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MTV’s Hidden Color Line, Alpha Male Camps & Relationship Red Flags
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MTV’s hidden racism, $18K “alpha male” bootcamps and Gen Z relationship red flags collide in this episode of Unsolicited Perspectives. We kick off with a raw dive into MTV’s controversial 1981 launch—how systemic bias kept Black artists like Michael Jackson off the air until CBS threatened to pull every music video. From the pivotal power of “Billie Jean” to BET’s rise, we unpack why representation still matters today.
Then we expose the toxic rise of expensive “alpha male” bootcamps that prey on men’s insecurities—breaking down the psychology, the safety risks, and smarter, therapy‑based alternatives that actually work. 🚨
Plus, buckle up for two jaw‑dropping “Am I Overreacting?” moments straight from Reddit: one partner demanding you trash your lingerie, the other clashing over politics and age gaps. We decode relationship red flags and share actionable tips so you can spot control tactics before they ruin your love life.
Whether you’re a pop‑culture buff, a self‑growth seeker, or just here for the worst “overreacting” stories, this episode delivers cultural commentary, hard truths, and practical takeaways on power, control, and healthy masculinity. #mtv #AlphaMale #toxicmasculinity #RelationshipRedFlags #unsolicitedperspectives
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Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
03:07 How MTV Changed the Game: From Rock to Pop Culture Revolution 📺🎸
05:29 The Color Line: MTV’s Early Days of Exclusion 🚫✊🏾
09:11 Michael Jackson vs. MTV: The Battle That Broke Barriers 🕺🏾🚀
12:56 BET Rises: Creating Space for Black Voices on TV 📡✊🏿
18:34 Alpha Male Bootcamps: Toxic Grind? A Scam? 🏋️♂️⚠️
23:51 Why “Alpha” Culture is DANGEROUS (Spoiler: It’s Fake) 🚫🧠
33:02 Smashing Stereotypes: Taking On Toxic Masculinity 💪🚫
33:45 The Real Dangers of ‘Alpha’ Culture: What You Need to Know 🧠💥
35:39 Real Growth: Therapy Over Toxic “Alpha” BS 🌱❤️
37:08 Emotional Intelligence: Why It Matters for Men & Women 🧠❤️
44:41 Boomers to Zoomers: How Generations See Relationships Differently 🧓👶
46:29 RED FLAG ALERT: “Throw Away Your Lingerie?!” 👙💔
53:26 Politics & Partnerships: Can You Ever Agree? 🤷♀️🔥
59:55 Parting Shots & Final Takeaways 🎉👋
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Introduction to 'Unsolicited Perspectives'
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How did music videos become so popular? And why are men obsessed with alpha and beta? We gonna get into it. Let's get it!
00:00:18
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00:00:32
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History and Impact of MTV
00:00:44
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On today's episode, we're going to be talking about the history of MTV, Alpha Boot Camps. Yeah, that's a thing. And another Am I Overreacting story? Maybe even two of them.
00:00:56
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But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
00:01:07
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You know, I love Jersey Shore. Well, the original Jersey Shore. And I loved Team Mom. Team Mom 1, Team Mom 2, all of these shows were on MTV. If you're a later millennial or a Gen Z person, you may not really realize that MTV stands for music television because they don't really even play music on that channel anymore. And when they originally started, all they did was play music videos, music videos 24 seven.
00:01:37
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That's how MTV was started. And I was watching a documentary about the 80s and it talked about MTV and I was like, this is interesting because MTV is a part of Gen X and millennial culture.
00:01:52
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I am what they call a Zillennial. I'm in between Gen X and a millennial. i'm not quite old enough to be a Gen Xer. I'm not quite young enough to be a millennial. And so we're kind of sandwiched in between those 1980 babies specifically, where you're after the 70s, before 81. We're just in this weird kind of nexus as far as where the generation is concerned. So I'm in that.
00:02:18
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But like when my sister's on the show, she is full-fledged the millennial. And MTV was a part of our culture, right? When they finally started getting the shows, I remember them doing the Rock and Jock for NBA All-Star Weekend.
00:02:32
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And then you had the spring breaks. Now, spring breaks were very important to a young Bruce coming of age, wishing that he could be a part of those spring break adventures. Never was, never did it. But Always fantasized about it.
00:02:48
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So I was watching this documentary and it's very much MTV is the eighties. It was started in the eighties. It blew up in the eighties. And I was like, I want to talk about this on the show. I want to talk about this on the show for a variety of reasons. And I'm going to get into them. But first, I want to give you a little bit of history on MTV. So MTV was launched on August 1st, 1981 as a 24-hour cable channel dedicated to air and music videos introduced by video jockeys or VJs.
00:03:17
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The channel was headquartered in New York City and was initially owned by Warner MX Satellite Entertainment. Its debut marked the a significant shift in how music was promoted and consumed, blending television with music industry in a new visual format.
00:03:32
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Some of the first artists that were featured on MTV. On the very first day, it featured 116 unique videos with Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles, British New Wave Band.
00:03:45
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The earlier rotation included artists like Pat Benatar, love Pat Benatar, The Who, Phil Collins, Rod Stewart, April Wine, predominantly white rock-oriented acts.
00:03:57
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rock oriented x Rod Stewart had the most appearances that day with 16 video plays. MTV's programming was heavily influenced by the rock genre, mirroring the taste of mainstream radio at the time. So MTV, even though it was called music television,
00:04:17
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What they said was, we're just playing popular music, which at the time was rock music, which ah maybe to the masses, but it wasn't the most popular music. But I'm going to get into that later.
00:04:31
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If you realize something, those names that are reeled off, Some popular acts weren't included in these names. And this is 1981. So Michael Jackson was a thing.
00:04:43
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Okay. The Jacksons were a thing. Michael Jackson had off the wall, which I've gone back and forth with that I've said is better than thriller. If I had to list Michael Jackson's first three albums in order of best to worst, it would be bad,
00:04:59
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Off the Wall, Thriller. Even though Thriller sold the most, I believe musically, Bad is the best, Off the Wall is second best, and Thriller is next. And that's not saying and Thriller isn't a great album.
