Diversity Under Attack: Let's Talk About It 🔥💪🎯

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We're gonna be dilly ding a little bit. Then we're gonna be talking about the lavender Scare, and then we're gonna be talking about what are my ghetto limits. But that's enough of the intro. [00:01:00] Let's get to the show.

What else, SIS?

Jay Aundrea: What up, Breta?

Bruce Anthony: I can call it. I can call it.

Jay Aundrea: I see. So what can you call?

Bruce Anthony: First of all, a lot of people might not be affected to this, depending on where you live,

depending on your circle. We're in another government shutdown.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I know several people who are not working right now.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: It affects my job,

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: it affects my job.

I don't work for the government, but there are ripples that ripple out

Jay Aundrea: Yes, yes

Bruce Anthony: and Donald Trump and Pete Ack, uh, had a little pep rally yesterday. For

those that don't know, we are filming on [00:02:00] Wednesday. Yeah, yeah. Right. For those that don't know, we're filming on Wednesday. This show's gonna come on two days, but yesterday they had their little pep rally where they called in, I think it was like 800 generals and admirals, the top of the top.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: Of the military services, The top people were called in to.

Jay Aundrea: top brass,

Bruce Anthony: the top brass was basically called in to be given a damn lecture. So have you seen, did you watch any of it? Did you see any of the clips?

Trump's Military Pep Rally: Pure Chaos Unleashed 🪖🎪😱

Jay Aundrea: no, I, I can't, but yeah,

I, I know about it. Yes.

Bruce Anthony: would encourage it

because it's quite hilarious. You know, I'm currently watching this DC television show, the Peacemaker, right? Stars,

John Cena. It's a

Jay Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: Peacemaker originally came out and the movie, the Suicide Squad,

and, and I'm paraphrasing his quote here, but pe uh, peacemaker would say, I'll do anything for peace.[00:03:00]

No matter how many people I have to kill, I'll kill any and everybody for peace.

Sounds really ridiculous. It was

Jay Aundrea: It is ridiculous.

Bruce Anthony: was meant to be a ridiculous statement.

Yeah. Pete Hicks had basically said that yesterday. He basically said that yesterday. What were some of the key takeaways? Because, let me, let me get to 'em.

'cause some of these are just absolutely ridiculous and remind everyone out there. This is in front of the top brass in our military career. Military people. Four Star generals. Three star generals, admirals, the whole nine,

everybody, right? The top of the top.

Jay Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: Trump was advocating for using US cities for military training and possible deployment, describing an internal conflict as the nation's primary security challenge.

Basically, he's, they've labeled Antifa. Which [00:04:00] isn't a group, Antifa

is not a group like the Proud Boys

Jay Aundrea: No.

Bruce Anthony: or the the, uh, the Oath Keepers. Right? It's not some group.

Jay Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: And they did that on purpose.

Jay Aundrea: just people who are

anti-fascist.

Bruce Anthony: Right. But they did that on purpose. They did that on purpose. Purposely just be like, Hey, you say Antifa, we've labeled them a domestic terrorist. Now we can do

whatever the hell we want with them. So anytime you wanna protest against any of what the president is doing, they can label you Antifa. Even though you have probably not given money to Antifa, you probably didn't even know what Antifa stood for.

You

ain't even got no black shirt.

Fascist Playbook: They're Going Play by Play 📖⚡👀

Jay Aundrea: They don't know because no one should be against being anti-fascist. Except, you know, fascist leaders.

So the, the, the word Antifa itself, the, you know, it's an abbreviation as lost its meaning because they're just [00:05:00] using it as a substitute for this imaginary group of left wing liberal, ultra liberal domestic terrorists that don't exist.

Bruce Anthony: Kinda like woke,

they just repurposed the word.

Jay Aundrea: right

Bruce Anthony: But it's the deployment of troops to cities, which is actually illegal unless there's an insurrection.

Jay Aundrea: right.

Bruce Anthony: We've only had two insurrections in this country, in this country,

in the, in this country's history.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: One led to the Civil War.

The other one was January 6th.

Okay. People protesting you. Stripping away rights is not an insurrection.

That's a protest.

Jay Aundrea: I just want people to be aware that this is

foreshadowing.

Bruce Anthony: Oh yeah.

Jay Aundrea: They are preparing for an internal conflict because they know that the things that they have planned are going to piss off a large majority of this country. And so [00:06:00] they are preemptively preparing by saying, Hey, we're gonna start deploying the military on domestic soil

for this so-called internal conflict.

Bruce Anthony: which is once again, ladies and gentlemen, illegal. Unless there's an insurrection and you can't just label anything an insurrection.

There's specific rules and regulations for insurrections. So I've been hearing a lot of commentators former, like retired military, retired generals, and admiral saying, look, we're not gonna do anything that's against the constitution.

Yeah, the president is kind of our boss, but if he. Directs us to do something illegal, the majority of us are not gonna do it. So this

idea that they're going to create some loyalty, uh, and, and from the military, it, they're gonna have to fire a lot of people, which they're angling for. 'cause another key takeaway from from this thing was, heck, Seth [00:07:00] unveiled a new directive tightening fitness and grooming standards, and proposed a full embrace of traditional warrior culture while dismissing diversity incentives.

So basically he was like, look, this is

a man's military initiative. Initiative. What did I say?

Jay Aundrea: Incentives.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, my bad, ladies and gentlemen.

Jay Aundrea: That's

what they think those are. They

think diversity initiatives are diversity incentives,

so you're not wrong.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, basically he said, we're gonna do things by man standards. Either you meet those standards or you don't get to be in the military. Effectively saying like, we don't women, we don't really want you in people of color. Yeah, we don't really want you in either.

