Purple Pants Podcast | Casual Tea: Theories, Trials & Trademark Trouble

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[00:01:47] Hello, hello, and welcome to the Purple Pants Podcast Casual Tea for the month of June, 2026. I serve as your humble and oh so gracious host, Bryce Isaiah, and I thank you so much for tuning in to this month's casual tea. If you could be so kind to ensure you are subscribed to the Purple Pants Podcast, we are available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify,

[00:02:12] wherever you find podcasts. The Purple Pants Podcast awaits for you to subscribe, and as always with your casual tea, you can watch this audio podcast on video. Head over to the Bryce Isaiah YouTube channel, click subscribe, give this video a thumbs up, and let us know in the comments what you think about this month's casual tea. It's been a long time, but your casual tea has returned. I'm super

[00:02:41] excited to be joined this week by my friend and investigative journalist, Justin Carter, is here to help me break down this month's casual tea. We're getting into the Delulu beehive, wondering when Act 3 is coming out. We also are talking about the murder trial of Cyrus Carmack

[00:03:05] Belton. We're getting into Patagonia and Patagonia. We're talking about the Love Island star from Ben Salem, Pennsylvania, and all the drama his job is making with that, this, and so much more. Let's get

[00:03:24] in to this month's casual tea. Hello, hello, and welcome back to the Purple Pants Podcast.

[00:04:07] Podcast Casual Tea. It has been a minute since we've had a casual tea, and I said not another day, month, week, minute is going to go by without the Purple Pants Podcast putting out a casual tea. Amon is still busy away in school and work, and so I said, you know what? Let me call in a friend,

[00:04:31] and so I'm so honored to have my friend of over 20 years at this point, who is a journalist, an investigative journalist. You might know him from a lot of places that you see his work at, but I'm excited to welcome to the podcast for the first time Mr. Justin Carter. Oh, I get a little ding. What is that, Bryce? Oh, I love that. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

[00:04:59] Hey, everybody. I'm excited to see you, Bryce. We go way back, like way. We go way, way back, yes, to the trenches. When I first met Justin, Justin didn't like me, and I said, oh, I'm going to win Justin Oliver. Bryce, don't you go starting. We definitely had an interesting start, didn't we? We had an interesting start, and Danity Kane brought us

[00:05:25] together. And Destiny's Child and Michelle Williams. And Destiny's Child and Michelle Williams. And because of Justin, yes, we break the donut. Because of Justin, Michelle Williams blocked me on Twitter 11 years ago. Yes, it was because of you. Don't be starting. I love Michelle, and Michelle loves you. And so do I. But we were like joking about something on Twitter, and I think she saw it, and I think she thought it was like something negative,

[00:05:53] Tim, and she said block, and I'm still blocked to this day. So we're going to have to fix that. But listen, I'm so excited to have you here, Justin. I would love for you to explain to the posse who you are, what your background is, because again, I'm so proud of my friend. And I just would love for the posse to get to know you. Yes, Bryce. Yes. Oh my gosh. So I'm a journalist. You were there when I started college, Bryce, when I was like, I think I want to be a journalist. I want to do this.

[00:06:23] University of Pittsburgh. You saw me off when I was there my freshman year. I mean, that is like for real, for real, how long we go back. But yeah, I went to school at Pitt, and I got my journalism degree. I've been a TV. I was in TV news for 12, 13 years until I decided five years ago that I wanted to do digital news, investigative reporting. So you might have seen

[00:06:49] me on a couple big platforms. I've been on major networks, giving commentary and my just news perspective on a lot of big stories. So yeah, I do it. I'm an investigator. I do a story once this one investigative story a week on one of the major platforms, news platforms. And I'm just, I'm just very humble and grateful. It's really changed my life going from TV, which,

[00:07:15] you know, TV is changing. How we get our news is changing. So five years ago, I said, you know what, I need to make that switch. And I did. And I chose the right platform. It's been the best job ever. It's changed my life. It's given me so much, just so much, you know, freedom to do what I want to do, cover what I want to cover. And it just has, I've become a big household name in the Black community,

[00:07:41] and I'm grateful for it. Yes, we love you. And it's just so interesting, like you said, five years ago, making that shift from traditional news platforms to more online forum. And now here we are, 2026, most people consume the news from their phones, from online. And so like you being ahead of the curve, but I also do just want to mention to you and to the listeners while Justin was in TV,

[00:08:11] I was one of the first, you know, major guests that he has set up at his station at the time. It was around the time of my survivor, um, survivor Kageyan. And yeah, Justin was, yes, Justin said, let me set up some press for you. I, I hit the roll and drove to Pittsburgh and yeah, Justin rolled out the red carpet. So I'm just saying.

[00:08:38] Yeah, I made that happen. I was like, Oh, we, I have you and we can get you access to some media coverage. And listen, it was great. You, you really did your thing. And I'm so proud of you. When I saw you on there, I'm like, you are made for this, that dot, dot, dot. I am screaming. And before we get into casualty, cause of course I just have to catch up with my Justin. It was so fun when Wendell and I went to Atlanta, Justin came out and it was so fun to see

[00:09:06] Justin. And the thing that shocked me the most about Justin is we were at the Bryson Wynn reality karaoke and Justin's there and Justin's like sitting, eating food. And Justin's like, there's Ozzy. So I was like, okay. All right. Sure. Everybody knows Ozzy. Then he's like, there's Christina. I'm like, okay. He's like, there's Davey. There's Star. I'm like, Justin, is there something you want

[00:09:34] to tell me? And Justin's like, well, you know, since you put me on to Survivor, I still watch. That was something I had no idea, Justin. Yes. Now listen, I will watch. I typically watch when somebody that I know is on the show. So Christina, like Tiffany, Tiffany is my former coworker. So I saw two seasons of Tiffany and then you. And so, yes, I will pop in when I need to. Okay.

[00:10:03] And so, yes, when I saw Ozzy, I'm like, oh, that's Ozzy. Oh, that's Joe. Oh, you know, I was like, oh, oh, oh, it was, it was so like, I was like a little starstruck because, you know, I know you, I've been knowing you and I know Wendell and, and, you know, Tiffany, but yeah, to see people at that, at that event that you did, I was definitely like, these are the people I love. I love y'all. I love the Survivor Nation. It's so much fun to watch. And

[00:10:30] it's just such a fan following and it's awesome. It is. It took me by surprise. I was like, Mitch, do you want a photo? And so we were able to hook that up for you. But so enough of us catching up, we've got some casual tea to get into. And I think, again, my co my normal co-host, Aman, he is getting his master's and he's working. And so we

[00:10:56] haven't been able to kind of like set a time down to do a casual tea. So it's been so long. But the first thing on the docket that I really want to talk about, and we're recording in June, now it's the first week in June, but the beehive, AKA the delulu hive, because we know act one, Renaissance act two, Cowboy Carter, and everyone had been speculating that Beyonce was going to drop

[00:11:26] at three, May 29th, because she has historically dropped all of these acts on a Friday. That's the 29th. The delulu hive put out these think pieces. There's only one Friday in 2006. That's going to be May 29th. People started coming up with these theories, these echo bills. If you were on TikTok,

[00:11:51] I've watched hours of people breaking down so much of Beyonce's aura and like think it's coming. And so for a second, I said, okay, May 29th, let's go. That's not the case. May 29th came and came and went.

