Amusing Interludes: Atlanta, Caitlin Clark, WNBA, & Costs of Living

00:03.58
Bruce Anthony
Welcome First of all welcome this is unsolicited perspectives I'm your host Bruce Anthony here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaped 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 your friends share with your family hell even share with your enemies on today's episode it's the sibling happy hour I'm here with my sister Jay Andrea we're gonna be dilly daddling a little bit talking about my trip to Atlanta then we're gonna be talking about Caitlin Clark and the W Nba and they were going to be talking about what life was like in 1997 but that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.

00:51.62
Bruce Anthony
What up says I can't call it I can't call it I thought you was gonna use a new Slogan a new intro this time I thought you's gonna say what up though.

00:52.76
J. Aundrea
What a bretta.

00:58.73
J. Aundrea
No, you know I got a no no I have been watching a lot of black Mafia family Recently I'm trying to get caught up I just started the show So please no spoilers Even though I kind of know what happens. But.

01:17.47
Bruce Anthony
Helias based on is based on true events. So.

01:20.70
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yes, so kind of but yeah, so they ah greet each other with what up though and I've been saying that a lot.

01:29.19
Bruce Anthony
Yeah, ah our we I was like I said at the top I was in Atlanta for almost a full for essentially a full week it was 6 nights it was seven seven ish days and our father was there and our brother was there and it was 4 people in that house.

01:35.51
J. Aundrea
Um, yes, yes, yes, yes.

01:45.85
Bruce Anthony
Which was an interesting dynamic. First time that all 4 of us have been in an a situation where we're in a house for any extended period of time so it was interested but yes, well yes, you have 3 bedrooms and 4 people.

01:53.53
J. Aundrea
Yeah, especially because I have three bedrooms. Yeah yeah, four people. So yeah.

02:04.85
Bruce Anthony
It was interesting. Um, but our father kept Jefferson Black mafia family continuously all weekend. It's an obsession right? Yes, between between that and the equalizer.

02:12.64
J. Aundrea
So I said let me check this out and now I'm obsessed.

02:23.55
Bruce Anthony
You saw the equalize and movie series.

02:24.53
J. Aundrea
I saw the equalizer move I watched all 3 um you have you love the equalizer you've been talking about it forever I had never seen any of the equalizer movies I watched him I don't know what I've been doing.

02:36.32
Bruce Anthony
I Don't know what you've been doing either I.

02:39.45
J. Aundrea
I Don't know what I've been doing with my entire life that I never saw these movies. They're amazing.

02:41.87
Bruce Anthony
I Don't know why you don't listen to me more often because I suggest things and I'm like.

02:49.18
J. Aundrea
Because I'm not an action movie person I'm I'm not so you know typically like action science fiction stuff like that I don't really watch those I don't really like movies with the deal with space. Um.

03:03.92
Bruce Anthony
So nothing cool.

03:05.76
J. Aundrea
Or any kind of ah you know extinction level event especially like tidal waves or sharknadoes. Um, so so I was like okay, it's a action movie. You know all right? But no, it's amazing. Um, all 3 of them.

03:13.45
Bruce Anthony
If.

03:23.98
J. Aundrea
I don't know which one I like the most I want to say the first equalizer but that might just be because I saw it first.

03:32.49
Bruce Anthony
Um, I told you if you like man on fire. You're gonna like the equalizer I've been a fan of the equalizer I watched the original equalized a Tv show with mom way way way back in the day So I've just and I watched the Queen latiffa.

03:34.20
J. Aundrea
Which I do yeah.

03:43.12
J. Aundrea
Um, oh.

03:47.21
Bruce Anthony
Ah, version and equalize if you like the movie you go on like the Queen Lateif Lateiffa Not Theifa Lateif of version of it because I have really enjoyed the show. She pulls it off. Um that was one of the things you know that that that we did lot of Brun him.

03:51.94
J. Aundrea
The yeah, no car.

04:03.68
J. Aundrea
A lot of brunen. It's really our favorite thing. Um, yeah, yes, yes you found out 1 of mine.

04:05.14
Bruce Anthony
Yes, you found out about 1 of my anxieties. It do I think that anxiety I have that one as well. Oh no no no I thought you're song about the other one with the 3 with 3 men all together. The.

04:18.88
J. Aundrea
Not not like in warehouses. What's the other one Oh deaths deaths Besides the point. No I'm talking about.

04:33.95
Bruce Anthony
But the warehouse. Yeah yeah.

04:34.59
J. Aundrea
Warehouses. Yeah I don't I like going to Lowe's Home Depot costco sam's club I don't is too many people in there and the ceiling is too high and it's just too much room and if people fill up every part of it and no no.

04:50.37
Bruce Anthony
But it's a lot of room to do activities I I'm not gonna knock it because we went and had a great time at the Atlanta Aquarium I fell in love yeah it. It is absolutely the best Aquarium um.

04:53.92
J. Aundrea
Now.

04:59.63
J. Aundrea
Um, yes, yes I told you it was like the best aquarium.

05:08.38
Bruce Anthony
Had a great time and then you were dead. We're talking about. Yeah, let's go check out this new restaurant y'all like going out to eat I'm not necessarily a foodie you know as my bestie is said I'm a chicken finger eating bitch. So and that's you know that's I Love Chicken fingers.

05:15.74
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, yeah, yeah.

05:26.88
Bruce Anthony
I'm a casual person and the the overwhelming anxiety that came over me when you guys were like yeah, let's go out to dinner and at first I was like all right I'm just gonna go cause you know how often are all of us together and I was like guys it is building. This anxiety is building I can't do it.

05:30.76
J. Aundrea
In.

05:42.36
J. Aundrea
And.

05:45.57
Bruce Anthony
And then I let you guys know was one of rare moments that I opened up and let you guys know because I didn't want y'all I had to be honest because I didn't want y'all to think that I was being weird. Well I guess that anxiety is a little weird anyway, but just being yeah well I just I Just don't like going.

05:54.90
J. Aundrea
Yeah, it's not anybody anybody can be triggered by anything so that's it's weird you.

06:04.72
Bruce Anthony
Out to dinner Brunch lunch cool anything that has to be somewhat formal I hate doing I I don't like getting dressed up I wear Sweats most of time if I gotta throw on some jeans I'm normally cool with it I'm not real cool with it right now cause.

06:11.86
J. Aundrea
Right.

06:21.40
Bruce Anthony
Um, not at my summerwe. So my jeans don't fit quite right? So it was just some overwhelming anxiety and I was just like I can't do it guys I'm sorry and y'all were so understand and I appreciated it? Um, so that was cool and then we went to toast.

06:23.35
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

06:27.97
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, yes, yeah to on linux. Amazing food.

06:38.53
Bruce Anthony
Toast on linux. Let me just say that the places that we went in Atlanta I know Atlanta gets ah a gets a wrap and it might be deservedly of bad customer service. Ah but the places that we went was were not that.

06:46.20
J. Aundrea
Um.

06:50.83
J. Aundrea
It did it does deserve it yes because I wasn't gonna take you all to those places I know what those places are and I wasn't gonna take you'all there because.

06:57.41
Bruce Anthony
Every place that we went. It was good service whether it was linux. Yeah.

07:08.40
Bruce Anthony
It's beautiful.

07:08.87
J. Aundrea
Because I know I got a short fuse with it and you know have both of us haven't worked in the restaurant industry like I know I got ah just I can't stand but because like why are you doing this job.

07:11.88
Bruce Anthony
A a.

07:25.72
Bruce Anthony
I just.

07:27.17
J. Aundrea
Because it's too hard of a job like too taxing of a job for you to not enjoy it or bring good energy to it because like I wouldn't do something that taxing that I didn't like and I was bad at which is why I ended up.

07:32.74
Bruce Anthony
Taxing Guess yeah.

07:44.95
J. Aundrea
The last time I was a server walking out on my shift and never coming back. Yeah yeah, jasper's yes, it was. Jasper's

07:46.58
Bruce Anthony
Wait a minute I didn't know you walked out on your shift. No way hold all hold are you got tell this story. It's so you were were it where were you it was. Jasper's right yeah it was Jasper and I told my sister I was like look if you want some money.

