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When a Cop is Fired, a CEO is Killed, and Roommate Stories
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What happens when a cop loses her job over a controversial decision, a CEO gets assassinated in a shocking act of violence, and roommates take “horrible” to a whole new level? You get one unforgettable episode of Unsolicited Perspectives!
Join Bruce Anthony as he dives headfirst into three wild, real-world stories that will make you laugh, cringe, and think twice about the world we live in. From a cop making an unexpected career pivot to a deep look at America’s broken healthcare system, this episode is packed with sharp commentary, humor, and insights you won’t get anywhere else.
But that’s not all—Bruce takes a hilarious trip down memory lane to share his personal roommate adventures (and disasters!) while exploring some of the craziest stories from Reddit. It’s the perfect mix of serious and silly, wrapped up in Bruce’s unique blend of storytelling and cultural analysis.
Hit play now and join the conversation about morality, money, and madness. And don’t forget to share your own roommate horror stories in the comments below—Bruce wants to hear them all! #brianthompson #unitedhealthcare #cops #roommates #unsolicitedperspectives
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Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
00:55 What’s Next? Exciting 2025 Plans Unveiled 🎉📅
02:56 When a Cop Chooses Porn: A Jaw-Dropping Story 🚔🎥
04:18 Desperate Measures: When Porn Pays the Bills💰💸
11:22 The Cop’s Husband: Standing by Love or Just Watching the Drama? ❤️🔥🤔
18:25 CEO Assassinated: What Happened to United Healthcare’s Brian Thompson? 🏢🔫
19:54 Healthcare in America: Broken System or Capitalist Reality? 💊💰
29:48 Murder Morality: Justified or Slippery Slope? ⚖️❓
33:42 The Luigi Incident: What Social Media Got Wrong 🤳🔥
34:26 Moral Dilemmas: Where Do You Stand? 🤔☯️
35:20 Lynching or Justice? Echoes of the Past✊🏿📜
37:36 Roommate Roulette: Tales from the Reddit Abyss 🕳️ 🏠👿
44:41 Roommate Chronicles: The Good, the Bad, and the Fishy 🛋️🐟
50:47 Post-College Life Lessons: Couch Upgrades and Balcony Peeing 🛋️😂
55:56 Final Thoughts and Audience Engagement
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Introduction & Show Plans
00:00:10
Speaker
Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to leave the conversation and important events, at the topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch our video
00:00:55
Speaker
Back again for another show. Don't worry, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to be reintroducing the interviews at the beginning of the year. I'm going to finish off this year's shows with a few shows by myself, some sibling happy hours and a best of show that I'm putting it together. ah You'll probably get it around.
00:01:17
Speaker
the week before New Year's or New Year's week where it's just going to be the best of 2024. I'm going through all the shows and cutting out stuff right now to try and give you guys a little brief you know synopsis of what we did in 2024 before we get started for our very highly anticipated 2025. A lot of interviews I've already gotten a can that I'm editing now and ah getting them ready to be released. Some interesting conversations. So watch out for that for 2025. But
Intriguing News Story Discovery
00:01:52
Speaker
we're still in 2024.
00:01:54
Speaker
And I came across something really interesting in the news the other day. Actually, I was watching YouTube and my YouTube algorithm gives me news stories from across the world. Why? Because I'm curious. My YouTube algorithm is mad crazy. yo I got news on there. So it's pulling news stories from all over the place. This one that I'm going to be talking about.
00:02:16
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Is from colorado and it was a news broadcast from the local colorado area that popped up in my youtube documentaries nil degrasse tyson podcast camera and mace podcast NBA tnt sports shows a lot of wrestling stuff. My youtube algorithm is crazy, but It was on youtube because i'm routinely on youtube and this news segment came up on my screen. And the caption read, I'm summarizing here, the caption basically read, cop fired for doing porn.
Cop's Financial Struggles & Unconventional Choices
00:02:52
Speaker
And I was like, this is interesting. You know why this is interesting? Sometimes I watch porn. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Some of y'all watch porn too. A lot more people watch porn than they want to admit or else it wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar industry. I don't do it that often because, you know, it's not really good for, you know,
00:03:11
Speaker
Well, we don't need to get into it details, but it's not really good for you to watch too much porn. But every now and then, every now and then, I partake in some of the devil's pictures and videos. And so I was curious, like cop got fired, cop was doing porn.
00:03:30
Speaker
Hmm, I'm interested. So here's the story. Shannon Laiflens is a 21 year veteran from Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office. That's in Colorado. She was serving as a driver training instructor. Didn't even know that they had that for cops, but I would assume that cops do have to go through special driving training because maybe they got to do a high speed chase and all that type of stuff. So she was an instructor.
00:03:55
Speaker
for helping in cops learn how to drive, you know, in the heat of the moment or whatever. I guess, for whatever, the heat of the moment. That was a horrible pun, but bear with me, ladies and gentlemen. So, she resigned from her position after the department launched an internal investigation into her involvement in adult videos.
