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He doesn't move
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Not sure if Ray Price will remember this concussions like that tend to stay with you far into the postseason
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So if you're just tuning in, we've got Tori Lowe on the show, and we were talking about the droosties get that something to find funny and some others are what's hilarious, right?
You got him portraying this football player that is clearly suffering from CTE.
And we were just talking about, is it funny or is it one of those things where it gives you that laughing but very serious moment, which I think Tori Lowe and I, myself, we agreed that
It's one of those videos that it's not necessarily look at those stupid football players are laughing at the situation, but it's very much holding a mirror to to the football world.
Like, yo, this is what's going on.
And sometimes that's what really gets people talking about a real situation.
Well, I'll say this, you know, I didn't laugh at this.
I just thought it was.
I definitely saw it was sensitive because it
The one where he was trying to be a streamer.
That's Adrian Bronner.
Yeah, that's that's yeah, yeah
different things into one
idea different
sports, right?
But it's coming from a real a lot of those skits are from real instances, but
The name is Ray Rice, but the other instances are from different people that have brain damage or could potentially have
from boxing,
from different other sports.
So I think that he kind of combined it all into the skit, but at the end of the day, it is extra sensitive to watch, but every skit, I knew exactly where he got it from.
play
football?
I think Drew Ski's generation...
They just know his comedy.
Yeah, at this point.
You know, I think I remember when I was coming up and people, a lot of people thought that Eddie Murphy was offensive.
You know, because he
was
talking about, you know, a lot of different things.
They thought David Chappelle was offensive toward trans people.
Like I think good comedy.
Some people will see the comedy in it and some people going to get offended at a high level.
So that he's no different from the other people that came before him with the controversy.
I think that he's just doing it right now in 2026.
Yeah.
And then I do want to point out, too, that it's one of those things where somebody mentioned like, oh, you don't see them making fun of A's.
And I'm like, well, Magic Johnson got A's.
You definitely seen some comedians saying stuff like that.
Didn't one of them say, like, if you see a mosquito at Magic Johnson, you better leave or something like that.
Like people do make fun
you can live through anything if magic made it.
Hey.
Hello.
So it's just one of those things, too, where sometimes comedy, people don't think that deeply into stuff until somebody's like.
giving it to you in a lighthearted way or in a way that it causes people to speak.
I genuinely feel like sometimes that's needed because even today, there's not a lot of young people that know what CTE is.
A lot of people don't understand the effects that being hit that many times can cause on a person.
They just think, like, oh, these football players be tripping.
They don't understand, like, there's underlying issues.
So for somebody as big as Drusky to even make a skit about it, ultimately, like,
Like I said, in a joking way, it's getting 13 million people to look at and be like, wait, what is this?
What is CTE?
Why is everybody in the comments arguing or talking about whatever this is?
And maybe it pushes a bigger conversation forward for the league to look at the culture itself, you know?
Well, I'll say this, you know, when when it's at this level, both things can be true at the same time.
Some people looked at it as a skit.
Some people looked at it as a like maybe we need to do more and I think the NFL has done more I think Will Smith like DJ Brothers he said Will Smith did a movie about This condition that was happening and the fight the doctor that you know to try to bring attention to it And I think that right now what is going to happen is some people are going to get offended But then at the same time they get to have the conversation about it And I think that many times when you can have a conversation
About something change can come as well.
So Let's see what sure for sure Man, let's see what happens and like I said, it's one of those things where It could be interpreted as criticism of the system and I do feel like
you can intend to expose something and still hurt people that's living through it.
So I do understand like those other athletes coming out and being like, yo, like I got family and friends that went through this and it's just opening the door for a larger conversation, I think.
But yeah, give us a call at 833-212-1017 and let us know if you think Druski crossed the line.
I'm going to read some of the.
OK, Tori, I'm going to have you go ahead and.
Kick it to the chat for
it.
Oh, oh the chat.
Okay.
Well, Truth Nation, you already know how we
one.
What do we got in the chat?
I see not really a city girl salute.
Reggio in the chat.
Enlightenment is in the chat.
Who else is in the chat?
Guru in the chat.
Like I said, we got somebody in the chat that says, where is it at?
Druski is in his way, is in his way, bringing awareness and stirring up needed conversations.
It's not always cute, but it's necessary.
Not really a city girl tapping in.
How you doing girl?
You go girl.
Yeah, it's just the way that he's like he's gonna do it.
Like if he's gonna bring awareness about the situation, he's gonna make a skit about it.
And maybe that's just
his way of being like, look,
we gotta remember that this is a real thing.
And with this season coming up, we gotta watch out for these concussions and all that.
Perfectly timed.
Because doesn't the season start when they
I'm asking towards The season is it's going preseason is going on right now the season will be here in the next way I think the end of preseason was like this weekend.
