Navigating Patience, Politics, and Personal Embarrassment

Navigating Patience, Politics, and Personal Embarrassment

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Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives
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Bruce Anthony: First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm Bruce Anthony, your host here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch our video podcasts.

Bruce Anthony: 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 when and when not to debate. Going to be giving my thoughts on Trump and the circles around him. And then I'm going to be telling a funny story or an interesting story about me from back in the day.

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

Reflecting on Aging and Patience
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Bruce Anthony: You know, something has hit me. It's kind of snuck up on me. Like I knew it was coming, but you know how life goes. You go with your day to day activities and things come as they come. My birthday is rapidly approaching and I'm entering exiting early forties into my mid forties. And I guess it's a little different.

Bruce Anthony: You know, when you say you're in your early forties, you still kind of feel a little young, but when you get to your early forties, I don't know. That's like, You're close to 50 and this is just crazy to me because I got to be real honest. I know family members that are watching this and my parents are going to be surprised at this statement.

Bruce Anthony: I didn't know I would make it this long. I honestly didn't coming from where I grew up. I told you a little bit about the story that, uh, about living in Illinois and then, you know, just my travels and the idiotic stuff I did as a young adult. I honestly, thank God that I've made it this far at this big age.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, but that's not, [00:02:00] Really what I want to get into. I want to get into the fact that as I've gotten older, I've grown more patient in certain areas and less patient in other areas. Let me explain my job. My main job is I run a fitness company and my true passion is not actually running the administrative parts of the fitness company.

Bruce Anthony: It is actually working with people and working with clients. So I still have, uh, clients that I work with, some of which have been with me for over a decade, right? Like. The people that I work with have been with me for a really, really long time and they have noticed something over the last year that I have grown less and less patient with them when instructing them.

Bruce Anthony: Now, growing up, I was not a very patient kid. My dad used to always say, Bruce, you have no patience. But somewhere along the line in my adult life doing this job, you have to have patience, uh, to do this job when you're instructing people or helping people or guiding people, you have to have patience [00:03:00] and I don't know, I'm, I'm getting less and less patient.

Bruce Anthony: With certain aspects and one aspect is part of my job still love my job will will not give my job up. I will retire at a certain point soon because physically I won't be able to do it that much longer, but I still love my job, the mental and the physical, the mental and emotional aspect of my job of pushing and motivating people.

Bruce Anthony: Less so much. Here's a prime example. I was working with a client last Thursday, long time client been with me for 10 years, young person, really good at doing what they're supposed to be doing. Rarely have to really get on them, uh, to do the things that they need to do. They are on top of it, but on this particular day, they're dragging a little bit because the workout.

Bruce Anthony: That's another thing that a lot of my clients have been telling me is that what the hell is going on with [00:04:00] me because these workouts have been a lot more challenging. Um, so we're at the end of this workout and he's, they're just doing planks. They're just doing planks and all of my clients know when I point, that's not, that's, that's me saying, okay, get started.

Bruce Anthony: I don't say, Hey, let's get this started. Exercise started I point, which is, I don't know, I guess a directive authoritative kind of instant. Like, let's go. There's no room for negotiation here. Let's go. So a point. So I'm pointing and I'm pointing and I'm pointing at the mat and I've pointed like 5 or 6 times.

Bruce Anthony: And this person is just jibber jabbering. Yes, I'm getting older. Jibber jabbering is a word that I use now. This person is just bumping the gums and not getting to the exercise. So I look at them and straight to their face with all sincerity. I say to them, we just do the goddamn plank. They just break out.

Bruce Anthony: They bust out laughing because they know that they have been stalling me. Right? [00:05:00] Because they're tired and I've never reacted that way. And I've been reacting a lot more that way recently. And I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. I really don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. What I do know is that, you know, like I said, I've gained patience in certain things.

Bruce Anthony: I've gained more patience in Explaining things to people who are ignorant of something. Whereas when I was younger, I had no patience for it. If you couldn't understand it, I couldn't rock with you. Now I've taken a step back and understand that sometimes people need to be approached a certain way before they can hear or listen to anything that you have to say.

Bruce Anthony: So in that regard, I am way more patient than when I used to be. But overall, I will say, as I'm getting older, I'm getting a little bit more crankier and I am, uh, becoming less and less patient. [00:06:00] One of the ways I'm getting cranky is very rarely growing up that I tend to dislike people. I could always find something in somebody that I liked about them or could find some way to get along with people.

Bruce Anthony: Um, I can count on just a few hands. A few hands, a few fingers of people that I actually did not like growing up. I can count on fingers and toes how many people I do not like from this year alone. Like my patience for people had just grown, grown thin. And I, and in that same regard, did I say that I have patience for people who are ignorant of something?

Bruce Anthony: I have no patience for people who are ignorant of something who want to be willfully ignorant. And those people that want to be willfully ignorant in this year of 2024, I decided I'm just not going to engage with them. 

Setting Boundaries and Personal Growth
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Bruce Anthony: I've created boundaries. And this is something that my sister [00:07:00] and previous girlfriends, right.

Bruce Anthony: And previous girlfriends and previous, typically they're, it's the females in my life have told me that I have not been good at creating boundaries. And I will absolutely admit to that. I will cop to that. Okay. In my life, I have not been good at creating boundaries because of two reasons. One, I like helping people and two, I'm a people pleaser.

