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What up, what

up, what up, what up, what up, what up, Milwaukee, what it do, what it do, what it do, what it do?

It is time to check in with your favorite crew in the Brew to Lunch Break crew.

On the award-winning 101.7 The Truth, live from the American Family Insurance Studios, it's your boy Ray Nitty.

Maybe Shannon, DJ Brother Z holding us down with the production and sound.

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

Shannon, what it do?

Yeah, what up?

I see your voice coming back.

Yeah, it's

coming.

It's

coming.

It's coming back.

Woo!

I'm getting ready.

Look, chill out.

You're going to get rid of it again.

I'm getting ready, man.

Truth Nation, how y'all feeling, man?

How y'all feel?

Run it back.

I don't care.

How y'all feeling, man?

How y'all feeling, man?

Shannon, how was your

evening?

All right, it was all right.

Man, my day started super early.

I woke up at 6.30 AM to vote.

OK.

So how was my morning?

That feels like the evening already.

I'm like, man, when was

this?

Man, your voting sticker about big as the truth logo on your shirt.

OK, you got the whole strip on there.

They said they put all the funding into the voting

sticker.

We're

going to get no

yard size.

We're going to get human stickers.

Make sure

y'all get

up to vote, man.

Make sure y'all get up to vote, man.

Today is the day.

The day is here.

And what Gloralea?

What Gloralea say at the end of the day?

The day gone in.

Hello.

The day gone in.

They better know that.

So before the day in, make sure you take your butt to the poll.

Go vote.

If you are in line,

They cannot turn you away.

Long as you are in line before the polls close, you have the right to cast your vote.

If you are at work, it's lunchtime right now.

Tell them you need off.

They they got to give you to.

They got to.

Mm hmm.

They got

to give you two

hours to go vote.

Yeah, it was too extra.

You get to.

You do

it within that too.

If you already have an hour lunch break, they can't say, this is your lunch break.

They got to give you two hours to vote.

If you got an hour lunch break and they give you two extra, take it then.

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To the

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Bring somebody to lunch with you today.

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Man.

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Yeah.

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Hey, man, I like to hear that

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I told y'all we was

gonna get

to a thousand before the end of the year.

And that was

easy work.

That was easy, man.

Easy.

On the menu today.

Shannon, we got a gourmet chef coming in today.

Hello.

Come on.

I'm talking about top chef cooking He be cooking shanna, you know, it's a lunch break.

So we like to get folks that know how to cook

Come on the show and

he be cooking We have I'ma still need a lot of your support today shanna because the voice is struggling still

We

have Isaiah Martin

We have Isaiah Martin coming in today, man.

He will be in studio with us.

And we put together like a little montage, you know?

Of some

of

his best recipes, as I would like to call it.

Where he's, you know, filleting.

Let's just say.

keep it respectful just in case they clip this up, try to use it against him.

It's flaying his competition, right?

Okay, cooking.

Doing an amazing job at it, man, but we got the young homie, our young cousin.

This is gonna be our first time meeting him.

Isaiah Martin will be joining us over.

three over seven million followers combined on all platforms using this platform to talk about political issues that matter to our community, not just to our community, but the country as a whole in the way he does it in the most unapologetic black way ever.

And I'm just here for it.

Y'all know, he's like, if I had the political tact that I wish I had, Shannon.

You know cuz I'll just be like, you know what shut the hell up.

That's what I'll just say.

That's how I go there with you know

But you gotta take it to the flow with some people we keep it together.

He's especially people he go up against.

It's like me really

Keep it together when I say poised he's poised he does not break a sweat and He as he is cooking on that grill cuz I know the I know it's hot

I know it's hot, Shannon, but we gonna be talking to brother Isaiah Martin today and I'm looking forward to it, man.

Shannon, what you got for what's popping with Shannon today?

Or we just, what we doing?

Talk to him.

Man, I think we gonna flow, we gonna flow because I believe the interview runs into what's possible with Shannon.

And I'm happy to have it.

Just like Carrie Washington interview, have it girl, it's yours, you know what I'm saying?

So when we've got interviews like this, it's very...

Important we give it the time it needs and then we also need the time after to talk about it And you know enjoy our time with our top chefs.

Yeah, absolutely Absolutely, man Man, I'm excited about today, man.

I'm super excited about today today is going to be a monumental historic day When we come back y'all

We gonna get back into this menu right here.

