Are We Too Sensitive or Finally Heard? '80s TV Shows & Black Phrases

Dive into Black culture, pop culture, and the evolution of social norms with Bruce Anthony and Jay Aundrea in this episode of Unsolicited Perspectives! From the wild Dukes and Boots Festival to the TV shows from the '80s and '90s that would get canceled in a heartbeat today, we’re serving up spicy takes, hilarious stories, and real talk about what’s changed—and what still hits different.
Laugh through true stories from Old Town Alexandria to the Atlanta Motor Speedway, get the real scoop on “cancel culture,” and revisit the days when TV’s biggest hits might be cancelled for good reason. You’ll hear the evolution of Black language, the truth behind stereotypes, and what inclusivity looks like today. With a blend of humor, candid commentary, and pure authenticity, this episode is for anyone craving real talk—about culture, community, and the media that shapes us. #CancelCulture #80sTVRewatch #dukesandboots #80stv #blackculture #unsolicitedperspectives
About The Guest(s):
Bruce Anthony is the host of "Unsolicited Perspectives," a podcast focused on social commentary, pop culture, and current events, known for his candid and humorous takes. He is joined by his sister, Jay Aundrea, a recurring co-host who brings her own sharp wit and perspective to the conversation. Together, they discuss everything from music festivals and generational culture shifts to the evolution of television and Black cultural expressions.
Key Takeaways:
- The Dukes and Boots Festival in Atlanta was a major event, highlighting the intersection of R&B culture and cowboy themes, and sparking discussion about generational shifts in festival experiences.
- There is a generational divide in attitudes toward fashion, especially regarding revealing clothing among young people, and how these trends are perceived by older generations.
- Many popular TV shows from the 80s and 90s would not be greenlit today due to problematic themes, including sexism, racism, homophobia, and outdated stereotypes.
- The evolution of social values has led to greater awareness and sensitivity toward marginalized groups, and the need for more creative, less stereotypical comedy.
- Black cultural expressions and phrases have deep historical roots and often reflect resilience, resourcefulness, and community experience.
- The importance of choice and self-expression in fashion, especially for young people, was emphasized, along with a call for more inclusive options.
- The podcast underscores that increased visibility for marginalized groups leads to greater empathy and societal change.
Quotes:
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"I'm here with my sis Jay, Andrea. We're gonna be dilly ding a little bit. Then we're gonna be talking about TV shows from the eighties that might not fly today, and then more black expressions." — Bruce Anthony
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"Ladies, them Dukes was duking. Listen, uh, da Daisy Dukes was supposed to be shorts, not draws. Y'all was out there. But I, I loved it." — Jay Aundrea
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"A horse is big and they'll pee on you... that's what you're gonna be dealing with of horse pee on you. So just keep it cool." — Bruce Anthony
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"I can't be a creep. I try, I tried to like low key. I've never done that before, so I tried to like, oh, let me just pretend I'm on social media or something, but I'm really snapping pictures. Nah, it did. I, I couldn't, it was blurry." — Jay Aundrea
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"You don't have to be young to have a six pack. It's just really hard. I've had a six pack twice in my life... and you know how hard it was to get super lean? So hard. I don't, I don't never wanna do it again." — Bruce Anthony
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"I think six packs are kind of intimidating in real life. 'Cause it's like, no, you work really, really hard for that. And I don't want you to expect that I put that same kind of energy into literally anything because I don't." — Jay Aundrea
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"Are we getting more sensitive or are we becoming more considerate?" — Bruce Anthony
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"A lot of stuff now where they, they have to put those warnings on there." — Jay Aundrea
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"It's not because people are more sensitive, it's because we're more involved, we're more inclusive, and we're listening to other people's voices." — Bruce Anthony
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"Nobody is saying these jokes aren't funny. The jokes are funny. Be creative, don't be lazy and just rely on stereotypes and things like that to be funny." — Jay Aundrea
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"You ain't never lied." — Both Bruce Anthony & Jay Aundrea
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Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
00:46 Sibling Happy Hour: Spicy Takes & Drinks 🍹🌶️
01:16 Epic Festival Vibes: Boots & Dukes Edition 🤠🎵🎪
02:26 VIP Life: Festival Stories & Wild Moments 🎪🎭🔥
08:16 The Truth About Six-Pack Abs (Not What You Think!) 💪😅🤔
11:09 Old Town Drama: Fashion Fails & Hot Takes 👗🍑😳
16:34 80s TV Shows That Would Get CANCELLED Today! 📺❌😱
18:05 Exposed: The Most Problematic TV Shows Ever 🎬🚫💭
32:33 Comedy Makeover: Can Old Jokes Survive Today’s World? 😂🔄
33:09 Media Minefields: The Shocking Truth Behind Problematic Classics 🚨📺
35:47 Stereotypes Exposed: Where Did These Myths Even Start? 🕵️♂️🍗
37:31 Banned by 2025? TV Shows That Would Get Canceled Instantly 🚫📺
42:55 Black Culture 101: Phrases That Hit Different 🗣️💯🔥
46:57 Real Talk: Breaking Down Society's Barriers 🚧💪🌈
58:16 Wrapping Up: Final Thoughts & Future Moves 🎯💭✨
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Sibling Happy Hour: Spicy Takes & Drinks 🍹🌶️
Bruce Anthony: On today's episode, it's the sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis Jay, Andrea. We're gonna be dilly ding a little bit. Then we're gonna be talking about TV shows from the eighties that might not fly today, and then more black expressions.[00:01:00]
But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
Bruce Anthony: What up sis?
Jay Aundrea: What up brother?
Bruce Anthony: I can't call it. I can't call it. What's up with you?
Epic Festival Vibes: Boots & Dukes Edition 🤠🎵🎪
Bruce Anthony: You had a fun and interesting weekend last weekend.
Jay Aundrea: I did. So down here in Atlanta we had the Dukes and Boots Festival. It was huge. It was at the, uh, Atlanta Motor Speedway. It was previously at like a horse farm ranch. Type of thing, but so many people wanted tickets that it ended up ballooning out and they needed to get more space. 40,000 people.
Yes.
The Speedway holds 70,000. So, so Dukes and Boots is an r and b festival and it's cowboy themed. So you come in there with your daisy dukes and your cowboy [00:02:00] boots and ladies, them Dukes was duking. Listen, uh, da Daisy Dukes was supposed to be shorts, not draws. Y'all was out there. But I, I loved it.
Like people were out there and they were on theme, on brand, butt cheeks was out. They was out. It was out. And it was a time, a time was had.
VIP Life: Festival Stories & Wild Moments 🎪🎭🔥
Jay Aundrea: So it was incredibly hot, but. I am fully in my older auntie era, like my, where I have one of those tents, them 10 by 10
tents. So I have one of those. I got my lawn chair, I have my tent.
I brought like three portable fans. We was, if I could have brought a cooler you, I could have been out there all day. But but so yeah, so I, I had, I was fully set up. Everybody was like, yo, shout out to you for this tent. I [00:03:00] was like, you know it. 'cause I wouldn't be able to be sitting out here in the sun.
You see how light skinned I'm, I would've caught fire.
