How Milwaukee’s Shelters Fail Working Families: An Inside Look

Well, thank you. Thank you for letting me know that I'm live. Good morning. Good morning. What's happening family? Welcome to the show. It is Michelle Bryant here at WNOV 860 AM 106.5 FM. You are listening to say something real and there's something telling me that today is going to be a big dose of real, a big dose of reality. Huh. I want to go.

I did not want to come this morning because of the conversation questions that I believe are going to arise this morning as of the results of, um, yeah, turn the lights on. Turn the lights. Dimo tried to be all gentle about it. Hey, hey, hey, bro. She needs some lights.

It's dangerous in the dark. Is it dangerous in the dark? It was dangerous in the dark. Why is it dangerous in the dark? I don't know. I just heard a preacher priest that before. You know what? Grab the hold to it. It's dangerous in the dark. It's dangerous if you own some. If you ain't don't know. Oh, I don't know. Nonsense. The dark is just fine. Oh, is it? What's up, Adelaide? As you said, he's here. But when you own that nonsense. Keep hearing footsteps, baby. It is dangerous when you own that nonsense.

So welcome to the show as. You can hear brothers in the building, Debo sitting in for Clark this morning and Mr. Rideout just just being. Oh, no, just being himself. He's so irritating. Dude, what did you do by like every Brewer's color cap I know to man? Hey. This is like your fifth different Brewer's cap.

I got a logo. It's the logo. It's the what? The logo. I'm endorsed. Wait, I was going to say certified. Oh, it is certified, though. Well, whenever you see this, this, this was not a good certification. This was not a good one. Certification. This was this was get you admitted certified.

I'm just saying, this is a little bit much. Well, since we're talking, how are you this morning, bro? Well, you know, Shale, I'm doing pretty good, man. It's partly cloudy outside. You know, my feelings are split. Your feelings are split? Yeah. About what? You know, because it's partly cloudy outside. So, you know, when the sun is shining, I feel all the way great.

I feel all the way great that public education I feel all the way. You know, sometimes you go halfway.

OK, sometimes you can you can feel halfway great halfway great. Yeah. Right. Today I feel halfway great. I feel like I'm talking to Donald Trump. You know, nobody knows how to feel halfway great like me. This vocabulary. Nobody knows how astounding. Nobody knows it better than me. No. Debo, could you put the camera on them? They're missing all of it. They don't want to see it. What should I do with my hands? Well, look, you only show a half your face.

Is this the regular does he always come in? Is this a regular this is a regular that's why is he supposed to be

Somebody just text me. Uh-oh. Y'all need to tighten up around there. What? I seen someone pulling up in the driveway in a gray beans. It was Debo. See? Mine and other folks business. It was Debo's gray beans. Wow. Y'all need to tighten up. How are we going to tighten up? I guess so. Y'all need to tighten up. I see the gray beans pulling up in the driveway. Could be one of us.

It was Deebo's car. Stop looking who? How are you this morning, sir? Deebo, how are you doing? Let me start by saying to think I thought that I missed this in the morning. Well, to think. But I would be remiss if I did not say. Man, I need you to get another word. Oh, hey, I would be remiss. Yeah. I would be remiss. I did not say. Can somebody send him at the source please? Please.

So his remissness can can be addressed.

So you are remissed out. Well, this is now. No, but I'm good this morning, Michelle. How about yourself? What's going on with you? You know, just just trying to get through the day, bro. Trying to get through the day. Let me just let me just take one quick second and good morning to my folks on Facebook, YouTube. Appreciate y'all for being in, checking in this morning. Who got it in first? Go up to the top, Debo.

Ha Kenya's in first. She ain't playing and Mr. Peters. Henry Peters be right on the heels. What? Right on them heels. What's up, Barbara? Hey, Terry. What's up, Miss Harris? What's going on? Uh, Al Walters, but yeah, can you like y'all go stop trying to come from my spot? Michelle, 701 in 21 seconds. Where you at?

I mean, you know, you know how folks do, you know how folks do good morning to everyone. So let me let me do this real quick. I have been giving, you know, periodic updates on the situation with the young sister who is going through housing and security right now. And let me just say this. This system.

is so ridiculous. So yesterday she was told by one entity that was trying to assist her to move out of the hotel, but they would try to have something resolved for her by the end of the day. Well, they weren't able to put anything together for her and told her she needed to come up with an alternate plan. So she ended up calling me.

And, you know, so we got the challenges of trying to go to daycare because the daycare doesn't know where to drop her child off at because she's at work. She's trying to handle all this while she's working her shift. And the daycare ends up having to meet me at my office to bring me to bed because I go to the daycare. They already gone. So it's just so much to navigate. But one of the frustrations was there was a opening in a shelter.

for her and her son to go to. But the shelter has a rule that the clients, the individuals staying there, have to be in by 7 p.m. And she said, I work evening hours frequently where I work at. And so I can work until 8 o'clock. I can work until 9 o'clock. And she actually has a daycare that has late hours. And they said 7 p.m.

And she said, I can bring you something documentation from my supervisor that says I'm at work until eight and nine o'clock p.m. The shelter said seven p.m. That's the ropes. So do you quit your job and go to shelter? And then God knows how long it takes you to find another job.

in this particular climate we in right now. But that was one of the choices yesterday that you have to agree to be in the facility at 7 p.m. or you can't come. That job that she has is her only means of support.

That's the only way that's that's the only dollar she has so of course she didn't go to the shelter You know Just just other aspects of things that were just frustrating so we were able to get her some place to stay last night We will be back at it again today, but when I tell you and you know

I'm not going to call his name. But the brother that reached out and said, hey, call me. We talked. We were able to get her someplace last night. When I tell you, I was overwhelmed when I dropped her and the baby off. I just, just the kindness.

the way people in our community respond, it never ceases to amaze me because I want to be clear. It's our community that has held this little girl down, this young sister down. I should call a little girl, but compared to me, she is. But that has held this young sister down while this whole thing has been going on. It is truly our community. She has had two days of financial assistance in terms of helping with the hotel from

you know, an agency here in town. But since we've been dealing with this, we started at the end of June. It has been the community that has been there for this young woman and her child. So I cannot say enough how much I appreciate it. But when I tell you I ripped and ran all day and, you know, had to take her to the grocery store so she could have some food, had to do this. And I'm just looking like, man, this is

This is this is madness But we got to have some shelters that appreciate that people work irregular hours people don't just work eight to five and What is the sense in I need you to quit your job to adhere to our 7 p.m. Policy like that sound like some mess from the 1950s the 1940s and then

You wonder why a lot of people don't do the shelter route. They sleep under the bridge because of some of the restrictions or right across the street. Yeah, the gas station. Oh my God, he is out there. So that's just the update. We're still working on it. We are now at the point where we're going to also start trying to just find her

an apartment. I went through her with her income. She has enough to be able to afford, you know, like we can't go over 650 because then there's a complete breakdown and that literally is 50% of her monthly income. So we're looking, but I just wanted to give people an update. But that piece on the shelter was so disappointing because in today's

situation where this is a 24 hour economy, you know, you could be working at Amazon. You could be working, you know, at the post office anywhere and not work a schedule that allows you to be back at a shelter and in the door securely by 7 p.m. For the rest of the night, right? So.

