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Is It Bogus?

Lunchbreak with Ray & Shannon · Fri Aug 28, 2026

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Good afternoon, Milwaukee.

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

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

All right?

I've fought my whole life.

I'm all right.

Excuse me, Cletus.

Hoppa, who this man?

Yeah, I wasn't doing it.

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

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

My way of thinking

is that the parents do all they can.

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

I don't care if you nine or 99, it's still your decision about the situations that you get involved yourself in.

We talking about tax-paying citizens.

Look into their taxes.

Look into this.

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

That's what we talking about right now.

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

Live

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

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

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

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

issue?

Here are your hosts, Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.

What's up, what's up Milwaukee?

It is maybe Shannon and you are listening to the lunch break with Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon We are right here on 101.7 the truth.

I'm maybe Shannon and brother Z is holding it down on production and sound we are live From the American family studio inside the Third Street Market Hall and cousins.

We got a lot on the plate today First up.

We have a very very special guest in the building We've got Milwaukee's own very special guest

And we don't hold off before we tell y'all who that is.

You know, he has some community impact, activism, journalism, all of it.

Milwaukee, you know him very well.

But after that, he's not gonna go anywhere.

He's gonna co-host with me for a little bit on the lunch break because Ray is still out of town.

He'll be back next week.

But until then, our guest is gonna stick around and hold it down, you know?

And this conversation can go anywhere.

We've got some good topics for him to weigh in on.

We're gonna get into that Druski skit that went viral about CTE.

He basically did a skit and it's got some people buzzing.

Former football players, basketball players, even though some people thought it was hilarious, some people thought it went a little too far.

So we're gonna talk about that.

We're gonna ask the question is, where do you draw the line in comedy?

and can everything be joked about?

And does it change when the joke involves a comedian that has had very real, or I'm sorry, when it involves a condition that has had very real effects on a community or families or athletes?

We also are gonna talk about parents and family members.

Because we definitely have a have a conversation about that.

This is a football packed show today, actually, for some reason, that's just how that's just how the cookie crumble.

I do it on purpose.

But we're going to talk about some family members running on the field during football games.

This for some reason seems to keep happening more and more lately.

People are getting real comfortable.

So if a family member is playing football, I guess people are starting to feel like they on the team, too.

And I'm going to guess no.

I don't I don't think that's true.

Got to stay off the field and let these kids play.

But we're going to talk about it because I think just yesterday we had an incident in Milwaukee happened about a week ago, an incident somewhere in Tennessee happened.

And then we're going to get into romance scams, y'all.

Speaking of football, once again, somebody got scammed by who they thought were a football player was a football player.

And that's an interesting story.

That is an interesting story.

So we have a lot to talk about.

We're talking about fake careers, fake bank accounts, fake bank accounts, fake investments, fake relationships, and people just pretending to be celebrities all around and working their way into other people's lives and scamming them out of sometimes millions.

I also wanted to talk about a heartbreaking case that involved the romance scam because a lot of It seems that people think it's only older people that fall victim to these types of scams So we'll talk about some of the older people that have fallen victim but the more recent one that I want to start with is Actually, I think younger women were being scammed so Listen if you want to call or text the number to Dallas eight through three to one two ten seventeen

Don't forget, this is your table to y'all.

Join the conversation.

Tell us what you think.

We're going to talk about all types of stuff today, and we're super excited for the guests that's going to be coming on shortly.

So give us a call at 833-212-1017.

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We're growing.

We got plenty we growing man We've been posting we growing we doing something over there don't miss out on the conversations after after the lunch break ends, you know And if you want to watch us live right now you want to head over to youtube search 101.7 the truth on youtube y'all like I said especially because we have a very special guest coming in I want y'all to Join the youtube chat join our cousins in the chat

And make sure you guys pull up.

All right.

And join our cousins, man.

They be in the chat going crazy sometimes.

Man, we got a fun group of people over there.

But yeah, we got a lot to talk about today.

But before we go off to break, I did want to talk about my last day in Milwaukee.

