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“What Is Masculinity?” Kobe, Tariff Wars & Anthony Mackie
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Masculinity, parenting, toxic masculinity, trade war, cultural commentary – these are the raw topics setting the stage for an unfiltered episode of Unsolicited Perspectives. Join Bruce Anthony and his sister J. Aundrea as they deliver candid sibling banter and thought-provoking insights on modern manhood, accountability, and evolving gender roles. They revisit Kobe Bryant’s controversial past, unpack Anthony Mackie’s take on traditional masculinity, and even explore the absurdity of trade wars—like the viral notion of Canada cutting off America’s porn supply. With a blend of humor, honesty, and heart, this episode challenges old norms while offering fresh perspectives on power dynamics, societal expectations, and the complexities of parenting. Whether you’re here for spicy takes or deep, reflective conversation, prepare to question everything you thought you knew about manhood, pop culture, and the state of our world. #masculinity #KobeBryant #AnthonyMackie #tradewars #tariffs #unsolicitedperspectives
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Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
01:06 Sibling Happy Hour: Spicy Takes & Drinks 🍹🌶️
02:24 "Accidentally" Too Much Fun: Drinking Stories and Episode Length 🍻🤪
05:43 Kobe Bryant Revisited: A Deep Dive into Masculinity and Accountability 🏀💭
22:25 Anthony Mackie’s Take on Masculinity: Protector or Problematic? 🛡️🤔
34:21 Rewriting the Rulebook: The Evolution of Manhood ✍️🔄
35:09 Women in the Household: Breaking Down Gender Roles 👩👧👦⚖️
35:36 Parenting 101: Are We Raising Kids or Mini-Adults? 👶🧑💼
37:20 "I’ll Protect You": Personal Stories of Responsibility 🛡️👨👩👧👦
43:25 Style Rebels: Fashion, Masculinity & Breaking the Mold 👔🔥
47:11 Trade Wars Gone Wild: Could Canada Cut Off Our Porn? 🚫🍑
49:06 Tariffs and Consequences: Why Trade Wars Hurt Everyone 💸🌍
58:31 Signing Off: Closing Thoughts & Stay Healthy
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Transcript
Introduction to Unsolicited Perspectives
00:00:00
Speaker
I had a realization yesterday. I'm going to talk about it. And Anthony Mackie talks about masculinity. We're going to get into it. Let's get it
00:00:18
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 or follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcasts and YouTube exclusive content. Rate, review, like, comment, share.
00:00:38
Speaker
Share it with your friends, share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies.
Sibling Happy Hour: American Masculinity & Trade Wars
00:00:42
Speaker
On today's episode, it's the Sibling Happy Hour. I'm here with my sis, J. Andrea. We're going to be dilly-dadding a little bit, and then we're going to talking about masculinity, American masculinity, and then we're going to be talking about the trade war affecting our porn.
00:00:57
Speaker
But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
00:01:06
Speaker
What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it, I can't call it, but you sure as hell can. I'm here, though. I got a little stomach bug, but I'm i i'm here for the people.
00:01:18
Speaker
You here for the people, got a new headband on, it's more colorful?
00:01:23
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yeah Yeah. ah
00:01:27
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You know, last episode, don't know. It looked like my wig was sliding off, but it was my headband. yeah It was not, my wig was not sliding off. It was my headband. So I was like, okay, let me change the headband so then people can see.
00:01:45
Speaker
No, my wig is not sliding off. Right. Yeah, no. I thought it was funny. And it was funny that you sent me a text. He like, need to fix this. And I was like, what the hell I'm going to do? What do you want me to do? Put an emoji on me?
00:01:59
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I was like, whatever you got to do. yeah not Nobody even noticed. that Now they're going
Personal Responsibility & Professionalism
00:02:05
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to notice. this Now they're going to go back and look and be like, oh, it does look like a wig slipping over.
00:02:11
Speaker
I probably could have just let it slide, but nope no, I'm going to bring it up. Yeah, no, that's cool. I mean, it is what it is. We already shot the show. move It's out there chill is out there. It's in the ether.
00:02:22
Speaker
vietnam what it is So, ladies gentlemen, my sister is working at hurt. So I don't know how long this episode is going to be. It might it might not be the normal like hour plus that we normally do. It might be closer to like 45, 50 minutes because I'm dragging a little bit myself because I accidentally drank too much yesterday.
00:02:39
Speaker
Accidentally or on purpose? no No, no, no, It was absolutely an accident because I know how you've been around me on my drinking days. Yeah. Yes. And ah people out there are really worried about me. Like you drink a lot.
00:02:51
Speaker
Yeah. Don't worry about yourself. Don't worry about me. Right. Here's the thing. Here's thing. The difference does he still get his business taken care of? And the answer is yes.
00:03:03
Speaker
Yes. Yes. Relax. And I be handling business. That's for sure. But no, it was an accident yesterday because I bought these solo coats instead of drinking from my normal cup. And i don't know, maybe the measurements is all ah awful. Or yesterday, yeah, yeah.
00:03:20
Speaker
yeah Or I was just having a great day yesterday, just vibing, doing absolutely nothing. You ever sit on the couch and just look around and you at peace and then you start kicking your feet, swinging your feet like i'm happy right now. Yeah.
00:03:32
Speaker
Giggling and kicking your feet under a blanket. Yes. wouldn't have i would had no blanket, but. But no, I have cups, but as you can see, I got a solo cup. It's something ah about the solo cup, the stuff, it just tastes better coming out of the solo cup. So I don't know. I feel you on that. And so you just, you got the solo cup, you drink it and you look up you're just like, oh,
00:03:56
Speaker
didn't mean to do that. yeah No, I didn't mean I was up until 1.30 yesterday. I was editing some stuff that's posting the day because I wanted to be done with it. I didn't want to wake up in the morning to have to do it.
00:04:07
Speaker
But I kept drinking till 1.30 in the morning. And I'll typically drink that late. And so I woke up a little haggard. You know, I woke up. tasting the alcohol and i was like oh yeah i really drank last night yeah see me i couldn't get you know i i take adderall because i have adhd so sometimes it makes it difficult to get to sleep and i wasn't feeling well so i took a sedative okay let me tell you something Don't take the things just out of be prepared.
00:04:40
Speaker
what what What do you need to be prepared for? It's going to knock you on your behind. i was out and couldn't move. Like when I woke up, I was just like, I can't even move my body.