And we just go, we gonna flow today, man.

Call us up.

I wanna know.

What number of voter you were?

What number of voter were you today?

Because it seems like the numbers are on the up.

People are voting and they're voting early.

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What up, what up, what

up Milwaukee?

What it do, what it do, what it do?

It is time to get into it with your favorite crew in the brew, the lunch break crew, Ray Nitty, maybe Shannon, DJ, Brother Z holding us down with the production and sound.

Man, the chef came in to cook early.

Shannon.

What's up?

What's up?

The chef came in early.

Brother Isaiah, I don't know if you can see Shannon right here on this side.

We're going to get her up on the screen for you.

Our amazing co-host Shannon.

Maybe Shannon.

You can look at her right here as well.

What's up?

What's

up?

What's up?

Until we get that one.

What's up?

How are you today?

I'm feeling great.

I'm fired up.

Man.

I know that's right.

Glad you are, man.

So you are not a stranger to Milwaukee anymore?

No.

I'm sorry.

How rude of me, Shannon, for our cousins

that are just

joining.

Right.

You know what I'm saying?

For everybody that is just joining us, man, we have the amazing Isaiah Martin in the building, man.

Been seeing you on social media, killing your things.

We've been calling you chef all day because you really be cooking people.

You feel what I'm saying?

We got to.

So, thank you for, and what we was just saying before you walked in is, you do it in the most unapologetically black way with such tact and poise, you know?

So, you know, we don't possess all that type of poise up here.

You know, me and Shannon, we take it to the floor.

I like that.

And Shannon start digging tunnels.

Where did we cook it, huh?

Man,

listen,

I'll let nothing go.

Shannon be sizing them up and just be cookin' them.

I like

that.

You

got to.

No, I'm just...

You know how it is, man.

You know, these folks be talkin' crazy.

So, you know, you gotta set them straight.

Absolutely.

I fully support

that.

Absolutely, man.

Truth Nation, if you just joining us once again, the amazing Isaiah Martin is in the building.

You doing some work out here, man.

Yes, indeed.

That's like twice in a month now.

It is.

You might as well go and get you a spot, register and run for something

out here.

Look, the Brewers won

the World

Series, man.

The city's popping.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

You

know, I was told...

that Milwaukee was like a hidden gem in many ways.

And I know when I came for the first time, I was amazed.

Everybody was so cool, so welcoming.

And I was fired up.

So I definitely am excited to be here to campaign for my good friend, David Crowley.

We got to get him across the finish line because I know he's going to do such great work for the state of Wisconsin.

Man, absolutely, absolutely.

Man, the city is looking beautiful today.

I got to say, man.

I was almost emotional this morning.

So I went around to a couple of the sites early.

You know, typically we have low turnout in Milwaukee.

And it was a site in particular, La Follette.

I think that's how they say it in Milwaukee.

Is that is that right, Shannon?

That's how we say it in Milwaukee.

La Follette Elementary and Middle School.

It's a

lot of things we just winged.

A nice and ring, right?

And typically.

I want to say in the last presidential election, they may have had 115 voters.

All day?

All day.

Today.

They were at 9 o'clock when I was there today.

They was at like 65, 75 voters.

23 of them being newly registered men that are voting for the first time.

And that was, I'm talking about mothers dragging kids, grandmothers dragging grandchildren.

It's a beautiful thing that I'm seeing in the city.

And I'm just excited about it, man.

And to see the amount of young people that is voting, it means a lot, man.

So we got the chef in the builder.

So before we get into it,

We got one of your recipes that we want to play.

Let's get into one of these recipes.

It

was $2.5 trillion for the CARES Act, $2 trillion under Biden.

And I think it is downright pathetic

that

you guys as conservatives are trying to compare inflation numbers after a global pandemic in which two presidents printed $4.5 trillion on top of that with supply chain issues and

the war in Iraq.

So do try to agree

with at that time.

And then he promised people $2,000.

individual checks that I

did.

So to try to go either did Mitch McConnell.

Wait a second.

So I'm actually very consistent.

We were dealing with a once in a generation pandemic and to try to go and compare a self-inflicted.

Self-inflicted tariffs to a point in time in which we had a global pandemic.

I think that is downright shameful.

And I think

that's.

She didn't like that one.

He said, you all, he did the both of them.

