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[00:00:36] Sibling Happy Hour Begins 🍹🌶️

[00:00:36] Bruce Anthony: On today's episode, it's the sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis, J. Andrea. We're going to be dilly dallying a little bit. Then we're going to be talking about the Grammys, and then we're going to be asking an important question.

[00:00:48] Bruce Anthony: Who would you bring back to life and why? But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.

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[00:01:02] Bruce Anthony: What up sis?

[00:01:04] J. Aundrea: What up, Bretta?

[00:01:05] Bruce Anthony: I can't call it. I can't call it. I want to first announce before we get started that I was on a podcast,

[00:01:12] J. Aundrea: Yep.

[00:01:13] Bruce Anthony: Matt Salmon. You guys know him from the interview that I did with him a couple of weeks ago. I was on his podcast, Violet Rage. You can find that on Spotify. I'm also going to include the link to the Spotify podcast.

[00:01:25] Bruce Anthony: In the description section of this podcast, we had a very [00:01:30] interesting and an enlightening conversation, and I implore everybody to go and listen to that.

[00:01:35] J. Aundrea: We talked about your growth and, and everything. So yeah, good interview and everybody's check it out.

[00:01:42] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:01:44] Viral Internet Drama: Montoya's Crash Out

[00:01:44] Bruce Anthony: Jay, there's something that's been happening that's been going viral

[00:01:49] J. Aundrea: Oh Lord.

[00:01:49] Bruce Anthony: on the internet.

[00:01:50] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:01:51] Bruce Anthony: And have you seen this Montoya thing?

[00:01:54] J. Aundrea: Yes. Uh, you're talking about, of course, La Isla de las Tentacion [00:02:00] and you have to say it with the lisp because it's Temptation Island, Spain. So you have to say it with the lisp. Yes. I, Yeah,

[00:02:10] Bruce Anthony: So those people out there that haven't seen it, his name is Juan Jose Carlos Montoya. He was involved in the cheating scandal on the show, Temptation Island of Spain. His girlfriend, Anita Williams, which by the way, Anita Williams, didn't know that was a Spanish name. But okay, Anita Williams got intimate with [00:02:30] another contestant, Manuel, which Montana witnessed live.

[00:02:34] Bruce Anthony: Montana reacted emotionally, screaming and running towards Williams. Anita explained her actions was revenge because Matoria was receiving a lap dance early on the show and later begged for forgiveness. Now, the reason why I wanted to talk about this is simply because of the crash out. Because

[00:02:52] J. Aundrea: yes,

[00:02:53] Bruce Anthony: crashed all the way.

[00:02:56] Bruce Anthony: Out

[00:02:57] J. Aundrea: he really did. Uh, ran about a [00:03:00] quarter of a mile, maybe a half mile back to the bungalow. You know, if that was staged, it doesn't matter. It was still hilarious. Yeah, that was hilarious. I mean, it was very, very dramatic. His reaction, his, his crash. That was very, very dramatic. Very like telenovela, you

[00:03:27] J. Aundrea: know,

[00:03:28] Bruce Anthony: much.

[00:03:28] J. Aundrea: very much.

[00:03:29] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:03:29] Valentine's Day and Relationship Woes

[00:03:29] Bruce Anthony: [00:03:30] My thing was, you know, we're coming up on Valentine's day. And one of my good friends was like, Hey, do you want to go to this? Like singles bar thing with me on Valentine's day? And I was like, Oh, not, not really. But you know, I ride with my homie. That's what you want to do. You know, we'd go ahead and do it.

[00:03:46] Bruce Anthony: And then she just picked this pot. And I was like, I feel like my friends, because they're younger, don't realize that I'm older, like I'm almost 45 years [00:04:00] old. So I don't really want to go to a place where there might be 23 year olds,

[00:04:04] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:04:04] Bruce Anthony: but, but anyway, as we get close to this Valentine's day, and I'm watching this crash out by Montoya, I'm just thinking to myself, I don't want to get in no relationship right now.

[00:04:15] Bruce Anthony: People be cheating. People have no sense of loyalty and I'm sorry, he got a lap dance. That don't mean that you go ahead and fornicate with another human being. They was foreigner. Caden.

[00:04:29] J. Aundrea: And [00:04:30] my man dropped to his knees and crashed out. But it's like, I'm sorry. The fact that they showed it also. I thought was like, what?

[00:04:46] Bruce Anthony: Okay. That's another thing.

[00:04:48] J. Aundrea: to, they didn't try to like pixelate it or nothing. They was humping. They was hunching right, right on television.

[00:04:57] Bruce Anthony: right, right on television. And my [00:05:00] man was sitting there watching it. And I'm thinking to myself, look, I have been in a relationship where I was cheating on.

[00:05:07] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:05:08] Bruce Anthony: I didn't go looking for it. I didn't go looking, thinking like, Oh, I think she's cheating on me. Let me go find out and see. That's, that's not what I was trying.

[00:05:16] Bruce Anthony: I happened to find out by happenstance. And it's still, I did, I didn't quite crash out like Montoya did, but I did drop to my knees, fainted a little bit, woke up and beat the dude's ass. Okay, I did do that, uh, cause [00:05:30] somebody had to feel my pain, but I'm not searching out to try and see somebody cheating on me.

[00:05:36] Bruce Anthony: I don't get why he kept watching the video once they was in the pool. There's another scene that I didn't send to you, but there's another scene. He's playing bongos on her, but in the pool. And I was like, that's enough for me. I don't need to see no more. They was being kissy kissy in the pool. I was like, that's good enough.

[00:05:51] Bruce Anthony: I don't need to see no more. My man watched it a bit ahead

[00:05:54] J. Aundrea: watched

[00:05:55] Bruce Anthony: and then and then kicked the laptop over. And what does not get [00:06:00] talked about is my man ran four to 40 on the beach. Okay,

[00:06:10] J. Aundrea: like the sand didn't slow him down all.

[00:06:14] Bruce Anthony: not out. They need to put him at the he's the show is in Spain. They need to put him on the track team. He need to be on the Olympic track team and they need to show him this video before each race

[00:06:23] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:06:24] Bruce Anthony: just say go

[00:06:25] J. Aundrea: just

[00:06:25] Bruce Anthony: my man is the fastest man alive because I have never seen. He [00:06:30] ran faster than Apollo Creed did in, in the beach on Rocky 3.

[00:06:34] Bruce Anthony: Now I am, once again, I told y'all I'm getting close to 45. Yes, Rocky 3, Rocky and Apollo Creed's running on the beach. Apollo was fast. He wasn't as fast as Montoya.

[00:06:45] J. Aundrea: No. No,

[00:06:52] Bruce Anthony: for you, but, but I think it's this larger issue. You know, as I said, we were coming up on Valentine's day. People don't have no loyalty no more[00:07:00]

[00:07:00] J. Aundrea: they really don't. I mean, I think it's like, not only do people not have loyalty, but then you got ghosting culture. So it's like, It's rough out here to try to date. It's rough. Like you gotta really, really be comfortable with like rejection and disappointment. Like you have to, have to be your friends because you will end up on a beach, knees, [00:07:30] on your knees in the sand,

[00:07:32] Bruce Anthony: getting up, running a four to 40.

[00:07:35] J. Aundrea: yelling. I love you. I love you.

[00:07:40] Bruce Anthony: Look, I said, I said, my boy is the that clip. And I said, I've never wanted to learn how to speak Spanish so badly in my entire life.

[00:07:48] J. Aundrea: I had that translation app trying to catch what my man was screaming at that TV. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:07:57] Ghosting Culture and Breakup Etiquette

[00:07:57] Bruce Anthony: Yes, people don't have any sense of [00:08:00] loyalty in the ghosting culture. I remember one time I reconnected with an ex girlfriend and it had been, I don't know, a couple of years, we reconnected, we hanging out, and we started falling into those old traps of, We were trauma bonding, right? And, and a little bit being obsessed with each other.

[00:08:20] Bruce Anthony: And it wasn't right in my spirit and I knew it. And I was like, we can't continue on with this. And so I remember she texted me one day and [00:08:30] we, there's this Don taco is one of my favorite restaurants. And she was like, I'm fiending for some queso or some Don taco. You want to meet up today? And I texted a good friend of mine and I said, what should I do?

