Podcast Growth, Challenges & Heartfelt Moments: 200th Episode Special!

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[00:00:10] Bruce Anthony: Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is unsolicited perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony here to lead the conversation in important events and topics. That is shaping today's society. Join the conversation to follow us wherever you get your audio podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcasts and YouTube exclusive content.

[00:00:29] Bruce Anthony: Rate [00:00:30] review, like comment, share, share with your friends, share with your family, help even share with your enemies on today's episode is the sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis J Andrea. We're celebrating 200 episodes. We're going to be answering your questions and. We're going to be answering each other's questions, but that's enough of the intro.

[00:00:53] Bruce Anthony: Let's get to the show.

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

[00:01:03] J. Aundrea: What up, brother

[00:01:05] Bruce Anthony: I can't call it. I can't call it. If y'all are wondering why she's laughing, I'm trying to pep her up a little bit. Cause she's working hard, going to school, doing a lot of work and she's dragging a little bit. So I took a little sip of the scissor, burp, sip of the scissor and made a face just to get her to start laughing, to get her ready for this.

[00:01:24] J. Aundrea: the thing is I clicked away from our video to look at the rundown and all I [00:01:30] heard was And I was like what? What is happening over there? And then I heard the ice clink in the cup and I was like, here we go.

[00:01:44] Bruce Anthony: Well, Jay, we celebrating 200.

[00:01:47] J. Aundrea: I can't I can't believe it. I'm so excited. This is awesome. 200 episodes. People have been, you know, we posted on social media. I've been getting congratulations and stuff [00:02:00] on that. And so like, I'm very proud of us. We should be very proud of ourselves and each other. This is awesome. Yeah.

[00:02:11] Bruce Anthony: we are definitely letting you in to our dynamic. And also, by the way, there are like 10 questions that we're going to be asking ourselves. Y'all not getting all those questions. Why? Cause some of those questions are super personal. And we're going to put them on the After Hours Uncensored.

[00:02:29] Bruce Anthony: So once [00:02:30] again, we're promoting our After Hours Uncensored, where we continue on what will be the third segment. But this is the difference between me and my sister. She is obviously super excited for this episode. She gets up and pats herself on the back and congratulations. We did it. This is, this is something to cherish and say that this is an accomplishment.

[00:02:53] Bruce Anthony: I'm like, all right, get this over with and then move on to the next episode. That's just, I don't, I [00:03:00] don't ever take the time to just be like, yeah, no, this is pretty cool.

[00:03:04] J. Aundrea: Uh, that's a, that's because you don't like answering questions.

[00:03:07] Bruce Anthony: Uh, yeah, you're right. I don't like answering questions, but that's not, that's not solely the reason. It's also just because, you know, I mean, it's like, I expected to be here.

[00:03:19] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:03:20] Bruce Anthony: So to me, yes, it's an accomplishment, but what the hell else did I set out to do? Right. So it's kind of like me not being excited when I graduated [00:03:30] high school and college.

[00:03:30] Bruce Anthony: It was their mom and dad was like, you should be excited. And I'm just like, well, I'm supposed to do this with, I mean, I went to college.

[00:03:37] J. Aundrea: mean, just because you're supposed to hit certain milestones, like you're supposed to walk eventually, right? Like if you

[00:03:43] Bruce Anthony: I

[00:03:44] J. Aundrea: so when, but still when a baby does it, we celebrate those milestones because hitting them is still an accomplishment. Even if you feel like that's what you're supposed to be doing, hitting those milestones is still an accomplishment because there are a lot of people who [00:04:00] don't, there are so many podcasts.

[00:04:02] J. Aundrea: I mean. Got to be thousands that don't make it to a hundred episodes. so the fact that we've made it to 200, like you do have to stop a little bit and say, wow, that's really an accomplishment. 'cause a lot of, of podcasts don't make it

[00:04:19] Bruce Anthony: get it. Stop and smell the roses. Like take time to enjoy the process.

[00:04:25] J. Aundrea: right.

[00:04:25] Bruce Anthony: get it. I get it. But it's hard for me to get [00:04:30] like super excited. I recognize this is an accomplishment. I do. But also the hubris in me was like, yeah, no, I was supposed to do this. Like this, this is not an accomplishment to me because yeah, this is what I was supposed to do.

[00:04:41] Bruce Anthony: But I get it. I get it. Like

[00:04:44] J. Aundrea: but I get it. Mm,

[00:04:45] Bruce Anthony: we mean, it is hubris, like extreme confidence in oneself. That's what hubris means. That's that's the definition of hubris.

[00:04:56] J. Aundrea: Not quite.

[00:04:58] Bruce Anthony: No, that I know this [00:05:00] for a fact. That is definitely the definition of hubris.

[00:05:04] J. Aundrea: right. But like, it's, it's supposed to be like this excessive confidence, but like it, it, it's more on arrogance and like, and it leads to a downfall. Like it's an exaggerated, like there's a hubris is not quite out. Yeah.

[00:05:25] Bruce Anthony: it well, still fitting. Still still [00:05:30] still fitting. No.

[00:05:32] J. Aundrea: to put that kind of

[00:05:34] Bruce Anthony: I said me.

[00:05:35] J. Aundrea: bad juju on anything, but

[00:05:39] Bruce Anthony: you know, a look. No, no, no. I, I feel like I'm not showing appreciation for the, for the audience and, and that's not what it is, right? Like I am honestly, truly grateful for the audience and everything. And I am. I am. Exci, I'm, uh, what is the, what is the [00:06:00] emotion that I can express to, to make me feel, uh, I, I feel a sense of accomplishment,

[00:06:05] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:06:06] Bruce Anthony: but the job is not yet done.

[00:06:09] J. Aundrea: Right. But it's okay for you to say, yeah, I'm not where I want to be yet, but let me celebrate where I'm at right now, because this is further along than I was a year ago, two years ago.

[00:06:22] Bruce Anthony: O okay. Yes. You know what I get more excited about? For those of you that watch the video, I get more excited about the new graphics, , [00:06:30] right? I'm like, uh. But

[00:06:36] J. Aundrea: third. And I'm like, it's fine. We think about the font though. I think it's great. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:06:43] Bruce Anthony: you got to go back and look at the first episode I ever posted on

[00:06:48] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:06:49] Bruce Anthony: YouTube and like the screening like this, my bed is in the background, like my bed is in the background. It is horrible. And so I, that's the accomplishment.

[00:06:59] J. Aundrea: way.

[00:06:59] Bruce Anthony: [00:07:00] We didn't came up like seven up, but the audience doesn't want to hear us consistently pat ourselves on the back.

[00:07:07] Bruce Anthony: They think it to themselves right now. When the hell are they going to get to our questions? And so we're going to get to it right now. Okay.

[00:07:14] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:07:15] Bruce Anthony: So the first segment I took on all the questions that they sent to us and I divided it up into two segments. And this first segment is going, it's titled reflecting on the podcast journey.

[00:07:26] Bruce Anthony: And so this, all the questions that people sent to us that are [00:07:30] specifically associated with the journey of starting this podcast. And the very first question, what are some challenges you have faced while producing a podcast and how did you overcome them? You want to start this? Cause I know exactly what it is.

[00:07:47] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Well, one, I don't produce the podcast, so I am a co host once a week. So I don't, I don't produce the podcast, but, [00:08:00] I would say, Some of the challenges like production wise is that we never had a podcast before. So it's, it's all like learning how to do all the technical stuff on the fly. And then. scheduling the time to actually sit down and film. You know, cause we got lives, you know, jobs, school and pets and all kinds of, you know, we have lives. So it's, it's, [00:08:30] that part is hard. You know, sometimes we're tired. And it's a weekly show, you know, so sometimes we're tired. So there are those days where you're just like, I really just want to take a nap. But then but honestly, what I, what comes back to me every time I have those moments where I'm like, I'm, I'm tired or I'm busy and I don't feel like doing this is like audience. [00:09:00] You know, there are people that tune in every week and like, I hear from them tune in every week, you know, to hear what we have to say and our take on things and hopefully to learn something maybe they didn't know before. And it's the same way I approach, like, anytime I have to present something, it's like the audience has some information that has, I have information that y'all need to know. And, I can't just, [00:09:30] you know, walk away from that if, if I feel like reach somebody somewhere.

