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Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥

Bruce Anthony: Hot takes and cold truths. What does it all mean? 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 to follow us wherever you get your audio podcast. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcast and YouTube exclusive content review. Like, comment, share, share with your friends, share with your family. Hell even share with your enemies.

Sibling Happy Hour: Spicy Takes & Drinks 🍹🌶️

Bruce Anthony: On today's episode, it's a sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis Jay Andrea. We're gonna be dilly daling a little bit. Then we're gonna be giving you some real takes and some cold truths, and then we're gonna talk about black expressions. that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the [00:01:00] show.

 

Bruce Anthony: What up sis?

1. Aundrea: What up brother?

Bruce Anthony: I can't call it. I can't call it. Um, I want to give the audience a little update to the podcast.

1. Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: Me and you have talked about this behind the scenes,

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: changed the format, not really the format, but kind of like what's going on with the show as you turn off your air conditioning, as we've already started the show and the, let's just say the start of this show.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna tell you, I don't know how this is gonna go today because, because we're both frazzled. We both

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Yes.

Bruce Anthony: time that we record. I'm

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: She's tired. I'm

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: over my words a lot more than I normally do, but we gonna roll with it.

1. Aundrea: We're just gonna roll with it.

Bruce Anthony: have, we ain't got no choice. demand it.

1. Aundrea: Literally no choice. Yeah.

Why We're Ditching Political Drama for Good Vibes 🎭✌️

Bruce Anthony: Uh, so ladies and gentlemen, if you haven't [00:02:00] noticed since the beginning of the year, me and my sister have been shy away from political topics. Every now and then we'll bring it up if it's something very, very important that needs to be discussed. And we've been doing a somewhat on our YouTube exclusives, but I was actually talking to our father

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: night and I've seen a growth.

Growing Our Community: The YouTube Journey 📈🚀

Bruce Anthony: And not only our YouTube, which by the way, we've hit two 20,000 subscribers today

1. Aundrea: Woo.

Bruce Anthony: this time that this show is Aaron. We'll, probably, probably at like 21 or maybe even 22, who knows?

1. Aundrea: Who knows?

Bruce Anthony: the show has been growing. Not only our Instagram page has, has been growing slowly. Good God, so slowly.

1. Aundrea: but dude, it is making it

Bruce Anthony: it's, it's chugging along.

It's like, you know, an old pickup truck. It's still, it's still getting the job done

1. Aundrea: exactly right.

Bruce Anthony: And we've been getting a lot more engagement, comments and stuff like that on our [00:03:00] TikTok the videos that, that we've been posting. And it, and, and father was just like, yes, sometimes people just need to escape.

And we've been, the election, we were talking so much real stuff.

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: And gonna be honest, even though it is naturally our default we try to hide it, we were coming off as somewhat angry.

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: yeah. Somewhat angry. Now

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: whether you don't know this or not, that is our natural default.

I have a burning rage that's inside of me that

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: through workouts, alcohol and laughter.

1. Aundrea: Hot ball of lava in the middle of my chest. Yes.

Bruce Anthony: out a little bit too much and I, I was noticing that we weren't getting the traction. Look, we are not going to change who we are. We're gonna talk

1. Aundrea: No.

Bruce Anthony: current events and topics that are going on in today's society and sometimes that's gonna be real.

But I've also really enjoyed the last few shows that we've done where we've just kind of [00:04:00] been like, we've been semi-serious, but kind of silly. And that's

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: of how I always wanted the show to be. I didn't want be a political podcast. Pod Saves America is that,

1. Aundrea: right, right,

Bruce Anthony: we could talk a lot about a little bit and a little bit about a lot, but not a lot, about a lot. So we gonna say that for them,

1. Aundrea: right.

Bruce Anthony: you know, and I just, are, we are getting back to giving y'all laughs being silly, but also real. And that's how things are gonna be.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: going to talk about serious topics still every now and then,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: but I. Now we want to, we want to get back to laughing. We wanna get back to joy.

'cause we know that that's what y'all want. Y'all

1. Aundrea: Yes. Yes.

Bruce Anthony: So

1. Aundrea: I like that. I like that new direction.

Bruce Anthony: don't, I don't, I think it's going back to the old direction.

1. Aundrea: No, you know, I feel like we started out with more serious content and you would try to [00:05:00] find moments of levity, but

Bruce Anthony: we, the first podcast, the first podcast is literally titled to Power. Power The Truth. 'cause I messed it up. We weren't talking about nothing serious. I think the

1. Aundrea: Well, you can't. You can't, you can't include them first couple podcasts. So that's us. We didn't even have a show format, like a structure to the show.

Bruce Anthony: to the show by the

1. Aundrea: No, we did not.

Bruce Anthony: Yes, we did.

1. Aundrea: It still wasn't as fully fleshed out as like it is now where we actually have segment breaks and like stuff like,

Bruce Anthony: on the second show.

1. Aundrea: uh, I don't, I don't remember that.

Bruce Anthony: we had second breaks on the second show.

1. Aundrea: The actual second show or the second show that we aired.

Bruce Anthony: there's a whole first show

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: did, we did eventually put out on, uh, no, we

1. Aundrea: The after hours. Yeah, yeah,

Bruce Anthony: the very first record. And we was like, we can't put

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: on air. This can't be our

1. Aundrea: No, [00:06:00] it's literally bad.

Bruce Anthony: where I misspoke and we had to cut an entire segment and that never made it to air.

We'll never

1. Aundrea: Yes. Yeah. Absolutely not. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I misspoke so bad. I was like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no. This

1. Aundrea: No, the whole segment has to be scraped.

Bruce Anthony: throughout the whole thing.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Um, I don't know. I don't think, I think we didn't really start getting, uh, there's a dramatic difference going back to like August last year through November.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: it was like serious topic at the serious topic. At the serious

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Because it was, not to say that there's not a lot going on right now. There is. Um, but I don't know. I felt like a little bit of fatigue set in

Bruce Anthony: definitely for

1. Aundrea: with us. Yeah. Where I was like, I can't talk about this anymore.

Bruce Anthony: Well I told you about it off the air and I have no problem saying [00:07:00] it on the air. I told you about it off the air that I couldn't, for some strange reason, I had lost like 20 pounds.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Thanksgiving, right before the election, and then after the election going into holidays, I gained it right back.

And people will say, well, it's the holidays. People eat right. I'm way more disciplined,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: stop for some reason

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: figure out what it was. I was depressed. I was

1. Aundrea: yeah, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: that I didn't realize that I was depressed,

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: depressed doing the show, talking about the serious topics all the time, and

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: the outcome that we didn't want, right, that, that I'm gonna say half of America didn't want,

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: I think was probably more of America didn't want it now, but it, I was like, I thought about it and I remember I took off of work all day Wednesday and didn't even watch the news until Wednesday night because I knew what was going to happen and I didn't

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: with [00:08:00] it.

1. Aundrea: I didn't watch at all. I woke up the next morning and just opened up Google because I figured it would be right on the front page, and it was, and I saw it and I just turned over and went back to sleep.

Bruce Anthony: no. So yes, there was ladies and gentlemen, I, I can honestly say that those, those shows I still think are good.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: just aren't what I want them to be.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: what I want this show to be. And we veered off and I think we're back on course.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: ain't nothing serious that we talking about today.

1. Aundrea: Literally nothing. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: am more excited about talking about this than

1. Aundrea: Right,

Bruce Anthony: for a long time. Don't

1. Aundrea: right.

Bruce Anthony: that means for the overall show for today, but

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: excited about talking about it. So that's a good thing.

1. Aundrea: I liked the rundown when I saw it, so I was like, okay, we gonna, we gonna talk about some things here. Okay. Okay.

Bruce Anthony: ladies and gentlemen, you gotta understand that our scheduling is a little bit [00:09:00] different. Like some stuff we can't talk topical because we are literally filming this Tuesday night and the air's Friday.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: whole bunch of stuff that can happen between Tuesday and Friday that

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: we, we can't address

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: be changes.

So that's the reason why we've been pushing the YouTube exclusives. 'cause we do address stuff on the, if something happens and

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: the show, it'll be on the YouTube exclusives.

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: um, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: on.

1. Aundrea: I'm getting back to basics people.

Bruce Anthony: sometimes you just gotta get back to basis, Hey,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: gotta be complicated.

You can make it

1. Aundrea: Now,

Bruce Anthony: than it should be.

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, but as I said yesterday, I was speaking to our father

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and I remember when I taught our father how to side load the Amazon fire stick.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: He took it to a whole new direction. He was like, oh yeah, I got

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: on here and all this stuff to help me out and things [00:10:00] like this.

And

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: that he was a computer programmer, like he's

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: computer programmer, but nevertheless, he's a computer programmer. So

1. Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: him these things, it's immediate for him. It was like,

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: This, this is in that and that, and he goes straight into it.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Family Tech Talk: When AI Meets Dad's Programming Skills 🤖👨‍💻

Bruce Anthony: him and we were talking about AI yesterday and he was like, your sister and ladies and gentleman.

That's how my father sounds to me. Okay.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. That is not actually how he sounds though.