Uh, if you're gay or lesbian, we damn sure don't want you in.

This is

what they're saying. They don't want any diversity. He also stripped away being able to, uh, report [00:08:00] any malfeasance quietly. He said it's either out in the open or you can't do it. This is also a man that has, you know, an accusation of sexual assault. So he's trying to get that out the way he wants drill sergeants to go back to the brutal, archaic way of training.

And he also says he wants to get rid of rules of engagement. Just break the law

in warfare. So look, it's drawn criticism from everybody, even people in the military community. They said during this meeting, HEG F was like, yo, if you don't like it, you can resign. Trump hinted at the same thing. Hey, y'all don't get on board.

We'll just fire you.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: But my thing was this, we're shutting down the government because they're saying that there's so much waste, right? That there's so much waste that we gotta shut [00:09:00] down the government. All the while they gave this pep rally, which didn't give anything, didn't update. There wasn't anything of substance

in this pep rally, all while costing the taxpayers. Multiple millions of dollars to move all these general and admirals who were stationed other places

who had to be moved discreetly because they're in like battlefield type situations. Just to give this pep rally all behind a huge American flag trying to bring about general patents speech. 'cause

supposedly that's one of Trump's favorite movies.

So yeah, it was humorous and also very scary at the same time.

Jay Aundrea: yeah. Because it's right out of Fascist Playbook, right? It is like you, first you go after the media. He's done that. Next you get. The military under your thumb. And that's what he's doing. Like this is,

Bruce Anthony: That's what he's trying to do.

Jay Aundrea: that's what he's [00:10:00] trying

to do. This is, this is right out of the play. It is. They're going play by play, y'all. They're going play by play. This is, it's happening in real time. Nobody's the quiet part's being said out loud. Like it, we should all be very, very concerned about the direction in which this country is going.

Bruce Anthony: I would say yes, all of this is real.

All of this is important. All of this is dangerous, but I gotta be honest, and it's not me living in a bubble. When you start to exclude everybody and say, we're really only want this one specific thing, you minimize your numbers,

When You Exclude Everyone, You Become Outnumbered 🤔💯✊

Bruce Anthony: then you become outnumbered.

And once again, there are military leaders who won.

They were disparaging by basically [00:11:00] saying, you know, no more diversity. We're not, we're not doing this DEI stuff in this woke stuff. Which, by the way, military is not doing woke stuff. They just, they just

don't ask.

Jay Aundrea: ever been woke?

Bruce Anthony: Don't ask, don't tell is literally in our generation,

like in our, in our adult generation,

Jay Aundrea: what the hell? When is when? Have the armed forces ever been woke?

Bruce Anthony: that they're not right,

but they, they become more inclusive. But I mean, you wanna know how, maybe he's trying to take it back to World War II when the black soldiers were forced to be cooks or given really dangerous frontline missions.

Because if you go all the way back to the Civil War, when they had black soldiers, either they ain't give you no job or they put you on a frontline where

you was going to die, where you can and Father.

So I

mean, and let's not even talk about how there were so many black soldiers that fought in World War ii, Korean War and in the [00:12:00] Vietnam War, who were denied their GI bill

when they came home,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: all because of Jim Crow and segregation. So

Jay Aundrea: So I'm just wondering, when has the armed forces been woke?

Bruce Anthony: I guess now, I guess now when Pete EF and, uh, Donald Trump look out to all the generals, they just see a little too much gender and color,

and they wanted to reflect them.

Jay Aundrea: You know, who also wanted in a military that reflected a certain image,

Bruce Anthony: Mm. Who was that?

Jay Aundrea: Hitler. Hitler wanted people to look a certain way. A way that he himself didn't even look

Bruce Anthony: It didn't even look, wasn't

Jay Aundrea: Didn't even,

look, It

wasn't

Bruce Anthony: even, wasn't even that.

Jay Aundrea: Doesn't matter.

Yeah.

yeah, yeah. That all that happened before.

This has happened before.

Bruce Anthony: The difference is, here's the difference. The difference is [00:13:00] in Nazi Germany, he made all the Germans feel like they were. Something important and everybody else not,

and in Germany you can do that because everybody is German and the minority is everything. That's not Germany.

Here in the United States, yes, white people are still the minority, but guess

what?

Groups are in what?

guess what groups are in white people? The lgbtq plus community,

right? Uh, Roscoe. I need Roscoe to chill out. What's

Jay Aundrea: That's not even him.

Bruce Anthony: That's, that's Ronie.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: Ronie Never used the bark, ladies and

gentlemen. That is my sister's dogs. But you know what? We gonna keep on going. But

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: I, I look at it, everybody, he's disparaging, like they don't have enough numbers.

Military Commanders Won't Break the Law (We Hope) ⚖️🛡️🙏

Bruce Anthony: And there are military commanders who won't break the law. There'll be some

that will, but there'll be some that won't break the law.

Jay Aundrea: You gotta understand, you're asking people [00:14:00] who have put their very lives on the line to protect the constitution of this United States. You're asking them to do things against the document that they are risk. They have risked their very lives and dedicated their entire career to upholding good luck. I'm sure some will fall in line, I'm sure,

but I'm sure a vast majority will not.

Bruce Anthony: Even if it's not a vast majority, even if it's just half, half and

half, you know what? I'm gonna take my odds because you know

what? If we gotta go at it, we gotta go at it. If, if that's what you want. Let me stop Courtney. Now. That's not what I want. I

don't, I don't want that.

I don't want that.

But

Jay Aundrea: No.

Bruce Anthony: a realization needs to happen to this administration and I feel bad for everybody caught up in the shutdown and everybody caught up in this pep rally, which is [00:15:00] what it was,

and it was a joke.