[00:09:38] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, that's, I guess that was, I, I did an interview and I'm going to be on another podcast and I let everybody know when that comes out, but it was, you know, what did you start the podcast for? And it was really, I love teaching and, and, and, and I love learning. And that's another reason why I do the interviews and I bring on [00:10:00] people is because you have something really interesting.

[00:10:03] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:10:03] Bruce Anthony: yes, come on the show. Let's talk about it. And then I learned stuff. And then hopefully the audience learned stuff too. The, the most challenging thing that I found producing, was producing personalities and not, not just you.

[00:10:20] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:10:21] Bruce Anthony: but myself as well,

[00:10:23] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Mm

[00:10:24] Bruce Anthony: it, it, I had to, and I'm still learning how to not get up on my [00:10:30] soapbox, especially when I have, when I do my private show, when it's just me not get up on my soapbox and start lecturing, um, I, I wish I had the ability, like our father has, our dad has the ability to challenge your thinking without insulting you.

[00:10:47] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:10:47] Bruce Anthony: And he'll just like, hmm, explain what you mean by that. Well, I'm I'm more in your face. I wish I was a little bit more. I don't know what the right word is, but just [00:11:00] a little less being too much.

[00:11:03] J. Aundrea: a softer touch,

[00:11:04] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know,

[00:11:05] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:11:06] Bruce Anthony: I had a little bit more of a softer touch, uh, producing the challenge and producing, especially during the election was Maintaining my sanity.

[00:11:16] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:11:18] Bruce Anthony: because there's content, there's information and content that people are coming to us and they want to hear our perspectives. It's not unsolicited. They want to hear our perspectives and [00:11:30] it's just like, God, I really don't want to talk about this because I have to prepare to talk about this

[00:11:35] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:11:35] Bruce Anthony: preparing to talk about this, doing research on it.

[00:11:38] Bruce Anthony: It's just like, wow, people are really the worst right now.

[00:11:41] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:11:42] Bruce Anthony: uh, so that's, that's challenging, uh, producing the podcast, but, uh, post production can be challenging at times. But that's also like, I get a kick out of it. You have been telling me for the longest when we started, it was like, Hey, you had to hand that off.

[00:11:56] Bruce Anthony: And I'm like, I don't know. I kind of like it. I don't, I don't know [00:12:00] if I'm going to hand that off, you know, I kind of like doing it.

[00:12:02] J. Aundrea: eventually I would love for us to have a producer so that we don't have to, especially you don't have to do this stuff, but you're absolutely right. I think probably the biggest challenge is the emotional labor sometimes that we put up with, especially topics that hit close to home or we just know are affecting a lot of people.

[00:12:25] J. Aundrea: Like, I know that this presents them to. I can't even say the word [00:12:30] because it just, the person occupying the White House is what I've been saying, that it is just, I mean, I've known people who have lost their jobs. I know people who, jobs might be in jeopardy because they work in DEI, you know, things like that.

[00:12:47] J. Aundrea: So it's really hitting close to home. So that emotional labor sometimes is a lot. Yeah.

[00:12:57] Bruce Anthony: that question. Bye. Next question. How long did it [00:13:00] take for you to grow your audience to its current size? And what strategies work best for you? Uh, it took us two years to grow it because it's still growing. It's still growing. I would say year one to two was our explosion, especially on YouTube, but not just that, just the streams from the audio.

[00:13:23] Bruce Anthony: Just so many downloads from all over the world. How did they find us? I, [00:13:30] because we have a presence online. That's the only thing that I can think of, right? Like if, even if you don't follow us on Instagram and our follower list, follow our group is, is growing on Instagram. Even if you don't follow us on Instagram, we might show up on your phone for you.

[00:13:45] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:13:46] Bruce Anthony: And then I know personally, sometimes people show up on my for you page for not only Instagram, Tik TOK at YouTube. And then I might actually go search them out. I might Google search them to find out what's going on.[00:14:00]

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

[00:14:00] Bruce Anthony: And then, Oh, wait a minute. They got a whole show. Let me just click on the show. Oh, wait a minute.

[00:14:04] Bruce Anthony: That show was pretty good. And that's how I've gotten. That's how I've personally followed people that have podcasts or YouTube shows. So, you know, I, the best strategy is just putting ourselves out there on every platform. Like there, the only platform that we ain't really popping on that we ain't really present on is X.

[00:14:25] Bruce Anthony: That's pretty much it. Everything else we popping on or not popping. We on.

[00:14:29] J. Aundrea: we're on[00:14:30]

[00:14:30] Bruce Anthony: yeah, so that's how we pretty much grown our audience. And then, making sure that I feature you. That's how we grow up. I say all the time. I'm the straight man. You the star and I'm completely okay with that because Everybody knows you're hilarious.

[00:14:48] Bruce Anthony: So yes, that's how we've grown to our current size.

[00:14:52] J. Aundrea: I am not a comedian nor am I comedic actress or anything like that. I'm actually just saying what's in my [00:15:00] head. Everybody's laughing at it, but I'm actually very serious. So I don't, don't know where it comes from that people are like, Oh, Johnny, you're so funny. I'm like, am I? All right.

[00:15:11] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, well, that's where we get that. Honestly, you know, everybody always says, you know, Bruce, you funny. And I'm like, yeah, but I'm not joking.

[00:15:20] J. Aundrea: I'm not joking.

[00:15:21] Bruce Anthony: I'm not joking.

[00:15:21] J. Aundrea: Um, and then as far as growing the audience. It's, it's, it's about constantly posting,

[00:15:28] Bruce Anthony: Mm hmm.

[00:15:28] J. Aundrea: getting yourself out [00:15:30] there the, the best way to grow your audience, do that first show,

[00:15:35] Bruce Anthony: Right.

[00:15:36] J. Aundrea: the first show, just film it. It's going to be bad. It's okay. It's going to be bad. It's okay. Just keep doing it and keep the consistency. And then, you know, Bruce, you finds. Little ways to now we have the YouTube exclusives and we have the behind, you know, the [00:16:00] behind the scenes stuff. We have all that stuff like find little ways to keep pushing content out there. People will see it and it will catch on.

[00:16:08] Bruce Anthony: The reason,

[00:16:09] J. Aundrea: you have to keep up the consistency.

[00:16:11] Bruce Anthony: the reason why I'm laughing, ladies and gentlemen, if you're watching the video is because it's to the detriment of my sister that I keep pushing stuff, I can see. She's got one, she's got one day to film,

[00:16:23] J. Aundrea: yeah,

[00:16:23] Bruce Anthony: like, well, you might as well block off a couple of hours, because we're going to go to work.

[00:16:27] J. Aundrea: that's exactly what happens. And we [00:16:30] film a lot in this, this couple hours, chunk of time that I have. Um, but I mean, but all of those things are going to keep growing the audience. And so it was just about consistency and keeping, keep it going. Like keep pushing content out there. People will see it and

[00:16:48] Bruce Anthony: Yeah,

[00:16:49] J. Aundrea: it'll catch on.

[00:16:50] Bruce Anthony: absolutely. All right. Next question. What is one piece of advice you would give to your younger selves when you started the podcast? So the younger selves was just two years ago, but two years

[00:16:59] J. Aundrea: ago, [00:17:00] which.

[00:17:00] Bruce Anthony: feels like a long time.

