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Sibling Happy Hour: Sips, Laughs & Sibling Shenanigans 🍹😂

Bruce Anthony: is sibling happy hour. I'm here with my ses j Andrea. We gonna be dilly ding a little bit. Then we're gonna be talking about home ownership and squatters, and then we're gonna be talking about an am i the jerk Reddit post.

But that's enough of the [00:01:00] 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. I'm still a little under the weather. So there was a couple of takes that we had to do for this intro, but that's all right. We got there.

Jay Aundrea: That's all right. And I noticed you, you, you put, you put a. You put a lineup together today that's gone really piss me off. So that's 'cause one, one because I have an issue with squatter's rights. Like I have an issue with the fact that that exists. And you know how I get on these. Am I the jerks? You know how this, so I see, I see what you're doing there.

You're like, let's, I'm not feeling well. I'm gonna get johnna to do most of the talking. I see. I got it.

Bruce Anthony: look, I'm a producer. Okay? That's what I keep telling people. I'm not a host. I'm decent host. I'm a [00:02:00] decent interviewer, but what I am is a producer. Okay.

Jay Aundrea: what you are, as somebody who knows how to push my buttons. Because, see, look, I'm already agitated. We hadn't even talked about the topics yet, and I'm already agitated. Soon as I saw squatter right there in bold and italicized, I said, oh, no, here we go.

AI Gone Wild: The Mark Cuban Deepfake Disaster 🤖💰⚠️

Bruce Anthony: Not bold and italicized. Well, yes, I am still a little under the weather. Normally I would've pushed the cough button, but uh, we gonna do it. Hey, I had to do a whole show on Tuesday by myself. That bad boy was tough 'cause I could barely talk. But we hear something interesting happened to me earlier today and I told the person, I was like, oh, this is going on the podcast.

I was like, I'm filming today. This is going on. He was like, you'll keep my name out of it. I was like, yeah, but you going to know exactly who the hell I'm talking about. 'cause this can only be you.

Jay Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: So a friend of mine has created, uh, this very [00:03:00] cool company, right?

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: And they are very much into ai. Very much into ai, and they are very much horrible at telling a story.

Jay Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

Jay Aundrea: There's the three things

Bruce Anthony: Three things lined

Jay Aundrea: every, everybody, hold on because I feel like they're all gonna be connected,

Bruce Anthony: They are, they are gonna be conducted. The first thing this person says to me is, yeah, my dad hit me up. And he was like, yeah, this cat in the attic and ai. And I said, wait a minute, what? There was a cat in the at. What does the cat in the attic have to do with,

Jay Aundrea: Ai.

Bruce Anthony: asking you about ai?

Jay Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: And then he shows me a video that's an AI video of a cat in an attic.

I said, why didn't you just tell me that you sent your father an AI video of a cat in an attic?

Jay Aundrea: Okay. No, [00:04:00] I.

Bruce Anthony: What you said was your dad called, you said there was a cat in the attic, and then asked you about ai.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: yeah. I said you real excited about stuff and the reason why this person was real excited about stuff.

'cause they started a company, right? And then they said, I got Mark Cuban to, uh, advertise the company. And I said, Hmm. Mark Cuban, the former Dallas Mavericks owner. Yeah. How did you pull that off?

Jay Aundrea: That's a big get.

Bruce Anthony: a big get. So they show me the video and it's Mark Cuban advertising their product. And I was like, wait a minute, is this real or is this ai? And he was like, well, the video is real. I said, that's

Jay Aundrea: That's

Bruce Anthony: I asked you. I said, is this video of them promoting your thing real?

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I mean, the video is real. He really did that. I said, I, I, I bet you that he really did, but the AI created an overlay to put your product in. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. This [00:05:00] is, yeah.

Yes. I said, so it's an AI video. It's not, it's not real. They're like, no, but I mean, it's Mark Cuban promoting it. I was like, do not post that.

Jay Aundrea: Do not post

Bruce Anthony: Do not post that. He's like, what? I was like,

Jay Aundrea: will be sued.

Bruce Anthony: I was like, I said, you're gonna have a company then. You're not gonna have a company. It's just going be like, when Smokey won in that dice game, I won you what?

I lost, because you gonna get sued. I was like,

Intellectual Property Nightmares & Legal Landmines 📜⚖️😬

Jay Aundrea: By two entities, the Mark Cuban and the company whose product he was actually promoting

Bruce Anthony: What? This

Jay Aundrea: their intellectual property.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, oh, the original video?

Jay Aundrea: Yes. So, no,

Bruce Anthony: And.

Jay Aundrea: don't do that.

Bruce Anthony: I, and I was like, yeah, bro, that AI is for entertainment purposeless only. It is not for you to go and generate income from advertisements. Like people are really, people are really serious about what, I wouldn't just, I don't just have ads [00:06:00] post, well, in some cases I do.

I, but most of the time I don't have just ads. Just whatever ads posting on the podcast, like the majority of time it is screened.

Jay Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: People are really, you know, their, like, their likeness is important to them, and if you gonna make some money, they want their cut.

Jay Aundrea: yes.

Bruce Anthony: So I was just like, I, I understand that you were happy that you started this thing.

