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Texas politics, Jasmine Crockett, James Talarico, Sinners, Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, womanizer debate — Episode 300 covers politics, culture, and real-life conversations.
Three hundred episodes in, Bruce Anthony and Jay Aundrea still deliver the mix of political commentary, current events, culture talk, and sibling chemistry that defines Unsolicited Perspectives. Episode 300 opens with a conversation about war, global conflict, and millennials growing up during nonstop crises, before shifting into a personal story about iron deficiency, anemia, and middle-age health accountability.
In the news roundup, Bruce and Jay break down the Texas primary battle between Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico, the debate around voting access, voter suppression, and election rules, and how candidates appeal to moderates, independents, and voters of color. They also highlight the award-season success of Sinners, celebrating Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, the SAG Awards, NAACP Image Awards, and Oscar buzz.
The episode closes with a viral womanizer debate sparked by Justin LaBoy’s Respectfully Justin, exploring toxic masculinity, emotional unavailability, manipulation, accountability, and modern dating dynamics — funny, honest, and unfiltered, just like the conversations that built Unsolicited Perspectives to 300 episodes. #Episode300 #TexasPolitics #JasmineCrockett #JamesTalarico #SinnersMovie #MichaelBJordan #RyanCoogler #DatingTalk #WomanizerDebate #PodcastClips #BlackPodcast #currentevents #unsolicitedperspectives
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00:00 300 episodes — we made it 🥂🔥
00:16 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives + Sibling Happy Hour 🎙️👥
00:01:45 Trump as a "gangster"? Bruce uses The Wire to explain politics 📺🧠😬
00:04:15 Iran conflict explained: regime change vs real self-determination ⚖️🔥🤔
00:07:04 Millennials grew up in nonstop wars — Bruce breaks it down 🪖🕰️😩
00:09:19 Jay's doctor call: "You're dangerously iron deficient." 😳💉🩸
00:13:39 Ashy skin debate turns into Bruce's moisturize PSA 😂🧴🙃
00:24:09 Texas primary shocker: Crockett vs Talarico divides Democrats 🗳️🔥🤯
00:26:54 Ken Paxton blocks extended voting hours in controversial move ⚖️🚫😒
00:29:54 Bruce: "The Black in me says Crockett… but I'd vote Talarico." 😬🧠💥
00:36:35 Sinners sweeps awards as Ryan Coogler and MBJ dominate 🏆🎬🔥
00:40:04 Michael B. Jordan's twin performance leaves critics stunned 🎭🧠👏
00:49:19 Viral debate: men with kids by many women labeled womanizers 🎥🗣️😳
00:51:09 What actually makes someone a "womanizer"? Definition breakdown 📚😬💥
00:54:40 Bruce: "I used to manipulate women." His honest confession 😬🪞🧨
00:59:34 Neurodivergence vs dating drama: disappearing isn't always cheating 🧠📱🤯
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Introduction and Podcast Invitation
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300 episodes. Mama, we made it. Let's get it.
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Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I am 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, YouTube exclusive content, and our YouTube membership.
00:00:34
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Rate, review, like, comment, share. Share with your friends, share it with your family, hell, even share with your
Theme Introduction: 'Sibling Happy Hour'
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enemies. On today's episode, it's the Sibling Happy Hour. I'm here with my sis, J.I. Andrea. We're going to be dilly-dallying a little bit. Then we're going to be talking about a news roundup.
00:00:50
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And then we're going be talking about womanizing and manizing. But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
Millennials and War Experiences
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Speaker
What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it. I can't call it. But I sort of can. Okay. We at war.
00:01:18
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We at war. As a millennial, it's it's almost like what's new. Mm-hmm. You know? We've been at war so much in my life. A lot of them dumb, and this is no exception.
00:01:34
Speaker
I feel like the President of the United States... You know, when I see him up there, it reminds me of The Wire. Let me help let explain.
00:01:45
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Okay. You've watched The Wire, right? Yes. In season three, Avon kuk gets out of jail. Stringer has been running things, right? Yes.
00:01:55
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Yes. And Avon is like, I want my corners and goes to war with young Marlo Stanfield. And Avon is saying, bro, we don't need these corners. Forget that street rep. We making money. Stringer was. Stringer was. What did I say?
00:02:10
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Avon. Stringer. Yeah, Stringer was saying, forget the street rep. We making money. We living in penthouses now. we We've got real estate companies. We're in construction. We don't need to be worried about them little corners no more. Right.
00:02:25
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And Avon says, well, I'm not no businessman. I guess I'm just a gangster and I want my corners. Mm-hmm. The president of the United Stump—not his stumps.
00:02:37
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The president of United Stumps. You know what I did there? I mixed state and Trump together. Trump. Yes, yes. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is a gangster.
00:02:51
Speaker
Yeah, that's mad news. He has always exhibited that he is a gangster. Yeah. that's and and And what he did. Being a slumlord scamming people with a fake education and terrible stakes and all of that. Like, honestly, the only successful thing that I think he's ever done was probably The Apprentice.
00:03:17
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Okay. Like, that's it. Okay. Well, and also promote his name. Like, you can't... Yes. the The man is a hell of a
Iranian Regime Change Insights
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promoter. ah But we're at war right now, and I got to reach out to my friend and talk, because she's an Iranian freedom fighter. Because i'm I'm looking at it, and from that conversation I had with her, Iran has been... want Iranian people have been wanting to get rid of this regime for 40 years.
00:03:45
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Mm-hmm. So they're kind of getting rid of the regime. However... The U.S. and Israel got their hands in it and they want self-determination. And how can you get self-determination when you got two mega powers controlling the regime change?
00:04:08
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yeah So um I bet you that there is some um real mixed feelings about everything because they want they want or they want to be self-actualized and run their own government and be a democracy. They just don't want no outside influences messing around with it.
00:04:27
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Selfishly, I'm just happy that WrestleMania is here in the States and not in Saudi Arabia like it's supposed to be next year.
Travel Challenges Amid Conflict
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So I won't miss my WrestleMania. as long as the world still ain't going on in a year, but who knows?
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I had a peer just come back from India last week. She was there for a wedding and flying back through the conflict.
00:04:51
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They did not know that it was going on. They're finding out live on the plane and they're constantly being rerouted. Initially, I think they were going to be rerouted through Israeli airspace and then they're like, oh, well, can't do that. So she spent 20 hours in the air. Look, they gotta start getting a little nervous because you're like, we got enough fuel?