He gave them the double thumbs.

I know that's right.

Ma'am, so we got some questions for you.

Me and Shannon are going to get into some questions.

Shannon, I'm going to let you go ahead and kick it off, Shannon.

Let's do it.

For sure.

So before the viral debates and the Congressional runs, how did you actually get started?

Well, actually,

my path to social media was one that I never really thought made any sense but you know I had a mentor at the time that was 74 years old um well maybe at that time she was 70 she was like 70 something and she was in congress and it was congresswoman Sheila Jacksonley and she just had this big briefing in which they were talking about social media and all these people and how it was going to be so important for

you know, campaigns and communicating ideas in the future.

And she said, Isaiah, I think that you should really take this thing seriously.

And I think you should do it.

You know, I think it's kind of crazy that a 77 year old person would be the one that would start me in social media.

But, you know, I took her advice.

I started posting and, you know, I'm not going to lie for a couple of years.

Nobody paid attention.

It was like I was kind of just talking to a brick wall.

But I stuck with it.

because I saw this interesting podcast with this fellow.

He had a lot of followers and he said, you know what, the secret to what I did, I posted all my clips four times a day, seven days a week, and eventually it took off.

I said, well, this dumb son of a, you know what, can figure it out, so can I. So I did it, and I started doing that, had my debate clips, and eventually I got better, and the clips started to go out, and it kind of led to what it was.

It was a very unconventional path.

A 70-something-year-old told a 20-something-year-old to get into social media.

That's how it got started.

So

how old are you?

28.

28,

man.

It's just out to the young generation.

My future is in good hands.

Yes, indeed.

All right, what else you got, Shannon, before I derail

us?

Yeah, so speaking of debating, right, you often as a Democrat against 20 MAGA Republicans, was there a moment

in that viral, in that viral video that rattled you.

Was there like a thing that kind of took you back a little bit?

Like what is going on?

No, I'm just gonna be honest.

No.

And the reason is because I put a lot of preparation because I've always been taught, you know, I used to play sports and, you know, you never underestimate any opponent.

Yeah.

You know, it doesn't matter if they seem like they don't know what they're talking about.

You got to put a lot of preparation.

So I spent a lot of time studying to make sure that I understood.

the numbers that I knew, not just to say that I can repeat a stat, but

I wanted to

understand why it happened the way it did.

If I wanted to decide inflation, I wanted to be able to decide a paper that I might have read that backed up what I was saying.

So it was really an educational thing, and by the time I walked into it, I'm just gonna be honest with you, I walked in there and I sat in the seat, I say, y'all are cooked today.

I

believe it.

Man, you keep so calm, bro.

It's almost like you're doing it on purpose to mess with them.

It's like, you know, it's like you don't give them the aggressive black guy.

No, y'all, you all are.

You're like, do it.

Go ahead.

Where is it?

Where's the checks?

It's like it makes them mad.

And that's

what it does.

They're like, he's not upset.

It's strange, baby.

Straight up.

I be getting mad for him.

Like, man, y'all can't get this one.

So, man, I think that is a skill, right?

To one, keep the poise.

but to also know your stuff and fire it off, CNN,

all

these other places.

Man, obviously you pissing people off so bad.

I'm like, they want to call him everything else but a child down on here, man.

You can tell.

Oh, yeah.

So what is that?

What is that like for you, right?

Using social media now in today's form and having.

over seven million followers across all platforms, right?

How has that expanded or improved your messaging, your reach, or just drawing new people into politics in general?

I really viewed it as a way to kind of teach about what's going on in our government.

You know, I kind of learned very early on in my social media journey that if I just go in and make a video talking about this is why inflation is where it is.

This is what the administration did like people are not really gonna be that interested in that but if they see somebody that you know They hear talking crazy talking points get completely shut down.

They're like wow That's fascinating and it gets them to share it and put that out there and in turn It gets to communicate the very policies that we seek to communicate.

So I really view it as a way to inform people

Rather than, I guess, to directly change the minds of some of the knuckleheads that I actually go forward and debate.

Because, you know, of the viewership that we get, every single month, we get about around 300 to 400 million views across all platforms every single month.

And so to be able to have that, it is a whole audience of people that might hear conservative talking points.

that they might have heard their friends say or their cousins say, they might have been like, well, you know what?

That might make sense.

