Sept. 23, 2025

Threat to Free Speech: Government Leveraging Merger Approvals

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Threat to Free Speech: Government Leveraging Merger Approvals

First Amendment, free speech, Jimmy Kimmel suspension, Stephen Colbert cancellation, FCC threats, media mergers and a viral Reddit money-vs-marriage story — this episode of Unsolicited Perspectives cuts through the headlines and the headlines’ backrooms to ask: who gets to speak, who pays the price, and who gets hurt when networks fold?

Bruce breaks down how merger politics and FCC threats may be chilling late-night comedy, then pivots into a raw Reddit saga about money, prenups, and the ultimatum that ended an engagement — plus an exclusive After Hours Uncensored preview. If you care about free speech, media power, and real conversations about money & relationships, this is your episode. #1stamendment #freespeech #CancelCulture

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About The Guest(s):

Bruce Anthony is the host of "Unsolicited Perspectives," a podcast that tackles current events, social issues, and personal stories with candor and humor. In this episode, he is joined by his sister, J. Aundrea, who brings her own perspective and wit to the conversation. Together, they discuss topics ranging from free speech and government censorship to family secrets and relationship dilemmas.

Key Takeaways:

  • Criticizing America is an act of patriotism, not betrayal; true love for country means holding it accountable.
  • The First Amendment protects free speech from government interference, but not from consequences imposed by private employers.
  • Recent suspensions of late-night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert raise concerns about government pressure on media companies and the chilling effect on free expression.
  • Financial transparency and boundaries are crucial in relationships, especially when there is a significant income or asset disparity.
  • Trust, communication, and clear agreements (like prenups) are essential for healthy partnerships; ultimatums and entitlement can be red flags.
  • Family secrets, uncovered through DNA tests or old stories, can reshape personal identities and relationships.

Quotes:

  • "It's okay to criticize the government in the United States, and that in and of itself does not make you not a patriot."
  • "Everybody has a right to say what the hell they wanna say. That doesn't mean that you don't suffer consequences."
  • "A company can fire you for what you say—that's not infringing on your First Amendment right."
  • "If power can chill jokes from the nation's biggest stages, who will protect the rest of us when our voices don't fit the script?"
  • "Money is the root of all evil. Money is the reason a lot of relationships get severed—romantic, family, friends."
  • "If you're scared to have real conversations before you get married, do not get married. Because you ain't ready."
  • "Sometimes people cross a line and they can't come back from it. And maybe for her, she's having a really difficult time getting past this."

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Chapters:

00:00 Late Night TV Canceled! Kimmel, Colbert & the Fight for Free Speech

00:21 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥

01:14 Why Criticizing America Makes You a True Patriot 🇺🇸💭

03:46 First Amendment 101: What You Need to Know 📜⚖️

04:59 The Truth About Religion in America 🙏✝️🕌

07:14 Free Speech vs Cancel Culture: Understanding Your Rights ⚡️🎯

09:41 Late Night TV Drama: Kimmel & Colbert Under Fire 📺🔥

13:28 The Charlie Kirk Controversy: What Really Happened 🎯💔

17:31 Government Threats & Media Compliance: A Dangerous Precedent ⚠️📡

27:38 Reddit Drama: Money, Marriage & Trust 💍💰

35:34 The Ring Return: A $40k Monthly Income Revelation 💎💔

38:55 The Morning After: Can Trust Be Rebuilt? 🌅💭

45:21 Final Decision: Sometimes Love Isn't Enough 💔✨

48:51 After Hours Preview: Family Secrets Exposed 🤫😱

55:43 Memes: Family Secrets That Will Make Your Jaw Drop 😱🤐

58:07 Shocking DNA Test Results: When Family Isn't Who You Think 🧬💔

01:05:55 Outro: Like, Subscribe & Join the Community! 🎉🔔

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Bruce Anthony: [00:00:00] Is it cancel culture, government sponsored censorship, or both, or neither? Money and marriage. We gonna get into it. Let's get it.

 

Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥

Bruce Anthony: Welcome, first of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony. Here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society.

Join the conversation to follow us wherever you get your audio podcast. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcast, YouTube exclusive content and our YouTube membership. Rate review, like, comment, share, share with your friends, share with your family. Hell even share with your enemies. On today's episode, we're gonna be talking about the First Amendment, gonna be talking about marriage and money, and then in the last segment, me and my sister are gonna give you a sneak peek of the after hours [00:01:00] uncensored parental discretion is advised, but that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.

 

Why Criticizing America Makes You a True Patriot 🇺🇸💭

Bruce Anthony: You know, I've made this analogy before, I've said it over and over and over and over again, that I'm gonna keep hammering it home until it is forced into everybody's brain and they understand why. It's okay to criticize the government in the United States, and that in and of itself does not make you not a patriot or not an American CI citizen, or not somebody that's proud of your country.

When you have a family member that's a little jacked up, you love them. Not even a family member say it's a loved one, a friend or whatever, you know they have flaws. You love them, you love them, but you can openly admit. That they have flaws. [00:02:00] There's this attack on the right that anytime you criticize America, you're not a patriot.

That's what they love to say. You're not an American citizen. You need to get the hell outta the country. But at the same time, the right has been criticizing the country. At the same time, that's what the whole slogan make America great again is you wouldn't have to make America great again if you thought America was already great.

Therefore, their slogan inherently says America ain't great, which would be a criticism of America, something that they say makes you not a patriot. Why am I talking about all this? Why is it important? Some things are happening with the administration. I mean, a lot of things are happening with the administration, right?

You know, project 2025, they're like 60, 65% through with it, and we're only eight, nine months into this administration. And we told you, we told you that they were going to use Project 2025, but you didn't wanna listen. Those people out there that didn't wanna believe us, y'all were hardheaded. Guess what?

[00:03:00] Hardhead make us soft behind. That's what my mom and dad used to say. And now your ass is getting specked because you thought that these things that, that we were telling you were gonna happen weren't going to apply to you. But this administration is pushing hard on something that is fundamental. The First Amendment that is core, core.

To our country and our democracy and our constitution, they praise the Second Amendment, which is the right to bear arms, which I still feel like they don't completely understand, but they damn sure. A lot of people do not understand what the First Amendment is. You hear people out on the street all the time talking about, you know, you can't suppress my speech, you kid, I have a right to free speech and everybody has a right to free speech.

First Amendment 101: What You Need to Know 📜⚖️

Bruce Anthony: Everybody has a right to say what the hell they wanna say. That doesn't mean that you don't suffer consequences. So what is the First Amendment? Because I feel like people say, you know, it's the right to free [00:04:00] speech, but it's actually more than that. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits Congress for making laws that would establish a national religion impede.

