Inside Milwaukee Politics: Youth Voices on Election Impact

All right, family, welcome back to the show. So I had told people before the break, if you need to know what is on your ballot for the August 11th primary, please go to my vote.wi.gov. There is a tab that literally says what's on my ballot.

If you look from the left and come back towards the middle, it is the third tab. What's on my ballot? I pulled up my personal. You put in your address. It'll give you your sample ballot. So the first thing you'll see is all of the Republican, because this is a partisan election, which means you are voting in parties, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Constitution, Libertarian, and the Green Party. We actually have five parties that participate.

in our process here. So you will see Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Congressional Representative in the Fourth District, that's Congresswoman Morris District.

the republicans have two people running pernina nath is running again jesus christ uh but you have that race and then you have uh i have the 12 assembly district that's former state representative lakisha mayer's district uh on the republican side nobody is running uh but we do have a contested race on the democratic side the milwaukee county sheriff on the republican side there's no one running for milwaukee county sheriff um milwaukee county clerk of circuit court no one running on the republicans

side. And then for governor on the Democratic side, all of the names from Crawley to Missy Hughes to Sarah Rodriguez, all of the names are on the ballot because before people started dropping out of the race. Good morning to everybody on YouTube and Facebook. I see you guys up. Thank you for hanging out and waiting on us to get that back up. Appreciate y'all.

But all of the names are on the ballot. Okay, so you can go in and vote for any of those people that you want to But lieutenant governor, there's only one name on the ballot on the democratic side of the ticket sarah got lusky um attorney general one name Uh, jocasta. I mean secretary of state one name state treasurer two names uh yeeling uh young i think it's how to pronounce it and

Dylan Ray Himmelstein. So two people contested for the state treasurer. In terms of the congressional district, there is a woman named Amy Donahue that's running against Congresswoman Moore on a Democratic side. In the 12th Assembly District contested race, the current incumbent Russell Antonio Goodwin. And there is

a newcomer, Jordan Roman. I got to get Jordan on the show. I think in the entire time that Russell Goodwin has been in that seat, I don't think I've ever had him on the show. If I'm not mistaken, I don't think so. And he's my representative and he sucks. I just want to be real clear. I just, I do, I want to be.

No, I'm serious. He sucks. I'm so appalled that he got LaKeisha's old seat. I don't know what to do. Um, you know, he too busy making mixtapes and CDs and, uh, you know, selling them and, you know, him and his wife in a church and just not saying I got nothing. His name is Russell Goodwin.

This the dude, yeah, little short man. This the dude who didn't know how to get his nomination paper signatures, right? Always short, always missing, came from the county, brought that triflingness to the state capitol. Zero, he don't do nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. I'm just telling y'all right now, do not vote for Russell Goodwin.

You go from a stellar a stellar legislator and I'm not saying this because this is my friend I'm saying this because this girl works when she was in the legislature and and you knew she was in the building

Russell Goodwin don't do jack and you know now we get these little fake little newsletters and you're talking about what they're like fighting for they got some little social media ads nothing I will be voting for Jordan Roman I'm just saying because it just it just burns my bricks it really does this dude I mean like this is the epitome of people getting in office who just looking for a job

and don't really serve in a way that's effective, that you know they're in the building. And to become behind somebody like LaKisha, it's just a dagger to the chest. And then you wonder why certain people won't come on your show.

Come on. You know what? Real Jesus, come on. Prove me wrong. Run down the laundry list. But see, if you was a regular or you reached out, I would have to talk about you. But I'm sorry. I have not like just laid nobody out for real. But I'm on the record. Sorry. Sorry. S-O-R-R-E-E-E. Oh, that's how you spell sorry. I can tell you this. Jordan Roman.

at the Blue Spaces weekend every day. At least he was getting some FaceTime on stage. Whoever he's running against, I can't tell you because I didn't see him. It's this man I'm talking about right now. The man who didn't know how to get enough signatures to get on the ballot multiple times. How do you not know how to get enough signatures? And didn't even need a whole bunch. It was some ridiculous number that they needed as county supervisor to get their name on the ballot. And because that's just lazy.

It's just lazy. But again, he's too busy making mixed tapes and CDs at Hawker. I don't know what he did. I don't know what he did. I know Russell. What do you do? Gospel music? Yeah. He's he's he's he's actually an excellent keyboard player. That's what he should do for a career. That's what he should do.

That's what he should do for career. I know him. Yeah. Yeah. So did you see him? No, you don't know exactly who he is. Lil Ice Kid, short dude, curly hair. Wow. Looks like a, looks like a, a, a...

You know what's holding back? So he got a church, huh? Yeah, he got a church. It's fake. Oh, my God. I am pulling out of this. Oh, my God. I'm sorry. Oh, my God. Yeah, I am so glad that this dude is my elected official. I don't call the office for nothing. Somebody said God bless you, Michelle. Oh, look who commented. Jordan Roman.

I'm ready to step up. I'm ready to work. I'm ready to work. I'm ready to work. I'm ready to work. I'm ready to work. I'm ready to work. I'm ready to work.

He was out there both days all day How you know you are in the district of the chick with the talk radio show It would be flowers just showing up on your doorstep you

cheap little little literature. I would have been took around for a state. No, no, no, no. Let me talk. Let me take you out. Just do some work. Just just do some for the district. There's some there's some recording that I had a whole moment. Let me let me come back. Let me come back. But I have not done that to anybody. Lisa has a question for you on the what she said. Where's Lisa? The bottom there. Who is Bridget?

Man of Cheney State Assembly. You must, let me see, I don't know her. But that must be an east side. It might be a good thing for her that you don't know her. No, because I have not clowned at all. But when I say, when I say that I am appalled by the level of service that we have received from Russell Goodwin, I'm appalled. But I will say this. What? Be it from the Aldermans.

status or what have you. I've noticed since COVID, people just are not as responsive and you know doing their job like they used to. They don't care. I keep saying this. When more people in the community feel like they need to call me because if they call the elected official, nothing's gonna happen. That's crazy. That's crazy.

And I'm not saying these offices are not getting calls. Because an elected official is more apt to call you back than they will their constituent. Yes or no, because I got some elected officials don't call me back. They don't. It's cool. But they don't. But I just. OK. But something that also comes down to knowing who you should. You don't necessarily have to call your elected official by the pothole.

Yeah, all the department you can call the department works, but you know for most people and let me just say this let me just say this because I'm lax But I'm gonna encourage my all new woman. I think that she's all the woman for that area Larissa Taylor. Yeah, if y'all have not rode Everett's Street on the side of Vincent High School. Oh Those potholes are so deep

You will tear your car out the frame over there. And I have not had a chance to call. I need to put that on my to do list today. What we saw right out in front of this radio station, the city app, when we put that in within an hour, hour and a half, they were out there filling that pot hole. And that's what they people tell you.

They, somebody got a call and let them know. But I'm gonna also say to all the persons what Marvin Pratt used to do back in the day, riding the district, checking the conditions of his, his streets and what was going on. I don't know how nobody has gone to Vincent High School and not driven ever. It's EVERTS. I think it's the way it's spelled. That is the raggedy, the potholes are

Raising they and I'm talking about it's like chunks is missing out of the street And you come through there at night, man, you you'll kill yourself So yeah, all the women Taylor because I know she listened to the show so much, but I'm a call. I'm a call. I'm gonna do my part I'm a call and and level cuz raise some concerns. Let me go to the phone line. Hey caller. What's happening? Hello Hey Kathy, you know

Let me get it together here. No one's talking about the referendum. And the referendum is a black people. So some of those actions and you see us coming up. But it's not on until November. So that's probably why you're not hearing as much about it right now, even though we should be talking about it. But it doesn't come up until November.

Oh, okay. And the main one is that there are other people on the ballot, although they don't have an opponent, you know, the sheriff is on the ballot, a bunch of people on the ballot. Yep. Nope. I was going through that list until I got stuck on Russell Goodwin. So yes, ma'am, there are definitely other folks on the ballot. Most of these people are uncontested. Okay. And the other question, the thing I have for people, if even yourself or your kids are home from school, 18 years old, they're still looking for people to train the next week or so for the voting polls.

Okay, and they do pay you, and some people adopt polls and they donate to the organization, but they do pay you $220 for that day. So they're still looking for people for the polls and they have like a two-hour class right down here downtown. So please, we need more people to work the polls and then you can work the polls also.

August, what, was that the 11th? Yes, ma'am, August 11th. And then November 4th. So encourage some of your kids, or if you get to vacation time or whatever, take a day and help work to pose. An 18-year-old can work to pose. So please take time out to do that. All right. Thank you, Kathy. Appreciate it. To the question, so Elise raised about, and Kali, here I come. Bridget, it looks like I'm not sure if this is man.

I apologize for butchering the last name. She is running in the 19th assembly district and I need to look and see who is currently sitting in that seat who is in the 19th assembly district and while I'm speaking of that let me just say I got something this morning.

There is going to be a candidate's meet and greet. The Greater Milwaukee Urban League is holding this down at G's Clippers 2200 North MLK Drive tomorrow.