But when they see it get shut down in the manner that happens during debate, they say, OK, that's BS.

And then they can take those.

Like, I've had so many people come up and be like, man, you know what I say?

I was using your point at Thanksgiving.

I was

using it at Easter, all kind of stuff.

And so that's

really what it's all about.

I'll be taking all your recipes.

I can't wait to do this Thanksgiving.

I can't wait.

I can't wait.

I'm like, where is it?

Yeah.

Show it to me.

Yeah.

Show it.

Give me the records.

Give me the records.

I know that's right.

What else you got for us?

Or should we go to our break, Brother Z and then come back?

When we come back, we will continue to cook up with Chef Isaiah Marr.

We still got some more of them recipes that he dropped on their head, y'all.

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Excuse me, y'all.

My voice still gone from the birds.

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Yes, indeed.

Cooking the competition.

Man, welcome to the city, bro.

Welcome to the city again.

Welcome to the city again.

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I got to say happy birthday to somebody real quick.

Happy birthday to Leah, man.

Happy birthday to Leah.

We got a cousin, Leah, that's celebrating the birthday today.

Make sure you go

vote.

Don't

take

no shots unless you go to the ballot.

Make sure you go.

Happy birthday, man.

I'm getting back into it, right?

Milwaukee battleground state.

Traditionally, we've always been some sort of swing state, right?

So I'm assuming you you understand the importance of Milwaukee, but you somebody who has you can reach hundreds of millions of people from anywhere in the world.

You said I'm coming.

to Milwaukee in November, by the

way.

So you really took a risk coming here.

We could have

had like 12

inches of snow right now.

So why Milwaukee?

Why right now?

Because I believe in David Crowley.

I know that he is somebody that is going to fight for Wisconsin.

I know he's going to be somebody that can deliver.

There's so much on the line when it comes to childcare, education funding, all of that stuff, is it's really important because when we see these massive attacks at the federal level, you gotta have a strong governor that can be in case that can do stuff at the state level to really go forward and kind of shield the people from all the craziness that's going on.

So I know David to be somebody that

can do that.

He's done it as Milwaukee County Executive.

He's been able to broker hard deals.

He's been able to keep the Brewers inside of Milwaukee.

And he's been able to do so much more.

So I know that he's

going to be a great governor.

One of the most fascinating things I saw from him.

I loved his anti-corruption approach.

I wanted to go forward and stop a lot of the corruption that's going on with money and politics as well.

He's going to be a good fighter.

And the proof of that is the fact that three individual billionaires have come together to spend literally $60 million to keep him out of the governor's office.

It's absurd.

So that's not going to work.

And I wanted to make sure that my voice joined the many people that are here on the ground with you guys, Congresswoman Grinmore and so many others, to say that David Crowley will be a great governor, as well as Democrats up and down the ballot.

It's just that important.

What else you got, Shannon?

Yeah, so.

This is just something I was thinking about on Facebook this morning.

I'm just growing.

I see a few people saying that they're sitting out.

And a few of them are saying they're not super impressed with either candidate.

What do you say to those people?

Well, I think for one, you guys remember what it looked like under conservative leadership under Scott Walker.

You remember the cuts to education.

You remember the cuts to health care.

You remember what he did to try to disenfranchise Milwaukee's voting rights.

You remember all of those things.

Tom Tiffany is even worse than that.

Tom Tiffany is a guy who literally runs around Washington.

Like I live in the DMV.

All right.

This guy goes around calling himself basically the legislative terrorist.

You realize, oh, sir, you got to be to call yourself

a

terrorist, a legislative terrorist.

And he takes pride

in

obstructing.

Good things for the people.

There's a guy who supports the unlimited tariffs and cuts to healthcare.

Now, you compare that contrast because we can't just be against something.

We've got to be for something.

David Crowley is talking about expanding healthcare.

He's talking about making sure that childcare can be expanded.

He wants to see a property tax cut for the people of Wisconsin.

That's a vastly different record that can help you with affordability.

If you can get a big property tax cut right now at a time in which Trump is raising our prices with these tariffs and everything else, imagine that's going to put a lot more money in your pocket that you can use on the things that you care about.

So Crowley understands this economy.

He knows it, how to get going.

