Same Mistakes, New Stories: The Cycle of Disappointment 🔄😩

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Bad Endings, Culture Wars & Bromance! 🎬🏈🫂

Bruce Anthony: I'm gonna be talking about bad endings in entertainment Turning Point, deciding to do their own halftime show and a YouTube exclusive talking about male friendships. But that's enough of the intro.

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

Bruce Anthony: You know, there is nothing worse, nothing worse in your life than being invested in something and all of your heart and time and attention to be invested in something in the ending. Sour. Now, I'm not talking about relationships in life. I'm not talking about work. I'm not talking about working out. I'm not talking about any of those other stuff.

I'm talking purely entertainment. Now, where is this all coming from? As you guys know, I am a huge comic book fan. I wrote my own comic book one day, uh, uh, years ago, never got published. Because me and an artist, uh, didn't necessarily agree on how the character should look. It is still somewhere in my notes.

It's 20 years old by now, but I, you [00:02:00] know, maybe one day, Hey, would I, AI and stuff like that. I can do my own comic books, so maybe I'll do that, be another one of my side projects that I love to do. But I'm a huge comic book fan. As y'all know, this summer I went to go see Superman, raved about it, loved Superman, love anything that has to do with Superman.

The only time I haven't loved something that had to do with Superman was when Dean Kane played Superman. Just didn't like that show. Come to find out, because I just don't like that person. So I guess I just read like this person is not a good person, so I don't know why he's playing Superman. And that came off on the screen.

I just didn't watch it. But. Going back to comic books. You know, I'm in love with dc I'm in love with Marvel. The movies, the TV shows. Like I said, I haven't read comic books in quite some time, but you know, when I do get comics, you know, I like to read 'em and there have often been times where I've been disappointed at this [00:03:00] long, overarching story that ends poorly.

Peacemaker Season 2: A Masterpiece Ruined by Its Finale 💔

Bruce Anthony: And you guys all know what I'm talking about. I've never seen the show lost. But I heard the ending was really bad. It, it's tough to invest yourself in something that they build, build, build, build, build, build, build, and it ends poorly. But once again, why am I bringing this all up?

Just a couple of days ago, I watched the season finale of Peacemaker. Now Peacemaker is in the second season. It's a DC produce show on HBO Max. Uh, whatever that app is now, I didn't changed the name so many times. I don't know what it is, but that app that got HBO shows on it, it's on that. Okay? Produce direct.

By James Gunton. You know him as the director from The Guardians of Galaxy. He did one of the suicide squads. He did the new Superman movie, he did Creature Commandos. He did the first peacemaker, uh, season one that I really enjoyed. And this season I've really been enjoying the story behind peacemaker.

It's been a really well told story. [00:04:00] And spoiler alert, I'm gonna spoil some of some of the story. Um, you know, the, the main character played by John Cena, who has really grown. Astronomically as an actor. Like he acted his ass off this season and brought me to tears, which doesn't take much 'cause I am a crier, but still brought me to tears with some of his performances.

You know, in the first season you learn that he killed his brother when he was younger by accident because his dad was an asshole and made them like fight for entertainment for his racist friends. His dad was a legit racist, right? And in the first season, his dad is the main villain and he has to kill his father.

Okay, so we're going into the second season. He is still dealing with that guilt of not really having any family, but his family is this group of people that had him under surveillance, we're supposed to be watching him, and then helped him fight off this big like alien invasion in season one, which, okay, his father wasn't Maine villain, his father was just part of a villain.

So. [00:05:00] He's developed these friendships, but he still misses his family, his biological family. He has this dimension portal in his home that is, was be bequeathed to him by his father. His father had discovered it well. We later find out that. John Cena's character peacemaker helped his father like work it or whatever, and it leaves a different dimension and he finds an alternate dimension that is, his dad's a nice guy and his brother is still alive and he's not this criminal.

He's the celebrated hero and he loves being in his dimension. Later on in about episode six, right, you find out this was a Nazi dimension. This was dimension in which the Nazis won World War ii, and so there are no people of color anywhere around.

He doesn't notice this because you know, part of it. Is he's just so happy to have these great relationships with the [00:06:00] relationship. He always wanted his father, the relationship that he, that he wished he had with his brother. If his brother hadn't died, that he's oblivious to his surroundings, which happens, right?

It happens, uh, but also white blindness. It happens when, you know, you always expect to be the majority in your circle. It's not uncommon to not see anything else but people that look like you. So I give the benefit of the doubt. So it was this great story that's told throughout seven episodes and you get to the seasoned finale and it's a big fart.

How I Met Your Mother & Other Shows That Fumbled the Ending 📺

Bruce Anthony: Like it, it was longer, it was almost twice as long and it was completely different to what I had been watching this last seven episodes. And I was like, good god, the show has been so great. How could it end poorly? And and it got me thinking to times that I've been invested in entertainment. It just ended poorly.

I don't know how many seasons of how I met your mother. There was, I binged watched [00:07:00] it. I caught onto it probably like the seven season. I think it did eight or nine seasons, and I binged up, uh, all those seasons like over a summer. Half hour shows binged and then watch the, the final season as it was going on.

