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Podcast Growth, Challenges & Heartfelt Moments: 200th Episode Special!
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🎉 200 Episodes! Celebrate with Unsolicited Perspectives! 🎉
Buckle up for a wild ride as Bruce Anthony and J. Aundrea mark their 200th episode with a hilarious and heartfelt special! 🚀 We're spilling the tea on our podcast journey – the triumphs, the fails, and the moments that made us question our sanity (and each other!). 🤪
Ever wondered how to grow a podcast audience? 🤔 We're revealing our secrets, sharing hard-earned lessons, and dishing on the biggest challenges we've conquered. 💪 Plus, we're answering YOUR burning questions, from our most embarrassing childhood antics to our dream guests (Neil deGrasse Tyson, we're looking at you! 😉).
Get ready for laugh-out-loud sibling stories, unfiltered banter, and a peek behind the podcast curtain. 🤫 We're reminiscing about our favorite memories, the influential figures who shaped us, and even debating who's the grumpiest sibling! 😠
Hit play and join the Unsolicited Perspectives family as we celebrate 200 episodes of unfiltered conversations, sibling shenanigans, and heartfelt moments. 💖 You won't want to miss this! #podcast #podcastmilestone #200Episodes #podcastgrowth #unsolicitedperspectives
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Thank you for tuning into Unsolicited Perspectives with Bruce Anthony. Let's continue the conversation in the comments and remember, stay engaged, stay informed, and always keep an open mind. See you in the next episode!
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
00:40 Sibling Happy Hour Begins 🍹🌶️
01:02 🎉 From Day One to 200: A Sibling Celebration 🎊
07:15 🎙️ The Podcast Glow-Up: Our Journey So Far 🚀
07:34 🎤 Behind the Mic: The Challenges We Faced (and Conquered) 💪
12:59 How We Built Our Audience: Secrets to Podcast Growth 📈✨
16:52 🕰️ Time Travel Advice: What We'd Tell Our Podcast Newbie Selves 💡
25:15 Who Shaped Us? The Influential Figures in Our Lives 🌟👑
34:29 🤣 Sibling Chaos: Our Funniest & Most Embarrassing Moments 🎭
36:28 🌠 Dream Guests: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bernie Mac, and More! 🎤
39:33 😤🤔 Grumpy Gus Showdown: Who's the Crankiest Sibling? 😠
42:21 🛍️ Merch, Mugs & More: What’s Next for Our Listeners? 🎁
47:44 🚗 From Car Rides to Hard Rock: Our Favorite Sibling Memories 🎸
54:58 🕵️♂️ Childhood Mischief: The Stunts We Pulled (and Got Away With) 🪣
58:18 🏡 How Our Upbringing Made Us Who We Are Today 💖
01:02:17 🙏 Thank You! Our Heartfelt Gratitude to Our Amazing Audience ❤️
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Goals
00:00:10
Speaker
Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation to follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcasts and YouTube exclusive content.
Celebrating Milestones and Audience Engagement
00:00:29
Speaker
Rate, review, like, comment, share, share it with your friends, share with your family, help, even share with your enemies.
00:00:37
Speaker
On today's episode, it's the Sibling Happy Hour. I'm here with my sis, J. Andrea. We're celebrating 200 episodes. We're going to be answering your questions, and we're going to be answering each other's questions. But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
00:01:02
Speaker
What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it. I can't call it if y'all are wondering why she's laughing. I'm trying to pep her up a little bit, because she's ah working hard, going to school, doing a lot of work, because she's dragging a little bit. So I took a little sip of the scissor and made her face just to get her to start laughing, to get her ready for this. The thing is, I clicked away from our video to look at the rundown. And all I heard was,
00:01:32
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And I was like, what? yeah What is happening? And then I heard the ice clink in the cup and I was like, here we go.
Pride in Podcasting Achievements
00:01:44
Speaker
Well, Jay, we celebrate in 200. I can't. I can't believe it. I'm so excited. This is awesome. 200 episodes, people have been, you know, we posted on social media. I've been getting congratulations and stuff on on that. And so like, I'm very proud of us. We should be very proud of ourselves and each other. This is awesome.
00:02:08
Speaker
All right. So ladies and gentlemen, this episode, we are definitely letting you in to our dynamic. And also, by the way, there are like 10 questions that we're going to be asking ourselves. Y'all are not getting all those questions. Why? Because some of those questions are super personal and we're going to put them on the after hours on sensor. So once again, we're promoting our after hours on sensor where we continue on what will be the third segment. But this is a difference between me and my sister.
00:02:39
Speaker
She is obviously super excited for this episode. She gets up and pats herself on the back and congratulations. We did it. This is this is something to to cherish it and say that this is an accomplishment. Yeah.
Perspectives on Achievements
00:02:53
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I'm like, all right.
00:02:55
Speaker
get this over with and then move on to the next episode. That's just- That's because you don't like answering questions. Yeah, no, this is pretty cool. That's because you don't like answering questions. Yeah, you're right. I don't like answering questions, but that's not solely the reason. It's also just because, you know, I mean, it's like I expected to be here. Yeah.
00:03:20
Speaker
So to me, yes, and it's an accomplishment. But what the hell else did I set out to do, right? So it's kind of like me not being excited when I graduated high school in college. It was their mom and dad was like, you should be excited. And I'm just like, well, I'm supposed to do this. with I mean, I went to college. I mean, just but because you're supposed to hit certain milestones, like you're supposed to walk eventually, right? Like if you can. But still, when a baby does it, we celebrate those milestones because Hitting them is still an accomplishment, even if you feel like that's what you're supposed to be doing. Hitting those milestones is still an accomplishment because there are a lot of people who don't. There are so many
Growth Strategies and Social Media
00:04:01
Speaker
podcasts, I mean, got to be thousands, that don't make it to 100 episodes. And so the fact that we've made it to 200, you do have to stop a little bit and say, wow, that's really an accomplishment because a lot of podcasts don't make it.
00:04:19
Speaker
I get it. Stop and smell the roses. like Take time to enjoy the process. right I get it. I get it. But it's hard for me to get like super excited. I recognize this is an accomplishment. I do. But also, the hubris in me is like, yeah, no, I'm supposed to do this like this. This is not an accomplishment to me because, yeah, this is what I was supposed to do. But I get it. I get it. Not quite hubris, but I get it.
