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Why he ain't never ready?
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I'm that cousin that be, you know, I'm like my brother sometimes.
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Before I came here, Shannon, because I got here in 98.
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You know, dare was big back in the Virgin Islands.
Yes, it was.
It was huge, actually.
It was huge.
They
had a good run here, too.
I thought so
Okay
be a Mandela effect.
I don't know
gonna get into that later
Hi, my name is Caitlin Lawrence.
I work at Safe and Sound.
I'm a program manager for District 4 and 5.
And today we're just going to be talking about Safe and Sound and the work that we do and keeping the community safe.
it?
Yeah, thank you for joining us, Caitlin.
I'm super excited to get into this interview.
It was a chill weekend.
I didn't really do much.
I just kind of relaxed.
Cuh's like, stay out of my business.
I don't know you like that.
Ask me a question.
All right, we're going to get into this interview, man, for our listeners who don't know.
Safe and Sound has spent nearly three decades working alongside residents, youth, law enforcement, businesses, and community organizations across Milwaukee and Racine.
What is the mission in your words?
So the mission of Safe and Sound is we unite residents, youth, and law enforcement to create safer, more empowered neighborhoods and give out community resources.
So a lot of the times when we go door to door, I like to say,
We're the hooker uppers.
So
we
have resources if you need to know about resources, if you need to know about events coming up, if you need help with something, where your people to contact.
Nice.
So safe and sound has been.
around for a long time now, I want to say more than 50 years.
We recently just bought a building off of Fond du Lac, kind of near where Epochose used to be and where Park Lawn, Asimnia God
Sherman Park area.
So
we used to be
located downtown at 8 on 1 building.
But we moved recently into the neighborhood, right?
So we wanted to be closer to the community that we serve, the people that we work with.
We wanted residents to be able to drop in anytime
they needed, had questions.
lot closer so that we are a lot more reachable for whatever people may need.
Nice, nice, nice.
Yeah, of course, of course.
So your title is program manager for district four and five.
What does that look like day to day for you?
So day to day.
So a
little
bit about the neighborhoods also.
So we serve five of the seven police districts in the city of Milwaukee.
So we work in districts two districts, three districts for five and seven.
So I am over districts four and five.
So District 4 is far north.
So that's going to be Grandville, West Lawn area.
And then District 5 is a little more central.
So it's going to be United Community area, Harambe, and Amani.
So on a day to day, it really depends on what my teams have going on.
So a lot of the times we do door-to-door outreach.
So we go out, we knock on doors, we tell people about what's going on, whether that's free events coming up.
youth programming.
We go into schools, so we go into schools and we teach youth about youth preventing violence, so teach them
about
drug and alcohols, what not to do, what's safe, teach them about peer pressures, health through relationships, just a lot of things that we feel like are tools that they can use for growing up.
So we do a lot of that.
We have a lot of block clubs.
So on a normal week, we have at least two to three block clubs that we go to where we hear residents' concerns, hear about the plans they have, anything they may need
help with, whether
that's reckless driving in their neighborhood.
We may talk to them about possibly getting a speed bump or even like having the block party to get to know your neighbors more.
So it really depends
on
the day, but it's a lot of work, a lot of boots on the ground, a lot of busy work being out in the community.
Definitely and it sounds like you said you guys listen to the residents needs and your model starts with listening to residents and helping them lead the changes they want.
So what do you hear when you listen?
What do you think the biggest concerns that you hear are?
I think the biggest concerns that we hear from residents is that they don't know where to start and they don't know who to contact anytime they have any issues really.
I know that recently a lot of the big issues that residents have been talking about is for sure reckless driving.
That's one of the main concerns.
Reckless driving has been a big issue and then as well as gun violence.
And then the third thing I would say is they're not being enough youth activities in the community.
So
them feeling
like youth don't have much to do
and it's not
the summer
outside of school.
So those are the top three things that
we.
hear residents talk about.
And I feel like it all does relate back to youth,
right?
They want kids to be able to play out in the street or in their front yard without having to worry about getting hit, having to cross the street without having to worry about that.
And then for gun violence, I think
a lot of
people or residents have been impacted by gun violence,
whether
that's having a gun in their home and having someone accidentally use
it
or a child accidentally find it or.
rather that being shot while they're sitting in the living room,
right?
So
these are all things that on-day-to-day residents have concerns about.
And then that goes back to the youth programming.
So a lot of youth just either not being in school or if they aren't in school, what else are they doing outside of school, right?
So yeah, those are just some of the main concerns that we hear.
So we do hear that, right?
Where people say, oh, it's not enough for the kids to do, right?
But then you have some folks that would say, oh, it's a lot for the kids to do.
They're just not getting to it.
In your in your opinion and the work that you are doing, what is your take on that?
Then I got a part two of the question.
My take on that is I have to agree with the fact that.
There are things for youth to do.
I think it's all about how it's promoted, how it's marketed, right?
A lot of kids are being on social media.
A lot of the work that
we do is door to door
or a lot of other nonprofit
organizations or youth serving agencies.
They probably aren't
following them on social media because when
youths long on social media, they're not looking for.
events or things to do, they're trying to see what the celebrities are doing, what their friends are doing.
So I think it's a matter of how do we make sure they know what's going on?
How do we make sure we're keeping them informed on what's going on in their neighborhood or in their community?
And then also, how do we make it appeal to them?
Right?
So what's going to be there for them to take away or
what?
How is it
going to be fun for them to do?
So I think us listening to the youth and what
want.
is one of the biggest things that matters because
we have to
throw events.
We have to do things that they're
gonna
wanna come to.
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We are kicking it with our cousin today, Caitlin Lawrence.
Program manager at Savings, I almost said executive director.
I don't want nobody trying, you know, like, what'd you tell them you were?
But I had a continuation of the question for you.
You had mentioned about gun violence and so forth and the ways you all support families, right?