Don't do that.

Jay Aundrea: Don't do that. That's a, that's a,

Bruce Anthony: let's talk a little bit better

Jay Aundrea: terrible idea. That's a terrible idea. But if he or, or she, I don't know, actually likes AI that much. Put the story into a chat bot and ask it to frame it in a way that'll make sense to other people. And then just read that so that we understand what you're talking about.

Bruce Anthony: Look, lemme

Jay Aundrea: I get it. You, you're excited and so your, your brain is moving faster than your mouth and things get jumbled up. Like, I get that. [00:07:00] But if this is a habitual thing of like, you are really bad at delivering information that, like, you gotta, you gotta work on that.

Bruce Anthony: Oh no. This, this person is routinely bad at delivering information. Also, they're really bad of receiving information. I give instructions and before I can finish the instructions, it could be like, Hey, uh, let's walk over here. Okay. I said I didn't, I didn't even finish.

Jay Aundrea: Let me finish.

Bruce Anthony: What I was going to say and then steadily asking me questions about what's coming next.

When I was like, if you just didn't say anything in the first place,

Jay Aundrea: You might've got the whole thing.

Bruce Anthony: you would've got,

Jay Aundrea: you might've had a, got everything you were, you needed.

Bruce Anthony: but this person was so excited, one for the company, which is really dope. And two, this person is so into ai. I was like, Hey, hey, you need to, you need to chill. Don't, don't post [00:08:00] this. I also came up with a slogan

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: that was, that could be used for a portion of their company.

Jay Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: And I, so I told them, I was like, look, let me explain something to you about my business and my money.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm. play with it.

Bruce Anthony: if I see that that slogan is used anywhere

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: and I haven't been credited and getting my money for it, I'm coming for you.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

The Slogan Heist: Protecting Your Creative Ideas 💡🔒💸

Bruce Anthony: I know where you live. I know where your family live.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: I want my money and it's been a running joke 'cause this company has been like in the works for the last couple of years. And this tagline I came up with is actually brilliant.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Should I say it on the show?

Jay Aundrea: No,

Bruce Anthony: Well, I mean, it's already, if I stayed on the show then it's already been copyrighted, right? Isn't that how it works

Jay Aundrea: I, I'm not a

Bruce Anthony: now? Yeah.

Jay Aundrea: but [00:09:00] I have a friend who is a copyright attorney and I will ask

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Ask them because, because I came up, it's a great slogan. Something I never heard before and I was like, boom, there you

Jay Aundrea: yeah, yeah,

Bruce Anthony: but I told this person, I was like, let me find, let me, let me find out. You're using it. It's gonna be some furniture moving.

Jay Aundrea: yeah. That's your whole ass.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, it's gonna be some

Jay Aundrea: because, you know, I had, I, I did not person, I worked on a project that I thought was a great startup idea,

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: so I tried to get our, my partners to like really think about and start planning about pursuing this idea as a startup. Crickets. Okay. So I talked to my friend who is a copyright attorney and they advised that what is actually the property is my code.

Anyone can come up with an idea.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: Anyone can come up with a [00:10:00] business name,

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: but the actual material that would be copywritten is my code. So if I change the name of the product, I don't need to include anybody in anything

Bruce Anthony: There. There you go. So,

Jay Aundrea: basis for the whole product is the code that I wrote. So, I don't know, I don't know about slogans.

I don't know if that's something that can be, 'cause again, it's like, it was like, um, what was that? One of the, uh, the Hilton. A Hilton, what's her name?

Bruce Anthony: Paris Hilton.

Jay Aundrea: That's it. Tried to copyright. That's hot. Even though, like everybody says that, and I don't know. I think she tried to, but like you can't really do that.

Bruce Anthony: Mm.

Jay Aundrea: So, um, so I don't know.

I'll, I'll

Bruce Anthony: I'll tell you, I'll tell you the slogan off air. 'cause I thought it

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah. And then I'll ask them and see what [00:11:00] you, what you need to do about that. Yeah. Don't let your ideas go for free.

50 Cent's Petty Revenge: The Diddy Documentary Drops 🎬😈🔥

Bruce Anthony: speaking of not letting ideas go for free,

Jay Aundrea: The Lord have mercy.

Bruce Anthony: you haven't had time 'cause you are busy. I'm gonna do it this weekend, but you know, 50 cent just dropped a new docuseries. Right.

Jay Aundrea: Oh God.

Bruce Anthony: 56. No, this is Petty. 50 cent dropped a new docuseries. It's a four-part Netflix series called

Jay Aundrea: I don't

Bruce Anthony: Sean Combs, the Reckoning, it tracks Diddy's Rise, his abuse allegations and events leading up to his arrest and conviction.

Uh, 50 50 was on Good Morning America with like

Jay Aundrea: Oh my Lord.

Bruce Anthony: producer producing and the, and the, and the woman, I think it was Ryan Roberts, said, you just, you don't like Diddy. And he was like, well, no, it's, it's not like that. It was just 'cause you know, I mean, he's [00:12:00] okay. It is just, I didn't like it when he offered to take me shopping.