[00:17:02] J. Aundrea: I wasn't in my forties two years ago.

[00:17:04] Bruce Anthony: No, you sure the hell weren't. I was, but you weren't.

[00:17:07] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Um, I would give to myself, probably to believe in us and our dynamic and this idea more, you know what I mean? Because every time we hit some sort of milestone, I was shot. [00:17:30] And I'm like, I wish I had, you know, believed in. The power of our voices more. And so maybe I would have pushed myself a little more in the beginning. but I've, I feel like I caught on and I, I caught up to it.

[00:17:53] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, no, you, once again, you just started a show. What advice would I give?

[00:17:58] J. Aundrea: to that.

[00:17:58] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I do. [00:18:00] What would I give the younger self? Bruce, go back two years ago. Don't get the cheap equipment. That's number one. Don't try to cut corners on costs. It's going to cost. And then do some practice runs. Like before you record your first video podcast, record a whole video podcast just for you They figure out what you want to do with it and then go with it

[00:18:29] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:18:29] Bruce Anthony: then [00:18:30] like do a little bit more research.

[00:18:31] Bruce Anthony: Watch way more YouTube videos to pick up tips on how to do graphics and what graphics that you want. What's the right timing for graphics? Just basically editing stuff and oh, yeah, another thing. I would tell myself in the beginning, do more detailed outlines, because there were no outlines for the first 25 shows.

[00:18:55] Bruce Anthony: It was just some topics.

[00:18:56] J. Aundrea: I don't know when you started making the [00:19:00] rundowns, but they were very helpful because you know what? And it was actually, we got we got advice from a mutual friend who was like, Hey, maybe you guys should think about like segments, maybe

[00:19:12] Bruce Anthony: Yes.

[00:19:12] J. Aundrea: guys should like

[00:19:13] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:19:13] J. Aundrea: Have some sort of like logical flow to the show. And that was the best advice we got because we

[00:19:21] Bruce Anthony: and gentlemen,

[00:19:22] J. Aundrea: Oh, that's a smart idea.

[00:19:24] Bruce Anthony: ladies and gentlemen, we had, look, you have a film background, but the filming, A [00:19:30] show, a short, a video, a documentary is completely different than filming a podcast that's audio first and then switching to video, which, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, these are all things that I just decide to do and just tell my sister, hey, we're about to do this.

[00:19:47] Bruce Anthony: Let's see. Let's get ready. And she's like, wait, what?

[00:19:50] J. Aundrea: I thought this was going to be a fully audio podcast that I would not have to show my face every week. [00:20:00] Uh, but you know, it's fine. You know, I just roll with it. roll with it every week. It feels like we got something new that you've added on. And I just say, okay.

[00:20:11] Bruce Anthony: Well, also showing your face has helped. Showing our faces has helped the audience growth because I know for a fact one person who watches the show Specifically watches the show because they said you and I agree on a lot of things and your sister is fine I was like, oh, [00:20:30] okay. Well, thank you for watching the show.

[00:20:33] J. Aundrea: you for

[00:20:33] Bruce Anthony: I appreciate it Okay What's the biggest disagreement you've had while podcasting and how did you resolve it? I know exactly what it was. It

[00:20:47] J. Aundrea: don't know.

[00:20:48] Bruce Anthony: was a disagreement on a topic and the topic was me still listening to bad boy music.

[00:20:55] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:20:57] Bruce Anthony: You were extremely disappointed in [00:21:00] me. And there was another topic that we had that we, we got into it and people, people would left comments and there's like, y'all don't fight.

[00:21:07] Bruce Anthony: And like, what? This is just a normal conversation. I was like, we fight, but this is like a normal conversation.

[00:21:12] J. Aundrea: just a normal conversation. No, us fighting is very different. Like us fighting was very different, but no, we're not going to always a hundred percent agree. I do remember that. I can't remember what the topic was.

[00:21:25] Bruce Anthony: Can't remember what the topic was either.

[00:21:27] J. Aundrea: but it was, I was probably disappointed in you in some [00:21:30] way. Okay.

[00:21:30] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, no, I mean, yes, some of my viewpoints, you'd be disappointed. You'd be disappointed in me for a couple of different things. One, the misogyny still is not out of me. So you're, you're like,

[00:21:44] J. Aundrea: It's tough.

[00:21:45] Bruce Anthony: you'd be like, you'd be like, there you go right there. There it is. And then there's sometimes when you're like, no, You don't need to look at the other side.

[00:21:53] Bruce Anthony: This is the right side to just focus on that. And I'm like, well, but maybe you'd be like, no, don't do that. And how do we resolve the issues? [00:22:00] One, it's never a major issue. I don't, the last time that we've had an issue, we told the story before

[00:22:05] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:22:06] Bruce Anthony: at night, the drive back from the baseball game. And I left you in the car to go on the bar.

[00:22:13] Bruce Anthony: That was the last time that I. Allowed us to really have a real disagreement

[00:22:19] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:22:20] Bruce Anthony: I was in the wrong. You was really upset with me and I did not like the fact that my sister was not speaking to me. So I was like, maybe I need to change my ways. So [00:22:30] we don't really have like, like real, like we have not gotten into a knockdown drag out since then.

[00:22:37] Bruce Anthony: And that was. Well over 20 years ago.

[00:22:40] J. Aundrea: Yeah. I think it's I think it's just comes with age and experience. Like you just kind of agree to disagree or like, not even that it's like, I, if, if you're playing devil's advocate, which is one of the things that I. really dislike your personality. [00:23:00] I'll just say there is no reason to advocate for the devil.

[00:23:03] J. Aundrea: And I'll just walk away from the situation. Like, I

[00:23:07] Bruce Anthony: when you say it like that either. I don't really like playing. I don't really like the idea of playing devil's advocate. I just say less. No, I just,

[00:23:16] J. Aundrea: the time,

[00:23:17] Bruce Anthony: I just say less. Okay. Let's look at it from multiple points of view here.

[00:23:22] J. Aundrea: there aren't good people on both sides. There just aren't.

[00:23:24] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, no, absolutely. But even sometimes the bad people that have [00:23:30] bad takes, You, it's better to understand where they, where it is that they're coming from so that you can learn to try and reach them to change their bad take.

[00:23:39] Bruce Anthony: That's the reason why I do that.

[00:23:40] J. Aundrea: And that's where we disagree. Cause see, I don't care about changing people's minds. I care about changing policy. Like, I don't, I don't care about Joe Schmo in who gives a crap Georgia. I don't care about him. I care about changing policies. So like, I [00:24:00] know to a certain extent we have to change people's minds in order to change policy, but I, I'm not, I, I'm not a no teacher.

[00:24:07] J. Aundrea: I'm not here to teach nobody how to be a better person either. I ain't got time for that. I'm a

[00:24:14] Bruce Anthony: Okay, well,

[00:24:15] J. Aundrea: I ain't got time for that. I'm trying a degree,

[00:24:19] Bruce Anthony: or an LLC.

[00:24:22] J. Aundrea: trying to get both, to be honest with you. So, I mean, I don't have no time for that and, and black women have already [00:24:30] said. That's where he is. We minding our business.

[00:24:34] Bruce Anthony: Well, I don't try to change people's minds. That's not my goal. My goal is to change their heart.

[00:24:41] J. Aundrea: Oh my God. Next question.

[00:24:45] Bruce Anthony: The next question is going to be an entire segment and the entire segment is going to be personal stories, fun, and future plans. Once again, these are questions from you that we're going to answer and we're going to answer them next.

[00:24:59] [00:25:00]

[00:25:06] Bruce Anthony: All right, Jay. Now we're in the personal stories, fun and future plans segment.

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

[00:25:11] Bruce Anthony: Um, once again, these are all the questions from the audience. And one of the first questions is who is the most influential person in your life and how did they impact you? I'll let you start with this. Yeah,

[00:25:25] J. Aundrea: Is this, is it had to be some, so the question is who is the most influential [00:25:30] person in my life? So I assume this is like somebody I know.

