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

Like, comment, share, share with your friends, share with your family. Hell. You share with your enemies. On today's episode, I'm gonna be dillying a little bit, giving hot takes. Then we're gonna be talking about breakups, and then we're gonna be talking about funny stories from history. But that's enough of the intro.

Let's get to the show.

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Confessions of a Fairweather Fan: The Lil Wayne Dilemma 🎵🎸💔

Bruce Anthony: You know what I learned about myself. I'm a Fairweather fan. Case in point, Lil Wayne just dropped a album today. I care nothing about it. Don't care to hear him talk, rap, or do anything. He kinda pissed me off with his Black Lives Matters comment and hanging out with Trump. And you know, that kind of rubbed me the wrong way.

So I'll turn on you if you don't align with me politically, if I think, well not, if you don't align with me politically. If you are MM against people, then I don't really rock with you. But to hear an album from him, it's been like over 10 years. If I remember correctly. I don't remember the last time Lil Wayne came out of the album and.

If I remember correctly, I don't think it was really hot. There was a [00:02:00] time when me and my ex-wife, we were at a bar and Drake had only had the mixtape, right? This is how long ago it was. Drake had only had the mixtape and he was about to come out with the album and Lil Wayne was about to come out with the album and I was looking for forward more.

To Drake than Lil Wayne. Mind you, I had introduced her to Lil Wayne and Lil Wayne's mix tapes and she fell in love with Lil Wayne. And I was like, yeah, the album's gonna be pretty good, but I'm looking forward to Drake. Drake gives me a more complete album, and I've been a Lil Wayne fan since he was rapping like Missy Elliot.

I don't want to hear him rap anymore. I mean, even if Jay-Z came out with an album right now, unless he's talking about old stuff, unless he's talking about gangsters, drug dealing and all that stuff, I don't really want to hear it. I don't want to hear grown up mature rap from my rappers as I've known them as drug dealers rappers, but that.

Lies my problem. I don't like change. What I mean by [00:03:00] that is I don't like my artists to change. If you're gonna do a Star Wars movie, then do a Star Wars movie. Don't worry, I'm gonna get into Star Wars later, but I like things the way they are. If it's good, you ain't really gotta change it. Maybe remix it a little bit, but don't stray off too far from the path.

And I know artists want to be like, well, I like to challenge myself. I'm growing. I don't want you to grow. I only want you to grow a little bit. Stay where you are 'cause I like that. And so I'm not looking forward to Lil Wayne, but this is a lot of people. Jada Kiss could come out with an album. I'm not gonna listen to it.

When Michael Jackson came out with albums after, I think remember the time, I wasn't really looking forward to it and I was one of the biggest Michael Jackson fans. It just gets to a point where I don't really care anymore. One 12 could come out with an album, Jo DCI could get back together and come out with an album.

And unless Puffy is behind it, and I don't think Puffy's gonna be behind anything except a cellmate, then I don't [00:04:00] really wanna listen to him. Like I'm so somewhat stuck in my ways, in my entertainment. I love power. I love the Power series. That's the shows that 50 cent executive produced. All drug dealing give me gangster stuff all day long.

I love that. Give me gangster stuff. And Olivia Benson Solving Crimes, speaking of which I ain't really watched, uh, law and Order SVU in a while. It kind of SVU starting to get a little graphic in the crimes that they were showing. They used to show the lead up and then they didn't show the actual crime happening.

Not really, really. Then they would just go, do, do, right. But then they started showing the crimes and like, I don't wanna see this. I, that's, that's too much like real life. I don't wanna see this. So I don't care about Lil Wayne's album. Don't give a damn about it. And my boys have been listening to it, said it's trash.

You know why? Because he waited too long. It's not like it's a comeback tour. We, I don't mind [00:05:00] him coming back doing his hits. Maybe remaking those, you know, do a little remix, you know, a little mashup from his old school hits. That's cool. But any new stuff, time has passed and I've moved on.

Behind the Music: Unpacking Chris Brown's Toxic Love Anthem 🎼💔🚩

Bruce Anthony: Speaking of music, this isn't a new song, but I'm a Chris Brown fan.

I know he's toxic in a lot of ways. And this song, I'm about to talk about falls in line with that because it's a toxic song. So I. I really love the song Residuals. Fact of the matter is I really love a lot of what Chris Brown does. Like Chris Brown makes really good music, but I've been on this kick Residuals.

I haven't had no breakup. Okay? So it is not like the woman has left me and gone to another man. I haven't had that, so I don't know why I'm really feeling that right now. It's just I get into my little modes where I'm feeling certain songs and I'm feeling that right now. [00:06:00] As I'm listening to more than the music and more than the melody and the actual words, I'm realizing just how toxic this song is.

I'm gonna give you guys just a few lyrics. Tell me who, who's getting all of my time? Tell me who's getting all of my love. So the story goes that he and this girl broke up, right? She moved on. He don't want to think about it. He don't wanna know about it, but he want to ask these questions. Who's getting all of my love?