Bruce Anthony: Yeah. No, it
is hot out there in them streets.
Jay Aundrea: I wouldn't have even burned or gotten a tan. I would just started catching fire. People thought it was, I was on some sinners mess, like people wouldn't know what to do. Like, so I was like, no, I have to have this cover, this tent. I had the little, little bug netting, mosquito netting around it.
My tent looked better than the VIP tents. Aside from the fact that I did not have bottle service, it looked better than the vi. If I had paid for the VIP tent, I'd have kind of been pissed. But I feel like they put on a great, uh, you gonna hear a lot of stuff. A lot of people were pissed about it 'cause it, because it went from, it was supposed to be like trail rides and like ATVs and all this stuff to like this big festival.
Um, so [00:04:00] it didn't have, you know, there were no horses. Oh, I saw one horse, but it was in the
Bruce Anthony: The that go down.
Jay Aundrea: Right. I saw one horse, it was in the parking lot and it was not listening to the dude riding it. And so I was like, we need to get in the car. 'cause if this horse come over here, I'm gonna hit it with one of these, one of these, uh, folding
Bruce Anthony: Oh Lord,
Jay Aundrea: A horse is big.
Bruce Anthony: a horse is big and they'll pee on you.
Jay Aundrea: Yeah. And you don't, that's a lot of pee coming out.
Like, it's not like a little bit of pee. It's a horse
peeing And a horse is gigantic. So that's like a, you know, at, at the end of football game they dump the Gatorade thing on the, that's what you going to be dealing with. That's what you're gonna be dealing with of horse pee on you. So just keep it cool.
But yeah, uh, Lloyd was there, pleasure. P came out and kind of sang some things. One of the dudes from one 12 who I think was just there.[00:05:00]
Bruce Anthony: And then
Jay Aundrea: And they
and they brought him on stage because it was like, well after everything was over, like people were leaving and he just got up on stage. It was Q from one 12 and started singing.
I was like, I think he was just in the audience and they saw him.
Bruce Anthony: They asked
You.
Jay Aundrea: it pretty much all I heard was, what is this? You know? And I was just like, I was like, is that Q from one 12? Okay.
Bruce Anthony: he might have just been drunk and just decided to get up on stage.
Jay Aundrea: probably there might have been that, it could have been that, because when I tell you they had about a quarter mile long row of just beer, wine cocktail stands.
Like it was, you could just, you was gonna get you something to drink. and
Dukes
Bruce Anthony: cost, At
a, at a cost.
Jay Aundrea: actually the prices weren't bad. I was actually really surprised. The prices were not bad at all. So yeah, I had a lot of fun. I know there was some people in Atlanta, you know, [00:06:00] expecting something a little different.
They got Cowboy Coachella and maybe they were expecting something different. So I get that. But I had a good time. I realized once that venue changed and they ga they were really good about keeping you up to date on what was going on. Like, I realized, okay, this is gonna be just a music festival at this point.
So I had already like tempered my expectation. I wasn't finna get on no horse anyway.
Bruce Anthony: It's nothing wrong with riding a horse horses. I've only done it one time and refused to do it again. But, uh,
Jay Aundrea: The horse in the parking lot was not listening to my man.
Bruce Anthony: it, I'm upset. It's one horse for 40,000 people.
Jay Aundrea: Right. And it wasn't even in the speedway, it was in the parking lot at the end of the,
Bruce Anthony: that was a brother that brought his horse.
He brought his own horse. He wasn't part of the situation or the plan and the, the event at all. He's like, I'm gonna make some money 'cause some people gonna wanna ride the horse and they gonna pay me. 'cause his, his boots and, and Dukes, and that's what it should have been called, is Boots and Dukes [00:07:00] from the way you describe it.
And then you told, you said in the group chat, the sibling group chat, and I was like, take some pictures. And he was like, I can't be a creep. And I was
Jay Aundrea: I can't be a creep. I try, I tried to like low key. I've never done that before, so I tried to like, oh, let me just pretend I'm on social media or something, but I'm really snapping pictures. Nah, it did. I, I couldn't, it was blurry. 'cause I'm trying to take the picture real fast. I couldn't do it. I was like, I was like, I can't do this.
I, I'm not cut out to be a creep. I wish I was though. 'cause then I would've had some good pictures. But nah, I'm not cut out to be a creep.
Bruce Anthony: Well, I'm a creep. There's a, I'm not as creepy as some, some people, I have a friend who has a cousin and his cousin be taking creep pictures of women at the gym
Jay Aundrea: Mm.
Bruce Anthony: and sending it to 'em, and I'm like, bro, that's not cool at
Jay Aundrea: such a
Bruce Anthony: is that, that is so weird
Jay Aundrea: that's such a violation. Yeah. No, I'm literally here just trying to work out, you know? [00:08:00] Whereas, whereas I feel like Dukes and Boot, like they came to be seen in that. Like y'all came out to be seen men had they testicles out and they six packs like y'all came out to be seen,
Bruce Anthony: It was a bunch of young brothers there. 'cause you got to be young to
Jay Aundrea: no.
The Truth About Six-Pack Abs (Not What You Think!) 💪😅🤔
Bruce Anthony: six pack.
Jay Aundrea: Mm Oh, I guess, yeah, I guess they were probably
Bruce Anthony: I mean, you don't have to be young to have a six pack. It's just really hard. I took, you know, clients come up to me, it's like, can I get a six pack? I'm like, look man, I'm gonna be real honest with you. It is extremely hard. I've had a six pack twice in my life
in two separate time periods in my life in high school.
And then a couple of years ago when I decided to just get super lean. That was it. That was it. And you know how hard it was to get super lean so hard? I don't, I don't never wanna do it again.
Jay Aundrea: yeah. It, I've always had a six pack. It's just up under
Bruce Anthony: I mean we, Yeah.
Jay Aundrea: of
Bruce Anthony: I mean, everybody has a six pack. I'm talking about when it's visible. Yeah. When it's visible
Jay Aundrea: Oh, you talking about a [00:09:00] visible
Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, unless people wanna do that Drake thing where they make themselves a six pack through lipo structured liposuction, whatever it's called.
Jay Aundrea: It, I, I don't even, I mean, it's cool, like, you know, like for like a Men's Health magazine or Women's Health magazine, like for like an editorial, like for a shoot, but like. I think six packs are kind of intimidating in real life. 'cause it's like, no, you work really, really hard for that. And I don't want you to expect that I put that same kind of energy into literally anything because I don't.
And so I, you know, to get it and then to maintain it, like you put a lot of
Bruce Anthony: Yeah, it's a lot of, it's a lot of effort.
Jay Aundrea: I put very little effort into most things. So I don't want, I would rather not date anybody with a six pack,
Bruce Anthony: Oh, I can understand how that could be intimidating. One time my [00:10:00] boy said to me, they was like, you know, girls don't care about all the muscles. I was like, what are you talking about? Mind you, both of them in long-term relationships, right? And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. Maybe that's what your women say to you to make you not feel bad, that you a little portly.
But I can assure you as a dude that is outside,
women do like muscles.