The ending was a big fart to me. Another big fart, right? I was just like, this wasn't the ending that I, that I wanted. Why did you build up, tell this story and then just walk away from the key parts of the story that you were doing to tell this story that you said that you were gonna tell at the end from the beginning.

And what I mean by that is sometimes you start a story and you're creating something. As a creative writer myself, I always start with the ending first, I wanna know where I'm going, how this is going to end, and I want to know the ending, [00:08:00] and I wanna know the beginning. Those are the two definitive points, right?

This is where we're gonna start. This is where we're going to end, and then I fill in the rest to get me to that point. Now, supposedly this is what they did with how I met your mother, but if I see the ending. It's kind of changing a little bit as I'm filling in the filler. I'm talking about as a creative writer.

'cause the way the story is going, lemme keep on filling it, but that ending might not work for this great thing that I've created in the middle here. Then I change up. You switch up, right. How I met your mother was a, was a prime example.

They had an idea of an overarching story to get to the end, and they crafted it well, except for the fact that they had weave in so many different storylines throughout the eight, nine seasons that who the person ended up with wasn't the person that we wanted to end up with. They actually created such a great character for the wife that we wanted him to end up with.

The wife, spoiler alert, he didn't. [00:09:00] We want him to end up with the wife and he didn't end up with the wife. He ended up with somebody else and it was just a big fart at the end. Man of Steel, Superman. The, the, the Superman movie that came out in 2013. Love that movie. It is still today my favorite Superman movie because it was everything that I ever wanted in the movie except for the end where he killed Zi.

Now I know that they wrote it in the script, like he really had no choice. I didn't feel like there was much of a struggle. Superman does not kill unless he absolutely has to. Superman could have found another way. It was jarring. It was abrupt ending. And I remember walking outta that movie just like, oh man, I'm not, that didn't end well.

I, I didn't really like it. Sopranos is another example. David Chase trying to be

The Art of Storytelling: Why Endings Matter More Than Ever ✍️

Bruce Anthony: creative and just the screen goes to black. Everybody calling their HBO station during that time, like, what the hell is going on? I didn't see the final scene. No, you saw it. That was the final scene. That's what he had in mind.

That's not what we wanted. We wanted a [00:10:00] conclusion to the story. We wanted to know what happens to Tony Soprano? Does he go to jail? Does he live happily every a after? Does he die in? And that's just not the way to do it. Hey, another prime example. The whole complete season. The whole complete, uh, season five of the wire, throw it all in the trash.

Season 1, 2, 3, and four are iconic, great shows, great seasons. And in that season five, I'm just like David Chase, not David Chase, David Sampson. Like, what are we doing here? And that's how I feel about this season. Finale of peacemaker episodes one through seven. Chef's kiss. They were so well done. They had me invested.

They had me smiling. They had me laughing. They had me crying. They had me in thought. James Gunn is not only a hell of a director, but a hell of a writer because he can make you have [00:11:00] so many emotions from what he's created. And don't get me wrong, the whole episode wasn't straight trash.

There were really some sentimental moments that were touching, but it felt like completely different from what we had been se seeing all season long and. Kind of wrapped up stuff but didn't really wrap up stuff. And he said it's supposed to lead into what the ending was. It's supposed to lead into the next Superman movie that's coming out in two years, man of Tomorrow.

And I'm like, bro, you might need to take a break, right? 'cause he wrote Superman, creature Commandos and Peacemaker. These the two. The two television series and the movie all in one year. I'm like, Hey, Superman was great. Creature Commandos was great, peacemaker was great until the end, and you wanna give somebody the benefit of the doubt, like not everything you write is gonna be great.

I've produced a lot of these shows. This is the [00:12:00] 265th episode of Unsolicited Per Perspectives. That's not including the YouTube exclusive, the after hours when I was doing, talking straight ish, you know, the messy that's on the membership, like that's not including all the kind of look. Some of y'all out here listening and watching and like.

I really love unsolicited perspectives, but I can openly admit that not every show is a hit. Right? There are some duds. There have been some duds, dud interviews. I look at the first interviews that I did, and God, I wish that I was a better interviewer in the beginning. I'm better now, but I wish. So you grow right, you grow, you mature, you get better.

Not everything that you put out as far as content is concerned is going to be good. And I want to give James Gun the benefit of a doubt. However, you don't want your ending to be bad, and I learned this when I was a [00:13:00] creator for entertainment for others when I was writing the wrestling shows. Now.

Wrestling Creative: Lessons in Building to a Satisfying Payoff 🤼

Bruce Anthony: I told the stories before I was part owner of a wrestling company in the early two thousands.

I was the creative. I was a marketing and creative director. It was my responsibility to write the show and people don't understand. When you say write the show, write the show for wrestling, what does that entail? Is it a rundown of just the matches? You could do just that? You could do just that, but if you're telling.

A never ending story. It's an episodic story, right? That really never has an ending because the ending would be the end of the company. What happens is, is you have this, this company that's running, and you have these individual stories called storylines that you're writing. So you have a beginning start, a middle, an escalation, and an end.

This is creative writing one on one, okay? I would always start with, I want to match up. These performers with each other. Okay, that's first. [00:14:00] This is where I want it to end. I want to get to this point. I need to find an initial start to create heat. Heat is interest, right? Interest in this storyline. I need that spark to help me get to the end, and I need to continuously keep that spark going, keep that fire going so that when we get to the end and there's this big blow off, there's a satisfying feeling at the end.

