[00:00:00] Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥

[00:00:00] Bruce Anthony: We're talking about deportations, the illegal ones, and then we're talking about what it's like getting old and why we don't want to be outside. No more. We gonna get into it. Let's get it.  

[00:00:21] Bruce Anthony: Welcome, first of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony. Here to lead the conversation in important events and topics [00:00:30] that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation or follow us wherever you get your audio podcast. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcast and YouTube exclusive content rate review.

[00:00:40] Bruce Anthony: Like, comment, share, share with your friends, share with your family. Hell even share with your enemies. On today's episode, it's a sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis Jay, Andrea. We're gonna be dilly daddying a little bit, and then we're gonna be talking about an illegal deportation, and then we're gonna be talking about getting older.[00:01:00]

[00:01:00] Bruce Anthony: But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.  

[00:01:09] Sibling Happy Hour: Spicy Takes & Drinks 🍹🌶️

[00:01:09] Bruce Anthony: What else sis?

[00:01:11] J. Aundrea: what up.

[00:01:12] Bruce Anthony: can't call it, I can't call it, we back to a Friday sibling happy hour. I know some people are gonna be excited to the fact that we coming back to the, to the weekend.

[00:01:20] J. Aundrea: Yeah, because I mean, it, it just, it just don't feel like a happy hour unless it's on Friday.

[00:01:25] Bruce Anthony: I mean, people can do a Tuesday happy hour, which is what they've been doing, you know, since you [00:01:30] started grad school. But you hit me up when you was like, I'm a, I'm available for an, an extra day for a little while. And I was like, cool. Because my Sunday fun days have been taken up and it's just a lot to record in that amount of time.

[00:01:41] J. Aundrea: It is. It is. So I'm glad we're splitting it up a little bit.

[00:01:45] Mind-Blown Moments: Identity, Growth & Shower Thoughts 🧠💡

[00:01:45] Bruce Anthony: I had an interesting conversation today

[00:01:47] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:01:48] Bruce Anthony: with a very, very intelligent friend of mine,

[00:01:51] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:01:51] Bruce Anthony: and I don't know how I, I've been having some epiphanies that that shouldn't be epiphanies, that are pretty self-explanatory. One [00:02:00] is why so many white Americans are following along with Trump and maga, and I realized.

[00:02:09] J. Aundrea: mean why they're okay with, uh, a dictatorship, but not diversity.

[00:02:13] Bruce Anthony: Right. And I, well, and, and I realized just as black people, not all, not all, but more than a large portion, we're defending OJ Simpson when we know his ass was guilty. That Defend r Kelly,

[00:02:29] J. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

[00:02:29] Bruce Anthony: [00:02:30] defend Bill Cosby. We identify with our blackness. When people ask us what we are, the first thing that we say is black.

[00:02:37] Bruce Anthony: We don't say American. For many white Americans in this country that can't trace their lineage back and say, I'm exactly this, or I'm exact, I'm Irish, I'm Scottish. You know, I'm 100% Italian. It's a mixture. So the one thing that they can say, I am, this is American. So they defend that idea because they're a part of [00:03:00] something I. Without it. What are they? If you take away my blackness, I feel like I'm more than just that. But if you take away my blackness, that's a, that's the majority of my identity. How do I describe myself without describing myself as black, as a black man, as a black American man, which is different than black men in other countries, but a black man.

[00:03:23] Bruce Anthony: But as I'm going through these epiphanies in my head, my nighttime showers, my nighttime showers go one or two ways. They either [00:03:30] go, I'm arguing about a, to myself from a past argument, like I'm reenacting an argument from the past or, or getting ready for future arguments and debates that I know is gonna happen, that that's my shower time madness.

[00:03:47] Bruce Anthony: Either I'm doing that or I'm literally in the shower just in thought.

[00:03:51] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:03:52] Bruce Anthony: And another thought came to my mind about how much I've changed that some friends that I've had for decades, right?

[00:03:59] J. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.[00:04:00]

[00:04:00] Bruce Anthony: Maybe wouldn't be my friends if I met them today. And friends that I have today that I met today probably wouldn't have been my friends had I met them 20 years ago.

[00:04:09] Bruce Anthony: And just that evolution.

[00:04:11] From Sports to Zen: How We Outgrow Escapism 🏀➡️🧘♂️

[00:04:11] Bruce Anthony: And it's just like, I don't watch sports anymore like that. Like I, you know me, I used to be a huge sports fan and I don't watch sports anymore like that. And my friend said, huh, well maybe it's 'cause you don't need that escape, or you found out that escape wasn't working for you.

[00:04:28] Bruce Anthony: I said, what? What do you [00:04:30] mean? He is like, yeah, you know, I mean, most people that do these things that have these hobbies and sports and things of that nature, they're trying to escape something because their job sucks or they don't, maybe their family situation the greatest, or maybe their family situation is great, but just time consuming.

[00:04:46] Bruce Anthony: And they just need a moment where their mind relaxes.

[00:04:50] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:04:51] Bruce Anthony: get away. And then maybe that stuff for me was an escape because let's face it, I've gone through bouts of depression, I [00:05:00] have severe anxiety. Maybe those things were a way for me to escape. And at some point, I don't know, within the last 10 years is, is just been this gradual thing that I just don't use sports anymore. And it was like, okay, so what's happening here? And, and my friend was like, was probably all of a sudden I was like, no, it wasn't. All of a sudden I just realized it suddenly

[00:05:23] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:05:24] Bruce Anthony: the change was gradual, but I realized it suddenly. And it's interesting 'cause in this third segment [00:05:30] we're gonna be talking about why we get older and we don't wanna go outside, but I think we don't talk enough about why our mentality changes as we get older.

[00:05:39] J. Aundrea: yeah,

[00:05:41] Bruce Anthony: you're evolving. Have you noticed anything like that happening with you or just things that you were like really, really into, like now you're entering in your forties and you're like, I don't do that as much as I used to.

[00:05:51] J. Aundrea: yeah. I would say like film, I.

[00:05:56] Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

[00:05:56] J. Aundrea: and television. I used to watch movies and be [00:06:00] into film and television a lot now, uh, my, my TV is barely on if it's on, it's just like background music mostly for the dogs. Like I, and I used to love going to the movies and, and I just don't do it anymore. And it was, it, it was, you know, like a creative thing for me.

[00:06:23] J. Aundrea: But also, yeah, it was a form of escapism. And I think, [00:06:30] I think as I get older and I become more grounded in my life and I become more content with my life and the direction that it's going because I'm, I'm doing the things that I want to do and making things happen for myself and all of that, I think I need those outlets less and less.

[00:06:51] J. Aundrea: And, and I. I don't need a form of escapism from a job that I hate [00:07:00] because I'm, I'm doing something now that I enjoy.

[00:07:03] Bruce Anthony: Right?

[00:07:05] J. Aundrea: You know, I don't get those, we talked about it last week, those Sunday scaries, you know, or the, you know, the, those job nightmares or things like that. Like, I don't have those, issues anymore.

[00:07:20] J. Aundrea: You know, I always, I'll always have anxiety. It's generalized, so it's, it's gonna be there in general.

[00:07:26] J. Aundrea: Right. Um, so there are still things that I [00:07:30] do, that, that's kind of like born out of that, like they say watching the same show or something like that over and over is emotional regulation. I do that with music.

[00:07:42] J. Aundrea: I listen to the song, same song on repeat over and over and over, and that's a form of emotional regulation. So I'll do things like that now. But yeah, I think as you. As you start, I think anytime you start to kind of take more ownership of your life

[00:07:57] Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

[00:07:58] J. Aundrea: and, [00:08:00] take in stock, like as you get older and realizing, okay, am I, am I, am I happy right now?

[00:08:10] J. Aundrea: Am I happy doing what I'm doing? And if not, then I need to make some changes. And like, then making those changes. You need those coping skills less and less.

[00:08:21] Real Talk: Breaking Free from Masks & Patriarchy 🔓🎭✊

[00:08:21] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I, I'm about to get real personal about myself, ladies and gentlemen. I don't know what it is. I just, I don't know

[00:08:27] Bruce Anthony: if is, is, is, is uh, [00:08:30] Saturn in lemonade right now or something like that?

[00:08:32] J. Aundrea: I think, uh, uh, mercury and Gatorade.

[00:08:36] Bruce Anthony: Okay. Is it orange or fruit punch?