[00:12:17] It came and went and no Beyonce, no nothing. People even were speculating about the Met Gala because we had heard early in the year, she was going to be co-hosting. And so we were like, okay, the Met Gala is in May. And then a couple of weeks later, it's May 29th. This is how Beyonce works, right? Like, you know, she don't need promotion when she has the delulu hive. And so we're all

[00:12:43] waiting to see, Ooh, is it going to give something of what act three is going to be? And it did. And it didn't. What was your take when you saw the Met Gala look? Cause I'm assuming, were you looking to think like, Ooh, is it going to be purple? Is it going to give us something that alludes to rock? Yeah. You know what? Honestly, I was, I was surprised by it. Um, did I love the look? I thought,

[00:13:11] I thought maybe it looked a little heavy on her. I felt like it just was very heavy. Um, but Beyonce can do no wrong in my eyes because I love her and I've loved her since I was like, like nine years old. Um, however, yeah, I just felt like it could, it could have been a little bit better in my opinion. Um, and yeah, to your point, there's so many different subliminals that people look out for. She's holding three lemons and oh my gosh, May, May 3rd, that's going to be the day. She loves the

[00:13:39] threes. She loves four. It's just like, it gets to be too much when you go down that rabbit hole. Um, and so it's so funny watching Yvette because Yvette, her, um, her PR person, her publicist, Yvette doesn't subscribe to any of it. She will shut it down. And it's been so funny watching her just give us little tidbits like, no, that's not true. No, that's not true. No, but you know how

[00:14:04] delusional the people have gone. They've gone back so far to say that Yvette doesn't say no to everything. And the things that she has said no to weeks later, it has come out. And so people were taking my module wasn't me. I was just watching and maybe believing and hoping, but when they were saying the 29th and Yvette was like, absolutely not child. The beehive went on a whole think tank

[00:14:32] about that only says this when we're getting close and we can't take it seriously. I know it's so annoying. It's so annoying. They get into the verbiage that Yvette says on social media. I mean, it is draining. I'm like, I wonder though, Bryce, I've thought about it. I wonder if the plan was to have her come out with act three during the Met Gala. And then the buzz was just

[00:14:59] too much that they decided to postpone it. So we shot ourself in the foot. I don't know. Cause you know, Beyonce likes to be mysterious. She likes to be, you know, her marketing is very strategic. She doesn't want too much buzz. No pun intended, but you know what I mean? So I wonder if they pushed it back. Could be right. Well, I mean, I do. Okay. Like now I did start this off by saying, I am not in the Delulu high. I just want to start by saying that I am not, I do watch and listen,

[00:15:28] but there are some new theories out. I do want to share with you, but I do also want to talk about what you just said, where some people were like, we're ruining it because one, let's be clear. Beyonce has a burner account. She's online. People believe she runs mama Tina's account at times because mama Tina be posted anything, but there was so much April, March with the Beyonce surrounding

[00:15:56] groups of people, right? Like mama Tina with her gumbo. And then people were saying nasty. Then the health department came in and shut it down for a couple of days. Then we got Jules out here running with Tommy from love and hip hop. Like, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Getting the bag from the gay club in Atlanta and then not wanting to take photos. Then you got Jay-Z doing this. Um,

[00:16:25] is it reasonable doubt tour where he just was in the roots and now he has three shows that are going to be at Yankee stadium, him doing press for that talking about, yeah, blue Ivy isn't dancing to 16 heels. Now, wait a minute, sir. 16 heels has not been on any playlist from X one and act two. Are you, are you out here giving secrets?

[00:16:50] So it's all, it might be all pre-packaged and planned. Maybe. So again, I want to draw your attention to the Met Gala where we were expecting something and Beyonce had two looks, one look. And again, I can't go into the Duluth hide, but there is this image of a skeleton looking out the window that they are saying that, that, that first look that Beyonce is wearing, it pays homage to that. And that is kind of like death is watching. It's kind of sort of what it

[00:17:19] means. Right. And then inside of the Met Gala, when she changed, she put on this like black sequence dress that kind of almost symbolized death a little bit. What I believe, and I've said this before, cause I've seen act one and act two. Um, I believe these tours and these acts are Beyonce saying,

[00:17:43] I'm leaving like this is. And I really do feel like act three is going to be Beyonce's last. I won't say album, but it is going to be the last project in which she tours the way that she tours. I really feel like it is her saying goodbye to us. And we've seen the great Michael Jackson, Prince, right. They've all died working. They've all died in these ominous ways. We see Gladys Knight,

[00:18:11] love her to death. Um, and her eighties potentially with dementia and people are saying her family is still putting her out on these tours. Like she doesn't, we see Mary J. Blige. Don't yeah. Mary don't care. But I really feel like Beyonce is like, I'm not going to be one of them artists. Like I've given up. So, so that was my take on Cowboy Carter. Now at the Met Gala and every interview Beyonce did,

[00:18:37] Beyonce said, I'm so excited. Blue is here. I'm so like, I'm so excited. So it was almost like, I watched Bridgerton and I watched the Gilded Age. It almost was like the Met Gala was like the coming of age of Blue Ivy. We seen at the last stop on the Cowboy Carter when Destiny's Child reunited.

[00:19:00] And right before Blue has her act, Beyonce says Destiny's Child, right? Like it's almost like they're making the way for Destiny's Child. And so again, I don't know what it means, but we've seen in each tour, Blue have a significantly bigger part in each. Could Act 3 be Blue Ivy? I don't know. But I'm excited. Have you heard Blue Ivy sing? I know she dances.

[00:19:31] So who is going to be Blue Ivy's zhuzh? Again, I just want to put this out there. I am not in the DeLulu hide. I just hear it and I'm here to report it. That's a very good question. So I want to say on like one of Beyonce's, is it Lemonade? We have a song of Blue Ivy as a child singing. Then she did the Lion King or something like that.