Either the good guy wins or the bad guy wins in the end and keeps on fighting, and then eventually he'll get his comeuppance. I didn't always meet the mark on the ending. Sometimes it comes with a thud and I get it, but the most important thing that you gotta have when you have people invested is a strong ending.

If the ending has to changes, you're going along the way, that's fine. You don't, your ending doesn't have to be set in [00:15:00] stone, but you have to know where you're going, and I'm sure. I'm sure James Gunn knew where he was going, and up until the eighth episode season, episodes one through seven, he was on the right track, just the way he ended.

Mm mm mm mm Disappointed. I'm still looking forward to everything that he's going to be producing. You got Green Lanterns. Who's supposed to be like this true detective cosmic show? That's gonna be dope. If it's anything like Penguin, which is what you're hoping because of the actors that's gonna be involved with this particular project, you're like, okay, 'cause Penguin was a damn good talk.

Talk about great ending. Penguin was a great show. That never missed on any of its episodes. In the ending though, very heartbreaking was a very, very good and fitting ending. That's the thing. The ending has to be fitting to what you've built up to that [00:16:00] that's what it is, and, and it's all forms of entertainment.

If you are gonna come out with a last album, I remember Jay-Z coming out with this final album, the Black Album, which was good. It was good. Right. But the final track on the album, uh, I don't know if that should have been the final track. Allure, not allure, um, allure, yes. Should have been maybe the final track.

I don't know. Uh, but like the ending of anything, a book, a cd, a comic book, a television series. A movie, especially in a movie. Especially in a movie like, you gonna force me to sit down for two to three hours, the ending needs to be on point. You know what, one of the greatest endings, one of the greatest endings in all the cinema is The Godfather.

The Godfather's Perfect Ending vs. The Departed's Mess 🎬

Bruce Anthony: The Godfather. Everybody always talks about the baptism scene. Right? [00:17:00] Where he takes out all the members of the five family and that is great. Right? That is cinema. Okay. Absolutely fantastic. However, the actual final scene is when Kay, his wife asked him if Michael killed Connie's husband, and he is like, yo, don't ask me about my business.

She's like, I need to know the answer. He is like, don't ask me about my business. And she's insistent. He was like, okay, this one time I'm gonna let you ask me about my business. She says, did you kill him? He looks dead in the eye and lies, no, I didn't. He. She walks out and she turns around. Clemenza, Neri, Rocco, the new capal regime kissing the hand of the new Don and the door closes because you saw the evolution of Michael Coone from this kid, this war hero, to this new cold dawn.[00:18:00]

It's the best ending that I've ever seen in a movie. You know what movie ending that I didn't really like departed? Didn't like departed. It was too much going on in the ending, and then the ending was kind of anticlimactic. It kind of was, right? So endings matter, and I know some of y'all out there are feeling me.

About, man, I invested all this time and I just feel unsatisfied by the ending. And I'm not talking about sexually because I know some women out there are gonna be saying, yeah, I feel that way almost every day, and I feel for you. You know what I'm saying? I feel for you. I don't know nothing about that, but I feel for you.

But in entertainment, God, it sucks so much when you've invested time and effort and the ending just doesn't match. What you've gone through, and unfortunately, James Gunn missed the mark on the ending of peacemaker. I still recommend watching [00:19:00] the show, season one and season two. I gave y'all the premise, but there's some good acting in this.

It's a good show graphic. Graphic, both, uh, violence wise and sexually. So not for kids. And this is gonna shock you a little bit, but it's a good show and it's good show to watch. John Cena, a wrestler turned actor, but he's an actor now. Ladies and gentlemen, I. Like Batista, like Dave Batista, who you could say is a thespian, the rock.

On the other hand, he ain't no thespian. But, but you know, Dave Batista, John Cena has now entered in that conversation as being a thespian. He's a, he's an actor now, and he brings it. I recommend the show. Just be prepared when you get to that finals, uh, final episode to be severely, severely disappointed, just like I was.

Bruce Anthony: Ladies and gentlemen, the [00:20:00] conservative right and MAGA are so upset with Bad Bunny being the Super Bowl halftime show for the 2026 Super Bowl.

Bad Bunny Backlash: Conservatives Rage Over Super Bowl Halftime 🏈

Bruce Anthony: That turning point, you know that group that Charlie Kirk founded has stated that they're gonna create their own All American halftime show to directly protest the NFL's decision to feature Bad Bunny as the 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer.

This move. By the conservative group is a flashpoint in the ongoing culture wars and has fueled considerable debate about the direction of America pop culture at major events. Now the point, me and my sister already talked about Bad Bunny at halftime. She was very excited to talk about it. This is something different.

I know we're doing back to back shows, talking about Bad Bunny. This is from a different perspective because this [00:21:00] came out after we filmed the show. Posted the show that Turning Point has decided to do their own halftime show. To counter to counteract that. And I'll get into the details of that, um, in a minute.

But I, I just wanna talk about American pop culture, specifically American pop culture at major events. So let's first define what American pop culture is. American pop culture. The popular aspects of American culture. It's pretty self-explanatory. Right. What are some examples of American pop culture?