Bruce Anthony: but that's how it sounds to me.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: sister now. She uh, she a bad member gentleman when it come to the ai.

1. Aundrea: Okay. That literally sounds nothing like him. He does not say Mama ma jamma. That's

Bruce Anthony: I told you it was in my head. That's the way he

1. Aundrea: okay. Okay. Okay. Yes.

Bruce Anthony: And he, he's like, she a bad member gentleman with that ai. And I was like, what you mean? He was like, yeah, she teaching me about all these different things and you know how I am with ai, she's just surpassed me. I was like, yeah, well she is, you know, she got a certification in it, so I

1. Aundrea: Yes. I, I, [00:11:00] I did spend a whole semester, last semester studying generative ai. Uh, so yeah, my AI game is, is pretty legit.

Bruce Anthony: and he was like, he, he said that you could create some AI stuff for him that'll make his job a little bit easier. Or did I mishear that?

1. Aundrea: He was probably talking about genic ai. Um, so genic AI is a little different from like generative ai, which is like your chat, GTP co-pilot, um, Gemini, right? So basically generative AI is exactly what it says. It generates new content based on all the information that it, it's learned. So it can generate text, it can generate images, but it's, it can, it, it can only do within the scope of what it knows, right?

Whereas genic AI or AI [00:12:00] agents actually go out and find information. On their own and they can kind of make decisions in a way. Um, and it's a really effective way to like automate processes.

Bruce Anthony: okay. See, see,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Come to this podcast. You learn a little bit. I'm just, I know that you know your AI because you said GPT correctly.

1. Aundrea: Yes, yes.

Bruce Anthony: so many people say chat tt.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: or TCP or um, R-E-S-P-E-C-T and I'm like, that's, that's not what it is. It's chat GPT.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. It stands for generative pre-trained transformer.

Bruce Anthony: everybody gets it wrong. And I'm like, that's not

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I, I, I guess if you say GPT real fast, it, it just come, it creates a whole new word.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. GPT. [00:13:00] Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: know what that is. Sound it sound like a word that we probably shouldn't be saying. 'cause it seemed like it could be derogatory in some form of fashion somehow. Well, anytime I say words sometimes, look, lemme tell you, I just, I just got off of a call, a work call,

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and the person that I got off the work call is Jewish

1. Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: and we were talking about his, his friend moving to Tennessee.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: And he was like, I don't know if there's any Jewish people on Chattanooga, Tennessee.

And I was like, Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee is is a bigger town because it's a college town.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Oh. He was like, oh, it's a college town, then there's definitely gonna be Jewish people there. And I said, well, wait a minute, now hold up. That seems racist. was like, what you mean? And I was like, because it's a college town there that guarantees is gonna be Jewish people there. I said, if I [00:14:00] said that, that would be racist. He was like, Hmm, I don't know. I was like, no, I know. It feels that

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I mean, there's things you could say about your own community that don't come out right if people outside of your community say these things. So that's, you know, you gotta be a part of that group. And you could say, you could say what you want. Uh, and sometimes, but like when people outside of that group, it's kind of like, if, if I'm talking to somebody and I'm badmouthing you, right?

Oh man, Bruce did this, Bruce did that. And they like, yeah, Bruce did. Yeah, Bruce ain't worth it. And I'd be like, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. You can't say that. I can say that. That's my brother. You can't say that. 'cause then we gonna have to fight. So it's like, it's kind of like that. It's just like you gotta be in the club.

Bruce Anthony: I think that concept is lost on [00:15:00] a certain segment of the population when they

1. Aundrea: Yeah, we know that.

Bruce Anthony: this or do that?

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: like, because you're not part of that group, but they

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. 'cause they're part of the

1. Aundrea: they're a part of that group. You gotta be in the club. Sorry. Like you got to get the handshake. You gotta be in the club.

Bruce Anthony: well, you know what my favorite cuss word is, right?

1. Aundrea: No.

Bruce Anthony: It, it's the same. It's too short. What's my favorite word? Why you want to say it like short, but,

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: I have to be careful in the environment in which I say it,

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: women,

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: know that I'm not saying that about them. And

1. Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: talking about a woman and say that word, but that don't mean an and that direction.

That's just literally, it's literally my favorite word. And I don't know why it's been my favorite word since I was a kid.

1. Aundrea: Really?

Bruce Anthony: cuss word. MF ain't never, I like, I hardly [00:16:00] ever say that,

1. Aundrea: Yeah, I, I really don't say MF a lot either.

Bruce Anthony: don't say FA lot. I'll say SA lot

1. Aundrea: I think the S word is mine.

Bruce Anthony: because, I mean,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: because so many, so many of our favorite scenes by comedians, they punctuated with the

1. Aundrea: Yes. That's where I'm going.

Bruce Anthony: Right, right. That I was just getting ready to say that ladies, gentlemen, that's coming to America. When they was in Barber, no, they wasn't in the barbershop. That's when

1. Aundrea: They were outside the barber shop and he was about to go to the black awareness rally.

Bruce Anthony: that's where I'm going. I say that at

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: once a week. That's my line.

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: is my favorite cuss word. It's my favorite cuss word. it's, no, my favorite word that, and Tom Foolery

1. Aundrea: Now I have literally, I. In the whole of my life. Never. Okay. Because you have literally, that is the first time I've ever heard you say the word Tom [00:17:00] foolery. And I think you need to knock it off. 'cause that that is not even remotely true.

Bruce Anthony: know how I know I'm getting old? 'cause I was talking to somebody a couple of weeks ago and I was like, yeah, I'm just out there moving and shaking, you know, just had to do what I had to do. And they

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: said, wait a minute. Hold, are you. Were you born in 1972? Because I was like, well, not that far from it,

1. Aundrea: Right. No, no, I don't. I don't move and shake. I rip and run.

Bruce Anthony: I I I rip and running too. Yep.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. I rip and run. I rip and run. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: gentlemen. As, as per this new format, that was us. Dilly ding and, uh, yeah, I,

1. Aundrea: Alright, we done.

Bruce Anthony: we, we done with the deal darling. Now I'm about to introduce a new segment, but I, I know what y'all gonna say 'cause I get called out for it.

I'm always introducing a new segment and then don't ever go back to that segment. And you

1. Aundrea: Yeah, that's happened a couple times.

Bruce Anthony: why ladies, gentlemen? Because I forget about 'em.

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: That's just, that's basically, I introduced a

1. Aundrea: [00:18:00] yeah,

Bruce Anthony: and that segment doesn't mean it's gonna come back. It's just new.

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: So

1. Aundrea: We didn't say recurring, we said new.

Bruce Anthony: said new.

Not re I

1. Aundrea: Yeah, yeah,

Bruce Anthony: in you.

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: 'cause I didn't say reoccurring. I didn't

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: back. I just said new.

1. Aundrea: yeah, it is.

Bruce Anthony: hot takes and cold truths. And we gonna get into that next.

 

Bruce Anthony: So like I said, here's a new segment. Didn't say reoccurring. Might not ever come back, but this new segment called Hot Takes and Cold Troops. And I'm gonna throw a couple scenarios at my sister to

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: take and her cold truth about it.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: So Jay, let's talk emergency contact fails.

1. Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: in your life a hilariously unqualified to be your emergency contact? And you don't have to, well, I guess you would have to say [00:19:00] who it is, but you don't

Emergency Contact Fails: When Mom Won't Answer 📱😅

1. Aundrea: Mm.

Bruce Anthony: to say who it is.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: could also tell a story about the most chaotic thing that they've ever done and the reason why that may be the reason they would never be your emergency contact.

1. Aundrea: Woo. That's a lot. Well, I could tell you the person that I probably will not ever put us my emergency contact, and that's our mother. And the reason why

Bruce Anthony: the same me mom.

1. Aundrea: love her dearly, but your emergency contact has to answer the phone.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, okay. So we have different reasons, but go ahead with yours.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, it has to answer the phone. So, so it, it's, it's been like the last maybe two weeks or so. Every time I call or text I get that voicemail or, and no response to my text and I'm like, what's going on? So finally I ask, oh, my phone's charging. Okay. What, what does that have to do with the, it's in a completely [00:20:00] other room.

It's not even charging near her ringers off

Bruce Anthony: Um

1. Aundrea: completely other room. No, you can't be my emergency contact.

Bruce Anthony: mm.

1. Aundrea: No, you, no. And also I know that you have your setting set up where if it contact is not in your phone, your phone won't ring. So the hospital call the police call. So, yeah, that's, that's step one.

Listen, if your emergency contact is somebody you can't ever get ahold of, you need a new emergency contact because I guarantee you, they're not gonna answer a phone number. They don't recognize, so you need a new emergency contact. So I did change my emergency contact.

I actually, it's our, it's, it's our cousin and I formed him the other day. One, he answers his phone, and two, he lives around the corner. So [00:21:00] I know that if, you know, something happens and people are like, Hey, we haven't heard from John, gotta do a welfare check. He's right around the corner. So that's, that's why I should, but no, no, she don't answer.

No, she don't answer the phone.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. she's, she would not be my emergency contact for a different reason. But I also wanna point out, you've been saying your real name a lot on the show, on the

1. Aundrea: Oh. I didn't know, did people not know my name?

Bruce Anthony: been, uh, your, your stage name is Jay Andrea.

