Echoes of Extremism: Right-Wing Influencers & Nazi's on Twitter

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Bruce Anthony
Welcome First of all welcome this is unsolicited perspectives I'm your host Bruce Anthony here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaped today's society join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcast subscribe to our Youtube channel to watch our video podcast rate. Review like comment share share with your friends share with your family hell even share with your enemies on today's episode I'm going to be talking about right? wing influencers I'm gonna be talking about a rise of nazi sympathizers on Twitter or x whatever you want to call it. And then we're gonna be going through means with Bruce but that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.

00:52.68
Bruce Anthony
You know I have said before that I'm not going to be a hypocrite when using a platform no matter how small or big your following is you must remain authentic, honest and understand that what you're putting out in the world. People are going to listen to. They're going to watch it. They can gain some stuff they can lose some stuff. Um, but what you say on platforms matters. With that being said, y'all remember the crazy playing lady y'all remember the crazy playing lady the the crazy playing lady. That they yelled out. Um that this is not real that person's not real on American Airlines her name is Tiffany Gomas ah that's how she get her popularity. Um, she's a real estate developer from Texas. She's not done with her 15 minutes of fame. Because she's become a right wing influencer. What does that even mean well she just posted a photo on our Instagram or Twitter x I still call it Twitter I'm not gonna call it x is Twitter to me in which she's in a bikini and look I'm I'm not gonna lie. She looked good. Alright I'm just let's let's keep it a buck. Let's keep it a hundred. She look good shorty look good right? So I'm gonna put that out there first not being biased here I'm not saying that she's some raga muffin and shorty shorty look good. All right? So I'm not opposed.

02:26.68
Bruce Anthony
Seeing pictures of her in a bikini and I'm sure most people that are interested that are just under understand that just enjoy attractiveness. You don't have to be you don't have to necessarily like women. You know you just if attracted people or you're a thing. She's an attractive person. Hey I'm not gonna allow I'm not gonna deny that but she took a picture in a bikini holding the cand of ultra right beer. Um, that's a right wing alcohol company and look There's a reason why I said she looked good and I'm not the only one. Because it got 8000000 views and it sparked a lot of discussion because like I said once again, she was taking a picture with this right wing ultra beer and I'll get into that in a minute but also she looked good. That's sure that's the reason why you go get 8000000 views if you look good. Let me get into this right wing ultra beer right? Wing ultra beer gained popularity among certain conservatives. Um, after some boycotted bud light after his partnership with the transgender influencer Dylan Malate Mulvaney ah some of y'all might rememberm it that some of you might not. In the month of and transgender appreciation month I don't remember exactly what is called off the top of my head but where we're acknowledging the lgbtq plus community and trans bud light partnered with Dylan and created 1 can one can.

03:59.78
Bruce Anthony
And support of him right? Wing conservatives said Bud Light is support and trans right? they feel so strongly about trans people that they decided to boycott bud light and let me tell you something right? wing conservatives when they take their dollars away it makes an impact. That just lets you know how many of them actually are because but light has been dropping in stock. You know they've been losing money because of that partnership they haven't switched it. They still acknowledge it I don't drink beer. But if I did I would drink bud light and my man garf Brooks. Down there in his new bar and Nashville still still serving but light in this bar because he says we welcome all. But anyway since Bud Light did this Um, the Ceo of ultra right beer ah Seth weathers created. This beer company and the beer company ultra right? Beer is marketed as 100% Wope free american beer I get into woke in a minute but 100% woke american woke free beer and he's also known Seth weathers as a conservative debt. He did not hire gomez to. Do this post his quote was saying that there's no partnership. Beautiful women are just naturally attracted to our brand now. There's there's so much that there's so much that goes into that quote I ah, and I will say.

05:33.55
Bruce Anthony
There's are there are some right wing and conservatives out there that are attractive loen bar Bart you know she's she's a pretty woman I I I choose aoc over her. Okay, that's just my preference but you know I'm not gonna deny that she isn't attractive I don't know if if. There's a whole lot of attractive right? wing conservative women out there I I haven't done a poll. What I will say is ah misss gomas. She's attractive. Um, here's the crazy thing about this Altra right? Woke beer. It's. Popular somewhat in the right wing community. You can only get it online and it's $20 a 6 pack now I don't know about you. It's been a long time since I had some beer but $20 for a 6 pack. That's reap. That's crazy to me. That's. Absolutely ridiculous. That's more than $3 a fifty cent per can of beer. You can get you a 6 pack of butd light for $12 you know? Okay, you know you go and drink that ultra right? conservative beer. Um so Gomez is trying to be a right wing influencer and and. She posted something one of the quotes on her post was something like this is gonna make a lot of people mad. You know one hundred percent woke free which is once again ultra right? Beers slogan I want to get into this idea of woke I've I've and and black people by and large the majority.

