuff. That's cheaper. That's cheaply made that you will have to either replace and I'm the king of that I will spend money on my televisions I will spend money on my technology. Let me rephrase it I will spend money on my technology I will spend money on shoes I got. Ah, ridiculous amount of shoes more specifically jordans y'all know how much those costs my clothes I am not above getting clothes from fashion. No I'm not above it and I know those are cheaply made clothes. But I'm not above getting clothes from fashion nova um I'm not above well I haven't bought any clothes from Target. Um, I won't do that but like the cleaning supplies like look the target brand or the Walmart brand generic brands do just fine except for dishwashing soap not liquid but actually both don't get the generic brands of those. Um. But yes, so like cheap brought up a very valid point but when it comes to activities I don't travel that often. But when I do go on vacation I make sure that money is not an issue because I want to go out and have fun and I'm taking a couple of trips obviously with my ex-wife and a few other girlfriends taking a couple of trips to different places and.

23:04.48
Bruce Anthony
It's it's like i'mmaine de pre and jayz money anything like we can go out and have fun and when I go out I go out and have fun because I budget for that type of stuff. But my friend did bring up a valid point of that in this woman's mind she could be thinking further on down the road. And each woman is different. Some women say hey look. It's a turn off you cheat I don't want to be bothered one woman even brought up the fact that okay this $3 on cheese which I think is women think further along than than men do but this this piece of cheese. Is $3 what will you like not spend money on in the future like 1 of the women said well do you even make enough money to support a family and I'm like wow you know on the first date That's what you're already thinking of. Men and women just think differently like when I go on the first date I don't project what this person could be in the future I project do I want to see this person again that that's basically when it comes down to like the idea that that people want. The idea that people go on dating sites or go out there and date because they're trying to find somebody to settle down with I'm not saying the notion isn't good, but the action is poor. Let me explain if you're specifically going out with a set goal.

24:34.87
Bruce Anthony
You might settle for things that you wouldn't normally settle for because you want to accomplish that goal. So and I've been a prisoner of it I've said to myself all right man I'm tireded out here ho and around I want to settle down with one girl. And go out on dates and get myself in a situation where I settle down with a girl and realize after a couple of months we probably should have dated longer so that I could really gotten to know her to decide if I really wanted to be exclusive and just be with her. And I think that you should you need to date the last person ah the last person I had a relationship with we dated for a good four to five months before we decided hey do we want to do we want to do this and I think that's the way to go because it takes that long to really get to know somebody so to make those type of presumptions. On a first date That's a tough one for me. But once again, this is ah a female's perspective and like I didn't think about that and I don't really I don't go off of even what my best he said where the first date is an interview like I'm not going to be interviewed like I feel like that's. Really impersonal and I like to do things like I want to get to know you so I'm I am Goingnna ask you questions right? But I'm going to ask you questions in the natural conversation session and and it's not going to be a situation where I got a list of questions that I got to get to to find out that's.

26:03.00
Bruce Anthony
The whole process of dating and getting to know somebody. Um, but back to this ticktok and after hearing females responses the majority of them were. She's a unique person but also what I also learned is women actually this is something that they. Think about the ideas of I'm putting my own twist on what women said but what I read and and I could be projecting what I read from women is that idea of a man being a provider is still very much a thing as much as we progress in a society. Um, where women are getting close to equal footing. Don't get it twisted women are still paid less than men um still treated poorly in the workplace. Um, like it's's it's not true equality yet. It's Closer. It's getting better but to say that the. Process is done. It's not the case right? Um, but to to have out there that some women are still in that provider phase and I don't think there's anything wrong with that as long as that's established upfront right? if you want to establish that while y'all are dating hey I expect the man to be the provider. Are you capable of doing that hey that's the way you rock. There is nothing wrong with that. That's the way you walk. That's the way you've Rockt You just got to make sure that you find somebody that's compatible with you and and this woman felt like it. This person wasn't going to be compatible with her I have no problem with that I have no problem with her signing that that wasn't going to work out for her because.

