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What's happening?
Shannon, how you feeling?
Shannon,
how you feeling?
Stop playing with me.
You're Mike Smirner, Shannon.
through it.
We got through it though.
That's all right.
Occupado!
That's
Oh my God,
OK, that was good.
I will go to sleep.
Actually, I listen all the time.
I listen to what everybody got to say.
I listen to Sherwin.
I listen to Michelle Bryan.
I listen to everybody.
And what I want to say, I don't want to take too much of your time.
But what I want to say, like, a lot of times, when you've got these problems, a lot of funding has been kept from them.
Like, it's serious political.
Because every time you look up, like, even this FEMA stuff, they want to cut back.
Now you're
sort of disease control that control diseases from coming in here now the funding is being cut from that there's always political and funding is cut so the people can't get the help they need and how does the drug come in here in the first place because if you watch that documentary 13 i told you about it was deliberately set up in the embassy for us white people
and so
there's a lot of history behind it and we really need historians to come in and and set by people to what's really going down because they don't know because a lot of young kids don't listen to the radio.
because I have young young brothers too and they don't listen but uh speaking of liquor stores yeah we got a plan I got one next door to me and did you think the guy picked up?
They're those Indian people you know uh they own a lot of grocery stores and stuff like that.
He's a master of nothing.
he will walk past bottles.
They throw him in my yard.
I went over there.
And you know what else he did?
He built him a home off of our money.
It's not my money.
I don't buy nothing from him.
But our money supports them.
And everybody look at us as being this crazy, don't have no sense and rowdy people and like to stay there and this and all they see is negative for us.
And these people come in here to make money.
I think Sherman was saying something about the money that we spend.
And they say, I'm going to spend that neighborhood one day.
Maybe we need some scholars to come in here and teach us that stuff.
Because I'm 77.
So I go about where my next step is.
But if we can get people in that can, even you can, you know, you look it up and you start reading about all this stuff and you learn where it really originated from, then we can get them educated.
And I think we got to get them educated.
We do need some more historians to tell the history of how our people got to this point because they say if you don't know where you came from, you don't know where you gonna go to.
So we do need more historians to come and tell these stories.
And also to hear the stories of how we were a resilient people.
We want just no poor, you know, just in stress.
population of people, we need to make sure we're telling about the triumphs of our people as well, the Mansa Musa's Mali back in the day and so forth.
So I think the history aspect is extremely important.
And, you know, even with the liquor store conversation, she was saying, that's an important conversation, too.
Because we aren't the ones that own these liquor stores, gas stations, corner stores.
You know what I mean?
We might have a little bit more steak and corner stores, but for sure liquor stores, maybe I could count on one hand how many black owned liquor stores is it?
and when you think about those things that like pretty much specifically serve our community or do well in our communities Even when you think about beauty supply stores.
Mm-hmm.
Those are not owned by black people.
It's very rare.
I think I Don't even think I know one in Milwaukee that is but I remember one of my friends she was interested in and she was like they really like They protect the resources, you know, I'm saying they not just giving anybody game They not just letting people in like oh, this is where you can find wholesale
It's not like that.
So it's really hard to get stake in what's already in our community.
Oh, yeah.
Go try to walk the show.
You try to open up anything over there.
especially a liquor store.
Try to open up anything over
But yeah, I would love to see our people get more involved with ownership because we have to own things.
But we have to teach our young people, our family members, the importance of ownership and investing in all of these different things because we are falling behind.
Absolutely.
We gotta invest with people that look like us.
And it is nothing wrong with pushing that narrative.
Nothing is wrong with pushing the narrative of, hey, let's spend some money with us.
Let's focus on pushing us.
Let's focus on spending with us because our community needed.
Miss Sandra just said, our dollar don't stay in our community a day.
because everybody in our community, in our pockets, the people that own the stores in our community, like literally in our neighborhoods, where we gotta go shop, spend our money, they don't look like us.