Who's getting all of my time? Alright, that just, you just like, all right, boo. Like who is like, who you rocking with right now? I want to know. I want to know what's going on. I'm like, Mar gay. I wanna know what's going on. Okay. That's not too toxic in and of itself. Here's where it gets worse. Who did you teach?

What I taught you? Wait a minute. What? Who did you teach? [00:07:00] What I taught you, he's talking about sexual stuff. So he then taught her some sexual stuff and he want to know who she taught those sexual stuff to. What? Why you wanna know about that? That's weird, bruh. That's weird and toxic. Gets worse. Better not give him my nickname, bro.

Why in the hell would she give him your nickname? Why are you, why are you broken up? She done moved on. You said that you was cool with it even though you lied, but you can't make somebody be with you that don't want to be with you. So you let her go. But in the process of letting her go, you still want to know who's giving all her love.

Who's getting all her time? Who is she teaching? What you taught her? And you better not give them my nickname, bruh. What? [00:08:00] As I'm listening to the words, I'm like, I can't be grooving to the song because the song is about a text, a toxic ex-boyfriend, a toxic ex-boyfriend who's asking questions that, um, could lead to some trouble, not some trouble in and of itself, like.

She's in trouble. But just like if he is asking that graphic of questions and he wants to know this is the type of dude that might hit you. Oh, wait a minute. Chris Brown got a history in that. That's not funny. But you know what? I was talking to somebody about that in the history of, hmm, him and Rihanna, but he is also got some other problematic history.

But let's just talk about him and Rihanna. I was telling the person Rihanna done forgave him. Who are you not to forgive him? I'm not condoning what he did. Please, please. I know I told the story last week how I picked up the woman and wrapped my arms around [00:09:00] her so that she couldn't hit me, carry her, and took her outta my room, I mean, outta my apartment.

So, because she wouldn't leave, I didn't, you know, like, you know, disrespectfully, toxically, you know, put my hands on her. You know, I don't condone that type of stuff. You don't put your hands on a woman, especially, it's not me. I'm six foot four, probably about two 40 right now. I know I need to drop about 20 pounds.

I'm gonna get there. It's been tough after the election and potato chips, but I'm gonna get there. But no, I'm not gonna put no hands on a woman. I don't condone what he did to Rihanna, but. If they are cool. Now, who are you to still hold a grudge against him? You could say, I don't respect that, and because of that I don't want to be a fan of his anymore.

And Okay. You? Well, within your right. 'cause I said earlier that I'm not a fan of Lil Wayne anymore because of his stance on Black Lives Matter and him taking pictures with Trump. Cool. But don't be calling him outta his name. Especially when [00:10:00] the victim is forgiven him. And how do I know the victim is forgiven him?

Because every time they're around each other, she gives 'em a hug and a kiss. This woman has moved on, become a billionaire, married, got two beautiful kids performing after Super Bowl, announcing her second pregnancy, just living life and living good. Why are you gonna hold on to pain that she ain't even holding on to?

That's weird. Moving on.

Star Wars Deep Dive: Why Andor is Breaking New Ground 🚀⭐️🎬

Bruce Anthony: I said something about Star Wars earlier. I love Star Wars. I love all the Trilogies. Even though the last trilogies episode 7, 8, 9, you know, the story was a little wonky, but I loved Ray. I could watch Ray all all day long. You know, Ray Skywalker, now, that's what she's called. Anyway, so I love anything that has to do with Star Wars.

I love the cartoons. I love the Clone Wars. I love Rebels. I love Bad Batch. I, I I, I love the TV shows. The Mandalorian is great. I loved acolyte. Wish they hadn't canceled it, [00:11:00] but, you know, toxic Men didn't want to see a Black Force user. Oh, I swear this. I swear this world is so aggravating. You know, I love their shows.

Another one of the Star Wars shows that I really love is Andor. Now, Andor, season one is the backstory. I. Of the events that led up to Rogue One, that led up to episode four. Basically Rebels catching the plans to the Death Star so they could blow up the Death Star in episode four. Right? The very first movie that came out where Luke was one with the force and he blew up the Death Star.

Okay, so, and DOR is the lead up to Rogue One, which shows how they got the plans to blow up the Death Star. One of the main characters got a spinoff show called Andor. It's Captain Andor. Season one was great. Season two. I watched the first episode and I was like, I'll get to it when I get to it. I be in little moods, kind of like with residuals.

I, I get in little moods where I'm [00:12:00] like, Hmm, I'm not feeling this right now. King of, um, mayor of Kingstown, loved that show. Started the third season and just stopped halfway through it. Don't know why I stopped, just stopped having watched the Godfather of Harlem the last four episodes. Don't know why. I just get in little moods where I don't feel like rocking with something.

So I got in that little mood when it came to and or, and my brother was bugging the hell outta me, and my sister almost wrote us off, said that he was going to take us outta his, um. Benefits pack, not benefits package. You know, when somebody passes away they, you know, leave stuff. You know that he was gonna take us outta that for some strange reason to slip in my mind right now.

