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Sibling Happy Hour: Spicy Takes & Drinks 🍹🌶️

Bruce Anthony: it's a sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis Jay, Andrea. We're gonna be dilly ding a little bit. Then we're gonna be talking about the protest in la and then we're gonna be talking about weddings.

But that's enough of the intro. Let's [00:01:00] get to the show.

Bruce Anthony: What up sis?

1. Aundrea: What up, brother?

Bruce Anthony: I can't call it. I can't call it. I don't know how this first segment of dilly dazzling is gonna go. You've had a long day. I've had a long day. I've been agitated today. You've been agitated today. You got a nice hair wrap that matches your your shirt today on the video podcast. That's all good.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, yeah. You know, I try to do a little something, a little something, you know, now that I'm in the office, I'm like, okay, I gotta be a little presentable. I got called a quote, like a real adult today by, uh, as you know,

Bruce Anthony: What?

1. Aundrea: as you know, there's of the interns, I'm one of three graduate students, so the rest are undergraduate, rising seniors.

You know, I, uh, I pro they were [00:02:00] babies. Yes. So, uh, they wanted to like, do like a hangout outside of work. I said, oh, we can go bowling. You know, there's like a lucky strike. And they were like, oh, we can't get in 'cause it's 21 and up. So, and I was like, oh, I never have to think about things like that. Because I got friends whose kids are 21 and up.

Okay. So that's, but yeah, they, uh, they were talking, I, they were talking about, uh, saving money and holding onto their money. And when they, I said, you know, when I get paid, I gotta take a screenshot of it 'cause it disappears so quickly. And they were like, oh, 'cause you're like a real adult, right? So, yeah, I guess you could say that

Bruce Anthony: Well, that's, but that's true though, right?

1. Aundrea: it's true.

I said, yeah, I have a, a mortgage and a, you know, and they're like, oh my god. Real? Yeah. Yes. Young people.

Quarter-Life Crisis: When Kids Call You Old 👵🤯

1. Aundrea: This is, I am like a real [00:03:00] adult.

Bruce Anthony: So I'm, that is really being emotionally intelligent and aware of where they are in their life. Because at that age, I swore I was grown

1. Aundrea: Swore. Swore you could not tell me. Uh, 19, 20, 21, that I wasn't an adult. I was an adult. And the fact that they're, they know that they are not there, that they don't have real responsibilities. Like one of 'em said the most expensive thing he purchased was he put new brakes on his car,

Bruce Anthony: Which can be expensive.

1. Aundrea: which can be expensive, but, you know, I was like, oh, okay.

Didn't purchase the car. I was probably given to you. Okay. All right.

Bruce Anthony: Well, truth be told, we never purchased cars until we were like adult adults, like outta college and had jobs. So,[00:04:00]

1. Aundrea: I purchased my first car. I was 26, I think.

Bruce Anthony: so I mean, yeah. I mean, so a little bit older than them, but that's funny. Did they not realize how old you were?

1. Aundrea: I don't know how they couldn't have, um, I've said like how long my career was in insurance, them, them years. I put in, I've set, I, I even have a necklace that has my birth year on it. It's tucked into my shirt. 'cause I don't want y'all to know, but I, it even, I have a necklace that has my birth year on it.

So I, it, there's no, I was born in the 19 hundreds, baby. There's no way that y'all don't know that I'm grown. Um, but yeah, it was just really funny. You're absolutely right. At that age, I was pre, I was a hundred percent certain that I was grown.

Bruce Anthony: was grown and was doing everything. You know what's funny? I sent you, uh, a re, you probably haven't opened it yet because you've been busy today and it was. [00:05:00] These old people, when I say old people like gray hair walkers type old, right? And he starts off the, the, the first person starts off, I was born in the 80th year of the 19 hundreds.

I said, wait a damn minute. the year I was born. He said, I'm 45 years old. I was like, and it was a bunch of people that was like, I graduated high school, 1998, that's when I graduated high school in 1998. I'm not that old. I'm not that old.

1. Aundrea: Compared to these young people that I'm working with, I am a real adult. That's, that's, that's old, I

Bruce Anthony: And you were born in the 19 hundreds and they were not,

1. Aundrea: They were not, they were not. Their birth year definitely starts with a two, so, um, which is very, you know, very interesting. Yes. I was born in the last century,

Bruce Anthony: yo, what's.

1. Aundrea: kids

Bruce Anthony: crazier. [00:06:00] What is the age where you have to get off your parents' insurance?

26. Aundrea: 26.

Bruce Anthony: six? So somebody born in two thousands, got one more year to be on their parents' insurance, but they've already been drinking for four years.

1. Aundrea: yeah, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I mean, technically without being r Kelly ish, I can technically date somebody that was born between 2000 and 2005.

Technically,

1. Aundrea: I wouldn't,

Bruce Anthony: I said technically

1. Aundrea: yeah. I mean, they're of age, so, yeah. But yeah, I, I,

Bruce Anthony: I, I told you the story of when I met somebody recently and she told me that she was 26 years old and, and I was like, we could be friends and hang out, but nothing more

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: like. You were born after I graduated high school,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.[00:07:00]

Bruce Anthony: like after I was already in college.

1. Aundrea: be my child. You could literally be my child. Yeah. There's, there's may

Bruce Anthony: Maybe,

1. Aundrea: you know it. Long time ago you were a different person.

Bruce Anthony: Nope. Probably the same person, ladies and gentlemen. I don't have any kids out there. Somebody that we know. Somebody that we know loves to

1. Aundrea: Oh, okay. I thought you were study stuttering for a

Bruce Anthony: no, no. Somebody that we know loves to say that you know of. And I was like, look through technology.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: I, and then I had to stop there because I was gonna say, oh, I've, I, I've come across somebody, everybody in the future.

And that has not been the case. So technically there absolutely could.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Absolutely could. And this child could be in la. It could be in Houston. It could be in Vegas.

1. Aundrea: Child could be anywhere.

Bruce Anthony: That's [00:08:00] the reason why I won't get on ancestry.com.

1. Aundrea: Houston,

Bruce Anthony: Houston. Houston, land of Vegas. That's the reason why I won't get on ancestry.com.

1. Aundrea: So I am on it. So far, nobody has come up as potentially a niece or nephew like that, close of a lineage. I don't have anybody on there like that. So I think you're safe,

Bruce Anthony: it depends. They're probably, I don't know. I don't look, I actually don't wanna go down this road, so let's change the subjects.

1. Aundrea: let's not go down this

Bruce Anthony: Let's not go down this

1. Aundrea: of let's not think too hard about things.

Bruce Anthony: I actually, I actually would be legitimately pissed if a grown adult said, Hey, you're my father. I was like, I missed all the fun parts.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: like, what am I gonna do with you now?

1. Aundrea: now you're just a, a bitter, jaded adult who grew up without a dad

Bruce Anthony: I didn't know. I didn't know. Or you didn't know? No, I didn't know. And now that I know, what am I supposed to do about it? I [00:09:00] give you life lessons. You, you

1. Aundrea: am I supposed to do now? Right? What's the point?

Bruce Anthony: I got people who come to me for life lessons and they don't listen.

1. Aundrea: Let me just give you my medical profile and you gone and enjoy the rest of

Bruce Anthony: Well,

1. Aundrea: mean, it will

Bruce Anthony: 'cause I don't go to the doctor.