And
three, four.
even
when you go in them nail salons, they're not talking to you They're not delivering the greatest customer service.
They gonna do your nails rough.
They gonna throw your hand how they want you to lay it They're not even gonna let me grab this finger.
No, I don't grab the finger and start you just sitting there, but like when it comes to Us working on us.
We don't give each other that much grace, but
Shouts out to the Center Street
She cranking out them black nail technicians and giving everybody their licenses.
So I do like seeing things like that where we prioritizing fast tracking black people to entrepreneurship.
So shouts out to the Center Street Nail Tech.
Actually my niece, my little cousin, went and got her license from over there as well.
But don't go anywhere, y'all.
When we come back, when we come back, we will finally get into debt as we're talking about the circulation of our revenue and things like that.
We're gonna get into this $40 trillion when we get back on the award-winning 1017, the truth.
Don't go anywhere.
Thank you.
Man, the US National debt officially crossed 40 trillion on Tuesday, August 18th, 2026, hitting the mark.
Months earlier than forecasters expected.
We got there faster than they expected largely due to lost tariff revenue after courts invalidated many of President Trump's tariffs.
So they say because they invalidated some of them outrageous tariffs that was going to be costing our citizens more money.
They said that's why we are dead because all these companies do is pass that tariff tax on to us.
Why we act like we don't know that they should make it illegal to pass on tariff taxes and stuff like that.
That's what they should
do, man.
40 44 44 years About 44 years we added a trillion a year since 81 it's now added 10 trillion in under a decade
Debt stood at nineteen point four trillion just ten years ago.
Jesus.
That works out to about one hundred and seventeen thousand one hundred and twenty thousand in debt for every single American or roughly two hundred and ninety seven thousand per household.
Why they put an American debt on us?
Don't don't work it
out
Don't
held by the public the more economically meaningful measure has now exceeded the entire size of the US economy The first time that's happened since World War two when the country was demobilizing
What does this mean for Americans, Shannon?
Because we hear this number for we forty trillion dollars in debt.
I know what they say you four thousand dollars in debt.
I know what that does to us as a citizen.
Donate gold.
The dough's
I think that got disbanded.
Elon Musk in them,
It was just doing a wild stuff, man.
So what does this means for Americans, Shannon?
Interest alone on the debt is now over $1.2 trillion a year.
So we getting $1.2 trillion a year and interest is crazy.
More than the entire defense budget and more than the government spends on almost anything else outright.
I feel like that's a lie.
I feel like we be spending so much money on BS.
How much we spent on them bombs?
Keep me out of y'all nonsense
I ain't borrowing nothing, not just the government.
I guess so.
Here we go.
Mortgages, car loans and credit cards all get more expensive as investors demand higher returns to keep lending to an increasingly indebted country.
This is this is just sick.
in our mortgage rates, our car loans, credit car rates.
Because investors demand higher returns to keep lending to an increasingly indebted country.
So the people that is lending a country money, they like, we need higher returns.
Else we ain't giving you no more.
You brought this up, Shannon.
The Social Security Trust Fund is projected to run out in 20.
This is this is insane.
What are we going to do when we get here?
This is around the corner.
The Social Security Trust Fund is projected to run out in 2032.
With Medicare's trust for wild.
with Medicare Trust Fund following the year after.
So Social Security and Medicare is planning on running out in 2032 and then 2033.
That's five
I would I would like to say I think that's what our social security is.
It's something that your
Yeah.
you to start
else
That's what they started doing because they know trends that are happening before we actually know them.
So they're like, oh, we know these people and I'm gonna pay this back soon.
So let's start cutting stuff now.
So they'll start doing things like that.
One of my cards actually did.
I was like, I don't even use this card.
Why are you all cutting this?
And what I do to y'all, but they're preparing, they're preparing before the storm.
So
please fill out for
Cause you usually, you know, you use a card and then you pay it all the way off.
So who's flipping the house?