[00:08:39] J. Aundrea: Uh, as far as I'm, as I know it's glacial ice,

[00:08:44] Bruce Anthony: That's the reason why I'm

[00:08:45] J. Aundrea: uh, which is really just cherry.

[00:08:48] Bruce Anthony: really is just cherry and has a weird aftertaste, but I still love Gatorade, but, okay, so I'm about to get personal. Okay. So as I'm having this conversation with my friend, more and more, doors and windows is opening to me [00:09:00] and, you know, you hit the nail on the, on the head about happiness.

[00:09:03] Bruce Anthony: Also, I am a person who is goal oriented. I set a goal. That goal needs to be accomplished. Whether I even want to accomplish the goal anymore during the process, like I say, I want to do something, I'm going to do it, and then I have to do it.

[00:09:23] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:09:24] Bruce Anthony: So I, I was thinking to myself, when did this shift happen? And it happened after my divorce,

[00:09:29] J. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.[00:09:30]

[00:09:30] Bruce Anthony: and it probably happened when I came to the realization that the plans that I had made for myself weren't gonna be the plans that came out,

[00:09:40] Bruce Anthony: right? If I was gonna get married and have kids, it wasn't gonna be on the timeline that I had set it out to be on.

[00:09:49] Bruce Anthony: And then I need to be okay with whatever life brings me because the goals had changed.

[00:09:55] Bruce Anthony: And then there was also a point when I was younger, which I probably would never [00:10:00] have admitted, probably didn't even really realize it.

[00:10:03] Bruce Anthony: I kind of didn't like myself. I was a mean drunk back in the day. Back in the day, I would get drunk and turn mean, and it was because I didn't like myself. And the reason why I didn't like myself is 'cause I wasn't being authentic to who I am. I was faking a funk, not necessarily to fit into the crowd because I'm always the person that will go off and do this thing.

[00:10:24] Bruce Anthony: My boys that I've known since high school always say, you never want to do what everybody else is doing. [00:10:30] You always gotta go against the grain. So it was never me trying to fit in, but whatever it was, I wasn't living authentically. And at a certain point when I stopped living for the goals that I had set in the timeframes that I had set, I was more reflective and like, yo, I'm kind of like a badass.

[00:10:48] Bruce Anthony: Like the things that I've accomplished in my life

[00:10:51] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:10:52] Bruce Anthony: is, is kind of, it's kind of dope. I've done some really, really cool things. I've done so much in my life that [00:11:00] there isn't actually anything that I

[00:11:02] J. Aundrea: I

[00:11:03] Bruce Anthony: need to do anymore.

[00:11:06] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:11:06] Bruce Anthony: you know what I mean? There's nothing that I need to do anymore. And there's a fulfillment in the fact that I don't want it to end right now.

[00:11:14] Bruce Anthony: If it ended all now and my life flashed before my eyes, there's not gonna be any wasted moments. There's not going to be any what ifs. The what ifs are. What if I didn't decide to do this and didn't decide to do that, but not [00:11:30] what if I had done that

[00:11:32] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:11:33] Bruce Anthony: because I didn't do it.

[00:11:35] J. Aundrea: Right. You didn't waste any opportunities.

[00:11:37] Bruce Anthony: opportunities, not opportunities that I wanted.

[00:11:41] Bruce Anthony: Did I waste opportunities? Something that other people would be like, well, you had opportunities to do this and this and this, but that's, I know what path that would've led me down. And I, I wouldn't have been happy. I wouldn't have been content. And I think this reflectiveness, you know, you say it all the time, I get drunk and I get like real happy and it's because I'm freaking happy.

[00:11:59] Bruce Anthony: And that's really [00:12:00] dope to come to that realization that

[00:12:02] J. Aundrea: yeah.

[00:12:03] Bruce Anthony: There's nothing that, that I have to attain. There's nothing that I have to do that I'm just happy.

[00:12:10] J. Aundrea: There you can pursue things you want to do now at this point.

[00:12:14] Bruce Anthony: Right? And part of that is I can, I don't need, I probably still use it with the music like you do, because I say I play the same playlist all the

[00:12:22] Bruce Anthony: time, but it is not like it was right when we get together.

[00:12:28] Bruce Anthony: Now it's not me saying, well, [00:12:30] let's, let's turn on CB four and fear the black hat. It's not that. It is just, Hey, we could do whatever. 'cause I just love hanging out with my brother and sister.

[00:12:37] J. Aundrea: Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think that also comes with being on your healing journey, right? All the things that you used to need. To get through the day and to get by, you don't need anymore because you aren't even that person anymore.

[00:12:53] Bruce Anthony: yeah. Yeah. And I, and I, and so when I look at the reason why all this happened. [00:13:00] The reason why I was thinking about this so much in the shower yesterday is because so many people are just so angry, and it's because, yes, you could absolutely be hang angry at a lot of things that's happening out there. It is enough to piss you off.

[00:13:15] Bruce Anthony: But sometimes people are angry for what other people do

[00:13:19] Bruce Anthony: that doesn't involve them. That doesn't even really hurt anybody. And I'm like, why are you angry at that? Why are you angry at that person for living their life?

[00:13:27] J. Aundrea: Right? Yeah.

[00:13:28] Bruce Anthony: Like, why? Why does that [00:13:30] bother you? And it's because you're unhappy with your life.

[00:13:33] J. Aundrea: Yes. Yeah. I, they, I follow, uh, a really great writer and performer, a lock. A lave, menon. And they talk about constantly, how when you see a trans person right, and you're, [00:14:00] you're, you're feeling angry about the way that they're showing up in the world, it's because you, yourself are not living authentically.

[00:14:10] Bruce Anthony: Yes.

[00:14:11] J. Aundrea: And it's because you, yourself, you don't know how to love yourself the way that that person loves themselves. And you don't, you can't even conceptualize the kind of love that it takes for yourself to live authentically.

[00:14:29] Bruce Anthony: You realize [00:14:30] you're not brave enough.

[00:14:31] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:14:32] Bruce Anthony: You're not brave enough, and that, and to find out that you're not brave enough to find out that you're scared.

[00:14:39] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:14:39] Bruce Anthony: is a attack on your ego. And yeah, people are gonna lash out.

[00:14:44] J. Aundrea: And, and it's not like, you know, depending on what it is, right? It, it is not like fear is unfounded. Like sometimes it's hard to show up authentically as yourself in the world if what you, if you're authentic [00:15:00] presence, isn't, isn't, you know, something that society is like accepting of, right? Like, like if your authentic presence is showing up as, as non-binary or trans, but not, you know, passing, right?

[00:15:17] J. Aundrea: Like, like very outwardly trans, like, and, and so many people in society for a myriad of dumb reasons have, have a [00:15:30] problem with that. Like, there's like that fear of living authentically. Like that can be real sometimes. But I mean, if it's just like. You, you like books and, but you don't want your friends to know you read, right?

[00:15:46] J. Aundrea: Like it's, you know what I mean? Like is your, you have to start questioning everything in your life. Like even are my relationships authentic? If they don't know who I am,

[00:15:58] Bruce Anthony: Yes.

[00:15:59] J. Aundrea: [00:16:00] like all of the different parts that make me up, like they don't know

[00:16:04] J. Aundrea: them, are my relationships even authentic? And then when you start to think about things that way, it can be very isolating and depressing and because you feel like no one knows me and I'm too afraid to be known.

[00:16:25] J. Aundrea: And that, that keeps everybody at [00:16:30] arm's length. But that also keeps everybody at

[00:16:31] Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Uh, you know, I always talk about being authentically yourself, and I could say that now it's easy for me to say that now as 44, about to turn 45 because it took me 36, 7, 8 years before I truly, truly started. And, and it was because it was patriarchy, right? Because a lot of the things that I [00:17:00] do are, would be de would be deemed as non masculine,

[00:17:06] Bruce Anthony: right?

[00:17:06] Bruce Anthony: Dangle earrings, wearing pink,

[00:17:09] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:17:11] Bruce Anthony: properly fitting

[00:17:11] J. Aundrea: Properly fitting. Yeah.

[00:17:14] Bruce Anthony: Uh, being messy.

[00:17:16] Bruce Anthony: Um, like singing, like dancing, right? Wish I had done theater like I should have in high school. Like all these things, patriarchy told me that's not what men do,

[00:17:29] J. Aundrea: Yeah. [00:17:30]

[00:17:30] Bruce Anthony: not what straight men do.