1. Aundrea: that Yeah. Also that, Hmm?

Bruce Anthony: I am a stereotypical black man. Go to the doctor

1. Aundrea: Like what happened to Bruce? You don't go to the doctor, so we don't know.

Bruce Anthony: day, I'm just gonna be walking down the street and just fall out. I'm gonna be on my way to the liquor store, grocery store and just fall out. And they'll be like, what

1. Aundrea: that you know where you're gonna be

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. It's gonna be one of them two places. To the bitter end. To the bitter end. Either to go get me a bag of chips or to go get me some tequila.

It is one or the other. Oh,

1. Aundrea: of those,

Bruce Anthony: something.

The Truth About Your Favorite Tequila Brands 🥃🔍

Bruce Anthony: You know how you could take everything that you get on the internet with a grain of salt where there's this [00:10:00] viral TikTok going around where this guy who's supposed to be like a tequila expert saying that the major brands, the top brands, the Casamigos, the Don Julio, 1492, the Casa Azo, like all this stuff, right?

The top, top brands, it's not real tequila because during the process they're adding all these didn't, um, what do they call it? Adjectives.

1. Aundrea: Additives.

Bruce Anthony: Whew, I got that word right. Ladies and gentlemen, you don't understand. I had to really think about that. They're adding all these additives and that's not real tequila because real tequila is 100% the agave.

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: they messing it up. And I was like, damn. Like Casamigos is, is my drink of choice. Now I got to find out if the Kirkland brand tequila is in that category too. 'cause that's my number one. I mean, well, that's my number two, that Kirkland brand tequila.

1. Aundrea: [00:11:00] Yeah, so like, okay. 'cause I'm looking it up. I have heard that like tequila is actually like a process or a brand or something like that. And like all of these other like, uh, brands or stuff are not actually agave tequila. So I don't know. I mean that's, uh,

Bruce Anthony: But what they're saying is, is that it is not solely like, just not like doing tequila properly. They're falsely advertising

1. Aundrea: yeah. Well. Right. Well, I see on here, I mean, who knows if this is true or if it's coming from Casamigos themselves, but it says it's made from a hundred percent blue Weber agave.

Bruce Anthony: That's what it says, but

1. Aundrea: real tequila, but there have been allegations that it's not as pure as marketed.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I want that P pure, [00:12:00] like, like if I'm going to have, if cocaine. Yeah. I've been stumbling over my words the other day when I filmed the episode. I was gonna say, I was trying to say communicative. Can't even do it right now. Communicative.

1. Aundrea: communicative.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

That's a hard word to say in a string of words when you're trying to explain something.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Okay, so I'm looking this up. It says, Kirkland signature tequila is considered real tequila 'cause it's made from a hundred percent blue agave.

Bruce Anthony: Well I knew it was made from a hundred percent blue agave, but so is casamigos and they got the allegations.

1. Aundrea: Well, it says, um, while it is a budget friendly option, it still meets the standards for a hundred percent agave, tequila

Bruce Anthony: Look, lemme tell y'all, ladies and gentlemen, and I'm not being sponsored by Kirkland Brand Tequila though. I'll take that sponsorship.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I did a

1. Aundrea: Kirkland, anything,

Bruce Anthony: actually, honestly, anything. I did a blind taste test with one of my [00:13:00] snobby friends that was just like, uh, only drink the good tequila. I said, Hey man, have you tried the Kirkland?

I don't want that Kirkland, that Costco tequila. I don't want that. I said, okay, let's do a blonde taste test. 'cause at my house I've got like 12 or 15 different bottles of tequila. And so I said, let me just line up four. Okay. And three of 'em were the top brands and one of 'em was the Kirkland brand. So he is going through all of them. He's like, man, those are good. This one seems like it's the best one. What bottle did I pull up? The Kirkland brand tequila. Y'all. If y'all don't believe me, if you can find a Costco that sells liquor, go to that Costco, get you that Kirkland brand tequila. It is

1. Aundrea: try it out.

Bruce Anthony: It is good.

1. Aundrea: Um, I, I've also had it and it is very good, so I don't know.

Bruce Anthony: deceptive. You might take a little sip and then that'd be it. Like

1. Aundrea: Be on your As, but yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I've got some good [00:14:00] news,

1. Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: of different

1. Aundrea: look, you look confused, so

Bruce Anthony: Well,

1. Aundrea: I'm not sure. Is it good?

Big News: Exclusive Content Coming Your Way! 📺✨

Bruce Anthony: it's good for everybody that's a fan of our podcast because you're gonna have the opportunity to get even more content

1. Aundrea: Nice.

Bruce Anthony: price. So with our increase in our presence on YouTube, we're going to start selling memberships on YouTube.

1. Aundrea: Nice.

Bruce Anthony: Just like our Patreon and I might roll Patreon into YouTube and allow those people who access YouTube already to just access the same stuff on Patreon, on YouTube, but just have it be the same price.

But we're gonna have like different tiers and there'll be a like a 2 99 that's just like a, hey, a thank you and we'll give you some, some perks. And then what we're gonna start doing is [00:15:00] cutting up the behind the scenes of me and my sister filming the show and the behind the scenes of me filming the show and doing the interviews.

And we're gonna put that behind the membership wall. We're gonna stop doing it on the main page. So this might be the last episode where you get a behind the scenes and that's a sneak peek if you're watching the show.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: When I say, alright, I'll holler. That's not the end of the show. There's another segment that's a behind the scenes.

The last one was like 12 minutes. It was not supposed to be that me and you was just, uh, chatting away at the end of the show.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, because people don't know, like once we, once you say cut,

Bruce Anthony: We keep,

1. Aundrea: still talk for like another 30 minutes. I don't know

Bruce Anthony: yeah, because like, well, because we, because we like each other and love each other. We like talking to each other

1. Aundrea: Probably.

Bruce Anthony: and we both messy and like gossiping. Oh, did you hear about this? And some stuff can't go on, on the podcast. Yeah. There [00:16:00] is a time where we are filming the behind the scenes and then one of us say, all right, I'm about to cut this off 'cause I gotta talk to you about something.

And then that is private. Y'all don't get all of that

1. Aundrea: No, no, we don't record

Bruce Anthony: we're gonna, we're gonna reintroduce the merch store, so all of that's gonna be coming next month.

1. Aundrea: nice.

Bruce Anthony: It's gonna be in

1. Aundrea: In phases. Fa phase

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. By the end of the summer, all that stuff will be implemented and who knows where we go from here.

I might add more shows to the unsolicited perspective Podcast Network with different hosts to give you different flavors on different things. I think that that's the next step. So yeah, we are we making that, we making that move. We making that move

1. Aundrea: I'm all for it. I love it.

Bruce Anthony: you all for it, especially after you graduate.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, for sure. Um, because, uh, yeah, the next, the next six weeks for me is just gonna be hell. So, um, [00:17:00] but uh, you know, after that,

Bruce Anthony: After that. So next

1. Aundrea: Then I have the fall semester,

Bruce Anthony: no, no. Next year.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, next year.

Bruce Anthony: doesn't, that doesn't mean that we're gonna stop working on the show. We're gonna still do the show. We still doing the show.

1. Aundrea: I could part of like the, my busy lifestyle, quote unquote, I include the

Bruce Anthony: Right, right. Ladies and gentlemen, my sister is extreme. She was working all day and, and then came and filmed the show. I literally text her, when are you available to film the show? And then I fit it in my schedule. This is after me working all day. We doing this for you? For you because we, I, we know that you really enjoy the show.

You like our banter. You

1. Aundrea: We got good banter.

Bruce Anthony: we, Hey, look.

1. Aundrea: I, I don't know, may, maybe I'm biased 'cause it's us.

Bruce Anthony: every now and then when I'm editing, I'll let the shows run and I'll watch 'em back. I'll be chuckling my ass off.