07:08.30
Bruce Anthony
Generally speaking. not everybody we're not a monolith right? but generally speaking black people understand what the history of woke is right? The the history of woke is to be aware of racial injustices right? It was stay woke when you were driving in those. Certain roads in the south because some of them had sundown laws that meant that black people couldn't be out after sundown. These were legitimately real things in my parents' lifetime so before me before me but in my parents' lifetime. This was actually a thing. It's not that far ago my parents are still young. They they let me tell you how young my parents are even though they're in the sixty s let me tell you how young my parents are my parents can operate an iphone sometimes better than I can right? Their emoji game is real strong and not that weird. Like Boomer Moji game like their game is strong in my parents' lifetime. There were such things as sundown loss because my parents were born before the started the civil rights make movement which means they were born when Jim Crow was a thing so when Jim Crow was a thing and actually. Even into the 70 s and 80 s like you didn't want to be get caught on the wrong roads in the south I don't know if that's like that now but it definitely was like that no more than thirty forty years ago okay

08:38.20
Bruce Anthony
The theory that the rule was stay woke you had to stay awake stay aware of where you were driving to be safe. That's what woke means woke means to be aware to be safe to understand plights against marginalized people whether it be black people and then um. The lg b two q plus community kind of latched onto it as well and I'm as a black person will lend them that woke term the true meaning of it because it applies to them as well. But it's taking on a new. Twist and when people say they are anti woke be clear of what they mean by that what they mean by that is they're anti black. They're anti l g b t q plus they're anti anything other than. Christian straight now I say christian straight and I typically say white christian straight male and I'm going to say christian straight because there are some black folks out there. That's anti woke they got them on Fox News they got them on o and you know we're not all a monolith. We don't all believe the same don't. Believe what these news organizations like Fox and oan are telling you that there's this large exodus out of the black community going into this rightw wing ideology. That's just not the case right? Are there some yeah and am my surprised I was watching russemania a couple of weekends ago.

10:13.68
Bruce Anthony
And I saw a black man in Philadelphia granted people from all over the world come to W Rusemania so I don't know where this black man was from but it was a black man in Philadelphia at Wrestlemania would it make America great hat on. So you know they out there they out there and I don't know I don't know no. Actually that's not true I was gonna say I don't know anybody I actually don't know him but during a pandemic is is Twenty Twenty I'm meet my dad for brunch for a father's day I'm walking in downtown Dc I see this black man with not only a make America great red hat on but also a shirt. Um, ice grilling him. He's he's not ice grilling me but I see him kind of trying to he's eyeballing me but not directly meaning that he's looking off in the distance. But I know he's paying attention to me and I'm like man, go ahead what you want to do because you a traitor. And I know what people are going to out out there to say you know that are supporters of president Trump black people can't support president Trump um, I'm going to just give you a clear answer to that question from me this is I'm speaking from me and not from the entire black community. He no hell no black people cannot support Trump I'm sorry I know the people that that that support his policies and support him. Want to say that he's not a racist and want to change up the words that he said ah but he's a racist.

11:48.74
Bruce Anthony
And there's plenty of evidence to back this up I'm not gonna run down the list because I've already done it before those people that want to argue that point they just want to argue that point and not look at facts and it doesn't matter what you present to them. They're just not gonna accept it because by accepting that. And they support him they would have to accept the fact that they support a racist and that in actuality they might also be a racist and contrary to what? ah some people believe you know, not all these people that are Trump supporters and right wing um conservatives. Want to be considered racist though they might be ah, don't want to be considered racist being racist is actually a bad thing like you know that's not a good thing. That's a bad thing. It's like um I can't think of ah ah, a different analogy I was going to say a woman beater. But yeah, okay, almost ain't nobody I hear claiming that they happy to be hitting women.

12:45.10
Bruce Anthony
Every man that's hit a woman I don't know that they've that they've ever bragged about it I I have actually not known of a man personally that I know hit women and just openly was like yeah I'll be hitting on women I haven't known that um I don't know too many and too many men that have. Ah, probably can't even count em more on 3 fingers that means he's not more to 3 um, like people don't want to admit, the bad things about themselves. So the idea that they would support somebody who's a racist president Trump former president Trump would mean to acknowledge that. Well, they don't really give a damn about racism and that they might be racist too and nobody wants to admit their faults. So they lean into the fact that oh you're creating a false narrative that isn't true and they convinced themselves in their own head to for that to be the case and that's not necessarily. Truth but people don't ever want to admit, the bad. Ah the bad qualities about themselves and there's this idea with woke right? and and I got into an argument with and and I'll say he's a friend of mine. He's a friend he's a friend of mine um about this idea of entitlements or entitlement programs welfare programs and he's a white gentleman and we got into a debate of him comparing himself to black people in the in the sense that.

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Bruce Anthony
He was poor and he and he made it and I said well okay, let's examine this one you weren't poor. Your parents were cheat but you weren't poor like you grew up as a little kid as a little kid you know 5 6 seven years old you had your own room. You weren't poor i. Shared a room with my brother and sister until I was 10 I didn't get my own room until I was almost 13 and I wouldn't even consider us poor poor. We were working class. We were cut we were on the way up, but not poor poor I know people I know people. That actually had to share beds that's poor, right? Um, where you actually don't know where your next meal is coming from like I always knew where my next meal was coming from so. There's this idea of these people that are anti woke that talk about you know. I don't I don't like all the entitlement programs I don't like welfare just pick yourself up by your boottraps and Martin Luther King had this great quote. It's very difficult I'm paraphrasing here. It's very difficult to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you have no boots right? So this idea of we'll just pick yourself up and do it isn't isn't. Apples to apples is apples to oranges. It's not the same thing and as I was in further thought about this topic and as I was thinking about how I was going to approach this topic I had to start thinking about it as something very simple.

