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Why Jack Harlow Got Dragged, Gen Z Stopped Drinking & Sinners Wins Big
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Bruce Anthony and Jay Aundrea are back for another Sibling Happy Hour, and this one goes everywhere in the best way possible. They kick things off with Jack Harlow’s latest pivot, the internet’s ruthless nickname game, and the bigger conversation about what happens when artists flirt with Black culture for credibility. From there, the conversation turns into a real generational breakdown as Bruce and Jay unpack why Gen Z is walking away from alcohol, how growing up under constant digital surveillance changes social behavior, and why older generations might be misreading caution as boring. Then they shift into Oscars talk, celebrating the love surrounding Sinners, Michael B. Jordan’s rise, Ryan Coogler’s continued brilliance, and the media narratives that still try to downplay Black success even when the work speaks for itself. And because it wouldn’t be Unsolicited Perspectives without one left turn into chaos, they close with Ohio meteors, alien theories, Superman references, and the kind of sibling banter only Bruce and Jay can deliver. #JackHarlow #GenZ #Oscars #Sinners #MichaelBJordan #RyanCoogler #UnsolicitedPerspectives #PopCulture #EntertainmentNews #podcast #BlackCulture #InternetReactions #CelebrityNews #OscarsRecap
Chapters:
00:00:00 — Jack Harlow, Gen Z Drinking & Oscars Chaos 🎙️🔥👀
00:00:47 — Sibling Happy Hour: Jack Harlow Drama, Gen Z Drinking & Oscars Buzz 🎙️🔥👀
00:02:12 — Internet Destroys Jack Harlow With Savage Nicknames 😂🔥📱
00:05:12 — When Artists Use Black Culture as a Career Launchpad 🧠🖤🚨
00:10:12 — “Just Say Soul” — The Branding Mistake That Sparked Debate 😬🎤💥
00:13:15 — Why Gen Z Is Quietly Walking Away From Alcohol 🍷❌📉
00:13:43 — Millennials Partied Freely Because Cameras Weren’t Everywhere 📸😵💫🕰️
00:15:52 — Viral Fear: One Drunk Night Can Ruin Your Future 📱⚖️😬
00:20:27 — Inflation Reality: Drinking Is Becoming a Luxury 💸🥃🏠
00:26:17 — Stop Calling Gen Z Lame — They’re Redefining Freedom 🗣️✨🧠
00:28:06 — Oscars Fallout: Sinners Wins Big but Debate Continues 🏆🎬🔥
00:29:27 — Why Michael B. Jordan Is One of Hollywood’s Most Loved Actors ❤️🎭🌟
00:34:15 — Media Narratives vs Reality: The Sinners Backlash 📰😒⚡
00:41:07 — Ryan Coogler’s Historic Film Deal Changes Power Dynamics 💼👑🎥
00:44:12 — Loud Boom in Ohio Sparks Meteor Panic ☄️😳🌌
00:45:25 — Bruce’s Wild Theory: Are Aliens Sneaking Onto Earth? 👽😂🛸
00:49:05 — Why Aliens Would Skip Earth… Or Try to Take It Over 👽🌍😂
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Introduction to Topics
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Jack Harlow, Gen Z Not Drinking, and the Oscars. We gonna get into it. Let's get it!
00:00:18
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Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I am your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcasts, YouTube exclusive content, and our YouTube membership. Rate, review, like, comment, share.
00:00:40
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Sibling Happy Hour: Jack Harlow and Music
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enemies. On today's episode, it's the Sibling Happy Hour. I'm here with my sis, J. Andrea. Like I said, we're going to be talking about Jack Harlow, the Oscars and Sinners, and Gen Z not drinking.
00:00:58
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But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
00:01:08
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What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it. I can't call it. Look, this Jack Harlow situation is absolutely hilarious to me. Yeah. and tell Tell me what's going on. Like, I keep seeing things on my timeline, but I don't know what's going on. All right, so Jack Harlow just released his fourth album, Monica, on his 28th birthday, which was March 13th. Marking a significant pivot from pop rap to neo-soul R&B.
00:01:40
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He described his new sound as blacker. and more intimate, a comment that has sparked online debate while also pursuing acting roles in the films like investigators. So people, when he said blacker,
00:01:55
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Yeah, that's people that's the annoying part. Yeah, people, first of all, they compared him to Remick, which we'll be getting in the centers in the second segment. The clan, sir.
00:02:08
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Yeah. i and yeah they They were coming up with nicknames for them, so I'm just going to read a few of them, all right? ok Okay, okay. Lent condition.
00:02:20
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Boy. yeah Okay. Okay. Neo-colonial soul.
00:02:29
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Music stole child. Oh, death damn. That's good. night Ninth Wonder Bread. Ninth Wonder Bread.
00:02:40
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I don't know the reference for that. It's a Ninth Wonder is a rapper. Oh, okay. Charlie Kirk Franklin. o that That's my favorite so far.
00:02:52
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Most definitely not.
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Luca Vandross. Luca Vandross. Uncommon. oh White Thought.
00:03:11
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White Thought. Y'all not going to Black Thought like that. LL Cool Whip. yeah No, that's my favorite right now. Ghost Face Vanilla?
00:03:25
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What? Nope. That's my favorite. They keep getting better. My personal favorite. Okay. IRS One.
00:03:42
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Oh my God. so I feel like Low Hanging Fruit is Craig Whack. I don't think I saw that one. That's actually, you might have came up with it.
