Unpacking Special Education & Urban Challenges: A Deep Dive

No lead in. No lead in. No music. Sorry radio folks. No, a lot of y'all just tuned in for the theme. And at some point we will have to do, maybe we start doing it on Fridays, we have to do a little bit more of the open our eyes because there's a lot of people.

They want to hear that man. All they get is the bills. All it is the bills. Come on y'all. That cat tapped right into that cat. You tapped right into it. You got your pinky ring on.

I'll come I'll work I'll work with the band. We can do that with for you.

Ain't nothing like a jabby jab, boys. I'm telling you, I'll never hear the bells if you leave me. I was just talking to a young lady, Kelly, and we were at, we were just talking about, we was at the set, Jermaine had did for the summer concert series. And Jermaine was playing all these, you know.

It was close to love on the rocks. You should have started off with a little deal diving love on the rocks. And I turned to her. I said, you know, I'm going to go home and break up with my wife. Man, they told me you did some Bobby Womack, man. Man, listen, man, we did something. Oh, man, if you think you lonely now, I just fell back in the chair. Did he do a little version of Cut Cross? Hey, you know what?

You should you say that cuz I just added that to myself. You should man cuz it's great for the band. Yeah Bobby Let me do this real quick. I got callers already. Okay, I don't know if this changes the equation of this very in-depth conversation we had yesterday But the young man who was shot

in Memphis. Uh huh. His his special ed teacher came out and said that he was special needs. Oh, no. Oh, no. Alright, we brought that up yesterday too. Well, we yeah, we were people were hypothesized. I can't even say where. You talk about the guy that was in the house. Out of the bed. Yeah. Yeah. His special ed teacher. Wait, wait, now you have to be kind of careful with that because

just because you in special ed, that don't mean that you don't have common sense because I knew a lot of cats that was in school that can hoop their butts off and had common sense, but they was in special ed. Hey, one of the few times my mother ever had to advocate for me in school, Miss Beeman was going to put me in special C. And I told the story and said, my mama go in saying, not wrong with this boy. Yeah. She said,

the Egyptians you see today. Oh, you ain't gonna see them. You ain't gonna see them no more. Yeah. That woman's gonna put me in special seat. Yeah. And I think and here's the deal. I'm gifted and talented. See, but but no, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You missed that. No, no, no. I know. I get it. That's that chemo. But a lot of people don't understand it when you're wired differently and you learn differently

they kind of equate that to a learning disability. Now, first of all, don't be diagnosing me. That wasn't what... Well, no, that's what happened to me. I know, learning. Learning disability. I was not saying he's telling his own. Yeah. But a learning disability is not the same. It doesn't mean that a person doesn't have the intellectual capability. It's how they learn differently. And because we do basically one size fits all, then you have kids out there who, you know, they could be selected, they could be

There's a lot of kids that that a was that a the attention. Oh, yeah, attention deficit. Yeah, I mean that it's all those things that go into it. And I think I really want I'm going to do a program where they're different tears, if you will. Yeah, you got kids who are autistic on. You know, I mean, there's a lot out there where you you you can't but certainly change the equation. It don't change the fact that he did.

No, well right right and the circumstances, but that's one of the little thing that may explain Why he could not differentiate I said it may be let's let's not muddy the waters. Yeah, cuz if he was smart enough to hide under the bed Yeah, he had the whole ass trying to get out a sense of right and wrong. Yeah. Yeah, he had a sense of right and wrong So right he knew he knew that what he was coming over there for though. He wanted some

So, he went over there because he wanted to try to get some. So, he had come enough since to know, you know, to what he's getting ready to do. And a lot of us weren't special beings. Right, right. Doing the same thing. Doing the same thing. So, yeah. I don't know about that, Jack. So, no, I just, it was something that's just another factor out there. And I'm just saying that, you know. So, does it help the woman's, the mother's cause? No.

don't know because it even doesn't hurt it though makes it worse if you say that because so you think of a person that don't have right good insist that's the first now she wouldn't know that she wouldn't know that she wouldn't know but the body teacher coming out and says special I think that what I think what the teacher was doing and I appreciate that is really humanizing this person because right now we got the dude up under the bed she's saying that there's probably some other things but

Obviously, the fact that he was hiding means that he knew he did something wrong. Okay, so, but again, he's the victim. You know, she is the alleged killer. Carla, welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning, young man. How you doing? I'm good, man. What's happening? Hey, last Friday, you were getting ready to eat my coffee up with me.

I almost got my coffee nice and hot with my doughnut. And then this morning I get a surprise. Michelle never did get my coffee hot. We tried to get her going, but she just wouldn't go there with it, you know. She's becoming more, she's becoming more disciplined. So can I ask you a question, Big T? Big T, can I ask you a question? Yes, sir. You do realize this is Keith's show. Why are you calling him talking about Michelle's show? Oh, I know why.

No You want me to explain it what he was saying was that Michelle had his coffee warmed up like hot and then I came in here and You know it turned into iced coffee. You know, that's what he was saying. I appreciate it, right? So And speaking of Meach and I'm glad that's a great segue Meach last week

was talking about the 400 year tax. He dropped it, though he didn't say it with Michelle. Let me explain what he's talking about. There was a part of the biennial budget, and I think it was something about school funding. And so they put in where you could take, it was this percentage of tax levy that you could use for school funding, right, on the local level.

Governor Evers went in and did a line item veto. He took a hyphen out and basically said that the formula would stay in place for perpetuity. And what he was saying was that this is going to be the floor in terms of funding public education. The issue we have in Wisconsin is that we have a big dependence on the local level on tax levy as opposed to the state giving more money to public education.

So part of that in mind, just kind of looking at it was him saying to look and look, it ain't just Milwaukee. It's all of the school systems who are complaining about the lack of money that they get for the state. So now they have to then depend on local tax level. That's what he was talking about in terms of the 400 year tax. Oh, yeah. Why did he get so helped up? Oh, because it's a Republican talking point. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Right, because if you see Tom Tiffany's ad, one of his, I don't know if it was his brother said, don't forget the 400 year tax. So it's one of those things out there. But I think as we get closer to the general, then some of the things that, well, we have a responsibility, I do. I think we have a responsibility to when there are misinformation out there to correct the record. Because people will hear what they hear and they'll run with it.

And most voters are low information voters. So it's probably the last thing that they heard. So appreciate you, man. Get me back to that. I was going to put that as a clean up, but that's what he was talking about. All right, buddy. You two, man. Call him up to the program. Hey, good morning. Good morning. Hey, when you were talking earlier, I was in the car. I wanted to say that there are two songs that hit me hard sometimes.

that love on the two-way street and what becomes of a broken heart. And both of them have sentimental values because I love on the two-way street, I've met her at the upstairs downstairs. Well, there's a problem there because you couldn't see her.

Because upstairs was so dark. I don't know how anybody saw anybody the upstairs. That was one of the darkest bars ever. Oh, if they had on the right clothing, you saw. That was back in the day with them hot pants and them hair puffs. Oh, oh, wait a minute. Hold on. Hold on, T. Wait a minute.

You telling me that we had something back in the day called hot pants with the cheeks. So what's the difference between what the girls were wearing now and what the girls were wearing then? I don't know but back then they was hot. I'm a grandfather now. I don't know what it was. But I know what it was.

This crazy college student, I don't know what it was for me. Man, halter tops. And let's just keep it because we adults, halter tops in the 60s and 70s was the same time women were burning bras and women weren't wearing bras. Yep, and it definitely was a halter because you stopped when you saw it. Oh man, I'm just saying.

Yeah, you know and I'm that guy who will sit up and tell you ain't nothing new under the Sun they had hot pants 60s and 70s in the 80s the DD's right Daisy Dukes And then we we got them help them and they were talking about now they had these pants and women aware that a wide pants that's tripping and And hurting themselves. I'm gonna shoot. I know some Delta's who had some cell bottles. It was Six feet wide on the bottom

My buddy used to wear him there. He didn't know how he could walk in. He was looking at that. You told you on some high boys' ads about? Oh, jeez. Hey, man, I finally got me a little platform, jeez. I had to give them up after. My back hurt for the rest of my life. I could not. That didn't mess my back up. So I said, oh, no, I'm going flat, brother. I went flat.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

had all of the 70 stuff down to, did you know that the woman who played Clarence Williams III's wife is Eve Plum from the Brady Bunch? Oh. Yeah, that was Eve Plum from the Brady Bunch. And I love his son, Whitey. What he called Abraham Lincoln, Paul White Trance. Hey.

But I'm going to say this about what becomes of a broken hearted. That was one of the best written songs of that time, man. The lyrics of those things. By the emotions? Oh, the emotions. No, no, that's my, who is the guy for Motown, the writer of, he was one of the writers at Motown. Okay. But yeah. I thought the emotions did what happens.

to a broken heart. Oh, they do, but this is what becomes of a broken heart. What becomes of a broken heart? Okay. Right. And so it's the deepest lyrics I've ever seen. And you can, you can pronounce them lyrics to detail because never did they not see any words that you understood. And it wasn't like now would be like, well, I can tell you love on the two way street.

