Marvel vs DC, Trump's Equity Blunder & Work Place Friendships

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Bruce Anthony: [00:01:00] it’s the sibling happy hour. I’m here with my sis, Jay, Andrea. We’re gonna be dilly dad in a little bit, and then we’re gonna be talking about Trump, talking about reverse racism strange friendships in the workplace. that’s enough of the intro. get to the show.

Bruce Anthony: What up sis?

Bruce Anthony: I can’t call it. I can’t call it. I had an interesting conversation the other day.

Bruce Anthony: So people call it messy and I am that,

Bruce Anthony: follow up questions.

Bruce Anthony: that guys don’t answer, ask follow up questions.

Bruce Anthony: be like, your

Bruce Anthony: I don’t know.

Bruce Anthony: in a lot of ways, I’m not like the normal male, but, uh, ‘cause I’m emotionally in, I’m emotionally intelligent.

Bruce Anthony: a

Bruce Anthony: friend of mine was telling a story of something that happened to them.

Bruce Anthony: And whether it’s me being messy or the old journalist in me, I ask follow up questions and I kept probing and probing to learn more and more.

And then they stopped me. They said, you know

Bruce Anthony: I don’t wanna tell you anymore. And I said, why? They said, because it’s probably gonna end up on your podcast. They were like, I know that you’re not gonna put my name

Bruce Anthony: but I know the story is gonna end up on your podcast. I was like, wait,

Bruce Anthony: what to take from this.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Well.

you really, really, really love mess and gossip. And so if people stop telling you stuff, I don’t know how you’re gonna survive. So you might. You might just, you know, just use Reddit, just use other people’s stories.

Bruce Anthony: But I, I think that people can’t tell if it’s somebody that I know, or if it’s a Reddit store, a store that I just get from somewhere.

Bruce Anthony: uh, I have so

Bruce Anthony: areas of

Bruce Anthony: don’t cross

Bruce Anthony: know who I’m talking about. I,

Bruce Anthony: [00:04:00] I wouldn’t come up here and tell a story that people could be like, could put two and two together and be like, I know who that is. No, nobody. People don’t really know me. that

Bruce Anthony: groups. Like there’s nobody, I am the epicenter of my life. So

Bruce Anthony: There’s never a

Bruce Anthony: it’s a group of

Bruce Anthony: and I’m telling their business and they know each other. You know what I mean? Does

Bruce Anthony: seemed like you weren’t following me on

Bruce Anthony: They

Bruce Anthony: but, okay, so I got one friend who never gets a story that I tell them,

Bruce Anthony: mom giving directions,

Bruce Anthony: [00:05:00] I tell a story to, will always be like, remember when you told me a story about this, this, and this? I said, well, wait a minute. No, because that’s definitely not how the story went. Yeah, it was, you said this. I said, no, that’s, that’s not what happened. You were com, you were com mixing in two or three different stories and coming out with, with

Bruce Anthony: if, and there have been groups of people that met up for parties for me,

Bruce Anthony: half the time, they

Bruce Anthony: all the stories that I’ve told. They wouldn’t be able to put two and two

Bruce Anthony: only one

Bruce Anthony: about when I’m

Bruce Anthony: is You

Bruce Anthony: my bestie. That’s it.

Bruce Anthony: That’s

Bruce Anthony: But the flip side to that is there are people out there give me that. Like, you use this on your show

Bruce Anthony: [00:06:00] And I’m like, and I don’t, I don’t wanna talk about that. Well, what about this subject? I’m like, how am I going to talk about that for 20 minutes? It’s very, that’s very, very specific. I

Bruce Anthony: how I can even broaden that

Bruce Anthony: I don’t, it’s a good topic. No, no, it actually isn’t.

Bruce Anthony: I don’t, I, I do need producers, but I’m not gonna go to you to be a producer.

Bruce Anthony: I’m just not gonna go to you being a producer.

Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Um, I got some good news. Okay.

know.

Bruce Anthony: Thank you to everybody who watches us on YouTube, because our hours are going up, up, uppity up, and we

Bruce Anthony: just a smidge. Far away from being monetized on YouTube. So I want to

Bruce Anthony: Keep watching. ‘cause

Bruce Anthony: monetized, I, I

Bruce Anthony: you to keep watching and

Bruce Anthony: pads the ads. ‘cause that’s how we actually get paid is

Bruce Anthony: need to be watched.

Bruce Anthony: I know people don’t like commercials.

[00:07:00] That’s what they’ll will be. But

Bruce Anthony: we still get paid if people watch on YouTube premium,

Bruce Anthony: so that’s, that’s a good thing.

Bruce Anthony: to thank everybody. The show is growing

Bruce Anthony: this story like every, every 10 to 15 episodes. I

Bruce Anthony: tried.