He was joking obviously, but he was so adamant that we watched this TV show. So finally I got into one of my moods where I wanted to watch it and it happened to be last weekend and it just so coincided with the series finale. Okay. Not just the season, the series finale. [00:13:00] So I had. I take 11 shows to watch and they're close to an hour in between 45 minutes to an hour 'cause it's Disney Plus.

So they could be fluctuate with the time. And I went through it, benched through it all last weekend. Loved it, loved that show. Now, the reason why I was kind of off the show is because being a Star Wars fan, I like the stuff with the force. Lightsabers, duels, things of that nature. It's none of that in this TV show.

What this TV show is, and I can't take credit for this take, I have to give credit to where it's due. John Campero show, uh, he does a show about a variety of stuff in entertainment and they quoted on the show that and or was the first time there was a grownup. Story for Star Wars. [00:14:00] What I mean by that is, and, and, or like when you watch the episodes, the movies, you know, the empire's bad because they're the bad guys.

Right? But you don't know how evil they are in these shows and or, and, uh, obiwan had a show. That show showed just how evil and in Mandalorian it shows just how evil the empire is, just how much they oppress and hold people down, and how important it was for the Rebels to succeed. It overthrow the empire.

There were stakes. This was a grownup story, and it was a grownup story because it's a story talking about rebels. Rebelling against an evil empire. And no matter where you place that story in history and, and what land, what civilization, that story always resonates, right? There's, there's always an oppressor and [00:15:00] somebody trying to defeat that oppressor.

It's just a great, it's just a great story. I highly recommend watching it if you haven't watched it. Watch Season one watch Season two, roll that in The Rogue One 'cause it falls right in, like one scene ends and it leads right into episode four, which is the very first Star Wars movie. And then if you so choose, go ahead and just binge 'em.

I might every New Year. Every New Year's I I, because I would have a bunch of days off, I would just binge Star Wars one day. I watched all nine episodes. Just sat up there with some tequila with my boy, God rest his soul, crypto some, some snacks, and watched episode one through nine and loved every minute of it.

Loved every minute of it. It got to a point where I couldn't go through the whole binge, you know, I would start either one through three, you know, or [00:16:00] four through six or seven through nine, you know what I'm saying? Nine hours was a long time, but I, I think it was snowing on that particular New Year's day or it had snow, so it was no real reason for me to go out in the streets.

So I just stayed in the house. But I love Star Wars and I highly recommend and or because it's a grownup show. If you say to yourself, I'm not rocking with Star Wars, it's kind of childish and or is a growing up show, I highly recommend it. Go watch it if you don't have Disney Plus, steal somebody's Disney Plus and watch it and don't steal, but still, if you can.

Gym Drama Alert: The Shocking Love Triangle Exposed! 💪❤️😱

Bruce Anthony: Alright, to end this segment, y'all want to hear something messy, do you? I'm gonna tell you a story about something that's going on that I saw the other day that just was, you know, messy. So I like to gossip. I don't ever talk about. Well, I mean, I guess y'all hear me talk about my stuff on the show, but I love to talk about other people's stuff and I love when people tell me about this stuff.

I'm messy. I'm messy, okay? So I'm gonna tell you [00:17:00] a story. Come in close, come in close. Don't tell nobody I'm about to tell you, okay? Keep it between me and you. So I'm in the gym and I've noticed this couple. Every time I go to the gym for about two years now, she goes way more than he does, but I notice him and I notice them because the couple is awkward.

And what I mean by is they don't match. She's mm. I'm not attracted to her, but I could understand why some people would be attracted to her, and there's nothing attractive about him. Now, this isn't uncommon. We normally see attractive females with attractive males. It's just, you know, there are other differences between 'em that makes the relationship stark from the outside looking in that I can't get into specifics because if any of y'all saw me or saw them, y'all would know exactly who I'm talking about.

And remember, this [00:18:00] is just supposed to be between me and you. Alright, so I know this couple, I don't know if they're married. I know they're together though, right? Two years. I know they're together. Once again, she comes to the gym way more frequently than he does. Haven't seen him in a while, but he's gone stretches and not going to the gym 'cause he is not in shape.

Okay. That, that's what I really want to say. She tries to stay in shape and he don't stay in shape. Well. With people in the gym community when you regularly see people, 'cause you go the same times every day. Even if you don't sit down and have a conversation, you mouth hello or you wave, or you give a head nod or, or something.

You acknowledge them because the gym community is always welcoming. I'm one of those people. I have my headphones in all the time. There may not be anything coming through the headphones, but they're in. Okay. That's because I just wanna acknowledge you, but I don't wanna have an actual [00:19:00] conversation. This person never acknowledges me.

Now I figured because she never acknowledged me that that was out of respect for her man, because I'd never really seen her acknowledge anybody else in the gym. So I didn't take personal offense to it, not like I would anyway, but I figured that that's just who she is. There's also this other person that comes to the gym.