15:52.44
Bruce Anthony
Now I can understand the perspective of and let's it's not all white people but in my life the majority of people that are against welfare programs are helping right tend to be white like and they tend to say not to say that. First of all, not to say that all white people are like this because also I know a bunch of white people that are like let's give away everything for free and I'm like no, that's like let's not do that. So I'm I'm not a centralist. um um I lean closer to ah. The left and I do with the right. But I'm ah but I'm somewhere at if this was if the left was zero and the right was a hundred I'm more like thirty five forty right like I'm I'm way closer to the left. But I'm not too far from the middle. Okay, um, so this idea. That you could just pull yourself up by your boosttraps typically from my perspective and my lifetime comes from white people now I have this unique perspective because I've grown up in almost every economical social economical class except for rich and so I've been in a lot of white spaces. Especially considering what I do for a landing where I went to school what I study things of this nature I'm often in a lot of white spaces and I have a lot of white friends I have a lot of I have I have friends and I have white friends and my white friends are from all different backgrounds. So I feel like I have a pretty good idea of.

17:23.16
Bruce Anthony
Of what I'm talking about here Arnold Schwarzenegger had a quote had a gave a speech at a college commencement somewhere in California I can't remember which one in which he talked about he hated the idea of people saying that they. Did it alone and they didn't need help. He was like I made it in this country because I got hope that people fed me when I didn't have food people gave me clothes when I didn't have clothes this idea that you could do it all on your owner that you've done it all on your own is a falsehood and that we all have help along the way sometimes people don't want to recognize it. And then as I'm examining why certain people would look at at entitlement programs welfare programs and say well I did it I pulled myself up by my boost reps. Why can't they it's because everybody wants to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wants to when they when people tell their story about where they came from and how they made it very rarely. Do they talk about all the advantages or the help that they got along the way my friend going back to my friend talking about how he grew up poor. He didn't grow up poor. He had money right. And he had house and he lived in a pretty decent neighborhood Lisa was middle class which means that he went to a better school got a better education right? and he saw certain things in life that prepared him for the future that a lot of people without those advantages economically wouldn't see.

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Bruce Anthony
So he he went to college right? and and he got help financially in college whether that he wants to admit it or not he got help his parents helped him along the way and he always had a safety net. He could always go back. Home. Some people go to college and they they can't go back home. So this idea. That people do it alone and they pull themselves by the boosttraps. It's not true. Everybody has help along the way but people don't want to examine that because once again, they want to be the hero to their own story. It goes all the way back to you know Ah Kobe Bryant who's a remix of Michael Jordan and you know they said he played a lot of hero basketball like he he wanted to be the reason for somebody's victory and how I'll even put myself in that example, going all the way back telling the story of how I threw away a gold medal from an a you tournament and my mom went a trash can to go get it because. she was like why'd you throw this way and I said well I didn't play that much I didn't participate that much and she was like you were part of the team I didn't look at it like that if I couldn't put my stamp on I helped produce. This I didn't want to have any part of that people feel that way in their own lives. They want to believe I did it all by myself I didn't even have any help not acknowledging. That there was whether you want to omit it or not either direct help or indirect help to help you get to where you where you were look these right wing people that that are so self-absorbed ah and and and I will say they're self-absorbed.

20:36.13
Bruce Anthony
To look at themselves and think of themselves as a higher higher thing because they had help but not acknowledge the help they got because they want to be the hero of their story is the reason why you have people doing this anti woke thing recoring. Reorinate Corning recoining the phrase to basically mean anything different than me and that's basically what it is so Miss Gomez is now right wing influencer. and there's money in it there is more money in being a right wing influencer then there is in being a left wing influencer because there's always going to be more money and hate than there is in love and I'm going to get into more of that in the next segment but I can't give you any better examples of what I'm talking about here. Listen to what I'm saying and really examine your story I can admit I would not be here without certain advantages that I know other people didn't have contrary to what you might think because I'm a black man has nothing to do with affirmative action. It has everything to do with my parents. Bust in their ass to give me every opportunity that they could give me to get to where I am today and there are people that have been helping me along the way black and white straight and gay male and female and they that have helped me get here.

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Bruce Anthony
Acknowledge that this is not a one man Hero journey that got me to this point I acknowledged helped that's helped me get here. The people that have been pushing me in my back to move forward along the way shouldn't You do the same thing I don't Know. Um, just asking you to think about it I'm not asking you What to think I'm just asking you to think about it.

