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Dave Chappelle’s “Truth Teller” Era + Nicki’s Turning Point Moment
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Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special has people split—was it comedy, a cultural history lesson, or a “truth teller under siege” sermon? Then we get into Nicki Minaj showing up at Turning Point USA and what it means when an artist built on queer and Black fans starts echoing culture-war politics. And to close it out: a wild Reddit relationship story where a boyfriend basically demands a body upgrade (“He wants more ass”)—and why that’s a straight-up respect issue, not a gym issue.
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Chapters:
00:00 Who Changed—and Who Paid the Price? Culture, Fans, and Partners 💥🧩💔
00:19 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
00:42 Three Topics, No Mercy: Chappelle, Nicki, and Relationships 🎤🔥👀
02:10 Let’s Start With Dave Chappelle: Expectations vs Reality 🎭🤔🔥
04:00 Comedy or Sermon? Seeing My Own Style in Chappelle 🎤📖🪞
05:25 Why I’m a Day-One Fan: College, Half Baked, and Loyalty 🎟️❤️🕰️
07:00 Clayton Bigsby Changed Everything: Comedy as Truth 🪞😂💣
08:25 Brilliant Art or Problematic Power? Sitting With Conflict ⚖️🎭😮💨
11:15 Selective Outrage: Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Moral Math 🌍⚖️🧩
14:25 Money Changes Perspective: When Power Shifts the Lens 💰🪜🤔
17:20 Selective Accountability: Grace for Me, Smoke for You 😑⚖️🔥
21:23 Nicki at Turning Point: Lines Crossed Publicly 🧨🎭⚠️
25:55 Cultural Betrayal: When Fans Become Collateral 💔🎶🚨
29:40 Teaching Hate to the Youth: Why This Moment Matters 🧠🚨🧨
36:19 “He Wants More Ass”: Reddit Story That Crossed the Line 😳📱🔥
43:20 When Attraction Fades Without Respect 💔🧠🚩
47:29 Be Who You Are—or Walk Away: Closing Truths ✨🧠🚪
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Introduction to Unsolicited Perspectives
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Dave Chappelle, Nicki Minaj, and when your partner's body just ain't quite what you want, we gonna get into it. Let's get it.
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Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcasts, YouTube exclusive content, and our YouTube membership.
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Rate, review, like, comment, share. Share with your friends, share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies. On today's episode, I'm going to be talking about the Dave Chappelle stand-up, Nicki Minaj at Turning Point, and a relationship situation that's interesting to say the least.
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That's enough for the intro. Let's get to the show.
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So welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back. Had a nice little vacation, even though my sister doesn't call it a vacation the way I do it. But it was a vacation. It was a break. It was much-needed break. Now, it's been a little while since I recorded by myself. Let's put it this way. It's been a little while since I recorded by myself.
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I'm going probably be a little rusty. I don't know how well this show is going to go, if it goes well at all, but I'm going to do what I always set out to do, and that's do my absolute best. I'm talking about topics that are very interesting to me.
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So I'm assuming since you watched the show, and if you have been watching and listening for so long, that what interests me interests you as well. So I think you'll find these topics interesting in my unsolicited perspective.
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even though it isn't unsolicited because you guys are tuning into the show, my perspective on these matters are going to be on brand for me. Let's just say that.
Dave Chappelle's Controversial Comedy
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Let's start with Dave Chappelle. Dave Chappelle came out with a new concert comedy special. They usually call them concert comedy specials, but comedy special it came on right after the Jake Paul fight or where you saw Jake Paul get knocked out.
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I didn't watch it then. i was in Atlanta and i said, you know what? It was on Netflix. Everybody was asleep. So like, let me watch this. And I watched it. And you guys know I'm a huge Dave Chappelle fan. If you listen and and watch this show, you know, I've talked about Dave Chappelle, a great reference. I think he's a genius, not just a comedic genius. I think he is extremely, extremely bright, which I believe most comedians have a really, really high IQ anyway. They might not be the the most as far as educated, but IQ isn't rated on your education. IQ is weighted on your intellect. But, okay.
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So, I've been a little disappointed because Dave has doubled down on attacking the trans community in a lot of these specials. And he didn't disappoint in that department in this special. But I will give him the benefit of a doubt. Watch, and I watched the special anyway, in hopes that he wouldn't double down. He did, but not as badly as he has been doing, if I can give him any type of grace in that matter.
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At the end of it, my sister came out of her room and walked into the living room as I was watching, as I was ending the episode. And she was like, hmm, you're in serious thought right now.
