Unsolicited Perspectives with Bruce Anthony: A Journey Through African American History and Dating Mishaps

[bruce_anthony]: On today's episode I'm talking African American
History month and movies, Chinese space balloons. In the time

[bruce_anthony]: I finessed myself out to two women, But first
things first,

[bruce_anthony]: So we talked, Me and my sister talked about Black
History Month, and at the end of the last episode I was talking

[bruce_anthony]: about movies that you should go see, you know,
and I stand by going to see certain movies that are going to

[bruce_anthony]: teach you the history of black Americans in this
country. You know. Roots is a really good one. Selma Rose Wood,

[bruce_anthony]: documentary, S. like eyes on the Prize. These
things are going to teach you about the history of black people

[bruce_anthony]: in this kind Tree, from the Atlantic slave trade
all the way down to the civil Rights movement. But as I said

[bruce_anthony]: that, on the last podcast, I started to think
about what People would get from watching these movies. See we,

[bruce_anthony]: as people tend to, If you're trying to be aware,
say in your personal life, things aren't as bad as that person

[bruce_anthony]: has it right Like you can walk down the street.
You can see a homeless person and say, at least I have a roof

[bruce_anthony]: over my head, And that's true for you, You have
a roof over your head compared to that homeless person that they

[bruce_anthony]: don't. so, therefore You're in a better situation
than that standpoint, but that doesn't minimize whatever it is

[bruce_anthony]: that you got going on in your life just because
you're in a better situation than the next person, right. So

[bruce_anthony]: in watching these movies, going from slavery
to the civil rights, where either we were in slaved or we literally

[bruce_anthony]: couldn't go into certain use, certain bathrooms
or water fountains or certain schools and things of that nature.

[bruce_anthony]: The benefit is you get a sense of histor, Right
like, like you're you're learning about history and it's given

[bruce_anthony]: into perspective where people could see it, and
when people see things as supposed to reading it, they get more

[bruce_anthony]: of the impact, which is a good thing. Right like
That's a really good thing. The problem is is by looking at these

[bruce_anthony]: movies, a person that isn't black will look at
it and say Well, at least they're better off than what they were,

[bruce_anthony]: and in a sense that's absolutely true, like we're
not slaves anymore And I can't drink from any water, founding

[bruce_anthony]: the use any bathroom that I want to use, and
as I've expressed on previous episodes, the bathroom thing is

[bruce_anthony]: a big deal to me. It's a really big deal. So
so I'm happy. But, but by saying that things aren't as bad as

[bruce_anthony]: what they used to be, you can kind of look past
us at. Well, things still aren't good. But unless you're in it,

[bruce_anthony]: unless you're experiencing it, You wouldn't know
that unless you talk to people, see people and during the pandemic,

[bruce_anthony]: the world slowed down and people were forced
because of George, food, forced to at least acknowledge the police

[bruce_anthony]: be killing a lot of black folks out here right
like that, Didn't That didn't need to happen. And and part of

[bruce_anthony]: the It's not a benefit but part of the learning
process for people that may have. It might still E. pissed off

[bruce_anthony]: that Colin Copper took a Ne. Is that they saw?
Hey, you know what, the cops aren't always right where. maybe

[bruce_anthony]: they defended the cops all the time. You know,
those blue lives matter people, and some of them still will defend

[bruce_anthony]: cops all the time, and not see what cops are
doing, A black folks, and that goes into the history of black

[bruce_anthony]: folks in the portrayal and cinema and on television
on radio, going back to the serials back in the day. You know,

[bruce_anthony]: I expressed it When I was talking to my sister,
How the portrayal of black people in these movies is always the

[bruce_anthony]: criminal right like it's always that that person
that's down that alley that you need to be fearful of, And if

[bruce_anthony]: you don't have experience with black people,
those fly over states. People often talk about those fly over

[bruce_anthony]: states. But what happens with those fly over
States Is people are really spread out right And and you have

[bruce_anthony]: whole communities who really don't go around.
Black people don't grow up around other Other races. Ethnicities,

[bruce_anthony]: uh, other religions, right. So the only way that
you know what these people are like or how they portrayed on

[bruce_anthony]: television and that bleeds into everybody's biases,
so I get No, I don't get when people say blue lives matter. That's

[bruce_anthony]: I don't get that, but I get when you try to defend
the cops once again that all called cops of bad, My sister off.

