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Bruce Anthony: Teachers, bad parenting or bad children. We gonna get into it. Let's get it.

Bruce Anthony: Welcome, first of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony. Here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation or follow us wherever you get your audio podcast. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcast and YouTube exclusive content rate review.

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Bruce Anthony: So we are technically still on vacation, so this is not going to be a full show. The first segment is gonna be me giving you guys an update. The second segment is gonna be a YouTube exclusive where we talk about an interesting story between a parent and their daughter. And then we're gonna be talking about teachers and a little sneak peek from my after hours uncensored.

Breaking News: We're YouTube Monetized! 💰🎉✨

Bruce Anthony: But before we get to that, some exciting news for the Unsolicited Perspective podcast. We are now monetized on YouTube. If you've been watching us recently over the last week and a half, you would notice that there are. Ads or commercials on our YouTube videos, both before, during, and after each video.

Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot stress enough how much we really, really need you to watch those ads. Yes, some of them can be long, 30 seconds. Some of 'em are even a minute, but we get paid off of that and don't think [00:02:00] by skipping it that the next person will watch it. And then we'll get paid after that as well, because everybody will be thinking the same thing.

No, we need everybody to watch the ads. If you support the show, support us by watching these ads because that's how we make money Also.

Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Access: New Membership Tiers! 🎭🔓💎

Bruce Anthony: We are gonna be doing a membership program on our YouTube page. There's gonna be two tiers to start off. One is gonna be 2 99 a month. The other one is gonna be 4 94 99 a month.

This is separate than our Patreon, but in, in addition to our Patreon, lemme explain. So the 2 99 tier is gonna to give you guys some behind the scenes footage of our, uh. Show Also, we're gonna be starting a Discord. That's a, basically it's a text messaging system that you can log into. Join our account and it'll just be like DMS or text messaging for ig.

Or if we, you had our phone numbers, you could talk to us. Predominantly me, but my sister would [00:03:00] chime in every now and then you could talk to us, send us, you know, messages, send us, you know, memes, give us show topics. That'll just be one of the ideas for the 2 99 membership. There's more, but that's just one of the cool things.

You'll have more direct access to us. With the 4 99, we're going to do all those same things with the 2 99, but we're also gonna add the after hours uncensored to this as well as more in depth behind the scenes. And then I in particular, but my sister will join us. We're go are gonna do a weekly live stream.

It'll probably start off as 30 minutes. What I'm thinking is, is gonna let you guys into my Sunday fun day. You can interact, you can chat with me while we're on live screen. Live. Recording. No, it will not be available for to be watched any other time except for those people in the membership. So isn't something that I'm going to record and then release [00:04:00] later, it's, you either watch it then or you had a membership and you'll be able to watch it, but you won't be able to watch it any other time.

So there's more in depth, and I will give you guys more and more information as I. Expand the membership. It's still a work in progress, but it'll be up and running before July 15th, so we'll make a big grand announcement. But yes, the podcast is growing and we're really excited about it, and it's really all because of you guys.

So thank you. Thank you, thank you. Now for the rest of this episode, you're gonna be getting a YouTube exclusive where we're talking about parenting, and then a little bit of our after hours uncensored with. Me and my sister talking about teaching and the teachers that influenced us. For those people that have children, there's a little bit of cussing, but not much.

Not like our typical after hours uncensored because we specifically film this to give you guys a chance to see what we talk about on our after hours uncensored. So. We will be back to our [00:05:00] regularly scheduled programming on Friday, so the next episode will be our regular episode. But while we're still on vacation, enjoy a little bit of the semi original content.

Bruce Anthony: Okay, Jay did it again. Went to my favorite social media site, found this Reddit post. Yep. I found this Reddit post that I thought was really interesting 'cause it has to deal with parents again. You know, I know how much I love talking about parents and parenting.

Jay Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: So, so this is a conversation about a young lady who's decided to take a job.

She's not from the us she's in another country. She doesn't specify which country she's from,

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: decided to take another job. Uh, she's decided to go to college in the US and her dad is not in agreement with her. Now, a little backstory about this young lady and her father is that her father basically raised her because her father and her mother split when she [00:06:00] was younger.

It was a nasty divorce from his perspective. So she's dealt with that and she wants to know if she, if she's being a jerk or if she's overreacting.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: she's decided to cut her father completely out of her life.

Jay Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: So, so what we're gonna do is we're going to read the text exchange. I'm gonna be the father.

'cause you chose for me to be the jerk.