Jay Aundrea: yeah. But we do, we just don't like what comes with them. What comes with muscles is a person who puts a lot of effort in to getting in them, maintaining them, and I don't want you to be like, Hey, why don't you come to gym with me? No, because I'm just going to casually walk on the treadmill.
Maybe the elliptical, maybe I'll do two minutes, because that's all I can do on that. StairMaster. I'm not gonna put in the effort and you wanna be there for an hour and a half, two hours. I'm done after 35 minutes. So it's like, no, I don't want,
Bruce Anthony: [00:11:00] I get it. I I get that. Yeah. I, I, I get that. Well, it is what it is, but I that the thing about the women with their butt cheeks hanging out.
Old Town Drama: Fashion Fails & Hot Takes 👗🍑😳
Bruce Anthony: I'm in Old Town, Alexandria, Alexandria, Virginia, ladies and gentlemen. Waterfront is right outside of dc. It's a destination because tourist bust are always in Old Town DC for some reason.
But I'm in Old Town DC because it's like my favorite little area. It's very UNC and Auntie Vibe down there right now. And I'm actually, I'm not even in that age anymore. I found out I'm in OG age.
Like I, I aged outta, I aged outta UNC status now. I'm now og.
Jay Aundrea: Yeah. I'm still in the auntie status for, I think it's 45
is.
when you hit Yeah.
So I'm still an auntie status for a little bit longer.
Bruce Anthony: I was in Old Town and I was out. It was for my birthday.
Yeah, it was for my birthday and I was walking inside the bar, so I was outside and it's packed on the streets. Even on a Wednesday afternoon, it was packed on the streets, and there was this [00:12:00] young lady probably in high school, maybe early college, was crossing the street.
And I'm like, no, that can't be what it is. It's literally her butt cheeks hanging out. And it wasn't like great butt cheeks, it's just butt cheeks. And then I'm like, oh, this yo, and I was talking to my friend who's a middle school. Teacher's like, yeah, no kids have they butt cheeks out now. And you know what? More p too, you know, if you wanna have your butt cheeks out, hey, your butt cheeks out. I clutched my
Jay Aundrea: I mean, I don't, I don't know. I feel like there's an age where, okay, you got your butt cheeks out and 1415 is not that age. Like I
Bruce Anthony: I
Jay Aundrea: that's, but that's the clothes that they're making for them. Like that's literally the options that these young people have.
Like
Bruce Anthony: but cheeks.
Jay Aundrea: butt cheeks or no butt cheeks.
Like it's either you are wearing pants or your butt cheeks are out, and sometimes your butt cheeks out, even in them pants.
Bruce Anthony: I wait a minute. No, I,
what [00:13:00] type of long ass is that? Oh, okay.
Jay Aundrea: No, the ripped up jeans. And it'll be ripped on the butt and the butt will be out full butt out in pants. And it's like, you might as well, you know, but, but once you hit an age where I'm like.
Yeah, get that. Go ahead and have that butt cheek out. Go ahead and have that butt cheek
Bruce Anthony: I, I feel like it's adult age. That's the only time that I can say that this. Okay. 'cause if I say, you don't mind if a 16-year-old girl have her butt cheeks out. No. That means I need to be locked away. But e even 18 is, I'm clutching my pearl, I'm clutching my pearls, I'm clutching my pearls a lot, but I'm also realizing that I'm just older and I'm like, these young whipper snappers need to pull their pants up
Jay Aundrea: Yes.
Bruce Anthony: and, and, and pull their pants down
Jay Aundrea: both, both oddly enough. But yeah, a lot of y'all need to pull y'all pants up, guys. Seriously, it's not, I know you still be pulling girls and the ladies. I wish y'all would stop doing [00:14:00] this, but like your full butt out. I don't wanna see your draw. I'm just trying to pick up some milk from the store and I gotta look at your under
Bruce Anthony: But you had it right? You had it right. You said they're pulling girls. They ain't pulling women.
So they, if they want to keep pulling the girls, take all the girls off the streets. 'cause I don't want the girls, I want the women,
Jay Aundrea: Yeah, yeah,
Bruce Anthony: the women that had their butt cheeks out and, and boots and dukes,
Jay Aundrea: yeah. But that's the, that's the perfect time and place. 'cause you spo, it's in the name, you're supposed to be in them Daisy dukes. You supposed to be in 'em. So this is the perfect time and place for you to have 'em butt cheeks out and I encourage it.
Bruce Anthony: Speaking of getting older.
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Anthony: And, and things changing before our eyes. Are we getting more sensitive or are we becoming more considerate? We gonna talk about TV shows from the eighties
Jay Aundrea: Oh boy.
Bruce Anthony: [00:15:00] and how they couldn't be made today.
Jay Aundrea: Not even, no.
Bruce Anthony: We gonna get into that next.
Bruce Anthony: Jay, you might remember a conversation that we had, I don't know, maybe a year ago, maybe a little less than a year ago, of how one of our favorite television shows, Martin has some problematic themes in it. They weren't prob, well, they were probably problematic at the time, but we didn't think of 'em as being problematic at the time.
But now as
Jay Aundrea: weren't, I feel like they weren't problematic at the time. I feel like at the time. We were accepting, more accepting of misogynists and, uh, and, uh, homophobic behavior.
Bruce Anthony: yes, yes, we were. Um, because those groups were definitely way more marginalized than they are now.
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Anthony: There, there's a whole, a host of reasons, but [00:16:00] it's not just television shows, it's movies, it's music. A friend of mine who loves rush hour. Loves his favorite, favorite movie in the whole Wide World. Said that on one of the channels recently, it had a like little, uh, what do you call it, warning, parental advisory before the movie, and it was just, Hey, some of these themes were outdated.
We understand that they are not respectful of the time. Just remember this movie was made in the nineties. We don't condone this.
Jay Aundrea: right. You see it on a
80s TV Shows That Would Get CANCELLED Today! 📺❌😱
Jay Aundrea: lot of Disney movie. On Disney Plus, they had to put some, they either cut some things out, like there's a pretty racist scene in Fantasia. Um, but they either had to cut things out or they put a warning on it. Like, um, I know what movie is that? Uh, where it's got, I think it's Lady in the Tramp, it has two Siamese cats and they [00:17:00] sing a song.
We are Siamese, if you Please, and it's very, very racist. Um, so they put a warning on the, so it's a lot of, a lot of stuff now where they, they have to put those warnings on there.
Bruce Anthony: And pe some people are up in arms about it. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't use this word, but the, the friend that was watching Rush Hour said, Oriental, and I was like, Nope, don't
use it. Yeah. And I was like, Nope, we don't use that anymore. What? And they were really flabbergasted, like, what do you mean really?
Like, why we always use that word? Yeah. It's really, it's really freaking offensive. It is. Yeah. It is.
Jay Aundrea: Yes,
Bruce Anthony: a lot of people who think the, the Washington professional football team, the former name don't get me started being here in Washington, dc That former name, even some black folks, was like, there's no, some of them said it's not racist.
Yeah, it's, it's a, it's a group in every category that thinks certain words aren't bad. [00:18:00] But when you talk to the majority, we, you understand that that word is bad.