Free exercise of religion, abridge the freedom of spree speech infringe upon the freedom of the press, interfere with the right to peacefully assemble and or prevent people from petitioning the government to address grievances. So what does that all mean? How, how can I break that down? Because if I gave you guys the exact wording, which I have.

The exact wording. Wording is, Congress shall make no law respecting an establish of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or bridging the freedom of speech or the press or the right for the people, uh, peacefully to assemble and to petition the government for re, for redress or grievances.

The Truth About Religion in America 🙏✝️🕌

Bruce Anthony: What does [00:05:00] this all mean? It means that people had the right to practice the religion, whatever religion that they want to practice. Scientology became a religion and people are allowed to practice it. You're allowed to do that, right. Also, the theory that a lot of people on a writer are saying, this country is built on Christian principles.

It's literally in the constitution. There will not be a national religion. Now, I was talking to friends of mine who are Jewish. And and they are often talking about, yeah, I don't understand this war on Christmas. And I say, I say, I say the same thing. I don't understand the war on Christmas. There is no war on Christmas.

People already started. This is, we're not even in October yet. The Halloween stuff has been out. Thanksgiving is going to come out as soon as Halloween is over. Christmas stuff is gonna come out. Christmas is a celebration in the United States from November through January. There is no war on Christianity.

But what there will not be based on the First Amendment, based on the First Amendment [00:06:00] is that there will be a national religion. Much like there isn't a national language for the United States. I know a lot of people like to say, well, we speak English and predominantly we speak English, but there is no national language.

It is not law that the national language is English in the United States. Now they're trying to change it just like they changed the Gulf of Mexico. But for your lifetime, there has never been a national language for the United States. Hasn't been. Just because it's a predominant language that is spoken in this country does not mean it's been designated as the language of this country because it has not also the First Amendment.

And what I'm really focusing on is to write the free speech. Now, I said earlier. Everybody is allowed to say what they want within reason, and just because you're allowed to say what you [00:07:00] want doesn't mean that they don't have consequences. What the First Amendment says is that you can say what you want, but the government can't interfere or punish you for saying what you want.

Free Speech vs Cancel Culture: Understanding Your Rights ⚡️🎯

Bruce Anthony: The government, a lot of people are like, I got fired from Moja because I said this on Instagram. Yeah. There are moral clauses that you typically have in your company when you sign your employee agreement. Okay? A company can fire you for what you say that's not infringing on your first amendment. Right.

Unless you work for the government or the government is specifically pointing out to you and putting pressure on your employer to fire you, then that would be an infringement of your first amendment. This is Civics 1 0 1. Ladies and gentlemen, we all learn this stuff in high school. Okay. It is really simple.

It's in black and white, but a [00:08:00] lot of people don't understand it. 'cause a lot of people don't take the time to really read and examine well. 'cause a lot of people don't have great reading comprehension. But that's another story. Okay. But once again, why am I talking about the First Amendment? Why am I talking about the idea that the government shouldn't be interfering in what you say?

What's been happening recently that would make me talk about this? Well, Jimmy Kimmel show just got suspended. The Stephen Colbert show wasn't renewed. I'm gonna get into that to a minute, but I wanna once again establish the core principles of the First Amendment. It is to protect the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.

It originally only applied to a Congress, but later applied to all levels of the government through the 14th Amendment places, limits only on the government, [00:09:00] not on private individuals or organizations, and establishes a foundation for American civil liberties and democratic practices. I've already given you the examples.

A job could fire you for what you say. If you, unless that job is in the government, they can't fire you for what you say. Right? And the government can't put pressure on whatever company that you work for to fire you for what you say. So back to Stephen Colbert and Jim McKim. Both really good late night talk show host one recently suspended, one removed altogether.

Late Night TV Drama: Kimmel & Colbert Under Fire 📺🔥

Bruce Anthony: Jim and Kimmel recently suspended. Colbert, and I'm gonna mess up it's Colbert, but I, I like saying Colbert. I don't know why, but just happens. So just roll with it. He, his contract wasn't renewed and this is all coming from political pressure on Trump. [00:10:00] Now I know a lot of people out there are gonna say, but Bruce, you just said that a private company can fire you for what you say and do.

And you're absolutely right, a private company. But if you were listening, I also said that a government can't pressure a private company, public company ano a company to fire employees based on what they said. So keep keep up with this. So these suspensions and firings are raising wide, pre widespread concern among free speech advocates, Hollywood figures and First Amendment scholars.

The cons controversy originated when Kimmo made a critical remark about a political fallout from the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Soon after the Trump appointed FCC Chair openly threatened a, B, C with regulatory action if he didn't spin Kimmel. Now, [00:11:00] he didn't quite say. You gotta suspend Kimmel what his words were is that's not right.

And we can either do this the easy way or the hard way. And Ted Cruz Su surprisingly, going against the administration saying that this is an attack on the First Amendment right. One of the reasons why he would do it is because he's descendants of Cuban refugees and he understands this is the first sign of authoritative.

Actions. He should have seen this throughout the full 2025, but now his eyes are open and he's actively questioning the administration's pressure for trying to get or for successfully getting Colbert off the air. And then Jimmy Kimmel suspended indefinitely. So Stephen Colbert, uh, were was, the contract wasn't renewed.[00:12:00]

And this decision was met with skepticism within the company and interpreted and interpreted by Colbert and many observers as capitulation to political pressure and tactics by the administration. Right? He has come out and said it 'cause he is very critical. Uh, Trump and administration, I'll explain why.

The idea that CBS let him go. For other reasons besides political pressure later, but I wanna focus solely on how these two late night talk show hosts were taken off the air. So Jimmy Kimmel, like I said, was suspended mere hours after the FCC chair Brandon Carr made. Veiled threats of regulatory consequences over comments.

Kimmel made criticizes Trump supporters responses to Kirk killing. So what did, what did Jimmy Kimmel do? Jimmy Kimmel [00:13:00] basically said that the administration and Trump supporters the MAGA movement, are trying to move heaven and earth to point to. Not a fact, but try to make a fact that the shooter of Charlie Kirk, the assassin of Charlie Kirk, is somehow associated with left, left wing ideology, left wing factions, what have you.

The Charlie Kirk Controversy: What Really Happened 🎯💔

Bruce Anthony: So much so that before they had even caught the shooter, they had already started talking about transgender. They're still trying to push this transgender narrative trying to make a connection. And you know, me and my sister talked about it behind off the air, but I, I'll bring this up here if I get canceled.

So be it. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And it was an assassination. It was a political assassination, however you feel about the person. It was a political assassination. After the [00:14:00] assassination of Charlie Kirk, the right was so upset, they started threatening HBCUs. Now there were already pictures out of the shooter.