Jay Aundrea: It was, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: everybody knew that there was a meeting with all the TAP generals. I had no clue. First of all, I was tripping because I was like, yo, why would they bring all of our top, all of our top, top people and put 'em in one place?

Isn't that kind of danger? I mean, I mean,

I know we have the best armed forces in the country, but that's

kind of dangerous.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, they, they specifically don't do that. Like there's, there was a, actually a TV show about the one person that they'll leave out of certain meetings so that if something happens, this person can assume, like, responsibility forever. I forgot what the name of that show was,

Bruce Anthony: talking about a designated, it's a

Jay Aundrea: that's a designate designated survivor.

Bruce Anthony: but that's for the state of a union. But they

do that also.

But they do have a, a, a former military general was saying that they do have a yearly thing where the [00:16:00] majority of the brass get together. And DC not everybody knows about specifically because everybody's not supposed to know about it.

But the announcing ahead of time telling them what state it's gonna be, it's gonna be in Virginia. So there's only so many bases that it could be when it's gonna be. And it, it wasn't private. They televised it.

They televised it.

Jay Aundrea: they're not smart.

Bruce Anthony: no, they, they're, they actually, Pete Heck said, I, I did some research.

Do you know this bastard has a BA from Harvard and a master's, I think from Yale. He has a, a bachelor's and master's from Ivy League.

All the while the administration is saying, going to college is bad.

Jay Aundrea: yeah, all of them are Ivy League graduates

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. he's

not

a stupid man. Well,

Jay Aundrea: he could do his homework. That don't mean that he's smart.

Like I, I, I'm sorry. Like I, I know a [00:17:00] lot of people with advanced degrees from big universities and when common sense is chasing them, boy they haul ass, they are too fast for it.

Like they, it can't catch 'em, can't catch 'em. So, no, that don't mean nothing to me. It doesn't mean anything to me. Mm-hmm. I

Bruce Anthony: well. Ladies and gentlemen, I know the first time, I know the first segment we, you know, we don't normally start heavy, we do normally did Little Island, but I just

thought the absurdity of this was so important to talk about and it's going

to get a little bit more serious because it leads into the second segment.

When you attack marginalized groups, what's the after effect?

And guess what, as a historian, I'm not putting myself on a pedestal, but I studied history and I see a circle. Our lives is not in a line,

it's a circle. Everything that we once did comes back around

and we did this once before. It was called the [00:18:00] Lavender Scare, and we gonna get into that next.

Bruce Anthony: Jay? I mentioned it before in a previous segment. Have you ever heard of the Lavender Scare?

Jay Aundrea: I have not.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Most people have not. Most people have heard of the Red Scare.

Now, if you don't know what the Red Scare is, the Red Scare refers to two major periods in US history when widespread fear or communism and leftist ideologies led to political persecution and Civil liberty violations.

Sound familiar?

The first red scare occurred in 1917 to 1920, triggered by the Russian revolution and labor unrest. The second, more widely known, took place during the late 1940s through the 1950s, coinciding with the early Cold War. During this time, anti-communist sentiment resulted in aggressive investigations, [00:19:00] blacklist and public accusations by figures like Senator Joseph McCarthy. You all remember this from our US history. Okay.

These moral panics resulted in dismissal and ostracization of thousands of people suspected of communist ties, regardless of actual evidence. So. That was the red scare. Most of us learned about the Red Scare

when we were taking history somewhere in the process of learning about World War II and the and, and our conflict with the Soviets and communism and how everybody was scared to death.

The people were communists in this country. If you don't know about the Red Scare, what education did you get?

Jay Aundrea: An American one.

Bruce Anthony: well, no, 'cause even we got American ones in the South. In the South, they still taught us about the Red Scare.

Jay Aundrea: Now let me, let me just say, Virginia has a great educational [00:20:00] system, so

Bruce Anthony: Is it?

Jay Aundrea: just Yes,

Bruce Anthony: It used to be.

Jay Aundrea: no, It is.

Bruce Anthony: all. Okay,

Jay Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: so what's the Lavender scare?

The Lavender Scare: LGBTQ+ Persecution Exposed 🏳️‍🌈😢💔

Bruce Anthony: Little different than the red scare, right? You would think lavender, you see red. Red almost kind of means danger. Lavender

kind of means, oh, it's a calming influence. No,

not, not this. So Lavender Scare was a period of intense anti LGBTQ plus discrimination in the United States federal government spanning roughly from 1947 to 1975, during which thousands of gay and lesbian employees were fired or forced out due to widespread fears that they possessed a security risk and a moral threat.

Now, when I just say that, why does that sound familiar? Maybe because we just heard this threat from Pete Hegg says the so-called Secretary, not of defense, but the

Secretary of

War.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm. [00:21:00] They don't even know what that means.

He was a national guard.

you don't even know what that means.

Bruce Anthony: know what else he was? He was a National Guard guarding detainees at Guantanamo Bay

Jay Aundrea: Great.

Bruce Anthony: after September 11th.

Jay Aundrea: Hmm. Oh, so.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah,

Jay Aundrea: You can, you can let your imagination run wild on

that one, ladies and gentlemen.

Bruce Anthony: right. Alright. So the Lavender Scare emerged during the Cold War, like I said, alongside, mainly, mainly calmly known the Red Scare Executive Orders and Loyalty programs initiated by President Truman, not Trump. Truman.

Okay. In 1947 and then expanded in 1953 by President Eisenhower's, executive order, authorized the investigation and dismissal of federal employees suspected of sexual perversion, which was a coded [00:22:00] reference to homosexuality.

Officers claim that lgbtq plus individuals were susceptible to black, black, male, and therefore security risk despite a lack of supporting evidence. So what did they do? They, between 5,000 and tens of thousands of federal employees lost their jobs resulting in public humiliation, financial ruin, and sometimes tragically suicide.