I was supposed to tell you all about that yesterday, but, you know, we had a lot on our play yesterday too.

We had a full menu, right?

And I didn't want to leave.

anything untouched, but I ended up not touching on the youth lab that I worked the day before I left Milwaukee.

All right, I got to do something really cool.

I hung with the young people over at Mary Ryan Boys and Girls Club and we helped them find their radio boys.

Okay, so we worked on commercial reads.

We helped them bring personality into it.

And then we like helped them find their confidence behind the mic, right?

And

It was so fun to watch these young minds at work and watch them like come up with their own commercial, come up with their own theme, like watch them just work together as a team and like naturally find, okay, who's gonna be like, who's gonna help us with the script?

Who's gonna read the script?

Who's like pretty much producing.

It was really cool to just watch them.

I promise you, it looked like, it looked like a little 101.7, the truth over there.

It was cute.

So I do want to share with you guys what they came up with.

And like I said, at first a few of them were shy and you could hear that they were thinking about every word when they were recording.

But then you realize like, I could put my personality into this.

I could make it my own.

And they really started to loosen up and they started having fun.

And like, they were

like, are

y'all coming back?

One little girl was like, could you be my mama?

I was

like, you

almost got me.

listen, I am a sucker for kids.

I know.

I've been like, girl, come on.

I got a little room.

I got some room, but like I think it was

more so she

was just having such a good time She was having fun and I was just like like it's not like You know how some people but oh this must be something going on at her home life like no I think we was just having fun and she was a kid and she was like that you must be a fun mama I could be your radio mom I could be your play mom for right now.

Let's let's get this done.

You know, it was really really cool

It was one little girl that reminded me of Sierra.

I was like, she running the show.

I was like, she got

it.

She

telling them what to do, telling who to read.

But it was really cute.

A little CC is

crazy.

Yeah, it is.

CC was there.

She'll tell you.

We was like, you've got potential kid.

You're going to be running things later.

So it was really cool to watch kids like.

be exposed to something different right and like some of the kids even like they came for more of the producer aspect of it right and they were like you know I'm in the music and producing and this and that and watching them work with me like they were so excited to see like how that worked like how you put it together it was just so cool so it got me thinking sometimes a child

Oh, perfect.

So you got me thinking sometimes a child doesn't even know that they have a passion for something unless they're exposed to it, right?

And I just thought about that because it's one of those things where like as a kid, like I didn't even think being on the radio was an option.

I just didn't know anybody that did it personally.

So it's just like, that's just something I didn't even know where I thought radio personalities came from.

I was just like, I don't know.

Where that comes from but to have had something like this that would have definitely like put fire under my feet way earlier So before we play the clips well matter of fact, I'm gonna let you listen to their clips their radios mind you guys They came up with the whole thing.

They came up with whatever they wanted to sell whatever they wanted to promote They came up with the verbiage and they put it all together.

So I want you guys to listen to it

This is 101.7 the truth these are the kids from Mary Ryan

Hey, it's your girl Bella aka.

Malia.

Have you ever tried watermelon before if you didn't go down to the store and get some there are a bunch of different types of watermelon fun fact watermelon goes on a vine go down and get your watermelon for the party in the USA

So that was the first one you want me to do the other one right away to

Yeah, so that was the first one.

That was the first group of kids, and then we're gonna play the second as well.

Hello, my name is Lee Ski.

I'm gonna be performing at Beats and Treats, September 5th, 12 to 6 p.m.

at Kill War and Reservoir Park.

There's gonna be food trucks there, music, and there's gonna be overall just good vibes.

What's

going y'all?

It's your boy, Pepper Sturks.

I'm gonna be performing live at Beats and Treats, September 5th.

All right, yep.

Discussions live, September 5th, 12 to 6th at Beats and Treats.

Meter.

Yeah, they went crazy.

I'm just such a proud mama.

I was so proud of them, dude.

It was so cool to watch them.

In that small amount of time, put it all together, come up with the script and do their reads and find their voice and find their confidence.

And then to hear it back, they got to hear it right then and there.