00:05:13
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Yeah, they had to stop and refuel. i think they refueled and they just made it all the way and refueled in New York before coming down, I guess, to Atlanta. Like, but That's horrifying.
00:05:27
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Yes, because it's not like being in your car and you driving around in the gas light. Come on. You're like, I got 30 miles. that a I don't want you to take your chances. And it's not like, well, maybe you could with technology the way it is now.
00:05:42
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You should be able to fuel during midflight. I know they could. I think they could fuel Air Force One in midflight. They can refuel planes with flight, but I don't know if they do that for a commercial flights. I don't know. But it's just like, for mom you're you're getting this information wise. You don't know what's going on you As the pilot, you don't want to like, ah you know, scare people. But you're like, is there a safe place for us to land? how What airspace can we go through? Like, how can we? And you're just trying to come back from from your cousin's wedding.
00:06:16
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beer and And that's terrifying. This is crazy. It's crazy. I don't know if this is going to be short or long.
Historical Reflections on U.S. Conflicts
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All I know is we're in another war. I was born in 1980. We was in the Cold War.
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Then the Cold War was over. We had the first Iraqi war. Then we had a little bit of break. Then the towers went down. Oh, nope. nope that We were in Kosovo. Weren't we in Kosovo? And we were in Africa during Clinton's Yeah, that the events of Black Hawk Down. What was that? We were in Somalia? Something like that.
00:06:54
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Something like that. But that was that was more of a conflict, not a full-fledged war. Iraq, one and two. And then the war on terrorism literally started from 2001 and technically still isn't over.
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right They said it kind of was over when we withdrew our troops in, what was it, 21?
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one
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22, 23, something like that. And now we're in a new war and the Middle East is always catching hell. And so, i don't know, for all those people out there, you know, be safe. Yeah.
00:07:30
Speaker
Be safe. ah For all us Americans, shut the hell up. You don't know what you're talking about. There's so many people like, Iran is horrible. and We got to kill them all. And I'm like, no have you been there recently? You don't know nothing about Iran.
00:07:44
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Do know one Iranian person? Now, from Iranians, they will absolutely say that they are terrible. And the stories I hear, yes, they are terrible.
00:07:55
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Regime change is needed. But regime change is needed here as well. So, you know. Yeah. So it's kind of like people in glass houses throwing stones. Something like Pots throwing black.
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Something like that. I don't know. ah Yeah. So.
00:08:12
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don't know. What else? else? Good God. Ladies and gentlemen, um hey look, we done switched the days since you're not in school no more. And no?
00:08:24
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No. Same day. Same day. no Okay. yeah I don't know. I've been really. don't know what is. Yeah. I don't know what the hell it is. What's going on with you?
Health and Diet: Iron Deficiency
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what's new Okay, so so I got some new, you know, i go for my annual checkup, my annual physical, right? get blood work done. You got to do all that stuff. Sometimes. i So it comes back. I'm anemic. I already knew that.
00:08:48
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i've done anic I've been anemic forever. Like I've always been anemic. I always had some sort of iron deficiency and like out from time to time, like take iron supplements to help me, you know, get,
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to a good, you know, baseline or whatever. It seems like that's a common trait among women. Being low iron? Yes. Yeah, I don't know.
00:09:13
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um Maybe it's because of menstruation. I mean, you... maybe You bleeding out all... for a week. I mean, but... But I don't... Because it's not blood.
00:09:26
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So that's what people need to understand. Like it's deteriorating tissue. It's not blood. Oh, okay. Well, that was real graphic. And I'm sorry I even brought it up.
00:09:38
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Yeah, just to educate the public. But ah so it came back. I'm anemic. Okay, already knew that. My doctor once said, okay, how anemic are you? And let's make sure it's an iron deficiency and not something else.
00:09:52
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Came back. Did a little panel. She called me. She said, you are, quote, significantly iron deficient.
00:10:04
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And not just, oh, go take some supplements or add iron rich foods to your diet. I have to get not one but two iron infusions. Damn. That's how bad it is. And it's 100% my fault. And that it got me to, because do I eat iron rich foods knowing that I'm anemic?
00:10:25
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No, I don't. I pretty much eat chicken. I eat like no red meat. Spinach is the only vegetable I do like. Oh, okay. Yeah. So I do eat, I do eat, I don't eat beans. there you i but you know But like, do I take a supplement?
00:10:41
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No. No. I don't. Just been living. No iron. So now it gets to this point. But the thing is, like, now in my youth, I'm like, don't care. I'm anemic, whatever. I'm be a little tired sometimes or whatever. My hands are cold. Who cares? Now, middle age, I'm like, hey, you could die.
00:11:01
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Yeah. Yes, yes, yes. So it's like, oh, I need to like really stay on top of this stuff. And it's just like I'm entering that period, that transition period for when you get this advice from your a doctor and you'd be like, I'm young. I don't care.
00:11:19
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i Deal with it later. To like now being later. Yeah. Now is later. Yeah. And so I'm like, OK, well, sign me and let me get them. Let me get them infusions. Let me go ahead and go get... I went downstairs, took some ground beef out.
00:11:34
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I'm like, let me make something. Let me make something with some beef in it. Throw some spinach in it. So I'm like, maybe some spaghetti with some spinach or some
Family Stories: Moisturizing and Care
00:11:47
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green leaf. Or chili.
00:11:48
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Or chili. I can add the beans. I'm going to do something with that ground beef. But... So I thought about this. I'm nowhere near your ass. I i don't need no iron infusion.
00:12:03
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We call you iron woman from here on out. Got iron infusion. But i will I had stopped eating red meat for a while. Like almost for like six, seven months. ateda i was eating a lot of salmon and a lot of chicken.
00:12:15
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And I started noticing changes in my body, facial hair, things of that nature. And I was like, what the? hell is going on? I realized I ain't been getting enough iron. So now I eat red meat yeah three, four times a week.
00:12:32
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Okay. I need to start doing that. Yeah. And spinach, actually, no. It's a cabbage. i don't know if cabbage got iron in it. don't think so. don't think so. don't think so. It's dark green leafy vegetables. Yes. That means I got to get back to my spinach. I normally do this little cabbage spinach melody and saute it up. It's real good. It's real good. I love that it's a melody and not a medley.
00:12:55
Speaker
Uh, right. Yeah. Cause be singing to me. Yeah. But like, you know, uh, one ordinarily I'm this pale. So especially in winter time, I look like a sugar cookie as you all, you know, can see if you're watching us on YouTube.
