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

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[00:00:36] Sibling Happy Hour: Spicy Takes & Drinks 🍹🌶️

[00:00:36] Bruce Anthoy: On today's episode, it's a sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis, J Andrea. We're going to be dilly dallying a little bit. Then we're going to be talking about King Tut, not the one that you're thinking of, somebody else.

[00:00:47] Bruce Anthoy: And then when somebody offers you an opinion about a movie or music, and it actually turns out to be okay, but that's enough of the intro. We're going to get into the show.[00:01:00]

[00:01:05] Bruce Anthoy: What up sis?

[00:01:06] Bruce Anthoy: What up, brother?

[00:01:07] Bruce Anthoy: You'd like to change that, that last little line on it.

[00:01:10] J. Aundrea: that made me, that made me crack up. It turned out to be okay.

[00:01:15] Bruce Anthoy: I didn't say let's start the show. Let's get to the show. I said, now we're going to get into the show.

[00:01:20] J. Aundrea: Oh, I did not notice.

[00:01:21] Bruce Anthoy: Okay. Well, cause it's so repetitive.

[00:01:24] J. Aundrea: oh, very, it was very similar. So I, I didn't notice.

[00:01:28] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah.

[00:01:29] J. Aundrea: I just know that [00:01:30] you're back to say what up sis, so that I could say what up brother. Because last week,

[00:01:36] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah. Last week. Oh, this I'm not following a fire. Ooh. See right there. Following. Hmm.

[00:01:41] J. Aundrea: did pay pretty.

[00:01:43] Bruce Anthoy: Right. Firing at all cylinders either because that little mishap at the end of the intro was not on purpose. Yeah,

[00:01:50] J. Aundrea: you know what? They probably, probably nobody would have noticed if he hadn't said anything.

[00:01:54] Bruce Anthoy: I like to point out the stuff before people point it out. You know, that's just how we was raised, you know, point out, point out where you mess up so [00:02:00] nobody else can jump on it.

[00:02:02] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:02:02] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's that. That's how you like, if you know a my breath stink. Okay, click story.

[00:02:11] A Night Out: Dehydration, Tequila, and Breath Mints Gone Wrong 🍹💨😂

[00:02:11] Bruce Anthoy: Now, I want to get into it deeper as we get into dilly dallying, but our brother just turned a certain age.

[00:02:20] Bruce Anthoy: I don't know if he wants us to put his age out there.

[00:02:22] J. Aundrea: Cause he likes to lie about it.

[00:02:25] Bruce Anthoy: yeah, he does. And, so we went out

[00:02:28] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:02:29] Bruce Anthoy: I invited out [00:02:30] my bestie, another really good friend of mine and her best friend came out. So it was, and our cousin.

[00:02:35] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:02:37] Bruce Anthoy: so we were all out

[00:02:38] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:02:38] Bruce Anthoy: and you know, when you're drinking a lot and you become dehydrated.

[00:02:43] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:02:44] Bruce Anthoy: Now, what happens when you become dehydrated?

[00:02:46] Bruce Anthoy: Your mouth gets a little sour

[00:02:49] J. Aundrea: Okay. Yes. Yes.

[00:02:51] Bruce Anthoy: cause you're, cause you're parched, right? You're thirsty. So your mouth gets a little sour. So I was talking to this young lady at the bar and she was [00:03:00] asking me, cause she drinks vodka. And she was like, so my friends have been telling me about tequila. What can you tell me about tequila? And I wanted to lean in and talk to her.

[00:03:06] Bruce Anthoy: And I cover my mouth. And I was like, look, I'm just gonna be real honest. I'm dehydrated. And it feels like my breath stinks, so I'm gonna cover my mouth to hide the smell, but still tell you everything that's going on. Now, I jumped ahead of the problem and pointed out so that when I was talking to her, she couldn't be like, damn your breath stink.

[00:03:25] Bruce Anthoy: And I, Hey, look, I told you my breath stink.

[00:03:29] J. Aundrea: [00:03:30] Um,

[00:03:30] Bruce Anthoy: she didn't.

[00:03:31] J. Aundrea: Well, because you preemptively, you say, you know what, let me just cover up, let me cover up and then I'll whisper it to you. But I didn't want to look like, you know, it was two little girls whispering and put my hand, my hands in front of my mouth because my breath stink.

[00:03:45] Bruce Anthoy: Right.

[00:03:46] J. Aundrea: Got it.

[00:03:47] Bruce Anthoy: Our brother said, our brother said, roofie in your drink? Cause I took, I have these special, breath mints.

[00:03:54] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:03:55] Bruce Anthoy: We're called smart mouth breath mints or something like that.

[00:03:57] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:03:57] Bruce Anthoy: there are four people that like [00:04:00] get dehydrated. I'm always dehydrated for some strange reason, even though I drank like two gallons of water a day,

[00:04:07] J. Aundrea: You

[00:04:07] Bruce Anthoy: my hat,

[00:04:07] J. Aundrea: sweat a lot, I think.

[00:04:09] Bruce Anthoy: I sweat a lot.

[00:04:10] J. Aundrea: cause you work out. Like, so, have to drink that much water just to maintain sort of stasis.

[00:04:18] Bruce Anthoy: True.

[00:04:19] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:04:20] Bruce Anthoy: I probably drank half a liter of alcohol a day. So that might have something to do with this. Yeah. It might have a little something to do with it too.

[00:04:27] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:04:28] Bruce Anthoy: So I took the smart mouth [00:04:30] breath mint. And I put it in my drink because I was like, Hey, look, I could still have my drink and then it'll mix in the breath mint.

[00:04:37] Bruce Anthoy: But our brother,

[00:04:37] J. Aundrea: not how that works.

[00:04:38] Bruce Anthoy: and it didn't work. But our brother's like, did you just roofie your drink? I was like, no, this is a breath mint. He's like, put it in your mouth. I was like, I am through this drink.

[00:04:47] J. Aundrea: Yeah, that looks, that looks suspect. For you to put something in your own drink and drink it, maybe hoping somebody would take advantage of you, maybe. I don't know what, what the, what [00:05:00] the goal would be to roofie yourself,

[00:05:02] Bruce Anthoy: Hey, maybe it wouldn't. Maybe.

[00:05:03] J. Aundrea: what was happening.

[00:05:05] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah. Maybe it's not a roofie. Maybe it's a Percocet.

[00:05:08] J. Aundrea: It could be that.

[00:05:09] Bruce Anthoy: Miley Percocet. So we went out

[00:05:13] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:05:14] Bruce Anthoy: and I'm too old to go out. I'm too old.

[00:05:17] J. Aundrea: Oh, listen, same. I think if anyone were to say, Hey, I'm having my birthday. We're going to such and such club. My first question, well, my first question is what's the parking situation, but

[00:05:29] Bruce Anthoy: Mm [00:05:30] hmm.

[00:05:30] J. Aundrea: my next question is, do we have a section? Because I'm going to sit,

[00:05:35] Bruce Anthoy: Mm hmm.

[00:05:35] J. Aundrea: I'm a sit, I'm a sit the whole time.

[00:05:38] J. Aundrea: I'm a sit and I'm a drink and I'm going to sit. So if we don't have a section I feel like at our age. At our big ass age,

[00:05:49] Bruce Anthoy: Mm hmm.

[00:05:49] J. Aundrea: have a section, what are we doing?

[00:05:52] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah. Right. Especially if you go into a club,

[00:05:54] J. Aundrea: Yeah, because I'm 40 and if I at 40 can't sit in a section, [00:06:00] there's something wrong. I'm going home. I need a special wristband that lets me into a special area that's a little calmer and has a couch. That's what I need.

[00:06:13] Bruce Anthoy: so you know how some people say, you know, once you've had a taste of like certain things, like you don't want to go back. So some people like once they write,

[00:06:21] J. Aundrea: want to go back to being regular.

[00:06:23] Bruce Anthoy: right. Yeah. So some people ride around in first class and they're like, I don't want to ride in coach.

[00:06:27] J. Aundrea: Me,

[00:06:28] Bruce Anthoy: Okay.

[00:06:29] J. Aundrea: you're [00:06:30] specifically talking about me.

[00:06:31] Bruce Anthoy: I was more talking about a brother, but yeah, you and our brother are similar in this.

[00:06:35] J. Aundrea: got that from me

[00:06:37] Bruce Anthoy: Okay.

[00:06:39] J. Aundrea: because one time after flying first class for a while, I flew somewhere with him and we flew economy and I was so upset standing in the line. Waiting to get on the plane. He was like, what's wrong with you? And I was just like, I don't want to be regular. I'm, I, I'm sick of being regular. And he looked at me like [00:07:00] I was an elitist jerk, but it's like, once you get a taste. Uh, uh, filet mignon. You don't want to go back to Outback. And Outback's but it's

[00:07:10] Bruce Anthoy: is delicious.

[00:07:11] J. Aundrea: still.

[00:07:12] Bruce Anthoy: I mean, you went to Outback. I was like, I can still go to Outback. You can get the filet mignon at Outback. I thought you was gonna go once you had filet mignon, you don't wanna go back to Steakums.

[00:07:23] J. Aundrea: I mean once you have filet mignon, you ain't going back to Shake Shack.

[00:07:26] Bruce Anthoy: You might cuz Shake Shack's delicious.

[00:07:28] J. Aundrea: Shack's also delicious. There's

[00:07:29] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah.

[00:07:29] J. Aundrea: [00:07:30] a good, there's really not a good, I don't know, McDonald's. Sure, because

[00:07:34] Bruce Anthoy: I love McDonald's.

[00:07:35] J. Aundrea: McDonald's

[00:07:36] Bruce Anthoy: I love,

[00:07:37] J. Aundrea: it's not,

[00:07:37] Bruce Anthoy: love McDonald's.