I 50 cent has told this story. So many times that Diddy offered to take him shopping and he has been so offended by it for 20 plus years that he has just been way this time to be petty. And he could put out this documentary and some of the footage is damning to Diddy. So Diddy's response was, I'm going to sue Netflix and 50 cent, because that footage that they obtained, 'cause there's some footage leading up to his arrest,

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: the footage he's saying the footage that the, that they obtained was detained illegally was stolen and that it violates his privacy and potentially his attorney client privilege and his work product protections.

But this is Netflix. So I was thinking to myself, I was like, there's no way in hell Netflix is gonna

Jay Aundrea: Did not verify

Bruce Anthony: not verify it. They got that doc. They, and, and, and I've [00:13:00] been reading a little bit about it. And supposedly Diddy has been planning to do a documentary on himself since he was 19.

And that's the reason why cameras are always around. There's always something filming. And 50 cent got the footage. And so I, ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna give a review Now. The Docus says I'm gonna watch it this weekend, and when the show releases on Tuesday, I, in one of the segments, I'm gonna give a review about it.

But Petty 50,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Yes. Well, I won't, no, I will not.

Bruce Anthony: Why not

Jay Aundrea: Because I don't care about Sean Combs.

Bruce Anthony: I, I mean, okay, but do you care about 56 pettiness?

Jay Aundrea: I also don't care about 50 cents pettiness. I

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

Jay Aundrea: will, I eventually probably watch it because it'll be on my timeline and everybody will be talking about it, and I'll have fomo and I'll probably watch it one evening. Yes.

Bruce Anthony: Well, you know when I know for sure you [00:14:00] probably gonna watch it.

Jay Aundrea: When is that?

Netflix Binge Confessions & Reality TV Traps 📺😂🍿

Bruce Anthony: When I'm there in two weeks,

Jay Aundrea: And you going to put it on

Bruce Anthony: I'm gonna put it, I'm not gonna make you watch it, I'm just gonna put it on.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: And I know you gonna walk past, what is this that you watching? And I'm like, that Diddy documentary, I'm not watching this. And next thing you know, you gonna be sitting down being like, this is crazy.

I know you this, that's what's gonna happen.

Jay Aundrea: that's a hundred percent what happens to me every single time. That's how I get dragged in to the shows our mother watches.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm. Well,

Jay Aundrea: be like, what is this? What is the shenanigans you watching? And then I'll be like, she said what the who now. Okay, so he's the investigator, is that what you're saying?

And they're an attorney, but they're not really an attorney. It's all, yeah. And then that's the next thing you know. I'm watching that show All seasons.

Bruce Anthony: There are so many memes and reels out of dudes sitting down, working or doing something else while there's significant others, uh, uh, wives, girlfriends, what have you. It's typically a heterosexual [00:15:00] relationship. Or, or watching one of the, one of the

Jay Aundrea: Love Island

Bruce Anthony: love some, something like that.

Jay Aundrea: Something like that. Yes.

Bruce Anthony: And then all of a sudden he's like, what

Jay Aundrea: getting into it. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Yes. That's, that's our mom with tv. Yeah,

Jay Aundrea: yeah, that's it. It just ropes you in. And next thing you know, I'm watching some British drama about, I don't even know what, and, and I'm into it deeply.

Bruce Anthony: well, I'm looking forward to watching this Netflix documentary because 50 cent is one of the Pettiest people. The only person I feel like that could compete with him in Florida's pettiness is Cameron. ' cause nothing was as funny as when he had Omar Goodin come in and do a fake movie.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. That, that's, that's almost like when I heard about that, I was like, okay, that's bordering on hurtful. Like,

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

Jay Aundrea: because you, like, you're, that's not like a prank, like you're really, I, I thought I was working a legitimate job. That is my career. Like,

Bruce Anthony: In Cameron's defense,

Jay Aundrea: mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: it all started because Cameron called him Omar Goodin Jr. A slip of

Jay Aundrea: Yes. Yes. It's, it was an accident

Bruce Anthony: Omar Gooden Jr. Would've let it go and kept

Jay Aundrea: and you just did.

Bruce Anthony: I didn't. Please don't make, you know what Omar Gooden Jr. You can make disc records after me. I don't care.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: me on blast.

Jay Aundrea: that should be our pretty, that'd be cool. That'd be cool. I

Bruce Anthony: that'd be pretty cool.

And the dis tracks were against. Cameron was kind of dope. Even Cameron was like, yo, you can rap, but you gotta stop. 'cause he made like four dis tracks. So Cameron finally was like, all right, I'm gonna go ahead and dead all

Jay Aundrea: like, all right, Kendrick Lamar relax.

Bruce Anthony: But Omar Goodin was doing that for a reason.

Jay Aundrea: Hmm.

Bruce Anthony: His album dropped shortly after that, and he's got [00:17:00] a song on there that I was like, yo, this is actually pretty good.

I think I sent it to you, but you've been so busy you ain't been

Jay Aundrea: Uh, I haven't looked at, I, my text messages are backing up e my personal emails,

Bruce Anthony: mm

Jay Aundrea: dms. I'm so sorry to everybody, but I just don't have the bandwidth for anything right now. But I'm almost there.

