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MAGA vs Superman: Culture Wars, Viral Reels & Prenups
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In this episode of Unsolicited Perspectives, Bruce Anthony dives deep into the world of viral reels, internet scams, and the heated MAGA controversy surrounding the new Superman movie.
We break down the truth behind viral internet videos, explore how scammers prey on the unsuspecting, and dissect why James Gunn’s Superman movie is sparking outrage among MAGA supporters. Plus, Bruce shares unfiltered stories about marriage, prenups, and the importance of financial protection in relationships. #superman #maga #viralreels #relationshipadvice #prenup #marriage #unsolicitedperspectives
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Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
01:54 EXPOSED: The Truth About Viral Reels & Internet Scams 🎭🕵️♂️⚠️
04:53 The Hidden Truth About How Schools Really Sort Our Kids 📚🧠💡
09:27 SHOCKING: The Real Reason Some People Seem Smarter Than Others 🤯🎓🔍
18:13 DRAMA ALERT: MAGA vs Superman - The Controversy Explained! 🦸♂️🎬🍿
32:42 Why Kindness Is the Real Superpower 🌍💖✨
34:10 Superman Under Fire: What the Haters Are Saying 🔥🗣️👀
36:06 The Truth About Superman's Heart: More Than a Hero! 🦸♂️❤️🇺🇸
38:26 Superman Movie Review: The Good, The Bad & The AMAZING! ⭐️🎥✨
44:35 Marriage & Money: Real Stories That Will Make You Think Twice 💍💰⚡️
46:46 Prenup Power Moves: Protect Your Bag Before You Say "I Do"! 💍🛡️💸
48:13 Real-Life Relationship Drama: Wild Prenup Stories & Unfiltered Advice! 🍿💔🔥
58:20 Don't Miss Out! Exclusive Membership Perks Revealed 🎉🔓💫
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Introduction to Unsolicited Perspectives
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viral reels, MAGA Attack Superman, and prenups. We gonna get into it. Let's get it.
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Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcasts.
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On today's episode, we're going to be talking about viral reels. We're going reviewing the Superman movie and we're going to be talking about marriages and prenups.
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That's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
Internet Confusion and Viral Video Discussion
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You know, I often talk about people not understanding the internet. I mean, and with the advent, or not the advent, with the expansion of AI and the ability to create realistic videos, people are going to become more and more confused.
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ah People that aren't researchers, people that don't search for the truth. are going to think what they're saying is the truth and they're going to fall for it. Like we know that scammers prey on the elderly, because if you instill fear into the elderly, they're more vulnerable.
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adapted going along with something. They're less questioned because they're they're older, they're confused, and they're scared. So scammers will go after the elderly because of those reasons.
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Scammers will also go after idiots for the very same reason, because they don't think I question everything all the time. I don't say that to think that I'm better than anybody. It's just my natural disposition.
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I question everything. I was raised that way to question everything and to say, hey, that don't make any sense to me. Explain it. Why am I bringing all this up?
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There was a viral reel of supposedly a robber breaking into a home And befriending the dog, the dog decided not to attack the robber. the robber the The dog was kind of indifferent as the robber is putting things into his sack. He's petting the dog. He's playing with the dog. He's loving the dog and the dog is loving it.
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And I go down into the comments because immediately as I'm watching the video, I'm like, oh, this is staged. Like this isn't a real thing because... I could just tell it's staged.
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I decided to go into the comments because I'm always, I'm messy. I'm always fascinated at what people think, what people see, how they respond to certain things. I'm just curious about people and the stupidity of people.
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And as I'm in the comments, I'm seeing things that are really nice. Like, hey, if my house was being robbed and my dog and they was loving my dog like that, they could take whatever they want because my dog's getting loves. And as a former dog owner and somebody who just absolutely loves dogs, I get it.
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Right? Like, I get it. Like, Yeah, definitely love up my dog. I mean, don't take everything, but love up my dog. Cause my dog is there all alone. And it's pretty sad. Other people were like, oh my God, the dog didn't do anything. I wish my dog wouldn't like defend my house. This is that. And i'm like, it's staged. It's staged.
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So the channel that actually put this posted, this video stole it from the original owner. And the original owner is boo X world.
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Underscore. That's you can find the Instagram um channel. Now, it's not a channel. Instagram page by going boo, B-A-U-X world underscore.
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And it's by Aaron Gallagher. And he has a whole bunch of videos on his page with him and his dog. And dog is just so adorable. And he was like, hey, don't don't forget to credit Bo, Bo or Boo, which I assume is the name of the dog.
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And I was like, oh, yeah, just as I thought, this was a staged video. But the idea that so many people thought that it was real
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confuses me.
Education, Intelligence, and Social Integration
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And I know I get up here a lot of times and and I sound... egotistical and and i don't mean it to come off like that i genuinely don't i just so there was a meme that i saw the other day and i and i reposted every six months and the meme is i've talked about on the show and the meme was you know they divided us up in the classes when we were younger they they gave us you know average classes honors classes and
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Some would say remedial, but below average. People that didn't pick up things as quickly. And I reposted it. And my friend, she's Turkish, and she went to college here in the States. That's how I met her.
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And she's she's over in Italy now with her with her daughter and her husband. And she said, well, I don't agree with that. And I said, well what do you mean you don't agree with that? i don't agree I don't agree with separating and segregating kids.