[00:07:39] J. Aundrea: There's crack in That's

[00:07:40] Bruce Anthoy: is.

[00:07:41] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:07:42] Bruce Anthoy: I've loved it ever since I was a little kid. It's a, it's a, it's a thing. You know, you get to some McDonald's, you just start dancing and being happy.

[00:07:48] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:07:49] Old Bruce Strikes Again: Club Drama and Almost-Fights 🥊🍸👊

[00:07:49] Bruce Anthoy: Old Bruce came out. When we went out to the, to the club, do you know what old Bruce is?

[00:07:55] J. Aundrea: No.

[00:07:56] Bruce Anthoy: My boys,

[00:07:57] J. Aundrea: I've met him before. Yeah.

[00:07:58] Bruce Anthoy: my boys know [00:08:00] old Bruce.

[00:08:00] Bruce Anthoy: So when my two boys from high school, who was still my brothers, when we were in high school and college, they used to say, man, Hey, look, just be calm tonight and just have a good time. I was like, what do you mean? Every time we go out, you always get into an altercation. I was like, I don't always get into it.

[00:08:19] J. Aundrea: That

[00:08:19] Bruce Anthoy: don't know.

[00:08:19] J. Aundrea: Bruce.

[00:08:20] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah. That old Bruce.

[00:08:21] J. Aundrea: is,

[00:08:21] Bruce Anthoy: Okay. So old Bruce came out.

[00:08:23] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:08:23] Bruce Anthoy: I almost got into two altercations.

[00:08:26] J. Aundrea: you instigate when you

[00:08:27] Bruce Anthoy: No, no, no, no. This wasn't me [00:08:30] instigating the first, the first situation. I remember clearly, a group of women were walking past and it got rowdy with another group of guys and then drinks got thrown.

[00:08:41] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:08:42] Bruce Anthoy: And I was like, yo, what happened?

[00:08:43] Bruce Anthoy: Like, what's the matter shorty? Like, calm down, you know, like, no, I need you to throw a drink in my face. You didn't say that. And I turned to look, the dude is like, yo, you throwing drinks in women's faces?

[00:08:53] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:08:53] Bruce Anthoy: what's wrong with you? He was like, she threw a drink at me. I was like, so I was like, yo, this is [00:09:00] what y'all punk boys on y'all.

[00:09:02] Bruce Anthoy: Young punk boys is on nowadays. This is how we really treat women that you're going to throw a drink on her. And I was like, she probably didn't throw a drink on you for no reason. You did something for her to throw a drink. You probably disrespect her in a way. Then he says something that triggered me.

[00:09:16] Bruce Anthoy: He was like, you older, you supposed to know how things go. And so I was like, you calling me old? So I immediately went towards him and our cousin was kind of holding me back a little bit.

[00:09:27] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:09:28] Bruce Anthoy: And, and his

[00:09:29] J. Aundrea: that, [00:09:30] whippersnapper.

[00:09:30] Bruce Anthoy: right. And his boy, cause you know, I might be older also really big. Like I'm really big. Okay. I'm six foot four, probably like two 40 right now.

[00:09:42] Bruce Anthoy: I'm really massive. So his boy was like, Hey man, He's out of line. I apologize. Cause he could see the fire in my eyes. And so when I was talking to our cousin the next day, I was like, Hey man, I just want to apologize for that. He was like, no, dude was wrong. And this is what happened.

[00:09:59] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:09:59] Bruce Anthoy: then I [00:10:00] talked to our brother and he was like, no dude drew through a drink or her first, cause he was trying to holler and she wasn't interested.

[00:10:07] Bruce Anthoy: And then she threw the drink back at him. He's like, how do I know this? Cause I got drink spilled on me. I got splashed to the left and splashed to the right.

[00:10:17] J. Aundrea: that was a, that was a good altercation. Is the, is, is, um, is the reason for the second one like the same kind of you were you fighting for somebody's honor?

[00:10:28] Bruce Anthoy: I think so. But, [00:10:30] but, but by this point, um, I'm lit.

[00:10:34] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:10:35] Bruce Anthoy: So I think what happened was me and my bestie was in the crowd and you know, I'm ultra protective of my bestie. She's a very attractive woman and she was holding it down that night when I saw, I was like, damn, like, you don't age. And so when she's walking in, I'm super protective.

[00:10:50] Bruce Anthoy: Cause not like she don't, Need protection because you know, I told the story at the time She punched me in the face because she thought that I grabbed her ass when it was actually somebody else and I was like [00:11:00] It's me. I would never do that. She was like, it's just a reaction. I'm, sorry

[00:11:03] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:11:03] Bruce Anthoy: knocked me out so she could defend herself But also at the same time

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

[00:11:07] Bruce Anthoy: bestie right like I had this protected type thing

[00:11:10] J. Aundrea: yes

[00:11:10] Bruce Anthoy: So I think she got pushed in the crowd not intentionally.

[00:11:14] Bruce Anthoy: It was just rowdy and so Me being who I am, they're bumping into us. I push the whole crowd

[00:11:22] J. Aundrea: Because again, you're not a small in stature.

[00:11:26] Bruce Anthoy: no. And I'm, and I'm relatively strong, so I put both [00:11:30] my hands out there and it's just a group of people and I, I pushed them and then they pushed people. 'cause the, because of the,

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

[00:11:37] Bruce Anthoy: force of which I'm pushing somebody and then somebody got an attitude was like, Hey, watch out. And I was like, y'all need to pay attention to where y'all going.

[00:11:45] Bruce Anthoy: I don't know. The dude, the dude was looking at me and then one of his boys would say, I don't know if you want to mess with him, which means that he's either connected or he can really fight. And all I did was just staring down. We were staring each other down, not saying words,

[00:11:59] J. Aundrea: [00:12:00] looking

[00:12:00] Bruce Anthoy: each other down.

[00:12:01] Bruce Anthoy: And I'm just like, Make a move and he walked off and I was like, all right, like if he's somebody it's time for us to go because if He left that means he ain't coming back. I mean he come he might be coming back with somebody

[00:12:12] J. Aundrea: some thangs

[00:12:13] Bruce Anthoy: Right, right. And so I was like

[00:12:16] J. Aundrea: of the club and you think I'm a punk.

[00:12:18] Bruce Anthoy: I

[00:12:19] J. Aundrea: I go to my little Tec 9 that's off in the trunk. Cause I told him I ain't nothing scared. Okay, you might have been dealing with that. It's,

[00:12:26] Bruce Anthoy: have

[00:12:26] J. Aundrea: in the South, 100 percent chance you dealing with [00:12:30] that.

[00:12:30] Bruce Anthoy: Not a not a hundred percent.

[00:12:32] J. Aundrea: strapped.

[00:12:34] Bruce Anthoy: So I think we left after that plus it was the end of the night Anyway, we had been out all night long, but old bruce came out and I had to apologize and everybody was like, yeah It's okay

[00:12:46] J. Aundrea: it feels like you were doing the, doing this for like righteous causes. Whereas like old Bruce, I've personally witnessed you trying to instigate stuff, start stuff, like it. [00:13:00] Bruce was just a jerk. Those two instances feel like they were four righteous causes in your mind at that time. So I, I don't, I don't think there's anything wrong with that either.

[00:13:11] Bruce Anthoy: Okay, true. However, I did make a statement to my brother and bestie. And I said, I want to fight tonight. So, so I was on one

[00:13:23] J. Aundrea: okay.

[00:13:24] Bruce Anthoy: and my bestie was like, yeah, you seemed kind of not quite there [00:13:30] that night. Like you were distracted.

[00:13:32] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:13:32] Bruce Anthoy: I was like, Oh yeah, probably was. So people have been pissing me off this week.

[00:13:36] Rage, Politics, and the Ball of Lava in My Chest 🌋🗳️😤

[00:13:36] Bruce Anthoy: Politics is pissing me off. I'm, I'm, and I'm generally always controlling a rage that's inside of me. That's the reason why I work out all the time because I've got to tame that rage that's inside of me.

[00:13:47] J. Aundrea: there's a ball of hot lava in my chest at all times.

[00:13:51] Bruce Anthoy: At all times. Y'all don't understand how angry I am just routinely,

[00:13:56] J. Aundrea: but this is, this is trained.

[00:13:59] Bruce Anthoy: [00:14:00] right?

[00:14:00] J. Aundrea: trained. smile through the rage we feel, but you know, James Baldwin said to be, I'm going to paraphrase because I don't remember the exact words, but to be conscious is to be in a rage all the time. And that is the truth.

[00:14:15] Bruce Anthoy: And if you pay attention to anything that's going on in the news right now, you just in constant, constant rage.

[00:14:21] J. Aundrea: I

[00:14:22] Bruce Anthoy: And it,

[00:14:22] J. Aundrea: I don't even know if they know what they're doing at this point aside from just destroying everything.

[00:14:28] Bruce Anthoy: I was talking to a [00:14:30] friend and I'm trying to remember exactly who, who the friend was. Cause I talked to a lot of people, I was talking to a friend and their husband or boyfriend works in the government. And I was like, Hey, have y'all been affected? And, and she told me that a group of people in his job were fired on Thursday and then rehired on Friday.

[00:14:53] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:14:54] Bruce Anthoy: I'm like, what? Like they don't understand what's going on in people's lives are really, really being affected [00:15:00] right now. So I'm like close to it. I'm close to it.

[00:15:03] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:15:04] Bruce Anthoy: like people that I care about are being affected and they're on pins and needles and because they have anxiety, I'm kind of taking on that anxiety as they're telling it to me.

[00:15:15] Bruce Anthoy: And it's just like, man, you know. Mm hmm.