00:04:51
Speaker
Well, is it the sedative or it the fact that you don't feel well? I think it's combination of both. That's what I think is a combination both. I don't typically take, you know, anything to get to sleep because usually ah could be out like a light. But for some reason yesterday I couldn't.
00:05:06
Speaker
Took a sedative and your girl was down for the count. bring in messages gone up Don't off, don't, not reply, nothing. you and i You and I are different in that because I have to literally wear myself out to go to sleep.
00:05:21
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I mean, I have to waste all of my energy. And if I don't do it during that day, I'm not going sleep well. Yeah, no, usually can hit the pillow and a be out, but I just couldn't. And so I was like, oh let me take a sedative.
00:05:37
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I don't know if I'm going to that again. Don't do while you're sick. Yeah.
Reflecting on Kobe Bryant's Allegations
00:05:41
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yeah Another reason why I was probably drinking a lot last night is because I had an epiphany. Okay.
00:05:49
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And it was deep. So I know typically the dilly-dallying, we like to like ease our way into serious talk. Yeah. we're to talk about porn later on. So, I mean, that's jokes. there there's There's some humor in there. So I was watching this documentary, and it's about Kobe.
00:06:04
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I don't remember what streaming site because we got so many of them. Yeah. It was ah just a Kobe doc and it just came out this year. And it was first talking about his, the first episode was talking about his upbringing, you know, how he lived in Italy and didn't really come here until he but he left for Italy around six and didn't really come here until like high school.
00:06:25
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So that's reason why Everybody kind of thought like he's ah of my generation. he was in high school when I was in high school. We all kind of thought that he was kind lame. Yeah. And it was just because he was European. He wasn't American because that's where he grew up. He grew up in Italy. So he just didn't have an American swag.
00:06:41
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Yeah. The second episode. And and to to put a disclaimer, I'm a huge Kobe Bryant fan. Love being cried. the day he died.
00:06:53
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And now is this Kobe, the making of a legend? Yes. That's exactly what it is Apple TV is on there. It's on Apple. It's on Apple TV? Mm-hmm. I didn't even know had Apple TV. You do. Because where do you think you watch For All man Mankind?
00:07:05
Speaker
Yep, you're absolutely right. ah Our brother comes over here just puts stuff on my fire stick and then next time know I got, hey, because he want to watch something. Like, hey, I guess I got this now. Anyway, so the second episode gets to the sexual assault allegation that happened in Colorado back in 03.
00:07:24
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Now, during this time, I have always been a person to give women the benefit of a doubt because especially through ah when when there's accusations of sexual assault. Yeah.
00:07:37
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Because there are far more cases of it actually happening than false reporting. Right. Right. And I know men are trifling. I knew men are trifling even when I was in the most... this is And this is 2003. I'm at the height of my toxic masculinity. I'm at the height.
00:07:53
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You'll get no worse correct than me in 2003. I am toxic all the way around. And then, of course, you imagine yourself with a bunch of money and fame... Right. Yes.
00:08:04
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So I remember reading the case. And so that's what, you know, me researcher, I'm like, I'm not going to just go on what the news is reporting. I'm going to read the case. And when I read the case, I was just like, oh, he didn't do it.
00:08:16
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Like, this is them trying to get at him. And I remember in 2003. And so for the last 20 plus years. I've been like, he didn't do that. Yeah, definitely didn't do that. Well, I'm watching this documentary and I completely forgot that they did drop the case because the accuser says she didn't want to testify.
00:08:35
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um Things that I forgot. She was only 19 years old and the media scrutiny was absolutely ridiculous. She's a small town girl. Yeah. And another thing that I completely forgot, Kobe all but admitted it when he wrote, when he There was a civil case after the criminal case was dropped and he settled.
00:08:54
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And then wrote her an apology basically saying, you know, I'm sorry. I thought it was consensual. But now I see that you don't see that it was consensual. And I was like, oh, so you did this this whole time.
00:09:05
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Well, here's the thing. And this is I'm not giving anyone a pass. Anyone. but there's There was a time but there where men needed a lot of education on what consent actually was.
00:09:24
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you That you can't consent and you're you're drunk or you're high or you can't consent you know, coercion is not consent or things like that. There were a lot of that, but y'all just think, I'm just, I'm just begging a little bit, you know, and then she gives it, you know, there are, there are a lot of instances where I'm sure he thought he had gained consent and that just was not the case. And I don't know the details of the case, but I think both can be true.
00:09:58
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Yeah. i and And as I've taken, i had to take, as I've taken myself back and look at it,
00:10:10
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I tend to believe her now way more than I did back then. last Back then, i was like, oh, this is a money grab because he's Kobe being bright. Because he was a superstar. This is before he was Black Mamba. This is when he was Mr. McDonald.
00:10:23
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yeah He had taken that Michael Jordan route, and he was like America's darling. then this happened, and I was like, oh, no, Kobe Bryant wouldn't do that. And now I'm like, wait a minute. I'm older now and I know how power works, especially men who are powerful. Yes.
00:10:40
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And how men who are powerful don't like rejection. hmm. And I say, oh, I needed to take a step back and be like, well, no, maybe Kobe did it. And I hate to think about this or even bring this up because the man passed away.
00:10:54
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yeah like I believe the world died when Kobe died because that's when COVID happened. Right. Like Kobe passed away. Gianna passes away. COVID happens. The world ends.
00:11:04
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Yeah. I'm a huge fan of Kobe, but i now in retrospect, I have to examine myself and say, yo, I can't give this a blind pass that he didn't do it. I have to look at the facts and be like, yo, odds are he did absolutely do this.
00:11:21
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right yeah like Is it a so horrific as some people would imagine, maybe not, but nevertheless, doesn't matter how people can imagine how horrific it is.
00:11:31
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It's still a violation of another person. And I think he probably went through that same realization of like, it, my intent doesn't matter. What was the impact of my actions?
00:11:43
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And I think when he had all daughters, yeah like that had, like he became this girl dad, but like that had to have hit him examining himself. Yeah. Because, i mean, he was a kid at the time. I think he was like 2003.
00:11:57
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I think he's two years older than me. So he's 25. And you say, well that's not a kid. No, no. Yeah, it very much is. that at Looking back on that age, you're very much child. But they were they were both young.
00:12:11
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They were both young. And, you know, what was the apology letter? Part of a legal thing. Part of also him examining his own behavior.