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It's an iconic album. I just think he had three great, iconic albums. In 1981, Off the Wall was was out. Not only that, but the Jacksons had Triumph. Prince was a thing. Rick James was a thing. Part of Funkadelic was in the 70s, had done music videos. Do you hear a pattern do you see a pattern here?
00:05:28
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No black artists were on MTV. Why is that? So in the early years, MTV was criticized for its lack of black artists in this rotation. The network executives claim that MTV was originally designed to be rock news to be a rock music channel.
00:05:45
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If you remember correctly, the history of music that I did several shows back, um black people invented rock music, but okay, Little of Richard was...
00:05:57
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the first rock and roller, but okay, okay, okay. And there, MTV's rationale was that there were few black artists making music videos that fit the rock oriented format.
00:06:10
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The rationale was publicly stated by MTV's former director of music programming and co-founder who argued that the scarcity of black rock artists and the lack of music videos from black performers made it difficult to include them in the rotation.
00:06:24
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Okay, so so basically they're saying that there are no Black rock stars. I guess it would define on what rock is, right? Like, what would you consider rock to say that there's no rock stars? Because Prince was a rock star.
00:06:41
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That's rock. People want to say it was punk funk, but punk funk is rock. I don't care how you how you describe it. Punk funk is rock. But okay, they're saying that there aren't a lot of black folks that are doing our rock music, and they're saying a lot of black folks aren't doing music videos.
00:06:56
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I don't know if you know this, but go back. And Jackson's might be R&B, soul, but I guess it could be rock. It's definitely pop, right?
00:07:07
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Like some of the Jackson's triumphs. 1980, triumph. There's a whole music video. It's like a movie. It's like seven minutes long. YouTube it, the Jackson's triumph song.
00:07:18
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It's a great video, not being played on MTV. But black people aren't making videos. That's MTV's rationale for not playing black artists. Of course, this explanation was widely challenged. Many Black artists, including Rick James, and even though he's not a Black artist, David Bowie, publicly criticized MTV for not featuring Black musicians, arguing that the exclusion was not merely about genre, but about the race and representation. The network's reluctance to play Black artists became a source of controversy and was seen as a form of discrimination within the music industry.
00:07:54
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So David Bowie did an interview on MTV in 1983 with one of the MTV VJs, Mark Goldman. And he questioned why aren't there any black artists ah on MTV?
00:08:07
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And Mark Goldman, it's on YouTube, you could go and watch this interview. Mark Goldman did the the MTV stance, right? Like black people aren't doing rock music and black people don't have a lot of music videos. And David Bowie pushed back upon that saying, well, wait a minute,
00:08:22
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Black people invented rock music, and there are a lot of Black artists making music videos. Then Mark Goldman made the comment, well, we're not only catering to New York City and Los Angeles with similar major markets, we're also catering to basically essentially the flyover states.
00:08:40
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And it's about representation. And we don't want those people in those flyover states to see certain individuals that don't resent represent them and might even make them fearful.
00:08:52
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And David Bowie in that interview says, there you go, right there. So it is racist. what you What you're trying to do is saying that black folks are just going scare Midwestern white folks and they're going to turn off on the channel.
00:09:06
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What ended up happening? Why did black artists eventually end up playing on MTV? Because when you think about it, you're like, well, Billie Jean beat it. Thriller all was on MTV. So Bruce, what the hell are you talking about? Of course, black artists were being played on MTV.
00:09:21
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Let me explain to you what it took. The turning point came on Michael Jackson's Billie Jean. Despite the massive success of the Thriller album, MTV initially resisted airing his videos. According to mark multiple accounts, it took significant pressure from Walter Yetnikoff, president of CBS Records, who was Jackson's label, who repeatedly threatened to pull all CBS artists' videos from MTV and a publicly accused the network of racism if they did not play Billie Jean.
00:09:49
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Only after the threat did MTV agree to air the video, which quickly became a sensation and proved that Black artists could drive ratings and cultural influence on the channel.
00:10:00
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Listen to the two things I just said. Drive ratings and cultural influence. This wasn't a thing where middle America was going to turn up their nose. And by the way,
00:10:15
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There were a lot of rock acts that middle America really didn't like either that turned their nose up at them. I mean, Ozzy Osbourne. Do you think a lot of the hair bands like Van Halen and those guys represented what was happening in middle America?
00:10:32
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You got to remember, in the 80s, the rockers... Big hair, eyeliner. They were very, what's the word I'm looking for? They were very androgynous, right?
00:10:43
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You had Boy George, very androgynous, andro in very you different than what middle America would see, with would question as normal to them, right?
00:10:56
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They would look at those people and they'd say they were freaks. I'm not saying that. I'm talking about middle America here, but yet they were white, so it was okay. But black artists like Michael Jackson, who is literally, whether it's on purpose or not, his skin is becoming lightening. He got the curl and everything. One of the the most non-threatening black people.
00:11:19
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couldn't get on MTV. I mean, the biggest album, Thriller is the biggest album ever. There's nothing that ever touched Thriller, right? The biggest album ever. He's got Beat It, he's got Billie Jean, he's got Thriller.
00:11:32
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All these music videos, MTV is not playing. Who was at the time the biggest artist, the biggest musical act at that time wasn't playing his videos. And what was their rationale?
00:11:45
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Well, you know, it's not rock. And, ah you know, they don't have a lot of videos. Listen to the opening of Beat It. It is a guitar riff. If that's not rock, I don't know what is.
00:11:57
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So once Billie Jean was in heavy rotation, it opened a door for other Black artists such as Prince. Eddie Grant, Donna Summer, and and the musical lead youth, the specials, and Herbie Hercock, they all received Amtime on MTV.
00:12:14
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Though the progress remained slow and selective at first, the success of Michael Jackson's videos demonstrated the commercial and cultural value of blacks ah Black artists compelling MTV to diversify its programming.