There was already a manhunt, a manhunt of the shooter was not a black person, was not a person of color. Why are they attacking black people for what is essentially a white on white crime?

So understanding that narrative that the people that were extremely hurt because of the assassination, we're going to attack anybody that is opposite of them. Even when those people had nothing to do with it, Jimmy Kimmel was simply pointing out the fact that they are trying their hardest to maneuver.

That this killer, this assassin was in fact part of a left wing movement and conspiracy and part of a Democratic party, even though he grew up. Republican conservative and MAGA house. [00:15:00] I don't know how you make those connections, but that's what he said. So because of that, not not attacking Charlie Kirk, not even bringing up Charlie Kirk's past at things that he said.

What he said was, yo, this administration's bending over backwards to try and pin the assassin as somebody from the left. That's essentially what he said, and because of that, his show got taken off the air. Because Trump and the head of the FCC were saying, well, you can't do that. You can't say that. You can't say that this is a free country.

Once again, the First Amendment is a free country, and Trump publicly applauded both Kimmel and Colberts Sters. It suggests that networks err anti-Trump comedy should have their government granted broadcast licenses revoked, calling the CRI criticisms not allowed. Threatening further action through the FCC.[00:16:00]

Did y'all hear what I said? This is literally the president of the United States, the main government official, trying to silence public speech through threats of broadcast licenses for anything that's anti-Trump comedy saying it's not allowed.

It's a president saying that people are not allowed to make fun of him. That's what the president is saying. Now, I don't know how long you guys been alive, but as long as I can remember, there have always been talk show hosts, comedians making fun of every president that's ever existed. Nobody's been exempt.

Nobody. SNL, they've, [00:17:00] they've made fun of Republican presidents. They've made fun of democratic presidents. Nobody is off limits. Why does this person think that they're so special that it's not allowed? Okay. Media experts and the A CLU have warned that such government threats, particularly when networks change their programming under clear pressure from officials, represent a serious danger to the First Amendment right to free speech, even if technically no law was enacted.

Government Threats & Media Compliance: A Dangerous Precedent ⚠️📡

Bruce Anthony: Former President Barack Obama comedians and multiple journalist journalists described the combination of government threats and corporate compliance. Government coercion and aang precedent for American democracy. Alright, so what are some of the legal and cultural aspects of what's going on here? I, I just, this is a history lesson and I know typically I don't start off the show like this.

Typically, I leave this [00:18:00] for the middle, but it pissed me off and it pissed me off because you literally have people on Fox News saying. Homeless should get lethal in injection and then it gave a mere apology. That's okay. But saying, Hey, why are y'all so intent on trying to make the assassin some part of some left wing conspiracy plot that's not allowed because like the Trump, like Trump said, you know, anti-Trump comedy is not allowed.

So. The legal and cultural aspects of this when the First Amendment prohibits direct government, while the First Amendment prohibits direct government censorship, coordinated pressure and colluding threats of license, revok from the FCC can have a chilling effect, essentially curtailing free expression through intimidation, rather through statute.

Civil rights organizations, [00:19:00] Hollywood unions and public figures have punched back against what they see as blank censorship and breaking of longstanding American tradition that comedians, journalists and artists could criticize those in power without fear of state retaliation. Industry insiders have noted that these moves may embolden executives to more readily comply with government wishes, fearing regulatory or financial retribution, thus shrinking the space for dissenting voices on mainstream media.

This is a big deal. This is a big deal. In Russia. They have state sponsored news.

They tell the people what they want them to know, and I'm sure a lot of people out there, that's what the mainstream media does. Here's what the mainstream media does. The mainstream media gives you wide variety of sometimes bias reporting [00:20:00] that you can listen to all of it, use your critical thinking skills and figure out what's going on.

If you wanna be unbiased and informed. However, if it becomes Russia, we only get the information that the government deems worthy for us to receive. Now, I'm not almost completely opposed to that because some of y'all are dumb and don't need all the information because you take all the information and come up with ideolog logic.

You don't have critical thinking skills. You can't be unbiased in your thinking, and it leads you to try to draw circles to make sure that you are right, not correct that you're right, but I don't really believe in the state sponsored media because then when [00:21:00] do we get our say, how can we be heard? The government is deciding what we can say and what we can't hear.

Okay. But the question then becomes, what about these other arguments? What about the arguments that the shows have low ratings or that the broadcasting networks are just protecting themselves based on mergers that they got going on? 'cause that's what's really going on. These multi-billion dollar broadcasting companies got.

Billion dollar mergers that are happening that they must get FCC approval to do. So broadcasting networks like CBS and A BC have publicly cited low ratings, financial concerns, and a need to protect corporate interests during large mergers as the reasons behind suspending or canceling the Steve Cobell and Jimmy Kimmel shows.

But these explanations are hotly [00:22:00] debated and often viewed as incomplete or strategic in the broader context. So let's talk about the ratings and financial arguments. Networks pointed out to declining viewership and reduce advertising revenue for the late night television. Since the pandemic as a justification with CBS claiming Colbert show was losing tens of millions of dollars a year while, while Trump is also echoing this defense, uh, by attributing the cancellations to bad ratings and the lack of talent.

Stephen Colbert is a lack of talent. Okay. However, Colbert's show continued to outperform competitors in the same time slot, and some critics argued that the show's losses were neither new nor apparently urgent. Suggesting financial issues alone don't fully explain the timing or manner of the cancellation.

So you ever work for a company and they know that they need to fire somebody.

For whatever reason, maybe they don't like his attitude or something, and legally they [00:23:00] can't fire him. They have to come up with some type of lame justification. I've done it. I won't say who, 'cause I'm trying, I'm not trying to get sued. Actually, I haven't done it. Now that I think about it legally, I, I have not done it.

I found legal reasons to absolutely terminate people, but there are companies out there who have to try and terminate people and they can't find, if they try to do it, they'll do it illegally. So they'll come up with ways in which that they can fire somebody, and typically it's complete and utter bullshit.

This is another example of complete and utter bullshit. All right. This is just example, but let's get to the, let's get to the real reason why all this is happening. The timing of the cancellations and suspensions aligned closely with major media mergers. Paramount's $8 billion merger with Skydance and Nexstar.

Nexar R'S $6.2 billion acquisition of Tonga, both requiring FCC approval under Trump appointed chair branded Carr. The same branded Carr that said that we gonna do this the easy [00:24:00] way or the hard way. Both networks and parent companies face heightened political scrutiny from regulators leading the widespread secular.