There's a young lady I had a crush on named Kim West and boy, did she break my low heart. And all I'm sitting is love. If I love on a two-way street, I'll sit on a lonely highway. Yep, I told them I wasn't driving yet, but I knew what a highway was. Yeah, well, when you get run over.

or when you're standing on the side in the distress lane and you ain't got nobody to pick you up. And you know what, man? And Kwaku ain't here, so we can't even get on the couch. Yeah, man. Let me tell you this though. If you ever go to a ride out show, be prepared. Bring, bring, bring, bring some tissue and a handkerchief. Because he gonna have you crying.

I don't know if I got any more tears than 74. All right, man. Now, 25 should have been crying all week. Oh, man. What was you thinking, man? I appreciate you calling. Welcome to the program. What was you thinking? Good morning.

Hey, what's up, brother? How y'all doing? Good, man. What's happening? Hey, you got an A man. The deepest one to me is here. We in the hell with the Melvin and the Blue Notes. I miss you, baby. Oh, man. When they do say, I got a job. And now, now, all of a sudden, you got a job and your friends just buddy seen her and all this stuff. Oh, that's a deep song, man. It was crying like a mother. A man, y'all have a good one, brother. Oh! Oh! Oh, I miss you. Oh! Yeah.

That cat was in there, man. He was hurting. Yeah, he was hurting, John. Miss you, baby. She broke his heart. I'm back robber. Miss you, miss you. That cat grabbing his chest and everything.

He was hurt. That's Theodore, man. Was that old Teddy? That was Teddy. Yes, sir. Theodore, man. You know, all those years people thought it was Harold Belvin singing. It wasn't Harold Belvin. It was Teddy. Teddy was experiencing his old pain. You know what, man? And these guys, but then for him to get caught the way he got caught when he got paralyzed. Yeah. Yeah. Was he singing to her? Or was he singing to him? He was probably enjoying himself.

You know, they did, when they did, when they did the, when they did a documentary on Teddy, they interviewed her. Yeah. And what happened was people said it was a transvestite. Right. It wasn't. She had he transferred from heat to she, she'd had the surgery, everything. Well, that's still, I know, I'm just saying. So just the context.

It wasn't Eddie Murphy. It should have been. Just give him the ride. I'm gonna tell y'all, man, the greatest, the greatest citizen's exposure. Carla, welcome to the program. Good morning. Hello. Hey. What's happening? Yeah, I'm explaining it for a while now.

Hey, when I'm sitting in the VIP section, I'm a VIP man. Y'all need to understand that. Now, if I wouldn't in the VIP section, but I was in the VIP section, man. So, you know how people act when they're in the VIP section?

I did. Now I understand. Thank you for inviting me to find out. Don't do that to me no more. Who me?

No, I guess he was saying how he was thinking about the songs he was playing. Because he was acting weird. I'm like, dude. No, no, no. I was acting VIP. I was acting as if he got up and left. I'm standing here. He ain't paid enough. He's looking all sad. Right? Because I'm over in the VIP section. Why are y'all talking to me? Why? Why? Why? He's probably not. I wasn't going to say that because I was going to be belong. He done fed up the crackers, burnt all the show and stuff. I'm like, oh, jeez. Oh, jeez, George.

Yeah, y'all just kind of walked over there. I guess you can but no man when I'm in the VIP section just just so people know so basically George and what he's saying is Little people we don't talk to but I'm in the VIP section If I stand next to my car that's different

I ran into D-Boy at, uh, what's that one for, uh, grocery store, uh, not really, but, uh, we all were giving out some tickets one day for them. Yeah, D-Boy's acting the same way. I tried to, he used to in the street, man, when he acting all strange, you know, okay. Well, that's why George, he was putting some in his belly. You never bothered, man, that's putting some in his belly.

No, he was trying to rescue some of that lady that was standing next to him. Hold on, man. I'll wait a minute. Wait a minute. I know you ain't trying to talk about what you've been trying to get in people's mess. I messed up that marriage. I know you ain't talking about what you've been married to. What, you said they're on the wrong side of the bed, George? Yeah. According to y'all, I'll always get them on the wrong side. We will send you an email with the rules.

How you interact with us when we wear when we wear right now again if I met my car right then I'm but when I'm in the VIP section y'all I I just I I want to talk to you but the rules of the VIP section is you cannot talk to people. I appreciate you. We like they like Sister Herrera just.

Get on over in the VIP. She said it right. She don't care. She don't care. You got to tell her she got to move. Man, I was just so elated that they didn't sweat me about parking. Yeah. Yeah, I go, Keith Parris, WNOV. Oh, come on in, man. Roman Reporter. Roman Reporter. And I still cannot find my press pass. We'll get you another. Please. All you need is white piece of paper because you want white WNOV order.

Remember the old days where they had the press guy they had up in the little fedora. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Call and welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning. How you doing? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm fine. So you're about the same age. Okay. See where this going? Okay.

Never I said that You know Pam was really she doesn't talk a lot of that's where I'm from And like what do you guys think about heatwave that is really always in forever? It's always been a beautiful song that me and my husband really enjoyed That was really a deep cut for me. Oh forever. Yes

that on highway listen to it. Yeah. Yeah. Um and then some of the cuts that uh I know y'all like Cleo Pastor Jones and all that and I always seen brothers always going after that. You know Cleo and all that stuff. Well y'all y'all had all the impulses in y'all room. I'm just I'm going to always ask y'all about that. I don't know uh you talked about brothers who were who attracted to light bright.

I don't know. I always wondered about Cleopatra Jones. I like the movies and stuff. Oh, Cleopatra Jones, Tamara Dotson. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I just wanted to ask you about that. She was a, she was very fascinating story. She was a model because she was like about six foot, six one. But that was during the time when, you know,

The only work that a lot of black actors could get was in the so-called black exploitation movies. And then you go back. Some of them are better than others. Again, if if you if you if you if you quit smoking weed, then don't watch Dolomite. Because you because you would have awful and then you would have to be it would make sense if you high. It don't make sense if you sober.

Oh, those karate scenes. And even the movie with Eddie Murphy and my guy was going, who was it? Wesley Snipes was going, is there any way that we could make this look real? Google knows what he said. Blanket there. Jimmy got swag. Jimmy got swag. And they went, I think the women went after some of the producers of some of the films that they felt that the black women were exploited.

in those movies later on. I think later on they didn't. Well you know a lot of people really believe that coffee and foxy brown are really women empowerment movies with Pam Greer. Right. I could tell you I went to a Pam Greer movie but you know like a lot of dudes you know she could act. My brother dated her. Is that right?

Yes, let's talk about East High School, Denver, Colorado. She's got a ranch out there. I didn't mean to cut you off, but she's got a ranch out in Colorado where anybody that's in the inner city of Denver, they go up there and they deal with any problems they have. They go out there with her horses and everything right now, and I think it's a positive thing. Yeah, Philip Bailey is from...

from Denver, Larry Dunn is from Denver, Andrew Wolfolk is from Denver. Yeah, yeah, but Pam Greer was, and I'm glad that she's getting the, the dude that she's getting in terms of how good an actress she really is. I think, you know, during that time, when, when those sisters was coming along, there are people like Carol Speed, you know, I love Carol Speed, but watch the Mac.

Carol Speed, uh, Black Samson, Carol Speed, uh, people like, you mentioned Tamara Dotson, um, oh my, oh, Rosalind Cash. You're so good. I can't remember any of those names, oh my god. Paula Kelly, uh, what is her name? Jeanette McGee, McGee, uh, who was in Superfly, oh man, they, they, they are,

What do you mean by that? Those actresses. Oh, and one of the more beautiful black women ever, Judy Pace, who was married to Kurt Flood, and then Abby Lincoln, who was married to Max Roach. Well, you had to forgive me, but I was looking at the brothers. What can I say? Well, hey. And it wasn't like, you know, we weren't trying to look like it. And then we were talking about it last week, William O'Neill.

right? Who played Superfly was a Shakespearean trained actor. William Marshall who played Blackula was a uh uh. Oh yeah. I remember that one. Yeah. That was a terrible movie. I don't hate that one. I don't know if they couldn't afford like real makeup because it looked like he had like like kitchen flour on his face who played Blackula. All right there. I appreciate you.

They ain't gonna talk about Glenn Turbin and JD's revenge. Okay, we're gonna take a quick break. Go give me started on that boy. Oh We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back them with your host Keith Paris. All right. Welcome back. Call it. Welcome to the program Good morning What's happening Hello, I'm good brother. What's happening?

Hey, you talking about black exquitate movies, but I watched the other day. That movie's still good though. Talk to me with Don Cheadle. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Don't don't don't blame me. It's the voice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's PD Green. That dude. Yeah. He was a legend in DC. And, you know, just from he talked more smack and I can kind of remember kind of hearing sometimes when I was out there hearing PD Green.

Yeah, but P.D. Green was, he was a different kind of brother. Yeah, because it comes back on Netflix. It's like, you know, the guy like they bought it back. And I said, man, that movie was a good movie. You know, you got Bootsuit. You know, we called it Bootsuit. Yeah, and then, you know, that was, um, um, Kathy Hughes's husband was the guy that hired him there. And, um, yeah. And then, you know, they went on to do, uh, what we know now is TV one.

right. So, yeah. Okay, that's all that's all I'm going to talk to you. All right, bro. Yeah, I was just watching that with P. D. Greenie and they were saying, you know, showing how, you know, he was just, you know, he had a certain way of doing radio and they wanted him to switch up. It was real talk. Yeah. You know, and and I think that that was and it was from the hood.

