Should Students Get Paid for Perfect Attendance?

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Good afternoon, Milwaukee.

You're tuned in to the lunch break on 101-7 The Truth, where everything is an option on the menu.

And one thing about me, I'm a tough cookie, but I know what I can do, and I'm not suffering.

All right.

I fought my whole life.

I'm all right.

Excuse me, Cletus.

Hoppa, who this man?

Yeah, I wasn't doing it.

So I was like, I'm not paying $1,000 to sleep on somebody couch.

Grab your lunch, hit send on that email, and get ready for the best hour of your day.

My way of thinking

is that the parents do all they can.

But once the kids leave off that door, whatever have you, they make their own decisions.

I don't care if you nine or 99.

It's still your decision about the situations that you get involved yourself in.

We talking about tax-paying citizens.

Look into their taxes.

Look into this.

We talking about elected officials doing backdoor deals and somehow she still wanna blame immigrants.

That's what we talking about right now.

We following the money and you still wanna blame black people and immigrants and welfare and all of these things for policies and backdoor deals that put poor people in worse position.

Live

from the American Family Insurance Studio at the Third Street Market Hall.

Like you said, they want to pat their pockets, but they need a reason to push things through.

And I guess the low-hanging fruit is, OK, well, this is a problem, right?

Y'all want to fix the problem, and they just hope nobody looks into it like, wait, when did food trucks

become an issue?

Here are your hosts, Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.

What up, y'all?

What up?

What up?

What up?

What up?

What up?

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

It is your favorite two hours of the day.

Your lunch break with Ray Nitty, maybe Shannon, DJ, Brother Z, holding us down with the production and sound on the award-winning one-on-one, seven-of-truth live from the American Family Assurance Studios located in the Third Street Market Hall.

What'd it do, y'all?

It's Wednesday, hump day.

I feel like you had to think about that, right?

I

did.

I did.

Had to get over the hump.

Man.

Yeah,

I know that's right.

We're almost there.

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

How you feeling, Shannon?

How you feeling, man?

I'm feeling good.

I'm feeling good.

Super excited that it's Wednesday.

We getting closer and closer to family fest.

Super excited about that.

That seems to be, you know, coming together real nice.

We got that.

That's going to be a...

Dinner for the people.

It's gonna be it's gonna be pretty smooth.

I actually bumped into Emmett James yesterday.

He was walking out getting his hair twisted.

So, um,

okay,

I was uh, he's like, yeah, man, then he gave me another flyer for a show.

He got the big big band barbecue.

I think that he does on you say, oh, yeah, I know he's huge supporter huge supporter

But yeah, man, it was I excited to see him and talk about Truth Family Fest.

And I know he's going to bring a lot of dope energy to that.

And I'm looking forward to seeing the families that day, man.

So yeah, man.

I was super excited about that, Shannon.

So today, man, on the menu, we got a full menu.

Once again, 833-212-1017.

That is the number to dial 833-212-1017 is the number to dial.

We got a lot on the menu today, a full, full, full menu actually.

We don't know if y'all gonna even be able to get through all this food that we got cooking.

But, man, I had a pretty, pretty interesting night.

I'm gonna go through the menu real quick.

We had we're gonna talk about today some of the storms that happened We had a brief storm in Milwaukee yesterday But it came through quick and it has some some power So we're gonna talk about that some of the damages that we saw across the city Then we also want to talk about speaking of storms

We want to get into the menu of Gary Indiana.

Gary Indiana went eight days without power and nobody talking about it, but guess who is?

The lunch break crew.

Hello.

Right.

Then we want to go talk about Detroit pay students $100 a week for perfect attendance.

We want to get into that and what's your thoughts on that?

Then also that we want to talk about...

Something we didn't get to touch on it yesterday.

Organ donations.

The importance of

that

in Black Milwaukee.

And then if we got time, there was a fake dentist, Shannon, that was in people's mouths and got 144 G's judgment against them.