He's a real talkative dude. Real, got a lot of personality. I could tell he's a little bit of a ho 'cause I, he goes and talks to everybody, but is super flirtatious to all the women. I. I've never seen them in the gym together because he comes in randomly. I see him sometimes in the evening. In the morning.

He comes in randomly, right? So I've never seen them in the gym together. Mind you, this is a different person than her boyfriend or husband. Okay. This is another guy. He talks to me all the time, even when I don't want to. I'm like, Hey, man, in the middle of a set, [00:20:00] this weight is kind of heavy. I'm gonna continue on working out.

You take care. But he's a just, he's a chit chatter, right? He's a chit chatter. Well, I'm in the gym the other day and I'm working out, and I see her once again. I don't see her man in there. And then Mr. Talk a lot is in there. When she sees him, she becomes super friendly and I'm like, oh, okay. I even hear her giggle.

I ain't never heard her giggle before. Okay. Remember I got my headphones on? I was listening to music, but as soon as I saw that she was being, you know, communicative, communicative with another person, I turned down my music 'cause I was curious or messy. So she's even giggling, they're joking around and stuff like that.

She's down on the mat and he gets in her face, not like, you know, like beefing or anything. Like jokingly gets in their face. [00:21:00] Then they kiss. Ladies and gentlemen, I nearly dropped the weight on my foot 'cause they kissed. And I'm like, what the hell is going on? Mind you, this dude flirts with every woman. He was taking a phone call in the gym, talking to another woman on FaceTime.

Before he interacted with this woman that I see all the time, he laying in a kisser. It didn't stop right there. They was joking, laughing, giggling. He's smacking her on the butt and all types of stuff. And the only thing my heart sunk. Why did my heart sink? My heart sunk because did her and her man break up, get a divorce?

Are they still together? Because. I've seen her and I've seen Mr. Talkative dude, and I've seen them outside of the gym. I know. I've never seen them together. So are they, is [00:22:00] she cheating? Does she break out with my man? Are these two dating, they don't seem like they're dating. Are they just hunching what's going on?

So I was dumbfounded. And there's another person that goes to the gym that I see all the time that I actually do talk to. 'cause he is a friendly person and he is got my type of sense of humor. And I couldn't wait to see him because I was like, man, I got something to tell you. I got some mess. 'cause he's messy too.

That's the reason why I get along with him. He's messy too. He always got some gossip and I was like, Hey man, this is what's going on. He's like, what? I said, yeah man, this is crazy. Either her and her man broke up, or she is openly cheating in the gym where everybody knows each other, we know who they are.

It's crazy. There's more to the story and I'm gonna get to the bottom of it. I don't know all the facts yet, but you damn well better believe. I'm gonna get to the bottom of it, but that's enough for [00:23:00] talking about all this messiness. Speaking of her. Her husband. We gonna get into breakups next.

Celebrity Breakup Drama: From High School to Hollywood 💔🌟🎭

Bruce Anthony: Man. There's nothing worse than a breakup. I mean the Jacksons, the Beatles, Ike and Tina. Well, maybe not. Ike and Tina, new Edition,

Ross and Rachel

Martin and Gina's been a lot of breakups and they suck. I'm gonna tell you the story of one of my breakups.

I was in the third grade. I was dating this girl named Latoya. We had been dating for about three days. She was my girlfriend. Everybody knew it one day at lunch. Latoya asked me, Hey, you wanna have some of my kiwi? [00:24:00] I said, Ew, I don't want no kiwi. She says, what? You don't like Kiwi mind? You never had kiwi before in my life.

But it looked ugly, it looked disgusting, and I got the same eating habits that I did when I was eight years old in the third grade. So if it looks ugly and disgusting, no, I don't like it. And Latoya broke up with me 'cause I didn't like kiwi. I went to the bathroom after she said that she didn't wanna be my girlfriend anymore.

I cried a little bit. Well 'cause I stubbed my toe on the way to the bathroom. That's the real reason why I cried. I'm a GI don't cry over no breakups. But breakups are sad. You want to know what isn't sad? What? Breakup isn't sad to me. Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Now, I said I wasn't gonna talk about politics and I'm not going to talk about politics.

The two people I'm talking about [00:25:00] happened to be, uh, pseudo politicians. So that's the only thing that has to do about politics. I'm here for the funny, so what the hell is happening? So everybody knows that. Uh, Rob, probably about a year ago. A year ago, Elon Musk started riding for Trump, backing Trump. He, he not only backed Trump, he invested almost $300 million into him getting elected because of this great, a bit of money that he had given Donald Trump to win the election.

Elon Musk was in charge of being the head of Doge and cutting down government expenses.

Billionaire Beef: Trump vs Musk Twitter War Explodes! 💰🔥📱

Bruce Anthony: But the alliance began to unravel recently, especially when Trump's signature Tax and spending bill, which Musk has been, you know, kind of denouncing a little bit, [00:26:00] kicked Elon Musk outta office, or at least that's what Trump has said.