So they were like, oh, that's how I sound?

OK.

And one of the little boys was.

the brother of one of the little girls.

So he heard hers first and he was like, that's my sister.

And he was like, dang, okay, that sound good.

Like it was just super exciting to hear it.

So I guess something.

All right, so one of my questions is like, what's something that people expose you to that stuck to you as a kid, whether it be like a hobby, whether it was your actual career.

If you guys have something that stuck with you as a kid, I want to hear about it.

Make sure you guys drop it in the chatter.

Give us a call at 833-212-1017.

But we're going to go to break.

Head over to our YouTube.

We have a very special guest in.

You don't want to miss it.

When we come back, we're going to introduce our very special

guest.

No, Shannon,

you know what?

It's time for the real

version.

It's time for the real version.

Yeah,

Milwaukee stand

up, yeah, it's Tori Lo the truth, from 1 to 4.

We about that action, so tap in and let's go.

We want that justice, we want all the smoke.

From Monday through Friday, trying to bring the city hope, yeah.

Tori Lo from 1 to 4, Monday through Friday, let's go.

We about that action from the block, and we ready, let's go.

Tap in, and it ain't no holding back.

We ready.

One on one.

Seven

true.

Tori Lowe.

Hey.

I know that's right.

What's up?

So if you guys are listening, you are listening to The Lunch Break with Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon, but we got a special co-host today.

We got Tori Lowe in the building.

If you don't know now, you know for sure.

Right?

How you feeling, Tori?

Hey, I'm

feeling proud.

How you doing, Sid?

Man.

I'm good.

It's good to see you.

Hey, look, it's good

to see you.

Hey, look, I'm going to tell you right now.

When I came in, I was like, hey, you know, it feel like home.

already know.

I already know.

So Milwaukee knows you by name.

They've seen you advocating for families and things of that nature.

And honestly, like, I know you're the co-host, but I also wanted to do, like, a little bit of an interview.

Is that OK?

Like, we're going to do, like, the first thing.

I'm here with you.

Let's get it.

You like Liz and I came to go.

I came to be

in a

hostage.

Hey, let's go.

I'm with you.

I'm with all the

smoke.

Let's get it.

I know that's right.

So Tori, people know you by name and they know that you advocate in the city.

You do a lot of work with us in the city.

But for the people that may not know the whole story or they might have heard the name, but not exactly know what you do, who is Tori?

Well, Tori is just somebody that wants to help.

I just want to see, you know, as I want to help as many people as I possibly can before my time is up.

So that's just something that's been in me.

I was a young deacon at 15 years old.

I was a deacon in church and things like that.

And I served the community as a young and all the people I know in high school know me as a person that work and help.

I'm not no different now than I was in high school to a lot of people that I went to high school with at North Division.

And I used to stand outside the dances and be like, y'all ain't supposed to be up in here, y'all going to hell.

You know, I was one of those kids.

And so now,

you know, but

otherwise I grew and mature and understand and grown and got better at, you know, being wiser at what I do.

Now I just focus on helping whoever.

I'm talking about I got a wide range of people that call me anything from just I don't have no bus tickets to.

to homicide, to murder the human trafficking.

I deal with some of everything in the black community.

So that's just something that's going to happen until the day I leave this place.

I know that's right.

So what shaped you?

I know you said you've always been that way pretty much like you always like helped or you always were like, let's y'all ain't supposed to be in these dances.

You were always pretty much a leader in the person that wanted people to walk that righteous path, right?

So what do you think?

What experiences helped you get to that to become that person?

Good mentors, you know, I always say like you need as a young man.

I had a lot of elders around me, a lot of old minded people that had guided me along the way.

So that was just what it was.

If I didn't have those old mothers of the church, my grandmother, she was a praying woman.

Like, I mean, I soaked in a lot of the old.

Ways like the way that they was trying to conduct themselves and it just grew inside my they planted those seasoning just grew inside me as I Went along the way now I got out here and got wild now.

Don't don't it did just never to happen Hey, hold on.