Exposed: The Most Problematic TV Shows Ever 🎬🚫💭
Bruce Anthony: So this segment is about television shows. In the eighties, there was this article written, I, the 12 TV shows from the eighties, that wouldn't stand a chance today.
I forgot to say where the article was from. And who wrote the
article? And it might have been a blog, but I'm not gonna go over all 12, 12 television shows. But basically. What the article was saying is that because of cultural shifts, advances in storytelling, cha uh, storytelling and changes in social values means that some classic shows wouldn't be green lit by today's television networks.
Now
Jay Aundrea: Now I'm seeing it on msn.com, but by
Bruce Anthony: where, yeah. Okay. What
Jay Aundrea: Okay.
Bruce Anthony: Go ahead and give them their credit.
Jay Aundrea: Uh, Lori C it's just has her last initial, so I don't know what [00:19:00] the C stands for, but she is the one who wrote the story.
Bruce Anthony: Okay, so what is, what are some of the reasons why these shows might be outdated? Outdated social attitudes. Shows often include a humor or plot lines rooted in sexism, racism, homophobia or regressive gender roles, elements now re recognized as unacceptable or tone deaf by modern artists. Audiences.
Some audiences, 'cause some people in the mans sphere are like, that's good stuff, yet we're not talking to you. Insensitive bastards we're talking to are people who are emotionally intelligent and involved and want to recognize that, hey, when you say certain words or you have certain actions, it's offensive to other people.
That doesn't mean that other people are being sensitive. It just means that those people now have a larger voice and can openly tell you, Hey, this is an issue. Some black people in the, in the fifties, 40 fifties, sixties. Seventies and even [00:20:00] eighties in the South might not have said, Hey, this is offensive.
Why? 'cause
Jay Aundrea: Right,
Bruce Anthony: killed for it.
Jay Aundrea: right.
Bruce Anthony: mean that they didn't find it offensive, it just meant that they could be killed for speaking up. Not just black people, but other marginalized groups. So, yes problematic premises also might be the reason why these TV shows are outdated. Many stories revolved around ideas viewed as inappropriate today, including racial and gender stereotypes, objectification and insensitive comedic devices and then just insensitive representation, stereotypical depictions of women, minorities, people in the LGBTQ plus community.
I'll say this, you thought from the nineties. Nineties, back nineties, back, so nineties, eighties, 70 sixties, that every gay man was extremely flamboyant, that every gay woman was basically acting like [00:21:00] a man. And if you know anybody in the lgbtq plus community that are gay men and women, there are a lot of them. Lot of them that don't hold true to those stereotypes. Some do, some absolutely do, but that is
Jay Aundrea: Yeah.
Bruce Anthony: the majority.
Jay Aundrea: Right. It's the broad characterization or caricatures of what it means to be LGBT, what it means to be black, what it means to be Latin, what it means to be Asian. It's these, it's, this is the same reason we don't say oriental, right? Because it's just a broad brush for, for all Asian people. Well, they are, they are not.
It's like you can't just sweep a broad brush across an entire group of people and you can't, these are a lot of the portrayals were perpetuating really harmful stereotypes.
Bruce Anthony: And, and the, the, the thing that sucks about stereotypes is [00:22:00] stereotypes are based in truth, right? They don't come from nowhere, but to, to put it upon a group and say, this is how everybody in that group acts. That's when it becomes harmful. And the reason why these television shows wouldn't last a day, it's not because people are more sensitive, it's because we're more involved, we're more inclusive, and we're listening to other people's voices.
With all that being said, some of these shows was really funny.
Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Uh, a majority of them, a majority of them, you know, recently I was watching Married with Children, which I believe is like first on the list.
Bruce Anthony: first thing on the list.
Jay Aundrea: It's the very, very, and so back in the day, people don't notice if they are not millennials grew up in the eighties and nineties, but we had, when Fox first started, it was literally called Trash TV or something like that, like it was called.
There was some name we had for shows, [00:23:00] like Married with Children. And yeah, I was watching it and I was like, I mean, this is hilarious, but this is really, really bad. Like really, really bla bad, the objectification of women on that
show. It's horrible.
Bruce Anthony: objectification of one of the main cha uh, characters. Kelly Bundy. She was a stereotypical dumb blonde. Like d they made her dump. Gorgeous, but
Jay Aundrea: Yes, but. But any woman that came into that shoe store could catch a stray from Al Bundy. Like could just get, it, could, would get all the smoke. It didn't matter what type of woman, if she was really hot or if she wasn't according to him, like the, the treatment, his treatment was completely biased on the based on the attractiveness of whatever woman he was encountering.
It was, it was [00:24:00] bad, but I was laughing my ass off. Like, I can't even lie about that.
Bruce Anthony: Um, so one of the reasons why the rampant sexism, the reason why it probably wouldn't be made today crude humor, humor that targets women and minorities. I don't remember it really targeting minorities, but I'm sure it did
Jay Aundrea: It did. It definitely
Bruce Anthony: um, okay. It did, but not black minorities. It targeted everybody else. The reason being is because there was a black writer on the show.
The one of the main writers was a black writer on the show and
one of B Yep. And one of, uh, one of Al's best friends was in, in the
Jay Aundrea: Yes.
Bruce Anthony: No. In the group? No, ma'am. Was, was was a black dude, so I don't remember them being, in other words, racist towards black people. But when you say minorities, you include women, you include people from the LGBTQ plus community and other [00:25:00] races probably, yes.
They were probably really. Offensive that, that at the time that I thought was funny and probably might still think it's funny, but not appropriate. And, and when we say these television shows couldn't be made today, it's not true. They can be if they're done right, because it's always sunny in Philadelphia does a lot of these themes, but it's, but it's tongue in cheek where you know what they're doing and it's, it comes off
Jay Aundrea: Yeah.
Bruce Anthony: you know how some people could say
things, right? You know how I often get away? I'm not, I'm not trying to put myself up there as some whatever, but I often get away with a lot of things that I say and do because of my personality. Like Bruce is just being crazy. Kind of like that SN Lke sketch where the boss is always like un is getting ready to get fired from, for comments that he made.
But there is Clarence, the, the front desk person saying crazy stuff. I, when, when you're. [00:26:00] Always kind of that personality. You get a pass, but then that pass is a given to everybody.
Jay Aundrea: I think, um, so I think two things are at play. First intent, right? Like it is always sunny. You know, they're ridiculous and, you know, rarely is there ever malicious intent with the things
Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.
Jay Aundrea: they literally are just ignorant. Like, they're literally just ignorant, but it doesn't feel willful.
They just are ignorant. And then also attractiveness, right?
or, or that also plays a, so you could be like, you could say, sorry, I'm giving a heteronormative example, but you could be a woman walking down the street and get hit on by two different men, right? One's attractive, one isn't. Your reception could be a little different.
And the reason, and they, they kind of played into that with that SNL skit, right? [00:27:00] So the boss, was making really not even that sexually suggestive of comments, but he made the sta the female staff really uncomfortable. Then you got Clarence, this sweet old man who is making explicitly suggestive comments.