00:04:45
Speaker
We mean it is hubris, like extreme confidence in oneself. That's what hubris means. That's the definition of hubris. Not quite. I know this for a fact. That is definitely the definition of hubris. Right. But like it's supposed to be like this excessive confidence, but like it it It's more on arrogance and like it it leads to a downfall. Like it's an exaggerated... like there's a Hubris is not quite... oh Yeah. like Well, still fitting. yeah Still I don't want to put that kind of...
00:05:34
Speaker
I said me. that You jewel on anything. But ah you know, hey, look, no, no, no, I feel like I'm not showing appreciation for the for the audience. And and yeah that's not what it is. Right. Like I am honestly truly grateful for the audience and everything. And I am <unk> i ah
Emotional Challenges in Podcasting
00:05:57
Speaker
who what is that What is the emotion that I can express to to make me feel, I feel a sense of accomplishment, and but the job is not yet done. Right, but it's okay for you to say, yeah, I'm not where I want to be yet, but let me celebrate where I'm at right now, because this is further along than I was a year ago, two years ago.
00:06:22
Speaker
okay Okay, yes, you know what I get more excited about for those of you that watch the video I get more excited about the new graphics Right. I'm like you really do because I get a lot out of text messages ah about what you think about this lower third And I'm like, it's bad. We think about the font though. I think it's great. ah but But you got to go back and look at the first episode that I ever posted on YouTube. And like the screening like this, my bed is in the background. Like my bed is in the background. It is horrible. and so No, we've definitely come a long way.
00:06:59
Speaker
We done came up like seven up, but the the audience doesn't want to hear us
Advice and Reflections
00:07:05
Speaker
consistently pat ourselves on the back. They think it to themselves right now. When the hell they gonna get to our questions? And so we gonna get to it right now. Okay? Okay. Yeah.
00:07:14
Speaker
So sort the first segment, I took on all the questions that they sent to us, and I divided it up into two segments. And this first segment is gone is titled Reflecting on the Podcast Journey. And so there's all the questions that people sent to us that are specifically associated with the journey of starting this podcast. And the very first question, what are some challenges you have faced while producing a podcast, and how did you overcome them?
00:07:42
Speaker
You want to start this? Because I know exactly what it is. Yeah, well, one, I don't produce the podcast. So I am a co-host once a week. So i don't I don't produce the podcast. But I would say some of the challenges, like production-wise, is that we never had a podcast before. So it's it's all like learning how to do all the technical stuff on the fly. And then just scheduling the time to actually sit down and film, you know, because we got lives, you know, jobs school and school and pets and all kinds of, you know, we have lives. So it's, it's, it, that part is hard. Um, you know, sometimes we're tired and it's a weekly show, you know, so sometimes we're tired. So there are those days where you're just like, I really just want to take a nap instead.
00:08:40
Speaker
yeah admit but then But honestly, what i what comes back to me every time I have those moments where I'm like, um I'm tired or I'm busy and I don't feel like doing this, is like the audience. you know There are people that tune in every week and like I hear from them.
00:08:58
Speaker
and tune in every week you know to hear what we have to say in our take on things and hopefully to learn something maybe they didn't know before. um and It's the same way I approach like anytime I have to present something. It's like the audience has some information. that has I have information that you all need to know and I can't just you know walk away from that if if I feel like I could reach somebody somewhere.
00:09:32
Speaker
Yeah, that's, I guess that was, I did an interview and I'm going to be on another podcast and I'll let everybody know when that comes out. But it was, you know, what did you start the podcast for? And it was really, I love teaching and and and and I love learning. And that's another reason why I do the interviews and I bring on people is be like, you have something really interesting. Yeah. ah Yes.
00:09:57
Speaker
Come on the show. Let's talk about it. And then I learned stuff. And then hopefully the audience learns stuff too. The the most challenging thing that I found producing was producing personalities. but And not just you, yeah but myself as well.
00:10:14
Speaker
Yeah, it it I had to and I'm still learning how to not get up on my soapbox, especially when I have when I do my private show, when it's just me, not i get up on my soapbox and start lecturing. i I wish I had the ability like our father has, our dad has the ability to challenge your thinking without insulting you. And he'll just like, hmm.
00:10:39
Speaker
Explain what you mean by that. Well, I'm more in your face. I wish I was a little bit more, I don't know what the right word is, but just a little less being too much. A softer touch. maybe you know yeah I wish I had a little bit more of a softer touch. Producing, the challenge in producing, especially during the election, was maintaining my sanity.
00:11:04
Speaker
yeah um Because there's content's information and content that people are coming to us and they want to hear our perspectives. It's not unsolicited. They want to hear our perspectives. yeah And it's just like, God, I really don't want to talk about this because I have to prepare to talk about this. yeah And preparing to talk about this, doing research on it is just like, wow, people are really the worst right now.
00:11:29
Speaker
yeah And so that's that's challenging of producing the podcast, but post-production can be challenging at times, but that's also like I get a kick out of it. You've been telling me for the longest when we started, it it was like, hey, you have to hand that off. And I'm like.
00:11:44
Speaker
I don't know. I kind of like it. I don't know if I'm going to hand that off. I kind of like doing it. Eventually, I would love for us to have a producer so that we don't have to, especially you, don't have to do this stuff. But you're absolutely right. I think probably the biggest challenge is the emotional labor sometimes that we put up with, especially topics that hit close to home or we just know are affecting a lot of people. Like I know that this president is I can't even say the word because it just, the person occupying the White House is what I've been saying, that it is just, I mean, I've known people who have lost their jobs. I know people who whose jobs might be in jeopardy because they work in DEI, you know things like that. So it's really hitting close to home. So that emotional labor sometimes is a lot.
Podcasting Challenges and Growth Strategies
00:12:40
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot. All right. So that answers that question. Next question. How long did it take for you to grow your audience to its current size and what strategies worked best for you? It took us two years. It's still growing. Yeah. It's still growing. I would say year one to two was our explosion, especially on YouTube. But not just that, just the streams,
00:13:06
Speaker
from the audio. Just so many downloads from all over the world. How did they find us? Because we have a presence online. That's the only thing that that I can think of, yeah right? like if it Even if you don't follow us on Instagram, and our follower list follow our group is is growing on Instagram, even if you don't follow us on Instagram, we might show up on your 4U. And then I know personally, sometimes people show up on my 4U page for not only Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, and then I might
00:13:40
Speaker
actually go search them out. I might Google search them to find out what's going on. And then, oh, wait a minute. They got a whole show. Let me just click on the show. Oh, wait a minute. That show was pretty good. And that's how I've gotten. That's how I've personally followed people that have podcasts or YouTube shows. So so i you know the best strategy is just putting ourselves out there on every platform. like they The only platform that we ain't really popping on, that we ain't really present on is X.