[00:19:58] But the question that I ask you is, you're right. We've never heard her sing. I think that's intentional. I think like, I think they said wrap it up. Like, we know T.I. and Tiny Harris. We see Harris sing it every which way. And so could Blue Ivy sing? Yes. I don't know. But I just think it is

[00:20:24] so interesting. We've never heard her sing. We barely hear the girl talk. I know. I rarely hear her talk. She's very, you know, we see her out the paparazzi following her. She's very gracious, of course, with her mom next to her. But yeah, we don't really know much about her or her personality besides the fact that she can dance and she waves. And that's it. So yeah,

[00:20:48] it leaves a lot to the imagination, which can be a good thing. It gives them room to work with her. You know, we're not expecting much. Right. And we, if anybody is a Destiny Child fan, like Justin and I are, we know the Matthew Knows bootcamp. We know them girls was in heels, running on treadmills. And like I always say, oh my God, are we watching the Beyonce bootcamp

[00:21:15] bootcamp with Blue Ivy on these tours? How, like, you know, from tour one, tour two, how much she's evolved. And again, with that Met Gala dress of like death is watching, it's almost like not the death of Beyonce, but like in order for some new kingdom to rise, an old kingdom has to die. And so

[00:21:44] like, again, people are making this suggestion that like she was representing like the death of Beyonce and like the rise of Blue Ivy. Now, again, the Lulu, the Lulu, the Lulu. I'm just reporting the news. Then the other day, Justin. Yeah. Oh, people said Beyonce did drop on the 29th. Just, just, we weren't looking. And so on the 29th, these Blue Ivy

[00:22:16] Carter songs that are just instrumentals pop up on the internet. One dropped on the 29th and one dropped on the 30th. People are like, I don't know if this to believe to be true. Uh, baby, it's Parkwood Entertainment. The first song that dropped on May 30th or May 29th was Black Velvet. Okay.

[00:22:41] The Black Betty interlude. Then Mother May I Burn. And these are all just kind of like instrumentals. And so people are like, oh, somebody just made this up. No, baby, go to Spotify. And then I don't have Spotify. I only have Apple Music. Sorry. On Spotify, they have Blue Ivy and they have like a June 26th date. But we don't know what to do. It's the date. It's, it's like, cause I don't

[00:23:11] have Spotify, but it's like a landing page and it has like, as if something is going to drop. Now, again, I don't know if X3 is one. I want X3 to be Beyonce. Stop playing with me. Beyonce just on the hose. Whatever this Blue Ivy is. I mean, it does make me excited because obviously, you know, we want, we want rally behind Blue. Yeah. Ooh, that's something to look forward to.

[00:23:41] Okay. See, this is, this is all a scheme that Todd set up. That Todd set up. This is a scheme that Todd set up. Because they're very strategic in what they do. And who knows? I mean, it does, it does. I feel like it's just leads to fun. It's, it's a lot of fun to like, think about what they do behind the scenes to like get, uh, give us crumbs to what's next. Um, Beyonce was not always like this.

[00:24:09] We really got a taste of it when her self-titled album came out and wasn't that the one where it just dropped and we were just like, bitch, you're one of the first people I called. Yes. I was like, we were shook. That was like marketing. We've never seen before. I've got a whole new album. What? Yes. Yes. That was, and I was in the Taco Bell parking lot.

[00:24:32] Change the game with that digital drop. Oh, okay. Stop the world. And she did. Um, so yeah, but no, it's, it's fun. And I'm interested to see if it's true. I'm interested to see what we're going to hear. Are we going to hear a vocal? Are we going to hear a little, a Latavia vocal? Are we going to hear a Latoya vocal? Are we going to hear a Michelle? Are we going to hear a Farrah?

[00:24:58] Did Farrah get her luggage? Okay. Cause we could send you your luggage. Farrah, Farrah, Farrah. Let's not even go there for the Beehive come after us. We can't talk about her too much. No, no. I think the Beehive gives you permission to talk about Farrah. Yeah. Everyone, everyone else is off limits. Random question. Did you ever watch R&B Divas? Watch every episode and I still listen to it to this day.

[00:25:27] Blueprint? No, no, no, no, no, no. That, no, that's B-E-T. I'm sorry. That, that was, um, That's, uh, Encore or whatever. Encore. Mind you. Now, mind you, that, while we were watching, I thought it was a mess, but okay. Yes. That's no, but I'm talking, that is so funny, Justin. No, I'm talking about R&B Divas. R&B Divas with Latavia. With Latavia was on there. And I think Latavia was like the LA one. Cause they did an R&B Divas,

[00:25:55] New York and LA. But mind you, it was just, I always think so funny of Latavia being on there and like her not wanting to sing. But anyway, okay. So that's the DeLulu Hive. Um, yes. You know, wanted to report that to y'all. We'll see what happens. Again, I'm not a part of the DeLulu Hive, but I just felt like it was notable to say also just real quick before you go, ain't no better ad for Creed than Jay-Z popping out at the Boots picnic with his fro picked out. Amazing. Amazing. And you were there, right? I was. Yes.

[00:26:25] You were there. Were y'all shook? He was, he was standing on the stage when like, and we didn't know whether or not like another act was coming out, but like we could see his silhouette and we was like, that ain't Jay-Z. Like that's like, we were trying to figure out who it was. And then when the lights came on, we was like, oh, that's Jay. This is new. I love it. 60 years old with a fro. I love it. Like, and I only say that age because I feel

[00:26:52] like when we were growing up, 60 looked like something different. It didn't look like this. And so, um, and yeah, Jay-Z was not, not while Jay-Z was at the Roots picnic in the middle of his set. People are screaming, where Beyonce? Bring Beyonce out. Where Beyonce? And mind you, he had to cuss the crowd out. He says she can't take a, she says she in the back, she not working. She is off today. Off. She said she is off y'all, but she was there. You were in her presence.

[00:27:21] She was there. She was there. Uh, okay. So that's, you know, just get that Delulu hive out. I do want to go into a more serious topic that has been taking the internet by storm. Um, I do want to talk about Cyrus, uh, Carmack Belton. Uh, he was a 14 year old boy in 2023.

[00:27:42] And I want to say Columbia, South Carolina, who was shot and killed by the owner of a shell gas station, Rick Chow. This happened in 2023. It didn't really get a lot of attention. I want to say in South Carolina, it did get attention, but it didn't make national attention until. Past week and a half when the actual trial started going on.

[00:28:07] And I started seeing clips of this trial and I didn't know what to make of it, but I was just instantly tuned in. I love investigative pieces. I love when we actually can see the videos and they're live. And so I guess the story of this goes is that Cyrus was a 14 year old young man going into a gas station. He had a book bag on. It is important to note that Cyrus did have a gun.

[00:28:34] Uh, he went into this store immediately entering into the store. The wife's owner was there. She saw the book bag and immediately said like, Hey, no book bags. You can't bring a book bag in the store. Cyrus puts his book bag. I want to say like on a cooler Cyrus goes through a aisle immediately. The wife is watching, watching. And have we ever been in these types of situations where you go into a store and you're immediately profile.