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And I was like, yeah, I am. I don't know what to think of this special. She was like, was it funny? I was like, I always got to make things about myself. Sorry, guys. i do. I have dreams. I don't know.
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Every couple of years where I do a stand-up routine. Now, I have no desire whatsoever to be a stand-up comedian. But in this dream, I'm doing a stand-up, but it actually turns into a a lecture. It almost turns.
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is this podcast. That's basically what it is, where there is some humor, but there is always a message. And so when I was watching this Dave Chappelle standup special, I was like, hmm, this was something that I would do. No no way comparing myself to Dave Chappelle. I'm just talking about the presentation, right?
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And so when my sister asked me what my thoughts were, I was like, this was this would be something that I would absolutely do. He is teaching you something. throughout the special. There's an overarching theme, and y'all know how much I love overarching themes, where you start in one place and in another place, and you learn so much in between. And he did that.
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And so I encourage everybody out there to go and watch the stand-up special. It is very interesting. Will you laugh? Yes, it's Dave Chappelle. You're going to laugh. Will you cringe? Yes, it's Dave Chappelle. You're going to cringe.
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Would I say it's his best stand-up? No, I wouldn't say it's his best stand-up, but I don't really know what I could consider his best stand-up. You know, when I tell y'all I've been a fan of Dave Chappelle, I'm at the University of Maryland. It's 98 or 99. I got my little girlfriend, the you know, the one that broke my heart, the one that cheated on me.
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And Dave Chappelle is coming to the school to perform. Now, this is 98, 99. Dave Chappelle is already on my radar enough that I want to go see him perform. I'm going to pay my money, and I'm broke.
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I'm going to pay my money and go see him play. I mean, go see him perform. And my brother sister come along with us, and he gave a very iconic joke that I can't say on here.
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But me and my brother and sister still laugh about that 25 years, 26 years, 27 years later. I have been a fan of Des Chappelle. I can't remember when he came in. I can't remember what it was. Was it Men in Tights?
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Was it his appearances on Dr. Katz? Was his appearance on on Home Improvement? It might be all of those things. But I do know, like, that was... He was already in my consciousness. I was already a fan. And when my parents built their house after my junior year, sophomore year at college, so it was 2000, 2001...
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sophomore, junior year, whatever it was. And, you know, you got to you built a new home, you move into a new home. Cable takes a little while to set up, at least it did back in that day. So all we had was videotapes, DVDs, and things of that nature.
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F-Baked ran on repeat. the entire summer. I love that movie. Okay, so I've been a fan of Dave
Chappelle's Career and Impact
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Chappelle's. I believe the greatest sketch he did on his comedy show was not Rick James, was not Prince.
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It was Clayton Bigsby, the Black White Supremist. It was on the first episode. It's the final segment on the first episode. I remember watching it The show premiere, Dave Chappelle fans. So he's got his own show on Comedy Central. I'm definitely going to watch that. I'm laughing. It's typical Dave Chappelle. But that last sketch with Clayton Bigsby, I'm in college now, so I get it. And I'm like, that's brilliant.
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That's brilliant because it's comedic. It's funny. But it's also showing a mirror to America and making you be introspective and examined. what it is to be an American, what it is to be Black, what it is to be racist. How is that defined? And and I just, i loved everything about it. Now, everybody's going to talk about Rick James, which is hilarious. Everybody's going to talk about Prince, which is hilarious. Everybody's going to talk about Wayne Brady, which is brilliant comedically in the sense that Wayne Brady played a character outside of himself, and it was funny.
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But the funniest thing that he did was a Clayton Bigsby sketch. And this standup was like an hour long Clayton Bigsby type performance.
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At the end of it, I was still conflicted because he said some jokes. I was just like, you're punching down and it's not even funny. And so, yes, I clutched my pearls a little bit. I was a little offended at some of the things that he had to say because I'm like, bro, aren't you past this by now?
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But overall, i think it was really important to watch because it gives you a perspective of American history and how all stuff are intertwined that you may not even realize. And It's beautiful.
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it's It's beautiful art. It really is. Aside from the things, some of the jokes, he had a trans joke that he had, and there was another joke that it was offensive, but I can't really remember it, so I guess I wasn't that offended by it.
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Outside of that, this is a brilliant piece of art. But the writer in me had to write just a brief blurb. That's not ah a critique, but a brief blurb.
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Before I really di dive into digesting and giving a real analyst of this, stand-up, I wrote a little something to kind of get me going and kind of tell you guys where I'm going with all this. So Dave Chappelle's latest stand-up special reflects a continued shift in how he positions himself.