1. Aundrea: No facts [00:18:00] because I was in the car the other day listening to the show and I was cackling. I was cackling. I was like, damn, we kind, we kind of funny. And I dunno if it's just because our sense of humor is my sense of humor. So I find it funny, but other people might not. But I don't know. Y'all seem to like it, so we gonna keep doing

Bruce Anthony: Hey, look, we ain't, we ain't giving them anything that they don't want.

1. Aundrea: Exactly.

Bruce Anthony: All right. That's enough of this silliness.

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: We gonna get into something serious and we gonna get into that next.

LA Protests: The Truth Behind the Headlines 📰🚨

Bruce Anthony: Jay, there is something serious happening in Los Angeles and we have friends in Los Angeles

1. Aundrea: Yes, we do.

Bruce Anthony: and they are telling me that it's serious but not as serious. In other words, it's being blown up on certain platforms

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and [00:19:00] being properly reported on other platforms,

1. Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: but the insightfulness of certain platforms reporting this is causing a lot of people to be like, well, I can't go to la.

It is, it's a hellscape,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Mad Max out there, and it really truly is not. But if you stream.

1. Aundrea: kind of is,

Bruce Anthony: Well if you,

1. Aundrea: no, not this general. I mean, just yo LA's tough. It's a tough place to be,

Bruce Anthony: you talking about just in general?

1. Aundrea: in general. Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: I mean just, yes, LA is a tough place to be just in general 'cause rent is too damn high.

1. Aundrea: Too damn high.

Bruce Anthony: But what am I talking about? Ladies and gentlemen, if you've been under a rock, Los Angeles protests all this month have been erupted and in response to a series of aggressive immigration and custom enforcement ICE raids, targeting undocumented immigrants following orders from the, the [00:20:00] so-called Commander in Chief President Donald J.

Trump.

1. Aundrea: Hmm.

Bruce Anthony: This situation has escalated, uh, into one of the most significant confrontations over immigration policy that we have had and the Federal authority in recent US history. So this is people protesting these ice rates and. I, I, I had got into an interesting conversation with somebody that I think of as extremely intelligent,

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and I am not against deportation.

What I mean by that is if you come into this country, they keep saying illegally, and it's more of a civil thing. It's not a criminal thing, right? It's like getting a parking ticket. That's what it technically is. It's, it's not like committing murder. It's like getting a par, [00:21:00] a parking ticket, essentially trespassing, okay?

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: You should be able to go through the proper channels to determine if you should be able to get asylum and be able to become a permanent resident of this country

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: if you go through that process. You are deemed to not have, uh, proper reasoning for the pathway in which you got into this country.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: You gotta go.

If you commit crimes,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: you gotta go large scale of these people that are being targeted by isis.

1. Aundrea: Not isis. I mean, they might be targeted by isis,

Bruce Anthony: I,

1. Aundrea: but it's ICE for

Bruce Anthony: I'm calling it isis. Okay. By the way, they doing things. Um, a large, a majority of these people are not that.

1. Aundrea: No.

Bruce Anthony: majority of these [00:22:00] people are people that you are friends with. They're their neighbors. They're your, your friends. They're your the person that you say hello to the gro at at the grocery store.

At the gas station. These are more lawfully abiding citizens than, I don't know, people who actually did riot. During January 6th, so I find it extremely hip. The thing that bothers me, and I'm gonna get more into the details and I want to hear your opinion and everything that's going on.

Immigration Double Standards: The Hard Truth 🌎⚖️

Bruce Anthony: The thing that bothers me, the thing that always bothers me to my core is hypocrisy.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: Don't tell me, and this is Donald j Trump's reasoning, don't tell me. January 6th was a peaceful protest, and in the moment you get in office, you get all those people outta jail

1. Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: and then turn around when people are protesting and say, well, no, I'm gonna send in a National Guard, which escalates things when people wanna say, [00:23:00] well, they was throwing stuff at cops and cars and stuff.

No, no, no, no. That happened after it was escalated.

1. Aundrea: yeah, yeah. What, what people need to understand is that prior to this federal level intervention, state and local police were managing the protest peacefully. So, um, governor Gavin, he, uh, he had an address, what was it, yesterday, earlier today. I don't

Bruce Anthony: Probably yesterday.

1. Aundrea: I think it was yesterday. And, um. He described the, the escalation as a quote, reason and abuse of power that risk lives and inflamed violence.

And that's exactly what it did. They were all, they, uh, state and local police already w were managing the protests peacefully. Um, I don't know if, uh, well, I'm pretty sure he doesn't know this because I'm not a hundred percent sure that Donald J. Trump can read, but [00:24:00] we do have a constitutional right to protest, so, uh, find this very troubling to say the least.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, so it was just announced before we jumped on air

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: that they are going to do the same, similar raise that they're doing in LA right now in five democratic cities,

1. Aundrea: Yeah, of course.

Bruce Anthony: DC uh, New York. Damn. I had 'em all and then I forgot. Anyway, but he's looking, if, if you're paying attention to, to Trump, he's not an idiot.

He's an idiot, but he's not an idiot. He's spec, he's seen what happened in LA and he knows that he can get scared. People that are over middle America that don't have hardly any interaction [00:25:00] with. Marginalized people to show them with Fox and and OAN and all those things to show what they deem as riots, the most salacious parts of what's going on and don't get it twisted.

There are peaceful protests and then there's some rioters in the middle of there. There's always going to be some people that take things a little too far that want to take things to the max 'cause they feel like they can and they're not a part of the, they're two separate things. I know that's what they like to say with January 6th is that it was a few separate people, but it, it seemed like it was a whole gang of folks.

That's what it looked like. I watched that live on TV that looked like a whole gang of folks. So what he's, what he's aiming to do is to have the same situation happen throughout the nation. So he could say, see, I told you, the world is burning. Because not only Democrats, but some Republicans and [00:26:00] some people in the public that are not politicians are saying, yo, you deployed the Marines.

You put 700 Marines in la. That's not a Marine's job.

1. Aundrea: yeah. So.

Military vs Protests: A Dangerous Game 🪖⚔️

1. Aundrea: It is a violation of a longstanding norm in this country that military force is not used for domestic law enforcement unless absolutely necessary. And really the last time that we saw a military force at this scale being used for as domestic law enforcement was a civil rights movement.

Bruce Anthony: that's what a lot of people that are defending Trump want to go to was my favorite president. LBJ deployed the National Guard in, um, Alabama, Mississippi, I think both,

1. Aundrea: I don't think you're wrong either

Bruce Anthony: yeah, and both Alabama and Mississippi. He deployed the National Guard. The reason was, is because the [00:27:00] local officials were not following the law, not private citizens.

The local officials were not enforcing the law, so he was like, look, I'm sitting in the National Guard down there so that the law is enforced. That's the, it is not the same thing here. Gavin Newsom was like, man, we got this under control. It's LAPD baby. This is one of the biggest gangs in the world that in the n and NYPD, they don't have no problem getting control under situations.

It's one of the most,

1. Aundrea: they, they're two of the, like most populous cities in this country, the local law enforcement know how to handle these situations

Bruce Anthony: yes. And so by bringing in the Marine, bringing in National Guard first and then sending 700 Marines, which is such, excuse me, [00:28:00] ladies and gentlemen, if your kids are listening, I apologize. Small dick energy. 'cause it really, it, it really, really is. Right? There's, there's B, d, E and there's. SDE and, and he exudes that all of the time.