Bruce Anthony: We're almost there. What you will have the bandwidth for though, is this next topic when we get into this squatting situation, and we gonna get into that next,

Bruce Anthony: all right, Jay. This next story comes from the DC uh, DC Bureau reporter, Felicia Ashley,

Jay Aundrea: Hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and the title of the article is Squatter Uses Extended Airbnb Stay to Claim Tenant Rights, locking Out the Homeowner. Um.[00:18:00]

Jay Aundrea: I am already mad.

Bruce Anthony: before I go into this long little thing

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: about the whole story,

Jay Aundrea: long and little.

Bruce Anthony: is long and little

Jay Aundrea: Okay. All right.

Bruce Anthony: shut up. I, I'm all there. I haven't been drinking, yo. I haven't had a drinking. I look, I haven't had a drink in some, in a while for me.

Jay Aundrea: Well, you haven't been, you've been under the weather and it's going around everybody. I know a lot of people that are

Bruce Anthony: I'm not still sick. I'm just congested more than anything. But anyway. Ladies and gentlemen, before I get into this long and little, the description of what's going on, Jay, what, why, why do you, what's your problem with squatters' rights?

Jay Aundrea: So there is a like documentary series on Netflix, uh, called like World's Worst Neighbor, world's Worst Roommate or So, it's something [00:19:00] like that. And it's basically horror, squatters writes horror stories and, and like all the things these people had to go through to get these folks out of their house. And it just couldn't be me.

Like I, I will lose my mind. I what you mean? You not leaving my house and you were refusing to pay me any more money. And those, uh, so, and I think it's worst roommate or something like that because these were people who were renting a room for, so they lived together with this person and tried and claim squad rights, wouldn't leave barricaded themselves and no, I'll burn this entire house down.

Bruce Anthony: You gonna burn your own home down to get them

Jay Aundrea: That's, that's how much I, because how dare you?

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

Jay Aundrea: I don't even know the purpose of squatter's rights. I, I like, I don't even know the purpose, but,

Bruce Anthony: I don't, I don't know either.

Jay Aundrea: but the fact that [00:20:00] people abuse it to this extent mm-hmm. I would literally burn this whole thing down around you. You gonna get out.

Bruce Anthony: I think, I think that you got a murder charge if you, if the,

Jay Aundrea: They gonna get out.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Alright, so lemme tell everybody about the story. Imagine renting out your home on Airbnb only to end up locked out of your own home. That's exactly what happened to this woman here in the DC area. And her story has turned into a months long nightmare involving police courts and a guest who refuses to leave.

Homeowner. Anne Douglas thought that she was helping someone in need back in February, she accepted a booking from a woman named She Deja. Romero, Ms. Romero who said her own home had been damaged in the fire. This reservation was for just over a month. 32 days is supposed to end on March 29th.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: Once that you cross that 30 day [00:21:00] mark in DC though, a guest can start claiming tenant rights and that's where everything went sideways.

See, but Okay. Alright. You got something to interject? Go ahead.

Jay Aundrea: no, because see, you knew by booking for 32 days, you already knew Shaha Romero.

Bruce Anthony: Is it Sheia? Are you sure?

Jay Aundrea: Uh, that's what I'm looking

Bruce Anthony: Sja.

Jay Aundrea: Sja.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Sja.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: But there Sja, but that I,

Jay Aundrea: Put a k, swap out the S with a K. And what name is that?

Bruce Anthony: Kadeja.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, That's what I said.

Jay Aundrea: Isha doesn't sound right. Sja does

Bruce Anthony: Uh, well, oh, SJA, I

Jay Aundrea: whichever. Whatever your name is. I don't really care. 'cause you can catch, smoke

Bruce Anthony: Alright. When the booking ended, Romero didn't leave. Instead she [00:22:00] assisted that she now had tenant protections, even though there was no lease, no rental agreement, just an Airbnb stay. Douglass kept stressing. This was never a tendency, it was a short term rental, but Ramiro argued otherwise, and the standoff began step by step.

Douglass tried everything. She served a 30 day notice. She called the police. She went to court, and each time she was told the same thing. This wasn't trespassing anymore. It was a landlord tenant dispute. At one point, Douglas even offered of Romero 2,500 to leave. Romero signed the paper saying that she wasn't a tenant.

Then turned around and said the agreement. No longer works for her and stayed put know timeouts. She done, she offered to pay the woman 2,500. Just leave my home. Please. Just leave my home.

Living Rent-Free While the Owner Pays Everything 💸😡🚨

Jay Aundrea: Do you wanna know how I offer she'd have got from me?

Bruce Anthony: You done burned the house down.

Jay Aundrea: I [00:23:00] offer to whoop her ass. Do, don't, do not. Uh, because, because listen, the next time I call the police, it's, I'm gonna leave her handcuffs.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. All right.

Jay Aundrea: charge.

Bruce Anthony: Desperate.

Jay Aundrea: my house?

Bruce Anthony: Desperate. Douglas put a huge sign on her house declaring Romero was not authorized to be there. Romero and others inside tossed the sheet out the window to cover it. Police eventually helped Davis cut the sign down, but still told her she had to wait for the courts. So while Douglas pays the mortgage, utilities, and mountain attorney fees, Romero remains inside living rent free.