00:03:53
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You might have came up with a deal with Craig Whack. Oh, man. That might be lot to get through. I don't know that I've listened to a ah whole bunch of Jack Harlow songs. I've heard some of them are catchy. I know he did one with... I like the one with Doja Cat.
00:04:09
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Which one is that? He did a song with Doja Cat. I can't remember the name of it. But I was list i was listening to it for a while. so that But that's the one song I know.
00:04:20
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Well, but they're killing him. I think he would have been okay. It was called Just Us. Yeah. Oh, Just Us. Is that the one that's a little bit? No, this one is like, how the hell does this one go? It's like, it's Just Us and this. Okay, I don't think I heard that. It's something like that.
00:04:46
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wow I think he would have been okay. going from pop rap to neo soul if he had done a couple that's fine. Yeah. One, I don't know about the title, Monica.
00:04:59
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Okay. Two, he was on a podcast with two other white guys. All right. Two hosts from a podcast. And they asked him, they said, normally white rappers,
00:05:10
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Aside from Eminem, right, who has always stayed a part of hip hop, typically white rappers gain a little bit of traction, kind of like how they do television networks. They gain a little bit of traction in the rap, and then they transition out to other genre of music. Kid Rock prime example. Post Malone.
00:05:28
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ah Post Malone. Yep. That's another one. Justin Timberlake. Yeah. Justin Timberlake. Actually, Justin Timberlake can't be put in that category. Yes, because he started with, he when he went solo, his albums were R&B and now he's doing country.
00:05:44
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But I mean, he's from Tennessee, but I think he's coming back with another R&B album. Yeah, he better. Yeah, i don't think he's I don't think he's switched completely to country. I don't think that's... Because he's coming he's getting back with Pharrell and Timberland to do his next album, The Last I Heard. Okay. So, I mean, it's okay if you do like a blip. I mean, Beyonce did that. Yeah, that's fine. Beyonce did Cowboy Carter. Yeah, russia sure for sure. sure. Yeah. No problem with
Cultural Appropriation in Music
00:06:09
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that. My problem is when they use our culture to give themselves status because the thing is, and this is how the the world operates, honestly, but definitely the United States of America, what Black folks think is cool is cool. Mm-hmm. Okay, ok so if you are able to start your career out pink,
00:06:37
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By directing your music toward Black people and you get our fandom, then they feel like Christina Aguilera, that they can now pivot back to Miley Cyrus, their original music. And the one the one that really pissed me off is Miley Cyrus bo because then she completely shit on like twerking culture, all this stuff after she commodified it.
00:07:07
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Mm-hmm. And you, like, so you can just get out my whole face. What did Christina Aguilera do? Her and Britney Spears, honestly. Like, they... Britney was pop. Britney never treaded on Black culture.
00:07:24
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True. Yeah. And I don't think Christina... Christina did. She was wearing the cornrows and all the things for a little while in there. But don't think she... One, I haven't heard anything that she's done recently. So... No, think she's like a mom and the oyster.
00:07:41
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She's not something. Okay, so, I mean, I don't think... It's not like she went to country. It's not like she started appealing to white audiences afterwards. I mean, she just stopped... I mean, we don't we don't do that to Eve. Eve don't make no music no more.
00:07:56
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Oh, no. Eve is too busy being rich. Is she rich? Oh, because she married. per Married, too. Yeah, yeah. She's too busy being just rich and living her life the way she wants. But...
00:08:08
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There are a lot of people who gained success appropriating culture. Michael Rappaport. that part yeah no i mean i get it yeah i absolutely get it and not just black culture because gwen stefani did it with japanese culture like people are doing people do it people that they're gonna appropriate i'm like listen just lean in honestly to your whiteness because remick singing them old irish ditties everybody was jamming Everybody was jamming. We everybody was jamming. Yes. We was jamming. Y'all lean into y'all stuff.
00:08:48
Speaker
Well, hold on. going to do a little pushback because every now and then we lean into other cultures. I mean, Wu-Tang's entire like first nine, with their first album and then everybody else that came out with a single album was was stealing from Kung Fu flicks.
00:09:06
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right they So their aesthetic, yes, but their music had nothing to do with Asian culture. They would have little drops of it, but that's just because risza is a producing genius. But you're right. It wasn't like, I don't know what would be stealing Kung Fu culture besides, it wasn't like they was out there wearing geese.
00:09:27
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Right. Yeah. Look, yeah, if my problem with it is not him wanting to do a Neo Soul album. No, I don't have problem with that. That he was like, they asked him, typically white rappers,
00:09:41
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gravitate towards what they call more mainstream ah genres music. And he was like, they were like, you went the opposite. He was like, yeah, I went blacker. And I didn't like that comment.
00:09:53
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You could just say soul. Like, yeah you could just say this album has more soul. You could just say that. But doesn't that also imply blacker?
00:10:05
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Yes, but you don't say blacker.
00:10:12
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I'm sorry. You just don't. We all get the we all understand that you're doing a neo soul album. OK, you dipping it, getting little blacker. That's ah like a tongue in cheek. Like we know it.
00:10:25
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Asterisk like it's understood. ear here You don't have to say it when you say soul. We can we also understand that. And we would be clowning you on the Internet.
00:10:36
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i he's gonna He was going to get clowned regardless. They had all type. Look, the album, the the white generated album covers. Yeah. Woo, they are killing them. But these nicknames, IRS One is it.
00:10:48
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Yeah. IRS One is it. That is pretty funny. Reading about this, I was sitting back drinking, just laying in bed before I went to bed, just chuckling my ass to sleep.
