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Threat to Free Speech: Government Leveraging Merger Approvals
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First Amendment, free speech, Jimmy Kimmel suspension, Stephen Colbert cancellation, FCC threats, media mergers and a viral Reddit money-vs-marriage story — this episode of Unsolicited Perspectives cuts through the headlines and the headlines’ backrooms to ask: who gets to speak, who pays the price, and who gets hurt when networks fold?
Bruce breaks down how merger politics and FCC threats may be chilling late-night comedy, then pivots into a raw Reddit saga about money, prenups, and the ultimatum that ended an engagement — plus an exclusive After Hours Uncensored preview. If you care about free speech, media power, and real conversations about money & relationships, this is your episode. #1stamendment #freespeech #CancelCulture
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Chapters:
00:00 Late Night TV Canceled! Kimmel, Colbert & the Fight for Free Speech
00:21 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
01:14 Why Criticizing America Makes You a True Patriot 🇺🇸💭
03:46 First Amendment 101: What You Need to Know 📜⚖️
04:59 The Truth About Religion in America 🙏✝️🕌
07:14 Free Speech vs Cancel Culture: Understanding Your Rights ⚡️🎯
09:41 Late Night TV Drama: Kimmel & Colbert Under Fire 📺🔥
13:28 The Charlie Kirk Controversy: What Really Happened 🎯💔
17:31 Government Threats & Media Compliance: A Dangerous Precedent ⚠️📡
27:38 Reddit Drama: Money, Marriage & Trust 💍💰
35:34 The Ring Return: A $40k Monthly Income Revelation 💎💔
38:55 The Morning After: Can Trust Be Rebuilt? 🌅💭
45:21 Final Decision: Sometimes Love Isn't Enough 💔✨
48:51 After Hours Preview: Family Secrets Exposed 🤫😱
55:43 Memes: Family Secrets That Will Make Your Jaw Drop 😱🤐
58:07 Shocking DNA Test Results: When Family Isn't Who You Think 🧬💔
01:05:55 Outro: Like, Subscribe & Join the Community! 🎉🔔
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Introduction and Podcast Engagement
00:00:00
Speaker
Is it cancel culture, government-sponsored censorship, or both, or neither? And money and marriage. We're going to get into it. Let's get it.
00:00:21
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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 podcast, YouTube exclusive content, and our YouTube membership.
00:00:40
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Rate, review, like, comment, share. Share it with your friends, share it with your family, hell, even share with your enemies. On today's episode, we're going to be talking about the First Amendment, going to be talking about marriage and money.
00:00:55
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And then in the last segment, me and my sister are going to give you a sneak peek of the after hours uncensored. Parental discretion is advised. But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
Criticism and Patriotism: 'Make America Great Again' Slogan
00:01:13
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You know, I've made this analogy before. I've said it over and over and over and over again, that keep hammering it home until it is forced into everybody's brain and they understand why it's okay to criticize the government in the United States. And that in and of itself does not make you not a patriot or not an American so citizen or not somebody that's proud of your country.
00:01:41
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When you have a family member that's a little jacked up, you love them. not even a family member, say it's a loved one, a a friend or whatever, you know they have flaws. You love them, you love them, but you can openly admit that they have flaws.
00:01:58
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There's this attack on the right that anytime you criticize America, you're not a patriot. That's what they love to say. You're not an American citizen. You need to get the hell out of the country.
00:02:09
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But at the same time, the right has been criticizing the country at the same time. That's what the whole slogan, Make America Great Again, is. You wouldn't have to make America great again if you thought America was already great.
00:02:25
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Therefore, their slogan inherently says America ain't great, which would be a criticism of America, something that they say makes you not a patriot.
First Amendment and Project 2025
00:02:35
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Why am I talking about all this?
00:02:37
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Why is it important? Some things are happening with the administration. I mean, a lot of things are happening with the administration, right? You know, Project 2025, they're like 60, 65% through with it. And we're only eight, nine months into this administration.
00:02:49
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And we told you, We told you that they were going to use Project 2025, but you didn't want to listen. Those people out there that didn't want to believe us, y'all were hard-headed. Guess what? Hard-head make us off behind.
00:03:00
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That's what my mom and dad used to say. And now your ass is getting specked because you thought that these things and that we were telling you were going to happen were going to apply to you. But this administration is pushing hard on something that is fundamental.
00:03:14
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The First Amendment that is core, core, to our country and our democracy and our constitution.
00:03:25
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They praise the second amendment, which is the right to bear arms, which I still feel like they don't completely understand, but they damn sure a lot of people do not understand what the first amendment is.
00:03:36
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You hear people out on the street all the time talking about, you know, you can't suppress my speech. You can't. I have a right to free speech. And everybody has a right to free speech. Everybody has a right to say what the hell they want to say. That doesn't mean that you don't suffer consequences.
00:03:52
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So what is the First Amendment? Because. feel like people say, you know, it's the right to free speech, but it's actually more than that. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits Congress from making laws that would establish a national religion, impede free exercise of religion, abridge the freedom of sprit speech, infringe upon the freedom of the press, interfere with the right to peacefully assemble, and...
00:04:25
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or prevent people from petitioning the government to address grievances. So what does that all mean? How can I break that down? Because if I gave you guys the exact wording, which I have, right? The exact word wording is Congress shall make no law respecting and establish of a religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or the press or the right for the people ah put peacefully to a assemble and to petition the government for for redress or grievances.
00:04:58
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What does this all mean? It means that people had the right to practice the religion, whatever religion that they want to practice. Scientology became a religion and people are allowed to practice it. You're allowed to do that, right?
00:05:11
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Also, The theory that a lot of people on the right are saying this country is built on Christian principles. It's literally in the Constitution. There will not be a national religion. Now, I was talking to friends of mine who are Jewish and they are often talking about, yeah, I don't understand this war on Christmas. And I say i'll say I say the same thing.
00:05:32
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I don't understand the war on Christmas. There is no war on Christmas. People already started. This is we're not even in October yet. The Halloween stuff has been out. Thanksgiving is going to come out. As soon as Halloween is over, Christmas stuff is going to come out. Christmas is a celebration in the United States from November through January.
00:05:51
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There is no war on Christianity. But what there will not be based on the First Amendment, based on the First Amendment, is that there will be a national religion, much like there isn't a national language for the United States. I know a lot of people like to say, well, we speak English and predominantly we speak English, but there is no national language.