00:04:14
Speaker
She turned to adult videos out of desperation and drowning in financial difficulties. She faced raising debt, higher cost of living, and a major storm that caused significant damage to her home, which her insurance didn't cover. There isn't an overall fee on insurance today. It just so happens that the first two segments is about insurance. But this is interesting that a person who was paying their homeowners insurance Home was damaged through a natural storm. It wasn't a storm that she created. It's not like what some of those people that were saying when those hurricanes were devastating us and in the summer that it was created by men. No, this was natural. Nature created a storm that destroyed our home. You would think that if you're paying homeowners insurance,
00:05:05
Speaker
that would be covered. It was not significant damage. I think it was something like 500,000 worth of damage to our home. So ah she financially ruined foreclosure proceedings, were started on her house, and she needed a fast influx of cash to keep her from ah to keep her up on her mortgages and her other expenses. Basically, she appeared in adult films for about a month, an estimated she had done around six different sex scenes for multiple production companies. She says she found the industry to be professional,
00:05:42
Speaker
and didn't experience any coercion, her husband supported her decision, but she didn't tell her family or friends about her involvement in adult videos. The videos helped her make enough money to cover her monthly mortgage payment that had gone up due to the damage to her home that wasn't covered through the insurance. Okay, before I get to the fact how she lost her job, let's get to the fact that she felt she had to go into porn because she needed some cash, because insurance companies weren't going to cover damages that had been done to her house due to a natural storm. On top of that, higher costs of living, you know inflation, things of that nature, driving her to financial ruins, about to lose her home, nowhere else to turn.
00:06:39
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she jumps into the pornography game. That's what she decided. Now, ladies and gentlemen, in the video, as I was watching, the video on YouTube, by the way, the video on YouTube, as I was watching it, they interviewed her and I was like, okay, you know, she's about my age. I was like, it's a little bit late to be jumping into the pornography game, but okay, that's what she wanted to do. She went, she went ugly. You know, she went overworldly, beautiful or pretty.
00:07:06
Speaker
I know a lot of men would find her attractive. I was like, okay. Then they showed a clip of her walking, and let's just say she has a pair of assets that I know a lot of men would want to see that would be worthy enough for her to get that influx of cash to get her up on her mortgage payments. Let's just say that. She clearly had a pair of assets
00:07:34
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that were going to generate some money here. All right, so she admitted that she had likely violated department policies by not obtaining a chance authorization from the department for her outside employment, which she says probably wouldn't have been approved anyway. Not to say that she didn't go because of that, but maybe. She knew that she wasn't going to get a approved. She's doing pornography, and she's a popo? She's a popo.
00:08:00
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For ladies and gentlemen, if y'all don't know what the Popo is, that's the Five-O. That's police. That's the Feds. Not technically the Feds, but y'all know what I mean. These are all little words that we use for the cops. She was Popo. So, Popo can be part of porn. I don't think. I don't have no problem with it.
00:08:20
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but Obviously, the department does. They don't want that as a reflection on her. She believes that many other deputies and officers are doing similar things to make extra money with or without permission as they just try to survive during these times. She's pondering whether she's going to continue on doing pornography. But if I was her, I don't see no real reason why not to. She making that money plus Ladies and gentlemen, like I said, you can find this on YouTube yourself. You can Google it. Just look up, Colorado female officer fired for doing porn. That's all you got to do is Google search that. And you can see this woman, not but not the pornography. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the actual video of this news broadcast as they were doing the cover, as they were covering this the story. And you know, y'all can see it for yourselves.
00:09:16
Speaker
She got some assets, a pair of them that you know people would pay to see. Not me. I wouldn't pay to see it. I don't understand paying for pornography when pornography is free, but maybe you got
OnlyFans & Economic Commentary
00:09:29
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your particulars. it is Sophie, Rain, orren or Ren, or somebody like that is being criticized in the media or on social media. Let's not say the media, social media.
00:09:41
Speaker
because it found out that she made $44 million dollars last year on OnlyFans. Get this, she's a virgin. She's never had sex on camera. I guess she's just posting some nude stuff and in bathing suits, and she made $44 million. Now, ladies and gentlemen, y'all would do a lot of things for $4 million.
00:10:05
Speaker
That would do a lot of things for 400,000. Some of y'all would do a lot of things for 40,000. And I know a few, more than a few of you would do things for 4,000, right? We're talking about 44 million. And not to say this police officer could do what she did with Sophie Rain. I think that's what her name is. Could do what she did because that's an anomaly. Most people are owning fans are not making $44 million, but only fans as a site and it's not solely a pornography site.
00:10:34
Speaker
OnlyFans is just a paid subscription site that people in porn use. But OnlyFans, if somebody has an OnlyFans account, that doesn't necessarily mean that they're dealing with sexual content. You can make money. You can get some bread. And this police officer got herself out of crippling debt doing porn. Now,
00:11:02
Speaker
Y'all may have not picked up on something that I brought up, and my toxic masculinity is about to come out. I'm gonna be open and honest about it. My toxic masculinity is about to come out. There was a little line in there that maybe y'all didn't hear or pay attention to, because I just kind of glossed over it, is that her husband knows and is supporting her. Now I need to know what type of pornography is she doing.
00:11:32
Speaker
That would require me doing some research. And I don't know where that road will lead me. So I'm not going to really you know try to find the videos of her doing porn because I don't want that on my Google search. I really don't. you know What if I die one day? I mean, one day I am going to die. I don't want that on my browser history. Not that. A lot of things I could deal with, but not that. Her husband was OK with it.
00:12:00
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hi ah i and i don't She said she's worked for some production companies. It didn't say that she was taking photos like Playboy. It said that she was doing pornography. And I guess Playboy is pornography still. So maybe she is just taking pictures. But what if what if she's having sex with other men? And this is where my talks of masculinity is coming out because Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, I try to be as progressive as the next person. I try to be evolved as a person. But ah I can't be in no marriage with polygamy and ah or open marriage. Hey, to each their own, I'm not knocking anybody. I'm saying me in particular. And I couldn't do that. And it's tough for me to wrap my head around it. Maybe it's maybe it's toxic.