[00:17:31] J. Aundrea: And specifically, that's not what black straight men do. Right? Because there's a cer this is a different sort of masculinity in, in blackness or a different, a different, uh, it's, it's almost, it's hyper

[00:17:45] Bruce Anthony: Yes. It is hyper-masculine. It's, it's, I think it's, well, it's not just black men. I will say that it's Latino men, it's Italian men, it's Irish men. I'm going to say that the [00:18:00] hyper-masculinity comes from, uh, non-white American born men. Not to say that white American men aren't sometimes uber ultra masculine,

[00:18:18] J. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

[00:18:19] Bruce Anthony: but there's this thing when you are the other

[00:18:22] Bruce Anthony: man that you have to be even more, you have to have even more machisma.

[00:18:28] Bruce Anthony: That's what Machisma, that's [00:18:30] what razor Ramon used to say. To, to be accepted. 'cause you got to, you have to be more than,

[00:18:36] J. Aundrea: yeah.

[00:18:37] Bruce Anthony: And so, I don't know. These were just things that were going on in my head, uh, last night when I was in the shower. And I kinda liked those instead of me re arguing arguments from 1992.

[00:18:48] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:18:48] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Because

[00:18:49] J. Aundrea: Because I mean, those are gone. There, there's, there is nothing you can do

[00:18:53] Bruce Anthony: there is not, there is nothing I could tell Kendra now I don't even remember her last name. If I could find her, there's something [00:19:00] Kendra. I need some, I gotta tell you something. 'cause when you snapped at me and everybody in the cafeteria was laughing and I can't even remember what you said, but I had something that I would've, I, you know, if I could have, if I could have just said it at that time, I'm not as mean back in the day as I am now.

[00:19:16] Bruce Anthony: Now I'm truthful. Now I would say it.

[00:19:18] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah. I'm, I'm happy. I don't have a lot of those moments where I'd like, dang, I wish I had said this.

[00:19:25] Bruce Anthony: No. 'cause '

[00:19:26] J. Aundrea: cause uh,

[00:19:26] Bruce Anthony: you

[00:19:27] J. Aundrea: yeah, yeah. I mean, I, I, I, [00:19:30] I mean, look, if something sound dumb to me, I'm gonna say so dumb.

[00:19:35] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I saw a meme, I posted a meme. I reposted a meme yesterday and, and it's now gotten to the point where I just say, when people say something dumb to me, I just say, okay. Or I just agree with them just to get them to shut up.

[00:19:48] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

[00:19:49] Bruce Anthony: know what?

[00:19:49] J. Aundrea: battles, you pick your

[00:19:50] Bruce Anthony: I'm tired of talking to people about this. But with

[00:19:53] Bruce Anthony: that

[00:19:54] Bruce Anthony: being said, people being angry, this, I think, is a [00:20:00] reason why people should be angry.

[00:20:01] Bruce Anthony: And it's about the illegal deportation, and we're going to get into that next.   

[00:20:14] Bruce Anthony: Jay? Something happened a while ago, but it's really now starting to get national news

[00:20:21] Bruce Anthony: because of a press conference that happened a couple of days ago. And, and you know what? I'm not even gonna mention the two men that had the press conference, the president [00:20:30] of the United States and the president of El Salvador, I'm not gonna even mention them by name, because they laughed at a reporter that asked them if they were gonna do anything for Kmar, Armando Abor

[00:20:43] J. Aundrea: Garcia.

[00:20:44] J. Aundrea: Nope.

[00:20:46] Bruce Anthony: Okay.

[00:20:50] Bruce Anthony: Okay. You tried then.

[00:20:51] J. Aundrea: Kmar. Armando Rego Garcia.

[00:20:56] J. Aundrea: wasn't that

[00:20:56] Bruce Anthony: off.

[00:20:57] J. Aundrea: okay?

[00:20:58] Bruce Anthony: Abrao is where I messed [00:21:00] up. All right, whatever.

[00:21:02] Midnight Movements: The Shocking Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia Deportation 😡✈️

[00:21:02] Bruce Anthony: Okay, so a lot, I've been seeing it. I actually got into a, I'm not gonna say heated debate because I didn't let myself get that heated, but a debate about this person and the person that was debating me just didn't have all the information.

[00:21:16] Bruce Anthony: And I'm seeing that a lot. I'm seeing it a lot because the administration is out there putting out lies. So what am I gonna do? I'm going to tell you the honest to goodness truth. These are facts. You cannot dispute them. [00:21:30] They're not facts. They're, these are facts. They're not alternative facts. They're not opinions.

[00:21:35] Bruce Anthony: These are facts. I'm going to give you my opinion later, but right now I'm just gonna give you the facts. So Mr. Garcia is a Salvadorian national who lived in Maryland right down the road, our home state, approximately 15 years before being mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, 2025, despite a standing court order prohibiting his removal due to a credible risk of persecution in his home country.

[00:21:59] Bruce Anthony: [00:22:00] Let me just repeat that. He was deported to El Salvador despite a standing court order prohibiting his removal due to a credible risk of persecution in his home country of El Salvador. His case had become a flashpoint in debates over immigration enforcement and due process executive judicial power in the United States.

[00:22:21] Bruce Anthony: Look, this guy was born in El Salvador. He's, I think he's a cancer like me. July 26th, 1995. Is that a cancer?

[00:22:29] J. Aundrea: Uh, [00:22:30] July 26th. No, that's a Leo.

[00:22:32] Bruce Anthony: Is that a Leo? Alright, so he, so he's a part of your gang. All right. All. He came here because his mother ran a store out of her home and the local gang. The Barrio 18 game was ex extraordinary and threatening his mother. He, at the age of 16, escaped the gang violence and came here to the United States. He settled in Maryland where his brother, who is now a US citizen [00:23:00] lived, he worked at construction and later became a first year apprentice with smart local 100 a sheet metal workers Union.

[00:23:07] Bruce Anthony: Okay, so this man has been in here, in this country 15 years working, being productive, paying taxes too, by the way, of a union.

[00:23:17] Bruce Anthony: He's part of a union.

[00:23:18] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:23:19] Bruce Anthony: He lived with his wife, his wife, Jennifer, who was a US citizen, their five-year-old child, and his two stepchildren, both US citizens with special needs.

[00:23:27] Bruce Anthony: He was actively pursuing [00:23:30] career advancement and supporting his family.

[00:23:32] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:23:33] Bruce Anthony: Though he did enter into the United States without inspection, that means illegally in 2019, an immigration judge found his testimony credible and granted him withholding of removal to El Salvador, recognizing a well-founded fear of future persecution by barrio.

[00:23:52] Bruce Anthony: That gang. So what does that mean? The judge said, Hey look, you basically was gonna come here for [00:24:00] asylum anyway 'cause the gang situation down there, you were going die. Either you did, were gonna force you to be in the gang or you were gonna die. If we send you back there, you are gonna die. You've been here for, at that time, 10 years.

[00:24:13] Bruce Anthony: Right? You working, you got a family, you've got no criminal stuff going on right now. Yeah. No, we're gonna make sure, I'm gonna write this order to make sure that you're not being deported and And what year was this? This was in 2019. Who was the president in [00:24:30] 2019?

[00:24:30] J. Aundrea: Good question.

[00:24:31] Bruce Anthony: It was Donald J. Trump. It

[00:24:35] J. Aundrea: not gonna date people. I don't know.

[00:24:37] Bruce Anthony: okay, but the, the, the court order specifically barred his removal to El Salvador, a protection that was still in effect at his time of deportation.

[00:24:46] Bruce Anthony: He was arrested in March, 2025, detained by ISIS agents while driving home from work with his son. He was not charged with any crime despite the court order. ISIS deported him to El Salvador on March 15th, citing, citing [00:25:00] an administrative error. The US government later admitted his removal was illegal.

[00:25:05] J. Aundrea: Mm-hmm. government Mm-hmm.

[00:25:08] Bruce Anthony: Of course, he's been already deported and he's in that prison in El Salvador with everybody said in inhumane treatment and torture, and it's not good, right? So why is the Trump administration saying that he's an MS 13 gang member? Well, the US government has claimed that he is a verified and ranking member of MS [00:25:30] 13, designating him a foreign terrorist organization.