Okay, that's my update. We got a couple folks on the phone line. Let me get the man. Yep. I see y'all hit me up about David quality. We're gonna We're going to I get to all of that Let me go to the phone line. Hey caller. What's happening? Good morning. Good morning. I want to give you some extra parents For what you did for that lady

And Dr. Wright, I would have some free advice for him. And his hurt feelings. To avoid hurt feelings, don't stick your feelings out so far. Yes, sir. You're taking it for pulling power. I want to give you some, Michelle, some aspirants for letting me get in before her side piece called in.

You know what? Keep on. Keep on. I don't know, but he's about to catch all these words. Right out and you should know when somebody like that lady you're talking about, the lady with the child and the shelter, call me. Wow. Because so much has been did for me.

I want to pass it on. Wow, that's awesome. Y'all have a good one. Yes, sir. Appreciate you. Um, uh, let me go to the phone line, but he does a side piece. Talk to work. Go catch these words. I know. See, that's how now since he started.

That's exactly how. Oh, so least. Oh, so least. Kick it. So least. Don't kick a mess. Be better. Be better. So least. Be better. Happiness donuts always be, you know, extra. So least. Happiness donuts on social media got four eyes looking around. See, that's how mess gets started. Good morning. Hello.

I'm learning, Michelle. Kathy, how y'all doing? I'm good, Kathy. How you doing this morning? Good. I reached out earlier about a week ago when you mentioned about the old lady, and I offered them a line of 100 bucks. Everybody heard me, but I never heard back from you. But I'm continuing on because I have offered it. I found a couple, a family. I'm not going to communicate with you because it's too much work to be done. I don't know how to do all that or don't have the time for it. I found a young man and a young lady.

with three kids, 15 months old, two year old, and I think the other may be three. I don't ask them, they're going to the park on June on the sleep. They've been doing that off and on for a while when they get money from DoorDash and he bikes around and makes money and he goes and gets a room. They're on the street. I took some formative steps to them. They went to the goodwill this weekend. They got two suitcases and a friend so they can put their stuff in. This is a whole family. You can't touch every whole family. It's really difficult.

Yeah, and I'm sorry Kathy because this muffled us a little bit hard for me to hear you clearly Jermaine Okay, I just stepped out of family and likely because they're gonna be a lot more help But I tried to talk to the young man there at the on Astor's over here on each side by the Astor hotel and whatever Nick they've been out a side back and forth for a while now He does going to ask for the bike to make extra change to go to the hotels but

shelters? Are they so poor that you can't take a whole family? Or what's going on with that? Well, you know, depends on the family situation. I know a lot of shelters. If you have children of both sexes and you got a son that's over 12, that son can't go with

the mother and the other children, the younger children with the foster care or something. That's right. Yeah, I think I don't know. I think they end up maybe going to, yeah, Child Protective Services because, you know, shelters are worried that that 13 year old is problematic in a facility with young, you know, women. It's just, it's just madness. Very few shelters will keep that family intact.

particularly depending on the age of the young. But this is a young person, I just thought about the teenage one, but he don't have a teenage age, he has a 15 month old.

I took Pampers to them. I gave her some personal stuff for herself as a female another kid three other maybe two years old or something like that There's a guy with him. He don't want me to go to the shelter because he'll lose his family That's you know, you won't they get services for her and they don't need to be in the streets sleeping like that with different viruses and things going on out here You just can't be on the street like this, you know, and he does door-dash, but it's a lot of people out here I mean, this is a family Yeah, no, they keep it a bus stop

People passed by the bus driver stops and a friend of mine told me so he went over there and then I was a Saturday or whatever Sunday I went and bought him some suitcases at the goodwill look I got a couple of them and then put their stuff in the pool things around you know like that um It's and then they tried to call uber to take them to the hotel they were going to once he made money from the um Door gas from his bike once they see all that junk in the people he said may cancel the order and left on him I'm not putting anybody in my car. I won't be able to do the liability on that one

But it's a lot of people out here. Definitely. You know, she's not working. She's on W2. Nope, you absolutely right. Thank you, Kathy, for that call. And it's a reminder. And look, let me just say to folks, because number one, I just need to be honest, I have not gone through all my messages. I have not dealt with everything in terms of people calling and reaching out. One of the things is I don't want to take any more money than I absolutely need.

to be able to assist. So while I was trying to figure out if any of the agencies were going to be able to come through for this family, you know, so that because true enough, when she gets an apartment, I'm still going to need to help her with furniture, bed, you know, all of that kind of stuff. But I even and I know some people I even did reach out and say, just hold on a minute, let me figure out what's going to be available to her.

before you make a further donation. And then we get right back here, which is you need to come up with an alternate plan. So I just wanted to say that. We got one more caller. Let me get them in. I need to try to work in a couple of stories because I got a guest coming in at eight o'clock. I got a gubernatorial candidate calling in towards the end of the show.

The only time I'm gonna have left to talk about some of these issues is going to be after I get done with this caller. So, let me go to the phone line. Hey, caller, what's happening? Good morning, Michelle. Good morning, Angela. How are you? I'm sure you can hear it. I'm doing. Okay, well, that's good. You woke up this morning. That's a great thing. Yes, ma'am. Good morning, guys. How's y'all doing? Good morning. Good morning, bless.

You all have a blessed day. Talk to you later, Michelle. I swear to God, I will punch her in the eye. I swear to God, I will punch her in the eye. As soon as I see her, I will punch her in the eye. I will be on the news. They're going to be like, Michelle.