Government Interference and Media Freedom
00:06:12
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It is not law that the national language is English in the United States. Now they're trying to change it just like they changed the Gulf of Mexico. But for your lifetime, there has never been a national language for the United States.
00:06:30
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Hasn't been. Just because it's the predominant language that is spoken in this country does not mean it's been designated as the language of this country because it has not.
00:06:42
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Also, the First Amendment, and what I'm really focusing on, is to write the right to free speech. Now, I said earlier, everybody is allowed to say what they want within reason,
00:06:57
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And just because you're allowed to say what you want doesn't mean that they don't have consequences. What the First Amendment says is that you can say what you want, but the government can't interfere or punish you for saying what you want.
00:07:13
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The government. A lot of people are like, I got fired from my job because I said this on Instagram. Yeah, there are moral clauses that you typically have in your company when you sign your employee agreement.
00:07:25
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OK, a company can fire you for what you say. That's not infringing on your First Amendment right. Unless you work for the government or the government is specifically pointing out to you and putting pressure on your employer to fire you, then that would be an infringement of your First Amendment. This is civics 101, ladies and gentlemen. We all learn this stuff in high school.
00:07:54
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OK, it is really simple. It's in black and white. But a lot of people don't understand it because a lot of people don't take the time to really read and examine. Well, because a lot of people don't have great reading comprehension.
00:08:06
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But that's another story. OK, but once again, why am I talking about the First Amendment? Why am I talking about the idea that The government shouldn't be interfering in what you say.
00:08:23
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What's been happening recently that would make me talk about this? Well, Jimmy Kimmel's show just got suspended and Stephen Colbert's show wasn't renewed. I'm going to get into that in a minute, but I want once again establish the core principles of the First Amendment.
00:08:39
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It is to protect the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. Okay? It originally only applied to the Congress, but later applied to all levels of the government through the 14th Amendment.
00:08:56
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places limits only on the government, not on private individuals or organizations, and establishes a foundation for American civil liberties and democratic practices.
00:09:09
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I've already given you the examples. A job can fire you for what you say. if you Unless that job is in the government, they can't fire you for what you say, right? And a government can't put pressure on whatever company that you work for to fire you for what you say.
00:09:28
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So back to Stephen Colbert and Jim McKimill. Both really good late night talk show hosts. One recently suspended, one removed altogether. Jim McKimill recently suspended.
00:09:43
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Colbert, I'm gonna mess up, it's Colbert, but I i like saying Colbert. I don't know why, but it just happens. So just roll with it. he His contract wasn't renewed.
00:09:55
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And this is all coming from political pressure on Trump. Now, I know a lot of people out there are going to say, but Bruce, you just said that a private company can fire you for what you say and do.
00:10:11
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you're Absolutely right. A private company. But if you were listening, I also said that a government can't pressure a private company, public company, a company to fire employees based on what they said.
00:10:28
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So keep keep up with this. So these suspensions and firings are raising wide print widespread concern among free speech advocates, Hollywood figures, and First Amendment scholars.
00:10:42
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The concert verge controversy originated when Kimmel made a critical remark about a political fallout from the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Soon after, the Trump-appointed FCC chair openly threatened ABC with regulatory action if he didn't spin Kimmel.
00:10:58
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Now, he didn't quite say... You got to suspend Kimmel. What his words were is that's not right.
00:11:09
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And we can either do this the easy way or the hard way. And Ted Cruz, surprisingly, going against the administration, saying that this is an attack on the First Amendment, right?
00:11:20
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one of the reasons why he would do it is because he's descendants of Cuban refugees. And he understands this is the first sign of authoritative justice. actions He should have seen this throughout the full 2025, but now his eyes are open and he's actively questioning the administration's pressure for trying to get or for successfully getting cold blu Colbert off the air.
00:11:47
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And then Jimmy Kimmel suspended indefinitely. So Stephen Colbert, the contract was renewed. the contract was renewed and And this decision was met with skepticism within the company and interpreted by Colbert and many observers as capitulation to political pressure and tactics by the administration, right?
00:12:14
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He has come out said it because he is very critical of Trump and the administration. I'll explain why the idea that CBS let him go for other reasons besides political pressure later. But I wanna focus solely on how these two late night talk show are her hosts were taken off the air.
00:12:39
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So Jimmy Kimmel, like I said, was suspended mere hours after the FCC chair, Brandon Carr, made failed threats of regulatory consequences over comments Kimmel made criticizes Trump supporters' responses to Kirk killing.
00:12:55
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So what did Jimmy Kimmel do? Jimmy Kimmel basically said that the administration and Trump supporters the MAGA movement are trying to move heaven and earth to point to not a fact, but try to make a fact that the shooter of Charlie Kirk, the assassin of Charlie Kirk is somehow associated with left, left-wing ideology, left-wing factions, what have you.
00:13:26
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So much so that before they'd even caught the shooter, they had already started talking about transgender. They're still trying to push this transgender narrative, trying to make a connection And, you know, me and my sister talked about it behind off the air.
00:13:43
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But I'll bring this up here. If I get canceled, so be it. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and it was an assassination, it was a political assassination. However you feel about the person, it was a political assassination.
00:13:56
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After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the right was so upset, they started threatening HBCUs. Now, there were already pictures out of the shooter.
00:14:09
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There was already a manhood manhunt of the shooter. Was not a black person. Was not a person of color. Why are they attacking black people for what is essentially a white-on-white crime?
00:14:21
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So understanding that narrative, that the people that were extremely hurt because of the assassination were going to attack anybody that is opposite of them, even when those people had nothing to do with it.
00:14:36
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Jimmy Kimmel was simply pointing out the fact that they are trying their hardest to maneuver that this killer, this assassin, was in fact part of a left-wing wing movement and conspiracy and part of a Democratic Party, even though he grew up Republican, conservative, in a MAGA House.
00:14:56
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I don't know how you make those connections, but that's what he said. So because of that, not... not attacking Charlie Kirk, not even bringing up Charlie Kirk's past and things that he said.
00:15:10
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What he said was, you know, this administration's bending over backwards to try and pin the assassin as somebody from the left. That's essentially what he said. Because of that, his show got taken off the air because Trump And the head of the FCC were saying, well, you can't do that.