[00:25:33] Bruce Anthony: However, he has never been charged with any gang related crimes here or an El Salvador, and his family has vehemently denied these allegations. The gang allegation appears to be based on a police gang field interview sheet and an ISIS I two 13 form. But the government has not produced these documents in court.

[00:25:56] Bruce Anthony: The original immigration judge found, uh, [00:26:00] Mr. Garcia's testimony credible and consistent with no evidence of gang violence.

[00:26:05] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:26:06] Bruce Anthony: I'm gonna get into more about what the US Supreme Court did, but just. Putting it out there. The lies have been, he's been part of a gang. He's not part of a gang, and I'm gonna get into more detail about that later.

[00:26:18] Bruce Anthony: The US government has openly admitted that he was deported illegally.

[00:26:22] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:26:24] Bruce Anthony: And the president of the United States and the President of El Salvador are laughing about the [00:26:30] Supreme Court ruling that ordered the administration to facilitate his return to the United States.

[00:26:37] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:26:38] Bruce Anthony: Yes. I'm angry about this. I'm angry about this.

[00:26:40] Bruce Anthony: Because if people just like, well, he was here illegally. Okay? If he

[00:26:44] Bruce Anthony: was here illegally,

[00:26:46] Bruce Anthony: and he's making the steps to become a citizen, and a federal judge says, now we are not going deport him under the Trump administration. Right? Federal judge says this, we're not going to deport him.

[00:26:59] Bruce Anthony: And they deport [00:27:00] him, but they do.

[00:27:00] Bruce Anthony: So in measures that are illegal, shouldn't the government be held to a greater standard than a person

[00:27:07] J. Aundrea: trying to escape?

[00:27:09] Bruce Anthony: A horrible

[00:27:11] J. Aundrea: situation.

[00:27:11] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Because the fact of the matter is, yes, this man was undocumented, but he had legal protections to stay in this country. He had legal protection to stay in the country. For, for fear of what would happen should he be [00:27:30] deported, deported back to El Salvador. It's, it's, it boggles my mind how people have zero empathy for just the value of human life.

[00:27:49] J. Aundrea: If, you know, sending him to El Salvador is tantamount to a death sentence, to the, for this man, [00:28:00] for things that he is now receives a 16-year-old kid just trying to escape gang violence for things that are outside of his control. And you have the capability as a country to say, Hey, you're paying into our system. You're staying out of trouble. You're just raising your family and trying to, you know, live your life. Yeah, we can protect you. Like the fact that [00:28:30] people just have no sense of, just like care for a human life is, is what's so astounding to me. We here illegally, so are you.

[00:28:45] Bruce Anthony: Mm. Well, not everybody.

[00:28:47] J. Aundrea: Listen, colonial, just because you came here as a colonialist power doesn't mean that you are here legally. You created the system that has given you the, [00:29:00] uh, where you assumed authority over this land. That doesn't mean that you belong here. Let's get that straight. You came to a place, created a system that says you belong and other people can't, and then you're, you're literally basing your entire political philosophy.

[00:29:24] J. Aundrea: I. On that fallacy or [00:29:30] that lie, right? Or that the thing that you engineered. So let's, let's not, first of all, and then, and then it's just, but this is a human being,

[00:29:43] Bruce Anthony: But they don't look at him as that.

[00:29:45] Bruce Anthony: The people and I, when I was having this conversation with this person, I said, the reason why you feel the way you do is because he doesn't look like you. If he look like you, you feel a little bit differently. 'cause it would hit closer to home.

[00:29:55] Bruce Anthony: No, that's not true. I said, that's absolutely true.

[00:29:57] Bruce Anthony: That's, that's how human nature works. When it, [00:30:00] when something happens bad that you can identify with, it hits closer to home, you have more empathy. When it's at a distance and you can't identify with it, you have less empathy. The it's not human. They're not human to you, so you don't care what happens to them and And my argument was, yeah, they're here illegally.

[00:30:20] Bruce Anthony: Well, the country did something illegally by deporting them who should be held at a higher standard. We live here illegally. Okay, well I think that's a dumb ass argument, but, okay, [00:30:30] so let's talk about the government's allegations, or, no, not even the government's allegations. It's the administration's allegations.

[00:30:37] Bruce Anthony: And I almost cussed Steven Miller

[00:30:40] J. Aundrea: oh, boy.

[00:30:42] Bruce Anthony: God. Mm

[00:30:45] Bruce Anthony: God. I can't stand that person. And him going on and on about MS 13. Guess what, Steven Miller, guess what you are. You are a part of a gang as well. You're a part of an illegal gang. You know what that illegal gang is? White supremacy.

[00:30:57] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:30:57] Bruce Anthony: You're a white supremacist.

[00:30:59] Bruce Anthony: [00:31:00] That's a domestic terrorist.

[00:31:01] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:31:01] Bruce Anthony: That's a real domestic terrorist. Anyway, so the government's allegations of gang membership have been unsubstantiated and contradicted by prior judicial findings. Let's get to the main thing. Mr. Garcia has no criminal record. Multiple sources indicate The presiding federal judge confirmed that Mr.

[00:31:21] Bruce Anthony: Garcia has no criminal record, not only here in the US, but also in El Salvador and has never been charged with any gang related crimes. [00:31:30] In, in, in, in current legal proceedings, the government has not introduced the forms that were used to identify him as a MS 13 member. Right. The confidential informant officials have also claimed that the confidential informant that alerted them to Mr.

[00:31:47] Bruce Anthony: Garcia's alleged gang ties, but this hasn't been substantiated. And, and, and let's talk about this confidential informant. The confidential informant was from a police officer,

[00:31:59] Bruce Anthony: right? [00:32:00] The police officer pleaded guilty to police misconduct and has a history of falsifying

[00:32:08] Bruce Anthony: informant

[00:32:09] J. Aundrea: information. Yeah.

[00:32:12] Bruce Anthony: Okay?

[00:32:14] Bruce Anthony: That's the reason why the court threw it out, that it's not credible.

[00:32:17] Bruce Anthony: This person said he was wearing Chicago Bulls hat. You have Jesse Waters on Fox News saying he's in Maryland. He lives in Maryland. Why is he a Chicago Bulls fan? Is he if he's in Maryland? Hey, yo, check it out. [00:32:30] Jesse Waters. I lived in Virginia, lived in Maryland. I'm a Chicago Bulls fan. I'm not in any gang.

[00:32:36] Bruce Anthony: Sometimes people are just fan Jesse Waters never makes sense. He says men shouldn't be able to go shopping with their wives. That's not what men do. He's an idiot. But these are the people that's on Fox News that are, that are giving people information, false information, and people are like, well, it's on the news.

[00:32:51] Bruce Anthony: It's gotta be true. No,

[00:32:53] J. Aundrea: it's

[00:32:53] J. Aundrea: not true. And it's the same, it is the same people watching it that live in [00:33:00] Cleveland and our, you know, warriors fans.

[00:33:02] J. Aundrea: And they'd be like, well, it makes sense. He's Maryland, a Chicago Bulls fan. That's, that's odd.

[00:33:08] J. Aundrea: You just, the same thing applies to you. Like, I don't understand.

[00:33:15] Bruce Anthony: So, so what they're basically saying, because MS 13 do use Chicago Bulls hat as kind of a gang affiliation hat. But what they're essentially saying is, if you are a Latino and you wear a Chicago Bulls hat, we can deport you. '

[00:33:29] America’s Crossroads: Democracy vs. Dictatorship ⚠️📉

[00:33:29] Bruce Anthony: cause we [00:33:30] can say that you're a part of MS 13. So if you're a Latino out there can't be no Chicago Bulls fan.

[00:33:34] Bruce Anthony: And that's not the, i that's not America. Right.

[00:33:39] Bruce Anthony: That's not the principles that, that, that, that we were supposed to be founded on.

[00:33:43] J. Aundrea: yeah, but we haven't lived up to that in a really, really long time. So like everything that's written on that, uh, on that little tablet in Ellis Island, uh, uh, statue of Liberty, bring us your poor huddle mass. We ain't lived up to that in a [00:34:00] very, very long time. So, it's just rid, like, here's the thing, and this is what everybody should be afraid of, right?

[00:34:12] J. Aundrea: And this is what should make. Everybody particularly nervous.

[00:34:17] Defying the Highest Court: Illegal Deportations & Power Plays 👩‍⚖️🚫

[00:34:17] J. Aundrea: They made up evidence and illegally deported this man and have no intention of getting him back. [00:34:30] And as far as I know, El Salvador has no intention of returning him.