5 30 to 7 p.m. You are invited to their upcoming nonpartisan reception to introduce voters to Wisconsin State Assembly candidates in advance of the primary election. So this is the Greater Milwaukee Urban League Guild and the Greater Milwaukee Urban League Young Professionals. So this is happening tomorrow on July 23rd.

I don't know if he'll be there, but I'm assuming Jordan Roman for the 12th assembly district may be in the building. Let me go to the phone line. Hey, caller. What's happening? Hello. Hello. Yes. Hello. Hey, how are you? I'm doing good. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I miss you guys so very much. I hadn't been calling me because I have been going through a lot.

I just shut down, but I'm happy to hear your voice. And I'm glad you're doing well. And I'm glad you're back. Thank you. Thank you. And I did try to call you while I was gone. It went to voicemail because I saw you had called me while I was out of town. So I didn't know you at the time because I wasn't listening. No, no, no, that's OK. I just want you to know I tried to call you back. Oh, well, thank you so very much. And hello, Debo. Hello, Jemaine. And who you with if you're in there?

I love you guys, so please try to reach out to me again if you can this week, Michelle. Okay, I will, Angela. Good to hear your voice. All right, so I have a blessed day and be safe. Yes ma'am, yes ma'am. Somebody is texting, are you on today? Yes, I am. We started YouTube late, but check us out.

Wait, okay, I'll fix that. Somebody's trying to reach out. I need to take a break.

So let me do that. Call us, you'll be first up before we get our guests in the studio. Michelle Bryant, y'all, WNOVA 68106.5 FM. And this woman, Solis Bridget, she is running against the incumbent, Ryan Clancy, who is currently the state representative for that area. So you can actually Google her name. There's a ton of information about her out there. And you can Google Ryan Clancy's name, C-L-A-N-C-Y.

to kind of get an idea about what both of these candidates are about. Be right back, y'all. All right. I said I had some callers or got at least one left on the phone line. Let's go to the phone line. Hey, caller, what's happening? Hello, good morning. Good morning. Yes, I have a question. Can you hear me? I sure can. I have a question. You talk about the people of color that was done and didn't, right? I mean, they put on his ad, right?

I talked about the people of color and Joe Brin is that yes. Yes. Yes. No. Who said that the Chinese Asian lady is a person of color? She is. She is? Anybody that's not white is a person of color. You didn't know that? Well, they don't claim it that way. I can't help what they do. I'm telling you what it is.

We just we claim everybody. No, we're not claiming anybody because you say person of color. That don't mean you black, but it doesn't mean that it's not true. I'm not claiming you. It's just it is what it is. It's the the jack the way this country is set up. Anybody that's not. Who set it up that way? Do they person of you already know who set it up that way? Yo, yo, your Republican friends. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

We know who set up the system. We didn't create racial classifications, but you grabbed onto these people and put them in our. Not us, not us, not us. They were so they came on their own. They were forcing some other people just look. It's a bunch of Hispanic people that in their mind believe a white.

That's what they had to do. That's why now they don't fully ship and identify with us, ma'am. We identify with them. Hey, I didn't set up the system, bro. I didn't set up the system. I didn't set up the system. Okay. I understand that, Michelle, that you did not set up the system. I didn't set up the system, but some kind of way we've adopted and made it our culture, not even our culture. They don't want our culture, man. They'll copy it now.

They'll copy it, they'll do what we do, and they'll do what we do, and they see that it works, and they think it's kind of fine, because we're flamboyant, we're kind of loud and radical. What has happened is we have allowed these people into our huddles, into our locker rooms, they came in, read the playbook, in some cases so paid, and not the playbook. In a lot of ways. And they're running our place. Okay, but...

because a lot of them have been subject to many of the things that have impacted us in terms of voting rights, in terms of housing discrimination, in terms of redistricting, in terms of access to quality health care, in terms of access to quality public schools. So it's not a surprise that you will see folks showing up in our rooms because many of them have been subjected to the same thing. They don't have to keep renewing their voting rights. Those people have been granted to, privileged to vote.

They have never been put in our category as having to read. I didn't say it was the exact same each. I said they share many of the similar issues that we face. Well, I don't see where they do because they come into our country and they go right to the one. So have any of those groups been discriminated against by white folks?

No, and if they have, they've been compensated for it. Yes, they have, and I need you to read your history book and stop playing. But hold on, they've been compensated for it. Well, I see, but see how quick you tried to ease through that? No, they've been discriminated against. And you said no, but then you said, but they've been compensated. So you knew when you said no, you was biasing. Listen to me. Yes, ma'am.

I, you know, let me, you know, you're looking for argument. No, no, I don't want to give you one. Now one more time because I know you got guests coming in. I know you got guests coming in. I've got one more question to ask you. Yes. Why won't you spend any time on this school board tax property tax? Because if you've got five or six, 10 houses, even if you've got one little grandma's house and by 2033, do you understand what the compound of that rate would be?

on your taxes, you won't have no houses. You won't have no house, especially if you've got a commercial building. It won't work for you. You're going to have to give it up because you can't afford it. Now, listen, even if you are a full-blooded democrat, if you've got somebody coming in and saying, they've been stopped in its own record, and they don't, we've done a lawsuit against them and the campaign that ran the junk, because now it becomes a false, they're vicious.

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for property taxes for the school board and how that's going to increase over the years. And if you're in a rural area with no school taxes for miles and miles and miles, I forget what the diameter is that you don't have to worry about it. But if you are, you say, but if you're not, especially in the inner cities, that's, you won't be able to afford it right now. If you add on $1,000 per 100,000 for your house, your house goes 200,000.

The tax that is collected by the school board for Milwaukee Public School District is nine dollars and forty six cents per. Increase that, ma'am. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

So if you own 10, then you got you got to pay it 10 times. But if you own one home for every thousand dollars that the house is worth, nine dollars and forty six cents of it or something about that goes to. No, thank you. Now, Michelle, you said for every hundred thousand dollars. I said every thousand dollars, nine dollars of it goes. If your house is if your house is two hundred thousand.

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The city is going to hurt us. You got to be honest with people. Now it's on his face. I'm like, it's nothing. OK, so that's something that needs to be, if you love your people, I would never tell my people to go vote for a party that's going to take my house. I don't love the damn party that you almost made me swear. And you already did. But it's OK. No, I didn't. No, I didn't. The devil is alive. Thank you. These people will not pee down your throat. Yes, I know they're trying to raise.

I'm not willing to help fund schools because I am and I understand that people who live in nice homes, they help to contribute towards that baseline dollar that's needed to have quality schools. You know, it's amazing that there are folks in other communities that

They move to communities because of the quality of the schools if they have school-aged children or because of the quality of life they want around them. I'm not offended or upset about property taxes going towards public education. Now, how it goes up and they had proposed last year, like a 2.3% increase in the tax levy,

to address that $252 million deficit. We got $46 million that we had a deficit on most recently. We got to figure that piece out. It's not going to go away. But also understand that we got to make sure we get the proper amount of money from state government to be able to help finance our district.

At the end of the day, I don't see this as some grand conspiracy and folks trying to put people out their homes. I see this as folks trying to figure out how to pay for public education and how to pay for all the things that we're required to pay for when we're being shorted by the state. And that's what it comes down to. And we're gonna have some issues. But you know, this whole, you know, everybody out to get me in and it's a conspiracy. Yeah, I don't do all of that.

Okay, what time is 759 I take a break caller. I'm gonna get you in. I'm gonna see if my guests have arrived And we will cover, you know that conversation we can talk about the NPS Property tax rate, you know and how that impacts people overall, but this is the cost of doing business on one hand Now how much business, you know, how much it costs us? It's up. It's up for debate

But it's the cost of doing business. We live in the largest city in the state. We got more kids in our school district than any other school district in the state. Somebody got to pay for that. Somebody got to pay for that. And so all this hell raising and hollering, let's just talk about the impact on the bottom line. But a lot of this rests with the state.

and who has been in control, and who has made these decisions that have harmed public education and made it underfunded. We gotta have those conversations. All right, Michelle Brown to be NLV, all this dang hollering. NPS is broken and we need you to keep pace with the modern economy, okay?

I just want to see the comments real quick. All right, let me let me go to break Michelle Brown WNOV a 68 year and 106.5 FM. We will be right back All right family, welcome back to the show got a caller who held through the break. Let's get them in. Hey caller. What's happening? Good morning, Michelle. Good morning, and thank you for taking my car. Yes, ma'am. I'm gonna try to be as brief as possible. Okay, first thing with the Alderman

Didn't a couple of years ago their jobs are not full-time jobs anymore. Are they? I can't tell because they make like $90,000 a year. So I think they are. Yeah. Hold on a minute. Are you telling me our aldermen's make $90,000 a year? If I'm not mistaken, it's $86,000. I'll pull up that up while you're talking, but they gave themselves. They make that kind of money. Yes, ma'am. Now, and I noticed

It's 18 districts, right? Yes, I think so. Okay. That's one alderman. And they're making $90,000. Does that have their personal pay? Hiring an assistant to work for them? Is it a budget that they allow? Or how does that work? So I think

So they do have their own staff, but it seems like they also use staff from a pool in addition to that one staff that may sit in their office or feel all their calls or their assistant. I don't know the full breadth of it. And I pulled up the salary. It's $84,205. That's the base salary. But they had been under a 16-year pay freeze too. So they hadn't gotten raised in 16 years.