00:11:01
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Okay. And in the process, I came across a a story. Now, i knew that there had been studies about this, and it had come out as fact, and I always equated it to marijuana is now decriminalized. So if people had their choice, most people were going to smoke as opposed to drink, and that would lead to Gen Z not
Gen Z's Drinking Habits
00:11:25
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drinking so much. i'm I'm reading this information as I'm laying in bed before I go to bed having a drink because I'm a zillennial.
00:11:33
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Yeah. But no, there are other factors that are the reasons why Gen Z is not drinking alcohol nearly at the rate as millennials, Gen Xers, and boomers.
00:11:44
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Certainly millennials. you ah Look, I don't know if Gen Xer, don't know who got it Gen X, they were on cocaine. Like, we're not, they're not included.
00:12:00
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They weren't all on cocaine. No, some of them were on heroin and some were on crack. But, like, they were definitely, they, Gen X, that's a whole different beast right there. Boomers, yes boomers, boomers.
00:12:15
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Uh, the men, for sure. Like, it makes me think of, like, mad men or, like, you know, i used to drink at the office and stuff like that. The men, for sure. Maybe maybe the bored housewives drinking wine and stuff, for sure. But I think they also were more into, like, prescription pills. Yeah.
00:12:32
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You might be right on that one. Millennials, though. We got our drink on. Like the 90s and early 2000s, we was getting our drink on. You saw, I sent you a video, ah a DM about a dude that said, I used to drink these all the time. I'm going to try an Incredible Hulk 20 years later. The Incredible Hulk, yes.
00:12:51
Speaker
That video was so, I don't know, so funny. but but It was hilarious. It was. But Gen Z isn't rejecting alcohol because they're boring. They're responding to a hyper-visible, high-pressure, economical, uncertain world where every mistake can be recorded, shared, and judged forever. yeahp Drinking is no longer just a social activity. It's a risk calculation. yeah And I was like, wow. That's facts. We growing millennials. Let's just go with the the the the previous generation. Yeah.
00:13:25
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We didn't have to worry about that. Like, no cell phone... cameras I don't remember getting my first cell phone that had a camera on it until 2006. Oh,
00:13:38
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oh when did I have a cell phone with a camera? Not in high school. Yeah, it was it was college. So, yeah, mid-2000s. Because i think, I want to say, i know for sure I got this Microsoft phone, which was the first smart first smartphone that I got. But maybe that, remember Verizon had a universal cell phone? It was a Flip, and it was the first color cell phone.
00:14:08
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I think there was a camera on that. My first camera phone, it was a Palm Pre. don't remember that. the Yeah, it was a Palm Pre. And i the boy, you couldn't tell me nothing. The screen was in color.
00:14:21
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I was taking pictures. I was like, y'all don't even know what I can do with this. But basically, like, we didn't have to worry about what is the digitally surveillance change for Gen Z.
00:14:38
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Yeah, no, all of our shenanigans are just in our memories. Unless somebody got pictures, but in the pictures, don't tell the whole story. It's not like video. And what you've got to understand is a lot. So we were still using digital cameras because, again, most people didn't have cameras on their phones. So we were still using digital cameras. So, yes, there are pictures, but they're literally developed cameras.
00:15:07
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photos and it's like you gotta find them maybe they got lost through moves like ah maybe somebody's got some stuff on their computer an old laptop that they haven't thrown out but honestly there's no digital record of our shenanigans thank goodness yeah Because Gen Z has grown up assuming that they are always being recorded. And they One bad night can become viral content, a career liability, permanent reputation damage. Alcohol no longer carries this long.
00:15:39
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Alcohol now carries a long-term consequence, not just short-term embarrassment. And that's real. Like, yeah I am older. And when you get older, most of the time, you can control your consumption of alcohol and not while out.
00:15:56
Speaker
Right. As you get older, you start drinking better stuff. you know You're not doing these crazy mixes with sugar and all these things. Most of us, some of us, still do slushy. I had one night.
00:16:10
Speaker
So we very rarely get, like, shit-faced drunk. Mm-hmm. But when I was younger? Boy. Yeah. Yeah, this lot things and this was a Well, boy. And this was way above my head. This was something that I never even really thought about because it was not something that we had to worry about.
00:16:28
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No. No. Honestly... The only thing you had to worry about was somebody like running their mouth in your social circles later. But then ah you could always be like, no, I didn't. i didn't do that.
00:16:40
Speaker
I heard you fell in the bushes the other day. No. I know some people that actually fell in the bushes. I mean, so have I. Like, I mean... Yeah, I think... Yeah, so have You fell down some stairs. I fell down some stairs. You fell down those stairs. You know, there's a lot of things. There's a lot of shenanigans that I'm glad nobody had a phone in my face recording it in 4K.
00:17:05
Speaker
Yeah. There's another thing that everybody that compares... Gen Z to the previous generations all have noticed and that the social life is more isolated. Phones are, phones in the pandemic habits reshaped how young people connect. They're less spontaneous in their interaction. Fewer parties and group hangouts.
00:17:26
Speaker
Digital entertainment replaced nightlife. Except for when they post something on social media and they do these meetups. Now these meetups, what they doing in public places, they doing a little too much. But Actually, that might be Gen Alpha. I think that might be Gen Alpha that's doing that. But maybe Gen is not. What do you mean meetups? So know here in D.C., those have to be Gen Alpha because these are high school kids. And I think Gen Z is no longer in high school.