And these were all tried, tied directly to these purges. The government's actions also contributed to a broader societal discrimination, including school board firings, suspected gay teachers, landlords refusing to rent to queer attendance and media spreading sensationalized stories, conflating homosexuality with communism being publicly identified as lgbtq plus made continued employment or personal safety.

Very difficult during this time. Does this sound familiar to you?

Security Risk or Society's Fault? Let's Be Real 🎯🔍💬

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, [00:23:00] very much.

Bruce Anthony: Does it sound like, is it 80? Nah, it's more than 80. Nah, it's 80. 80 years later.

80 years later, we are putting people in the LGBTQ plus community in this all over again. Pete

Harris says, just said it yesterday, we don't want you in our military. You can't even go fight for your country. Can't. But back then it couldn't work for federal jobs.

Jay Aundrea: Right, and, and you realize that this ridiculous notion that they're a security risk because they can be blackmailed, is only because they exist in a society that demonizes them for who they are.

Bruce Anthony: I don't mean to laugh, but tell you ain't speaking nothing but the truth there.

Jay Aundrea: How about we change the way [00:24:00] society treats its members? How about we do that? No, but this is exactly, I mean, so this, the Lavender scare was for queer folks like writ large. Hegseth is specifically targeting transgender individuals and barring them from service and, and gender affirming, affirming medical procedures have been paused.

So, and then he is also, of course criticizing DEI initiatives and LGBTQ plus representation in the military. So very, very similar. Very, very similar. A lot More targeted.

this time. Uh, 'cause if you're, if you're black and trans in the military, goodness.

Bruce Anthony: Well, they learn right? They learn from their hatred. Because what happened was is through this [00:25:00] scare grew so many different activist groups for the l BT lgbtq plus community. I always, the the L and the B and the G and the T, they be screwing me up and

my tongue get tongue tied. But, but so many different groups grew out of this to fight for their rights.

They even wish they should have con combined it with the civil rights movements of the sixties to counteract the discrimination that they were facing and got laws passed so that you couldn't discriminate based on sexuality or gender.

Jay Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: So now they're attacking specifically transgender and listen to the coded words that they are trying to do.

They got boys playing girls sports. Give me two cases where that's the case.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Gimme two.

They got, They got, they're going to, they're gonna harm the women when they go into the women's bathroom. Women don't have to [00:26:00] necessarily be afraid to be harmed there because there's plenty of heterosexual men that are out there assaulting women every day.

Matter of

Jay Aundrea: right outside standing right outside the bathroom. You ever been to a club?

Bruce Anthony: oh my God. Matter of fact, if you look at any statistical measurement that there is, women's overwhelming predator are heterosexual males

that are not trans or gay or anything like

Jay Aundrea: Oh,

Bruce Anthony: Matter of fact,

Jay Aundrea: hetman.

Bruce Anthony: matter of fact, who are the largest perpetrators that are pedophiles?

Jay Aundrea: Cis hetman.

Bruce Anthony: So, so what they're trying to do is say, don't look over here. Don't look over here. Look over there.

Look over there. You know, we're the good ones. They're the bad ones. 'cause they're different. 'cause I look like you.

Jay Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: Don't be afraid of me. I look like you. No, and this has been going on. So ladies and gentlemen, yes, I'm giving a history lesson.

I know sometimes y'all like it, sometimes you [00:27:00] hate it, but there's an overall theme and I'm sure that you could point that out. What was done once before is being done once again,

and if they continue to control what we teach our kids in the school system, these things will continue to happen over and over and over again because

nobody will know that it happened before.

Jay Aundrea: Right?

Bruce Anthony: I did not know about the Lavender scare until recently.

I, a historian who

has studied history in the United States. This is my time period, American history from World War II all the way to the Clinton administration. That is my bread and butter. Knew nothing about this. I knew about the discrimination against the lgbtq plus community.

I had no idea that there was a lavender scare.

Equaled the Red Scare, and I guarantee the majority of the people that are listening to this who are not in the lgbtq plus community or some who might also be in the lgbtq plus [00:28:00] community, did not know about the Lavender scare.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. It's uh, and, and to see it repeated. Again, on a very similar scale is it should be very alarming to everyone because what the Lavender Scare did and what the Secretary of War is trying to do is remove protections and oversight mechanisms, right? Like, like the lavender scare depended on removing due process safeguards for employees, right? And Hgsf is proposing changes. You said this to how complaints are processed.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: He's reducing anonymous reporting, uh, expanding commander discretion, revising definitions of what [00:29:00] bullying and hazing means. They're removing gender identity as a protected category. Under the military equal Opportunity programs like this is, it's the same. It's the same thing happening again, and as alarmed as we should have been, then we need to be equally of or more so alarmed now.

Removing Protections: History Repeating Itself 🔄⚠️😰

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, because I tell you where it's going. I could tell you where it's going, 'cause I tell you where it's been. So the Lger scare legitimized discrimination nationally.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: It set a precedent for exclusion of queer people from federal job businesses and schools with similar practices adopted not just at the federal level, but also at the state and local level.

It pushed negative stereotypes into the [00:30:00] mainstream and conflated homosexuality with criminality

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and encourage and intolerance in public spaces.

So when you do these type of things and you say, these people are different, and you need to look at them different, you need to treat them different. Guess what?

It happens in everyday life.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, and that's, that was my earlier point. The reason why you can even make the, even though it is a fallacious argument, that there are security risks, is because of the fact that you are, by doing these things, targeting vulnerable populations for exclusion, you are reinforcing fear, stigma, harm like consequences for people's careers, for their lives. That is going to infect the general public, and they're going [00:31:00] to fall in step.