[00:34:35] Bruce Anthony: The president said, I can't help you.

[00:34:38] J. Aundrea: So everybody should be concerned that they could make up things about you with no evidence, substantiated, not at all, even when asked to by a federal judge. [00:35:00] And even when ordered by a federal judge not to deport you, they will do it anyway.

[00:35:05] Bruce Anthony: The Supreme Court nine. Nothing. All of the Supreme Court justices. Now remember, it's supposedly six three conservative, right? There's two, uh, Supreme Court justices that were specifically appointed by Donald Trump. All nine Supreme Court justices said this, this deportation was illegal and that the administration needs to [00:35:30] do whatever they need to do to bring him back because it wasn't right.

[00:35:34] Bruce Anthony: And this administration from the Supreme Court is saying, F you, we don't have to do it.

[00:35:41] Mapping the March Toward Dictatorship: History’s Warning Signs 📜🔒

[00:35:41] Bruce Anthony: This is what people need to realize because he's hinting that he'll even deport Americans to this prison. I'm talking about American citizens, born citizens. They're hinting at it. They are pushing the letter of the law.

[00:35:56] Bruce Anthony: They are challenging the constitution. They are becoming a [00:36:00] dictatorship. And this is how it happens. This is the same thing. The Hitler and the Nazi party did in Germany in the 1930s. It's not, it doesn't happen all in one night. Just like I didn't come to this epiphany, uh, last night in the shower and, and it didn't happen just right then.

[00:36:17] Bruce Anthony: And it was a gradual process of my evolution of changing the evolution of this country changing. It's not a small process. It started all the way back in 2016, started then here we are eight years later about to go in and nine years [00:36:30] later, the moves that they're making, and this isn't the only person that they've disappeared illegally.

[00:36:35] Bruce Anthony: There have been numerous cases this year we are only in April, right? This year there's been numerous cases of people being disappeared and what are they dis who are they disappearing? People that they don't agree with, people who

[00:36:49] Bruce Anthony: are

[00:36:50] Bruce Anthony: challenging their authority,

[00:36:52] Bruce Anthony: they're disappearing them. So there are people out there that, that feel like, hey.

[00:36:57] Bruce Anthony: I don't have this, no connection to this person. It doesn't [00:37:00] affect me. I can't even identify with this person. Y'all are crazy. This is overstep. That's not America. This isn't what's gonna happen. I'm telling you right now. These are the steps that we're going towards.

[00:37:11] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:37:12] Bruce Anthony: if you don't wake up, it's gonna be y'all.

[00:37:15] Bruce Anthony: 'cause I'm gonna tell you, us, it ain't gonna happen to us. 'cause we, we not gonna allow something like that to happen to us. We would go down to El Salvador to get one of us, a group of, there would be a group

[00:37:29] Bruce Anthony: of people that [00:37:30] traveled down there and would go get 'em. If even if we had to go to war personally with the whole government of El Salvador, we would make it happen.

[00:37:38] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:37:39] Bruce Anthony: So I'm telling y'all, this is for your benefit, not ours because we see it coming. Y'all need to wake up.

[00:37:45] J. Aundrea: yeah,

[00:37:46] J. Aundrea: we, where, where are the protests?

[00:37:50] Bruce Anthony: Well, they, you know, it's, it's become real popular this week. Maybe there'll be some protests this weekend.

[00:37:56] Headlines vs. Reality: Media Fallout and Public Outcry 📰🔥

[00:37:56] Bruce Anthony: The, the positive thing that I'm seeing is that [00:38:00] the news is really hammering them. Even Fox News, even some people on Fox News was like, you know, this was an illegal deportation. You still got your Jesse Waters that are gonna hold water for the administration.

[00:38:13] Bruce Anthony: They're hacks. They're not real people. They're bought shills. Like they have no backbone. They have no spine, they'll never stand up for anything. Right. They'll always fall in line. But, but you have the news, news organizations putting this out there. People are talking about [00:38:30] it. It's, it's, this was March 15th, right?

[00:38:32] Bruce Anthony: So this was a month ago that he was deported and it's really starting to pick up pace because what they did in that Oval Office was a bad look. There's gonna be a lot of people that support the president that was like, yeah, that's right. Get him outta country. But even people that voted for him. That have a conscience or like, Hmm, no, wait a minute.

[00:38:54] Bruce Anthony: Hold up. There's a process. There are laws that we've established that when we deport people, [00:39:00] we're going to follow this, this way of deporting it. Hey, you know, who's the president that deported the most people?

[00:39:07] J. Aundrea: Who was that?

[00:39:08] J. Aundrea: Barack Obama.

[00:39:10] Bruce Anthony: He deported the most people. Joe Biden deported lot. It's not if you're here illegally either.

[00:39:16] Bruce Anthony: You take the steps, we give you the steps to become a legal citizen, or you gotta go back and then you gotta come through and try to come to this country. Legally. I'm not opposed to deportation, but we have a [00:39:30] structure. We have certain rules and standards. When you're caught here illegally, before we just sent you off, I'm gonna tell you who did that. Fidel Castro.

[00:39:45] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:39:45] Bruce Anthony: Adolf Hitler.

[00:39:47] J. Aundrea: mm

[00:39:47] Bruce Anthony: Do you want to be tied to these type of figures?

[00:39:51] J. Aundrea: He does.

[00:39:52] Bruce Anthony: I'm saying to the American people out there that are listening that voted for him 'cause they do hate watches or hate listening to us. Do you want to be [00:40:00] tied to that?

[00:40:01] J. Aundrea: Well, here's the thing, there were plenty of people at that time that were tied to that

[00:40:08] Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

[00:40:09] J. Aundrea: plenty. The only way that these people got in power was by the support of the people. So I don't know.

[00:40:19] Bruce Anthony: And you

[00:40:20] Bruce Anthony: don't know.

[00:40:20] Bruce Anthony: if

[00:40:20] J. Aundrea: know. But But today. Luckily today, US District Court Judge James Boberg, determined that there [00:40:30] is probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for violating his March 15th order, halting deportations.

[00:40:38] Bruce Anthony: We'll see what

[00:40:39] J. Aundrea: he has given the administration until April 23rd to respond, and if no satisfactory action is taken, he may identify responsible officials and request prosecution potentially appointing an independent attorney if the Justice Department declines. So,

[00:40:56] J. Aundrea: uh,

[00:40:56] Bruce Anthony: the Justice Department will absolutely

[00:40:58] J. Aundrea: yeah, of [00:41:00] course, but, uh, dis US District Court Judge James Bo Spur.

[00:41:05] J. Aundrea: He ain't playing. He

[00:41:08] Bruce Anthony: Well, I, I know they're gonna defy this. They defied the Supreme Court. They defied that, or they, they're not gonna, they defied the Supreme Court,

[00:41:15] J. Aundrea: of course they don't care because they, he is a hundred percent determined to be king. So he doesn't care. He thinks none of this applies to him. And guess what? [00:41:30] History has shown that it doesn't. it doesn't.

[00:41:33] J. Aundrea: Because this man has slip slided and skated through every single controversy, every single court case, every single guilty verdict, and he still became the president of the United States and he's still defying the law.

[00:41:48] J. Aundrea: He's still refusing to acknowledge the separation of powers. This man don't give a damn. He does not care.

[00:41:57] Bruce Anthony: not slip, slided, and skate.[00:42:00]

[00:42:00] J. Aundrea: Slip, slide it, and skated through everything. So if history is telling him, I am above the law, do you think he is going to care about this judge holding him in contempt?

[00:42:16] J. Aundrea: No.

[00:42:17] J. Aundrea: because he already sees himself as King Trump, and he thinks he is above the law.

[00:42:22] J. Aundrea: And congratulations, you idiots. You have just empowered a psychopath.

[00:42:28] Bruce Anthony: [00:42:30] Mm.

[00:42:30] J. Aundrea: That's all I gotta say about that.

[00:42:33] Bruce Anthony: And that's all that need to be said.  

[00:42:41] Bruce Anthony: All right, Jay, in my this, this has really been a self-absorbed show, but in my last night shower,

[00:42:50] J. Aundrea: Okay?

[00:42:51] Bruce Anthony: I have a lot of plans. This weekend I got a plan tonight. People that listen to the after hours uncensored know what's going on tonight. I'm not about to tell y'all on this main show, but I got [00:43:00] plans tonight and I got a lot of plans this weekend and it's WrestleMania weekend.

