Good morning. What's happening? Family. Welcome to the show. It is Michelle. Brian here. W N O V eight sixty a.m. One oh six point five F M. You are listening to say something real. Hmm. It's going to look like out on these streets. School school must be getting ready to go back in. You know, you all are all you teachers and educators in, you know, school personnel.
that have gone back into the building, you know, early before the kids get there, y'all messing up my, my leave time from the house. I just can't pull out on the street out of my driveway anymore. I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I love, I love the teachers and the educate, you know, all the people, but.
Y'all messed with my morning routine. Now I got to start leaving the house 15, 20 minutes earlier than I typically have been leaving all summer because y'all had an hour to go back to work. So I'm just saying, you know, we get inconvenienced by other people. But anyway, good morning and morning. Let me say what's happening to my family in the studio. What's going on, Clark Kent?
Hey, you sound like you went to the doctor yesterday. You good? Yeah, I'm good. Did they spray you with Lysol too? My iron was real low. Yeah, iron was low. Yeah, and a little dehydrated. So they dehydrated. So they did one drink enough water. Come on, Clark. I know. I know. Be a hard headed man. See, Clark, you got to keep your iron.
You iron. Wait, wait, wait, wait. That's not what he does. He does not need to do that. And this is why.
We want to thank the teachers for going back into the classroom. Gotta push the iron on the higher shelf. The ironing. Country show up again. So, so did he give you some or she gave you some? They just. Yeah, they gave you some. They were gonna pick it up today. So. Man.
Stay, stay on top of that. No, no big country. It's not the ironing board or the ironing. And you know, Keith be sleek. Keith be like, what'd you say? Keith be all dirty. Try to take shots. Hitch up, okay? You're, you're, um, pronounced. I can't even get the word out. The way you pronounce words. Keith be like.
Say that again. What did you say? Like, he's so dirty. No, ironing. I heard it.
It was two ends on the end. Uh, good morning, Mr. Rod out greenfield in the building. How you doing this morning? Well, you better be glad you're cute. That's all I'm going to do. Be glad you got a cute little face. You know, uh, you know, I tried to tell him, man. So no, I've been told what I did, man. I tried to tell him. Hey, didn't work, huh?
What? I watched that 72 hours, man. What is 72 hours? So brother, though, you couldn't wait until after she said hi to me? No, because you know why? No, because he did a sing and then act like Ricardo. Ricardo Hart?
Yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. Human age. You just gotta see that. When you start talking like that, that's why. Oh, you think you got it. See? Oh, no! You conjured up a memory. But you ain't about to talk about nothing. I was. Go ahead. You got the floor. See? See? No sale. Nothing. It's beautiful outside.
Now dew points is at 55 dew point What is the moisture?
And that's what, you know, is the temperature. No, it's the temperature to which air must be cool to become fully saturated with water vapor. Right. So it's the one now.
Like the dude in the morning
It's the temperature There's a gospel song we call That actually goes like like the dew in the morning. Thank you gently
Rest upon my heart. So the do in the morning is to moisture this in the air. You know what? To that, I'm just going to say, where's the set? Where is it at?
Back to you, Bob. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Because, you know, even though this is super, oh, since she was talking about church songs.
Nice!
Oh my god.
He's singing, he got on his white, like, used to be Frankie Beverly in May's outfit with some Jordies. The faces of the people in the congregation. There's people sitting like, there's people sitting on the fuse like, what the hell is going on?
I was like y'all silly man This is all video but every time I see it and you know silly Keisha sent it to me yesterday. We sent it to my brother My brother cracking up like man if y'all don't get off this brother trying to do the Lord's work
I hope that, but literally this morning when I got in the truck, I mean, when I got in the Jeep, it was all my way here. The when I, you know, because when I get right, get out onto the main.
hundred and seventy dollars be busy. And so when no cars and I was able to just um just get out there and I said boom shaka like a like a god it's good. So I just said that's my jam. That was a hit. Somebody else said I need that in my life. Oh man. Oh yeah it's just a lot. So so did we finish with you Jermaine? Was you crying over Jesus Christ?
Was it was it over your head like that? What you mean that my hair is not. That's what it means. All right. So let me take a second before I get into any of the stories today to just do this public service announcement. So, you know, we talked a little bit about the chaos that was out at State Fair.
And there have been all kinds of videos on social media, young people posting, you know, but before the drama jumped off. On this Facebook page and it is capital V. E. Capital C. E. E. Capital T. V. E. So VC TV. Capital V. E. C.
E. T. V. E. There are young men who you can clearly see their faces. These are somebody's children in this city. You can clearly look and they are young, young brothers look like they, you know, 15, 16, maybe 18, 19 years old, how old we are. And they're encouraging people to come to state fear to fight.
And on the video, they're saying stuff like if you got beef with somebody, come down here, you know, and jump them. If you see somebody with a chain on that you like, snatch it off their neck, they ain't going to do nothing. Jump them. If you see somebody wearing Cartier glasses, snatch them off their face, take them from them. They're not going to do nothing. Jump them. And it's five or six different boys that rotate out, getting in front of the little camera.
inviting people to come and fight. Now, I've seen other folks who were innocently posting on Facebook when they got to a situation and was like, y'all, this is going on right now. Look what's happening. And those people have been charged at times by the district attorney's office with inciting a riot.
We know that's how they tried to him up bomb eggs When he was simply recording what was going on and they tried to basically say he was inciting a riot and get encouraging people to come and be destructive in this case You can see these little boys faces good as day Clear
No, and they told them and I didn't know what it was I had to ask Clark because they said make sure you make what did they say Clark bring a shiesty So yeah, that's that man. Yeah, and so they just said shiesty and then I thought about later like push ice I heard you say that before but you know bring a mask so you can't be seen but they're so dumb That as they are encouraging you to come fight. They have nothing hiding their faces So I encourage the Milwaukee Police Department
If you are trying to get to the bottom of who helped to incite, maybe, you know, set some of this off, go to the Facebook page. V.E. C.E.E. TV. E.E. And see if we can put together, you know, some IDs on who these young people are, who thought that it would be okay to encourage people to come down and, you know, just, just create havoc as they fare.
Like you'll have nothing else to do with your sad pathetic little life. Nobody is showing you anything in this community that you understand life is way better when you're doing the right things and the opportunities you can create for yourself that don't involve you going to jail, don't involve nobody whooping you, nobody coming for you. I mean, just it's so incredibly sad that these young
People don't understand all that's waiting for them if you just pick a different track All that's waiting for you You ain't gonna take nobody Cartier glasses you can buy your own If you willing to do the work You don't have to take nobody's chain. I'm like people still still change You don't have to do none of that though if you willing to go to work if you willing to put in the time
if you're willing to develop a skill to get a hustle. And you ain't got to worry about nobody jumping you and trying to cut you down. You want to say something, Jack? Yeah, and it's just sad because when you watch the video, you see them on there laughing and enjoying doing stupid stuff. Like they laugh and like, you know, hey, the top five things to do when you come to stay fair.
You know fight snatch a change Snatch the glasses and they ain't gonna do nothing snatching and run Snatching and run and when you look at the video you see a lot of People running swinging off on people they hitting people they running, you know over to the next fight and swinging hitting each other um It's really sad show because I'm sure
because they've been trying to curve this for years because they do this every year at StateFit and I'm sure next year you you will have the officials doing something much different than how they've been operating because I mean but you know like you said though they've been doing this for a number of years and people keep trying to figure out how to respond to it without being
you know, intrusive on everybody else's good time without making it feel like a police state, you know, making it feel uncomfortable for people to be there. But to the extent that we need to handle business at home and in the community and in house and talking to, you know, our folks about, you know, when you step out of these streets, you know, out this house and into these streets, how you behave and you acting. But I'm just saying, like, they're so.
sad and pathetic that you think going on social media and posting this is, you know, cool. It makes you, you know, bout it, whatever it is, whatever the slang, the vernacular you want to use to describe it, it really is pathetic.
And the police really do have the ability just to scroll through and figure out who all y'all are. Then go back and look at the videos of folks fighting and swinging on folks and be able to promptly come in and rest your behind. And people in the neighborhood will be doing this. They will be doing this. So, so, so dumb. It just, it's ridiculous. So I just wanted to
Call attention to that. I encourage, I encourage people to go look at the website. I mean, I'm sorry, go look at the Facebook page. See if you recognize any of these young brothers, call the folks, let them know. You know, this is your boy out here, right? You know this, you know, you know, just a boy that live around the corner. Somebody know these kids or young men, they know them. And I encourage you, I encourage you to get at them.
And and and turn a behind in quite frankly somebody just said The thing that really troubled me watching that video was the images of young girls running to engage in the mayhem girls been been buck wild Yeah, they don't get no pass no more These little girls is just as wild as these boys. In fact, they can be even more ruthless You know going back to when they was jumping back up on girls cars back in the day with baseball bats breaking out windows just wild
But see this, when everybody talk about, oh, it's the video games, oh, it's the music, put Real Housewives of Atlanta in there too, put all that garbage in there too, that, you know, as my friend says, it's mindless entertainment, but somebody watching it and walking away with a very different image and ideology about how we behave as young black women in communities.
The site is V E capital V E capital C EE capital T capital V EE And that's on Facebook and I'm tell you right now. Don't get mad cuz you put it on there Yeah, you put it out there for the world to see so I see it so I share it with me I see it and I'm telling other people to go look at it Yeah, Jay. I mean, yes, Jay. No, um, well, you know
The sad part about this whole thing, Shale, I hate to say it, but I'm going to say it. Some of them kids that was out there doing what they do, see their parents acting that way. Oh, for sure. See their parents doing that. For sure. And when you see mama and daddy acting the fool, and mama and daddy give you the okay to clown sometimes, like, because I see it.
You see people like, man, beat her A or whoop his A. And it's the mom and daddy standing out there validating it. So once you get validation from your parents, they going to take that validation from home to the streets. Yeah. Until somebody stop.
Either the police or yeah, somebody gonna put you down or they gonna block you up But until somebody stop them, you know, you run into these things and I heard Keith and I'm an advocate I say it myself now, you know, we have to think about how we talk about Situations in our community so that folks don't take our sentiments and then turn them against us to over police You know to bring in your National Guard to do all of that stuff and I'm just talking about managing behavior
This is not, I need a regime to come in. I'm talking about managing behavior. I'm talking about being responsible. And like I said, for me, just the saddest, saddest part is that these young people don't understand how amazing life really is. All the cool, fly things there are to do. And even if you come from a low income, a poverty situation, again, if you're willing to put in that work,
Man you get to be exposed to so much stuff the things that you can do the places that you can travel You know the other opportunities that you get the access just by Doing the work being in the right place putting yourself out there The things that my son got to do that were free
You know and the things that I paid money for which is the equivalent of what these cast is spinning on these jeans that they can't seem to figure out how to pull up over there behind and You know this this all this other crap they're paying for my son going to Italy while you worried about what you're putting on your feet Yeah, you know you're getting opportunities You know just just crazy just absolutely crazy so
I think that's the saddest part for me is that they just have no idea what life really can be when you decide, man, I'm going to go at this the right way. And I'm going to do it because you can't get around to work. And see, people want stuff easy. They want it quick. But I'm like, it's nothing easy about being a drug dealer.
It's nothing easy about being out here on this nonsense in these streets always looking over your shoulder, you know, what are you looking for? Somebody take you out in the streets. You're looking for the police to finally catch up with you. Whatever it is, it's just nothing easy about it. And as adults, we got to set examples and we got to be willing to have our kids not like us. Yeah. Because, you know, how many parents
have heard or used to say to their kids, I'm not here to be your friend. I'm not your friend. And and and you know, this this for you down the road, this know the day. And so you understand how to handle it tomorrow. I just can't I can't say that stuff enough because it's so frustrating because we so much better. You know, we got so much going on and they go miss it all. I looked at that story about
the 28 year old who now they've got in custody for shooting and killing the two young brothers in the music studio. This man is only 28 years old. But it's a wrap. It's over. And every day you sit in that cell, you're going to reflect back on, was that the only way to resolve whatever was going on? Was it worth it? Clark just said, was it worth it?
And then everybody want to go to jail five Jesus or you know Islam, you know, and then now you you know, you were educated brother behind bars. I ain't trying to hear it. That's all I'm saying. You know, you don't want to get them to go to work every day, but somebody go let you go to work and make 18 cents an hour, you know, so you could buy some Roman noodles, Roman noodles. Like, come on, fam, just think about it.
They got whole prison industries that they are counting on the young black men and in some cases women but primarily black men like we can farm y'all labor out. That's why they won't remove out of these state constitutions that language that slavery is legal in the event of incarceration in terms of you being convicted of a felony.
That's why they won't remove it. Lena Taylor worked her butt off trying to get that removed from the state constitution. There should be no situation in which slavery is permissible in this country. And they like, they like, no, no. If you go to jail, I mean, you go to prison and we got to pay for your room and board and pay for people to watch over you and feed you. Oh, you belong to us. Yeah, we can use you as slave labor.