22:45.41
Bruce Anthony
All right? I'm not done with talking about hate. This is a little bit different when it's not necessarily talking about white people looking down upon black people. It's white people looking down upon jewish people. So I just read an article of It's it's in the it's on an Nbc News site not Msnbc Nbc News remember when I tell you you guys to pay attention to where you getting your news from if it's Cnn Msnbc Fox News oh and all that stuff. It's news commentary right? like they're giving you news but they're also giving you commentary on top of that news. It's it's not straight journalism Nbc News Abc News Cbs News alagiers things like that. Um, they're gonna give you news news. So anyway on an Nbc News site there was this article written. It was called Verified Pro Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk the story was done by David Ingram and Laura Caldry um so basically the article discusses how Elon Mucks ah his ex Twitter. Okay. Has become a hub for nazi support and propaganda the article mentions that at least 150 paid premium subscriber x accounts and thousands of unpaid accounts have posted or amplified pro-nazi content on x in recent months these accounts often violate x's rules.

24:20.67
Bruce Anthony
Consistently by consistently posting anti-semitic or pro-nazi materials examples of these type of materials that are once again against x's policy are praising nasty soldiers sharing Nazi symbols and denials of the holocaust. Um. I'm going to get in more to the article. But in this rise of anti-semitism and there is absolutely a rise in anti-semitism throughout the world. It is very very important to pay attention. To the hate I find it extremely extremely convenient for certain republicans not all of them. Not all of them but certain republicans who have courted the far. Right? Extremist fringes of ah the party that have courted Nazi support I mean the unite the right was all about that member president Trump said there's good people on both sides I don't know how you play. With those were words he said there was good people on both sides. No. There wasn't there was a group of people out there protesting hate and there was another group of people out there praising hate. So. It's not the same thing but you have people like Margie Taylor Green who was talking about jewish space lasers lasers now praising Israel's defense system.

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Bruce Anthony
And now in such support of the israeli state when you know they're always quick to throw George Sorus under the bus a jewish businessman um, that supports Democrats under the bus any chance they get and they're always willing to court once again that vote what do you think the proud boys were the January Sixth was led. Led by a lot of these neo-nazis white supremist groups it and it wasn't Fbi undercover in these groups. It were it the it was those groups it were they these people and they're growing they're growing in popularity during the women's tournament in Utah or Idaho ah a team had to leave their hotel because they were being harassed by a white supremacist group look it up it'sur real thing that actually happened in 2000 24 it's a growing thing. It's a concern. So okay, let me get back to this article the pro-nazi content is not confined to just the fringes of the platform during a during one seven day period last month in march 7 of the most widely shared pro-nazi post on x a cured four point five million views total this was during a seven day period last month four point five million

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Bruce Anthony
1 post with one point Nine Million views promoted a false and long debunked conspiracy theory that 6000000 jews did not die in holocaust now I don't know what the exact number was of how many jews died in the holocaust when people say 6000000 jews died in the holocaust I believe that. Um, believe that they had concentration camps but they were death camps with gas chambers killing people we have pictures of it who can that there are pictures of it and this is before a i.

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Bruce Anthony
And it's not like movies was really a thing during war war two I mean you had silent movies with Charlie Chaplin it wasn't no gone with the win and stuff like that during that time they didn't even have color on movies and stuff this was not doctor this happened and and the idea that they are deniers. They not deniers. They know it happened. They just don't want to acknowledge it goes back to my original. The first segment people not want to acknowledging things that are true things that are real because somehow some way it belittles them in their mind. Okay. There was more than 5300 verified and unverified accounts that reshared that particular post about the fact that they were denied that 6000000 jews died in the holocaust and um, other popular posts were reshared hundreds of times within the space. Now Twitter or ex's policies ban glorified glorifying violence. it's a broad prohibition that's not the right word. it's it's it's a that's not the right word. okay that's not the right word but I'm gonna get back to that in a minute x sometimes uses to take down pro-nazi content and accounts. So basically their policies is kind of broad and x is like yeah okay, well maybe we could take this down there's or there isn't it's broad. It's very general is not very detailed. So some of these.

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Bruce Anthony
Post and everything are able to sit through the cracks under Elon Muskke's guy Elon Musk's guys as free speech I'll get into that in a minute but ah, the rules also ban praising violent entities and they and they say the platform will apply labels to hate imagery like swastikas. But they still allow swastikas so this idea that it it will ban praising violent entities but it will still allow swastikas on the site and they'll just label it in that an example of a violent entity. You see what I'm saying with these. Broad kind of like context of what rules apply what rules don't apply I mean it's almost like x is trying to be like ah an Nba or Nfl official that some calls get called during the game and some calls don't get called during the playoffs. That's kind of how they're treating x Twitter whatever you want to call it like some things you know we gonna we're gonna decide in the moment if this is a banning offense or not a banning offense and just from last month you can see that they are letting a lot of negative violent. Imagery pass with a little notation and they do a little notation you buy. That's some on xit Twitter they see the little notations. The article suggests that x does not appear to be enforcing any of these policies and that's clear from.