But because he, because of his presentation, right, because of who he is, aesthetically you are not, you not. Offend as offended because it's just a, it's just a old, it's just a crazy old man that's just Clarence, you know? So, so that plays, there's a psychology to it and a nuance to it also of like who it is you get offended by.
Bruce Anthony: Mm. I tell you what I would be really offended by if they made this show now a different strokes
Jay Aundrea: Yes.
Bruce Anthony: because of the racial implications and the whole white savior narrative. Like we've had enough of the white savior narrative now.
The story.
Jay Aundrea: because it's
Bruce Anthony: The story
is
Jay Aundrea: it's untrue.
Bruce Anthony: What[00:28:00]
with the
Jay Aundrea: Okay. Yes. Now you've got, you've got the, uh, magical negro, right? That feels a lot based in reality, right? Because a lot of how we navigate the world,
a lot of how we navigate the world is, is also playing into the sensitivity of whiteness, right?
Helping them along. Right. But this reverse thing of like dangerous minds or freedom writers where this white teacher comes in and, and
Bruce Anthony: there, there are, there are true stories 'cause Sandler and um, Chandler from, uh, friends played a teacher from your neck of the woods is
Jay Aundrea: yes, yes. No, that guy is, that guy is just a good teacher. He's not a white savior. He works in a predominantly black school, but he is just a great teacher. He's a great educator and he cares about his students.
Like, that's,
Bruce Anthony: went in places I wouldn't go.[00:29:00]
Jay Aundrea: that's a, that's a job. He just teaching the kids, that's all it is. He just teaching the
Bruce Anthony: Alright,
Jay Aundrea: but different
Bruce Anthony: me and you disagree. There are some times where there are white saviors in history and it's been proven okay, but the idea that there is a lot of white saviors out there that need to be getting all this media coverage and television shows and movies is ridiculous. Especially when you find out the blind side was a whole bunch of lies and they was manipulating.
And Sandra, but you forget about it. Cass, Sandra Bullock played the hell outta that role and you just wanted to be true. You just went. And it's sandy.
Jay Aundrea: the two E to
Bruce Anthony: But different strokes.
Jay Aundrea: to be the B, but no.
Bruce Anthony: Different strokes. Your housekeeper, your maid. Dies and you decide to adopt her two sons out the ghetto of Harlem and bring 'em to the upper East side of Manhattan.
Jay Aundrea: What you talking about Willis?
Bruce Anthony: gotta
say what
Jay Aundrea: saying? Like what? Like what? don't even make No, that don't even make no sense.
Bruce Anthony: [00:30:00] alright, another TV show, Dukes of Howard. Dukes of uh, uh, Dukes of H. Okay. I got,
Jay Aundrea: Yeah.
Bruce Anthony: now I really liked John Schneider when he was Superman's daddy in Smallville. Then I found out that he's maggot right now, so I can't even like him, but did not like him when he was on the Dukes of Hazard. Mainly because Confederate flag, you can't do nothing mainstream right now with no Confederate flag, not with
Jay Aundrea: No,
Bruce Anthony: heroes.
They could be the villains
Jay Aundrea: exactly. Now we did get Daisy Duke out of that,
Bruce Anthony: and I ain't mad about that. But you know what? Speaking of Dizzy Dukes, she ain't had no cheeks even for
Jay Aundrea: what
Bruce Anthony: and eighties. She ain't had no cheeks.
Jay Aundrea: I, I don't know.
'cause I
Bruce Anthony: ain't had no cheeks.
I
I didn't, I I washed her so sh solely just to see her and them daisy dukes and I'd be like, there ain't no cheeks. That's
Jay Aundrea: They were pretty short shorts.
Bruce Anthony: I,
they were short.
I'm
Jay Aundrea: They were [00:31:00] pretty short.
Bruce Anthony: That's what I'm saying.
Jay Aundrea: I don't ever think she really, did she turn around
Bruce Anthony: Yeah, no, she, no, they showed it and she ain't had no cheeks. This whole pictures of it. She ain't had no cheeks. No cheeks. Uh, but
Jay Aundrea: Well.
Bruce Anthony: the whole confederate thing, you know, and people, people talk fondly upon that show white people. 'cause I don't, I don't know too many black, but you know, there's some black people that drape themselves in the Confederate flag.
So whatever.
Jay Aundrea: Right. Yeah.
Bruce Anthony: Alf, but I don't even wanna talk about that because that could be a TV show that is made today. It's very tongue in cheek. You could do do it like it's always sunny in Philadelphia. What you could not do is three's company because here was a guy pretending to be gay just so that he could live in an apartment with two women and that they could get a decreased version of rent.
And yes, that is extremely problematic. 'cause they played on, they made homophobic jokes. Jokes on gender, sexuality, sexual jokes. It would, it, it, okay, [00:32:00] lemme rephrase it. It wouldn't fly the way it was made. Now there's a way to make it now
Jay Aundrea: Yeah, you could
definitely do there. Listen, in today's economy. There are definitely a bunch of threes companies all over the, all over this country. Like, are you kidding me? Like, no, we got to live together. Like we all got to
pitch in on this rent. So you
Bruce Anthony: still had to live together.
Jay Aundrea: still together, it, you just, it sometimes you in the same bedroom 'cause you only got a one bedroom so
that you just gotta live with that.
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Jay Aundrea: Um, but no three's company can definitely be a thing today. Absolutely. You could
Bruce Anthony: though. It ha it has to be changed. The show in its in, in its incarnation in the eighties could not be made today. It was too problematic. But there is a way that you could make threes companies today that it could be funny. That's the reason why I completely disagree with Jerry Seinfeld when he was like, no, you can't make comedy shows today.
And the, um, [00:33:00] one of the head writers and lead actors from always Sonny said, uh, yeah, you can. 'cause Jerry was like, you can't do problematic stuff. You get canceled.
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Bruce Anthony: Which I don't even understand how that's possible because his former writing par partner, Larry David did Curb, and it has problematic themes all through every episode, but it's
Jay Aundrea: That's literally the premise of the show is that Larry is problematic.
Bruce Anthony: can do problematic stuff. But yeah, like you said, there has to be some discernment in, in the way that you do that, that that form of comedy Happy Days, you probably couldn't do, 'cause I don't know if it was too many black folks on Happy days, except when they wanted to do a, a racial Happy Days show where the dude was being denied food at the lunch counter and the FS was like, Hey, and snapped his fingers and he got food.
But then the Fs was, you know, he was problematic 'cause he would be considered an an F Boy in today's day, [00:34:00] society.
Jay Aundrea: Well, also he's like this weird caricature, like this weird, like Italian caricature also that I prob probably wouldn't fly today
Bruce Anthony: Well, here's the thing, I, I don't think you know, black rep, the history of black representation in the media has always been bad. Another group that has a strong claim to being really poorly represented in the media are Italians. And I say this to my Italian friends all the time. I was like, the only time they all are portrayed on television are Mafia or Jersey Shore.
And they're like, no, that's not true. I'm like, okay, let's go down the line. When has there ever been some like a proud Italian movie? A lot. A lot of Italians say, well, the Godfather. I was like, this is, it's a movie about a mafia family, but it's about Italian heritage. I mean, you definitely right, but not one person in it [00:35:00] is this noble, moral person.