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Less a traditional observational comic and more as a cultural provocateur responding to black backlash, criticism, and the changing expectations placed on comedians.
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The core argument of the special is not just about jokes, but about who gets to speak freely, who gets challenged, and who controls the narrative around offense and accountability. In this special, Dave Chappelle frames himself as a truth teller under siege, a comedian pushing back against what is he views as cultural overcorrection, selective outrage, and moral inconsistency.
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Rather than centering purely on punchlines, the special emphasizes commentary on cancel culture, tension between marginalized groups, the limits or defense of free speech.
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His belief that comedians should not be moral referees is also evident throughout this special.
Cancel Culture and Free Speech Debate
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So when I examine this, He has absolutely tried to set him up himself and set himself up as a martyr, saying that he is able to speak speak more freely in Dubai than he would be in America. And he makes some points as to say everybody is tripping on him going to Saudi Arabia, right, and performing a special when the Saudi Arabian government killed a journalist.
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But wasn't anybody saying anything about Israel killing 250 journalists. I understand the point he's trying to make. The point is, it's a selective outrage.
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You won't check people. when they back up what you believe in, right? Same reason why, you know, I'm not going to watch any Michael Jackson documentaries on potential sex crimes, right? Like, I don't want to see it. I love Michael Jackson.
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I don't necessarily believe it. It is ignorance, and I admit that. It is hypocrisy, and I admit that. But you're not going take away my Michael Jackson for me from me. So you will do the moral gymnastics, right, to make sure that you can support whether it's something that you believe in, ah government system, a government, a country, a group of people. You will make excuses when those things are in the wrong because they're what you believe in.
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And he does have a point. The problem is You still went to Saudi Arabia and that ain't great either. So you can't say a yeah, but right. and And that's where I have a problem with his argument. Neither are really great situations to put yourself into.
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Right. So but I understand the fact that there is selective outrage while certain people can do certain things and other people can't do those very exact same things.
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I get it. People can storm the Capitol on January 6th and be pardoned for all of their crimes. But you march down the street for abortion rights, for civil rights, for voting rights.
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You're an anarchist. Same reason why they used to call Martin Luther King a commie bastard, right? They called him public enemy number one, a communist.
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The worst thing in this world. Now he's celebrated. But during the time, he was not. Once again, there are certain things that people can do and can't do. And he's calling out the hypocrisy. And I get what he said.
00:13:48
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He didn't quite get to where he needed to go. But that's often the thing with Dave Chappelle. When he was talking about the attacks on it himself for his transgender jokes,
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Right. He said, well, wait a minute. Why did people in the LGBTQ plus get to leapfrog black people in the fight for civil rights?
00:14:11
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He had an argument. It wasn't well thought out. It wasn't well presented. And it's kind of wrong. It's kind of right and kind of wrong. Everybody should have civil rights.
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It should all be on equal footing. No one person should be ahead of the other. So this is my constant debate with Dave Chappelle and his thinking. You can also tell he's not that poor dude anymore.
00:14:33
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He's an elitist. So he thinks in elitist terms. He's no more a commoner, a common man, like the American dream, Duff the Rhodes. He's no more one of those people. And we'll openly o admit it, that he is rich, that he's bought up most of his city in Ohio, that he's got money.
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He's in a different stratosphere. And this happens with people. When you climb that social economic ladder, your views start to change. for good and for bad. Some of it is you're climbing the social economic ladder so you're able to travel more, and see more of the world, and your eyes opened.
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A good example of this is Malcolm X. Malcolm X in the beginning was like, we don't need the white man's help for nothing. I don't care if you are trying to fight for civil rights. We don't need you. You don't need us separate.
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That's the way it's supposed to be. Till he went to Mecca, right? And he experienced washing his feet and bathing and sleeping with people that were not black, but were followers of his faith in Islam. And he came back and he was like, everybody is my brother. Yes, there are some bigoted people in this country, but there could be white people that can help.
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There could be people that aren't a part of our group that can help. So in some ways, climbing a socioeconomic ladder can open your mind. if you have that type of mentality. And I think in a lot of ways, Dave Chappelle does.
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i think that he's always been an open-minded person, but now it feels like he's climbed that social economic ladder, made so much more money, and now it's all about him. And he takes any type of s slight as an attack on him completely.
00:16:23
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And that's what he does a lot in this special when he's trying to say, don't muzzle me. And I agree, we need to give comedians some leeway but they need to do it with responsibility.
