Good morning. Welcome to Community Voice. I'm your host Keith Parris. I want to thank everybody for joining us this morning. Good morning, Clark Kent. Hey, what's happening, man? Jermaine Rideout, what's happening? Bishop, chairman of the board, superintendent. I'm here. So these mosquitoes had a buffet on me, Jack. Look at that. Man, they went nuts on me. Where are you the two? Yeah. We didn't have mosquitoes all summer because it'd been so hot and dry.
Just enough water, enough pools out there for those mosquitoes to start breathing. Man, they went crazy. And it was like, one of them took a bite, was like, hey man. And I went to the last concert they had their St. Joseph's last night, Deebo's Band Play. I forgot about that, man. And I didn't wear any cologne because the hornets are out. Oh yeah.
and they're attracted to and flies are attracted to. So is it the brown horn or the green horn? Which one was out? Which one? The picture of the brown horn. I saw Brenda and she was laughing. She said that you get right out when you said that Keon was in the...
Arms of the Lord and hope she embraced. Oh, man. As she said, you got him. You did something to me. You did something to my blood. Hey, Meach, you know people be listening. Did your blessed grandfather take his social security check? Because if he took his social security check, that's socialism. OK.
If he took your so if he took a social security check and he signed up for Medicare, that's so that's socialism. Oh Yeah, I Just thought I'd say that You know words you got to look them up y'all. Yeah, you got to look them up That's the thing, you know because a lot of people are use word play and they'll play on the words and
have you thinking one thing and then there's really another. So you really, you know, you're right. You got to look them up and know. Yeah, I mean, we go on. We spend so much time with adults getting them to unlearn stuff. And, you know, because we, what did they say? What's that? There's some bad acid going around. You know, like we get a hold of something, man. And we just go with it. Yesterday, I was
I was having a conversation with one of our colleagues down at WVON in Chicago. And he asked me a question that I'm supposed to come back with an answer for today. For him, he wanted to know, will Francesca Hahn, or good Francesca Hahn, move young people to get involved and turn out the vote? I think so. And I thought that that's a fascinating question.
because when you look at it, especially in the midterm, in the midterm, only about 20% of people between the ages of 18, 25, 18, 29 will participate. And so I had to go back over my own life. I registered to vote when I was 19. I didn't vote. That would have been, if I was 19, I would have been eligible to vote in the 76 presidential election.
Um, no, I didn't register to vote after that. So that didn't 77. So I wasn't eligible. So the first presidential, uh, election I was eligible to vote in was 1980, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. So I voted in that. I've been voting ever since I missed one in all those years. That's over 40 years. I missed one. Um, so. And look.
I think for younger people, I took Frankie to register to vote. I don't know if Rhonda took Caitlyn or if I took Caitlyn to register to vote when they turned 18. And I have pictures of them the first time they voted. So people were saying we're in their house, you know, their kids would, you know, if they lived there, they got to go vote.
And then, you know, the midterm is the primary, which is a little bit different because that's about party preference. And then you have the general election. So I saw a stat from 2022. That would have been our last midterm, where it was a higher than normal turnout, like 27% of young people turned out to vote in that midterm. Normally, they're around 20%. I don't know what accounted for that. I mean, we were coming out of COVID. So I don't know what that was.
But I think that's the second highest now if you go on the national, you know, like every four years the presidential And I'm sure and I gotta go back and I'll pull it up. I'm sure when Obama ran There were a lot of young people who got out the vote, you know because of what, you know, Obama represented But if that was 27% in 2022 we're in 2026 now
I don't know from what I was seeing with the unity You know because and I asked this question a lot when people are running, you know, especially people who were former advocates I go like the is it in your mind is there a difference between being an advocate and being an administrator? I believe that they are I think the administrative part of it
There's more nuance than when you're an advocate. You can be pretty absolute as an advocate. When you're administering things, you find out that you're dealing with a more diverse, a broader sense of duties and responsibilities. And I ask that word compromise. That's a nasty word. And for some people in politics, and then this idea of mainstream. So I have my feelings on it.
But they're just my feelings. I think that there's a generational shift right now. What, what are we now, Gen Z? Right. And they're coming to age, millennials are coming to age. And the baby boomers just won't get out the way. For some reason, um, I don't, I don't understand why they don't feel like, you know, been that, been that their season is up. Now I understand.
you know, like you might have got into a habit of doing this for 20, 30 years. But after a while, you got to get fresh new bloods and fresh new ideas in because we're going in circles. And it's like we need some fresh voices, some fresh ideas into to, you know, to help the country.
You know in the back of my mind I sit up and think about because I am getting older You know at what point do I stop doing this? Right? You know I mean that that that's in the back of my mind I mean I think about it, and I kind of go like hey You know is it time to? You know when will it be time? You know like to let it go let some other people come in Caller welcome to the program Good morning
I just want to say about your comments on socialism The American version of socialism is pennies in the bucket compared to what's going on in Western Europe and People people in America who have a good job with benefits of insurance and Medicare still go broke
on health issues because the American healthcare system is for profit. Most physicians operate for profit. I'm done, man. Yeah, and if it, and you know, here's the other thing. Here's another one of those other things. When Henry Meyer was mayor when I was coming along as a teenager,
you know, there are riots going on all over the country. And the Johnson administration released a lot of money going into communities, right? And they used to call it riot insurance money, right? If you give the young people something, a little money in their pocket, they're less likely to riot. Now, what they missed in all of this was that the overwhelming number of riots
Had something to do with a police-involved death You know you go to that so It wasn't and the money piece was important, you know if you put a little money in a teenager's pocket, they're less likely to get in and we should do that right but
There was a cynical reason for why, I mean, even social security, there was a cynical reason. And as much as people want to believe that it started off with retirement, it did not. The original Social Security Act started with veterans and then went to retirees. And then it went to children who were,
you know, had an absent father primarily. So it's 4144445250, 4144445250. I think what Francesca Hahn represents is that there are younger people who want to see change. And I think that, and I used the word yesterday, the status quo,
People were in the status quo don't want to see change So, you know, I would always people say we want to see and then Obama run on change the first time He ran on change, you know, and that resonates with people but the reality is that the overwhelming majority of Americans Don't really want to see radical change Right. They don't want to see radical change Call it welcome to the program
Good morning Good morning, how are you? Oh good man, you sound like a bill collector for a moment. Yeah, I'm good And why there's a lot better
you know bill collectors got sick now they call you by the first name in the heartbeat oh yeah yeah you know you mean like having a regular conversation then you hear what a money yeah exactly but i i need to start uh real briefly here i spoke with michelle earlier i think i won't stop opening up the candle ones but i opened up to the whole uh uh uh thought of
Socialism I think she I need to be clear when I mentioned Socialism I was mentioning not that Let me show the good folks of the new pits mortuary. Good morning folks. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. All right, go ahead, man Okay, sir, I'll be done. Um, so I was I wanted to be clear I wasn't saying that I was a traditional Democrat that didn't like socialism I was wanting
heard it kind of elaborate on the gesture. And I think when she began to speak on it, she said, the brother was saying that he didn't like socialism. I never said that. If I did, that certainly was a screw up on my behalf. I know my granddaddy always said, close miles don't get said. And I kind of never understood that back then. But you know, if you don't know who asked about something, you don't know about nothing.
So I just wanted to be kind of clear on that and I appreciate the comments from you a question. Sure And I'm a sounds like you you you you're a boomer. I Am and you said we need to get out the way and you probably need to get out the way I say we won't get out the way
So that means that you have lived through many election cycles Absolutely has socialism and up until this year ever been an issue in terms of the election cycles that you can ever remember No, but I'm saying where it was this is part of a campaign, right? Yes, I mean at where you ever
Did you ever make a distinction of the can be on cameras as far as being a socialist and Being a you know kind of traditional or no, you're right No, I it's just starting to really hit the surface and getting hard So you have this this and I want to do a splinter group But you have this group of younger folks or more progressive thinking more progressive than the Democratic Party
uh who have come and so people focus in on socialism people focus on socialism they tie it to communism right and even and i'm only thinking their maybe cuba is one of the last communist countries in the world because if you look at china china's doing a dual system china's playing in the capitalism game russia's playing when it comes to oil well but before russia became uh you know it was just over a year
However, when it came just Russia in general, you're saying it's no longer communist? Yeah, Russia is, but Russia was a communist when it was when it was the Soviet Union, right? But the nation of Russia, I mean, they they do business. I mean, they're out there. They're part of the capitalistic system. And what keeps them in that is oil.
So yeah, that you know, so when people talk about where it started, you know the Marxist Leninist of the world, you know Karl Marx and Lenin They didn't move so far away from that for practical reasons because you got to be able to feed your folks You know and what they discovered was that yeah, you could do this But you know, you might want to figure out some other ways to generate income and the Chinese figured it out
So they have the second largest economy in the world and they call themselves communists, but they're still doing what it could be mercantilism. It could be capitalism, you know, so pure communism has gone now the socialism piece Is in America there was a socialist and a communist
Because in the fifties, remember the hearings that they were having the House on American Act committee going after people who are alleged communists? Well, there was a communist movement after World War One. A lot of it was disgruntled veterans. There was also the same thing we're kind of seeing today, where the divide between the rich and the poor was growing. People are suffering and then we get the depression. And so now how do we distinguish?
this idea of socialism and incorporated in a way where, for instance, where I'm trying to go with this is, we say now, so do you, okay, the way it was brought out earlier, you know, with the Social Security, yes, I'm paid, you know, retirement monies because what I earned X amount of dollars was met.
Somebody else brought up some people get social security and they didn't work or died in their life. So where's that distinction? Let's just use that. That's where is that distinction of the ones that might not have Paid their way versus the one that have paid their way so Obviously socialism is fair to say that socialism has been impacted in a sense both parties or one
Over the other or how does that work? Look most of us and I don't think it's fair, but it is a living longer So at some point we're taking more out of than we put in the system Okay, so you know, you say we as taxpayers we as boomers I'm okay. Okay. I get it. You look cuz the boomers are the ones who are in retirement, right and boomer longer
and boomers are healthier than folks in the past at this age. So we're taking out, it was a little blurb and they was talking about the life expectancy in the 30s. And I think that, and this is how they ended up doing the actuary for Social Security. They said that the average person would die at 66, all right? So you may retirement at 62, maybe 65.
Because if the actuary is true, that means a lot of people gonna die. That's not the case now, you know, my mother is 92 years old Bless her man. She's still in the land of the left. She's 92 years old. She's still getting the pension. She's still getting Social Security, right? So that puts in and here's the piece of it Republicans are anti
Socialism because they believe in smaller government because smaller government means less taxes Republicans who fought so the same Republicans who voted for the Civil Rights Act those northern Republicans and who voted for the Voting Rights Act with the same Republicans who voted against Medicare 63 65 64 65
and and and so you had you had where they were relatively progressive when it came to these things about um um about civil rights about voting rights about what was happening to black and brown people in america but then when it came down they went back to their true republican roots you know one of the reasons why uh they hated obama so much was because of the affordable care act right because
part of the yeah well yeah he put the label on that he put the tie on that and it was definitely something of today and you know and and it still exists however they took the name off it and use it for like you just said affordable healthcare and it should still be obama care and you know what let me say this because ax ride and all the people around hey man don't don't don't don't let him use obama care he said they can use that that's the thing about barack obama he won the punk
No He stood by what he said good let him call it Obama care The bottom line is that we have expanded access to health care in rural areas Yes, we did that's why so popular certain rural areas because of what he did in terms of bringing in because
You know, I think and I always hear this number. I don't know if it's one eighth of our economy or if it's 16 percent of our economy. Will you look at health care? Health care because it's been so monetized is one of the biggest parts of our economy. So when you let's fast forward real quick to, um, to, um, uh, uh, David cloudy, do you feel he's going to impact those farmers and the ones and the fire it lands and when you think they would put aside.
the color of the skin and we you know it's going to be a male bite all the way to the end with this last two candidates for the governorship here so um let me before I even finish here let me just ask you this like the thin skinned people like um uh uh this is the one that dropped out uh barns or manila manila manila barns whatever yeah thin skinned dropped out
There's things they can do there's a way that you can get rid of those funds You can donate to other political part campaigns. You can give it the charity There's things or you can start your own political action committee transfer the money into that so there ways I
Let me appreciate Mandela because he knew that that's even though it wasn't a scandal, it was going to be a scandal. And if you don't quit, quickly is not an option. Come on now. But quit is not an option, but he's going to lose anyway. That's quitting is not an option. So you play sports just like I did. You don't just punk out and rock with people. Sometimes the beat is so bad, you're like, dude, no moss.
