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Folks who are like, where's my
fifty plus for this week? I was

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like, and not do one.
I'm so sorry. I got really busy

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because I was embroiled in a lot
of race talk this week. Hi,

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I'm James Junior. Welcome to fifty
plus and show for you this week.

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Of course, I come on here
and talk to you about life. And

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I love being my fifties. It's
my friend's birthday to day, JPay birthday

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to you. He's fifty one,
So you end at the fifty plus club.

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I love it being here for many
reasons. But I want to talk

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to you. You know. I
as I get older, I always say

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the more I get older, the
less I know. It's a great thing.

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Education continues to flow in my life. I learn all the time.

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And this week I woke up Last
week, I woke up to a whole

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host of fans happy that we spoke
out on race on our General Hospital show

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last week, which I do all
the time. I speak up on race.

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I do race talks. I have
a show called A Black Guy and

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White Guy Can Run. I mean, I do race stuff. I do

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gender stuff, sexual orientation and stuff, age stuff all the time. Fat

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stuff, you know, I'm always
talking about different things, just regularly.

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I do it all the time.
But I guess, right, once in

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a while, you hit when the
iron is hot, and it just hits.

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I want to think soapub I picked
up the story a few others.

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I didn't. I didn't expect that. I was just talking from my life.

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I had a special show on Friday, connections Are You Are? Race?

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Talks about It was mainly about this
couple of spring Now it's black,

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it's black and white couple, um
or interracial coma to say he's he's Latino

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in real life, but it's white
presenting. I guess, um, But

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uh, what important thing was like
allowing them to be fully formed? And

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and I've been more frankly having sex
on screen about everybody else does. And

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I just broke down actual storyline as
a person, as a writer myself,

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what the next steps would naturally be
a soap fan first that I was talking

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about the kind of what the character
goes. And one of the things I

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always realized, I've had great reaction, I've had mixed reaction. I've had

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people disagree with me, which I
expect all that, And I just I

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was telling my sister yesterday. You
know, when you say things or talking

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about uncomfortable subjects or subjects that forces
someone to look at something they don't normally

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want to look at, that can
be tough, totally tough. You can

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deflect, comedy, shut it down, whatever, There's always been ways to

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do that. But when you bring
up something to a group or a group

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that's not they feel like it's not
affecting them, or it's not really something

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that's that's that's their passion. It's
like almost disruptive, like how you get

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it? I might totally get it. I've had talked to some of my

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colleagues who are white, and I
can tell how uncomfortable this is for them.

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Um, And it should be uncomfortable. It's not. It's not a

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fun conversation. Um. But I
always think back to myself, people who

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look like me are people who are
of any kind of marginalized group. I

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don't get a break from being black, I don't get a break from being

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any anything. I mean, whatever
it is that you see on me as

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you walk down the street or come
into a store and come onto YouTube,

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I'm reminded all time what people see
the gray hair, they see them older

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I'm fat, they see them fat. Whatever, it's like, there's certainly

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I'm just like, it's just I
don't get a break from it. So

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I come from a lens where I
always im thinking about it. On some

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level. It's not a big burden
or something that just like tires me out.

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I think anybody who's of a marginalized
group just understands it's just part of

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your life and you deal with it
because you have to. You adapt and

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you do a chant to do.
But it's for all the other groups who

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don't have to really worry about something. There's like, where did they come

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from? Why are the entering my
life? Why are we talking about this?

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I don't want this. It's also
a fear of ruining something. I've

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heard that several times this week.
I just don't want to show ruined.

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That's what this is happening. And
they're gonna the fans are going to ruin

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this again. I completely understand.
I see, I see where you're going

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from. I told me aympathetic about
that. I go, okay, I

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can see that. You know you're
watching a show for you, you're seeing

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which you need to see. Um
you don't have you know, you may

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not have. You may have like
small problems with storyline, but in terms

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of representation, you see who you
see, and life goes on. You

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like the couples you like on the
show, like the characters you like on

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the show. Um, and life
goes on. But there are a lot

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of us who go, Wow,
I'm Latino, and there are no Latino.

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The all Latinos are killed off the
show. They're all gone. I'm

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Asian and the two Asian characters come
on once every every three or four months,

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and they're good characters. You want
to see more of them because it

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looks like us and it's fun.
And as we relate to not taking away

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from the fact that we still like
the soap opera, we like the other

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characters too. I love me,
Um, you know, I like Carly,

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I like Sam, I like you
know, I like other characters like

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Liz, I mean people. I
mean we like these characters. We like

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them too. But there's all,
you know, a promise to these other

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characters. Aren't we seeing them?
Um? And that's a hard hard And

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as I get older in my fifties, I'm getting more militant and how I

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speak out on that and I already
know all I don't say anything in the

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public universe. It's open to interpretation, open to jabs, open to everything.

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So I'm ready for that. I
used, I'm used to it.

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I've been doing before. UM.
I just I try to stay because somebody

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ask me, how do you do
it? How do you handle the smoke

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you get on the jabs you get
as you just I just know if I'm

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gonna say something, a certain thing
is gonna be like No, I don't

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do it to automatically. And that's
how it is. It's predict three.

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It is predictable. It's just how
it is. I'm still gonna try to

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have the conversations, at least have
the conversations, um, because it's still

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important to have those. I'm still
gonna call things out. It's important.

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Is what I do for a living. I'm a sop podcaster. I'm so

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pressed. Um. I do shows
called after shows where we critique the show.

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We don't just we don't just recap
it because you can read, you

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can really recap anywhere. We also
talk about it with the fans live on

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Sundays, UM, And that's kind
of what I do. And we listen

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to fans. I always hear what
they have to say. I guess it's

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it's it's back and forth and that's
what we do on J l J media,

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and I just think that's something that's
important to remember, and it's something

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uncomfortable for you, you know.
And if we're have a conversation, I

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will do what I can on some
level to make it's some uncomfortable. I'm

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gonna go back, I'm gonna bend
over backwards to make you feel good.

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But I'm like, but I want
to acknowledge your feelings and validate and say,

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okay, where can we go from
here and see we can work it

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out. I there were conversations to
die out, it doesn't help anything here.

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A conversation going and see where we
and see where it goes, and

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you make me disagree, may come
into the impast that happens. That's life.

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Um. But as long as conversations
are had and at least at least

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I said I feel heard, or
you're gonna see you say you felt heard.

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Um, you still walk away and
go to day. It's full shit

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whatever, That's fine. I'm full
shit, right, But I can walk

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away and sleep at my knowing that
I'm telling my truth. I know what

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I see. I'm trying to be
as factual as possible. Yes, there

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are some emotions involved, just there
is, but I try to be as

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factual as possible. And Okay,
this is what I see, this is

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what we've seen on screens, what
we've seen over here, and go from

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there. But I always know it's
a touchy subject. But I'm not gonna

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stop talking about it. And one's
gonna scare me off, and I tell

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I'm gonna stop talking about it.
I'm like, keep talking about it and

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talking about it and talk about until
I'm not here anymore. And us,

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if you or I have choices,
you can go, James I when you

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talk out race, I don't want
to see it, and you don't have

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to have plenty of the programming you're
watch, but if you're interested, I

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invite you in and listen. Just
here's someone's point of view or someone else's

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point of view, and I'm just
taking under consideration. That's all. I'm

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James Junior. I'm gonna get ready
for my week, and all of you

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please take care of yourselves again,
keep the education going