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Speaker: Diversity makes us stronger. Why is it under attack? We gonna get into it. Let's get it.
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Speaker: Share with your friends, share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies. On today's episode, it's the Sibling Happy Hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're going be dilly-dadding a little bit. Then we're going to be talking about the lavender scare.
Speaker: And then we're going to be talking about what are my ghetto limits. But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
Speaker: What up, sis? What up, brother? I can call it. hi can call it. I see. So what can you call?
Speaker: First of all, lot of people might not be affected to this depending on where you live, depending on your circle. We're in another government shutdown. Yeah.
Speaker: I know several people who are not working right now. It affects my job. It affects my job. I don't work for the government, but there are ripples.
Speaker: There ripple out. Yes. Yes. And Donald Trump and Pete Hexick had a little um pep rally yesterday.
Speaker: For those that don't know, we are filming on Wednesday. yeah Yeah. Right. For those that don't know, we're filming on Wednesday. This show is going to come out two days. But yesterday they had their little pep rally where they called in, think it was like 800 generals and admirals, the top of the top ah the of the military services. The top people were called in to basically... The top brass.
Speaker: The top brass was basically called in to be given a damn lecture. Right.
Speaker: So have you seen, did you watch any of it? Did you see any of the clips? No, I can't. But I know about it, yes. I would encourage it because it's quite hilarious. You know, I'm currently watching this DC television show, The Peacemaker, right? Stars John Cena.
Speaker: a great show. Peacemaker originally came out and the movie The Suicide Squad. and And I'm paraphrasing his quote here. But peace Peacemaker would say, I'll do anything for peace.
Speaker: No matter how many people I have to kill, I'll kill any and everybody for peace. Sounds really ridiculous. It was is ridiculous and was meant to be a ridiculous statement.
Speaker: yeah if Pete Hanks had basically said that yesterday. He basically said that yesterday. What were some of the key takeaways? Because let me let me get to them. Because some of these is just absolutely ridiculous. And remind everyone out there, this is...
Speaker: in front of the top brass in our military. Career military people, four-star generals, three-star generals, admirals, the whole nine, everybody. yeah Right? The top of the top.
Speaker: Yes. Trump was advocating for using U.S. cities for military training and possible deployment, describing an internal conflict as the nation's primary security challenge.
Speaker: Basically, he's they've labeled Antifa, which isn't a group. Antifa is not a group like the Proud Boys. No. Or the Oath Keepers, right? It's not some group.
Speaker: Right. And they did that on purpose. Just people who are anti-fascist. Right. But they did that on purpose. They did that on purpose purposely to be like, hey, it's Antifa.
Speaker: We've labeled them a domestic terrorist. Now we can do whatever the hell we want with them. So anytime you want to protest against any of what the president is doing, they can label you Antifa even though you have probably not given money to Antifa. You probably didn't even know what Antifa stood for. ya You ain't even got no black shirt.
Speaker: They don't know because no one should be against Antifa. being anti-fascist except you know fascist leaders so the that the word antifa itself the you know it's an abbreviation is is lost its meaning because they're just using it as a substitute for this imaginary group of left-wing liberal ultra-liberal domestic terrorists that don't exist
Speaker: Kind of like woke. They just repurpose the word. Right. But it's the deployment of troops to cities, which is actually illegal unless there's an insurrection.
Speaker: Right. We've only had two insurrections in this country, in this country's history. One.
Speaker: one led to the Civil War. The other one was January 6th. Yes. Okay. Yeah. People protesting you stripping away rights is not an insurrection.
Speaker: That's a protest. I just want people to be aware that this is foreshadowing. Oh, yeah. They are preparing for an internal conflict because they know that the things that they have planned are going to piss off a large majority of this country.
Speaker: And so they are preemptively preparing by saying, hey, we're going to start deploying the military on domestic soil for this so-called internal conflict.
Speaker: Which is once again, ladies and gentlemen, illegal and unless there's an insurrection and you can't just label anything an insurrection. There's specific rules and regulations for insurrections. So I've been hearing a lot of commentators, former like retired military, retired generals and admirals saying, look, we're not going to do anything as against the Constitution.
Speaker: Yeah, the president is kind of our boss, but if he directs us to do something illegal, the majority of us are not going to do it. So this idea that they're going to create some loyalty and and from the military, they're going to have to fire a lot of people, which They're angling for, because another key takeaway from from this thing was Hank says, unveiled a new directive tightening fitness and grooming standards and proposed a full embrace of traditional warrior culture while dismissing diversity incentives.
Speaker: So basically he was like, look, this is a man's military so initiative initiative. What did I say? Incentives. Oh, my bad, you ladies and gentlemen. That's what they think those are.
Speaker: They think diversity initiatives are diversity incentives. So you're not wrong. oh Basically, he said, we're going to do things by man's standards. Either you meet those standards or you don't get to be in the military.
Speaker: Factively saying, like, we don't women, we don't really want you in. People of color, we don't really want you in either. ah if you're gay or lesbian we damn sure don't want you in this is what they're saying they don't want any diversity he also stripped away being able to report any malfeasance
Speaker: Quietly. He said, it's either out in the open or you can't do it. This is also a man that has you know, an accusation of sexual assault. So he's trying to get that out the way. He wants drill sergeants to go back to the brutal, archaic way of training.