[bruce_anthony]: Talk about how we are not generalizing. Were
saying the institutions aren't good. The individual people in

[bruce_anthony]: the institutions don't have to all be bad, and
they're not all bad. But the institutions and themselves are

[bruce_anthony]: bad. Policing was started to catch free slaves.
Policing was used to enforce segregation like policing was used

[bruce_anthony]: to enforce. Make sure black people didn't move
into certain areas, Even maneuver in certain areas. If if the

[bruce_anthony]: government was a mafia family, the police was
the muscle right. They were in force. They were the Lucabrozis

[bruce_anthony]: of Don Colon's Uh army, right, So to not understand
that, I do not understand history, but back to our larger point

[bruce_anthony]: is the portrayal. So the Peters in media, if
we're not writing at, Historically, not been good, and also the

[bruce_anthony]: partrayls have been slaves or Jim Crow movement.
And, and for somebody looking at that and looking at the historical

[bruce_anthony]: context of that they will say Well, it's not
as bad as it used to be. You know, why don't they get over it?

[bruce_anthony]: and that's completely neglating everything that's
happening right now, because to say things aren't still bad would

[bruce_anthony]: just be flat wrong. And then once again it goes
back to my original analogy just because that person walking

[bruce_anthony]: down the street looks at that homeless person
and sees the fact that that homeless person has a roof over their

[bruce_anthony]: head and that they are in a better position than
they are in that than that homeless person, does not mean that

[bruce_anthony]: that person that has the home still isn't going
through his own stuff, still isn't going through something real.

[bruce_anthony]: And I've said it previously. I don't like to
get into these. compare, Son of trauma. Right, What is bad for

[bruce_anthony]: you might not be bad for me. I personally have
gone through a divorce. I'm okay like it's okay. I didn't. really.

[bruce_anthony]: I don't have any lingering effects over it. I
am one of those type of people where that type of thing didn't

[bruce_anthony]: affect me. I know other people who've gone through
a divorce and they haven't recovered And it's been years. It's

[bruce_anthony]: been like ten years since mine, so I mean, if
I hadn't recovered by this Tim, Something is really be wrong,

[bruce_anthony]: but I know people. ten, fifteen years. We just
haven't recovered or it's five years and they're still angry

[bruce_anthony]: about it. right that we've gone through the same
trauma and the sense of its a divorce. But the individual trauma

[bruce_anthony]: and that divorce is obviously different because
what they went through and what I went through isn't the same

[bruce_anthony]: thing. So these comparisons of traumas really
really bothered me and I'm not going to get To it. so when I

[bruce_anthony]: see I'm doing a little bit better than the next
person, I'm appreciative of the fact that yeah, I'm doing a little

[bruce_anthony]: bit better than the next person. but that's still.
I'm not going to brush off whatever I'm going through or whatever

[bruce_anthony]: I'm dealing with. As it's not important, it's
still really really important and that goes back to my larger

[bruce_anthony]: point just because we're not slaves any more,
or living in segregation, or all those types of things That doesn't

[bruce_anthony]: negate what we're actually going through now
Because we're still going through Hell. the hell isn't what it

[bruce_anthony]: used to be, but it's still hell. There's still
plenty of black people being killed by the cops on a daily basis.

[bruce_anthony]: That's the truth. That's the truth. It's a problem.
There is still black. There's still a wage gap between black

[bruce_anthony]: people and white people. There's still equity
gap between black people and white people. There are still large

[bruce_anthony]: gaps, And if you can't understand that, understand
it by this analogy. If we're running a race And I get a giant

[bruce_anthony]: head start, let's say we're running a mile race
right, and we're running around a track, So you got to run around

[bruce_anthony]: a track four times and I get a three lap lead.
How the hell are you going to compete with me in that race? You're

[bruce_anthony]: not. So. Why would you think that things would
be equal now, or why would you expect that just because black

[bruce_anthony]: people have more rights now than they did sixty
years ago that that gap would have been closed. It's not closed.