This is not being tough, right? Picking on people who are protesting and the reason why they're protested is because the administration isn't following the law. The administration is breaking the law. There is a process in which you c you gather people who are, that you think are here illegally and then there is a due process before you deport 'em.

He is catching and sending. That's what he was doing. That's what they're doing there. They are catching people and mind you, no warrants

1. Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: these, these people that are working for ice, they look like [00:29:00] regular people that just been given a badge and not in tactical gear mask like you're trying to hide your face type

1. Aundrea: They are trying to hide their face.

Bruce Anthony: So the administration is breaking the law. And I got into a huge debate with a person one time about this whole thing, and their argument was, well, those people are here illegally. And I was like, okay, I, that's the basis of your argument. Okay, so they get deported. I was like, yeah, but when people come here illegally, we have a process before we deport them. The administration is not following the law. Well, they broke the law first. Okay? You're talking about a person breaking the law, and then you're talking about the system breaking the law. They are not the same thing. And people are trying to use that as an argument. And it's stupid and it's lazy.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: It's stupid and lazy.

You are not going to hold people [00:30:00] to the same standard that you hold to government. If that's the case, if that's the where you wanna live in, okay, wait. When republicans don't have power, don't let me become president.

1. Aundrea: Listen. Me either.

Bruce Anthony: Because I'm gonna tell you right now, if that's the way that you, you are not going to compromise.

'cause that's how politics is done. You got to give a little bit to get a little bit, okay? That that's, that's how it is. Okay? If you are unwilling to compromise, then I'm gonna squash you in my way.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: And, and that's just the way it is. If that's the way you wanna play, you're not gonna like it when you're on the other end.

And mind you, y'all might only got about 16 more months of this and then y'all out the way. But that's the reason why people are protesting, because they're breaking the law

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: and they're challenging the court systems. And they're saying, stop us if you can. And then when the courts say, yo, you gotta stop, they be like, nah, nah, we gonna keep doing what we doing.

1. Aundrea: We're gonna do whatever we

Bruce Anthony: And so [00:31:00] the way to fight that is to rebel. And guess what, ladies and gentlemen, that's what this country was founded on. Rebellion.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: You wanna be strong supporters of the forefathers and the formation of this country. The original rebellion was over tariffs, taxes.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: They felt that it was unfair. I think that it's unfair that the government doesn't follow the laws in which they set.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, it's, I don't understand how you don't follow through on your own things. your things. Follow through on your own things. Luckily, California is suing the federal government, um, claiming that it, uh, this move, you know, infringes on the state's rights under the Constitution. So that's good [00:32:00] because here's the, here's ultimately my fear, right?

Is this is a slippery slope. If, if this does, if, if something like this, this, um, um, the normalization of military involvement, right? If it goes unchallenged, like what's, what's the next thing? Like this? It could be just normalizes. Like, oh, the way that we handle immigration raids, or the way that we handle protests in this country writ large, is by deploying the military squash.

Any kind of dissent.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, he, he's stated that he, that was before he got into office. He's been saying that,

1. Aundrea: yeah. Yeah. Uh, again, he told the truth literally [00:33:00] the whole time on this, on this campaign trail. It was honestly astounding how, uh, transparent he was about his intentions. And y'all still, ah, y'all really don't like, um, black people and women, but, um

Bruce Anthony: Black people. Black people, brown people, women, trans people. Anybody in the L-G-B-Q-L-G plg? Mm, I'm struggling

1. Aundrea: be a pee in

Bruce Anthony: Hey. Who? Well pan.

1. Aundrea: Could,

Bruce Anthony: There you go.

1. Aundrea: there you go.

Bruce Anthony: plus community. Uh, indigenous people.

1. Aundrea: Yep.

Bruce Anthony: Foreigners except for white South Africans,

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: you know? Um.

1. Aundrea: Because, because, uh, to date, uh, let's see, they've, they've detained and held in detention, uh, tourists from Oh, Britain, other European countries, Canadian citizens. So it's [00:34:00] the, and, and honestly, the white South African thing, that was very, uh, that felt very Elon Musk forward. And now that they had their very public breakup,

Bruce Anthony: Elon Mustin reached out recently, you know, since, since the whole protest in la,

1. Aundrea: oh, he said the, he sent a, what's up?

Big head

Bruce Anthony: yeah, yeah. Well, basically he did it through the press. He was like, and then first of all, he was like, I'm with Donald J. Trump on uh, la and then he was like, you know, maybe I did go a little too far with some of the things I said about President Trump.

And I was like, nah, bro. Nah man. You said what? You said Stand on it. Stand

1. Aundrea: on business. Stand on business because you were, you look, you, you tweeted it or Xed it. Well, I don't know what it's called now.

Bruce Anthony: It's, it's X.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. But like is, is the act of posting on there? Still called a tweet?

Bruce Anthony: yeah. I don't know actually what that is,

1. Aundrea: Literally

Bruce Anthony: So my, I

1. Aundrea: my [00:35:00] concern is that it sets a dangerous precedent for weaponizing federal power.

Bruce Anthony: does, that's an issue for, for me as well.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: But there's another issue that keeps gnawing at me. You know, hypocrisy.

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Bruce Anthony: That's, that's, that's my, ooh boy, that's my kryptonite.

1. Aundrea: You really hate

Bruce Anthony: I, I've hated it all my life before I knew what the word was. Okay. You know, when somebody said, go clean up your room, and I'm like, your room is dirty.

Like, since I was four, five years old, I've always hated hypocrisy

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: for people that are just like, they're here illegally, get out. You hear a lot of people that are so-called Christians say this, and I've already gone on the hypocrisy of Christians in this country. In general terms, I really want to talk about.

Immigration and what many people will [00:36:00] say, well, there's no such thing as immigration in the Bible. Ah, yes, there is,

1. Aundrea: Y'all know Jesus was, he traveled like the whole time. He was just walking around lots of different places. He, that was kind of his thing,

Bruce Anthony: so, so, I'm going to channel just a few family members who happen to be past us and give y'all a little bit of scripture.

1. Aundrea: Amen.

Bruce Anthony: When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner resides among you, must be treated as your native born. Love them as yourself, for you or foreigners in Egypt, Leviticus 1933 through 34.

What is that? What is foreigners? What the migrants are.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: God is described as one who loves the foreigner residing among you. Give them [00:37:00] food and clothing.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: 18. Give them food and clothing. Don't just don't. Just accept them in. Feed them, nourish them,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: protect him.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: For all those people that say, well, I'm a follower of Jesus Christ.

Jesus emphasized, welcoming the stranger.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: He says, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. Matthew 25 35.

1. Aundrea: Boom.

Bruce Anthony: Now it's the Bible, so I'm gonna mess up some of these words. Mal,

1. Aundrea: Malachi.

Bruce Anthony: Malachi,

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: the Malachi. List oppressing or depriving foreigners of justice among the sins of God and will be judged harshly. Another words, if you treat foreigners poorly, that is a sin against God and you will be judged [00:38:00] heartly harshly on that road to the kingdom.

You might not get there. You might not get there

1. Aundrea: Beth?

Bruce Anthony: because you are treating the foreigner. And who is the foreigner? The migrants trying to come here for a better life. Mind you, they come here for a better life 'cause we tore up their country. But that's neither here nor there. I'm talking about the Bible.

1. Aundrea: that's a whole nother story.

Bruce Anthony: Exodus insists that abuse of a migrant will be punished by God, who will personally assume the role of the family, avenger of the wrong. Do y'all know what that means? That means God turned into an avenger when you wrong a migrant.