00:17:57
Speaker
you know Gen Alpha does these meetups where they'll post something on Instagram. Like, everybody pull up at Navy Yard. And there'll be like 200, 300 kids out there, which...
00:18:08
Speaker
For anybody, two to three hundred kids going to scare me. What they are also doing it is it's spring break for colleges right now. Or colleges or high schools? High schools. It might be Gen Z. So what this is saying, Gen Z is 1997 2012. So they're
00:18:27
Speaker
Oh, okay. So, yeah, I thought Gen alpha i thought je Alpha was already in high school, so I guess they're not. But, yeah, Gen Z, they do these meetups. But other than that, their whole social life is pretty much online. they know Look, there's no big box clubs really like that anymore yeah in D.C. area, and that was a staple when I was coming out. That's where everybody went with the big box clubs. Yeah, that's what you did. yes Nah, you don't do nothing. These kids they don't have it. Yeah. Like I was, ah I had a nephew just turned 21 and I was like, you know what you want to do? We don't want to do nothing for real. And I was like thinking about what my 21st birthday was like.
00:19:08
Speaker
but oh I ended in the middle of the street outside of, ah oh God, what was that place? 1223? Uh-huh.
00:19:20
Speaker
ah Doing the bunny hop by myself in the middle of the street to no music. It was a great, great night. Let me take You um you went to 1223? Yes. Shout out to our uncle. shout out Shout out to our uncle who always gave us the hookup. Let me tell you, hooked me up.
00:19:38
Speaker
All the way in the VIP, table service the entire night, even when they stopped. Like, it was awesome. It was fantastic. People always thought I was somebody because he always set me up in the VIP and like, who are you? I'm just me, baby. Just me. Another thing that is affecting Gen Z and drinking is the alcohol as the economic reality.
00:20:02
Speaker
Alcohol is expensive. It ain't cheap. It ain't cheap. And in this generation is facing high rent, student debt, uncertain job prospects, inflation,
00:20:14
Speaker
Driving to save money also reduces drinking opportunities. So this is like, look, it's either I could pay my rent or go drink. Now, I've always found a way to do both.
00:20:25
Speaker
Hey, yeah if I can't get Casamigos, damn it, Costco sell a tequila brand that'll do me just fine. Okay. know, you gotta make them choices. I mean, listen, especially when when we were young, I mean, 20s, we was buying anything and mixing it with anything. Like, it was, that we couldn't afford top shelf stuff, but like, i also think a little bit too is,
00:20:55
Speaker
Because there there is cheap alcohol out there. yeah It might be a little bit of one, it's expensive to go out. to do it but that's what pre-gaming is for but also you don't have to drink top shelf at home like you don't like you don't have to you don't have to drink top shelf going out you don't especially if you are mixing it there's no reason to drink top shelf and mix it yeah uh you mix mid to bottom shelf yeah but i know i went out i a friend of mine came in town
00:21:29
Speaker
And they weren't drinking. I was drinking. And all they got was little appetizer and a ginger ale. And I got two drinks. And somehow that bill was $50. Yeah.
00:21:40
Speaker
yeah And I don't. Somehow you had two drinks. I had two drinks and an appetizer. Yeah, that's $50. And that's ridiculous. That should not be $50. Oh, man. You can't live in Atlanta then. I know, because I've been in Atlanta and been like, damn, you know where I do always enjoy my stuff?
00:22:00
Speaker
Where? This is going to be a plug if it's still open. Joystick down in Atlanta. Is it was in Midtown? It's in Midtown, yes. Yeah. Now, you can go there, play old school video games, have yourself a grand old time, and get good quality drinks for real cheap prices. i don't know how they make no money, but thank you to Joystick. yeah joyt Joystick Game Bar is still open.
00:22:23
Speaker
Yeah, you know, that's my spot. Matter of fact, I'm surprised last time i was down there, I didn't want to go. i just, I guess I just didn't want to leave the house. Another reason before we wrap this up that Gen Z isn't drinking, or two more reasons.
00:22:37
Speaker
Health and wellness is way stronger. That generation Gen z that they are being influenced by fitness influencers. They're in the gym. Not to say that we weren't nowhere near to the point that they are. yeah They are. No, no.
00:22:50
Speaker
They are eating well. They're getting a rest. We're the fast food generation, for sure. Like, I feel like fast food. McDonald's hit that one billion sold in our generation. That's how I feel.
00:23:04
Speaker
And processed foods. Mm-hmm. When Lunchables came out, let me tell something. Had the generation in the chokehold. Hot pockets. Chokehold. What was the little pizza? What was the little pizza rolls?
00:23:18
Speaker
Totino's Pizza Rolls. Choke-hole. These kids ain't eating that stuff. now And then there's just anxiety, right? They've grown up in ah in an era of school shooting drills, climate crisis, political instability, pandemic lockdowns. This has been nonstop negative online content. So this creates a worldview where experimentation feels dangerous. And I get that.
00:23:43
Speaker
Like, you just be like, hey, man, i don't want to take a chance because are we going to have a world tomorrow? And you don't know. You don't. Yeah. and And a lot of, I think, younger folks are suffering from social anxiety because they they grew up in the pandemic and everything is so online. So you don't develop those. I mean, there was that, I think it was a comedian or I don't know. I saw a video of it somewhere, but he was talking about like, you used to have to have game. Like you had to call somebody's house phone. to kick it with somebody you like. And you had to be able to talk. You had to be able to talk to their parents to to ask if they were, like you had to, you had to interact IRL and that's really not a thing now. Now you can use your phone and swipe through potential mates like, right. So it creates a lot of social anxiety be ah because you didn't develop those social interaction skills. Yeah.