But yes, ma'am. So I'm willing to bet you, Michelle, all of them are not getting that kind of money. But anyway, let's go on from this. Since the pandemic, after the pandemic, a whole lot of things have happened. Some of them do not have a good assistant or not even have one. The ones that you are the one are the all of them that are doing a better job. And now our community

Okay, I work in the community for many years. Slape and Sound and some other organizations, we would call them to tell them about the complaints in our neighborhood. And it was enough people at that time because the businesses were collaborating partners with these community organizations. And they had staff that could go out and look at the houses here with the complaints.

community into the city the city would write up a thing and have the day and you had so much time to get it corrected Well now They're not getting that money. They don't have the same collaborating partners everybody is free for dollars and Northwest Mutual can't do it all So now you don't you and these agents in these community organizations like a money united

a red cat, a sermon part, and just to name a few, because there's quite a few of them. They're struggling trying to get people. So they don't have the people that can walk around and do these complaints and do all this stuff. But if you work with your alderman calling in, going down here to see him, this is the way I was brought up. Do your diligence. You don't go get the big dog.

and that's what Chihuahuas aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing. And then you have a good complaint because you have a record of how you can call in and call in and nothing is being done. Now, let's get back to the other part of what's going on. With our MPS group, everybody knows what the situation is. They have been doing us in Madison for decades.

their racist practice. So you have some Democrats up there, what do they do? And they come back and let us know what's going on, because if I vote for you, I've got your back. But I want to see how you're voting, whether your constituents that's back here in Milwaukee. Now the people that are in office and they've been there a while, why do you keep putting them there? Choking us out.

So some of this falls back on up. And as far as Spanish and the people that don't want to do what they want to do, this is, let's do our job. And the people that are trying to get to Washington and represent and get out there and complain about something, show your face. This is what I want to tell Trump. We try to fix his airplane.

We talk to his family, uh, in the hand in the tool. Do you know how much money? Because they went through the back door with the drone. They own. They have some money that they're gaining with these drones. Okay. With the war going on, they're making big money. How about three million dollars? On investments in the drawing. So while he's doing all this going and doing all this about an election, our country is being drained.

Tell them to give social security a 5.99. And that claim that they should have never accepted. And I'm sorry, Supreme Court. I don't know what they're doing. And I'm not too sorry that they have to wear a protective vest because someone is getting a little sick of it. Do your job. You're not there to be on a particular party or on Trump's trope terrain. Now, let's everybody got something in this.

stop pointing the finger at the wrong person and get out there and meet go to Madison and do your parade have a great day thank you go to Madison and do your parade um okay um let me see let me see um check your phone uh

Okay, so I'm going to get ready. I got guests coming into the studio told you the young people from the hustle and grow show Let me hit a couple things before I bring them in and I'm bring them in after the break The caller mentioned the Trump administration and spending right so let me let me let me be clear

as many people had an opportunity to listen to the Department of Defense spending on the Iran war. The number, the number 37 billion dollars has been spent.

on the Iran Iran, which ever is the appropriate way to say it, war so far. 30, I'm sorry, what? We've decimated them there. There they have no more will to fight. They they exactly, you know, I thought. And this is this is the maddening part as the secretary of defense, the the.

unqualified Pete Hexeth sat in front of members of Congress, the Senate Appropriations Committee. They were asking for an additional $67 billion to fight this war. So we have spent $36.5 billion on a war

that somebody called us, Israel, and said, hey, y'all need to get in on this. And Trump, you know, want to throw his hefty weight around and says, okay, to date, 18 US service members are dead. While initially they were only talking about 100 or so were injured, we know that the number is closer to about 500 that have been injured in this this whole situation. We're not going to talk about

what it has done in terms of gas prices and our economy. But we can't get health care for American citizens. We don't have troops on the ground. We don't have boots on the ground, do we? In some of the areas where they are either doing coordinated attacks, we do have some folks that they've been able to target.

And I was trying to remember the young 19 year old young woman who was just killed You know because they they break down how a few of them have been killed But you know, we hadn't been getting the full information until the New York Times kept stressing and pressing them about what was going on But you're right

If we have decimated and Trump does the laundry list, they don't have this capability. No, you know, military bases, no planes, no drones, no this, no underwater capabilities. So why you need nearly double what you've already spent on a country that supposedly you have decimated everything about their military capabilities. Sixty seven billion dollars.

is what these people are asking for. Wow. 67 billion. But you cutting snap benefits, full share. We don't have health care. You we couldn't get the subsidies worked out for our people. And I'm just looking at Republicans in particular, how you come back to the district and look people in their face and say, we got

a hundred billion dollars to spend on a war with Iran. We got a billion dollars to spend on retrofitting a plane while we have a brand new Air Force One being built currently that will be available next year. Like for the party that's always talking about their fiscal conservatism, they're tricking money left and right under this man.

They have no spine or backbone and are willing to say, enough is enough. Let me go to the phone line and then I'll go to break. Hey, caller. Good morning. Hey, good morning, Solis. How you doing? All right, myself. I'm good. I'm good. Did you see where you suspended health care in California and Minnesota? In the last couple of days because of some fraud.

Whatever, I forgot what they said, but it's out there. All right. All right. Thank you, Solis. And I know what you are. I'm just pulling up. Thank you, Solis. Um, this was about the whole, um, what they were calling Medicaid fraud. And so.

They suspended this is the administration suspended more than a mill. I'm sorry a billion dollars in Medicaid dollars to Minnesota and California over quotes suspected fraud and so yes, this is a Trump administration. They're halting Medicaid payments. So They're holding back All this money Based on you know a few isolated situations you're gonna impact entire

you know, states without any real proof of what's going on. So I'll talk about that. But let me, let me go to break so I can bring the guest in and we'll keep the show moving. Michelle Bryant WNLV, a 60 a.m.

Oh, the hearing on Hexeth. Yeah, no, it was just brief. I was just working in. They said with all due respect, Michelle's not describing it as well as watching the hearing itself. Please watch the hearing. Yeah, no, in no way intended to try to do service to it. I was simply waiting for my guests to come in and I wanted to mention it before I got the show rolling. So no, I agree. Definitely go and watch the hearing. All right, y'all, I'll be right back.

All right, family, welcome back to the show. So I told you all that I was going to have guests in the studio this morning. And this actually is a honor and a pleasure because I have my colleagues in the building. I don't get to see them on a regular basis, but I know some of these faces.

So I'm too well. But I know these faces. And I am thrilled that we are a station that talks about empowering youth voices. I am very proud of the fact that I have a number of young people that listen to my show.

but to know that we actually have a show that is youth centered, youth focused. And then to listen to the depth of issues that they discuss on any given day in terms of their show content, it is nothing short of incredible. So I am pleased to have the host.

of the Hustling Grove show here at WNOVA, 68-106.5 FM. Join me in studio this morning. What's going on, family? We're having a good day today. How y'all doing today? Awake. Did we say awake? Yeah, I just want y'all to know that that was a concern if y'all was going to be able to be up early enough for the show. I'm not calling any names. We do it every sat, well no, last Saturday of every month, so, you know. What did you say?

It's Wednesday, yeah. Make sure to set that alarm. I'd argue it's harder to get up on a Saturday than Wednesday. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you are. We're here and able to join us this morning. So please take a second, introduce yourself. I'll start over here with Ian. Let folks know who they're listening to. Well, it's the, I've been described as a guy with a golden voice. My name is Ian Phillips. Join Hustling Gro Show, I think was it last year?

I think the year before. The year before? Have I really been doing this for two years? Yeah. Man, that doesn't feel like it. But yeah, I've been blessed with this opportunity. I've been so glad to continue to do this, and I hope that you'll hear more of me soon. All right. It's Naomi. I've been part of this for, I think, eight years now. We're coming up on our 100th show anniversary. Yeah, 100th show anniversary. So I'm really excited about that.

So you all school up in the building, okay? My name is Antonio. I've been on the show for, I think like four, pushing five years now. Started my freshman year. It's called up. We were at the Black American Holocaust Museum. They interviewed me. And then I got in contact with them. Mr. Kelly told me me and my sister would be a great fit. So I'm in history.

ever since because that's one of the things I was going to ask so for folks that are regular listeners you know sometimes we don't think about how these young people got behind the mic it was funny hearing Ian say that he had been told that he has a golden voice does have a great radio voice reminded me of when I was 16

I did an event for a local radio station and the station manager came through saying thing You have a voice for radio and I started laughing never in a million years imagining that I would actually be sitting behind a mic So I am interested Naomi. How do you come to be almost like at the founding of some of this? Oh my gosh, um

I think there was a time where they would have something on the radio where they would call this number if you want to participate. And so one of my parents, I can't remember which one, they called in and got me and my sister in. And then throughout the years, we kind of alternated. I was the only one who really stuck with it for a long, long time. But for a couple years,

like my older sister and my other older sister, they came in and they were a part of it. And my younger sister was a part of it as well. So they all were a part of it for a while, but I stayed. And Ian, how did you come to the table? I came to the table because of Antonio. Okay, really? Yeah, because I came to Pathways High, I think it was my junior year of high school, transitioning off of virtual school for a while, and I wanted to get back into it.