1. Aundrea: I, okay. I don't,

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. He,

1. Aundrea: I don't think adventure in that con, in the context of what you saying it,

Bruce Anthony: nah, that's, that's what it

1. Aundrea: not talking about Marvels

Bruce Anthony: Hey, he could turn into [00:39:00] whatever he or she, he or she, God. It, they, they, they pronouns here, ladies and gentlemen, they, okay. Because when you think about it, if somebody was gonna create all this

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: and talk about love,

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: I would think that would more, more than likely come from a woman.

But I'm, but I'm neither here nor there. Neither here nor there. We're gonna say they.

1. Aundrea: Okay.

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Bruce Anthony: So people are also gonna say, I hear what you're saying, Bruce, but it's against the law. Well, what does the Bible say when man's law and God's law. Come in conflict

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: disobedience is warranted only when human laws directly violate ex explicit biblical commands.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: What does the Bible say? Treat your foreigner as the person of your native land. Feed them, clothe them. What does the [00:40:00] Bible say That you should be punished if you treat that foreigner harshly.

1. Aundrea: yeah. Or you deny or deprive them of justice.

Bruce Anthony: So wouldn't that be something that would be warranted to go against human laws because it directly violates explicit biblical commands.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: The Bible mandates obedience to human authorities unless they require actions that violate God's clear, moral or spiritual directives. In such cases, believers are called to prioritize divine law, trusting God's sovereignty over an earthly consequences.

1. Aundrea: But y'all not trying to do that.

Bruce Anthony: What that, but Jay, I gotta break that down for him. What that mean? What does that mean?

1. Aundrea: What do that mean?

Bruce Anthony: It means when man's law goes against God's law, [00:41:00] you are commanded if you are a Christian and you got so many people out here, say the Christian saying they followers of Jesus

1. Aundrea: it. They say it.

Bruce Anthony: that when they are in conflict, God's law supersedes it.

Is your duty as a follower of the word that you say that you are to go against the laws that are manmade, that violate God's law because God's sovereignty is over earth's consequences. That's the Bible, ladies and gentlemen.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I can't give no more better sermon than that. So for all those people out there that swear they're a Christian,

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: but wanna fight and say, deport all the immigrants.

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, well, you gonna have to answer one day to the avenger called God.

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1. Aundrea: because let's be clear, they're in their mind. They're thinking [00:42:00] everyone, everyone. Not people who are, uh, most folks over here who are undocumented. Came over on a visa on a plane. The visa expired, they stayed. That's a majority of the people. Okay. There should be some sort of process that we go through where we take a look at that person, the circumstances, are they working?

Are they in school? What's going on? Like, can we get an extension on that visa? What can we do? Like none of that's being done. They're rounding up anybody that look like they don't belong here

Bruce Anthony: Mm.

1. Aundrea: and putting them on a plane to wherever they feel like.

That should be scary to everyone. I honestly am considering like just doing like a photocopy of my passport and carrying it [00:43:00] around with me.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. 'cause you are racially ambiguous. You ambiguous.

1. Aundrea: Okay. So, uh, carrying around with me, you know, not to, not to mention the fact that I, I, my first, my first name is, is, is, uh, is Arabic.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah.

1. Aundrea: It adds up to, I always get stopped at the airport, but the, everybody should be worried. Everyone should be

Bruce Anthony: Well, well, those hypocrites out there are not gonna be worried because it's not happening to them or anybody around them. And they don't see these people as human beings. They're less

1. Aundrea: have we heard that before?

Bruce Anthony: Think that we

1. Aundrea: When we were three fifths of a person,

Bruce Anthony: we wasn't even that.

1. Aundrea: the ba when we finally got some semblance of personhood before. Before that we were chattel.

Bruce Anthony: right, right. Right.

1. Aundrea: And then when we got some, when they said, [00:44:00] well, we can't just say that they're chattel. I guess we can't do that, but we can't say they're a person either.

So we'll say I, I don't even know where they came up with this equation. They're three fifths. They're three-fifths. But, but I, I said this earlier and, uh, don't know if you caught it, but, uh, you were talking about how ice they, they wear the masks and covering their faces and stuff and I said, where does that sound familiar?

And it's them hoods

Bruce Anthony: Mm, mm mm

1. Aundrea: rounding people up.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

1. Aundrea: I am very similar also, both acronyms are three letters. Think about it. People.

Bruce Anthony: Conspiracy.

1. Aundrea: or is it a conspiracy?

Bruce Anthony: Jayden came into the building. All I'm asking people out there is to think,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: and if you can't think, shut up. So how about do that? If you can't think, [00:45:00] shut up. Don't have, you don't gotta have an opinion on everything. Just. Shut up. Don't talk. Don't talk unless you're informed.

And there are gonna be people on here, they're gonna say, well, y'all weren't very informed. 'cause this isn't No, no, we were, we were. Now I may say some words wrong every now and then.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, that's gonna

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. I mean, that's it. That's a given. I'm

1. Aundrea: We tired, we gonna stumble over, we gonna stutter, we gonna do all the

Bruce Anthony: if I was fresh. I'm gonna stop all over words 'cause I got a speech impediment. And that's just the way, you know, I mean this is just the way it is.

1. Aundrea: That's just the way it is.

Bruce Anthony: But I mean, we came with y'all with facts, law facts and bible facts.

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: Talk your way outta that if you want to, but,

1. Aundrea: try.

Bruce Anthony: and if you don't wanna hear us, okay, you still gotta answer to the mighty adventure.

1. Aundrea: We ain't talking about the incredible Hulk, [00:46:00] or are we?

Bruce Anthony: original Iron Man,

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: first Black Panther

1. Aundrea: I don't know if we gonna make it to heaven.

Bruce Anthony: Jay, you've been in a few weddings, right?

1. Aundrea: I have, yes.

Bruce Anthony: I've been, I've been in more than a few. Uh, we've planned mine

1. Aundrea: Yep.

Bruce Anthony: there's a lot of stuff that goes into planning and wedding. It can

1. Aundrea: A lot of movement parts. Yes, for sure.

Bruce Anthony: The, the, the thing that I felt the worst about

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: when I got my divorce is not really getting a divorce. It was the fact that so many people had flown in, come in, spent money

1. Aundrea: [00:47:00] yeah,

Bruce Anthony: to my wedding,

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: and it ended in a divorce.

1. Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: felt bad that people had, it was a lot of people, it was a lot of people at my waiting legisla. It was a lot of people. And I felt bad about that. It was 'cause it costs people money.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: What do you do if somebody invites you to a wedding and they start changing up the script of what's going to happen at the wedding at the last minute?

1. Aundrea: I mean, the very last minute.

Bruce Anthony: And why am I bringing this up?

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Bruce Anthony: Reddit, y'all. So I'm gonna read to you this Reddit post about a change in the wedding. I.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: This was an email that was sent out to all the people that's participating and coming to the wedding. Hi everyone. We wanna make you aware of a critical, important update. The ceremony date is now June 27th, and the location has changed.

Please note [00:48:00] this down carefully. We have decided we want to have a church ceremony in addition to our planned beach ceremony and reception. The efficient of our choice does not do weddings at location outside of his church. Having a church ceremony is very important to us morally and ethically, we are canceling the beach ceremony, desp, spare redundancies.

They will still be a reception on the beach. The ceremony will now be Friday, June 27th at 2:00 PM someplace in Oregon. The reception will be the following day in Port Angels, Washington.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm. Two different

Bruce Anthony: If you cannot make the 27th, we understand, but please be aware that we will be the only opportunity to participate in professional photos. Bridesmaids, we kindly ask you to wear this yellow dress for the 27th. Still reserve the gray dress you [00:49:00] already purchased to wear on the 28th after the viewing. The interior of the church gray just would not work.