08:03.62
J. Aundrea
M.

08:05.50
Bruce Anthony
Ah, you want some quick fast money. Go ahead and jump on behind that you know restaurant become a server. Well well well you know you didn't.

08:09.72
J. Aundrea
Right? up into that point I'd been a host and I was a really really good host like I was very good. No I was great at being a host it was I was great at being a host because I could deal with yall with all of your personalities.

08:24.80
Bruce Anthony
Yeah, because I I wanted you to give me preferential treatment as your brother and that's not the life that she was living.

08:33.44
J. Aundrea
No no, ah y'all came to my host standn all the time telling me who I couldn't sit in your section who I could sit in your section this than the third and all I would tell yall is get the hell away from my host and.

08:39.62
Bruce Anthony
It it.

08:45.57
Bruce Anthony
I think I yelled at you 1 time.

08:47.60
J. Aundrea
I was good at the job because I could deal with youall and it was yes and I said if you won't get away from this host stand. You know say like.

08:55.19
Bruce Anthony
What? Well let's go back. How did you quit Jaspers that's that's what I want to know.

09:00.14
J. Aundrea
So I I took your advice I decided I was going to be a server except I did not know this at the time but looking back makes sense I've untreated adh D So my tension span and my memory.

09:05.60
Bruce Anthony
E.

09:20.30
J. Aundrea
Was trash. 1 thing you need. Yeah as a server is a good memory and and you definitely need an attention sp those are 2 that you have to be listening to people when they're talking.

09:21.71
Bruce Anthony
If if.

09:30.93
Bruce Anthony
You've got to have that the 2 most important things. Yeah yes, yes.

09:37.90
J. Aundrea
I am not good at that off meds. Okay I'm not good at that. So I was having a shift. It was just it was not going well like somebody paid me in like a sack of change and then like well so then it was hump.

09:50.19
Bruce Anthony
Who What's how would it do that second change but back in their head.

09:58.63
J. Aundrea
Right? So then um, it's homecoming night a group of kids come in and I spill drinks all over this girl in her dress it was before prom.

10:01.91
Bruce Anthony
Yeah. Was it before or after.

10:14.28
J. Aundrea
They were coming there for to eat and then go to a not prom sorry and then go to homecoming sauce spilled drinks all it Luckily they were like sprites Sos fine but us, but it it wasn't fine but I built it. Yeah.

10:16.99
Bruce Anthony
Okay. Let me tell you something? No let me tell you something because I got sprite spilled on me my senior homecoming day and I was wearing I think Khaki pants and it looked like I peed myself and they they went to the store bought me a little hair dry.

10:35.67
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

10:41.66
Bruce Anthony
And but it didn't matter because it's still soda stuck to your legs. Um, so but anyway so you spill some sprite all on this one girl.

10:45.10
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, yeah and I was always forgetting people. Salad. You know you start with the salad I always forgot the salad and I was just like this isn't going Well so I just took. My Apron off and no and I just went home.

11:01.14
Bruce Anthony
Wait wait did you tell anybody? what's what stop up timeout timeout time all timeout you. You just walked out. You just took the Apron off and walked out.

11:12.63
J. Aundrea
No yeah, yeah, just went home I had tables I just went home. Yeah.

11:20.90
Bruce Anthony
So what it that's not how you oh my guy I'm just thinking as a restaurant manager because I've been that and a server just walking out without telling us.

11:38.30
J. Aundrea
Um.

11:40.88
Bruce Anthony
And you're just like wait a minute. Why haven't these people been served. Why is this food piling up. Did you get did they call you or anything.

11:47.10
J. Aundrea
I could really have cared less. Yeah, they call and I say yeah I'm not I'm not cut out for this I'm not coming back and then like two weeks later I ended up going there for dinner I didn't want to but. It? yeah.

12:07.49
Bruce Anthony
Um, what? yeah know what? So you go back there after what did they say to you when they were and when you were just like yeah this isn't working out.

12:10.15
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

12:15.91
J. Aundrea
I mean it was just kind of like a long sigh and then all right and then that was it and I was just like yeah I mean I'm not coming back. Yeah and nothing nobody said anything I'm sure somebody man maybe somebody spitting my food or they were talking.

12:23.42
Bruce Anthony
It so what happened where you went there to go eat two weeks later ah they was talking oh year.

12:35.86
J. Aundrea
No, it was actually funny because like some of the people I work with you know, hit me up and I was just like yeah I mean it wasn't going good I wasn't good at it. So I just left and they would like not feel you if it. So So I mean I got some some looks. But other than that I mean nobody said anything I literally just moved on my life like I wasn't missed I was not ah was it. It wasn't like dang ah J is gone like Dang. No I wasn't missed.

12:52.64
Bruce Anthony
Here He ah.

12:59.10
Bruce Anthony
Um.

13:04.81
Bruce Anthony
All one day and I'm gonna save it for later I'm gonna tell you about the time I quit working at ruber Tuesdays but but I want to get into my trip home yesterday now you dropped me off at the airport.

13:17.62
J. Aundrea
Um, boy Yes, yes I did.

13:22.97
Bruce Anthony
At seven thirty in the morning which you were already messing with me because the boarding for my flight was at 30 or 27 or something like that and you you're like I don't know why you're going so early. That's one of my anxieties look get to the airport on time.

13:30.63
J. Aundrea
M.

13:36.62
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

13:41.00
Bruce Anthony
You never know what can happen just get there on time so that if you got extra time hey stop up at the bar grab a drink to pass the time that's I always want that airport drink even though it is 300 times more expensive than any other place. Always want that airport drink.

13:47.49
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

13:54.41
J. Aundrea
See the anxiety for me builds up waiting for the flight So I don't like flying. So so if I could get to the airport get through security get to my gate. We're boring get on the plane. Go like that's.

13:59.90
Bruce Anthony
Because you don't like flying I don't mind about flying.

14:12.31
J. Aundrea
This the least amount of time I have to spend in the airport. The better.

14:14.13
Bruce Anthony
And you're not the only one that I noticed like that I got a good friend that's like that and my bestie laughed at me because I told her that I was gonna be that I was at the airport 2 hours before boarding not not flight, not take off before boarding.

14:24.63
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is usually a good 45 minutes before takeoff. Yes, yes.

14:31.12
Bruce Anthony
Um, so I get there. So yep, good 45 minutes but they close the door before they take off of course. Um, okay so I'm there at seven thirty I get through checking my bag going through the checkpoint I'm I'm at the term.

14:49.25
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yeah.

14:49.71
Bruce Anthony
Terminal at like Eight o'clock and it might even been before Eight o'clock so I was like no I'm technically I'm off today might as well go ahead and grab a drink. So I go grab a drink cause I got an hour on modes before we start boarding.

14:55.66
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

15:02.18
J. Aundrea
Right.

15:04.85
Bruce Anthony
Going I get 2 drinks and I'm just mosing longs and I send a bunch people memes matter. Of fact, you got like 7 8 memes that you haven't responded to yet I'm beefing with you on that one. Yeah I'm beefing with you? yeah.

15:09.85
J. Aundrea
I have not looked at them yet. No I haven't looked at him yet and I'm go tell you why I said he's bored in the airport and I say it's gonna take me some time to watch him get through him all let me find okay.

15:20.24
Bruce Anthony
Now most of time they're just memes. They're not reals most of the time their meansmes are not reals. All.

15:25.94
J. Aundrea
Well I was like let me take some let me take a moment to sit down and go through them but I have not they're all still sitting in my dm.

15:31.71
Bruce Anthony
Yeah, no I seen a lot of people a lot of people got Dms from me at the airport so heading to heading back to to my terminal check in everybody's lining up on'm flying frontier ladies and gentlemen I'm gonna put them out there because I'm a drag them and then get a shutout.

15:43.28
J. Aundrea
M.

15:51.47
Bruce Anthony
Ah, 9 27 was nobody I frontier the ride there perfect no problems. Well there was one problem the person from the airport that's supposed to come to the gate to do all the paperwork so you can get off the plane.

15:52.47
J. Aundrea
I Would also like to say I strongly discouraged him from taking frontier.