It just never happened in Milwaukee like I was in Iowa and I

got in a

rock band I went from a choir then I went out to Iowa

got in a

rock band and I was in a rock band for like eight years so like I've seen a both sides of life, but When when

you know, I had to go out and learn them and try to

uh, adventure out on my own.

And then I learned a lot from that.

But then God took, you know, something happened extreme in Minnesota, where I was at a packing plant working, uh, as a, uh, manager and some guys tried to, uh, jump me and tie me up and throw me in the hog run.

And then after that, yeah.

And after that, I started like going to like federal court in Minnesota and, uh, learning about certain things, a court and federal court and how it all works.

And so when I came home, I was ready.

You know, I was made in Minnesota.

I tell people I was made in Minnesota and God told me to come home and get

work.

So that's that's what they're seeing is the world.

So look, I'm just going to ask this question.

What happened to the guys that tried to do that?

Well, ended up in jail.

Ended up in

jail.

Two of them ended up in jail.

So and they was two brothers.

They ended up in jail.

And the rest just lost their jobs and stuff like that for, you know, whatever.

But I was in the middle of an all-white town.

So a lot of that was politics.

A lot of it was politics.

So that's how I learned how to do what I'm doing now because I was somewhere and it was very extreme.

And so now I come home and I know how to understand.

I know how to go into these small towns, these sundown towns.

know how to, you know, I had to go through it myself personally.

But now I just, you know, like I said, one call, you know, we go, we go get it right.

That's a lot of things that I've

been

through personally.

So now I know exactly what to do.

Yes, yes.

And that's neat.

And I kind of mentioned that yesterday when I was like, sometimes it takes people from Milwaukee or people that love Milwaukee to go outside of Milwaukee and understand what we need.

Sometimes it takes that.

Sometimes it takes that, that life experience and that lived experience.

to bring it back home and be like, this is what we can do better.

This is where we can change things.

And I know how to handle this situation now because I experienced it elsewhere.

So I definitely respect that.

And you've been doing this work for years, right?

years.

17.

What keeps you going when some of the problems we're fighting seem like it's just

a never-ending cycle.

Well, I'll say this.

It's going to take us to help us.

We can't look outside ourselves no matter what the conditions are.

We are resilient.

We are the ones that's going to make sure that if our problems turn around, it's going to be because we did it.

That's why I always say, if everybody do a little, don't nobody have to do a lot.

So I can only,

I'm by

request.

So anytime I'm involved in something, the family actually reached out to me to try to get it resolved.

So.

I don't just be out here looking, seeing something on TV and be like, Oh, I want to go do they know they

I get a

call.

No, I'm

request.

I'm the most requested advocate in the state of Wisconsin.

I go up and down the state of Wisconsin and handle situations outside of our community as well.

Like, uh, they look at my social media, other races look at my social media and be like, I, can he help me?

So I deal with native, native Americans, uh, Hispanics, everybody.

I was just talking to a Hispanic woman yesterday.

She was up in here.

You know, I work for WTMJ as an investigative reporter.

Everybody, all races come to get the help, but I mainly help the north side of Milwaukee because that's where I live and that's where my people.

I know that's right.

Man, that's something right there.

And I do know you help so many different people, but to be by request only and be this busy is like, man, do you ever sleep?

Sleep?

What is that?

What

is that?

How do

you spell it?

How do you spell

it?

Because I've been trying

to tell you.

You know what?

I'll tell you this.

The randomness of trauma is all around the clock.

And people get mad when I say you can't work a nine to five and help the community.

Like, tragedy sometimes happens at the weirdest hours.

It's 24 hours.

And so I made myself open for the randomness.

And it's just, it's my purpose.

So, so like I said, it doesn't bother me as much because I was prepared for the purpose.

And so I don't see it as, uh, I'm up all night or nothing like that.

I only think I see it as, okay, let me hurry up, uh, kind of get a diagnostic on this situation so I can begin to work.

So sometimes in my brain, I'll be working on six situations at one time.

So.

It's just what it is.

And I'm made for it.

And it is what it is.

Everybody have their own calling.