Antonio and I became friends after a while. I think it was like now maybe half a year, maybe a little bit more time after my 10 pathways. He came up to me one day. He's like, hey, have you ever thought about being on the radio before? And I'm like, well, you don't say. Yes, I would be interested. How would I do that? Yeah. And then he said, well, I've got this radio show thing that I do. And then we're doing our show or not. It wasn't we're doing the show, but we're having a meeting.

First interaction I had with the Houston Grow Show was through virtual meeting with Mr. Kelly. And we were talking about, I think that that time we were talking about like the First Amendment and what it actually means to have like the First Amendment rights and all that, because it was in topic to the show that they were doing. And then the first show came and I was here at Brena and I just enjoyed it so much because this was my first opportunity to get

my hands on to an actual radio station and be behind a mic, and I quickly became a little bit more opinionated, but I tried to... No! No! Never! Never be! No! Right! So let me ask this question, because Naomi, you've seen this thing evolve, okay? How was it changed from when you first came in the door to what we have now? Okay, so at the beginning, I think...

We were kind of taking it easy. So like each month, we would go for like more playful, lighthearted topics or discussions. So I think moving on, it kind of got like more serious, more mature. And we were having to speak on more like important like topics. But each time we did have to talk about politics and entrepreneurship, that was always a thing. But I think

At the beginning, we were just kind of finding our voice, finding what's easier to talk about, what's harder to talk about, and then trying to choose topics according to like what we could just like talk about on air and not have like a bunch of dead air. Okay. So yeah. Anthony, I saw you nodding your head in agreement. Yeah. Before, like she said, we were finding our voice, we were younger. So we, a bit more shy timid.

as aging and growing up and understanding like this is what we do. So how old were you when you came in? Like 14. 14, okay. I remember like asking one of my teachers like, hey, how should I prepare for this? Like I've never done something like this. And then they just said, just make sure you're prepared. Like if you don't feel prepared, you might stutter or like be scared. But if you really know what you're going to talk about,

You know, it feels easier. You can just let the words flow. I'm glad you said that because one of the things is watching the evolution of confidence from those first initial appearances to now. You know, every once in a while, if I'm looking up and I am in the studio doing something or picking up something.

or even just walking on like you guys prep you can you can see I mean it sounds like a newsroom as there are discussions about the topics and you know who's gonna take on what story and who will tackle this so can you speak about whether this has impacted you personally in terms of your own confidence and if you see that transferring out into other things that you do outside of the radio station how about you Ian I would say yes this this has impacted me personally because it's

Every single month when we get on the meeting again and we hear how many people have listened I'm like we've reached that many people like I think our last show was like what? To was it 200 at least 200 views. It's like that sounds small in you know in some people's minds because some other videos have like a thousand views and that's that's a lot but that's 200 at least 200 people and not including some you know YouTube bots or whatever, but I know people saw us and

I think that makes a difference. It's also helped me with other opportunities that I've got going on with radio and sharing my voice and whatnot. And I really think this is a great experience for me. All right. So best interview ever. Come to me last. I think we both know the answer. Come to me last. Best interview. What you got to tell us?

Well, I'd say the one that I remember the most, it was my first harvest of hope, where we do like a live studio interviews, like we're in a different venue. And we're talking, we talked to the county executive mayor, and we also talked to Andrea Williams. I remember I was there. Yeah. And so Mr. Kelly, he wrote in

For me to ask Andre Williams if she was into younger guys. Oh, I wish I could have seen that. I wish I could have seen that. Oh man. So did you, you didn't know the question was there or you knew it? I knew and he asked me. Building up to this moment? Yeah, I was like, oh man, how am I going to sell this? And you just got to come on like, you didn't see the younger guys. You couldn't be like, phrase us.

like an interview question right right like off script I witnessed you do it I'd say that was most memorable that was memorable for you so did you did you talk to Mr. Kelly about that later sir can you not be writing crazy stuff into this to the script to the question yeah I was thinking like what the heck

Yeah, I mean of all people he has his own sense of humor You know, I don't know how y'all parents have been trusted y'all to his hands. I just look It's kind of scary now. We have about you best interview most memorable interview You kind of took my answer with the live interviews, but um I would say not the harvest the harvest of hope is will be like sit in like a

a line right okay so the one where we go to like the business um expo okay and then we go to like the different businesses asking them about their business i think that was my favorite um just because like we can you know get the word out there about other people's business while also you know doing our own thing so i think that's like i don't remember trying hot cocoa yeah and then we like discover new things that they're selling in milwaukee i think that's really cool that's cool

Ah, saved Ian for it! Thank you, thank you. A memorable interview, best show. What do you got? Okay. I don't remember the exact month that we did it, but I do remember it. Can't forget it. It was a show like any other. We were talking about stuff and then I had the dumb idea to say that... The audacity. Yeah, the audacity. How dare I?

I said, you know, I think that's just too much to pay for a dress. I don't remember the exact amount and thinking back on it now, it probably wasn't that outrageous, but in that moment, I'm gonna be honest, my pockets were not looking full. So I was just thinking, you know, I don't got money like that and you're probably only gonna wear that once. So I said that caused a little bit of a debate. Next thing I know, I don't even know this at first, but

Look out the window, you know, just peering out the window. I see a car pull up. I'm like, I don't think anything of it I hear some stuff in the office. I'm like, oh, whatever. Someone's come in and talk to Mr. Kelly and the door opens and when tonight Michelle Bryant comes in I Have a zero clue who she is at this point. I don't know who she is I didn't even know she was a host on this station didn't know that so she comes up to me. She's like

I don't remember exactly what you said, what you're like. You're so cheap. You ain't never gonna find a wife. You ain't never gonna find a woman. I'm like, who is this? Oh, it was a hard one up in here. Yeah.

And I didn't know who she was. And let me be clear. Ian has some very Michelle-esque moments about him in his demeanor. And so, yeah, we had a clash of the Titans up in his face. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And I was like, I was like, I was getting up. I was listening. I was talking like my mom for a second. I'll be honest with you. I was talking like.

I put my hand. I did so disrespectful. I put my hand in her face. I'm like, I don't hear it. I don't hear it. Get away from me. That energy. Get away from the man. No, it's just the fact that you would think they would let someone in here. I didn't know who it was. It was funny to me, though. Because he was very respectful, but he had standing his ground. Like, you're trying to keep it respectful. I tried. I was just like, yeah. I mean, we was going to the hand with him. Hold on. Hold on.

But what was the, so after everything is done, you know, later we talk, you know, we end up having a conversation. Take away from that, from that? My takeaway from it was that, well, obviously, I can't judge a book by its cover, that's obvious, but that there are other people out there that have things that I don't know, they have more experience than I do, and they have a different perspective.

I had to learn you need to spend more money on your girlfriend. Okay. Okay. We'll get to that point. Okay. You're not even on camera. Okay. You say you say that. I'm sorry. Seriously, I had to learn that other people have opinions and they have perspectives that I need to take into consideration. And I need to I need to not just be so stagnant on my position and be open to hearing other people, even if, you know, they're flat out wrong.

I think the other thing you know that it comes through and and it happens to me Often it happens this morning, you know, how do you deal particularly when you're on the air in the moment as somebody comes for you, you know How do you balance what your response should be and temper kind of you know, because that speaks to your ability to pivot professionalism How do I respond in the heat of a moment because doing this work?

And we don't screen our calls. So anybody could call. And I think that that's one of the things that I've been extremely impressed by you guys about is the level of maturity that you show as you do this. But listening to some of the debate and the discussions on the topics, what was the most difficult topic you think to talk about or that you may have gotten the most disagreement amongst you all as a group? I think there are

multiple counts where we're like talking about like politics or something controversial and someone will call in and I guess say something super like one sided, I guess like And it'll be against like what we're saying. So I mean understandable you have your own opinion, but I guess you can agree to disagree to say the least I just think when they call in and

give like a very one-sided opinion. It's kind of hard to counter that unless you just say, I disagree. I think this, but then it doesn't get anywhere because you're not like learning from one another. So I don't know. So why, you know, they're, like I said, there are tons of stations that don't create this kind of opportunity. We had Milwaukee County in the other day and they brought members of their youth council. I had no idea they had a youth council. Talking to these young people though blew me away.

the decisions that they were making, the issues that they cared about. Why is it so important to make sure that there's a platform and a place?

for young people to be able to not only discuss the issues, but have people here. Like you said, you got 200 people tuning in on this particular, you know, and I tell people, if you go back and look at it again later, you'll see that number has increased from the last time you looked at it because folks have the ability to go back and listen later. So why is it important and do you feel like it's enough opportunities? Are we listening as an adult community to some of the things that you all are raising?