00:24:48
Speaker
And, which is crazy, Because I have severe social anxiety, even though I am very personable and I get along with everybody in social situations, people be like, Bruce, you have social anxiety? Yes. It yes it is almost crippling. yes It is really, really bad. I'm just good with people and it just comes off as people don't realize it. But I grew up in that era where I had to, hey, how you doing, Ms. Johnson? How's your day going in?
00:25:17
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is Is Melissa there? Can I talk to her? Thank you, ma'am. appreciate I hope you have a good evening. Like you had, what up, girl? How you doing? Yeah, just wanted to wrap to you little bit. Whole voice change. Whole voice change. How you doing, Ms. Johnson? I hope you're doing. What up, girl? How you doing? You know what saying? I've been thinking about you all day. Shout out to Melissa Johnson. Made up name. Made up person. Yes, know. Made up person. Yes, never heard of her before.
00:25:43
Speaker
I want to just leave everybody with something that You should think about because millennials are going to be like, man, y'all are bored and weird. And they're not. no What they're doing is, is they're redefining what freedom looks like. Yeah.
00:26:01
Speaker
It's not reckless experimentation that millennials, zillennials and Gen X did. ah It's about calculated self-preservation.
00:26:13
Speaker
Yeah. Because they're in a world that's burning. Right. But also, they're probably going to live longer. They're probably going to live longer because they're taking care of themselves at a young age where millennials are the last generation really, truly, to try to start smoking in high school. And some of them are still doing it. yeah Some of us grew out of it because we didn't really know why we was doing it in the first place. But drinking, I'm going to get phone was like addicted to cigarettes because we had chain smokers on both sides of the family. Yeah.
00:26:44
Speaker
So I started smoking at 12. Yeah. But stop judging these Gen Z kids because they don't want to drink. You should praise them because so they are a little bit more mature than what we were.
00:26:54
Speaker
Although, little lame. No. let let Let each generation find their own fun, their own version of fun, their own version of of pleasure and of joy. Let them do what they... We had our time to be young.
00:27:12
Speaker
that Now let them have their time and do what they want to do. We're just going be there for them if they need anything, if they need advice or whatever. We can be there. But let these kids just have fun the way they want to have fun.
Oscars Highlights
00:27:35
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We did a pre-show talking about sinners and the Oscars on last Sibling Happy Hour. Yes. Well, now we've seen the Oscars. We've seen the winners and the people who did not win. I don't call them losers. I say people who did not win because to be nominated is a victory in and of itself, right? and Literally, because your title changes once you become nominated. You're no longer...
00:28:06
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Delroy Lindo, your Academy Award nominee Delroy Lindo. Like, that's... that it It does change. So, the nomination is a thing, yes.
00:28:17
Speaker
So, the last Oscar of the show, I believe, that's when I stopped watching, was Best Actor. Nope. It's Best Picture, but that's okay.
00:28:29
Speaker
Oh, it was Best Picture? Best Picture is always the last award. Oh, okay. Well, I didn't watch i didn't watch and past that. I actually didn't watch the Oscars. I didn't either. I'm going to be honest with you. I watched my timeline because I knew i knew it would be i knew would be just fine. I would get the updates in real time. yeah So I didn't actually sit and watch it, no. Well, Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor. And i saw the clip.
00:28:58
Speaker
I watched the clip the whole way through going into his speech. Tears started rolling down my eyes. Involuntarily. yeah Tears started rolling down my ah my eyes. And I was like, his speech that he gave, the humility, but also the confidence yeah hu and the grace And such a deserving... Such a deserving prize for his performance. Now, I will be honest.
00:29:28
Speaker
ain't seen the other movies. ain't seen them. Neither have I. And what I do But the other actor's reaction to him winning... lets me know that he was the right person to win because they got on the, Leo got on their his feet. And then there's this very nice like video out there of like, after they've gone to commercial break, after he got the award, they're just in an embrace. And Leo is just like, you did like, you like hyping them up. And Michael's all emotional. Like just the reaction from his peers and how happy they were for him. I feel like he got the right, he, he, he deserved it. Yeah. Yeah, no. I mean, well yeah, he absolutely deserved it. And no, when I say i haven't seen those other movies, look, I know for a fact, Leonardo DiCaprio, whatever movie that he does, he always needs to be the nominee because he is brilliant. I didn't see the Timothee Chalamet, Charlemagne the God, Timothee Chalamet. Timothee Champagne. tim Yeah. I don't know what Kyle's name is. I'm going to be honest. It was Ping Pong. It was about Ping Pong, right?
00:30:32
Speaker
i don't know I don't know nothing about... Table tennis, what they call it. They call it table tennis ping pong. I know it as ping pong. I only saw one Timothy Chamillet film, and that was Dune.
00:30:46
Speaker
And I never even saw the sequel because I didn't understand the first one. And got a third one coming out. They just dropped teaser trailer for that. I didn't even really understand what was going on the first one, so I don't have any interest in seeing anymore. I don't know nothing about that young man,
00:31:04
Speaker
Okay. Well, I mean, he was nominated, so I'm sure it was a good performance. But Michael B. Jordan, going back to Michael B. Jordan, yes, I saw that too. I saw everybody and embrace him.
00:31:15
Speaker
yeah And I think the reason why he gets genuine love from everybody, i had forgotten about this. But Tom Cruise had come out to support sinners. Mm-hmm.