00:12:22
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i think it was a little bit of both. But yeah, they I mean, you, especially, especially men have to understand that sometimes it's not the person grabbing you in the alleyway, right? Sometimes it's just a power dynamic that makes you feel unsafe. And then to the point where you like, okay, to get out of this situation, yes I have to do something.
00:12:50
Speaker
I had two instances, uh, where a friend told me about her going through something, right? Two separate friends, both female.
00:13:02
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One friend said that very same thing. Like I was over this guy's house He was kind of being aggressive, but not too aggressive. But my rationale was, I'm just going to go ahead and do this because if I turn him down, what can happen? Right.
00:13:16
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Like things can get worse. And I never thought about that because I'm a relatively big guy. Yeah. Six foot four. At one time, I was 280 pounds. Like just... muscled up people thought I was on steroids and you know women come over to my house and I'm never pushy but then my presence in and of itself I'm like yo know did women just decide just do it because they might have feared my reaction even though people know me but no I guess you don't know yeah anybody you don't ah especially when the statistic is that a majority of sexual assaults happen with somebody that you know
00:13:55
Speaker
Right. And and you you're probably like, yeah, it was two separate friends. of two guys ah But ah the fact is, the number is one in three.
00:14:05
Speaker
Yeah. And, you know, I got a lot of female friends. The other friend told me a story of she had been talking to this guy. The guy came over. They were hanging out and they had sex.
00:14:19
Speaker
But she said, i never told him yes. Yeah. And I was like, well, did you tell him no? She was like, I didn't say anything, but I didn't want to do that. And to me, I was so confused because I was like, all right, I understand you saying no.
00:14:35
Speaker
You saying, I don't want to do this. You showing some form of rejection. But you didn't say anything. yeah Like, how is he supposed to know that you're just not quiet?
00:14:47
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Right. So there are people also always talk about fight or flight, but they forget there's a third one and it's freeze. yeah And so, yeah, your body could end it ah end up in fight or flight mode where you run away or you fight or you could just freeze up.
00:15:05
Speaker
hmm. And then, and, and that, is so it's, it's about obtaining that enthusiastic consent dear and enthusiastic consent could be her actively participating in this with you, not just letting it happen, but actively participating in it with you.
00:15:26
Speaker
And if you're not sure, get the yes, get the verbal yes. And if, and if her body language is like, yeah, that's yeah. Okay. You know what? I'm not feeling like that's enthusiastic.
00:15:39
Speaker
it's And so let's just not do this. It's okay. You know, that's, you got to obtain that. But I think there was a reckoning, honestly, around that time, because I was at, what year was that? 2003.
00:15:52
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two thousand and three Yeah, I was in college and I remember being in a sociology class and our, no, it was women's psychology. I can't remember. But anyway, she was talking about enthusiastic consent and the number of guys in there bordering on 100% of them who looked so confused during that entire conversation and had so many questions.
00:16:19
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Well, what if she doesn't say no? That doesn't mean she doesn't that isn't mean she said yes. Yeah. And so that was the thing when my friend told me, i was like, but you didn't say no. And then this was in my 30s. Yeah.
00:16:31
Speaker
And I was still learning. Yeah. Yeah. at ah we didn't We don't typically start to show off with a serious topic. But for me, this was, I wanted to pour my soul out to the audience because this is something that i you know, I get up here and I preach about evolving and growing as a person.
00:16:50
Speaker
It's something that I'm still aspiring to do. And I want to hold myself accountable. People should hold themselves accountable. And the only thing that I could think about as I was watching it was career.
00:17:04
Speaker
biased of looking out for Kobe. I'm looking at the news coverage and I'm looking at at at these women at these women and men attacking this 19-year-old woman. and and And then I'm thinking about it's Kobe being Bryant. yeah She is one of the biggest, most recognizable, well-known athletes of all time and the world and the when he yeah in the world. And the world when he died.
00:17:33
Speaker
And then I started thinking about her because all that could be triggering to her. Yeah. To to see this man. reveal I mean, if she lives in Los Angeles and she goes by the Staples Center, there's a statue of him. Yeah.
00:17:45
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There's murals everywhere. Murals everywhere. Like she can't go in LA without being triggered. and And that it just, I was like, okay, wow, Bruce, like,
00:17:57
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You were thinking one thing and not, you always talk about looking at different angles. And at that time you didn't. Yeah. And now your eyes a little bit more open, a little bit.
00:18:08
Speaker
Let's open them a little bit wider. And it's like, yo, growth. Let's really try to aspire to do this. You can still grow and question your thoughts. You don't have to feel guilty about the way you thought back in the but just realize it.
00:18:26
Speaker
Hold yourself accountable and be like, look, I was probably wrong. More than likely, I was wrong. And now I have a different perspective and it's okay yeah for me to have a different perspective because I don't care about being right.
00:18:41
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I care about being correct. Yeah. So, yeah, no, sorry to hit y'all with some heaviness, but, you know, we'll get to some jokes later on. But I look, this was something that it was impactful for you because, I mean, you can't help but you guys were pretty much the same age, you know, both playing basketball. And they're like, you can't help but put yourself in that position and be like, ok now I need to interrogate me.
00:19:13
Speaker
yeah Yes. That's really what it was. was interrogation of myself. I mean, yes, this man was the next state over. Yeah. Right. We're in Maryland. He's in Pennsylvania. He's the next state over. He's two years older than me. Yeah.
00:19:27
Speaker
Like, We all grew up together. yeah I mean, not you know personally. I didn't personally know. Right. But I mean, it's like, you know I think I'm like six months older than LeBron James. like It was like, we were everybody was like teenagers and young adults.
00:19:44
Speaker
And I just remember watching these guys and be like, what does it feel like being our age and being this wealthy and famous
00:19:57
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that's gotta be jarring to say the least, but yeah, I think you, you lose yourself, you lose perspective. And it's also, what do you, what do you know?
00:20:10
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You know, you don't know what you don't know. Again, I'm not giving him a pass. I think I sincerely hope that that young lady has, been able to um work through it.
00:20:23
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I hope that she got the help that she deserved. I hope that she is is able to, you know, continue on with her life in the best way possible. And I wish nothing but the best for her um But yeah, you got to think about you don't know what you don't know.
00:20:45
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And to me, that letter felt more like, okay, after going back and looking at my behavior and your response to my behavior,
00:20:58
Speaker
I don't know that I was in the right in this situation and I'm sorry, you know, ah i you know, and looking at my intent was not to do that, but the impact was nevertheless.