16:11.41
Bruce Anthony
I don't know if she was eating or something but she took about 30 to 40 minutes and then looked at us like she had. She had an attitude looking at us when we were looking at her like what the hell was you anyway. So 9 Twenty seven nine thirty we don't see anybody from frontier I go on the frontier app.

16:11.55
J. Aundrea
Ah, ah.

16:20.87
J. Aundrea
Right.

16:30.50
Bruce Anthony
Because it downloaded the app because that's easier to do the boarding pass and the time has changed from takeoff at 10 to eleven thirty and I'm like oh it's been delayed and sure enough an email comes like five or ten minutes later cause everybody else is looking around I'm the only one that has the app and I'm like the flight's been delayed.

16:32.11
J. Aundrea
M.

16:47.76
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

16:50.30
Bruce Anthony
So I got extra 2 hours because we're not taking off until 1130 so I'm like okay well go back to the bar and go back to the bar and I sit down and get another email flights been delayed another half an hour okay so is not flight's not taken off til 12 get another email.

16:54.95
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

17:07.65
J. Aundrea
Inca.

17:09.74
Bruce Anthony
Terminal has changed now. The Atlanta airport for anybody that knows you gotta take a shuttle to the different terminals. Yeah, very large so it's at a different terminal I'm like okay cool.

17:16.84
J. Aundrea
Yeah, we have the plane train you it's ah it's a very large international airport. So yes.

17:27.84
Bruce Anthony
Was doing a little bit of work at the bar. Why I had to drink me close out my tab go to the other terminal just be there on time as I'm on the terminal as I'm ah as I'm on the shuttle to go to the terminal I get another email. The display has been pushed back to one now I'm starting to get annoyed because my whole intention.

17:34.79
J. Aundrea
Um, yes, yes.

17:45.63
J. Aundrea
Um.

17:46.62
Bruce Anthony
Was to land at twelve be home by 3 unpack everything so that I could start Thursday fresh right now it's 1 okay fine. We actually do get on the plane at one but there were the reason why there was a delay.

17:48.83
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, yes, yes.

17:59.92
J. Aundrea
And.

18:05.47
Bruce Anthony
And ladies and gentlemena out there. This is oftentimes one of the reasons why they have a delay. They just don't tell you there was some mechanical issue that they had to fix so they fixed it. They let us know it was a mechanical issue right? We get on a plane people getting on a plane are asking to flight at the flight attendants hey is it still cool.

18:11.30
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, um.

18:24.93
Bruce Anthony
And the flight to to say to us we wouldn't be on a plane if there was a fixed so what are you talking about? we sit down right? So we sit down. We're waiting the pilot comes on acom says hey guys we're gonna take off real soon. We just got to finish up the paperwork anytime you do anything mechanical Faa regulations. You got it.

18:25.83
J. Aundrea
Right? right? Yeah, we are risking our lives come on now.

18:44.33
Bruce Anthony
For legal reasons got fit out paperwork. We just taking care of that and we'll be on our way. 1 30 comes hey ladiess and gentlemen. It's taken a little bit longer to fill out that paperwork than we expected, but it shouldn't be but 15 minutes more and then we're gonna take off.

18:47.71
J. Aundrea
And.

19:01.80
J. Aundrea
Um, do they need a pen like what.

19:02.61
Bruce Anthony
Two o'clock comes the pilot jumps on a plane I don't know what's going on. It's taken a lot longer than it should have. But as soon as I know something I'm gonna let you guys know a guy in the back of the plane was like I'll fill out the paperwork if we could just get going three o'clock

19:12.95
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, right.

19:21.97
Bruce Anthony
All right? All the paperwork is done. We're gonna start got on the plane and 1 right? It's now three o'clock and we finally are in the air at 153 well no whent hot. It wasn't hot.

19:21.98
J. Aundrea
So my y'all got on the plane at one. It's now three o'clock

19:33.87
J. Aundrea
Y'all sitting on that hot-ass plane.

19:39.70
Bruce Anthony
And they said that everybody could get all anybody could get off at tooth around two thirty they said we don't know how long this is gonna be. We're sorry about it. You get off the plane. Do whatever I wasn't gonna get off the plane because part of the reason why there was issue at the beginning of getting on the plane is people wouldn't getting in their right seats.

19:49.53
J. Aundrea
Thrive.

19:58.60
J. Aundrea
Um, yes, yeah yeah.

19:58.62
Bruce Anthony
It's a signed seating. This isn't southwest where you pick your seat. It's a sign seating. Everybody has an assigned seat but I knew it was gonna be a problem on this flight when there was a dude that had a backpack on playing his music and the speaker was in the backpack. And he wasn't young either and I'm not saying that he wasn't playing some jams because it was. That's not the port and this was in the airport throughout the airport if you were in that terminal. No matter where you were what flight you were going on you heard him playing music and I was just like Brah like really.

20:18.64
J. Aundrea
Um, that's not the point don't know everybody don't want to hear it.

20:29.79
J. Aundrea
Yeah. Um, right.

20:36.52
Bruce Anthony
So we got those type of people who don't care about other people in their situations just getting into seats because they didn't pick their seats like they were supposed to so not sitting next to their loved ones. Somebody's in there playing musical chairs and I'm like I'm not going to get in a fight.

20:43.12
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

20:50.67
J. Aundrea
Right? My thing is the people who didn't pick their seats shouldn't they board last once everybody's in their assigned seat.

20:53.42
Bruce Anthony
Leaving this plane to get back in my seat.

21:01.89
Bruce Anthony
Ah, no you if if you don't pick your if you don't pick your seat at a certain time. You just get assigned a seat So everybody has an assigned seat. They just didn't like where their seat was assigned So right.

21:06.16
J. Aundrea
Oh okay, got you? okay.

21:18.37
Bruce Anthony
And so I'm like I'm not going to get off this plane cause I'm only gonna go to the bar and and and I'm tired to spend an $18 for a tequila shot. It's ridiculous. Okay, so I'm like I'm gonna stay on this plane because if I get off I'm going drink more and I'm will come back. Somebody's gonna be in my seat cause I got a nice little aisle seat and.

21:21.30
J. Aundrea
Right? right? Yeah, it's it's yeah.

21:37.53
J. Aundrea
Um, right.

21:38.31
Bruce Anthony
I'm not gonna get barred from flying on planes. So safe to say after I landed bwi which sometime around five I had to take the shuttle to Dc and ah metro from Dc to to Virginia and then I'm I'm home.

21:44.80
J. Aundrea
And.

21:55.00
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

21:56.91
Bruce Anthony
And I finally walked in the door at like seven fifty seven but you know what though they gave me a voucher which is going to cover my round trip ticket back to you for your birthday this summer. So I mean it was um, frontier even though that was a.

22:01.87
J. Aundrea
That's crazy.

22:14.41
J. Aundrea
Yes.

22:14.89
Bruce Anthony
Very ridiculous delay they gave and everybody was talking about. Yeah they gave me a voucher but it ain't enough I was like you know what? this was annoying. Ah but it seemed like I was the only one who wasn't just like extremely extremely annoyed is is like I mean it is they not doing this on purpose.

22:22.93
J. Aundrea
Yes.

22:28.45
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, right right? I mean they were working slow as hell to get that paperwork done.

22:34.30
Bruce Anthony
Let it go let it go but but you know what I bet you didn't have nothing to do with the people on that flight. It has due with the people Atlanta airport and that's where my problem lies the people that work at Atlanta airport are slow.

22:45.95
J. Aundrea
Soon.

22:53.72
Bruce Anthony
They they they are not super efficient at their job. They just are there and that's the that's that I was just get right say that that's with a problem I have with the south. You know that's the problem I have now.

22:59.61
J. Aundrea
Welcome to the south. We're not gonna move fast. They just not gonna do it and um in my head I'm just like chop chop Tick Tock

23:13.86
Bruce Anthony
Rights.

23:16.38
J. Aundrea
And they just move as slow as they want to move. So.

23:19.16
Bruce Anthony
Yeah, so but speaking of moving fast and moving slow certain people were surprised that wnba players are getting paid as much as Mba players the process of them getting as much money is moving too slowly for some.