Bruce Anthony: So when you do those type of things, you put yourself in situations that are less than favorable. Um, and I've stopped doing that. I've created way more boundaries. It used to be a time. And a lot of people that have known me for a long time, they can attest to this. There used to be a time. When people ask me, Hey, do you want to get together this such a, such a date?

Bruce Anthony: My uniform response would be, let me get back to you. What date is that? Yeah. Let me get back to you. Let me let you know, because at the heart of me, I'm an [00:08:00] introvert and I never know what mood I'm going to be in on that particular date. I could make agreements to be at something three weeks from today and be all in today.

Bruce Anthony: But by that time that that event arrives, I don't want to have any part of it. And so I just would, I would never be committal on certain things, which sucks for all those people that are really close to me. Right. But I would just do that instead of just saying what I do now. I say, look, I'm gonna be real honest with you.

Bruce Anthony: I would like to go, but I don't know how I'm going to wake up that day. So I'm going to have to let you know on that day. I'll let you for sure know if I'm not coming, I will let you for sure know if I'm not coming, but if I am coming like, I don't want to confirm that until I'm actually. Like wake up that morning.

Bruce Anthony: When I wake up that morning, I will know if I want to do something. Cause I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm not doing anything real late at night anyway. So if you invited me to something, it's pretty much going to be in the afternoon at the [00:09:00] very latest early evening, I'm not doing anything. That's evening time.

Bruce Anthony: I'm almost, I'm almost in my mid forties. I'm tired and want to go to sleep. So I've created these type of boundaries that are necessary in my older age. And, uh, I just straight up tell people, no, you know, people all the time want to hang out with me. You know, random people who, who will talk to me like at say the gym or neighbors in the building.

Bruce Anthony: And they're like, we should get together and hang out sometime. And I'm going to be like, look, I'm gonna be real honest with you. I got more friends that I actually need right now. I don't need no more friends and I don't want any more acquaintances. And I'm going to be real honest with you. I don't like saying hi to you every time that I see you in the building.

Bruce Anthony: It's not because I'm a, you know, a mean guy or not a, you know, a respectful guy, a pleasant guy. It's because I don't like small talk. And if we're not going to talk about something real, then I don't want to have a conversation. And sometimes even if the conversation is real, I don't want to have that conversation, [00:10:00] which leads me to what I was saying at the beginning of the introduction.

Choosing When to Engage in Debates
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Bruce Anthony: You have to pick and choose when you enter in with debates with people. I was reading something and I, you know, for the life of me, I'm trying to remember where I read it, you know, I'd be drinking a lot. Um, I'm trying to remember where I read it and I cannot find it again and I cannot find the exact quote, but I can paraphrase and the paraphrase of the arguing with people who have no.

Bruce Anthony: Intentions of honest debate is absolutely pointless to your life. What does that mean? Everybody out there knows that there's type of people that just want to be right. They don't care if their stance is correct or not. They don't care if you have good debate points to whatever their [00:11:00] stance is. They just want to be right.

Bruce Anthony: There is no reason to enter in conversations with those types of people. And I've agitated a lot of people in this year of 2024. Cause like I said, this is, this is my year. This is my year to set all these boundaries. I've aggravated a lot of people close to me, a lot of people close to me who were just like, so Bruce, what do you think about this?

Bruce Anthony: And I'm like, I'm not going to entertain this conversation. They're like, wow, why don't you want to talk about this? Because I feel like this conversation is actually pointless. There's nothing that, that you are going to gain from engaging in this, uh, debate because it's not going to be a debate. I, I will say that sometimes I am.

Bruce Anthony: I am stubborn. Y'all have seen me and my sister go at it on this show. And y'all, some of y'all trip about that. Look, we've been doing that all our lives. Me and my sister is cool as a fan. Y'all ain't got to worry about us ever having a fallen out. It would have to be something extremely drastic, [00:12:00] uh, for, for us to ever fall out.

Bruce Anthony: So that'll, yeah. That's just, that just won't happen. We grew up in a house of debate and the way we grew up in that house of debate, it wasn't, it wasn't, I, I have to be right. I want to be right, but I don't have to be right. And when people make good counter arguments, we were taught to stop, listen, comprehend, and either come up with points that refute that, or you know what, you make a good point.

Bruce Anthony: And that's how we were brought up. You know, to raise this is conversation. This is, this is intelligent conversation. And I guess I used the wrong word when I started this as debate, because the purpose of the debate is to win. And so I don't like having debates never really truly did. Right. Cause I I'm not trying to [00:13:00] win.

Bruce Anthony: I'm trying to learn. So it's the conversations. Let's, let's change the word from debate to conversations. So I don't like to have certain conversations with certain individuals, cause there's no point to it. They're, they're entrenched in their position. They are stuck in their position and you're not going to move them off their position.

Bruce Anthony: And there's no point in having a conversation with somebody when you're having an open, honest dialogue and it's one sided. There's just no point to it. It's a waste of your energy. So this year, I just haven't entertained. And I've agitated a lot of people close to me that are just like, well, I don't understand.

Bruce Anthony: And I've been blunt, like I said, this year of 2024, you know, I'm not all the filters that I typically have where I would kind of sugarcoat things. Sometimes I have a way with words. Sometimes I have a way to explain something to somebody that could be harsh, but explain it in. Empathetic and [00:14:00] sympathetic terms to the point where you lessen the emotional impact of whatever it is you're trying to say.

