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Aug. 13, 2024

Unpacking Tim Walz's, Olympic Scandals & The Baddie Life's Cost

Get ready for a dynamic episode of "Unsolicited Perspectives" with Bruce Anthony and his sister, J. Aundrea, where they tackle an eclectic mix of topics. The episode kicks off with some fun banter as J. Aundrea shares her journey into the 'Baddie' lifestyle, especially as she gears up for her 40th birthday—revealing the surprising challenges, costs, and time it takes to maintain that image. From there, the conversation shifts to a more serious note with a deep dive into Kamala Harris’s VP pick, Tim Walz. Bruce and J. Aundrea dissect his policy stances, military record, and the controversies surrounding his campaign, offering a comprehensive look at what his candidacy means for the 2024 election.

But that’s not all—they also delve into the recent Olympic controversy involving Jordan Chiles and the drama surrounding her bronze medal. Finally, the episode wraps up with a thoughtful discussion on the social stigma men face when it comes to celebrating birthdays and the outdated pressures of masculinity. With a call for better social etiquette in public spaces and a few laughs along the way, this episode is sure to keep you engaged from start to finish.  #BaddieLife #timwalz #olympiccontroversy #masculinity #unsolicitedperspectives

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Episode Summary:

Welcome to a stimulating episode of Unsolicited Perspectives, featuring host Bruce Anthony and guest J. Aundrea discussing various topics such as the experience of attempting to be a "baddie," dating challenges in different cities, and the recent selection of Tim Walz as the Vice Presidential Candidate. The conversation delves into personal experiences, societal observations, and political analysis, offering a diverse range of perspectives and insights.

Tim Walz's selection as Kamala Harris's running mate for the 2024 U.S. Presidential election has garnered attention due to his progressive policies, support for abortion rights, labor movements, education, and healthcare initiatives. Walz's background as a former teacher and military veteran adds depth to his stance on key issues, making him a compelling choice for the VP spot.

Key Takeaways:

  • Tim Walz stands out as a progressive advocate for abortion rights, labor movements, and education spending.

  • His support for universal background checks and cannabis legalization reflects a commitment to sensible gun control and social policies.

  • Walz's personal experiences, including his LGBTQ+ club sponsorship and free school lunch program, demonstrate his empathy and dedication to supporting marginalized communities.

Notable Quotes:

  1. "Baddie life is extremely expensive, time-consuming, and requires immense effort. I have a newfound respect for those who embody the 'baddie' aesthetic." - J. Aundrea

  2. "Tim Walz's selection as VP demonstrates a commitment to listening to the people and adapting to societal concerns. He brings transparency and common sense policies to the campaign." - Bruce Anthony

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Chapters

00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives

00:33 Sibling Happy Hour Begins

01:31 The Baddie Life: A Personal Journey

04:26 Dating in Different Cities

16:59 Tim Walz: The New VP Pick

39:01 Eyeliner and Military Service

39:30 Combat Service Controversy

41:00 Military Rank Dispute

41:58 Political Race Dynamics

47:16 Olympic Gymnastics Scoring Error

59:55 Breakdancing at the Olympics

01:07:00 Men and Birthday Celebrations

01:11:12 Patriarchy and Gender Roles

01:17:47 Final Thoughts and Etiquette

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Transcript

Sibling Happy Hour 08/13/24
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[00:00:00] Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives
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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 and important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch our video podcast rate review, like comment, share, share with [00:00:30] your friends, share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies.


[00:00:33] Sibling Happy Hour Begins
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[00:00:33] Bruce Anthony: On today's episode, It's the sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're going to be dilly daddling a little bit. Then we're going to be talking about Tim Walls to the windows to the walls. And then we're going to be talking about men and their inability to be their true selves, but that's enough of the intro.

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

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

[00:01:02] J. Aundrea: What up, Bretta?

[00:01:03] Bruce Anthony: I can't call it. I can't call it. Now you sent me something yesterday.

[00:01:08] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:01:08] Bruce Anthony: Ladies and gentlemen, please excuse my French, but you said, don't forget to ask me about why I'm a bad bitch.

[00:01:17] J. Aundrea: No, no. Why, I'm not

[00:01:21] Bruce Anthony: Oh, why you're not, why you're not. Oh, okay. I, I was, you know, under the influence yesterday when you texted me. Um, so I [00:01:30] read that wrong. Okay. 


[00:01:31] The Baddie Life: A Personal Journey
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[00:01:31] Bruce Anthony: So why are you not a bad B?

[00:01:33] J. Aundrea: So, as you know, my 40th birthday is coming up.

[00:01:36] Bruce Anthony: That's right.

[00:01:37] J. Aundrea: Okay? Next Friday. Now, I'm going on a trip with my friends. You know, the quintessential girls trip. And I said, I've always had a deep respect for baddies. And the amount of work they put in to be baddies. Like, I've always had that. So that's not me.

[00:01:57] J. Aundrea: So I said, I'm going to try to be [00:02:00] a baddie. I noticed y'all, y'all probably, if any, you're watching on YouTube, you see, I got the lashes and I, my nails are done and all this stuff. hair is braided. Cause you know, black women get their hair braided for the trip. And in the process of doing all of this, I realized this is, baddie life is not for me.

[00:02:17] J. Aundrea: It's extremely expensive. It's expensive. It's time consuming. I mean, you really have to love this. When I see women and fit, check, face, [00:02:30] beat, face card, doesn't decline, hair, done, baby hairs, laid, I'm, I, really honestly, All of us should bow down because the amount of work that they put in to bring beauty and baddie energy into the world. We should be honoring that because it's hard work. I gave up. 

[00:02:53] Bruce Anthony: What do you mean you gave up? Yes.

[00:02:58] J. Aundrea: I was gonna get my eyebrows waxed [00:03:00] and tinted. I was gonna, I was gonna get more things done. And I quit after the nails, after the mani pedi, I said, this I'm done. And this is the best I can do. I think I look pretty. Um, and this is the best I can do.

[00:03:19] Bruce Anthony: First of all, first of all, First of all, you always look pretty cause our parents made good looking children. So that's, that's just what it [00:03:30] is. And ladies and gentlemen, if y'all think I'm good looking, my brother got me beat. Like my brother is better looking. My brother is classically handsome and always has been.

[00:03:41] Bruce Anthony: And, and so like, that's the first thing. Second thing is all those women that do that most of the time got somebody else paying for it. That's the reason why I'm seeing all these social media posts of. Women asking, Hey, you're going to pay for this to get done. And when we're going to pay for this, are you going to pay for this to get done?

[00:03:58] Bruce Anthony: Cause this stuff is [00:04:00] expensive.

[00:04:00] J. Aundrea: The lifestyle is so expensive. It's so expensive and I just can't keep up. I can't do it. You know, I live in Atlanta and Atlanta is the home of bad bitches and I can't keep up. Y'all have it. Y'all can have it. bow down to you. I am not a baddie and I'm okay with that. I have accepted it and I'm okay.


[00:04:26] Dating in Different Cities
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[00:04:26] Bruce Anthony: Also like how many 40 year old [00:04:30] baddies, how many 40 year olds are in Atlanta? Yes. So I was talking to my bestie a couple of weeks ago and she was in Florida.

[00:04:39] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:04:40] Bruce Anthony: And she was like, you know, walking around here, there's so many good looking people. Well, where there's sun, there's always going to be good looking people.

[00:04:46] Bruce Anthony: That kind of helps. But also I was telling her because we're both in this dating game in the DC area. And we've both been here for at least 20 years. And we didn't date everybody like between the both of us. I don't think [00:05:00] there's anybody that. We've dated everybody. And when I go to other places, I realized that even though the DC area is physically fit, like the county that I live in has been rated the number one fittest County in the, in the country.

[00:05:15] Bruce Anthony: So like people stay fit, they keep their body right there face. On the other hand, like, like DC is not holding it down facially.

[00:05:26] J. Aundrea: I'm, I'm from there. And so I can [00:05:30] tell you as a resident of the DMV, we like face cards. Okay. Yeah. We're looking at a lot of sixes and sevens. Like we're

[00:05:41] Bruce Anthony: A lot.

[00:05:41] J. Aundrea: lot of mid range, mid tier cards, mid tier cards, where there's not a whole lot of Amex black cards.

[00:05:50] Bruce Anthony: No, there isn't.

[00:05:51] J. Aundrea: there's just not.

[00:05:52] Bruce Anthony: And I was talking to an acquaintance that's not from the area. Cause we kind of, we, you know, we're from here. We grew up here.

[00:05:59] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:05:59] Bruce Anthony: [00:06:00] And the only reason why you are living in DC. The DMV area now is either you were born and raised here

[00:06:08] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:06:09] Bruce Anthony: or you came here for work. Nobody ever is just like, you know what?

[00:06:13] Bruce Anthony: I want to move to D. C. Because unless they're from a small town and they think the nation's capital is like that. So, so we, we're not getting the most attractive people. Number one. And number two, my acquaintance was, was saying that everybody that lives in this area is stressed [00:06:30] out. Because everybody has stressful jobs and we wear it on our faces.

[00:06:34] Bruce Anthony: So people here will age a little bit quicker, have more wrinkles. Botox, I know, is making a killing in this area. All right.

[00:06:46] J. Aundrea: because I, I, and there's no shame in my game. I will be getting injectables. Collagen, Restylane, Botox, all the things. I, there's no shame in my game over that. You ain't gonna have me walking around with [00:07:00] forehead wrinkles.

[00:07:01] Bruce Anthony: Hey, look, I got my four hair wrinkles and I'm cool with it. Like whatever. I'm 44 years old or whatever.

[00:07:06] J. Aundrea: when you move your eyebrows. When you relax your eyebrows, the wrinkles, they're gone.

[00:07:10] Bruce Anthony: Well,

[00:07:12] J. Aundrea: that's, see mine, I be like,

[00:07:14] Bruce Anthony: yes.

[00:07:15] J. Aundrea: so many incredulous faces, that the wrinkles stay. so, I say, because I'm always incredulous.

[00:07:24] Bruce Anthony: You act like that's not me. That's the same way. My, my normal default [00:07:30] face is WTF.