Well, in my lifetime, it's been several things. The Batman movies is American Pop culture. Michael Jackson is American Pop Culture. [00:22:00] The. Boy bands is American pop culture. Hip hop music is American pop culture. Italian food is American pop culture. Chinese food is American pop culture. Mexican food is American pop culture.

You see barbecue, but I don't know if barbecue is universally as loved. Italian, Chinese and Mexican food. The reason why I say that is because how far do you have to go to get to a barbecue restaurant? They're almost like specialties, and it's maybe because I live in an area that isn't like super barbecue.

I live in the DMV area. Maybe it's different when you live in like Texas or the Midwest or the Carolinas, right? Maybe it's a little different. Maybe there's a barbecue spot. Almost every other block, [00:23:00] like there's a Chinese food spot almost every other block you can get Pizza. So many different places you can get, there are so many different Mexican restaurants.

Like all over the place. All over the place. So I would say it's barbecue, American pop culture, I don't know. But you see, like I just finished talking about entertainment. You know, there are television shows like, uh, um. Game of Thrones is, is American pop culture. Um, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. I didn't watch that stuff.

But Star Wars, you know, it's American pop culture, things that Americans overwhelmingly deem as popular. You know what American pop culture is? Bad bunny. Bad bunny is American pop culture. You know why? 'cause first of all, he's

What Is American Pop Culture? Spoiler: It's Not What MAGA Thinks 🇺🇸

Bruce Anthony: American. Let's, we've already established. He's American. He's not white, [00:24:00] but he's American.

That's, that's the point I'm trying to make. He's American and he's ultra popular. Like as far as musical acts, American musical acts, it's Beyonce, Taylor Swift, bad bunny. No particular order, right? It is those three are the top. That's American Pop culture. So the idea that Turning Point would say, we're going to create our own All American halftime show that focuses on American pop culture.

What damn pop culture are they talking about? All right, so. Turning Point USA Announces alternative Super Bowl halftime event for February 8th, 2026. Billing it as a patriotic counter to the NFL's official show headlined by global Latin [00:25:00] Superstar Bad Bunny. Before I read any further, I once again have to reiterate, bad Bunny is American.

He's American. Isn't a being American patriotic? W what type of patriotic counter would counter something that's American? I, I, I'm having a hard time figuring it out, but don't worry. Turning Point defined it for me. The group's messaging emphasizing faith. Family and freedom. Inviting the public to help select performers and music genres get details about artists and broadcasts remain undisclosed.

The announcement follows backlash from conservative commentators and [00:26:00] politicians, including Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, who argued bad bunny. Spanish language repertoire and compute and political stances do not reflect the majority of American viewers. Okay. They have one thing, right?

Spanish language repertoire does not reflect the majority of American viewers because the, the majority of American viewers probably are not bilingual because by and large here in this country, we are linguistically dumb. Sorry. We are, it's not a flex that we can only speak one language. You go to other countries, they can speak their language and typically broken or fluent, multiple other languages we're the dumb ones.

Not everybody else. It's not a flex that we can only do one thing, not even [00:27:00] well, but that we can only do one thing. Okay. Political stances. A majority of Americans. See, this is a thing that's crazy, and yes, Republicans do have the House, senate, and presidency. So you would look at that and be like, well, that's the majority of Americans must want their policies.

No, this is not the case, right? Because Trump didn't win the majority of the American people. He won the majority of the voters. But there were millions, tens of millions of people who did not vote. This isn't what the majority of Americans want, their political stances, and they're finding out that less and less people actually want their stances because people voted for Trump basically on the racial lines.

Turning Point's All-American Halftime Show: History Repeating 🎤

Bruce Anthony: But I'm not gonna get into that 'cause I'm not gonna make a, a racial show. I'm gonna make a conservative versus everybody else show. People voted wrong along racial lines, but [00:28:00] realizing that they not like us. Rich white folks are not like everybody else. It's a little bit differently. So the idea that they're creating a halftime show that's gonna be pointed towards the majority of Americans is not true.

It's not true. You know why? Because a majority of Americans like Bad Bunny, who are they gonna get? Lee Greenwood. I mean, that's what me and my sister was talking about. That's what Mike Johnson, um, you know, offered up. Who are they gonna get? Kid rock. Kid rock is nowhere close to bad Bunny. It's not close.

Who are they going to get? Even if they got a, who's, who's list of all the country music singers, it's still not touching bad bunnies. Cultural relevance in America. Globally. Alright, so bad Bunny is not tripping off of this. He's responding to the criticisms with humor, highlighting the significance of Latino representation and inviting viewers to [00:29:00] learn Spanish.

You know why? Because linguistically we're dumb. Uh, and so the controversy around around cultural identity, language and this perceived Americanness of the event with political divides, surfacing over what kind of entertainment represents the country. Let me explain to people once again what this country is.

This country is a melting pot. It is people from all different walks of life, different countries that bring in their ethnicity, their language, their food, their culture, and we adopt it all. And that's America. America is not this bland, whiteness that conservatives keep trying to say is America. Going back to my food [00:30:00] analogy, America is Italian food, Mexican food, Chinese food, soul food.