Speculation that the firings were motivated, at least in part by the desire to comply with administration's preferences and secure regulatory approval for these critical deals. In the case of Kimmel Nexstar, a Major a BC affiliate group seeking a merger that would greatly expand its national footprint, pulled its show within hours of the SEC's chair's, threats, and more widely seen as a calculator to minimize the risk and appease regulators.

While financial and rating justifications are part of a standard corporate responses from all of these companies based on getting rid of Colbert and taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air, many of the media analysts and First Amendment advocates argue that these factors are being used as a cover. For political motivated self-censorship, [00:25:00] especially given the intense pressure placed by federal government during sensitive merger proceedings.

Critics highlight that protecting a merger or acquisition process by ACOM accommodating political demands is substantially different from ordinary business decisions about underperformance shows, raising red flags about the role in government and shaping the media. This is about money. Not about the money that supposedly these shows are costing the company.

It's about these mergers and these mergers can't happen without government approval. And you got the FCC chair saying you need to take this person off the air. We could do this the easy way or the hard way. What's the hard way? Rejecting the regulations. The licenses so that these mergers, billion dollar mergers can't happen.

It's a lot of power for a [00:26:00] person, and let's deal with that aspect. It's a government official directing a company that needs government approval to merge with another company, and this government official is saying, you can't merge, or we're gonna make it extremely difficult. Unless you take this person off the air because we don't like what he says.

That is an infringement on your first amendment clear, black and white. And for anybody that's trying to make an excuse by saying, no, it isn't, or they do not care because who cares about Jimmy Kimmel and Steve Colbert. I don't like what they have to say. Anyway. I pose these three questions at you. If power can chill, jokes from the nation's biggest stages, [00:27:00] who will protect the rest of us?

When our voices don't fit the script? If the price of corporate survival is silence, how far are you willing to let America drift from its founding ideals and in the end. Maybe the real danger isn't who's off the air, but whether we notice or care when voices go missing.

 

Bruce Anthony: All right.

Reddit Drama: Money, Marriage & Trust 💍💰

Bruce Anthony: I know I typically don't start off the show like that. That was heavy. It was heavy, but it was real. Just wanna get you people to think out there. You know, so much of our thought processes are riding for the team. Everything that we do is tribal, and it's like, well, my team has to win. [00:28:00] Who gives a damn if America loses i's just real.

But speaking of being divided, I came across this Reddit story, so I'm gonna lighten the mood. I came across this Reddit story. I thought was really interesting. It's four parts. I'm gonna let a person read this instead of me reading it, and I'm gonna give my reaction after each part because I think that, uh, this is a really interesting story and it's important for us to really give thought when we make a decision to get married.

I was telling a friend the other day that. The most important decisions that you can have in order when you decide to have a partner, get married, what have you. The most important decision is whether or not to bring in a child into this relationship [00:29:00] because you are stuck together for the rest of that child's life or children's lives, or.

Your natural life. Y'all are stuck together forever, so that's the most important decision. The second decision is marriage. And you say, well, Bruce, why is marriage a second decision? Because you can get married, get divorced, and never have to deal with the person ever again. Case support. My marriage. I have not spoken to my ex-wife since we decided to get divorced, and that was over a decade ago.

You can get divorced. When you don't have children and never speak to the person ever again, you can have a complete severing of that relationship. You can't do that with children. So marriage is marriage. Deciding the life with your partner is extremely important. And so this couple is [00:30:00] getting married and I'm gonna let this person read the title, but it's.

Am I the jerk? My fiance told me this is it, take it or leave it. So I gave him his ring back and told him to get outta my house. And like I said, I'm gonna do this in four parts and then give my, you know, responses to it.

Elise: Am I the jerk? My fiance told me this is it. Take it or leave it. I gave him the ring back and told him to get out of my house.

My fiance, Tom, a 37-year-old male, and I 28-year-old female, have been together two years. He moved into my house six months ago and proposed a month ago. I thought we were solid, but now I'm questioning everything. I inherited a fortune three years ago. It changed my life, but I live below my means. I work part-time as a teacher, travel and have a nonprofit in the works.

I budget carefully so the money lasts. Only my dad and sister know the full amount. When Tom moved in, I paid for everything except most groceries. He wanted us to eventually buy a [00:31:00] bigger house together so his dad could move in. I said no to living with in-laws, but suggested maybe a separate unit.

Someday he pushed back, but agreed we needed to discuss finances first. Tom earns 10,000 a month and has 100,000 saved. I have millions invested and about 40,000 a month income from it. When I told him he was shocked, he said, if I have so much, why not just buy the house and cover everything? I explained that just because I can doesn't mean I should.

I propose separate finances, a joint account for expenses and splitting costs proportionally to income. I also told him I wanted a prenup. That's when things blew up. He argued we should be equal partners, meaning I buy the house in both our names, even if he doesn't contribute. We fought about this for days.

Eventually he gave me an ultimatum final offer. You buy the house, we each own 50%. I'll sign the prenup. Take it or leave it. I asked if that meant breaking up if I said no. He hesitated but said yes. So I left it. I took off the ring, told him it was [00:32:00] over, and that he needed to move out. He backtracked saying he didn't really wanna end things, just wanted me to agree.

He accused me of throwing away our relationship for money. I told him he threw it away by demanding I fund our life and give him half of the assets I work to protect. Now I'm wondering if I sabotaged my relationship. I love him, but I don't think it's fair to bankroll a grown man or accept ultimatums about my own money.

Bruce Anthony: Wow. Okay. So a lot to unpack here. They've been together for a little minute. He find out she got some bread, which that's every man's dream. I'm, I'm looking for that ladies out there. If you got a situation like this lady, I'm not going to ask for your money. I just ask to be a part of your life. But no, seriously, like, look money.

Money is the root of all evil. Money is the reason a lot of relationships get severed. Romantic family, [00:33:00] friends is a big issue. What my man is asking for is ridiculous. That's her money. That's her money. Y'all want to get a house, y'all go in together. You don't demand that she buy a house and put your name on it.

I dated a woman that had her own, had her own house. We were serious. I dated actually several women that had their own homes. We were serious. We talked about what those financial situations would be. I said, Hey, look, if we ever got together like that and you wanted me to move into your place, I'm not gonna ask to be put on your mortgage.

That's yours. Before I got here, all I would ask is that we have some type of rental agreement. Where I pay party the mortgage because I live here, whether it's half or part or whatever, whatever we decide, and that if something were to happen that I would get be given, you know, a reasonable amount of time to move out and get a place of my own, whether that's 60 or 90 days or what [00:34:00] have you.