Drama Alert: Parent vs Daughter Showdown! 👨‍👧💔🌟

Jay Aundrea: Well, I mean, I just did it. I mean, I, I guess it's sexist, but I just did it across gender lines, so

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. You did it well. Okay, so, so, so, alright. So patriarchy here and you decided that I'm gonna uphold the patriarchy in this, in this role play. But I'm going to be the father. You're going to be the daughter.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: audience, we're going to read this text exchange and then tell you what we think afterwards.

So

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: let's get it started.

Jay Aundrea: Don't

Bruce Anthony: Don't,

Jay Aundrea: acting.

Bruce Anthony: yeah, don't com. Well, well I'm going to act Well I don't know about my sister. Alright, here [00:07:00] we go. Here's the dad. You mean like calling out the fact you'll end up a whore like your mother?

Jay Aundrea: You always do this. You ruin good things for me.

Bruce Anthony: Good. Running off to play therapist in another country.

Jay Aundrea: I worked for this. I did it alone.

Bruce Anthony: You think talking to people about their sad little problems makes you special?

Jay Aundrea: No, but it makes me feel like I'm not disappearing. I

Bruce Anthony: You'll disappear. All right. Under some guy who feeds lies, your mother fell for

Jay Aundrea: stop dragging her into this. I was a baby. I don't even remember her.

Bruce Anthony: you. Remember enough to act just like her emotional, dramatic, always needing attention.

Jay Aundrea: I'm not her. I just wanted you to be proud of me.

Bruce Anthony: Then you should have made better choices. Psychology, what a joke.

Jay Aundrea: This is my choice, my life. I'm leaving.

Bruce Anthony: Don't come call him back when it all goes to shit.[00:08:00]

Jay Aundrea: It won't, I won't. You made sure of that.

Bruce Anthony: You ungrateful little whore. I raise you. Your all mine. Now. You're not leaving anywhere.

Jay Aundrea: Goodbye, dad. You'll never hear from me again.

Real Talk: What Does Love Really Look Like? ❤️💭🤔

Bruce Anthony: Now, Jay.

Jay Aundrea: Mm,

Bruce Anthony: I don't have a daughter, but if I did, I have a goddaughter

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: I have little nieces that I adore.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Would never speak to them this way. Never, ever, ever speak to them this way. I I, I'm almost at a loss for word. So I'm gonna let you tell me what you think and then I'm gonna respond to that.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. So I don't have a daughter either, but I am one

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: I have a whole dad.

Bruce Anthony: Hold that.

Jay Aundrea: got a same dad. Okay.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

Jay Aundrea: have a, I am the, would never. But you wanna know why? my dad actually loves me and [00:09:00] my dad actually likes me. I'm so sorry sweetheart, but because of the actions of your mother, even though it has nothing to do with you, your father does not like you, and your father does not love you, because there is absolutely no way. Love does not look like that. Love is not you ungrateful little whore.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah.

Jay Aundrea: what love looks like. I think the best decision that you can make for yourself, it's the on, go ahead, go off to school leave that nonsense behind. Just live the, live the rest of your life. Live the rest of your life because that, again, that is not what love looks like at all your mind now. That's not what parenting is. Parenting is preparing your child to go off without you. That is what it is. [00:10:00] should have been preparing you to make this move on your own and be confident in that move and, and that's not what this is. He is trying to hold onto you and the way he couldn't hold onto your mother and he is blaming you and taking out his anger that he has for your mother or out on you. That's not love and that's not what love looks like. The best decision you can make is to go no contact with this person. That is not your father. is not a father. Period. I have a father. That's not it.

Bruce Anthony: So,

Jay Aundrea: that straight up.

Bruce Anthony: so we've been lucky

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: in the fact of, oh, don't get us wrong, we got some childhood trauma, but we've been lucky in the fact that our parents have always supported. Our endeavors. The biggest fans of this show outside of my bestie and our aunt, [00:11:00] our dad's older sister

Jay Aundrea: Don't

Bruce Anthony: our parents,

Jay Aundrea: our two cousins,

Bruce Anthony: our two cousins, and, and our brother.

And our brother. Uh, okay. These are all huge fans of the show. We, we could go down a line of huge fans of the show, but the biggest supporters are our parents.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Our parents have always supported us. Our stuff. You know, I, I talk about it before even, look,

Jay Aundrea: stuff.

Bruce Anthony: I owned a wrestling company. You went to film school.

Like, they're always like, go for your dreams. Try your dreams.

Jay Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: find this young woman remarkable and in, and the fact that she grew up in this environment, I. And she is still going to college in the United States to study psychology. I would gather the reason why she's studying psychology is because of the environment that she grew up in.

And she wants to help people. Yeah. Wants to make [00:12:00] sense. And I bet she wants to help people who might have gone or were going to go through or are going through similar situations that she did and was 'cause she cut off her dead.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: you overreacting? The answer is no. But I am going to push back on one of your points.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: You said that he doesn't love her.

