The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people. To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time. It feels good. You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in. Water is our greatest resource. We all need it to survive. Viola is 100% doing great work.
When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia. The result? The new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks. Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association. And also we're doing as you will. Historic Third Ward. This morning. Good morning, DJ. Good morning. Good morning. Right out. Bishop, chairman of the board. Right now. There's a missionary that was abducted in Niger. And his last name was right out. Really? Yeah. Wow.
R-I-D-E-O-U-T. Right out. No, no. I mean, because some people spell it R-I-D-E and then it's a space in between and then it's O-U-T. So it was no space in between? No, it was right out. Okay. Well, no, because I'm saying it's too, it's too a different set. So. Right out? Yeah. I think he's white. Yeah. I mean, I got some white right out. Yeah. Don't we all? Yeah. Yeah, true that. True that. True that.
Anyway, so y'all welcome to the program this morning. We're, we're trying to, we might have, we might have an interview. And so they're working on that, that little technical piece there. Let me, I'd tell you man, some of the perks of being part of the WNOB family yesterday after the program had a chance to talk to Will Martin. And that was a great conversation.
And so then Alex and Mary Ellen, but Alex and hey, Keith, at the first, I thought of him said, I want to see you down in the basement. I'm going, hey, when Joe Pesci went in the good. Hey, Keith, they took me here.
They had all these albums from Second Street. Some of these albums are 50 years old. So, man, I was like a kid in a candy shop. And I didn't get a chance to go down to Squeeze Box on my birthday because I couldn't walk. So, and I was telling Ron to that yesterday. But yeah, man, I got some good ones, man. I got that Commodore's Live album that they did. Best of the Delphonics.
Didn't I blow your mind this time? Didn't I? You know, the Delphonics and Stylistics go back to when I was, oh, we had Stylistics. Stylistics. Go back to when I was at Parkman, and we used to have, they call it the sock, the sock hop. And so during the lunch hour, after lunch, you could go to sock hop, you go to movies. It was one of the, oh, the library. You could go, oh, the sock hop was where, you know, you go to dance.
Never happened for me 13 suck man You had no bad teen years I mean I mean
13 I was 7th grade. My mom kicked me off the team. 7th grade. I was cutting up. No, so you kicked yourself off the team. 13? How are you going to blame your mama for something you didn't do? I didn't blame her. I thought you said your mama kicked you off the team. She did. No, you kicked yourself off the team. I didn't kick myself off the team. Because if I had a choice, I would have gone self-adjected. I'm going to inject myself.
So what was your toughest he day 16 16 was like 16 was 17 was tough because 17 you almost grown but you not grown
But man, 13 sucked. 13 was like my worst, my worst team year was 13. 16 was great. I'm gonna be honest with you, man. I think, no, it was, it was in seventh grade, man. That's when I became a man. So I never really got into too much trouble when I was a teenager.
So I probably, I probably got suspended from 13 to 14, maybe two times. What, you got suspended? And then my freshman year, I got suspended. You got suspended? And then after that, I'd never, I'd never, I'd never got suspended. Now some 72s went home.
That that that but no man never gets suspended. Oh, yeah, that's a bridge too far. You would have never met me. I mean before before I was a teenager I used to I used to have quite a few fights. Okay, I can see that but I think it's suspended. Yeah, man. I mean if you do it in school you're gonna get suspended. And I think mine was. Well, no, not a parking.
I don't know. Maybe some people didn't get suspended from fighting. But we talking about two different generations. Okay, here we go. No, he don't have a point. I do have a point. I don't know nobody that got into a fight that didn't get suspended. I'm telling you, man, you talking about, y'all didn't get suspended. That's the difference. It's like the old FBA.
A difference. It's a difference. The NBA in the 80s. A fighter game, you know? I mean, it was just part of the culture. It was just a regular fight. It was part of the culture. Didn't even get a check. I never got suspended.
Yeah, I got suspended. I never got suspended. Like I said, some 72s went home. Everybody knows 72s was kind of like a semi-suspension. And your mom was supposed to sign up and you come back where she's supposed to contact the school. I forged my mom's name on all the 72s. The only 72 that my mom was a 72. 72 was, it wasn't a suspension. It was just like a letter. It was just like a pink slip, wasn't it?
Now the pink slip me, you've been canceled. Yeah, man. Oh, I got a whole bunch of them. Oh, oh, and I'm gonna tell you the worst central office suspension. Oh, my God. Oh, you got a central office suspension. I wonder if I like a week or something like that. Oh, man, that was deep. I mean, we talking believe now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's outside. That's close to exposure. Yeah, because your mama got to come to the meeting and they sit out and I'm supposed to come to me when you get suspended anyway. Yeah, my eighth grade year. I got suspended the week of graduation.
No, they they told us we would always be playing around. I'm always playing around. So, you know, we used to dunk on people like slap on or whatever. So they was like, all right, man, next person to do that, you know, I'm saying you get suspended. I have no self control back. So you did it. So I did it anyway. And then the dude, it was irritating because the dude who who I dunked on, he got the.
Like got the embellishing it and everything and so the teacher gonna look what? So then I had I suspended wow then freshman year I got into an argument with somebody that was crazy juvenile delinquent not a but for like freshman keel day and all of those things like that did y'all get in trouble for that No, we it wouldn't know well it was probably a freshman keel day, but it skipped me
Cuz like I said the in the past the upperclassmen. Yeah, they they nicknamed me too smooth. I was cool with everybody. So it was yeah All right, too sweet too smooth
You know all my nicknames I got that I was giving That was my Facebook name for a long time
Like I said, there ain't no way. There ain't no way Leon Eisen Kennedy is winning any fight in prison. Ain't no he winning any fights in prison. Come on. That's a fantasy. Call a welcome to the program. Hey, I can see him with his hair combed back with the sag. Too sweet. Too smooth, right? He got the hair right there. Hey, but he got to have it combed back with the sag, though. Yeah, man. Almost super fly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people can't go to prison.
We do hit a nation every Friday. Yeah. Let's get to it then. Let's get to it. Well, first of all, DJ don't know nothing about no 72. I don't know. He didn't go public. That's what I just asked you on what that was. Well, I've been here. I was on hold for a brief moment. I didn't go to NPS.
Well, even if you did, even if your age, I don't think they'll do a 72 zero. Probably they probably just that you ever get any? Oh, yeah, I got some 72. I got some home. They want no 72. They will take your ass home. You couldn't stay. You know what they did in Dominican? When you got suspended, hold on. At Dominican, when you got suspended, it was in school suspension.
Yeah, we had that too. You had to go study over there. You got home and you had to get assigned. Man, my mama never said, only time my mama saw 72 is when Mr. Brown jacked me up. That's the only time. I went to Burroughs, so I had to deal with Mr. Brazil. Ooh. You said, ooh.
Well, I tell you one thing at Parkman, you never ever want to be in Mr. Douglas's office. Even our system principal, we have a miss Willard. Okay. Oh, she was a fool too. Okay. No, I'm just saying. All right. All right. Let's get the head of nation. Okay, we'll get the head of nation. So
I was having an argument with my guy, with my cousin, because you know, he a LeBron fan. And he's like my, he's a little older than me. And I thought about it. I said, I gotta stop comparing Joe and the LeBron. He ain't even got more wings than magic. No. So, you gotta chase magic first before you chase Jordan. So, I just, yes, yes you do.
And like Shaq say it like Shaq say it you ain't got no reason to be even be in the liquor category You gotta you ain't be Kurt Rambus. You ain't Korean Come on man. I was hung up on you. I'm gonna raise. I'm gonna raise. I'm gonna raise. We got it. We got to go. You have to call back man. I had my guess. I had my guess. We need to keep it moving. Oh man, Kurt Rambus. Are we there? We good?
Brother Kurt Wayland Hey, good morning. I can't hear him Yeah Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. How you doing, man? I'm doing good. Thank you and Your birthday is July 13th. No, sir 11th the 11th the day before mine is July 12 Oh, nice. Okay. Yeah, we talked last year
I have nothing but mad respect for you, man. You were trying to get that show in last year. Everybody left. We stayed. I think we got about, what, 25 minutes? Not quite, because I have to go to soundcheck.
But no problem. I was. Oh, no, no. I was talking about how much time you get in last year when you performed down in Kenosha. Oh, I'm sorry about that. But yeah, that was that was unfortunate, man. We were very. You were determined to do that show, man. I appreciate that. Because a lot of people would have been like, hey, see you. No, we were we were disappointed. And I'm sure hoping we get better weather today. Do you have are you.
Are you also the weatherman there? No, man, I've been checking the weather. They do have an alternative, though, if there's predicting rain tomorrow, they'll move indoors. So good people enough time to make that adjustment. How you been, man? Oh, really good. No complaints at all. What's been going on? I'm in I'm in Ipsilanti, Michigan today. Oh, OK. OK. You were talking about last year how you brought that band together. They came from all different
parts of the country. Is that the same case this year? Absolutely, yeah. Well, we travel, you know, we meet in whatever city that we're playing or the first city of Iran, you know, of the tour. And so, yeah, they're from just part everywhere. Actually, Margaret Tarkler was from New Zealand, originally from South Africa. But she is now on the road doing her own thing. Andrea Lisa.
And she's got a couple of really hot singles on smooth jazz radio and whatever formats. So yeah, she's not with me this time. Kevin Turner from Columbus, Ohio is with me. But Andre was with us. We played out in California in the southern wine region last week and she was on that show. So I was able to ever come sit in with us too.
Man, you've been doing it. We were talking a little bit last year about this idea where jazz is. Where would you say jazz is at this point in just the whole American music spectrum? Well, I appreciate you saying the American music spectrum, because I don't know how long this music is going to be called jazz. It's a word that came, a lot of people don't realize that. It was actually a pejorative word initially.
uh it was called jazz like y'all playing that old jazz music uh j s s and that was in the bordellos you know primarily in new Orleans and you know but of course you and i know that man so much of culture whether it's in this country or wherever uh it is is kind of centers around that kind of activity and you know but the music was amazing and always has been
and whatever we call it, but and you know, we're headed to really, really cool places. Again, I just mentioned Andrea, she's 30, you know, Tia Fuller. I'm seeing a wonderful new artist every day. I'm playing the concert with Kayla Waters and my hometown Memphis. I have a series called Cafe Kirk and we just bring people in. We've had, man, they called Jonathan Butler.
just down the line but you know this this time we're going to have Kayla and she's yes I don't think she's 30 I mean I think what tends to happen is this music inspires people uh to want to do it and that's that's just always going to be the case I have no doubt yeah and I think Jonathan Butler is with us next weekend he's here for Fresh Coast so yeah I think we were there on the same day last time like I'm not mistaken I could be wrong
Okay, okay. So again always ask when you know, what can people expect when they go and hear Kirk Whelan Saturday down at the Harbor Jazz? Yes, well, so here's the thing my dad was about this picture, but he wasn't just any old Baptist picture He was the person who he never wore tie. He just had a rapport with people He made people feel at home made him feel comfortable
And I inherited that gene. And so that's what we do. You know, fortunately for me, I have an instrument I can play pretty good. But it's all about that. It's about making people feel welcome and home. And I'll go back and play stuff from my older records now that I have, you know, over 30 records.
I'll do some gospel corner jazz. I'll do stuff from my new album, my latest album, which is doing extremely well. It's called Epic Cool. Wait a minute, man. I got my Epic Cool home. I gotta get my Epic Cool cap. What am I talking about? Uh, yeah. So, you know, I can't, I can't be talking to nobody without my Epic Cool cap.
And we do sell these, by the way. So we'll definitely, we'll do, you know, a combination of things from the spectrum of what I've done. And we'll even, you know, right now I have a little viral moment, man. First of all, the song, Do You Feel Me? went viral where people are, you know, if you Google, do you feel me line dance? There's like hundreds of videos of young people, old people dancing to that song.
And that song was co-written by the great David Porter, who wrote, I'm a soul, man. Hold on, I'm coming, et cetera. So that's happening right now. So we'll do that. Now we're going to ask him to get up and dance. And then I have another virality going on right now with the soundtrack of Boys in the Hood. So a lot of people don't know that I played the saxophone on that soundtrack, like when Ricky got shot on that movie. And the saxophone was getting louder.