Jay Aundrea: Wow.

Bruce Anthony: Now, that would piss you off

Jay Aundrea: That yes.

Bruce Anthony: alone, right? But there's more. An insult to injury. Douglass watches Romero's social media [00:24:00] showing her traveling, promoting a nonprofit, and posting about living her best life. Meanwhile, Douglass can't even step foot in her own home. As of now, Romero refuses to answer the door to reporters or police.

Douglass is stuck waiting for the December 11th court date, hoping US Marshals will finally remove Romero and end this ordeal. Now I want everybody to pay attention to the dates

Jay Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: 'cause Romero booked in February. It was supposed to be over in March,

Jay Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: December 11th is a week away.

Jay Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: She done had the whole year

Jay Aundrea: But my, I thought they're not allowed to leave the property, so how is she traveling and stuff? My my understanding is that if they leave the property, you can, you can then evict them, like they're not allowed to leave the property. That might not be the case in [00:25:00] dc I

Bruce Anthony: DC Yeah, each, each place has different things, but this case, high highlights, a little known wrinkle in the local law of DC how a short term rental can cross it to a tenant territory. After 30 days for Douglass has become costly, an exhaust, an exhausting battle. And for anyone thinking of listening to their home, it's a cautionary tale by how quickly a simple booking could spiral into a nightmare.

And so you're a homeowner. I am not. have not done Airbnb. I've stayed at an Airbnb that's two doors down from your house.

Jay Aundrea: yeah. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: To think that this could happen is crazy.

Good Intentions Weaponized: The 32-Day Trap 🪤💔😤

Jay Aundrea: It's nuts. Um, especially because as the homeowner, I went into it with good intentions. You're telling me you lost your home in a fire? Yes, of course. You can book my rental. I'm going into it with good intentions. You came into this from the start, knowing what you were going to do. And that's why you [00:26:00] set it up for 32 days because you knew from the start what you were going to do.

That to me, like that's what makes it so bad. Like that's what makes this, the people abusing these laws that I honestly are there to protect tenants, but people abusing these laws because you're abusing people who chances are, are renting to you or opening their home to you or whatever with good intentions.

And you, you came into this from the start, intending to harm me. And that's, that's what pisses me off the most about it. And so, no, every single day, all day, I'm in front of that house with all my car doors open, blasting country music

Bruce Anthony: Well, um, it's a neighborhood you going to, you going,

Jay Aundrea: We going, listen, e every day [00:27:00] we having a block party in the street.

Bruce Anthony: okay.

Jay Aundrea: I will go, I will vandalize my own home to make you uncomfortable. I will cut the utilities off.

Bruce Anthony: So, because I think. I think the article is a little, the title of the article is a little misleading. I don't think it's a squatter quite, the person is squatting, but since it turns into a tenant landlord type of thing, it is tough to evict people. It is. So I think that's the reason why, you know, she's able to lead a house going on vacations.

Which by the way, look, lemme tell you something, I don't condone violence,

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm. No, neither do I. I'm joking, but like

Bruce Anthony: but that's a surefire way. Especially when you seen on their social media that they out there, first of all, how you gonna be promoting a nonprofit and steal it from somebody?

Jay Aundrea: Yes, don't [00:28:00] add insult to injury, but if you're on social media, guess what? So am I, and I'm on there and I'm plastering all your business. I'm going viral on TikTok reporting on this story. Everybody is going to know exactly who you are. I'm glad we're talking about it now, and I'm glad we're saying the name sja Sja Romero.

I'm glad we're doing it now. Everybody needs to know. If you see her nonprofit come across your screen, leave some comments under there and tell and let people know that this person is a thief.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah. This per

Jay Aundrea: Let people know that this person is a criminal. If you see her traveling and doing this and talking about living your best life, it is, leave a comment under there. You living your best life on somebody else's dime. Don't let people get away. With doing things like this, you gotta continue to call out people who do this kind of thing, because if we don't, it just gives people carte blanche to [00:29:00] continue to, to hustle folks like this and to scam folks like this, and that's not right.

That's, that's the problem I have with it. The scamming,

Bruce Anthony: Well, I thought you liked scamming.

Jay Aundrea: I like innocent scamming.

Bruce Anthony: Well, I, okay, we're gonna have to dig deeper into this. What is innocent scamming?

Jay Aundrea: Okay. For instance, one time I was at the airport and I went to the uh, sky Lounge. Right. I was just going to see, you know. I had the little, uh, sky Miles card or whatever. I didn't know how much it would cost, if it would cost anything for me to be in the Sky Lounge. While I wait for my flight. I'm behind a lady who's like Diamond medallion plus.dot, I don't know, like the top tier sky miles lady.

And she gets a free guest.

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

Jay Aundrea: Okay? And so the person behind the desk asks, do [00:30:00] you have a free guest that's coming in with you? And I said, yeah, me. And she said, come on. And so I got into the Sky Lounge for free. That is innocent scamming. I did not know that lady. She did not know me. I did not wanna pay to be in the Sky Lounge, but I wanted to be in the Sky Lounge.