So we're gonna talk about that.

And then revisiting the road rage shooting that we spoke about briefly yesterday as well.

and just talk about some of those things that we were relating it to.

And I got some takes I want to add to that because I know we talked about a few times how toxins and exposure to chemicals impact people's behaviors and so forth.

And then we was able to dive into that on one of the grapevine shows the other day.

Want to revisit that as well.

But Shannon, man.

How was your day, man?

Man, it's been pretty good.

Definitely just, you know, to be in Milwaukee, super excited about that.

But yeah, it's been good.

It's been good.

So you flying in, you're flying into the town.

Man, I'm flying in.

I'm going to be on the radio tomorrow and be in

there at night.

I mean, say we gonna be in in studio.

We in studio.

So we got an in studio.

We might need to do a meet and greet tomorrow at Third Street Market.

You know what?

The views and opinions.

Look, look, see that's why I hit the button.

Hit

the button.

You know Sheree is in here.

The hosts and guests of this program are of their own.

We got Sheree in here at

1230, so don't be listening.

You need to run those photos by me, please.

Man, but she had to tell the people where they can find us, man, real quick.

Talk to our cousins.

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We really, really would appreciate it.

What

was that?

Turned

into

Grover.

Like it was good.

I was like, OK, good.

What big

eyes you have?

The better to see you.

Dang, I don't know who I just turned into.

But we're

going through some things over here today.

Man, but yeah, man, join us.

Join us.

We build in a community.

Shouts out to everybody in the chat already, but bar in the chat.

Man, I went through what we got.

what we got on the menu.

Yesterday, yesterday we had a pretty interesting show yesterday, man.

What was your thoughts yesterday?

Anything you want to retouch on before we go to break in and get into this menu for the day, Shannon?

Yeah, so honestly, I'm just super I'm excited if we do have time to touch on the Roll Rage incident and talk more about ways that people can Emotionally regulate and things of that nature.

So that's one one of the things I'm excited to touch on that we did briefly talk about But yeah, you guys we're gonna go on break and then we're gonna come back We're don't go anywhere.

Don't go anywhere.

Y'all will be right back on the award winning one of one seven the

truth

Workin' me.

She workin' me.

Urgin' me.

It be urgin' me.

Chill it up, the top of coat of curtain, please.

I decided to go hood like Major League.

She just popped up shit like Poke Beans.

She just popped up shit that I heard her knees.

What

up y'all?

What up?

What up?

What up?

What up?

Welcome back.

Welcome back to your favorite two hours of the day.

Your lunch break.

Yes, you were punched in with Ray Nitty, maybe Shannon DJ, Brother Z holding us down with the production and sound on the award-winning one-on-one, seven-of-truth live from the American Family Assurance Studios.

What did it do, man?

What y'all eating?

I'm hungry, man.

I done started a fast.

1,700 days in a row, and I keep eating by noon.

Man

I've been starting

this diet over for five years

I Always

do good in the morning though.

I always do good in the morning, but a 3 3 2 1 I

do

fast breakfast is actually probably my favorite meal of the day

But I try to intermittent fast, and then I try not to eat until around like three or four.

So lately it's been a lot easier, because I've been on from like 12 to four.

So, you know, I might slide some peanut butter cookies in there, but you know, who's counting?

Right, you know what?

I support, you know?

You gotta support.

Man.

So, Shannon, what you got for the appetizer today?

I know we had a couple of appetizers, but you had one in particular we wanted to share with the guests today.

I said guests with our

audience.

This morning, I wanted to share with you guys what's going on on TikTok.

There's a portion of TikTok that feels like Ms.

Rachel needs to...