Speaker: And he also says he wants to get rid of rules of engagement. Just break the law yeah in warfare.
Speaker: So, look, it's drawn criticism from everybody, even people in the military community. They said during this meeting, Hagsaf was like, yo, if you don't like it, you can resign.
Speaker: Trump hinted at the same thing. Hey, y'all don't get on board, we'll just fire you. yeah But my thing was this. We're shutting down the government because they're saying that there's so much waste, right?
Speaker: That there's so much waste that we gotta shut down the government. All the while they gave this pep rally, which didn't give anything, didn't update, there wasn't anything of substance in this pep rally.
Speaker: now All while costing the taxpayers multiple millions of dollars to move all these general and admirals who were stationed other places, who had to be moved discreetly because they're in like battlefield type situations, just to give this pep rally all behind a huge American flag trying to bring about General Patton's speech because supposedly that's one of Trump's favorite movies.
Speaker: So, yeah, it was humorous and also very scary at the same time. Yeah, because it's right out of the fascist playbook, right? It's like, you first you go after the media. He's done that.
Speaker: Next, you get the military under your thumb, and that's what he's doing. Like, this is... That's what he's trying to do. That's what he's trying to do. this is This is right out of the place. They're going play by play, y'all.
Speaker: They're going play by play. and says It's happening in real time. nobody's and The quiet part's being said out loud.
Speaker: like it We should all be very, very concerned about the direction which this country is going. I would say, yes, all of this is real.
Speaker: All this is important. All of this is dangerous. But I got to be honest. And it's not me living in a bubble. When you start to exclude everybody and say, we're really only want this one specific thing, you minimize your numbers.
Speaker: then you become outnumbered. yeah And once again, there are military leaders who, one, they were disparaging by basically saying, you know, no more diversity. We're not we're not doing this DEI stuff and this woke stuff, which, by the way, military is not doing woke stuff.
Speaker: They just... When has the military ever been woke? Don't ask, don't tell is literally in our generation. In our we are adult generation. Don't ask, don't tell.
Speaker: When have the armed forces ever been woke? that and They're not, right? and yeah But they've become more inclusive. But, I mean, you want to know how... Maybe he's trying to take it back to World War II.
Speaker: when the black soldiers were forced to be cooks or given really dangerous frontline missions. Because if you go all the way back to the Civil War, when they had black soldiers, either they ain't give you no job or they put you on the front line where you was gonna were cannon Where you were cannon fodder. So, I mean, and let's not even talk about how there were so many black soldiers that fought in World War II, Korean War, and in the Vietnam War who were denied their GI Bill.
Speaker: When they came home. Yeah. All because of Jim Crow and segregation. so yeah So I'm just wondering when has the armed forces been woke? I guess now. I guess now when Pete Hexeth and Donald Trump look out to all the generals, they just see little too much gender and color.
Speaker: And they wanted to reflect them. You know who also wanted in a military that reflected a certain image? Who was that?
Speaker: wanted people to look a certain way, a way that he himself didn't even look. Okay. Wasn't even that. Wasn't even that. Doesn't matter.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. yeah that all That happened before. This has happened before. The difference is, here's the difference. The difference is in Nazi Germany,
Speaker: He made all the Germans feel like they were something important and everybody else not. And in Germany, you can do that because everybody is German and the minority is everything that's not Germany.
Speaker: Here in the United States, yes, white people are still the minority, but guess which groups are in but guess what groups are in white people? The LGBTQ plus community, right? um Roscoe, I need Roscoe to chill out. What's Roscoe's name? That's not even him.
Speaker: That's Roni. yeah Roni never used the bark. Ladies and gentlemen, that's my sister's dogs. But you know what? We're going to keep on going. But anyway, As I look at it, everybody he's disparaging, like they don't have enough numbers.
Speaker: And there are military commanders who won't break the law. There'll be some that will, but there'll be some that won't break the law. So you got to understand you're asking people.
Speaker: who have put their very lives on the line to protect the constitution of this United States. You're asking them to do things against the document that they are risk.
Speaker: They have risked their very lives and dedicated their entire career to upholding. Good luck.
Speaker: I'm sure some will fall in line, I'm sure. But I'm sure a vast majority will not. Even if it's not a vast majority, even if it's just half. Half and half, you know, I'm gonna take my odds.
Speaker: Because you know what? yeah If we gotta go at it, we gotta go at it. if If that's what you want, let me stop, Cora. Now, that's not what I want. I don't i don't want that. No.
Speaker: But no ah and a realization needs to happen to this administration. And I feel bad for everybody to caught up in the shutdown and everybody caught up in this pep rally, which is what it was. And it was a show And yeah everybody knew that there was a meeting with all the TAP generals.
