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Veterans Betrayed? Daylight Savings Rants & Fast Fashion Ethics
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Bruce Anthony and J. Aundrea bring their signature sibling banter to Unsolicited Perspectives as they tackle Trump’s VA staff cuts, fast fashion ethics, and daylight saving time frustrations. From laughing over Instacart penny-pinching to dissecting systemic racism in veteran benefits, this episode blends humor and hard truths. Why do politicians claim to ‘support troops’ while slashing healthcare? Can you style sustainably without breaking the bank?
The duo dives deep into the leaked memo about 76,000 VA job cuts and how it impacts veterans’ access to healthcare and benefits. They also explore the ethical dilemmas of fast fashion, sharing personal stories about shopping habits and the harsh realities of sweatshops. Plus, they debate whether it’s okay to still listen to R. Kelly’s music, unpack family money drama (including a hilarious Mother’s Day brunch story), and discuss the fine line between giving advice and meddling.
With their unique blend of humor, honesty, and cultural insight, Bruce and J. Aundrea deliver a thought-provoking conversation that’s equal parts entertaining and enlightening. #veteransrights #fastfashion #daylightsavings #FastFashionFails #VACuts #podcast #unsolicitedperspectives
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Chapter:
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
00:45 Sibling Happy Hour: Spicy Takes & Drinks 🍹🌶️
01:28 Spring Forward, Fall Back: Sibling Banter & the Daylight Savings Debate ⏰💤
03:58 Fast Fashion Fails: The Ethical Dilemma of Looking Good 👗⚠️
11:12 Instacart Woes & the Art of Penny-Pinching 🛒💸
23:05 Forgotten Heroes: The VA Cuts and Their Impact on Veterans 🪖💔📉
33:39 Efficiency or Chaos? The Truth About Managing People 📊🤯
34:26 Streamlining or Sabotage? Federal Workforce Cuts and Hidden Agendas 🏛️⚖️🗂️
35:28 Dollars vs. Duty: Billions for Bombs, Pennies for Veterans 💣💔
39:41 When Cuts Hit Home: The Ripple Effect on Local Economies 🏠💥
41:39 The Blame Game: Political Ping-Pong and Public Outrage 🗳️🔥🤷♂️
51:05 Advice or Experience? The Fine Line Between Helping and Meddling 🗣️🤔
01:01:32 Supporting Our Heroes: Why Veterans Deserve More 🎖️❤️
01:02:19 Behind the scenes on the podcast
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Introduction and Podcast Promotion
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America says they support the troops, but do they really? And are you truly giving good advice? We're going to talk about it. Let's get it
00:00:19
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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 and YouTube exclusive content.
00:00:36
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Segment Teaser: Sibling Happy Hour
00:00:39
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share with your friends share with your family hell even share with your enemies on today's episode it's the sibling happy hour i'm here with my sis jay andrea we're gonna be dilly-dadding a little bit and then we're gonna be talking about a cut in the va and they we're gonna be talking about are you giving good advice but that's enough of the intro let's get to the show
00:01:07
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What up, sis? What up, brother? I can and can't call it at the same time, so this is per usual. How is it both? Like, this is a thing. How is it both?
00:01:18
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right, this is how both. I can't call because it's not that big of a deal, hu but I can call it because it's an annoyance. Okay.
Daylight Savings Time Preferences
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This spring forward got me all jacked up.
00:01:30
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Oh, man, you ain't said nothing. Yes. This spring forward, I hate spring forward. Now, fall back, love that I get an extra hour of sleep. Spring forward, I tried planning for it and I still screwed up.
00:01:43
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I'm struggling this morning. I had to listen to my happy rap music and shower to get myself excited to do the show. What is happy rap? Oh, okay. Well, Bernie Mac first coined the phrase happy rap. You know, that's kid and play, Salt-N-Pepa. You know what I'm saying? House music, little bit of rap, bass, old school, late 1980s, 1990s, happy hip-hop.
00:02:07
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Before NWB took over. Got you. Okay, got you. Before gangster rap, you know what I'm saying? Well, we're talking about the ills of society. We're just trying to have fun and have a good time. Right. And a little bit of house music as well.
00:02:19
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A little bit of encore. You know what I'm saying? You know, love encore. yeah That could be the intro. If they would ever, if I could ever get the license in for that song, that would be the intro to the show. Literally every time I walk into a room, I want to hear burner learn every time I walk into a room.
00:02:37
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Yeah. Yeah.
Ethics of Fast Fashion
00:02:39
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Yeah. So no, I mean, so like I got the little pep in my stuff, but I'm, struggling and that means that i'm gonna be thrown off for the entire week like that's well i mean we need to get rid of daylight savings period it literally de what is the reason that we still have daylight savings i think some states don't have it i feel like arizona got rid of it it it completely throws off your sleep pattern like I don't understand. What's the purpose?
00:03:12
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um Why do we still have it I don't know what the purpose is, but yeah as of this morning, and I really hate it I love it in and the winter. I love it when it's the fall back. You get extra hours sleep. Yeah, but again, then it's dark. Like, it's dark. all this It's dark when you leave the house. It's dark when you come home. Like, you never see the sun.
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But you know what? Life is dark and sometimes you just got to live in it. it No, that is not. you No, that is not good for your mental health. Like it's not good for your mental health. That's where, you know, it really affects like your seasonal affective disorder. Then you got to get them little lamps that mimic UV rays or whatever. the little happy lamps or whatever. Like that's too much.
00:03:53
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It's too much.
Economic Choices in Shopping
00:03:54
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Let's just get rid of it. I'm done. yeah i was Speaking of, you know, those lights, I got one. I bought one from Timu. And okay one of my friends who also is listens to the show, avid, avid listener to the show, pulled me out because i on the last show, was talking about Shein and Timu and how all these terraces about to make this stuff expensive.
00:04:19
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I'm like, let me go buy my my business professional clothes now before I can't. But she was like, don't buy no more clothes from Shein
Family Financial Anecdotes
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and Timo. I was like, first of all, I've never bought no clothes from Timo.
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ah The only thing I bought was yeah was ah some some lamps, some stuff that, like a knife sharpener that don't sharpen no damn knives. Like, look, it's a waste of money buy for stuff from Timo. But Shein, yes. And I was like, well wait a minute.
00:04:42
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but Like, why not? And it's like all the the business practices, the sweatshops. She said there's chemicals that's in the clothing that's bad for us. And I was like, so where am I supposed to get my clothes? Now, she suggested...
00:04:53
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you know, secondhand stores or, you know, you just pay for higher quality. And I was like, yeah, that's the problem. Like I could go to the mall and I can't find clothes that I like.
