Good morning. You are now listening to Community Voice. I am Devon Jones, DJ to Prodigy. Here with Clark Kent. Who you with? Here with Clark Kent. Who you with? And here with Passa. Give me my A-back, brother. Passa, how you doing this morning? Hey, man, I can't complain at all. How about yourself? I'm good. I'm good. And then we are here with a marvelous guest, Miss.
No, Miss Paris, we're made, Saffron. Keith is out today, and so he has given me the privilege to co-host the program today with his youngest niece, Miss Paris Saffron. She's like a younger sister to me. So one shout out to Keith. Hopefully everything is going OK. And just thank you for the privilege of being able to talk to the community today.
As always, it's Free Flow Friday, 414-444-5250. The phone lines are open. And then also just want to give a quick shout out to everyone who is online with us, Facebook and YouTube. So Paris, the last time you was with us, you were in college. Has there been any changes with a major or graduation? Give us an update.
Well, I'm no longer in college, so I just recently graduated from Marquette with a psychology and secondary education degree. Congratulations. Yeah, I'm a minor in social studies, so right now...
I'm just finishing my student teaching because I have a double major. I couldn't finish my psych and be a student teaching at the same time. So they let me finish it in August. So I might go to my year teaching seventh grade social studies for my student teaching for the rest of the semester. And yeah, after that, we'll be trying to get started. That's exciting. So your first year in the classroom? Well, I mean, technically, but I've been in the classroom. Marquette does a great job with getting us in the field, especially as an education major. So I've been in the classroom, basically.
since I started college, but now it's just in a different full-time capacity almost. So what's the demographic of students that you're teaching right now? Well, go to is pretty diverse for MPS schools. So I'll be seeing all different types of students from all different type of backgrounds, even some deaf and hard of hearing students. You know, it's whoever's enrolled and go to my ear. And that's a diaspora of people, really.
That's that's dope. And so has there been any challenges along the way? What's been your learning curve so far within the classroom? I Feel like the hardest thing right now is just well in the beginning because now I've kind of come around to it But like there's just the kids are different kids are just not like How I was growing up and I know how people before me grow grew up like kids. They just don't care
really like they care but they're just gonna tell you who is people before you you like you my sister my brother's like i'm sure y'all were not acting like this at that age i know actually well well keith always say that i'm i'm the oldest 33 year old no you are yeah he ever met so but i definitely can relate to that when i was in the classrooms just
realizing the differences between my generation and then the previous generation and then just trying to find a fine line with something that is common so that we can be able to still achieve the goals that we need to achieve as far as them being able to learn what
what they need for that particular grade, and then also move on and be productive citizens in our community. So that's pretty intriguing to hear that there are some differences. What are the differences that you experience so far? Well, I feel like the kids already are dealing with things that, number one, I have never had to deal with, but two, we're just different as a society. So they're growing up.
already with like chaos around them. So I can't blame them for like how they act, the way they act, but at the same time it's like, they don't really realize how much like autonomy they have over their life, even though they're only sixth, seventh grade. Like, did you, did you realize how much autonomy you had when you were in their age? Kind of, kind of like when my mom sent me to school, I know that it was my decision to sit there and listen. Like, I know that I, even though I didn't have a choice, I did have a choice to at least participate or like come in there with a certain attitude.
You were definitely a bright, bright young girl when I met you. That was just because of my mom. I remember our first conversation that we had. She was in, she was either in daycare or kindergarten. And, you know, I'm just talking to, I'm a teenager at this time and I'm just saying, hey, how are you doing? You know, she's like, oh, I'm good. How's everything going in daycare or kindergarten? Everything's going fine. I was like, you're not acting up, are you?
She said, no, I don't act like them other kids. The mother kids be acting up and I'm paying attention. And I and I look that you like. So you always had that that that wisdom at a at a real young age. So well, the wisdom was just I knew I was going to get a whooping. So like that was a wisdom or was it fear? But what either? So that's our wisdom is the same thing. They wanted the same because, you know, a lot of the things that
uh in hindsight if we would we would have avoided if we would have had that fear on uh the consequences that was coming after we indulged in them shenanigans right right and so uh how was your experience uh you were a double major how was that experience because i know for me uh i
switch majors a couple times. And so that was a little trying just because I switched schools and then the majors didn't align from the past school. So how did you go from being a single major and then eventually evolving into a double major? Well, it kind of like just happened naturally because Marquette's education program, the college is very small. So you can be like
There's more attention paid to you if that makes sense because it's so small which is not necessarily a good thing because we need more teachers but because it is so small right now the teachers and the advisors and like the staff they're very
Careful like you know, they pay attention to what you have going on there They're focused on trying to get you into the food right away So they ask you what your interests are because when your education major you cannot just be a single major You have to have a specialty or you have to have yeah So people some people are like history majors and education majors math majors and education majors So whatever your focus is or what your interest is like you have space to explore it and Like it I don't know I'm I can't I don't feel like it's super hard to switch your major but again my
My majors are a little bit lax, like it's not like there's, it's rigorous, but it's not as, I don't know, in comparison to a nursing major, I wouldn't say we're comparable. What drew you to those majors? Well, actually, I really went to college wanting to be a social worker, but then I was like, I need to, the problem is so big, like I need to figure out where I can start.
But I know that I can start with like what the kids know because already we can't even have a conversation if you don't understand What I'm talking about like you don't understand what you're doing so I figured I figured the best way for me to help them was to get in the classroom Because I could see them more consistently and do I feel like I could do more Mm-hmm in the classroom. Did you envision yourself being a teacher?
I mean when I was a kid I used to play school so yeah but I don't know. Used to be bossing people around. Really just I don't know my siblings Brandon probably but my toys I don't know. That's that's that's funny and so while you're in Marquette what led you to Greek? Well actually came to Marquette at a perfect time because my chapter was just reactivating so
Nothing at Marquette specifically drew me to Greek life I think it was the people outside that I met that was in Greek life like my cousin Karen and like so many other great Delta women around me that I knew and then I didn't know where Delta's they're all surrounded me my mom so many of my mom's best friends are Delta's so like that's a sign for me so when it was the opportunity for me to get to know the organization like you know the interest was mutual so we just Just said go Greek. I don't know
And what is your sorority? I'm a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. Man, that's a lot of names. There's not really that many names. What's on your shirt? It's just our 1913, the year, the greatest year. That's how many words is in that name, man. 1913.
414-444-5250. The phone lines are open. 414-444-5250. The phone lines are open. I am Devon Jones, DJ to Prodigy. Here with Ms. Parasapha, the youngest niece.
of Mr. Keith Parris, who is out today, as he will say, his favorite niece. Yeah. And I already told him that I know he's with his other niece right now, one of his other nieces right now. He already told me, but I know that I'm still the favorite. Like, it's OK. I'm one of the favorites. It's only three. Depending on the day. He sees me way more than he sees everybody. I feel like that's an advantage. I would say that Amaris was the favorite.
was she probably still is she's still she's my favorite so then by extension she well she gotta be your favorite she's your only sister yeah come on now that's that's by default um and so with marquette i know that uh for those of you who didn't know she also graduated from dominican um which is a catholic school what was that transition like going from uh dominican which is a catholic school to also marquette
It really wasn't a drastic difference. Dominican is a college prep school, so they're preparing for college and I think they do a really good job of like you getting the opportunity to see what the workload is going to look like, but also having to balance like being active in school and your academics. So being like a student athlete or being involved in multiple different extracurriculars, Marquette makes you get involved. I mean, Dominican makes you get involved into the community and Marquette does a good job with trying to like.
fostering that school spirit, getting you in different clubs, creating opportunities for you. So it really wasn't that hard of a transition. In my opinion, I think also Dominican is a smaller market in a certain sense, like, because it's a Catholic school. So it's only so not really, you know, you can only be so different if it's a Catholic school. They all kind of have the same principles, same values. So a lot of what I experienced at Dominican, I already
I mean, experience at Marquette or experience at Dominican. I know for me, I had classmates that graduated and then they followed each other to Marquette. Was there any classmates that followed you from Dominican to Marquette? Yeah, a couple of my classmates, but the years prior to me, before me, they...
I don't know. We joke now like the pipeline from Dominican to Marquette is crazy because it's just like people are really starting to flow into that school, which isn't a bad thing. But a lot of people before me kind of showed that Marquette is a school I should look at a little bit more seriously kind of. What you mean? Like because like my like some of my friends are people that I looked up to at Dominican. They went to Marquette and they did very well. So I was like, okay, maybe it's not that bad. And I got accepted and was like, you know, maybe I should try it. So.
Were you in like the black student union or anything like that? Well, it was also an interesting time when I came because the black student union was like in this like weird spot. I don't I wouldn't say they were disbanded at the time, but it was just like what year was this? 2022 was when I graduated. So the beginning of that year, I really wasn't like, I don't know. But also when I first got to college, I wasn't
Interested in jumping right into the water like I feel like I did way too much in high school So I just kind of wanted to just chill for a little bit and I think I did that so I really don't know too much about what was going on Super campus life like I knew it was some Black student union wasn't all the way put together Fully so it was just like yeah, I'm not even gonna join this you're not even ready. So like so the only org you was in was just the Greek. Yeah, basically but it
Gave me the opportunity to be around every other organization like black minds at Marquette, which is a mental health group We went to some of their events and before I even became Greek I used to go to some of their events because some of my friends They founded it. So like little things like that I would show face to every now and again, but I wasn't anything consistent What was the growth of? Theology like coming from you know, we grew up Baptist, but then you went to Catholic schools. Well
What was the growth in just expanding your horizons on on the word and then just the different ideologies of Catholicism and then obviously Baptist? Well, you know my mom, so she made it pretty clear also when I went to Catholic school. We do not believe that like what we believe we believe one thing and they believe this like they're gonna teach you this and it's good for you to know it just to know but like Your faith is what we have been basically
Talk my whole life. So I didn't really have a problem with that and then going to Dominican Of course, I definitely paid attention to it and we learned about other religions too So I didn't like turn my head to anything just because my mom said I don't believe in that but like as I grew in high school I realized that my faith was my own course and you know being in metropolitan Definitely drew me closer to Jesus. So in college I really wasn't like paying attention to what the Catholics was talking about like I had to take theology course and yeah, it was interesting but
College you you're on your own ball like I'm just trying to get out basically I'm just you know here for the class did going to Sort of religious schools help you grow in your face. Um I Think college in general did I don't know if the religious school Play a big role just because Like I wasn't interacting with the like the religion in the school
Like some things I had to do because like they made me do it and I participated in the class and like of course learn things but like I wasn't there for the religion so it didn't necessarily like Change anything for me. Yeah, not not definitely. I understand I knew for me My middle school obviously wasn't religious but then my high school was and then Cuz you went to hope right? Yeah, and then when I went to Concordia, Chicago
that was a Lutheran school as well. So after graduating, I got baptized my senior year. And so on that wave of like baptism, I felt that it was conducive for me to continue my faith in college and to find that there was another school that was just on the same wave.
as that was like a win-win for me. And plus I had the opportunity to play basketball. And so that was like another win-win for me. But one thing that you have more than me was, I came from predominantly black schools. And you were already entrusted in PWI. So it wasn't that much of a culture shock to you. But for me, my freshman year of college,
or as a complete cultural shock and I would never ever forget just understanding like man, every school is not like how it was when I when I grew up. You're listening to Community Voice. I am Devon Jones, DJ, the protégé here with Miss Paris, Renee Saffold. After the break, we'll be jumping right into Haters Nation. So 414.
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nation um and you know it's free flow friday we ain't did the real segment like like we supposed to but today we're gonna do it so my first my first bit of hate and and please remember callers when y'all call in the rules still remain the same all right just cuz Keith ain't here i don't mean you just get to say anybody name y'all know it's one name you can't say don't say it as soon as you slip
We gonna slip you up out of this conversation. All right. So my first bit of hate today is For that individual that is in the White House number 45 and he wants to rename Lake Ontario and My thing is he's done this before with the Gulf of Mexico But like don't we got better stuff to worry about he is the prime example
for somebody who continuously is worried about the wrong sugar honey iced tea. All right. Just worried about the wrong stuff, man. We got inflation through the roof. We got an unnecessary war going on. Me, you and everybody else still complaining about gas prices, you know, on top of ice and all of this other nonsense that's going on.
