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I think we said this already, but US daily media consumption is projected to hit a record 13 hours and 26 minutes per day in 2026.
This was 2026.
Damn, they're using data half of the hours in the day.
The highest ever measured driven specifically by generative AI use layering on top of already heavy used social media and streaming habits.
The average American now spends roughly six to seven hours a day on screens outside of work with social media alone accounting for about
Three hours of that globally.
Streaming set a record to 16 trillion minutes streamed in 2025 alone, a 19 percent increase in just one year.
Yeah.
I could see how that's happening.
24 hour streams in real life streams, like people literally are like streaming consistently.
Like, and it's more demand for it than ever.
Like, I got people hitting me up all the time.
Like, I wonder what 24 hours would you would be?
You got to start streaming.
I'm like.
People really sit in front of a camera 24 hours straight up going.
Gen Z average is about handwritten this money.
Gen Z average is about nine hours a day on screens.
Young adults, 18 to 29 average over eight hours, meaning the generations with the most decades of consumption still ahead of them are also the heaviest current users.
They just getting started.
Yeah.
I Don't know so I Don't understand so people are against data centers, but they're still using data and I feel like When we add these data centers right in their protesting it's kind of like
If we don't add these data centers, we'll be left behind almost like with AI like I hear people talk about how they're against AI and they don't like it, but it's one of those things that's happening regardless.
People are using this data no matter what people are using AI no matter what.
So it's one of those things where it's like, I hate to say it, but you got to get with it or get left behind at this point.
That's what it sounds like.
Robert says none of these things you are describing compared to the usage of AI data centers though What I'm describing is these data centers that are being built is powering these platforms that are being used Robert What do you think is like where do you think all this information is stored for Amazon Prime
That ain't just on no hard drive that they got under the computer on a desk What do you think all your Facebook message what do you think you on YouTube right now using this chat typing that where do you think that message is stored so when people go back they could go see your comment What do you think of Google you know who owns YouTube Google what do you think a Google data center is used for
Potawatomi had a data center that's been in Milwaukee since 2012 Not as the same large scale He says do you know how long these companies have had their things versus how long slash how fast these other centers are popping up because demand We haven't slowed down our consumption Robert
You using more data as you sit there and type on Google proven Google point that hey man, we need more data centers
These things was to everybody literally like people genuinely having consistent conversations.
Using AI, like people doing their day to day using AI.
Like I said, like while I'm in my car driving, I talk to Grock all day.
I might be a problem.
Grock is connected to my car.
Call up.
Have a conversation.
Educators.
Don't run from it.
Where do you think all of this stuff is being stored at data centers?
Educators, don't run from it, Robert Lance.
Educate me if I'm wrong.
I just did the research and they're building data centers because the demand for more data and compute is rising.
And ironically, the generation that is most anti data centers is the ones using the most data.
Let him cook.
Yes, the agents that they are putting on top of these platforms.
It's also accelerating it but they're putting these AI agents because the demand is so because they want because humans want things faster Humans don't want to do the actual work of doing the research People running the chat GBT to put together a whole Books and and all they things now
Like we have gotten so microwave as a community.
We want it so much faster.
So now they generate these things.
I'm just asking questions.
We using it.
We been using it.
Please call in a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17.
I don't build data centers.
I know I.
We streaming right now on YouTube With a
No AirPods I Know we don't want to hear this I know we don't want to hear this and this I We need to have the conversation of how we hold companies accountable with how these data centers are able to operate
in our communities, in our states, in our cities, whatever we want to call it.
But we can't ignore the fact that we consume in a lot of data.
Go ahead, Shan.
Aaron is him said come on Robert.
You are dead wrong Aaron is him say you can't make this mess up RC creation Muse 2023 said unfortunately It's inevitable people are going to be selling celebrity info like record catalogs in the future Have a whole AI persona built up of us better invest in bottled water companies Felix Said it's gonna it's gonna be looking like the matrix in the future, which I mean, yeah
Like there's already AI representatives.
There's already AI like artists.
AI is taken over and fast.
Like I remember the beginning of last year not really even knowing what it was.
And all of a sudden I can't avoid it.
Like it's genuinely a part of my day to day life.
And it's not only like me being on Instagram or Facebook or like I said, when I drive in my car, I'm talking a grog.
When I'm preparing for different things, I'm fact checking using AI because it's faster.
But.
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y'all welcome back welcome back welcome back you are in hour two with the lunch break crew Ray Nitty maybe Shannon DJ brother Z on the award winning one on one seven the truth man we talking about a whole bunch of things on the menu today 813 I mean 833 212 1017 is the number to dial 833 212 1017 is the number to dial if you just joining us we were having a conversation about
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But we do have Dr. Adel Corkor in the building, who is also a sponsor for our Truth Family Fest as well.
So we will have some questions for him as we get into this interview.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing great.
Shannon, how are you feeling?
Well, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to talk about this This is really a very passionate story for me is that
In 2017, I decided to step down from my clinical practice as a kidney specialist and really embark on a new venture in my life and a new mission.
The story behind the foundation really steps back a number of years back where I suffer from mental health issues.
I suffer from anxiety and panic disorder.
And over the many years that I've experienced that,
I dealt with it initially with some medications and it really didn't work and caused a lot of side effects for me being a very active physician and practicing and it really affected a lot with my mental ability.
I had always been a runner and I decided well you know I'm just gonna kick up my running game
doing more competitive racing and running and so
I started, I aimed for my first marathon after I had a major panic attack, of which I thought I was going to die.
And with my panic attack being centered more around my heart, I thought exercise was a great way of overcoming my fear, because if I can exercise and tolerate exercise well, then my heart is okay.
And that gave me the sense of comfort.
becoming really a very active person in terms of running.