[bruce_anthony]: There are generational head start that people
have over black people, And when we talk about history, especially

[bruce_anthony]: black. His Re month, you know, I bring up Tasso
and the massacre I bring. I bring up to

[bruce_anthony]: Ko massacre and Florida, I messed that all up,
but you, I brought it up before it's o, c, C, o e, o, o c, o

[bruce_anthony]: E. I think that's what it was. Look it up. It's
in Florida. Rosewood in Florida. but but there are, there are

[bruce_anthony]: numerous stories of black people after slavery.
given the opportunity Building these communities, thriving in

[bruce_anthony]: these communities in these communities being
absolutely destroyed and black people being running out, run

[bruce_anthony]: out of these communities having to start over.
It's consistently a situation having to start over when we heard

[bruce_anthony]: my sister talked about the black and Asian relations
in the fact that Koreans in the sixties, who are given rights

[bruce_anthony]: to loans to start small businesses in the black
neighborhoods, in the black people that lived in those neighborhoods

[bruce_anthony]: were not eligible, Have these loans once again
that's being held back from the race. So how would you expect

[bruce_anthony]: black people to catch up by just making things
equal? No, I mean, eventually, Hopefully you catch up in the

[bruce_anthony]: race right. eventually. Hopefully, as generations
pass is no longer a three lap leads, no longer a two lap lade.

[bruce_anthony]: maybe it's just a one lip lead, and maybe that
person is so exceptional and embracing that they can catch that

[bruce_anthony]: person even that they got a lead and Done it
like. there are absolutely instances where we have been held

[bruce_anthony]: back, but we still did it. We had a black president
right. The fact of the matter is that black president was exceptional,

[bruce_anthony]: So to say, like anybody could do that is not
the case because it hasn't been done before, and I don't know

[bruce_anthony]: when it's going to be done again right, but that
person is exceptional. Whatever ideas that you have about that

[bruce_anthony]: person and the and and the person I'm talking
about is obviously the former President Baraccobama. Whatever

[bruce_anthony]: political differences that you have with that
person, You have to admit that person is exceptional to get to

[bruce_anthony]: that point with everything that he grew up with,
because he was actually born in Jim Crow. Just like my parents.

[bruce_anthony]: You know, I tell people all the time. I'm the
first generation of my family born with my rights. My parents

[bruce_anthony]: weren't born with their rights. They were born
in fifty seven and fifty eight, fifty seven and fifty eight.

[bruce_anthony]: Civil Rights Act in nineteen, sixty seven, didn't
even pass til my mom was ten years old, Voting like voting like

[bruce_anthony]: Act. Nineteen, sixty Seven, Civil rights with
Nineteen sixty five, But still you see the point right. And my

[bruce_anthony]: mom's father was from South Carolina, So when
she would go down to visit him as a little girl, Guess what the

[bruce_anthony]: segregation? that's in my parents lifetime. I'm
the first generation that was born with all the rights, so go

[bruce_anthony]: back into all the way back because I'm not rambling,
but I'm I'm pulling all these things to make it a larger point.

[bruce_anthony]: The larger point is during black history. If
you are going to watch these movies, which I suggest that you

[bruce_anthony]: do consistently learn true history about what
has going on in this country Because you didn't really learn

[bruce_anthony]: in the school. I'm going to just tell you, being
somebody who went to school to be an educator. I'm telling you,

[bruce_anthony]: I've seen the Coriculum and I've seen the Coriculum,
The Criclinwas, at the University of Maryland, teaching in student

[bruce_anthony]: teaching in Maryland schools. I've seen the Coriculum
Doesn't teach you all Istra. You need to know. Just realize,

[bruce_anthony]: as you are watching these movies and you are
saying, Oh well, black people aren't in slavery. Any more. old.

[bruce_anthony]: black people have more rights Now. Just realize
the fight is still not over

[bruce_anthony]: All right. So There was a Chinese spy balloon
floating over the country and there's a big uproar about what

[bruce_anthony]: is President Bitin doing allowing this balloon
to just go through the United States. And eventually they shot

[bruce_anthony]: it down. I'll take a couple of days, but they
shot it down. Then there's and as this is happening, as the balloon

[bruce_anthony]: is floating, certain news organizations are going
absolutely nuts. They're having people come on from the An administration.

[bruce_anthony]: The Trump administration saying these things
would never happen under our watch, But in this week against

[bruce_anthony]: China, this that the other, and only to find
out that, Oh yeah, we had three instances of this actually happened

[bruce_anthony]: during a Trump Trump administration and they
never told us. Okay, What is my opinion about all this, my unsolicited

[bruce_anthony]: perspective. Well, I'm gonna go with the fact
that the tribalism of this country, It's going to see fault on

[bruce_anthony]: both is going to see fault on one side. Not both
sides right if you voted for Trump, If your rock with Trump buying

[bruce_anthony]: is wrong, and everything that he does in every
way if you voted for buying, or if you just absolutely hate Trump,

[bruce_anthony]: Trump is wrong for everything that he's done
no matter what, And the argument is a lot more nuance than that.

