True Crime Obsession, Streaming Wars & Why Vacations Aren't Real

Bruce Anthony: [00:00:00] Serial killer shows and streaming services, we gonna get into it. Let’s get it.

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Bruce Anthony: [00:00:45] is a sibling happy hour. I’m here with my sis Jay, Andrea. We’re gonna be dilly dieting a little bit.

[00:00:55] Then we’re gonna be talking about why women are sociopaths and then we’re gonna be talking about these damn streaming services. But that’s enough of the intro. Let’s get to the show

Bruce Anthony: [00:01:07] what up sis?

Jay Aundrea: [00:01:08] What up, brother?

Bruce Anthony: [00:01:09] I can’t call it. I can’t call it. We are back after a little vacation. Yo, lemme tell you something. That vacation helped me because one take Bruce was back.

Jay Aundrea: [00:01:19] Listen, uh, your idea of a vacation and my idea of a vacation are two different things because I noticed while you were here

[00:01:35] and quote unquote on vacation, um, you still work

Bruce Anthony: [00:01:39] Yeah. Uh.

Jay Aundrea: [00:01:40] a lot. So I. Think you need to look up the definition of vacation because even though we were on a hiatus for the holiday, I feel like you were still recording, still editing, still working.

[00:02:00] So, um, I did nothing. That’s a vacation.

[00:02:05] Um, what you did was not that. Um, so I just, you just didn’t release content.

Bruce Anthony: [00:02:12] that’s not

Jay Aundrea: [00:02:13] That’s not a vaca. You did release. Okay,

so then you didn’t take a vacation. Okay.

Bruce Anthony: [00:02:18] Oh, okay. So mom was funny ‘cause I, I was, for the first three days that I was down there, and ladies and gentlemen, I was down there for almost two weeks. Um, the first three days I was down there, uh, I was sitting at the little table and, and mom came up and she was like, is this what you do all day?

[00:02:40] I was like, things gotta get done. So. Yes, when, when I say vacation, it was a vacation from recording ‘cause we did all that recording and then I released stuff. I still didn’t release as much content as I originally planned on because I did take, you know, little breaks. Right. So I did do that, but you gotta understand it’s the end of the year.

[00:03:05] So for my main job, this is like my busy season. So

[00:03:10] it wasn’t just, I’m working on podcast stuff. I actually had a real job and I got other little side projects that I do. So it’s a vacation on the fact that I could drink while doing the work. That’s,

Jay Aundrea: [00:03:22] Sure. Yeah. Okay, sure. Here’s what I noticed about me on vacation. I don’t do it right. I can’t. Calm down. Like I can’t relax.

[00:03:35] I always feel like I have to be doing something, so I can’t just like, like staycation, like just sit around and just chill.

[00:03:45] Like I don’t, I am always up popping up, going around the house doing little this and that.

[00:03:55] Like I don’t know how to relax. And even though, even if I go somewhere on vacation, like I do things, like I take tours, you know, I go to the museums, I go see the things, I do the touristy stuff, you know, like I don’t just sit on a beach quietly and like read a book or something like that. I’ll be like, okay.

[00:04:15] After about 10 minutes, I’m like, all right, what’s, where are we, where are we going now? Like, what are we doing now?

Bruce Anthony: [00:04:16] So I saw this question. It was on Instagram, Twitter, or something like that, and it was. If you do nothing in a day, do you consider that a good or bad day? And normally I would consider that a bad day, but I purposely designate days because I know that I need to recharge.

[00:04:35] I purposely designate days where it’s just like I don’t have to do anything that day, and that’s my day to not do anything.

[00:04:45] And I create that mindset in It’s okay for you not to do anything today? Um, typically that’s Sunday, but you know, I mean we, we, we doing stuff on Sunday, but after that,

Jay Aundrea: [00:04:53] early. We’re we’re doing, we’re doing a little bit earlier,

Bruce Anthony: [00:04:56] we doing a little bit earlier, but New Year’s Day was that for me. I sat around and I said, well, you know, it’s the holiday. I don’t have to do anything.

[00:05:10] I can’t clean because we don’t wanna wash nobody outside the family.

Jay Aundrea: [00:05:10] That’s laundry.

Bruce Anthony: [00:05:12] well I ain’t do no

Bruce Anthony: [00:05:13] cleaning.

Jay Aundrea: [00:05:14] You supposed to, I think you, I think you’re supposed to clean. You’re supposed to like sweep the dust out of the door ‘cause it’s like sweeping bed. The bad juju out the door or something. It’s like it’s a whole bunch of stuff. And child, I did none of it. Our mother calls like, did you eat your black eye peas?

[00:05:35] I didn’t because listen, I ain’t eat ‘em last year and I had a good 2025. So I’m just like, I’ve been eating them

every year before.

Bruce Anthony: [00:05:39] financially you about to have a good 20 26, 20 25 financially. Uh,

Jay Aundrea: [00:05:45] that great.

But like in

Bruce Anthony: [00:05:47] is it black eyed peas or is it just peas

or bees?

Jay Aundrea: [00:05:51] It’s black eye

Bruce Anthony: [00:05:52] well, I, I read, I hopping Johns red beans and rice from Popeye’s.

Jay Aundrea: [00:05:57] That’s not it.

Bruce Anthony: [00:05:58] Well, who knows? ‘cause I’ve heard different things and I’m tired of these negro spirituals.

I’m tired of them.

Jay Aundrea: [00:06:03] It’s not just us.

[00:06:10] You know who also has a No, it’s not that either. You know, who also has a lot of New Year’s traditions, Latinos, like you

[00:06:15] gotta like walk around your house with a suitcase ‘cause it means you’ll travel that year or something like that. And then like something about eating grapes. There’s like a whole, I saw, I saw a reel about it, I think was, it was like a, all of these New Year’s day traditions and superstitions in the Latino CI think just people of color, just superstitious.

[00:06:35] That’s what

Bruce Anthony: [00:06:35] Yeah, well, it didn’t help them Venezuelans, uh, anyway, that, you know what ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know

Jay Aundrea: [00:06:40] That is the,

Bruce Anthony: [00:06:41] that.

Jay Aundrea: [00:06:42] yeah,

Bruce Anthony: [00:06:43] Um, so what you just need to designate to, to answer or to help you out with what you’re suggestion is where you can’t sit in relax. You need to designate and just say, Hey, I’ve done things this week.

[00:07:00] It’s okay for me to sit still. Um, I sat still on New Year’s Day and watched three of the John Wick movies, and you know what I found out?

Jay Aundrea: [00:07:05] Hmm.

Bruce Anthony: [00:07:06] them. I really liked them.

Jay Aundrea: [00:07:07] Yeah, I haven’t seen them, but if you like them and you recommended the Equalizer trilogy and that was amazing.

[00:07:20] I am going to sit and watch the, the John Wickes sis.

