Melania, Puffy & iPhone Dreams Collide 🎬🔥📱

Bruce Anthony: The first

lady can't read. Puffy can't stop Whiling and. Kids can't stop asking for iPhone seventeens. We gonna get into it?

Let's get it.

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Melania’s Reading, Diddy’s Reckoning, and Holiday Havoc 📚💥🎁

Bruce Anthony: we're gonna be talking about Melania visiting the kids. We're gonna be talking about Sean Combs, the reckoning, and we're gonna be talking about kids and Christmas lists. But that's enough of the intro.

Let's get to the [00:01:00] show.

Bruce Anthony: Alright, ladies and gents, let's talk about Melania Trump reading the children like she was doing community service that she didn't agree to do. Melania Trump's recent Christmas story story time at Children's National Hospital sparked backlash online with critics saying her reading style seemed flat.

Awkward and devoid of emotion even as the event itself followed a longstanding first lady holiday tradition. So Melania Trump visited the Children's Nashville Hospital in Washington DC where she read the book, how Does Santa Go Down the Chimney, to a small group of young patients and their families seated in a large rare chair in front of a Christmas tree.

Their appearance was part of the customary holiday visit First Ladies Make to hospitalized children and include brief remarks, sending love and best wishes from President Donald Trump as well. A clip of the reading [00:02:00] circulated widely on social media showing Melania holding the book towards herself, reading in a very monotone voice and rarely showing the illustrations to the children.

Viewers pointed out that the kids seated beside her looked bored or disengaged, which fueled comments that she appeared to be going through the motions rather than connecting with 'em. Commentators mocked her performance as cringey or cringe mis kinda like Christmas, but cringe, mis accusing her of lacking warmth and not understanding how to read to children specifically, not turning the the book outward or changing her tone to keep them engaged.

Some reactions went beyond the reading itself, framing her as uninterested in the role and contrasting her demeanor were expectations of nurturing expressive first ladies during such appearances. Coverage of the backlash often contrasts this video with Jill Biden's earlier visit to the same hospital where she interacted frequently with children, [00:03:00] showed pictures that she read and involved President Joe Biden in playful moments with the kids.

Why We Should Leave First Families Alone 🛡️👨‍👩‍👧‍👦💭

Bruce Anthony: These comparisons were used to underscore credits, claims that Melania's reading felt more like an obligation than a heartfelt encounter with sick children. Now. I typically don't defend the Trumps. I typically don't. I've always said, attack the president for his policies, attack the president for what he says and does leave the family alone, except for Don Jr.

And them because they want to be involved with politics. But Melania and, and Baron, they didn't ask for none of this. They rarely, rarely get involved or say anything unless you know it's a convention or something like that. I want family left out of it. Just like I wanted Joe Biden's kids to be left out of it.

Just like I wanted Obama's kids to be left out of it. Just like I wanted W's kids to be left out of it. Clinton, like Hillary, like lead kids out of it. [00:04:00] First ladies. Shouldn't really be critiqued unless they're out there politicking. Hillary was do Clinton's first administration. He gave her healthcare.

She was being introduced, uh, into politics. That's fair game. Melania not for attacking her at all. She's sitting here doing a good thing. It's a long standing tradition to read to the kids and not everybody knows one. How to read out loud and keep it engaging. Let's talk about that first. A lot of people don't like reading out loud.

Now go back. We're all adults now, or kids in college not far removed from, from from school. Go back. Elementary school, middle school. Hell, even high school. When the teacher used to ask you to read out loud. Now you are probably a really good reader. You probably read at a really good reading level, but there's [00:05:00] something about that anxiety of reading in front of people that's terrifying, that makes you mess up on words.

The Anxiety of Reading Out Loud in Public 😰📚🎤

Bruce Anthony: Ladies and gentlemen, I I, I don't rehearse the notes that I read what I just read to you guys. I didn't rehearse. I read through it silently, but I didn't rehearse reading it out loud. Reading it out loud was, that was the first time I read it out loud. Now I don't have a bunch of people looking at me. I got a camera pointed at me.

There's nobody else in here but just me. So even though thousands of people are listening to this and watching this, I don't really have those eyeballs on me. But we all know what it's like to read in front of people. Not just to read in front of people, but to read in front of people and have cameras rolling while you're doing it.

Let's also say that even though that she says she speaks five languages, which I believe because most Europeans, [00:06:00] Africans, basically everybody else and other countries beside the US speak multiple languages. They might not speak it fluently, but they speak it. Let's not forget, English is not our first language.

Okay? Now she done been here long enough and this administration, sure as hell loves to point out people from foreign countries that they say need to speak American. I love it when people say they need to speak American, like American is a language. What they mean is English, Americanized, English at that.

But there's so many people, especially MAGA, who is like, speak American. Learn how to speak English. Okay. Well, Melania, you the first lady and you gonna be reading in front of people. I'm defending the fact that reading in front of people can be a little nerve wracking. But you've been first. This is your second time being First lady.