A vast majority is gonna fall in line with that. It just keeps perpetuating itself. It's the same. And so then you have people that have to fight tooth and nail to, to, for visibility,

right? And to make their, I, you know, concerns and, and the harm that's being done to them in their community, known, right?

And then, okay, then they're critic, criticized for being woke, right? When they start to advocate for themselves and for their own, oh, I don't know. Just basic respect of me as a human being. How about that? It's not that hard. I even lost my train of thought because I'm so upset about it.

Bruce Anthony: Ladies Newman, if y'all are watching the [00:32:00] video, you can always tell when my sister is super engaged. 'cause she leans in real close to the camera and then in the editing process I can't do nothing to fix that.

And then she

Jay Aundrea: me. Just leave me

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, she looks giant on the screen. 'cause you know it's real. She leans in so she lean in to the camera

and then give it to you.

But so I have this new philosophy. Because there are people not in my personal orbit, in my professional orbit, that always they say woke underneath their breath. They know not to say certain things around me. 'cause even in professional setting, I'll come at you

like, I don't care. I'll burn all this shit down.

Like, I don't care.

Like I get another job. I got the privilege of having a college degree

and some various different experiences in the workforce. I could always go back to bartending and be just fine. [00:33:00]

Jay Aundrea: At the end of the day,

we still got a thriving gig economy.

Bruce Anthony: right.

Jay Aundrea: fine.

Bruce Anthony: Look, I could bartend and do this podcast and I'll be all Right?

You know what I'm saying?

I have a lot less stress, but these people that, that are in my professional orbit is just like, I don't feel like I should have to say they, they them. I've been coming up with a counter. I've been like, oh, okay, well I'm just gonna call you insert this name.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Well, that's not my name. Well.

I don't feel like calling you that name.

Well, that's my given name. That's, no, that's the name you told me to call you. But they said respect their pronouns. You can't do that. Why should

I respect your name? I'm not going to, so this is your name, and your name might be dipshit

or it might be not. I don't know. I was trying to think of a, a funny thing and I couldn't, it was like flat ass, you know?

It could be some, it could be some disparaging, you know? But since you don't wanna give people respect, I'm not [00:34:00] gonna give you respect. Those

that want respect. And to quote Tony Soprano, those that want respect. Give respect. If you don't

give no respect, you gets no respect.

Jay Aundrea: You get none. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: And I just, and I'm like, I stopped being semi friends.

We weren't friends, friends, we were semi friends. We were walking dogs together

and we got into a huge. Argument about the LB lgbtq plus community. I

keep putting that Plus and the T in the wrong, I'm sorry. I'm, I, it's, it's a, it's a lot of

letters and, and, my, y'all know I got a speech impediment and a stutter.

I'm trying, I'm trying my best

Jay Aundrea: Everybody is giving you grace.

Bruce Anthony: But I will never call it the alphabet community. 'cause I feel like that is disrespectful. I feel

like that's, I feel like that specific comment is disrespectful. So me and this person were [00:35:00] walking the dogs and they were like, I, I, it's a choice.

I said, what now? Because I didn't know this person thought this way.

I said, what

now? Yeah, it's a choice. They don't have to be that way if they didn't want to. I was like, have you, ever dated, uh, somebody that was not your gender? Like the opposite?

No. Why? Because I'm not attracted to 'em. Exactly. They're

attracted to what they're attracted to.

It's not a choice.

And do you think that they would go through the history of discrimination

and subjugation and, and, and persecution and all that?

Jay Aundrea: and all of that. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: For what?

If they could choose,

who would choose

Jay Aundrea: who would choose to be pers who would choose to be persecuted

on a, so on a societal level?

Bruce Anthony: the only person I know was Jesus.

Jay Aundrea: It chose him and my man rose to the challenge, but like he, that he even asked Father, why have you forsaken me? He,[00:36:00]

Bruce Anthony: Uh, well, the point I'm trying to make, I gotta, I hate you ladies and gentlemen. We've been serious. I gotta lighten

the move by saying something stupid that I know that my sister's gonna respond back to. But the point I'm trying to make is leave people the hell alone. They ain't

bothering you.

And if, and if you're like, well, I don't want to see that.

It's NOT a Choice: Let's Settle This Once & For All 🏳️‍🌈✋💥

Bruce Anthony: You know what? I don't wanna see, I don't wanna see people drinking eight Pepsis and no water.

That's what? I don't wanna see.

You know

Jay Aundrea: yeah. There's a there's a lot. I don't wanna see

Bruce Anthony: I don't want to smell people that smell bad.

Watch your ass.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

I'm tired of you using every. H word when you know your breath stink. Hey, Jonna, how are you? Yeah, don't do that. I a lot. I got a list [00:37:00] that I have to endure the hell.

Bruce Anthony: I used to always love it back in the day with somebody like just randomly, Hey, you want some gum?

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: That was the way of telling

you, Hey, your breath stink. I'll be quitting. Like, Hey, I got some mint in my pocket. You want some? You want a mint?

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I'll pop 'em in in my mouth too, so they don't feel alone. Let's do it together.

Jay Aundrea: I'll ask when's the last time you've been to the dentist?

Bruce Anthony: see. You are way more insensitive than I'm,

Jay Aundrea: No, I, I don't find that you are being offensive. You know what I'm saying?

Bruce Anthony: because everybody could tell when they breath, stink. Think.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. You taste it. I I can't, I'm not insensitive for calling it out. You're insensitive for getting in my face and, you know, you could taste that on the back of your tongue. You know? You can.

Bruce Anthony: And

Jay Aundrea: That's, That's, rude.