Put all the materials on there and then at the end of the month I paid the balance off at full It was like thank you for your payment.
We're reducing your limit to five hundred dollars
Yeah, man,
Foundation?
An agent population drawing more social security and Medicare that's why it's about to run out Tax cuts over the last two decades that reduced government revenue and a series of costly
Emergencies, the 2008 financial crisis, COVID and COVID-19 that required massive one time borrowing that never got paid back down.
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
Three things, three big drivers, y'all.
They basically said people getting old.
It's an agent population, social security.
But that's what happens when we got a system that's that has taught society to rely on said system.
So now we, you know, they taught our grandparents, our parents that your social security is going to be safe.
And now it's
When we get back I would like to know what y'all if the government asked you that they gonna raise taxes They gonna put it on They gonna raise taxes I want to know are you down to help make sure our grandparents and parents got their Social Security don't go anywhere y'all when we get back on the award winning one on one seven the
truth
sound.
Y'all's
over here,
Bradley Center or or Pfizer.
Yes,
they're warm.
I mean, you get them at sporting.
Oh
goodness.
Man, you know what?
I'm old school.
Don't give me
You like paydays.
Wow.
Peanut butter.
Anyway, so dead.
on?
three
You
But
He got the same first and last name.
Peter G. Peterson Foundation says an aging population drawing more social security and Medicare tax cuts over the last two decades that reduce government revenue and a series of costly emergencies, a 2008 financial crisis.
And COVID-19 that required a massive one-time barring that nearly that never really got paid back.
I wonder if that's the money they they borrow to give us them stimulus checks.
a
Listen,
but I will say this a lot of white companies did it too a lot of white companies did it and falsified PPP documents and got millions of dollars in in
and money that they were sad that they were supposed to be paying employees with and didn't do it.
So that's why 40 million.
And come on now.
Y'all know by the time our community get on something, we late.
The whites have already
So who do we actually owe, Shannon?
About 80% of the debt is held by the public, meaning real outside lenders.
Them same folks that's like, we ain't giving you no more because we won't hire rates.
So you're going to have to, you know, we want better returns.
So they passed those returns down to these lenders.
Roughly 24% of the total debt.
is about 9.3 million is held by foreign governments and investors.
The rest is domestic.
American banks, mutual funds, pension funds, individual investors, and the Federal Reserve itself, which alone holds about 4.4, 4.5 trillion.
Japan.
Japan.
is the single largest foreign holder of about 1.2 trillion, followed by the United Kingdom, holds about 925 billion.
China, 650 billion.
A level that's been steadily shrinking for over a decade as China diversifies away from US debt.
They like, y'all debt ain't even good no more.
Y'all money not good no more, so we ain't even buying y'all bonds.
policy, though.
Even China's share is under 2% of the total.
Warren Buffets!
Berkshire Hathaway is actually the largest non-government holder among individuals with about three hundred and thirty nine billion in treasury bills.
I told you all America is a business.
It's a corporation.
And as citizens, we just employees.
That's how we got break it down.
And all this debt is shares that other companies are buying.
But.
What I learned in this research is, you see, you hear all of these numbers and you like, well, damn, they from the come.
We even had a, it was a rumor that I was like, America had to sell Detroit to China because we.
God.
I mean, Sherman
Racine
They would.
They would take T Grizzly and leave the rest.
Definitely take Detroit.
Yeah, Detroit, that's good land out there.
Think of all the landfills or the, you know, Detroit had a very similar housing situation where they had blocks of just abandoned houses, like big houses.
Nobody in them, just blocks and blocks and blocks and people were buying them.
People was buying them up.
A lot of the outside investors was from China.
China.
Ain't that how Trump's
And then we have DQ6Q3Y defense spending tax cuts for the rich.
Major reasons.
Corporate, wait.
Corporate subsidy for oil companies alike.