Oh, yeah, so we
we thought to get into the regular season
study on it like yesterday on CTE or the day before he dropped the skit and then you've got all of this stuff going on with like just a lot of drama involved in football.
So it's perfectly timed, definitely perfectly timed and true comedic timing is always on time.
You know what I'm saying?
Like not really a city girl set.
It's one of those things where like
it opens the door to a uncomfortable conversation.
Enlightenment said that it's super insensitive.
It can feel insensitive, but it's getting us talking.
It's getting us talking.
And I don't think we would even discuss it.
I know during the games, they have protocol, concussion protocols now where if a player is seeming to have a concussion, they have to go into concussion protocol until they actually are, you know,
the doctors cleared them, they can't come back in place.
And then I also see that they got this different, some of these players are wearing this different padding, this extra padding on top of the helmet.
I
think it's called like an angel pad or something.
Yeah, so they're trying to do certain things, but the collision, when you're playing football, it's, you know, in anything involving tackling, you know, boxing, sports, wrestling, contact sports, UFC, like it can happen.
So like I said, right now we're some people having a real serious discussion about the brain damage things that go on with athletes right now because of this kid.
But there are some people that are offended because it's nothing to joke about.
They feel like, hey, this is just one of those topics that we got to make sure that we look into.
But we don't make fun of those that are going through this type of.
I can see both sides.
And like I said, it's one of those things where like.
I feel like up until that Will Smith movie and even a little bit after that people really didn't know.
what was happening.
People weren't having those conversations.
It still isn't, I feel like, as publicized as it should be, and it's not as known as it should be, what's going on.
And they are doing certain things to try to lessen the blows, like wear those helmets.
But I also think even those helmets are something that the players have to opt in.
It's not required.
And then I feel like as far as...
These players go a lot of them start playing in kindergarten.
You know I'm saying like a lot of this stuff like it's just from a long History of taking these hits and like I think if we're talking like just NFL We should probably be talking college football high school football middle school football and protecting the kids before they even get to that level
Well, I just seen a video of a man who were doing little league went out and tripped a kid
crazy, you know.
And I think that now, you know, we live in times where people, you know, the social media, you know, they people believe that they can get out here and do anything, you know, until they get caught or until
they go
to jail.
Now, the reality kick in.
But, you know, we live in different times and a lot of these narratives and ideas are pushed through social media and things like that.
And people, you know, forget that there are rules and regulations.
and
Yeah.
And so the coach was
He said, was he making fun of a DV issue too?
I don't find Drusky funny at all.
I think he was in awe making fun of or in a way making fun of bringing light to
the situations that a lot of these football players find themselves in.
after suffering a bunch of concussions and having CTE.
CTE right now is something that can't even be really diagnosed until after a player has unfortunately passed away.
But there are telltale signs leading up to their passing that something's not right.
You start off a regular kid playing football and then he's basically showing the trajectory of a lot of these players.
Like they end up in domestic violence situations.
They end up.
doing odd things that most people would question, like, well, why, if you're a football player, why are you rapping?
Why are you streaming 24 seven?
Why are you kicking in this door?
So I think he's bringing light to a situation, but at the same time, using his comedy style to do it.
And not a lot of people understand as we see in the chat, you got some people like
Hey, he doing what he do best.
He bringing light to a situation and making us laugh.
And some people are like, that's super offensive.
Enlightenment 95 is saying that right now.
We all know the pros and cons to football.
It's what comes with it if you're planning to get into it.
Why make a joke?
The thing is, I don't think we all know that.
And
saw an article on Amon Green, who was suffering from Parkinson's right now.
And like I said, you know,
That's just why they get paid a lot of money because they're putting their bodies in a situation where they may not function after this career is over with.
They body may not function correctly.
And you talk about some of the best well-tuned athletes to get in the league.
But when they get out of the league, some of them are physically, mentally broken down due to the activities or the bodies, the legs, the limbs, the brain may be shot.
Listen, and that's why I don't enjoy watching football.
I don't want to say that out loud because I know Milwaukee don't play about.
Hold on, wait a minute.
I don't enjoy it because I think about that.
I think I know too.
When you know too much about something, you care too much about something.
It's definitely a gladiator sport.
It's
definitely
a
gladiator sport.
Crazy.
And then I'm like, dang, that hit
like
like a small car accident or
Hey,
used to put
people, you
people
you know.
I loved it.
I played no force, but I met him.
But I just feel like it's one of those things where they also should be taken care of after the sport is done.
And I don't feel like they do a good job of taking care of them afterwards too.
And I think that concerns me as well.
But man, thank you so much, Tori.
I know you got to get going.
I appreciate it.
I got to
get head over and finish us a couple of stories.