00:14:09
Speaker
That's pretty much it. Everything else we popping on or not popping, we on. So that's how we pretty much grown our audience. And then making sure that I feature you. That's how we grow up. I say all the time. I'm the straight man. You're the star. And I'm completely okay with that because Everybody knows you're hilarious. So yes, that's how we've grown. Again, ladies and gentlemen, I am not a comedian, nor am I a comedic actress, anything like that. I'm actually just saying what's in my head. Everybody's laughing at it, but I'm actually very serious. So I don't i don't know where it comes from, that people are like, oh, Johnny, it's so funny. I'm like, am I? All right. Yeah.
00:14:55
Speaker
Well, that's where we get that honestly. you know Everybody always says, you know and but Bruce, you you're funny. And I'm like, yeah, but I'm not joking. I'm not joking. I'm not joking. um And then as far as growing the audience, it's it's about constantly posting, a getting yourself out there. the The best way to grow your audience, to do that first show.
00:15:17
Speaker
Right? Do the first show. Just film it. It's gonna be bad. It's okay. It's gonna be bad. It's okay. Just keep doing it and keep up the consistency.
00:15:30
Speaker
And then, you know, Bruce finds little ways to, now we have the YouTube exclusives and we have the behind, you know, the behind the scenes stuff. We have all that stuff. Like find little ways to keep pushing content out there. People will see it and it will catch on. You have to keep up the consistency.
00:15:53
Speaker
The reason why I'm laughing, ladies and gentlemen, if you're watching the video is because it's to the detriment of my sister that I keep pushing stuff. kids what why She's got one day to film. And I'm like, well, you might as well block off a couple of hours because we're going to go to work. That's exactly what happens. And we film a lot in that and this couple hours chunk of time that I have. and so But I mean, but all of those things are going to keep growing the audience. And so it's just about consistency and keeping
00:16:26
Speaker
Keep it going. Keep pushing content out there. People will see it and they'll catch on. Absolutely. All right. Next question. What is one piece of advice you would give to your younger selves when you started the podcast? So the younger selves was just two years ago. It was just two years ago. But two years feels like a long time. I wasn't in my 40s two years ago. No, you sure the hell worked. I will us, but you weren't. Yeah.
00:16:51
Speaker
um Advice I would give to myself, probably to believe in us and our dynamic and this idea more. You know what I mean? Because every time we hit some sort of milestone, I was shocked. And but and I'm like, I wish I had you know believed in the power of our voices more.
00:17:20
Speaker
And so maybe I would have pushed myself a little more in the beginning, um but ive I feel like I caught on and I i caught up to it. Yeah. no you um Once again, you just started a show. I still don't agree to that. Yeah, I do. when When I give the younger self, Bruce, go back two years ago.
00:17:41
Speaker
Don't get the cheap equipment. That's number one. yeah don't Don't try to cut corners on costs. It's going to cost. And then do some practice runs. Like before you record your first ah video podcast, record a whole video podcast just for you to figure out what you want to do with it.
00:18:01
Speaker
yeah and then go with it. yeah And then like do a little bit more research, watch way more YouTube videos to pick up tips on how to do graphics and what graphics that you want. What's the right timing for graphics? Just basically editing stuff.
Content Planning and Sibling Dynamics
00:18:17
Speaker
And oh yeah, another thing I would tell myself in the beginning,
00:18:22
Speaker
do more detailed outlines because there were no outlines for the first 25 shows. No, I don't know. I don't know when ah you started making the rundowns, but they were very helpful because you know what? And it was actually we got, we got advice from a mutual friend who was like, Hey, maybe you guys should think about like segments to like yeah have some sort of like logical flow to the show. And that was the best advice we that wasn that
00:18:53
Speaker
la like Oh, that's smart idea. Ladies and gentlemen, we had look, you have a film background, but filming a show, a short ah video, a documentary is completely different than filming a podcast. Yeah, that's audio first and then switching to video, which by the way, ladies and gentlemen,
00:19:13
Speaker
These are all things that I just decide to do and just tell my sister, hey, we're about to do this. Let's yeah let's get ready. She's like, wait, what? I thought this was going to be a fully audio podcast that I would not have to show my face every week.
00:19:32
Speaker
ah But, you know, it's right. ah You know, I just roll with it. I just roll with it every week. It feels like we got something new that you've added on and I just say, OK.
00:19:44
Speaker
Well, also showing your face has helped showing on our faces has helped the audience growth because I know for a fact one person who watches the show specifically watches the show because they said you and I agree on a lot of things and your sister is fine. I was like, Oh, okay. Well, thank you for watching the show. Thank you for watching. I appreciate i appreciate that as well. Thank you for watching. ah Okay.
00:20:12
Speaker
What's the biggest disagreement you've had while podcasting, and how did you resolve it? I know exactly what it was. Yeah, tell me, because I don't know. It was a disagreement on a topic. And the topic was me still listening to Bad Boy music. Yeah.
00:20:29
Speaker
You were extremely disappointed in me. And there was another topic that we had, that we got into, it and people people left comments, and they was like, y'all don't fight. And he was like, We fight, but this is like a normal conversation. That was just a normal conversation. No, us fighting is very different. like That's what I do is very different. But no, we're not going to always 100% agree. I do remember that I can't remember what the topic was. Can't remember what the topic was. But it was, I was probably disappointed in you in some way. Yeah, no, I mean, yes. Some of my viewpoints, you'd be disappointed. You'd be disappointed in me for a couple of different things. the One,
00:21:12
Speaker
The misogyny still is not out of me. That's tough. It's tough. Yeah, you like you'd be like, there you go right there. There it is. And then there's sometimes when you're like, no, you don't need to look at the other side. This is the right side to just yeah focus on that. And I'm like, well, but maybe. You'd be like, no, don't do that. And how do we resolve the issues? One, it's never a major issue. i don't The last time that we've had an issue, we told the story before, is at night,
00:21:40
Speaker
to drive back from the baseball game and I left you in the car to go on the bar. That was the last time that I allowed us to really have a real disagreement. yeah Because I was in the wrong, he was really upset with me, and I did not like the fact that my sister was not speaking to me. So I was like, maybe I need to change my ways.