Because Musk has been voicing his concerns. Well, it all came to a head this week and we got a Twitter beef. Well, it was X for Elon, Musk and Trump on his true social. I. Going back and forth and back and forth. So, Musk escalated his criticism of Trump's big, beautiful bill on X, surprising many Republican leaders, and sparking wa a wave of online debate.

On June 5th, the feud exploded. Exploded publicly with Trump in the Oval Office, expressing disappointment. Astonishment at Musk attacks suggesting Musk was upset about the removal of the electrical vehicle tax incentives from the bill. So basically what happened is Trump got this, he calls it the big beautiful bill.

First of all, he comes up with the dumbest names, [00:27:00] is my man in the third grade. Just like third grade. Bruce was when he, Latoya broke up with them because big, beautiful Bill, they couldn't come up with a better, okay, forget the title of the bill.

Money Moves: The Real Cost of the Tech Titans' Feud 📈💸⚡

Bruce Anthony: But what they took outta the bill was, is, uh, the EV tax incentives that was going to lead people to buy more of electric vehicles, which, you know.

Musk is, you know, in that ball game, you remember when, you know, they had the little pitch of all the Tesla cars out in front of the White House when Trump was hawking Tesla cars. Yeah. You know, that's, that's where, that's where Musk get his thing. Right? That's where he get his, get his money. That in government contracts, right.

Tesla was losing a lot of money. That's the reason why supposedly he was leaving his position in Doge. We find out later, Trump is saying, nah, I fired his ass. That's what Trump is saying. Well, once [00:28:00] Trump came out in the overhaul office said, yeah, I don't know what must talk about. He just must feel some type of way.

'cause I took out these incentives and I guess, you know, he feels some type of way 'cause he gonna lose some money.

Social Media Showdown: The Ultimate Power Play 🥊📱💥

Bruce Anthony: Elon Musk went nuclear. On Twitter or X, if that's what you wanna call it. He retaliated by labeling Trump ungrateful, claiming that without his support, Trump would not have won the 2024 election or maintain a Republican control of the Congress.

It got even nastier because then Mus said, and Oh yeah, by the way. Let y'all know Trump and them Epstein files. Yeah. He went there. He went there. But the reason why he went there is because Trump was like, man, he just mad 'cause he wanted to do this government spending and now it's gonna cost him some money.

And he wasn't good [00:29:00] at his job and. He's wildling out, so must come back with he and the Epstein files. And then Trump responded back with threatening to terminate his government contracts and subsidies for must companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, and Mock Musk as having gone crazy. Yo, this breakup is crazy, but we should have seen it coming.

They don't have no loyalty. Elon Musk, I was looking the other day, who had more baby mamas and kids, Elon Musk or Nick Cannon. And just to clarify, Elon Musk has more kids. Nick Cannon has more baby mamas. Nick Cannon has 12 kids with six women. Elon Musk has 13 kids with four women, so more baby mamas, Nick Cannon, more kids, Elon Musk, but they ain't got no loyalty.

You got people fighting Elon Musk for custody. He is his. Had he done fired people right and left, [00:30:00] no loyalty. And Trump, who has left the White House after working for him and hadn't written a book or a tell, all telling, talking about how crazy he is. Almost everybody, they got no type of loyalty. So we should have known when the world's most powerful man.

Because he's president of the United States and they say that's the most powerful position and the world's richest man who even if he loses a hundred billion, still well, richer than anybody else close to him, start beefing, it's going to get crazy. As Bernie Mack was say, man, that boy is crazy. It got, it's getting crazy out here.

My man, Elon Musk throughout, throughout the Epstein files. Trump talking about we gonna kill your subsidies now in contracts. Now it's funny, but not at the same time. Because if Trump is in the Epstein files and they haven't been released because he is, [00:31:00] that's shady, that's impeachable because that means he's holding the files from coming out.

That's impeachable. Also, Trump threatening to. Get rid of his government contracts 'cause he don't like the way a person talk. That's not cool. Neither Elon Musk, if you knew he was in Epstein fo and you knew it was shady stuff going all around and you ain't say nothing. What's that say about you?

Shadiness all around. It was fine when Elon Musk was killing everybody else's job. Cutting people's food. Healthcare was all good, but the moment it hit his pocketbooks, then it's a problem. And then they both got beefed with each other. Yeah, so this feud has led to an historic drop in Tesla stock price erasing 150 billion in market value in just one day.

Musk has threatened [00:32:00] and then retracted to decommission SpaceX, which is NASA's program, and even appeared to endorse calls for Trump's impeachment. He didn't appear. He did well, I mean, yeah, he appeared like he did. He, somebody said on X, like, you know, they should impeach Trump and JD Van should become president, which you know.

All of it is bad. And then Elon Musk was like, yeah, let's do that. Or he just said, yeah, I'm adding it. Let's do that. But he, he, he, he, he, he backed it. Both men's social media platforms became battlegrounds with insults, accusations flying in real time. I mean, on June 5th, from about noon to three. It was crazy.

Out here in these streets. I mean, I was refreshing my internet feed just so I could catch up and get the latest info.