And so cats literally in jail somewhere Excited because they got a little bit of bump and pay and they're making a dollar 20 an hour But you couldn't work for 725 though, but the whole you couldn't work for 10 go ahead. The whole crazy thing about it is They they look at going to jail as a
Prize. Yeah, you know, it's not the prize. I want you know, that's some short-term stings though, but that ain't them long-term stings. I get it, but I mean, but what I'm saying is like you see people in the barbershop They're in the barbershop talking about a man. I just did a eight-year beard. I mean you did eight years the way was you and I was in Dodge I was in Green Bay, man I did ten years man. I was in Texas and oh man, such a oh man Listen, but that's what you're talking about because you ain't got nothing else to talk about
But it's intriguing to them. Yeah, and I'm gonna say I hear it But you ain't gonna know to talk about I get it You can't just say I was here. I was there. That's all you got to talk about is jail And so, you know misery love company and everybody will end up trying to glamorize it But trust me when you was doing them a it was none glamorous about it. Are you sick with you when you was doing that that that being it was nothing You know, you was trying to figure out how to get out of it. Yeah
So I just like miss stop stop making these folks rich You got people raising their families off your stupidity while you incarcerate it Make it 70 or 80 thousand dollars a year we're over time a hundred thousand dollars a year and predominantly rural white communities off black bodies Modern day slavery money. That's not coming to the city of Milwaukee to improve our schools our roads
Everything else, you know that we need help with because that money is going to rural communities that's counting you in their census population numbers and then instead of money coming to Milwaukee it goes to those communities and you're not even walking the streets you sitting in a damn cage all day Like we got to stop playing ourselves We got to stop playing ourselves and people don't want to talk about the economics of prison
All of this stuff that Trump them is doing and I gotta take a break but all the stuff that Trump them is doing with this immigration and ice arrest is private prison owners. That's making a grip right now. Yep. Say it again. These people get paid crazy money. The studies about prison beds and education that me and Christopher was talking about yesterday. All of that's real. The stuff that we can correct.
If we just manage the stuff that we can control, we can stop a whole bunch of nonsense. Yeah. Yeah, you know, and so the.
Man, it's so frustrating. It's so frustrating. Let me take a break. Good morning to my folks on Facebook and YouTube. I see y'all tapping in this morning. Got a lot of comments weighing in. Definitely, I see y'all and I'll try to go back through and read some of these comments. But yeah, we got to understand, man, the sky is the limit. It can be.
And you know, I didn't come from no wealthy family My folks was my mama worked her butt off. My daddy worked his behind off. We was all right My granddaddy, you know with a third grade education work for United States Steel in the coal mines bought some land use that land to flip and buy other property and it was able to kind of help set people up But we don't have no money money money But we didn't have to do none of this to eat
Because in addition to whatever the financial situation is, your mind got to be right. You got to have your head in the game in a way that says we get through this. And we got young people not getting the right messages. But that other stuff that we got going on in our house to Jermaine's point.
It's some stuff we can do way better than this. And it don't require a whole bunch of money. It don't require youth programs. It don't require, because I thought about that. I ain't gonna know youth programs when I was, I went to band because I was in the band. So I guess, you know, de facto that's a youth program, but I went to the band and, you know, I had stuff that my family had organized for me to do. I had stuff I had to do around the house.
But it was the mindset of our family that we way better than all of this all this grimy That was instilled in us. Hmm. We way too good for grimy We ain't robbing nobody we ain't stealing we ain't doing no dirt to nobody, you know, we vacation
Because keep saying, no, we summer, we do that. That was the mindset that was instilled in us from day one. You got people out here instilling in their kids a level of hopelessness that's just sad. And you couldn't figure out how to turn your life around and you passing that mess right down the food chain and the cycle keeps on going. Yes. I know you gotta go, but you have to look at this too.
You have parents that have kids and You in your car and you playing certain music like spin that and You not playing the clean version of spin that you playing The raunchy version of spin that and it's asking. Where's my boosters at? That's robbing these stores. Where's my NIGG's a that's spending the money and they pretty much promote still in Selendote
Spending money. Yeah, I mean like one of my favorite songs right now is ti's let them know But it's lyrics and let them know. I ain't got no business singing in front of nobody. Exactly. You ain't got nobody Excuse me even when I'm in the house And I'm playing it in the house and when you get to certain part of the lyrics, I'll be like, ooh, that's just so ratchet You know like This is the type of stuff that is a saturating our kids though
because they in the car listening to this stuff and they spend that spending and they singing it and they don't realize that by you singing it you are activating that so over time it's going to become who you are. Yeah I just you know when we when we pulled up and I'm going to break for real but when we pulled up and me and Clark both coming in at the same time your young boys on some scooters right outside the station.
And so one brother, he was waiting for the other little dude to get on the back of the scooter, giving him a ride. Pants completely up under his butt cheeks, his blue haze or whatever he had on just completely up to my behind, just all out. And I'm just like, I just can't understand how y'all don't know. And the people around y'all don't know none of that is helping you do nothing.
It helps you in no way. It's not fashionable. If this is what we have gotten to the point that your draw showing is fashion, we, we have so much trouble. We have so much trouble that you'll claim the fame for your life as you had on some designer panties. It's so sad.
And I remember it being a Walmart and I said to this young boy this young brother I said, bro Can you can you put your jeans up? I'm looking at your panties and he was like I got panties on they look like panties to me Because they're not supposed to be seen to the public girls wear panties. I said Well, why you out here showing your booty like that. Oh, it was real uncomfortable, but it was grow me and laughing
You crazy. I was like, I'm just saying, hey, bro, I ain't trying to see your panties. So let me go to break for real. You know, this was not the show. This wasn't the show. But, uh, man, come on, man, I'll be right back. When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Viola.
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All right, family, welcome back to the show. So very quickly, as we were sitting here discussing state fair, we look up on the televisions here in the studio and see that this has become national news. The candidates for governor, Tom Tiffany and David Crawley being interviewed, respectively, Fox News nationally in on this conversation, talking about what needs to be done as state fair. And of course, showing the video of all these young black kids, young black people, you know, young black youth.
young adults running around, you know, just creating chaos and, um, you know, just, just get to them. Just hand it to them. Make it easy for folks to come for us. Let me go to the phone line. Hey, caller, what's happening? Hey, how you doing Michelle? I'm good. How you doing today, bro? I'm doing pretty good. Uh, I think a moderate don't fall in food to the government because, you know, they designed this system for us to fail.
Now I'm still in the residential place. And I had a maintenance, a very amount had a hair from the corn. And he threw the corn down in front of his teenage boy. He pulled up a quarter, then he knuckled and down, asked his young man, which corn whether he did not know. That's telling me that the boy don't know how to count. And did you have these,
um devices you know and uh the people don't use their minds they'll have these machines doing the form. Now you take this device from the bar and ask them to count you will not know how to do that.
Yeah, definitely. And thank you for the observation. You know, a lot of basic skills going out the window and one of the things we used to see when we were in school back in the day, the children that had difficulty reading usually were people disrupting the classrooms because they were trying to shield the fact that.
They couldn't read or they were struggling, you know with the subject matter issue And so it's easier for me to do something to get kicked out of the class Or to create a distraction so that people can't figure out that I'm ill equipped We see that all throughout life, you know, I don't have x y and z and so I create other obstacles. I'm sorry other Obstructions so that people don't realize my shortcomings. Let me go to this caller. Hey caller. What's happening?
Hey, how you doing this morning? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I'm good Listen, um, I just want to say about that fight. I really don't have Facebook. I've seen what I've seen from TV You young ladies need not think that prison is what you think it is because I've been there So if y'all think y'all want to go go right ahead. It ain't it ain't nothing like you think it is
if you are here on these streets because when they tell you to go to bed you go to bed when they tell you to get up you get up if it's that five o'clock in the morning you've got to get up to go breakfast or do whatever you shower on certain days you can't go shower every day like you can if you're out here trust me y'all don't want to go i've been here and done that and i'm grateful and thankful i'm out and gonna stay out i made myself that promise not to go back
But I'm glad I got out for what I did. You know what I'm saying? But I may not have that out, but I did. But y'all don't want to go. Please young lady, stop and think. Because if y'all mama die or y'all daddy die, y'all may not get out to go to the national.
Because they don't do that right now today. Your parents, your siblings could write the warden or write whoever. They may say no. They're not going to let you go out because of your record or what you in prison for. So y'all have to think about that too. If y'all ain't respecting your parents, respect them and think about them if they die while y'all in there. Y'all ain't going to see them. They ain't going to come see you because my mama wouldn't come see me.
And I'm glad she was alive when I got out. I'm glad that she was still here when I got out. But y'all gotta think about that. What about y'all brothers and sisters? That's what we need y'all. That's all acting the fool around. Show them some different way to live because they watching you. And that ain't cool. So young ladies, please stop.
All right. Please stop taking from my point of view. All right. Thank you, sis. Appreciate the call. All right, family. I gotta take a quick commercial break. We'll be right back. When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Viola.
The result, the new Violia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks. Thanks to our partnership with Violia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playsett. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them. It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.
The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people. To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time. It feels good. You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in. Water is our greatest resource. We all need it to survive. Viola is 100% doing great work.
All right, family, I want to make sure that you all are aware since today is my last day for the week that on Monday of next week, there is going to be a public listening session regarding the Milwaukee County budget. It is going to be an event that runs from 5 to 7 p.m. over at the Washington Park Senior Center 4420 West Village Street from 5 to 7 p.m. So the first hour of the event is a resource fair
all the different information services in relationship to Milwaukee County. Now that you may need information about the second half is going to be the discussion about the county budget. And this is an opportunity for you to come and talk about priorities that you would like to see, you know, the county address. Know that one of the things that the county had been doing renovations over at the Clinton Roll Center, I was in there on election day.
by Sorority Delta Sigma Theta. They manned the polling site there for elections and the renovations are absolutely beautiful. There is going to be, I think it's happening today. I think somebody might have sent something to me or it already happened, but they had a grand opening. And so they were showing, oh yeah, they had it already. So they showed, you know, folks,
Um, no, look, who on the picture? Sister Herrera. Uh, but they showed all the folks, um, there for the ribbon cutting and, uh, just the beautiful facility. Like I said, the furniture is gorgeous. All the different activities. Um, some of the photos that Daryl just sent me, quilt making classes, uh, book reading clubs, somebody there shooting pool. So it is the place to be. If you
are somebody that, you know, looking for interaction to kick it with other members of the community.
And of a certain, you know, age demographic, the Clinton Rose Senior Center definitely is a beautiful facility with the work and renovations that they've done. The people down there are really cool, work hard. So hopefully you will take an opportunity to attend that. But again, this is what these budget listing sessions are intended to do. Give feedback about what's important to you, those priorities. They've already had one. In fact, I think it was held last night.
or the night before because I miss talking about it on the station. So I wanted to make sure that you were aware of the second one happening on Monday night, 5 to 7 p.m. over at the Washington Park Senior Center. Let me also do this. I haven't had a chance really to talk about it, but a lot of people were talking, they got
just blown out of the water about something local happened to here in Milwaukee with a woman who was a senior staff member in the Milwaukee County clerk of Circuit Court who has been arrested. Her name is Samortria. I'm not sure how to pronounce her first name. Matthews.
This sister, Black woman, 54 years old, and she had worked as a senior administrator for the Clerk of Circuit Courts, was charged on August 15th with maintaining a drug trafficking place in her home. And then she also got a modifier party to a crime after she was arrested on August 13th. Prosecutors, and I'm taking this story from the Journal Sentinel, prosecutors said that the basement of her home was used to package.
Store and manufacture and keep large amounts of cocaine and fentanyl for sale Her son Tarion Matthews only 26 years old and her husband Rodney Matthews also 54 are facing charges including possession with intent for both cocaine and fentanyl and maintaining a drug trafficking place During her initial appearance in court
uh, two days ago, the court commissioner ordered Matthews not to contact her son or husband while her case is active. She, um, had her bail set at $2,500, which, um, this sister has already posted. And I didn't know if that was like low, you know, if you get, it seemed kind of off to me.
Um, and from what I understand, this may not be her son, but it's our step son. Um, but $2,500 just seem low for drug. You know, he's, he said, you got a whole little, little setup in the basement, manufacturer distribution. And I mean, this ain't my area of expertise, but 2,500 seem kind of low. Yeah. That's, that's super low because if they are saying all of that.