[00:29:04] Uh, he takes out of the case, three bottles of water. He then stops, thinks, puts the three cases of waters back, shuts the door and begins to exit the store. As he's exiting the store, the store owner's son says, you've got something heavy in your pocket. What's that? Cyrus pats himself down and says like, I don't have anything. Like I didn't steal anything. I don't have anything.

[00:29:34] Cyrus leaves the store. As Cyrus leaves the store, the store owner's son, the store owner and the wife begin to chase after him. Cyrus is outside. He sees people running after him and he runs. He runs almost the length of a football field. He trips. As he trips, the gun falls out. He is on the ground. The son of the store arrives first.

[00:30:03] He says that Cyrus is pointing a gun at him. He says, gun, gun, gun. He says his father arrives. He tells his father that Cyrus has a gun. Allegedly, the son of the store owners says, you know, gun. The dad allegedly says, drop the gun. Allegedly, Cyrus does not. And they execute Cyrus. And that's the... Say that again.

[00:30:33] Shot him in the back. Shot him in the back. The back. That's why I said execute. And so it brings up a lot, right? And so as we are watching and seeing everything unfold, it is interesting to note that in South Carolina, unlike Pennsylvania and Georgia, where we have first degree murder, second degree murder, third degree murder, in South Carolina,

[00:31:02] they only have murder. And so now it is up to the prosecution. I believe that's right. The prosecution who... Because it's South Carolina versus Rich Child. So it's up to the prosecution to carry this burden of showing that it was murder. Before the case started, they did go... They were asked, should they add in lesser charges, manslaughter,

[00:31:31] first degree manslaughter, both sides agreed, no, just murder. And so we are watching these clips online. We are seeing this. And it is important to note that the child's, the child's son swore up and down that Cyrus stole something. And it wasn't until after they killed him that they could go back and review the videotapes to see that he did not steal anything. Also very important to notice

[00:31:59] that the child's have a very sophisticated camera system in their store to the point that they have a wall of shame behind them of anyone that they catch shoplifting, they print their photos out and they put them on the wall of shame. Their surveillance camera is so sophisticated that if you stole something, they could mark it in the camera, click, click. And anytime

[00:32:28] you were to come into the store and they think that that is you, they could press the button. Their system can scan through their footage of all the people that they believe have stole from them and they can make a facial recognition to say, that's the person. And they can immediately say, get out. No, you're not welcome here. You stole something. Now, for what reason this was 2003,

[00:32:57] bottled waters at that time, I believe it cost me. Yeah, 2003. Bottles of water cost 98 cents. And so, you would chase and kill for 98 cents. It just, well, I'll leave it there. Your thoughts? Yeah. You know what's interesting? Yeah, I mean, I was just listening to, of course, you and some other people chiming in on this and they have a history.

[00:33:27] This was not the first time that they've shot people before. They've shot, I think, the store owner, what? His name is Rick Chow. Yes. On two different occasions was seen shooting people or it was proven that he shot somebody in the leg. They lived and that person was shoplifting and then they shot someone or shot at someone previously, years earlier. And just to give you some context, this is in an area that I guess

[00:33:57] is in a predominantly Black area and they get a lot of shoplifters. They get a lot of calls, hundreds of calls a year apparently for all types of things, all types of violent behavior, shoplifting, all of that. So, in a nutshell, this family does not play about it. But it's interesting that you bring that up. I did not know that they had this extensive camera. It's almost like they were their own police department. Yes. You know what I mean? So, it's interesting just looking back and thinking about, well,

[00:34:26] what is your history with calling the police? Did you not trust that they would come in a, you know, a substantial amount of time? What was your relationship like with the police department in South Carolina? You said Columbia, right? Correct. Columbia. Because y'all got all this face recognition equipment. This is, this is what investigators do. This is what violent, like homicide, like they do all that kind of stuff. So, it's interesting

[00:34:56] that they use this kind of tech in this kind of neighborhood to take matters into their own hands and, and do what they did. Now, I do think we have to also look at the fact that this 14-year-old had a gun. that is not good. That's something that I'm sure during this trial was taken into consideration and something that the defense tried to label him as just being a bad person and up to no good 14-year-old kid who was,

[00:35:26] you know, trying to shoplift and blah, blah, blah. But yeah, I do think in that regard, we cannot ignore the fact that he was a 14-year-old kid who illegally had possession of a gun, which put him in this predicament. However, I know, I know, I know. It's like, where did you get this gun from? Why do you have this gun? It put him in a bad position. He should not

[00:35:55] have had this gun. However, it does not justify, in my opinion, and I know in South Carolina, the law is in South Carolina that if you own a store, if you're a business owner, you can go and follow people and you can chase after people if you have cause to do it. If you feel like somebody's stolen from you, if you suspect that they have shoplifted or have, you know, committed a crime on your property, you can go after them.

[00:36:25] And so, that is the law. However, I think you have to think about this as a family, as a business owner, just call the police. It's 98 cents. It's a 98 cent bottle of water. Even if he took four bottles of water, this is something that's less than $5. So, you're acting on emotion. You're so piped up. And it made me want to even dig into the child family more. You have so much,

[00:36:55] you have so much animosity that $5 worth of water bottles is enough for you to go chase someone for 400, 500 feet and put your son at risk, put you at risk. You're chasing him. You left the whole damn store empty. Somebody could have went in your store and looted the whole store. In video, when we see all of them leaving, there is somebody at the counter like... And they could have

[00:37:24] had $25 worth of merchandise. You know? So, yeah, it does make me think that there was, you know, there was something else going on in the child family that made them want to... There was something in their heart that made them want to pipe up in this way. And already, you know, you mentioning that there was this high-tech security system, they did not like their patrons. I mean, just the fact maybe they've been burned before, maybe they look at their numbers

[00:37:54] and they're like, dang, we lost $10,000 in merchandise last year. I don't know what the stipulations are, but there was something in them that made them react in this emotional way. And it ruined, I mean, it ruined their family. First of all, it ruined... We no longer have this 14-year-old boy anymore who had a future ahead of him, but also you've ruined your family's life over what? $4 worth of water? Of water. What's crazy is

[00:38:22] the son took the stand, the, again, the prosecution asked him, why did you chase after him? He said, oh, I wanted to know what direction he was going so that when we call the police, you have cameras outside of your store that can see a 360. You can literally watch from the store. Also, what is so interesting to me is the son during the trial when he's being questioned. He is so, yes, no,

[00:38:52] I'm not sure. I don't know. Yeah. Yes, I think, like, being so timid, like, he's literally, in my opinion, kind of like scrunching down. Justin, when you see the video footage of him standing behind the counter, big, yo, yo, yo, then the aggressiveness that you see him

[00:39:21] leave out of that store to go after Cyrus, it's like, it's crazy to me. I also do just want to talk about the point that, yeah, Cyrus had a gun. Okay. He lives in whatever area of South Carolina and people are asking, like, well, why does a 14-year-old have to have a gun? Well, clearly, they're being chased down and shot. Yeah. But, to my point, yes, he did have a gun. However, at no point in time

[00:39:51] did he garnish the gun in the store. At no point in time did he pull it out. At no point in time was he trying to rob this store. So, like, sure, he had a gun. Yes, he should not have had a gun. But I just want to be clear, like, this gun did not put him in this situation. Him being a Black boy, walking in a store, and of course, they said, oh, he had no money, he ain't had no money. Y'all didn't know what he was going to do. He had two phones.

