Welcome to Community Voice. I'm your host Keith Parris. I want to thank everybody for joining us this morning. The reason why I'm doing the intro this way was waiting on Michelle to come in this morning on YouTube and I saw a clip of my program and I just look so dead. So good morning. Do I look alive? Look dead. Look dead. Look dead. D-E-D. D-E-D dead.
What's happening? Hey, what's going on man? Hey, man, I'm trying to make you know, I'm glad you said that we were trying to figure out how to tell you that man Yeah, man, I'm just and I gotta I gotta remember I'm doing video now You know, it's not it's not the old days where people couldn't see me. I wanted to ask you a question. Yes, sir You I don't know if you don't realize that you do it, but you
You fold your arms quite a bit. Is that like a comfort move for your client? Kind of like lining up? Yeah, I think the body language is when you close your arms like this, then you're kind of shutting in. And then when I open them again. Yeah, you seem more receptive. Yeah. So let me. You appear to be more. What up, double R?
Hey, Jack, what's going on? You know it's coming. You know it's coming. Look at his face. Hey, no, he had that smile on his face. Yeah, he walked in the door with that. Here it comes. When I think of whom, I think of my friends.
Hey man, I'ma take my legs. I forgot about that line though, couldn't get the red bottom, so he got the red tops. I forget it. That's a good one, man. Yeah, give me about a nine and a half or that one. I mean, I was about 12,000. I know this Negro didn't think that me and Michelle was gonna come to his birthday party and not hate. I don't know why. If he was sitting there looking like, no, we going to. So anyway, I was at you and I wasn't early.
I was on time. I was on time. Got in there, man. Let me do this, though, man. And let me shut up the security guard there at OG. That brother made sure we were safe. Oh, yeah. Oh, baby. He was going to say, you need me walking to your car? Yeah. Baby, you do. Are you trying to tell me something? You want something out of me? Yeah, I mean, the neighborhood changed after you. But check this out, man. So Michelle was in this bins.
And man, when she started that car, the ambiance, y'all know what ambiance is in the car, that lighting? Man, the lighting in that car was like, and I looked at the little yabba ambiance of my truck, and I was going like, yeah, man. That's crazy. That's why there's a few more zeros. Yeah, right, right, right. So yeah, great, great, great time Friday night. We didn't mention Carmen was there. Yeah. Carmen McGee was there.
You know what, right out, let me say this to you, man. And I've been on a roll. I've just heard some great music this year. It started with Lettucey, you know, with Milwaukee Symphony, Kelly Price. You have, and you'd have to be a keyboardist to understand this, you have a good left hand.
Oh, yeah. You have a real good left hand, man. I, you know, what that means is that normally people right handed, they're doing all, he does work evenly with either hand. I was impressed with that. I was really impressed with that. Oh, man. Now I could barely hear because the shoes was so loud. Whether it is loud is my, my suit. Yeah, that decibel was real high.
And let me shout out, brother Chris. I told him after church yesterday, Keon is smiling wherever he is. He's smiling because Chris had on the red suit yesterday in the time that Keon and Michelle and LaKeisha came to church to hear me preach. Chris was wearing that red suit. So whenever and Keon fell in love with Chris, he said, man, let's do the red suit.
So yesterday I said he had a smiling you know with our ancestors looking down on that on that red suit Now it was actually very good very good now. It's a small world because One of the performers Friday night was Rodney Poe I've known Rodney Poe since he was I know you know them forever, but I've known him since he was like
12 years old and man, I'm really proud of Rodney and his brother Carsey had both Rodney and Carsey Boy, it's gonna be some interesting comments at my funeral Well, well, you know what? let's Try to you know steer energy away from funerals and more to like celebrating life so Interest and comments whenever you have a birthday party or we just celebrate you. Yeah
And I'm down for some but not a great job man. I was it was worth it and I was I was I was happy because Lowkey Carl Thomas He they was only waiting with my cousin, but they got stuck in traffic in Chicago So they were stuck for about two hours trying to come up here, but I was And I'm going where I know him from the hood I just kept looking at this dude like I know him. I know him
It was oh my goodness. So yeah, it was a great night, man. Let me thank you, man, for one, just inviting me and having me there. Man, let me go through the weekend, man. So just we got the news, and Michelle mentioned it, that Bishop Lawrence Kirby, pastor of St. Paul's Baptist Church, the oldest black church in Wisconsin.
Took his transition. He was my classmate at American Baptist. He was a senior when I was a freshman. And so, man, that means that I've known him, yep, exactly. I thought it was Saint Mark for some reason or another, but you said it's... Saint Paul. Saint Paul. I've known him in the state of Wisconsin. Yes. Racine. Racine. I've known him for more than 50 years. I used to play there. Did you? Yeah, I played there when I was traveling back and forth to Racine.
Got a chance to play at St. Paul for a few. You know, I was down there, greater grace. That building. Oh my God. Is that the one that they took? Really? Yeah. And they finished it? Yeah, yeah. They finished it. Someone's saying, though, the family life center next door, they're still working on. But yeah, I was down for our convention. That's the last time I saw Bishop Kirby. He spoke at Thursday night.
at the convention, and I'm gonna try to get him and President Jones on. But Keith Evans, the pastor of Greater Mount Eagle. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Did you just say he was gonna try to get Pastor Kirby on? No. Pastor Evans. That's what I heard, too. How could I swoon? That's what he said. No, it was, it was important for me and you just getting back in from the cousin world. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no. We're in the same place. He so said, but I'm gonna try to get him.
I'm sorry. It was a poorly constructed sentence. Okay. I just want to make sure I wasn't certain. Bishop Kirby spoke the last night of convention. You said that was on a Thursday night. That was on a Thursday night. That was the last time and they called it next week. I'm going to try to get him. Yeah. And I said President Keith T Evans. You did say his name at greater.
Mount Eagle Church. Yeah. I want to get him on and President Jones, because they're both stepping away from the leadership of the two conventions, two Baptist conventions in the state of Wisconsin. Now, so I'd like to have them on. So I'm working on that. But I had not been in, when we were kids, there was three churches that we would go down to Racine and sing at. Mount Eagle.
Yeah, Greater Mount Ego. What was the other? Oh, New Hope, Church of God in Christ, Elder Tezi. Yeah, they were in the basement. That's the thing we always remember going down about New Hope. And then Grace Temple now, which is now Greater Grace Temple. So we spent, you know, I could have grew up in Racine. There was some people down there. Yeah, but you had Elder Tensley over there, Mother Tensley and Elder Tensley. Yeah, right.
Yeah, you had the daughter of Irving. What was his name Irving? He came up to join, um, I'm not gonna go into Ramsey. George Ramsey, man. Yeah, so we would go down, uh, one of the, uh, one of the guys, one of the directors of the choir had a relationship with the folks down there. So love going to racing. Uh, let me, let me shout out Tim Mahon. Uh, he went to St. Catharines. I can't say St. Kate's didn't allow us to say St. Catharines.
Um, go angels, uh, it was great, man. I mean, they had to move indoors, uh, for the harbor park because of weather. Uh, so, so can I ask, did, did, did the weather ever get like they anticipated it would, but I kept saying to the people, you know, cause I was announcing it all day during my show to trying to be proactive rather than reactive, which so folks should be able to appreciate because you didn't want to have to try to scramble that at the last minute. They were.
They started, they stopped, they started, they stopped. I was talking to a brother and I said, you know, my wife and I were one of the 12 people that stayed and we actually got a chance to hear Kurt Weyland. He played for about 25 minutes and then the rain was coming and I'm talking like rain. Yeah, so they had to make that decision, understand and it's good that they had an alternative.
that going in, but great show. There was a jazz group, I think they're from Chicago. They were actually really, really good. And then of course, Kurt Weyland was great. So let me shout out again to my home. A lot of Milwaukee people down there. How's the moves, man? I didn't get down as she was earlier, so I missed her. But got down and let me, man, you know you won't.
Uh-oh, there's a guy that was down for that show that I've known literally since I was five years old and that's attorney James Turan First thing he said well, I don't keep some cuz he had that high voice even when we were in kindergarten But yeah, me and Jimmy man Jimbo we go back man
like five year olds. And we sat in the back of the room. There's another young lady sat back there with us, Pat, because we were the tallest. We had to sit in the back of the room. And so, yeah, he was there. Good to see him. A lot of people from Milwaukee, like I said, who were down. Great show. Kirk Whalen is incredible. There's no question about his gift. And he came through the audience. He came through the back and made his way to the stage. So it was good.
great show. I did get the White Castle. I did get the White Castle. I got you some sliders. Man, I got me some double cheeseburger sliders, man. So, I did get the White Castle. That was good. Now, a lot of people, they just, they don't like it. People from like Chicago, people from Indiana, they don't like White Castle. For me, it's a, I think, yeah, see.
I was telling Douglass that when I was in New York, I took the subway to Harlem and went to White Castle, right? And I'm on the subway ride back with my bag smelling like White Castle. So I did get a chance. That was cool. That was cool. Let me see. What else did I do? Let's see.
Oh, let me um saturday um also they had the retirement gala for dr rt ivy pastor maritus at new hope afters church here in the city oh he's walking away yeah he retired earlier this year actually so um really good turnout uh forum um and yes sister jackson i will mention
Lot of people very diverse group of people that he knew because of all the work that dr. I've done in the community and When Howard Fuller got up You know what that little fact I forgot that is absolutely correct. That's where he started and dr. Fuller may mention to that but what he got up
First thing he you know, he did his you know his opening and then he said I'm gonna say this vote for David Crowley and Went on and I thought okay, so people the room looking like yeah, okay. Yeah Which is this this race is so fascinating to me that First of all to me it seems like it's a no-brainer
But if you go out Facebook and another social media, there are people who I'm gonna say it Keith is not a no-brainer the thing is we've got a I've said no brainer who you gonna vote for but you got it We got to get them out to vote that I got But I'm listening to people There's always one in the room And this is why I love all African people all over the world
There's always one in the room who got to say Nick Okay Jesus came so there's always one She said what Jesus came and did what and they said so he can't say save the world so He went all of that. Okay. So, you know people going back and forth Okay, y'all we need to be adults in the room if I may say this
Do I need to do it again? We need to get notes in the room. Nobody's perfect. You ain't perfect. So, you know, if, if, if, if people were saying the alternative to David Crowley is Tom Tiffany, where are you with that? Okay. I mean that, so compare those two and then.
what decision will you make? And that's how I kind of get to me where, and again, I don't like to tell people who you should vote for. I'm just saying that if you look at it from a community perspective, who's probably more in line with where we might be as a community? Okay.
Alright, so I'm looking at people going back and forth and then you know the righteous brothers, you know, they got to be like we're just asking critical questions About what? Man they got me a six and a half anyway
Let me shout out though, you know, I what I do is, you know, because this is my game Talking is my game public speaking is my game, right? I make my little ends that is is the game So I am always in tune to when people give their remarks. So let me shout out again for dr. Ivy's gala Pastor Christopher Boston was a great presenter great MC dude was great It didn't go along but
Reverend Doctor, Pastor, Fred Carruthers, again, who's an alum of American Baptist, he got up and he gave his remarks. And I didn't know he could do these jokes. So he said that when you hear a word, is there a song that's attached to the word, right?
So he said that I'm kind of paraphrasing and he said rock Right and people go Jesus is the rock, you know Sam on Christ the solid rock and he said the people would you know, they do a song and He said sex
And he got really quiet He said the 90 year old sister raised her hand in the back and said precious memories
Man, let me shout out, I love black preachers. I love black preachers. I know that they're white preachers out there, but ain't nothing like a black preacher. God created something special. And as my mama said, you can take that anywhere you want. God created something special when God created black preachers, male and female. Oh my God, but that was good. That was, that was like, okay, okay, okay.
All right. So I mean, I, you know, it's just so much so many people here to admire so many people to look up to. And man, just great treasures. Anyway, you're listening to Community Voice. I'm your host, Keith Parris. And again, the phone lines open y'all 414-444-45250-414-444-5250. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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. 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 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 in 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.
Welcome back to Community Voice. Again, the phone lines are open 414-444-525-0. Excuse me, 414-444-525-0. Also, yesterday was Women's Day at Mount... I did with my wife at Zion Hill Church, and we had Dr. Eve Hall, who will be on our program, I think Wednesday of this week. What a great, great, great, great message yesterday, man. She was incredible.
I came up afterwards and said, you know, you might have a Different career. She was very good very inspirational Man, it was just good. So quite a weekend for me Justin Me making public appearances people know I am shy and usually try not to certainly don't like taking pictures and So people think it's just that's my shyness y'all
The radio and the microphone allows me to step out of being shy and then I go back into my shell because I just realized man like What do you talk to people about? You know, so I'm not very good at that. I think always I wish my sister she has the gift Oh man, my sister has the gift and I wish I had that gift, but it's not Me acting funny is just I'm just a little shy
And so even at this age, I'm still a little shy. So we can have conversations. Now, you know what came up, though, at my table? And look, I was, man, I was at table with dignitaries, man. I was at Dr. Ivy's event. I was there with Pastor Julius Malone, the incoming president of our state convention.
Reverend Dr. James Ivy, Pastor, Pastor Joseph Jackson. I got a chance to meet Pastor Crenshaw. I never met Pastor Crenshaw and me.
So I guess I had to sit somewhere. But man, just to be around these folks and so many folks. And again, just kind of getting back to that, just shows you the reach of Dr. Ivy and that the people who would come to show their love and show their respect. And it makes a difference when we do it when the person is still here. I think they really can't.
don't think they can when we're at their home going celebration but just people in the room and got a chance to to be there. Let me shout out and right now she's scheduled to to do the last Friday of the month. Boy I tell you I'm impressed with all of my nieces and nephews all very impressive young people but had a
very, very insightful conversation with my niece, Paris, who is a school teacher, just graduated from Marquette. And to hear her, her view of education, man, I was impressed. I was very impressed. So, you know, you learn how to listen. And when people are out, because like, and I find out here on these airways that some of the most,
brilliant people, I've had a chance to interact with, call this program. And as I think about it, some of the most not brilliant people I've ever met also call this program. So, you know, but it is.