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Bruce Anthony
Four point five million people million views certain posts got just in a seven day period of last month the findings of the latest evidence. This is all from the article of of flushing nazi network on s and ah, it's a it's a flourishing. Nazi network that's happening on x that this article is basically discovered previous investigations by news organizations and and I hate watchdogs have documented many examples of anti-semitism semitism. White supremacy and support for naziism on x basically x has become a place where hate lives now Twitter has always been It's just an nasty place. Um, people making comments and just Twitter is just a negative it's just a negative space it really is Instagram is almost like that. But there's a lot of people that will do some a lot of positive. You can see positive stuff on Instagram and Tiktok. Yeah Twitter has just been a trash a burning trash dump. This article is basically saying through evidence right through evidence and investigation is that ever since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter has become a bigger cesspool the verified users sharing the pro nonzi content have entered entered into a mutual beneficial relationship with muck.

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Bruce Anthony
With Elon Musk because they're paying $8 a month or more for premium services that are available to all premium subscribers in exchange they get priority prioritization meaning they get priority over other texts when they reply to post. And they have an opportunity to monetize their content through ads so this is a money making scheme that nazis are thriving under and what nazi sympathizers white supremacist and once again, why is this important? Why is this important. Back in the day there weren't a lot of spaces for people that that truly hate to meet up right? They were controlled contained contained is the right word hate was really contained before social media because. Everything was contained before social media before social media you dated who was in your city. Maybe if you went to college and through college you would go visit your friends who were from other places you might meet other people and then from that way you you would open up your space for dating but before social media. Dating was pretty much relegated to your city now dating is anywhere in the world. Hate groups are the same where it used to just be hey you had to find the people that hated around you because it was not really easy. You could kind of find it on internet forms right? like that's always been a thing has been a rise.

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Bruce Anthony
Since the internet has become a thing but even still it. It didn't give you the access to large groups of people like social media does and I'm not saying that social media is a bad thing I think social media is a good thing I think social media is a positive thing when people. That have the right ideals choose to be positive. However, with those people that choose to be negative. Social media has given them a bigger platform used to be a time where David Duke rarely got on Tv. David Duke who used to be the grandmaster and might still be the grandmaster. The kulu klan he once ran for office several different offices in Louisiana and used be hard for for these people to to get any type of popularity to gain any type of stin to get to gain any type of engagement right. It was really tough. You do a couple of you know marches or something like that unless you had a whole group of people or you were in an area that was sympathetic to your cause you weren't really getting anywhere now through social media and more specifically with Twitter backslash x. Specifically under Elon Musk Hate has grown and so it's it's very important to understand where Elon Musk falls in all of this. So what is his response to all of this elon musk.

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Bruce Anthony
Who is known as a free speech abolitionist absolutist excuse me, not abolitionist. Free speech absolutist has responded to the controversy surrounding pro-nazi content on his platform x. He responded to a tweet where a social media user appeared to push the great replacement conspiracy theory on x. Claiming that jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. In other words, this post basically said. That this is this is so ridiculous I'm trying to gather my thoughts on this one because it's just it's so ridiculous. That jewish people have been putting out hate like anti-semented. Antisemitists have been doing towards them. That's basically what this post was was saying so it was a post on x and this clearly exempify exemplifies Elon Musk and what he thinks about all this hatred on x. Musk response to the tweet. You have said the actual truth let me go back because maybe you guys weren't following me here because i' my speech impediment is is really bad today I don't know what it is stumbling over all my words. But thank you for bearing with me.

37:23.13
Bruce Anthony
Let me go back. It's a great replacement theory this tweet is a great replacement theory conspiracy theory claiming that jewish communities have been pushing the exact exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim. They want people to stop using against them and Elon Mus says you ain't speaking nothing but the truth that's what elon must said? so Elon Mus is kind of believes kind of supports a lot of what these nazis white supremacists. Are saying on Twitter that's not that's not me coming to that idea that's basically him and his own words saying it. That's not basically him that's him in his own word saying it. It's the reason why he's not so adamant about taking down nazi. Post and growth on his ex account and it's profitable all right making that money. What did I say earlier right? Wing extremist influencers way more money in that than left wing. It's a lot more money and hate than there is in. Love. Don't anybody want to hear about that love stuff everybody want to hear about that hate I will admit I'm messy I love gossip this whole thing that's going on with Drake and Jay and ja cole and Kendrick Lamar and and I think I'm big meet.

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Bruce Anthony
Larry Hoover Rick Ross and then Chris Brown and cuevo getting into it is juicy. So reason why we love watching those Tv reality shows we love housewives real housewives and hip hop love and hip hop and before that flavor of love and all the little dating shows. You know I I love to just I love the show change of heart. That's back in the early 2000 but if you don't know what that show is Google it you know it's a messy show people. Love messy start spreading. Love people. Don't want to hear that start spreading positivity people get tired of that people want negativity. It's profitable. To be negative and what elon musk is showing is that he is leaning into that negativity. He's leaning into that hatred because actually it's it's not super profitable because x has been losing a lot of money but in his eyes it is giving people a. Larger voice for their hate and he's gonna make cup the coins off of it. Okay, all right? That's the reason why I have this show um not not that I believe that I'm some one I don't think I'm a great orator. Um, but not because I believe that I'm some great person that can lead change. No as I've often said on this show you know I've got my own flaws and I could be a bit of a hypocrite in certain areas myself I do self-reflection.

