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We just ended an interview with Michael Jacles Politically homeless was a really good interview.
We talked about the governor's race and what each candidate can do to get ahead
We talked about a lot of things.
Make sure you guys check us out.
We're on YouTube, so you can rewatch if you need to.
But before we left, we asked Michael Jacobs what he thought.
The no playlist.
And, um, you know, I wanted to bring that up again just because what he said was
Actually very true.
They are not the only bar to do something like that and I do that They have a lot of pressures outside pressures to play other things like people attacking Play places or demographics that actually need no problems, right?
And I thought the question that I asked at the end about fights breaking out to those songs is that's what
Is that what he's witnessing?
And he said no because a lot of like a lot of what I'm seeing on Facebook is people that do agree are like, well, that's probably because every time they play at their fighting.
So I thought it was a very important question to ask because he does play at the garage and he does play on Water Street and he does play downtown.
So that was very important to ask.
And I think after my segment about it last, nope, that wasn't last week.
I'm sorry.
That was Tuesday.
I've had a long week y'all.
You have it's been like
I've lived many lives y'all and I think I bring that up because I know people hate when I start talking about Vegas and whatever they like But it's important to have this perspective because I know a bunch of these out here and
It's interesting for it's embarrassing actually for them to hit me up and be like yo is this real They can't believe y'all doing this type of stuff like it's it's Yeah, it's actually disheartening right So for those of you that I don't know I'm gonna circle back the story we talked about earlier this week
Traveled far on Milwaukee, right?
We talked about the garage on Brady Street in that viral no play list a list telling DJs not to play along with the hip-hop artists featuring little Wayne future gorilla Travis Scott little baby Migos two chains and I know it feels like We're beating a dead horse pun intended because we don't talk about them horses.
They've been gathering up and slaughtering, but that's the difference That's for later But this list went viral
DJs were reportedly told the restrictions were effective immediately, including remixes, and not following the rules could jeopardize their gigs.
The garage later said that the list was created by an employee and wasn't approved by ownership.
Ownership said the intention was to reduce music content, for instance, to guns, violence, and create a more real atmosphere.
And they admitted that banning an entire art is wrong.
or the wrong way to go about it, right?
And like I said, people have been hitting megas, and I'm talking to friends of mine who are huge DJs out here, and they can't believe that this type of thing is real.
They're asking me, so what do people play?
They're like, most of these artists are top artists, and me and Zach talk about that.
Literally, that's what I was saying.
Like, what do you want from us?
And that's exactly what they were saying.
Like, that's why they thought a joke.
They thought, like, it's messed up because we literally, like, I think it's Milwaukee people, what I'm seeing online, right?
And I'm seeing this from the African-American community, right?
Well, they don't want y'all down there acting a fool.
They sick of y'all going to the establishment when they send that thing.
Michael literally just said that that's not what's really happening.
So that that that can be dead and then they're like we'll find a different place to go Okay fine, but it's bigger than just finding a different place to go when Michael said There are places on water street that do it.
I said that I was saying do y'all remember a time They would literally like be like don't wear this this this and it's everything that y'all know is popping in a black community at the time Whatever y'all could think of that y'all think black people wear
I said like the last time they gonna tell me like no box braids and no lace fronts and then they gonna be like well it's not races we just we don't want tumbleweaves around the property whatever but I just feel like it's so it's embarrassing to have to have this conversation about segregation and about how messed up RC is in some ways
with people that aren't from there because it's so like they look at it as like we are they look at it as like you know what y'all saying?
So I have to say it happened in Milwaukee you know and sometimes when we're born and raised somewhere where we get used to these conversations you start saying well like oh yeah you know how Milwaukee is y'all find your own place
We sick of this conversation.
Why don't y'all do something else?
Just go where y'all wanted at.
And it becomes normal because this is what we've seen our whole life, right?
And people from the other cities, and that's why living in a different place gives me a different perspective.
Knowing people from different backgrounds, knowing people that go to these places, knowing people that work at these places, it will give you a different perspective because a lot of times in our community, we agree
with the wrong side, because we also have those unconscious biases and we think automatically that we're doing something wrong sometimes.
I genuinely do believe that.
So we had a caller last week, or I'm sorry, I keep saying last week, it wasn't last week, it was the other day.
Don't blame my heart, blame my head, I'm all over the place.
We did have a caller when we were talking about it, he said he used to DJ in Chicago.
And I like that call because you could tell he was an older gentleman.
He used to play the Isley Brothers to slow it down a little bit, but he understood the point that we were making.
A good DJ knows how to change the energy without banning an entire culture, essentially.
That's the conversation because I completely understand a business saying the vibe is getting too aggressive, a little too much is going on.
We're getting some complaints, right?
And we don't want explicit songs.
I get it.
We don't want music glorifying gun violence all night.
That's okay.
But that's where the DJ really earns their money.
A DJ can read the room.
They can transition.
They know when you've been in one pocket a little too long and it's time to switch it up a little bit.
You can switch it up because most of those artists have remixes with country singers.
They got remixes with all types.
And you tell them we can't play.
These people, what are we talking about here?
So you can change the temperature without announcing black rappers are the problem.
Whether that was the intention or not, that's literally how that list looks.
And people think we're being a dead horse.
They think that we're doing too much about being loud about it, but the reason it's gone so viral.
We're used to this type of stuff in Milwaukee.
But the rest of the world is looking at us like we lost our mind.
They think we're playing.
That's how crazy that list looks to anybody else in this world.
We're so used to these conversations.
We're so used to this type of behavior.
And we're so used to just sitting down and be like, you know what, maybe we are the problem.
Maybe.
But we just heard from a DJ's there.
No, I ain't seen no fights there.
But there may be other pressures outside of that.
I remember somebody telling me,
A few years ago, I don't know if this is still true that Water Street, the only bar to have Hennessy was truth.
You can't get the Henny.
They're doing whatever they can to deter or what they think will deter African-American people from pledges.
And it ain't always us fighting.
It ain't always.
We talked about that earlier in the week.
But we are made to believe we the problem and if we such the problem Why is it so many of us agree that we don't want to be in environments where people throwing hands and feet all the time?
Don't sound like we the problem if most of us free that we don't want to get knocked over our head with a bottle I'm just saying so I Just don't understand why that was the solution
If the problem is violin lyrics, they can make a content policy.
And we've talked about that.
But when we get back, we're going to get deeper into this, all right?
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Yes again
about the no playlists, no Milwaukee rap, the list that included rappers, some of our top rappers at this time.
Okay, we'll get back into that.
Because like I said, we just had Michael Jacobs on the show and we talked about the governor's race.
His ad is politically homeless.
And he definitely talked to us about this as well, because he also DJs.
And he's DJed at the garage.
And he said that he has not experienced fights while playing hip hop artists.
And that's important, because like I said, most people on my Instagram and Facebook, they're saying things like, well, they don't want people fighting at their establishment.
Anytime you play, we had to call it.
a few days ago.
Say, especially Big Frank.
All I know is Big Frank.
Make dance and move it.
Music.
He gets the kids moving.
We start blaming Big Frank.
And like I said, I do feel like a lot of times we are very quick to side with people that are blaming us or trying to make us the problem we're not the problem.
I just was talking about how Milwaukee people get so used to these conversations.
It's not taboo for us, but me living in Vegas really shines a light on how odd this behavior is.
I talked about how the caller called in a few days ago and he said he used to DJ in Chicago and he just changed it up a little bit.
And you can control a room as a DJ without saying no Milwaukee rap music, without banning some of the top rappers of our time.
The artists, not the records, right?
Because we constantly ask, why doesn't Milwaukee music make the scene, the music scene, and get all this recognition at Lana Giz, and this is why we can't break.
We're too divided.
Why do talented people feel like they have to leave to blow up?
And then we're seeing right now how hard it is to reach across the island Milwaukee as an artist.
We can't complain that outsiders don't support Milwaukee artists when establishments in Milwaukee won't even support them.
That's backwards.
And I do want to be fair, they said,
Even though it said the list is coming from ownership, ownership said, not I. Believe what y'all want.
But also wanted to admit something, y'all.
The Rave and the Pap's Theater, they got petty.
I saw that.
Yeah, you saw what they posted.
I feel
Also the PAPS theater group posted something too.
They were like, oh, here's some of
favorite Milwaukee acts that we've had on our stages.
So they got in on
as well.
But like Michael said it might not even because the garage held out and I mentioned it in the last episode where we talked about this a lot of times Downtown Water Street, it might not be the owners putting the pressure on them.
Just like what happened with the food truck situation It could be the powers that be
It's like I said a lot of those bars and water street I don't know if it's still a thing But when I was living there the only one to serve any was the only black on one and they barely wanted them to be there You know what I'm saying?
Think about that a lot of those clubs They would have really odd rules very specific to black people Can't get in here Don't wear this don't do that Just saying
But yeah, I think the bigger, bigger conversation here is, what makes a DJ?
Wait, I'm sorry.
Crowd control without making the crowd feel control isn't art, right?
And I got a question.
What point does a business setting the vibe across the line into discriminating against the culture or the people associated with that music?
A332121017.
Milwaukee talk to me.
I know the other day you guys had a lot to say a few people agreed with the rules and the policy but now that you guys hear that It was actually Not us fighting in there.
That was the problem Because I was thinking okay.
Well, maybe there was an uptick of violence happening with why those songs were playing but it's been confirmed.
No That ain't it That ain't it
I mean, you heard Michael, he said he was playing every time we touch when a fight broke out at the heart.
And like we said the other day, New York was playing Halo by Beyonce in the club once and a fight broke out.
Like, I don't
Those songs might, it might be easy to take those wrong when they said every time we touch, they probably thought start throwing hands and Halo, they probably was like, you know what, we gonna sing you up there.
That's probably what happened.
I don't know.
But I'll let y'all, I'll let y'all eat y'all lunch because I also wanted to get into something else that happened in Milwaukee.
I think that was this was a day or two ago.
A kid got into a zoo exhibit or enclosure, I should say.
Right.
How did he get inside the zoo enclosure?
There's a video circulating of a 13-year-old boy inside of the African Savannah exhibit at the Milwaukee County Zoo He's running around near southern ground hornbills holding a stick and chasing the birds All right, I want to be careful here because online they said he was beating the birds and all this and that because that also has gone viral Milwaukee been really going viral lately or We all over the place
Y'all got me doing a lot of explaining out here.
They like this really happened.
I'm like You know I can only be a representative so much Okay They said he was beating the birds but the reports confirmed that he was chasing them with a stick Thankfully no animals and no people were injured the entire incident reportedly lasted only a few minutes
But there are two or three minutes inside of an animal habitat, right?
And that can become dangerous really really quickly inside of an animal habitat and then you got some animals too that They like if you scare them they will die so that's super Like yeah, he probably wasn't beating them, but he was chasing them.
He was causing them distress He was stressing them birds out
They was running for their lives Okay, and that could become dangerous for him as well What if them birds would have turned around and attacked them now they want to put good We've seen how that goes.
They want to put the bird down.
Well, they we got to put them down
R.P.
Haran,
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These
they
But then we learn about a much bigger story, right?
The family spoke out and the boy's father said that his son is severely autistic He has ADHD and epilepsy.
I got ADHD my sister got epilepsy I don't think they got nothing to do with why he wasn't you know Well, let's keep this going his father says animals are one of his son's biggest interests in that Come on man
With a stick what he interested, you know what let me just keep going and the Milwaukee County Zoo may actually be his favorite place The family reportedly has annual passes and they visit many times and this is they've gone there many times without any of these things happening That day he was with his grandmother and a caregiver while his parents were working according to his father.
Everything had been just fine
Until near the end of that visit when his son suddenly broke away and his grandmother his grandmother kidding We're playing the video right now and you can actually hear the grandmother.
I think saying oh, he's autistic Let him run he'll run himself out They ended up getting them with help of the zoo visitors and security Again nobody was injured but um
I guess this is crazy.
I'm sorry.
I'm re-looking at the video too.
And it's actually wild.
Like it's two minutes.
They try to make it seem like two minutes is like not a lot of time.
But do you know how long two or three minutes actually is?
I
mean, our commercial breaks are three minutes.
and then I blame them I don't blame
I I put the blame on them for for taking their eyes off an autistic kid
that loves animals and loves birds and loves the zoo so much and is at the height where he can jump off and
away like
this is
crazy.
wasn't the baby that got in the Harambe enclosure even smaller than this kid.
So
I just don't under I mean, I mean, whatever.
Just put
Don't they don't they still have like leashes for at the zoo?
Like or was that just me?
Was I the only kid
put on a leash like a leash backpack?
You are not the only
So
especially
Imagine if they wasn't a bird history of me loping He's a teenager.
So I believe that history may have developed far before this incident it had to Okay
And I will say, yes, autism is a spectrum.
So, you know, different impulse controls, different level of independence or ability to understand danger, all that, right?
But like I said, when you know you have a child that has special needs, you have a very special job now.
Okay.
And honestly, like, I don't understand how he got into like, how did he get in there?
Like, it takes a little time to get over there.
Y'all know that, right?
So, three minutes inside the cage.
How long did it take him to climb it?
I know he ain't got Jordan hops.
His legs don't look that strong.
He didn't just clear the fence.
Come on, man.
And if he dropped,
far drop.
far drop, bro.
Yeah, look how high up that is.
Climbing over and then jumping down from
cement.
there's a tree right there probably picked it from under the tree
insane and like I said I do think it's a adult's responsibility for him to have been safe and they should have watched him far more closely I do understand that he's autistic I do and I understand his love of love of animals
But like we just said, has he attempted this before?
Has he run away before?
Has he shown these behaviors that he'll get fixated on the animal and go after him?
I'm pretty sure if he's in there chasing him with a stick, and he has this love for animals, this is crazy.
And there should be special accommodations for kids that are eloping.
I don't know.
I think a lot of people are too embarrassed to like put their kid on a backpack, put their kid on a leash, put their kid in a stroller.
I'll do it.
If it means my child's safety, I don't care how y'all looking at me.
I'm gonna put my baby in a stroller, a leash, a headlock.
I don't care.
You coming with me boo?
Come on now.
So, where do you draw the line between giving a child independence and taking additional safety precautions?
Would y'all use a stroller or a harness or a wrist tether for y'all kids?
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But right now, you got me and Brother Z. All right?
And we got a caller on the line.
We've been talking about the garage and no playlist.
We've been talking about the baby jumping in the zoo exhibit.
And we've got East Side Corey on the line.
What are you
doing?
I need a little clarification.
I was a little confused.
You know, I don't pay attention to real mainstream stories, but this is a hot one with Brady Street.
There used to be a bar called Why Not Two.
They used to be really diverse and play a lot of jazz, rock and roll, and some very famous artists that used to do sets there.
I don't think it exists anymore.
And Hi Hat has always seemed to have this identity problem as to when to play the dance music because it's a restaurant, right?
So, the kind of rap music that I'm thinking of that's for a big crowd like that would be the female, like McCarty B, fun, you know, always a fun vibe, or Megan Thee Stallion or Missy Elliott, where everybody's got those lyrics and they get into it.
It's fun, it's real positive.
Is there a particular artist that people are having a problem with or is it just, are they letting the DJ be the lead, you know, show the leadership?
because there's so many diverse hip-hop artists outside.
I'm into Japanese female artists right now who are doing great dance hip-hop stuff.
It's fantastic.
You know, their vibe is cool, but I'm confused about that.
And then with the artistic boy, you know, they got some of our artistic children, got that artistic strength, and they also got that one thing they can do really well.
This kid, they can focus in and figure out how to
Break into things or you could channel that energy into something positive.
No doubt.
Um, but if he's too big for grandma, it's time to get him a harness.
Yeah.
Who got who went and got him out of there with the situation?
Do they show that part?
So I guess they said grandma security and more staff ended up jumping or three minutes, but if I'm not mistaken in that video, you can actually hear the grandma like, Oh, he's autistic and not moving with haste.
So I think a lot of people were like, just exactly.
And that's what people took away from that.
They were like, is she just saying this like as an excuse instead of getting in there and taking care of business?
Like you said, if he's too big for grandma, it's time to get a harness or make sure he's with the proper people that can handle them.
You should have a petting zoo there.
He needs to know that these are living creatures and be gentle.
He needs somebody to teach him to be gentle
all animals to be gentle and let them come to you.
It's a teachable moment, but sure, you know, he's concentrated energy child.
You better watch out with that strength Artistic children
Thank you, thank you so much for giving us the call it's always good to talk to our cousins And he he did ask a question he asked if it was a specific artist and yes the list the reason people felt upset because it wasn't
them saying don't play music with guns and violence and fighting lyrics it was just specific artists and that's where it comes in like are you just trying to basically like block out our music specifically they have Lil Wayne on the list they have Future they had I don't have the list in front of me brother Z do you have the list by any chance
uh yeah uh sexy red
Kodak Black, 42 Dug, Chief Keef, King Vong, NBA Young Boy, Lil Dirk, G Herbo, ESTG, Future, Young Dug, 21 Savage, City Girls, Tyga, Glorilla, Lotto, Lil Baby, Gunna, Playboy, Cardi, Migos, Offset, Quavo, 2 Chainz, Gucci, Main, Rick Ross, Lil Uzi, Lil Wayne, Money Bag, Yo, Keekalock, Young Dolph, and All in Bold, and Caps, No Milwaukee Music.
or normal Milwaukee rap.
Like it wasn't specific songs.
They didn't specifically say don't play this type.
They just named these artists without actually like I feel like without reason, honestly.
And now that we've talked to somebody that's DJ there that does DJ there and we know that
those songs or those artists specifically aren't causing the fights it just makes you feel like there's a bigger issue downtown on Brady on third that they just don't want us there and there probably is pressures from outside powers that be right that are like man we we got to figure something out and then they just like we said before go after the low hanging fruit
To act like they're doing something to stop what's going on But a lot of times when people are getting in trouble at these bars on water on Brady, it's not really even the people inside It's the people hanging outside.
It's the kids with nothing to do Right so That that's the conversation we were having
And like I said, before we went on break, we were just talking about, you know, how that kid got into the enclosure at the zoo, and how grandma couldn't really handle him, you know?
And I've got two stories involving animals, speaking of animals, right?
Nearly 30,000 pounds of beef have been recalled.
We don't talk about that.
All right, and you know America's wild horses are being rounded up from public lands and Some concerns about where they're ending up have been popping up Right so Approximately approximately 29,628 pounds of raw beef imported from Argentina
has been recalled.
Why you ask?
Well, federal officials discovered that the beef entered the U.S.
without undergoing the required USDA important reinspection.
And when you hear beef recall, you automatically think like E. coli, Salmonella, you know, maybe some type of contamination.
But that's not what the officials say happened here The problem is that the meat entered the commerce without going through a required inspection Checkpoint and honestly that bothers me to y'all Because the inspections exist for a reason the recall products included cuts like top sir long top sir loin.
I love me some top sir long Eye round top side flat and knuckle every god eating beef knuckles anyways
the products have september 2026 used by or freeze by dates and were distributed in florida and texas so if you got cousins out there you might want to call them and say check your beef okay you better check it the good news is that the latest reporting they have been there have been no confirmed illnesses connected to this recall but how does 30
thousand pounds of beef get through before somebody realizes that the required reinspection did not happen, y'all.
That's not steak.
Somebody forgot to scan.
That's thousands and thousands of pounds of meat.
And I want to explain this why it matters because I know a lot of people will say, well, nobody got sick, so it's all right.
But it's a big deal.
Nobody got sick yet.
And the big deal is that inspections are part of the system by design to catch problems before the food reaches our families.
When meat enters the US, inspectors are supposed to verify that the meat meets, look, meat meets, you know, US requirements.
And that means, did it actually come from an approved facility?
Does the paperwork match what's inside the shipment?
Was it handled correctly?
Was it stored correctly?
Is the labeling accurate?
Were the food safety requirements followed?
And depending on the shipment, additional physical examination or testing may have to happen.
And because almost 30,000 pounds of meat got distributed,
How y'all gonna trace that through stores, distributed restaurants, people's fridges and freezers?
So even without those confirmed illnesses, missing an inspection means one of those safeguards in our food system did not happen, and that's scary, y'all.
I don't know about y'all, but I'm worried, especially when we talk about them rounding up wild horses now.
That's two separate stories that's happening at the same time.
Almost 30,000 pounds of meat got passed a checkpoint that is needed to make sure we eatin' safe food.
Man.
So, now on to the wild horses.