So again, Dr. Hall, thank you. That was very, it was timely. It was very inspirational. So really appreciate you. Now, I was torn Saturday night. Should I go down here, Kirk Whelan? Or do I stay at home and watch the Lynx and the Asus? So I did something I normally don't do at a sporting event. I taped it and I didn't get the score, but that was a great game.
the links and the aces and again if y'all sleeping on the WNBA and I know that there's some people someone was talking to me and they were saying I know it's you gotta I'm not gonna say I'm a purist but I love basketball and I love to see basketball and I don't know if there's such a way or such a thing is how it should be played but because women do not possess the same physicality that men have
They're more dependent on playing the game the way the game is supposed to be played The unfortunate thing sometimes about talent is that people with talent some people with talent don't think technique is important But technique is real important how you do it. I mean the pick and roll done right is the pick and roll done right But just to watch them play That was just a great game. Let me hey the fever last night
Yeah, beat the dream. And that was, and hey, Caitlin Clark actually hit some free throws at the end of the game when it mattered. And that's the piece, because you know, the fever is on tomorrow night. And I understand that some people say that Caitlin Clark is the face of the WNBA. Asia Wilson, LaFisha Collier.
the best player on the fever. It is not Caitlin Clark. It's Kelsey Mitchell, that young lady. So again, I'm a big WNBA fan. They're celebrating 30 years. When you think about the struggle that these women who go through every day having to get out.
And they were talking about, there was a thing they were doing on the W, and so they were talking with Nafisha, Collier, and Diwana Bonner. And they were talking about the collective bargaining agreement, and how, what they were trying to get from the collective bargaining agreement. Yes, sir? So the Milwaukee Doves, was that the NBA then, or was that a different league? Why don't we have a women's league?
That's a different league. That was the team that Val got drafted to. Yeah. Yeah, that was one of the first women's leagues that they tried to, they kind of fold it. But yeah, we had the Milwaukee dough. I wonder where Milwaukee get a franchise. You know, you got Chicago, the sky, you got Indiana, the fever. I wonder what it, I mean, you would need to put somebody in the seats. Now I can say this, that
Caitlin Clark is not the is not the best player but she does is great TV ratings whenever she's playing but I would have thought that The game because you can see where they position the game where people were eyeballs gonna be on the game and but that ace Ace's links game Man that that they're playing. They're playing some real good basketball
which is great because I'm not quite ready to focus on football yet. You know, it's kind of preseason, but man, opening day is kind of around the corner. And I got to see what the Badgers are going to do this year. You know, I used to be part of the Grateful Red. I've got a chance to see the Badgers play in person twice, ironically in Illinois.
We went down to see them play Notre Dame at Soldier Field, and then I got a chance to see them play Northwestern at Northwestern. So I've never seen Wisconsin Badgers play in Wisconsin, so maybe I'll get up for a game. But I am a Badger fan when it comes to football, which is strange.
But then I went to a college that didn't have a football team. So then you have to identify Now let me make this little observation though Watch the SEC Because those dudes gonna play on Sunday there was so many SEC players I'd never heard of That were like second round picks first round picks Georgia, Alabama, LSU
Man, I mean, that's where the talent is, you know, in terms of football. The Big Ten is strong, too. But man, none like the SEC. Those dudes are playing on Sunday. It used to be back in the day. It was Oklahoma, Nebraska, USC. You know, if you had Oklahoma, Nebraska, USC, even Notre Dame, you're probably going to play on Sundays. But man, the Southeastern Conference has gotten so strong in terms of that football talent. It's amazing. Carla, welcome to the program.
Oh, good morning. Well, first of all, Milwaukee is not ready for no, uh, run the basketball team because the men here is too fragile. And then they want to get in them by prescriptions. We don't got time for that. But I want to ask you a question. Can we go down the hill this morning or let's go beneath hell this morning and get controversial? Can we do that today? And when are you ever not controversial?
I'm just saying because I really want us as Black people to grow. And I went to a place today on 92nd and Capitol and they were ghetto. They was ratchet. Uncle girl talking about, she was playing at her little acuto. And I'm like, no, nobody want to hear while I'm there with them dark circles around your eyes. Now my question to you is, how can we get parents and grandparents
to raise their keyless with pride. Because right now, I feel like these keyless can't be successful because a lot of their parents are mentally retarded. And they're acting like they're slow. Because the conduct of what's going on is unacceptable. And that's the reason why the North side cannot prosper. Because, you know, they say old poverty, poverty, but the stuff that these
children is dealing with, and I don't, and this new generation is not crack babies, not a parent's probably was crack babies, but this generation is not crack babies. How can we get the parents and some of you grandparents that's listening, because y'all always got a problem with somebody using N-word, y'all raise some of them deployables too, because you sitting back collecting the check and letting them whine crazy, versus breaking that broomstick over the back of their neck.
and snatching them out of their bed and making them pick up around that house. But y'all know how to get the church on Sunday. But you know what, Al, let me say this. And here's where I'm torn. I grew up in a generation where in the black community, you had a significant percentage of black folks who were in the church. And there were certain things that there was a lot of negatives. So I'm not even going to let's just be clear.
But there was still a certain value system that was promoted. And any religion promotes an ideal, right? I-D-E-A-L. And so I think that that's different. I think you cannot dismiss the impact of poverty, where, again, when I was growing up here in Milwaukee, Milwaukee had one of the largest black middle class in the country.
right? So there's certain things that happen, not to say that there wasn't dysfunction, even in those families there were. I just think that you're looking at a greater percentage in the city of Milwaukee of children born into poverty. Their parents already have their struggles. So how do you focus in on parenting when you're dealing with with with your own struggles? Like the situation, young man killed three people. The woman knew he killed three people. She lets him stay at the crib with her kids.
and she goes out and party. If that is true, that's kind of indicative. And so a lot of these kids are growing up in environments where the parents, their struggles are such that the kids become almost like an afterthought. And now we're creating a certain level of social pathology because of the situation that people, and I have to say, because adults make choices, the situations that people put their children in, all of us,
Probably not many of us have been born into less than ideal circumstances But it was something my mother used to say she said when you have kids things change, right? You need to change it's not about you as much as it is about these kids and we live in a society now where You know selfishness and individualism is celebrated As opposed to what we do collectively and a lot of people don't see
that their kids, it was something the sister was talking about from Nova school, where we're connected to one another. And our uplift as a people is dependent on more and more people thinking more towards the collective than the individual. And so I agree with you in terms of that. I don't want to, because I understand that for a lot of these people, there are substance abuse issues. A lot of these people could have been abused themselves. That doesn't stop people from having children.
and that's the unfortunate piece because you know we have you know you have birth control you have plan B I mean abortion I think if you do it before six months it's only like well $500 maybe it's boosted up to a thousand dollars I know back in the day they used to use the jar of baths or lean and swoop it on up there so everything can take up and on the other hand you could just say no it didn't work
You know so but or you know you have those one today who say CPS is raising my house or I'm afraid of CPS I just think some of these people have but you know what there's a word there's a four letter word hope and and and we can't underestimate the the power of hope right hope gets people up in the morning when people are sitting there hopeless
And you go like, well, there are people, a lot of people who really feel hopeless. And so it's complicated. I hate to use that word, but it is. It's complicated. A lot of it is systemic. A lot of it is the individual trying to figure out, but we're all born into this world and then we have to figure out how to navigate. But I think one of the things that we don't hear as much
is that you're about the future. You know, my mother said, I am making sacrifices now, so you won't have to struggle like I did. There are many parents who are still in that situation, but trust me, there are a lot of parents who are not. And like I said, the kids just kind of grow up and, you know, cause there's no sense of the future. You know, my mom tried to position us that we could be the most successful people we could possibly be. So.
So if there's these constant problems, and we have these people with kids, these people who always got an excuse, wouldn't it just be easier for them to go to Fond du Lac, Ike, Scotch, Walshaw, but Lloyds. I heard Walshaw got a real good welfare system down there. And you know Walshaw, they got tons of land.
want to just move. So we saw the inner city. So then, you know, if that's the case, Milwaukee's problem becomes Rockford's problem. We don't care. Yeah, we got to care, man. We need to. We need to. How do we focus on healing?
And I think that that's the heavy lifting that when we talk about healing and and giving young people hope and giving young people pride now Maybe you know, I don't know how you are but I grew up in a period where all of a sudden not all of a sudden There was this whole thing about being proud of being black and that black is beautiful And I think the people we need to understand that but I looked man kids are mercenary, you know kids kids
Well, we're talking about the parents who created the kids. We're talking about the parents who say they don't got no money, but they always find a way to get a 3-5 and some card of year glasses. We're talking about the parents who always say they don't got no money to do nothing, but they always got money for something that's not important. So I'm saying if they can control their kids,
They and their kids can move to find it. I can get that $9,000, that $9,500 and start a new life. And then in the inner city of Milwaukee can prosper because we will never be able to prosper because they want to use them. All right. You have yourself a good day. Have a boys ball in the shadow whiskey for me. Bye bye. Use the two community voice.
I'm going to get with the experts to see what's the best whiskey to have a shot from. We're going to take a quick break and 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 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. Veolia is 100% doing great work. When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia. The result of 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 Belia 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 just received a text from someone I know. They said that Olivia Miles is the truth. Oh, no question. And that game between her and Chelsea Gray, I think is probably going to be the links in the aces, but don't fall asleep on the Valkyrie out of Oakland. They are really good in there with second year team. They made the playoffs last year as an expansion team. So.
Again, don't sleep on the WNBA. I know, I know, I know. Let me get these calls. Call her. Welcome to the program. Hey, what's up, brothers? How y'all doing? What's happening, man? All right. Yeah, I know it's frustrating, but sometimes, like you said, we got to keep caring, man. We really do. Yep. I know it's frustrating sometimes. Hey, but did you hear about, um, what's Yvanka has been named? Jared, Christian or something like that? Her brother-in-law bought the Lakers.
I know, do we think real? What's the coincidence of that? I don't know if it's a coincidence. My question is, while you Laker fans, are you still Laker fans? Man, there's some money out here that's messed up out here, man. It's a mess. There's going to be a lot of heads rolling. All right, brother, it's a piece. All right, man. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that one kind of, that sent me for a loop, too. Bob Iger, who was the president of the evil empire, Disney, and Jared Kushner's brother bought the Lakers.
But you know That probably explains why LeBron wanted to get up out of there before this whole transition. Oh, yeah, cuz I would think with his politics. Yeah. Yeah Well, so he probably knew that it was coming and was like, oh No, let me say this because and I was talking about the collective bargaining agreement before Deebo had asked me the question for the women They were just asking for 40% the league was only offering them 10%
the revenue and So they ended up at 20% but the men are at 50% Men are at 50% of revenue and So we'll see they're expanding their product. I got all of that They do enough to keep eyeballs on them You know you have I don't know what it is about I know what it is, but you have somebody like Sophie Cunningham now look
Sophie Cunningham, when she played in Missouri, she was a punk, right? That was her whole game. Everybody talked about she sticks her nose in it and she gets in the WNBA and it's kind of the same thing. Now, of course, when she files, you know, great defense, when she gets filed, then it's, you know, it's assault. So I think that's part of it. The fact that when you expand the fan pool,
you will be expanding it to people, particularly males, who has their own misogyny. And then when you look at, they're saying that about half the league is gay. So you got issues around sex, you got issues around gender, around sexuality, and then race, because there's still a significant number. I would like to think that black women are probably the majority in the WNBA.
And maybe that adds to the drama. People like to watch because. Call it. Welcome to the program. Hey, Keith, what's happening with each other today? Hey, what's happening, bro? Keith, children will test you and see what they can get away with. Parents.
are not the same as when we and I don't want to put that on all parents okay so let me slow down a little bit but parents aren't the same like the parents we had when we were coming up and I'm gonna give you an example you always tell a story about one of your teachers I think you said they put their hands on you or something and you thought your mom you thought they your mom won't come up there and rip them the new one yeah
and it got flipped around on you. I'm still holding that grudge. Yes. So check this out to you. Okay. Twice. Hey, George. Hey, George. You're gonna have to call back because I do have a guest that was scheduled to be at 10. I'm sorry, I went long. So they're bringing them up now. So call me back. I'd be around 1030. I'll try. All right. Yeah.
No, we got Carla. Are you got them on now? Yep. Okay. Hold on. You sure? What you doing, man? I had to activate them, brother. Huh? I had to activate them. This is Carl Brown. What's up, Carl? What's going on? How y'all doing this morning? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Well, good. We get we get near it, huh? It's it's it's crunch time now, man, but
So again, it's Carl Brown of the Fresh Coast Jazz Festival. Welcome back, man. So let's talk about what people can expect from this year's offerings. Yeah, it's going to be a fantastic time. I'm so excited. It's funny like every year.
I say this, but I feel like I get more excited each year, you know, the closer it gets to it because it is such a good time and we're doing such cool and good work for the community this year. People are going to get to enjoy some fantastic artists as always. A couple of sleepers though, I think that a lot of people may not be that familiar with and I'm thinking after the fact people gonna be like, I wish I would have known about them earlier.
Eric Essex is one of those artists. Eric is a brother from Birmingham, Alabama who plays guitar with, he calls this music jazz with a touch of Southern Groove and it is just that and he's got a song that's rising up the charts right now. It'll be one of his multiple Billboard number one hits in the contemporary jazz world.