[00:40:20] He had his phone and his mom's phone. Have you ever heard of Apple Pay? Have you ever heard of Google Pay? Irrelevant. If he didn't have, if he had no money or no money, money or no money, that's irrelevant. Yeah, he could have had Apple Pay. Then ballistics show. Then they say that he ran, he fell, he ran, he fell so hard. His shins were blood. Right? Like, the gun fell out of his pocket. The son says

[00:40:50] that he was leaning, pointing the gun. If I'm leaning and pointing a gun at you, how do I get shot in the back? And so, yeah, just all of this information. And we've seen this a time and two before when it comes to Black people. So much before that this story has happened itself again to a Black young girl, 15 years old, Latasha Harlan, a Black teenager in Los Angeles who went into

[00:41:19] an Asian convenience store. She picked up $1.79 of orange juice and approached the counter. They believe that she was trying to steal it. The video shows she had money in her hand. The store owner, Soon-Jun Joo, believed she was trying to steal, physically struggle with her. Eventually, Latasha turned to leave the store. The store owner followed her,

[00:41:49] shot, and killed her. The store owner received five years on probation, 400 hours of community service, and $500 in restitution. And I believe she did have to pay her funeral costs. This also is important to know that this killing happened 13 days after the videotape of Rodney King came out. And so, we have this history of these store owners not like you're in these areas

[00:42:19] that you don't like your consumers and you don't trust them and they're worth killing. But I also think it's important for us to talk about why these stores are in these areas if they're so dangerous. And I do want to bring up that for me, during the 1960s and the 1950s when Black people were leading the Civil Rights Movement and we got

[00:42:48] the Civil Rights Act passed. I think it's important to know that I think sometimes the way in history it's like, oh, we got the Civil Rights and everything was fine. No, it wasn't that. There was Jim Crow. There was like, you know, there's systematic racism that happens in this country that like, you wouldn't believe it unless you were there or unless we talk about it like redlining. Do people know what redlining is?

[00:43:18] Areas in which that banks and mortgage and lender companies marked and deemed as Black areas and others as White areas and so when Black families went to go get mortgages in certain areas they could not get loans and the only places that they could get loans in was in these redlining quote-unquote ghettos or the urban areas as to why we have these populations of where Black people are. And so there was during this 19,

[00:43:48] in the 1950s and 1960s during the Civil Rights Act the mass perception was like, how can we still keep these Black people down? And so there was this propaganda that was kind of coming up as the model minority and they used Asian families to put on posters and to show like, look, look at these minorities.

[00:44:17] They can go to school. They can get educations. They can own businesses. And what was happening was they were granting some of these Asian families and other minorities, they were granting them loans in these Black areas that Black people could not get loans in. They couldn't get loans in the White areas. But they're like, hey, listen, you get loans in here and that's why to this day in Black communities you see so many

[00:44:46] of these gas stations, these liquor stores, these hair stores because there was a push to say like, oh, look at the model minority. They can do it. Why can't Black people do it? And amongst that, I feel like it became this hate against other minorities that like, let us get closer to the white proximity and in order to do that,

[00:45:16] our one common enemy is Black and Brown people, Black people. And I feel like this is something that is systemic. This is something that we see today that, and there's a million other of these Cyrus cases that like, they just don't make the national headlines. And yeah, so I just think it's a lot deeper than this case. And you see the footage and have the information.

[00:45:46] Yeah, it's a systemic problem. I see it. I even see pictures and posters of people at the Shaltonham Beauty Supply Store near where we live in the Shaltonham Plaza. Like, you walk into that beauty supply store, you know, where the Shaltonham Mall used to be, and they got pictures and posters of people too. It's the same kind of thing, and you're right. It's the same thing, but this is just being, you know, magnified because he was found not guilty

[00:46:16] of murder recently. What, it was just last week? He was found not guilty. Monday. Monday. But yeah, I mean, totally a systemic thing. And, you know, it is sad. And also, I'm a fixer, right? I'm somebody who, when I look at stuff, I'm like, how can we make sure this does not happen again? What can we do as a community? Like, aside from the pitch for and the like, you know, power to the people

[00:46:45] marches in front of the county courthouse, what can we do as a community, as Black people to make sure this doesn't happen again? One thing that I think about is, okay, how can I, you know, I have a young nephew. You have nephews. Young Black nephews. How can I teach them it's okay to resist? You can stand up for yourself, but just let the process happen. survive. I think the win is to survive. Like,

[00:47:15] I was arrested on camera. I was a news reporter 10 years ago, and it was around the time that President Trump was running for office. And it was a rally. It was a march. And I was reporting the news at the time. Police were there with a whole crowd of people. And unfortunately, police mistook me for some of the protesters. Even though I had a microphone and a camera, like, they just, you know, they just dropped the ball. But in that moment, as I was getting arrested by police on camera, I thought to myself, Justin,

[00:47:45] you can fight because you know you're working. You're a reporter. You have a, you know, you know, you have your cameraman with you. And then I had another colleague, too, with a whole logo on her shirt, an ABC News logo on her shirt. Like, we were there covering it, and they knew that. But in the moment, I'm like, you know, they're taking stuff out my pocket. You know, I'm like, they're taking my cell phone. They're getting a zip tie and putting a zip tie around my, and so I'm thinking to myself, you could fight or you could just let this process play out.

[00:48:14] And that's exactly what I did. Now, mind you, I know that this was on camera and I knew it was on camera. So I knew that this was all being broadcast live. So I was like, that's already on my side. But even then, if there was no cameras involved, I still was like, Justin, just let this process happen because there's a court system, there's a judicial system. Yes, I might get a mugshot, have a mugshot, or I might be, you know, spending the night in jail. But I think the goal for me in that moment was just to survive.