00:12:27
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So why did bring all this up? I bring all this up to basically say, you know, here's another example, they try to shut black people out. So much so that even still, even after all those artists were being played, there were still genres of music in the Black community that still was not being featured on MTV.
00:12:50
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Mainly R&B and b in what later became in the late 80s, New Jack newja Swing and Rap. Eventually MTV created a Yo MTV Raps, but that's because they had a competing music network.
00:13:01
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It was called BET. I remember being at the University of Maryland and I was in this class. I can't remember if it was, it had to be a politics class. And I was in this class and there was a white person in this class that said, I don't understand why there is a Jewish student union, a black student union, an Asian American student union, a Latino student union, and there's no student union for just white people.
00:13:26
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And I said, there is. It's called the Student Union. And they were like, well, it's not specifically for white people. I said, but it's dominated while by white people because white people are the majority of the population here at this campus.
00:13:39
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And it's not even like a close... a close race it's like 85 to 90 percent of the population here at the university of maryland is white the reason why they create these other student unions is so that other people who are the minority can be included the et was created because there were so many artists that were not being featured On MTV, even after MTV was pressured by CBS, they were still not playing the new Jack Swing. And if you don't know what the new Jack Swing is, look it up. It's dope music. Teddy Riley, Guy, I'll Be Sure, and hell, even BBD.
00:14:22
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New edition were New Jack Swing. Like, who else? What's my man, Keith Sweat? You know, a lot of great music was was New Jack Swing. It just was not being played on MTV.
00:14:35
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Rap artists, Ron DMC, just not being played on MTV. Ron DMC wasn't played on MTV until they did the crossover song with Aerosmith called Rock This Way. And once again, another group, Aerosmith, who I personally love.
00:14:48
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don't Don't sit up here and listen to me and think, that I would have an eclectic view of music. I love almost all types of music. Even some country, I even dig a little bit.
00:15:01
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I grew up an MTV kid, so I paid attention to what they played. Tears for Fears, one of my favorite all-time groups. Aerosmith, Stone Temple Pilots, of course ah course Pearl Jam and Nirvana.
00:15:14
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I love that music. I love all of that music. So to say that you're like, Bruce, you just saying that because they weren't playing your style of music. No, they were.
00:15:25
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They were just only playing their style of music. And I mean, later, when you look at how MTV exploded and eventually pushed past BET was because they included rap.
00:15:37
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They included hip hop. They included R&B in their music video rotations. So I say all that to say this. When you hear black people complain that they're excluded, realize this is not coming from anywhere that isn't valid, right? And it doesn't have to go all the way back to the 60s and go back to the 80s. And for you Gen Z people and then Gen Alphas who might even be listening to this, I know the 1900s was a long time ago for you.
00:16:09
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For you, you're young. it It feels like a long time ago. It really wasn't that long. It wasn't that long ago, right? Your parents were born mostly before that time.
00:16:21
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That's real life. So just pay attention when marginalized people say that they're excluded, no matter who you are, This is directed towards, MTV was specifically speaking towards white people, but there are other marginalized groups out there but besides just black artists or Latino artists.
00:16:42
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And sometimes black people, and this is a message for my black people and my Latino people, we need to listen to other groups that aren't really represented that well in the US population.
00:16:55
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And listen to them about being marginalized too. Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean that it's not real.
00:17:11
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Scrolling across my timeline, I get interesting stuff, especially when I go on my For You page or if I go on Reddit, which Reddit is, Fastly becoming my social my favorite social media site.
00:17:24
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It's the least toxic too, by the way, or at least my algorithm of Reddit is the least toxic.
The Rise of Alpha Male Boot Camps
00:17:30
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But I was in either Reddit or my For You page on Instagram, and I came across something that I was flabbergasted.
00:17:38
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And I've talked about the manosphere. I've talked about toxic masculinity. And it's a thing, right? And and something that is really interesting when I talk about these things that I don't really focus on, but is still very, very much present in these conversations is the fact that not only it's not only men, but it's also women that perpetuate these patriarchal toxic masculinity ideals.
00:18:12
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Okay? And... but I'm just focusing on men right now. Just focusing on men. And in my... in my algorithm, it pumped something to me.
00:18:25
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and yeah And I found out about alpha male boot camps. Now, I said, what in the hell is an alpha male boot camp? So I went down a rabbit hole and this is what I found out. So an alpha boot camp, sometimes called an alpha male boot camp or man camps, are intense programs marketed towards men seeking to reclaim or enhance their masculinity, confidence and leadership skills.
00:18:50
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The camps have gained attention for their high prices, military inspired structure and bold promises to transform participants into better men through physical and psychological challenges.
00:19:05
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Okay. At its core, I don't fundamentally disagree with the idea of a man bettering himself.
00:19:17
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It's the term alpha and it's the way in which they implement it. Yo, if dudes wanted to be in the military, just join the damn military, right?
00:19:29
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Don't join, don't take part of a fake military because it's easy and you don't have to actually really fight. You ain't got no skin in the game. But to improve upon yourself, I don't know about this idea of increasing your masculinity, because their idea of what masculinity is, I still feel this just extremely toxic.
00:19:51
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But the idea of bettering yourself, bettering yourself, giving yourself confidence, building up self-esteem. These aren't things independently that I'm opposed to. I'm actually championing those things. Everybody should be trying to build up their self-esteem.
00:20:06
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Everybody should be trying to to improve themselves. I talk about all the time or how much I'm trying to evolve as a person, become better as a person. However, um I don't think I need any more masculinity.
00:20:19
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I think I have ah enough. I think I need a little bit more femininity. And what I mean by that is little bit more emotional intelligence. Those things are not supposed to be correlated, but they are.
00:20:31
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ah Men are Neanderthals when it comes to emotional intelligence, while women are far more advanced. But I want to get more to these alpha boot camps. So what is the concept? The core philosophy is rooted in the idea of becoming an alpha male.