Stay teaching the kids and there's one that believes that she needs to use her platform to out and that all starts because miss Rachel is known for teaching toddlers their ABCs and counting and kindness But right now she's using that massive platform to talk about something much heavier race violence in the depths of black people After previously saying black boys deserve to grow up miss Rachel has continued speaking out despite receiving hateful and racist backlash online

So she said that um after the Nolan Wells case miss Rachel made a statement saying black boys deserve to grow

up

in the racist people that they ain't feeling that they don't like that They said shut up and dribble And now she's making another statement and getting people talking on Tuesday miss Rachel posted listen to the black community black people do not hang themselves from trees Because as we know there's been a string of black people

You know in the south turning up hanging from trees and it's been basically called suicides She was raising concerns about a series of cases in which black people have reportedly been found hanging from trees with reports citing At least seven such deaths

But the larger point is about listening to the black community when there are they are raising concerns about patterns of violence whether these deaths are being properly investigated and that's where the story gets even bigger because Miss Rachel is Miss Rachel is facing criticism from people who believe she should stay out of racial and political Conversations at the same time people across social media are rallying behind her and they're praising her for putting her platform on the line and refusing to stay silent so

whether

or not you agree with every statement she's making on the One thing is did not undeniable.

She's no longer just talking about ABC's She's talking about black lives and she's willing to take the back glass that comes with it So what I want to know is what would you want your favorite children's entertainer to stay completely neutral?

Or do you respect someone more when they're willing to speak up about issues?

And we also have a clip for you guys to kind of listen to

Boys deserve to grow up and people took that and made it so controversial when it's not controversial It's factual and y'all should have already known miss Rachel and what she stood for and y'all should have known that she was gonna stand on business as she's done before black boys keyword boys deserve to grow up because if you look at the adultification of our black children

One of the things that is very common that I just recently talked about is how little girls are so quick to be called fast or how young boys even are looked at as young men as soon as they're 11, 12 years old.

It doesn't matter what he looks like, how tall he is or anything else.

An 11, 12 year old boy is still a little boy at the end of the day.

And see, this is why I like Ms.

Rachel because she's not just a child entertainer, she's a child advocate.

She's also a preschool teacher.

you should want a preschool teacher or any teacher for that matter to advocate for any and all children that they either come in contact with or any child-based cause there is in the world because at the end of the day when someone decides to become a teacher or anything working with children in that capacity you should want them to have the very best intentions and you should want them to have high expectations for those children and you should want them to hope those children succeed.

So yeah, when people say black boys deserve to grow up, that's what they mean.

Black boys deserve to grow up to be strong black men who could be businessmen, teachers, doctors, lawyers.

Black boys deserve to grow up and have those

opportunities.

So the question is, would you want your favorite children's entertainer to stay completely neutral, stay out of the mix, or do you respect somebody that is going to speak up about issues affecting children?

Yeah, I think I definitely want anybody that I'm supporting or putting my kids constantly in front of with an iPad.

to have their best interests in mind.

So yeah, I would want that from a Miss Rachel or from what was Buddy from Blues Clues.

You know what I mean?

Like Steve from Blues Clues, man.

And yeah, I would want

that.

Even when you think back to like Mr. Roger, right?

You think about like him doing all types of things.

Like I remember seeing a video saying like when it was still like pools were still segregated.

He had an episode where him and a black man put their feet in like a kiddie pool together

and that

was just like outrageous for the time.

But they pointed out that kids shows were meant to push the envelope because we're raising the next generation.

When you think about Sesame Street and all of the.

You know, all of the Muppets that are going through whatever they're going through,

it's meant

to show kids like people live differently than you and that's okay.

So I don't know.

I definitely feel like children's children's shows are meant to.

Teach our kids.

Like

I

don't want them sitting

in front

of something that's super neutral.

Yeah, like teach some of other things, but it's meant to teach life lessons.

And I feel like a lot of these kids shows are missing that these days.

A lot of times they're looking on YouTube at like the basics, but like life lessons aren't being, you know, taught.

So Ms.

Rachel is doing what she's supposed to do.

Yeah, absolutely.

Hundred percent.