He did a lot of races, lots of marathons, and it really helped me dealing with my mental health issues.
And it was a situation where I'm stressed, I'm challenged, I'll just go out there for a run, and it helps me clear my mind.
And, you know, now that it's 2017 and, you know, stemming from that,
and from the many years of practicing medicine and experiencing what my patients go through from a mental health standpoint, you know, being an aphrologist and seeing patients who are on dialysis and the challenges that they face and noting how difficult it was for them to get the mental health care that they need to find the right therapist, the right care, and then find the care that they can fund, I realized really my mission is going to be is about mental health.
And the focus is going to be on what really made the difference for me, which is exercise.
So my foundation's main mission is bring awareness to, number one, how common mental health challenges are.
Number two, the stigma associated with them.
And number three is bringing an understanding of how important physical activity in mental health.
So the main theme behind the foundation, that's the main goal, that's our main mission.
And we established back in 2017 a production event called the 55050, where we actually did 5K in all 50
did that.
exactly.
And, you know, COVID got in the way, so we split some of it virtual, some of it's running, but I actually did it every single year.
Actually, it's more like eight years.
I ran it.
I ran five gays, 50 straight days in 50 different states.
It was challenging.
And I think, you know, but it was great.
It would really allow me to connect with so many people around the country.
Because mental health is so common, so widespread in every culture, in every community in our society.
And really, the 550-50 allow me to see an incredible perspective of where mental health is across the nation is and how everybody is faced with the same challenge.
But I can tell you that
The one thing that was always there, the theme that always existed, and everybody that came to do the run or the walk, they said, you know, it makes a difference for me to be active, you know, exercising really changed my life.
And this is coming from a lot of patients.
Many of the patients that came to the events have never, never run 5K, have never walked 5K.
And they felt so empowered, you know, by doing so.
So the answer to your question, I spent a lot of time explaining it, but this is where we are.
I'm just thrilled to be able to do what I'm doing.
It's been now almost nine years of my foundation's vision.
We've accomplished a lot and we have a lot more to do.
Thank you.
That is a very good question.
A couple of years ago, I was asked by the TED Foundation to give a talk and I summarized that in my TED talk.
There's an enormous amount of science today that supports a strong relationship between the muscle and the brain.
When your muscle contract, there are hormones that are released that enters the circulations.
and then they go straight through their brain, they cross the blood-brain barrier, and they activate neuron cell activities.
It activates those neurons.
It allows them to grow.
It allows them to build better connection with each other.
And really fundamentally, there's been a lot of studies that shows that the size of the brain increases.
in animals who are put under regular physical exercise.
So you get more neurons in your head, you got better connectivity
head, and now there are a lot of evidence of other neurotransmitters that are released from the muscle during the exercise that highly influence our mood, that highly influence our thinking, that highly influence our concentration, our cognitive function,
So there's an enormous amount of neurobiology that's out there that strongly support that the muscle and the brain are connected.
You know, what goes on into your body from a physical activity standpoint, highly influence your brain activity.
Now, one other thing I would like to add that that physical activity also improves.
It suppresses the hormones in our body that are not good for our
you know, for our body, for example, certain hormones that really makes it difficult, for example, to metabolize glucose, to metabolize carbohydrates.
So the advantage that exercise have is allows us to bring in the good hormones to take charge of our life, not the cortisol, not the adrenaline, but rather those who are positive, the endorphins and other neurotransmitters that really makes us feel better and feel good.
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Shannon, I know you got some more questions for the doctor.
Yeah, that is a very good question.
I have to tell you that when I recently, I just attended a conference this morning about the status of mental health in America and in Wisconsin.
It always comes up about the fact that the challenges in the African and black communities, in the black communities in Wisconsin and probably in the country in general, is still really dealing with the stigma associated with mental
I think the challenges are, there's definite high incidence of mental health challenges in African American communities in the United States.
There are a lot of reasons for it.
There's economic reasons.
There are access issues or affordability issues.
But there's also one big challenge is that still stigma, especially among black men.
I think black men still face the challenges that mental illness is a weakness.
It's something that they really don't feel comfortable sharing.
They don't feel comfortable talking about.
And I truly believe that the suicide in the African-American community and the black communities in the United States is really underestimated and understated.
I think there's a lot of mental health challenges.
There's a lot of mental health issues.
Some of that again comes back to the poverty education The the fact that a lot of the communities don't have the support that they need from from you know From from mental health provider standpoints counseling standpoint so so there's there's a lot of challenges and then the black communities and I think it's it's a it's a challenge that I truly believe
It can be overcome, but it requires governmental, community, healthcare providers, healthcare systems all working together in trying to solve this challenge.
It's not something that what institution can fix.
It has to be a collaborative effort, and it has to be something that connects all these organizations together to try to bring an answer to this challenge.
One thing that we're interested in again, like I said, is that physical activity.
And to be honest with you, there's also disparity in the availability of, you know, nature walks or safe places for people to go and be active in, in the inner city, in the black communities, because there's, you know, you see a lot of subdivisions out there and the suburbs where nice walks, nice trails out there, but you don't see much of that available.
So there has to be a community effort to actually rebuild those safe areas of kids that can play, play around and run and walk and enjoy themselves in the outdoors and get the benefits both physically and mentally.
I'm not
Boy, educate, educate, educate.
Let people know it's OK.
And I think a number of years ago, I spoke at a black church community here in Wisconsin, and I asked, you know, I raised my hand, how many people in this community know someone who died of suicide and more than half of them raised their hands?
How many people know somebody who have met the health issues?
Almost a majority of them lift their hands.
So they know that it exists, okay?
They know that there are challenges, but they don't want to, you know...
they don't feel comfortable talking about it.
So I think it's really educating people that mental health is like physical health.
It happens.
It happens to anyone.
It does not have any social barriers.