Jared Lawson, a young man who is a keyboardist and a vocalist just released a new album earlier this summer. And he is actually one of Michelle Obama's favorite artists. And Jared's going to be fantastic, really looking forward to him. But then, of course, we have, like, the stalwarts, like Jonathan Butler, who so many people love, and Candace Springs,
and Spyro Gyra, but then also Marquell Jordan, who was another powerhouse Marquell played, and Brian Culberton's banned for 12 years before stepping out on his own and doing his own thing. And he's amazing, multi, yes, he's a contemporary jazz artist, but he plays in so many spaces. He works in the hip hop space, in the R&B space, in the soul space. So he's going to be a fantastic time for everybody.
How do you how do you curate this in terms of who do you want to bring? Yeah, and the type of you know because jazz is a is a pretty expansive John Ray. It is that decision
That's a great thing. I tell you, I angst over it. Like I'm already working on 2027 for artists right now. And it's a mix of a couple of different things for us. One, we don't want to be stale. We don't want to have the same people over and over and over again, right? But we want to have people that people want to come and see, right? So we always, every year, try to have at least a couple of those artists that everybody, if you listen to this kind of music at all, you will know who they are.
or a Spyrogyra right or a Bonnie James right every year we wanted to have a couple people like that but then we also too want to try to introduce up-and-coming artists who are making impact on the on the charts and on the touring scene too but who sometimes people in Milwaukee made they may not have toured in Milwaukee and so
We also take a lot of feedback from people who attend the festival, who are telling us, hey, I'd really like to see so-and-so. And when that's the case, we try to do that. Like a couple of years ago, we had Gerald Albright. And of course, Gerald falls in that legacy artist category. But a lot of people said they wanted Gerald. So we made it our point to trying to go get Gerald that year. So it's a mix of a couple of different things. Some of it's the artist availability too, right? Some of them, there's one artist we try
I tried to get a couple of years ago, but he just, he just only tours like five or six dates a year and he just didn't want to come out, right? And so it's a lot of fun, but it's the thing that I enjoy doing the most. I think, but it's the thing I angst about the most because you want to put on a great show. And that's the other thing too. We try not to bring in artists that we haven't seen perform, right? So that we know like it's one thing to get up on the stage and play your instruments. Another thing to get up on stage and give a performance and we want people that are going to give that performance.
What I have, and again, so I'm a little slow in the uptick, is just the amount of talent that we have in this country. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is people you've never heard of. Yeah. And then when you get a chance to see them perform, you go, whoa. Yeah. Yeah. That's very true. I mean, for me, my biggest challenge every year is that we only have a limited number of slots. Like, I could easily book
15 or 20 acts every year that I would like to see, right? But there's only a couple slots that we have for the festival, right? And it's because of just what you said, the talent is impeccable. That's around here, right? So we have to manage to, though, the fact that it's got to be the talent, but it's got to be the talent that people are going to come out and buy a ticket to see.
Um, talk a little bit about the hometown that talk much the hometown all stars Yeah, so this is something we started when we back when we started the festival We always wanted to make sure we gave some hometown acts an opportunity to participate in this festival and get that experience of being You know being in the if you caught want to call it the big time if you will like being on that big stage and being in the green room and having all that so
This year's Hometown All Star is a group called Jasmine led by a young brother, local brother who has to be a school teacher as well named Nathan Mayfield. And Nathan has been playing around Milwaukee for the last couple of years, several years. He had a couple of years ago, he had a song hit the Billboard charts and they put on a fantastic show and we, I tell you,
I have been so pleased every year with the hometown all-stars that we have. And I've had so many great comments about them because it's like you said, a lot of good talent around the country, but a lot of good talent in Milwaukee too. And we also give local artists an opportunity to play at our after-party set, which is called the Nightcap, which happens from 11 to 1. And that's free to the public. That's at the Host Hotel, which is the highest place downtown.
you know so so yeah there's a lot of opportunity there's a lot of opportunity and for the next couple of days um it it ends um at midnight tomorrow but we have a fantastic ticket deal for anybody who happens to be an AARP member that for the first 50 we have we have 50 remaining um but the first 50 to buy a ticket and use the code
music to six With the AARP It's music to six is the code. They will get $40 off select tickets, which is pretty substantial discount on price of tickets, you know And that's the first So yeah for for 50 people 50 tickets first 50 tickets That use the code music to six
We'll get $40 off select tickets and that's because that's that's through the generosity of our sponsor ARP So let's talk about the it starts Thursday. So just give us a rundown. Yeah So Thursday the the first thing we do is a private thing at Children's Hospital. We always do a
A benefit concert for kids receiving treatment at Children's that happens Thursday afternoon at three and Eric Essex is coming into town early to volunteer to do that concert and then after After that we have a really cool and unique wine tasting event called the pairing where we pair wines with the music of a famous jazz artist and this year we're pairing wines with the music
of George Benson performed by Christopher's Project. And that's going to start at six o'clock at the Fitzgerald, doors open at five. I think we got about 30 tickets left for that. And then Friday night, the concerts kick off, the doors open at five at the Pap's Theater.
Um, oh, but, um, and then Eric Essex on at six, Candace Springs is on at seven, 30, um, Spyro Gyra is on at nine, and then we have our nightcap, but also Friday morning for our VIP patrons and for area music students and teachers. We have an artist Q and A session, so Jay Beckenstein, the founder of Spyro Gyra, will be spending an hour up close and personal with fans, just talking to them about music and his career and so on and so forth.
Then Saturday we kick off with another artist Q&A session. That's at 10 a.m. at the highest place downtown again for our VIP patrons and for area music teachers and students and that's going to be Jared Lawson.
After Jared, we have the Fresh Coast Cruise, which is a lot of fun. We rent out the Harbor Lady, the 808's largest boat. And we have a live lunch and jazz cruise. That one is now sold out. And so that one sells out every year. And so it's a lot of fun. And this year, the young man that is playing on that, I'm telling you.
Shades of George Benson and Buddy Guy, 17-year-old young man out in Chicago area named Will Carter, guitar player. He actually played seven instruments, but he played. We had him playing at the Moon Festival last weekend in the historic Third Ward, and he tore it up. Soon as Will started playing, man, people just came over and people were dancing and having a great time, and that young man just did his thing, so we're excited about that.
And then the concerts at the PAPS started five o'clock on Saturday. Doors open at four with the Hometown All-Star, the, um, the Jazz Men, and then Marcoel Jordan, Jared Lawson, and Jonathan Butler. And then the night cap will finish it off and then I'll sleep for two weeks after that. So if people want to get tickets, they can go to. They can go to freshcoastjazz.com or PAPStheatergroup.com.
And be sure if you're an AARP member, go ahead and get that AARP discount. $40 off is a good deal. But those tickets, that discount ends tomorrow. It's Carl Brown again, Fresh Coast Jazz Festival. It starts Thursday. And again, you can go to their website to get more ticket information. And we do have a set of tickets that we're giving away for Friday and for Saturday.
Man, I look forward to it. Good. Anything you want to say? So, man, we appreciate it, man. I'll be there Friday night. So. All right. Well, I look forward to seeing you, brother. And I always appreciate you all. And, you know, y'all have a wonderful day. And thanks for having me on today. Mr. Carl Brown, again, Fresh Coast Jazz Festival. It starts Thursday here in Milwaukee. Thank you, ma'am.
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You see a pause Gary said the guy you see in the screen. That's not keep Paris What angle you got me all man put me on a different camera There we go to the sexy camera man, I think that's camera nine camera nine Camera number nine Oh man. Hey, you know I was uh, I was downstairs. I was listening to some some albums and
I pulled out what's going on. There's a song on that album. You know, that's a whole consciousness album, you know, ecology, what's going on, save the children. He got a song on there about getting high. Really? Yeah. It's something about high, flying friendly skies. And we're talking about his addiction. Now, you know that song.
I'm walking on sunshine is about getting high. Probably. Walking on sunshine makes me feel good. Probably. Oh. Saw it on South Park. Puff the magic dragon. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah, man. That's most definitely about smoking. I got five on it. Hey. Live by the sea. We were on our honeymoon when I got five on it came out. We out in Cali.
And man, we must have listened to that song from San Francisco, all the way down to Carmel, listening to it, it was part of the rotation. Looney's, baby, that's the Looney's. Man. You know, that was the first time I'd ever, we rented this, Alexis. And man, that was, you know, you got to remember this 95, right? Oh yeah. So then they had the seats that had memory. Yeah. Oh man, that was such a nice ride. And we needed it because there's this little stretch, it called the Big Sur.
that goes from, oh man, I want to say Carmel Monterey down to Sam. I can never pronounce his name. It's where the Hearst Mansion is. And it's just one lane, one lane on each side. It's the most beautiful trip you ever take. It's the most nerve-wracking trip you ever take. You know, cause it's like you coming down, not a lot of guardrails. I don't even know how they, how they navigate it in the fog.
But that's a beautiful part of the country, that coastline there. We got up to Pebble Beach, and man. Boy, if you ever, and I know there are a lot of golfers who listen, that golf course at Pebble Beach. Oh man, I'm talking about the private one, not the public one. That's an incredible golf course. All right, caller, welcome to the program. Hi. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Mr. Daisy, I'm good. Good.
Just so Lee's Okay, good. I'm gonna go speaking with Margie. Oh, hey Margie. How are you? I'm good. I'm better up if I win something I love jazz, but I really want to break at work. Oh, you want to break at work? Yeah, and therefore you should win something because you're on a break at work. No, no, no, just because I'm a good person that that stands alone on his own. Well, you're absolutely correct. Well, all right, so
Here's the question. Uh-oh. Which is the better night to party on? Friday night or Saturday night? For me, it's both, but let's say Saturday. Let's say Saturday because I'm always grooving wherever I go. Let me say Saturday. All right. Well, great. Then you just want to set a ticket for Saturday's show. Jonathan Butler at the French Coast Jazz Festival.
And Doug wanted me to let you all know you need to pick them up by three o'clock on phase day by three o'clock on Thursday. All right. Okay. All right. So hold on. So right out can get your your information. Call or welcome to the program. Yeah. Call or welcome to the program. Hello. Oh, you come on. And Margie called back. Call or welcome to the program. How are you?
Hello? Is it me? No, it's you. Well, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if you from trying to listen to your TV and listen. OK. This is a two part question, but she beat me to it. Can I answer a question to for Friday night? Can you ask a question for what? For Friday night with some tickets for Friday night. Can you ask a question for Friday night? You had to get some tickets to.
Okay, so what night? Say man, listen here man. Get up off my I would go say nothing. It was Michelle Michelle sat down and she basically said
See wearing red shoes. Yeah, I didn't want to say nothing because I'm here for the show Well, hold tight man you you win the tickets for Friday night. That's by Regina So thank you. So hold on right. I was gonna get your information You all need to pick these tickets up before three o'clock on Thursday Can I can I go back to my point earlier to where you still giving away tickets? No, I'm done now
Okay, and so two things if what I kind of called about when you said about how I said parents and children are today because children always gonna try and test you out there who you are. I mean, you can have a meanest mom in the world meanest that they're gonna try and test you a little bit to see what they can get away with. So two things I witnessed last week was kind of blew my mind. So I'm walking out the house, right? And I see this little boy with this big dog.
And I'm like, who, who, who, who, who, who, who's got this yelling on the leash? And I'm like, who's got this? Who's letting this little boy out here with this dog? So he's the dog on my other neighbors. They have a cat. The dog runs up in their yard trying to get at the cat, right? That's what they're screaming, come get your dog, come get your dog. He can't control the dog. So he finally gets the dog back down the block. Then the dog runs after the neighbor.
So I didn't hear what the neighbor might have said to the little boy. I'm gonna be honest with you. But he finally gets the dog and goes back home. Now his mama on the porch crossing that little boy saying, you know, cussing a little bit. She out in her top and her panties, right? So he must have said something. The little boy must have said something that the man said to him. She cusses. Now she cusses. Who says something to my kid and stuff like that? She going to house, right, Key?
I'm thinking she's going to come back on with some pants on. You know, she going put on her head is one of them body cap. When she come back on in a tent, she's going to blow up the block and all this. So the young lady comes down to try to explain to her what's going on. She cussing, you know, ready to fight and stuff like that. Instead of trying to, you know, everybody, and I ain't never seen this dog, but she, everybody knows my dog runs around this block. I let him run free. I don't got a collar and stuff or no, because I wanted to do that.
And I'm like, so this is what you teach in your kid, right? Do you know there is Milwaukee does have one of the most stringent least laws in the country? Exactly. And here's the other thing. So we were at the laundromat the other day, right? This lady must have had about five kids. Now, you see gay men in the mirror. I think you think they're kind of small for their age. But this lady had like four boys and a little girl.
And I could have bet the oldest boy had to be about 13, 14 years old. So they in the laundry man throwing the football around. So I'm looking at her. I'm like, you're not gonna say anything. So they almost ran into me. I said, why don't y'all take the football outside? They look at me like they ain't heard me. So I asked her, I said, are these your boys? And she said, yeah. I said, can't you take them to tell me to take the football outside, right? So they kind of grumbling under their voice.
They finally take the football outside. About an hour later, they inside the carts, you know, the things that you put your clothes in, running around in the laundry mat. Don't care who in there, she ain't saying nothing. Could have ran into people, they damaged one of them, one of the washers. But it's to the point kind of like, with some of these parents, you can't say none to them, and you can't say none to their kids, because they ready to fight. What is that teaching the kids, Keith?
Well, yeah, I I you you preaching to the choir You know, I'm gonna say which brother But one of my brothers got jacked up in the classroom because my mother came up to the room up to the school He was coming in the classroom. He got jacked up in front of the whole class So the way, you know, I always say this our parents didn't play that stuff cheap
When you went to school, or when you were out in public, like Michelle said, you had to represent. Now I'm not saying, you know, we all did all those sneaky stuff, but it was still different when an adult came by. Whatever we was doing, we stopped until they got out of here shouting. We thought they got out of here shouting. Then we went back to clowning. But we didn't disrespect like that. We did. We knew better. But you have people who didn't grow up that way.
and for whatever reasons. And so then it's passed on to the kids. I remember I was over, it became Malcolm X and we were over the late Lafayette Golden, he was principal. And we were over and we were there to meet with him. Was it? No, no, I was at Parkman. Either way, a young lady had been disciplined. And so she had to bring her mom to school.