Thanks, groomsmen. Yellow ties will be provided for you on the day of the ceremony. If you have any concerns, go ahead and reach out to our super girly wedding planner. Thanks. Can't wait to celebrate with you.

1. Aundrea: And I'm gonna stop you

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I'm going to stop after every email.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Because, okay.

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1. Aundrea: The way you would immediately see my RSVP change to know. of all, it's on a week. First of, okay, first of all, the Reddit poster posted this six days ago. Okay, so what was that? June

Bruce Anthony: June 5th, right?

1. Aundrea: They're saying the ceremony is June 27th. Not of next year.

This month

Bruce Anthony: And what is [00:50:00] June 27th? What day of the week does that fall on?

1. Aundrea: it's a Friday. And not only that, it's at 2:00 PM They couldn't even do it in the evening. So at least I could still go to work and then go after work. So now, so, so, so now I gotta take a day off work 'cause I'm in the wedding party now. I gotta take a day off work. I might have to take two days off

Bruce Anthony: You gotta get an extra hotel 'cause it is another state.

1. Aundrea: gotta, yeah, I gotta get another hotel and it's in two different states. On back to back days. So I gotta get one hotel room in Oregon, then drive several hours to Port Angeles, Washington, where I have another hotel room to attend this beach reception because why?

Bruce Anthony: Well, they wanted to [00:51:00] have it in the church and the person that was the officiant don't do it outside of that church.

1. Aundrea: They find another officiant.

Bruce Anthony: Well, they really like this one, and morally and ethically, they just feel right about having it in the church.

1. Aundrea: Morally and ethically, you can kiss my ass because this, y'all weren't thinking ethically making this last minute change.

Bruce Anthony: the added dress for the bridesmaids?

1. Aundrea: I didn't even get to the second page yet. That was.

Bruce Anthony: the gray.

1. Aundrea: Because the gray clashes with the interior of the church. First of all, why did you pick gray for your bridesmaids dresses anyway?

That seems like a dumb choice. But I'm not a gray, gray is not a good beach color. Like I, I just, I I feel like gray isn't, I don't know. It does, it, it feels sad to me a little bit. Right. Uh, as a color as opposed to like [00:52:00] yellow,

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. No, I mean,

1. Aundrea: feels like a more festive color to me. Uh, so now I gotta buy another dress.

You telling me this two weeks before I have to show up, I gotta change my plane

Bruce Anthony: Mm. I ain't even think about that.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. 'cause I, I'm not from, I'm like, I'm from Oregon, I'm not from Washington. I'm flying out there. Now I gotta buy another dress, but still keep the other dress I had for what? I'm not a hundred percent sure.

Bruce Anthony: No. Uh, for the, for the beach, one for the

1. Aundrea: to wear on the

Bruce Anthony: one for the church, one for the beach.

1. Aundrea: no. I'm not doing a wardrobe change.

Bruce Anthony: but that, that's, that's what she requested. Alright, so this is, this is your concerns, right?

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

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Bruce Anthony: The next post is the follow up, and this post is from a bridesmaid who's coming from halfway across the country and is also a relative of the groom.

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: She [00:53:00] states, am I to understand the above message correctly to mean your wedding ceremony is now on a weekday during the day?

If so, I have to admit I'm pretty surprised and disappointed. My family booked tickets months in advance to travel to Washington, and the church appears to be several hours away necessitating another hotel. Stay. Between that and the unexpected day off work, we can't afford this extra day. I'm not participating for the party aspect so much as the special memory of seeing you and him get married and be a part of that milestone.

If I'm misunderstanding something or if there is another ceremony that will be happening on the 28th, I apologize for the confusion, but please let me know. ASAP.

1. Aundrea: Fair, fair, fair message to

Bruce Anthony: What, what did the bride to be say back? [00:54:00] Let's be respectful and take this offline please. Ladies friendly reminder, contact blank directly with any concerns, so as not to spam everyone's inbox. Thanks.

1. Aundrea: K. Thanks. That's even worse. And she didn't even spell K thanks out. It's just K-T-H-X-I. That alone makes me wanna punch you in the throat. Don't be so like, hi guy. Thanks. Multiple s's at the end of thanks and all this stuff. No, this is not, this is your, your, your email was not welcomed. This was not a welcome change.

This is not some exciting new piece of information that you're giving us. This is a nightmare. And I, and, and, and I rightfully. Bring up [00:55:00] my concerns, but if I'm misunderstanding, I'm sorry. Just let me know and you, you shame me for having some concerns and some questions and looking for clarification, girl.

Bruce Anthony: Hold on. There's more.

1. Aundrea: Oh, it

Bruce Anthony: There's more. So the Bride sends out another reminder, quick updates and reminders. Hi everyone. We are so excited to have you as members of our wedding party. Thank you to those of you who actually care and stuck with us.

1. Aundrea: Because at this point people have dropped out. For sure.

Bruce Anthony: A few quick notes to DOS and FYIs General. We will no longer be using the wedding planner.

1. Aundrea: The wedding planner said it. Guess. Hey guys, y'all are doing entirely too much. And I can't be a part of [00:56:00] this event any longer. It is not, we're no longer using that wedding planter

Bruce Anthony: Well hold on,

1. Aundrea: guarantee. Guarantee

Bruce Anthony: Her husband and, and she's, she, the name is blocked out, but her husband and her are just too quirky to fit into a box. We're doing things our own way. Please do not contact Megan with any more questions. She is no longer involved with the planning of the wedding.

1. Aundrea: Megan

Bruce Anthony: Megan quit. Please come early on the 28th because we will have been unable to secure enough chairs.

We won't really need them. We'll be dancing all night.

1. Aundrea: Nah. Yeah. We'll, yeah. Okay. Okay. Y'all ain't even got enough chick.

Bruce Anthony: If you're in the wedding party, you are not expected to send a gift. Your presence at our special day is gift enough. Now that's okay. That's nice.

1. Aundrea: That there, that is welcomed. Because I had to buy a new dress and change my plane ticket [00:57:00] and get another hotel. So if you were expecting a gift from me on top of that, oh girl.

Bruce Anthony: as previously stated, we are unable to accommodate any dietary needs or requests. Please bring your own food if you require that.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: It gets worse after careful consideration. We have decided that we that with the exception of our boys, this wedding will be child free. That does also include the reception. Please plan accordingly.

1. Aundrea: You didn't, you done lost half your guests right there.

Bruce Anthony: We'll have special goody bags for all members of the wedding party available for pickup at the venue. Spoiler alert, it includes a plant. So if you're traveling internally, please plan accordingly internationally. Please plan accordingly.

1. Aundrea: So I'm gonna stop you right there. First of all, the wedding was child friendly. [00:58:00] Now you're deciding again two and a half weeks before the wedding. That is no longer child free. I've already bought our whole family's plane tickets. I already booked the hotel room. I then rebooked the flight because now I gotta fly in to Oregon first, and then I had to get a rental so that I could drive up to Washington.

I had to get another hotel. And now you're telling me I can't bring my kids, even though I've already paid for all of the stuff that if we don't fight some at some point in 2025, I will not be satisfied. Okay? And then on top of that, you know, you have people coming in. From, uh, internationally, you know that.

So why in the full hell are you adding [00:59:00] a plant that will make it incredibly difficult for them to get through customs with? What do you mean plan accordingly? I can't take a live plant through customs. There's no plant accordingly. Are you asking me to move to the United States so that I can get this plant?