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So like one of the symptoms is like a power or like, you know, you're pale. Right. i was like, well, how am I supposed to tell? You'll never know if that's the case.
00:13:24
Speaker
I'll never know. And then, especially because I'm, I'm actually a lot. So like, I never know now. Like, I just won't know. First of all, moisturize. Okay. I mean, I'm at home a lot. So I'm like, who am I moisturizing for? Yourself.
00:13:41
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Yourself. You know? One of my clients, one of my clients, I got to do a quick detour. One of my clients is, ah is, a darker individual. he,
00:13:53
Speaker
always ashy. And I'm not talking about a little bit. And you know, the darker the skin, in the more the ass show. Yes. Because you're lighter skin and I'm lighter skin. Not light skin. Lighter skin. Well, not much difference. There's a big difference. There's a huge difference between the two of us. I'm looking at us right now and there's really not. There's there's a difference. right. I'm brown. You yellow.
00:14:18
Speaker
Y'all vote in the comments. No, don't say shit in the comments. Okay. Y'all stay out the comments for this topic. But he's always ashy.
00:14:30
Speaker
And then I was the other day. I was like, bro, why are you ashy in one leg? but not Ashley and the other. Or i put lotion on this leg and forgot other leg. I was like, how, how you forget?
00:14:42
Speaker
Why are you over here looking like LL Cool J? Right. Like one leg up, one down. Like that doesn't make sense. One time I i sent him a link for some lotion to get.
00:14:53
Speaker
Right. It's one of the lotions that I get. Right. Yes. Yeah. He didn't get it. One day before our session, because we both live in the same building, I came down to the gym with a big glob on my hand. You know how black folks are. You get an extra glob. You take some of this, even if you don't need it because we always need it. We already know. Go ahead. Put your hand out. Take that access. Right. So I brought him a big glob and he started putting it on. was like, that ain't going to work.
00:15:19
Speaker
yeah It wasn't. He was so ashy. I was like, you need oils. Like legitimately, you need oils. Yeah. To get rid of that ash. Yeah. The point I'm trying to make is whether you at home, by yourself or out and about, moisturize your damn body.
00:15:37
Speaker
Yeah, I know. I Mom taught us better than that. Yeah. But that's probably the reason why you don't like doing it, because mom used to moisturize the lot of us. We got the typical black moisturizer rubbed all in your face. Rubbed all in your face. All hard. You'd be mom, you're going to take my eyeball out. Just sit still.
00:15:58
Speaker
Mom, you broke my nose. that yeah You fine. Yeah. but not but My nose is hanging off a hook. it not I'm not fine. I'm not fine. All right. So you severely anemic.
00:16:11
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but
Health Checks in Middle Age
00:16:13
Speaker
Anemic. Yes. yeah And you got, what is these infusions? What does that actually like mean? Like what, like what is it? I like I'm hooked up to an IV in order to get iron.
00:16:26
Speaker
How often do you to do that? i have to go twice. have to do it twice. at So twice, like what is like the frequency of it? I don't know. don't know. No, after that, I don't think I think i'm I mean, i obviously, I'm going to start taking supplements. to But this is just to get me to point where I don't just become tachycardic and like that. My blood has some iron in it.
00:16:54
Speaker
when is When is your first one and when is your second one? Like, do they do them back to back or is a couple of days in between? What it? know I ain't scheduled it yet. i'm I'm busy. I have not scheduled it yet.
00:17:04
Speaker
And you're going to walk down the hallway and instead of your drawers falling down, it's going to you falling down. Okay? yeah it's test Instead of that, you better schedule that damn session.
00:17:15
Speaker
If I don't show up for the taping this weekend, then you'll know. I'm passed out in my hallway. Yeah, because I sure as hell ain't going know from the frequency of the way you respond to my DMs because yeah you probably got 50, 11 of my DMs. And they'd be funny. They're always funny.
00:17:34
Speaker
Yeah. don't say not that stupid. I know. And it's all because you're anemic. Yeah. Another symptom is fatigue. Well, I'll never know if I'm fatigued or not because I take met stimulus for my ADHD. Yeah.
00:17:49
Speaker
So I'm i never fatigued. So I'm walking around thinking I'm all right. Blood just iron less.
00:18:01
Speaker
Just pumping around not doing nobody any good. Your doctor said you ain't got no iron. You ain't going outside. You ain't iron no clothes. Ain't nothing about you associated with iron. Damn. Nothing. Nothing. So, yeah. Yeah. Especially to our middle aged listeners. You got to you got to make sure to take care of your health because a we're at age. Oh, we can definitely later is today. We could go.
00:18:28
Speaker
That's why I was explaining to somebody the other day, like a friend of mine, 40 is your age, as exact age as you are. Matter of fact, they turn they just turned 42 because you're about, no, no.
00:18:40
Speaker
I'm about to turn 40. They're a year younger than you because they just turned 41. They turned 41 in like November or something like that. they turned 41 after you turned 41. Yeah.
00:18:50
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which wouldn't make them a year. Anyway, I'm not about to figure out that math, but they brought up somebody's like a friend of a friend who passed away. And i was like, well, what did they pass away from? And there's this like ah cardiac arrest.
00:19:03
Speaker
by whom And I was like, well, how old were they? And it was like in their forties. And I was like, but okay, so they was overweight. No, I was like, what?
00:19:14
Speaker
ah Cardiac arrest in your forties and you not overweight. Yes. And then thought about it. I was like, yeah, no, that's, Yeah, this is yeah just your time. We own deck. We own deck. This is the time where a lot of things can result cardiac event.
00:19:34
Speaker
So we can't play around. Can't play around. So I'm going to make the appointments. Yeah. Well, I'm going to text you tomorrow morning yeah to make sure that you yeah make these appointments. Sometimes that's what a big brother got to do, ladies and gentlemen. Wait a minute. have that Does it create the audience even know that I'm the older sibling?
00:19:54
Speaker
I hope so. I think we've talked about our ages before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah that is a common that is a common thing of like people not knowing which one of us is the oldest. Well, that's because I was so immature.
00:20:10
Speaker
Yeah. that You want to tell them the story of us working together before we get out of this segment of us working together. And everybody's like, oh, you're the oldest sibling, right? Like, no, my brother's four years older than me.