00:22:01
Speaker
so We don't really have like, like real, like we have not gotten into a knockdown drag out since then. And that was well over 20 years ago. Yeah. I think it's, I think it's just comes with age and experience. Like you just kind of agree to disagree or like not even that it's like, if I, if, if you're playing devil's advocate, which is one of the things that I ah really dislike in your personality.
00:22:29
Speaker
oh I'll just say there is no reason to advocate for the devil, and I just walk away from the situation, but like... And I don't really like it when you say it like that either. I don't really like playing... I don't really like the idea of playing devil's advocate. i But you love it because you do it all the time. No, I just say let's... Okay, let's look at it from multiple points
Influence and Impact
00:22:51
Speaker
of view here. plus Sometimes there aren't good people on both sides. There just aren't.
00:22:55
Speaker
Yeah, no, absolutely. But even sometimes the bad people that have bad takes. It's better to understand where they where it is that they're coming from so that you can learn to try and reach them to change their bad take. That's the reason why I do that. And that's where we disagree. Because, see, I don't care about changing people's minds. I care about changing policy. Like, I i don't care about Joe Schmo in who gives a crap Georgia. I don't care about him. I care about changing policies. So, like,
00:23:30
Speaker
I know to a certain extent we have to change people's minds in order to change policy, but I'm not, I'm not, no teacher, I'm not here to teach nobody how to be a better person. I ain't got time for that. I'm a black woman in America. I ain't got time for that. I'm trying to grade the grade here.
00:23:49
Speaker
or an l lc a degree or an LLC, I'm trying to get both, to be honest with you. So, I mean, I don't have no time for that. And a black women have already said, the next four years, we minding our business. Well, I don't try to change people's minds. That's not my goal. My goal is to change their heart. Oh my God. Next question.
00:24:14
Speaker
The next question is going to be an entire segment, and the entire segment is going to be personal stories, fun, and future plans. Once again, these are questions from you that we're going to answer, and we're going to answer them next.
00:24:38
Speaker
All right, Jay, now we're in the personal stories fun and future plan segment. wow Once again, these are all the questions from the audience. And one of the first questions is who is the most influential person in your life? And how did they impact you? I'll let you start with this. Is this is it had to be some? So the question is, who is the most influential person in my life? So I assume this is like somebody I know.
00:25:04
Speaker
Okay, oh it's the most ah okay you're getting real literal and technical. who ist What's the most influential person in your life? it Somebody I know. It can be anybody. What's the most? yes Prince.
00:25:25
Speaker
My ass is gonna be completely different, but okay, Prince, explain. and though The reason I've always been such a huge Prince fan since the 80s is because of he was always unapologetically himself. And as a little kid who was masking, but didn't know I was masking at the time, I always felt this sort of inauthenticity and about myself. And then,
00:25:53
Speaker
to see Prince, who was just always unapologetically himself. If he wanted to wear assless chaps, he was going to do it. And that was and it was and he was going to make the music he wanted to make. He didn't care but about Warner Brothers or anybody, you know his labels, nothing. like He was going to make the music he wanted to make. And I always really, really responded to that. And I have tried now, especially as I get older, to try to be as authentic to myself, even if that means like unmasking sometimes, be as authentic to myself and my beliefs and my values and the person that I want to be as as much as I can because of Prince's influence. Okay. All right. That's dope. Let's let's take that question and expand upon it, person that you actually know.
00:26:46
Speaker
person that I actually know that's been the most influential. Is it weird to say save myself? Um, I can't stand you sometimes. I swear. Ladies and gentlemen, sometimes I can't stand my sister. i swear Um, because I just always been a kind of person where it's like,
00:27:14
Speaker
um I'm going to do what I want to do. and so i It's not that I don't take other people's opinions and things into account. I do. I'll call people and ask like, hey, what's your advice on this? And and if I'm talking about people that I actually call and get their advice, I mean, it's going to be our parents, it's you, our brother, you know my closest friends. It's more of like a community of people, but at the same time, it's like, okay, what do I think and what do I feel is right in this situation and go with that?
00:27:48
Speaker
I gotta listen to myself over all of the other, the cacophony of voices. I have to listen to myself, ultimately. But, I mean, I go i go to other people for advice and and things like that, but ultimately I'm gonna listen to it myself in my own heart. The cacophony of voices, ladies and gentlemen, don't even listen to them. No, no, I mean, that's rest dope. ah For me,
00:28:14
Speaker
The people that I know, the most influential people that I know, it's not a person, it's two people and it's mom and dad. For me, especially as I've gotten older, at the time I didn't realize the example that they were setting. yeah And the the example of a work ethic.
00:28:31
Speaker
Yeah. but and And a grind and in and a sense of, yeah, we're going to go and accomplish this. This is what I plan. on there There hasn't been a thing that they said that they were going to do that they didn't. Well, no, there have been things, but I'm talking about accomplishments. yeah yeah There hasn't been a thing that they said that they were were going to do that they didn't accomplish. Right. Right. And so seeing that,
00:28:55
Speaker
you know, going back to the top of the show, it was like, okay, I'm going to start a podcast. Yeah, expect to get to 200 shows, and right? Like, why would I not expect that? Because I come from two people that say, yeah, I'm going to go to college. And even though I have a kid, oh, wait a minute, two kids, oh, wait a minute, three kids.
00:29:16
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and we're in our early 20s and we might be on welfare. Yes, I'm going to get myself out of this situation and still become successful. How could I not look at that yeah growing up and absorb that whether it was conscious or subconscious and then now being older and looking back, just feeling like, yo, how the hell did y'all do that? I'm 44 years old. I don't know that I could do it now. yeah And they were half of my age. So that they've always influenced me. Now, if you want to talk about people that I don't know that have influenced me, this is going to sound weird, but it's two people. It's Camron and Bernie Mac. OK, Camron.