Power Plays & Money Wars: When Billionaire Egos Collide 💥💰🔥

Bruce Anthony: So how does this affect us in political and business, right? What are the political and business implications? [00:33:00] The RIF threatens Republican unity ahead of the midterm elections as must financial support and Seneca Valley's influence are significant.

Um. They haven't really had Republican unity, right? Like they've been trying to negotiate all types of stuff to get this big beautiful bill passed because some Republicans are saying, yo, this is going to add to the deficit. No, by the way, it is, I'm getting tired of YouTube running ads of these ordinary people talking about how we need to keep the tax cuts and we need to pass this bill because our taxes gonna go up.

I guess people really don't give a damn what happens to their kids, but. Or that we can't pay our bills, but okay. Democrats are watching from the sideline with some strategist, noting that any Musk move toward the left would hurt Republicans. Further, he moves based on how it's going to affect his pocketbook.

Both of them do. People seem, forget the Before Trump ran as a [00:34:00] Republican, he was a Democrat for years. Then Obama made some jokes at him at a correspondent dinner, and then he became Republican. That's how that went down. Elon Musk was the darling of the left because of his electrical vehicle. Electric vehicles, EV vehicles.

Right. Until I. He kinda went, you know, all the way to the right and did some, you know, racist and antisemitic stuff, but he damn sure did make sure that his white South Africans got, got into the country over anybody else right before he imploded, uh, and left the White House, didn't he? This feud is overshadowed on political news, dominating headlines of social media.

It is crazy out here. It is bigger than Pac and Biggie because. Musk did do his, hit him up. Pac said That's the reason why, yo, you fat. I beeped off all the cuss words. But y'all know, to hit him [00:35:00] up song, Elon Musk said, that's the reason why you win Epstein files. You orange mu. That's, that's what he says.

Same thing. It's hit him up. It's hit him up in the political world. That's what it is. But I want to get to two juicy quotes without me. Trump would've lost their elections. Dims would control the house, and Republicans would be 51 49 in the Senate, Elon Musk, Donald Trump. The simplest method to conserve funds in our budget save billions is to eliminate Elon Musk government subsidies and contracts.

They both going for the juggler and breakups Look. We've all seen bad breakups. Remember the movie, the Breakup with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Anderson. You remember that? We know about breakups. We've seen bad breakups. This is bad, but we all saw it coming. We saw it coming. We knew that it was false when it all began, it was brought together under [00:36:00] shady terms.

It was brought together because both of them wanted power. It wasn't brought together to help people. It was brought together to help themselves in the moment where one person felt like this partnership was no longer gonna help them, the breakup was gonna happen. They've both broken up with a lot of people and it's always nasty.

Just so happens that most of the time the other person doesn't have as much power. Yes. One person's the President of the United States, but the other person, the other person is the richest person in the world. Both are toxic. Both are cutthroat. Both don't care about hurting other people. They don't care what they say.

They'll say anything. [00:37:00] I'm waiting for this to get worse. You know what they should do? I saw a meme that they should make a pay-per-view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting. That'll solve our deficit. Put all the money towards the deficit. That'll solve our def deficit 'cause everybody would pay to see that fight.

Hopefully they fought to the death, a dual death. Not on wish death on anybody. But y'all know what I mean, like this is crazy. Breakups are always crazy. It's just bad when it's going to affect us. Yes, it's messy and I love the messiness of it. I enjoy the messiness of it. It's funny to me what's not funny is the ramifications of these two clashing.

When Godzilla and King Kong go at each other, little people get stepped on and die. You think that's not gonna be the same case here? So yes, we can laugh at the absurdity of all of this because it is [00:38:00] absolutely absurd and I'm loving the absurdity of it, just loving it. I want them to go deeper. I want Elon to finally come out and say, and I fixed the election.

I, I, I want one of his ketamine fueled rages to just come on out and just admit it that they stole the election. I want him to do it. But with all the absurdity and the funniness in the absurdity, just remember, these are two of the most powerful people in the world, and this fighting is going to affect the little man.

Bruce Anthony: Y'all know I love history. I'm a historian and y'all know I love the absurd because I'm messy, and y'all know I love to laugh because. I'm a clown, so why not take all of those elements and load it into a segment and talk [00:39:00] about history's funniest stories. Now, these are stories that you might know about, might not know about.

They're not real long stories, so I got several of them. But I'm just going to talk a little bit about some stuff that's happened in history that you might not know about. That is pretty funny.

History's Greatest Fails: Submarines, Skates & Epic Disasters 🚢🛼😂

Bruce Anthony: Let's talk about the sinking of the U 1206. It was a German sub submarine in World War II, and you will not believe how it was sunk.

So the U 1206 was a high tech submarine that had a high tech toilet that required special training to operate. One day, a crew member flushed it incorrectly, causing sea water to flood in and mix with battery acid releasing chlorine gas. The SL sub was forced to surface where it was promptly bombed by the British.