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What's up, what's up, it's your girl, maybe Shannon and you are listening to the award-winning 101.7 the truth All right, this is the lunch break with Ray nitty and maybe Shannon we got brother Z holding it down on production and sound we just interviewed Tori Lowe Milwaukee's own Tori Lowe We had him stay for a little bit and we got into a conversation about Drew ski's most recent sketch or skit Sorry about that where he he seemed to be talking about CTE
And it's effects in this skit he depicted himself as a football player that took a really hard hit and then you kind of watch the trajectory of Of that players life move on to where he's Looking like he's in a DV incident with a girl then it looks like he's trying to become a streamer It looks like he's in a high-speed chase.
He's having all these issues and then in the end
They're asking them questions about all these concussions.
He suffered He doesn't seem to be able to answer the questions effectively and the people around him kind of brush them off off the stage, right and we got into the conversation of Did Drew ski go too far
Right, is it just not funny and the the chat seems to be torn on that you got some people that are like hey He did it in true.
Juicy fashion, and it's funny.
It's funny, but it's serious and it's sparking some conversation I want to hear from you guys um 8 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is the number to dial if you want to join the conversation We we gonna get into this a little bit more.
I'm happy to hear from anybody that has a take on this So what CTE is?
It's a progressive brain disease associated with repeated impacts to the head.
We're not simply saying one concussion automatically equals CTE.
Researchers are especially concerned about the repeated head impacts over time.
That's why I mentioned the concern needs to start far before these boys are men in these leagues.
Because it's reported that it is repeated hits over time that makes the difference
and I feel like some of these players have been playing football since they were like 11 Oh
earlier it
that
I'm not sure what age it starts, but I know if I had a son, he would definitely not.
That'd be a no-go.
I think, and look, I got my own take on that too.
I ain't gonna start, but personally, like I said, I'm not a sports person, but I do know enough to know it ain't safe.
And I have seen enough to feel like...
Wait, sports in general or football?
about.
I'm playing.
You just go to sports
I'll be like
this is maybe Shannon not Shannon this
y'all
clock
It's that heat wave out there.
That's 115.
Yeah, no and and don't and y'all got a football team out there Yeah, no playing football in
115
degree
He getting tackled like that.
I got I got a four screen on the TV in here and there's there's football on right now is Pittsburgh versus the Buffalo Bills.
I don't know when this is from but like
just I'm just I'm just looking at this now imagine doing that in 115 degree heat.
No crazy.
in
But what?
Oh, never mind.
I get it.
Yeah.
were saying I Whole different conversation we could talk off here, but anyway Like we were saying I think the the problem starts really young and they need to start doing preventative work instead of worried about what they're doing when they go to the NFL because I think the problem's long gone once they get to that point
like I was reading, currently CTE can only be definitively diagnosed after death through examination of the brain tissue.
So there's not even a point in life where somebody can be like, okay, you're developing this, we need to stop, we need to pause, we need to do what we can to get you on the right path.
So it's not until after these players completely crash out, pass away and donate their brains to science that it can be, that it can be,
Like for sure that they have CTE right because like I said most of the time we're seeing these things happen We're seeing the change in these players.
We're seeing them make Decisions somebody with a normal brand just would not make and a lot of times these families like I saw this woman on tiktok That is married to a former NFL player and she talked about how the NFL doesn't really help after they're out of the league There's really
no
people weren't talking
going to soon.
Yeah, for sure.
That's why they're getting soon.
So now they're probably gonna start doing something and putting plans and action for these players Because you have to think families are left to pick up the pieces after the game is over They not in a league no more now they dealing with why is this man?
Kicking down doors.
Why does he think he gonna be a rapper tomorrow?
Why is he on a high-speed chase?
Why and a lot of times like Sadly this results in homicide and suicide you have so many reports of
Football players specifically that commit violent crimes or end up taking their lives because they can't live like that no more.
So it's super important, like I said, to do preventative work instead of being like, OK, well, they got it.
Now what?
Because you can't even confirm for sure that they have it until they're dead still to this day.
So.
Like I said, recent research involving deceased former NFL player has again shown just how serious the concern is.
So whether you thought Druski's video was funny or not, the underlying condition he's joking about is absolutely real.
And that's exactly where we had the conversation about intent and impact.
So if you guys want to get in on this conversation again, call us 833-212-1017.
Make sure you guys join our chat.
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Join the chat.
The Cousins is active today.
They talking and they chiming in.
R.C.
Creation said the thing is, given the consequences, most men will still volunteer to play the game of football or boxing.
Testosterone.
It's true,
but that's why this
And that's paying them that money that money talk that money talk Little small little small car accident for what two million dollars So that's what five hundred thousand dollars tax maybe or
whole family Generation money generational wealth that we we trying to get that that we was cheated out of
risking it for the biscuit
a lot of times to these I feel like a lot of times the sports that are like safer like basketball the conversation ain't been had enough that like
In my eyes, it's turning.
It ain't a trench baby sport no more.
You used to have basketball players coming out of high school and having a chance.
You used to have them being scouted from the hood or different places.
That's my take on it.
But now you have to be in all these AAU sports.