00:30:02
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i'm Now, Bernie Mac I get because you, I don't know too many people that love Bernie Mac more than you do. But I'm interested in how Cameron figures into this. Is this is pink? Very much because of prints, right? It's the same exact thing. Cameron started wearing pink and it was during an era where you're like, you can't do that. It was during such machismo, such masculinity, such toxic masculinity of things that you couldn't do that Prince, mind you, what had been doing right for the longest time. But I wasn't as big of a Prince fan. I was a Michael Jackson fan. And even Michael was kind of doing something similar to that. But it was still like, I'm not going to mimic my life after Michael Jackson. I'm listening to 90s hip hop and into this gutter. Yeah.
00:30:57
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And then a camera comes out there, dressing for, a very Harlem. That's the thing, very Harlem. Dressing fly, wanna be like goatee'd up, haircut up, you know, and just being like, they used to call me a pretty boy when I was younger, and that was a negative,
00:31:20
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backhanded compliment. Cameron was out here calling me that because my goal is to get women. And I was like, that's my goal, too. That's what I want to do, too. right And Cameron is out here popping and get mad respect in the streets that, OK, so I can be everything that I want to be.
00:31:42
Speaker
and still be myself and not think that I'm less. So, Cameron, and Bernie Mac, just because he tells it he told it like it is, he was unfiltered, said what do he wanted to say, but he was a good, ah by all interviews of peoples that knew him, yeah just a good, kind, decent person that you knew where you stood with him, he wasn't gonna lie to you, he wasn't gonna cheat you, he was just gonna be a,
00:32:09
Speaker
not to make a gender, but just be a man or just be a solid person about how they represent it. And that influenced me. yeah And he did it his way. yeah And I was like, you know, yeah, I'm going to do things my way, either it's going to work out or not work out, but it's going to be on my terms. Yeah. You can, you can be a part of this business and still maintain your kindness. Yes. And your individuality.
00:32:34
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here ah And I read this, I didn't know i didn't know this, but Cameron actually went to Pantone and created his own color and it's called Killa Pink.
00:32:48
Speaker
Well, I need to get me a couple of shirts and kill the pain. No, he started his own podcast, it's successful. Not everything he do he does, I agree with, okay? But there are elements of him that I'm just like, yo, that's a dope dude. Okay, what's your favorite funny story to tell people? I know what mine is.
00:33:09
Speaker
My favorite funny story to tell people. Gosh, there's so many. um They always have to do with you. It's never, it's never... Well, it's one story. Well, what is yours? And then... but My funny story is when I threw the cup at your head. I knew you were gonna say that. I knew you were gonna talk about that cup. I knew it. i say And he better not talk about that damn cup that he threw at my head. ah Sure enough, here you go with that damn cup.
00:33:38
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Look, and it's funny because, ladies and gentlemen, it's a little juice cup. it it It couldn't have been more than about four inches. and It was like a four ounce cup. It was a little kid's juice cup. And I don't remember what she did. We were kids, by the way. I don't remember what she did to piss me off. And from across the room, because I always had great aim, I threw the cup at her head and it literally hit her forehead bounced off her forehead and came almost completely back to me from across the room and at first she wanted to start crying I couldn't stop breaking up how far back it came back to me and everybody had to start laughing
00:34:17
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um That is so hilarious to me. I don't know how old we were, but that, the cup at your head, hilarious. And then our brother run into the screen door like that. Our brother running into the screen door and the movers that were moving us into the place was telling us not to laugh at him. And all four of us just follow it literally fallen, falling out on the ground because he ran into that door.
00:34:41
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and where pardon I think mine is probably the the baseball game. You got to tell the people about the baseball game. You got to do it. Are you proud enough? I feel like we've already told that one. I know, but that but we have people that are new to the show that don't know the story. So you got to just bri give a brief synopsis of what happened at the baseball game. Uh, very briefly because I don't want to embarrass him, but we, uh, he's gonna hate us. Yeah. Well, he already kind of does. So, uh, we were at his baseball game. He was in the outfield fly ball hit him right in the head. You just saw his little body arch and fall. And the problem was everybody ran out to see if he was okay, but we were just falling off the bleaches laughing.
00:35:37
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He has a legitimate gripe to have real life beef with us. Yeah. and Yeah. Yeah. legitimate the Legitimate beef. Yeah. Legitimate beef. But that so yeah, that's that's a funny story. All right. If you could interview anyone living or dead, who would it be and why?
Dream Interviews and Merchandise
00:35:53
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ah you I know yours. We both know each other's. Yeah. But yours is, go ahead. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Yeah. Neil deGrasse Tyson. He is still, that is that is the celebrity get.
00:36:04
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I have so many stupid, stupid space questions to ask him that I really want to know the answers to. And I feel like I could ask him questions he's never been asked before because they're that dumb. They're that dumb about space. And I i just have to know. OK, so yes, we both we both would love to have Neil deGrasse Tyson on.
00:36:32
Speaker
He would never come on our show because we're a bunch of idiots and he has his own show. And I feel like Neil deGrasse Tyson does not suffer fools and that is exactly what we are. And so, but I also feel like he'll be very patient with us, right? Like, yeah I just feel like he will be a good guest. He would crack jokes. He would crack jokes. Yeah. I feel like he'd be a great guest.
00:36:55
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So ladies and gentlemen, what's funny is and my sisters doesn't do the interviews with me. I do the interviews by myself, but God forbid that I got nil to grass types. I would murder you. that's If I was not a part of that show, we would have legitimate beef and I mean for years.
00:37:17
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That would be the end of the sibling happy hour, to be honest with you. I think that'd be the end of our whole sibling. Yeah, that'd be the end of our whole siblinghood. There's absolutely no way. Yeah, no, it wouldn't be. For me, it's Bernie Mac. Yeah. It's Bernie Mac. The only other person, the only other person, would be Lyndon Baines Johnson. That would be a good get.
00:37:47
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Yeah, you know, if I could if I could talk to Lyndon Baines Johnson, my favorite president of all time, that to me, the greatest president and also Richard Nixon said the greatest legislative president of the 20th century.
00:38:04
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I mean, think about all the great presidents that we had in the 20th century. We had FDR. We had Teddy Roosevelt. We had, ah I mean, they want to say Kennedy, you know. I mean, there we had LBJ. You know, we had, I mean, I guess you could put Clinton up there, I guess. I think Herbert Walker was a better president, but but we let's move on.
00:38:26
Speaker
But no, Lyndon Baines Johnson. So those are, for a lot of people out there, they'd be like, oh, I'll get Bernie Mac. But Bruce Wyatt, LBJ, he's my favorite president. I'm a historian. Look him up. Let me tell you something. That man was a force of nature, the greatest and most important president that we've had since Lincoln. Since Lincoln. OK. This was submitted. And I thought this was an interesting question when it was submitted. Which sibling is the grumpiest?