Y’all gonna have to listen to us.

Bruce Anthony: [00:08:00] We are locked in and

Bruce Anthony: know, for those people out there that have been happy

Bruce Anthony: that we haven’t talked politics for a while because we bombarded them all fall.

Bruce Anthony: It was a. Politic themed show. You almost thought we was like, save the pod. Like

Bruce Anthony: are. We’re not a political podcast.

Bruce Anthony: events and topics

Bruce Anthony: so happened that we are in an election year and a lot of crazy stuff has been going on. Every now

Bruce Anthony: YouTube exclusive stuff

Bruce Anthony: ‘cause we just talked about the white refugees that, that are being

Bruce Anthony: I mean, no, no. Well, hmm.

Bruce Anthony: [00:09:00] I’m gonna give a little brief history lesson of where the definition of white came from, in the second segment. But when you think of, when Americans think of white, there are so many Eastern Europeans that are white, that are absolutely refugees. I have a friend who’s Serbian.

Bruce Anthony: Serbian now, but Serbia, I don’t know if was always, I know it’s a, it’s broken up from the old Yugoslavia, I believe. the old Yugoslavia used to be a collection of different countries like Serbia, Croatia, I think all spawned from the old Yugoslavia, but absolutely

Bruce Anthony: a refugee when you, uh,

Bruce Anthony: I know that that is, you know, that’s a little difficult.

Bruce Anthony: that’s on a YouTube exclusive, so like, we are not ducking

Bruce Anthony: not gonna put it on the main show all the time.

Bruce Anthony: it’s, it’s

Bruce Anthony: what we’re gonna talk about in the second segment, but it’s way more

Bruce Anthony: To

Bruce Anthony: a sketch

Bruce Anthony: this is exactly what he would do.

Bruce Anthony: What, what has he been in?

Bruce Anthony: That that was real specific. Thank you for, for breaking that down for me.

Bruce Anthony: Oh,

Bruce Anthony: who you’re talking about. He was the character that

Bruce Anthony: the head of Bollywood and Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: you’re talking about. He might be the new Booster Gold they do a booster Gold movie in the DCU.

Bruce Anthony: Gold is a character from the future that that comes back in time.

And he is got all this. The reason why he’s a superhero is because he is got all this advanced technology and he is coming back to be a superhero, but not a superhero in the sense of he’s doing it to be good. He’s doing it to become popular. So he’s kind of like, he’s kind of like the, uh, Dion Sanders. Of superheroes very um,

Bruce Anthony: bam, ba.

That is, that to me encapsulates this latest just glaringly stupid thing

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Yeah, it,

Bruce Anthony: Uh, before we get into that, I do want to. Tell people that I did watch the Al, not Al Pacino, Robert Dero movie. Alto Saints. Alto Knights,

Bruce Anthony: plays Vito Geneve and Paul Castellano. And I wanted to compare it to, ‘cause he plays two characters like Michael B. Jordan does in

Bruce Anthony: as good as Michael B. Jordan? No. Is the movie as good as sinners? No. does he do a good job? Yes. When

Bruce Anthony: [00:13:00] the Mo movie, you could tell the two characters apart. Part of the reason is one, they have descriptive physical characteristics that kind of make them kind of make it so you can tell ‘em apart, but the two characters feel like different people.

Bruce Anthony: Ro did a good job. I’m sorry, Robert, I know this was your attempt to win the Oscar as of right now. boy’s going to Michael B. Jordan, but we don’t know what’s gonna happen for the rest of the year.

Bruce Anthony: the new trailer for Superman just came

Bruce Anthony: chat. I’m sure you did

Uh, you gonna worry me.

Bruce Anthony: so you said you, this is a preemptive.

Bruce Anthony: How am I not going to talk to you? You mean

Bruce Anthony: don’t bring it up?

Bruce Anthony: ‘cause we talk like all the time.

Bruce Anthony: right. Well, it comes out July the 11th, so

Bruce Anthony: time you think you gonna see it?

I don’t know yet. Okay. I’ll have an internship and summer class at that time, so I don’t know yet, but I will go and see it.

Bruce Anthony: [00:15:00] just because most of the time it’s released July the 11th, which is a Friday. Right. But you know, it comes out Thursday, you know, most time the, the late shows. And so it’s a Friday

Bruce Anthony: Saturday and Sunday. You know, I can understand not wanting to go that, that, that first Friday and Saturday and Sunday.

Bruce Anthony: the theaters will be packed, but

Bruce Anthony: Woo, please. I was on. Uh, okay. We are about to move to the next subject, but I just wanted to say, talk about this for a quick second. I was on the Twitter.