[00:25:34] Bruce Anthony: it could, it's the most, okay, you're getting real literal and technical. Who is, what's the most influential person in your life?

[00:25:45] J. Aundrea: Somebody I know?

[00:25:47] Bruce Anthony: It could be anybody. What's the most? Yes.

[00:25:54] Bruce Anthony: My answer is going to be completely different, but okay. Prince, explain.

[00:25:59] J. Aundrea: The, [00:26:00] the reason I've always been such a huge Prince fan since the eighties because of, he was always unapologetically himself. And as a little kid who was masking, but didn't know I was masking at the time, I always felt this sort of inauthenticity and, um, about myself. And then to see Prince, who was just always unapologetically himself, if he wanted to wear assless [00:26:30] chaps, he was going to do it.

[00:26:32] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, you did it.

[00:26:33] J. Aundrea: and it was, and he was going to make the music he wanted to make. He didn't care about Warner brothers or anybody, you know, his labels, nothing like he was going to make the music he wanted to make. And I always really, really responded to that. And have tried. Now, especially as I get older, to try to be as authentic to myself, even if that means like unmasking sometimes be [00:27:00] as authentic to myself and my beliefs and my values and the person that I want to be as, as much as I can because of Prince's influence.

[00:27:09] Bruce Anthony: Okay. All right. That's dope. Let's, let's take that question and expand upon it. Person that you actually know. I

[00:27:18] J. Aundrea: person that I actually know that's been the most influential, is it weird to say myself? Um,[00:27:30]

[00:27:33] Bruce Anthony: can't stand you sometimes. I swear. Ladies and gentlemen, sometimes I can't stand my sister. I swear. The cacophony

[00:27:41] J. Aundrea: because I just always been a kind of person where it's like, I'm, I'm going to do what I want to do. And so I, It's not that I don't take other people's opinions and things into account. I do. I'll call people and ask like, Hey, what's your advice on this? [00:28:00] and if I'm talking about people that I actually call and get their advice, I mean, it's going to be our parents. It's you, our brother, you know, my closest friends, it's more of like a community of people, but at the same time, it's like, okay, what do I think and what do I feel is right in this situation? And go with that. I got, I got to listen to myself all of the other, the cacophony of voices I have to listen to. Myself ultimately. [00:28:30] But I mean, I go, I go to other people for advice and, and things like that, but ultimately I'm going to listen to, to myself and my own heart.

[00:28:41] Bruce Anthony: of voices, ladies and gentlemen. Don't even listen to them. No, no. I mean, that's dope. That's dope. For me, the people that I know, the most influential people that I know, it's not a person. It's two people and it's mom and dad. For me, especially as I've gotten older at the time, I [00:29:00] didn't realize the example that they were setting.

[00:29:02] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:29:04] Bruce Anthony: And the example of a work ethic

[00:29:06] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:29:07] Bruce Anthony: and, and a grind, And, and, and a sense of, yeah, we're going to go and accomplish this. This is what I plan. There, there hasn't been a thing that they said that they were going to do that they didn't. Well, no, there have been things, but I'm talking about accomplishments.

[00:29:24] Bruce Anthony: There hasn't been, there hasn't been a thing that they said that they were, we're going to do that they didn't accomplish. [00:29:30] And so seeing that, you know, going back to the top of the show, it was like, okay, I'm going to start a podcast. Yeah. Expect to get to 200 shows. Right. Like why would I not expect that?

[00:29:42] Bruce Anthony: Because I come from two people that say, yeah, I'm going to go to college. And even though I have a kid, Oh, wait a minute, two kids. Oh, wait a minute, three kids. And we're in our early twenties. And, and we might be on welfare. Yes. I'm [00:30:00] going to get myself out of this situation and still become successful.

[00:30:04] Bruce Anthony: How could I not look at that

[00:30:06] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:30:07] Bruce Anthony: growing up and absorb that, whether it was conscious or subconscious, and then now being older and looking back, just being like, yo, how the hell did y'all do that? I'm 44 years old. I don't know that I could do it now

[00:30:19] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:30:20] Bruce Anthony: half of my age. So that, that they've always influenced me.

[00:30:24] Bruce Anthony: Now, if you want to talk about people that I don't know that have influenced me, [00:30:30] This is going to sound weird, but it's two people. It's Cameron and Bernie Mac. Okay. Cameron

[00:30:40] J. Aundrea: I'm, now Bernie Mac I get because you, I don't know too many people that love Bernie Mac more than you do, But I'm interested in how Cameron figures into this. Is this is pink?

[00:30:56] Bruce Anthony: very much because of Prince, right? It's the same exact thing. [00:31:00] Cameron started wearing pink and it was during an era. Where you're like, you can't do that. It was during such machismo, such masculinity, such toxic masculinity of things that you couldn't do that Prince, mind you, what had been doing

[00:31:18] J. Aundrea: Right.

[00:31:19] Bruce Anthony: the longest time.

[00:31:20] Bruce Anthony: But I wasn't as big of a Prince fan. I was a Michael Jackson fan. Even Michael was kind of doing something similar to that, but it was still like, I'm not going to mimic my life after Michael Jackson. [00:31:30] I'm listening to nineties hip hop

[00:31:32] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:31:32] Bruce Anthony: it is gutter.

[00:31:34] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:31:35] Bruce Anthony: And then Cameron comes out there dressing for very Harlem.

[00:31:40] Bruce Anthony: That's the thing. Very Harlem

[00:31:41] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:31:42] Bruce Anthony: and fly. Want to be like goatee up and haircut, you know? And just being like, they used to call me a pretty boy when I was younger. And that was a negative backhanded compliment.

[00:31:59] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.[00:32:00]

[00:32:00] Bruce Anthony: Cameron was out here. It's like, call me that. Cause my goal is to get women. And I was like, that's my goal too.

[00:32:05] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:32:07] Bruce Anthony: That's what I want to do too.

[00:32:08] J. Aundrea: Right.

[00:32:09] Bruce Anthony: Love you. And Cameron is out here popping and get mad, respecting the streets that, okay, so I can be everything that I want to be and still be myself and not think that I'm less. So Cameron and Bernie Mac, just because he tells it, he told it like it is, he was unfiltered, [00:32:30] said what he wanted to say, but he was a good, by all interviews of people's That knew him

[00:32:37] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:32:37] Bruce Anthony: good, kind, decent person that you knew where you stood with him.

[00:32:42] Bruce Anthony: He wasn't going to lie to you. He wasn't going to cheat you. He was just going to be not to make a gender, but just be a man or just be a solid person about how they represented. And that influenced me.

[00:32:54] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:32:55] Bruce Anthony: and he did it his way. And I was like, you know, Yeah, I'm going to do [00:33:00] things my way. Either it's going to work out or not work out, but it's going to be on my terms.

[00:33:04] J. Aundrea: Yeah. You can, you can be a part of this business and still maintain your kindness.

[00:33:10] Bruce Anthony: Yes. And your individuality. Uh,

[00:33:14] J. Aundrea: And I read this, I didn't know that, I didn't know this, but Cameron actually went to Pantone, and created his own color and it's called Killa Pink.

[00:33:26] Bruce Anthony: well, I need to get me a couple of shirts and kill the paint. No, he's a, he [00:33:30] started his own podcast. It's successful. Not everything he do, he does. I agree with. Okay. But there are elements of him that I'm just like, yo, that's a dope dude. Okay. What's your favorite funny story to tell people? I know what mine is.

[00:33:47] J. Aundrea: My favorite funny story to tell people? Gosh, there's so many. Um,

[00:33:53] Bruce Anthony: They always have to do with you. It's never, it's never, well, it's one story.