00:20:45
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A term popularized by outdated animal behavior studies and later debunked by the original researcher. So the original researcher came up with this alpha beta thing when describing and when researching they basically the animal kingdom.
00:21:02
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And he later was like, yo, this really, really isn't a thing because alpha and betas change roles, right? Like one minute you could be an alpha and the next minute you could be a beta and vice versa. It really depends on your environment. This is what I've been preaching on this podcast for, I don't know, couple of years now that you can be both an alpha and a beta.
00:21:24
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Depending on your circumstances, I am both an alpha and a beta. Sometimes I take charge. Sometimes I take lead. Sometimes I sit in the back and I follow. You need to be able to do both to be a successful person in this life. You can't be all or nothing with one or the other. You need to be a mixture of both.
00:21:45
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So these programs, these alpha boot camps claim to help men shift their mindset of scarcity and self-doubt, which is equated to being a beta, to one of abundance, confidence, and assertiveness, which is equated to being alpha.
00:22:03
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So
00:22:07
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once again, if you're building up confidence and self-esteem, Self-doubt, part of that mindset of self-doubt. Okay, like once again, I'm not opposed to this concept.
00:22:21
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I actually agree with the concept of conquering your self-doubt and building up your self-confidence. It's this scarcity thing that's attached to a beta and it's abundance that's attached to an alpha.
00:22:36
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I remember in the 1980s, going back to the 1980s from talking about MTV, Wall Street, the movie Wall Street came out and greed is good. That's what the slogan was because Wall Street was booming, right? Greed is good. That's when corporate takeover started happening.
00:22:54
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And it was the the the lifestyles the rich, famous and abundance, right? Was championed. It led to the largest stock market crash of all time.
00:23:06
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And people woke up. And in the 90s, people was like, hey, man, all this abundance is all this stuff, all this materialistic ain't what it should be because our economy basically crashed, okay?
00:23:18
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Confidence and assertiveness, I'm not opposed to, right? Like i said, if you have self-doubt, build up confidence, cool. Assertiveness, mm.
00:23:29
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Sometimes that could be a good thing. Sometimes that could be a bad thing. ah Assertiveness is good in moderation. All of this could be good in moderation. Even abundance can be good in moderation, which I think may be contradiction one another, but I don't know. So let's let's dig more about this approach.
00:23:49
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The approach often involves breaking down participants through hardship and then building them back up to realize the potential as leaders, fathers, and partners.
00:23:59
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Now, what type of partners are we talking about here? like marriage and relationship partners. Because everything that they're describing right now does not, to me, right correlate to being a good romantic partner.
00:24:14
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Not the alpha male trait being assertive. Assertive how? Like taking charge of the household? That should be a partnership. That goes against partnerships, right? Because it's a give and take.
00:24:25
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But trying to fulfill yourself being a good leader and fatherer and father, you know, that nothing I'm never opposed to being a better father. Not everybody's meant to be a leader.
00:24:37
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Some people are meant to be followers. And I've never believed in this breaking somebody down to build them up. I know the military does it all the time But the military does it for a reason. The military does breaks you down to build you up because they're building you up in the form of a team.
00:24:54
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Right. That you guys must work all work together for a common goal. And, yeah, there are ranks, there are hierarchy hierarchies and you follow orders. But that's not something that you really want in your family.
00:25:07
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What I mean by that is, yes, you are the parent and there are children. You have rules and these children follow the rules. But you should explain to your children why you have the certain rules and what the benefits of the rules are and what the consequences of not following the rules, not just in punishment, but down the road, why these rules are in place.
00:25:27
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Right. So I just don't believe in breaking people down and building them up. I know a lot of coaches out there believe in this militaristic mindset and there's a reason why people enter the military they have a different mindset than than the majority of people right like people that play football you got to have a certain mindset to be a football player you got to have a certain mindset to be a boxer you guys have a certain mindset to be an mma fighter you have to kind of maybe not like pain but really not mind it and don't know about y'all i hate pain
00:26:02
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I hate when I'm sick. I hate when I'm hurting. There's nothing about that that's enjoyable. That's the reason why i never entered the military. That's the reason why i quit football in high school. That's the reason why, you know, i I did do a little bit of boxing, did do some martial arts, but I would never go and like fight, fight.
00:26:17
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like I never wanted to fight. I fought because I had to. So these i ideas of breaking people down and building them back up, I'm not real fond of. This is what I'm talking about. This toxic masculinity idea that you've got to break people down to build them up. No, you don't.
00:26:36
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You don't have to do that. And you're talking to, and this is somebody who was a teacher and a coach. No, you can just build people up. You can. All right. What are the structures of the methods of these camps? Many camps, such as the modern day night project, use a bootcamp format.
00:26:50
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Get this. 75 hours of grueling physical tasks, sleep deprivation, Obstacle courses and intense group exercises led by military veterans.
00:27:02
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So it's a military wish camp. These people could have just gone into the military, but once again, they want the aspects of military without putting skin in the actual game.
00:27:16
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This process is intentionally stressful and confrontational with the idea that suffering leads to superpowers. This is a literal quote that suffering leads to superpowers and that overcoming adversity together forges camaraderie and personal growth. Now, you ain't getting those superpowers, but I understand what they mean that going through stuff in a group builds this kind of camaraderie and personal growth.
00:27:44
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I mean, that is true. We've all been in groups or teams or things of that nature and have to overcome together. And you have these bonds that are created because you went through tough times together.
00:27:57
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But how does that help you? with the people that's not going through this with you, like your family and your children. This is what doesn't make sense to me. When are you going to put your family and your children through this tough process and go through pain and... and and and anguish and and adversity in order to come through it together and be closer?
00:28:24
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That sounds stupid as hell. Some programs like Activate the Alpha incorporate more holistic elements, including relationship exercises, trauma work, and access to mental health professionals to address emotional needs alongside physical challenges.
00:28:41
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Now that's what I'm talking about. yes If you are... try to become healthier by doing these physical grueling things. I don't know about sleep deprivation, right?