[00:08:40] Bruce Anthony: I don't think this is a good situation. And my friend said, well, just text her. No. And that y'all shouldn't hang out anymore. And I was like, I can't do that. This is, this is, this is a former girlfriend that I had a semi similar serious relationship with in the past. We rekindled, rekindled, whatever it was reconnecting on a real intense [00:09:00] level.

[00:09:00] Bruce Anthony: I was like, I can't do this in a text message. I thought I should've gone to the restaurant. And had a conversation with her. I still feel like that was the best decision. I went to the middle ground and I called her and I was like, this wasn't the right way to go, but the advice is always do the least possible work and trauma on yourself and just don't, don't pay attention to the other person.

[00:09:25] Bruce Anthony: Try to alleviate the pressure off of yourself. And that's the wrong way. [00:09:30] To go about handling things.

[00:09:31] J. Aundrea: you should definitely have. I mean, of course it depends on the situation, right? If the person did you dirty to hell with them, but you know, in a situation where it's like, okay, you just don't see it going anywhere. It's just, you're just not compatible, something like that. You can have some compassion for the other person. I mean, it's going to be disappointing, you know, for them regardless, you know, so have a little compassion for the person. Don't just ghost them. I don't think. You know, if it's [00:10:00] somebody you know and somebody you've known intimately, don't do it over text message. Don't. Like,

[00:10:05] Bruce Anthony: Don't do it over text messages

[00:10:07] J. Aundrea: adult, I, everybody that I've broken up with, Everybody, which is all of them, Uh, I, I, I try my

[00:10:17] Bruce Anthony: Tell me how you tell me what's really going on everybody that you broke up

[00:10:29] J. Aundrea: I, [00:10:30] I, I call them up like, Hey, let's meet up. And I, I try to do it face to face because this is somebody that I've known. You got to have some compassion for people. So I try to do a face to face unless like logistically, I just can't do it. because you know, either they're, they're not here, you know, I had a date with somebody long haul trucker, so he wasn't here.

[00:10:52] J. Aundrea: So I did do it over the phone. So like, you know, it is what it is. But, Yeah, have some compassion. [00:11:00] I don't understand ghosting culture, unless you feel like you're in a situation where it's unsafe for you and you

[00:11:05] Bruce Anthony: That makes sense, yeah

[00:11:07] J. Aundrea: okay, but ghosting just because you're like, meh, I don't really like this person, meh, I'm just not going to answer their calls, I'm just going to block them, that, you would hate for that to happen to you,

[00:11:20] Bruce Anthony: exactly

[00:11:21] J. Aundrea: you with questions,

[00:11:22] Bruce Anthony: exactly

[00:11:23] J. Aundrea: so.

[00:11:26] Jay's Lock Journey and Wig Adventures

[00:11:26] Bruce Anthony: I gotta bring it up because there's people that are watching the [00:11:30] video You're probably thinking, what the hell is going on with Jay's hair? Cause you looking, you looking very Queen Latifah set it off right now. What?

[00:11:38] J. Aundrea: Yes. So I want everybody to mark this episode. This is the first time I'm debuting. I am starting my lock journey.

[00:11:48] Bruce Anthony: Mm hmm.

[00:11:49] J. Aundrea: right now my locks aren't locks. They're just not, they're just twists and you see they're all thin, but catch me in a year y'all.[00:12:00]

[00:12:00] Bruce Anthony: One, one whole year.

[00:12:01] J. Aundrea: whole year, you will see gorgeous, beautiful, full locks. in the meantime, I still have like professional commitments. Like for instance, I had interviews for internships last week. So I went to the beauty supply store and I walked in, I said, yo, I got an interview in an hour. I just need a quick little shake and go wig that I can put on and go.

[00:12:28] Bruce Anthony: What's a shake and go [00:12:30] wig?

[00:12:30] J. Aundrea: just shake it,

[00:12:31] Bruce Anthony: And go

[00:12:32] J. Aundrea: and go. That's it. It's shake and go. Like, okay. So the, so the lovely Korean woman who runs my beauty supply store, she was like, what about this? This is quick, got a little bang. It's a little bob with a bang. Okay. So when I put it on with my glasses, which are big round glasses, and I already look slightly Asian. I looked like Edna Mode

[00:12:57] Bruce Anthony: I don't know who that is.

[00:12:58] J. Aundrea: Incredibles.

[00:12:59] J. Aundrea: [00:13:00] And if anybody, yes, yeah, the the person that made their superhero outfits, the tiny Asian woman, Edna Mode, with

[00:13:11] Bruce Anthony: Yes!

[00:13:11] J. Aundrea: and the glasses. I looked exactly like that. And I

[00:13:16] Bruce Anthony: That's hilarious.

[00:13:17] J. Aundrea: I was on these interviews looking like Edna Mode, but it is what it is. I mean, my lock. It's going to take a while, it's going to be a weird transition period for a while.

[00:13:28] J. Aundrea: So I'm going to [00:13:30] invest in some better wigs, but in the meantime, I just needed something real quick for this interview

[00:13:36] Bruce Anthony: Just a little shake and go.

[00:13:37] J. Aundrea: looking like Edna Mode. So there you

[00:13:39] Bruce Anthony: Well, sometimes you just need a little shake and go. Well, you know,

[00:13:42] J. Aundrea: a little shake and go.

[00:13:43] Bruce Anthony: I'm not going to hate on your journey, because obviously I can't grow locks. Or I probably could. It would just look real

[00:13:50] J. Aundrea: You can, you can do, I mean there, there are some brothers out here with some spotty locks.

[00:13:58] Bruce Anthony: Not spotty locks!

[00:13:59] J. Aundrea: [00:14:00] There's a spotty spotty and honestly, honestly, fellas, I wouldn't encourage y'all to let it go. It will take, it will take 10 to 15 years off of your look if you just let it go.

[00:14:12] Bruce Anthony: What, let the hair go?

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

[00:14:14] Balding and Hair Decisions

[00:14:14] J. Aundrea: Cause if you, if you've got just locks on the back half, nothing.

[00:14:21] Bruce Anthony: Unless you like, unless you're like a professional wrestler or you do something in entertainment where I look kind of crazy, like an actor or something like that. [00:14:30] We like get you roles like, okay, I get it. Cause Mr. T had that crazy haircut for the longest time.

[00:14:36] J. Aundrea: that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about your balding and you're still holding on to your locks or your braids. And it's like, You're not fooling anybody. And honestly, when our, our father finally went bald, when you went bald, it took like 10, 15 years off of you.

[00:14:57] Bruce Anthony: Well, hold on now. Wait a minute. [00:15:00] When dad finally decided to go bald. And when I decided to go bald are two different examples. Mine is I did wait. Probably a year and a half too long, but because I'm tall,

[00:15:12] J. Aundrea: it's a hard decision.

[00:15:14] Bruce Anthony: It, well, when I made it, you know, me, when I make a decision, this is like, all right, here we go. So I woke up one day and I was like, this is it.

[00:15:21] Bruce Anthony: And it was the fact that I'm tall. And, and you can't really see it.

[00:15:28] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:15:28] Bruce Anthony: away with it for so [00:15:30] long, but I was walking in the gym one day where they got the cameras that are shooting down at you. And I saw the reflection and one of the dudes at the front desk who I was cool with saw me react and I was like, that's it.

[00:15:41] Bruce Anthony: It was like, is that what it is? I was like, that's what it is. Dad had the George Jefferson for the longest time. I don't think my look changed because I had been cutting it shorter and shorter and shorter.

[00:15:54] J. Aundrea: true.

[00:15:54] Bruce Anthony: I finally, when I finally shaved it, everybody was just like, Did you change something? They didn't [00:16:00] even know.

[00:16:00] Bruce Anthony: Nobody even noticed it. But like when you got the full George Jefferson, you got hair around your sides and back, but not up top.

[00:16:10] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:16:11] Bruce Anthony: Let it go. And it's a lot of dudes out here struggling to let it go. Let it go. Yes. Your, your head might not be shaped to look great. Bald. Deal with it because it's not gonna look great patchy unless you're gonna do the man unit.