00:12:57
Speaker
Maybe it's ah patriarchy. Maybe it's controlling. I mean, I would rather just not, I'm not saying, hey, to my wife, no, you can't go do porn. I'm saying to my wife, if you decide to do porn, I'm not gonna stay married to you. That's not saying to her, you can't do porn. That's just saying, I don't wanna be associated with you doing porn.
00:13:24
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And he's a, that's ah that's a tough man, but I guess, I guess, if she bringing home the bacon, ah take care of old Booth. You got to shut the hell up, because it wasn't like his ass was out there doing something to to make sure that their house didn't get foreclosed on. So I guess you got to just suck it up and deal with it. I guess, ah you know, I guess, and like I said, maybe he was like, look, baby, I know how we can get about this situation.
00:13:55
Speaker
Have you ever thought about doing pornography? She was like, what? What are you talking about? Look, I get to see them all the time. But maybe, maybe other people will pay to see them. Because if they see what I see, they're going to pay us top dollar to see them too. Are you serious? I think that could get us up out of this debt. Think that maybe we can be okay. I don't want to lose the house.
00:14:24
Speaker
to either lose the house or lose you. I guess I'm gonna have to lose you to keep this house.
00:14:33
Speaker
What's also said is that this is a public servant who can't afford to live.
Healthcare System Critique
00:14:38
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you know And that's really the heart of reason why this story um was interesting to me. It's because oftentimes we hear these these civil servants, whether it's you know your local congresspeople, like councilmen, mayors of small towns, teachers, firefighters, police officers, can't afford to live. I know for a fact police officers make their bread by working overtime.
00:15:04
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which is saying that they can't work their regular full-time hours and survive. They have to work overtime to survive. Firefighters have to work overtime to survive. Meanwhile, you got Elon Musk and ah Rich Ramas Ricks, that's what I call them.
00:15:29
Speaker
sitting here trying to cut Social Security and Medicaid and cut services for people who need them because they're financially struggling. And these guys are sitting on billions. Billions. Hundreds of billions. Elon Musk, I think, was valued at $353 billion. $353 billion. dollars
00:15:54
Speaker
Wow. That's crazy. $353 billion. dollars and Okay. Hey, look, I don't know what's gonna shake out with this economy, but it's not solely an economy issue. It's a capitalism issue. It's an American issue. Maybe this woman decides to stay in pornography. And if she does good for her, she's making that money. Go get that money, girl. If you cool with it,
00:16:28
Speaker
Then why not? I don't knock anybody for doing something for money as long as it's not hurting other people. Her husband is cool with it. If her family and friends don't get with it, so what? a Didn't nobody start to go fund me to make sure she ain't lose her house. She did what she had to do, but that's a sad commentary that she had to go this route to do what she needed to do. The question is,
00:16:56
Speaker
Would she have gone this route if she wasn't getting ready to lose her house? If she wasn't drowning in debt? don't think I don't think so. right Or else she would have done it already.
00:17:09
Speaker
But just like one of my former favorite professional wrestlers, Mandy Rosen, the reason why I said used to be in former is because she's no longer in wrestling because the WWE had a problem with her and her OnlyFans site. And she was like, look, I'm making more money on this OnlyFans than y'all are paying me.
00:17:31
Speaker
I'll keep doing this Onlyfans." And they're like, you can't work with us then if you do that. And she was like, Deuces, because I'm going to go get this money. Everybody out there using Onlyfans, go get that money. Keep on getting that money. I'm not going to knock you. Hell, I might start selling feet pics on there myself. I'm not, but maybe. Times get hard. I might sell some feet on Onlyfans.
00:18:00
Speaker
But that's enough of the joking and clowning around. I want to get to a more serious matter and we'll get to that next.
00:18:15
Speaker
Now for a more serious subject. The shooting of the United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson.
CEO Murder & Public Reaction
00:18:23
Speaker
So Brian Thompson was it was the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. He was born, or he died on December 4th, 2024, midtown in Manhattan, New York City. He was killed by, we just would call him Luigi, who was 26 years old. Luigi was arrested in Pennsylvania. He's been charged on second degree murder, possession of a loaded firearm and other related Our physicist, his possible motor was his anger towards the health care, ah the health ah health insurance industry. He had health issues himself. He had chronic health problems, including back pain and Lyme disease. That's crazy. He had Lyme disease.
00:19:04
Speaker
What is their evidence? Fingerprints and a gun matching those at the crime scene. Social media has been going crazy. Post reveals struggles with health issues and dissatisfits dissatisfaction with the healthcare system. That was all over his social media profile. What has been the public's reaction? There have been posters criticizing the health insurance industry that have appeared all throughout New York City. Protesters.
00:19:33
Speaker
and then on social media has sparked discussion about healthcare policies and the role of health insurance companies.
00:19:43
Speaker
Look, ladies and gentlemen, healthcare in this country is trash. Not the actual services of healthcare, right? Like we actually have really good healthcare if you can afford it. Obamacare
00:19:59
Speaker
And for some people out there that don't know, the Affordable Health Care Act is Obamacare, just to make that clear, okay? They're not two separate things. The Affordable Care Act and Obamacare, same thing. Why is it called Obamacare? That's what Republicans called it, to try and put it down. They labeled it Obamacare, but its official name is the Affordable Health Care Act, anyway.
00:20:29
Speaker
There should not be a reason why you go bankrupt to take care of yourself. If you get sick, you need some surgery, you need cancer treatments, you need insulin.