00:28:53
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And 75 hours of and intensive exercise. Like that as a fitness professional, That is very, very dangerous. But if you're taking relationship exercises, you're doing trauma work and you're working with mental health professionals, that's actual evolution.
00:29:12
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That's actually, well, I still don't agree with term alpha, but you're definitely evolving and and becoming a better you. What are some of the claims and promises from these boot camps?
00:29:23
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The promise boot camps promise to help men shatter self-doubt and see purpose clearly. I'm not opposed to that. I'm opposed to how they get there. Heal past trauma.
00:29:35
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I'm not opposed to that either. I'm opposed to how they get there. Become better fathers, partners, and leaders. I talked about that earlier. Not opposed to that. Opposed to how they get there. Improve mental health, marriages, and even business success.
00:29:49
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Once again, not opposed to any of that. Opposed to how they get there. The programs often include follow-up coaching and mastermind groups for ongoing support and personal development.
00:30:00
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Now let's get into some of the criticisms and controversies that expand upon some of my already comments about how I don't agree with a lot of the actions being taken by these boot camps.
00:30:12
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There's questionable effectiveness. Critics argue that these camps misunderstand the true purpose purpose of military boot camp, which is a prolonged multi-phase process designed to build teamwork and And it's done over weeks and months, not just 75 hours of hardship.
00:30:31
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Once again, it's it's a dream camp, military dream camp, but it doesn't prepare you. it The purpose of the boot camp is to build people up in a team atmosphere. Yes, it does supposedly make you a better you, but it makes you a better soldier.
00:30:52
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thats That's what it's doing. Also, the alpha concept itself is based on outdated science and can promote unhealthy stereotypes about masculinity, like toxic masculinity, like you need to be assertive and aggressive.
00:31:08
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And self-confidence is a good thing until it turns into being, you know, conceit. And yeah when you're conceited, That's an issue. There's also the high cost and accessibility.
00:31:20
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Participation often requires a significant financial investment of eight of up to $18,000 for a single three-day session. Maybe I should run an Alpha Bootcamp.
00:31:32
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I mean, it sounds like a hustle to me. It sounds like a hustle to me. Some see this as exploitive, especially given a lack of scientific evidence supporting the effectiveness of such a belief and intense innovations.
00:31:46
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So the holistic approach of relationships, trauma work, mental health professionals, I'm all for that. that That's something that I preach.
00:31:58
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The concept of the alpha, very toxic. Very toxic. That's the Andrew Tate stuff. These are toxic of individuals. You know, I was talking to somebody earlier about toxic masculinity.
00:32:11
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And you know what I would actually love? and And it's problematic. What I'm about to say is problematic, but hear me out on this. I would love a homosexual male that is the old stereotype of what a homosexual male is. Flamboyant.
00:32:31
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ah that that is full of feminine characteristics. This is a toxic, toxic stereotype. I'm not saying this is what gay men are like.
00:32:44
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I'm saying that most of the times their portrayals in mass media have been that. So let's take that characterization, that stereotype of a gay male, and I want him to be the UFC champion in all of the weight classes. Because that would immediately...
00:33:01
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on its head attack the alpha male mentality and toxic masculinity. Because they see people in this manosphere, people in this toxic masculinity mindset, see those particular stereotypical gay men as everything not masculine, as everything beta.
00:33:27
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But if he whooping everybody ass, but You see what saying? Like that, that would be like a dream to me because it would put everything that they believe on, on its head and maybe hopefully make them think.
00:33:38
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But these people most of the time are aches and don't think. So i don't think they would. Okay. What are the safety and ethics of these alpha male boot camps? There have been serious incidents, including a participant's death during a session, raising questions about safety protocols and sustainability of such extreme methods for addressing men's emotional needs.
00:34:00
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Let me tell you something about boot camp. Boot camp starts with getting people into shape. They're putting these people through marine training. And you know, you don't just start out with the intense marine training.
00:34:15
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The average... As a fit individual, somebody who works out six days a week, somebody whose body fat percentage is in the very low teens, if not in the preteens, right? I think it's in the preteens right now.
00:34:29
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When I say preteens, it's like 11, 12%.
00:34:33
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Great cardiovascular, like the heart is good. Like I'm in really good shape. I could stand and drop my body fat percentage is just a little bit more, but I'm in really, really good shape.
00:34:45
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I couldn't go do that marine stuff. I would pass out and puke. And contrary to what you think, working out until you puke is not a good thing. that's not a That's not a great workout.
00:34:58
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You're working yourself past your body's Performance level. That's not a good thing. People have died because you got Joe Smoe who sits on the couch eating potato chips every day thinking he's going to go do this three day program.
00:35:12
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And you got people running these programs who believe in this toxic masculinity and that they're going change, man, or they're hustlers because of the 18 grand a pop. Think about that. You've got 10 people in a three day weekend. You made one hundred eighty thousand dollars for three days.
00:35:29
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of just barking orders and telling what these people what to do, that's a scam. And it's dangerous. What are the alternatives and professional support? Experts suggest that while some men may benefit from the camaraderie and challenge, these camps are not substitutes for hurt for professional therapy or evidence-based mental health interventions.
00:35:54
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Programs that integrate licensed mental health professionals and focus on emotional as well as physical development are viewed more favorably. So that program that I was talking about earlier, which was the Alpha, what was it again?
00:36:11
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The Alpha, the Activate Your Alpha Academy that introduced those very things. I'm not opposed to that. Look, if you're making men get off their ass, work out, giving them self-confidence, self-esteem, helping them with relationship coaching, helping them with their trauma, giving them mental health through licensed professionals.
00:36:31
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Now that is a man camp. That's a man camp that I could back up as long as they don't bring in this alpha beta ideology.
00:36:42
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And really what these camps, what that particular camp is doing is getting men in better shape. Cause if you get into better shape, your self-confidence goes up. You look better, you feel better. That is a real thing.