00:15:29
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You can't say that. You can't say that. This is a free country. Once again, the First Amendment is a free country. And Trump
Political Influences on Media Companies
00:15:36
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publicly applauded both Camel and Colbert's ousters and suggested that networks airing anti-Trump comedy should have their government-granted broadcast licenses revoked, calling the criticism criticisms not allowed and threatening further action through the FCC.
00:15:57
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Did y'all hear what I said? This is literally the president of the United States, the main government official, trying to silence public speech through threats of broadcast licenses for anything that's anti-Trump comedy.
00:16:18
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Saying it's not allowed.
00:16:22
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It's a president saying that people are not allowed to make fun of him.
00:16:31
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That's what the president is saying. Now, I don't know how long you guys been alive, but as as long as I can remember, There have always been talk show hosts, comedians, making fun of every president that's ever existed.
00:16:48
Speaker
Nobody's been exempt. Nobody. SNL, they've they've made fun of Republican presidents. They've made fun of Democratic presidents. Nobody is off limits.
00:17:00
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Why does this person think that they're so special that it's not allowed? Okay. Media experts and the ACLU have warned that such government threats, particularly when networks change their programming under clear pressure from officials, represent a serious danger to the First Amendment, right, to free speech, even if technically no law was enacted.
00:17:24
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Former President Barack Obama, comedians, and multiple germans journalists described the combination of government threats and corporate compliance as government coercion.
00:17:36
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and a danger precedent for American democracy. All right, so what are some of the legal and cultural aspects of what's going on here? I just, this is a history lesson. And I know typically I don't start off the show like this. Typically I leave this for the middle, but it pissed me off.
00:17:55
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And it pissed me off because you literally have people on Fox News saying that homeless should get lethal injection. And then it gave a mere apology.
00:18:07
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That's OK. But saying, hey, why are y'all so intent on trying to make the assassin some part of some left wing conspiracy plot?
00:18:21
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That's not allowed because like the Trump, like Trump said, you know, anti-Trump comedy. is not allowed. So the legal and cultural aspects of this, when the First Amendment prohibits direct government, while the First Amendment prohibits direct government censorship,
00:18:38
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Coordinated pressure, including threats of license revulsion from the FCC, can have a chilling effect, essentially curtailing free expression through intimidation, rather through statute.
00:18:51
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Civil rights organizations, Hollywood unions, and public figures have punched back against what they see as blatant censorship and breaking a longstanding American tradition that comedians,
00:19:03
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Journalists and artists can criticize those in power without fear of state retaliation. Industry insiders have noted that these moves may embolden executives to more readily comply with government wishes, fearing regulatory or financial retribution, thus shrinking the space for dissenting voices on mainstream media.
00:19:27
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This is a big deal. This is a big deal. In Russia, they have state-sponsored news. They tell the people what they want them to know.
00:19:38
Speaker
And I'm sure a lot of people out there, that's what the mainstream media does. Here's what the mainstream media does. The mainstream media gives you wide variety of sometimes biased reporting that you can listen to all of it Use your critical thinking skills and figure out what's going on if you want to be unbiased and informed.
00:20:04
Speaker
However, if it becomes Russia, we only get the information that the government deems worthy for us to receive. Now.
00:20:16
Speaker
I'm not almost completely opposed to that because some of y'all are dumb and don't need all the information because you take all the information and come up with idiotic logic because you don't have critical thinking skills.
00:20:31
Speaker
You can't be unbiased in your thinking. And it leads you to try to draw circles to make sure that you're right, not correct, that you're right.
00:20:44
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but I don't really believe in the state-sponsored media.
00:20:49
Speaker
Because then when do we get our say? How can we be heard? The government is deciding what we can say and what we can't hear.
00:21:05
Speaker
Okay, but the question then becomes, what about these other arguments? What about the arguments that the shows have low ratings or that the broadcasting networks are just protecting themselves based on mergers that they got going on? Because that's what's really going on.
00:21:21
Speaker
These multi-billion dollar broadcasting companies got billion dollar mergers that are happening that they must get FCC approval to do.
00:21:34
Speaker
So broadcasting networks like CBS and ABC have publicly cited low ratings, financial concerns, and a need to protect corporate interests during large mergers as the reasons but behind suspending or canceling the Steve Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel shows.
00:21:49
Speaker
But these explanations are hotly debated and often viewed as incomplete or strategic in the broader context. So let's talk about the ratings and financial arguments. Networks pointed out to declining viewership and reduced advertising revenue for the late night television since the pandemic as a justification, with CBS claiming Colbert's show was losing tens of millions of dollars a year, while Trump is also echoing echoing this defense ah by attributing the cancellations to bad ratings and a lack of talent.
00:22:20
Speaker
Stephen Colbert is a lack of talent. Okay. However, Colbert's show continued to outperform competitors in the same time slot. And some critics argue that the show's losses were neither new nor apparently urgent, suggesting financial issues alone don't fully explain the timing or manner of the cancellation.
00:22:38
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So you ever work for a company and they know that they need to fire somebody? For whatever reason, maybe they don't like his attitude or something and legally they can't fire and they have to come up with some type of lame justification. I've done it.
00:22:54
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I won't say who, cause I'm trying, I'm not trying to get sued. Actually, I haven't done it. Now that I think about it legally, I i have not done it I find legal reasons to absolutely terminate people, but there are companies out there who have to try and terminate people and they can't find If they try to do it, they'll do it illegally. So they'll come up with ways in which that they can fire somebody. And typically it's complete and utter bullshit.
00:23:19
Speaker
This is another example of comp complete and utter bullshit. all right. This is just an example. But let's get to the let's get to the real reason why all this is happening. The timing of the cancellations and suspensions align closely with major media mergers.
00:23:33
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Paramount's $8 billion merger with Skydance and Nexstar and Nexstar's $6.2 billion dollar acquisition of Tonga, both requiring FCC approval under Trump-appointed chair, Brandon Carr.
00:23:47
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The same Brandon Carr that said that we're going to do this the easy way or the hard way. Both networks and parent companies face heightened political scrutiny from regulators, leading to widespread sec and speculation that the firings were motivated, at least in part, by the desire to comply with the administration's preferences and secure regulatory approval for these critical deals.
00:24:09
Speaker
In the case of Kimmel, Nexstar, a major ABC affiliate group seeking a merger that would greatly expand its national footprint, pulled its show within hours of the SEC's chair's threats, a more widely seen as a calculator to minimize the risk and appease regulators.