And what she said, listen to black people when they say they aren't hanging themselves from trees.

Because Billie

Holiday

had a song called Strange Fruit.

And if you haven't listened to that song, you should listen to it by Billie Holiday.

It's called Strange Fruit.

Man.

Listen, I want to deep dive into that too, because I heard some things about them not wanting her to perform that song.

Yeah, absolutely.

They don't ever want creatives or artists or talent using their platforms to empower and educate.

the masses.

They don't want Miss Rachel.

Because they know.

Yeah, they don't want Miss Rachel.

They know

what her influence is.

They don't want Billie Holiday in those times singing a song called Strange Fruit, which is which is really talking about black bodies hanging from trees.

Yeah, that was an entertaining for them back then.

I don't know.

They didn't even want Kaepernick taking the knee.

And we forgot that.

But they know.

Go ahead.

I think they know how big influence is, especially when it's not to do with politics, because a lot of people don't want to listen to the politicians.

They vote for them.

But who they really are listening to is the people.

They're listening to the entertainers.

They're listening to the influencers.

If

we

be honest, I feel like a lot of times they're looking to people that they can relate to on a more human level to tell them what's going on.

And that's why they use influencers and entertainers.

And that's why people be so upset when people take a stance.

Absolutely.

Hundred percent.

And that's why they try to silence you and say, hey, shut up and just dribble, shut up and throw a football, shut up and make a rap song, shut up and post a photo.

Don't use your.

Yo, yo, freedom to think for yourself.

You know what I mean?

So,

yeah, I do think entertainers, creatives, anybody with a platform, we should be pushing the envelope because if we see something that is not right, if we see something that is not right and we just dwell in silence, I think that silence is just as equivalent to the violence.

No,

that's right.

So, but that's what I got.

Especially

when you know you have so many people, you know, listening to you and looking at you, especially our next generations, like.

Yeah.

Yeah, 100%.

Well, don't go anywhere, y'all.

When we come back, we will have Miss Cherie talking to us about friends and friends and family.

Truth family fest coming up after these messages on the award winning one on one, seven, the truth.

Don't go

anywhere.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Welcome back.

Welcome back.

Welcome back to the award winning one on one seven.

The truth.

This is a lunch break with Ray Nitty.

Maybe Shannon, DJ Brother Z holding us down with the production and sound.

How y'all doing?

How y'all doing?

It's your favorite two hours of the day.

It's your lunch break, y'all.

We got Miss Sheree in the building, Shannon.

Hello.

Hello.

Literally in the building.

I know that's right.

Y'all know how I play too much, so let's stick to the script.

Don't get the plan.

Shout out to everybody that is just tuning in.

Man, we got Truth Family Fest coming up.

And you're here to bring us some great information.

I know Shannon got some questions.

I got some questions as well.

But how are you doing?

I'm doing good.

It feels good to be back in the studio.

I don't know.

You know, with my people.

This is nice.

Yes, I feel great.

So Truth Family Fest is coming up.

this weekend.

Yes, this Saturday.

Tell us about it.

So True Family Fest will be coming up this Saturday, August 22nd at Riverside University High School.

What's up?

And

it will be from 11 to 2 and it's free.

Free for all.

Free for everyone to come.

It will be

community resources there, back to school supplies.

It will be food from our local vendors.

It will be physical educational activities for the kids to do.

So high impact, high engaged event events, as well as local performers.

So we have the whole, it's like, it's going to be an impact.

High energy day is going to be a lot of fun.

I'm very excited about it.

I just got checked by one of our cousins.

I know you got a question, Shannon, but I got to do this right.

They said, huh, Miss Cherie.

Uh-uh, put some more spec on her name, please,

my

partner.

That is a true pioneer of 101.7, the truth.

He said, that is the one, the only, Miss Cherie Harris.

Oh my goodness, who said that?

That's right.

Sir Chauncey said that.

Sir Chauncey said that.

So

I

apologize.