Now there's this meme on TikTok and all over that Saxone is getting louder so people will take that sound and use it for when they get they fall off a ladder or something goes wrong. You know, it's not as as grave and serious as it was in the movie. But yes, so we got this crazy, you know, viral moment right now where me as a, you know, as an as the
you know, on the OG side of things, right, so I'm 68. I played that soundtrack 35 years ago, but now, all of a sudden, it's viral. And what is your other signature sax solo? Well, the one most people know, but maybe not know as me, is I will always love you.
But I did a whole lot of solos during that era, you know, on Luther and James Angerman, just a lot of records. Quincy, that was the season when zero law right now was like we're bouncing like ping pong balls between studios in LA. And but I don't live out there anymore living back home in Memphis. But yeah, well, that's that's definitely I will always love you is one that, you know, pretty even kids know that one that weren't alive when that record was recorded.
You know, and speaking of that, I was watching this documentary on Dolly Parton, and she talked about, I will always love you, and as a matter of fact, I think she wrote that song like 68 or something like that. Right. And she, and they showed their performance. And a lot of times when people, you know, like, you know, we talk about Aretha Franklin did respect, and it sold more records than when Otis Redding did it, but she was very complimentary to Whitney Houston.
She just thought that it was phenomenal the way that Whitney, her interpretation of that song. Of course, yeah. And Dolly, I played with her too, by the way. But man, she is such an amazing person. I'm just, I don't think there's anybody else like her. And I wish people nowadays, especially, and especially people down south, I think people assume that everybody's got to be all austere and many times even racist, right?
in that area but man here's Dolly Parton like a little flower man in that culture saying like no I will be the one who factors into uh you know this all this craziness you know that that's going on and I will be a voice of love and and respect and she loved Whitney she couldn't believe that Whitney was going to do her songs she's like what she's like Whitney Houston you know because she's a country girl she wrote that song
I will always love you, Dolly. And on her bus, she didn't really fly much. She was afraid of planes. So she was in the back of the bus where there was her little lounge on a Casio keyboard, like a $40 keyboard, riding that sun. I will always love you. And she said she had brought it because she was separating from Porter Wagner.
she was going through some stuff right and and it was she didn't really know how to process it I think that song was kind of a gift to him to say no I really do love you like I I gotta go you know but to here take this this I mean it you know yeah and I think the other thing I know you're from Memphis and which surprised me was because I listened to a lot of
they call southern gospel, you know, the white southern quartets. And when they would have their meetings in Memphis, they would invite black gospel quartets to their national meeting in Memphis. That kind of free, because, you know, it's like this, man, getting recognized, getting musicians. I mean, if you watch the Grammys, you'll watch some of the country guys grooving with the rap guys, right? And rap, because
It's music, man. It's one of those universal things that kind of goes beyond a lot of these constructs of race and regionalism where people go like, man, that's good. Well, not to mention, you know, D. Ford Bailey was the black country musician who came up with the moniker Grand Ole Opry. Okay, he was black. And he was country.
And he wasn't alone. So, you know, Otis Brenning, a lot of those guys, Ray Charles, they grew up listening to country music and singing. Yeah, you know, that's what they heard. Cannonball at I mean, not Cannonball, but Charlie Parker. What was his favorite music to the day that it's like he he loves country music. And I understand why because that music is Southern music. It's not.
You know we say country we think white, but that's just not that's not true No more than you know, so the R&B music is uniquely black I mean this there were a lot of white artists back in those days who they they were all in the same boat in the same boat in a set since that you know poverty and stuff But of course don't get me wrong You know there's a special kind of poverty that black people went through and so that's why soul music and R&B developed the way it did and blues, but I mean to just
draw those hard lines is not, is not wise because into the day, like you said, man, we're all human beings. Well, and I was watching something on stacks and there were these three sisters from Alabama, white girls who did background. And you would have thought that they were sisters, right? And I think that you're right, that the proximity, the North is different, right? Cause the North was so segregated, but in the South,
You know, the segregation was you couldn't do this, but black folks and white folks lived in close proximity, right? And the poverty piece was the universal. That's what I was saying, but definitely it was more so about being po. And I used to, of course, to be from Memphis, but I worked at Stacks. I was CEO there for a couple of years. And, you know, the Stacks Music Academy, man, is still, to pressurize to my heart. Some of those kids are out here killing it.
You know, there's an artist right now named Singabee, S-I-N-J-A, the letter B. And he's a new blues artist, right? So if you if you wonder what is going on with blues, by the way, it's bigger than ever. He's an artist who he's been touring with Tony Tony Tony. But he's he's an example of a kid who was, you know, 13 at Stacks. And now he's out here. He's, you know, dispensing the the Memphis soul.
and blues in a way that's completely unique, you know, to definitely check them out and there more. But yes, Stax was that place. It was like New York, you know, Memphis, where if you could make it in Memphis, you could make it anywhere. That's how BB King ended up there in Elvis. All these people from Mississippi, you know, or Alabama, but they made it. They made their way to the corner of Macklemore and College Avenue, you know,
to try to make Murray's way. Murray's way lived down the street. And he and David Porter were singing in, like you said, Quartet. Have you seen the documentary? I have, man. And I was privileged to know him. And he sang on one of my records. It's like I just am so grateful just to use the word Memphis in my life at any point. Well, we got, in our proximity to Chicago,
where you really get that Memphis, Mississippi sound, you know, where it is still prevalent, is prevalent in the R&B, is prevalent in the gospel, you know, to the point that these guys were talking and they were saying, when hip hop really broke out, they weren't doing hip hop in Chicago, they were still doing R&B. That's the fact. And the pipeline between, you know, Mississippi to Memphis to Chicago,
I mean, there literally is a train that you can ride, which I have ridden, you know, from New Orleans, Mississippi, Memphis, and then up to Chicago. And that's that's our culture, you know, that, you know, the book, The Warmth of Other Sons by Isabelle Wilgerson, really documents it so beautifully that Chicago, and eventually, you know, San Francisco, Oakland, all that.
those places are filled with folks from down south. And by the way, you know, you think about, you know, southern culture and where that book documents it, it's like, it ends up being a seasoning. There are two Grammy museums. I don't know if they've built a third yet. The one is in Los Angeles, one is in Mississippi. And the reason for that is that there are more
Grammy-winning writers, song writers, artists from Mississippi than any other state. That's because they end up in LA and Chicago and Detroit and wherever. Even Montana was filled with Mississippi and Memphis folk. I was surprised that Britney Spears, yeah, Britney Spears, didn't she from Tupelo, Macomb, Mississippi.
Mississippi I didn't realize that I thought she grew up in in the St. Louis area, but yes, you're right Because I was surprised what that's where you know, she was so yeah, it is it is and in America especially those Descendants of enslaved Africa Africans in the diaspora, you know, we have we just the influence that we really had and maybe America just became that you know in spite of
all of her imperfections, a great breeding ground for the type of music now that the world really enjoys. That's the fact, man. That's the fact. And I appreciate the fact that you are celebrating that on WNLV. I got a lobby call. My band's going to leave me to go to Soundcheck. I know you had to go, man. Mr. Kurt Wehler, man, it's always great talking to you, man. I mean, you're a wealth of information, man. And certainly, man, I appreciate your spirit.
And like I said, I had nothing but mad respect because most people left. And when I saw, hey, the band is out here, we stayed. So appreciate you, man. Well, look, we pray for great weather and the whole thing that, you know, we can say we actually finally played Wisconsin. Mr. Kurt Weyland, he is the headliner tomorrow for the
Harbor Park Jazz Rhythm & Blues Festival down in Kenosha. We're going to give away some tickets. So if you want to go, just kind of hang on. Phone lines open 414-444-525-0. Kirk, thank you, ma'am. You're welcome. God bless you guys. All right. You're listening to Community Voice. We're going to take a break and we'll be right back. The work we're doing at VLA is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.
To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing with my time. It feels good. You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in. Waters are our greatest resource. We all need it to survive. Veolia is 100% doing great work. When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia.
The result, the new Violia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks. Thanks to our partnership with Violia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them. It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.
All right, welcome back. When we get back from the next break, which we're getting ready to take in 15 seconds, we will be giving away tickets to the Harper Park Jazz. 414, 444, 525, 0. All right. Hey, you listen to community voice, we'll take a break and we'll be right back.
When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia. The result? The new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks. Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them. It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.
The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people. To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing with my time. It feels good. You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in. Waters are our greatest resource. We all need it to survive. Viola is 100% doing great work.
When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Viola. The result, the new Viola EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks. Thanks to our partnership with Viola, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playsett. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them. It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that cleaned and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.
All right, welcome back. We do have tickets for the Harbor Park Jazz Rhythm and Blues Festival down in Kenosha. Caller, welcome to the program. Good morning, Yoneir. Okay, I'm just trying to run for the tickets at the Jazz Show. Oh, okay. What do I have to do? Okay.
I need you to follow directions. I want you to go outside. Walk around your house four times. Come back in. Talk to us backwards on the radio. Did you hear the Kurt Weyland interview? No. Do you know who Kurt Weyland is? Yeah. Yeah, he's a gospel senior. No, no, no, he's dead.
And we're gonna have to get the next call, man. No, you're good, man. Go outside, walk around four times. When you get back, you'll know who Kurt Wailin is. Tomorrow. All right, all right. Hold on, man. Hold on. He'll get your information, man. Thank you. You need to get these tickets by 3 o'clock today. OK. All right. Great. Great. OK. You wild. He wasn't supposed to. He didn't deserve them tickets. I am. I'm going to be real with you.
All right, Kurt Franklin. That's atrocious. Keep out here giving passes, Milwaukee. I would have let the next caller earn their way to them tickets. We're going to change your name. You're going to go from too smooth to too hard. Hey, there's no passes given. We've been running that for eight years.
All right, we got another call. I'll wait till he gets finished with this brother. Let me do this. How many tickets we give him away? Hey, man, we give him away until we ain't got no more to give away. All right? Oh, man. Yeah, I gave away 16 on Tuesday. That's why I was like, are y'all going to have any left? I need to stop talking, man, because Terrence might try to run through here. Anyway, let me. There ain't got nothing to do with me.
I heard some this morning I was watching CNN and the guy talked about a story. There's a place in Maryland called Cunningham Falls State Park and that's Cunningham Park, Cunningham Falls State Park. Oh, shout out to Kennedy. Hey, Kennedy. Baby Kennedy. They have these rabbit beavers and they're attacking people.
Now the reason why this story caught my attention was that Cunningham Falls is eight miles From they got babies. Yep. Oh man and angry There is eight miles Mount St. Mary's University and we would regularly have picnics black student union at Cunningham Falls and as a matter of fact We would get freshmen drunk and take them up the Cunningham Falls
Have been trying to call climb the frauds and then figure wait till it gets dark and let them figure out how to get back to the car All right We have nothing else to do obviously
What if you ain't from there, oh man. None of us was from there, Clark. Rabbit, angry beavers, that sound like a movie. I could picture that in a movie. It's Cocay Bear. Right. Which is like, I love Elizabeth Perkins. Cocay Bear is one of the funniest movies. If you have not seen Cocay Bear, based on a true story. That's what makes it a true story.
That is based off the truth or loosely based on loosely based because the And what happened was there was a guy he was flying over A national park in Tennessee. He had cocaine. He jumped out the plane He threw the cocaine out the plane. We don't know people don't know if he died or if he survived But a bear came upon a package of cocaine But she ended up dying of cocaine intoxication
But in cocaine bear, it must have been good. She was she was fiend. She went nuts. Yeah, man. She went nuts. It is it is. Elizabeth Perkins really surprised me. She went up that movie is so funny. But anyway, I just it just brought back memories when I said we have rabbit beavers in Cunningham Falls State Park. And I forgot how beautiful that area is because there's a lake.
and there's hills that you go. That was a beautiful part of the country. I thought it was ironic that in both my college experiences, both at American Baptist in Nashville and at Mount St. Mary's, both of these schools were on hills, which I just thought was kind of ironic, wasn't by design. As a matter of fact, Mount St. Mary's is actually built into a mountain. And the land that Mount St. Mary's is on, Chris Abley's
family donated that land to create that university. And the first, he's related to Elizabeth Ann Seton. She's the first American canonized saint. So there was a lot of history out there. And for some of my former firemen, firefighters, the National Fire Academy is at the old St. Joseph's campus, which was a sister school because Mount St. Mary started off as an all-boys school.
or male. And then St. Joseph's is where the girls went. They merged in 1968, I think. Freddie Carter, Mad Dog Carter, was one of the first, if not the first black student at Mount St. Mary. So that, I just wanted to do that every now and then. That's a beautiful part of the country though. Eight miles from the Gettysburg battlefield. I mean, it's just rich with history. Carla, welcome to the program.