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I can find them online and get them cheap and return them. I was like, you messing up my whole steez. I'm out here styling and profiling and you telling me I'm hurting, I'm hurting the community.
00:05:16
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And I'm like, you know what? At some point, I'm going to just be selfish. I got to i needed i need to. I need to have clothes that I like. And I'm not buying no secondhand clothes. I care how much you wash them.
00:05:29
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I'm not wearing no secondhand clothes. I mean, when you go and try on clothes in mall, like ah other people's butts have been in it. I don't do that anymore. I haven't done that in like 10 years. I had a professor once in undergrad and she just made everybody feel horrible.
00:05:43
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And she said, well, I only either make my clothes or I buy them secondhand. So no new labor goes into my clothes. And she says, because if I am anti-slavery, then I can't support these clothing brands too. And I was just like,
00:06:00
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This was at Howard, wasn't it? No, this was at Maryland. Look, why you have to say it like that? Look, sometimes I just don't want to know the truth.
00:06:10
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Sometimes I want to bask at my ignorance and just and enjoy my clothes. I mean, she had a point. yes ah But also, I'm poor.
00:06:23
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And I don't know how to sew. So I don't know what you want me to do. Fast fashion, it just, it's fast and it's cheap. And i I, know that maybe the working conditions aren't great.
00:06:37
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I don't know. I'm afraid not to know.
00:06:44
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Yeah. I don't want to know. i don't want to know. I just want to get my clothes. But yeah, when you get hit with that realness, it's like, okay, I'm about to go here. It's like, when R. Kelly gets arrested and Bill Cosby gets arrested and, and you know, who else did he, you know, it's just like, damn, I kind of wish I didn't know because I could just bask in that ignorance and enjoy the music. But when you're made aware of these things, like, Oh, I feel dirty participating in this.
00:07:13
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yeah I'm going to feel dirty participating in wearing those clothes, but I'm going to wear because I look good at it. ah Like when I get compliments by putting my fits together, can't find those fits in the mall. And also i don't like trying on clothes and going to the mall because other people have wear those clothes and you don't know if they're going commando when they try them clothes on. You really don't know.
00:07:37
Speaker
You don't know what's going on in that, in that dressing room, little booth. You don't know what's going on in there. you But I mean, you know, also,
00:07:47
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It's not that I don't care. I do. i absolutely do care. But y'all seen the clothes they be having for plus size women in the mall. And it's tense.
00:07:59
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And nothing is like cute. But like you go on these fast fashion sites and they have like much more stylish clothing. for plus size people, like, or for tall people or for petite people, or like, you know, there's just more variety on these websites. There's literally like thousands and thousands of articles of clothing on there that you can choose from. so Whereas you go to the mall, of like it's whatever, you know, Anna Wintour whoever the powers that be decide is acceptable for you to wear at your size or whatever. So I just, I don't know. I mean, it gives you more options and more variety and more size choices. And until like malls reflect that also, then
00:08:50
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People are gonna shop online. Got to shop online. And also, I'm tired of going to the mall trying on clothes. They don't fit. And I'm like, can I get the next size? Oh, we don't have that in. You have to order it.
00:09:01
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All right, well, if I had to order it anyway, might as well. ah Yeah, I might as well. So to my friend, I hear i hear everything you're saying. And you're right. I'm gonna pick and choose my battles.
00:09:12
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I gave up R. Kelly. I'm not gonna give up my fast fashion. Let me tell you, ya i was in an Uber the other day. And that brother did not give up R. Kelly. He played R. Kelly back to back. Like, it wasn't even like, oh, it's just it was one R. Kelly song that's still in my mix that I, you know, didn't take out.
00:09:33
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No, it was back to back R. Kelly and from different albums. So i was like, oh, this is your R. Kelly mix that you're playing right now. And I want to get out of this vehicle, please.
00:09:44
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ah Did you tell him that, hey, could you turn off the R. Kelly? Nah, I mean, you riding in somebody else's car, you don't know what this, don't know what this man created. I'm just trying to get to my destination. i feel you. Check it out though.
00:09:56
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I'm finding that's falling on gender lines. Men are just being like, it's a big thing. I like all Kelly's music. going to still listen to it. And women are like, I mean, come on now. with All the stuff that he did. and We'll get into patriarchy later on when we talk about advice and things of that nature.
00:10:15
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And if y'all really want to hear about some of the patriarchy, we got some real interesting stuff that we're putting in our YouTube exclusive videos, topics that we're going to talk about today that's going to posted this week. And also, I have decided that me and you, during our breaks in between segments, that's not that's never on the podcast, be having another whole show.
00:10:36
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I quit something from one of the last shows, and i was like I'm going to put this on the end, behind the scenes, and just forgot to do it. Ladies gentlemen, to start doing that. I'm to start doing some of the stuff that we talk about. Some, because other stuff we can't yeah we can put that on there. I'm going to start clipping that and putting it at the end of the credits on the video podcast. because I think that would be interesting for people to see some of that dynamic that's not quite after hours, but still is something different from the show.
00:11:04
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so Okay. Okay. Speaking of
Instacart Shopper Behavior
00:11:07
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sizes. Mm-hmm. Have you had this problem with Instacart deliveries? So I routinely get Instacart deliveries from the grocery store because okay so lazy isn't the right word. The grocery store is about a mile away.
00:11:23
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Everybody knows don't have a car. So i walk. I walk all over the place all the time. I love to walk. yeah But like when the weather is bad or just when I don't feel like it. Yeah, that's fair. I'm just going to pay the extra to get it delivered.
00:11:33
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Yeah. And so I had them pick up some ground beef and some chicken and some other stuff. And when I grocery shop, but when I grocery shop, I look at the prices on the package.
00:11:47
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Yes. And you find the cheapest chicken. Yes. Little four pack that you, even if it's a couple cents, you find what's the cheapest pack that's out here.
00:11:58
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Okay. Yes. Yes. I bought some ground beef yesterday. It was a pound of ground beef. And it was something like, I saw the packs yesterday and it was like 702, 711, 713. I that 702. I don't know why we do this. What's the difference of a few sets that we throw away? up It does add up.
00:12:18
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But these Estacard delivery people be choosing the higher priced ones. And I'm thinking that they think that that's going to increase their tip. It is. I've already pre-programmed the tip in there.
00:12:30
Speaker
So it's a percentage. and um Yeah, it's a percentage. Yeah. Of the total. Right. I'll be tempted yeah there to go in there and adjust that tip because I'm like, you're you're trying to gouge me right now to get a bigger tip.