00:38:57
Speaker
I think the natural inclination is to say our our younger brother, but I actually don't think that that's correct. I i think it depends on the circumstance. um I would say I'm grumpy like 80% of the time waking waking you up before you're ready to get it.
00:39:26
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it You know, like yeah it was a dangerous game to play, but I don't know, I don't know who like overall, I honestly, I would say me.
00:39:40
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see i See, the grumpiest, when when I think of who the grumpiest, i don't think of I don't think of it who is grumpy the majority of the time. right Because that that varies between all three of us. right Who is the grumpiest at their at their in their grumpy state? Oh, then yeah. yeah that's That's me. that ah that's That's me. Because I may not be grumpy often,
00:40:08
Speaker
But when you get grumpy, when I get there, it's larry there. There's no talking you down like it's it's. You know, oh boy, yeah, that's how I am with all emotions like I don't have I do have a full range of emotions. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not Spock from Star Trek. I try to stay even killed. But if an emotion is heightened, it is heightened.
00:40:34
Speaker
one 1000th degree. If I am happy, happy. Whoo. It's cranked up to 11. If I am emotional, emotional. Whoa. So when we say who's the grumpiest, like that, the if there was a gauge, and this person then hit the grumpiest meter, and you can't get any more grumpier than that. That would be me, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. Yes. yeah And my sister is right. Don't wake me up before it's time for me to get up. I don't have no problem getting up in the morning.
00:41:02
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when I wake myself up. Don't wait no don't wake me. Don't wake me. Oh, whoa. That's the reason why my phone is on. Do not disturb. Starting at 9.30 at night till 9 o'clock in the morning. yeah And I get mad at my alarm. I'd be ready to punch my alarm when I'm like, hey, man, I forgot I could sleep in today. Why are you waking me up? You said it. Well, I said it wrong. Yeah. I forgot to turn you off. And I'm sorry. Yep. But you need to shut up.
00:41:29
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shut cuz I'm not ready to get up. I'm not ready to get up. Yeah, I 100% agree with that. Yeah. Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but I'm the grumpiest. Okay, so the last question in personal stories, fun and future plans. Are you thinking of making merchandise such as t shirts, sweatshirts, hats, mugs, etc. We did that. and We did that like a year and a half ago. Yeah.
00:41:52
Speaker
and we advertised it and didn't nobody buy it. Well, I think we should go back and I don't think we should start with t-shirts. I actually would like to start with mugs, like happy hour mugs or happy hour glasses or something, you know, where people can toast to the happy hour while they were listening or watching the happy hour. And then I feel like we didn't put as much into the design of the shirts well that's a direct attack against me because i'm the one who designed the shirts oh i thought we had somebody do that nope i'm the one who designed them did you just use word art like what i can't stand you i swear
00:42:45
Speaker
ah want more ah because what I went to a company and I put the logo and and I designed the font and everything and I like moved it around and yeah. like okay but When I sent it, people were like, yeah, I want to get one and then nobody bought it. And then it costs me money to have the store up and running. So, okay, this is what I tell the people out there. First of all, first of all,
00:43:12
Speaker
Let me know if you're interested. Number one, that you're going to buy some stuff. right we' we'll we'll mark We'll market so that we ain't getting no real profit. We want to break even. I don't want to lose money yeah selling t-shirts and sweatshirts. But I'll sell merch if y'all is serious about it.
00:43:30
Speaker
I will sell some merch. I will put the store back on the website and y'all can buy it. Y'all can buy it directly from the website. It'll come straight to your home. I had it all set up and ready to go. And if y'all want some different designs and stuff, my sister came up with some glasses, you know, I'll examine it. And you know what? I'll tell you what, give me a couple of weeks and it'll be up and running again. And y'all can go ahead and get some stuff. We designed some more stuff because I already got some stuff out there. Yes.
00:43:58
Speaker
We'll have merch. OK. Yes. But I mean, I ain't going to have it up there for for long if people ain't buying stuff. Y'all not buying stuff because that costs me money. If y'all not buying stuff, I'm taking it down again. Well, we'll we'll work on it.
00:44:13
Speaker
you i Yeah, look, well, you say will, no. No, I'll know. Oh, no. Okay. Well, look, because that costs money, ladies and gentlemen, you're like, but it can cost you money to run a store. Yes, it does. Even if it's virtual, that still costs money. All right. yeah you know But yes, we will put some stuff out there if y'all want it. Hey, we're gonna give y'all what y'all want. Yeah. How about that?
00:44:37
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There we go. All right. Next segment. Me and my sister ask each other questions and we're going to get into that next. next
00:44:54
Speaker
All right, for the final segment, it's the siblings. It's me and my sister asking each other questions. This was actually your idea. You sent me something, and you was like, we should talk about this on the podcast. And I was like, this is really good. So we're going to do about three questions yeah that that obviously is going to take them about 15 minutes, because that's how we do.
00:45:12
Speaker
and you But there are 15 questions. Are we going to get to all of them? Probably not. We're going to do three on the show and then the others we're going to do in our after hour show. That's the after hours on our Patreon page at patreon dot.com backslash us list perspectives that you can get for $5 a month now.
00:45:31
Speaker
Some people are tripping because it's $5 a month. Let me explain it to you. It's $5 a month for two hours of content. And what else can you get $5 with? You can't get an extra value mail from McDonald's for $5. Not no more. Not no more. You can't get you no liquor. You can't get no six-pack. You can't get no bottle wire. Well, you can get a bottle of wire from auction. You can. You can do that. Yeah. um You can't really put gas in your car to go nowhere for any length of time. You can get home on $5 if you're not far. You might be able to get a carton of eggs. Maybe. Maybe. A half dozen. A half dozen. You won't be able to get more than two things of Gatorade Zero with $5. That's pretty much it. That's specific. Yeah. ah you can You can get two bags of Harris Teeter
00:46:23
Speaker
Kettle chips, but you need you need some change for the tax because it's $2.50 for two bags. So really you can only get one bag and maybe a Snapple? Maybe. Maybe a Snapple. So for $5 a month, two hours of content.