[00:43:04] Bruce Anthony: And what I truly wanna do is sit in the house

[00:43:07] J. Aundrea: And watch WrestleMania.

[00:43:08] Bruce Anthony: and watch WrestleMania. But also all I ever want to do is not go outside.

[00:43:12] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:43:13] Couch Over Club: How Aging Changes Our Party Game 🛋️🎶

[00:43:13] Bruce Anthony: I used to love being outside when I was younger.

[00:43:16] Bruce Anthony: I I don't want to be outside and I'm learning that this is, this is a common occurrence to a lot of my friends who are up there in my age that all we want to do is sit inside the house.

[00:43:26] Bruce Anthony: So you know me, I had to be like, well, why is [00:43:30] that? Why is it that we wanna sit inside the house the older we get? And ladies and gentlemen, I got some answers for you. I went to my favorite site, vice.com, and the name of the article is, I don't feel like partying anymore. Am I Depressed or Just Getting Old By De Jalisa Pringles.

[00:43:53] Bruce Anthony: I by Ms. Pringles.

[00:43:56] J. Aundrea: Now are we a hundred percent sure about that,

[00:43:59] Bruce Anthony: [00:44:00] What?

[00:44:01] J. Aundrea: the name?

[00:44:02] Bruce Anthony: No, that's absolutely the name. It's Ms. Pringles. Then the first name, de Jan Lisa.

[00:44:10] J. Aundrea: I think it's like Django, where the D is silent.

[00:44:13] Bruce Anthony: Well, you can't be sure, but let's say Jan, Lisa,

[00:44:16] J. Aundrea: Jeana, yeah.

[00:44:18] Bruce Anthony: Lisa. Wow. I don't, I don't hear no on. There's no on in there anyway. Anyway. So why people go out less as they get older? One of the main reasons [00:44:30] is changing priorities and responsibilities As people age their lives often become busier with work, family, and other commitments.

[00:44:38] Bruce Anthony: The energy and free time available for going out, especially late at night, decreases many. Find that staying out until the early hours is less appealing when weighed against early mornings childcare or simply needing the rest. So yeah, that kind of makes sense. 'cause I tell you what, I don't like doing, trying to function [00:45:00] in a day where I only have four hours of sleep.

[00:45:02] J. Aundrea: That part. Yeah. I think as you get older. You start to prioritize rest and Yeah. Yeah. For, yes, because when you're younger you can, you can still function and operate off little sleep, but as you get older it becomes more and more difficult to do. And then as you get older, you have more and more [00:45:30] responsibilities and things that you have to do and, uh, you need more rest, like just to recharge.

[00:45:38] J. Aundrea: So the more I need to, that's less and less time I have for being in the streets.

[00:45:46] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, look, lemme tell you something. Sometimes they even get eight hours of sleep and my alarm goes off and I'm like, nah, it ain't that, it's not time yet. I need, why am I still sleepy? I need more rest than eight hours. What the hell is going on? And [00:46:00] yeah, we're more, we're, we're a lot busier. Like when you're younger, you got a job, maybe you ain't got no, you ain't got no real responsibilities.

[00:46:08] Bruce Anthony: I remember in college. Me and my friend were drinking and getting high, watching Martin playing video games, having a grand old time, and we had a paper

[00:46:16] J. Aundrea: like fun.

[00:46:17] Bruce Anthony: that it was, that was our normal occurrence every, uh, Wednesday or Thursday night, I think this particular night was Wednesday night, but we had a Spanish paper due the next day.

[00:46:27] Bruce Anthony: Neither one of us had started working on it. It's two [00:46:30] o'clock in the morning. I'm about to go back to my dorm room. He's like, you gonna get up early and do the paper? I said, no, I'm gonna do the paper tonight. He's like, what? He is like, you drunk and hot? I was like, yeah, I'll do the paper tonight and proof it in the morning, but I'm going to do the paper tonight.

[00:46:43] Bruce Anthony: Because getting up in the morning and doing it then is not gonna happen, right? So it took me about an hour, right, to write it. So I went to bed at three, woke up around seven, eight o'clock. Proof to paper actually did really good, considering now I was drunk and high. That's probably the only [00:47:00] time I could be fluent in Spanish is when I'm drunk and high. Went to the class. I think class started at like nine 30 or 10. Went to the class with paper in hand. I looked over at him, he's haggard. Mind you, I've only had five hours of sleep just like him, right? Maybe I maybe had less sleep than he did because I stayed up to do this paper. He didn't do the paper.

[00:47:22] Bruce Anthony: I said, man, you ain't do the paper.

[00:47:23] Bruce Anthony: Nah, man, I couldn't get up this morning. I was like, yeah, I told you to do it last night.

[00:47:26] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:47:28] Bruce Anthony: I can't do that now.

[00:47:29] J. Aundrea: Yeah. [00:47:30] I remember, uh, being 18, 19 years old, working at, at the restaurant until late, and then going to a friend's house and partying until, who knows what time. Passing an hour, waking up at 6:00 AM driving home, take a shower, get dressed, and head to class

[00:47:52] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:47:54] J. Aundrea: and like, and, and living that way and being completely fine.

[00:47:58] J. Aundrea: Now I go to the grocery [00:48:00] store. I gotta take a nap.

[00:48:01] Bruce Anthony: Let, lemme tell you something. On Friday, I normally go to the liquor store and the grocery store. It's gotten to the point now, because I do my cleaning on Friday too, that I'm like, I'm just gonna have the groceries and the liquor delivered. I pay the extra fee

[00:48:15] J. Aundrea: yeah,

[00:48:16] Bruce Anthony: exhausted.

[00:48:17] J. Aundrea: yeah. I had, I've had a bunch of stuff delivered today because I was like, I, I don't have time to go out. I'm too tired to go out and, and I don't [00:48:30] wanna leave the house. Another thing is when you're young, particularly when you're like a teenager or in college or something like that, you still live at home.

[00:48:40] J. Aundrea: You are not paying rent, mortgage, things like that. When you get to our big age and you paying rent and mortgage, you like, I'm paying to live here. I need to be.

[00:48:54] J. Aundrea: Here.

[00:48:56] Bruce Anthony: Right, I wanna be in the place that I'm paying

[00:48:59] J. Aundrea: Yes. [00:49:00] I don't wanna go out and spend money when I'm spending money to be here,

[00:49:06] Bruce Anthony: right.

[00:49:06] J. Aundrea: so I'm gonna stay here and y'all can come here and see me

[00:49:13] J. Aundrea: if that's what you wanna do And not stay too long.

[00:49:17] Bruce Anthony: Alright. Shifts in social preferences is also a reason why we don't want to be for the streets anymore. Older adults tend to become more selective about how and with whom they spend their time, experiences, [00:49:30] and disappointments over the years may lead to higher standards for social interactions and less tolerance for superficiality or drama, even though I still love some drama, but

[00:49:40] J. Aundrea: it.

[00:49:40] Bruce Anthony: but not when I'm in the drama.

[00:49:42] Bruce Anthony: Many people report becoming more introverted, preferring meaningful connections over large nor noisy gatherings. Lemme tell you something right now, if they, if it, if they playing loud

[00:49:54] J. Aundrea: music,

[00:49:55] J. Aundrea: I

[00:49:55] Bruce Anthony: I don't want to be there.

[00:49:58] J. Aundrea: if I can't [00:50:00] have a quiet conversation, I'm going home.

[00:50:04] Bruce Anthony: If I gotta yell for you to hear me or come in close and whisper in your ear in order for you to hear me, I don't want to be there.

[00:50:12] J. Aundrea: No.

[00:50:13] Bruce Anthony: And I love trap music. It could be a trap spot. I

[00:50:15] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:50:16] Bruce Anthony: trap music at home

[00:50:17] J. Aundrea: Yeah. At home. In the comfort of my own home.

[00:50:21] J. Aundrea: I don't, yeah, I don't, I don't need it.

[00:50:26] Bruce Anthony: You know what else I don't like drunk people bumping into me. Not saying, excuse me, [00:50:30] spilling stuff on me, messing up my

[00:50:31] J. Aundrea: my shoes. I don't like none of that stuff.

[00:50:33] J. Aundrea: You know what else I don't like? Especially being here in Atlanta, Yans.