00:12:42
Speaker
yeah I will pay I will give you a bigger tip to choose the cheaper package that's what I will do um you end up paying the same anyway though well I would rather go to them than get me that that that by trying to gain me expensive ass meat yeah I'd rather just give you that money and the tip right don't grab that 713 package that 648 package grab desk six forty eight package I'm going to start putting notes in the Instacart and being like, look, don't be trying to don't be trying to price gouge me.
00:13:16
Speaker
Get the cheapest one of this particular thing that I'm looking for. don't don't don't Don't raise up on me. Don't raise it up on me. Is that a cultural thing or is that an economic thing?
00:13:28
Speaker
I think that falls along economic lines. i And we're going to talk about Black people in poverty in one of our YouTube exclusive videos. But because... disproportionately black people are in poverty.
00:13:42
Speaker
We can assume that it's a black thing, but it's really ah and ah an economical thing. A lot of things that we assume is a black, is a cultural black thing is really israeli economics, right? It really falls on economics. But I feel like regardless of our of our economic position, we still do that.
00:14:03
Speaker
Yeah, we still do that. I know somebody who doesn't even look at the... She told me, yeah, I don't even look at the prices in the grocery store. And I was like, you see? That makes no sense. But she also grew up with a swimming pool in the backyard.
00:14:15
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And i was like, you don't have no real concept of money. And she was like, no, when I first moved here, I was only making $20,000 And I was broke and my parents wouldn't help me out. I was like, yeah, but your parents also paid for your college and sent you on like trips abroad.
00:14:28
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yeah So, yeah, you had to suffer a little bit. I was you have no real concept of money. yeah Like, not really. yeah We grew up not poor. Poor is not. We didn't grow up poor. Like, ah we weren't poor.
00:14:41
Speaker
We didn't have a lot of money. Right. But we weren't poor. Like, I say poor people don't ever get their own room. Yes. We eventually all had our own room. Yeah.
00:14:52
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It took a little while. I didn't get mine until I was a teenager, but I eventually had my own room. That means that you're not poor. Right. But we didn't have a whole lot of money. So it was like, be sensible with your money.
00:15:03
Speaker
It did not transfer to us as adults because. I don't think either. won you Any of us are very sensible with money. now No, none of us are sensible with money. Not at all. And here's a crazy thing.
00:15:16
Speaker
I'll be so cheap in certain things and so extravagant at other things. Yes. Kind of no rhyme or reason for it. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. The stuff that I will spend money on and just be like, no, I'll pay whatever price.
00:15:31
Speaker
Right. Versus things. And it'd be stuff that you need. here And I'm like, I ain't going to get it. Not for not for 758.
00:15:41
Speaker
I don't even need lotion that bad. No, you definitely need lotion that bad. Right, but I'm saying this it's stuff that you need and you be like, oh, Lord, I got the $9.98. na ninety
00:15:54
Speaker
For toothpaste? You know, like, you'd be like, oh, I could just put some baking soda and some water and make it a face. but up I mean, you could. You could.
00:16:10
Speaker
But the stuff you absolutely don't need, you're You'd like, money ain't a thing. Money ain't thing. Just be... Paper, paper everywhere. Don't get around me when I've been drinking and we go out.
00:16:22
Speaker
I know when the three of us go out, when the three of us in the rare opportunities that we go out out. Yes. I'm always one of us is always like, don't worry, I got it. Yeah.
00:16:33
Speaker
We got it. We ball it. And then the next one, it was like, what was we doing? Why did we do this? why Why? Why did we do this? Yeah. Yeah. My thing is, I don't do it anymore because I don't go out like that.
00:16:44
Speaker
But when I do go out, I'm like, everybody, let's get around the shots. You want a shot? You want a shot, too? I look at the bills like, why did do this? Why? I could have just got me a drink. As soon as the bill comes.
00:16:55
Speaker
And it's like, I'll do that. I'll ask a friend, you want to go get something eat? And I'm like, it's on me. And then we just ordering stuff. Like, we just ordering stuff. And then the bill comes like, hell, do we need that karemp for most?
00:17:08
Speaker
We could have just gotten one each. we that perhaps but Especially when half of it's still left over. Right. I'm like, look, can we get a to-go cup? I'll never forget the time you and our brother screwed me.
00:17:21
Speaker
That's happened several times. was What specific time are you talking about? It was ah Mother's Day. and yeah yeah Still, that still feels like you got to narrow it down a little more.
00:17:33
Speaker
All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to tell this interesting story and then we're going get some serious topics. But I got to tell this interesting story because we're going there now. So it was a Mother's Day. And I was, i don't think I was engaged yet, but my ex was with us.
00:17:46
Speaker
Yeah. um And we took mom to brunch. It was me, you. our brother, mom, and my ex. And we went to this brunch. okay We went to this brunch.
00:17:58
Speaker
And ladies and gentlemen, I'm older than my siblings. Yes. So it like I was the first and everything it was the first one graduate college, high school, all that stuff. So as I'm like in my adult life, they're kind of still in school or just getting out of school when they're just getting out of school.
00:18:17
Speaker
I've been in my adult life. So yeah, that's a little bit more further along in life because I'm the oldest. Right. And I'm not just just oldest by a year or two. I'm oldest by four and in five and a half years. So I'm the oldest.
00:18:30
Speaker
So we take mom out to brunch and yeah I'm like, it's brunch. It's all you can eat brunch. are we ordering appetizers? Like, what' why are we doing that? Why are we ordering off the menu appetizers?
00:18:43
Speaker
I don't remember this. Okay. And y'all also did this one time for dad's birthday too. and And there was another buffet, all you can eat thing. I was like, why are we ordering appetizers? And so y'all was ordered all up a storm. The bill comes and I look at y'all and I'm like, Hey, y'all, y'all just want split it.
00:19:00
Speaker
And you look me dead in my face. He said, ain't got no money. And I said, what? yeah say what That does feel on brand for me. I don't remember this specific instance. I do remember other times where fully anticipated that I would have money on the day. And then the day comes and the money is just not there. And I'm just like, oh okay, I don't know what to do. it's just be honest and say, I ain't got no money. Yeah.
00:19:29
Speaker
But you could have told me in the beginning. And then our brother, ha who didn't have any money either, kept putting his library card out there. And i was like, right, I know you're playing and stuff. Put your real card out there. And he looked at me. He's like, ain't got no money.
00:19:42
Speaker
And my ex was heated. She looked at me. She was like, is this what normally happens? i was like, yeah, this happens often. So I guess I'll just pay for it. And I heard remember she was mad she that was the only time she's ever gotten mad at y'all because she was just like like who does that was like they do it all the time they literally do it all the time absolutely trifling like like I can't I'm not even gonna debate that no we were in in my Boy, oh boy.