We had the mayor here, Chevy.
We also had Office of Community Wellness and Safety here, right?
And I asked them both the same question I'm gonna ask you as well, right?
We see all the stats.
Crime is down, violent crime is down, shooting is down.
But for some reason, the community doesn't feel that.
How do you go about saying, hey, we're celebrating that crime is down, but still...
saying I understand it don't feel like it.
Did I ask that, was that clear enough?
Yeah,
I think it was
So how do we go about celebrating?
So how do we deal with the celebration of crime is down, right?
But in reality, people don't feel like crime is down.
So for instance, I,
I cringe when I see people celebrating that violence is down or crime is down.
But because I still hear a 14-year-old was shot or Office of Community Wellness and Safety had to go on scene because a nine-year-old was sleeping in her room and got shot and killed.
So for those families that are living in these communities, how do we balance that?
I guess that's the proper question.
I think the right way to balance that is, I would say to stay informed and to pay attention to what's going on.
I think on a month to month, maybe if everyone knows the statistics of what's going on with gun violence, like how many people were shot, where they were shot, when they were shot, what time of day and things like that, I think it would make the small wins easier to celebrate.
I know that every month in every district, the police officers host crime and safety.
So you're able to go whatever police district you live closest to and
hear those
stats.
How many shootings were there?
How many homicides were there?
Where was it?
What time of day?
You're able to
hear
those stats on a monthly basis because it's once a month and then you're also able to ask questions.
How are we staying safe?
How was this?
Why did it go down?
Why did it maybe go up this month?
What
can we as residents do to
prevent
these things from happening or what precautions can we make?
So I think just staying informed is the best way to kind of know when you should and when you shouldn't celebrate.
I think anytime we can prevent gun violence, like you said, those small ones, I think they are still wins
we did.
There were people who didn't.
Who?
were saved and who didn't get shot.
So anytime like that, still
win.
But yeah, we shouldn't celebrate yet until everyone feels like it's a win and everyone feels safe.
And yeah, I'm not saying that we shouldn't let me let me not say it like that because that sound like what we celebrate for people still not because we should celebrate crime going down.
It was more so how do we balance that, you know, because like, yeah, we we know the stats, but.
In reality, people may feel a certain thing, but thank you all for that.
Shannon.
For sure.
I know
Shannon.
Of course.
So you mentioned that people are in the communities, right?
And you guys work hand in hand with the neighbors and the residents and you help them turn ideas into action.
Can you give us an example like a story where like a resident had an idea that turned into action?
Yeah, so actually one example of a resident I would say would be in District 7 and I bring up this example because it's right by my job and where our building is located but
we have a
resident who is a block captain and his name is Jim and he recently decided to
talk about the issue of reckless driving.
And because of that, he wanted to get bump outs.
I know you guys haven't seen the bump out around the city.
I know it's kind of controversial, but he wanted to get bump outs in his neighborhood.
So all up and down near Fond du Lac on the side street, you can see that there's
more
bump outs and there's more speed bumps.
So that's
something that
him
and his
block
club advocated for.
And we
got to see in real time how quickly they went up.
I remember coming to work and I'm like, these were not here.
What happened?
Why are these here?
What's the story behind it?
And that's when we found out that the residents felt like they needed it to feel safer, to make people slow down when they're driving up and down the neighborhood that they live in.
So that's one example of a resident coming up with something and it being brought to life right away.
Nice.
And we talk about getting people involved and how residents are getting involved, but how are young people involved in your work?
Not just as recipients, but as leaders as well.
So a way that young people...
involved in the work is anytime we have any youth event we make sure to at least have one youth let us know what they picture for the idea so
that way
they're coming up with a plan and what they want to see and kind of seeing it brought to life and then on top of that a lot of the schools that we work in we also are able to have them make kind of their own youth council so they get to become
a mini youth council and they get to advocate for whatever it is that they want.
So I know a lot of kids when we go to the schools
and
this is like all ages so it's middle school, high school and even some grades younger than middle school but they talk about the things they want to see in their neighborhood.
Sometimes they say there's a lot of trash, sometimes they say they want a better park so we make sure that we
show
them how they can
bring their idea to life, right?
So
what is it
that you want?
How do you want to do it?
And then who do you want to help you?
And how can you tell your friends and your classmates or your neighbors to help you?
And then they come up with the plan and they kind of present it to us.
And we take those ideas and we help them make those come to life.
Yeah, of course.
So what are the young people telling you that they need most from adults?
The
young people tell us turn
The young people always tell us that the thing that they want most is for adults to listen to them That's the main thing that they want.
They want to feel like their voice matters They want to feel like we're asking them questions about them in their future and what they want versus talking at them all the time
So
they're always
like, yeah, my family talks at me.
They're telling me what I need to do, but
they're not asking me, what do I want to do when I get older?
What do I want to
do when I graduate?
They're
not
asking those questions.
It's just more so
talking
at them about what they need to change and what they need versus what they want to do.
So that's a lot of the things that the young people always say to us is, we want adults to listen to us.
We want to feel heard.
OK, all right.
So I also see that there is a breakfast.
Friday, October 16th.
Can you tell me more about that and what people can expect?
Yes.
So hope has an address.
So for about three decades, Safe and Sound has been working with residents, youth and community to build safer neighborhoods.
So we have an annual breakfast that we host every year.
It's a celebration of people, partnerships, and a lot of stories for how we're transforming the communities.
every day and what's going on.
So this year, it's going to be this Friday, October 16th, and it's going to be at Discovery World.
And
we have a lot of honorees that we are honoring
at the event and a lot of
stories being
told.
And we actually are still selling tickets.
So we will actually be at, we'll be selling tickets in person at summer of 85.
It's on.
MLK Drive this Wednesday, October 14th between six and eight.
So if you want to pull up and get a ticket in person, that's the best time to do it.
If not, you can visit our website and
there where people are able to purchase tickets as well.