Good morning. You're in there. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Good morning, DJ. My good brother. Hello. Hey, can you hear me? I hear you now. Go on, man. All right. Let me turn this down, man. Hey, man, just cast that gospel.
I'm telling Mr. Douglas and I'm telling Mr. Belcher and Mr. Allison. You're going to office, man. He did office, man. He did the gospel according to Kurt. One, two, three. He don't need a gospel album too. That don't make him a gospel artist.
Exactly. I'm a jazz saxophonist and he's a jazz saxophonist man. Give him my tickets. Who you with? First of all, you must have went to Parkman because he said I've been talking about Mr. Belcher. So I'm better than the best. My brother, yeah, I was there with you on the college. Okay. The wage.
In all those cats, man. Can you dig it, man? Can you dig it, man? Can you dig it, man? That's all I'm gonna say about that. Willie Wiseau, Jr. posted a picture a few years ago of the brothers' precision team. That was Robert Fulton's male drill team. Right, right? Yeah, those brothers, man, they were good. But see, at Parkman, we were on a whole different wavelength, man.
our male cheer, our male cheer. Don't get cussed out. Our male drill team marched with rifles. That's right, we showed it. Because we were the Parkman vanguard, we were the vanguard of the people. And I'll tell you around this morning.
Yeah, because the class of 76 at North Division is having their 50th year reunion next week and I was saying beat me to it. So Carl Strong said that. Hey, you want the phone to be entertainer? You want the Parkman to be a militant? What are you doing today? Yeah, I know. And he was like, there was a lot of talent. Yeah, there was a lot of talent down at Fulton.
We had a lot of talent at Parkway, but Parkway was a little diverse, but that whole blackness thing. Oh, we had that, brother. Instead of us being better. That was black and gold, wasn't it? Yes, sir. Yeah, you had black and gold, the parade. And I'm telling you, man, you're talking about branding. Your gym suit was branded. Yeah. Your bag was branded. Every team was branded. Even your book covers were branded. Better than the best.
But I did the best. I did the best. We heard it three times a day. I used to watch y'all drill on the playground. Man, those brothers, man. You know, and speaking of the North Division High School, I really wanted to go to North for two reasons. I did too. I wanted to play on the basketball team for Mr. Suttle. That wasn't going to happen. And I wanted to be a booster boy.
Yes, I mean the booster boys would like these were like the coolest dudes I mean the booster boys Some of you North Division blue Devils y'all listen call in and tell me about the booster boys You know I recognize your voice it's only one person that speak like this is this breast brother more
Yeah, it is. Yeah, man. He just made my day, man. No, we used to work. No, we used to work together. Oh, yeah, I did. I did the wrong way with Sam Williams coming up in the day. There you go. Can you dig it? Well, me and DJ did all COA together. Yeah. DJ. Yes, sir. Don't
Don't get that cat no pass. Oh, no, he might get no pass. I can't believe he let that slide. That's not what it is, brother. Hold on. What did the brother say? How do you even interview? Hey Chief, wear my tickets, man. I'll be there at the read.
Yeah, he get the tickets. Hold on. Jermaine gonna get you. This is why I love all African people all over the world. Did you hear him say he gonna get here at three? Did we say we closed at three? Yeah, before three. No, no, no. He said he gonna get here at three. And then there was gonna be locked at three. Hold on. Okay, DJ. I appreciate you man.
Why are you making so hard, man? That was you. I'm making so hard, man. I'm going to get there in three. You could have gave him a, uh, hey, what's today? And then you would say Friday. Boom. Wait a minute. This is the blackest stabs when you get here in three. We closed at a quarter. Right. We closed at 2.30. Wait a minute. We closed at 2.30. Thank you.
I don't know. It was just a club that they had there. Oh, okay. Yeah, but they were cold, man. They were cold. No, my mom wanted me to give them a shout out next week, but you already did it. Yeah. You know, because that was that was my aunt class Lucille. Yeah. And my mom class was a couple of years ago. So the frog man, they were from North Division too. The who frog man or something like that. I don't know, man.
I heard about that. That's like back in the 60s. I shouldn't really be talking about they're also doing someone told me that the alumni also doing a scholarship brunch jazz brunch at the Black Historical Society. I think that's where it is. Oh, let me ask a question. My mom is a proud graduate of North Division. Yeah, for real? Yeah, man class of 53.
Thought she was from Tennessee or down some my mom was born in Tennessee. My mom got here in 37 She got here in 37 so that's crazy So she a blue devil just like
Jackie Zelladon, who comes in, her dad, it's a proud blue devil. You know, when you look at it, it was, and when my mama was at North, it wasn't a lot of black people there. It wasn't a lot of black people, because it went a whole lot of black people in Milwaukee. But yeah, my mom was there, 53, she was there with Mr. Thomas Robert.
Bobby Thomas. We had Robbie, she was there with him. I think they were in the same class. No, my mom, she played the clarinet. Did she? Yep, she played the clarinet. She was, I don't know how you do it, how you rank them, but like she was the first, she was the first clarinet or whatever. Well, you know, when I was at Metropolitan as a teenager, you know, we had a huge youth choir, man. Our youth choir would range from about 50 to 75 kids. It was big, a lot of kids.
And it was only two of us at that point who was in private school. Myself and Thomas Wadley Thomas was out at Pius. And I think it was maybe two or three in his graduating class. Me and Kenny Green, number 10, there were only five in our graduating class, some of our black students. By the time Gary got there, there were more and more, because a couple of things happened.
of St. John's Cathedral downtown closed. And so a lot of the black students who were still at St. John, especially the guys came to Dominican, you know, athletes. So fascinating, fascinating little history. Again, phone lines open 414-444-525-0. Kurt Weyland did three gospel albums, yeah. 414-444. So they snooped up.
He didn't do three but he did one and so the Kanye do that make him a gospel artist All right All right Let's see let's talk about you were here for election central were you surprised at the outcome of the election Was I surprised yeah, I was surprised I was surprised I was what what I was surprised about was
He didn't win Milwaukee County by that much. Yeah, um But then you know what really gave him the edge was like the Kenosha County the racing and even Walker Shaw, you know, he he led He led he had a sizable lead when I was up and watching and Walker Shaw County I was surprised that he
That it was so close in Milwaukee County, right? I wasn't Dane County. That's where she's yeah, so you knew she was gonna have us a nice a nice edge but the I And I said this I was Thank you, Michelle. I had an opportunity our sister station down in Chicago because this election just took on just national significance just because of the craziness of it
And so when I was talking to a guy, I think his name is Matt McGill and WVON. He has a talk show in the afternoons down there, and we were talking. And I was saying, man, this was so crazy. Because when you live and just going on the numbers, Crowley only got like a 3% bump.
when he got back in the race. What Matt was asking me was, so because the governor endorsed him, one, he wanted to know what kind of guy Crowley was. And I was saying, man, you know, David Crowley's down. And to the point that I was talking to, I told him I was talking to a Republican friend of mine, black Republican friend Will. And Will was saying the same thing about how, you know, David has this common touch.
He's good with people. And so the impression that I think people were getting out was that they anointed him and, you know, why would the governor? Well, first of all, Tony Evers has a 90-plus percent favorability when it comes to Democrats. I was telling some, but those are Obama numbers, right? When you get that, and I think that people were beginning to look big picture.
Not to say that Francesca Han would not be a great governor, but in order to be governor you have to be elected and I think that they have a vote Yeah, well then people will be elected Yeah, but I'm just saying that you still could have people because I pointed out that you know Misogyny is real that there and I'm talking about some brothers not a lot But some brothers who just don't see themselves voting for a woman
And then when you look at the fact that she's Asian, there was a lot that they could dog-whistle her on. I think we just got to get past some of that stuff, man. We've gotten past it, but you got to remember, everybody ain't us. And I think that's the piece that a lot of people forget. We're in this little echo chamber here on the corner of 20th and Capitol. To still be talking about old women-ness and dad and...
There it speaks to the little growth that people have right when it comes to society when it comes to perception and ability and then just the ignorance of people that Because this individual is a woman. I'm not going to Take her seriously or I'm not going to vote for her not
because she doesn't have a resume or not because of her stance on abortion or data centers or you know, this, that and the third is strictly because she a woman. I mean, I don't even, I don't even have conversations with people like that. It's cause it's no point. Well, you're not going to move those folks. That's unfortunate. There is glacial movement towards we need to get away from this.
But it's still our reality, you know And and I was saying those people don't represent that the the bra majority dog I think I think it's a more significant portion of the population that I I don't want to be in denial about where people are and And and I said this on Wednesday. It really is about status quo, right? People want change maybe or people want different
But when you start talking about radical change, even people who you think might be supportive of that is going to push back. So the issues, because there is no real difference. I don't know how David Crowley feels about Thanksgiving, which I thought was just one of those things where I don't know what that became a thing. Who cares about that? People did. Who? I didn't care about that. You didn't. But you and I ain't everybody.
The people who cared about that were the same people who wasn't going to get her vote anyway. We cannot keep highlighting stuff that is a non-factor. It is. Obviously it was a factor. It wasn't a factor. She lost by 3,000 votes. It wasn't. That wasn't a factor. She lost by 3,000 votes. But wait a minute. You can't ask nobody.
What was your biggest gripe about Francesca? 18 points cannot ask, but we can't even believe the Polish and that was what I'm saying is when you know what I'm what I'm saying is you cannot ask someone who is serious about what is going on in our state. And they tell you the reason why I didn't vote for Francesca Hong is because she wanted to get rid of Thanksgiving.
That is that you will not hear that from nobody. You know what DJ my job To be prepared is to watch all these newscasts CNN started off with she wanted to get rid of Thanksgiving And I'm saying you right. It's like the trans issue in the last election Boys ain't playing in women's sports, but it was an issue for some folks and sometimes in a purple state
Where where the margins is so thin people gonna use whatever that one resonated because even with so-called Progressive that one resonated now we understand what she's saying I agree with her in terms of the history of Thanksgiving But when people think about Thanksgiving they have a very so a lot of times we like to think well these issues don't matter it matters enough She didn't lose because of Thanksgiving. She didn't lose because of Thanksgiving. Why did she lose and well, let me just get to
what I was going to say originally, which was, you know, uh, uh, was it last week or two weeks ago? I made a statement about polling and I said that, you know, I take these polls with a grain of salt. Now these, the numbers were eye opening, but 2016, 2020.
and 2024 have shown us consistently in those years in those election years that the polling isn't always what it what it may seem. Also, you have to take into account just who are these people getting this information from, you know, the election proved that yet again, that we can't always look at the polling numbers and say.
This is the front runner. So let me ask this question had Tony evers Not convinced David Crowley to get back in the race. Was she going to win by 18 points? I don't know You think it would have been close with anybody else Yeah, Mandela Okay, Mandela was at 18% and then the whole
But you said but you go into a if so I'm saying if you're gonna go to that if then I'm saying then David Crawley would not have been in the race because at the time there was a period where he wasn't in a race and so the second person right behind Francesca was Mandela and so I I don't I can't uh V admittedly say that he would not have garnered more votes
from that time span up until, you know, this past Tuesday. Do you think he would have guarded the same number of votes without the Evers endorsement? Potentially, because it's like you always say, the distinguished gentleman, vote the name you know. He was a big name. Well, yeah, but I'm saying that. And remember, I told you that sometimes things happen that's outside of the control of the candidate.