Speaker: I had no clue. First of all, I was tripping because I was like, yo, why would they bring all of our top, all of our top, top people and put them in one place? Isn't that kind of dangerous? I mean, I know we have the best armed forces in the country, but that's kind of yeah dangerous. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, that they specifically don't do that. Like there's there was a actually a TV show about the one person that they'll leave out of certain meetings so that if something happens, this person can assume like responsibility forever. I forgot what the name of that show was. You're talking about a designated, it's a designate that say um designated something. Designated a survivor, that's it. But that's for the state of a union. But they do that also. But you know,
Speaker: But they do have ah a former military general was saying that they do have a yearly thing where the majority of the brass get together in D.C. Not everybody knows about specifically because everybody's not supposed to know about it.
Speaker: But they're announcing ahead of time, telling them what state is going to be. It's going to be in Virginia. So there's only so many bases that could be when it's going to be. And it wasn't private. They televised it.
Speaker: Yeah. Televised it. They're not smart. No, they're... Actually, Pete Hegg said, I did some research. Do you know this bastard has a BA from Harvard and a master's, I think, from Yale?
Speaker: like He has a bachelor's and master's from Ivy League. All the while, the administration is saying going to college is bad. Yeah, all of them are Ivy League graduates.
Speaker: Yeah. He's not a big school graduate. He can do his homework. That don't mean that he's smart. but like out I'm sorry. like I know a lot of people with advanced degrees from big universities.
Speaker: And when common sense is chasing them, boy, they haul ass. They are too fast for it. like They can't catch them. Can't catch them. So no, that don't mean nothing to me. It doesn't mean anything to me.
Speaker: okay Well, ladies and gentlemen, I know the first time I know the first segment we you know, we don't normally start heavy. We do normally did little yelling, but I just thought the absurdity of this was so important to talk about. And it's going to get a little bit more serious because it leads into the second segment.
Speaker: When you attack marginalized groups, what's the after effect? And guess what? As a historian, I'm not putting myself on a pedestal, but I studied history and I see a circle.
Speaker: Our lives is not in a line. It's a circle. Everything that we once did comes back around. yeah And we did this once before. It was called the lavender scare. And we don't get into that next.
Speaker: Jay, I mentioned it before in a previous segment. Have you ever heard of the Lavender Scare? I have not. Okay, most people have not. Most people have heard of the Red Scare.
Speaker: Now, if you don't know what the Red Scare is, the Red Scare refers to two major periods in U.S. history when widespread fear of communism and leftist ideologies led to political persecution and civil liberty violations.
Speaker: Sound familiar? The first red scare occurred in 1917 to 1920, triggered by the Russian Revolution and labor unrest. The second, more widely known, took place during the late 1940s through the 1950s, coinciding with the early Cold War. During this time, anti-communist sentiment resulted in aggressive investigations, blacklists, and public accusations by figures like Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Speaker: You all remember this from our U.S. history, okay? Yes. These moral panics resulted in dismissal and ostracization of thousands of people suspected of communist ties, regardless of actual evidence. So.
Speaker: That was the Red Scare. Most of us learned about the Red Scare. Yes. When we were taking history somewhere in the process of learning about World War Two and our conflict with the Soviets and communism and how everybody was scared to death that people were communists in this country.
Speaker: If you don't know about the Red Scare, what education did you get? An American one. Well, no, because even we got American ones in the South.
Speaker: In the South, they still taught us about the Red Scare. Now, let me let me just say, Virginia has a great educational system. So...
Speaker: Is it? Yes. It used to be. No, it is. All right. Okay. Yes. So what's the Lavender Scare? A little different than the red scare, right? You would think of lavender, you see red.
Speaker: Red almost kind of means danger. Lavender kind of means, oh, it's a calming influence. No. yeah Not this. So lavender scare was a period of intense anti-LGBTQ plus discrimination in the United States federal government.
Speaker: spanning roughly from 1947 and 1975, during which thousands of gay and lesbian employees were fired or forced out due to widespread fears that they possessed a security risk and a moral threat.
Speaker: Now, when I just say that, why does that sound familiar? Maybe because we just heard this threat from Pete Hegg says, the so-called secretary, not of defense, but the secretary of war.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. They don't even know what that means. He was a National Guard. You don't even know what that means. You know what else he was?
Speaker: He was a National Guard guarding detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Right. After September 11th.
Speaker: Oh, so. Yeah. you can You can let your imagination run wild on that, right ladies and gentlemen. Right. All right. So the Lavender Scare emerged during the Cold War, like i said, alongside mainly mainly commonly known the Red Scare.
Speaker: Executive orders and loyalty programs initiated by President Truman, not Trump, Truman, OK, in 1947 and then expanded in 1953 by President Eisenhower's executive order authorized the investigation.
Speaker: and dismissal of federal employees suspected of sexual perversion, which was a coded reference to homosexuality. Officers claimed that LGBTQ plus individuals were susceptible to black blackmail and therefore security risk, despite a lack of supporting evidence.
Speaker: So what did they do? They between five thousand and tens of thousands of federal employees lost their jobs, resulting in public humiliation, financial ruin,
Speaker: And sometimes tragically suicide. And these were all tried to tied directly to these purges. The government's actions also contributed to a broader societal discrimination, including school board firings, suspected gay teachers, landlords refusing to rent to queer tenants and media spreading sensationalized stories conflating homosexuality with communism.