It doesn't have any cultural barriers.
It comes across all socioeconomic classes and it's okay to talk about it because there's help out there.
I think that's the one thing that I always want to remind people that no matter what, you know, there is always help.
you can always reach out to somebody, somehow, a neighbor, a friend, trusted, you know, a teacher.
There's always help and I always encourage, you know, many people who come to me say, what can we do?
Well, talk about it.
That is the first.
And talking about it breaks that one barrier.
You know, for a man to come home to his wife or partner and say, you know, honey, I feel depressed today.
is a very strong evidence that, yes, now that person in front of him is gonna say, well, what can I do about it?
Let's talk about depression.
What do you feel?
Just sharing their feelings and expressing it and feeling comfortable doing that is the first step to really breaking the barrier.
For
If you just join in us, we are...
live with Dr. Adel Corkor from AB Corkor Foundation talking about mental health.
I know on this show, particularly we talked about men, but in our research, we know that you emphasize reaching children and young adults before they reach a crisis point, right?
What should parents and teachers and communities be looking for?
Wow.
mental health challenges often begin at a very early stage.
And if children who have mental health issues, whether it be because of the situations that they are born in, whether it be because of economic conditions, whether it be because of genetic or whatever it is, if they're
And now we have a lot of learning issues and autism and early detection of those type of disorders.
It's so important to address this early in life.
What should we be looking for?
We should be looking for any behavior issues that don't really jive with the kids' overall growth, that they're aggressive or they're not
their speeches not developing correctly, or they're acting out quite a bit.
They're not emotionally maturing in a way that they feel safe among their family and friends, that their healthy interaction with other children is actually not taking place.
you know, those are the kind of things that we need to pay attention to as a as a family first.
And then I think we need to be able to as a society and say, you know what, if I have a child who have those kind of challenges, where do I go?
You know, who is the person I need to go to to help me deal with those challenges?
One thing that my foundation is doing is working with the Benfield Clinic, which is a clinic
that right here in Milwaukee who basically focuses on early detection treatment of mental health issues.
And the one thing that's tremendous about this organization is that they go to kids' homes and they talk to their parents and they work with the parents in their own home environment to help them deal with those issues and help them know how to react when the kids act out and what they should do to help the child.
as well what they can do as individuals or as partners with their spouses or partners to come up with a mechanism to address because a lot of time kids might pin the parents against each other and might play with
person.
But the important is that, you know, Penfield Clinic really provides an enormous amount of help and support to families and they can go to their own homes and
help work with the parents and the partners.
and help them deal with those challenges.
Early detection team is very important.
I think that one of the areas that I think we have to remember is that early exposure to drugs and alcohol is a huge problem in the black community.
And that really, if it's not addressed in deltas, that leads to incarceration and crimes and issues that end up being so costly.
to the individuals, to the families, to the community, to the society and their nation as a whole.
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Yeah, thank you.
Well, approximately, this is actually our third event about three years ago.
After I gave my TED Talk, I said, you know what, with all this information that we have about the importance of physical activity and mental health, I really need to bring all of this information and organize a scientific conference.
We call that the International Conference of the World of Physical Activity and Mental Health or the Motion Impact and Motion Conference.
The first one was done in Heartland.
We had nine speakers from all over the world and it was very well attended and we had another event last year and it was also hosted in Waukesha, a similar group of physicians and scientists from all over the world.
And then this year, we are fortunate to have a partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to put on this amazing event.
We have 12 speakers from, again, many parts of the world, and they will be talking about many different aspects of how motion impacted motion.
From a basic scientific perspective, from the clinical perspective,
as well as from the society and the community perspective of how we can build a society where we could integrate and bring access to physical activity as part of a way to address mental health challenges and issues with the community.
So it's going to be a day and a half conference.
It's going to be hosted in Madison, like you said.
at the Piles Center there.
It's going to be September 11 and 12, the full day on the 11th, half a day on the 12th.
To sign up, you can go on abkf.org.
That is abkf.org and go to events and then conference.
And we'd love to have you.
I think you'll learn a lot.
I think what we need to do is to spread the word.
And not only that, it really brings
the physical activity part of mental health treatment into work.
That is, we all know, and now there's over 4,000 papers published on how important physical activity in mental health, it's about time to really bring it to the clinical practice, to encourage psychologists and psychiatrists and all of those who do deliver care to their patients and say, you know what, physical activity matters.
Matters as part of your care.
It's not just an optional thing.
It's not something, oh, do it when you can.
No, it has to be part of your mental health well-being and mental health care.
One of the speakers actually is Dr. Simon Rosenbaum, who is a lead author on published over 400 papers on the role of physical activity in mental health.
and established community-based programs in Australia and Sydney, Australia to support that program.
He will be speaking at this conference.
So I really would encourage you to come and join us.
I think you'll learn a lot and I think more important for me is for you to take that information you would learn and spread it across because we need to do something that is effective, that is inexpensive, that works.
I think it's important to put this in a way that people across the spectrum, you know, audience can actually relate to.
Because we're not going to have only clinicians attending this conference.
We're going to have people, we're going to have lay individuals, we're going to have individuals who are community activists, who are community organizers, who actually steps in and learn different aspects of it.
Because it's important to take the science and put it to work.
And we need to appeal to a larger and a broader audience of attendees that can benefit from this.
experiences.
You know, I wish I could share, I have a way of sharing with you what one of the speakers, what happened in the last conference that we did last year.
Upon closing, just before we closed the conference, I asked the audience and I said, how many of you feel
that attending this conference is going to change the way they practice.
And 90, almost entire rooms, hands were raised, was risen.
So it's really changing how people feel about physical activity and mental health.
It's putting it to work.