You done been First Lady for a total of five years. You knew this was coming. They do it every year, right? Like you knew it was coming. Why didn't they prep her? [00:07:00] Why didn't they say, look, let's read the book over and over and over again. Let's almost have it memorized. 'cause this is children's book, right?

Let's almost have it memorized so that you're more reciting it and acting out to give more of a representation that you want to be here. I seen the video she's reading like she doesn't wanna mess up and she still messes up hell. I messed up reading a couple of words during my entrance. Uh, and English is my first language, so people gonna mess up.

It's all good, but that's what she was focused on, was not messing up. She didn't turn that book to show it to the kids. Anybody that knows that you read the kids you got, you gotta act, kind of act it out. I'm not a parent, but I have read the kids. I've read to my brother and sister when they were kids, right?

How First Ladies Should Connect With Sick Kids 💝🏥✨

Bruce Anthony: You gotta act it out, okay? Maybe even change your voice for different characters. That's just the way it is. She didn't do that and it was a bad presentation compared to [00:08:00] every other first Lady that has ever done that. It did come off as, why do I have to do this? It did come off as community service and let's be frank, it is, because it's not like she could say, I don't wanna do this.

You're not gonna read, you not gonna read to the kids, you not gonna read to sick kids. You not gonna read the sick kids on Christmas. It's not on Christmas, but you know what I mean. Like you, you not going to do that. You gonna decide to skip over. You can't. You gotta do it. It's a long standing tradition.

But they should have prepped her a little bit better than this. This was bad. It was bet them kids act like they didn't even wanna be there. And it's, look, lemme tell you something, Brucey Bruce. Love the kids. Love the kids. I think children are the most, what, number one, they're the most honest,

but they're the most pure.

Persona of a human. Mm, persona isn't the right word. The most, the most pure aspect of being human, [00:09:00] right? Because one, they're sponge. They're learning. They can learn either good stuff from their people or bad stuff from their people. But kids don't really see color. Kids can see differences, but they don't really care about the differences.

You wanna be my friend? Sure. You want to go run? Sure. You wanna spend time with each, with each other? Sure. They're honest, they're, they're what adults should aspire to be in their authenticity of being themselves. As we get older, we become jaded. We wear our scars from all our trauma, and we project that on to people and we lose the little people that we are.

We do. I wish I could talk to little Bruce. I wonder if little Bruce would be proud or disappointed in the person that I am. I know little Bruce would have a lot of damn questions about where I am in my life right now. How the hell I got here. [00:10:00] And little Bruce would be brutally honest. He'd be like, is this what you really want?

Are you happy? And I was like, yeah, no, no, I'm good. I'm like, yeah, I'm happy. I'm good. You know, there's some things that I wish I had in my life, but everybody wishes they had some things in them. Grass is always greater on the other side. But is it really just water, the grass that you got? As I detour, the point I'm trying to make is, is that we should do things for the kids because we need to show kids why it's important to do nice things for each other, continuously doing nice things for each other.

This and his action is doing something nice for the kids on Christmas. I don't necessarily agree with all the backlash Melania is getting from this. I don't. She's doing something nice and in this politicized world, which I'm a part of, and a lot [00:11:00] of things need to be politicized and a lot of things need to have lines drawn in the sand.

This ain't one of them, not. When it comes to the kids, there are no lines drawn in the sand when it comes to kids. We should feed them. We should make sure they're housed. We should make sure that they're taken care of as far as their medical stuff. We should love them because we all know, we all remember when we didn't feel that as a kid.

Maybe not necessarily the lack of shelter or the food, but the lack of love. The

These Kids Deserve Better Than This 💔🧒🏥

Bruce Anthony: lack of safety, and these are kids that are facing unimaginable sickness. Right, because

you can imagine an adult going through it, but your heart just breaks when little kids are going through it.

They just want to go outside and play, and they can't because they're sick.

So a first lady, a [00:12:00] longstanding tradition

comes to read to them. Yeah. It's not done well. It's not done well, and that's where I lay fault. Not just on Melania, but her team, right? Like they should have prepared her better for this because it's not about her and a photo op, and he pres on the fact that she's doing something that is a long standing tradition, but in itself is inherently a good thing and that should be praised.

The focus shouldn't be on her. Should be on them damn kids. Because you're doing this to give them just a momentary relief of the pain that they're feeling each and every day. You're doing it to put a smile on their face because of the pain that they're going through each and every day. And because of that, [00:13:00] because of that.

You should prepare. Your team should have you prepared. You should take more pride in the fact that you are there to give these kids

a momentary release from their every day pain. I don't criticize that she didn't do it well. Criticizing the preparation and the effort. If you prepared,

you put effort in, you flub up on some words just because this is your, not your first language baby girl.

You don't got no complaints from me. You did something great. You did something beautiful for the

kids. No complaints. When you don't prepare and you don't put in the effort to show those kids respect.

Respect, [00:14:00] not just for the long standard tradition, push that out the way, respect for the fact of what they're going through, and yet you're there to bring some joy during a happy time.