She would be labeled as keeper of a drug house Because if you manufacturing if you storing and you got what they say cocaine and Now come on $2,500 bill. So you think maybe cuz you get ready to like flip our husband or or or it could be now You can look at it like this. It could be even if they try to
smear her because if she really didn't have any knowledge of what was going on because from what I heard That was her a strange husband and she says she didn't have any knowledge of the what was going on because I don't think she lived in that house. She just owned it So if that's the case and that kind of explains why her bail is at $2,500 if you got drugs in your house and they try to label you as keeper of a drug house
So, okay, so we need to establish whether or not she actually lived in that house. That part because if she lived in that house and she knew and they put in that title as keeper of a drug house, your bill is not gonna be $2,500. No way. I mean, it's gonna be like five, $10,000 type thing. More than that. More than that. But $2,500 is like for like a pistol or something.
or you got caught with like a 3-5 or you got caught with a 7 or so. Yeah, because because now you're not labeled as keeper of a drughouse. So if you manufacturing, that's keeper of a drughouse.
And so to your point, I just because I was looking for while you were talking, I want to look at another story. And it said that. She owned the house. He was charged for the man he was charged with maintaining a drug trafficking place. Terry, I see his charges.
She worked for the county for 30 years and said he had worked for the county and retired in 2022 and then came back to work currently, you know making six figures The decision to arrest and prosecute Some some atria Matthews is a travesty
So what her attorney is saying, she is not a criminal or drug dealer. She is innocent of the charge and will be vindicated. The complaint makes it clear. There is no evidence that she had any knowledge of her estranged husband's activities, much less that she was involved in them. Despite that, the DA's office decided to charge her, destroying her career and reputation in the process. So the backstory. Court filing said police were doing undercover surveillance of a home owned by her. And I think that that distinction
because, you know, did she live in the house or not? So of a home owned by her near 46 in Congress in connection to a narcotics investigation involving her estranged husband and her stepson. They attempted to pull over Tarion Matthews. He fled at a high rate of speed. They lost him. He abandoned the car, is what the DA said. At the time, Tarion Matthews was out.
prison on GPS monitoring and that his last um the car was later found 66 and ruby let me finish it officers watching the house then to see co-defendant Rodney Matthews leave the house they follow him he goes and picks up the defendant they then flee so he go pick up his son they flee it the second pursuit high speed chase speeds up to 100 miles an hour
eventually ended in a crash at Green Bay in Hampton inside the home owned by Cemetery Matthews or Cemetery. I hate I'm butchering this woman's name. Sorry about that. Police found three pounds of fentanyl, cocaine, hydraulic presses to form bricks of drugs, blenders covered in fentanyl residue, digital scales, a handgun, food dye, substance used to cut drugs, sandwich bags, according to the court file. So but you don't get the impression.
Exactly. She lived there. No. So, like, did she own the house and he just was staying in the house? Like you said, Jermaine, I'm telling you, is she... I'm telling you what it is. They rent the house. They rent it. Exactly. They rent the house. She owns the house. But for them to...
to smear her like that because now you're putting the label of keeper of a drug house. So from all of this surveillance, you're surveilling, you see the husband, you see the son, but do you have her going in and out of that house? They never stated that, but they keep saying the house that's owned by. Yeah, because that's all they keep saying is that she owned the house. They already knew that was her house. They knew already. They were just trying to see they could connect something.
But they couldn't. But this is that they never saw her going in and out of the house was doing surveillance. You never saw her going because it would be clear that you know what her connection may have been. So this is interesting to see how this is going to turn out because this woman's pension is now at risk.
Uh, even though, you know, I don't know how old Jay Simpson can murder somebody and still keep a pension. Oh, wait, wait, wait. He didn't do it. I know he got off before the keys just started taking me. Oh, Jay is innocent. Um, but you know, this is one of those things that's going to be interesting to kind of see how this plays out. Um, and then think about what if this woman legitimately, you know, we, we split up.
I had another house. You were able to stay in that house. And she really didn't know what was going on in his house. And now y'all got her out here like this. And then you can never really bounce back from this in the corporate world because that's going to forever be a smear on your name, even though you can beat it. Because she 54, she young. She wanted to still work, you know, even though they said she had retired from Milwaukee County already and then came back. But and then, you know,
Somebody just pointed out and I saw that in the story. She's never been in trouble before. Folks already don't want to see Captain looking her up and searching, you know, for the information. So you just got to ask the District Attorney, but for them to only set that bill at $2,500. That's why I was like, that's a rare flag to me. But again, they trying to smear her.
like why why is you know like that's a rare flag for me that she only got 2,500 in bail because I like I said I'll do this but I would expect that amount to be way higher as you said it I'm like 2,500 and you got all this in the house and it would be dirty if they know
That they don't have nothing to really link this woman to this other than she owns the property because this landlord's their own properties all day that she was at drug houses and I'm just trying to see something Yeah As somebody pointed out and remember when the fave got in trouble they didn't go after his pension, you know, so it's also interesting
They said her bill was not originally $2,500. I had heard that. But what makes it drop down to $2,500? She didn't know. So some people ever didn't leave that nowhere. It's a lot of folks hitting me up. She is the victim. I think they were saying kindness with her estranged husband. She is cooperating.
We do not know the original bill. If it was reduced, I heard the original bill was like high. Yeah, because if you say all this stuff is in the house and they found cutting stuff to cut the dough, you found a dough. How to cook it, all this stuff is in the house. That's keeper of a drug house.
Well, they would have had her own surveillance. But yeah. And so, you know, like, yeah. So it's a whole bunch of people. Clearly a lot of people know this sister, respect the sister, like the sister that are hitting me up, like Michelle, this whole thing is crazy. But that they don't believe that this woman was in any way connected to what this man was doing in his house.
And then other folks, yeah, believing that they're coming after her because of her position. You know, anytime you black star, you got certain things. How dare you make six figures? It's all kinds of stuff that just is out there that we see. But again, how many folks got in trouble and get to keep their pension? How many folks? Because Lefebvre, it was all kind of money tied up in what this cat did. And then he leaves and flies to Florida.
And, you know, do all this foolishness, but your pension didn't get touched. You get to, you know, retire, get your money, get out and run and then deal with your criminal charges afterwards. But your pension goes unscathed. So the whole article that's in the Journal Sentinel about could she lose her pension, it is hilarious to me because, you know, we have seen a whole lot of stuff in which folks don't lose their pension. But.
Bigger than the loss of the pension will not I think equally as important is If this woman is being wrongfully, you know him up in his nonsense I own the house, but I know I know what was going on there. I had nothing to do with it Yeah, so my phone is off Yeah, and then some other folks have also said that they believe they're trying to connect it to DC
David Crawley to the county executive because of the race. You know, so this is your house is happening on your watch. You potentially got somebody working for the county, but you got to understand like the clerk or circuit course. These are elected positions. Now, her position was not elected. It's an appointed position. But DC don't have to do with this woman in terms of her direct hire or any of that.
So, um, but, you know, whatever we can do to throw mud. So let me take a break. But Jesus Christ, this, this will be messed up if this lady don't have nothing to do with none of this. And they know it. And if they've been surveilling, they've been able to go look at phone records, I'm assuming to figure out who's doing what, who's coming and going. This lady could lose everything.
And y'all know potentially this woman don't have nothing to do with this. $2,500 is a tale. It's a tale. Let me take a break. I'll be right back. When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Viola. The result, the new Viola EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools,
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People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Veolia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Veolia and MMSD. Clean water is essential. The work we're doing at Veolia is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.
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Because, you know, we're speculating because we're trying to figure it out. And because the question when they talk about this being an estranged husband, was this woman living in a house different than the husband and the stepson on the. On the. On the. The address portion of CCAP, it lists her address as the same address.
that the drug bust happened at. So if she has a different address, if she wasn't staying in that house, it doesn't reflect that on CCAP. OK. So that's one thing, you know, because before we go too far out on the on the limb to establish, did her and this guy live in the same house? Because now you're going to have a problem if you are lived in the same house.
Because most people are washing dryers in the basement. And you can smell what the rock is cooking. Who's cooking the rock? Yeah. Because I had walked into a house where crack was being cooked on the stove. And it smelled like rotten eggs. It's the worst smell I ever smelled in my life. And immediately I knew something was wrong in this house.
Uh, I can't just, you know, discern right now whether or not she actually was living in that house or not. So that's right now an open question. Uh, other information on there when they talked about the bail and that, you know, we're looking at why, um, somebody said one article says she shared a bedroll. Oh no.
with the husband. See. It's getting deeper and deeper. See. See. They wouldn't think that. You know, I'm just, I just, like I said. The next segment that they got surveillance, right? Yeah, I mean. They got her own video tape, camera, anything going in and out of the house. Well, like I said, I don't need to do all of that if you live there.
No, but no, but I'm saying if I live there, it'll still be video of me going in and out of the house. Yeah, but that's all I'm saying is I'm trying to figure out, uh, yeah, other people lay like, yeah, her driver's license still has people like y'all some slooms, boy.
Internet detective yeah, and yeah, yeah people trying to tire the anaheages Who was elected to the circuit court? You know cuz you hire you know you bring people through you know you could work with so but this ain't no reflection on Anna I don't know what's going on in your damn house You know but anytime black folks and see the let's be clear a lot of them judges didn't want anaheages to be the clerk of circuit courts When anaheages ran the first time it was judges actively working to keep this
by racial sister, I think, and identifies as black, but you know, I don't know exactly what her race is or ethnicity is, but they worked hard to keep Anaheim just from getting elected to clerk of circuit court. They did not want her and she ran and she got out here and did doors and got in these streets and she did her thing.
And so, and somebody just pointed out and I have forgot about it. Anna is on the ballot right now. She's up for reelection in November. And so, yeah, there was some Milwaukee County judges that would have been happy to see some mesh jump off involving Anna Hodges. But if I got him to, or everybody that I know that has gotten in trouble, boy, I couldn't even breathe out here. You know, I couldn't breathe because I don't discriminate in who I know.
I believe you need to know all kinds of people. I do I'm not asking them kind of questions now. You can't do nothing shady around me. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna tolerate that I'm not gonna be in on none of your foolishness, but I know people That I like that up. I see you know, I break bread with and I'm like that you questionable But that ain't gonna do with me stay over there with that foolishness. I Just think it's going to be interesting to figure out
that bail piece because like in the they said cash bond set on August 18th Remaining cash bail on deposit shall be returned to the person who posted it So originally there was a different amount And then they lowered the bail amount and said they're gonna return the money to the person who posted it Well, who posted it now how much was it?
I got questions, yo. I got questions. Um, but I, if this woman is not tied up in this, I hope that this, you know, she's able to clear her name and come through this. Okay. Uh, but again, we also know black folks get handled way differently in these situations than other folks. They just do whether it is, you know,
I can go back and list the list of names of black people that have been elected officials or black people that worked for city government who had charges level got convicted of those things and they ended up getting jail time fines and penalties and other folks, you know, you still trying to figure out what happened today case. You still trying to understand what happened today case. So let me see. I'm trying to figure out what people said.
So I said, don't forget George Christensen. He hates Anna. He hates Anna. So much about the rumor is Anna bailed her out. We don't know that to be true. And I can't imagine Anna would do that because I'm not putting myself in that position and I'm on the ballot running for office. So I don't believe that. But it does not list who bailed her out.
And it does not when they talk about the money going to be given back. So just so y'all know, all it is is happening and brewing down at the county courthouse and be be astute about the willingness of people to try to connect this to either candidates on the ballot. Make this other people's issue. This don't have nothing to do. Somebody said no sound on YouTube. But.
Let's not make this have anything to do with anybody else. This is this woman's situation and her family situation. It don't have nothing to do with Anna Hodges. It has nothing to do with David Carly. And we need to be clear about that. Do I have a phone call? I'm going to take the call and then I'm going to go to break. Hey, Collin, what's happening? Hey, hey, how you doing? Hi. I just want to say that I had text you that, you know, the purpose of bail is to ensure that someone returns the court.
The seriousness of the crime is considered, but in my opinion, a 2,500 out of bond is reasonable, especially since I don't see the young lady having any other convictions on CCAP. Keeper of a drug house is a class I-70. It carries a maximum of three and a half years in prison of initial confinement and extended supervision, meaning the maximum initial confinement is only two years.
and an additional up to one and a half years on extended supervision with a $10,000 fine. I believe that this lady is not being charged with the actual drugs like her son's bought at $75,000 because she wasn't involved in the actual activity. So this is actually something they're going after her to try to smear her name. As far as her pitch is concerned, I see that she's been suspended from her job.
But her job has nothing to do with the crime being committed. So I don't think she will lose her pension because they're not related. Now, if she would have been caught stealing from the county or something like that, that may be a factor. But I don't think she... And not to mention, like, she had already retired, been out of the workforce, and then come back and work. So that pension, because she had already taken, she had gotten, like, that backdrop money. So all of that, like...