You have to do this.
You have to do all this conditioning.
You have to do all this traveling that a lot of people don't have access to.
And I feel like football is one of those sports that are still accessible.
Is there a reason behind that?
I don't know.
But that's just what I've seen.
But listen.
We don't go to break.
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We've been getting into some things, y'all.
We got more in the menu, but we don't get there.
We don't get there.
Today, we had Tori Lowe on the show.
If you guys missed that head over to YouTube and run that back, that was a great interview.
Happy Friday, Zay Tushay said, good MF'ing Friday to everybody.
I know that's right.
Enlightenment 95 said, but is it awareness he's bringing or is he mocking those?
He does skits about huge difference.
We're talking about the Drusky skit as well.
Sir Chaunce said, Tori Lowe, what up?
Shout out to Tori Lowe for dropping in Man we were having a great conversation about CTE Drew ski skit Aaron is him said I'm late to the chat, but the mosquito magic Johnson joke was a little legendary Cory Holcomb I told y'all somebody made made a joke about it.
It was like you can't be making jokes about that
But that's that's the way a lot of us I feel like face tough situations a lot of times especially in our community Y'all acting like we don't talk about race family Trauma in a laughing matter sometimes just to get through it or just to kind of shed light on it Like man that is happening, huh?
It gives you them laughing but very serious moments that make you look back and really be like You know what maybe we should talk about this more.
Maybe I'm not alone
Sometimes it rips the band-aid off and makes it a little bit easier to talk about G film of seven say who is that talking?
That's brother Z Brother Z. That's you say hi brother Z No That's production and sound you tap in all the time Man, but let's get back to it so sticking to the topic of sports even Tori Lowe brought this up
We gonna get into it because apparently cousins some people think If if their kid is playing football they on the team too That's what the families are thinking and the truth of the matter is no you are not on the team just because your kid is on the team All right This week right here in our area a youth football game between two youth sports teams Became something way bigger than football
The game was being played between I want to say oh it was at Chase High School in Mount Pleasant.
A nine-year-old Eagles player was running down the field during a play when a 41-year-old man, a parent, connected to the opposing team and reportedly stepped onto the field and intentionally struck his leg out and he tripped the child.
This is a grown man y'all 41 years old.
We're gonna go ahead and play this clip for y'all
Parents at kids for its can always be a little crazy there'd be yelling and arguing and carrying on I'm a sucker if I know I've
seen a lot
of it But one parent at a youth football game in Mount Pleasant Saturday took it to a whole new level look at this video
This parent rushes the field during a play and trips a kid who looks like he's about to score a touchdown.
Now, pleasant police say this person was the father of a kid on the opposing team.
Our Racine Kenosha reporter, Ben Hansen.
Talk with the coach of the kid who was tripped.
Like I said, I've been a part of football my whole life.
I currently play for the Racine Raiders and I'm obviously adults.
I've seen fights at youth events.
I've seen stuff happen, but I've never.
and my life seeing a grown man come on the field and like with like he was so committed and determined to hurt he wanted to hurt him there's he had nothing but intent
is the kid okay after the incident
all my kids are special but he's one of my kids that's that's that has a natural god-given ability and it didn't surprise me that he got up and
He was ready to play again.
He's a very soft-spoken kid.
You won't know if he's happy or sad, but he's an artist worker, extremely talented.
Yeah, he's a tough kid.
He's doing fine.
Got a good coach behind him, too.
That coach told Ben the Milwaukee team has banned the parent.
Mountain Pleasant Police found him after he left the field.
They gave him a citation for disorderly conduct.
That is just
Jesus.
Oh my goodness.
That fall that this kid took man, that's insane right now We are talking about the parent that ran onto the field and decided he wanted to get in the field with a nine-year-old, bro That man was 41 years old Parent of one of the kids on a opposing team He decided y'all ain't scoring no more ran on the field and tripped one of the players that was playing against his son
Sit with that for a second.
A 41 year old man decides I'm gonna run on the field and trip a nine year old.
I personally think he should have been charged with assault.
Child abuse, if you will.
The fall that little boy took was crazy.
He could have really hurt himself.
You could have really injured somebody getting on the field and doing something like that.
You are too big and grown to think that is ever okay.
Anywho.
The police say that he was the father of the player of the opposing team and reportedly upset over something that happened during the game.
He later admitted that what he did was wrong and he was cited for disorderly conduct.
Thankfully the child wasn't seriously hurt and the Milwaukee team reportedly banned the parent.
What are we doing?
Y'all listen, that... In what world is that normal or okay?
If you think somebody made a dirty play against your child, talk to the coach, talk to the referee, talk to the league officials, talk to God.
But for you to go on the field and trip a nine-year-old is insane.
And if you really genuinely believe that your child is unsafe, pull him from the game.
We've had enough.
I've seen enough here because you need to be in jail.
I don't understand how they just cited him.