Speaker: Being publicly identified as LGBTQ plus made continued employment or personal safety very difficult during this time. Does this is sound familiar to you? Yeah.
Speaker: Very much. Does it sound like, is it 80? Nah, it's more than 80. Nah, it's 80. 80 years later. 80 years later. eighty years later We are putting people in the LGBTQ plus community in this all over again. Pete Hedges just said it yesterday.
Speaker: We don't want you in our military. You can't even go fight for your country.
Speaker: kate But back then, you couldn't work for federal jobs. Right. and And you realize that this ridiculous notion that they're a security risk because they can be blackmailed is only because they exist in a society that demonizes them for who they are.
Speaker: I don't mean to laugh, but you ain't speaking nothing but the truth there. How about we change the way society treats its members How about we do that?
Speaker: No, but this is exactly, i mean, so this, the Lavender Scare was for queer folks like writ large.
Speaker: Hegseth is specifically targeting transgender individuals. and barring them from service and and gender firming affirming medical procedures have been paused. So, and then he's also of course criticizing DEI initiatives and LGBTQ plus representation of the military. So very, very similar, very, very similar. A lot more targeted this time.
Speaker: Cause if you're black and trans in the military, goodness, Well, they learned, right? They learned from their hatred. Because what happened was, is through this scare, grew so many different activist groups for the LGBTQ plus community. I always, the the L and the B and the G and the they be screwing me up.
Speaker: My tongue get tongue tied. But so many different groups grew out of this to fight for their rights. They even... which they should have, k combined it with the civil rights movements of the 60s to counteract the discrimination that they were facing and got laws passed so that you couldn't discriminate based on sexuality or gender.
Speaker: Right. So now they're attacking specifically transgender and listen to the coded words that they are trying to do. They got boys playing girls sports. Give me two cases where that's the case.
Speaker: Yeah. Give me two. They got, they got, they're gonna, they're gonna harm the women when they go into the women's bathroom. Women don't have to necessarily be afraid to be harmed there because there's plenty of heterosexual men that are out there assaulting women every day. Matter of fact. Right outside, standing right outside the bathroom. You ever been to a club?
Speaker: Oh my God. Matter of fact, if you look at any statistical measurement that there is, women's overwhelming predator are heterosexual males that are not trans or gay or anything like that.
Speaker: Nope. Cis, cis-het-men. Matter of fact, who are the largest perpetrators that are pedophiles? Cis-het-men.
Speaker: so So what they're trying to do is say, don't look over here. Don't look over here. Look over there. Look over there. You know, we're the good ones. They're the bad because they're different because I look like you.
Speaker: Right. Right. right Don't be afraid of me. I look like you. No. And this has been going on. So, ladies and gentlemen, yes, I'm giving a history lesson. I know sometimes y'all like it, sometimes you hate it, but there's an overall theme, and I'm sure that you can point that out.
Speaker: What was done once before is being done once again. And if they continue to control what we teach our kids in the school system,
Speaker: these things will continue to happen over and over and over again because nobody will know that it happened before. right I did not know about the Lavender Scare until recently.
Speaker: I, a historian who has yeah studied history in the United States, this is my time period, American history from World War II all the way to the Clinton administration.
Speaker: That is my bread and butter. Knew nothing about this. I knew about the discrimination against the LGBTQ plus community. I had no idea that there was a Lavender Scare that equal the Red Scare. And I guarantee the majority of the people that are listening to this who are not in the LGBTQ plus community or some who might also be in the LGBTQ plus community did not know about the Lavender Scare.
Speaker: Yeah. it's ah and And to see it repeated again on a very similar scale is it should be very alarming to everyone.
Speaker: Because what the Lavender Scare did and what the Secretary of War is trying to do is remove protections and oversight mechanisms, right? Like...
Speaker: Like the Lavender Scare depended on removing due process safeguards for employees, right? And Hegseth is proposing changes, you said this, to how complaints are processed.
Speaker: He's reducing anonymous reporting, ah expanding commander discretion, revising definitions of what bullying and hazing means. They are removing gender identity as a protected category under the military equal opportunity programs.
Speaker: Like this is it's the same it's the same thing happening again. And as alarmed as we should have been then, we need to be equally or of not or more so alarmed now Yeah, because I tell you where it's going.
Speaker: I can tell you where it's going because I tell you where it's been. So the Lavender's scare legitimized discrimination nationally. It set a precedent for exclusion of queer people from federal job businesses and schools with similar practices adopted not just at the federal level, but also at the state level.
Speaker: and local level. It pushed negative stereotypes into the mainstream and conflated homosexuality with criminality and encouraged intolerance in public spaces.
Speaker: yeah So when you do these type of things and you say these people are different, you need to look at them different, you need to treat them different, guess what? It happens in everyday life.
Speaker: Yeah. And that's, that was my earlier point. The reason why you can even make the, even though it a fallacious argument that there are security risks is because of the fact that you are, by doing these things, targeting vulnerable populations for exclusion. You're reinforcing fear, stigma, harm,
Speaker: like consequences for people's careers, for their lives, that is going to infect the general public. And they're going to fall in step.
Speaker: A vast majority is going to fall in line with that. And it just keeps perpetuating itself. It's the same. and so...