Like that's not like a closed situation. They already, I don't understand how they would try to go after the pension because she had already retired and he came back to work, but exactly. Yeah. Thanks for letting me share, Michelle. All right. I appreciate you, bro. Thank you. Uh, so yeah, so I'm hearing, you know, some other stuff too that that bail, it wasn't, um,
A whole lot higher than the 2,500. I'm hearing $5,000 was original bail amount and daddy got dropped to 2,500 I was looking around for it on CCAP, you know We'll look a couple other places and figure out what's going on, but I just really hope I just really if if the district attorney's office is dragging this lady like this and they know like
There's nothing that supports that this woman was a part of this that this woman knew anything about it then they out of order They the hell out of order if if all of this washes through and It you know is revealed that this woman legitimately didn't know anything about any it is Because there are landlords who have people dealing drugs out of their houses every day The fact that I'm with you know, I'm married to somebody
And they're doing this but if you've been sitting on this house and you've been watching this house and you got access to all kinds of information You should be able to figure out if this woman may be involved or not Before we get to this point So I just wanted to bring it up. I gotta take a break caller. I see you I'm gonna get to you but um Somebody sit here. Oh No, you're okay. I saw something about Dick Tracy in the decoder ring
But yeah, this this is this is crazy and and to the last college point when I looked at what the potential The potential jail time or fine, yeah, three and a half years up to ten thousand dollars which again You don't sound like the drug dealer if all you looking at is three and a half years in prison and a ten thousand dollar fine, so
Somebody said five thousand seems to be a reasonable maximum for property nuisance codes No one is speaking of the drugs in the black neighborhood found Okay, I'm looking I'm looking all right. Let me take a break. I'll be right back y'all Jesus Christ
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We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.
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All right, family. Welcome back to the show. So let me catch this caller before I welcome. I got guests in the studio and we close out this topic. But yeah, it's a lot to be said and learned about this sister situation. But let me go to the phone line. Hey, caller, what's happening? I'm good. How are you? Kathy is muffled. All right.
What first did she about 1920 years old look to weigh up? Okay, right. Okay. And everybody said it was a strange husband. He kind of property investment. What did you live? They were surveilling that place for quite a while. They know who lived there, who got her and who was estranged. Okay. When they went to the house where she's all I want to ask was she there at two in the morning or whatever time.
if she was here. So people still are not seeing this and this. You gotta watch it like that, okay? But at the end of the day, we talk about the kids that stay here. There's nobody in a fifty-some-year-old woman in their husband and a kid making drugs, okay? They learn that from home. I'm not trying to be funny. If you knew it was going on, you'd have ignored it should have got to another place, okay? So don't be a fool out here and talk about them here to stay here when you see what's going on right here with grown people, okay? It comes from home. And at one point,
A kid in State Fair, 21, 22 years old, 18 years old. Big Peers ain't that old. And they learned that from them. Their mouths are loud and big, but I'd rather have a fight at State Fair and get a little misdemeanor than go down here. We can crack and cocaine and kill in our community out here. All right, that doesn't make any sense at all. So what did the person live? And you know that if somebody said, well, I didn't know that was going on in my home. I didn't know that we're still running to the bank to rob. Well, I'm sitting out there in the getaway car. I didn't know that was going to happen.
You know what? Get by association and party to a crime. So stop making up stuff and saying they did this and they didn't that, okay? You ought to know better than what you're doing, okay? Unless you're in on it. You want to make enough money? And if he wasn't... Okay, Kathy, I got a guess. So I think we got the general gist of what it is you're talking about. I can't do the response right now. But thank you, Kathy. I appreciate it. All right, family.
Thursday is my early day to end. I want to make sure that we have ample time to have this discussion. Please today to welcome, I think, for the first time. So, sisters to the studio, Natalie Hayden and I was born in Badger. Hello ladies, how y'all doing this morning? Good, good, good. This is
This is crazy that the whole cycle of conversation we have been on this morning talking about our community You know work that we got to do things the issues that we need to address and this conversation literally dovetails exactly Everything that we've kind of been hitting on this morning because we know that
The way our community shows up when things are not working right is cyclical. A lot of times it starts at home. And then how that translates out into the community or transfers in the way folks interact with one another, the relationships that we have or lack thereof. So let me welcome you all. Laverne, let me start with you. Tell folks a little bit about, and I need that shirt, but tell folks a little bit about who you are, the organization and the work that you do. So I'm Laverne Badger. And do me a favor, bring the mic up.
just a little bit for me. So I'm Laverne Badger and I am one of the co-founders of Exposed Inc. We have been in existence for almost 10 years now. We started off as a podcast talking about life after domestic abuse. I was in an abusive relationship as a teenager, started as a teenager for 13 years.
and and now I'm here to the the fabulous Mr. Richard Badger but um family yeah we got we black we got so but that what happened was my trauma was turned into passion and and um I met Natalie and Natalie and I created uh exposed ink and now we are um we locked in
And I have turned my passion into a purpose on bringing awareness and education to domestic abuse and healthy and unhealthy relationships, romantic and platonic. Now let's get you in on the conversation. So you guys link up, how do you come to this though? How do we come to this? I'm gonna be fully transparent. I met Laverne while I was in shelter at Sojourner Family Peace Center. I had just made a decision that would
forever impact me but in such a way that I knew um someone's destiny was locked up in what I needed to be honest about and it wouldn't it wasn't easy so Laverne was
in the in the formative stages of having conversations and she was asked to join her. I was there and I was introduced and, you know, in a way to say, hey, go and get this up under this type of support and information. And I was drawn to Laverne. Laverne initially was not interested and I did not know it was a hard no for her. Initially, yes, until it wasn't, but.
At that moment, we knew that we were connected in such a way that we didn't know that it would be this today. But just starting with the conversation, being transparent about our experiences could help someone else. And that's really where it started. It wasn't about putting anyone out, out there to be, you know, whatever. But it was about experience, what we experienced, and how we can heal through that. And that has been...
A bit of our journey. So one of the things Laverne and your opening remarks, you know, you talk about that this began in your, you know, when you were a teenager. Absolutely.
At one time, we didn't think about domestic violence situations involving young relationships. And then you even mentioned the terminology platonic. So this is not necessarily always about a love relationship, a personal relationship in that way, romantic relationship, that this can also just be the way I engage with a friend, with a family member, with someone that is close to me.
But we've seen a tide shift though. We've seen younger, you know women younger age individuals reporting domestic violence and So then you begin to get like kind of nervous like so what's going on in our households because so many people we did a survey When I was with African World Festival we talked about women that had either been sexually abused or
had experienced domestic violence. I brought 400 survey applications. 398 were completed. 398 said yes. Wow. Wow. Not surprised. Not surprised at all. So when you look at, I mean, as a part of the discussion, the healing, do we
Address what we think is changing and happening that we're seeing this as such a younger age or It says it always been there. We just didn't know what to call it folks and talk about it What was your experience of our for me? I think it was that we weren't just talking about it, right? I don't think that I think that it is growing don't get me wrong, but there were I didn't realize that There were other teenagers and an abusive relationship
because what I did see, I didn't see a lot, but what I did see, it was always older white women that were married or women that were married. So I didn't associate what I was going through as being in a domestic violence relationship. So of course I wasn't checking those boxes, you know, and then I wasn't checking boxes that was on my mental.
emotional abuse right people are usually checking those boxes based on physical abuse so i think the numbers are going up because people are talking more they're expressing more that they have expanded to knowing what
The true definition is of an abusive relationship and it does not single out just physical abuse, right? We know it's the financial abuse. We know that it's mental and emotional abuse. We know that it's now what we're talking about is social media abuse, right? So there's a way to stalk.
And track people on a different a way that we didn't used to be able to track people, you know So now people are checking different boxes. So those numbers are continuing to increase, but I don't know that It was just back then in 86 85 84, you know those years when it started for me
When it started for me that I just didn't know what to do with that information No one was capturing that information if that makes sense. It does I pulled up some data An estimated 10 million adults face abuse from a partner They said in the United States on average Every 20 minutes someone is experiencing some form of Abuse more than one in three women and nearly one in four men experience physical violence sexual abuse or stalking
by an intimate partner. So Natalie, understanding that this is prevalent now, and there are folks that still don't know how to deal with this and talk about it.
How is the organization and the work you all are doing together? Helping to kind of shed some light give folks some needed assistance helping resources and you know folks that listen to my show on a regular basis They know I've talked about the fact that I grew up in a house with domestic violence my mother married my stepfather and Friday through Sunday It was hell in our house Monday, you know Sunday night it chilled about eight o'clock because he had to get up and go to work on Monday and Monday
Until Friday we was cool, but you already knew you dreaded when Friday was getting ready to roll around so How are you raising awareness and getting you know folks to get the help that they need our three pillars is prevention awareness and education and Laverne and I knew from the start that there were enough
agencies out here to capture those that are coming in with these needed as needed basis, like how we were received where we needed immediate support. We wanted to.
get down the stream and prevent, so we're in our schools. And when we go to our schools, meaning we go when we have conversations with young people, we share with them about healthy and unhealthy relationships because that was in those formative years when you're young and you see these relationships in your household because when you do the work, I had to sit with myself and say, where did this start? This is not just something that I saw on TV.
What did I see in my household? What did I see my go through? What did I see my grandmother go through and we didn't have terminology for we didn't have language for it, but we saw it and when I identified and said that is not healthy. So I now reflect or attract or
I'm being existing in the way that I saw that was modeled before me. Sometimes we just don't know. So there were things that we had to unlearn. We're there to help our young people identify that what is going on in your household may not always be healthy. It's not that you don't love your family, but there are some very toxic things that are going on. And you can unlearn that. You can do relationships differently. You can feel better about yourself and not say, well, because my mom did this to me,
Maybe that was all she knew, you know, like people are doing their best, but you get to put that behind you, you get to learn something different. So it's personal. You have to identify within yourself that I may have not shown up in the best way in this romantic relationship, this personal relationship. The relationship with myself is most important. How do I talk to myself? So when we get in the schools, we have these conversations and then we start with,
How you started is not necessarily how you have to finish. You get to finish strong. You get to finish. You get to talk to yourself differently. People in your family talk a certain type of way. You don't have to take ownership of that.
And you know, I tell people people treat you how you let them treat you. That's right. You know, but that's a muscle. You have to practice because you don't know that you don't know that. And did I even have boundaries? There were so many things that were unveiled to me when I was doing this work like, dang, I didn't have boundaries. It was started in my relationship. But now let me look at everything and see what I didn't have boundaries around in the workplace. People like, you know, you let folks run all over you know, all that kind of stuff.
which is why we have tapped into platonic relationships. The rules are the same. They stay the same. The rules are the same. Am I supposed to accept disrespect in either? Should I have boundaries set for either? Should I remove myself from something that's family? It don't matter. It does not matter if I'm married to you sleeping with you or if we just
high school friends or if you my cousin my first cousin because you know first cousins is even if you my first cousin like no if you are are if i'm being exposed and and and experiences some of these toxic traits and behaviors from other people i don't care
what it is and who it is. Here's our basic rules. So let me do this because I really shouldn't have scheduled this interview for Thursday because this is the day that I end early. Shut up, Jermaine. Jermaine, like, come on now. We'll come back.
So what I want to do, because I do think that this is such an important conversation, not just to have you come back, but to see if we can actually create something on a regular basis, because these are conversations we've touched on them here and there. The phones usually light up, go crazy when we talk about it from both men and women. But as we are beginning to figure out how anger and aggression shows up as they fare and in our communities, that internal work that has to happen, I will end here, though.
When we did the human trafficking, I mean, when we did the initial work with that survey at the gathering, that's where we first did the survey. From that, we formed the Human Trafficking Task Force of Greater Milwaukee. Mark the Love, myself, Dana World Patterson comes to the table. I can't think of my other girl with the locks right now, but I can see her face because she was one of the first people that, before Dana stepped into the role, I almost had her name. But anyway, you know,
We begin to form this organization and doing this work. We put up a lot of the seed money ourselves to get things done. But you can't do the work without having ways to be able to fund the work. You guys do an annual run. We want to put it on people's radar early. So please tell people about that before we get out of here this morning.
Yes, so quickly, early registration ends on September 5th. So right now, of course, you know, registration is open. I just came into the station and I saw our bus ad just drive by. Wonderful. So, you know, I was like, oh, perfect, but it's on the website.
You can tell people what it's called. It's called the hashtag Let Them Live Domestic Violence 5K. This is our seventh consecutive year at Veterans Park. We are the largest, longest domestic violence walk. I'm proud of that, that we are the longest. And it's just the two of us. We do it with some of our partners, but this was just an idea and a dream, right? Nine years ago, but we are the longest consecutive 5K
walk, domestic violence walk in Wisconsin. Now, if you challenged me, come on, call me. But I looked it up.
And so, yes. So we are very proud of that. Sorry to interrupt. I didn't realize registration was being cut off so soon. So except for early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early, early,
Touch domestic violence in various ways that will be there the blood center. I've donated blood and had no idea that Gunshot victims from domestic violence needs blood. Yeah, so we have a mobile versity blood truck that will be there if you cannot walk or run There's some way that you can contribute to this work. We have firefighters that will be there the rig will be there the cadets will be there because we were
offered an opportunity to come and talk to recruits about domestic violence. So they'll be walking with us. It'll be the city out there walking with us. So let me do this because I don't want it to be rushed. We will create time and space for you guys to come back.