00:24:28
Speaker
While financial and rating justifications are part of a standard corporate responses from all of these companies, based on getting rid of Colbert and taking Jimmy Kimmel air, many of the media analysts and First Amendment advocates argue that these factors are being used as a cover for political motivated self-censorship, especially given the intense pressure placed by federal government during sensitive merger proceedings.
00:24:56
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Critics highlight that protecting a merger or acquisition process by comedy accommodating political demands It's substantially different from ordinary business decisions about underperformance shows raising red flags about the role in government and shaping the media.
00:25:13
Speaker
This is about money and not about the money that supposedly these shows are costing the company. It's about these mergers. And these mergers can't happen without government approval.
00:25:28
Speaker
And you've got the FCC chair saying, you need to take this person off the air. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. What's the hard way?
00:25:40
Speaker
Rejecting the regulations and the licenses so that these mergers, billion-dollar mergers can't happen. It's a lot of power for a person.
00:25:51
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And let's deal with that aspect. It's a government official directing a company that needs government approval to merge with another company And this government official is saying, you can't merge or we're going to make it extremely difficult unless you take this person off the air because we don't like what he says.
00:26:16
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That is an infringement on your first amendment. Clear? Black and white. And for anybody that's trying to make an excuse by saying, no, it isn't, or they do not care,
00:26:33
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because who cares about Jimmy Kimmel and Steve Colbert? I don't like what they have to say anyway. I pose these three questions at you. If power can chill jokes from the nation's biggest stages, who will protect the rest of us when our voices don't fit the script?
00:26:57
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If the price of corporate survival is silence, How far are you willing to let America drift from its founding ideals? And in the end, maybe the real danger isn't who's off the air, but whether we notice or care when voices go missing.
00:27:27
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All
Transition to Relationships: Marriage and Money
00:27:28
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right. I know I typically they don't start off the show like that. That was heavy. It was heavy, but it was real. Just want get you people to think out there. You know, so much of our thought processes are riding for team.
00:27:43
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Everything that we do is tribal. And it's like, well, my team has to win.
00:27:50
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Who gives a damn if America loses? That's just real. But speaking of being divided, I came across this Reddit story. So I'm a light in the mood. I came across this Reddit story that thought was really interesting.
00:28:05
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It's four parts. I'm going to let a person read this instead of me reading it. And I'm going to give my reaction after each part. Because I think that this is a really interesting story and it's important for us to really give thought when we make a decision to get married.
00:28:29
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I was telling a friend the other day that the most important decisions that you can have in order when you decide to have a partner, get married, what have you,
00:28:44
Speaker
The most important decision is whether or not to bring in a child into this relationship.
Reddit Story: Engagement and Financial Disagreements
00:28:51
Speaker
Because you are stuck together for the rest of that child's life or children's lives or your natural life.
00:29:04
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Y'all are stuck together forever. So that's the most important decision. The second decision is marriage. And you say, well, Bruce, why is marriage a second decision? Because you can get married, get divorced, and never have to deal with the person ever again.
00:29:20
Speaker
Case important, my marriage. I have not spoken to my ex-wife since we decided to get divorced, and that was over a decade ago. You can get divorced when you don't have children and never speak to the person ever again.
00:29:34
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You can have a complete severing of that relationship. You can't do that with children. So marriages marriage is marriage. Deciding the life with your partner is extremely important.
00:29:48
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And so this couple is getting married. And I'm going to let this person read the title. But it's, am I the jerk? My fiance told me this is it.
00:30:00
Speaker
Take it or leave it. So I gave him this ring back and told him to get out of my house. And like I said, I'm going to do this in four parts. And then give my, you know, responses to it. Am I the jerk?
00:30:12
Speaker
My fiance told me, this is it, take it or leave it. So I gave him the ring back and told him to get out of my house. My fiance, Tom, a 37-year-old male, and I, 28-year-old female, have been together two years.
00:30:24
Speaker
He moved into my house six months ago and proposed a month ago. I thought we were solid, but now I'm questioning everything. I inherited a fortune three years ago. It changed my life, but I live below my means.
00:30:35
Speaker
I work part-time as a teacher, travel, and have a nonprofit in the works. I budget carefully so the money lasts. Only my dad and sister know the full amount. When Tom moved in, I paid for everything except most groceries.
00:30:48
Speaker
He wanted us to eventually buy a bigger house together so his dad could move in. I said no to living with in-laws, but suggested maybe a separate unit someday. He pushed back but agreed we needed to discuss finances first.
00:31:01
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Tom earns $10,000 a month and has $100,000 saved. I have millions invested and about $40,000 a month income from it. when I told him he was shocked. He said, if I have so much, why not just buy the house and cover everything?
00:31:14
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I explained that just because I can doesn't mean I should. I pro proposed separate finances, a joint account for expenses, and splitting costs proportionally to income. I also told him I wanted a prenup.
00:31:26
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That's when things blew up. He argued we should be equal partners, meaning I buy the house in both our names, even if he doesn't contribute. We fought about this for days. Eventually, he gave me an ultimatum.
00:31:37
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Final offer. You buy the house. We each own 50%. I'll sign the prenup. Take it or leave it. I asked if that meant breaking up if I said no. He hesitated but said yes. So I left it.
00:31:48
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I took off the ring, told him it was over, and that he needed to move out. He backtracked, saying he didn't really want to end things. Just wanted me to agree. He accused me of throwing away our relationship for money.
00:31:59
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I told him he threw it away by demanding I fund our life and give him half of the assets I work to protect. Now I'm wondering if I sabotaged my relationship. I love him, but I don't think it's fair to bankroll a grown man or accept ultimatums about my own money.
00:32:14
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Wow. Okay. So, lot to unpack here. They've been together for a little minute. He found out she got some bread, which, that's every man's dream. um I'm looking for that, ladies out there.
00:32:27
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If you've got a situation like this, lady, I'm not going to ask for your money. I just ask to be a part of your life. But no, seriously, like, look. Money... Money is the root of all evil.
00:32:41
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Money is the reason a lot of relationships get severed. Romantic, family, friends. It's a big issue.
00:32:53
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What my man is asking for is ridiculous. That's her money. That's her money. Y'all want to get a house? Y'all go in together. You don't demand that she buy a house and put your name on it.
00:33:07
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I dated a woman that had her had her own house. We were serious. I dated actually several women that had their own homes. We were serious. We talked about what those financial situations would be.