Because when we think about American wild mustangs, we think about freedom in the West open land, right?
They sold it to us like that, right?
The beautiful image of like a horse galloping through the wild, right?
We don't talk about this.
We don't talk about why some people are upset that they're rounding them up now.
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Only on the truth in the morning with Homer blow and Bailey Coleman Powered by we energies delivering the energy that powers local business Man We had our dear friend Michael Jacobs on politically homeless He talked to us about the governor's rights.
He also got into what's going on with the list
From the garage that's been going viral that has reached Many many states that everybody is talking about we've got celebrities sharing that list We've got people that I know from out of town asking if it's real what's going on in Milwaukee And then we got into our food recalls once again They got 30,000 pounds of beef being recalled because it wasn't inspected when it got to the US They just sent it out for us to nibble on Then we start talking about them rounding up horses
that they hyped up to just be the wild horses, the mustangs that, you know, we watched Billy Dallin in the wild.
They're rounding them up now.
I guess we might be nibbling on their ankles.
That's probably what they sent to us.
Who knows?
We don't talk about that though.
Let's kick it to the chat.
We got Jasmine Jazz West, my jam.
Hey now, you're a rock star.
Brothers, he played that coming back from a break.
We got politically homeless.
Allegedly, the kid is super autistic.
Yep.
That was confirmed, I believe, by the father.
DVJ73, I'm hoping the pets are safe.
Where he lives, do they have any?
Jasmine Jazz West said, why not?
Bar is open on them.
Bjorn, we had a caller that asked if that bar is still open.
Jasmine Jazz West said, even autistic kids are strong, so I know he's strong.
They do be strong.
I'll be arm wrestling my autistic nephew.
That's my boy.
Yeah, one commenter said, they probably think if rap music goes away, black people will too.
They basically don't want us around.
And we talked about that.
That's what we talked about.
I'm just saying.
They call it, look, Jazz and Jazz West said, how is that song to ghetto?
That's my jam.
Like I said, anything that's us automatically ghetto.
Babar said welcome back.
Hey, what are you doing in Nevada?
You didn't even stop by the block to say hi Politically homeless also said thanks for having me.
It's always a pleasure But let's get back into these horsies.
They just he don't
screaming that you was ready for me to even say that that's actually funny very telling of me so on to the wild
horses.
So the Bureau of Land Management routinely rounds of wild horses from public lands.
The agency says that the populations have to be managed because certain areas can sustainably support all of the animals living there.
And these roundups can involve hundreds and hundreds, sometimes thousands,
of these horses but the controversy is what can happen after some of these animals leave federal custody so they get rounded up by the feds when there's too many of them.
They said certain horses can eventually be sold through a federal sales process.
Once they are legally transferred out the protections that they had federally
as wild horses can disappear.
So while they're here, they are protected, right?
And many advocates are saying that's where the systems become vulnerable.
Investigations have raised concerns that the horses leaving the federal program can eventually end up in the commercial slaughter pipeline.
Now, let's be clear.
There are currently no commercial horse slaughterhouses operating in the US.
I think that's because they're federally protected.
But what they will do is transport those American horses across the border for slaughter in places like Canada and Mexico.
So essentially we round them up here.
We're gonna sell them here.
Then they lose their protections once we sell them.
Like, oh, they're not here anymore.
Oh, not protected anymore.
And what they end up doing is crossing the border and then come back slaughtered.
So to me, that feels like they're doing back door dealings, man.
Yeah.
So that's that's what I can't get past, dude.
Like so.
We spend generations turning the Mustang into this symbol of American Western history and these movies and these commercials and then we protect them and then we sell them.
That's what's been happening y'all.
There has to be a better way.
I heard somewhere that they said they're being sold as low as $25.
That's probably what we chewing on.
That's probably exactly what came that 30,000 to say wasn't wasn't the rumor
that Taco Bell uses horse meat
Okay, and they're and they want to oh, well we don't have a slaughterhouse here exactly They wouldn't we all got slaughterhouses here Yeah, but y'all gonna sell them somewhere else and then they can they lose their protections and then they can come back as meals for us
And I just don't see how we're we're we're sitting here and not questioning like there's so many recalls right now like Like what do we eat?
What y'all eating?
I want to know that in the chat.
I Ain't a salad in weeks.
I like to blame the recalls for that.
I ain't ate fruit or salads.
I like to
taking away our fruit seeds
The farmers can't even grow their own fruit.
They got to buy the seeds from the government It's getting crazy out here
Have we become too comfortable assuming safeguards are working simply because the rules exist?
Because I would never thought that they'd be rounding these horses up selling them To slaughter just because it's not being done in America.
Don't mean it ain't being done And as we see it's being done And it's so disheartening to hear that
I don't mean to sound like one of them people protect animals, but goodness.
And also, what is we eating?
They might be like you said Taco Bell meat might be horse ankles But
That's all these countries like most of our stuff is banned
And I think we're just now starting to really, like, get hip to, like, our food is not that safe.
And we really have to start growing our own stuff, sourcing our own things.
We really have to, as Americans, get used to fending for ourselves.
It's really starting to feel that way.
But we are coming to an end, y'all.
Another episode of the lunch break with just me, maybe Shannon and Brother Z holding it down on the production and sound.
It's been a good one.
Special thank you to Politically Homeless again.
Shout out to the garage for giving us so much content.
Man.
And to parents with special need children, please, please keep them baby safe because that incident could have ended up so much worse.
Thankfully they got him and he's safe.
And please y'all,
Watch what y'all eating.
I don't know it.
I don't got no answers questions or comments about that.
Just good luck You're listening to the lunch break with maybe Shannon Ray.
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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.
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an issue?
Here are your hosts, Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.
It's me Maybe Shannon and you are listening to the lunch break with Ray nitty and maybe Shannon on 101.7 the truth We got brother Z holding us down on production and sound I'm not live from the studio, but but brother Z live from the studio And we got a very special guest today live from the studio the American family
and now he's gonna be on
And cousins I hope you came home today because I don't our plate today's menu is a little while so we're gonna talk about the horses being rounded up from public lands and concerns about where those horses eventually Go or come back We have a beef recall about 30,000 pounds of beef got pulled because it didn't go through the proper re-inspection
We want to talk a little bit about encounters and birds had at the Milwaukee public zoo.
And we also want to talk about no playlists.
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Hello
I can't hear you Shannon.
Oh now I can hear you.
Yeah I was like I don't know if she's doing a whole intro.
Yeah of course sorry I'm zooming in I um
I hit the hop tracks on a Lyme scooter and I broke my collarbone on Monday.
No!
Dude, they took me out, bro.
What?
hop track and the
Right outside of the crib, dude.
Outside of the crib, I caught the front wheel and it just took me out.
Right in front of MPD, mind you.
And they didn't even stop.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure they just did.
Dude, I busted.
oh, dude, they were all like, yeah, they were all like, yeah, get off this.
Yeah, hi, my name is Michael.
Hi, I'm Milwaukee born and raised.
I'm 28 years old.
I
do a lot of things.
I am a DJ.
I'm very involved in the community.
I'm also super interested in politics.
I went to school for it.
And then recently with a career change, I do not have a social media embargo anymore.
So I took the opportunity to kind of
be the change that I wanted to see in the community.
And so I focus mainly on local issues in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, generally speaking, just because those are a lot of things that are not necessarily represented or like a lot of people talk about them.
But maybe those issues and those viewpoints on those issues aren't necessarily put in channels that make their way to the powers that be to actually affect change.
Food trucks being a prime example.
I also cover some national stuff but I've really kind of found my footing in like Milwaukee, Wisconsin locally just because of the connections and stuff that I have here.
It's a lot easier to affect positive change on a local level and it's something that you can actually see directly, which is awesome.
Because you can talk about things going on in Washington or whatever.
But at the end of the day, we all live in this city.
We all have to deal with this community, whether we like it or not.
And so I think it's all of our responsibility to do our best to make sure that we're all contributing in the way that we think is important.
I think the current political climate in Wisconsin is very reflective of the current political climate nationally, which is to say a complete disaster.
I mean, just look at the name of my profile.
I don't think I'm the only person that would consider themselves
politically homeless or independent per se.
It seems like a lot of that seems like a lot of people are aligned on issues and regardless of like who's running whether it's in like our state or Maine or Kansas or Kentucky or anything like that for whatever reason a lot of the candidates don't seem to be super representative of like where the general public agrees and I think that
outside of like dumb culture war, like very specific scenario arguments.
I think that most Americans are probably politically aligned more than they have been in the past 20 years currently.
It's just because of the echo chambers and like the news organizations, they don't make money if everybody agrees on things.
So it is very much up in the air.
There's a lot of identity shifting and there's a lot of
kind of case studies going out like, Oh, uh, what's not going to work?
What's popular?
What's not of the old status clothes to go by for a very long time.
Um, and so I think that a lot people are kind of trying to
In my personal opinion, as it stands right now, I don't know if there's an overwhelming like enthusiastic majority for either David Crowley or Tom Tiffany.
And those are for very specific reasons.
I think that most people in Wisconsin are united against data centers.
I think that that's a losing issue nationally and that's actually shown.
Free ball for any political candidate if they happen to be listening to this if you want to get elected and it's a close election I would not support data centers.
I think that that's pretty easy Pretty easy winning issue.
That's like it's like being against banning the food jokes You know what?
I mean you have an over 80% approval rating on stuff like that I think people are tired of all of our money getting funneled to issues outside of our state and outside of our country I think that there's a lot of
like whether it's infrastructure, look at all the construction stuff going on in Milwaukee and the surrounding state that never seems to be getting worked on.
That affects both Republicans and Democrats and independents equally when their commute now takes 35 minutes to get to work instead of 20 minutes to get to work and there doesn't seem to be a lot of things going on for there.
The economy is in the dumps right now.
The stock market might not be in the dumps, but the job market is.
Inflation is in the dumps.
There's a couple reasons for that.
So I think just kind of getting back to basics and really focusing on like what the individual voter is seeing on a day-to-day basis.
I don't really think that there's a lot of appetite in Wisconsin or the nation at large for things happening outside of our current state and our current environment when the conditions that we're in right now are so like fragile and dire.
And I think a lot of people, whether they voice it or not, are really kind of feeling on edge and very uncertain about our future.
And having people talk about anything but Wisconsin, I don't think is the best way forward.
Um, David Crowley came out swinging.
I will say that I didn't necessarily underestimate that just because of the types of people polling's been unreliable for a while now because the types of people who are willing to answer polls are like people like me who are who are unusually very um politically involved and interested um I think that a lot of people saw what was going on
some of like the old tweets and some of the old culture stuff about Francesca Hong and maybe have like electability concerns.
Now, regardless of whether those are true or not, I'm not the best person to kind of comment on that.
But I know a lot of the she seemed to have a lot of ideas.
But unlike a lot of big change candidates like Mamdami or Elsa Eid, she didn't seem to have a huge track record of being able to
actually translate those ideas into policy goals, especially in a state like Wisconsin, where you do have such a Republican stronghold in the state legislature.
And so I think a lot of people were worried, and this is just my opinion, I think a lot of people worried that even if she did get elected, even if they did support her ideas.
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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 me Maybe Shannon and you are listening to the lunch break with Ray nitty and maybe Shannon on 101.7 the truth We got brother Z holding us down on production and sound I'm not live from the studio, but but brother Z live from the studio And we got a very special guest today live from the studio the American family
and now
And cousins I hope you came home today because I don't our plate today's menu is a little while so we're gonna talk about the horses being rounded up from public lands and concerns about where those horses eventually Go or come back We have a beef recall about 30,000 pounds of beef got pulled because it didn't go through the proper re-inspection
We want to talk a little bit about encounters and birds had at the Milwaukee public zoo.
And we also want to talk about no playlists.
But before then, we are going to get into a Michael Jacobs politically homeless.
If you guys want to call or text our number.
It's a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 remember this is your table too.
So we want to hear from you make sure you look what's happening live inside of the studio Head over to YouTube 101.7 the truth and jump on that live chat with the rest of our cousins We're here from 12 to 2 so grab your lunch get comfortable because we are serving up news conversation opinions Man, let's get it
Hello
I can't hear you Shannon.
Oh now I can hear you.
Yeah I was like I don't know if she's doing a whole intro.
Yeah of course sorry I'm zooming in I um
I hit the hop tracks on a Lyme scooter and I broke my collarbone on Monday.
No!
Dude, they took me out, bro.
What?
of the crib, dude.
Outside of the crib, I caught the front wheel and it just took me out.
Right in front of MPD,
you.
And they didn't even stop.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure
just did.
Dude, I busted.
all like, yeah, they were all like, yeah, get off this.
Yeah, hi, my name is Michael.
Hi, I'm Milwaukee born and raised.
I'm 28 years old.
I
do a lot of things.
I am a DJ.
I'm very involved in the community.
I'm also super interested in politics.
I went to school for it.
And then recently with a career change, I do not have a social media embargo anymore.
So I took the opportunity to kind of
be the change that I wanted to see in the community.
And so I focus mainly on local issues in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, generally speaking, just because those are a lot of things that are not necessarily represented or like a lot of people talk about them.
But maybe those issues and those viewpoints on those issues aren't necessarily put in channels that make their way to the powers that be to actually affect change.
Food trucks being a prime example.
I also cover some national stuff but I've really kind of found my footing in like Milwaukee, Wisconsin locally just because of the connections and stuff that I have here.
It's a lot easier to affect positive change on a local level and it's something that you can actually see directly, which is awesome.
Because you can talk about things going on in Washington or whatever.
But at the end of the day, we all live in this city.
We all have to deal with this community, whether we like it or not.
And so I think it's all of our responsibility to do our best to make sure that we're all contributing in the way that we think is important.
I think the current political climate in Wisconsin is very reflective of the current political climate nationally, which is to say a complete disaster.
I mean, just look at the name of my profile.
I don't think I'm the only person that would consider themselves
politically homeless or independent per se.
It seems like a lot of that seems
like a
lot of people are aligned on issues and regardless of like who's running whether it's in like our state or Maine or Kansas or Kentucky or anything like that for whatever reason a lot of the candidates don't seem to be super representative of like where the general public agrees and I think that
outside of like dumb culture war, like very specific scenario arguments.
I think that most Americans are probably politically aligned more than they have been in the past 20 years currently.
It's just because of the echo chambers and like the news organizations, they don't make money if everybody agrees on things.
So it is very much up in the air.
There's a lot of identity shifting and there's a lot of
kind of case studies going out like, oh, uh, what's not going to work?
What's popular?
What's not of the old status clothes to go by for a very long time.
Um, and so I think that a lot people are kind of trying to
In my personal opinion, as it stands right now, I don't know if there's an overwhelming like enthusiastic majority for either David Crowley or Tom Tiffany.
And those are for very specific reasons.
I think that most people in Wisconsin are united against data centers.
I think that that's a losing issue nationally
and
that's actually shown.
Free ball for any political candidate if they happen to be listening to this if you want to get elected and it's a close election I would not support data centers.
I think that that's pretty easy Pretty easy winning issue.
That's like it's like being against banning the food jokes You know what?
I mean you have an over 80% approval rating on stuff like that I think people are tired of all of our money getting funneled to issues outside of our state and outside of our country I think that there's a lot of
like whether it's infrastructure, look at all the construction stuff going on in Milwaukee and the surrounding state that never seems to be getting worked on.
That affects both Republicans and Democrats and independents equally when their commute now takes 35 minutes to get to work instead of 20 minutes to get to work and there doesn't seem to be a lot of things going on for there.
The economy is in the dumps right now.
The stock market might not be in the dumps, but the job market is.
Inflation is in the dumps.
There's a couple reasons for that.
So I think just kind of getting back to basics and really focusing on like what the individual voter is seeing on a day-to-day basis.
I don't really think that there's a lot of appetite in Wisconsin or the nation at large for things happening outside of our current state and our current environment when the conditions that we're in right now are so like fragile and dire.
And I think a lot of people, whether they voice it or not, are really kind of feeling on edge and very uncertain about our future.
And having people talk about anything but Wisconsin, I don't think is the best way forward.
Um, David Crowley came out swinging.
I will say that I didn't necessarily underestimate that just because of the types of people polling's been unreliable for a while now because the types of people who are willing to answer polls are like people like me who are who are unusually very um politically involved and interested um I think that a lot of people saw what was going on
some of like the old tweets and some of the old culture stuff about Francesca Hong and maybe have like electability concerns.
Now, regardless of whether those are true or not, I'm not the best person to kind of comment on that.
But I know a lot of the she seemed to have a lot of ideas.
But unlike a lot of big change candidates like Mamdami or Elsa Eid, she didn't seem to have a huge track record of being able to
actually translate those ideas into policy goals, especially in a state like Wisconsin, where you do have such a Republican stronghold in the state legislature.
And so I think a lot of people were worried.
And this is just my opinion.
I think a lot of people worried that even if she did get elected, even if they did support her ideas, she wouldn't necessarily be able to actually translate those into actual legislation and change.
And then she'd kind of become a de facto.
lame duck candidate.
And so I think a lot of people that might have wanted to have voted for Hong ended up voting for Crowley just because they felt like that was a more safe option in the general election.
Okay, so, so when we get back, I do want to ask you a few things like what worked and what didn't work for David.
Then I want to ask like why you think what your take was on the Sarah Rodriguez campaign and things like that.
But that's when we get back from break.
Anywhere we have Michael Jacles here politically homeless and we're gonna get back into it right after these messages Seven the truth
This is the lunch break with Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.
We got Brother Xi on production and right now we are doing an interview with politically homeless Michael Jacobs.
We're talking about the 2026 Wisconsin governor's race.
We're doing a little recap and some political analytics.
And before we went on break, we just kind of got into it and we were talking about the results and what surprised us about the results.
We also introduced Michael Jacobs, who he is in the community and
The next question I was getting into right before break, I wanted to know what he thought worked and didn't work for David Crawley.
Yeah, so honestly, I think it was more of, he was probably the least controversial candidate on either side.
that was polling in double digits, maybe outside of Barnes before he dropped out.
One thing that I did on my, I did individual candidate policy breakdowns.
I need to candidate and I tried to do a good job of like, hey, this is what they're running on.
This is their record.
Here's some potential controversies.
I think I did a pretty good job because every video that I did, I had Republicans calling me a commie.
I had Democrats calling me a fascist.
every single video I did, you're like, you're obviously voting for this person.
You're glazing them.
And I'm like, okay, okay, or they, or you hate this person.
Why didn't you mention this?
And so, I mean, there's a lot of, there was a lot of people in the race with a lot of, I guess, that kind of controversial pasts.
And I think David Crowley, just especially after Sarah Rodriguez dropped out because of her like campaign finance mismanaging.
the Democratic establishment wanted to rally around a more traditional candidate.
Again, whether that's the right response or not, we will see in November.
And I think that he was honestly just kind of a default choice for a lot of people.
I don't think that necessarily, like there were definitely some people like Ray, for example, who were super enthusiastic to vote for Crowley.
A lot of people that I know that voted for him, they didn't like Hong.
And they weren't going to vote for Tiffany.
And so they were either not going to vote or they were going to vote for Crowley.
That's what my experience was at least.
Like, I mean, he has a pretty decent track record of Milwaukee County executive, especially with how hard things are to get here.
He doesn't have a lot of controversies.
He's pretty safe.
And so I think that, again, with all the uncertainty and everything going forward, I think kind of the safe option was something that people were just comfortable with.
So if you're going to be running for governor of a state, especially when there's a lot of money issues in the United States,
you need to be very, very careful to make sure that you have your own money managed.
That's something that Sarah Rodriguez had a huge issue with, with her campaign.
I believe she got a misrepresented a couple hundred thousand dollars of accounting issues.
I mean, even Francesca Hong, she got a huge like dart having the $30,000 in credit card debt that she couldn't pay.
And like that, that gives your opponents real opportunities to be like, Hey dude, if you can't even manage like $30,000 in debt, how are you going to manage like a
multi-billion dollar deficit or surplus.
I think Sarah Rodriguez, I don't think she, regardless of her politics, I don't think that she surrounded herself with the right team.
And I think that even though she might have had a good campaign early on, but this is kind of a testimony that like, especially in politics, if you don't have the right support structure around you, you can have the best ideas in the world and you can run a good campaign.
But if you're not crossing your T's and dotting your I's, it almost doesn't matter.