Bruce Anthony: Because that’s how I found out. I knew it was gonna be released today at 12 Eastern non-Pacific. But that’s how I found it. What the, he did a, uh, James Gunn did a pre tease teaser to the trailer yesterday and, and he announced it on Monday that it was gonna be, the trailer was gonna be

Bruce Anthony: So he

Bruce Anthony: then a

Bruce Anthony: they did a dog food commercial, uh, ‘cause it’s crypto to superD dog, where they had a couple of more scenes

Bruce Anthony: or tease. So he is only done four things and the movie’s coming out in two months.

So, I

Bruce Anthony: Yes they did. They, the trailer just dropped today. I saw

Bruce Anthony: is a TV series.

Bruce Anthony: It. They general, they, somebody

Bruce Anthony: this weekend and then the trailer dropped today. But that’s not an even comparison. Okay. ‘cause that’s a TV series, what you could say. ‘cause I think of weeks after, or the weekend or sometime in the, in the same month, the Fantastic Four

Bruce Anthony: releasing from Marvel.

That’s their big movie and I haven’t

Bruce Anthony: they are not

Bruce Anthony: DC’s doing. They don’t have to because they’re Marvel

Bruce Anthony: up. But this is supposed to be like the Marvel’s big, big movie next to Avengers.

Bruce Anthony: This is not, I didn’t say thunderbolts, I said Fantastic.

Bruce Anthony: [00:18:00] put a lot more money into things that they think are going to be seen like fantastic. Four people are looking forward to it, not me.

Bruce Anthony: when Michael B. Jordan played Johnny Storm one

Bruce Anthony: that movie was absolutely, it was the worst.

Bruce Anthony: It was the

Bruce Anthony: but that was, Fox that did those. This is Marvel, so I mean,

Bruce Anthony: characters, but was Fox Studios,

Bruce Anthony: so this is gonna be different.

And they got Pedro Pascal in it.

Bruce Anthony: [00:19:00] they’re, they’re kind of, well, they brought back Robert, do jr. I, I don’t know. I hear what you’re saying,

Bruce Anthony: Ironheart, but I don’t think that movie is, I don’t even think that TV series is coming out until like August or

Bruce Anthony: Are you sure?

Bruce Anthony: to look good. And if y’all don’t know who Lionheart or Ironheart is, it’s the black female Ironman. That’s what she is.

Bruce Anthony: she was in Wakanda forever.

Bruce Anthony: so we excited to see that.

Bruce Anthony: enough for our movie Roundup. I don’t know why we did that.

Bruce Anthony: as Superman like this, but that’s understandable.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, well, okay. I was wrong.

Bruce Anthony: trailer.

Bruce Anthony: [00:20:00] All right. All right. On that note, let’s get into some political shenanigans

Bruce Anthony: jay Trump is a dumb ass.

Bruce Anthony: So there’s an article out article is by Greg Ser, Sergeant. He is a, um. Columnist for the New Republic and the, the title of the article is Angry Trump Kills Woke Program and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters. So what is this article talking about? The article discusses how, how, uh, president Donald Trump I.

In an effort to attack what he perceives as a woke government program move to

Bruce Anthony: [00:21:00] terminate the Digital Equity Act, a bipartisan, bipartisan initiative designed to expand high speed internet across underserved areas, including many rural. Republican leaning regions Trump decisions based on the program’s inclusion of the word equity, and its supposed benefit to minorities, ironically threatens to withhold critical funding for his own base in the red state who stand to benefit from the for more improved internet infrastructure.

This move reflects a longstanding Republican pattern of using racially charged rhetoric to cut government programs often to the detriment to of their own supporters. So Jay, before you even got the rundown today, you said you heard about this. Um, what do you think about this?

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:23:00] So I’m going to get into the history of why they feel included. ‘cause I mean, it, it really truly does make sense when you understand the history. But I just want to give people the timeline of this whole decision. So Trump discovers there’s a government initiative with the word equity in its title.

Bruce Anthony: He assumes it’s a race-based program benefiting minorities.

He announces honest truth, social that he’s terminating the initiative, calling it racist and decrying woke handouts. I, uh, so this is what we talked about when we said DEI is black means black

Bruce Anthony: to these people.

Bruce Anthony: means black to these people. What’s the, what’s the other stuff?

Bruce Anthony: means black to these people,

Bruce Anthony: black.

All these,

Bruce Anthony: [00:24:00] okay, so what does the digital. Equity Act actually do. Once again, it was part of Biden’s 2020 bipartisan infrastructure law, allocating over $2 billion for states to expand their high speed internet in underserved areas. So most people don’t understand what that means if you’re in a highly populated area like a major city.