Bruce Anthony: You can't, sometimes you can't completely erase the emotional impact because sometimes what you have to say is hard to hear. So the truth is hard to hear sometimes. So you just say it. Now, the filter that I've used to have that I used to have where I would, you know, try to make sure that I didn't hurt the person's feelings.

Bruce Anthony: And in turn, you know, maybe hold back kind of what I want to say. I'm not doing that anymore. Like I said, the boundaries I'm letting it off. So my, the people that are close to me that I, that I don't engage in these conversations with anymore, I'll tell them, uh, I'm not going to engage in that conversation.

Bruce Anthony: I think it's pointless to go back and forth. And they're like, what are you talking about? This is the reason why I think it's pointless. You're entrenched in your position. Uh, you're unwilling to listen to reason. I'm [00:15:00] not interested in having a one sided conversation that will get petty. It would get petty because you won't outwit me most of the time.

Bruce Anthony: You won't outwit me, but you're damn sure start a personal attack and then claim, Oh, why are you getting angry? Cause you're wrong. No, I'm getting angry because you're starting to use personal attacks. When we're talking about something that has nothing to do with anything that we're talking about. And the reason why you're using personal attacks is because you know, that you don't have any ground to stand on in this conversation.

Bruce Anthony: And instead of conceding the fact that You might be wrong. You want to personally attack somebody, which is only going to piss me off because it only proves to me. Yeah, I was right. And two, yeah, [00:16:00] wasn't going to concede. And so I was right all along and I'm mad at myself for wasting this amount of time, entertaining this conversation.

Bruce Anthony: So I just don't do it anymore. I just do not do it anymore. Hey, you can call me all types of things that you want. You can say that I'm pompous. You can say that I'm arrogant. You can say that I think that I'm smarter than I actually am. I'll be the first one to tell you guys. I think I have above average intelligence.

Bruce Anthony: I think that I am smart. When I bring my sister on here and we're talking, she is absolutely book smart, smarter than I am. Like that's not even close. My brother and sister were tabbed as gifted when they were like in the second or third grade while I was in like remedial classes. Not because I was slow with learning, but because I was bored and they didn't know that.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, Bruce is bored. So he daydreams in class instead of listening because he's not being challenged enough. And then when they put me [00:17:00] in accelerated classes, I did well. So yes, I had, I believe that one smart and to have above average intelligence. Look them up. They are two different things. People say that they're smart, smart all the time.

Bruce Anthony: I'd rather have intelligence every day of the week. Okay. So I do believe I have above average intelligence. I do not think I'm one of the most intelligent people in the world, right? I bring people on the show to talk to them. They're more intelligent than I am. They're at the very least, they're more knowledgeable what they're talking about.

Bruce Anthony: And in every instance that I bring people on the show and they're giving me information. How often when I push back and they say, well, no, Bruce, it's actually this. How often do I say, Oh, I never thought of it like that. Or, man, that's a good point because I'm sitting here trying to learn. I don't think that I'm the most intelligent person in the world.

Bruce Anthony: I don't think that I'm the smartest person in the world. I do know that [00:18:00] I'm too smart and too intelligent to enter in. Idiotic conversations. And that's basically what I stopped doing this year. And that's a boundary that I am grateful that I found in this 2024. Thank you for helping me get to this big age, getting almost close to my mid forties, and I don't enter it, entertain the BS anymore.

Bruce Anthony: However, this country is still entertaining. 

Understanding Trump Supporters
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Bruce Anthony: A lot of BS. And I'm going to get into that right after we take care of some bills.

Bruce Anthony: I got some feedback from the last show. So people got my DMS, people got in the emails and they were just like, Hey, You know, we really look forward to you and your sister, given your insight, your [00:19:00] opinions, unsolicited perspectives. I guess in this case, it is solicited, uh, perspectives on politics. We really enjoy it.

Bruce Anthony: That's the reason why we tuned into the show and they were disappointed that I had. No desire at all to talk about being convicted of the 34 felonies in the state of New York. And, you know, I said that it doesn't make a difference. It doesn't matter. And, uh, a lot of people were a little upset that I didn't elaborate on that.

Bruce Anthony: And I, you know, I take it as a compliment that you like, you, you re you really like me, you really like me. If y'all don't get that Sally Fields reference, I don't know what to do for you guys. And once again, like I said in the last segment and almost in my mid forties, so I referenced stuff that could be old sometimes.

Bruce Anthony: So that's cool. Did you guys want to hear my perspective? And I'm gonna get into what I think, but, but let me give you a little bit [00:20:00] of backstory of why I was like, nah, I really don't want to talk about this. Okay. In my profession, there are a lot of people that, uh, I mean, my profession is. Unnecessary is a necessity.

Bruce Anthony: I believe, uh, before a lot of people would be luxury and, uh, the services aren't cheap and tend to be, you know, well to do people that choose this service and some of them are my friends. Some of them are acquaintances. Some of them, I kind of don't like, but you know, it's my job. I put personal feelings aside as long as they're not being offensive to me, what they believe and don't believe.

Bruce Anthony: I've learned to just let it roll off. In [00:21:00] 2016, when I was heavily into it right now, you know, I might have like eight or nine clients, but when I was heavily into training to 2016, when I'm still in my mid thirties, you know, it was mid thirties. I'm still a young man. I had way more clients and I, you know, Cut a lot of them loose because I found out that they had voted for Trump.