[00:07:32] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:07:33] Bruce Anthony: That's my normal default face

[00:07:35] J. Aundrea: truly,

[00:07:36] Bruce Anthony: because

[00:07:36] J. Aundrea: is going on

[00:07:37] Bruce Anthony: God, people are so stupid.

[00:07:39] J. Aundrea: to talk about in this show.

[00:07:40] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. You're talking about

[00:07:41] J. Aundrea: is going on. Yeah. So I'm not a baddie and I, I praise baddies for all the work y'all do to bring beauty into the world. And I salute you.

[00:07:51] Bruce Anthony: baddie as an action, right? Like the actual action of trying to keep up that appearance.

[00:07:59] J. Aundrea: [00:08:00] Yes.

[00:08:00] Bruce Anthony: Okay, because we're naturally good looking. Like, that's naturally pretty. Like, you ain't got to do that. A lot of people that got to do that work. I have to do that work.

[00:08:12] J. Aundrea: now. I mean, not all, usually baddies are when they take the makeup off are typically still beautiful. Like makeup is not going to turn you into a completely different person.

[00:08:21] Bruce Anthony: Yes,

[00:08:22] J. Aundrea: I

[00:08:22] Bruce Anthony: it can.

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

[00:08:24] Bruce Anthony: Now, I have seen some makeovers on TikTok and Instagram. I was like, that ain't you.

[00:08:29] J. Aundrea: [00:08:30] Sometimes, sometimes they do that for clicks. They'll purposely add makeup to make them look bad. And then do the after with the makeup. Like I've seen some, like, I'm like, you don't really look like that. Nobody looks that bad. Like,

[00:08:45] Bruce Anthony: social media be lying. Can't

[00:08:47] J. Aundrea: It'd be lying.

[00:08:48] Bruce Anthony: for it. Social media be lying.

[00:08:49] J. Aundrea: like, Oh, look at my before and after this is how good my makeup skills are, but you purposely made yourself look bad. So that your makeup skills look that much [00:09:00] better. But no, I'm talking about people who are in the bit, like, who work for the baddie aesthetic

[00:09:07] Bruce Anthony: Mm.

[00:09:08] J. Aundrea: like put up the money and the time and the effort for the, for the facials and the hair and the nails and the lashes and the brows and the filler and whatever it is, like, And y'all in the gym, like Megan, the stallions in the gym, like y'all are in there in the Pilates

[00:09:28] Bruce Anthony: Speaking of [00:09:30] which, did you see the video that she posted on Oh, no. The actual video where the towel is coming down?

[00:09:38] J. Aundrea: Oh yeah.

[00:09:40] Bruce Anthony: Uh, Megan.

[00:09:41] J. Aundrea: Her body is insane

[00:09:44] Bruce Anthony: Hold on, I want to make it personal. Megan, I just want to let you know that even though I am Advanced in age. I'm also advanced in a lot of areas in life. Let me introduce you to this game.

[00:09:59] Bruce Anthony: I would love [00:10:00] to hang out with you sometimes. I can't say I'm gonna take you out cause you got more money than me, but I'll treat you to a lovely evening, a lovely organic, regular evening. Just give me an opportunity. That's my little plea that I'm putting out there for Megan Stoddard. Cause good Lord. 

[00:10:14] J. Aundrea: I feel like, well, once she got a whole man, she got a whole man,

[00:10:19] Bruce Anthony: Oh, she do.

[00:10:19] J. Aundrea: yeah, she does. For quite

[00:10:21] Bruce Anthony: Well,

[00:10:22] J. Aundrea: Um,

[00:10:23] Bruce Anthony: congratulations to her, I guess.

[00:10:25] J. Aundrea: yeah, she got a whole man and yeah, but I feel like, [00:10:30] I don't know why, because Megan feels like she's my bestie, but I feel like she would like a regular degular date. Like, I feel like she will find it very cute and charming.

[00:10:40] J. Aundrea: So yeah, keep it, keep it at, listen. never know.

[00:10:44] Bruce Anthony: I'll take it to the adult arcade over here in D. C. You know what I'm saying? We'll have a good time. We'll have some drinks. We'll play some games. And you know we're gonna laugh.

[00:10:53] J. Aundrea: I feel like she would love that.

[00:10:54] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Tell me more about your trip. Because, because we own it now. [00:11:00] Panama,

[00:11:00] J. Aundrea: Yes, I leave on Tuesday. I'm so excited. My brother is gonna house sit for me. So,

[00:11:08] Bruce Anthony: your other brother.

[00:11:09] J. Aundrea: Yes, other brothers gone house it, but I'm very excited. All my friends are excited. I'm like just praying that the weather, cause I've been looking at the weather and it don't look good. It's saying rain all week. And so I'm really, but it's only like 50 percent chance.

[00:11:28] Bruce Anthony: So you, you know [00:11:30] how that, you know how that rain and that 50 percent kind of works, right?

[00:11:34] J. Aundrea: No.

[00:11:34] Bruce Anthony: found this out. Like, when they say it's like a 50 percent chance of rain, it's like a 50 percent chance of rain in a certain area. Area. It doesn't

[00:11:43] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:11:44] Bruce Anthony: we live in D. C. or I live in D. C. when they say it's 50 percent 50 percent chance of rain in D.

[00:11:49] Bruce Anthony: C. It could be D. C. or the surrounding areas. And it's like 50 percent chance of rain in that particular area, not blanketing the whole city. So,

[00:11:58] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Okay.[00:12:00] 

[00:12:00] Bruce Anthony: and it's only 50%.

[00:12:01] J. Aundrea: it's only 50 percent and I am really holding out hope

[00:12:05] Bruce Anthony: You

[00:12:05] J. Aundrea: the

[00:12:05] Bruce Anthony: know,

[00:12:05] J. Aundrea: nice. So,

[00:12:07] Bruce Anthony: and even if it isn't, y'all go still be in Panama. Y'all will still have a good time.

[00:12:12] J. Aundrea: have fun.

[00:12:13] Bruce Anthony: Yes,

[00:12:13] J. Aundrea: cause guess what? Bars are indoors.

[00:12:17] Bruce Anthony: they're in and outdoors, but yes, they're, they're still indoors.

[00:12:21] J. Aundrea: they can be indoors.

[00:12:22] Bruce Anthony: The strip club is indoors.

[00:12:24] J. Aundrea: all indoors. So,

[00:12:26] Bruce Anthony: a strip club was outdoors? That'd be kind of,

[00:12:28] J. Aundrea: nope,

[00:12:29] Bruce Anthony: [00:12:30] what?

[00:12:30] J. Aundrea: public indecency,

[00:12:32] Bruce Anthony: I mean, and in a closed area, but it's outside.

[00:12:36] J. Aundrea: okay, so you're talking about like a strip coliseum.

[00:12:40] Bruce Anthony: Hey, that's even better.

[00:12:43] J. Aundrea: Okay,

[00:12:45] Bruce Anthony: What? I like that idea. Take the Coliseum. Godzilla was already sleeping in the Coliseum. Might as well have a strip a thon in the Coliseum.

[00:12:56] J. Aundrea: Godzilla's in there, like, that's,

[00:12:58] Bruce Anthony: Well, he's out [00:13:00] now.

[00:13:00] J. Aundrea: we're not gonna go down this road, because, that's, I feel like the tangent that's coming up is too much, so, like,

[00:13:10] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:13:10] J. Aundrea: We're not gonna

[00:13:11] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:13:11] J. Aundrea: that road,

[00:13:11] Bruce Anthony: I can feel the tangent building. Right.

[00:13:17] J. Aundrea: excited So and the reason why I wanted to try to be a baddie is I'm taking professional photos while I'm down there And you know, this is gonna be the photos that I look back on at that time when [00:13:30] I was 40 you know in the day and And it's like, kind of like a revisionist history.

[00:13:35] J. Aundrea: I could tell people, see, I was a baddie back in the day. When the truth is I wasn't, I really wasn't.

[00:13:42] Bruce Anthony: So you're going to lie to the people.

[00:13:43] J. Aundrea: yeah. I mean, you know, I'm writing the story and if I got photo evidence, who are you to dispute it?

[00:13:52] Bruce Anthony: Well, you get it honestly. Cause that's how America does it. You like,

[00:13:57] J. Aundrea: learned from my country.

[00:13:59] Bruce Anthony: right.[00:14:00] 

[00:14:01] J. Aundrea: I'll tell the story I want to tell.

[00:14:04] Bruce Anthony: So you went to the, you can still, you can still tell the story of a baddie even though you didn't get all the stuff done. I don't even know what this other stuff you was talking about. Highlighting eyebrows. What does that even mean?

[00:14:16] J. Aundrea: Eyebrow tinting. So I always get my eyebrows waxed so they're in nice shape and then I get them tinted. So they're darker because as you like, I have very faint, Eyebrows, they

[00:14:28] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, that runs in the family.

[00:14:29] J. Aundrea: [00:14:30] there wasn't a family, they don't show up well in photos. So sometimes I get them tinted so they're darker and they show up better in photos. And of course I got a whole new Shein wardrobe. Shout out to Shein. Put a little Fashion Nova mixed in. Because that's the only way I'm getting a whole new wardrobe.

[00:14:54] Bruce Anthony: I didn't realize she and I got an advertisement yesterday for she and I didn't know she in war [00:15:00] meant I sold men's clothes. I thought it was all

[00:15:02] J. Aundrea: Oh

[00:15:04] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:15:04] Bruce Anthony: and I saw some stuff on there and I was like, you know what? I could rock this, but, ah, it's a little different than Fashion Nova because Fashion Nova is based here

[00:15:12] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:15:12] Bruce Anthony: and is based overseas and them overseas sizes don't be fit in my frame.

[00:15:18] J. Aundrea: gotcha. You gotta look at the reviews. Shein gives like customers rewards for leaving reviews. So if you look at the reviews, people will tell you, [00:15:30] yeah, it's true to size or no, it's a little oversized or no, it runs small. So read the reviews and you can, I've, I have never had anything, but good picks from Shein

[00:15:40] Bruce Anthony: Okay.