00:16:41
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With great power comes great responsibility. He just needs to recognize that. I think Dave Chappelle is brilliant. I can't stress that stress that enough. I think Dave Chappelle is the greatest stand-up comedian in the second generation because Eddie Murphy is still in my generation. So it's Eddie Murphy's the top, but he's in a completely different category, right? So if we take Eddie Murphy out of it, Dave Chappelle to me is the greatest stand-up comedian in my and my generation, him and Bernie Mac, for different reasons.
00:17:08
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I think he's brilliant. I think he's smart. I think he's insightful. I think that you can learn so much from him and laugh and be entertained by a special, but it's the selective accountability.
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He's quick to call other people out to be accountable, but not really himself. It's like nothing he does, he's ever at fault. He won't apologize for anything.
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He's like, he should be giving grace, but he ain't giving other people grace. And so that's the only thing that I have a problem with. But if you listen to him, he has a very deep message that you can learn from that us as a community can get better.
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So I say all that to say this. Watch the special for yourself.
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Will some jokes go over your head? I don't know. I don't know your intellect level. I don't think that you have to be this brilliant person to understand what Dave Chappelle is talking about because he's such a great storyteller and he puts things in layman's terms so you can understand it Will you be offended? Yeah, but most comedians can be offensive.
00:18:21
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Like, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. Will you laugh? Yes, but it's not ha-ha laughing all throughout the special. Your side's not going to be hurtrrican hurting. You're not going to laughing out loud. My sister made a comment that only had one loud laughing outburst as I was watching the stand-up.
00:18:40
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I love to laugh and I laugh outbursts all the time. Y'all see me on the show. It's not that type of funny, but it's smart funny. So I recommend it. Y'all go ahead and check it out. I recommend checking it out solely for the history lesson that he gives. Is he completely 100% accurate? He made some small mistakes.
00:19:02
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in his history lesson, but for the most part, it's pretty accurate and is definitely something to learn from. He was definitely given a sermon, but it was a funny sermon.
00:19:14
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So I guess if you kind of like this show, once again, not comparing myself to Dave Chappelle, but if you kind of like this show where there's some humor, it's not laugh out loud funny, but you're going to learn something that's That's the stand-up that Dave Chappelle did. You're going to learn something, you're going laugh a lot more because he's Dave Chappelle and I'm Bruce Anthony, right? There's no comparison. going to laugh a lot more and you're going to learn something. And if you have an open mind, it won't be a waste of your time.
00:19:43
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Let's put it that way. It will not be a waste of your time. But speaking on somebody who is trying to move the culture forward, In good and bad ways, right? Dave has some missteps, but his intention for all of us to be better people is absolutely there. And that's the reason why i still rock with him. We all are misguided in some of our actions and words, but I know i could feel what his intentions are and his intentions are for us all to be better.
00:20:15
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That's Dave Chappelle.
Nicki Minaj's Political Alignments
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Nicki Minaj, on the other hand, I'm gonna get into her. Next.
00:20:32
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Okay, guys. Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj appeared at the Turning Point USA American Fest, where she publicly aligned herself with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, leaned into into cultural war rhetoric on gender and religion, and framed herself...
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as a persecuted Christian truth teller. The core issue isn't that she had these political opinions because there are some black people, particularly in the South, that have similar opinions, right? Like this that isn't solely the issue.
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But the issue is, is that she built her career on the loyalty of queer fans, Black fans and people raised on compassion-based Christianity.
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So she goes up there at a turning point. She praised Donald Trump as a figure who helps people beat the bad guys and win. She spoke glaringly of J.D. Vance's political instincts.
00:21:35
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She attacked California Governor Gavin Newsom, mocking him while trying tying him to criticism to gender-affirming care. She delivered a viral boys-be-boys rhetoric, widely reading as anti-trans signaling.
00:21:49
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She framed Christians as persecuted and suggested political opponents should not hold power. Okay.
00:21:59
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There's this old expression, your skinfolk ain't your kinfolk. This cannot be truer, more true in in any other situation like this. Like this is this is Tim Scott.
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This is Ben Carson. this is Now, I'm not saying that Black people can't have conservative values. I'll say a lot of Black people have conservative values. A lot of people believe in church and the Lord and the church's teachings.
00:22:33
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Some people pick and choose what teachings they want to follow. And let's be clear. There are no Christians in the United States of America that is being persecuted.
00:22:47
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How often are Christian churches shot up? Not very often. Like not often. Synagogues are shot up. Black churches are shot up.