[00:15:19] J. Aundrea: you know, we gonna have friends that work in government. I also have friends that work in D. E. I. spaces. I have people that I know that work in international humanitarian aid. [00:15:30] And everybody is struggling, so as much as I wanted to completely tune out for four years, I can't. Because it's directly affecting people that I know and care about. And the reason why people are getting hired and re fired, rehired, fired, rehired, all of that, the reason why it's going back and forth is because what he's doing is unlawful. And there are a handful of state district attorneys from democratic states who are constantly [00:16:00] filing lawsuits in federal court. And shout out to all of them. I think it's like 20 state attorney generals from democratic states that are, constantly, constantly filing lawsuits and getting, getting these things, you know, overturned or stopped, you know, stopped, uh, preliminary, you know, early. So then, you know, you think you're fired. Somebody's [00:16:30] filed a lawsuit. Now you can come back to work the next day, but you still don't know.

[00:16:34] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah.

[00:16:35] J. Aundrea: You know, the, the real outcome of things like it's, uh, it's chaos and I'm sorry y'all, but uh, Elon Musk, nobody is thinking he might be like a op, like, like nobody's thinking, why is this person, uh, trying to get access to the treasury department?

[00:16:54] J. Aundrea: Like what, what, what, nobody's thinking he's a op. Nobody's thinking that. I'm thinking that. [00:17:00] thinking it might be a spy or somebody's paying him off, like, nobody's thinking that, just me? Okay, cool.

[00:17:08] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah. So I might be on one just on a day to day basis just and and then I'm so we're in a certain section of the city and I'm assuming I'm putting stereotypes on people and I need to stop that but I'm looking and I'm like you probably voted for this

[00:17:26] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:17:27] Bruce Anthoy: because you stupid.

[00:17:28] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:17:29] Bruce Anthoy: And so [00:17:30] that's causing the rage.

[00:17:31] Bruce Anthoy: So I was on one. I, we had a good time. We had a good time. Now

[00:17:35] J. Aundrea: Good. I'm glad. I wish I could have been there and celebrated with y'all, but, uh, it seems like everybody, you know, is taking him out and celebrating him, which is the thing he hates the most, but I'm glad he still did it anyway.

[00:17:47] Bruce Anthoy: the thing he hates the most, but he's enjoying himself.

[00:17:49] J. Aundrea: loves it.

[00:17:50] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah.

[00:17:51] J. Aundrea: loves it. So yeah, I'm glad that he got to go. I heard our parents took him out and everything.

[00:17:57] J. Aundrea: So I'm glad he's, he's had a good time for his [00:18:00] birthday.

[00:18:00] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah. It was a good time. Also I finally got some clothes from Shane

[00:18:07] J. Aundrea: How long did it take?

[00:18:09] Bruce Anthoy: actually didn't take that long. I, I placed an order, I don't know, maybe a week and a half ago.

[00:18:15] J. Aundrea: Okay. That's actually good.

[00:18:17] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah,

[00:18:17] J. Aundrea: I was nervous. Cause you know, I was like, I need to re up, give me some more you know, professional, some more business business, professional clothes. And I was like, Oh Lord, will I even get my package? I don't even know what's going on. [00:18:30] I don't, you know, so I'm glad yours still arrived.

[00:18:34] Bruce Anthoy: it surprised me because I, you know, it said it wouldn't be here until like the 25th through the 4th and today is the 22nd or 23rd. So it came early. So I tried them on

[00:18:46] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:18:47] Bruce Anthoy: and partly don't fit because I don't fit right now. I think I had lost. A bunch of weight right before [00:19:00] Thanksgiving. I think when I saw you on Thanksgiving, I was about five pounds from my target weight, which was like 220 pounds.

[00:19:07] Bruce Anthoy: Right.

[00:19:07] J. Aundrea: Right.

[00:19:08] Bruce Anthoy: I'm probably two 45 right now. And how did I gain that? Because I have been wiling

[00:19:14] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:19:15] Bruce Anthoy: the holidays

[00:19:16] J. Aundrea: Same.

[00:19:17] Bruce Anthoy: I've been trying to get back on track and I cannot get back on track. So this sweatshirt that I'm wearing right now, it's from Shane. It was the pink sweatshirt. You know, I, I ruined my other pink sweatshirt.

[00:19:26] Bruce Anthoy: Wanted to get it. I got it. It [00:19:30] fits. It's a little snug. You can't see my nipples, but you can see the outline.

[00:19:35] J. Aundrea: you could see the shadow of the, the whisper through the fabric. Okay. Okay.

[00:19:41] Bruce Anthoy: The fabric is good. It's breathy. Breathy is not a word, but y'all know what I mean. Breathable. The length is fine. The pants don't fit, but also once again, my weight. And my booty. So I just got to go at a size bigger, but the quality I thought [00:20:00] is, is good. Yeah. I liked the quality and it didn't take that long.

[00:20:03] Bruce Anthoy: So yeah,

[00:20:04] J. Aundrea: No, I, I, that's where I get all my stuff. But no, I, I definitely, I, I finally pulled my scale from under the bed. Where I kicked it several months ago and according to my app from September to now I have gained seven pounds.

[00:20:20] Bruce Anthoy: come on, Jay.

[00:20:20] J. Aundrea: yeah, I know. So because look, the holidays was in there then once you get off track and then starting school I've [00:20:30] been so busy.

[00:20:30] J. Aundrea: I, had, I forced myself to go work out the other day but it was just that one day and then I got super busy again and here we are again.

[00:20:41] Bruce Anthoy: You know what you can easily do where you have a whole bunch of reading stuff because you have an iPad, just put it on the iPad and walk on the incline. Go downstairs. I mean, you, you have a gym downstairs, go downstairs and walk on the incline. That's

[00:20:54] J. Aundrea: idea.

[00:20:54] Bruce Anthoy: yeah.

[00:20:55] J. Aundrea: So instead of doing, well, you know, I use, uh, I use a app called [00:21:00] Speechify because I have ADHD. So me trying to read, I'll end up reading that same line over and over. So it reads it to me

[00:21:06] Bruce Anthoy: Right.

[00:21:06] J. Aundrea: can go down there, put that on, do my reading and do, you're absolutely right. So instead of sitting in my bed reading, I will,

[00:21:14] Bruce Anthoy: I'm sitting in your bed listening because you're not reading

[00:21:16] J. Aundrea: I am reading along,

[00:21:18] Bruce Anthoy: well. Yeah.

[00:21:20] J. Aundrea: but I'm listening.

[00:21:21] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:21:22] Bruce Anthoy: You're listening, you're

[00:21:23] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:21:23] Bruce Anthoy: getting work done, but not seeing, you know, seeing, Oh, okay. Ladies and gentlemen, we're not sponsored.

[00:21:29] J. Aundrea: No.[00:21:30]

[00:21:30] Bruce Anthoy: We would like to be though. Uh, we're not, we're not sponsored by Shane, but I would say, go ahead and get you some clothes from Shane.

[00:21:36] Bruce Anthoy: Now, some people are going to be bougie and be like, nah, I want no Shane clothes because, because it's cheap. No, it's not cheap. I mean,

[00:21:43] J. Aundrea: The

[00:21:43] Bruce Anthoy: not the greatest quality. You can do better quality, but.

[00:21:47] J. Aundrea: Obviously.

[00:21:48] Bruce Anthoy: But, it's, it's cool and just be careful that, uh, you haven't gained a whole bunch of weight from the holidays, that's all.

[00:21:54] J. Aundrea: That, that part. Luckily, my clothes still fit, but that part.

[00:21:58] Bruce Anthoy: And my clothes fit, [00:22:00] snug. Real snug.

[00:22:01] Wellness Check: Back Pain, Weight Gain, and Swivel Chairs🪑🏋️‍♂️📉

[00:22:01] J. Aundrea: But, uh, wellness check. How are you? Aside from everything else.

[00:22:06] Bruce Anthoy: I mean, I'm doing good, I think. You know, besides that inner rage getting older. Actually, no, I'm lying. Let me tell you why. My back hurt. For no damn reason. Okay? It hurts. And it hurt so bad yesterday that I told our brother who was over, who stayed over on Friday night. So he was here Saturday, just hanging out, kicking it.

[00:22:29] Bruce Anthoy: I told [00:22:30] him, Hey, stop being so funny. You making me laugh. And my back hurts.

[00:22:33] J. Aundrea: And laughing, breathing deeply. If I have to cough,

[00:22:38] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah,

[00:22:38] J. Aundrea: just, I just brace. Yeah. Yes.

[00:22:40] Bruce Anthoy: yeah,

[00:22:41] J. Aundrea: my back hurt. And honestly, it's just from being alive and over 40.

[00:22:47] Bruce Anthoy: but I got a new chair, you know, if everybody's noticing, I'm swiveling the whole lot. I'm gonna try and stop, but you know, it's hard when you got the little swivel chair, I got back support. It's like all on my lumbar, my lower lumbar, you know what I'm [00:23:00] saying? It got the little curve.

[00:23:00] J. Aundrea: nice. You're not sitting on that stool no more.

[00:23:03] Bruce Anthoy: I'm not sitting on the stool.

[00:23:04] Bruce Anthoy: It's like, uh, I don't have a wedgie because my silk drawers, because you know, I wear silk drawers on Sunday. I don't got the wedgie, but it's nice and comfortable. I got not a little, a lot of space on here. So I'm, you know, I'm doing all right, I guess. How about, how about yourself? Well, let's check on you.

[00:23:20] J. Aundrea: I'm, I'm doing well. I'm extremely busy. In addition to my classes, my graduate research assistantship, I am now also [00:23:30] starting a data science and analytics association student organization at our school. So that is, is going to be a lot of campaigning for me. For the rest of the semester to get people to join.