The one, the only.

That's

right, Sir Charles.

You tell him.

Tell him like it is.

He's been here from day one.

One thing our cousins ain't

gonna stop

doing is making sure we doing things right up here.

So y'all go ahead, Shannon.

I'm sorry.

I just had to make sure I did things right.

I

mean.

So with that being said with that comment being made for the people who may not know you personally Can you tell us a little bit more about Shari Harris and your role here at one oh one seven the truth?

Just so just so people the people listening know because obviously you are a big deal YouTube gonna keep us in check but listening

Well, thank you.

Thank you to fans.

I love you all.

So, um, I am one of the co-founders of one of one seven of truth when we started in 2021.

And so I had Beakles Row.

I was the general manager and help launch the truth, help set up the content, the sales, the events, um, connecting with our partners, connecting.

within good karma brands, thank you, good karma brands for setting up the truth.

So I was part of all of that for, I believe, four years, four years.

And during that time, I mean, we've done so much.

We participated in Juneteenth, which is one of our first events, and we were embraced by the community at Juneteenth.

And then the idea came up about, hey, maybe we should do something for back to school.

And I'm like, pause, what are we gonna do?

What are you talking about?

And I was like, give away book bags and socks and stuff like that.

And I'm like, pause.

We got to do something bigger.

And so we decided to develop two family fests and it just blossomed from there.

It just became one of our big signature events and we have received a lot of great feedback about it and vendors and partners that want to be part of it.

And here we are today, our fourth year having two family fests at Riverside University High School.

So I'm very excited to be part of it again.

I'm glad to be back.

I'm glad that two fans remember me, embrace me.

They've been

part of my life through a lot of physical challenges that I've gone through with my breast cancer journey and Being here just being alive and being excited and thriving through so yeah, I appreciate that sir.

Shout out

to sir John say

So you did talk about where the idea came from for the event.

Why do you think it's so important to bring this event directly to our community?

Well, I feel like we don't have enough, right?

So I feel like we always need help and sometimes it's hard to ask for that help and it's hard to find out where to get it.

And so why not?

Why not be in the sandbox with everyone else that's having these wonderful back to school events and

being part of the community, because what we bring on the air is conversation about impact, is conversation about our youth and what's going on with these teen takeovers and how can we resolve it.

And like everybody's asking, how can we help?

So bringing a true family fest back to school event is one way of helping a parent making an adjustment on that first day of school and beyond.

And that's what we're going to do because that's

We have to be serving our community outside of the studio walls.

And why not do it with an event that's fun and exciting and good for the family?

Absolutely.

I love that.

I'm pretty sure.

So when

families walk through those doors.

Mm hmm.

What she

said, I am too honest.

I'm supposed to be.

I

said, I'm looking forward to some food that's going to be out there.

I know

the food.

I know.

I'm going to make sure I hook you guys

up too.

Thank you, thank you.

Just a lot of cookie in my pocket every now

and then.

Chocolate chip, peanut butter.

I'll slice some bit of Jerry's ice cream in your pocket.

That's supposed to be there.

I'm going to

make sure I watch my calories for the rest of this week so Saturday I could get a full.

Watch your calories.

Just eat.

Thank you, thank you.

See, thank

you.

We don't shame up here.

Not a cheat day.

A cheat

week.

You can't eat anything anywhere.

You can't eat eggs.

You can't eat salads.

Straight

up.

So you might as well eat

it.

Popsicles?

Like what?

So I

don't have all the things we got.

Just eat ice.

That's going to be recall soon.

I'm sorry.

You see how I derail stuff?

I'm sorry.

It's the lunch

break.

This is what you do.

And I'm hungry.

You know what I mean?

I'm sorry, Shannon.

Continue.

So we talked about the free food and things that were given away.

Yeah.

When families walk through those doors on August 22nd, what do we expect them to experience?

What can they take away from that day?

Oh, there's going to be a lot.