00:22:59
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Black Christian churches are shot up like what Dylann Roof did. both white Christians and Nicki Minaj is not white. She's Trinidadian, which is a whole separate issue because a lot of Islanders, people from the islands have very strong conservative views. So this isn't so surprising, but what is surprising is that she's going on a turning point during this conference. She's praising all these conservative figures, all these conservative talking points, and it's all based on the guise of
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religion. And I've gone down this road so many times, I'm not going to do it again, how people are weaponizing religion and trying to attack certain people through but political means by saying it's their religion.
00:23:50
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And it's it's not, right? It's not. But what's crazy to me is Nicki Minaj has built her pop on queer folks, Black misfits. When you say Black misfits, it's
00:24:05
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I would say emo black people. Emo black people. And lo and behold, I'm one of those people. I don't have the jet black hair and eyeshadow and things like that.
00:24:16
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Like Juice WRLD is my jam. XX Estacion, that was my boy. i like Nicki Minaj music, or I did like Nicki Minaj music.
00:24:28
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She's attacking those people. She's attacking the overwhelming majority of her fans. And not only that, she's Trinidadian. And, okay, there's a one drop rule that they use to have in the States. And a lot of black folks use this rule.
00:24:45
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Like if you got a drop of black blood, you black. Dominicans always like, I'm not black. Yeah, you are. You're darker than I am. You're black. all right. Trinidadians, Bohemians, Jamaicans, they're black.
00:24:58
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Right. a lot of people in Central South America, black. My sister and brother went to Cali, Colombia, and they came back showing me pictures. And I was like, man, it's a lot of black folks that went down to visit. She was like, no, those are Colombians. They're black. I was like, oh, my goodness. I didn't realize that there are many that that many black Colombians. Yes, we're all over the place, though. We're not a monolith.
00:25:21
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We're not, especially in America. Black Americans aren't even a monolith, which means that internationally, there is no cognitive tissue outside of our skin color that connects us. We're different.
00:25:35
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We are different. By and large, Black Americans have this unity thing. We tend to accept international black people in as part of the group.
00:25:49
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And that's what we did with Nicki Minaj. We accepted her in as part of the group. Now she's doing everything possible when these are the people that are repealing DEI.
00:26:03
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J.D. Vance is saying you don't have to be ashamed to be white anymore. What white people We're out there being ashamed of being white. And if you are, that's on you. Nobody, black folks, Latino folks, LGBTQ plus folks are not shaming you for being white.
00:26:21
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You feel it that shame because you're attacking other people for not being white. That's what it is. So don't don't say, well, we don't have to be ashamed to be white anymore.
00:26:36
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We're not shaming you. You're shaming yourself. So Nicki Minaj is going up there praising Donald Trump. What has Donald Trump done for the black community? Besides, say, the blacks love him, which, ah you know what?
00:26:51
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That's just such, that's such a, that's not even a racist undertone. That is so over the top. He's over the top with his racism. And if you're like, well, I don't understand why do you so think Dave Chappelle is racist.
00:27:04
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I mean, not Dave Chappelle. Oh, goodness God. Dave Chappelle is not racist. Donald Trump is. I don't know why you think Donald Trump is racist. Okay. Go back and look at some of the things he said. And if you think it's okay for people to say them, that means you're racist too.
00:27:19
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And I've been calling out a lot of people that have been defending Donald Trump in my personal life. And I'm just like, okay, so what is it that you believe in? Okay, so you're a racist. Now I know that. Now i know not to rock with you anymore. And Nicki Minaj has to now be a racist, right? Against her own people.
00:27:35
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Her own people. Not just black people, but queer folks. She's not queer that I know of, but she's always presented that in her music and in her videos.
00:27:50
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So... It didn't surprise me because we kind of saw this coming. If you've been paying attention to Nicki Minaj.
00:27:59
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But it did surprise me that she went all on turning point talking like this. But why does it matter? This wasn't just a neutral appearance. It was an enthusiastic endorsement delivered on a stage designed to shape conservative youth culture.
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It's the youth. I used to think when I was in college. I grew up on watching Eyes on the Prize and the Civil Rights Movement. I didn't grow up in the Civil Rights Movement, but learning about that, some of the figures were still alive. So you would hear stories and family members that went through it. Hell, my parents were born while Jim Crow was still a thing. They were functional.
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My mom would go down to south to South Carolina to go see my grandfather's family. There were Jim Crow signs. She was walking around talking in school like that's my parents' generation. So my grandparents definitely experienced it. So I know these things, right? I experienced these things through secondhand nature.