I don't think that the guy who calls himself a terrorist and supports putting unlimited tariffs on everything that we buy is certainly someone that should be anywhere near the governor's office.

whatsoever and the proof of that is the fact that again the billionaires are spending unlimited money to put him there they want him there for a reason they're not giving him that money just for he can just go and have fun and sip tea you know in the winter time they're putting them there to do their bidding David Crowley is not gonna do that

Y'all hear it, y'all heard it from the chef himself.

When I say it is a little more aggressive, they tell me just shut up and wrap it.

But what else

you got, Shannon?

Yeah, so we talked about some of those MAGA talking points that could easily be debunked.

What are some of those talking points that are most common that you hear?

And when it comes to deportation and doge in the economy.

Oh man, so many things.

So first of all, when it comes to immigration, I think that this administration just doesn't have common sense whatsoever.

Only 5% of the people that they're rounding up with ICE under interior removals are violent convicted criminals.

You compare that to Barack Obama, 92% were considered as convicted criminals.

And of that 92%, 81% were deemed by the federal government as tier one.

which is the worst of the worst, right?

So we basically went from deporting violent gang members inside of our country.

That's common sense.

I don't think that if you murder somebody that you should be in this country, that was what Barack Obama was focused on.

Donald Trump is saying, hey, look, you know what?

We're going to go and deport people that have not been convicted of a crime.

And he's turning legal United States residents illegal case in point, the Haitians.

He's turning Haitians.

He's removing their TPS who are literally legal United States residents who pay taxes to be here.

We are literally $40 trillion in debt.

We have a $2 trillion deficit.

Every single year that national debt goes up and Trump's thought is to deport people who are not committing crimes and are paying us to be here.

That doesn't make any sense.

That's no common sense.

So again...

The immigration thing, they are not focused on what they need to, and we are spending more than what Spain is spending on their military to deport people who are paying us to be here.

The second thing that I always hear, right?

It's stupid, but... It's just stupid!

It is!

I swear I could go on a rant, because these people are just dumb.

The second thing, I always hear that people say, oh well, you know, Republicans might be good on the economy.

How?

How?

We literally have a situation where, look at this, we had free trade between the United States and Canada.

It was free.

What gets better than free?

Trump walks around and he goes, hey, you know what?

We're doing this to get a better deal.

The deal was free.

And you ripped it up.

Now we see what?

47% increase in foreign bankruptcies.

What do we see?

We see more foreign bankruptcies the first quarter of last year than all the previous year combined.

What do we see?

We see inflation going up.

Third thing, the war in Iran.

They say, oh, well, this is something that needed to happen.

Well, President Obama actually went forward and had a nuclear deal in place that stopped all of this from happening.

Trump rips it up because you know what he did?

He goes and he beats his chest and he says, hey, we can bomb our way to a quote unquote a better deal.

We can go forward and put sanctions and that's going to be able to go forward and stop this Iranian threat.

That was a lie.

We are now in a war that we're spending $100 billion on that they can't get out of.

Gas prices are up.

Diesel prices are at all time highs.

They have failed objectively at everything that they sent forward on.

They didn't lower prices.

Healthcare premiums are up because they got rid of ACA subsidies.

I heard President Obama, because I was at his rally not so long ago, just a couple, this last week, and he said sometimes when somebody goes into office as a president,

Prices might go up and it's not their fault.

And he's right about that.

You know, certain things can happen that can mess things up.

But that's not what this is.

He went and put intentional tariffs that wouldn't raise our prices.

He intentionally started a war.

He intentionally got rid of ACA subsidies.

He intentionally took green energy offline, which led to a 13% increase in energy bills.

He's done these things, despite the fact that economists told him that these were all bad ideas.

And now, I believe the American people about to send him a message that he will never forget.

Oh, that's right man As far as young voters, right?

Do you believe that they will be moved to come out and vote?

What what even gets a 20-something-year-old out here voting and off of tiktok?

Well, I think that young people are voting because they understand that this economy is at risk and they understand that for a long time We have not built enough housing which has led to

Housing prices going up for a long time and I think personally that this has been an issue that has failed on both sides of the political spectrum But what I think is is that now people are on the Democratic side are coming together say this is a five-alarm fire If we don't build more housing nobody's like the average age to buy a home right now is 40 That's just gonna continue to just keep increasing year after year after year So what people are saying is that one we do need to build more housing because the more housing we put into the market

the lower prices become, we also need to stop corporations from going up and buying these single-family homes and using them for short-term rentals.