You call the the local cable company, internet company. You call ‘em up, you get high speed internet. I mean, you’re going to pay through the nose for it, but you’re going to get it. There are still some parts in this country, and this is no bull, some parts in this country that either use DSL or dial up because access to high speed internet.

The internet that you have on your computer right now that has given you the ability to watch this.

Bruce Anthony: [00:25:00] They don’t have. So Biden was like, that’s unfair. We need to put as far as our in, in place and our infrastructure bill, the ability for everybody to have high speed internet. And you may think to yourself, why is it important education? Right? Like a lot of these kids were being taught remote remotely during the pandemic and they didn’t have the internet capacity to even do Zoom.

Bruce Anthony: So the funding is intended to cover all populations, including minorities, veterans, rural residents, and low income households, Republican led states who submitted proposals to access these funds aiming to benefit the rural populations.

So Republican governors are like, yeah, we need some of this money

Bruce Anthony: to. Expand our internet. Many red states like Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Alabama, Iowa, all voted for Trump

Bruce Anthony: on these funds to improve their rural bro, their Mm. Rural broadband. Rural is a hard word to kind of say.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Rural is a hard work.

Bruce Anthony: [00:26:00] Well, that’s,

Bruce Anthony: yeah. No, but that’s not right though.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Rural is hard.

Bruce Anthony: Trump’s move could block hundreds of millions of dollars of funding harming rural and low income communities, many of whom are mega voters. So with this broader, I. The reason why I wanted to bring it up, the reason why I find it funny is because he equates, he equates equity with black, uh, thinking that it’s racist because all of a sudden this country is racist against white folks.

Um, never heard of that in my entire life, but, but somehow

Bruce Anthony: is now racist towards white folks and all these programs are racist because. White folks aren’t benefiting from it. Mm. Rich white folks aren’t benefiting from it, but a lot of poor white folks are.

Bruce Anthony: [00:27:00] this follows a long line in Republican verbiage, uh, like Reagan’s Welfare, queen Queens or Romney’s 47%, or Paul Ryan’s hammock metaphor, like they use, Republicans use these type of words to create division among the races

Bruce Anthony: to.

Spark anger in their base towards other people.

Bruce Anthony: the reason why I find it so funny is because the people that are the angriest about it, not Trump, Trump doesn’t really care. He knows that if he does this, it’ll incite anger in his base, right? Which is a benefit to him.

Bruce Anthony: people who are the actual angriest about it are the ones thinking that these programs are helping minorities and hurting them.

When. It’s actuality, it’s helping them.

Bruce Anthony: So

Bruce Anthony: I, you know,

Bruce Anthony: yeah, I didn’t even think about that.

Like that, it, it, it, was specifically targeting rural residents, veterans and low income households. Yes. It also targets communities of color, but that was never the sole focus of it. Honestly, I think. The biggest gap as far as like the digital divide would be low income households, but, but particularly it would be rural residents,

Bruce Anthony: the flyover states.

Bruce Anthony: And when people don’t realize broadband is not quite cell cellular, but they fall kind of along the la same lines. So when you think that. Well, you expand broadband. That’s just internet. It’s also to help with cellular development. And why is that important? You’re in these rural areas. The hospital is not right down the street.

Bruce Anthony: You have to call 9 1 1. You have to have good cell reception to be able to do those things. You are right with the I, I didn’t even think about the doctor. Didn’t even cross my mind. But to access certain social services,

Bruce Anthony: [00:30:00] Social Security, they limited the number of people that were taking phone calls to social Security offices, so you had to get on the internet to fill out information.

Bruce Anthony: For a lot of these older people, boomers help, even some Gen X right? And older don’t know how to really access the computer like that. They don’t really know how to work the internet and if they. Don’t know how to work the internet and they don’t have good internet service, how are they gonna get access to these services?

So there’s a bigger, there’s a, there’s a, I know most people that probably listen to the show. Definitely most people that listen to the show are in bigger cities. ‘cause I can see the demographics. You’re in bigger cities and you don’t understand the concept unless you have family in rural areas, or you go out to rural areas for vacation or whatever.

You don’t understand how bad the internet service is and.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

But it is so essential. For in like a part of our infrastructure, a part of our modern infrastructure.

Bruce Anthony: [00:32:00] Yeah, so you brought up earlier that, uh, you, you kind of couldn’t understand how poor white folk would, would vote against their own interests. And I said, well, there’s a, there’s a simple answer for that and in this, in history. So, and there’s a simple answer for white, like the term white. I remember getting into a debate with this young lady when I was working at the bar, and she was like, why do you always bring up race?

And I said, I, I didn’t bring it up. Actually, this country brought it up. This country is where race actually has, has been established. No, it’s not. It’s always been a thing. It’s like, no, no, it hasn’t. There were people that were from Spain, people that were from France, people that were part from different parts of Africa.