Revered Iran. No, boss. Yeah, no, but that was always would be the number of being a quitter. You're not putting that tag on Crowley. I came because he came back and he came back in one. Yeah, but let's just say he stayed quitted. Yeah, well, but that's hypothetical. Well, so I'm saying that, you know, we can say that.
But, you know, you can do more harm to your brand. I mean, there's going to be an election after this. Mandela Barnes might want to be a player after this. So don't go anywhere to hurt your brand. Sometimes you need to step away. Can I say this? I know I got to go. Let me say this quickly. When I had the conversation during the election central with Tavis Smiley, the name he brought up was Mandela Barnes. That was a nice interview, by the way, with you and him. Yeah, I just got out the way.
When I was talking to a guy at WVON yesterday, he brought up Mandela Barnes. Because Mandela Barnes has, and maybe not as much, but certainly he had a high national profile. And so I think people could identify with that.
There was somebody else who called and we were talking and the name they came up with was Mandela Barnes So and I think that that was one of the reasons why Mandela got in the race I think that that's why some of the early polling said that you know what he has a really good chance of beating Tom Tiffany Had the best chance of beating Tom Tiffany, but I don't think at this point time Even if he didn't quit You know crowd he is actually like like this. I have been
He is the Wisconsin baby. He is the guy. He is that hometown guy that's been through the country, you know, went through the trenches with us. That way we're a, a, a, a really nice thing. For Mandela Barnes. Mandela Barnes was came, we came, well, no, he became, he came one person. He came with Lieutenant Governor, yes. And he came with one percent of being the U S Senator for the state of Wisconsin. One percent.
You know, so I mean I don't know what the campaign looked like the structure looked like around I don't know what you could do people in and there were so many undecided people But I think one of the things that motivated him to get in the race was that and you know what my name record and look that's politics politics is that that that I
Tell me about real quick and about why is there been such a big fight within our own Democratic Party and why is so and and it was even suggested last week that funds have been put into some of the negative ads that's been placed on Democrats by Democrats. Do you agree with that? I don't know, but I'll pick it up after the break. Thank you guys. Take care now. Thank you. Bye bye.
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Keith Parrish. Somebody said, keep looking like Frankie Beverly. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Call and welcome to the program. You do look like Frankie without all that white dog. Good morning. Good morning. Since we got the, you know, the, just like the little election thing got the way. Let's push black people being at their best.
Because I think right now, and I'm starting to see this recurring thing, we use the poverty for every excuse. We got to get away from that. And then this thing with our black politicians and Kabbalah Johnson did this. Stop using the pity party, okay? Because it seems like every time it comes, oh, I'm from 53206.
Okay, we know you're from 53206, but let me let you, let me introduce you some. Everybody in 53206 was not Jockeys. Everybody in 53206 didn't have seven kids, was always getting evicted. Show something of how you overcame, talk about the great journeys in your life. We don't care where you come from, tell black people where they're going. Because see, when you're dealing with the white man, you want him to feel good that he's taking a chance on the nigger.
You want him to judge you by your integrity and your character, not your pity. And this is now a sign to be recurring. Oh, I'm from 532-06. Well, what do you do? My grandmother was from 532-06. 13, 14 kids, wasn't on welfare, owned her house, had a van, had a cat, and that kept it new. Or you got teachers and professors in 532-06.
You got mothers in 53206 who had kids and it was always paid before the first and never after the fifth. So we gotta stop pushing this narrative that we're black, we're destituted and we're looking for pity. Because I'm gonna tell you this, the next person that's black that's running, they bring up that pity boy sugar honey, I'm not voting. I don't come from pity. I come from greatness. I push for greatness.
I don't care where you came from. I don't care if you were the recovering genetic. You probably feel doing dope. I don't care. Push the greatness of your things. Instead of you sitting here saying, well, I'm a single mother and I got seven kids. Well, you should have stopped pissing them out after two. See, some of this stuff is common sense. But if you want people to stand behind them,
Tell them where you're going to take them. Don't tell them where you come from. They want to hear the dedication, determination, motivation, and inspiration to get them to the other side. Don't tell me I'm going to lead you to the water, but you're going to talk about why you don't drink it. Well, if you don't drink it, what the hell make you think I want to drink it and you're not drinking it? That sounds like a setup. So let's start speaking greatness and let's stop using poverty as an excuse. Poverty is a mindset.
When people say it's her, it's a mindset. You told the barbecue on the front porch. You told to put newspapers and shower curtains up at your window. That's a mindset. That's not what we're about. And then we can change that. Then we can change our neighborhoods and keep them neighborhoods. Why do the white people got to come in and make your hood a neighborhood when you can do that yourself? All right. Hello.
Yeah, I'm listening. And then if you really want to show greatness about people, show how they smart, bright and intelligent. You don't have to sit here and say, well, I go to church every day. I go every Sunday, every Wednesday. Or just ask speaking about Christianity. Damn your Christianity. Because I should have whipped your way when I see you broke in my house and you tried to sell my washroom dress for $10. But I should have put 20 knots on the back of your forehead. OK?
So let's stop pushing greatness and let's stop acting like we some co-makers who don't know how to act. And we were given a chance for you to like us. You remember that commercial, Mr. Perry? If I can't have a seat at the table, just give me a chance. I don't want a chance because I don't want to sit at your MF and table. How about that? All right. Appreciate you. All right.
It's like love and pain. Oh, you know yesterday Clark Man it hit me. I don't know why why why I was thinking I downloaded some Chucky Booker Turned away and clear Clear
Yeah, yeah, man. I don't know why I was thinking man. I put me in the 80s. But Chuckie, Chuckie, Chuckie, Chuckie. Chuckie Booker. Oh, man, Chuckie had a nice groove, man. Why you wanna play games on me? Call and welcome to the program. Why you wanna play? Call and welcome to the program. Say good morning to you, Mr. Parks.
You were talking about earlier, you were talking about getting out of the way, embedding the youth. Before you do that, though, did your grandfather take a social security check? He probably did, but I don't know. But you know what he was so upset about? He worked for the city for forever. So I guess he would, you know. He did construction, or as a matter of fact, he did the construction work all down around the UWM deal.
you know, those color stones that were put in him. Matter of fact, that's his signature, knowing that. But anyway, man, listen, I wanted to add, you said about the younger people's time to get out the way, and I agree with that. A lot of preachers won't allow young preachers to take over, and they died to him. You know, they died to him and the churches, hadn't been set up for leadership.
As a matter of fact, the proper way, now you got to try to have a voting process. You got preachers coming in now because he didn't give another young, he didn't groom another preacher, a younger preacher. So I agree with that. And to this point, we have got not the way and let younger people come in. And it's leading us into a cashless society. It's leading us into a, see, for some reason they believe, and in a perfect world as she would be, we should all be equal.
Okay, in a perfect world, but we're not in a perfect world by long by a long shot So you figure this here if you bring everybody equal that means we all wear the same We are our government issued clothes or we can only shop at certain stores such as the audience Which would probably be a government regulated store because as a matter of fact all these was the very first store I ever seen with a arm guard in it
and that the headquarters was located, the headquarters is not, you can't just call a regular local audience and get some action. You have to call the headquarters. For the Midwest, it would probably be in Illinois. For the East Coast, it might be somewhere, I don't know, it could be in New York, you know, in the Southern states, I don't know. However, when you start talking, everybody's equal. And that's how it is in prison. My understanding is that you can only spend about $150 a month.
So I don't care how rich you was, how rich you was, how much money you had, how many dollars you got. You can still only spend that $156 a month on your car, on your commissary. And if you equal that out to everything, then what does that leave the people that would desire to have been on? If you get government regulated only cars.
Like in California, you can only get an admission of California mission car. You can't get that car registered and it's not under California admissions. So just think about it. If we all had to drive electric cars, Mr. Parrish, and when they said shelter in place or a grid getting knocked down, you can't school to move. You know what though? You're making the argument that people made when we went from horses
To the so-called horseless careless careless carriage, which became the car so
We talk about standing in line. So so how many times have you been in line with cash to pay and it goes somebody car to reject him and they got I don't carry I don't think I have six dollars in my wallet Okay Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna get stuck up That's the logic behind going cashless. We don't have to worry about being robbed. We don't have to worry about our people paying the cash
Use your card. I get bad when I see people pay the cash. Why, when it moves so fast? No, because the people there, they don't even know how to really count.
cash and give me your change. Those are the new people that you talking about get out the way for. Yeah, but you got to train them because if you train electronic. Yeah, because if you train them, then they would know. But if you don't train them and put them in position, of course. You're supposed to know basic math coming right out of school. Yeah, but because of how they learn and because of.
Yeah, I learned with chocolate later than any desk. They didn't actually use calculators, man. I mean, you know, people want you to be able to do it. I think you should. That's good. Part of your pedagogy growing up is that, you know, you learn how to do math. You learn how to spell. You know, we have an argument about cursing, and I'm going, we don't use it. It's like Latin. We don't speak it. Hold on. Hold on. Can I say this to you? I'm glad you said that. Because just what, brother? If you cannot run in cursive,
You can surely not read it. So therefore, if somebody write a document in front of you and tell you what it just says, you sign your life away. You're going to the penitentiary. You know what digitized writing has done that we could actually read it. I don't know what your handwriting was like growing up, but mine was lost. Hey, look, if you can't write it in cursive, you can't read it in cursive.
Yeah, but nobody's writing anything in cursive anymore. Man, you'd be surprised. Okay. I would be. I would be. I gotta ask you one more question. The lower caller that just called in, he went unfettered. He had a whole rant, and he sounded almost like a conservative people won't say, but they won't say it, okay? And he went unfettered. You didn't say one thing, but as soon as a player called in,
You want it challenge me beat me up show me wrong You know you ain't heard my feelings by calling me a hater
We're going to treat players better. How about that? I appreciate you. He said, I give new wife Murphy's able with a player calling. It's obvious I got a bias against players. All right. Call and welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning. OK.
Boy, this has been interesting. First thing I want to say is that we every boil down to what social security for the people that are paying in and when it was set up. Now when the social security was first set up, it was for working people. And it covered the state of social security.
And then if you had a child that had a disability, then cover them. No. That's not true. That is not true. That is not the original intent of Social Security. When Social Security was first done in 1935, the first group, if you go and read the Social Security Act, you will see the first group was veterans, followed by pensioners and then children. Don't go back that far.
You have to go back that far, because you have to understand what social security is, and it has not changed that much. It's been... When did they put in for your children a disability and you were working? The disability piece had everything to do with, uh, what, Medicare, Medicaid? Okay. All right, but yeah, I mean, you have to go down. They amended social security. It's been amended all these years since 1935, but the original group of people...
That was covered under the original social security act And so I'm when a people are saying that and so and pensioners are like older age people but remember I gave you the actuary the average American Didn't live to be 66 Okay All right, let me do this I'm gonna have you call back because I do have a guest I need to get okay. All right. Call me back though. Okay. All right
Good morning. Good morning. This is Norma Jean. Bruce. Oh, did I get your right name? They're doing right. Yeah, Bruce. Oh, uh, I'm sorry about the delay. We had a storm. Bad storm of here. Tuesday down in Chicago and that's how our life been out every since. Right. And I'm sitting up in the house. I'm going to play. Okay. And I put a little charge on my phone from my car.
If you want to do the interview, I can go out there and set up my car. No, no, no. We want to hear your voice. You're going to be with us Saturday, correct? Yes. Oh, man. Is this, would it be the first time you came to Milwaukee or you've been here before? I'd have been there before, I think, like back in nine, two thousand and nineteen summer. 17 summer like that team had me out there. That was the 20th century.
But a lot of changes is there Oh man, so let's do this because we'll be real quick on this because I understand and I was I was talking to someone on WVON yesterday and I didn't get a chance to ask about how they were impacted by the weather that came through So when what what what is the music that the Norma Jean brews? Brusso's blues man, what what can people expect in Milwaukee on Saturday?
It's high energy, and I did four CDs, and I'm going to blame it for one. I'm working on my fifth. So it's bass and norwegian blues, and I do a lot of my own music, but I also cover other people's music too, like Howl & Wolf.
Big Mama Thornton. I was wondering to do it with Big Mama Thornton. I'm not into the rock. I do a little solo. On my new CD, I cut a R&B solo. I like to do that too at a special occasion. So I cut a R&B solo on my new CD.