00:20:13
Speaker
Trifling. Trifling. I was like, he the oldest. He got it. Yeah, that was the thing. It was like, he the oldest. He got it. I'm like, I'm out here trying to lit him. It is tough out here. Trying to start your own family and all kind of stuff. And we like, he oldest. He got it.
00:20:30
Speaker
If I wasn't getting ready to start paying for a wedding, i had to get i was saving up to buy the ring. I was just like, y'all just go get it. And my apartment wasn't that that's cheap, and I'm the brand winner of the relationship, so we supposed be splitting half the bills, but we ain't splitting half the bills. I'm paying a larger portion of it, and then y'all come with it. ain't got no money.
00:20:51
Speaker
Boy, that used to it. Whoo! That's the reason stopped hanging out with y'all. Yeah. we Yeah, it bad. It was bad. But now nowadays, I mean, I'm still kind of like that with what you and our brother. But like nowadays, I think we try to contribute a little bit now.
00:21:11
Speaker
and Things are different now. But things are different. But I did notice i didn't notice the last time we went out, we went out of for Thanksgiving. right Did nobody, did nobody offer to give me no money for the Thanksgiving meal.
00:21:28
Speaker
Oh, the Thanksgiving meal. The Thanksgiving
VA Staff Cuts and Veteran Support
00:21:30
Speaker
meal. And when we went out to the bar, I had started a tab. And finally I said, hey, I ain't paying for no more of these drapes. Y'all gonna have to start buying your own drapes.
00:21:39
Speaker
I thought I had tab too. Yeah. After, after I already bought. No, because I had gotten food early. Nope. No, you didn't get food. We got food at the same time. That's when you started your tab.
00:21:52
Speaker
Oh, you want to know why? Because we had me and our cousin has scammed some drink tickets out of the bouncer. That's right. we were drinking free shots. That's right. Y'all definitely was.
00:22:04
Speaker
Yeah. yeah definitely what Well, speaking of money and benefits. Yeah. The Trump administration is about to cut the staff at the VA and it's going to affect veterans benefits.
00:22:19
Speaker
And we're going to get into that next.
00:22:29
Speaker
All right. This country always talks about supporting the troops and what they truly, truly mean. In my opinion, this is my opinion. This is my unsolicited perspective is what they mean is, is they want to build defense that they don't really support the troops.
00:22:44
Speaker
They support defense because if they supported the troops, the veteran benefits would be better. Yeah. There was just a leaked memo. That Doge and his current administration plan to lay off 76 plus thousand employees to comply with Trump's federal workforce cuts, reverting staff to its 2019 levels of just under 400,000 employees.
00:23:11
Speaker
The rationale being a reduction of force in the reorganization plan to streamline operations. the The due date for something like this is going to be April 14th. The final plan being June and has managed to reorganize the entire cell by 20 by the ah by the end of 2025.
00:23:27
Speaker
So Democrats, of course, are just like, yo, what are y'all doing? What this is going to do is lead to chaos. It's going to be longer wait times for health care, delayed benefits and estranged services.
00:23:39
Speaker
for veterans, but they're going to stick with it. The rationale being that this reorganization is going to streamline the process. There's more details and I'll get into that in a minute. But Jay, I just wanted to get your perspective on how they think cutting staff is going to streamline the process to make it easier for people, for the veterans, the people that fought for this country, the people that lost limbs.
00:24:05
Speaker
For their families, because there are people, the veterans that pass, their families get these benefits as well. For all those people that truly, truly sacrifice for this country, you got these people in suits determining what they can and cannot have and reducing the staff to the point where it's already hard for a lot of veterans to get the benefits.
00:24:25
Speaker
They think by streamlining, by reducing staff, it's going streamline. And everybody else is saying, no, that's just going create chaos. Yeah. It's almost like people who haven't served are making decisions for the people who have. So according to VA a secretary, Doug Collins, healthcare care and benefits will remain unaffected despite layoffs. well that's a lie, right? Because a reduced for workforce means longer wait times.
00:24:53
Speaker
It's just a fact. Like if you have fewer people, there's going to create more delays. So it's going to negatively impact service delivery, which is going to negatively impact the well-being of veterans.
00:25:07
Speaker
There is there is no way we can maintain the level of quality service with a with ah reduction in workforce. This a travesty.
00:25:21
Speaker
It's a travesty because we're already, in my opinion, underserving our veteran community. We're already, it's already like they deserve the best care in the world for what they have sacrificed for our country.
00:25:42
Speaker
And so the fact that they're not getting it and then you want to further reduce the workforce and make it even harder to get quality care Absolutely ridiculous.
00:25:55
Speaker
So again, it's like, let me think. It's like the person who has the best healthcare in the world is making decisions for people who don't have that level of access.
00:26:10
Speaker
because they Because, make no mistake, the President of the United States is the best healthcare the world. The best doctors, the best hospitals, best healthcare care in the world. And this person has never served.
00:26:22
Speaker
Never even tried to. Dodged. Dodged. Dodged. With his bone spurs in his foot. Right. So...
00:26:33
Speaker
And then again, you've got Musk and Doge. Again, never served. Never even got close to it. ah Not American.
00:26:48
Speaker
going to say that. i don't care. And I love that we have an immigrant community. so me Some of y'all are trash and he's he's trash.
00:26:59
Speaker
like Okay. Let's be careful here. that's Let's be careful here. to What you're saying is some immigrants are trash just like some American citizens are trash.
Veteran Benefits and Military Spending
00:27:11
Speaker
Yes. Even though I really don't believe anybody is truly trash. I mean... ah Elon Musk is trash.
00:27:16
Speaker
i I just... He's despicable human bird person. Yeah, what's the difference? that Yeah, that makes him trash. I just don't like to call people trash. You know, truly trash to me is like, you know, you hurt kids or something like that. That's trash. The the rest is just... Is he not...
00:27:33
Speaker
Are they not hurting children by what they're doing to the Department of Education? Are they not hurting children by what they're doing to Medicare and Medicaid? Are they not hurting children by ah reduction of SNAP benefits?
00:27:45
Speaker
Are they not hurting children by not enforcing common sense gun legislation? Are they not hurting children? So again, i say trash. All right. Point taken. That was ah very, very valid. And I can't argue against that. Shut up. Don't look.
00:28:02
Speaker
If y'all was watching the video, she just did a little nod like, yes, I proved my point. I was like, yeah, you're right sometimes. No, we have a beautiful and dynamic immigrant community in this country.
00:28:17
Speaker
And he, I do not consider a part of that. Well, what does the VA a actually do, right? I know some people out there talk about the VA. First of all, what does the VA actually do?