What are you thinking Tony? I'll start here I'd say it's important for children Well, not even just children like anyone of any age to be able to have a platform Talk about how they feel about the world they're living in because we all share this earth and we have all our own opinions on what's going on around us, especially in like our smaller communities and To have that platform because we were just talking about

We have like we had 200 viewers and that means something that means that people were We're tuning in listening and comprehending we have commenters like my mom's always commenting like saying like good show all these things that type of reception is like oh Has it changed the relationship with your parents? Yeah, for sure in what way? They they want me to take it seriously

They want me to be on point make sure like I'm speaking professionally taking my time when I'm talking speaking up Like those types of things that translate also outside of the radio and You're able to put this on your resume. I have it on my resume. Oh, yeah Yeah, so like that's a thing. Let me be clear and I'm gonna come to you because I'm interested

but my son used to do a show called team forum and So every weekend on Saturday Him and his co-anchors actually were on television live every morning channeled Saturday morning chance. Well, he did that eighth ninth grade Then he went to go work for the books for three years. But when he graduated from college team forum was on his resume and his first job out of college was ESPN

And he was a halftime commentator for HBCU games, football games. They went back to that team form experience and understanding that for two years, this kid was on TV every weekend. And so this is a major asset when you start talking about professional development and people understanding your capabilities. Ian, how about you real quick? How's it?

Been you know with the parents or with my parents. I gotta say like they're During the first few months my mom was she was happy for me because she knew that I wanted to Speak on television. She also knew that I wanted to be in front of a camera have a microphone in front of my face You loved it, but she also wanted me to you know, take it seriously There were some moments in the beginning where it was like

you really gotta have your facts straight, okay? Like you on the radio, keep it together. There was another conversation, though I don't see it much, I did have a conversation with my dad, and like my dad is supportive that I do this too. It was one event, one show that we did, where I'll admit I wasn't as prepared as I could have been. And my dad called me after the show, and he just told me straight up, son, I was bad.

That was bad. You did not have your facts straight at all. Like, you're on the radio. You got to keep it up. And at the time, it was a little harsh to hear, but I understood what you were saying. And I took that. And I was like, I'll never go another show without at least having sources up to make sure I can confirm what I'm saying, or if it's a topic about opinion, you know? And even when we had topics about opinion inside the station, I don't think we've really had much of a...

a clash of button heads. I think the most clash we ever got when it was just us here.

probably just opinions on either like movies or yeah we had debate nightmare before Christmas okay listen listen listen listen we're not gonna bring that up cuz I they they had the position that it was a Halloween what was it did you say it was Halloween or Christmas movie I thought it was I thought it was a Christmas movie because the whole thing is the whole purpose of the movie

it's the nightmare before Christmas, not the nightmare before. They're in Halloween town, but he dresses up like Santa Claus, so it's a Christmas movie, no? It feels more like a movie. Same thing with Home Alone, like Home Alone is a Christmas movie. So this is what's happening. Oh, the air, is this the debate? This is probably like the most, or like with political topics. Like, I know I've had some moments where I've said on the show, this does not happen often, and I don't want anyone to take me out of context with this. There have been very few moments where I've said,

I can sort of see where Trump is going with this. Very few. There are very few moments. And how did that go? They didn't necessarily be like, oh, you're a Trumpy. Oh, you want to, you're a maggot. You wear a maggot hat in your closet, don't you? I think we just got used to it. Yeah, they got used to it after a while. Because I've never, like, especially with, like, I remember we were talking about the immigration system, and I was like, I agree that there shouldn't be, you know,

Violence immigrants, but like you can't just go around arresting random people. You can't abuse your stuff as an ice officer I did not I don't agree with what ice is doing at all But like I can see why their job is to get the the violent ones out. Sure. That's fine, but I think within within within the day I Do a very good job at making other people uncomfortable

every once in a while can make folks uncomfortable. It is an art. You know, I think as long as you are always fair, because discomfort does not mean I'm not being fair, you know, and you are respectful in the way that you push back and get at people, you know, it makes for good radio.

So two things as we get ready to rap for the day Where do you see yourself going from here? Is anybody seriously looking at a career in communication in the media? Being either behind the mic in front of a television camera Naomi since you've been doing this along this As of now, I just think I'm using this opportunity to build myself up like as a as a person. Yeah, so

this helps me kind of like step out of my comfort zone um because you were so shy oh my god you and your sister um but she's a little bit more I think talkative but y'all were shy when I first met y'all and that's like the crazy thing about this is that I can see a huge difference so I think that just continuing this would just help me get more and more out of my shell help me you know

research, help me talk more, help me communicate. It's just a lot of perks that come with it. Okay, Antonia, future? Well, I'm preparing myself to make YouTube videos or content creation because I want to talk about even topics that aren't necessarily related to entrepreneurship and politics, talk about a few more like, niche-er things that I'm interested in.

And so I'd love to do that and find a community in that space. Also, while I'm making my comic books, like, be able to platform that. Okay. So that's something that I'm looking into. Love it. Golden Voice, what's happening? I'm going all in with this, all right. Really? All chips on black, yeah. I'm currently going to UWM for journalism. So this is going to be of major help in my...

pursuit of that, um, primetime spot on, um, ABC. I want to have, you know, like, uh, world news at David Muir. That's exactly where I want to be. That's where you're going. Exactly. Either that or GMA. GMA would be perfect for me. Uh, but I, I also do like doing radio. I find it, especially like where I am now, I wouldn't mind being at WNLV or even being at, uh, cause I also work at the Milwaukee media group where

jam in 983 or 1029 the hog are so I wouldn't mind doing what they do like I love going all around Milwaukee and all around different places meeting people talking with them and hearing their experiences but I'd also I'd like to be behind the mic and on the other side with the technical equipment learning how like the board works learning how

the microphone is set up so that I can clearly see both sides of the paradigm. Well, I tell you what, one of the things that I will certainly offer up if there is any time that you would like to come and co-host with me, more than welcome to do so. I'll keep that in mind. Since you're talking about making this a career, I'm happy to set up a standing day.

that you and I chopped it up, discussed the issues of the day, Antonio. Yeah, we all perked up. Yeah, no. Yeah, I mean, literally, I'm happy to open up one of my shows, because that's actually one of the ways I got started. When Eric Vaughn was over at 1290, he created a Friday segment.

And he invited me to come in and do that segment with him. And that's literally how I started appearing on radio on a regular basis. So I am more than happy as you branch out, do your own things. You're welcome. More than grateful. More than grateful. All right. Doug got my number. Get it from Doug and took me a text. And I'm happy to follow up. All right, family. I got to wrap the show for folks that have not had a chance to hear you all tell them where they can find you, what day and what time.

Okay. Um, she looked at me for a second. I was like, you want me to do the hustle and go hustle and go show pie by the center for teaching entrepreneurship will be the last Saturday of every month at eight a.m. Yep. And our next show will be, uh, next week, Saturday at, uh, this week, this week. I'm so sorry. I'm out of the loop. I had a long work schedule this week.

this Saturday at 8 AM, and it will be our 100th anniversary show, so please tune in for that. You already have the topics, or do you want to recap? It's a bit of all of it collected. We'll be dancing trivia, looking back at old shows, because we're bringing in some old guests, like people who've been on the show, yeah. Well, you know what? I'll listen in after someone be out of town, but I will tune in, and I'll check out the show.

Congratulations. Thank you. You want to say something? Okay. Well, look, let me extend my congratulations. This is not an easy thing to do yet alone being young when there are so many different demands on your time. So many different things you could be doing. So I am super impressed. A number of people are hitting me up saying, Oh, our future is bright. I'm so proud of them. You guys are doing a phenomenal job and you can see the growth and I love the opinions.

All of them For those of you listening only on radio Michelle look dead in my eyes right in my soul. I love it But I'm expecting amazing things

So thank you so much. Thank you for joining me. Remember, the offer is a legit offer and it stands. All right. Thank you. All right, family. That's the show for the day. I appreciate everybody that called in made it go. Let me just say it's a number of issues we got to get to tomorrow. And what's tomorrow? Where is that Thursday? I gotta go. All right. I'll talk to y'all tomorrow. Peace.

All right, family, welcome back to the show.

So I had told people before the break, if you need to know what is on your ballot for the August 11th primary, please go to my vote.wi.gov.

There is a tab that literally says what's on my ballot.

If you look from the left and come back towards the middle, it is the third tab.

What's on my ballot?

I pulled up my personal.

You put in your address.

It'll give you your sample ballot.

So the first thing you'll see is all of the Republican, because this is a partisan election, which means you are voting in parties, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Constitution, Libertarian, and the Green Party.

We actually have five parties that participate.

in our process here.