00:21:11
Speaker
Yeah. So yeah, i think it's, it's interesting. And I also think that it's important to, uh, to always kind of check yourself, especially in, in how you relate to other people.
00:21:24
Speaker
Look, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself. Before you riggedy wreck yourself.
00:21:37
Speaker
Okay, Jay. I don't know if the Manosphere is
Analyzing Traditional Masculinity
00:21:39
Speaker
going to attack us. They might attack us for that first segment with Kobe or just Kobe fans in general might ah might attack us. The Manosphere might attack us again because we're going to be talking about masculinity. And the reason why we're talking about masculinity is because Anthony Mackie, Black Captain America, that's that's what I call him.
00:21:56
Speaker
That's what I call him. Or Blackton. No, you can speak about Black Captain America. Yeah. Okay. Black Captain America. Anthony Mackie was on the Pivot.
00:22:06
Speaker
I enjoy the Pivot podcast because I'm a huge fan of slips my name, Ryan Clark. know i Like I'm going to be a huge fan. Ryan Clark. I'm a huge fan of Ryan Clark just as a person and the house thoughtful and outspoken about causes and the way he's not one of those people that's so on podcasts is that doesn't speak about things and intelligently. He speaks about things very intelligently and and I admire that. But Anthony Mackie was on his podcast And subject of masculinity and parenting came up. So Anthony Mackie was on the Pivot podcast and had some interesting things. interest is true in who It did take pretty good. And if nobody knows what that is, is it that you probably hear that and then a lot.
00:22:56
Speaker
It was Eddie Murphy pretending to be, God, it's an NFL player. I can't remember. doing a Campbell's commercial, and like a Campbell's soup commercial. i don't know. just Just Google Eddie Murphy Campbell's soup commercial.
00:23:12
Speaker
Yeah, it's funny, but he messed up in his line. And OK, so yeah Anthony Mackie had some interesting thoughts on masculinity and parenthood. He argues that traditional American masculinity centered on men as protectors and providers has declined over 20 years, leading to the death of the American mayoral. He attributes this to boys learning failure, which stifles their willingness to take risks or pursue growth.
00:23:37
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He said he's raising his sons and instilling traditional values in his four sons. Respect, opening doors for women, responsibility, caring for their marler ah their mother, humility, staying grounded despite his fame.
00:23:50
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and prior tour and pride pride I'm really struggling today. You the one throwing up, but I'm the one struggling. Prioritizing, teaching them to protect their family, framing this as the core masculine duty.
00:24:02
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It's been some interesting takes on his... idea of what masculinity is. Some people have said it's toxic masculinity and patriarchy at its highest. Other people were saying like, no, this sounds about right.
00:24:15
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I have mixed emotions about it, but I'm interested to hear what you think about his comments. Yeah, so I watched it. You know, I don't think he's wrong. I think there is masculinity and femininity are things like they are things.
00:24:34
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And the the problem is they're not things exclusive to men and women. Right. Men can be in their femininity. Women can be in their masculinity. Like it's about.
00:24:47
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Healthy. masculinity, healthy femininity, right? So to me, the only only thing i kind of like bucked at a little bit was the and make it making his 15-year-old when he's not there the man of the house. Like, that's... He's 15.
00:25:08
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Like, that's... You can't put on him the responsibility of taking care of it. He has a full parent there. I feel like that was a little much.
00:25:19
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But instilling respect same and humility... Humility is not... toxically masculine. Humility is not, you know, um I don't, I didn't hear him say anything, you know, aside from that, he, his 15 year old stands guard, you know, when he's not there, but he didn't really say anything to me that felt toxic.
00:25:51
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It definitely, He was definitely subscribing to gender roles. I don't understand what he meant by seeing a decline in masculinity or the death of the American male. I think what we're seeing is a move away from toxic masculinity to a healthier form of masculinity that's healthier for men and women.
00:26:17
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And I think he's conflating traditional, that this idea of that masculinity, this traditional masculinity with some aspects that are actually quite toxic. And it was ah masculinity better that that we had traditionally or in the past before we knew better.
00:26:41
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Yeah. So I sent you a clip and there's more to the full interview. he he said things like men have developed these European attitudes of wearing tight pants. So there was some problematic statements that he, that he was making and, and, and I have no problem with raising your sons.
00:27:01
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to wanna be providers and protectors. right I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I think where it comes where it becomes a problem is when you
00:27:13
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when you become so much entrenched on being a provider and a protector that you hamstring your woman in a heterosexual relationship, your partner, yeah by saying, this is what I do, you do this. you're Right? yeah Like, she may she may make more money than you.
00:27:30
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Guess what? Women make more um are making more money than men right now. Well, not for the same job, but just in general. yeah Right? ah women can fight. I've dated more than a few women that one was a semi-pro Muay Thai fighter and another one, I was, she did boxing and stuff and we was, you know, play boxing and was like, oh, you got hands.
00:27:51
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You might be able to, man, she couldn't beat me, but I mean, she might, she, it'd be a fight. She was going to be a fight. Yeah. Yeah. It was going be a fight. Yeah. So this, I mean, these ideas and, and that's what I have a problem with.
00:28:04
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Also, I look at some of his statements and he's like, I'm going to be raised men. And I say, well, you got four sons. What are you going to if one of them is gay? Right. Because the way he's subscribing to masculinity Obviously, being gay wouldn't ah be applied to his definition of masculinity. Yeah. So that's where things can get a little toxic. But teaching men to open the doors for women, paying for the first date, these are the traditions that I subscribe to. Yeah. Some of these young men out here are like, what you talking about? Some of these young men, I see way more videos than I need to see of men fighting women.
00:28:44
Speaker
Yeah. Now, if she coming at you and she can fight and you defending yourself, okay. But I see way too many times with dudes raising their ah hands up at women who are, that are just matt mouthy, you know, yeah no mouthy, mouthy. That's the wrong word. I didn't want to use that word.
00:29:04
Speaker
I'm to take that word back. i yeah um but yeah These women out here getting mouthy. Yeah, no, wait a minute. I, ladies gentlemen, I'm taking that back. Am I going cut it from the episode? No. No, she said because said it.