Okay for the kids listen, I'm just joking She know I'm joking. I'm just joking. That was not appropriate to say before eight o'clock in the morning I got to watch everything I say till the summer is over. Can y'all send them to camp so I can talk crazy, please? All right, so look I gotta take a break

When we come back, let's just talk about the obvious. Let's just get it out. Get it all out in the open. David Crawley, Milwaukee County executive. I think was he the first person to announce that he was running for governor? When this whole thing started, he has got so much about be better, Michelle. Forget you. So please be better, not.

Oh, yeah, I did tell her to be better. That's right. He turned my stuff around on me. He announced there was a statement that came out yesterday that he was no longer running for governor. There is additional information that was posted on social media online last night that he actually is planning to come out with an endorsement today. So let me take a break.

We'll talk about it on the other side, Michelle Bryant, WNOV, 860 AM, 106.5 FM. WNOV. All right, family, welcome back to the show. So before I went to the break, I teed up the fact that many of us were caught off guard, some outright stunned, some maybe not surprised, depending on

your perspective, how you look at politics, how you watch some of this information. But the announcement that Milwaukee County executive David Crawley has withdrawn suspended his campaign for governor of the state of Wisconsin was all that a lot of folks could talk about yesterday. And it was weird because my phone started ringing while I was out moving around.

And I literally was passing a David Crawley sign in someone's yard as, you know, somebody was calling to say that he had suspended the campaign. There have been a number of folks that have talked about the polls that have been done to figure out where voter sentiment was and, you know, kind of get a read, put your finger up in the air and see which way the wind is blowing about

how all of the candidates were doing. And I had seen some well known polls and then some folks that released some private polls done by their own campaigns or different organizations that talked about, you know, who was in double digit status, who was in single digit status in relationship to support. There was.

Jockeying for those top three spots in many of the campaign polls that I'm sorry in the many of the polls polling information that I saw, whether it was Francesca Hong, it was Mandela Barnes, it was Sarah Rodriguez. I think in most polls that I saw.

David Crawley was polling usually like fourth in the middle of the pack. One of the things that I have frequently said is I wondered who these folks were talking to. And that was based on just some of my own perceptions about perhaps some of the things that I'm noticing. You know, what kind of presence do I see from these candidates in

Milwaukee in, you know, the black community in particular, who has been actively engaged, you know, I'm looking at people's staff makeup. I'm just paying attention to a lot of different things about where we, you know, are going with this race. Most people will tell you that Francesca Hong's numbers have consistently been high and

that she has ended up being one of the people to watch. Sarah Rodriguez, who was the current lieutenant governor. Same, you know, I could say top three, top four positions. Mandela has fluctuated from near the bottom of the pack to up towards the top of the group.

So it's been an interesting mix. So naturally, a lot of folks said, well, what do you think about DC getting out of the race? And, you know, I'm just probably I'm just probably not a good person to ask right now because a lot of this is frustrating for me. This is this is the time in politics when I dislike the arena.

a lot because you will see folks coalescing around candidates that for me are not the best qualified for some of these roles. You know, it was never lost on me that Sarah Rodriguez had been in the state assembly for eight months.

when she announced that she was running for Lieutenant Governor. I'm a little bit old school. I believe that people need to put in some work, learn the ropes, understand the state and all of its nuance and what it takes to run a state. And so I was just a little put off by somebody who had only been in the assembly for eight months and then ran for governor. But we've had people who have never served.

in the legislature and they run for governor. But when you look at experiences, what they bring to the table, you know, you'll have people, hey, I was the vice president of this, I was this, I was that. And there's no actual requirement other than you be, you know, certain age. It's very few requirements for what you have to have to run for governor. But just in terms of somebody

who has been in the building, who has helped to do the work, you just understand all the nuanced stuff that people don't know. What I understand this morning is that David Crawley is actually going to be endorsing Sarah Rodriguez today from what I'm being told, from what I'm seeing on social media, in the press. And I'm just gonna say interesting.

I'm just gonna say interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting. This reminds me a little bit of when Mandela was running for U.S. Senate, but I've seen it so many times where candidates pushed out the race, asked to leave the race, or moved around when

You know, groups start trying to coalesce support behind a candidate and people will always say it's for the greater good. We need to in this case ensure that we can beat Tom Tiffany so that the governorship does not revert to Republican hands. I have been very candid in the fact that many of the things that we are seeing happen punitively.

detrimentally, harmfully in other states. The reason why we haven't experienced it ourselves is because we've had divided government and we have been fortunate not to have a Republican sitting in that executive office. So having a Democrat, more specifically Tony Evers, has been an effective stop gap from

many of us being subjected to what we've seen around the country, okay? Having a Supreme Court whose makeup is different, doesn't lean so heavily conservative, we've been able to have a fire wall, if you will, from some of the things that we've seen in other states. But there is a...

aspect to this whole thing in which, for me, I get really frustrated that many really qualified people will not get the opportunity to represent folks in these jobs and in this way. There will always be people trying to decide for us who our candidate should be, who should represent us, who should hold these positions and

frequently, if you really look at the record, it's not the best qualified person. Not saying that these people in many cases are not smart and they've been accomplished in their fields, but as I've said in other conversations, this is a job that requires a diverse body of experience.

in order to genuinely move us forward as a state, to understand the people that you're working with, you know. So I just, there was a degree of just feeling deflated and not because David Crawley was my guy and, you know, that's my candidate and this is what, you know, I thought.

needed to happen. It's just because I just get tired of the process never playing itself out. Jay, can you get that door for me? But I do. I get tired of the process never playing itself out. You know, the jockeying behind the scenes, people starting to get pressured, you know,

I need you to think about this. I need you to take one for the team. Your numbers are not great. We've seen people who have not pulled well and still do well. We've seen it. And again, I believe that there are orchestrated efforts. When Dan Bice was alive, I used to get in Dan Bice's behind all the time because I could always tell and I would tell him to his face. I could see who you're working for and with.

I see you pushing people's agenda and messages. The way stories get covered, the way candidates get talks about, who gets airtime, who doesn't get airtime. All of it ends up being a loosely linked, unofficially orchestrated effort to give us a candidate. Because you'll see some candidates get a degree of scrutiny that others won't get.

So, in relationship to DC, you know, DC gonna be fine. He didn't have to give up his seat to run for this role. The pay is almost comparable to what the governor gets. It's not that far away. Of course, the ability to impact the state on a broader level is way different than just the ability to, you know, help.