[00:33:58] J. Aundrea: yours? And then,[00:34:00]

[00:34:01] Bruce Anthony: My funny story is when I threw the cup at your head, well, it's two.

[00:34:04] J. Aundrea: were gonna say that. I knew you were gonna talk about that cup. I knew it. I said, he better not talk about that damn cup that he threw at my head. And sure enough, here you go with that damn cup.

[00:34:16] Bruce Anthony: Look, it is funny because ladies and gentlemen, it's a little juice cup. It couldn't have been more than about four inches. And it was plastic.

[00:34:26] J. Aundrea: cup. It was a

[00:34:27] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:34:28] J. Aundrea: juice cup. Yes.

[00:34:29] Bruce Anthony: And I [00:34:30] don't remember what she did. We were kids, by the way. I don't remember what she did to piss me off. And from across the room, because I always had great aim.

[00:34:37] Bruce Anthony: I threw the cup. at her head and it literally hit her forehead, bounced off her forehead and came almost completely back to me from across the room. And at first you wanted to start crying, but I couldn't stop bringing up how far back it came back to me and everybody had to start laughing. Sorry. That is so hilarious to me.

[00:34:59] Bruce Anthony: I don't know how [00:35:00] old we were, but that, the cup at your head, hilarious. And then our brother run into the screen door. Like that.

[00:35:08] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:35:08] Bruce Anthony: running into the screen door and the movers that were moving us into the place was telling us not to laugh at him and all four of us just fallen, literally fallen out on the ground because he ran into that door, which, by the way,

[00:35:21] J. Aundrea: I mine is probably the the baseball game when you gotta hit I[00:35:30]

[00:35:30] Bruce Anthony: you got to tell the people about the baseball game. You got to do it. You brought it up.

[00:35:34] J. Aundrea: feel like we've already told that

[00:35:36] Bruce Anthony: I know, but we have people that are new to the show that don't know the story, so you gotta just give a brief synopsis of what happened at the baseball game.

[00:35:46] J. Aundrea: Very briefly because I don't want to embarrass him, but we, uh,

[00:35:52] Bruce Anthony: He's gonna hate us. He's gonna hate us.

[00:35:54] J. Aundrea: well, he already kind of does. So, um, we were at his [00:36:00] baseball game. He was in the outfield, fly ball. You just saw his little body arch and fall. And the problem was ran out to see if he was okay, but we were just falling off the bleachers laughing.

[00:36:17] Bruce Anthony: He has legitimate gripe to have real life beef with us. Yeah.

[00:36:22] J. Aundrea: yeah, yeah. Legitimate, legitimate beef.

[00:36:25] Bruce Anthony: Legitimate beef. But, uh, so yeah, that's, that's a funny story. All right. If you could interview [00:36:30] anyone, living or dead, who would it be and why? I know yours.

[00:36:34] J. Aundrea: You

[00:36:34] Bruce Anthony: We both know each other's, but, but yours is, go ahead, tell me.

[00:36:37] J. Aundrea: deGrasse Tyson.

[00:36:38] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Um.

[00:36:40] J. Aundrea: Tyson. He is still, that is, that is the celebrity get. I have so many stupid, stupid space questions. To ask him that I really want to know the answers to. And I feel like I could ask him questions. He's never been asked before because there's that dumb. [00:37:00] They're that dumb about space. And I, I just have to know.

[00:37:06] Bruce Anthony: Okay, so, yes, we both, we both would love to have Neil deGrasse Tyson on. He would never come on our show because we're a bunch of idiots and he has his own show.

[00:37:17] J. Aundrea: And I feel like Neil deGrasse Tyson does not suffer fools and that is exactly what we are. And so, but I also feel like he'll be very patient with us. Right? Like,

[00:37:27] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Well, we crack jokes.

[00:37:29] J. Aundrea: would be a good [00:37:30] guest.

[00:37:30] Bruce Anthony: He would crack jokes. And

[00:37:32] J. Aundrea: Yeah, feel like you'd be a great guest.

[00:37:34] Bruce Anthony: so ladies and gentlemen, what's funny is that my sisters doesn't do the interviews with me. I do the interviews by myself, but God forbid that I got Neil deGrasse Tyson to come on this show. Uh,

[00:37:55] J. Aundrea: for years. That would be the end of the Sibling Happy Hour, to be [00:38:00] honest with you.

[00:38:04] Bruce Anthony: I think that'd be the end of

[00:38:05] J. Aundrea: just

[00:38:05] Bruce Anthony: a whole simple. Yeah, that'd be the end of our whole siblinghood art. For me.

[00:38:11] J. Aundrea: no way.

[00:38:12] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, no, it wouldn't be for me. It's Bernie Mac.

[00:38:17] J. Aundrea: Yeah, that

[00:38:18] Bruce Anthony: It's Bernie Mac. The only other person, the only other person would be Lyndon Baines Johnson.

[00:38:25] J. Aundrea: would be a good get. Yeah,

[00:38:27] Bruce Anthony: you know, if I could, if I could talk to Lyndon [00:38:30] Baines Johnson, my favorite president of all time that to me, the greatest president and also Richard Nixon said the greatest legislative president Of the 20th century.

[00:38:44] Bruce Anthony: I mean, think about all the great presidents that we had in the 20th century. We had FDR, we had Teddy Roosevelt. We had, uh, uh, I mean, they want to say Kennedy, you know, I mean, we had LBJ.

[00:38:58] J. Aundrea: mm

[00:38:59] Bruce Anthony: know, we had [00:39:00] I mean, I guess you could put Clinton out there. I guess I think Herbert Walker was a better president, but we let's move on.

[00:39:07] Bruce Anthony: But no, Lyndon Baines Johnson. So those are for a lot of people out there. They'd be like, Oh, I get Bernie Mac, but Bruce, why LBJ? He's my favorite president. I'm a historian. Look him up. Let me tell you something. That man was a force of nature, the greatest and most important president that we've had since Lincoln.

[00:39:24] J. Aundrea: I

[00:39:25] Bruce Anthony: No, since Lincoln. Okay. This was submitted. [00:39:30] And I thought this was an interesting question when it was submitted. Which sibling is the grumpiest?

[00:39:38] J. Aundrea: think the natural inclination is to say our younger brother, but I actually don't think that that's correct. think it depends on the circumstance. I would say I'm grumpy like 80 percent of the time. Waking, waking you [00:40:00] up before you're ready to get up, you know, is a dangerous game to play. But I don't know.

[00:40:17] J. Aundrea: I don't know who, like, overall, I honestly, I would say me.

[00:40:22] Bruce Anthony: See, I, I see the grumpiest when, when I think of who, the grumpiest, I don't think of, I don't think [00:40:30] of it. Who is grumpy the majority of the time. Right? Because that, that varies between all three of us. Who is the grumpiest at their, at their, in their grumpy state?

[00:40:41] J. Aundrea: Oh, then. Yeah.

[00:40:43] Bruce Anthony: That's, that's me. That's, that's me because I may not be grumpy often, but when I,

[00:40:51] J. Aundrea: grumpy,

[00:40:52] Bruce Anthony: I get there,

[00:40:53] J. Aundrea: literally, there's talking you down, like it's, it's, you [00:41:00] know. Oh boy. Yeah.

[00:41:01] Bruce Anthony: how I am with all emotions. Like I don't have, I do have a full range of emotions. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not Spock from Star Trek. I try to stay even killed,

[00:41:11] J. Aundrea: Mm.

[00:41:12] Bruce Anthony: but if an emotion is heightened, it is heightened to the 1000th degree.

[00:41:18] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:41:19] Bruce Anthony: I am happy, happy. Whoo. If I am emotional, emotional. Whoo. So when we say who's the grumpiest, like that, if there was a [00:41:30] gauge

[00:41:30] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:41:30] Bruce Anthony: this person then hit the grumpiest meter and you can't get to Anymore grumpier than that.