[00:50:39] Bruce Anthony: Who, where? Oh yeah. Well,

[00:50:42] J. Aundrea: They every, they and they're everywhere and they just, and they make it so unbearable to live and I just, I'd rather just stay. Yes, I'm a auntie and I would rather just stay in my home and not deal. Who would with all [00:51:00] these kids out here

[00:51:01] Bruce Anthony: is a lot of kids out there. I, I can't go on U Street. You know,

[00:51:04] J. Aundrea: know, Street

[00:51:05] Bruce Anthony: to be my spot.

[00:51:07] Bruce Anthony: I saw a video the other day, the last weekend. It was a big female brawl right outside on U Street. They fight. It was like 20, 30 girls. They fighting in the streets. They knocking on. I'm like, oh, I'm too old for all.

[00:51:21] Bruce Anthony: This was fun when I was in my twenties, maybe even a little bit in my early thirties now in my mid forties. No, no, this is some [00:51:30] nonsense. The Tom Foolery. Where are y'all parents? Who raised y'all?

[00:51:34] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Alright.

[00:51:36] Bruce Anthony: Another reason why we, as you get older, you might not be for the streets. Physical and emotional changes. The body's response to socialization, alcohol and late nights often change with age.

[00:51:49] Bruce Anthony: Recovery from night out takes longer, and the physical toll can outweigh the enjoyment. Emotional stability and self-containment also increase, reducing the need for [00:52:00] external stimulation or validation. Look, I could still drink. You seeing me? I can drink at my pace. And you know why? 'cause I'm at home. What I

[00:52:13] J. Aundrea: can drink

[00:52:14] Bruce Anthony: is outside because the music is loud.

[00:52:17] Bruce Anthony: I don't realize I'm drinking fast. I'm socializing. I'm having a good time. Next thing I know, the next morning I'm not moving so good and, and if I'm not moving so good the next morning and it don't recover, then that means [00:52:30] our whole day is shot and I got things to do so my days can't be shot.

[00:52:34] J. Aundrea: Exactly like I, listen, I got, I got bills to pay, I got, I got responsibilities, I got deadlines. I have deliverables that are due. I can't be out here in these streets with you, young people at all times of the night spending $15 on a watered down drink. I don't want [00:53:00] no parts of it. I will be at home and I will have a, just a, I'll have a great, a fun kickback and y'all can all come and be here and that's, we'll have a good time.

[00:53:13] Bruce Anthony: Ex except for Yns, they can't come.

[00:53:16] J. Aundrea: no, they can't say they're not invited. I don't even know any, I don't, yeah. No.

[00:53:21] Bruce Anthony: All right. Another one is burnout and energy levels. Burnout from work and life can set the energy needed for socialization, exhaustion and stress. Make [00:53:30] quiet evenings at home more attractive than crowded venues or parties.

[00:53:34] Pandemic Lessons: Falling in Love with Home Again 🏡❤️

[00:53:34] Bruce Anthony: The pandemic years also taught many to appreciate the comfort of home and the value of downtime.

[00:53:40] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah. I think the pandemic definitely, you know, it forced us to slow down. Uh, it forced us inside and people, you know, they started seeing what little stuff needed to be done around the house, and they started doing it, and then I [00:54:00] all sudden it's a little more comfortable in here.

[00:54:02] J. Aundrea: I got a new couch and then I gotta, you know, I painted a little bit, put some art up, and now it's kind of nice in here. I ain't even like being in here before, but now I kind of like it and it's, and, and, and I'm forced to be here. I'm forced to be with myself and my thoughts or my family and, well, you know what?

[00:54:21] J. Aundrea: My spouse is actually kind of cool. Like, I like, I like talking to them and spending time with them. And next thing you know, you don't, you realize you don't need. [00:54:30] To go out as much to find enjoyment or, or you know, or to socialize or things like that. You find that you don't need it as much, or you find other ways to do it that actually work better for you.

[00:54:46] Bruce Anthony: Or like we were harping on in the first segment, you become more content and you don't need the outside stuff is to, to placate. Whatever you got going on in your [00:55:00] life, you can be at peace in your home.

[00:55:02] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:55:03] Bruce Anthony: Which is funny because during reading this article and doing a little bit, little bit more research, I was wondering what the hell was going on, and this explains it.

[00:55:14] Bruce Anthony: Increased social anxiety and discomfort might also be reasons why you don't want to be in the streets at an older age. For some social anxiety increases with age, especially if you, if they go out less often, meeting new people or engaging in large group settings [00:55:30] can become more daunting leading to avoidance of such situations.

[00:55:34] Bruce Anthony: Let me tell you, when I went to that party upstairs, a wine and cheese party, I didn't want to go. went and I met some new friends and it was okay. It was cool, but I didn't want to go and I wanna have those friends on my terms. I don't want them popping up in my house. I don't want them randomly texting me.

[00:55:56] Bruce Anthony: I want my space. Why? Because I have [00:56:00] severe social anxiety. And yes, I am very personable and I, and yes, I am very likable and no, it's not a complete act, but it takes a lot of my energy up and then I just feel drained and then I gotta. Sl back into my little hole

[00:56:17] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:56:19] Bruce Anthony: and, and get my energy back up to go out there to the streets.

[00:56:22] Bruce Anthony: But, but that's, it's, it's, it's large distances now between

[00:56:28] J. Aundrea: mm-hmm. [00:56:30] Yeah. Uh, yeah. Same. Like I think, I think that's also like a a byproduct of the pandemic, right? Like you started to develop more anxiety going out. 'cause you're like, I don't wanna get sick. I don't, what was this, what's this person coughing? Why you stand so close to me and lying, like, you start developing this anxiety around just like interpersonal contact.

[00:56:56] J. Aundrea: And so, so, yeah, you don't wanna [00:57:00] go out. I, I, I, I fully, I fully see that that social anxiety has, has increased and, uh,

[00:57:09] Bruce Anthony: I would say the pandemic. I, I had all those things before the pandemic, uh, pandemic. What the pandemic

[00:57:14] Bruce Anthony: did for me.

[00:57:15] J. Aundrea: it in people. There are people, there are people, I, I would say in general, there are people who probably didn't have any social anxiety or social discomfort and post pandemic are finding. Yeah. I, I don't [00:57:30] like to go out more and more because I, it just, it just makes me uncomfortable.

[00:57:38] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, yeah. I, I mean, I, I really don't, I really don't like going out. I really, really don't. And you know what? Going out cost money, if going out was free, like living at home and being at home, then I probably wouldn't mind go, well, no. 'cause then you gotta get dressed up. You

[00:57:55] J. Aundrea: Yeah, there's,

[00:57:56] J. Aundrea: a lot, there's a lot of steps involved.

[00:57:59] Bruce Anthony: and people might, [00:58:00] maybe some people don't do this, but I do this, there's a different and shower.

[00:58:05] Bruce Anthony: Between me showering, just because I'm gonna be sitting around the house all day. I know I ain't going

[00:58:10] J. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

[00:58:10] Bruce Anthony: and me going out showering

[00:58:13] Bruce Anthony: the,

[00:58:14] J. Aundrea: shower. It's

[00:58:15] Bruce Anthony: different showers? Yes. The grooming that it takes for going out is different grooming. Some dudes are probably just like, what is he talking about? And you know what?

[00:58:25] Bruce Anthony: Okay,

[00:58:26] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah. We, mm, we [00:58:30] know we get it.

[00:58:32] Bruce Anthony: okay. You

[00:58:32] Bruce Anthony: know,

[00:58:33] J. Aundrea: if you're asking, sir,

[00:58:35] Bruce Anthony: then

[00:58:36] J. Aundrea: we know what your draws look like. You ain't wanna say it, but I do.

[00:58:44] Bruce Anthony: when Ray J said, guys, y'all gotta make sure that y'all wear dark colored draws so they don't see your dookie stains. I was like, sir,

[00:58:53] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:58:53] Bruce Anthony: as a grown man should not have no dookie stains

[00:58:55] J. Aundrea: you are. You're grown. You're grown.

[00:58:58] Bruce Anthony: There are too many tools. [00:59:00] Now look, I can understand maybe back in the day. Yeah, right. Maybe back in the that, right Back in the day, maybe toilet paper wasn't that sound.

