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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've fought my whole life.
I'm all right.
Excuse me, Cletus.
Hoppa, who this man?
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 9 or 99.
It's still your decision about the situations that you didn't bob yourself in.
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.
Oh my God.
Correction.
Your hair look late, though.
Thank you, man.
I'm fresh
Oh, that's right.
Man,
to end line on time.
breath I'm feeling good.
I'm feeling good.
I'm super excited.
I'm after this show I'm gonna hop right on the flight and come to Milwaukee So I'm super excited to be in the building tomorrow.
I'm gonna check out them peanut butter cookies you've been talking about I didn't
though
I don't need no other.
want that butter.
I was going to say something.
See, Zach already loaded up over there.
I see if I would think down.
Two down.
He already took two down.
I'm glad I was a little behind today, because if I'd have had any time to.
Stop pass that's probably what I got to do in order to stay on this diet.
I need to come with like two minutes left and Make it crazy, but You know what how was your
evening
I've been
a fighter for his life.
Listen, I had a great evening, y'all.
Basically planning for my week ahead.
Just excited to be in Milwaukee.
It's been just a few weeks, but you know, I'm excited to be back in the city.
It's always a good time when you go back home and link up with family and friends.
My nephew going off to college this weekend.
So it's literally just all working out.
The last time I was out there, he was graduating high school.
So, you know.
It just seems to keep working out in favor to spend time with people I care about.
Ray, you are right over there.
He's trying to get the fan to work for those listening.
Somebody broke it.
Who broke it, Ray?
it.
We literally have you on
the motor.
Maybe give me the battery.
DJ Brother Z. I've been charging it for two days.
It ain't been
it's a lot going on.
It's my son's first day
of
you.
Trauma dumping on us.
Xavier.
Oh my
You're going through too much over there.
meta pause.
Whew,
come back from this break and you
Oh My goodness.
get to this break Too much damn
Damn.
If you guys are listening on the radio, make sure.
Cut the air
off in that studio.
That's our evasion.
Things just been cutting off slowly by slowly as we get here.
First the two TVs.
Cut the fan off.
The volume went out on the other TVs.
man,
for such a bad house of
time.
Oh, my God.
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Ray, you got a few words for us now that you cooled down a little bit.
me
Not the bubbly, though.
What do you mean?
got a grade you're going
He's in
I thought he was way younger.
nest.
But.
that's like that's like a new chapter people don't talk about it enough like my sister going through it like she like what I'm gonna do I don't know you got to pick up random pickleball or something
Oh
Wait, they don't feel the way that you're not keeping a room like they room.
You don't care.
do it.
Oh, man, but yeah, man, we got a pretty interesting menu today, Shannon.
Let me see if I could get a folks a quick, quick rundown of what we got on the menu today for them.
So Shannon got a nice appetizer for y'all.
Um, that actually brings us back home to Wisconsin.
So we'll get into that.
Then we want to talk about the US debt hits $40 trillion.
What does that taste like?
I don't know.
And I don't even want to find out.
Then we also want to talk about human debt.
What drives us into debt and what keeps us there, right?
Then we also want to go and look at the menu and see how can we, what can we minimize?
in our patterns, right?
To to begin the process of like getting back on track.
And then I want to talk about the importance of life insurance and the importance of investing.
Then we want to bring it on home and see how this relates to Milwaukee and the black community.
And if we got some time, we make sure we leave y'all with our quota today.
And I just added some Shannon.
I felt like we do.
quotes from black influential people, but it's like, maybe we highlight a black pioneer that you should know.
So today we got a black financial pioneer that they should know, but don't go anywhere, y'all.
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So let's get into this appetizer.
Right.
Today we are talking about
a Wisconsin National Guard first sergeant that had a widow's maker heart attack in Arizona.
So imagine you're out for a normal day and suddenly someone collapses in front of you.
Would you know what to do?
That's exactly what happened to a 16-year-old Laya Jackson and Mesa, Arizona on June 27th.
Laya was out when she witnessed the Wisconsin National Guard first sergeant, Clint Vervorin.
can pronounce the name is V-E-R-V-O-R-E-N collapsed during a morning run.
He was in Arizona for his daughter's volleyball tournament when about 30 minutes into his run he suffered what doctors call a widowmaker heart attack.
It's called the widowmaker because it usually involves a sudden and severe blockage in the heart's main artery, the left anterior sending L-A-D artery.