00:46:39
Speaker
If you guys want to hear more of these questions, we're going to be filming right after this. After we finish filming this, we're going to be filming that. It'll be up on Monday night. So as a matter of fact, it's already up. If you're listening or watching the show, it's already up. You can go and listen and watch it. So there it is. But Jay, what is your favorite memory of us?
00:47:05
Speaker
I mean, you, that those those rides back to Howard, when I was a freshman in college at Howard University, and you were at the University of Maryland. and We would go home on weekends to do laundry, just have moms cooking, just, you know, because it was just a metro ride, you know? So, and you would take me back to school, and now before that,
00:47:29
Speaker
We weren't that close. ah and that we who who in that On those rides, just joking, making jokes together and stuff like that, I realized, hey, this guy's kind of funny. so We have a very similar sense of humor. He's all right.
00:47:49
Speaker
And honestly, that's when I started to like you. yeah yeah yeah Always loved me, but that's when you started to like me. Always loved you. Always loved you. But that's when I started to like you. Yeah. And then I think that's when you stop seeing me as your little sister. And I just became your sister, and that changed the dynamic of our relationship. You stopped being so bossy.
00:48:16
Speaker
Because we're both in college at this point. So you know we're both and ah getting into adulthood. so Yet that, so I have two favorite memories, that and we were younger, younger. So I want to talk about the rides. Ladies and gentlemen, y'all have to understand me and my sister are four years apart. And that's, when we get to this big age, that's not that big of a difference. But when you're younger, it we we only went to elementary school together for a little bit. Other than that, we were never in school together, unlike
00:48:51
Speaker
Her and our brother, who are a year and a half apart, they're almost twins almost, almost. like they've They've always been around each other. So the siblings have been, it was me off to my own. Oftentimes, like when we lived in places and we all had our own bedroom, my bedroom was always downstairs. I was always separated from everybody.
00:49:12
Speaker
yeah um emotionally, mentally, and physically. Like, it just separated. yeah so And I was the oldest sibling, which meant that I was the third parent, whether I wanted to be or if not. Just because our parents are so young, that responsibility was kind of heaped on me. So you and our brother was like, all he does is boss us around. And I did. i Like, I'm extremely selfish. And, well, I still am in some regards, selfish. So those rides,
00:49:41
Speaker
Just as um' you're learning about me, I'm learning about you. And if you remember, I was a huge advocate for you to go to that university. Huge advocate for you to go to that university. And whatever you needed to be successful, because I was championing you, I was going to do it. And i and somewhere along the line, we just let down our guard to actually learn about each other yeah because now we're adults and you're right, I stopped looking at you as my little sister and started looking at you as my sister. yeah um So yes, there's that, but also for me, you and our brother don't have the fondest memories that I do for this, but when we used to do Brother and Sister Day when we were really, really young,
00:50:37
Speaker
and We do have fond memories of that. Well, OK. I'm talking about really young. When we were still living in Lynchburg, like when we were little kids, and it would be something that I always wanted to do because I didn't know any better to incorporate things that y'all wanted to do. I was just like, I just want to hang out with at what I thought at that time, my little brother and sister. Yeah. And I want to spend time with them because I begged mom and dad for y'all.
00:51:04
Speaker
Like I did, I begged mom and dad when I was the only child for the longest time. yeah Like, I wanted a little brother and a little sister. And then when you came in and and you were there, I was attached to your hip when we were young, young kids. So around the age of like 10 or 11, I wanted to make sure that even though I was going out doing my own thing, that I always spent time with my little brother and sister. So I have really fond memories.
00:51:29
Speaker
of of that and then those car rides. Those car rides is when we became like tight. Yeah. That's that's when we became tight because I still remember some of them ads for the chicken wings. You want chicken? You want chicken done right? Come on down to cluck you chicken.
00:51:48
Speaker
That wasn't even a chicken spot. that wasn't It was another chicken spot. It was another chicken carry out. And I can't remember the name of that chicken carry out. I mean, either. But we came up with a ton of commercials. Ton of ads for that. For just all the businesses that are ah down George Avenue, we just kept coming up with ideas for those.
00:52:09
Speaker
Because we weren't that cool, we probably did not come up for ads for the strip clubs, because there was two strip clubs that we pay us by. And I was just like, I'm not touching that with 10-foot pole. Like, now I don't know. Now we'll do it. Now we do it. But back then, no. Back then it probably happened. Baby steps. Yeah. And then us working together at Hard Rock.
00:52:34
Speaker
Yes. I think we got even closer um when I started working there. You hated me a little bit there too. Because again, you went back into kind of like bossy mode. First of all, all of y'all got on my nerves because y'all were all coming to my host stand and complain about who I sat in your section. and that Or you were in the weeds or something and I sat somebody. Listen, my job is hard too, okay? Don't keep coming up to this host stand with complaint. I'm going to send you back crying.
00:53:05
Speaker
I never went back crying. But i i I was not nice, because y'all would get on my nerves. I'd have to let y'all get the hell away from my upstairs. No, but that was that was a fun time too. Because that was the time, the drive is when we got to know each other. Hard Rock is actually, there were times when we actually got to hang, like yeah like hang out. Yes. because i But there was still me being overprotective, being like, are you drinking too fast? Just slow down. Even though you were the ones buying you were the one buying me the drinks.
00:53:39
Speaker
Yeah, I know, but you was drinking too fast. You still drink too fast, matter of fact. You do everything fast. You drive fast, you drink fast. I don't drive that fast anymore. Oh, OK. And I realized the other day, I was at 10 and 2. And I was like, what am I doing? Like, I'm not even driving cool right now. No, you get older. You just get older. And I was laying so close to the steering wheel. I couldn't. I was like, why am I driving like this? Because I want what I was trying to see. And I was like, I can't.
00:54:07
Speaker
Why do I drive like this? This is ridiculous. All right. What is something that you got away with as a kid? yeah so ah Oh boy, somebody's up.
00:54:18
Speaker
ah so um hey We got into a lot of shenanigans. I always had a lot of great ideas, genius ideas, honestly, and one of my best ideas was stairs luge. Stair luge is just what it sounds like. It's a luge, but you're on the stairs. so i would put our younger brother in a bucket and I will push that bucket down the stairs. Well, one time our stairs in our old house used to curve at the bottom. And one time he went right into that wall. He went right into the wall and there was a huge hole in the wall. So what we did is we went up to the attic and we got extra wallpaper.