Bruce Anthony: And how does this come about? You know, when you do what I do, people open up and they talk to you and they explain to you about their life. And like I said, I, I feel like I have above average intelligence. I can deduce by what you're saying, um, who you voted for. And then in some instances I would say, sounds like you voted for Trump.

Bruce Anthony: And they were like, I did. All right. Oh, okay. Why? And it was always the most common thing, like, you know, I have conservative values and I believe in this and that. And I'm like, okay, all right. You know, I, I don't agree with those positions, uh, not to say that I [00:22:00] don't have some conservative values. I think you can't be a human being and not have some conservative values.

Bruce Anthony: I tell you what, I'm tired of going on Twitter known as X now Twitter and Twitter is like a porn thing. Now, don't get me wrong. Ain't nothing wrong with porn. I like porn. Okay. There's nothing wrong with porn. I'm just saying, I miss being able to go on there and get news. Thank you, Elon Musk for effing it up.

Bruce Anthony: But, so there are times where I clutch my pearls. You know what I'm saying? Because once again, man, I'm in my 40s. But I believe that we are not the judge of each other. I believe that if we are to be judged, it would be, we are to be judged at the end of our lives. By something much greater than any of us could truly, truly comprehend, even though we try to.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. So it is not my job to judge people. Now, are there times where I still judge [00:23:00] people? Yeah, I try not to, I try not to, but there are times where I absolutely judge people. Uh, I will definitely judge you if you are on, on, if you are willingly ignorant, I tell you, that's one of my biggest pet peeves. So yeah, I cut a lot of people loose because they had voted for Trump because to me, you couldn't explain away his racism for me.

Bruce Anthony: It was okay. If you voted for him, then his racism, isn't a problem for you. And I found so many people over the last eight years now explaining away his racism and it took me, I don't know, six years. So probably right around after he lost the election, after January 6, where it all kind of clicked together for me.

Bruce Anthony: And it was [00:24:00] a, it was a combination of certain things that all came together to help me greater understand, uh, a Trump supporter. They are not all racist. There, there are people that support Trump who racism isn't a big deal to them. Explicit racism. Isn't a big deal to them. Covert racism, they, they just, they think it doesn't exist.

Bruce Anthony: And it's always a person that's not of color. Um, not always, there are definitely some people of color who was like, there's no more racism in the world. And I'm just like, really? You don't think there is? So. Okay. Let me, let me bring together all these converging ideas that got me to the point where I am now, and then I'll get into my thoughts of Trump later.

Bruce Anthony: Cause I'm kind of going off topic here and I want to bring this all back. Okay. So around 2020, uh, [00:25:00] 2021, 2022 pandemic happened. Everything is slowing down. Hypocrisy is one of my biggest things. Like I can't stand people who, uh, Are hypocrites, but I had to check myself, especially when the R. Kelly documentary came out.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. When R. Kelly doc, R. Kelly documentary came out and it was put in our faces exactly everything that he was doing, I couldn't find, I could no longer find myself listening to his, his music and respecting him because I didn't respect the things that he did. And I, and then I stopped listening to him and then I started listening to two songs of his.

Bruce Anthony: And so I said, okay, I didn't completely get away with it. Wipe them away. You know, there was still some things that I couldn't give up. And then I've talked about on the show how I have not watched those Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson documentaries, because These documentaries typically are not partial.

Bruce Anthony: I mean, they are partial, [00:26:00] right? They're biased. They're, they're, they, they take a position. It's like a thesis paper. They take a position, they have their thesis and the whole documentary is to prove their thesis. Okay. And I know that I could watch that Michael Jackson documentary and be like, Oh, he did that.

Bruce Anthony: Right. Because it will convince me that he did it. And I don't know that he did or didn't I, in my heart of I believe that he didn't molest kids. Do I? Right. Is it my heart of hearts that I believe that, or do I just want to believe that so that I don't have to lose his music? It's the same conversation that I had with my sister about Bad Boy.

Bruce Anthony: Like, R. Kelly, I could give up. Certain, certain, the majority of R. Kelly catalog, I could give up, but Bad Boy? Like, I can't give up that catalog, but does that mean I condone Puffy did? Of course not. So as I'm all, all this is running around in my head, I immediately equate it to Trump [00:27:00] supporters. And for those ones who, that are, aren't completely blind, that, that are open and honest is like, he's a horrible guy.

Bruce Anthony: He's a, he's a misogynist. He's a sexist. He's a racist. He's all these different things, but damn it. He, he gets a lot of the policies that I want done. And, uh, you know, I'm just, you got to take the good with the bad. And then, you know, like I said, I'm not giving up Michael Jackson and, uh, I just avoid even looking at the documentary because I'm so much of a fan.

Bruce Anthony: I don't want to know. And that's not uncommon, right? Have you ever dated somebody and you think that they were cheating on you? You do one or two things. You either investigate to find out if it's true or not, or you convince yourself that they're not doing it. And so, yeah, there are a lot of Trump, a lot.

Bruce Anthony: I'm not saying all. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not saying on, I'm gonna get to a logic point where I say, it's not all a [00:28:00] lot of these Trump supporters are just like, look, I'm pro life I'm for limited government. I'm for strong military. I'm for second amendment rights. And I'm like, those are all, those are his talking points right now.