We're speaking to hindsight now. I'm what we talking about it in hindsight, but I'm saying at that at that time There there was a really good chance for him to Garner more more votes if he would have did it now We don't know but I'm saying that the possibility was certainly there and he had the name recognition enough without evers to potentially do something that has never been done before he's staying the race
Well, he dropped out for whatever reason. I don't know. Some say it's that scandal. And it's also, see, we have the polls like the Marquette poll, right? There are people who work for various campaigns and certainly work for the parties where they're constantly polling people. Polls you know nothing about. But you jumping all over the place. No, I'm not. I'm trying to tell you that what happened was when it looked like Francesca Hahn could win.
the Democratic nomination Internally there was numbers saying she's gonna get killed in the general and It set off a panic and that panic was we need to get somebody else I mean that that's how it's lining up. I don't think she was gonna get killed in the general I'm telling you that's why the Republicans wanted her to be the nominee because they knew they could do more negative ads Where they'll never get the time Tiffany's
record because they can so focus on the things that she talked about. She would have brought up his record. You think people would have heard it? Yeah. No, they wouldn't have been talking about Thanksgiving. And she would have, and she would have disavowed that just like she disavowed the Defuna Polista. I mean, what I say as an activist and what I do and say as a political figure are two different things. I mean, we have a person in the office
of the White House right now who has said numerous of things as a politician. And they don't hold that to the fire. And so we often talked about the Democratic Party being soft. And this is an election where they can't take that soft road. And if Francesca would have won, I highly doubt that they would have took that soft road. They couldn't. I'm saying it would be more difficult.
And for some people, the numbers matter. Here's the other thing, that it also talks about the generational divide in the Democratic Party, right? Because what Francesca Hahn represents in some ways, you could almost make that argument. David Crowley is that these are younger people, right? These are people who are like near 40, under 40. They have the old guard who, you know, we were talking about it yesterday, how
You know the boomers don't want to get out the way and and so I eat Tom Tiffany And that's another thing that you could speak to With him the old guard but but Republicans tend to be older and whiter, right? So he looks like the folks that's going to vote for him People that look like us. It's a lot of young. It's a lot of young people. I mean Charlie Kurt Garner The younger generation, you know
Gen what is it the Gen Z or the Gen Xers and and some Millennials I mean he was a millennial. Yeah, but I don't know if he's gonna get that type of organizational help now that he has a lot of money And I think the Dems gonna pour money in yeah, I'm looking at this is a national race I wouldn't be surprised if former president Obama Wouldn't make a stop here in Wisconsin
uh, prior to November, I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, the president, uh, wouldn't make a stop here in Wisconsin in support. You think Tom Tiffany wants, wants him here? Yeah. He been supporting him and he got endorsed by him. I don't think, I don't think he would want him here doing the general. Crazy. Because it would put, it would put him. That's his, that's his support base. Yeah, yeah, but that's his support, but he got to go beyond.
He has to go beyond his support base. And I'm telling you that if you brought him in, dude is going to be toxic. Please. I almost called his name. Please come. They're their whole regime. Please come. Their whole regime is toxic. They don't care about toxicity. Come on, not a Republican party is toxic when you do care about that. There were people who didn't want Joe Biden. They've won and led with toxicity.
There is no way that right now they're saying that you're not using toxic toxicity the way I'm using toxicity. I mean, what I'm saying is that he will be a drag. Trust me. I'd love for him to come. I'd love for him to come. I don't think Tom Tiffany wants to be in that picture. He's already in that picture. He voted for him and with them. And the Dems are going to put him in the picture. Right. But I don't see.
The current president coming in really helping Tom Tiffany go beyond his base I don't I don't see that and then when some of his base is enough according to him his base is enough But let's just if you look at it big turnouts favorite Democrats right and less and you and you gave you gave a X factor if you have some like Charlie Kurt who went and Joe Rogan who organized or or mobilized
a million white males who normally would not vote. I don't know, you know, Charlie Kirk ain't here with us and I'm not sure of that ground game and how many people gonna really stay at home because the reality is that even those folks, a lot of those folks who would support Tom Tiffany are being hurt by the policies of this current administration. But they don't care. What do you mean they don't care? They don't care because they continue to vote for them. Okay, all right.
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And now it's time for the protege perspective. When you're fortunate enough to wake up in the morning, what's the first thing that you do? Do you check your phone? Do you turn on the TV? Do you pray? Our start to the morning is what sets the tone for what we hope to have as a safe and productive day.
We all know the same. It's not how you start. It's how you finish. But how we start is very important. Many of us wake up and take on the day and whatever it brings. No preparation, no plan, no process. Many of us have gotten through many days starting our day this way. Upon reflection,
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for whatever comes your way. Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Forward four four four four five two five zero forward four four four four five two five zero. Some of my folks in Chicago who are listening. It is not Wisconsin. It's Wisconsin.
Say it one more time. It's not Wisconsin. It's Wisconsin. There is no east constant, you know, that was that happened on Family few They said hey, what is a What is a state that has? Is it like a coordinate or what is north-south east-west? What is that? And somebody said Wisconsin
What did it what did they get on that? Zero That is c-o-n-s-i-n, okay Wisconsin with you pronounce it It's with that's why I always get annoyed with people pronouncing Illinois
Illinois Illinois the s is silent. Oh, yeah, my grandmother used to she pronounced Iowa, Iowa way My mom said hour I don't know I don't know bus. No, no, no, no, no, I mean cuz I need to know this Who invented it? No, no, who said that it's silent cuz it's there. So why put it there if it's silent?
He said it was so much like it should be obvious that it shouldn't be it is man. Why put the s there if you don't supposed to say it? It's silent.
Do you hear the H and phone? Why put it there? Just put the P there. Did it be poem? You know what they say. I didn't write the book, I only read it. I mean, I'm just saying make it make sense to me though. Thank God for Kennedy. She is a better representative.
of the Greenfield school system and the education one gets. Thank you, Kennedy. You're carrying a burden that right out is created for you. But that's why I got kicked out of class, because I had questions to teach you. Because they say stuff like that. You're supposed to question. You're supposed to question. And I'm like, hey, excuse me. Why is the ass silent? Why even put it there in the get go? You could have just left it out if it ain't meant for me to say it. It might have to go back to the origins of who founded Illinois.
You know, and then is actually a that's a that's a nation Illinois that's a nation That's the first nation and didn't I say that's one of my pet peeves, but this is what this what I'm saying He just said the ass right he always do why put it put why put a letter or a number there that I'm supposed to say nothing shout out to everybody who's Unfortunately listening to us on YouTube and Facebook You know, I hope that you are aging aren't infected
I'm just saying, make it mixed. OK, prime example, DJ. Like I asked her on Wednesday, I asked Michelle on Wednesday. If Octagon has eight sides, Octopus has eight arms. Why is October the 10th month? And does she explain it to you? Yeah. Yeah, she's saying that somebody added two more months. But who added the two months and why? Hey.
If it started no, I don't know because if it started no because if it started off as a as the eighth month And then October to something else then what do we have? Then we know but October's April right So so so you just want them to change the name. That's all no, but what I'm saying is now now you do know October was the original eighth month, right? original so who
Decided we gonna add two more month. We're gonna ask 60 more days who created the calendar. Is that the Gregorian? Probably yeah, yeah Cuz and then The Romans got a lot to do with but I'm sad stuff too. Who decide why is July July? Hoonio, why is July Julius?
Julius Caesar, okay, so his birthday is in July. So if they go on offer that who added the two other months, this is just Google it man Because you're going off of that right off of Julius Caesar and July been call a welcome to the program Make a make sense to me. I don't know if we can Jimmy It's been since Wednesday, and I don't know if anybody can say welcome to the program. Good morning. You're on there
What up, man? What up, DJ? What up, what up? And thank you for that moniker, man. My wife used that now. It's one of our passwords. So appreciate you, man. Uh huh. What up, Boxconn? Hey, Jack. What up, man? Clark Kitt. Who you with? Who you hitting? You should call him Caboose. Because he's so, so, so at the end of all of this, man. Oh, so wait a minute. Wait a minute. Before you, before you go, Numa Pompilius.
There's the second king of Rome, and they added January and February. And they made that around 713 BC. Wow. Wow. Hey, DJ. What up? Who gives up?
Hey, I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm with you. It's just like getting rid of face giving. Who gives up? What's up, man? What's on your mind? Amen. Lil' Junebug and Lil' JJ. They went to speak, spend the weekend with their grandmother. So, grandmother said, okay, Lil' Junebug, JJ, time for bed.
Say your prayers before you go to bed. They said, okay, big ma went to the room. Little Junebug said, time to say the prayers. JJ said, okay. So Junebug said, God, would you send me a new bike and a PlayStation? So JJ said, why are you talking so loud? God can hear real good.
Junebuck said, I know, but Big Mark can't. Very good, very good. And another thing. You know what, bro? You just made a profound theological point. Some people don't believe in the God they cannot see. He can hear you. He can hear you. But just in case.
I need her to hear this too. Big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big
And I know man in a bad man when they try to hide you in the attic Oh company come by
This guy says it himself. I will kill you, dig you back up, kill you again, bury you, get you back up and kill you one more time. I got another one for you. All right. Your father's personally will survive today. What would he say? Thank you very much. Come on. Give me up. Let me up. Give me up out of here.
I don't know if your wife, listen to baby, get him back down in the dark. Check him all back downstairs. Yeah, we gotta go. We gotta go put him back in the bed. Man, you can't get out, man. You get a little sunlight. And man, we gotta put you right back in the dungeon. Appreciate you. Love you, man. That's what they say. Yeah, Ed.
You too, buddy. All right, we appreciate you. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. Yeah, they tell you to stop while you're ahead. Yeah, I started to say that. Like, man, you might want to stop right now because you win. Gamblers can't. Yeah, they gamblers can't. Snake eyes on that one. They just keep going, man. It's like, take your money and go. And once I hit me a good 50. Doc, I'm out of there. Oh, yeah. I holler. I'm gone, man.
All right. Hey, y'all, you're listening to Community Voice. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. The work we're doing at Ville is absolutely bringing access to the water for people. To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing with my time. It feels good. You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in. Water is our greatest resource. We all need it to survive.
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Thanks to our partnership with Violia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values. I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Violia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.
It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Ville have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us. We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddle boards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.
We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.
I always get another example of some people can't do wrong, right? Call the world to the program. Good morning, you're in there. Good morning. Can you hear me? A little bit, you kind of low. Okay, now can you hear me? Yep. Okay, we was talking about something about a bear. First of all, you guys were talking about the alphabet. No, I mean the dates and all of that stuff. You know, I tried to find the letter after C, took it to a couple of games around.
I'm trying to find the letter after you because I knew if I could find that letter after you that was sitting higher than our situation, I would be rich for the rest of our lives. And I kind of gave up on that deal. But anyway, you were talking about a bear earlier. I heard something about a bear. What were you talking about a bear? There's a movie called Cocaine Bear. Yeah, they said, if you ever see me in the forest and with Tesla in the bear,
Don't help me help you there. Okay, but listen, remember how to rune when brothers used to have those dancing bars and those bars that were right around the circle on a bike? Yeah. You remember that one that got away from downtown at the arena? That guy got away downtown at the arena, man, and got down on 27th of July, and me was in the station, and she let that bag run up through the yard, not to get off a bike, man, and we ain't seen that kid. I mean, that bike was that fast since. Give me the coaches, nigga. That was a good one.
Dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. That's me. I'm in the middle with the shootin' up that back. Chasin' up that back. That went up through the yard. I could tear it off that back. Jump on that back, man. I ain't seen it, man. But anyway, man, listen here. Y'all that's what we stand for, man. You too, man. That's how I called in. What the hell?
That's kind of funny. All the welcome to the program. Good morning on there.