Bruce Anthony: Despite all of this, we're not forcing those [00:38:00] people into, you know, demeaning them and saying that they can't hold certain jobs.

I mean, we don't wanna be around you, but I mean, you know, you still get a chance to exist in all your stinky breath ways.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

I'm just gonna offer you some gum.

Bruce Anthony: Go offer you some gum and, and, and, and I don't recommend this, so this is not a suggestion from Bruce or anybody from unsolicited perspectives, but for those people that do have a problem with people in the LGBTQ plus community, because you think your religion says that they shouldn't exist.

Alright, well, I mean I guess you can try to gently approach them with your religion and just say, you know, I had somebody from the Mormon faith one time asked me, Hey, you wanna go to church with me? I was like, you think I'm a heathen? I am. And no, I don't want to.

Jay Aundrea: No, don't do that.

Bruce Anthony: No, I don't want to. I know the history of Joseph Smith.

I [00:39:00] don't wanna go.

Jay Aundrea: keep that BS to yourself.

Bruce Anthony: What, what bs

Jay Aundrea: that. Don't go around and try to,

Bruce Anthony: I said, I said, dumb. This is not a recommendation. I think I said that off the top that it's a dumb ass idea

Jay Aundrea: don't get jumped out here.

Bruce Anthony: because

Life is Understood from the Past, Lived for the Future 🔮📖✨

Bruce Anthony: they, and look, you will get jumped.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: You will get jumped.

Jay Aundrea: Don't get jumped out here.

Bruce Anthony: I, I just, I find it funny, but not

that it doesn't take much to see where things are going. Once you understand the past,

Jay Aundrea: right?

Bruce Anthony: like it, it doesn't take as much.

There's a famous quote, and I'm paraphrasing, but life is understood from the past, but lived for the future.

Jay Aundrea: Hmm.

Bruce Anthony: So you understand life from examining the past

and you move forward and live for the future. And I think that we need to all take that to heart because they are literally trying to take us back.[00:40:00]

That's not how you live life. You live life forward.

Jay Aundrea: It's their slogan. MAGA is, it's this slogan. We literally want to go back. No, no thank you.

Bruce Anthony: It ain't gonna happen.

Jay Aundrea: No, thanks. They're trying their damnedest though.

Bruce Anthony: There they are. They, they, they doing, they, they got a lot. They got a lot. They got a lot done.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Just a, just just ask the folks during the Civil War, uh, what happened when they realized they didn't have enough people to fight?

So

Go ahead. Go ahead. They had to come knocking, asking us, so go ahead. Go, go ahead and try to, you know, move people out of the, push people out and all say you're gonna be left with eight, eight folks with a couple of Glocks and three tanks. That's what you're gonna be left with.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah. Good luck.

Jay Aundrea: Good [00:41:00] luck. Actually, I hope you have the worst luck possible.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I was being sarcastic.

I thought that that was pretty clear by, by my reflection in the tone. But,

Jay Aundrea: I honestly want you to just go to hell.

What Are Your Ghetto Limits? Let's Get Into It 🤣🚫💅

Bruce Anthony: All right, Jay, to bring this to a lighter note,

Jay Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: what are your ghetto limits? Now I could tell you one of mine off the top

is I hit my ghetto limit yesterday listening to that pep rally that was ghetto as hell.

There

was no part of that that was classy.

It was ghettos. Matter of fact, the

Jay Aundrea: it was selling Teslas on the White House Lawn Ghetto,

Bruce Anthony: No, he just posted, Trump just posted, uh, on his true social, all the gold and his presidential office and the oval

Jay Aundrea: also very ghetto.

Bruce Anthony: So ghetto. [00:42:00] So ghetto.

But what are some of your ghetto limits?

Jay Aundrea: Y'all don't tell me you'll drive and that damn check engine light is on. I am tired of getting in your car and the dashboard is lit up like Christmas. You not going to risk my life in this death trap. If I get in and all them lights is on, I'm getting right back out. Take your car to the shop.

Bruce Anthony: Oh,

Jay Aundrea: We gonna call this Uber, but take your car to the shop,

Bruce Anthony: mm oh, that's a good one. One of my

ghetto limits. And I was just talking to a person about, this [00:43:00] is not showering person I was just talking to today is Wednesday.

He said they have not taken a shower since Sunday. And I said, that's ungodly,

Jay Aundrea: That's ungodly

because cleanliness is

next to

godliness. That's ungodly.

Bruce Anthony: I, I can't. I was like, you know, well why,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Why?

Bruce Anthony: why?

I was like, you got in bed with outside in your covers.

You slept in outside at Ladies' gym. If you don't know what outside is, it is, you went outside,

you got all the, you got all the environments all over your body. Right. And you decide to get in bed with outside. It's part of the reason why I never go camping.

'cause you know what? You outside, outside.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: No, that's, that's one of my ghetto limits. If, if you ain't showered for a couple days, I'm not going to be around you. That's, [00:44:00]

Jay Aundrea: I don't, I don't even know if that's ghetto. That's just basic human, like you just, it's part of just being alive is that you wash your ass.

Like

Bruce Anthony: on. I think we need to define what ghetto is because

some people are gonna misinterpret when we say ghetto, this is not code for black.

Okay. A lot of people like to say ghetto as code for black.

Jay Aundrea: that is not the way we use it. Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: In this term, my ghetto limits is variety of things. It's ratchet. It's at the point where, all right, I'm past that point.

1. So it could be something like not having proper silverware. What do I mean? If you have a wedding or a special occasion, an anniversary party or anything like that, and it is somewhat fancy and you have meat that needs to be cut, do not give me plastic [00:45:00] cutlery.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: I can't cut

Jay Aundrea: give me a

plastic, if you give me a plastic butter knife, do not piss me off. Do not piss me off.