[00:15:41] J. Aundrea: the stuff would be like 14,

[00:15:43] Bruce Anthony: I mean, yeah, that's how it works. And, uh, how, how is the return policy?

[00:15:48] J. Aundrea: terrible.

[00:15:49] Bruce Anthony: Okay. So if you get it, if you spend your money, you just spent your money.

[00:15:53] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:15:54] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:15:54] J. Aundrea: but you know, the, you buyin a shirt for five dollars, [00:16:00] you know what I'm sayin You like, well, you know, chalk that up to the game.

[00:16:04] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. I guess you got to charge it up to the game. All right. Well, we're, I'm excited for your trip. I'm excited to, you know, I'm sure you're going to post on social media while you're there.

[00:16:14] J. Aundrea: Yes. Yes. So,

[00:16:15] Bruce Anthony: So I'm going to get to see trip and then I see you the following weekend, celebrate your 40th, in person. So I'm going to be excited about that.

[00:16:24] Bruce Anthony: It's a whole two week, three week celebration of you.

[00:16:28] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Uh, [00:16:30] which, you know, you know, we don't do.

[00:16:32] Bruce Anthony: No, we don't do.

[00:16:34] J. Aundrea: We don't do that. It's, you know, we're not Jehovah's Witnesses, but We just don't celebrate our birthdays that often. Uh, I had, I saw a meme about Leos. They'll talk about their birthday for a whole month and then the actual day will come and they won't care.

[00:16:48] J. Aundrea: And that's, that's how it is. It was like, we just like the excitement around it,

[00:16:53] Bruce Anthony: Well,

[00:16:53] J. Aundrea: but the actual day is like, I don't care about that. Just, you know, I like the excitement around it.


[00:16:59] Tim Walz: The New VP Pick
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[00:16:59] Bruce Anthony: we're going to get [00:17:00] into more of that in the third segment, specifically about men celebrating their birthdays and being called out for, but before we get to that, we got to go from the windows to the walls and talk about Tim Walls, the new VP pick for Kamala Harris. And we're going to get into that next.

[00:17:20] 

[00:17:27] Bruce Anthony: All right, sis, there's a new [00:17:30] VP candidate for the democratic ticket. You hit me up and you were like, I want to talk about this now. I was like, we already filmed the show. The show has been released and I've already got a show lined up for Friday, which by the way, go check out, ladies and gentlemen, Dr.

[00:17:42] Bruce Anthony: Stephanie L. Carnazales and her book, Sin Padres en Papeles that talks about unaccompanied minors from Central America that migrate here to the U S and Go listen, go watch that episode. She's brilliant, beautiful person inside and [00:18:00] out. Go get the book. I've started reading it. It is a eye opener. If you, if you truly, truly want to learn about immigration and migration from Central America, she hits all the buttons, but I'd already released that had programmed to release that show Friday. And he was like, I want to talk about it. I was like, well, we'll just get to it on the next simple happy hour. So we're here now.

[00:18:21] J. Aundrea: Yeah. I wanted to talk about it because I'm so excited.

[00:18:24] Bruce Anthony: Okay, well let's, let's give everybody a little background. Timothy James walls. [00:18:30] That's W A L Z, not T.

[00:18:33] J. Aundrea: Waltz.

[00:18:34] Bruce Anthony: no T in there. It's walls, not waltz. Walls, not waltz, okay?

[00:18:39] J. Aundrea: Tell black people that.

[00:18:41] Bruce Anthony: black people going to get black people going to put an S at the end of a name and they're going to put a T somewhere.

[00:18:46] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:18:47] Bruce Anthony: what we do.

[00:18:50] Bruce Anthony: He was born April 6, 1964 in West Point, Nebraska. He's an American politician, former school teacher, a retired U. S. Army [00:19:00] noncommissioned officer. Walls has was served as the 41st governor of Minnesota since. 2019 before his governor role, he was a member of the US H House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019, representing Minnesota's first congressional district.

[00:19:17] Bruce Anthony: He was in the Army National Guard. We'll get to more of that later where he rose to the rank of Command Sergeant Major over 24 years. He's worked as a high school social studies teacher and a football [00:19:30] coach before entering politics. I know a little something about being a high school social studies teacher.

[00:19:34] Bruce Anthony: Well, almost.

[00:19:36] J. Aundrea: Almost.

[00:19:37] Bruce Anthony: I went into that school and I was like, nah, can't do this. But he did it. He did it. He was elected to the US House by defeating a Republican incumbent in the, her, in the heavily rural district in 2006. And he was reelected five times before becoming governor in 2018 and went in reelection in 2022.

[00:19:57] Bruce Anthony: He was selected by [00:20:00] Kamala Harris on August 6th, 2024 to be Kamala Harris's running mate. for the U. S. For the 2024 U. S. Presidential election. This election has generated significant attention with various political figures and analysts weighing in on the decision. For instance, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who was one of the finalists to be on the ticket, said that adding walls Was a strong addition to the ticket.

[00:20:25] Bruce Anthony: Walls has been actively campaigning alongside Harris with recent events, including rallies in [00:20:30] Arizona and Nevada during a rally in Pennsylvania walls made headlines by calling Donald Trump and JD Vance weird, which prompted a response from Trump. We not even gonna get into Trump's responses.

[00:20:40] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:20:41] Bruce Anthony: in addition, right?

[00:20:43] Bruce Anthony: Always unhinged. In addition, walls is military record has started to become under scrutiny, but we're going to get into more of that later. J I. Know that you were really excited. You want to talk about this. So I'm going to give you the floor to just talk about why you're excited[00:21:00] 

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

[00:21:00] Bruce Anthony: Tim walls.

[00:21:03] J. Aundrea: What a, what a great pick. I mean, I would not have been mad with Josh Shapiro. But we kinda need him in Pennsylvania. No, Tim Walz, excellent pick. It really is feeling like one of the reasons why I'm so excited about it is it really feels like the Harris campaign is listening to the people. [00:21:30] You know, it really feels like she, well, the whole campaign is taking into account what people are saying online, you know, what people are, are feeling about the issues and what's important to them. She's listening and adapting and. That's reflected in her pic of Tim Walz. Tim Walz has become a sensation because [00:22:00] of TikTok and Twitter. He's become memed. He actually has a really great presence on TikTok, uh, for a 60 year old dude. Like he's very adept at the internet. And not only that, you feel like you, you see is what you get with Tim Walz. Like he's, he's very transparent. It feels like, in, in terms of his stance on things in [00:22:30] terms of the policy positions that he supports and in his support of Kamala Harris. And also he definitely gives off the vibe of like. Yeah, I'm here to support her. I'm gonna be the number two. I don't have aspirations to be number one I'm here to be a support and you really feel that I mean another thing that really excites me about him is [00:23:00] He says the things that we're all thinking

[00:23:04] Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

[00:23:05] J. Aundrea: Trump and JD Vance are weird and creepy

[00:23:09] Bruce Anthony: I don't like to use the word weird. I wouldn't when describing people, I like to use the word unique or different.

[00:23:16] J. Aundrea: No, because those don't have the same, he means it with the negative connotation.

[00:23:22] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Okay.

[00:23:23] J. Aundrea: We're not calling JD Vance quirky, eccentric, no, he's weird and it's creepy. [00:23:30] Him following Kamala, playing around everywhere, trying to get some photo op, that never works out and he just ends up looking weird and awkward. Him doing rallies in the same city at the same time as Kamala, except she's got thousands in the crowd and he's got tens. Like,

[00:23:52] Bruce Anthony: He's got hundreds, not tens.

[00:23:53] J. Aundrea: nah, some of them was tens.

[00:23:56] Bruce Anthony: Okay.

[00:23:57] J. Aundrea: seen, I saw the video. Some of them is tens. [00:24:00] It just, it comes off really weird. Like what's the game plan with that? weird. Why are

[00:24:08] Bruce Anthony: Be confrontational.

[00:24:09] J. Aundrea: Right. But she is not the vice presidential nominee. She's the presidential nominee.

[00:24:16] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:24:17] J. Aundrea: need to be following her around, but I guarantee he's not going to bring that same energy to Tim Walz because Tim Walz, I am praying. for a VP debate. [00:24:30] praying. He's incredibly smart. quick witted, funny. he definitely gives off America's dad vibes and he's got a personal connection to things like, you know the fertility journey he and his wife went through and the use of IVF, him being a service.

[00:24:51] J. Aundrea: Um, and, and fighting for the country, like he has, he's tapped in to these different things, him being [00:25:00] a public school teacher, he's tapped in to the community in a way that I don't think any other, you for BP, would have been. So I just, I got, I, when I dug more into who he is and what he's about, very excited, very excited for this pick.

[00:25:25] Bruce Anthony: Well, let's get into what he's about. So let's get into some of his key policy [00:25:30] positions. Number one, let's start with healthcare. He's for abortion rights. He's a strong advocate for abortion rights and even signed a bill in 2023 codifying the right to abortion in Minnesota.

[00:25:42] J. Aundrea: One of the first governors to do so.

[00:25:45] Bruce Anthony: He's also a big fan of the Affordable Care Act. As a U. S. Representative, he supported the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. What about the economy? Job creations and taxes? Walsh enacted policies aimed at job creation and tax [00:26:00] modifications in Minnesota. In Minnesota, not Minnesota. Once again, I tell you, black folks put ass on everything.

[00:26:06] J. Aundrea: to

[00:26:06] Bruce Anthony: Uh,

[00:26:06] J. Aundrea: on it.

[00:26:07] Bruce Anthony: his economy policies reflected a progressive agenda, including support for labor rights and increased public education spending. Why would he want to increase public education spending? Cause he was actually in the classroom. A lot of these people that want to curtail education spending have never stepped foot in the classroom.

[00:26:27] Bruce Anthony: Never been a teacher. Don't know what it's like.

[00:26:29] J. Aundrea: And, and [00:26:30] be clear, the goal, the Republican goal is to obliterate the department of education.