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Anthony: So yes, Italian people get represented and the Fons is a prom example of how, why? Why does he have to be the character caricature? Why does he have to be the dude from Greece?
Jay Aundrea: Right.
Bruce Anthony: You know what I'm saying?
Jay Aundrea: I mean, part of it is that person did exist, right? There was the
Bruce Anthony: All stereotypes
Jay Aundrea: Yeah.
Bruce Anthony: are based in some truth,
but it doesn't
Jay Aundrea: know about all, but
Bruce Anthony: Give me a stereotype that
isn't based in,
Jay Aundrea: what you, uh, you want me to, off the top of my
Bruce Anthony: if you can't think of it off the top of your head, then it ain't one. That's what I'm, that's the point I'm trying to
Jay Aundrea: You got, I, I would say so.
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Jay Aundrea: for instance, black people loving chicken,
Bruce Anthony: Well, I just proved in the last episode how I wouldn't give up a Amazon or a Popeye's chicken, so
Jay Aundrea: No, no. I'm telling you, fried chicken is delicious. And [00:36:00] I'm telling you that, and I believe that wholeheartedly. But is it that black people love fried chicken? Or is it that that was what was available? Right. We weren't eating steaks back in the day.
Bruce Anthony: Yeah, you're right. You're right about that.
Jay Aundrea: We weren't, we weren't, we weren't eating lobster.
Right? Like for meat, we had, you had tripe or um, chitlins, right? Like you had, you had chi. Why do we season our food so heavily? Well, we season our food so heavily because historically we didn't get the freshest cuts of meat.
Bruce Anthony: Right. Why? Why do you typically see black people who haven't been introduced to better ways of cooking meat? Order their food? Well done because we would get piss poor meat and have to make sure that it was cooked thoroughly so that we
Jay Aundrea: Or, yeah, like [00:37:00] so that, so you gotta think about what's the origin of that stereotype? Is it really that people are like this or was there some sort of like inequity or involved, right? So that's what I would say, like not that stereotypes are based in truth. They're based in, you know, circumstances that may have existed, but not necessarily that they're based in truth.
Bruce Anthony: But, but some of them are true.
Jay Aundrea: Some of them are
Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Alright.
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Bruce Anthony: Last, last show. There's more, but this is the last one I wanna talk about that would not be made today in its carnation. That, that it was made in the eighties is Baywatch
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Anthony: now, probably because, I mean, because of the objectification of women and it didn't have no plot, like the stories, it was never, there was never a meaning to the story.
But if you just wanna watch something with scantily clad women, just watch [00:38:00] a glow, rilla video. That's all you need. Glow going to have some booties on there,
Jay Aundrea: Yeah.
Yeah.
Bruce Anthony: gonna be better than what you saw on Baywatch.
Jay Aundrea: Right. But you
Bruce Anthony: Anderson was. Pam Anderson
Jay Aundrea: Pam Anderson, was it,
she was it
She was it. And so, you know, watching her run down a beach in slow motion.
Bruce Anthony: but that wasn't even my show. I didn't even really watch Baywatch. You know what? My show was her second show, VIP. And it
Jay Aundrea: oh, I thought
Bruce Anthony: Anderson.
Jay Aundrea: about was she on Melrose Place or am I making that
up?
Bruce Anthony: she might've, I don't think she was, I think we getting confused with Heather
Locklear.
Jay Aundrea: That's who
Bruce Anthony: Yeah. You getting,
Jay Aundrea: with. Heather LOLer?
Bruce Anthony: it. was VIP was my show that there was a second show at the Baywatch, and it wasn't even because of her. It was because of Natalie Ano. She was fine. She was in
Jay Aundrea: I didn't watch the I didn't watch the show.
Bruce Anthony: with Jay-Z.
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm. Okay. That's again, that's a deep [00:39:00] cut and I don't remember that video.
Bruce Anthony: Yes, you do. Remember when he was on the plane, Pamela Anderson was on the plane with him.
Jay Aundrea: No,
Bruce Anthony: Go back ladies and gentlemen, pause and go watch the Hey Poppy video on the plane with Jay-Z is Pamela Anderson
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Anthony: Tano. And if you see her, you know why, you know why Natalie Tano was my boo. But um, yeah, so these shows, the shows that we listed the way they were presented in the eighties would not fly today. It's not because we're more sensitive, it's because we are more respectful
Jay Aundrea: Yes.
Bruce Anthony: others. But there is still a way to make that type of comedy today
Jay Aundrea: Yeah,
they do always.
Yeah, they do. Yeah. Always. Sunny has proven that you can do
Bruce Anthony: And the cartoons, cartoons, cartoons get away with it because they're cartoons.
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Anthony: But [00:40:00] family guy gets away with a lot of.
Jay Aundrea: And, and I guys family guy is horrible. It's horrible
like that. It says some South park. Good lord. Like it's, it's horrible, you know? So, um, but it's funny. So, you know, you, you watch it.
Bruce Anthony: The the, basically what we're trying to say is, if you wanna be offensive, just be creative about it.
Jay Aundrea: yeah, just be creative. Like nobody is saying these jokes aren't funny. The jokes are funny. Be creative, don't be lazy and just rely on stereotypes and things like that to be funny actually. Like be funny and be creative and people will laugh at it. Like people have no problem laughing at racy things. We love it.
This is America. We love racy things or are you kidding? We're human beings. So yeah, it can be funny. People prove every day that it can be funny. You are just not funny. Like [00:41:00] if that's, if you keep getting booed and people walking out your shows and, and killing you online and stuff, you know, like it's 'cause you not funny if you are funny, nobody will have any problem but you not funny and you need to come, you need to come up with another line of work.
But no, we're not more sensitive, marginalized people have more visibility and we're getting to hear from them directly. When you do that, like Martin Luther King recognized this, that's why his revolution was televised. When you make people see you and they realize, oh, you're also a human being just like me, their values change.
So that's, that's all it is. That the more, more marginalized people are getting more visibility, and we're seeing them for who they are and recognizing that our past behavior was trash.
[00:42:00]
Bruce Anthony: Okay, Jay, this I'm actually going to give them their credit for, because I actually have it in my notes here. This was things we say it's from a blog, five fifths culture. The. It didn't say who it was written from, but it was a blog. And I guess if I had searched the blog, I would've found the author of the blog.
But Five Fifths Culture, things we say, Google search it, it'll all pop up, and it is a black person talking about things that black people say.
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Anthony: And I was like, oh, these are different. These are newer than some of the phrases that we've used in the past, which have been around for decades. These are, well, these have been around for decades too, but longer decades.
These are newer decades. I just keep forgetting that we are now closer to 2050 than we are to 2000 as far as the years are concerned. But these are more two thousands.
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Bruce Anthony: They started in the two thousands and the afters, the first one, [00:43:00] whose man's is this? Not whose man is this. Whose mans is this? These are words
you do not. Yeah. These are words that you do not want to hear. If you're out at a function enjoying yourself, as soon as this phrase is said, you immediately stop what you're doing and head over to see what happened, and on your way over praying that the person in question is not a friend or acquaintance of yours.