So I think it was more of an organizational failure on her standpoint than anything else because I mean, it got to a point where it was just the amount of money that was mismanaged was too insurmountable that I think that the majority of the electorate just kind of lost overall faith because they're looking at this and they're like, dude, you're not even in the, you haven't even won the primary yet and you already have this huge issue going on.
It doesn't instill a lot of confidence.
Okay, so Tom Tiffany is a mega candidate.
He's endorsed by Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is currently polling double digits negatives in 47 of the 50 states and the three states that he's not are Wyoming, Idaho, and West Virginia, which are also some of the least popular states.
on there.
I know I think everybody can kind of look around and look at what his campaign promises were and we can see how many of those came true.
I'm pretty sure it's none or maybe one.
So I think anything mega currently right now kind of has a cancer attached to it.
Another big hurdle for him is the vast majority of young people are disfavorable of the Israel lobby and in Congress he took over $51,000 from APEC.
He also voted against the Epstein files, Transparency Act.
And I think both of those things, I mean, the Epstein files, I would hope people would care about.
But the APAC issue,
of people don't even necessarily, you would think, but apparently not.
The APAC thing is a lot of people don't even necessarily think super positively or negatively about Israel in general.
It's, they're just,
very obviously influencing our government in a way that I don't think is beneficial for the United States.
And I think that's more of a litmus test than being like, Oh, well, is your this, is your that?
I think it's more of a litmus test to being like, okay, well, if you get elected, who are you actually going to represent?
Are you going to represent these special interests that don't necessarily like have, they'll not mission aligned with what the United States wants.
Um, and I don't know any young people, me included, like I can't vote for somebody that takes a back money.
and most of the people in my age group are the same thing, just because we've seen what happens with that.
And so, for David Crowley, again, that's kind of the other thing.
Now, his data center answer, when he said what separates me and Francesca Hong and the primary thing he said was data centers, I don't know what he was thinking, saying that, to be completely honest, like, you're just giving a bunch of ammunition.
Regardless of it, even if you think you have a common sense implementation of that, like,
That's like saying yeah, dude.
I'm pro-flat camera You know what I mean like no nobody's gonna agree with that.
I don't think that that's a winning
good
now.
And so I mean it's just the difference between the two right now.
I mean it kind of seems like
I'm going to wait for Crowley's campaign to develop a bit more, but it seems like we're stuck between a rock and a hard place, which we find ourselves all too often in these political races.
I think that's one of the reasons why Hong almost beat him.
She only lost by, I think, .2 or .4 points.
And if you're looking at the Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, regardless of what you think about them, you can see that they're making some pretty big headway across the country.
I don't agree with...
a lot of their platform but and I honestly don't think there's definitely people that vote for them that are like yes I'm a card-carrying socialist and stuff.
I don't think the majority of people that and I might be wrong but I don't think the majority of people that are actually pushing these DSA candidates are necessarily socialists or communists themselves.
I think they're just
so disenfranchised with the current system and the safe options and the capitalist options and the normie options or whatever you want to call it, that it's kind of like Trump in 2016 where like people are just so fed up with the status quo right now that they're willing to take a bet on any potential change candidate regardless of whether they fully agree with their issues because people are kind of looking at it and being like, well, what do I have to lose?
And I can honestly fully empathize with that.
mean, clearly,
going with the status quo.
I don't think many people would agree right now.
It's working out.
Milwaukee has a huge opportunity to make or break the general election.
The vast majority of the voter base are boomers or people over 65.
Now,
that's generally always been the case because they have the most free time because a lot of them are like retirees and a lot of voting itself happens during the day.
That's going to entirely depend on how engaged Tiffany or Crowley are able to get young people.
Young people can make or break elections, but not if they're not enthusiastic about voting for them.
That's one thing that I think Hong did a great job at.
She really mobilized the base and she got a lot of grassroots support behind her.
We're still ways out from November, but that's not something that I've seen Crowley or Tiffany really do a lot of and if you're If you're leaving it up to the establishment voter, I really don't know It's kind of a toss-up right now as to which one's gonna win Whoever is able to energize the voter and energize young people because that's gonna predominantly influence Milwaukee It's probably gonna take the cake of the electorate.
I don't see either of them Doing a lot of work right now
to do that.
Like, I mean, I think Crowley would be smart to kind of coalesce Francesca Hong as like maybe a campaign advisor or something or maybe get him to rally for her.
Tom Tiffany, I'm going to be completely honest right now.
He's so establishment and with his record right now, I think that the people that are going to vote for him are going to vote for him.
I think that unless he comes out with something like maybe a data center moratorium.
or like, hey, maybe we need to reconsider flat cameras or something that are like really hot topic issues with the general populace.
I don't know how many people he's going to be able to swing across the aisle just because of his prior record.
So I think it's kind of up to Crowley to make or break this race for him.
I think it's very important.
Black populace has a very unique aspect in that they are very, uh, right or die.
There's, you guys have a fantastic consensus.
Um, and that kind of speaks to the level of community that you guys share that like, Hey, you guys can kind of all come to an agreement and you have the capability to make or break elections.
Um, and so that's something that I mean, you can kind of see, especially in any swing state, regardless of whether it's Wisconsin or not, if it's a close election, everybody kind of like panders to
or campaign towards the black community because I mean like I think Obama won with like a 96 percentile.
No other demographic breakdown group is capable of kind of organizing to that aspect.
So I I mean if you if you can get the black vote and you can get them to mobilize and you can get them to really believe in your campaign.
I think history has shown that that's that's a win or lose demographic that you can get.
It's just the problem is like.
because of the history of everything that has gone on.
They're a lot more skeptical, which I don't blame them.
They're a lot more skeptical than the average demographic, but just because of how many times they've been like hoodwinked and used.
But I think that's one of the reasons why when they do agree on a candidate, they really come out, they come out of jokes.
back.
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All right.
2020 says what Wisconsin governor's race recap.
Let me be specific.
So.
But just before we left, we asked you how important the backwater turn out will be.
And the next question on my list was a disconnect between Milwaukee's political leadership and some of its residents.
I know you talked a little bit about that disconnect and how we're really feeling like we're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Did you want to get more into that?
Yeah.
I mean, in my opinion, I think that people at a local leadership level are just far too worried about optics.
And again, I mean, I guess, ironically, the politics of things, then they are about actually representing their constituents.
The food trucks is a prime example.
People here would rather go after low hanging fruit and basically just like kind of like farm headlines than actually affect positive change.
I think that's because a lot of them have
kind of bigger ambitions than necessarily Milwaukee.
And so they want to play the game right.
I do think that right now is a very unique opportunity.
And again, a lot of things I'm talking about Milwaukee, I think do kind of span out and apply nationally just because of how like upset and disgruntled the vast majority of people are right now.
I think that anybody who has genuinely good ideas, but more importantly, is just like unapologetically them.
And not afraid to take a stand for something that they believe in right now I think that no amount of focus group testing or like playing it safe politically Would be able to kind of counter that like like people like Cavalier.
I mean hey He's done some good stuff with the city in terms of roads, but whenever there seems to be big culture issues or maybe
like fights at the state fair fights at summer fest and stuff like that he just kind of comes out with a statement but i'm like i mean you don't really seem to visit these communities for anything other than a photo op you don't seem to be super interested in like what the root cause of these problems are and if you're not interested in what the root cause of these problems are at least be interested in like making sure that they don't keep happening like
It just feels like we keep electing people in Milwaukee and it doesn't matter who you elect that like they talk a big game and then the second they get in they're like they're too afraid to kind of put their foot on the scale and like your people are elected and people are unelected and have new people go in office not because they were happy with the track record of the person prior it's because X, Y and Z is going on and they don't feel like they're getting somebody who actually takes it as seriously as it impacts their lives.
Going, honestly, being a populist.
And the thing with that is some people will look at it and be like, oh, well, what if I don't believe in that?
What if I don't this?
What if I don't that?
That's kind of where the line, I guess I'm going to kind of contradict myself here.
If you're elected to be someone like governor or someone like a mayor, you're definitely elected for your personality and people's ability for how well they think you can communicate, what they think your fundamental values are, but you're not elected to be a dictator.
You are elected to be representative of your constituency.
Unfortunately, that's something that doesn't seem to be really, they don't really seem to care about much anymore.
you're like, oh, you know, well, I kind of like data centers, you know, maybe they've supported my campaign or stuff like that.
And then you come out and you have like 80% of a population being like, no, absolutely not.
Or if you're going to do it, you have to do it this way.
I do think it's irresponsible for you as a candidate, especially as a governor to throw your constituency to the side in the name of special interest.
If like, I feel like winning is honestly as easy as just
getting a pulse of society right now and looking at the popular issues.
Notify cameras, noted data centers, no amount of special interest money that they could potentially be giving you, could would swing as many voters as you saying, you know what, I hear you guys, I hear that you don't want this, I'm going to take this seriously, and I'm going to represent you.
The amount of word of mouth advertising and stuff that will go through on that is going to
completely trample however many hundreds of thousands of dollars any of these special interest groups can do.
So just like go on TikTok, go on Facebook, go on Instagram, go out in your community, ask random people, go to like a Brewer game or a Bucks game and be like, hey, like what's one thing that's going great in your life right now?
And what's two things that you wish to change that somebody like me might be able to do about it?
I think a lot, there's going to be a lot of overlap and issues and stuff going on.
And if you just run a campaign that's
for the people and by the people, even if it's just like 40% of that, I think that's going to be the biggest difference with swing voters because there's not a lot of trust anymore.
Nobody really believes anything that anybody says anymore.
And so like you really got to show it and you got to show that you believe it or at least show that you're willing to listen.
I don't want people dictating from the top.
And unfortunately, that's what we've had for a long time.
date it?
Data centers and I'm gonna be honest data centers and flat cameras Data centers flat cameras are I mean I have my issue with them from like a fourth amendment standpoint
Data centers are a really, really big issue, though, especially just because they're a complete disaster to any community that they go in, whether it's the noise pollution, whether it's the actual pollution, whether it is the electricity issues as we're already going into a huge global energy crisis right now.
And you're saying that I'm going to have to pay more for electricity just because this
Data centers getting built and clearing out like 200 acres of farmland next to me and I got to pay for more Or I'm gonna have rolling blackouts just because like some idiot wants to like generate like a banana video on chat GPT Something like the value and oh it's gonna steal all my jobs by the way while we're at it like the value Proposition doesn't really seem to be there for it
And Wisconsin is very uniquely positioned as you can see with everything that's going on with how much lakes we have and how much fresh water we have and how much undeveloped land that we have.
It's going to be very easy for people in power if the community doesn't apply pressure to it for our state to turn into a state like Virginia where people are seeing 13% increases or 1300% increases in their energy bills.
And they're going from literally like 130, 200 bucks to over $900 a month and becoming unsustainable.
Oh, and by the way, I'm old enough to remember when we had to start getting hybrids and electric cars and paper straws and everything because we were so concerned about the environment and then all of a sudden
like oh, yeah Yeah, say yeah save the turtles but like build a data center in the habitat and it doesn't matter like I'm like wait a
happened to like climate change or global warming?
Are we having fires every single year?
Like I wasn't able to breathe for a week
and like we're like, you know what we need more So like common sense things.
Yeah,
more fires
They need a campaign for the people.
Like Tom Tiffany, especially, like if you want to get any swing voters, dude, you've got to, I mean, you can't untake the APAC money, but you've got to distance yourself and make some commitments for that.
I think he has a huge opportunity unless Carly Pivots to become the anti-data center guy.
That's something that a lot of Republicans about it kind of been pushing.
They call him like, but they've been calling him like data center Crowley
something.
giving them free ammo.
Yeah, yeah, no, it's not a
good
nickname.
He needs like each kind of has their own like, like, red line going against them right now.
And again, the Tiffany one, the Epstein files is not a good thing.
He needs to clarify that.
I don't think that.
I think moving away from the mega base would be good right now considering how wildly unpopular they are.
We've been seeing in the midterms right now.
Trump used to be a golden ticket if you wanted to get elected.
It's kind of been the opposite recently.
And I think that Tiffany would be wise to realize that if he actually wants to win against some swing voters.
And at the same time, Crowley needs to
define who he is as a person and who he's going to be as a candidate like even in my research I couldn't find a lot of unique things about him or like things about who he actually is as a person which is one of the reasons why he is the safe candidate but people don't want to vote for a safe candidate right now like safe is what got us into the position that we're at right now we need someone who's willing to fight for us and if people are able to kind of like define their personality
regardless of what side of the aisle I'm right now, being like, hey, these aren't left or right issues.
These are Wisconsin issues or these are Milwaukee issues or these are family issues or these are like costs of living issues.
I think that if you look at what people care about right now, people are willing to vote for almost anybody as long as they're not selling themselves out directly to people who don't have the same interests as us and are just focused on
making everybody's life easier, more affordable, and less miserable.
don't know.
I mean, it's as it stands right now, it's a toss up.
And I think that that's more of a
opportunity thing than anything else.
Again, I doubt Tiffany is going to listen to what.
I mean, what do I know?
I might be wrong.
I doubt Tiffany is going to listen to any of what I have to say about bridging the gap.
He might do the data center thing, but that's about it.
He's pretty ingrained with his voter base.
The people that are going to vote for Tiffany are pretty much just going to vote for Tiffany anyways.
I think the ball is really in Crowley's court to really see if he can actually rise to the occasion and become a populist candidate and really champion issues that average Wisconsin residents are feeling right now because
As it stands right now, nationally, it's the Democrats' chance to win.
Republicans are super disenfranchised right now after the Trump administration winning and then one-aiding, I think, more than any president in U.S.
history on all of its campaign promises.
So I don't think many Republicans are very excited to vote right now, whereas Democrats...
Could get very excited to vote I mean look at how many DSA candidates are are getting elected or almost getting elected right now That shows an absolute hunger and I think that that's a great opportunity for the Democrats to pop or to capitalize on populist Talking points Because I mean I think Tiffany's just gonna write it out and I think that Tiffany could win if probably keeps doing what he's doing right now To be honest because I don't see that much different between them in terms of what like they're actually gonna do
Um, where, uh, yeah, it's Carly's race to win if he wants to win
We are back and you are listening to the lunch break with Ray Middy and maybe standing on the award-winning 101.7 The Truth.
Today we have a very special politically homeless, AKA Michael Jacobs on and we've been talking about the governor's race, the Wisconsin governor's race.
We got pretty deep into some conversation.
You guys are coming in on the end of it.
Before we head into something else because I do have another question for you did mention you're a DJ and there's been a lot of them with the DJ scene and the bar scene and all the things but before we Pivoted that I did want to ask you Will you think the voters should be paying closer to now into November?
What should our voters be paying attention to?
um number one
Affordability, I think affordability is the biggest issue right now.
Whether it's inflation, whether it's grocery prices, the cattle ranchers, I don't know if you like have seen what's going on with like Trump's importing like a bunch of like Argentinian, Brazilian like diseased beef and stuff and just completely screwing over our cattle ranchers and like literally might up an
right now.
here?
So that's one of their like that's one of his core demographic people and their industry is getting completely blown up right now But again, it kind of goes in on the affordability like I think that This is a very politically charged phrase but it shouldn't be because it was taken by people that I don't think actually believe in it I think that America first should be focused on it
Like I don't think we should be meddling with
other
countries right now.
I don't think we should be supporting other countries right now.
You got to clean your own room before you fix the world.
And our room looks like we just got robbed.
Like we have so like
affordability
data centers, plot cameras, groceries, electricity bills, like all of these things right now that.
they average American like look I can turn off my TV and ignore culture warrants issues you know what I mean like and I think that's how a lot of people
vote hey
if I turn off my TV and I don't know who said what is my life going to be negatively or positively impacted with a lot of presidencies prior to this no this one yes um there's not going to be a lot that you can do to kind of curb I guess what's going on in the White House right now whether you like it or dislike it and so
looking at what any candidate in Wisconsin is running on and seeing what their plan is to actually help Wisconsinites.
And more importantly, the plan of how they're going to help Wisconsinites, anybody can have ideas.
But again, unless you actually have like a cold hard plan where you can actually translate that into positive change, I think people should be very wary of
For sure.
Okay.
Thank you.
Firstly, but I wanted to get your input on the Milwaukee no Milwaukee music the no playlist that came out of the garage that the DJs were Given what's your take on?
I'm pretty sure you guys have all heard by now that the bar the garage on Brady Street or a little bit off very Brady Street either here nor there They had a no playlist and it was all
Black rappers it wasn't specific songs.
It was rappers and then at the end and bold it said no Milwaukee rap And it's it sparked a bit of a debate.
What do you think about that?
What's your take on it?
Okay, so for disclosure I DJ at the garage I was actually the DJ that that list was distributed to that night Like I was playing the night that that list was distributed to I was given like a little bit of a notice.
Um, I Can tell you
I played artists on that list.
So it's not necessarily like a no playlist.
I think it was more of a vibe.
There's a lot.
So I have to be careful about what I say, because there's a lot of things that can be said.
What I will say is that I can understand 100% why people are frustrated.
That being said, I think garage is getting a lot of heat that should be
not so focused directly on garage.
One of the reasons why garage is one of the only places that I've chosen to play recently is because it's one of the only venues left in Milwaukee where I genuinely had open format and creative control over what I played.
Like I can tell you the last bar that I played, uh, Fryder by Chicken Piat.
was at the garage.
And that was like three weeks ago.
Like I played
like I can play anything there.
I've played Milwaukee music and stuff there.
That's why it was kind of a bit out of left field for me.
But
I love having the freedom to play whatever I want.
I also understand when certain venue owners, depending on the type of vibe they're going to curate, might like something or might dislike something.
Now that's up to the patron.
Do you want to go there?
Do you not want to go there?
Do you support stuff like that?
It's also up to the DJ.
It's one of the reasons why I quit DJing some of the bars on Water Street three years ago.
Garage is not the only bar in Milwaukee to have that list.
They might have been the only one to print that out.
But garage is I would say the one of the if not literally the last major bar in the entire city of Milwaukee that is generally open format to stop playing more hip hop.
Go on Water Street any weekend outside of like poor men's or truth or element or white tail and tell me how many of those artists that you see.
Go on Third Street tell me how many of those artists
you
see.
literally go anywhere on Brady Street outside of the garage and tell me how many of those artists that you hear.
So I can understand where people are very frustrated.
I don't think it's...
especially considering like how long they held out and especially with all of the pressures that MPD puts on them and the bid puts on them and the autumn inputs on them because that does happen behind the scenes in the same way that they went after the food trucks even though they have nothing to do with curbing the issues and stuff on those streets.
I can promise you that there's conversations with all of those bar owners on the back ends to have like nonsense rules and stuff implemented like this that don't really like the only time I've ever had a fight break out and have had the music.
I was told to change the music was four years ago at the harp on a Sunday on the patio at 7 p.m.
And I was playing every time we touched by Calibra like one of the whitest songs of
Two groups of people got into fights and they come up to me like change the music change the music and I'm like bro to what?
They
put hands on
Unfortunately, this is very common practice for every bar.
Again, whether you want to support bars that want to play certain types of music or not after that, that's not my position to play.
I will say as a DJ, I always appreciate the opportunity to have as much creative control over what my set goes.
I do think that
Milwaukee would be better off if we took this energy and applied it evenly across the entire entertainment district, instead of focusing on hanging one of the very last bars to hold out against all of the political pressure to stop playing that type of music.
That's just my opinion.
Cause I
saw it and I'm like, Hey dude, I understand
are upset.
Y'all feel like me four years ago when I stopped DJing on Water Street.
Right.
mean, I don't I don't think at all.
It's the types of people on the list that are causing the fights.
I think that there's a lot of political pressure outside of the bars to try and curb what we'll say are troublemakers and stuff from coming to them.
But as we've discussed, just like with the food trucks, most the people causing all the problems on Brady Street on Water Street and Third Street aren't even going to these bars anyways and are not even necessarily old enough to do it.
I will say, I don't think the majority, and I don't know, but I would be very surprised if...
It were any member of garage, whether it's employer ownership or anything on their own, to come up with this decision on their own.
And it wasn't due to pressure from the city, just as we've seen on Water Street, just as we've seen on Third Street.
I'll finish with this.
I stopped playing at a bar on Water Street three years ago in 2023 because they yelled at me for playing Mo Bamba.
And they said it was to ghetto.
And I'm like, dog, they play this at trampoline parks.
They play this at trampoline
Like, what do you mean?
And so again, yeah, so bark, bark, bark.
It is not just the garage.