40:27.51
Bruce Anthony
And when people tell me about myself things that I can't see I listen to them because I'm always trying to involve and grow I don't always think that I'm right I think I'm right the majority of the time because my thoughts are well thought out well-researched I don't just speak about things that I don't know about not everybody has that idea in life. Um, so if I can give you a different perspective of looking at things that like I said hits a few people and helps a few people grow and learn. That's all worth it for me I am one of those people that's going to preach positivity and love. I'm also gonna get messy sometimes you know I got to give you all a little bit of the messy but I'm not Goingnna get mess as in hatred. Um, even when I speak about ah people that are basically against me and against my causes and against the things that I believe in I don't hate them I don't hate them.

41:21.79
Bruce Anthony
At all and a lot of ways I try to understand them and sometimes sometimes I can understand a little bit about where they're coming from a little bit but that doesn't mean that I'll ever agree with them. But but most importantly, I'm not gonna hate them. I don't hate anybody well I hate 1 former client that tried to get me fired. Um I do hate her. Not I put her gender out there too. It was a her. She's the evil person. Um not just because what she tried to do against me but just. Just not a good person by and large she's one of the people I don't think she's she's not a nazi nazi sympathizer whitere she she's not a white supremac in the standpoint because she isn't white. She definitely leans into white supremacy though I'm not going to. Get into that anymore about defining what white supremacy is I've already done it several times on the show. The point I'm trying to make is is that hate has a bigger platform and I was listening to a new I was listening to a G O P poster on Cnn. That said that the divide in America is bigger than it ever has been and I just listened to what he had to say and I said that's a crock of shit the divide has always been there. The only difference is is that people have a bigger platform to say what they feel.

42:50.96
Bruce Anthony
And there's no more filters but these are always been the thoughts of the people they're just expressing it a lot more.. There is no bigger divide this like there aren't any well there might be bigger disasters than there are now. But the reason why it seems like.. There's always a bunch of people dying at their bigger Disasters. We have more access to news quicker news than we ever had before are things changing marginally but there's not this drastic change in the divide in this country divide has always been there and I told you. As a black man that's growing up in a lot of white spaces and somebody who always picks on people being slick with their words thinking that they're hiding them true cells when they're not I can tell you that divide has always been this strong game didn't Change. Just got more fierce.

43:51.31
Bruce Anthony
All we've been real serious on the show and y'all know how I like to lighten the mood at the end of the show. Um, you know theibling happy hour being on a Friday I'll try and make it lightd for you guys. But I got to give y'all a real that's the kind of the reason why you're. You're coming on and you're listening and watching the show cause I give you the real either you like what I have to say or you hate what I have to say but you're interested in it nevertheless and the reason why I know this is because the analytics and the analytics are showing that this show is growing. Way faster than I ever thought that it could um, but you know every now and then I got to give you guys a ah lighter tone right? because I've already talked about right wing conservatism and nazis to subjects that are not liked. And that you can't find too much humor in but we're gonna go through my means now and try to find a little bit of humor but also be real on some of these meansmes now I'm going through this segment before I'm gonna go through it again. These are memes that are on my personal page most of the time that they either like or I put in my stories if you want to know what my personality is is like in its totality because there is a I'm not conservative on this show. But I'm kind of reserved because I'm doing a show.

45:20.56
Bruce Anthony
Ah, basically in real life I'm kind of a creep anybody that knows me personally I'm kind of a creep. Not not as like a real creep but you know I'm a little bit of a creep. So. So so I like stuff that is you know a little bit on the edge and um. That's what my personality is so this segment is about expressing the means that I enjoy and so the first me that that I'm going to express it says or going to talk about. Is it says a haku about life I am so tired. Where did all my money. Go my back is hurting now if this doesn't exemplify how I fill in my life 95% of the time I don't know what does and as you get older and really this is really this is really life like my back be hurting for no reason I hurt my neck other day getting out of bed. Just turned wrong I didn't hurt it while I was sleeping. It didn't hurt while I was laying down my eyes open I said Okay, it's time to Rise First of all to get to sit up in the bed I Do this little rocking thing where I rock back on my shoulders and kick my feet out so I could bring my whole body for it and I'm not out of Shape. Um. I'm out of shape for me. But I'm in good shape. Um, but that's what it takes for me I gotta rock myself to the sit up position to get out of bit and as I rock myself in the situp position I was fine so it wasn't the rocking. All I did was turn my body to put my feet on the ground pull some in my neck Now. That's not my back.