[bruce_anthony]: Let's start with Byron. Should he have shot it
down earlier? I don't know. I don't know what intelligence they

[bruce_anthony]: have. I don't know if they know what's actually
in this balloon. What do you think? It's just one of those little

[bruce_anthony]: red balloons that you go to the carnival or the
amusement park and it's just filled with air and it's just they

[bruce_anthony]: don't know what it is. They don't know if they
shoot it if it's going to release a deadly gas. If it's going

[bruce_anthony]: to release the deadly powder if it's got a bomb
in there. I'm sure they're trying to collect intelligence to

[bruce_anthony]: find out What exactly is going on in China Was
smart enough to realize that they're gonna take a little while

[bruce_anthony]: to figure out what's going on. We're gonna attach
some stuff and send it so we can spy, And that's how we're going

[bruce_anthony]: to do. By the way to get upset that the country
is spying on us like That's given right because we're spying

[bruce_anthony]: on other countries, But that's neither here nor
there. Let's just talk about the bidon's response to it. Um,

[bruce_anthony]: I guess once it becomes public you should you
should say All right, hey, Lo. We don't know what it is. This

[bruce_anthony]: is the reason why we haven't shot it down as
soon as we find out that it's not dangerous. If we shoot it down,

[bruce_anthony]: Then that's what we're going to do and that's
kind of what they did. They waited until it got to an area where

[bruce_anthony]: there you know it wouldn't be. It wouldn't be
that dangerous to shoot it down. And then they shot it down.

[bruce_anthony]: Um, more information? right? If you give us more
information. Does that help? That leads me to Trump? Right

[bruce_anthony]: Because he has a background of covering stuff
up being. I'm being super generous right now, extremely less

[bruce_anthony]: than truthful. Our natural inclination is to
be like he was absolutely hiding something and not giving us

[bruce_anthony]: information, but kind of, let's be honest with
ourselves. A person can be intelligent. People are stupid. Sometimes

[bruce_anthony]: we don't need to get all the information because
a person can digest that, but people will not digest it well.

[bruce_anthony]: For instance, I'm almost positive that we're
not the only beings in the universe. I'm almost positive that

[bruce_anthony]: we've had contact with other beings from other
planets. I'm almost positive about that, and I'm also positive

[bruce_anthony]: that the government should never tell us until
they have to tell us, because if they did tell us, we would be

[bruce_anthony]: hysterical, You don't think that you don't think
that we would be hysterical. Go back throughout our history,

[bruce_anthony]: We actually Believe witches were real, and this
was only like a few hundred years ago, Like there are some things

[bruce_anthony]: that that we do. That's just we're not that bright
sometimes as people, so maybe less information is for the better.

[bruce_anthony]: And if we had known that there were three balloons,
Chinese spy balloons that had happened through the four year

[bruce_anthony]: period of the Trump administration, there would
have been a frenzy, so I kind of understand keeping that in form,

[bruce_anthony]: Then away from us and not telling us,

[bruce_anthony]: But he didn't get the benefit of that because
he's been such a liar, right like? he's been such a liar, so

[bruce_anthony]: we can't give him the benefit of a dot. So what's
the right answer in this situation? Who did the right thing?

[bruce_anthony]: I don't know. I, N't know what the right answer
is. I'm not a president, nor do I want to be. I don't want to

[bruce_anthony]: be a president. That had to make those types
of decision. Because let me tell you something. if I was president,

[bruce_anthony]: I don't care how dumb people are buying large.
I'm just goin to be honest to tell you all the world. I'd give

[bruce_anthony]: up all Secrets. I'd be like, Look, there is aliens.
We didn't had contact with them. We say this up to every now

[bruce_anthony]: and then how you think our technology has advanced
so rapidly over the last fifty sixty years? Because we've been

[bruce_anthony]: getting some help. That's what it is. Oh yeah,
by the way, we are always two seconds from World War. We're always

[bruce_anthony]: on the nuclear watch. Year has been a couple
of times when we almost let loose. a couple of times. put might

[bruce_anthony]: bomb. Some stuff Had to go get that. you know,
I would. just I would just be honest and people, the country

[bruce_anthony]: would be in a blaze. It being a blaze, because
once again a person can be smart, but people together are dumb

[bruce_anthony]: as hell, so I don't know what the right answer
is. Um the idea that, But in his week on China, I don't see that

[bruce_anthony]: I don't see him being weak on on any of these

[bruce_anthony]: Countries. Um, I think they know that we're not
playing. Does he have some things and he says, and I'm just like,

[bruce_anthony]: Oh Joe. Why you guys say it like that? Yeah,
like I'm a supporter of President Birton, I can also acknowledge

[bruce_anthony]: he's old as hell, and like both of them are old
as hell, and I'm getting tired of our leaders being old as hell.