He is worried about renaming a lake, you know one of one of our great like so and it's really just to get back at Canada because they were talking about enforcing some some reactionary terrorists on America and so, you know That's number one. You know, you got anything gonna do Don't say his name. He is really just dumb because he doesn't understand that that's not even an American Lake
So what he's changing is what the US government calls the lake. It's not like he can change it for the whole world. The world calls it like Ontario, not just Canada. We don't care what you call it. Yes, so do do tripping. So that that's my first bit of hate. My second bit of hate. I don't know if everyone how often you're on your phones and and when she just random rules and videos on social media.
But I've been seeing at least 10 to 15 videos a day of hostile interactions with people who are recording in public places and people are just having these visceral reactions to these individuals, you know, recording. And my thing is,
Everywhere we go, we are being recorded. So why are you having this idiotic reaction to someone recording out in public? When you're out in public, you're being recorded. When you go to the grocery store, you're being recorded. When you're driving, odds are the lights have some type of cameras.
on them. That's how they be catching y'all with speed and sending you the speeding ticket. You know, running the red lights, whatever bar you get you a little taste from, they are recording in there. So just because Jermaine is outside on the corner, recording, y'all don't, why is y'all acting like that? That's just a pet peeve on mine that I just, I don't understand. People act different when the camera come on though. And we are already like right now, like that's it.
You got the person in the White House that's crazy. So everybody's hot-headed. I feel like they just do whatever. So on top of how you act different with the camera on, plus, you know, you can do it every now and days. No, you can't do whatever. Basically. No, you're not going to get away with it. They just didn't have the thought to do it. So he didn't have the thought to do it. It means you already do whatever. They just ain't ran into the right people. You know what I'm saying? You know what? I wish it would. You know what I'm saying?
A lot of people wish, a lot of people wish they just ain't got wished on yet. And then my last piece of hate is, you know, at the end of the basketball season and the football season, you know, a lot of people are bored. There's nothing really on TV. A lot of people, if you're not older, you're not really in the baseball. And so you just feeling for football. It's this.
hype about the football season and they the NFL does all this stuff to promote the NFL. But now this is the last week of the preseason. And then we got to wait two more weeks just until the first game start. So it's like, hey, man, I don't want to I don't want to hear nothing about no football or nothing until.
It's actually time to talk about it, man, because we got to wait at at least 15 days until I want to say the last two preseason games to be tomorrow. No, it was some yesterday and today, but I think it's going to be some tomorrow. Yes, but it's only like two of them. Then after that, you got to wait like 14 or 15 more days, man. Well, yeah. Well, that's because they got to do the cuts.
They got to get down to 50 man. They could do them cuss tonight. They got to play first. They could do them cuss tonight. Yeah, man. That's what we do. That bonehead play you just made. You don't got your helmet on. Cut. Wrong jersey. That would be more entertaining to watch. I don't like it. But if they start cutting on the field, then I would start watching it. Wait, so you're going to watch them to get cut? Yeah, because then you're going to play harder. So it's like, it's a little bit more entertaining.
One thing to keep said that I believe he said that when you're hungry, you run faster. Yeah. So when you got these players that's trying to make the team, they plan hard already. So it's just, do you have the ability to actually match up on the NFL standards? Most of these cats, you know, they trying out from college and they trying to stick to a team, but to get cut while you're on the field is just crazy.
Carla, thank you for your patience. You're on there. Good morning.
B-I-I-C-S, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, which has a community of two Asia, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Indonesia. As of 24-25, more has came up since then, often referred to as BRU. The block promotes de-dolarization by trading for local currency, and developing and further trading to invest in new... You want me to just text it to your phone?
Yeah, yeah. And then we'll check in on it. Hold on. Give me your phone. Let me give you your phone. Let me take this to your phone. Jermaine, give it to you. Just hold on. All right. 414-444-5250. The phone lines are open. 414-444-5250. The phone lines are open. We are in Haters Nation.
Oh, we got a break. Man, that was fast. After the break, we will be right back. You're listening to Devon Jones, DJ, the protégé here with Ms. Paris, Renee Saffle, Philly Nam for Keith. We'll be right back. 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. When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Violia. The result, the new Violia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.
connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks. Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values. I'm Jim Playset. I'm the Executive Director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.
We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them. It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.
Welcome back. We are still in haters. Nathan just just talking about a few of the shenanigans that grinded my gears. But one of the things that Jermaine just brought up is these people spitting it in the food up at Texas Roe House. It's crazy. I found somebody found some staples baked in their bread. I mean, but why this this this is beyond egregious because, you know,
When people go out, you go out to have a good time, you know, and then, you know, the most sensitive thing that people be worried about is they food and knows that are prepared, you know what I'm saying? Whenever we bow our heads and say that prayer, we say, please bless the hands that prepare that food. And to know that certain stuff like this be going on, you know, it just make you not even want to go out.
and eat, especially because I'm not going to lie. Majority of the time when we do go out, you don't be full anyway. You know, you pull up the experience. You better off. You better off just cooking your own food. Nine times out of ten, getting you a good meal from there. I don't know where y'all be going, but I'll be full when I go. I don't know where y'all going to eat. I don't order three entrees. I don't order three either.
I just ordered something that's gonna stick to you. Okay, I get fooled, but it's just not the same satisfaction. Right. Exactly. Now, that's a totally different feel because it seems like the way it's made at home is made with love. So you can get a taste. I don't know what it is, but you can taste the difference in it. At the end of the day, you know, it is no way that we go out
And then we expect to have somebody spit in our food. That's just utterly ridiculous. So, I mean, I'm not sure how long it's going to take, but Texas Royal House, they need to go, they need to go into a dip. They're going to go up in Cribson because it's like, you can't, that's a big problem. It's like over 40,000 people in that Facebook group. So it's like, why would you do that? And that's pretty much incriminating yourself.
Well, I said this a while ago that people cut off their nose despite they face. People do a lot of... There's no rationale. This is hatred. So it's like, this is not a foolproof plan. I'm doing this because I'm mad. Just because. So I'm cutting off my nose to see what's going to happen. I can't imagine having that happen. And that just goes to them, people with them cameras. It'd be some instances.
where you say you you wish somebody would but then also you glad that that it didn't happen to you because you don't know how you're gonna react man. Sometimes you do know how you're gonna react. I'm saying you may not be able to be on this side of the aisle. You're gonna be behind bars. I'm gonna say this. Since I'm a believer I would just do what Jesus did.
When he was upset he flipped tables. Oh, yeah So Jesus did it. Why can't I well, I'm still trying to be like Jesus But you just won flipping tables just flip tables, you know people was they did so They got bad, you know, but that was a valid that was a valid reasons they was they was tripping in them in them temples
414-444-525-0. 414-444-525-0. Phone lines are open. We are still in Haters Nation. And we are just talking about the shenanigans that has been going on. Caller, thank you for your patience. You're on air. Oh, okay. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. Okay. So you got a good topic in my young folks finished college and all the good stuff.
I'm thinking as you speak of all the disasters, disasters that's being done to our young people after they finish college and can pursue a job, because like we thought, you know, to get to have to be some kind of equality where we could, because in my era, I had to go to Urban League and we had to fight photographically. That's my era. But you know, given your education, I have
relatives that got theirs. And very successful, because I'm a doctor, but such a hard time trying to keep a job. And one of the girls told her, she says, well, being that I got this time and you, I should be your boss. You know, my niece was a school for, you know, to be a, which called a doctor of pharmacy and stuff like that. But she's got this girl telling her before years and she never studied that part of it. But, you know, telling her to
out of the way. So now that they're from all of these things up in the way blockages, I think sometimes we should just be underneath, you know, behind our curtains. Don't tell them nothing. Just do what we're going to do because they wrote a project 2025 book. They put it out recently. All the things, destruction they're going to do to the black people, our kids, our families, or whatever we own, they want to go back and destroy it.
So I was just thinking, and then they say, I'm going to be in that area Monday. So they're making a lot of money off of us. They're going to sit in our food. Yeah, I mean, that that just goes to, you know, what we always say that we should, you know, patronize more black owned businesses and then, you know, do it yourself. You know, just just just cook your own food at your own house. Yeah.
But you need to get a business too, because they make money with the business. My dad tried to open a shoe store. They gave him the hardest time. Even his bank, he had been banking with for years. They wouldn't loan him the money to open up the store. And so this is, like I said, we have blockages when we try to do stuff just to be successful. And they look at it as an enemy or maybe arising a power that we may overpower them, but we're only 30% of America. So how could we be, you know, the enemy?
That's what I really had to say. Thank you for your call. We're coming up on the break. After the break, we will be heading into the protege's perspective. After that, we will be talking about the latest market poll. You'll listen to Community Voice and we will be right back.
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 paddle boards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Veolia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Veolia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.
When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia. The result, the new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks. Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them. It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.
Welcome back, and now it's time for the protégé's perspective. We all struggle with some sort of fear. Fear of failure, fear of losing a loved one, fear of missing out. No matter who you are, there is a sense of fear that resides within you. Not all feelings of fear are on a grand scale. Some people are fearful of spiders.
a certain movie scene and other miniscule things that leaves people fearful in between. Majority of the things that bring us fear are just merely an illusion. It's a combination of worst case scenarios in our head. A bunch of scenarios that contribute to our detriment and not our deliverance. One can add that fear
is an ingredient of self sabotage. One derivative of fear that I've been reflecting on lately is the fear of missing out. So many poor decisions originate from this fraudulent thought, the fear of missing out. Self reflection is just as intense as a hangover. This fear is less about wanting to reach your potential, but more about
what's superficial, selfish thoughts, selfish ways, whether it's buying material things or going out and indulging in some extracurricular things. The thought of missing out captivates us until wanting to experience these activities. Our mind gets polluted
with potential ideas that our time and maybe our lives will be better if we engage in these certain activities. The fear of missing out presents itself to us in a manner that if we don't act, we will feel and be incomplete. Just for us to revert back to that same feeling, hours, days, or weeks from that same notion.
when we lean on the fear of missing out. In most cases, we are thinking about things that are not of substance or fulfillment. We're thinking about a moment, selfishness and shenanigans. All things that will have us back in the same position or worse. The fear of missing out
is only a mirage and maturity will determine if you continue to fall for that facade. That is the protégé's perspective today, just a perspective on the facade or mirage of the fear of missing out. Also, I just want to give a good shout out to one of our listeners.
George, happy birthday. Many, many, many more. George has always been a listener. He always connects with us, either a phone call or online. So I just want to give him a birthday shout out. Happy birthday. And I saw you in your reply.
Definitely don't go there today for your birthday You know if you're gonna go out go somewhere else or you know ask somebody to make you something But yeah, we we off we off a roll house for a long time for me. It's forever You know them I'm off of them and I'm off a target. You know, I mean they not they not get no love from me but Moving on Just wanted to touch basis
with one of the latest polls that came out on Wednesday in regards to our governor's race. And it polled that David Crowley is leading over Tom Tiffany with the silent margin. And then he's also leaving in a significant margin when it comes to the independent voters. And we've talked about this in the past
because this is an extremely pivotal voting year in determining our governorship. And in the present and since Governor Evers has been in office, he's just really been playing defense. The Republicans have been over the legislator and the Senate. And so this is
an opportunity for the Democrats to potentially have the pendulum swing their way. But I just wanted to ask you, Paris, have you been keeping up with this? And then how stern should we be looking into these polls? I think you should be looking sternly into the candidates, the polls.
They're just going to do what the data says. So it's not necessarily something that we have to be focused on. We need to be paying attention more so to who we're potentially voting for. I think David Crowley, definitely his campaign, definitely used to be very, very, very hungry because we cannot underestimate the Republicans. They are very crazy. They have a very crazy leader right now. So irrationality is bound to happen if that makes any sense.
This course is bound to happen, so we need to be solid on our candidate and know all about David Crowley, not just that he grew up in Milwaukee and came from a struggle to now this accomplished man. What is his opinions about other things? Give us something that you would like him to expound on in an effort to earn your vote. Well, for me, a major concern I have is the data centers, like him trying to say that he wants Milwaukee to be a place.