And so a lot that resonated with a lot of people that was listening because you know, there was a standard that people had In terms of what it should sound like on radio. And yeah, he really broke the mold and PD green 41444452504144445250 You know I yesterday as I was leaving the station

CNN was interviewing Mandela Barnes and I would suggest to people if you can pull up the clip it's on YouTube you're gonna pull up the clip of that of that interview The thing that stood out and I don't know how I would have answered the question was when the host had asked About the Evers endorsement

And so, I don't know, DJ's listening. He sent me a big word. We'll do that next Wednesday for our word, Wednesday's word. But there was a couple of things and you could hear how Mandela has kind of, right now, for those of you who might be, depending on where you are, with chat rooms, Facebook,

There is this term out there called establishment. And right now one of the things that they're trying to put on David Crowley is he's establishment. And I don't quite know what that means in terms of establishment because he is an elected official of the largest county.

you know, in terms of population in the state. And so I would think that there would be a certain level of establishment. And here's what you find. Most people who start off very far to the left or the right or, you know, kind of left to center, right to center. Well, you're looking at a general race, you know, not the primaries. Primaries is really where people put their platform out there. It can be very extreme.

But I think there there there's been this debate and so people have been going back and forth Not back and forth because what I'm saying is that there is a number of people who are supportive of David Crowley and And I don't know if you need to do this. This is just Keith, you know, I'm just one black man, you know on a radio program I Don't know how I don't know how accurate

I guess I'm troubled by establishment being used in the way that it's being used, and I understand back in the day in the 60s, you know, it's the establishment, it was the man. But I think that some folks are missing, and I don't know if I'm talking to anyone in particular who's listening today, is that you need to differentiate between the primary and the general election. The primary

Can be where candidates beat up on each other and then candidates can also provide fodder for the general election When I'm talking to people I'm asking the question. What is the bottom line? I started off on Monday. What is the bottom line? Is it I want to see my candidate because I like my candidate and I like my candidate to the point that if my candidate doesn't win

I pick up my stuff and go home. Are there people out there who want to see Tom Tiffany as governor? Or do you want to see someone who, because still with the legislative makeup, for many of us, the only stop gap that is available is the governor, right? The governor can veto legislation. If you have a Republican governor,

And I still think the Republicans are in control of the legislature. Then Tony Evers stopped a whole lot of bad things from happening because of the veto. So the question we'll have to have is what happens not on August 11th, as much as what happens on August 12th, the day after the election. Carla, welcome to the program. Good morning.

Hey, good morning. Good morning. Here I know you've seen this movie. I kind of, I enjoyed it back in the day and in from time to time. I mean, you would, let's do it again. You remember that movie? Yeah, with Bill Cosby and Cindy Portier was that the movie with Harry Walker. Yeah. Oh, Jimmy Walker. That was the fight.

Right where jimmy walking. They had to hypnotize them. They stole that from the Yeah, and Denise Nicholas. Oh my god. I was I liked her a lot. Yes, sir. She was married to bill withers. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. You're not playing. He did not. Hey, uh, I try. I don't get too far off topic.

I don't want to talk about like the homeowners in the city. I think you're a home. I don't know who are the homeowners or whatever. But here's what kind of bothers me lately. I mean, it's been going on for a while. I live like in the sixth district or whatever and around the city. I just I just see the the the maintenance of this city is It's just really really bad. I mean the boulevards

snow plowing, potholes, leaf collection. I hate to do that, but I just see that. I mean, there's weeds going everywhere. There's actually weeds growing up light poles that are almost as tall as a light pole. So I clawed and they told me that there's nobody to do anything about it. I mean, there's weeds that, you know, the street lights,

going up the light pole. And I'm just, you know, and I kind of put it all on the mayor's shoulders that followed by the commissioner and on down the line. So I just, and I know my representative, automatic representative in the city district, I know she had an assistant that passed away in my condolences to the family. So I'm not trying to go there.

but it's just hard getting uh for someone called to share so um today I don't they're speaking about the ornament and in the salary and all that but I just see the services and I don't know if people really care anymore you know like as far as the trash and stuff a lot of that is on you know the the citizens part because they put it out there and I know I'm not saying the city doesn't do anything but I just noticed like uh it's been about

two months for me to get potholes still like in the alley where I live and on the street. It's never been like that before. I can't even call my arguments office or other ladies office anymore. You never get a call back. And I'm just really disappointed. I don't know if people ride around. I notice a lot of things I ride around. I just see things. I know you've got to pay attention to the traffic.

see things like the boulevards and The potholes and the way the leaf collection the way that they're doing it now I'm just really disappointed in that and I just like to bring up Well, I can tell you that the differences are I know you know you may know who this person is And her name was a Marlene Johnson Marlene Johnson older, maybe I'm going that's going back some years now this is before

Internet and and all this other stuff, you know, you could call her office and you could get something done. There's several times that I needed things done in my neighborhood and you get a call back and you get things taken care of. And she tells you how to go about making some changes in your neighborhood. But it's just not like that anymore. I can't speak for all the districts or whatever, but I'm just speaking about mine in general. And I'm just like like the mayor, you always see the mayor on TV now, you know, he's on TV.

Taking photo ops and all this but does he really care about the maintenance of this city because they trying to go up on our taxes We got fees on everything, you know Just you know, we paying fees for the street lights, but you know, we pay fees for garbage Well, let me do this. I appreciate you man. I'm up on a break. I'll respond to this after the break

um because we got a lot going on this summer you're listening to community voice again the phone lines open 4144445250 4144445250 Wednesday's word is establishment when you hear that attached to a candidate tell me what what do you think it is y'all kind of help me define it and what it means we'll take a quick break and we'll be right back fm with your host keith paris

All right, welcome back. The brother was talking about what's happened in terms of city services. And, you know, those of us who grew up here, I'm talking like in the 20th century, you know, back 60s, 70s, and maybe up to the 80s, Milwaukee had a different tax base. So a lot of the stuff that you see getting done could get done because we had the money to do it. They need to make, you know, some decisions strategically. And then there's other factors like weather.

For example, we lost two days of garbage pickup because the air quality was so bad that the, you know, the folks who pick up the garbage couldn't get out and work in the weather. Now you're talking about we, most people, most people, and I tell everybody, when I go to Sendix on North Avenue, I go between Center and North Avenue, it would be 87th Street, there's Pasadena and Walatosa.

And I'm telling you, most people's lawns are brown and weeds are growing in places because it doesn't take a lot of water for weeds. But here's the other thing. We've seen more flies.

But we haven't seen a lot of mosquitoes and the reason why we haven't seen a lot of mosquitoes here in Milwaukee is that it's been so dry. It's not been any water, you know, they go and do the larvae and the whole thing. So this has been crazy in terms of the weather. We're in a drought right now. So we have the wettest month ever in April and we're coming up probably on one of the driest months ever in July. But if people out there, people just stop watering the grass because it does nothing.

Mean nothing nada the city's not even turning the sprinklers on on the Boulevard's right because it's not gonna make a difference. It's still going to be brown So they're all collecting trash You know picking up I'm looking out here now the boulevard start looks relatively clean, but a lot of it's just services and then we look at the amount of money that goes into Public safety

It's a significant portion of the budget. But I think tax base is different. It's not that they don't care. It's just they don't always have the resources to do what we've grown accustomed to. People, like I said, who lived here when we were always voted one of the cleanest, if not the cleanest cities in the world. Well, we could afford the socialism. Right now, it's a different animal. Carla, welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning. What's going to say?

Right now, we have a different class of people. Like, I'm pretty sure you've seen, have you seen Nick Naughty right around the corner from you on that? You know that's the new blade. She looked like she came from Hurley, Wisconsin. I always have on a dirty mini skirt with a hairpine on her waist. Got a snake going all the way down her leg. Looks like she burns through three schools. And then you know you got some other mud kickers over there.

Right next on 13th, they'll be on the side of the, uh, liquor store with a whole lot of spritz like Dick here, like the girl who used to send your ticks to with a whole lot of spritz. And then if you also look at it around four o'clock in the morning, you've got that gas station over there on that. It's going to be about five, six crack kids living like they from Escanama and, uh, Marinette County.

And you probably ain't heard that, but you know, some of these politicians know that. I think, yeah, but I also think that if it's drug related, this is an area, I hate to put it this way. Well, this neighborhood has not always been drug related. Oh no, I agree with that. With people who do not look like us. Right. And a lot of this stuff is going on because we got all these deployables, like 25, 17, over there on our 25th in capital. No grass, nothing but dirt.

Okay? And they all look like the floorboards, and they don't look nothing like us. Then we got these big old 1972 Buick potholes over here, and you're wondering what the hell is going on, and you ask them, it's bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh,

and they not want to fix anything because it's catering to black people. And then they told the ones on the south side, well, since you ain't going to be there, go on the north side with niggas. So now what they're doing is they pulling back on this, pulling back over here. And that's why we got three port was constantly locked for the Illinois on north side. Okay. Yeah. But we also, and I just did this the other day, we also have King Drive. There is development.