1. Aundrea: Oh. But I found people,

Bruce Anthony: unless they know me.

Well, actually it

1. Aundrea: show is literally called Unsolicited Perspectives

Bruce Anthony: with

1. Aundrea: with Bruce Anthony. Yes. So people do know your name is Bruce.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Oh, yeah. But that's, that's not my fault. That's not my government

1. Aundrea: I mean, I've never used my last name.

Bruce Anthony: what, it don't

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: people to figure out our last names anyway,

1. Aundrea: Well, the thing is, the cool thing about my name is don't nobody know [00:22:00] how to spell it properly, so

Bruce Anthony: If you can't spell brute, you know what? People have actually asked me, how do you spell it? And I'm like, are you stupid? And, and some people say it is B-R-U-S-E. And I was like, Bruce ain't never in,

1. Aundrea: never. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: a s

40. Aundrea: Bruce Lee. Bruce Wayne, how do you all not what? What? Come on, y'all. It's, I, I, I get, it's not a common name these days. You don't meet a lot of them. You don't meet a lot of 'em under 40. You don't,

you don't meet a lot of little kids. Hey kid. What's your name, Bruce. You don't, you don't meet them. Uh,

Bruce Anthony: last little kid named

1. Aundrea: you were the last one,

Bruce Anthony: I

1. Aundrea: literally.

Bruce Anthony: I've never met anybody close to my age named Bruce. So you absolutely right. My

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: gave me an old 1960s name. All

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: It is what it is.

1. Aundrea: It's what it is. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: the reason why mom won't be my emergency contact.

1. Aundrea: [00:23:00] Oh, we picked the same, you did say, okay. Yeah. You, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: once again, love our mother.

She is dependable. If you can get ahold of her,

1. Aundrea: to hear and beyond. Love this woman. Yes. Yes.

Bruce Anthony: but she ain't gonna do what I want her to do. And this is what I mean by this. One time I had a discussion with her and I said, yeah, you know, if it's between my life or getting anything amputated, just go ahead and let me go. And mom was like, no, I'm not gonna do that.

And I was like, see, that's the reason why I'm not gonna have you anywhere near the decisions. 'cause you ain't going to do what my wishes are. No,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: See, that's what I'm talking about. It ain't

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: It's about what I want and

1. Aundrea: yeah, yeah. Right.

Bruce Anthony: you know, I said, I've always thrown a caveat. If I had kids and a family, I'll go ahead and be one-legged Bruce. I'd be one arm. Bruce, matter of

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: a guy from the Fugitive named Bruce.[00:24:00]

1. Aundrea: that's a good question. I don't know.

Bruce Anthony: arm man's real name was Bruce, and if y'all know who the Fugitive is, I just really aged myself. I mean, Ford was in the Fugitive, but that's

1. Aundrea: I, I don't, yeah. I mean, I don't know. Yeah, that's why it.

Bruce Anthony: mom won't do what I want to be done, you know?

If

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: needs to lose this eye, or he's going to die, my answer is go ahead and let me go. And she'd be like, no, you don't need both eyes. Yes, I do.

1. Aundrea: Well, because that's one ridiculous. But I also agree with you. It's funny, uh, you know, remember when I had COVID and I got long haulers and I ended up being hospitalized? And so they come around after a couple hours and the treatments weren't working. So they come around and get your advanced directives.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

1. Aundrea: And I had to think about who did I want to make medical decisions for me in the event that I couldn't. And I picked her younger [00:25:00] brother because

Bruce Anthony: that he would absolutely be,

1. Aundrea: he would, he would, he would a hundred percent execute my wishes. Yes,

Bruce Anthony: you as well.

1. Aundrea: yes.

Bruce Anthony: you and our younger brother, but our younger brother would do the cold-hearted. He

1. Aundrea: No, I don't, I don't think that that's true.

Bruce Anthony: He would hate it, but he would be like, this is what they want. be crying

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: way through and he'd

1. Aundrea: Yes. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: want to even give him that, 'cause I don't know if he would recover.

1. Aundrea: Uh, it is a big job. Like when you think about like, who is gonna make these medical decisions for you? It's a big question. It's, and, and, and also like things like, uh, godparents, you know, that's a, some people it's, it's just like, um, symbolic, right? But for some people, they're very serious about it. And when I was made a godparent, my, my friend said, no, I'm actually saying if something were to happen to me and my husband, [00:26:00] we know you would raise our child the way we would.

Bruce Anthony: And that, and they got a whole gang of sisters,

1. Aundrea: Yes. A gang. A gang of siblings. Yeah, a gang of siblings. And so like that, that, you know, it meant a lot to me. And, um, I mean, I don't ever anticipate that ever, ever, ever happening, but for, for people, you know, some of these decisions are big deals. It's like, okay, who, who is gonna make these decisions for you?

Who is gonna handle something in the event? Something goes down? You know, you gotta gotta really think, is this person gonna answer the phone?

Bruce Anthony: Hey mom, we love you dearly,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: but you don't be answering your phone.

1. Aundrea: No.

Bruce Anthony: Not ever. Alright, here's another hot take. Cold truth. I know this has had to happen to you.

Late Night Scroll Sessions: We've All Been There 📱🌙

Bruce Anthony: The universal experience of scrolling for just five minutes and

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: [00:27:00] realizing this tomorrow,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: is your best accidental all night story of you just sitting there scrolling on the phone?

It doesn't actually have to be all nighter, but

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: on the phone and the next thing you look up like, what the hell?

1. Aundrea: no, it wasn't all-nighter. And it was, and, and I know a lot of people will remember this. Who the bleep did I marry? That whole Risa, that whole TikTok stor. I was deeply invested in this. Okay. I was deeply invested. And then I did, I, I was, I was watching it going down a rabbit hole. I looked up and, and the, it was light out.

And I was like, oh, well, well, well, damn. I spent a lot of time on this, but I was deeply invested and, and I actually haven't been, uh, on TikTok since November. Um, but I frequently go down TikTok [00:28:00] rabbit holes and I will be, I. Very, very late and I have a lot to do the next day or, or I get on my phone in the morning and then I'm, next thing I know, I'm like, I should have left for work 10 minutes ago.

I says, I'm already late. Might as well stop and get some coffee. So like,

Bruce Anthony: Black, black folks, logic that don't make no sense at all, just so you all you late, so you're

1. Aundrea: already late.

Bruce Anthony: late.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, I might as well if I'm already late, what does it matter if I'm more late?

Bruce Anthony: Okay? Okay.

1. Aundrea: That doesn't, that doesn't make sense.

Bruce Anthony: So this happens to me, but in two different ways. This is what I

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: YouTube is my scroll and just get absolutely lost.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: it's always a problem when I'm like, oh, I don't have to get up [00:29:00] early in the morning. I'm just going to on my phone and watch a couple of shorts. And then the shorts lead to, well, wait a minute, hold on.

Now I got to see this whole scene from this movie that I

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: time. And then, oh, wait a minute, it's got a whole bunch of scenes from that movie. Then the next thing I know, I didn't watch 10, 10 minute clips from a movie. I didn't watch the whole movie.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I'm like, oh yeah, but you remember when he was in that movie, or remember when she was in that movie?

I remember this clip and, and I've done that,

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: Sunday after we finished filming the YouTube exclusives and the after hours y'all can find on, uh, our YouTube

1. Aundrea: YouTube,

Bruce Anthony: Patreon page.

1. Aundrea: Patreon.

Bruce Anthony: I sat on the couch and I was trying to figure out what I was gonna order for my Sunday brunch.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: like, I don't feel like cooking.

I'm tired. I'm gonna order some food. What do I feel

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: And I was just scrolling and scrolling and scrolling on Uber Eats and I said, well, let me get my mind off of what I want to eat and let me just go on Instagram real fast. Jay. I looked [00:30:00] up and three and a half hours later

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: my stomach told me, Hey bruh.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: about some food a while ago. I was like, oh damn. You right

1. Aundrea: It's literally touching your thoracic spine. Your stomach is that empty. Yeah. Uh, TikTok reels don't even press that button down at the bottom to pull up reels. Don't even do it because, and that's how you know also that I enter in one of those like spirals because I'll start sending you a bunch of reels.

Bruce Anthony: said one. It was I think last week.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: week

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: and I was working, and my Apple watch kept going, bloop, bloop, and your face popping up. Bloop, bloop. Your face popping up. I was like, I guess she ain't working right now. guess she got time on her hand, but you

1. Aundrea: I got time.

Bruce Anthony: during that whole thing,

1. Aundrea: What?

Bruce Anthony: sensitive about this.

It really agitates me

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: sent you stuff and you didn't respond to none of the [00:31:00] stuff I had sent you, which meant that you hadn't checked your dms. You was

1. Aundrea: No.

Bruce Anthony: and sending me stuff.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, because here's the thing. When I first open Instagram, if I look and the little number over the dms, if it's more than three,

Bruce Anthony: Well, hold on now.