[00:16:26] Bruce Anthony: I mean

[00:16:27] J. Aundrea: You could also do that. There's also, you know, hair [00:16:30] transplant, there's a, there's a lot of things, but like. think because I have grown up with majority of the men in the family being bald, like I'm just used to it and it doesn't, It just looks like another version of how a person can look. Like it doesn't, I don't see it as like a deficiency or anything like that.

[00:16:54] J. Aundrea: I mean, I don't, I mean, it's I've shaved my head. So it's like, [00:17:00] know, I don't care about no damn hair.

[00:17:01] Bruce Anthony: Right. Well, actually just to let you know in case people out there don't know men that are bald or balding Because they have higher levels of testosterone Just let y'all know out there

[00:17:15] J. Aundrea: You think it's the reverse, but,

[00:17:17] Bruce Anthony: You think you think it's because men are you know getting weaker, but now it's because we're too strong them hair follicles fight back

[00:17:24] J. Aundrea: I mean, I'm sure some, I'm, I'm gonna Google that, but, you

[00:17:27] Bruce Anthony: It's . It's true. It's true. I [00:17:30] wouldn't lie to you,

[00:17:31] J. Aundrea: Okay. Okay.

[00:17:34] Bruce Anthony: I wouldn't lie to you . You act like you don't believe me. But anyway, you know what I'm saying? Why are you Googling that? We going to get into the Grammys? 'cause it's a lot of stuff to get into the Grammys, and I'm going to attack you from something that you said last week that I think really needs to be discussed and we're gonna get into all of that next.

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[00:18:04] 2025 Grammy Awards Highlights

[00:18:04] Bruce Anthony: All right, Jay, the 2025 Grammy Awards took place on set on Sunday, February 2nd at Crypto Arena in Los Angeles. Beyonce won album of the year. Kendrick Lamar won record of the year and song of the year. And Chappelle Rowan won best new artist. I think that's how you say her name.

[00:18:22] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:18:24] J. Aundrea: I think

[00:18:24] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I think like I said, Beyonce won album of the year for a cowboy Carter.

[00:18:29] Bruce Anthony: Kendrick [00:18:30] Lamar is not like us won both the record and the song of the year. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars won best pop duo and group performance for die with a smile. What is this person's name? Dosey Dolce won best album, best rap album, making her as the old, making her the only, the only the third woman to achieve this since the category's inception.

[00:18:52] J. Aundrea: And

[00:18:53] Bruce Anthony: get into

[00:18:54] J. Aundrea: Doce. I lo like, I love Doce. Her lyricism, her, her style. Everything is [00:19:00] amazing. If you have not checked out that album. You're doing yourself a disservice.

[00:19:03] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. So this was my first introduction to her. And like, I was like, let me check this out. And somehow she had a performance on a tiny desk

[00:19:11] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:19:12] Bruce Anthony: and I was like, Oh, this is, this is dope as hell. Like I need to really listen to this. I really need to watch the entire performance that she had at the Grammys.

[00:19:21] Bruce Anthony: Cause supposedly it was a standing ovation, but I said that I wanted to attack you earlier.

[00:19:26] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:19:27] Bruce Anthony: And this is how I'm going to attack you

[00:19:29] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:19:29] Bruce Anthony: [00:19:30] last one of the one of the episodes. I don't know if it was a YouTube exclusive. I don't know what was going on because we record so much, but you said there's no way not like us was going to be played at the Superbowl halftime, halftime show because of the lyrics and everything.

[00:19:46] Bruce Anthony: And they played not like us as he was walking up on stage and, and. First of all, if you Drake, that's got to hurt because the entire audience,

[00:19:56] J. Aundrea: hope he wasn't in attendance.

[00:19:58] Bruce Anthony: no, he wasn't, he wasn't [00:20:00] in attendance. The entire audience is singing the song and they played the song and this was on CBS. So he's definitely playing that song at halftime.

[00:20:09] J. Aundrea: he is. I was absolutely wrong. Like, and the fact that the whole crowd,

[00:20:15] Bruce Anthony: The whole crowd.

[00:20:16] J. Aundrea: audience yelled out a minor, I said, wow, he, and he showed up in that Canadian tuxedo, that all denim outfit. I mean, it's [00:20:30] just.

[00:20:31] Bruce Anthony: So, so I, that, I don't. Okay, I never knew that was a thing.

[00:20:36] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:20:37] Bruce Anthony: that's a joke. That's not a real tuxedo. A Canadian tuxedo is meant to be a joke and, and, and he, and he's still throwing shots at Drake. The thing that was killing me, Beyonce was vibing to the song. Blue was over there dancing. Taylor Swift is singing along.

[00:20:54] Bruce Anthony: I, I just found out, I guess she got beef with Drake in some regard or something like that. I don't, [00:21:00] I don't know. Yeah. Taylor Swift and Taylor Swift, mind you. Let me just say as a shout out typically not my cup of tea as far as women that I'm attracted to but on that night she was holding it down.

[00:21:14] J. Aundrea: Okay. yeah, I mean, I think I, I, I don't listen to her music just because I don't think it's like my demographic, but, um, she's a beautiful girl and, and very talented. So,

[00:21:25] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, no, but they, they played, they, they played the song. [00:21:30] The entire audience is rocking out to a diss track. I have never seen a diss track win song and record of the year.

[00:21:40] J. Aundrea: yeah.

[00:21:40] Bruce Anthony: This is ridiculous. Yes, he will be performing at the halftime awards tonight. Because we're filming this on Super Bowl Sunday,

[00:21:49] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:21:50] Bruce Anthony: be doing it to night.

[00:21:52] Bruce Anthony: And, but some of the arguments on our TikTok page, I think it was a lot of people made comments and it was like, my kids are four, seven and eight and [00:22:00] sing it. Look, just because your kids sing it doesn't mean that that is

[00:22:04] J. Aundrea: that it's okay for the, you know, I mean, we, the NFL is still recovering over, uh, Janet Jackson's nip slip. I mean, you can't just

[00:22:17] Bruce Anthony: not the nip slip from 20 years ago.

[00:22:19] J. Aundrea: you can't just do what you want. I mean, it's, this is honestly the Super Bowl, isn't it like. People watch it globally. Like I feel like, you [00:22:30] know, you can't just do anything, but now that it's one song of the year and record of the year, I kind of feel like he's going to do it and, and it, and the thing of it is I've heard it so much, damn, I still have not gotten tired of it.

[00:22:51] Bruce Anthony: You know why? Because it gets you hyped.

[00:22:53] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:22:54] Bruce Anthony: It just hate, hate gets you hype.

[00:22:57] J. Aundrea: because they not like, and it's not even like [00:23:00] directed towards Drake. Like it could just be. Anyone you can sing that song about, they not like us. You know what I'm saying? We are, we are on some different type of time. Like they, they not like us. Like it like, wow. I was wrong. And I can admit when I'm wrong, ladies and gentlemen, chances are not like us.

[00:23:23] J. Aundrea: We'll be debuting at the Superbowl. Probably one of the most American things in our society is the [00:23:30] Superbowl. And, that'll just be another dig at Canadia. And

[00:23:38] Bruce Anthony: Canadians on the word,

[00:23:40] J. Aundrea: that'll just be another dig at Drake and man, yeah, his only response could have could only be to just start suing people because what else you gonna do? Like, else are you going to do? Because it has not gone away. It has literally been around now for over a year

[00:23:57] Bruce Anthony: not sewer people, not sewer [00:24:00] people.

[00:24:00] J. Aundrea: What else was he going to do, Bruce?

[00:24:04] Bruce Anthony: Cause it's, it is, it's not going nowhere. I wouldn't even want to watch super actually me being who I am. If somebody wrote a diss track against me and it was this good and it was this big of a hit, I would actually pat myself on the back. Because the reason why this song, I mean, it's a hot song, but another reason why this song is so hot, because he took a shot at a superstar.

[00:24:27] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:24:27] Bruce Anthony: And this was just, I don't know. [00:24:30]

[00:24:30] J. Aundrea: Literally any other rapper.

[00:24:33] Bruce Anthony: yeah.

[00:24:33] J. Aundrea: Honestly, like Drake's you know, star power is, is a lot of what makes it, you're right, it's, it's a lot of what makes it so Entertaining.

[00:24:47] Bruce Anthony: Yes. Yeah.