Bruce Anthony: Those are his talking points right now. And okay. I get it. And you will swallow certain bad aspects of an individual. Because there is something that you're gaining in the end. Okay. So that's the reason why I say not every Trump supporter is a racist, though. They take it as that because when you call Trump a racist and they're voting for him, they feel like that you're calling them a racist.

Bruce Anthony: And I, Hey, look, I can't tell you how to feel. I can't tell you how to feel, but he's absolutely a racist. He has racist policies. Uh, he has done nothing good for, People [00:29:00] of color and a lot of defense of Trump, you know, when we get these comments and I know I'm going to get more comments when we get these comments of people defending Trump, they always say, well, what has Biden done for people of color?

Bruce Anthony: And I, and I, and I really feel like that's the wrong question. 

Endurance and Resilience of People of Color
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Bruce Anthony: That is the wrong question to ask. First of all, people of color have endured a history of torment and torture that no body else in this country would have survived. And here we are still being politicians, doctors, lawyers, the thing that pisses off racists more than anything else.

Bruce Anthony: Is that we've done everything that we could to beat down these people, but yet they still Keep getting up in the [00:30:00] morning, keep persevering, keep pushing through. We can not beat these people down. That's what they really get pissed off about because they realize I'm speaking specifically to these races out here.

Bruce Anthony: They realize that they don't have the strength within themselves to endure. And they fear that if people of color were to ever get power, that people of color would put, These same races do the trials and tribulations that they put people of color through when they fail to realize the majority of people of color are some of the most welcoming people that you will ever meet.

Bruce Anthony: Dylan Roof was a prime example. He went to a black church. He wanted to learn about the Lord. So he said that black church and all those church goers 12 said, come on, baby, come on in and welcomed him in. That's who we are as a people. [00:31:00] We are a strong people. We are a loving people. That's who we are. And the racist can't stand it.

Bruce Anthony: Notice what I said. I said racist. I didn't say white people. I said racist. So be clear in all your little comments, who I'm calling out. I'm calling out racist. 

Racism and Code Switching
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Bruce Anthony: Now, there are people that support Trump. Because he doesn't even code switch anymore. You know, there's in the black community, we have code switch.

Bruce Anthony: And when we use AAVE with each other, African American, uh, vernacular. And where we use, um, the regular American vernacular. That's easy for everybody to understand. Cause they don't understand sometimes what we are saying. Racists also have the same type of code switching. Well, they'll say buzzwords instead of saying the thing that they really mean to say the, you know, so I'm not going to get into the [00:32:00] buzzwords cause I just, this is going to go down a rabbit hole that I'm really not going to, we're focusing on trap.

Bruce Anthony: And, and the reason why, and this is all a part of it. So for those Trump supporters who he rocks their policies. Okay. 

Trump's Impact on People of Color
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Bruce Anthony: And then going back to the question that I said is the, not the right question. Joe Biden or Donald Trump doing for people of color. Like I said, we don't need anybody to do for us. We have endured and still power through.

Bruce Anthony: We had a black president. In the same lifetime as that president being born, literally being born without all his rights. He was born before the civil rights movement, literally before all of his rights, we get the civil rights movement. And within [00:33:00] 40 years, yeah, 40 years, we got our first black president.

Bruce Anthony: There are other groups out there that, that, that haven't even gotten close to being president. We are endure. We are strong. So it's, the question isn't what can these presidents do for us. It's what can these presidents do to us? That's the big question. So when we say, or when people of color say they're voting for Georgia, Joe, uh, Joe Biden, it's because what he'll do to us.

Bruce Anthony: It's far less than what Trump will do to us. And, and it's funny because there's a certain segment of the population of Trump supporters that are out here saying, and these people are white, these white Trump supporters, these certain groups of white Trump supporters, and not all of them are like this, but these certain groups of white Trump supporters will literally say.

Legal Inequities and Rights
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Bruce Anthony: That [00:34:00] people of color have more rights than them. And I would love for anybody that says that to prove that in it legally, can you prove it legally because I can absolutely prove it legally. In the year of 2023, we're a Navy federal credit union was explicitly turning down or giving higher mortgage rates to people of color as compared to white people, 2023 last year.

Bruce Anthony: So if these Trump supporters that say people of color have more rights than them now. I would love for you to explain it. No, what you're really saying is that people of color have these same rights and you don't think that they should. That's what it [00:35:00] truly, truly is. You don't think all people of color should be able to vote.

Bruce Anthony: You don't think all people of color should be given the benefit of a doubt when they're approached by the police. You don't believe all people of color are intelligent enough to get into certain schools. You don't believe all people of color are intelligent enough to have those type of jobs. But the real reason why you feel that way is because you can't do it and you don't think people of color could ever be better than you.

Bruce Anthony: I'm not saying that one group of people is better than the other. They're not. There are people better than other people. I know doctors that do their thing and I'm like, yeah, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be able to be a doctor. Maybe I'm intelligent enough, but I don't like the sight of blood. I know lawyers. I know some good ones.

Bruce Anthony: I know some bad ones. I don't know. And the good [00:36:00] ones, because the bad ones, I'm like, I can be a better lawyer than you. But the good ones, I'm like, yeah, no, you do your thing when it comes to that. There are business people that I'm just like, what you doing business? So there are podcasters that I am picking their brain.