Speaker: Then you have people that have to fight tooth and nail to to for visibility, right? And to make their, you know, concerns and and the harm that's being done to them in their community known, right? And then, okay, then they're critic criticized for being woke, right? Right.
Speaker: but who When they start to advocate for themselves and for their own, oh, I don't know, just basic respect of me as a human being. How about that? It's not that hard.
Speaker: I haven't lost my train of thought because I'm so upset about it. Ladies gentlemen, if y'all are watching the video, you can always tell when my sister is super engaged because she leans in real close to the camera.
Speaker: And then in the editing process, I can't do nothing to fix that. And then she looks giant. Just leave me blown up. I don't care. She looks giant on the screen because you know it's real. She leaned in. So she leaned in to the camera and then give it to you.
Speaker: Yes. So I have this new philosophy. Because there are people, not in my personal orbit, in my professional orbit, that always, they say, woke underneath their breath. They know not to say certain things around me because even in professional setting,
Speaker: I'll come at you. Like, I don't care. I'll burn all this shit down. Like, I don't care. Like, I get another job. I got the privilege of having a college degree and some various different experiences in the workforce.
Speaker: I'd always go back to bartending and be just fine. At the end of the day, we still got a thriving gig economy. I'll be fine. ah Look, I can bartend and do this podcast and I'll be all right. You know what I'm have a lot less stress.
Speaker: But these people that that are in my professional orbit is just like, I don't feel like I should have to say they they them. I've been coming up with a counter. I've been like, oh, okay, well, I'm just going call you insert this name.
Speaker: Yeah. Well, that's not my name. Well, doesn't matter. I don't feel like calling you that name. Well, that's my given name. That's no, that's the name you told me to call you, but they said respect their pronouns.
Speaker: You can't do that. Why should I respect your name? I'm not going to, so this is your name. And your name might be dipshit. Or it might be not I don't know. was trying to think of funny thing and I couldn't. It was like flat ass. You know, it could be something disparaging, you know?
Speaker: But since you don't want to give people respect, I'm not going to give you respect. Those that want respect, and to quote Tony Soprano, those that want respect, give respect. If you don't give no respect, you get no respect.
Speaker: You get none. Yeah. And I just, and I'm like, I stopped being... Semi-friends. We weren't friends friends. We were semi-friends. We were walking dogs together.
Speaker: And we got into a huge argument about the LGBTQ plus community. I keep putting that plus and the T in a wrong... I'm sorry.
Speaker: um it's it's a It's a lot of letters. It's a mouthful. And and but y'all know I got a speech impediment and a stutter. I'm trying i'm trying my best, y'all. Everybody is giving you grace. Don't worry about But I will never call it the alphabet community because I feel like that is disrespectful.
Speaker: i feel like that's I feel like that specific comment is disrespectful. So yeah me and this person were walking the dogs and they were like, um it's a choice.
Speaker: ah said, what now? Because I didn't know this person thought this way. I said, what now? Yeah, it's a choice. They don't have to be that way if they don't want to. I was like, have you um ever dated ah somebody that was not your gender, like the opposite?
Speaker: No. Why? Because I'm not attracted to them. Exactly. They're attracted to what they're attracted to. Yeah. It's a choice. It's not a choice. And do you think that they would go through the history of discrimination and subjugation and persecution and all that? Oppression and all of that. Yeah.
Speaker: For what? If they could choose? ah Who would choose to do that? Who would choose to be persecuted? The only person I know. On a societal level. The only person I know was Jesus.
Speaker: He didn't choose that. It chose him. And my man rose to the challenge. But like, he didn't choose that. He even asked, Father, why have you forsaken me?
Speaker: He did choose that.
Speaker: ah Well, the point I'm trying to make, I got to, hey, you ladies and gentlemen, we've been serious. I got to lighten yeah by saying something stupid that I know that my sister's going to respond back to.
Speaker: But the point I'm trying to make is, leave people the hell alone. They ain't bothering you. yeah and if And if you're like, well, I don't want to see that. You know what I don't want to see? I don't want to see people drinking eight Pepsis and no water.
Speaker: yeah That's what i don't want to see. You know what don't want to see? There's a lot I don't want to see. I don't want to smell people that smell bad. Watch your ass.
Speaker: Yeah. I'm tired of you using every H word when you know your breath stink. Hey, Jonna. How are you? yeah yeah Don't do that.
Speaker: got a lot. I got list. That I have to endure. The hell? but yeah I used always love it back in the day with somebody like, just randomly, hey, you want some gum?
Speaker: Yeah. but That was the way of telling you, hey, your breath stink. I'd be quitting like, hey, I got some mint in my pocket. You want a mint? Yeah. I'll pop a mint in my mouth too so they don't feel alone. Let's do it together.
Speaker: I'll ask, when's the last time you've been to the dentist? See, you are way more insensitive than I am. No, and I don't find that you're being offensive.
Speaker: You know what I'm saying? don't think it's insensitive. Because everybody tell when their breath stinks. Yeah, you taste it. I can't, I'm not insensitive for calling it out. You're insensitive for getting in my face, and you know you can taste that on the back of your tongue.