But you know, that's gonna be a mess in three years. There ain't nothing gonna be nothing but EBC and we gotta stop sitting here and saying, oh, well, how's that? That's like saying a billage is a Cadillac. It's not a Cadillac, it's a bill act. And if you got sex today, if you got people sleeping to two o'clock in the afternoon, and you know if they sleep to two o'clock in the afternoon, they waiting for a check, and there ain't gonna be no standards on where they live in. Okay, just like they put that low income.

on 16th and North Avenue. They don't even got a parking lot. It ain't nothing but dirt. Now, my question is, could you do that with the way folks? No. Exactly. So that's why the north side is looking the way it is. You got these mud kickers over here throwing stuff out of the windows with the Illinois place. I just had to clean up around my house. Why did I? Why if I'm pitching out a wind stop bag?

red sauce in the bag. When I'm saying to myself, all it took was some wings up for them to put their neck on your back. So you look at the devastation on the north side, right? But then when the white people come, now everybody want to put on a Sunday best and show them big Bojang or oversized poop over by grand. So it's because they are allowing stuff to do.

Because we know if this was white people, this would not be going on. And some of we got to stop voting for some of these black politicians. I'm just keeping it 100. We don't got to sit here and act like we ain't gonna hurt no fellas. Y'all gonna hurt a whole lot of fellas. We all open them half half bottles. And if they come up with me in 2020, while I was well, they can't come in the house. Poor girl, keep them in the alley.

Well, what's going on on the north side is because it's black people because if they was white, when none of this be happening, all this you see right there would not happen over there on Silver Spring and Port Washington. You think a bunch of sick. Let me ask you a question, Mr. Pierce. You think six black junkies can sit outside a gas station all night over there and be sure and walk up and down the street like they ain't took a bath in about six months. You think that'd be allowed? Probably not.

So why the hell is it alive on this side of the town? And I would love to hear these black politicians, because you know they only move for the white people. Let it be about Bronzeville. Let it be about downtown. Oh, we got so many great things today in jail. But do you want to come to the North Side? We got a moment of silence, but everybody's going to take it. Somebody's going to fart and don't say excuse me. Have a good day. Bye-bye. All right.

I gotta take a break. Call her. I want you to be patient. I'm gonna grab you as soon as we get back. 414-444-5250-414-444-5250. We'll be right back. Keith Parris. Welcome back. Good to be in studio because then I get a chance to hear my theme music. Call her. Welcome to the program. Good morning. Hey. Hey. Hey, Keith. I didn't call her.

go back and forth with you and that. I'm the guy that called in about the issue with the maintenance of the city and everything. And if that was totally true with what you said about, I know that the share of revenue and being the one nature have a lot to do with it. But then the entire city would look the way that certain areas in our city, in our neighborhoods,

those bullet wires, and it would all look the same, it would all coincide, you know. But it's not like that, Keith. And I'm just saying that maybe people in our community, we're just going accustomed to things just looking raggedy. And we pay, you know, back 20, whatever, 20 years ago, we didn't have real taxes and paying for street lights and all that kind of, we didn't have that back then. And I know things was different.

You're probably never going to be the same, but I'm just, you know, I try to take care of where I live. And we all should do that, regardless if you went or owned or whatever the case is, you still live there. And that's because you don't own it. And that's not everybody can, but I'm just saying it just looks, it really looks bad when you drive through the city. And it could, there's a way to take care of the city, but you have to have some compassion. The, the elected officials got a, got a care and maybe they got on blinders.

Maybe the mayor got on blinders when he's riding back and forth to his office and going back home. And people that have the ability to do things, but maybe they just feel because in our community, because it's where it is, it just doesn't matter. It should not look like this. I don't care about the money situation and things like that. But like I said, you don't understand when I tell you a weed is growing up a light pole. You know how many years?

it takes for a weed. It's turning into, it's almost looks like a tree is going, you know how tall a light pole is, how many feet it is off the ground, off the sidewalk or whatever it is. This summer, the weeds, the weeds are in control this summer. It is perfect condition for weeds. Now grass is weeds, but weeds can, they don't require the same amount of water.

that your lawn requires and they grow. I got to sit up and deal with some weeds in my cracks, you know, like in the cracks right along my right along the alley line. I'm just telling it's been this type of summer. But I think overall if you if you call your alderman or you call the mayor's office, they will sit up and tell you.

that there are some fiscal constraints that they're dealing with and I know what people have an expectation and and then depends on where you are if it's a well-traveled area chances are it's going to be more trash you have areas where there is not not well traveled and I agree with you this the situation they had over here at the Aldi's where the people went over there and dumped and the city said they can't put a camera on it because it's private property you know so you have people and look I want to believe

We like to think it's people driving in the city. No, it's people in the city. Who don't care because they don't come to your house and you say, man, I need to get this junk out of here and you could care less where it goes. You just want it gone. And they're going to go dump it because they're not going to go pay the money to dump it at the city dump. You know, you know what Lester Carter's, your Hopkins Street is. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So.

Just if you're ever going down there, I'm not talking about cracks in the sidewalk. I'm talking about like a tree is growing up the light pole almost 20 feet tall. Okay, but it's about it's about how do you keep up with it, man? If you don't have the money to do it. Well, how long does it take to go? It's not a question. How long do you have the money to send the people over there? What becomes the priority? Why isn't it like that in other parts of the city? Because other parts of the city are not being depopulated.

And they're not dealing with the same issues with abandoned homes and vacant lots. I just, I just agree because I, I just, I'm not gonna, I can't agree with sure on this because it's, it's about just because it's in a black area. No, no, no, it's a black, it's a poor area. It's a poor area of town and you dealing with a different housing stock. You dip dealing with a different property tax base.

You know you I'm in an area where the property tax base is different than if I just go down five blocks and cross 60th Street I'm just saying so all those things factor in and I know that people if you grew up here and you saw Milwaukee back in the day but Milwaukee had a different tax base back in the day

And we don't have that same tax base now. So these, these, these city officials, especially because you have to have a balanced budget are trying to figure out. And then when we have to commit so much money to public safety and the fire department will tell you that you're still not committing enough. And unless the tax base changes, which means you have more homeowners paying property taxes, because that's how you have to do it. And we're not getting our fair share and revenue sharing.

So then the city has to figure it out, man. So I mean, we can blame folks, but you know, I think we just need to understand it's not that the mayor doesn't care. It's not that the alderman don't care. It's just how do we use the resources that we have to address the issues that we have? And we just don't always have the resources. That's just me. Okay. I just can't, I can't, I can't, I just can't. Okay. Thanks, man. When you, when you start looking at.

the squeaky wheel gets to Greece. A lot of times the neighbors and constituents, they see it, but they don't call in and complain about it. They don't put in requests with the Department of Public Works or what have you. If you call Alderman, and that's the other thing for me. A lot of times we call our elected official for things that we could handle ourselves if we just put in the time to find out what department I need to call for this. Well, who handles this? 286 City.

that's called City Hall, they can direct you to where you need to get to to get your problem resolved. We sat out here and we was watching this pothole. We watched this pothole for a few days and somebody said something about this app. So we tried it and with an hour and a half that pothole was filled. Yeah and part of it is because it's outside of WNOV and guess what we got? We got airwaves, right?

Yeah, you know, so I'm just and not that it should be that you do anything differently for WNOV than you do any place else. But these are elected officials. And if I'm sitting here, you know, when Al was talking about what he found on the street, remember Lamont Westmoreland got in trouble when he was talking about the beginning of the summer to spring and people agree with him. But then you got he just sitting up. No, it's a reality man. And that's true because when you look out the window,

just over in this area, because I remember going outside a couple times and just picking up Hennessy bottles, hair extensions, just all type of clothes from the sewer thing. It was like we... But I don't think the city has helped themselves in some things that went away that I remember as a child. What happened to the Green Garbage? Yeah, they used to be right on the corner.

And so there's no motivation for me to put this in the trash because we don't have trash receptacle. But here's the problem. You got to pick them up. So is that the funding? So is that like right outside? Yeah, right outside of G's Clippers. There's a can, you know, and people use the can. But every time I'm there, that can is full. That means that people are putting their garbage in there and the city then has to dispatch somebody out then to pick it up. So can't you add that on to the

garbage men pick up ropes. Yeah, but they may not want to hear you say that. Yeah, I mean, I mean, though, it's a question that they had. And I know that they have people who that's their job. They go to clean it. But at the same time, we lost two days because of weather. Do you think what's more concerning to me that my garbage gets picked up because the garbage is piling up in the alley based on

And again, it was the weather. So there's all these factors that go into it. And I hear people complaining. OK, but if they go up on your property tax, you're going to complain about that. You know, so it's kind of like, call it up to the program. So why don't we have pay tolls, things of that nature that you see in other cities? We got to pay the road through Illinois.

But they can just roll on into Wisconsin all the way through Wisconsin Because Illinois has cut a deal with the federal government that they can collect tolls because they're gonna maintain That stretch of 94 Yeah, I don't know what how much revenue be generated from I don't know are you kidding? I mean, I'm sure it would be more than what we got now And if I'm not mistaken correct me, but I believe Illinois uses that for their school system

That revenue no they use it The money that's collected for the tolls is used to maintain And they could go into the coffers, but to maintain night that stretch of 94 And that's that's the piece. All right, all right You can do the boys callers. I see you. I'm gonna grab you right after the break. We'll be right back You know the station that we have are they always showing food So today is BLT day

That scripts on there. Yep. Yeah Okay, well, I know what I'm eating for dinner tonight BLT I should be so malleable man Kind of you know, you can run an advertiser with me as a matter of fact I am going to Burger King today because the CE

CEO said, if I don't like the way they did my burger, they'll redo it and I get a free burger. Yeah, but ain't that the old way to have it your way? Yeah. Yeah. Well, it used to, well, it was having your way, but then you go in there, order, and they'll be like... We gonna do what we gotta do. Yeah. Carla, welcome to the program. Hey, Chief. Good morning. Can I try and help out a little bit? This is systematically done to us.