00:20:48
Speaker
You shouldn't go bankrupt trying to get these things. We live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
00:20:57
Speaker
People have said the greatest country in the world. We're not, not anymore. By every statistical measure measurement, we're not. We can still pump our tests and say that we are, but we're not. We're failing in literacy. We're failing in, in just housing, in hunger.
00:21:24
Speaker
Like, we're not the greatest country in the world. I don't know what country it is, but we can't lay claim to that anymore. I don't know if we ever really, truly were. That was just something that that we said. I love this country. But when you love something, you got to also be able to criticize it. And one of the criticisms that not only me, not even people on the left, people on the right, it doesn't matter if you're a liberal conservative, black, white, ah Mexican, Middle Eastern,
00:21:53
Speaker
Jewish, Italian, Irish, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Muslim, handicapped, Michael Jordan. yeah Why did I say handicapped Michael Jordan? Because he's the greatest athlete to ever play the game. But anyway, it doesn't matter who you are. Everybody says there's a problem with our health care system. There's a problem with us being able to afford health care.
00:22:20
Speaker
And on social media, and I don't know how large this is, right? Because I could realistically read 10 comments that are condemning Luigi. And maybe I read one or two that's praising him, but those are the ones that stay in my head. There's been a lot of jokes.
00:22:49
Speaker
even overheard Washington on Instagrams making jokes post about Luigi because he is an attractive man, right? He is an attractive man. So they're saying like, if you find you must acquit or something like that. And there's a lot of jokes that's going around social media, but basically like making light of everything that happened. I'm going to say shame on you.
00:23:18
Speaker
A man was murdered in cold blood. He's going out for a board meeting and he's shot in the back of a head. This man had two children, 19, 16 years old.
00:23:37
Speaker
This was a person that the only reason why you know about him is because he was killed. The only thing that you could say bad about him is he runs a healthcare agency that has the highest rate of denial of claims. But he's a figurehead. There's a board that he answers to. There are other people that are involved with the reason why healthcare is so high. Politicians.
00:24:11
Speaker
and share his company boards, all of them. It's not a single individual person. His murder should not be celebrated. Shame on you. Because no matter how you feel about the healthcare care system, that does not give you a right to murder somebody. And what's worse? Well, no, murdering is the worst, but also horrible.
00:24:40
Speaker
is the jokes that are going about for Luigi. This man should not be celebrated. I don't give a damn how attractive he is. There's nothing funny about this. There's nothing funny about cold-blooded murder. And there are people out there saying you reap what you sow, you get what you deserve. How is that equal?
00:25:09
Speaker
How is that a justification? This isn't a man that, look, I have said, I believe there's really only four reasons to murder somebody or to have murdered somebody or to cause murder to somebody, right? Four reasons, all right? Don't worry, I'm gonna give them to you. Reason number one, you do anything bad to kids. You hurt them in any way. You got to go.
00:25:34
Speaker
Kids are the most innocent thing. I talk about childhood trauma so much. The only thing that kids should have to do is be a kid. Should never hurt kids. You hurt kids? And anyway, you gotta go. That's one hard, fast rule, okay?
00:25:56
Speaker
Somebody is trying to harm you, defending yourself. It's okay to murder somebody. It's okay to take somebody out when you're defending yourself. And people are gonna say, that's not cold blood and mudder. What if somebody ran up in your house with a gun? You wrestled the gun away from them. As you wrestled the gun away from them, they're running away from you and you pop them. I don't know why I need to do that sign effect. And if you're watching the video, you saw me lean to the side with my little trigger finger. Oh, it didn't come up on the screen. Let me raise it up on the screen.
00:26:26
Speaker
That's cold-blooded murder, because they were running away. But, you know, I still think they're justified in it. Number three, if somebody killed you or one of your loved ones, I'm okay with that. You can go ahead and take them out. Yeah, especially if it was like cold-blooded and your loved one didn't do nothing to really deserve it. Yeah, you could take them out.
00:26:54
Speaker
And number four, and this one is typically a stretch. Other people typically agree with me with the first two. They're kind of like a little hesitant on the third one. On this fourth one, they say, Bruce, that's a stretch. You hurt dogs or cats. And a friend of mine said, you know, that species is um or something like that where it's okay for me to eat the hell out of the chicken. I had some chicken earlier. It was delicious. I had some eggs yesterday, right? I eat ground beef by the pounds. It's okay for us to kill certain animals, but not other animals. Yes.
00:27:25
Speaker
Yes, I'm okay, I'm gonna be a hypocrite about it. Yes, you don't hurt dogs and cats, the innocent animals, leave them alone. I'm conflicted when it comes to the Michael Vick situation, but I let that go, right? I made peace with that. But this man, the CEO of United Healthcare, he didn't do any of that.
00:27:54
Speaker
You know, Brian Thompson didn't do any of that. That man was going to do preacher meeting. And yes, they deny a lot of claims. The highest insurance company that denies claims is like 32%. They deny claims out there. And yes, Luigi is suffering through major health issues, a lot of pain, and maybe he'd had enough.
00:28:21
Speaker
I don't know, heck the building or something. you know, blow up the building when nobody is there. I'm not condoning any of these ashes. I'm just saying there's a lot of steps before you get to shooting the man in the back of the head. Also, let's talk about the act. The act of the shooting. He didn't look him in the face. He didn't say, this is what you've done to me. He took a coward his way out, waited to the man, walked past, ran up behind him and hit him in the back of the head.
00:28:53
Speaker
That's a punk move. I can't, I can't respect anything about what Luigi did, but I damn sure can, I can't respect the fact that you couldn't even look him in the eye once he was taking that man's life.