Yes.
I can talk about maybe two of them.
good.
So one of the honorees that we are honoring for Collective Impact, we're honoring Alderman Mark Chambers.
that's
one of the honorees.
And
another honoree
that we have that we're
honoring for public safety and
work in the community is going to be Captain Teresa Janet.
And she is the captain of District 4 Polices.
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And we are at that point of the day where we, we, we doing what's popping with Shannon.
It's y'all heard with the intro and all, but we don't get right into it.
Okay.
So it's time for what's popping with Shannon.
And today we have heartbreaking news involving two lives lost just eight days apart involving the same network.
I want to say.
We have Mikaela page also known to reality TV viewers as cash from now.
That's TVs real West Coast baddies She was just 29 and has died the network identified her following a fatal shooting downtown Oakland early Sunday October 11th in that video has been going viral According to Oakland police officers
Responded shortly after 1 30 in the morning and found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound She was taken to a hospital where she died police arrested another woman from Richmond in connection with the shooting as of this morning authorities have not publicly released What the woman's name or explained what led to the shooting?
Her cousin described her as a woman with dreams of building businesses and working in modeling and makeup A close friend remember cash as somebody who encouraged her to do better and pushed her toward her potential Cousins so that's the part that I want you guys to hold on to right because I feel like these lives have been
A lot of times when people from reality TV pass away, we remember them as clips or a character we watched on TV.
But as her family described, she was a person with dreams and ambition and potential.
Eight days earlier, we have a 47 year old named Ulysses.
Taiki Davis known as Bear who was fatally shot outside Warfield Theater in San Francisco He was working security at a baddies USA chat event So he was a father of six and a brother-in-law told local reporters that Davis's wife and two children had witnessed his shooting authorities say a woman had been escorted out after a disruption at the event and Ended up shooting him
Shakia Vanderbilt was 32 and has been charged with the murder and additional firearm offenses The charges are allegations and she has not been convicted yet, right?
But I think I think what matters most here is the question of is using violence for content affecting how people handle conflict in real life because we have two murders
That pretty much come from the same type of reality TV, right?
And like I said before these people have lives they have ambition they have family members and some people are just being affected in the crossfire, right?
So I guess as we become more used to seeing content of People being violent do we forget that these are people and and also does it?
Begin to affect how people are handling things in real life.
So Ray, what you thinking?
They don't come upside your head.
No, but I real real answer is like I feel like baddies life and and street life is one in the same It's like two in the same.
It's like you literally go on the show to fight and turn up and Beat whoever you could beat
And then you go out in the club and you create content, drinking, fighting and doing more of that.
And then they sell that over and over and over and over again.
And I don't want to sound insensitive at all because lives are lost.
You feel what I'm saying?
And it is lives are being lost based off of the illusion that these type of lifestyles are to be desired or to be
championed or celebrated or really even acting like a baddie is a real thing.
You know, like, I don't know, man.
It's just like.
The energy you put out is the energy that you get in return or seeks you out.
So it's like, I don't I don't.
And I'm not saying random things can't happen to good people.
You feel what I'm saying?
Because it can.
But.
I just really have issue with like the culture of just showing the worst of us all the time.
And then we get so we'd be so sad when.
You know, the outcome happens that was publicized on TV or is like, I don't man, I don't know, Shannon.
It's just it's kind of irritating.
You know what I'm saying?
Like we push that culture and now people think their way to being known or famous or getting paid is by fighting and going online and showing how good they they hands is.
And I just I don't see the.
I don't see the benefit in it other than, you know, people feeling like I'm popping now when I'm on this and I'm on that.
But at what cost?
What what do it cost you do, you know what I'm saying your peace,
right?
Mm-hmm.
I Completely agree with what you're saying because I do feel like these viral moments
Um of handling conflict poorly It's just becoming like how people get attention and people I feel like attention is the new currency, right?
And a lot of ways like people a lot of people want to be an influencer because they're like, okay This is the easy way out.
But like you said at what cost it sounds like they're losing more than they're gaining They're putting a stain on their name a lot of these like fights are crazy like people losing teeth
like genuinely are ending up messed up behind this
and at the same time it's it's one of those things where it's it's becoming I think so normal to see this stuff online like I didn't really talk about the video that surfaced of the girl cash that was killed but she was in a fight and like this video is everywhere she was in a fight with somebody and her friend
Decided oh, I want to get involved in this too right
with a gun and I believe she tried to pistol with the girl that cash was fighting but the gun goes off and she shoots her own friend in the head and our friends laying out there to die so it's like these situations are Becoming escalated so much quicker any situation where you're dealing with combat any situation where you're dealing with fighting somebody and in things of this nature
Things can go left so quickly and I feel like because it's televised I think because it's content for a lot of people They don't realize how bad things can go like even in a in a fist fight things can go bad real fast You know what I mean?
And I do think at some point things need to be regulated I think there needs to be censorship when it comes to these TV shows there needs to be more I Think there needs to be more
Accountability right like I don't think these things should be even like I don't understand how this stuff is continuing to go on and it's just growing and growing and it's literally spread to like everywhere like they got baddies overseas baddies
they got baddies in the club baddies in the car like what are we doing like half the time I don't even know which leg of the baddies stuff is stuff coming from like it's so
popular right now.
And I think it is affecting how people resolve conflict in real time.
Now, they scrapping it's
like real housewives.
I
happened was reality TV became so popular and people just.
I think people just ended up realizing like, okay, like whenever you start tussling a little bit, that gets more attention, that gets more views.
And I think production in general, like their thing is like, how do we get more views without getting sued?
And I don't know how they ain't getting sued or how they ain't getting production shut down, but that's got to do my research on that
I'm willing to bet that there's some sort of waiver that they saw, willing to bet.
willing to bet that there's something in there that says, you know, whatever happens to you on this show or while shooting this show or while you're, you know, Zeus network is not responsible.