It's putting it in a format that is applicable to every
individuals, no matter how serious their mental health issues or how mild, is that physical activity is not just a thing, it's that thing that could make a difference in their well-being, in their mental health well-being.
In addition, of course, to
and other sources, but you know, just so you know that people have depression, mild depression, mild to moderate depression, anxiety disorders,
Exercise is more effective than drugs in treating
It is that.
It's another tool.
It's not dependency.
It's not the answer to all.
It's an important
adjunctive to the other form of therapy.
I'm not going to say to you that somebody who has severe schizophrenia or has other, you know, major mental health issues, severe depression, that exercise is going to, it's going to, it's going to make a difference or physical activity.
The answer is no.
We're not, we're not going that route.
We still think that someone who has severe OCD still need to have
certain structural or supervised mental health services and care that's done by experienced people.
But what I'm trying to say is that physical activity by itself in people of mild to moderate degree of depression and anxiety, like myself, could be the answer.
I wanted to be a good one.
Let's go with this one, Shannon.
We have so many great questions that you answered.
If someone is listening right now and is struggling silently and they've convinced themselves they just have to deal with it alone, what would you want them to hear from you today?
There's help out there.
Reach out.
Call somebody.
Talk to somebody.
Despair is not the right thing to do.
Tell them they are loved.
There are someone out there that cares about them and I think they need to reach out Do you have
I think my foundation is website has an enormous amount of information and resources that won't reach out to you, but the
But there is NAMI, which is a great organization.
There is Mental Health America, MHA, which is a great organization.
And of course, there are other institutions like Rogers and other health care systems do have mental health services.
But I think from a standpoint of getting access to general information, NAMI and Mental Health America, and of course, our foundation would love to be able to help and support these individuals.
Well, thank you once again to Adel Corcor from AB Corcor Foundation, also one of our sponsors for Truth Family Fest.
So make sure you get down to Truth Family Fest and check out some of the amazing resources and things that they'll be offering.
Shannon, tell the people where they can find us and close us out.
Take us home.
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But on today's menu, we gonna have for the lunch break,
We wanna talk about the power of motion, all right?
We wanna talk about movement, mind, and health.
And we wanna get into some of that because later in the show today, we have an interview with AD Corkor, one of the sponsors for Truth Family Fest coming up.
And we wanna get into some things that they have going on and what the foundation does and so forth.
So we wanna talk about that.
Today, just kind of like warming the table.
And then, Shannon, we want to get them a little heads up about some local news, right?
MMSD is getting ready to award a $700 million contract to a company.
And...
We gonna talk about it because it's kind of controversial.
Seven seven hundred seven seven hundred.
That sounds crazy.
Seven hundred million dollars is not a small amount of money.
And I want to know.
I
Y'all would have knew.
Y'all would have knew.
I would tell you
There would have been signs.
There would have been signs.
Man, and also what a man.
Man, we want to talk about data centers.
I really want to get into data centers and really, really have a real kind of honest conversation about it.
I want us to talk about the numbers behind the controversy.
I want to hear your concerns about data centers as well.
And what have you learned and saw in research about data centers?
Then we want to talk about the proposed moratorium and what would it actually do, right?
Then also Shannon, we want to talk about some data centers that are already here.
I know we had a lot of conversation about what's to come and the dangers of what the future could look like and the pollution of the environment.
But we have some data centers here right now and just want to give some information on what those data centers are or at least a couple of them and just show some numbers behind it, right?
And then I Feel like we should talk to them Shannon about okay, I Have a this might not be a popular take Shannon
it might not be a popular take.
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What you gonna say Ray?
I don't even have a spot here.
It's not gonna be a popular
Well because you know, it's such a polarizing conversation right now, even in politics all across the country.
Everybody's talking about data centers, data centers, data centers, data centers, right?
So I got to take people may not just be so.
Quick to support.
But I just want us to look at a deeper conversation.
Why I think human consumption.
Of data in general.
We need to have an honest conversation about our human consumption.
And why we could be part of the reason that these data centers even exist.
So I want to talk about that.
Then Shannon, I want us to get into some of the apps we use every day and what keeps them
This is what happened.
I feel like I know as a human, I need rest, but my ADHD don't let me do it.
Like for one day, I probably a clean up, probably sit down on the couch and I'm like, what's going on outside?
Let me just call a friend.
Oh, well, I'm just gonna do this.
And I'm like, okay.
And then from there, the story writes itself.
now?
be doing a no-state fair.
ended up there twice.
They sent the text out.
How'd you get there two times?
Amanda put the text out.
She was like, we're going to stay fair, and we're dragging your dad with us.
As much as I tried to resist it
I was down there eating corn dogs, corn, funnel cakes with strawberry.
I ain't know who I was.
I was a whole different person.
I was like, yesterday I was like, man, I think I want to go stay here again.
Very diminishing.
I had too much fun.
Break.
What up,
I'm
And we're going to be talking about the power of motion and movement.
But Shannon, man, we had an interesting appetizer you sent for the folks today.
So we're going to bring that to the table real quick and share with our cousins this appetizer.
And I want to know how y'all feel about this.
I know how some people feel, but I really want to know how y'all feel about this 833-212-1017.
That's the number to dial.
eight, three, three, two, one, two, ten, seventeen as a number to dial.
You could text that number as well.
All right.
What we got, Shannon?
So imagine being accused of planning a mass shooting targeting black people at one of the biggest black cultural festivals in the country, being arrested with a gun and roughly 200 rounds of ammunition.
And then months later, walking out of jail without facing criminal charges.
That's what
happened in the case of Christopher Gilliam a former North Carolina law enforcement officer Gilliam was arrested in April in Destin, Florida after his own family Reportedly alerted authorities that he had expressed threats about harming black people
Investigators said that he was allegedly traveling toward New Orleans to carry out a mass shooting at a festival believed to be the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Authorities located him using flock camera technology.