We'll do it on a Monday or a Wednesday when I go the fool at the time or get you in like an eight o'clock summer early So that we can have this conversation and let people know how they can be engaged I think as we're talking about how we in some of the stuff that we see or we begin to address it Yes, this is definitely one of the ways that we do it because healthy adults create healthy children Absolutely and healthy relationships create healthy families. So for folks that want to know how to get in touch with you Laverne, how do they get in touch?
with the or our what our email address is exposed the exposed dva
at gmail.com. And again, our website is exposed to podcast.com. So everything is on our website. So if you go over to our website, you will see everything, how to get in contact with us and everything. We're on all our socials and scramps, Facebook, you can find us anywhere. And shout out to our D9, my D9 sister, right? So that's right. So let me say this again, I hate that the interview is, you know, and it has felt rushed. It was
important know to begin and start the conversation. We lay the foundation. We'll keep going. So let me do this. I'm in the show. You all be safe this weekend. We'll get these sisters back in here to continue. Ladies, thank you for your time this morning. Thank you. And folks, I'll talk to you all next week. Bros. Appreciate y'all. Peace.
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What's happening?
Family.
Welcome to the show.
It is Michelle.
Brian here.
W N O V eight sixty a.m.
One oh six point five F M. You are listening to say something real.
Hmm.
It's going to look like out on these streets.
School school must be getting ready to go back in.
You know, you are all you are you teachers and educators and you know, school personnel.
that have gone back into the building, you know, early before the kids get there, y'all messing up my, my leave time from the house.
I just can't pull out on the street out of my driveway anymore.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I
love,
Y'all messed with my morning routine.
Now I got to start leaving the house 15, 20 minutes earlier than I typically have been leaving all summer because y'all had an hour to go back to work.
So I'm just saying, you know, we get inconvenienced by other people.
But anyway, good morning and morning.
Let me say what's happening to my family in the studio.
What's going on, Clark Kent?
Hey, you sound like you went to the doctor yesterday.
Yeah,
Yeah, I'm good.
My iron was real low.
Yeah, iron was low.
Yeah, and a little dehydrated.
So they dehydrated.
So they did one drink enough water.
Come
on, Clark.
I know.
I know.
Be a hard head.
See, Clark, though, you got to keep your iron.
You iron.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
That's not what he does.
why.
going to push the iron on the higher shelf.
ironing.
Country show up again.
So, so did he give you some or she gave you some?
They just.
Yeah, they gave you some.
Then we're going to pick
it
up today.
Stay,
or the
you know, Keith be sleek.
Keith be like,
Keith be all dirty.
Try to take shots.
Hitch up.
Okay.
You're pronounced.
I can't even get the word out.
The way you pronounce
Keith be like.
Say that again.
What did
say?
Like, he's so dirty.
No,
you doing this
That's all I'm going to do.
Be glad you got a cute little face.
You know, uh, you know, I tried to tell him, man.
So no, I've been told what I did, man.
I tried
tell him.
What?
I watched that 72 hours, man.
What is 72 hours?
So brother, though, you couldn't wait until after she said hi to
me?
No, because he didn't sing in there acting like Ricardo.
Ricardo Hart?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Human age.
You just gotta see that.
When you start talking like that, that's why.
No sale.
Nothing.
It's beautiful outside.
Now dew points is at 55 dew
point
What is the
moisture?
And that's what, you know, is the temperature.
No,
Right.
So it's the one
the dude in the morning
It's the temperature There's a
song
That actually goes like like the dew in the morning.
Thank you gently
Rest upon my heart.
So the do in the morning is to moisture this in the air.
You know what?
To that, I'm just going to say, where's the set?
Where is it at?
Back to you, Bob.
Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Because, you know, even though this is super, oh, since she was talking about
Nice!
Oh
god.
He's singing, he got on his white, like, used to be Frankie Beverly in May's outfit with some Jordies.
The faces of the people
There's people sitting
like, there's people sitting on the fuse like, what the hell is going on?
I was like y'all silly man.
This is all video but every time
out here.
I hope that,
but literally this morning when
a like a god it's good.
So I just said that's my jam.
That was a hit.
Somebody else said I need
Christ?
it was it over your head like that?
That's what it means.
All right.
So let me take a second before I get into any of the stories today to just do this public service announcement.
So, you know, we talked a little bit about the chaos that was out at State Fair.
And there have been all kinds of videos on social media, young people posting, you know, but before the drama jumped off.
On this Facebook page and it is capital V. E. Capital C. E. E. Capital T. V. E. So VC TV.
Capital V. E. C.
E. T. V. E. There are young men who you can clearly see their faces.
These are somebody's children in this city.
You can clearly look and they are young, young brothers look like they, you know, 15, 16, maybe 18, 19 years old, how old we are.
And they're encouraging people to come to state fear to fight.
And on the video, they're saying stuff like if you got beef with somebody, come down here, you know, and jump them.
If you see somebody with a chain on that you like, snatch it off their neck, they ain't going to do nothing.
Jump them.
If you see somebody wearing Cartier glasses, snatch them off their face, take them from them.
They're not going to do nothing.
Jump them.
And it's five or six different boys that rotate out, getting in front of the little camera.
inviting people to come and fight.
Now, I've seen other folks who were innocently posting on Facebook when they got to a situation and was like, y'all, this is going on right now.
Look what's happening.
And those people have been charged at times by the district attorney's office with inciting a riot.
We know that's how they tried to him up bomb eggs When he was simply recording what was going on and they tried to basically say he was inciting a riot and get encouraging people to come and be destructive in this case You can see these little boys faces good as day Clear
No, and they told them and I didn't know what it was I had to ask Clark because they said make sure you make what did they say Clark bring a shiesty
So
That
as they are encouraging you to come fight they have nothing hiding their faces So I encourage the Milwaukee Police Department
If you are trying to get to the bottom of who helped to incite, maybe, you know, set some of this off, go to the Facebook page.
V.E.
C.E.E.
TV.
E.E.
And see if we can put together, you know, some IDs on who these young people are, who thought that it would be okay to encourage people to come down and, you know, just, just create havoc as they fare.
Like you'll have nothing else to do with your sad pathetic little life.
Nobody is showing you anything in this community that you understand life is way better when you're doing the right things and the opportunities you can create for yourself that don't involve you going to jail, don't involve nobody whooping you, nobody coming for you.
I mean, just it's so incredibly sad that these young
People don't understand all that's waiting for them if you just pick a different track All that's waiting for you You ain't gonna take nobody Cartier glasses you can buy your own If you willing to do the work You don't have to take nobody's chain.
I'm like people still still change You don't have to do none of that though if you willing to go to work if you willing to put in the time
if you're willing to develop a skill to get a hustle.
And you ain't got to worry about nobody jumping you and trying to cut you down.
You want to say something,
Jack?
Yeah, and it's just sad because when you watch the video, you see them on there laughing and enjoying doing stupid stuff.
Like they laugh and like, you know, hey, the top five things to do when you come to stay fair.
You know fight snatch a change Snatch the glasses and they ain't gonna do nothing snatching and run Snatching and run and when you look at the video you see a lot of People running swinging off on people they hitting people they running, you know over to the next fight and swinging hitting each other It's really sad show because I'm sure
Because they've been trying to curve this for years because they do this every year at State Fair and I'm sure next year you you will have the officials doing something much different than how they've been operating because
I mean, but you know, like you said though, they've been doing this for a number of years and people keep trying to figure out how to respond to it without being
you know, intrusive on everybody else's good time without making it feel like a police state, you know, making it feel uncomfortable for people to be there.
But to the extent that we need to handle business at home and in the community and in house and talking to, you know, our folks about, you know, when you step out of these streets, you know, out this house and into these streets, how you behave and you acting.
But I'm just saying, like, they're so.
sad and pathetic that you think going on social media and posting this is, you know, cool.
It makes you, you know, bout it, whatever it is, whatever the slang, the vernacular you want to use to describe it, it really is pathetic.
And the police really do have the ability just to scroll through and figure out who all y'all are.
Then go back and look at the videos of folks fighting and swinging on folks and be able to promptly come in and rest your
behind.
They will be doing this.
So, so, so dumb.
It just, it's ridiculous.
So I just wanted to
Call attention to that.
I encourage, I encourage people to go look at the website.
I mean, I'm sorry, go look at the Facebook page.
See if you recognize any of these young brothers, call the folks, let them know.
You know, this is your boy out here, right?
You know this, you know, you know, just a boy that live around the corner.
Somebody know these kids or young men, they know them.
And I encourage you, I encourage you to get at them.
And and and turn they behind in quite frankly somebody just said The thing that really troubled me watching that video was the images of young girls running to engage in the mayhem girls been been buck wild
In fact, they can be even more ruthless You know going back to when they was jumping back up on girls cars back in the day with baseball bats breaking out windows just wild
But see this, when everybody talk about, oh, it's the video games, oh, it's the music, put Real Housewives of Atlanta in there too, put all that garbage in there too, that, you know, as my friend says, it's mindless entertainment, but somebody watching it and walking away with a very different image and ideology about how we behave as young black women in
communities.
Yeah,
but you know
The sad part about this whole thing, Shale, I hate to say it, but I'm going to say it.
Some of the kids that was out there doing what they do, see their parents acting that way.
Oh, for sure.
See their parents doing that.
For sure.
And when you see mama and daddy acting the fool, and mama and daddy give you the okay to clown sometimes, like, because I see it.
You see people like, man, beat her a or whoop his a and it's the mom and daddy standing out there validating it.
So once you get validation from your parents, they going to take that validation from home to the streets.
Either the police or
yeah, somebody gonna put you down or they gonna block you up But until somebody stop them, you know, you run into these things and I heard Keith and I'm an advocate I say it myself now, you know, we have to think about how we talk about Situations in our community so that folks don't take our sentiments and then turn them against us to over police You know to bring in your National Guard to do all of that stuff and I'm just talking about managing behavior
This is not, I need a regime to come in.
I'm talking about managing behavior.
I'm talking about being responsible.
And like I said, for me, just the saddest, saddest part is that these young people don't understand how amazing life really is.
All the cool, fly things there are to do.
And even if you come from a low income, a poverty situation, again, if you're willing to put in that work,
Man you get to be exposed to so much stuff the things that you can do the places that you can travel You know the other opportunities that you get the access just by Doing the work being in the right place putting yourself out there The things that my son got to do that were free
know and the things that I paid money for which is the equivalent of what these cast is spinning on these jeans that they can't seem to figure out how to pull up over there behind and You know this this all this other crap they're paying for my son going to Italy while you worried about what you're putting on your feet
Yeah,
I think that's the saddest part for me is that they just have no idea what life really can be when you decide, man, I'm going to go at this the right way.
And I'm going to do it because you can't get around to work.
And see, people want stuff easy.
They want it quick.
But I'm like, it's nothing easy about being a drug dealer.
It's nothing easy about being out here on this nonsense in these streets always looking over your shoulder, you know, what are you looking for?
Somebody take you out in the streets.
You're looking for the police to finally catch up with you.
Whatever it is, it's just nothing easy about it.
And as adults, we got to set examples and we got to be willing to have our kids not like us.
Yeah.
have heard or used to say to their kids, I'm not here to be your friend.
I'm not your friend.
And and and you know, this this for you down the road, this know the day.
And so you understand how to handle it tomorrow.
I just can't I can't say that stuff enough because it's so frustrating because we so much better.
You know, we got so much going on and they go miss it all.
I looked at that story about
the 28 year old who now they've got in custody for shooting and killing the two young brothers in the music studio.
This man is only 28 years old.
But it's a wrap.
It's over.
And every day you sit in that cell, you're going to reflect back on, was that the only way to resolve whatever was going on?
Was it worth it?
Clark just said, was it worth it?
And then everybody want to go to jail five Jesus or you know Islam, you know, and then now you you know, you were educated brother behind bars.
I ain't trying to hear it.
That's all I'm saying.
You know, you
don't want to get them to go to work every day, but somebody gonna let you go to work and make 18 since hour, you know, so you could buy some Roman noodles, Roman noodles.
Like, come on, fam, just think about it.
They got whole prison industries that they are counting on the young black men and in some cases women but primarily black men like we can farm y'all labor out.
That's why they won't remove out of these state constitutions that language that slavery is legal in the event of incarceration in terms of you being convicted of a felony.
That's why they won't remove it.
Lena Taylor worked her butt off trying to get that removed from the state constitution.
There should be no situation in which slavery is permissible in this country.
And they like, they like, no, no.
If you go to jail, I mean, you go to prison and we got to pay for your room and board and pay for people to watch over you and feed you.
Oh, you belong to us.
Yeah, we can use you as slave labor.
And so cats literally in jail somewhere Excited because they got a little bit of bump and pay and they're making a dollar 20 an hour But you couldn't work for 725 though, but the whole you couldn't work for 10
go ahead.
The whole crazy thing about it is They they look at going to jail as a
Prize.