00:29:08
Speaker
a man that's a father, once again, to a 19 and a 16 year old, to have to see these postings and these comments on social media with Luigi getting praised saying, yeah, this is a strike and this is a blow to the healthcare industry.
00:29:28
Speaker
To my black people out there and to my white people out there that that are down for the cause, right?
00:29:37
Speaker
If we're gonna start justifying murder and you're saying it's okay for Luigi to shoot Brian Thompson in the back of the head because he's the CEO of an insurance company and he's got a problem with the insurance industry, then you then have to say it was okay for all those white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members to lynch those black people because in their mind, they were justified.
00:30:07
Speaker
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't wanna do that, right? You're saying, well, no, the healthcare industry's, you know, that's a legitimate concern. And what you what they were saying was not a legitimate legitimate concern. It was a legitimate concern to them. Just like this healthcare industry is a legitimate concern to you.
00:30:30
Speaker
I'm not affected by the healthcare industry and then the ways and the
Historical Comparisons & Morality Question
00:30:34
Speaker
ups and downs. I'm not affected by that. It doesn't affect me personally. Maybe one day it will if I get really sick, but right now it doesn't affect me. Doesn't seem like it's that big of an issue for me personally. I'm not saying it's not a big issue, but for me personally, it's not a big issue, right? I can't justify that.
00:30:54
Speaker
And for those people who are, once again, if you're going on that premise, then the KKK and all those white supremacists were justified in the legends. They were justified in the hangings, they were justified in throwing the parties, because that's what you want to do when a CEO of a healthcare industry is assassinated. Same thing. If you're appalled,
00:31:16
Speaker
by the lynchings of the South and the Ku Klux Klan, this ain't no joke what happened to Bryan Thompson, and there's nothing funny about it. It's the same thing. This was a lynching by an individual that had a gripe, an individual gripe that some people can identify with just like those Ku Klux Klan members, just like those white supremacists. Same thing. And if we're going down this slippery slope where we're condemning, where we're condoning, not condemning, where we're condoning acts like this, where does it end? You know, I drew my line at certain instances where you're defending someone.
00:32:10
Speaker
I said, oh, it's okay when you're defending someone. You're defending kids. You're defending yourself. You're defending your loved ones. Or actually, the way I described it, it's avenging your loved ones. But, you know, defending the avenging, you know, they got the superhero group, the avengers, they also got the superhero group defenders. i Kind of say it there. You're defending the cats and dogs. Not eating them, by the way. Defending them. It's a little different. Right? There was... It wasn't...
00:32:40
Speaker
Personal, it wasn't selfish because I was being affected. It's because other people are being affected. That's the reason why I say it's okay to do those situations where I gave you the four scenarios in which it was okay for me, in my eyes. And people, some people don't agree, right? I don't understand how you can agree with what he did.
00:33:05
Speaker
It was wrong, plain and simple, and there was nothing funny about it. And look, I'm somebody who can find humor in a lot of stuff. I laugh at the wrong stuff often. That's kind of how my personality and my humor is. I didn't find, all right, some of these memes were kind of funny. I did chuckle a little bit, and I felt bad about it, and I didn't like myself chuckling at them. Some of them were funny.
00:33:30
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Some of them were funny about Luigi, especially when them pictures came out. But I didn't like myself laughing at him. And I had to check myself. I had to check my myself before I wrecked myself. I had to check myself and be like, look, a man died. A father died. A husband died. He might still be a son. he's He might be an uncle. He might be a brother. He might be a cousin, died.
00:34:01
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by somebody who committed a cowardice act. There's nothing to respect about it. There's nothing to defend about it. ah Aside from a few of those means, there's nothing funny about it. And if you're on that side, you really gotta look and see where your morals and principles are. Because if you believe that that's okay, and you're condoning that, then you're also condoning the KKK and the white supremacists.
00:34:32
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And then look at yourself. When I give you that scenario, look at yourself. And do you want to be on that side of the fence? Do you want to be aligned with them? Maybe some of you do. And then for that, God help you. Like, i you know, there's nothing really I could say a duty to you say to you that's going to make you change your mind. This is what you believe. Have at it.
00:34:58
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But if you believe that the KKK and the white supremacists were wrong, which most sane people do, right? Like they were wrong, that they were out there holding barbecues and picnics with little kids out there as they were lynching, sometimes castrating before lynching the majority these majority black men.
00:35:25
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Because I haven't really found a lynching of white women. I mean, of black women. If y'all see some out there policing it to me, because I would love to know. I've done some research. I haven't found anything. But I'm not saying that it hasn't happened. It's just very rarely is the case, right? But going back to that, like they had to do parties. They threw parties. That's what I see when I read these comments and see these memes on social media. There's people throwing parties about a man that was assassinated.
00:35:56
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that was lynched. And well, it wasn't broad daylight, but it was daytime in the middle of Manhattan.
00:36:08
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A father, a husband, all because of the position that he held. If I didn't condone the shooters taking a shot at the president-elect, I'll be damned if I take the defense of Luigi.
00:36:27
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And if you're taking the defense of a Luigi, you gotta take a long look in the mirror to see on what side of the fence of morality you are gonna stand on. I know I'm lecturing, but maybe you needed to hear this. Because there's too many people out there making jokes and making light of something that's very serious.
00:36:50
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And you need to think about it. And I hope I made you think about it a little bit The memes need to stop being as funny as they were, because I will em admit, I did laugh at a few. But like I said, I did not like myself for laughing at them, and I had to check myself. But talking about checking yourself, we're going to talk about roommates, and we're going to get into that next.