[00:48:45] And I feel like sometimes maybe we have to teach our young nephews, nieces, sons, to let just the process play out. If he would have just stayed there, maybe, and I'm not saying that he's to blame for this because he is not, he's the victim in this, but just looking in the future and thinking about what ways that we can prevent this, maybe suggesting to our young people, just let it happen. Just let it play out. Let them search you and survive. And I know it might be a hard

[00:49:14] pill to swallow, but I want, you know, it's happening so much and it's not stopping. So what can we do? Yeah, I mean, I feel you, but I don't feel you. But I feel you, right? It's hard. Because it's like the same for us. It's like, you know, like I teach my nephews, my godson, like your mom and your dad. And my family has taught me if you get pulled over by the cops, put your hand on the steering wheel. Like, you know what I mean? And it's like,

[00:49:44] I was, maybe two summers ago, I was with one of like my white friends and we were somewhere in New Jersey. We got pulled over my white friend gets out the car. I'm like, what? Like, like, yes, we should. The goal is to make it home. But like, it's 2026. Why, why are we held to such a different standard? Why do we have to, like, it just,

[00:50:14] I don't know, sometimes it gets frustrating. Like, again, I think all these, and also the people have been protesting outside of the child's shell gas station. They got police, you know, so they've been protesting. They also discovered the child's owner Wingstop. They've been outside protesting the Wingstop. I feel like what we could do in situations like this is, again, and I do understand from a small business perspective, right,

[00:50:44] perspective, that like, you don't want people to be stealing. And so, maybe we have, maybe South Carolina needs to change their laws that like, you can't go out and chase somebody. If you believe somebody has stolen, you contact the police. You don't go out with a firearm and chase somebody for $2 worth of water. Like, that's just, and I don't know what the answer is. Right. You are right. But I also, sometimes I just get

[00:51:14] so frustrated. Um, and just, again, Cyrus was this little 14-year-old boy who lived in an area where he had to carry a gun. And like, that's the reality. I'm a social worker. I have been in the trenches of Philadelphia. I have gone to homes. I have seen guns. I'm like, like, it is, yeah. It's a different world. I know. It's a different world that many people don't know about. So,

[00:51:44] so yeah, I understand. Um, you know, in the court of law, of course, you know, seeing a jury, seeing that a 14-year-old boy had a gun, um, is not good. It's not a good look. And then, I mean, when you even talk about the judicial system, like a jury of your peers, I don't believe that that was Cyrus' peers. Your peers. Um, so, yeah. We just wanted to bring that to, uh, the posse because it's something that's, like, important. And here on the casualty, we're never,

[00:52:14] we never shy away from hard conversations. And so, I'm open to hear people's thoughts. I'm always open to learning new things. And so, any perspectives, any thoughts that you have, please share with us as we love to hear. This isn't just, we say something, it's the truth. This is our perspective, right? And, and that's how you learn. That's how you grow. Sometimes people are scared to have these conversations or people walk on eggshells and we don't have the conversations. And so, I think a part of casualty

[00:52:42] is having the conversation. Um, but moving on, uh, where do I want to go? Let's go, um, let's go to our old friend, Patagonia. Okay? I don't know if anyone's heard of this. First of all, this fierce, this amazing, um, who is a drag queen performer who goes by Patagonia. She is a, I'm going to make sure I'll give you,

[00:53:12] she is a environmentalist drag queen who centers around raising money and essentially saving the world, saving the planet. Okay? Like, global warming. But she goes by the name Patagonia. Now, normally, Justin, in these situations, normally, first of all, I'm always going to be with my community. I'm all with, you know,

[00:53:42] over a huge corporation, right? Like, you know, normally it's like the corporation against the big guy. And so, Patagonia has come out and she has been sharing, uh, she's been in this legal battle that Patagonia, the company, the big Cahoon brand is going after us. The, the conflict escalated after Patagonia applied for a trademark in late 2025 to sell merchandise

[00:54:11] to expand her online commercial enterprise. Patagonia sued for trademark infringing in a federal court alleging that the name is confusing, similar to its own. It violates the 2002 agreement where widely reported not to sell, uh, things that are similar. And so, when Patty first brings this story to the internet, she's like, this company is coming after us! Like, and like, and you know,

[00:54:41] we ready to rile the troops. Bebe, that CEO of Patagonia, he said, oh, Patty, you want to take her to TikTok? Let me take her to TikTok. He took it to TikTok, Justin, he pulled up the receipts and won. First of all, Patagonia is suing Patty Gonya for $1. Essentially, to just be like, bitch, stop playing with us. And, when the CEO of Patagonia

[00:55:10] starts revealing the emails, years worth of emails, that they reached out to Patty and said, hey, we like what you're doing. the logo was a bit similar to ours. Could you please potentially change it, move it, so that it won't be any issue? Here are some examples. That was a notice. That was a, hey, hey, excuse me.

[00:55:41] She went on, continued. They, they, they, again, like, I think it was like four or five infractions that she had made. And they sent her emails like, hey, girl, listen, we like what you're doing. But, could you do it this way? Could you move it this way? Could you, and like, she then filed for a trademark. And Patagonia said, all right, all right, bitch. We've had enough. Hold it,

[00:56:11] hold it. And, again, Patty, Patty brought this to the internet, right, to kind of like get ahead of the situation to try to get, because of course we all know and things like this, it's the court of public opinion that people want, right? Because if Patty could get us the consumers on her side, then we're gonna, we'll boycott Patagonia. We'll, like, you know what I mean? But, I don't know if that was the right move

[00:56:41] for her because when she brought that to the internet and mind you, when I saw it, did you see the video of the CEO? I did not see the video. I did see the merch, though, that was pretty comparable to it. And yeah, I mean, the merch, the font, it goes down to the font, it goes down to some of the graphics that, you know, look like mountains. You know, that's Patagonia's logo. Like, that's their bread and butter. That's what we know them as. And yeah, seeing Patagonia with the same,

[00:57:11] similar font and that kind of graphic, yeah, it does make you wonder like, hmm, at the end of the day, Patagonia is a business and they have to protect the trademark of it all. And so, that's why I feel like when you say they're only suing or they're suing for a dollar? They're suing for a dollar. The intent of it, I mean, it's not to get money. The intent is to give her some pause. Like, okay,

[00:57:41] you need to reconsider this. Like, I know we're taking it to the lawsuit level, but we're not trying to drain you. We're just trying to do the right thing and protect our trademark because if we let you do it, we have to let everybody else do it. And what's the point of having this business? This, you know, exclusive trademark. And that's the thing that I think has kind of backfired with Patty is that Patagonia is almost doing it for the little people. Like, you know,

[00:58:11] these small owners that have that trademarked Buddha Papa, right? And then who's to say Coca-Cola can't come and say, we got a Buddha Pop Pop soda. And now, like, but I'm just, like, it's crazy though, right? Where it's like, Patagonia, yeah, they are doing this, but they are doing this to protect their entity. They're like, they're everything. And really, they're protecting the small people as well because it's like, they are, I mean, we see time and time again

[00:58:40] on TikTok and different things of like, these, like, small creators, they do something and these huge companies then take it and there's nothing to be done because there wasn't trademark, there wasn't anything. And so it's just like, Patty, girl, like, I was, we were rooting for you. We were all, and like, not you got me on the side of Patagonia and then not the emails, not that they have been in communication with you for months.