46:56.33
Bruce Anthony
But stuff happens with my back all the time my sister jokes on me all the time when we're filming the show and we take breaks in between we're filming the show. She hears me get up from this chair that I'm sitting on as I'm filming this right now and there's always like yeah ah ah, there's a grunt. Every single time you know why because I'm almost 44 years old and even though I'm in good shape. My bones my muscles they be getting tight. So my back is always hurting I don't know where my money goes I I honestly don't I looked at my bank account earlier today. There's plenty of money in there. But there's not as much money as I thought it was should be in there. And so I'm going through the charges and I'm like no this is absolutely me I just be spending money I don't know why part of it was the trip to Atlanta but that wasn't everything I mean when I came back home I was spending money again I spent money this weekend I spent money I bought a new coffee table just to veer off tap topic I went on Tik Tock shop because tikt top has been advertised in this particular coffee table that has a a part that comes up and it like either like a desk you convert it to like a desk or what have you? It's slow part that comes up up. So I said I'm gonna buy it because Tiktok had just given me such a great deal right? I think it was around $100 originally and which let you know it's not made that great. But I'm expensive in some areas and cheap in a lot of areas and for a coffee table. The fact that I haven't had 1 in quite some time I will experiment on this cheap coffee table because it's not a whole lot of money.

48:27.90
Bruce Anthony
And if I don't like it I can just get rid of it right? And the reason why I say I wouldn't a hold lot of money cause if it was $100 I would not have wasted debt for an experiment but it was something like 50% off. No it wasn't 50% off it was a percentage off and then because I had never bought on Tiktok shop. Before it gave me a $40 coupon. So it end up costing me like thirty bucks I can spend thirty bucks on a chance that the coffee table actually comes into what I wanted to be It came a couple of days later in this in this box that was heavy mind you I work out all the time. This box was heavy. So I was like okay, it's got a little bit of half to it. Okay, maybe it's not made with poor quality. Maybe it's good. Good quatas. The good product open up the box. It's like an Ikea box. So if you buy things from Ikea you know it's pretty good quality as far as their furniture is concerned. Just you got to be a mathematician a physicist and an engineer to put this stuff together. So I'm texting my bestie and I'm like I got this coffee table early Saturday morning came back from the gym I said you know what? I'm go put I'm try and put this coffee table today. Put it together today now. Um, not the most mechanically inclined person in the world if I put things together. Something is always gonna be wrong either. There's gonna be a panel backwards or you know those little screws where you gotta line it up with the with the nail that's already in there and then you got line it up and you got to turn it to lock it always screw those up.

49:59.43
Bruce Anthony
Always all the time. Something is always jacked up every time I put something together I just don't have that ability. My brother took all of it I took all the booty in the family and he took all the brains from putting stuff together and my sister took the majority of the artistic ability. Even though I grabbed a little bit of a 2 okay so I don't had this great mechanical ability. And this booklet it's 13 steps but I told my bestie I was like you know what? I'm reading through this booklet and they made it Bruce Abel they made it Bruce able because everything was labeled and even the. Individual nails were all in this big bag but were organized into little baggies that had a letter corresponding and the instructions were were like take panel h flip it on the backside take screws seven put it in the. Bigger hole closer to the outside of the I mean it was just so detailed instructions now I took a lot of breaks as I was putting this thing together cause I was drinking and I wanted to make sure I did it right? I put it all together and it came out great and I'm actually really pleased with it. Um. It's just like something I would get from my kid. It's not poorly made wood. There was no splintering or anything like that the nails went in just fine. It's sturdy I sat on it. It. It helped me. It's it's a good product. So I recommend Tiktok shop. But yeah, so when I say I'd be spending money I'd just be spending money.

51:32.42
Bruce Anthony
Did I need to buy that coffee table. No, but it was too good of a deal and I'm not gonna pass up on a good deal. It is really if it's a good deal I really hate to pass up on it I might just throw something on the credit card just because the deal is too good to pass up. Um, but okay, let's get back to these men because that was a longwinded way of saying I'll be spending money. Um, also just to go back to the haiku. The very first thing I'm so tired I'm tired all the time I'm tired all the time I think the reason why I'm having so much trouble getting my words out for this show is because I'm tired I don't think I've recovered. From thelanta trip you you would have thought that I had a good weekend I was working this weekend I was working um I enjoyed my Sunday fun day I was supposed to go to bed a little bit earlier I woke up early this morning not on purpose I'm tired I'm tired all the time so that's funny. Okay. This is part of the thing I was this is part of the example I was talking about I'm a little bit of a creep ladies and gentlemen put your children away for when I'm about to read date people who want to suck your private parts. Not your energy now. It's creeper. But also it's very very important I have dated some women some of them actually listen to this show and the ones that listen to this show. This ain't about you but I'm actually dated some women that are so energy sucking Succcubus like.