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I was like, no, as an educator, it makes sense. but You know, i talk about all the time. I went to school to be an educator. As an educator, it makes sense. Like the students learn differently. I'm a visual learner. I can read. i have good reading comprehension. I can read and learn stuff.
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But um if i if I see it, No matter what it is, I see it, I got it. And that's just who I am. so So children learn differently and children learn at different speeds. Sometimes, you know, certain subjects, things just click.
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Things just clicked with me in math. Things just clicked with me in history. Things did not click with me in language arts or science. Like they're the only science that I was actually good at was physics.
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And I still don't know how I got an A in that college class. But most of the sciences I had real trouble with. Even when I was in the advanced level courses, and needed a little extra help.
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I was beyond the average level courses, but sometimes was struggle in the honors courses in sciences, right? And sometimes children need to be placed where they can learn the best.
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And you don't want to place every kid in the same class because some are going to be bored because they get the material really quickly and they have nothing to do.
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And some kids are just going to be frustrated because they're behind. They can't keep up and they're just going to give up. So that's the reason why we segregate.
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ah and i And I know that word is problematic, but it is. We separate the children and through segregation. the levels of which they learn. And not to say that a student that's in a below average, because I was in below average reading classes all of elementary.
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And, you know, my sisters brought it up before. It's because I was taught sight reading in kindergarten first grade going to a Montessori elementary school and I didn't learn phonics. And so I was behind all the other kids when we moved because I went to, I don't know, three or four different elementary schools. I had a crazy school career. I went to three or four different elementary schools, two different middle schools, three different high schools. Right. Because we moved around so much and wasn't even in the army. It's just that's just what happened.
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So because I'm moving around so much, different school districts, different states teach the material differently. And I went to Montessori school, so I was behind in reading.
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So when I moved to Virginia from Illinois, they put me in remedial reading classes until I caught up and I didn't catch up until like the fifth or sixth grade. Like it took a little while and it wasn't because You know, I wasn't smart.
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It was because the way that I was initially taught what wasn't the best and i needed extra help to catch up. So when we separate these children, it's for the betterment of them.
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Now, don't get me started in how kids get placed in certain areas as far as these class structures and they shouldn't be there.
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I dated a woman. She was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Told me that she was in remedial classes all through high school. She went to college. Like she's got a master's degree. She went to law school, right?
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ah She's obviously not remedial, but because of Earlier placement, she was stigmatized and never really exceeded. And then because of that, she had low self-esteem and stopped trying to work until finally her father challenged her because he was like, you're you're smart.
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You should do better. Why am I talking about all this? Right? like i Because I was talking about viral reels. And you're like, Bruce, you were you brought up viral reels and people falling victim to it.
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And then you talked about schools and the separation of grade levels. Like, what is your point to all this? The point to all this was the mean is clear.
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We were separated growing up in our learning systems. and social media, and now in the adult world, we're all mixing together.
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And I'm finding out at my golden age of 45, but it's been happening over the last 10 years or so, that people aren't bright.
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But I didn't know that because all of the classes that I were in was in, even going into college, I was all with people who were intellectually my peers.
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So I just thought that people, I thought that I had average intelligence. I really did. I thought that I had average intelligence because in middle school and high school and college, in these honors classes and these advanced classes and and they're going into college, and I mean, I did well, but it wasn't like I was top of the top.
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Right. So I was like, oh, yeah, no. So like I'm middle of the road as far as intelligence is concerned. No, I was middle of the road as far as intelligence concerned, because I'm all in honors and advanced classes.
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I'm actually well above average intelligence. And I didn't know this until I entered into the real
Cultural Biases and Social Etiquette
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world. I'm dealing with adults that I was separated from for the majority of my life. And then I'm realizing, oh, you aren't smart.
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Like you're dumb. You're dumb. I didn't get it. Look, and and some of his stuff is cultural. Some of it is just the way we were raised.
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I have a friend, college graduate, went to a prestigious college for his undergrad, prestigious. I was in high school with him. We were in honors classes together, okay?
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This is not a dumb man at all. Very successful in his career. known him for 30 years. Not a dumb man. He's in New York City.
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He's with his daughter. And we're in a group chat. And he's texting us. And he is like, yeah, man, it cost me $100 for a bike ride. Now, immediately, i say to myself, this doesn't make sense.
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Please explain how you spent $100 for a bike ride. Because i live in Washington, D.C., And to rent a cap share, that's what it's called, bike, it's like $2.50 and you have it for like 30 minutes or something like that.
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And in 30 minutes, I personally can ride I don't know, 10, 20 miles in 30 minutes. Like I can move on a bike, even though the speeds aren't that high. I can move on a bike.
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And he said that he and his daughter was going five blocks. His daughter is kind of young. Maybe that it took a little time, but still to rent two blocks. I know New York City is expensive. It doesn't make any sense to me why it cost you $100.
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Then he says, yeah, almost lost my mind when the man told me how much everything costs at the end of the ride. And I said, wait a minute, hold up. This really doesn't make sense because anytime you rent a bike,
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It's a capture. It's a kiosk. It's unmanned. you know You enter in your credit card information. you know You get the bike. that it ah It unlocks the bike. And then you ride to the next stop to to park the bike.
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What are you talking about? There's a man that you had to pay $100 to. I was like, what type of bikes were you riding? I know you weren't putting her on a moped or a motorcycle because see she's young.