Bruce Anthony: [00:07:22] Our brother was like, they’re good. And, and if you like, ‘cause me and you were sitting around, we fell in love with Jason Statham movies. Like I was on the IM db, like, which new one can I watch? Um,

Jay Aundrea: [00:07:34] two. When is that coming out? Because

I saw you,

[00:07:40] that. and I I was Okay. What’s, what’s up

Beekeeper

Bruce Anthony: [00:07:41] ladies and gentlemen, y’all need to watch Jason sta them’s beekeeper.

[00:07:50] Is it kind of hokey? Yeah. Is the premise kind of strange? Okay.

But

Jay Aundrea: [00:07:52] the premise is Jason Statham equalizing, like

That’s.

[00:08:00] his, that’s the premise for all his movies. He’s a regular guy that secretly has military training or was an operative or something, but now he’s a civilian living a regular life. Somebody, somebody who cared for him is now in trouble or died or something, and he has to go equalize.

[00:08:15] And that’s, that’s, the premise. I like equalizer movies.

Bruce Anthony: [00:08:18] S ladies, gentlemen, equalizer movies are just what we called them from the equalizer where one man or a group of people going right or wrong, it’s helping the little person against the big people. You will like John Wick. John Wick is crazy though. You know John Wick three. The only thing I’ll tell you about that movie is, and when I said it to somebody, they were like, you’re absolutely right.

John Wig three is Warriors remake

Jay Aundrea: [00:08:44] Okay.

Bruce Anthony: [00:08:45] the movie The Warriors is The Warriors remake. And for those people out there

Jay Aundrea: [00:08:49] Warriors come out to play and

Warriors.

Bruce Anthony: [00:08:52] For those people listening and watching that has seen John Week three and seen Warriors, when you think about it, you’d be like, you know what, Bruce? You are absolutely right.

And I’m like, I know I’m right because that’s what it is. Um.

Jay Aundrea: [00:09:03] And I, I, I also just love that it’s like one person against this like entire organization that is literally like a big bad, like a huge villain. And, and this one person. Takes on everyone. Everyone. It never, rarely ever gets hit. Might get clipped with a bullet, might get sliced on the arm with a knife, but I’m like, for this to be a big, bad villain organization, they’re really bad shots because they never hit this person.

[00:09:35] They’re not running that fast. Jason Statham isn’t Usain Bolt. He’s not running that fast. Like, and it’s just like the impossibility of it. But I just love it. I just, I just love it.

Bruce Anthony: [00:09:46] You know how old Jason Statham is? I looked it up the other day. You know how old he is?

Jay Aundrea: [00:09:50] I wanna say like 51,

Bruce Anthony: [00:09:52] 58.

Jay Aundrea: [00:09:54] you are lying

Bruce Anthony: [00:09:55] I’m dead serious. 58.

Jay Aundrea: [00:09:58] and still out there equalizing,

Bruce Anthony: [00:10:00] Still about to equalize and again, with the beekeeper too. Um, look, the only thing I’ll say is sometimes these movies, a lot of times these movies get absolutely ridiculous. Expendables, right? That’s the movies with Es, Sylvester Stallone. And he snatches up all these eighties and nineties action heroes and creates this team.

[00:10:20] They go fight and expendables three, they take on an army, a whole army, which, okay, like they, it is normally a platoon or, or a a,

[00:10:35] a group taking on the army. The only thing is this army has literal tanks.

[00:10:40] They are fighting against a army with tanks, okay? They are outnumbered 20 to one and not one person gets shot on their team.

[00:10:50] And I was like, I was watching, I was like, this is ridiculous. And then I thought to myself, do the creators know this is tongue in cheek. ‘cause watching John Wick. One, two and three on New Year’s Day. I was like, I just came up with a spoof movie. I just came up with a spoof movie. ‘cause I want to know, is it tongue in cheek?

[00:11:10] Do the directors and the creators know this is all, this is a spoof, right? This is, this is like die hard. Could kind of maybe be true,

Jay Aundrea: [00:11:14] Yeah, because, because, John McClain got beat up

Bruce Anthony: [00:11:18] right,

Jay Aundrea: [00:11:20] at the

[00:11:25] end. He, he ain’t got no shoes on. His little wife beater is all bloody, he’s been through it. Like he’s been through it trying to take on, I mean, he was in air ducts, like, it wasn’t like he just walked in the front door like John McClain put it. Oh man. Uh, um, diehard three. was running

[00:11:45] all over New York with

Samuel Jackson?

Bruce Anthony: [00:11:47] it’s another Warriors movie. Then look, lemme tell you something. They stole, they took that movie that’s iconic and it, as I was watching the John Wicks, I was like, it’s elements of that movie, elements of this movie, elements of that movie. And it’s like they take these ideas from other movies and throw it in all altogether and they’re all kind of repetitive.

Jay Aundrea: [00:12:07] But they’re still good because the thing is like, you know the ending, you

[00:12:15] know how the movie’s gonna go. You already know the story arc. It’s not a new story. Right? Equalizing is not a new story. One person going up against, that’s why people like the 300, right? It’s a small group up against a vast army.

[00:12:25] Like how are they gonna win? And they do somehow, like everybody, you know that story, right? It’s the

[00:12:35] underdog story and you want to see it every single time because it’s just, it’s been around for so long. Because it’s so good.

Bruce Anthony: [00:12:37] It’s David Ver laugh. that’s

Jay Aundrea: [00:12:38] yeah. Yeah. You wanna see the one guy win and get justice for whoever

Bruce Anthony: [00:12:45] You know, where that, that trope gets, uh, is not used in a surprising shock. At the end,

Jay Aundrea: [00:12:54] was that?

Bruce Anthony: [00:12:55] the departed,

Jay Aundrea: [00:12:57] Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:12:58] the departed Leonardo DiCaprio was supposed to bring down, uh, Jack Nicholson’s character, and he died. Oh, spoiler alert. He dies abruptly towards the end of the movie. You’re like, wait a minute. What the, when it looks like he didn’t say today.

[00:13:15] You’re like, wait a minute. What the, what happened? And so I liked, but it also pissed me off ‘cause I was like, no, I wanted to see him win in the end. So there’s a part of me, like, when you watch these horror movies and every now and then the bad guy wins in the end it’s like, yeah, it kind of want the bad guy to win in the end, but maybe I don’t.

[00:13:35] Kind of like Avengers, infinity, uh, infinity War when Thanos won, in the end I was like, oh, this is a perfect inning. ‘cause I know there’s gonna be a part two. He gonna get his come upping somehow.

Jay Aundrea: [00:13:42] Event. Ultimately we want a happy ending.

Bruce Anthony: [00:13:45] Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: [00:13:45] Ultimately, we want a happy ending, and when the ending is not happy, we be like, uh. What, what am I supposed to do with this? How do I carry on with the rest of my day? I’m gonna be thinking about this now all day

[00:14:05] because I didn’t get the satisfying, happy ending where the hero wins that.