[00:23:43] J. Aundrea: And I just did my first event on Friday to announce it and it went really well.

[00:23:50] Bruce Anthoy: Okay.

[00:23:51] J. Aundrea: but that is also a lot of work. So now we have to draft a charter and bylaws and it's a lot. And people [00:24:00] have been calling me Madam President. I am not the president of this association. I have no intention of being a president. Will I probably end up being president? Yes. But I'm hoping not so. But yeah, it's just a lot, a lot going on and I think, uh, uh, but I think I'm getting, I, I'm getting into a routine and as soon as I can work, working out, back my life, I think a lot of it'll help with a lot of the stress too.

[00:24:26] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah. I mean, I know we dealing, we dealing with stressful times and you [00:24:30] already got a lot of stress cause you full fledged in the, in the education system.

[00:24:35] J. Aundrea: And it is a lot.

[00:24:37] Bruce Anthoy: But you know what though? You know what's more stressed than whatever we got going on?

[00:24:42] J. Aundrea: There's a lot

[00:24:43] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah,

[00:24:44] J. Aundrea: that are first world problems.

[00:24:46] Bruce Anthoy: right. And one of them is being locked down.

[00:24:49] J. Aundrea: Oh yeah.

[00:24:51] Bruce Anthoy: Locked up.

[00:24:52] Bruce Anthoy: Don't let me down. And we gonna get into being incarcerated and then released. Next.[00:25:00]

[00:25:06] Bruce Anthoy: Alright, Jay.

[00:25:07] King Tut’s Freedom: A Story of Redemption and Flawed Drug Laws ⚖️💊🔓

[00:25:07] Bruce Anthoy: King Tut was released. You know who that is?

[00:25:10] J. Aundrea: Kinda. But yes. I

[00:25:13] Bruce Anthoy: Walter.

[00:25:14] J. Aundrea: in quite some time, so no.

[00:25:16] Bruce Anthoy: I know about him a little bit because, you know, we used to go up to New York often and his name would ring out in the streets. Not like I was in the streets or anything, but that's how his name would ring out. Yeah.

[00:25:26] J. Aundrea: across the street sometime.

[00:25:28] Bruce Anthoy: I walked across the street a little bit, but King [00:25:30] Tut is named Walter Johnson.

[00:25:32] Bruce Anthoy: He is notorious New York drug Lord. He was sentenced in 1997 to five life terms for robbery, drug charges, and witness tampering. It was a 1996 convention, not convention. conviction. He was convicted of seven counts, including intent to distribute crack cocaine to the community. That's not

[00:25:56] J. Aundrea: but it's funny

[00:25:57] Bruce Anthoy: funny.

[00:25:58] J. Aundrea: said it.

[00:25:58] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah.

[00:25:59] Bruce Anthoy: Uh, [00:26:00] seven counts to

[00:26:01] J. Aundrea: to the community.

[00:26:02] Bruce Anthoy: sold drugs to the community including distribute, you know, crack cocaine to the community. Severity of the sentence reflected the strict 1990 sentencing practices, particularly Under the three straight logs. We'll get into the three straight laws later, but how was he released?

[00:26:18] Bruce Anthoy: Judge Frederick Block is the one who originally sentenced him, right? He sentenced him to five life sentences. He released Johnson in October, 2023, but you know, he's [00:26:30] not like released, released. He's kind of released. He just really, really got out, you know. Recently, but citing out, he released him citing outdated laws and his own personal growth block admitted his inexperience during the original trial and criticized the rigidity of the 1990s, three strike laws and leverage the 2018 first step act, which allows sentence reviews to justify the early release block deemed his own prior sentences, overly harsh and acknowledged [00:27:00] societal, you know, And judicial evolution, the 1st act that and enabled retroacting sentences reform block emphasize that both prisoners and judges can change over time, reflecting modern views.

[00:27:15] Bruce Anthoy: Appropriate, uh, pro pro

[00:27:18] J. Aundrea: Mm.

[00:27:19] Bruce Anthoy: pro pro

[00:27:20] J. Aundrea: Mm.

[00:27:21] Bruce Anthoy: basically. Punishment need to be equal.

[00:27:25] J. Aundrea: Proportionality.

[00:27:27] Bruce Anthoy: Proportionality. I was trying to say that, but I couldn't.[00:27:30]

[00:27:30] J. Aundrea: It's

[00:27:30] Bruce Anthoy: So basically, Judge Block was like, look, during that time, I sentenced him overly harshly. Why? Because of societal issues and also because our system of laws dictated that I had to.

[00:27:44] Bruce Anthoy: And because of this act in 2018, I can retroactively look at some of these sentences and say, you know what? These were harsh terms. We're going to let you out. So he got let out. And I thought this was a [00:28:00] really interesting story because yes, there was, and this isn't a Republican or Democrat thing. The Republicans say they're law and order, but during the 1990s, even Democrats were trying to crack down on crack.

[00:28:14] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

[00:28:15] Bruce Anthoy: they,

[00:28:16] J. Aundrea: lots of the, you know, the thing, a lot of politicians catch flack for like, you know, Clinton and things like that, but you have to understand as far as like this war on drugs, right. And these harsher [00:28:30] sentences and things like that. But you have to understand at the time, we really, truly didn't know what to do.

[00:28:34] J. Aundrea: And a lot of this stuff had the support of the Congressional Black Caucus.

[00:28:39] Bruce Anthoy: because it was happening in the black communities, they saw a whole communities being devastated by crack, specifically crack cocaine, because powder cocaine had been around for a long time, but that crack hit the streets. It was cheaper. Everybody could get a little piece of it, you know, and I was a dare kid.

[00:28:55] Bruce Anthoy: So I stayed away from crack, but I know I have a friend [00:29:00] who has an ex boyfriend that smoked crack.

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

[00:29:04] Bruce Anthoy: And I'm not talking about in the nineties. I'm talking about recently. So crack is still out there. And I was like, you smoke crack.

[00:29:09] J. Aundrea: yeah, there's, there's more, you know, trendy and stylish drugs out there now, but uh, crack, crack is the old staple and that's, that, that's not going nowhere. As long as it's cheap and highly addictive, crack is not going anywhere.

[00:29:24] Bruce Anthoy: But what happened with these drug laws in the nineties? And I remember my first, one of my first [00:29:30] English papers, and it was pick anything that you want to write about research. It was a research paper, pick anything you want to write about. And you know, me, Always the not contrarian, but always somebody who wants to spark a little bit of flame and get some conversation started.

[00:29:46] Bruce Anthoy: I chose the title of the paper was inequality, the racial inequality of drug laws,

[00:29:51] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:29:52] Bruce Anthoy: which I could have just said the inequality of drug laws and it wouldn't have got as much flack as it did. But I wrote the racial inequality of drug [00:30:00] laws. And my professor was,

[00:30:01] J. Aundrea: women there.

[00:30:02] Bruce Anthoy: it is.

[00:30:02] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:30:03] Bruce Anthoy: And my professor was an older white woman.

[00:30:05] Bruce Anthoy: And this is 1998. Okay.

[00:30:07] J. Aundrea: Aye,

[00:30:08] Bruce Anthoy: So I had all this information talking about how the sentencing for crack cocaine and the sentencing for powder cocaine are completely different at that time. It wasn't proportional. You could have 500 grams of, And you would get the same amount of time as five grams of crack.

[00:30:27] J. Aundrea: hmm. Right.

[00:30:28] Bruce Anthoy: And my argument was, well, [00:30:30] wait a minute.

[00:30:31] Bruce Anthoy: 500 grams of cocaine can make way more than five grams of crack.

[00:30:36] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:30:37] Bruce Anthoy: 500 grams of cocaine is worth more on the street than five grams of crack. And you cannot have crack without cocaine.

[00:30:47] J. Aundrea: Right.

[00:30:48] Bruce Anthoy: Like you need, like,

[00:30:49] J. Aundrea: crack cocaine.

[00:30:51] Bruce Anthoy: You can't have crack without cocaine. You can have cocaine

[00:30:57] J. Aundrea: Without crack.

[00:30:58] Bruce Anthoy: without crack,

[00:30:59] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:30:59] Bruce Anthoy: [00:31:00] not crack without cocaine.

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

[00:31:01] Bruce Anthoy: And what was happening was it was a disproportional people in the inner cities,

[00:31:06] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:31:06] Bruce Anthoy: tend to be black and Brown, but not to say that there weren't some poor white folks that also. Were getting arrested because of crack cocaine because they were, but proportionally overwhelmingly it was black and brown people who were flooding these prisons

[00:31:24] J. Aundrea: hmm.

[00:31:25] Bruce Anthoy: because of inequality of drug laws.

[00:31:27] Bruce Anthoy: And she gave me a C on the paper. She gave me a C on [00:31:30] the paper, not because of grammar or context. She was like, I just don't believe it.

[00:31:34] The C That Sparked a Debate: Grading Controversy and Academic Politics 📝🎓🤔

[00:31:34] Bruce Anthoy: And I said, Well, there's my work. My research is solid. It wasn't like I went to some pamphlet and got these statistics. It was like, these are the statistics. These are the drug laws.

[00:31:46] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:31:46] Bruce Anthoy: I had I said what I won't, I won't accept is great. And I actually had the It actually went up to like the English department where the head of the English department had to grade the paper. And he was an older black man. He pulled me aside. [00:32:00] He's like, I'm gonna give you a B on this paper. But like you put me in a very difficult position.

[00:32:03] Bruce Anthoy: I was like, it's not my fault. He's like, you put me in a very difficult position because it's not like I can undermine her. But at the same time, Yes. This paper was well written. You, you deserve an A. I can't give you an A because of the politics of just this department. So I'm going to raise your grade to a B, but also you did this on purpose.