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So he sends me a picture of it. And I said, bruh, that's a rickshaw. yeah buts That's not a bike. That's a rickshaw.
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And it's not like, you know, with rickshaws, you can either have a person riding a bike pulling you or you have a horse, right? You see it all the time in New York City. The horse, a carriage ride, that's a rickshaw, okay?
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and And I was like, bro, yes, you five blocks in New York City and where a guy is biking you and your daughter that's in a carriage.
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Yes, that's a hundred dollars. He says in the group chat, I have never heard of that word in my entire life. I said, what? Bro, we was in honors classes together.
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you You have a degree from a prestigious university. You are a successful, well-traveled individual. You never heard of Rickshaw?
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And then it dawned on me, this isn't ah a thing of intelligence. This is just what you've been exposed to. I don't know where I've learned that from. Probably a movie or something like that.
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Maybe it was a history course. or I don't know where I actually learned what that was, but I learned it. Some people are not not smart. Some people were just not exposed to certain things. That's the reason why, don't get me started,
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With the SAT and ACT, when they were always talking about it was culturally biased. And people were, white people, were talking about, what do you mean? Of course, it's not culturally biased. Yes, it was because certain people are experienced in certain things.
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Other people are not. Guess what? Here's something that I'm really dumb about. I don't know proper silverware. Now, of course, I know fork, spoon, knife, all that stuff. But when you line up, you know, multiple spoons, multiple forks, I don't know what each fork does, each spoon.
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I'm not fancy like that. I don't like going to fancy restaurants. I have been. I've been taught didn't retain it. Didn't retain it because I was like, this isn't information that I need to retain because how often am I going to go to this? And I don't really care.
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I'm going to use this fork for whatever I want to use the fork for. going to use this spoon for whatever I want to use the spoon for. I don't care what the etiquette is because this doesn't matter to me. I don't care. I say all that to say this because we're talking about viral means. We're talking about intelligence.
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When I talk about people not understanding certain things. A lot of times I give people grace because a lot of times people are exposed to certain things and there's a difference between being dumb and being ignorant.
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Being ignorant is just not knowing. Being dumb is being is not being able to pick up on information that's being given to you.
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Some of these people in the comments We're dumb. and I'm sorry. In this video, I don't understand how you couldn't tell that this was staged.
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No robber, no matter how much of a dog owner, a dog lover you are, no robber is going to break into a home, pet and love on a dog, all the while gathering things. You need to get in and get out. I don't know about robbery because I ain't never done it.
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But ain't seen enough robbery in movies. I seen enough... You know, crime shows and things like that. Watch enough law and order that there is a time constraint with the particular process. You need to get in.
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You need to get out. You're not going to play with certain. You're not going play with a dog while you robbing a joint. Because you need to get in, you need to get out. That just makes common sense to me.
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But sense ain't always common. And the more and more social media, the more I feel I'm getting dumber because I'm interacting with dumbass people.
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This segment is going to be, I don't know if it's going be fairly long, but it's going to be the meat of the episode. This is about Superman. Now I will be giving Superman spoilers. I will let you know before I start giving Superman spoilers and reviews so that you can skip ahead.
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I'm gonna, when I start talking about the Superman spoilers and reviews, I don't know if it's gonna be timestamped or not. I might timestamp it in the the notes and the chapter videos, but just know that I'll tell you, all right, if you don't wanna hear no spoilers, skip ahead.
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But before I even talk about the movie, There's been some controversy about Superman. And I'm not talking about controversy as in the movie is good or bad.
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I'm talking about controversy from the director response of a comment that he made from MAGA. And when I say MAGA, realize I'm talking about a sp a specific type of person.
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Too often now, I look at the Republican Party and MAGA has taken control of that party, but there are people that I know that are Republicans and and we fundamentally disagree on certain things, but there's more common commonality between old school Democrats and old school Republicans than there is with MAGA and the ultra left.
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And I don't know if I'm ultra left or not. I'm definitely progressive. I'm definitely progressive. I'm definitely a liberal. I don't know if I'm extreme left. There's some people out there that I'm not going to name their names. They're completely abolitionists and they don't believe in prisons.
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I'm not going that far. Okay. I'm not going that far. Like some people need to be locked up forever. Some people are evil and can't be helped. And some people are like, there's a difference between defund the police, which is not getting rid of the police, is getting rid of them doing certain things.
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and And then abolishment of the police. That is getting rid of the police. Do not believe in abolishing the
Political Dynamics in the GOP
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police. Do believe in defunding the police. They are different things.
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So when I talk about MAGA, I'm talking about a specific section of what was a political party that has now become a cult.
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Because every true Republican, old school Republican is now leaving. They're not running for office. They've given up, which is so funny because they're supposed to be the party of strength, but yet they're soft.
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They gave up their party. So when I talk about MAGA, I'm talking specifically about them. If you identify as an old school Republican and you are just upset that your party has been taken up by these extreme zealots, I'm not talking to you.
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I'm not talking about you. Not at all. mean We just disagree on certain things. We disagree on how to get to certain things. We fundamentally agree on what we want to do and help people, we just disagree on how to get there. MAGA is something completely different. So when I'm talking about this particular subject, I'm talking about MAGA.