00:20:24
Speaker
Four exact years. Four years and a month older than me. Yeah. So we worked together at Hard Rock Cafe in Washington, D.C. I was a host. You had various roles. Server, bartender, manager, various roles. But as people got to know us, people like, you know, we would go out with coworkers, this, that, and the third.
00:20:48
Speaker
A lot of people thought I was the older sibling. I said, No, I'm 19. ah He's the older sibling, not me, him. And then the question came up, how are you at the bar with us right now?
00:21:05
Speaker
You're 19. Listen, sir don't ask too many questions, okay? It was the 2000s, early 2000s.
00:21:15
Speaker
Life is different. yeah Ladies and gentlemen, I am the oldest. My sister is the middle. Then we have a younger brother. That will never come on the show. We've asked. yes Y'all have asked.
00:21:26
Speaker
He's not doing it. Is he the funny? Our one in-person one that we shot in studio. He was there. He was in the room. That's about as close as you guys are going to get. That's as close as you're going get. And going to disappoint y'all because he's the funniest out of all three of us. Yeah.
00:21:44
Speaker
The funniest, the smartest. and The smartest? the smart We're all smart in different things. True. We're all smart and different things because I could tell y'all there's a lot of times I'd be around the both of y'all and I'd just be like, how do y'all survive on a day to day basis? Because how can y'all not get this?
00:22:05
Speaker
Yeah. um Just simple stuff. How do y'all not get this? And then y'all talk the intellectual stuff where I'm saying the wrong words like Melody and Melanie.
00:22:19
Speaker
madly No, i did that on purpose. All right. Hey, look, ladies and gentlemen, we're done with this dilly-daddling. We're going to get into the news roundup next.
Texas Primary Elections and Voting Issues
00:22:37
Speaker
All all right, Jay, something interesting happened in Texas last night. Were you paying attention to this at all last night because there were elections?
00:22:49
Speaker
Yeah. Primaries. I would say peripherally. Like, not... It was on my radar. Was I deeply invested? But it was on my radar. Yes. All right. Well, in Texas, you had the primaries the people that are going to be running for Senate during the midterms.
00:23:09
Speaker
Yeah. On one side, you got the Republicans. I'll get to them in a minute. On the other side, when I found out about this matchup, I was immediately heartbroken. Because i really, really love both of these people.
00:23:23
Speaker
Yeah. And I would have had a really tough time deciding who to vote for. Yeah. But I'll give you my answer as we get towards the end of this part of the segment. But it is Jasmine Crockett, the beautiful, talented,
00:23:38
Speaker
Extremely intelligent. Won't take note-ish Jasmine Crockett. Yes. And James Tallarico. Tallarico. Tallarico? Is it Tallarico?
00:23:51
Speaker
I've heard it pronounced on all the different news stations differently. But James, let's say Tallarico. Okay? Yeah. Y'all know him. He's that the white dude that's a Christian that be going to talk to people and basically telling them how stupid they are, but with a good Christian twist to it and when good just be with just good folksy talk. yeah And you just know he is pure of heart.
00:24:15
Speaker
Like I can see it. He's pure heart. And they went head to head and and James won. Yeah. it Was it significant? It was 53% to 45%. So he's going to be the Democratic nominee running for Senate in Texas, which is a huge deal. Texas has not had a Democratic senator since 1988. There was some bull-ish during the election.
00:24:41
Speaker
Okay. So this is what happened. In Dallas County, which is one of the counties, there's a section, there's a district Jasmine Crockett represents in Dallas County, right? It's her county, right? Yes. Yeah.
00:24:55
Speaker
The Republicans in that county changed the voting rules. It used to be anybody could go to any polling place in that in that county and go cast their vote.
00:25:06
Speaker
yeah They changed the rule recently saying that, no, you have to go to your assigned voting destination, which to me, okay, like i've I've always had an assigned destination to go to, but I live in the state of Virginia. so But this is new for for these group of people in this county in Texas.
00:25:28
Speaker
who they asked to extend the hours for voting because a lot of people didn't know this rule and they had a hurry to go back to wherever their designated polling place was to go vote. yeah The judge granted it.
00:25:47
Speaker
Paxton the so ah The attorney general the state of Texas. You know, ladies and gentlemen, the guy that's been under investigation with the FBI for good amount of years. The person that was almost, not pardoned, not pardoned.
00:26:04
Speaker
What's the word? Trump had it twice. Impeached. Almost impeached from his position. Got saved. Got saved from being impeached. from his wife, who was a Texas senator, right, that saved him, then later is divorcing him because he doesn't have moral values that represent what she wants to represent anymore.
00:26:28
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Him, him, the attorney general, sued and got this Texas Supreme Court to issue saying they will not extend the voting hours.
00:26:42
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Mm-hmm. So Jasmine was like, yo, this some bull. Right. James was like, this some bull. Why are they interfering in a Democratic primary? Things got straightened out, sort of.
00:26:55
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Jasmine was going to lose anyway, but shenanigans was afoot. When I just give you all that information, what do you say about all that? ah that That sounds about right.
00:27:07
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Yeah. That sounds about right. And, you know, i don't know why it is such a revolutionary idea to make voting in this country accessible to everyone.
00:27:23
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I don't know why that's revolutionary. It really shouldn't be. It should be easy to cast your vote for elected officials in this country.
00:27:34
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you could There should be ample polling places. There should be clear instructions. There should be that just resources abound. Like this this should not be controversial to make it easy for people to vote in this country.
00:27:54
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So when you start hearing about people restricting or, ah yeah, restricting, people's access to voting, you have to wonder why are why do you want to make it so difficult for people to vote? And please do not say voter fraud because we already know that there is no instance of widespread voter fraud in this country.
00:28:24
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There's not. And then let's also be clear about where they do this.
00:28:31
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Is it usually urban areas? Is it usually areas that have more diverse populations? h Yeah. Yeah. Nine times out of 10 it is. So i don't, I'm not surprised by this. it It does seem like par for the course, but it's like, I think we need to continue to keep asking the question, why would you make it more difficult for people to exercise their constitutional right in this country?
00:29:05
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As Jenny Jackson said, control. Yeah, it's control. Who would I have voted for if I was in Texas?
00:29:16
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I love Jasmine. The black in me says, vote for Jasmine.
00:29:23
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The person that says who has the best chance to win the election is James. And the unfortunate reason is Sorry, the white man is going to be more appealing to the independents and the Republicans who are turned off by MAGA than Jasmine is. Jasmine is too black, too outspoken to win a statewide election in Texas.