I know people are where what's going on the aircraft carrier the Lincoln that's currently in the Persian Gulf and Man is just from that alone. He should be impeached From that alone that that is beyond and the word I was looking for negligence that is beyond negligent to have that ship out there for
over a hundred and some days. And now we've got a military man who really don't even want to be on there. They're considering other alternatives just so they're not experiencing what they're experiencing. It's pretty disheartening to say the least. Even in World War II, deployments on ships were not that long. That just kind of shows you kind of where we are. Now they can't leave
Until the Washington gets there, another aircraft carrier. How long is that going to take? Right. Because if they do that, they give up. Now, dude's mind, he's sending it controlling. The straight horn moves, America is not. I mean, you can't really listen to nothing he say because he talking about the economy is in good shape right now. He talking about affordability is doing really well. No, he said affordability is a hoax. Well,
A made-up word by the Democrats. Well, at first he said that it was doing really well. The economy is good. Now he just said that. But mind you, he ran off of affordability and saying that things were going to be more affordable for America. He ran off this. It's just mind-boggling how these people follow him. And then, you know what? Right now, you usually don't have good points, but you have a good point.
You had a good point when he pushing them off and then damn You had a good point when you said now how is Pete headset? buying Having all of these luxury dinners, you know when we have military men who don't have You know adequate food on these ships That that again, that's another slap in the face
to these military people who are putting their lives on the line for shenanigans. Caller, welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning, man. Hey, dig it. Hey, hey, Keith. Yeah. Your name is Keith, right? T.H. That's correct. T.H. That's correct. Yeah. Okay, now spell it. K.E.I.T.H. Nope, I.T. I said spell it.
You move it too fast you gotta slow down Well I guess he got you
Let's go and read some of the comments 250 days, thank you zebra. Yeah, but they have but they have been at sea for 250 days I think they did have they did have port what that means is they haven't been in to port right right they just just been out there in the water Yeah, yeah, and someone points out, you know, Doug was saying it's 5,000 sailors and probably Marines on that
on that ship, but aircraft carriers looks like a small city. That's how huge they are. I mean, it's a war that we should not be in in the first place. Right. And that's what I was about to say. Like, how are we supposed to fight the enemy and our morale is down? Your energy is down. Like, you don't have the what you need. So are you going to get your tail whooped out there?
And you lose in your life over something that you've seen and never been in the first place. I mean, literally, to hear these people go in circles trying to defend this guy. It's crazy, man. You know, it's like what George always say. It's maddening. It gets you so upset because it's like, come on now. We could disagree on certain perspectives, but this is just flat out madness.
What what uh Michelle used to say a hot Mississippi mess. This is a hot Mississippi mess Do you think that uh since this happening how you think the real listing gonna be now? Well for the lady But he gonna be gone so it and actually if we can believe supposedly They're they've met their quota and some
Now, a lot of that, well, a lot of times the military becomes an option when the economy is bad, right? You know, so then people look at the military as an option. I have two nephews who are currently serving in the military, one in the Air Force, one in the Army. So, you know, you just sit there and it's just madness.
It's just madness, man. I picked the wrong day to quit heroin. Let me thank Mr. Kurt Weyland.
Let me thank Clark Kent Clark. I know we didn't get a chance for you to do your shout out. Shout out, bruh. Shout out to Big Charlie. Thank you, man. Big Charlie barbecue for sending us out for Monday, man. Oh, man, that election central banquet was something, man. Thank you, Big Charlie. All right. Appreciate you. Again, Mary Ellen, thank you for the gift, the wonderful gift of music. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. DJ. Yes. All right.
You almost lost your A today. No, man. I can't lose now. What you just said, you definitely lost. You lost your mission. Wouldn't that just say you picked the wrong day to quit heroin? Yeah, man. You were supposed to keep doing it. Whoa.
You're all going off the deep end. What time is it? It's time to go. Good Lord, really. Let me run. Come to my party, man. That's all. Yeah, we will see you. OG's tonight. OG's tonight. Goers over at six. Party started seven, twenty. It's tonight. It's tonight. Put on your finest threads, hard bottoms. We gonna have some fun, man. I wanted to have a space. Have you all ever heard of Usher? He won't be there though. Okay. Chris Brown, he won't be there neither. But it's gonna be some brown folks there though.
Let me thank everybody for being part of the program today. Good Lord willing. Creek Don't Rise. Hope to talk to everybody on Monday. Y'all have a safe weekend. Let's go from this place in peace.
The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.
To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time.
It feels good.
You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in.
Water is our greatest resource.
We all need it to survive.
Viola is 100% doing great work.
When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia.
The result?
The new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.
Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks.
Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.
Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset.
I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association.
And also we're doing as you will.
Historic Third Ward.
Wow.
R-I-D-E-O-U-T.
Right out.
No, no.
I mean, because some people spell it R-I-D-E and then it's a space in between and then it's O-U-T.
So it was no space in between?
out.
Okay.
Well, no, because I'm saying it's too, it's too a different set.
So.
Yeah.
I mean, I got some white right out.
Yeah.
True that.
We're, we're trying to, we might have, we might have an interview.
And so they're working on that, that little technical piece there.
Let me, I'd tell you, man, some of the perks of being part of the WNOB family yesterday after the program had a chance to talk to Will Martin.
And that was a great conversation.
And so then Alex and Mary Ellen, but Alex and hey, Keith, at the first, I thought of him said, I want to see you down in the basement.
I'm going, hey, when Joe Pesci went in the good.
Hey, Keith,
They had all these albums from Second Street.
Some of these albums are 50 years old.
So, man, I was like a kid in a candy shop.
And I didn't get a chance to go down to Squeeze Box on my birthday because I couldn't walk.
So, and I was talking around with that yesterday.
But yeah, man, I got some good ones, man.
I got that Commodore's Live album that they did.
Best of the Delphonics.
Didn't I blow your mind this time?
Didn't I?
You know, the Delphanix and Stylistics go back to when I was, oh, we had Stylistics.
Stylistics.
Go back to when I was at Parkman and we used to have, they call it the sock, the sock hop.
And so during the lunch hour, after lunch, you could go to sock hop, you go to movies.
It was one of the, oh, the library.
You could go, oh, the sock hop was where, you know, you go to dance.
Never happened for me 13 suck man You
had no bad teen years
I mean I mean
13 I was 7th grade.
My mom kicked me off the team.
7th grade.
I was cutting up.
No, so you kicked yourself off
the team.
13?
How you gonna blame your mama for something
you was doing?
I didn't blame her.
I thought you said your mama kicked you off the team.
She did.
No, you kicked yourself off the team.
I didn't kick
myself
the team.
Because
So
what
was like 16 was
man.
I think, no, it was, it was in seventh grade, man.
That's when I became a man.
So I never really got into too much trouble when I was a teenager.
So I probably, I probably got suspended from 13 to 14, maybe two times.
What, you got suspended?
And then my freshman year, I got suspended.
You
And then after that, I'd never, I'd never,
suspended.
You would have never met me.
I mean before before I was a teenager I used to I used to have quite
man.
if you do it in school you're gonna get suspended.
And I think mine was
I
get suspended from fighting.
But we talking about two different generations.
here we go.
No,
he don't have a point.
I
have a point.
I don't know nobody that got into a fight that didn't get suspended.
I'm telling you, man, you talking about, y'all didn't get suspended.
That's the difference.
It's like the old FBA.
A difference.
game,
a check.
Yeah, I got suspended.
I
Like I said, some 72s went home.
Everybody knows 72s was kind of like a semi-suspension.
And your mom was supposed to sign up and you come back where she's supposed to contact the school.
I forged my mom's name on all the 72s.
The only 72 that my mom was a 72.
72 was, it wasn't a suspension.
It
was
like
pink slip, wasn't it?
Now the pink slip me, you've been canceled.
Yeah, man.
Oh, I got a whole bunch of
my
exposure.
Yeah, because your mama got to come to the meeting and they sit out and I'm supposed to come to me when you get suspended anyway.
Yeah, my eighth grade year.
I got suspended the week of graduation.
they they told us we would always be playing around.
I'm always playing around.
So, you know, we used to dunk on people like
So they was like, all right, man, next person to do that, you know, I'm saying you get suspended.
I have no self control back.
So you did it.
So I did it anyway.
And then the dude, it was irritating because the dude who who I dunked on, he got
Like got the embellishing it and everything and so the teacher gonna look what?
So then I had I suspended wow then freshman year I got
argument with somebody
not a but for like freshman keel day and all of those things like that did y'all get in trouble for that
No, we it wouldn't know well it was probably a freshman keel day, but it skipped me
Cuz like I said the in the past the upperclassmen.
Yeah, they they nicknamed me too smooth.
I was cool with everybody.
So it
was
yeah
too
know all my nicknames I got that I was giving
That was
my Facebook name for
a long
time
ain't
no
Hey, I can see him with his hair
back with the sag.
Too sweet.
Too smooth,
He got
right there.
Hey, but he got to have it combed back with the sag, though.
Yeah, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Some people can't go to prison.
We
do hit a nation every Friday.
Yeah.
Let's get to it then.
Let's get to it.
Well, first of all, DJ don't know nothing about no 72.
I don't know.
He didn't go public.
That's what I just asked you on what that was.
Well, I've been here.
I was on hold for a brief moment.
I didn't go to NPS.
Well, even if you did, even if your age, I don't think they'll do a 72 zero.
Oh, yeah, I got some 72.
I got some home.
They want no 72.
They will take your ass home.
You
study over there.
You got home and you had to get assigned.
time.
I went to Burroughs, so I had to deal with Mr. Brazil.
Ooh.
You said ooh.
Well, I
was
So
I was having an argument with my guy, with my cousin, because you know, he's a LeBron fan.
And he's like, he's a little older than me.
And I thought about it.
I said, I gotta stop comparing Joe and the LeBron.
He ain't even got more wings than magic.
No.
So you got to chase magic first before you chase Jordan.
So I just, yes.
Yes, you do.
And like Shaq say it like Shaq say it you ain't got no reason to be even be in the liquor category You gotta you ain't be Kurt Rambus.
You ain't Korean Come on man.
I was hung
Hey, good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning.
How
man?
I'm doing good.
Thank you
No, sir 11th
Not quite, because I have to go to soundcheck.
But no problem.
I was.
Oh, I'm sorry about that.
But yeah, that was that was unfortunate, man.
We were very
No, we were disappointed.
And I'm sure hoping we get better weather today.
Do you have are you?
Are you also the weatherman there?
Oh, really good.
No complaints at all.
I'm in I'm in Ipsilanti, Michigan today.
OK.
Absolutely, yeah.
Well, we travel, you know, we meet in whatever city that we're playing or the first city of Iran, you know, of the tour.
And so, yeah, they're from just part everywhere.
Actually, Margaret Tarkler was from New Zealand, originally from South Africa.
But she is now on the road doing her own thing.
Andrea Lisa.
And she's got a couple of really hot singles on smooth jazz radio and whatever formats.
So yeah, she's not with me this time.
Kevin Turner from Columbus, Ohio is with me.
But Andre was with us.
We played out in California in the southern wine region last week and she was on that show.
So I was able to ever come sit in with us too.
Well, I appreciate you saying the American music spectrum, because I don't know how long this music is going to be called jazz.
It's a word that came, a lot of people don't realize that.
It was actually a pejorative word initially.
uh it was called jazz like y'all playing that old jazz music uh j s s and that was in the bordellos you know primarily in new Orleans and you know but of course you and i know that man so much of culture whether it's in this country or wherever uh it is is kind of centers around that kind of activity and you know but the music was amazing and always has been
And whatever we call it, but and you know, we're headed to really, really cool places.
Again, I just mentioned Andrea, she's 30, you know, Tia Fuller.
I'm seeing a wonderful new artist every day.
I'm playing the concert with Kayla Waters and my hometown Memphis.
I have a series called Cafe Kirk and we just bring people in.
We've had, man, they called Jonathan Butler.
just down the line but you know this this time we're going to have Kayla and she's yes I don't think she's 30 I mean I think what tends to happen is this music inspires people uh to want to do it and that's that's just always going to be the case I have no doubt
we were there on the same day last time like I'm not mistaken I could be wrong
Yes, well, so here's the thing my dad was about this picture, but he wasn't just any old Baptist picture He was the person who he never wore tie.
He just had a rapport with people He made people feel at home made him feel comfortable
And I inherited that gene.
And so that's what we do.
You know, fortunately for me, I have an instrument I can play pretty good.
But it's all about that.
It's about making people feel welcome and home.