No. Take the damn plant out, the goodie bag that don't belong in no damn goodie

Bruce Anthony: What about the dietary? What about the, what about if you don't, if you don't like what we eat, serving, bring your own, bring your own food.

1. Aundrea: Bring your own food. Listen that, I'm actually gonna address that later because she makes another request. And so I'm gonna go back to the fact that she said no dietary restrictions. So

Bruce Anthony: is a surprise to me 'cause I didn't read it the whole way through. I stopped probably at this point and said, oh, we gonna talk about this and there's a whole two more slides. So let's get to 'em. Let's get to 'em. So this is a continuation of the emails she sent out. Bridesmaids, if you are over [01:00:00] five five, please get these flats instead of the initial requested heels

1. Aundrea: So now's another thing I have to buy after I've already bought the heels that you initially requested that I buy.

Bruce Anthony: make, it will be $300 per person per day. You.

1. Aundrea: Absolutely insane.

Bruce Anthony: don't, you don't have to get it if you don't want to on the 28th, but we kindly insist all bridesmaids get it on the 27th if they want to be in any photos

1. Aundrea: I will not be in a single snapshot because What do you mean $300 per person?

Bruce Anthony: Per day.

1. Aundrea: Nobody, first of all, makeup artists, if they are doing a wedding, will charge a flat fee based on the number of people. That they're going to be

Bruce Anthony: And, and for mine, did, did we pay for that or did Bridesmaids have to pay for that,

1. Aundrea: be, uh, y'all paid, remember? 'cause I got my friend [01:01:00] to do the

Bruce Anthony: right?

1. Aundrea: So you got a good deal on

Bruce Anthony: yeah. But what, what we paid, we didn't have bridesmaids come out the pocket because they already came out the pocket for the, for the dress and the shoes. Yes. Okay. All right.

1. Aundrea: This is insane.

Bruce Anthony: it gets worse for the reception day. We'll be getting ready starting at 6:45 AM at our Airbnb. This is for the bridesmaids for the ceremony day.

We'll be getting ready at the venue time. TBD. If you are not there on the 28th by 7:00 AM you will not be let in to ensure things run, run smoothly on a timely schedule. Nobody wants to repeat of a batch.

1. Aundrea: Uh, she's talking about the bachelorette party. Uh, I had to dig through the comments to see what happened at the bachelorette party. I'll bring that up real quickly. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Groomsmen per tradition. The [01:02:00] groomsmen cannot see. The groom cannot see the bride prior to the ceremony, so unfortunately, there is nowhere for y'all to get ready on the 28th since you basically just need ties. This is no biggie. Some people are going to get together at blank at blank beforehand.

Feel free to coordinate amongst yourselves.

1. Aundrea: Essentially, hey, groomsman. Um, we have zero accommodations for you, and if you do want some sort of accommodations, you're gonna have to coordinate that yourself. Cool, cool, cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool, cool,

Bruce Anthony: Next email. Hi. Few quick updates and gentle reminders,

1. Aundrea: You can't keep saying kindly gentle and things like that and think that that makes this not, uh, like less abrasive. Somehow. I, first of all, I've already, I dropped out. The first email she

Bruce Anthony: right? What if it's your best friend?

2025. Aundrea: I dropped out the first email she sent because, listen, [01:03:00] if you are my best friend that you know me and you know not to send me nothing like this. Because you gonna get a gentle response kindly informing you that I ain't coming. Not only that, we gonna fight sometime in 2025.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. It, it, I have to get rid of, I have to get through the rest of these, these emails.

1. Aundrea: go ahead. But I'm just so

Bruce Anthony: know. After careful consideration, we have decided there will be no speeches only confirmed. Catholic bridesmaids and groomsmen are permitted to stand with us during the ceremony. Not our rules. It's the church's rules.

Sorry, we

1. Aundrea: Yeah. The fact that she spelled, sorry. S-O-W-W-Y.

Bruce Anthony: to say. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah.

1. Aundrea: This is another, it is infuriating to read these y'all.

Bruce Anthony: Some of you have [01:04:00] not paid the $25 per plate per person deposit for food, which sets a poor example for the other guests. As y'all are all the wedding party. We kindly insist each member of the wedding party chip in $650 for expenses. I'm sorry to have to ask at this point, but it is customary for the wedding party to just offer,

1. Aundrea: No, it's not. No, it's not. It's not customary for the wedding party to pay for your wedding, and it's also not customary to charge people a deposit for the, because clearly you can't afford your own

Bruce Anthony: yeah, we paid for the food.

1. Aundrea: yes, you clearly cannot afford your own wedding. I can't even get my dietary restrictions respected, but you asking me to pay a deposit per plate?

Per person plus for all the other expenses. I assume dealing with your wedding, you want us to kick in [01:05:00] $650 each

Bruce Anthony: top of the $300 per day for the makeup. So bridesmaid's gotta buy an extra dress, $300 per day for the makeup, and now she wants $650 for, uh, for expenses on top of the $25 for the plate.

1. Aundrea: for of the food that I can't eat because I'm a, I'm allergic to peanuts or something. I don't

Bruce Anthony: If you don't drink, we gently suggest you seriously consider whether or not you really want to come to the reception. This is meant to be a once in a lifetime celebration, and it only takes one wet blanket to sniff out everyone's fire. This is a personal choice you have to make.

1. Aundrea: Now I'm being shamed because I'm a recovering alcoholic.

Bruce Anthony: Oh. Oh,

1. Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: she says translation services. Oh, okay. We will offer translation services for those who need them. [01:06:00] Please direct your guests who require such services to sit in the back on the left at both functions. There will be a 30 minute, 30 minutes of open bar before the other guests arrive As a thank you to our number one ever wedding party.

Love you all.

1. Aundrea: So I, just so we're clear, the six 50 I'm kicking in is probably for that part of that's going to that open bar. Correct. So it's really not

Bruce Anthony: Ladies and gentlemen, this is gonna be a longer segment 'cause there is more to go, but I feel like y'all are feeling this. So next email. Hey ladies and him bows. Would anyone be interested in helping us get the wedding cake? You'll be shouted out specifically during the ceremony. If so, it has to be dairy free.

Thanks. Love you all so much.

1. Aundrea: Do not piss me off because you just said you weren't going to respect anyone's [01:07:00] dietary restrictions, but now, now I, I have to, you can't afford your wedding.

Bruce Anthony: Hold on It.

1. Aundrea: You don't have a cake. Two and a half weeks before your wedding. You don't have a cake and you want it to be dairy free, so I gotta respect your dietary restriction and you're not gonna respect mine.

Do not piss me off.

Bruce Anthony: The next and the last email, and this is by far the funniest.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: If you are no longer participating in our wedding, pulling out just days before the ceremony, we totally understand. But please be advised we won't forget who stood with us or not

1. Aundrea: If. First of all, not if I'm no longer participating. I'm

Bruce Anthony: you was out the first email.

1. Aundrea: I was already out, but even if I stayed in, even if I tried to roll with y'all [01:08:00] because that's the groom is my brother or something like that. Even if I tried to roll with y'all and you're shaming people for pulling out days before the ceremony, it's because you changed everything and demanded minimum $1,500 from everybody at the last

Bruce Anthony: I, your math is wrong. $1,500. Where'd you get that from?

1. Aundrea: I just threw it out there. I'm thinking, I don't know how much the other dress costs. I don't know how much the shoes cost. I don't know how much the additional hotel room, changing my plane ticket. I don't know how I, I, it's $300 per day for the

Bruce Anthony: so that's 600, so that's 6 25 plus the six 50 if

50. Aundrea: plus a six 50.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. You not far off 1500. Yeah, no, you,

1. Aundrea: Plus. Yeah, that's, that's

Bruce Anthony: if you help out on the cake, the dare free cake.