God, what happens in the county, but um, it's just frustrating. It's frustrating because a lot of times you see really good people, really smart people that get moved around for some, some nonsense for personal political agendas. Um, that's how I felt about Sarah Godluschi in that race for us Senate.

When Mandela and Alex Lazary and all these people were in it Sarah Godluschi is a beast She is a beast Running for lieutenant governor right now, but Sarah Godluschi is a beast Kilda Roy's is one of the smartest people and she ironically is gonna be on my show this morning. This was already, you know in play but

I watch Keldall on joint finance and when I say, can run circles around people. Just brilliant. Got Lusky. Brilliant. Doing things, thinking outside the box. You know, fighting, digging in, not being scared. And then, you know,

She had just said in that US Senate race when last we got out I'm in it to the end and then the next thing you know guess who wasn't in it to the end I Don't know why DC got out the race But I know that people have begun to circle the wagons people had begun to make phone calls You know because

That that's gonna be the pitch. We gotta be Tom Tiffany. We gotta be Tom Tiffany, but I'm telling people Yeah, I'm just getting to a different state and I've been there for a little while a different stage in my life You may be better Politically for me than Tom Tiffany But if you sorry you still sorry if you have not shown an interest in this community

you still have not shown an interest in this community. I just got a problem giving people jobs because they are the lesser of two evils. Pragmatically, that's what we're supposed to do. Does it feel good doing it? That's why people are like, you just gotta swallow hard and just go along. But some of these people get on my damn nerves because you can tell they have learned nothing or they think they smarted in you.

They don't have people of color on their teams. They don't have people of color working for them. And yet you're going to be standing in my face talking about what you need from us. When we did that forum at the Howard Fuller Academy, I listened to the majority of them candidates talk about what I can do for black people versus talking about what I can do with black people.

And if you talk and go look at their staffs, if you look at their campaign operations, see how we show up in those campaigns. We don't. Even for some of the black candidates, we don't. Even for some of the minority candidates, we don't. So at the end of the day, I just get sick of black folks always being the afterthought.

But then at some point we end up being a key component. I get tired of seeing people that are not fully qualified for jobs that keep ascending and keep being pushed and keep rising and getting these jobs. It's all just irritating. It's irritating.

So, yeah. I don't know what the messaging was to get DC out the race. And I'm sure by the time I read his statement and by the time he come out with his little speech endorsing Sarah Rodriguez, which I think is complete BS. You know.

I mean, I listen to this woman sit at the thing and say, yeah, I don't say the words DEI anymore. See, I don't need somebody that's going to run from an issue. And I'm going to recraft it and rebrand it to make other folks feel better about themselves. But Michelle, politically, that's pragmatic. That's what you have to do. Even companies and corporations, they're no longer saying DEI, but they're still trying to figure out how to get the same impact.

I'm just cut from a different cloth. I stand on what I stand on. I believe what I believe and I'm not going to let no racist white people tell me that the word diversity is a negative word and I accept that and I change the way I talk so other racist white people can feel comfortable about their life. I'm not doing it.

I'm not gonna let racist white people tell me that the word equity and ignorant white people tell me that the word equity is a bad thing. And so to have David Crawley, who has this whole Milwaukee County office committed to the issue of equity and blah, blah, blah, and you stand up and support the chick who says, I don't say DEI anymore. And yes, being governor is bigger than DEI.

But we have an amendment on the constitute I mean on the upcoming November ballot that would change our state constitution to make diversity equity and inclusion illegal in the state of Wisconsin. It's on the ballot. They want to codify it into state law that anything that takes race into a factor that takes gender into account.

In terms of state functioning, state programs, state opportunities, it would be illegal. And the woman who said, I don't say the words, I said it in an urban setting, I don't say the words DEI anymore. Yeah, I can't watch all.

Okay. And it's usually people with those principal stands that won't get elected. You have to bow, you have to break, you have to bend to the wheel of the majority. That's why I'm glad, you know, I'm who I am. Because I'm not.

Black folks, we got a lot at stake. We do. And we got to think about which of these candidates will help to advance not just the state, but also our interest as well, because every single campaign, every single election, every single political, you know, upheaval,

close calls. We are being told time and time again, not now. We'll get to y'all later. We'll address your issues at a different time. This isn't the right moment. We have to think about the broader, you know, constituency. But we consistently are the people that show up for the party. Black folks show up for Democrats.

Somebody just said it's better to die on your feet than to live on our knees. Black folks show up for the Democratic Party every time. And before the Republican supporters call in with your BS, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. Because we are voting our values not for a party. We're voting our values. We're voting for people who most closely align with our values. Those people happen to be Democrats.

But even within the democratic infrastructure, I listened to a sister be interviewed by Clay Kane two days ago. And I don't have her name in front of me, but it was something like, I know it was Antonine. She had it. I gotta go get her name.

And she talked about being a black woman, working at the federal level, being one of only one in these buildings, in these meetings. And she actually spearheaded the team, the strategy for one of the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. And the sister said that even sitting at that level,

How as a black strategist as black staff that and she was at she worked for Pelosi. She had the height of the top of the top She said that black folks will still be kept out of rooms Tony Evers hires five chief of staffs not one damn single one of them black Not one single one of a person of color you you stack your white

your office with literally white folks and one Hispanic lady whose mama was over the Republican conservative faction. And you just look at these people. Like, a lot of this gets on my nerves. Because we show up when we don't get off of the jobs, we don't get to work on the campaigns except for black outreach, our voices get diminished. And I listen to this system. I got to go to break. You may be trying to give me a break for a second.

But I listened to this sister say on Clay Kane show two days ago that when Mike Brown got shot during the Obama administration, people were called to a meeting to discuss how the president was going to talk about Mike Brown, except any black staffer. And black staffers who were at the level that they could have been included in the conversation.

Now, that's her version of events. I don't know what Obama's team's version of events is, but that's what she said.

that even on the issue of a black man being murdered, black staff was left out. And I remember when black reporters and journalists said that at the respective media outlets that they worked at, that when George Floyd's murder happened, many black journalists were not given the assignment because the white media outlets that they worked for didn't feel that they could be unbiased in the way they talked about the story.

So all David Carly's getting out of the race has done is just make me tired. Can black people win statewide race? Negroes really ask, white folks really ask, is he too dark-skinned to win statewide race? Do we need somebody who look more Obama-ish? You know, that, that, that, I just, okay, I'm going to break, but I get tired.