23:26.27
J. Aundrea
In.

23:36.54
J. Aundrea
A.

23:38.94
Bruce Anthony
And we gonna get into that next.

23:53.70
Bruce Anthony
All right? Cis ah I don't know if you heard you did? okay there there was but there was an uproar yesterday or the day before about what w nba players are making because Caitlyn Clark is bringing a lot of attention.

23:56.40
J. Aundrea
Um I did but yes.

24:08.77
J. Aundrea
Yes.

24:11.70
Bruce Anthony
To the wnba the draft was Monday she signed our contract and I'm going to just run through the first 5 picks and what their contracts are for their 4 year deals rookie scale deals. Okay Caitlyn Clark was the number 1 pick.

24:24.38
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

24:29.73
Bruce Anthony
Contractors for 4 years over those 4 years she's set to make three hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars her rookie year. She's gonna make $76000 and buy her fourth year the deal she'll make 90 $7000 ninety seven thousand cameron brink the second pick. Is going to be making $76000 her first year and then $97000 a second year camilla cardoza the third pick from chicago sky my national champion from south carolina the big center.

25:01.14
J. Aundrea
See.

25:04.12
Bruce Anthony
Seventy six thousand or first year ninety seven thousand or second her her third or fourth year all of them pretty much making 70000 in their first year and 90000 in their fourth year and everybody was like why did w Nba players getting paid so little.

25:13.50
J. Aundrea
M.

25:21.80
Bruce Anthony
Especially Caitlyn why is she getting paid so letter. Well Caitlin before we get into contracts yes, the contracts are not going to be high for Wba i' get into that for a minute but Caitlin actually signed an 8 figure deal with Nike ah estimated.

25:24.65
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

25:34.99
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

25:39.91
Bruce Anthony
Figure range is around 8 figure 8 figures. She's gonna have a signature shoe so she's gonna have like her her own Jordan Jordan is ah like her own Lebron shoe right? She's gonna have our own lebron shoe and she got offers from not only Nike but under armor an Adidas that were all sizable because she's.

25:46.20
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

25:55.40
J. Aundrea
A.

25:59.22
Bruce Anthony
Marketing Star now as far as the W Nba contracts. There's a lot of things that go into what W Nba players make right? It's it's it's determined by league rules. You know, collective bargaining ah bargaining agreements you know player performance Experience Market dynamics.

26:06.90
J. Aundrea
Right.

26:18.16
Bruce Anthony
You know Market Factors have a lot of things to do with it if a team operates in a larger city they and has a strong fire and base they have more money than a smaller market team player Popularity merchandise sales ticket revenue. All of this is factored into.

26:19.25
J. Aundrea
And.

26:32.50
J. Aundrea
Yes.

26:36.67
Bruce Anthony
What w andba players make there are some Wba players that make 6 figures Ace a season Jackie Young is the highest paid player from Las Vegas Aces she makes two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ah a season. Um.

26:42.55
J. Aundrea
And.

26:54.20
Bruce Anthony
And and so there are some Wba players that that make really good money but it's it. The outrage was funny because like this isn't new like this is what w nba players are making but they're comparing it to Nba players and that's not Apple's

27:04.24
J. Aundrea
Now. Yes.

27:13.72
Bruce Anthony
And oranges did it I mean writes I'm tired because I had a 12 hour travel day yesterday and I got up and worked this morning are it. It's it's not apples to apples is Apple to oranges. The Nba has been in existence for.

27:13.74
J. Aundrea
It is apples and oranges and now apples to apples. Um, yes, yes, Yes, yeah.

27:33.56
Bruce Anthony
75 years I think they just yeah 75 years the Wnba Has Been in this so okay and the Wnba was found at Twenty Twenty seven years ago so there's a 50 year head start kind of like.

27:34.82
J. Aundrea
If they were founded seventy seven years ago 27 right

27:52.11
Bruce Anthony
Institutional economic advantages in the United States if a certain group of people have a 50 in some cases 400 year head start. Economically they're they're going to be a little bit more further advanced even if.

27:53.34
J. Aundrea
E.

28:01.92
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yeah.

28:09.79
Bruce Anthony
All the rules become equal in a certain point of time they still got a giant head start. So the and Nba has been in popularity ah has been grown in popularity since magic and Larry Bird entered in the 80 s and it's not fair to compare the w nba to the Nba the w nba is growing. The Wnba is.

28:11.19
J. Aundrea
That.

28:19.11
J. Aundrea
And.

28:29.23
Bruce Anthony
Used to be owned by the and Nba the teams were owned by the and Nba teams now there's private ownership. There's a collect. There's going to be a new Tv rights deal in a couple of years is Goingnna bring in more money for the players and guess what players like Caitlyn Clark are Goingnna bring in more viewership more viewership more attendance.

28:32.49
J. Aundrea
And.

28:38.10
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yeah.

28:48.21
Bruce Anthony
More dollars. So Wnba players are going to make more money. It's not completely the the point I'm trying to make is the sexism isn't in now. The sexism is in the fifty year difference between these two established leagues.

29:02.48
J. Aundrea
Yes.

29:05.65
Bruce Anthony
Ah, so don't jump into the situation now saying why aren't wnba players being paid as much as Nba players I give you very simple reason the Nba had a 50 year head start.

29:13.62
J. Aundrea
Yes, they are a multibillion dollar enterprise the wmba is a multimillion dollar enterprise it's a little different not saying that them making the same as like somebody entry level at.

29:25.36
Bruce Anthony
The.

29:32.72
J. Aundrea
Ah, accounting firm make would make I mean it still feels like they could be paid more than that because right.

29:37.68
Bruce Anthony
Yes, well yes, and no, but they're working four months out of the year so that's another thing that people don't don't look at and and and another reason why a lot of the female women players go overseas because they're only playing four months here they can get another four month

29:53.49
J. Aundrea
Um, and.

29:57.11
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yes.

29:57.59
Bruce Anthony
Contract overseas where they actually get paid more money because overseas were actually marketing women's sports well before the United States of America hey I don't know if I need to tell you guys or not but the Us is very far behind most european countries when it comes to social issues just just just just case just case I mean you even got never mind not go go there. Let's let's move on. Let's move on. But um.

30:26.20
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

30:34.33
Bruce Anthony
So there was a backlash and then you have people like the great Shamell Hill who is explaining to people. This is the reason why there's a pay to disparity but women sports are on the right path and things are going to change. But if you are a fan.

30:42.39
J. Aundrea
M.

30:48.27
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

30:52.79
Bruce Anthony
Now if you're a new fan Cool go to games buy tickets, buy merchandise watch on Tv support the product they will make more money don't have this fake faux outrage and not participate in growing the sport so that these women can make more money. Um, but.

31:04.66
J. Aundrea
Um, you're right.

31:12.36
Bruce Anthony
But then there is also some people that attack Caitlin and Clark but we'll get into that later. What is your overall thought process when all of this was happening.

31:23.44
J. Aundrea
Yeah, so I mean I I get it. Um I read the articles too I get why the money is the way that it is but I also think that another part of it is just the change in culture.

31:39.44
Bruce Anthony
Um.

31:40.58
J. Aundrea
Us as a society around women's sports I feel like as time goes On. We're taking it more seriously. It's not just so something to watch. Like an offshoot of men's sports like it's standing women's sports are starting to stand on their own as as not just entertainment draws but like these are real competitors and they're really putting on a good show for for their audience. So.

32:13.99
Bruce Anthony
Um.

32:16.21
J. Aundrea
I Think with this changing culture of ah people are looking at it like what the hell is this and ah and you know we understand Yes, always been like this is just now you're taking it seriously.

32:26.19
Bruce Anthony
Ah.

32:35.26
J. Aundrea
Whereas before people are like why would repay them.

32:35.69
Bruce Anthony
Um.

32:38.93
Bruce Anthony
Right? Well, there's still a lot of people out there that that are like that and I think a lot of people because they don't understand the economics of sports are are equating it to.

32:44.50
J. Aundrea
That are like that. Yeah.

32:55.24
Bruce Anthony
Women are being paid less than men just like for the same job just like if I apply for a job as regional manager of a restaurant and I'm a woman and I get paid less than a man. Not the same thing.