I'm completely guessing, right?
But you don't create that type of chaotic.
content and not protect yourself as a business and be like, ah, yeah, I'm creating this place a chaos, but you're choosing to come participate in it.
So if something happens to you while you're participating in this, then, you know, we're not responsible for it.
And then when we come back, I'd like to get into another thought process of that.
I wonder if Zeus Network got life insurance on the people that they got on.
Hmm, probably.
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You didn't.
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Don't forget, this Friday, y'all, is that breakfast.
This Friday is the breakfast at Discovery World, so make sure y'all pull up to that.
If you're just joining us, we are in the middle of What's Poppin' with Shannon.
And we talking about baddie culture, Shannon, get a folks rundown of what we are talking about as we get ready to continue this conversation today.
For sure.
So this weekend, I believe, or not even week, and I think in one week we had two deaths involving baddies.
One was cash, someone that was casted on baddies.
She was fighting in Oakland and ended up.
Being shot in the head and dying shortly after and before that about a week before that a security guard at a baddies event Ended up being shot by someone that he was removing from the event in front of his wife and kids Like I said, it's just one of those things we're having a conversation around baddies baddies culture and what that influences
What that influence is and we're also asking the question if this violent content is affecting how we deal with Conflict in real life because both of these situations involving these people were real-life conflict It wasn't like like they were you know recording for a show, but they were out in the real world and Obviously dealing with conflict
And ended up dying the security guard.
He was working in shift dealing with somebody I'm gonna guess she was one of those people that wanted to be casted on baddies And he ended up being shot.
So yeah, we're having that conversation around how this conflict content is affecting us
How I want to say this.
The content, right?
I feel like the content, the violent content is, it's almost too easy, low hanging fruit to just start to blame there, right?
I think that's too easy.
I feel like the Zeus networks hold a separate responsibility of, you know, elevating.
violent content.
I think we got to separate violent content culture and just violent culture in general.
You feel me?
I think society in itself has just for some reason became so much more desensitized than and this isn't even just about black community, right?
This is just society as a whole became so much more desensitized to violence to now, you know,
acting violently is seemingly not even something people think about.
It's almost like, you know, I can't wait for somebody to try me so I could tear something up, you know?
And, you know, society has had the greatest teacher in this American country.
You know, America has showed some of the strongest acts against violence.
against multiple civilizations, multiple ethnicities, multiple regions, multiple other countries.
You know, so the act of violence, I feel, in this country at least, I feel like it was well learned from, you know, just this damn country.
And now people can
cash in on it.
go.
And on top of that, you have people in this country that are looking for ways to make money.
And people do strange things when they're like, OK, I think I can become a content creator if I just go get beat
a little bit.
got people with degrees and some more stuff up at these auditions.
Like, girl, what are you doing?
Like, why are you there?
Like, what's happening?
We also have a clip where Natalie describes what a baddie is.
And in my opinion, we're going to roll the clip, and we can talk about the clip.
I love G-Shock.
Really?
Yes.
Is it blinged
out?
Is it pink?
I
mean, baddies like pink.
Really?
We like bling, bling.
you.
telling you.
Because for the folks that don't understand what
What is a baddie?
I mean, a baddie is a lot of things.
Mm-hmm.
But in my true definition of a baddie, you know, a boss, you know?
A boss.
This is as simple as that.
that.
Yeah, like, you run in the show, you run in it, you're the boss, people respect you as the boss, people see you as the boss, people know you're the
baddie?
That all we do is fight.
That's insane.
I mean, we do fight.
I mean, everybody fights.
Really?
Yeah, you fight, too.
I saw you fighting that mascot.
So everybody fights, but that's not like, come on, that's not the
No, but you swung on the mascot.
I died.
Swung
on
the
mascot.
I
cast you on bad boys.
Hmm.
So, yeah, we had Natalie Nunn there explaining what a baddie is, and then going into the conversation of everybody fights.
We don't just fight.
Yeah.
A lot of people, I think a lot of the backlash from the show and when you look in the comment sections are people saying that's all they do.
I've never seen the show personally, but like all I see is clips of them fighting or some type of conflict.
I've never seen them doing challenges, having
like
these people are.
An active addiction of some sort and banging on each other heads.
That's it
Like we had stuff like MTV had real world road rules challenge and stuff like that, right?
But they had like, did you see some altercations?
Yes.
But at the end of it, it was challenges.
You know what I'm saying?
They would have to like go get a job.
It was goals.
It was task.
They had team events that they had to do.
They had like, we got to go operate this store and who, which group can make the most money from operating.
store we got to create this business which group can you know what I mean it's none of that no more they've taken no
type of no type of direction just
get in this head boss
beat over each other head like what are we doing bro and like I said before it's kind of disheartening too because you know these are people that either really want a career
or really are low on money.
And they're like, OK, this would be a quick come up for me.
And they're actually being exploited and taken advantage of.
And they don't realize it.
And a lot of times, like these shows, like Natalie, for instance, like it gives.
That's what it's giving.
giving.
Yeah.
Get out there, bust each other head.
I'm going to get this big old check.
I'm going to get y'all crumbs.
But but at what like you said at what cost and I think a lot of times like people think It's a bigger Like it's a bigger check than what it is or it's a better outcome than what it is Like I feel like even when it comes to like loving hip-hop, right when you think of loving hip-hop when you think of a lot of these reality shows like It's so rare that people come from them and like prevail Cardi B was very much alike
One-time thing I haven't seen nobody else from love and hip-hop have a successful career Either there are people that are like, you know, their career's going down So they jump on TV or they want to come up but you go on that show and make a fool of yourself The rest of them that have successful careers is from continuing to make a fool of themselves It ain't from like being taken serious from their craft Cardi B was definitely a good example, but
That's one in how many
have what 20 seasons.
Because I felt like Cardi B really took off after she stepped away from the show.