Everybody have their own way of dealing with things.

This is just the way God designed me to help.

I know that's right.

And you mentioned you are an investigative reporter for 620WTMJ, right?

Right.

It sounds like you've spent years being that person that calls the reporters, questioning institutions, and demanding answers.

And now you're working in the news.

How different does the world look from the reporter side?

Do you do you feel like the difference now now you're the reporter?

Well, I'll say this.

It's twofold because.

All throughout my life, our leaders had to go reach out to the media to get their voices heard.

And I just became the media.

So I could I knocked out a whole.

I don't have to go reach out to anybody.

So I could just take a situation

from

zero to 60.

because I pressed a button on it.

So that's the difference.

Like I don't have to run to outlets to get my voice heard or get my any situation I'm dealing with out to the public.

So to me, I just feel like at this point, I've eliminated the middleman.

OK, OK.

So what's something that you think the traditional newsrooms misunderstand about Milwaukee's black people?

Well,

the narratives, you know, and plus they come from neighborhoods where they heard serious stereotypes about black people all their life.

So they don't they not from our neighborhoods.

So they're reporting on our neighborhoods.

And sometimes those stereotypes seep in because they have no connection with the community.

So they.

right around all day, get a lot of the news out of our neighborhoods, but they have no connection or no personal connection.

And you got to realize they probably live in neighborhoods or came from neighborhoods where there weren't that many blacks and now they're reporting and writing up the story.

So it's going to have that little tinge in it.

And sometimes, you know, that we don't like the way that they produce those ideas.

And that's why we have to get out here and put our own narratives out.

And that's what I've been doing for 17 years.

I shaped the narratives from my neighborhood because I know what's really going on.

Man, I definitely understand that and then it comes that that part of it where like when I worked at the hospital I also remember like thinking these people

are coming into our communities and they're doing the work they're riding around like you said getting these reports and they're probably not from here and a lot of times in wisconsin if we be honest a lot of these people they don't even know black people in real life still like it's still that segregated so then you come into these communities you're working in these communities and you're seeing people on what is their where the worst day of their lives most of the time when you come into our community and doing a report

It's the worst day of their life.

When a person going into the hospital, it ain't because they just want to visit a hospital.

Is they having a bad day?

When you're policing a community, you have the time showing up.

Something bad happened over there.

So when people are coming in these communities and they don't know us for real, like how you do Tory, like you said, it's that change to it where it's like...

Feel like y'all judging us.

It's feel like this is serious like a stereotype that y'all putting on us instead of understanding We people too, but y'all seeing us on a bad day, but we don't get back into this interview after we go to break Thank you Tori for being here.

You are listening to the lunch break with maybe Shannon and Ray nitty We'll be right back after these

messages

Just wait for it.

Man, that was good, Tori.

That had me moving over here.

I'm like, that's one of those songs I'm going to be singing all day now.

I'm going to be

like, Tori, love.

We having fun.

We having fun, Shannon.

Definitely, definitely, man.

So get him back into these questions.

If you guys are just tuning in, you are listening to The Lunch Break with Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.

But we got Tori Lowe here today.

He's co-hosted for Ray Nitty today while he's out.

And I wanted to kick it off by doing a short interview for those of you that don't know or those of you that need a refresher on who Tori Lowe is, the man, the myth, the legend, right?

So we were getting into some of these questions and we just stopped where you were talking about being a reporter and being an activist and how that transition looks and what it feels like to be on the other side now.

Well, not even exactly on the other side, but.

Because like you said, it's the best of both

worlds.

It's the best of both worlds.

It's

definitely the best of both worlds.

And I'll say this.

There was an eight year old missing.

And as a reporter, we had posted it because, you know, everybody was posting it on the news because it was an eight year old.

But as an advocate, the mother called me.

So at the same time, I'm standing there.

I'm the one that's the media and the advocate at the same time.

And we ended up finding the girl, you know, as an advocate, we

found

the girl.

And as the media out reported that she was found at the same time.

So it's just, it's,

it's, it's

nothing different.