But what's yours is yours and what's mine is mine. I believe very firmly that you need to sign a prenup, get you a prenup. You need to protect your stuff. So that it doesn't get taken away from you and divorced. And yes, nobody walks into a marriage thinking that they're going to diviv get divorced. But it's a strong possibility.

It's, it's more than the, it's more than a minor possibility. It's a strong possibility. So you wanna protect yourself financially. I'm not talking about in the marriage what y'all built together. I'm talking about what you come in beforehand. Right now, this dude is. Ridiculous for asking her to put up more than he's willing to put up just because she got more bread than him and he ain't short on bread.

He's making 10 KA month and he got a hundred K saved. They can get a good home together with them being equal in their buying of a house. [00:35:00] So he wanna act like. And, and what's toxic? What's toxic is him threatening take it or leave it, final offer. And then her saying, was this mean that, you know, we're not gonna be together?

And he was like, well, I don't know. I, I just want you to agree to this. Agree to what? Agree to. Funding your life. He already live in her house and he only pay for groceries. He ain't even helping with the bills and he got bread. That's the reason why he got a hundred K saved up. 'cause he ain't doing nothing to help her out.

Man, look, I'm starting to get agitated. Let's hear this second part.

The Ring Return: A $40k Monthly Income Revelation 💎💔

Elise: Hey guys, this is an update to what happened when he moved in. I offered to keep covering the utilities since I was already paying them. He would handle groceries. Things were fine until after we got engaged. I pushed for us to discuss everything openly before marriage and we agreed on most things about his father moving in.

This isn't something he wants right away, but he says eventually his dad would move in so he can take care of him. I adore his father, but I personally [00:36:00] don't wanna live with in-laws. His solution was that we should buy another house together so he would feel like it's our home instead of him living in my house.

I understood that perspective. The new house would also have to be larger if his dad were to move in, which I'm not comfortable with about finances. Initially, when we discussed buying another house, the plan was to contribute together, but once we started looking at what we could afford, we had to lay our finances on the table.

When he found out my net worth, everything shifted, he said that if we split 50 50, we couldn't afford a bigger house. And since I had the means I should buy the house myself, but it would still be our house. I told him that whatever amount he contributes would equal his share of equity in the property.

Maybe I was naive, but until this point, I never saw signs of him being a gold digger. He never pressured me to pay for things and always split expenses fairly. That's why this change has been such a shock. Right now, I'm locked in my bedroom and I told him he can sleep in the guest room tonight, but that [00:37:00] he needs to move out tomorrow.

We haven't spoken since. That's where things stand. Thank you all so much for the support and comments. It means a lot. Just to clarify, this is a throwaway account I created for privacy reasons.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. I mean, it's good that you have a throwaway account for privacy reasons, and, and a lot of people were in the comment section, giving her, you know, good comments and giving her support.

Uh, you know, I can't stress it enough. Yeah, no, he's, he's asking for unreasonable things and the only reason why they want a bigger house is because he realizes that they can afford a bigger house because of her money and that, uh, he wants to have his father move in. And she, she's like, I don't, I don't really want that.

Look. The idea if he wants a bigger house and he is like, yo, can we get a bigger house? And then what I put in it just equals that equity. So say I put in 30%, I had [00:38:00] 30% equity in the house. She's saying that she's cool with that, but he's insistent upon, no, this is gonna be, I put you put in more or buy the thing outright since you got the bread.

And then, you know, put me on there. Just put me on there as 50 50. And she's done really well for herself. She got that inheritance and, and was like, look, I'm gonna manage my money right? Got a little, got a little teaching job, gonna start herself, starting herself, a little nonprofit. She want to help the community, you know, with the, with the, the blessings that she's gotten and seem like a good woman.

Hey, I don't know how this is gonna turn out 'cause we still got part three and four, but ma'am, I don't know what you look like, but I can look past all of that and just let you know, I'm not a gold digger. I don't need to get 50 50. I don't. Just putting that out there. Anyway so far homeboy ain't looking good.

Maybe things get better in part three or four.

The Morning After: Can Trust Be Rebuilt? 🌅💭

Elise: Hey guys. Final update this morning I woke up and Tom had made breakfast and asked if we [00:39:00] could talk. He said things got out of control last night and he wanted to explain his side. He told me he was upset that I'd lied about my finances and felt like I didn't trust him.

He said the money difference made him feel that I would always have more power in the relationship and that he might be vulnerable to financial abuse. He insisted that he wasn't interested in my money, but wanted to feel that I would choose him over money. He admitted that he handled things badly and should never have reacted the way he did or given me an ultimatum.

He said he felt lost and frustrated. The only thing he emphasized really matters to him is his father eventually moving in. They're very close and he wants to take care of him as he gets older. He apologized, said he didn't wanna lose me, and told me he was willing to accept my conditions. I apologized for not being upfront about my inheritance, but I also told him I wasn't sure I could continue the relationship.

His reaction last night felt entitled and manipulative, and I'm afraid he was showing me who he really is. I told him I love him, but I'm worried money will always be [00:40:00] an issue between us. If he's already pushing for a house before marriage, what else might he push for later? I explained that the only way I could even consider continuing is if he agreed to a bulletproof prenup stating that in case of divorce, he only leaves with what he contributed.

Nothing more agreeing to buy a house together, but his equity would reflect his contribution only. I also suggested options like a guest house for his father or a condo nearby, but not living directly with us. Creating a monthly budget where we both contribute proportionally to our incomes into a joint account for shared expenses while keeping our separate accounts for personal money going to counseling together.

He agreed to all of this still. I told him I don't know if I can trust him again and need time to think. He agreed to go stay in a hotel for a few days to give us both space. Right now, I honestly don't know what to do. Part of me sees his point and wonders if he just overreacted. Another part of me is afraid that if I ignore his behavior, I'll be setting myself up for bigger problems in the future.[00:41:00]

Bruce Anthony: If he had a history of showing LDE, that's little dick energy, which is what this is, right? He felt emasculated because she has more money than him, which. Is, you know, something that men, I don't know what's wrong with y'all deal with. I have no problem with a woman having a better career, being more intelligent, or having more money than me.

Like I'm not in competition with anybody. I'm secure in myself. I big up them. Me and my sister got into a debate yesterday because I let an old friend reenter my life. And she was like, it's always ended badly. Why have you let them in? And I was like, I legitimately admire this person. And for people that I admire, I kind of want them in my life.

Now I have this huge [00:42:00] compassion issue, which is me, but I don't look. People sideways just because they got a little bit more bread than me or doing a little bit better than me. Big ups to you. I want to see you win if you the right person. I don't wanna see Trump win, but I wanna see people like if you a good person, I wanna see you win.

And if you my significant other, I really, really want to see you win. Now if it's an isolated incident.