27:39.50
Bruce Anthony
Her interests don't need to be my interests I don't have to ah agree with her. There doesn't have to be somebody who was right or wrong in the scenario. What I think was wrong was not addressing it to the person directly and I think it was a punk move to skate out. And not talk to them directly cinema text and then block them. That's so after all of those conversations and all of it boiling down. Um, that's that's where I came to my conclusion and then there were some Nbc News dinner interview. Um. Where you know she said the story wasn't true and it was actually a conversation that she had um with the person on a date that she overheard from somebody at the next table and whether that's true or not ah, you know we don't know because she received a lot of backlash from her Tick Tock which by the way and continuation of my conversation with my sister about the the tiktok from the therapist. What's wrong with people attacking other people and saying hateful things. She got so many hateful. Comments like you should die look the only people that should die are people that hurt children and animals and not animals as in you know you're hunting to to feed you know and saying like like torturing animals and things like that you hurt children you torture animals then you should die other than that the.

29:14.26
Bruce Anthony
Even if you murdered somebody you might have had a reason right? I don't think that you shouldn't be punished if the reason was wrong but to die like no children you hurt children you torture animals you should die. You put out a Tiktok complaining about something that you feel like. Is valid people can disagree with you but yoall evil people out there that are just leaving horrible comments telling other people to die. No you die so I'm putting the third I'm putting a third group on a list. The people that hurt kids should die people that torture animals should die. And the people that attack other people on
social media telling them that they should die should die. Also go to hell.

00:09.79
Bruce Anthony
Well, it's on to the next thing and this one's a little bit more serious than the last one a lot more serious than the last one. There's this new sweeping thing going across this country where we're attacking drag queens and calling them groomers. Ah, just. This past we read just this past.

00:33.44
Bruce Anthony
Well, that's enough for the funny stuff. Let's to get let's get down to something pretty serious. There is a new controversy that is being pushed by the ultra right. And that is that drag queens are coming for your kids now I talked about this a little bit on my talk of straight as show where I gave my real uncensored opinions about that and I'm not going to take this opportunity to give my un censored opinions. I'm just going to give my opinion. These people are stupid. It's up. You often find the all right are really pushing all the hate in this country and and they'll say that they're the ones that are being canceled when they are literally trying to cancel everything. So there's been some sweeping legislation over the last year it's been anti-drag um, trying to keep the the drag queens away from children. Um, there was a bill that passed in Tennessee last week ah restricting adult. Cabaret performances in public or in the presence of children. It bans them from occurring within one thousand feet of school public parts or places of worship basically saying it can't have drag shows anymore. Um.

02:04.40
Bruce Anthony
It's also a month ago at least 9 go op led ah led state legislators were pushing similar anti-drag bills and of course you can expect that as part of that anti or the stop woke act in Florida um, and.

02:22.71
Bruce Anthony
I'm not going to get into what I think about the legislation already have on my talking straight is show what I'm going to talk about is the altright and their push to just not be decent people look if you go throughout the course of history. And this country specifically the altright have always been the ones to push and ban almost everything right? They're the ones that started prohibition right? and and it's funny if you go along at intersections of what they deem is important. Um. They're they're putting this legislation in effect to protect children. But if you look along the lines of the people that are for legislation that is basically anti dragg which you'll also see and I haven't done any new research but I just know I know this to be the case. Right? I know this to be the case because certain issues tend to fall in the same place when you deal with the ultra right that they are strong second amendment people and let's not get this twisted I'm a strong second amendment person as well. I believe in the right to bear arms with control right? um.

03:39.89
Bruce Anthony
But these people are putting in this anti-legistration for drag shows to protect children but won't pass laws to make sure there are no more school shootings. So ah or or this is a better one. This is a better one or we try to pass legislation. To end free school breakfast and lunch for kids so it's not really about protecting the kids. right this legislation is not about protecting the kids it's about anti drag which in essence is about anti lgb t q ah, that's that's what this all is about okay, so. Putting all the cards at table. Let's be truthful and honest. They don't give it damn about the kids what they care about is controlling others and making it be this cookie cutter America that is white christian straight. Their version of what is considered a nuclear family I say all that that this is Bs because with all this legislation that's being passed to ban kids for being anywhere near drag shows and effectively. And in a lot of states like in Tennessee trying to end drag shows completely which it's canceling all to right? if you if you didn't know what that was. That's that's canceling by the way. Um, what's not getting talked about is the fact there is not 1 case and trusts me.