This artery supplies a large portion of blood to the heart muscle and when it becomes blocked, it can quickly stop the heart from getting oxygen it needs.
The name comes from how dangerous it is because without immediate intervention, it's oftentimes fatal making most women a widow because I think it's more common in men.
So Leia didn't freeze.
She's a 16 year old guys and she witnessed this heart attack happen.
She did not freeze She called 911 and began performing CPR with emergency dispatchers coaching her through over the phone until the first responders arrived Ultimately saving his life, right?
So those first few minutes are critical CPR helps with keeping blood circulating to the brain and other vital organs until professional medical help can take over and he survived
So now Laia is who is just 16 or was just 16 at the time.
I'm sorry, this happened in June.
So she may be 17 now, but she was 16 at the time is now being recognized for her quick thinking and her courage.
She was honored by the city of Mesa for her life saving actions.
So here's my question to you guys, right?
If somebody collapsed in front of you, would you or your child know what to do?
Because Lyah's story is a reminder that learning CPR could some days help somebody Help somebody and save a life.
We also have some words from the sergeant I'm gonna roll that clip so you guys can hear what he had to say about her
Look at her.
She's so cute.
What I can say to you today Because I don't know if there are words that can truly express what you did for me You were faced with a moment that would cause most people to freeze
You could have been scared.
You could have waited for someone else to take over, but you didn't.
You acted.
What makes it even more incredible is that you learned CPR six years ago, and we've heard this, right?
Over Zoom during COVID on a stuffed animal.
You probably never imagined something you learned as a little girl or young girl years earlier would one day be that skill that saved somebody's life.
But when that moment came, you remembered.
You recognize that something was wrong.
You call 911.
You perform CPR and you did what you needed to do when it mattered most.
Because your courage, the next person had the opportunity to help me.
And then the next.
And then the next.
And ultimately, I'm still here.
I get to go home to my wife.
I get to spend time with my kids.
I get to make memories that otherwise may never have had a chance to make.
There's no way to repay someone for that.
I can say thank you.
I can tell you how much it means to me.
But the truth is, I will spend the rest of my life being grateful for what you did in those moments.
I've thought a lot
about...
She was not scared.
She stepped in, but it do have me wondering how many people would know what to do in those situations.
I can't even promise that I would know what to do.
What about you, Ray?
What would you know what to do in those situations if somebody collapsed in front of you?
Would you know what measures to take?
help.
Help!
Somebody!
Do you see this?
If they don't come after the first help I'm walking off, I'm gonna step over you.
Excuse me, sir.
Look, I yelled for help.
Hey, hopefully somebody show up soon and just walk off.
Look.
that
He is from Wisconsin so she took that class when she was like 10 over a zoom call doing COVID or something like that like on a stuffed animal
So she definitely applied what she knew.
Ain't that crazy?
Who's the teacher?
Shout out to the
For real.
For real.
I took a CPR class, and I'm drawing a blank right now, trying to test myself.
Like, would I know?
No, I wouldn't.
And then you got to add a layer of stress to that.
So shout out to her.
And yeah, he was a...
what?
No, he was a Wisconsin National Guard first sergeant.
that little key make you more nervous.
Oh, okay,
I'm like, you ain't even
this
Leah Jackson, I think I was saying Leah, but it's Leah Jackson.
I ain't do CPR, but I just called 9-1-1 at the right time when Sherwin had his like heart attack incident thing on air at one time.
What?
Yeah, it was, yeah.
What is this happening?
Oh yeah, y'all know about that?
No.
Oh yeah, y'all gonna have to ask me about that.
But yeah, it was...
Probably last year maybe around this time But yeah, definitely like a year or so ago.
He was just on on air doing his normal broadcast and I was in here Not producing but just like co-producing I guess working on audio work or whatever and There was one commercial break.
He just went to break super early and his producer at the time Ricky Allen's and I noticed that like
He went to break super early, which is out of him.
And so
we
were like, you good?
And Ricky got him some water and he was just, it went real bad real fast.
I'll put it that way.
And then he passed out in the middle of the segment.
It was a very scary moment.
We didn't know what was going on.
And at that point, it was just like, all right, well, we got to do something.
So it's called 911 because I mean, I don't know CPR.
didn't know what was going on.
So it's just like, when you don't know what to do at that point, just call 911.
So
you don't know CPR, just figuring out, you know, when is the right moment to make that call if it's going to be necessary?