[bruce_anthony]: Get some nice middle aged young young leaders.
I mean, at least W. and at least when you go back to the presidents

[bruce_anthony]: before these guys, right, you go back to Clinton,
You go back to W. You go back to Barrack like they were all like.

[bruce_anthony]: I mean, they weren't old. Is relative to the
young. there's gonna be some young kids out there Gins like fifty,

[bruce_anthony]: as old as hell, fifty five as old as hell. It's
not as old as eighty right. it's not that old. So people that

[bruce_anthony]: jump on biting for saying, and he has golf. You
know, I am a person. I'm forty two years old. And let me tell

[bruce_anthony]: you, My sister hates this word. I mun speak all
the time. I mess up on words all the time I say the wrong word

[bruce_anthony]: all the time. Um, my brain tends to move faster
than my mouth can get the words out. I also had a speech impediment,

[bruce_anthony]: So you know there's a lot of things I had a stutter
when I was younger. I'm hiring a list like the list comes out

[bruce_anthony]: when I'm drinking after hours, uncensored show
when when I had a few, the list might come out. you might see

[bruce_anthony]: it. so you know, I have you know, mess Mess up
in my words as well. Trump is somebody who just doesn't speak

[bruce_anthony]: intelligently Right like that's his knock. Knock
on him. like he says the same words over and over again. His

[bruce_anthony]: adjective is a very elemental. Um, And that's
something that you know, people that that support by and our

[bruce_anthony]: hate, Trump will jump on. The fact of the matter
is the bigger. larger point is This tribal nature in America

[bruce_anthony]: will lead to something that could be similar
to a civil war without the actual Military violence. Right. but

[bruce_anthony]: but to tear the fabric of this country because
people are dug in on their particular sides and not really understanding.

[bruce_anthony]: There is nuance that goes along with absolutely
everything, And I want you to pay attention to the narrative

[bruce_anthony]: and who's pushing the narrative? I want you to
pay attention to certain news organizations that push certain

[bruce_anthony]: narratives. And I know what I know. what everybody
out there thinks that I'm saying, So I'm going to be clear. And

[bruce_anthony]: what I'm saying is not just Fox News Right, And
I'm not just talking about news, Max, or I'm not, I'm not talking

[bruce_anthony]: about the right wing, conservative new Organizations.
I'm talking left as well. I'm talking to new organizations. Pay

[bruce_anthony]: attention to the narrative that you're getting,
because they're giving you a narrative to paint something in

[bruce_anthony]: your mind, right. I will ask each and every person
out there where are you getting your information If you're getting

[bruce_anthony]: your information from one source, or if you're
getting information from a bunch of sources, but the sources

[bruce_anthony]: are pretty much the same. In other words, if
you're gettin Your information, Fox News, Maxine, and what does

[bruce_anthony]: it own or whatever, If your gettin your information
from that and nothing else, you're getting one perspective if

[bruce_anthony]: you're getting your information from M, s, n
B, C. What's another left Ling? And they used to say, Can and

[bruce_anthony]: what's left Lang. But I always thought seeing
in play closer to the middle, maybe lean more lean, more conservative,

[bruce_anthony]: but I think there's been some shake ups there
and they're learning more more conservative, More conservative

[bruce_anthony]: than M, s, n B C, but still not as conservative
as as Fox in, and nowhere close to to News, Max and all those

[bruce_anthony]: other people, I can't even think of another left
linking left leaning news organization kind of stas with Miznbc,

[bruce_anthony]: But you have publications right, New York Post,
New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Um, and all

[bruce_anthony]: that in between they come from different perspective.
Get the story from All perspectives right, and then form your

[bruce_anthony]: opinion, But go into all those perspectives with
an open mind. If you go in with an open mind and you're digesting

[bruce_anthony]: multiple perspectives of the same subject, you
can legitimately come to your own personal opinion on the matter