I would say DJ Self was holding her back because if you remember the show, DJ Self wanted to put he was putting the intention into the what's the white chick that was on there?
With a Mariah land
still still fine I saw her last see how you doing all this kicking I told you I got asthma
Crazy and and these are women that are in like and like I said, there's no age on ignorance But I think you're more gullible and you're more likely to fall victim to Ignorance schemes when you're younger, but these are women in their 30s, bro Like I couldn't imagine being on TV and not having the tools to be like let's let's sorry Let's resolve this.
Let's figure out
Some type of resolution that doesn't come to throwing hands and if it do cool, but that's not the first resort That's not what I want to come here for like what what is the end goal in this like party?
Y'all know me.
I like to have a blast partying and
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Shannon, go ahead, recenter the conversation again as we continue what we're talking about.
Of course, of course.
So we had two incidents where.
two separate people lost their lives and they are attached to the baddies brand in some capacity.
So we just started the conversation around, is this violent content actually affecting the way we resolve conflict in real life?
Because these incidents happened outside of recording, outside of regular, like I said, regular production time.
So it feels like
these things are spilling over into real life and it's much more than just content and it's much more than just reality tv because you do see people say well it's just tv chill out and it's like at what point is it not just tv and and we also i also will argue that you see how young people react to conflict too like just recently like there's a whole tiktok
Uh saga going on, right?
There's this 21 year old girl her next door neighbor is in her 30s And the 21 year old girl has been posting constant Content about how she don't like where this woman is putting her trash can and she's like yeah, I'ma I'ma go confront her.
It's like what over a trash can like it was just giving
Karen vibes on baddies like what are we doing dude and like the woman is like super mild mannered like she's not even arguing back like just keeping it cool
in this girl like is constantly uploading videos in the last video you see is her like confronting the woman like you know like jacking the garbage can from her shaking it like yeah what you gonna do like just antagonizing this woman and it's insane because like the way she was talking about the woman like this woman is in her 30s she living her best life she ain't trying to be bothered with no young rowdy mess
you could tell this woman is just like okay i'm gonna keep it calm i ain't going to jail behind this
and the
lady in the 21 year old is literally antagonizing this woman and just like oh yeah you're
old
you're lonely you're in this i don't ever see anybody at the house for you like just like the language she was using was just giving baddies and it was so annoying but the internet exploded when the very last video after that
Posted her face is scraped up We just watched a series of videos if you antagonizing this woman over where she placed her trash can We watched you harass this woman and all of a sudden you on you on the internet now She just beat me up.
Oh my god.
I can't believe this like yeah, what do you like?
You can't antagonize people and harass people and expect nothing to happen.
And I feel like a lot of times people just looks at it as content because that's really what it was.
Like you could tell she was trying to go viral about this garbage can beef.
She had called the HOA and they told her girl, you're in the wrong.
She put her garbage can right there and you just continue to try to make content.
And when they had a real life repercussion.
You ain't even built like that for real.
That woman washed the pavement with her.
Her whole face was scraped.
Like girl, did you get in a bicycle accident?
What are we doing?
And then on top of that the saga continued because her sister gets involved and like you could see ring footage of her sister like messing up the ladies like lawn
chairs and throwing her
stuff around and banging on her door.
Continuing the harassment saying that's why you lonely ain't nobody in that house for you.
Then the older woman's sister came and in the next video, see the sisters also getting beat up.
So it's like, let's resolve conflict better than that.
And she had every opportunity to do so.
Cause like I said, the woman in the video didn't seem aggressive.
She was quiet.
She's just trying to move her garbage cans where she want to like, she was being very patient.
Most people would have been crashed out.
So I don't know.
I do think that's a good.
Example of people handling conflict horribly and just antagonizing and keeping it going for content because there was so many videos about this garbage can drama It was ridiculous and then and now it stopped when when she washed the pavement with your face
Man, I just think I just think man, I don't like I don't like it simply because like You know People Start thinking that is a way to like really fine Work a job revenue a business, uh, you know what I mean?
Like you said something
A lot of times, a lot of these folks that be on these shows, they started off because, oh, you know, I'm just, I got this business, I'm gonna get poppin', whether it be a brand, a lash brand, or music.
And then I always be like, man, why don't those slappers never come out of these shows?
These show, in my opinion, right, you got all these eyes on it.
Why don't they focus on, like, all right, let's make some hits.
Let's really make some hits and really monetize it instead of just sitting here hitting each other the songs that they be having be so Like regular sometimes man,
and that's because they're not looking for actual artists.
They looking for ignorance They look at the ignorance who can actually be the most ignorant on this TV and we can we can put it up
under the guys that they are working.
These
people
ain't work.
Do you think I want a lash tech or makeup artist on my face and my eyes
closed and
all of a sudden somebody come in and start beating on her?
Excuse me.
I just wanted my hair done.
No, thank you.
I'll watch you for entertainment, but I'm not going to you for no work.
Like you said, the music, it sucks.
Ain't nobody going to see them work.
We want to see you fight.
pay.
I am willing to bet nearly nothing.
A
lot of those girls that come from those shows.
Barely like they they aren't doing well.
Okay, like in the ones that are are the ones that's like pretty much the host of the show Or there's somebody like Natalie nun where the bag goes to them and then they give these other girls break it down like you might Yeah, and then you break it down like you might be able to go to some clubs and host a little bit But I doubt any serious clubs that can pay you a really big bag once you there because That was centered around what y'all do so it's like I
I'm willing to bet not much, but these girls also bank on the opportunity to get all these eyes and followers.
It says newer lesser known cast members rumored to make around 1500 to 3000 per episode or roughly 50,000 to 70,000 per season.
our returning favorites and mid tier stars make anywhere from 50,000 to over 200,000 per season or span into higher contract tiers such as 200 K to 400 K per season.
It says top tier earners such as Christiane Rock, Tommy Lee, Stunner Girl or Biggie.