[00:41:37] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:41:37] Bruce Anthony: would be me. Ladies and gentlemen. Yes. Yeah. And my sister is right. Don't wake me up before it's time for me to get up. I don't have no problem getting up in the morning when I wake myself up. Don't wait. Don't wake me. Don't wake me up. That's the reason why my phone is on. Do not disturb starting at nine 30 at night till nine o'clock in the morning.

[00:41:55] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:41:55] Bruce Anthony: I get mad at my alarm. I'd be ready to punch my alarm when I'm like, Hey man, [00:42:00] I forgot. I could sleep in the day. Why are you waking me up? You said it. Well, I said it wrong.

[00:42:06] J. Aundrea: I forgot to turn you off and I'm sorry,

[00:42:08] Bruce Anthony: Yep.

[00:42:09] J. Aundrea: but uh, you need to shut up

[00:42:11] Bruce Anthony: Shut, shut the hell up.

[00:42:13] J. Aundrea: up. not ready to get up. Yeah. I 100 percent agree with that.

[00:42:17] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but I'm the grumpiest. Okay. So the last question and personal stories, fun and future plans. Are you thinking of making merchandise such as t shirts, sweatshirts, hats, mugs, et [00:42:30] cetera? We did that. We did that like a year and a half ago and we advertised it and didn't nobody buy it.

[00:42:38] Bruce Anthony: So, well,

[00:42:41] J. Aundrea: and I don't think we should start with t shirts. I actually would like to start with mugs, like happy hour mugs or happy hour glasses or something, you know, where people can to the happy hour while they're listening or watching the happy hour. And [00:43:00] then, I feel like we didn't put as much into the design the shirts.

[00:43:08] Bruce Anthony: that's a direct attack against me because I'm the one who designed the shirts.

[00:43:12] J. Aundrea: Oh, I thought we had somebody do that.

[00:43:15] Bruce Anthony: Nope. I'm the one who designed them.

[00:43:17] J. Aundrea: Did you just use word art? Like what? Uh,

[00:43:27] Bruce Anthony: I can't stand you, I swear, no, [00:43:30] no.

[00:43:32] J. Aundrea: cause.

[00:43:33] Bruce Anthony: I went, I went to a company and you know, I put the logo and I designed the font and everything and I moved it around and yeah. So I. When I sent it, people were like, yeah, I want to get one. And then nobody bought it. And then it costs me money to have the store up and running.

[00:43:51] Bruce Anthony: So,

[00:43:52] J. Aundrea: work on

[00:43:53] Bruce Anthony: This is what I tell the people out there. First of all,

[00:43:55] J. Aundrea: help. I'll

[00:43:56] Bruce Anthony: of all,

[00:43:56] J. Aundrea: I'll help.

[00:43:57] Bruce Anthony: let me know if you're interested. Number one. [00:44:00] That you're going to buy some stuff we'll, we'll, we'll mark, we'll mark it so that we get no real profit. We break even one break, even I don't want to lose money selling t shirts and sweatshirts, but like I'll sell merch.

[00:44:13] Bruce Anthony: If y'all is serious about it, I will sell some merch. I will put the store back on the website and y'all could buy, y'all can buy it directly. From the website, it'll come straight to your home. I had it all set up and ready to go. And if y'all want some different designs and stuff, my sister came out with some glasses, [00:44:30] you know, I'll examine it.

[00:44:31] Bruce Anthony: And, and you know what, I tell you what, give me, give me a couple of weeks and it'll be up and running again, and y'all can go ahead and get some stuff. And we designed some more stuff. Cause I already got some stuff out there. Yes, we'll have merch. Okay. Yes, but I mean, I ain't going to have it up there for long if people ain't buying stuff.

[00:44:50] Bruce Anthony: If y'all not buying stuff, because that costs me money. If y'all not buying stuff, I'm taking it down again.

[00:44:58] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah. Look, [00:45:00] well, you say will no. Okay. Yeah, okay. Well, look, cause that costs money, ladies and gentlemen, he was like, it don't cost you money to run a store. Yes, it does. Even if it's virtual, that still costs money. All right. And, you know, but yes, we will put some stuff out there. If y'all want it, Hey, we're going to give y'all what y'all want.

[00:45:20] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:45:21] Bruce Anthony: How about that?

[00:45:22] J. Aundrea: There we

[00:45:22] Bruce Anthony: All right. Next segment, me and my sister ask each other questions and we're going to get into that. Next. [00:45:30] Next.

[00:45:31]

[00:45:38] Bruce Anthony: All right, for the final segment, it's the siblings. It's me and my sister asking each other questions. This was actually your idea. You sent me something and you was like, we should talk about this on the podcast. And I was like, this is really good. So we're going to do about three questions that, that obviously is going to take them about 15 minutes.

[00:45:56] Bruce Anthony: Cause that's how we do.

[00:45:57] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:45:57] Bruce Anthony: But there are 15 questions. [00:46:00] Are we going to get to all of them? Probably not. We're going to do three on the show. And then the others we're going to do in our after hours show. That's the after hours uncensored on our Patreon page at patreon. com backslash unsolicited perspectives that you can get for 5 a month.

[00:46:14] Bruce Anthony: Now, some people. Are tripping because it's 5 a month. Let me explain it to you. It's 5 a month for two hours of content. And what else can you get 5 with? You can't get a extra value mail from McDonald's for 5. You can't [00:46:30] get you no liquor. You can't get no six pack. You can't get no bottle where you can't get a bottle of wine from Audi.

[00:46:36] Bruce Anthony: You can do that.

[00:46:37] J. Aundrea: yeah,

[00:46:37] Bruce Anthony: you can't really put gas in your car to go nowhere for any length of time.

[00:46:42] J. Aundrea: can get home on five dollars

[00:46:45] Bruce Anthony: Right.

[00:46:46] J. Aundrea: Not far,

[00:46:47] Bruce Anthony: You might be able to get a carton of eggs, maybe.

[00:46:50] J. Aundrea: maybe

[00:46:51] Bruce Anthony: You won't be able to get a half dozen, you won't be able to get more than two things of Gatorade Zero with five dollars, that's pretty much it.

[00:46:59] J. Aundrea: [00:47:00] Yeah,

[00:47:00] Bruce Anthony: you can, you can get two bags of Harris Teeter kettle chips, but you need, you need some change for the tax, because it's 2.

[00:47:11] Bruce Anthony: 50 for two bags, so really you can only get one bag, and maybe a Snapple?

[00:47:16] J. Aundrea: maybe.

[00:47:17] Bruce Anthony: Maybe a snapple. So for 5 a month, two hours of content. If you guys want to hear more of these questions, we're going to be doing right after this, after we [00:47:30] finished filming this, we're going to be filming that it'll be up on Monday night.

[00:47:34] Bruce Anthony: So a matter of fact, it's already up. If you're listening or watching the show, it's already up. You can, you can go and listen and watch it. So there it is. Jay, what is your favorite memory of us?

[00:47:49] J. Aundrea: Oh, me and you, those, those rides back to Howard when I was a freshman in college at Howard university, and you were at the [00:48:00] university of Maryland and we would go home on weekends to do laundry, just have moms cooking just, you know, cause it was just a Metro ride, you know? So. And you would take me back to school. And now before that. We weren't that close, and that we, that on those rides, just like joking, making jokes together and stuff like that. I realized, hey, this guy's kind of funny. [00:48:30] You know, we have a very similar sense of humor. He's all right. And honestly, that's when I started to like you.

[00:48:41] Bruce Anthony: Always love me, but that's when you started like,

[00:48:43] J. Aundrea: you, always loved you. But that's when I started to like you.