How many of you guys remember when Tommy Thompson said stick until Milwaukee? Yeah, some of you guys should be old enough in there to remember that And then I put in the post and I don't know how many people really realize this How much Scott Walker hurt us hurt the city as far as the tax base and stuff when they when he implemented Act 10 and the residency law

mess with and that was systematically done to police officers and firemen. So now you have, I don't have to stay in the city of Milwaukee anymore, I can move out. So now you lose in tax base, all that stuff, it makes a difference, okay? Where they're spending their money at, all that stuff. And I forgot, I should have wrote it down the other day because I was looking up, this is I want to come on the radio and talk about it.

I want to say on average, and I could be exaggerating because I've really forgot to keep it. I think they said on an average like $56 million a year. Can you imagine what you could do with that money? And so the mayor and them, they got to try and figure out where are we going to get this money from to do what's needed to be done. Two things that are definitely going to be taken care of, the fire department and the police department.

They were even when I was looking this up and doing some research on it on Actant how much that even has hurt our children as far as learning their test scores Teachers leaving so all of that has an effect on the city of Milwaukee Now here's the other thing and I've talked about this before if our mind said to I'm pretty sure how many y'all in the studio today 304

Do you guys eat in your car and drink in your car? Do what? Do you eat or drink in your car while you're riding around? Uh, usually I don't. Well, I eat in the car, but I don't throw my trash out the window. And so when I pull up off the freeway and I'm next to the boulevard and stuff like that, and I see liquor bottles and all that kind of stuff, that's us doing that. And so until we figure out

I might have said how to change. And so we cannot place all of this on the mayor. And the reason why I said this to right out the other day, and I wasn't trying to get on your case right out when I was talking about Will, when he asked you those questions, my response back to him would have been who controls the state? Up in Madison, who controls it?

So I'm assuming you're not going to be voting in the Republican primary. So that's my whole point, Keith. What did you say? Who's the stopgap right now? It's the governor. It's the governor. OK, so when I was putting in the post, when he was asking right off those questions, I would have been like, oh, well, your party is in control. OK, I agree with you on this. But if your party is in control, why aren't you doing anything about that?

And so to me, it's just a trick that they try to be slick, because if Will gets up here, what difference is Will going to make? George. How's he going to get the Republicans to say, Will's like, OK, this is what's happened to the city of Milwaukee. And this is what we need to do. You think they're going to listen to Will? George, check this out, man. I had actually asked Will that question on one of his previous shows, because I said, well,

If you guys are in charge, why is it that nothing is changing? And he said, well, you know, it takes both of the parties. And then he also said, well, when the Democrats that was in charge, it was the same way. So that was the response that he gave me to that question. So you think the Democrats was in charge. They would be letting that go on. That's not true right now. No, no, no, I'm not saying, you know, I'm not saying that whether it's a lie or true, I was just saying.

you know what his response was. And Keith said something earlier too. The money that we get back from the state, we feed the state. Our money feeds the state and we don't get a fair portion back to the city. So all of this is done systematically. Why would you bite your nose off despite your face? We feed the system. So you would think that more money will be coming back here. So this guy's just like Keith said.

At the end of the day, whoever is standing, I put in y'all things, this is kind of like a battle right or right now between David Crawley and all the rest of them, right? And the last man or the last woman standing, that's who we got to get behind in support. We can't say, well, because my person didn't get it. I'm gonna stay at home. We cannot afford to do that. If Tom Tiffany gets in with the rest that's up in the state right now, legislated right now.

there's going to be no stop gap. And everything that Trump wants, whoever it could be, what's the vice president's name? J.D. Vass? J.D. Vass or the Cuban dude, whoever gets in, they're going to block step. So we have to keep talking about low voter IQ, y'all. We got to put on our smart cap. And whoever's standing at the end of the day, that's who we got to voting in. All right. Appreciate you.

Caller, welcome to the program. Good morning, young folks. What's happening? You know, we look at the filthiness of the party, you know, the garbage. A lot of this is the mindset of our people. You know, they just cluttered in their spirit, man. And this is how they feel. You know, I deal only a few properties that I own. I had to deal with some of these folks out here.

This one guy out of Chicago, you know, he's a big problem. Really could just get anywhere, parlay, and move in. And I told him, I said, young man, look, take you and your crew, and y'all go elsewhere, and you don't pay the taxes. Yeah, I said, yes, I do. Actually, I'm in full, almost this whole area. And so when I called the police to try to deal with the matter,

Now, I'm on the pope's home. I don't care. We're taxed here. And if we want our communities to stay neat, we've got to get out and try to educate these folks that if you want better, you've got to do better within yourself. You just can't impose your guilty mind, your guiltyness, whatever you want to do on people, and they're supposed to accept it. No, that's not how life works.

If we don't please our community, it will be polly. Let me ask you a question and maybe I should have, you know, did this going back to Al. Okay. I think we tend to be, and I'm going to use a word here and then I'm going to explain why I'm using this word. We tend to be pejorative. Do you throw trash out your window? No. Right out. Do you throw trash out your window? No.

The vast majority of people, black people, do not throw trash out their windows. So, so when we say a lot of them do it. I just say that again. I'm here. A lot of these young folks, I do see them do it. I do. Well, what I'm saying is, though, but it's not all of us. Nor is it has anything to do with our race. Let me put it and put it here right there. Right.

There is some white folk in my community that is so filthy. Oh Man, they drag trash down the street in grocery cars. Oh, okay. Don't give a green apple and I act them and look it They get messed up with but years ago my access to law used to all the cleaning companies and we used to go to clean deal and all this and we used to go to these people houses

Now, the outside might have been impeccable, but the interior, he ain't calm when we want to be there. Amen. Don't be talking about my house, all right. But here's the point. And Michelle says, I say it too, how we talk about a problem. You know, we, wait a minute, it ain't we, it's them.

you know, it's people and you just pointed out that there are people who don't look like us with the same behavior, that it might be something else, right? It's certainly not race. It is not part of our genetic makeup that we throw garbage out the window. No, but what I'm saying is, and let me go back to my previous thing, is that I see some of these people out here, they have their minds so cluttered in this, they so messed up in spirit, and they're our people.

And then they do, you know, and I see them in the state of mind. And they really, I don't want to be Kanye, that slavery is a choice, it's not a choice. But some of these things- Today it is. Today it is. If you think like a slave today, that's a choice. Well, I'm going there, I'm going there. Back then, but now today.

If you want to stay in a state of mind, you are there on your own and don't drag other people through your mask. I'm not disagreeing with people throw trash out. I'm just saying let's not make it sound racial because for many of us it's our environment and we're not outside of this environment because we go outside the environment. It's like the first time I went to Kentucky.

And I saw poor white people. And I'm going, wow. I'm just saying, because it's easy for us, we internalize a lot of behavior. The overwhelming number of black people don't throw garbage out their car windows, right? You know how many young people of color haven't been out in Milwaukee? And there's a lot of older people. Our world is what we see. And I'm trying to say the world is bigger than your block.

It does bigger than your block and it's bigger than your mind. Right. And if you stretch yourself. Now again, as I say, when I see these white folks are here doing the things they do, it's the nationalism comes about. And I'm saying in my community, I stand in my community because I was really wearing out of communities because of where I carry myself with things. People see things and they cataclyse up in the negative.

Because they see us with things, cars, and I am tired. They've cataclyzed us in an area where it's negative. They don't think we're supposed to happen. But, so I say within my own community, because they don't get felt like that. Yeah, I just think, you know, you don't just have laws that literally, anti-literary laws that's just specific for Milwaukee.

I would believe every community has some law on their books about literary. The difference is, what is the makeup of that community? What does that worker do? When he changed the laws and you got to start paying to go to the dump site, and the folks are dumping in the tree. Right. You know, and... Well, here's the deal. They done charged somebody to do that. See, that's my piece on that.

They come over and say, look, I'll clean out your house, right? So when I call, what is it? We got junk? Okay, I'm not worried about them going dumping it at the Aldi's. Exactly. Because the cost of doing businesses, I need to be able to pay to get rid of the stuff and people not doing that. So they go and get the money, they clean out the crib, you know, and then they go dump it someplace. Well, I'm just saying maybe you shouldn't even be in that business.

I had a neighbor cleaning out one of his properties. And the guy who I see helping him with his truck, later on that afternoon, I seen that same garbage, because there was some very identical buying things that was in that garbage, all one of my properties. And I went back to the neighbor and told him,

And he made the guy go clean it up. And the guy knew that I told him, so he thought I said mad at me. Now he wasn't mad at me for about a year or so. He's recently, within the last week, carried me and apologized to me. I apologized. I said, well, I miss that fellow young man's house. I said, but I accept this college. Let's go for it. The thing here is that

When you hire folks to do certain things, you should know that they don't have to practice it. Oh, yeah, man. I mean, you know, but now, again, that's a person who probably can't afford to do the business and they own the hustle. And that's the other thing. You know, part of what we see a lot of is selfish behavior. I could care less about how much, you know, when I'm out.

recklessly drive them out here drunk driving. And they gave a statistic. I asked the question yesterday, is it perception reality? You all know that homicides have dropped by 30% in the city. And then they gave a statistic because we always want to blame young people. The average age of someone committing a gun violent crime is 28. Not 18, not 15, 28.