[00:26:39] Bruce Anthony: Yep. That's part of the project. 2025. Labor rights. He's for union support. Wallace has been a champion of progressive labor policies, including outlawing non compete agreements and raising the minimum wage for small business employees. He is a former union member and is actively supported labor [00:27:00] movements.

[00:27:00] Bruce Anthony: Of course, He's for public education spending. He supports increased spending on the public education, especially with his background, being a high school teacher and a football coach influences his strong stance in education. Once again, he was down there in the battleground and the trenches. He understands what these kids need.

[00:27:16] Bruce Anthony: And we're going to get more into some of the stuff that he did as, as an educator later, Climate energy. He's all about that. Climate action. Walls has a track record of supporting climate action and renewable energy initiatives. Gun control. [00:27:30] He's for universal background checks. During his second term as governor, Walls pushed for and signed legislation for universal gun background checks.

[00:27:37] Bruce Anthony: Now, for those people that are saying, well, he's coming for our guns. No, he's a hunter. He has guns. This is the thing that Republicans are kind of like, Oh, how are we going to attack him? Because he has guns and he goes hunting. He's a rural dude. That's what people do. Nobody wants to take the guns away. I don't want to take no guns away.

[00:27:56] Bruce Anthony: I believe in the second amendment. I'm for guns. I'm for [00:28:00] sensible, right? You got guns. You got the, you got the rifleman rifle, but you got guns, right? We are for guns. We are for also being smart. About the legislation of guns.

[00:28:12] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:28:12] Bruce Anthony: Um,

[00:28:13] J. Aundrea: uh, a very interesting thing, he used to have an A rating from the NRA, but since taking his stance on, uh, common sense universal background checks, he now has an F rating from the NRA, and he is proud of that.

[00:28:28] Bruce Anthony: yeah, yeah, that's good. All right. [00:28:30] Social issues. Cannabis legalization. Walsh has supported the legalization of cannabis and other progressive social policies. If you don't know what cannabis is, it's weed. The marijuana Snoop Dogg

[00:28:45] Bruce Anthony: Snoop Dogg

[00:28:46] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:28:48] Bruce Anthony: He's also, he also had a really great response for the protest for George Floyd's murder, moving the the D. A. That was, or the prosecutor that was responsible for that [00:29:00] and placing somebody that was going to be a little bit more impartial instead of being biased. I said I was gonna go on one of his things as far as education.

[00:29:12] Bruce Anthony: What, I don't know if you're familiar with this story, but there was a young man that was in one of his schools that wanted to start an, uh, essentially an LGBTQ plus club.

[00:29:26] J. Aundrea: Yes. Yeah.

[00:29:27] Bruce Anthony: and Tim Walls, [00:29:30] the football coach. decided that he was going to sponsor the club because he felt that it was extremely important for somebody for, for everybody to see a heterosexual, stereotypical football man, man to support the LGBTQ plus community.

[00:29:49] Bruce Anthony: And that student said that that support gave him so much confidence in his life because he felt supported and loved. [00:30:00] So we talk about teachers, And I went into teaching to Help the kids. Truly help the kids.

[00:30:07] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:30:08] Bruce Anthony: How else did he help the kids? He gave them free school lunch.

[00:30:12] J. Aundrea: Yes. And, and the great thing about that legislation is it made school lunch free for all children so that the children who needed it didn't feel any kind of [00:30:30] way about having about getting it. You know what I'm saying? They didn't, they don't have to face any kind of stigma or anything from their peers because it's free for everyone across the board. And to have that thought process, to think about it that deeply to know, you know, kids might have faced some stigma. Also, you never know what families are going through.

[00:30:56] Bruce Anthony: Right. Cause some people will make the funk.[00:31:00] 

[00:31:00] J. Aundrea: yeah, they may be up one day and down the next. You never know what different families are going to, but knowing that they can send their child to school and knowing that their child will be able to have school lunch, regardless of their financial situation is amazing.

[00:31:13] Bruce Anthony: It takes a stressor of parenting away from the parent. It's one less thing to worry about as a parent, as I've talked to so many parents have to be focused on so much.

[00:31:28] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:31:29] Bruce Anthony: And, and, right. [00:31:30] For the people who are like, just taxpayer money, who is against, who is against feeding kids? You always, and it's typically, it's the hypocrites, and this is what I mean by hypocrites.

[00:31:43] Bruce Anthony: It's the people who are saying that they're pro life.

[00:31:45] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:31:46] Bruce Anthony: We want to protect the life of the child. Feeding them is part of protecting the life of the child,

[00:31:51] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:31:52] Bruce Anthony: right?

[00:31:52] J. Aundrea: understand a majority of a child's day is spent in school

[00:31:57] Bruce Anthony: Mm hmm. It felt like the whole day. It [00:32:00] felt like the whole day

[00:32:01] J. Aundrea: damn day.

[00:32:02] Bruce Anthony: because you get up in the morning, you get up in the morning just to go to school. You come home from school just to do school work and then

[00:32:10] J. Aundrea: school

[00:32:11] Bruce Anthony: That's it. It's school.

[00:32:12] J. Aundrea: school all day long. You would think part of that behave. Why don't we feed these kids? We got them all day.

[00:32:23] Bruce Anthony: Mm hmm.

[00:32:24] J. Aundrea: we feed them? So that they have the energy and the brain power [00:32:30] to learn what we're teaching them. feels like common sense. Who is against feeding children? That's why this country is in the situation that it is today, where you have so many unhoused and hungry children,

[00:32:43] Bruce Anthony: Mm hmm.

[00:32:45] J. Aundrea: if y'all, if I'm gonna pay taxes, cause I gotta pay them.

[00:32:49] Bruce Anthony: Mm hmm. We ain't got no choice.

[00:32:51] J. Aundrea: we ain't got no damn choice. I would prefer that my taxes go to feed and house children and to support their education, [00:33:00] because they are the future of this country. It feels like common sense. And this is the kind of, and I feel like Tim Walz would say it just like this. You're an idiot you don't think that that's common sense.

[00:33:17] J. Aundrea: I feel like that's the way Tim Walz would deliver it. And I love that. Cause

[00:33:21] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:33:21] J. Aundrea: that's how I would say it. That's how I'm saying it right now.

[00:33:25] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Uh, you know, I, I, I have an associate. That brought up [00:33:30] something like this and said, you know, I just want to be in control of where my tax dollars goes. And I said, okay, well, the history of America has been so bad at helping anybody that doesn't represent them, anybody that doesn't look like them. So why would we allow you to have control of where your tax dollars are going?

[00:33:54] Bruce Anthony: When we know it's only going to go to benefit people that look like you.[00:34:00] 

[00:34:00] J. Aundrea: And also, Hey, they're not the best people in the world, Congress, Congress. the United States Congress, made up of Congress and the Senate? These are extremely intelligent people.

[00:34:17] Bruce Anthony: Sometimes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:34:20] J. Aundrea: Most, most of the, sometimes they are. They know what the, they, they know the job. Let's say the Senate does. Okay?

[00:34:27] Bruce Anthony: Senate, what, most of the Senate, [00:34:30] some of the Senate.

[00:34:30] J. Aundrea: whether or not they do the right thing. That's, that's another question, but

[00:34:33] Bruce Anthony: Okay.

[00:34:34] J. Aundrea: job.

[00:34:35] Bruce Anthony: Not Tommy Tupperville. Not Tommy Tupperville. He doesn't know the job.

[00:34:38] J. Aundrea: well, you know, you win some, you lose some, but they've spent decades on this finance problem. Some of the greatest economic minds in this country has spent decades on this finance problem. You sitting on your couch with a communications degree ain't going to figure it [00:35:00] out.

[00:35:01] Bruce Anthony: Can't even balance your own checkbook. People don't balance their checkbooks anymore.

[00:35:05] J. Aundrea: What you get,

[00:35:06] Bruce Anthony: But you get me.

[00:35:07] J. Aundrea: don't care where you're going, like, please, you want to be in charge of where your tax dollars go? No. We have a government we elect to do this for us, and if you have a problem with it, run for office.

[00:35:23] Bruce Anthony: Can you imagine if people's in charge, their tax dollars, roads be all messed up,

[00:35:27] J. Aundrea: Everything. Everything. I like.

[00:35:29] Bruce Anthony: be not [00:35:30] working, like, like, you don't know what, you don't know how to, how to run infrastructure. You can barely run your own household and you go, you go control the infrastructure of your city or your state or the country.

[00:35:44] Bruce Anthony: Shut up,

[00:35:45] J. Aundrea: Shut up.

[00:35:45] Bruce Anthony: up.

[00:35:46] J. Aundrea: Listen. You be talking about put, I'm going to put 20 on education.

[00:35:52] Bruce Anthony: Right. I

[00:35:52] J. Aundrea: put 20 on that. Do we have to pay military right now? Okay.

[00:35:57] Bruce Anthony: mean,

[00:35:57] J. Aundrea: let's put a hundred on. Let's put

[00:35:59] Bruce Anthony: let's,

[00:35:59] J. Aundrea: [00:36:00] on that.

[00:36:00] Bruce Anthony: let's not even.

[00:36:01] J. Aundrea: trash.

[00:36:02] Bruce Anthony: get into the fact that a lot of people talk about they are defenders of the military But these VA benefits are straight trash So you're not really that you do feeling you you you back up the arms

[00:36:19] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:36:20] Bruce Anthony: Not actually the people that's that's what that's about.

[00:36:23] Bruce Anthony: But speaking Of military. I didn't even mean that segue. I'm just starting to get good at this, you [00:36:30] know, podcasting and show thing.

[00:36:32] J. Aundrea: I also read the rundown and I try to do a little lead in if I can. Okay.

[00:36:37] Bruce Anthony: Okay.

[00:36:38] J. Aundrea: various things. Hehehehehehe!

[00:36:42] Bruce Anthony: I'd just be doing this stuff. And I'm like, I don't know if Jay pays attention to it or not, but okay. Anyway, speaking of military, there's been some attacks. On Timothy Wall's military record, particularly from J. D. Vance, who's got his own [00:37:00] military thing going on right there.

[00:37:04] J. Aundrea: Writing briefs from an air conditioned room in Baghdad.