00:28:29
Speaker
So the VA manages the health care. for veterans, determines eligibility for benefits like loans, education, pensions, things of that nature's nature, and maintains cemeteries and memorial services for veterans.
00:28:43
Speaker
yeah Now, i have I have this strong opinion of veterans that no matter how I feel about their personal stances, I will never, ever speak ill of a veteran because they were willing to do something that I would never really want to do.
00:29:02
Speaker
Yeah. Not to mention we have veterans in our family. Yes. And um we're very proud of it. A lot of them, actually. But there are some veterans out there who are Trump supporters who might even be part of it. I mean, we know that there are.
00:29:14
Speaker
There's a lot in the Proud Boys and some these Nazi groups and everything like that. yeah One side of me wants to say, well, the hell with y'all. But another side of me wants to say, you know what? yeah Y'all fall for this country. Whether you wanted to or not, specifically for me, fought for my freedom and my safety. And because you did that, I will never...
00:29:36
Speaker
deprive you or speak ill of your service to this country. Because I feel like that is top tier. These politicians think that they service the country. No. The people that go fight in our wars service the country because the politicians are sending these people off to war.
00:29:55
Speaker
Yeah. And so I've always, ah I said, if I ever ran for office, it would be to improve the VA because being in Washington, DC, doing what I do professionally, i interact with a lot of veterans, a lot of people that have are in the armed forces and and all that stuff and the fight that they have to get for their benefits. Yeah.
00:30:17
Speaker
Also, let's just say that the VA also does the need to be cleaned up because historically, The VA a hasn't been that great of giving people all of their benefits. So there's a part of me that believes, yeah, reorganization, a fixing of the VA is a good thing.
00:30:38
Speaker
But once again, downsizing the government is also a good thing. It's the way they're going about doing it. And yeah, the VA needs to be fixed because don't get me started on what they did to black soldiers, specifically the black soldiers after World War i Yeah.
00:30:52
Speaker
Things like the GI Bill that is supposed to be giving to soldiers after they just that they're just supposed to have. Right. Right. Or denied to black soldiers when they came home after the World War Two.
00:31:05
Speaker
Housing grants and things of that nature. All those benefits were denied to black soldiers. So when we talk about rate ah economic disparity, you know that.
00:31:16
Speaker
Veterans that fought for this country, some got their benefits, some didn't, and that established generations for the future yeah while others were held back for the future.
00:31:27
Speaker
So if you fought, that's reason why I'm making this point. There are people out there that are veterans that I just absolutely don't really agree with ideology wise, right? Like we are fundamentally opposed to each other. But they're going over there and fighting for the freedom to believe what they want to believe and right and the freedom of speech. So you can believe what you, I can disagree with you you know, politically and still support you when you come home.
00:31:59
Speaker
Yes. And the VA does need, you know, some help, right? Some things need to be addressed in the VA, but what there, so Doge has consistently, and this is the reason why there was a report earlier this week that, uh,
00:32:17
Speaker
Elon Musk and Marco Rubio got into it in the Oval Office. Right. They got into it. And Trump supposedly took Marco Rubio's side and said, hey, Elon, you're just an advisor.
00:32:29
Speaker
But this man has put himself in the government talking about waste. But it just seems like none of his contracts actually are waste. Yeah, the thing of it is, you can't just say we're going to streamline or create efficiencies by reducing the workforce.
00:32:51
Speaker
There needs to be a plan in place to then create those efficiencies with the with the with the remaining workforce. I don't think there is. i think there's just the cuts.
00:33:04
Speaker
And then he walks away and was like, you guys figure out how to work this more efficiently. Because again, not a great businessman. Neither one.
00:33:14
Speaker
Yeah. Neither one of them. And so I'm trying to figure out, I manage people. That's what I do. Right. I manage people. I manage people, groups of people, sometimes small, sometimes large to finish things.
00:33:31
Speaker
There's whether it's a project, program, things of that nature. I manage people. Never once has there been a point where a reduction of my people streamlined the process and made it more efficient.
00:33:45
Speaker
No. What can, what things can get clogged up is Constant communication back and forth. The people are not making a decision. However, the people in charge have to set a standard of we're not going to keep talking about this going back and forth. These are the things that need to get done. Get them done.
00:34:06
Speaker
This is how you get them done. You take care of this. You take care of this. You take care of this. But the fact that they're trying to say well we're going to eliminate jobs and in that process, things are going to become more streamlined doesn't make sense to me.
00:34:19
Speaker
No. And so it's a lie. It's a lie to just reduce the federal workforce because what they're trying to do is take money from certain programs and put it in the programs that they want.
00:34:36
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, we see it um when the house proposed cuts to social programs and services in order to give billionaires a tax cut.
00:34:49
Speaker
Yes.
00:34:52
Speaker
Yes. That's what y'all voted for. and And make no mistake about it, ladies and gentlemen. Realize when when we spend, I don't know how i don't know what the the figure is, but I know it's multi-billions, it might even be trillions of dollars on defense, that money ain't going to veterans.
00:35:14
Speaker
It's not. It's going to private contractors, private companies who are developing our weapon systems. And don't get me wrong. I believe in tooling up.
00:35:25
Speaker
I believe in having a strong defense. You are not going to tell me that we don't need to put a ton of money into defense. We do. I agree with that. We also need to put a ton of money into veterans benefits.
00:35:37
Speaker
These people come home. Never mind the fact that there was it the history of the VA, right? There have been Other times where people haven't gotten their services or been suppressed or reduction in benefits, reduction in benefits after the Korean full korean War, there was delayed PTSD recognition and Agent Orange impacts in Vietnam. We have done a disservice to our veterans because there's so many.
00:36:05
Speaker
There's so many that commit suicide after they come home. It's because what they see over there is horrible. Yeah. What they see, what they experience, what they have to do. and just as a side note, so for fiscal year 2023, the us s spent $820 billion on its military. So very, very close to a trillion dollars, which is 13% of the federal budget.
00:36:29
Speaker
And the U.S. is the world's largest military spender. I mean, hey, look, we too look. That's what we do. yeah like The money don't go to the veterans.
00:36:40
Speaker
It does not. It does not go to the veterans. and I mean, it pays their salary, but I mean, could more of it go towards the care that they receive coming home?
00:36:53
Speaker
We need to be focusing on the mental well-being of veterans, not just their physical health. We need to open up more programs for them to talk about their experiences, maybe like group sessions or something, something where we can help them re-acclimate to civilian life in ah in a healthy way and care more about their well-being. And I feel like we're just not doing that. We don't do that writ large, honestly.
00:37:22
Speaker
care ah have Part of preventative healthcare, I've always said, part of preventative healthcare care needs to also be mental healthcare. Mental healthcare is not a privilege of the wealthy. It should not be.