I'm happy to use.
They finally use it for good.
When he was arrested, investigators recovered a handgun and approximately 200 rounds of ammunition from his hotel room.
Gilliam was eventually extradited to Louisiana.
and faced a state terrorism related charge.
But now there's a major development as Louisiana grand jury declined to indict him, finding that there wasn't enough evidence to move forward under the state's terrorizing statute.
Gilliam was subsequently released and according to current reporting, he is not facing any additional charges.
And this is where I think the conversation gets complicated.
A grand jury declining to indict does not mean a jury found him innocent at trial.
It means that the prosecutors did not get an indictment on that particular charge.
At the same time, authorities have had previously described a seriously threat, serious threat of firearm and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
So my question for you guys this morning is when the law enforcement
has enough information to intervene and potentially prevent a mass shooting, but prosecutors later say there isn't enough evidence to bring charges.
What should happen next?
For those who would have been at that in that crowd, this isn't just the legal question.
It's about whether or not tragedy was prevented and whether our system has the tools to respond before somebody actually pulls the trigger.
But we don't know any of the facts yet, but what we do know is we've seen this time and time again where people get off or less sentencing or even when they are apprehended in the act, they get treated with
so much different energy than our community.
It makes me think of the kid, not even a kid, the monster who went into that church, prayed with them folks, what was the name, Dylan, and killed them after.
And then they took him to Burger King.
They treat them like, oh, they didn't mean it.
Like here I kind of looked over it again.
It says They so what I think they got him on was like terrorizing threats or something like that because it said after finding there wasn't enough evidence to move forward under the state's terrorizing statute It was released.
So yeah, that's crazy.
Hmm for you to be found like you made these threats
bit because I just hate how hard we also are on our own people It's like we extra hard on our own people, but I think it's Mostly out of fear and out of knowing nobody else is gonna be gentle with you either, you know, but it's also like man We act like we act like everybody is facing the same issues and it's just not the same way for other people
like somebody.
Just
cameras this for.
is making some adjustments to their policies on and it should be taking place.
It should be taking effect January 1st, 2027, if I'm not mistaken.
And what I did see on the news this morning was they are saying that instead of holding data.
Ah, it's funny.
Instead of storing the data for more than, I guess, 90 days, they're considering or the proposed changes, they would store it for seven days or something like that.
And then they're working through the ideas of like, okay, what does that look like if the footage is needed for an investigation?
So we will definitely...
monitor the situation a little bit more uh frequently so
What they
Yep.
I got to look up the website, but that's how one of those officers ended up getting in trouble.
She looked their name up and was like shocked to see she was like looked up a hundred something times.
So there's that.
But we'll be right back after these messages.
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Yes.
It is Friday.
The menu is full today, y'all.
The menu is full today.
Man, uh... What, uh... What you want to go to on this menu, Shay?
I feel like we can a la carte it today.
We don't gotta...
Yeah, a la carte.
I'ma let you pick.
I'ma let you pick, Ray.
carte meet you.
Let's
MMSD $700 million contract, right?
So just giving you all some information about the contract itself.
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewers District is choosing a new private operator for a 10-year contract worth roughly $55 to $70 million per year.
So up to $700 million total over the life of the deal.
$700 million total over the life of the deal.
And I feel like I've seen this, I've seen this before.
If it's 700 million, I'm willing to bet it's another 20 to 50 million somewhere is gonna be over that.
Companies always find a way to have change orders and raise the costs.
But,
Nevertheless, seven hundred and seven hundred million total over the lifespan of the deal, which is going to be 10 years.
So what does it cover?
It covers operation and maintenance of the Jones Island and South Shore water waste plants.
Excuse me.
The deep tunnel system, the milligranite fertilizer plant.
and the regional sewer network serving 1.1 million people across 28 communities.
So that's a huge responsibility.
That's a huge responsibility.
Serving 1.1 million people across 28 communities, the current operator, Viola, North America, French owned running MSD, MMSD since 2008.
It's competing against Dallas based Jacob solutions a Recommendation is expected from the review committee around August 17.
So this is coming up With the final commission vote expected in late September So I Know people is like, okay, what does this mean?
It's a lot we could
It's a lot we could get into, right, about what this means, right?
But just for context, I want us to know the state that the country is in.
And I think we got, I would like to say we got a good idea, right, Shannon?
Unless you like SpongeBob living in a pineapple under the sea.
Mm-hmm.
So... Okay.
Jacob's Solution, one of the two finalists, has documented strategic partnership with Palantir
The data analyst analytics company that has held contracts with ICE since 2011 and is currently building tools like Immigrations OS, a 30 million dollar ICE contract to help track down undocumented people using data pooled across federal agencies.
Wow.
Oh, brother.
Moving on.
Latino president, forward Latino president, Daryl Moran summed up the community concern directly.
We are more than concerned to learn
that a strategic partnership is in place between the two companies.
MMSD own executive director Kevin Schaefer has pushed back on the alarm saying MSD builds communities directly, not individuals, doesn't share private information and that any data and operator with access is public data, not resident level personal data.
Jacobs has also told the Journal Sentinel it treats data privacy seriously and only uses client data under strict safeguards for authorized project purposes.
So even right there was a contradictory.
Am I, did I, did I not hear?
So hear me out here.
MS, MSD own director Kevin Schaefer says he pushed back on the alarm.
saying MMSD builds communities directly.
Not individuals.
It doesn't share private information and that any data an operator would access is public data, not resident level personal data.
But then Jacob says it told the Journal Sentinel it treats data privacy.
Very seriously and only uses client data under strict safeguard.
So it's like do they not got it or do they got it?
Hmm Well Moving on I just you know notice the key word in here data
Data day.
Data day.