You don't do that. I just do whatever people want me to do, and they always get touched by my music. And a lot of people always say, it's your voice. It's your voice, Nora. And I know I'm gifted through my law to say to Jesus Christ. And they call me Nora Jean, the blues queen, which I don't like. Just Nora Jean, please.
That's a that's a nice that's a nice honor That people respect your game so much and what you do that they make you the queen. I mean, who's the last one? Okay, I wanted a Cocoa Taylor Blues award from just blue and then I was introduced
I think with 2019 I was introduced to Chicago Blues Hall of Fame. Oh, look at you. But you don't want to be the queen. No, and I don't like bragging about it because we have a lot of queens out there. Okay. But the only thing different from me and them, I basically do my own music. Okay. I try to put my sound out there, you know.
If your peers respect you that much, it shows that the work, and it sounds like you've been putting the work in for years, it's just a respect for you and the work that you do. So wear it honorably. But I don't let them know it though. Okay. Because you're between me and God. Okay. And the listeners of WNOV. Huh? And the listeners of WNOV.
Yeah, I respect my fans. I love them so much. And I respect them loving my music. And most of my fans is women's people. So you know they're what Mother Water had. Right, right. Most of his fans were young people. But I do have some old school fans and they go crazy when they hear my music. But I'm not all of that. I'm just what God made me.
And I get out there, I deliver it. Because if I can't feel my music, my fans can't feel it. So when I do it, I do it for my heart. I do what's in me. I have to feel it to deliver it to my fans. I know that you're there. And I'm really hoping that you guys get back something we hadn't talked about. But that was really
terrible weather that came through the Chicago area. And so I know people are dealing with it. Ms. Nora Jean Broussos, Nora Jean Broussos Blues Band, should be with us Saturday at the summer Soul Jazz R&B series held at Rose Park. Look forward to having you in the city. Thank you and be safe out there and hopefully that you all get your power back soon.
Me too, cause I'm sitting here sweating like a Hebrew slave. All right. I want to see you this weekend, God bless. Yes, ma'am. Ms. Noregene Musso, Noregene Musso Blues, ma'am. Thank you, dear. She said she's sweating like a Hebrew slave. As soon as I heard her voice, she sounded like.
I got my mouth all ready for some hash, and it ain't gonna get no hash. Let me say this to her. If your peers are calling you the queen of the blues, accept that. You know, I always use this analogy. Like, if a bird sees a fish swimming, and the bird says to the fish, you're a great swimmer, the fish is gonna go all right. But when another fish, you're great, because game recognized game.
Right, so the highest compliment you can get is from your peers because your peers know what it takes to do what you're doing Yeah, right. I mean, you know like you you can come up after our preach and say you did a good job But when another preacher comes up and mean it and You notice I put that in there and mean it
because they don't say it, but they don't mean. Yeah, look at all. So they're pretty looking at the flow, looking up in the ceiling. No, you lie. No, you lie. Call him. Welcome to the program. Good morning. Hey, good morning, Mr. Good morning, Mr. Parris. How are you doing? I'm good, man. Hey, uh, where is a normal team going to be performing? She's performing at Rose Park Saturday. Yeah.
I'm never heard of Rose Park. The old Garfield Park, man. Oh, OK, OK. You said, oh, Garfield, everybody know that. OK, y'all say Rose Park, man. And then I know y'all put a shortcut on it. You said Garfield. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I was like, be it or no, Lucas was having a conversation. If we wasn't saying Rose Park, remember we used to be down at Garfield Park? Because it was Garfield Park, man, for me. I've always been Garfield Park. You know? Yeah.
I've seen Norma performed before. She is absolutely awesome. Okay. What time is this going to be on Saturday? The headliner is on at five. Five o'clock. Okay, thanks a lot. You guys have an awesome day. Appreciate you, man. I'm sorry, y'all. If y'all don't know where Rose Park is for you, O-O-O-O School Garfield Park.
Man, hopefully they don't get rained out, man, because it's supposed to rain. Yeah, I mean, I'm not the weather. Meteor out is made on condominium. Wop, wop, wop, wop. I don't control the rain. Talk to the Lord. Everybody getting all excited. She went to grade. You don't go rain. You don't go rain. You might want to bring on the brother.
You're talking about party killer
Hello. Good morning. How are you? So is that rain supposed to be this Saturday? I talked about the rain Saturday. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the weather is. I ain't gonna look at the weather for Saturday. But why not? Because they got two events going on. We got Harbor Park, which is outdoors, right? You know, and then you got the summer concert series.
And look, I'm not superstitious, but I don't want to jinx it, so let's be optimistic. Here we go. All right. OK. But I did hear it was going to rain. It's going to rain. Three for the holy ghost. It's going to rain. But now we need to head. This would mean it would be the third concert. The third year. The dude that came this year got rained down two years in a row, right?
Wow two years in a row so You know something we can't change what God has planned so I'm not even gonna go that's why I am And then my next thing is this Most of these jobs now are they providing? Retirement for these young people. No, that's exactly what one case Why why not because
You know when you look at at that pension the pension cost the long-term Milwaukee County is dealing with this right and a lot of it has to do with boomers and That boomers have kind of blew up the actuary You know again boomers are living now my mama was pre boomer right because my mama was born 34 but pre boomers You know and you got a lot you still have a significant number of pre boomers and a lot of boomers right now so
No, companies are saying, no, no, you do your own 401k. We ain't gonna put anything in it. So if you have a company with a fixed pension, it's rare. Okay, let me just say another thing. Why don't you pay them enough money so that they could pay their bills and they could go for that thing? Do they use a matching? I think what drives wages is demand, right? If there's a high demand for labor, then the cost
I mean then the wages go up and the benefits go up if you have a situation where there's low demand for workers then the cost and I mean the pay and the benefits drop where they stay the same because the biggest part of doing any business biggest part of doing government is personnel Right, so the cost of personnel is that's why AI is so attracted to companies because I don't have to pay the computer the same thing I have to pay right now Okay
Now, when they first came out, now AI has been out a long time, first of all. Then they were saying blacks are not getting into the game of AI and learning more about it. Now here recently, I've been hearing all these commercials saying that the blacks are high users of AI on their jobs. I said, now which way are they going with this?
We don't know enough about it, and we haven't been trained. Now, all of a sudden, we're doing more using it, and now worried if we're going to keep our jobs. You know, I don't know how they like to play us and confuse us, but I'm not paying any attention. And the next thing is so much going on in this world, and I'm sure that's probably why it's so much mental illness.
Everybody's trying to figure out this, that, and the other. And I want to tell someone, take a ride through the code 532-06. I mean, really ride through the large area. It is the Negro living, mighty good. Do you hear me? There are yards are laid out. They have boats in there. They're Cadillacs, Corvettes.
I mean, they live in life. And so, I happened to laugh and talk with a person. I said, wow. It looked like you have about three lost here. He said, don't tell nobody. I said, but you been here many years, because everything is grown in. He said, it don't tell nobody how we doing over here. You know, the oldest black churches in the city are all in 5306.
I mean the oldest black churches And they're all in 06 And your point my point is that it's diverse I think people picked up on something many years ago about the number of people who were returning citizens and they returned to 5 3 2 0 6 and it has made some demographic changes And you know because I can remember being a metropolitan on 14th and Burlai
And that was a working class neighborhood. I mean, it was people on their homes. It was different. But as it is in a lot of urban areas, the demographic changes happened where now more and more people coming in and running. But again, that whole thing about 5306 had everything to do with people returning from prison. And many of them were returning to 5306. And then after that, it just became this whole
You know, it was your street cred to say I grew up in five three two oh six, you know So it gave you a certain cred like, you know, you came up the rough side of the mountain, you know the I remember one one election cycle said look, I don't want to hear another humble beginning story I don't want to hear another one. Okay, so That's not exactly fair. Well, let me do this. Why don't you hold on? I'm gonna take a break If you want to hold on
No, I'm not gonna keep taking up your time. You guys have a great day. And don't let me work your nerves. Bye. I just got to treat a player better. Past the bottom. You know, well, we ain't got no love for the players. You're listening to Community Voice, the phone lines are open, callers, I see you will be right back. We gotta show some love for the players.
Keith Parris. I like that name. The All-American Rejects. Don't worry about groups I love is rage against the machine. Like that, too. Nevada, man. That was my group. Nevada. Nevada? Team Spirit. That was my joint, man. Man, you simply listen to that grunge music. Like, I still listen to Team Spirit, though. Do you? Yeah, I still listen to Team Spirit. Period. All right. I'm going to be giving away some tickets.
To the Harbor Park Jazz Rhythm and Blues Festival. All right. I don't know what the criteria is. Paula, welcome to the program. Hey brother Parrish. Yes. I'm calling back. It's my off day and I'm enjoying this show. Why am I not? Why am I getting food broken? I don't have a radio.
Anyway, so I gotta put a label on that brother. He gotta do the talk show, Billy, because he hit on something there that was unfair. And what he was trying to say that he was criticizing you for talking to me, for having just a reasonable, decent conversation, and that a whole lot of slang wouldn't throw it around, because he said either
When a real player called, that brother don't know me. I was going to ask you, are you a player? Man, let me introduce myself. First of all, before I jump into that, let me just say this, brother. I want to come here, you preach, because you brought up something when you say, when you step out the poor pitch, people say, or some of the congregation members say to you, you very well spoken there, brother.
The word was very nice. Do you give it all to God or what do you say? Do you say that God gave this to me or I studied hard for this? What do you typically say? I will tell you what my mother said. Pray for me. Okay. That's what I was saying. Pray for me because I don't know if I should believe you. So pray for me.
I was teaching I was teaching that intense love covers a multitude of services that I was doing customer customer service training and the sheriff's department said sincerity is not required so people say a whole lot of things but that's secular brother we're talking spiritually we ain't talking about your personal work yeah no I'm just saying for me it is anybody who doesn't you ask write out
When he gets finished playing, he might not feel like he gave a great show, because he knew all the mistakes he made. I knew all the mistakes I made in that message. So it's hard for me to think like it was a great message. You're your own best critic. I get it. And my wife gets on me hard about that, because I just be, because I'll go over it, man. I mean, I will, I am my worst critic, you know. I get it. And as people like to think that I am, I just...
I just realized that the biggest room in the world is the room for improvement. Thank you, Gladys Wanzel. And that's how I operate. And I know that there are people out there. Because let me tell you, if I come to here right out, I'm going to cut them up. You know, I'm sitting there in my mind. I'm here. And you probably want to here too. You probably want to get a constructive criticism. He don't want to here. Right out now, how I start off, I start off with my arms folded.
And I had a real stoic like face of stone. Yeah, he ain't lying. And the band working hard, they'll be looking over their shoulder. Did he move? Nope. Did he move yet? Well, at the end of the show, hands are clapping. Right. Did I walk him go? Yeah, all right. I get it. Oh, I need to just say this for right now. He's a boy slugger. You'll be encouraged. He's a terrible boy. I need to say this for right now. That wasn't hands, brother.
You then drink all the orange juice. Got my mouth already. Got my mouth already. But let me say this man, and back to that brother. Now, so before I went to Robert Foden, I used to shine shoes at McKinley on Third and Center. And I used to shine for the players, the pimp, the Jim Bandies, the big K's, the Huffers and the players, the Art Niels.
All the brothers that was in the hood and one day, one of the pimps was sitting there and I was shining the shoes and I didn't know cause I was blue at this. And I got some black polish on his white Stacey Adam stitches. And that brother jumped up and I looked at him and he said, what? And his girl, he's one of his girls and whatever, then she sit there and she's, daddy just, I said, forget this.
The heck with this job, I took all running. He chased me. He chased me all the way up that hill where Robert Fulton is. I was finished. And I was like, man, this brother gonna beat me down, but I'm fine and I'm running. I'm holding for that change I got that I made in my pocket. And I'm running, running, running, man. And so I tell you what, you made the point, gang recognized gang, my baby, my baby daughter.
down in uh lee's alabama right now is representing or defending ebonics and black language and she is been taught by daddy for the beginning so if i let me just finish real quick no man because you because i gotta do this man i got people they blowing up my phone lines man they want these tickets for the harbury park jazz rhythm and blues festival i want tickets yeah all you have to do is answer this simple question
Okay. All right. Who's the most famous person that you know that came from Leeds, Alabama? Charles Barkley. All right. You just won yourself some chickens, bro. So thank you. My boy went down the street with his mama. Is that right? Yeah. How was your day last week?
He is the most famous person that I know of from Leeds, Alabama. I appreciate the tickets, brother. And I just want to say this about, uh, uh, uh, about, uh, uh, Garfield Park. The mom is the shot, the starlight was the, uh, the, uh, the starlight. Let me give you a little background story. You remember the story of the starlight.