33:09.11
J. Aundrea
No this This is the difference between a startup and an established business. Ah yeah, so you know they they've they. So for.

33:15.57
Bruce Anthony
That's that's what it is.

33:21.54
J. Aundrea
The wmba to be where it is which I think if you look 28 years into the founding of the and Nba they're probably a lot further along.

33:35.51
Bruce Anthony
Um, they're bout on the same trajectory me here? Yeah yeah.

33:38.59
J. Aundrea
They're on the same trajectory so like give them time give society time to catch up give these businesses time to catch up. Kaitlyn will be fine. She had contracts with Nike and gatorade and state farm already. She's probably going to retain those contracts. And get even more money and she's going to get even more endorsed with all of these young ladies will you go to see them in the lot of couple of these young ladies will well it also depends on who they become in the Wnba.

34:01.40
Bruce Anthony
Ah, okay I So that was the that was the other dynamic on this.

34:12.80
Bruce Anthony
Right? Caitlin.

34:14.32
J. Aundrea
You never know what'll happen to them. Ah you know their star power might be unlocked and it might be somebody. You don't expect you don't know so.

34:24.70
Bruce Anthony
Well so going back to the great Jammele Hill who I respect greatly and it was just ah, a tweet so I would love to see ah her broader opinion of this was a little annoyed that Caitlin Clark um um I don't want to put that.

34:34.17
J. Aundrea
In.

34:42.40
Bruce Anthony
That adjective on her said of the 2 time Mvp of the w andbala nba I think her name is a gya Wilson um y'all know our butcher names but she's a 2 time to back to back reigning Mvp and.

34:51.55
J. Aundrea
Is.

34:57.77
J. Aundrea
E.

35:02.10
Bruce Anthony
Jamee was like is great. Katelins got this eight figure deal with Nike and the signature shoe. But what about this and nvp and I was like that's not a good argument and here's the reason why I say and a good argument because the argument was you know, kind of like here's this fantastic black player. Why isn't she getting as much an endorsement deal as this white player and in this instance race is involved but not how people think so it isn't based on them. Not.

35:30.58
J. Aundrea
E.

35:39.00
Bruce Anthony
Them looking at a black person and saying well we're and not going to give you this deal because you're not good enough What they're saying is is this white person is balling out in a black dominated sport. It's an anomaly. It's an attraction. It's no different than Tiger woods.

35:45.62
J. Aundrea
Um, right.

35:56.50
J. Aundrea
B.

35:57.94
Bruce Anthony
Getting all of those endorsement deals being a black player in a predominantly white sport. There's no different than Serena Williams getting all of the endorsement deals being a black player in a white dominant sport. It's no different than Simone Biles getting all the attention being a black woman and a white.

36:09.90
J. Aundrea
In.

36:17.00
J. Aundrea
E.

36:18.10
Bruce Anthony
Dominated sport Larry Bird was another example where he was a white player and a black dominated sport. it's an anomaly it's it's it's a it's something unique. It.

36:27.98
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah I don't think that advertisers have a problem hiring black people to represent their product.

36:37.94
Bruce Anthony
No, they that they don't they they want to they want to hire somebody that's going to bring the most attention to their product and unfortunately for all the Wnba players who are champions.

36:43.29
J. Aundrea
Okay.

36:49.10
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, and.

36:57.30
Bruce Anthony
That are in the league right now I would say the most recognizable woman's basketball player in the country. It's caitlyn Clark right now and all advertisers are gonna be looking to throw money at her because she's the one boosting the ratings in the women's national championship.

37:04.55
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

37:16.90
J. Aundrea
But.

37:17.40
Bruce Anthony
Tournament. She's there look. They're moving the mystics play at some rinky dink Dr here in Washington d c area they are moving the games where caitlyn cart plays to the capital one arena because they need more space to fill to sell more tickets. There are some.

37:32.27
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yeah.

37:35.26
Bruce Anthony
Indiana fever have always so already sold out every home game all opposing teams that are playing the Indiana fever when indian fever come in town. They've already sold out that game. They're going to sell out because people want to see Caitlin Clark so yes

37:42.91
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

37:50.58
Bruce Anthony
It is about race but not in the negative sense. It's a it's a white person and a black dominatated sport. That's good. That's ball and well balld out in college and I hope that she balls out in the wmba I'm rooting for I'm going to be watching the games I'm rooting for because she has an immense pressure.

37:57.66
J. Aundrea
So yeah.

38:05.13
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

38:10.17
Bruce Anthony
To be quote unquote America's great white hope that she's not asking for. She just want to go who is the media right? So she's got all this pressure. So I'm rooting for. But yeah, she's going to get this type of attention because of what she did in college. So it it and and she's a.

38:11.60
J. Aundrea
Near? yeah.

38:22.73
J. Aundrea
In.

38:29.73
Bruce Anthony
Unique situation because she's a white person in a black dominated sport.

38:33.61
J. Aundrea
Now if you want to make that argument about media's um, media's attention on Kaitlyn that is a relevant argument but as far as advertisers and marketing. They're going to go after the most.

38:43.89
Bruce Anthony
Well once again at here well and the media would it.

38:51.16
J. Aundrea
Popular player and Mv E is not most valuable you know celebrity. It's most valuable player. Yes, she's an amazing player is that going to translate to sales for some company.

38:59.39
Bruce Anthony
Right? right.

39:05.89
Bruce Anthony
Tim Duncan was an Mvp and he's born as hell and he had endorsement deals but he wasn't Kobe Bryant right and you know in the and Nba blew up because of magic and bird and the Nba absolutely sold.

39:09.62
J. Aundrea
Yeah, right right.

39:24.85
Bruce Anthony
Ah, a race war the majority of black players in the Los Angeles Lakers and really there was only 3 or 4 white players on the bostons celtic but they made because it was Boston and the best player was white. They were quote unquote the white team but that that was a false narrative right? The best player. The.

39:31.19
J. Aundrea
Jack.

39:39.65
J. Aundrea
In here.

39:43.47
Bruce Anthony
The best 2 players the best 2 white players in the aba played on that team. Um, but but they were the 2 of the best 24 best players in the league right? They absolutely pushed that they marketed that and magic and Larry brought to Nba the Nba used to be on tape delay in my lifetime.

39:51.98
J. Aundrea
A.

40:01.12
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

40:03.28
Bruce Anthony
Nba finals used to be on tape delay. It was not live magic and Larry made it live but they weren't the ones that skyrocket the and Nba is his little player who was out of Womenton North Carolina he bows a uc tar our hill his he was drafted by Chicago bull's third overall third.

40:14.15
J. Aundrea
You might know him.

40:22.60
Bruce Anthony
His name was Michael Jeffrey Jordan he got his own signature shoe. He was the first Nba a player truly truly to get his own signature shoe kind of like Caitlyn Clark but he didn't even come in with the popularity of Caitlin Clark but he sure did take the world by storm.

40:23.75
J. Aundrea
Period.

40:35.20
J. Aundrea
Right.

40:40.46
Bruce Anthony
But his game backed it up so that's the reason why I'm root for Caitlin I'm I'm rooting for her. She did not say y'all know I'm the greatest white player Yasha all rowe will be she. She's not even saying she's the greatest player if you hear in an interview. She's like I'm looking forward to the challenge of playing the.

40:44.35
J. Aundrea
Um.

40:49.26
J. Aundrea
Right.

40:58.68
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, yes, yes, yes.

40:58.83
Bruce Anthony
Best players in this country. The best players in the world entering the wnba I'm looking forward to it and all of them Wba players going to be gunning for her because she's got all this attention as well as they should because if you're a competitor. That's what you do right? I'm ruined for her to be the best for this It's what it's white black. It's about race. But it's not it's it's not a negative thing. It's okay for white people to look at Kate la clark and be proud. There's nothing wrong with that.

41:17.70
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

41:27.26
J. Aundrea
You you know, just don't take it too far. No no, no I mean no no, no no I mean too far I mean don't.

41:31.96
Bruce Anthony
Well we took it too far with tiger. Yeah, we did I mean what do you mean by too far I don't I don't think I don't think nobody's gonna do that that Well I don't know and.