That's Americana. What they're trying to describe as this bland, idyllic 1950s America. It didn't even exist in the 1950s. It existed in their own, taking a little page from peacemaker, their own dimension of America. That's, that's where it existed. It didn't exist in the country at large. They just pushed all the things that they didn't want to see away from their presence.

That's what they did. I'm going to get into that in a few minutes because this kind of concept is [00:31:00] not new. The concept of everybody else is doing something cool over there or is progressing further than what we would like, so we're going to push this out of our presence and create our own little thing over here.

Which we deem as true America. And what am I talking about? I'm talking about conservatives are upset. Bad Bunny gonna be doing a halftime show. They figure it's an American sport. It should be, it represent America. Once again, Puerto Rico was part of America. Bad bunny is American. Your argument is stupid. But Okay. I, I, I don't know what artists, but Turning Point's gonna give people the opportunity to vote and choose the [00:32:00] genres and artists that they feel like is Americana.

And they're gonna have their own separate thing. And this is not new. Like I said, this is something that's been repeated over time in history. What are some examples of this? Bruce? What are you talking about? When have there been times where there's been a progression of marginalized groups to the point that conservative or white people decide to create their own thing and push everybody away?

Whether it was white flight and the suburbanization of the 20th century where minorities, especially black Americans, moved into urban neighborhoods and made cultural and economic gains, many white Americans responded by relocating to the suburbs, often facilitated by federal incentives and policies that explicitly excluded minorities from these areas.

20th century. What we're [00:33:00] really talking about is pretty much after World War ii, right? All those black gis, even though they were denied their GI Bill, came back, started working in factories, started moving into nice neighborhoods, and in those nice neighborhoods, there were white people that decided to move out.

White Flight & Segregation: The Real American History 🏘️

Bruce Anthony: White flight is what they called it, but not only that, to the suburbs, that's the reason why we have suburbs away from major cities, right? It's the reason why we have 'em. I'm living right now in a suburb of dc. I'm living in an area that was once a thriving black area that the government decided to bulldoze and build a Pentagon over, or they bulldoze and build airports over.

This has happened before, so when you hear. People talk about American and Patriot. What they're really talking about is their version of this idyllic vision of America [00:34:00] in which they only exist in their own existence, and everybody that doesn't look and act like them is on the outside. But is it just housing?

No, it's not just housing. Popular music and dance spaces in the early to mid 20th century as jazz and later rock and roll, which are rooted in black musical innovations became popular. Some white communities established their own venues. Radio stations and social clubs that restricted entry or tailored music programming to only white patrons, white jazz clubs or white rock and roll movements emerged from these genres crossed over to mainstream popularity.

Also country music. Right, right. So, so they took American pop culture. What's popular in America? They [00:35:00] said, ah, we don't wanna co-mingle with these minorities. So what we going to do is go ahead and create our own separate spaces away from them and have our own artists, and we gonna make our own thing. Oh my goodness.

You remember when rock and roll was rock and roll? Like what type of rock and roll? And the rock and roll and the, the white clubs, or the rock and roll and the black clubs. 'cause once again. This was black music first. Uh, what about, what about like public housing and education? Well, whites, created exclusive public housing projects and pushed for school districting and private school segregation, AC academies, which urban institutions became more integrated. More popular with minority groups often due to legal desegregation efforts. Federal policies incentivized suburban development [00:36:00] explicitly for white families leaving minorities behind in the cities.

So this was also part of the white flight, but this was also the government sponsoring this white flight, basically saying, Hey, look, white people, if y'all not comfortable. Living around these minorities, we're gonna create a safe space and it's gonna be over here away from everybody else. So you don't have to participate with them.

You can have your own thing. And, and, and let's not forget exclusions from professions and higher education. Rules at universities and professional institutions limited minority admissions, job opportunities and promotions even after legal barriers were reduced. Informal practices and social networks among elites insured ongoing under represent underrepresentation and pipe [00:37:00] pipeline exclusion for minorities in elite sectors.

Kind of like if you are. A legacy and your family went to Harvard and Yale, you're almost guaranteed a spot whether you're qualified or not. You're almost guaranteed the spot. So what Turning Point is trying to do is nothing new. As soon as I read it, I'm like, oh yeah, that's right.

I done seen that before. I seen it before. This is America

Turning Point's Fake Patriotism Exposed 🚩

Bruce Anthony: Turning Point doing this. This almost was popular with a certain group of people in America throughout the history of time, which would make it American pop culture. No, I'm just saying it would, it would look just to surprise me and if they wanted to do their own thing, that's cool. But the idea. That they are going to [00:38:00] hijack the Super Bowl halftime show.

Good luck with your little side project. You know, there was a time where somebody tried to hijack the Super Bowl halftime Show in Living Color. I do not remember what year. I wanna say it was 1990. 90 or 91, decided to do a halftime show. Everybody turned from the Super Bowl to watch that halftime show.

Next year, the NFL decided to have Michael Jackson perform at the halftime show, and that's how we got the halftime show. You know what, Michael Jackson was the most popular artist at the, at that time. He is Americana 'cause he is American and he was popular, kind of like bad bunny. So turning point, good luck to you and what will be a bland show that I will absolutely not be [00:39:00] watching.