Honestly, again, I think the garage is getting a lot of heat.
I don't want to throw anybody under the bus, but I think they're really at the bottom of that list in terms of not allowing certain types of music in my experience.
But I understand why people are pissed.
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I can't hear you Shannon.
Oh now I can hear you.
Yeah I was like I don't know if she's doing a whole intro.
Yeah of course sorry I'm zooming in I um
I hit the hop tracks on a Lyme scooter and I broke my collarbone on Monday.
No!
Dude, they took me out, bro.
What?
of the crib, dude.
Outside of the crib, I caught the front wheel and it just took me out.
Right in front of MPD,
you.
And they didn't even stop.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure
just did.
Dude, I busted.
all like, yeah, they were all like, yeah, get off this.
Yeah, hi, my name is Michael.
Hi, I'm Milwaukee born and raised.
I'm 28 years old.
I
do a lot of things.
I am a DJ.
I'm very involved in the community.
I'm also super interested in politics.
I went to school for it.
And then recently with a career change, I do not have a social media embargo anymore.
So I took the opportunity to kind of
be the change that I wanted to see in the community.
And so I focus mainly on local issues in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, generally speaking, just because those are a lot of things that are not necessarily represented or like a lot of people talk about them.
But maybe those issues and those viewpoints on those issues aren't necessarily put in channels that make their way to the powers that be to actually affect change.
Food trucks being a prime example.
I also cover some national stuff but I've really kind of found my footing in like Milwaukee, Wisconsin locally just because of the connections and stuff that I have here.
It's a lot easier to affect positive change on a local level and it's something that you can actually see directly, which is awesome.
Because you can talk about things going on in Washington or whatever.
But at the end of the day, we all live in this city.
We all have to deal with this community, whether we like it or not.
And so I think it's all of our responsibility to do our best to make sure that we're all contributing in the way that we think is important.
I think the current political climate in Wisconsin is very reflective of the current political climate nationally, which is to say a complete disaster.
I mean, just look at the name of my profile.
I don't think I'm the only person that would consider themselves
politically homeless or independent per se.
It seems like a lot of that seems
like a
lot of people are aligned on issues and regardless of like who's running whether it's in like our state or Maine or Kansas or Kentucky or anything like that for whatever reason a lot of the candidates don't seem to be super representative of like where the general public agrees and I think that
outside of like dumb culture war, like very specific scenario arguments.
I think that most Americans are probably politically aligned more than they have been in the past 20 years currently.
It's just because of the echo chambers and like the news organizations, they don't make money if everybody agrees on things.
So it is very much up in the air.
There's a lot of identity shifting and there's a lot of
kind of case studies going out like, oh, uh, what's not going to work?
What's popular?
What's not of the old status clothes to go by for a very long time.
Um, and so I think that a lot people are kind of trying to
In my personal opinion, as it stands right now, I don't know if there's an overwhelming like enthusiastic majority for either David Crowley or Tom Tiffany.
And those are for very specific reasons.
I think that most people in Wisconsin are united against data centers.
I think that that's a losing issue nationally
and
that's actually shown.
Free ball for any political candidate if they happen to be listening to this if you want to get elected and it's a close election I would not support data centers.
I think that that's pretty easy Pretty easy winning issue.
That's like it's like being against banning the food jokes You know what?
I mean you have an over 80% approval rating on stuff like that I think people are tired of all of our money getting funneled to issues outside of our state and outside of our country I think that there's a lot of
like whether it's infrastructure, look at all the construction stuff going on in Milwaukee and the surrounding state that never seems to be getting worked on.
That affects both Republicans and Democrats and independents equally when their commute now takes 35 minutes to get to work instead of 20 minutes to get to work and there doesn't seem to be a lot of things going on for there.
The economy is in the dumps right now.
The stock market might not be in the dumps, but the job market is.
Inflation is in the dumps.
There's a couple reasons for that.
So I think just kind of getting back to basics and really focusing on like what the individual voter is seeing on a day-to-day basis.
I don't really think that there's a lot of appetite in Wisconsin or the nation at large for things happening outside of our current state and our current environment when the conditions that we're in right now are so like fragile and dire.
And I think a lot of people, whether they voice it or not, are really kind of feeling on edge and very uncertain about our future.
And having people talk about anything but Wisconsin, I don't think is the best way forward.
Um, David Crowley came out swinging.
I will say that I didn't necessarily underestimate that just because of the types of people polling's been unreliable for a while now because the types of people who are willing to answer polls are like people like me who are who are unusually very um politically involved and interested um I think that a lot of people saw what was going on
some of like the old tweets and some of the old culture stuff about Francesca Hong and maybe have like electability concerns.
Now, regardless of whether those are true or not, I'm not the best person to kind of comment on that.
But I know a lot of the she seemed to have a lot of ideas.
But unlike a lot of big change candidates like Mamdami or Elsa Eid, she didn't seem to have a huge track record of being able to
actually translate those ideas into policy goals, especially in a state like Wisconsin, where you do have such a Republican stronghold in the state legislature.
And so I think a lot of people were worried.
And this is just my opinion.
I think a lot of people worried that even if she did get elected, even if they did support her ideas, she wouldn't necessarily be able to actually translate those into actual legislation and change.
And then she'd kind of become a de facto.
lame duck candidate.
And so I think a lot of people that might have wanted to have voted for Hong ended up voting for Crowley just because they felt like that was a more safe option in the general election.
Okay, so, so when we get back, I do want to ask you a few things like what worked and what didn't work for David.
Then I want to ask like why you think what your take was on the Sarah Rodriguez campaign and things like that.
But that's when we get back from break.
Anywhere we have Michael Jacles here politically homeless and we're gonna get back into it right after these messages Seven the truth
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We got Brother Xi on production and right now we are doing an interview with politically homeless Michael Jacobs.
We're talking about the 2026 Wisconsin governor's race.
We're doing a little recap and some political analytics.
And before we went on break, we just kind of got into it and we were talking about the results and what surprised us about the results.
We also introduced Michael Jacobs, who he is in the community and
The next question I was getting into right before break, I wanted to know what he thought worked and didn't work for David Crawley.
Yeah, so honestly, I think it was more of, he was probably the least controversial candidate on either side.
that was polling in double digits, maybe outside of Barnes before he dropped out.
One thing that I did on my, I did individual candidate policy breakdowns.
I need to candidate and I tried to do a good job of like, hey, this is what they're running on.
This is their record.
Here's some potential controversies.
I think I did a pretty good job because every video that I did, I had Republicans calling me a commie.
I had Democrats calling me a fascist.
every single video I did, you're like, you're obviously voting for this person.
You're glazing them.
And I'm like, okay, okay, or they, or you hate this person.
Why didn't you mention this?
And so, I mean, there's a lot of, there was a lot of people in the race with a lot of, I guess, that kind of controversial pasts.
And I think David Crowley, just especially after Sarah Rodriguez dropped out because of her like campaign finance mismanaging.
the Democratic establishment wanted to rally around a more traditional candidate.
Again, whether that's the right response or not, we will see in November.
And I think that he was honestly just kind of a default choice for a lot of people.
I don't think that necessarily, like there were definitely some people like Ray, for example, who were super enthusiastic to vote for Crowley.
A lot of people that I know that voted for him, they didn't like Hong.
And they weren't going to vote for Tiffany.
And so they were either not going to vote or they were going to vote for Crowley.
That's what my experience was at least.
Like, I mean, he has a pretty decent track record of Milwaukee County executive, especially with how hard things are to get here.
He doesn't have a lot of controversies.
He's pretty safe.
And so I think that, again, with all the uncertainty and everything going forward, I think kind of the safe option was something that people were just comfortable with.
So if you're going to be running for governor of a state, especially when there's a lot of money issues in the United States,
you need to be very, very careful to make sure that you have your own money managed.
That's something that Sarah Rodriguez had a huge issue with, with her campaign.
I believe she got a misrepresented a couple hundred thousand dollars of accounting issues.
I mean, even Francesca Hong, she got a huge like dart having the $30,000 in credit card debt that she couldn't pay.
And like that, that gives your opponents real opportunities to be like, Hey dude, if you can't even manage like $30,000 in debt, how are you going to manage like a
multi-billion dollar deficit or surplus.
I think Sarah Rodriguez, I don't think she, regardless of her politics, I don't think that she surrounded herself with the right team.
And I think that even though she might have had a good campaign early on, but this is kind of a testimony that like, especially in politics, if you don't have the right support structure around you, you can have the best ideas in the world and you can run a good campaign.
But if you're not crossing your T's and dotting your I's, it almost doesn't matter.
So I think it was more of an organizational failure on her standpoint than anything else because I mean, it got to a point where it was just the amount of money that was mismanaged was too insurmountable that I think that the majority of the electorate just kind of lost overall faith because they're looking at this and they're like, dude, you're not even in the, you haven't even won the primary yet and you already have this huge issue going on.
It doesn't instill a lot of confidence.
Okay, so Tom Tiffany is a mega candidate.
He's endorsed by Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is currently polling double digits negatives in 47 of the 50 states and the three states that he's not are Wyoming, Idaho, and West Virginia, which are also some of the least popular states.
on there.
I know I think everybody can kind of look around and look at what his campaign promises were and we can see how many of those came true.
I'm pretty sure it's none or maybe one.
So I think anything mega currently right now kind of has a cancer attached to it.
Another big hurdle for him is the vast majority of young people are disfavorable of the Israel lobby and in Congress he took over $51,000 from APEC.
He also voted against the Epstein files, Transparency Act.
And I think both of those things, I mean, the Epstein files, I would hope people would care about.
But the APAC issue,
of people don't even necessarily, you would think, but apparently not.
The APAC thing is a lot of people don't even necessarily think super positively or negatively about Israel in general.
It's, they're just,
very obviously influencing our government in a way that I don't think is beneficial for the United States.
And I think that's more of a litmus test than being like, Oh, well, is your this, is your that?
I think it's more of a litmus test to being like, okay, well, if you get elected, who are you actually going to represent?
Are you going to represent these special interests that don't necessarily like have, they'll not mission aligned with what the United States wants.
Um, and I don't know any young people, me included, like I can't vote for somebody that takes a back money.
and most of the people in my age group are the same thing, just because we've seen what happens with that.
And so, for David Crowley, again, that's kind of the other thing.
Now, his data center answer, when he said what separates me and Francesca Hong and the primary thing he said was data centers, I don't know what he was thinking, saying that, to be completely honest, like, you're just giving a bunch of ammunition.
Regardless of it, even if you think you have a common sense implementation of that, like,
That's like saying yeah, dude.
I'm pro-flat camera You know what I mean like no nobody's gonna agree with that.
I don't think that that's a winning
good
now.
And so I mean it's just the difference between the two right now.
I mean it kind of seems like
I'm going to wait for Crowley's campaign to develop a bit more, but it seems like we're stuck between a rock and a hard place, which we find ourselves all too often in these political races.
I think that's one of the reasons why Hong almost beat him.
She only lost by, I think, .2 or .4 points.
And if you're looking at the Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, regardless of what you think about them, you can see that they're making some pretty big headway across the country.
I don't agree with...
a lot of their platform but and I honestly don't think there's definitely people that vote for them that are like yes I'm a card-carrying socialist and stuff.
I don't think the majority of people that and I might be wrong but I don't think the majority of people that are actually pushing these DSA candidates are necessarily socialists or communists themselves.
I think they're just
so disenfranchised with the current system and the safe options and the capitalist options and the normie options or whatever you want to call it, that it's kind of like Trump in 2016 where like people are just so fed up with the status quo right now that they're willing to take a bet on any potential change candidate regardless of whether they fully agree with their issues because people are kind of looking at it and being like, well, what do I have to lose?
And I can honestly fully empathize with that.
mean, clearly,
going with the status quo.
I don't think many people would agree right now.
It's working out.
Milwaukee has a huge opportunity to make or break the general election.
The vast majority of the voter base are boomers or people over 65.
Now,
that's generally always been the case because they have the most free time because a lot of them are like retirees and a lot of voting itself happens during the day.
That's going to entirely depend on how engaged Tiffany or Crowley are able to get young people.
Young people can make or break elections, but not if they're not enthusiastic about voting for them.
That's one thing that I think Hong did a great job at.
She really mobilized the base and she got a lot of grassroots support behind her.
We're still ways out from November, but that's not something that I've seen Crowley or Tiffany really do a lot of and if you're If you're leaving it up to the establishment voter, I really don't know It's kind of a toss-up right now as to which one's gonna win Whoever is able to energize the voter and energize young people because that's gonna predominantly influence Milwaukee It's probably gonna take the cake of the electorate.
I don't see either of them Doing a lot of work right now
to do that.
Like, I mean, I think Crowley would be smart to kind of coalesce Francesca Hong as like maybe a campaign advisor or something or maybe get him to rally for her.
Tom Tiffany, I'm going to be completely honest right now.
He's so establishment and with his record right now, I think that the people that are going to vote for him are going to vote for him.
I think that unless he comes out with something like maybe a data center moratorium.
or like, hey, maybe we need to reconsider flat cameras or something that are like really hot topic issues with the general populace.
I don't know how many people he's going to be able to swing across the aisle just because of his prior record.
So I think it's kind of up to Crowley to make or break this race for him.
I think it's very important.
Black populace has a very unique aspect in that they are very, uh, right or die.
There's, you guys have a fantastic consensus.
Um, and that kind of speaks to the level of community that you guys share that like, Hey, you guys can kind of all come to an agreement and you have the capability to make or break elections.
Um, and so that's something that I mean, you can kind of see, especially in any swing state, regardless of whether it's Wisconsin or not, if it's a close election, everybody kind of like panders to
or campaign towards the black community because I mean like I think Obama won with like a 96 percentile.
No other demographic breakdown group is capable of kind of organizing to that aspect.
So I I mean if you if you can get the black vote and you can get them to mobilize and you can get them to really believe in your campaign.
I think history has shown that that's that's a win or lose demographic that you can get.
It's just the problem is like.
because of the history of everything that has gone on.
They're a lot more skeptical, which I don't blame them.
They're a lot more skeptical than the average demographic, but just because of how many times they've been like hoodwinked and used.
But I think that's one of the reasons why when they do agree on a candidate, they really come out, they come out of jokes.
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All right.
2020 says what Wisconsin governor's race recap.
Let me be specific.
So.
But just before we left, we asked you how important the backwater turn out will be.
And the next question on my list was a disconnect between Milwaukee's political leadership and some of its residents.
I know you talked a little bit about that disconnect and how we're really feeling like we're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Did you want to get more into that?
Yeah.
I mean, in my opinion, I think that people at a local leadership level are just far too worried about optics.
And again, I mean, I guess, ironically, the politics of things, then they are about actually representing their constituents.
The food trucks is a prime example.
People here would rather go after low hanging fruit and basically just like kind of like farm headlines than actually affect positive change.
I think that's because a lot of them have
kind of bigger ambitions than necessarily Milwaukee.
And so they want to play the game right.
I do think that right now is a very unique opportunity.
And again, a lot of things I'm talking about Milwaukee, I think do kind of span out and apply nationally just because of how like upset and disgruntled the vast majority of people are right now.
I think that anybody who has genuinely good ideas, but more importantly, is just like unapologetically them.
And not afraid to take a stand for something that they believe in right now I think that no amount of focus group testing or like playing it safe politically Would be able to kind of counter that like like people like Cavalier.
I mean hey He's done some good stuff with the city in terms of roads, but whenever there seems to be big culture issues or maybe
like fights at the state fair fights at summer fest and stuff like that he just kind of comes out with a statement but i'm like i mean you don't really seem to visit these communities for anything other than a photo op you don't seem to be super interested in like what the root cause of these problems are and if you're not interested in what the root cause of these problems are at least be interested in like making sure that they don't keep happening like
It just feels like we keep electing people in Milwaukee and it doesn't matter who you elect that like they talk a big game and then the second they get in they're like they're too afraid to kind of put their foot on the scale and like your people are elected and people are unelected and have new people go in office not because they were happy with the track record of the person prior it's because X, Y and Z is going on and they don't feel like they're getting somebody who actually takes it as seriously as it impacts their lives.
Going, honestly, being a populist.
And the thing with that is some people will look at it and be like, oh, well, what if I don't believe in that?
What if I don't this?
What if I don't that?
That's kind of where the line, I guess I'm going to kind of contradict myself here.
If you're elected to be someone like governor or someone like a mayor, you're definitely elected for your personality and people's ability for how well they think you can communicate, what they think your fundamental values are, but you're not elected to be a dictator.
You are elected to be representative of your constituency.
Unfortunately, that's something that doesn't seem to be really, they don't really seem to care about much anymore.
you're like, oh, you know, well, I kind of like data centers, you know, maybe they've supported my campaign or stuff like that.
And then you come out and you have like 80% of a population being like, no, absolutely not.
Or if you're going to do it, you have to do it this way.
I do think it's irresponsible for you as a candidate, especially as a governor to throw your constituency to the side in the name of special interest.
If like, I feel like winning is honestly as easy as just
getting a pulse of society right now and looking at the popular issues.
Notify cameras, noted data centers, no amount of special interest money that they could potentially be giving you, could would swing as many voters as you saying, you know what, I hear you guys, I hear that you don't want this, I'm going to take this seriously, and I'm going to represent you.
The amount of word of mouth advertising and stuff that will go through on that is going to
completely trample however many hundreds of thousands of dollars any of these special interest groups can do.
So just like go on TikTok, go on Facebook, go on Instagram, go out in your community, ask random people, go to like a Brewer game or a Bucks game and be like, hey, like what's one thing that's going great in your life right now?
And what's two things that you wish to change that somebody like me might be able to do about it?
I think a lot, there's going to be a lot of overlap and issues and stuff going on.
And if you just run a campaign that's
for the people and by the people, even if it's just like 40% of that, I think that's going to be the biggest difference with swing voters because there's not a lot of trust anymore.
Nobody really believes anything that anybody says anymore.
And so like you really got to show it and you got to show that you believe it or at least show that you're willing to listen.
I don't want people dictating from the top.
And unfortunately, that's what we've had for a long time.
date it?
Data centers and I'm gonna be honest data centers and flat cameras Data centers flat cameras are I mean I have my issue with them from like a fourth amendment standpoint
Data centers are a really, really big issue, though, especially just because they're a complete disaster to any community that they go in, whether it's the noise pollution, whether it's the actual pollution, whether it is the electricity issues as we're already going into a huge global energy crisis right now.
And you're saying that I'm going to have to pay more for electricity just because this
Data centers getting built and clearing out like 200 acres of farmland next to me and I got to pay for more Or I'm gonna have rolling blackouts just because like some idiot wants to like generate like a banana video on chat GPT Something like the value and oh it's gonna steal all my jobs by the way while we're at it like the value Proposition doesn't really seem to be there for it
And Wisconsin is very uniquely positioned as you can see with everything that's going on with how much lakes we have and how much fresh water we have and how much undeveloped land that we have.
It's going to be very easy for people in power if the community doesn't apply pressure to it for our state to turn into a state like Virginia where people are seeing 13% increases or 1300% increases in their energy bills.
And they're going from literally like 130, 200 bucks to over $900 a month and becoming unsustainable.
Oh, and by the way, I'm old enough to remember when we had to start getting hybrids and electric cars and paper straws and everything because we were so concerned about the environment and then all of a sudden
like oh, yeah Yeah, say yeah save the turtles but like build a data center in the habitat and it doesn't matter like I'm like wait a
happened to like climate change or global warming?
Are we having fires every single year?
Like I wasn't able to breathe for a week
and like we're like, you know what we need more So like common sense things.
Yeah,
more fires
They need a campaign for the people.
Like Tom Tiffany, especially, like if you want to get any swing voters, dude, you've got to, I mean, you can't untake the APAC money, but you've got to distance yourself and make some commitments for that.
I think he has a huge opportunity unless Carly Pivots to become the anti-data center guy.
That's something that a lot of Republicans about it kind of been pushing.
They call him like, but they've been calling him like data center Crowley
something.
giving them free ammo.
Yeah, yeah, no, it's not a
good
nickname.
He needs like each kind of has their own like, like, red line going against them right now.
And again, the Tiffany one, the Epstein files is not a good thing.
He needs to clarify that.
I don't think that.
I think moving away from the mega base would be good right now considering how wildly unpopular they are.
We've been seeing in the midterms right now.
Trump used to be a golden ticket if you wanted to get elected.
It's kind of been the opposite recently.