00:33:20
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I said, hey, look, if we ever got together like that and you wanted me to move into your place, I'm not going to ask to be put on your mortgage. That's yours before I got here. All I would ask is that we have some type of rental agreement.
00:33:34
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where I pay part and mortgage because I live here, whether it's half or part or whatever, whatever we decide. And that if something were to happen, that I would get be given you know a reasonable amount of time to move out and get a place of my own, whether that's 60 or 90 days or what have you.
00:33:51
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But what's yours is yours. And what's mine is mine. I believe very firmly that you need to sign a prenup. Get you a prenup. You need to protect your stuff
00:34:04
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so that it doesn't get taken away from you and divorce. And yes, nobody walks into a marriage thinking that they're gonna get divorced, but it's a strong possibility. it's It's more than a minor possibility. It's a strong possibility.
00:34:19
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So you wanna protect yourself financially. I'm not talking about in the marriage, which y'all built together. I'm talking about what you come in beforehand. Right now, this dude is ridiculous.
00:34:30
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For asking her to put up more than he's willing to put up just because she got more bread than him. And he ain't short on bread. He's making 10K a month and he got 100K saved.
00:34:42
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They can get a good home together with them being equal in their buying the house. So he want to act like... and And what's toxic?
00:34:55
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What's toxic is him threatening, take it or leave it, final offer. And then her saying, does this mean that, you know, we're not going to be together? He was like, well, don't know. I just want you to to agree to this.
00:35:05
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Agree to what? Agree to... funding your life. He already live in a house and he only paid for groceries. ain't even helping with the bills and he got bread.
00:35:16
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That's the reason why he got a hundred K saved up because he ain't doing nothing to help her out, man. Look, I'm starting to get agitated. Let's hear the second part. Hey guys, this is an update to what happened.
00:35:27
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When he moved in, I offered to keep covering the utilities, since I was already paying them, and he would handle groceries. Things were fine until after we got engaged. I pushed for us to discuss everything openly before marriage, and we agreed on most things.
00:35:40
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About his father moving in, this isn't something he wants right away, but he says eventually his dad would move in so he can take care of him. I adore his father, but I personally don't want to live with in-laws.
00:35:52
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His solution was that we should buy another house together so he would feel like it's our home instead of him living in my house. I understood that perspective, but the new house would also have to be larger if his dad were to move in, which I'm not comfortable with.
00:36:05
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About finances. Initially, when we discussed buying another house, the plan was to contribute together. But once we started looking at what we could afford, we had to lay our finances on the table.
00:36:16
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When he found out my net worth, everything shifted. He said that if we split 50-50, we couldn't afford a bigger house, and since I had the means, I should buy the house myself.
00:36:27
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But it would still be our house. I told him that whatever amount he contributes would equal his share of equity in the property. Maybe I was naive, but until this point, I never saw signs of him being a gold digger.
00:36:39
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He never pressured me to pay for things and always split expenses fairly. That's why this change has been such a shock. Right now, I'm locked in my bedroom, and I told him he can sleep in the guest room tonight, but that he needs to move out tomorrow.
00:36:52
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We haven't spoken since. That's where things stand. Thank you all so much for the support and comments. It means a lot. And just to clarify, this is a throwaway account I created for privacy reasons.
00:37:04
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Okay. I mean, it's good that you have a throwaway account for privacy reasons. And and a lot of people were in the comment section giving her, you know, good comments and giving her support. ah You know, I can't stress it enough.
00:37:17
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Yeah. No, he's he's asking for unreasonable things. And the only reason why they want a bigger house is because he realizes that they can afford a bigger house because of her money.
00:37:31
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And that... ah He wants to have his father move in and she and she's like, i I don't really want that. Look, the idea, if he wants a bigger house and he's like, yo, can we get a bigger house? And then what I put in it just equals that equity. So say I put in 30%, I have 30% equity in the house.
00:37:50
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She's saying that she's cool with that. But he's insisting upon, no, this is going to be, I put, you put in more or buy the thing outright since you got the bread. And then, you know, put me on there.
00:38:03
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Just put me on there as 50-50. And she's done really well for herself. She got that inheritance and and was like, look, I'm going to manage my money. Right. Got a little teaching job.
00:38:14
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Going to start herself starting herself a little nonprofit. She want to help the community, you know, with the with the the blessings that she's gotten and seemed like a good woman. Hey, I don't know how this is going to turn out because we still got part three and four. But ma'am, don't know what you look like, but I can look past all of that and just let you know I'm not a gold digger. I don't need to get 50-50.
00:38:34
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I don't. Just putting that out there. Anyway, so far, Homeboy ain't looking good. Maybe things get better in part three or four.
00:38:43
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Hey guys, final update. This morning I woke up and Tom had made breakfast and asked if we could talk. He said things got out of control last night and he wanted to explain his side. He told me he was upset that I'd lied about my finances and felt like I didn't trust him.
00:38:57
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He said the money difference made him feel that I would always have more power in the relationship and that he might be vulnerable to financial abuse. He insisted that he wasn't interested in my money but wanted to feel that I would choose him over money.
00:39:10
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He admitted that he handled things badly and should never have reacted the way he did or given me an ultimatum. He said he felt lost and frustrated. The only thing he emphasized really matters to him is his father eventually moving in.
00:39:23
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They're very close and he wants to take care of him as he gets older. He apologized, said he didn't want to lose me, and told me he was willing to accept my conditions. I apologize for not being upfront about my inheritance, but I also told him I wasn't sure i could continue the relationship.
00:39:38
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His reaction last night felt entitled and manipulative, and I'm afraid he was showing me who he really is. I told him I love him, but I'm worried money will always be an issue between us.
00:39:49
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If he's already pushing for a house before marriage, what else might he push for later? I explained that the only way I could even consider continuing is if he agreed to a bulletproof prenup stating that in case of divorce, he only leaves with what he contributed, nothing more, agreeing to buy a house together.
00:40:06
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But his equity would reflect his contribution only. I also suggested options like a guest house for his father or a condo nearby, but not living directly with us. Creating a monthly budget where we both contribute proportionally to our incomes into a joint account for shared expenses, while keeping our separate accounts for personal money.
00:40:24
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Going to counseling together. He agreed to all of this. Still, I told him I don't know if I can trust him again and need time to think. He agreed to go stay in a hotel for a few days to give us both space.