Speaker: You know you can. And you know what? That's rude. Despite all of this, we're not forcing those people into, you know, demeaning them and saying that they can't hold certain jobs. I mean, we don't want to be around you.
Speaker: But I mean, you know, you still get a chance to exist in all your stinky breath ways. Yeah. I'm just going to offer you some gum. to offer you some gum. and and it And I don't recommend this.
Speaker: So this is not a suggestion from Bruce or anybody from unsolicited perspectives. But for those people that do have a problem with people in the LGBTQ plus community because you think your religion says that they shouldn't exist.
Speaker: right Well, I mean, I guess you can try to gently approach them with your religion and just say, you know, I had it somebody from the Mormon faith one time asked me, hey, you want to go to church with me? I was like, you think I'm a heathen?
Speaker: I am. And no, I don't want to. No, don't do that. No, don't want I know the history of Joseph Smith. I don't want to go. Keep that BS to yourself.
Speaker: What BS? Don't go around and try to... I tear i said du this is not a recommendation. I think i said that off the top, that it's a dumbass idea.
Speaker: Don't get jumped out here. they Don't do it. Look, you will get jumped. Yeah. You will get jumped. Don't get jumped out here. I just, I find it funny.
Speaker: But not. That it doesn't take much to see where things are going once you understand the past. Right. Like, it it doesn't take much. There's a famous quote, and I'm paraphrasing, but life is understood from the past, but lived for the future.
Speaker: Hmm. So you understand life from examining the past. Yes. And you move forward and live for the future. And I think that we need to all take that to heart because they are literally trying to take us back.
Speaker: And that's not how you live life. You live life forward. It's their slogan. MAGA is the slogan. We literally want to go back. No, no, thank you.
Speaker: It ain't gonna happen. No thanks. They're trying their damnedest though. Yeah, they are. They, didn they, they, they got a lot. They got a lot. They got a lot done.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. You know. Just, just, just ask the folks during the Civil War ah what happened when they realized they have enough people to fight. Mm-hmm. wow Go ahead.
Speaker: Go ahead. They had to come knocking and asking us. So ah go Go ahead and try to, you know, move people out or the push people out. And I'll say you're going left with eight, eight folks with a couple of Glocks and three tanks.
Speaker: That's what you're gonna be left with. Yeah. Yeah. Good luck. Good luck. Actually, i hope you have the worst look possible. Yeah, I was being sarcastic.
Speaker: thought that that was pretty clear by by my flexion in the tone. actually want you to just go to hell.
Speaker: All right, Jay, to bring this to a lighter note. yes What are your ghetto limits? Now, I can tell you one of mine off the top is I hit my ghetto limit yesterday listening to that pep rally.
Speaker: That was ghetto as hell. There was no part of that that was classy. It was ghettos. Matter of fact, the administration... It was selling Teslas on the White House lawn ghetto.
Speaker: No, he just posted, Trump just posted on his true social all the gold in his presidential office and the Oval Office. Also very ghetto. So ghetto.
Speaker: So ghetto. But what are some of your ghetto limits?
Speaker: Y'all, don't tell me you'll drive in that damn check engine light as
Speaker: I am tired of getting in your car and the dashboard is lit up like Christmas. You not going risk my life
Speaker: in this death trap.
Speaker: If I get in and all them lights is on, I'm getting right back out.
Speaker: Take your car to the shop. We're going to call this Uber, but take your car to the shop. Period. ah That's a good one. One of my ghetto limits, and I was just talking to a person about this, is not showering. The person I was just talking to, today is Wednesday, said they have not taken a shower since Sunday.
Speaker: And I said, that's ungodly. That's ungodly. That's... Because cleanliness is next to godliness. Next to godliness. That's ungodly. I can't. I was like, you know...
Speaker: Well, why? Yeah. Why? Why? was like, you got in bed with outside in your covers. Yeah. You slept in outside. ladies and gentlemen, if you don't know what outside is, it's you went outside.
Speaker: environment. You got all the environments all over your body, right? And you decide to get in bed with outside. Mm-hmm. It's part of the reason why I never go camping.
Speaker: Because you know what? You outside, outside. no yeah that's that's one of my ghetto limits if if you ain't showered for a couple of days I'm not gonna be around you that's I don't even know if that's ghetto that's just basic human like you just part of just being alive is that you wash your ass like I don't I think we need to define what ghetto is because some people are going to misinterpret.
Speaker: When we say ghetto, this is not code for Black. No. A lot of people would like to say ghetto as code for Black. No, no, no, no. That's not the way we use it.
Speaker: In this term, my ghetto limits is variety of things. It's ratchet. It's at the point where, all right, I'm past that point. Okay, so it could be something like not having proper silverware.
Speaker: What do I mean? If you have a wedding or a special occasion, the anniversary party or anything like that, and it is somewhat fancy, and you have meat that needs to be cut, do not give me plastic cutlery.
Speaker: Yeah. I can't cut no steak. give me a plastic cutlery, If you give me a plastic butter knife, do not piss me off.
Speaker: Do not piss me off. I almost cut my hand to the bone. Yeah. Trying to saw a steak with a plastic butter knife.