Yeah,
it's not the prize.
I want you know,
though.
That ain't them
stings.
I get it, but I mean, but what I'm saying is like you see people in the barbershop They're in the barbershop talking about a man.
I just did an eight-year beard.
I mean you did eight years the way was you and I was in Dodge I was in Green Bay, man I did ten years man.
I was in Texas and oh man, such a oh man Listen, but that's what you're talking
But it's intriguing to them.
Yeah, and I'm gonna say I hear it But you ain't gonna know to talk about I get it You can't just say I was here.
I was there.
That's all you got to talk about is jail And so, you know misery love company and everybody will end up trying to glamorize it But trust me when you was doing them a it was none glamorous about it.
Are you sick with
you when you was doing that that that being it was nothing You know, you was trying to figure out how to get out of it.
Yeah
So I just like miss stop stop making these folks rich You got people raising their families off your stupidity while you incarcerate it Make it 70 or 80 thousand dollars a year we're over time a hundred thousand dollars a year and predominantly rural white communities off black bodies
Modern day
That's not coming to the city of Milwaukee to improve our schools our roads
Everything else, you know that we need help with because that money is going to rural communities that's counting you in their census population numbers and then instead of money coming to Milwaukee it goes to those communities and you're not even walking the streets you sitting in a damn cage all day Like we got to stop playing ourselves We got to stop playing ourselves and people don't want to talk about the economics of prison
All of this stuff that Trump them is doing and I gotta take a break but all the stuff that Trump them is doing with this immigration and ice arrest is private prison owners.
That's making a grip right now.
Yep.
Say it again.
and
Man, it's so frustrating.
It's so frustrating.
Let me take a break.
Good morning to my folks on Facebook and YouTube.
I see y'all tapping in this morning.
Got a lot of comments weighing in.
Definitely, I see y'all and I'll try to go back through and read some of these comments.
But yeah, we got to understand, man, the sky is the limit.
It can be.
And you know, I didn't come from no wealthy family My folks was my mama worked her butt off.
My daddy worked his behind off.
We was all right My granddaddy, you know with a third grade education work for United States Steel in the coal mines bought some land use that land to flip and buy other property and it was able to kind of help set people up But we don't have no money money money But we didn't have to do none of this to eat
Because in addition to whatever the financial situation is, your mind got to be right.
You got to have your head in the game in a way that says we get through this.
And we got young people not getting the right messages.
But that other stuff that we got going on in our house to Jermaine's point.
It's some stuff we can do way better than this.
And it don't require a whole bunch of money.
It don't require youth programs.
It don't require, because I thought about that.
I ain't gonna know youth programs when I was, I went to band because I was in the band.
So I guess, you know, de facto that's a youth program, but I went to the band and, you know, I had stuff that my family had organized for me to do.
I had stuff I had to do around the house.
But it was the mindset of our family that we way better than all of this all this grimy That was instilled in us.
Hmm.
We way too good for grimy We ain't robbing nobody we ain't stealing we ain't doing no dirt to nobody, you know, we vacation
Because keep saying, no, we summer, we do that.
That was the mindset that was instilled in us from day one.
You got people out here instilling in their kids a level of hopelessness that's just sad.
And you couldn't figure out how to turn your life around and you passing that mess right down the food chain and the cycle keeps on going.
Yes.
I know you gotta go, but you have to look at this too.
You have parents that have kids and You in your car and you playing certain music like spin that and You not playing the clean version of spin that you playing The raunchy version of spin that and it's asking.
Where's my boosters at?
That's robbing these stores.
Where's my NIGG's a that's spending the money and they pretty much promote still in Selendote
Exactly.
to certain part of the lyrics, I'll be like, ooh, that's just so ratchet, you know, like
This is the type of stuff that is a saturating our kids though
because they in the car listening to this stuff and they spend that spending and they singing it and they don't realize that by you singing it you are activating that so over time it's going to become who you are.
Yeah
I just you know when we when we pulled up and I'm going to break for real but when we pulled up and me and Clark both coming in at the same time your young boys on some scooters right outside the station.
And so one brother, he was waiting for the other little dude to get on the back of the scooter, giving him a ride.
Pants completely up under his butt cheeks, his blue haze or whatever he had on just completely up to my behind just all out.
And I'm just like, I just can't understand how y'all don't know.
And the people around y'all don't know none of that is helping you do nothing.
It helps you in no way.
It's not fashionable.
If this is what we have gotten to the point that your draw showing is fashion, we, we have so much trouble.
We have so much trouble that you'll claim the fame for your life as you had on some designer panties.
It's so sad.
And I remember it being a Walmart and I said to this young boy this young brother.
I said, bro Can you can you put your jeans up?
I'm looking at your panties and he was like I got panties on they look like panties to me Because they're not supposed to be seen to the public girls wear panties.
I said Well, why you out here showing your booty like that.
Oh, it was real uncomfortable, but it was grow me and laughing
You crazy.
I was like, I'm just saying, hey, bro, I ain't trying to see your panties.
So let me go to break for real.
You know, this was not the show.
This wasn't the show.
But, uh, man, come on, man,
I'll be right back.
When we wanted to expand access for folks in need
of bikes, we turned to Viola.
The result, the new Violia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.
Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks.
Thanks to our partnership with Violia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.
Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset.
I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.
Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.
We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.
They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.
It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.
MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years.
I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.
We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.
People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.
We love our partnership with Violia.
They help the kayak company grow.
I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD.
Clean water is essential.
The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.
To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing with my time.
It feels good.
You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in.
Water is our greatest resource.
We all need it to survive.
Viola is 100% doing great work.
So very quickly, as we were sitting here discussing state fair, we look up on the televisions here in the studio and see that this has become national news.
The candidates for governor, Tom Tiffany and David Crawley being interviewed respectively, Fox News nationally in on this conversation, talking about what needs to be done as state fair.
And of course, showing the video of all these young black kids, young black people, you know, young black youth.
young adults running around, you know, just creating chaos and, um, you know, just, just get to them.
Just hand it to them.
Make it easy for folks to come for us.
Let me go to the phone line.
Hey, caller, what's happening?
Hey, how you doing Michelle?
I'm doing pretty good.
Uh, I think a moderate don't fall in food to the government because, you know, they designed this system for us to fail.
Now I'm still in the residential place.
And I had a maintenance, a very amount had a hair from the corn.
And he threw the corn down in front of his teenage boy.
He pulled up a quarter, then he knuckled and down, asked his young man which corn whether he did not know.
That's telling me that the boy don't know how to count.
And did you have these,
um devices you know and uh the people don't use their minds they'll have these machines doing the form now you take just some device from the board and add some accounts you will not know how to do that.
And thank you for the observation.
You know, a lot of basic skills going out the window and one of the things we used to see when we were in school back in the day, the children that had difficulty reading usually were people disrupting the classrooms because they were trying to shield the fact that.
They couldn't read or they were struggling, you know with the subject matter issue And so it's easier for me to do something to get kicked out of the class Or to create a distraction so that people can't figure out that I'm ill equipped We see that all throughout life, you know, I don't have x y and z and so I create other obstacles.
I'm sorry other Obstructions so that people don't realize my shortcomings.
Let me go to this caller.
Hey caller.
What's happening?
Hey, how you doing this morning?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
I'm good
Listen, um, I just want to say about that fight.
I'm really good.
I'll have Facebook where I've seen where I've seen from TV You young ladies need not think that prison is what you think it is because I've been there So if y'all think y'all want to go go right ahead it ain't it ain't nothing like you think it is
if you are here on these streets because when they tell you to go to bed you go to bed when they tell you to get up you get up if it's that five o'clock in the morning you've got to get up to go breakfast or do whatever you shower on certain days you can't go shower every day like you can if you're out here trust me y'all don't want to go i've been here and done that and i'm grateful and thankful i'm out and gonna stay out i made myself that promise not to go back
But I'm glad I got out for what I did.
You know what I'm saying?
But I may not have that out, but I did.
But y'all don't want to go.
Please young lady, stop and think.
Because if y'all mama die or y'all daddy die, y'all may not get out to go to the national.
Because they don't do that right now today.
Your parents, your siblings could write the warden or write whoever.
They may say no.
They're not going to let you go out because of your record or what you in prison for.
So y'all have to think about that too.
If y'all ain't respecting your parents, respect them and think about them if they die while y'all in there.
Y'all ain't going to see them.
They ain't going to come see you because my mama wouldn't come see me.
And I'm glad she was alive when I got out.
I'm glad that she was still here when I got out.
But y'all gotta think about that.
What about y'all brothers and sisters?
That's what we need y'all.
That's all acting the fool around.
Show them some different way to live because they watching you.
And that ain't cool.
So young ladies, please stop.
right.
Please stop taking from my point of view.
All
right back.
When we wanted
to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Viola.
The result, the new Violia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.
Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks.
Thanks to our partnership with Violia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.
Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playsett.
I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.
Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.
We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.
They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.
It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.
MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years.
I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.
We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.
People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.
We love our partnership with Violia.
They help the kayak company grow.
I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD.
Clean water is essential.
The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.
To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time.
It feels good.
You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in.
Water is our greatest resource.
We all need it to survive.
Viola is 100% doing great work.
All right, family, I want to make sure that you all are aware since today is my last day for the week that on Monday of next week, there is going to be a public listening session regarding the Milwaukee County budget.
It is going to be an event that runs from 5 to 7 p.m.
over at the Washington Park Senior Center 4420 West Village Street from 5 to 7 p.m.
So the first hour of the event is a resource fair
all the different information services in relationship to Milwaukee County.
Now that you may need information about the second half is going to be the discussion about the county budget.
And this is an opportunity for you to come and talk about priorities that you would like to see, you know, the county address.
Know that one of the things that the county had been doing renovations over at the Clinton Roll Center, I was in there on election day.
by Sorority Delta Sigma Theta.
They manned the polling site there for elections and the renovations are absolutely beautiful.
There is going to be, I think it's happening today.
I think somebody might have sent something to me or it already happened, but they had a grand opening.
And so they were showing, oh yeah, they had it already.
So they showed, you know, folks,
Um, no, look, who on the picture?
Sister Herrera.
Uh, but they showed all the folks, um, there for the ribbon cutting and, uh, just the beautiful facility.
Like I said, the furniture is gorgeous.
All the different activities.
Um, some of the photos that Daryl just sent me, quilt making classes, uh, book reading clubs, somebody there shooting pool.
So it is the place to be.
If you
are somebody that, you know, looking for interaction to kick it with other members of the community.
And of a certain, you know, age demographic, the Clinton Rose Senior Center definitely is a beautiful facility with the work and renovations that they've done.
The people down there are really cool, work hard.
So hopefully you will take an opportunity to attend that.
But again, this is what these budget listing sessions are intended to do.
Give feedback about what's important to you, those priorities.
They've already had one.
In fact, I think it was held last night.
or the night before because I miss talking about it on the station.
So I wanted to make sure that you were aware of the second one happening on Monday night, 5 to 7 p.m.
over at the Washington Park Senior Center.
Let me also do this.
I haven't had a chance really to talk about it, but a lot of people were talking, they got
just blown out of the water about something local happened to here in Milwaukee with a woman who was a senior staff member in the Milwaukee County clerk of Circuit Court who has been arrested.
Her name is Samortria.
I'm not sure how to pronounce her first name.
Matthews.
This sister, Black woman, 54 years old, and she had worked as a senior administrator for the Clerk of Circuit Courts, was charged on August 15th with maintaining a drug trafficking place in her home.
And then she also got a modifier party to a crime after she was arrested on August 13th.
Prosecutors, and I'm taking this story from the Journal Sentinel, prosecutors said that the basement of her home was used to package.
Store and manufacture and keep large amounts of cocaine and fentanyl for sale Her son Tarion Matthews only 26 years old and her husband Rodney Matthews also 54 are facing charges including possession with intent for both cocaine and fentanyl and maintaining a drug trafficking place During her initial appearance in court
uh, two days ago, the court commissioner ordered Matthews not to contact her son or husband while her case is active.
She, um, had her bail set at $2,500, which, um, this sister has already posted.
And I didn't know if that was like low, you know, if you get, it seemed kind of off to me.
Um, and from what I understand, this may not be her son, but it's our step son.
Um, but $2,500 just seem low for drug.
You know, he's, he said, you got a whole little, little setup in the basement, manufactured distribution.
And I mean, this ain't my area of expertise, but 2,500 seem kind
of low.
Yeah.
That's, that's super low because if they are saying all of that.
She would be labeled as keeper of a drug house Because if you manufacturing if you storing and you got what they say cocaine and Now come on $2,500 bill.
or or or it could be now You can look at it like this.
It could be even if they try to
smear her because if she really didn't have any knowledge of what was going on because from what I heard That was her a strange husband and she says she didn't have any knowledge of the what was going on because I don't think she lived in that house.
She just owned it So if that's the case and that kind of explains why her bail is at $2,500 if you got drugs in your house and they try to label you as keeper of a drug house
That part because if she lived in that house and she knew and they put in that title as keeper of a drug house, your bill is not gonna be $2,500.