And I think that Tiffany would be wise to realize that if he actually wants to win against some swing voters.
And at the same time, Crowley needs to
define who he is as a person and who he's going to be as a candidate like even in my research I couldn't find a lot of unique things about him or like things about who he actually is as a person which is one of the reasons why he is the safe candidate but people don't want to vote for a safe candidate right now like safe is what got us into the position that we're at right now we need someone who's willing to fight for us and if people are able to kind of like define their personality
regardless of what side of the aisle I'm right now, being like, hey, these aren't left or right issues.
These are Wisconsin issues or these are Milwaukee issues or these are family issues or these are like costs of living issues.
I think that if you look at what people care about right now, people are willing to vote for almost anybody as long as they're not selling themselves out directly to people who don't have the same interests as us and are just focused on
making everybody's life easier, more affordable, and less miserable.
don't know.
I mean, it's as it stands right now, it's a toss up.
And I think that that's more of a
opportunity thing than anything else.
Again, I doubt Tiffany is going to listen to what.
I mean, what do I know?
I might be wrong.
I doubt Tiffany is going to listen to any of what I have to say about bridging the gap.
He might do the data center thing, but that's about it.
He's pretty ingrained with his voter base.
The people that are going to vote for Tiffany are pretty much just going to vote for Tiffany anyways.
I think the ball is really in Crowley's court to really see if he can actually rise to the occasion and become a populist candidate and really champion issues that average Wisconsin residents are feeling right now because
As it stands right now, nationally, it's the Democrats' chance to win.
Republicans are super disenfranchised right now after the Trump administration winning and then one-aiding, I think, more than any president in U.S.
history on all of its campaign promises.
So I don't think many Republicans are very excited to vote right now, whereas Democrats...
Could get very excited to vote I mean look at how many DSA candidates are are getting elected or almost getting elected right now That shows an absolute hunger and I think that that's a great opportunity for the Democrats to pop or to capitalize on populist Talking points Because I mean I think Tiffany's just gonna write it out and I think that Tiffany could win if probably keeps doing what he's doing right now To be honest because I don't see that much different between them in terms of what like they're actually gonna do
Um, where, uh, yeah, it's Carly's race to win if he wants to win
We are back and you are listening to the lunch break with Ray Middy and maybe standing on the award-winning 101.7 The Truth.
Today we have a very special politically homeless, AKA Michael Jacobs on and we've been talking about the governor's race, the Wisconsin governor's race.
We got pretty deep into some conversation.
You guys are coming in on the end of it.
Before we head into something else because I do have another question for you did mention you're a DJ and there's been a lot of them with the DJ scene and the bar scene and all the things but before we Pivoted that I did want to ask you Will you think the voters should be paying closer to now into November?
What should our voters be paying attention to?
um number one
Affordability, I think affordability is the biggest issue right now.
Whether it's inflation, whether it's grocery prices, the cattle ranchers, I don't know if you like have seen what's going on with like Trump's importing like a bunch of like Argentinian, Brazilian like diseased beef and stuff and just completely screwing over our cattle ranchers and like literally might up an
right now.
here?
So that's one of their like that's one of his core demographic people and their industry is getting completely blown up right now But again, it kind of goes in on the affordability like I think that This is a very politically charged phrase but it shouldn't be because it was taken by people that I don't think actually believe in it I think that America first should be focused on it
Like I don't think we should be meddling with
other
countries right now.
I don't think we should be supporting other countries right now.
You got to clean your own room before you fix the world.
And our room looks like we just got robbed.
Like we have so like
affordability
data centers, plot cameras, groceries, electricity bills, like all of these things right now that.
they average American like look I can turn off my TV and ignore culture warrants issues you know what I mean like and I think that's how a lot of people
vote hey
if I turn off my TV and I don't know who said what is my life going to be negatively or positively impacted with a lot of presidencies prior to this no this one yes um there's not going to be a lot that you can do to kind of curb I guess what's going on in the White House right now whether you like it or dislike it and so
looking at what any candidate in Wisconsin is running on and seeing what their plan is to actually help Wisconsinites.
And more importantly, the plan of how they're going to help Wisconsinites, anybody can have ideas.
But again, unless you actually have like a cold hard plan where you can actually translate that into positive change, I think people should be very wary of
For sure.
Okay.
Thank you.
Firstly, but I wanted to get your input on the Milwaukee no Milwaukee music the no playlist that came out of the garage that the DJs were Given what's your take on?
I'm pretty sure you guys have all heard by now that the bar the garage on Brady Street or a little bit off very Brady Street either here nor there They had a no playlist and it was all
Black rappers it wasn't specific songs.
It was rappers and then at the end and bold it said no Milwaukee rap And it's it sparked a bit of a debate.
What do you think about that?
What's your take on it?
Okay, so for disclosure I DJ at the garage I was actually the DJ that that list was distributed to that night Like I was playing the night that that list was distributed to I was given like a little bit of a notice.
Um, I Can tell you
I played artists on that list.
So it's not necessarily like a no playlist.
I think it was more of a vibe.
There's a lot.
So I have to be careful about what I say, because there's a lot of things that can be said.
What I will say is that I can understand 100% why people are frustrated.
That being said, I think garage is getting a lot of heat that should be
not so focused directly on garage.
One of the reasons why garage is one of the only places that I've chosen to play recently is because it's one of the only venues left in Milwaukee where I genuinely had open format and creative control over what I played.
Like I can tell you the last bar that I played, uh, Fryder by Chicken Piat.
was at the garage.
And that was like three weeks ago.
Like I played
like I can play anything there.
I've played Milwaukee music and stuff there.
That's why it was kind of a bit out of left field for me.
But
I love having the freedom to play whatever I want.
I also understand when certain venue owners, depending on the type of vibe they're going to curate, might like something or might dislike something.
Now that's up to the patron.
Do you want to go there?
Do you not want to go there?
Do you support stuff like that?
It's also up to the DJ.
It's one of the reasons why I quit DJing some of the bars on Water Street three years ago.
Garage is not the only bar in Milwaukee to have that list.
They might have been the only one to print that out.
But garage is I would say the one of the if not literally the last major bar in the entire city of Milwaukee that is generally open format to stop playing more hip hop.
Go on Water Street any weekend outside of like poor men's or truth or element or white tail and tell me how many of those artists that you see.
Go on Third Street tell me how many of those artists
you
see.
literally go anywhere on Brady Street outside of the garage and tell me how many of those artists that you hear.
So I can understand where people are very frustrated.
I don't think it's...
especially considering like how long they held out and especially with all of the pressures that MPD puts on them and the bid puts on them and the autumn inputs on them because that does happen behind the scenes in the same way that they went after the food trucks even though they have nothing to do with curbing the issues and stuff on those streets.
I can promise you that there's conversations with all of those bar owners on the back ends to have like nonsense rules and stuff implemented like this that don't really like the only time I've ever had a fight break out and have had the music.
I was told to change the music was four years ago at the harp on a Sunday on the patio at 7 p.m.
And I was playing every time we touched by Calibra like one of the whitest songs of
Two groups of people got into fights and they come up to me like change the music change the music and I'm like bro to what?
They
put hands on
Unfortunately, this is very common practice for every bar.
Again, whether you want to support bars that want to play certain types of music or not after that, that's not my position to play.
I will say as a DJ, I always appreciate the opportunity to have as much creative control over what my set goes.
I do think that
Milwaukee would be better off if we took this energy and applied it evenly across the entire entertainment district, instead of focusing on hanging one of the very last bars to hold out against all of the political pressure to stop playing that type of music.
That's just my opinion.
Cause I
saw it and I'm like, Hey dude, I understand
are upset.
Y'all feel like me four years ago when I stopped DJing on Water Street.
Right.
mean, I don't I don't think at all.
It's the types of people on the list that are causing the fights.
I think that there's a lot of political pressure outside of the bars to try and curb what we'll say are troublemakers and stuff from coming to them.
But as we've discussed, just like with the food trucks, most the people causing all the problems on Brady Street on Water Street and Third Street aren't even going to these bars anyways and are not even necessarily old enough to do it.
I will say, I don't think the majority, and I don't know, but I would be very surprised if...
It were any member of garage, whether it's employer ownership or anything on their own, to come up with this decision on their own.
And it wasn't due to pressure from the city, just as we've seen on Water Street, just as we've seen on Third Street.
I'll finish with this.
I stopped playing at a bar on Water Street three years ago in 2023 because they yelled at me for playing Mo Bamba.
And they said it was to ghetto.
And I'm like, dog, they play this at trampoline parks.
They play this at trampoline
Like, what do you mean?
And so again, yeah, so bark, bark, bark.
It is not just the garage.
Honestly, again, I think the garage is getting a lot of heat.
I don't want to throw anybody under the bus, but I think they're really at the bottom of that list in terms of not allowing certain types of music in my experience.
But I understand why people are pissed.
Of
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she wouldn't necessarily be able to actually translate those into actual legislation and change.
And then she'd kind of become a de facto lame duck candidate.
And so I think a lot of people that might have wanted to have voted for Hong ended up voting for Crowley just because they felt like that was a more safe option in the general election.
When we get back, I do want to ask you a few things like what worked and what didn't work for David.
Then I want to ask, like, why you think what your take was on the Sarah Rodriguez campaign and things like that.
But that's when we get back from breaks.
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7 the truth This is the lunch break with Rainy and maybe Shannon we got brothers you on production and now and right now we are doing an interview with politically homeless Michael Jayles We're talking about the 2026 Wisconsin governor's race.
We're doing a little recap and some political analytics And before we went on break we we just kind of got into it and we were talking about the results and what surprised us about the results.
We also introduced a
Michael Jacobs who he is in the community and The next question I was getting into right before a break.
I wanted to know what he thought worked and didn't work for David Crawley
Yeah, so um honestly, I think it was more of He was probably the least controversial candidate on either side
that was polling in double digits, maybe outside of Barnes before he dropped out.
One thing that I did on my, I did individual candidate policy breakdowns.
I need a candidate and I tried to do a good job of like, hey, this is what they're running on.
This is their record.
Here's some potential controversies.
I think I did a pretty good job because every video that I did, I had Republicans calling me a commie.
I had Democrats calling me a fascist.
Every single video I did, you're like, you're obviously voting for this person.
You're glazing them.
And I'm like, okay, okay, well, or they, or you hate this person.
Why didn't you mention this?
And so, I mean, there's a lot of, there was a lot of people in the race with a lot of, I guess, I kind of controversial pasts.
And I think David Crowley, just especially after Sarah Rodriguez dropped out because of her like campaign finance mismanaging.
the Democratic establishment wanted to rally around a more traditional candidate.
Again, whether that's the right response or not, we will see in November.
And I think that he was honestly just kind of a default choice for a lot of people.
I don't think that necessarily, like there were definitely some people like Ray, for example, who were super enthusiastic to vote for Crowley.
A lot of people that I know that voted for him, they didn't like Hong.
And they weren't going to vote for Tiffany.
And so they were either not going to vote or they were going to vote for Crowley.
That's what my experience was at least.
Like, I mean, he has a pretty decent track record of Milwaukee County executive, especially with how hard things are to get here.
He doesn't have a lot of controversies.
He's pretty safe.
And so I think that, again, with all the uncertainty and everything going forward, I think kind of the safe option was something that people were just comfortable with.
So if you're going to be running for governor of a state, especially when there's a lot of money issues in the United States,
you need to be very, very careful to make sure that you have your own money managed.
That's something that Sarah Rodriguez had a huge issue with, with her campaign.
I believe she got a misrepresented a couple hundred thousand dollars of accounting issues.
I mean, even Francesca Hong, she got a huge like dart having the $30,000 in credit card debt that she couldn't pay.
And like that, that gives your opponents real opportunities to be like, Hey dude, if you can't even manage like $30,000 in debt, how are you going to manage like a
multi-billion dollar deficit or surplus.
I think Sarah Rodriguez, I don't think she, well, regardless of her politics, I don't think that she surrounded herself with the right team.
And I think that even though she might have had a good campaign early on, but this is kind of a testimony that like, especially in politics, if you don't have the right support structure around you, you can have the best ideas in the world and you can run a good campaign.
But if you're not crossing your T's and dotting your I's, it almost doesn't matter.
So I think it was more of an organizational failure on her standpoint than anything else because I mean it got to a point where it was just the amount of money that was mismanaged was too insurmountable that I think that the majority of the electorate just kind of lost overall faith because they're looking at this and they're like dude you like you're not even in the you haven't even won the primary yet and you already have this huge issue going on.
It doesn't instill a lot of confidence.
Okay, so Tom Tiffany is a mega candidate.
He's endorsed by Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is currently polling double digits negatives in 47 of the 50 states and the three states that he's not are Wyoming, Idaho, and West Virginia, which are also some of the least popular states.
on there.
I know I think everybody can kind of look around and look at what his campaign promises were and we can see how many of those came true.
I'm pretty sure it's none or maybe one.
So I think anything mega currently right now kind of has a cancer attached to it.
Another big hurdle for him is the vast majority of young people are disfavorable of the Israel lobby and in Congress he took over $51,000 from APEC.
He also voted against the Epstein files, Transparency Act.
And I think both of those things, I mean, the Epstein files, I would hope people would care about.
But the APAC issue,
of people don't even necessarily, you would think, but apparently not.
The APAC thing is a lot of people don't even necessarily think super positively or negatively about Israel in general.
It's, they're just,
very obviously influencing our government in a way that I don't think is beneficial for the United States.
And I think that's more of a litmus test than being like, Oh, well, is your this, is your that?
I think it's more of a litmus test being like, okay, well, if you get elected, who are you actually going to represent?
Are you going to represent these special interests that don't necessarily like have, they'll not mission aligned with what the United States wants.
Um, and I don't know any young people, me included that I can't vote for somebody that takes a back month.
And most of the people in my age group are the same thing, just because we've seen what happens with that.
And so for David Crowley, again, that's kind of the other thing.
Now his data center answer, when he said what separates me and Francesca Hong and the primary thing he said was data centers.
I don't know what he was thinking, saying that to be completely honest, like you're just giving a bunch of ammunition regardless of even if you think you have a common sense implementation of that, like.
That's like saying yeah, dude.
I'm pro-flat camera You know what I mean like no nobody He's gonna agree with that.
I don't think that that's a winning
good
now And so I mean it's just the difference between the two right now.
I mean it kind of seems like
I'm going to wait for Crowley's campaign to develop a bit more, but it seems like we're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place, which we find ourselves all too often in these political races.
I think that's one of the reasons why Hong almost beat him.
She only lost by like, I think point two or point four points.
And if you're looking at like the Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, regardless of what you think about them, you can see that they're, they're making some pretty big headway across the country.
I don't agree with.
a lot of their platform but and I honestly don't think there's definitely people that vote for them that are like yes I'm a card-carrying socialist and stuff.
I don't think the majority of people that and I might be wrong but I don't think the majority of people that are actually pushing these DSA candidates are necessarily socialists or communists themselves.
I think they're just
so disenfranchised with the current system and the safe options and the capitalist options and the normie options or whatever you want to call it, that it's kind of like Trump in 2016, where like, people are just so fed up with the status quo right now that they're willing to take a bet on any potential change candidate, regardless of whether they fully agree with their issues, because people are kind of looking at it and being like, well, what do I have to lose?
And I can honestly fully empathize with that.
I mean, clearly,
going with the status quo.
I don't think many people would agree right now.
It's working out.
Um, Milwaukee has a huge opportunity to make or break the general election.
Um, the vast majority of the voter base are boomers or people over 65.
Um, now
that's generally always been the case because they have the most free time because a lot of them are like retirees and a lot of voting itself happens during the day.
That's going to entirely depend on how engaged Tiffany or Crowley are able to get young people.
Young people can make or break elections, but not if they're not enthusiastic about voting for them.
That's one thing that I think Hong did a great job at.
She really mobilized the base and she got a lot of grassroots support behind her.
We're still ways out from November, but that's not something that I've seen Crowley or Tiffany really do a lot of and if you're If you're leaving it up to the establishment voter, I really don't know It's kind of a toss-up right now as to which one's gonna win Whoever is able to energize the voter and energize young people because that's gonna predominantly influence Milwaukee It's probably gonna take the cake of the electorate.
I don't see either of them Doing a lot of work right now
to do that.
Like I mean, I think Crowley would be smart to kind of coalesce Francesca Hong as like maybe a campaign advisor or something or maybe get him to rally for her.
Tom Tiffany, I'm going to be completely honest right now.
He's so establishment and with his record right now, I think that the people that are going to vote for him are going to vote for him.
I think that unless he comes out with something like maybe a data center moratorium.
or like, hey, maybe we need to reconsider flat cameras or something that are like really hot topic issues with the general populace.
I don't know how many people he's going to be able to swing across the aisle just because of his prior record.
So I think it's kind of up to Crowley to make or break this race for him.
I think it's very important.
Black populace has a very unique aspect in that they are very, uh, right or die.
There's, you guys have a fantastic consensus.
Um, and that kind of speaks to the level of community that you guys share that like, Hey, you guys can kind of all come to an agreement and you have the capability to make or break elections.
Um, and so that's something that I mean, you can kind of see, especially in any swing state, regardless of whether it's Wisconsin or not, if it's a close election, everybody kind of like panders to
or campaign towards the black community because I mean like I think Obama won with like a 96 percentile.
No other demographic breakdown group is capable of kind of organizing to that aspect.
So I mean if you if you can get the black vote and you can get them to mobilize and you can get them to really believe in your campaign.
I think history has shown that that's that's a win or lose demographic that you can get.
It's just the problem is like.
Because of the history of everything that has gone on They're a lot more skeptical which I don't blame them.
They're a lot more skeptical than the average demographic
traffic just because of how many times they've been like hoodwinked and used.
Um, but I think that's one of the reasons why when they, when they do agree on a candidate, they really come out, they come out of drugs.
Michael.
We'll be right back.
It sounds like I called you Michael.
Michael.
His name is Michael J. Jacles politically homeless.
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After these messages, we're going to get into a few more questions.
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What's up, what's up, Milwaukee?
You are listening to the award winning 101.7 the truth We have Michael Jacobs on politically homeless is his ad make sure you follow like subscribe Right now we are getting deep into the governor's race recap All right, 2020 says what Wisconsin governor's race recap.
Let me be specific So
But just before we left, we asked you how important the backwater turn out will be.
And the next question on my list was disconnect between Milwaukee's political leadership and some of its residents.
I know you talked a little bit about that disconnect and how we're really feeling like we're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Did you want to get more into that?
Yeah, I mean, in my opinion, I think that people at a local leadership level are just far too worried about optics.
And again, I mean, I guess, ironically, the politics of things, then they are about actually representing their constituents.
The food trucks is a prime example.
People here would rather go after low hanging fruit and basically just like kind of like farm headlines than actually affect positive change.
I think that's because a lot of them have
kind of bigger ambitions than necessarily Milwaukee.
And so they want to play the game right.
I do think that right now is a very unique opportunity.
And again, a lot of things I'm talking about Milwaukee, I think do kind of span out and apply nationally just because of how like upset and disgruntled the vast majority of people are right now.
I think that anybody who has genuinely good ideas, but more importantly, is just like unapologetically them.
And not afraid to take a stand for something that they believe in right now I think that no amount of focus group testing or like playing it safe politically Would be able to kind of counter that like like people like Cavalier.
I mean hey He's done some good stuff with the city in terms of roads, but whenever there seems to be big culture issues or maybe
like fights at the state fair fights at summer fest and stuff like that he just kind of comes out with a statement but i'm like i mean you don't really seem to visit these communities for anything other than a photo op you don't seem to be super interested in like what the root cause of these problems are and if you're not interested in what the root cause of these problems are at least be interested in like making sure that they don't keep happening like it just feels like we keep electing people in Milwaukee and it doesn't matter who you elect that like they talk a big game and then the second they get in they're like
they're too afraid to kind of put their foot on the scale and like your people are elected and people are unelected and have new people go in office not because they were happy with the track record of the person prior it's because x y and z is going on and they don't feel like they're getting somebody who actually takes it as seriously as it impacts their lives.
Going honestly being a populist like and the the thing with that is like some some people will look at it and be like oh well I don't Well, what if what if I don't believe in that?
What if I don't this what if I don't that that's kind of where the line I Guess I'm gonna kind of contradict myself here
If you're elected to be someone like governor or someone like a mayor, you're definitely elected for your personality and people's ability for how well they think you can communicate, what they think your fundamental values are, but you're not elected to be a dictator.