00:31:28
Speaker
Huge supporter. Mm-hmm. Michael B. Jordan returned the favor. So when that mission, that Super Mission Impossible movie came out, yeah Michael B. Jordan was there. And Tom Cruise saw him on the red carpet, ran up, and gave a big hug. Mm-hmm.
00:31:43
Speaker
Tenzel talks about Michael B. Jordan with just such love. yeah it darn There's nobody that talks bad about Michael B. Jordan. No. I think that he's like genuinely a good person come ah like in terms of how he's received by his peers and and the things that they say about him. I think That he's probably just genuinely a good person. o i don't know. don't that man from a can of paint. But I think it's been great watching his evolution from being a child actor to now. Boy, what a wonderful rise. And sky's the limit.
00:32:21
Speaker
Yeah. And there's no comparison from an acting career that's like this. Like, he started out, I think it was the baseball movie with Keanu Reeves. May have been his first movie. But he was doing, like, commercials. Everybody kind of starts doing commercials.
00:32:36
Speaker
Then he went from the movies to television. He started doing The Wire. He did soap operas. Then he got back into the movies. Then he started directing. Because he's directed films as well. yeah He's a talent.
00:32:50
Speaker
And i was happy to see him win. i was happy to see that he was received really well. I didn't even see any backlash yeah well on the internet talking bad about him like he shouldn't have won. And we already knew the actors loved him because the Actors Award, which is the ones that the actors vote on, was the first one that he won. And he was kind of shocked. And he was like, nah, bro, your peers dig you.
00:33:16
Speaker
You know who else they dig? Ryan Coogler, who won Best Original Screenplay. Now, should he have won Best Original Screenplay? Yes. yes Because it was an original screenplay. And it was the best.
00:33:32
Speaker
but it Now, I've seen some publications
00:33:39
Speaker
phrase this as, Sinners went 4 of 16 at the Oscars. saying that they lost, they had the most losses than any movie. They have been framing sinners negatively. Started with Variety. They've been framing sinners negatively from the start. doesn't Doesn't stop the fact that they're Oscar winners. Doesn't stop the fact that they made money on this film.
00:34:05
Speaker
Doesn't stop the fact that this film has been number one in people's hearts since it came out. So y'all in in in Hollywood media and fake-ass journalism... that want to keep framing this film in a negative way, please go kick rocks. Like, y'all, we're we're tired.
00:34:25
Speaker
We're tired. Especially Variety and Slate. Y'all can go straight to hell. Variety and Slate can go to WL. Your racism permeates off of the pages that you guys wrote on. But one battle, one battle after another, one best picture. Mm-hmm.
00:34:44
Speaker
Somebody I was talking to, and even Spike Lee alluded to the fact that Delroy Lindo walked away with no Oscars. yeah And that if Senators, if they had lost the original screenplay, but still one Best Picture, everybody would have got an Oscar because everybody actually deserved the Oscar. And I've seen...
00:35:07
Speaker
talk and think pieces that come out comparing sinners to one battle after another and the aspect of sinners gives a portrayal of black culture which is really promising and beautiful whereas diverse and yeah and diverse yes whereas one battle after another yeah Tiana Taylor, I love you.
00:35:33
Speaker
Literally. Adore. I love you. But that her character, well, no, do. I love her. She like a cat. But that her character and some of the Black characters on in that movie were highly sexualized. They weren't like this. One of them is literally called Jungle P. So, so there's, there's that. But you know what?
00:35:59
Speaker
Best original screenplay. yeah best Best actor. Best cinematography. Yeah, shout out to Autumn Duralt.
00:36:11
Speaker
or caughtugh Our copaw, I think. First woman of color to win for best cinematography. And a lot of what you love about Sinners is, yes, the screenplay. Yes, they acting. Yes, the direction. But also, it's visually stunning.
00:36:30
Speaker
Stunning. It Yeah. And then the best score? Yes. Best original score, are Ludwig Goranson. Look, Ludwig, look, let me tell you something. Now, if he wanted to make name. Ryan Coogler's former roommate.
00:36:43
Speaker
yeah wouldn Was it his former roommate? He tells the story that they were at USC. Yeah. And that they fell in love. They were in the pool hall. They were shooting pool and they fell in love just with music.
00:36:58
Speaker
Yeah. And that's how they became friends. But now if Lewick want to come out with a neo soul album, I'm all for Yeah. We'd all be into it because his score was absolutely beautiful.
00:37:11
Speaker
Yeah. So how do you feel? Were you, you Were you content? Yeah. were you content with how Sinners performed at the Oscars?
00:37:25
Speaker
No, Ryan should have got Best Director. But he did get Best Original Screenplay, so he watched he walked out with an award. But to my knowledge, no one Black has ever won Best Director. He's going win it eventually.
00:37:43
Speaker
we hope. hope. And it's only him and Jordan Peele who are the only two Black people who've ever won Best Original Screenplay. He should have won Best Director.
00:37:55
Speaker
He should have won Best Director a long time ago, to be honest with you. ah I don't know what years, what movies where he was competing. I think he was nominated for Black Panther.
00:38:09
Speaker
think he was i don't remember what movies were they competing against that year ah but outside of black panther like oscar worthy like best picture it would only be this movie and black panther i mean creed was fantastic but i don't think creed is best directed oscar worthy Neither was Fruitvale Station. I was watching an interview with him on Carmelo Anthony's Brooklyn in the... Carmelo Anthony's podcast, Brooklyn. It's slipping me right now. But they were like... and They asked him, like, which one do you think is your best movie? Yeah.