00:55:00
Speaker
that we had and we lined that wallpaper up. I mean, because it was like a striped wallpaper and we lined it up perfectly, taped it up. Our parents never knew until we were getting ready to move and they were changing the wallpaper and they took the old wallpaper down and found this gigantic hole in the wall.
00:55:19
Speaker
that no but One, how big was the hole? Two, how long was that hole there? Years, and it had to be at least a foot across. Jesus. It was a gigantic hole, and we just covered it up with the all with the spare wallpaper and and nobody knew for years.
00:55:41
Speaker
I mean years. you and the That's another thing about doing this show. The more we've done this show is the more I've learned about you and our brother's shenanigans. Y'all was out here living a life. Living a life. We were up to stuff yes all the time. We were all always up to stuff, yes.
00:56:04
Speaker
What did I get away with as a kid? Nothing. Nothing. Because I was the first. So that means they was on me all the time. Mom and dad was watching me all the time. I didn't have free time. I did not do nothing. And then when I did have free time, guess what? I was watching y'all. So there was nothing that I could sneak around and get and and do. Now, that I wasn't a kid. I was older. Yeah.
00:56:29
Speaker
And when I say older, I mean, senior in high school before drinking age. And there was a rule in the house that dad was like, look, turn 16, I don't mind y'all drinking. You do it in the house, I'll get you whatever you want. We'll do it in the house. Don't leave this house. And I was like, cool, deal. I left that I left it. My bedroom was downstairs. es Everybody go to sleep. Guess what? I'm leaving that house. yeah But also, our dad had super hearing, super hearing. He had hearing like Superman. and So he would always hear something going on yeah and be like, hey, what's going on?
00:57:12
Speaker
And if I wasn't there, trouble. But yeah like as a kid, nothing. But also, I was kind of like a good kid. I didn't want to break no rules. na i was I was a shady kid. i had I always had some scheme. Yeah, Kids Olympics. We've already gone over that. All right, last question. And once again, if y'all want more of the questions after I was uncensored on our Patreon page. Yep.
00:57:35
Speaker
How do you think our upbringing has influenced the people we are today? Significantly. You know, one of the main things that I talk about like in my life is the fact that I will go and find the information that I don't know.
00:57:53
Speaker
And that came from both of our parents, our dad fostering an analytical mind, like making us read the paper, and then reporting on it, and like asking us questions, and trying to get our thoughts on whatever article that we read. And the fact that when I would go and ask mom, you know what what does this word mean, or what is this, and that, and her response was always look it up.
00:58:21
Speaker
and to the point where I stopped asking and my first instinct was to look it up. So it does irk me a little bit when people's first instinct is to ask somebody instead of trying to find the information on their own. I'm trying to give people a little more grace with that because they grow up the way I grew up, but definitely inquisitive mind and an analytical mind we got from our parents and how they raised us.
00:58:51
Speaker
Yeah, you know, I said it earlier, mom and dad, you know, can't give them enough praise. Do we have some childhood trauma? Yeah. Yeah. But everybody has childhood trauma. Everybody has childhood trauma. But the things that our parents gave us, wow, you can't, you can't, you wouldn't have to buy that. Like, it's just, and they they gave it to us for free. They gave it to us for free. And it's the better ability to critically think,
00:59:21
Speaker
Yeah. And analyze. And those are blessings that I'm finding out, like, not everybody has. I assumed, like you, everybody, you know, had this, and they do not. No. So I'm very, very... You can surprise the number of people who cannot think critically, and that is how we are in the current political situation that we're in today. Yeah, well, I mean, yes. Well, yeah, yeah.
00:59:46
Speaker
ah or their emotions involved with them not being able to think critically. I mean, but here I go again. Yeah, doing the thing that you hate. Definitely no well advocate.
00:59:57
Speaker
But you know as well as I do that sometimes emotions get involved in your critical thinking because me and you have put ourselves in personal situations that we were like, I'm smarter than this. How did I put myself in this situation? And it was our emotions that guided our decisions. So they they we are, we you know, we ain't infallible. But yeah, mom and dad, but not just mom and dad for me.
01:00:21
Speaker
It's also our grandparents. Yeah. ah because We had great grandparents. All of them were hustlers. like Yeah. all of And I don't mean like hustler, hus grinders is the right word to use. yeah All of them were grinders. They were all hardworking. Yes, and go out there and go get it. like Everybody was go out there and go get it. So I am so grateful for the generations before us showing us the way. Yeah. And that's the reason why we have the guts to even start this podcast and get to 200 episodes. Booyah. That's how we do it. And you see, ladies and gentlemen, you see how much different, if you go back and listen to 100th episode and the 200th, I'd be landing these segment breaks, boy.
01:01:08
Speaker
i Got much better. I'd be bringing them back together. I don't care what nobody's saying. I'm starting to get real good at this. I have to i have to get you props. That is 100% sure. Jay, what do you want to lead the people with?
01:01:24
Speaker
We really, really, really, really appreciate every single one of you. Thank you so much for for rocking with us for this long. Even if you're new to the podcast, thank you so much. Like seriously, we wouldn't have a podcast if you guys didn't listen. So thank you so much for your questions. I still think it's crazy that you guys want to know about us, but we're happy to share. Well, I am, you know.
01:01:53
Speaker
with let Just thank you. Throw the bottom of my heart. Thank you. I want to say thank you as well. I know at the beginning of the podcast, if you were listening, it didn't come off as I was really enthusiastic about hitting the 200th episode. And that is a flaw of mine. Whereas I set out to have a goal and I don't ever appreciate the destination. It is just getting to the end result. yeah But I am extremely appreciative of everybody. The people who watch us because they enjoy us, the people that watch us or listen to us because they love us, the people that hate watch us and listen to us. I even appreciate y'all. Hey, look, you know you and't done something right where you got some haters. yeah So I love the love, I love the hate.
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Thank you just for us getting here. And guess what? 200 more. I can't wait to celebrate episode 400. That'll be in two years the way these things is going because I ain't going to add no more episodes during the week. I'm just not going to do it. that that Don't hold me to that because that could be a lie. Yeah. That could very well be a lie. I'm feeling like it might be. It could very well be a lie. But um just, no, thank you. yeah For real, for real. Thank you for your questions. Thank you for your support. Thank you. And on that same note, ladies and gentlemen, freedom over I want to thank you for listening. it's the same I want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always,
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a holla.
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