For contacts, Palantir's ice relationship isn't new or hidden.
It dates to 2011 and has grown at least $248.3 million in total ice contracts, including a $30 million deal to build Immigration OS, a database explicitly designed to help track down undocumented people using data pooled across multiple federal agencies.
And I know people like, you know...
They ain't just using that to track down Latinos They're trying to track down Africans I even saw Somebody that's running for I can't remember what country they were running in but she made a ironically enough AI generated video for her campaign that had her in a like a
a garbage truck that got the arms.
And she was just like picking up little black people off the street and throwing them in the back of the truck.
They would
be
Yeah.
Oh, man.
But we'll keep it moving.
Palantir's federal footprint is expanding well beyond ICE right now and reported $244 million Pentagon deal a $1.3 billion defense department contract through 2029 for Project MAVEN and reporting that the Trump administration had asked Palantir to help build a centralized database consolidating information across federal agencies.
a request that has drawn bipartisan privacy concerns in Congress.
Now, none of this means MMSD data specifically would flow to Palantir or ICE.
Jacobs and Palantir are separate companies with a business partnership and MMSD data is described as public infrastructure data, not resident records.
But it explains why advocacy groups are treating any corporate tie to Palantir as a red flag worth surfacing before a $700 million public vote.
Not after.
Yeah.
So I actually, you know, I invest in the stock market and stuff like that.
Right.
Yeah.
And, you know, I.
I actually had invested in Palantir.
I did.
I had put a few dollars into Palantir and then once I did some research and realized what it was they do, I liquidated all my shares.
Because I got immigrant family.
And I give a damn about humans.
And I see the climate that people have to navigate.
and deal with and go through.
But I don't
Wow
I think we be negotiating wrong We be negotiating wrong I feel like 700 million like
Why we don't have a partnership with these companies to where revenue flows back to the city the county the state whatever that looks like Yeah, you got open AI offering the United States 5% of Their company just so they could now obviously they probably doing that to get certain things rubber stamped and pushed through and whatnot right but
You have companies that is offering all of these percentages and where it flows back into the state.
It flows back into somehow lowering costs for citizens.
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Nothing at all.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Let's get back on track here.
So yeah, y'all, we talking about this data.
And what has been going on.
And it brought up.
It brought up this conversation that I wanted to have.
Like, what's fueling these data centers?
So.
I want us to talk about the apps that we use every day and what keeps them running.
What do you think of that, Shannon?
So every major platform people use daily Google search and Gmail, Instagram and Facebook, Metta, Amazon and Amazon Web Service hosted apps, Microsoft Outlook.
teams and every AI chat bot runs on exactly this kind of data center infrastructure.
Hmm.
Google data centers alone consumed 6.1 billion gallons of water in 2024 up from 4.3 billion in 2021.
And company-wide water use hits 10.9 billion gallons in 2025, a 34% year-over-year jump driven specifically by AI deployment, not just infrastructure construction.
Meta's data center uses 776 million gallons in 2023 alone, 95% of the company's entire water footprint.
Nationally, U.S.
data centers use an estimated 264 billion gallons of water in 2025 when counting the electricity generation behind them.
And about 40% of U.S.
data centers sit in areas already facing high or extreme water stress.
By 2028, U.S.
data centers could consume at least as much as 12% of the entire nation's electricity.
according to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
That's true.
They force us to do that.
That's not by choice.
use it.
We do gotta show we if we really upset about data We have to look at our data consumption.
Okay.
I do you want even better Netflix Streaming kick Twitch, I don't We stream it right now, huh?
We streaming right now using data
Our consumption is driving.
We don't want to hear this.
Now, can we have a separate conversation about how companies are finding ways and manipulating people and programming people to stay on platforms even longer to increase data consumption?
Absolutely.
because we didn't always have auto reels where it just keep playing endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.
You don't even realize, like, dang, how'd I get here?
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Man, we got a pretty full menu today.
We got a pretty full menu today.
Shannon, I know you got an appetizer for us.
Bro was crying about his students.
But on today's menu, we going to have for the lunch break,
We want to talk about the power of motion.
All right.
We want to talk about movement, mind and health.
And we want to get into some of that because later in the show today we have an interview with AD Corkor, one of the sponsors for Truth Family Fist coming up.
And we want to get into some things that they have going on and what the foundation does and so forth.
So we want to talk about that.
Today, just kind of like warming the table.
And then, Shannon, we want to get them a little heads up about some local news, right?
MMSD is getting ready to award a $700 million contract to a company.
We're gonna talk about it because it's kind of controversial.
Seven seven hundred seven seven hundred.
That sounds crazy.
Seven hundred million dollars is not a small amount of money.
And I want to know.
I
Y'all would have knew.
Y'all would have knew.
I'll
There would have been signs.
There would have been signs.
Man, and also, man, we want to talk about data centers.
I really want to get into data centers and really, really have a real kind of honest conversation about it.
I want us to talk about the numbers behind the controversy.
I want to hear your concerns about data centers as well and what have you learned and saw in research about data centers.
Then we want to talk about the proposed moratorium and what would it actually do, right?
Then also Shannon, we want to talk about some data centers that are already here.
I know we had a lot of conversation about what's to come and the dangers of what the future could look like and the pollution of the environment.
But we have some data centers here right now and just want to give some information on what those data centers are or at least a couple of them and just show some numbers behind it, right?
And then I Feel like we should talk to them Shannon about okay, I Have a this might not be a popular take Shannon
It might not be a popular take.
The views and opinions expressed on this show.
What you gonna say, Ray?
I'll even have us fired.
I'm gonna say it's not gonna be a popular
Well, because, you know, it's such a polarizing conversation right now, even in politics all across the country.
Everybody's talking about data centers, data centers, data centers, data centers, right?
So I got to take people may not just be so.