So I shot my shot, it worked. Innocent scamming. Nobody got hurt for that. Okay. I had a nice conversation with this lady. She was only in there for about 20 minutes. I had to be in there for like two hours. It was before they put them time limits on it. It was great, and I enjoyed myself. And there you go.

Innocent Scamming vs. Criminal Theft Explained 😇😈⚖️

Jay Aundrea: That's innocent scamming.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Alright. Innocent, innocent scamming,

Jay Aundrea: Yes, yes,

Bruce Anthony: Sia, Rhodesia, whatever Ms. Romero is. Yeah, because you thinking about it, that is, so if they booked the Airbnb, she got paid for February, she [00:31:00] got paid for those 32

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: but since March on, and that's March, April, may, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

That's 10 months down.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. For an entire year, I've been paying for you to live for free, and knowing that you entered in to a good faith agreement with malicious intent, nah. Because when? Because when she gets this person out of her house, because she will, it'll, eventually she will. When she gets this person outta her house, she needs to sit file a civil suit.

I whate, I don't know. There's got to be some recourse for the, the loss of her, her money, her time, her. There's got to be some recourse to protect this woman who is in this very unfortunate situation.

Bruce Anthony: I wanna know why the court case has taken so long. [00:32:00] Like I, I have a friend that's in real estate. I need to ask them the specifics of dc. I've heard DC tenant landlords squatting laws is crazy.

Jay Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: heard they're absolutely crazy. People be squatting and just chilling and I'm thinking to myself, why don't I go squat somewhere and chill?

You know? Why don't not live somewhere for free? You know? And just like switch it up every three months. Just keep hopping different places so it

Jay Aundrea: there are people who do that.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. You know, that's almost innocent. Scamming just cost him three months worth

Jay Aundrea: it's not innocent scamming if I'm call if I'm causing harm to someone else. It's not innocent scamming anymore.

Sky Lounge Finesse: The Art of Innocent Scamming ✈️😏🥂

Bruce Anthony: you. You don't know that you didn't cause harm to that lady. She may not want to talk to your ass.

Jay Aundrea: no. She, she asked me to sit with her. She chatted me up. I

Bruce Anthony: You ain't exchanging information or nothing. Could have been a new friend that hooked you up.

Jay Aundrea: no. It was just a, [00:33:00] she traveled a lot for work, so she got this high status and she was happy to invite me in. So that was innocent. She could have said no.

Bruce Anthony: She could have.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, she could have said no. There was no loss to her for inviting me in. That was, that was what I'm saying, like that she didn't lose anything in that deal.

Bruce Anthony: Well, Ms. Douglas, I hope that in a week from today, the week of this filming, that you will get some type of resolution and I hope they, they don't tear up that house. 'cause you know,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: that's the next thing folks be like, we gotta leave. We going to tear this place apart. They will pull out, uh, copper out the walls.

I don't know why I just went to bubbles from the

Jay Aundrea: don't know. Because that's what they, that's that's, that was what happens.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. You know, so, Hey,

Jay Aundrea: Take appliances all kind. They take furniture. I mean, 'cause everything in there. Nothing belongs to this person. It's [00:34:00] all

Bruce Anthony: I would have, I would've had some goons hired, some goons posted up on the block. Not to, not to harm 'em. Harm 'em, but to make sure they ain't tearing up my stuff. Yeah. You know if you got some people that's always around your house

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: every time you come out, 'cause she coming and leaving,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: know she taking trips, you coming and leaving.

You got some people standing out there all the time making you real uncomfortable in your own home.

Jay Aundrea: It is not her own home.

Bruce Anthony: Right. Hey look,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Omar Goodin Jr. Own home. Look, I'm slipping today. Okay? I'm getting older. What can I

Jay Aundrea: that is. That is long and little.

Bruce Anthony: I forgot about that one longer. You know what? This segment is over 'cause I'm tired of this shit. But next up, an interesting Reddit that is sure to piss my sister off. Am I a jerk? We gonna get into that [00:35:00] next.

Bruce Anthony: All right, Jay, another Reddit post. Why I'm kind of lazy, couldn't come up with any other topics, and Reddit is always the easy place to come up with topics.

Hey ladies, gentlemen, I'm gonna tell y'all right now, there's gonna be a show right before Christmas that's gonna be all Reddit posts, so I hope you enjoy 'em. Um,

Jay Aundrea: know you do because that's when I get the most excited and pissed off, and I know that that's what people enjoy the most.

Bruce Anthony: yeah, people enjoy you being aggravated

Jay Aundrea: yes,

Bruce Anthony: or I do, and they enjoy my giddiness of you being aggravated. It's one another. All right, so here's the Reddit post. Am I a jerk to cancel a trip?

Reddit Drama: Am I the Jerk for Canceling the Trip? 🚗😠💬

Bruce Anthony: After realizing my friends wanted me to be the unpaid driver and planner before I read this. Jay, what are you, are you the planner in a trip?

Jay Aundrea: I'm be, [00:36:00] I'm starting to like do that and that, and that's only because I've been inspired by friends of mine who are just excellent trip planners and I always have the best time and they do the best job. So I am trying to learn how to be a better trip planner. And so like, I planned my, my 40th, uh, to Panama and it went really, really well.