00:29:55
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And unfortunately, I think that she could do the most work as a representative working in the house. you get The house is very, very important, ladies and gentlemen. Very important. yeah Yeah.
00:30:05
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But unfortunately, I don't think that she'll ever win a statewide because people are going to look at her. Not me, ladies and gentlemen. Other people. And when I say other people, I mean them other people are going to look at her and be like, she does too much.
00:30:25
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Yeah. And that's the reason why i would have voted for James. I'm hoping that he beats out who, by the way, I forgot to mention.
00:30:36
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Paxton, the attorney general, o is running for Senate as a Republican. So he was also in the primaries yesterday. yeah So you got the attorney general and somebody running trying to influence the election in Texas.
00:30:54
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That's actually election interference. Yeah. it was So the same thing in our elections ah here in in Georgia. Right? here you cant Yeah. So I also think, you know, beyond the race thing, James had his campaign was focused on this.
00:31:14
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like moderate populist like kind of message and it was very like faith inspired faith based and that i think will have more appeal specifically like you said with independents and Republican voters so yeah I think his I think really the deciding factors is more about his like very moderate position and religious framing around the, his, his political positions. Whereas.
00:31:47
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Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. That look, I'm not taking that away from James. I'm not just saying, Oh, you wait minute. This was right here. When? No, James has run. ah Look, he pops up on my algorithm so much. I've been paying attention to this man since with the pandemic. He popped up when I was still on Twitter. I'm never going to call an X. And he popped up and I was like, yo, who is this?
00:32:10
Speaker
Because he was quoting Bible so scripture. And folks was like trying to argue with him. He's like, no, in this verse, in this book, this is this is what it says. And so I was like, um I like him. And I've been watching him combat Texas Republicans and their state delegate for years. I've seen him go on whatever broadcast or platform, liberal, conservative, it don't matter. He ain't afraid.
00:32:40
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ah I actually think... He looks kind of presidential, but that's just me. Yeah, I mean, and this is never to take anything away from Jasmine Crockett.
00:32:53
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Like she's been amazing as ah as a U.S. representative for Texas, ah the 30th congressional district, that Dallas district that you were talking about earlier, formal civil rights attorney, state legislator, you know. So but I think that.
00:33:14
Speaker
I definitely think that she's the kind of candidate that can energize the Democratic base, specifically among voters of color and urban Democrats. But to your point, like the confrontational kind of political style that she has can make it harder for her to appeal to like more moderate voters. Only because she's a woman.
00:33:38
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, yes. And i won't I won't even say... Specifically a Black woman. but Yes. But, I mean, AOC has the same... is going to have the same problem, right? because Being a woman of color.
00:33:50
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But Hillary, right, also had this... So let's let's first say... Women have a problem. erna Period.
00:34:01
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Right. Can't be too loud. Can't be too outspoken. Can't be too much anything because generally speaking, men hate women and women hate women. And then you add a person of color.
00:34:15
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. You know, that that's real tough. I am a huge fan of Jasmine. Huge. Yes. And I would never say, hey, if you want to be president, tone yourself down. No. you. Be you.
00:34:28
Speaker
If you don't make it to the presidentency presidency, you can make, you can be impactful being other things. Mitch McConnell, way more important than almost any president that we've had in the last 15, 20 years.
00:34:41
Speaker
If y'all don't, y'all should know who Mitch McConnell is. Go dig into all the stuff that he done done as, as a Senator. And then the lead Senator, he done some things. You don't have to be president.
00:34:52
Speaker
Like you, yeah you could, you could be a representative. You could be a Senator and make some things happen, make some things shake. So I want to bring that up. Shots out to them. It could be the first time since 1988,
00:35:05
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that that we get a Democratic senator out of Texas, he's got a real shot, especially if it's ken if he's going to get to Ken Paxson, because Ken Paxson is the worst individual next to Stephen Miller.
00:35:19
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It's Darth Sidious and Darth Maul. so
00:35:27
Speaker
That's them two. That's pretty bad. yeah That's pretty bad. Yeah. It's not February anymore, but we still celebrating Black History Month because sinners is taking
Cultural Impact of 'Sinners' Film
00:35:39
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over. Now, last week, we was talking about BAFTA and and that whole situation. But this week...
00:35:46
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We talking about winning awards. The film centers just had a massive awards season moment, dominating the NAACP Image Awards and scoring two of the biggest prizes at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which used to be called the SAG Awards.
00:36:02
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And they changed the name to the Actor Awards. I think that's stupid. But the cast won Outstanding Ensemble at the SAG Awards, which, by the way, Ryan Coogler is the only director.
00:36:17
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to ever win two-time Outstanding Ensemble Award for movies that he's done. wow Black Panther and now Sinners.
00:36:27
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Michael B. Jordan shocked many by winning Best Male Actor for playing Twins. Stack and smoke. Days later, the momentum continued when Sinner swept the NAACP Image Awards, winning 13 awards, including Outstanding Motion Picture, with Jordan also taking Outstanding Actor and Entertainer of the Year. Now, the Entertainer of the Year ain't just actors.
00:36:54
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It's entertainers. It's musicians. It's writers. mike Michael B. Jordan. Look, Lil Wallace then came a long way. Absolutely. Now, Wallace was still a snitch and he still needed to go. But Michael B. Jordan? We will always differ on that point. He was a snitch. He was just a kid. He was 16
00:37:20
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Anyway, you know, yeah i always say, honestly, that Michael B. Jordan should be nominated twice for Smoke, the portrayal of Smoke and the portrayal of Stack.
00:37:32
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But you could also say, because they're two different characters. Okay, okay. Yeah, you're right. Like, even to the point I saw this and it was just so interesting. So Michael B. Jordan has dimples, but he would hold his face in a way that only Stack had dimples.
00:37:51
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Smoke. Dimples never showed. Wow. Yeah. Like the the level of detail. And you can almost say there was a third performance and that Stack is a vampire.
00:38:04
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Now, you're still in that take. You're still in that take from Viola Davis because she was the first one to say it. And she's right, damn it. oh She's right. She's right. she Did you see her announcing Michael's winning at SAG Awards?
00:38:17
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Yes. And the emotional speech that he gave. yeah We really have been. I remember him from The Wire. yes But there's a movie that a lot of people remember him from that was before The Wire, where was Keanu Reeves and the kids playing baseball. and Yeah, it was Bad News Bears.