Speaker: That was ghetto. And this was a fancy occasion. I bought a whole outfit. A fancy new suit for this occasion. Mm-hmm. Plastic.
Speaker: Yeah. Ghetto. Ghetto. That's ghetto. Yeah. Don't, don't give me no spork and no fancy. If it's a backyard cookout, I'm expecting the plastic silver. I'm expecting it.
Speaker: Like that's, that's the proper place and time. Don't have me dress up to use a spork.
Speaker: Don't piss me off, please. All right, here's another one where I pass my ghetto limit. and My building is basically redoing the plumbing.
Speaker: and Okay. Okay. So every Tuesday, they got to shut off the water from 9 to 5. Now, most people, that doesn't affect them. Why? Because they're at work. I'm not most people.
Speaker: I'm at home because I work from home. So I ain't got no damn water all day Tuesday. Okay. I hit my ghetto limit when I could not fill the bathtub because my stopper doesn't work right.
Speaker: And I had to fill pots and pans with water so that I was able to use the bathroom and to wash my hands and all the other stuff. I pay too much money.
Speaker: Hit my ghetto limit. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. That's... No. Can't do it. not Not... This is supposed be luxury. Right. It says it in a name. It says the name of the building, Luxury Living. That's what it says. That ain't luxury.
Speaker: That ain't... That ain't no damn luxury. and Another yellow limit that I have? Yeah.
Speaker: Not picking up after your dog. Yeah. These are, we're saying ghetto, but honestly, a lot of this is just common courtesy. I mean, but but isn't isn't common courtesy, isn't when you don't have common courtesy ghetto?
Speaker: Yes. That's what I consider. One of mine, listen, don't invite me over if you and your partner argue real loud and you don't care who's around.
Speaker: i I hate that.
Speaker: being a third wheel to somebody else's arguments. That's you. love it. literally hate it. You have put me in such a... Because you feel like I really want to get up and leave. Because y'all in a full-blown shouting match.
Speaker: I really want to go. But I don't know what's the right opportunity for me to get up and excuse myself. It's hard to find that lull in the conversation.
Speaker: So you get up and excuse yourself. Please, if you know y'all fight like that.
Speaker: Don't don't have nobody come around. but Don't do me like that. I'll go you one. Not even better, but the same. If I walk into your place of living smelling one way and walk out of your place of living smelling another way, don't invite me over.
Speaker: Because I got all types of body creams and colognes over here to get me to smell a certain type of way. And I'm not going over nobody's place to come out smelling like your home. Right. Right.
Speaker: Yeah. Fix your home. hi Well, I mean, it's like, what smells are you talking about? Like, if... Not if somebody is cooking.
Speaker: Yeah, you a lot of time it's like people, it's food, you know. People use a lot of spices or things like that. And it linger? And it just linger forever? Yeah.
Speaker: No, well, if that's your house... that hit my ghetto limit, I'm not coming over. Cause I don't want to smell like your spices that you cooked three days ago.
Speaker: Open up the window, air it out, spray some air freshener because I got these expensive body creams that I'd have paid from Body Works. Okay, so they're not that expensive.
Speaker: But they smell good and I got a lot of them. And I got these expensive colognes and I done showered and shaved to come up over here. I don't want to walk in smelling one way and walk out smelling the other way because you know what?
Speaker: might have to go somewhere.
Speaker: And I don't want people to smell that. Let me give you an example. There was a theres a woman that used to give me a ride in high school to school in the morning, but she smoked.
Speaker: oh okay So it didn't matter what I did. When I got in that car, got to school, Bruce, you was smoking this morning? No, I wasn't.
Speaker: I was in a car with somebody that was smoking, and now I smell like I was smoking, and smoking stinks. Well, that's your fault. I mean, you already know what the difference is. I only did it for a couple, for like a week, and I was just like, thank you for the rides, but no thank you. I'm going to take the bus. Yeah.
Speaker: I take bus. ah cake Because no matter what type of layers I put, out I try to put coats in the spring. I got a full triple fat goose on. Why you got that coat on? No reason.
Speaker: It's to drown out any smoke smell and it still didn't work.
Speaker: Yeah. Okay. Okay. I get that. Like, if... Okay. But also, it's like, if you know somebody smoke and you don't want to, you know, sometimes you got to take a little bit of ownership of that. But I get it. I get what you' saying.
Speaker: I get what you're saying. Also, don't invite me over if your bathroom not clean. and Well, don't come to my house. hit hit That wasn't a direct shot at you, but you remember the one time I said at your house, and you like, you can use my bathroom. I walked in there. was like, I'll just wait.
Speaker: Look, no pun, but pun intended. I'm anal about the bathroom being clean. The last time I was there, ah you said, I cleaned the bathroom. I was like this bathroom right here?
Speaker: I was like, let me show you how to clean this. You did say, is it my clean lesson?
Speaker: Out there in particular. Just go to the bathroom. Look, it's tough for me because, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to reveal a secret. I'm like George Costanza. I get butt naked when I go to the bathroom. That's just that's just how I get comfortable, okay? So I can't... It got to be clean in there because I get butt naked, all right? I take off my clothes and everything. that's No matter what I'm doing, take off my clothes. I could be washing my hands.