So that means I'm taking into account the older part of it, the younger part of it. So all I'm saying is the complaints are legitimate. I just think we need to be careful how we couch it because then it sounds like this is something that everybody does and we know everybody doesn't do it. And certainly people complain about it. I'm assuming don't do it. So then who's doing it? It's like criminals. What's the percentage of our population that's criminals?

Let's say it like this here, you know, we don't see the young folks out here now because in the beginning of the summer, there's the end of the spring. You know, a lot of them get locked up because they come out right away doing their stupidity. And they are locked up for in a great fight. You know, a lot of them getting in trouble. And then some of them not. But a lot of them are not. A lot of them are missing. You don't see it. You're not seeing them out here. But then it got this up in the situation.

which is I'm going to say you like to fear. Everybody's saying in a car way that is a terrible thing. Sometimes you need time to think. Yeah, well, I don't need that much time. All right, man. You know. But sometimes folks need time to think their way through. That's too much time spending with me. I'm sorry. And sometimes it takes some more time than it takes others. Yeah. I'm just saying because

kids do what kids do and then and I'm back on this because obviously I'm a defender kids. Come on. I know some of the stuff we were doing. Okay. I got it right with it. You say some of us did some of us didn't. The point is kids have been kids since they've been kids and you got kids who like these great kids who came here you know with the hustle and grow show and and and they're probably emblematic of a whole lot of kids.

you know but it only takes one or two you know and then you go up like oh god what's going on are you going late because the overwhelming majority of kids are not getting in trouble you know but that percentage and that in our minds that's too high of a percentage I agree with that but you know most and then here's the thing and I just you made me think about this we complain about the kids not going out the house because they're in the house playing video games

But when they go outside the house and start doing good stuff Well, you just kicked me out the crib When you get all we just complain

us other old folks. All we do is sit around and complain. And then, you know what? Then it takes you back to when your grandmama and all of it was completed. And you go, what y'all complain about? Now we owe. Would you go in your pocket at the beginning of the summer and end of the fall and go in your pocket and get a kid to our soup and try to help that into summer program if we, if other adults is doing something that go out here and do that,

we can we can make a change in our community without you. I think the other thing was we had some incentives too because if you got a lot of summer work programs you know I mean that kept me out of a lot of trouble. I had to get up and go to work or I'm gonna get up and go to work that's all I had.

Man, I'm working, you know what? I'm such a nature guy as the two years as a teenager. I worked at summer camp and I got paid. So it was like, okay, so if I got an alternative, sometimes we just don't have the alternative. And no matter what program, there's some kids, I don't care what the program is, they just ain't going. That's where they are.

You know, they're not gonna do it. Nope. They're not gonna do it I mean, you know where a lot of us it was the boys club, you know, if you were dude, you know, you had the why You know, but that was different now for me. I never thought it was cool to do really really dumb stuff So, you know that that was me Now I wouldn't dig it because even on my block. There's one or two idiots that lived on the block who thought it was a great idea to steal a car, you know, I mean that that that

But it is. I appreciate you, ma'am. Appreciate you. I'm exhausted. Yeah, that was a lot. But no, I, you know, I mean, because we be, and then you go like, well, it's not any of the kids that I'm around, you know, but, you know, that kids been getting in trouble since there's been kids. Since the day of town. Right. I mean,

But Paul had to say honor your mother and father and behave and follow their direction and that was 2,000 years ago Yeah, yeah when it dumped over there. Yeah, that's crazy. That's audience. You had a one to close. Yeah, yeah But that seemed like dump alley cuz what they dumping next door to the the cousins over there. Yeah

Yeah, and they stopped them from doing it. You know, people are selfish, man. They can care less. And I could be selfish. But you know, people can care less about your community responsibility. I feel all guilty if I take like a receipt and throw it out the car. And looking around, see if anybody's looking to see if I'm going to get a ticket. And I'm going to borrow the receipt up. Call the road to the program. Welcome.

It's not that people are just lazy or don't care. The city has made it that way. The city has made it that way. For normal people that would normally take their stuff right over there to the city and dump it, don't have the income to pay to the 25. If they charge you to move the stuff, then they need to have the income to pay to get rid of the stuff. Those are the people I'm talking about. Okay, well, let me explain something to you. The people that are getting paid to do that.

and then dumping it. Well, that's a problem. But at the same time, if they could take it to the city for free, it wouldn't be on the street. Why should the city? They're getting paid. OK, OK, man. I'm not out there. You see where it's at. It's in over there and cousins right now, right? But what I'm saying to you is if I'm charging you, part of the cost of me doing business is being able to be able to pay to get rid of the stuff. That's part of the cost of doing business.

Why should the city absorb that? That should be added into the cost. It's going to cost me $20 a load to run this over, man. So I gotta add that up. But most people don't do that. They just make a deal. Dude, I'll give you that. Right. And then they go dump it. And now we complaining about people dumping junk. Well, if the city kept it like it was before, it wouldn't be the problem. But the city at some point, that's a cost to the city. OK, the city has been lying just about all of this recycling stuff.

What about all the cars that they take and they compensate and they recycle them? Who's getting the money off of that stuff? Where's that money going? You know what they told me when I called down there about the recycle? Well, it costs more money to recycle it than it does to give. We're dealing with, you know, which, which you recycle and then for the end of the day, it costs more money to recycle. The city, I guess, is trying to be a. The city is whipping us off the left and right, man.

Remember when they got rid of a lot of the cable lines? Guess what they did? We didn't get any kickback on that, but our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents paid to run those lines. The city didn't get, we didn't, as residents here, didn't get any compensation on that. A compensation on that. When you look at all of the recycling that's being done here, where's the money going, brother? Okay, they'll find you if we put the wrong stuff in the wrong vision.

Zebra put in God made sure he put that commandment on your mother and father in there because he was tired of listening to them complain about their kids. Okay, then you made another statement. It's not all the kids. You write it's not all the kids, but those kids that are not those kids.

out of victims of those kids that do create that habit. You're right. All kids don't do it. We need an institution like where they're going to start. We should have kept them there because now they got no place to go. They got a bracelet on their wrist, on their arm, on their leg. They cut that off. They back in the street.

We put them in a group hall and they AWOL from the group hall. They own the streets with two ladies. Hey man, we need a place like Wales man, where they can go to read them books and sit around and maybe get a little Jesus or whatever they gonna get. Get them off the streets like we don't have an institution. Meets question. Have you ever experienced Lincoln or Wales? Have you ever? Yes, I went to Wales.

Well, it was a great turning point for a guy like me, man, because I realized, man, ain't no crying, ain't no going hard, ain't no mo-mo. Hey, dude, you in here, this is a boy's prison, man. You finna, you finna, you finna, you finna do a bit, you finna bit, or you finna be a bit at all. So, you gon' get in there, you gon' do what it takes necessary, and you go to school, you force to go to school, you wait, you get your college very hard, y'all. Walk the show out there. They have places like Ryok is a,

Juvenile prison. Yeah, but Brian. Okay. Let me ask you a question. How many people do they do at home? I don't know. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right.

That's a detention facility. We talked about a prison. Where you going? Where you going, man? A state juvenile prison. Have you ever seen it? And there's some philosophies out there that are saying that why are we sending kids to prison? That was my point. Which only creates more criminals. They only going to get better at what they did. I mean, I'm not saying they should be isolated and dealt with, but sending them to prison. See, but what I'm saying is when you send a kid a teenage who don't know no better, because he's still trying to figure out

He or she is still trying to figure out who they are. You send them to prison. Prison do not reform anybody. I don't care what you say. It don't reform anybody because they put you in the room, they feed you trash, and you gotta survive. So it's, it's, it's a, it's a condition of the mind. Let me thank Dibo. Appreciate you, man. Right out. Let me thank you.

callers as always. Let me thank you. The good Lord willing Creek. Don't rise. Hope to talk to everybody tomorrow and as always go from this place and peace.

No lead in.

No lead in.

No music.

Sorry radio folks.

No, a lot of y'all just tuned in for the theme.

And at some point we will have to do, maybe we start doing it on Fridays, we have to do a little bit more of the open our eyes because there's a lot of people.

They want to hear that man.

All

they get is the bills.

All it is

the

bills.

Come on y'all.

That cat tapped right into that cat.

You tapped right into it.

You got your pinky ring on.

I'll come

I'll work I'll work with the band.

We

can do that with for

you.

Ain't nothing like a jabby jab, boys.

I'm telling you, I'll never hear the bells if

you

leave me.

I was just talking to a young lady, Kelly, and we were at, we were just talking about, we was at the set Jermaine had did for the summer concert series.

And Jermaine was playing all these, you know.

It was close to love on the rocks.

You should have started off with a little deal diving love on the rocks.

And I turned to her.

I said, you know, I'm going to go home and break up with

my wife.

Man, they told me you did some Bobby Womack,

man.

Man, listen, man, we did something.

Oh, man, if you think you lonely now, I just fell back in the chair.

Did he do a little version of Cut Cross?

Hey, you know what?

You

should you

said it cuz I just added that to myself.

You should man cuz it's great for the band.

Yeah Let me do this real quick and I got callers already.