00:36:55
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Okay. But also what that camp is really doing is increasing men's emotional intelligence. This is a real difference between men and women is emotional intelligence.
00:37:12
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I gave the analogy a couple of shows ago of why there are certain groups of white people in America that have a really hard time of of letting go, subconsciously or consciously, of letting go of the fact they're not this superior race.
00:37:29
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And they tried to to sweep under minority accomplishments as a Furn of Action DEI, like it it wasn't an accomplishment.
00:37:40
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The only reason why they got there is because it was a handout or they got a leg up. Not one to realize that maybe they're just better at particular things or that these particular white people, not all, these particular white people just aren't exceptional.
00:37:55
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And I know that's tough for some people to realize because your whole life you've been told that you're exceptional. Men, since the beginning of time, have been told that they are the leaders of the pack.
00:38:07
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You got to be a man. You got to be strong. It is very tough to come to the realization that you aren't that. Women are surpassing us in education and in the workforce. Though wages are still not where they're supposed to be for people doing the same job, women are still being paid less.
00:38:26
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By and large, women are making more money as a group and becoming more educated than men. are surpassing men. Men, not all, but there are a lot of men in this manosphere that are talking and about, well, it's only because these there are all these things for women and women are given all these advantages and men are being held back when reality, men just aren't up to snuff.
00:38:50
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And the reason is is, because we're emotionally, and forgive me for using this word, but it's apropos, we're emotionally retarded. We're emotionally handicapped because we were never taught to express our emotions.
00:39:06
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Think of it like this. Think of it as a crayon box. You remember an elementary school, we had crayon box boxes, right? Typically, most kids got the primary colors, right? The eight primary color box, the eight crayon box, you know, you had the blue, the red, the green, the yellow, the black, the white, all that type of stuff, right?
00:39:25
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There were some kids that had that big 64 box, right, that has 64 different crayons, it had fuchsia and teal and all these other colors that you couldn't even imagine.
00:39:36
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That's the difference in emotional intelligence between men and women. Women are the 64 crayon box, men are the eight. we We don't know how to deal with emotions. We were never taught.
00:39:49
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It's a part of the patriarchal society. It's part of toxic masculinity. And also we don't like to be perceived as weak. It's a pride issue. And pride is one of the what? Seven deadly sins. So don't come to me talking about the Bible and religion when you are clearly exhibiting every day of your life, one of the seven deadly sins.
00:40:10
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So the reason why men feel like they need to be alpha is because women are surpassing us. And it's because I've been saying it and I'm saying it as a male. I'm saying it as a male who...
00:40:22
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has a lot of masculine traits, a lot of feminine traits as well, but you know a lot of masculine traits. you know I talk to my bestie all the time about that. about that you know I was like, you know, you're dealing with somebody who's very much against your ideal of a man. she was like, no, when I see you, I very much see a man, a masculine man. And that might be because of my stature or the way I present myself.
00:40:46
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I have a lot of confidence in myself, but almost to the point I can see it, almost. um I don't have a lot of self-doubt and don't really have too many problems of my self-esteem. But, you know, there are issues with my self-esteem. But by and large, you are hearing this from a man that has a lot of masculine traits.
00:41:06
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We male females are the more evolved species. And don't say to this, well, we're stronger than them. That's literally the only thing that we have over them. And oh, by the way, just because a species is physically stronger doesn't mean it is better. Are you going to say that you're not better than a gorilla? A gorilla is physically stronger.
00:41:26
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A gorilla is feel physically stronger, but is not smarter, is not more evolved. So yes, we're physically stronger than women, but we're not more evolved than women. And we can't even say that we could take pain like women, right? Because there are there's this machine that can mimic the the pain that women have during their you know that time of month.
00:41:45
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And men will get like a three on ah on a pain meter and will crotch down like they've been shot. And they'll put that same instrument on a on a woman and they're like, yeah, this is a this is a really light day. This isn't really that bad. And then crank it up to a 10 where men can't even deal with it.
00:42:05
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And a woman is like, okay, yeah, now we're starting to get to a hard day. Women can tolerate pain better than men can. Men wouldn't be able to give birth. We would pass out. Women are smarter than us as evidenced by them passing us an education.
00:42:22
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They're smarter than us when it comes to emotions because they could deal, they got, they're the 64, they're the 64 crayon box where we're still the eight. They're more evolved than us. So wouldn't that make them the alpha in this situation under these definitions of alpha male?
00:42:41
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Look, some men are going to be, a lot of men are going to be pissed off. about what I'm saying. And they say, how you going to say that they better than us? You a male. And I'm just like, look, I speak the truth.
00:42:52
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You don't want to hear it, but I speak the truth. Like the very first episode where I misspoke and I said, power to truth, truth to power. Look, I speak the truth, whether you want to hear it or not. Women are more evolved, but by and large, I don't have a problem with a man camp, like to activate the alpha that's in encouraging men to become physically fit,
00:43:16
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address relationships, address their trauma, address their mental health. Those are fantastic man camps. These other toxic man camps, the people that a person would die on and and you got to pay $18,000, those are just scams.
00:43:32
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Once again, those are only scams that dumb ass men would fall for. Yeah. Hate to be real, but got to be.
00:43:51
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Speaking of toxic males, I went to my, you know, I've talked about it a lot. Am I overreacting? Look, for a person that is as messy as I am, granted, I don't want no drama in my life, but please tell me all the drama in your life. I'm messy. I like hearing gossip.
00:44:10
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Okay. That's the reason why I like Jersey Shore and Teen Mom too. I'm messy. Am I overreacting? A Reddit, so a subreddit from Reddit is literally my favorite thing.
00:44:22
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I can sit up there and read other people's messiness and all the comments for hours. I can literally get lost in it for hours. But speaking of toxic masculinity,
00:44:33
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This one, Am I Overreacting, I thought was really important because little to my knowledge until I found out recently, there's a lot of younger Gen Z borderline Gen Alphas actually listen and watch the show. I was surprised.