00:38:55
Speaker
And he gave a beautiful answer. He's like, oh, that's not really for me. and That's for you guys to decide. Because once I do one or two years of working with it, and everything is done. And then it's on to you guys, because I'm on to the next one. He said, when I made Fruit Bill Station, that was the best movie that I could make 28.
00:39:12
Speaker
twenty eight yeah When I made Creed, that was the best movie that I could make at that time when I was 30. And then so on and so on. And I was like, yeah, bro, this is actually brilliant. Because each movie is getting, each time he comes out, it's getting better and better and better.
00:39:30
Speaker
yeah So, yeah, no, I think he will get an opportunity again to win Best Director. But the fact that he wrote And directed this movie. And produced.
00:39:45
Speaker
And produced. And got best best original screenplay. And the actor that he's been tied to one Best Actor. that his his His music guide that he's done musical on every movie won. Like, his team that's been with him all came out victorious this night. And that's the reason why I was like, I'm good.
00:40:09
Speaker
yeah The cast, the entire cast of Senators all deserves Oscars. They do. But they were nominated. They were nominated. They were nominated. so And honestly, beyond that, the deal that Ryan Coogler has with Warner Brothers for Sinners, e top tier. It's groundbreaking. He has— it's not groundbreaking. It's not groundbreaking. It's surprising nowadays, but that's how deals used to be done.
00:40:37
Speaker
People aren't getting those type of deals now. Now that, yes, in our current climate, it's groundbreaking. True, true, true. He has full rights to the IP after 25 years. Mm-hmm. He's got first dollar gross clause giving him a share of the box office revenue immediately, along with final cut authority. Like, it's...
00:41:01
Speaker
it's it's it's been described as rare and exceptional. So, yes. yeah Ben Affleck, saw an interview with Affleck talking about that, and he was like, everybody made a big deal about it. Like, it's been, like, why did they give it to him? and it was like, you give it to him because he's great. There hasn't been anything that he's done that hasn't been great. Like, he has not missed yet. So, yes, you give him the world.
00:41:25
Speaker
Box office, gross. I think, like, overall, $1.5 billion. has to be more than that because Black Panther did a billion. Hold on. Has to be more than that. Black Panther did a billion. And I think Black Panther 2 did close to a billion.
00:41:41
Speaker
Okay. Establish himself. His films grossing over, sorry, two billion worldwide. yes Yeah, that's what I thought. oh yeah and He's killing it. It was 1.5, but it's two billion now. It's two billion. Because I think Sanders made like 500 million or something like that, or 300 million. 1.5 the domestic box office. Internationally.
00:42:03
Speaker
Two billion. Look, matter of fact, internationally, y'all need to get y'all chips up because, look let me tell you something. Y'all be represented in his movies. He loves yeah representation in his movies. look And they're coming out. But you got to understand, the entertainment culture in America is very different than it is worldwide. Here, it is big, big, big business, and it's not the same It's because we try to escape.
00:42:36
Speaker
Yeah. Here in your town, you'll have five movie theaters. You know? Like, it's not that way everywhere. Yeah. Well, i like I said, it touched me. It was an emotional moment. Yeah, That's the reason why Black History Month has been extended. And now we got this Jack Harlow situation that we can even joke on even more.
00:42:56
Speaker
Like, we almost went in a little bit. Almost. A little bit. Melanated March. all right. Next up, I read this story and I got a conspiracy theory about it.
00:43:11
Speaker
And we're going get into that next.
00:43:22
Speaker
Jay, something's been happening and in Ohio. Okay. Okay.
Ohio Conspiracy Theories and Aliens
00:43:30
Speaker
I just read this article about people hearing this loud boom couple of days ago in Northeast Ohio, and it was a meteorite.
00:43:41
Speaker
yeah But there wasn't just one isolated. It's been a bunch of them. Multiple fireball sightings, loud, unexpected booms, bright sky flashes. And our doorbell, because ass everything is recorded everywhere now, yes we're starting to catch them.
00:43:59
Speaker
Places like picker Pickerington and Cleveland area have seen similar events reported and recorded over the past several months. So there are a bunch of meteors.
00:44:12
Speaker
crashing down in that area, in that Ohio, Northeast Ohio area. Now said in the last segment that I got a conspiracy theory. And that conspiracy theory is, because this last meteor that crashed was like six feet six feet long, right? ok Which has got to be crazy. There's got to be a huge crater somewhere if it's six feet long.
00:44:36
Speaker
I believe this is the start of the aliens. coming here. Now, now, now, it's a whole bunch of meteors hitting. Who's to say that their spacecraft doesn't look like a meteor?
00:44:51
Speaker
And if you wanted to sneak onto the planet, what's the easy way to sneak onto a planet? We see meteor showers all the time. Some people get, you know, people say the Grand Canyon was nothing more than a large meteor that hit that area.
00:45:05
Speaker
And that probably started the the dinosaurs becoming extinct, right? yeah That's what they say. I don't know. don't know about it. wasn't there. I wasn't there neither. But like this would be an ah easy way for aliens to sneak in. and just because we We don't know what aliens would look like. We've created this little green man. But they ain't got to be little green. They only have to be visible to the eye. They don't.
00:45:28
Speaker
yeah They don't even have to be ah like a ah ah physical form. They could just be wind. But or water or something liquid.
00:45:38
Speaker
Yeah. Here's my response always to that is why would they come to this ghetto ass planet? What do we what could we possibly have to offer with mine? Damn, they're all the resources ah resources to us.