00:37:35
Speaker
It should be part of your preventative care. so Yeah, this is ah is a terrible idea. Another ah another terrible idea.
00:37:46
Speaker
of course, it's facing opposition from Democrats, but even some Republicans are given very you know cautious responses because, again, you don't want to upset the king.
00:38:00
Speaker
So, so everybody's, you know, tiptoeing and being very cautious about, you know, stressing the need to maintain like quality services, but hopefully, you know, this leaked, I don't know, hopefully the opposition will change their minds about doing this because I, I really feel like it would be a disservice to our service members.
00:38:26
Speaker
Well, I would say it would be. And the only way that there'll be pressure is from Congress and senators, GOP Congress and senators that go back to their home state that have to deal with their constituents who are veterans or families of veterans that...
00:38:44
Speaker
are feeling the effects of this because we have seen veterans losing their jobs because of doge and these cuts. Yeah. And these town halls, even though Musk tries to say it's a George Searles, they'd be trying to connect George Searles to everything.
00:38:57
Speaker
Yeah. when i Like, I'm like, no, it's people pissed off. George would be looking up from cheeseburger like, what? What'd I do? I... yeah yeah that What I do this time? What I do?
00:39:08
Speaker
Who said what? and You see these town halls and there and and Republicans are trying to say, well, no, this is all Democrat-backed stuff. No, you need to listen to your constituents because yeah there are real people losing jobs. I just saw a report the other day in West Virginia.
00:39:23
Speaker
The majority of West Virginia... Like employment is based off of federal employment. Yes. And they're about to West Virginia, one of the poorest states, if not the poorest state in the, in the, in the union, there's, it's going to be a death blow to their economy yeah when they do more federal cuts and, and these people lose their jobs. And there was a lot of people that voted Trump.
00:39:49
Speaker
That was the state that he won by the most. Um, There's a lot of people are just like, oh, we didn't, we didn't, this is not what we thought. What a lot of people thought is like, not us, them.
00:39:59
Speaker
yeah it's you. It's you. And so there is a backlash. and So eventually these GOP congressmen, people senators and house of representatives are going to go back to their districts the constituency is going to say hey look what are y'all doing up there we didn't vote for this and then at a certain point when their jobs are ah well they did but they didn't think that they were at a certain point when these people when these people in congress are starting to lose their jobs then that's when they put pressure on the president and his, his agenda doesn't get pushed forward.
00:40:36
Speaker
Yeah. But it is going to start on the grassroots level and they are, Typical rich people who don't have any idea what it's like to be normal, to be and average citizen.
00:40:50
Speaker
They're just like, cut, cut, cut, because they don't have to deal with these type of things. They don't have to deal with looking at the package of chicken and trying to get that 702 instead of that seven eleven right They don't they don't have any concept of it.
00:41:04
Speaker
And what they're doing is, is they're hurting their own agenda by hurting their own people. And it's going to come back to bite them in the butt. That's what I
Economic Impact of Federal Workforce Cuts
00:41:12
Speaker
believe. Yeah. i'm going with it I just find it interesting that they're still managing to blame Democrats when you all have the House, Senate and the White House.
00:41:21
Speaker
Yeah. No, I mean, but that's their playbook. Yeah. it they they They live on. Us versus them. yeah i mean, it's what this country has been built on, us versus them.
00:41:31
Speaker
Yeah, but the people who think that they're in the us category don't realize that they're in the them category. And that's what y'all are starting to realize now, that you thought you were part of us.
00:41:42
Speaker
Yeah, so did the overseer. But the truth of the matter is they're not a rich, landowning white person. that That's a great analogy.
00:41:53
Speaker
They were not ever part of us. And y'all aren't part of us either. Not like us. Not like us. so Not like us. But I mean, hey, look, i think I think America will turn its nose to disparaging veterans. But then then again, you know, Mark Kelly came out with a whole book about how Trump has disparaged people, like soldiers that, that you know, lost limbs and stuff like that and didn't want go to certain cemeteries. And like, he's already done this and people still voted for him. So don't know, it might not make a difference. You got to understand that there is no moral compass there.
00:42:38
Speaker
Like you're you're trying to put that on people who do not have that. There is no moral compass there. They're willing to put up with the racism. They're willing to put up the sexism. They're willing to put up with the homophobia and the transphobia.
00:42:54
Speaker
They're willing to put up with the anti-immigrant sentiment. They're willing to put up with the cuts to the federal workforce. They're willing to put up to cuts to things that serve for veterans. They're willing to put up with kids being killed in their classrooms because they refuse to do anything about common sense gun legislation. Like they're willing to put up with literally a man who is a criminal because there is no moral compass there.
00:43:25
Speaker
ah because they think that they're a part of us. And as long as they think that they're a part of us and that everybody else is them, they will continue to side with who wouldn't side with the ah the majority power.
00:43:43
Speaker
Oh, I mean, people are front runners, right? Like, yeah like you know how you know how simple it is? Look at sports. Look at sports. Team winning, all of a sudden, they gain a lot of fans. like Yeah. because Because you want to be a part of the winning side. Right. You know, it's kind of like...
00:44:00
Speaker
what's happening now with DEI and, you know, what happened with affirmative action and and things like that, right? During Biden's administration, Black Lives Matter was like a really great thing. Before Biden's administration, the Trump administration, there were certain people that was just like, it was the most hated group ever. yeah Biden's administration, we had a whole plaza here in Washington, D.C. I went down there several times and took pictures, Black Lives Matter plaza.
00:44:25
Speaker
They're about to get rid of that. yeah sir The mayor is about to get rid of that, right? yeah and And so it's like, because now the winning team is the other side. So all those things, the winning team before was Biden.
00:44:38
Speaker
Now it's Trump. So that's where the winds kind of blow. And so people are not going to realize it until it's too late. And guess what? It's too late now. It's too late yeah to say, well, i kind of regret my vote for the president, which you're hearing.
00:44:51
Speaker
You're hearing these people say this. It's too late. ah so We told you. We told you exactly what they was going to do. It was a whole playbook. They told you exactly what they, when they published the playbook.
00:45:03
Speaker
He Trump has said, I love the poorly educated and the poorly educated love me. He said he he said, y'all are dumb and y'all love me. Yeah, he said they love me so much. i could stand in middle street, shoot somebody and they'll let me off.
00:45:17
Speaker
And you know, what they cheered and they cheered at being disparaged. Yep. Yep. And you just got to think. Say what now?
00:45:32
Speaker
But we tried to tell you yeah that you are not looking out for the most vulnerable in your community. Everybody is going to suffer as a ah result.