So like I said, there's going to be Ben and Jerry's is going to be there giving away 200 scoops of ice creams.

We're going to have goody gourmet popcorn gifts to give away.

We're also going to have other local vendors that's going to be selling food on site and cafe like coffees and so forth for the parents.

Along with that, we're going to have community organizations that's going to be giving away resources talking about housing, talking about housing rental.

I'm sorry, community advocates will be there as well.

We'll have daycare, Malika, and I'm sorry if I'm saying this wrong, so please forgive me.

We're going to have the daycare on site.

That's going to be sharing resources and information.

We'll also have one of our sponsors, AB Core Core, that's going to be doing activities with the kids.

So be ready.

Have your tennis shoes on.

have on shorts, have on your t-shirts, because you're going to be running, you're going to be walking, you're going to be doing jumping jacks, you're going to be doing all kinds of things for prizes, so it's a lot of fun.

And artists working in education will also be on site with activities.

So like I said, it's not just going to be you walking around with a bag and collecting like flyers and information.

It's going to be an engaged event where you're going to be participating in a lot of things.

And that's why we have it from 11 to 2 so you can have the time needed to be involved.

And we'll also have local performers there.

We'll have the Milwaukee Hittas drum line.

We'll have DJ Info Tech, who is an alumni of Riverside University High School.

What's up?

That was my tennis buddy.

Yes, we did.

Black people play tennis.

I didn't say we didn't.

I just didn't know he did.

He played.

He was pretty.

He was really good actually.

He was really good.

And CB Legacy, Emma James, and of course our 101.72 personalities will be on site.

We will be broadcasting live.

So come on out.

Shake hands.

Say hi.

Say what's up.

Have some food.

You know, volunteer.

It will be gifts for those who

want to

volunteer as well.

Yeah.

And we still looking for volunteers, correct?

Yes.

We still need some volunteers.

C I E R R A dot brown at Milwaukee black media dot com.

Right.

If you

would like to

volunteer.

I

don't read that so much as burnt in my brain.

That's right.

So you could go to two family fest dot com and there is a vendor.

There is a link that you can click on to sign up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You brought up one of the sponsors, AB Corcor.

We actually got to interview him.

That was earlier this week, right?

These days going so fast,

it was that

last week.

But I heard you talking about, you know, make sure we bring our shoes

and some

shorts.

One of the things that he was...

very, very passionate about is how movement impacts our emotions and so forth.

And, you know, seeing like a lot of the stories we've been talking about, Milwaukee's going through a lot of emotions right now.

So, to hear you say that, I was like, man, we should really challenge people to come be a part of whatever movements I know he's going to have in store for the family.

So, I just wanted to bring that back to the conversation just to remind people how much movement impacts our emotions and our mental health as well.

Yeah, that is so true.

I know it has impacted mine.

I do water yoga every Sunday at 8.30.

It's my thing.

It's my religion.

Put it this way, it prevents me from throwing hands at y'all.

I'm just being a- I know that's right.

I

know

what I'm talking

about.

I know

what I'm talking about.

It's

like, alright, I'm breaking

it.

Now I'm gonna stay, now I'm gonna stay.

My goodness.

The hands and feet.

But yes, it's a lot of fun, but yes, Dr. Adele is, he's great.

He also has a TED talk on YouTube, so definitely want to tune in and listen to that, but.

Yes, exercise is definitely key to resetting your soul.

And that's what's going to be at True Family

Fest.

Yeah, absolutely.

For sure.

I know we have a lot of conversations about supporting Black owned business and support, like creating a stronger community.

How does events like this kind of contribute to that?

Well, I feel like a lot of our local minority owned businesses don't get enough.

support.

And it's hard to find them.

Sometimes they're in a place in a neighborhood, you just drive by and you forget that they're there.

So it's important that we patronize those businesses.

It's important that we support those businesses in every way.

And so we

Having a community event like Two Family Fest invites those businesses to us and to the community.