So her mom brings her friend or her sister, and I'm sitting out there listening to them talk, and then I'm going, and you're wondering why you're here for your child? Because, you know, we are a reflection of our homes, and I agree with you. One of the things that part of the culture was you never brought shame on your home, right? On your family name. That meant a lot to people.
But I think we just have to come to grips with that there is a generation who was raised, and they weren't necessarily raised with those values. And so those kids are out there, and we have to deal with it. Keith, that happened when we was going to the parking lot, or that happened when you was a grown-up? What do you mean? When you said this went down at the parking lot.
When we were when we were here, I was talking about we were there to meet about the renaming of renaming of Parkman to Mr. Douglas Andrew Douglas. Oh, OK, because I know that didn't go down when we was going to Parkman. No, I mean, it was obvious and I gave the story that incident. I had it happen at Parkman and my mother was very supportive of teachers. But if you don't value education,
And that's the whole piece of it. You really have to value education in order for your kids. It's like, you know, in some ways, I kind of wish I was raised by a schoolteacher because when it came to the academics, there was no question about how you're going to perform, right? Now, some of the wildest people I know on this earth was raised by schoolteachers, but not the academic piece. Not their academic. The academics was on point. And I think that we...
It's been allowed to say that if you are educated, you're acting white. And that is like one of the most ignorant statements ever, because what you'll discover is, and this is not about racial, this is about more class and social status than anything else, where that same attitude is in rural areas where they're very poor people.
Right? Because they don't necessarily see the benefits. My mom didn't graduate from college, okay? But my mom understood the importance of education and as much education as you could get. I mean, that was her thing. And so, but again, everybody... You see that's passed down through your generation too, Keith, on what you say about your nieces and nieces. Oh, yeah. I mean, the question of it is that this is the floor, you know, the minimum of what you should do.
when you look at people who are happy that their kids are throwing a big graduation party for the eighth grade, not the eighth grade. But for some people, that is tough. But we've been dealing with this issue. And part of the socialism was that America benefits from a highly educated society. But business folks,
understand that in order to bring down or keep the wages down, you want a not as educated population. Your education dictates that you should get paid more money. So, you know, I think the leader of our country said, well, that's why he left the world uneducated. Of course. I mean, people will pimp your ignorance.
You know, I like man. All right, man. Appreciate it. Did you get your information? Oh Not yet. I'm sorry. You want the tickets, right? Yes, I do sir. All right. You don't have to call me sir It's a habit
You're listening to No, I'm not gonna say we're listening to the Georgian threw me all off man. I'm I'm I'm discobobulated Here's the great danger though that you know, I would caution all of us how we have this conversations is important Because people can use our words. I mean we saw that During the crime bill where you know, it was such an outcry
that something had to be done, that when something was done, we didn't think about the long term consequences of that thing that was done. All right, let's do this. You're listening to Community Voice. We're going to take a break. Caller, I see you don't go anywhere. We'll be right back.
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. Carla, welcome to the program. Hey, good morning. How you doing? Good. What's happening? Hey, I'm not a WNBA question for you. I've been really following this league for the last couple of years. But my question to you is, who would you consider the MVP this year? Who? Y'all, yeah. Asia Wilson. See, that's so typical. Come on. Well, hold on. Wait a minute. I'll give you a couple of options. Asia Wilson. Yep.
I think Kelsey Mitchell is having a season. She's ballin' man. And then Paige, Booker's? Booker's? Booker's. Yeah. Well, who you got? Who you got? I got somebody under the radar. Olivia Miles. Rookie of the Year. Olivia Miles. She's gonna be Rookie of the Year. Who's that rookie that's killin'? Doesn't mean she's cold.
With the goggles, their girl can ball. Yeah, you know, she was called at Notre Dame and then she transferred to TCU for her last year, but she was was her and her dog. Man, they were quite a back court. Yeah, I don't know. I think Asia Wilson is just so dominant right now, man. It's well, well, but see, that's typical. I mean, you know, he says typical, brother.
because she she's a MVP of the finals in the last couple of years. Right. You know, she's leading her statistics and and probably I think scoring and rebounded. Yeah. But the MVP candidates is Olivia Miles, Kelsey Mitchell's, and I think of Paige Beckers. Those are the three candidates that they got up. Well, they obviously got Asia Wilson. Well, once again,
You know, you know, you go just that's like Laban James. You just keep giving the same. Well, man, if you still perform it, you just you just ball it right. I like that. I mean, I mean, and when you watch her play, it's like they talk about the efficiency of Asia Wilson's game. Man, you look up, she got 32. Like, yeah, those would be and who knows. But Kelsey Mitchell, because she plays pretty much in the shadows of Caitlyn Clark.
A lot of people don't really appreciate just how good she really is. Now, I'm going to tell you, Kaylin Clark is really good, but the only weak spot in her game is defense. She has no defense, but her court vision is tight. Her passing is just incredible. That's what I'm saying, her passing, court vision, yeah, she's tight. Because I think the three best passers I love to see play is Chelsea Gray,
Olivia Miles, and then Caitlin Clark, man. She throws passes that you go like, whoa. I agree. I didn't see that. But Olivia Miles, she can also score. Yeah, she can score. I mean, she's a good penetrator. Is she a lefty? I think she is. I'm not really sure. And I know Kelsey Mitchell is a lefty. Yeah, Kelsey's a lefty. And then Wilson is a lefty too, right?
Yeah, she's a leftist. Yeah, that's kind of fascinating that, you know, three of the top players are left handed. Well, you know, see, you know, who is it? The Aces and the Liberty. I believe they've been winning this thing for the last, what, four, five years or whatever. They're also an older team. Yeah, they are. Well, I mean, you know, they're going to be there. They're going to be there. Well, I think, yeah, so who do you give me? Give me the WNBA Final Four. Oh, that's a hard one.
You know, you would have to go with almost with the top four teams in the league, Minnesota. Who was there? Golden State? Golden State. See, then you're going to have to say the Liberty and Aces. I mean, it may be Indiana. Indiana might. I think it's either Indiana or the Liberty. I think that they're just that close. But when you watch Minnesota play, that team is so.
man, I mean, they can hurt you in so many different ways that, you know, in the fissure Collier, you know, I mean, and think about she's coming off an injury. And she just kind of blended because they were winning when she wasn't playing. Check this out that the second the second squad is more of a defensive on the court than the first than the first than the starters. Yeah.
And but don't but don't give up on what you're going to watch go to state Valkyrie that is a no joke Yeah, cuz last year like I said they made the playoffs and they were an expansion team and this year and you know what the thing that that's Their little calling card is how I use this word efficient. They really are I mean they they're not flamboyant You know, but then you look up. It's like a razor like you've been cut and that's how the Valkyrie play
But I just think that at this point, now again, Vegas and the Liberty are a little bit older. So maybe it's going to be more of the experience. But when you look at Minnesota, man, they just, I mean, I don't know what, and I hate to compare to an NBA team, but they're almost like San Antonio.
You know when San Antonio was on that run well coached very efficient Really team first, you know it this I just like watching them play and fees that little mid-range game when she turns man You know the form on her jumper is just so incredible man. She just knows And these women they know how to play which I really like because there's a lot of dudes out there with talent don't really know how to play
Well, see, that's that's the thing. Like I heard you make their comment about they play they play the way the game should be played. Right. And, you know, it's not about three point shooters with them guys up and down the court. They pass and they they play in the game the right way. I mean, you know, but I just want to say this before I go, I really fell in love with Olivia Miles this year because she reminds me of my female version of Nate Archibald. Remember him? Yeah.
Check out that stop and go how she runs tiny. Oh, yeah, like a little tiny tiny man. This is a I was a little guy and they had a college all-star game and this little dude was killing him like who is this dude, right? And it was like he's Nate Archibald. He played at UTEP, right? You know that is that the old Texas Western?
And this dude, Hall of Famer, did he get a ring with Boston? He got a ring with Cowins, right? When he played with Cowins? I really think that he did. But I'm going to make this comment. You went to college and I know when you was up on these coasts, you ran across a lot of guys. And you know, that's a typical play from them guys up on that east coast. They're penetrators. Yeah, and I'm going to tell you somebody who
for a lot of outside things. But Artie Green, who played at Marquette from New York, Artie Green was the truth. And the first time I ever heard that apply to anybody, I was working at a summer camp in Dutchess County in New York. And dude said, oh, you from Milwaukee, right? And so, yeah, he said, man, you know, my homeboy played Marquette. Who's your homeboy? He go, Artie Green. I said, yeah. I mean, Artie was such a...
That dude so you know and that's New York. I mean, you know when you when you when you think who's the dude? He went down. He made more money selling drugs. So he dropped out of Winston Salem. Was it Pee Wee? I can think of this dude's name. He was dominant in Rutgers, man. Right. And this dude, but he was making more money selling drugs. So he dropped out of college. You know what? I read an article yesterday.
I read an article John Herschko mess up the books if he makes this trade for Jimmy Butler and and and trade away a Thailand hero and and those guys and uh that um that guy that played it um he's the sixth man of the year and he got him a hero and a couple more guys and he's going to trade them for Jimmy Butler and uh some other couple of people. How are you Bucks fans feeling about the Bucks? I think they really I think they really did good.
You know, they got a good, good, good core. And yeah, they did good. I mean, it was time for Yons to go. Yeah. I mean, and he was going to go eventually anyway. I mean, you know, he's almost like damaged goods. I mean, you know, I think he's still got some. I think he's still got some in the tank. Miami. Miami's going to be a formidable team this year. OK, but with him and Bam on the floor, who's going to get the ball?
Because both of them play the same type of game. Well, when I hear that, like people talk about who's going to get the ball, it gives the impression that there's this player out there who has the ball and he's scoring 70% of the points. He's not. Yeah, that's not. You know, Yavis was able to do what he was doing. But when he had Chris Middleton, who was a 20-25 point of game score, you know, you got to have at least two scores on your team in the NBA. Three is great. Don't give up on Miles Davis. I mean, a Miles Turner.
He, uh, I don't, I think he, you know, I agree with you. It's the coach. It was coaching and he was playing out of his position. You know, he really was. I don't, don't give up. He'll be okay. If he had, if he had a someone like Halliburton and, um, you know, the one thing about Halliburton, man, he was getting the dudes, the ball, he was giving them the ball where they could score. Yeah. I mean, you know, so I don't know who, who's going to be the Bucks point guy.
But see they're little birds, they're little rookie, they can have men that boy cold. Yeah, a barrel ain't gonna start over Ryan Rollins though. Well, do they have anybody over five, six playing guard? Yeah, Ryan Rollins is six-four. He don't look six-four. Yeah, Ryan Rollins is six-four. KBJ, what did you say?
Why they look so little compared to everybody else TV How tall is Gary Trent? Okay
Alright, I'm gonna get off, man. Alright, man. Appreciate you. Okay, man. Let me, let me, let me say something that, that, that the prophet Maurice White said. He said, lover's eyes are blessed because they only see the best. Come on, man. The Bucks a little in the back court. Uh, what's now Porter? No, Porter six four. Porter got good size. He's six four. Ryan Rollins is, yeah, Ryan Rollins is six four. Yeah, I count for six six.
He's a point guard European He's a point guard slash combo guy. Give me a great. Give me a great European point guard. It don't exist No, let me take you back. Steve Nash Steve Nash from Australia Ricky Rubio was nice before he got hurt Ricky Rubio Ricky Rubio was nice Ricky Rubio No, no wait in the hole
pull up wait no no no pull up when he was great he was great in the Olympics when when when he first came in the league he was Ricky Rubio you're making my point because when they come from Europe they shoot they shoot first yeah but these dudes they pass first yeah but that's what the league was there because you had to force point guard you the league still is that was running point guard he was
No, no, no, Eric Snow was running point. No, Eric Snow had the ball, but Alan Iverson was directing everybody. So, you know, Alan Iverson was scoring. Yeah, but he was really the point because he was putting everybody. Give him the ball and get out the way. He was going, oh, you over there. You over there. You know the all says, get the ball to the Italian. Yeah. Right. You know, I mean, they don't want to wheel. Right. Right. Get out the way. This dude who played with Magic Johnson, he said, what was your job in Michigan State?
He said, do the inbound pass to Magic Johnson to get out the way. You know what? That's funny, because Jeff Teague said the same thing on the podcast. You said, play with Yonis. He said, play with Yonis. The coach told them, get a body, Yonis, and run to the corner. Dick Garrett, I was having this conversation. When he was a rookie, he started for the Lakers, right? He played with Jerry West.
Get the ball to Jerry West. Why am I doing a Carlton? Get the ball to Will. What are you thinking, man? Get the ball to Will. Look, I really am into, like, the Jordan rules. You know, like, there is no way where people are thinking, like, there's equality on the team. Uh-uh. We eating because of Michael Jordan.
There's no way Keith should be out here dribbling, trying to get his shot when Michael Jordan is on the floor. First of all, who's hurt? That Keith is even playing. Who is this dude? Who is this dude, right? You know, so, and I understand you got an ego, but you better accept the reality. You're playing with Michael Jordan. What would that, that, that they show in the last dance where, uh, with Steve Kerr hit the shot?
And Michael said, you know what? They've been doubling me. You're going to be open. I'm going to get the ball. And I can only imagine what Steve Kerr is thinking, like, oh, I can shoot? No, like, not your inflection that doesn't, I got to shoot. Oh, yeah. It's the other one. It's coming to me. You know, and thank God, he stepped up and he made it.