00:40:34
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Right now, I honestly don't know what to do. Part of me sees his point and wonders if he just overreacted. But another part of me is afraid that if I ignore his behavior, I'll be setting myself up for bigger problems in the future.
00:40:48
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If he had a history of showing LDE, that's a little dick energy, which is what this is, right? He felt emasculated because she has more money than him.
00:41:01
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Which is, you know, something that men, I don't know what's wrong with y'all deal I have no problem with a woman having a better career, being more intelligent or having more money than me.
00:41:17
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and Like I'm not in competition with anybody. I'm secure in myself. I Big up them. and my sister got into a debate yesterday because I let an old friend reenter my life.
00:41:32
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And she was like, it's always ended badly. Why have you let them in? And I was like, I legitimately admire this person. And for people that I admire, I kind of want them in my life. Now, i have this huge compassion issue, which is me. But I don't look at people sideways just because they got a little bit more breadth than me or doing a little bit better than me.
00:41:59
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Big ups to you. I want you to see you win if you're the right person. i don't want to see Trump win, but I want to see people like if you're good person, I want to see you win. And if you're my significant other, I really, really want to see you win.
00:42:11
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Now, if it's an isolated incident, internet I would say you are already planning on marrying this person.
00:42:22
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And when you marry somebody, these people have flaws. And when you marry somebody, they're going to show you their ugly side.
00:42:34
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You're going to have to decide that's an ugly side that you can deal with. Everybody's got ugly side. Everybody will lose it and say or do things that's outside of their character.
00:42:46
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I've always said anybody is capable of anything given the right circumstances. If it's an isolated incident, and you don't judge them on that, right? If this person has always told you the truth and then they tell you a lie, even if it's a big lie, it doesn't mean that you they automatically gain their trust back.
00:43:06
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But this one mistake shouldn't erase everything that's good.
00:43:14
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As far as you looking at them, how you look at them as a person, maybe it's, dissolved the relationship or eroded the relationship because of the mistake. And that's fair.
00:43:26
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Like you can forgive people, you can give people grace, but that doesn't mean that you forget. You don't ever forget. And maybe you can't forget and you can't deal with it. If he has a history of this, I can understand her having reservations.
00:43:40
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But if she's never seen this before, and it's never really been an issue, I don't know. You might want to give him a little bit of grace because he is saying, yo, whatever you want, it doesn't matter to me. My love for you means more. I was tripping.
00:43:57
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Like I was tripping. This money thing caught me off guard. didn't know you had bread like that, baby. You know, when I was talking about my Ferrari, you could have done that as birthday gift. I know you're trying to hold it tight, but you know how much I wanted that Ferrari.
00:44:11
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But it's all good. You know I'm saying? I might ask you for the Ferrari later on. i might. But, you know, I like, you know, I put in something on it. You know, I just if it's an isolated incident, you know, maybe you give them pass. Maybe you don't because sometimes people can wild out so much. So even though it's an isolated incident where you just decide, you know what?
00:44:34
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you cross a line that I just can't deal with. So I gotta let you go forever. No matter how sorry they are, no matter how out of character they were, sometimes people cross a line and they can't come back from it.
00:44:48
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And maybe for her, seems like for her, she's having a really difficult time getting past this. And look, if you're having a difficult time getting past that, then you damn sure shouldn't marry.
00:45:00
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don't know if you should break up. Maybe should postpone their engagement. That would be my rationale. But she's got one more part. So let's hear what she's got to say. Hey guys, this is my final decision.
00:45:12
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I took some time away to think, talk to my sister, my therapist, and my lawyers, and I've made my decision. As much as I cared for Tom, I realized I can't marry someone I don't trust.
00:45:23
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What happened broke that trust. And I know it would always be in the back of my mind in our marriage. Every financial decision, I doubt him. And that's no way to build a future. A few days ago, I asked him over and told him my decision.
00:45:36
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He admitted he messed up and wanted to try couples counseling. But I told him we're broken up. I agreed to counseling only as a way to see if reconciliation is possible someday. But truthfully, I feel like I'm just delaying the inevitable.
00:45:49
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I'd already packed his things. And he was hurt when he saw them. That was heartbreaking. Honestly, I felt really bad. But I knew I had to stand firm. He left with his things and is getting a new place.
00:46:00
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This has been heartbreaking and draining, but I know it's the right choice. Thank you again for the advice and encouragement. It really helped me get here. For those who worried about me making him homeless, don't. He makes good money, and we live in a tourist city.
00:46:12
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Before moving in with me, he lived in hotels and short-term rentals for months. He hasn't paid rent here for six months. He'll be fine. He's not ending up on the streets. yeah First of all, he sounded like he was a homosexual.
00:46:24
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It seemed like he needed a place to stay. If you go all the way back to to the first part when she was just like, he all he did was pay for groceries. like He didn't have a place of his own when they met.
00:46:36
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that Okay, that should have been red flag number one. And now hearing that, maybe she's right to protect her peace. At first I was like, man, this is cold. You already had this stuff packed up.
00:46:49
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Already. And that's cold. But after hearing basically he was a homosexual, I can understand it. Look, money and marriage is is important.
00:47:00
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You need to have these type of conversations before you get married. You need to have parameters and boundaries set before you get married. don't Don't not have the conversations because you're scared to have the conversation. If you're scared to have real conversations before you get married, do not get married.
00:47:18
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Because you ain't ready. And so, you know, she felt like this was a deal breaker for her. And she still said, you know, we're going to to work things out. But you we need to be separate. And maybe they will.
00:47:29
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You know, I'm going to put a little comment in there and be like, hey, keep me up to date because I'm messy and I need to know what's going on. I'm like Marv Gay. I want what's going on. But, yeah, she made that decision. And I don't necessarily disagree with it.
00:47:44
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The fact that she's still giving it a little bit of a chance for therapy, because maybe in therapy she'll see there'll be some other deep rooted issues and maybe, you know,
00:47:55
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He has insecurity about money. Maybe somebody tried to get him for his money back and day. There could be a whole host of stuff that they probably should have had a conversation about or should have came up over the two years that they were dating but didn't.
00:48:07
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But anyway, so I thought that was interesting. I don't know. Guys, you let me know. Leave a comment in the comment section and tell me what would you do if you were hurt? What would you do would you if you were him?
00:48:19
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Do you think she made the right decision? Do you think she didn't make the right decision? I'm going to just say she made the right decision for her. And when you make the right decision for you, i always think that's the right decision.