They were Africans or Spaniards or Italians or French. They weren’t white. White or black. White or black. Started in America and she fought me on this and I said, okay, have you ever heard of the Bacon’s Rebellion? She’s like, what is that? I was like, we’re right here in Virginia. You should know about it. I don’t know about that.

[00:33:00] So the Bacon’s Bake Bacon, not Baker Bacon’s Rebellion happened in 1676. It was a major uprising in Colonial Virginia. This revoked united impoverished, European indentured servants, Irish people, and enslaved Africans. Against the colonial elite. The rebellion alarmed wealthy landowners who realized that solidarity among the lower classes, regardless of their European or African origins, poses a threat to their power to prevent future alliances between poor Europeans and Africans.

The colonial elite responded by creating a legal. Social distinctions based on race, they began to define white. If you’re watching, I put it in quota quotations. If you’re not watching, you’re listening. I’m moving my little fingers in quotation marks. White as a privilege. Legal, yeah. Air quotes. Yes. They began to define, to define white as a privileged legal.

[00:34:00] Category granting poor European certain rights and status denied to Africans. This new racial hierarchy gave European laborers incentives to identify with the elite rather than enslaved Africans effectively dividing the lower classes and entrenching slavery and racial discrimination as the founding elements of American society.

The white race was invented by Rich Virginians in 1676. We don’t bring up race. They brought up race, and that’s the story of how people that identify as white, identify as white. Rich people realize that poor people banding together was a threat to their power, so they created a. Unnatural way to create straight division by saying white and black and giving privileges to the white while denying them to the black.

That’s America.

Bruce Anthony: And what year did that happen again? 1676. What happened in 1776?

Bruce Anthony: No, no. 1776.

Bruce Anthony: The Constitution. Yes, yes. Yeah. Not the Civil War. The Civil War was,

Bruce Anthony: yeah. It was about 80 years later.

Bruce Anthony: Literally 100 years later,

Bruce Anthony: Americans, I. Well, people that lived in America essentially became Americans. But before that, for a hundred years, a hundred years before the Constitution was written, there were laws already defining what people could have and what people couldn’t have, and it was based on this made up creation of race.

[00:36:00] It’s an American concept. Everything about this is an American concept. So when white people get upset and say, why do you always bring up race to anybody that’s a minority? Just come back and say, I didn’t bring it up. You brought it up.

Bruce Anthony: This country has brought it up.

Bruce Anthony: You weren’t white until you, until it was convenient.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

Bruce Anthony: And that’s where the term white guilt comes from.

Bruce Anthony: You know what I, I never thought about it like that, but you’re absolutely right. ‘cause you know, I have more than a few white friends and the, almost all of my people I actually call friends are woke. Right. But even when I start to explain to them how, yeah, but you know, you got this privilege this way and this way, and this way.

They, they jump on the defense.

Bruce Anthony: Well, no, but like, I’m like, oh, hold on now I didn’t say you need to feel guilty about it ‘cause you’re an actual, you’re actually an ally.

Bruce Anthony: yeah, you gotta, you gotta acknowledge all of this here. Don’t, don’t just.

Bruce Anthony: [00:38:00] I don’t believe that that’s true because I consider myself an ally to a many communities, but there are still sometimes where I have a blind spot and I don’t realize where my privilege or bias is playing into certain ways that I look at it. Even though I consider myself an ally, nobody is absolutely perfect.

Bruce Anthony: No, it’s not that they’re,

Bruce Anthony: not that they’re not willing,

Bruce Anthony: that the initial reaction.

Bruce Anthony: I think that’s a natural, Jay, I know you ain’t talking about anybody’s initial reaction being defensive,

Bruce Anthony: [00:39:00] you. But guess you was the, you are the most defensive person I say before we get on here. Hey, I think you hit the echo cancellation button. I but didn’t, but I didn’t, but I did. I say, Hey Jay. See, something’s wrong with the sound. Nothing wrong with my sound. I can’t hit Well, did you hit a button? No. Well, can you check?

All right, maybe I hit the butt. You naturally, anything

Bruce Anthony: I’m, I’m talking about in generalities here. You be getting defensive.

Bruce Anthony: initial default is defend yourself.

Bruce Anthony: But there are some

Bruce Anthony: not

Bruce Anthony: May. Maybe this time you did hit the pun, but I’m saying your natural default is defense. That’s a human thing. The natural default is defend oneself. So then you gotta take a step back and be like, all right, well wait a minute. Let me hear what you gotta say. And that takes emotional intelligence.