No way.
I mean, it's gonna be like five, $10,000 type thing.
More than that.
More than that.
But $2,500 is like for like a pistol or something.
or you got caught with like a 3-5 or you got caught with a 7 or so.
Yeah, because
because now you're not labeled as keeper of a drughouse.
So if you manufacturing, that's keeper of a drughouse.
And
so to your point, I just because I was looking for while you were talking, I want to look at another story.
And it said that.
She owned the house.
He was charged for the man he was charged with maintaining a drug trafficking place.
Terry, I see his charges.
She worked for the county for 30 years and said he had worked for the county and retired in 2022 and then came back to work currently, you know making six figures The decision to arrest and prosecute Some some atria Matthews is a travesty
So with her attorney saying she is not a criminal or drug dealer, she is innocent of the charge and will be vindicated.
The complaint makes it clear.
There is no evidence that she had any knowledge of her estranged husband's activities, much less that she was involved in them.
Despite that, the DA's office decided to charge her, destroying her career and reputation in the process.
So the backstory.
Court filing said police were doing undercover surveillance of a home owned by her.
And I think that that distinction
because, you know, did she live in the house or not?
So of a home owned by her near 46 in Congress in connection to a narcotics investigation involving her estranged husband and her stepson.
They attempted to pull over Tarion Matthews.
He fled at a high rate of speed.
They lost him.
He abandoned the car, is what the DA said.
At the time, Tarion Matthews was out.
prison on GPS monitoring and that his last um the car was later found 66 and ruby let me finish it officers watching the house then to see co-defendant Rodney Matthews leave the house they follow him he goes and picks up the defendant they then flee so he go pick up his son they flee it the second pursuit high speed chase speeds up to 100 miles an hour
eventually ended in a crash at Green Bay in Hampton inside the home owned by Cemetery Matthews or Cemetery.
I hate I'm butchering this woman's name.
Sorry about that.
Police found three pounds of fentanyl, cocaine, hydraulic presses to form bricks of drugs, blenders covered in fentanyl residue, digital scales, a handgun, food dye, substance used to cut drugs, sandwich bags, according to the court file.
So but you don't get the impression.
Exactly.
She lived there.
No.
Like you said, Jermaine, I'm telling you, is she... I'm telling
is.
They rent the house.
They rent it.
Exactly.
They rent the house.
She owns the house.
But for them to...
to smear her like that because now you're putting the label of keeper of a drug house.
So from all of this surveillance, you're surveilling, you see the husband, you see the son, but do you have her going in and out of that house?
They never stated that, but they keep saying the house that's owned by.
Yeah, because that's
all they keep saying is that she owned the house.
They already knew that was her house.
They knew already.
They were just trying to see they could connect something.
But they couldn't.
But this is that they never saw her going in and out of the house was doing surveillance.
You never saw her going because
that you know what her connection may
So this is interesting to see how this is going to turn out because this woman's pension is now at risk.
Uh, even though, you know, I don't know how old Jay Simpson can murder somebody and still keep a pension.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
He didn't do it.
I know he got off before the keys just started taking me.
Oh, Jay is innocent.
Um, but you know, this is one of those things that's going to be interesting to kind of see how this plays out.
Um, and then think about what if this woman legitimately, you know, we, we split up.
I had another house.
You were able to stay
in that house.
And then you can never really bounce back from this in the corporate world, because that's going to forever be a smear on your name, even though
though they said she
But and then, you know,
Somebody just pointed out and I saw that in the story.
She's never been in trouble before.
Uh, folks already don't want to see Captain looking her up and searching, you know, for the information.
Uh, so you just got to ask the district attorney, but, but for them to only set that bill at $2,500.
That's
why I was like, that's a rare flag to me.
But again, they trying to smear.
higher as you said it I'm like
you got all this in the house
That they don't have nothing to really link this woman to this other than she owns the property because this landlord's their own properties all day that she was at drug houses and I'm just trying to see something Yeah As somebody pointed out and remember when the fave got in trouble they didn't go after his pension, you know, so it's also interesting
They said her bill was not originally $2,500.
I had heard that.
But what makes it drop down to $2,500?
She
didn't know.
So
Yeah, because if you say all this stuff is in the house and they found cutting stuff to cut the dope, you found a dope how to cook it.
All this stuff is in the house.
That's keeper of a drug house.
And then by her being landlord, she ain't been in that house.
Well, they would
But yeah.
And so, you know, like, yeah, so it's a whole bunch of people.
Clearly a lot of people know this sister, respect the sister, like the sister that are hitting me up, like, Michelle, this whole thing is crazy.
But they don't believe that this woman was in any way connected to what this man was doing in his house.
And then other folks, yeah, believing that they're coming after her because of her position.
You know, anytime you black star, you got certain things.
How dare you make six figures?
It's all kinds of stuff that just is out there that we see.
But again, how many folks got in trouble and get to keep their pension?
How many folks?
Because Lefebvre, it was all kind of money tied up in what this cat did.
And then he leaves and flies to Florida.
And, you know, do all this foolishness, but your pension didn't get touched.
You get to, you know, retire, get your money, get out and run, and then deal with your criminal charges afterwards.
But your pension goes unscathed.
So the whole article that's in the Journal Sentinel about could she lose her pension, it is hilarious to me because, you know, we have seen a whole lot of stuff in which folks don't lose their pension.
But.
Bigger than the loss of the pension will not I think equally as important is If this woman is being wrongfully, you know him up in his nonsense I own the house, but I know I know what was going on there.
I had nothing to do with
it Yeah, so
Yeah,
David Crawley to the county executive because of the race.
You know, so this is your house is happening on your watch.
You potentially got somebody working for the county, but you got to understand like the clerk or circuit course.
These are elected positions.
Now, her position was not elected.
It's an appointed position.
But DC don't have to do with this woman in terms of her direct hire or any of that.
So, um, but, you know, whatever we can do to throw mud.
So let me take a break.
But Jesus Christ, this, this will be messed up if this lady don't have nothing to do with none of this.
And they know it.
And if they've been surveilling, they've been able to go look at phone records, I'm assuming to figure out who's doing what, who's coming and going.
This lady could lose everything.
And y'all know potentially this woman don't have nothing to do with this.
$2,500 is a tale.
It's a tale.
Let me take a break.
I'll be right back.
When we wanted to expand access for folks
in need of bikes, we turned to Viola.
The result, the new Viola EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.
Connecting students to schools,
People looking for work with employers, the community with parks.
Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.
Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset.
I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.
Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.
We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.
They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.
It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.
MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that cleaned and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years.
I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.
We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.
People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.
We love our partnership with Veolia.
They help the kayak company grow.
I definitely don't think we would be here without Veolia and MMSD.
Clean water is essential.
The work we're doing at Veolia is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.
To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing with my time.
It feels good.
You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in.
Water is our greatest resource.
We all need it to survive.
Fiolia is 100% doing great work.
Because, you know, we're speculating because we're trying to figure it out.
And because the question when they talk about this being an estranged husband, was this woman living in a house different than the husband and the stepson?
On the.
On the.
The address portion of CCAP, it lists her address as the same address.
that the drug bust happened at.
So if she has a different address, if she wasn't staying in that house, it doesn't reflect that on CCAP.
OK.
So that's one thing, you know, because before we go too far out on the on the limb to establish, did her and this guy live in the same house?
Because now you're going to have a problem if you are lived in the same house.
Because most people are washing dryers in the basement.
And you can smell
what the rock is cooking.
Who's cooking the rock?
Yeah.
Because I had walked into a house where
And it smelled like rotten eggs.
It's the worst smell I ever smelled in my life.
And immediately I knew something was wrong in this house.
Uh, I can't just, you know, discern right now whether or not she actually was living in that house or not.
So that's right now an open question.
Uh, other information on there when they talked about the bail and that, you know, we're looking at why, um, somebody said one article says she shared a bedroll.
Oh no.
with the husband.
See.
It's getting deeper and deeper.
See.
See.
They wouldn't think that.
You know, I'm just, I just, like I said, they got surveillance, right?
Yeah, I mean, they got her own video tape, camera, anything going in and out of the house.
No, but no, but I'm saying if I live there, it'll still be video of me going in and out of the
yeah, other people lay like, yeah, her driver's license still has people like y'all some slooms, boy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
People trying to tire the anaheages who was elected to the circuit court, you know, because you hire, you know, you bring people through, you know, you can work with.
So, but this ain't no reflection on Anna.
I don't know what's going on in your damn house.
You know, but anytime black folks and see, let's be clear, a lot of them judges didn't want anaheages to be the clerk of circuit courts.
When anaheages ran the first time, it was judges actively working to keep this
by racial sister, I think, and identifies as black, but you know, I don't know exactly what her race is or ethnicity is, but they worked hard to keep Anaheim just from getting elected to clerk of circuit court.
They did not want her and she ran and she got out here and did doors and got in these streets and she did her thing.
And so, and somebody just pointed out and I have forgot about it.
Anna is on the ballot right now.
She's up for reelection in November.
And so, yeah, there was some Milwaukee County judges that would have been happy to see some mesh jump off involving Anna Hodges.
But if I got him to, or everybody that I know that has gotten in trouble, boy, I couldn't even breathe out here.
You know, I couldn't breathe because I don't discriminate in who I know.
I believe you need to know all kinds of people.
I do I'm not asking them kind of questions now.
You can't do nothing shady around me.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna tolerate that I'm not gonna be in on none of your foolishness, but I know people That I like that up.
I see you know, I break bread with and I'm like that you questionable But that ain't gonna do with me stay over there with that foolishness.
I Just think it's going to be interesting to figure out
that bail piece because like in the they said cash bond set on August 18th Remaining cash bail on deposit shall be returned to the person who posted it So originally there was a different amount And then they lowered the bail amount and said they're gonna return the money to the person who posted it Well, who posted it now how much was it?
I got questions, yo.
I
Um, but I, if this woman is not tied up in this, I hope that this, you know, she's able to clear her name and come through this.
Okay.
Uh, but again, we also know black folks get handled way differently in these situations than other folks.
They just do whether it is, you know,
I can go back and list the list of names of black people that have been elected officials or black people that worked for city government who had charges level got convicted of those things and they ended up getting jail time fines and penalties and other folks, you know, you still trying to figure out what happened today case.
You still trying to understand what happened today case.
So let me see.
I'm trying to figure out what people said.
So I said, don't forget George Christensen.
He hates Anna.
He hates Anna.
So much about the rumor is Anna bailed her out.
We don't know that to be true.
And I can't imagine Anna would do that because I'm not putting myself in that position and I'm on the ballot running for office.
So I don't believe that.
But it does not list who bailed her out.
And it does not when they talk about the money going to be given back.
So just so y'all know, all it is is happening and brewing down at the county courthouse and be be astute about the willingness of people to try to connect this to either candidates on the ballot.
Make this other people's issue.
This don't have nothing to do.
Somebody said no sound on YouTube.
But.
Let's not make this have anything to do with anybody else.
This is this woman's situation and her family situation.
It don't have nothing to do with Anna Hodges.
It has nothing to do with David Carly.
And we need to be clear about that.
Do I have a phone call?
I'm going to take the call and then I'm going to go to break.
Hey, Collin, what's happening?
Hey, hey, how you doing?
I just want to say that I had text you that, you know, the purpose of bail is to ensure that someone returns the court.
The seriousness of the crime is considered, but in my opinion, a 2,500 out of bond is reasonable, especially since I don't see the young lady having any other convictions on CCAP.
Keeper of a drug house is a class I-70.
It carries a maximum of three and a half years in prison of initial confinement and extended supervision, meaning the maximum initial confinement is only two years.
and an additional up to one and a half years on extended supervision with a $10,000 fine.
I believe that this lady is not being charged with the actual drugs like her son's bought at $75,000 because she wasn't involved in the actual activity.
So this is actually something they're going after her to try to smear her name.
As far as her pitch is concerned, I see that she's been suspended from her job.
But her job has nothing to do with the crime being committed.
So I don't think she will lose her pension because they're not related.
Now, if she would have been caught stealing from the county or something like that, that may be a factor.
But I don't think
she... And not to mention, like, she had already retired, been out of the workforce, and then come back and work.
So that pension, because she had already taken, she had gotten, like, that backdrop money.
So all of that, like...
Like that's not like a closed situation.
They already, I don't understand how they would try to go after the pension because she had already retired and he came back to work, but
exactly.
share, Michelle.
I appreciate you, bro.
Thank you.
Uh, so yeah, so I'm hearing, you know, some other stuff too that that bail, it wasn't, um,
A whole lot higher than the 2,500.
I'm hearing $5,000 was original bail amount and daddy got dropped to 2,500.
I was looking around for it on CCAP.
I, you know, we'll look a couple other places and figure out what's going on.
But I just really hope I just really if the district attorney's office is dragging this lady like this and they know like.