Okay, I don't know if this changes the equation of this very in-depth conversation we had yesterday But the young man who was shot

in Memphis.

Uh huh.

His his special ed teacher came out and said that he was special

needs.

Oh, no.

Oh,

no.

Alright, we brought that up yesterday too.

Well, we yeah, we were people were hypothesized.

I can't

even say where.

You

talk about the guy that was in the house.

Out of the bed.

Yeah.

Yeah.

His

special ed teacher.

Wait,

wait, now you have to be kind of careful with that because

just because you in special ed, that don't mean that you don't have common sense because I knew a lot of cats that was in school that can hoop their butts off and had common sense, but they was in special ed.

Hey, one of the few times my mother ever had to advocate for me in school, Miss Beeman was going to put me in special C. And I told the story and said, my mama go in saying, not wrong with this boy.

Yeah.

She said,

the Egyptians you see today.

Oh, you ain't gonna see them.

You ain't gonna see them no more.

Yeah.

That woman's gonna put me in special seat.

Yeah.

And I think

and here's the deal.

I'm gifted and talented.

See, but but no, no, no, no.

Wait,

wait,

wait,

wait, wait.

You missed

that.

No, no, no.

I know.

I get it.

That's that chemo.

But a lot of people don't understand it when you're wired differently and you learn differently.

they kind of equate that to a learning disability.

Now, first of all, don't be diagnosing me.

That wasn't what... Well, no, that's what happened to me.

I know,

learning.

Learning disability.

I was not saying he's telling his own.

Yeah.

But a learning disability is not the same.

It doesn't mean that a person doesn't have the intellectual capability.

It's how they

learn differently.

And because we do basically one size fits all, then you have kids out there who, you know, they could be selected, they could be

There's a lot of kids that that a was that a the attention.

Oh yeah, attention deficit.

Yeah, I mean that it's all those things that go into it.

And I think I really want I'm going to do a program where

they're different tears, if you will.

Yeah,

you got

kids who

are

autistic on.

You know, I mean, there's

a lot out there where you you you can't but

certainly change the equation.

It don't change the fact that he did.

No, well right right

and

the circumstances, but that's one of the little thing that may explain Why he could not differentiate

I

said it may be let's let's not muddy the waters.

Yeah, cuz if he was smart enough to hide under the bed

Yeah, he had

he was more than up the whole ass trying to get out a sense of right and wrong

Yeah, yeah, he had a sense of right and wrong.

So right he knew he knew that what he was coming over there for though.

He wanted some

So, he went over there because he wanted to try to get some.

So, he had come enough since to know, you know, to what he's getting ready to do.

And a lot of us weren't special

beings.

Right,

right.

Doing the

same

thing.

Doing the same thing.

So, yeah.

I

don't know about that,

Jack.

So, no, I just, it was something that's just another factor out there.

And I'm just saying that, you know.

So, does it help the woman's, the mother's cause?

No.

don't

know because it even doesn't hurt it though

makes it worse if you say that because so you think of a person that don't have right good insist that's the first

now she wouldn't know

that she wouldn't know that

she wouldn't

know but the body teacher coming out and says special

I think that what I think what the teacher was doing and I appreciate that is really humanizing this person because right now we got the dude up under the bed she's saying that there's probably some other things but

Obviously, the fact that he was hiding means that he knew he did something wrong.

Okay, so.

But again, he's the victim.

You know, she is the alleged killer.

Carla, welcome to the program.

Good morning.

Good morning, young man.

How you doing?

I'm good, man.

What's

happening?

Hey, last Friday, you were getting ready to eat my coffee up with me.

I almost got my coffee nice and hot with my doughnut.

And then this morning, I get a surprise.

Michelle never did get my coffee hot.

Me tried to get her going, but she just wouldn't go there with, you know.

She's becoming more, she's becoming more disciplined.

So can I ask you a question, Big T?

Big T, can I ask you a question?

Yes, sir.

You do realize this is Keith's show.

Why are you calling him talking about Michelle's show?

Oh, I know why.

No You want

me to explain it what he was

saying

was

that Michelle had his coffee warmed up like hot And then I came in here and you know it turned into iced coffee, you know, that's what he was saying.

I appreciate it, right?

So And speaking of Meach and I'm glad that's a great segue Meach last week

was talking about the 400 year tax.

He dropped it, though he didn't say it with Michelle.

Let me explain what he's talking about.

There was a part of the biennial budget, and I think it was something about school funding.

And so they put in where you could take, it was this percentage of tax levy that you could use for school funding, right, on the local level.

Governor Evers went in and did a line item veto.

He took a hyphen out and basically said that the formula would stay in place for perpetuity.

And what he was saying was that this is going to be the floor in terms of funding public education.

The issue we have in Wisconsin is that we have a big dependence on the local level on tax levy as opposed to the state giving more money to public education.

So part of that in mind, just kind of looking at it was him saying to look and look, it ain't just Milwaukee.

It's all of the school systems who are complaining about the lack of money that they get for the state.

So now they have to then depend on local tax level.

That's what he was talking about in terms of the 400 year tax.

Oh,

yeah.

Why

did he get so helped up?

Oh, because it's a Republican talking

point.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Right, because if you see Tom Tiffany's ad, one of his, I don't know if it was his brother said, don't forget the 400 year tax.

So it's one of those things out there.

But I think as we get closer to the general, then some of the things that, well, we have a responsibility, I do.

I think we have a responsibility to when there are misinformation out there to correct the record.

Because people will hear what they hear and they'll run with it.

And most voters are low information voters.

So it's probably the last thing that they heard.

So appreciate you, man.

Get me back to that.

I

was going to put that as a clean up, but that's what he was talking about.

All right, buddy.

You two, man.

Call him up to the program.

Hey, good morning.

Good morning.

Hey, when you were talking earlier, I was in the car.

I wanted to say that there are two songs that hit me hard sometimes.

that love on the two-way street and what becomes of a broken heart.

And both of them have sentimental values because I love on the two-way street I've met her at the upstairs downstairs.

Well, there's a problem there because you couldn't see her.

Because

upstairs was so dark.

I don't know how anybody saw anybody the upstairs.

That was one of the darkest bars ever.

Oh, if they had on the right clothing, you saw.

That was back in the day with them hot pants and them hair

puffs.

Oh, oh, wait a minute.

Hold on.

Hold on, T. Wait a minute.

You telling me that we had something back in the day called hot pants with the cheeks.

So what's the difference between what the girls were wearing now and what the girls were wearing then?

I don't know, but back then they was hot.

I'm

a grandfather now.

I don't know what it was.

I don't know.

But I know what it was.

This crazy college

student, I don't

know what

it was for

me.

Man, halter tops.

And let's just keep it because we adults, halter tops in the 60s and 70s was the same time women were burning bras and women weren't wearing bras.

Yep, and it definitely was a halter because you stopped when you saw it.

Oh man, I'm just saying.

Yeah, you know and I'm that guy who was set up and tell you ain't nothing new under the Sun they had hot pants 60s and 70s in the 80s the DD's right Daisy Dukes And

then we got them help them and they were talking about now.

They had these pants and women aware that a wide pants that's tripping and And hurting themselves.

I'm gonna shoot.

I know some Delta's who had some cell bottles.

It was 60 wide on the bottom

My buddy used to wear him there.

He didn't know how he could walk in.

He was looking at that.

You told you

on some high boys' ads about?

Oh, jeez.

Hey, man, I finally got me a little platform.

I had to give them up after.

My back hurt for the rest of my life.

I could not.

That didn't mess my back up.

So I said, oh, no, I'm going flat, brother.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm

sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

had all of the 70 stuff down to, did you know that the woman who played Clarence Williams III's wife is Eve Plum from the Brady Bunch?

Oh.

Yeah, that was Eve Plum from the Brady Bunch.

And I love his son, Whitey.

What he called Abraham Lincoln, Paul White

Trance.

Hey.

But I must say that it's about what becomes of a broken hearted.

That

was one of the best written songs of that time, man.

The lyrics of those things.

By the

emotions?

Oh, the emotions.

No, no, that's my, who is the guy for Motown, the writer of, he was one of the writers at Motown.

Okay.

But yeah.

I thought the emotions did what happens.

to a broken heart.

Oh, they

do, but

this is what becomes of

a broken heart.

What becomes of a

broken heart?

Okay.

Right.

And

so it's the deepest lyrics I've ever seen.

And you can, you can pronounce them lyrics to detail because never did they not see any words that you understood.

And it wasn't like now would be like, well, I

can tell you love on the two way street.

There's a young lady I had a crush on named Kim West and boy, did she break my low heart.

And all I'm sitting is love.

If I love on a two-way street, I'll sit on a lonely highway.

Yep, I told them I wasn't driving yet, but I knew what a highway was.

Yeah, well, when you get run over.

or when you're standing on the side in the distress lane and you ain't got nobody to pick you up.

And you

know what, man?

And Kwaku ain't here, so we can't even get on the couch.

Yeah, man.

Let me tell you this though.

If you ever go to a ride out show, be prepared.

Bring, bring, bring, bring some tissue and a handkerchief.

Because he gonna have you crying.

I don't know if I got any more tears than 74.

All

right,

man.

Now, 25 should have been crying all

week.

Oh, man.

What was you thinking, man?

I appreciate you calling.

Welcome to the program.

What was you thinking?

Good morning.

Hey, what's up, brother?