00:29:17
Speaker
It was not real. It was misspeak. And I've been doing that a lot this episode. Okay. Because I'm struggling because I drank a lot last night. and okay but But women are, you know, Being verbally combative, that doesn't mean that you have the right to put your hands on anyone. Like your first instinct should not be to square Right. And deuses out here squaring up on women. And and so i don't call it a lack of masculinity, even though that could be said.
00:29:45
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i call it men out here being punks. Mm-hmm. Some punk A-Bs. That's what I'm looking at. So from that argument, I kind of agree with them.
00:29:55
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We need to be raising men from that standpoint. yeah But not this idea oh basically gender roles. He's stagnant gender roles that this is what men do. Because also, what he's subscribing to is not talking.
00:30:11
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And I'm sorry, that's the hallmark of men having pent up rage and anger that's going to come out somehow. You got to talk about your emotions. yeah Talking about your emotions is not a lack of masculinity.
00:30:25
Speaker
Personally, I believe you're leaning into masculinity because you're being stronger by being vulnerable. that's That's what I believe. And anybody who doesn't agree with it, hey, we can take it to the street. ain't got no problem with that. I've been willing to catch fades right and left all my life. So that's just what I believe.
00:30:43
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But yeah, so he had some toxic things that he kind of said, but more importantly, what I took away from it is let your kid be a kid. Let your kid be a kid. Yeah. It wasn't just that he's got to be the man of the house. It was his oldest said, hey, don't mess up.
00:31:00
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And now he spreads it on down the line. No, don't make him a third parent. No, that that also made me cringe a little bit because. He didn't say don't mess up.
00:31:11
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His son is telling his siblings, hey, don't make dad mad. Yeah, you're right. and that means your children are afraid of you.
00:31:23
Speaker
Yeah, because that's what I used to say to y'all. They don't respect you. They don't respect you. They're afraid of you. You can have both respect and fear. Well, no, because kids, it takes a while to develop more complex emotions. If anybody has seen Inside Out, you know, kids start with joy sadness anger fear They don't understand more complex emotions like reverence or respect or things like that.
00:31:57
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So, yeah so su to a certain extent, when they're young, they should fear the repercussions of their actions. But they shouldn't at 15 still be afraid of you.
00:32:11
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They should be, they should respect you as their parents. They shouldn't be, hey, don't make dad mad. It wasn't. hey, your actions are not, you know, you're not, they're they're not exemplary right now. Like, right? Like you're your actions are going to lead to some tough consequences.
00:32:30
Speaker
That wasn't what he said. What he said was don't make dad mad. Yeah. Yeah. So it's less about the consequences of their actions and more about not the consequence of making you mad.
00:32:44
Speaker
And so are you really teaching them to be good people? Are you teaching them just to fear your response to their actions? Or fall in line. And I think that, I think that that's a, you know, both of us up here,
00:32:58
Speaker
Talking about parenting when we're not parents. but but But we're somebody's kid. And so we can tell you from that perspective. That's what I always say. I'm not a parent, but I'm somebody's child.
00:33:09
Speaker
So that I can always tell you from the perspective of being someone's child. What I'm hearing from your kid. Right. And so, because a lot of times parents don't really talk to their kids. Right. Right.
00:33:22
Speaker
And it's clear that he does not. I mean, I don't know. The things that he says is not, I mean, I didn't see any of the clips where he talks about emotional suppression. Right.
00:33:38
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conflating masculinity with an emotional, sort I didn't see those clips. Well, I don't think he directly says that. That's what I'm gathering from what he's saying because, because his prism of what men are, he's very much my generation. yeah We grew up in the nineties, right? So he's very, but he's very much my generation and he's from the South, right? So he's very much, this is what a man is. This is what a man is supposed to be. And I think the evolution of men has changed.
00:34:08
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And a lot of men who want to hold on to those traditional forms of what masculinity is are fighting that. and And that's the reason why you had this backlash of men i met out here really complaining.
00:34:23
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really complaining, and right? And and and this one of his statements, one of his quotes was, is like, you can't even talk to women anymore. Like, you know, they're so mad they are so angry. Yeah, because part of your traditional masculinity has been suppressing women. yeah Women didn't have, women couldn't get bank accounts and credit cards until 1972. Now, for our Gen Z people out there, they're like, 1900s? That was so long ago.
00:34:47
Speaker
Not really. That's your mom. Yeah. That's your mom. Yeah. You know, or if if it's not your mom, that's your grandma. Right. It's an auntie. It is one generation behind you. That's how it wasn't that long ago.
00:35:00
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Yeah. And what you're telling their other fully capable parent. Is I trust 15 year old. Right. To protect this house more than I trust their very capable parent.
00:35:14
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Yeah, because like, OK, he made a point of saying, hey, look, somebody's got to protect that house because nobody cares about your family, your money, if somebody want to run up in your crib. And I get it. Yes, I get it. And there's nothing wrong by saying, hey, man, just make sure certain things in the house are secure.
00:35:29
Speaker
Yeah. You know, just like, hey, you take out the trash. Make sure when you come back in, lock the door. Make sure, you know, that. yeah But also, you have a partner. Yes. If you really want to. Self-defense classes.
00:35:41
Speaker
Gun training. Like, it doesn't have to be put on your 15-year-old son. Because at one point, he wasn't 15. At one point, he was 8, 9, 10. yeah na ten you You were going to do acting. You've been doing acting. We first recognized you in Green Mile when you was Papa Doc.
00:35:56
Speaker
Okay? And then... the horrible portrayal of Tupac and Notorious, but that's okay, because you're Black Captain America now. But you've been acting for over 20 years yeah before you had a son.
00:36:08
Speaker
So there was a time where he was a little guy. He couldn't be the man of the house. yeah So why can't the woman be the protector of the home? I mean, she has been. Like, let's be honest. so Like, every time you leave, the person in charge is their mother.
00:36:22
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And she has been taking care of that. Yeah, if if he if you want to give your child some responsibilities around the house, like, hey, it's your job to make sure the door's locked. Fine.
00:36:33
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That's perfectly fine. But also recognize there's a perfectly capable adult in that house that does not need protecting from her child.
00:36:44
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but But the child is automatically going to, like, I remember when dad would go on trips and I was the only person in the house. Like, I took that responsibility. I also realized how much I leaned on dad as the protector, even even when I got to miniature or adulthood. What I mean by miniature adulthood is like, I could vote. Yeah.