He needs to be in jail.
Lock them up Man But it doesn't stop there because earlier this month in Tennessee a 16 year old girl named Addison Ran onto a football field during her younger brother's middle school game tackled a 13 year old I'm so tired of these people man.
Like what are we doing?
What are we doing?
She said she believed that the player was hurting her little brother In football tackle football, maybe your brother playing the wrong sport Maybe
you need
put them in ballet.
You
put them in ballet.
You got twinkle toes
I
And if you feel like, oh, I can't stand to see my baby hurt, why are they in tackle football?
We have questions.
These are questions.
She says she believed that the player was hurting her little brother and I understand emotion if you have a sibling children or somebody that you love Watching somebody hurt them it can it can make you act quick I Mean I used to be getting real riled up with my nephew be playing basketball like who they think they all get to Y'all should hear some of the stuff I say in the stands and maybe I went a little too far like cheap You know I'm saying broke all that
But to get in the field is crazy We gonna be back after this break don't go anywhere we are talking about Parents and family members running on the field during during high school games during a nine-year-old's game That's what we talking about call us eight three three two one two ten seventeen Don't go anywhere.
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Man, that was all right.
That was all right.
We just recapping right now.
We started off the day by talking about my weekend or...
Last week day in Milwaukee when I was at Mary Ryan Boys and Girls Club hung out with the kids.
They did their own commercials That was nice y'all got to hear that if you didn't get to hear it go back and listen to the beginning of the episode That was beautiful Tori Lowe joined us and we talked about his life and how he got into active it woman.
What powerful And what he's doing today we caught up with Tori Lowe
He also stayed around and we talked about Druski's latest skit that's got the internet and shambles and got athletes talking, a lot of critics buzzing because he was talking about CTE.
He did a skit basically showing the trajectory of a player's life after pretty much being hit really hard and having CTE and the effects of it, right?
So he was poking fun at more or less, right?
And it got us in the conversation.
Is he just mocking these players or is he sparking a bigger conversation about TTE and what's going on?
And then we we segwayed into the conversation about youth sports Yeah, we talked about how this weekend Milwaukee a 41 year old man felt the need to get in the field with a nine year
old Shannon that was in Racine.
Don't put that evil on Milwaukee.
That was in Racine case
Case.
It happened in Mount Pleasant, but it was they dead.
That's that's that's yeah.
No, yeah, Mount Pleasant.
That's he a
Yeah.
That's yeah.
Yeah.
Well, then I'm well, then I'm calling the feds because why is his address in Milwaukee and his and his son is playing for a racing or Mount Pleasant.
Team, huh?
Exactly.
Exactly.
They did that.
Tiaisha car.
I'm doing that.
It's
on us.
That's racing.
That's that's that's how people in racing act.
They know it.
They know it.
Very racing
them You got it and he tripped the little boy and he was cited for what this orderly conduct I personally feel like he should want to jail That's just me cuz that's
That could have ended so badly.
That's a baby.
You are a grown man.
And like, if you see the video of that little boy taking a tumble, he felt so hard.
His little body, like, y'all are sick.
Somebody needs to check on his kids.
He probably put his hands on kids.
He probably fired them.
You just run out there and attack a child like that.
Erin is him said coach acting like pops pulled the Blinky out on the field.
He might as well had.
Erin is him also say yeah, he needs to be locked up.
He does cuz like how dangerous is that behavior dude?
RC creations music here in the story.
I would have lost my whole little paycheck thought this would have been a white person for sure I Thought that too.
I see the thing is given the consequence most me.
Oh, okay.
We're getting back into um What happened before with the druski skip?
Man But yeah, so we started talking about that and then we talked about a incident that happened in Tennessee like I believe it was about a week ago It wasn't too long ago that Addison the 16 year old girl ran down to the field went during her middle school brothers game and she she actually attacked this player she was trying to fight this boy and
Like I said, I know Sometimes when things happen you you think quick and you're immediately like oh no not my baby not my brother hold on but you have to understand You can that that is not permission for you to hop on like in the field With other players because has somebody turned around and beat that girl up then it would have been a bigger problem That's insane and then like what made me mad about that specific situation though
is that they like have interviews of her like, what happened?
Oh my goodness.
I can't believe you had to run on the field and protect your brother.
Like they're literally trying to angle her as the victim as if she's not a 16 year old that ran on the field and attacked somebody.
She did.
Now if that boy mama had came onto that field and dragged her, it would have been a whole bigger issue, right?
It would have been positioned
way different.
She would have been a
You hop on that cord and come in my, my nephew face.