Speaker: Still, all the clothes is off. I don't know why. You know, I got issues with just... Thanks. So it's just who I am. But yeah yes. yeah You got anything else that's ghetto? You're just like, all right, this is it. Because I like being ratchet and hood up to a certain point.
Speaker: It's fun. Up to a certain point. Yeah. It's just when people insist on talking ah speakerphone in public spaces. Oh, God. I can't stand them people.
Speaker: I don't care about what you got what you got going on. I don't want to hear it. Well, I do, but I understand what you're saying. I mean, i yes, but like I don't want to... No.
Speaker: Well, that's like the same thing with people going into the public gym and playing their music with no headphones on. yeah And I'm just like, you see everybody in this?
Speaker: You got headphones on? Get some headphones. You can go to, you can go what is it, Five Below? For $5, you can get some Bluetooth headphones. They got a whole bunch of stuff that's five and below, and that includes some headphones.
Speaker: Also, this is the last one I got. and Okay. If I invite you to stay, you better make up that damn bed.
Speaker: I don't know if this is direct shot at me. No, I strip the sheets. No, you strip the sheets and wash them. No, even you just crash on my couch, fold that blanket up.
Speaker: You know what? That is for sure. You and and our brother, whenever y'all stay, the next time, if y'all leave, if you're traveling and you leave early, all that stuff is like folded and put up nice and neat. Yes. I got to wash this anyway, but but thank you for the folding. Yeah, but I'm not just going to just leave it out.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. No, you right. People come over to your house, act like they ain't got no home trainer. I'm like, you do this at your own home. You don't do this at your own home. Why are you doing this here? This ain't a hotel.
Speaker: I don't have a staff that'll come in and clean up. You better, you better make that bed back up or strip them sheets and put them, you know, neatly somewhere so I could put them in the wash.
Speaker: What the hell? Ladies gentlemen, let me tell y'all what y'all need do. You stay over somebody else's house and you sleep in a bed, you strip the sheets because some sheets need to be washed. Okay. Cause you slept. Nobody wants to sleep in sheets that somebody else has slept in.
Speaker: Exactly. You know, y'all together. Then I guess, right you know, strip the bed. but yeah dr to bay walk to the washer and dryer, put them in the wash.
Speaker: Stay, put them in the dryer. And if you don't stay, put them in the wash at the very least and say, hey, put them sheets and everything in the wash. Or let the host know, hey, I'm about to do this. is Do you like these sheets washed a special way?
Speaker: um' right I don't ever ask my sister because whatever way that she want to wash, I like them washed better. You got to click get that funk and you got to put it super hot.
Speaker: It got to be boiling. Yes, that's how I wash. I know, I'm just messing with you because because we already on that.
Speaker: You got to wash them sheets. Just the person that was, I i asked person, I was like, you ain't showered. In three days? Like, you probably have to wash your sheets like two times a day. No, just once a week.
Speaker: No, that ain't enough. No. Just your dirty feet alone. You need to wash them sheets. Well, so... We were talking one time about dirty feet and it it came to my attention. It was like, yeah, I'll walk all around the house.
Speaker: Yeah, I will have taken a shower. Yeah, I have my nighttime clothes on, but my feet going to be dirty as hell. So I've started using socks and I don't put the socks on until I'm in the bed, the bed.
Speaker: And I still don't put my feet in the bed. I put the socks on while I'm sitting in my bed, to put my socks on and then I put my feet. I sleep in socks. Yeah, I wear slippers. So I don't, ah my bare feet, I don't like walking around with bare feet.
Speaker: It's a sensory thing. I don't like feeling like little stuff on my feet. don't like it. So I always wear slippers. But yeah, if I do walk around barefoot, them socks is going on before I get in that bed. So a pair of clean socks.
Speaker: is going on before I get that bed. I'm not bringing dirty feet into my bed. Oh, this is another thing that's past my ghetto limit. If I'm walking around your house because I took off my shoes and I got on white socks and by the time I put back on my shoes, my white socks is black on the bottom, ain't coming over your house no more.
Speaker: its now I'm not coming over your house no more. Because why is my white socks... Especially if you got carpet. Oh, if you got carpet, Because that don't even make no dams. That's the reason why their house smells like that. And I'm in there anyway smelling like their house when I leave out because they got that dirty ass carpet.
Speaker: But yeah, feet going to be dirty. Don't invite me to your house. But Jay, what want to tell these people out here before we ah take off Yeah. Well, when I say ghetto, I just mean it's rude and it's offensive. It don't have nothing to do with race. It doesn't have anything to do with education or socioeconomic status. Anybody can be ghetto if you're rude and offensive.
Speaker: Yeah, because I started off by explaining that that pep rally. was ghetto. It was ghetto. Yeah. Selling his little birthday party with the the military march. That that was ghetto.
Speaker: Oh, PNX is... Selling the cars on the White House one. That was ghetto. Pete Hexf sold his book at the end of his speech. That's ghetto. Yeah. Ghetto. They exude ghetto.
Speaker: yeah But on that note, ladies gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holler.
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