What I've seen so I don't know if he necessarily agrees with this but like that the data centers are something that he wants to Become a staple in this city, which is not good It's very dangerous because they take our drinking water and we use people use AI to make these flyers and stuff like that But they're we're using it a lot and it could kill us so it could be a very unfortunate situation because our governor is endorsing something like that so
That's my biggest concern right now. Phone lines are open 414-445-250. Caller, thank you for your patience. You're on there. Could you turn the radio down please? Good morning. Yep, you're on there. Good morning. Sorry about that DJ. Just a hatred nation trait. What's going on, Trey?
Hey man, your perspective is strong as usual. Thank you very much. I'm afraid that I won't be around and see this revenue tennis player become a superstar. It's not the only thing I'm scared of, right? Like you said, we are scared of something.
As for them polls, I don't mess with them no more because Francesca Hall is way ahead. We've seen what happened to her. As for Dewey Crawley becoming governor of this year's state, I believe it when I see it. Of course, I'm voting for him, but I don't think those white people in Brown County are going to vote for him. All right. Here's my hate. Can I get my hate off? Always, always. It's been a long time since I heard from you, man.
I hope you had a good recovery. Are you still there? I talked back on the tennis court teaching tennis all summer good man. Oh, yeah, but my haters one of my favorite Former formerly favorite shows the view would be Goldberg She got a white lady sitting next to her Who say her name is Sarah Haines? She's a Republican
She ain't a maggot, but she's a Republican. She said, I'm not a big fan of reparations. And whoopie just sat there, let it go, because a woman, well, you don't want to say things like that, they hurry up and move on. So I'm like, I haven't watched the real man in all summer, because this happened months ago.
So I canceled the views on my list of 38 things that had to be canceled when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion. So I hate the view. But I haven't watched the view since I was a kid. But you know that they got to have what they would call as balance, somebody that's going to be on the left and somebody that's going to be on the right. And even if somebody is on the far left,
then they're going to have somebody on that far right. So reparations has always been a hot topic that has gotten people up in arms because when we are discussing reparations, we're talking about people of African descent, people who derive from enslaved individuals. And the people who don't rock with reparations are the people who that don't ascribe to.
And so, you know, they feel like they're being left out. Yeah, well, you know what? We was left out for 300 years, OK? Right. Our women, man. The way our women was treated was just indescribably horrible. So anybody who is against reparations is against me. I'm out, DJ. Man, good to hear you. All right. All right. 414-444-5250. Phone lines are open and.
Yeah, I just think that, you know, reparations, I think that honestly, I feel that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they swindled us. They swindled my vote in 2020 because I thought that they was... What did you really expect? Your 40 acres? No, I expected at least a substantial conversation when it came to...
uh, them getting in, in office. I do know that, uh, the house would have to agree on that probably and, and the Senate as well, unless, unless he was to do an executive order, which, um, we know that would be a long shot anyway. But, um, I thought, which, you know, I thought wrong, but I thought that them bringing up the conversation
was an eye opener to me and a step in a right direction. And then they just, then they just played us. So, uh, Carla, thank you for your patience. You're on there. Good morning, sir. How are you doing? Not as well as you said I'm singing. But anyway, if I had your hand, I cut mine off. Regarding.
reparations that has suggested many, many times. They could start reparations yesterday if they did one thing. And that is, give the GI bill to the families of all the veterans who were denied the GI bill when they came home. It wouldn't be racial.
but it would be ratio. You have a good end doctor. You too appreciate it. 414-444-5250-414-444-5250. This governor's race is really taking a national toll just off the sense of one, the individual that is in office.
You know, he's obviously endorsing Tom Tiffany. And then, too, just with all of the attention Francesca Hong garnered, it just made for a cinematic experience leading up to that primary. And then, I mean, not to mention, you know, even David Carly dropping out, then coming back in.
uh, Sarah Rodriguez dropping out and then also Mandela Barnes, uh, dropping out. And so there was, there was a lot of stuff going on, uh, within this election that, you know, it made national attention. One of the things that I talked to Keith about was that, you know, if either Mandela or David, and now obviously we know that it's David, if one of them was to, you know, win, you know,
It has some similar qualities to when Barack Obama won his Senate seat, his US Senate seat in Illinois. I read his book and he highlighted how he got lucky, in a sense, because a couple of his opponents, they had dropped out due to scandals. And so that just left him.
You know prime prime candidate to win and you know Whenever you win anything it always takes a little bit of luck and so I'm not you know I would never I would never slight nobody for for being lucky because you know a part of some good fortune luck is involved But when when we're talking about this this governor's race One person said on YouTube that
You know, polls don't vote and that's extremely true. And even leading up to the primary, I said that, you know, I don't give so much credence to polls just because I saw what happened in 2016. And in 2016, the guy that's in office, he was down big.
to Hillary Clinton and you know, Keith would even say even he thought he wasn't going in. And so to see him, you know, be triumphant in 2016, you know, I was just always weary with what could potentially happen. And I can't necessarily say that the polls.
lied because one of the biggest, uh, eye-openers in the polls was that, uh, the independent voters or the undecided voters, they had a substantial, uh, percentage in those polls. It was, you know, Francesca and, you know, the 33, 34 range. And then the undecided voters was also in that 30, 30% range. Yeah.
I was gonna say like the polls you can only do so much with them because they can only account for so much like it's like you said they don't vote so You you're not gonna have 100% accuracy Anyway, and I do feel like the polls aren't even necessarily for like the people like they're more so for the people on their campaigns to see like what their trajectory looks like from a campaign management point of view I feel like it's more beneficial but for us like I said we need to be paying more attention to like the candidates more so whether or rather
then what the polls is going to say is going to happen because we don't know. We definitely don't know. We always want an idea of what's going on and that's basically what the polls do. If I was to say...
Oh, I gotta tell you something, but I can't tell you right now. I'm gonna call you back. What is it about? You know, probably blow my phone up like, hey, what you talking about? Right. Because we just we just got to know. And so this race is going to be extremely interesting. And one of the things that the Democrats are going to highlight is just
the marriage, so to speak, of Tom Tiffany and the president. But just recently, Tom Tiffany disagreed with something that the president did, which was... That's a ploy. That's a ploy. He's only doing that to try to make it seem like they're not as buddy-buddy, but we're not dumb. Like, Wisconsin people are not...
We're not dumb. So we know what's going on. But I feel like the Democrats need to try to figure out how they can bridge the gap between David Crowley voters and Francesca Hahn voters because that once they band together or we all band together, then it's like Tom Chiffney doesn't seem as big of a giant to have to defeat, I feel like. Yeah, to hit on your point, I do feel that Wisconsin is one of the more politically inclined states in America. Not to say that.
You know We don't have shenanigans that go on because we definitely got a lot of shenanigans that go on but you know, just the mere fact that our our state is a purple state Just leans to just how diverse the state is on certain topics and just how knowledgeable individuals are when it comes to politics, you know, I
I had to take politics seriously because my mom was a union member and I would always be in union meetings. My mom would pick me up from school or from practice or whatever and she would drive right to the union meetings. And so like I always had an idea of what's going on. And then as I got older,
same thing with you, you begin to develop your own sense of ideology of what's right and what's wrong. And, you know, one of the things that I had to acknowledge, and I told Keith this, when I was younger, around your age, I was so black and white. And I was so black and white to where if you talked about gray, I shook my head at you. Because it ain't no shade of gray. It's always black and white.
As I've gotten older, I realized that, you know, there are some shades of gray in areas. I just say that, you know, you just can't continue to allow those shades of gray to heap into every conversation that you have. We're just kind of getting different now because things are, I feel like the spectrum is just so, like you said, black and white.
like certain things have to be cut and dry like so the gray kind of has to start to fade because you you got to start establishing what side you want I feel like we just are too it's too much discourse so if you are not I guess black and white if you're going to be on the black side then you kind of have to stay on that black side because if you're on the white side what are you like what is your I guess what's the conversation because like some things you really shouldn't be gray about and I think the the biggest things that are on the news
there really shouldn't be any gray. Like either you're going to support this or you're not type of thing. Does that mean you feel what I'm saying? Yeah. So then what is your thoughts on evolution and adaptability? Well, I mean, that's different because in evolution, that is a gradual change. So like the definition of it or the conversation of it is literally talking about a change. So you can't change from black to white without gray. But when we're talking about like a political issue,
Most of those nowadays, you have to be cut and dry because we have somebody up there that is just so he is point blank periods of what he feels. Now, he may try to disguise it as if he's not this way, but he's cut and dry. So if we not cut and dry, then we. I don't think he cut and dry. He don't know what he is, you know, one one day he's this way. And then the next day he he's that. And then all of a sudden.
He tried to convoluted into both and then next next week or next month. He said he never said that at all. Yeah, but all that is a distraction. He can't count. He can't count. All that stuff is just a distraction from who he really is at his core is just like a racist, all those foundational things that you have to be, you know what I'm saying, cut and drive for. So the distraction acting like, you know, and he's seen now. So it's like a lot of things he might not exactly, he don't know what's going on because he literally does not know.
What's going on? I do think that it is pretty ironic that he got on Joe Biden a lot, calling him Sleepy Joe. And he can barely keep his head up. He's the sleepiest president I know. This is Community Voice. You're listening to Devon Jones, DJ to Prodigy. Here with our very, very special guest, Paris Sappho. We are going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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All right, Milwaukee, welcome back to Community Voice. Paso just had some disturbing news that he just gave me off air. So I want him to bring this up real quick. Man, listen, man, I've been paying attention to the news and I see where in racing, the young man that was on the football field that was pretty much killing our game. He was scoring touchdowns and he was dominating.
and a parent of the opposite team ran on to the field as the young boy was running in for another touchdown and tripped him. Now, he could have hurt that young man by the young man running at full speed and the parent come out there being a grown man. Did a main lady ensue what happened? He ain't getting no consequences after doing that? I think, well, from what they said was he has been banned from coming.
For me, it would have been more than it would have been bad days. And that's that's what we be talking about, man. When we really parents ruin the games, you know, like, obviously, you know, we all want our baby to do well. We want our baby to win. We want our baby to be the best. But when you get to doing extracurricular activities like this, one, it's no cause for that. And two, that that's that's how you end up, you know, six feet under.
Belved as six feet under. Yeah, you know, because like to your point, what do they got hurt though? And you see the kid running for like, so his head is up. So he don't even see the parent coming. So you you run in full speed and by his parent tripping this young man, he could have failed to the ground. He could have landed on his head. He could have did anything. And as a parent, yeah. And as a parent, watching your kid dominate all game and then.
You got a grown ass man that come from the stands to trip this kid. We are still been fighting, right? And, you know, one thing that I always tell the parents is that, you know, the first and most important thing is that your child has a love for the game and is having fun. And. Doing something like that takes away.
from the actual game, whether your child was performing or not, you became the story and not those, uh, those kids that, that are, that are playing. And so when you, when you yelling at the red for you yelling at the coach, or you do some as stupid as, as trip a child, you make it more about you than about that.
that yeah it becomes only about you and it's not even like part what if the child got hurt it's how bad because you're a grown person regardless yeah the child coming like i like you said full speed doing whatever they're gonna get hurt even if it's maybe not be that bad right still like you went out there with every intention on hurting the child well be honest he just hurt there he also hurt his son yeah for doing that that's how best he gonna be yeah
You know what I'm saying? A daddy out of order from running on the field is pretty cute. And basketball, I've heard, I haven't experienced this, but I've heard that, you know, some fathers have been so out of order that they won't even allow the kid to try out on the team or to be on a certain team just because the parent acted a fool. And so now when that happens, who do you think you hurt?
Because your day's been over. Yeah. So you live in vicariously through your child. But now you're hurting them because maybe they did have, you know, extreme potential to move on. But because you acting a fool. They embarrassed. No. Forget embarrassed. They won't even be given the opportunity. Yeah. They don't want that. Kind of like what almost happened with the ball, brothers.
right. Oh, yeah. No, I don't think that. No, the bar was crazy. People did not want anything. He was he was crazy, but they was also hate. They would they be hating on that stuff. I get it, which is true. If you know that, if you know that they hate on you, he is a fool. You got to move a certain way. Yeah, you got to move a certain way, man. He a fool. We get it. But I don't think LaVar was was too over the top.