00:45:43
Speaker
If you think you can step on the necks of people in order to get up, in order to rise, somebody going grab your ankle and pull you back. It doesn't that way. it doesn't work that way And they're maintaining and consolidating their power by making you believe that it does work that way.
00:46:01
Speaker
That as long as you join our team, don't worry, we won't treat you like we treat them.
Societal Shifts: BLM and Policy Impact
00:46:06
Speaker
You're voting against them and siding with us, except you don't know that you're part of them.
00:46:13
Speaker
But going to find out if you haven't already. And a lot of people in West Virginia are finding out. You're about to find out. Look, you know what they say. Hard head, make a soft behind. We tried to tell you. You ain't want listen. We gave you the advice.
00:46:27
Speaker
Yeah. You want listen to. We gave you good advice. Yeah. ain't want listen to. Because do please do not ever mistake that Black people thought that with affirmative action and DEI initiatives and programs and a Black Lives Matter plaza that we had gotten somewhere.
00:46:45
Speaker
Please don't think that we ever were were placated by making Juneteenth a federal holiday. No, we were not. Yeah.
00:46:56
Speaker
like ah we, ah we were never that none of that stuff ever addressed the real systemic issues that we're facing in a real and tangible way.
00:47:08
Speaker
that that couldn't have somehow been distorted or, hell, I don't know, even commodified in some ways, right? Like you got people selling BLM merchandise and stuff like that that aren't even a part of ah the movement.
00:47:22
Speaker
So it's like, don't think that we were ever dumb enough to think that this country gave a damn about us. So when you see us sitting back now and watching everything burn and just being like, mm,
00:47:39
Speaker
That's a damn shame. And you're wondering why we're not on the front lines because we told you. We told you and we weren't dumb enough to think that we were in some better place in the first place.
00:47:50
Speaker
We lived and worked and thrived without affirmative action and without DEI initiatives. And we will continue to again. We will continue to thrive and live without a street action.
00:48:05
Speaker
painted black lives matter like we'll be fine like we'll be just fine we are used to this we're not new to this unfortunately but y'all are getting a first-hand look on how it feels to be us and hey not great is it and like i said we told y'all y'all didn't want to listen to our advice and speaking of advice mm-hmm i know we I know we gave y'all good advice, but just in general, when given advice, do you give good advice? We're going to get into that next.
00:48:50
Speaker
All right, sis, I want to start off by the topic that we're talking about now, specifically because you called me last night for some advice. Yes. And one, I always take it as is such a privilege.
00:49:04
Speaker
Being your brother. Yeah. And I guess, I mean, because I'm your old brother, but being your big brother and how you'll be like, hey, big bro. I need your advice on something.
00:49:15
Speaker
Yeah. And that you'll actually be like, all right, okay. You make valid points here. Yeah. im I'm not going to call people I'm not going listen to. but yeah Sometimes you haven't listened to me, but, um, what did I ask for your advice?
00:49:28
Speaker
yeah Hold on. I don't give unsolicited advice. I learned. yeah No, I don't. No, I don't. Not anymore. i learned a long time ago not to give unsolicited advice. What I would do is say when somebody is telling me about something, I will ask, do you want me to just listen or do you want my advice?
00:49:46
Speaker
I will ask that. Yeah. ah But I don't I don't give unsolicited advice because I'm tired of always being right and people not listening to me. Yeah. No, I feel you on it. And my best friend always sends a meme.
00:49:58
Speaker
Like when guys have female friends and it in this platonic relationship, right? And they're coming to you with their men troubles. Yeah. And it's like, you're not going to listen to me.
00:50:10
Speaker
Right. Like I'm telling you what it is and you're not listening to me. And it's always this little meme. I'm tired of trying to raise my best friend. no I mean, no, sometimes that's real. Sometimes that's real. People be in the Lulu land and you're trying to be like, hey, you're being delusional right now. Right. They don't want to hear it.
00:50:30
Speaker
They don't don't want to hear it. Sometimes you just got chalk it up to the game and just let that person be delusional. But we were talking last night. We got into a really good conversation. And that's the reason why I want to carry it on to the show. Just about advice.
00:50:42
Speaker
and i And I brought up how our father told both of us a story about him getting advice from his uncles. And ah he was like, it was dumb advice, but it was the best advice that they could give me. yeah And I was like, yeah, you know, sometimes people give you the best advice that they could give you.
00:51:00
Speaker
And then we... Eventually talking it out came to the conclusion that it's not the best advice that they can give you, and what it's, what did we say it was?
00:51:11
Speaker
Good question. You asking me. Yeah, I know. We said it was the best advice. They could give in that moment. I don't even think that's what it was. It was the best advice.
00:51:22
Speaker
That they had the capacity to give. Yeah, that they had the patent they yeah had the capacity Like, I think a lot of times we dismiss harmful things by saying that that's the best that that person can do.
00:51:36
Speaker
And the truth of the matter is the best you can do is it's the best. It's better. It's much better than what you're doing. like The best you could do, that's not the best you could do. That's what you have the capacity to do.
00:51:49
Speaker
Right. Yes. That's what we came to the conclusion of. And so a lot of people have to... think about, like, should I even be the one to be giving advice? And a lot of people aren't self-aware like that.
00:51:59
Speaker
Like, I believe that I give great advice all the time. But then sometimes have to take a step back and be like, Yeah, like, no, no, I constantly am interrogating myself when people call me for advice and I'll say, hey, I'm not the best person to give you advice on this because I, got ah the only thing I could be is really like a cautionary tale, which sometimes that is good advice. Like, hey, I could tell you how I messed up these situations.
00:52:30
Speaker
I can tell you how I did things right. And hopefully you will avoid
The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice
00:52:35
Speaker
the mistakes that I made. If I tell you these are the consequences of making the wrong decision. But as far as telling you what's the right thing to do, I'm not the best person for that.
00:52:45
Speaker
I just know what I did was wrong. Right. but So maybe that'll be helpful for you. But constantly interrogate, am I the right person for you to ask this of?
00:52:56
Speaker
Sometimes yes, sometimes absolutely not. i get I like to give disclaimers when I give advice. and And when I give advice, my my mind is always, I'm always thinking.
00:53:08
Speaker
Like um my mind is always turning. Even when I'm talking, I'm like, hmm, that's interesting that I just said that. because sometimes I don't know what I'm going to say. Sometimes yeah I just start saying, I just start talking. Stuff comes out. And you're just like, oh, here you go.
00:53:21
Speaker
And then here you go, in and like, oh, I'm thinking this out as I'm talking. yeah And so sometimes people come up. All my friends come to me for a relationship relationship Not relationship advice. now we're relationship vice where relationship yeah For relationship advice. yeah Why?