WAAA was sponsored at OC white brought the shy lights. I remember and and the shy lights didn't show up So I don't know if it's cuz the money was funny or what it was, but we I mean the park is packed I mean the park is packed because we're gonna hit for free And you talking to grass and everything everybody got up there man. He cussed about those man. He was tripping We got him the next week
Hold on, man. We can really take care of that. Okay, man. I get my money, man. I gotta get my purse. You better not mess up my shoes. Alright, call a woman to the program. I would I would have did the same thing, man. You mess up my stasis. Oh man, we're gonna have a problem. Call a woman to the program. Good morning. Good morning. I had a couple things.
Is this Solis? Is this Solis? Yeah. Hey, Solis, how you doing? I've been okay. Good to hear your voice. You know, I love to hear you and I love to see you when I see you. What's happening? I'm gonna be having surgery on my eyes just coming Monday and the following Monday, chatter on surgery. But I'm a little scared, but I'm ready. You'll be all right. Yeah. You've been too tough for the next. I had a couple things. Okay, the AI commercial, keep hearing your phone go, you know, V.
But is that somewhat of a good thing or a bad thing? And also the agents is somewhat responsible for artificial intelligence. And at least we know blacks are working. Because any other time they say that we lazy and don't do nothing. And it's their time to use artificial intelligence. That's what I believe.
Okay, because if you Google Google now has a feature where I'll ask Google a question it goes to AI AI goes in it does the research and then just pulls up the the stuff that you need a particular type of data So a lot of people using it for research I do I mean Any technology is how you use it
You know and what it does, but technology does Displace human labor. I mean that is always give the example of the future when when black people were down and they had to pick cotton, right? Right and then the Combine and so now you don't need as many people out there picking cotton because you got Right and I was talking Clark and I asked him you remember the Jetsons
And how he would be exhausted from pushing buttons all day, right? And guess what we do now? We push buttons all day and trying to fly cars. Yep. Yep. Exactly. That was my grandparents writing those script. And now this stuff is coming in life. But anyway, another thing too. Oh, you were talking about baby boomers.
So it's a quite a few jobs opening that W open up that W no visa, you know, baby bonus get out the way You know what actually What is what was that the boomers? Well, no Gen Z Gen X I Know what's up the boom. I just know I'm a boomer. No millennials were like going towards 2000. Yeah, no
I think it was like Gen X. Gen X, so that deep one, all of them are Gen X. They like those 66 babies because I was at the end of the boom. You know, they said that it would go from 1945 to 1960. I was born in 57. So I was at the end of the boat. So who come up with this baby boat after the war?
So that was the people that started having babies coming back from the war and we created so many babies. But then I think I fall in Gen Y right now. You're a boomer. But boomers extended into the 50s. He just turned 50. Yeah, I just turned 50.
Yeah, the boomers extended into the 60s because I'm a boomer and I was born in 62. I was born in 60s. You at the very end and not only was all the people coming from war making babies, they was coming off of Woodstock. We came out of Woodstock. No, Woodstock was after you. You's already born. Woodstock was 69. No, Woodstock was 69.
Oh, because when they were having Woodstock, that's when man landed on the moon. And there's another concert they threw concert series in Harlem all in 1969. But 69 went to the moon. 69 was Woodstock. Yep. So you're already walking around.
Call it welcome to the program. Yeah, don't put me in the 60s. I wasn't born in the 60s. Good morning. Hey John. How did you find circular logic? Because you're into logic and that kind of stuff. How did you find that? Is that an official term of philosophy or is that just a pop culture? I don't know. I thought logic was always linear. Okay, so then okay, is that a pop culture term of circular logic? It could be. I mean circular logic would mean
like almost like the circular argument. But logic always came to a conclusion. It's how you got to the conclusion. But it was always, as long as I can remember, we came to a conclusion of logic. It was just a formula that you use to come to the conclusion. The formula and the input that you use. Let me do this, John. They want me to take a break, man. You want to hold on to after the break? Sure. Thank you.
You're listening to Community Voice. I do have some tickets for the Harbor Park Jazz Rhythm and Blues Festival in Kenosha this Saturday. So you can call and win the tickets. We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Thank you Zebra. My mom was part of the greatest generation. That was a term dubbed by Tom Hanks. Yeah, that was the World War two generation. All right. Okay. John. Yeah, sir. I forgot to tell you. I'm glad to hear you're doing better. I've been in a similar position. I'm glad you're doing better. You sound great. Okay, so there's several streams.
I've heard, I've read, and I actually checked with the AI, that we spend trillions of dollars just doing our taxes, not even paying them, just, just doing them, like paying, paying the colon times and so forth and trying to figure out all the different benefits and so forth, deductions and so forth, that we've spent immense trillions over the last several decades. And then also the idea that you're, you're correct on a technical basis,
that Social Security and those things were actually taken off of the Socialist Chancellor Bismarck in Germany, the Social Security dot gov actually has his face on the page. So in a technical sense, in a formal sense, yes, you're correct. So logically, do I get my money back? Am I a socialist because I take my money back that I paid into the forced pension? Am I am I am I wrong? It's a forced pension. Yeah, but I'm saying that you will probably depend on when you if you're receiving self security.
Based on the original actuaries and I don't know how much indexing they've done for that the life expectancy then was 66 Right, right? That was in 1930s. That is not let me do this too Let's see someone point out boomers are from 1945 1964 Okay, roughly and then GeneXus next roughly 1965 to 1980
But when they grow up is that what like when how did they come up with those terms? No different you know the boomers were Kids born, you know post-war war two, right? Soldiers coming home from World War two and Korea and Create babies and so we created because at one point and until the Millennials got here the boomers was the largest Generation right so the kids were created During that period in terms of boomers
But, you know, I'm at the end. A lot of people say 60. Some people go 64, but like Michelle, my sister, Debo, they're Gen Xers. Oh, so that's the next guy. It's okay. That would be our kid, Soda, kind of. So all I'm saying is real quick, man, because I can give away these tickets. Okay. Yes, but actually we take out more.
Then we actually pay in and taxes so How long you live and look I'm a I'm a double dipper when it comes to Social Security because my dad died when I was 10 I got survivor benefits up until I was 22 and I graduated from college and then of course now I received Social Security, so I've done and I know that I'm probably gonna end up
you know, Good Lord Will and Creek Don't Rise, that, you know, just being able, that was one of the reasons why I elected not to wait till my full retirement age, because reality is, I could die before I ever get to die. You know, I mean, so when people kind of, and if you're going to lose a couple of hundred dollars a month, as opposed to never being able to enjoy it, but maybe that's why I have such a thing about government, then I worked in government all my adult life.
So when I kind of get to it, I'm biased. I'll be the first one to tell you. I believe that government and services are important. I think that we should always, we decided to create this country. And so it should be mutually benefiting. That's one of the things that should happen. I heard Meach say something about equality. And I understand everybody, theoretically everyone is equal in America.
Practically, we know that's not the case, but in terms of what the paper says, that all of us are equal. That's what the paper says. How is being applied, you know, is less than what the paper is saying, but anyway. All right. Okay, thanks. All right, man. Appreciate you. Carla, welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning. What I was going to say about that AI commercial.
Is that the overlay for the underlay when they start putting in these data centers unwanted in certain neighborhoods? And, you know, that's what it's all about. Right. Did the people know that there's a data center over on State Street in Highland, where the O'Potter Watterby School was? Yes, there's a data center. And I saw when they were building, I had no clue that data center has been over there now.
for at least eight years, maybe longer. And most people don't even know that it's a data center. And people got to realize the water change is going to be drastic. There's going to be a lot of deformities, just like DuPont, that pot company, DUPO, a lot of people in that county and city, those cities up there where DuPont was making them pots and pans are the form, you know, because nobody was, or whatever.
Well, we got West Virginia state Now, you know Dupont is big in Delaware, but I think West Virginia where West Virginia state is There was a Dupont plant there and they talked about just how much are the pollutants? They put in the water and then Dupont was able to go to EPA write regulations and then exempted some like 400 of the chemicals
Yeah, I mean and getting that that stuff cooked up into your food. I hate colored Pants pots and pans always by silver and even that white crockery back in the day You'll see how that paint will eat off in the term black and be like a black hole That's a whole piece about convenience and and what we do and think about it one of the reasons that
We have so much trash people think well, you know what? We're just dirtier and people just don't care We have more trash because America everything not everything a lot of things are disposable Right. There's a certain shelf life that you have things and this goes back to the early 19 like 20 something the guy the brother who? invented the
the bulb, the light bulb, had a fillet in there that was lasting longer than they did. So no, don't make it last a year, make it last six months, because then people have been going by another light bulb. You know another issue out here talking about the environment that most people don't know? The lithium-bat batteries that are in our phones. What do we do when we dispose of those phones in those lithium batteries? Because it's very difficult. Now at least you can go in and you can recycle.
You know plastics people don't want to spend money, but you can go in and recycle plastics It's hard to figure out how you're going to recycle lithium battery Exactly because they were catching on fire. They was having like little commercials showing people even in them first They came out. Yeah, those batteries were just even more hot because even when you charge up your laptop You know the kind of battery part that plugs me to the wall. It's really really hot
You know what computers are designed to do because if you have an Apple phone if your phone gets too hot it shuts down And getting in the plug yet, because I still I like to flip on cuz I can get to the main swing if I need 9-1-1 I could doubt but the plug is real hot that goes into the outlet I have a charger in the truck where you can lay the phone down the charge and it talks about you pick up your phone your phone is hot It's hot. Yeah, that is not better combustion
You know, mine's well-called fire department. All right, talk to you later. Appreciate you. You know, that whole Lincoln Avenue school brought back some science that I remember, spontaneous combustion. I don't know if you remember that in your science class. And those soak rags and the heat, bam. That happened to me. I brought some rags home from the job to wash them. They was all ragged with you to wipe us up with.
So I put them, watch them, put them in the dryer. We smell the smoke. You smell that? Go downstairs the whole basement smoke. Open up the dryer and just, I just threw in my room on the ground. Like, man, had the whole house smoking, man. I didn't, I didn't know that. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Yeah. Call one to the program. Good morning. Hey, good morning, Keith. This is pride in Houston.
Hey, hey, hold on Pratt. Let me do this. I'm gonna take a quick break. Can you hold on to after the break? Okay. Hey, you listen to Community Voice. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Yeah, Brett and good hearing you boys I just wanted to piggyback on the topics that went on today in terms of Social Security Medicare and Medicaid if that you know part of the conversation, you know, it's interesting when you lead into retirement how things really come full circle because you think about the income prior to retirement you tend to coast when it comes to
doing and experiencing things. But you don't realize once you retire, how much more you have to make an effort to establish a budget. Because when you mentioned earlier about pensions, I remember my grandfather was better positioned than I was because of the work that he did, plus he had Social Security, plus he had benefits from
being a veteran. So, you know, three sources of income that was coming in to help sustain his lifestyle, which was modest at best, but it was just interesting. Now, when you look at us, as well as, you know, kids, they have a different look on things. We really need to work in the process of financial literacy so that we, in turn,
as we get older, I should say our kids get older, they'll be able to enjoy their golden years instead of having to work themselves into the grave. Yeah, I think that, and that was the, you know, working for government, I probably took less in pay than I could if I would have been in the private sector.
But when I looked at retirement, you know Milwaukee County, obviously it's a fixed pension. So I had a pension That that makes that makes a big difference man I mean it and then I think also because you know, we're boomers and our we had relatively good health We're still very active, you know, and that's that's been one of the things like there are people saying boomers You need to get out the way so younger people get jobs, but you know, it's a lifestyle thing, right?
I mean you were talking about your sound like your grandfather didn't have to make a lot of adjustments I know I'd have to make one or two adjustments, right because you just used to live in a certain lifestyle Yeah, absolutely right and take money Yeah, and I just think that and also the situation that keeping in mind what your annual income was, you know, let's say per month as it relates to you know per year and
the idea of, you know, looking at elevating, you know, I mean, not sticking, sometimes you have to change careers in order to make a greater impact as far as your future. But I agree with you. I think how we, I was, I was kidding my colleague and asked her, did y'all have a color TV growing up? And she said, yeah, said y'all didn't. I said, my mom had three kids in private school.