I, I would say you are already planning on marrying this person, and when you marry somebody, these people have flaws, and when you marry somebody, they're gonna show you their ugly side. You're gonna have to decide that that's a ugly side that you could deal with. Everybody's got an ugly side, everybody.

Will lose it and say or do things that's outside of their character. I have always said [00:43:00] anybody's capable of anything given the right circumstances. If it's an isolated incident, you don't judge them on that, right? If this person has always told you the truth and then they tell you a lie, even if it's a big lie, it doesn't mean that you, they automatically gain their trust back, but this one mistake shouldn't you race?

Everything that's good as far as you looking at them, how you look at them as a person. Maybe it's dissolved the relationship or eroded the relationship because of the mistake. And that's fair. Like you can forgive people, you can give people grace, but that doesn't mean that you forget. You don't ever forget and maybe you can't forget and you can't deal with it.

If he has a history of this, I can understand her having reservations. But if she's never seen this before and it's never really been an issue, I don't know. You might wanna give him a little [00:44:00] bit of grace because he is saying, yo, whatever you want, it doesn't matter to me. My love for you means more. I was tripping like I was tripping.

This money thing caught me off guard. I ain't know you had bread like that baby. You know, when I was talking about my Ferrari, you could've, you could've done That's birthday gift. I know, I know you trying to hold it tight, but you know how much I wanted that Ferrari, but it's all good. You know what I'm saying?

I might ask you for the Ferrari later on. I might, but you know, I like, you know, I put in something on it, you know, I just, if it's isolated incident, you know, maybe you give them pass, maybe you don't. 'cause sometimes people can wild out. So much. So even though it's an isolated incident where you just decide, you know what?

You crossed a line that I just can't deal with, so I gotta let you go forever, no matter how sorry they are, no matter how out the character they were. Sometimes people cross the line and they can't come back from it. And [00:45:00] maybe for her, seems like for her, she's having a really difficult time getting past this.

And look, if you're having a difficult time getting past that. Then you damn sure shouldn't marry. I don't know if you should break up. Maybe you should postpone their engagement. That would be my rationale, but she's got one more part, so let's hear what she's got to say.

Final Decision: Sometimes Love Isn't Enough 💔✨

Elise: Hey guys, this is my final decision.

I took some time away to think, talk to my sister, my therapist, and my lawyers, and I've made my decision. As much as I cared for Tom, I realized I can't marry someone. I don't trust. What happened, broke that trust. I know it would always be in the back of my mind in our marriage. Every financial decision, I doubt him, and that's no way to build a future.

A few days ago, I asked him over and told him my decision. He admitted he messed up and wanted to try couples counseling, but I told him we're broken up. I agreed to counseling only as a way to see if reconciliation is possible someday. Truthfully, I feel like I'm just delaying [00:46:00] the inevitable. I'd already packed his things and he was hurt when he saw them.

That was heartbreaking. Honestly, I felt really bad, but I knew I had to stand firm. He left with his things and is getting a new place. This has been heartbreaking and draining, but I know it's the right choice. Thank you again for the advice and encouragement. It really helped me get here. For those who worried about me making him homeless, don't.

He makes good money and we live in a tourist city. Before moving in with me, he lived in hotels and short term rentals for months. He hasn't paid rent here for six months. He'll be fine. He's not ending up on the streets.

Bruce Anthony: First of all, he sounded like he was a homosexual, but it seemed like, seemed like he needed a place to stay.

If you go all the way back to, to the first part, when she was just like he, all he did was pay for groceries. Like he, he didn't have a place of his own when they met that, okay, that should have been red flag number one, and now hearing that maybe she's right to protect her piece. At first I was like, man, this is cold.

You already had this stuff packed up [00:47:00] already. And that's cold. But after hearing, basically he was a homosexual. I can understand it. Look, money and marriage is, is important. You need to have these type of conversations before you get married. You need to have parameters and boundaries set before you get married.

Don't, don't not have the conversations 'cause you're scared to have the conversation. If you're scared to have real conversations before you get married, do not get married. Because you ain't ready. And so, you know, she felt like this was a deal breaker for her and she still said, you know, we gonna try to work things out, but you, we need to be separate.

And maybe they will, you know, I'm gonna put a little comment in there and be like, Hey, keep me up to date 'cause I'm messing. I need to know what's going on. I'm like, Marvin Gaye, I wanna know what's going on. But, uh, yeah, she made that decision and I don't necessarily disagree with it. The fact that she's still giving it a little bit of a chance for [00:48:00] therapy, because maybe in therapy she'll see there'll be some other deep rooted issues and maybe, you know, uh, he has insecurity about money.

Maybe somebody tried to get him for his money back in the day. There could be a whole host of stuff that they probably should have had a conversation about or should have came up over the two years that they were dating but didn't. But anyway, so. I thought that was interesting. I don't know, guys, you let me know, leave a comment in the comment section and tell me what would you do if you were her?

What would you do with you if you were him? Do you think she made the right decision? Do you think she didn't make the right decision? I'm going to just say she made the right decision for her, and when you make the right decision for you, I always think that's the right decision. That's my 2 cents.

 

After Hours Preview: Family Secrets Exposed 🤫😱

Bruce Anthony: All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is a snippet of our after hours uncensored. Just to let you guys know, [00:49:00] we talked about it a little bit. We have a YouTube membership. If you enjoy the show with me, the show with me and my sister, the YouTube exclusives, you're gonna enjoy the after hours. Like I said before, when we introduce the memberships, we're gonna start live streaming.

That'll only be, that'll be exclusive to the members. I'm gonna call one of them. I haven't come up with a good name yet, but it'll be like Sunday fun day with Bruce, where you guys see my Sunday fun day routine for about an hour. How I prep my, you know, my meals, how I hang out, how I get started to have my relaxing day.

I'll answer questions. There'll be a chat. There's a whole bunch of other stuff behind the scenes for the show, behind the scenes for after hours and censor censored my messy segment. Which is for the VIP people where I, you know, I just a 10 to 15 minute show where I just get real messy and tell y'all about my personal life sometimes about other people's personal lives that I can't put on the main show.

So [00:50:00] this is an excerpt of After Hours Uncensored that aired yesterday. So you could go on our YouTube page or our Patreon. You can go on our YouTube page, which is what I recommend. 'cause the majority of the stuff, the behind the scenes content is all for YouTube members. And then join. And if you don't know how to join, don't worry.

I'm gonna put a link and a description and there's a link. On the YouTube page of this video, all you had to do is click join. It'll take you directly to the link where you can decide which tier that you want, and in each tier it tells you exactly what you get. But like I said, ladies and gentlemen, this is an excerpt, uh, after hours uncensored, parental discretion is advised, but for fact of the matter is from here on out.