And so, yes, I'm trying to take more of an active, but I never used to be in the past now.

Bruce Anthony: Alright, so I am not

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: all, I'm not really a planner planner anyway. I'm a, these are things I need to do. I'm gonna plan them out. But like, if it's in like an outing, like women get upset with me all the time with dating because it's just like, well, what do you want to do? I don't know. And then on the spur of a moment, I'll come up something like, I'm better at.

Jay Aundrea: Spot spontaneity.

Bruce Anthony: it. Yes. I like to just wing it. I'm not gonna plan. And I've gone on a couple of trips with people. And they're like, well, let's do this. And they [00:37:00] have a whole itinerary, and I'm just like, look, I'm gonna tell you right now, that shit is not appealing to me because I never know how I'm gonna wake up and what mood I am.

I like to wake up and see

Jay Aundrea: You just like to feel the vibes, but that's, that's not my style. Like, and so when I travel, I wanna see the things, I want to see the tourist attractions or the museums or the whatever. I wanna do the tours, I wanna see the things. So I will create an itinerary. We'll have where we're gonna eat dinner, I'll make sure we have reservations.

We're doing a photo shoot. I got the photographer book, like I down to the transportation. I got everything planned out. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: you sound like this person, but let me get back to the post. So some friends and I have been talking about taking a weekend trip together. I thought we would share the work and enjoy it equally, but during the planning stage, they kept assigning me task without checking. If I agreed, they said I should create an [00:38:00] itinerary because I have a good taste.

They said I should be the driver because I have the biggest car. They said I should book the place because I understand travel sites better. When I questioned it, they said it was obvious I would do these things. Since I always handled the details, it started to feel like they wanted a personal travel assistant, not an equal friend.

The final straw was when they sent a long list of places they wanted to visit and told me to organize the schedule for them. I canceled my participation and told them that they could handle the trip without me. They said I ruined the vibe and abandoned the group. Now they are posting happy friend quotes to try and guilt trip me.

Am I the jerk?

You Need New Friends: Recognizing When You're Being Used 👥💔🚪

Jay Aundrea: Nope. And you need new friends.

Bruce Anthony: You, you can't look. That cannot be your rationale for everything all the time.

Jay Aundrea: for these? Yes, because by the time you get to the point where you are soliciting advice from strangers on [00:39:00] the internet, typically it is because whatever relationship that's being affected by whatever's going on was never good to begin with, and, and something happened. There's some catalyst, like the planning of this trip that's making you realize maybe my friends aren't my friends.

Maybe this re these relationships aren't equitable. Maybe I'm being used and I'm just now realizing it. I'm not really asking if I'm the jerk. What I'm asking is, am I tripping for seeing the situation for what it really is now? That's typically what the, what the question is for most of these posts, I thought my partner, my friend, my parent, my sibling, whatever was down for me, and then something happened and I realized they might not [00:40:00] be.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

Jay Aundrea: fact, a lot of times I, they might not like me at all. Am I tripping? It's not about the trip. What it's about is they wanted you to do everything for them like you probably typically always do. And so they just assumed you would continue to do so. They assumed that the relationship that you have allowed to happen of them taking advantage of you would continue, but now you're realizing that you're being taken advantage of. You need new friends, especially because y'all just send me a, a list of all the places you wanted to visit. So if you know where you wanna go, go ahead and set it up. Why do I have to set it up for you? I'm not, I'm not your personal assistant. You know where you wanna go, so you set it [00:41:00] up. I don't understand that.

Don't make no sense. I would not have told my friends that I wanted to take a trip for my birthday and then expect them to plan it for me.

Bruce Anthony: Mm, mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: That's ridiculous. If we're going somewhere together, this is a trip we're deciding to plan together, then we need to execute it together. It actually will go faster that way.

What do you mean? I understand travel sites better. It's the web, it's the worldwide web. It is been around for everybody use it. It's been around for a good while. You know who else has a big car? Enterprise Herz. I have good taste. Okay, fine. I'll pick the restaurants. Sure. That'll be my task. And your task will be to rent the car and your task will be to book, uh, you know, um, travel like book, you know, wherever

Bruce Anthony: Excursions or

Jay Aundrea: excursions or [00:42:00] whatever.

And that's how we'll handle it. And if y'all are saying no, we want you to do everything. And if you don't do everything, you're ruining the vibe. What a vibe is ruined now. What?

Bruce Anthony: Mm. Okay. So to answer the question, is she the jerk? Yes and no. For two reasons. Two reasons. There's two ways I'm looking at this. I agree with everything that you have to say, right? If they are expecting her to do this, do all of these tasks. They're, they're not, they may not be the greatest of friends. And this is the reason why I said that.

I used to have a friend that was in our group who didn't drink.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: That meant that he was our designated driver. And that's kind of the reason why we kept him around

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: when [00:43:00] we didn't need 'em anymore. We didn't really hang out with them

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: Right. And people use other people for various things, right. That could be this situation, or

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: it could be a situation where, and I've got caught up in this.