00:44:48
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Because we talk about some issues that in my mind would be a little complex for Gen Alpha. But then I had to realize Gen Alpha, the oldest Gen Alpha was born in 2010.
00:44:59
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They're 15 years old now. They're sophomores, freshmen, sophomores. They're in high school. So the idea that understand concept, ah complicated concepts, it's there. Because that's, I started understanding these concepts in middle school only because my dad forced them upon me. So I'm specifically dealing this issue.
00:45:17
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Am I overreacting is dealing with a younger Gen Z, not quite Gen Alpha, but it's something for not only Gen Alpha, Gen Z, millennials, Gen X, boomers, and whatever's above that.
00:45:32
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This is something that I know men do and it's toxic. So am I overreacting?
'Am I Overreacting?' Reddit Stories
00:45:39
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My new boyfriend wants me to replace all my bras, underwear, and lingerie.
00:45:46
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I need help on this ASAP. I'm 18 and my boyfriend is 19 and we have recently just gotten into a relationship together. He said this to me the other day and I'm not sure what to think.
00:45:56
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Is this a red flag? Should I run or am I overreacting? The lingerie part, I sort of understand, but bras and underwear, I don't get. So this is the conversation between The 18 year old boyfriend and the 19 year old girlfriend.
00:46:13
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Here's the 18 year old boyfriend. I know this must sound strange, but I want you to get rid of any underwear, bras and any form of lingerie you have. I hate the idea that other guys have seen you and used you in them.
00:46:27
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It bothers me a lot. Her response, wait, I can't tell if this is a joke. You want me to throw away my whole drawer between my lingerie sets, bras, and panties?
00:46:40
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I have at least one K. No joke. Him. I know it sounds intense, but I want you and us to start totally fresh. Her. It's clothing.
00:46:52
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It doesn't hold any meaning like that to me. Plus I like my bra sets and I have loads of different designs. Him. I could take you shopping and can replace and get new.
00:47:04
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I'll pay for everything. She gave him an emoji face like, seriously? And he, he texts back, come on.
00:47:14
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Is she overreacting for not wanting to do that? Ma'am. You are not overreacting and you need to run. This is what we call the key of a toxic male. He wants possession of you.
00:47:26
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doesn't actually care about you. He wants to possess you. He wants to make it so that you're only his. they You know what is sad? I don't think they do the made-for-TV movies anymore or the after-school specials that taught us about these guys.
00:47:44
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There was one where I can't remember who was in it. Oh, it was Fred Savage. Fred Savage. I think this was based on a true story. Fred Savage is like some wrestling superstar at his high school and he was dating dating this woman and he used to get super jealous and possessive and he beat her up and then finally her friends was like hey you need to like leave him after he like really hurt her bad and so she decided to leave him and he couldn't take it anymore he wanted her else nobody else could have her and he kidnapped her and he killed her yeah these type of stories happen all the time that's how it starts
00:48:23
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That's how it starts. And it was the i it was the comment of him saying, i don't want you i don't want them to have had you in them. Had you?
00:48:36
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I talked a few episodes back about the idea of dating an adult star. And I told the story about when I did. and the regret that I have for and not being able to handle the past and how I really cared for this person.
00:48:56
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There was nothing that was bad. We never fought. that The only time we fought was when I found out that that she had done some adult work before we got together. We never fought.
00:49:08
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We had a good time. She was funny. She was beautiful. You know, there were no problems. The problem was, for me, I couldn't deal with her past. And now me being older, it is so stupid because 45.
00:49:21
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I date anywhere from, know I'm 45 and five old.
00:49:28
Speaker
is not that far, so I should be able to date a 50 year old, but I just can't, I just feel like that's too old. so So I'll date somebody 46, maybe 46 and a half, all the way to the youngest I'll date is 35.
00:49:42
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And that's a stress for me. And when you get to that age, you've had a lot of sexual partners. If you've been active, and women out here but been active, man, they're gonna have a lot of sexual partners. I understand at this age, he's thinking that they shouldn't have a lot of sexual partners, but even at that age, people be people we out here having sex.
00:50:04
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ma'am you're not overreacting you should run because he just wants to possess you and it's only going to get worse it's going to get to the point where you can't have any male friends this is going to get to a point where you can't talk to any other males that's not in your family and then he might even get jealous of the men in your family as you talk to but you got something going on with who my uncle Like it could get that crazy.
00:50:27
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And then if you leave them, who's to say that that possession won't become physical? Oftentimes it does. And then when you try to leave them, that's when they try to hurt you. No.
00:50:38
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and And this goes for all my women out there. If your dude gets super jealous, jealousy is not a good thing. Jealousy is not a good thing. I remember dating this woman and I met her on a dating site. She even eventually became my girlfriend, which is crazy about that.
00:50:52
Speaker
And I remember her saying on her profile, yeah, a little jealousy isn't that bad. And I was like, what do you mean by that? She was like, you know, just a little jealousy isn't that bad. i was like, I think all jealousy is bad because if you're jealous, that means you don't trust your partner, and which means you shouldn't be in a relationship.
00:51:13
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like you shouldn't be in a relationship. Something is wrong if you're jealous of your partner's interaction with the opposite sex or the same sex if you're in a gay relationship.
00:51:28
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There's something wrong with it that, that needs to be addressed on your end. There's nothing healthy about it.
00:51:36
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If men are jealous, if women are jealous, get out of that situation Or, I mean, you could try and reassure them. If they don't get it, move on. And I know people always going to say, Bruce, here comes a sniper again. That's my uncle's nickname for me. Here comes a sniper again.
00:51:53
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All you do is cut people loose when things get iffy. No, I cut people loose when things are, when they show signs of it becoming a problem. That's a sign of a problem.
00:52:05
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$1,000 clothing i' cloth it that he's gonna replace all because he's scared that other people have seen her in it, seen her in it.
00:52:18
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So she, I mean, can she even wear a bathing suit when they go to the beach? Because bra and panty set is essentially just a bathing suit. That's what it is. So,
00:52:31
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so Y'all don't, is it me or does this absolutely sound crazy? And she's so young. She's only 19 years old. She doesn't know any better. And I'm glad she went on this Reddit so that we can describe to her why it is such a bad thing.