[bruce_anthony]: If you're open minded. If you're not open minded
and you're clothes minded, and you and you're going into it Basically

[bruce_anthony]: like this is what I believe you got to prove
me wrong. Well, good luck with that because most people are so

[bruce_anthony]: egotistical that they don't feel that they're
wrong. Most people don't want to admit that they're wrong. Even

[bruce_anthony]: when they're wrong. They're still going to say
that they're right. No matter how much evidence is thrown in

[bruce_anthony]: their faces, Ve seen it throughout history, we've
seen it we've seen in the court cases where the evidence clearly

[bruce_anthony]: shows one thing or the other, and the jury has
made up their mind and it doesn't matter what the evidence is,

[bruce_anthony]: they're going to make a decision based on that.
We do that in our every day lives, and I'm not getting on my

[bruce_anthony]: high horse and saying that I don't do the same
things in a way I'm I'm a major hypocrite, I talk about canceling

[bruce_anthony]: R. Kelly. I talk about canceling Char wine, Steen,
talk about canceling Louis C. K. I still have not watched that

[bruce_anthony]: Michael Jackson documentary about from from his
two accusers, Right and I can openly admit why that is, and if

[bruce_anthony]: you can admit it to yourself, that's a step in
the right direction. I don't want to feel uncomfortable about

[bruce_anthony]: liking Michael Jackson. Trump supporters don't
want to feel uncomfortable about voting for Trump. so to defend

[bruce_anthony]: them, or they'll say he did some good things.
Okay, People that support Boyton will support him no matter what,

[bruce_anthony]: Because I don't want to feel uncomfortable. People
won't talk about race or religion or all that stuff, Because

[bruce_anthony]: I don't want to be uncomfortable. my goddaughter
asked me one time talking about my divorce, right, my goddaughter

[bruce_anthony]: asked me one time I moved back in to the first
apartment complex that me and my X were living in when we were

[bruce_anthony]: going through our engagement, Leading to the
marriage. We split up. I moved to a different part of the city

[bruce_anthony]: and then I moved back to this apartment community
and my God, Doug asked me. She was like, Why would you do that

[bruce_anthony]: You're faced every day with with dealing with
the fact that you all are together any more, And I said, sometimes

[bruce_anthony]: you got to put yourself in the fire to heal.
Sometimes you have to be uncomfortable To learn. And like I said,

[bruce_anthony]: I am going and make a promise on this show. I
promise. I'm going to watch that documentary about Michael Jackson.

[bruce_anthony]: I'm going to go into it open minded, Trying to
watch it without bias and really learn about what happened and

[bruce_anthony]: I'm going to come back and report it on this
show and talk about what I've learned and how that all affected

[bruce_anthony]: me. Because I can't come out. I can't come on
this show talking to you guys about what you should be doing,

[bruce_anthony]: And you're every day lives. If I'm unwilling
to do the same thing, so I'm gonna do it. Let's all do it together.

[bruce_anthony]: Let's take something that we're uncomfortable
with. Go and read about it. Learned about it. Watch about why

[bruce_anthony]: It, with an open mind, open heart and really
try to learn. Lean into that discomfort. Let's try to do it with

[bruce_anthony]: all things. Let's try to look at this situation
with the Chinese by balloons, not with the tribalism, And just

[bruce_anthony]: look at it for what it is. Chinese spying on
us, just like we're spying on them. And there are other country

[bruce_anthony]: spying on us, just like we're spying on that.
You got to expect that Right how we respond to it Its key. I

[bruce_anthony]: don't know what the right answer is. Do you

[bruce_anthony]: M

[bruce_anthony]: Okay? Here's a story. By the time I finessed
myself out of two women, This is a painful one. Not really. I

[bruce_anthony]: think it's funny, not funny. I think it's interesting,
so let me get into it. I'm in high school is my singing year.