I think I only know two of those names before.
have reportedly pulled in $100,000 per episode, like Rashaan, or $275,000 to $400,000 per season.
So there's the numbers.
There's the numbers.
And it sounds like that's a very limited, you know, few that actually gets that.
But like you said, at what cost?
At what cost?
Let's take Rashaan, for example, somebody we've talked about.
a few times at this show, at what cost?
You want to make that money so bad, you want to be popping so bad online, and not just her, because I don't want to single nobody out.
That's not fair.
But it is the example that we have that we could point to right now because so much of her baddie culture that we see is impacting now her child's life.
So much so she didn't even want to acknowledge that the kid had a problem So I Don't know Shannon I think it just shows a lot of shows like if anything I hope people would just use that as a lesson use that as a physical example to point to Like I this is how this person carried themselves on the show while they were well.
I don't know if she was pregnant on a show.
Don't let me
I don't want to misrepresent that.
But the culture of what that show represents, we saw it lived out and now we saw the effects it's having on an innocent kid.
So that's my thoughts, Shannon.
Super unfortunate.
And like you said, even when you think of these women, right?
Like, first of all, the last I heard is that she doesn't really even have stable housing.
Damn Her child is suffering if you're making so much money, he should have the top of the health care, right?
He's at the top of the top That is not happening And you see different instances where like a lot of times like when they make money is because now they have to use their platform to find a new hustle And that's a lot of people right
Like I said, I feel like it's not worth.
Sometimes the juice is not worth the squeeze.
Most of these people seem so dead in the eyes, like their soul has been sucked about of them.
You know what I'm saying?
They're not happy.
You know what I'm saying?
They're functional addicts at this point.
Because they got a they got a fight for their life every day drinking every day every night like that literally that's all they do So it's like I bet most of them don't even know where that money is going and sometimes I'm pretty sure they're in these weird contracts where years later We don't even got no money.
They need to pay me for real.
I've seen Christiane crash out about her payments multiple times.
So it's just like That's the reported income
I can bet on it that's not exactly what they're seeing, and there's other things in place.
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My mama calling me.
Shall I take his own?
No, she gonna cuss in her accent.
I ain't even trying to.
I ain't even trying to get written up.
She's like,
you say you want a shrimp or
It ain't going to cook if you don't bring the stuff.
So I got to go shopping after I get off work.
I'll take you to these things.
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I think it's a very needed conversation.
Go ahead and let the folks know that it's just joining us what we just got done talking about.
For sure.
So for what's population and we talked about baddie culture and how it's having real life repercussions as two people Associated with the baddies brand have passed away in about a span of eight days in two separate events They have one was fighting and was shot and another security guard was removing someone from a baddies event And he was shot.
So we're just talking about how
these baddie things are affecting people in real life.
And we also got in the conversation of, is this content affecting how we resolve conflict?
And is it having, I guess, a wider, what is this impression on young people and how they deal with conflict?
And so right now I want us to think about, I want us to think about this, right?
Looking at social media, we're looking at baddies, we're looking at how everything, in my opinion, is intertwined, right?
The rise in social media, the rise in people clout chasing, the rise in everybody just acting crazy to put it online.
But now you have
record label for the violent culture, right?
And SEO Zeus networks, SEO, whatever.
So we asked this question, like, I wonder, well, I asked the question, I don't want you getting no trouble or nothing shit.
I know you know a few
of them baddies.
I'm with you, I'm
be out busting heads.
If I caught you, I'm gonna get
the club in
That's a good question.
that is a very good question.
Don't know that but I'm willing to bet on it that they do Because a lot of them are quote-unquote artists technically, right?
Mm-hmm a lot of them are on there saying that they want to be rappers or Whatever they want to do and I'm pretty sure they sign some type of contract Yeah, I'm willing to bet on it just because they are high-risk and like I said, it's a lot of these predatory
environments that they do stuff like that, where either way, they're gonna win.
Whether you dead or alive, they're gonna make some money off of you.
You don't even take out another policy just for the family.
You just take it out for the business, you know?
I wonder if these people even get health insurance in these contracts, or they're like, oh, you gotta go get your own,
health insurance provider.
Man, I doubt it.
Like I said, a lot of times, they save these numbers.
the company insurance.
You got to get one of them
see what
don't go get one for
let us look over the years.
I can get my hands on one.
You know what I mean?
Maybe I can hit somebody up and ask them.
I might know somebody that knows somebody that can get the contract and we can talk.
We can get it, you
They try to pull some strings.
And then the other thing I want to highlight, too, is I remember when we interviewed 414 Kennedy.
And, you know, she was on one of those shows.
And she had a moment where she was like, yo, I'm good on all of this.
This not who I am.
I like to dance.
I like to make people laugh.
I like to have a good time.
I'm not with all this fighting and negative and just arguing.
And now you got drama in the streets and all of these things.
And, you know, she talked about the mental.
Told that it took on her
Yeah, and obviously it's just not enough to continue on unless you really really need the money or you really really need the cloud and Being in those like people like you said earlier like the energy you put out That's what you get back and bad things happen to good people all the time, but
If you are around a bunch of people that are being incentivized for being bad, what do you think is going to happen?
Like that's what it is.
They're incentivizing these people with more screen time.
They probably get more opportunities within the company if they're doing bad things.
So it's one of them things where like to protect yourself and protect your peace, you have to step away and like much respect for
to her for stepping away from that environment and realizing like, man, I'm so much more than this and I don't have to deal with this.
And I also want to point out like, it's to the point where a lot of people, oh, you scary, why you, why you leave?
Like people will do that.
And it's like,
Like she didn't just make the best decision ever.
Like I'm leaving this negative environment.
Like yeah, so yeah, I definitely commend Kennedy for that because You know like I followed Kennedy online is she was always a joyful spirit She was always just trying to do her music and do the dances and kicking it with big friends That's why I know her from from making all the viral dances and stuff like that to frank in their music You know so to
see her
popping.