Bruce Anthony: Like how do you do this? How do you do that? Cause I'm trying to learn. So there are people who are better at certain situations than other people, but as a group as a whole, no, because no group is a monolith. No group ever believes and acts and moves the same way. 

Trump's Supporters and Their Beliefs
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Bruce Anthony: So that's the reason why I'm not going to say all Trump supporters are the exact same.

Bruce Anthony: They're not, there are different degrees of these things. There are those Trump supporters who believe COVID wasn't a real thing. There are some Trump supporters who believe that he's not guilty of anything, that this is all a big shakedown on him. And just, uh, uh, what does he call it? What does he call it?

Bruce Anthony: Uh, a witch hunt. On him and that he hasn't done anything wrong. And people are just picking on him for those people that believe that [00:37:00] for those people that say, well, he's not racist. What has he done for those people that say he's not anti Semitic because I had some Jewish friends of mine that voted for Trump.

Bruce Anthony: And I said, okay, like you voted for him, but when the whole unite, the right thing happened, that didn't turn you on him. And then, and they were like, no, and this was more than one. It was a few. Yeah. Uh, of my Jewish friends and they're like, no, I mean, he's not an anti Semite because you know, his daughter's Jewish.

Bruce Anthony: I was like, his daughter converted, but his brother in law is definitely Jewish. But I was like, oh, okay. I know that there have been racists, white racists in this country who actually didn't mind a few black people because they weren't like everybody else. They weren't like the other black people. I've literally had white people tell me I'm not like those other black people.

Bruce Anthony: And I'm quick to tell them, yes, I am. [00:38:00] I'm exactly like them. You don't know me. You projected onto me what you think I am. Because if you truly knew who I was, you might not like me because I'm going to tell you about yourself. Right. So no, they're, they're, they're, he did the unite the right. And then look at a lot of his supporters, the proud boys, the Patriot group, whatever, look at all these far right, militia groups that support him.

Bruce Anthony: They're the same ones that were supporting Ron DeSantis, right? Same group of the people. And these people were hanging Nazi flags, swastikas. over bridges in major metropolitan cities. So he doesn't care about people that hate. But my Jewish friends were like, well, now I'm voting for Biden because he, he's for Israel.

Bruce Anthony: And I was like, okay, cool, I [00:39:00] guess, but shouldn't you have not voted for Trump because he actually was against Jewish people here in this country? I don't know. Uh, he came down and he called all Mexican people's rapists and murderers. And for those people that said, no, he didn't say that it's on camera. It was not edited.

Bruce Anthony: It was a live feed at the time. He said it without hesitation, without paraphrasing, without correcting himself. He said what he said. You don't want to admit that he said it because admitting that he said it would mean that you didn't mind that he said it. And some of you. Might not mind that he said it, but you don't want other people to know that you didn't mind that he said it.

Bruce Anthony: That's truly what it's about. So why, why didn't I talk about Trump? You know, that's what this whole thing was about. Everybody wanted to find out why I didn't talk about Trump because it does not matter. He [00:40:00] is not changing anybody's mind about him. He's not. He's done horrible things that no other president has ever been close to.

Bruce Anthony: And, and let me just say that I'm not tearing down Republicans because I got a lot of smoke for John Kennedy, a lot of smoke, he stole the presidency from Nixon because of his dad's mob ties. That's actually a situation where they stole the election. He put us in the Vietnam. Right? He had the bad pics.

Bruce Anthony: Look, Kennedy was not, Kennedy was, Kennedy wasn't exactly like Trump, but he created this persona, which fooled people into thinking that he was something that he wasn't. And Trump has done the same exact thing. He has fooled certain people into believing that he's something that he isn't. Hey, Bill did Bill Clinton did the same thing.

Bruce Anthony: I'm not just attacking [00:41:00] Republican, uh, Republicans. I will attack Democrats as well. So I'm saying. Yes. 

Trump's Legal Troubles
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Bruce Anthony: The convictions happen and he's got more stuff happening. That was the hush money, uh, case, right? He still got the classified documents case. That's when the, uh, he was indicted for having classified documents and is in Mar a Lago, right?

Bruce Anthony: He still got the election interference case, and he still got that Fulton Fulton County case. Now, if y'all think he didn't interfere in an election, then you didn't hear that phone call that he had with the Georgia officials. Yes. Right? You can't, he's literally saying, we got to find, we got to find 11, 000 more votes, 11, 001.

Bruce Anthony: I just need 11, 000, whatever the number was. Right? One more, more, one more than Joe Biden. That's what he said. So going back to my original statement from the last episode, all of this does not matter. Nothing [00:42:00] is going to change people's minds about Trump. It's a pointless conversation. It's the reason why I don't get involved in it anymore.

Bruce Anthony: It's pointless. Those people that are going to vote for Trump, either they support him and his apology and his policies and they like them, or they're going to swallow a rock and vote for him because they know that he's going to push through the policies that they believe in. Okay. And the people that hate him, there is nothing that he can do to get them to change.

Bruce Anthony: There is nobody who didn't vote for. That's not true. I actually know a couple of people that voted for Trump and both elections is not going to vote for him this time. I actually know a few, I know a few and the reason why they're Jewish and because buying the support in Israel, that's, that's the exact reason why they told me that they switched.