I don’t like that.

Bruce Anthony: [00:14:09] Well,

[00:14:15] that’s funny. That’s real funny that you bring that up because in the next segment I’m going to go ahead and dissect why that’s not necessarily true. How people don’t want happy endings. Well, especially women because they are sociopaths. But before we get into the next segment, what other quirky things did you pick up on when I was around you for this period of time?

[00:14:40] Because somebody else says something to me that is like, is Bruce okay? And I was like, I’m just fine. This y’all are just seeing me in my normal everyday element. I be doing stuff. I be working.

Jay Aundrea: [00:14:47] Yeah. Uh, I think what surprised me the most is how much of a homebody you are. Like, I know I’m a homebody. I don’t go outside. I go outside, but I don’t go outside, not if I can help it. Right. It is gotta

[00:15:05] be like an event or something. But you, you be in the house. Like you in the house. I was like, I was like, I wonder if Bruce wants to do something today or like go somewhere.

[00:15:10] He was like, I’m in the house. And I’m like, that’s cool. I can get with that.

Bruce Anthony: [00:15:13] Well, that’s a new thing.

Jay Aundrea: [00:15:14] Okay. Because I, yeah. ‘cause I feel

like you used to be outside.

Bruce Anthony: [00:15:19] Couldn’t sit still. I had to be outside doing, especially when I was down there. I mean, prime example is we drive your car down there. I drive all day, moved them washer and dryers from from our brother’s apartment to you and his new apartment. Went back into his apartment and said, all right man, I’m about to jump in the shower.

Where are we going tonight? And he was like, what? And I was like, yeah, we gotta hit the streets

Jay Aundrea: [00:15:39] All this energy, all this like, you always gotta be outside and but this time you were like, nah, I got my drink in my two step and I’m good. I

am good. I’m in the house.

Bruce Anthony: [00:15:49] this time. Last time as well. You don’t remember last time I was there for New Year’s Eve, I was there for a good minute. New Year’s Eve too,

man. We didn’t wet, we didn’t do nothing.

Jay Aundrea: [00:15:58] yeah,

Bruce Anthony: [00:15:59] We made trips to go like. Pick up stuff for the New Year’s Eve party, but I don’t look, I don’t be doing too much. I’m tired.

My knees hurt, my back hurt. I’m getting older.

[00:16:10] Uh, I ain’t moving like I used to.

Jay Aundrea: [00:16:12] Yeah. And it costs a hundred dollars to walk out your front door.

Bruce Anthony: [00:16:15] that’s, that’s another thing, right? Like I got all these different ventures that are costing and so it’s like, nah, I would rather invest in myself than invest in a, a bar or a restaurant getting my money. Although we went to a brunch spot and I was like, this is lit.

I like this brunch spot.

Jay Aundrea: [00:16:34] Yeah. Yes.

Tease brunch bar. That was, that was a, that was a fun place. I’ll definitely go back.

Bruce Anthony: [00:16:39] But Atlanta,

[00:16:45] y’all got to do your all day brunch better because

Jay Aundrea: [00:16:45] figure it out. Like just have some people come to DC and see how to do brunch correctly, which is

[00:16:55] an all day event. Yeah, it’s an all day event. And then redesign your city so that it’s walkable Atlanta. Like seriously, like in DC there’ll be just a block of bars and restaurant. You can just walk and it, everything is there.

And y’all, Atlanta is not like that.

[00:17:15] It’ll be like one or two restaurants on the street and then you gotta walk 16 blocks to hit the next bar. It’s not, no.

Bruce Anthony: [00:17:21] Atlanta have pockets though? Atlanta have pockets. I’ve been to pockets of Atlanta unless pandemic shut it down where there’s a bunch of stuff. Like in one particular area.

Jay Aundrea: [00:17:31] yeah. It’s got like little neighborhoods. Like, um, like little five points or something like that. Like it’s got little neighborhoods. You can go to Edgewood and that’s pretty walkable. Um, but like by and large, if you just step into any like, damn near any part of dc damn near

Bruce Anthony: [00:17:52] Used to be,

Jay Aundrea: [00:17:54] But yeah, I haven’t been, I, I haven’t been really, really home in a while, like where I’m walking around the city, but like you could find stuff to do on just that block all day.

Bruce Anthony: [00:18:07] All day.

Jay Aundrea: [00:18:08] is not like that. You

[00:18:10] have to go to these specific pockets in areas. You can’t just drop into Atlanta and think you about to walk around and have fun all day.

You not.

Bruce Anthony: [00:18:18] for my friends that live in Atlanta, that was like, Bruce, you was in Atlanta and you didn’t come see me. There was a specific reason why I was down there. And I know that my sister said I was a homebody. There was a reason why I was down there being a homebody. And the reason why I wasn’t venturing out that I didn’t go see my usual friends.

[00:18:40] Don’t worry, I’m coming back down there sometime within the next couple of months and I’m gonna see people. All right. So don’t be hitting me in my DM ‘cause I’m be real honest. Uh, new Year’s Day, didn’t a lot of people get New Year’s day texts. We gonna talk about how petty I was, how petty I’m already being on this, on New Year’s and the after hours, which by the way.

[00:19:00] You get the after hours uncensored on our YouTube membership or our Patreon page for $5 a month. Or you could buy single episodes for $3, which, why would you do that? Why would you buy a single episode for $3 when you can get multiple episodes for $5? But it’s $5

Jay Aundrea: [00:19:14] Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: [00:19:15] sign up. ‘cause we be talking about some stuff and our after hours is gonna be a little bit more structured and I’m gonna be doing my messy show where I talk about stuff that I cannot talk about on the air.

[00:19:30] Like one of my messy shows was how I really feel about the Charlie Kirk assassination. You definitely want to hear that. But on that note, Jade, do you have any more diddly ding you wanna do before I get into why women are sociopaths?

Jay Aundrea: [00:19:39] No, I’m very interested to talk about that.

Bruce Anthony: [00:19:42] Okay, we go get into that next,

Bruce Anthony: [00:19:54] Jay. Something I noticed on this trip when I visited you.

Jay Aundrea: [00:19:58] Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: [00:19:59] As soon as, as soon as our mother got there, y’all sat y’all asses down on the couch

[00:20:10] and watched serial killer stuff. You were already watching it when I came in. ‘cause I was the first one to arrive.

Jay Aundrea: [00:20:12] Yes.

Bruce Anthony: [00:20:13] Serial killer stuff. And I’ve been noticing that a lot of women watch these serial killers murder mysteries and they watch ‘em all day.

[00:20:25] They watch ‘em in bed before they go to sleep. And that’s how I have decided that women are sociopaths. Because why?

[00:20:35] Why are y’all watching women? People and kids being kidnapped, tortured, dismembered all the time by these serial killers. And then just go to bed and just go. I watched a little bit of Stranger Things and Becca or whoever that main character is, scary face, had me waking up in the middle of the night thinking that he was in the room about to snap my arm off.