Bruce Anthony: I almost cut my hand to the bone

trying to saw a steak with a plastic butter knife that was

ghetto,

and this was a fancy occasion. I

bought a whole outfit, a fancy new suit for

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm. Yeah, Ghetto.

That's ghetto. Yeah. Don't, don't gimme no spark and no fancy. If it's a backyard cookout, I'm expecting the plastic silver. I'm expecting it like that's, that's the proper place and time. Don't have me dress up to [00:46:00] use a fork. Don't piss me off. Please don't.

Bruce Anthony: Alright, here's another one where I pass my ghetto limit.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: My building is basically redoing the plumbing.

Jay Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: Okay? So every Tuesday they gotta shut off the water from nine to five. Now most people, that doesn't affect them. Why? 'cause they at work. I'm not, most people I'm at home 'cause I work from home. So I ain't got no damn water all day Tuesday.

I hit my ghetto limit

when I could not fill the bathtub 'cause my stopper doesn't work right. And I had to fill pots and pans with water

so that I was able to use the bathroom and to wash my hands and all the other stuff. I paid too much money. Hit my ghetto limit.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah. That's, [00:47:00] no, you can't do it. Not, not this supposed to be luxury.

Bruce Anthony: Writes that, says it in the name, it says the name of the building. Luxury living. That's what it

says. That ain't luxury.

Jay Aundrea: That ain't That ain't, no damn, that ain't no damn luxury.

Bruce Anthony: Another ghetto limit that I have

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: not picking up after your dog.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. These are, we're saying ghe, but honestly, a lot of this is just common courtesy.

Bruce Anthony: I mean, but, but isn't, isn't. Isn't when you don't have common courtesy ghetto.

Jay Aundrea: Yes. That's what I, that's what I consider, uh, one of mine. Listen, don't invite me over. If you and your partner argue real loud and you don't care who's around, I, I hate being a third wheel to somebody else's arguments,

I [00:48:00] literally hate it. You have put me in such a, because, because you feel like I, I really wanna get up and leave because y'all in a full blown shouting match. I really wanna go, but I don't What's the right opportunity for me to get up and excuse myself. It's hard to find that lull in the conversation so you get up and excuse yourself, please, if you know y'all fight like that, don't, don't have nobody come around.

Dirty Feet, Stinky Breath & Other Deal Breakers 🦶👃😷

Jay Aundrea: Don't do me like that.

Bruce Anthony: I go you one. Not even better, but the same if I walk into your place of living smelling one way and walk outta your place of living. Smelling another way. Don't invite me over 'cause [00:49:00] I got all types of body creams and colognes over here to get me to smell a certain type of way and I'm not going over nobody's place to come out.

Smelling like your home.

Jay Aundrea: Right? Uh, I, well, I mean it like what smells are you talking about? Like if

Bruce Anthony: Not if somebody is cooking.

Jay Aundrea: yeah, it's a lot of time, it's like people, it's food,

you know, like if people use a lot of spices or things like

Bruce Anthony: And it linger and it just linger forever.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: No. Well if that's your house that hit my ghetto limit. I'm not coming over 'cause I don't want to smell like your spices that you cooked three days ago. Open up the window, air it out, spray some air freshener.

'cause I got these expensive body creams that I'd have paid from bed, from Body Works. Okay. So they're not that expensive,

but they smell good and I [00:50:00] got a lot of them and I got these expensive colognes and I done showered and shaved to come up over here. I don't wanna walk in smelling one way and walk out smelling the other the way because you know what?

I might have to go somewhere and I don't want people to smell that.

Jay Aundrea: I, okay.

Bruce Anthony: There was a, there was a woman that used to gimme a ride in high school. To school in the morning,

but she smoked.

Jay Aundrea: mm Okay.

Bruce Anthony: So it didn't matter what I did when I got in that car and got to school. Bruce, you was smoking this morning? No, I

wasn't. I was in the car with somebody that was smoking and now I smell like I was smoking. And smoking stinks.

Jay Aundrea: Well, that's your fault. I mean, you

already know what the

Bruce Anthony: uh, I only did it for a couple for like a week and I was just like, thank you for the rides, but no thank you.

I'm gonna take the bus.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: I take the [00:51:00] bus. Uh, I can't because no matter what type of layers I put, I try to put coats. It's the spring. I got a full triple fat goose on try. Why you got that coat on? No reason. It's to drown out any smoke smell and it still didn't work.

Jay Aundrea: yeah. Okay. I, okay, I get that. Like if, okay. But also it's like if you know somebody smoke and you don't wanna, you know, sometimes you gotta take a little bit of ownership of that. But I get it. I get what you're saying.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Also, don't invite me over if your bathroom not clean.

Jay Aundrea: Well, don't come to my house.

Bruce Anthony: That wasn't a direct shot at you. But you remember one time I said at your house and you was like, you can use my bathroom. I walked in there, I was like, I'll just wait.

Look. No pun, but pun intended. I'm anal about the bathroom being cleaned. I cleaned it. You, I, the last time I was there you said, I cleaned the bathroom. I was like, this bathroom right here. I was like, lemme show you how to clean this.[00:52:00]

Jay Aundrea: You did say, is it my clean? Listen, just, just go, go to the bathroom.

Bruce Anthony: look. It's tough for me. 'cause ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna reveal a secret. I'm like, George Costanza. I get butt naked when I go to the bathroom. That's

just, that's

just how I get comfortable. Okay. So I, I can't, I, it got to be clean in there 'cause I get butt naked.

All right. I take off my clothes and everything and that's, no matter what I'm doing, take off my clothes.