And then you have the same nope Marlon said complete control is next they will tell you how much toilet paper you can use and then D D Q 6 Q 3 Y said why do companies get subsidies when they make record-breaking profits?
We also have Todd in the comments.
He said SS has been getting robbed Yeah
And that's kind of what Todd said.
Todd said social security has been getting robbed by all the administrations to pay their pet projects for a long time and they never put put it back.
Oh, federal government has provided about six point four point six trillion to help nation the nation respond to and recover from COVID.
to
So we went through who we actually owe, right?
And I wanted to know, like, all right, under which presidency did we add the most debt?
So we pulled those numbers up, right?
The raw dollars Biden added most of any of the recent presidents, right?
8.4 trillion in roughly four years, narrowly ahead of Obama.
Eight.
Eight trillion, depending on what we measuring it at over eight years, though, for Obama.
Trump's first term, 7.8 trillion in four years.
In percentage terms, the picture flips.
Obama's debt grew about 788 percent over his two terms versus about 30 to 40 percent of each of Trump's first terms and Biden's term, meaning by percentage growth earlier and wartime.
President FDR doing World War Two.
A thousand percent.
And Reagan was 187 percent.
That's who dominates the list since a smaller starting debt makes percentage jumps larger.
So.
Whoever you want to blame.
The debt has now roughly doubled under both parties.
Watch.
Let's say let's just say that.
All right.
It ain't about a person under both parties watch.
The debt has roughly doubled over the last decade.
So this ain't no one side problem.
And.
Pretending otherwise is, you know, part of why nobody in Washington.
Has to fix it.
Or has even tried to fix it
and they're going to be like,
But I honestly do feel like it's a finger pointing game.
And then like.
Like you said it always boils down to like us paying for it in the end like Social Security was supposed to be there is a protection pretty much like okay You put into it and when you retire you get it now we hear and like that's gonna be gone by the time I retire I've been working since I was 14
do
gonna retire in
years.
Yeah.
Be like, man, you know what, y'all?
I'm gonna retire before this thing run out.
Make sure with some left, I could get.
Let me just get my little money.
But.
So we went through the presidents.
We went through what we actually owe, who we actually owe.
And what would you think, Shannon?
You want to hit this on the menu?
What on the menu you want to hit?
We got a couple more minutes.
I think the importance of life insurance and investment, because I feel like at this point, we gotta start fending for ourselves, but that retirement don't come through.
We gotta have other sources.
It's some people that depend on that.
They like, when I retire, I should get this much a month.
And it's like, it ain't looking so promising right now.
So I think we should definitely talk about investing.
All right, let's talk about let's talk about life insurance The numbers most people don't know then we'll get into some investing and this was where the real gap is We'll probably run this back because this is actually important conversation and try to squeeze in in three to four minutes, but 56% of black Americans already own some sort of life insurance.
That's actually pretty good That's actually pretty good
actually higher than the 52% of national average.
Okay, look at us.
We ain't at the bottom.
This isn't a participation
gap.
Ah, there it is.
Black Americans are four more likely to carry policies that only cover funeral slash final expenses, 66%.
Site that as their primary reason for having coverage.
So just want to make sure they could pay for the funeral and stuff versus 48% of the general population.
46% of black policy holders remain uninsured, meaning their coverage can't actually replace lost income or transfer real wealth to the next generation.
So this matters because term life insurance is a pure affordable safety net.
Income replacement if something happens to you whole slash cash value life insurance costs more but builds cash value over time and can function as a wealth transfer tool different tools for different goals and most families are only using one of them and Often only for burial costs So we're gonna have to get somebody up here that I could talk about life insurance because I started looking into life insurance more
with one of my Masonic brothers and he been walking me through the process.
And I definitely wish I'd looked into this, it's a particular life insurance that kind of turns into your own bank.
So that's the one I'm looking into right now, because obviously I just got the, when I'm out of here, y'all don't got to pay for it, insurance.
So, just wanted to get the updates on what that looks like, but.