So when you come in, you get in contact with them, you're like, oh, wow, I didn't know you existed.

And these are the same businesses that call on what the biz is

on

Friday, plug, 8 a.m.

on one on one, seven to two.

A lot of those businesses are now participating in Two Family Fest.

And I believe when you get connected with a community business, it just builds a village because back to school,

working, some parents are working more than one job, it's hard.

And they need the resources to help with their kids to, you know, to become better human beings.

And a lot of times they are not exposed to those resources inside the classroom or in the school, and they don't know where to go.

So these businesses are coming to you at one place from 11 to two at True Family Fest.

At Riverside.

At Riverside.

That's how I like that.

At River's line.

The great River's line.

Great to be a

tiger.

You already know.

You hear that, CC?

It's

great to

be a tiger.

She popped up from behind that window.

Man.

We'll bring real, you know, Rufus King people.

No, it's okay.

It is

some amazing Rufus King generals

in my life.

It

really is.

Let me say that.

Can I say that?

Can we end the war for at least today, until after?

after our family fest.

And then it's back

on.

Like you started.

You

started.

It's back on.

I challenged them to come and let's do a football game.

I remember that used to happen, an alumni football game.

All they did.

And that was so, that was so dope.

Like we need to bring that back.

That was dope.

I

never played

though.

I

was, I didn't

have to.

Quake, who's your sister set that up?

So we thought out to Quake who like we need to bring that back.

So I'm putting that out there.

For

those who are listening, let's bring back the Riverside and Rufus King alumni football game.

Say no more.

Don't go anywhere,

y'all.

I ain't

playing.

You said you hold in the chair.

Don't go anywhere, y'all.

We are the award-winning 10170 Truth.

Don't go anywhere.

What up, y'all?

What up?

What up?

What up?

Welcome back.

Welcome back.

Welcome back to the award-winning 1017.

The truth, this is the lunch break crew.

Ray Nitty, maybe Shannon, DJ Brother Z holding us down on the production at Shown.

Shannon, I got a little something on the menu real quick.

You mind?

Yeah, what's that mean?

You're right.

Milwaukee Mark Air calendars join us for Truth Family Fest on Saturday, this Saturday, August 22nd from 11 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

at Riverside University High School.

It is free and fun for the entire family, featuring great music, community resources, family activities, and back-to-school support to help students get ready for a successful school year.

Interested in volunteering, please visit the Truth Family Fest website at truthfamilyfest.com to complete the volunteer form by emailing seara.brown at Milwaukee Black Media.

That is C-I-E-R-R-A.brown at MilwaukeeBlackMedia.com.

Bring the whole family and experience one of Milwaukee's favorite community celebrations.

Truth Family Fest Saturday, August 22nd from 11 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

Special thanks to Educators Credit Union.

American Family Insurance, Milwaukee Public Schools, Artist Working in Education, City of Milwaukee Department of Community Wellness and Safety, A.B.

Corcor, Ascension, and Tap-In M.K.E.

How y'all doing?

How y'all doing?

How y'all doing?

That's a great list.

It was great to see the list grow, too, over the course of having to read these.

At first, we just started

with, like, artists working in

education.

Then you start seeing everybody coming through.

But if you are just joining us, if you are just joining us, we are live with Miss... Wait, let me go and make sure I do this right again.

The one, the only, Mrs. Cherie Harris, the legendary...

Oh

my

goodness.

I'll make sure I did that right

this

time before they put hands on me next time I walk outside the building.

Shannon, how you doing?

I know you got some more questions.

What else you got, Shannon?

Let me put on my

crown real quick.

Hold on.

Let me put on my crown.

I'm telling

you.

I know that's right.

OK.

No, I'm good.

Here we

go.

Here we go.

She ready.

So we talked about how back to school resources will be available and how this season can be super expensive for families.

Again, what type of support are going to be available at the festival for kids going back to school?