[00:21:00] Uh, so I don’t understand how women,

[00:21:05] and it’s a, I don’t wanna say it’s an epidemic, but close of women just watching and listening to podcasts or, or audio books of all this stuff and then go to sleep and sleep peacefully. And that means you’re a sociopath.

Jay Aundrea: [00:21:19] No it doesn’t. There is a very good and very simple reason why you watching forensic files keeps you up at night. Me watching forensic files allows me to sleep peacefully. It’s because you are safe when you walk around the world. I’m doing research. You notice who the victims are. Women and children.

Bruce Anthony: [00:21:44] Yeah.

Jay Aundrea: [00:21:45] I’m doing research. I can sleep comfortably ‘cause I know now I can recognize an unsub when I see one

Bruce Anthony: [00:21:52] Well else that’s different. An unsub is from Criminal Minds,

Jay Aundrea: [00:21:56] criminal minds. But who are typically the victims?

[00:22:05] Women and children are typically the victims who are typically the perpetrators

Bruce Anthony: [00:22:06] man.

Jay Aundrea: [00:22:07] who are serial killers. When there

was one.

Bruce Anthony: [00:22:10] men.

Jay Aundrea: [00:22:11] Yeah, there was one that white lady and then, uh, Charice Theron played her in a, in a movie. ICA Monster. I can’t

Bruce Anthony: [00:22:18] Oh, that African American.

Jay Aundrea: [00:22:20] Yes, I

Bruce Anthony: [00:22:23] That’s the reason why I hate the term African American y’all. ‘cause Charlie Theon is an African American.

Jay Aundrea: [00:22:29] Well, we gonna, nor we’re gonna normalize Charlize Theron and not,

Bruce Anthony: [00:22:34] Well, yeah. I don’t know why.

Jay Aundrea: [00:22:35] Love, which is what you just said.

Bruce Anthony: [00:22:36] I did not say phase I love, I said Charlie Theod, whatever. I screwed up her name.

Jay Aundrea: [00:22:42] But yeah, it’s, it’s research. It, we’re not sociopaths. We’re trying to make sure that when we go out into the world, we can see, we can see it coming. Y’all not gonna catch us off guard. So we doing research,

Bruce Anthony: [00:22:58] Well, you ain’t wrong. You ain’t wrong. ‘cause I did a little research on this topic

[00:23:05] and I put it on the rundown. So you already saw that it was coming, but there are several studies and

Jay Aundrea: [00:23:06] I didn’t read the rundown though. I just read the headlines.

So there you go.

Bruce Anthony: [00:23:10] okay. Ladies and gentlemen,

Jay Aundrea: [00:23:14] The truth comes out.

Bruce Anthony: [00:23:16] I do all that work to create rundowns

Jay Aundrea: [00:23:18] I read it.

[00:23:20] as you’re reading it. Because then, because then my reactions, I mean, typically I do read the rundown.

[00:23:30] Sometimes I don’t, if I look at the headlines, I’m like, I’m not gonna read this, the the, like the, am I the jerks or am I the assholes? I never read because I want my honest reaction

Bruce Anthony: [00:23:37] Right. Okay. I

Jay Aundrea: [00:23:37] to it. So it just depends on what the topic is. Sometimes I’ll read it, sometimes I won’t.

Bruce Anthony: [00:23:43] Okay. All right. Well, there are several studies and

Bruce Anthony: [00:23:45] psychological theories that try to explain why so many women are drawn to murder mysteries and true crimes, including watching them at night before sleep. Audience, data and surveys show that women make up a clear majority of true crime consumers, often estimated around 70, 80% for books, podcasts, and tv.

[00:24:05] A 2010 study. They’ve been studying this for a long time.

[00:24:10] Of true crime book reviews found women were especially interested when stories contain practical information on how victims escaped or how crimes were solved, suggesting a self protection motive. So Jay, you are absolutely right. This is. Research, but it, but my question is, even in that re I’m researching when I watched the John Wick, right?

[00:24:35] Like, I wanna know what’s gonna happen if some assassins come after me. And you know what I found out,

Jay Aundrea: [00:24:40] Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: [00:24:41] I’m not prepared to defend myself because if somebody come at me with a knife, odds are they gonna get some slices up and I’m gonna get some cuts.

So that’s what I found out.

Jay Aundrea: [00:24:52] because you’re researching something outlandish. Women, researching women being killed

is not outlandish.

Bruce Anthony: [00:25:01] that’s, that’s, been happening since the beginning of time. That’s that, that,

Jay Aundrea: [00:25:04] that’s reality. And so being able to see, okay, what are they using to solve crimes? Okay, how can I, how can I make a plan for myself so that I can leave evidence behind if I don’t make it outta here

So they know who did it.

[00:25:25] Like how could, what, what do I need to look for? What are some of the tactics that, um, that folks are using now to, to get you, uh, in a position to where you’re vulnerable? Like, what are they doing? This is all, it’s all research for real life.

Bruce Anthony: [00:25:42] So once again, my sister is right. Many researchers and clinicians argue that women use true crime to learn what to do or not do. Study red flags in relationships and

Jay Aundrea: [00:25:54] I’m on it. I did not read that

Bruce Anthony: [00:25:56] didn’t read it and understand how offenders think, which can create a feeling of being more prepared or less vulnerable.

[00:26:05] Uh, for some women repeatedly confronting, feared situations, kidnapping, stalking, or assault in a control way can function like exposure. It gives an adrenaline rush, but from a safe environment and can oddly feel calming and or empowering. Now, I’m not a woman. Never been a woman. Uh, love women. Think women are the top of the food chain as far as humans are concerned.

[00:26:35] Y’all know, if you are routinely listening and watching this show, how much affection I have for women and how I think they are just better than men in almost every way except for physical strength. That’s literally, I think the only thing that we have over ‘em. I know men in the men’s sphere are going to attack that.

[00:26:50] I’m beta, I dare you to say it to my face. I’ll probably pull out your eye like a John Wick move, but.

Jay Aundrea: [00:26:53] yeah. Good luck. He’s big guys, so. Don’t, don’t do that. Play

where it’s safe.

Bruce Anthony: [00:26:58] but I get the fact that women are watching these things for the calming and empowering. It’s the same reason why people do self-defense

Jay Aundrea: [00:27:11] Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: [00:27:11] or uh, martial arts.

[00:27:15] It’s just changing the idea of a physical defense to a mental, emotional, and psychological defense.

Jay Aundrea: [00:27:22] Yes, exactly. Like it is, it is a type of exposure therapy. Um, because when you become, not desensitized, but just, uh, yeah, a little bit desensitized to it. Right. If you ever find yourself in a situation like that, you are more likely to recall the things that you’ve seen and what you remember than to panic. You are gonna panic on some level, right? Like your whole nervous system, everything’s gonna shoot up your adrenaline, all the things, but you’re gonna re, you’ll remember I seen this in like 80 episodes of, of cold case files. And I don’t want to be a cold case, so I know I gotta scratch ‘em and get some DNA under my nails and I know I gotta do this and that.