00:52:45
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This man literally said that that he didn't like the fact that she was used in them.
00:52:56
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He used the words. that other guys have seen you and used you in them. Woo! Ma'am, run away, run away as fast as you can. and And ladies and gentlemen, if you are out there and you are in a situation like this, run away as fast as you can.
00:53:18
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I got another one. And these two just happen to be relationship ones. All right? This one is, am I overreacting to my boyfriend sending me another podcast? Okay, so me, 20-year-old female and my boyfriend, 32-year-old male.
00:53:35
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First of all I'm gonna pause right there. She's 20 years old and he's 32.
00:53:42
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I just said I would have a problem if I was 45 and she's 35. And even at that age, of but even at that 10-year difference, there's a shorter maturity gap than 20 to 32.
00:53:58
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That's crazy, but let me continue on. We're having very kind conflicting, we have very conflicting political views and I'm getting really sick of it.
00:54:09
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I've tried to just not talk politics with him and it's caused us to fight a lot, but we are both stubborn as hell and he has gotten mad at me in the past for bringing up politics. So this was my response when he sent me a podcast about how Trump's tariffs are so great for the economy.
00:54:26
Speaker
I don't know. It's immature, but I'm so sick of him sending me his dumb little podcast from Joe Rogan and whatnot. It irritates me to my core that he even watches some of that stuff. Her punctuation is just horrible. It's just run on sentence after run on sentence, but she's 20 years old, so I kind of get it.
00:54:46
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Not to mention I'm in college. Well, she is in college. It's finals week and I have a job. I don't have all day to twiddle my thumbs and watch podcasts. Everything else is great. We get along.
00:54:57
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We get along great. So he sent her a podcast from PBD. It's a PBD podcast. I'm not going to promote this guy. I don't like him. I think in the beginning,
00:55:11
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He was somebody that very much started a podcast like I did. that One did have sensible conversations. I think now he's leaned towards more of where the money is and the money is in propaganda and right-wing extremist ideology.
00:55:28
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That's where the money is. The money is not in what I'm out here talking about. The money is preaching about hate, man is fear, Trump. That's where the money is.
00:55:39
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So he sent, eight he, her boyfriend, her 32-year-old boyfriend sent her the podcast and put interesting in a little emoji where they're thinking. She texts back, I'm busy.
00:55:51
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Trump doesn't GAF, y'all know what that stands for, about you quit sucking his... so hard at what and what world are tariffs that will cost us consumers more money good for the already struggling American citizens, majority of whom live paycheck to paycheck?
00:56:09
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Is she overreacting from that? um yeah Well,
00:56:15
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you're not. OK, first of all, you're too young to be dating this 32 year old. That's the first problem. And I know sometimes, you know, women mature, well, women mature faster than men. So they might be at the same maturity level, but they're not in the same position in life.
00:56:36
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So she's in college, he's already in his career, hopefully, already in his career. They're in different phases in life. They probably don't have a lot in common. That's number one.
00:56:47
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Number two, if anything has been proven since 2016 to now, if you have differing political ideology, you cannot be in a relationship.
00:57:00
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I mean, completely opposed to the two extremes. You can't be in a relationship. Can somebody who's a centrist or moderate be with a conservative or a liberal?
00:57:12
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Sure. But can a conservative and a liberal be together? No, it's never going to work out because even if you don't talk politics, everyday life is politics. Right. People are like, I don't like talk politics. I don't know how you don't because everyday life is politics. That's that's a climate that we live in.
00:57:31
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So if y'all are not aligned or at least semi aligned politically, it's not going to work out. so not only do you have the age difference, you have them politically not aligned and you have both of them not stop talking about politics.
00:57:46
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You can kind of live in this fairy tale land where you won't talk politics. But if neither one is agreeing to it, No, it's not going to work out.
00:57:57
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Are you overreacting by saying what you said to him? Yes, maybe a little bit, but he's baiting you, right? He's sending you these things because he knows that you don't agree with him. He's trying to get you to agree with him.
00:58:11
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And the way that he's doing it in a condescending, passive, aggressive type of way is aggravating, especially when you're dealing with finals and you have a job. seems like you got a lot on your plate.
00:58:22
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Maybe having a man right now that is 12 years older than you and isn't aligned with you political politically isn't the best decision. Look, these are things that you need to think about because if you're getting into relationships with people, you gotta have some tough conversations because if you get in relationship, you wanna start a family, gonna raise the kids?
00:58:45
Speaker
Right? like Like, what is the process of raising the kids? Because you believe in two so two completely different things. You have two completely different philosophies in life. It will not work.
00:58:56
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It will not be successful. Are you overreacting for kind of the language? I mean... you you may have You may have overreacted a little bit, just a little bit.
00:59:07
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you know There was some foul language in there. It was a little bit. I'm not above saying foul language. i say foul language all the time. But you know you know maybe maybe I like to intellectually destroy people and not yell or scream and don't even need to use big words and not cuss.
00:59:28
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It gets my point across a little bit better. but that came with age. I wasn't always like that. When I was 20, I definitely responded the way she did. So is she overreacting?
00:59:39
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A little bit, but not by much. Y'all have bigger problems that y'all need to deal with. And I'm gonna really be honest with you. Y'all don't really need to be together. Y'all need to separate, separate.
00:59:51
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And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I just want y'all to think about some of the things that I brought up, right? Like you have your ideology on life, Maybe you're right.
01:00:03
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But leave open the possibility that you could be wrong and listen to other people. ah Listen to their perspectives. Listen to their ideals.
01:00:15
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You don't have to agree, but listen, and you might gain something from it. Don't immediately shut it off because you don't want to hear it. That's what this whole show is about. And I hope you learn something from it.
01:00:27
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But on that note, I want to thank you for listening. stay this I want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holla.
01:00:40
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