The only thing that made it over the top was that the platforms was giving him the microphone in order to voice his opinion.
You know, we wouldn't have known how crazy LeVar was if he wouldn't have been on all these shows. He was on every single talk show. Because they made money off of his foolishness. I was going to say, LeVar did know. It's not like he's this dad that's just so energetic. No, he is also a businessman. He knew what he was doing. I mean, he was going to do that. If my dad was doing that or my parent was doing all of that, I'm going to be like, this is too much because even the bar boys don't even have that close relationship with their dad anymore. But he does too.
But that's also an exception to the rule because he did all that. And where did they end up? But that's because they have talent. So it's like, yeah. But that's different. That's an exception. See, but you know what? That's an exception. See, but, but, but hold on. But your talent can get you to the place, but your character keeps you there. Yeah. So they talent got them there. But when you got the sin.
their father and their father was representing them. You had people from the corporate world that was like, we don't want to deal with this. Yeah. Like like none that we don't want to do. Well, we will. Yeah. Well, you know, they don't want no outspoken loud mouth person that regardless on top of that. Yeah. You know, but with LaVar, he he he was the best of both worlds where he he was the crazy, but also he was a
a present father who, I don't think he hindered his children because they still made it to the NBA and got lucrative deals. Just because they made it doesn't mean that he wasn't hindering it. I think that, yes, he was a good father. The goal is to get to the NBA. But it don't matter if that's the goal. Like, just because the goal is for me to make a million dollars, how I make that million is a part of that, like that counts. So, yeah.
He was a present father and dedicated a lot of time to perfecting their craft. They had natural born talent that their father poured into. So yes, he contributed, but him being loud and doing all that extra stuff, you're not helping me by doing the most. Like, why are you on the news right now? And that's true because now there's people from the outside world that might not even know you.
Don't even want to get to know you now because of how your dad is exactly because now it's a reflection of that's good You want to know why because it's a lot of those people ain't supposed to be in your face anyway But your character your character is gonna show regardless Beyond what what your your parents do or think about this think about this they made it to the NBA they had to
be around other individuals in order to make it that far. They didn't make it there solely because of, you know, LeVar. They had the talent, and they had the connections, and none of them act like LeVar. And that's probably one of their benefits. But that's telling in itself. Because I know when I go out, I act like my mom. We act like each other, but I know she's not going to get on the move, so I'm crazy. That ain't that.
So, so, so then what about those ones who have a soft spoken parents and then they just wilding out. They get it. That's a choice. But no, that's both. That's both. No, that's not that. Therese Halliburne, his dad, he messed up opportunities to he was out of order doing the most. That's not the only goal, though.
You have people that are fans of Yanis. So when he did what he did, it turned those fans that don't even know. I will tell you right now, they're not missing out on no opportunities. No, that's not the only. It's not the only goal. But at the time. The goal was to make it to the league. Now, after they make it to the league, it's not even on the parent anymore. Now is it's on.
that child, that individual, so that because they he was talking about and even D way that and uh and Jason Tatum that said that you know they they they try to push them away from from their child yeah and so he has a right to speak out about that but when they get to the league now it's on them to stay in the league. Lanzo he's still in the league he just
Unfortunately, he had an injury. Uh, Lamello, he, he got, he got a humongous contract, you know, and then Jello, you know, he would have, he would have had some opportunity, but he made a poor decision. What prime example of the people around you, like when stuff happens and NBA player family members text or tweet out something, it affects that NBA player, even though he didn't put it out there.
that person that's connected to him tweeted something out. Now, it falls on the player that. Oh, yeah. So, you know what I'm saying? So, when you have Lavar ball and he do some whatever and say whatever, it falls back on his sons because his sons is in the league. You know why I think that it wouldn't hurt or it has. I don't think it has hurt Lonzo or Lamello because
We knew he was crazy He just he's not NBA material he just not that that that's the point
that everybody missing with Jello, he's not NBA material. People were surprised that he made a UCLA team. Do you like his song? No, that was a good song. Actually, I like the remix better. The remix, the remix. And he got multi-millions.
LaVar did right by his kids. No, the kids did right with what the dad gave. Exactly. LaVar did right by his kids. I gotta agree with Paris. LaVar was a decent dad, but the kids did right with what they possessed. You don't think all of them learned from him? So all of your
Accomplishments are because of your mom know your mom gave you the skills and you use them to make it who you are today And I but I learned I learned from my mom and so she is the foundation Yes, you have to make the decision to be like I'm gonna use And that's what they doing but that don't mean he should be doing everything he the way he was talking crazy
We know that already. We can't just pacify people because they're crazy. No, yes, you can. No, you cannot. Hey, man, young and sexy DJ. No, you cannot. If I'm crazy and not come slap somebody, oh, that's just fair. She's just crazy. No, nobody needs to be slapping me back. Yeah. And then people, then people are going hot on you. Like, man, you know, you can't do that. So we happen on LaVar. You know, you can't be talking crazy on the media just because you're in the NBA. It was working. And that's different because LaVar will only have a platform
if those commentators and stuff will give him a mic, and they did. But that's their business, though. If I'm on the news or something like that, I see that this man wants to talk. I'm going to give you that because that's going to feed my pockets. So it's lucrative. It's going to boost his ratings, yeah. It's going to boost his ratings. So you can't blame LeVar for trying to boost his ratings. But in the process of him trying to boost his pocket, he's hurting his son's reputation. So you don't want to hurt the brand.
But he really didn't hurt none of their reputations because, one, Lanzo, people hated him because of LeVar, right? Yeah. But Lanzo showed that he was nothing like LeVar. He had to prove himself, though. Yeah. But I mean, he proved that he was a capable player. No, but I'm saying he had to prove himself that he wasn't like his dad. But everybody knew that, though. And he had to see the shoes that his dad already said. Even in college, though. Right. But even in college, people knew that he was nothing like...
his dad. And then, uh, what's his name? Lamello. Lamello is probably the most like LeVar. You heard how he be driving? Like a fool. And all the cars and stuff he be buying and all that. Yeah. So he probably the most like his dad.
But they still gave him over a hundred million dollars. But he's still talented. Nobody's taking away what they have done and the good things that they've taken from his dad. We just saying that his daddy don't need to be on the TV doing all of that extra stuff. Go somewhere set out. You can still have pride in your kid and give your two cents without being as loud as you are. If it ain't broke.
Bro I'm gonna be proud of my children without having to be a spotlight right Their success is the spotlight on me different though. Yeah, but he's a problem Even if it worked that on me you got what you say all success have a little bit of luck. Yeah, so he got a little bit of luck. Oh, they definitely got luck because
of the environment. Yeah. You know, them being able to get that tall. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because a lot of people, they try to get there, but they, they're not good enough. They're not tall enough. You know, they don't have the connections. They did. He did that, but he got to, he got to quiet down. He got to quiet down. I still standing on what I said. He's a good dad, but he needs to quiet down. So did he play in the league? Never. Come on now. Okay. So, so what I'm saying, and I,
I did that for a reason. So what I'm saying is he never made it to the league, right? But he knew that his kids had something that they got potential that he didn't have. So by him being so boisterous and loud, he took the talent that his kids had and lived his NBA dream through them. Being loud and being the forefront and saying that his kids was better than LeBron and
and Michael Jordan and all this other stuff. But that put attention on his kids. I get it. But then some of us are interested. But now is it attention or is it expectation? Yeah, pressure. Because if you put expectation on your kids and they fail. Well, it's both. But you can do that without trying to say your child is better than the greatest NBA player in the whole world. So when we get to the NBA, even, well, really just the NBA, right? The NBA is more about entertainment. Yeah.
In order to get to the NBA, you got to have some name behind you unless you just raw business, you know, which they were, though. It's not like they couldn't have made it without him being as loud. I think I think that LaMelo at least could have made it without his father. No, no, no. What I was going to say was that LaVar talked.
his way to getting Lonzo drafted higher than probably he should have gotten drafted at. But what I was going to say is that you want to have a brand and the ability to have eyes put on you. Him acting a fool like that and saying that stuff, put eyes on them so maybe he was overrated. But I would rather be
highly paid and overrated, then underappreciated and underpaid. See, but that can be a blessing and a curse because if you, if you put all of the attention on them saying my sons are this and my sons is that, and now people got the expectation, right? So as soon as they see them and if they don't meet that expectation, now you lose out on the funding and the money that you could have and would have got if they didn't form this expectation of you because of what your dad did. You lose out.
No, but he got lucky. He got lucky again. It's not like Lanzo couldn't play but like He got injured right away. So again, he did lose a he did lose out on a lot and you're going in with the expectation of you not even being you like I can't even show you showcase my own talent It's already a precedence like Lanzo has the ability to Be in the league for at least three to four more years, which will probably make it to team Well, I'm gonna say this DJ if Ben Simmons
Can play in the league me you need to go try out right now and let me be loud about y'all Let me see if I can get y'all. I'm never in the league. I'm never well straight up My time is over no, and I'm sure but listen again listen to what I'm saying if Ben Simmons Can play in the NBA a guy that's scared of layups
Me you need to go try out at least play but he's he's not matter it do matter. He's scared of of a seven foot basket Ten foot basket, you know how many un athletic six foot It's a lot of it's a lot of people that's big
That's just like saying all black people got rhythm. No, I believe all black people got rhythm. No, they do not. No, no. It's not the same level of rhythm. All right, there you go. It might not be on time. We have more rhythm than every white person. It might not be cha, cha, cha, cha. It might be cha, cha, cha, cha. Just because he's six, six, six, seven. We've seen some six, seven, six, six people that was weak. Not in the lead. Guess you have. Who? It's been some.
Sam Bradley. Okay. No, he was tall as a fool. He wasn't that good, man. Wait, but he made it because of his. No, he wasn't good at all. He was trash. That sounds like George Mira son. Trash. I don't even know who that is. Big for nothing. Look him up. Google him. He played for Washington. He was big for nothing. But what I'm saying is, uh, being Simmons, bro, it was hype behind his dude.
Like ah, he the next the next is but this is the same dude that would get to the rack look at the rim and pass it because he was scared of missing a layer that's like a lot of he got that's what I'm saying like a lot So it's all in in your mind, right? So what kept him from being great? It was in his mind right spoil to the so let's reverse that and Create in our mind. Hey, I can be great. Let's go try out and see what happens I did that already
You know what I'm gonna impact the world better Sure
You ain't sure I'm sure I'm gonna get shirts made. You let me know that first game. I use the LeBard method and see if y'all can get to the lead. I do that. She came to my games. There's came to my games. Come see what I can do.
I know you're listening somewhere out there. Set it up, man. He sent the whisper text. So I think he's listening. He sent the whisper text. But also, before we end the program, I definitely have to, and I want to thank George because George made me look this up to see if this was the exact date. And in fact, this is the exact date of the March on Washington in 19, no, no, no.
I have a dream speech. 1963 definitely want to just show gratitude and credence to, you know, all of the individuals that laid down their lives, laid down the path for us to even be on this platform, for us to be able to, you know, go to educational institutions for hire.
education and have the ability to just be around a diverse bunch of people. So, with that, Clark, thank you. Who you with? Paso, thank you. Man, great show, man. Great show. Thank you. Great show. Paris, Rene, Sappho. Great show. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Great show. No, no, no. This is my first time working with it. Energy is great.
You are most definitely cut for it. So Keith, you don't have to come in no more. And last but not least, thank you Milwaukee for joining the conversation and listening to us. Good Lord willing. The creek don't rise. Keith will be back with you all on Monday. And as always, let's go from this place in peace.
Good morning.
You are now listening to Community Voice.
I am Devon Jones, DJ to Prodigy.
Here with Clark Kent.
Who you with?
Here with Clark Kent.
Who you with?
And here with Passa.
Give me my A-back, brother.
Passa, how you doing this morning?
Hey,
man, I can't complain at all.
How about yourself?
I'm good.
I'm good.
And then we are here with a marvelous guest,
Miss.
No, Miss Paris, we're made, Saffron.
Keith is out today, and so he has given me the privilege to co-host the program today with his youngest niece, Miss Paris Saffron.
She's like a younger sister to me.
So one shout out to Keith.
Hopefully everything is going OK.
And just thank you for the privilege of being able to talk to the community today.
As always, it's Free Flow Friday, 414-444-5250.