You are elected to be representative of your constituency.
Unfortunately, that's something that doesn't seem to be really, they don't really seem to care about much anymore.
you're like, oh, you know, well, I kind of like data centers, you know, maybe they've supported my campaign or stuff like that.
And then you come out and you have like 80% of a population being like, no, absolutely not.
Or if you're going to do it, you have to do it this way.
I do think it's irresponsible for you as a candidate, especially as a governor, to throw your constituency to the side in the name of special interest.
If like, I feel like winning is honestly as easy as just
getting a pulse of society right now and looking at the popular issues.
No to thought cameras, no to data centers, no amount of special interest money that they could potentially be giving you, could would swing as many voters as you saying, you know what, I hear you guys, I hear that you don't want this, I'm gonna take this seriously and I'm gonna represent you.
The amount of word of mouth advertising and stuff that will go through on that is gonna
completely trample however many hundreds of thousands of dollars any of these special interest groups can do.
So just like go on TikTok, go on Facebook, go on Instagram, go out in your community, ask random people, go to like a Brewer game or a Bucks game and be like, hey, like, what's one thing that's going great in your life right now?
And what's two things that you wish could change that somebody like me might be able to do about it?
I think a lot, there's going to be a lot of overlap and issues and stuff going on.
And if you just run a campaign that's
for the people and by the people, even if it's just like 40% of that, I think that's going to be the biggest difference with swing voters because there's not a lot of trust anymore.
Nobody really believes anything that anybody says anymore.
And so like you really got to show it and you got to show that you believe it or at least show that you're willing to listen.
I don't want people dictating from the top.
And unfortunately, that's what we've had for a long time.
you date it data centers and I'm gonna be honest data centers and flat cameras Data centers flat cameras are I mean I have my issue with them from like a fourth amendment standpoint
Data centers are a really, really big issue, though, especially just because they're a complete disaster to any community that they go in, whether it's the noise pollution, whether it's the actual pollution, whether it is the electricity issues as we're already going into a huge global energy crisis right now.
And you're saying that I'm going to have to pay more for electricity just because this
Data centers getting built and clearing out like 200 acres of farmland next to me And I got to pay for more or I'm gonna have rolling blackouts just because like some idiot wants to like generate like a banana video on chat GPT Something like the value and oh it's gonna steal all my jobs by the way while we're at it like the value Proposition doesn't really seem to be there for it
And Wisconsin is very uniquely positioned as you can see with everything that's going on with how much lakes we have and how much freshwater we have and how much undeveloped land that we have.
It's going to be very issue.
easy for people in power if the community doesn't apply pressure to it for our state to turn into a state like Virginia where people are seeing 13% increases or 1300% increases in their energy bills and they're going from literally like 130 200 bucks to over $900 a month and becoming unsustainable.
Oh and by the way, I'm old enough to remember when we had to start getting hybrids and electric cars and
paper straws and everything because we were so concerned about the environment and then all of a sudden
turtles like oh, yeah Yeah, say yeah save the turtles but like build a data center in the habitat and it doesn't matter like I'm like wait a second What happened to like climate change or global warming?
Are we having fires every single year?
Like I wasn't able to breathe for a week and walkie and like we're like, you know what we need more so like common sense things
need
now.
We need more fires every year.
Do
They need to campaign for the people.
Like Tom Tiffany, especially, like if you want to get any swing voters, dude, you've got to, I mean, you can't untake the APAC money, but you've got to distance yourself and make some commitments for that.
I think he has a huge opportunity unless Carly Pivots to become the anti-data center guy.
that's something that a lot of Republicans about it kind of been pushing.
They call him like, what are they even calling him like data center crowd or something?
You're giving them free ammo.
Yeah, yeah, no, it's not a good nickname.
He needs like each kind of has their own like, like, red line going against them right now.
And again, the Tiffany one, the Epstein files is not a good thing.
He needs to clarify that.
I don't think that
I think moving away from the mega base would be good right now considering how wildly unpopular they are.
We've been seeing in the midterms right now.
Trump used to be a golden ticket if you wanted to get elected.
It's kind of been the opposite recently.
And I think that Tiffany would be wise to realize that if he actually wants to win against some swing voters.
And at the same time, Crowley needs to
define who he is as a person and who he's going to be as a candidate like even in my research I couldn't find a lot of unique things about him or like things about who he actually is as a person which is one of the reasons why he is the safe candidate but people don't want to vote for a safe candidate right now like safe is what got us into the position that we're at right now we need someone who's willing to fight for us and if people are able to kind of like
define their personality, regardless of what side of the aisle I'm right now, being like, hey, these aren't left or right issues.
These are Wisconsin issues or these are Milwaukee issues or these are family issues or these are like costs of living issues.
I think that if you look at what people care about right now, people are willing to vote for almost anybody as long as they're not selling themselves out directly to people who don't have the same interests as us and are just focused on
making everybody's life easier, more affordable, and less miserable.
don't know.
I mean, it's as it stands right now, it's a toss up.
And I think that that's more of a
opportunity thing than anything else.
Again, I doubt.
Tiffany is going to listen to what I mean, what do I know?
I might be wrong.
I doubt Tiffany is going to listen to any of what I have to say about bridging the gap.
He might do the data center thing, but that's about it.
He's pretty ingrained with his voter base.
The people that are going to vote for Tiffany are pretty much just going to vote for Tiffany anyways.
I think the ball is really in Crowley's court to really see if he can actually rise to the occasion and become a populist candidate and really champion issues that average Wisconsin residents are feeling right now.
because as it stands right now, nationally, it's the Democrats' chance to win.
Republicans are super disenfranchised right now after the Trump administration winning and then one-aiding, I think, more than any president in U.S.
history on all of its campaign promises.
So I don't think many Republicans are very excited to vote right now, whereas Democrats...
Could get very excited to vote.
I mean look at how many DSA candidates are are getting elected or almost getting elected right now That shows an absolute hunger and I think that that's a great opportunity for the Democrats to pop or to capitalize on populist Talking points Because I mean I think Tiffany's just gonna write it out and I think that Tiffany could win if probably keeps doing what he's doing right now to be honest because I don't see that much different between them in terms of what like they're actually gonna do
Um, where, uh, yeah, it's Carly's race to win if he wants to win it.
In my opinion.
messages.
We are back and you are listening to the lunch break with Ray Middy and maybe standing on the award-winning 101.7 The Truth.
Today we have a very special politically homeless, AKA Michael Jacobs on and we've been talking about the governor's race, the Wisconsin governor's race, and we got pretty deep into some conversation.
You guys are coming in on the end of it.
before we head into something else because I do have another question for you.
You did mention you're a DJ and there's been a lot with the DJ scene and the bar scene and all the things.
But before we pivoted that, I did want to ask you, what do you think the voters should be paying closer to now into November?
What should our voters be paying attention to?
Number one.
Affordability, I think affordability is the biggest issue right now.
Whether it's inflation, whether it's grocery prices, the cattle ranchers, I don't know if you like have seen what's going on with like Trump's importing like a bunch of like Argentinian, Brazilian like diseased beef and stuff and just completely screwing over our cattle ranchers and like literally might up an
So that's one of their like that's one of his core demographic people and their industry is getting completely blown up right now But again, it kind of goes in on the affordability like I think that
This is a very politically charged phrase, but it shouldn't be because it was taken by people that I don't think actually believe in it I think that America first should be focused on it like I don't think we should be meddling with
other
countries right now I don't think we should be supporting other countries right now You got to clean your own room before you fix the world and our room looks like we just got robbed like We have so like
affordability
data centers plot cameras groceries electricity bills like all of these things right now that
they average American like look I can turn off my TV and ignore culture warrants issues you know what I mean like and I think that's how a lot of people
vote hey
if I turn off my TV and I don't know who said what is my life going to be negatively or positively impacted with a lot of presidencies prior to this no this one yes
There's not going to be a lot that you can do to kind of curve, I guess, what's going on in the White House right now, whether you like it or dislike it.
And so looking at what any candidate in Wisconsin is running on and seeing what their plan is to actually help Wisconsinites.
And more importantly, the plan of how they're going to help Wisconsinites, anybody can have ideas.
But again, unless you actually have like a cold hard plan where you can actually translate that into positive change, I think people should be very wary of it.
Okay.
Thank you.
Firstly, but I wanted to get your input on the Milwaukee, no Milwaukee music, the no playlist that came out of the garage that the DJs were given.
What's your take on?
I'm pretty sure you guys have all heard by now that the bar of the garage on Brady Street are a little bit off Brady Street.
neither here nor there they had a no playlist and it was all black rappers it wasn't specific songs it was rappers and then at the end emboldened said no Milwaukee rap and it's it sparked a bit of a debate what do you think about that what's your take on it
okay so for disclosure uh i dj at the garage i was actually the dj that that list was distributed to that night
like I was playing the night that that list was distributed to I was given like a little bit of a notice um I can tell you I played artists on that list so it's not necessarily like a no playlist I think it was more of a vibe um there's a lot so I have to be careful about what I say because there's a lot of things that can be said what I will say is that
Okay, I can understand 100% why people are frustrated.
That being said, I think garage is getting a lot of heat that should be not so focused directly on garage.
One of the reasons why garage is one of the only places that I've chosen to play recently is because it's one of the only venues left in Milwaukee where I genuinely had open format and creative control over what I played.
Like I can tell you the last bar that I played
uh, rider by Chicken Piat was at the garage.
And that was like three weeks ago.
Like, I've played,
like I can play anything there.
I've played Milwaukee music and stuff there.
That's why it was kind of a bit out of left field for me.
But, um...
I love having the freedom to play whatever I want.
I also understand when certain venue owners, depending on the type of vibe they're going to curate, might like something or might dislike something.
Now that's up to the patron.
Do you want to go there?
Do you not want to go there?
Do you support stuff like that?
It's also up to the DJ.
It's one of the reasons why I quit DJing some of the bars on Water Street three years ago.
Garage is not the only bar in Milwaukee to have that list.
They might have been
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We just ended an interview with Michael Jacles Politically homeless was a really good interview.
We talked about the governor's race and what each candidate can do to get ahead
We talked about a lot of things.
Make sure you guys check us out.
We're on YouTube, so you can rewatch if you need to.
But before we left, we asked Michael Jacobs what he thought.
The no playlist.
And, um, you know, I wanted to bring that up again just because what he said was
Actually very true.
They are not the only bar to do something like that and I do that They have a lot of pressures outside pressures to play other things like people attacking Play places or demographics that actually need no problems, right?
And I thought the question that I asked at the end about fights breaking out to those songs is that's what
Is that what he's witnessing?
And he said no because a lot of like a lot of what I'm seeing on Facebook is people that do agree are like, well, that's probably because every time they play at their fighting.
So I thought it was a very important question to ask because he does play at the garage and he does play on Water Street and he does play downtown.
So that was very important to ask.
And I think after my segment about it last, nope, that wasn't last week.
I'm sorry.
That was Tuesday.
I've had a long week y'all.
You have it's been like
I've lived many lives y'all and I think I bring that up because I know people hate when I start talking about Vegas and whatever they like But it's important to have this perspective because I know a bunch of these out here and
It's interesting for it's embarrassing actually for them to hit me up and be like yo is this real They can't believe y'all doing this type of stuff like it's it's Yeah, it's actually disheartening right So for those of you that I don't know I'm gonna circle back the story we talked about earlier this week
Traveled far on Milwaukee, right?
We talked about the garage on Brady Street in that viral no play list a list telling DJs not to play along with the hip-hop artists featuring little Wayne future gorilla Travis Scott little baby Migos two chains and I know it feels like We're beating a dead horse pun intended because we don't talk about them horses.
They've been gathering up and slaughtering, but that's the difference That's for later But this list went viral
DJs were reportedly told the restrictions were effective immediately, including remixes, and not following the rules could jeopardize their gigs.
The garage later said that the list was created by an employee and wasn't approved by ownership.
Ownership said the intention was to reduce music content, for instance, to guns, violence, and create a more real atmosphere.
And they admitted that banning an entire art is wrong.
or the wrong way to go about it, right?
And like I said, people have been hitting megas, and I'm talking to friends of mine who are huge DJs out here, and they can't believe that this type of thing is real.
They're asking me, so what do people play?
They're like, most of these artists are top artists, and me and Zach talk about that.
Literally, that's what I was saying.
Like, what do you want from us?
And that's exactly what they were saying.
Like, that's why they thought a joke.
They thought, like, it's messed up because we literally, like, I think it's Milwaukee people, what I'm seeing online, right?
And I'm seeing this from the African-American community, right?
Well, they don't want y'all down there acting a fool.
They sick of y'all going to the establishment when they send that thing.
Michael literally just said that that's not what's really happening.
So that that that can be dead and then they're like we'll find a different place to go Okay fine, but it's bigger than just finding a different place to go when Michael said There are places on water street that do it.
I said that I was saying do y'all remember a time They would literally like be like don't wear this this this and it's everything that y'all know is popping in a black community at the time Whatever y'all could think of that y'all think black people wear
I said like the last time they gonna tell me like no box braids and no lace fronts and then they gonna be like well it's not races we just we don't want tumbleweaves around the property whatever but I just feel like it's so it's embarrassing to have to have this conversation about segregation and about how messed up RC is in some ways
with people that aren't from there because it's so like they look at it as like we are they look at it as like you know what y'all saying?
So I have to say it happened in Milwaukee you know and sometimes when we're born and raised somewhere where we get used to these conversations you start saying well like oh yeah you know how Milwaukee is y'all find your own place
We sick of this conversation.
Why don't y'all do something else?
Just go where y'all wanted at.
And it becomes normal because this is what we've seen our whole life, right?
And people from the other cities, and that's why living in a different place gives me a different perspective.
Knowing people from different backgrounds, knowing people that go to these places, knowing people that work at these places, it will give you a different perspective because a lot of times in our community, we agree
with the wrong side, because we also have those unconscious biases and we think automatically that we're doing something wrong sometimes.
I genuinely do believe that.
So we had a caller last week, or I'm sorry, I keep saying last week, it wasn't last week, it was the other day.
Don't blame my heart, blame my head, I'm all over the place.
We did have a caller when we were talking about it, he said he used to DJ in Chicago.
And I like that call because you could tell he was an older gentleman.
He used to play the Isley Brothers to slow it down a little bit, but he understood the point that we were making.
A good DJ knows how to change the energy without banning an entire culture, essentially.
That's the conversation because I completely understand a business saying the vibe is getting too aggressive, a little too much is going on.
We're getting some complaints, right?
And we don't want explicit songs.
I get it.
We don't want music glorifying gun violence all night.
That's okay.
But that's where the DJ really earns their money.
A DJ can read the room.
They can transition.
They know when you've been in one pocket a little too long and it's time to switch it up a little bit.
You can switch it up because most of those artists have remixes with country singers.
They got remixes with all types.
And you tell them we can't play.
These people, what are we talking about here?
So you can change the temperature without announcing black rappers are the problem.
Whether that was the intention or not, that's literally how that list looks.
And people think we're being a dead horse.
They think that we're doing too much about being loud about it, but the reason it's gone so viral.
We're used to this type of stuff in Milwaukee.
But the rest of the world is looking at us like we lost our mind.
They think we're playing.
That's how crazy that list looks to anybody else in this world.
We're so used to these conversations.
We're so used to this type of behavior.
And we're so used to just sitting down and be like, you know what, maybe we are the problem.
Maybe.
But we just heard from a DJ's there.
No, I ain't seen no fights there.
But there may be other pressures outside of that.
I remember somebody telling me,
A few years ago, I don't know if this is still true that Water Street, the only bar to have Hennessy was truth.
You can't get the Henny.
They're doing whatever they can to deter or what they think will deter African-American people from pledges.
And it ain't always us fighting.
It ain't always.
We talked about that earlier in the week.
But we are made to believe we the problem and if we such the problem Why is it so many of us agree that we don't want to be in environments where people throwing hands and feet all the time?
Don't sound like we the problem if most of us free that we don't want to get knocked over our head with a bottle I'm just saying so I Just don't understand why that was the solution
If the problem is violin lyrics, they can make a content policy.
And we've talked about that.
But when we get back, we're going to get deeper into this, all right?
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Yes again
about the no playlists, no Milwaukee rap, the list that included rappers, some of our top rappers at this time.
Okay, we'll get back into that.
Because like I said, we just had Michael Jacobs on the show and we talked about the governor's race.
His ad is politically homeless.
And he definitely talked to us about this as well, because he also DJs.
And he's DJed at the garage.
And he said that he has not experienced fights while playing hip hop artists.
And that's important, because like I said, most people on my Instagram and Facebook, they're saying things like, well, they don't want people fighting at their establishment.
Anytime you play, we had to call it.
a few days ago.
Say, especially Big Frank.
All I know is Big Frank.
Make dance and move it.
Music.
He gets the kids moving.
We start blaming Big Frank.
And like I said, I do feel like a lot of times we are very quick to side with people that are blaming us or trying to make us the problem we're not the problem.
I just was talking about how Milwaukee people get so used to these conversations.
It's not taboo for us, but me living in Vegas really shines a light on how odd this behavior is.
I talked about how the caller called in a few days ago and he said he used to DJ in Chicago and he just changed it up a little bit.
And you can control a room as a DJ without saying no Milwaukee rap music, without banning some of the top rappers of our time.
The artists, not the records, right?
Because we constantly ask, why doesn't Milwaukee music make the scene, the music scene, and get all this recognition at Lana Giz, and this is why we can't break.
We're too divided.
Why do talented people feel like they have to leave to blow up?
And then we're seeing right now how hard it is to reach across the island Milwaukee as an artist.
We can't complain that outsiders don't support Milwaukee artists when establishments in Milwaukee won't even support them.
That's backwards.
And I do want to be fair, they said,
Even though it said the list is coming from ownership, ownership said, not I. Believe what y'all want.
But also wanted to admit something, y'all.
The Rave and the Pap's Theater, they got petty.
I saw that.
Yeah, you saw what they posted.
I feel
Also the PAPS theater group posted something too.
They were like, oh, here's some of
favorite Milwaukee acts that we've had on our stages.
So they got in on
as well.
But like Michael said it might not even because the garage held out and I mentioned it in the last episode where we talked about this a lot of times Downtown Water Street, it might not be the owners putting the pressure on them.
Just like what happened with the food truck situation It could be the powers that be
It's like I said a lot of those bars and water street I don't know if it's still a thing But when I was living there the only one to serve any was the only black on one and they barely wanted them to be there You know what I'm saying?
Think about that a lot of those clubs They would have really odd rules very specific to black people Can't get in here Don't wear this don't do that Just saying
But yeah, I think the bigger, bigger conversation here is, what makes a DJ?
Wait, I'm sorry.
Crowd control without making the crowd feel control isn't art, right?
And I got a question.
What point does a business setting the vibe across the line into discriminating against the culture or the people associated with that music?
A332121017.
Milwaukee talk to me.
I know the other day you guys had a lot to say a few people agreed with the rules and the policy but now that you guys hear that It was actually Not us fighting in there.
That was the problem Because I was thinking okay.
Well, maybe there was an uptick of violence happening with why those songs were playing but it's been confirmed.
No That ain't it That ain't it
I mean, you heard Michael, he said he was playing every time we touch when a fight broke out at the heart.
And like we said the other day, New York was playing Halo by Beyonce in the club once and a fight broke out.
Like, I don't
Those songs might, it might be easy to take those wrong when they said every time we touch, they probably thought start throwing hands and Halo, they probably was like, you know what, we gonna sing you up there.
That's probably what happened.
I don't know.
But I'll let y'all, I'll let y'all eat y'all lunch because I also wanted to get into something else that happened in Milwaukee.
I think that was this was a day or two ago.
A kid got into a zoo exhibit or enclosure, I should say.
Right.
How did he get inside the zoo enclosure?
There's a video circulating of a 13-year-old boy inside of the African Savannah exhibit at the Milwaukee County Zoo He's running around near southern ground hornbills holding a stick and chasing the birds All right, I want to be careful here because online they said he was beating the birds and all this and that because that also has gone viral Milwaukee been really going viral lately or We all over the place
Y'all got me doing a lot of explaining out here.
They like this really happened.
I'm like You know I can only be a representative so much Okay They said he was beating the birds but the reports confirmed that he was chasing them with a stick Thankfully no animals and no people were injured the entire incident reportedly lasted only a few minutes
But there are two or three minutes inside of an animal habitat, right?