I get tired. I get tired. I'll be right back. All right, family, welcome back to the show. So I told you I had and we got a call during the break.

that is relative to uh early voting and some people have already cast their uh votes for uh county executive crawley and you know what does that mean i'll talk about that when i'm done with this interview but i'd like to uh welcome to the studio uh vacation vacationer extraordinaire world traveler get your money sonny and enjoy the world uh wander one gary hey wander how you doing

I am doing well. You look so fabulous coming off vacation. I mean, Svelte, you know, just just rested it. I don't know about rested because I'm still trying to get back on our time. But you know, so where did you go for folks real quick? They don't I went to Asia. So I was in Seoul, South Korea. From there, we went to Bali, Indonesia. And from there, tied.

pay taiwan that's right all over the place some of the pictures that you posted some of the pictures that i saw some of the clothing regional clothing that you had on ethnic you know dress like where were you going what was happening in some of these photos wonder

Well, they expose you to their culture. So I took advantage of it. You know, we were in Korea, South Korea, and they rent out their garb so you can dress in it and go to the temple or go in areas. Oh, really? Yeah. So that's why you saw me, you know. Oh, OK. You don't have to buy it? No, you don't have to buy it. And people that I'm talking about, did you bring it back? No, I could have bought it. Yeah. But why? Right. Yeah.

I wore it that day and but what they did was they put a Barrette in my hair. That was my gift. So I still have that That I bought home, but you know in Bali Same thing and we stayed in five-star hotels and I can tell you there's a young man here in town John Daniels the fourth We were going to Bali and I didn't want to go all the way over to Asia

without taking advantage of some other opportunities. So I reached out to him. He planned our trip on the front end and the back end. Bali was already playing. And when I tell you, I've never had this, maybe some of y'all have, where you get to the airport and the man standing there with your name on the placard. Yes, ma'am. I have enjoyed it. Yes, ma'am. And then the car was waiting. That's right. And the hotel, five-star.

Um, you know, this is a young guy that he's 17 18. I just wanted people to know. Yeah. This is a 17 year old. He's the 17 or 18. I know he's just graduated from high school, but he's traveled a lot. And when I tell you, he, you know, he gave us sent us information and said, what, what kind of events do you want to do while you're in these places? And so we told him, I didn't have to do nothing but pay.

And I'm good because you go to these places. I don't want to waste time trying to figure it out. Right. And so by having the itinerary before we went and then when we were in Bali, that was already planned. So we had no delays. I flew on airlines. I've never heard of before, but Korean Airlines, EVA, top notch.

So wait because I saw right she saw this this black in Bali and when I tell you there's That's our transportation company black in Bali and these are black folks No, they Balinese whatever they call them Bali but Balinese but yeah, they black look at this y'all

I was like, I got to have it. And look, and one day while we were in Bali, we had a brunch and it was at a restaurant bar that has an R&B brunch every other Sunday. And this particular Sunday that we were there, they weren't having it. But my nieces who planned the trip said,

They reached out to him and said, Hey, we're going to have 160 black women here from all over the country. Um, will you do and they said, Oh, we'll open up. So they opened up that Sunday and we took over, but then they said, well, can we open it up to our regular customers? So they put it on Instagram and people who were other people that were vacationing. Oh my God. They showed up.

So it turned out to be, you know, like I said, we took over the whole... So how long were you gone in total? 12 days. How long was the flight? Almost 20 hours. But we broke it up. So we had direct flight from Chicago to South Korea, which was 14 hours. Okay. And then from South Korea to Bali was seven. Coming back from Bali to Taipei was five hours. From Taipei to O'Hara,

was 14 hours you know it's been a while since I've traveled that far last time I think was to Pierce but it didn't seem long at all yeah when I did the the trip to when I flew to Greece and when I did the trip to uh to Africa um

You know, it was cool. Right. I'm watching in-house movies, entertainment. And they have Wi-Fi. So I could text people. I could email. I could watch TV, watch movies. I could sleep. It was comfortable. It was comfortable. You get on. They got your pillow, your blanket, your bottle of water, your slippers, your mask. We did the lounges in the airport. Oh, yeah. The private lounges. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, my God. OK, so.

You are actually here for another reason. Yes, but there was no way I was not going to talk about that. And then you came in with a T-shirt, Lord. I'm just so excited. But Germany, don't say a word. You have to follow folks on Facebook. And when they say, close me up, don't get paid. I was like, what? I've got to have a T-shirt that say black and bali. I have to. OK, so you are here in your capacity with black childhood development.

And I always forget the way to say it for the entire state. So say the name. Black child development, Wisconsin. Wisconsin. And we are, I can't believe we are coming up on one of your annual events already. Yep. And one of my favorites. Let folks know what we got going on. So two things I want to share on today, but Brunch of Books, our ninth annual Brunch of Books, which is a luncheon designed for our children.

where we really highlight them, we cater to them, they are our special guests. And that event will be Saturday, September 5th, 11 a.m. at Abundant Faith Church of Integrity on 78th and Good Hope Road. We target children zero to eight, and we want families to really take advantage of this. We promote literacy,

all year long, but this is an opportunity for us to really highlight our children, have them come, and it's right before school starts back, have them come and be the special guests. We have linen tablecloths, a full meal, we have face painting, we have, this year we have Jerry Jordan, who is a illustrator for children's books.

He will be our special guest. He's a professor at UW Madison. We will have book bags with embroidered logo on it. We have a number of sponsors that we're working with. All the children will receive books. They will receive a t-shirt. They'll receive other treats in their bags. We will have resources for families. And it's all for the low price of zero.

You just have to register. Last year we had a number of adults that came and some of them got upset with me because they were mature adults and they thought they should be served first and I said the children are first. We have more than enough food.

more than enough. But our target audience is our children. We want to make sure that they feel special and that they feel appreciated. And so registration is open now. So we want people to start registering. We got people registered at Juneteenth. We know that coming to WNOV has been a successful opportunity for us to promote this and really have people sign up, sign up early.

Again, it's Saturday, September 5th at 11am at Abundant Faith. And to register, you can email Tequila, just like the drink. The drink. T-E-Q-U-I-L-A at bcdi-wisconsin.org. It's on our website.