[bruce_anthony]: I'm going to the names of these people are going
to remain nameless. But let's just say, let's just give them

[bruce_anthony]: names, so there's two girls. Let's just give
them names of Teresa and Mary and I had a friend named Brian,

[bruce_anthony]: Right. So Teresa and Mary and Brian All part
of the story, So Teresa and Mary are best friends and I think

[bruce_anthony]: Teresa and Mary are both fine. Now. I'm a little
bit more interested than Teresa. but Mary. is he okay with me

[bruce_anthony]: like I will date either one of them and one of
them I become more friendly with another and it's Mar. Ah, Maria,

[bruce_anthony]: Marie. I forgot the names that I already gave
him. Good God,

[bruce_anthony]: I forgot the names that I already gave him This.
This story is gonna be. Intringi. can't give out the real names

[bruce_anthony]: rights, Brian, Teresa and Marie, All right, so
I become really good friends with Marie, even though I like Teresa

[bruce_anthony]: more, and I tell Marie. Hey, do you think Teresa
would be interested in me? Mind you their best friends? So Marie

[bruce_anthony]: tells me Teresa might be interested And you want
me to get you more information Like, Yeah, give me more information.

[bruce_anthony]: This is what. I didn't know. What I didn't know
was they both liked me, but Marie liked me more than Teresa.

[bruce_anthony]: So instead of Marie telling me this,

[bruce_anthony]: She tries to set me up with Teresa the whole
time Brian is on the outside looking in. Now. let me tell you

[bruce_anthony]: about my relationship with my friend Brian.

[bruce_anthony]: I don't like him. Yes, Yes, he's my friend, but
I don't like him. I don't like him because I don't trust him.

[bruce_anthony]: I do not trust this person, but he's a friend.
I can't explain the dynamics of this. Its high school guy friends.

[bruce_anthony]: There's a lot of guys out there that have friends
that they don't trust that they don't trust, But that there's

[bruce_anthony]: some element. There's some characteristic about
them that that they find cool and that they want to hang out

[bruce_anthony]: with for me. What was that characteristic about
Brian? That was cool that I wanted to hang out with. Hm? I don't

[bruce_anthony]: know. I can't answer that question. He was a
friend of a friend who was in the group, So that's what it was.

[bruce_anthony]: That's what it was. So the whole time for weeks,
Maria is kind of, you know, not passing on messages to Teresa,

[bruce_anthony]: but giving me more and more information about
Teresa, because I'm about to make this move right. And there's

[bruce_anthony]: his big party at this little kiddy club. Because
we're all under a team. This is a big party at this little kiddy

[bruce_anthony]: club and Maria was like, Go ahead and make your
move on Teresa that night, So we're all dancing and having time,

[bruce_anthony]: and Brian is right beside me And and I go up
to Marie and I said Yeah, you know, I'm gonna go up to Teresa

[bruce_anthony]: and tell er what's up. She was like Okay, So
I go up to Teresa and tell it what's up, And Teresa was like.

[bruce_anthony]: I think you're great, But you know Marie really
really likes you and I can't do that to My friend. I said. What

[bruce_anthony]: the hell you're talking about this? The first
of my knowledge, she, I've been talking to her for weeks. we've

[bruce_anthony]: been cooling and and chilling, and during lunch
been giving me game to get to get close to you. and the whole

[bruce_anthony]: time she's filling me and didn't say anything.
Why didn't she say anything to me? She was like. I don't know.

[bruce_anthony]: Maybe she thought that you just like me more,
but like I can't do that till my girl so like like I can't. I

[bruce_anthony]: can't hang out with you like that. As I'm walking
to Marie, Brian passes me and he goes to start to dance with

[bruce_anthony]: Teresa, because they kind of know each other
right when we're in high Schoo. we all know each other and I

[bruce_anthony]: go up to Marie and I'm like Marie. Like, Why
didn't you tell me that you like me? I like you too. Now it's

[bruce_anthony]: coming off as as she's second place and she is.
She is second place. But had I known that she liked me all right,

[bruce_anthony]: If they both like me equally and I had my choice,
it would have been Teresa. But if I knew that Teresa would never

[bruce_anthony]: date me because Mari liked me more than Teresa,
then I would have went with Marie because I would have dated

[bruce_anthony]: them both, and fact of matter is not now as I'm
telling the story now as I'm telling this story and I'm going

[bruce_anthony]: back in time. I'm hanging out with Marie. I'm
already attracted to her, Already said that I would like her,

[bruce_anthony]: but I'm hanging out with her for weeks on the
trying to get the inside track with Teresa And I'm having fun

[bruce_anthony]: with Marie. So the whole time I didn't it's It's
like one of those high school movies right like? I don't know

[bruce_anthony]: if they still make of the day, but back in the
day like Can't hardly wait. And uh, all that All that was a T.