53:06.23
Bruce Anthony
I'm a laid back person and that'll that's gonna lead me to my next meme next. But I'm a very laidback person I'm even killed I don't get to hype 1 way or the other I'm not gonna get too hype I'm not gonna get too mad and I'm very patient. Ah my job has taught me that I'm a very very patient person. Even though people that would. Know me from my youth days when I was younger would say I'm a hothead impatient I was back in the day something happens with age and you start to realize that certain things just don't matter right and certain things do matter you start to realize what's important and what's not important. That long delay that I told you guys about it on the last show when I was at the airport or in the plane all day long I'm just taking the stride like yes, it was inconvenient. Yes, it ruined my day. Yes, it's probably the reason why I'm still tired nobody. Set out to make my day like that that was not on purpose. There's no reason why we take it out on the flight attendance of the pilot or even really the airline you know and the airline made a good job of accommodating us afterwards by giving us vouchers. That's gonna pay for my round trip ticket back to Atlanta to celebrate my sister's Fortieth birthday. Like there's no real reason that blow a gasket over something that you can't control. It. Nobody else can really control It's just a situation so I kind of just be chilling. Um but a lot of people suck the hell out of that energy from me a lot of women now. It's my fault that I allow it to happen.

54:35.36
Bruce Anthony
And I've been doing a good job over 2024 of setting reasonable boundaries I've cut more than a few people out of my life because they were soul sucking sucuous. Um and I don't regret it. Our life is grander and I don't miss them. But yes, choose people that suck your private parts. Not your energy. that's that's ah that's a really important one next meme. Ah, this was this was real this goes back to the point where I say that I'm laid back in chill I might be laid back but I can lean forward real quick that was the mean I might be laid back but I can lean forward real quick. What does that mean. That means I might be chill. Don't test me because I can get real hot real fast and it could be a big problem for all people that's involved I'm chill. Can't just like this don't bother me just don't try to cross me or do nothing wrong to me. Everything is gonna be all good, but. When you try to come at me wrong I'm gonna flip it and you gonna see another side of me a one eighty not a 3 60 lays and gentleman and I can I stress it enough. It's a one eighty it's a 3 60 year right? back to the original point I could do a one eighty real fast and not be laid back. So I thought that was. Interesting. This is very very important and I feel like people really need to hear this I've done a really good I don't know if I've done a good job I've really attempted to monitor to make sure that I don't do this very thing that I'm about to express.

56:11.44
Bruce Anthony
From this me and it is normalize not bringing up relatable story about yourself when someone is telling you something about themselves just listen so a lot of times ah people will. Tell you about their plight and what they're going through and the other person will say yeah you know I've been through that same thing like this 1 time man completely not pay attention to what that person was opening up and telling you about and you know that's something that I've I've done in the past myself. I've tried to to stop that because I realize that's taking the the air out of somebody who's opening up to me sometimes it's really important just to listen this is this is a really great example for men to follow heterosexual men when dealing with their women. Significant others. They don't want you to solve their problem unless they ask for you to solve their problem. Yes, they may talk about the same problem over and over and over again and you may be like there's an easy solution to this. That's not the point the point is that they're just sharing. And they want you to just listen. Don't try and solve it unless they ask for you to solve it. Don't try to solve it just listen and it was actually a female friend that pointed it out to me about my own thing to to kind of bring it back.

57:45.78
Bruce Anthony
To me and and and I won't I won't say that a person being self-centered sometimes people were trying to make that connection like hey you're going through a tough time I've been there I I've come out the other side of it. You can make your way through sometimes is a comforting thing but nevertheless just shut up and listen to them. Because that's all people really really want is to be heard and if you cut them off then they're not going to really be comfortable opening up with you all right? last 1 people who ask can I call you are so sweet like obviously you can't. But so sweet. Don't call me. Don't call me text me I will have whole conversations through text message and the only time I really need to call when it's a long conversation is is if I need to answer like right here right now that's ah like hey I'm about to turn on the street. Is this where you live. That's a time to call me right? or for me to call is andnna then that can be resolved in a text message I'm not trying to get no phone calls I will watch that phone ring and text you back like hey, what's up because I'm not gonna answer that phone call. The only people that can call me then I'm gonna always answer the phone call is my media family some extended family if they call me out to blue something might have went down now answer the phone and my bestie that's pretty much it because I know if they're calling.

59:15.74
Bruce Anthony
They're either calling because I haven't spoken to them in a while and we need to catch up or something has gone on some people call me sometimes just a chit chatt and I'm like hey I'm busy I got time to chit chat I can follow what you got going on in your life through social media or you could text me. Um. And or if there's some party that you need to invite me to that can be in the text or you know what at evi people still do those I did them for my own birthday party people still do those you gotta call me, don't call me that's guy goes out for everybody people don't have my phone number but don't call me I'm not looking to hear from you but I am looking to hear from you. Through the comments through Dms through emails for the show I enjoy most of the time reading these comments and emails and ideas for show topics. Everybody wants to be a producer on the show. You should talk about this and that and I'll always say. Yeah I could probably talk about that for 5 minutes and then what's what's next or that's not interested to me and I'm very grateful that people are offering ideas to help produce the show. Hell it becomes challenging to produce, multiple shows a week and and topics to talk about. Um, but. I enjoy it. I enjoy it even when I'm stumbling over my words like today and and having a hard time you know landing landing that point that I'm trying to make I'll get there eventually. It just takes me a little while but thank you for riding with my long-winded a but.

01:00:47.13
Bruce Anthony
Thank you for listening thanks for watching and until next time as always our hollow.