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And why are they upset? They are upset because James Gunn had a quote and I will read the quote later, but they are, the MAGA is express is expressing extreme objections to his quote and his approach to the entire Superman film, particularly after Gunn said that Superman as an immigrant and emphasize his basic human kindness as a lost value in America.
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So I'll get to the quote later.
Superman Movie and Immigration Debate
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But the movie is about a superhero, Superman, in a world of superheroes. This is not a spoiler. This is the premise of the movie, okay?
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You can read this anywhere before the movie came out. It's about Superman in a world of superheroes where he's the outlier because he is just... pure kindness and genuinely wants to help while some superheroes are being funded by companies and corporations.
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So he's just here to help. There's no other means of which he's using his powers. It's to help. While some superheroes are like, I can't do this. I can't do that.
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I'm working with this company. I can't cross this company. I can't cross this barrier. And he's living in that world. And so what James Gunn is saying, look, he's an immigrant, an alien from another world.
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And all he's doing is just basic human kindness. which James Gunn said is a lost value in America. And like I said, MAGA is up in arms about this, calling the film woke and doing a culture war debate.
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The first thing they don't like is an immigrant analogy. Gunn's portrayal of Superman as an immigrant was seen by some conservatives and as a political statement about U.S. immigration policy rather than a neutral character trait.
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Critics argued that the analogy was a terrible one and accused Gunn of injecting progressive ideology into the character. Okay, so ah let's be clear.
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The story of Superman is his home planet, is being destroyed. His parents, in an effort to save him, send him to another land where they know he should survive because of the yellow sun will give him powers that he should survive.
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And somehow, this is a terrible analogy about our immigration policy.
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I did a show, an interview with Stephanie Karnazelis, who talked about the migration of children from Central and South America to the United States and the struggles of which they are leaving, the struggles of which the travel to get here, all for a better tomorrow.
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And let's be clear. Some people will say, well, the motto of Superman is truth, justice in the American way. That has not been the model for Superman for decades now.
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It hasn't. It's changed. It's truth, justice, and a better tomorrow. That's what Superman slogan now says. not the American way.
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It ended a long time ago. It's not the American way. It's a better tomorrow. So once again,
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How is that an issue? He is literally an immigrant. He's an alien. hu He's an illegal alien. but Okay. He's an illegal alien.
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That's always been the story of Superman from the inception. And you know who created Superman? Two Jewish writers created Superman during the rise of the Nazis.
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as their champion, as their superhero. A person whose world was destroyed and and and his parents, in an effort to save him, sent him to another land.
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Sounds really familiar. But somehow, the original story of Superman is woke. and Okay, what what else do conservatives or MAGA have a problem with? They have a problem of the emphasis on kindness.
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ah Okay. All right So, gun comments about the loss of basic human kindness were interpreted by right-leaning media as an implication criticize ah iss an implication of a criticism of American society and conservative values.
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Some commentators suggested that even advocating kindness was being framed as a partisan attack. Okay.
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They took Superman as having basic human kindness as an attack on their conservative values.
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These are the same people that are the religious right, right? Claim that they're Christian conservatives and basic human kindness is an attack on their principles.
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You ever notice when you call somebody out on something that when you call them out on something true, they get mad.
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they know They lack accountability. They get mad. Like, if you ever call somebody in a lie, and they'd be like, you're lying, and they get madder or more mad because you know that they're lying. You call them out in the lie.
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They don't like being confronted. They don't like that accountability. This is the same group of people, conservatives, MAGA, who are attacking James Gunn for saying that Superman has basic human kindness. The same people that are attacking James Gunn for giving Superman this basic human kindness are the same people that developed Alligator Alcatraz.
00:27:45
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Alligator Alley. You know that whole jail or detention center that they've put down in Florida. for what they call illegal immigrants detation.
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that's That's what they're doing.
00:28:04
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Where's that basic human kindness? How was it? Have you seen it? The name says in itself, there's nothing kind about it.
00:28:16
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A hit dog will holler. They've been hit. Okay, all right. What else are they attacking about the movie? Woke labeling, Fox News, Fox News and other conservative outlets have branded the film as super woke, arguing that Hollywood is using as Superman to push radical anti-American agenda.
00:28:41
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Basic human kindness is a radical anti-American agenda. Actually, I'm not going to disagree with that. It is anti-American.
00:28:53
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it Kindness is anti-American. been anti-American for all my lifetime. When has America shown kindness in any of their laws, in any of their domestic policies, in any of their international policies?
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Very rarely does America show kindness. So Superman having basic human needs it is kind of anti-American. and And the way that we handle things.
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This isn't coming from a person that hates America, even though there are people that are going to be in the comments and say that you hate America. Now, I know more about America and willing to o admit more about about America than you will.
00:29:37
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So amazing that, you know, people are unaware or unable to hold the country accountable. You've been wronged.
00:29:50
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By another person, you hold that person accountable, right? We know our parents and our loved ones aren't perfect. They make mistakes. You hold them accountable. Doesn't mean that you don't love them.
00:30:04
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Holding America accountable for its unkind actions, it's not un-American, doesn't mean that you don't love America. That's what people want to say.
00:30:16
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when they just wanna exclude you from having any say in policy making. Okay, what else? What else is is MAGA complaining about Superman?
00:30:30
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A rejection of political messaging and entertainment. conservatives figures Conservative figures like Kellyanne Conway say audience don't want to be lectured to at the movies and others called for boycotts and expressed intent to skip the film because of Gunn's remarks.