[00:32:28] Bruce Anthoy: You know, old, old black [00:32:30] man was like, don't be rocking the boat. I'm like, look, Hey, look, that's not who I am. I was raised on fight the power of Chuck D. I'm going to fight the power of that brains, baby.

[00:32:38] J. Aundrea: come on man. I'm trying to be trying to be Thurgood Marshall up in here

[00:32:42] Bruce Anthoy: Not, but not really.

[00:32:44] J. Aundrea: No, I mean it that sounds like a solid research paper.

[00:32:51] Bruce Anthoy: Mm hmm.

[00:32:53] J. Aundrea: if, if the research and the analysis and everything was there, because the fact of the matter is the three strike law [00:33:00] did disproportionately affect minority and low income communities. And not only that, you're giving life sentences to essentially nonviolent offenders. Like it, it, it flooded the court system. It flooded the jail system. It was a financial burden. It was just. just bad policy. And so whether or not she wanted to believe it, well, girlfriend, read a paper. I don't know what to tell you, but I absolutely would have fought that too.

[00:33:28] J. Aundrea: And honestly, I'd have took it up [00:33:30] to the Dean of the school because I wouldn't have accepted that either.

[00:33:33] Bruce Anthoy: Okay, that's you and me. And I, see, Not the noose! Not the

[00:33:40] J. Aundrea: asked me to leave the institution probably by the time I was done with that.

[00:33:45] Bruce Anthoy: noose! I was, I was an ish starter at this at this age already.

[00:33:52] Critiquing SADD: The Humbling Moment That Changed Bruce’s Perspective 🚦📰🙏

[00:33:52] Bruce Anthoy: Cause I wrote for the school newspaper and then I killed Sad. Like I wrote an article just destroying Sad. And this is when I was [00:34:00] humbled.

[00:34:00] J. Aundrea: people what sad is. 'cause not

[00:34:01] Bruce Anthoy: Sad students against drug driving. And we're going to get into three strikes, but I'm a detour for a quick second to tell the story.

[00:34:08] Bruce Anthoy: I think I've told it before before new audience, because we do have a new audience. I'm just going to repeat this story or make it brief. So I was writing for the school newspaper and I wrote a story about criticizing said student against drug driving, because they were, we're in college and you know, it was homecoming and they're putting like, Destroyed cars, the [00:34:30] cars that had been like in drunk driving accidents to try and like scare straight.

[00:34:34] Bruce Anthoy: And I was like, this was high school stuff. We should be challenged more intellectually because we're in college now. And I just destroyed, I destroyed said,

[00:34:43] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:34:44] Bruce Anthoy: and then the president of said told the newspaper, Hey, I would like to talk to the young journalist that wrote this article. So we set up a meeting and I went into the meeting and like, I don't care.

[00:34:54] Bruce Anthoy: Like I said, what I said, okay.

[00:34:56] J. Aundrea: Mm-hmm

[00:34:56] Bruce Anthoy: she calmly was like, okay, I hear everything that [00:35:00] you're saying, uh, but, but in the article, you didn't really have any suggestions on how to improve. How could we improve? And I, and I would greatly take any feedback that you could give me to improve upon how we can get to the students.

[00:35:14] Bruce Anthoy: And I had not one suggestion

[00:35:16] J. Aundrea: Mm-hmm

[00:35:17] Bruce Anthoy: and I said, you know what? I'm going to write another article just, uh, just, just to talk about how I don't think that I'm wrong, but I was wrong in the way that I addressed the [00:35:30] situation. And you shouldn't speak up about a problem unless you can give examples for some solutions, get some ideas for some solutions.

[00:35:39] J. Aundrea: That's

[00:35:39] Bruce Anthoy: And that was a.

[00:35:40] J. Aundrea: experience. And I wish more people had that experience because there are a lot of people out here that love to criticize all aspects of everything. But when you ask them for a solution, they got nothing. And so including this current administration. So

[00:35:57] Bruce Anthoy: See, I wasn't even gonna go there.

[00:35:59] J. Aundrea: lesson [00:36:00] everyone to learn.

[00:36:01] J. Aundrea: If you're going to open your mouth to criticize something, you better have a solution.

[00:36:05] Bruce Anthoy: Gotta have a solution. So everybody is probably thinking to myself, thinking to yourself, all right, King Tut got these three strikes.

[00:36:12] Three Strikes and You’re Out: The Harsh Reality of Repeat Offender Laws 👮‍♂️🚫🔨

[00:36:12] Bruce Anthoy: What is, what is exactly the three strikes rules? Okay. So New York had a habitual offender law that enhanced penalties for repeat felony convictions. Even with one prior felony, despite the three strikes label.

[00:36:25] Bruce Anthoy: So you could get an enhanced penalty if you had [00:36:30] one felony and you had, you got a second felony. So an enhanced penalty it was called the persistent felony offender law and it applied to two prior felony convictions, not strictly three judges can impose harsher sentences based on repeat offenses, including nonviolent felonies.

[00:36:47] Bruce Anthoy: This is how you got a lot of people who just sold crack cocaine to the community. We are not condoning people selling crack cocaine to the community,

[00:36:55] J. Aundrea: not. Yeah.

[00:36:56] Bruce Anthoy: but it is a nonviolent offense. The majority of time, [00:37:00] don't tell me that selling crack can lead to crime. I mean, that can lead to violent offenses. We know that, but the actual distribution and sell of itself is nonviolent.

[00:37:09] Bruce Anthoy: We're not talking about the outcome of selling it. We're talking about just selling it. Okay.

[00:37:15] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:37:16] Bruce Anthoy: So nonviolent felonies do also fall along this. repeat offender law.

[00:37:23] J. Aundrea: hmm.

[00:37:24] Bruce Anthoy: were divided into a one, a two and B categories, right? With [00:37:30] a one and a two being the most severe, something like first degree murder or kidnapping, which by the way, yes, Go to jail.

[00:37:38] Bruce Anthoy: Okay.

[00:37:39] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Go, uh, go directly to prison.

[00:37:42] Bruce Anthoy: Go directly to prison. And then classes B and below were lower civil, uh, severity, which were violent or nonviolent, the felon felon, uh, felonies. But the point was, is that with each felony that you get, if you got arrested again, with a minimum, the felon, the prior felony had to be [00:38:00] a minimum sentencing of one year and jail or prison.

[00:38:04] Bruce Anthoy: Right. Okay. You can get a year. You can get a year for a lot.

[00:38:07] J. Aundrea: Yeah. You

[00:38:08] Bruce Anthoy: For a lot, right? So with each new felony, you would get harsher penalties. So that's how this man got five life sentences. And the judge, like I said, judge Block was just like, look the way we was doing things back in with evolution, with with time, we can say, Hey, the way we handled [00:38:30] things back in the day weren't the right way to handle things.

[00:38:33] Bruce Anthoy: Your parents, you might be a millennial and you might've got whooped as a kid.

[00:38:36] J. Aundrea: Right.

[00:38:37] Bruce Anthoy: Right? Maybe sometimes you deserve to open. Maybe sometimes you didn't. Maybe that was your parents. First line of discipline

[00:38:45] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:38:46] Bruce Anthoy: and and through evolution, we can be like, all right, well, wait a minute. There are other avenues in which we can punish our kids.

[00:38:53] Bruce Anthoy: It doesn't necessarily have to go to. Whooping them. We can have a conversation. We can try and teach a lesson to [00:39:00] make them aware of what they did wrong and why it is wrong. We don't immediately have to go to this. And this judge is judge block is basically saying the same thing. Like, Hey, look, the way we used to handle things back in the day.

[00:39:14] Bruce Anthoy: And now with hindsight and just more thought of, Hey, how the system works, how America works. Cause he also said it wasn't just judicial changes. It was societal changes.

[00:39:26] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:39:27] Bruce Anthoy: And he was just like, look, let's revisit [00:39:30] this five life sentences for selling crack cocaine to the community. Not that we can donate it,

[00:39:36] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:39:36] Bruce Anthoy: but he did his time.

[00:39:38] Bruce Anthoy: He did. He did 25 years. He did his time. He don't got no, no murder charges. And even with murder charges, sometimes you could, you could have murder and you don't get 25 years.

[00:39:50] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:39:51] Bruce Anthoy: As you get 10 to 15, my man did 25 years. Let my man out.

[00:39:55] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:39:56] Prison System Failures: Punishment Over Rehabilitation ⛓️💔🔄

[00:39:56] Bruce Anthoy: Jail is not supposed to be solely punishment, it's [00:40:00] supposed to be rehabilitation.

[00:40:01] J. Aundrea: But you know, in this country, our prison system prioritizes punitive measures. over rehabilitation and reintegration into society. And that's like proven because I think, I think the statistic is like over 75 percent of released prisoners are re arrested within five years. you know, we already have high recidivism rates. I think once [00:40:30] they look back and did studies, they realized that, you know, Longer sentences or harsher sentences actually don't deter crime because most criminals aren't considering the consequences when committing a crime. If they had, they wouldn't have committed the crime. So most people aren't thinking about it. Which is again, why we have high recidivism rates. So you, you know that, you know, our prison system and it's been monetized. So there's also that.[00:41:00]

[00:41:01] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah, so people are going to look at, I know certain arguments that are going to be made by certain people who are just like, let's punish, punish, punish, punish, law and order.

[00:41:14] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:41:14] Bruce Anthoy: Which everybody loves to talk about it until they're appropriate,

[00:41:18] J. Aundrea: the one on trial.

[00:41:19] Bruce Anthoy: until they're the one on trial, and then why is it happening to me?

[00:41:21] J. Aundrea: Right.