Right televisions was not a priority come to my house now. It's just me and my wife and we got five TVs You know, I mean so the relative prosperity is such as my good friend the late Bill Berksham used to say he said you know what your luxury has become necessities So, you know things that you know driving a certain type of car, right? I mean all these things as you get a little bit of money You're good, but then there are other people man My late pastor
He grew up in Mississippi doing a depression. He didn't spend money, right? I mean, his whole attitude towards money is very different than my attitude towards money, right? Cause I didn't have to grow up. I mean, it was tough, you know, but it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't that tough. That's great. Y'all playing with the kids right here and I'm doing a program.
You know what I was thinking about you man, and I remember I saw your sister And I always asked people how their sims are doing so and I don't know I think she told you this I was talking to her and I said hey, how's Pratt, Jr? We go back we like six years old right we were at the wine together. He was always Pratt, Jr
You know, now I know people don't call you Pratt and Jew, you're now as an adult, but I'm going like, yeah, I was Pratt and Jew, you're doing. You know, I put it like this. If you hear somebody say that, they know you. They know you. They were there back in the day, man. They know that day, man. But it was just like, yeah, it would be like some people, like, I would just tell you, man, my mother always said I was her special child. You couldn't tell me.
that junior won Sammy Davis's last name. No, his last name is Davis Keith. Oh, what's the weather like down there, man? It's hot. It's human. In the mid 90s, about 92. You in the Houston area? Huh? You in the Houston area? Yep. Yep. You know what?
I have my wife has an uncle down in that area So if when we're down there because I got your number, man, we'll try to hook up Yeah, yeah, let's let's do that, you know cuz that I was gonna make one of the well come in or it could be partial joke is that you know being older now and having more time to reflect or or Project
ideas or you know, conversations and futures. The interesting part about I was talking to my insurance agent and we were having a discussion about my roof and I told them, they asked me, how long has it been since I had my roof done? I said, oh, about five years. Then I told them chances are the roof might last more than I last, you know, because you think about, you know, some of those big expenses
When you when you have a home and you retire you're like you didn't have that extra You know cash per se like you have when you you know work, would you know something else? five-year plans 10-year plans now is next week Long-term changes as you get older Right, you know cuz I sit up and think you know how long it's gonna take to do this
Well, when you're 20s and 30s, oh man, that ain't nothing but time. When you get older, that's a, you have a, you're right. It's a different view on time, right? Cause you know every day and every evening that I have at some point where I say, you know, you're going to die, right? Yep. Yep. All right, man. I appreciate you and thank you for listening, man. I always appreciate that. Thank you. All right. You have a good day. All right. Peace. I've known that dude since I was six years old.
Yeah, that's amazing. That's my brother's cousin. Not well, you know, we were, our parents had us all over at the old Y during the summer. No, no, used to be, you know, that laundry mat there on six and north. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They used to be the old Y and then they moved to 12th and Garfield. So we were in summer fun club. All my cousins was that's where I met my cousins, you know, that they we were all there and
Pratt was there, Patrice was young, but Pratt was there. And man, we go back some years, man. I just sit up and think about that. Like, man, we do call people by those names that we knew them as. See, but ain't it somehow how fast time go? Yeah. How fast. It seemed like, seemed like yesterday. Seemed like yesterday. Yeah. All my friends are away in yesterday. Didn't know Beatles. I love that record, man.
Me and Keon said this, the most consequential group to ever come out of America is the Beatles. I'm not saying they're the best band, but I'm saying in terms of having impact, they have some hits. It's the Beatles. They have some hits, bro. I mean, and because me and my guy was talking last night, he was telling me the guy that played, Charlie Waits had played bass for the Rolling Stones, he said has the world's most
extensive blues album collection. And I said that you need to understand that the Rolling Stones and the Beatles had none but mad respect for people who did American blues, more respect than a lot of Americans had for folks doing the blues. So when I sit up and I look at it and I kind of go like, yeah, I can appreciate that. Hey, let me take all the call as you write right out this hour, two hours did blow by.
Hey y'all good Lord willing Creek though rise we gonna have some tickets tomorrow tomorrow's free flow Friday. Hey And it's my party Yeah, right and let me let me shout out DJ for coming in and working a little bit election central. Yeah, man. He and he actually did a good job. Yeah I have to pay him. All right Clark Kent. Thank you
Jermaine, thank you. Deepo, thank you, everybody. All the callers, we thank you. Good Lord, Will and Creek, don't rise. Hope to talk to everybody tomorrow. And as always, go from this place and be.
Bishop, chairman of the board, superintendent.
So these mosquitoes had a buffet on me, Jack.
Look at that.
Man, they went nuts on
Just
Man, they went crazy.
And it was like, one of them took a bite, was like, hey man.
And I went
So is it the brown horn or the green horn?
Which one was out?
Which
She said that you get right out when you said that Keon was in the...
Arms of the Lord and hope she embraced.
Oh,
man.
As she said, you got him.
You did something to me.
You did something to my blood.
Hey, Meach, you know people be listening.
Did your blessed grandfather take his social security check?
Because if he took his social security check, that's socialism.
OK.
If he took your so if he took a social security check and he signed up for Medicare, that's so that's socialism.
Oh Yeah, I Just thought I'd say that You know words you got to look them up y'all.
Yeah,
That's the thing, you know because a lot of people are use word play and they'll play on the words and
have you thinking one thing and then there's really another.
So you really, you know, you're right.
You got to look them up and know.
We spend so much time with adults getting them to unlearn stuff.
And, you know, because we, what did they say?
What's that?
There's some bad acid going around.
You know, like we get a hold of something, man.
And we just go with it.
Yesterday, I was
I was having a conversation with one of our colleagues down at WVON in Chicago.
And he asked me a question that I'm supposed to come back with an answer for today.
For him, he wanted to know, will Francesca Hahn, or good Francesca Hahn, move young people to get involved and turn out the vote?
I think so.
And I thought that that's a fascinating question.
because when you look at it, especially in the midterm, in the midterm, only about 20% of people between the ages of 18, 25, 18, 29 will participate.
And so I had to go back over my own life.
I registered to vote when I was 19.
I didn't vote.
That would have been, if I was 19, I would have been eligible to vote in the 76 presidential election.
No, I didn't register to vote after that, so that didn't 77.
So I wasn't eligible.
So the first presidential election I was eligible to vote in was 1980, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.
So I voted in that.
I've been voting ever since.
I missed one in all those years.
That's over 40 years.
I missed one.
And look.
I think for younger people, I took Frankie to register to vote.
I don't know if Rhonda took Caitlyn or if I took Caitlyn to register to vote when they turned 18.
And I have pictures of them the first time they voted.
So people were saying we're in their house, you know, their kids would, you know, if they lived there, they got to go vote.
And then, you know, the midterm is the primary, which is a little bit different because that's about party preference.
And then you have the general election.
So I saw a stat from 2022.
That would have been our last midterm, where it was a higher than normal turnout, like 27% of young people turned out to vote in that midterm.
Normally, they're around 20%.
I don't know what accounted for that.
I mean, we were coming out of COVID.
So I don't know what that was.
But I think that's the second highest now if you go on the national, you know, like every four years the presidential And I'm sure and I gotta go back and I'll pull it up.
I'm sure when Obama ran There were a lot of young people who got out the vote, you know because of what, you know, Obama represented But if that was 27% in 2022 we're in 2026 now
I don't know from what I was seeing with the unity You know because and I asked this question a lot when people are running, you know, especially people who were former advocates I go like the is it in your mind is there a difference between being an advocate of being an administrator?
I believe that they are I think the administrative part of it
There's more nuance than when you're an advocate.
You can be pretty absolute as an advocate.
When you're administering things, you find out that you're dealing with a more diverse, a broader sense of duties and responsibilities.
And I ask that word compromise.
That's a nasty word.
And for some people in politics, and then this idea of mainstream.
So I have my feelings on it.
But they're just my feelings.
I think that there's a generational shift right now.
What, what are we now, Gen Z?
Right.
And they're coming to age, millennials are coming to age, and the baby boomers just won't get out the way.
For some reason, I don't, I don't understand why they don't feel like, you know, that their season is up.
Now, I understand.
you know, like you might have got into a habit of doing this for 20, 30 years.
But after a while, you got to get fresh new bloods and fresh new ideas in because we're going in circles.
And it's like we need some fresh voices, some fresh ideas into to, you know, to help the country.
You know in the back of my mind I sit up and think about because I am getting older You know at what point do I stop doing this?
Right?
You know I mean that that that's in the back of my mind I mean I think about it and I kind of go like hey You know is it time to?
You know when will it be time?
You know like to let it go let some other people come in Caller welcome to the program Good morning Keith.
Hey Rick
I just want to say about your comments on socialism The American version of socialism is pennies in the bucket compared to what's going on in Western Europe and People people in America who have a good job with benefits of insurance and Medicare still go broke
on health issues because the American healthcare system is for profit.
Most physicians operate for profit.
I'm done, man.
Here's another one of those other things.
When Henry Meyer was mayor when I was coming along as a teenager,
you know, there are riots going on all over the country.
And the Johnson administration released a lot of money going into communities, right?
And they used to call it riot insurance money, right?
If you give the young people something, a little money in their pocket, they're less likely to riot.
Now, what they missed in all of this was that the overwhelming number of riots
Had something to do with a police-involved death You know you go to that so It wasn't and the money piece was important, you know if you put a little money in a teenager's pocket, they're less likely to get in and we should do that right but
There was a cynical reason for why, I mean, even social security, there was a cynical reason.
And as much as people want to believe that it started off with retirement, it did not.
The original Social Security Act started with veterans and then went to retirees.
And then it went to children who were,
you know, had an absent father primarily.
So it's 4144445250, 4144445250.
I think what Francesca Hahn represents is that there are younger people who want to see change.
And I think that, and I used the word yesterday, the status quo,
People were in the status quo don't want to see change So, you know, I would always people say we want to see and then Obama run on change the first time He ran on change, you know, and that resonates with people but the reality is that the overwhelming majority of Americans Don't really want to see radical change Right.
They don't want to see radical change Call it welcome to the program
Good morning
Good morning, how are you?
you know bill collectors got sick now they call you by the first name in the heartbeat
exactly but i i need to start uh real briefly here i spoke with michelle earlier i think i won't stop opening up the candle ones but i opened up to the whole uh uh uh thought of
Socialism I think she I need to be clear when I mentioned Socialism I was mentioning not that
Okay, sir, I'll be done.
Um, so I was I wanted to be clear I wasn't saying that I was a traditional Democrat that didn't like socialism I was wanting
heard it kind of elaborate on the gesture.
And I think when she began to speak on it, she said, the brother was saying that he didn't like socialism.
I never said that.
If I did, that certainly was a screw up on my behalf.
I know my granddaddy always said, close miles don't get said.
And I kind of never understood that back then.
But you know, if you don't know who asked about something, you don't know about nothing.
So I just wanted to be kind of clear on that and I appreciate the comments
I Am and you said we need to get out the way and you probably need
Absolutely
No, but I'm
right?
Yes,
Did you ever make a distinction of the can be on cameras as far as being a socialist and Being a you know kind of traditional or no, you're right No, I it just started to really hit the surface and getting hard so you
have this I want to do a splinter group But you have this group of younger folks or more progressive thinking more progressive than the Democratic Party
uh who have come and so people focus in on socialism people focus on socialism they tie it to communism right and even and i'm only thinking their maybe cuba is one of the last communist countries
in the
at
oil well but before russia became uh you know it was just over a year
However, when it came just Russia in general, you're saying it's no longer communist?
was a communist when it was when it was the Soviet
But the nation of Russia, I mean, they they do business.
I mean, they're out there.
They're part of the capitalistic system.
And what keeps them in that is oil.
So yeah, that you know, so when people talk about where it started, you know the Marxist Leninist of the world, you know Karl Marx and Lenin They didn't move so far away from that for practical reasons because you got to be able to feed your folks You know and what they discovered was that yeah, you could do this But you know, you might want to figure out some other ways to generate income and the Chinese figured it out
So they have the second largest economy in the world and they call themselves communists, but they're still doing what it could be mercantilism.
It could be capitalism, you know, so pure communism has gone now the socialism piece is in America there was a socialist and a communist
Because in the fifties, remember the hearings that they were having the House on American Act committee going after people who are alleged communists?
Well, there was a communist movement after World War One.
A lot of it was disgruntled veterans.
There was also the same thing we're kind of seeing today, where the divide between the rich and the poor was growing.
People are suffering and then we get the depression.
And so now how
do we distinguish?
this ideal of socialism and incorporated in a way where, for instance, where I'm trying to go with this is, we said, now, so do you, okay, the way it was brought out earlier, you know, with the Social Security, yes, I'm paid, you know, retirement monies because what I earned X amount of dollars was met.
somebody else brought up some people get social security and they didn't work or died in their life.