Jay Aundrea: Correct.

Bruce Anthony: I don't know that we can definitively say that sometimes people don't. No, sometimes people don't know how to show love 'cause they were never taught to show love. So this is gonna be problematic. And ladies and gentlemen, let me just say I do not agree with. The way these people act.

Okay.

Jay Aundrea: No.

Bruce Anthony: sometimes parents were raised a certain way where they believe showing their children love is by beating them. And I, I'm exaggerating when I say beating, but kind of not right [00:13:00] by,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: by not, uh, sparing the rod. Right. And, and some of them discipline at the drop of a second. That is their initial reaction to discipline, to say that because they are abusive, that they don't love the person.

I don't think it's true. I don't think can be said in every, every situation

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: how I would say that this person clearly probably doesn't like his daughter. Okay. That's pretty clear. Not probably doesn't like his daughter, but to say that he doesn't love her, that's, that's. I don't know if I want to go to that stress, that stretch because it seems like, and I'm not making excuses for him, ladies and gentlemen, it seems like he is, it seems like he is hurt, extremely hurt from this situation, and this is just his response.

And, you know, [00:14:00] when people are hurt, they say things that they probably mean, but they didn't mean it to come out that way.

Jay Aundrea: Okay. And I'm gonna push back on your pushback.

Bruce Anthony: Okay?

Jay Aundrea: person's internal feelings that they don't express are not, that's useless to me. I can only go off the way you treat me. I don't know what you got going on in your head, but I do know the way that you treat me and the way that you treat me. It telling me you don't love me.

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

Jay Aundrea: about, I, again, I don't have children. I'm talking about as from the perspective of somebody's daughter. I have, I I the daughter to my father. I'm somebody's daughter. If my father talked to me like that, there's no way that I would believe my father actually loves me.

Bruce Anthony: I get it.

Jay Aundrea: There's just no way. So it it, he could have all the feelings for his daughter in in all the world.

He could have, he could love her. And really just, this is all just his fear. He doesn't wanna let her [00:15:00] go. And all of that could be that doesn't know that

Bruce Anthony: Yeah,

Jay Aundrea: he's not expressing it,

Bruce Anthony: true.

Jay Aundrea: that he's expressing is you ungrateful little whore, there's no way that I think this is a person who loves me.

Bruce Anthony: I, and I understand that perspective and, and I, and I agree with it, but both things can be true at the same time

Jay Aundrea: But, but what you don't express means nothing. Like,

Bruce Anthony: to you, right? Yes.

Jay Aundrea: what you don't express is how, how is anyone supposed to know?

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Well,

Jay Aundrea: anybody supposed to know? There

Bruce Anthony: long story short,

Jay Aundrea: it not existing.

Bruce Anthony: yeah. Long story short, baby girl, you're not overreacting.

Jay Aundrea: Not at all.

Bruce Anthony: Go do your thing at the states and may your life be blessed with success and happiness and reconnecting with your mom.

Jay Aundrea: and may you be white so that you were at least,

Bruce Anthony: I was, this is really this.

Jay Aundrea: a little chance of not being picked up by ice. Not a big [00:16:00] chance because we still got Australians and Canadians that are dealing with it over here, but I, I hope that you are able to have all the success that is possible in the United States right now.

So good luck to you.

Bruce Anthony: All right. Now that we ain't got fired up, that that YouTube exclusive went longer than than we originally anticipated. That's, that's going to that,

Jay Aundrea: I just was pissed off when I saw that.

Bruce Anthony: yeah.

Jay Aundrea: really was, and I'll tell you I was correct. It is Xi Jinping. And I was

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

Jay Aundrea: Jonna, you did, you got something. Correct. That has to do with P like, 'cause I don't know nothing. This is, this is the thing that people don't understand.

Like people don't understand. I don't know nothing,

Bruce Anthony: That's not true. You do know stuff.

Jay Aundrea: but I'm not good at like world events or like even knowing where places are in the world. Like, Hey Jonna, can [00:17:00] you find Iran on the map? I can't, I don't know. Nothing

Bruce Anthony: I mean, I can find a round in the map.

Jay Aundrea: if you give me a blank map

Bruce Anthony: A blank with no lines drawn or anything.

Jay Aundrea: the lines are drawn, but

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

Jay Aundrea: names, no labels on it. And you tell me to point out Turkey.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, no. Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: I ain't gonna be able to find

Bruce Anthony: The only way I'll be able to find is because obviously I know what Russia is, and Russia and Tur Turkey are close. And then once you start getting into Turkey, you're, you can start to kind of map out the Middle East a little bit. But I'm gonna be real honest,

Jay Aundrea: It's not a big area. It's

Bruce Anthony: it is not a bigger

Jay Aundrea: East Coast,

Bruce Anthony: right. It's, it's not.