[00:24:49] J. Aundrea: you really don't think, I mean, even when he had the, the Drake had that beef with Pusha T and Pusha T out in his son.

[00:24:58] J. Aundrea: Like we still moved [00:25:00] on from it.

[00:25:01] Bruce Anthony: We absolutely moved on. Plus there was no

[00:25:06] Bruce Anthony: Drake won that beef battle anyway, because his songs were better.

[00:25:10] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:25:10] Bruce Anthony: And he and Kendrick went back and forth and Kendrick made a lot of songs. Just none of them hit like this. So you know, it was the right moment, the right time, the right artists. And if I was Drake, yeah, I feel a type of way. It's not like it's going to end Drake's career.

[00:25:27] Bruce Anthony: Greg is a Drake is a very talented artist. [00:25:30] His next album is probably going to be a bop.

[00:25:32] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:25:33] Bruce Anthony: going to listen to it. And, and, and if I was him, I would kind of lean into it and be like, Hey, that song was dope. Like, I.

[00:25:41] J. Aundrea: yeah, then it's like a you can't beat them join them kind of situation There's really nothing you could do except, you know, maybe sample it record something over it I don't know like there's really nothing but yeah, especially if drake comes out with another kind of lover boy type album with some bops on it.

[00:25:59] J. Aundrea: Like [00:26:00] it'll be on the radio. He'll be fine. He'll go back to selling out shows. He'll be just fine. Like, don't, I'm not worried about Drake, which is also another reason why this is so entertaining to me because we know everybody at the end of the day will be fine. So yeah. Life

[00:26:14] Bruce Anthony: also dope about the Grammys is a tribute to Quincy Jones. There was a tribute to Quincy Jones who passed away in November at the age of 91. First of all, 91.

[00:26:25] J. Aundrea: well lived. Like,

[00:26:26] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:26:27] J. Aundrea: he gave us much [00:26:30] work,

[00:26:30] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:26:31] J. Aundrea: work. Yeah.

[00:26:32] Bruce Anthony: He, the, the, Tribute was introduced by Will Smith. Will Smith making an appearance back and including performances by Herbie Hancock, Cynthia Erivo, and Stevie Wonder.

[00:26:44] J. Aundrea: Wow. Yeah.

[00:26:46] Bruce Anthony: I mean, so was there any takeaways? We're going to expand more in our YouTube exclusive with two particular topics from the Grammys, and that's Beyonce [00:27:00] winning, and we have to talk about Kanye and Bianca's outfit or non outfit.

[00:27:09] J. Aundrea: The, the non existent. Okay. Yes.

[00:27:12] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. The, the non existent outfit that, that she had reports varied regarding whether they were asked to leave the event or not, you know, basically he said that he did this for a publicity stunt and we'll get into it later. But Beyonce winning album of the year or best country [00:27:30] album. How do you feel about that?

[00:27:33] J. Aundrea: Oh, well deserved. So here's the thing. Well, first Beyonce has always said it's not a country album. It's a Beyonce album, which is absolutely true. I happen to love Cowboy Carter.

[00:27:45] Bruce Anthony: Mm hmm.

[00:27:48] J. Aundrea: it's. Well, I grew up in Lynchburg, so I, we, we used to go to Skateland to achy breaky heart, right?

[00:27:56] J. Aundrea: Like it was, I know, I know country [00:28:00] music and, and I also know that the history of country music started with black folk,

[00:28:04] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, anything popular in this country started with black folks, but that's just saying we don't need to get into that again

[00:28:10] J. Aundrea: are and so. I think she was embraced by the country community. She had a lot of people, Dolly Parton was Dolly Parton. I mean the, the country community, as far as artists, Dolly Parton was on the album, Willie Nelson, lot of artists were like, welcome, or this album was great.

[00:28:28] J. Aundrea: Or, you know, artists [00:28:30] were giving her, her props. Did the CMAs no, have a lot of country music fans. But album was great and I thought it was, I, it, it, it started off as kind of like traditional country and then it kind of transformed through as, as you listened to the album more into more of like the R& B hip hop, but still very country feel.

[00:28:57] J. Aundrea: She had a lot of really great features on [00:29:00] there. I think it's, I think she worked really hard on it and it was well deserved.

[00:29:04] Bruce Anthony: I think some people will argue. We'll see there you go right there. It's not a country album if anybody has ever listened to country Recently

[00:29:11] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:29:12] Bruce Anthony: uses a lot of other forms of music genres and country like you got some rap country artists Nobody ever talks about that, you know kid rock super mega right now

[00:29:21] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:29:22] Bruce Anthony: But nobody ever talks about that he was part of the rack The rap rock revolution, him, Limb [00:29:30] Biscuit what's my, what's my group

[00:29:32] J. Aundrea: Linkin Park.

[00:29:33] Bruce Anthony: Linkin Park.

[00:29:34] Bruce Anthony: Right. They were part of this rock rap revolution. Now they're here.

[00:29:39] J. Aundrea: I mean, it started with like, you know, the Beastie Boys

[00:29:42] Bruce Anthony: Yes.

[00:29:43] J. Aundrea: DMC and like, you know, different things. But it's not new. But, yeah. Yeah.

[00:29:48] Bruce Anthony: And, and, and so it's, the people are like, it's not a country album. And I was like, yeah, well, okay. Well, I don't know what you expect country albums to be nowadays, because they're a mix of all this stuff. Like [00:30:00] one of my,

[00:30:00] J. Aundrea: is a mix of pop, like I grew up on Faith Hill and Shania Twain. That, that to me is pop country, you know, it's country music, but it was also a lot of pop in it. Dolly Parton, a lot of her music is pop country, like their country has always like melded, I think different sounds and things, but still maintained its[00:30:30]

[00:30:30] Bruce Anthony: the core of, yeah, the core of it is country, but I had to, you know, look, if you making some cabbage, okay,

[00:30:37] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:30:37] Bruce Anthony: I'm, I'm, cause I'm a cabbage connoisseur, if you making some.

[00:30:40] J. Aundrea: love cabbage.

[00:30:41] Bruce Anthony: love cabbage. I got a thing of cabbage in there right now. And I'm going to be making some cabbage later. Now there's a bunch of different ways that you can make cabbage.

[00:30:48] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:30:48] Bruce Anthony: I choose to make cabbage is make the bacon. In the pot that I'm going to cook the cabbage in,

[00:30:54] J. Aundrea: hmm. Mm hmm.

[00:30:55] Bruce Anthony: not take out the bacon, just add the cabbage and the seasonings.

[00:30:59] J. Aundrea: Yeah[00:31:00]

[00:31:00] Bruce Anthony: It's still cabbage with some bacon and some seasonings. That's all country. That's all all music really is. Right. You have a base,

[00:31:08] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:31:08] Bruce Anthony: the base being the cabbage,

[00:31:10] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:31:11] Bruce Anthony: little bacon.

[00:31:11] Bruce Anthony: You add a little onion powder. If you want to mince garlic, you can mince some garlic or you can use some garlic powder. I personally love to use a little bit of old bacon. But I use obey and everything.

[00:31:22] J. Aundrea: you you do but that's a very Maryland thing

[00:31:28] Bruce Anthony: It is.

[00:31:28] J. Aundrea: but yeah, [00:31:30] I thought I thought it was well deserved I thought The CMAs absolutely snubbed her.

[00:31:35] Bruce Anthony: What were some other takeaways from the Grammys that that you had, you know, anything specific, I really thought that Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars winning was dope, considering the fact that I still haven't watched that movie, but considering the fact that that movie absolutely bombed

[00:31:54] J. Aundrea: Movie.

[00:31:55] Bruce Anthony: Joker too, that I believe that song is from the Joker two soundtrack or.

[00:31:59] J. Aundrea: [00:32:00] no, I don't think so.

[00:32:01] Bruce Anthony: You don't, uh, are you sure?

[00:32:03] J. Aundrea: I'm pretty sure it's not. I think that was just their well now I gotta,

[00:32:08] J. Aundrea: now I gotta,

[00:32:09] Bruce Anthony: with a smile. That pretty much seems like that's from Joker too. Cause it was a musical.

[00:32:15] J. Aundrea: uh, Oh, yeah, it is.