So where's that distinction?
Let's just use that.
Where is that distinction of the ones that might not have paid their way versus the one that have paid their way?
So obviously socialism is fair to say that socialism has been impacted in a sense both parties or one
Over the other or how does that work?
don't think it's fair, but it is
I get it when
and boomers are healthier than folks in the past at this age.
So we're taking out, it was a little blurb and they was talking about the life expectancy in the 30s.
And I think that,
and this is how they
ended up doing the actuary for social security.
They said that the average person would die at 66, all right?
So you may retirement at 62, maybe 65.
Because if the actuary is true, that means a lot of people gonna die.
That's not the case now, you know, my mother is 92 years old Bless her man.
She's still in the land of the left.
She's 92 years old.
She's still getting the pension.
She's still getting Social Security, right?
So that puts in and here's the piece of it Republicans are anti
Socialism because they believe in smaller government because smaller government means less taxes Republicans who fought so the same Republicans who voted for the Civil Rights Act those northern Republicans and who voted for the Voting Rights Act with the same Republicans who voted against Medicare
63 65 64
and and so you
what
the yeah well yeah he put the label on that he put the tie on that and it was definitely something of today and you know and and it still exists however they took the name off it and use it for like you just said affordable healthcare and it should still be obama care and you know what
let me say this because ax ride and all the people around hey man don't don't don't don't let him use obama care he said they can use that that's the thing about barack obama he won the punk
No He stood by what he said good let him call it Obama care The bottom line is that we have expanded access to health care in rural areas Yes, we did that's why so popular certain rural areas because of what he did in terms of bringing in because
You know, I think and I always hear this number.
I don't know if it's one eighth of our economy or if it's 16 percent of our economy.
Will you look at health care?
Health care because it's been so monetized is one of the biggest parts of our economy.
So when you let's fast forward real quick to, um, to, um, uh, uh, David cloudy, do you feel he's going to impact those farmers and the ones and the fire it lands and when you think they would put aside.
the color of the skin and we you know it's going to be a male bite all the way to the end with this last two candidates for the governorship here so um let me before I even finish here let me just ask you this like the thin skinned people like um uh uh this is the one that dropped out uh barns or manila manila manila barns whatever yeah thin skinned dropped out
There's
things they can do there's a way that you can get rid of those funds You can donate to other political part campaigns.
You can give it the charity There's things or you can start your own political action committee transfer the money into that so there ways I
Let me appreciate Mandela, uh, because he knew that that's even though it wasn't a scandal, it was going to be a scandal.
And if
you don't
is not an option.
Come on
That's quitting is not an option.
So you play sports just like I did, right?
Uh, you don't just punk out and sometimes you do.
Yeah, no, boss, but that was always would be the number of being a quitter.
Yeah.
You're
I came because he came back and he came back in one.
Yeah.
But let's just say he stayed quitted.
Yeah.
Well, but that ain't that's hypothetical.
Well, so I'm saying that, you know, we can say that.
But, you know, you can do more harm to your brand.
I mean, there's going to be an election after this.
Mandela Barnes might want to be a player after this.
So don't
go anywhere to
hurt your brand.
Sometimes you need to step away.
Can I say this?
I know I got to go.
Let me say
this
quickly.
When I had the conversation during the election central with Tavis Smiley, the name he brought up was Mandela
Barnes.
That was a nice interview, by the way, with you and him.
When I was talking to a guy at WVON yesterday, he brought up Mandela Barnes.
Because
Mandela Barnes has, and maybe not as much, but certainly he had a high national profile.
And so I think people could identify with that.
There was somebody else who called and we were talking and the name they came up with was Mandela Barnes So and I think that that was one of the reasons why Mandela got in the race I think that that's why some of the early polling said that you know what he has a really good chance of beating Tom Tiffany Had the best chance of beating Tom Tiffany,
but I don't think at this point time Even if he didn't quit You know crowd he is actually like like this.
I have been
He is the Wisconsin baby.
He is the guy.
He is that hometown guy that's been through the country, you know, went through the trenches with us.
That way we're a, a, a, a really nice
Barnes was came,
He came
came with one
One percent.
You
know, so
I mean
I don't know what the
campaign looked like the structure looked like around I don't know what you could
do
people in and there were so many undecided people But I think one of the things that motivated him to get in the race was that and you know what my name record and look that's politics politics is that that that
I
Tell me about real quick and about why is there been such a big fight within our own Democratic Party and why is so and and it was even suggested last week that funds have been put into some of the negative ads that's been placed on Democrats by Democrats.
Do you agree with that?
you guys.
Take care now.
take a quick break.
I'll be right back.
Oh, whoa, whoa,
You do look like Frankie without all that white dog.
Good morning.
Since we got the, you know, the, just like the lower election thing got the way.
Let's push black people being at their best.
Because I think right now, and I'm starting to see this recurring thing, we use the poverty for every excuse.
We got to get away from that.
And then this thing with our black politicians and Kabbalah Johnson did this.
Stop using the pity party, okay?
Because it seems like every time it comes, oh, I'm from 53206.
Okay, we know you're from 53206, but let me let you, let me introduce you some.
Everybody in 53206 was not Jockeys.
Everybody in 53206 didn't have seven kids, was always getting evicted.
Show something of how you overcame, talk about the great journeys in your life.
We don't care where you come from, tell black people where they're going.
Because see, when you're dealing with the white man, you want him to feel good that he's taking a chance on the nigger.
You want him to judge you by your integrity and your character, not your pity.
And this is now a sign to be recurring.
Oh, I'm from 532-06.
Well, what do you do?
My grandmother was from 532-06.
13, 14 kids, wasn't on welfare, owned her house, had a van, had a cat, and that kept it new.
Or you got teachers and professors in 532-06.
You got mothers in 53206 who had kids and it was always paid before the first and never after the fifth.
So we gotta stop pushing this narrative that we're black, we're destituted and we're looking for pity.
Because I'm gonna tell you this, the next person that's black that's running, they bring up that pity boy sugar honey, I'm not voting.
I don't come from pity.
I come from greatness.
I push for greatness.
I don't care where you came from.
I don't care if you were the recovering genetic.
You probably feel doing dope.
I don't care.
Push the greatness of your things.
Instead of you sitting here saying, well, I'm a single mother and I got seven kids.
Well, you should have stopped pissing them out after two.
See, some of this stuff is common sense.
But if you want people to stand behind them,
Tell them where you're going to take them.
Don't tell them where you come from.
They want to hear the dedication, determination, motivation, and inspiration to get them to the other side.
Don't tell me I'm going to lead you to the water, but you're going to talk about why you don't drink it.
Well, if you don't drink it, what the hell make you think I want to drink it and you're not drinking it?
That sounds like a setup.
So let's start speaking greatness and let's stop using poverty as an excuse.
Poverty is a mindset.
When people say it's her, it's a mindset.
You told the barbecue on the front porch.
You told to put newspapers and shower curtains up at your window.
That's a mindset.
That's not what we're about.
And then we can change that.
Then we can change our neighborhoods and keep them neighborhoods.
Why do the white people got to come in and make your hood a neighborhood when you can do that yourself?
All right.
Hello.
Yeah, I'm listening.
And then if you really want to show greatness about people, show how they smart, bright and intelligent.
You don't have to sit here and say, well, I go to church every day.
I go every Sunday, every Wednesday.
Or just ask speaking about Christianity.
Damn your Christianity.
Because I should have whipped your way when I see you broke in my house and you tried to sell my washroom dress for $10.
But I should have put 20 knots on the back of your forehead.
OK?
So let's stop pushing greatness and let's stop acting like we some co-makers who don't know how to act.
And we were given a chance for you to like us.
You
remember that commercial,
Mr. Perry?
If I can't have a seat at the table, just give me a chance.
I don't want a chance because I don't want to sit at your MF and table.
How about that?
All right.
Appreciate you.
All right.
and
me?
Why you wanna
Call and welcome to the program.
Say good morning to you, Mr. Parks.
You were talking about earlier, you were talking about getting out of the way, embedding the youth.
Before you
check?
He probably did, but I don't know.
But you know what he was so upset about?
He worked for the city for forever.
So I guess he would, you know.
He did construction, or as a matter of fact, he did the construction work all down around the UWM deal.
you know, those color stones that were put in him.
Matter of fact, that's his signature, knowing that.
But anyway, man, listen, I wanted to add, you said about the younger people's time to get out the way, and I agree with that.
A lot of preachers won't allow young preachers to take over, and they died to him.
You know, they died to him and the churches, hadn't been set up for leadership.
As a matter of fact, the proper way, now you got to try to have a voting process.
You got preachers coming in now because he didn't give another young, he didn't groom another preacher, a younger preacher.
So I agree with that.
And to this point, we have got not the way and let younger people come in.
And it's leading us into a cashless society.
It's leading us into a, see, for some reason they believe, and in a perfect world as she would be, we should all be equal.
Okay, in a perfect world, but we're not in a perfect world by long by a long shot So you figure this here if you bring everybody equal that means we all wear the same We are our government issued clothes or we can only shop at certain stores such as the artist Which would probably be a government regulated store because as a matter of fact artist was the very first store I ever seen with a armed guard in it
and that the headquarters was located, the headquarters is not, you can't just call a regular local audience and get some action.
You have to call the headquarters.
For the Midwest, it would probably be in Illinois.
For the East Coast, it might be somewhere, I don't know, it could be in New York, you know, in the Southern states, I don't know.
However, when you start talking, everybody's equal.
And that's how it is in prison.
My understanding is that you can only spend about $150 a month.
So I don't care how rich you was, how rich you was, how much money you had, how many dollars you got.
You can still only spend that $156 a month on your car, on your commissary.
And if you equal that out to everything, then what does that leave the people that would desire to have been on?
If you get government regulated only cars.
Like in California, you can only get an admission of California mission car.
You can't get that car registered and it's not under California admissions.
So just think about it.
If we all had to drive electric cars, Mr. Parrish, and when they said shelter in place or a grid getting knocked down, you can't school to move.
You know what
so
We talk about standing in line.
So so how many times have you been in line with cash to pay and it goes somebody car to reject him and they got I don't carry I don't think
That's the logic behind going cashless.
We don't have to worry about being robbed.
We don't have to worry about our people paying
got to train
electronic.
Yeah, because if you train them, then they would know.
But if you don't train them and put them in position, of course.
Yeah, but because of how they learn and because of.
Yeah,
I learned with chocolate later than any desk.
They didn't actually use calculators,
man.
I mean, you
know,
people want you to be able to do it.
I think you should.
That's good.
Part of your pedagogy growing up is that, you know, you learn how to do math.
You learn how to spell.
You know, we have an argument about cursing, and I'm going, we don't use it.
It's like Latin.
We don't
speak it.
Hold on.
I say this to you?
I'm glad you said that.
Because just what, brother?
If you cannot run in cursive,
You can surely not read it.
So therefore, if somebody write a document in front of you and tell you what it just says, you sign your life away.
You're going to the penitentiary.
You know what
I
don't know what your handwriting was like growing up, but mine was lost.
Hey, look, if you can't write it in cursive, you can't read it in cursive.
Yeah, but nobody's writing anything in cursive anymore.
Man, you'd be surprised.
Okay.
I would be.
I would be.
I gotta ask
you one more question.
The lower caller that just called in, he went unfettered.
He had a whole rant, and he sounded almost like a conservative people won't say, but they won't say it, okay?
And he went unfettered.
You didn't say one thing, but as soon as a player called in,
You want it challenge me beat me up show me wrong
know you ain't heard my feelings by calling me a hater I'm gonna change the policy I'm gonna change the policy
We're going to treat players better.
How about that?
I appreciate you.
He
said, I give new wife Murphy's able with a player calling.
It's obvious I got a bias against players.
All right.
Call and welcome to the program.
Good morning.
OK.
Boy, this has been interesting.
First thing I want to say is that we every boil down to what social security for the people that are paying in and when it was set
up.
Now, when the
social security was first set up, it was for working people.
And it covered the status of social security.
And then if you had a child that had a disability, then cover them.
Don't go back that far.
When did they put in for your children a disability, and you were working?
Okay.
All right, but yeah, I mean, you have to go down.
They amended social security.
It's been amended all these years since 1935, but the original group of people...
That was covered under the original social security act And so I'm when a people are saying that and so and pensioners are like older age people but remember I gave you the actuary the average American Didn't live to be 66 Okay All right, let me do this I'm gonna have you call back because I do have a guest I need to get okay.
All right.