Why? Because whose man is? This is only said when somebody did something so loud and outlandish. The rest of the party needs to know where this person came from and who brought them, because it's time for them to go.
Jay Aundrea: You definitely don't want it to be said about you. You definitely don't wanna say something. And then somebody point, yo whose mans is this? Because, because you like, oh, I done messed up. I done messed up. I done said something and I done messed up. And if I don't go, I might get my ass kicked. So I, let's roll.
[00:44:00] Yeah, you definitely do not want to hear that question out of the function. For sure.
Bruce Anthony: I've said it in white spaces because you know me, I, I'm at that age now where I do not care. I don't code switch anymore. I do still code switch a little bit, but it's code switching for older people, not necessarily between races and cultures.
Jay Aundrea: right.
Bruce Anthony: Code switching for older people outta respect. I know they say respect your elders.
Not all elders need to be respected, but that was the way I was raised outta respect. But I did this at a, at a function when I was in a, a majority of white space and somebody says something funky. I don't remember exactly what they said, but they said something funky and I was like, yo, whose mans is this?
And then everybody looked at me crazy like, what, what do you mean? I was like, you ain't just hitting this little crazy, this dude just said
Jay Aundrea: Yeah,
Bruce Anthony: this is crazy.
Jay Aundrea: yeah.
Bruce Anthony: were like, huh? And I was like, I forgot where I was. Nevermind. I can't, I can't [00:45:00] point this out to everybody. They're not gonna see where I'm coming from on this one.
But who this go? Hey, you don't have to be black to use this phrase. You can use the phrase anywhere. Matter of fact, if you're not black and you use this phrase in a black space, they're gonna immediately know what you're talking about. And you might get a little notch on your belt, not get, you're not gonna get invited to the barbecue just because you said, whose man's is this?
Jay Aundrea: Right.
Bruce Anthony: going to say, But they gonna say,
Jay Aundrea: you're
talking about.
Bruce Anthony: you talking about. I'm be like,
Jay Aundrea: Yeah.
Bruce Anthony: Hmm, whose man's is this?
Jay Aundrea: Whose man's is this?
Bruce Anthony: is an expression that I use at least once a week when everybody asks me, how you doing?
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Anthony: Just trying to make a dollar outta 15 cents
Jay Aundrea: Yeah.
Bruce Anthony: a dime and a nickel.
Jay Aundrea: Just try and make a way outta No way.
Bruce Anthony: What does that mean? It has several different undertones. Historically, black people have been underpaid for. The similar jobs, just like women have been. So we're [00:46:00] realistically working harder at the same job, making less, trying to make a dollar outta 15 cents.
Jay Aundrea: We trying.
Bruce Anthony: Also, it just means working hard, right? You could just be like, look, I'm just out here trying to turn this 15 cents to a dollar.
Black folks is always trying to flip their money somehow, some way, trying to take this five, make it a 10, 10 to 20, 20 to 40, 40 to 80, till I get that c note. That's, that's all that means, but I use the expression all the time. It's also a throwaway line,
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Anthony: doing by nothing but being about my work,
Jay Aundrea: Yeah. And it doesn't even have to, honestly, it doesn't even have to be about work. It's just, it's just, I'm trying to make a way out of No way. That's it.
Bruce Anthony: Yep.
Jay Aundrea: It is acknowledging that I live under a state of constant inequity, but I'm still gonna make a way out of no way. That is what it is. That's what it
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Bruce Anthony: And this expression doesn't have to solely apply to [00:47:00] black people. Just black people use it predominantly. This can apply, apply to any marginalized group. And, and oh, by the way, poor white people, I'm allowing you to enjoy, join our marginalized groups because you are also marginalized. I think you really need to understand that when you're poor and white Yeah.
You, you not doing too well.
Jay Aundrea: I'm not, I'm very, I'm very stingy with the tickets to the invites, to the cookout. Like
Bruce Anthony: I didn't say there was an invite to the cookout. I said they could be included in the marginalized group. Just 'cause you in a marginalized group don't mean you getting invited to the cookout.
Jay Aundrea: Nah, I think you have to have some acknowledgement that you are in a marginalized group
Bruce Anthony: Oh, they, they definitely recognized the fact that they marginalized, they just don't feel like they should be marginalized
Jay Aundrea: right? Well, none of us feel like we should be marginalized. Like nobody is like, yes, I'm marginalized, and that is appropriate for who I
Bruce Anthony: That's not the right words. What I meant by that is they [00:48:00] feel like, Hmm, what am I trying to say? This is a detour, and I don't want to go down this detour, but what I'm trying to say is that's wasn't, that wasn't what they were expecting outta life at all. They were expecting more, and because they don't have more, they're like, I'm marginalized too.
I'm broke too.
Jay Aundrea: Yeah, they, so, and I'm not gonna characterize all low income
white people obviously, um, but from the, the fringe of that group, right? They feel entitled to a certain kind of life and they don't have it. And instead of looking inward to reflect on why they don't have it, they point the finger at everyone else.
So the reason why I don't include you. A marginalized, as a marginalized group is be in [00:49:00] within that community is because you are not self-reflective enough to recognize A lot of it is, yeah, systemic. But some of it is you too. 'cause you're still white in America,
Bruce Anthony: Okay.
Jay Aundrea: right? Like,
like I'm not blaming
Bruce Anthony: I don't think it's a
Jay Aundrea: It's, yeah, I said, I said a fringe of this like subset of people, the fringe on it. And y'all know who we talking
Bruce Anthony: Yeah.
Jay Aundrea: when we talking about, we talking about the MAGA voters. That's who
Bruce Anthony: The ones on Medicaid. The ones on Medicaid, but don't feel
Jay Aundrea: Yes. The ones.
Bruce Anthony: Medicaid. The ones on Snap.
Jay Aundrea: who have Obamacare. Yes. Like
Bruce Anthony: damn. Alright. We, we losing track and this ain't going to be we attacking poor people episode, poor white people episode, which were the Bundys, they were pouring white and we love him.[00:50:00]
Jay Aundrea: That were they, because he had a, a, a three bedroom home in the suburbs
Bruce Anthony: It was a three bedroom home outside of Chicago. Jay, he was a woman's shoe And Peg ain't
Jay Aundrea: were, they exactly. He was able to have a stay at home wife in a home, and they never talked about, they never talked about not being able to pay their bills. They were trash, but I don't think that they were poor.
Bruce Anthony: You hold on. I'm talking about They were trash. As in they were trash as in their, the they, the way they carried themselves. They were, they were horrible human beings.
Jay Aundrea: Yes, they
Bruce Anthony: we losing track. We talking about black expressions
and I haven't used this one ever. It's typically, I've only heard it from black women,
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Anthony: you back when I get in this house and get settled.[00:51:00]
Jay Aundrea: Yeah, you not getting that call back. You are not getting that call back. I'll be like, all right, let me uh, let me call, lemme go ahead and call you back. Let me go ahead and um, get in the house, get settled. I'll give you a call back. I ain't calling you back. I ain't gonna call you back. Mm-hmm. That's me.