The phone lines are open.
And then also just want to give a quick shout out to everyone who is online with us, Facebook and YouTube.
So Paris, the last time you was with us, you were in college.
Has there been any changes with a major or graduation?
Give us an update.
Well, I'm no longer in college,
so I
just recently graduated from Marquette with a psychology and secondary education degree.
Congratulations.
Yeah, I'm a minor in social studies, so right now...
I'm just finishing my student teaching because I have a double major.
I
couldn't finish my psych and be a student teaching at the same time.
So they let me finish it in August.
So I might go to my year teaching seventh grade social studies for my student teaching for the rest of the semester.
And yeah, after that, we'll be trying to get
started.
That's exciting.
So your first year in the classroom?
Well, I mean, technically, but I've been in the classroom.
Marquette does a great job with getting us in the field, especially as an education major.
So I've been in the classroom, basically.
since I started college, but now it's just in a different full-time capacity almost.
So what's the demographic of students that you're teaching right now?
Well, go to is pretty diverse for MPS schools.
So I'll be seeing all different types of students from all different type of backgrounds, even some deaf and hard of hearing students.
You know, it's whoever's enrolled and go to my ear.
And that's a diaspora of people, really.
That's that's dope.
And so has there been any challenges along the way?
What's been your learning curve so far within the
classroom?
I Feel like the hardest thing right now is just well in the beginning because now I've kind of come around to it But like there's just the kids are different
kids are
just not like How I was growing up and I know how people before me grow grew up like kids.
They just don't care
really like they care but
they're just gonna tell you who is people before you
you like you my sister my brother's like i'm sure y'all were not acting like this at that age i know actually
well well keith always say that i'm i'm the oldest 33 year old no you are yeah he ever met so but i definitely can relate to that when i was in the classrooms just
realizing the differences between my generation and then the previous generation and then just trying to find a fine line with something that is common so that we can be able to still achieve the goals that we need to achieve as far as them being able to learn what
what they need for that particular grade, and then also move on and be productive citizens in our community.
So that's pretty intriguing to hear that there are some differences.
What are the differences that you experience so far?
Well, I feel like the kids already are dealing with things that, number one, I have never had to deal with, but two, we're just different as a society.
So they're growing up.
already with like chaos around them.
So I can't blame them for like how they act, the way they act, but at the same time it's like, they don't really realize how much like autonomy they have over their life, even though they're only sixth, seventh grade.
Like,
did you, did you realize how much autonomy you had when you were in their age?
Kind of, kind of like when my mom sent me to school, I know that it was my decision to sit there and listen.
Like, I know that I, even though I didn't have a choice, I did have a choice to at least participate or like come in there with a certain attitude.
You were definitely a bright, bright young girl when I met you.
That was
just because of my mom.
I remember our first conversation that we had.
She was in, she was either in daycare or kindergarten.
And, you know, I'm just talking to, I'm a teenager at this time and I'm just saying, hey, how are you doing?
You know, she's like, oh, I'm good.
How's everything going in daycare or kindergarten?
Everything's going fine.
I was like, you're not acting up, are you?
She said, no, I don't act like them other kids.
The mother kids be acting up and I'm paying attention.
And I and I look that you like.
So you always had that that that wisdom at a at a real young age.
So well, the
wisdom was just I knew I was going to get a whooping.
So like
that
was a wisdom or was it fear?
But
what either?
So that's our wisdom is the same thing.
They wanted the same because, you know, a lot of the things that
uh in hindsight if we would we would have avoided if we would have had that fear on uh the consequences that was coming after we indulged in them shenanigans
right right
and so uh how was your experience uh you were a double major how was that experience because i know for me uh i
switch majors a couple times.
And so that was a little trying just because I switched schools and then the majors didn't align from the past school.
So how did you go from being a single major and then eventually evolving into a double major?
Well, it kind of like just happened naturally because Marquette's education program, the college is very small.
So you can be like,
There's more attention paid to you if that makes sense because it's so small which is not necessarily a good thing because we need more teachers but because it is so small right now the teachers and the advisors and like the staff they're very
Careful like you know, they pay attention to what you have going on there They're focused on trying to get you into the food right away So they ask you what your interests are because when your education major you cannot just be a single major
You have to have a
specialty
or you
have to have yeah So people some people are like history majors and education majors math majors and education majors So whatever your focus is or what your interest is like you have space to explore it and Like it I don't know I'm I can't I don't feel like it's super hard to switch your major but again my
My majors are a little bit lax,
like
it's
not like there's, it's rigorous, but it's not as, I don't know, in comparison to a nursing major,
I
wouldn't say we're comparable.
What drew you to those majors?
Well, actually, I really went to college wanting to be a social worker, but then I was like, I need to, the problem is so big, like I need to figure out where I can start.
But I know that I can start with like what the kids know because already we can't even have a conversation if you don't understand What I'm talking about like you don't understand what you're doing so I figured I figured the best way for me to help them was to get in the classroom Because I could see them more consistently and do I feel like I could do more
Mm-hmm
in the classroom.
Did you envision yourself being a teacher?
I mean, when I was a kid, I used to play school.
So
yeah, but I
don't know.
Used to be bossing people around.
Really?
I don't know.
My siblings, Brandon probably, but my toys, I don't know.
That's funny.
And so while you're in Marquette, what led you to Greek?
Well, I actually came to Marquette at a perfect time because my chapter was just reactivating.
Nothing at Marquette specifically drew me to Greek life
I
think it was the people outside that I met that was in Greek life like my cousin Karen and like so many other great Delta women around me that I knew and then I didn't know where Delta's they're all surrounded me my mom so many of my mom's best friends are Delta's so like that's a sign for me so when it was the opportunity for me to get to know the organization like you know the interest was mutual so we just Just said go Greek.
I don't know
And what is your sorority?
I'm a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated.
Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated.
Man, that's a lot of names.
There's not really
that many names.
What's on your shirt?
It's just our 1913, the year, the greatest year.
That's how many words is in that name, man.
1913.
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I am Devon Jones, DJ to Prodigy.
Here with Ms.
Parasapha, the youngest niece.
of Mr. Keith Parris, who is out today, as he will say, his favorite niece.
Yeah.
And I already told him that I know he's with his other niece right now, one of his other nieces right
now.
He already told me, but I know that I'm still the favorite.
Like, it's OK.
I'm one of the favorites.
It's only three.
Depending on the day.
He
sees me way more than he sees everybody.
I feel like that's an advantage.
I would say that Amaris was the favorite.
was she probably still is
she's still she my favorite so then by extension she
well she gotta be your favorite she's your only sister
yeah
come on now that's that's by default um and so with marquette i know that uh for those of you who didn't know she also graduated from dominican um which is a catholic school what was that transition like going from uh dominican which is a catholic school to also marquette
It really wasn't a drastic difference.
Dominican is a college prep school, so they're preparing for college and I think they do a really good job of like you getting the opportunity to see what the workload is going to look like, but also having to balance like being active in school and your academics.
So
being
like a student athlete or being involved in multiple different extracurriculars, Marquette makes you get involved.
I mean, Dominican makes you get involved into the community and Marquette does a good job with trying to like.
fostering that school spirit, getting you in different clubs, creating opportunities for you.
So it really wasn't that hard of a transition.
In my opinion, I think also Dominican is a smaller market in a certain sense, like, because it's a Catholic school.
So it's only so not really, you know, you can only be so different if it's a Catholic school.
They all kind of have the same principles, same values.
So a lot of what I experienced at Dominican, I already
I mean, experience at Marquette or experience at Dominican.
I know for me, I had classmates that graduated and then they followed each other to Marquette.
Was there any classmates that followed you from Dominican to Marquette?
Yeah, a couple of my classmates, but the years prior to me, before me, they...
I don't know.
We joke now like the pipeline from Dominican to Marquette is crazy because
it's
just like people are really starting to flow into that school, which isn't a bad thing.
But a lot of people before me kind of showed that Marquette is a school I should look at a little bit more seriously kind of.
What you mean?
Like because like my like some of my friends are people that I looked up to at Dominican.
They went to Marquette and they did very well.
So I was like, okay, maybe it's not that bad.
And I
got accepted and was like, you know, maybe I should try it.
So.
Were you in like the black student union or anything like that?
Well, it was also an interesting time when I came because the black student union was like in this like weird spot.
I don't I wouldn't say they were disbanded at the time, but it was just like
what year was
this?
2022 was when I graduated.
So the beginning of that year, I really wasn't like, I don't know.
But also when I first got to college, I wasn't
Interested in jumping right into the water like I feel like I did way too much in high school So I just kind of wanted to just chill for a little bit and I think I did that so I really don't know too much about what was going on Super campus life like I knew it was some Black student union wasn't all the way put together Fully so it was just like yeah, I'm not even gonna join this you're not even ready So like
so the only org you was in was just the Greek.
Yeah, basically but it
Gave me the opportunity to be around every other organization
like
black minds at Marquette, which is a mental health group We went to some of their events and before I even became Greek I used to go to some of their events because some of my friends They founded it.
So like little things like that I would show face to every now and again, but I wasn't anything consistent
What was the growth of?
Theology like coming from you know, we grew up Baptist, but then you went to Catholic schools.
Well
What was the growth in just expanding your horizons on on the word and then just the different ideologies of Catholicism and then obviously Baptist?
Well, you know my mom, so she made it pretty clear also when I went to Catholic school.
We do not believe that like what we believe we believe one thing and they believe this like they're gonna teach you this and it's good for you to know it just to know but like Your faith is what we have been basically
Talk my whole life.
So I didn't really have a problem with that and then going to Dominican Of course, I definitely paid attention to it and we learned about other religions too So I didn't like turn my head to anything just because my mom said
I don't
believe in that but like as I grew in high school I realized that my faith was my own course and you know being in metropolitan Definitely drew me closer to Jesus.
So in college I really wasn't like paying attention to what the Catholics was talking about
like I had
to take theology course and yeah, it was interesting but
College you you're on your own ball like I'm
just
trying to get out basically I'm just you know here for the class
did going to Sort of religious schools help you grow in your face
um I Think college in general did I don't know if the religious school Play a big role just because Like I wasn't interacting with the like the religion in the school
Like some things I had to do because like they made me do it and I participated in the class and like of course learn things but like I wasn't there for the religion so it didn't necessarily like Change anything for me.
Yeah, not not definitely.
I understand I knew for me My middle school obviously wasn't religious but then my high school was and then
Cuz you went to hope right?
Yeah, and then when I went to Concordia, Chicago
that was a Lutheran school as well.
So after graduating, I got baptized my senior year.
And so on that wave of like baptism, I felt that it was conducive for me to continue my faith in college and to find that there was another school that was just on the same wave.
as that was like a win-win for me.
And plus I had the opportunity to play basketball.
And so that was like another win-win for me.
But
one thing that you have more than me was I came from predominantly black schools.
And you were already entrusted in PWI.
So it wasn't that much of a culture shock to you.
But for me, my freshman year of college,
or as a complete cultural shock and I would never ever forget just understanding like man, every school is not like how it was when I when I grew up.
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nation um and you know it's free flow friday we ain't did the real segment like like we supposed to but today we're gonna do it so my first my first bit of hate and and please remember callers when y'all call in the rules still remain the same all right just cuz Keith ain't here i don't mean you just get to say anybody name y'all know it's one name you can't say don't say it as soon as you slip
We gonna slip you up out of this conversation.
All right.
So my first bit of hate today is For that individual that is in the White House number 45 and he wants to rename Lake Ontario and My thing is he's done this before with the Gulf of Mexico But like don't we got better stuff to worry about he is the prime example
for somebody who continuously is worried about the wrong sugar honey iced tea.
All right.
Just worried about the wrong stuff, man.
We got inflation through the roof.
We got an unnecessary war going on.
Me, you and everybody else still complaining about gas prices, you know, on top of ice and all of this other nonsense that's going on.
He is worried about renaming a lake, you know one of one of our great like so and it's really just to get back at Canada because they were talking about enforcing some some reactionary terrorists on America and so, you know That's number one.
You know, you got anything gonna do Don't say his name.
He is really just dumb because he doesn't understand that that's not even an American Lake
So what he's changing is what the US government calls the lake.
It's
not like he can change it for the whole world.