It's so much that goes into how much the policy costs as well like your age How old you are now if you smoke, you know what
Yeah Underlying health conditions.
There you go.
Yeah, I mean I feel like it's super important a lot of us kind of don't think about it as a Way to set our families up for after we're gone
I had life insurance but I did realize like after talking to somebody I had the life insurance that like you know it it grows and like they'll get something but there's also other life insurances out there where you can put into it and then you can take from it as well and stuff like that so there's so many different life insurances out there but I do think it's important I know my mom was saying like she you know her
Father passed away and she used to always talk to him about like, you should get life insurance, blah, blah.
And he was just like, I feel like that jinxed him.
You know what I'm saying?
Jinxed myself.
I don't want to do
But
It's like.
Man, bro So and it's better to do it earlier than later I do know because you never know what life brings at you right like when you Become 30 and 40 and 50 like you starts have these health conditions Maybe you pick up different habits like when you're younger and you already have it in place.
I think it's way more cheap But you can definitely get into some cheap life insurance, but
Yeah, I think it's important.
It's an important conversation to have.
You want to protect your family and protect yourself.
Life insurance is definitely something to look into, but you also have to know what kind you get in, like you mentioned.
Listen, that's okay.
You picked the right wife then.
You got good decision-making skills at least.
exposure to
us have
Maggie Lena Walker, who was actually our today's black financial pioneer.
1903, Maggie Lena Walker founded the St.
Luke Penny Savins Bank in Richmond, Virginia, becoming the first black woman to charter and serve as president of a bank in the United States.
Man, Shannon, say goodbye to our cousins.
Man.
I'ma be in the city tomorrow, man.
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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.
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Oh my God.
Correction.
Your hair look late, though.
Thank you, man.
I'm fresh
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
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,
get to this break Too much damn
Damn.
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Cut the air
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That's our evasion.
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Ray, you got a few words for us now that you cooled down a little bit.
me
What do you mean?
got a grade you're going
He's in
I thought he was way younger.
nest.
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
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
that little key make you more nervous.
Oh, okay,
I'm like, you ain't even
this
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.
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
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
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
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
What
that went like for by the Bee
live
by the
Bee
Gees
when you're doing CPR.
That's the rhythm Yeah, that's Jean
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.
Yeah.
The BPM.
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
ears
was like, we need to teach these kids a thing or two.
before.
I
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
You
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?
up
like, I just fell
asleep.
You destroyed
you ruined my high?
Like excuse me?
Wait a minute.
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
but people ain't gonna be a crackhead like you
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
100 percent,
to drop.
And they ain't
waiting for this new Hennessy.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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,
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
poisoning if
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
On
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.
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.
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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 get involved 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.
become an issue?
Here are your hosts, Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.
It's
Thursday.
Oh my God.
Correction.
It's
Friday
Your hair look late,
I'm pumping hair late.
I'm fresh
Oh, that's right.
Not you didn't even move your shift your eyes a little bit
I
But
It was good.
I need water!
I've been a
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?
at 99%.
We literally have you on
break
the motor.
Maybe give me the battery.
did.
It's a 99% DJ Brother Z. I've
it's a lot going on.
It's my son's first day of
school.
Oh my God, I appreciate
it.
Trauma dumping on
Oh my God.
Oh
You're going through too much over there.
meta pause.
We come
Too much damn
He's
just been cutting off slowly by slowly as we The volume went out on the
TV Oh
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Ray, you got a few words for us now that you cooled down a little bit.
me
No,
What do you mean?
got a grade.
You
He's
About
nest.
You
we do
Oh, man, but yeah, man, we got a pretty interesting menu today, Shannon.
Let me see if I can get a folks a quick, quick rundown on 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 something, 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.
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All right, 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 in Mesa, Arizona on June 27th.