Quick to support.
But I just want us to look at a deeper conversation.
Why I think human consumption.
Of data in general.
We need to have an honest conversation about our human consumption.
And why we could be part of the reason that these data centers even exist.
So I want to talk about that.
Then Shannon, I want us to get into some of the apps we use every day and what keeps them
I feel like I know as a human, I need rest, but my ADHD don't let me do it.
Like for one day, I probably a clean up, probably sit down on the couch and I'm like, hmm, what's going on outside?
Let me just call a friend.
Oh, well, I'm just gonna do this.
And I'm like, okay.
And then from there, the story writes itself.
to no state fair.
went up there twice.
times.
I like Amanda, man.
Look, she be law and order.
too much fun.
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Yeah.
I'm interested for A.D.
Corkor coming up later today.
Yeah.
And we're going to be talking about the power of motion and movement.
But shout out, man.
We had an interesting appetizer you sent for the folks today, so we're gonna bring that to the table real quick and share with our cousins this appetizer.
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So Imagine being accused of planning a mass shooting targeting black people at one of the biggest black cultural festivals in the country being arrested with a gun and roughly 200 rounds of ammunition and then months later walking out of jail without facing criminal charges That's what just happened in the case of Christopher Gilliam a former North Carolina law enforcement officer
Gilliam was arrested in April in Destin, Florida after his own family reportedly alerted authorities that he had expressed threats about harming black people.
Investigators said that he was allegedly traveling toward New Orleans to carry out a mass shooting at a festival believed to be the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Authorities located him using flock camera technology.
I'm happy to use.
They finally use it for good.
When he was arrested, investigators recovered a handgun and approximately 200 rounds of ammunition from his hotel room.
Gilliam was eventually extradited to Louisiana and faced a state terrorism related charge.
But now there's a major development as Louisiana grand jury declined to indict him.
Finding that there wasn't enough evidence to move forward under the state's terrorizing statute, Gilliam was subsequently released and according to current reporting, he is not facing any additional charges.
And this is where I think the conversation gets complicated.
A grand jury declining to indict does not mean a jury found him innocent at trial.
It means that the prosecutors did not get an indictment on that particular charge.
At the same time, authorities have had previously described a seriously threat, serious threat of firearm and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
So my question for you guys this morning is when the law enforcement.
has enough information to intervene and potentially prevent a mass shooting, but prosecutors later say there isn't enough evidence to bring charges.
What should happen next?
For those who would have been at that in that crowd, this isn't just the legal question.
It's about whether or not tragedy was prevented and whether our system has the tools to respond before somebody actually pulls the trigger.
Yeah.
But we don't know any of the facts yet.
But what we do know is we've seen this time and time again where people get off or less sentencing or even when they are apprehended in the act, they get treated with
so much different energy than our community.
It makes me think of the kid, not even the kid, the monster who went into that church, prayed with them folks, what was the name, Dylan, and killed them after.
And then they took him to Burger King.
They treat them like, oh, they didn't mean it.
Like here I kind of looked over it again.
It says They so what I think they got him on was like terrorizing threats or something like that because it said after finding there wasn't enough evidence to move forward under the state's terrorizing statute It was released.
So yeah, that's crazy for you to be found like you made these threats
That is wild
think it's I just hate how hard we also are on our own people It's like we extra hard on our own people, but I think it's Mostly out of fear and out of knowing nobody else is gonna be gentle with you either, you know, but it's also like man We act like we act like everybody is facing the same issues and it's just not the same way for other people
I keep I've been seeing so many reports about them using them fly cameras to stalk ex-girlfriends and potential partners.
I'm like, what is this?
What is this used for?
What are you all supposed to be using this for?
At this point, I would have thought that's what they told them to use it for.
You like somebody.
Just find them.
cameras is for.
is making some adjustments to their policies on and it should be taking place.
It should be taking effect January 1st, 2027, if I'm not mistaken.
And what I did see on the news this morning was they are saying that instead of holding data.
Ah, it's funny.
Instead of storing the data for more than, I guess, 90 days, they're considering or the proposed changes, they would store it for seven days or something like that.
And then they're working through the ideas of like, okay, what does that look like if the footage is needed for an investigation?
So we will definitely...
Monitor the situation a little bit more Frequently so
What they
Yep.
I gotta look up the website, but that's how one of those officers ended up getting in trouble.
She looked their name up and was like shocked to see she was like looked up a hundred something times.
So there's that.
But we'll be right back after these messages.
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welcome back welcome back welcome back To the award-winning one on one seven the truth.
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It is Friday.
Yes, it is Friday.
The menu is full today, y'all.
The menu is full today.
Man, uh... What, uh... What you want to go to on this menu, Shay?
I feel like we can a la carte it today.
We don't gotta...
you.
Let's
MMSD $700 million contract, right?
So just giving you all some information about the contract itself.
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewers District is choosing a new private operator for a 10-year contract worth roughly $55 to $70 million per year.
So up to $700 million total over the life of the deal.
$700 million total over the life of the deal.
And I feel like I've seen this, I've seen this before.
If it's 700 million, I'm willing to bet it's another 20 to 50 million somewhere is gonna be over that.
Companies always find a way to have change orders and raise the costs.
But,
Nevertheless, seven hundred and seven hundred million total over the lifespan of the deal, which is going to be 10 years.
So what does it cover?
It covers operation and maintenance of the Jones Island and South Shore water waste plants.
Excuse me.
The deep tunnel system, the milligranite fertilizer plant.
and the regional sewer network serving 1.1 million people across 28 communities.
So that's a huge responsibility.
That's a huge responsibility.
Serving 1.1 million people across 28 communities, the current operator, Viola, North America, French owned, running MSD, MMSD since 2008.
It's competing against Dallas based Jacob solutions and recommendation is expected from the review committee around August 17th.