00:37:25
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Now, ever since I discovered Reddit, I've been falling down a Reddit rabbit holes and there's a lot of
Roommate Horror Stories
00:37:33
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stories. There's a whole subreddit of roommate horror stories. And I have to say, I don't have any roommate horror horror stories. Only had one roommate outside of college. the Most of my roommates were in college and my one roommate outside of college. We're still friends today. Um,
00:37:52
Speaker
But in college, I had some interests to get interesting characters. And hell, my roommate outside of college was interesting. But we never had issues like I read in these Reddit stories. Stories of people moving out, breaking the leases. like You hear that commonly. like People breaking leases. One person took all the furniture when they moved out. People just stopped paying bills.
00:38:14
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ah you know Being nasty, not cleaning up after themselves. Just crazy stuff. Fights, parties all the time. I had one friend. i she She's still my friend. I had one friend who told me the story of her roommate. And it's two females living together. And the roommate used to basically work in a ah service industry. And if you work in a service industry, restaurants, bars, things of that nature, you are a night owl.
00:38:46
Speaker
right because you you work late and you come home, you got to come down from being up while working. and so Most of the time, you're you're up all night long. and Her roommate was in the industry and used to bring people to the house after work. She would be up like three, four, five o'clock in the morning partying. She was like, I got a regular job, I got to get up in the morning. Not only that, but Sometimes random men would be in the house. And once again, it's two women living by herself, by themselves. And she said, my friend said that one time she was awoken, awakened, awakened by a gentleman walking drunk, drunk off of his mind, walking into the room, turning on the light, looking at her and then walking out. I said, damn.
00:39:39
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Did he at least turn off the light? She said, no, he didn't. I was like, were you scared? She was like, yes. He woke me up from a deep sleep. I was terrified. And also there was a strange man walking into my room. I didn't know that she was having a party. I didn't even know that she was home. I didn't know what was going on. I was scared. Didn't know what he was going to do. So I was like, what'd you do?
00:39:58
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Went out to find out what was going on when I heard other people talking. I called her in the room, explained it to her. She acted like it was no big deal. And so left the room, turned off my light, locked the door, and went back to sleep. I was like, what eventually happened? Eventually, we just, the lease ended, and I decided not to be a roommate anymore. And I'm like, that's crazy. I ain't never had nothing like that. Most of the time, was I out of bed, roommate. Yeah.
00:40:25
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Yeah, I was. Let me give you examples, not bad, let me give you examples of how it was a bad roommate. So, freshman year of college, I'm at the University of Maryland, and I put in my housing notice late. Why? I don't know, because I didn't want to go to that school. I wanted to go to the University of Miami. That's a whole other story, got into Miami, right? And then all of a sudden, my parents said, no, you're not going to go to Miami. And I said, why'd you let me imp apply to that school if I couldn't go?
00:40:54
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And they were like, we didn't let you apply to the school. I was like, yes, you did, because you wrote a check for my application. You knew that I was applying at Miami, because I also applied to Florida State, which I also got into by the way. But I didn't do the Virginia Tech, and not cruising. Anyway.
00:41:08
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um So I was not happy about going to the University of Maryland, because that's not where I wanted to go. I wanted to get the hell out of here. Look, fact of the matter is, I'm 44 years old. Been here since I was 16. I'm talking about the DMV area. That's the Maryland, that's the District of Maryland, the Virginia area. I've been here, what, 16 to 44, which is 25 years? No, it's 28 years. I've always wanted to live somewhere else. I ain't never moved anywhere. I've been here. But anyway, so I'm at the University of Maryland. I put it in my notice late.
00:41:38
Speaker
So they don't put me in the freshmen dorms. They put me in the upperclassmen dorms. And I was originally hot because first of all, the first week I was put up in a hotel because they were trying to find housing for me because I put it in late. They said, we guarantee that we're going to find housing for you. We just don't know where we're going to place you yet. We got to find out which state which students show up and which ones don't. And I said, wait a minute, students just don't show up sometimes? And they said, oh, yeah.
00:42:08
Speaker
students say they're going to be here and they don't show up." I was like, wow, that's crazy. I never would have thought that. Either I'm going to come to school or I'm not going to come to school. So I was put up in a hotel at first, and I liked the hotel. The hotel was not that far from campus. I had cable. I was supposed to have a roommate, but the roommate never showed up, so I had this big hotel room that was a double all to myself. I was blasting my music, watching cable. The only thing I didn't like about it is I missed the first week of meeting all the freshmen. So I went to the Black Student Union and I wasn't assigned to big.
00:42:39
Speaker
person adopted me as their big and everything kind of worked out. But so I finally get my approval for housing and I'm not in the freshman housing. The freshman housing at the University of Maryland is on the North Campus. They're high rise. They're good times. They're literally like good times because there's no air conditioning.
00:42:59
Speaker
in these buildings, at least not when I was going to school in 98, 99, 2000 to 2004. Don't ask me why I started college in 98 and I didn't graduate until 04. Money was an issue. Let's move on. I got my degrees. Anyway, I wanted to be in the freshman housing. Where all the freshmen were? I needed to make new friends.
00:43:24
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They put me in upperclassmen housing. I was pissed. They took us in a bus to drop us for everybody to get dropped off, because we still had all of our luggage and stuff. And so we were all in this big, it was like a caravan. And we're getting dropped off. And I'm talking to people, I'm talking to people on the bus like, you want to trade? Because I asked the director, I was like, hey, can we trade if we don't like where we're placed? And they said, yeah, sure. And nobody wanted to trade with me, because I wanted to be with the freshmen housing.