Exactly.
And I feel like a lot of times like they try to find people that aren't already, you know, in a good position because then they have more of an incentive to stay.
And thankfully she she was in a position to walk away from that for sure.
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I might sit right there next to Zach and watch the whole show.
What you got, Viv?
I want to know, what's your view on
this?
I think I'm gonna stay online and just kind of watch it from YouTube.
Look, I don't know about in person, but
gonna stick around for a little bit.
me.
Well, you know.
In my laptop.
actually.
the number show, huh?
looked through the views.
You
it.
I did, okay?
All right.
I'm trying to find time to watch all the shows just a little bit.
Ah!
last read.
leftovers over there.
So we'll read that a little later today.
But.
Shannon rent.
A 3 3 2 1 2 10 17.
That is the number to dial A 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is the number to dial.
We are pivoting the conversation, y'all.
Right now, we are going to talk about the rent is high and the door is locked, Shannon.
So what's going on with that?
What's ran out there, really?
Yeah, so I did look up some numbers to find out what the average was I know how much I love above average, but any who a normal studio is 1142 a one bedroom is 1281 and a two bedroom is 1524 on average in the three bedroom is 2100 dollars That's just the average Yeah
Yeah.
Well, first off, let's clap it up for the brewers.
I know we started the show.
We went right in to our our interview.
Our cousin came right in.
She like, because I need to get in and out of here.
So we need to stop this.
So.
But shout out to the brewers, man.
We are up 1-0 on the Los Angeles Dodgers, fam.
And I think we get back to it tonight.
We could go back.
We could go up 2-0.
I heard this the other day.
I was like, who is, who are, which artist is this?
Phone him.
Phone him.
Milwaukee Bridge.
Milwaukee Bridge.
Shouts out to the Brewers, man.
Shouts out to the Brewers, man.
The Brewers did their thing.
Another amazing game, man.
Two to one.
The pitching was awesome.
They been doing a big one.
They been doing it.
We had the best.
Um, recordin' baseball this year, so.
I know that's right.
I ain't heard from DJ Aira all week.
just checking in on you.
crippin is crazy.
You know, you get the cussing all types of stuff on air when the brewers are started winning.
So, Shannon, we talking about rent.
Rent is high.
We've been seeing record evictions all over, not just Milwaukee all over.
We saw Houston in a month.
What did I see they had over 3,000 evictions and Milwaukee itself had?
What was the stats?
Tori Lowe posted on his page.
I can't remember the exact stats, but we had two apartment buildings at 23rd in Michigan.
About two weeks ago, the city's Department of Neighborhood Service walked in and found electrical systems tampered with.
Fire alarms that didn't work, fire doors that didn't function, life safety hazards top to bottom.
It's actually, if I'm not mistaken, that's in Bob's district as well.
Life
safety hazards is crazy.
We still want you to pay rent.
Same
artist
that
I was
up
Green Bay Packers.
out to
Packers did wear yesterday, man.
We spanked the beers, by the way.
Spanked.
People say, oh, they didn't have Caleb Williams and all of this stuff, but he'll be back.
He'll be back, and we'll run it back.
But all right, let's get back to it, right?
Life Safety has its top to bottom.
The word is that.
Oh, they placard.
I see Hawaii at the end of the the placard.
They placard the buildings.
Everybody was out more than 40 people.
Here's the part that should make you angry in both directions, right?
City records show years.
of complaints about those buildings before the emergency, interiors and disrepair.
No heat complaints, violations after violation.
The danger didn't appear overnight.
It accumulated on paper in a file while families paid rent to live inside of it.
All right.
It's Fourth District.
Y'all know who the Alderman is over there?
I'll let y'all think about it.
Meet Barbara Brown.
Bob!
She's 64.
Why wouldn't it be?
She lived in those buildings for, you know what?
It might have switched, because if I'm not mistaken, that could be Charlotte's district.
So, it could be Miss Charlotte Moore's district.
Since the Plaggards... Man, I'm hungry.
She's been sleeping at family members' homes and in a hotel.
Her church helped pay for it.
That help is coming to an end and Rent y'all rent and evictions we saw Maybe last year a couple years ago.
They had barata all over the news talking about how much he's evicting somebody every month or for whatever the case may be and You know, this doesn't seem like it's just a barata thing.
It seems like it's a
You know nationwide so Now the city will tell you the DNS spokesman Jeremy McGovern said it plainly the choice between displacement or potentially People dying in a fire.
That's an easy choice for us.
He says and he's right about the fire But notice who pays for everybody else's failure not the owner
who let it right, not the system that filed the complaint for years.
Barbara paid for it.
All right.
And Barbara 64.
She lived in those buildings for five years.
All right.
And she's lived there for five years, Shannon.
And I'm sorry.
They did pass.
They did.
Go ahead.
I was just gonna say, that's just Barbara's story.
It's an entire building of people.
Some people aren't even as fortunate enough to have a church community that's willing to pay or family members that they can actually sleep with.
And where do those people go?
And where do they turn?
Super unfortunate.
If I'm not mistaken, I saw that the mayor alongside other elected officials signed a new law.
stating that, maybe it's not a law, but they signed something, right?
Saying that residents can now call to have city, the city inspect the lots or their properties if they feel like a landlord is being negligent, you know, so they could call and the city would then send somebody out to do so.
And I don't know what the process was first.
I always wonder, like, why don't we already have these type of things in place?
It makes me ask what has been going on down there, Shannon.
And the fact that that building was around for five years with what did they call it?
Life,
have died.
Life safety hazard sounds like this building might implode on itself very soon.
Like not just small issues that can be fixed.
So we talked about what the city would say.
Where are exactly are they supposed to go?
Where are people supposed to go?
All right, run the market.
The Milwaukee's Metro median rent.
Is $1283 a month, up 3% in a year.