But you know what, I'm gonna be real honest, uh, uh, if you gave me a, a PA pen and a piece of paper to write down all 50 states, I'm gonna get it. I'm going to get it,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: gonna take me a while.

Jay Aundrea: Actually I'm gonna do that as soon as we, as soon as we get off the, I'm gonna try to write down all [00:18:00] 50 states. I'm a number, a piece of paper one through 50 and I'm gonna try to name all 50 states and I guarantee you I'm gonna get to like 48, 49 and this is gonna be that one last state. And I'd be like, what the hell is that?

One last state?

Bruce Anthony: You know what's gonna happen? Uh, well, yeah, I mean you, you, you start, you start by doing the 50 states alphabetically, right? And then you go all the A's and we ain't got no B States, but I'm sure people would be like, well, yeah, we do Boston. Boston. It's not a state, ladies and gentlemen, that's a city and that's in the state of Massachusetts.

But that's what's gonna get people, people like, oh, another state of Seattle. No, that's in Washington. Seattle. Washington. Right,

Jay Aundrea: is like how y'all keep acting like Africa is a country and

Bruce Anthony: right, right. Continent. There are multiple countries, and that's another thing. Could name, could not name Autumn countries in Africa. Couldn't, wouldn't even come close.

Jay Aundrea: of all, there's 52, so I can tell you already, I could [00:19:00] probably get eight

Bruce Anthony: I don't even think I can get eight.

Jay Aundrea: At the most. I think I could probably name eight, but then it'll start, I'll start naming cities. And then I'll be like, that's a, that's a thing, right? They're like, Nope, that's in South Africa. I was like, okay, Johannesburg is not, is not a country in Africa, that's in South Africa. Okay. Then that's when I'll start. And so that's, yeah, I could probably name eight honestly. And it's, and it's places that either on my ancestry, DNAI am from, or people that I know are from these places.

Bruce Anthony: So you fun fact, I think it's a fun fact. You can look this up and I could be wrong, but there is a country continent,

Jay Aundrea: Okay. Now I am gonna look that up.

Bruce Anthony: there is a, Australia is both a continent and a country.

Jay Aundrea: huh? Yes. I actually think [00:20:00] that that is correct.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. But that's the only one. Africa is not a country, it's a continent. It's got countries in that country.

Jay Aundrea: Australia is the only country in the world that covers an entire continent.

Bruce Anthony: Yep, yep. Just a little known fact. Speaking of all these dumb facts, I wanted to talk about something that's near and dear my heart. Most people on the show, or the fans of the show actually we're in the after hours. This is a sneak peek of the after hours. A sneak peek, a sneak peek in the after hours.

That's the reason why there ain't too much cussing on here for the, for the main show that we're releasing. 'cause you know, we on sort of vacation, even though we still fing content,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: so.

Jay Aundrea: was surprised when you were like, Phil Friday. I was like, I thought it was vacation.

Bruce Anthony: Look, we're monetized on YouTube now, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, watch them, watch them ads, please. I know you don't wanna watch ads, but watch them ads please, and listen to the ads [00:21:00] on the audio please.

Middle School Mayhem: Surviving the Stinky Years & Teacher Tales 🏫😅👃

Bruce Anthony: But since we're going down this road, a lot of people who listen and watch the show know, because I talk about it often, that I have degrees in both secondary, secondary education and history, and I wanted to be a high school history teacher.

Jay Aundrea: yes.

Bruce Anthony: not middle school and high school? Because in middle school, the kids really stink because they, they come into an age where they don't really know. I have a friend who's a teacher in middle school, and she, she always says,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: deodorant is your friend. That's what she tells them.

Jay Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: She says,

Jay Aundrea: at an age where they're just starting to like need deodorant,

Bruce Anthony: right.

Jay Aundrea: were just in elementary school and they didn't need deodorant back then. They could smell like outside, and we'd be like, you just smell like outside. You smell like our, A kid should smell.

Bruce Anthony: Right.

Jay Aundrea: that you're in middle school, y'all are getting to be teenagers. Like y'all need some deodorant and you still transitioning.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: teenage [00:22:00] thing where you're like, oh, I need a, I need to put on a, know, bra now and deodorant

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: every day. Yeah, you do.

From "You Smell Like Butt" to Hygiene Heroes: The Awkward Truth 🚿🦸‍♂️💦

Bruce Anthony: It

Jay Aundrea: longer a cute, you smell like outside.

It's now you stay.