You can email her if you can't find the website and she can send you the link. But the other thing that I want to share, okay? Before you move on. All right. So, um, Dr, uh, Virginia Williams is listening. Uh-oh. And she said, hey, let Ms. Montgomery know. Say Matthews. Well, be in the house. I mean, they come t-shirts down. I think they had yellow on last year. You see they babies come into the room. Um, and she said, and bring in some calendar money.

I hear it. I was out. Yeah, Miss Williams. We'll be looking for you. Daryl Williams is listening. And your speaker, he said he is a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity. All right. And he has sent a picture, Unstoppable John, one of the books that he illustrated about John Lewis. So you got folks listening there like, hey, we know what's going on. Yeah. And we're excited. Each year we try to bring somebody different.

Last year you were our emcee and you know Michelle brings her own following so there were people that came not for us and not for the children but because they wanted to see Michelle in person you know who I'm talking about. I do and so the second thing the second thing is we do a calendar of black children every year and so we are working on our 2027

calendar. And so often what happens is people ask me, I want to get my daughter or my son or my baby, my grandbaby in the calendar. I want to do this. So we're announcing today that we have a couple of opportunities. We have professional photographers because a lot of times when people send us pictures, they're not in the right format. They have

They're advertising different companies that we don't want to particularly advertise. So we have a couple of dates that we are soliciting people to bring their children, to have their photos taken. Now, we may not be able to use all of them, but what we can, we will. We also are looking for poems, poems that are positive,

about our children or just positive about education. Now, we don't want a three-page poem because we've got to be able to go into the calendar. And then we're also looking for ads. We have opportunities for people to put their ad in. You can pick your month.

and we'll put your ad in the calendar. So we're looking for pictures, people that want to have their children in the calendar. Everybody said, oh, my baby, my grandbaby is just beautiful. And these calendars go all over the country and Africa. So pictures, poems, and ads. And again, you can reach out to tequila at bcdi-wisconsin.org. We do have a deadline.

For the pictures, the ads and the poems is the end of July. Because we want to get our calendars done before a bunch of books so we can give them out at that event like we did last year. So if you're interested, if you hear us, if you know somebody out there that you think their child would be appropriate for our calendar, and this year we're looking for children zero to two.

We're focusing on our young children. Last year was reading with families. So we had children reading on their own, children reading with their parents, children reading with their grandparents. That was last year's focus. This year we're looking at really infant mortality, getting our children to their first birthday and beyond. So up to two years old. And so again, and

I remember our name is Black Child Development Institute. So we ain't talking about diversity and inclusion, we talking about black kids. Well, all right, let's try to say amen. So look, I got two things before we wrap. So one, I've been talking about this young family that we've been assisting. As we were, the daycare dropped the baby off to me.

So I had a book that's sitting on my back seat that I have for Keith's granddaughter, Kennedy, that, you know, she made us the fabulous Juneteenth drink, red drink. And so I got a book for in a car, you know, to thank her. So it's been on my back seat and I was like, I gotta take it over to Keith. So this baby boy, he got in the car and he was real quiet.

And I looked in my rear-view mirror, he got the book. And he going through the pages, he looking at the illustrations. And then when he got done reading, he said, can I get this book? I said, I'll get you that book. I said, that one belongs to someone else, but I'll get you that book. In the midst of all it is, sleeping here, sleeping there, that anchoring thing, that moment just resonating.

It just stuck out for me. Yeah, like crazy. So the thing I want is how does he's fine? Okay. So the thing that I wanted to ask you from when you started this, the growth in this program, because I remember, you know, coming out to the one I forgot in Brown did with that one first.

one of the first ones was hell, but the young people at the table and we were sitting there with the kids. I mean, these kids had a ball and one, you know, listening to the show. She was like, I brought my son and three, two of his boys. They all fell up in there. The growth of this thing has been crazy. Yes. And the first ones were over at Fresh Start, which is on floor. That's what it was. But we even, through COVID, we did it where it was virtual.

We believe that if you plant the seed early, children love to read. And if they can read books that are an example or a portrayal of who they are, who they can become and they see themselves in it, that is a foundation for future. You talk to my daughter on Juneteenth. It's foundational. We start and we don't stop.

And I am now you don't know this. I am a great-grandmother My granddaughter had a daughter a month ago. She's a premium So she's she was born at 1.9 One pound nine ounces, but now she's over two pounds. You know what I got in my house already I'm building the book

the bookshelves. I mean, I got the books. Because we started narrowly. Yeah, no, Atlas was a prince. He was in NICU for, I think, almost six months. Yeah. And so that's the journey in and of itself. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But look where he at now. Up child. And I called him yesterday. I was talking to his mother yesterday. And I said, where's Atlas at? What are you doing? And she had me on speaker. She said, he can hear you.

And I said, what's going on? He said, grandma, I'm using my compass right now. I said your compass. Yes, I guess one of his aunts or somebody in her family gave him a gift card for his birthday. And he ordered a compass and a protractor. Yeah. And he's how old? He just said it. Well, there you go. A compass and a protractor. I said, well, teach your daddy how to use it.

Why are you doing it? But you know, I just to watch this program grow to see all of these black, you know children but children of any color that are there Because you know, I ran into a squad of Hispanic little kids came through. Oh, yeah, you know and then so you just see that This is important to so many young people to their families. So it is it is

amazing to see it have grown in the way it has. I've had two people that said, you know, please give the information one more time on the brunch, the email.

Val, we're gonna get that for you. Repeat the email for the brunch, please. And then the other thing I was gonna tell you, there were a ton of comments about people who had been to Bali. Somebody said they had just got back from Bali last week. Their daughter had just got back. And so it was a ton of comments about the Bali trip on social media as well. I just wanted to flag that for you. Yeah, my daughter just got back from Bali. They also stopped at the Harley-Davidson store, I guess. Well, we was too busy with the elephants and the monkeys.

and the swings and the shopping. I'm gonna tell you, my sisters now and my nieces are talking about, let's do a girls trip just within our family. But I'm telling you, if you go, be prepared to shop because the US dollar buys you a whole lot more. I didn't realize that until I was there and I wasn't trying to convert, you know, my daughter was like, mama, this is what it costs.