So you will see Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Congressional Representative in the Fourth District, that's Congresswoman Morris District.

the republicans have two people running pernina nath is running again jesus christ uh but you have that race and then you have uh i have the 12 assembly district that's former state representative lakisha mayer's district uh on the republican side nobody is running uh but we do have a contested race on the democratic side the milwaukee county sheriff on the republican side there's no one running for milwaukee county sheriff um milwaukee county clerk of circuit court no one running on the republicans

side.

And then for governor on the Democratic side, all of the names from Crawley to Missy Hughes to Sarah Rodriguez, all of the names are on the ballot because before people started dropping out of the race.

Good morning to everybody on YouTube and Facebook.

I see you guys up.

Thank you for hanging out and waiting on us to get that back up.

Appreciate y'all.

But all of the names are on the ballot.

Okay, so you can go in and vote for any of those people that you want to But lieutenant governor, there's only one name on the ballot on the democratic side of the ticket sarah got lusky um attorney general one name Uh, jocasta.

I mean secretary of state one name state treasurer two names uh yeeling uh young i think it's how to pronounce it and

Dylan Ray Himmelstein.

So two people contested for the state treasurer.

In terms of the congressional district, there is a woman named Amy Donahue that's running against Congresswoman Moore on a Democratic side in the 12th Assembly District contested race, the current incumbent Russell Antonio Goodwin.

And there is

a newcomer, Jordan Roman.

I got to get Jordan on the show.

I think in the entire time that Russell Goodwin has been in that seat, I don't think I've ever had him on the show.

If I'm not mistaken, I don't think so.

And he's my representative and he sucks.

I just want to be real clear.

I just, I do, I want to be.

No, I'm serious.

He sucks.

I'm so appalled that he got LaKeisha's old seat.

I don't know what to do.

Um, you know, he too busy making mixtapes and CDs and, uh, you know, selling them and, you know, him and his wife in a church and just not saying I got nothing.

His name is Russell Goodwin.

This the dude, yeah, little short man.

This the dude who didn't know how to get his nomination paper signatures, right?

Always short, always missing, came from the county, brought that triflingness to the state capitol.

Zero, he don't do nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.

I'm just telling y'all right now, do not vote for

Russell Goodwin.

You

go from a stellar a stellar legislator and I'm not saying this because this is my friend I'm saying this because this girl works when she was in the legislature and and you knew she was in the building

Russell Goodwin don't do jack and you know now we get these little fake little newsletters and you're talking about what they're not fighting for.

They got some of the social media ads.

Nothing.

I will be voting for Jordan Roman.

You're being a little reserved here in how you really

feel.

I'm just saying because it just it just burns my grit.

It really does.

This dude, I mean like this is the epitome of people getting in office who just looking for a job.

and don't really serve in a way that's effective, that you know they're in the building.

And to become behind somebody like LaKeisha, it's just a dagger to the chest.

And then you wonder why certain people won't come on your show.

Come on.

You know what?

Real G's to come on.

Prove me wrong.

Run down the laundry list.

But see, if you was a regular or you reached out, I went out to talk about you.

But I'm sorry.

I have not like just laid nobody out for real.

But I'm on the record.

Sorry.

Sorry.

S-O-R-R-E-E-E.

Oh, that's how you spell sorry.

I can tell you

this.

Jordan Roman.

at the Blue Spaces weekend every day.

At least he was getting some FaceTime on stage.

Whoever he's running against, I can't tell you because I didn't see

him.

It's this man I'm talking about right now.

The man who didn't know how to get enough signatures to get on the ballot multiple times.

How do you

not know how to get enough

signatures?

And didn't even need a whole bunch.

It was some ridiculous number that they needed as county supervisor to get their name on the ballot.

And because that's just lazy.

It's just lazy.

But again, he's too busy making mixed tapes and CDs at

Hawker.

I

don't know what he did.

I don't know what he did.

I know

Russell.

What do you do?

Gospel music?

Yeah.

He's he's he's he's actually an excellent keyboard player.

That's what he

should do for a career.

That's what he should do.

That's what he should do for career.

I know him.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So did you see him?

No, you don't know exactly who he is.

Lil Ice Kid, short dude, curly

hair.

Wow.

Looks like a, looks like a, a,

a...

You know what's holding back?

So he got a church, huh?

Yeah, he got a church.

It's fake.

Oh, my

God.

I am

pulling out of this.

Oh, my God.

I'm sorry.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, I am so glad that this dude is my elected official.

I don't call the office for nothing.

Somebody said God bless

you, Michelle.

Oh, look who commented.

Jordan Roman.

I'm

ready to step up.

I'm ready to work.

I'm ready to work.

I'm ready to work.

I'm ready to work.

I'm ready to work.

I'm ready to work.

I'm ready to work.

He was out there

both days all day

How you know you are in the district of the chick with the talk radio show It would

be flowers just showing up on your doorstep

you

cheap little little literature.

I would have been took around for a state.

No, no, no, no.

Let me talk.

Let me take you out.

Just do some work.

Just just do some for the

district.

There's some there's some recording that

I had a whole moment.

Let me let me come back.

Let me come back.

But I have not done that to anybody.

Lisa has a question for you

on what she said.

Where's Lisa?

The bottom there.

Who is Bridget?

Man of Cheney State Assembly.

You must, let me see, I don't know her.

But that must be an east side.

It might be a good

thing for her that you don't know her.

No, because I have not clowned at all.

But when I say, when I say that I am appalled by the level of service that we have received from Russell Goodwin, I'm appalled.

But I will say this.

What?

Be it from the Aldermans.

status or what have you.

I've noticed since COVID, people just are not as responsive and you know doing their job like they used to.

They don't care.

I keep saying this.

When more people in the community feel like they need to call me because if they call the elected official, nothing's gonna happen.

That's crazy.

That's crazy.

And I'm not saying these offices are not getting calls.

Because an elected

official is

more apt to call you back than they will their constituent.

Yes or no, because I got some elected officials don't call me back.

They don't.

It's cool.

But they don't.

But I just.

OK.

But something that

also comes down to knowing who you should.

You don't necessarily have to call your elected official by the pothole.

Yeah, all the department

you can call the department works, but you know for most people and let me just say this let me just say this because I'm lax But I'm gonna encourage my all new woman.

I think that she's all the women for that area Larissa Taylor.

Yeah, if y'all have not rode Everett's Street on the side of Vincent High School.

Oh

Those potholes are so deep

You will tear your car out the frame over there.

And I have not had a chance to call.

I need to put that on my to do list today.

What we saw right out in front of this radio station, the city app, when we put that in within an hour, hour and a half, they were out there filling that pot

hole.

And that's what they people tell you.

They, somebody got a call and let them know.

But I'm gonna also say to all the persons what Marvin Pratt used to do back in the day, riding the district, checking the conditions of his, his streets and what was going on.

I don't know how nobody has gone to Vincent High School and not driven ever.

It's EVERTS.

I think it's the way it's spelled.

That is the raggedy, the potholes are

Raising they and I'm talking about it's like chunks is missing out of the street And you come through there at night, man, you you'll kill yourself So yeah, all the women Taylor because I know she listened to the show so but I'm a call.

I'm a call.

I'm gonna do my part I'm a call and and and level cuz raise some concerns.

Let me go to the phone line.

Hey caller.

What's happening?

Hello

Hey Kathy, you know

Let me get it together here.

No one's talking about the referendum.

And the referendum is a black people.

So some of those actions and you see us coming up.

But it's not on until November.

So that's probably why you're not hearing as much about it right now, even though we should be talking about it.

But it doesn't come up until November.

Oh, okay.

And the main one is that there are other people on the ballot, although they don't have an opponent, you know, the sheriff is on the ballot,

a bunch

of people on the ballot.

Yep.

Nope.

I was going through that list until I got stuck on Russell Goodwin.

So yes, ma'am, there are definitely other folks on the ballot.

Most of these people are uncontested.

Okay.

And the other question, the thing I have for people, if even yourself or your kids are home from school, 18 years old, they're still looking for people to train the next week or so for the voting polls.

Okay, and they do pay you, and some people adopt polls and they donate to the organization, but they do pay you $220 for that day.

So they're still looking for people for the polls and they have like a two-hour class right down here downtown.

So please, we need more people to work the polls and then you can work the polls also.

August, what, was that the 11th?

Yes, ma'am, August 11th.

And then November 4th.

So encourage some of your kids, or if you get to vacation time or whatever, take a day and help work to pose.

An 18-year-old can work to pose.

So please take time out to do that.

All right.

Thank you, Kathy.

Appreciate it.

To the question, so Elise raised about, and Kali, here I come.

Bridget, it looks like I'm not sure if this is man.

I apologize for butchering the last name.

She is running in the 19th assembly district and I need to look and see who is currently sitting in that seat who is in the 19th assembly district and while I'm speaking of that let me just say I got something this morning.

There is going to be a candidate's meet and greet.

The Greater Milwaukee Urban League is holding this down at G's Clippers 2200 North MLK Drive tomorrow.

5 30 to 7 p.m.

You are invited to their upcoming nonpartisan reception to introduce voters to Wisconsin State Assembly candidates in advance of the primary election.