00:30:46
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Once again, I'm going to read Dunn's remarks, but okay. Kellyanne Conway, former speaker or a house a house press secretary for Donald Trump.
00:31:01
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Fox News commentator, constantly lecturing other people, constantly about what they should believe, what they should be doing. and attacking other people.
00:31:13
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That's her job. That's what she's been in the American consciousness for the last 12 years. That's who she is, has the audacity to say that Hollywood shouldn't be putting lectures in their movies when she's on TV almost every day lecturing.
00:31:27
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You don't see the hypocrisy in that? And oh, by the way, there was no lecturing in the movie because once again, James Gunn's comments was basic human kindness.
00:31:39
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This the issue that they have. This is the issue that MAGA has. Basic human kindness. Okay, so let's get the James Gunn's quote. Because what what did he say?
00:31:50
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Did he say that Superman came here and was like, F America, and and I'm not about this. I'm will change the ways because these people was wilding out. Did he say something that crazy? Because he had to for people to be responding like this.
00:32:02
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So what was the actual quote? I'm going read it to you verbatim. Here's James Gunn's quote. Superman is a story of America, an immigrant that came from other places and populated the country.
00:32:14
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But for me, it's mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and something that we have lost. Yet, yes, it plays differently, but it's about human kindness.
00:32:25
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There will an ever be out inevitably be people who are unkind and take offense simply because... It centers on kindness. But forget them. Superman emerges at a time when many are feeling loss of faith in humanity's goodness. I'm telling a story about a uniquely good person.
00:32:45
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And that feels necessary now given the negativity arising from cultural figures online. I'm not here to judge people. I think this movie is about kindness. And I think that's something that everyone can relate to.
00:33:01
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Have you been online lately? I did in the first segment attack dumb people. I did. and Okay. and And I'm online. I would say that that was a little unkind to call these people dumb.
00:33:17
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They were. And, you know, I just saw the Superman movie a couple of days ago. I should have been a little bit more kind. And for all those people that made those dumb comments, I apologize for you being dumb.
00:33:30
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But, but.
00:33:33
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What he's saying is he's looking out in the world and he's on social media and he sees what's happening in the world and the world doesn't look too kind.
00:33:46
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Doesn't look like people are being kind to one another. Right?
00:33:53
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And he's saying Superman has dropped into this world that's very similar to the world that we're living in currently in real life. And he's like, I just want to help people and be kind.
00:34:07
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That's all I want to do. I'm going to get into exact quotes from some of these MAGA people. Greg Gottfield, who's Fox News commentator, or considers himself a comedian. I've never laughed at any of his stuff. And also, by the way, if you are a comedian Laughing at your own jokes don't make you funny.
00:34:28
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But anyway, he says, Gunn's description of Superman as an immigrant is a terrible analogy. With Superman, they are sending your best. but Let's not escalate material.
00:34:42
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ah Referencing Trump's comments on immigration. So
00:34:51
Speaker
is Krypton sending their best? Or is he just his best because he's Superman? Krypton is just saying that Jor-El was important, but they sent a baby.
00:35:03
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So Krypton wasn't sending their best. They just sent a kid. So what is he talking about? This doesn't make any sense. Jesse Walters.
00:35:12
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said that you know what it says on his cape ms-13 it doesn't it's a it's superman ms-13 i don't even know how you can call it how do you how do you make the connection of superman being kind in ms-13 do you see how ridiculous some of these statements are kellyanne conway we don't need need to go to the movie theater to be lectured and have somebody throw their ideologies onto us. You do it every single day.
00:35:40
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Ben Shapiro, Gunn's woke Superman rebook is part of a radical anti-Americanism injects and infecting Hollywood, the media, and even the next possible mayor of New York City.
00:35:51
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What? Okay. Stephen L. Miller, Darth Sidious, the reason Hollywood can't get Superman right is Superman is about what's good about America and Hollywood hates America.
00:36:04
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Okay. It if If Superman, if James Gunn's Superman is is just trying to show basic human kindness, I would say that that he got Superman right because that's Superman's character.
00:36:17
Speaker
And Superman is what's good about America. So how does Hollywood hate America? that That doesn't make any any sense. Clay Travis, I'm not going to go watch it seeing the quote.
00:36:32
Speaker
Okay. Dean Cain, he's a former Superman. Now, Dean Cain is MAGA. And I never really considered him Superman anyway. I didn't even watch the show. Y'all know i got Superman tattoo on my arm, right? It's big because my arm is big, but I got Superman tattoo on my arm. I love Superman.
00:36:48
Speaker
Didn't even watch ah The Adventures of Lois and Clark. You know why? Because I didn't believe that he was Superman. He didn't feel like Superman to me. So I don't even put him and ah in the fraternity of Superman.
00:36:59
Speaker
But here's what he had to say. We know Superman is an immigrant. He's a freaking alien. We can't have everyone in the United States. Our society will fail. What?
00:37:12
Speaker
What? Okay. All right. So, MAGA's upset. Mind you, mind you, none of them have seen the movie. not Not a one has seen the movie.
00:37:25
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They're going on this quote, which just, hey, Superman's in this world that's mirroring our world. And he's just like, I want to do the right thing and help people.