Hmm Might be a lockdown in place you're I'm gonna Play with somebody else like it's crazy me how we talk about different situations And like I said the most troublesome part of that specific situation that came out of Tennessee was that she has interviews on the news Positioning her as the victim and they're not actually interviewing the actual victim Really our behavior
interesting
Yeah
She needs to be in juvie Or fight somebody mama see how that worked out for her, but anyhoo Like I said, I know most people feel like if somebody hurts my kids We don't care what the rules say and we we want to get active
Yeah, that's that's what big C that's what big CC texted at 833 212 1017
They said that kid's parents should have went out there and kicked them in the balls
Man because ain't no way and then like when you think of a nine-year-old, bro Like and I feel so bad because what if the parents just weren't there for that game or whatever I know the parents like bro if I was there If I was there and if they was there it probably would have turned ugly I don't know if they was there or not and it just sucks too because
no we get an
And for a
to
It could be.
But the way that the coach described that player to be, it sounds like it could be the start of his origin story.
Like, he's about to turn into a mean dude after this.
He about to be like, all right.
Ain't nobody tripping me ever again.
I'm I'm running hurdles.
I'm I'm jumping Yeah, you ain't catching me what?
no, I'm in CTE.
I'm jumping over that too CTE can't even trip me the way that I'm about to be training What you tripping me?
All right
I just hate, like, I'm such a mom though.
Like, I'm like, oh my goodness, the baby.
Because even when the coach was like, you know, you'll never know if he's happy or sad.
You don't know what that boy going through.
You're going to get your big grown self out there and trip that baby.
Somebody ought to run you over with a lime scooter.
Oh no.
I'm still thinking, the jury's still out on what his punishment should be, but jail is the start.
Man.
Youth sports are supposed to teach teamwork, discipline, and emotional regulation, winning with humility and losing with grace.
How are we teaching these students and children emotional control when the adults in the stands can't control themselves?
That part.
Come on now.
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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?
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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.
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Speaking of football, once again, somebody got scammed by who they thought were a football player was a football player.
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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
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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
Like
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
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.
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Yeah, they went crazy.
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.
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No, Shannon,
you know what?
It's time for the real
version.
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.
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One on one.
Seven
true.
Tori Lowe.
Hey.
Hey, I'm
How you doing, Sid?
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.
I
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.
I'm here with you.
Let's get it.
You like Liz and I came to go.
I came to be
in a
smoke.
Let's get it.
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.
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
my
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
to
work.
So that's that's what they're seeing is the world.
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.
I
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
through personally.
So now I know exactly what to do.
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?
17
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
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.
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.
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.
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
like, Tori, love.
We having fun.
We having fun, Shannon.
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.
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
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.
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
so
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.
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
it
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
will cross.
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,
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.
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.
That's right.
Well, Tori, thank you for sitting here and rocking with us at 101.7.
The truth.
You guys are listening to the lunch break with maybe Shannon and Ray Nitty.
Ray Nitty is not here, but Tori Lowe is holding it down.
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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.
Here we go.
So if they don't know by now, I
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.
I
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
it.
They ain't doing it.
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.
chat?
Salute to the chat.
Yeah, they
everybody in the chat.
less, but I love the people that want to get the work done.
I love you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
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.
All right.
Clean the
So Ray would agree.
You know, cleanliness, you know, evil can't hide in the clean environment.
Like people,
my
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.
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
don't have to even pay for
out there.
We
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
won't drop a bag of trash.
Oh, no.
No,
won't.
They're going to walk the show.
They're going to walk the show.
Yeah.
They're going to walk the show.
They're
going to walk the show.
They're going
the show.
walk the show.
They're going to walk the show.
They're going to walk the show.
They're going to walk the show.
They're going
to walk the show.
They're going to walk the show.
They're going to walk the show.
You're gonna get pulled over to stop signs later.
It's over man life
Let's say you see what he's wearing,
You're the football jersey, okay?
So you're a fan.
You're a fan.
You'd have a take on it.
I'm the biggest.
All right.
So comedian Druski has the internet in shambles and especially people that are into the sports world, right?
He dropped the high production football skit surrounding concussions and CTE.
And if you know Druski, you know his whole exaggerated style.
He don't have a character.
It's going to be an uncomfortable situation.
And it's going to be way over the edge, right?
And some current and former professional athletes are saying this one just wasn't funny.
So in the skit, Drew Ski played a fictional football player named Ray Price.
The character takes a huge hit on the football.
Ray Rice, yes.
No, no, I'm saying.
Oh, that's that's that's what it's a play on.
Yeah, it was a play on Ray Rice
Oh, I didn't know that.
Look, see, I was like, listen, I know I know funny, but I'm listening.
So he basically took a hit on the field.
And from there, you just watched the life, like the life spiral, right?
Much like what we see in real life.
He got a scene where he's driving recklessly.
He's in a police chase.
He's showing up at somebody's house behaving erratically.
He's banging his head against lockers.
He's trying to become a rapper and a streamer.
Then eventually he's at a press conference where he appears confused and they're asking him questions.
And he's like, I don't remember nothing, but playing football.
And it's clearly a joke that's built around the potential consequences of repeated head trauma, aka, you know, CTE.