That is Christmas for kids, right? That is the major thing for kids. The birthdays and Christmas,

huge thing. And they're in this hospital and they're sick. You were supposed to bring them Joy you became, you became

came in ill-prepared, and because you came in ill-prepared you gonna get this criticism, and of course MA's gonna be like, why you gonna jump down her throat, do this and that.

That's not her first language. Once again, I don't care that it's not her first language. I don't care that she mess up on words. I mess up on words all the time. I just did. I mess up on words all the time. English is my first language and I still mess up. I'm not tripping off of that. I'm tripping [00:15:00]

at the lack of respect and a lack of preparation that was not done to bring these kids joy.

And I think that's fair criticism. But if Melania put these kids to sleep. Puffy story is about to wake you right

back the hell up,

and we gonna get into that

next.

Bruce Anthony: Every

Diddy's Dark Past: The Reckoning Begins 🎬⚡😱

Bruce Anthony: time you look into Puffy's past another wild allegation jumps out like this is a p Daddy and a family tour. What am I talking about? The reckoning? Sean Combs, the reckoning just came out on Netflix and I said on the sibling half the hour that I was gonna watch it this weekend. I binged it on Friday and Saturday.

Watch all four episodes and said I was gonna give my, you know, my, my critique, my summary of this documentary. Now, the first thing that I'm [00:16:00] gonna talk, the first thing I'm gonna say is 50 cent wasn't being petty. He came on Good Morning in America and he said something that I'm going to piggyback off after the end of this segment.

But he said something that there's no beef between me and Puffy. I did this because a lot of people. The hip hop community aren't really speaking about this, and I don't want anybody to think that the hip hop community condones the actions of these things. Us as black people. Now I'm speaking to my black people out there and I'm giving everybody else who isn't black insight into black culture.

Us as black people are used to being persecuted. Are used to being attacked so and assassinated, whether you're Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Medgar adverse. Anybody that with Abraham Lincoln, even though he technically didn't free the slaves, but I'm not gonna get into that. He freed the slaves under his watch, but I'm not gonna get into that.

Okay. Technically, anybody that's helped any, any black Americans or helped Black American progress in this country has been [00:17:00] assassinated, right? Been killed, has been villainized. And because of that, anytime that we have a hero, we tend to defend them even when the shit that they do is wrong and we know it's wrong.

Case in point, OJ Simpson, you had so many black people out there celebrating, why do we think OJ did it? Hell yeah. We think OJ did it not by himself. I'm long standing believe that. I don't think that OJ did it by himself. But he's definitely responsible for everything. Right. But do we also think the LAPD was racist?

Yes. Right? Like that's also a thing. Do we think the prosecution of OJ Simpson had racist undertones? Yes. So because of that, we're going to defend him even though we know that he's wrong. Why? Because there's been so many innocent people that have been treated this way. The [00:18:00] reason why you still have people that still riding for Bill Cosby, even though we know he's wrong, right?

It's the reason why even though Louis Farrakhan has said anti-Semitic things, you'll still have people in the black community defend him. Why? Because he is built up the black community, right? He empowers the black community man. He also did some ill SIF and said anti-Semitic, that I anti-Semitic comments that I don't condone at all.

And so I have to distance myself from 'em 'cause I'm like. Yo, I can't rock with you when you're spewing hatred. The same reason why I've stepped away from Dave Chappelle, because it's anti-trans comedy. People would say that he's not anti anti-trans, but mm, bru all you do is talk about trans people and make jokes about it.

So, but that's the insight into the black community, what 50 is saying. He was like, look, I don't. This documentary is important. One 50 is being petty. He is, he's absolutely being petty. [00:19:00] He doesn't particularly hate Puffy. He doesn't particularly have beef with Puffy. He just, he, he just doesn't particularly all like him all that much.

Right. But also, he did not want people to think that hip

hop culture was defending Diddy or being silent.

When we and, and condoning that, and we have an issue in the hip hop community because we stayed silent to r Kelly and we knew exactly what R Kelly was doing. And then when we saw the documentaries, we were like, oh goodness, we gotta cancel r Kelly.

Right? And then you got some people out there that's like, I'm not cancel r Kelly, he made good music. It's problematic, it's moral gymnastics. That was F's explanation, and I'm gonna get into more of that later in the segment. But I, there were some things in this documentary that I just, I kind of wanted to clear up and I wanted to talk about because some information was new, but a lot of [00:20:00] information was retreads.

And people are coming to me and they're like, pr, can you believe that? Can you believe this? Can you believe that? And I'm like, that's not true. And the document documentary kind of leaned into it without saying certain things. Like if you know the history of this, and I'm of that generation since I remember the day that Tupac was shot, I remember when Biggie was shot.

I was present in the moment. I was in high school ready to enter into college a few years away from entering into college. I remember that right and everything falling along with that. I remember the 95 source awards. So I have a different perception. Of everything, a different interpretation of everything.