It's all coming from one person and it's nothing separate.

You know, we still out here.

I'm, I've never slowed down.

A lot of people with my position, with my, uh, where I am in life would not be advocating around the clock.

they'd be actually trying to kick back and enjoy some of the fruits of the labor but we still got more to go and there's no time to relax because there's a lot to do.

For sure and what you just said definitely is true because I think people forget even like before the news reports certain stuff.

See it on Facebook.

I see it on people social media.

I see it on your your page I'm like, okay like this is what happened and then later on you see it from the news So you being a reporter is perfect because you actually out here boots on the ground getting the information and being able to report those stories as they happen One of your biggest parts of advocacy involves helping families and dealing with missing loved ones and you mentioned that How did you become the person that?

These families start calling when something happens.

OK, well, I started out cleaning up, first of all, before I even got to advocacy.

I was just trying to clean the neighborhoods.

And so a lot of the neighborhoods, I think I went like a whole summer like meeting different people in the community.

The easiest way to break the ice, they call it ice breakers, is to go serve.

And so once I was.

actually going through the neighborhoods, helping clean up.

And some of the people would go through some some incidences or they worked with me to clean up the neighborhoods and they friend to go through something.

They started calling me.

And so what happened was.

People just was like, call Tory, he may know what to do.

And as I started getting results, people just wanted the result, you know, so they

would

see that somebody got a similar result of something that they were dealing with.

And they was like, okay, well, let's call that guy.

So after 17 years, it's just in the history books.

People knew who to call.

They go through person in the community for sure.

I started from the ground up.

When they say you got it out the mud, I started as, I was knocking on people's doors, asking, can I clean a front yard?

And they was looking at me like, who is you?

Started

from the ground.

Then that you know, I didn't think people had trust issues, but I was like I'm just trying to pick up the paper So I had to change my strategy.

So I said, hey, I'm Tori Lowe with Urban Cleanup But when

I said

I was just

a regular

person coming to clean what you want you ain't what you clean them are y'all for

right, you know, so it was like me

pay

you

I think, you know, I just realized that the people had a huge mistrust period, you know, and I was able to penetrate that with just going out and serving.

Man, that's nice.

So.

This question wasn't even on my list of questions, but I do wonder because I just asked if you ever get sleep and you said like even like you started out by yourself cleanup.

Do you have a team of people helping you out or is this still like a one man band like where you literally are doing all of this work on yours?

Well, the

majority

one man band, but I do have like people like Elizabeth Brown, people that come through like and say, okay.

And they may be there for a season because they just want to help.

But, you know, no matter if somebody show up or not, I have to continue to do what God asks me to do.

God asks me to do what I'm doing.

And I'm open for assistance, but they may be just helping and just doing it because they want to do something, but they have their own journey.

So we cross paths with people all the time, like so many beautiful people in the community, so many amazing.

people out here trying to help.

I get to see everybody.

I get to talk to everybody and we get to, you know, kind of strategize and we keep it moving.

Our paths will cross.

If you out here doing anything purposefully, our

paths

will cross.

For sure.

And I know the conversation comes up a lot around.

Around the like time where voting is a thing where we're using influencers or people that are activists and things like that in our community Do you think Milwaukee politicians genuinely listen to the community advocates and do you think?

They they only do you think it's one of those things where they act like they're listening and then when the cameras leave they're done

Or do you think they genuinely want us in those rooms?

They want to listen?

Well, everything is to corral the public.

Everything is about,

can

we get the public under control?

Now, I don't give my energy to meetings.

I don't do meetings.

I don't do none of that.

I've been independent.

I'm proud to be independent.

I'm a self-made advocate.

And I don't, even on some of the proclamations that they give me, they say, Tori Lopez for his movement out of his own pocket.

And a lot of people don't understand it.

They think, oh, you got to be with these people.

You got to be with that people.

No, I can choose or pick and choose whatever the hell, you know, I do whatever I feel like doing.

If I did, I felt like doing it.

And maybe you can't do that.

But as a person.

that I decided that I'm going to do what's best.