Bruce Anthony: Not any of the other stuff, none of that other stuff. [00:43:00] So, like I said, this is all to do about nothing. Nothing is going to change how people feel about him. Those super supporters that he has, he was in line when he said that he could shoot somebody in the middle of the street and get away with it in their eyes, because he can in their eyes.

Bruce Anthony: So it doesn't matter. What will matter is the number of people that come out to vote. Is it going to be the same turnout as was 2020? Because if it is, he's not going to win. Is it going to be less on one side that was more supportive last time? Then he will win. That's what it basically comes down to raw numbers that if anybody says they're independent and they're still up in the air, whether they're voting for him, they're lying.

Bruce Anthony: They, they, they know either they're voting for him and they're not voting for him. They're just not telling you the truth. [00:44:00] And like I said, at the beginning of the statement, at the beginning of the show in the first segment, I'm at this big age now where I just don't entertain pointless conversations.

Bruce Anthony: And this Trump conversation is a pointless conversation.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. 

The Embarrassing Party Story
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Bruce Anthony: That's enough for the serious talk and me talking about my big age and all this stuff that's going on. As far as this year of 2024, let's go all the way back to the year of 19 99, 98, 99. I don't know for sure which year it is. I, I don't know my. Two boys that were with me that night. I don't even know if they remember this story, but it popped up in my head recently and I was just talking about it and it was, I think somebody asked me when was the last time I was embarrassed and I'm [00:45:00] not somebody who really gets embarrassed easily.

Bruce Anthony: I don't know. Growing up in my household where you, you did something kind of foolish or clumsy or something like that. My family would jump all over you. So I don't, I don't really get embarrassed if it's funny. If I do something that's, that's embarrassing, but it's funny. I don't really get embarrassed.

Bruce Anthony: So I don't, I don't get embarrassed often. So my friend asked me when was the last time I was, I was embarrassed and I had to really, really think long and hard. And the only thing that I could come up with is this, this memory popped up in my head that I completely forgotten about. So it's 1998, 1999. And me and my boys had heard this house party.

Bruce Anthony: It wasn't even a house party. It would be considered a house. It would be considered a kickback today. That's some people were having it at another person's house or something like that, told us to come through. So this is young, young Bruce. So we were drinking beer or mad dog [00:46:00] 2020. Either one. I was drinking a lot of it because I've always been able to drink more than my friends.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, I just have a high tolerance for substances. Um, so I've always been able to drink a lot more than my friends. So we're at this, you know, this little kickback party or whatever. And as soon as I walk in, I lock eyes with a young female and she is absolutely my type. She got a rump shaker and loose hips.

Bruce Anthony: And if you don't understand what I mean by loose hips, I can't help you. Just think about it. Okay. How do I know she got loose hips? Somebody told me and that's all I needed to know. So the whole night. You know, we dancing, we vibing and we doing that, you know, 1990s dancing. So it's a lot of grinding. It's a lot of grinding.

Bruce Anthony: Right. And you know, I'm at that age where sometimes I can control it. Sometimes I can't, sometimes it's got a mind of its own. Uh, that's a different story for a different time, but you know, we was vibing and it was kicking it and [00:47:00] you know, we exchanged numbers or no, I gave her my beeper number cause I had to people, I had a beeper at that time.

Bruce Anthony: So I gave him my beeper number. And somewhere along the line, all of the alcohol needed to come out. Right. So I had to go to the bathroom and I don't know why maybe somebody was using the bathroom. I decided to go into the backyard of this house and go urinate in the bushes. So I go outside now, this is the nineties.

Bruce Anthony: So my clothes are bag is hell. So I can't really like just, you know, the zip hole. I can't really. So I, I go bare ass, um, just to make sure that, you know, I don't have no little stains on the front cause you know, baggy pants or whatever.

Bruce Anthony: I don't know how that keeps happening. That keeps happening. Uh, every time I'm recording an episode, I'm sorry about that. Ladies and gentlemen, I ain't gonna cut that out. This is wrong. This is real. [00:48:00] So. So I dropped complete bare ass out and I know what a lot of y'all are thinking. A lot of y'all are thinking, well, that's the embarrassing part.

Bruce Anthony: They walked in and they saw Bruce's bare ass. Well, I don't care about that. I got a beautiful booty, right? Pause. But you know, I'm not embarrassed about that. That's not what's embarrassing. What's embarrassing is when I pull up my pants, I didn't, I didn't like give proper distance and instead of hitting all of the ground, some of my urine hit the front part of my pants.

Bruce Anthony: So it looks like. I peed on myself and in a way I kind of did, I kind of peed on myself, right? I at least peed on my pants and it's a big, it looks big cause I really had to go. Uh, and I'm not paying attention cause it was kind of cold out and I'm trying to rush it. Remember I'm [00:49:00] bare ass outside. I don't, I don't know where this house is.

Bruce Anthony: I don't know what's going to come up behind me. They could have raccoons. It could be snakes out there. It could, I don't know. Right. So I'm trying to rush and in my process of Russian, some urine got on my pants. No, let me rephrase that. A lot of urine got on my pants. So we're in a house, right? It's a house party.

Bruce Anthony: And to get to the, to get to the outside, I went through a laundry room and it's like this little back hallway laundry room. So it's a completely away from the party. So I'm like, okay, this is what I'll do. I'm going to go into this laundry room. I'm just going to dry my pants. It's not that big of a deal.