1. Aundrea: then I, I, I probably am not going in there to check it until much, much later. If I look and I, I got like 10 dms in there. I, I ain't gonna, I, I don't, I right now I have, uh, I haven't looked at the most recent number, but it was like 125 texts from group chats and stuff. 'cause I didn't check my phone all day today.

And, uh, so it's like group chats. And I was like, I'm not, I'm just gonna mark everything as red, and if anything important, somebody will bring it up again, because I'm not going through all of those. I'm not doing it.

Bruce Anthony: boys jive, like, think like I don't rock with them anymore because I'm [00:32:00] working or doing something, and my phone is always on silent. Like, it,

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: I don't remember last time my phone is ran. Okay. The only

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: have my phone, like on on is when somebody's coming to visit me and I need to, like, I need to be on top of it, but

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: so I'll check my phone and, but just with them it'll be like a hundred text messages and I was like, I've missed this conversation.

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: go back and read all those text

1. Aundrea: I, I can, I can't keep up,

Bruce Anthony: Is, Hey, I missed this whole conversation. I ain't gonna read back all these messages, but I'm here.

1. Aundrea: right? Yeah, no.

Bruce Anthony: whatever, so they

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: they, like, we can't even get ahold of you.

We have full conversations. Y'all have 'em at

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: time.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. I, I, I, I'm not, I, I'm not available. And then by the time I am available, it is so many, I'm like, I'm not, I'm not going through that.

Bruce Anthony: through all that.

1. Aundrea: I don't wanna,

Bruce Anthony: know what? That's another hot take, cold truth. I'm not

1. Aundrea: yeah. [00:33:00] Hey.

Bruce Anthony: morning to,

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: not our mutual friend. It's a, it's a, a different friend

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: um, I'm in a group chat with them

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: because they're on the west coast and the other person is on the East coast with me, I always wake up to about nine different dms and they'll say, 'cause the, the magic number on your Instagram dms, it'll go up to four.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: put plus.

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: put my head down like, oh.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: And if they're just memes, okay, but they don't just be memes, they be

1. Aundrea: No. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: long 'cause you could do long reels now.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. And people, people love to send me reels and they, they really, really do. And um, guys, I, I don't, I'm not gonna, I got like, it's literally like watching a feature length [00:34:00] film if I go through all those reels and watch them. So, um, yeah. Sometimes I look and I say, I, I can't do this is gonna have to wait till the weekend.

Bruce Anthony: I got a client and she just says, yeah, I don't ever respond back to the reals people send me. I was like, N never. It's like, because if you respond back to some, then you gotta respond back to all. If you never respond back to any of 'em,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: they know that you got 'em. And I was like, that's a, that's a good idea.

Maybe I should start doing that.

1. Aundrea: No, I, I, I, I wanna give people some response because I, I, a lot of them are very funny. People know my sense of humor very well, so like, a lot of them are very funny. I just don't have the time to sit and watch 48 reels between, you know, 12 different dms. Like, I don't have time to do that. Okay.

Bruce Anthony: that's good that your people know your sense of humor. I have people sending me stuff and I'm like, that's not [00:35:00] funny.

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: funny. Why would you think that? I would think that this is funny, especially some

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: in my life that'll send me stuff and it's like a misogynist joke and I can laugh

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: joke.

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I can still laugh.

1. Aundrea: If a joke is funny, it's funny.

Bruce Anthony: if it's not funny,

1. Aundrea: Right,

Bruce Anthony: then the only reason why you think it's funny is because it's misogynist.

1. Aundrea: right.

Bruce Anthony: And that's, uh.

1. Aundrea: Or, or you're trying to bait me, you know, in some way by sending me stuff like that.

Bruce Anthony: the debates and I don't know

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: out, I'm not gonna do that. But on to the next topic, 'cause we

1. Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: this for forever,

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

The Great Debate: Airbnb Chores vs Hotel Freedom 🏠🏨

Bruce Anthony: versus hotels. Now, when Airbnbs first came out, I was all form.

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: kitchen net and you get all this and that.

A home,

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Then Airbnbs gave you chores and I'm not for that. I'm like,

1. Aundrea: Excuse me.

Bruce Anthony: chores. Yeah. When you stay at [00:36:00] Airbnb, it is chores. There's a whole list of stuff that you gotta do before you, before you leave a hotel. All I gotta do is just pack my stuff and get up outta there. I can

1. Aundrea: and I can leave the room a mess

Bruce Anthony: Airbnbs is

1. Aundrea: and do.

Bruce Anthony: nobs, like wash the dishes, make sure there's nothing in the sink, put 'em in a dishwasher, put all the towels and everything in the washing machine, that heat, and then put the dish detergent in there and then open it up halfway to put the fabrics off in there. And there I was like, wait a minute.

Dammit,

1. Aundrea: Yeah, yeah,

Bruce Anthony: chores.

1. Aundrea: yeah. You know what's, uh, you're probably gonna be surprised, but I have never stayed in an Airbnb before.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, that's the reason why. Oh, so you don't have an pigment? Yeah, it's chores.

1. Aundrea: No. But I do, uh, I do get that because it's somebody's home, they don't know when they're gonna get another guest. You can't just leave food in the sink. That's how you get, you know, pests and stuff like that. So I get it. That's the trade off, right? Is like, okay, I get more [00:37:00] space and I get, you know, different amenities and things like that and I don't have to, you know, see other people in the lobby or stuff like, you know, there's like, uh, positives to staying at Airbnb, but you go, nothing's free.

You gonna have, there's some drawbacks. And the drawbacks are you need to put that trash out and put the can on the curb, but don't block the mailbox. But you know, like there, this is gonna be rules like

When Your Airbnb Has a Whole Homework Assignment 📝😫

Bruce Anthony: when we stared in the Airbnb for your birthday

1. Aundrea: mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and tho the, the chores afterwards were pretty reasonable, but it was a long list

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: and you sent the list to me and then I, this is when I found out that you described me as meticulous, and I was

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: I'm not meticulous. And then you was like. I'm not going really check, but just to check and make sure everything was done on list. I was like, oh yeah, I took care of it. I know [00:38:00] you

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah. I know you did.

Bruce Anthony: about one thing 'cause somebody did something wrong at the

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: was like, that's not what the list said. But I don't want to do

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: first started, they were cheaper than hotels. It is cheaper now to stay at a hotel because they got all these added fees in the Airbnb. So unless you're in a big group,

1. Aundrea: Yeah. And you split it. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Otherwise, when I go to New Orleans, uh, for Halloween and, and y'all don't be trying to follow me out there. No. Y'all could follow me out there.

Y'all want to come

1. Aundrea: No, don't please.

Bruce Anthony: y'all wouldn't come out there. Especially if you a fine teroni. Nevermind.

1. Aundrea: Oh, boy.

Bruce Anthony: I'm joking, I'm joking.

Hotels Forever: No More Vacation Chores! 🧹❌

Bruce Anthony: I'm staying in a hotel. I'm not gonna

1. Aundrea: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I, I've actually, I just never had the opportunity to stay in one before. It is not that I've, like, avoided them or anything, I just never been anywhere where I was like, I could just get an Airbnb. I never, I've never had the opportunity to stay on one, [00:39:00] so I, I really don't. But yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't really wanna do no chores either, like.

Bruce Anthony: no chores. I said I'm done with

1. Aundrea: Like, I'm on vacation. I don't wanna load your dishwasher and put the towels on the washer machine, and I don't wanna do that.

Bruce Anthony: say, load the dishwasher and run it before you leave, and then put the dishes back. And I'm like, that's, everything.

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: to just clean up the house there?

1. Aundrea: yeah. So then why am I paying a extra fee for cleaning if I'm cleaning the damn house?

Bruce Anthony: pay Well, you get, it's supposed to be refundable if I remember correctly, but it's been like four years since I stayed at the Airbnb because I won't do it no more. I want

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: and the comfort of a hotel

1. Aundrea: yeah. Sorry.

Bruce Anthony: on the air conditioning the heat the way I want it.

1. Aundrea: You're right.

Bruce Anthony: they leave it at this temperature. No, it's hot.

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: it up. I don't wanna

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: waking up in the middle of the night sweating because you don't wanna turn your air conditioning up. I dealt with that growing up. I [00:40:00] pay for my air conditioning now it's freezing

1. Aundrea: yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's the way I like it, and that's the way it is.

Bruce Anthony: Last one Jay,

1. Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: get this Pets diva demands. the

1. Aundrea: Mm.

Bruce Anthony: extra thing your pet, your pet insist on do you secretly love it?

1. Aundrea: I do secretly love it. Uh, so it's gonna be about Tinder Road because, because she, I, I, I do love it. She is just her own dog, you know, and, um, she's very independent. She don't need me. You know, pretty much she lives her own life and I let her, she just, she, I, I don't even really consider her my child the way I consider Roscoe my child.

Meet Roni: The Dog Who Refuses to Go Naked 🐕👔

1. Aundrea: Like Roni is my roommate, honestly. But she doesn't pay rent. So it's like, like we are on equal footing in the household. How I feel like, [00:41:00] you know what I'm saying? She just doesn't help me with chores or, you know, pay for anything. Um, but she is a diva. Uh, very much so. One of the things is she doesn't like being naked.