00:37:37
Speaker
And there's no hidden motive. Kindness. That's basically what he's saying. And that he's creating a movie where somebody is just kind because he feels like people need to see that.
00:37:50
Speaker
People need to be uplifted. Superman has always been about hope. what he is. And that didn't stop ah the White House from posting a meme of taking Superman's face off and putting Trump's face on for the Superman poster and talking about truth, justice, and the American way. Trump, Trump, you know, like, okay.
00:38:13
Speaker
All right. MAGA. The hypocrisy in everything that they say. The stupidity in everything that they say. I can call those people dumb. I know it's unkind. We talk about Superman. i know it's unkind, but I'm going to call those people dumb.
00:38:25
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All right. Now for spoilers for those people that don't want to hear about the movie. Fast forward to about seven to ten minutes. I'm just going to talk about the Superman movie. Okay.
00:38:37
Speaker
So what I will say about the Superman movie, it is very comic booky. I enjoyed it. I found myself having a smile on my face at the end of the movie.
00:38:49
Speaker
It made me feel good. And James Gunn took an interesting twist on the character. He changed a few things that was really interesting. The first thing that he changed, well, not the first thing he changed. You don't find out this until at the the middle of the second act.
00:39:07
Speaker
But when Clark Kent, or Superman, Kal-El, was sent from ah Krypton to Earth in this capsule, his parents left a message. This is a routine thing and all the stories of Superman, his parents left him a message, right?
00:39:24
Speaker
Something happened and he only got half of the message. So the half of the message that he got was, hey, we're sending you our only son from our doomed planet to go to this planet.
00:39:35
Speaker
You'll be protected. you'll You'll have powers, this and that, okay? He never got the second part of the message because it was destroyed in transmission. Somehow, well, Lex Luthor breaks into the Fortress of Solitude and has one of his henchmen who has nanotechnology break into Superman's computer, and they get the second half of the message. And the second half of the message is a is the twist.
00:40:00
Speaker
So the twist was he was sent by Jor-El and Laura, his parents, from Krypton, as Krypton's being destroyed, to be Earth's conqueror, to to to get women, to have many wives, populate the world, the Earth,
00:40:17
Speaker
to subjugate people, to rule over them because he's better than them, because he has powers, and to create a new Krypton. Different twists. We've seen it before in certain...
00:40:30
Speaker
iterations of Superman comics or TV shows or something. I thought it was very, very interesting. And when he gets this second part of the message, he's devastated because he thought growing up all this time that his parents sent him here, sent him to Earth to be Earth's protector.
00:40:49
Speaker
So why is he Earth's protector? He's Earth's protector because of Jonathan and Martha Kitt. They found him. They raised him. They gave him American values of basic human kindness.
00:41:06
Speaker
So it was not nature. It was nurture that turned him into Superman. That's the reason why James Gunn says this America's story.
00:41:17
Speaker
Yes, he's an immigrant, an alien that was adopted by Americans. old school Americans. That was just about basic humankindness, treating people right.
00:41:29
Speaker
Just treating people right and trying to do right by people because he was raised that way. That's how he became Superman. And when I say Superman is kind, he does not believe in taking any life.
00:41:42
Speaker
He is fighting a dragon. I told you it was a comic book movie. He is fighting a dragon and a squirrel is about to be crushed and he goes through heaven and hell to save a squirrel.
00:41:53
Speaker
Every life is important to him. As he's fighting the dragon, he's trying to find a way to secure the dragon, to keep the dragon alive, to take it to another place where can live happily and be on its own without destroying other people and other things.
00:42:14
Speaker
Kindness. That's what Superman is. Look, Should you take kids to see the movie? There's a couple of dark spots in the movie that lets me know it's still an adult movie, but it is a very fun movie.
00:42:28
Speaker
ah It's a funny movie. I am going to see it again. I was nervous because I thought from the previews, it was going to be a lot and it wasn't.
00:42:39
Speaker
It was two hours. It felt like a 90 minute movie. I felt like the movie should have been longer. But it was a thrill ride from the beginning. I highly recommend it.
00:42:51
Speaker
There was not a poor actor in the movie. there There are some parts where you get a little wordy. Dialogue, get a little wordy. Other than that, was a great movie.
00:43:05
Speaker
Like I gave it an A minus. Won't give it A plus because there are some faults in the movie, but I give it an A minus. And this is what MAGA is getting upset about. the super kindness. I mean, he's literally fighting Lex Luthor, who is by far the most evil Lex Luthor that there has ever been on any type of visual media that's ever been created.
00:43:27
Speaker
He is the worst. You hate Lex Luthor. He's not one of those cool bad guys. He's just a bad got bag guy, bad guy. and And he is brilliant and smart and has a real devious plan.
00:43:43
Speaker
It's a really good movie, but James Gunn created a movie that's going to put a smile on your face at the end of the movie. It's going to be an involuntary smile.
Feel-Good Superman Movie Review
00:43:54
Speaker
You're just going to be smiling. And I was very critical while watching this movie, which means that the second and third and the fourth times that I watched this movie, as I let that, the critique of they need to get this Superman right is is going away and I can just enjoy it. I'm going to like it more and more and more and more and more because it's just an enjoyable movie.
00:44:17
Speaker
It's a good movie. It's a heartfelt movie. It's what America should actually be. People showing basic human beings Kindness.