Bruce Anthony: sixth grade, when that girl told me that I smelled like butt, that's when I learned. Bruce, we need to start, start washing your ass. Okay? Because I don't ever want to be told, I smell like, but I.

Jay Aundrea: somebody told you,

Bruce Anthony: And she either said, I smell like butt, or she got near me, or somehow her face was in my butt and said that my butt stink.

It was one of the two. Okay. I can't remember. 'cause I just turned,

Jay Aundrea: near your butt,

Bruce Anthony: I think it could have been something that we were running around and she, you know how you little kids, you stumble and you stumble into somebody? You might, you know, I can't remember exactly what it was 'cause I just turned 45 and this is when I was 11, so that was 34 years [00:23:00] ago.

I don't remember the exact terms. What I do know is at that exact moment, it was like, oh, every day, sometimes twice a day, shower time and I need to scrub.

Jay Aundrea: yeah.

Teachers Who Changed Our Lives: Shoutouts & Surprises 🍎✨🙌

Bruce Anthony: like I said, went to school to be a high school history teacher, decided during the student teaching, oh. I'm not mature enough to do this. I was a 22-year-old kid.

They're not much younger than I am, especially if I was going to be teaching high school. And I was like, some of the things y'all are doing that I need to discipline, ah, it's kind of funny, which means I'm too juvenile to be a teacher.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: But the reason why I wanted to be a teacher is because I had so many teachers, specifically in high school and in one professor in college that really inspired me.

So this whole topic is about teachers that inspired. So before I go, I want to ask you, do you have any teachers, and we don't have to name them, we don't have [00:24:00] to name them, we could just say what grade and what subject they taught. But did you have any teachers that really inspired you?

Jay Aundrea: No.

Bruce Anthony: What.

Jay Aundrea: but I tell you what I did have, I'll tell you what

Bruce Anthony: I did. Hold on. I set that up. You knew what we were going be talking about beforehand. I teed it up and you hit me with the no. So quick what?

Jay Aundrea: I tell you what I did have, okay.

History Class Showdown: How Spite Turned a C into an A! 📚🔥😤

Jay Aundrea: It was my seventh grade honors history teacher. Okay? She, I was in the honors class for the first three quarters. I had a C and like a perfect 75. Like a perfect C, okay? It was, I knew how much work I needed [00:25:00] to do to maintain the 75, and that was pretty much about all the work I was willing to do because as you know, I am not good in history.

I don't, I, I thought I had that answer one time and I was saying, Lyndon Baines Johnson, but it was really Andrew Johnson or something like that. I don't

Bruce Anthony: No, you kept saying Andrew Johnson when it was Lyndon Baines Johnson,

Jay Aundrea: I only knew Lyndon Baines Johnson's. I don't know who Andrew Johnson is, so

Bruce Anthony: it was the president. It was the president after Lincoln.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, so I said,

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

Jay Aundrea: Johnson. 'cause that's the only Johnson I know.

Bruce Anthony: Right,

Jay Aundrea: And it turns out it was Andrew Johnson, whatever. I don't know, history, I don't care about learning it. And that's, that's as far, so what she did was she pulled me aside after third quarter grades came out and she said, I think you should talk to counselor.

'cause you know the guidance counselors are also to talk to you, but they're also there to help you with your [00:26:00] schedule and stuff.

Bruce Anthony: right.

Jay Aundrea: So I think you should talk to them. I don't think honors history is right for you. That's what she said to me. the fourth quarter I get an A, because what you not gonna do is tell me I don't belong in this class.

And I get the A with very little effort. She was so pissed off. She calls home, I answer the call. I answer the call and she chews me out for about 20 minutes and she's like, you could have done this the entire time. I can't believe she had just finished doing my grades and were so pissed off that I had, I think I got like a hundred percent and she, and then she, she noticed a pattern of it.

Okay. She got a perfect 75 each of the three quarters. Oh, she did this on purpose, and so, and then she's like, I wanna talk to your [00:27:00] parents. Who's there? I was like, my dad's here. And so I had phone to dad and I don't know what she said to the, I don't know what she said to him, but she was upset. And I, and that's, that's when I learned. This about myself that I'm willing to put forth as much effort as I'm willing to put forth, but do not underestimate me, because if you underestimate me, then I'm gonna show you what I'm actually capable of. And again, with very little effort, I got an A the final quarter. so that, that is one of, but no, no, I truly, I did have teachers that, and professors that really did inspire me, but a majority of them were in, in college when I got to college.