So this is the Greater Milwaukee Urban League Guild and the Greater Milwaukee Urban League Young Professionals.

So this is happening tomorrow on July 23rd.

I don't know if he'll be there, but I'm assuming Jordan Roman for the 12th assembly district may be in the building.

Let me go to the phone line.

Hey, caller.

What's happening?

Hello.

Hello.

Yes.

Hello.

Hey, how are you?

I'm doing good.

How are you?

I'm good.

I'm good.

I miss you guys so very much.

I hadn't been calling me because I have been going through a lot.

I just shut down, but I'm happy to hear your voice.

And I'm glad you're doing well.

And I'm glad you're back.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And I did try to call you while I was gone.

It went to voicemail because I saw you had called me while I was out of town.

So I didn't know you at

the time because I wasn't listening.

No, no, no, that's OK.

I just want you to know I tried to call you back.

Oh, well, thank you so very much.

And hello, Debo.

Hello, Jemaine.

And I can't who you with if you're in there.

I love you guys, so please try to reach out to me again if you can this week, Michelle.

Okay, I will, Angela.

Good to hear your voice.

All right, so I have a blessed day and be safe.

Yes ma'am, yes ma'am.

Somebody is texting, are you on today?

Yes, I am.

We started YouTube late, but check us out.

Wait, okay, I'll fix that.

Somebody's trying to reach out.

I need to take a break.

So let me do that.

Call us, you'll be first up before we get our guests in the studio.

Michelle Bryant, y'all, WNOVA 68106.5 FM.

And this woman, Solis Bridget, she is running against the incumbent, Ryan Clancy, who is currently the state representative for that area.

So you can actually Google her name.

There's a ton of information about her out there.

And you can Google Ryan Clancy's name, C-L-A-N-C-Y.

to kind of get an idea about what both of these candidates are about.

Be right back, y'all.

All right.

I said I had some callers or got at least one left on the phone line.

Let's go to the phone line.

Hey, caller, what's happening?

Hello, good

morning.

Good morning.

Yes, I have a question.

Can you hear

me?

I sure can.

I have a question.

You talk about the people of color that was done and didn't, right?

I mean, they put on his ad, right?

I talked about the people of color and Joe Brin is that yes.

Yes.

Yes.

No.

Who said that the Chinese Asian lady is a person of color?

She is.

She is?

Anybody that's not white is a person of color.

You didn't know that?

Well, they don't claim it that way.

I can't help what they do.

I'm telling you what it is.

We just we claim

everybody.

No, we're not claiming anybody because you say person of color.

That don't mean you black, but it doesn't mean that it's not true.

I'm not claiming you.

It's just it is what it is.

It's the the jack the way this country is set up.

Anybody that's not who set it up that way.

Don't be a person of color.

You already know who set it up that way.

Yo, yo, your Republican friends.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

We know who set up the system.

We didn't create racial

classifications, but you grabbed onto these people and put them in our.

Not us, not us, not us.

They were so they came on their own.

They were forcing some other

people

just look.

It's a bunch of Hispanic people that in their mind believe a white.

That's what they had to do.

That's why now they don't fully

ship and identify with us, ma'am.

We identify with

them.

Hey, I

didn't set up the system, bro.

I didn't set up the system.

I didn't set up the system.

OK,

I understand that, Michelle, that you did not set up the system.

I didn't set up the system.

But some kind of way we've adopted and made it our culture, not even our culture.

They don't want our culture, man.

They'll copy it now.

They'll copy it, they'll do what we do, and they'll do what we do, and they see that it works, and they think it's kind of fine, because we're flamboyant, we're kind of loud and radical.

What has happened is we have allowed these people into our huddles, into our locker rooms, they came in, read the playbook, in some cases so paid,

and not the playbook.

In a lot of ways.

And they're running our place.

Okay, but...

because a lot of them have been subject to many of the things that have impacted us in terms of voting rights, in terms of housing discrimination, in terms of redistricting, in terms of access to quality health care, in terms of access to quality public schools.

So it's not a surprise that you will see folks showing up in our rooms because many of them have been subjected to the

same thing.

They don't have to keep renewing their voting rights.

Those people have been granted to, privileged to vote.

They have never been put in our category as having to read.

I didn't say it was the exact same each.

I said they share many of the similar issues that we face.

Well, I don't see where they do because they come into our country and they go right to the

one.

So have any of those groups been discriminated against by white folks?

No, and if they have, they've been compensated

for it.

Yes, they have, and I need you to read your history book and stop playing.

But hold on.

They've been compensated for it.

Well, I see.

But see how quick you tried to ease through that?

Because I said, if you ever been discriminated against, and you said no, but then you said, but they've been compensated.

So you knew when you said no, you would be

acid.

Listen to this.

Meach.

Yes, ma'am.

I, you know, let me, you know, I

say this, you looking for argument.

No, no, I don't

want to give you

one.

Now one more time because I know you got guests coming

in.

I know you got guests

coming in.

I got one

more question to ask you.

Yes.

Why won't you spend any time on this school board tax property tax?

Because if you got five or six, 10 houses, even if you've got one little grandma's house and by 2033, do you understand what the compound of that rate would be?

on your taxes, you won't have no houses.

You won't have no house, especially if you've got a commercial building.

It won't work for you.

You're going to have to give it up because you can't afford it.

Now, listen, even if you are a full-blooded democrat, if you've got somebody coming in and saying, they've been stopped in its own record, and they don't, we've done a lawsuit against them and the campaign that ran the junk, because now it becomes a false, they're vicious.

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for property taxes for the school board and how that's going to increase over the years.

And if you're in a rural area with no school taxes for miles and miles and miles, I forget what the diameter is that you don't have to worry about it.

But if you are, you say, but if you're not, especially in the inner cities, that's, you won't be able to afford it right now.

If you add on $1,000 per 100,000 for your house, your house goes 200,000.

The tax that is collected by the school board for Milwaukee Public School District is nine dollars and forty six cents per.

Increase that, ma'am.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

So if you own 10, then you got you got to pay it 10 times.

But if you own one home for every thousand dollars that the house is worth, nine dollars and forty six cents of it or something about that goes to.

No, thank you.

Now, Michelle, you said for every hundred thousand dollars.

I said every thousand dollars, nine dollars of it goes.

If your

house is if your house is two hundred thousand.

$1,892.00

$1,892.00 $1,892.00 $1,892.00 $1,892.00 $1,892.00

$1,892.00

$1,892.00

$1,892.00

The city is

going to hurt us.

You got

to be honest with people.

Now it's on his

face.

I'm like, it's nothing.

OK, so that's something that needs to

be, if you love your people,

I would never tell my people to go vote for a

party that's

going to take my house.

I don't know if they're

a dog

on party that much.

You almost made me swear.

And you already did.

But it's OK.

No, I didn't.

No, I

didn't.

The devil is alive.

Thank you.

These

people will not pee down your throat.

Yes, I

know they're

trying to raise.

I'm not

willing to help fund schools because I am.

And I understand that people who live in nice homes, they help to contribute towards that baseline dollar that's needed to have quality schools.

You know, it's amazing that there are folks in other communities that

They move to communities because of the quality of the schools, if they have school-aged children or because of the quality of life they want around them.

I'm not offended or upset about property taxes going towards public education.

Now, how it goes up, and they had proposed last year, like a 2.3% increase in the tax levy,

to address that $252 million deficit.

We got $46 million that we had a deficit on most recently.

We got to figure that piece out.

It's not going to go away.

But also understand that we got to make sure we get the proper amount of money from state government to be able to help finance our district.

At the end of the day, I don't see this as some grand conspiracy and folks trying to put people out their homes.

I see this as folks trying to figure out how to pay for public education and how to pay for all the things that we're required to pay for when we're being shorted by the state.

And that's what it comes down to.

And we're gonna have some issues.

But you know, this whole, you know, everybody out to get me in and it's a conspiracy.

Yeah, I don't do all of that.

Okay, what time is 759 I take a break caller.

I'm gonna get you in.

I'm gonna see if my guests have arrived And we will cover, you know that conversation we can talk about the NPS Property tax rate, you know and how that impacts people overall, but this is the cost of doing business on one hand Now how much business, you know, how much it costs us?

It's up.

It's up for debate

But it's the cost of doing business.

We live in the largest city in the state.

We got more kids in our school district than any other school district in the state.

Somebody got to pay for that.

Somebody got to pay for that.

And so all this hell raising and hollering, let's just talk about the impact on the bottom line.

But a lot of this rests with the state.

and who has been in control, and who has made these decisions that have harmed public education and made it underfunded.

We gotta have those conversations.

All right, Michelle Brown to be NLV, all this dang hollering.

NPS is broken and we need you to keep pace with the modern economy, okay?

I just want to see the comments real quick.

All right, let me let me go to break Michelle Brown WNOV a 68 year and 106.5 FM.

We will be right back All right family welcome back to the show got a caller who held through the break.

Let's get them in.

Hey caller.

What's happening?