Now that I know what type of cuss words that we could say on the show, parental discretion is advised for every single show. It doesn't matter if it's after hours, it doesn't matter if it's the main show. We cuss a little bit more on after hours. We talk a little bit more wild on the after hours, but we [00:51:00] gonna be saying some cuss words on the main show more so than we used to back in the day.

But, uh, here it is the excerpt of After Hours Uncensored released on September 9th, September the 22nd. 2020.

Alright, we in the motherfucker after hours. This is the one thing I gotta

Jay Aundrea: You just said we can't say effer.

Bruce Anthony: Well, I'm, I, I'm,

Jay Aundrea: in the after

Bruce Anthony: yeah, we in the after

Jay Aundrea: gonna clip this, so that's why I thought we

Bruce Anthony: maybe I, well, I mean, I can say motherfucker, we can say it like once or twice. We can't just, and actually I need to redo some more research to find out exactly. But what I do need for you to do is, I'm, I'm grateful that you plugged in your battery, but can you turn off some of the programs you got running in the background?

Jay Aundrea: Uh, I don't really have anything on, let me, let me take a look here, because you've been clearing everything this whole

Bruce Anthony: You have not, and, but, but maybe it's my internet. Who knows? This, this laptop is, is suspect. But [00:52:00] I wanna start off the after hours, which is being clipped to put, put on my show as kind of a teaser also, ladies, gentlemen, we're gonna be doing that. We're gonna give you a teaser of the after hours every week.

I don't know which day it's gonna post, but it's gonna be a four to five minute. Clip of the show to give y'all a little taste. 'cause we want you to sign up for that membership. 'cause there's a lot of content in that membership and it's not, it don't cost that much. All right. It's 2 9 9 4, 9 9. And if you really want to get into it, 9 99.

But I wouldn't even recommend getting a 9 99 to start off with. 'cause I haven't even started doing the live streaming yet. 'cause I don't have the equipment to do it yet. So don't get the 9 99, but the 4 99 or even the 2 99. Yeah, even the 2 99.

Jay Aundrea: Cool. We are cool with either one.

Bruce Anthony: either one, you know, help us out. But I found this, this, these memes and it's the worst family secrets that people have accidentally found out, and it's a bunch of 'em, but I'm not gonna read all of 'em 'cause.

Jay Aundrea: I, I know it's [00:53:00] probably some shenanigans.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, it is absolutely some shenanigans and some of 'em are kind of depressant, so I'm not gonna read 'em. But some,

Jay Aundrea: yeah. Just, just read the good ones.

Bruce Anthony: well not good ones. There's one in particular that I gotta read 'cause I'm just like, what the hell? But okay, here's one. My great-grandmother wasn't actually my great-grandmother. She was kidnapped my grandmother when she was younger and just made.

Everyone think that she was her daughter. She's a secret family somewhere. So my great-grandmother wasn't actually my great-grandmother. She was kidnapped.

Jay Aundrea: no. She kidnapped this person's grandmother

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, she kidnapped my grandmother when she was

Jay Aundrea: just raised her as her own.

Bruce Anthony: Yep. Yep. That's a family secret that you find out and you know what? You probably a lot of these people were like, we did that 23 and me, or whatever it is. And we found out, wait a minute, we ain't, [00:54:00] you ain't my daddy. You, you ain't the puppy, you ain't the ma.

You ain't my grandmother.

Jay Aundrea: because it will definitely tell you with a high degree of accuracy like it told me. I have 50% connection to my mom. I'm like, oh, okay.

Yep. makes sense.

That's my mama. Like it, it says 50%, so like it's pretty accurate. So if that percentage, if the math ain't math, people got some questions to answer.

Bruce Anthony: My thing is, wow, what do you think of, well, obviously this person wouldn't even know their great grandmother 'cause most people don't meet their great grandparents. Most people we have,

Jay Aundrea: did.

Bruce Anthony: but I, I don't think most people meet their great grandparents.

Jay Aundrea: You probably not.

Bruce Anthony: So they gotta be thinking, yo, you was kidnapped, grandma, you was kidnapped and raised as somebody's daughter.

There there's, and then this person's like, I literally have a family. Yeah, there's a whole family out there. And then [00:55:00] like, what did that family do when they realized their little daughter was kidnapped?

Jay Aundrea: It was gone and they never

Bruce Anthony: Never found her back in them day. You could never

Jay Aundrea: you could, you could live on the next street and be lost forever.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, next street.

Jay Aundrea: It, it, listen, everything was very closed off. Like, you know, we didn't have the internet. There weren't these ways of instant communication. Nobody was sharing their location on their cell phones.

Like that didn't ha that wasn't a thing. Right. Mugs was in, in the time of her great grandmother and grandmother, and that time people was writing letters. Maybe your house had a phone. You know what I'm saying? Like

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. You right.

Memes: Family Secrets That Will Make Your Jaw Drop 😱🤐

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. You could literally be one town over and they'd be like, Hey, your uncle Jimmy gone.

We don't know where, where you went. Like, and literally the town over, he just stopped contacting folks and didn't tell nobody.

Bruce Anthony: So once again, this is the worst family secrets that people [00:56:00] found out.

Speaking of Ancestry, did an ancestry, and my dad isn't my grandma's son. He's actually my aunt's child when she was 14. He doesn't know. He loves my grandma. She's 95. I'm gonna let him live in peace.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Yeah. Some, some secrets. It's like, okay, you ain't got to. You don't have to. Yeah. Just let that one go ahead and go. Like if, if that person was raised by someone they thought was their parent and they love and cherish that person, and that person loved and cherish them, then that was their parent.

Bruce Anthony: But I feel like this was taken from a Tyler Perry. 'cause didn't Tyler Perry have a movie?

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: Madea it. It was with Lil Bow. Wow. Lil Bow. Wow. Thought he was a sibling and found out at the dinner table that his older sister was actually his mama, and his mama was actually his grandmama.

Jay Aundrea: You would, you would have, I would have to take your word for it. 'cause you know I ain't [00:57:00] never seen a single. Nope.

Bruce Anthony: Not a Tyler lap Perry. All right, here's another one. My great-grandfather left one of his kids out of his will. The siblings and children all divided their portions of the inheritance, so the other sibling wouldn't know that they were deliberately left out.

Jay Aundrea: I think that's beautiful.