And that can become dangerous really really quickly inside of an animal habitat and then you got some animals too that They like if you scare them they will die so that's super Like yeah, he probably wasn't beating them, but he was chasing them.
He was causing them distress He was stressing them birds out
They was running for their lives Okay, and that could become dangerous for him as well What if them birds would have turned around and attacked them now they want to put good We've seen how that goes.
They want to put the bird down.
Well, they we got to put them down
R.P.
Haran,
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These
they
But then we learn about a much bigger story, right?
The family spoke out and the boy's father said that his son is severely autistic He has ADHD and epilepsy.
I got ADHD my sister got epilepsy I don't think they got nothing to do with why he wasn't you know Well, let's keep this going his father says animals are one of his son's biggest interests in that Come on man
With a stick what he interested, you know what let me just keep going and the Milwaukee County Zoo may actually be his favorite place The family reportedly has annual passes and they visit many times and this is they've gone there many times without any of these things happening That day he was with his grandmother and a caregiver while his parents were working according to his father.
Everything had been just fine
Until near the end of that visit when his son suddenly broke away and his grandmother his grandmother kidding We're playing the video right now and you can actually hear the grandmother.
I think saying oh, he's autistic Let him run he'll run himself out They ended up getting them with help of the zoo visitors and security Again nobody was injured but um
I guess this is crazy.
I'm sorry.
I'm re-looking at the video too.
And it's actually wild.
Like it's two minutes.
They try to make it seem like two minutes is like not a lot of time.
But do you know how long two or three minutes actually is?
I
mean, our commercial breaks are three minutes.
and then I blame them I don't blame
I I put the blame on them for for taking their eyes off an autistic kid
that loves animals and loves birds and loves the zoo so much and is at the height where he can jump off and
away like
this is
crazy.
wasn't the baby that got in the Harambe enclosure even smaller than this kid.
So
I just don't under I mean, I mean, whatever.
Just put
Don't they don't they still have like leashes for at the zoo?
Like or was that just me?
Was I the only kid
put on a leash like a leash backpack?
You are not the only
So
especially
Imagine if they wasn't a bird history of me loping He's a teenager.
So I believe that history may have developed far before this incident it had to Okay
And I will say, yes, autism is a spectrum.
So, you know, different impulse controls, different level of independence or ability to understand danger, all that, right?
But like I said, when you know you have a child that has special needs, you have a very special job now.
Okay.
And honestly, like, I don't understand how he got into like, how did he get in there?
Like, it takes a little time to get over there.
Y'all know that, right?
So, three minutes inside the cage.
How long did it take him to climb it?
I know he ain't got Jordan hops.
His legs don't look that strong.
He didn't just clear the fence.
Come on, man.
And if he dropped,
far drop.
far drop, bro.
Yeah, look how high up that is.
Climbing over and then jumping down from
cement.
there's a tree right there probably picked it from under the tree
insane and like I said I do think it's a adult's responsibility for him to have been safe and they should have watched him far more closely I do understand that he's autistic I do and I understand his love of love of animals
But like we just said, has he attempted this before?
Has he run away before?
Has he shown these behaviors that he'll get fixated on the animal and go after him?
I'm pretty sure if he's in there chasing him with a stick, and he has this love for animals, this is crazy.
And there should be special accommodations for kids that are eloping.
I don't know.
I think a lot of people are too embarrassed to like put their kid on a backpack, put their kid on a leash, put their kid in a stroller.
I'll do it.
If it means my child's safety, I don't care how y'all looking at me.
I'm gonna put my baby in a stroller, a leash, a headlock.
I don't care.
You coming with me boo?
Come on now.
So, where do you draw the line between giving a child independence and taking additional safety precautions?
Would y'all use a stroller or a harness or a wrist tether for y'all kids?
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Right, Nidhi, you'll be back.
But right now, you got me and Brother Z. All right?
And we got a caller on the line.
We've been talking about the garage and no playlist.
We've been talking about the baby jumping in the zoo exhibit.
And we've got East Side Corey on the line.
What are you
doing?
I need a little clarification.
I was a little confused.
You know, I don't pay attention to real mainstream stories, but this is a hot one with Brady Street.
There used to be a bar called Why Not Two.
They used to be really diverse and play a lot of jazz, rock and roll, and some very famous artists that used to do sets there.
I don't think it exists anymore.
And Hi Hat has always seemed to have this identity problem as to when to play the dance music because it's a restaurant, right?
So, the kind of rap music that I'm thinking of that's for a big crowd like that would be the female, like McCarty B, fun, you know, always a fun vibe, or Megan Thee Stallion or Missy Elliott, where everybody's got those lyrics and they get into it.
It's fun, it's real positive.
Is there a particular artist that people are having a problem with or is it just, are they letting the DJ be the lead, you know, show the leadership?
because there's so many diverse hip-hop artists outside.
I'm into Japanese female artists right now who are doing great dance hip-hop stuff.
It's fantastic.
You know, their vibe is cool, but I'm confused about that.
And then with the artistic boy, you know, they got some of our artistic children, got that artistic strength, and they also got that one thing they can do really well.
This kid, they can focus in and figure out how to
Break into things or you could channel that energy into something positive.
No doubt.
Um, but if he's too big for grandma, it's time to get him a harness.
Yeah.
Who got who went and got him out of there with the situation?
Do they show that part?
So I guess they said grandma security and more staff ended up jumping or three minutes, but if I'm not mistaken in that video, you can actually hear the grandma like, Oh, he's autistic and not moving with haste.
So I think a lot of people were like, just exactly.
And that's what people took away from that.
They were like, is she just saying this like as an excuse instead of getting in there and taking care of business?
Like you said, if he's too big for grandma, it's time to get a harness or make sure he's with the proper people that can handle them.
You should have a petting zoo there.
He needs to know that these are living creatures and be gentle.
He needs somebody to teach him to be gentle
all animals to be gentle and let them come to you.
It's a teachable moment, but sure, you know, he's concentrated energy child.
You better watch out with that strength Artistic children
Thank you, thank you so much for giving us the call it's always good to talk to our cousins And he he did ask a question he asked if it was a specific artist and yes the list the reason people felt upset because it wasn't
them saying don't play music with guns and violence and fighting lyrics it was just specific artists and that's where it comes in like are you just trying to basically like block out our music specifically they have Lil Wayne on the list they have Future they had I don't have the list in front of me brother Z do you have the list by any chance
uh yeah uh sexy red
Kodak Black, 42 Dug, Chief Keef, King Vong, NBA Young Boy, Lil Dirk, G Herbo, ESTG, Future, Young Dug, 21 Savage, City Girls, Tyga, Glorilla, Lotto, Lil Baby, Gunna, Playboy, Cardi, Migos, Offset, Quavo, 2 Chainz, Gucci, Main, Rick Ross, Lil Uzi, Lil Wayne, Money Bag, Yo, Keekalock, Young Dolph, and All in Bold, and Caps, No Milwaukee Music.
or normal Milwaukee rap.
Like it wasn't specific songs.
They didn't specifically say don't play this type.
They just named these artists without actually like I feel like without reason, honestly.
And now that we've talked to somebody that's DJ there that does DJ there and we know that
those songs or those artists specifically aren't causing the fights it just makes you feel like there's a bigger issue downtown on Brady on third that they just don't want us there and there probably is pressures from outside powers that be right that are like man we we got to figure something out and then they just like we said before go after the low hanging fruit
To act like they're doing something to stop what's going on But a lot of times when people are getting in trouble at these bars on water on Brady, it's not really even the people inside It's the people hanging outside.
It's the kids with nothing to do Right so That that's the conversation we were having
And like I said, before we went on break, we were just talking about, you know, how that kid got into the enclosure at the zoo, and how grandma couldn't really handle him, you know?
And I've got two stories involving animals, speaking of animals, right?
Nearly 30,000 pounds of beef have been recalled.
We don't talk about that.
All right, and you know America's wild horses are being rounded up from public lands and Some concerns about where they're ending up have been popping up Right so Approximately approximately 29,628 pounds of raw beef imported from Argentina
has been recalled.
Why you ask?
Well, federal officials discovered that the beef entered the U.S.
without undergoing the required USDA important reinspection.
And when you hear beef recall, you automatically think like E. coli, Salmonella, you know, maybe some type of contamination.
But that's not what the officials say happened here The problem is that the meat entered the commerce without going through a required inspection Checkpoint and honestly that bothers me to y'all Because the inspections exist for a reason the recall products included cuts like top sir long top sir loin.
I love me some top sir long Eye round top side flat and knuckle every god eating beef knuckles anyways
the products have september 2026 used by or freeze by dates and were distributed in florida and texas so if you got cousins out there you might want to call them and say check your beef okay you better check it the good news is that the latest reporting they have been there have been no confirmed illnesses connected to this recall but how does 30
thousand pounds of beef get through before somebody realizes that the required reinspection did not happen, y'all.
That's not steak.
Somebody forgot to scan.
That's thousands and thousands of pounds of meat.
And I want to explain this why it matters because I know a lot of people will say, well, nobody got sick, so it's all right.
But it's a big deal.
Nobody got sick yet.
And the big deal is that inspections are part of the system by design to catch problems before the food reaches our families.
When meat enters the US, inspectors are supposed to verify that the meat meets, look, meat meets, you know, US requirements.
And that means, did it actually come from an approved facility?
Does the paperwork match what's inside the shipment?
Was it handled correctly?
Was it stored correctly?
Is the labeling accurate?
Were the food safety requirements followed?
And depending on the shipment, additional physical examination or testing may have to happen.
And because almost 30,000 pounds of meat got distributed,
How y'all gonna trace that through stores, distributed restaurants, people's fridges and freezers?
So even without those confirmed illnesses, missing an inspection means one of those safeguards in our food system did not happen, and that's scary, y'all.
I don't know about y'all, but I'm worried, especially when we talk about them rounding up wild horses now.
That's two separate stories that's happening at the same time.
Almost 30,000 pounds of meat got passed a checkpoint that is needed to make sure we eatin' safe food.
Man.
So, now on to the wild horses.
Because when we think about American wild mustangs, we think about freedom in the West open land, right?
They sold it to us like that, right?
The beautiful image of like a horse galloping through the wild, right?
We don't talk about this.
We don't talk about why some people are upset that they're rounding them up now.
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He also got into what's going on with the list
From the garage that's been going viral that has reached Many many states that everybody is talking about we've got celebrities sharing that list We've got people that I know from out of town asking if it's real what's going on in Milwaukee And then we got into our food recalls once again They got 30,000 pounds of beef being recalled because it wasn't inspected when it got to the US They just sent it out for us to nibble on Then we start talking about them rounding up horses
that they hyped up to just be the wild horses, the mustangs that, you know, we watched Billy Dallin in the wild.
They're rounding them up now.
I guess we might be nibbling on their ankles.
That's probably what they sent to us.
Who knows?
We don't talk about that though.
Let's kick it to the chat.
We got Jasmine Jazz West, my jam.
Hey now, you're a rock star.
Brothers, he played that coming back from a break.
We got politically homeless.
Allegedly, the kid is super autistic.
Yep.
That was confirmed, I believe, by the father.
DVJ73, I'm hoping the pets are safe.
Where he lives, do they have any?
Jasmine Jazz West said, why not?
Bar is open on them.
Bjorn, we had a caller that asked if that bar is still open.
Jasmine Jazz West said, even autistic kids are strong, so I know he's strong.
They do be strong.
I'll be arm wrestling my autistic nephew.
That's my boy.
Yeah, one commenter said, they probably think if rap music goes away, black people will too.
They basically don't want us around.
And we talked about that.
That's what we talked about.
I'm just saying.
They call it, look, Jazz and Jazz West said, how is that song to ghetto?
That's my jam.
Like I said, anything that's us automatically ghetto.
Babar said welcome back.
Hey, what are you doing in Nevada?
You didn't even stop by the block to say hi Politically homeless also said thanks for having me.
It's always a pleasure But let's get back into these horsies.
They just he don't
screaming that you was ready for me to even say that that's actually funny very telling of me so on to the wild
horses.
So the Bureau of Land Management routinely rounds of wild horses from public lands.
The agency says that the populations have to be managed because certain areas can sustainably support all of the animals living there.
And these roundups can involve hundreds and hundreds, sometimes thousands,
of these horses but the controversy is what can happen after some of these animals leave federal custody so they get rounded up by the feds when there's too many of them.
They said certain horses can eventually be sold through a federal sales process.
Once they are legally transferred out the protections that they had federally
as wild horses can disappear.
So while they're here, they are protected, right?
And many advocates are saying that's where the systems become vulnerable.
Investigations have raised concerns that the horses leaving the federal program can eventually end up in the commercial slaughter pipeline.
Now, let's be clear.
There are currently no commercial horse slaughterhouses operating in the US.
I think that's because they're federally protected.
But what they will do is transport those American horses across the border for slaughter in places like Canada and Mexico.
So essentially we round them up here.
We're gonna sell them here.
Then they lose their protections once we sell them.
Like, oh, they're not here anymore.
Oh, not protected anymore.
And what they end up doing is crossing the border and then come back slaughtered.
So to me, that feels like they're doing back door dealings, man.
Yeah.
So that's that's what I can't get past, dude.
Like so.
We spend generations turning the Mustang into this symbol of American Western history and these movies and these commercials and then we protect them and then we sell them.
That's what's been happening y'all.
There has to be a better way.
I heard somewhere that they said they're being sold as low as $25.
That's probably what we chewing on.
That's probably exactly what came that 30,000 to say wasn't wasn't the rumor
that Taco Bell uses horse meat
Okay, and they're and they want to oh, well we don't have a slaughterhouse here exactly They wouldn't we all got slaughterhouses here Yeah, but y'all gonna sell them somewhere else and then they can they lose their protections and then they can come back as meals for us
And I just don't see how we're we're we're sitting here and not questioning like there's so many recalls right now like Like what do we eat?
What y'all eating?
I want to know that in the chat.
I Ain't a salad in weeks.
I like to blame the recalls for that.
I ain't ate fruit or salads.
I like to
taking away our fruit seeds
The farmers can't even grow their own fruit.
They got to buy the seeds from the government It's getting crazy out here
Have we become too comfortable assuming safeguards are working simply because the rules exist?
Because I would never thought that they'd be rounding these horses up selling them To slaughter just because it's not being done in America.
Don't mean it ain't being done And as we see it's being done And it's so disheartening to hear that
I don't mean to sound like one of them people protect animals, but goodness.
And also, what is we eating?
They might be like you said Taco Bell meat might be horse ankles But
That's all these countries like most of our stuff is banned
And I think we're just now starting to really, like, get hip to, like, our food is not that safe.
And we really have to start growing our own stuff, sourcing our own things.
We really have to, as Americans, get used to fending for ourselves.
It's really starting to feel that way.
But we are coming to an end, y'all.
Another episode of the lunch break with just me, maybe Shannon and Brother Z holding it down on the production and sound.
It's been a good one.
Special thank you to Politically Homeless again.
Shout out to the garage for giving us so much content.
Man.
And to parents with special need children, please, please keep them baby safe because that incident could have ended up so much worse.
Thankfully they got him and he's safe.
And please y'all,
Watch what y'all eating.
I don't know it.
I don't got no answers questions or comments about that.
Just good luck You're listening to the lunch break with maybe Shannon Ray.
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We just ended an interview with Michael Jacles Politically homeless was a really good interview.
We talked about the governor's race and what each candidate can do to get ahead
We talked about a lot of things.
Make sure you guys check us out.
We're on YouTube, so you can rewatch if you need to.
But before we left, we asked Michael Jacobs what he thought.
The no playlist.
And, um, you know, I wanted to bring that up again just because what he said was
Actually very true.
They are not the only bar to do something like that and I do that They have a lot of pressures outside pressures to play other things like people attacking Play places or demographics that actually need no problems, right?
And I thought the question that I asked at the end about fights breaking out to those songs is that's what
Is that what he's witnessing and he said no because a lot of like a lot of what i'm seeing on facebook is people that do agree or like well that's probably because every time they play at their fighting So I thought it was a very important question to ask because he does play at the garage and he does play on water street and he does play downtown so that was very important to ask and I think After my segment about it last nope that wasn't last week.
I'm sorry.
That was tuesday.
I've had a long week y'all
You have it's been like I've lived many lives y'all and I think I bring that up because I know people hate when I start talking about Vegas and whatever they like But it's important to have this perspective because I know a bunch of these out here and
It's interesting for it's embarrassing actually for them to hit me up and be like yo is this real They can't believe y'all doing this type of stuff like it's it's Yeah, it's actually disheartening right So for those of you that I don't know I'm gonna circle back the story we talked about earlier this week
Traveled far on Milwaukee, right?
We talked about the garage on Brady Street in that viral no play list a list telling DJs not to play along with the hip-hop artists featuring little Wayne future gorilla Travis Scott little baby Migos two chains and I know it feels like We're beating a dead horse pun intended because we don't talk about them horses.
They've been gathering up and slaughtering, but that's the difference That's for later But this list went viral
DJs were reportedly told the restrictions were effective immediately, including remixes, and not following the rules could jeopardize their gigs.
The garage later said that the list was created by an employee and wasn't approved by ownership.
Ownership said the intention was to reduce music content, for instance, to guns, violence, and create a more real atmosphere.
And they admitted that banning an entire art is wrong.
or the wrong way to go about it, right?
And like I said, people have been hitting megas, and I'm talking to friends of mine who are huge DJs out here, and they can't believe that this type of thing is real.
They're asking me, so what do people play?
They're like, most of these artists are top artists, and me and Zach talk about that.
Literally, that's what I was saying.
I'm like, yeah.
Like, what do you want from us?
And that's exactly what they were saying.
Like, that's why they thought a joke.
They thought, like, it's messed up because we literally, like, I think it's Milwaukee people, what I'm seeing online, right?
And I'm seeing this from the African-American community, right?
Well, they don't want y'all down there acting a fool.
They sick of y'all going to the establishment when they send that thing.
Michael literally just said that that's not what's really happening.
So that that that can be dead and then they're like we'll find a different place to go Okay fine, but it's bigger than just finding a different place to go when Michael said There are places on water street that do it.
I said that I was saying do y'all remember a time They would literally like be like don't wear this this this and it's everything that y'all know is popping in a black community at the time Whatever y'all could think of that y'all think black people wear
I said like the last time they gonna tell me like no box braids and no lace fronts and then they gonna be like well it's not races we just we don't want tumbleweaves around the property whatever but I just feel like it's so it's embarrassing to have to have this conversation about segregation and about how messed up RC is in some ways
with people that aren't from there because it's so like they look at it as like we are they look at it as like you know what y'all saying?
So I have to say it happened in Milwaukee you know and sometimes when we're born and raised somewhere where we get used to these conversations you start saying well like oh yeah you know how Milwaukee is y'all find your own place
We sick of this conversation.
Why don't y'all do something else?
Just go where y'all wanted at.
And it becomes normal because this is what we've seen our whole life, right?
And people from the other cities, and that's why living in a different place gives me a different perspective.
Knowing people from different backgrounds, knowing people that go to these places, knowing people that work at these places, it will give you a different perspective because a lot of times in our community, we agree
with the wrong side, because we also have those unconscious biases and we think automatically that we're doing something wrong sometimes.
I genuinely do believe that.
So we had a caller last week, or I'm sorry, I keep saying last week, it wasn't last week, it was the other day.
Don't blame my heart, blame my head, I'm all over the place.
We did have a caller when we were talking about it, he said he used to DJ in Chicago.
And I like that call because you could tell he was an older gentleman.
He used to play the Isley Brothers to slow it down a little bit, but he understood the point that we were making.
A good DJ knows how to change the energy without banning an entire culture, essentially.
That's the conversation because I completely understand a business saying the vibe is getting too aggressive, a little too much is going on.
We're getting some complaints, right?
And we don't want explicit songs.
I get it.
We don't want music glorifying gun violence all night.
That's okay.
But that's where the DJ really earns their money.
A DJ can read the room.
They can transition.
They know when you've been in one pocket a little too long and it's time to switch it up a little bit.
You can switch it up because most of those artists have remixes with country singers.
They got remixes with all types.
And you tell them we can't play.
These people, what are we talking about here?
So you can change the temperature without announcing black rappers are the problem.
Whether that was the intention or not, that's literally how that list looks.
And people think we're being a dead horse.
They think that we're doing too much about being loud about it, but the reason it's gone so viral.