So this is coming up with the final commission vote expected in late September.
So.
I know people is like, OK, what does this mean?
There's a lot we could.
It's a lot we could get into, right, about what this means, right?
But just for context, I want us to know the state that the country is in.
And I think we got, I would like to say we got a good idea, right, Sharon?
Unless you like SpongeBob living in a pineapple under the sea.
Mm-hmm.
what?
Everything suffers.
So... Okay.
Jacob's Solution, one of the two finalists, has documented strategic partnership with Palantir
The data analyst analytics company that has held contracts with ICE since 2011 and is currently building tools like Immigrations OS, a 30 million dollar ICE contract to help track down undocumented people using data pooled across federal agencies.
Wow.
Oh, brother.
Moving on.
Latino president, forward Latino president, Daryl Moran summed up the community concern directly.
We are more than concerned to learn that a strategic partnership is in place between the two companies.
MMSD own executive director Kevin Schaefer has pushed back on the alarm saying MSD builds communities directly not individuals doesn't share private information and that any data an operator would access is public data not resident level personal data.
Jacobs has also told the Journal Sentinel it treats data privacy seriously and only uses client data under strict safeguards for authorized project purposes.
So even right there was a contradictory.
Am I, did I, did I not hear?
So hear me out here.
MS, MSD own director Kevin Schaefer says he pushed back on the alarm.
saying MMSD builds communities directly.
Not individuals.
It doesn't share private information and that any data an operator would access is public data, not resident level personal data.
But then Jacob says it told the Journal Sentinel it treats data privacy.
Very seriously and only uses client data under strict safeguard.
So it's like do they not got it or do they got it?
Hmm Well Moving on I just you know notice the key word in here data
Yeah
Data Day.
Data Day.
For Contacts, Palantir's ICE relationship isn't new or hidden.
It dates to 2011 and has grown at least $248.3 million in total ICE contracts, including a $30 million deal to build Immigration OS, a database explicitly designed to help track down undocumented people using Datapult across multiple federal agencies.
And I know people like, you know...
They ain't just using that to track down Latinos They're trying to track down Africans I even saw Somebody that's running for I can't remember what country they were running in but she made a ironically enough AI generated video for her campaign that had her in a like a
a garbage truck that got the arms and she was just like picking up little black people off the street and throwing them in the back of the truck.
They would be
like
laying on a bench or something and then she would just come through with the truck and scoop them up and throw them in it.
Yeah.
Oh man.
But we'll keep it moving.
Palantir's federal footprint is expanding well beyond ICE right now and reported $244 million Pentagon deal a $1.3 billion defense department contract through 2029 for Project MAVEN and reporting that the Trump administration had asked Palantir to help build a centralized database consolidating information across federal agencies.
a request that has drawn bipartisan privacy concerns in Congress.
Now, none of this means MMSD data specifically would flow to Palantir or ICE.
Jacobs and Palantir are separate companies with a business partnership and MMSD data is described as public infrastructure data, not resident records.
But it explains why advocacy groups are treating any corporate tie to Palantir as a red flag worth surfacing before a $700 million public vote.
Not after.
Yeah.
So I actually, you know, I invest in the stock market and stuff like that.
Right.
Yeah.
And, you know, I.
I actually had invested in Palantir.
I did.
I had put a few dollars into Palantir and then once I did some research and realized what it was they do, I liquidated all my shares.
Because I got immigrant family.
And I give a damn about humans.
And I see the climate that people have to navigate.
and deal with and go through.
But I don't
Wow
I think we be negotiating wrong We be negotiating wrong I feel like 700 million like
Why we don't have a partnership with these companies to where revenue flows back to the city the county the state whatever that looks like Yeah, you got open AI offering the United States 5% of Their company just so they could now obviously they probably doing that to get certain things rubber stamped and pushed through and whatnot right but
You have companies that is offering all of these percentages and where it flows back into the state.
It flows back into somehow lowering costs for citizens.
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Nothing at all.
Here we go, here we go.
Let's get back on track here.
So yeah, y'all, we talking about this data and what has been going on.
And it brought up... It brought up this conversation that I wanted to have, man.
Like, what's fueling these data centers?
So... I want us to talk about the apps that we use every day and what keeps them running.
What you think of that, Shannon?
So every major platform people use daily Google search and Gmail, Instagram and Facebook, Metta, Amazon and Amazon Web Service hosted apps, Microsoft Outlook teams and.
Every AI chatbot runs on exactly this kind of data center infrastructure.
Google data centers alone consumed 6.1 billion gallons of water in 2024 up from 4.3 billion in 2021.
And company-wide water use hits 10.9 billion gallons in 2025, a 34% year-over-year jump driven specifically by AI deployment, not just infrastructure construction.
Meta's data center uses 776 million gallons in 2023 alone, 95% of the company's entire water footprint.
Nationally, U.S.
data centers use an estimated 264 billion gallons of water in 2025 when counting the electricity generation behind them.
And about 40% of U.S.
data centers sit in areas already facing high or extreme water stress.
By 2028, U.S.
data centers could consume at least as much as 12% of the entire nation's electricity.
according to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
We're going to pay them electric bills.
That's kind of ironic, though.
Dang.
That's true.
They force us to do that.
That's not by choice.
need more.
We do gotta show we if we really upset about data We have to look at our data consumption.
Okay.
I do you want even better Netflix Streaming kick
Twitch, I don't We stream it right now, huh?
We streaming right now using data
Our consumption is driving.
We don't want to hear this.
Now, can we have a separate conversation about how companies are finding ways and manipulating people and programming people to stay on platforms even longer to increase data consumption?
Absolutely.
because we didn't always have auto reels where it just keep playing endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.
You don't even realize, like, dang, how'd I get here?