05:17.41
Bruce Anthony
I've so researched and looked There is not 1 case that demonstrates drag queens and child molestation of any kind. There isn't and believe you me if there was any truth to it. At all. It'd be front and center on Fox News newsmaxs o a n all those I tell you what I did find while doing a little bit of research and it it really wasn't that hard. All you had to do was say ah Google search child cases and and the us and I came across two stories and I'm just going to read the stories to you this first one is from Fox 4 news out of Texas. And it reads north Texas youth pastor who sexly abused 14 girls released from prison early for good behavior. Okay, that's just the beginning. The youth pastor found to have sexually abused 14 girls at a dent bible church and another church in little rock Arkansas was released from prison early for good behavior Robert Robert Swiftlift was released from prison on January eleventh

06:46.41
Bruce Anthony
2023 after serving twenty five months behind bars for repeatedly a sexually assaulting two girls. Let me repeat that in case, you didn't hear it this man served twenty five months for those of you that are good in math. That's two years and one month for sexually assaulting two girls underaged sexually assaulting. Two girls. He has to register as a sex offender why because he's a sex offender who was this again. This was a. North Texas youth pastor not a drag queen Twenty five months we're protecting the children. That's what they're saying right? We're protecting the children from drag queens last I checked that well then maybe maybe the North Texas youth've pastor was a draft drag queen maybe was I think that would have been brought up in the article. It was not but that wasn't the only that wasn't the only article I found this week check this out this is just the headline I'll read a bit of the story wichita police officer arrested booked. For child sex crimes. Let me repeat that because sometimes headlines can be you know just to grab your attention can be a little misleading but I'm gonna read the headline 1 more time Wichita police officer arrested book for child sex crimes.

08:20.85
Bruce Anthony
But that's just the headline. What does the actual article say and this article is coming from kwch 12 news out of Kansas all right Wichita Kansas the Wichita police department confirmed the arrest of one of its officers for child sex crimes. A news release from the wpd said that s segwick County Sheriff's office arrested off duty officer brock england on charges of sexual abuse of a child younger than 12 and loot molestation.

08:59.40
Bruce Anthony
So just gonna pause for a second and point out 1 thing that I did not read in any one of those articles was a dry queen what I read was. A youth pastor and a police officer those that are actually here to give guidance on 1 and to protect and serve on the other child sex crimes and I mean this is like if you just search your local news. You'll find teachers police officers. You'll find all different people from all walks of life molesting and sexually assaulting children what you will not see are Jack Queens they're literally reading to the children and educating them. But they're the problem. And and you got to also look at where the narrative is coming from. It's coming from the alt-right? Who will lie who will lie to get what they want I mean this has been proven throughout throughout history, right? Go back and do some research on the red scare. Red scare was about communism because communism is a big big. No no in this country right? We were taught from from birth if you were born after war were 2 you were taught from birth that and some some of those people who were born afterward were too no longer here. So from the womb to tomb.

10:32.30
Bruce Anthony
Communism was the worst thing in the world socialism is one of the worst things in the world right? Red scare. The red scare was a situation in the sixty s that people could outright accuse other people for being communists and they were being jailed. Or losing their jobs ostracized from the communities from just being accused right for just being accused whether it was true or not just being accused because once again being a communist in this country is like actually ah this country would consider that. More negatively than being a racist. You could be a racist in this country and become president damn show can't be a commist but okay, all right I won't bring this all back because I'm starting to I'm starting to get heated and I'm starting to to just talk that ish and we're not talking that ish on the main show like I'm not gonna do it. But. But the point of the matter is is you got to pay attention to these false negar narratives right? I was talking to an individual earlier today who said hey did you hear about the Kfc hack and I was like what's that they said well. Um, if you eat a bucket a 8 piece bucket of chicken.