[00:32:18] Bruce Anthony: I knew I, look, see, this is second time. Did you, did you, did you find out,

[00:32:23] J. Aundrea: know good and well, I did not see no damn Joker 2. Not only do I not like DC, [00:32:30] even though I think Joker is the best villain, not only do I not like DC, but I also don't like musicals. I only like two musicals. That's The Wiz and Fiddler on the Roof. That's it.

[00:32:41] Bruce Anthony: but you liked Wicked.

[00:32:43] J. Aundrea: I never saw Wicked.

[00:32:44] Bruce Anthony: I thought you went to go see it when you was up here.

[00:32:46] J. Aundrea: No, I didn't get a chance to

[00:32:48] Bruce Anthony: Oh, okay. Well, alright then.

[00:32:49] J. Aundrea: some schoolwork to do, so I still have not seen it. And, and the more I think about, like, I could easily watch it now from home. You can buy it and rent it or whatever, but I [00:33:00] just don't have that kind of time to sit and watch.

[00:33:02] Musical Collaborations and Iconic Artists

[00:33:02] J. Aundrea: I think it's almost like a three hour movie, so I don't have time it.

[00:33:06] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:33:07] J. Aundrea: also I'm not enthusiastic because I don't like musicals.

[00:33:10] Bruce Anthony: Well, they won, they won, and it's a dope song. First of all,

[00:33:13] J. Aundrea: I love die with a smile.

[00:33:15] Bruce Anthony: Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars don't make bad music.

[00:33:18] J. Aundrea: No.

[00:33:19] Bruce Anthony: You put the two of them together, it's almost like Drake and Future.

[00:33:22] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:33:23] Bruce Anthony: Some artists you just put together, like Michael and Stevie. You just put them together, and they

[00:33:27] J. Aundrea: Monica.

[00:33:28] Bruce Anthony: Oh, well, oh, [00:33:30] okay. Now

[00:33:31] J. Aundrea: boy is mine.

[00:33:33] Bruce Anthony: they made one song.

[00:33:35] J. Aundrea: doesn't matter. That song is still good.

[00:33:37] Bruce Anthony: Okay. Some people you could just put together. Well, actually, is there anybody you could put with Lady Gaga or Bruno Mars that they going to make music and it's not going to be a hit

[00:33:46] J. Aundrea: No, because, Lady, both Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars are musicians. They're actual music artists. They're not just singers. They're not just entertainers. Like a lot of [00:34:00] people are, they are actual musicians. And so when they pair up with somebody. They're going to tap into whatever that person's strength is.

[00:34:09] J. Aundrea: So I think honestly, they can have collabs with literally anyone and it will turn out great.

[00:34:15] Bruce Anthony: now, ladies and gentlemen, if you watching the video,

[00:34:18] J. Aundrea: I'm no, I'm looking at your face and I'm wondering why you look so skeptical or suspicious of what I've just said.

[00:34:24] Bruce Anthony: Because we've had this conversation and I feel like that was a direct shot

[00:34:28] J. Aundrea: And

[00:34:29] Bruce Anthony: to [00:34:30] the rivalry between Prince and Michael Jackson.

[00:34:33] J. Aundrea: yeah, I mean, uh, listen, it's Prince and Michael Jackson is apples and oranges. We've had this discussion before it's apples and oranges. Prince was a musician. He was a musical artist. Michael Jackson. Was an entertainer. It was different. It was just different.

[00:34:53] Bruce Anthony: Michael produced a lot of those albums. And

[00:34:56] J. Aundrea: did.

[00:34:58] Bruce Anthony: once again, shout out to Quincy Jones and [00:35:00] his tribute because Quincy does not get enough credit for producing off the wall thriller. And, uh, did he do bad?

[00:35:11] J. Aundrea: I,

[00:35:11] Bruce Anthony: he, I thought, no, he stopped doing bad. He did. Mike, he did off the wall and thriller and he did not do bad.

[00:35:17] Bruce Anthony: That's when Michael was like, you're getting too much credit. I don't know why I had to do my voice like that. You're getting too much credit.

[00:35:23] J. Aundrea: he didn't do much credit.

[00:35:24] Bruce Anthony: You're getting too much credit. What were some other,

[00:35:28] J. Aundrea: bad was Jackson's third and final [00:35:30] collaboration with producer Quincy Jones. So he did in fact do the bad album as well.

[00:35:38] Beyonce's Grammy Win Controversy

[00:35:38] Bruce Anthony: So back to country Carter, there was somewhat of a backlash that, that, that she won. Some critics and fan believe that the wind was a form of compensation for past snubs while others raised concerns about the authenticity of Cowboy Cowder [00:36:00] as a country album. We've already got into the country album,

[00:36:03] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:36:04] Bruce Anthony: let's talk about.

[00:36:07] Bruce Anthony: A compensation for past snubs. Okay. And like we have given lifetime

[00:36:13] J. Aundrea: Achievement

[00:36:14] Bruce Anthony: awards,

[00:36:15] J. Aundrea: things

[00:36:15] Bruce Anthony: Denzel.

[00:36:16] J. Aundrea: that. Grammys could have easily done that. first of all, this is her first time, first time in her over 20 year career, she's won album of the year. [00:36:30] Why

[00:36:31] Bruce Anthony: Has it been 20 years?

[00:36:34] J. Aundrea: Oh, Beyonce started at 16. She's over, she's over 40. It's actually been longer than that.

[00:36:39] Bruce Anthony: Damn, I'm getting old

[00:36:41] J. Aundrea: And so the Grammys. Have not acknowledged her to date. So why pick now and why pick cowboy Carter? I think that doesn't, I think that they've already been acute. I mean, Kanye jumped up on the stage. And, and, and told, [00:37:00]

[00:37:00] Bruce Anthony: but that wasn't a Grammy.

[00:37:01] J. Aundrea: finish, but I'm, that wasn't the Grammy

[00:37:04] Bruce Anthony: I thought that was a musical awards.

[00:37:07] J. Aundrea: when Kanye jumped out, I thought that was the grant. I thought

[00:37:09] Bruce Anthony: Nah, I thought that was a, I thought that was a VMAs that that was more of a VMAs. That wasn't a Grammy.

[00:37:15] J. Aundrea: Oh, well, anyway the fact, I mean, like the Grammys has been accused before, and honestly, every year of snubbing Beyonce. So it doesn't make sense that they would pick [00:37:30] randomly this year and particularly Cowboy Carter, which has had so much like controversy around it as far as its authenticity as a country album, why they would pick that to be their, okay, we'll give you one like that doesn't make sense.

[00:37:46] J. Aundrea: The fact of the matter is it was the best album of the year.

[00:37:50] Bruce Anthony: Also, everything that you said can be absolutely true. Also, if they did.

[00:37:58] Is Denzel Washington's Oscar comparable to Beyoncé's Grammy?

[00:37:58] Bruce Anthony: Okay, and, like, I [00:38:00] firmly believe Training Day,

[00:38:03] J. Aundrea: I

[00:38:03] Bruce Anthony: Oscar,

[00:38:03] J. Aundrea: that.

[00:38:04] Bruce Anthony: the Oscar for Denzel in Training Day was You know, the Academy saying you deserve this because that was not look training day is a good movie. It's it. I don't know. I don't even think it's a great movie.

[00:38:17] Bruce Anthony: It's a really good movie. And he did a cool, he was cool in there, but that's because you've never seen Denzel act that way before his greatest performance. And I, and I, once again, I don't have the list of the other movies was [00:38:30] Malcolm X. Okay. Because you forget that it's Denzel. He embodied

[00:38:35] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:38:36] Bruce Anthony: X. And that movie is far more superior than, Trainer Day is a good movie.

[00:38:41] Bruce Anthony: It's a good.

[00:38:42] J. Aundrea: not only is it a good movie, a lot of people don't know this, that whole King Kong scene, that entire scene, was improvised by him on the spot. He got so deeply into character, that that entire scene, all of the dialogue, everything, he [00:39:00] improvised.

[00:39:00] Bruce Anthony: I mean, he's a great actor.

[00:39:01] J. Aundrea: he went To was it John Singleton? Who

[00:39:06] Bruce Anthony: No, it was Antoine one. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So with that comparison with country Carter, was there a

[00:39:15] J. Aundrea: he was in his bag, like in that movie. So I, I do think that was a great performance and you should have got best actor for it. But has he done better movies or had better performances in the past?