Because
I
know ambulance
aren't cheap.
So even
then it's just like,
exactly.
And that
was the other thing I had to, I had to describe to the operator what happened, like.
in detail like minute by minute and like what was still going on at the time of being on the phone with them.
And it was a very, I guess you could say traumatizing experience.
It was just like, I
don't
know what's going on.
I feel like people forget to realize like how even calling 911 is kind of scary in a like situation where you're shaking.
Like in a situation where you're shaking up, it's hard to even get the numbers, right?
You like, let me dial 911.
You dialing 612.
Like it's super hard.
And then they ask all these questions.
You're supposed to know, like, well, what intersection you at?
What's the crossword?
I don't
know.
Y'all know the building.
They're like, how do we get
in?
And
at the time, the market hall wasn't open, so they couldn't come
through the front
door.
So we had to go through the other, yeah, the arcade and like everybody had to hold doors open because otherwise doors would have been locked.
And yeah.
So you also needed enough bodies to prep doors open.
And then we had to worry about the content on air.
And we were like, well, we can't play commercials for the rest of the time.
So.
Yeah, sure when he he said he woke up and he thought he was in in gay heaven because he just saw a whole bunch of fire fighter men
is this mine the right the right one
That's why I say
y'all gotta ask him about it.
Am I in the right
Man, listen, we gonna go to break and continue this conversation.
We'll be right back.
You're listening to the lunch break with maybe Shannon, Ray Nitty and brother Z. We'll be right back after these
messages.
What up, y'all?
This is your favorite two hours of the day.
Yes, you are punched in on your lunch break with Ray Nitty, maybe Shannon.
DJ Brother Z holding us down on the production and sound shots out to our YouTube family, man.
Jasmine, what up, Rob, what up?
Man, that was a wild story, Brother Z just told us.
Man, it was shots out to Sherwin
man.
You
the
man I mean it could be customized at what you view heaven is because it's never mind you
Well, I was gonna say oh y'all do know like that episode from office when it's I Like what he just played that's actually the like the rhythm you're supposed to do it at for real
What
do you know
that went like for by the Bee
Gees
live
by the
Bee
Gees
when you're doing CPR.
That's the rhythm Yeah, that's Jean
I took a class like actually
Not even a year ago, probably.
That's why I was like, I'm pathetic.
I wouldn't know what to do.
And I'm just a glass.
But they confirmed that is the rhythm.
And on the office is like, it's a comedy.
Yeah.
Like they were doing that.
And it was like, I was like, is that real?
They're like, yeah, that's actually the rhythm.
It's also a count.
There's a count, but that song goes to the count.
Yeah.
The BPM.
The rhythm.
There you go.
Stand alive.
Stand alive.
I also asked some of my Facebook friends, would your child know what to do if somebody collapsed in front of him?
One person said, I tested this on my baby.
She kept shaking me and calling my name.
I wouldn't respond.
She got her tablet and called my aunt and told her something was wrong.
So that's good.
She called somebody.
um one person said if you collapse in front of a 23 year old and under your cooked just go ahead and call the lord they don't know nothing about surviving
somebody else said she knows now but back when she was three and i played dead and fake collapse she started to play with my
ears
Oh my goodness, she said now she's 10 and she knows to call 911 immediately.
And then somebody else said, no, she would probably just lay on top of me and think I'm playing.
So I
was like, we need to teach these kids a thing or two.
before.
I
did you also wake up in gay heaven or just regular wake
I hate for my fate to be in anybody else's.
I don't got much faith in too many people.
I think that's my problem.
I'll be like, that's a fear of mine.
But I do feel like my daughter would know what to do.
We've talked about it.
My sister, I've been in plenty of situations where I had to think fast.
Working in the emergency room, I worked in the emergency room for five
And I was at the front desk.
So I always had to like be ready to like call the nurses up front just in case because we were on the South side.
So it wasn't like, you know, like some communities is just a lot of old people, but we were right on.
They make you take a CPR
You
were saying
I was literally like 19 working there.
It was crazy.
Like people would come in overdose.
Like.
people would literally just like drop they friend off right like open the doors and the body just get thrown in there, drive off.
People would come in like, Hey, I got shot.
And I'm like, wait, what?
Like right here.
I'm like, okay, let me get the nurse up here.
You might need to see somebody right now.
Like you just see so many things.