The Real Story Behind Tupac and Biggie's Beef 🎤💀🔫

Bruce Anthony: And I have the facts because I was always curious about this. Tupac and Biggie Beef. So the beef, let's go with how the beef started. Tupac was accused of sexually assaulting a young lady. Him and a couple [00:21:00] of different people. One of the other people that was accused was this gangster in New York that Tupac was hanging around, that Tupac basically built, uh, pat Birdie from above the rim after Haitian.

Jack, Haitian. Jack is a notorious gangster in New York, right? Notorious gangster in New York. So there's this, the sexual assault allegation made by this young lady for Tupac and several people, Haitian. Jack was one of them. Tupac felt the Haitian Jack and his boys were throwing him under the bus, so he started verbalizing that.

He didn't do anything to this young woman. It was them. This was pissing Haitian Jack and people in Haitian Jack's camp off. This is what led to Tupac being shot in Quad Studios by Jimmy Henchman and his crew. I'm not snitching. This is all documented. It's all been uncovered. [00:22:00] These are the facts. Puffy Biggie.

Nobody had anything to do with PAC being shot in Quad Studios being shot the first time or the second time. They had nothing to do with it. This documentary kind of leaves, and maybe Puffy had something to do with it. He did not. That was the reason why PAC was shot. Now, the reason why Pac was. Upset at Biggie and Puffy and all of them is 'cause he was like, man, I got shot in your town.

I got shot in a studio that y'all were recording in. Y'all don't know nothing. Y'all can't help me out. This is supposed to be your city. I come here, y'all can't even protect me. Which Pac was wrong? Pac put himself in that position. Big and Puffy didn't have nothing to do with that. And Haitian Jack, Jimmy Henchman were for real.

Gangsters in New York City. Why they going to interject themselves into PAC's situation when they ain't got nothing to do with it. PAC was [00:23:00] wrong for blaming him on that. Fast forward, how does death row and bad Boy get into a beef? It's not death row and bad boy. It's Suge and Puffy. Now the documentary Insinuates.

That Puffy was trying to get at Suge side piece in Atlanta, and that caused friction. I'm inclined to believe it because typically what caused friction between two men is women. Not the women's, not the women's fault, it's the ego of men, but yes. This was probably over a woman and one of SU's homeboys got killed by an associated of Puffy, so Suge felt like Puffy was responsible and the war is on.

It's funny because Pac is in jail during this time. Pac is in jail and he is given interviews saying that he believes bad boy is [00:24:00] somehow responsible because. They were there and they should know Suge is hearing this right, and Pac is a great artist. Suge bails him outta jail. But why does Suge bail him outta jail?

Suge doesn't bail him outta jail before he has beef with Puffy. He bails him outta jail after he has beef with Puffy to incite more beef. This wasn't an east coast, west coast beef. This was a death row, bad boy beef, and it was really one sided. It was members of Death Row, Suge and Tupac having beef with Puffy

and Pac having a semi beef with big,

because he said in interviews even after the fact, he was like, that's my little brother.

I love my little brother, but my little brother's outta line. And sometimes you got Spank, your little brother. Pac didn't want Biggie, dead Biggie didn't want Pac dead. Suge and Puffy. [00:25:00] Those things are a little different. So that's how the beef started. And then the media pushed this East coast, west coast thing, and it wasn't East Coast, west Coast.

It later became different camps 'cause Pop kept attacking everybody in New York and then it kind of became this thing. But this really initiated from PAC and Biggie, right? I mean from Suge. And

Puffy. And Puffy didn't have anything to do. With Tupac being killed. Now,

puffy does have an affiliation with the Crips that has been well documented before this documentary.

It's been well documented, but the case for Tupac is easily been solved already. Okay, this is all, I'm not snitching Orlando. Anderson, a Crip from Los Angeles. Got jumped in Las Vegas by Pocking their boys because Orlando Anderson had robbed a death row [00:26:00] affiliate of their death row chain in la The guy that got robbed was Whip Pot and Suge in Vegas for a Mike Tyson fight.

They saw the, they saw Orlando Anderson, the guy who robbed him. They go and jump him. Orlando Anderson and Kefi D, his uncle. It's like, let's go get 'em. They're riding around in Vegas trying to find pac. They find pac. They light him up. They don't have nothing to do with Puffy. Now, does Puffy have a connection to Kefi D in Orlando Anderson?

Yes. In this documentary and in other documentaries, it was established that Puff put a bounty on death row people for their death row chains, that that might be true. But is Puffy directly responsible? Did he order a hit on Tupac? No. Biggie's murder, something totally different hasn't been solved yet. We don't even know.

Diddy's Financial Betrayal of Biggie's Estate 💰😡📄

Bruce Anthony: We think Suge has something to do with it, but that's that. But aside from that, 'cause a lot of people have been like, [00:27:00] what's the truth of the, of the situation? Aside from that, let's get into some of the documentary that, that I felt was revelatory. So. I always knew from making a band that Sean Combs was an asshole.

I just didn't realize how much of an asshole he is. So they gave a couple examples, some new revelations, revelations, I don't think that's the right word. Some new information, not revelations, some new information that would point to Puffy being an absolute asshole. So Biggie had this huge funeral after he passed away in New York.