41:43.54
J. Aundrea
Come to the games yelling white power like that's I don't either but just don't take it too far all right, take it too far.

41:51.33
Bruce Anthony
Yeah, well I don't know either. but but but yeah but no but I'm rude for Caitlin Clark I hope I wanted her to do well. But the economics I wanted to break down the economics at the Wnba and everything that's going on and to explain there's nothing. The only thing that's nefarious is effect.

41:59.79
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

42:10.13
Bruce Anthony
There's a fifty year gap and it took until 1997 before the women had their own league on official league in America and it was backed by the and Nba so shout out to the former commissioner of the Nba David Stern

42:17.27
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, yeah.

42:28.82
Bruce Anthony
To be a visionary to say okay Nba is real profitable now. Ah a great movie and you know what's funny about that every time.

42:30.74
J. Aundrea
They need a league of their own is a great movie.

42:44.15
Bruce Anthony
They give women the opportunity to showcase their athletic prowess audiences come out right? A league of their own if you if you know about a league our own if you don't it was War War War two all the men fight. Well all the men that could fight.

42:51.36
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

42:59.20
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yes, bright. Yes.

43:03.15
Bruce Anthony
They're all fighting so there's no more baseball which was America's past time at that time. So what did they do? They didn't play softball they played baseball and the women played baseball and had their league and the people were coming out. They had fans everybody was watching.

43:20.76
J. Aundrea
M.

43:21.64
Bruce Anthony
Then the men came home and then all of a sudden they got rid of the league and but that's a whole another issue that we could get into about women during world War two because they were the ones working in the factories. They were the ones making sure this country was still running.

43:27.19
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

43:37.17
J. Aundrea
Um, and yes, well the ones that could the ones I could yeah.

43:40.74
Bruce Anthony
And then they were forced to go back to the kitchens go back to the homes right? The go back to the kitchen. The homes be the Susie homemakers and their children saw that hey mommy you was working and doing all this and the children's.

43:54.48
J. Aundrea
In.

44:00.40
Bruce Anthony
Of these women are the ones that started the feminist movement and said we're not gonna do that now y'all not gonna have us be the backbone and and do everything that you guys can do and then when you come back home. We gotta go back to birth and babies and and and clean and cooking.

44:02.44
J. Aundrea
What? Yeah yeah.

44:18.82
Bruce Anthony
If you want to do that if we want to do that cool. But we also want to be able to go to college and do more than just study teaching or nursing right I want to be ah, an engineer I Want to be a doctor and that's the feminist movement but this was a complete detour but it's all it's not.

44:19.49
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

44:34.36
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, right? you know it's not yes and you know.

44:38.78
Bruce Anthony
It's all talking about women empowerment.

44:43.31
J. Aundrea
The journey that we've taken and the journey that we're still on ah for equity not equality equity and um, we don't get there and you know there's some amazing young women that were ah drafted into the wmba this for this.

44:48.69
Bruce Anthony
A.

45:02.98
J. Aundrea
Upcoming season and I think it's just gonna skyrocket from here.

45:08.96
Bruce Anthony
May fourteenth I think is the the opening opening day of the wnba and they're on Tv ah, that's funny that you be a Chicago's 5 fan I I guess I got a root for the mystics. Um.

45:10.75
J. Aundrea
Yeah already I already posted that I'm a new Chicago sky fan he yeah.

45:25.41
Bruce Anthony
But I'm i' a be a Caitlyn Clark fan I'm gonna watch Indiana fever I want her to do well I've seen so many college players in the men's game. Get this type of Hype and not make it an Nba I really want her to live up to the hype. She's not gonna come out the gate.

45:28.10
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

45:34.21
J. Aundrea
Is.

45:40.60
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, yeah, um.

45:44.25
Bruce Anthony
Dropping 40 like she was in college so temper expectations ladies and gentlemen I just wanted to come out and ball. You know be be successful as as shes she's entering in a new league and all these women can ball ball.

45:49.84
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

46:02.49
J. Aundrea
Yes, and you just never know somebody gets under a good coach. They got a good team around them and um, they their ability can really end up.

46:02.53
Bruce Anthony
They were all Caitlin Clarks on their team. Um, so I just wanted to do well.

46:12.31
Bruce Anthony
A.

46:20.24
J. Aundrea
Shining through people. You wouldn't think of people who picked third overall like like Jordan. So yeah, you never know.

46:25.37
Bruce Anthony
Michael Jeffrey Jordan by the way you never know speaking of doing well I know that I would be doing real well if I lived in 1997 we gonna get to that next.

46:49.77
Bruce Anthony
So says in one of the many memes that you didn't open that I had to send to you directly through text message because I said I want to talk about it. Well, this's just this is true. Well I.

46:56.49
J. Aundrea
For anyone listening to the audio I rolled my eyes very hard. He sent me a lot of memes but I did watch this. Yes.

47:08.32
Bruce Anthony
Okay, so I will say this sometimes I send you memes and I know you haven't opened them and then you send me a meme and I'm like I'm not gonna open into she comment on my other means I got a friend right now. This is a friend of mine that that I've sent memes to yesterday that sent me a meme last night.

47:13.46
J. Aundrea
A.

47:20.18
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yeah.

47:28.11
Bruce Anthony
I will not open it because she didn't look at any of the memes that I sent her and I know what happened you see the little notification. You know the notification is there you on Instagram you scrolling through your own timeline see something funny send it to me but I sent you some funny stuff too. So you need um I'm petty. Um.

47:31.36
J. Aundrea
Right? yes.

47:44.63
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, it's about reciprocity and it's about the principle. Yeah I get it.

47:47.83
Bruce Anthony
Pet tea. Ah so this meme came up and it was and it had that that the song did and in and then it do.

48:01.00
J. Aundrea
Um, ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen. My brother is very bad at reenacting um songs I don't know what you were trying to sing What is that who.

48:09.57
Bruce Anthony
Okay, it's it's It's a normal. It's this. It's a song that's in a lot of these reals when something is sad. Okay.

48:17.20
J. Aundrea
Okay, okay, so they were playing some sort of sad music that sounded like the theme song of like an 80 s cop show where the car talks. That's what that sounded like but okay.

48:33.40
Bruce Anthony
That would be night writer and that's not what it sounded like anyway. So the meme was going through the cost of living ah ah in 9097 and it gave the cost of certain goods and I'm just going to run down the list real fast and I'm not doing a comparison of what the costs are today.

48:45.84
J. Aundrea
Um, boom. Yeah yeah.

48:49.73
J. Aundrea
Yeah, we already know.

48:50.42
Bruce Anthony
Because I don't need to because as I yeah as I run down these you'll be like what the hell so in 1997 which would have been my junior year in high school. The average home was a hundred and twenty four thousand dollars the average income.

49:06.13
J. Aundrea
Um.

49:08.38
Bruce Anthony
Was $37000 the average car cost sixteen Point Nine Thousand dollars the gallon of gas $1 and twenty two cent rent

49:18.60
J. Aundrea
Um.

49:19.90
J. Aundrea
You put that in your car Now you ain't going out the parking lot right.

49:25.99
Bruce Anthony
Was five hundred and seventy six dollars per month the average movie ticket was $4 and fifty nine cent

49:28.87
J. Aundrea
Um, you can get it if you on section 8

49:37.59
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, you ain't going to see no you can't even rent a movie on damn Amazon prime for no $4 and fifty cent

49:42.93
Bruce Anthony
No, you can't the average regular coffee was a dollar and seventy seven cent a tall latte was $2 and fifty seven cent extra volume meals at Mcdonald's the big mac.

49:53.62
J. Aundrea
Um, that's ridiculous. Yeah.

50:01.91
Bruce Anthony
Extra value meal. Three ninety nine and the big Mac was the most expensive one a dozen eggs was a dollar and fifteen cent a loaf of bread was a dollar and seventeen cent harvard tuition.

50:03.16
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yeah.

50:21.72
Bruce Anthony
For the year twenty seven Thousand five hundred and seventy five dollars per year 1997 and 1997 I would be ah balling.

50:21.82
J. Aundrea
In.