I'm the one that people have to call to get the help.

So I'm going to make this decision.

I'm never going to sit at a table with somebody telling me what to do.

It's never going to happen.

Right.

And I do know there was a point in time, right, Tori?

And tell me if you think I'm right or wrong.

There was a point in time where a lot of people, like we know you've been doing this for 17 years, right?

But a lot of people were popping up as activists.

Do you think there's performative activism happening in the city, just people that want to be seen more than they want to actually do the work?

You as an original activist, how do you feel about that statement?

Well, I'll say this.

Okay, you got so many different ideas out here.

You got the gangster idea, you got the pimp idea, you got the... And then I can't hate on somebody that's trying to help even if they're failing at it.

So to me, I feel like you can't have it all the ways.

You can't say, okay, I don't like this person trying to advocate.

Even if they, even if you think it's questionable, they could be out here trying to pimp.

They could be out here trying to gangbang.

They could be out here knocking your grandma upside their head.

So what I decided to do, what I decided to do was help anybody that was trying to help, giving them tips.

When I see them, we talk tips, I'd be trying to say, hey, look, you know, try to make, you know, give the, and they listen, you know, sometimes, you know,

They may not have it all the way together, but the fact that they want to be an advocate instead of a gangster, or they want to be an advocate instead of a pimp, or they want to be an advocate instead of something else, I'm happy that they're even in the ideal of trying to even try to help, because one person may get help.

If they acting like they trying to help somebody so you can't just say you an advocate and don't help nobody so I already know that They have to show improve on that level.

So maybe they help two or three people That's two or three people that wouldn't got help if they wasn't thinking like an advocate.

So I'll say this Everybody go through a little way of thinking and ideal and transformation

And they may not be on the same level, but like I said, it's so many different ideas that's out here breaking up the community that if you thinking you're advocate, I'm going to try to just give you tips.

You don't have to have it all the way together.

Just get on the road and have a sincere heart.

Now, some people out here, that's, you know, kind of like the ministry.

They out here, you know, trying to take the people for a ride and wolves and sheep clothing.

They doing all this extra stuff, but that's on them and they sold.

And God, that's that's between them and God.

Only thing we can do is try to get the people that have the right intentions and move the people forward.

I don't know.

That's right.

Well, Tori, thank you for sitting here and rocking with us at 101.7.

The truth.

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What's up?

What's up Milwaukee?

You are listening to the award-winning 101.7 The Truth.

We are live in the studio with Tori Lowe.

This is the lunch break.

I'm maybe Shannon.

And we've been interviewing him pretty much.

He came to Coho's, but I had too many questions.

I think I was over here like, no, I got some questions.

But hold on now.

Here we go.

It's going to be the Coho's, but I wanted to be nosy.

Here we go.

And I got a few more questions before we transition into the topic at hand that I, that, you know, I also have questions about, but, but we getting the notary low.

So if they don't know by now, I

can't

know.

I was five and a half years on this air, you know, on these airways.

So if they don't know, then they just, Hey, it is what it is.

It's pretty much.

They

can actually go to YouTube and click on a couple old videos, I guess.

But technically, this would have been Sherwin's time, so you know.

Oh, that's

right.

You know his listeners, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

OK.

Salute.

Try it.

Different.

It's different.

It's

OK.

It's OK.

I'm here to help, so I don't care what nobody say.

Yeah.

I know.

can care less.

They've been all right.

In my world.

They be, they be, they be.

People

want outcomes.

They be hot

and

cold.

I mean, some of these

people when they be talking, it

looks like they showing you love.

I'm talking about when sometimes when people be talking out of the side of their neck, I hope they brush their teeth.

You know what I mean?

Gargle

stuff.

And you know, every time they ain't doing

it.

They ain't doing it.

At the time when people, hey, if they talk too much mess, they ain't even taking the time to brush their teeth.

They wake up on that.

You know that.

They

hot and cold over here.

When they be talking, it's a triple entendre.

They be really talking crazy.

It's smelling crazy at the same time.

But it looks like you got a lot of love in them comments.