[00:39:29] J. Aundrea: [00:39:30] Yeah. Yeah. Like, and, and he should have won for those. So if it is a consolation, okay, but the thing of it is, the work still speaks for itself regardless.

[00:39:47] Bruce Anthony: moment in this album where she was just like in her bag that's similar in comparison to Denzel and that scene

[00:39:55] J. Aundrea: I still listen to Country Carter.

[00:39:58] Bruce Anthony: where you are? Okay. You are a [00:40:00] Beyonce fan.

[00:40:03] J. Aundrea: No, I'm not into Beehive.

[00:40:06] Bruce Anthony: I don't know. I remember one time she was at the Superbowl and you watched that Superbowl performance over and over.

[00:40:11] J. Aundrea: I mean, do I like, do I love Beyonce? Yes. Am I like, have I ever paid to go to one of her concerts? No. I went as a gift. When I went to go

[00:40:22] Bruce Anthony: Okay.

[00:40:23] J. Aundrea: tour in Vegas, that was a gift.

[00:40:25] Bruce Anthony: All right. So,

[00:40:26] J. Aundrea: to pay the money. Like I like it, but I don't like it that much.

[00:40:29] Bruce Anthony: okay.

[00:40:29] J. Aundrea: [00:40:30] know, it's, it's yeah, but Cowboy Carter, I just loved it. It gave me so much nostalgia for when I did listen to country music. And so like, and it was just a good album and it was very much her, like it was her album. It was her sound. It was her version and interpretation of country. And if you don't think she country, I mean, the girl is from Texas. She is a country girl.

[00:40:59] Bruce Anthony: She is a [00:41:00] country girl.

[00:41:00] J. Aundrea: listen to her talk. Country Houston accent. And you, yes, Beyonce is a country girl. She listened to country music. She knows her history. With it. The album is great. I, there's almost no skips and deserved to win and she's deserved to win in the past and that is just what it is.

[00:41:24] J. Aundrea: So, you know, critics, critics, what do y'all honestly, who cares? she [00:41:30] still walked away with an arm full of Grammys, as she does every single year. She probably don't even have a place for all of them. They probably just go in a box and go in her attic. Because she's got too many Grammys and too much money and she's too rich and too famous and too beautiful.

[00:41:44] J. Aundrea: And do you think she cares about you? Hell, no.

[00:41:48] Bruce Anthony: Well, we're going to get more and it beyond say discussions, especially talking about the racial dynamics of some of the backlash in our YouTube exclusive.

[00:41:56] Babyface's Grammy interview Snub

[00:41:56] Bruce Anthony: But there is one final thing that I want to bring up [00:42:00] about the Grammys that broke my heart and that's baby face getting snubbed. So

[00:42:07] J. Aundrea: got smacked? What? It's

[00:42:08] Bruce Anthony: well, well baby face was doing an interview.

[00:42:12] Bruce Anthony: And they cut the interviewers basically cut him off when they saw Chappelle Rowan and he was just like, Oh, okay. Y'all want to go talk to her? Okay, cool. They like the, the interviewers cut off baby face in the, in the middle of the interview. It's baby like,

[00:42:28] J. Aundrea: they, [00:42:30] me ask you a question.

[00:42:33] Bruce Anthony: okay, go ahead and ask. I can see your face already. Ladies and gentlemen, if this, you've been listening to it, my sister's making a face, which means this question. I know what this question is. Go ahead. Ask it.

[00:42:43] J. Aundrea: do you,

[00:42:45] Bruce Anthony: Yes.

[00:42:45] J. Aundrea: was that,

[00:42:46] Bruce Anthony: Yes, yes. They, they were of a certain persuasion. Yes, yes,

[00:42:52] J. Aundrea: also young?

[00:42:53] Bruce Anthony: yes.

[00:42:53] J. Aundrea: Okay. Then they don't understand the significance of babyface. If you understood the significance of babyface, you would [00:43:00] understand that he is, He's in the same category as Quincy Jones in that he has written and produced for literally everyone.

[00:43:09] J. Aundrea: It's always a hit like baby face for decades. Like, so it, so for them, cut off baby face mid statement to talk to Chappelle Roan,

[00:43:26] Bruce Anthony: She won Best New Artist. I think she was the Best New Artist, you know.

[00:43:29] J. Aundrea: [00:43:30] who that is. I'm

[00:43:30] Bruce Anthony: Well, well, I mean, I, yeah, I don't know who it is either. Damn sure it wasn't no babyface.

[00:43:36] J. Aundrea: looks interesting. I, I don't, uh,

[00:43:41] Bruce Anthony: She won Best New Artist. That's what, that's what I know.

[00:43:43] J. Aundrea: I'm sure her music is fantastic, but you know, it's babyface.

[00:43:50] J. Aundrea: And so I, I just, yeah, that's unacceptable. Highly unacceptable.

[00:43:55] Bruce Anthony: Y'all wanna know how good Babyface is? Lemme I'm gonna explain it to [00:44:00] everybody who knows anything about R& B, this particular group. Babyface was the reason behind I mean, it was Michael Bibbins. Discovered him. But Babyface is the reason behind R& B. All of the boys to men hits. When boys to men decided they didn't want to use baby face no more.

[00:44:20] Bruce Anthony: Cause they could write their own material. That's when you ain't heard about boys to men no more.

[00:44:25] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:44:26] Bruce Anthony: hits baby face. You ain't heard about it no more. No [00:44:30] baby face. That's it. That's it right there. That explains

[00:44:33] J. Aundrea: That's literally what it is.

[00:44:34] Bruce Anthony: now, baby, someone to love John B.

[00:44:37] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm. Yeah, all TLC.

[00:44:43] Bruce Anthony: So I creep.

[00:44:44] J. Aundrea: it, digging on you. Come on now. And I mean, he's been doing this

[00:44:51] Bruce Anthony: I don't know if he's still, I mean, I don't know if he got no more hits. I haven't heard now. I don't know if he's still making hits.

[00:44:58] J. Aundrea: don't know cuz he just did [00:45:00] a tiny desk and it was amazing.

[00:45:02] Bruce Anthony: Well, I mean, yeah. Okay. But I don't, I don't think anything is recent. That's what I'm trying to say.

[00:45:07] J. Aundrea: might, he might be retired. I don't know what he's doing,

[00:45:09] Bruce Anthony: Well, it was

[00:45:11] J. Aundrea: In the late 80s and early 90s, it was all I mean it was Quincy Jones, Babyface.

[00:45:18] Bruce Anthony: Quincy too,

[00:45:19] J. Aundrea: It

[00:45:19] Bruce Anthony: but it

[00:45:21] J. Aundrea: heard a ballad, and it don't matter who it was from, if you heard a ballad, it was Babyface.

[00:45:29] Bruce Anthony: [00:45:30] was Babyface. We only got a few people like the Babyface, Quincy Jones's and the Smokey Robinson's. These are iconic people who are responsible for hits Throughout generations, you're interviewing them late. Look, y'all know, Jen, I love Gen Z. I love Gen Z. I love younger millennials because I love their, their aggression and their ideology on life, but also y'all know everything y'all need to do a little bit of [00:46:00] research sometimes.

[00:46:01] Bruce Anthony: Respect your elders, because some elders is the reason why y'all here, because your parents probably listen to the music when you's being conceived.

[00:46:10] J. Aundrea: Chances are.

[00:46:11] Bruce Anthony: Chances are. All right.

[00:46:13] J. Aundrea: listen to the Don't Be Cruel album, Bobby Brown, every single song on there, Babyface.

[00:46:21] Bruce Anthony: I thought that was Teddy Riley, but okay, baby face.

[00:46:24] J. Aundrea: no, it was a, it was a compilation. But Rony.

[00:46:27] Bruce Anthony: I mean, that sounds about right.