50:29.84
J. Aundrea
Ridiculous.

50:35.79
J. Aundrea
If you were making the money that you're making now. Yeah yeah here. Yeah, here's my takeaway from that now we know how much stuff costs now.

50:40.43
Bruce Anthony
Yeah, if I was making the money that I'm making now right? I'd have me about 3 homes about 3 cars you know? ah.

50:53.63
Bruce Anthony
Yeah, 4 times that.

50:55.41
J. Aundrea
We know we know it ain't nowhere near them prices. But in that year was it 1997 the minimum federal minimum wage was $5 and fifteen cent a milk. You know what.

51:02.32
Bruce Anthony
90 ninety seven.

51:08.42
Bruce Anthony
Five fifteen would that bring you home a year.

51:14.85
J. Aundrea
That's a good question. Let's see if you worked full time making minimum wage you were making so it's five fifteen

51:16.41
Bruce Anthony
Right.

51:24.21
Bruce Anthony
5 15 times 40 So let's just say it's 200 to make it even so $800 a month and.

51:33.80
J. Aundrea
You're making about a little over ten thousand almost Eleven Thousand ah right the

51:36.77
Bruce Anthony
Right? And the average income was 37000 but if you're making 10000 and rent is five seventy six the average rent was 5 76 so let's just say that you could find rent for $500 five hundred

51:46.37
J. Aundrea
Are.

51:55.38
Bruce Anthony
Over a year is $6000 so I mean it's still half your income. Ah, but.

51:56.41
J. Aundrea
Yeah, yeah. Yes, yeah, but but now minimum wage at that time five fifteen that we know how much stuff costs now the minimum wage.

52:13.38
Bruce Anthony
No.

52:17.60
J. Aundrea
Went up $2 and ten cent and we're at $7 and twenty five cents in 2024 for the federal minimum wage. So just think about that it went up $2

52:24.82
Bruce Anthony
Yep, Oh yep.

52:36.74
J. Aundrea
And ten cent gas went up $85 and forty eight cent and you telling me.

52:48.46
Bruce Anthony
Oh rent. Yeah.

52:48.93
J. Aundrea
Okay, you tell him rent rent a no eight, no damn 500 $76 yes

53:02.45
Bruce Anthony
Rent is 5 times that so if if if if the let's do math here if the minimum wage went up not even 50% not even 50% ah the rent went up doing a math.

53:10.29
J. Aundrea
Right.

53:20.34
Bruce Anthony
ah hundred percent ah 200% two hundred and fifty percent well a hundred if you if if rent was 500 if room was five hundred one hundred percent would be 500 right 200%

53:25.91
J. Aundrea
Oh lord you asking the wrong I got a calculator right now move? yeah.

53:37.35
Bruce Anthony
would be a 300% would be 1500 so that it went up 300% checking make sure the math is right I think that math is right? but it 300%

53:41.74
J. Aundrea
Yes.

53:49.00
J. Aundrea
Yeah, because it would be the 5 76 times 3 if it went up 300 yeah

53:55.74
Bruce Anthony
Yeah, no, that's not what it would be. That's not what it would be no no.

54:00.45
J. Aundrea
Try 76 times 3 Yes, if you if you went up 300% okay get help me because help me, you're if if you go.

54:10.69
Bruce Anthony
J Okay ladies and gentlemen. We're about to do math math is my thing math is my day man math. This math is my thing. Okay.

54:19.37
J. Aundrea
Up 300% is that not 3 times what is it.

54:20.66
Bruce Anthony
No, that's not what that is because what you with 3 times what is 3 times 5 it's 15 what is 5 to 15 It's a third that's not 300% a hundred percent is that same number right.

54:27.59
J. Aundrea
A a.

54:37.81
J. Aundrea
Yes.

54:40.90
Bruce Anthony
So 500 if it went up a hundred percent that means the rent would be a thousand. Okay so if a hundred percent is 50200% would be a thousand right? Okay because it it would be.

54:42.82
J. Aundrea
Yeah, okay.

54:55.10
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

54:59.82
Bruce Anthony
So 300% would be.

54:59.98
J. Aundrea
Yeah, no I'm gonna I'm gonna get my calculator out like I don't know why you keep asking me like I'm not gonna take this calculator out.

55:09.43
Bruce Anthony
Ah, oh right.

55:17.80
J. Aundrea
1500 yeah so then the total would be 2000 if it went up 300%

55:25.86
Bruce Anthony
Yes, but you said 1500 you said it would be 1500 are you you okay said ok all right? So I was confused. Yeah, but you said you said 5 times.

55:31.72
J. Aundrea
Yeah, 300% of 500 is fit is 5 times 3 and then you add in the original 500 yeah what

55:45.25
Bruce Anthony
You said 3 times 5 but you didn't say plus to 5 Yeah yeah, 300% is 1500 and I think the average the average rent now is somewhere around $2000 so it went up 300% but the minimum wage went up less than 50%

55:48.17
J. Aundrea
Um, oh well, that's what I you asked me what was 300% of it. Yes.

55:56.20
J. Aundrea
And.

56:04.70
J. Aundrea
So average rent in 2023 ah for the us fifteen hundred and fourteen dollars a month there.

56:15.21
Bruce Anthony
Who where that let me find where that is.

56:19.87
J. Aundrea
There are places that have lower rent. There are there are places that had that offset. Yeah yeah, that will offset my point is yeah.

56:23.94
Bruce Anthony
Okay I am a little bougie I am a little bougie I like I like the finer things in life.

56:37.83
J. Aundrea
Need to raise that federal minimum wage this is disgusting like that. Also there are many fact I'm not an economist but.

56:38.24
Bruce Anthony
Well I mean how how about how about try to control inflation I don't I'm not an economist I was about to say that I'm not an economist.

56:54.54
J. Aundrea
Boy Oh boy I Think there are some things within our control.

56:56.17
Bruce Anthony
Well speaking of that I was gonna touch on this in the first segment but this brings me full circle to the second segment the stanley cup I saw that a lot throughout my travel in the airport which by the way.

57:04.40
J. Aundrea
And.

57:15.38
Bruce Anthony
I Think is absolutely nasty because it's a big gulp more or less because you have a straw.

57:20.36
J. Aundrea
Okay, we're thinking of different things. So when I saw that on the rundown I Thought you met the Stanley cup. Yes, you talking about that damn thermos everybody carries around.

57:27.13
Bruce Anthony
Being Hockey. No, That's not what I meant I meant to st. Yes, that's got the straw stick in that with no cover on a straw at All. So I was seeing a lot of people with that like in their backpacks. Like they're carrying the little carryr on and they put the little they got a little pouch and they got the little Stanley cup and I'm like the straws just exposed to everything right? like it's exposed to everything and you're carrying that bad boy around and then you put some water and you drinking out of it sure enough I did a little bit of research.

57:45.20
J. Aundrea
Ah.

57:49.88
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah, yes.

58:02.46
Bruce Anthony
It's been. It's been criticized as being like a back to ah bacteria builder like it's like it's a petri dish because you're just carrying around I found out today. There are some Stanley cups that go for $60 and going into costs of stuff.

58:06.46
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

58:13.99
J. Aundrea
And.

58:21.95
Bruce Anthony
There are people paying for it. So I wouldn't Stanley take a $20 mug and upcharge it 3 times if people are willing to pay for it and people were paying for it. People were waiting in line for a target target a target right.

58:28.87
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah.

58:40.88
J. Aundrea
Um.

58:41.50
Bruce Anthony
Special edition stanley cut people were line to four o'clock in the morning for this cup then when you drink out of it's just gonna get you sick see now when people talk about covid that's that's what started covid all these nasty as people out here.

58:58.49
J. Aundrea
Yeah, number 1 number 1 washer cup because I know y'all not out here washing that cup and I know y'all not out here washing that straw that's the mine. They're not washing the cup and I can guarantee it and I'll tell you why because they're just putting water in it.

58:58.60
Bruce Anthony
Put a cover on your St straw cover your mouth when you sneeze wash. Okay, that's the thing they might be wash the cup. They're not washing that St straw like that.

59:17.66
Bruce Anthony
E.