The world calls it like Ontario, not just Canada.
We
don't care what you call
it.
Yes, so do do tripping.
So that that's my first bit of hate.
My second bit of hate.
I don't know if everyone how often you're on your phones and and when she just random rules and videos on social media.
But I've been seeing at least 10 to 15 videos a day of hostile interactions with people who are recording in public places and people are just having these visceral reactions to these individuals, you know, recording.
And my thing is,
Everywhere we go, we are being recorded.
So why are you having this idiotic reaction to someone recording out in public?
When you're out in public, you're being recorded.
When you go to the grocery store, you're being recorded.
When you're driving, odds are the lights have some type of cameras.
on them.
That's how they be catching y'all with speed and sending you the speeding ticket.
You know, running the red lights, whatever bar you get you a little taste from, they are recording in there.
So just because Jermaine is outside on the corner, recording, y'all don't, why is y'all acting like that?
That's just a pet peeve on mine that I just, I don't understand.
People act different when the camera come on though.
And we are already like right now, like that's it.
You got the person in the White House that's crazy.
So everybody's hot-headed.
I feel like they just do whatever.
So on top of how you act different with the camera on, plus, you know, you can do it every now and days.
No, you can't do
whatever.
Basically.
No,
you're not going to get away with
it.
They just didn't have the thought to do
it.
So he didn't have the thought to do it.
It means you already do whatever.
They just ain't ran into the right people.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what?
I wish it would.
You know what I'm saying?
A lot of people wish, a lot of people wish they just ain't got wished on yet.
And then my last piece of hate is, you know, at the end of the basketball season and the football season, you know, a lot of people are bored.
There's nothing really on TV.
A lot of people, if you're not older, you're not really in the baseball.
And so you just feeling for football.
It's this.
hype about the football season and they the NFL does all this stuff to promote the NFL.
But now this is the last week of the preseason.
And then we got to wait two more weeks just until the first game start.
So it's like, hey, man, I don't want to I don't want to hear nothing about no football or nothing until.
It's actually time to talk about it, man, because we got to wait at at least 15 days until I want to say the last two preseason games to be tomorrow.
No, it was some yesterday and today, but I think it's going to be some tomorrow.
Yes, but it's only like two of them.
Then after that, you got to wait like 14 or 15
more days, man.
Well, yeah.
Well, that's because they got to do the cuts.
They got to get down to 50 man.
They could do them cussed tonight.
They got to play first.
They could
do them cussed tonight.
Yeah,
man.
That's what we
do.
That bonehead play you just made.
You don't got your helmet on.
Cut.
Wrong jersey.
That would be more
entertaining to watch.
I don't
like
it.
But if they start cutting on the field, then I would start watching.
Wait, so you're going to watch them to get cut?
Yeah, because then you're going to play harder.
So it's like, it's a little bit more
entertaining.
One thing to keep said that I believe he said that when you're hungry, you run faster.
Yeah.
So when you got these players that's trying to make the team, they plan hard already.
So it's just, do you have the ability to actually match up on the NFL standards?
Most of these cats, you know, they trying out from college and they trying to stick to a team, but to get cut while you're on the field is just crazy.
Carla, thank you for your patience.
You're on there.
Good
morning.
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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.
When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Violia.
The result, the new Violia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.
connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks.
Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.
Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset.
I'm the Executive Director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.
Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.
We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.
They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.
It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.
MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.
Welcome back.
We are still in haters.
Nathan just just talking about a few of the shenanigans that grinded my gears.
But one of the things that Jermaine just brought up is these people spitting it in the food up at Texas Roe House.
It's crazy.
I found
somebody found some staples baked in their bread.
I mean, but why this this this is beyond egregious because, you know,
When people go out, you go out to have a good time, you know, and then, you know, the most sensitive thing that people be worried about is they food and knows that are prepared, you know what I'm saying?
Whenever we bow our heads and say that prayer, we say, please bless the hands that prepare that food.
And to know that certain stuff like this be going on, you know, it just make you not even want to go out.
and eat, especially because I'm not going to lie.
Majority of the time when we do go out, you don't be full anyway.
You know, you
pull up the experience.
You better off.
You better off just cooking your own food.
Nine times out of ten, getting you a good meal from there.
I don't know where y'all be going.
I'll be full when I go.
I don't know where y'all going to eat.
I don't order three entrees.
I don't order three either.
I
just
ordered something
that's gonna stick to you.
Okay,
I
get fooled, but it's just not the same satisfaction.
Right.
Exactly.
Now, that's a totally different feel because it seems like the way it's made at home is made with love.
So you can
get a
taste.
I don't know what it is, but you can taste the difference in it.
At the end of the day, you know, it is no way that we go out
And then we expect to have somebody spit in our food.
That's just utterly ridiculous.
So, I mean, I'm not sure how long it's going to take, but Texas Royal House, they need to go, they need to go into a dip.
They're going to go up in Cribson because it's like, you can't, that's a big problem.
It's like over 40,000 people in that Facebook group.
So it's
like, why would you do that?
And that's pretty much incriminating yourself.
Well, I said this a while ago that people cut off their nose despite they face.
People do a lot of...
There's no rationale.
This is
hatred.
So it's like, this is not a foolproof plan.
I'm doing this because I'm mad.
Just because.
So
I'm cutting off my nose to see what's going to happen.
I can't imagine having that happen.
And that just goes to them, people with them cameras.
It'd be some instances.
where you say you you wish somebody would but then also you glad that that it didn't happen to you because you don't know how you're gonna react man.
Sometimes you do know how
you're gonna react.
I'm saying you may not be able to be on this side of the aisle.
You're
gonna be behind bars.
I'm gonna say this.
Since I'm a believer I would just do what Jesus did.
When he was upset he flipped tables.
Oh,
yeah So Jesus did it.
Why can't I
well, I'm still trying to be
like
Jesus But
you just won flipping tables just flip tables, you know people was
they did so They
got bad, you know, but that was a valid that was a valid reasons they was they was tripping in them in them temples
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And we are just talking about the shenanigans that has been going on.
Caller, thank you for your patience.
You're on air.
Oh, okay.
Good morning, everybody.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Okay.
So you got a good topic in my young folks finished college and all the good stuff.
I'm thinking as you speak of all the disasters, disasters that's being done to our young people after they finish college and can pursue a job, because like we thought, you know, to get to have to be some kind of equality where we could, because in my era, I had to go to Urban League and we had to fight photographically.
That's my era.
But you know, given your education, I have
relatives that got theirs.
And very successful, because I'm a doctor, but such a hard time trying to keep a job.
And one of the girls told her, she says, well, being that I got this time and you, I should be your boss.
You know, my niece was a school for, you know, to be a, which called a doctor of pharmacy and stuff like that.
But she's got this girl telling her before years and she never studied that part of it.
But, you know, telling her to
out of the way.
So now that they're from all of these things up in the way blockages, I think sometimes we should just be underneath, you know, behind our curtains.
Don't tell them nothing.
Just do what we're going to do because they wrote a project 2025 book.
They put it out recently.
All the things, destruction they're going to do to the black people, our kids, our families, or whatever we own, they want to go back and destroy it.
So I was just thinking, and then they say, I'm going to be in that area Monday.
So they're making a lot of money off of us.
They're going to sit in our food.
Yeah, I mean, that that just goes to, you know, what we always say that we should, you know, patronize more black owned businesses and then, you know, do it yourself.
You know, just just just cook your own food at your own house.
Yeah.
But you need to get a business too, because they make money with the business.
My dad tried to open a shoe store.
They gave him the hardest time.
Even his bank, he had been banking with for years.
They wouldn't loan him the money to open up the store.
And so this is, like I said, we have blockages when we try to do stuff just to be successful.
And they look at it as an enemy or maybe arising a power that we may overpower them, but we're only 30% of America.
So how could we be general to enemy?
That's what I really had to
say.
Thank you for your call.
We're coming up on the break.
After the break, we will be heading into the protege's perspective.
After that, we will be talking about the latest market poll.
You'll listen to Community Voice and we will be right back.
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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 paddle boards.
People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.
We love our partnership with Veolia.
They help the kayak company grow.
I definitely don't think we would be here without Veolia and MMSD.
Clean water is essential.
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It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.
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We all struggle with some sort of fear.
Fear of failure, fear of losing a loved one, fear of missing out.
No matter who you are, there is a sense of fear that resides within you.
Not all feelings of fear are on a grand scale.
Some people are fearful of spiders.
a certain movie scene and other miniscule things that leaves people fearful in between.
Majority of the things that bring us fear are just merely an illusion.
It's a combination of worst case scenarios in our head.
A bunch of scenarios that contribute to our detriment and not our deliverance.
One can add that fear
is an ingredient of self-sabotage.
One derivative of fear that I've been reflecting on lately is the fear of missing out.
So many poor decisions originate from this fraudulent thought, the fear of missing out.
Self-reflection is just as intense as a hangover.
This fear is less about wanting to reach your potential but more about
what's superficial, selfish thoughts, selfish ways, whether it's buying material things or going out and indulging in some extracurricular things.
The thought of missing out captivates us until wanting to experience these activities.
Our mind gets polluted
with potential ideas that our time and maybe our lives will be better if we engage in these certain activities.
The fear of missing out presents itself to us in a manner that if we don't act, we will feel and be incomplete.
Just for us to revert back to that same feeling, hours, days, or weeks from that same notion.
when we lean on the fear of missing out.
In most cases, we are thinking about things that are not of substance or fulfillment.
We're thinking about a moment, selfishness and shenanigans.
All things that will have us back in the same position or worse.
The fear of missing out
is only a mirage and maturity will determine if you continue to fall for that facade.
That is the protégé's perspective today, just a perspective on the facade or mirage of the fear of missing out.
Also, I just want to give a good shout out to one of our listeners.
George, happy birthday.
Many, many, many more.
George has always been a listener.
He always connects with us, either a phone call or online.
So I just want to give him a birthday shout out.
Happy birthday.
And I saw you in your reply.
Definitely don't go there today for your birthday You know if you're gonna go out go somewhere else or you know ask somebody to make you something But yeah, we we off we off a roll house for a long time for me.
It's forever You know them I'm off of them and I'm off a target.
You know, I mean they not they not get no love from me but Moving on Just wanted to touch basis
with one of the latest polls that came out on Wednesday in regards to our governor's race.
And it polled that David Crowley is leading over Tom Tiffany with the silent margin.
And then he's also leaving in a significant margin when it comes to the independent voters.
And we've talked about this in the past
because this is an extremely pivotal voting year in determining our governorship.
And in the present and since Governor Evers has been in office, he's just really been playing defense.
The Republicans have been over the legislator and the Senate.
And so this is
an opportunity for the Democrats to potentially have the pendulum swing their way.
But I just wanted to ask you, Paris, have you been keeping up with this?
And then how stern should we be looking into these polls?
I think you should be looking sternly into the candidates, the polls.
They're just going to do what the data says.
So it's not necessarily something that we have to be focused on.
We need to be paying attention more so to who we're potentially voting for.
I think David Crowley, definitely his campaign, definitely used to be very, very, very hungry because we cannot underestimate the Republicans.
They are
very crazy.
They have a very crazy leader right now.
So irrationality is bound to happen if that makes any sense.
This course is bound to happen, so we need to be solid on our candidate and know all about David Crowley, not just that he grew up in Milwaukee and came from a struggle to now this accomplished man.
What is his opinions about other things?
Give us something that you would like him to expound on in an effort to earn your vote.
Well, for me, a major concern I have is the data centers, like him trying to say that he wants Milwaukee to be a place.
What I've seen so I don't know if he necessarily agrees with this but like that the data centers are something that he wants to Become a staple in this city, which is not good It's very dangerous because they take our drinking water
and
we use people use AI to make these flyers and stuff like that But they're we're using it a lot and it could kill us so it could be a very unfortunate situation because our governor is endorsing something like that so
That's my biggest concern right now.
Phone lines are open 414-445-250.
Caller, thank you for your patience.
You're on there.
Could
you turn the radio down, please?
Good
morning.
Yep, you're on there.
Good morning.
Sorry about that DJ.
Just a hatred nation trait.
What's going on,
Trey?
Hey man, your perspective is strong as usual.
Thank you very much.
I'm afraid that I won't be around and see this revenue tennis player become a superstar.