That's a polite way of getting off the
phone because I'm not calling you back if you hear me say alright. Like that's, that's just letting you
Bruce Anthony: That's a, that's a family thing.
Jay Aundrea: way for me to get off the
phone. Yeah.
Bruce Anthony: a family. 'cause everybody we talk to in the family, they do it. I just
talked to some, some extended family members recently and they did the same thing and I was like, oh, okay. No, this is just, this is just how we do things. Alright. Another black expression, God knows my heart.
Jay Aundrea: Yeah.
Bruce Anthony: Look, God knows my heart is code for yes. I know my actions are wrong, but God knows that deep down inside I want to do good. Just way, way deep. Once someone says, God knows [00:52:00] my heart, just know they already made up their mind that they are. A, currently sending B about to sin. C, predating a future sin. D, justifying a past sin, or E, all of the above.
Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Yes. I'm shy, Steve, but I'm a good person. God knows my heart. No, I don't go to church, but God knows my heart. Yeah. I'm out here selling drugs in the community, but God knows my
Bruce Anthony: I am not selling drugs to the community,
Jay Aundrea: My, my intentions are not bad
Bruce Anthony: but
Jay Aundrea: even if what I but my actions. Aren't that great?
Bruce Anthony: God knows my heart. So ladies and gentlemen, when you out there sinning, because I do it every day, I try not to do it every day, but it just so happens that I, well did I do, I probably committed a couple sins today anyway, when you out there sinning[00:53:00]
and you around some black folks just say, God knows my heart, and they gonna know exactly what the hell you mean by that.
Jay Aundrea: Yes. Mm-hmm.
Bruce Anthony: Another black expression and the final one,
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.
Bruce Anthony: no, no, no, no, not the final one.
Jay Aundrea: Okay.
Bruce Anthony: I know my car.
Jay Aundrea: Yes. You don't need to tell me nothing because I know my car Johnna, your check, uh, your check engine light is on. It's cool. We gonna make it. But check engine light is on. I know. My car,
we gonna get
Bruce Anthony: is on
Jay Aundrea: Gas lights. I know my car. I still got another 30 miles.
Bruce Anthony: your car
Jay Aundrea: Before it get real bad.
I know my, it always is bad.
You don't need to, you don't need to tell me nothing about my car. I already know. I know my car and we gonna get there. You worried? We are not gonna get there. I wouldn't have picked you up if I didn't think we was gonna get there. Don't listen. You know how many times I've, [00:54:00] I have people get in my car or maybe I let a friend borrow a car or something like that and I have to preface, Hey, you gonna see some lights on the dash? Ignore those. You all right? You gonna get where you gotta go. I, I have said that more than once.
Bruce Anthony: I think
I know my can apply to any now, any person, place or a thing. I know my restaurant, we gonna be
Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Bruce Anthony: I, I know
Jay Aundrea: know my dog. Your dog bite. Look. Not me. I know my dog.
Bruce Anthony: All right. Another black expression. I'm gonna run through these last two real quick. See this right here is, is what we are not fitting to do, or you got the wrong one. That is a warning. It's not a threat, it's a warning. There's a difference between a threat and a warning. A threat is something implied. A warning is telling you what's going to happen [00:55:00] if these events happen.
This is a
Jay Aundrea: Yes, yes. It's a line in the
sand. It's, it's us saying, okay, you done got out of pocket, now I'm gonna let you know this is the line in the sand. You cross it, then we're gonna have a problem. But you got the wrong one on the right day. So figure, so figure it out. 'cause what we not finna do is keep talking crazy like we doing.
Okay. Figure it out. Shut it down. That's what that is.
Bruce Anthony: I see this so much on, um. Little TikTok or Instagram reels when black women are getting ready to, or after they have busted somebody's butt or fought or something. It's always a Warner. It's, and people don't understand, they don't heed the warning. I'm not the one, we not fitting to go back and forth. I done told you like, these are all
warnings. [00:56:00] These are all warnings.
You need to understand. You need to take a step back, recalibrate. And if you wanna engage in a continued conversation, you need to lower your tone. You talk
Jay Aundrea: yeah. Yes.
Bruce Anthony: get yourself out of this ass whooping that's about to
come your
Jay Aundrea: your mouth where you talk to me. Watch your mouth. When you talk to me. Play where it's safe. 'cause it's not safe over here. Okay. Like sweetie says, I'm at first place, but baby still, I'm not the one. Okay.
Bruce Anthony: Alright, and this last one. It is one of my favorites. You ain't never lied.
Jay Aundrea: I say that all the
Bruce Anthony: Me too. And knowing
that we say it to people that, that we know have lied, but in that moment they telling that
Jay Aundrea: yeah,
Bruce Anthony: the truth right there, they speaking facts. Right in that moment.
Jay Aundrea: you are preaching today
Bruce Anthony: I said this to
some,
Jay Aundrea: you ain't never lied. If [00:57:00] anything you, you telling the truth today?
Bruce Anthony: I I, I, once again, I was in a white space, not code switching.
Jay Aundrea: Yes.
Bruce Anthony: And I said this, I was like, man, you ain't never lied. And he was like, you're half. And I was like, oh, I forgot where I was again.
Jay Aundrea: Yeah, yeah.
Sorry about that
Bruce Anthony: you saying right now is the truth.
Jay Aundrea: It's the truth. It's not, it's not just the truth, it's the absolute truth. strongly agree with what you just said.
Bruce Anthony: And they don't even have to actually be the truth. They could actually be lying. But still, you ain't never lied in that moment. 'cause I agree with whatever you just said.
Jay Aundrea: Yeah, because it, it don't have to be about anything. Oh. You know, 'cause what, what could happen? I, I whooped his ass. Well, you ain't never lied. chances are he probably wouldn't
Bruce Anthony: No.
Jay Aundrea: have gotten into a fight. But it doesn't matter the sentiment. I agree with that. You ain't never lied. You ain't never lied. In your whole life.
All you did was have to tell [00:58:00] all you told the truth. 'cause you telling it today.
Bruce Anthony: In this moment right here, right now,
Jay Aundrea: you telling the gods on God. Know your
Bruce Anthony: you, aj you know what? You ain't never lied. Jay.
Wrapping Up: Final Thoughts & Future Moves 🎯💭✨
Bruce Anthony: Before we, before we let these people go, what do you wanna tell the people out there?
Jay Aundrea: We need more, cowboy themed RB festivals so we could get. More Dukes out there. I don't think there's enough Dukes out there.
Bruce Anthony: I think there's plenty of Dukes out there. I just think they need to be a little older. When they wearing these Dukes
Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Oh yes. Clothing companies. Please let these kids feel comfortable in what they wear, don't you? If you only give them these options, then they only have this to wear. But that doesn't mean that they're comfortable in what they're wearing. Give them, give them options so that if they wanna wear something [00:59:00] a little smaller, they can, but if they wanna cover up, they can do that.
Also. It's about choice. Give them the choice.
Bruce Anthony: you ain't never lied. On that note, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching, and until next time, as always. I holler.
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