It's the only submarine in history sunk by its own toilet. Now y'all know how I feel about the [00:40:00] bathroom. More specifically, y'all know how I feel about the toilet. Very particular about the bathroom. Very particular about the toilet in a way. You could say I'm anal about the whole thing. I know that was corny, but I had to go there and you know, I've talked about it often.

How I have a bidet. I ain't playing. I got a bidet, my family got bidets. We are a bidet family, so I know a little bit about a fancy toilet. Actually, it's not really fancy. It's an attachment bidet that anybody could get on Amazon for like $20. I told my boy about it. He got one for, he got a few for his house.

They're not that expensive. But if I had the money to buy a high tech toilet, I absolutely would. 'cause once again, the bathroom is important to me. What I would make sure to do is make sure I knew how to operate it. Because like if me and you buy a fancy toilet, we might flood our bathroom. You know what I'm saying?[00:41:00]

And that's never a good thing. You flood your bathroom with toilet. Hopefully it was, you know, it was flooded with clean water and not, you know, you didn't use the restroom and it's flooded that way. And we all been there with the toilet has been, been stocked up. You know, it, it happens, right? Like these are instruments, but when you invest in a high tech toilet.

It takes a special instructions on how to operate it. You wanna make sure that anybody that's gonna be using that toilet has followed the instructions, know the instructions so they know how to operate it. These fools, luckily, because they were Germans in World War ii, we were fighting against the Germans, okay?

For those in his, for those in the back of the room that don't understand history. We were fighting against Nazi Germany in World War ii, so it's good that this, this submarine was bombed and sunken by the British. [00:42:00] However, it is still pretty stupid to be sunken because you got this high tech toilet that this food and mixed water, sea water with battery acid and release chlorine gas to the point where you gotta rise up the sea level and immediately get sunk.

And that's just a story about World War ii. What about, uh, roller skates? Y'all like roller skates? I dig roller skates sometimes. You know, I used to go to roller skating rink and, uh, I used to, I used to be all right. I used to be all right. You know what I'm saying? With a little kid roller skating rinks.

If, if people are listening to watching this, they don't know what roller skating rinks were. Or having seen the movie a TL, you know, just watch a TL that'll tell you everything you need to know. Back in the eighties and the nineties, in the seventies as well, you know, road skating rinks was the thing. You know, they were places that you would go and you know, you would meet people and hang out.

They, they were little pockets before there were malls, there were road skating rinks. That's where the young people would [00:43:00] go. You know what I'm saying? You might find you a little tender rooney there. Y'all might skate. You know, I went to the YMCA summer camp every summer. Right. So third, fourth, fifth grade, going to the no third and fourth grade, going to the YMCA summer camp.

Every Wednesday we went to the roller skating rink. You know, you play little games in the arcade, get you some pizza and a coke, and you roller skate. Now, I love rollerskating would always suck though, is when they turn the lights down low and do the soft music, the romantic music, and you had to find a partner.

I was in, you know, I was in the area where I was at the YMCA. Okay. And weren't a lot of kids that look like me, and I wasn't the first choice. So a lot of times I just got off the roller skating rink when the, when the romantic songs came off. But I still have fond memories of roller skating. I'm sure you guys do too.

You know what the most important thing is with rollerskating is learning how to stop stopping is [00:44:00] important. Why am I saying all this? John Joseph Merlin. Was the inventor of roller skates. Y'all may not even known that. That's history. That's a history fact and trivia that you can, that you could take and win nowadays, wherever y'all play trivia or if you play in at home Jeopardy.

His name was John Joseph Merlin. He's the inventor of the roller skate. He decided to unveil his creation at a fancy party. I done came up with this new invention that is gonna revolutionize wheels on your feet. 'cause nobody, I think at this point had wheels on they feet, nigga, move around faster, controlling all that good stuff, right?

I'm going to debut him at a party, but he hadn't practiced stopping yet. So he rode straight into a giant mirror, shattered it, inj, injured himself in front of all of the guests. It was a spectacular. And literally [00:45:00] crash debut for roller skates. Now you think to yourself, you done came with an intervention.

That everybody's gonna do it a certain point in time. Everybody was roller skating. It was a big thing, and you could do fancy stuff. Watch again. Watch the movie. A TL shows you the culture of roller skating. Roller skating is still big right now, as a matter of fact. It's having a resurgence, seeing it on TikTok stuff.

So the young kids, gen Z and Gen Alpha out there, roller skating. I like to see that. Okay, that's good. That's good. Passing down the good stuff from our generation onto them and getting rid of the toxic masculinity and the trauma and all that other stuff, but. Here it is. You debuting this thing that's going to be celebrated for decades and your ass don't know how to stop.

So not only did you do this invention and make a fool outta yourself, who the hell's gonna wanna do it afterwards? But somebody, somebody decided to take a chance. Somebody was like, that's probably a good idea. If you just learned how to stop. Probably would've been a great idea if [00:46:00] he had learned how to stop.