[00:41:22] Bruce Anthoy: And they're going to look at that recidivism rate and say, see, these are just criminals. They deserve to be in jail. And I would say there are no resources to [00:41:30] help these criminals or have these released, incarcerated people get back on their feet. Once you have that mark on your resume, it's very difficult to get a job.

[00:41:42] Bruce Anthoy: And there is no, I'm not going to say there isn't any programs, but there would be great. If. Programs were reintroduced back into high schools and in the prisons. I don't know exactly. I would have to do some research. I don't know exactly what type of, [00:42:00] programs that they have in prison. I know people can get degrees and things of that nature,

[00:42:04] J. Aundrea: Sometimes.

[00:42:05] Bruce Anthoy: sometimes I

[00:42:06] J. Aundrea: I would say, by and large, there are no, most, most inmates are not receiving an education

[00:42:15] Bruce Anthoy: Right.

[00:42:16] J. Aundrea: training or mental health support. So that's, I mean, literally just removing them from society. lot of times making non violent people [00:42:30] violent. Yeah.

[00:42:30] Bruce Anthoy: Because you got to be violent in prison. Like a lot of people don't understand what prison is like. And unless you talk to somebody that's been in prison, we know, we personally know a couple of people that have been, that have done high, done real time in prison. And to hear the stories of what prison is like, you, you got, there's, it is a violent place.

[00:42:51] Bruce Anthoy: It is survival. If you've ever watched, and this is an old reference, Lord of the Flies. Which I love the book. I [00:43:00] love the movie, Lord of the Flies, because it teaches you that even civilized people put in uncivil situations can become savages. And these were kids, right? So even if you are a decent human being, you will do whatever you need to do to survive.

[00:43:16] Bruce Anthoy: And when you are put into a violent circumstance, you will become violent. It's life or death. You have no choice. You can't talk somebody down that wants to. Kill you in prison, [00:43:30] but that doesn't happen. But I was, I want to go back to my prior statement with programs. It'd be great if they had vocational, both in high school.

[00:43:40] Bruce Anthoy: And in the prison system, not everybody, not everybody is going to be an academic and that's okay,

[00:43:48] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:43:48] Bruce Anthoy: we always, we always need plumbers. We always need electricians. We always need people to, to build carpenters, things of that nature. We need the, that workforce [00:44:00] is not. Popping right now. I think there is a shortage in plumbers across the country that actually like know how to like, can go in and like really fix it.

[00:44:11] Bruce Anthoy: You got Roto Rooter and I had a friend of mine called Roto Rooter and they were just like, we can't, you got to call somebody else. We can't fix this. Like, I mean,

[00:44:17] J. Aundrea: the Roto Rooter can snake your drain and that's, that's about it.

[00:44:21] Bruce Anthoy: And I just make my own drink. Well, not me personally, but you know, theoretically,

[00:44:26] J. Aundrea: theoretically,

[00:44:27] Bruce Anthoy: theoretically. So that would be really great to [00:44:30] have somebody to have people come out to have a trade, something that they can do because I can guarantee you the majority of the people that are in prison don't want to be in prison.

[00:44:40] Bruce Anthoy: Don't want to commit crime there. Because of society and wherever they came from, they were left with kind of like with no choice. You'll do whatever you got to do to eat. Right? Like you'll do what you need to do to eat. So like if they had an opportunity to make money legitimately and they can on their feet, most of these people wouldn't [00:45:00] go back to prison.

[00:45:01] Bruce Anthoy: Now there are some people that proponents to crime, like, you know, I just wanted to fight that the other day when I went to the bar, just sometimes people are like that all the time.

[00:45:09] J. Aundrea: Yeah. That's

[00:45:10] Bruce Anthoy: But for the most part, yeah.

[00:45:11] J. Aundrea: Yeah. There are, you know, habitual violent offenders and they need to be out of society. Right? So

[00:45:18] Bruce Anthoy: Right.

[00:45:18] J. Aundrea: like those people exist, but for a lot of the nonviolent crimes, especially when you're in jail or prison for possession, right? an attempt [00:45:30] to distribute, like it was your own, you know, was your own stash of crap, right? Like,

[00:45:35] Bruce Anthoy: also if you have a large amount, even if you're not trying to distribute, even if that's just you, if you got two pounds of weed and was like, Oh, obviously he was looking to distribute. No, I just smoke a lot of weed.

[00:45:46] J. Aundrea: yeah,

[00:45:47] Bruce Anthoy: I smoke a lot of crack. Okay.

[00:45:49] J. Aundrea: they, these

[00:45:52] Bruce Anthoy: I just, I had to make that point. Yeah, I know.

[00:45:56] Bruce Anthoy: That ain't gonna get flipped.

[00:45:57] J. Aundrea: but these you know, [00:46:00] but like those cases should be referred to rehab facilities,

[00:46:05] Bruce Anthoy: Mm hmm.

[00:46:06] J. Aundrea: you know, and, and for a certain subsection of the population, they are, but for subsection of the population, namely minority and low income communities, they are not.

[00:46:19] Bruce Anthoy: Mm hmm.

[00:46:19] J. Aundrea: And I found the report. It was the the Bureau of Justice Statistics. They, they, updated their report, but this is from 2018. So I don't know [00:46:30] what the current numbers are, but 68 percent of released prisoners were arrested within three years, 79 percent within six years, 83 percent within nine years.

[00:46:40] Bruce Anthoy: Jeez.

[00:46:41] J. Aundrea: obviously. The prison industrial complex in the United States is not a deterrent for crime and needs, it needs, I mean, 180 degree reformation in order to actually [00:47:00] be worth it and not, not just a financial burden on society.

[00:47:06] Bruce Anthoy: So King Tut is out

[00:47:09] J. Aundrea: She's out.

[00:47:10] Bruce Anthoy: and, you know, Big Meech is out as well.

[00:47:14] J. Aundrea: We got one evolved judge. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:47:22] Reflections on Social Justice: White Guilt and Real Change 🤍🕊️🌟

[00:47:22] Bruce Anthoy: I would imagine during the, I was going over some, I was looking for a specific message on my Instagram, and I [00:47:30] do love the search feature on your messages where you can type in a certain word or phrase and the messages will pop up. And so there was. It was a friend of mine that lives in Trump country.

[00:47:43] Bruce Anthoy: Uh, a younger white woman. She's probably in her mid, probably in her early thirties that, was awoken during George Floyd and the pandemic. Like a lot of, like a lot of people were right. And I just went down a rabbit hole of just our [00:48:00] conversations going back and forth. And, and, and, and, and then I started to remember what it was like during that time.

[00:48:07] Bruce Anthoy: And I had a lot of white people Come to me that know me. And this is before we started the podcast, but they, they know me personally and they feel comfortable to come to me to talk to me about race, because one, I'm always willing to have a conversation too. I'm not judgmental. And three, I have a history degree and I have a wealth of knowledge just in this [00:48:30] country and being a black man for 44 years that I could give a, a, a A unique perspective and I'm looking at it and it was just people just becoming awake and then also having a lot of white guilt and then me telling them, Hey, stop having guilt for people that stop having guilt a lot of times.

[00:48:52] Bruce Anthoy: Yes, these were white people. No, these were white people, but that doesn't mean that this directly connected to you. Stop stop [00:49:00] assuming this guilt. Just be better from here on out.

[00:49:03] J. Aundrea: Because, um, frankly your guilt does nothing.

[00:49:07] Bruce Anthoy: Nothing. All right. And, and,

[00:49:10] J. Aundrea: it just again centers you in a situation where you're not supposed to be centered.

[00:49:15] Bruce Anthoy: and,

[00:49:15] J. Aundrea: feelings are irrelevant.

[00:49:17] Bruce Anthoy: and so I, and I'm not in a lot nicer way than that. It would explain it to people.

[00:49:23] J. Aundrea: oh, that's the way I explain it.

[00:49:25] Bruce Anthoy: Yeah, I know that's the difference between me and you. That's the reason why they would come and talk to me because I'm not going to say it [00:49:30] like that. You jerk.

[00:49:32] J. Aundrea: what, we said the exact same thing.

[00:49:35] Bruce Anthoy: And I said it a lot nicer.

[00:49:37] J. Aundrea: Oh, well, I'm sorry for not being nice, but listen, niceness also does nothing to help the situation.

[00:49:44] Bruce Anthoy: You're right.

[00:49:45] J. Aundrea: So, you know, why not just cut out the middleman and get directly to the point. The point is. Your guilt is just you centering yourself again,

[00:49:55] Bruce Anthoy: This is true. And, but also this judge's guilt, [00:50:00] he didn't make himself the center. He went out and did something. He went out and made a change. And that's what I'm, that's what I was telling a lot of people that were contacting me. And I, and as I was going through this Instagram message and having to come and rereading these conversations I had with one of my friends, it was that it was, Hey, look, your guilt does nothing.

[00:50:20] Bruce Anthoy: But in a much nicer way, but go out and be about change. And this judge is actually the judge did it. The judge is going out and make a change. So there's still hope. This [00:50:30] gives me hope and all of the craziness that's going on in the world. Today. This still gives me hope. Now I, well, okay. No,

[00:50:44] J. Aundrea: uh, you just write it wrong. Like that's what you were supposed to do. So,

[00:50:49] Bruce Anthoy: no,

[00:50:49] J. Aundrea: whether he really gets a cookie for that.

[00:50:53] Bruce Anthoy: come on now. Growth and evolution. Timeout. You. You [00:51:00] acknowledge the growth that I've had in my personal development

[00:51:04] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:51:05] Bruce Anthoy: and you commend me on it.

[00:51:07] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:51:08] Bruce Anthoy: So why can't we do the same thing for this judge?