Like I've had an incident with my sister where like, um, I had to act fast and stuff like that.
So it was, you know, I got, I got a little, uh, what is it called?
resume on experience dealing with think quick situations.
Even if I don't know what to do, I know like how to regulate and get things done and try to like get the right people in place to do what needs to be done to keep people alive.
So
up
like, I just fell
asleep.
You destroyed
See, you know what?
I didn't even go start talking about people being pissed off.
A lot of them times when them overdose folks came in the hospital, you get them some Narcan, they wake up like, what do you mean
you ruined my high?
Like excuse me?
Wait a minute.
Sorry.
It's so bad because ma'am, you were at the light sleep, bro.
Like you could have been like, bro, people.
You know
what?
At least you guys know y'all did the right
How's that be?
You destroyed my sleep.
Man, I saw two.
I saw two people enjoying a nice high sleep on the bench on the way here.
I'm going to tell you though, real like.
It is still it's like super heartbreaking though, when you see like clearly, you know, these people is high off of like drugs or something, right?
But then it's even more heartbreaking
see how
to
Something it's crazy because I think what happened is like younger people like
So like not to say we make fun crackings,
but people ain't gonna be a crackhead like you
have Tyrone Biggums growing up and all this and that and people didn't realize how like a lot of these peels and lean and all this extra stuff was definitely a gateway into you being a junkie like Oh, it's unfortunate because like if they be like, oh, huh
You being on drugs based all a gateway gateway those things where people
Gateway gateway Like a lot of times they just like oh like they pop those in doing all this and it's like the cool thing to do until our Addicted you know I'm saying like people don't realize that like it's a slippery slope like They think as long as it's not crack Okay,
like
Whitney
said that.
I know, but people think just cause it ain't, like it's not crack, so you ain't an addict, like no.
Man, exactly, that is not it.
I do have a few inputs on cannabis, but.
that that ain't where we going right now.
And then as well as like alcoholism, like
100 percent,
we was partying like rock stars.
And now, like, at what point do you not realize you the drunk uncle or auntie?
It's like, yeah, it was cool.
But time gets away from and
No, I was just gonna say, when you see them lines outside the liquor store before they open up, you will see it's an addiction.
100% they
Man, lines like a new shoe about to be released.
Like it's Black Friday at the liquor store.
And
about
to drop.
And they ain't
been
waiting for this new Hennessy.
I've been waiting.
That Hennessy Black or what they had they was bringing from Mexico or some Hennessy White or
Hennessy.
Look at that.
What people was doing that.
back.
one-on-one,
What up y'all welcome back To the lunch break on the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth live from the American Family Insurance Studios It's your boy Ray Nitty, maybe Shannon DJ brother Z holding us down with the production that sound how y'all feeling man on this lunch break?
Who's talking about CPR?
How did we get to oh, yeah, we was talking about alcoholism and a lot of these other things that uh Been uh ailing our community
This actually wouldn't even on the menu today, but it's a good.
It's a good side dish to add, right?
Because we was talking about addiction and things like that.
And we was talking about, you know, the gateway drugs and what they was labeling cannabis and everything else.
But liquor is legal.
Liquor is
seen it.
It's crazy.
It's how many people, how many people?
I wonder what the numbers are on that.
Like how many people die from like cirrhosis of the liver and alcohol related illness?
least
Yeah.
and my.
We
those
Actually, that would be really good because it really makes you wonder, how is that legal?
How?
We know how, right?
But I ask this question all the time.
How is liquor legal?
How do we look at all these other things and say, nah, we ain't going to allow this to be legal?
But alcohol, we gonna need that legal though.
Something that people drink enough of it and it just literally turns them into a different person.
Man.
Uh-oh.
your
That's just a spiritless shell walking the earth.
Spirits, man.
Spirits take your spirit out your body.
And now you just flesh and bones, just acting crazy, doing whatever.
But that's just just my thoughts.
They said, no sound coming through.
I don't know what they mean by that, but they say we ain't getting no audio, y'all.
But, yeah, we talking about alcoholism, and we gonna have Brother Z hold us down, because that's what he do, hold us down with the production and sound.
You feel me?
But, we talking about alcoholism, and so, maybe we get into that.
We'll say that one, Shannon.
We don't really do
our research.