And I'll go back and play stuff from my older records now that I have, you know, over 30 records.
I'll do some gospel corner jazz.
I'll do stuff from my new album, my latest album, which is doing extremely well.
It's called Epic Cool.
Wait a minute, man.
I got my Epic Cool home.
I gotta get my Epic Cool cap.
What am I talking about?
Uh, yeah.
So, you know, I can't, I can't be talking to nobody without my Epic Cool cap.
And we do sell these, by the way.
So we'll definitely, we'll do, you know, a combination of things from the spectrum of what I've done.
And we'll even, you know, right now I have a little viral moment, man.
First of all, the song, Do You Feel Me?
went viral where people are, you know, if you Google, do you feel me line dance?
There's like hundreds of videos of young people, old people dancing to that song.
And that song was co-written by the great David Porter, who wrote, I'm a soul, man.
Hold on, I'm coming, et cetera.
So that's happening right now.
So we'll do that.
Now we're going to ask him to get up and dance.
And then I have another virality going on right now with the soundtrack of Boys in the Hood.
So a lot of people don't know that I played the saxophone on that soundtrack, like when Ricky got shot on that movie.
And the saxophone was getting louder.
Now there's this meme on TikTok and all over that Saxone is getting louder so people will take that sound and use it for when they get they fall off a ladder or something goes wrong.
You know, it's not as as grave and serious as it was in the movie.
But yes, so we got this crazy, you know, viral moment right now where me as a, you know, as an as the
you know, on the OG side of things, right, so I'm 68.
I played that soundtrack 35 years ago, but now, all of a sudden, it's viral.
Well, the one most people know, but maybe not know as me, is I will always love you.
But I did a whole lot of solos during that era, you know, on Luther and James Angerman, just a lot of records.
Quincy, that was the season when zero law right now was like we're bouncing like ping pong balls between studios in LA.
And but I don't live out there anymore living back home in Memphis.
But yeah, well, that's that's definitely I will always love you is one that, you know, pretty even kids know that one that weren't alive when that record was recorded.
You know, and speaking of that, I was watching this documentary on Dolly Parton and she talked about, I will always love you.
As a matter of fact, I think she wrote that song like 68 or something like that.
Right.
And she, and they show their performance.
And a lot of times when people, you know, like, you know, we talk about Aretha Franklin did respect and it sold more records than when Otis Redding did it.
But she was very complimentary to Whitney Houston.
She just thought that it was phenomenal the way that Whitney, her interpretation of that song.
Of course, yeah.
And Dolly, I played with her too, by the way.
But man, she is such an amazing person.
I'm just, I don't think there's anybody else like her.
And I wish people nowadays, especially, and especially people down south, I think people assume that everybody's got to be all austere and many times even racist, right?
in that area but man here's Dolly Parton like a little flower man in that culture saying like no I will be the one who factors into uh you know this all this craziness you know that that's going on and I will be a voice of love and and respect and she loved Whitney she couldn't believe that Whitney was going to do her songs she's like what she's like Whitney Houston you know because she's a country girl she wrote that song
I will always love you, Dolly.
And on her bus, she didn't really fly much.
She was afraid of planes.
So she was in the back of the bus where there was her little lounge on a Casio keyboard, like a $40 keyboard, riding that sun.
I
she was going through some stuff right and and it was she didn't really know how to process it I think that song was kind of a gift to him to say no I really do love you like I I gotta go you know but to here take this this I mean it you know
yeah and I think the other thing I know you're from Memphis and which surprised me was because I listened to a lot of
they call southern gospel, you know, the white southern quartets.
And when they would have their meetings in Memphis, they would invite black gospel quartets to their national meeting in Memphis.
That kind of free, because, you know, it's like this, man, getting recognized, getting musicians.
I mean, if you watch the Grammys, you'll watch some of the country guys grooving with the rap guys, right?
And rap, because
It's music, man.
It's one of those universal things that kind of goes beyond a lot of these constructs of race and regionalism where people go like, man, that's good.
Well, not to mention, you know, D. Ford Bailey was the black country musician who came up with the moniker Grand Ole Opry.
Okay, he was black.
And he was country.
And he wasn't alone.
So, you know, Otis Brenning, a lot of those guys, Ray Charles, they grew up listening to country music
singing.
Cannonball at I mean, not Cannonball, but Charlie Parker.
What was his favorite music to the day that it's like he he loves country music.
And I understand why because that music is Southern music.
It's not.
You know we say country we think white, but that's just not that's not true No more than you know, so the R&B music is uniquely black I mean this there were a lot of white artists back in those days who they they were all in the same boat in the same boat in a set since that you know poverty and stuff But of course don't get me wrong You know there's a special kind of poverty that black people went through and so that's why soul music and R&B developed the way it did and blues, but I mean to just
draw those hard lines is not, is not wise because into the day, like you said, man, we're all human beings.
And you
And I think that you're right, that the proximity, the North is different, right?
Cause the North was so segregated, but in the South,
You know, the segregation was you couldn't do this, but black folks and white folks lived in close proximity, right?
And the poverty piece was the universal.
That's what I was saying, but definitely it was more so about being po.
And I used to, of course, to be from Memphis, but I worked at Stacks.
I was CEO there for a couple of years.
And, you know, the Stacks Music Academy, man, is still, to pressurize to my heart.
Some of those kids are out here killing it.
You know, there's an artist right now named Singabee, S-I-N-J-A, the letter B. And he's a new blues artist, right?
So if you if you wonder what is going on with blues, by the way, it's bigger than ever.
He's an artist who he's been touring with Tony Tony Tony.
But he's he's an example of a kid who was, you know, 13 at Stacks.
And now he's out here.
He's, you know, dispensing the the Memphis soul.
and blues in a way that's completely unique, you know, to definitely check them out and there more.
But yes, Stax was that place.
It was like New York, you know, Memphis, where if you could make it in Memphis, you could make it anywhere.
That's how BB King ended up there in Elvis.
All these people from Mississippi, you know, or Alabama, but
they made
it.
They made their way to the corner of Macklemore and College Avenue, you know,
to try to make Murray's way.
Murray's way lived down the street.
And he and David Porter were singing in, like you said, Quartet.
I have, man.
And I was privileged to know him.
And he sang on one of my records.
It's like I just am so grateful just to use the word Memphis in my life at any point.
where you really get that Memphis, Mississippi sound, you know, where it is still prevalent, is prevalent in the R&B, is prevalent in the gospel, you know, to the point that these guys were talking and they were saying, when hip hop really broke out, they weren't doing hip hop in Chicago, they were still doing R&B.
That's the
fact.
And the pipeline between, you know, Mississippi to Memphis to Chicago,
I mean, there literally is a train that you can ride, which I have ridden, you know, from New Orleans, Mississippi, Memphis, and then up to Chicago.
And that's that's our culture, you know, that, you know, the book, The Warmth of Other Sons by Isabelle Wilgerson, really documents it so beautifully that Chicago, and eventually, you know, San Francisco, Oakland, all that.
those places are filled with folks from down south.
And by the way, you know, you think about, you know, southern culture and where that book documents it, it's like, it ends up being a seasoning.
There are two Grammy museums.
I don't know if they've built a third yet.
The one is in Los Angeles, one is in Mississippi.
And the reason for that is that there are more
Grammy-winning writers, song writers, artists from Mississippi than any other state.
That's because they end up in LA and Chicago and Detroit and wherever.
Even Montana was filled with Mississippi and Memphis folk.
Mississippi I didn't realize that I thought she grew up in in the St.
Louis area, but yes, you're right
Because I was surprised what that's where you know, she was so yeah, it is it is and in America especially those Descendants of enslaved Africa Africans in the diaspora, you know, we have we just the influence that we really had and maybe America just became that you know in spite of
all of her imperfections, a great breeding ground for the type of music now that the world really enjoys.
That's the fact, man.
That's the fact.
And I appreciate the fact that you are celebrating that on WNLV.
I got a lobby call.
My band is going to leave me to go to Soundcheck.
Mr. Kurt Wehler, man, it's always great talking to you, man.
I mean, you're a wealth of information, man.
And certainly, man, I appreciate your spirit.
And like I said, I had nothing but mad respect because most people left.
And when I saw, hey, the band is out here, we stayed.
So appreciate you, man.
Well, look, we pray for great weather and the whole thing that, you know, we can say we actually finally played Wisconsin.
You're welcome.
God bless you guys.
The work we're doing at Ville
is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.
To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing with my time.
It feels good.
You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in.
Waters are our greatest resource.
We all need it to survive.
Veolia is 100% doing great work.
When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia.
The result, the new Violia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.
Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks.
Thanks to our partnership with Violia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.
Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset.
I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.
Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.
We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.
They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.
It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.
MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years.
I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.
We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.
People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.
We love our partnership with Violia.
They help the kayak company grow.
I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD.
Clean water is essential.
Park Jazz.
414, 444, 525, 0.
All
Hey, you listen to community
voice, we'll take a break and we'll be right back.
When we
wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia.
The result?
The new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.
Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks.
Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.
Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset.
I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.
Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.
We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.
They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.
It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.
MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years.
I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.
We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.
People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.
We love our partnership with Violia.
They help the kayak company grow.
I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD.
Clean water is essential.
The work we're doing
at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.
To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing with my time.
It feels good.
You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in.
Waters are our greatest resource.
We all need it to survive.
Viola is 100% doing great work.
When we want to do
To expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia.
The result, the new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.
Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks.
Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.
Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset.
I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.
Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.
We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.
They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.
It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.
MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that cleaned and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years.
I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.
We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.
People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.
We love our partnership with Violia.
They help the kayak company grow.
I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD.
Clean water is essential.
Okay, I'm just trying to run for the tickets at the Jazz Show.
What do I have to do?
Okay.
No, no, no, he's dead.
And we're gonna have to get the next call, man.
Go
OK.
You, you are, he won't post.
He didn't deserve them tickets.
I am.
I'm going to be real with you.
All right, Kurt Franklin.
That's atrocious.
Keep out here giving passes, Milwaukee.
I would have let the next caller earn their way to them
You're going to go from too smooth to too hard.
Hey, there's no passes given.
We've been running that for eight years.
man.
Yeah, I gave away 16 on Tuesday.
That's why I was like, are y'all going to have any left?
Anyway, let me.
There ain't got nothing to do with me.
I heard some this morning I was watching CNN and the guy talked about a story.
There's a place in Maryland called Cunningham Falls State Park and that's Cunningham Park, Cunningham Falls State Park.
Oh, shout out to Kennedy.
Hey, Kennedy.
Baby Kennedy.
They have these rabbit beavers and they're attacking people.
Now the reason why this story caught my attention was that Cunningham Falls is eight miles From they got babies.
Yep.
Oh man and angry There is eight miles Mount
St.
Mary's University and we would regularly have picnics black student union at Cunningham Falls and as a matter of fact We would get freshmen drunk and take them up the Cunningham Falls
Have been trying to call climb the frauds and then figure wait till it gets dark and let them figure out how to get back to the car All right We have nothing else to do
obviously
What if you ain't from there, oh man.
None of us was from there, Clark.
Rabbit Angry Beavers.
That sound like a movie.
I could picture that in a movie.
It's
That's what
story.
That is based off the truth
or loosely based on loosely based because the And what happened was there was a guy he was flying over A national park in Tennessee.
He had cocaine.
He jumped out the plane He threw the cocaine out the plane.
We don't know people don't know if he died or if he survived But a bear came upon a package of cocaine But she ended up dying of cocaine intoxication
But in cocaine bear, it must have been good.
She was she was fiend.
She went nuts.
Yeah, man.
She went nuts.
It is.
It is.
Elizabeth Perkins really surprised me.
She went up that movie is so funny.
But anyway, I just it just brought back memories when I said we have rabbit beavers in Cunningham Falls State Park.
And I forgot how beautiful that area is because there's a lake.
and there's hills that you go.
That was a beautiful part of the country.
I thought it was ironic that in both my college experiences, both at American Baptist in Nashville and at Mount St.
Mary's, both of these schools were on hills, which I just thought was kind of ironic, wasn't by design.
As a matter of fact, Mount St.