Call me back though.
Okay.
All right
doing right.
Yeah, Bruce.
Oh, uh, I'm sorry about the delay.
We had a storm.
Bad storm of here.
Tuesday
how our life been out every since.
Right.
And I'm sitting up in the house.
I'm going to play.
Okay.
And I put a little charge on my phone for my car.
If you want to do the interview, I can go out there and set up my car.
No, no,
want to hear your
think, like back in nine, two thousand and nineteen summer.
17 summer like that.
Tim had me out there.
That was the 20th
But a lot of changes is there Oh man, so let's do this because we'll be real quick on this because I understand and I was I was talking to someone on WVON yesterday and I didn't get a chance to ask about how they were impacted by the weather that came through So when what what what is the music that the Norma Jean brews?
Brusso's blues man, what what can people expect in Milwaukee on
Saturday?
It's high energy, and I did four CDs, and I'm going to blame it for one.
I'm working on my fifth.
it's bass and norwegian blues, and I do a lot of my own music, but I also cover other people's music too, like Howl & Wolf.
Big Mama Thornton.
to do it with Big Mama Thornton.
I'm not into the rock.
I do a little solo.
On my new CD, I cut a R&B solo.
I like to do that too at a special occasion.
So I cut a R&B solo on my new CD.
You don't do that.
I just do whatever people want me to do, and they always get touched by my music.
And a lot of people always say, it's your voice.
It's your voice, Nora.
And I know I'm gifted through my law to say to Jesus Christ.
And they call me Nora Jean, the blues queen, which I don't like.
Just Nora Jean, please.
one?
Okay, I wanted a Cocoa Taylor Blues award from just blue and then I was introduced
I think with 2019 I was introduced to Chicago Blues Hall of Fame.
Oh, look at you.
But you don't want
No, and I don't like bragging about it because we have a lot of queens out there.
Okay.
But the only thing different from me and them, I basically do my own music.
Okay.
I try to put my sound out there, you know.
me and God.
And the listeners of WNOV.
Huh?
WNOV.
Yeah, I respect my fans.
I love them so much.
And I respect them loving my music.
And most of my fans is women's people.
So you know they're what Mother Water had.
Right, right.
Most of his fans were young people.
But I do have some old school fans and they go crazy when they hear my music.
But I'm not all of that.
I'm just what God made me.
And I get out there, I deliver it.
If I can't feel my music, my fans can't feel it.
So when I do it, I do it for my heart.
I do what's in me.
I have to feel it to deliver it to my fans.
I know that you're there, and I'm really hoping that you guys get back something we hadn't talked about, but that was really...
terrible weather that came through the Chicago area.
And so I know people are dealing with it.
Ms.
Nora Jean Brusso's, Nora Jean Brusso's Blues Band should be with us Saturday at the, at the Summer Soul Jazz R&B Series held at Rose Park.
Look forward to having you in the city.
Thank you and be safe out there and hopefully that you all get your power back soon.
Me too, cause I'm sitting here sweating like a Hebrew slave.
All right.
I want to see you this weekend, God bless.
ma'am.
Ms.
Noregene
She said she's sweating like a Hebrew
So does I heard her voice.
She sounded like.
I got my mouth all ready for some hash, and
ain't gonna get no hash.
you're
game.
Right, so the highest compliment you can get is from your peers because your peers know what it takes to do what you're doing Yeah, right.
I mean, you know like you you can come up after our preach and say you did a good job But when another preacher comes up and mean it and You notice I put that in there and mean
it
because they don't say it, but they don't
So they're pretty
Hey, good morning, Mr. Good morning, Mr. Parris.
How are you doing?
OK, OK.
You said, oh, Garfield,
everybody know that.
OK, y'all say Rose Park, man.
And then I know y'all put a shortcut on it.
Yeah.
I see Norma performed before.
She is absolutely awesome.
Okay.
What time is this going to be on
You guys have an awesome day.
Park.
Man, hopefully they don't get rained out, man, because it's supposed to rain.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not the weather.
Meteor out is made on condominium.
wop, wop.
I don't control the rain.
Talk to
brother.
You're talking
Hello.
Good morning.
How are you?
So is that rain supposed to be this Saturday?
I talked about the rain Saturday.
Yeah,
I don't know what the weather is.
I ain't gonna look at the weather for Saturday.
But why not?
Because they got two events going on.
We got Harbor Park, which is outdoors, right?
You know, and then you got the summer concert series.
And look, I'm not superstitious, but I don't want to jinx it, so let's be optimistic.
Here we go.
All right.
OK.
But
It's going to rain.
Three for the holy ghost.
It's going to rain.
But now we need to head.
This would mean it would be the third concert.
The
The
row
You know something we can't change what God has planned so I'm not even gonna go that's why I am And then my next thing is this Most of these jobs now are they providing?
Retirement for these young people.
No, that's exactly what
case Why why
You know when you look at at that pension the pension cost the long-term Milwaukee County is dealing with this right and a lot of it has to do with boomers and That boomers have kind of blew up the actuary You know again boomers are living now my mama was pre boomer right because my mama was born 34 but pre boomers You know and you got a lot you still have a significant number of pre boomers and a lot of boomers right now so
No, companies are saying, no, no, you do your own 401k.
We ain't gonna put anything in it.
So if you have a company with a fixed pension, it's rare.
Okay, let me just say another thing.
Why don't you pay them enough money so that they could pay their bills and they could go for that thing?
Do they use a matching?
If there's a high demand for labor, then the cost
I mean, then the wages go up and the benefits go up.
If you have a situation where there's low demand for workers, then the cost and, I mean, the pay and the benefits drop where they stay the same.
Because the biggest part of doing any business, biggest part of doing government is personnel, right?
So the cost of personnel is that's why AI is so attractive to companies because I don't have to pay the computer the same thing I have to pay right now.
Okay.
Now, when they first came out, now AI has been out a long time, first of all.
Then they were saying blacks are not getting into the game of AI and learning more about it.
Now here recently, I've been hearing all these commercials saying that the blacks are high users of AI on their jobs.
I said, now which way are they going with this?
We don't know enough about it, and we haven't been trained.
Now, all of a sudden, we're doing more using it, and now worried if we're going to keep our jobs.
You know, I don't know how they like to play us and confuse us, but I'm not paying any attention.
And the next thing is so much going on in this world, and I'm sure that's probably why it's so much mental illness.
Everybody's trying to figure out this, that, and the other.
And I want to tell someone, take a ride through Zip Code 53206.
I mean, really ride through the large area.
It is the Negro living, mighty good.
Do you hear me?
There are yards are laid out.
They have boats in there.
They're Cadillacs, Corvettes.
I mean, they live in life.
And so, I happened to laugh and talk with a person.
I said, wow.
It looked like you have about three lost here.
He said, don't tell nobody.
I said, but you been here many years, because everything is grown in.
He said, it don't tell nobody how we doing over here.
You know,
I mean the oldest black churches And they're all in 06 And your point my point is that is is diverse I think people picked up on something many years ago about the number of people who were returning citizens and they returned to 5 3 2 0 6 and it has made some demographic changes And you know because I can remember being a metropolitan on 14th and Burlai
And that was a working class neighborhood.
I mean, it was people on their homes.
It was different.
But as it is in a lot of urban areas, the demographic changes happened where now more and more people coming in and running.
But again, that whole thing about 5306 had everything to do with people returning from prison.
And many of them were returning to 5306.
And then after that, it just became this whole
You know, it was your street cred to say I grew up in five three two oh six, you know So it gave you a certain cred like, you know, you came up the rough side of the mountain, you know the I remember one one election cycle said look, I don't want to hear another humble beginning story I don't want to hear another one.
Okay,
No, I'm not gonna keep taking up your time.
guys have
great day.
And don't let me work your nerves.
Past the bottom.
You're listening to Community Voice, the phone lines are open, callers, I see you will be right back.
We gotta show some love for the players.
Keith Parris.
I like that name.
The All-American Rejects.
Don't worry about groups I love is Rage Against the Machine.
Like that,
too.
Nevada, man.
That was my group.
Nevada.
Team Spirit.
That was my joint,
Like, I still listen to Team Spirit, though.
Do you?
Yeah, I still listen to Team Spirit.
don't
Paula, welcome to the program.
I'm calling back.
It's my off day and I'm enjoying this show.
Why am I not?
Why am I getting food broken?
I don't have a radio.
Anyway, so
I gotta put a label on that brother.
He gotta do the talk show, Billy, because he hit on something there that was unfair.
And what he was trying to say that he was criticizing you for talking to me, for having just a reasonable, decent conversation, and that a whole lot of slang wouldn't throw it around, because he said either
When a real player called, that brother don't know me.
I was going to
Man, let me introduce myself.
First of all, before I jump into that, let me just say this, brother.
I want to come here, you preach, because you brought up something when you say, when you step out the poor pitch, people say, or some of the congregation members say to you, you very well spoken there, brother.
The word was very nice.
Do you give it all to God or what do you say?
Do you say that God gave this to me or I studied hard for this?
What do you typically say?
I
I was saying.
that intense love covers a multitude of services
but that's secular brother we talking spiritually we ain't talking about your personal work.
for me
message.
You're your own best critic.
I get it.
And
I just realized that the biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Thank you, Gladys Wanzel.
And that's how I operate.
And I know that there are people out there.
Because let me tell you, if I come to here right out, I'm going to cut them up.
You know, I'm
sitting there in my mind.
I'm here.
And you probably want to here too.
You probably want to get a constructive criticism.
Right out now, how I start off, I start off with my arms folded.
And I had a real stoic like face of stone.
Yeah, he ain't lying.
And the band working hard, they'll be looking over their shoulder.
Did he move?
Nope.
Did he move yet?
Well, at the end of the show, hands are clapping.
Right, then I walk him go.
Yeah, all right.
I get it.
Oh, I need to just say this for right now.
He's
It's terrible.
I need to say this for right now.
That wasn't hands, brother.
That was...
You then drink all the orange juice.
Got my mouth already.
Got
my
mouth
already.
But let me say this, man.
And back to that brother.
Now, so before I went to Robert Foden, I used to shine shoes at McKinley on Third and Center.
And I used to shine for the players, the pimp, the Jim Bandies, the big K's, the Huffers and players, the Art Neils.
All the brothers that was in the hood and one day, one of the pimps was sitting there and I was shining the shoes and I didn't know cause I was blue at this.
And I got some black polish on his white Stacey Adam stitches.
And that brother jumped up and I looked at him and he said, what?
And his girl, he's one of his girls and whatever, then she sit there and she's, daddy just, I said, forget this.
The heck with this job, I took all running.
He chased me.
He chased me all the way up that hill where Robert Fulton is.
I was finished.
And I was like, man, this brother gonna beat me down, but I'm fine and I'm running.
I'm holding for that change I got that I made in my pocket.
And I'm running, running, running, man.
And so I tell you what, you made the point, gang recognized gang, my baby, my baby daughter.
down in uh lee's alabama right now is representing or defending ebonics and black language and she is been taught by daddy so let me do this man let me just finish real quick no man cuz you
tickets
for the harbury park jazz rhythm and blues festival i want tickets yeah all you have to do is answer this simple question
Okay.
All right.
Who's the most famous person that you know that came from Leeds, Alabama?
Charles Barkley.
All right.
You
just
won yourself some chickens, bro.
So thank you.
My boy
How was your day last
I appreciate the tickets, brother.
And I just want to say this about, uh, uh, uh, about, uh, uh, Garfield Park.
The mom is the shot, the starlight was the, uh, the, uh, the
Let me give you a little background story.
You remember the story of the starlight.
WAAA was sponsored at OC white brought the shy lights.
I remember and and the shy lights didn't show up So I don't know if it's cuz the money was funny or what it was, but we I mean the park is packed I mean the park is packed because we're gonna hit for free And you talking to grass and
everything everybody
He cussed about those man.
He was tripping We got him the next week
Hold on,
man.
We
can really take care of that.
Okay, man.
I get my money, man.
I gotta get my purse.
You better not mess up my shoes.
Alright, call a woman to the program.
I would I would have did the same thing, man.
You mess up my stasis.
Oh man, we're gonna have a problem.
Call a woman to the program.
Good morning.
Good morning.
this
Good to hear
I'm going to be having surgery on my eyes this coming Monday and the following Monday, chat about surgery.
But I'm a little scared, but I'm ready.
You'll be all right.
You've been
tough for the mist.
I had a couple things.
Okay, the AI commercial, keep hearing on your phone, both you and OV.
But is that somewhat of a good thing or a bad thing?