Laya was out when she witnessed the Wisconsin National Guard first sergeant, Clint Vervorin, can't pronounce the name, it's 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 LAD 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 Lya didn't freeze, she's a 16 year old guys and she witnessed this heart attack happen and 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 have caused most people to freeze
You could have 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 learn 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
Saving that grown man life.
I know that's right Queen Look, 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 Look What about you Ray?
What would you know what to do in those situations if somebody collapsed in front of you?
Would you know?
I
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.
Is there a nurse?
Look, I yelled for help.
Hey, hopefully somebody show up soon and just walk off.
Look.
Nah.
that
that will keep making you more nervous.
Oh, OK,
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.
Oh yeah, y'all know about that?
No.
Oh yeah, y'all gonna have to ask
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 9-1-1 because I mean, I don't know CPR.
I
didn't know what was going on So it's just like when you don't know what to do it at that point just call 9-1-1 so
You don't know CPR just figuring out, you know when is the the right moment to make that call if it's gonna be necessary because
I
know Amulans
aren't cheap So even then
it's just like
exactly that
was the other thing I had to I had to describe to the Operator what happened like in detail like yeah minute by minute and like what was still going on at the time of being on the phone with them
and
and it was a very
I guess you could say traumatizing experience.
It was just like, dang,
what's going on.
I feel like people forget to realize how even calling 911 is kind of scary in a 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?
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 door, prep doors open.
And then
worry about.
Yeah.
And then we had to worry about, you know, the content on air.
And yeah, we were like, well, we can't
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 Did
this is mine the right the right one
That's why
y'all gotta ask him about it.
Am I in the right one?
messages.
Wanted me to lie.
Wanted me to cry.
Wanted me to die.
Real life.
I, I, I, I'm standin' alive.
I'm standin' alive.
I'm standin' alive.
I'm standin' alive.
I'm standin' alive.
Another one.
Yeah.
Try me a hundred times.
Wanted me to lie.
Wanted me to cry.
Wanted me to die.
What up, y'all?
Welcome back.
Welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one, 7 of Truth.
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, Shots out to Sherwin,
man.
real
went like for by the bg
live by the bg's when you're doing cpr
that's the rhythm that's actually the rhythm i don't
know
that yeah that's gene
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.
if
makes sense.
Yeah, the BPM.
I also asked some of my Facebook friends, would your child know what to do if somebody collapsed in front of them?
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.
One person said, if you collapsed in front of a 23-year-old and under your cook, 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
Now
So I was like, we need to teach these kids a thing or two.
But
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 will 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,
I had to act fast and stuff like that.
So it was, you know, I got a little, uh, what is it called?
up
you ruined my high?
Like, excuse me?
Wait
what?
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 gonna 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
but people ain't gonna be a crackhead like you
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 It's okay, and it's
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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 insuring studios It's your boy Ray needy.
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're 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
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 leave that legal though.
Something that people drink enough of it and it just literally turns them into a different person.
Do
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 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 withdrawing from alcohol
Like it's so dangerous to just stop drinking like people get the sweats they get the shakes and all these things happen And like I said, like it's like it's such a gradual transition from like being young and crazy to being like oh I'm drunk auntie now You know I'm saying like it's like partying like a rockstar was 21 and the blink of an eye is no longer fun You're reliant
we're 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 an issue, right?
Yeah,
It's
you
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 becomes 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.
You can't operate without it.
You know what I'm saying?
I lost 20 family members to alcohol.
Alcoholism, I think more than that.
Like I said, it's one of those things where people warn you about overdosing on drugs.
They warn you about drug usage and all these.
But alcoholism isn't like a conversation on the table really.
It's about the part.
You know what I'm saying?
I lost homies that I know like We literally you know what I'm saying like It's wild even think about Because you remember partying with them you remember watching them over indulge 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.
Or
poisoning if
It's like cirrhosis of the liver It's like all these other things that start to happen.
So when you have 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
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.
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 said he lost his grandfather.
Shout out to everybody, my condolences to everybody that has lost somebody to alcoholism.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
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