59:18.33
J. Aundrea
So they think it's just water in it. It's just water. It's just water in it I don't have to wash the cup I'm only putting water in it. Okay, this is Scotts Stng wash the cup and wash the straw.

59:29.30
Bruce Anthony
Nasty ass. No you got to put and by the way that straw you just don't watch the outside of the straw soap needed to go on the inside of the straw.

59:35.85
J. Aundrea
Yeah, it comes with a little thing a little that looks like a little pipe cleaner thing. It comes with a little thing to clean that straw out.

59:44.39
Bruce Anthony
It might not come with it. Guess what you can buy it on Amazon I got plenty of them cause I don't even use if I use anything and some of the people that I've watched on the video seen my little yeti cup I have a little yeti cup that has a first of all.

59:55.30
J. Aundrea
M.

01:00:00.63
Bruce Anthony
I Don't have nothing plastic that I'm drinking out of that's number one. It's gonna be stainless still the the straws gonna be stainless Still why cause I can bad boy I could put that in um and the dishwasher and even when I put it in the dishwasher I'm still gonna clean the little inside of it. Why cause I'm not trying to get sick out here.

01:00:03.30
J. Aundrea
Right? Yeah, um.

01:00:16.73
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

01:00:18.98
Bruce Anthony
Because it's a bacteria builder Y'all are nasty and y'all are walking around the airport just within your backpacks just letting it flow free you bumping into stuff. It don't have no cover over it over the mouthpart.

01:00:26.31
J. Aundrea
Um, and it's and I okay, you want a stanley fine. We're not just discouraging you from getting a Stanley but you know they make ones with lids.

01:00:43.20
J. Aundrea
Just get what don't get the Tumblr. Don't take the Tumblr out in public with that straw all out.

01:00:49.30
Bruce Anthony
Or or they might on Amazon and I don't mean to just bump Amazon Amazon is not an advertiser for this show. However Jeff Bezos smile at me. Um, they probably have straw covers that you can have in public.

01:00:58.68
J. Aundrea
Yeah.

01:01:05.67
J. Aundrea
Spin.

01:01:06.24
Bruce Anthony
To cover your straw I've seen it I went on Amazon and I saw not a stanley tumblr but another tumblr that looked just like a stanley first of all, it was $20 and it came with a plastic cover that goes over your straw to protect it from all that bacteria build up I swear to you Jay.

01:01:13.18
J. Aundrea
You know.

01:01:26.21
Bruce Anthony
Ah, saw so many people would just sit on the side of their backpack and they just fly in their backpack all around it is bumping into people and it it was nasty and it was bothering me and I just I don't understand it. Why are people so nasty.

01:01:35.50
J. Aundrea
Um, yeah I I don't understand either I got plenty of those tumblers. Um. Some that have a little cover you click down over the straw and everything like that some are just they have a lid on them. Ah I just have never paid $60 for a cup like a keep sure it keeps your water cold on.

01:02:01.85
Bruce Anthony
Right.

01:02:06.99
J. Aundrea
You not? You don't need your water cold all day if you're drinking it. Um, that's dust dumb that logic never made sense to me keeps drinks cold. You just drink it drink it while it's cold.

01:02:16.89
Bruce Anthony
Yeah, drink it if that's all if that's all the water you drinking all day long. First of all, you not getting enough water and that's the first problem need to drink water ladies and gentlemen. You want to know why my and my sister's skin is so good.

01:02:23.51
J. Aundrea
Right? Yeah yeah.

01:02:35.61
J. Aundrea
It's the water.

01:02:36.65
Bruce Anthony
We drink water very rarely. Do we add sugar for any of our drinks. You know what else we drink gatorade zero.

01:02:43.84
J. Aundrea
Everything sugar for get a zero sugar free I got some ah you just put me on to power aid zero zero sugar yeah I drank the blue. Ah yes.

01:02:48.96
Bruce Anthony
Because they got a couple of different flavors. That's a little bit delicious. The blue is delicious notice that we what we say ladiess and gentlemen in we wouldn't know Mountain blasts and nothing like that is blue. The flavor is blue.

01:03:00.63
J. Aundrea
Now because what flavor is Mountain Blast but you always know what flavor blue is. It's blue. Yeah yeah, sometimes Green a little ecto cooler ain't never hurt nobody.

01:03:06.39
Bruce Anthony
Always is blue I know red and purple and orange and I know yellow.

01:03:19.17
Bruce Anthony
Um, ah, ladiesers gentlemen if y'all don't know that high sea actto cooler. Let me tell you something when ghostbusters first came out the cartoon that actto cooler who that's all we wanted was that high sea actto cooler.

01:03:23.23
J. Aundrea
You are missing out.

01:03:31.20
J. Aundrea
You boy, don't know what flavor it was but what flavor is ecto cooler I just googled it. It was orange tangerine.

01:03:35.10
Bruce Anthony
It was that was that was a flavor. Oh what flavor.

01:03:47.91
Bruce Anthony
That's the reason why I was so delicious because when it's last time you ate a tangerine and you went like this is delicious every time and the easier to peel than oranges all right ladies Gentlemenman this show with it to a weird turn but that's okay, we talk about everything on theib happy hour. Plus.

01:03:48.84
J. Aundrea
Yeah, all the every time every time. Yeah.

01:04:03.74
J. Aundrea
Exactly? Yeah yeah, he's still traveling ladies and Johnah it's not over yet. He's on the plane right now. No this is a fee.

01:04:05.87
Bruce Anthony
I had a 47 hour travel day yesterday. So I'm tired I'm still traveling. It's not over I'm still out there on I I thought I was off the plane but it's gonna be 1 of situations where I wake up this dream.

01:04:23.71
J. Aundrea
Yeah, this is a fever dream. You're still a tar rack and what you didn't know is that it was hot in there. You passed out from each stroke you gonna you're alive. You're alive. But.

01:04:25.68
Bruce Anthony
A feet drink I'll still on the time back.

01:04:35.44
Bruce Anthony
Ah, wait a minute am I alive did I have a stroke at my ah coma in the hospital barely Jay what do you.

01:04:42.29
J. Aundrea
Barely we just ah I don't know if you see this is this is hot off the presses but ah Alisa Deqs part 4 of domino effect drops today.

01:04:49.95
Bruce Anthony
Okay, ah, an extended version of the show laser gentlemen. We go on an overtime.

01:05:00.68
J. Aundrea
And I have the texts are coming in.

01:05:01.83
Bruce Anthony
It will put it silent so that we can finish the show. But.

01:05:05.26
J. Aundrea
So here's the thing I don't know how to make my ipad silent. So like you know we got the ringer button on your phone. You could just hit the little switch and the silent I don't know how to the quip.

01:05:13.18
Bruce Anthony
E.

01:05:19.95
Bruce Anthony
You can turn a volume down.

01:05:23.96
J. Aundrea
I've done that and it still gives it still dings. Yeah I don't know how to. But anyway, um, that looks like what I'm going to be doing tonight is watching part 4 Yeah.

01:05:25.58
Bruce Anthony
Oh okay, you're right? My ipad does the same thing I just put my ipad in airplane mode. So it doesn't do that during the show anyway, I least a deep. Okay, all right? Well I'm gonna be editing this show. And getting ready for tomorrow's release. So Jay. What do you want to tell the people out there.

01:05:45.25
J. Aundrea
Well, that's something hey support women's sports by the merch buy the tickets watch it on television watch it on television. Whatever platform it's on watch it.

01:05:51.78
Bruce Anthony
Yes.

01:06:00.86
Bruce Anthony
Gonna have.

01:06:04.00
J. Aundrea
Because y'all know y'all got all the or you got your cousin's loggan or something watch it give them the streams give them the views support women's sports and then that will translate into salaries for them because they'll be generating more revenue. Yes.

01:06:17.60
Bruce Anthony
Bigger salaries, bigger salaries, bigger salaries. Yeah.

01:06:21.92
J. Aundrea
Would translate into larger salaries for them. You are the thing that's going to get them to where they need to be the fans hollow.

01:06:29.50
Bruce Anthony
So don't so don't talk about it be about it. That's what it. That's what it is ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for listening. Thank you for watching and until next time as always our holler.