It's not the only thing I'm scared of.
But like you said, we are scared of something.
As for them polls, I don't mess with them no more because Francesca Hall is way ahead.
We've seen what happened to her.
As for Dewey Crawley becoming governor of this year's state, I believe it when I see it.
Of course, I'm voting for him, but I don't think those white people in Brown County are going to vote for him.
All right.
Here's my hate.
Can I get my hate
off?
Always, always.
It's been a long time since I heard from you, man.
I hope
you had a good recovery.
Are you still there?
I talked back on the tennis court teaching tennis all summer
good man.
Oh, yeah, but my haters one of my favorite Former formerly favorite shows the view would be Goldberg She got a white lady sitting next to her Who say her name is Sarah Haines?
She's a Republican
She ain't a maggot, but she's a Republican.
She said, I'm not a big fan of reparations.
And whoopie just sat there, let it go, because a woman, well, you don't want to say things like that, they hurry up and move
on.
So I'm like, I haven't watched the real man in all summer, because this happened months ago.
So I canceled the views on my list of 38 things that had to be canceled when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
So I hate the view.
But I haven't watched the view since I was a kid.
But you know that they got to have what they would call as balance, somebody that's going to be on the left and somebody that's going to be on the right.
And even if somebody is on the far left,
then they're going to have somebody on that far right.
So reparations has always been a hot topic that has gotten people up in arms because when we are discussing reparations, we're talking about people of African descent, people who derive from enslaved individuals.
And the people who don't rock with reparations are the people who that don't ascribe to.
And so, you know, they feel like they're being left
out.
Yeah, well, you know what?
We was left out for 300 years, OK?
Our women, man.
The way our women was treated was just indescribably horrible.
So anybody who is against reparations is against me.
I'm out, DJ.
Man,
good to hear you.
All
right.
All right.
414-444-5250.
Phone lines are open and.
Yeah, I just think that, you know, reparations, I think that honestly, I feel that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they swindled us.
They swindled my vote in 2020 because I thought that they
was... What did you really expect?
Your 40 acres?
No, I expected at least a substantial conversation when it came to...
uh, them getting in, in office.
I do know that, uh, the house would have to agree on that probably and, and the Senate as well, unless, unless he was to do an executive order, which, um, we know that would be a long shot anyway.
But, um, I thought, which, you know, I thought wrong, but I thought that them bringing up the conversation
was an eye opener to me and a step in a right direction.
And then they just, then they just played us.
So, uh, Carla, thank you for your patience.
You're on there.
Good morning, sir.
How are
you doing?
Not as well as you said I'm singing.
But anyway, if
I had your hand, I cut mine off.
Regarding.
reparations that has suggested many, many times.
They could start reparations yesterday if they did one thing.
And that is, give the GI bill to the families of all the veterans who were denied the GI bill when they came home.
It wouldn't be racial.
but it would be ratio.
You have a good end doctor.
You too appreciate it.
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This governor's race is really taking a national toll just off the sense of one, the individual that is in office.
You know, he's obviously endorsing Tom Tiffany.
And then, too, just with all of the attention Francesca Hong garnered, it just made for a cinematic experience leading up to that primary.
And then, I mean, not to mention, you know, even David Carly dropping out, then coming back in.
uh, Sarah Rodriguez dropping out and then also Mandela Barnes, uh, dropping out.
And so there was, there was a lot of stuff going on, uh, within this election that, you know, it made national attention.
One of the things that I talked to Keith about was that, you know, if either Mandela or David, and now obviously we know that it's David, if one of them was to, you know, win, you know,
It has some similar qualities to when Barack Obama won his Senate seat, his US Senate seat in Illinois.
I read his book and he highlighted how he got lucky, in a sense, because a couple of his opponents, they had dropped out due to scandals.
And so that just left him.
You know prime prime candidate to win and you know Whenever you win anything it always takes a little bit of luck and so I'm not you know I would never I would never slight nobody for for being lucky because you know a part of some good fortune luck is involved But when when we're talking about this this governor's race One person said on YouTube that
You know, polls don't vote and that's extremely true.
And even leading up to the primary, I said that, you know, I don't give so much credence to polls just because I saw what happened in 2016.
And in 2016, the guy that's in office, he was down big.
to Hillary Clinton and, you know, Keith would even say even he thought he wasn't going in.
And so to see him, you know, be triumphant in 2016, you know, I was just always weary with what could potentially happen.
And I can't necessarily say that the polls.
lied because one of the biggest, uh, eye-openers in the polls was that, uh, the independent voters or the undecided voters, they had a substantial, uh, percentage in those polls.
It was, you know, Francesca and, you know, the 33, 34 range.
And then the undecided voters was also in that 30, 30% range.
Yeah.
I was gonna say like the polls you can only do so much with them because they can only account for so much like it's like you said they don't vote so You you're not gonna have 100% accuracy Anyway, and I do feel like the polls aren't even necessarily for like the people like they're more so for the people on their campaigns to see like what their trajectory looks like from
a
campaign management point of view I feel like it's more beneficial but for us like I said we need to be paying more attention to like the candidates more so whether or rather
then what the polls is going to say is going to happen because we don't know.
We definitely don't know.
We always want an idea of what's going
on
and that's basically what the polls do.
If I was to say...
Oh, I gotta tell you something, but I can't tell you right now.
I'm gonna
call you back.
What is it about?
You know, probably blow my phone up like, hey, what you talking about?
Right.
Because we just we just got to know.
And so this race is going to be extremely interesting.
And one of the things that the Democrats are going to highlight is just
the marriage, so to speak, of Tom Tiffany and the president.
But just recently, Tom Tiffany disagreed with something that the president did, which was... That's a ploy.
That's a ploy.
He's only doing that to try to make it seem like they're not as buddy-buddy, but we're not dumb.
Like,
Wisconsin people are not...
We're not dumb.
So
we
know
what's going on.
But I feel like the Democrats need to try to figure out how they can bridge the gap between David Crowley voters and Francesca Hahn voters because that once they band together or we all band together, then it's like Tom Chiffney doesn't seem as big of a giant to have to defeat.
I feel like.
Yeah, to hit on your point, I do feel that Wisconsin is one of the more politically inclined states in America.
Not to say that.
You know We don't have shenanigans that go on because we definitely
got a lot
of shenanigans that go on but you know, just the mere fact that our our state is a purple state Just leans to just how diverse the state is on certain topics and just how knowledgeable individuals are when it comes to politics,
you know,
I
I had to take politics seriously because my mom was a union member and I would always be in union meetings.
My mom would pick me up from school or from practice or whatever and she would drive right to the union meetings.
And so like I always had an idea of what's going on.
And then as I got older,
same thing with you, you begin to develop your own sense of ideology of what's right and what's wrong.
And, you know, one of the things that I had to acknowledge, and I told Keith this, when I was younger, around your age, I was so black and white.
And I was so black and white to where if you talked about gray, I shook my head at
you.
Because
there ain't no shade of gray.
It's always black and white.
As I've gotten older, I realized that, you know, there are some shades of gray in areas.
I just say that, you know, you just can't continue to allow those shades of gray to heap into every conversation that you have.
We're just kind of getting different now because things are, I feel like the spectrum is just so, like you said, black and white.
like certain things have to be cut and dry like so the gray kind of has to start to fade because you you got to start establishing what side you want I feel like we just are too it's too much discourse so if you are not I guess black and white if you're going to be on the black side then you kind of have to stay on that black side because if you're on the white side what are you like what is your I guess what's the conversation because like some things you really shouldn't be gray about and I think the the biggest things that are on the news
there really shouldn't be any gray.
Like either you're going to support this or you're not type of thing.
Does that mean you feel what I'm saying?
Yeah.
So then what is your thoughts on evolution and adaptability?
Well, I mean, that's different because in evolution, that is a gradual change.
So like the definition of it or the conversation of it is literally talking about a change.
So you can't change from black to white without gray.
But when we're talking about like a political issue,
Most of those nowadays, you have to be cut and dry because we have somebody up there that is just so he is point blank periods of what he feels.
Now, he may try to disguise it as if he's not this way, but he's cut and dry.
So if we not cut and dry, then we.
I don't think he cut and dry.
He don't know what he is, you know, one one day he's this way.
And then the next day he he's that.
And then all of a sudden.
He tried to convoluted into both and then next next week or next month.
He said he
never said that at all.
Yeah, but all that
is a distraction.
He can't count.
He can't count.
All
that stuff is just a distraction from who he really is at his core is just like a racist, all those foundational things that you have to be, you know what I'm saying, cut and drive for.
So the distraction acting like, you know, and he's seen now.
So it's like a lot of things he might not exactly, he don't know what's going on because he literally does not know.
What's going
on?
I do think that it is pretty ironic that he got on Joe Biden a lot, calling him Sleepy Joe.
And he can barely keep his head up.
He's the sleepiest president I know.
This is Community Voice.
You're listening to Devon Jones, DJ to Prodigy.
Here with our very, very special guest, Paris Sappho.
We are going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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Paso just had some disturbing news that he just gave me off air.
So I want him to bring this up real quick.
Man, listen, man, I've been paying attention to the news and I see where in racing, the young man that was on the football field that was pretty much killing our game.
He was scoring touchdowns and he was dominating.
and a parent of the opposite team ran on to the field as the young boy was running in for another touchdown and tripped him.
Now, he could have hurt that young man by the young man running at full speed and the parent come out there being a grown man.
Did a main lady
ensue what happened?
He ain't getting no consequences after doing that?
I think, well, from what they said was he has been banned from coming.
For me, it would have been more than
it
would have been bad days.
And that's that's what we be
talking about, man.
When we really parents ruin the games, you know, like, obviously, you know, we all want our baby to do well.
We want our baby to win.
We want our baby to be the best.
But when you get to doing extracurricular activities like this, one, it's no cause for that.
And two, that that's that's how you end up, you know, six feet under.
Belved as
six feet under.
Yeah,
you know, because like to your point, what do they got hurt
though?
And you see the kid running for like, so his head is up.
So he don't even see the parent coming.
So you you run in full speed and by his parent tripping this young man, he could have failed to the ground.
He could have landed on his head.
He could have did anything.
And as
a
parent, yeah.
And as a parent, watching your kid dominate all game and then.
You got a grown ass man that come from the stands to trip this kid.
We are still been fighting,
right?
And you know, one thing that I always tell the parents is that, you know, the first and most important thing is that your child has a love for the game and is having fun.
And.
Doing something like that takes away.
from the actual game, whether your child was performing or not, you became the story and not those those kids that that are playing.
And so when you when you yelling at the red for you yelling at the coach or you do some as stupid as as trip a child, you make it more about you than about that.
that
yeah it becomes only about you and it's not even like part what if the child got hurt it's how bad because you're a grown person regardless
yeah the
child coming like i like you said full speed doing whatever they're gonna get hurt even if it's maybe not be that bad right still like you went out there with every intention on hurting
the child well be honest he just hurt there he also hurt his son yeah for doing that that's how best he gonna be
yeah
You know what I'm
saying?
A daddy out of order from running on the field is pretty
cute.
And basketball, I've heard, I haven't experienced this, but I've heard that, you know, some fathers have been so out of order that they won't even allow the kid to try out on the team or to be on
a
certain team just because the parent acted a fool.
And so now when that happens, who do you think you hurt?
Because your day's been over.
Yeah.
So you live in vicariously through your child.
But now you're hurting them because maybe they did have, you know, extreme potential to move on.
But because you acting a fool.
They
embarrassed.
No.
Forget embarrassed.
They won't even be given the opportunity.
Yeah.
They don't want
that.
Kind of like what almost happened with the ball, brothers.
right.
Oh, yeah.
No,
I
don't think that.
No, the bar was crazy.
People did not
want anything.
He was
he was crazy, but they was also hating.
They was they be hating on that stuff.
I get it.
Which is true.
However,
if
you know that, if you know that they hate on you,
he is a fool.
You got to move a certain way.
Yeah, you got to move a certain way, man.
He a fool.
We get it.
But I don't think LaVar was was too over the top.
The only thing that made it over the top was that the platforms was giving him the microphone in order to voice his opinion.
You know, we wouldn't have known how crazy LeVar was if he wouldn't have been on all these shows.