[00:37:08] Bruce Anthony: You know what? I'm not going to knock anybody that went into the service to defend the country. I just feel like you shouldn't knock anybody, either, if you ain't really do too much. But anyway, What are some of the attacks? Well, originally, uh, one of the attacks is his deployment. Tim Walls deployment to Iraq.

[00:37:29] Bruce Anthony: Here's the [00:37:30] claim. Vance and others have accused Walls of dropping out of the National Guard when his platoon was slated for deployment to Iraq. Here's the actual fact, because I'm giving you the claim and I'm going to give you the facts. Here's the actual facts. Walls retired from the Minnesota National Guard in May.

[00:37:48] Bruce Anthony: Of 2005 to run for Congress. So he's retired. Everybody knew he was retiring in May 2005 to run for Congress. His battalion received official notification of potential, [00:38:00] potential deployment in March of 2005, but the actual order came in July. 2005, two months after Waltz had retired 

[00:38:11] J. Aundrea: Retired! The man retired!

[00:38:17] Bruce Anthony: after 24 years

[00:38:19] J. Aundrea: Twenty

[00:38:19] Bruce Anthony: he was, he was running for Congress. So he left one service of the country to enter in another service of the country after he had done 24 [00:38:30] years. And it wasn't because he was like, I'm not trying to go to Iraq. That wasn't, that wasn't it. That wasn't it.

[00:38:35] J. Aundrea: how many years J. D. Vance served in the U. S. Marine Corps?

[00:38:39] Bruce Anthony: How long? Well, I mean, hey,

[00:38:44] J. Aundrea: to 2007 as a combat correspondent in a non combative role, which included a six month deployment to the Public Affairs Office in Iraq.

[00:38:52] Bruce Anthony: okay. Well, look, I'm not going to knock that because that's more than because that's more than me, right?

[00:38:58] J. Aundrea: yeah, it's, it's still [00:39:00] an, an important role,


[00:39:01] Eyeliner and Military Service
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[00:39:01] Bruce Anthony: Right.

[00:39:03] J. Aundrea: baby girl.

[00:39:05] Bruce Anthony: You're not calling a baby girl because it's eyeliner, are you?

[00:39:08] J. Aundrea: Yes, that's exactly why.

[00:39:11] Bruce Anthony: He's trying to be a baddie.

[00:39:13] J. Aundrea: He's trying to be a baddie and I don't like it. No one does.

[00:39:16] Bruce Anthony: Is it? Let me let me get more into the military service. But I am curious about his eyeliner. Is that just natural? Or is he actually doing something? I don't know because I don't know makeup.

[00:39:27] J. Aundrea: right? I don't know [00:39:30] either.


[00:39:30] Combat Service Controversy
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[00:39:30] Bruce Anthony: Another attack on Tim Walsh was his combat service. Here's the claim. The claim is that Vance, this is once again an accusation by Vance, has accused Walsh of falsely suggesting he saw combat during his service.

[00:39:42] Bruce Anthony: Here's the fact. Walsh has made statements about carrying weapons of war during his service, which some have interpreted as implying combat experience. Now, I'll say that's a gray area. I'll say that he misspoke and he probably shouldn't have said that. But if you're going on [00:40:00] legitimate, like wording, he probably did carry weapons of war.

[00:40:05] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:40:06] Bruce Anthony: He just probably did. I mean, he obviously didn't carry it during war, but I mean,

[00:40:10] J. Aundrea: he used weapons of war. He said he carried them

[00:40:13] Bruce Anthony: well, I mean, yes. I mean, some military people have been saying, Oh, that's a gray area. You maybe shouldn't have said that. But once again, it was during a town hall and he was talking about war and guns and, um, Okay, so [00:40:30] I'm not giving it the claim that Vance is giving it, but I'm saying a little gray, a little gray, like a shade.

[00:40:38] Bruce Anthony: Like it's not, it's not dark gray. It's light gray. It's light gray.

[00:40:44] J. Aundrea: So

[00:40:44] Bruce Anthony: faint. It's a faintest gray. Uh,

[00:40:47] J. Aundrea: think it's a matter of semantics.

[00:40:50] Bruce Anthony: It is.

[00:40:51] J. Aundrea: but he was not factually incorrect. He probably did carry

[00:40:57] Bruce Anthony: he did care that he wasn't factually [00:41:00] incorrect. All right. 


[00:41:00] Military Rank Dispute
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[00:41:00] Bruce Anthony: Another attack on his military record is his actual military rank. So here's the claim. The Republican national community criticized walls for misrepresenting his military rank and campaign materials. Here's the actual fact. Walls did raise to the rank of commanding Sergeant major, but retired as a major Sergeant because he had not completed the requirements for a higher rank.

[00:41:25] Bruce Anthony: So he aint lying.

[00:41:28] J. Aundrea: He ain't lying.

[00:41:29] Bruce Anthony: The [00:41:30] military recognized him as a commanding sergeant major, but, but at you retire at different ranks from what I understand in the military you retire at different ranks. So these attacks on Tim walls are not valid.

[00:41:46] J. Aundrea: No, but they are trying because they really, really have no, no good answer for this ticket. They just don't.


[00:41:58] Political Race Dynamics
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[00:41:58] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I, I [00:42:00] will say the DEI stuff is kind of tampered down now,

[00:42:03] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Luckily, I mean, after, after Trump's abysmal performance at the National Association of Black Journalists,

[00:42:14] Bruce Anthony: Mm.

[00:42:15] J. Aundrea: the full pivot was we are not going to talk about race anymore. Now you still got him out there doing it because you can't rein him in. But, and of course Byron Davis, which do not even get me started on the fact that this man [00:42:30] has biracial children and is also Jamaican, but is still calling Kamala Harris's racial identity into question. I don't understand

[00:42:38] Bruce Anthony: Does he call himself into question,

[00:42:40] J. Aundrea: right. Because black people are not indigenous to Jamaica

[00:42:47] Bruce Anthony: but okay.

[00:42:48] J. Aundrea: anyways. Um, but it seems to be a hard pivot away from the race things. Yes,

[00:42:56] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, they, they would be smart. So Tim Walls, the VP [00:43:00] candidate. Now remember ladies and gentlemen, when you are voting for President of the United States, the vice president's role in that is, uh, you know, it, they're there. It, it's a

[00:43:12] J. Aundrea: They'll have, they'll have their own assignments,

[00:43:15] Bruce Anthony: yes.

[00:43:16] J. Aundrea: things, but they're not the president.

[00:43:19] Bruce Anthony: Right. That's the point I'm trying to make. They're not the president. So Tim Walz is cool. Kamala Harris is the person that you're voting for. If you're voting for Kamala Harris. [00:43:30] Donald Trump is the person that you're voting for. If you're voting for Donald Trump, it's not J. D. Vance. So, a lot of the

[00:43:37] J. Aundrea: ticket. So you're voting for both.

[00:43:38] Bruce Anthony: You're voting for both, but, but for president, like, okay.

[00:43:42] Bruce Anthony: So that's the point I'm trying to make. So

[00:43:44] J. Aundrea: you need to JD Vance, because I don't think he's, I don't think it's clicking, Stephen, because he's still following around the presidential candidate he

[00:43:52] Bruce Anthony: also because Trump wasn't campaigning for a little while. He just got back on the campaign trail, [00:44:00] like

[00:44:00] J. Aundrea: not been

[00:44:01] Bruce Anthony: night,

[00:44:02] J. Aundrea: yeah, he's definitely not been doing the same number of rallies that he used to do.

[00:44:06] Bruce Anthony: I think, because he's not,

[00:44:08] J. Aundrea: crowds.

[00:44:09] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, he's not liking the fact that my man said that his crowd

[00:44:13] J. Aundrea: Boy,

[00:44:14] Bruce Anthony: at the mall was as big as Martin Luther King's crowd at the hot. I have a dream speech. And, but the thing was, is in his little speech, he said Martin Luther King had millions. I had thousands, but it was the same [00:44:30] crowd.

[00:44:30] Bruce Anthony: I'm like, no millions. A million and thousands is a different if I gave you the option of a million dollars or a thousand dollars or even ten thousand dollars or twenty or thirty or even five hundred thousand dollars. Guess what? You're going to want more. So you're going to take the million. Million is more than any thousand.

[00:44:49] Bruce Anthony: You know why? Because a million is, I think, a thousand, uh, a hundred,

[00:44:56] J. Aundrea: hundred thousands.

[00:44:57] Bruce Anthony: it's a thousand hundred thousands.

[00:44:59] J. Aundrea: Yes,[00:45:00] 

[00:45:01] Bruce Anthony: Is it? Is it a thousand hundred thousands? I don't think it's a thousand hundred thousands.

[00:45:06] J. Aundrea: I think it

[00:45:06] Bruce Anthony: Because a hundred thousand times ten is a million. So that math would not be mathing right.

[00:45:13] J. Aundrea: math ain't math and that's a hundred thousand. That's a hundred million.

[00:45:17] Bruce Anthony: Yes, yes,

[00:45:18] J. Aundrea: hundred thousand It's a hundred hundred thousands

[00:45:21] Bruce Anthony: that's what I thought.

[00:45:22] J. Aundrea: Yes No, that's ten million. Hold on. get it.

[00:45:27] Bruce Anthony: No, you get it.

[00:45:29] J. Aundrea: 100, [00:45:30] 000

[00:45:30] Bruce Anthony: That's, that's, yeah, that's what I said.

[00:45:33] J. Aundrea: did it. I just did the math. It's

[00:45:34] Bruce Anthony: You didn't do the math. That's what I said earlier.

[00:45:37] J. Aundrea: doing it on a calculator as I was

[00:45:39] Bruce Anthony: Well, I did it in my head

[00:45:40] J. Aundrea: but y'all I hey my degree is in english You

[00:45:45] Bruce Anthony: and mine is in secondary education. So studies, we're not math majors, but regardless, Tim Walsh VP candidate. So

[00:45:55] J. Aundrea: thing, the thing about that, first of all, comparing your January [00:46:00] 6 to Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech is wild. Second, he said, Martin Luther King gave that speech, great speech, I want him to name the speech. I want him to name it. Lastly, Trump does not come up with his own ideas. gets pieces of things from other people and he kind of stitches out together what he remembers and it usually comes out as nonsense. So [00:46:30] somebody somewhere compared his crowd size to Martin Luther King's, I have a dream speech crowd size. And he took that as if that was a real thing and he ran with it and I want to know who that person is.