Uh, and what does that mean for a dog? Right? You can't take this girl's collar off.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, okay.

1. Aundrea: Okay. Like, or if I have her in a little kerchief, I take it off and she's like, oh, oh, oh. Now I think it might be a trauma response. Honestly, because when we found her, she didn't have a collar on, so maybe she equates it with, the last time I got a collar taken off, I was abandoned. So it could be that, I don't know.

Um, but she definitely likes wearing clothes. She likes, you know, when I buy her t-shirts or she has like little hoodies and things like that. She [00:42:00] loves it. Um, yeah. Does not like to be without some sort of a Coutre mall on her.

That is, that is very much her, her diva thing.

Bruce Anthony: Well, crypto was the exact opposite of that. He didn't want

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: nothing on and wanted to be free and naked and run loose. There was

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: diva about crypto.

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Minnie the Cat: Queen of Demanding Divas 😺👑

Bruce Anthony: however, I did live with mom for a certain period of time.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: Minnie the cat. Now,

1. Aundrea: Yes,

Bruce Anthony: that I and my ex introduced into the family,

1. Aundrea: yes,

Bruce Anthony: Minnie.

Minnie was

1. Aundrea: yes. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: particular thing. didn't wanna drink water out the bowl,

1. Aundrea: No.

Bruce Anthony: to drink water out of the running sink.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. It had to be moving water. Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: I would be walking to my bedroom and she would be falling [00:43:00] behind me meowing.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: not going turn on that sink for you.

No, I'm not going to do it.

1. Aundrea: Right?

Bruce Anthony: No, I'm not going to do it. Meow.

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

Bruce Anthony: count. You can meow all rough with me if you want

1. Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: And then I would get to the door and she'd be like, Meow. right. Yeah, I'm go ahead and turn on the

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: And then I have videos of her just drinking. 'cause I was like, this

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: thing ever, how I'm gonna get upset about this.

So I secretly

1. Aundrea: An another thing, uh. She was very demanding for Kat. Usually cats are very, like, they, they don't really ask for much. They don't really honestly acknowledge you at all. She was very demanding. One time I was petting her and I didn't want to anymore, so I stopped and she meowed for a little bit for me to continue.

I didn't, she walked down toward my feet, sat on my feet and peed.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Yes.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, [00:44:00] yeah. And,

Bruce Anthony: one time.

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Hold on. I

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: gotta tell this story. Wait, hold on. Finish your story. She peed on your

1. Aundrea: No, that was, she peed on my feet. I was laying down on the couch. She was kinda like right next to me and I was petting her. I, I stopped. She walked down to the other end of the couch, sat on my feet and peed directly on my socks.

Bruce Anthony: What did she do when you was like, Hey, because I know you was like,

1. Aundrea: Did she walked off smooth, like she didn't do it?

Bruce Anthony: so lemme tell you what Benny did to me. It was one time, you know, when I was living with mom, mom lives close to Baltimore, I was working in Northern Virginia

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and I would have to be in Northern Virginia at like six o'clock in the morning, which meant that I had to get up at like 4, 4 15 in the morning.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: when I was, when I was living there, thank God it was only for a couple months

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: living there [00:45:00] it was like 10 o'clock at night.

'cause I had finished up some work and Minnie was like, Hey, I'm gonna need you to turn on that sink for me. And I was like, Minnie, I'm gonna be real honest with you. I'm about to go in here.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: take my shower. I'm gonna get in bed because I gotta get up in six hours. I can't, I can't rock with you right now. Now what I could have

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: is while I was in the shower, just turned on the sink floor,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: being hardheaded. It was my fault.

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: She went right onto my bed and peed and I didn't

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: sheets. So I had to stay up that night clean cat pee out of my comforter. And my bedsheets.

I was up to

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: in the morning

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and was pissed.

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: Pissed, man.

1. Aundrea: because you had to leave in two hours.

Bruce Anthony: know what though? It's not like I attacked that cat because she was too doggone cute. I couldn't even get that

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: her.

1. Aundrea: I mean, uh, we listen, we didn't like the cat pee on us or our things.

Bruce Anthony: [00:46:00] not our, that's not our bag. We, that

1. Aundrea: No,

Bruce Anthony: type of, that's not the life that we

1. Aundrea: that's, no. Uh, but you know, with adorable animals, it's kind of hard to get upset. It's kind of hard to get to. I was still pretty upset though, 'cause she peed right on my feet.

Bruce Anthony: I was, I mean, I was upset too. I was up

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I didn't sleep well. I didn't sleep at all Really? And had to get up

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: next morning that, that really sucked. But, you know, many, you know, I'll take that moment just to have you back just for just a little bit so I can give you a little hug and turn on that sink one more time. Yeah,

1. Aundrea: Good cat.

Bruce Anthony: a good cat. On that note, we about to get into something serious, black units of measurements and black expressions and we gonna get into that next.

 

Bruce Anthony: Okay, Jay, this, it started out as black units of measurements,

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: but then it turned into black units [00:47:00] of measurements and expressions

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: oh, I got this off of Instagram and somebody made a comment it was like, is this black expressions or southern expressions? And I said, yes,

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: they, they are one and the same because a

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: culture is black culture,

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: not all of it. You know, the oppression and white supremacy, even though there are some black people that participate in those things, that's not us. But

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: the, all the expressions and the sands and the food and the music and all that stuff, all influenced by us.

So

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: lady, yes, it is both black and southern, but this is an expression, I don't know that other, other Southern people would say that aren't black.

On My Mama: The Ultimate Truth Test 🤞💯

Bruce Anthony: Oh, my mama. Which is the highest level of sincerity and honesty.

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: If

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: you, Hey, look on my mama, I didn't do that, then I

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: do it.[00:48:00]

1. Aundrea: Yeah. I just, because listen, I don't put nothing on my mama and I

Bruce Anthony: And lie. Mm-hmm.

1. Aundrea: No, no. On my mama.

Bruce Anthony: might say, swear to God and lie before I say, oh my mama and lie,

1. Aundrea: I don't know about that.

Bruce Anthony: on now because I can finagle God by saying, God. That's what I normally say anyway. People don't be paying attention.

1. Aundrea: The intention is there.

Bruce Anthony: No it's not. It's a

1. Aundrea: Yeah. No, no.

Bruce Anthony: you can't.

You can't finagle that. That's straight down the line. And then next thing you know, you lie on your mama. She gets struck by lightning and she dead and that's all 'cause of you.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm. Yes. Yeah. So don't, don't play around with, oh, my mama.

Bruce Anthony: somebody says on my mama, they ain't lying unless they ain't got a good relationship. 'cause I know one person, he ain't got a good relationship with his mama. He might say on his mama and be lying[00:49:00]

1. Aundrea: Right, right.

Bruce Anthony: but he also isn't black, so. So there you

1. Aundrea: There you go. There you go.

Around the Corner: Black Time & Distance Explained ⏰🗺️

Bruce Anthony: Around the corner can be any number of places.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. For me, around the corner is less than 15 minutes away.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah,

1. Aundrea: If it's, if it's 15 minutes away or less, that's around the corner.

Bruce Anthony: for me it's probably about 20 or 25.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. It depends. It depends on where you live, you know, there's a lot of traffic, so, uh, around the corner. Yeah, it is about 15 minutes for me. If it's more than 15 minutes, then I ain't going, but if, if it's under 15 minutes and it's around the corner, I'll go.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, I'll tell you what is definitely not around the corner.

1. Aundrea: No,

Bruce Anthony: know what we say if we are literally around the corner, because

1. Aundrea: you just say, you here, I'm already here. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: yep. That's a, because you're not here, but that's

1. Aundrea: [00:50:00] No,

Bruce Anthony: expression. I'm here,

1. Aundrea: yeah, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I'm here. I'm here

1. Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: I'm real close. But

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: five, 10 minutes.

1. Aundrea: Right. If you, if you close, it's like five, 10 minutes. Yeah. You be like, I'm here. No, you looking for a parking space? Like you're not here yet? Uh, yeah. So, no, that's around If it's actually around the corner. Yeah. You just saying you already there.

We here. Yeah. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Um, uh, when the good Lord see fit,

1. Aundrea: That's, that's Southern.

Bruce Anthony: that's definitely southern.

1. Aundrea: That's Southern. Yeah. That's Southern. And, and, and. Is you mostly gonna hear from old people, old folk, old folks are gonna say that because they look into the upper room, they've been here, they, they've seen enough, uh, and they looking to move [00:51:00] on. And so they just, when the good Lord see fit.

Bruce Anthony: Or si. I've seen young folks that are serious church going, folks

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: when

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: see fit.

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: that's not how life works, by the way, ladies and

1. Aundrea: And it'll be for things that the good Lord ain't gonna see fit to. Uh, when the good Lord see fit to let me win the lottery, it's over for y'all. Like, that's not when a good Lord see fit to let me lose his weight. Summer's hours. Like it's not, no, that's not, the Lord. Don't have nothing to do with that.

Um, you on your own with that. So yeah, it'd be, it'd be him seeing fit for things that it ain't got nothing to do with that.