It's still talked about. It's still videos shown. Okay. Puffy wanted to have the biggest funeral for Biggie, the biggest New York funeral for Biggie. His right hand man, his man that was running the company, handling the finances, is showing him how much this funeral is going to cost. And what Puffy decides to do is have Biggie's estate [00:28:00] pay for it.

Also, it's alleged by the same person that was running the finances for Biggie, I mean, running the finances for Bad Boy that Biggie had signed a new contract. And then he died and that Puffy had him go back over the contract and change some things so that it was more favorable for Bad Boy. So the accusation is, is that Puffy was screwing over Biggie Estate, and I believe it because if you look at Puffy's history with any of his artists.

He is always screwing them over financially. None of them talk about how Mad bad Boy really took care of me and we had a good time at Bad Boy and we made money. None of 'em talk about that. None of them. And, and why would they? Because it didn't happen. And Puffy had learned from some of the best he had learned from Andre Harrell, who was the main man in Uptown Records and Clive Davis.

And there's one thing that we do [00:29:00] know about the music industry, they gonna screw their artists. But another thing that was interesting is that Biggie was supposed to have the Rolling Stone cover. And this is all from what people are saying in the documentary, but I believe it, you know? And here's the thing about documentaries, you gotta realize that they're kind of biased.

I think this documentary tried to do a good job. Of painting a clear picture and not being too biased, but it's still biased, right? Like it's a thesis paper, right? And they have a thesis statement and they're trying to prove their thesis statement by giving you examples of why their thesis statement is true.

And the thesis statement of this documentary is Sean Combs is asshole, and they give you more and more examples of how Sean Combs his asshole. But one of 'em was his Rolling Stone cover and that Biggie was supposed to be on a Rolling Stone cover. Biggie dies.

And then Sean Combs changes it. He is like, no, we gonna promote my album.

I'm going to be on the cover. [00:30:00] Sounds like an asshole to me. Violence and

death surround puffy. And that is clear and evident throughout this documentary, but also some of this stuff wasn't new, right? These are all. Information that if you've been paying attention, if you've been watching other documentaries or just living in that life, you knew that violence and death kind of surrounds Puffy.

And it starts at the stampede, at the charity basketball, at celebrity basketball game in 91 or 92. Right. A bunch of people died and I, I honestly, I don't believe that's his fault. I think that was a freak accident. People bum rushing a building and people being trampled and and died. I don't, I don't blame that on him.

Could it have been planned better? Maybe. Did he over promote it? Probably. But as a promoter, you promote something, that's what you do. It's better to over promote something than [00:31:00] under promote it. Who could foresee that? People were going to bum rush the door. People were gonna be trampled to death. Now people died and it's a sad story, but I don't hold him accountable for that.

Violence and Death Always Surrounded Puffy ☠️🚨💣

Bruce Anthony: Now, let's fast

forward years later and the beating of Steve Stout, and that happened eight months before the club New York

shooting where his artist shine, goes to prison and Puffy, you know, has a, a court co a court trial and everything, and a witness says it. Puff had a gun and been shooting it, and the witness has been saying this for years, that Puff had a gun and was shooting it.

And I believe it. I believe it because if you know the history of Sean Combs growing up, he was the son of a hustler that ran with Nicki Barnes, a notorious heroin drug trafficker in the seventies. [00:32:00] So growing up with this. Lore above your head can be all consuming for the sons, right? The sons of the, of these men who had this reputation and he never knew his father.

So he's learning this stuff from stories, right? And who doesn't want to be a gangster? Everybody wants to be a gangster. Sean didn't grow up like that, but everybody want to be a gangster. Everybody wants to be a gangster until it's time to be a gangster. Everybody wants to play gangster. Everybody wants the, the notoriety and love of gangster until you gotta get dirty with it, then nobody wants it.

So do I think he shot at the club? Yeah. Just like there was another conversation in the documentary that he and his son Justin shot a man in the bathroom and tried to cover it up. Yeah. Yeah. I believe that also the multiple sexual assaults. Another part of the [00:33:00] death and the violence. This is going all the way back to 92.

Young lady said that she was sexually assaulted, drugged, and assaulted. 92. And the reason why I believe these things 'cause all the stories that they have are similar, right? Drugging, sexual assault, Aubrey Day didn't accuse puffy. Somebody wrote a letter and saying that she was unresponsive and being sexually assaulted by Puffy and another man.

And it's a similar story in all of these assaults, drugging, incapacitated, assault. Now there's two ways you could look at that. You could say it's a pattern of behavior that would mean that.

This is the truth. [00:34:00] Or you could say it's a template used for accusations. Those are two ways that you could look at it.

I tend to be of, if the stories are the same

and it's repeated throughout years, odds are it's the truth. When I bet my life on it, no, because I wasn't there,

but I'm gonna believe the women. More than I believe him, especially when the stories and the similarities

of the stories are consistent.

But another thing that was new that I learned in the documentary

was drug use. So they established that puffy in the beginning didn't smoke weed. Didn't really drink, didn't. He was about hustling and grounding and everything like that. Something happened where he and his wife at the time, Kim Porter, had got into a fight and his wrist got slit.