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And I always thought that that hatred, when I would see the images of lynchings and he would see filled full of white folks, even with little kids at this horrific event that they're celebrating. I always thought, well, when that generation dies, there'll still be some racism because hatred and bigotry will never go away. It's been here since the beginning of time. Unfortunately, and it will conend to continue until the end of time. It's never going to go anywhere. But that type of racism, hatred and bigotry is going to die out.
00:29:33
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And no they're teaching the youth They're teaching the youth to hate that well. This is the reason why you've seen rise in the Nazi movement in the youth culture. Nick Fuentes, okay, was at this conference.
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No, wait minute. Was he? No, he wasn't. But he's spoken to people like this, groups like this, conferences like this. Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson are there. They're not quite Nick Fuentes, but they ain't that far off.
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You see what i'm saying? She's bringing... cultural relevancy to this conference because of her stature in the hip-hop community.
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That's the reason why it's a big deal. See, I don't really care when these conferences are doing their own thing because I'm like, they've been doing that since the foundation in this country. It's just a little bit more visible now. It was kind of underground after the 60s. Now it's more visible, right? Okay, cool. that's But that's kind of always been there, right?
00:30:43
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That overt type racism, trying to get rid of affirmative action, trying to repeal civil rights, trying to get rid of voting rights, make it harder for people to vote. That's that's been there in my lifetime. It just hasn't been as in your face as it is now.
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But we've never really had an influential person in the black community that get mad respect. Insert themselves into that type of movement and give them any type of credibility.
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And I don't really know what her plan is. with her fans, and maybe she's speaking her truth, which is a fallacy, and I don't believe it's a truth, but maybe she's she's trying to speak her truth. But once again, her core fan base is going to feel betrayed because she built a brand that felt like a safe space for queer kids and, once again, Black misfits.
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Fans who felt outside of mainstream. Her aesthetics, her alter ego, her fandom culture explicitly embraced people who felt judged elsewhere.
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And now what is she doing? Now what is she doing? She's validating a movement that pushes anti-LGBTQ plus policy, undermines voting rights, uses religion to justify exclusion policies that disproportionately harm the very communities that made her rich and relevant.
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And Turning Point USA isn't just about a vibe, right? Their vibe. It's an infrastructure. By sharing the stage with figures like Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson, she normalized that equal system.
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She gave it pop culture credibility. This isn't abstract speech. It's cultural power being transferred. That's what she's doing.
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That's what she did. So for other people who are saying, ah it's not the big
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00:32:50
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deal. Nicki Minaj talked at a Turning Point conference. So what? Who cares? It is important because she does have a following.
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She has a following of people who are hurt by the very policies that the people at this conference are pushing and enacting.
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Are her fans going to start to self-hate? I've seen it before. As a Black person living in this country, I've seen it before. I've seen Black people self-hate. Try to cozy up to power, especially white people.
00:33:27
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Looking down upon other Black people. Siding with white people. been that way since beginning of time. Here's why you had the house slave and the field slave.
00:33:39
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House Save says, we sick when the master is sick. We not sick. The master is sick. But we sick.
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So I've seen this before. Just not in this avenue. So I'm interested to see what the backlash is going to be for her and her fans.
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I know I'm no longer a Nicki Minaj fan. I told people, I told people this last election, yo, you voting for Trump, I'm off you. Personal, personal people in my life. I said, if you vote for Trump, I'm off you. Because I'll give you a pass the first time, even though I shouldn't give you grace. Because he said exactly who he was when he came down that escalator and he called all Mexicans rapists and murderers.
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Right? I was like, he's telling you who he is. But You wanted to change. You thought a businessman could be something different. Okay. But the second time, completely off of you. And the third time has been even worse. So I'm off Nikki.
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And I'm off anybody that supports that movement. I'm off it. And I'm not getting choked up. Something is caught in my throat. But in a way, am so angry that somebody that's been so important to a marginalized community would turn their back on that community.
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And I don't even really know what for. So I'm off you. And you're not being persecuted for your Christian beliefs. You're going to be persecuted for your bigotry and hatred as well. You should.
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right.
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All right. So this last segment, I'm going to talk about relationships. And I know y'all think, Bruce, why do you talk about relationships so much when all you have is failed relationships? That's all anybody ever has is failed relationships. Look, what's a successful relationship?
00:35:55
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You could date somebody for two weeks and it'd be successful. You could be with somebody for 30 years and be not successful. I've had plenty of successful relationships. They just haven't lasted so long. But I could tell some BS when I see it.
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And this story that I found on Reddit was some BS. So the title of it was, he wants more ass. And let me just say that what man does it, but let me really define what it is and I'm talking about.