[00:28:15] Like, or here’s how I can get out. ‘cause I saw another woman, she got away and this is what she did. Like you’ll recall that stuff. You’ll be more present mentally because you’ve exposed yourself to it over and over and over again. And now you know what to look out for and you almo also have a sense of what to do.

[00:28:35] It’s the same with self-defense, like you are practicing it over and over and over again until those moves become almost like things you can do unconsciously. Your body will just move on its own. It’s the same kind of thing.

Bruce Anthony: [00:28:48] So my question at the beginning, the reason why I said women are sociopaths and ladies and gentlemen, like if you’ve watched this show, I know this show, you know, I was being tongue in cheek with that. Like, you know, I really don’t think women are sociopaths. And uh, for my sister, she thought, uh, because I can’t spell, I put sociopath.

[00:29:10] And she was like, oh, I guess that’s a new thing. Nope. I meant to say sociopath on the

Jay Aundrea: [00:29:11] Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:29:11] but my question was why are women doing this at nighttime? Because you wanna clear your mind for a clear head and be able to reach peacefully, and it’s because I’m a male. I don’t identify with the female’s life, but it’s pretty understandable and pretty easy to explain.

[00:29:35] Nighttime is often the only uninterrupted me time,

[00:29:40] so long form shows and podcasts fit naturally into a winding down routine despite the dark content. Some women report that focusing on structured suspenseful narrative actually distracts from intrusive worries about real life work, money, relationships, making it easier to fall asleep even though the topic is violent.

Jay Aundrea: [00:29:56] Yeah, you gotta understand, I’m off work now. I’ve eaten the kitchen’s clean and the light is on over the stove, which means nobody can go in there. The kids are in the bed. Now. I can enjoy my time and this is the only time that I have, that I can watch first 48. Eh, I, I wish I could watch it another time. I wish I could watch it when it’s light out. Maybe I’ll get to see some on the weekend while I’m cleaning, but typically, yeah, you watch it at night. It’s not a, it’s not an intentional thing. Like, let me watch it in the dark so I can, you know, scare myself. No, it’s just, that’s the only time I got to watch it, so I watch it.

Bruce Anthony: [00:30:39] Yeah, men out there, if you’ve ever lived by yourself and actually taken care of your home. ‘cause some men out here live a minimalist lifestyle and don’t actually take care of their home. They don’t clean. I, I’m speaking in generalities out there because I could tell you that I’m the exception I clean every week.

Jay Aundrea: [00:30:59] you’re very, again, this is another way in which you’re meticulous,

[00:31:05] that you didn’t know that you were meticulous until I pointed it out, but

Yeah.

even in your cleaning, very meticulous.

Bruce Anthony: [00:31:09] Yes. So when you do these things, when you do meal preparation and you gotta do the dishes and you gotta clean the kitchen after you do the dishes because the meal prep, you know, got grease all over the stove and you gotta wipe down that stove and you gotta wipe down the wall around the stove ‘cause that grease be popping and it’s all over the place.

[00:31:30] When you do these things, you realize how difficult it is to maintain a house.

It is difficult.

[00:31:35] It is difficult by yourself having a job, maintaining a house. Now imagine, now imagine you got kids. Now there are gonna be some men out there that be like, I help out around the house. You do what your wife or partner tells you what to do,

[00:31:50] how often are you initiating and doing the things?

And I’m not just talking about taking out the trash.

Jay Aundrea: [00:31:53] Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:31:54] I have people that are in my life. I’m not gonna say specific people that are in relationships, male friends

[00:32:05] that. For their significant others. They do those things without asking. And you know what they say Sex life is fantastic. You know why? She got more energy.

Jay Aundrea: [00:32:13] She got energy. She has energy. She has time, and she likes you because you do the thing without me having to tell you to do the thing. And then first of all, I’ve already got to, I tell you two, three times to do the thing. Then you finally start to do the thing, and then you ask me at every step. How I do that?

[00:32:35] Where’s this? Where’s that? Okay. I might as well have just done the fang by myself. So for, for you to take the initiative, like we both see them dirty dishes in the sink and you be like, let me go ahead and get these dishes together. And I didn’t say nothing. You’re living a good life.

Bruce Anthony: [00:32:53] And you give her a little bit more of that me time so she could watch these murder mysteries. I’m telling you fellas, I’m

Bruce Anthony: [00:33:00] telling you it’s not being a simp, it’s being a partner.

Jay Aundrea: [00:33:04] because the thing is, all I’m asking for is like an hour go. You play your PlayStation, I’ll watch cold case files. We got our little time and no, listen, that’s the brothers, that’s that. That’s the men that are married. And it’s like what you talking about? My wife’s my best friend.

[00:33:25] She is my piece. Why? Because they actually help.

Bruce Anthony: [00:33:26] Yeah, they actually helped and they, they actually liked the women that they married and they didn’t just marry ‘em to just have a family, which some people do. Hey, I was even a victim of that one time. Just wanted a family and it was like, let me grab this person, even though I did love that person. Let me, not slight them, but are there potential downsides to this?

[00:33:50] There are, mental health professionals also warn that heavy, especially bedtime consumption can worsen anxiety, sleep, and paranoia in some people leading to more fear of being victimized. For people with a history of trauma or assault, intense crime content can be triggering rather than empowering. And experts often recommend monitoring symptoms and cutting back if this, if distress increases.

[00:34:15] So for women out there to enjoy it, but having trouble sleeping, yeah, don’t do it at the end of the night.

Jay Aundrea: [00:34:18] As much do it on the weekends,

Bruce Anthony: [00:34:21] I know you trying to carve out your own personal time and for my single mothers out there, what did, um, what did Tupac say for my single mothers out there? Bruce cares even if nobody else cares. I understand that you don’t have a lot of alone time where you could do it,

[00:34:40] and the nighttime has to be it.

[00:34:45] Maybe don’t do it every night. If you’re seeing that it’s causing you extra distress, just don’t do it every night,

Jay Aundrea: [00:34:46] yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:34:47] but it don’t seem like it cause you any distress. you

Jay Aundrea: [00:34:50] no, but

Bruce Anthony: [00:34:50] a baby.

Jay Aundrea: [00:34:51] Well, typically it is like, okay, if, if a person has any self-awareness at all, you know what your triggers are,

[00:35:00] you know what your history is, and you know what your triggers are. So typically, I would say people like women who are, who are watching true crime and start to feel anxiety and things based on their past, um, based on their own trauma, will shut it off.

[00:35:20] Like it’s, we’re, I realize that the, okay, this is triggering me now. Let me, let me. Turn on some cartoons or something like, like that. I think most people, if you have any kind of self-awareness, you’ll realize okay, this thing is, is not like, there are times where episode different episodes will come on and I will see, you know, what the crime was and be like, this is not one I really wanna watch.