00:53:35
Speaker
I don't know because it's not like I've had successful relationships. Right. But I think it's like you have experience.
00:53:46
Speaker
Yes. With relationships. So you can speak from that position of like. So much experience. I've had experience with it. And so I can tell you about my experience and maybe that'll be helpful.
00:54:00
Speaker
But I think we need to separate that from actual advice. ah Yeah. well So I give disclaimers, right? I say, well, this is how I would handle it. But I don't know if this is necessarily the right way to handle it due to my childhood trauma yeah and my emotional disconnect. Because I have a simple equation in life that I don't think I don't know if it's the healthiest equation.
00:54:23
Speaker
It kind of worked for me. And I have an equation of any singular thing. It's giving me more anxiety than it's giving me joy. I cut it. yeah The problem is i have yeah generalized anxiety disorder.
00:54:37
Speaker
ah oh So everything gets me excited. So it's just like when I get into, especially relationships, when I start getting into my head too much and it starts causing me anxiety anxiety, I'm out. yeah So that's my that's my baseline. So when people come to me for advice, I'm like, look, this is how I would handle it. But I don't know if this is the healthiest thing.
00:54:58
Speaker
You need to. take an examination of what it is that you want yeah and see if this person is what you want as they currently are or if you're projecting.
00:55:11
Speaker
And I think I'm good at seeing through BS And just telling people the real, like, yeah this is what you, this is what you want in your mind. Yeah. But this is what the reality is. Right.
00:55:22
Speaker
And so that I don't, I don't necessarily tell people what to do exactly. i just say, this is what your, this is where what your perception of this situation is. and Here's the reality.
00:55:34
Speaker
And then from that, Now that you know the reality, that you're not blinded by yeah what you think it is, yeah it's up to you to make a decision. And so that's that's, my advice ain't really advice. It's just like telling people the real.
00:55:47
Speaker
Like when you sent me the video that brought this up, that I was like, yeah, we're to talk about this as a continuation for what talking about on the phone. It was a brother, a brother of a sister, not a brother, but he was black, but a brother of a sister, yeah Basically telling the sister who was all heartbroken over relationship that ended.
00:56:07
Speaker
It's like, wait a minute. Y'all weren't in a relationship. You weren't his girlfriend. You don't even know him. You just. You're living land. You're delusional. Like, that's it. Yeah. I think I give more like of my experience. Yeah.
00:56:23
Speaker
Which is so I had to Google it, like, is there a difference between experience and advice? So experience is a real world example of how someone has acted in a given situation.
00:56:34
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Advice is a suggestion or recommendation for how someone should act. and I try to stay away from telling people how they should act, right? Because...
00:56:46
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Everybody's different. So, I mean, unless I feel like it's something dangerous to you or another person, then I'll be like, don't do that. Do not do that.
00:56:57
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I don't care what you do, but that thing that you want to do, don't do that. Like, I'll do that. But as far as like, here's the situation. Here's how I think you should handle it.
00:57:09
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I don't really do that. I will tell you ah an experience from my life and I'll let you draw your own conclusion about what's the best way for you to move forward.
00:57:20
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Because I'm not you. I don't have to live your life. Right. Facts. You do. So whatever decision you make is going to be on you. It's not going to on me. So why should I make that decision for you?
00:57:32
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The best I can do is tell you, hey, this is what I've gone through. If that's helpful for you in any way, i hope so. And good luck and God bless.
00:57:43
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So I kind of do that.
00:57:48
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But then but me being who I am, I'm such an asshole. yeah so I'm so sarcastic. People ah tell me something and and then I'll just. So my advice is just a question.
00:58:02
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Yeah. That's what you think about that situation or. Hmm. that's how you responded in that situation or that's how you want to handle that situation.
00:58:13
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yeah And then I kind of just kind of roll my eyes and just not roll my eyes. I kind of just, somebody that's close to me says that I, that I have this tick and then it's just, I'll say something it's posed as a question, but it's not really a question.
00:58:27
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It's posed as a question, but, ah but it's really me saying, Hmm, And that's a very Black thing to be like, if you like it, I love it. Like, that's a very, it's like, that's what you want to do. You better than me.
00:58:41
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That's different than what I'm actually doing. What I'm actually doing is trying to make them think about what their response to the situation is. So, yeah, it's the same thing. if i If I say, oh, that's how you go handle that? You better than me.
00:58:57
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That's now, now you're like, oh, you wouldn't handle it like that? Okay, now I'm interrogating the way that I handled it. and If you like it, I love it.
00:59:08
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what one woman i wouldn't be me One woman I dated one time, i said, ah she she was talking to me about you know problems she was having. And all I did was, i was like, hmm.
00:59:20
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And she was like, there you go again. i was like, what? She was like, whenever you have a thought, that you don't want to say, you just go, hmm. Or you make a you make a little sound.
00:59:31
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I was like, I do? She's like, yeah, you got to tell. And I was like, oh, okay. She's like, what is it? I was like, no, you didn't ask me for my opinion. just want to vent. She's like, obviously, you got something to say. I was like, look, ain't got nothing to say. i You know, you say what you, no, go ahead say what you want to say. I was like, so you asking?
00:59:46
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You asking me? Are you asking? You asking me. It seems like it's under duress, but you are you still asking? You asking me. Because if you ask him, I'll tell you. All right. Well, to tell you how I feel. hey I'm going to tell you about yourself.
00:59:57
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that's what they are That's my favorite thing in the whole world. You love it. people about yourself. And telling people out the about themselves is giving them advice. But you asked me specifically for advice. Yes. And I don't think I gave you... Did I tell you... I didn't tell you what to do. I gave you a suggestion.
01:00:13
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I gave you a way of looking at it differently. Yes. And I think that that's the best advice that you can give anybody. Just like, okay, I hear everything that you're saying, but maybe.
01:00:25
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Right. And then let people come to their own conclusions. Either they get it or not, because ultimately you're right. It's their life. They got to make this decision. Yeah. You can leave horse in water. You can't make them drink.
01:00:35
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That's right. So ladies and gentlemen, if you out here giving unsolicited advice, first of all, the determine and if it's good advice within itself. Right. Determine if you should be the one giving advice. so Right. Some people out here have a higher opinion themselves than they should. Exactly.
01:00:50
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I'm one to talk. yeah yeah I didn't want to say it. you Shut up J, what do you want to lead the people with today? Man, um, support your, support your armed service members, especially when they come home. That's when they need your support the most.
01:01:09
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The most. So if you can get involved in some way in your community, it's a quick Google search to see if there's organizations in your community
01:01:25
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our armed service members. I completely concur. And on that note, I want to thank you for listening. i want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holler.
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