Bruce Anthony: I will dry my pants. Here's the problem. They were light, really light. Super light colored blue jeans. So the stain was very visible. So I am back there and I'm back there for a good 15, 20 minutes. And it [00:50:00] looks presentable where it doesn't look, it doesn't look as bad as it did. And I got a long shirt on.

Bruce Anthony: So I'm like, eventually, you know, it'll completely dry up. And it won't be that big of a deal except for one problem. I didn't put no fabric softener sheets in there. So what does dry pee smell like? Still smells like pee. So as I walk out of the living room, as I walk out to the living room where everybody's vibing and stuff, I sit back down on the couch and I'm probably taking the hurt and I got my, my shirt.

Bruce Anthony: Remember it's long. I got it covered over the spot, right? So nobody is seeing it, but somebody yelled out, what the hell in here smells like pee? And the girl that I was politicking with, she was like, yeah, it does smell like pee. And then all of a sudden I know what, I know what the smell is coming from.

Bruce Anthony: The smell is coming from me because once again, I didn't use no fabric softener sheets. I just dried the wet pee. That's all I [00:51:00] did. So I'm like, yeah, it smells like pee in here. I don't know what it is. So I. Cause everybody was asking what was taking me so long or where did I go? And I was just like, Oh man, I was just, you know, just, just vibing out or something like that.

Bruce Anthony: So I go back and disappear for another 10 minutes trying to find something to hide the smell. Right. So I find a fabric softener sheet and I'm rubbing it on the part where I peed on the pants and I throw them back in the dryer and I throw the fabric softener sheet. In the dryer with it. And, uh, all that did was make the entire pants smell like pee.

Bruce Anthony: So when I came out the second time, the party was basically almost over, right? Like most of the people had left. So it was just me and the girl and you know, we getting, you know, we starting to, you know, make out a little bit and you know, her hands are moving to certain places. My hands are moving to certain places.

Bruce Anthony: And she was like, Oh, why is it wet right here? And I was you talking about? She's like, why are your pants wet? [00:52:00] You peed on yourself. I was like, no, no I didn't, no I didn't. This is what happened. I was outside and some pee got on my pants and I've been trying to drive in the back room, but that's the reason why he was gone for so long?

Bruce Anthony: I was like, yeah. She's like, uh uh, you don't know how to control yourself. You pee? I do, but it's just my jeans were bagging, so I couldn't talk myself out of that. And my boys joked on me a little bit, but they kind of let it go. Cause they understood it. Cause every guy, every guy, every guy out there listening to this has gotten at least some sprinklets.

Bruce Anthony: On your pants, right? Like every guy this has happened to whether it's you getting a little dribble on you or backsplash hitting you. That's why I really hate urinals. That's the reason why I like going in to where the toilet is. I hate urinals because there's some backsplash with the urinals. So my boys didn't really, they joked on me a little bit and they were just like, yeah man, you should have told one of us we would have covered for you or something like that.

Bruce Anthony: It would have helped you out or something. [00:53:00] But yeah, that's, that's what happened. And me and that girl never got together. And like I said, she had jungle booty and loose, loose hips. And I missed that opportunity all because of a little bit of pee pee on my pants. Well, not a little bit of pee pee. There was a lot of PP and it smelled like PP and it was bad, but that's, that's another story from back in the day.

Bruce Anthony: I hope you guys enjoyed my embarrassment because that was the last time that I can truly, truly remember me being really embarrassed. 

Celebrating Milestones and Gratitude
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Bruce Anthony: But on that note, I want to thank you all for watching and listening. We are almost at 10, 000 subscribers. Probably by the time this post, we will be at 10, 000 subscribers.

Bruce Anthony: If you follow me on, uh, if you follow us on Instagram. You'll see a video. I'm going to post a little video for us hitting the 10, 000 subscribers. I don't know what it's, I don't know how I'm going to do it. I don't know what we're going to do, but it's going to be something to celebrate it. And I just want to say, thank you.

Bruce Anthony: You know, I [00:54:00] started this thing and I didn't know where this was going to lead. I had no idea, but I'm very grateful that, that you guys have found us for those that have found us with a lot of y'all found us for those that have found us, uh, those that have shared, you know, with your friends, your family, and even your enemies.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, to help us grow. We're almost at the 150th episode. We'll be there, you know, right around my birthday. So I've been trying to do something. I'm gonna try to make it a special episode. I don't know what we're gonna do yet. But, you know, thank you so much. I am humbled that that you find my and my sister's and my guests voice so entertaining, insightful.

Bruce Anthony: knowledgeable. So thank you. Thank you for rocking with us. Thank you for watching us. Thank you for listening to us. And until next time, [00:55:00] as always, I'll holler. That was a hell of a show. Thank you for rocking with us here on unsolicited perspectives with Bruce Anthony. Now, before you go, don't forget to follow, subscribe, like, comment, and share our podcasts, wherever you're listening or watching it to it, pass it along to your friends.

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Bruce Anthony: That's where you can get all of our audio, video, our blogs. And even by our merch. And if you really [00:56:00] feel ingenuous and want to help us out, you can donate on our donations page. Donations go strictly to improving our software and hardware. So we can keep giving you guys good content that you can clearly listen to.

Bruce Anthony: And as you can clearly see, so any donation would be appreciated. Most importantly, I want to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you for listening and watching and supporting us. And I'll catch you next time. Audi 5, 000.