00:38:36
Speaker
No, wasn't no damn Bad News Bears. It was it was a knockoff of bad—it wasn't even a knockoff. It was something like that. And Michael B. Jordan has always talked about how Keanu Reeves, which, by the way, Keanu Reeves is invited to the cookout.
00:38:49
Speaker
I know we are starting to limit that. But Keanu can come no matter what. All right. yeah Just saying that he took the kids out to dinner. and and and And at that dinner, they met Lawrence Fishburne, I believe. And it was just giving them counsel because they're all they were all kids. Yeah. Just giving them counsel. And to see Michael B. Jordan get to this, where I've said it before, all the other movies, I was like, oh, yeah, he's a good actor.
00:39:15
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Yeah. He was a good actor. ah But Sinners, he proved to me, no, he's a great actor because I yeah saw a great actor trying to pull off the same thing ah hu and Robert De Niro trying to play two separate characters. And he did a good job, just nowhere near as good as Michael B. Jordan. So, yeah. yeah yeah he say Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Coogler, everybody involved in that did such detailed and meticulous work.
00:39:47
Speaker
for this film that it absolutely deserves all the accolades that it's getting. Absolutely. And it's still very, ah Michael B. Jordan is still a young, it's still early in, you know, in my opinion, in his career. But to me, this is like the highlight performance of his career. Like it's going to continue to go up from years. Like it's, this is not the end for him, obviously, but boy,
00:40:13
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ah amazing I don't know anybody who's seen Sinners was like, didn't really like it. There have been some people in and that that I know that have said that, and I'm like, I don't know what I mean. Well, sometimes people...
00:40:29
Speaker
Sometimes people intellectually can't understand nuances in movies. Right. Yeah. yeah So ah like, for instance, I was talking to one person and I watched Gladiator 2. And i don't think that's Gladiator 2 is nowhere near as good as Gladiator 1. However, Denzel Washington's portrayal in that movie is some of the best acting I think he's done in a long time. Right.
00:40:52
Speaker
Because Denzel, not mail it in. He never mails it in. But a lot of times, you it's you're like, oh, Denzel. It's Denzel, yeah. Yeah, you see the character. In this instance, I was like, Denzel is acting his ass off. And the story was Shakespearean, right? Yes. and and um Really his lane. Like, he's got a lot of credentials in in Shakespeare. mean, I love Shakespeare.
00:41:18
Speaker
Yes. I think most actors love Shakespeare. Most people who are actors that are actors. But the person was like, yeah, I didn't really get it. And i was like, you know what?
00:41:29
Speaker
I understand that because don't have intellectual capacity to understand the nuances in this movie. I literally said that to the person. they are What is that supposed to mean? I said, well, if you can't understand, then you make my point. Roscoe. Roscoe. It's Roni.
00:41:43
Speaker
Oh, it's Roni? Somebody must be at the door. But one, I'm annoyed that people keep saying this was a big surprise. I haven't seen the Timothee Chalamet or whatever that boy's name is movie, nor have I seen the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio.
00:41:58
Speaker
Now, I'm never going to argue that Leonardo DiCaprio isn't deserving of being up there because he's Leonardo DiCaprio. That man connects his ass off. But I don't feel like this should be so surprising. Michael B. Jordan is being nominated because if anybody has seen that movie, to play two characters and you know immediately, even though they did the costume design so that you could tell, but you knew immediately as soon as you saw him without the costume design, who was who.
00:42:26
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. There was a clear delineation between two different people. They just looked identical. Right. Yeah. And it was it was like it was a great <unk>s a great performance, and he deserves it. And now they're saying that it could be Oscar.
00:42:47
Speaker
I hope so. It could be the Oscar. But I think this is more special than the Oscars. because these are actors yeah voting for who the best is. I feel like... it's the same with the Academy Awards. Like, if you're a member of the Academy, you vote for the awards that align with what your role is. So directors vote for best director. Oh, okay. Like, you know, like, first everybody votes for, you know, best picture, but actors vote for the other actors and things like that. Okay. First of all,
00:43:22
Speaker
Do you know that I was 40 years old before I realized that Academy Awards and Oscars are the same thing? Give it one damn name.
00:43:34
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The statue is the Oscar. But they also call the Oscars. If you're watching it on like, so I'm like, okay, the Oscars. Yeah. later they Oh, they won to Oscars and the Academy Award? No, it's the same damn thing. But don't call it by two different names. Yeah. if if If the statue is the Oscars and everybody has uniformly said, we call it do we're going to the Oscars. If you say I'm going to the Oscars, that's what the name of the show is. It's not the Academy Awards anymore.
00:44:03
Speaker
Yeah. But I don't see like how that's any different from how like we changed the names of stuff. Like we just had a segment a couple episodes ago about getting calling song titles died by the whole wrong name.
00:44:22
Speaker
But you still know what it is. yeah well yeah Well, I did. oh Well, that's okay. i didn't I didn't know the Oscars and the Academy Awards were the same thing until the pandemic, I think, is when I figured it out. Yeah. but I was a whole 40 years old, and I was like, oh, it's the same thing. Because yeah it's two different names. But anyway, yes got a chance to win an Oscar. and Several, I think.
00:44:47
Speaker
sinners not Sinners, yes. Yeah. they They nominated for more than a few things. So... Look, let me tell y'all something. If y'all still haven't seen the movie, what's wrong with you?
00:44:58
Speaker
Go watch that movie. Go watch that movie. just It is great. I'm going watch it again weekend. Actually, Ryan Coogler's Sinners made history at the 2026 Oscars, earning a record-breaking 16 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor with Delray Lindo, and Best Supporting Actress with Wunmi Osaka.
00:45:25
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Ooh, I forgot to say, Miles Canton won Best Outstanding Breakout Performance at the NAACP Image Awards. But it's interesting. ah I guess Delray Lindo has to win Best Supporting Actor.
00:45:43
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i mean, it had to have been chosen to be a Best Supporting Actor. yes I'm surprised that What's-Her-Name wasn't nominated for a role as well. a Nominated for an award as well.
00:45:55
Speaker
One that just got married to the football player. the only white woman in the movie. Oh, I don't know that she wasn't. I just highlighted the main awards. What's her name again?
00:46:06
Speaker
I know her as Hawkeye. I know her as Hawkeye's sidekick. oh Good question. It's just slipping my mind for some reason. I don't know why. But you know what? I'm going to look it up and you just keep Haley Seinfeld.