Alright. Y'all ever been to Boston? I have One of the things that I marveled at at Boston, when I was in Boston, I was in downtown Boston, walking all around. It was nighttime. I live in dc. If you walk in DC at nighttime, guess one thing that you are guaranteed that you're gonna see. You might see this before you even see people, rats.

You know why DCA isn't dirty? It's just kind of, it's just old. Parts of it is dirty, no doubt about it, but it's kind of old. But DC isn't older than Boston. Or maybe it is, I don't know. But Boston is old as hell too. Right? And one thing that I noticed, 'cause I had to duck behind an alley and go to the bathroom, so I dump behind this dumpster and I was like, I'm going to see some rats, so I gotta hurry up, go to the bathroom.

So don't know, I don't see no rats 'cause I don't like rats. You know what? I didn't see [00:47:00] rats. You know what I noticed? Baltimore streets are so clean. They're so clean. They weren't always like that.

Sweet Disaster: The Incredible Boston Molasses Tsunami 🌊🍯💀

Bruce Anthony: They weren't like that during the great molasses flood in 1919. That's right. Ladies and gentlemen. There was a molasses flood in Boston in 1919.

Now you know what molasses is, right? Molasses is that thick stuff. Spill some molasses on your sink counter and try to clean that up in a timely fashion. That should be, remember the TV show Double Dare. That should be a double dare you having to clean spill molasses off of your sink and have it spotless and not sticky.

Well in Boston, a giant storage tank of molasses burst. Sending 25, sitting a 25 foot wave of sticky syrup through the streets at 35 miles per hour. I don't think y'all heard me. It was a storage tank of molasses that burst, and it sent a 25 [00:48:00] foot wave a molasses throughout the streets of Boston at 35 miles per hour.

Now, 35 miles per hour might not seem that fast to you. You might be like, well, that's not that fast. Jump in front of a car at 35, that's going 35 miles per hour. You're going to see just how fast that is. So you got molasses rolling through the streets at 35 miles per hour. People and horses was being swept away because this is 1919, right?

They they riding horses, people on horses being swept away. Buildings were being destroyed. The cleanup took months and for decades after, the locals claimed they could still smell it on hot days. Now. I guess, I was in Boston in nine, in 2017, so it was 98 years later. I didn't smell no molasses, but I also, I wasn't specifically looking for the smell of molasses.

If I go to Boston, or if you go to Boston, go [00:49:00] downtown to them streets, where now it was 106 years ago. There was a molasses flood and a 25 foot wave of molasses was running through the streets at 35 miles power knocking over people and horses. I. People and horse. Think about it. I asked you, how long do you think it would take you to clean the sink?

If you spilled a bottle of molasses on it, now say it's a smash. You smashed a bottle of molasses on the on the kitchen sink. Now say that you smashed a bottle of the molasses on the kitchen sink. Okay. Some of it fell on the floor. You go down to cleaning on the floor. You didn't realize you didn't clean up all the molasses off the sink and drip it to your hair.

How long would it take for you to get that molasses out your hair? Not for me. Not that long. 'cause I got a bald head. So you just wipe it off? I just get in the shower and shower [00:50:00] for days to finally get the sticky molasses off of me. But to get it in your hair, you gotta cut your hair. These people was in a wave 25 foot wave going 35 miles an hour in molasses.

All in them. They had to throw the clothes completely out. The cleanup took months just to clean the streets. Molasses, I, I find this stuff funny. You just, people, there were probably people in Boston that don't even know about the great molasses flood. I studied World War II thoroughly in college. My last two semesters were not specifically about World War ii.

But talking about American history from World War I to at that time, the current state, which was the Clinton years, right. Actually it wasn't Clinton years anymore. It was Ws years, but it stopped at the Clinton years. Right? So there was a whole month [00:51:00] of studying World War ii. I can learn about the, the, the, the U 1260 boat that was sunk because of a toilet.

I didn't know about the roller skates. I didn't know about John Merlin, John Joseph Merlin, and him coming up this roller skates. I didn't know about that. Damn sure. Didn't know that. He didn't know how to stop. Damn sure, didn't know that. He crashed into a mirror shattering the glass. Startling all the guests.

Hey guys, I have came up with this new invention. You just roll, roll your ass into a mirror. That's what he did.

I wonder if anybody stole some molasses, made some big beans. That's what I would've did. Shit.

That's a Wrap: Thanks for Getting Messy With Us! 👋🎤✨

Bruce Anthony: Anyway, like he said, gentlemen, this was a silly show. I know. We were talking about and, or Well, I told y'all about the, the messy situation at my gym. We was talking about breakups. I told you about Latoya breaking my heart 'cause I didn't like kiwi.

Oh, [00:52:00] by the way, I found out later. I like kiwi. All I had needed to do was try something new. I like Kiwi. Who knew? Well, I would've known if I had just tried it anyway. And then, you know, crazy funny stories. I know this was a quirky episode. I was feeling quirky today. Quirky, not quirky from the TV show. Just, you know, little off, little silly.

Hope you guys enjoyed it, but most importantly, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching, and until next time, as always, I'll holler.

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