[00:51:10] J. Aundrea: yeah. I mean, shout out to him. But again, like I'm not, I mean, listen, are we supposed, when they, when they, when they ended slavery, were we supposed to give them a cookie for that? Like y'all, it should have been slavery in the first place. It's smashed in the head. Five consecutive life sentences in the first place.

[00:51:28] Bruce Anthoy: Well, he should have had, he [00:51:30] should have definitely been sitting,

[00:51:31] J. Aundrea: done time because

[00:51:32] Bruce Anthoy: right. Extremely

[00:51:37] J. Aundrea: lord in the community. Okay. So definitely should have done time, but that was extremely excessive. And, uh, So him going back and being like, man, I was wrong for that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I appreciate that you've come to that conclusion finally [00:52:00] after almost 30 years, but you know,

[00:52:04] Bruce Anthoy: do better.

[00:52:05] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

[00:52:07] Bruce Anthoy: shout out to King Tut. You know, don't go back to doing the things that you were doing.

[00:52:11] J. Aundrea: You've had an immaculate record for almost 30 years mentoring mentoring other inmates and, and all of the, listen, keep your nose clean, player.

[00:52:24] Bruce Anthoy: Yes. Keep your nose clean player. All right. To [00:52:30] transition that I was trying to come up with a smooth transition. I cannot.

[00:52:34] J. Aundrea: they're not always gonna be gems.

[00:52:36] Bruce Anthoy: Not all the time, but,

[00:52:38] J. Aundrea: transition is, well, to switch gears. I

[00:52:41] Bruce Anthoy: and the switch gears, we don't get into recommendations from other people that actually turn out to be good. Next. 

[00:52:55] Bruce Anthoy: Sis, like I said in the first segment, our brother was here at my [00:53:00] house yesterday. And something that I've noticed whenever I'm around, my brother and our mom, they are very similar in that they are watching some type of show or movie or something like that, and you

[00:53:13] From ‘The Bear’ to ‘Gladiator 2’: Movie and TV Show Recommendations 🍿📺🍴

[00:53:13] Bruce Anthoy: just sit down and start watching, and then you're like, oh this is actually kind of good.

[00:53:17] J. Aundrea: Yes,

[00:53:18] Bruce Anthoy: Our brother introduced me to and you to for all mankind and Apple series, which is really, really good.

[00:53:25] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:53:26] Bruce Anthoy: And yet

[00:53:26] J. Aundrea: if you guys are not checking out some of the original content on [00:53:30] Apple, I mean, it's really good.

[00:53:32] Bruce Anthoy: Apple TV does the best. Original content like Netflix and HBO Max like doesn't come close to original content, but

[00:53:41] J. Aundrea: I mean, the shows are really good.

[00:53:45] Bruce Anthoy: nobody like and they win awards But like nobody's like really watching them.

[00:53:50] J. Aundrea: We gotta get people on there. Apple TV needs to promote more. I see Hulu ads all the time. Y'all got to promote more because you have amazing original content.

[00:53:59] Bruce Anthoy: [00:54:00] Well, Apple TV doesn't really need to promote more because it's also Apple So Apple is doing just fine

[00:54:05] J. Aundrea: got to get that viewership up.

[00:54:07] Bruce Anthoy: That's not like they're gonna cancel that. Anyway, we're here each one our brother introduced me to the show the bear yesterday

[00:54:13] J. Aundrea: Love it.

[00:54:14] Bruce Anthoy: And first of all, The Bear is a great show, but if you have generalized anxiety, you cannot watch a bunch of them in a row.

[00:54:21] J. Aundrea: No, you, I do have to pause sometimes, like catch my breath and just like settle down, or sometimes I'll have to fast forward to see what happens and [00:54:30] then I go back and watch the scene because again, generalized anxiety and that show, it really, really pushes your anxiety to the limit, but it's a great show.

[00:54:44] Bruce Anthoy: Another show that I had to watch because of my generalized anxiety and it just, it became too much. And I, it's one of my favorite shows. And I just, I was like, I can't do it. Suits. Cause I'm like, yo, why is it every episode is life or death? Like, Y'all are just corporate lawyers. [00:55:00] Stop trying to save the world every episode.

[00:55:02] Bruce Anthoy: Can't y'all just, can it be a happy episode? But anyway, our brother introduced me to the bear yesterday, so I've become addicted to that. But then, also, people can make suggestions. of movies that they say are not good or TV shows that they say are not good. And me being who I am, I'm like, well, don't tell me that it's not good.

[00:55:21] Bruce Anthoy: I'm going to go watch it for myself. So glad eight or two. I've been trying to get ahold of watching that movie for the longest time because it looked really good. And I love everything Denzel [00:55:30] Washington has to do. And Pedro Pascal is a phenomenal, like the cast is phenomenal.

[00:55:35] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:55:35] Bruce Anthoy: A friend of mine said, yeah, that movie's not good.

[00:55:39] Bruce Anthoy: I didn't enjoy it. And the first thing that they said that immediately I was like, I'm gonna discredit everything that you're saying to me was that they said, well, Denzel had like a New York accent in the movie. I said, what?

[00:55:50] J. Aundrea: does. I was from New York.

[00:55:52] Bruce Anthoy: Denzel from New York, first of all, but he doesn't have a New York accent in general.

[00:55:57] J. Aundrea: does.

[00:55:58] Bruce Anthoy: I don't really.

[00:55:59] J. Aundrea: [00:56:00] not, it's not like a real hard accent. I think he's done a good job of like getting kind of like a standard American accent, but you can hear his New York accent.

[00:56:11] Bruce Anthoy: Don't let, don't get me started on New York accents that have faded through the years because my besties from Staten Island and I only hear that New York accent when she get around other Staten Island people and I'm like, Oh, there it is. I get it. But you remember how certain people from the Bronx and Brooklyn has specific accents and you'd be like, I know you from there.

[00:56:29] Bruce Anthoy: It's [00:56:30] gone. They don't really have that anymore. Anyway. So I watch gladiator too. The movie is phenomenal. I thought the movie was Shakespearean and his story. And. I was telling another friend about the movie and they agreed with me. It was like, yeah, when you bring it up, I didn't think of it like that, but it is Shakespearean in the storytelling.

[00:56:52] Bruce Anthoy: And I was telling them about the friend that told me that it wasn't good. And then that person said, well, [00:57:00] you know, maybe it was just too intellectual for him. And I was like, I didn't want to say that, but yeah, yeah.

[00:57:08] J. Aundrea: were just looking for, you know, big fight scenes and stuff like that, and The movie ended up being a little more cerebral than that. I haven't seen it yet. It's on my list. I haven't seen it yet. Then, you know, sometimes people, you know, maybe they have to, like there's times where I'm expecting a certain thing.

[00:57:28] J. Aundrea: I watch the movie. It doesn't [00:57:30] give me that. I don't like it. But on second viewing, now that I know what the movie is going to give me, I appreciate it more. So maybe they just need another viewing. Now knowing how, you know, Knowing what they should expect from it. Maybe that'll be it. I don't know.

[00:57:45] Bruce Anthoy: Well, the person was like, the first movie was better than the second movie, and I was like, Like, I remember the first movie, and the first movie is great. Like, Russell Crowe did a fantastic, Gladiator is great.

[00:57:56] J. Aundrea: Yeah, that's

[00:57:56] Bruce Anthoy: great score.

[00:57:57] J. Aundrea: a sequel.

[00:57:58] Bruce Anthoy: Right, right, [00:58:00] sequel 20 something odd years later, but actually the story makes sense why they would do it 20 something odd years later.

[00:58:08] Bruce Anthoy: I was just thinking to myself and I was just like, yeah, but this story is better. Like the story is actually, I don't really think it's that cerebral. I really don't. I thought it was Shakespearean and I know Shakespeare is like you study Shakespeare because of the plays. I didn't think it was that cerebral.

[00:58:26] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:58:27] Bruce Anthoy: It wasn't like, what's a movie that's [00:58:30] real cerebral, is you right, not confusing like those movies like tenant and, uh,

[00:58:37] J. Aundrea: was just bad. Like, Tenor was, it was just bad. But, uh, like Anception, where, you

[00:58:43] Bruce Anthoy: right,

[00:58:44] J. Aundrea: you gotta think.

[00:58:46] Bruce Anthoy: but I think, but it's also inception is kind of confusing. I

[00:58:51] J. Aundrea: at the end you still don't know what, you don't know what happened.

[00:58:54] Bruce Anthoy: yeah, what's the other movie where it was Matthew McConaughey and he goes back in time and [00:59:00] no, where he's in space

[00:59:02] J. Aundrea: Oh,

[00:59:02] Bruce Anthoy: where he's in space.

[00:59:05] J. Aundrea: Matthew McConaughey.

[00:59:06] Bruce Anthoy: he goes back in time, like he goes, he goes, yeah, interstellar, like interstellar can kind of be cerebral, but also like, I'm trying to think of a real cerebral movie and I guess I really don't watch cerebral movies, but I don't feel like gladiator 2 was one of them, but because the story was Shakespearean, it's more than just, we're going to fight to the death and I'm going to avenge [00:59:30] something.

[00:59:30] J. Aundrea: hmm.

[00:59:31] Bruce Anthoy: It's more layered than that. So this segment is basically about times that people suggest things to you and it's either good or bad. And also stop paying attention to rotten tomatoes. Go

[00:59:43] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:59:44] Bruce Anthoy: yourself.

[00:59:44] J. Aundrea: view it yourself. If, if, if there's a movie you wanna see and the reviews are bad, just check it out for yourself and see, like you might end, it might be a cult. Listen, people think Beverly Hills Cop Three is terrible. If you ask our [01:00:00] family, it's the best damn one. Oh,

[01:00:05] Bruce Anthoy: Okay. The best one. I don't know if it's the best one,

[01:00:10] J. Aundrea: me laugh

[01:00:13] Bruce Anthoy: but that's also because, okay, so here's, here's my argument about Beverly Hills count three, which, you know, I love the movie. It is. We love the movie because anything that Eddie Murphy does is funny to us.