Bruce Anthony: That is beautiful. But also God great-grandfather, like what type

of

Jay Aundrea: you gotta listen. The people in them times they had favorite. And they were, they, they were like, we didn't understand like psychologically how you should just not have favorites like that. But I mean, think of how many movies there are about people trying to secure their place in a will

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, that's

Jay Aundrea: or get, or get, you know, like. So because they've been written out or they, you know, been excommunicated from the family or something like that. So like, I think it's, uh, I think it's awesome though that the siblings got [00:58:00] together and was like, look, y'all, let's, uh, let's take a piece of everything. We all say we got this much instead of this much.

Shocking DNA Test Results: When Family Isn't Who You Think 🧬💔

Jay Aundrea: So that they don't know they got left

Bruce Anthony: That's some shit the three of us would do if one of our parents left, left us outta Will, or our parents would. No, I, I don't think our parents would ever do something like that,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I don't think, but we'd be like, nah, nah, we got to cut them in a little bit. This is Coldblooded.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. I mean, it depends.

Bruce Anthony: This is interesting 'cause I want to get your take.

If you found this out about me, found out my piece of shit brother. Piece of shit of a brother. Had a kid in high school and denied it was his. The kid reached out to me and gave me, and I gave him my brother's number and now I don't talk to my family because they were mad. I did that. They said it was not my place.

Jay Aundrea: I am giving them your number. Not only that, I'm going out to meet this person. We, I'm gonna do a DNA test with them. It. If it come [00:59:00] back 25%, whatever the percentage should be, 12.5%, whatever the percentage should be, that proves I'm your aunt, I'm dropping them. I'm driving them to your place unannounced.

Unannounced and we gonna stand there at the door, both of us with our arms crossed and be like, you got some explain to do. And if the family got a problem with that, my number has not changed. 'cause I know you lying. I know you lying.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, first of all, that's something that I would never,

Jay Aundrea: It is something you would never do, like

where you just out

Bruce Anthony: In high school,

Jay Aundrea: But it would be as you, when you became an

Bruce Anthony: yeah. I would've reached out.

Jay Aundrea: you would've reached back. You would've gone back and

Bruce Anthony: And would've understood if the kid didn't want shit to do

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, but it's like I, but you know, you would understand. I was a child when I found that out, and I responded to it like a child.

But [01:00:00] now that I'm an adult and I see. The importance of making sure you know who I am and my, and letting you know that I'm open to a relationship with you. I don't think that's a problem. I, I, I, if it was me and I heard that, I would've been like, yeah, you were, you were a kid. You made a decision a kid would make.

So I understand that if somebody, you know, I mean it kind of a little difficult 'cause I'm a woman, but if some, some child came to me and be like, you're my mom, and I'm be like, no, you ain't mine. I don't know who you is. You know, like I can't really say that. Same thing. Like, nah, if I, if,

if if

Bruce Anthony: maybe you got in a car accident and had amnesia or something like that and you are like, maybe,

Jay Aundrea: maybe.

But like if I. I this person already know they brothers a piece of shit.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, they said piece of shit of a brother. That's.

Jay Aundrea: So in their mind they're like, yeah, this is, this tracks. [01:01:00] This tracks okay. Me. I would've been like, he doesn't know. He clearly doesn't know, because if he did know, he would've definitely found a way to reach out.

Bruce Anthony: Unless I couldn't find them.

Jay Aundrea: Unless you

Bruce Anthony: Unless I couldn't

Jay Aundrea: But then that's also, you know, a conversation, right? Like, but nah, I show up at your door, be like, look who I found.

Bruce Anthony: Like who the fuck is that looking? Looking like my damn twin.

Jay Aundrea: Right? And I got, I got the DNA test with me and them framed. Here you go. You can go ahead and put that. It shows the correct percentage for me to be their aunt.

Bruce Anthony: looking like me. I was like, you got another brother? You got another brother looking like me from 1996.

Jay Aundrea: Exactly. Exactly.

Bruce Anthony: All right. This one I, this one I think is hilarious. I literally, when I read this, you know how you read memes sometimes and you just bust out laughing even though you're in public? I did this, so I was born in prison. Didn't know [01:02:00] until adulthood, but when I was a child, my uncle was singing a con's convict music alibi at me.

Jay Aundrea: And they didn't have any idea why they're, first of all, your uncle wrong for that. That's

Bruce Anthony: That That's hilarious. Convict music.

Jay Aundrea: funny. But But also your uncle a jerk for that. Like did doing that while you a kid. Come on now. That's messed up, but yeah. Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: But the kid didn't, but the person didn't find out until it was an adult. So it was the, it was

the uncle's inside joke.

Jay Aundrea: been confused by this inside joke, wholly confused that they were born in prison and that's why it's fu I get it.

Bruce Anthony: Boy, I'm telling you, if I knew the backstory, [01:03:00] look, if I was the uncle and I knew the backstory, if I was a friend of the uncle and I knew the backstory every time he said that, I would die laughing

Jay Aundrea: I dunno that I could, because I would be looking at this child that would be so confused as to like what the hell we're talking about.

Bruce Anthony: But hold on. When he is growing up, he is a teenager. I just wanna let everybody know I ain't never been to jail. He's like, and then you got his uncle. You were born in the jail talking. I'm talking like David, like I was born in the darkness. You was been to jail, but you've been to,

you were born in the prison. Alright, this one's a little long, but I think this is funny.

All right.

Jay Aundrea: okay? My family urgently, urgently, and very quickly moved from Minnesota to New York in 2012. Never knew why until a year or two ago when I found out my mother wrote an extremely homopho homophobic article and was getting torn up online real bad. [01:04:00] Read it, doxed her, and people made threats and sent death wishes, which is why we move people made comments about me and my siblings, like I hope they turn out gay.

Bruce Anthony: Four outta five of us are in fact a part of the LGBTQ plus community.

Jay Aundrea: I wonder what their relationship is with their, with their mother.

Bruce Anthony: Alright, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed that. I just wanted to give you guys a little, a little taste of After Hours Uncensored. Once again, join our membership on YouTube. There are so many after hours Uncensored. So many, I mean, we've done probably almost a hundred shows and talking straight ish when I was doing that show, all that stuff.

On our membership page, the behind the scenes of when we record the main show and the After Hours Uncensored membership page, check it out. Also, ladies and gentlemen, the First Amendment, the freedom of speech [01:05:00] means that government can't interfere. I don't care what side of the aisle that you're on. This administration is interfering with your free speech and nobody cares about what's happening.

Until it happens to them. And if you think that these type of things won't happen to you. We've all had relationships with friends, family, romantic, what have you, where they do certain things to other people, but they don't really do 'em to us. So we say, well, we're the exception until we're not. And then you realize that was the person all along.

But on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching, and until next time, as always, I'll holler.

Woo. That was a hell of a show.

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