You got to do both.

And so the contrast is, let's look at what the Republican plan is.

Republicans say, let's go cut taxes for all the big private equity companies that are buying these single-family homes to give them more money to go and buy up more homes inside of our areas.

That doesn't make a liquor sense because it was a Trump tax cut that they did the first place.

that exacerbated the problem even more than what it is.

So the democratic ideas, let's crack down on that.

Let's go incentivize local governments by cutting regulations to go and help them build more additional housing.

And let's stop those big corporations.

That's something that I think a lot of people are really excited about because, you know, the prospect of buying a home has never looked more difficult for young people.

And many people don't even think it's possible to even do.

I think that there are people on the ballot with real ideas.

That can help get that done.

Man, this is good.

This is good.

And I'm glad that you decided to come stop by here

with us

today.

How

much time we got with you

today, Shay?

We got some time.

Say what?

First of all.

We have people in here.

It's been security and everything.

He don't got no security.

Man, why are you putting that out there, bro?

Hey, first of all, I'ma

tell

you this.

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tell you this.

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at this

time.

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tell you this.

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And Shannon got the production

this time.

I love that.

Man,

you said something earlier and you talked about Crowley, right?

And him being the person for the job.

And people always ask me, like, man, how do we know what we're going to get with Crowley?

And I always say it's like.

First of all, he's somebody that we know we could actually put hands on.

When I say

put hands on,

I don't mean beating up,

right?

I don't mean

that.

I'm talking about somebody we can reach.

You know what I'm saying?

Somebody that is actually a part of our community, people that we know each other, family.

So the accountability pressure would be so high for him to deliver for not just Milwaukee, for the entire state.

So I...

genuinely know he understands the pressure to go to Madison and deliver on behalf of all people in Wisconsin, man.

So I want us to hold that when we go in to this voting booth today because don't question.

what somebody won't do, just understand that you have the power to vote and you could change the person if they aren't doing the

things

that you want them to do.

And this is the perfect example where Milwaukee could show like, hey, we voted for somebody that looked like us and we're going to hold this person accountable.

And I know this person is going to do the job that they supposed to have done it on every level.

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Because it's direct actions of this president that has made things more expensive.

Getting rid of ACA subsidies directly led to a 26% increase in healthcare premiums.

Getting rid of clean

Energy projects led to a 13% increase in energy bills.

You're seeing this all across.

Why would you go put tariffs on a country like Canada that we had pre-trade with?

That resulted in farmers having to pay 13% more on their inputs, which led to more farm bankruptcies in the first quarter of last year than all of the previous year.

In spite of everything that Donald Trump has done, because it's been because of Donald Trump's tariffs that he's put on everything that's raised the cost of inputs for farmers by more than 13%.

That's a real impact.

That's

what

I'm saying.

Let's get the numbers correct.

It was $2.5 trillion for the CARES Act, $2 trillion under Biden, and I think it is downright pathetic.

that you guys as conservatives are trying to compare inflation numbers after a global pandemic in which two presidents printed four and a half trillion dollars on top of that with supply chain issues and the war in Iran.

He also had stimulus

that I didn't

agree with at that time.

And then he promised people $2,000 individual checks that I didn't want.

So

cute because it was emblematic of everything wrong with the Republican Party and why you guys have a 29% approval rating.

Could y'all never focus on substance?

Tennessee ranks 50th in the nation for quality of life.

Number two, when it comes to rural hospital clothes,

only behind

Texas.

Number

three, when it comes to gun deaths per capita, that's what Tennessee is.

And if you look at Marsha Blackburn's ex-fee, none of it talks about policy.

Why do you think

the Democrats

are so far?

What up, what up, Milwaukee?

What it do?

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Today we have the opportunity to make history, Milwaukee.

We have the opportunity to make history, not just because...

We have the opportunity to make black history, which I agree will be made.

But history in general, it has only been three, four, three.

Imagine we can have the fourth African American governor.

And this this this is an old country.

Two hundred and fifty years like think about this.

250 years, we had 50 tries.

We've only won three times.

So we can put the fourth... Or when you put it like that.

I'm saying, think about it.

That's kind

of crazy to think about it.

250 years, 50 tries.

Three.

Three, that's it.

But... Not a good batting average right now.

Not a good bad answer.

But we're going to improve it.

We will improve it tonight.