1. Aundrea: The dairy free cake, which you're gonna have to pay extra because one [01:09:00] is gonna be a dairy free cake, and two is at the last

Bruce Anthony: Hotel you extra hotel room in another state. You gotta find a way to get from one state to the next.

1. Aundrea: And, and, and I have to figure out who's gonna watch my kids.

Bruce Anthony: So more than 1500, she done add in an additional over $1,500 for the bridesmaids. The groomsmen getting off kind of easy here.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: They just don't have a, they just don't. Yeah. I mean they just don't have a place to to like go and sit. So the husband to be is just sitting there like, yeah baby, whatever you wanna do.

That sound good to me. 'cause he is only looking at it from his perspective. He's not seeing it from everybody else's perspective. That's on the other side of the fence. And I'm sure he's not directing these emails. These emails seem like they're coming specifically from her and

1. Aundrea: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: the hell.

So all she's doing is complaining to him. They pulled out. She pulled out. They're complaining about us going over here now. Now you telling me that if I ain't [01:10:00] Catholic, I can't even really participate with you in some of the festivities of being part of the wedding party? I ain't coming. I, if one of my friends had done this, I'd be like, Hey man, you know I love you.

Right. You know, I, I I consider you like a brother. Uh, but I'm out. And if that means that we can't be friends no more, I, I completely understand. But what you're asking is absolutely unreasonable. And, uh, I'm not about to pay what it would amount to be. You got the 1500, you got the extra hotel room, you got the transition back and forth.

You probably getting coached about two

20. Aundrea: 20. Yeah. Two grand, $2,500.

Bruce Anthony: month. That's, that's a mortgage payment. That's

1. Aundrea: And that's just assuming that I'm traveling by myself.

Bruce Anthony: Right.

1. Aundrea: if I'm traveling with my partner now? First of all, I gotta find somebody to wash my

Bruce Anthony: It might have to be your partner. Your partner came in and you like, you can't go to the wedding now. Somebody gotta watch the kids.

1. Aundrea: yeah. I got to take the day off work. Who going, who gonna [01:11:00] replace my PTO?

Bruce Anthony: and, and, and then saying if you ain't drinking at the reception, don't even come. Don't even bring your ass to the reception if you don't. Nobody want no wet blanket. Oh, and by the way, we ain't got enough chairs anyway.

1. Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: So you gonna be on the dance floor? No, I got heels, spurs and planter off fasciitis.

Okay. I gotta wear Hoka shoes at the reception. 'cause I need the extra cushion on my feet just to be around. I need to find a place to sit. I can't find a place to sit 'cause Aunt Ruth gotta sit. Uncle George gotta sit but I can't sit 'cause they taking up the seats. 'cause you ain't got enough seats.

1. Aundrea: Because you can't afford this wedding.

Bruce Anthony: You know what,

1. Aundrea: I, I mean, to me, as I was reading through it, I was like, oh, it's giving broke.

The Bachelorette Party That Never Was 🎉❌

Bruce Anthony: what happened at the bachelorette party though? You see? You said you read the comments.

1. Aundrea: So bachelorette party, I guess, because they had the bridesmaids had [01:12:00] to pay for so much. Nobody stepped up to plan a bachelorette party for her. So she demanded one, she wanted a destination bachelorette party.

Okay. And she wanted it, she gave people a week's notice a week. Okay. So she just assumed everybody was gonna go. So she booked accommodations.

Bruce Anthony: So she has, wait a minute. So she had the money. Did she spend the money on that instead of on the we

1. Aundrea: It is, it's very strange because you, you're gonna have translation services, so you're paying for that, but you ain't got enough chairs and you don't have a cake. And I gotta pay for my own food because that $25 was just a deposit for the food. I'm assuming there's gonna be another bill, final bill for the food.

That was just a deposit.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, [01:13:00] well, how'd you find the comments? These were people from, from the wedding party that

1. Aundrea: person, the person that posted

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Okay. Oh, yeah, right.

1. Aundrea: yeah, she's all in the,

Bruce Anthony: to be in the wedding party to get these emails. So the person that posted it was just like, this is what's going on.

47. Aundrea: yeah. Um, wait, what did she say? How old are these people? 33 and 47. Good lord. So not young. So not young. These are, these are grown people who should know better.

Bruce Anthony: I guarantee you he's 47. She's 33.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I guarantee you, this is not his first marriage. This is definitely her first.

1. Aundrea: Yes. And, and I saw another comment, uh, that the, uh, the poster made that he is not involved. Like he's, she's said concerningly checked out. Okay. So,

Bruce Anthony: if, if my ex was acting this way, now I know you said before a previous podcast, if y'all listened to this [01:14:00] regularly, my sister said, Hey, I knew I couldn't say anything to you because I knew who you are. I knew who she was. Y'all was going to dig in for straight ahead anyway. And I was like, right.

We probably still be together outta spite for everybody else. But at this point, if she was acting like that,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: you say something?

1. Aundrea: Hell yeah. Because No, 'cause I was already, I we'll talk about that off,

Bruce Anthony: Okay. All right. All.

1. Aundrea: but I was already annoyed by, by a couple things, but we'll talk about that. Uh, but it wasn't to this extent. This is, I don't understand Bridezillas and Groomzilla, like what, what, what breaks in your brain that you think that it is reasonable to ask this much of people who are coming to celebrate you?

I'm getting nothing out of this. Nothing. There's [01:15:00] no benefit for me to come to your wedding other than to support you. But I'm getting nothing out of this, and you're still asking me to go above and beyond. So anyway, the bachelorette party, of course, no one shows up. So then. The bill for the accommodations is like footed by the bride and two other bridesmaids that actually showed up.

So she's like, we don't wanna repeat of that. Don't do stuff last minute. And if nobody was throwing you, uh, a bachelorette party baby, why would you think that they would pay for a destination? I wasn't even willing to take you to the local strip club. So why would you think

Bruce Anthony: And everybody wanna go to the blue flame.

1. Aundrea: everybody does, but why would you think I wanna go to The Bahamas with you if I wasn't even willing to take you down the street to the local strip club?

Please [01:16:00] don't piss me off. Uh, the way this got, as y'all can see, the show is going on and I'm sorry,

Bruce Anthony: is going real long.

1. Aundrea: I, I, and I apologize, but damn, this pissed me off because I wouldn't have a friend anymore. I wouldn't have a friend. I would not have a friend anymore because there is no way I could stay silent about this.

There's absolutely no way you would get a phone call from me or FaceTime something and my first question would be, what the hell?

Bruce Anthony: Oh, oh.

Final Thoughts: Don't Be That Bride! 💅🚫

Bruce Anthony: All right, ladies and gentlemen, we gonna wrap this up before we do, I mean, I, I don't need to top anything that my sister said about this wedding. Like, this was crazy. I picked a good Reddit post. I picked a good one. Jay, what do you wanna tell these people out here? And I know it's probably gonna have something to do with weddings.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. It, it does. Your [01:17:00] wedding is for you. So if people are willing to give their time, their money, their energy, it is 100% in support of you. They get nothing out of it. So be mindful of that. Also be mindful that nobody has to do a damn thing for you. So if they do, you need to honor that. And if you can't afford your wedding, you better head over to the justice of peace and stop playing.

Don't piss me off. Not today.

Bruce Anthony: And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. I wanna thank you for watching this very long episode, and until next time, as always, I'll holler.

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