And I'm curious to see who your audience chooses to be, the artist and music that represents America, because I can assuredly let you know that all of those people, and you would be wrong because what represents America. Is all the diversity that we have in America, the melting pot. That is America.

Bruce Anthony: All right guys. Gonna give you guys a little treat 'cause it still has come to my attention that people have not joined the YouTube page to see the YouTube exclusive videos. Which to me. Is crazy because if you listen to all of our podcasts and you enjoy 'em because you're listening to all of them, [00:40:00] then you would think that you would watch the stuff that we have on YouTube, which is absolutely not on the podcast, except for now.

I'm going to give you guys more of a taste that will we have exclusively on YouTube, but not this particular episode. 'cause I'm putting it now on the podcast. So in this particular YouTube exclusive. Me and my sister talk about male friendships and how society looks at male friendships and how males interact in their male or bromance relationships.

So here's that episode. I hope you enjoy it. Check it out.

Jay, you sent me a video on Instagram. It was earlier today. I have completely changed around the rundown and decided that we was gonna talk about this because me and you disagree on this particular topic. So you sent me a video about two men that were basically the headline was something like, you know, when I hit Get the Lick, he get the Lick Lick

Jay Aundrea: It was [00:41:00] like point of view. It was, it was two guys. It's a like a wide shot there at a gas station and they're in very expensive cars and they're like sitting on the cars and chopping it up and having a good time. Right. And the caption is like POV, I have that one homie that when I get Rich he can have whatever. That's what it says. Yes. Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and you said your response to that was.

Jay Aundrea: That some of y'all just need to date your homeboy and, and leave us the leave, the rest of us alone like it.

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Jay Aundrea: And I'm, I'm sorry, but you not gonna convince me, period. That there are not dudes out there in love with they homeboy.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Uh, am I, I'm not disputing there are closeted men out there. That would be a terrible dispute. So no, I'm not disputing that there are closeted men out there, but the fact that. The fact that you [00:42:00] automatically put it on. Like, if, if I get on, for instance, for me, if I get on, if I get a lick, a lick, ladies and gentlemen is coming to some, a lot of money.

If I get a lick,

Jay Aundrea: Or a robbery is also what a

Bruce Anthony: oh, uh, yeah, in this context I'm talking about a lot of money, which could have been from a robbery, but, but won't, 'cause I'm not going to jail. But if I get, if I get a windfall. Everybody around me that's close to me. My

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: people get a windfall. That would mean my immediate family mom, dad, you and our brother going to get some cheddar.

Then I've got four, three close friends and one friend that was really, really close. But I still love him and even though we not as close as we used to be, if he ever needed me, I'd be right there for him. Right? So it's four people. One female, three dudes, they go get some bread.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, that's not what the Post said.

Bruce Anthony: the po the Post said one [00:43:00] particular person, but maybe, maybe they, they only have one person that they real close to and that's their homeboy.

Jay Aundrea: and that is the person that they're in love with

Bruce Anthony: I don't think, uh,

Jay Aundrea: it. The Post said. That if, if this person gets on, they have that one homie

Bruce Anthony: right. The one

Jay Aundrea: can have whatever.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, the one homie,

Jay Aundrea: It's not like if I get on the whole crew, get on, like if I'm, if I'm, if I went in, we all went in. That's not what it said. It says one homie that could have whatever it and ormo immediately.

What I thought in my head was ti highs. You could have whatever you like. That was like, and it's like you taking this one homie shopping,

Bruce Anthony: Oh, come on now.

Jay Aundrea: benzes like, come on. Like. There are some dudes out there that

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Jay Aundrea: I promise you have not even closeted. Not even closeted, do not think they're gay, but they are in love with their homeboy and they [00:44:00] might not even realize it.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, okay. Saying in love is really. That you're being, let's stop being semantic. Okay. Let, let, let's be real. Stop saying and love. Say they love and there's different variations of love. I have love for my friends. I got love for my family and I have love. No, now.

Jay Aundrea: That is what I'm saying. I'm saying in love. If it was me, if it was me and I got, I got on somehow, I don't know. Right.

Bruce Anthony: You said you don't know?

Jay Aundrea: I, I dunno. It is a, it is a myriad of ways that I could blow up. We, we don't know.

Bruce Anthony: We don't know

Jay Aundrea: will I be famous or infamous? Who knows? Nobody

Bruce Anthony: both.

Jay Aundrea: Probably, uh, be famous for being infamous, but like knowing me.

But like

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Jay Aundrea: my, obviously, yes, I'm gonna take care of my family and my friends. I don't have one. [00:45:00] Homegirl that I'm like, you can have whatever you want. You can have whatever you like. Like that's not,

Bruce Anthony: Yes you do.

Jay Aundrea: no, I don't,

Bruce Anthony: absolute best friend could literally have whatever they want. If

Jay Aundrea: no, I would, I would probably invest in something. I would set up trust funds for the kids colleges, like

Bruce Anthony: But if they came to you for certain things, you would, you would give it to 'em

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, but I'm not, I'm not broadcasting that, like I'm not creating a whole

Bruce Anthony: okay. So now, alright, so now we're talking

Jay Aundrea: you want.

Bruce Anthony: so now we're talking about different things you are saying. Yeah, I would absolutely do that. I just wouldn't broadcast it and maybe some people.