But that's exactly why some former athletes aren't laughing about it, because for them, this isn't really hypothetical.
They've watched their teammates and friends struggle.
former NFL safety Super Bowl champion TJ Ward was one of the people criticizing the skit.
He basically asked why CTE is something that people feel comfortable turning into a punchline.
And there's history behind his reaction.
His former Denver Broncos teammate died at only 33 and was later found to have stage two CTE.
So when somebody like Ward watches that skit, he's not only seeing Drew Ski playing a character, he's remembering somebody he actually knew.
A former Milwaukee Bucks legend also, Michael Redd also weighed in and he acknowledged that Druski's talented, but he also said CTE just shouldn't be a punchline.
So because for professional athletes possibly the possibility of permanent brain damage and This could be a real fear for them brain damage and all these things can be a real fear and
I wanted your take on that.
How you feel about that?
Two two ways, you know, Drew ski is a comedian.
And I think that he pushes the edge with his skits, no matter what skit he does, that you're going to get a bunch of backlash.
But I'll say this, I met William Henderson from the Green Bay Packers at an event done by the grave digger, Gilbert Brown.
And William Henderson was suffering from a lot of the punishment that he took.
from playing football.
He was a fullback, one of the toughest fullbacks that the Green Bay Packers ever had.
And he was suffering.
And you can, you know, that takes a toll on your body.
And many times, you know, a lot of those football players, when we talk about the serious side, like four years after they get out of the game, they are broke or bad decisions.
A lot of that has contributed to a lot of the wear and tear on the body.
And in football, concussions are a factor.
People are colliding and they don't even talk about it enough.
So right now, even though a lot of people are upset, they're talking about CTE and hopefully they can advance in trying to help prevent some of the concussions.
But at the same time, Druski is one of those skit artists at the top of his game and he's using it.
Even though he's using it in comedy, if he's taking real skits and real examples from real life and the name, what is it, Ray Price?
It was a real running back with the 23 named Ray Rice that played for the Baltimore Ravens that punched his girlfriend in the elevator that had a lot of different things
going on.
So what
I'm saying is I understood what he was trying to go with it.
In this kid, but he was taking little situation from real situations, but that's what makes it
good then That's that's that's what makes something good.
That's
Well, listen
Tory, can you stay with us for one more second?
Of course.
Because I want to get deeper into this.
I want to get deeper into this.
This will make a longer conversation.
It's Friday.
We're here.
All right.
Listen, don't go anywhere.
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I don't care if you 9 or 99.
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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.
He has some community impact, activism, journalism, all of it.
Milwaukee, you know him very well.
But after that, he's not going to go anywhere.
He's going to 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 going to stick around and hold it down.
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 going to 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 dollars eight three three two one two ten seventeen
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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 going to be like who's going to help us with the script who's going to read the script who's like pretty much producing it was really cool to just watch them and 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
Like listen, I
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.
A little CC is
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.
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.
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Meter.
Yeah, they went crazy.
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.
Like 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.
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No, Shannon,
you know what?
It's time for the real version.
It's time for the real
version.
It's time for the real version.
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101, 7-2, Tori
Hey,
How you doing, Sid?
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.
I
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 going to do, like, the first thing.
I'm here with you.
I'm here with you.
Let's get it.
You're like listen, I came
to
Hey, let's
smoke.
Let's get it.
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.
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 impose me 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 my 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 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 in 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
to
work.
So that's that's what they're seeing is the work.
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.
I
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 can we gonna get it right.
That's a lot of things that I have
through personally.
So now I know exactly what to
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 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?
17
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
by
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 they look at my social media, other races look at my social media and be like, I can't help me.
So I deal with Native Native Americans.
Hispanics, everybody.
I was just talking to a Hispanic woman yesterday.
She was up in here.
You know, I worked 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.
What is
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 happened 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 is, 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.
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.
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.
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 you, 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, I feel like y'all judging us.
It's feel like this is 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're going to 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
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going to be like, hey.
We having fun.
We having fun, Shannon.
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.
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 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.
Um, once I was actually going through the neighborhoods, helping clean up and some of the people would go through some, some, uh, incidences or they.
Worked with me to clean up the neighborhoods and they friend or go through something.
They started calling me.
And so what happened was people just was like called 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, OK, well, let's call that guy.
So after 17 years, it's just in the history books.
call.
they
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?
Just
doing the work.
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 out y'all for
right, you know, so it was like me pay you
so
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.
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 of it is 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
will cross.
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 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 like want us in those rooms?
They want to listen?
Well, you know, everything is to corral the public.
You know, everything is about,
we get the public under control?
Now, I don't give my energy to meetings.
I don't do meetings.
I don't, I don't do none of that.
Uh, I've been independent.
I'm, I'm proud to be an independent.
I'm self-made.
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 that they, they think, Oh, you got to be with these people.