11:46.83
Bruce Anthony
Within an hour and you go up to them at the at the front counter and say hey my bucket is empty I would like refill you get a refill and I said um, that doesn't sound right right? but but I'm naturally a a contrarian like when stuff doesn't make sense to me I'm naturally gonna. I'm going to question everything all the time anyway, like that's just who I am but like this didn't make sense to me. It's like ah that didn't sound like it's right? So the person showed me. Yeah, no, no found on Tiktok and it had captions and everything I said oh okay, did a quick Google search. First thing popped up article from today dot com that gave the whole backstory about how a tikt tocker had done this and and had put it on their Tiktok page and they had contact the Kfc and the Kfc said this is absolutely not true. Didn't take much. Research to disprove it and when I explained it to this person. Nope got an article right here. This quoted Kfc saying it is just not true from a reliable source today.com you got it from tikt tot well it seemed really credible from Tiktok and and this person is fairly intelligent. Right? People getting their news from Twitter I can't knock them because I have a Twitter account and I get news from Twitter it's ah it's an easy way to get real live updates and news articles. If you're following the right people and you're following the right news organizations to get instant.

13:21.80
Bruce Anthony
Access to information and news and you got to use critical reading and critical thinking as you're getting this news because yes, the media is trying to sell you on something because the media is a business. The the idea of of old school journalism is still out there still prevalent for some news organizations. But I mean it's a business as well. And anytime there's a business There's a little bit of a corruption or a lot a bit of corruption and you can get faulty information so I like to. Get information from Twitter and then if I read something and I don't really think is accurate I will do it real quick Google search to like is this true is this not true. Whether the basis of it really doesn't take much right? So if you take a real quick Google search. There are no drag queens that are out molested kids but there are people that are entrusted to protect children that are molesting kids so shouldn't the argument and shouldn't the legislation be against the people that are actually hurting the kids as opposed to this Phantom Boogeyman I would think so wouldn't you think so but that doesn't fit the narrative if you already have a distaste in your heart for people of the lgbtq community.

14:46.63
Bruce Anthony
Anything that fosters that hate or backs up that hate that makes you feel better about yourself because now you don't hate these people for no reason there's a reason behind and what's the worst thing I've said it before were the worst things that you can do.

15:06.32
Bruce Anthony
Her children torture animals and and and the third one is now telling people to kill themselves in social media right? Um, like that's the worst those are the 3 worst things. So if you really want to attack a group of people just call them child molesters.

15:23.34
Bruce Anthony
That's an easy go to. But then you got people I hear like Jared from subway and I just finished watching that documentary and then when it came out that that that he was a child predator I didn't really do any research on it at that time I was just like oh wow Jared from subway child predator and then when you watch a documentary and you do some more. Digging because documentaries come at a slant right? They they're never most of time they aren't giving you ah fair treatment from both sides most of time it's coming from a particular point of view that they're trying to get across so always do your research even after're watching a documentary to find out what's true and what's not true. Um. And didn't take much research to find out that his whole children's foundation was just basically a front for him and his and his president of the foundation to get their rocks off with kids. That's that's what it was and here he was fronting around like all he wanted to do was help children. So. People that we actually have around kid we need kids we need to do a better ah background check be a little less trusting I like to go to the part and just listen to the birds and my favorite sound in the world are children laughing worst sound in the world to me are children crying but my favorite sound in the world are children laughing right and so I'll open the door sometimes in the courtyard ah of my apartment building. You can open up the windows and you can hear kids in the courtyard just playing and it's the it's the purest form of Joy. Ah.