And people don't think about, even when that's all you do, there's still an enormous amount of pressure. Because if he missed that shot, it might go be, why didn't Jordan take the shot? Why are you passing it to Steve Kerr? And Jordan is never going to give you the ball than that predicament ever again. Would you? Kobe did. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's one of those things. So when you're a role player, know your role.
as Bill Belichick said, do your job. But you know, but you got a lot of people, you know, it's like when Lindsey Hunter went to LA and he's mad because he's not starting. Huh? What did you think? Is Kobe there? Like coming from Detroit. Like. Well, Kobe and you, you, and I'm gonna say Derek Fisher was better than you. So come on, man. Yeah. But, but, but Lindsey was a monster though.
Man, not likely, but then he ended up playing for the Bucks too. Yeah, he was he wasn't that big of a monster. He was trash when he got over here. No, y'all use that term boy. Y'all use that term trash and garbage. Man, he was trash. Y'all need to be more judicious when you when you call people trash. Man, listen, they are NBA players. I get it, but he was. Remember Tarell Brandon? Yes and no. OK, Tarell Brandon. He came from Minnesota. He played for the Bucks, right?
trash. Everybody was geeked about TB coming over. Oh, Tarell Brandon gonna do this, do this, do this. The worst point guard in history. And then who? No, he's not the worst point guard in history. Well, to me, Delavadova. Delavadova, I don't know. He should have never got, he should have never got that money, but he had a good playoff. One game. Yeah, right. Yeah, one, now they play off a playoff game.
And he just happened, you know, cause I'm gonna tell you how some man is in my life. I don't know about your life. Timing is everything. He just happened to come out where everybody was getting paid. Remember? That's the Mike Connelly year. $153 million. And the bucks gave that dude all that money. And let me tell you something. You know why we, we end up getting Ellis and not Steph Curry.
Because the Bucks they want to take Steph Curry because it's ankle because of his ankle and that's why the window Really? And that's why the when the new owners came in they fired the whole scout team because they actually talked about that We was slated to draft Steph and Curry, but they said he was too little and his ankles was bad Let's pass. Well, they should have been fired the entire staff at Duke because Duke passed on them too because they thought he was too little
That's why his brother gets the scholarship at Duke, because they say we ain't going to make the same mistake. Right. So, but think about that. That would have changed history. Yeah, we would have had him. Well, maybe not if you don't have a coach who could, you know, one thing about Jackson and then Steve Kerr, they knew because really, you know, Jackson really built that team.
Right. He developed that team. Steve Kerr was able to take it to the next level. Yeah. You know, but Mark Jackson, man. And the thing with Mark, it wasn't his coaching. Mark didn't get along with the front office. And it actually came out two minutes. He was making players pray. Yeah. And that's what I'm saying. There was a lot that was going on with him. And sometimes it's not what you do on the court. Yeah. It's what you do off the court. There's a young man. Let me, I know I got to go.
And boy I tell you Ryan Clark the young man who yeah from ESPN, but guess no no he played with the Grizzlies in Arkansas OD. Oh, he's my Brandon Clark Brandon Clark. Oh, you said Ryan Clark. I'm sorry Brandon Clark Yeah, well his family is getting his contract Really? They'll be paying them out. Yep. They get like 13 million left Now that's
For an organization to do that when they don't have to well, I think they there was nothing At that point he hadn't been convicted even though he had been charged And you know, I don't know he he died All right, let me thank mr. Carl Brown. Let me think all of Devo Byron Jermaine Tito
Randy, Latoya, Janet. Who's the older sister? Latoya. Oh, Riri. Yeah, that's one that don't nobody ever see. She had a hit. Did she? Yeah, she had one song. She had a little hit. Did I tell you I saw the Michael movie?
Yeah, do you tell me your reviews and I couldn't believe Oh the choreography the music was dope Some of that acting though You could tell this was his first movie I want you to fire Joe for me So who was better Joe Jackson
Domingo or No, who's my guy Lawrence Hilton Jacobs Oh Don King, okay And I know Domingo is a great actor, but to me it's Lauren Hilton Jacobs. I Think he was a better Joe Jackson
And of course, talk about another Lawrence. There is, when I get to heaven, and I'm looking for Ike Turner, it's going to be Lawrence Fishberg. Yeah, because Ike might not be there. Yeah, I didn't think about that. Like you look at my Ike and it's Lawrence.
Let me thank everybody for being part of the program today. The good Lord Willow Creek. Don't rise off the top there by tomorrow. And as always, go for this place of peace.
Welcome to Community
I'm your host Keith Parris.
I want to thank everybody for joining us this morning.
The reason why I'm doing the intro this way was waiting on Michelle to come in this morning on YouTube and I saw a clip of my program and I just look so dead.
So good morning.
Do
I look alive?
Look dead.
Look
dead.
Look dead.
D-E-D.
D-E-D
dead.
What's
happening?
Hey, what's going on man?
man, I'm trying to make you know, I'm glad you said that we were trying to figure out how to tell you that man
not
You I don't know if you don't realize that you do it, but you
You fold your arms quite a bit.
Is that like a comfort move for your client?
Kind of like lining up?
Yeah, I think
Yeah, you seem more receptive.
to be
more.
What up, double R?
Hey, Jack, what's going on?
You know it's coming.
You know it's coming.
Look at his face.
Hey, no, he had that smile on his face.
Yeah, he walked in the door with that.
Here it comes.
When I think of whom, I think
my
about 12,000.
I know this Negro didn't think that me and Michelle was gonna come to his birthday party and not hate.
I don't know why.
If he was sitting there looking like, no, we going to.
So anyway, I was at you and I wasn't early.
I was on time.
I was on time.
Got in there, man.
Let me do this, though, man.
And let me shut up the security guard there at
OG.
That brother made sure we were safe.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, baby.
He was going to say, you need me walking to your car?
Yeah.
Baby, you do.
Are you trying to tell me something?
You want something out of me?
Yeah, I mean, the
neighborhood changed
after you.
But
So Michelle was in this bins.
And man, when she started that car, the ambiance, you know, y'all
know
what ambiance is in the car, that lighting?
Man, the lighting in that car was like, and I looked at the little yaba ambiance of my truck, and I was going like, yeah, man.
That's crazy.
That's why there's a few more zeros.
Yeah,
So, yeah, great, great, great time Friday night.
We didn't mention Carmen was there.
Yeah.
Carmen McGee was there.
You know what, right out, let me say this to you, man.
And I've been on a roll.
I've just heard some great music this year.
It started with Lettucey, you know, with Milwaukee Symphony, Kelly Price.
You have, and you'd have to be a keyboardist to understand this, you have a good left hand.
Oh, yeah.
You have a real good left hand, man.
I, you know, what that means is that normally people right handed, they're doing all, he does work evenly with either hand.
I was impressed with that.
I was really impressed with that.
Oh, man.
Now I could barely hear because the shoes was so loud.
Whether it is loud is my, my suit.
And let me shout out, brother Chris.
I told him after church yesterday, Keon is smiling wherever he is.
He's smiling because Chris had on the red suit yesterday in the time that Keon and Michelle and LaKeisha came to church to hear me preach.
Chris was wearing that red suit.
So whenever and Keon fell in love with Chris, he said, man, let's do the red suit.
So yesterday I said he had a smiling you know with our ancestors looking down on that on that red suit Now it was actually very good very good now.
It's a small world because One of the performers Friday night was Rodney Poe I've known Rodney Poe since he was I know you know them forever, but I've known him since he was like
12 years old and man, I'm really proud of Rodney and his brother Carsey had both Rodney and Carsey Boy, it's gonna be some interesting comments at my funeral
Well, well, you know what?
let's Try to you know steer energy away from funerals and more to like celebrating life so Interest and comments whenever you have a birthday party or we just celebrate
Yeah
And
for some but not a great job man.
I
and I was I was I was happy because Lowkey Carl Thomas He they was only waiting with my cousin, but they got stuck in traffic in Chicago So they were stuck for about two hours trying to come up here, but I was
I know him
It was oh my goodness.
So yeah, it was a great night, man.
Let me thank you, man, for one, just inviting me and having me there.
Man, let me go through the weekend, man.
So just we got the news, and Michelle mentioned it, that Bishop Lawrence Kirby, pastor of St.
Paul's Baptist Church, the oldest black church in Wisconsin.
Took his transition.
He was my classmate at American Baptist.
He was a senior when I was a freshman.
And so, man, that means that I've known him, yep,
exactly.
I thought it was Saint Mark for some reason or another, but you said it's...
I've known him in the state of Wisconsin.
you?
Yeah, I played there when I was traveling back and forth to Racine.
Got a chance to play at St.
Paul for a few.
greater
took?
Yeah, yeah.
Someone's saying, though, the family life center next door, they're still working on.
But yeah, I was down for our convention.
That's the last time I saw Bishop Kirby.
He spoke at Thursday night.
at the convention.
And I'm going to try to get him and President Jones on.
But Keith Evans, the pastor of
Greater
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Did you just say he was going to try to get Pastor Kirby on?
No.
Pastor
Evans.
That's what I heard, too.
How could
I swim?
That's what he said.
No, it was, it was important for me and you just getting back in from the cousin.
Yeah, yeah.
We're in the same
place.
He so said, man, I'm going to try to get him.
I'm
sentence.
Okay.
I just want to make sure I wasn't certain.
they called it next
Yeah.
You did say his name at greater.
Mount Eagle Church.
Yeah.
I want to get him on and President Jones, because they're both stepping away from the leadership of the two conventions, two Baptist conventions in the state of Wisconsin.
Now, so I'd like to have them on.
So I'm working on that.
But I had not been in, when we were kids, there was three churches that we would go down to Racine and sing at.
Mount Eagle.
Yeah, Greater Mount Ego.
What was the other?
Oh, New Hope, Church of God in Christ, Elder Tezi.
Yeah, they were in the basement.
That's the thing we always remember going down about New Hope.
And then Grace Temple now, which is now Greater Grace Temple.
So we spent, you know, I could have grew up in Racine.
There was some people down there.
Yeah, but you had Elder Tensley over there, Mother Tensley and Elder Tensley.
Yeah, you had the daughter of Irving.
What was his name Irving?
He came
go into Ramsey.
George Ramsey,
Yeah, so we would go down, uh, one of the, uh, one of the guys, one of the directors of the choir had a relationship with the folks down there.
So love going to racing.
Uh, let me, let me shout out Tim Mahon.
Uh, he went to St.
Catharines.
I can't say St.
Kate's didn't allow us to say St.
Catharines.
Um, go angels, uh, it was great, man.
I mean, they had to move indoors, uh, for the harbor park because of weather.
So, so can I ask, did, did, did the weather ever get like they anticipated it would, but I kept saying to the people, you know, cause I was announcing it all day during my show to trying to be proactive rather than reactive, which so folks should be able to appreciate because you didn't want to have to try to scramble that at the last minute.
They started, they stopped, they started, they stopped.
Uh, I was talking to a brother and I said, you know, my wife and I were one of the 12 people that stayed and we actually got a chance to hear Kurt Weyland.
He played for about 25 minutes and then the rain was coming and I'm talking like rain buckets.
Yeah.
So they had to make that decision understanding as good that they had an alternative, uh, that going in, but great show.
Uh, there was a jazz group.
I think they're from Chicago.
They were actually really, really good.
And then of course, Kurt Weyland.
It was great.
So let me shout out again to my home.
A lot of Milwaukee people down there.
I was a moose
I didn't get down there.
She was earlier.
So I missed her.
But got down and let me, man, you know you owe.
There's a guy that was down for that show that I've known literally since I was five years old.
And that's attorney James Turan First thing he said well, I know keeps us because he had that high voice even when we were in kindergarten But yet me and Jimmy man Jimbo we go back man like five year olds and we sat in the back in the room There's another young lady sat back there with us Pat because we were the tallest we had to sit in the back of the room and So yeah, he was he was there
Good to see him.
A lot of people from Milwaukee, like I said, who were down.
Great show.
Kirk Whalen is incredible.
There's no question about his gift.
And he came through the audience.
He came through the back and made his way to the stage.
So it was good.
Great show.
I did get the White Castle.
I did get the White Castle.
I got you some sliders.
So I did get the White Castle.
That was good.
Now, a lot of people, they just, they don't like it.
People from like Chicago, people from Indiana, they don't like White Castle.
For me, it's a, I think, yeah, see, I was telling, there's a good laxative.
I was telling Douglas that when I was in New York, I took the subway to Harlem and went to White Castle.
Right,
and I'm on the subway ride back with my bag smelling like White Castle.
So I did get a chance.
That was cool.
That was cool.
Let me see.
What else did I do?
Let's see.
Oh, let me.
Saturday.
Also, they had the retirement gala for Dr. R.T.
Ivy, Pastor Meredith at New Hope Baptist Church here in the city.
Oh, he's walking away.
Yeah, he retired earlier this year.
Actually, so really good turnout for him.
And yes, sister Jackson, I will mention a lot of people, very diverse group of people that he knew because of all the work that Dr. Ivy's done in the community.
And when Howard Fuller got up.
Howard
Fuller's first school started in New Hope Church, didn't it?
going to
I'm gonna say it Keith is not a no-brainer the thing is we've got a
for but you got it We got to get him out to vote that I
But I'm listening to people There's always one in the room And this is why I love all African people all over the world.
There's always one in the room who got to say Nate Okay Jesus came so is always one She said what Jesus came and did what and they said so and he can't say save the world so He went all of that.
Okay
So, you know, people going back and forth.
Okay, y'all, we need to be adults in the room.
If I may say this, do I need to do it again?
We need to be
You ain't perfect.
So, you know, if, if, if, if people were saying the alternative to David Crowley is Tom Tiffany, where are you with that?