00:37:06
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I remember us all being in Jamaica. Mm-hmm. And I had not a care worry in the world because dad was there. yeah And there the age difference between dad and I you know seemed vast when I was younger. But if I'm 21, he's 42, 43.
00:37:22
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He's younger than I am right now. yeah so i and And still strong. and like ah I still feel like I can go out there in the streets and handle my business. So, of course, I'm going to look at our father and be like, yes, he definitely can. So I relaxed.
00:37:35
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It wasn't until I went back. to the Caribbean with my ex-wife for the first time. And I had this tension and I was on guard. I had her close to me. just Just making sure that she's safe.
00:37:48
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and i And I called him up at the trip and I said, Dad, I don't understand like why I was so tense during this trip. I was never like that when ah when we did the family trip. He's like, because I was there.
00:37:58
Speaker
yeah You didn't have to worry about anything because you knew that I was going to take care of everything. yeah And I was like, oh, wow. Is that what it feels like? Yep. just imagine yeah Just imagine having three kids and a wife and you got to do all that yeah stuff. You got to watch all of these kids walk off. They didn't go. Right. but And, you know, ah sometimes mom being and La La Land, you got to watch out for her. I,
00:38:20
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but that i i I had to make that call one time because mom and I went to the beach and just taking the cooler blankets, chairs, umbrella from the boardwalk to the actual beach.
00:38:35
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The sand. I was like, I'm going to die. I was like, that has been carrying all this stuff. No wonder he got the big piece. yeah Yeah. No what he wonder he got the big piece of chicken.
00:38:46
Speaker
but good I had to call him up. i was like, Hey, Thank you for carrying. Because we would just runt it out run the ocean. Like it was nothing. Without a care in the world. And he's lugging all of this stuff behind us and setting it up and doing a... Sweating. Sweating. It's hot. You know?
00:39:03
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I had to be like, hey. thanks You know? Right. Yeah. But it's true. But that's that's his role. That's Anthony's role. That's not his son's role. No, it isn't.
00:39:14
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But this is what I will say. If he's raising... his sons to have traditional values that I do believe in and being a protector.
00:39:26
Speaker
I'm out with my bestie. We're walking around in the city. We're about to go down a block and I see a crowd of people and I'm like, you're wearing that outfit. It's not scandalous, but she's an attractive woman. yeah You're wearing that outfit and I see a gang of dudes down there. No, we're going to down the next block.
00:39:42
Speaker
And she was like, I walk down this block all the time. I was like, that's cool. Great. yeah But If somebody does something to you, I'm going to flip. Yeah. I could die.
00:39:53
Speaker
Like I can, I can be shot or stabbed. Yeah. And let's, let's go down the next block and avoid this scenario because I'm going to give my life to make sure that you are okay. Yeah.
00:40:04
Speaker
Me and you out, we walk around in Atlanta. I'm going to give my life to make sure that you're okay. Yes, but also recognize I also care about my safety.
00:40:15
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Right, yes. Okay. But you don't know how to fight. i I know how to fight enough to get the hell away. Right. Okay, so it's like I also care about my safety. i am also hypervigilant as a woman, hypervigilant about my surroundings.
00:40:31
Speaker
Right. That's kind of just you learn yeah to be like that. And what happens is you are undercutting their mother by making then by anthony mac yeah by making them feel like, well, I have to protect the house. I have to protect my mom. and have to No, she you're undercutting her position as their parent.
00:40:57
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. She's not somebody that just lives in the house and cooks the meals and things like that. She is also equally their parent and responsible for their safety and well-being.
00:41:08
Speaker
Don't undercut that trying to teach your sons a lesson. If you want to teach them a lesson, use somebody else. Don't use her.
00:41:17
Speaker
Yeah. Or use her as an example. You set the example by how you treat her. with respect and with kindness and compassion.
00:41:28
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and then they're watching you and they learn from that example. And it's less about don't make dad mad and more about you weren't acting right. That's not how you should treat a woman.
00:41:40
Speaker
Hmm. Yeah. So like the takeaways I got from this is parenting is hard. Yeah, but because it it's literally the hardest job. It literally is. You're trying to make a human being into a functional, relatively happy if you can. i mean, that's just a plus adult like and you have to teach that they come out knowing nothing and they can't do jack.
00:42:08
Speaker
And you have to teach them how to be people. no it's a lot because it's a fine line of like, am I doing the right thing? Am I not doing the right thing? So don't know. Honestly, I'm not going to judge his parenting.
00:42:21
Speaker
He's got to raise four boys, four black boys in America. And that's, I think they're living in the South. I think they, yeah, I think he still lives in Louisiana. Yeah. From Baton Rouge. i If I remember correctly, he's originally from Baton Rouge. Yeah.
00:42:35
Speaker
So I can't even, you know, i don't like, I think what bothers people is the little implication of I'm raising men.
00:42:47
Speaker
Yeah. They don't wear these tight pants. Well, that's just, you don't understand history because men started out wearing wigs, pantaloons and high heels. So that's just, you not and don't go to Africa. Cause you, well, you's gonna he said that in the interview, like he went to Africa and they were like, you're not from here. You don't belong here. He was like, yeah. Cause that's, they were wearing tight clothing.
00:43:07
Speaker
And what I'll say to this is the brother only got to goes one decade before we were born in the seventies. Mm-hmm. It was some tight clothes. Yeah. Some tight men were wearing tight bell bottoms. They weren't baggy bell bottoms. We went crazy with it in the 90s wearing 50 inseam jeans. Yes. like But like. That was ridiculous. Yeah. And you just happened to grow up in that fashion era. But there that doesn't mean throughout the 70s and 80s dudes wasn't wearing crop tops because they absolutely were.
00:43:38
Speaker
Yes, have best they absolutely were. you know And it was masculine to show off your abs in a crop top. you know And what's masculine? right What is masculine?
00:43:49
Speaker
what If your idea of a man is, well, he get a lot of women. Well, you know who's somebody who got a lot of women? Pimps. I mean, yeah, I mean, pimps. And they actually, they don't have very masculine characteristics. They have very feminine characteristics. But I was specifically going to bring up Prince.
00:44:05
Speaker
Yeah. Because Prince had all the baddies. All of them. Every single last one. Every single last one. It was five foot two in tight pants, heels with the butt cut out and a little, ah he had like a waist chain and crop top and his hair was curled. Like, and this man was killing it in the eighties.