[01:00:28] J. Aundrea: the, the

[01:00:28] Bruce Anthoy: Literally [01:00:30] anything,

[01:00:30] J. Aundrea: outlandish and hilarious. It's

[01:00:32] Bruce Anthoy: anything that he does is hilarious, but compared to the first two, I can understand why people are not really feeling the third one.

[01:00:40] Bruce Anthoy: I get it.

[01:00:41] J. Aundrea: it was very much more commercial.

[01:00:44] Bruce Anthoy: Mm hmm.

[01:00:45] J. Aundrea: it was a very different movie from the first two. Obviously the first two were amazing, but people act like it truly sucks and it doesn't. It's hilarious. And I don't care what anybody says about that, but I do, I have to [01:01:00] say, Tried watching for all mankind and I could not get into it.

[01:01:07] J. Aundrea: I

[01:01:08] Bruce Anthoy: Oh, okay.

[01:01:09] J. Aundrea: And so a lot of it for me is more about the company than the actual show. Because I noticed that when I go home after watching NCIS New Orleans on repeat with our mother, when I go home and watch it, I don't have the same experience. So it's, think it's more [01:01:30] for me about the company.

[01:01:32] Bruce Anthoy: It's communal.

[01:01:33] J. Aundrea: then it is the actual show because I was watching For All Mankind With You, loving it, tried to watch it on my own, couldn't, couldn't get into it. So,

[01:01:43] Bruce Anthoy: But you know, that's funny because we were watching what show we watch equalizer, right? I love equalizer. But when watching it with you, it was enhanced. So there is something about community that makes things better like Avengers and game. When I was watching it in the movie [01:02:00] theater,

[01:02:00] J. Aundrea: yeah,

[01:02:00] Bruce Anthoy: what's freaking amazing because we're all going crazy for it.

[01:02:06] J. Aundrea: experience together,

[01:02:07] Bruce Anthoy: So it can enhance, it can enhance it, but it, but have I rewatched in game? I have not. Okay. So was the movie that great or was the experience that great infinity war? Great. I've rewatched that numerous times, but not really in game. So yeah, you're, you're like involvement community can make things better.

[01:02:28] Bruce Anthoy: So that makes sense. [01:02:30] Also, I, so for instance, not just movies, but also entertainment, right? So music.

[01:02:39] J. Aundrea: hmm. Yeah,

[01:02:41] Bruce Anthoy: It's not like that's really a great song, or is it a communal song that we all just get hyped to?

[01:02:48] J. Aundrea: I think it's both in that, in that instance, because he just, I don't know that he knew that this is why it's so popular. He created little [01:03:00] pockets of like earworms that just get in your head and you can't stop saying it. You can't, you can't stop. Like it's, it, it gets into your head. That song gets into your brain and you can't stop singing it.

[01:03:16] J. Aundrea: And now after the Superbowl performance is the little Kendrick walk. Right. now I just be walking around the house doing that.

[01:03:28] Bruce Anthoy: well that's different, [01:03:30] okay? I'll be real clear. That's like

[01:03:33] J. Aundrea: can't help it. But it also is like, it was very unifying, even though it's a very good, like California song.

[01:03:41] Bruce Anthoy: And

[01:03:42] J. Aundrea: a very, like, you know, South central song, it still felt unifying because. was, it was his pride in black American culture calling out somebody that he saw, whether we agree with this or not, but that he [01:04:00] saw as a culture vulture.

[01:04:02] Bruce Anthoy: I guess, I guess also you can say, it can be put into groups. That you could say, even if you're two competing teams, right, they're not like us, so it's, it can be applied

[01:04:17] J. Aundrea: It can be applied into a

[01:04:18] Bruce Anthoy: to stomach.

[01:04:18] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[01:04:19] Bruce Anthoy: All right, so maybe you're right, but I know there are some songs out there that hit there. Okay,

[01:04:24] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Yes. That is

[01:04:27] Bruce Anthoy: pimping.

[01:04:27] J. Aundrea: personality. Yeah.

[01:04:29] Bruce Anthoy: explain [01:04:30] when Jay Z released that album.

[01:04:33] Bruce Anthoy: I remember listening to it. And I remember listening to Big Pimpin and I was like, yo, this song is a hit. Like, this is a great song. And my boys and everybody around me were like, no, this song is not really all that great. Like, I don't know, I don't know why you like the song so much. Then everybody heard it in the club and it was an atmosphere.

[01:04:52] Bruce Anthoy: It was a party atmosphere in the club. And that song took off. It took months before that song to, Get Low is another, Get Low is another example. [01:05:00] I heard Get Low when we were in Miami before, because it's, you know, they're Miami artists. I heard it. And we were in Miami about to go on a cruise and I heard, I was like, yo, this song is a hit, but nobody had heard it yet.

[01:05:14] Bruce Anthoy: And I remember coming back up here to DC and I told my boys, I was like, yo, this is a song called get low. That is, that's going to be a hit. And they were like, I don't know about all that. And then it came out, everybody was playing in the club and then. It blew [01:05:30] up. So I feel like people can suggest something and it has to be the right, like environment, the right, the right situation for people to catch on.

[01:05:40] Bruce Anthoy: And just like for all mankind, for you, you watch it with people. It's good. You watch it by yourself. It's not, I watch gladiator two by myself. Maybe if I was around other people and they were. Issuing on it while I was watching it. Maybe I might feel that way. I don't know. I'm typically the contrarian. I'd be [01:06:00] like, I don't know.

[01:06:00] Bruce Anthoy: This, this is, this is pretty dope. Y'all missing out. But the whole purpose is a segment is figure out for yourself.

[01:06:09] J. Aundrea: Yeah, check it out for yourself. Like don't, you know, because Bruce is such a contrarian, typically when people recommend things, you'd be like, no, but

[01:06:19] Bruce Anthoy: Nobody trying to tell me what to do. You got to hear this. You got to

[01:06:22] J. Aundrea: it's a

[01:06:22] Bruce Anthoy: don't do that. No, people be kind of, when people say like, you got it, watch this. You got, I don't got to do nothing. You don't tell me what to do

[01:06:29] J. Aundrea: [01:06:30] mean it that specifically.

[01:06:32] Bruce Anthoy: tell me what to do.

[01:06:33] J. Aundrea: It, it's always just a recommendation, but like, yeah, I mean, you know, especially if it's somebody that knows you and, and they're like, I think this is something that you'll really like, you know, at least check it out try things with an open mind.

[01:06:49] J. Aundrea: Like you never know what you're going to like, uh, you know, you never know or what you won't like. You know, I thought I liked for all mankind. I don't know that I do. I don't know. Maybe I'll watch it again. I don't know. [01:07:00] Yeah,

[01:07:04] Bruce Anthoy: It's really, Apple really prides itself on great storytelling and great storytelling is slow. People, people don't like, some people don't like the godfather because they're like, it's so long and so slow. Like, yo, it's phenomenal acting, like it's an iconic movie, but it's so long and you gotta listen.

[01:07:22] Bruce Anthoy: What? You gotta listen

[01:07:24] J. Aundrea: you know,

[01:07:25] Bruce Anthoy: now. Yeah, you know, Fast and Furious.

[01:07:27] J. Aundrea: like to see fights and stuff blow up [01:07:30] like there's, also fun, like, and so if that's the kind of film that you like, and you already know you ain't going like a beautiful mind or, or something like that, you know, then, you know, Okay, that's also fine.

[01:07:43] J. Aundrea: You know, there's a lot of great blowing up stuff movies that I can recommend. You know,

[01:07:48] Bruce Anthoy: Fast and Furious had me until they went to space when, when,

[01:07:51] J. Aundrea: yeah, yeah,

[01:07:52] Bruce Anthoy: Ludacris and Tyrese went to space in the car. I was like, I don't want this now.

[01:07:56] J. Aundrea: that

[01:07:56] Bruce Anthoy: I did.

[01:07:57] J. Aundrea: That

[01:07:57] Bruce Anthoy: did watch the next one though.

[01:07:59] J. Aundrea: I [01:08:00] actually have never seen A Fast and Furious, except for Hobbs and Shaw, I was taken to that under duress. And I said, If The Rock grabs that helicopter by that rope and, and in any way disrupt its flight with just his strength, I'm walking out of this film and sure as damn dumb. Guys, The Rock is not Captain America. That is a regular man. Yes, he is he's very strong. [01:08:30] Yes, he works out a lot. He's very strong. Let's not get stupid. And from just based off that I knew I was not gonna like the rest of the fast and furious and I'm pretty sure that I'm, right.

[01:08:42] Bruce Anthoy: Well, he wasn't in a whole lot of the Fast and Furious, but he came back, but we're, we're, we're getting off topic. And I think we already covered the topic well enough.

[01:08:51] Closing Thoughts: Hold On, Fight the Good Fight, and Stay Tuned ✌️🔥🎧

[01:08:51] Bruce Anthoy: So Jay. What do you want to tell the people out there?

[01:08:54] J. Aundrea: Hey, man, hold on Just, just

[01:08:58] Bruce Anthoy: In general.

[01:08:59] J. Aundrea: [01:09:00] general, like, I, I know that things are insane. I too saw the White House official Instagram have a picture of Trump in a crown and said long live the king. It's basically become a troll account. I also saw that you know, I don't know, but hold on. There are people that are fighting the good fight.

[01:09:23] J. Aundrea: So just hold on.

[01:09:27] Bruce Anthoy: And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for [01:09:30] listening. I want to thank you for watching and until next time, as always, I'll holler.

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