There's nothing that supports that this woman was a part of this that this woman knew anything about it then they out of order They the hell out of order if if all of this washes through and it you know is revealed that this woman Legitimately didn't know anything about any it is because there are landlords who have people dealing drugs out of their houses every day The fact that I'm with you know, I'm married to somebody
And they're doing this but if you've been sitting on this house and you've been watching this house and you got access to all kinds of information You should be able to figure out if this woman may be involved or not Before we get to this point So I just wanted to bring it up.
I gotta take a break caller.
I see you I'm gonna get to you but um Somebody sit here.
Oh No, you're okay.
I saw something about Dick Tracy in the decoder ring
But yeah, this this is this is crazy and and to the last college point when I looked at what the potential The potential jail time or fine, yeah, three and a half years up to ten thousand dollars which again You don't sound like the drug dealer if all you looking at is three and a half years in prison and a ten thousand dollar fine, so
Somebody said five thousand seems to be a reasonable maximum for property nuisance codes No one is speaking of the drugs in the black neighborhood found Okay, I'm looking I'm looking all right.
Let me take a break.
I'll be right back y'all
Jesus Christ
When we wanted to
expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia.
The result?
The new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.
Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks.
Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.
Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playsett.
I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.
Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.
We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.
They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.
It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.
MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years.
I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.
We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.
People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.
We love our partnership with Violia.
They help the kayak company grow.
I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD.
Clean water is essential.
The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.
To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing with my time.
It feels good.
You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in.
Water is our greatest resource.
We all need it to survive.
Viola is 100% doing great work.
All
happening?
What first did she, about 1920 years old, look to weigh up, okay?
Okay.
And everybody said it was a strange husband.
You may not see her all year.
You have no sister investing in any kind of property, any kind of investment.
What did you live?
They were surveilling that place for quite a while.
They know who lived there, who got her, and who was estranged, okay?
When they went to the house where she, I wanna ask, was she there at two in the morning or whatever time?
if she was here.
So people still are not seeing this and this.
You gotta watch it like that, okay?
But at the end of the day, we talk about the kids that stay here.
There's nobody in a 50-some-year-old woman in their husband and a kid making drugs, okay?
They learn that from home.
I'm not trying to be funny.
If you knew it was going on, you'd have ignored it should have got to another place, okay?
So don't be a fool out here and talk about them here to stay here when you see what's going on right here with grown people, okay?
It comes from home.
And at one point,
A kid in State Fair, 21, 22 years old, 18 years old.
Big Peers ain't that old.
And they learned that from them.
Their mouths are loud and big, but I'd rather have a fight at State Fair and get a little misdemeanor than go down here.
We can crack and cocaine and kill in our community out here.
All right, that doesn't make any sense at all.
So what did the person live?
And you know that if somebody said, well, I didn't know that was going on in my home.
I didn't know that we're still running to the bank to rob.
Well, I'm sitting out there in the getaway car.
I didn't know that was going to happen.
You know what?
Get by association and party to a crime.
So stop making up stuff and saying they did this and they didn't that, okay?
You ought to know better than what you're doing, okay?
Unless you're in on it.
You want to make enough money?
And if he
right now.
But thank you,
I appreciate it.
All right, family.
Thursday is my early day to end.
I want to make sure that we have ample time to have this discussion.
Please today to welcome, I think, for the first time.
So, sisters to the studio, Natalie Hayden and Oliver Dagger.
Hello ladies, how y'all doing this morning?
Good, good, good.
This is...
This is crazy that the whole cycle of conversation we have been on this morning talking about our community You know work that we got to do things the issues that we need to address and this conversation literally dovetails exactly Everything that we've kind of been hitting on this morning because we know that
The way our community shows up when things are not working right is cyclical.
A lot of times it starts at home.
And then how that translates out into the community or transfers in the way folks interact with one another, the relationships that we have or lack thereof.
So let me welcome you all.
Laverne, let me start with you.
Tell folks a little bit about, and I need that shirt, but tell folks a little bit about who you are, the organization and the work that you do.
So I'm Laverne Badger.
And do me a favor, bring the mic up.
just a little bit for me.
So I'm Laverne Badger and I am one of the co-founders of Exposed Inc.
We have been in existence for almost 10 years now.
We started off as a podcast talking about life after domestic abuse.
I was in an abusive relationship as a teenager, started as a teenager for 13 years.
and and now I'm here to the the fabulous Mr. Richard Badger but um family yeah we got we black we got so but that what happened was my trauma was turned into passion and and um I met Natalie and Natalie and I created uh exposed ink and now we are um we locked in
And I have turned my passion into a purpose on bringing awareness and education to domestic abuse and healthy and unhealthy relationships, romantic and platonic.
How do
come
I'm gonna be fully transparent.
I met Laverne while I was in shelter at Sojourner Family Peace Center.
I had just made a decision that would
forever impact me but in such a way that I knew um someone's destiny was locked up in what I needed to be honest about and it wouldn't it wasn't easy so Laverne was
in the in the formative stages of having conversations and she was asked to join her.
I was there and I was introduced and, you know, in a way to say, hey, go and get this up under this type of support and information.
And I was drawn to Laverne.
Laverne initially was not interested and I did not know it was a hard no for her.
Initially,
yes,
until it wasn't, but.
At that moment, we knew that we were connected in such a way that we didn't know that it would be this today.
But just starting with the conversation, being transparent about our experiences could help someone else.
And that's really where it started.
It wasn't about putting anyone out, out there to be, you know, whatever.
But it was about experience, what we experienced, and how we can heal through that.
And that has been...
A bit of our journey.
So one of the things Laverne and your opening remarks, you know, you talk about that this began in your, you know, when you were a teenager.
Absolutely.
At one time, we didn't think about domestic violence situations involving young relationships.
And then you even mentioned the terminology platonic.
So this is not necessarily always about a love relationship, a personal relationship in that way, romantic relationship, that this can also just be the way I engage with a friend, with
a
But we've seen a tide shift though.
We've seen younger, you know women younger age individuals reporting domestic violence and So then you begin to get like kind of nervous like so what's going on in our households because so many people we did a survey When I was with African World Festival we talked about women that had either been sexually abused or
had experienced domestic violence.
I brought 400 survey applications.
398 were completed.
398 said yes.
Wow.
Wow.
Not surprised.
Not surprised at all.
for me?
I think it was that we weren't just talking about it, right?
I don't think that I think that it is growing don't get me wrong, but there were I didn't realize that There were other teenagers and an abusive relationship
because what I did see, I didn't see a lot, but what I did see, it was always older white women that were married or women that were married.
So I didn't associate what I was going through as being in a domestic violence relationship.
So of course I wasn't checking those boxes, you know, and then I wasn't checking boxes that was on my mental.
emotional abuse right people are usually checking those boxes based on physical abuse so i think the numbers are going up because people are talking more they're expressing more that they have expanded to knowing what
The true definition is of an abusive relationship and it does not single out just physical abuse, right?
We know it's the financial abuse.
We know that it's mental and emotional abuse.
We know that it's now what we're talking about is social media abuse, right?
So there's a way to stalk.
And track people on a different a way that we didn't used to be able to track people, you know So now people are checking different boxes.
So those numbers are continuing to increase, but I don't know that It was just back then in 86 85 84, you know those years when it started for me
When it started for me that I just didn't know what to do with that information No one was capturing that information if that makes sense.
of
an
So Natalie, understanding that this is prevalent now, and there are folks that still don't know how to deal with this and talk about it.
How is the organization and the work you all are doing together?
Helping to kind of shed some light give folks some needed assistance helping resources and you know folks that listen to my show on a regular basis They know I've talked about the fact that I grew up in a house with domestic violence my mother married my stepfather and Friday through Sunday It was hell in our house Monday, you know Sunday night it chilled about eight o'clock because he had to get up and go to work on Monday and Monday
Until Friday we was cool, but you already knew you dread it when Friday was getting ready to roll around so How are you raising awareness and getting you know folks to get the help that they need
our three pillars is prevention awareness and education and Laverne and I knew from the start that there were enough
agencies out here to capture those that are coming in with these needed as needed basis, like how we were received where we needed immediate support.
We wanted to.
get down the stream and prevent, so we're in our schools.
And when we go to our schools, meaning we go when we have conversations with young people, we share with them about healthy and unhealthy relationships because that was in those formative years when you're young and you see these relationships in your household because when you do the work, I had to sit with myself and say, where did this start?
This is not just something that I saw on TV.
What did I see in my household?
What did I see my go through?
What did I see my grandmother go through and we didn't have terminology for we didn't have language for it, but we saw it and when I identified and said that is not healthy.
So I now reflect or attract or
I'm being existing in the way that I saw that was modeled before me.
Sometimes we just don't know.
So there were things that we had to unlearn.
We're there to help our young people identify that what is going on in your household may not always be healthy.
It's not that you don't love your family, but there are some very toxic things that are going on.
And you can unlearn that.
You can do relationships differently.
You can feel better about yourself and not say, well, because my mom did this to me,
Maybe that was all she knew, you know, like people are doing their best, but you get to put that behind you, you get to learn something different.
So it's personal.
You have to identify within yourself that I may have not shown up in the best way in this romantic relationship, this personal relationship.
The relationship with myself is most important.
How do I talk to myself?
So when we get in the schools, we have these conversations and then we start with,
How you started is not necessarily how you have to finish.
You get to finish strong.
You get to finish.
You get to talk to yourself differently.
People in your family talk a certain type of way.
You don't have to take ownership of that.
That's right.
You
but that's a muscle.
You have to practice because you don't know that you don't know that.
And did I even have boundaries?
There were so many things that were unveiled to me when I was doing this work like, dang, I didn't have boundaries.
It was started in my relationship.
But now let me look at everything and see what I didn't have
around in the
you know,
why we have tapped into platonic relationships.
The rules are the same.
They stay the same.
The
rules are the same.
Am I supposed to accept disrespect in either?
Should I have boundaries set for either?
Should I remove myself from something that's family?
It don't matter.
It does not matter if I'm married to you sleeping with you or if we just
high school friends or if you my cousin my first cousin because you know first cousins is even if you my first cousin like no if you are are if i'm being exposed and and and experiences some of these toxic traits and behaviors from other people i don't care
what it is and who it is.
Here's our
Jermaine,
We'll
because
I
I can't think of my other girl with the locks right now, but I can see her face because she was one of the first people that, before Dana stepped into the role, I almost had her name.
But anyway, you know,
We begin to form this organization and doing this work.
We put up a lot of the seed money ourselves to get things done.
But you can't do the work without having ways to be able to fund the
work.
You
So please
Yes, so quickly, early registration ends on September 5th.
So right now, of course, you know, registration is open.
I just came into the station and I saw our bus ad just drive by.
Wonderful.
So, you know, I was like, oh, perfect, but it's on the website.
You can tell people what it's called.
It's called the hashtag Let Them Live Domestic Violence 5K.
This is our seventh consecutive year at Veterans Park.
We are the largest, longest domestic violence walk.
I'm proud of that, that we are the longest.
And it's just the two of us.
We do it with some of our partners, but this was just an idea and a dream, right?
Nine years ago, but we are the longest consecutive 5K
walk, domestic violence walk in Wisconsin.
Now, if you challenged me, come on, call me.
But I looked it up.
And so, yes.
So we are very proud of that.
Sorry to interrupt.
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Touch domestic violence in various ways that will be there the blood center.
I've donated blood and had no idea that Gunshot victims from domestic violence needs blood.
Yeah, so we have a mobile versity blood truck that will be there if you cannot walk or run There's some way that you can contribute to this work.
We have firefighters that will be there the rig will be there the cadets will be there because we were
offered an opportunity to come and talk to recruits about domestic violence.
So they'll be walking with us.
It'll be the city out there walking with us.
We will create time and space for you guys to come back.
We'll do it on a Monday or a Wednesday when I go the fool at the time or get you in like an eight o'clock summer early So that we can have this conversation and let people know how they can be engaged I think as we're talking about how we in some of the stuff that we see
or
and
our what our email address is exposed the exposed dva
at gmail.com.
And again, our website is exposed to podcast.com.
So everything is on our website.
So if you go over to our website, you will see everything, how to get in contact with us and everything.
We're on all our socials and scramps, Facebook, you can find us anywhere.
And shout out to our D9, my D9 sister, right?
So that's
We
time this morning.
Thank
y'all.
Peace.
When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes,
we turned to Viola.
The result, the new Violia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.
Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks.
Thanks to our partnership with Violia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.
Those are Milwaukee values.
I'm Jim Playset.
I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.
Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.
We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.
They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.
It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.
MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that cleaned and enjoyable for all of us.
We have been in business here for 14 years.
I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.
We get lots of people on our rivers in canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.
People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.
We love our partnership with Violia.
They help the kayak company grow.
I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD.
Clean water is essential.
The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.
To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing with my time.
It feels good.
You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in.
Waters are our greatest resource.
We all need it to survive.
Viola is 100% doing great work.