So what they doing in the

chat?

Salute to the chat.

Yeah, they

say, wow, Tori Lowe.

Tori Lowe, great.

God bless

everybody in the chat.

Oh, well, you know, most of it is all I love, you know?

Well, I could care

less, but I love the people that want to get the work done.

I love you.

Thank you.

Yeah.

For sure.

So after everything you've seen, do you still believe in Milwaukee and what continues to give you hope?

Do I believe in Milwaukee?

You know, I believe in my abilities to try to help.

And like I said, I'm born and raised in Milwaukee.

I was born and raised on 2351 North Fishtree at Grandma's house.

So I just, you know, this

is where

I'm from.

So.

You know, a lot of people, they brag about where they from with a lot of pride and I brag about where I'm from.

This is where I was born and raised at all the places in the world.

I'm right.

I was born right here in the city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee is home.

When I see that Milwaukee sign, I see my grandmother's house.

I see how my childhood went.

I see my family here.

So it's no place like home.

And I'm a very proud person to come from Milwaukee because if you can, if you can make it in Milwaukee.

You can make it

man Come on now That's what I tell people people think I'll be playing I was like listen if you can make it in Milwaukee if you can move and groove around here You can definitely make it anywhere.

So what do you what do you think?

When it's all said and done, right?

What do you want your legacy to be in this city

that I helped as many people as I possibly could That boy helped them people

That's it.

If they

can say that, you

know, maybe a young person may or somebody may get out of some of the negative low vibration attitude and say, look, if Tory can come through and try to do it, I never took one penny from nobody I ever assisted and I'm self-made.

So I chose to follow my purpose and I'm not a part of no organization and none of that.

Never been, I do what I feel like it and I'm proud of everything I ever tried to do.

because it was always to the benefit of what I thought could move whatever I was doing for.

I know that's right.

So before we get into the topic, I want you to finish this sentence.

Milwaukee would be better, a better city if we all started to.

Clean up.

All right.

Clean the street.

I agree.

Clean the

street.

Ray told us the story.

I don't remember if it was over the air, but I remember him telling me like he tried to somebody litter.

He picked it up and threw it back in the car and they up the pistol.

I'm like, Ray, that ain't the way to do it, boy.

So Ray would agree.

You know, cleanliness, you know, evil can't hide in the clean environment.

Like people,

friends, when they walk around and see trash and things cluttered, they kind of get a little vibration.

So like sometimes, you know, you can see certain parts of the city look like a trash can, you know.

So I think that we can start by just just cleaning up like the difference between the north side and maybe the suburbs is that a lot of people don't like to have trash around.

So it's no different.

It's just if we if if we cleaned up, we all like took a chance, you know, took some time to.

Practice cleaning up the neighborhoods will look like Sherwood.

No, for real.

And it does change your attitude.

That's why a lot of people say one step you could do is make your bed in the morning.

Once you start your day off like that, everything starts to fall into place.

When you wake up in an environment where everything looked bad and everything falling apart, it's trash.

It definitely changes your mood.

It changes your attitude.

So like you said, the first step, let's clean up.

Let's keep it clean.

And

that's something we all can do.

You

don't have to even pay for

it.

Man, step outside your own house.

I remember me and my mom, we stayed on 51st.

Well, me and my mom and dad, look, we had a home.

The whole family stayed on 51st.

I always say me and my mom, because we be kicking it all the time.

I'd be leaving everybody

out there.

live there too, dang.

Siblings and everything.

Look, I

just like, it was just me and my mom.

We stayed on 51st and I remember like my mom used to every day go out there and you know, 51st is busy by that church over there in between Congress Elementary, right?

She go out there and she just clean up every single morning.

People will literally like pull over to the side of the road just to dump stuff out right in front of your house.

Like bro, y'all like how trifling can y'all be?

Like it's just a trifling mindset, just thinking like the world is your dumpster when you should be really thinking the world is your oyster.

But

that same person will go out there in West Alice and

won't drop a bag of trash.

Oh, no.

No,

they

won't.