After Hours Uncensored Preview
00:48:31
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That's my two cents.
00:48:36
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All all right, ladies and gentlemen, this is a snippet of our after hours on sensor. Just to let you guys know.
00:48:48
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talked about a little bit. We have a YouTube membership. If you enjoy the show with me, the show with me and my sister, the YouTube exclusives, you're going to enjoy the after hours.
00:49:02
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And like I said before, when we introduce the memberships, we're going to start live streaming. that' only be That'll be exclusive to the members. I'm going to call one of them. I haven't come up with a good name yet, but it'll be like Sunday Funday with Bruce, where you guys see my Sunday Funday routine for about an hour, how I prep.
00:49:19
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my you know my meals, how i hang out, how I get started to have my relaxing day. I'll answer questions. There'll be a chat. There's a whole bunch of other stuff behind the scenes for the show, behind the scenes for After Hours Uncensored.
00:49:32
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My messy segment, which is for the VIP people where, you know, it's a 10 to 15 minute show where I just get real messy and tell y'all about my personal life, sometimes about other people's personal lives that I can't put on the main show.
00:49:47
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so This is an excerpt of After Hours Uncensored that aired yesterday. So you could go on our YouTube page or on Patreon.
00:49:57
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You go on our YouTube page, which is what I recommend because the majority of the stuff, the behind the scenes content is all for YouTube members. and then join. And if you don't know how to join, don't worry. I'm gonna put a link in the description and there's a link on the YouTube page of this video. All you have to do is click join. It'll take you directly to the link where you can decide which tier that you want.
00:50:22
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And in each tier, it tells you exactly what you get. But like i said, ladies and gentlemen, this is an excerpt. After Hours Uncensored, parental discretion is advised. But the fact of the matter is, from here on out, now that I know what type of cuss words that we can say on the show, parental discretion is advised for every single show.
00:50:40
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It doesn't matter if it's after hours. It doesn't matter if it's the main show. We cuss a little bit more on after hours. We talk a little bit more wild on the after hours. But we're going to be saying some cuss words on the main show more so than we used to back in the day.
Family Secrets and Relationships
00:50:53
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But Here it is, the excerpt of After Hours Uncensored, released oh on September 22nd, 2025. All right, motherfucker After Hours. This is one thing I got to do, J. You just said we can't say MF-er.
00:51:12
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we're in the we're in the after hours. But you're going to clip this, so that's why I thought we weren't. Maybe. i Well, I mean, I can say motherfuckers. We can say it like once or twice. We can't just. And actually, I need to do some more research to find out exactly. But what I do need for you to do is I'm i'm grateful that you plugged in your battery.
00:51:29
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But can you turn off some of the programs you got running in the background? I don't really have anything on. Let me me take a look here. Because you've been clearing everything this whole time. You have not. and but But maybe it's my internet. Who knows? This this laptop is is suspect. But...
00:51:49
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I want to start off the after hours, which is being clipped to be put on my show as kind of a teaser. Also, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to be doing that. We're going to give you a teaser of the after hours every week. I don't know which day it's going post, but it's going to be a four to five minute clip of the show to give you a little taste because we want you to sign up for that membership because there's a lot of content in that membership and it's not it don't cost that much.
00:52:14
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All right. It's $2.99, $4.99. And if you really want to get into it, $9.99. But I wouldn't even recommend getting the $9.99 to start off with because I haven't even started doing the live streaming yet because I don't have the equipment to do it yet. So don't get the $9.99. But the $4.99...
00:52:28
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but four ninety nine Or even the 299. Yeah, even the 299. We cool. We are cool with either one. Either one, you know, help us out. But I found this this these memes, and it's the worst family secrets that people have accidentally found out. And it's a bunch of them, but I'm not going read all of them.
00:52:48
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I know it's probably some shenanigans. Oh, it is absolutely some shenanigans. And some of them are kind of depressing. So I'm not going read them. but sub Yeah, just read the good ones.
00:52:58
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Well, not good ones. There's one in particular that I got to read because I'm just like, what the hell? But okay. Here's one. My great grandmother wasn't actually my great grandmother.
00:53:11
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She was kidnapped. My grandmother, when she was younger and just made everyone think that she was her daughter. She is a secret family somewhere. So my great-grandmother wasn't actually my great-grandmother. She was kidnapped.
00:53:26
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No, she kidnapped this person's grandmother. Yeah, she kidnapped my grandmother when she was And just raised her as her own. Yep. Yep. That's a family secret that you find out. and you know what?
00:53:40
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You probably a lot of these people were like, we did that 23 and me or whatever it is. And we found out, wait a minute. We ain't. You ain't my daddy. You ain't the pappy. You ain't the mammy.
00:53:52
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You ain't my grandmother. Because it will definitely tell you with a high degree of accuracy. Like it told me. I have 50% connection to my mom. I'm like, oh, okay. Yep.
00:54:06
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That's my mama. Like it there says 50%. So like, it's pretty accurate. So if that percentage, if the math ain't mapping, people got some questions to answer.
00:54:18
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My thing is, wow, what do you think of... Well, obviously this person wouldn't even know their great-grandmother because most people don't meet their great-grandparents. Most people. We have. We did, yeah. But I don't think most people meet their great-grandparents.
00:54:33
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you Probably not. So they got to be thinking, yo, you was kidnapped? Grandma, you was kidnapped and raised? Right. somebody's daughter. there There's... And then this person's like, I literally have family. There's a whole family out there. Yeah, there's a whole family out there.
00:54:48
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And then, like, what did that family do when they realized their little daughter was kidnapped? It was gone and they never found her. Never found her. Back in the day, you could never find somebody. You can live on the next street and be lost forever.
00:55:05
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Next street. Listen, everything was very closed off. Like, you know, we didn't have the internet. There weren't these ways of instant communication. Nobody was sharing their location on their cell phones. Like, that didn't happen.
00:55:19
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That wasn't a thing, right? mus In the in a time of her great-grandmother and grandmother and that time, people was writing letters. Maybe your house had a phone. right You know what I'm saying? Like...
00:55:31
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Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you could literally be one town over and they were like, hey, your Uncle Jimmy gone. We don't know where he was. And he literally, the town over, he just stopped contacting folks and didn't tell nobody.