[00:48:47] Bruce Anthony: yeah,

[00:48:48] J. Aundrea: And then I think that's when you stopped seeing me as your, as your little sister. And I just became your sister. And that changed the dynamic of our relationship. You stopped [00:49:00] being so bossy. Cause like, we're both in college at this point, so, you know, both uh, getting into adulthood.

[00:49:11] Bruce Anthony: yeah, that, so I have two favorite memories that, and when we were younger, younger. So I want to talk about the rides, ladies and gentlemen, y'all have to understand me and my sister are four years apart and that's, you know, When we get to this big age, that's not that big of a difference, but when you're [00:49:30] younger, it, we, we only went to elementary school together for a little bit.

[00:49:34] Bruce Anthony: Other than that, we were never in school together. Unlike her and our brother who are a year and a half apart. They're almost twins. Almost, almost like they've, They've always been around each other. So the siblings have been, it was me off to my own. Oftentimes, like when we lived in places and we all had our own bedroom, my bedroom was always downstairs.

[00:49:56] Bruce Anthony: I was always separated from everybody,

[00:49:58] J. Aundrea: Yeah.[00:50:00]

[00:50:00] Bruce Anthony: Emotionally, mentally, and physically.

[00:50:03] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:50:03] Bruce Anthony: separate it.

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

[00:50:05] Bruce Anthony: and I was the oldest sibling, which meant that I was the third parent, whether I wanted to be or not, just because our parents are so young, that responsibility was kind of heaped on me. So you and our brother was like, all he does is bosses around.

[00:50:18] Bruce Anthony: And I did, uh, like, like extremely selfish and, and was still am in some regards selfish. So those rides, just as I'm you're learning [00:50:30] about me, I'm learning about you. And if you remember, I was a huge advocate for you to go to that university. Huge,

[00:50:38] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:50:39] Bruce Anthony: uh, advocate for you to go to that university and whatever you needed to be successful because I was championing you, I was going to do it.

[00:50:49] Bruce Anthony: And I, somewhere along the line, we just Let down our guard to actually learn about each other because now [00:51:00] we're adults and you're right. I stopped looking at you as my little sister and started looking at you as my sister. Um, so yes, there's that. But also for me, you and our brother don't have the fondest memories.

[00:51:17] Bruce Anthony: That I do for this, but when we used to do brother and sister day, when we were really, really young,

[00:51:23] J. Aundrea: We do have fond memories of

[00:51:25] Bruce Anthony: well, okay, I'm talking about really young when we were still living [00:51:30] in Lynchburg, like when we were little kids and it would be something that always wanted to do, because I didn't know any better to incorporate things that y'all wanted to do.

[00:51:39] Bruce Anthony: I was just like, I just want to hang out with what I thought at that time, my little brother and sister. And I want to spend time with them because I begged mom and dad for y'all like, like I did, I begged mom and dad when I was the only child for the longest time, like, I want a little brother and little sister.

[00:51:58] Bruce Anthony: And then when you came in [00:52:00] and you were there, I was attached to your hip when we were young, young kids. So around the age of like 10 or 11, I wanted to make sure that even though I was going out doing my own thing, that I always spent time with my little brother and sister. So I have really fond memories.

[00:52:16] Bruce Anthony: that. And then those car rides, those car rides is when we became like tight.

[00:52:22] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

[00:52:24] Bruce Anthony: we became tight. Cause I still remember some of them ads for the chicken wings.[00:52:30]

[00:52:30] J. Aundrea: want chicken? You want chicken done right? Come on down to Cluckie Chicken.

[00:52:35] Bruce Anthony: That wasn't even a chicken spot. I mean either, but we came up

[00:52:44] J. Aundrea: but

[00:52:45] Bruce Anthony: with a ton of commercials, uh,

[00:52:47] J. Aundrea: ton of ads for that.

[00:52:48] Bruce Anthony: Yeah,

[00:52:49] J. Aundrea: all the businesses that are down Georgia Avenue. We just kept coming up with ideas for those.

[00:52:55] Bruce Anthony: because, because we weren't that cool, we probably [00:53:00] did not come up for ads for the strip clubs because there was two strip clubs that we passed by. And I was just like, I'm not touching that with 10 foot pole. Like

[00:53:10] J. Aundrea: yeah,

[00:53:10] Bruce Anthony: now I don't, now I can do

[00:53:12] J. Aundrea: do it.

[00:53:12] Bruce Anthony: it. Now we do, but back then, no,

[00:53:14] J. Aundrea: then, probably not.

[00:53:15] Bruce Anthony: baby steps, baby steps.

[00:53:17] J. Aundrea: And then us, and then us working together at Hard Rock.

[00:53:20] Bruce Anthony: yes.

[00:53:21] J. Aundrea: think we got even closer. when I started working there. So

[00:53:26] Bruce Anthony: You hated me a little bit there too.

[00:53:29] J. Aundrea: uh, cause [00:53:30] again, you went back into kind of like bossy mode. At first of all, all of y'all got on my nerves because y'all were all coming to my host stand and complain about who I sat in your section and I, or you were in the weeds or something and I sat somebody, listen, my job is hard too.

[00:53:45] J. Aundrea: Okay. Don't keep coming up to this host stand with complaints. I'm gonna send you back crying.

[00:53:52] Bruce Anthony: I never went back crying.

[00:53:54] J. Aundrea: I, I, I was not nice, because y'all would get on my nerves. I'd be [00:54:00] like, y'all get the hell away from my house.

[00:54:03] Bruce Anthony: No, but that was, that was a fun time too. Cause if that was the time, the drive is when we got to know each other. Hard rock is actually, there were times we actually got to hang like a,

[00:54:17] J. Aundrea: yes.

[00:54:18] Bruce Anthony: Cause I, but there was still me being overprotective. I've been like, are you drinking too fast? Just slow down. Just sit.

[00:54:24] Bruce Anthony: Just sit.

[00:54:25] J. Aundrea: you were the one buying me the drinks.

[00:54:27] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I know. But you was drinking too fast. You still drink too fast. Matter of [00:54:30] fact, you do everything fast. You drive fast. You drink fast. Like just slow down.

[00:54:34] J. Aundrea: anymore.

[00:54:35] Bruce Anthony: Okay. We're getting older.

[00:54:36] J. Aundrea: the other day, I was at 10 and 2, and I was like, what am I doing? Like, I'm not even driving cool right now.

[00:54:42] Bruce Anthony: Now you get older. You just want to get on safely.

[00:54:45] J. Aundrea: and I was leaning so close to the steering wheel. I couldn't, I

[00:54:49] Bruce Anthony: KC?

[00:54:49] J. Aundrea: like this?

[00:54:50] Bruce Anthony: You're KC?

[00:54:51] J. Aundrea: was, I was trying to see, and I was like, I can't Why do I drive like this? It's ridiculous.

[00:54:58] Bruce Anthony: All right what is something that you [00:55:00] got away with as a kid?

[00:55:03] J. Aundrea: So oh boy, somebody's up. so, um, We got into a lot of shenanigans. I always had a lot of great ideas, genius ideas, honestly. And one of my best ideas was stairs luge. And stair luge is just what it sounds like. Uh, it's a luge, but you're on the stairs. So I would our [00:55:30] younger brother in a bucket and I would push that bucket down the stairs.

[00:55:33] J. Aundrea: Well, one time our stairs in our old house used to twist. Curve at the bottom. And one time he went right into that wall. He went right into the wall and there was a huge hole in the wall. So what we did is we went up to the attic and we got extra wallpaper that we had. And we lined that wallpaper up. I mean, cause it was like a striped wallpaper and we lined it up perfectly.

[00:55:57] J. Aundrea: Taped it up. Our parents never knew [00:56:00] until we were getting ready to move and they were changing the wallpaper. And they. Took the old wallpaper down and found this gigantic hole in the wall that they never knew was

[00:56:11] J. Aundrea: there.