16:58.37
Bruce Anthony
That there is because kids are the most innocent they haven't been corrupted yet. Um, they say you just hear that and it it warms my heart right? I'm not going to no park and sitting on a bench to go watch kids play that is creepy right? like that's that's creepy. I used there's this place that used to be open down the street. It was called cc's pizza and he used to give like these these pizzas that were real cheap. It was like a pizza buffet I used to go in there with my ex-wife because I felt comfortable I could go in there with my ex-wife but I was never comfortable going in by myself. Why cause ass kids. Running all around and what does it look like through the big grown man in a place with crit with kids when all I really want is just that buffet style pizza I just wanted as much pizza as I could possibly get all different types in 1 setting. For for the low low price. That's all I want but I can't go in there by myself. Why because you look creepy and you know what that is really creepy right? Like like if a guy is is sitting at the park by himself. Ah, here with no kids you should question that right if a guy's going into ccp to oh by himself, you should question that we should be questioning these things we should be questioning why adults are so close with children.

18:28.00
Bruce Anthony
In settings that could be private like the youth pastor they had gone on later later in the article talked about he had ah sexually assaulted a girl while going on a church retreat. So He was the chaperon of this church retreat that was like a camping situation Yo these things that should be questioned. Why was he to only chaperone how did other people not know what was going on. Why were we not paying attention because we give certain people the benefit of a doubt while attacking other people who are innocent like drag Queens. We attack them because they're unique in the way that they live their life as ah as compared to the the altar right? who are accusing them of certain things.

19:21.16
Bruce Anthony
Once again I will say I'm not telling you how to think I'm asking would you like to think given the facts where do you think the truth is our drag queen's groomers. Or the alts right? Just hate the lgbt q community if you can come up with evidence that this this this disproves what I believe which is that the allright just hates the lgbt q community I welcome it send it to the email d me and it on the Instagram Account tweet at me on on our Twitter page I have no pride with all of that I welcome dialogue if you could back it up. Don't come to me with no nonsense cause like like I said with my sister I don't like talking to dumb people and when I mean dumb people I'm not talking about ignorant people. Talking about dumb people dumb people are the people that get their information and still can't process it or they don't want to I'm not gonna talk to dumb people I'll talk to intelligent people. But until that time I think I proved my my case. The people that accusing drag queens of being groomers. Or just haters.

00:06.72
Bruce Anthony
All right for the last segment I got another crazy story with Bruce so this happened probably like eight nine years ago so right outside of Washington d c this is area called Arlington. It's actually being changed to a different name that I can't think of right now because Amazon is coming through with buying up everything and building up everything. But in this one particular place in Arlington. It's right outside of Pentagon it's called Pentagon City it's attached to a metro stop. So if you're ever in Dc and you got and you come in and national and you take the. Metro you know Pentagon City crystal city you're gonna pass one of those so I'm getting off at crystal city and this young woman and this young child approach me now I've explained that I have a superman complex and I'll try to save everybody. My sister jokes on me all the time that I don't set boundaries. This is one of those examples. So the young woman comes up to me and she says that her and her son haven't eaten and would it be okay if I would buy her child something to eat. Absolutely. Right? They're not asking me for money. They're asking me to feed them. Let me tell you something any person that's out there. That's like unhoused or in a struggle you see those people that hold those signs up and front of grocery stores is just say hey can you buy me food I will do that.

01:37.73
Bruce Anthony
Not real keen and giving them money but also at the same time if ah if it's a drug addict or an alcoholic and they just want to get a fix and want to get drunk cool am I to tell them that they shouldn and shouldn't so I'm I'm gonna most the time if I got it on me I'm gonna help somebody out so we're in crystal city and Christmas city has this. Drive called crystal drive and on this drive. There's a lot of ah food joints right? It's pizza hamburgers and restaurants as such so I said to her. Yeah, of course there's a pizza place right? down here I can go get him I can get him a couple of slices of pizza. She says well. Had pizza yesterday all right? Okay, all right? Well okay, there's a burger joint right here down the street. Ah now I don't I don't think that's healthy. Okay, we had pizza the other day. Ah indian okay, and that's not okay so burger isn't healthy. all right. all right um chick-fil-a chick-fil-a is right down here. Oh damn, it's Sunday. Okay, so that won't work. Um, it was like a subway subway is right down the road shoot she was like no I don't think subway work. So now I'm starting to get a little agitated because I'm trying to help but nothing is good enough. So I finally I get a little annoyed and I say okay, where would you like to go and she does a long pause as she goes how about legal seafood now people that don't know what legal seafood is legal seafood is in this area is comparable to Mccormick and Schmidt I don't know.