[00:46:45] Bruce Anthony: I don't know who that person is. I don't know who that person is, but if I was going to venture to guess it would probably be Jesse Walters from Fox News because that's the type of buffoonery and ignorance that would come out of his mouth if it's not a triple to him. And I'm not [00:47:00] attributing to him. I'm just saying that that's something that he would say because nonsense and idiotic statements typically come out of his mouth.

[00:47:09] J. Aundrea: Agree.

[00:47:10] Bruce Anthony: I got he's a buffoon. But anyway, that's that's Tim Walz. Thanks.

[00:47:15] J. Aundrea: Yeah.


[00:47:16] Olympic Gymnastics Scoring Error
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[00:47:16] Bruce Anthony: We're going to get into some more patriotic stuff before we talk about men. We're going to get into that next.

[00:47:23] [00:47:30] 

[00:47:30] Bruce Anthony: All right, Jay. This was not on the original rundown. It was not, but, but you texted me this morning and you was hot about something that happened at the Olympics. So I'm going to give you the floor to go ahead and talk about that.

[00:47:44] J. Aundrea: Jordan Childs. Now, again, I'm Black. And I know her name is Childs. But it's Childs. And that's what I'mma say. I'mma put that D in there. But no. Jordan Childs won bronze for [00:48:00] her individual floor routine, uh, at the Olympics in gymnastics. What happened they're scored on their difficulty and their execution. The difficulty score is decided before they even start, and it's based on the difficulty of their routine. judges inputted the wrong difficulty score for Jordan Childs. They put it much less. [00:48:30] I think like three tenths of a point less than what it should have been. when she was scored after her routine, it looked like she was in fifth place. So her team made an inquiry and The judges realized their mistake, corrected it, it placed her in third, she got the bronze medal, she stood on the podium, took that amazing all black woman podium with [00:49:00] Simone Biles and Rebecca Andrade from Brazil, who won gold. And That was five days ago. Now the Romanian team, um, challenged that that she said her team submitted the inquiry too late. You have one minute to submit an inquiry about your score. According to, I don't know who submitted the [00:49:30] inquiry a minute and four seconds. So she was late. First of all, if the inquiry was late, why did they accept it? Because they knew they had made a mistake. They made a mistake and that she had earned and deserved the bronze medal. And so they corrected their mistake. While the Olympic court has ruled in favor of Romania, that the inquiry was made too late. they're asking for [00:50:00] Jordan's medal back. If I was the Romanian gymnast, I wouldn't want it. Because I didn't earn it with my score, perform, my performance did not earn a bronze medal. Jordan's performance earned a bronze medal. And so for me to get it on a technicality, to me, undermines all the work that we've all put in to get to where we [00:50:30] are. I don't want to win something on a technicality. I want to win it because I earned it and I deserve it. So now forever her bronze medal is going to have an asterisk next to it. Um, I'm sure this is incredibly traumatizing for Jordan Childs who posted Yesterday that she will be taking time away from social media to focus on her mental health [00:51:00] because she's already home like she already is home got her medal. She's home so to ask for it back You When she earned it is incredibly unfair. There's only, there has never been an Olympian who has had their metal Never. There's only two ways to do that is cheating or doping. She did neither. She earned that. So I 100 percent stand with her. I [00:51:30] believe. I saw this, do not quote me on it, but that her team is fighting it, I sincerely hope that they do because technicality or no, it was the judge's error in the first place, not Jordan's.

[00:51:46] J. Aundrea: I don't think that she should be penalized when she earned her medal. She earned it. Like, it's not a situation where, oh, they raised her score, but it was, they made a mistake. No, [00:52:00] and you know, you could bring race into it. I don't think this is a racial issue. I think it's a greed issue, but I mean Also, I feel like as for the romanian team like I get The embarrassment you thought you got the bronze you got your flag or running around with it taking pictures and stuff And then a moment later to find out you're actually in fifth place

[00:52:28] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.[00:52:30] 

[00:52:30] J. Aundrea: I'm sure that's I'm sure, I'm positive that that was embarrassing and upsetting, but you also earned that score.

[00:52:42] Bruce Anthony: So I have a variety of different things going on in my head. The first and foremost judges y'all had one

[00:52:52] J. Aundrea: One job.

[00:52:53] Bruce Anthony: to do.

[00:52:54] J. Aundrea: And it's not the first thing in the Paris Olympics that where y'all, y'all [00:53:00] have, boy, the whole thing with them locking out Shellyann Fraser Price and Sha'Carri Richardson

[00:53:06] Bruce Anthony: Well, that's the committee. That wasn't the judges. So you're, you're talking about the Olympic committee. I'm, I'm speaking. It's been, it's been

[00:53:14] J. Aundrea: Period. There were

[00:53:15] Bruce Anthony: good. There's some, there's some issues. Yes. I'm talking about the judges. They had one job to do.

[00:53:20] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[00:53:22] Bruce Anthony: look at things from all points of views. I feel really bad for Jordan.

[00:53:26] Bruce Anthony: You stood up in that podium, you got the bronze medal and [00:53:30] you legitimately Earned the bronze medal. I feel bad for the Romanian gymnast because at at there was a point because of the judge's air that they felt like. I am a bronze medalist. The easy solution is both get the bronze medal because they both legitimately have a claim to it.

[00:53:53] Bruce Anthony: If the judges had never been pointed out their error, Romanian won it. Whether it's a technicality or [00:54:00] not, Romanian won it. Once the error had got pointed out, Jordan legitimately won it. So I think this is an instance where they both deserve the bronze medal. I feel, I especially feel bad for whoever came in for.

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

[00:54:17] Bruce Anthony: Because they was like, wait a minute, they, they get talked about being bronze medalist. What about me?

[00:54:23] J. Aundrea: actually, let me correct. It looked like Jordan was in 5th place. She was actually in 3rd. I believe the Romanian [00:54:30] gymnast got moved down to 4th place.

[00:54:32] Bruce Anthony: Okay. All right. Okay. So the easy solution is they both get a bronze medal. I feel bad for Jordan. Yeah, the judges screwed this up.

[00:54:42] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:54:42] Bruce Anthony: judges schooled this up and I feel like that's the easiest solution. Everybody, the both of them get a bronze medal and it would be great if the Romanian government got together with the U.

[00:54:51] Bruce Anthony: S. Government and did like a joint press conference where they took the picture together as bronze medalist. Jordan she kind of understand as well [00:55:00] that the Romanian gymnast also went through something. They both got robbed.

[00:55:05] J. Aundrea: they tried to do that,

[00:55:06] Bruce Anthony: Oh, they did.

[00:55:08] J. Aundrea: the committee said no.

[00:55:10] Bruce Anthony: Okay. So the committee is, is, is messing up. Hey, so you was right.

[00:55:13] Bruce Anthony: Committee dropping the ball on this one again. Well, this is a sad story, but you know what? It is a good story.

[00:55:20] J. Aundrea: What's that?

[00:55:22] Bruce Anthony: Armani, Keith, Khalif won that gold medal. A biologically [00:55:30] from birth woman

[00:55:33] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:55:35] Bruce Anthony: the women's gold medal in boxing

[00:55:38] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:55:40] Bruce Anthony: everything that she was going through from an emotional and a mental standpoint, persevered and won that gold medal.

[00:55:48] Bruce Anthony: So shout out. I don't know. I saw him on social media and there is a lot of bots. There's a lot of Russian and Chinese bots that are purposely, if you guys [00:56:00] think it's not real, it's real. A lot of the people that you think you're talking to are bots created by the Russians and Chinese to show, to sow dissent.

[00:56:08] Bruce Anthony: In the American society, and they have been doing a fantastic job because we all can't stand each other. Still people out there calling. This is true. It's always been some it's always been some bickering. The Civil War was only 100 and 60 was less than 200 years ago. So when really that this country is really not all that's for [00:56:30] maybe four generations, probably three.

[00:56:34] Bruce Anthony: So, yes, a lot of times people that are on there that you're arguing with aren't real people, don't argue with them. But I do, I still see a lot of these bots saying that Amani is male and it's just like, I don't know how much more information you need. 

[00:56:48] J. Aundrea: Honestly, just watch her press conference after winning the gold you will see a woman who went through [00:57:00] immense bullying and harassment was, refused a spot at the, at Worlds. for baseless reasons,

[00:57:15] J. Aundrea: ambiguous and 

[00:57:16] Bruce Anthony: by the Russians.

[00:57:17] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Ambiguous and vague reasons. and she is nothing but graceful. And, all she [00:57:30] did was ask for people to uphold the Olympic principles. And to stop the bullying and harassment of athletes. She wasn't even speaking just on behalf of herself, but of all the athletes who have experienced. and bullying, particularly online. I don't, I, I, I am immensely proud.

[00:57:54] J. Aundrea: A lot of people for some reason think that they're in a rivalry with America. [00:58:00] No, we literally love, we love, not an underdog, but yeah, like a underdog story. Like we love it. Because that's who we were at one time.

[00:58:11] Bruce Anthony: Well, there's, there's a bunch. Um, uh, factors of why people may feel like, and there are some Americans who are not happy about this one, she comes from a Muslim country to whatever the question was and on social media, that was false. There are still some [00:58:30] people who are not getting the corrective information that still think it's, it's, it was a man and it was a female.

[00:58:36] Bruce Anthony: So, and I'm going to believe that a lot of the furor, the furor, furor

[00:58:41] J. Aundrea: Yeah. Fervor.

[00:58:44] Bruce Anthony: say what?

[00:58:45] J. Aundrea: Fervor.

[00:58:46] Bruce Anthony: Forever. Thank you. From, uh, the, the talk about her gender. I'm going to believe that a lot of it was American because that's a part of our culture war right now. I think it's bigger here. That [00:59:00] culture war is bigger here than it is just about anywhere else.