Okay.
I mean that.
So compare those two and then what decision will you make?
And that's how I kind of get to me where and again, I don't like to tell people who you should vote for I'm just saying that if you look at it from a community perspective Who's probably more in line with where we might be as a community?
Okay
Alright, so I'm looking at people going back and forth and then you know the righteous brothers, you know, they got to be like we're just asking critical questions About what?
Man they got me a six and a half
anyway
Let me shout out though, you know, I what I do is, you know, because this is my game Talking is my game public speaking is my game, right?
I make my little ends that is is the game So I am always in tune to when people give their remarks.
So let me shout out again for dr. Ivy's gala Pastor Christopher Boston was a great presenter great MC dude was great It didn't go along but
Reverend Doctor, Pastor, Fred Carruthers, again, who's an alum of American Baptist, he got up and he gave his remarks.
And I didn't know he could do these jokes.
So he said that when you hear a word, is there a song that's attached to the word, right?
So he said that I'm kind of paraphrasing and he said rock Right and people go Jesus is the rock, you know Sam on Christ the solid rock and he said the people would you know, they do a song and He said sex
And he got really quiet He said the 90 year old sister raised her hand in the back and said precious
memories
I love black preachers.
I know that they're white preachers out there, but ain't nothing like a black preacher.
God created something special.
And as my mama said, you can take that anywhere you want.
God created something special when God created black preachers, male and female.
Oh my God, but that was good.
That was, that was like, okay,
okay, okay.
All right.
So I mean, I, you know, it's just so much so many people here to admire so many people to look up to.
And man, just great treasures.
Anyway, you're listening to Community Voice.
I'm your host, Keith Parris.
And again, the phone lines open y'all 414-444-45250.
414-444-5250.
We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.
We get lots of people on our rivers in 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.
Again, the phone lines are open 414-444-525-0.
Excuse me, 414-444-525-0.
Also, yesterday was Women's Day at Mount... I did with my wife at Zion Hill Church.
And we had Dr. Eve Hall, who will be on our program, I think Wednesday of this week.
What a great, great, great, great message yesterday, man.
She was incredible.
I came up afterwards and said, you know, you might have a Different career.
She was very good very inspirational Man, it was just good.
So quite a weekend for me Justin Me making public appearances people know I am shy and usually try not to certainly don't like taking pictures and So people think it's just that's my shyness y'all
The radio and the microphone allows me to step out of being shy and then I go back into my shell because I just realized man like What do you talk to people about?
You know, so I'm not very good at that.
I think always I wish my sister she has the gift Oh, man, my sister has the gift and I wish I had that gift But it's not me acting funny.
It's just I'm just a little shy
And so even at this age, I'm still a little shy.
So we can have conversations.
Now, you know
And look, I was, man, I was at table with dignitaries, man.
I was at Dr. Ivy's event.
I was there with Pastor Julius Malone, the incoming president of our state convention.
Reverend Dr. James Ivy, Pastor, Pastor Joseph Jackson.
I got a chance to meet Pastor Crenshaw.
I never met Pastor Crenshaw and me.
So I guess I had to sit somewhere.
But man, just to be around these folks and so many folks.
And again, just kind of getting back to that, just shows you the reach of Dr. Ivy and that the people who would come to show their love and show their respect.
And it makes a difference when we do it when the person is still here.
I think they really can't.
don't think they can when we're at their home going celebration but just people in the room and got a chance to to be there.
Let me shout out and right now she's scheduled to to do the last Friday of the month.
Boy I tell you I'm impressed with all of my nieces and nephews all very impressive young people but had a
very, very insightful conversation with my niece, Paris, who is a school teacher, just graduated from Marquette.
And to hear her, her view of education, man, I was impressed.
I was very impressed.
So, you know, you learn how to listen.
And when people are out, because like, and I find out here on these airways that some of the most,
brilliant people, I've had a chance to interact with, call this program.
And as I think about it, some of the most not brilliant people I've ever met also call this program.
So, you know, but it is.
So again, Dr. Hall, thank you.
That was very, it was timely.
It was very inspirational.
So really appreciate you.
Now, I was torn Saturday night.
Should I go down here, Kirk Whelan?
Or do I stay at home and watch the Lynx and the Asus?
So I did something I normally don't do at a sporting event.
I taped it and I didn't get the score, but that was a great game.
the links and the aces and again if y'all sleeping on the WNBA and I know that there's some people someone was talking to me and they were saying I know it's you gotta I'm not gonna say I'm a purist but I love basketball and I love to see basketball and I don't know if there's such a way or such a thing is how it should be played but because women do not possess the same physicality that men have
They're more dependent on playing the game the way the game is supposed to be played The unfortunate thing sometimes about talent is that people with talent some people with talent don't think technique is important But technique is real important how you do it.
I mean the pick and roll done right is the pick and roll done right But just to watch them play That was just a great game.
Let me hey the fever last night
Yeah, beat the dream.
And that was, and hey, Caitlyn Clark actually hit some free throws at the end of the game when it mattered.
And that's the piece, because you know, the fever is on tomorrow night.
And I understand that some people say that Caitlyn Clark is the face of the WNBA.
Asia Wilson, LaFisha Collier.
the best player on the fever.
It is not Caitlin Clark.
It's Kelsey Mitchell, that young lady.
So again, I'm a big WNBA fan.
They're celebrating 30 years.
When you think about the struggle that these women who go through every day having to get out.
And they were talking about, there was a thing they were doing on the W. And so they were talking with Nafisha, Collier, and Diwana Bonner.
And they were talking about the collective bargaining agreement and how, what they were trying to get from the collective bargaining agreement.
Yes, sir.
So the Milwaukee Doves, was that the NBA then, or was that a different league?
Why don't we have a women's league?
a different league.
That was the team that Val got
to.
Yeah.
But yeah, we had the Milwaukee dough.
I wonder where Milwaukee get a franchise.
You know, you got Chicago, the sky, you got Indiana, the fever.
I wonder what it, I mean, you would need to put somebody in the seats.
Now I can say this, that
Caitlyn Clark is not the is not the best player.
But she does is great TV ratings whenever she's playing.
But I would have thought that the game because you can see where they position the game where people were eyeballs going to be on the game.
And but that ace ace's links game.
Man, that that they're playing.
They're playing some real good basketball.
which is great because I'm not quite ready to focus on football yet.
You know, it's kind of preseason, but man, opening day is kind of around the corner.
And I got to see what the Badgers are going to do this year.
You know, I used to be part of the Grateful Red.
I've got a chance to see the Badgers play in person twice, ironically in Illinois.
We went down to see them play Notre Dame at Soldier Field, and then I got a chance to see them play Northwestern at Northwestern.
So I've never seen Wisconsin Badgers play in Wisconsin, so maybe I'll get up for a game.
But I am a Badger fan when it comes to football, which is strange.
But then I went to a college that didn't have a football team so then you have to identify Now let me make this little observation though Watch the SEC Because those dudes gonna play on Sunday there was so many SEC players I'd never heard of That were like second round picks first round picks Georgia, Alabama, LSU
Man, I mean, that's where the talent is, you know, in terms of football.
The Big Ten is strong, too.
But man, none like the SEC.
Those dudes are playing on Sunday.
It used to be back in the day.
It was Oklahoma, Nebraska, USC.
You know, if you had Oklahoma, Nebraska, USC, even Notre Dame, you're probably going to play on Sundays.
But man, the Southeastern Conference has gotten so strong in terms of that football talent.
It's amazing.
Carla, welcome to the program.
Oh, good
Well, first of all, Milwaukee is not ready for no, uh, run the basketball team because the men here is too fragile.
And then they want to get in them by prescriptions.
We don't got time for that.
But I want to ask you a question.
Can we go down the hill this morning or let's go beneath hell this morning and get controversial?
Can we do that today?
And when
I'm just saying because I really want us as Black people to grow.
And I went to a place today on 92nd and Capitol and they were ghetto.
They was ratchet.
Uncle girl talking about, she was playing at her little acuto.
And I'm like, no, nobody want to hear while I'm there with them dark circles around your eyes.
Now my question to you is, how can we get parents and grandparents
to raise their keyless with pride.
Because right now, I feel like these keyless can't be successful because a lot of their parents are mentally retarded.
And they're acting like they're slow.
Because the conduct of what's going on is unacceptable.
And that's the reason why the North side cannot prosper.
Because, you know, they say old poverty, poverty, but the stuff that these
children is dealing with, and I don't, and this new generation is not crack babies.
Not in a parent's party was crack babies, but this generation is not crack babies.
How can we get the parents and some of you grandparents that's listening, because y'all always got a problem with somebody using N-word, y'all raise some of them deployables too, because you sitting back collecting the check and letting them whine crazy, versus breaking that broomstick over the back of their neck.
and snatching them out of their bed and making them pick up around that house.
But y'all know how to get the church on Sunday.
But you know what, Al, let me
And here's where I'm torn.
I grew up in a generation where in the black community, you had a significant percentage of black folks who were in the church.
And there were certain things that there was a lot of negatives.
So I'm not even going to let's just be clear.
But there was still a certain value system that was promoted.
And any religion promotes an ideal, right?
I-D-E-A-L.
And so I think that that's different.
I think you cannot dismiss the impact of poverty, where, again, when I was growing up here in Milwaukee, Milwaukee had one of the largest black middle class in the country.
right?
So there's certain things that happen, not to say that there wasn't dysfunction, even in those families there were.
I just think that you're looking at a greater percentage in the city of Milwaukee of children born into poverty.
Their parents already have their struggles.
So how do you focus in on parenting when you're dealing with with with your own struggles?
Like the situation, young man killed three people.
The woman knew he killed three people.
She lets him stay at the crib with her kids.
and she goes out and party.
If that is true, that's kind of indicative.
And so a lot of these kids are growing up in environments where the parents, their struggles are such that the kids become almost like an afterthought.
And now we're creating a certain level of social pathology because of the situation that people, and I have to say, because adults make choices, the situations that people put their children in, all of us,
Probably not many of us have been born into less than ideal circumstances But it was something my mother used to say she said when you have kids things change, right?
You need to change it's not about you as much as it is about these kids and we live in a society now where You know selfishness and individualism is celebrated As opposed to what we do collectively and a lot of people don't see
that their kids, it was something the sister was talking about from Nova school, where we're connected to one another.
And our uplift as a people is dependent on more and more people thinking more towards the collective than the individual.
And so I agree with you in terms of that.
I don't want to, because I understand that for a lot of these people, there are substance abuse issues.
A lot of these people could have been abused themselves.
That doesn't stop people from having children.
and that's the unfortunate piece because
you know we have you know you have birth control you have plan B I mean abortion I think if you do it before six months it's only like well $500 maybe it's boosted up to a thousand dollars I know back in the day they used to use the jar of baths or lean and swoop it on up there so everything can take up
the other hand you could
no it didn't work
You know so but or you know you have those one today who say CPS is raising my house or I'm afraid of CPS I just think some of these people have but you know
what there's a word there's a four letter word hope and and and we can't underestimate the the power of hope right hope gets people up in the morning when people are sitting there hopeless
And you go like, well, there are people, a lot of people who really feel hopeless.
And so it's complicated.
I hate to use that word, but it is.
It's complicated.
A lot of it is systemic.
A lot of it is the individual trying to figure out, but we're all born into this world and then we have to figure out how to navigate.
But I think one of the things that we don't hear as much
is that you're about the future.
You know, my mother said, I am making sacrifices now, so you won't have to struggle like I did.
There are many parents who are still in that situation, but trust me, there are a lot of parents who are not.
And like I said, the kids just kind of grow up and, you know, because there's no sense of the future.
You know, my mom tried to position us that we could be the most successful people we could possibly be.
So.
So if there's
these constant problems, and we have these people with kids, these people who always got an excuse, wouldn't it just be easier for them to go to Fond du Lac, Ike, Scotch, Walshaw, but Lloyds.
I heard Walshaw got a real good welfare system down there.
And you know Walshaw, they got tons of land.
want to just move.
So we saw the inner city.
We don't care.
We need to.
We need to.
How do we focus on healing?
And I think that that's the heavy lifting that when we talk about healing and and giving young people hope and giving young people pride now Maybe you know, I don't know how you are but I grew up in a period where all of a sudden not all of a sudden There was this whole thing about being proud of being black and that black is beautiful
And I
think the people we need to understand that but I looked man kids are mercenary, you know kids kids
Well, we're talking about the
parents who created the kids.
We're talking about the parents who say they don't got no money, but they always find a way to get a 3-5 and some card of year glasses.
We're talking about the parents who always say they don't got no money to do nothing, but they always got money for something that's not important.
So I'm saying if they can control their kids,
They and their kids can move to find it.
I can get that $9,000, that $9,500 and start a new life.
And then in the inner city of Milwaukee can prosper because we will never be able to prosper because they want to use them.
All right.
You have yourself a good day.
Have a boy's ball in the shadow whiskey farming.
Bye
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.
Veolia is 100% doing great work.
When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia.
The result of 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 Belia 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.
They said that Olivia Miles is the truth.
Oh, no question.
And that game between her and Chelsea Gray, I think is probably going to be the links in the aces, but don't fall asleep on the Valkyrie out of Oakland.
They are really good in there with second year team.
They made the playoffs last year as an expansion team.
So.
Again, don't sleep on the WNBA.
I know, I know, I know.
Let me get these calls.
Call her.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, what's up, brothers?
How y'all doing?
All right.
Yeah, I know it's frustrating, but sometimes, like you said, we got to keep caring, man.
We really do.
I know it's frustrating sometimes.
Hey, but did you hear about, um, what's Yvanka has been named?
Jared, Christian or something like that?
Man, there's some money out here that's messed up out here, man.
It's a mess.
There's going to be a lot of heads rolling.
All right, brother,
But you know That probably explains why LeBron wanted to get up out of there before this whole transition.