03:12.13
Bruce Anthony
Certain areas. What's comparic bowls for our seafood. Let's say if red lobster is a seafood restaurant that you would go to that's relatively cheap I'm not saying anything bad about red lobster I go to red lobster every year for my birthday I love red lobster but. If red lobster is on a cheap end if red lobster is like a out of a 4 star restaurant red lobsters like one and a half legal seafood is like a two and a half 3 maybe a 3 maybe a 3 right? It's a it's a higher end but. Not so much so that you would go super dressed up right? like you go you gonna spin a little bit there but not super dressed up but they got a kid's meeting you. So I said okay, fine. Legal seefoos it is and it's legal cfoods I didn't just put a s on it like. Know most black people do it's legal seefoods. So we walk down on legal seafood and we walk in and I say hey I would like to you know, order some food for the young man and and I ask her are y'all gonna sit down and eat or are y'all gonna get it to go. She was like let's sit down and eat. You sit down with us like no I have something I had to do did I have something I had to do no but I just didn't want to sit down and eat I'm socially awkward anyway. So I just didn't want to do it so we get the kids menu and as he's looking over the menu. She says to me would you mind if I got something to eat too now.

04:41.54
Bruce Anthony
Know what everybody's thinking. This is a setup and I knew it was a setup from jump right? like this is not getting past me I know it's a setup. But regardless if it's a setup or not the baby still needs to eat. So I'm not going to deprive this baby from eating. Even though he got a hustling ass mama I'm going to feed this baby now she said she wanted to get something. She asked me right in front of ah the server. So I'm in the situation where I could say no, but maybe she's hungry too I know I'm getting ganked I know that I know this. Right? So I know people out there listening like Bruce what the hell do you think I know this as it's going on but once a kid once again I'm a do everything for kids brucecy bruce loved the kids. So I said sure I'll get you something to eat so she goes down to the menu and she tells the server. I'll take the lobster rolls let me explain to y'all what the price was on our lobster rolls. There was no price. It said market price. There was no price. So this chick that I just met. Ten years ten minutes ago as I'm getting off of the metro has now ganged me into getting not only her kids some food which I'm want to do every day of the week I don't care but is now a hustle me out of a lobster roll that I wouldn't even get myself because the price says.

06:15.38
Bruce Anthony
Market price now we were complaining about my man not wanting to put $3 not pay $3 for cheese this market price lobster roll $35 the whole thing costs me $50 including the tip cost me $60 cause I'm not gonna punish the server just cause I'm getting gained so I got ganganked out of $60 all because Bruce Bruce loved the kids want to feed the kids. Yes, this is a true store this really happened and this isn't the only time things like this has happened to me my sister could tell a story I don't remember the details of the story cause I was drunk of a time. Where a home ah unhoused man ganganked me out of Mcdonald's right I was going feed a Mcdonald's and then everything that I was like going get him wasn't good enough now I know that I don't set boundaries I know that people can get over on me sometimes does it matter to me. No. It doesn't matter like I believe in karma ah put it out. There. Hopefully the good carmen comes back I'm still waiting for that damn good karma to come back because I ain't got my $60 back? Ah, but you know what the kid ate. It was all worth it. And that's the story at the time I got ganked out of $60 getting this woman a market price lobster roll. But on that note, that's go do it for today's episode I hope you enjoyed it. I've got some interesting stuff coming up next week

07:43.13
Bruce Anthony
Very interesting interview coming out on Tuesday that I think you guys will enjoy. That's a teaser to check it out. Also don't forget to check out our Patreon page at patreon.comback/unsolicited perspectives to get the talking straight is show and after hours episode with my sister but until next time I'm a holla.