He was on every single talk show.
Because
they made money off of his foolishness.
I was going to say, LeVar did know.
It's not like he's this dad that's just so energetic.
No, he is also a businessman.
He knew what he was doing.
I mean, he was going to do that.
If my dad was doing that or my parent was doing all of that, I'm going to be like, this is too much because even the bar boys don't even have that close relationship with their dad anymore.
But he does too.
But
that's also an exception to the rule because he did all that.
And where did they end up?
But that's because they have talent.
So it's
like,
yeah.
But that's different.
That's an exception.
See, but you know what?
That's an
exception.
See, but but but hold on.
But your talent can get you to the place, but your character keeps you there.
Yeah.
So they talent got them there.
But when you got the sin.
their father and their father was representing them.
You had people from the corporate world that was like, we don't want to deal with this.
Yeah.
Like like none that we don't want to do.
Well, we will.
Yeah.
Well, you know, they don't want no outspoken loud mouth person that regardless
on top
of that.
Yeah.
You know, but with LaVar, he he he was the best of both worlds where he he was the crazy, but also he was a
a present father who, I don't think he hindered his children because they still made it to the NBA and got lucrative deals.
Just because they made it doesn't mean that he wasn't hindering it.
I think that, yes, he was a good father.
The goal is to get to the NBA.
But it don't matter if that's the goal.
Like, just because the goal is for me to make a million dollars, how I make that million is a part of
that, like
that counts.
So,
yeah.
He was a present father and dedicated a lot of time to perfecting their craft.
They had natural born talent that their father poured into.
So yes, he contributed, but him being loud and doing all that extra stuff, you're not helping me by doing the most.
Like, why are you on the news right now?
And that's true because now there's people from the outside world that might not even know you.
Don't even want to get to know you now because of how your
dad is
exactly because now it's a reflection of that's good You
want to know why
because it's
a lot of those people ain't supposed to be in your face anyway
But
your character your character is gonna show regardless Beyond what what your your parents do or
think about this think about this
they made it to the NBA they had to
be around other individuals in order to make it that far.
They didn't make it there solely because of, you know, LeVar.
They had the talent, and they had the connections, and none of them act like LeVar.
And that's probably one of their benefits.
But
that's telling in itself.
Because I know when I go out, I act like my mom.
We act like each other, but I know she's not going to get on the move, so I'm crazy.
That ain't that.
So,
so, so then what about those ones who have a soft spoken parents and then they just wilding out.
They get it.
That's a choice.
But no, that's both.
That's both.
No, that's not that.
Therese Halliburne, his dad, he messed up opportunities to he was out of order doing the
most.
That's not the only
goal, though.
You have people that are fans of Yanis.
So when he did what he did, it turned those fans that don't even know.
Sorry, is that
I will tell you right now.
They're not missing out on no opportunities.
No, that's not the only about that.
It's not the only goal.
But at the time.
The goal was to make it to the league.
Now, after they make it to the league, it's not even on the parent anymore.
Now is it's on.
that child, that individual, so that because they he was talking about and even D way that and and Jason Tatum that said that, you know, they they they try to push them away from from
their child.
Yeah.
And so he has a right to speak out about that.
But when they get to the league, now it's on them to stay in the league.
Lanzo, he's still in the league.
He just
Unfortunately, he had an injury.
Uh, Lamello, he, he got, he got a humongous contract, you know, and then Jello, you know, he would have, he would have had some opportunity, but he made a poor
decision.
What prime example of the people around you, like when stuff happens and NBA player family members text or tweet out something, it affects that NBA player, even though he didn't put it out there.
that person that's connected to him tweeted something out.
Now it falls on the player that.
Oh yeah.
So you know what I'm saying?
So when you have Lavar ball and he do some whatever and say whatever, it falls back on his sons because his sons is in the league.
You know
why I think that it wouldn't hurt or it has.
I don't think it has hurt Lonzo or Lamello because.
We knew he was crazy He just
he's not NBA material he just not that
that that's the point
that everybody missing with Jello, he's not NBA material.
People were surprised that he made a UCLA team.
Do you like his song?
No, that was a good song.
Actually, I like the remix better.
The remix, the remix.
And he got multi-millions.
LaVar did right by his kids.
No, the kids did right
with what the dad gave.
Exactly.
LaVar did right by his
kids.
I gotta
agree
with Paris.
LaVar was a decent dad, but the kids did
right with what they possessed.
You don't think all of them learned from him?
So all of your
Accomplishments are because of your mom know your mom gave you the skills and you use them to make it who you are today
And I but I learned I learned from my mom and so she is the foundation Yes, you have to
make the decision to be like I'm gonna use And that's what they doing but that don't mean he should be doing everything he the way he was talking crazy
We
know that already.
We
can't just pacify people because they're crazy.
No,
yes, you can.
No, you cannot.
Hey, man,
young and sexy DJ.
No, you cannot.
If I'm crazy and not come slap somebody.
Oh, that's just fair.
She's
just
crazy.
No, nobody needs to be slapping me back.
Yeah.
And then people, then people are going hot on you.
Like, man, you know, you can't do that.
So we happen
on LaVar.
You know, you can't be talking crazy on the media just because
you're
in the NBA.
It was working.
And that's different because LaVar will only have a platform
if those commentators and stuff will give him a mic, and they
did.
But that's their business, though.
If I'm on the news or something like that, I see that this man wants to talk.
I'm going to give you that because that's going to feed my pockets.
So it's
lucrative.
It's going to boost
his
ratings,
yeah.
It's going to boost his ratings.
So you can't blame LeVar for trying to boost his ratings.
But in the process of him trying to boost his pocket, he's hurting his son's reputation.
So you don't want to hurt the brand.
But he really didn't hurt none of their reputations because, one, Lanzo, people hated him because of LeVar, right?
Yeah.
But Lanzo showed that he was nothing like LeVar.
He had to prove himself, though.
But I mean, he proved that he was a capable player.
No, but I'm saying he had to prove himself that he wasn't like his dad.
But everybody knew that, though.
And he had to see the shoes that his
dad already said.
Even in college, though.
Right.
But even in college, people knew that he was nothing like...
his dad.
And then, uh, what's his name?
Lamello.
Lamello is probably the most like LeVar.
You heard how he be driving?
Like a fool.
And all the cars and stuff he be buying and all of that.
Yeah.
So he probably the most like his
dad.
But
they still
gave him over a hundred million
dollars.
But he's still talented.
Nobody's taking away what they have done and the good things that they've taken from his dad.
We just saying that his daddy don't need to be on the TV doing all of that extra stuff.
Go somewhere set out.
You
can
still have pride in your kid and give your two cents without being as loud as you are.
If it ain't broke.
Bro I'm gonna be proud of my children without having to be a spotlight
Their
success is the spotlight on me
different though.
Yeah, but he's a problem Even if it worked that on me you got what you say all success have a little bit of luck.
Yeah, so he got a little bit of luck.
Oh, they definitely got luck because
of the environment.
Yeah.
You know, them being able to get that tall.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Because a lot of people, they try to get there, but they, they're not good enough.
They're not tall enough.
You know, they don't have the connections.
They did.
He did that, but he got to,
he got to quiet down.
He got to quiet down.
I still standing on what I said.
He's a good dad, but he needs to quiet down.
So
did he play in the league?
Never.
Come on now.
Okay.
So, so what I'm saying, and I,
I did that for a reason.
So what I'm saying is he never made it to the league, right?
But he knew that his kids had something that
they got potential that he didn't
have.
So by him being so boisterous and loud, he took the talent that his kids had and lived his NBA dream through them.
Being loud and being the forefront and saying that his kids was better than LeBron and
and Michael Jordan and all this other stuff.
But that put attention on his kids.
I get it.
But
then some of us are interested.
But now is it attention or is it expectation?
Yeah, pressure.
Because
if you put expectation on your kids and they fail.
Well, it's both.
But you can do that without trying to say your child is better than the greatest NBA player in the whole world.
So when we get to the NBA, even, well, really just the NBA, right?
The NBA is more about entertainment.
Yeah.
In order to get to the NBA, you got to have some name behind you, unless you just raw business, you know.
Which they were though.
It's not like they couldn't have made it without him being as
loud.
No, I think, I think that LaMelo,
LaMelo at least could have made it without his father
being as loud.
No, no, no.
What I was going to say was that LaVar talked.
his way to getting Lonzo drafted higher than probably he should have gotten drafted at.
But what I was going to say is that you want to have a brand and the ability to have eyes put on you.
Him acting a fool like that and saying that stuff, put eyes on them so maybe he was overrated.
But I would rather be
highly paid and overrated, then
underappreciated and underpaid.
See, but that can be a blessing and a curse because if you put all of the attention on them saying my sons are this and my sons is that and now people got the expectation, right?
So as soon as they see them and if they don't meet that expectation, now you lose out on the funding and the
money that
you could have and would have got if they didn't form this expectation of you because of what your dad did.
He didn't lose out.
No, but he got lucky.
He got lucky
again.
It's not like Lanzo couldn't play but like He got injured right away.
So again, he did lose a he did lose out on
a
lot and you're going in with the expectation of you not even being you like I can't even show you showcase my own talent It's already a precedence like
Lanzo has the ability to Be in the league for at least three to four more years, which will probably make it
to team Well, I'm gonna say this DJ if Ben Simmons
Can play in the league me you need to go try out right now
and let me be loud about
y'all Let me see
if I can get y'all.
I'm never in the league.
I'm never well straight up
My
time is over no,
and I'm
sure but listen again listen to what I'm saying if Ben Simmons Can play in the NBA a guy that's scared of layups
Me you need to go try out at least play but he's he's not matter it do matter.
He's scared of of a seven foot basket Ten foot basket, you know how many un athletic
six foot It's a lot of it's a lot of
people
That's just like saying all black people got rhythm.
No, I believe all black people got rhythm.
No, they do
not.
No,
no.
It's not the same level of rhythm.
All right, there you go.
It might not be
on time.
We have more rhythm than every white
person.
It might not be cha, cha, cha, cha.
It might be cha, cha, cha, cha.
Just because he's
six, six, six, seven.
We've
seen some six, seven, six, six people that was weak.
Not in the lead.
Guess you have.
Who?
It's been some.
Sam Bradley.
Okay.
No, he was tall as a fool.
He wasn't that good,
man.
Wait, but he made it because of his.
No, he wasn't good at all.
He was trash.
That sounds like George Mira son.
Trash.
I don't even know who that is.
Big
for nothing.
Look him up.
Google him.
He played for Washington.
He was big for nothing.
But what I'm saying is, uh, being Simmons, bro, it was hype behind his dude.
Like, aw, he the next, the next this, but this is the same dude that would get to the rack, look at the rim and pass it because he was scared of missing a layer.
He couldn't make a layer.
That's what I'm saying.
So it's all in your mind, right?
So what kept him from being great, it was in his mind,
right?
He spoiled too, though.
So let's reverse that and create in our mind, hey, I can be great.
Let's go try out and see what
happens.
I did that already.
You know what I'm gonna impact the world better
Sure
You ain't sure I'm
sure I'm
gonna get shirts made you let me know that first game use the LeBard method and see if y'all can get to the lead.
She
came to my game There's
came to my
games
I know you're listening somewhere out there.
Set it up,
man.
He sent the whisper text.
So I think he's listening.
He sent the
whisper text.
But also, before we end the program, I definitely have to, and I want to thank George because George made me look this up to see if this was the exact date.
And in fact, this is the exact date of the March on Washington in 19, no, no, no.
I have a dream speech.
1963 definitely want to just show gratitude and credence to, you know, all of the individuals that laid down their lives, laid down the path for us to even be on this platform, for us to be able to, you know, go to educational institutions for hire.
education and have the ability to just be around a diverse bunch of people.
So, with that, Clark, thank you.
Who you with?
Paso, thank you.
Man, great show, man.
Great show.
Thank you.
Great show.
Paris, Renee, Sappho.
Great show.
Hold
on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Great show.
No, no, no.
This is my first time working with it.
Energy is great.
You you are most definitely cut for it.
So Keith you don't have to come in no more And
last but not least thank you Milwaukee for joining the conversation and listening to us Good Lord willing the creek don't rise Keith will be back with you all on Monday.
And as always let's go from this place in peace