We're used to this type of stuff in Milwaukee.
But the rest of the world is looking at us like we lost our mind.
They think we're playing.
That's how crazy that list looks to anybody else in this world.
We're so used to these conversations.
We're so used to this type of behavior.
And we're so used to just sitting down and be like, you know what, maybe we are the problem.
Maybe.
But we just heard from a DJ's there.
No, I ain't seen no fights there.
But there may be other pressures outside of that.
I remember somebody telling me,
A few years ago, I don't know if this is still true, that Water Street, the only bar to have Hennessy was truth.
You can't get the Henny.
They're doing whatever they can to deter or what they think will deter African-American people from pledging this is.
And it ain't always us fighting.
It ain't always.
We talked about that earlier in the week.
But we are made to believe we the problem and if we such the problem Why is it so many of us agree that we don't want to be in environments where people throwing hands and feet all the time?
Don't sound like we the problem if most of us free that we don't want to get knocked over our head with a bottle I'm just saying so I Just don't understand why that was the solution
If the problem is violin lyrics, they can make a content policy and we've talked about that.
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So we're going to get back into the conversation.
Yes, again, about the no playlist, no Milwaukee rap.
The list that included rappers some of our top rappers at this time Okay, we'll get back into that Because like I said, we just had Michael Jacobs on the show and we talked about the governor's race His ad is politically homeless And he definitely talked to us about this as well because he also DJs
and he's DJ'd at the garage and he said that he has not experienced fights while playing hip-hop artists and that's important because like I said most people on my Instagram and Facebook they're saying things like well they don't want people fighting at their establishment anytime you play we had a caller a few days ago say especially Big Frank all I know is Big Frank make dance and move it music
He gets the kids moving We start blaming big Frank And like I said, I do feel like a lot of times We are very quick to side with people that are blaming us Or trying to make us the problem.
We're not the problem.
I Just was talking about how Milwaukee people get so used to these conversations.
It's not
taboo for us, but me living in Vegas really shines a light on how odd this behavior is.
I talked about how the caller called in a few days ago, and he said he used to DJ in Chicago, and he just changed it up a little bit.
And you can control a room as a DJ without saying no Milwaukee rap music, without banning some of the top rappers of our time.
The artist, not the records, right?
Because we constantly ask, why doesn't Milwaukee music make the scene, the music scene, and get all this recognition Atlanta gets?
And this is why we can't break.
We're too divided.
Why do talented people feel like they have to leave to blow up?
And then we're seeing right now how hard it is to reach across the aisle in Milwaukee as an artist.
We can't complain that outsiders don't support Milwaukee artists when establishments in Milwaukee won't even support them.
That's backwards And I do want to be fair they said even though it said the list is coming from ownership Ownership said not I Believe what y'all won't But also wanted to admit something y'all the Raven the paps theater they got petty.
I saw that
I loved it.
I like when people piggyback off of a moment.
They say nothing just posted some of the rap artists we've supported throughout the year.
Also, the Pap's theater group posted something too.
They were like, oh, here's some of
favorite Milwaukee acts that we've had on our stages.
So they got in on
as well.
And those are bigger venues.
But like Michael said it might not even because the garage held out and I mentioned it in the last episode where we talked about this a lot of times Downtown Water Street, it might not be the owners putting the pressure on them.
Just like what happened with the food truck situation It could be the powers that be
It's like I said a lot of those bars and water street I don't know if it's still a thing But when I was living there the only one to serve any was the only black on one and they barely wanted them to be there You know what I'm saying?
Think about that a lot of those clubs They would have really odd rules very specific to black people Can't get in here Don't wear this don't do that Just saying
But yeah, I think the bigger, bigger conversation here is, what makes a DJ?
Wait, I'm sorry.
Crowd control without making the crowd feel control isn't art, right?
And I got a question.
What point does a business setting the vibe across the line into discriminating against the culture or the people associated with that music?
A332121017.
Milwaukee talk to me.
I know the other day you guys had a lot to say a few people agreed with the rules and the policy but now that you guys hear that It was actually Not us fighting in there.
That was the problem Because I was thinking okay.
Well, maybe there was an uptick of violence happening with why those songs were playing but it's been confirmed.
No That ain't it That ain't it
I mean, you heard Michael, he said he was playing every time we touch when a fight broke out at the heart.
And like we said
New York was playing Halo by Beyonce in the club once and a fight broke out.
Like, I don't
Those songs might, it might be easy to take those wrong when they said every time we touch, they probably thought start throwing hands and Halo, they probably was like, you know what, we gonna sing you up there.
That's probably what happened.
I don't know.
But I'll let y'all, I'll let y'all eat y'all lunch because I also wanted to get into something else that happened in Milwaukee.
I think that was this was a day or two ago.
A kid got into a zoo exhibit or enclosure, I should say.
Right.
How did he get inside the zoo enclosure?
There's a video circulating of a 13-year-old boy inside of the African Savannah exhibit at the Milwaukee County Zoo He's running around near southern ground hornbills holding a stick and chasing the birds All right, I want to be careful here because online they said he was beating the birds and all this and that because that also has gone viral Milwaukee been really going viral lately or We all over the place
Y'all got me doing a lot of explaining out here.
They like this really happened.
I'm like You know I can only be a representative so much Okay They said he was beating the birds but the reports confirmed that he was chasing them with a stick Thankfully no animals and no people were injured the entire incident reportedly lasted only a few minutes
But there are two or three minutes inside of an animal habitat, right?
And that can become dangerous really really quickly inside of an animal habitat and then you got some animals too that They like if you scare them they will die so that's super Like yeah, he probably wasn't beating them, but he was chasing them.
He was causing them distress He was stressing them birds out
They was running for their lives Okay, and that could become dangerous for him as well What if them birds would have turned around and attacked them now they want to put good We've seen how that goes.
They want to put the bird down.
Well, they we got to put them down
R.P.
Haran,
R.P.
These are
But then we learn about a much bigger story, right?
The family spoke out and the boy's father said that his son is severely autistic He has ADHD and epilepsy.
I got ADHD my sister got epilepsy I don't think they got nothing to do with why he wasn't you know Well, let's keep this going.
His father says animals are one of his son's biggest interests in that
With a stick what he interested, you know what let me just keep going and the Milwaukee County Zoo may actually be his favorite place The family reportedly has annual passes and they visit many times and this is they've gone there many times without any of these things happening That day he was with his grandmother and a caregiver while his parents were working according to his father.
Everything had been just fine
until near the end of that visit when his son suddenly broke away.
And his grandmother, his grandmother, we're playing the video right now and you can actually hear the grandmother, I think, saying, oh, he's autistic.
Let him run.
He'll run himself out.
They ended up getting them with help of the zoo, visitors and security.
Again, nobody was injured.
I guess this is crazy.
I'm sorry.
I'm re-looking at the video too.
And it's actually wild.
Like it's two minutes.
They try to make it seem like two minutes is like not a lot of time.
But do you know how long two or three minutes actually is?
I
mean, our commercial breaks are three minutes.
and then I blame them I don't blame
I I put the blame on them for for taking their eyes off an autistic kid
that loves animals
loves birds and loves the zoo so much and is at the height where he can jump off and
like
this is
crazy.
wasn't the baby that got in the Harambe enclosure even smaller than this kid.
So, yeah, I just don't under I mean, I mean, whatever.
Just put
Don't they don't they still have like leashes for at the zoo?
Like or was that just me?
the only kid
put on a leash like a leash backpack?
You are not the only
So
especially
Imagine if they wasn't a bird history of me loping He's a teenager.
So I believe that history may have developed far before this incident it had to Okay
And I will say, yes, autism is a spectrum.
So different impulse controls, different level of independence or ability to understand danger, all that, right?
But like I said, when you know you have a child that has special needs, you have a very special job now.
And honestly, I don't understand how he got into, how did he get in there?
It takes a little time to get over there.
Y'all know that, right?
So, three minutes inside the cage.
How long did it take him to climb it?
I know he ain't got Jordan hops.
His legs don't look that strong.
He didn't just clear the fence.
Come on, man.
And if he dropped,
far drop.
far drop, bro.
Yeah, look how high up that is.
Climbing over and then jumping down from
cement.
there's a tree right there probably picked it from under the tree
insane and like I said I do think it's a adult's responsibility for him to have been safe and they should have watched him far more closely I do understand that he's autistic I do and I understand his love of love of animals
But like we just said, has he attempted this before?
Has he run away before?
Has he shown these behaviors that he'll get fixated on the animal and go after him?
I'm pretty sure if he's in there chasing him with a stick, and he has this love for animals, this is crazy.
And there should be special accommodations for kids that are eloping.
Don't know.
I think a lot of people are too embarrassed to like put their kid on a backpack Put their kid on a leash put their kid in the stroller.
I'll do it If it means my child safety, I don't care how y'all looking at me I'ma put my baby in a stroller a leash a headlock.
I don't care you coming with me boo Come on now So
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But right now, you got me and Brother Z. All right?
And we got a caller on the line.
We've been talking about the garage and no playlist.
We've been talking about the baby jumping in the zoo exhibit.
And we've got East Side Corey on the line.
What are you
doing?
I need a little clarification.
I was a little confused.
You know, I don't pay attention to real mainstream stories, but this is a hot one with Brady Street.
There used to be a bar called Why Not Two.
They used to be really diverse and play a lot of jazz, rock and roll, and some very famous artists that used to do sets there.
I don't think it exists anymore.
And Hi Hat has always seemed to have this identity problem as to when to play the dance music because it's a restaurant, right?
So, the kind of rap music that I'm thinking of that's for a big crowd like that would be the female, like McCarty B, fun, you know, always a fun vibe, or Megan Thee Stallion or Missy Elliott, where everybody's got those lyrics and they get into it, it's fun, it's real positive.
Is there a particular artist that people are having a problem with or is it just, are they letting the DJ be the lead, you know, show the leadership?
because there's so many diverse hip-hop artists out there.
I'm into Japanese female artists right now who are doing great dance hip-hop stuff.
It's fantastic.
You know, their vibe is cool, but I'm confused about that.
And then with the artistic boy, you know, they got some of our artistic children, got that artistic strength, and they also got that one thing they can do really well.
This kid, they can focus in and figure out how to
Break into things or you could channel that energy into something positive.
No doubt.
Um, but if he's too big for grandma, it's time to get him a harness.
Yeah.
Who got who went and got him out of there with the situation?
Do they show that part?
So I guess they said grandma security and more staff ended up jumping or three minutes, but if I'm not mistaken in that video, you can actually hear the grandma like, Oh, he's autistic and not moving with haste.
So I think a lot of people were like, just exactly.
And that's what people took away from that.
They were like, is she just saying this like as an excuse instead of getting in there and taking care of business?
Like you said, if he's too big for grandma, it's time to get a harness or make sure he's with the proper people that can handle them.
You should have a petting zoo there.
He needs to know that these are living creatures and be gentle.
He needs somebody to teach him to be gentle
all animals to be gentle and let them come to you.
It's a teachable moment, but sure, you know, he's concentrated energy child.
You better watch out with that strength Artistic children God
Thank you, thank you so much for giving us the call it's always good to talk to our cousins And he he did ask a question he asked if it was a specific artist and yes the list the reason people felt upset because it wasn't
them saying don't play music with guns and violence and fighting lyrics it was just specific artists and that's where it comes in like are you just trying to basically like block out our music specifically they have Lil Wayne on the list they have Future they had I don't have the list in front of me brother Z do you have the list by any chance
uh yeah uh sexy red
Kodak Black, 42 Dug, Chief Keef, King Vong, NBA Young Boy, Lil Dirk, G Herbo, ESTG, Future, Young Dug, 21 Savage, City Girls, Tyga, Glorilla, Lotto, Lil Baby, Gunna, Playboy, Cardi, Migos, Offset, Quavo, 2 Chainz, Gucci, Main, Rick Ross, Lil Uzi, Lil Wayne, Money Bag Yo, Keekalock, Young Dolph, and All in Bold, and Caps, No Milwaukee Music.
or normal Milwaukee rap.
Like it wasn't specific songs.
They didn't specifically say don't play this type.
They just named these artists without actually like I feel like without reason, honestly.
And now that we've talked to somebody that's DJ there that does DJ there and we know that
those songs or those artists specifically aren't causing the fights it just makes you feel like there's a bigger issue downtown on Brady on third that they just don't want us there and there probably is pressures from outside powers that be right that are like man we we got to figure something out and then they just like we said before go after the low hanging fruit
To act like they're doing something to stop what's going on But a lot of times when people are getting in trouble at these bars on water on Brady, it's not really even the people inside It's the people hanging outside.
It's the kids with nothing to do Right so That that's the conversation we were having
And like I said, before we went on break, we were just talking about, you know, how that kid got into the enclosure at the zoo and how grandma couldn't really handle him, you know?
And I've got two stories involving animals, speaking of animals, right?
Nearly 30,000 pounds of beef have been recalled.
We don't talk about that.
All right, and you know America's wild horses are being rounded up from public lands and Some concerns about where they're ending up have been popping up Right so Approximately approximately 29,628 pounds of raw beef imported from Argentina
has been recalled.
Why you ask?
Well, federal officials discovered that the beef entered the U.S.
without undergoing the required USDA important reinspection.
And when you hear beef recall, you automatically think like E. coli, Salmonella, you know, maybe some type of contamination.
But that's not what the officials say happened here The problem is that the meat entered the commerce without going through a required inspection Checkpoint and honestly that bothers me to y'all Because the inspections exist for a reason the recall products included cuts like top sir long top sir loin.
I love me some top sir long Eye round top side flat and knuckle every god eating beef knuckles anyways
the products have september 2026 used by or freeze by dates and were distributed in florida and texas so if you got cousins out there you might want to call them and say check your beef okay you better check it the good news is that the latest reporting they have been there have been no confirmed illnesses connected to this recall but how does 30
thousand pounds of beef get through before somebody realizes that the required reinspection did not happen, y'all.
That's not steak.
Somebody forgot to scan.
That's thousands and thousands of pounds of meat.
And I want to explain this why it matters because I know a lot of people will say, well, nobody got sick.
So that's all right.
But it's a big deal.
Nobody got sick yet.
And the big deal is that inspections are part of the system by design to catch problems before the food reaches our families.
When meat enters the US, inspectors are supposed to verify that the meat meets, look, meat meets, you know, US requirements.
And that means, did it actually come from an approved facility?
Does the paperwork match what's inside the shipment?
Was it handled correctly?
Was it stored correctly?
Is the labeling accurate?
Were the food safety requirements followed?
And depending on the shipment, additional physical examination or testing may have to happen.
And because almost 30,000 pounds of meat got distributed,
How y'all gonna trace that through stores, distributed restaurants, people's fridges and freezers?
So even without those confirmed illnesses, missing an inspection means one of those safeguards in our food system did not happen, and that's scary, y'all.
I don't know about y'all, but I'm worried, especially when we talk about them rounding up wild horses now.
That's two separate stories that's happening at the same time.
Almost 30,000 pounds of meat got passed a checkpoint that is needed to make sure we eatin' safe food.
Man.
So, now on to the wild horses.
Because when we think about American wild mustangs, we think about freedom in the West open land, right?
They sold it to us like that, right?
The beautiful like image of like a horse galloping through the wild, right?
We don't talk about this.
We don't talk about why some people are upset that they're rounding them up now.
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He also got into what's going on with the list
From the garage that's been going viral that has reached Many many states that everybody is talking about we've got celebrities sharing that list We've got people that I know from out of town asking if it's real what's going on in Milwaukee And then we got into our food recalls once again They got 30,000 pounds of beef being recalled because it wasn't inspected when it got to the US They just sent it out for us to nibble on Then we start talking about them rounding up horses
that they hyped up to just be the wild horses, the mustangs that, you know, we watched Billy Dallen in the wild.
They're rounding them up now.
I guess we might be nibbling on their ankles.
That's probably what they sent to us.
Who knows?
We don't talk about that though.
Let's kick it to the chat.
We got Jasmine Jazz West, my jam.
Hey now, you're a rock star.
Brothers, he played that coming back from a break.
We got politically homeless, allegedly.
The kid is super autistic.
Yep.
That was confirmed, I believe, by the father.
DVJ73, I'm hoping the pets are safe.
Where he lives, do they have any?
Jasmine Jazz West said, why not?
Bar is open on them.
Bjorn, we had a caller that asked if that bar is still open.
Jasmine Jazz West said, even autistic kids are strong, so I know he's strong.
They do be strong.
I'll be arm wrestling my autistic nephew.
That's my boy.
Yeah, one commenter said, they probably think if rap music goes away, black people will too.
They basically don't want us around.
And we talked about that.
That's what we talked about.
I'm just saying.
They call it, look, Jazz and Jazz West said, how is that song to ghetto?
That's my jam.
Like I said, anything that's us automatically ghetto.
Babar said welcome back.
Hey, what are you doing in Nevada?
You didn't even stop by the block to say hi Politically homeless also said thanks for having me.
It's always a pleasure But let's get back into these horsies.
They just he don't I'm screaming that you was ready for me to even say that that's actually funny very telling of me so on to the wild
horses.
So the Bureau of Land Management routinely rounds of wild horses from public lands.
The agency says that the populations have to be managed because certain areas can sustainably support all of the animals living there.
And these roundups can involve hundreds and hundreds, sometimes thousands,
of these horses but the controversy is what can happen after some of these animals leave federal custody so they get rounded up by the feds when there's too many of them.
They said certain horses can eventually be sold through a federal sales process.
Once they are legally transferred out the protections that they had federally
as wild horses can disappear.
So while they're here, they are protected, right?
And many advocates are saying that's where the systems become vulnerable.
Investigations have raised concerns that the horses leaving the federal program can eventually end up in the commercial slaughter pipeline.
Now, let's be clear.
There are currently no commercial horse slaughterhouses operating in the US.
I think that's because they're federally protected.
But what they will do is transport those American horses across the border for slaughter in places like Canada and Mexico.
So essentially we round them up here.
We're gonna sell them here.
Then they lose their protections once we sell them.
Like, oh, they're not here anymore.
Oh, not protected anymore.
And what they end up doing is crossing the border and then come back slaughtered.
So to me, that feels like they're doing back door dealings, man.
Yeah.
So that's that's what I can't get past, dude.
Like so.
We spend generations turning the Mustang into this symbol of American Western history and these movies and these commercials and then we protect them and then we sell them.
That's what's been happening y'all.
There has to be a better way.
I heard somewhere that they said they're being sold as low as $25.
That's probably what we chewing on.
That's probably exactly what came that 30,000 to say wasn't wasn't the rumor
that Taco Bell uses horse meat
Okay, and they're and they want to oh, well we don't have a slaughterhouse here exactly They wouldn't we all got slaughterhouses here Yeah, but y'all gonna sell them somewhere else and then they can they lose their protections and then they can come back as meals for us
And I just don't see how we're we're we're sitting here and not questioning like there's so many recalls right now like Like what do we eat?
What y'all eating?
I want to know that in the chat.
I Ain't a salad in weeks.
I like to blame the recalls for that.
I ain't ate fruit or salads.
I like to
blame
taking away our fruit seeds
The farmers can't even grow their own fruit.
They got to buy the seeds from the government It's getting crazy out here
Have we become too comfortable assuming safeguards are working simply because the rules exist?
Because I would never thought that they'd be rounding these horses up selling them To slaughter just because it's not being done in America.
Don't mean it ain't being done And as we see it's being done And it's so disheartening to hear that
I don't mean to sound like one of them people protect animals, but goodness.
And also, what is we eating?
They might be like you said Taco Bell meat might be horse ankles But listen Y'all better get used to eating some I feel like a lot of stuff we eat is questionable.
That's all these countries like most of our stuff is banned
And I think we're just now starting to really, like, get hip to, like, our food is not that safe.
And we really have to start growing our own stuff, sourcing our own things.
We really have to, as Americans, get used to fending for ourselves.
It's really starting to feel that way.
But we are coming to an end, y'all.
Another episode of the lunch break with just me, maybe Shannon and Brother Z holding it down on the production and sound.
It's been a good one.
Special thank you to Politically Homeless again.
Shout out to the garage for giving us so much content.
Man.
And to parents with special need children, please, please keep them baby safe because that incident could have ended up so much worse.
Thankfully they got him and he's safe.
And please y'all,
Watch what y'all eating.
I don't know it.
I don't got no answers questions or comments about that.
Just good luck You're listening to the lunch break with maybe Shannon Ray.
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