Good morning, Michelle.

Good morning,

and thank you for taking my car.

Yes, ma'am.

I'm gonna try to be as brief as possible.

Okay,

first thing with the Alderman

Didn't a couple of years ago their jobs are not full-time jobs anymore.

Are they?

I can't tell because they make like $90,000 a year.

So I think

they are.

Yeah.

Hold on a minute.

Are you telling me our aldermen's make $90,000 a year?

If I'm not mistaken, it's $86,000.

I'll pull up that up while you're talking, but they gave themselves.

They make that kind of money.

Yes, ma'am.

Now, and I noticed

It's 18 districts, right?

Yes, I think so.

Okay.

That's one alderman.

And they're making $90,000.

Does that have their personal pay?

Hiring an assistant to work for them?

Is it a budget that they allow?

Or how does that work?

So I think

So they do have their own staff, but it seems like they also use staff from a pool in addition to that one staff that may sit in their office or feel all their calls or their assistant.

I don't know the full breadth of it.

And I pulled up the salary.

It's $84,205.

That's the base salary.

But they had been under a 16-year pay freeze too.

So they hadn't gotten raised in 16 years.

But yes,

ma'am.

So I'm willing to bet you, Michelle, all of them are not getting that kind of money.

But anyway, let's go on from this.

Since the pandemic, after the pandemic, a whole lot of things have happened.

Some of them do not have a good assistant or not even have one.

The ones that you are the one are the all of them that are doing a better job.

And now our community

Okay, I work in the community for many years.

Slape and Sound and some other organizations, we would call them to tell them about the complaints in our neighborhood.

And it was enough people at that time because the businesses were collaborating partners with these community organizations.

And they had staff that could go out and look at the house this year with a complaint.

community into the city the city would write up a thing and have the day and you had so much time to get it corrected Well now They're not getting that money.

They don't have the same collaborating partners everybody is free for dollars and Northwest Mutual can't do it all So now you don't you and these agents in these community organizations like a money united

a red cat, a sermon part, and just to name a few, because there's quite a few of them.

They're struggling trying to get people.

So they don't have the people that can walk around and do these complaints and do all this stuff.

But if you work with your alderman calling in, going down here to see him, this is the way I was brought up.

Do your diligence.

You don't go get the big dog.

and that's what Chihuahuas aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing.

And then you have a good complaint because you have a record of how you can call in and call in and nothing is being done.

Now, let's get back to the other part of what's going on.

With our MPS group, everybody knows what the situation is.

They have been doing us in Madison for decades.

their racist practice.

So you have some Democrats up there, what do they do?

And they come back and let us know what's going on, because if I vote for you, I've got your back.

But I want to see how you're voting, whether your constituents that's back here in Milwaukee.

Now the people that are in office and they've been there a while, why do you keep putting them there?

Choking us out.

So some of this falls back on up.

And as far as Spanish and the people that don't want to do what they want to do, this is, let's do our job.

And the people that are trying to get to Washington and represent and get out there and complain about something, show your face.

This is what I want to tell Trump.

We try to fix his airplane.

We talk to his family, uh, in the hand in the tail.

Do you know how much money?

Because they went through the back door with the drone.

They own, they have some money that they're gaining with these drones.

Okay.

With the war going on, they're making big money.

How about three million dollars on investments in the drone?

So while he's doing all this going and doing all this about an election, our country is being drained.

Tell them to give social security a 5.99.

And that claim that they should have never accepted.

And I'm sorry, Supreme Court.

I don't know what they're doing.

And I'm not too sorry that they have to wear a protective vest because someone is getting a little sick of it.

Do

your job.

You're not there to be on a particular party or on Trump's choke terrain.

Now, let's everybody got something in this.

stop pointing the finger at the wrong person and get out there and meet go to Madison and do your parade have a great day

thank you go to Madison and do your parade um okay um let me see let me see um check your phone uh

Okay, so I'm going to get ready.

I got guests coming into the studio told you the young people from the hustle and grow show Let me hit a couple things before I bring them in and I'm bring them in after the break The caller mentioned the Trump administration and spending right so let me let me let me be clear

as many people had an opportunity to listen to the Department of Defense spending on the Iran war.

The number, the number 37 billion dollars has been spent.

on the Iran Iran, which ever is the appropriate way to say it, war so far.

30, I'm sorry, what?

We've decimated them there.

There they have no more will to fight.

They they

exactly,

you know, I thought.

And this is this is the maddening part as the secretary of defense, the the.

unqualified Pete Hexeth sat in front of members of Congress, the Senate Appropriations Committee.

They were asking for an additional $67 billion to fight this war.

So we have spent $36.5 billion on a war

that somebody called us, Israel, and said, hey, y'all need to get in on this.

And Trump, you know, want to throw his hefty weight around and says, okay, to date, 18 US service members are dead.

While initially they were only talking about 100 or so were injured, we know that the number is closer to about 500 that have been injured in this this whole situation.

We're not going to talk about

what it has done in terms of gas prices and our economy.

But we can't get health care for American citizens.

We

don't have troops on the ground.

We don't have boots on the ground, do we?

In some of the areas where they are either doing coordinated attacks, we do have some folks that they've been able to target.

And I was trying to remember the young 19 year old young woman who was just killed, you know, because they break down how a few of them have been killed.

But, you know, we hadn't been getting the full information until the New York Times kept stressing and pressing them about what was going on.

But you're right.

If we have decimated and Trump does the laundry list, they don't have this capability.

No, you know, military bases, no planes, no drones, no this, no underwater capabilities.

So why you need nearly double what you've already spent on a country that supposedly you have decimated everything about their military capabilities.

Sixty seven billion dollars.

is what these people are asking for.

Wow.

67 billion.

But you cut and snap benefits, full share.

We don't have health care.

We couldn't get the subsidies worked out for our people.

And I'm just looking at Republicans in particular, how you come back to the district and look people in their face and say, we got

a hundred billion dollars to spend on a war with Iran.

We got a billion dollars to spend on retrofitting a plane while we have a brand new Air Force One being built currently that will be available next year.

Like for the party that's always talking about their fiscal conservatism, they're tricking money left and right under this man.

They have no spine or backbone and are willing to say, enough is enough.

Let me go to the phone line and then I'll go to break.

Hey, caller.

Good morning.

Hey,

good morning, Solis.

How you doing?

All right, myself.

I'm good.

I'm good.

Did you see where you suspended health care in California and Minnesota?

In the last couple of days because of some fraud.

Whatever, I forgot what they said, but it's out there.

All right.

All right.

Thank you,

Solis.

And I know what you are.

I'm just pulling up.

Thank you, Solis.

Um, this was about the whole, um, what they were calling Medicaid fraud.

And so they suspended, this is the administration, suspended more than a mill, I'm sorry, a billion dollars in Medicaid dollars to Minnesota and California over quote, suspected fraud.

And so yes, this is a Trump administration.

They're halting Medicaid payments.

So they're holding back all this money based on, you know, a few isolated situations.

You're going to impact entire, you know, states without any real proof of what's going on.

So I'll talk about that.

But let me let me go to break so I can bring the guests in.

And we'll keep the show moving.

Michelle Bryant, WNLV, A 60 AM.

Oh, the hearing on Hexeth.

Yeah, no, it was just brief.

I was just working in.

They said, with all due respect, Michelle's not describing it as well as watching the hearing itself.

Please watch the hearing that.

Yeah, no.

in no way intended to try to do service to it.

I was simply waiting for my guest to come in and I wanted to mention it before I got the show rolling.

So no, I agree.

Definitely go and watch the hearing.

All right, y'all, I'll be right back.

All right,

family, welcome back to the show.

So I told you all that I was going to have guests in the studio this morning.

And this actually is a honor and a pleasure because I have my colleagues in the building.

I don't get to see them on a regular basis, but I know some of these faces.

So I'm too well.

But I know these faces.

And I am thrilled that we are a station that talks about empowering youth voices.

I am very proud of the fact that I have a number of young people that listen to my show.

but to know that we actually have a show that is youth centered, youth focused.

And then to listen to the depth of issues that they discuss on any given day in terms of their show content, it is nothing short of incredible.

So I am pleased to have the host.

of the Hustling Grove show here at WNOVA, 68-106.5 FM.

Join me in studio this morning.

What's going on,

family?

We're

having a good day today.

How y'all doing

today?

Awake.

Did we say awake?

Yeah, I just want y'all to know that that was a concern if y'all was going to be able to be up early enough for the show.

I'm

not

calling

any names.

We do it every sat, well, no.

Last Saturday of every month, so, you know.

What did you say?

It's Wednesday, yeah.

Make sure to set that alarm.

I'd argue it's harder to get up on a Saturday than Wednesday.

Yeah.

Well, I'm glad you all were here and able to join us this morning.

So please take a second, introduce yourself.

I'll start over here with Ian.

Let folks know who they're listening to.

Well, it's the, I've been described as a guy with a golden voice.

My name is Ian Phillips.

Join Hustling Gro Show, I think was it last year?

I think the year before.

The year before?