Now, the [00:35:00] stories vary as to did he slice his wrist and an attempted suicide or an attempt to get attention for suicide? Was he fighting with her and she broke a bottle and accidentally slid his wrist? Something happened. His risk has slipped and nobody knows the story unless you're there. You can't know what the true story is.

But what came from that is him being prescribed Percocet, and they say from that moment on, he became addicted to drugs, cocaine, ecstasy, using that stuff for these freak offs to be able to stay up for hours. You see the escalation of the acts of. Him constantly getting into trouble. These acts constantly being escalated through the influence of these drugs.

And there is definitely a correlation between the two. This was new because I thought Puffy, that was his name. I thought he was [00:36:00] puffy 'cause he used the puff. That would make sense, right? But that he was living a clean life. That's surprising to me. And this led to this accident and the prescription of of Percocet led to.

Him being a drug user. And if you, as you look at these videos, 'cause he's constantly recording himself, uh, throughout his entire life, you look at these videos, if you known somebody or seen somebody, or if you have used drugs before, you see the signs, right? Like you could see it in the eyes, you could see it in the accidents, the up and down of the actions.

Drug Addiction Changed Everything for Diddy 💊😔🌀

Bruce Anthony: Like you see it, it makes sense

now. So that was, that was a new revelation. What disappointed me, and this is going back to 50, this is going back to the beginning of the segment,

was this idea that his longtime assistant knew some of these things that was going on, knew about him harming Kim Porter, which is a wife of his four kids. [00:37:00] Knew about some of these allegations. Knew about his treatment, knew about his up and down mood swings and all about that.

Knew about his destructive behavior,

knew about it for years and didn't say anything because he was so important to

the culture, the hip hop culture. And he is. He is very important to the hip hop culture. Bad boy. Is important to the hip hop culture. I have a very good friend of mine, highly intelligent, right?

Bad boy fan, right? And it's just like, I know what Diddy did was wrong, and I don't condone any of that, but don't take my bad boy away from me. Don't take that music away from me. It's a soundtrack too. A lot of millennials and Gen Xers lives, especially when you go from like 94 to 9 98. That was my high school years.

Those were my high school years. He is very important to the culture, but this is what [00:38:00] 50 was talking about. It's the reason why he said part of the reason also 'cause he wanted to be petty. Part of the reason why he wanted to bring this out is 'cause he was like, look, we don't condone these actions. This isn't a part, even though it slightly is, oh, the hip hop culture, right?

Like

this is not what we want representing hip hop culture and. There was a lot of

people just protecting him through the years because they didn't want to damage the culture. Same thing. The reason why Bill Cosby was protected for years, right? He's protected for years. Even though people knew what he was doing, people knew what he had been doing 'cause he was so important to black culture.

Same thing with r Kelly to music. We knew what he was doing, but he was so important. You will play these moral gymnastics for people that you feel are important to whatever. Community that you are a part of and you fall victim to not calling them out [00:39:00] when you should.

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Bruce Anthony: And people didn't call Diddy out and they should have,

and this

protection of the culture also.

And let's be frank, as we saw the jurors, one of them, one of the jurors was a male.

Misogyny and patriarchy are wrapped

up and tied into this as well. One of the main jurors just was like, you know, if it was a big deal, it wasn't a big deal. Cassie and and Diddy would fight and they would get back together. It was a lover's call. It wasn't a big deal. She wasn't being trafficked. She wasn't being trapped.

If it was so bad, she could just leave, and that's such a male thing to say. It really is, and not just male. There are some women who actually uphold patriarchy and misogyny, but that's just such a, why didn't they just leave? Because we feel that we could just leave. I was talking to a friend of mine, female, who was explaining to me that her next door neighbor plays the [00:40:00] music cloud, and I said, what is your neighbor?

She said, it's a man. I said, you can't go knocking on that door. I said, if it was me, I'm six foot 4, 235 40 pounds. I'll go knocking on that door. 'cause I don't care. I'm not afraid of a confrontation, I'm not afraid of whatever comes at me at that door. It is what it is. It's a little bit different when you're a female.

You can't just go confront. And I was like, you're in a precarious situation. 'cause you also don't want to be a caring, right? You don't want to go snitch. What you would wish that you could do was go knock on the door. But you don't know what that, you don't know what's gonna come of that out. You don't know what that outcome is gonna be right from that action.

You don't know how that's gonna be perceived, how that other person's gonna respond to you, knocking on their door, complaining about their music being loud. The best suggestion was, Hey, go to the Lisa office. Say you don't want to make a formal complaint, but that maybe somebody could talk to your neighbor.

But I understand that she as a [00:41:00] female, can't just go and confront. Because you don't know how that person is going to respond, especially when it's a male. It's so easy for men to say, why don't women just leave? It's not that easy, bruh. It's not that easy. And for you to not have empathy or sympathy

to hear a woman's plight and just be like, well, I don't understand 'cause I'm not a woman, but I'm gonna take your word for it and ride with

what you say.