[00:59:12] Yeah. Yeah, I do. I think it just, it goes down to understanding business at the end of the day and Patagonia, I think she's really, she's responding in an emotional way. You know, going on social media, trying to rally her troops to, you know, go against this company. But yeah, I actually, agree with you, Bryce. I think that when you look at it from a business standpoint, and I've done so many stories, I just did one recently on Sheehan. And,

[00:59:43] yeah, Sheehan taking designs from, from black, specifically black designers. And I talked to some intellectual property attorneys and they were like, you know, fashion is so hard to, to fight. You know, these companies, these big box Sheehan's and fashion novas and all of that. They've been doing it, taking and altering these black designers' designs because, because they can't. Like, fashion really is one of those things where it's, you know, up to,

[01:00:13] it's up to the person, up to your imagination, what you feel like is a duper not. So, so yeah, I do feel like Patagonia, for the small people, you know, they're leading the way when it comes to this kind of stuff. Yeah, and I almost feel like Patty wanted to do this for the notoriety, right? Now, because it, like, we're talking about it, it's such a huge story, right? And so I, I feel like she knows she was in the wrong, but, and again,

[01:00:43] they're only suing for a dollar, but obviously the legal fees that she, that she is going to occur going up against this giant, and then not to mention all of the, the money that Patagonia gives away, they donate, like Patagon, like, girl, this is not the brand, but again, I feel like she did it for the moment. It also just makes me think of when we talk about fashion, Steve Madden, do you know, like, you know the brand Steve Madden, you know where I'm going with this? Like,

[01:01:13] you know, like, and I, I want to say like two years ago, he even came out and said this, like, do you know what the premise of Steve Madden's brand is? No, no, no. The premise of Steve Madden's brand is, he copies the expensive shoes and makes them cheap. Yeah, yeah, you know what, now that I think about it, yeah, I have a couple of Steve Madden's. Yeah, that's not like, he copies the big brands, but like, because like you said, in fashion, it's so hard for the intellectual properties

[01:01:42] to, I don't know how it works, but it's so hard. And so like, yeah, who they're in court. And, you know, again, Pat, Pat, Pat, Patagonia, the company, when you read it, at first you're like, oh, it's the Goliath coming after the little guy, but like, no, they've been more than accommodating and willing, like, to not get it to this point, but now like, girl, they got to make an example out of you. And so,

[01:02:10] that was something that was trending on my timeline. So I said, oh, we got to talk about this. Another thing that was right in Justin and I's old backyard. Well, everybody loves Love Island. So tell us, tell us about this man, Justin. Who this man is? Yes, his name is Sean Rifle, Refle Rifle, which is interesting because he's a police officer. I'm like, Rifle? Anyway, he's a police officer,

[01:02:40] Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia and a small community. Like it must be what? Less than a hundred thousand people. But, you know, of course they have their own police force and he went on Love Island. He quit his job. He's been at the police force, the Bethlehem police for less than a year. He started in October. I'm sorry, August, 2025. And he quit to be on Love Island and it stirred up some drama in this small Pennsylvania community because

[01:03:10] the police chief came out publicly, not even in private, came out publicly and said, how dare you? How dare you quit? We spent all this money. We spent taxpayer dollars on training you in the police academy. How dare you just quit for a reality, you know, a reality opportunity. And so that just opened up a firestorm of comments. People upset that this police chief, even the mayor, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this was, yeah,

[01:03:40] the mayor, the mayor criticized as well for just the, you know, just for being disappointed. And, you know, and also to that point too, they are down 16 police officers. So to give you some context, they are struggling with fulfilling these positions. I think he was making $70,000. I think I read that the BBC, he was making $70,000. And so the idea of Bryce is you go on Love Island, it's a hit show, you go on Love Island

[01:04:09] and many of the people on the show, the cast members, they get brand deals, they become overnight sensations, influencers, all of a sudden it opens up this, you know, you know, haven of money, so much money and opportunity. And, you know, everybody wants to be an influencer. And so, yeah, $70,000 a year versus the opportunity possibly to be a social media star and get brand deals, you can make one brand deal $70,000. So, One post.

[01:04:39] One post, $70,000. Off rib. So, in that way, you know, of course, the older generation, some people don't understand that. They feel like it's a privilege to be a police officer. Again, your, you know, your duty is to protect and serve and, you know, all hail, you know, you're nine to five. But not in 2026. It's a whole different world out there where, you know, you can make a living and you can make millions

[01:05:08] off of being an influencer and a social media personality. And we see it all the time. We see it even with survivor cast members. I don't know if it's millions, but, you know, there are brand deals and opportunities linked to being a survivor cast member. So, yeah, it's just started this divide. And I feel like the divide really is between the older generation who is married to work versus the younger generation, the older millennials, the Gen Zers who really don't care. It's just about the opportunity.

[01:05:39] When I saw this controversy, I'm like, what the hell is this, right? And then, again, when I started reading into it, and like you said, it really is that divide of like the older generation and then like the millennials and the Gen Zs. And I think it also kind of comes down to, and I've been wanting to do a podcast about this and so I won't go too deep into it, but like our generation, Justin, right? Like, we're the generation that like paying

[01:06:09] into Social Security, working 30 years, like the pension, the 401k, what you mean my 401k is in the stock market and now, like it's like, we're of the generation where it is not going to pay off for us, right? We're of the generation, y'all said go to school, y'all said get an education and get a job. I did all of that and all I got in my refrigerator right now is a bottle of water and pickle juice. Like, we're struggling. That, go to work

[01:06:39] and that ain't working for us, right? Like, y'all lied to us and we are paying for y'all and who's going to pay for us? And so like, I think that that is really the big conversation because like, how dare y'all? When I went on Survivor, I had to ask for a leave of absence. I didn't tell them what I was doing. Bitch, I'm taking a leave of absence. Approve it or not. Or not. They did. But mind you, and I always say like,

[01:07:09] and if they didn't, I still would have went, well child, how I did on Survivor, I mean, I probably, if they didn't approve it, I probably should stay. But no, but they approved it. And so for this mayor to come out and essentially put on this fine, black, muscly, strong face, you know, look like he got

[01:07:38] good hygiene, looks like he works out, nice smile. For y'all to put that on this man of your city's shortcomings. You've got 16 vacant spots. Whose fault is that? And I'm not going to miss an opportunity because y'all not doing y'all job. And so when I went on Survivor, my job, my company, my county,

[01:08:07] they rallied around me. Like I was, they put emails out. I'm going to schools. Our governor, Josh Shapiro, at the time was our commissioner. Josh came to our office. Josh, like they celebrated me. And so I feel like Bethlehem, I think y'all are missing the opportunity here. You have somebody that is on a super popular show. You said you're 16 missing or 16 unfulfilled