[00:59:08] Bruce Anthony: It wasn't that scientific. Now we got four ply, five ply. You know, maybe it was only one ply back in the day you didn't have a bidet and you didn't have the wet wipes. Now you got all those things, ain't no excuses. And if it's, if it still don't help you, clean yourself, jump your ass in the shower,

[00:59:23] J. Aundrea: yes.

[00:59:25] Bruce Anthony: that's what you need to

[00:59:26] J. Aundrea: And also consult a doctor because it [00:59:30] shouldn't be that violent below that. You can't get it under control with toilet paper wipes and a bidet if you can't get it under control with toilet paper wipes and a bidet. Go see a doctor.

[00:59:44] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:59:44] J. Aundrea: see a doctor

[00:59:46] Bruce Anthony: Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I have mine under control, but I'm just anal about that type of stuff. Pun, pun intended.

[00:59:52] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Mm-hmm.

[00:59:54] Bruce Anthony: Alright, so ladies and gentlemen. You don't necessarily have to be depressed [01:00:00] and that be the reason why you don't want to go out. It could just be that you just getting old and you don't wanna deal with the BS anymore.

[01:00:06] Bruce Anthony: And that's okay. You ain't gotta be for the streets, especially if you

[01:00:09] J. Aundrea: you spent your

[01:00:10] Bruce Anthony: years for the streets.

[01:00:11] J. Aundrea: Yeah. You had

[01:00:12] J. Aundrea: your fun.

[01:00:13] J. Aundrea: l Leave the streets for those who, who can handle it? I, I, I leave it up to the young. Y'all enjoyed them streets. I, I have my time in them and it was great. It was glorious. I don't need to go back

[01:00:28] Bruce Anthony: it, it [01:00:30] is fun. Every now and then, I love to do about once or twice a year

[01:00:34] Bruce Anthony: with, with somebody that you, that we both know that we're both very, very close to and, and every time me and that person get together, it's always a story about some shenanigans that happened. I like to do that once or twice a year, but guess what?

[01:00:48] Bruce Anthony: I planned for that. I know the next day is going to be a shot.

[01:00:52] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[01:00:53] Bruce Anthony: I just like, okay,

[01:00:54] J. Aundrea: it's, I, I've built that into my schedule. You can't just say, Hey, let's do something [01:01:00] tonight.

[01:01:00] Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm. I don't think, I think everybody that knows me knows that they cannot hit me up to do something that night.

[01:01:07] J. Aundrea: I'm gonna let you know my computer has 2% battery.

[01:01:11] Bruce Anthony: Okay. On that note, we gonna end the show. We was gonna end it anyway. And

[01:01:16] J. Aundrea: okay.

[01:01:17] 🎤💫 Mic Drop Moment: Wisdom to Walk Away With 🌟

[01:01:17] J. Aundrea: tell people out there?

[01:01:18] J. Aundrea: there, is a quote by American author Sinclair Lewis, and it is, when Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying across. [01:01:30] Just think about that.

[01:01:35] Bruce Anthony: And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching, and until next time, as always, I'll holler.  

[01:01:51] J. Aundrea: Right. We're talking about Remar, Armando Rego Garcia

[01:01:56] Bruce Anthony: There we go.

[01:01:59] J. Aundrea: from El [01:02:00] Salvador. And

[01:02:08] Bruce Anthony: Oh Lord. Where my charge at? Gotta get your groove on.

[01:02:15] J. Aundrea: gotta get your group on.

[01:02:22] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[01:02:23] J. Aundrea: Oh my Lord.

[01:02:25] Bruce Anthony: Oh yeah.

[01:02:26] J. Aundrea: So much noise.

[01:02:27] Bruce Anthony: So much. Hey look, [01:02:30] 40, this is, this is 40.

[01:02:33] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

[01:02:35] Bruce Anthony: I did some math early today. I was like, how many days have I lived? It's over 16,000. I was like, that don't seem right. I feel like it should be close to a hundred thousand. Then I was like, no, that don't mean no sense. It's 365 days in a year.

[01:02:53] J. Aundrea: Did you say a hundred thousand?

[01:02:56] Bruce Anthony: I'm like, it gotta be like a hundred thousand. No, it's not a [01:03:00] hundred thousand. Lemme pull it.

[01:03:01] J. Aundrea: be? Why would it be?

[01:03:02] Bruce Anthony: I don't know. Let me get, uh, this teleprompter ready?

[01:03:07] J. Aundrea: Okay?

[01:03:08] Bruce Anthony: We, I gotta record this show. I gotta a meeting after this. And then I got that little thing tonight.

[01:03:12] J. Aundrea: Yeah. I got two meetings after this and I still need to prep because my big presentation

[01:03:21] Bruce Anthony: I thought that was yesterday.

[01:03:22] J. Aundrea: no, it's tomorrow morning.

[01:03:24] Bruce Anthony: Oh, damn. Well, we gonna be quick with this, this, this. We only gotta film one [01:03:30] show.

[01:03:30] J. Aundrea: I, I should have definitely told you I'd be available Wednesdays in two weeks. I should have said that, but that's okay. I made time.

[01:03:38] Bruce Anthony: here, we here now we here

[01:03:40] J. Aundrea: we in it. We gonna do it?

[01:03:41] Bruce Anthony: Lemme pin you.

[01:03:42] J. Aundrea: knock it out.

[01:03:43] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. All right. Ready? What are we talking about? We're talking about, did you get a chance to look at the rundown? Okay. 'cause

[01:03:49] J. Aundrea: I just said, we talking about the re.

[01:03:53] Bruce Anthony: yeah. I couldn't, I couldn't say his name, but, all right. Let's do this intro. [01:04:00] Uh,

[01:04:04] J. Aundrea: Wait, pause. Can you hear me? Because I cannot hear you. It's so low. Like your audio was fine and then it just cut out.

[01:04:13] Bruce Anthony: Uh, can you hear me now?

[01:04:14] J. Aundrea: It's so low

[01:04:16] Bruce Anthony: Uh, I don't know what the hell that is then.

[01:04:20] Bruce Anthony: Can you I, I, I don't know if it's like my connection or, 'cause your audio was fine.

[01:04:27] Bruce Anthony: hold on. Let me, let me [01:04:30] pull up the I on the right wifi? Yeah. Casa J

[01:04:33] Bruce Anthony: And it's still really low.

[01:04:34] J. Aundrea: it's really low.

[01:04:36] J. Aundrea: I don't know if it's my headphones or

[01:04:43] J. Aundrea: plug in my headphones back in. Go ahead.

[01:04:46] Bruce Anthony: you hear me now?

[01:04:47] J. Aundrea: Can you hear me now?

[01:04:49] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I, I hear my headphones at all. No, I hear me through the speakers. Yeah. Even though my headphones are plugged in, it's not coming through my, so it must be my headphones. They are

[01:04:58] J. Aundrea: old. [01:05:00] Say something.

[01:05:01] Bruce Anthony: Something. Okay. So it's Okay. There you go.

[01:05:05] Bruce Anthony: well now you're on a lag. That's okay. Now you're on a lag. So now I'm gonna stop this recording and then start it again. 'cause you're on a lag now.

[01:05:13] J. Aundrea: Well, maybe I'll come off of it. Gimme a second.

[01:05:16] Bruce Anthony: Well, are you off of it now?

[01:05:19] J. Aundrea: You're not lagging.

[01:05:21] Bruce Anthony: What? I mean,

[01:05:22] Bruce Anthony: let's sing the song at the same time and see if it's lagging. Who do you love? Oh, you you For sure[01:05:30]

[01:05:30] Bruce Anthony: Okay,

[01:05:31] J. Aundrea: who? Yeah. You're not lagging.

[01:05:32] Bruce Anthony: right. Okay. All right, let's get back to it. Let's get back to it. I don't know where I was. I'm just gonna start from the top.

[01:05:38] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[01:05:40] Bruce Anthony: I like it every now and then when we,

[01:05:44] J. Aundrea: Yeah. need to be open every now

[01:05:46] J. Aundrea: Get a little, yeah. you know? yeah. You know, they need to, they need to know me. yeah. Or else why would they

[01:05:52] Bruce Anthony: come just for jokes? Why would they listen? listen just for jokes? They got to have an emotional invest. Yes. They [01:06:00] got to know who we are, and then hopefully every now and then, maybe something that we say touches somebody else.

[01:06:05] J. Aundrea: Right?

[01:06:06] Bruce Anthony: All right. You ready,

[01:06:08] J. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

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