Well, you just like doing that stuff. So I just figured because you like doing it that you didn't mind doing it. No, I don't like to do it all the time. I just do it all the time. Oh my bad. Let me start to participate more in this, because I don't want that burden all on you.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: If this person didn't really specify, Hey, look, y'all putting all this on me.

Y'all ain't doing nothing. This isn't right.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: If they didn't say that before canceling their trip, then, then yeah, they might be a jerk. But if they expressed it, Hey look, this ain't right. [00:44:00] Y'all got me playing all of this. Y'all not doing nothing. I don't, even though I'm good at it, that doesn't mean that I want to do this.

It seems more like a work than vacation.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: If she did that and their response was, oh, just you killing the vibe, then no, she's not being

Jay Aundrea: Well,

Bruce Anthony: but it

Jay Aundrea: in there, it says

Bruce Anthony: did. I miss it,

Jay Aundrea: when I questioned it, they said it was obvious I would do these things since I always handled the details.

Bruce Anthony: question it. That's, but I've been in that situation where. I've said, well, you always handle these type of situations. That doesn't mean I like doing it. What was her response when they

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, yeah,

Bruce Anthony: you know what I mean? That's what I'm getting at. If, if, if, if she said to them, well, I don't feel like this is fair.

Well you always do it. I'm out, then, then you might be a little bit of a jerk because communication, you know how ladies and gentlemen, y'all don't know, but my sister understands how I am about [00:45:00] communication.

Jay Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: is so very, very important to me.

Jay Aundrea: It's

Bruce Anthony: I overly communicate, but I overly communicate so that there aren't any misunderstandings.

Jay Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, you don't care if people misunderstand you. I do. I don't want, because I don't want to look back and end friendships, relationships, or what have you, because there was a misunderstanding. I want my intentions to be absolutely clear, so. If they came back to her when they came back to her and they said, well, you always do it.

If her response was, shut down, move out. Yeah, you a little bit of a jerk about that because you needed to explain, well, yeah, I may always do this, but that don't necessarily mean I like to do this and y'all need to hold up your end. Now if they come back with you like, oh, you killing the vibe, then you out, you not a jerk.

But if you haven't explained your position properly

Jay Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: and you bow out, then yeah, you [00:46:00] might be a little bit on the jerk side. But that's me because I, communication is so very, very important.

Communication is Key: Setting Boundaries in Friendships 🗣️✋💯

Jay Aundrea: and also you gotta take some ownership. It because they wouldn't have the impression that you would always do this if you didn't always do it,

Bruce Anthony: Right.

Jay Aundrea: because you always do it because you always take the lead in planning things there. That became the dynamic of your relationship. So just because it's, it's not sitting right with you.

Now

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: again, like you said, you gotta communicate that, hey, I know that I typically always handle things, but I was kind of hoping that since this is something we're gonna enjoy together, that we can all do this together. I don't wanna take on the burden of planning everything. And if their response to you is not, say less, we got it.

Like, [00:47:00] okay, then I'll pick up this. You pick up that B, B, B. Like if their response is not that, then. Go ahead and bow and, and recognize that the, these people kept you around for a reason. Be and also take some ownership and understand that you cannot constantly take on the burden, uh, in your relationships like that. They have to be equitable. And you also have to participate in making sure that they're equitable.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, equitable ladies, gentlemen, equitable. That means that there's gonna be give and take, but like I always say, 100% effort in the relationship, but sometimes it's gonna be 70 30, sometimes it'll be 50 50, sometimes it's gonna be 40, 60. But we all putting in to make that 100% level,

Jay Aundrea: And that's, but that's why marriage [00:48:00] vows are the way they are. Right.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: In sickness and in health and all of that for richer or for poor. Because we understand that things happen. Life happens in relationships. I might be down for a time and need more for you to step up more and provide more support, and then when I get back up, then you can take a step back to where you were before and then, and I will support you in the same way.

So that's really what the, what it's saying is like exactly what you said is gonna be a hundred percent, but it's not always going to be equal shares.

Bruce Anthony: Right,

Jay Aundrea: But the relationship, there still has to be some reciprocity. There still has to be some equity there.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm. Reciprocity. That's a big SAT word, but y'all look, y'all know, y'all know what it means. J

Jay Aundrea: Hmm.

Bruce Anthony: what do you wanna tell these people before we get outta here?

Take Your Power Back: You Teach People How to Treat You 💪🔥👑

Jay Aundrea: My advice. [00:49:00] people will treat you the way you allow them to treat you.

Bruce Anthony: Mm.

Jay Aundrea: Period. Nobody is dogging you out. You are allowing yourself to be dogged out,

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: take, you gotta take some ownership of what's happening in your situations. Sometimes, and I'm not talking about situations obviously, where it is very difficult for a person to leave. They, they've been cut off from resources. They, we all know that that happens. I'm talking about in general in friendships and relationships and things like that.

Oh my friend, keep doing me dirty. No, you're allowing somebody who you call your friend to do you dirty. You have the power to change that dynamic by walking away from it or communicating that you don't. Like the way you're being treated now, [00:50:00] take some power back

Bruce Anthony: And that's the truth, Ruth. And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching, and until next time, as always, I, I'll holler.

Thank You & Where to Find Us: The Unsolicited Wrap-Up 🎙️❤️✨

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