00:44:29
Speaker
And so what's your idea of a man? Because part of masculinity so this this traditional form of masculinity that Anthony Mackie is talking about is, well, you got a lot of
Canada's Porn Industry & Trade Wars
00:44:41
Speaker
women. You know, he's a ladies' man. well All the ladies' men that we've ever really, really know are extremely, extremely masculine.
00:44:49
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Like then not everybody's out here old school shaft. Hey, most people is out here like the Mac. Yeah. Getting their fingers and fingernails and toes done. Hey, i I think, for example, Mike Tyson probably as masculine as you can get.
00:45:05
Speaker
I wouldn't call him a ladies man. No, no. Well, no, no, he's not. You know what I'm saying? He didn't have some bad women. He didn't have them. But if I think of ladies man, it's like you said, print.
00:45:17
Speaker
He was always surrounded by the by the ladies. Always. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Me. It put me in that category. Rick James and all of us. Yeah. I put myself in all that category. The same as Prince and Rick James just being a ladies man.
00:45:35
Speaker
Sure. right. Ladies and gentlemen, that's enough of this. Talk about masculinity. and treating women right. What about treating Americans right by not cutting off our porn?
00:45:49
Speaker
We can get into that next.
00:45:56
Speaker
All right, Jay, so I brought up porn. but yeah You did, yeah I brought up porn and and there was an interesting thing that went viral.
00:46:11
Speaker
This guy from Canada wow made up the suggestion. His name is Matthew pull Politski. That's as close as y'all going to get for that last name.
00:46:23
Speaker
But he had an IG post that went viral. It was just like, hey, since U.S. wants to do this trade war, huh Pornhub. It's a Canadian company. Oh, boy.
00:46:34
Speaker
yeah It is the biggest. It's one of the biggest porn sites. Yeah. Worldwide. And we represent the Americans. The United States represent 40% of the traffic that's on this Canadian company. So if Canada really wanted to get, you know, pennies. yeah a good big They could be like, you know what?
00:46:56
Speaker
Forget the lumber. Forget the car parts. Yeah. I'm to cut off your porn. Or or charge you like exponentially for it. like Yes. Something like that. like Of course, they don't want to lose 40% of their web traffic, but we got to hit them where hurts some somewhere. you know In the US, the way to hit them where hurts is their wallet. so Right. The wallet's in their loins.
00:47:22
Speaker
Right. So if you could kill two birds of one stone... Yeah, I mean, look, I think, think, well, here's the crazy thing when it comes to pornography here in the United States.
00:47:36
Speaker
In the state of Virginia, it's not banned. Certain porn websites are not banned, but there is an age restriction. yeah i've Yeah, there should yeah Yeah. And you know what? I'm not opposed to that. At first I heard about it and I was like, what? They banned it.
00:47:51
Speaker
And then I did a little bit more research and i was like, oh, they didn't ban it. What they did is they make you verify your actual age before that you could get on the porn sites. and And I've long been an advocate of making sure the youth,
00:48:05
Speaker
Don't really get exposed to that yeah early because it could de-sensitize. It creates a whole list of problems. yeah Joshua Shea, the porn expert, porn addiction expert that I did an interview with him a couple of years ago, talked about that. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah. Talked about the after effects of that for young people.
00:48:25
Speaker
Yeah. But, you know, and I just thought it was really, really interesting because this trade war is getting ridiculous. and you know It's so petty and it's so dumb. And these are our allies. And what are you doing?
00:48:37
Speaker
I mean, you know, take away the porn. I could care less. I'm not really affected by taking away the porn. Right. Like that is I just think that's funny. Yeah. Where I am affected is taking away my champagne.
00:48:49
Speaker
Now, the only thing that anything that's American or anything other than. where it's made in France. Yeah. It's sparkling wine. Champagne is only from France, kind of like yeah bourbon is only from Kentucky. Yeah.
00:49:04
Speaker
and And the French is just like, okay, this is what you want to do with these trade wars with us? Show you riot. We're going go ahead and and and y'all not going to be able to get champagne and fine wines.
00:49:15
Speaker
And then Trump was like, we got great American wines. No, the hell we don't. That Boone's Farm is not as good. don bla love Napa Valley is is a lot of fun. You can love going through wine country. You have a good time getting drunk with your friends. But let me tell you something. The best wines and champagnes are from Europe. Like they're just from France and Italy. Like, oh I'm sorry, guys.
00:49:42
Speaker
Yeah. And I mean, I'm like, look, okay. Trump did something that was really, it was childish. France, impose term ah tariffs on us.
00:49:55
Speaker
And they're like over in Europe now, you hear all these stories of them just being like, they're taking American products off the shelves. It's not just Canada. It's in Europe as well. And other countries, all of our allies is just like, we ain't going to use American products.
00:50:09
Speaker
Yeah. but And Trump responds.
Impact of International Tariffs
00:50:11
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He says, I'll put a 200% tariff on you guys. And I'm just like, now wow, that is so crazy. So childish.
00:50:20
Speaker
So childish. But we know if they they take away porn, Trump will be affected by that too since he likes porn stars and all that stuff. loves it. yeah He loves it. um I'm sure he spends a lot of time on Pornhub.
00:50:32
Speaker
Melania's not touching him, so I'm sure he spends a lot of time on there. Melania might be on Pornhub. She has some naked stuff. Huh? She has some naked stuff from back in the day. She might be on the, I don't know.
00:50:45
Speaker
I don't know. And I'm not going to look. so Last thing I want is to accidentally see some Trump stuff. And there was a number one someone said that live. It was Michael Che. And he said, he was like, you know, because the problem is not seeing it. He was like, what if it's good?
00:51:05
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yeah
00:51:08
Speaker
You know? You know? You don't want that. You don't want that. No, they're getting incredibly ridiculous and increasingly ridiculous. And then also, he's not a good businessman and he thinks that he's strong-arming people. But it's like... and This is not a good analogy, but it's like, you know, picking a fight with...
00:51:31
Speaker
when Your homie, basically. I mean, it's almost like picking a fight with ah not a defenseless person, but it's like a person you know or you think is not going to fight back. Like he thought Canada wasn't going to fight back.
00:51:47
Speaker
He thought France wasn't going to fight back or Mexico wasn't going to fight back. And I'm like, no, you're wrong. And not only are you wrong, but... They can really, really, really hurt the American people and industry in this country. So but does he care about that? Absolutely not. Because this is, again, the same man who wouldn't pay his contractors who are building his stuff.