00:45:56
Speaker
We we got what is what else is there? I don't know because we don't, if it if if if they were aliens, if these meteorites were just ships that were. It one asteroid.
00:46:08
Speaker
No, there's been a bunch of meteors over the last seven-ton, six-foot diameter asteroid exploded over Northeast Ohio on March 17th. It fragmented. no that's not what talking 30 miles above Valley City.
00:46:24
Speaker
and so that was the debris No, ah no, there's been a bunch a bunch of meteors hitting that area over the last, I don't know, three, four, five, six months.
00:46:38
Speaker
They've been seeing a lot of it in that area, which one, by the way, you're right. Why would they come to this trash planet? And two, why would they choose to crash down in Cleveland? LeBron James didn't even want to stay there. and like don' It don't make no sense.
00:46:53
Speaker
It don't make no sense to us, but this is an advanced, form of intelligence to even get here. Maybe. and And we don't know what resources they may need that we might have. We might have plentiful. Maybe they want sand or dirt.
00:47:11
Speaker
We got plenty of sand and dirt. this got It's got crack vials and hypodermic needles in it. maybe that Maybe that's a new thing. It's like, this dirt this tastes pretty good compared to that Mars dirt. What's in it, crack rock?
00:47:25
Speaker
Yeah. yeah black tar hair. We just got a bunch of strung out aliens begging for change. I don't look to say that there isn't life on other planets.
00:47:43
Speaker
I've always said that'd be a huge waste of space because this space is constantly expanding. It's yeah constantly getting larger and larger and larger and larger. yeah We are just a little speck Not even a speck. little speck.
00:47:57
Speaker
I'm talking about our solar system. I'm not talking our planet. Not even speck. Well, I don't... They say it's a lot of... It's not even a speck. So, I'm saying, why is it so hard to believe that these meteors could be carrying some type of advanced terrestrial organisms?
00:48:17
Speaker
I think you want Superman to land, but that's beside the point. I think... We don't know if it wasn't a small child that... a Look, the story always is he lands in Kansas. They fell a little short and they landed in Ohio, but it's still possible.
00:48:34
Speaker
Sure, i guess. My thing is, I think any advanced society would look at this planet and be like, no, they let's keep going. look Or look at this planet and be like, we could easily take this over. or no Or look at this planet and be like, they look like a hassle.
00:48:54
Speaker
Like the amount of energy it would take us to take over. It seems like a hassle. Maybe. Hey, dig this here. Guess what?
00:49:06
Speaker
What? Guess where the creator of Superman's house, childhood home was. Oh, boy. Ohio? Cleveland to be exact.
00:49:17
Speaker
I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Yeah. Yeah. ah But it could be James Gunn. James Gunn has done Superman. But before he did Superman, he did this horror movie called Brightburn or something like that.
00:49:35
Speaker
Yes. Where it's this child yeah that comes from another planet that's got all the Superman's powers but is evil. Now, I don't want that. Don't let that be the case. Yeah. But if they want to be Superman, yeah, you know, let's bring it. And look, I'm just saying it's a lot of coincidences.
00:49:55
Speaker
The media, our six foot media going to crash down in Cleveland. It Yeah. Well, it also aliens happen. And that's all I'm saying. I don't think they believe here I think they actually have already infiltrated. And it really just our leaders.
00:50:12
Speaker
That's the reason why they act so different. Who else humps couches? Aliens. That's true. You're right. Yeah, you're right.
00:50:22
Speaker
It also explains why they don't care about humanity. Right. Don't care about feeding nobody. Don't care about keeping a roof over nobody's head. They don't care. no They only care about you having more babies. Right.
00:50:35
Speaker
And why? Why do they want us to have more babies? Because we're a food source or something. That's what I'm believing. See, ladies and gentlemen, y'all laughing at first, but now as we break down even more, yeah, now you understand.
00:50:53
Speaker
is it His story or conspiracy? Explain. Make it make sense. I don't know what that thing that I just said. I don't think it was history and conspiracy. What did they used say? and so Is it me or is it a conspiracy? That's it. brother well History or conspiracy you could still work, too. Yeah. Yeah, sure. You know what saying? Look, ladies and gentlemen, I'm just putting it out there.
00:51:23
Speaker
You know saying? I'm putting it out there so y'all know who was the first one to say it. These meteors that's landing in the Ohio area, close to the home of the creator of Superman and also a Superman museum.
00:51:38
Speaker
The Superman museum museum is actually in Metropolis, Illinois. yeah But maybe they just got redirected. lost train of thought. you Maybe. I don't know. I also just think it was just a rock.
Episode Conclusion
00:51:54
Speaker
man Just a rock. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it could have been just a rock. It also could have been carrying something. That's all I'm saying. And what they're going to find out is that Ja'Carlo made his music blacker.
00:52:10
Speaker
Gen Z, Don't Be Drinking. Nope. And Sinners, It was a great movie. That's all going to find out. That's right. And this podcast is talking about absolutely nothing. Jay, on that note, what do you want to tell these people out here?
00:52:25
Speaker
Man, congratulations to the cast and crew of Sinners. ah You should be very, very proud. Not just of the awards, but just for how the audience, the people have received this film. They've received it in the way you intended it.
00:52:43
Speaker
And it was absolutely beautiful. What an achievement. Yeah. I keep saying go watch it again. I have not, but that's just because I'm tired and busy most of the time.
00:52:54
Speaker
But I am going to watch it again. But on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holler.
00:53:11
Speaker
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