Mary's is actually built into a mountain.
And the land that Mount St.
Mary's is on, Chris Abley's
family donated that land to create that university.
And the first, he's related to Elizabeth Ann Seton.
She's the first American canonized saint.
So there was a lot of history out there.
And for some of my former firemen, firefighters, the National Fire Academy is at the old St.
Joseph's campus, which was a sister school because Mount St.
Mary started off as an all-boys school.
or male.
And then St.
Joseph's is where the girls went.
They merged in 1968, I think.
Freddie Carter, Mad Dog Carter, was one of the first, if not the first black student at Mount St.
Mary.
So that I just wanted to do that every now and then.
That's a beautiful part of the country though.
Eight miles from the Gettysburg battlefield.
I mean, it's just rich with history.
Call it welcome to the program.
Good morning.
You're in there.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Good morning, DJ.
My good brother.
Hey, can you hear me?
I hear you now.
man.
All right.
Let me turn this down, man.
Hey, man, just cast a gospel.
I'm telling
Douglas and I'm telling Mr. Belcher and Mr. Allison.
You're going to office, man.
He did office, man.
He did the
two, three.
He don't need a gospel album too.
That don't make him a gospel artist.
Exactly.
I'm a jazz saxophonist and he's a jazz saxophonist man.
Give him my tickets.
said I've been talking about Mr. Belcher.
So I'm better than the best.
My brother, yeah, I was there with you on the college.
Okay.
The wage.
In all those cats, man.
Can you dig
That's all I'm gonna say about that.
Willie Wiseau, Jr.
posted a picture a few years ago of the brothers' precision team.
That was Robert Fulton's male drill team.
Right, right?
Yeah, those brothers, man, they were good.
But see, at Parkman, we were on a whole different wavelength, man.
our male cheer, our male
cheer.
Don't get
out.
Our male
That's right, we showed it.
Because we were the Parkman vanguard, we were the vanguard of the people.
And I'll tell you around this morning.
because the class of 76 at North Division's having their 50th year reunion next week.
And I was saying, Carl Strong said that, hey, you went to Fulton to be an entertainer, you went to Parkman to be a militant.
And what was Carl Strong doing today?
Yeah, I know.
And he was like, there was a lot of talent.
There was a lot of talent down at Fulton.
We had a lot of talent at Parkway, but Parkway was a little diverse, but that whole blackness thing.
Oh, we had that,
brother.
Instead
of
better.
That was
it?
Yes, sir.
Yeah,
black and gold, uh, berets
used to watch y'all drill on the playground.
I recognize your voice is only one person that speak like this is this breast brother more
Yeah, it is.
Yeah, man.
He just made my day, man.
No,
work.
No, we used to work together.
Oh, yeah, I did.
I did the
wrong way with Sam Williams coming up in the day.
There you go.
Can you dig it?
Well, me and DJ did all COA together.
Yeah.
DJ.
Yes, sir.
Don't
Don't get that cat no pass.
Oh, no, he might get no pass.
I
can't
How do you even interview?
Hey, Chief, wear my tickets, man.
I'll be there at the read.
Yeah, he get the tickets.
Hold on.
Jermaine gonna get you.
This is why I love all African people all over the world.
No, no, no.
He said he
get here
And then there was gonna be
three.
on.
Hold on, man.
Okay.
Thank you DJ.
making so hard, man?
That was you.
so hard, man.
I'm going to get there in three.
You could have gave them a, hey, what's today?
then you would say Friday?
Boom.
Wait a minute.
This
Wait a minute.
We closed at 2.30.
Thank
you.
I don't
No, my mom wanted me to give them a shout out next week, but you already did it.
Yeah.
You know, because that was that was my aunt class Lucille.
Yeah.
And my mom class was a couple of years ago.
So the frog man, they were from North Division too.
The who
frog man or something like that.
I heard about that back
I shouldn't really be talking about they're also doing Someone told me that the alumni also doing a scholarship brunch jazz brunch at The Black Historical Society, that's where it is.
Oh, my mom is a proud graduate of North Division.
Yeah, for real.
Yeah, man class of 53
Thought she was from Tennessee or down some my mom was born in Tennessee.
My mom got here in 37 She got here in 37 so
that's crazy So she a
blue devil just
Jackie Zelladon, who comes in, her dad, it's a proud blue devil.
You know, when you look at it, it was, and when my mama was at North, it wasn't a lot of black people there.
It wasn't a lot of black people, because it went a whole lot of black people in Milwaukee.
But yeah, my mom was there, 53, she was there with Mr. Thomas Robert.
Bobby Thomas.
We had Robbie, she was there with him.
I think they were in the same class.
No, my mom, she played the clarinet.
Yep, she played the clarinet.
She was, I don't know how you do it, how you rank them, but like she was the first, she was the first clarinet or whatever.
Our youth choir would range from about 50 to 75 kids.
It was big, a lot of kids.
And it was only two of us at that point who was in private school.
Myself and Thomas Wadley-Thomas was out at Pius.
And I think it was maybe two or three in his graduating class.
Me and Kenny Green, number 10, there were only five in our graduating class, some of our black students.
By the time Gary got there, there were more and more, because a couple of things happened.
of St.
John's Cathedral downtown closed.
And so a lot of the black students who were still at St.
John, especially the guys came to Dominican, you know, athletes.
So fascinating, fascinating little history.
Again, phone lines open 414-444-525-0.
Kurt Weyland did three gospel albums, yeah.
414-444.
So they snooped up.
He didn't do three but he did one and so the Kanye do that make him a gospel artist All right
Was I surprised yeah, I was surprised I was surprised I was what what I was surprised about was
He didn't win Milwaukee County by that much.
Yeah, um But then you know what really gave him the edge was like the Kenosha County the racing and even Walker Shaw, you know, he he led he led he had a sizable lead when I was up and watching and Walker Shaw County
yeah, so you knew she was gonna have
nice a nice edge
And so when I was talking to a guy, I think his name is Matt McGill and WVON.
He has a talk show in the afternoons down there, and we were talking.
And I was saying, man, this was so crazy.
Because when you live and just going on the numbers, Crowley only got like a 3% bump.
when he got back in the race.
What Matt was asking me was, so because the governor endorsed him, one, he wanted to know what kind of guy Crowley was.
And I was saying, man, you know, David Crowley's down.
And to the point that I was talking to, I told him I was talking to a Republican friend of mine, black Republican friend Will.
And Will was saying the same thing about how, you know, David has this common touch.
He's good with people.
And so the impression that I think people were getting out was that they anointed him and, you know, why would the governor?
Well, first of all, Tony Evers has a 90-plus percent favorability when it comes to Democrats.
I was telling some, but those are Obama numbers, right?
When you get that, and I think that people were beginning to look big picture.
Not to say that Francesca Han would not be a great governor, but in order to be governor you have to be elected and I think that they have a
vote
well then people will be elected
Yeah, but I'm just saying that you still could have people because I pointed out that you know Misogyny is real that there and I'm talking about some brothers not a lot But some brothers who just don't see themselves voting for a woman
And then when you look at the fact that she's Asian, there was a lot that they could dog-whistle her on.
I think we just got to get past some of that stuff,
here on the corner of 20th and Capitol.
To still be talking about old women-ness and dad and...
There it speaks to the little growth that people have right when it comes to society when it comes to perception and ability and then just the ignorance of people that Because this individual is a woman.
I'm not going to Take her seriously or I'm not going to vote for her not
because she doesn't have a resume or not because of her stance on abortion or data centers or you know, this, that and the third is strictly because she a woman.
I mean, I don't even, I don't even have conversations with people like that.
It's cause it's no point.
represent that the the bra majority
dog I think I think it's a more significant portion of the population that I I don't want to be in denial about where people are and And and I said this on Wednesday.
It really is about status quo, right?
People want change maybe or people want different
But when you start talking about radical change, even people who you think might be supportive of that is going to push back.
So
the
issues, because there is no real difference.
I don't know how David Crowley feels about Thanksgiving, which I thought was just one of those things where I don't know what that became a thing.
Who cares about that?
People did.
Who?
I didn't care about that.
You didn't.
But you and I ain't everybody.
The people who cared about that were the same people who wasn't going to get her vote anyway.
We cannot keep highlighting stuff that is a non-factor.
wasn't a factor.
She lost by 3,000 votes.
It wasn't.
That wasn't a factor.
She lost by 3,000 votes.
But wait a minute.
You can't ask nobody.
What was your biggest gripe about Francesca Hong?
18 points.
You cannot ask, but we can't even believe the Poles.
And that was one of my points.
What I'm saying is you cannot ask someone who is serious about what is going on in our state.
And they tell you the reason why I didn't vote for Francesca Hong is because she wanted to get rid of Thanksgiving.
That is that you will not hear that from nobody.
You know what DJ
my job To be prepared is to watch all these newscasts CNN started off with she wanted to get rid of Thanksgiving And I'm saying you right.
It's like the trans issue in the last election Boys ain't playing in women's sports, but it was an issue for some folks and sometimes in a purple state
Where the margins is so thin people gonna use whatever that one resonated because even with so-called Progressive that one resonated now we understand what she's saying I agree with her in terms of the history of Thanksgiving But when people think about Thanksgiving they have a very so a lot of times we like to think well these issues don't matter
it matters enough She didn't lose because of Thanksgiving.
She didn't lose because of Thanksgiving.
Why did she lose and well, let me just get to
what I was going to say originally, which was, you know, uh, uh, was it last week or two weeks ago?
I made a statement about polling and I said that, you know, I take these polls with a grain of salt.
Now these, the numbers were eye opening, but 2016, 2020.
and 2024 have shown us consistently in those years in those election years that the polling isn't always what it what it may seem.
Also, you have to take into account just who are these people getting this information from, you know, the election proved that yet again, that we can't always look at the polling numbers and say.
This is the front runner.
you said but you go into a if so I'm saying if you're gonna go to that if then I'm saying then David Crawley would not have been in the race because at the time there was a period where he wasn't in a race and so the second person right behind Francesca was Mandela and so I I don't I can't uh V admittedly say that he would not have garnered more votes
from that time span up until, you know, this past Tuesday.
Potentially, because it's
say, the distinguished gentleman, vote the name you know.
He was a big name.
Well,
speaking to hindsight
at that at that time There there was a really good chance for him to Garner more more votes if he would have did it now We don't know but I'm saying that the possibility was certainly there and he had the name recognition enough without evers to potentially do something that has never been done before he's staying the race
Well, he dropped out for whatever reason.
I don't know.
Some say it's
And it's also, see, we have the polls like the Marquette poll, right?
There are people who work for various campaigns and certainly work for the parties where they're constantly polling people.
Polls you know nothing about.
But you jumping all over the place.
No, I'm not.
I'm trying to tell you that what happened was when it looked like Francesca Hahn could win.
the Democratic nomination Internally there was numbers saying she's gonna get killed in the general and It set off a panic and that panic was we need to get somebody else I mean that that's how it's lining up.
I don't think she
was gonna get killed in the general
She would have
And she would have, and she would have disavowed that just like she disavowed the Defuna Polista.
I mean, what I say as an activist and what I do and say as a political figure are two different things.
I mean, we have a person in the office
of the White House right now who has said numerous of things as a politician.
And they don't hold that to the fire.
And so we often talked about the Democratic Party being soft.
And this is an election where they can't take that soft road.
And if Francesca would have won, I highly doubt that they would have took that soft road.
They couldn't.
I'm saying
And for some people, the numbers matter.
Here's the other thing, that it also talks about the generational divide in the Democratic Party, right?
Because what Francesca Hahn represents in some ways, you could almost make that argument.
David Crowley is that these are younger people, right?
These are people who are like near 40, under 40.
They have the old guard who, you know, we were talking about it yesterday, how
You know the boomers don't want to get out the way
and and so I eat Tom Tiffany And that's another thing that you could speak to With him the old guard but
It's a lot of young.
It's a lot of young people.
I mean Charlie Kurt Garner The younger generation, you know
Gen what is it the Gen Z is or the Gen Xers and and some Millennials I mean he was a millennial.
this is a national race I wouldn't be surprised if former president Obama Wouldn't make a stop here in Wisconsin
uh, prior to November, I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, the president, uh, wouldn't make a stop here in Wisconsin
You think Tom Tiffany wants, wants him here?