00:36:27
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These BBLs is getting out of control. I, as a fitness professional, can tell you, you can create an incredible ass. I had a very good friend of mine that I met in college. I was in college. She was much older. I was 19. She was 25.
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And when I met her, she was relatively thin, relatively thin. But she had decided, and this was all the way back in 1998, she had decided that she was going to work out, gain weight, and get a booty. And let me tell you,
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She did. and It was a very nice booty. I like natural booties, right? I don't really like these BBLs. Sometimes they're done well. Sometimes I'm just like, yo, your butt cheeks and thighs do not match each other. This is bad look.
00:37:15
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So I understand the appeal that most men have to the derriere. And look, I happen to have, you know,
00:37:27
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Better ask myself, no okay, anybody that met me in person knows this. And I could say it's not just a male thing. Women like a nice booty, you know? People like booty.
00:37:39
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And there ain't nothing wrong with it. It's natural. It's natural. What's not natural is what this man did. So let me just read to you guys what he did and then give you my thoughts on it.
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I am a female that's 43 years old. I'm a size two. I left my boyfriend, a male 35 year old of one and a half years after we got into a fight. And he texted me that he hasn't had access to booty our entire relationship and accused me of giving up being attractive because I didn't build one form via squats.
00:38:17
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I'm Asian and I've tried everything. This is from a man who swore i had the perfect body all while I caught, all the while I caught him constantly staring at curvier women. Apparently my gloops were a contractional obligation that I failed to fulfill.
00:38:35
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Am I overreacting or did I just escape a lifetime membership to planet shittiness? My Reddit sisters and brothers in Christ, please advise. Now, I don't know if we Reddit brothers and sisters in Christ. I'm not going to go quite that far, but this is what I will say.
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I do have a particular type. I have a type that I am drawn to. I'm not going to tell y'all what that type is, but there is a physical type that I am absolutely drawn to.
00:39:08
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It's not the only thing. but there is one that ah that that'll get me, okay? Now, have I dated my non-physical type? I have.
00:39:24
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I've actually been in a relationship with women who were my non-physical type for an extended period of time because I dug their personality. And this is what I learned.
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This is what I learned. Because I like a nice booty myself. When he said he wasn't getting access to booty, he wasn't talking about sex. He was talking about he wanted a curvier, butt-cheeked girl, woman, and she wasn't doing it.
00:39:53
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By the way, just because you're Asian does not mean that you can't get a booty, but being a size two, it's going take some work, right? But it can happen. She would just have to hire somebody, but only if she wanted to do that. Don't change your body for somebody else, first and foremost.
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But this is what I discovered when I was dating people who wasn't physically my type.
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Because I liked them, they became more attractive to me. Now, men by and large are very visual people. Not a lot of the times men will have an open mind like I will. of really trying to get to know a woman and be her friend and not think of her as solely a sexual object. I am more evolved recently.
00:40:44
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So, and when I say recently, we like the last 10, more evolved in that manner.
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Some men aren't. Okay. But I've experienced that When I dig a person, if I could sit down and have a conversation with you, unless you have just a back and then calves, right? Unless you go back and calves and there's nothing back there, if you got a little something back there, that's going to be good enough for me because I dig your spirit.
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and i and And this is what I'll also say. Sex life in general is always better when you actually like the person. A lot of the reasons why these people are in these toxic relationships is because they have mental health issues that they need to address.
00:41:39
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That's first and foremost. A lot of people out here are dating when they're depressed or anxiety is driving them and so on and so on. And they need to work on themselves. That's the reason why they're toxic.
00:41:52
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But The reason why they're drawn to each other is because they genuinely like each other. It's just not about sex. Sex wears off. And you can have good sex with with almost anybody if there are emotions attached to it. If you care about them, if you like them, it's better.
00:42:12
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Same thing with the visual aspects. and ah And it goes both ways, right? A woman can be, or a man can be, so physically attractive that you will... move past the fact that they have a dry ass personality or they're dumb because they're so attractive, but that won't last that long.
00:42:31
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Right? Because your personality, unless you're Nicki Minaj, your person, or maybe that was always her personality. Your personality doesn't change that much. Your body can change completely. My body changes four or five different times in a year.
00:42:47
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in a year. So those are things to hold on to, but the personality always is. And so when you care about somebody, something that would be a quote unquote flaw to you, not saying it is a flaw, but quote unquote flaw to you, you'll move past it.