00:43:54
Speaker
They put me with the upperclassmen's house. I walk into the upperclassmen's house. It's a suite. It's a it's an apartment. It's basically what it is. right It was called New Leonardtown. At that time, it was the newest um residents that had been built. So it was called New Leonardtown. And they were apartments. They had a kitchen, had two bathrooms, four bedrooms, two doubles, two singles. So six guys living in this apartment. Had a living room, had a dining room, the whole nine.
00:44:23
Speaker
had air conditioning and heating that we controlled, right? I was like, all right, I guess to say so bad. My first roommate was a 23-year-old just guy out of the Navy, freshman. Not gonna say his name. I don't remember his last name. I wish I could run into him. Hey, you know who you are. If you're watching this show, contact me, because I would love to run into you and catch up with you, because you when you was cool.
00:44:50
Speaker
So I walk in, and i'm in this is this is like the short white guy, kind of a little chunky, right? Out of the Navy, balding a just a little bit, just a tad bit. he's got one side He's got stuff on both sides of the room because he thought he was going to have a room onto himself. And I said, hey, sorry, bro, you got a roommate. He was like, that's cool. Let me move the stuff from this side and move it over to you know so you can get your stuff settled. up realized that he was real cool. And what was real cool about the fact that I had this 23-year-old roommate at 18 years old, it's the fact that he was 23. So he gave me all the alcohol that I wanted, and he did. We went to the liquor store together. I said, I got the bread, man. Don't worry about it. you know I'll pay for your liquor, since you're going to get the liquor for me. There was always Bear and Gordon's vodka. I mean, we drank sheep stuff. Bear and Gordon's vodka in our room. I was chilling. I was living a good life.
00:45:44
Speaker
How was I a bad roommate? Well, I only came with a stereo. I didn't even have a TV. There was a TV in the living room though, but I only had like a TV. I had a computer. No, I had a stereo and a computer. He had the TV. He had a better computer. I had a better stereo because music was a big deal.
00:46:03
Speaker
So he was like, hey, man, you know, go ahead and watch TV. You know, what's what's mine is yours. What's what's mine is yours and what's yours is mine. I said, don't be assuming that whatever is mine is yours. But OK, cool. You know, the only thing I had that he would want to use is my stereo. And I'm like, you know, have had it.
00:46:22
Speaker
We bought NBA Live 98 or 99 and created players and his computer was better. So we would play it on his computer. And a lot of times he walked into his dorm room. I'm watching his TV. I'm sitting at his desk on his computer. He's just like, this is what we're doing. I said, you said what's yours is mine. So we share it. um I wasn't that bad of a roommate to him. I just used this stuff a lot. Now he went and got an apartment the second year.
00:46:52
Speaker
So when I come in my second year of Maryland, I've got a new roommate. My new roommate is an exchange student from London. Short guy, white. He's cool. Comes in with just the clothes that he has. That's it. You got the clothes. That's it. He don't got nothing else. He don't got a computer. He don't got no stereo. He got no electronics, no toys.
00:47:15
Speaker
but I knew that my old roommate wasn't going to be coming back because we kept in touch during the summer, if I remember correctly. So I made sure I went out and got a fancy TV. Fancy for me is it was a TV VCR combo. Now, if you're a Zillennial, Zillennial,
00:47:31
Speaker
ah or an older millennial, you know how dope those TV VCR combos was. So I had a TV VCR combo, still had the funky fresh stereo system, and went and got a new upgraded computer with a printer and a whole nine. So I had everything set up. I said, hey, man, I'm gonna treat you just like my roommate treated me.
00:47:55
Speaker
What's mine is yours. You ever need to use something, watch TV or everything? Have at it, man. Welcome to America. Welcome to the University of Maryland. Everything was cool for a while. Everything was cool for a while until I walked in, he was watching my TV and using my computer. And I was like, hey man, what the hell are you doing using up all my stuff? Whereas my old roommate didn't mind so much, he made a little comment, I had an issue. And this is where I was wrong.
00:48:23
Speaker
So once again, he didn't come here with anything. He had to go to the computer lab to type his papers and stuff. And the computer lab was like right down the sidewalk. It wasn't that far a walk. But you know, I had to go in the computer lab, stuff like that. And I put a lock on my computer. Yeah, I did that. I spent too much money on that computer for him to be on there playing. He was playing.
00:48:44
Speaker
I don't want him doing stuff on there, you know, getting some sights, you know, stuff that I'm seeing and doing. You know, I got to protect myself from from embarrassment. So we were talking about pornography earlier, not saying I was watching a lot of it, but this was the time of alarm wire, Napster, things like that. You can get those type of things relatively easier, easier than doing what it was. And I didn't need him all up on my computer using it. So I put a lock on it.
00:49:13
Speaker
his ass could go to the computer lab. Plus, I did some other stuff too. that That was real cool. But he was nasty. One time he made fish, raw fish, and cooked it in the microwave. I was like, is this what they do in England? They just cooking raw fish in the microwave? He didn't even like put it on the cutting board. He just put it on the counter. He didn't put it on a plate or nothing. He just put it on the counter and then moved it from the counter to the microwave. I was like, man, you know you got to clean the counter after you put some fish on it.