[00:59:02] J. Aundrea: A lot of the prominent names were British.

[00:59:08] Bruce Anthony: Well,

[00:59:09] J. Aundrea: Prominent

[00:59:10] Bruce Anthony: yeah. Okay. Okay.

[00:59:12] J. Aundrea: other people But yeah, there were Americans doing it. But as far as like, us supporting other athletes from other countries,

[00:59:21] Bruce Anthony: Mm hmm.

[00:59:23] J. Aundrea: of color, we will support other athletes from other countries. Like obviously

[00:59:28] Bruce Anthony: So underdog store,

[00:59:29] J. Aundrea: all [00:59:30] day.

[00:59:30] Bruce Anthony: right?

[00:59:32] J. Aundrea: If we're not in it, if we're not in the competition, who we rooting for somebody.

[00:59:40] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:59:41] J. Aundrea: Okay. We going to root for somebody. It's probably You know, not gonna be Australia anymore because they, they hating on us. But uh,

[00:59:49] Bruce Anthony: Well,

[00:59:50] J. Aundrea: in that by yourselves, by the way. Like, we don't consider you rivals, but


[00:59:55] Breakdancing at the Olympics
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[00:59:55] Bruce Anthony: They hating on us because of, uh, they sorry ass [01:00:00] breakdancer.

[01:00:01] J. Aundrea: and the fact that y'all, I don't know if it was the prime minister or whoever, that came on and said, she is the best. Breakdancer. Female. That Australia has to offer. I love her and she shouldn't be subject to this bullying and harassment. It's okay to not participate in an event. America doesn't participate in every single event.

[01:00:28] J. Aundrea: We don't send an athlete [01:00:30] for every single event. Sometimes we just don't have one. Or they don't make qualifiers or whatever. You don't have to send somebody for every event.

[01:00:40] Bruce Anthony: Well, they can have pride and, and the fact that this breakdancer represented it and the bullying is the, the bullying, but it's out as Deshapelle has said, everything is funny. until it happens to you. So yes, it's hilarious,[01:01:00] 

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

[01:01:00] Bruce Anthony: we were being treated like that on social media, it wouldn't be funny.

[01:01:04] J. Aundrea: but here's the thing. we bullying her or are we just putting the video of her up?

[01:01:11] Bruce Anthony: No, it's the, it's the putting the video and then the comments and the context and the, yes, we are.

[01:01:18] J. Aundrea: you I mean

[01:01:22] Bruce Anthony: And she tried her best and it was the best.

[01:01:25] J. Aundrea: I think critique critique of athletes On the [01:01:30] global stage in global competition is fair. Critique

[01:01:34] Bruce Anthony: Some athletes, some, some athletes would say a some of it's not fair and

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

[01:01:40] Bruce Anthony: critique of it is saying like, hey, this wasn't good because of this maneuver. She didn't pop like this way because of this maneuver. There might be something that she would. No, no.

[01:01:50] J. Aundrea: She was not good enough to be in that competition period

[01:01:54] Bruce Anthony: Well,

[01:01:54] J. Aundrea: the Australian male that they put up was great. He

[01:01:59] Bruce Anthony: [01:02:00] okay.

[01:02:01] J. Aundrea: She should not have been up there.

[01:02:05] Bruce Anthony: Well,

[01:02:05] J. Aundrea: y'all

[01:02:06] Bruce Anthony: not disputing that.

[01:02:07] J. Aundrea: her and yourselves by putting her up there.

[01:02:10] Bruce Anthony: I just feel bad. I feel, you know, me. I'll be having empathy.

[01:02:14] J. Aundrea: heart, and I get that. But nobody put a gun to Australia's head and said, Send somebody for the female portion of the breakdancing competition or else.

[01:02:24] Bruce Anthony: Did she, did she see video of herself break dancing before it, before she went to the Olympics [01:02:30] or, I mean,

[01:02:31] J. Aundrea: is actually a professor at a university in Australia and she is, she teaches cultural studies, including the culture of breakdancing.

[01:02:40] Bruce Anthony: Oh, okay. Maybe she just stick to teaching them.

[01:02:43] J. Aundrea: yeah, because those who can do and those who can't

[01:02:48] Bruce Anthony: Teach.

[01:02:50] J. Aundrea: And that's what it, that's where, that was her lane. That's her lane. And I bet you she is. And it like [01:03:00] emphatically enthusiastic about break dancing and probably hip hop culture.

[01:03:05] J. Aundrea: And she probably teaches an amazing course on it. That's her lane. She should not have got up there bunny hopping, which is

[01:03:13] Bruce Anthony: What if her country asked her to do it?

[01:03:15] J. Aundrea: move.

[01:03:16] Bruce Anthony: her country came to her and said, we want you to do this. And she was like, I don't know. And it was like, it would be good for the country. Yeah.

[01:03:23] J. Aundrea: should have said, I believe there are other dancers [01:03:30] this country who can better represent us. In breakdancing than me, because I'm gonna get up there and flail around and roll around on the ground and embarrass myself and my country

[01:03:48] Bruce Anthony: It was embarrassing.

[01:03:49] J. Aundrea: make what was the debut of breakdancing kind of a joke, which sucked because there were a lot of really great dancers who competed.

[01:03:59] Bruce Anthony: You're right.

[01:03:59] J. Aundrea: [01:04:00] And Yeah, you you wouldn't also this video I forgot what country he's from his nickname is the eel if you watch Olympic highlights with Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson They show a clip of this man I forget which Olympics I want to say maybe Rio He is a swimmer. His nickname is the eel. He dove in that water And it took him 45 [01:04:30] minutes to swim the length of that pool.

[01:04:31] J. Aundrea: It was the slowest possi It was embarrassing. should not have been there. Okay? He should not have been there. It's like if you sense a The U. S. men's 4x100 relay team who in every year for the last 20 years, every Olympics, have either dropped the baton mishandled off that baton [01:05:00] and not meddled. they didn't meddle this year because again, the same thing happened with the baton. They don't need to be like Carl Lewis said, this is abysmal. They don't need to be on that track unless they can hand off the baton properly. They don't have any business on the track if they can't do that. And the problem is Is we had a relay team that we used for qualifiers and semi finals and everything.

[01:05:25] J. Aundrea: And then you replace them with stars for the final. And these stars are too [01:05:30] busy worrying about their little individual thing to think about what's

[01:05:35] Bruce Anthony: thing.

[01:05:35] J. Aundrea: the team.

[01:05:36] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[01:05:37] J. Aundrea: And she, and whoever sent her, We're thinking about themselves and that was best to represent their country and the best if she was the best they had to offer.

[01:05:48] J. Aundrea: They should not have sent anyone to compete for the female portion of breakdancing period because is laughing at breakdancing, which is an art form that has been around [01:06:00] since the 70s. Of course, invented and developed and popularized by black Americans

[01:06:07] Bruce Anthony: Black and Puerto Rican. Black and Puerto Rican. Gotta, gotta give, gotta give shout out to Puerto Ricans out there. Yes.

[01:06:13] J. Aundrea: who are also black, so, um, but, and American, so, um, Even though they compete separate in the Olympics, but whatever. Uh, and people have dedicated [01:06:30] their lives to this. And so to get this platform, like to choose dancing, to be in the Olympics and them not go with something like ballroom, right. For them to have chosen break dancing, trying to appeal to younger people and. You know, trying to open it up for y'all to make it a joke. Like you've really heard it as a sport and it might not appear again

[01:06:57] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[01:06:58] J. Aundrea: the Olympics.[01:07:00] 


[01:07:00] Men and Birthday Celebrations
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[01:07:00] Bruce Anthony: Well, speaking of embarrassment, let's move to our final topic. We're going to make this brief. I saw something on the internet, on social media, and I shared it with you and I was like, I kind of want to talk about this cause I want to hear your perspective. It was a meme. In the meme, it says men don't like big celebrations for their birthday.

[01:07:19] Bruce Anthony: They just want to do whatever they want to do that day. And everybody respected. And I was like, huh, that's interesting. And then I went to the.

[01:07:27] J. Aundrea: that it's a woman who's writing this,

[01:07:29] Bruce Anthony: It [01:07:30] was important to know that it was a woman that was writing it. And then I went into the comments and men started commenting on this. Some of the comments was cause y'all will call a dude gay.

[01:07:39] Bruce Anthony: If you want it to celebrate. Okay. You'll call a guy sassy. Or zesty, if he wants to celebrate his birthday, it considered not manly, to, for men to celebrate anything, unless it's a [01:08:00] celebration of somebody else, but not to celebrate themselves. It, it, it would be called, it basically be called, they'd be deemed as less of a man celebrate.

[01:08:10] Bruce Anthony: And I never thought about that, but men do not, first of all, let's, let's talk about. The what is the pejoratives?

[01:08:19] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[01:08:20] Bruce Anthony: word? Yeah, I'm using the pejoratives. I think what does pejorative mean?

[01:08:27] J. Aundrea: uh, it's a pejorative is [01:08:30] like a negative. Um, yes,

[01:08:36] Bruce Anthony: Sentiment. Let's say that. Okay. So I had it right. By using gay.

[01:08:41] J. Aundrea: Yes,

[01:08:42] Bruce Anthony: Okay.

[01:08:42] J. Aundrea: gay as a pejorative,

[01:08:43] Bruce Anthony: Yes, and using gay as a pejorative, to, to make, to make it be something as negative when fact of the matter is why can't men call up their boys and go out to dinner and celebrate their birthday? Women do it all the time. Why is it that men [01:09:00] have to be zesty or sassy just because they want to celebrate themselves?

[01:09:06] Bruce Anthony: I find it hypocritical that women are constantly saying men need to be hard in certain areas, but soft when handling them.

[01:09:20] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[01:09:20] Bruce Anthony: other words, understanding their emotions, understanding what a woman is going through. That requires a, a, a balance [01:09:30] of emotional intelligence that they are not allowing some women, some women, as some women are not allowing men to have within themselves.