That's just not how massy and patriarchy works. This is another reason why Puffy was enabled for all these years, and that's what I basically got from the documentary. Powerful people, important people, will always be enabled for their bad behavior, and we as human beings need to do a better job of stepping up.

Calling them out, speaking out, no matter what it does to [00:42:00] whatever group that we're associated with. That's just the truth, but all right, puffy nearly broke the culture. Let's see how a preteen is trying to break her mother's wallet, and we gonna get into that

next.

Bruce Anthony: Jen Alpha doesn't want toys anymore. These kids want corporate starter packages. I came across this really interesting story and people magazine. The title of the article is Mom Goes Viral for Sharing Daughters K Christmas Wishlist. So basically the article is about an Idaho mom named Mackenzie Ell Worth whose TikTok series about her 11-year-old Darla Capris, roughly $5,000 Christmas wishlist went viral.

Then reveals that the real list is much smaller and that the original videos were meant as an exaggeration, tongue in [00:43:00] cheek type content. I'm gonna get into all that later, but let me get into the article. So Mackenzie El versus is a professional body piercer and mother of four who post piercing content and family mo moments, especially with her daughter Capri on TikTok, the mother-daughter duo had already built an audience before the wishlist series, so followers were prompt to react when the high price items appeared on screen.

Gen Alpha's $5,000 Christmas Wishlist Goes Viral 🎄💸📱

Bruce Anthony: In the initial video, Capri presents a Christmas lift that viewers estimated around $5,300. That included a $90 sweatshirt, $98 Lulu Lemon leggings, and the latest iPhone 17, and a range of makeup and skincare products. A followed video added even more expensive items such as a Apple watch fence, a cat, and pushing this fantasy total to close to 5,000.

Fueling outrage and fascination.

Uh, let me get into that

Now. This is an 11-year-old kid. [00:44:00]

Kids have no concept of money, none

as at 10 or 11 years old. I had no concept of how much things cost. The video game cost, $40 and 19, 19 91, I didn't know how much $40 was. I thought it was $40. Who don't got $40? Get that.

Get that game for me. Right? I didn't imagine that. $40 is really expensive, especially for 1991. Really expensive, right? You don't have any concept of money, so of course kids are going to put things on their Christmas list that are extravagant. Because they have no idea how much money costs. I was talking to a friend because their child had started writing their Christmas list and they were like, this child must think that I'm made money.

And I was like, that child don't even understand money, but you [00:45:00] could take this opportunity to explain money to them, which is a lesson that I don't think any child was too young to learn. It's the most important lessons. When you live in this country, 'cause money is so very, very important in this country.

People attacking the kid or attacking the mom and the kid because a mom is posting what this wishlist is like. This is ridiculous. But there was people that attacked commenters, slammed the list as entitled and sad with some teens pointing out that their own wishlists were far more modest, featuring things like Pokemon carbs or squish marshmallows.

Or Apple pencil instead of the luxury fashion and tech. Others question, what happens to kids wanting toys using the comment threads to vent Broader frustration about consumer culture and parenting norms. I will say something about that.

What do you expect from kids [00:46:00] when you put an

iPad in their hand at the age of

what do you expect they are going to want?

When you put expensive things in their hands at a young age, they're gonna continuously want expensive things because that's what they're used to. No, they're not gonna ask for toys.

Parents Created This Monster With iPads 📱👶😤

Bruce Anthony: They're gonna ask for the latest iPod, the latest iPhone meta glasses.

They're gonna ask for all of that stuff because you put them, put those items in their hand and you put those items in their hand.

'cause it was easier to parent. When they're busy and preoccupied and distracted. This is your fault. Parents out there. Your kids ask for expensive stuff. It's your fault. Take them iPads away from them. Have 'em go build something with Legos. [00:47:00] And Legos are expensive too, but at least that's enriching their mind.

Not to say that some iPod games or TV shows don't enrich your mind. 'cause it's all about learning. Like I think that you don't take the iPod away from 'em. Like it's, if it's teaching your child, that's always a good thing, but it shouldn't be the only thing that teaches their child Legos. Pokemon cards, you know, board games, like all this stuff is good if you.

Open the variety of things that you put into Play-Doh. Do kids even play with Play-Doh anymore? Play-Doh is fun. You give these kids variety, they'll want variety,

and it doesn't always have to be expensive. But

was

this

real? Or was it satire? Ellsworth later clarified in the wishlist series that the over the top list was partly satire and crafted as an exaggerated content rather than the little [00:48:00] record of what her daughter expected to receive. She explained that viewers did not see the context that she and Capri understood going in, that this was a big dream list and that the child did not believe that she would receive everything on it.

Okay. Do I believe this could be satire? Maybe I'm not familiar with their page. So it very well could be if she's routinely doing satire with her daughter very well, could be satire. Now, could it be convenient that they say that this is satire and tongue in cheek because of the backlash that they received?