And just really, because in college when you, what you get are people who are really, really to the material, right? Because they spent their entire academic career learning this. And a lot of them are PhDs in this subject. And so what you get then is a passion for the [00:28:00] material and it, and it transfers over. And so. It, they, they broadened my horizons. They got me to think about things differently. A lot of my, like women's studies courses or sociology courses or you know, my degree is in, is English language and literature, but I had a concentration on race, class and gender studies. So like, just being in those classes, I tell you, I took journalism class, like women in journalism and like things like that.

Like, really having professors that care a lot about this material because it's their life's work also. And that transferring over and even in, when I was in junior college. Actually some of the professors that I love the most were from my junior college when I went to Montgomery College because they really cared about the students.

They really cared about you learning. I'm actually, he's retired now, is Dr. Coley. He was our [00:29:00] chemistry professor, and I was doing well in chemistry. Our brother was not, but he, he, he cared and he stayed after class and worked with him and talked him through it. And it was patient and like, really cared about you learning this material and knowing like it could be helpful for you later in life.

So yes, I did. I absolutely did have professors, but I also had teachers that worked my nerve too. So, you know, you get a little from a and a little from BI guess

The Unstoppable Power of Spite! 😤💪🔥

Bruce Anthony: Spite. Spite is a powerful emotion boy.

Jay Aundrea: powerful.

Bruce Anthony: because look, lemme tell you something. Don't say I can't do something. I'm going to do it even if I don't want to do it, and I'm going to do it because you said I couldn't do it.

Jay Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: boy, that is a

Jay Aundrea: actually said to me, I don't think you're in the right class. I don't think honors level is right for you.

Bruce Anthony: mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: [00:30:00] oh, you don't, do you? Okay.

Bruce Anthony: And, and, and

Jay Aundrea: home and chewed me out. You

Bruce Anthony: what did Dad do?

Jay Aundrea: time. He just li he kind of chuckled about it. 'cause he also, he knows how I am,

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

Jay Aundrea: he knows I was gonna give the bare minimum in that

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

Jay Aundrea: and then, and then to turn around and get an A and honestly I put like maybe an extra 10, 15% more effort. And honestly,

Bruce Anthony: Well, 15% more effort does get you to a 90. So

Jay Aundrea: So there you

Bruce Anthony: yeah, there you go.

Jay Aundrea: There you go.

From Daydreamer to Storyteller: My Writing Journey 📝✨💫

Bruce Anthony: I had teachers, I'll never forget, I was in the fifth grade. And what people don't, or some people know, uh, that listen or watch the show knows that my first major in college was journalism. I wanted to be a writer, ladies and gentlemen. My sister is a better writer than I am, a better technical writer than I am.

Jay Aundrea: Technical.

Bruce Anthony: I still think creatively.

Jay Aundrea: you're per very persuasive in your writing,

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I [00:31:00] creatively, I, but I'm a columnist. Columnist, not a journalist. They're two different things.

Jay Aundrea: a

Bruce Anthony: can't, yeah, I can't write just the facts and you not hear, you can't. You're gonna hear and read my position

Jay Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: in, in my writing, so,

Jay Aundrea: right?

Bruce Anthony: but I, but. That's what I wanted to do, even going so far, is to writing a comic book like the, the idea, the premise and everything of my comic book that I started 20 years ago with a friend who was an artist is still out there.

We just never did it. So I wanted to be a writer and it sparked in the fifth grade because we had to write some composition or something like that. And I'm struggling in what cult and what's language arts as you're in honors. In the seventh grade, they thought I was a complete dummy because I was in the lower level reading classes from like second grade to fifth grade.

I didn't catch up until I was like in middle school. [00:32:00] Okay.

Jay Aundrea: not your fault. You went to a Montessori school and they

Bruce Anthony: It wasn't

Jay Aundrea: reading and not phonics

Bruce Anthony: right, like it wasn't

Jay Aundrea: stand people who swear by sight reading. It is just memorization. It is not learning to read

Bruce Anthony: right.

Jay Aundrea: y'all.

Bruce Anthony: Phonics hooked on phonics worked for me, so. I, this particular teacher actually did something, I don't know if it was before or after this, 'cause my timeline is all screwed up 'cause we're talking about literally 35 years ago.

Jay Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: She said something, she did something that embarrassed me in front of the entire class because, you know, I would daydream a lot if you start lecturing and talking.

I would daydream, I would just go off into my own world. And she called on me. I, I know she saw me daydreaming. I was looking out the window, not at her. She called on me to answer a question. I absolutely did not know what we were talking about. I had no idea what we were even dealing with. Okay, I'm in my own little world and what did I try to do?

Instead of saying, I don't know, try to answer the question.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: And [00:33:00] it, it was a dumb answer 'cause it was, I, I didn't know what we were talking about. And the whole class started laughing

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: next day without directly apologizing to me. She apologized. To the class, but not to me directly. Everybody knew who she was talking to, but she ain't call me out by name.