[00:35:45] Um, so I’ll skip that episode, like it’ll this, that’s fine. Like, you can do that.

Bruce Anthony: [00:35:46] Yeah. I, I, you know how much I love forensic files? I, that little theme song when it come on, look, got get me every time,

Jay Aundrea: [00:35:55] Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:35:56] but there are basically. I can watch any episodes where spouses like, kill each other. Not because I ever wanted to kill my spouse, but like, that’s, like, that’s common to me that that happens.

[00:36:10] Unfortunately, I can’t see nothing with really this, I don’t know the right adjective to use. Really bad stuff happen in the women and children, like really bad stuff, especially children. Children are the top. I can’t see nothing bad happening to children at all. I, that’s the reason why I kind of stopped watching Stranger Things

Jay Aundrea: [00:36:32] Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: [00:36:33] ‘cause they were kids.

[00:36:35] They were, they were being, they were fighting as mom said, like, I later gentlemen, I stopped watching Stranger Things in season three and I’m just, I, the series just ended and I’m not watching those episodes. I’m on Wikipedia and YouTube finding out how the story ended,

Jay Aundrea: [00:36:49] yeah. That’s sa same, so I stopped, I think season two or season three. You can watch this last season and you, you catch up pretty cool. I watched the last season. It’s easier because they’re teenagers, they’re all like tall and big, like clearly more mature.

[00:37:10] Um, so it doesn’t feel at, and there’s like more adults involved in the final season finally.

[00:37:20] So it, it doesn’t feel so much as like vulnerable children

Bruce Anthony: [00:37:21] Mm. Okay.

Jay Aundrea: [00:37:22] Their lives being at risk. They, they all feel much, much stronger, um, as characters and much more mature as characters. And honestly, I didn’t need to watch season three or four. Is this season five?

Bruce Anthony: [00:37:37] Yeah, it was season five.

I

[00:37:40] don’t know. It

Jay Aundrea: [00:37:40] to watch the other ones to catch up with the story.

I, I got it

[00:37:45] and it was, and it was good.

Bruce Anthony: [00:37:45] Okay, well I’ve heard different reviews, what I watched, and you know, I’m taking it almost kind of outta context ‘cause I’m not watching all the episodes. Look like Avengers look, look like the, one of the final baddest scenes was Avengers Assemble. Um,

Jay Aundrea: [00:38:01] yeah, I mean, ‘cause they all like, well, they all have their own strengths and they all fight in their own way, whether they have powers or they

don’t. of the,

[00:38:15] uh, some of them use their

Bruce Anthony: [00:38:15] are detouring. We, we were talking about murder mysteries. And ladies, gentlemen. A DH. D-A-D-H-D.

Jay Aundrea: [00:38:21] There it is.

Bruce Anthony: [00:38:22] let’s get, let’s get back on topic. So Jay,

Jay Aundrea: [00:38:25] Anyway, watch it

and I think you’ll enjoy it. I think you’ll really will.

Bruce Anthony: [00:38:28] What, do you have any parting shots for women being sociopaths?

Jay Aundrea: [00:38:36] Yeah. We’re not, man, it’s, it’s research. It’s just research. Like that’s, that’s honestly how I feel about it. And it’s, and also I like these show, the, the one show I don’t like is Unsolved Mysteries. Right. Because unless it’s like the cool ghost ones, you know, but if it’s like actual kidnappings murdered, and they, they, the show’s called Unsolved Mystery, they don’t solve the mystery.

[00:39:05] And so I like cold case files. I like forensic files. I like first 48 because they get that person in the end.

Bruce Anthony: [00:39:11] Yeah.

Jay Aundrea: [00:39:12] You

know what I’m

Bruce Anthony: [00:39:12] happy endings?

Jay Aundrea: [00:39:13] I like happy endings. It’s come, it’s full circle.

[00:39:20] I like happy endings. They get that person in the end, they get justice for that person in the end. And you get to see people in law enforcement who are actually in law enforcement to get justice for the system’s still broken because you still only acting after something’s happened.

Bruce Anthony: [00:39:34] Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: [00:39:34] There’s no preventative measures, but like how much they, you see detectives like connecting with the family and with the victim and being like, I want to get justice for this person. They deserve to have justice. This family deserves closure. And to see this person behind bars and then they actually get them through their own like hard work and intelligence and, and you’re like, yeah, now I can go to sleep

Bruce Anthony: [00:40:03] Yeah,

Jay Aundrea: [00:40:04] because that person is off the street.

Bruce Anthony: [00:40:08] so as I said, I have this reverence for women and what I’m about to say is gonna make sense to a lot of white people who have reverence for black Americans or people that immigrated here. The reason why I have such high reverence for women. Is because damn it, I’m glad I’m a man ‘cause y’all life is too hard and y’all gotta watch out for too much and, and be responsible for everything.

And I don’t want that. I am so glad

Jay Aundrea: [00:40:44] yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:40:45] that I identify and was born as a male because life is hard being anything else. And life is hard enough. Just being a black male. I don’t want no other added stuff on it. Like being a black female or being a black male in the LGBTQ plus community. I have high reference for all those people.

[00:41:10] ‘cause that struggle I ain’t built for.

Jay Aundrea: [00:41:13] And it’s funny because just in the same way you ask most black people, would you want to come back as anything else? They would say, no, I will always come back as black. I will, I would always come back as a woman.

[00:41:30] Even though you’re right. Right. It’s still like, I couldn’t imagine being anything else

[00:41:35] because it gives you a type of just knowledge and a skillset and a strength, um, that you just, you wouldn’t have any other way.

[00:41:50] So I couldn’t imagine not being a black woman with all that I have to deal with in this country and in the world.

Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:41:57] And that’s the truth, Ruth. But up next, speaking of Stranger Things and forensic files, we gonna get into these streaming services next.

Bruce Anthony: [00:42:17] Jay. Look, it’s, these streaming services is starting to get outta hand.

Jay Aundrea: [00:42:22] Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:42:23] And you know what I’m noticing is that. Certain streaming services are taken over the other, like Netflix buying Warner Brothers. That means that whatever Warner Brothers has, I I, I think it’s HBO plus or Max, it is changed so many different times.

Jay Aundrea: [00:42:41] they, so it was HBO Max, then they said, we’re just gonna have Max. And everybody hated it because the brand as HBO.

Bruce Anthony: [00:42:50] Well, first it was HBO Go, it was HBO Go first, and then Cinemax and HBO merged, I guess.

Jay Aundrea: [00:42:57] Yes, and it’s HBO Max. And then they were like, we’re just gonna do, it’s just the max. It’s just Max. No, the brand is HBO. People know HBO. Why would you take the brand off the brand? So then they went back because people hated it so much. Back to HBO Max.