00:44:36
Speaker
Typically, I would reserve this for the membership because this is going to be Bruce with the T. You know, messy stories that I've heard, people that are around me and that that I'm going to share.
00:44:51
Speaker
Obviously keeping people's names out of it because I've already been accused of people saying, hey, that was my story that you told on the podcast. i was like, yeah, but nobody knows it's you because I didn't say your name.
00:45:03
Speaker
Sometimes I get permission. Sometimes I do not. ah But you guys would never know who it is. But I have been getting some flack. So i'm gonna put that in the memberships. But I am going to tell these two stories because i think that they're interesting. Now, everybody knows if you're a fan of this show that I was once married.
00:45:23
Speaker
Since I said once married, that means I'm divorced. I've been divorced for, I don't know, 12, 13, 14 years. I don't even consider myself a divorcee anymore. It was so long ago.
00:45:35
Speaker
It's been longer I've been not married after the marriage than I actually was with the person. So complete, total, from beginning of dating to the end of the divorce. Like, it's been more time passed than then completely with the person.
00:45:52
Speaker
I don't consider myself divorced anymore. I just consider myself unmarried currently. I never even thought about getting a prenup in the beginning. And I had companies that I had started.
00:46:05
Speaker
I trusted this person. Unequivocally. And even in a divorce, as I had companies ah and a good job, there was never a fight financially. Our divorce was really simple.
00:46:23
Speaker
Well, simple, financially, financially simple. Right. We was like, hey, look, we're going leave what we came in with everything that we built together. We're just going split give away or sell.
00:46:36
Speaker
OK, that wasn't a fight at all for either one of us. It was tough financially for both of us. um But but we got through it.
Marriage, Prenups, and Financial Protection
00:46:48
Speaker
If I were to get remarried again, and I'm not opposed to getting remarried, we gotta do a prenup. And most of the women that I date, I would say, well, you would need a prenup because you're coming in with stuff.
00:47:01
Speaker
just for yourself. I would never come in and try to take what you have. What we build together, we're gonna have to work that out. But I think it's safe to to to do a prenup to protect yourself, especially at my big age right now, 45. I'm not marrying somebody who's 25, right? Like the lowest would be like 35, right?
00:47:22
Speaker
right and and And they have things that they would be bringing into the marriage and they need to protect their themselves financially. Like i said, I don't have any ill intentions, but it just makes sense to protect yourself financially.
00:47:37
Speaker
Some people take real offense when you bring up prenups and marriages. And it tends to be younger people because they don't understand that when you get to a certain age, you've built up equity or wealth or both.
00:47:54
Speaker
And i if things don't work out, you kind of want to keep those things. You don't want to give somebody half of something that they didn't have any part of, half of something that we built together, of course, but half of something that they didn't have any part of?
00:48:10
Speaker
No, absolutely not. I know of two separate people who are getting married. And prenup was an issue for one, and prenup was not an issue for the other one.
00:48:23
Speaker
And I said that the one that the people that were getting married where it was an issue, it shouldn't be. And the people that that are getting married that it wasn't an issue, it should be.
00:48:36
Speaker
I'll explain. So let's start with the people where it is an issue.
00:48:44
Speaker
Young woman, young man, early 30s, late 20s, early 30s, getting married. They've been together for years, okay? Seven years. They're getting married.
00:48:54
Speaker
She brings up, hey, what do you think about a prenup? He says, jokingly, I'm not too worried about it because if some if we get divorced, I'm just putting everything in my mama's name. It's kind of hard to take what you don't own.
00:49:10
Speaker
She takes offense to it. takes offense to that joke. Like, what do you mean? Are you already planning to get divorced? Like, nah, it's just a joke. It's just a joke. A poor joke, admittedly. A very poor joke.
00:49:22
Speaker
Now, They're having issues. it And she was like, well, OK, well, we should do a prenup. And he was like, what you mean? Like, why we need to do a prenup? Like, we good the way things are. she's and Now she's insisting on it.
00:49:38
Speaker
And so much so that is being accused. She is of being accused of already planning for a divorce in her mind. And that's not what a prenup is, right?
00:49:50
Speaker
A prenup is a protection for in case-ish happens. Look, you don't go into a marriage thinking that you're going to be divorced. You don't. You go into a marriage thinking this is going to last for a while until death do your part.
00:50:06
Speaker
That's what you say in front of your friends or family. they Sometimes they don't. lot times they don't. And it's okay to protect yourself financially. So my advice to her was, look, you have assets before him.
00:50:25
Speaker
You need to protect yourself. If he is having an issue, that means that there's a lack of trust in the relationship.
00:50:37
Speaker
And also, why does he have an issue? It's your stuff. He didn't have any claim to it. Why should he have any claim to it? You're not saying you want everything that he has before you all together.
00:50:51
Speaker
You're not even saying you want everything that he gains while y'all are in the marriage. You're just saying, i just want my stuff that I came in with when I leave. This shouldn't be an issue.
00:51:03
Speaker
When I was a kid and I brought my toys over my friend's house, I'm leaving my friend's house with my toys. Unless he wants to borrow it and he can borrow it, but he got to give it back.
00:51:17
Speaker
That's, I don't understand how that, it's complicated. The only time I leave stuff for people is when I bring stuff for people. If I'm coming into the marriage and I'm saying, this is all ours, okay then.