Yeah.
He been supporting him and he got endorsed by him.
I don't think, I don't think he would want him here doing the general.
Crazy.
Because it would put, it would put him.
That's his, that's his support base.
Yeah, yeah, but that's his support, but he got to go beyond.
He has to go beyond his support base.
And I'm telling you that if you brought him in, dude is going to be toxic.
Please.
I almost called his name.
Please come.
They're their whole regime.
Please
come.
Their whole regime is toxic.
They don't care about toxicity.
Come on, not a Republican party
There were people who didn't want Joe Biden.
They've won and led with toxicity.
There is no way that right
I mean, what I'm saying is that he will be a drag.
Trust me.
I'd love for him to come.
I'd love for him to come.
I don't think Tom Tiffany wants to be in that picture.
He's already in that picture.
He voted for him and with them.
And the Dems are going to put him in the picture.
Right.
But I don't see.
The current president coming in really helping Tom Tiffany go beyond his base I don't I don't see that and then when some of his base is enough according to him his base is enough But let's just if you look at it big turnouts favorite Democrats right and less and you and you gave you gave a X factor if you have some like Charlie Kurt who went and Joe Rogan who organized or or mobilized
a million white males who normally would not vote.
I don't know, you know, Charlie Kirk ain't here with us and I'm not sure of that ground game and how many people gonna really stay at home because the reality is that even those folks, a lot of those folks who would support Tom Tiffany are being hurt by the policies of this current administration.
But they don't care.
What do you mean they don't care?
They don't care because they continue to vote for them.
The work we're doing at VLA
is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.
To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time.
It feels good.
You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in.
Water is our greatest resource.
We all need it to survive.
Fiolia is 100% doing great work.
When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Viola.
The result, the new Violia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.
Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks.
Thanks to our partnership with Violia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.
Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset.
I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.
Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.
We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.
They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.
It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.
MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years.
I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.
We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.
People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.
We love our partnership with Violia.
They help the kayak company grow.
I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD.
Clean water is essential.
And
for the protege perspective.
When you're fortunate enough to wake up in the morning, what's the first thing that you do?
Do you check your phone?
Do you turn on the TV?
Do you pray?
Our start to the morning is what sets the tone for what we hope to have as a safe and productive day.
We all know the same.
It's not how you start.
It's how you finish.
But how we start is very important.
Many of us wake up and take on the day and whatever it brings.
No preparation, no plan, no process.
Many of us have gotten through many days starting our day this way.
Upon reflection,
Many of us can recall struggling through numerous of days just to get to the next Then we do it all over again Each day presents its own challenges and some days feel longer and tougher than others To wake up disheveled and not have a process to combat that will cause for an extended period within the chaotic state Without a process
This state could last longer than a morning.
Maybe even days, potentially weeks, even months.
We all would like to get off to a good start in the morning.
I've never heard anyone say I want to have a horrible start to my day.
We all would like positive, productive and enjoyable days.
All things have a beginning.
What does your beginning look like?
Do you even know?
Studies have shown that our mind, body, and spirit responds well to a routine that is kept consistently over time.
Develop a morning routine that is suitable to you, your mind, your body, your spirit.
A carefully curated routine to start your day will benefit you immensely as it will prepare you
for whatever comes your way.
you.
you know, that was that happened on Family few They said hey, what is a What is a state that has?
Is it like a coordinate or what is north-south east-west?
What is that?
And somebody said Wisconsin
What did it what did they get on that?
Zero
it?
That's why I always get annoyed with people pronouncing Illinois
Illinois Illinois the s is silent.
Oh, yeah, my
hour
I don't know I don't know bus.
No, no, no, no, no, I mean cuz I need to know this
Who invented it?
No,
no, who said that it's silent cuz it's there.
So why put it there if it's silent?
was
man.
Why put the s there if you don't
Did it be poem?
You know what they say.
I didn't write the book, I only read it.
I mean, I'm just saying make it make sense to me though.
Thank God for
But that's why I got kicked out of class, because I had questions to teach you.
Because they say stuff like that.
supposed
to
question.
You're supposed
to question.
And I'm
like, hey, excuse me?
Why is the ass silent?
Why even put it there in the get go?
You could have just left it out if it ain't meant for me to
say it.
It might have to go back to the origins of who founded Illinois.
You know
the
first
and didn't I say that's one of my pet peeves,
but this is what this what I'm saying He just said the ass
right
he always do why put it put why put a letter or a number there that I'm supposed to say nothing
shout out to everybody who's Unfortunately listening to us on YouTube and Facebook You know, I hope
are infected
I'm just
saying, make it mixed.
OK, prime example, DJ.
Like I asked her on Wednesday, I asked Michelle on Wednesday.
If Octagon has eight sides, Octopus has eight arms.
Why is October the 10th month?
And does she explain it to you?
Yeah, she's saying that somebody added two more months.
But who added the two months and
why?
Hey.
If it started no, I don't know because if it started no because if it started off as a as the eighth month And then
October to something else then what do we have?
Then we know but October's April right
So so so you just want them to change the name.
That's all
no, but what I'm saying is now now you do know October was the original eighth month, right?
original so who
Decided we gonna add two more month.
We're gonna ask 60 more days
Probably yeah, yeah Cuz and then The Romans got a lot to do with
but I'm sad
stuff too.
Who decided
why is July July?
Hoonio,
okay,
July.
So if they go on offer that who added the two other months,
this is just Google it man
Because you're going off of that right off of Julius Caesar and July been
Make a make sense to me.
there
What up, man?
What up, DJ?
What up, what up?
Uh huh.
What up, Boxconn?
Hey, Jack.
What up,
man?
Clark Kitt.
Who you with?
Who you hitting?
You should call him Caboose.
Because he's
so,
of all of this, man.
Oh, so wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Before you, before you go, Numa Pompilius.
There's the second king of Rome, and they added January and February.
And they made that around 713 BC.
Wow.
Wow.
Hey, DJ.
What
up?
Who gives up?
Hey, I'm with you.
I'm
Amen.
Lil' Junebug and Lil' JJ.
They went to speak, spend the weekend with their grandmother.
So, grandmother said, okay, Lil' Junebug, JJ, time for bed.
Say your prayers before you go to bed.
They said, okay, big ma went to the room.
Little Junebug said, time to say the prayers.
JJ said, okay.
So Junebug said, God, would you send me a new bike and a PlayStation?
So JJ said, why are you talking so loud?
God can hear real good.
Junebuck said, I know, but Big Mark can't.
big big big big
big
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Yeah, I don't know how to act.
So take him upstairs.
But I told her, next time you got me in the basement for six months, I'm going to whip you, your ass, and your sister too.
bald
I will
I got another one for you.
All right.
Your father's personally will survive today.
What would he say?
Thank you very much.
Come on.
Give me up.
Let me up.
Give me up out of here.
dark.
Check him all back
We
you.
That's the dumbest thing
I've ever heard in my life.
Yeah, they tell you to stop while you're ahead.
Yeah, I started to
say that.
Like, man, you might want to stop right now because
money and go.
50.
Doc, I'm out of there.
yeah.
I holler.
I'm gone, man.
The work we're doing at Ville is
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Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset.
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Good morning, you're in there.
Good morning.
Can you hear me?
A little bit, you kind of low.
Okay, now can you hear me?
Yep.
Okay, we was talking about something about a bear.
First of all, you guys were talking about the alphabet.
No, I mean the dates and all of that stuff.
You know, I tried to find the letter after C, took it to a couple of games around.
I'm trying to find the letter after you because I knew if I could find that letter after you that was sitting higher than our situation, I would even be rich for the rest of our lives.
And I kind of gave up on that deal.
But anyway, you were talking about a bear earlier.
I heard something about a bear.
What were you talking about
Yeah, they said, if you ever see me in the forest and with Tesla in the bear,
Don't help me help you there.
Okay, but listen, remember how to rune when brothers used to have those dancing bars and those bars that were right around the circle on a bike?
Yeah.
You remember that one that got away from downtown at the arena?
That guy got away downtown at the arena, man, and got down on 27th of July, and me was in the station, and she let that bear run up through the yard, not to get off a bike, man, and we ain't seen that kid.
I mean, that bike was that fast since.
Give me the coaches, nigga.
That was a good one.
Dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
That's me.
I'm in the middle with the shoe up that back.
I'm chasing that back.
If that went up through the yard, I could cheer up that bike.
Jump on that bike, man, and we ain't
seen it yet.
What's going on?
But anyway, man, listen here.
Y'all that's what we seen, man.
You too, man.
That's how I called
in.
What the hell?
That's kind of
funny.
All the
welcome
he should be impeached.
From that alone, that is beyond, and the word I was looking for, negligence.
That is beyond negligent to have that ship out there for
over a hundred and some days.
And now we've got a military man who really don't even want to be on there.
They're considering other alternatives just so they're not experiencing what they're experiencing.
Even in World War II, deployments on ships were not that long.
That just kind of shows you kind of where we are.
Now, they can't leave
Until the Washington gets there, another aircraft carrier.
How long is that going to take?
Right.
Because if they do that, they give up.
Now, dude's mind, he's sending it controlling.
The straight horn moves, America is not.
I mean,
you can't really listen to nothing he say because he talking about the economy is in good shape right now.
He talking about affordability is doing really well.
Well,
A made-up word by the Democrats.
Well, at first he said that it was doing really well.
The economy is good.
Now he just said that.
But mind you, he ran off of affordability and saying that things were going to be more affordable for America.
He ran off this.
It's just mind-boggling how these people follow him.
And then you know it right now.
You usually don't have good points, but you have a good
You had a good point when
he pushing them off and
then damn You had a good point when you said now how is Pete headset?
buying Having all of these luxury dinners, you know when we have military men who don't have You know adequate food on these ships That that again, that's another slap in the face
to these military people who are putting their lives on the line for shenanigans.
Caller, welcome to the
Good morning.
Good morning, man.
Hey, dig it.
Hey, hey, Keith.
Yeah.
Your name is Keith, right?
T.H.
That's
correct.
Yeah.
Okay, now spell it.
Nope, I.T.
I said spell it.
You move it
you gotta slow
down Well I guess he got you
water.
Right.
And that's what I was about to say.
supposed to fight the enemy and our morale is down?
Your energy is down.
Like, you don't have the what you need.
So are you going to get your tail whooped out there?
And you losing your life over something that you've seen and never been in the first place.
I mean, literally, to hear these people go in circles trying to defend this guy.
It's crazy, man.
You know, it's like what George always say, it's maddening.
It gets you so upset because it's like, come on now, we could disagree on certain perspectives, but this is just flat out madness.
What what uh Michelle used to say a hot Mississippi mess.
This is a hot Mississippi mess
Do you think that uh since this happening how you think the real listing gonna be now?
the
lady But he gonna be gone so
Now, a lot of that, well, a lot of times the military becomes an option when the economy is bad, right?
You know, so then people look at the military as an option.
I have two nephews who are currently serving in the military, one in the Air Force, one in the Army.
So, you know, you just sit there and it's just madness.
It's just madness, man.
I picked the wrong day to quit heroin.
Let me thank Mr. Kurt Weyland.
Let me thank Clark Kent Clark.
I know we didn't get a chance for you to do your shout out.
Shout out, bruh.
Shout out to Big Charlie.
Thank you, man.
Big Charlie barbecue for sending us out for Monday, man.
Oh, man,
something, man.
Yes.
Thank you, Big
man.
I can't lose
now.
What you just said, you definitely lost.
You lost your mission.
Wouldn't that just say you picked the wrong
day to quit heroin?
Yeah, man.
You were supposed to keep
doing it.
Whoa.
You're all going off the deep end.
What time is it?
It's time to go.
Good Lord, really.
run.
Come to my party, man.
you.
tonight.
OG's tonight.
Goers over at six.
Party started seven, twenty.
It's tonight.
Put on your finest threads, hard bottoms.
We gonna have some fun, man.
I wanted to have a space.
He won't be there though.
Chris Brown, he won't be there neither.
But it's gonna be some brown folks there though.