00:52:16
Speaker
His towers, his casinos, he didn't pay no. He just filed for bankruptcy over and over again. So he doesn't care. He doesn't care about the labor industry and he doesn't care about laborers. why would you think a billion Why would you think a billionaire would?
00:52:29
Speaker
Well, I think this is where he's getting this from, right? Like he was like, well, I use a strong-arm contractors all the time. These countries aren't as big as the United States. It's same thing. Nope. It is not the same thing. no And picking on somebody smaller than you, I did it one time in my life.
00:52:45
Speaker
His name was Twan. we that First of all, before you start the story, ladies and gentlemen, I have never heard it. But I can tell you right now, Twan or anybody named Twan, first of all, if it's Antoine and they chose to go by Twan, that is a person you are not supposed to mess with. But go ahead and continue this story because... Seventh grade gym class, we're outside playing football. Nope.
00:53:16
Speaker
And me him arguing about a call, right? And I stepped to him. Because I'm not thinking that he going to do anything, right? And I'm not trying to punk him. We just getting into it back and forth. And that's the next part of the escalation. Like, OK, we was John.
00:53:33
Speaker
Now let's get in each other's face to see what's going to down. Right. So I get in Twan's face. And mind you, I'm like almost six foot as a 12-year-old, right? Twan is short for middle school.
00:53:45
Speaker
So I'm going to say Twan is probably like four, 11, five foot. So I almost got him by a good foot. Okay. So I'm towering over him. His head is in the small part of my chest.
00:53:57
Speaker
yeah Okay. yeah Not even the top part, the small bout the small part of my chest. yeah and And so we not nose the nose. And I said, what you going to do? And without hesitation, It caught me completely by surprise.
00:54:11
Speaker
Twan jumped up, punched me in my face, like Little Mac from Mike Tyson's Punch Out. And I was so stunned. Next thing I know, he is on top of me. And everybody in gym class is Twan is beating Bruce's butt.
00:54:26
Speaker
yeah And I was hot because I finally got out of him pinning me down. And I'm ready to go because I was like, you snuck me. Now let's go headto head to head. He won't fight me no more because he already won the fight after they broke it up.
00:54:41
Speaker
So Twan, Twan won. And I remember being high school and i was like, I was probably, it was, a I was a sophomore. And I was like, what's up Twan? You still the last person to win a fight against me.
00:54:54
Speaker
Don't pick on smaller people because you just... Don't sleep. Never. Don't sleep on them. No. You don't know. You don't know. And going to tell you something. My best friend is one of the smallest people I know.
00:55:05
Speaker
Teeny. Teeny tiny. Don't... Please don't sleep on her. Please. Please. Because you will get your feelings and your ass hurt. She will knock you on your ass. Like, don't... Please don't do it.
00:55:19
Speaker
Don't do Don't do it. Yeah. But these tariffs...
00:55:24
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, the point of the thing is funny, but like these have like really far reaching consequences that I don't think Well, I'm pretty sure he doesn't care about or he doesn't actually know about because nobody on his team is telling him like there are no I'm pretty sure there are no independent economists on his team. Right.
00:55:48
Speaker
I'm pretty sure he doesn't even let certain press that he doesn't want to talk to into the White House briefing room anymore. So does it. Nobody's telling him. My man said transgender mice.
00:56:00
Speaker
That's all to win that ah we need to know. He said transgender mice. I mean, before that, he said black jobs. And, yeah yeah you know, and he meant blue collar labor jobs specifically and only when he said they're coming to steal your job, your black jobs.
00:56:21
Speaker
He meant. all of the labor jobs, the farming, the hotel cleaning, all of that. That's what he meant. And that's what he considers, that's the the height of which, and which first of all, absolutely nothing with labor or blue college. I live in a blue collar neighborhood and nothing.
00:56:43
Speaker
We need these jobs and we need people who are a qualified to do them and be want to do them yeah to do these jobs. But just so you know, when he thinks of black people or he thinks of people in cut of color in general, he only thinks that you do that.
00:57:03
Speaker
yeah And so these tariffs are going to keep going into effect. We're going keep having these tariff wars and the price of the brick, as they say, is going to go up. Like literally, because there's going to be a high impact of construction costs.
00:57:17
Speaker
yeah Yes. Yes. Tariff on lumber. Not great. Not great if you want to build that new deck. Car parts. That's all that. Yeah. Steel. Yeah. The price of eggs, you know, Fox News said, you know, they are combating the price of eggs by having chickens. I might have to get me a chicken.
00:57:35
Speaker
i there's I got a neighbor because I hear that that rooster crying every morning. I got a neighbor that's got chickens. I but i i got back here. Give me some chickens.
Conclusion & Audience Engagement
00:57:45
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Get some chickens. But Jay, on that note, what you want to tell the people out there?
00:57:49
Speaker
Man, something's going around, y'all. don't know. I'm down bad. out of Some sort of sickness or something was going around. Protect yourself, wear your mask, wash your hands.
00:58:00
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Yo, for the audience out there, we had to stop filming yesterday. and i was like, Jay, she threw up in the middle of the recording. And i was like, we're done for the day. I didn't know it was this bad.
00:58:13
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tried to push through, but I couldn't.
00:58:17
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Yeah, no, couldn't. And then we started filming the day and she was just like, we're going to have to hurry up. I'm like, all right, well. And then proceed then you proceed to talk the whole segment. I know, right? Because I ended up with something. You know, because I haven't looked at nothing.
00:58:33
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Nothing, no. So you're bringing this up and I'm like, oh, okay, this is actually an interesting topic. Let's talk about these heroes. and Yeah, Bruce the producer. He's always number one. He called me call me Timberland of the podcast.
00:58:46
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But y'all notice the difference. not going jump on that. wasn't going to, honestly, because I'm not 100% sure what you mean by that. I'm the Timberlander podcast.
00:58:57
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I mean, I'm good producer. All right. i probablyly what a i don't know I probably would have gone for a DJ Mustard or and I go for Timberland because not only did he do hip hop, he did R&B and b and he he crossed over. A lot of the producers do.
00:59:15
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No, but I mean, like he made hit albums. When Nelly Fatalo had another hit album. That's true. She's still singing Promiscuous Girl. She is. 20 years later. So Timberland. It's a good song. I love that song. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, that's it for today's episode because my sister is not feeling well. But thank you for listening.
00:59:34
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Thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holla.
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