The average effect rent is headed to about 1692 this year.
The average effective rent rate is headed to about $1692 this year with vacancy down.
around 3.6% meaning there's almost nothing open.
And since 2021 Milwaukee County rents are up 42%.
Think about that.
That's wild.
So there's barely any openings.
Rent is extremely expensive and everybody also is on the verge of getting evicted anyways.
That's an impossible situation to navigate
Super impossible the average like we said the average effective rent is headed to about 16 really might as well just say 1700 this year All right, there's nothing open and for the last five years rent is up almost 50% You know what's all was up 50% in the last five years.
Are we energies bill?
For an efficiency of 21% for a three bedroom, you're 1500 used to buy you 988 square feet in the city.
Today, it buys you 820 square feet in the city.
You're paying more for less in a market with no room.
When we come back, Shannon, we going to continue this conversation because something has to be done.
And I question, I question how these rates got up.
I think it's too many out of town investors and big firms that is allowed to buy houses in places that they don't even, the business isn't in.
And then they raise these prices up based on the market that they're based in, whether that's LA or Atlanta or all these other places.
Like, well, we want to get this money out here too.
So, we'll talk about that when we come back and close this thing out here, right here on the award-winning 10170 Truth.
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John, man, I need something for the weekend, fam.
I got to come down there and get on something real quick, man.
It was 80 degrees.
I ain't even had enough time to go holler at John.
I was in Racine this weekend.
Ain't nobody got this.
You know, I had, I had a meeting.
I had a meeting.
It's amazing.
Right.
Right.
I should have linked up with Benjamin when I was out there.
For what?
How he moved here now?
He did move here now.
Yeah, but that's his thumping grounds.
He could have told you where to go.
Racine.
I don't think I've ever been to Racine.
I
a lot.
You you had a busy
We had to get right into our interview.
Yeah, but the Wisconsin Dems had the Wisconsin Black Dems had um You know their inaugural cookout and They awarded a few people with some you know, they was honoring a few people and I got advocate of the year Shannon
I did.
I did get advocated a year.
So that was, it was pretty smooth to get acknowledged, you know?
You do the work, you don't really ask for nothing in return, you just do it because it's
what needs
So shots out to the Dems for that, man.
It is a very, very important election coming up that we need folks to participate in.
If you're a first time voter, if you haven't voted, get registered.
the deadline and register to vote is coming up.
But you could also register at the sites as well.
You could register at your polling locations, all right?
So stay tuned.
We're gonna be doing a lot of different voting things.
Yeah, that was it, Shannon.
I had a pop quiz that happened on Sunday.
Yeah, that was Sunday.
Had a pop quiz.
A pop quiz?
Yeah, failed it tremendously.
What was the pop quiz about?
was a pop quiz
And I did.
Well, first of all, I knew.
I knew the answers, right?
No, no, I didn't.
Sounds like you didn't know the answers, Ray.
I didn't have enough time.
There wasn't enough time.
It wasn't enough time.
But.
Oh, you just wasn't working well under pressure.
That's all, you know.
And it was like long-winded answers, too.
So, but this is what I will say.
I don't even think the pop quiz was really like, all right, y'all, I'm gonna do this pop quiz for y'all.
You know what I'm saying?
Like spring this pop quiz on y'all.
I think it was to get us prepared more so than seeing if we know it, right?
Because technically we were supposed to been set up our own.
time to come in and take this quiz verbally.
And we've had all year essentially to do this.
All year?
You've been studying it.
Right.
It's
you thing at this
was apparently long-winded answers, which is your fault, by the way, if you
answers.
So, for instance, if somebody says, I need you to write out the Star Spangled Banner, you know, recite right out the star Star Spangled Banner, you know, and it's going to take you a little time to write that out.
Not 30 minutes.
No, but you have a few questions.
Okay, so I asked you to write the Star Spangled Banner out.
How long do you think it would take you to write out the Star Spangled Banner?
The first verse.
Not even 50 minutes.
Just, you know, single hand was creepy.
You knew the answers.
It's like 30 questions on a test.
And if one of them requires five plus minutes...
I would love to see y'all.
So this question is
not based on knowledge.
It's based on how fast you can write.
throw you a raft here.
I
raft.
one of y'all
You telling me you could write down the chorus and hook, the chorus and verses of your favorite song in less than five minutes?
Yes.
That's like a three-minute thing.
OK.
And then can you do it 30 times?
You could do it in 30 times in under 30 minutes.
If I love the song that much, yes.
All right.
I'd like to
see.
Let me be the host.
I want to see.
I want to see.
I want to see how fast somebody, like, I think people think typing is like writing with a pencil fan.
I'm not like typing it down on a computer.
You have to type this.
I mean, you have to write it.
But anyway, we got Al online.
Al like, shut the hell up.
I've been online.
The stupid test y'all talking
about.
What's up, Al?
How you doing?
I'm doing good.
The only thing I was going to say, the city of Milwaukee lets stuff get too out of hand.
First, y'all let the inspectors, they only see what they want to see.
Y'all let the properties get out of hand.
Everybody got their hand in the pot.
Don't nobody see none.
Everybody blind just like Ray Charles and even Stevie Wonder.
can see everything that's going on.
You got some of your politicians who ain't done but slumland lords.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the duplex capital of the world.
So once that's get out of here, now everybody's looking dukey face.
So this all goes on Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
and now the people are paying.
And to the people that's getting evicted, if you got an eviction notice and nobody be tapping your ass at one o'clock in the morning, okay?
You should have rent on the left ass cheek and in God we trust on your foodie cat, okay?
That's why y'all getting evicted.
You giving up too many back shots for free.
You're not on probation, so you don't gotta serve the community with your clitoris.
Have a good day.
Bye
All right.
I mean, I ain't wrong.
You need to focus on work and less, um, you know, backshots more work.
Get that eviction taken care of.
That's what I was.
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