Sure.

So we will have back to school supplies to give away.

Our vendors will also have supplies to give away as well.

We will have performance.

I'm trying to get this solidified.

cop for kids did reach out to us and want to do a performance there.

So fingers crossed, we get that set up for them as well.

Like I said, we will have food vendors on site for people to enjoy, eat while they're participating in the activities.

And I don't want to give it all away,

but I'm

going to give something away for the volunteers.

And this is, you know, there's a limited space, but there will be food provided and there will be a goodie bag.

for the volunteers to be there as well.

So I just want to make sure, because we appreciate everybody who participates at our events.

So there's going to be a number.

It's going to be a handful of items that families are going to walk away with when they come to the event.

So they're not going to, they come empty handed, come empty handed, but they're going to leave full.

They're going to leave full.

Yes.

That's a good opportunity for everybody.

You guys just got to come through.

Just come on through and say

what's

up.

I'll

be there like a day.

Come on.

Oh, this has some coffee.

Let's have a latte.

I

like that peanut butter cookies.

Hey, you have some peanut butter cookies out there at seven.

I'm talking about a sausage egg with muffin.

That's what I'm talking about something.

You're hungry I'm

starving Lucky

I couldn't get

a snack between these three minute breaks, but I'm

sorry So this would be my

first true, I'm sorry Shannon, this would be my first truth family fest, right?

So I'm looking forward to one seeing the listeners, right?

Yeah,

people that we don't see the people that we don't get to interact with on YouTube or whatever, you know So that's what I feel like I'm so excited about because we meet so many of the listeners just on our every day, right?

I remember I was in

What's the Woodmans?

And somebody like, oh man, he was on the radio and y'all was talking about y'all crazy.

So it's, it's great to see like the community starting to roll out and be like, oh, we hearing what y'all doing.

We loving what y'all doing.

So I'm looking forward to meeting a lot of the listeners.

So make sure y'all get there.

If peanut butter cookies is there at seven a.m.,

I'll be there at seven.

I love that.

Peanut butter cookies and ice cream.

Right.

Yes.

Ben and Jerry's.

And when you when you said that read about our listeners, they're like family because now they

have

created their own group.

And

sometimes they travel together to events like this, just to.

You know, have conversations with us and support us and I love that.

So they become family.

Yes.

And I love that they still support us from day one, even through the transition.

So thank you all for sticking with us.

I'm glad to be back.

I'm excited to be back.

I'm excited to be part of the team again with, you know, our old G's and our new G's we call

them.

So

you guys are unsung heroes and I appreciate the true team.

Just believing in the vision and just.

sticking with me in this idea because we planned this in under 60 days.

I'm just saying.

I came back.

I'm like, you guys want to have family fest?

Yeah, we want to have family fest.

I'm like, snap.

OK.

OK.

What did I just kick up?

Let me figure this out.

I was up all night trying to get it together.

And now it's happening.

It's here.

It's Saturday, August 22nd at Riverside University High School from 11 to 2.

You want to be there?

Maybe karaoke maybe Ray might do a little song.

Hey, you know what?

I said you promised

that I said I was gonna do something.

I said I was gonna do something.

Do a little song.

I'm gonna do it now.

We got to make some room for him on entertainment roster.

He got a he got a

DJ.

I'm gonna show up with a tennis racket be like info.

I need five seven minutes

But uh

speaking of uh, you know the og's and the folks that was before so I just wanted to read a comment From the chat it says y'all lucky she ain't grandstand

on y'all and walk through there with Tori, Kyle, and Lieutenant slash Dr. Ken Harris to really send a message on who laid and paved the foundation.

for y'all and whippers.

Look, look, look at Kyle.

Kyle walked right in.

He said it paved the way for y'all, y'all.

I don't see it.

We need to talk

about Saturday at the family fest.

I'm going to be at the family fest on Saturday at Riverside.

And

again, I can't wait.