We will have the fourth from the foe.

Foe from the foe, man.

Milwaukee, we call Milwaukee the foe.

That's what, yeah.

I got you.

So, something I want to, I want to ask, man.

What have you noticed that stands out about Milwaukee?

that you don't notice at all the other large cities.

I'm talking about politically wise, right?

What have you noticed that is unique about Milwaukee or Wisconsin in general?

Well, you know, I think everywhere is definitely different.

But what I appreciate about Wisconsin is how thorough the voters are when they make their decisions.

You know, the voters in Wisconsin are not really swayed by partisan just bomb throwing, you know, just throwing stuff out there.

They really do take it very seriously.

What are you going to do for the people?

What exactly are your plans?

How are you going to deliver it?

And they take that very seriously when they vet their candidates.

And I think that Wisconsin is one of the toughest places to win because you have to be on your A game at all times.

Every interview, every debate, every everything.

But I think that also demands excellence from your candidates.

Because, you know, to be able to go through that ringer,

to get elected in this state, I think is a testament of the strength of how that person will be in office.

So we're going to ignore Scott Walker with that.

But I think David Crowley is on the verge of doing something very great in a state where the voters take it very seriously, the opportunity to lead.

You got some, friend?

You got

another

one?

Yeah, so I wanted to bring up the fact that you were able to get a football stadium turned into a polling place in college.

Is that

right?

I did Yeah,

so how did that happen?

We talked a little bit in the beginning about like how voter turnout has been really low here and then now we're seeing this like boost How do we get something like that to happen?

Well, you know that started because I'm not gonna lie

Our governor, when I lived in Texas, Greg, I really pissed me off.

I'm just to be honest.

It was the, I believe, 2020 primary for the presidential election.

And the line to cast a ballot where I went to school was four hours long.

It was four hours long.

And being a college student, I underestimated that line all day.

And I didn't get a chance to vote.

I went to go to the line.

And then I looked on the app that we had at the time in Texas for another polling location that said, oh, well, the line's only going to be five minutes somewhere else.

That was also a lie.

So basically, by the time the whole thing happened, I didn't get to cast my ballot for that election.

I said, I'm going to get this, son of a... Right.

Get

out.

So I said, you know what?

We've got to do something.

So we got some folks together.

We worked with the state senator, congresswoman, county clerk, so many people, brought them together.

And we really pressured the university to allow us to use the stadium to be a polling site.

Initially, when I went up to them, they were like, sit down somewhere.

And I said, OK, let's bring some more guns.

So I brought the state senator.

And they were like, ah, well, you know, we're working on it.

Then I brought the mayor and the congresswoman.

And they were like, you know what, this kid doesn't give up.

Damn, fine.

And the most amazing part about that story is that we brought that four-hour-long wait time down to five minutes on election day.

And we had one of the biggest surges ever.

In that county so many people got elected and it was really a testament of when you don't give up you can get me you can make good things happen

Sometimes that's exactly what turns people off from voting.

It's like I'm not waiting in that long line if it's not more than 30 minutes I'm out like people get discouraged so hearing that is awesome.

I know you've also said that

Democrats should be fighting fire with fire.

I don't want to miss quote you, but it's been said What do you think that looks like in Wisconsin governor race today

Well That is a very good question when it comes to David Crowley

I feel very confident that he will make sure that once the census is conducted, he will act accordingly to the laws in the Constitution of the United States to ensure that a map is enshrined that provides constitutional fairness and will be a perfect representation for the people of Wisconsin.

Now, outside of the state of Wisconsin, for Isaiah Martin speaking now, I think that personally, what we saw

in Texas was disgraceful.

What the Republicans did was they basically said, you know what?

We demand five seats and they drew five Democratic seats, which honestly is not going to look out too well for them.

They're not going to win the five.

They thought they would.

But anyways, they did that.

They went to Louisiana, drew out somebody by the name of Cleo Fields.

They drew out a friend of mine named Shamari Figures, which honestly, I don't think that's going to work well either.

I think he might win tonight, too.

He did this across the country because the Republicans were afraid of getting smacked in this midterm election.

And my theory of the cases is that, look, for the last, you know, 10 years or so, we've been calling for this thing called the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

And this thing would, you know, end partisan gerrymandering and it would end mid decade redistricting.

So no party would ever do that.

Now the Republicans do not support it.