Not everybody has that type of evolved emotional intelligence to take a step back when they’re being confronted about something. And be like, all right, okay. Maybe you got a point. Maybe you got a point. It’s like those people that can’t ever admit when they’re wrong, even though they know that they wrong,

Bruce Anthony: or people that just say, sorry.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, yeah, I didn’t say that.

Bruce Anthony: Not willing.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, initially sometimes I, I jump on the defense. Sometimes I do jump on the defense. I’m like, I’m an ally. What are you doing? And then I have to be like, let me listen to what this person is saying.

Bruce Anthony: But, but

Bruce Anthony: I.

Bruce Anthony: Right. But you know what though? I’ve had people in my life call me to task for defending myself instead of listening. I had people that I respected

Bruce Anthony: called me to task and I would take a step back and actually listen. Uh, not every, but that not everybody is like that. And that actually took years for me to get to that.

That’s a new thing that just happened to last. Four, five years. So,

Bruce Anthony: true. True.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. This is true.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, this is true. You ain’t lying.

Bruce Anthony: [00:42:00] Yes, you are right. A lot of times people wanna say they’re an ally but don’t want to do the work. Yeah, you’re right. I can tell you who’s not an ally Trump in this entire administration. Good god, they

Bruce Anthony: that, oh my God,

Bruce Anthony: don’t ha ladies and gentlemen, this is funny and not funny at the same time.

‘cause this man is literally took equity and hurt millions of his own constituency. Millions of his own supporters because he thinks it’s going to give something to black and brown people. That’s what it is. ‘cause he said it was racist. Those were his words.

Bruce Anthony: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, because they don’t think that there’s any programs out there that’s giving benefits to brown people.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. So that’s it ladies and Jim.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm. Well. Ladies and gentlemen, look, I painted out for you. I told you where the term white actually comes from. Came from here.

Bruce Anthony: I told you why I was given its legal status is to put people against each other so that they can’t rise up against the elite.

Bruce Anthony: And I showed you what he did.

Bruce Anthony: You still think this administration isn’t racist if that’s the point that you get from all this.

[00:44:00] I can’t help you. Sorry. You can’t be saved. Don’t save ‘em. They don’t want to be.

Bruce Anthony: You know, Jay, some people that have listened and watched this podcast know that we talk fondly very fondly upon our time working together and meeting lifelong friends

Bruce Anthony: while working at Hard Rock Cafe right here in Washington, DC.

Bruce Anthony: Some of those people are even watching and listening to this show and supporters of us

Bruce Anthony: 20 years.

Bruce Anthony: I person that, uh, I met at Hard Rock was a groomsman in my wedding.

Bruce Anthony: Just hit him up the other day. It was his birthday.

Bruce Anthony: [00:45:00] two beautiful kids. Watching the show is a huge fan and it, it is, uh, crazy. Of the friendships that you make in the workplace, the workplace will have you friends with any and everybody.

Bruce Anthony: [00:46:00] Like how locked in? Like gimme, gimme a typical like interaction between y’all.

Bruce Anthony: What?

Bruce Anthony: When you, this is when you were younger.

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

Otis

Bruce Anthony: Right. Yep.

Bruce Anthony: I, you know, I talked about it on a podcast, and I’ve talked about it on this podcast that in my younger years I was completely homophobic.

Bruce Anthony: Completely homophobic,

Bruce Anthony: with no real reason why, other than I was raised in a, I don’t know, homophobic society.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, that’s, that’s basically what it was. And working in the restaurant industry, I became friends with literally everybody.

Bruce Anthony: [00:48:00] had a bus person that at, they were trans and favorite person in the entire world used to give them extra money. ‘cause they used to lookout for ‘em. Like, yeah, we want, and we just chitchatting now. We never hung out, but, but to my credit,

Bruce Anthony: ain’t hang out with. A whole lot of folks anyway. My thing is I’m gonna be friendly at work

Bruce Anthony: then outside of work, eh, but I’m just like that with everybody.

Bruce Anthony: But

Bruce Anthony: because you have nothing in common?

Bruce Anthony: Uh, no. I Wait a minute, what?

Bruce Anthony: No, I, uh, a crack head,

Bruce Anthony: uh, that we worked with,

Bruce Anthony: I don’t remember this, uh, who was a crack head.

Bruce Anthony: A crack head,

Bruce Anthony: [00:49:00] uh, whether a, a server bartender, uh, cook.

Bruce Anthony: I, I don’t think,

Bruce Anthony: I may have not known that they was a crack head.

Bruce Anthony: Oh yeah. I probably didn’t know. ‘cause I don’t remember.

Bruce Anthony: Who now, oh my goodness. Now I can’t wait to get off the a uh, if y’all are watching it, just stay at the end for behind the scenes. ‘cause we gonna reveal that person

Bruce Anthony: who.