[01:08:37] positions. Imagine, and also because his sister's, his sister, his mom got in them comments. And the sister and mom said he did not leave. He took a leave of absence that y'all approved. Okay? So imagine, y'all got 16 unfulfilled positions. You got this man on this widely popular show where he comes home. Say, you know, I know on my season when Tony won my season

[01:09:06] of Survivor, Tony was a police officer and I know when he got back, it was difficult for him to be on the street. And so he had to move positions. Imagine y'all bring this man back and put him in the community outreach. Just think of that. Think of how many, like... Mm-hmm. And if y'all really cared about fulfilling those 16 roles, you could take that love island and flip it and be like, do you want to be

[01:09:36] a part of this police force that whoever Sean was on, you know, we handsome, we wealthy, you know, we attractive over here. Like, you know what I mean? Just something, you could drum up excitement towards the Bethlehem Police Department. It makes me feel like they don't have a PR team. They don't have something or it's like, well, we know in every city and that, and my job, I don't know the last time you've been to Bethlehem. Bethlehem, like, it's up there. It's rural,

[01:10:06] but it is, God, it's inner city. What better way to bridge that gap? Y'all should be doing Love Island Watch Party. Y'all should be doing things engaging the community. Instead, y'all want to condemn this man? You holding press conferences about this man. You should be holding press conferences about the 16 unfulfilled positions y'all had. And that's really what it is. Y'all not working hard enough. To your point,

[01:10:36] whose job is it to fulfill? I mean, that's really the issue. Y'all are mad that y'all can't fulfill these police department positions, these police roles. That's not his fault. That's not Sean's fault. And it's not against the law either to leave, to go on a, you know, a leave of absence or to even quit. Even if you went through training and he was like, oh, this is not for me. That is a waste of taxpayer dollars, but that's not against the law. It's not against the law to quit. Mind you,

[01:11:06] some of these cops on these forces after they go through that training, they really should be like, oh, this isn't for me and they should quit. But also, how y'all are handling this, again, shows me why y'all have 16 unfulfilled positions because I don't know if I would want to work in something like that. Like, this is what y'all do when you actually have something positive on your hands? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Gone are the days, Bryce, where we hail to our positions. You know, we are married

[01:11:36] to our jobs. Those days are over and, you know, the generations who raised us, they, you know, they have different moralities than we do. They have different, you know, mindsets when it comes to work. They're the type that don't go on vacations. Like, even my parents. You know, I have young parents, but, you know, when I started growing up and starting to be able to afford going on vacations, they saw me and they were like, oh, we want to go on trips too. Like, yeah, mom,

[01:12:06] you haven't been on a vacation in four years. Yeah, because I was about to say, Justin, don't get on my podcast and start lying because I just saw you and your mom at a tennis opening doing TikToks. Yes, but that, Bryce, that is like within the last 10 years, my parents have really started to go on vacations more than once a year. Like, I'm like, no. Because I've seen photos of your dad chewing your brother in the pool and I screenshot it and I sent it to you and you said, do this again and you're going to block me.

[01:12:37] Yes, because you have something, we're not going to talk about that. We can. We can. Bryce has, Bryce loves my parents, specifically my parents. I do. Justin's dad and his mom. Justin's mom is cool and mind you, Justin's mom got like, not a smart mouth, but like, she gets you together. Love Justin's mom and I love his dad. See, see, we're going, we're going left. We're going left. I just said, I love your parents. I know. Wait till you see

[01:13:06] my Father's Day post come out and you're going to really screenshot that next week. Oh, I'm back. Send it right over to you. But yeah, just crazy though. Yeah, I was just going to say, I was going to say, yeah, we live in a completely different world with them. Like when it comes to, even, does your mom go on vacations a lot? So, since my mom has retired, yes. But like, prior to her, because my mom was a single mom

[01:13:36] with four kids, right? Like, there really was no vacation for her. So yeah, very true to you. Only more recently after my mom like retired, does her or her husband go on two vacations a year. But mind you, there, my mom pissed me off though. She goes to the same spot, same place. Like, but listen, if she like it, I love it. Okay. Yeah. If she's happy, you're happy. But yeah, it's a completely different world, Bryce. And yeah, older people, they just don't understand how we move and operate now. Like, we do not care.

[01:14:06] I will quit this job if it means a better opportunity and I will not look back. And I'll take a chance. Like, it's like this young man is shaking. Like, y'all don't understand the anxiety, the nerve that it has to take to apply to be on these shows. Then to get accepted. Then to make that decision to like, what do I do? You don't know if it's going to be good or bad, but sometimes you have to roll the dice on yourself and kudos to this man for rolling the dice on himself and this police department

[01:14:36] in Bethlehem, y'all need to do better. Mm-hmm. I think they learned. I think. I think they're learning. Yeah. Actively. Um, I think, yeah, I think that they, this has been a PR nightmare for them. They probably, you know, it's a small department. They probably don't have a lot of resources when it comes to PR and communications, but as a communications person, I'm like, y'all dropped the ball. This could have been something way bigger. This could have been something great for the community and y'all getting all this negative press because y'all so

[01:15:05] butthurt emotional about one police officer taking a leap of absence. Um, so. And a new one. A year. Like, you know, like, yeah, just pussy. Yeah. But, yeah. Well, Justin, I can't thank you enough for jumping on and being a part of this month's casual tea. I hope to have you back soon because I just miss you so much. Before we go, where could the posse, if they, if they like what you are giving and they want to follow you

[01:15:40] and, you know, I rock with you. I rock with you till the day I die. We had a moment last, last time in Atlanta in the car. We had a moment and I'm like, oh, this is like. In the car or in the car when we was walking? All of them. We had all the moments. But, uh, we, we had a moment where we just got to like have a heart to heart about just everything leading up to our, our, you know, relationship thus far and I'm like, oh, this is my person for life. Like, I'm going to,

[01:16:09] be friends with Bryce forever. So I love you and I appreciate you. You can follow me, um, at J-U-S, the number two, I-C-E, uh, on Instagram and yeah, Justin Carter TV on Facebook, but I'm mostly on Instagram because that's where all my fans and friends are. So follow me and then YouTube. Oh, on TikTok and YouTube as well. Um, so yeah, yeah, just look me up. I'm, I'm around. Yes.

[01:16:38] Or you might hear him uh, cause you know, Justin is a reporter. So he does have his action seven news voice as well that I love. Uh, but Justin has been amazing. Thank you so much and I look forward to talking to you next month. This has been your Purple Pants podcast casual tea for the month of June. I hope you guys are all well. Talk to you and see you soon and happy Pride. Bye. It's the Purple Pants, it's a Purple Pants, it's the Purple Pants podcast.

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