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I'm talking about physical, quote unquote, physical flaws. You'll move past it because you dig them so much. And I have. I have. That's the reason why i know this can be true. My man just didn't care about her.
00:43:21
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And it's good that she got out of it when she did, because who demands you to change your body for them? That's crazy. It means she's not happy with you as a person and your whole being and who you are.
00:43:38
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And yeah, that sucks. Look, being rejected sucks. There is nothing about being rejected that you're just like, oh, okay, that's cool. No, no. Being rejected, no matter what it is, sucks.
00:43:50
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And yes, people try to avoid it at all costs. But you got to walk into that fire and and face the face that fire, face that burning heat to find out what you are on the other side of it.
00:44:04
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And that's cool that she left him. You're not overreacting. You should leave them because if somebody can't respect you and accept you for who you are, what you are, and everything that you bring to the table, then it's on to the next one.
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And I know that's a tough pill to swallow. It's been a year and a half. It's going to take you about half a year to get over it. They say the amount of time that you date, half that nested amount of time it takes for you to get over it. um You know, give or take.
00:44:32
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Some people are just cold. Some people say that that they're over it, but aren't really. Right? You'll get over it. It was a year and a half and you'll find out somebody better. odds are you're going to find something better than what you had with them. Because if you find anybody that accepts you for your entire being, then you've already improved in your past situation. Don't let your partner change.
00:44:58
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change you physically. It's okay if they help you mentally and spiritually and emotionally to better yourself. And and it's okay if you aren't really an active person and you're dating an active partner and they, you know, they're like, hey, look, I'm about to go for this run. I'm about to go for this hike. You want to go?
00:45:17
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and And maybe in that regard, that's that's healthy as long as they're not pushing it on you and y'all doing joint things together. That's cool. But if they're trying to tell you, hey, I want your breasts to be bigger.
00:45:30
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They want your booty to be bigger. want your stomach to be flatter. Guys are real quick to judge everything about a woman's body, but not look at themselves. There is a meme that I love on Instagram is these dudes is out here telling women what they should and shouldn't look like. Meanwhile, their titties, the man's titties are sweating, right? Like dudes is real. Dudes will just, I, I be in the gym all the time.
00:45:57
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Guys are always coming up to me, talking to me about the other women in the gym and about, yeah, she'd be all right if she do this and this and this. And I'm like, bruh, your hair is thinning. What are you talking about? Your hair is thinning and you won't shave it. As soon as I got a little thin, I shaved that bad boy. it had to come off because I wasn't going to live that life.
00:46:18
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I don't sit out there and and and judge women for their bodies. I don't because I know how hard it is for a woman to change her body. It's a lot harder for a woman than it is for a man.
00:46:30
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And that's coming from a fitness professional, right? That's not just theories. That's the truth. But it's a lot of men out here quick to judge women about the way they look, but unwilling to look at themselves.
00:46:45
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Like they're this catch and they're not. Odds are this dude had a lot of physical characteristics that would make him be not attractive. And you also, ladies, look, men's eyes are always going to kind of wander.
00:46:58
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there They are. That's just who we are. we're we're We're the visual gender. Not to say that women aren't as well, but that's our thing. We're visual. So we'll look.
00:47:09
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A wandering eye isn't bad. It's healthy as long as it doesn't lead to anything. It's all right to look. Don't leer. Look. Quick glance. And then keep it on, keep it moving.
00:47:21
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Right? This woman is not overreacting. Ma'am, you are not overreacting. Be with somebody who accepts you for who you are. You'll be a lot happier being who you are than trying to make yourself into something that somebody will accept.
00:47:38
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That's the some of the real advice, like the realest advice I can give to anybody out there for any situation. Be who you are. People are going to either accept you or they're not.
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If they don't, okay, then they're not supposed to be a part your life. It may hurt. It may suck. But it'll be the healthiest thing that you could ever do. And that's just my, you know, my message from me to you is be who you are.
00:48:06
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No matter if you're Dave Chappelle and you're you're a truth teller that sometimes that truth don't land, even if you're Nicki Minaj and you're espousing hatred and bigotry,
00:48:18
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Wish that she wasn't, but that seems like that's who she is now. Okay. I accept the fact that that's who she is and will no longer listen to her music. That's my choice because I don't want that in my life.
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And this young lady cut that man out because he wanted a woman with a little bit more ass. Well, go out there and get that woman with a little bit more ass. But I bet you, bet you, you're going to regret the decision that you made.
00:48:48
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Because odds are you probably had a real one. And you didn't even know how to treat a real one. Unfortunately, most people don't. But on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening.
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I want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holler.
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