00:55:46
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So once again, this is the worst family secrets that people found out
00:55:51
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and Speaking of ancestry, dead and ancestry, and my dad isn't my grandma's son. He's actually my aunt's child when she was 14. He doesn't know. He loves my grandma.
00:56:03
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She's 95. I'm gonna let him live in peace. Yeah, yeah. Some secrets is like, okay, he ain't got to... You don't have to. Yeah, just let that one go ahead and go.
00:56:14
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Like if if that person was raised by someone they thought was their parent and they love and cherish that person and that person loved and cherish them, then that was their parent.
00:56:26
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But I feel like this was taken from a Tyler Perry because didn't Tyler Perry have a movie? With Madea, it was with Lil' Bow Wow. Lil' Bow Wow thought he was a sibling and found out at the dinner table that his older sister was actually his mama and his mama was actually his grandmama.
00:56:45
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you wouldve You would have, I would have to take your word for it because you know ain't never anything. A single? Nope. Not a silent pair. All right, here's another one. My great-grandfather left one of his kids out of his will.
00:57:00
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The siblings and children all divided their portions of the inheritance so the other sibling wouldn't know that they were deliberately left out. I think that's beautiful. That is beautiful, but also, god damn great-grandfather. Like, what type of... No, you gotta... Listen, the people in them times, they had favorites.
00:57:19
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And they were... They were like... We didn't understand, like, psychologically how you should just not... have favorites like that but i mean think of how many movies there are about people trying to secure their place in the will yeah that's true okay okay you know like so ah because they've been written out or they you know been excommunicated from the family or something like that so like i think it's i think it's awesome though that the siblings got together i was like look y'all
00:57:50
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let's ah Let's take a piece of everything. We all say we got this much ah instead of this much so that they don't know they got left out. That's some shit that three of us would do if one of our parents less ah left us out of will. or Our parents would... I don't think our parents would ever do something like that.
00:58:07
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Yeah. I don't think But we'd be like, nah. Nah, we got to cut them in little bit. This is cold-blooded. Yeah. are I mean, it depends. This is interesting because I want to get your take if you found this out about me.
00:58:19
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Found out my piece of shit brother, piece of shit of a brother, had a kid in high school and denied it was his. The kid reached out to me and gave me, and I gave him my brother's number.
00:58:30
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And now I don't talk to my family because they were mad I did that. They said it was not my place.
00:58:37
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I'm giving them your number. Not only that, I'm going out to meet this person. I'm going to do a DNA test with them, and it's go if it come back 25%, whatever the percentage should be, 12.5%, whatever the percentage should be that proves I'm your aunt, I'm driving to your place unannounced, unannounced.
00:59:06
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And we're going stand there at the door, both of us with our arms crossed, and be like, you got something to do. And if the family got a problem with that, my number has not changed.
00:59:16
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Because I know you lying.
00:59:20
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I know you lying. oh First of all, that's something that I would never. It's something that you would never do. like why you just out at in high school?
00:59:31
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But it would be as... you When you became an adult... Yeah, I would have reached out. You would have reached back. yeah You would have gone back and reached out. And have understood if the kid didn't want shit to do with me Yeah. But it's like... ah But, you know, you would understand I was a child when I found that out and I responded to it like a child.
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But now that I'm an adult... And I see, you know, the importance of making sure you know who I am and my and and letting you know that I'm open to a relationship with you.
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I don't think that's a problem. If it was me and I heard that, would been like, yeah, you were you were a kid. Mm-hmm. and you made a decision a kid would make. So I understand that. If somebody, you know, mean, kind of a little difficult because I'm a woman, but if some child came to me and be like, you're my mom, and I'm like, no, you ain't mine. don't know you is, Jamie. You know, like, I can't really say that same thing.
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Well, like, nah. yeah Well, if maybe if you got in a car accident and had amnesia something like that. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. But, like, if I...
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oh This person already know their brother's a piece of shit. Yeah. They say piece of shit of a brother. Right. So in their mind, they're like, yeah, this tracks.
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This tracks. Okay. Me, I would have been like, he doesn't know. He clearly doesn't know. Because if he did know, he would have definitely reach found a way to reach out. Unless I couldn't find him.
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Unless you couldn't him. Unless I couldn't find then that's also, you know, a conversation. Right? Like, but nah, I show up. That's your dough. Like, look who I found. Like, who the fuck is that?
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Looking like my damn twin. Right. And I got the DNA test with me and them framed. Here you go. You can go ahead and put that. It shows the correct percentage for me to be there hot.
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That's the correct percentage. I was like, you got another brother. You got another brother. Looking like me from 1996. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. All right. This one, this one, I think is hilarious. I literally, when I read this, you know how you read memes sometimes you just bust out laughing, even though you're in public.
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I did this. So yes I was born in prison, didn't know until a adulthood. But when I was a child, my uncle was singing Akon's convict music alibi at me.
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And they didn't have any idea why there First of all, your uncle wrong for that. That's funny. That's hilarious. Convict
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That's funny. But it well also, your uncle a jerk for that. Like, they're doing that while you were kid. Come on now, that's messed up. but But yeah, i do yeah. right But the kid didn't, the person didn't find out until then was an adult. So it the uncle's inside joke. time they've been confused by this inside joke.
01:02:37
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Totally confused that they were born in prison. And that's why it's convict music. I get it.
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Boy, telling you, if I knew the backstory, look, if I was the uncle and I knew the backstory, if I was a friend of the uncle and I knew the backstory, every time he said that, I would die laughing.
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I don't know that I could because I would be looking at this child that would be so confused as to like, what the hell we're talking about. But hold on. When he's growing up, he's a teenager. I just want to let everybody know I ain't never been to jail. it's like And then you got his uncle.
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You were born in the jail. was born in the darkness. You were born. You were born in the prison. i was born in the darkness you have been yeah and what youve been to prison you were but in bri All right. This was a little long, but I think this is funny. All right Okay.
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My family urgently and very quickly moved from Minnesota to New York in 2012. Never knew why until a year or two ago when I found out my mother wrote an extremely homophoic homophobic article and was getting torn up online real bad.
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Reddit doxxed her and people made threats and sent death wishes, which is why we move. People made comments about me and my siblings like, I hope they turn out gay. Four out of five of us are in fact, a part of the LGBTQ plus community.
01:04:05
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I wonder what their relationship is with their mother. all right, ladies gentlemen and gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed that. I just wanted to give you guys a little ah little taste After Hours Uncensored.
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