[00:56:12] Bruce Anthony: how big was a hole? Two, how long was that hole there?

[00:56:16] J. Aundrea: Years, and it had to be at least a foot across.

[00:56:20] Bruce Anthony: Jesus

[00:56:21] J. Aundrea: was a gigantic hole. we just covered it up with the old, with the spare wallpaper and nobody knew for [00:56:30] years. I

[00:56:30] Bruce Anthony: you That's another thing about doing this show. The more we've done this show is the more I've learned about you and our brother's shenanigans. Like, like, y'all was out here living a life. Living a life.

[00:56:47] J. Aundrea: up to stuff

[00:56:48] Bruce Anthony: Yes!

[00:56:49] J. Aundrea: the time. We

[00:56:50] Bruce Anthony: Um,

[00:56:51] J. Aundrea: up to stuff, yes. Yes.

[00:56:53] Bruce Anthony: what did I get away with as a kid? Nothing, nothing because I was the first. So that means they was [00:57:00] on me all the time.

[00:57:01] Bruce Anthony: Mom and dad was watching me all the time. I didn't have free time to not do nothing. And then when I did have free time, guess what I was watching y'all. So there was nothing that I could sneak around and get and do now. I wasn't a kid. I was older.

[00:57:18] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:57:19] Bruce Anthony: And when I say older, I mean, senior in high school before drinking age.

[00:57:26] J. Aundrea: hmm.

[00:57:26] Bruce Anthony: And there was a rule in the house that dad was like, look, [00:57:30] turn 16. I don't mind y'all drinking. You do it in the house. I'll get you whatever you want. We'll do it in the house. Don't leave this house. And I was like, cool deal. I left that.

[00:57:40] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:57:42] Bruce Anthony: I left that. My bedroom was downstairs. Everybody go to sleep. Guess what?

[00:57:47] Bruce Anthony: I'm leaving that house. But, uh, also our dad had super hearing, super hearing.

[00:57:53] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:57:54] Bruce Anthony: He had hearing like Superman. So he would always hear something going on

[00:57:59] J. Aundrea: [00:58:00] Yeah.

[00:58:00] Bruce Anthony: like, Hey, what's going on? And if I wasn't there, trouble, but like as a kid, nothing, but also I was kind of like a good kid. I didn't want to break no rules.

[00:58:09] J. Aundrea: Nah, I was, I was a shady kid. I had, I always had some scheme.

[00:58:14] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Kids Olympics. We've already gone over that.

[00:58:16] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:58:16] Bruce Anthony: All right. Last question. And once again, if y'all want more of the questions after hours, uncensored on our Patreon page, how do you think our upbringing has influenced the people we are today?[00:58:30]

[00:58:31] J. Aundrea: Significantly, you know, one of the main things that I talk about, like in my life is the fact that I will go and find the information that I don't know. And that came from both of our parents, our dad, like fostering an analytical mind, making us read the paper and then reporting on it and like, [00:59:00] Asking us questions and trying to get our thoughts on whatever article that we read. And the fact that when I would go and ask mom, you know, what, what does this word mean? Or what is this that is that and her response was always look it up and the point where I stopped asking and my first instinct was to look it up. So it does irked me a little bit when people's first instinct is to ask somebody instead of trying to find the information on their own.

[00:59:29] J. Aundrea: I'm trying to [00:59:30] give people a little more grace with that because they didn't grow up the way I grew up, but definitely, an inquisitive mind and an analytical mind we got from our parents and how they raised us. Everybody does.

[00:59:45] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. You know, I said it earlier, mom and dad, you know, can't give them enough praise. Do we have some childhood trauma? Yeah. Yeah, but everybody has childhood trauma. Everybody has childhood trauma. But the things that [01:00:00] our parents gave us, wow, you can't, you can't, you wouldn't have to buy that. Like, it's just, and they gave it to us for free.

[01:00:10] Bruce Anthony: They gave it to us for free. And it's the ability to critically think

[01:00:16] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[01:00:18] Bruce Anthony: and analyze. And those are blessings that I'm finding out. Like not everybody has, I assumed like you, everybody, you know, had this and they do not. [01:00:30] So I'm very, very,

[01:00:32] J. Aundrea: the number of people who cannot think critically, and that is how we are in the current political situation that we're in today.

[01:00:38] Bruce Anthony: yeah, well, I mean, yes. Well, yeah, yeah. Or their emotions get involved with them. Not being able to think critically. I mean, here I go again. Yeah. Doing the thing that you hate, but you know,

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

[01:00:52] Bruce Anthony: But you know, as well as I do that, sometimes emotions get involved in your critical thinking, because me and you have put ourselves [01:01:00] in personal situations that we were like, I'm smarter than this.

[01:01:03] Bruce Anthony: How did I put myself in this situation? And it was our emotions that guided our decisions. So that we are, you know, we ain't infallible, but yeah, mom and dad, but not just mom and dad for me, it's also our grandparents, uh, because

[01:01:19] J. Aundrea: great grandparents.

[01:01:20] Bruce Anthony: All of them were hustlers, like all of them. And I don't mean like hustler, hustler, grinders is the right word to use.

[01:01:26] Bruce Anthony: All of them were grinders and like, yes, [01:01:30] and go out there and go get it. Like everybody was go out there and go get it. So I am so grateful for the generations before us.

[01:01:39] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[01:01:40] Bruce Anthony: us the way.

[01:01:40] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[01:01:41] Bruce Anthony: that's the reason why we have the guts to even start this podcast and get to 200 episodes. That's how we do it.

[01:01:51] Bruce Anthony: And you see, ladies and gentlemen, you see how much different, if you go back and listen to a hundredth episode. I'll be landing these segment breaks, [01:02:00] boy.

[01:02:03] J. Aundrea: Got much better.

[01:02:05] Bruce Anthony: I'll be bringing them back together. I don't care what nobody say. I'm starting to get real good at this.

[01:02:11] J. Aundrea: No, I have to, I have to give you props. That is 100 percent true. Yeah.

[01:02:15] Bruce Anthony: Jay, what do you want to leave the people with? I

[01:02:22] J. Aundrea: really appreciate every single one of you. Thank you so much for, for rocking with us for this long. [01:02:30] Even if you're new to the podcast. Thank you so much. Like, seriously, We wouldn't have a podcast if you guys didn't listen. So thank you so much for your questions. I still think it's crazy that you guys want to know about us, but we're happy to share.

[01:02:48] J. Aundrea: Well, I am, you know, but just thank you the bottom of my heart. Thank you.

[01:02:58] Bruce Anthony: want to say thank you as [01:03:00] well. I know at the beginning of the podcast, if you were listening, it didn't come off as I was really enthusiastic about hitting the 200th episode. And that is a flaw of mine, whereas I set out to have a goal and I don't ever appreciate the destination. It is just. Getting to the end result, but I am extremely appreciative of everybody.

[01:03:25] Bruce Anthony: The people who watch us because they enjoy us, the people that watch [01:03:30] us or listen to us because they love us. The people that hate watches and listen to us. I even appreciate y'all. Hey, look, you know, you done done something right when you got some haters. So I love the love. I love the hate. Thank you just for us getting here.

[01:03:44] Bruce Anthony: And guess what? 200 more. I can't wait to celebrate episode 400. That'll be in two years. The way these things is going, because I ain't going to add no more episodes during the week. I'm just not going to do it. That that don't hold me to that. Cause that could be a lie.

[01:03:58] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[01:03:59] Bruce Anthony: could [01:04:00] very well be a lie.

[01:04:00] J. Aundrea: feeling like it might be.

[01:04:02] Bruce Anthony: It could very well be a lie, but just, you know, thank you for real.

[01:04:07] Bruce Anthony: For real. Thank you for your questions. Thank you for your support. Thank you. And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching and until next time, as always, I'll holler.

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