Bruce Anthony: [00:43:15] Well now,

[00:43:20] soon it’s gonna be Netflix because, well, why am I bringing all this up? Because Disney has decided to sunset the standalone Hulu app and fully integrate Hulu into Disney Plus in 2026. Hulu has been a separate platform interface, but that’s gonna disappear. And all the Hulu content and branding live inside of Disney Plus instead of on their own app,

[00:43:45] which you always had like the bundle, the Disney plus Hulu, ESPN bundle.

Jay Aundrea: [00:43:47] Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:43:48] But you kind of needed, for me, I needed to have the separate apps so I knew where to go to watch certain things. But then you would say to yourself, well, Bruce is all gonna be in the one place. Yeah. If that interface is divided properly, where I can still easily find everything that I need to find,

Jay Aundrea: [00:44:08] yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:44:09] but what.

[00:44:15] Slowly these streaming services have become, because at first they were a great alternative to, to getting cable right.

Jay Aundrea: [00:44:20] Yes.

Bruce Anthony: [00:44:20] But now with them all gobbling each other up and as they gobble each other up raising the price, I might as well fucking have cable.

Jay Aundrea: [00:44:31] you might as well, you just dropped a F-bomb in the real show.

Bruce Anthony: [00:44:35] Yeah. Well, I’m allowed one, I think

Jay Aundrea: [00:44:38] I,

[00:44:40] thought it was the S word. I thought. I thought we could

Bruce Anthony: [00:44:41] well, I changed the rules since we got monetized on YouTube. I think we could say one F word and I just

Jay Aundrea: [00:44:46] cool. Cool, cool, cool. Cool, cool, cool. Well, here’s the thing that’s actually funny about that. As Hulu shows started migrating over to the Disney Plus platform, I realized that I’ve only been watching Disney plus. I never actually opened the Hulu app anymore.

Bruce Anthony: [00:45:04] Oh,

Jay Aundrea: [00:45:04] Um, because all of the shows, and there’s even like a, like a Hulu icon.

[00:45:10] So you can go into Disney plus click on Hulu, and it’ll show you all the shows that are like Hulu originals or whatever. And so I realized that I, and that’s because for some reason the TV in my room, Hulu glitches, but

Bruce Anthony: [00:45:24] Probably because,

Jay Aundrea: [00:45:25] probably because they were trying to

[00:45:30] make you go to the Disney Plus app probably.

[00:45:35] But I realize, like, I don’t think I’ve opened Hulu in the, in like the past year because I wa all of it is already on Disney Plus. So I just watch it on Disney plus.

Bruce Anthony: [00:45:41] In theory, this all works out, right? Like, okay, let’s, let’s take all this stuff and put it in one app and let’s take all this stuff and put it in another app. And Netflix is gobbling up HBO and Cinemax and whatever. And DC and DC is part of Warner Brothers. So all of that’ll be on Netflix. And they’ll create an interface where

[00:46:00] it’ll be easy to find the Superman movie that I want to watch on Netflix, because it’ll be under HBO Max in DC.

[00:46:10] Like, okay, cool. But that also means that Netflix now has a control on things, and that means whatever they wanna raise the price to. And Netflix has been raising the price

[00:46:20] indiscriminately, and they just been like, look, we going, we, the price of the brick is going up. I’m like, wait a minute. Why? Because.

Jay Aundrea: [00:46:25] everybody has, because suddenly there were ads on Disney Plus, and I said, excuse me, I believe I pay for no ads. And they’re like, oh, no, no, no, no. You did, but now it looks like that one Black Mirror episode.

Bruce Anthony: [00:46:43] was just getting ready to say that.

Jay Aundrea: [00:46:45] But now that’s standard. We are now Hulu plus plus. And in order to get plus plus you have to pay this price and that takes away the ads.

[00:46:55] And I’m like, just charge me the, just charge it. Because I can’t watch ads.

Bruce Anthony: [00:47:03] I don’t mind ads. I don’t mind. Look, I hope people can watch ads because look, lemme tell you something. I popped on one of our episodes the other day and I was like, this is ridiculous. I need to fix this in the settings. I popped on one of our episodes the other day and it was an ad at the beginning and some of ‘em are real short.

[00:47:20] This particular ad it was running and I was like, yo, this ad is like five minutes long. I need to skip this. And I was like, oh, okay. This is ridiculous. I need to fix it in the settings so that,

[00:47:30] that this doesn’t happen. But. If people watch it the whole way through, we get a little bit of cheddar cheese from that.

[00:47:40] So please, ladies and gentlemen, unless you got a uh, YouTube premium, watch them damn ads. That’s how we get money. And if you ain’t gonna watch the ads, then donate, help us out.

[00:47:50] Um, but yeah, no, look, it’s getting to the point where I’m just like, I would rather pay for cable

Jay Aundrea: [00:47:57] Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:47:58] and have that little, that little cable guide scrolling down

Jay Aundrea: [00:48:01] Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: [00:48:03] or, or define something that I wanna watch.

Jay Aundrea: [00:48:06] Yeah.

[00:48:10] The only thing is the on demand has to be on point, because the whole reason we switched to streaming and why it took off is ‘cause you could watch what you wanted when you wanted it. So that’s the only thing about cable as live tv, and you can’t watch what you want when you want.

[00:48:30] So the on demand feature has to be top tier. It’s gotta have everything on it. Because if I wanna watch something, who knows If I wanna watch Shawshank Redemption, which we did last night, because it’s a good movie.

Bruce Anthony: [00:48:38] It is good.

Jay Aundrea: [00:48:39] Yeah. I wanna just be able to put that on whenever I feel like it. Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: [00:48:43] So I remember HBO when they first started on demand, HBO on demand was fantastic, but, but what you’re talking about then becomes a problem because every channel has to have their own on demand on cable. So you’re stuck

Jay Aundrea: [00:48:58] yeah,

Bruce Anthony: [00:48:58] with streaming, but you also still need live tv, which by the way, means that we’re spending more money than our parents ever did for the entire cable package that we got back in the day, in our early two thousands, you could get the HD cable package with the on demand.

[00:49:20] I would love to look back at those numbers. See how much it was costing then as opposed to how much all these different streaming services are.

Jay Aundrea: [00:49:25] Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: [00:49:26] And then you got Netflix that’s just like you can’t share unless you in the same household

Jay Aundrea: [00:49:30] Right. Or now you can pay to designate a person in another household. It’s like 10 99 a month. So yeah. It’s in, on top of Yes, you can pay so that somebody, and then like put in the email of that person and they’ll send an invite to them to also join you. That’s how, that’s

Bruce Anthony: [00:49:50] well I guess considering the fact that Netflix used to be 10 99 actually cheaper than that, um,

Jay Aundrea: [00:49:56] Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: [00:49:58] I guess that’s a good deal. But then you, what you paying 40, $50 for Netflix a month?

Jay Aundrea: [00:50:03] Yes.

Bruce Anthony: [00:50:04] That’s how much cable used to be.