And I was like, you should have called me out by name. But anyway, so we had to write this composition and we had to read what we wrote in front of the entire class.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: So I, I don't remember what the, it was about. I don't remember what it was about. Okay. I just wrote

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: fifth grade, 10 years old. She stands up at the front of the class and says, that's absolutely beautiful.

And this was a time where mom had this old school thick ass laptop. I. I said it right Laptop

Jay Aundrea: yes.

Bruce Anthony: and, and I was so into The Godfather, I was trying to start to write my own Godfather esque type novel.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I didn't know how to structure writing something. I kept [00:34:00] coming out my ideas and starting over and starting over.

So I, I didn't realize that I was practicing that entire time writing. So when I wrote the composition, all these ideas were kind of coming together and I was crafting it, I guess, right?

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: said it was absolutely like the only person that got an absolute beautiful, it, it almost like it, it touched her, like how beautifully written it was.

And she may have pulled me aside afterwards and just said something to the effect like, you're really good. You should really write a lot more. And so that, that stuck with me. So Bedford Hills Elementary School in, in Lynchburg, Virginia, fifth grade class. She probably, uh, she was old dancer. I.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: if she's still with us, but

Jay Aundrea: we, we never know.

Bruce Anthony: we never know.

Life-Changing Teachers Who Shaped My Future 👨‍🏫🌟💡

Bruce Anthony: Then you fast forward to my senior year, I had a government class

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and um, and an English, I mean, I had a whole bunch of classes, but my government teacher and my English teacher, [00:35:00] one was an old Vietnam vet and they were trying to fire him. Yep. They were trying to fire him because he would have flashbacks sometimes in the middle of the class.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: adored this man because he taught history the way I feel like it should be taught. People say they don't like history. I'm like, yes, you do, because you love documentaries. If you watch documentaries, you love history. You just don't like the way it was taught to you. He would teach it as a story. If you teach history as a story, you can get people engaged and they'll remember things and so I.

He taught government as a story too. So I was drawn to that. So drawn to that in my English class, we had to write, a, a composition on a person. And I asked him if I could interview him and write the composition on him. And he was like, yeah, of course. And there were some stuff, some questions. 'cause even then as a young journalist, I'm always going to the heart of the issue.

Where's the [00:36:00] emotion? And you know, I talked about the flashbacks and things like that. I wanted to ask those questions. And he was like, mm, we probably can't talk about that. I probably can't answer. I'll answer those questions, but don't write 'em in your competition. Like that could just be between me and you.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: But he was very impactful. And also that English teacher, a lot of people don't know that I did Othello in college. I mean, high school.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: The reason why nobody knows it is because I didn't talk about it. 'cause I didn't wanna talk about it. 'cause I didn't wanna do it. I was forced to do it by my English teacher as almost a black male to get the grade that I needed to get because she realized that I absolutely hated Shakespeare.

I couldn't understand it, but the story of Othello registered with me and not, because, you know, I was married to a white woman one time and it was a, a being foreseen that I'm a black mayor, was married to a white woman, but because of Yago and the manipulation and, and that the whole story, it was, it [00:37:00] was very, uh, I was drawn to it somehow and I was drawn to the, to the character of Othello, who's this outsider, but has power.

And it was just, there was just so much in it. And so she was like, I think you should play Othello. And I was like, no, thank you. Because I don't even wanna read in class, so there's no way that I'm gonna perform Othello in a bunch of, in, in front of a bunch of people. She's like, oh you thought you had a, a choice.

Like you need to do this in order to get the grade that you need in order to graduate. I said, oh, okay. I'm like, I don't, I feel like I'm going pass a class. Uh, you know, I feel pretty confident in that. Yeah. Well, I think that this would be the best decision for you. It was the best thing for me. And the reason why is because without that, I, this never happens.

Jay Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: tell you the connection, getting over performing or fear or talking in front of people [00:38:00] doing it. And having it being well received, not just from her that said, oh, you did this well, but also from my classmates who were just like, yo, that was really dope. And then the theater people being like, you should like join the theater and, and, and do all this.

And I'm like, no, 'cause it's the 1990s. And patriarchy. And misogyny and toxic masculinity says that if I do that, I'm gonna be perceived a certain way that I don't wanna be perceived. So I'm not gonna do that. Missed out on an entire life that I could have had. I could have been the first Michael B. Jordan.

Jay Aundrea: Could

Bruce Anthony: have been Bruce Anthony,

Jay Aundrea: shoulda. Could have.

Bruce Anthony: should have, could have. But it led to this, so,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

College Professors: The Real MVPs! 🎓🏆💫

Bruce Anthony: so those two teachers and then my college professor that taught African American history. I took you to a class one time.