Bruce Anthony: [00:50:00] It really, it, it should let me ref it should. When you go to work, if you’re not working in a small town where everybody’s the same, so you’re working in a big city and it’s, it’s everybody from the city, different parts of the city might be working this one location, just like college in a way. It can introduce you to people from different walks of life, different backgrounds, different lifestyles, and educate you.

Bruce Anthony: that’s what I’m saying it did for me, like coming from being this homophobic person to literally, it was in the span of two years. Right. Two, two years being this super homophobic person to go in to see Superman returns with one of my good buddies. That was, that was gay and his boyfriend.

Bruce Anthony: Like, like, like that transition.

So

Bruce Anthony: yes, people if you take

Bruce Anthony: the time Right. No, I still, that is, that’s going bug. That’s going bug me. I’m gonna have to call our.

Bruce Anthony: [00:51:00] I got a feeling. I think I know who it is, but I don’t, I don’t think they smoke crack. I just think they was just eccentric.

Bruce Anthony: Did you actually see this person smoke crack?

Bruce Anthony: Did they say that they smoke crack?

Bruce Anthony: No, no, no.

Bruce Anthony: Hold on. And you said you was their friend. Did you hang out with them outside of work

Bruce Anthony: just,

Bruce Anthony: you was just friendly at work?

Bruce Anthony: Oh, I, I can’t wait to end this show so I can figure out who the hell this was because I, I need you to tell me. But yes,

Bruce Anthony: I, I have a friend of mine who talks about. How when they started their job, they were the young one and kind of had these mentors

Bruce Anthony: [00:52:00] that, that they made friends with and would go to retirement parties and stuff like that, and now they’re, they’re in the position of where their mentors were.

I.

Bruce Anthony: And now they’re mentoring the young folks and the young folks be coming to my friend for like real life advice. And that’s part of the dynamic of these weird friendships in the workplace, that you meet these people that can literally tell you about life experiences that either you may get in the future or you may not even get in the future, but then you still know that people deal with this type of thing.

It’s a, when you allow yourself to be. You can really open yourself up to a whole world of possibilities by being friends with your coworkers. If, if it’s a social environment, like

Bruce Anthony: Mm

Bruce Anthony: true.

Bruce Anthony: Two of them I thought was one of them.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, who was the other one? I gotta go back and look at the pictures.

Bruce Anthony: I don’t think I knew that person.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: you’re real good at setting boundaries, so maybe give some people, give our audience the, some insight into what would be a pers, what would be a healthy boundary, how to determine if a person’s just a coworker or if they are friend. I would say if you hang out with them outside of work.

Bruce Anthony: That’s a clear friend,

Bruce Anthony: [00:54:00] but if you only hang out with them and chitchat with them during breaks at work, then maybe that’s just a friendly coworker,

Bruce Anthony: a re a friendly coworker.

Bruce Anthony: Mm. Well, I mean, yes, but well, unless you’re a bartender or in a restaurant business, you can go ahead and get drunk,

Bruce Anthony: right? Well, no, don’t do that.

Bruce Anthony: Hey, them hospital people, be them. Hospital people are just like the restaurant business.

Bruce Anthony: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: I know a couple of doctors. It is. It is. Grey’s Anatomy ain’t far off.

Bruce Anthony: It is. Wow. It re

Bruce Anthony: it’s just like the restaurants, it’s the restaurant.

Bruce Anthony: Mm. Literally all day.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

So it’s like you have to know each other, uh, or you’re not gonna be able to get the job done. But, you know, just recognize who’s a coworker and who’s a friend.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah. So how do people recognize which is which?

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm. Yeah, well,

Bruce Anthony: [00:56:00] you know, I haven’t made any friendships from work in about 15, 16, 17 years

Bruce Anthony: my po my position at, at my current place of employment. I’m, I’m the boss,

Bruce Anthony: so I can’t be

Bruce Anthony: friendly. ‘cause there’s no equal level. There’s nobody on my level, level that, that isn’t a subordinate.

Bruce Anthony: Um, so that’s weird. So I don’t really make friendships from coworkers.

Bruce Anthony: do develop friendships with clients.

Bruce Anthony: even then,

Bruce Anthony: there’s a boundary there. Like I know more about their lives than they know about mine, but that’s pretty much everybody in my life. Everybody I know about everybody’s, I know about everybody’s business, but don’t nobody ever know nothing.

Bruce Anthony: That’s just me being close.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, well, yeah. Okay. I guess so. I’m just a real private person. I was, I, I know people from this podcast wouldn’t think that I’m that, but if you know me personally, you know I’m private.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm. Uh, what do you consider private,

Bruce Anthony: but what is considered private though?