How y'all

doing?

Good,

man.

What's happening?

Hey, you got to amen.

The deepest one to me is here.

We're in the hell.

What's the Melvin and the Blue Notes?

I miss you, baby.

Oh, man.

When they do say, I got a job.

And now, now all of a sudden, you got a job and your friends just buddy seen her and all this stuff.

Well, that's a deep song, man.

And it was crying like a mother.

Amen.

Y'all have a good one,

brother.

Oh, oh, oh, I miss you.

Oh,

yeah.

That cat was in there, man.

He was hurting.

Yeah, he was hurting, John.

Miss you, baby.

She broke his heart.

I'm back robber.

Miss you,

miss you.

That cat grabbing his chest and everything.

He was

hurt.

That's Theodore,

man.

Was that old Teddy?

That was Teddy.

Yes, sir.

Theodore,

man.

You know, all those years people thought it was Harold Belvin singing.

It wasn't Harold Belvin.

It was Teddy.

Teddy was experiencing his old pain.

And you know what, man,

and these guys, but then for him to get caught the way he got caught when he got paralyzed.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Was he singing to her?

Or was he singing to

him?

He was probably enjoying himself.

You know, they did

when they did when they did the when they did a documentary on Teddy, they interviewed her.

Yeah.

And what happened was people said it was a transvestite.

Right.

It wasn't.

She had.

He transferred from heat to she she'd had to surgery everything.

Well, that's still

I know.

I'm just saying so just in context.

It wasn't Eddie Murphy.

It should have been.

Just give him the ride.

I'm gonna tell y'all, man, the greatest, the greatest citizen's exposure.

Carla, welcome to the program.

Good morning.

Hello.

Hey.

What's happening?

Yeah, I'm explaining it for a while now.

Hey, when I'm sitting in the VIP section, I'm a VIP man.

Y'all need

to understand that.

Now, if I wouldn't in the VIP section, but I was in the VIP section, man.

So, you know how people act when they're in

the VIP section?

I did.

Now I understand.

Thank you for inviting me to find out.

Don't do that

to me

no more.

Who me?

No, I guess he was saying how he was thinking about the songs he was playing.

Because he was acting weird.

I'm like, dude.

No, no, no.

I was acting

VIP.

I was acting as if he got up and left.

I'm standing here.

He ain't paid enough.

He's looking all sad.

Right?

Because I'm over in the VIP section.

Why

are y'all talking to me?

Why?

Why?

Why?

He's probably not.

I wasn't going to say that because I was going to be belong.

He done fed up the crackers, burnt all the show and stuff.

I'm like, oh, jeez.

Oh, jeez, George.

Yeah,

y'all just kind of walked over there.

I guess you can but no man when I'm in the VIP section just just so people know so basically George and what he's saying is

Little people we don't talk to

but I'm in the VIP

section If

I stand next to my car that's

different

I ran into D-Boy at, uh, what's that one for, uh, grocery store, uh, not really enough.

We all were giving out some tickets one day for them.

Yeah, D-Boy's acting the same way.

He was two and a sixth bad when he acting all strange, you know, okay.

Well, that's

why George, he was putting some in his belly.

You never bothered

in, he was putting some in his belly.

No, he was trying to rescue some of that lady that was standing next to him.

Hold on, man.

I'll wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

I know you ain't trying to talk about what you've been trying to get in people's mess.

I messed up that marriage.

I know you ain't talking about what you've been married

to.

What, you said they're on the wrong side of the bed, George?

Yeah.

According to y'all, I'll always get them

on the wrong side.

We will send you an email with the rules.

How

you

interact

with

us when we wear

when we wear right now again if I met my car

right then I'm but when I'm in the VIP section y'all I I just I I want to talk to you but the rules of the VIP section is you cannot talk to people.

I appreciate

you.

Get on over in the

VIP.

She said

it right.

She don't care.

She don't care.

You got to tell her she got to move.

Man, I was

so elated that they didn't sweat me about parking.

Yeah.

Yeah, I go.

Keith Parris, WNV.

Oh, come on in, man.

Roman Reporter.

Roman Reporter.

And I still cannot find my press pass.

We'll get you another.

Please.

All you need is white piece of paper because you won't write WNV on

it.

Remember the old days where they had the press guy they had up in the little fedora.

Oh,

yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Call and welcome to the program.

Good morning.

Good morning.

How you doing?

I'm doing well.

How are you?

I'm fine.

So you're about the same age.

Okay.

See where this going?

Okay.

Never I said that You know Pam was really she doesn't talk a lot of that's where I'm from And like what do you guys think about heatwave that is really always in forever?

It's always been a beautiful song that me and my husband really enjoyed That was really a deep cut for me.

Oh

forever.

Yes

that on highway listen to it.

Yeah, yeah.

Um and then some of the cuts that uh I know y'all like Cleo Pastor Jones and all that and I always seen brothers always going after that.

You know, Cleo and all that stuff.

Well, y'all, y'all had all the impulses in y'all room.

I'm just going to always ask y'all about

that.

I don't know.

Uh you talked about brothers who were who attracted to light bright.

I

don't know.

I always wondered about Cleopatra Jones.

I like the movies

and stuff.

Oh,

Cleopatra Jones, Tamara Dotson,

yeah.

Okay, okay.

I just wanted to ask you about that.

She was a, she was a very fascinating story.

She was a model because she was like about six foot, six one.

But that was

during the time when, you know,

The only work that a lot of black actors could get was in the so-called black exploitation movies.

And then you go back, some of them are better than others.

Again, if you quit smoking weed, then don't watch Dolomite.

Because you would have awful.

And then you would have to be, it would make sense if you high.

It don't make sense if he's sober.

Oh, those

karate

scenes.

And even in the movie with Eddie Murphy, and my guy was going, who was it?

Wesley Snipes was going, is there any way that we could make this look real?

Google knows.

And he said, blanket there.

Jimmy got

swag.

Jimmy got

swag.

And they went, I think the women went after some of the producers of some of the films that they felt.

that the black women were exploited in those movies later on.

I think later on they didn't.

Well, you

know, a lot of

people really believe that Coffee and Foxy Brown are really women empowerment movies with Pam Greer.

Right.

I could tell you why I went to a Pam Greer movie.

But, you know, like a lot of dudes, you know, she could act.

Yes, she could.

My brother dated her.

Is that right?

Yes, he did.

You know, and let's talk about... East High School Denver, Colorado.

Yeah, let's... But

she... She's got a ranch out there.

I didn't mean to cut you off, but she's got a ranch out in Colorado where she, you know, anybody that's in the inner city of Denver, they go up there and they deal with any problems they have.

They go out there with her horses and everything right now.

And I think it's a positive thing.

Yeah, Philip Bailey is from Denver.

Larry

Dunn is from

Denver.

Andrew Wolfolk is from Denver.

Yeah, yeah, but Pam Greer was, and I'm glad that she's getting the, the due that she's getting in terms of how good an actress she really is.

I think, you

know,

during that time.

when those sisters was coming along, there are people like Carol Speed.

You know, I love Carol Speed, but watch the Mac, Carol Speed, Black Sampson, Carol Speed, people like, you mentioned Tamara Dotson, oh my, oh Rosalind Cash.

Oh my

God,

Rosalind Cash.

I can't remember those

names, oh my God.

Paula Kelly, what is her name?

Jeanette McGee, McGee.

Uh, who was in Superfly.

Oh man, they're there.

There are

those

actresses.

Oh, and one of the more beautiful black women ever, Judy Pace, okay, who was married to Kurt Flood, and then, uh, what, Abby Lincoln, who was married

to Max Roach?

Well, you have to forgive me, but I was looking at the brothers.

What can I

say?

Well,

hey, hey,

and it wasn't like, you know,

We, we weren't trying to look like, and then we were talking about it last week, William O'Neill, right?

Who

played Superfly, was the Shakespearean trained actor.

William Marshall, who played Blackula, was a... Oh

yeah,

I remember that one.

That was a terrible

movie.

I don't

hate it, that one.

I don't know if they couldn't afford like real makeup, because it looked like he had like, like kitchen flour on his face,

who

played Blackula.

All right

then, I appreciate

you.

They ain't gonna talk about Glenn Turbin and JD's revenge.

Okay, we're gonna take a quick break.

Go give me started on that boy.

Oh We're gonna take a quick break.

We'll be right back

them with your host Keith Paris.

All right.

Welcome back.

Call it.

Welcome to the program Good morning What's happening

Hello, I'm good brother.

What's happening?

Hey, you talking about black exquitate movies, but I watched the other day.

That movie's still good though.

Talk to me with Don Cheadle.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Don't don't don't blame me.

It's the voice.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's PD Green.

That dude.

Yeah, he was a legend in DC.

And, you know, just from he talked more smack and I can kind of remember kind of hearing sometimes when I was out there hearing PD Green.

Yeah, but P.D.

Green was, he was a different kind of brother.

Yeah,

because I watched it because it was back on Netflix.

It's like, you know, the guy like they bought it back.

And I said, man, that movie was a good movie.

You know, you got Bootsuit.

You

know, we called it Bootsuit.

Yeah, and then, you know, that was, um, um, Kathy Hughes's husband was the guy that hired him there.

And, um, yeah.

And then, you know, they went on to do, uh, what we know now is TV one.

right.

So, yeah.

Okay, that's all that's all I'm going to talk to you.