Jay Aundrea: No, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, it wouldn't be exclusive to that one person.

Bruce Anthony: That's, they're not saying that they wouldn't put everybody on. What they're saying is there's only one person that can have whatever they want.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, the love of their life.

Bruce Anthony: No. [00:46:00] Okay. Maybe, but to go to that automatic assumption is

Jay Aundrea: just went by how the post was worded.

Bruce Anthony: No.

Jay Aundrea: I read the post and I said, oh, you, you're in love with this person.

Bruce Anthony: Now that that doesn't mean that they, they,

Jay Aundrea: that y'all are sitting out at night at a gas

Bruce Anthony: they're filling up their cars.

Jay Aundrea: on on, yeah. Together going for a joint gas fill up.

Bruce Anthony: no, maybe that's not, maybe they was on their way to the club,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. To spend time together. To spend quality time.

Bruce Anthony: that's what you do with your friends. That's what you do with your friends.

Jay Aundrea: And that's also what you do for your soulmate.

Bruce Anthony: Alright, l. Let me tell you why. I just absolutely disagree with it. I remember that me and my two boys that I've known for like 30 years,

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: one of our fathers used to call us the three hard legs because every single weekend we were together, but we [00:47:00] were together. To have fun and to go out on the hunt. Love those dudes.

Love them. We weren't in love with each other, but if anyone had it, in other words, if anybody got on there wouldn't have been too much that they couldn't have asked me for that. I wouldn't have given for 'em.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, but it ain't, that's your two homeboys. This is not, we not talking about no throttle. We talking about a two per a couple

Bruce Anthony: But if you, but if one of the friends had was gone. It was only two of the three, it would've been the same dynamic. So that just meant it would've been one person getting on as opposed to No. See, we're arguing about two different

Jay Aundrea: Here's the problem. No, here's why we're arguing because this is the reason why we argue, period, is because you take everything I say and you apply it to yourself.

Bruce Anthony: No, I'm not applying it to

Jay Aundrea: for you, this is what you've been doing this whole time. And

Bruce Anthony: not implying it to myself.

Jay Aundrea: for you, then it's not true.[00:48:00]

Bruce Anthony: No. Now I'm not applying it to

Jay Aundrea: you just said.

Bruce Anthony: just came. No, no, no, I, well, I'm giving you multiple analogies, right?

Jay Aundrea: Okay. Okay.

Bruce Anthony: analogies. The fact that I've given you analogies about yourself, so I'm not making it about me. I'm making it about how, you can't say that.

This one situation, clearing in effect. Oh, they in love with each other. Like, that's, that's

Jay Aundrea: All I, all, I said, I didn't say that those two particular men are in love with each other. What I said was, some of y'all need to admit that you in love with your homeboy.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, and

Jay Aundrea: just need to date and leave the rest of us alone. Because the thing of it is, is like you love this man and so every other person that you date, you terrorize because you really want to be with this other person and you can't, and you might not even know it consciously, but a lot of y'all need to start thinking about this.

And I just wish, you know, there wasn't the stigma. 'cause a lot of female [00:49:00] best friends end up getting together. That's. It ain't rare. Okay, so I just wish there wasn't this stigma among men about, and

Bruce Anthony: Being gay.

Jay Aundrea: about intimacy between men

Bruce Anthony: Yeah,

Jay Aundrea: my, because my thing is, but, but, but y'all will say everything up to I, you will, you will, y'all will do a dime so you won't snitch on your homie.

Bruce Anthony: No, I won't.

Jay Aundrea: The loyalty there is incomparable to anything else. I mean, you trust this dude, like this is this, uh, a lot of y'all are soulmates and you just, it don't even have to be a romantic thing, but a lot of y'all are soulmates and you, it's okay to say that.

Bruce Anthony: Okay, so you're making a lot of valid points and, and, and I'll attack them one by one. Let's attack the last.

Jay Aundrea: Let's, let's just rewind that. You making a [00:50:00] lot of valid points. I'm gonna attack them one by

Bruce Anthony: No, I'm gonna, I'm not, attack was not the right word. Address them. I'm gonna address 'em one by one. Let's start with the ladder first. And the ladder fir The latter was, uh, actually I forgot what the ladder was

Jay Aundrea: That y'all, that that would be dudes that are soulmates. It don't even have to be romantic. Y'all could

Bruce Anthony: So no, that's not possible because men don't talk about anything.

Every, every, everything is surface level. Nothing ever really gets that deep. Don't talk about emotions or anything.

Jay Aundrea: I have seen male friendships that like that. Just my brother, just my, just like, and

Bruce Anthony: but they don't talk about nothing.

Jay Aundrea: love each other.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, but they don't talk about nothing. It's surface level because men don't talk about their feelings. So that's reason what I'm saying. You can't have a soulmate if you don't talk about your feelings.

Jay Aundrea: again, that's why I'm saying this is, this is a lot of, I just what I'm saying. Y'all need to admit it and to start talking about it.

Bruce Anthony: I. Mm. But you're talking about two different things now. Are, are there some closeted men out there that might be in love with their homeboy? Yes. Is there [00:51:00] some weird loyalty between men that is the quote unquote bro code? Yes, it is. Also, there is a emotional insecurity. Emotional lack of intelligence to understand that just as you can have fun with your homeboys, you can have fun with women as well.