Bruce Anthony: Well, everybody knows. Everybody knows what I, what they, what I do when they don’t see me. I’m drinking tequila and playing video games.

Bruce Anthony: I think everybody knows my stances in life. I.

Bruce Anthony: Ah, does anybody know anybody?

Bruce Anthony: Uh, well,

Bruce Anthony: well, that’s just ‘cause they, people know your facial expressions. ‘cause we, you know, we can’t, we don’t have no poker faces.

Bruce Anthony: Oh. Well, I don’t know.

Bruce Anthony: Well,

Bruce Anthony: mm

Bruce Anthony: mm. That sounds like prison anyway.

Bruce Anthony: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That, I don’t know when that transferred, but it happened within the last four, five years. Definitely. Definitely avoiding attachment. Definitely. Any who? That’s

Bruce Anthony: enough about us. Jay, what do you wanna tell the people out there?

Bruce Anthony: Nothing wrong with it.

Bruce Anthony: It’d be dope.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, to all my white listeners out there, they’re just like, oh, was talking about race. Look, look, we’re talking about things being done to us. We actually, legitimately black people in this country really don’t care what white people do. Like we really, we’re not in white people’s business like that.

We, uh, we, we are just not, which baffles us. The reason why you always want to be in our business about everything.

Bruce Anthony: Like, we can’t even enjoy a movie. ‘cause it’s a, it is a black cast. Ooh. I don’t know why they gotta have a black cast. ‘cause when there’s never any black cast, the default is always white.

Bruce Anthony: [01:00:00] anything that is not white that people see representation of themselves, they’re gonna gravitate to that same reason why white people are gravitating towards Kaitlyn Clark and Cooper.

Uh, flag you don’t, I didn’t talk about Cooper Flag. The Cooper flag is gonna be the number one draft pick in the NBA draft. American born white player, the first American born white player that’s gonna be drafted. Number one overall since, I don’t know, when Jack Sigma, and that had to be the seventies

Bruce Anthony: played for Duke.

The boy bad, the boy is bad. One of the announcers on the NBA. Uh. To talk show the other day, said that, uh, one, one of the analysts said, yeah, he’s a whale. Speaking of like, it’s a rare thing to get something like that. He’s a whale. And one of the white commentators said, yeah, a white whale. And I said, no, he didn’t just say that.

He just had a Freudian slip. Ladies, gentlemen, black people do not care about what white people is doing. We don’t care.

Bruce Anthony: We, we literally don’t, we just don’t understand why you care so much about us. We don’t.

Bruce Anthony: on that,

Bruce Anthony: I mean, we cool as hell. I mean, who?

Bruce Anthony: I’m so happy I was born black.

Bruce Anthony: So happy.

Bruce Anthony: Yeah, you, not me. I’m getting darker right now as we speak. I know.

Bruce Anthony: 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.

Bruce Anthony: So I was gonna be off of it for a little while, but, uh, had to, had to talk about politics.

Bruce Anthony: [01:02:00] said, it said equity. So he equates equity with black. So this is, this is what we get. Uh, and then I thought it was funny because we always talk about our love for hard rock and the friends that we made, but also in the workplace, you’d be making some strange friendships.

Bruce Anthony: Oh,

Bruce Anthony: [01:03:00] All right, let me pin you. Uh, how am I gonna do this intro? Okay. Racism in America, not what you think. strange friendships. Yeah, that’s good. All you

I know you are leading. They’re not giving the black woman some publicity.

Uh

Bruce Anthony: I I don’t think that’s what that is.

Bruce Anthony: has, has scaled back some of their marketing aside from Thunderbolts. I. They

Bruce Anthony: that Star Wars TV show with the kids. I completely forgot about that. They

Bruce Anthony: and, or, I mean, they did, but they didn’t

Bruce Anthony: mean, fantastic Four has not been all over the place like Superman has and, and I think they got another movie that’s coming out this, this summer. Something. Oh, no. Um, Jurassic, the new Jurassic Park movie. I, it feels like I haven’t seen a lot of advertisements for that.

Bruce Anthony: They always messing with the damn dinosaurs.

Leave the dinosaurs alone. They extinct for a reason,

Bruce Anthony: I don’t know what happened. I turned your echo cancellation on and somehow it’s off. So I’m gonna stop this recording

Bruce Anthony: start it for the second round so we don’t mess up the sound.

Bruce Anthony: It was a big fight. Y’all missed it ‘cause I

Bruce Anthony: Let’s, let’s get to this second segment so we can get to this shenanigans.

Bruce Anthony: We just stop talking when I do the countdown. Stop talking. This is

Bruce Anthony: how you not let’s go.

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