Bruce Anthony: to do with it. Now, I don't know if you remember this, but I definitely remember our mother saying this in her younger years,

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: cotton picking minute. Now,

1. Aundrea: I don't remember that.

Bruce Anthony: long that actually is,

1. Aundrea: [00:52:00] Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: and uh, I've never really understood the expression, but I've definitely heard a cotton picking minute. And if anybody could tell me how long that exactly is, or the timeframe, like when we said around the

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: we give you a timeframe. And when we say we here, we give you a timeframe. How long is a cotton picking minute, man?

1. Aundrea: It is literally a short amount of time. Like it's, it is literally a short amount of time when we, when somebody says, now, wait, just a cotton picking minute,

Bruce Anthony: That's.

1. Aundrea: that's usually like an expression of surprise or something like that. Or like, like they're, they're asking you to like, like, hold up a second. Wait a moment.

Like it's, it's literally a short amount of time. Like a brief, a brief pause, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: You know what's something that black parents said, especially ours growing up,

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Black Culture Dictionary: Decoding Our Favorite Phrases 📖🗣️

Bruce Anthony: for something and they say, [00:53:00] we'll, see,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: ain't never seen.

1. Aundrea: We'll see. Is no,

Bruce Anthony: Can I go over

1. Aundrea: we'll see. Is no.

Bruce Anthony: tomorrow? We'll see,

1. Aundrea: Yeah, that's no.

Bruce Anthony: I actually got mad. One time I got mad at our father. I can't be how, I can't remember how old I was, maybe nine or 10, and I

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: the night over my friend's house. He was like, we'll see. And I was like, I know what that means. That means no. He turned around and he said, well, you know what, now that means no. I

1. Aundrea: yeah, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: it was no the whole time.

Because if

1. Aundrea: No.

Bruce Anthony: would've just said yes.

1. Aundrea: No, it, it was, that's when keeping a real goes wrong, you coulda, it could have been a, the thing about, we'll see, it's always a no, but you never know. We'll see might one day

Bruce Anthony: not in my 45

1. Aundrea: a yes,

Bruce Anthony: I ain't never seen it.

1. Aundrea: but you, you always hold that little bit of hope that we'll see could mean Yes.

Bruce Anthony: [00:54:00] is the argument that we had off air about a a fast. No. To a slow. Yes.

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: I'd rather have a fast. No. And he was like, that's still a no. I was like, I'd rather

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: No. Than have to wait all day for my Yes. And he was like, that's

1. Aundrea: That makes No, that makes no sense.

Bruce Anthony: yeah, well look.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: yes, then it might be a yes. That's a no. What I mean by that is the time may have passed where I needed the answer. So gimme the slow. No. Instead of the, uh, gimme the fast. No. Instead of the slow. Yes. Either

1. Aundrea: the, the.

Bruce Anthony: No. Or a fast. Yes. Don't gimme no slow. No. If you give a

1. Aundrea: No.

Bruce Anthony: we gotta fight.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Slow. No. Is you better knuckle up. But a a, a slow Yes. Means they thought about it. I would rather you take the time and think about it and it lead to a yes than you. Give me a quick answer and that quick answer be no.

Bruce Anthony: that no was a solid. No. You knew it was gonna always be a no. And I, now

1. Aundrea: Yeah. But you didn't even think about it. [00:55:00] You didn't even take the time to think about it.

Bruce Anthony: the answer before you even asked the question.

1. Aundrea: No. I'd rather you sit and think about it and it could lead to that slow Yes. Than you giving me a fast. No.

Bruce Anthony: Well, this next expression I use every time I'm seasoning my food.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: When somebody says, oh, how much do you put in and put in there until the ancestors tell me to stop.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Will it?

Bruce Anthony: directions for when I cook. I make

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: week and every week.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Seasonings just be different,

1. Aundrea: I don't measure nothing. Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: what it's going to be

1. Aundrea: it's gonna be what it's gonna be. I'm gonna put the season in, I'm gonna taste it, and I'll be like, my spirit says this is not enough.

Bruce Anthony: and

1. Aundrea: I need to add a little bit more.

Bruce Anthony: to add a little bit more. And what if is

1. Aundrea: And little

Bruce Anthony: in,

1. Aundrea: the, that's the devil.

The devil trying to keep me from eating good. That's all right. Add [00:56:00] some, add some chicken stock to it and thin that out. Thin that song out

Bruce Anthony: so you gonna add more sodium to thin the salt out. Huh? That

1. Aundrea: diluted a little bit.

Bruce Anthony: you gonna dilute the salt with more salt.

1. Aundrea: You could get low sodium chicken stock, but my point is

Bruce Anthony: sodium

1. Aundrea: diluted. And here's a helpful hint. If you are ever making Kraft mac and cheese and you put too much milk in, it's all watery. Cover it. Let it sit for five minutes. The sauce will thicken up. There's a like a little helpful hint for you. Life hack.

Bruce Anthony: considering the fact that you make such good mac and cheese. You know, the expression that I really hate when somebody asking me for anything

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: me get a taste or a sip,

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Because

Bruce Anthony: variety of different quantities

1. Aundrea: right. What do you consider a sip?

Bruce Anthony: do you consider a sip? [00:57:00] What do you consider a, a taste?

1. Aundrea: Yeah, because the thing I hate is lemme Oh, what you got over there? Let me get a taste. And then I see the fork dip in like three or four times. So you can get a big old helping before you shovel it into your mouth. I didn't say you could eat all the, I don't. It's only six shrimp on this plate. Why are two of them on your fork?

You still got four more? That's I. That's not the point.

Bruce Anthony: That voice. I know who that voice is. You didn't hide that at all. I know exactly who that.

1. Aundrea: You know, don't, don't try to rationalize to me with my own things. No, you said a taste, that means you wanna taste a sauce or you know, a little bit, not that you skewer half of the protein that's on the plate. Get some of them vegetables, put some of that, put some of that [00:58:00] rice on there. Like, why are you, why are you getting that deep in my state?

No, eat this little piece. I cut it off for you. You could have this.

Bruce Anthony: You know, and I, I, this is the reason why I don't allow anybody to taste my drink,

1. Aundrea: Yeah, I don't, I don't do that.

Bruce Anthony: one time, more than one time, somebody asked me for a sip

1. Aundrea: Mm.

Bruce Anthony: and they give it back to me. And it was like, Ooh, that's good. And I said, yeah, it'd been great if I could have had some of it too, since you done

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: damn thing.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: A

1. Aundrea: A sip mean

Bruce Anthony: barely, you barely touch. You just get

1. Aundrea: you just get a taste. Yeah. You just get a taste. Not, lemme get a sip. And then I see your straw come in and it is a g Like, I actually see the, the level of, of beverage drop. That means you've, you've taken too much.

Bruce Anthony: gotta take, if after you take a sip, you gotta do [00:59:00] one of these, then

1. Aundrea: Right. If you need to take a breath, you didn't have a sip.

Bruce Anthony: a sip.

1. Aundrea: That was a gulp.

Bruce Anthony: You took a whole ass goat, which happens to

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: suppression, uh,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Whole ass. Whole ass.

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: A a, a woman could be telling the story about her man's best friend

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: she saw him in the club another woman and he got a whole ass girlfriend at home,

1. Aundrea: Yeah, yeah,

Bruce Anthony: he outside in the streets and he got a whole ass baby at home.

A whole, I mean, it's a whole, it is, it is

1. Aundrea: Yes,

Bruce Anthony: of a

1. Aundrea: it's never a half, but a whole emphasizes like the intensity of something, right? If, if I say I just walked a whole 20 minutes to get here, that means I was not anticipating having to walk that long. I was [01:00:00] assuming five, 10 minutes, but no, no. It took me a whole 20 minutes that I need you to know.

I'm stressing the intensity of that, so when I say, you got a whole baby. Yeah, that's, it is surprising and I need. You to understand that I'm stressing the fact that I'm, I'm shocked by this, but it's it, yeah. But yeah, we're not talking about an actual, like, unit of measurement. Like there could possibly be a half or a quarter, right?

No, no, no, no. That's not what a whole means, but, yeah. Well, you got a, well, you got a, a whole lot of, a whole lot of something, or a whole ass something, and

Bruce Anthony: job.

1. Aundrea: he got a whole ass job. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: All right. Now this, the next two. I'm gonna bunch together in a story.

1. Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: I know this young lady, her name happens to be Becky.

1. Aundrea: Okay. [01:01:00] Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: Becky. And she said

1. Aundrea: You

Bruce Anthony: use her name.

1. Aundrea: okay?

Bruce Anthony: this early. She said I could use her name.

1. Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: is exactly who you think she is with the name

1. Aundrea: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: telling me the story that after every conversation would say, all right, bet. And she was like, bet what?

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: And she finally, she just asked him, what do you mean bet? Like, what are we betting? He's like, no, that's just an expression. Like, alright, bet. Like, I got you.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, I didn't know that. Another story she told me, one of her friends, of Becky's friends

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: said, uh, they got into, not a disagreement, but a, a debate about something.

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: And her friends said, oh, don't worry, I got

Receipts, Bets, and the Art of Black Expressions 🧾🎲

Bruce Anthony: receipts.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: was like, what do you mean receipts from what we didn't buy?