[00:46:29] J. Aundrea: babyface. [00:46:30] Mm hmm. Mm

[00:46:31] Bruce Anthony: All right. To transition out of the Grammys, speaking of Quincy Jones, a question that didn't get asked during the 200th episode that, uh, that a listener brought up to me, we're going to ask in the next segment and we're going to get into that. All

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[00:46:59] Bruce Anthony: [00:47:00] right, Jay. So, you know, we did the 200th episode answered a lot of questions. Got pretty good feedback from it. A lot of people were happy that, that we were open and engaging and answer their questions. But and, and the, the, the mass. Hysteria of all of the questions that I was getting. I forgot one

[00:47:23] J. Aundrea: hmm. Mm

[00:47:24] Bruce Anthony: and a listener said, well, you didn't answer my question.

[00:47:27] Bruce Anthony: And I was like, well, there's a lot of questions I didn't answer, but I [00:47:30] told this particular listener, I was like, oh yeah, that is a good question.

[00:47:33] Historical Figures We'd Bring Back

[00:47:33] Bruce Anthony: And the question was, if you could bring back anybody or people throughout history

[00:47:40] J. Aundrea: hmm.

[00:47:42] Bruce Anthony: now to current time. Who would it be and why?

[00:47:46] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:47:47] Bruce Anthony: I've got a list of people that I would like to bring back,

[00:47:50] J. Aundrea: hmm. Okay.

[00:47:52] Bruce Anthony: but what about you?

[00:47:53] J. Aundrea: let me hear it because I, I, I need time. You already got your list. I need time to think about it.

[00:47:58] Bruce Anthony: Okay. Well, that's what the [00:48:00] rundown for, but that's okay. I know you're busy right now and you didn't have

[00:48:03] J. Aundrea: have time.

[00:48:04] Bruce Anthony: time. Okay. So people that I would bring back, there's two people that I would bring back.

[00:48:08] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:48:09] Bruce Anthony: And, and because I think history doesn't look at them properly,

[00:48:13] J. Aundrea: hmm. Okay.

[00:48:14] Bruce Anthony: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, too many of Martin Luther King's quotes get brought up and used by the wrong people.

[00:48:25] J. Aundrea: And misquoted misquoted or they

[00:48:29] Bruce Anthony: [00:48:30] And, and

[00:48:33] J. Aundrea: something very important after that, like about the white moderate. You know what I'm saying? That your silence is louder than anything. Like he going, know, give the whole quote. because he, he was a civilly disobedient pariah [00:49:00] to the, to the white community at the time.

[00:49:02] J. Aundrea: And then he was killed. They were both, they were both murdered. So let's not act like. loved Malcolm X and Martin Luther King in their day.

[00:49:14] Bruce Anthony: so that's one reason why I would bring back Martin. The reason why I bring back Malcolm is because a lot of times I feel like he's misunderstood. And this is what I mean. A lot of people focus on the early part of his Nation of [00:49:30] Islam movement

[00:49:31] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:49:31] Bruce Anthony: and don't focus on the part when he came back from Mecca.

[00:49:35] J. Aundrea: Yep.

[00:49:35] Bruce Anthony: And that's both white and black people.

[00:49:38] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:49:39] Bruce Anthony: And I think like they need to understand once he took himself out of the, I don't know what the proper word is, the, the, I don't know, cocoon,

[00:49:52] J. Aundrea: of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

[00:49:54] Bruce Anthony: you could say that, or just like, uh, when you are in a space and [00:50:00] you can't see anything else around you, the blind spot. Of white supremacy during that time in America

[00:50:08] J. Aundrea: Hmm.

[00:50:08] Bruce Anthony: that because this is what your experience, this is all it is.

[00:50:11] Bruce Anthony: And so therefore it must be us against them. And then going to Mecca and, and sharing prayer and food and conversation with all different types of people and saying, no, no, no, no, no. This isn't. A complete disease of the world. It's a [00:50:30] disease specifically that has to do with America. There are other areas where this is happening as well, but I don't need to hate the, the white race because of solely because of what's happened in the country, there are people out there that can also be allies and look different from me.

[00:50:51] Bruce Anthony: And he denied those allies before the trip to Mecca. And when he came back, it was a coalition. It was let's get all people who [00:51:00] want to better the world. Let's get us all together because we can all make a difference in our own communities, but we must start together. And so those are. Two people specifically that I would bring back.

[00:51:12] Bruce Anthony: I'd also bring back George Washington.

[00:51:15] J. Aundrea: For what?

[00:51:16] Bruce Anthony: Okay. Because once again, history looks at him as the first president, the founding father, and don't get me wrong. He did a lot of things right by establishing the fact that the presidency was not a monarchy and that was not [00:51:30] bestowed upon you into your death, that you do a job and then you're there for a while and then you leave.

[00:51:35] Bruce Anthony: There was important elements, but also he wasn't that great of a guy sometimes.

[00:51:41] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:51:41] Bruce Anthony: And, and, you know.

[00:51:42] J. Aundrea: slave owning,

[00:51:44] Bruce Anthony: right. And, and one of the, one of the worst ones, like it was really, you know, if you go with, you take a tour.

[00:51:50] J. Aundrea: plantation.

[00:51:52] Bruce Anthony: So I think that by bringing back these historical people, especially now when [00:52:00] people are not getting proper history lessons and learning what the truth is would open people's eyes.

[00:52:06] Bruce Anthony: And maybe, maybe just maybe if they were open for it.

[00:52:10] J. Aundrea: Hmm.

[00:52:10] Bruce Anthony: could change some people's hearts and minds and maybe we can make a little bit of progress. So those would be my picks. And then of course, Bernie Mac, but I mean, that's personal.

[00:52:19] J. Aundrea: Yeah. That's just, that's just

[00:52:20] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, that's just personal.

[00:52:21] J. Aundrea: That's

[00:52:22] Bruce Anthony: what about you?

[00:52:22] J. Aundrea: for the laughs. Yeah. You know I think that's a really good question. [00:52:30] A very interesting one. And the truth is, I don't. that there is anybody that I would bring back.

[00:52:36] Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

[00:52:37] J. Aundrea: because. Part of it is the legacy that they left behind. So then bringing them back and then asking some detailed questions, you might find out some things, you

[00:52:54] Bruce Anthony: You're right.

[00:52:55] J. Aundrea: know what I'm saying? might find out some things you don't really want to, [00:53:00] uh, so it's part of it is like, no, your impact was this legacy that we created around you.

[00:53:06] Bruce Anthony: Uh huh.

[00:53:07] J. Aundrea: And to bring you back up, ask you some tough questions might ruin that.

[00:53:15] Bruce Anthony: But then, then we created a false legacy. You know me I like telling people about themselves. I want the truth to come out.

[00:53:21] J. Aundrea: yeah, but it doesn't matter though, does it? Because what is important is the impact of their legacy. So if the impact [00:53:30] of their legacy results in pushing for more diversity, equity, and inclusion

[00:53:39] Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

[00:53:39] J. Aundrea: our society, then. It doesn't matter if it's not, I mean, Mahatma Gandhi wasn't always great.

[00:53:50] Bruce Anthony: No in the beginning No, he had a change. He had a change. Okay.

[00:53:54] J. Aundrea: and evolve. So like, you know, but what's important is the legacy that was, [00:54:00] that. created around them,

[00:54:04] Bruce Anthony: Well, I for sure

[00:54:06] J. Aundrea: but I bring back parents

[00:54:08] Bruce Anthony: I knew I'd do No, I'd do it. I Freaking knew it. See this is the reason why I wanted to put in a rundown Don't talk about Prince or Bernie Mac because we already talked about the last episode But I knew that you was going to say press. I knew it. And then the question I was going to ask after you just gave that long speech about [00:54:30] you wouldn't bring anybody back because of their legacy.

[00:54:32] Bruce Anthony: And I was like, you wouldn't even bring Prince back. And then before I could even get it out. Yeah. I bring Prince back. Ooh,

[00:54:39] J. Aundrea: are certain people that I would love to talk to. Um,

[00:54:44] Bruce Anthony: good question.

[00:54:45] Dream Dinner Party Guests

[00:54:45] Bruce Anthony: If you could have a dinner party,

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

[00:54:49] Bruce Anthony: who would you invite to your dinner party?

[00:54:51] J. Aundrea: man. All of the best and brilliant black minds. Like I would have James Baldwin there and Maya [00:55:00] Angelou and Jesus, like I I would have like just, uh, and I would just ask them. What they thought about where we are right now in comparison to where we were when they were alive and where can we go from here?