I got it. And when I started packing my suitcase, I'm like, Lord, I hope I took my little scale with me to make sure. Look, I never knew the value of bottom scales. I went to South Africa. I had to buy a scale. So Brunch of Books is Saturday, September 5th, 11 AM at Abundant Faith Church of Integrity, 78th in Good Hope. And to register,

contact Tequila, T-E-Q-U-I-L-A, just like the drink, at bcdi-wisconsin.org. And we'll try and, you know, we're putting information out. Again, it's free, shared with family and friends. This is our ninth annual, and we hope that we continue to do this for years and years to come. And I'm saying,

definitely has the book space. Madam Montgomery. And I heard JT called in another day and said we met. Yes, he did. He did. Well, all right, look, I am going to wrap. We gonna take a quick break. We should be having our gubernatorial candidate, Kelder Royce.

Paul and us briefly to talk about the race and Wanda, you know, if I can, if I'm in town and I can swing by, I'm definitely coming to see. And I'm gonna just say, I love what St. Matthew's does. When they bring that crew of young people coming through, they come through as a church and they have all their adult chaperones. It is the coolest thing to see. I encourage everyone to please take advantage of this opportunity. The joy on that little boy's face yesterday.

in the midst of everything that was going on around this child that book took him somewhere else and so um that's what what what books can do for our kids absolutely all right family i'll well look i'll be right back

Thank you. All right, family. Welcome back to the show. So I told you all at the top of the show this morning that I was expecting to speak with a candidate that is in this heated contest for governor here in the state of Wisconsin, none other than state Senator Kelda Royce. I believe we may have her on the line. Hey, Kelda. Good morning, Senator. How you doing this morning?

Good morning Michelle. Great to be with you. It is a pleasure. It is crazy about the timing of our conversation, but you know We know we know to expect ebbs and flows changes everything is on the table one and two this August 11th primary So let me just check in with you. How are things going? Well, I feel great. We have built incredible momentum. We have

I have the most experience in this race. We have the most endorsements and every day more people start to pay attention and they want to have a governor who is ready to govern and get things done and also one who can be Tom Tiffany. So this is your second run at this. When Eva's ran, Mayla Mitchell ran, you were the third in that bracket.

in terms of how you had done. So is there anything that you've learned differently between that first race and this race that you think makes a key difference going into August 11th? Absolutely. I think so much of politics is about timing and making sure that you are really meeting voters where they are. And right now, voters are sick and tired of a government that's not

responding to our problems, right? The affordability crisis, you know, the shameful disparities that we have in our state. And I have been fighting on these issues and making progress in really tough legislative environments for 25 years. I've, you know, since that race, I've been serving in the state Senate since 2020. I've served on the Joint Finance Committee, which writes the state budget. And that has given me a really much deeper perspective on state government. And I think that voters

are looking for somebody who can actually deliver change, not just talk about it. So one of the things that has concern me and, you know, I don't know if it's just because of the type of work that I've done or just the way I view certain things, but legislative experience is important to me. Folks that have had the ability to understand how all of these levers work, how all of this is interrelated and interconnected.

But sometimes it doesn't seem like the voters fully get that, that we can have popularity contests who sent me the most mailers. Can you speak to that aspect of running this race? Yeah, I think it's really hard for everyday people to stay up on what's going on in the Capitol, especially when we see our media really decimated. You know, you are providing such an important service to your listeners by informing them about things that they're not hearing anywhere else.

And that's really a larger problem beyond, you know, this race and politics. It's one reason why we got Donald Trump is because people are getting their own information and they're being kind of ripped apart by this algorithm driven, profit driven media situation that we have that does not actually cover the issues that matter to most people. And the people who are working on the ground

organizing in communities, serving in legislatures, trying to make that change. So let me ask about the money piece of this whole thing, because in other races, we have seen, you know, influx of money, whether locally, outside groups, weighing in, you know, people talk about the ability to go up on TV, you know, again, how much reach can I get? What are your thoughts on the whole fundraising aspect for this thing?

Well, Michelle, I believe we should have public financing of campaigns. I think it's kind of crazy that we basically have auctions instead of elections and tell people what you mean by public financing for folks that are not familiar. Yeah, so the idea would be that candidates who want to run for office raise a certain number of small dollar grassroots contributions from people who live in their district or in their state that can vote for them.

And if you reach that threshold, then you could get a match of public money, but you would have to agree to a spending limit. And that would do so many things. Number one, it would make it more possible for ordinary people to run for office. They wouldn't have to be rich or have rich friends. Number two, it would take away the stain of feeling like our democracy is bought and paid for by corporate interests, right? Special interests that are just dominating politics. And number three, it would free our elected officials from being on this.

constant need to raise money all the time, instead of actually serving the public, thinking about how to solve the challenges that we face, how to lower the cost of health care, how to create better quality public schools. These are the things I care about and that I want to spend all of my time doing. But to run for office in these days, I'm not willing to take corporate back money. I'm not bought and paid for by somebody like Elon Musk. Therefore, that means I spend a lot of my time

talking with individual Wisconsinites and raising money. And I'm proud that I have 93% of my money comes from individual grassroots Wisconsin donors, right? People just, just like your listeners. But that is really, really hard to do. It takes a lot of time. And I think if we want to have a government that works for us and that's responsive to the problems that we're facing in our lives, we've got to fix this money in politics piece.

And so just so folks know there are roughly about 14 states that actually have some form of public financing options for candidates that are running for particularly statewide offices that those things are in play. Now, you talked about like your priorities and the things that are important. As folks have talked about, you know, on the Republican side of things, Tom Tiffany running for office. One of the things I said this morning is that.

a number of things that we have seen legislatively policy wise happening around the country. We have been insulated from because we've had divided government and that having a Democratic governor. Evers more specifically has been a stopgap or a firewall in some of the things that we've seen happened when Republicans have controlled both the state legislature, the executive branch, and in some cases, the state Supreme Court.

Are there any things that stand out for you that our listeners should be particularly concerned about? As you talk about running this campaign and if you were up against Tom Tiffany in that November election Absolutely, I think what scares me about Tom Tiffany is that he's not his own man He is Donald Trump's rubber stamp and in Wisconsin. I think that

We value independent thinkers. We value people who do not always go with the status quo, do not just take orders from party leadership. And that's the biggest difference between me and Tom Tiffany, not just that I'm a Democrat, that I'm a progressive, that I've got experience in actually getting things done to help people, but it's what I think for myself. And I've always been willing to stand up to my own party leadership when I thought they were wrong.