That could be possible too. Is it also true that. Kids will write this big wishlist knowing that they, they'll put everything on it knowing that they won't get everything. That's true too, because I remember being a kid at 11 years old, making a Christmas wishlist, knowing that I wouldn't get any everything on it.

Making special notations like, this is more important than this. This is what I really, really want. This, that, that happens like kids. [00:49:00] If your kid thinks that they can make a big wishlist and that they're gonna get everything on it, that's your fault. That's your fault. Most kids, I believe, will know that they're not gonna get everything that they, that they want, but they're going to give you a big list 'cause they wanna make sure that you know everything that they want.

They're gonna make little notations to what's important. And then you can pick and choose the rest. When she shared her daughter's genuine Christmas list, the total value came to about $441, which I still think is pretty high, which she described as much more reasonable than the viral version. Caprice still hopes for the higher end, uh, pieces from the original TikTok, like the Lululemon leggings and the pricey sweatshirt.

But the real list drops the multi-thousand dollar pets and piles of tech and cosmetics. Elsworth says her goal is to let her kids dream big while also maintaining realistic expectations about what they can actually receive. [00:50:00] She emphasizes that allowing a child to write an exaggerate wish, an extravagant wishlist, does not mean a parent will fulfill it line by line.

Instead, she sees at a window into the interest and a chance to talk about money and priorities

From Wishlist to Life Lessons: Raising Smart Kids Today 📝💡🎁

Bruce Anthony: and that actually agree with. Actually co-sign. I think that it is important for your kids to write down

everything. Kids' interests change. Parents are busy, right? Parents have their own lives.

Parents are also people, and they might not be in tune to everything that their child has an interest in.

These lists will give you an idea. What if on that list you see coloring books and you're like, Hey baby girl, why do you have coloring books in your wishlist? 'cause I like to color in the lines. I wish that I could draw on [00:51:00] myself 'cause I like to draw, but I'm not very good at it. You aren't. But it's something that you're interesting in, that interested in.

You know, would it be a good gift art classes? You know, so yes, it is a learning thing and it is an opportunity to talk about money and priorities, right? Because like I said at the top, it's very important to teach your kids about money. And even though this little girl is 11, that doesn't mean that she's too young to be learned about money.

That's like the perfect age. That's the perfect age for her to be having chores, an allowance, and understanding how money works. Understanding that unless you could buy two of it and it won't hurt you, you can't buy one of it. That's the golden rule. If you can't buy two of something, then you can't buy one, stave up your money a little bit more so that if you could buy two, it wouldn't hurt you.

That means you could definitely buy one. These are things that kids need to learn. I was [00:52:00] in a grocery store the other day and kids were buying some candy and stuff like that in front of me in the grocery store, and it was like. Hey kid, do you realize that you don't have enough money to buy this candy?

And then the kid did have money. They was trying to, you know, scam out a 14 cents. They didn't wanna break another dollar bill, but that they need to understand, Hey, look, unless you got it, got it. Unless you can afford to, to give it up to get what you want, you shouldn't be spending your money on it and not to.

And you know what? If that kid didn't have enough money, I was gonna get them kids to candy. You know, Bruce, Bruce loved kids. I, he was in line and you know, I was gonna get them kids to candy. But the point of the matter is teaching your kids money and priority is a good thing. I don't necessarily know that I would be putting this all on TikTok, but I'm not a parent.

And this is that generation. This is what they're doing now. She said her daughter loves to be on TikTok, loves to be a star. Okay, what have you? $1 for one child, 'cause they got [00:53:00] four of them. It's still a lot of money, but I'm not buying Christmas gifts for kids. Maybe that's just the go on rate now. I remember our parents had a budget.

They never told us what the budget was, but I always knew that there were gonna be more presents under the tree for my younger brother and sister than it was for me. 'cause it's stuff that I wanted cost more. I wanted clothes when I got to high school and video games. That costs more. So I'm only going to have five or six presents under the tree where my sister would have like 20 plus.

She was the only girl and she's daddy's little girl and she's spoiled. But, but that's the truth. And, and I understand it 'cause I have a goddaughter and I used to spoil the hell out of her too. Men will spoil the women that, that, that they care about. That's just, that's just what it is. But yeah, this is a, this is a learning experience.

So for all your parents out there, Christmas is coming up. Let your kids write that big list. Let 'em write everything down. You might find out that there's some interest that they, like. You [00:54:00] might find out that there, there are things that, that you could push them towards that, that may be able to be in the future.

You never know. You don't know, but kids are honest, so if you ask them. You can learn a lot about your child and you can also teach lessons that's gonna help them in life. And I know that's what every parent wants to do as well, is raise well adjusted adults. So yeah, the real list was only $441, which is still wild, but at least it didn't require a GoFundMe.

Right? And if your kid asks a $5,000 Christmas list, you gotta sit them down and say, baby, hey. We don't even make $5,000 worth of decisions in this house. And that's all a part of the teaching and a learning process for a young child to become a successful, functioning adult that we need more of in this society.

But on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. I [00:55:00] want to thank you for watching, and until next time, as

always, a holler.

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