Like women are fun. Like I got a home girl. All of my homegirls are hilarious. Hilarious. Like I kick, yeah, like I kick it with my homegirls and I'm like, this is just like, and also women are actually rauner than men. Women say some off the wall stuff, say women say some off the wall stuff and I'd be clutching my pearls 'cause I thought my boys was nasty.

My homegirls is even nastier.

Jay Aundrea: Listen closely to our brunch conversations.

Bruce Anthony: So I, I'd be kicking it with my homegirls and I'd be like, it's like kicking it with dudes. It's the same thing. The problem is most dudes just sexualize women [00:52:00] and don't realize, yo, you know, this woman has actually got a dope personality. Matter of fact, they personality is doper than your homeboy.

'cause your homeboy ain't talking about nothing but jokes. She got jokes over here and you can actually have an intellectual conversation, not a conversation about who's better, Michael Jordan or LeBron, or if she got a BL or not. Like actually intellectual and emotionally intellectual conversations. So there's 1,000,001 reasons why guys have this connection with other guys that they don't have women.

Yes, there are some closeted men out there, but no, not every time a man is close to another man. Does that mean. closet. Closet sometimes.

Jay Aundrea: every time. I

Bruce Anthony: Well, the The implication,

Jay Aundrea: No, you, this is again an instance where you like to read more into what I said than what I actually said, and I have to go back and read it to you verbatim. 'cause you already heard in your mind what you wanted to hear. I [00:53:00] didn't say

Bruce Anthony: to hear anything.

Jay Aundrea: I didn't say every time.

I didn't say those two particular men. I'm saying that this is

Bruce Anthony: You did generalize though.

Jay Aundrea: I said

Bruce Anthony: Dudes. Dudes just need to date each

Jay Aundrea: admit that they wanna date their homeboy.

Bruce Anthony: There's a, that's a real, generally that's a real general statement. It.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, it was meant to be. Here's the thing, here's the thing. What I'm talking about is like opening up a broader conversation about intimacy between men and I think when you have the position that, oh, men don't talk about anything, we don't talk about feelings, we don't, we're not emotionally mature. I think it sell men short and it continues to put you in a box where you can't grow.

You can't love fully, including if that person happens to be your homeboy. But a lot of guys, a lot of guys will never even know that they, that [00:54:00] they have these feelings because they'll never deeply interrogate their emotions.

Bruce Anthony: Well, they don't know how. We weren't taught to do that.

Jay Aundrea: Right? So I'm saying let's all start talking about it.

Bruce Anthony: I, and I'm not disagreeing with that.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, I don't, I'm

Bruce Anthony: that general, that statement was real.

Jay Aundrea: not saying all I just said, some of 'em need to admit they in love with their homeboy.

Bruce Anthony: I, and I don't disagree with that. Some of them absolutely are. Relationships be a little too codependent. They'd be real codependent.

Jay Aundrea: Yes. Where it is like, like they, oh, that's twin right there. That's twin Love. Your twin like, and y'all always together. If I don't see him, then I, I don't see you like y'all always together. It's like, come on now. You spent y'all on the phone together. You riding together like what y'all did. Y'all have a great relationship. You've had one for years and sustained longer [00:55:00] than any of your romantic relationships. This relationship,

Bruce Anthony: But isn't that friendship?

Jay Aundrea: okay, I don't know. Close. It's close.

Bruce Anthony: I, I, look, I, I firmly admit that you have some very valid points, and you're absolutely right.

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Bruce Anthony: Some of these men need to, men in general need to become more emotionally intelligent. We, as men need to work on that. I've been working on that, but I still got a whole lot of work to do and I'm also still closed off.

As much is, I'll be talking on here, I'm still really closed off. Things need to be. Addressed in our community. However, I just take offense to the fact that men can have close relationships and then not be deemed as something more

Jay Aundrea: I didn't say that either. I just said, I just

Bruce Anthony: it was an [00:56:00] implication. It was the implication.

Jay Aundrea: all I said was so tooty to acknowledge that they want to date their own boy.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, that is true. Some of y'all are out there.

Jay Aundrea: I don't, and I don't consider being gay or just not even being gay. You could just be pansexual and bisexual. I don't know. Like, it doesn't matter. I don't, I, I, that's, it's not a, a, you know, that's, that's not a character flaw,

Bruce Anthony: Of course not. You are

Jay Aundrea: And so it's, you are who you are. Like, and so, I don't know, like I just feel like. I would love to have a couple that was once just homeboys and then realize they were in love.

Bruce Anthony: Yo, you have a story like that out there in America? Please. Hey, hit us up. Let us know. 'cause we would love to have you on the show just to talk about that evolution from homeboys to lovers, lovers, and France.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: So I hope you enjoyed that YouTube exclusive. I just want you guys to think about everything that I talked [00:57:00] about on this episode. This ending needs to punctuate what this episode was about in order for you to be happy with the conclusion and the conclusion of this episode is damnit, just be who you're going to be number one.

Number two, let people be who they're gonna be. And number three, if you're a creative, make sure that ending is just as good as the beginning and just as good as the middle. The ending is important. The ending is important.

And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching. Until next time. As always, I'll holler.

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