You got to be with that people.
No, I can choose and 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.
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.
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 and 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, you know.
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 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're advocating 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 have 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 wools and sheep clothing.
They doing all this extra stuff, but that 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.
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
Here we go.
So if they don't know by now, I
I was five and a half years on this air, you know on these airways So if they don't know, yeah, and I think they just hey it is what it is.
This is 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.
So Luke,
try it.
Different, different.
It's OK.
It's
OK.
I'm here to help, so I don't care what nobody say.
Yeah.
I know.
I can care less.
That's been all right.
In my world.
Baby, baby, baby.
People want outcomes.
Baby, 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?
Gargles
time
it.
They ain't doing it.
They
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.
chat?
Salute to the chat.
Yeah, they
everybody in the chat.
Yep.
but I love the people that want to get the work done.
I love you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
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 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.
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.
Clean
All right.
Clean the
So Ray would agree.
You know, cleanliness, you know, evil can't hide in the clean environment.
Like people,
my
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.
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 started 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
don't have to even pay for
out there.
We
Anyway.
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 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
won't drop a bag of trash.
Oh, no, no.
They're going to walk the show.
They're going to walk the show.
They're going to walk the show.
They're going to walk the show.
They're
going to walk the show.
They're going
the show.
walk the show.
They're going to walk the show.
They're going to walk the show.
They're going to walk the show.
They're going to
going to walk the show.
They're going to walk the
You're gonna get pulled over to stop signs later.
It's over man
Let's say you see what he's wearing,
So comedian Drew ski has the internet and shambles and especially people that are into the sports world, right?
He dropped the high production football skid surrounding concussions and CTE and if you know Drew ski, you know, his whole exaggerated style.
He don't have a character.
It's going to be uncomfortable situation.
And it's going to be way over the edge, right?
And some current and former professional athletes are saying this one just wasn't funny.
So in the skit, Druski played a fictional football player named Ray Price.
The character
No,
that's that's that's what it's a play on.
Yeah, it was a play on Ray Rice
Oh, I didn't know that.
Look, see, I was like, listen, I know I know funny, but I listen.
So he basically took a hit on the field.
And from there, you just watch the life, like the life spiral, right?
Much like what we see in real life.
He got a scene where he's driving recklessly.
He's in a police chase.
He's showing up at somebody's house, behaving erratically.
He's banging his head against lockers.
He's trying to become a rapper and a streamer.
Then eventually he's at a press conference where he appears confused and they're asking him questions.
And he's like, I don't remember nothing, but playing football.
And it's clearly a joke that's built around the potential consequences of repeated head trauma, aka, you know, CTE.
But that's exactly why some former athletes aren't laughing about it, because for them, this isn't really hypothetical.
They've watched their teammates and friends struggle.
former NFL safety Super Bowl champion TJ Ward was one of the people criticizing the skit.
He basically asked why CTE is something that people feel comfortable turning into a punchline.
And there's history behind his reaction.
His former Denver Broncos teammate died at only 33 and was later found to have stage two CTE.
So when somebody like Ward watches that skit, he's not only seeing Druski playing a character, he's remembering somebody he actually knew.
A former Milwaukee Bucks legend also, Michael Redd also weighed in and he acknowledged that Druski's talented, but he also said CTE just shouldn't be a punchline.
So because for professional athletes, possibly the possibility of permanent brain damage and this could be a real fear for them.
Brain damage and all these things can be a real fear.
I wanted your take on that.
How you feel about that?
Two ways.
You know, Drew Ski is a comedian and I think that he pushes the edge with his skits.
No matter what skit he does, he's going to get a bunch of backlash.
But I'll say this, I met William Henderson from the Green Bay Packers at an event done by the grave digger Gilbert Brown.
And William Henderson was suffering from a lot of the punishment.
that he took from playing football.
He was a fullback, one of the toughest fullbacks that the Green Bay Packers ever had.
And he was suffering.
And you can, you know, that takes a toll on your body.
And many times, you know, a lot of those football players, when we talk about the serious side, like four years after they get out of the game, they are broke or bad decisions, a lot of that is contributed to a lot of the.
uh, wear and tear on the body and in football, concussions are a factor.
People are colliding and they don't even talk about it enough.
So right now, even though a lot of people are upset, they're talking about CTE and hopefully they can advance, uh, in trying to help prevent some of the, uh, concussions.
But at the same time, Drew ski is one of those skit artists at the top of his game and he's using it.
Even though he's using it in comedy, if he's taking real skits and real examples from real life and the name, what is it, Ray Price?
It was a real running back with the 23 named Ray Rice that played for the Baltimore Ravens that punched his girlfriend in the elevator that had a lot of different things
going on.
So
what I'm saying is I understood what he was trying to go with it.
In the skip, but he was taking
a
little situation
from real situations,
but that's what makes it good.
Then that's that's that's what makes something
This is