Even though, you know, most of the time what I'm doing is standing up to Donald Trump and bullies and billionaires on the right than her trying to make it harder for everyday people to make ends meet. And I think that's a really important quality that I can bring and contrast with Tom Tiffany, who has never, ever done anything to help Wisconsinites. In fact, every action that he's taken has made our lives worse, right? Devastating cuts to healthcare, to SNAP, which is nutrition support.

to tariffs that are putting our farmers and small businesses out of business. And of course cheerleading Trump's illegal wars that are killing us at the gas pump. So look,

We, we, like I said, these campaigns, these election cycles, they come with ebbs and flows. There were people because ballots had already started to be mailed out. We know with the announcement yesterday of the county executive, they were quality getting out of the race. There's some folks that just called our station this morning behind the scenes and said, I've already voted.

So what what happens now as someone who was an attorney and you know who has been in the legislature in the legislature for folks who are finding themselves like needing to make a different choice or they want to understand what happens if they've already cast that early ballot vote Can you help give some information about that? Yes, if you Need to cancel your absentee ballot you can reach out to your

Local clerk and you should be able to vote on election day But I'm not I'm actually not sure because there's been numerous court cases about how you can spoil your ballot right and the elections commission This has been an issue that they've gone you had you know some cases about so

So we are definitely going to be trying to get that information. And I just wanted to find out any thoughts with the county execs stepping out of the race was one of the first people I think to throw his hat in the ring. And I know you had the opportunity to work with the county execs. So just any thoughts on that aspect? Well, I have so much respect and admiration for David Golly. And I also just have a lot of affection for him as a person.

I'm actually sad that he's not in the race because I think that, you know, he and I are the folks that have the most experience and the longest track records of actually being able to deliver for people. And I think that really matters in a governor, right? Especially at a time, Michelle, when for the first moment in 15 years, we're actually going to have the possibility of being able to govern. So we don't just need a goalie. I mean, thank goodness we've had Tony Evers as our goalie. But boy,

this is an era when we could actually do things like raise the minimum wage, make it easier for working people to make ends meet, lower the cost of health care by letting everybody participate and buy into the state plan. There's so much we could do, make child care universally available for parents, unaffordable. But we need a governor who can actually get things done. And I think, you know, David and I both had the most experience on the stage. And so I'll

I'm sad to see Grace, because I think he's got so much to offer our state. Well, for folks that are interested in either reaching out to you, learning more about the campaign, understanding additional platform issues, how should they go about trying to contact the campaign? Well, you can certainly go to my website, which is Kelda Roy's, K-E-L-D-A, like Zelda with a K. Roy's-R-O-Y-S dot com.

And my phone number, my email is on there. Reach out. You can follow us on social media. We love getting questions. And you'll see my detailed policy proposal. I don't just have bullet points in some consultant row for me. I've got actual bills that are ready to get passed on day one. And that's why some of the right wing commentators say that I'm the one who scares them the most.

Because I'm ready to go. I have not been shy, you know when I when I Admire people and I because I respect hustle. I respect work. I respect intellect and You know, I think about many other people that I could say were some of my favorite people when I was in the Capitol you Chris Taylor, I mean

I would tell you all the time if we got to go to a fight is certain people you take it with you to the fight and Yeah, all of you lawyers, that's true. That's so true But well, you know, I will reach out to you again. We'll get other folks in and you know, I'll say this I'm not denied anybody the opportunity to come on the show The doors are open for any candidate that wants to reach out

Kelda is just someone that has always said hey Michelle you know I want to call in and look and I called her Kelda as a person senator senator senator because I'm just that comfortable you know with this this woman and that's the way she always you know made you feel in the building as staff there was never this us against them you know

Cause there was some legislators you would interact with and they would be like, know your place. Like you could see it written all over them and you just were never that kind of person. Like, Hey, we all appear to fight and we all play in different roles, but we're all on the same team. So I always respected that about you, uh, Senator Royce. I really have. So thank you so much for making time for our listeners this morning. Remind people one more time how they can find out more information about you and the campaign.

You just go to kelderoys.com and I will say I did find the answer to the question. Yes, you may cancel your absentee ballot.

Just request to do so at your clerk, you can vote early or vote on election day and cancel your ballot if you've already cast it. And so when we're saying the clerk, that means the election commission or the county clerk, we'll get that cleared up because I know somebody just hit me and said, when she says clerk, who are we talking about? Unicipal clerk. Unicipal clerk. The city founder village. Yep. So we'll get, we'll make sure that people are clear on that because.

Yeah, this is going to be a thing for some folks right now. Kelda, I'm gonna definitely try and talk to you again before we get to August 11th. We are just about 30, what, four days away? Something like that. So I will reach out again, but thank you for making time for us this morning and we'll talk soon.

Thank you so much, Michelle. Good to be with you. Yes, ma'am. All right, family. So that was a gubernatorial candidate, Kel DeRoyce, and currently a senator in the state legislature. Ha! Am I taking a break or am I done? What's today? Okay, so let me take a quick break. When we come back, we'll wrap the show. Be right back, y'all.

I'm glad that Keith Pierce just entered the studio and said, why is it so hot in here? I'm glad that someone else knows that it's not me that realizes that your man goes through manopause and that everyone else has to suffer because of his hot flashes, you know, cold flashes and the fan blowing on just him. Oh, I'm sorry. That was inside baseball. All right, y'all. I got to get out of here. But for that question.

Yes, voters who have already returned an absentee ballot by mail may request in writing that their returned absentee ballot be spoiled so that they can vote a new one or get a new one. Voters may appear in person at their clerk's office. This is the municipal clerk until the end of in person absentee voting hours and asked to have the ballot spoiled so the clerk can issue a new absentee ballot.

office. I'll get that number for folks next week, but you can look it up on your own. But yes, thank you so much to the caller who raised that, that you can, if you have already voted for David Crawley, request that your ballot be spoiled so that you will in fact have an option to vote for someone else. All right. Somebody said, yeah, it was pretty hot in here. Oh, happiness donors came up here.

She dropped off. Yeah, she dropped off a gift card for yeah, happiness on us. Is she? She dropped off a gift card for the family. She didn't bring me nothing. Oh, that was just my inside. You know, sometimes I'll be having to wreck. You know, I just blow it off stuff.

feel inside. Let's not blame. Let's not blame that on you. All right, y'all. That is the show for this week. Oh my god. I'm getting ready. Did we ever deal with my for for July? I don't think we did. No, but you can come check me out Saturday. Where are you going to be a Saturday Rose Park? Come check me out. Oh, you're the entertainment for this Saturday. Come check me out. Fortify. Fortify. Fortify.

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