And also the agents is somewhat responsible for artificial intelligence.
And at least we know blacks are working.
Because any other time they say that we lazy and don't do nothing.
And it's their time to use artificial intelligence.
That's what I believe.
a lot of
Any
of
you
all day and trying to fly cars.
Yep.
Yeah, exactly.
That was my grandparents writing those script and now This stuff is coming coming in life.
But anyway, another thing too Oh You were talking about baby boomers
So it's a quite a few jobs opening that W open up that W no visa, you know, baby bonus get out the way
what
I Know what's
the boom.
I just know I'm a
No
So who come
after the war?
So that was the people that started having babies
babies.
But
I think I fall in Gen Y right
boomers
extended into the 50s.
He just turned 50.
Yeah, I just turned 50.
Yeah, the boomers extended into the 60s because I'm a boomer and I was born in 62.
I
very end and not only was all the people coming from war making babies, they was coming off of Woodstock.
We came out of Woodstock.
69.
So you're already walking around.
Yeah, don't put me in the sixties.
I wasn't born in the sixties.
Hey John.
How did you find circular logic?
Because you're into logic and that kind of stuff.
How did you find that?
Is that an official term of philosophy or is that just a pop culture?
I don't know.
I thought logic was always linear.
Okay, so then, okay, is that a pop culture term of circular logic?
I
like almost like the circular argument.
But logic always came to a conclusion.
It's how you got to the conclusion.
But it was always, as long as I can remember, we came to a conclusion of logic.
It was just a formula that you use to come to the conclusion.
The formula and the input that you use.
Let me do this, John.
Thank
You're listening to Community Voice.
I do have some tickets for the Harbor Park Jazz Rhythm and Blues Festival in Kenosha this Saturday.
So you can call and win the tickets.
We'll take a quick break.
We'll be right back.
Thank you Zebra.
My mom was part of the greatest generation.
That was a term dubbed by Tom Hanks.
Yeah, that was the World War two generation.
All right.
Okay.
John.
Yeah, sir.
I forgot to tell you.
I'm glad to hear you're doing better.
I've been in a similar position.
I'm glad you're doing better.
You sound great.
Okay, so there's several streams.
I've heard, I've read, and I actually checked with the AI, that we spend trillions of dollars just doing our taxes, not even paying them, just, just doing them, like paying, paying the colon times and so forth and trying to figure out all the different benefits and so forth, deductions and so forth, that we've spent immense trillions over the last several decades.
And then also the idea that you're, you're correct on a technical basis,
that Social Security and those things were actually taken off of the Socialist Chancellor Bismarck in Germany, the Social Security dot gov actually has his face on the page.
So in a technical sense, in a formal sense, yes, you're correct.
So logically, do I get my money back?
Am I a socialist because I take my money back that I paid into the forced pension?
Am I am I am I wrong?
It's a forced pension.
Yeah, but I'm saying
the
Right, right?
was in
But when they grow up is that what like when how did they come up with those terms?
No
Soldiers coming home from World War two and Korea
and
Create babies and so we created because at one point and until the Millennials got here the boomers was the largest Generation right so the kids were created During that period in terms of boomers
But, you know, I'm at the end.
A lot of people say 60.
Some people go 64, but like Michelle, my sister, Debo, they're Gen Xers.
Oh, so that's the next guy.
That's okay.
That
would be
Soda.
So all I'm saying is
Okay.
Yes, but actually we take out more.
Then we actually pay in and taxes so How long you live and look I'm a I'm a double dipper when it comes to Social Security because my dad died when I was 10 I got survivor benefits up until I was 22 and I graduated from college and then of course now I received Social Security, so I've done and I know that I'm probably gonna end up
you know, Good Lord Will and Creek Don't Rise, that, you know, just being able, that was one of the reasons why I elected not to wait till my full retirement age, because reality is, I could die before I ever get to die.
You
know, I mean, so when people kind of,
and if you're going to lose a couple of hundred dollars a month, as opposed to never being able to enjoy it, but maybe that's why I have such a thing about government, then I worked in government all my adult life.
So when I kind of get to it, I'm biased.
I'll be the first one to tell you.
I believe that government and services are important.
I think that we should always, we decided to create this country.
And so it should be mutually benefiting.
That's one of the things that should happen.
I heard Meach say something about equality.
And I understand everybody, theoretically everyone is equal in America.
Practically, we know that's not the case, but in terms of what the paper says, that all of us are equal.
That's what the paper says.
How is being applied, you know, is less than what the paper is saying, but anyway.
All right.
Okay, thanks.
All right, man.
Appreciate you.
Carla, welcome to the program.
Good morning.
Good morning.
What I was going to say about that AI commercial.
Is that the overlay for the underlay when they start putting in these data centers unwanted in certain neighborhoods?
And, you know, that's what it's all about.
the O'Potter Watterby
I
most people don't even know that it's a data
And people got to realize the water change is going to be drastic.
There's going to be a lot of deformities, just like DuPont, that pot company, DUPO, a lot of people in that county and city, those cities up there where DuPont was making them pots and pans are the form, you know, because nobody was, or whatever.
Well, we got
West Virginia where West
Yeah,
mean and getting that that stuff cooked up into your food.
I hate colored Pants pots and pans always by silver and even that white crockery back in the day You'll see how that paint will eat off in the term black and be like a black hole That's a whole piece about
We have so much trash people think well, you know what?
We're just dirtier and people just don't care We have more trash because America everything not everything a lot of things are disposable Right.
There's a certain shelf life that you have things and this goes back to the early 19 like 20 something the guy the brother who?
invented the
the bulb, the light bulb,
had a
fillet in there that was lasting longer than they did.
So no, don't make it last a year, make it last six months, because then people have been going by another light bulb.
You know another issue out here talking about the environment that most people don't know?
The lithium-bat batteries that are in our phones.
What do we do when we dispose of those phones in those lithium batteries?
Because it's very difficult.
Now at least you can go in and you can recycle.
You know plastics people don't want to spend money, but you can go in and recycle plastics It's hard to figure out how you're gonna recycle lithium battery
Exactly because they were catching on fire.
They was having like little commercials showing people even in them first They came out.
Yeah, those batteries were just even more hot because even when you charge up your laptop You know the kind of battery part that plugs me to the wall.
It's really really hot
You know what
And then in the plug because I still I like to flip on cuz I can get to the main swing if I need nine one one I could doubt but the plug is real hot that goes into the outlet
It's hot.
Yeah, that is not better combustion
You know, mine's well-called fire department.
All right, talk to you later.
Appreciate you.
That happened to me.
I had a, I brought some rags home from the job to wash them.
They was all, you know, ragged with you to wipe us up with.
So I put them, watch them, put them in the dryer.
We smell the smoke.
You smell that?
Go downstairs the whole basement smoke.
Open up the dryer and just, I just threw in my room on the ground.
Like, man, had the whole house smoking, man.
I didn't, I didn't know that.
I didn't
I didn't know that.
Hey, good morning, Keith.
This is pride in Houston.
Yeah, and good hearing you boys
I just wanted to piggyback on the topics that went on today in terms of Social Security Medicare and Medicaid if that you know part of the conversation, you know, it's interesting when you lead into retirement how things really come full circle because you think about the income prior to retirement you tend to coast when it comes to
doing and experiencing things.
But you don't realize once you retire, how much more you have to make an effort to establish a budget.
Because when you mentioned earlier about pensions, I remember my grandfather was better positioned than I was because of the work that he did, plus he had Social Security, plus he had benefits from
being a veteran.
So, you know, three sources of income that was coming in to help sustain his lifestyle, which was modest at best, but it was just interesting.
Now, when you look at us, as well as, you know, kids, they have a different look on things.
We really need to work in the process of financial literacy so that we, in turn,
as we get older, I should say our kids get older, they'll be able to enjoy their golden years instead of having to work themselves into the grave.
Yeah, I think that, and that was the, you know, working for government, I probably took less in pay than I could if I would have been in the private sector.
But when I looked at retirement, you know Milwaukee County, obviously it's a fixed pension.
So I had a pension That makes that makes a big difference man, I mean it and then I think also because you know, we're boomers and our we had relatively good health We're still very active, you know, and that's that's been one of the things like there are people saying boomers You need to get out the way so younger people get jobs, but you know, it's a lifestyle thing, right?
I mean you were talking about your sound like your grandfather didn't have to make a lot of adjustments I know I'd have to make one or two adjustments, right because you just used to live in a certain lifestyle
Yeah, absolutely right and take
Yeah, and I just think that and also the situation that keeping in mind what your annual income was, you know, let's say per month as it relates to you know per year and
the idea of, you know, looking at elevating, you know, I mean, not sticking, sometimes you have to change careers in order to make a greater impact as far as your future.
I think how we, I was, I was kidding my colleague and asked her, did y'all have a color TV growing up?
And she said, yeah, said y'all didn't.
I said, my mom had three kids in private school.
Right televisions was not a priority come to my house now.
It's just me and my wife and we got five TVs You know, I mean so the relative prosperity is such as my good friend the late Bill Berksham used to say he said you know what your luxury has become necessities So, you know things that you know driving a certain type of car, right?
I mean all these things as you get a little bit of money You're good, but then there are other people man My late pastor
He grew up in Mississippi doing a depression.
He didn't spend money, right?
I mean, his whole
I
You
know what I was thinking about you man, and I remember I saw your sister And I always asked people how their sims are doing so and I don't know I think she told you this I was talking to her and I said hey, how's Pratt, Jr?
We go back we like six years old right we were at the wine together.
He was always Pratt, Jr
You know, now I know people don't call you Pratt and Jew, you're now as an adult, but I'm going like, yeah, I was Pratt and Jew, you're doing.
You know,
I put it like this.
If you hear somebody say that, they know you.
They know
They were there back in the day, man.
They know that day, man.
But it was just like, yeah, it would be like some people, like, I would just tell you, man, my mother always said I was her special child.
You couldn't tell me.
that junior won Sammy Davis's last name.
No, his last name is Davis Keith.
Oh, what's the weather like down there, man?
It's hot.
It's human.
In the mid 90s, about 92.
Huh?
You in the Houston area?
You know
Yeah, yeah, let's let's do that, you know cuz that I was gonna make one of the well come in or it could be partial joke is that you know being older now and having more time to reflect or or Project
ideas or, you know, conversations and futures.
The interesting part about I was talking to my insurance agent, and we were having a discussion about my roof.
And I told them, they asked me, how long has it been since I had my roof done?
I said, oh, about five years.
Then I told them chances are the roof might last more than I last, you know?
Because you think about, you know, some of those big expenses
When you when you have a home and you retire you're like you didn't have that extra You know cash per se like you have when you you know work, would you
five-year plans 10-year plans now is next week Long-term changes as you get older Right, you know cuz I sit up and think you know how long it's gonna take to do this
Well, when you're 20s and 30s, oh man, that ain't nothing but time.
When you get older, that's a, you have a, you're right.
It's a different view on time, right?
Cause you
know
right, man.
I appreciate you
I always appreciate that.
Thank you.
All right.
You have a good day.
All right.
Peace.
I've known that dude since I was six years old.
Yeah, that's amazing.
That's my brother's cousin.
Not well, you know, we were, our parents had us all over at the old Y during the summer.
No, no, used to be, you know, that laundry mat there on six and north.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They used to be the old Y and then they moved to 12th and Garfield.
So we were in summer fun club.
All my cousins was that's where I met my cousins, you know, that they we were all there and
Pratt was there, Patrice was young, but Pratt was there.
And man, we go back some years, man.
I just sit up and think about that.
Like, man, we do call people by those names that we knew
them as.
See, but ain't it somehow how fast time go?
Yeah.
How fast.
It seemed like, seemed like yesterday.
Seemed like yesterday.
away in yesterday.
Didn't know Beatles.
I love that record, man.
Me
have some hits, bro.
I mean, and because me and my guy was talking last night, he was telling me the guy that played, Charlie Waits had played bass for the Rolling Stones, he said has the world's most
extensive blues album collection.
And I said that you need to understand that the Rolling Stones and the Beatles had none but mad respect for people who did American blues, more respect than a lot of Americans had for folks doing the blues.
So when I sit up and I look at it and I kind of go like, yeah, I can appreciate that.
Hey, let me take all the call as you write right out this hour, two hours did blow by.
Hey, y'all.
Good Lord, Will and Creek, though, rise.
We're going to have some tickets tomorrow.
Tomorrow's Free Flow Friday.
Hey, that is my party.
Woo-hoo.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah, man.
And he actually did a good job, man.
Yeah, I'll have to pay
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