[00:55:19] J. Aundrea: And what can we do? I would bring back all of those great, social thinkers and [00:55:30] change agents and, and philosophers and, and all of it. Yeah.

[00:55:35] Bruce Anthony: Okay, so this is where me and you differ. I definitely would have some of them there. My would, mine would be expanded,

[00:55:43] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:55:44] Bruce Anthony: I would have people like, you know, my main man, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

[00:55:48] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:55:49] Bruce Anthony: Got to have, I got to have him. I, I would also have Albert Einstein.

[00:55:55] J. Aundrea: Yeah, like I wouldn't keep it to just the U. S. I wouldn't keep it to the, I [00:56:00] would have Confucius,

[00:56:02] Bruce Anthony: Okay.

[00:56:03] J. Aundrea: you know, like I would have, like I would, I would expand, I want all of the great thinkers of our time, Socrates, like I would have all these people and be like, what can we do to fix this? And I know that's a big question, but y'all got big brains.

[00:56:21] J. Aundrea: So like, what can we do fix this?

[00:56:26] Bruce Anthony: And then of course, you know, living people, you would have Neil deGrasse Tyson.

[00:56:29] J. Aundrea: [00:56:30] Yeah. I mean, again, everybody knows that's my, that's my number one interview for this moment in time. want to talk to Neil deGrasse Tyson,

[00:56:43] Bruce Anthony: Um,

[00:56:44] J. Aundrea: he's so cool.

[00:56:45] Bruce Anthony: I would also have, you know, people who are alive at this dinner party.

[00:56:49] J. Aundrea: hmm.

[00:56:50] Bruce Anthony: Like, and this is going to sound crazy, but this dinner party has got to be a mixed of thinkers and people that bring levity.

[00:56:59] J. Aundrea: [00:57:00] Yeah.

[00:57:00] Bruce Anthony: So of course, Bernie Mac, but also Charles Barkley. I am fascinated. I, I.

[00:57:05] J. Aundrea: hilarious!

[00:57:06] Bruce Anthony: I'm,

[00:57:06] J. Aundrea: Barkley's mime, the way it works, is very interesting.

[00:57:11] Bruce Anthony: And so I would just want, I just want to pick his brain, like, okay, what you thinking?

[00:57:15] Bruce Anthony: Of course I have Bar Rock. Got to have Barack and Michelle there. They, I,

[00:57:18] J. Aundrea: and Michelle have got to be there,

[00:57:19] J. Aundrea: yes.

[00:57:20] Bruce Anthony: Who else would I have there? You know who I wanna, I wanna get the real raw down from Elvis.

[00:57:27] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:57:28] Bruce Anthony: You know, when, like, I, I, I wanna. [00:57:30] I got a lot of questions. You know, I got a lot of questions with Elvis, you know I got questions with Harry Truman, like everybody that was a part of dropping the bomb,

[00:57:43] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:57:43] Bruce Anthony: you know, I have questions like, okay, what was your thought process?

[00:57:47] Bruce Anthony: Was there no other options? You know, when I think of

[00:57:50] J. Aundrea: know,

[00:57:51] Bruce Anthony: the impact,

[00:57:52] J. Aundrea: the, the, like the true devastation that it would cause and if you had known before, because nobody had ever done this before,

[00:57:59] Bruce Anthony: [00:58:00] right.

[00:58:00] J. Aundrea: had known before that, would you have still done it?

[00:58:03] Bruce Anthony: Yes, right? Like there, there are so many questions that I would have just from people that were important and different moments in history. You know, I got to talk to my man, Mr. Cocaine.

[00:58:18] J. Aundrea: Are you talking about Pablo Escobar? Or Manuel Noriega.

[00:58:22] Bruce Anthony: Okay. I wasn't talking about Pablo, but that's another person that I got to bring in cause I'm just curious, right? [00:58:30] I'll bring in lucky Luciano, but no, Mr. Cocaine, you don't know who I'm talking about. The, the, the godfather of psychology. Come on, the godfather of psychosis.

[00:58:43] J. Aundrea: oh oh god. Um, Freud.

[00:58:47] Bruce Anthony: Yes.

[00:58:48] J. Aundrea: He was on cocaine. makes sense.

[00:58:50] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, nah, of course it was on cocaine.

[00:58:52] J. Aundrea: Everybody was on cocaine back then. It was in all the medicine.

[00:58:54] Bruce Anthony: Well, that's what the Colombian president is talking about. He just want to legalize cocaine. He's like, the only reason why [00:59:00] people don't like cocaine is because y'all abuse it.

[00:59:03] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:59:04] Bruce Anthony: is good. I was like, I don't, I don't know if it's good. But, but okay.

[00:59:07] J. Aundrea: don't know that it's bad. You know, I,

[00:59:09] Bruce Anthony: I'm too scared to try it.

[00:59:11] Bruce Anthony: I'm too, I might like it too much.

[00:59:13] J. Aundrea: but you know, that's, that's a very different question from who would I bring back to whoop they ass? That was a long list,

[00:59:23] Bruce Anthony: I don't want to get onto that list. You know what? We'll get into that list and after hours on census, so that way we can be free and cuss and talk [00:59:30] about everything that we want to talk about.

[00:59:31] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:59:32] Bruce Anthony: on that note, Jay, what do you want to lead the people with?

[00:59:34] Super Bowl Predictions and Jalen Hurts

[00:59:34] J. Aundrea: Fly Eagles fly,

[00:59:36] Bruce Anthony: Oh Lord. Here we go.

[00:59:37] J. Aundrea: fly

[00:59:38] Bruce Anthony: I'm.

[00:59:38] J. Aundrea: fly.

[00:59:38] Bruce Anthony: I'm actually going to root for the Eagles.

[00:59:40] Bruce Anthony: I like Patrick Mahomes, but I don't like the people surrounding him. So because of that, I'm rooting for, uh, Nino Brown.

[00:59:46] J. Aundrea: wife

[00:59:46] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah. So because of that, I'm going to root for Nino Brown tonight.

[00:59:51] J. Aundrea: Nino Brown?

[00:59:52] Bruce Anthony: Your boy, Jayler.

[00:59:54] J. Aundrea: Jalen. How

[00:59:55] Bruce Anthony: Jayler.

[00:59:56] J. Aundrea: Nino Brown? Explain.

[00:59:57] Bruce Anthony: with the large hoop [01:00:00] earings and the, and the, uh, the goatee,

[01:00:02] J. Aundrea: wears a hoop earring?

[01:00:04] Bruce Anthony: but he ain't carrying himself with the goatee and everything.

[01:00:07] Bruce Anthony: And then the, with the, the kgo, the kgo hat on, and just the way he be rocking, he's a very old man.

[01:00:14] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[01:00:15] Bruce Anthony: He's very nineties.

[01:00:16] J. Aundrea: And the, you know, the nineties came back that aesthetic.

[01:00:20] Bruce Anthony: it came back. I think we passed it by now. I think the 90s passed.

[01:00:24] J. Aundrea: still, it's morphing into something else, but it's still very, like the base of fashion right now is [01:00:30] still very nineties. In my

[01:00:31] Bruce Anthony: Oh

[01:00:32] J. Aundrea: there's a lot of baggy clothes and things like that. Like it's the aesthetic today is still very nineties in my opinion, but cool thing about Jalen hurts his entire team, black women. Agent, manager, lawyer, all of it, black women. So

[01:00:46] Bruce Anthony: yeah, he down for the cause.

[01:00:48] J. Aundrea: I think Saquon Barkley is, absolutely amazing as a running back and you know, we got a lot of, we got a lot of [01:01:00] secret weapons. I think A. J. Brown hasn't gotten, as much shine as he deserves. So we gonna see. And this is our, this is our comeback story after I lost two years ago.

[01:01:13] J. Aundrea: So, to the Chiefs. So, we'll, uh, fly eagles fly and I will be watching while I am working on my schoolwork. So

[01:01:21] Bruce Anthony: I'll be watching as I'm editing all of this content that we're recording and I'm going to be rooting for the Eagles, but that damn Patrick Mahomes, he's uh, he's real good. [01:01:30] He ain't as good as Patrick Mahomes. And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holla.

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[01:01:45] Closing Remarks and Thank You

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