00:51:31
Speaker
But if I said, hey, hold up, this house that I bought before I met you, this condo, this townhouse, this car, this company that I started, all of this before I met you, before we decided to say I do, that ain't ours.
00:51:47
Speaker
That's mine. I will share. But if we decide that things aren't going work out, I'm leaving with it. As Denzel said, I'm leaving with something and I'm leaving with what I came in with.
00:52:04
Speaker
So I told I don't think you're wrong in this one. You need to stand 10 toes down. And this says something about your relationship, that there's a lack of trust and maybe y'all should do counseling before you get married. This shouldn't be a point of contention.
00:52:17
Speaker
Now, the other situation where it's not a point of contention, and I feel like it should be. Gentleman is getting married to a younger woman. Younger as in he's in his early 30s. She's in her early 20s.
00:52:32
Speaker
Okay. He's got bread. He's got property that he owns, 401ks, retirement, cars, the whole nine. She does not. She lived at home with her parents.
00:52:43
Speaker
She now lives with him.
00:52:46
Speaker
He likes that situation, which I feel was problematic in the first place. He likes the situation because he likes that she's dependent on him financially because he has a sense of control.
00:53:00
Speaker
I told him that's very problematic that you feel like you need to have control and be controlling over her and that you want somebody beneath you.
00:53:13
Speaker
Those are issues that you need to talk to a therapist. No, I don't. Okay. Well, I'm telling you as a grown man, that's an issue. He has decided he will not get a prenup.
00:53:27
Speaker
I said, I think that's a bad idea. He said, no no, no, no, it's not a good, it's not a bad idea. You know, I trust her. i was like, it's not about trust. It's about protection. You protect yourself.
00:53:39
Speaker
That's all I'm saying. She literally has nothing. You have everything. She's young. People change as they get older. Who's to say that she's going to still want the current situation that she's in with you?
00:53:56
Speaker
What if she decides that she wants to have more independence? that she wants to have money, that she doesn't want have to depend on you to ask for certain things and to get certain things. How are you going to respond to that?
00:54:08
Speaker
What if, what I think you will have an issue with is her growing up and maturing and wanting her own things. You either deal with that or you decide to get a divorce.
00:54:20
Speaker
You don't have a prenup. Now she's entitled to half of everything of not only what you came in with, what y'all built with, because you decided that you wanted to have somebody that you had control over financially.
00:54:36
Speaker
I said, one, it's stupid reason to get married to somebody. You get married because you love them, not because you can control them. That's first and foremost.
00:54:46
Speaker
And two, if you're so bullish about getting married in this particular situation, You should have a prenup because I guarantee you in about five to seven years, which is typically when marriages have trouble anyway, there's going to be an issue when the fact that she matures and she doesn't want to keep coming to you for money. When you're going to put her on an allowance, she's going to get to the point where she doesn't want to have an allowance.
00:55:13
Speaker
She's going to want her own. Maybe she becomes ambitious. Life changes from 23 to 33. Life changes from 23 to 28 to 28 to 33.
00:55:25
Speaker
We changed. I'm a completely different person from what I was seven years ago. Not a complete 180, but about a 35, 50 degree change.
00:55:37
Speaker
I'm different. youve You guys have seen me grow throughout the course of this show over the last two and a half years. People change. said, get that prenup, man. I was like, first of all, get therapy.
00:55:50
Speaker
First of all, get some therapy because you got some issues. The reason why you need to have control. If you need to have control, you're insecure. You need to find out why you're insecure. I know what it is I'm not going to put a business out there, even though I didn't put his name out there.
00:56:02
Speaker
I know why he's insecure. It all stems from childhood trauma. but but But he need to work that out. Not listening to me. Not paying the attention to me. Going to go about doing what he's going to do.
00:56:15
Speaker
And I know full well what's going to happen. I know it. She will grow. She will mature. She will go tired of the situation. She will go tired of the fact that she doesn't have control over her own life.
00:56:28
Speaker
She will confront you about. You like in the current situation, being older at that point, ingrained in your position will fight.
00:56:41
Speaker
She will leave or she'll cheat, which will break your heart. Then you'll want to leave. Because you don't have any more control. That person that's de insecure can't have a woman having affair on them.
00:56:53
Speaker
So you'll leave. You'll file for a divorce. Even though she had infidelity, you didn't have a prenup. She gonna get that bread, bruh. She gonna get that bread. And it's all because you are insecure.
00:57:10
Speaker
Look, marriage is complicated. Don't make it more complicated by not getting a prenup. If y'all are coming in both with nothing, you don't need a prenup.
00:57:22
Speaker
But if one person is coming in with something or both of y'all are coming in with something, do a prenup. It's the same contract that you're signing as that marriage license.
00:57:34
Speaker
It's a contract. One saying that we're going to be together forever. The other one is saying just an off chance that we're not together forever.
00:57:47
Speaker
We don't take the other one's stuff. That's all it is. Those my two messy stories. I don't, you know, I give people my best advice and people don't be listening to me. I be right all the time. People don't never listen to me. And then they come back later and they say, Bruce, you was right. And I say, I know it.
00:58:03
Speaker
I know it. don't speak on anything I don't know. I know how things are going to work out. I'm going to tell you exactly how it's going to work out. It's going to work out exactly the way I said. And you're going to come back and tell me, Bruce, you was right. And I'm going to say, yeah, I know.
00:58:15
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