00:46:23
Speaker
Haley Steinfeld. Steinfeld. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that's right. That's right. She should get a little something too and so should Miles. Yes. You know what saying? They should get something. And so should that little girl that did the cameo that washed out that truck. that's still That still is my favorite scene from the movie because it shows smoke how good of a father he would have been.
00:46:46
Speaker
the that just That just warms my heart. But ladies and gentlemen, that's end of the news roundup. For the conclusion of this 300th episode, we're going to talk about womanizing and manizing.
00:47:01
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We're going to get into that next.
00:47:12
Speaker
All right, Jay.
Societal Norms: Womanizing and Manizing
00:47:13
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A clip from Justin LaBoye's Respectfully Justin platform is going viral after Dr. Bryant made a blunt claim about fatherhood and accountability.
00:47:25
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She argued that men who have multiple children with multiple women while refusing commitment or consent support are behaving like womenizers and showing narcissistic traits.
00:47:41
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Her point Repeatedly having children without providing emotional, financial, or household presence prioritizes a man's desire over stability of women and children involved is womanizing.
00:47:56
Speaker
Now, you haven't seen the clip, but I'm going to tell you how the clip went. Mm-hmm. First off, Justin LaBoy, who y'all all know who Justin LaBoy is You may not know who he is from his face, but if you're on Instagram, you know exactly who he is. And if you follow me on Instagram, you know who he is because I share more than a few of his posts in my stories because he's hilarious.
00:48:23
Speaker
Yes. Agreed. Don't know if he's the greatest podcaster in the world, but that's okay. He got his own podcast. All right. And so do I. So who am I to say that about anybody? So he asked her, would you want a man like your father?
00:48:41
Speaker
Her response was, hmm, I'd want a man to be a father. Right. like my father, and but not be a partner like my father was. And if she goes down, basically her daddy was a roller stone.
00:48:58
Speaker
Right. And she said her first statement was men that have multiple women and multiple kids with those women are womenizers. That was the base statement.
00:49:12
Speaker
Okay. And at first when I heard I was like, oh no, because you could have two long-term relationships. You could have three long-term. You could be 60-year-old man and had ten had three 10-year relationships that resulted in multiple children.
00:49:29
Speaker
That don't mean that you're a womanizer. Then she started clarifying. so She started saying, Multiple women, multiple children, never a presence.
00:49:40
Speaker
And then I was like, okay, now you're adding all these qualifiers. Yes, that equals out to be a womanizer. But I had to look up what is the actual definition of a womanizer?
00:49:55
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Okay. And here's the actual definition. Womanizing means a man frequently pursues casual or temporary sexual or romantic relationships with many women, often focusing on conquests rather than commitment or their feelings.
00:50:13
Speaker
It can also more generally describe a habitual flirting with With or chasing women in promiscuous and sincere ways. Now, I said womanizing and manizing because I want to talk about the two and how the two are looked at very differently.
00:50:32
Speaker
But just from what she was saying, what do you think about her definition of womanizing? Yeah, I think so. It's exactly what she said, right? A womanizer is a man who habitually pursues, seduces, has short-term sexual relationships with multiple women, is often deceitful or or noncommittal, right?
00:51:02
Speaker
And so it's somebody who treats partners as disposable, is somebody who avoids emotional depth, honesty, vulnerability, things like that. So it might not always be tied to simply viewing women as conquests. It can also be tied to, I don't want to expose my emotions to another person.
00:51:35
Speaker
So I'm constantly hopping from relationship to a relationship because that can, ah you can only go so long in a relationship without any emotional depth. Eventually the other person carrying all the emotional labor going to get tired of that. So that's, that's also a ah a piece of it. So I think that is right. Right. Like I think,
00:52:01
Speaker
The motivation for womanizing, yeah it could be driven by a need for validation or like an ego boost or ah avoiding intimacy. And yeah, you can't be with like multiple partners and not think a kid is going to pop up in there somewhere.
00:52:20
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ah um You know, i will push back on this traditional view of what a family is, right? because so like Mom, dad, kids, all in one household.
00:52:35
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Let's stop normalizing that, honestly. Like, I i get people's like, oh, we are traditional family values. Okay, but we are all different.
00:52:48
Speaker
There's billions of us, and we're all different. So the same tradition... it's not going to be the, for all of us, it's not going to work for all of us. Right. So I think what she's talking about specifically ah is a womanizer in terms of, they are not connected at all to the, to their partners or their children. They're not emotionally available or or present physically present or financially ah supportive. Like,
00:53:19
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they They literally have that a wall up around them. I would say i will say she's right in that aspect. She's absolutely right. And i pose this question to a few men that I know to be toxic.
00:53:35
Speaker
Well, to be toxic, to have that are toxic masculinity. And immediately they felt offended. And argued against it. o And I said, well, that makes sense.
00:53:47
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Of course you would. As a 15-year recovering womanizer. It's been 15 years, ladies and gentlemen. yeah I know exactly exactly.
00:54:00
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What she's talking about. And then the dude's defenses were, you know, it takes two people and they're right. However, the reason why that man is a womanizer is because he is manipulative.
00:54:16
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He is cunning and convincing. I can cry on the spot.
00:54:25
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It's easy. I used to do things where I was like, she's getting a little too close. She's getting a too little too comfortable. I'm a start to start a fight, storm out, not talk to her for a couple of days, and it's going to get us back on track with the way I like it. That's how toxic I used to be, ladies and gentlemen. And whether men realize they're doing that consciously or subconsciously, those men who are womenizers are absolutely doing that.
00:54:54
Speaker
Now, I brought up manizers, which isn't a word. I've made it up. But it is. Okay. It is not a word.
00:55:06
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Right. It's not word. But is a slang term. Yeah. Yes. Yes. And the the opposite can also be true. o I know of one of my ex-girlfriends.
00:55:17
Speaker
Okay. Okay. She's a manizer. Not in the aspect as she slept around with a lot of men. Not in that aspect. But she entertained these relationships and made it seem like, because she thought it truly at the time, I'm in this.
00:55:37
Speaker
Yeah. Only to back out when things got too emotional. o And I... I seem to be attracted to this type of woman.
00:55:49
Speaker
but Because I have a lot of history of this. yeah And there are women that absolutely do the same thing that men do.
00:56:01
Speaker
yeah They are manipulative, whether they whether they mean it to be or not. They are cunning. They are controlling. Whether they mean it to be or not, they are. And in every single one of these interest instances, they are protecting themselves and really, truly, deeply sad on the inside. Because yeah when you are sad, depressed, hurt, you are guarded.