I could be washing my hands still. All the clothes is off. I don't know why. You know, I got issues with just things, so

it's just who I am. But yes, you got anything else that's ghetto? You just like, all right, this is it. Because I like being ratchet and, and hood up

to a certain point,

Jay Aundrea: It's fun.

Bruce Anthony: up to

a

Jay Aundrea: fun. Yeah. It's just when people insist on talking on [00:53:00] speakerphone in public spaces,

Bruce Anthony: Oh God, I can't stand them people.

Jay Aundrea: I don't care about what you going, what you got going on. I don't wanna hear it.

Bruce Anthony: Well, I do, but I understand what you're saying.

Jay Aundrea: I mean, I, yes, but like, I don't want, I, no.

Bruce Anthony: Well, that's like the same thing with people going into the public gym and playing their music with no headphones on.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: just like, you see everybody in this. You got headphones on,

go get you some headphones. you can go to, you can go to, uh, what is it, five below for $5. you

can

Jay Aundrea: $5. They got a whole bunch of stuff that's five and below, and that includes some headphones also. This is the last one I got.

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

Jay Aundrea: If I invite you to stay, you better

make up that damn bed.

Bruce Anthony: I don't know if this is direct shot at me. No. I stripped the sheets.

Jay Aundrea: No. You strip the sheets and wash 'em and stuff. [00:54:00] No. If, if I, if, even if you just crash on my couch, fold that blanket up.

Bruce Anthony: You know what that is for sure. You and, and our brother, whenever y'all stay the next time, if y'all leave, if you're traveling and you leave early, all that stuff is like folded and put up nice and neat.

And I'm like, well, I gotta, I gotta wash this anyway, but, but thank you for the folding

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, but I'm

not just gonna just leave it out.

Bruce Anthony: yeah, yeah.

No, you right. People come over to your house, act like they ain't got no home trainer. I'm like,

you don't do this at your own home. You don't do this at your own home. Why you doing this here?

Jay Aundrea: This ain't a hotel. I don't have a staff that'll come in and clean up. You better, you better make that bed back up. Or strip them sheets and put them, you know, neatly somewhere so I could put 'em in the wash. What the hell?

Bruce Anthony: Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell y'all what y'all need to do. You stay over somebody else's house and you sleep in a bed. You strip the sheets 'cause some sheets need to be washed, [00:55:00]

okay? 'cause you slept. Nobody wants to sleep in sheets that somebody else done slept in.

Unless you know y'all together then I

Jay Aundrea: right. Yeah. Okay.

Bruce Anthony: yeah,

strip the bed, walk to the washer and dryer,

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: the wash, stay put 'em in the dryer. Even if you don't stay, put 'em in the wash at the very least

and say, Hey, I put them sheets and everything in the wash.

Or let the host know, Hey,

I'm about to do this. Is do like these sheets wash a special way.

I

don't ever ask my sister because whatever way that she wanna wash, I like them. Washed better.

You got to get that funk and you got to put it super hot. It got to

Jay Aundrea: Yes. That's how I wash.

Bruce Anthony: I know. I'm just messing with you because I, because we already on that. You got to wash them sheets. Just the person that was, I was, I asked the person, I was like, you ain't [00:56:00] showered in three days. Like you probably have to wash your sheets like two times a day.

No, it just once a week. No,

Jay Aundrea: No, no. Just

your dirty feet alone. You need to wash them sheets.

Bruce Anthony: Well, so I, we were talking one time about dirty feet and it, it came to my attention. It was like, yeah, I'll walk all around the house. Yeah, I will have taken a shower. Yeah, I have my nighttime clothes on, but my feet gonna be dirty as hell. So I started using socks,

and I don't put the socks on until I'm in the bed, the bed,

and I still don't put my feet in the bed.

I put the socks on while I'm sitting in my bed. I put

my socks on, and then I put my feet and I sleep in

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah. I wear slippers, so I don't, uh, my bare feet. I don't like walking around with bare feet. It's a sensory thing. I don't like feeling like, look stuff on my feet. I don't like it, so I always wear slippers. But yeah, [00:57:00] if it, if I do walk around barefoot, them socks is going on before I get in that bed.

So fre, a pair of

clean socks is going on before I get in that bed. I'm not bringing dirty feet into my bed.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, this is another thing that's past my ghetto limit if I'm walking around your house. 'cause I took off my shoes and I got on white socks and by the time I put back on my shoes, my white socks is black on the bottom. I ain't coming over your house no more. It's not, I'm not coming over your house no more.

Because why is

Jay Aundrea: Especially if you got carpet.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, if you got carpet.

Jay Aundrea: 'cause that don't even make no damn sense.

Bruce Anthony: That's the reason why the house smell like that. And I'm in there anyway smelling like the house when I leave out. 'cause they got that dirty ass carpet. But yeah. Feet gonna be dirty.

Don't invite me to your house, but Jay, what? Do you wanna tell these

people out here before we, uh, take off?

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Well, when I say ghetto, I just mean it's rude and it's offensive. It don't have [00:58:00] nothing

to do with race. It doesn't have anything to do with education or socioeconomic status. Anybody can be ghetto if you're rude and offensive.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, because I started off by explaining that that pep rally ghetto.

Jay Aundrea: was ghetto. Yeah. Selling the, his little birthday party with the, the, military march of that. That was ghetto.

Selling. Selling the cars on the white house on that was ghetto.

Bruce Anthony: Pete Sev sold his book at the end of his speech. The

other day at that pep rally. Yeah. Ghetto, ain't they? Exude ghetto. But on that note, ladies, gentlemen, I wanna thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching, and until next time, as always, I'll holler.

Woo.

That's a Wrap: Thanks for Rocking With Us! 🎙️🔥👋

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