That would definitely be a good topic to hold down because it's like you like I said it's like so many alcohol related illnesses people passed away from that's one of the only like you know like when you want to quit like if you're truly an alcoholic like you to the point where you're drinking all day every day if you want to quit you can't just like you know what I'm not gonna do this no more.
That's one of like it will literally kill you with drawing from alcohol.
It's so dangerous to just stop drinking.
People get the sweats, they get the shakes, and all these things happen.
And like I said, it's such a gradual transition from being young and crazy to being like, oh, I'm drunk auntie now.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like partying like a rock star was 21, and in the blink of an eye, it's no longer fun.
You're reliant.
in your body.
Your spirit was
For sure.
talking about addiction for sure because I think I think that deserves like a full conversation about it just because it impacts like so many people in different ways and so many communities and a lot of people don't even know how to spot it and sometimes it's just so normal to people to like you you don't even think it's it's you know, I'm saying you don't even think it's the issue, right?
Yeah, I
It's
you
is a tough
is.
be a needed conversation.
It's a needed conversation
No, that's literally what I was saying.
I was like, yes tough But it's one of those conversations that's needed like people don't talk about it enough because it's become so normalized You know what I'm saying and like I say go from like, you know young wild and free.
Oh, I'm just having a good time or and then it's like, okay now hold on
This ain't so fun no more like you you can't operate without it.
You know I'm saying I lost 20 family members to alcohol alcoholism I think more than that like Like I said, it's one of those things where people warn you about overdosing on drugs They worry about drug usage and all these but like alcohol alcoholism isn't like a conversation on the table really No,
so
I lost homies that I like we literally, you know what I'm saying?
Like it's wild to even think about because you remember partying with them.
You remember watching them over in Dodge and you being a part of it.
You feel me?
So it's like, damn man, like we was all just watching, bro.
In a sense, like.
ruined himself and we all played a role for the sake of having a good time and not paying attention.
We all got some folks got pictures of, you know, they kicking in with their friends and you end up taking pictures or somebody take a picture, you drunk or passed out.
You know what I'm saying?
Or lining up all the bottles around them.
Yeah, I'm telling you.
It's
the first time until it's a problem.
And it's probably behind alcohol, alcohol, alcohol related.
And the thing too is like,
Yeah, a lot of people don't like Because you can't be like oh he drank too much in in past away, right?
Some people do Amy Winehouse for instance.
She drank herself to death.
She had alcohol poisoning
poisoning if
I'm not Mistaken but like more than that.
It's like cirrhosis of the liver.
It's like all these other things that starts to happen someone breaking your body down Yeah, people don't say oh he passed away because he was alcoholic.
They say oh, well they had liver issues
No, I'll talk about what led to those different issues.
We have to have a tough conversation because people really don't realize how slippery of a slope it is.
So yeah, I think that's going to be a very interesting conversation.
And I do want us to like, let's dig deep and put some thought into it.
Maybe even see if we get a guest that could, an expert that could come share some.
insight on that as well.
Because I know for sure that's something that impacts a lot of our families and for sure our community.
Because every corner got a liquor store on it.
Every corner got
a liquor store on it.
And like I said, you can literally see people lined up.
Like it's insane.
Like they be lined up before they even open.
That's scary.
How reliant.
On
this you are that you're lined up in the line to get it like that's crazy
It's uh, it's gonna be a that's gonna be an interesting conversation stay tuned for that when we come back y'all When we come back we gonna We gonna talk about some things that's including our debt
As a country, man, 40 trillion, Shannon.
Jesus.
Jesus, 40 trillion.
That's a lot of money.
I don't know who they're going to get it from.
It ain't going to be me.
No, I'm just saying it probably is already.
That's what, you know, we'll get into that after
three.
We got a couple of minutes.
We got some folks in the chat, man.
That's our Robert Lance.
Who else we got in here?
We said Jazz.
Shout out Jazz.
Milwaukee Amanda in the building.
Todd is in the building.
Southside Nico.
Got a lot of people in here today, man.
A lot of people in here.
Appreciate y'all joining the conversation, man.
833-212-1017.
That's the number to dial.
Somebody said it does kill you.
Quiet.
I've known a couple dudes that...
That was what killed them.
And all they said, the volume is good now.
Southside Nico said, lost my mom because of it.
Tide said, lost his grandpa.
Robert also say, lost his grandfather.
Shout out to everybody, my condolences to everybody that has lost somebody to alcoholism.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
We'll be back after these messages on the award-winning 10170 Truth.