00:56:23
Speaker
yeah Which means you shouldn't be dating in the first place because you need to work on yourself so that you're not guarded. And to think, well, I'm going to protect myself so that never happens to me again. Right.
00:56:35
Speaker
It will, because that's life. That's life. You can't protect yourself from other people's actions. You just can't. But you can't stop living a life. You can do that.
00:56:47
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Yes. And that's a mistake. So I thought this was real interesting, and i I thought there would be a little more pushback. I thought we was going to argue a little bit. But seems as usual, we're in agreement.
00:56:58
Speaker
No, no. I think anybody, mad woman, woman, non-binary doesn't matter anybody is capable of being manipulative exploitive and emotionally distant or just completely emotionally caught anybody is capable of that anybody is capable of being a bad partner so ah i I understand her position in the context of her own life, right? Mm-hmm.
00:57:33
Speaker
But, ah yeah, the only thing I will push back on is, like, the idea of, like, the traditional family. But, yeah, I think i think it's right. I think that's right. Yeah. I want to also say this.
00:57:48
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Ladies and gentlemen, flow with me here for a second. Oh, Lord. and just Just flow with me here for a second. All right.
Relationships and Neurodivergence
00:57:58
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Now, I said I'm 15 years recovered on my womanizing. Mm-hmm.
00:58:03
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However, there are some women that I dated in the last 15 years that would say that I had the characteristics of a man that was still womanizing.
00:58:15
Speaker
Mm-hmm. And I would say, no, I'm neurodivergent. Mm-hmm. I will disappear on your ass. It is not on purpose.
00:58:27
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It is because I get sidetracked with something else. yeah And it's something else doesn't necessarily have to be another woman. And if we're not in a committed relationship, we just dating, then that's not the same thing, right? I can go date whoever I want to date unless me and you got to understand and that we are exclusively dating.
00:58:45
Speaker
But yeah, sometimes there are people out there that are neurodivergent and they just, La la la. Something shiny comes around. Yeah. And you get hyper focused on it, hyper fixated on it. And sometimes to the detriment of other things in your life.
00:59:03
Speaker
Yes. Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, they did forget to text you back. Yeah. Sometimes they actually did fall asleep.
00:59:13
Speaker
Yeah. Stop going to the negative all time, especially if you got a relationship in them. Now, if there's a bunch of things that's leading up to it that's making you question. Yeah. and and Go ahead. If they're not calling back, texting back,
00:59:28
Speaker
timely is like the last straw. That's different. Yeah. But yeah. I dated a woman one time and I had to correct myself because I'm a texter, which means that if you text me, I'm going to text you back. like Yeah. it I'm going to make an emoji. I'm going to signal. I'm going to show a signal that I saw your text.
00:59:50
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Yeah. Right.
00:59:53
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I would text her and it would just be the end of the conversation, but it wouldn't, but, There just wouldn't be any more response. Yeah. And I would be like, you ain't putting like a little emoji and nothing that you got that message or something like that. Yeah. I didn't think it needed that.
01:00:09
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Yeah. i was like Conversation was over. Yeah. Well, i was like, yeah, I guess it is. And I had to get used to that. But yeah at first it was, she just blowing me off. Right. Because I ain't got to text you.
01:00:21
Speaker
don't have to take the time out of my day to send you a text. Yeah. I'm Bruce. Okay. I got the line. Whatever that means. That's a lie. I ain't got no damn line. I did 15 years ago when I was womanizing. Now ain't got no damn line. I need to go back to womanizing. No. Now I'm recovering. I'm 15 years clean.
01:00:44
Speaker
15 clean, you know, I'm going to treat you right. I'm also going to disappear on you. And you'd be like, wait, where have you been all week? Oh, my bad. I got locked into this franchise mode in my video game. And this is, as I've been obsessing about this one player.
01:00:58
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I'm weird, ladies and gentlemen. That's all can say. But yeah just recognize that some people are near divergent. So some people are on that spectrum.
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And they do you might think that no they look perfectly fine. They act perfectly fine. No, they're on their spectrum. Just dig a little deeper. They'll be all right. But yes, womanizing, manizing and is a thing.
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If you get played, that's life, right? No. Ideally, of all your relationships, only one needs to work out. The rest of them are going to fail.
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So that's that's ideally ideal. I'm about to hurt people's feelings because failure and success is relative.
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Right. Yes. You can have a two-week situation and it'd be a success and you can have a five-year situation it was an absolute failure. Yeah. So I don't want to say that you only have one. You can have multiple successes. You can have multiple failures.
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I mean, ideally, when you talk about traditional things, you end up sharing your life with one other person. So, like, that's in the traditional sense. Do I subscribe to that? You just said we should stop thinking about tradition. Yeah. Do I subscribe to that? No.
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But in terms of, like, the societal, like, not expectation, but, you know, the way that the things should go is like, ideally it's one person. So the rest of your relationships are not going to last.
01:02:36
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Like that's just how it is. But, but ladies and gentlemen, don't be listening to society about everything. Cause society will tell you that you don't need to take a shower every day. And here to tell They are wrong.
01:02:47
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They are dead wrong. yeah Take a shower every day. So don't always go off of what society is saying. Cause sometimes society is dead wrong. But Jay, on that note,
01:02:58
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Yeah. what do you want leave the people with on number three, zero, zero episode of Unsolicited Perspectives? Well, since this is a historic milestone, get this I thought I would also give you all a historic milestone To make you millennials out there feel just as old as I do. and Okay.
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The hit song written and recorded by British R&B singer-songwriter Mark Morrison, entitled Return of the Mac, is 30 years old today.
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I hope you hate life as much as I do before.
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Return of the Mac, y'all, is 30 years old. Jay, I had just got my driver's license. We was driving around listening to that song. Yes.
01:03:55
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That's some bull. You know what, ladies and gentlemen, on that note, I want to thank you for listening for 300 episodes or however long you have been. i want to thank you for watching for 289 episodes or for however however long you have been.
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Damn it, what did I say? I done messed up my sign off. You know what? Thank you for listening. what Thank you, everybody. 300 episodes.
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This is great. Yeah, this is pretty doggone cool. Are we going to do 300 more? i don't know. Y'all need to start doing a little bit more. Spending in some money and enjoying our Patreon. I didn't never say.
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But on that note, ladies and gentlemen, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for watching. Thank you for listening. And until next time, as always...
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