[bruce_anthony]: V show. But you know what I'm talking about where
there's this is awakening and the guy was like, No, I really

[bruce_anthony]: really like you. Yes, that's kind of what I went
through. The only problem was is that Marie wasn't filling it

[bruce_anthony]: now because she was like. No, You wanted to go
after my friend. You didn't want to go after me. I'm not I rested

[bruce_anthony]: anymore, so I go to a table and sit down and
I'm sitting here wondering to myself what the hell happened.

[bruce_anthony]: So I'm sitting down. I'm kind of depressed because
I finesse myself out of two girls that I actually like and I

[bruce_anthony]: look over to the dance floor and Brian is dancing
with both of them, And I'm like that this pump kind of set me

[bruce_anthony]: up because he knew that I liked both of them.
It was his idea for me to go after Teresa. Now that I'm telling

[bruce_anthony]: this story, Brian is a punk. You know, I like
him even less Now he's a punk. I like him even less Now he set

[bruce_anthony]: me up, and that's the reason why I don't rock
with him. Still don't rock with him To today. Matter fact, now

[bruce_anthony]: if I see him on the street, I might give him
a two piece, because now in retrospect, I'm realizing that behind

[bruce_anthony]: the scenes he was the one playing puppet Master
is screwing everything up. Then I think he ended up dating. He

[bruce_anthony]: was king of smashing all the chicks, so I think
he may have smashed one of them. I think he played me out and

[bruce_anthony]: he smashed one of them where I would have treated
them nice, because I wouldn't cheat her. Back then. I would have

[bruce_anthony]: treated him nice and been good to him. And you
know they never got over Because I saw Marie years later. She

[bruce_anthony]: was working at Mass or something like a store
like that, and I was in there buying clothes and I was like Hey

[bruce_anthony]: girl. So how you doing a blade? She was not having
it. But what's crazy is, and somewhere after that point I think

[bruce_anthony]: she, before the school year let out. She did
say hey, let's get together and we just didn't get together.

[bruce_anthony]: I don't know what it was, but I was excited because
I did. I had to crush on both of them. I liked one more. Actually,

[bruce_anthony]: this is a theme throughout my life. Now I'm about
to give sneak peak into my life. This is a theme throughout my

[bruce_anthony]: life and absolutely every situation That I've
had a dating scenario. There has always been a choice between

[bruce_anthony]: two women always. it's always been a choice of
two women, and I always choose the wrong one. Always always choose

[bruce_anthony]: the wrong one. And you would think that you would
say to yourself, Bruce, Why don't you go an get your better logic?

[bruce_anthony]: You know what you typically would choose. Do
the opposite. I did that one time. I'm not gonna tell you who

[bruce_anthony]: she was that I chose, but that was the ultimate
wrong choice. I think you know where I'm going with that, but,

[bruce_anthony]: but that was the time I finessed myself out of
two women, and it wouldn't be the only time I played best friends

[bruce_anthony]: off of each other. There was one time in college
I played Friends off for each other, but that one worked because

[bruce_anthony]: I had learned from the scenario. You know what,
I'll tell that story on my uncensored version of my show that

[bruce_anthony]: you could catch in our patron page, But on that
note that's the end of this week's episode of Just me. I know

[bruce_anthony]: that this is the first time this season where
it's just been just me, and there was some stuff that I wanted

[bruce_anthony]: to get off my chest about Black History Month
And the balloon that I didn't want tied to any other interviews.

[bruce_anthony]: I'm really cognizant of when I do these interviews
To really not have too much of it before and after because I

[bruce_anthony]: don't want. Even if I put the disclaimer up of
these are my views, these aren't my guests views. I still don't

[bruce_anthony]: want my guests ever being tied to whatever thing
that I may say that may or may not be controversial, may come

[bruce_anthony]: off as controversial. So I had some stuff that
I wanted to say and I'm not attaching in the interviews it is.

[bruce_anthony]: But don't worry. There'll be Views next week.
We're coming back with that. But if you enjoy this show and you

[bruce_anthony]: enjoy just me and you want to hear me being all
real uncensored where I can cussin everything and tell you the

[bruce_anthony]: true Ex rated not triple x, because my mom be
listening, but the true Ex rated versions of my stories. You

[bruce_anthony]: need to jump on our Patriot page because me and
my sister doing uncensured show once a week, and I do my own

[bruce_anthony]: uncensored show once a week. It's like four hours
of con Per month for only five dollars. Click the link in our

[bruce_anthony]: biles to get all the information, but until next
time I'm a hallo.