Yeah.
Well, so he probably knew that it was coming and was like, oh No,
let me say this because and I was talking about the collective bargaining agreement before Deebo had asked me the question for the women They were just asking for 40% the league was only offering them 10%
the revenue and So they ended up at 20% but the men are at 50% Men are at 50% of revenue and So we'll see they're expanding their product.
I got all of that They do enough to keep eyeballs on them You know you have I don't know what it is about I know what it is, but you have somebody like Sophie Cunningham now look
Sophie Cunningham, when she played in Missouri, she was a punk, right?
That was her whole game.
Everybody talked about she sticks her nose in it and she gets in the WNBA and it's kind of the same thing.
Now, of course, when she files, you know, great defense, when she gets filed, then it's, you know, it's assault.
So I think that's part of it.
The fact that when you expand the fan pool,
you will be expanding it to people, particularly males, who has their own misogyny.
And then when you look at, they're saying that about half the league is gay.
So you got issues around sex, you got issues around gender, around sexuality, and then race, because there's still a significant number.
I would like to think that black women are probably the majority in the WNBA.
And maybe that adds to the drama.
People like to watch because.
Call it.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Keith, what's happening with each other today?
Hey, what's happening, bro?
Keith, children
will test you and see what they can get away with.
Parents.
are not the same as when we and I don't want to put that on all parents okay so let me slow down a little bit but parents aren't the same like the parents we had when we were coming up and I'm gonna give you an example you always tell a story about one of your teachers I think you said they put their hands on you or something and you thought your mom you thought they your mom won't come up there and rip them the new one
and it got flipped around on you.
So check this out to you.
Okay.
Twice.
Hey, George.
Hey, George.
You're
Are you got them on now?
Yep.
Okay.
Hold on.
I had to activate them, brother.
I
had to activate them.
What's going on?
How y'all doing this morning?
good.
It's it's it's crunch time now, man, but
Yeah, it's going to be a fantastic time.
I'm so excited.
It's funny like every year.
I say this, but I feel like I get more excited each year, you know, the closer it gets to it because it is such a good time and we're doing such cool and good work for the community this year.
People are going to get to enjoy some fantastic artists as always.
A couple of sleepers though, I think that a lot of people may not be that familiar with and I'm thinking after the fact people gonna be like, I wish I would have known about them earlier.
Eric Essex is one of those artists.
Eric is a brother from Birmingham, Alabama who plays guitar with, he calls this music jazz with a touch of Southern groove and it is just that and he's got a song that's rising up the charts right now.
It'll be one of his multiple Billboard number one hits in the contemporary jazz world.
Jared Lawson, a young man who is a keyboardist and a vocalist just released a new album earlier this summer.
And he is actually one of Michelle Obama's favorite artists.
And Jared's going to be fantastic, really looking forward to him.
But then, of course, we have, like, the stalwarts, like Jonathan Butler, who so many people love, and Candace Springs,
and Spyro Gyra, but then also Marquell Jordan, who was another powerhouse Marquell played, and Brian Culberton's banned for 12 years before stepping out on his own and doing his own thing.
And he's amazing, multi, yes, he's a contemporary jazz artist, but he plays in so many spaces.
He works
in the
hip hop space, in the R&B space, in the soul space.
So he's going to be a fantastic time for everybody.
It is
That's a great thing.
I tell you, I angst over it.
Like I'm already working on 2027 for artists right now.
And it's a mix of a couple of different things for us.
One, we don't want to be stale.
We don't want to have the same people over and over and over again, right?
But we want to have people that people want to come and see, right?
So we always, every year, try to have at least a couple of those artists that everybody, if you listen to this kind of music at all, you will know who they are.
or a spirogyra right or a bony James right every year we wanted to have a couple people like that but then we also too want to try to introduce up-and-coming artists who are making impact on the on the charts and on the touring scene too but who sometimes people in Milwaukee made they may not have toured in Milwaukee and so
We also take a lot of feedback from people who attend the festival, who are telling us, hey, I'd really like to see so-and-so.
And when that's the case, we try to do that.
Like a couple of years ago, we had Gerald Albright.
And of course, Gerald falls in that legacy artist category.
But a lot of people said they wanted Gerald.
So we made it our point to trying to go get Gerald that year.
So it's a mix of a couple of different things.
Some of it's the artist availability too, right?
Some of them, there's one artist we try
I tried to get a couple of years ago, but he just, he just only tours like five or six dates a year and he just didn't want to come out, right?
And so it's a lot of fun, but it's the thing that I enjoy doing the most.
I think, but it's the thing I angst about the most because you want to put on a great show.
And that's the other thing too.
We try not to bring in artists that we haven't seen perform, right?
So that we know like it's one thing to get up on the stage and play your instruments.
Another thing to get up on stage and give a performance and we want people that are going to give that performance.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's very true.
I mean, for me, my biggest challenge every year is that we only have a limited number of slots.
Like, I could easily book
15 or 20 acts every year that I would like to see, right?
But there's only a couple slots that we have for the festival, right?
And it's because of just what you said, the talent is impeccable.
That's around here, right?
So we have to manage to, though, the fact that it's got to be the talent, but it's got to be the talent that people are going to come out and buy a ticket to see.
Yeah, so this is something we started when we back when we started the festival We always wanted to make sure we gave some hometown acts an opportunity to participate in this festival and get that experience of being You know being in the if you caught want to call it the big time if you will like being on that big stage and being in the green room and having all that so
This year's hometown All-Star is a group called Jasmine led by a young brother, local brother who has to be a school teacher as well named Nathan Mayfield.
And Nathan has been playing around Milwaukee for the last couple of years, several years.
He had a couple of years ago, he had a song hit the Billboard charts and they put on a fantastic show and we, I tell you,
I have been so pleased every year with the hometown all-stars that we have.
And I've had so many great comments about them because it's like you said, a lot of good talent around the country, but a lot of good talent in Milwaukee too.
And we also give local artists an opportunity to play at our after-party set, which is called the Nightcap, which happens from 11 to 1.
And that's free to the public.
That's at the Host Hotel, which is the highest place downtown.
you know so so yeah there's a lot of opportunity there's a lot of opportunity and for the next couple of days um it it ends um at midnight tomorrow but we have a fantastic ticket deal for anybody who happens to be an AARP member that for the first 50 we have we have 50 remaining um but the first 50 to buy a ticket and use the code
music to six With the AARP It's music to six is the code.
They will get $40 off select tickets, which is pretty substantial discount on price of tickets, you know
So yeah for for 50 people 50 tickets first 50 tickets That use the code music to six
We'll get $40 off select tickets and that's because that's that's through the generosity of our sponsor AARP
Yeah So Thursday the the first thing we do is a private thing at Children's Hospital.
We always do a
A benefit concert for kids receiving treatment at Children's that happens Thursday afternoon at three and Eric Essex is coming into town early to volunteer to do that concert and then after After that we have a really cool and unique wine tasting event called the pairing where we pair wines with the music of a famous jazz artist and this year we're pairing wines with the music
of George Benson performed by Christopher's Project.
And that's going to start at six o'clock at the Fitzgerald, doors open at five.
I think we got about 30 tickets left for that.
And then Friday night, the concerts kick off, the doors open at five at the Pap's Theater.
Um, oh, but, um, and then Eric Essex on at six, Candace Springs is on at seven, 30, um, Spyro Gyra is on at nine, and then we have our nightcap, but also Friday morning for our VIP patrons and for area music students and teachers.
We have an artist Q and A session, so Jay Beckenstein, the founder of Spyro Gyra, will be spending an hour up close and personal with fans, just talking to them about music and his career and so on and so forth.
Then Saturday we kick off with another artist Q&A session.
That's at 10 a.m.
at the highest place downtown again for our VIP patrons and for area music teachers and students and that's going to be Jared Lawson.
After Jared, we have the Fresh Coast Cruise, which is a lot of fun.
We rent out the Harbor Lady, the 808's largest boat.
And we have a live lunch and jazz cruise.
That one is now sold out.
And so that one sells out every year.
And so it's a lot of fun.
And this year, the young man that is playing on that, I'm telling you.
Shades of George Benson and Buddy Guy, 17-year-old young man out of the Chicago area named Will Carter, guitar player.
He actually played seven instruments, but he played.
We had him playing at the Moon Festival last weekend in the historic Third Ward, and he tore it up.
As soon as Will started playing, people just came over and people were dancing and having a great time, and that young man just did his thing, so we're excited about that.
And then the concerts at the PAPS started five o'clock on Saturday.
Doors open at four with the Hometown All-Star, the, um, the Jazz Men, and then Marcoel Jordan, Jared Lawson, and Jonathan Butler.
And then the night cap will finish it off and then I'll sleep for two weeks after that.
They can go to freshcoastjazz.com or PAPStheatergroup.com.
And be sure if you're an AARP member, go ahead and get that AARP discount.
$40 off is a good deal, but those tickets, that discount ends tomorrow.
It starts Thursday.
And again, you can go to their website to get more ticket information.
And we do have a set of tickets that we're giving away for Friday and for Saturday.
Man, I look forward to
it.
Good.
Anything you want to say?
So, man, we appreciate it, man.
I'll be there Friday night.
So.
All right.
Well, I look forward to seeing you, brother.
And I always appreciate you all.
And, you know, y'all have a wonderful day.
And thanks for having me on today.
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 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 Viola 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 Viola.
They help the kayak company grow.
I definitely don't think we would be here without Veolia and MMSD.
Clean water is essential.
You see a pause Gary said the guy you see
camera
to the sexy camera man, I think that's camera nine
nine
nine
Hey, you know I was uh, I was downstairs.
I was listening to some some albums and
I pulled out what's going on.
There's a song on that album.
You know, that's a whole consciousness album, you know, ecology, what's going on, save the children.
He got a song on there about getting high.
Really?
Yeah.
It's something about high, flying friendly skies.
And we're talking about his addiction.
Now, you know that song.
I'm walking on sunshine is about getting high.
Walking on sunshine
me feel good.
Saw it on South
yeah.
Oh yeah, man.
That's most definitely about smoking.
it.
Hey.
We were on our honeymoon when I got five on it came out.
We out in Cali.
And man, we must have listened to that song from San Francisco, all the way down to Carmel, listening to it, it was part of the rotation.
Looney's, baby, that's the Looney's.
Man.
You know, that was the first time I'd ever, we rented this, Alexis.
And man, that was, you know, you got to remember this 95, right?
Oh yeah.
So then they had the seats that had memory.
Yeah.
Oh man, that was such a nice ride.
And we needed it because there's this little stretch, it called the Big Sur.
that goes from, oh man, I want to say Carmel Monterey down to Sam.
I can never pronounce his name.
It's where the Hearst Mansion is.
And it's just one lane, one lane on each side.
It's the most beautiful trip you ever take.
It's the most nerve-wracking trip you ever take.
You know, cause it's like you coming down, not a lot of guardrails.
I don't even know how they, how they navigate it in the fog.
But that's a beautiful part of the country, that coastline there.
We got up to Pebble Beach, and man.
Boy, if you ever, and I know there are a lot of golfers who listen, that golf course at Pebble Beach.
Oh man, I'm talking about the private one, not the public one.
That's an incredible golf course.
All right, caller, welcome to the program.
Hi.
Good morning.
Good morning.
How are you?
Mr. Daisy, I'm good.
Good.
Just so Lee's
Okay, good.
I'm gonna go
I'm good.
I'm better up if I win something.
I love jazz, but I really want to break at work.
Yeah, and
No, no, no, just because I'm a good person that stands alone on his
Uh-oh.
For me, it's both, but let's say Saturday.
Let's say Saturday because I'm always grooving wherever I go.
Let me say Saturday.
All
at the
to the
Hello?
Is it me?
Well, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know if you from trying to listen to your TV and listen.
This is a two part question, but she beat me to it.
Can I answer a question to for Friday night?
For Friday night with some tickets for Friday night.
You had to get some tickets to.
so what night?
Say man, listen here man.
Get up off my
and
pick these tickets
Can I can I go back to my point earlier to where you still giving away tickets?
Oh, okay.
And so two things, what I try to call it about when you say it about how I said parents and children are today, because children are always going to try and test you.
I don't care who you are.
I mean, you can have a meanest mom in the world meanest that they're going to try and test you a little bit to see what they can get away with.
So two things I witnessed last week was kind of blew my mind.
So I'm walking out the house, right?
And I see this little boy with this big dog.
And I'm like, who, who, who, who, who, who, who's got this?
He ain't on the leash.
And I'm like, who's got this?
Who's letting this little boy out here with this dog?
So he's the dog on my other neighbors.
They have a cat.
The dog runs up in their yard trying to get at the cat, right?
And so they're screaming, come get your dog, come get your dog.
He can't control the dog.
So he finally gets the dog back down the block.
Then the dog runs after the neighbor.
So I didn't hear what the neighbor might have said to Little Boy.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
But he finally gets the dog and goes back home.
Now his mom and I are on the porch crossing that little boy thing, you know, cussing a little bit.
She out in her top and her panties, right?
So he must have said something.
Little Boy must have said something that the man said to him.
She cusses.
Now she cusses.
Who says something to my kid and stuff like that?
She going to house, right, Key?
I'm thinking she's going to come back on with some pants on.
You know, she going put on her head is one of them body cap.
When she come back on in a tent, she's going to blow up the block and all this.
So the young lady comes down to try to explain to her what's going on.
She cussing, you know, ready to fight and stuff like that.
Instead of trying to, you know, everybody, and I ain't never seen this dog, but she, everybody knows my dog runs around this block.
I let him run free.
I don't got a collar and stuff or no, because I wanted to do that.
And I'm like, so this is what you teach in your kid, right?
Exactly.
And here's the other thing.
So we were at the laundromat the other day, right?
This lady must have had about five kids.