[01:09:38] Bruce Anthony: And how can, how can women expect that when men aren't doing it themselves? It's not a switch that you could turn on as you could say, Oh, now I have emotional intelligence to handle you. And it was a lot of women in these comments that are saying, yeah, men can't do that. Men can't do that. And by the way, I would not date men.

[01:09:55] Bruce Anthony: Any of these women, because if you want to restrict me or say, I'm not manly [01:10:00] because I want to do certain things like, Oh, wear pink or, or decorate my house with artwork. 

[01:10:06] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[01:10:06] Bruce Anthony: And, and I found it interesting because I told the story,

[01:10:10] J. Aundrea: that's not Jordan dunking

[01:10:13] Bruce Anthony: right?

[01:10:13] J. Aundrea: or a Nike swoosh.

[01:10:15] Bruce Anthony: Right. I found it interesting because I know I've said it on the show.

[01:10:19] Bruce Anthony: Part of the reasons why I didn't do theater in high school, though. I kind of secretly really wanted to was because I didn't want to be called as less manly [01:10:30] because I was going to do something artistic.

[01:10:32] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[01:10:33] Bruce Anthony: here I am now doing something artistic, but I wasted 30 years because of this connotation of, well, that's not a manly thing to do now.

[01:10:42] Bruce Anthony: I've just got that big age. Well, I just don't care. But. There's a lot of young men out there who are being forced into a certain, uh, I don't know.

[01:10:54] J. Aundrea: Box.

[01:10:56] Bruce Anthony: Yes, they're being boxed into a certain characteristic of what [01:11:00] is perceived as manly and even fostered by other men. It's not just women. Other men will call you out as well.

[01:11:08] Bruce Anthony: And and that's Is this heartening?

[01:11:11] J. Aundrea: Yeah, the answer is simple. 


[01:11:12] Patriarchy and Gender Roles
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[01:11:12] J. Aundrea: It's the patriarchy. And guess what, men and women can be bound up in that and can be sexist. because society is telling you, in order to be considered a man, these are the qualities and traits that you have to have. [01:11:30] value lies in what you can provide or contribute. Nothing else. Right? Literally nothing else. Your value is in what you can provide. And these are, these are ways that you can present as a man and that's it. That's it. And people, men and women, believe this. And it keeps [01:12:00] everyone, particularly men, but everyone from living their best life.

[01:12:05] Bruce Anthony: That's the point that I was trying to make. That's the point. We talk about authenticity and being your authentic self and it's tough, right? You succumb to peer pressure because society says that you should be a certain way. And in some instances, society says that you should be a certain way and it's absolutely the way that you should be.

[01:12:28] Bruce Anthony: But there are a lot of instances [01:12:30] where it's stripping away who you are as a person where society is wrong. Society is right when it says, don't go out there, commit crimes and hurt other people. That's a, that's a universal thing that society says. Don't go do that. Uh, one of the ways that society is wrong is by saying, this is the only way that a man can be.

[01:12:48] Bruce Anthony: And this is the only way that a man can present or a woman or a woman can present. And you must adhere to these principles of what we deem as manly [01:13:00] and feminine. And no, that's not how people are. My bestie has more masculine traits than she does. Feminine traits. Okay.

[01:13:09] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[01:13:10] Bruce Anthony: She has BDE, and if you don't know what that is, just Google search, and I'm not going to say it on the show.

[01:13:17] Bruce Anthony: She has BDE, and she ain't even got no BD.

[01:13:20] J. Aundrea: right.

[01:13:21] Bruce Anthony: Uh,

[01:13:22] J. Aundrea: but you, that's the energy.

[01:13:24] Bruce Anthony: it's the energy. It's the energy,

[01:13:26] J. Aundrea: She's an alpha female.

[01:13:29] Bruce Anthony: [01:13:30] well, my theory is nobody's truly alpha or beta. It's all circumstances.

[01:13:35] J. Aundrea: Yeah, it's all,

[01:13:35] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[01:13:36] J. Aundrea: just your response to a given situation. are always a different person. You're constantly changing and evolving. The way I respond to something today could be totally different than the way I respond to it tomorrow. There is absolutely no The alpha beta thing is not a real thing.

[01:13:56] Bruce Anthony: I tell people that all the time. It's not a real thing because guys are always quick to say I'm an [01:14:00] alpha. I was like, okay, you're an alpha. If I punch you in your face right now, I bet you succumb to the fact that you're a beta in this moment.

[01:14:06] J. Aundrea: Mm hmm.

[01:14:06] Bruce Anthony: I say that all the time to dudes because I'm like, okay, well, I'm bigger than you.

[01:14:10] Bruce Anthony: I'm stronger than you. And my hands, even though they're a lot slower than they used to be, are still quick enough to punch you in your eyes. So in this instance, are you an alpha or a beta? Yeah. Well, well, well, well, well, nothing. So that idea of you being an alpha is not correct. Another instance where you're not an alpha, can you handle going to jail?

[01:14:28] Bruce Anthony: Cause there's a bunch of men in there [01:14:30] that consider themselves alpha. Would you be an alpha in jail or beta? Would you be an alpha or beta in the military? Most men that enter the military are betas because you have to follow orders.

[01:14:42] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[01:14:44] Bruce Anthony: So this,

[01:14:45] J. Aundrea: pecking order

[01:14:46] Bruce Anthony: there's a pecking order,

[01:14:47] J. Aundrea: top of it.

[01:14:48] Bruce Anthony: right? In life, there's always a pecking order at your job.

[01:14:51] Bruce Anthony: You can say that you're an alpha male, but do you have a boss?

[01:14:54] J. Aundrea: Right.

[01:14:55] Bruce Anthony: Because you played a beta role in that scenario. So like, yes, and, [01:15:00] and, and people need to realize there is no such thing as being strictly alpha or strictly beta. It's all circumstances. And sometimes also men want to celebrate things.

[01:15:11] Bruce Anthony: Sometimes they don't. I had a gathering last year. It was one of the most uncomfortable situations for me to have a gathering for my birthday, but everybody was saying, Hey, let's do something for your birthday. And instead of doing 10 different things, I said, I'm going to just see y'all all at once. Cause this is the only time I want to do this.

[01:15:28] J. Aundrea: Right.

[01:15:28] Bruce Anthony: did it. And this year I [01:15:30] decided not to do it. And then I had to do 10 different things all at once and I hate them both. So that's it.

[01:15:42] J. Aundrea: with how you feel about yourself as a man.

[01:15:44] Bruce Anthony: No.

[01:15:45] J. Aundrea: this, I will say this to men. Listen, every woman ain't healed. And it's okay to

[01:15:50] Bruce Anthony: No.

[01:15:51] J. Aundrea: Mmm, you ain't worth a damn. And keep it pushing.

[01:15:57] Bruce Anthony: Yes. Yes.

[01:15:58] J. Aundrea: another toxic [01:16:00] man and they can be toxic. and sexist together. that ain't for you, it ain't for you, keep it pushing.

[01:16:08] Bruce Anthony: That requires men to have a certain level of emotional intelligence and we are very visceral creatures and we will stay in a situation as long as the woman looks good because the woman looks good. So

[01:16:22] J. Aundrea: is also patriarchy

[01:16:24] Bruce Anthony: mm hmm. Ooh,

[01:16:26] J. Aundrea: of having an attractive mate [01:16:30] as a trophy, right? walk it, to walk her around. Who is, who, who is she attractive, that attractive for?

[01:16:40] Bruce Anthony: are you saying that I suffer from patriarchy because I get a kick when I'm with my significant other. Most men hate it when, when they're, when they're significant others being stared at by other men. I'm always like,

[01:16:54] J. Aundrea: it because they're not as large as you and so,

[01:16:59] Bruce Anthony: I would [01:17:00] say not as secure. I'm pretty secure that I can, if I got a baddie, I can get another baddie. So if she decided to leave me, I'm not tripping.

[01:17:09] J. Aundrea: There's the

[01:17:09] Bruce Anthony: that's not.

[01:17:10] J. Aundrea: piece of it, which is definitely the large piece of it But another thing is the intimidation from other men,

[01:17:17] Bruce Anthony: Oh, yeah. Well, yeah.

[01:17:18] J. Aundrea: that like a common way women deflect attention from men is to say you have a boyfriend, right? Because men don't respect your no, but they'll respect that there's another man there.[01:17:30] 

[01:17:30] Bruce Anthony: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I never thought about that.

[01:17:32] J. Aundrea: Yeah. So that's why we be lying to y'all and say, I got a man, sorry. Oh,

[01:17:39] Bruce Anthony: right.

[01:17:39] J. Aundrea: a man. All right. All right. You know,

[01:17:41] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. It wouldn't move.

[01:17:44] J. Aundrea: for damn. Yeah.

[01:17:46] Bruce Anthony: All right. 


[01:17:47] Final Thoughts and Etiquette
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[01:17:47] Bruce Anthony: So, men out there, if you want to celebrate your birthday, go celebrate your birthday. Don't care about what other people say. That's actually alpha mentality. It's to not care what other people think of you and just do you. Do what makes you happy. As long as you're not hurting other people.

[01:17:59] Bruce Anthony: [01:18:00] I need to pee. Put that caveat because people will be like, Oh, I like to hit women. That is not what I'm talking about.

[01:18:07] J. Aundrea: No.

[01:18:07] Bruce Anthony: do what makes you happy. As long as you're not hurting anybody else. Well, I like to cheat on women. That's that's you. That's you cheating. You're hurting people that, so that's not what I'm talking about.

[01:18:18] Bruce Anthony: Have a bigger brain than that. But Jay. What do you want to tell the people out there?

[01:18:23] J. Aundrea: When you at the nail shop, or any public space. [01:18:30] You don't have to be talking on speakerphone, especially what you're talking about is whether or not some guy gave your friend herpes. That's a private conversation that you don't need to be having next to me while we're sitting here at this nail shop. Have some respect and decency for the people around you. Have a little bit of social [01:19:00] etiquette, put your AirPods in and have that conversation. not a. Speakerphone conversation for everybody up in the snail shop to hear. Get yourselves together. Have some self awareness. That's all I got to say about that.

[01:19:19] Bruce Anthony: On that note, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holla.

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