00:49:42
Speaker
And then one time, you know, I had a young lady, you know, a young lady with me in the room, and I kicked him out the room. It was the middle of the night. No, I didn't kick him out the room. He came in because he was partying. He came in after I came in. I had locked the door. He was knocking on the door, and I said, hey, man,
00:50:01
Speaker
I'm going to be a while. Go ahead and go lay down on the couch and I'll wake you up." Did I do that often? Because I had a girlfriend at the time. Did I do that often? Yeah. Eventually, I just stopped. I just stopped kicking them out and I was like, hey man, if you got to lay in the bed, you got to lay in the bed, but I'm going to do what I got to do over here. It was what it was.
00:50:23
Speaker
I only had to deal with that for one semester and the second semester because I was in upperclassmen dorms, all of them graduated. So I got one of the singles. So after I got a single, didn't have any more roommates until I moved in with my last roommate, Madam O Craig's list.
00:50:42
Speaker
met him on Craigslist. And the reason why I had a roommate is because the girl that I was dating, excuse me, the woman that I was dating at the time, we were supposed to move in together, but I got cold feet and decided that's not what I wanted to do. And we got a roommate yeah and in an apartment a block away from where she lived. So I wanted to be close, but we didn't need to live together. And the reason why we didn't need to live together, I'm sure she's not watching the show, but the reason why we didn't need to live together, I needed a place where I could cheat.
00:51:13
Speaker
I'm just being honest. I needed a place where I could cheat. I couldn't cheat. If she lived with me, I found out later that you could. But I was a young man. So that roommate, still I'm still friends with him today, went to his wedding, like met his, he's married with a son. We are still cool. um Real cool with his wife. We are cool people. We didn't really have too many issues.
00:51:42
Speaker
But let's just say that once again, I took initiative. He went away on a work trip and was gone for like two, three weeks. I took that time to move out his old furniture and bring in some new furniture.
00:51:58
Speaker
Now, I hooked the place up because he was using futons as couches, and i brought I went in and got leather couches. It was $5,000, spits of bread. It's $5,000. Got a big screen TV with a whole entertainment center. Like, I hooked it up. But I had didn't tell him about it. He just came home to that. He also came home one day to a fish tank.
00:52:19
Speaker
Didn't talk to him about it, I just did it. But you know what? It was all fear and love of war, because there was a lot of times that he got drunk from going out to the bars, and he would pass out on the toilet. And I would go in there and be like, hey, man, it's 3 o'clock in the morning. then You fell asleep on the toilet? I'd be like, huh? Huh? I'm like, hey, man, I need to use the bathroom. And I couldn't wake him up, and I had to pee off the balcony.
00:52:42
Speaker
These are not lies, these are the truth. But it's funny, because I don't really have, like, bad experiences. Like, nobody was, aside from the person using my stuff, that I said that he could use, so it shouldn't have annoyed me, because I said, hey, man, it was mine, it's yours. And he took that to heart, and that annoyed me, so I had to cut him off. So besides that, I don't even have no bad roommates. And even that wasn't bad.
00:53:06
Speaker
Him cooking that fish in the microwave, horrible. Maybe that's just what they do in England. For my people that are out there listening and watching the show in England, and yes, ladies and gentlemen, we do have fans in England. Let me know if that's a thing out there. When y'all make y'all fish and chips, you make it in the microwave, I would assume that you have to deep fry that. But I don't know what he did. He ain't even putting those seasoning on the fish or nothing. He just cooked the fish in the microwave. I don't know how he survived. But yeah, you know what, ladies and gentlemen, tell me your roommate's stories. I don't have any.
00:53:34
Speaker
My brother and my sister don't have any horrible roommate stories. The worst roommate stories that I have is from my friend doing parties all the time. you know She said her roommate was doing parties all the time. yeah I don't really have these experiences that I'm seeing in the Reddit.
00:53:50
Speaker
But in the Reddit, some people be going through it. I couldn't deal with what some of those people were going through in the Reddit with a roommate. I'd have to fight them. And notice I left out people that I actually lived with. Because I guess my ex-wife was a roommate.
00:54:07
Speaker
I mean, we lived together, so wouldn't that be a roommate? I mean, you just give them a different title, but I mean, essentially that's a roommate, and everything was cool with her. Once we got a two bedroom, two bath place, that one bedroom, one bath place was not working, because, hey, it just wasn't working, okay? We needed to have, I needed to have my own separate bathroom. Y'all know I'm real particular about certain things. I need to have my own bathroom, and also, she's a hoarder, and I'm somebody who wants,
00:54:36
Speaker
minimalist, right? Like I'm, I don't want a lot of clutter. And so there were some issues, but you know, there were also a lot of benefits. It was one roommate that I, you know, got to have sex with. So that was cool. I never had that before.
00:54:49
Speaker
so So anyway, that was cool. But ladies and gentlemen, tell me, send us emails, leave us comments. Tell us about some bad roommate experiences. Tell me about some good roommate experiences. I don't want to hear about all the mess. Messiness is fun, but tell me about pleasurable experiences. I have a lifelong friend with a roommate that I have. And in my old roommate from college, if you listen to her watching this, man, highlight me, man. I would love to catch up with you. The dude from London,
00:55:18
Speaker
I don't even remember your name, because I only lived with you for about four months. But you don't need to call me unless you improved in the way in which you prepared cooked fish. If you haven't, don't contact me. I'm good not having any communication with you. But if you learn how to improve on your cooking skills, holla at me. But ladies and gentlemen, tell me about your experiences. freedom You know, I want to know. But on that note, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always,
00:55:53
Speaker
I'll holla.
00:55:56
Speaker
That was a hell of a show. Thank you for rocking with us here on Unsolicited Perspectives with Bruce Anthony.
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00:56:02
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