Jay Aundrea: Yep.

Bruce Anthony: you were deciding on what school you wanted to go to, and I was like, you're going to definitely go to me with me to this class.

'cause I need you to see how [00:39:00] this professor does it. It, you're right, professors have a little different passion for their work and so they all made a monumental impact on me and what was only supposed to be a quick 10 minute segment talking about teachers. We done talked for 20 minutes, but obviously

Jay Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: they're important.

Teachers Deserve Better: A Call to Action! 📢💪❤️

Jay Aundrea: They are important teacher, our teachers, Lord, we need to treat them better in this country.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

Jay Aundrea: pay these people. We need to give them the resources that they need to teach the next generation, well, the current generation. Well, one of the things that I love about the program that I, I am in now in graduate school is there are professors in my program that the, literally, it feels like the only thing they want in life. Is to see us succeed and get great jobs and become data scientists like that. It [00:40:00] literally, I'm like, do you sleep because you just sent me an email about an opportunity, but it was two in the morning when you sent that email. Like, do you sleep professor? Like, what are you doing? Oh, I just, I, it was great.

It came across my desk. I wanted you to know about it. Like they, they ca teachers care. If they didn't care, they wouldn't teach.

Bruce Anthony: Right. You ain't doing it for the money. You ain't doing it for the money.

Jay Aundrea: prestige. You're not doing it for the fame,

Bruce Anthony: No.

Jay Aundrea: it for none of that. You're doing it because you really care about educating people and you feel like you have that's worth imparting to someone else. And you do. it's,

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: it's true. And. And, and I just think that we should treat them better in this country. I do. I think we should treat them better. And I also think we should make education more accessible for people in this country. So that's just my little, you know, if we gonna go macro, [00:41:00] if we're gonna go 30,000 feet, what's the, what's the ultimate story here?

The ultimate story is make education more accessible and give educators the resources and the funding that they need to give quality education in this country. Because we gonna fall behind if you don't.

Bruce Anthony: We've already fallen behind. That's number one. And, and to piggyback off of what you were saying, yes, we need to give teacher, we need to appreciate the teachers a lot more. Also, this whole new narrative of parents. Parents having choice in, in what their kids to a certain extent. Yeah. I kind of agree with that.

But also you don't know what the hell your kids need as far as education is concerned. You weren't trained in that. You, you don't know. Look, I went to school and it is way more intricate than you think it is to learn how to be a teacher. It's not just going and getting, uh, reading a book and then regurgitating it because there's different ways that people learn and you have to be able to create a plan that's for everybody, [00:42:00] not just regurgitating facts.

And you have to make sure that they learn it, not memorize it, because you're piggybacking off of other ideas. It's a build, it's a progression. So it's not something that you could just do. You can't just, oh, I'm gonna do this little study and I can become a teacher. No, it's a lot more involved with it.

You as a parent, unless you have a background in education, have no idea what it takes to teach your child. Even though you know your child, you have no idea what it takes to teach your child.

Jay Aundrea: you don't,

Bruce Anthony: Right.

Jay Aundrea: know who that child is when they leave your house. But

Bruce Anthony: yeah.

Jay Aundrea: but also, yeah, you have no authority. It's, it's kind of like. You know, government officials making healthcare decisions for people, you

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: to do so.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

Jay Aundrea: You are not an educator. You have no authority to tell me how I should build this lesson. Plan to impart this knowledge to your child. If you don't want your child to learn and teach 'em yourself,

Bruce Anthony: [00:43:00] And you teach 'em. Do a homeschool.

Jay Aundrea: 'em,

Bruce Anthony: Do a homeschool. Yep. Ho

Jay Aundrea: but do not

Bruce Anthony: asses.

Jay Aundrea: other students because you want your student to be a, you want your child to be a white nationalist.

Don't disenfranchise other students

Bruce Anthony: well.

Jay Aundrea: learning about the history of this country. Right? Don't, because when you went to school, you had home ec and typing class, and things have progressed quite a bit since then.

Bruce Anthony: Right.

Jay Aundrea: Okay. You don't know what you're talking about. You can barely help your child with they fractions. And you wanna tell me how I should teach this class? Do not piss me off.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. It seemed like you pissed off.

Jay Aundrea: I'm trying to keep from cussing because

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Bruce Anthony: Well, let's, let's ladies and gentlemen, this's the end of that preview. It was longer than I anticipated. Anticipated it being. We tried [00:44:00] to hold back on the cus

Jay Aundrea: show.

Bruce Anthony: it was, it was. Now we going to get to the after hours.

on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I wanna thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching, and until next time, as always, I'll holler.

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