Nothing. She was telling other people that she was gonna meet up with [01:02:00] a friend that said, had had receipts and she was like, I guess she's gonna have a bag of receipts to show me. Because

1. Aundrea: I mean, yeah, I will,

Bruce Anthony: yeah, she thought it was little receipts.

1. Aundrea: yeah, I will have a bag of receipts.

Bruce Anthony: when you told me that, I was like, what?

You don't know what I bet is in receipts? I was like, you can't date no black man and not know what I bet that's like

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: that's is my sign off for almost everything. I

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: not.

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: got it.

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: check, read. I understand.

1. Aundrea: Right?

Bruce Anthony: bet. That's, you could just use that expression and it covers

1. Aundrea: Yeah, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: that means that in the disagreement that we have, I got proof that's going to back up what I'm saying.

1. Aundrea: Yes. That is what is not a literal receipt on receipt tape. Sometimes it can be.

Bruce Anthony: Oh. Yep. it

1. Aundrea: Sometimes it can [01:03:00] be, Hey, I found this receipt in your pocket, uh, from Ruth Chris. Uh, but this is a meal for, there's two entrees on here. It could be a literal receipt, but chances are it's a text message or a screenshot. It's a text message or a screenshot.

Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: are. That's what

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: bet they just

1. Aundrea: It's just your proof.

Bruce Anthony: It's just confirmation.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. It's just, I, I agree. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Ooh, ooh. Or, alright, bet could be like, all right, we about to get into some other stuff. Alright. Bet. It could be a disagreement as well.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: if you getting into it and be like, all

1. Aundrea: True.

Bruce Anthony: I, we gonna talk about it when I see you. It, it can, it

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: that too. Uh uh uh,

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: basically it's not putting a wager on something.

1. Aundrea: Right. Yes. It's nothing to do with gambling. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: be gambling with your life.

1. Aundrea: Could be gambling with your life. Yes. [01:04:00] Could be gambling with your freedom. It could be a lot of things. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: And this is important

1. Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: 'cause when we were kids, our parents would say, Hey, come on, come on, come with me. Where are we going? We just gonna make a couple of stops.

1. Aundrea: Yep.

Bruce Anthony: And a couple

1. Aundrea: That means,

Bruce Anthony: that you gone for all your life

1. Aundrea: yeah. Yeah. The whole day. Be prepared for that. To be the whole day.

Bruce Anthony: going and a couple of stops is not a couple, it's not a couple is actually two.

1. Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: There's three or more

1. Aundrea: Yes. Several,

Bruce Anthony: is a lot, right? But,

1. Aundrea: right?

Bruce Anthony: ever says several stops there.

1. Aundrea: No,

Bruce Anthony: say a couple of stops, but

1. Aundrea: a couple.

Bruce Anthony: several.

15. Aundrea: Yes. A couple for us always means several. Who? Who gonna be at the party? Just a couple people. Now it's like 15.

Bruce Anthony: Let me, [01:05:00] let me get, let me get

1. Aundrea: It's not a couple,

Bruce Anthony: How much you need? Just a couple dollars,

50. Aundrea: just a couple dollars. Okay. You, but you asking for 50. That's not a couple dogs. Okay. How long it take you to be there? Couple minutes. You 20 minutes away.

Okay.

Bruce Anthony: Just a couple of minutes.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: minutes away. Unless you

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: corner

1. Aundrea: Unless you right around the corner.

Bruce Anthony: right around the corner. But no, you hear then.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Then you're already here. But if you are right around the corner, that's 15 minutes for me. 15 minutes. I guess you could stretch it to 20, but 20 is to me, that's a couple minutes.

A Couple Minutes Means... How Long? Black Units of Measurement ⏳😂

1. Aundrea: I'm a couple minutes away.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. I guess 20 minutes. Could be a couple minutes. Well, actually, I.

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: You could be a couple hours away and still say a couple minutes.

1. Aundrea: No, that's, that's stretching it too far. That's stretching it too far. [01:06:00] That's,

Bruce Anthony: a couple hours away? You a grip?

1. Aundrea: I'm, I'm a whole ass ways away.

Bruce Anthony: What? No, a whole ass ways away is multiple hours. Like I'm a

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: ways away from driving to you.

1. Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: I'm not a couple hours, but if I was in Greenville, I would literally be a couple hours.

1. Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: But that's still

1. Aundrea: That's,

Bruce Anthony: a little minute.

1. Aundrea: that's, it. Depends on the person, but like, uh, maybe like three hours or less, you could say. I'm not that far.

Bruce Anthony: I, I would say it's gonna take me a little minute.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. It'll take me a little minute. I'm not that far. Yeah. I ain't that, that ain't that bad. You something like that.

Bruce Anthony: like that. That ain't, that ain't that bad. Right?

1. Aundrea: Right? Right.

Bruce Anthony: We ain't gonna dig that much into it, but ain't that

1. Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: means that we can, we might be able to do

1. Aundrea: it's manageable. It's, we might be able to do it. It's manageable, it's teetering [01:07:00] on unmanageable, but it's not there yet, so that's okay. That's not that bad. Like that's, you know, you get to check how much was it? One 50 i's not that bad. That's, I got, I got that much, at least in my account.

Yeah, it was, it's teetering on being bad, but it's not that bad. It's within my expectation,

Bruce Anthony: So, ladies and gentlemen, that's just another episode of us giving you a a, a lesson on a a VE. That's

1. Aundrea: right, essentially.

Bruce Anthony: American vernacular English, right? That's what it

1. Aundrea: Right? Yep. Yes.

Bruce Anthony: is. when a black person tells you these things, there's, there's a whole, well, there isn't a, there isn't a literal dictionary, but you can find it.

Google will tell you what these expressions actually

1. Aundrea: Urban dictionaries still exists. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: date?

1. Aundrea: I don't know.

Bruce Anthony: I, these young kids be saying hip hop words now. I don't know.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. A lot of times speaking to my nieces and nephews [01:08:00] and stuff and they, I can't understand nothing they're saying. I can't understand nothing they're saying.

Bruce Anthony: Well look, this show is starting to run long 'cause we've been

Final Thoughts & Life Lessons: Choose Your Emergency Contact Wisely! 📱💭

1. Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: the whole show. What do you wanna lead the people with? I.

1. Aundrea: Uh, let me think, let me think. Uh, listen, listen,

Bruce Anthony: Okay, I'm listening.

1. Aundrea: I got, I can't make this point more clear. Emergency contact.

If someone you can contact without fail in an emergency. Okay? If your emergency contact is someone that you ain't even to

in a minute, of course, being a relative black unit of measurement,[01:09:00]

you might wanna reevaluate who you've picked as your emergency contact

Bruce Anthony: I loosen my breath. Oh, oh, on that note, ladies, gentlemen, I try to catch my breath from my idiot sister throwing our mom underneath the bus. Mama, I love you. I wanna thank

1. Aundrea: will. We love you so much.

Bruce Anthony: I want to thank you for watching, until next time, as always, I'll holler.

 

1. Aundrea: No, I never touch it. You would have

Bruce Anthony: to do something 'cause I turned it on.

1. Aundrea: I don't even see it.

Bruce Anthony: Any who doesn't

1. Aundrea: gimme an option?

Bruce Anthony: Any who? Oh, and I got a funny story. Yeah. When we get to Black Expressions, I got a funny story. Okay. All you ready? Yes. We're gonna keep it nice and light, nice and easy. We had to do no major research, no major, you know, get all you know, that's, that's.

That could be a [01:10:00] bit much. Sometimes. Lemme turn you up 'cause you ain't loud enough. All right. Lemme make sure I'm in the center. Shit. Am I in the center? Yeah. Yeah, I'm in the center. Shit. Shit, shit. All right. Ready? Hot takes and cold truths. And also what does certain things mean? We go get into it. Let's get it.

That was not the intro that I came up with literally five minutes ago. Cold.

1. Aundrea: Uh, also like your audio was distorted because you're so loud. I mean, I had turned all the way down.

Bruce Anthony: Oh. Oh. Hold up.

1. Aundrea: Oh, when you were just doing that intro, you spoke up. Let me turn down my mic. Hold it sounded like your audio was getting distorted.

Bruce Anthony: We turned it down. How do I turn it down? Shit, well see, this is the thing that be pissing me off, right? Like. I ain't changed the mic. Why does the system just be like, Hey, I'm gonna fuck with your recording today,

1. Aundrea: right?

Bruce Anthony: Yep. Microphone is some or some reason that. Damn. 100%. I didn't turn it up that loud. The computer just said that we going to do this today.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Okay. That's much better.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. All right. [01:11:00] Yeah. Okay, well that's good that you told me that now. Okay. Alright, well let's get this damn show on the road. What did I say earlier? It was good. Hot takes old truths. Damnit, I should really write this shit down hot takes. Cold truths. What does it all mean? We gonna get into it.

I'll just go with that all. You ready? Mm-hmm. Dear. That was such a silly segment. I don't care. You know. Well that's what people come just hear us banter talk bullshit. Yeah. Whatever.