Jay Aundrea: [00:50:06] Yes.

Bruce Anthony: [00:50:09] But what are we gonna do? We’ve become a slave

Jay Aundrea: [00:50:12] Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:50:13] to streaming. If we can’t have what we wanna watch right now, it’s a problem.

[00:50:20] The only problem is even though we have whatever we wanna watch right now, we can’t find what we wanna watch right now. ‘cause we spend an hour searching for what we wanna watch right now. Too many choices.

Jay Aundrea: [00:50:34] Too many choices. Yeah. Remember TV just had a couple channels and it, and it

Bruce Anthony: [00:50:40] Yeah.

Jay Aundrea: [00:50:41] They played that national anthem or whatever, America beautiful, whatever it was, and you went to bed

Bruce Anthony: [00:50:46] You went to

Jay Aundrea: [00:50:47] went off.

Bruce Anthony: [00:50:48] you might read a book. You know what we need to get back to reading books. But for, for people out there that don’t understand how these mergers are happening, lemme just do a quick breakdown of what’s been happening over the last couple of years. So time was fully integrated into Paramount Plus.

[00:51:05] In 2023 as a Paramount plus with Showtime, with the standalone Showtime app was shut down, but the prices increased on the premium tier. Then you had HBO Max and Discovery Plus after Warner Media and Discovery closed their $45 billion merger. Warner Brothers Discovery combined with HBO Max and Discovery plus content into a single service called Max in 2023, which Jay said she hated

[00:51:35] while still keeping a, a cheaper standalone discovery.

[00:51:40] Plus around then you had Discovery Plus and Hulu, no Disney Plus and Hulu with Disney bought out Comcast remaining steak and IS and folded Hulu and then Hulu got away. This, uh, the standalone and then Disney Plus. But here’s the thing. Right, because that HBO Max and Discovery merger, when Warner Brothers and Discovery Discovery merged and discovery took over Warner Brothers.

[00:52:05] Yeah. Nah. Now Netflix owns,

[00:52:10] Netflix owns that. So what was Discovery? HBO Max and Discovery Plus is now gonna be rolling into Netflix and, and don’t think that after Netflix spent billions of dollars acquiring all of Warner Brothers in discovery, that they not going to be like, mm, we the price of the brick is going up.

[00:52:30] and and how does this affect everybody? Consumers have fewer separate subscription subscriptions to manage

[00:52:35] and more of a all in one apps, which is cool,

[00:52:40] but the price of the brick goes up and causes confusion. ‘cause you like, yeah, all these mergers happen. But where is my forensic files now? I’m gonna tell you where it is.

[00:52:50] Pluto. Pluto to t.

Jay Aundrea: [00:52:52] Now you do have to watch them ads, it’s forensic files all day. It’s own channel.

Bruce Anthony: [00:53:01] It is own channel and I’ll be watching it until I get too much

Jay Aundrea: [00:53:04] on, yeah. in my, my, it’s on in my, it’s on in my house. It’s on in the, in the living room right now for the dogs?

Bruce Anthony: [00:53:11] But with the raising prices, mergers have also led the cancellations of shows write offs and removals from libraries as companies cut costs, which means that some series vanish or become harder to find legally despite the larger combined platforms. You know what movie that we can’t find,

Jay Aundrea: [00:53:32] What’s that?

Bruce Anthony: [00:53:32] meteor Man.

Jay Aundrea: [00:53:35] Yeah. Where is it?

Bruce Anthony: [00:53:36] You can’t find it.

[00:53:40] Robert Townsend. Robert Townsend is the director creator of Meteor Man, a great black superhero movie from the nineties. Every, every black millennial Gen X person has pretty much seen Meteor Man. If you have it, we will take your black card away and you cannot find it anywhere. Anywhere. Because these mergers take, hold.

[00:54:05] These different companies or or past companies that had the rights to these, uh, movies and TV shows don’t exist anymore, and then they dis appear

Jay Aundrea: [00:54:11] yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:54:12] and then you can’t find anymore. Forensic files might go away.

Jay Aundrea: [00:54:16] No, It can’t. Literally, there’ll be riots in the street. 70, 80% viewership is women, and it’s in the millions

Bruce Anthony: [00:54:25] not a forensic files specifically just of the

Jay Aundrea: [00:54:28] true crime. You

[00:54:30] can’t get rid of none of our true crime ‘cause it’s gonna be some crimes

Bruce Anthony: [00:54:34] Yeah, but Netflix will just come out with a documentary that’ll have y’all in a choke hold for about a week. All they, all Netflix has to do is, is enough serial killers in America alone throughout history that you can make a documentary

[00:54:50] every week and still have more leftover after 10

Jay Aundrea: [00:54:54] A lot of times they just keep revisiting and making new documentaries about the same serial killer. You know, how many BTK documentaries I’ve seen

a lot,

Bruce Anthony: [00:55:03] Did I just

Jay Aundrea: [00:55:04] keep doing it over and over and over again. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: [00:55:06] Oh, I watched one where his daughter was explaining the effect on her, because you can always take different angles to all of this

Jay Aundrea: [00:55:13] there’s a d. Yep. Exactly.

Bruce Anthony: [00:55:15] so as we get newer content,

Jay Aundrea: [00:55:18] Mm,

Bruce Anthony: [00:55:19] ‘cause there’s, there’s, if you are a creator and not just content creator, if you’re a writer, director of TV shows, movies and things like that, you can even create your own app.

[00:55:35] That can be on KU and Apple TV and even a Fire Stick

[00:55:40] and do your own shows. You need bread to be able to do that. But you can look, if you can find the money,

Jay Aundrea: [00:55:43] Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: [00:55:44] you can do your own thing out here. Don’t mean that you gonna make money, but you can create, which most artists just wanna do anyway. Money is a byproduct of them doing what their passion is.

[00:56:00] So it’s money out here, but it, it is a lot of people at the top grabbing a hold of that money and a lot of people at the bottom spending more and more for these services. And I don’t know how they doing it when we supposed to be, you know, affordability is a big issue and Netflix and now all these people is making things really hard to afford.

[00:56:20] That’s the reason why if you steal it, I’m okay with it.

Jay Aundrea: [00:56:20] It is what it is,

Bruce Anthony: [00:56:22] Jay, before we get outta here, what do you wanna tell the people out here?

Jay Aundrea: [00:56:26] man. Look, you know who still exists? The brother that southern them. Blu-ray discs in the barbershop on the street. So you could still watch all the contents you want five for 25? Okay. Just find that brother. He typically has locks. He’s got some incense burning, but he got them Blu-rays.

Bruce Anthony: [00:56:51] And he smelled like sand, wood, and lavender.

Jay Aundrea: [00:56:53] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And he got the Blu-rays. His eyes are a little yellow. That’s him. A little bit of jaundice. That’s him.

Bruce Anthony: [00:57:03] Oh, on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I wanna thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching, and until next time, as always, I’ll holler.

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