Now, you see gay men in the mirror.
I think you think they're kind of small for their age.
But this lady had like four boys and a little girl.
And I could have bet the oldest boy had to be about 13, 14 years old.
So they in the laundry man throwing the football around.
So I'm looking at her.
I'm like, you're not gonna say anything.
So they almost ran into me.
I said, why don't y'all take the football outside?
They look at me like they ain't heard me.
So I asked her, I said, are these your boys?
And she said, yeah.
I said, can't you take them to tell me to take the football outside, right?
So they kind of grumbling under their voice.
They finally take the football outside.
About an hour later, they inside the carts, you know, the things that you put your clothes in, running around in the laundry mat.
Don't care who in there, she ain't saying nothing.
Could have ran into people, they damaged one of them, one of the washers.
But it's to the point, kind of like, with some of these parents, you can't say none to them, and you can't say none to their kids, because they ready to fight.
What is that teaching the kids, Keith?
You know, I'm gonna say which brother But one of my brothers got jacked up in the classroom because my mother came up to the room up to the school He was coming in the classroom.
He got jacked up in front of the whole class So the way, you know, I always say this our parents didn't play that stuff cheap
When you went to school, or when you were out in public, like Michelle said, you had to represent.
Now I'm not saying, you know, we all did all those sneaky stuff, but it was still different when an adult came by.
Whatever we was doing, we stopped until they got out of here shouting.
We thought they got out of here shouting.
Then we went back to clowning.
But we didn't disrespect like that.
We did.
We knew better.
and for whatever reasons.
And so then it's passed on to the kids.
I remember I was over, it became Malcolm X and we were over the late Lafayette Golden, he was principal.
And we were over and we were there to meet with him.
Was it?
No, no, I was at Parkman.
Either way, a young lady had been disciplined.
And so she had to bring her mom to school.
So her mom brings her friend or her sister and I'm sitting out there listening to them talk and then I'm going and you're wondering why you're here for your child.
Because you know, we are a reflection of our homes.
I agree with you.
One of the things that part of the culture was you never bring brought shame on your home, right?
On your family name.
That meant a lot to people.
But I think we just have to come to grips with that there is a generation.
uh, who was raised and they weren't necessarily raised with those values, you know, and so Those kids are out there and and we have to deal with it
Keep that happen when we was going to parking or that happened when you was a grown-up.
When you said when you went when you this went down at parking because what we were when we was I was talking
It
was obvious and I gave the story that incident I had it happen at Parkman and my mother was very supportive of teachers, but if you don't value education
And that's the whole piece of it.
You really have to value education in order for your kids.
It's like, you know, in some ways, I kind of wish I was raised by a schoolteacher because when it came to the academics, there was no question about how you're going to perform, right?
Now, some of the wildest people I know on this earth was raised by schoolteachers, but not the academic
piece.
academic.
The
one of the most
ignorant statements ever, because what you'll discover is, and this is not about racial, this is about more class and social status than anything else, where that same attitude is in rural areas where they're very poor people.
Right?
Because they don't necessarily see the benefits.
My mom didn't graduate from college, okay?
But my mom understood the importance of education and as much education as you could get.
I mean, that was her thing.
And so, but
again, everybody... You see that's passed down through your generation, too, Keith, on what you say about your nieces and
Oh, yeah.
I mean, the question of it is that this is the floor, you know, the minimum of what you should do.
when you look at people who are happy that their kids are throwing a big graduation party for the eighth grade, not the eighth grade.
But for some people, that is tough.
But we've been dealing with this issue.
And part of the socialism was that America benefits from a highly educated society.
But business folks,
understand that in order to bring down or keep the wages down, you want a not as educated population.
Your education dictates that you should get paid more money.
So, you know, I think
the leader of our country said, well, that's why he left the world uneducated.
I like man.
Oh Not yet.
I'm sorry.
Yes, I do sir.
It's a
You're listening to No, I'm not gonna say we're listening to the Georgian threw me all off man.
I'm I'm I'm discobobulated Here's the great danger though that you know, I would caution all of us how we have this conversations is important Because people can use our words.
I mean we saw that During the crime bill where you know, it was such an outcry
that something had to be done, that when something was done, we didn't think about the long term consequences of that thing that was done.
All right, let's do this.
You're listening to Community Voice.
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Carla, welcome to the program.
Hey, good morning.
How you doing?
Good.
Hey, I'm not a WNBA question for you.
I've been really following this league for the last couple of years.
But my question to you is, who would you consider the MVP this year?
Who?
Y'all, yeah.
See, that's so typical.
Asia
Well, who you got?
I got somebody under the radar.
Olivia Miles.
Rookie of the Year.
Olivia Miles.
killin'?
With
Yeah, you know,
well, but see, that's typical.
I mean, you know, he says
because she she's a MVP of the finals in the last couple of years.
Right.
You know, she's leading her statistics and and probably I think scoring and rebounded.
But the MVP candidates is Olivia Miles, Kelsey Mitchell's, and I think of Paige Beckers.
Those are the three candidates that they got up.
Well, they obviously got
Well, once again,
You know, you go just that's like Laban James.
You just keep giving the same.
Well, man, if you
Right.
I like that.
I mean, I mean, and when you watch her play, it's like they talk about the efficiency of Asia Wilson's game.
Man, you look up, she got 32.
Like, yeah, those would be and who knows, but Kelsey Mitchell, because she plays pretty much in the shadows of Caitlin Clark.
A lot of people don't really appreciate just how good she really is.
Now, I'm going to tell you, Kaylin Clark is really good, but the only weak spot in her game is defense.
She has no defense, but her court vision is tight.
Her
That's what I'm saying, her passing, court vision, yeah, she's tight.
She throws
Yeah, she can score.
I mean, she's a good penetrator.
Is she a lefty?
I think she is.
I'm not really sure.
And I
Well, you know, see, you know, who is it?
The Aces and the Liberty.
I believe they've been winning this thing for the last, what, four, five years or whatever.
Yeah, they are.
Well, I mean, you know, they're going to be there.
They're going to be there.
Oh, that's a hard one.
You know, you would have to go with almost with the top four teams in the league Minnesota Well, who is that a golden state
See then you're gonna have to say the Liberty and aces I mean and maybe Indiana Indiana mice I think it's the Indiana or the
I think that they're just that close But when you watch Minnesota play that team is so
man, I mean, they can hurt you in so many different ways that, you know, in the fissure Collier, you know, I mean, and think about she's coming off an injury.
And she just kind of blended because they were winning when she wasn't playing.
Check this out that the second, the second squad is more of a defensive on the court than the first than the first than the starters.
And but don't but don't give up on what you're going to watch go to state Valkyrie that is a no joke
Yeah, cuz last year like I said they made the playoffs and they were an expansion team and this year and you know what the thing that that's Their little calling card is how I use this word efficient.
They really are I mean they they're not flamboyant You know, but then you look up.
It's like a razor like you've been cut and that's how the Valkyrie play
But I just think that at this point, now again, Vegas and the Liberty are a little bit older.
So maybe it's going to be more of the experience.
But when you look at Minnesota, man, they just, I mean, I don't know what, and I hate to compare to an NBA team, but they're almost like San Antonio.
You know when
San Antonio was on that run well coached very efficient Really team first, you know it this I just like watching them play and fees that little mid-range game when she turns man You know the form on her jumper is just so incredible man.
She just knows And these women they know how to play which I really like because there's a lot of dudes out there with talent don't really know how to
play
Well, see, that's that's the thing.
Like I heard you make their comment about they play they play the way the game should be played.
Right.
And, you know, it's not about three point shooters with them guys up and down the court.
They pass and they they play in the game the right way.
I mean, you know, but I just want to say this before I go, I really fell in love with Olivia Miles this year because she reminds me of my female version of Nate Archibald.
Remember him?
Yeah.
Check her out that stop and go how she runs tiny.
Oh, yeah, a little tiny
like
played with Cowins?
I really think that he did.
But I'm going to make this comment.
You went to college and I know when you was up on these coasts, you ran across a lot of guys.
And you know, that's a typical play from them guys up on that east coast.
They're penetrators.
for a lot of outside things.
But Artie Green, who played at Marquette from New York, Artie Green was the truth.
And the first time I ever heard that apply to anybody, I was working at a summer camp in Dutchess County in New York.
And dude said, oh, you from Milwaukee, right?
And so, yeah, he said, man, you know, my homeboy played Marquette.
Who's your homeboy?
He go, Artie Green.
I said, yeah.
I mean, Artie was such a...
That dude so you know and that's New York.
I mean, you know when you when you when you think who's the dude?
He went down.
He made more money selling drugs.
So he dropped out of Winston Salem.
Was it Pee Wee?
I can think of this dude's name.
He was dominant in Rutgers,
read an article yesterday.
I read an article, John Hirsch gonna mess up the books if he makes this trade for Jimmy Butler and trade away a Thailand hero and those guys.
And that guy that played, he's the sixth man of the year.
He got him a hero and a couple of more guys and he gonna trade them for Jimmy Butler and some other couple of people.
I think they really did good.
You know, they got a good, good, good core.
And yeah, they did good.
I mean, it was time for Yons to go.
I mean, you know, he's almost like damaged goods.
I mean, you know, I think he's still got some.
OK, but with him and Bam on the floor, who's going to get the ball?
Because both of them play the same type of game.
Well, when I hear that, like people talk about who's going to get the ball, it gives the impression that there's this player out there who has the ball and he's scoring 70% of the points.
He's not.
Yeah, that's
not.
You know, Yavis was able to do what he was doing.
But when he had Chris Middleton, who was a 20-25 point of game score, you know, you got to have at least two scores on your team in the NBA.
Three is great.
Don't give up on Miles Davis.
I mean, a Miles Turner.
He, uh,
I think he, you know, I agree with you.
It's the coach.
It was coaching and he was playing out of his position.
You know, he really was.
I don't, don't give up.
He'll be okay.
If he
But see the little birds, the little rookie, they can have men that boy cold.
Yeah.
Where are they going to start
over Ryan Rollins though?
Well, do
they have
anybody over five, six playing guard?
Yeah, Ryan Rollins is six four.
He don't look six
Yeah, Ryan Rollins is six four.
KBJ, what did you say?
Why they
TV How tall
Trent?
No,
No Porter 64 Porter
He says what?
Ryan Rollins is yeah, Ryan Rollins is six four Yeah, I got for six six.
He's six six.
he's
He's a point guard slash combo guard.
Give
no, no, no, no,
no,
no, no,
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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
When he when he first came in the league, he
Rubio.
shoot.
but
first.
Yeah, but that's what the league was there because you had to force point guard.
was running point guard.
He was.
No.
Eric Snow had the ball, but Alan Iverson was directing everybody.
So,
Yeah, but he was really the point because he was putting
way.
Oh, you over there.
You over
Right.
You know what?
That's funny.
jump teams that same thing on the podcast.
You said playing with Yonis.
Who's that playing with Yonis?
The coach told them,
Oh, Dick Garrett, I was having this conversation.
When he was a rookie, he started for the Lakers, right?
He played with Jerry West.
He said, get the ball to Jerry West.
Why am I doing a Carlton?
Get the ball on the
wheel.
What are you thinking, man?
Get the ball on the wheel.
Look,
I really am into, like, the Jordan rules.
You know, like, there is no way where people are thinking, like, there's equality on the team.
Uh-uh.
We eating because of Michael Jordan.
There is no way Keith should be out here dribbling, trying to get his shot when Michael Jordan is on the floor.
First of all, who's heard that Keith is even playing?
Who
Who is this dude, right?
You know, so, and I understand you got an ego, but you better accept the reality.
You're playing with Michael Jordan.
What was that, that, that they showed in the last dance where, uh, when Steve Kerr hit the shot, Michael said, you know what?
They've been doubling me.
You're going to be open.
I'm going to get the ball.
And I can only imagine what Steve Kerr is thinking like.
Oh, no, like, like not your inflection that doesn't.
I got to shoot.
Oh,
And
and Jordan is never going to give you the ball than that predicament ever again.
Oh,
Yeah.
Huh?
And what did you think?
Like coming from Detroit.
Yeah.
But, but, but Lindsey was a monster though.
man, not likely, but then he ended up playing for the Bucks too.
He was trash when he got over here.
he was trash.
players.
I get it, but he was, remember Terrell Brandon?
Okay, Terrell Brandon, he came from Minnesota, he played for the Bucks.
Right.
trash.
Everybody was geeked about TB coming over.
Oh, Tarell Brandon gonna do this, do this, do this.
The worst point guard in history.
And then
guard in history.
Well, to me,
Delavadova, I don't know.
He should have never got, he should have never got that money, but he had a good playoff.
What game?
Yeah, right.
Yeah, what?
No, no, no, not
the bucks gave that dude all that money.
And
it's
and that's why the window really and That's why the when the new owners came in they fired the whole scout team because they actually talked about that We was slated to draft Stefan Curry But they said he was too little and his ankles was bad.
Let's pass on
Right.
So, but think about that.
That would have changed history.
Yeah, we would have had him.
Well, maybe not if you don't have a coach who could, you know, one thing about Jackson and then Steve Kerr, they knew because really, you know, Jackson really built that team.
He developed that team.
Steve Kerr was able to take it to the next level.
But Mark Jackson, man.
And the thing with Mark, it wasn't his coaching.
Mark didn't get along with the front
office.
And it actually came out two minutes.
He was making players pray.
And
yeah from ESPN,
Now that's
For an organization to do that when they don't have to
Latoya.
Riri.
Yeah, that's one that don't nobody ever see.
She had a hit.
Did she?
Yeah, do you tell me your reviews and I couldn't believe Oh
though
I want you to fire Joe for me
King, okay
Yeah, because Ike might not be there.
I didn't think about that.
Like you look at my Ike and it's
Lawrence.
as always, go for this place of peace.