1. Aundrea: And we did it.

Bruce Anthony: And what's my favorite word, bitch. Why do you wanna say it like short? Alright. You ready? I was

1. Aundrea: just listening to that the other day.

Actually, no,

Bruce Anthony: blow the whistle is, is was my favorite two short song.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just listening to that the other

Bruce Anthony: day. It might be my favorite kind of like. It's a it. Before it was twerking, it was pee popping, but twerking. It might be my favorite twerking song. I know everybody gonna say back that ass up, but.

Blow the whistle made me be like, mm, mm-hmm mm. I don't literally be twerking, but you know what I mean?

1. Aundrea: Yeah. It get my

Bruce Anthony: body moving. Absolutely. Alright, [01:12:00] that's enough of the behind the scenes. Let's get to the next segment. Alright. I don't know how the show is going, but it's going,

1. Aundrea: Ooh, that segment was almost 30 minutes.

I.

Bruce Anthony: Was it?

1. Aundrea: Yeah, I be, I I time, I have a timer up now so I can make sure I don't go over. And that was No, our

Bruce Anthony: middle segments are typically the longest. They're typically around 25, 30 minutes. So that, that works. 'cause the last, this last segments are always shorter. Yeah. Alright. You ready? Yeah. All right.

Well, people either going like that show or not like it, eh? Yeah.

1. Aundrea: And honestly, uh, do we care?

Bruce Anthony: We do. I don't know. You know how I feel after every show? I always think every show. You

1. Aundrea: always think every show is bad. I, I thought it was a very fun show that people could listen to when they drive home and have a good chuckle.

And I,

Bruce Anthony: this is the reason why I say this is because I was listening to a part. I was listening to a YouTube. Video earlier just popped up and it was a podcast and they were talking about, it was two younger generation people and probably somebody that was closer to our age and the younger generation people were talking [01:13:00] about how.

They were responding back to a TikTok of a woman that, that says she did PR for clubs and everything, and was just like nobody is really trying to get tables anymore. It's not that big of a thing. There's nothing special about it. The tables are always like crowded because of how things like there's, and nobody's dancing.

Nobody's dancing anymore. And then the young people were like, yeah, back in 2019 I, everything was lit, but now everything is like slowed down. I was like 2019. And then I had to think of it in my old ass terms for them. Somebody who was 25, 26, 27 years old, six years.

1. Aundrea: It was

Bruce Anthony: a long time. It was a long time for me.

Yeah. I felt like it was just 2019, just the other day.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. 'cause we lost so much time with the pandemic, but I guess these young

Bruce Anthony: kids are not thinking of it as lost time. They just go back to, yeah, back then And I'm like, back then. Yeah. Back then they didn't know me. Now I'm hot. They all on me. Yeah, and, [01:14:00] and so the older person was saying that's around our age was like, Hey, did you guys grow up with like school dances and stuff like that?

And they were like, yeah, yeah, we had that. And it was like, okay, well I know for our generation we might, we don't really go out to clubs anymore, but if we go to like a lounge or a house party and somebody starts throwing on old nineties music, then. Everybody started getting up and start dancing. Yeah.

'cause that's the type of music that you dance to. And they were like, yeah, people don't make music to dance anymore. And I, and I thought about

1. Aundrea: it. Yeah. You really, really don't.

Bruce Anthony: One of my, this woman I used to date, her son is, is rapping now. She sent me a couple of his clips and he, he, he got some bars. He got some bars, yeah.

But his songs are like two minutes with no, no hook. Yeah. No, it has a hook. No course. Right. So it, it'll have hook and he'll repeat the hook, but No course. Yeah. And it's two minutes and I'm like. You can't dance to this. You could just kind of nod your bop Yeah. Bop your head to it. Yeah. And I was like, oh wait, nobody's making dance music like that.

Chris Brown might be the only one.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah. I, [01:15:00] yeah, I mean, that's right. Um, because now it's like everything that is a dance, if it's not a wine dance, then it's like some choreographed TikTok dance. That's what

Bruce Anthony: they were saying. Everything is a TikTok dance now, and

1. Aundrea: I'm, and don't nobody feel like learning choreography.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

1. Aundrea: Just to dance to a song. Our choreography back in the day, very simple. You crepe that. You know what I'm saying? Like it ain't that damn, you

Bruce Anthony: know what I'm saying? Well, we had dance moves that you could throw in secession. You could do a running man to a Roger Rabbit, to a cabbage pack, to like, but they weren't, it was free.

It was freestyle dancing. It's

1. Aundrea: styling, but now it's like in

Bruce Anthony: the choreography and these TikTok dances. I'd be watching them and I'm like, I don't know how you got the time to learn that shit. Do kids not have limbs anymore?

1. Aundrea: I don't, I don't know. They, but they they learn it. They do. And they very good at it.

And I'm like, I'm not learning choreography. I learned dance steps. I. Like a a, a dance, like, like you said, like the running man, like, or lean [01:16:00] with a rock

Bruce Anthony: with it, you know, we know that Yeah.

1. Aundrea: Lean with a rock like, or the Sny dance, but that Right. But that I could do the shmoney dance to a variety of songs.

Yes. Now it's like, no, this is the dance for this song. This is the dance for this song. Like you, you can't just freestyle. Nah, ain't nobody trying to do, plus these kids dance too. Well these days. Like you can't just do your little two step your little rock and think you're gonna be okay. 'cause everybody will be like.

Uh, 5, 6, 7, 8. And they,

Bruce Anthony: what do you know? They acting like it's faint. Another thing that they, that the young people said is everybody's the same, right? Everybody dresses the same, acts the same. And I was like, well, that's every generation. We all kind of, yeah,

1. Aundrea: that's every, we were very business casual in 2003, 2004,

Bruce Anthony: but, but that business casual had variety of different looks.

Now they were like, everybody's wearing either. Do Dior shoes. I don't know what young people be wearing. I don't wear 'em. It's too, it's too fucking [01:17:00] expensive for me. Yeah. If I can't get it off of Amazon, I'll make something from Amazon. I look real nice.

1. Aundrea: Listen, if I can't get it from, listen how pissed off I was the other day, if it ain't fast fashion, I can't do it.

So I I, I was like, okay, I gotta go into the office more. I need to go get some slacks. Okay. There was a Old Navy not far from my office. I'm thinking I could get something affordable in there. It's Old Navy for. $45 a pair. Well,

Bruce Anthony: they normally got coupons that's like $18 off here, $29.

1. Aundrea: Every single table had 30% off, 40% off, 50% off.

You think work pants was on sale? No, but she had a little coupon at the, because I said something, I said, $45 per pair. I was like, you ain't got no. She was like, are you a, do you wanna put your number in? Are you a a rewards customer? I said, do we get me a discount? And so she had a little coupon up there.

She scanned it, got 'em down to $30 a pair. But I was like, listen, if I gotta pay more than $15 for an article of clothing, [01:18:00] I ain't gonna have Well,

Bruce Anthony: that, that's only women can only pay $15 for article of clothing for fast fashion men still. Yeah, we still gotta pay.

1. Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you can say it's inflation, but.

I distinctly remember Old Navy being like $20 and under Old Navy could get expensive. That's insane to me. Yeah. Those, that's gap prices.

Bruce Anthony: Well, they're the same company.

1. Aundrea: No, but the the point is you got Gap. Yeah. And then you could go to, it's more affordable cousin, old Navy. Now Old Navy is getting, so I don't even know how much stuff is at the gap now.

I'm not

Bruce Anthony: going, I'm doing, I have been, I couldn't fit those clothes anyway, and I never, yeah. Like I used to go to Old Navy to get those like graphic tees. 'cause I was like, oh, I can go get some graphic tees, but they didn't fit my body right.

1. Aundrea: Yeah, because

Bruce Anthony: I was like, okay, I'm a double X only 'cause my shoulders and chest, but it'd be all baggy in the middle and it'd be looking like I'm big just 'cause it's all baggy.

Yeah. And I was like, I'm gonna get them [01:19:00] form from the shirts off of Amazon to fit my body. 'cause I can get them. I. Affordable on Amazon, whereas I go anywhere else, it's like $90 a shirt. 'cause I tried to go to, um, yeah. Was it limited one time? Was it limited or express? One of them. One of them stores. Yeah.

Of where even the triple, triple X ain't big enough.

1. Aundrea: Right. The Triple X is really a medium. And the same thing was at, at Old Navy. 'cause I went and grabbed the pair of pants size that I typically wear and I, I couldn't get 'em up. I was like, damn, why these cuts so small up like two. More sizes. Mm-hmm. I was like, now, now my self-esteem is taking a hit.

Bruce Anthony: And you like she, she is coming from overseas and they fit me better than this

1. Aundrea: old. Right. And they fit. Exactly.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

1. Aundrea: Explain it to me. 'cause I don't know,

Bruce Anthony: I need to get a new summer wardrobe, but I need to get this weight off first and I need to stop eating.

1. Aundrea: Yesterday, I, I was eating

Bruce Anthony: it's chips

1. Aundrea: today. I've had nothing to eat.

Well, but yesterday, well, you need to [01:20:00] go

Bruce Anthony: eat now on that. No. Yeah. We, we, uh, been recording for an hour, 20 minutes. That is enough content for all these people. That is it. That's enough. Yeah.

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